Making Baby Jesus Cry

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
First, thanks for the corn syrup/J. Cougar posts. The funniest thing in the last month.

I like John Cougar. He incorps the alternative instruments perfectly. Underrated. Pink Houses is a better slice of Americana than the Boss could write in 100 albums.

Crowes played Atl City last weekend. Couldn't get tix.

You're welcome, of course. Glad to help.

a) clearly you are overtired.

b) I am starting to think you havent seen a live show since you acquired a Mrs. Dangerfield. Pity. I am seeing the Crowes like eight times this year (if i go ACL). Rawkin.

Originally posted by Spanky
For the love of God - isn't there anyone else on this board who wretches every time they hear Mr. Mellancamp? These people not only like John Cougar but they admit it openly. Isn't that the first sign of the apocolypse or something?

I will go one further. I have at least three of his albums. Scarecrow, Lonesome Jubilee, and that one with I Saw You First. Don't be such a hatah. You own a No Doubt album and Everyone knows that JCM is clearly the more superb artiste. In fact, owning No Doubt and ADMITTING to it kind of makes you a pussy. GOt any Britney or Xtina ?

[bilmore]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
No. I don't. I believe morals are unique to different countries, cultures, etc.

Morals are the essence of what principled people fight about. If you think that women are inferior, should walk behind you, and are so inherently evil that they need to cover their basic offensiveness, well, my principles oppose yours, and we should both simply accept that idea that one of us needs to kill the other. I'm not willing to let you live to torture more women. You're not willing to let me live to fool more women into thinking they're really people. In the end, these are incompatible theses, and there needs to be a winner.

I'm hoping the women recognize what's being fought over.

[bilmore]

Originally posted by taxwonk
So then you are saying we live in a moral world? What is our morality? By "our" I mean the world's morality.

No such thing. There is my morality. Then, there is the rest. I am comfortable with mine. What higher power shall I answer to?

[bilmore]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
To what extent do you think a country's refusal to ratify a human rights treaty demonstrates that the country's government is less moral than those that have ratified the treaty?

To the extent that the treaty in question represents truth.

[bilmore]

Originally posted by Spanky
For the love of God - isn't there anyone else on this board who wretches every time they hear Mr. Mellancamp? These people not only like John Cougar but they admit it openly. Isn't that the first sign of the apocolypse or something?

I enjoy the hell out of a lot of Mellenkamp's music.

I just wish he were smarter. Think of what he could write!

[bilmore]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
I will go one further. I have at least three of his albums. Scarecrow, Lonesome Jubilee, and that one with I Saw You First. Don't be such a hatah. You own a No Doubt album and Everyone knows that JCM is clearly the more superb artiste. In fact, owning No Doubt and ADMITTING to it kind of makes you a pussy. GOt any Britney or Xtina ?

I thought you quit?

(P.S. Still on the west coast? Sorry, just catching up.)

[Spanky]

I used to be skeptical when Santorum and the rest of the "Social Conservatives" would say that standards in America are dropping like a depth charge. But I stand corrected. I remember a day when people would rather admit to being a child molester than to owning a John Cougar album. Now people are out of the closet. They stand in the public square and admit freely without any shame to like his music.

Are there no standards left? Are people competely bereft of shame?

What is next? Tutus for Basset Hounds?

[Spanky]

In this day and age how many times does someone need to cry wolf before their crediblity it completely destroyed. It looks like these days you get infinite swipes at the ball...............

This is incredible! I just can't believe it is happening. The Plame affair is just the tip of the iceberg. The invesigation has gone much deeper, even into 911 issues. Colin Powell testified against Bush about lying his way into war. This is high treason under U.S. law, the article says.

There is not only speculation that Bush & Gang may try to fire the investigator, a la Nixon, but that they may have tried to actually blow up the investigation with a bomb!

Here is the full article from Tom Flocco:

http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin...cgi?read=76027

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Spanky
In this day and age how many times does someone need to cry wolf before their crediblity it completely destroyed. It looks like these days you get infinite swipes at the ball

When you see something on a blog that seems pretty damning it often helps to read the surrounding posts to see if the site if looney tunes. Here I think you'll find it to be nuts. By the way, this simple technique destroys about 95% of Ty's "evidence."

[baltassoc]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
When you see something on a blog that seems pretty damning it often helps to read the surrounding posts to see if the site if looney tunes.

The surrounding posts? Res ipsa. Although it's good to see a left wing looney as far out there as the Vince Foster conspiracy theorists.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Pink Houses is a better slice of Americana than the Boss could write in 100 albums.

It's the only decent song he's ever written.

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
Are you saying that you don't whiff, or that you don't say whiff when others do? Because if you are suggesting that I whiffed here, that's just patently ridiculous.

I don't call the whiff. And I wasn't suggesting that you were, well, doing that thing.

Quit being so mean to me. Aren't we supposed to be friends?

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
No, it's wonk. He's still catching up and he's now up to 2003.

wonk Politics Spoiler:

Bush wins

Shifty Politics spoiler:

AMERICA LOSES

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by Spanky
Depends on their reasons for not ratifying.

That answer smacks of moral relativism. Or are you anti-human-rights?