Why Setanta you must be an idjit to think the most high commander and chief is ignoring Afghanistan, after all he speaks most admirably about his accomplisments there. why just last year he told us the bad guys were all gone, there was a chicken in every pot and opium was a good marketable product requiring only a few SBA investments to get it going again. I am pretty sure that as soon as he gets them damn arabs straightened out in Palestine (next week i am almost postive) on his way thru Iran heading towards N Korea via Canada-France and Germany giving peace a chance with smarter bombs and world approval heading north again. Ameriker is on a roll with the finest WoMD money can buy. We are the World.
my 80 yr old mother with alzheimers calls Martha "Bitch goddess from hell" but also thinks she is getting the shaft.
dlowan. once upon a time in a land far, far way i was a grad student dozing in the back of the classrooom when the prof asked me to explain the paradigm he had drawn. having no clue i responded that i found the paradigm insegrevious (a word created on the spot) we spent the next 30 minutes debating whether or not the paradigm was or was not insegrevious.
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i make it a point to be both mundane and innane, just going with the flow;)
Joe Pine, if any of you remember Joe Pine, the mental/media precurser to Billy O'Realy interviewed Frank Zappa. As he noticed Frank had long hair Joe Pine said "Frank, you have long hair, does that make you a woman?" now Frank noticed the Joe Pine had an artifical leg and said to Joe "Joe, i see you have a wooded leg, does that make you a table?"
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I don't actually think Billy is either nuts nor insane. I think he is just the last version of B.T. Barnum seeing a sucker born every minute and wanting his $.
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to paraphrase Keegan one of the problems with conservatives/republicans is that they assume they think.
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Plato/Aristotle most likely contributed more to the downful of western intellectual reasoning than any other event. IMO
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thats not a slinky on my nose, i've simply over-repaired my spectacles.
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Levi 501's have buttons, not zippers. i eschew technology that is beyond my ken. My 8-track player still goes kachunk every 11 minutes.
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I'd go as high as $1 US for a mint condition Donnie & Marie 8-track.
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one seldom gets the answers one seeks by shooting first and asking the questions later.
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"hippocracies" its one of those words one learns by going to collage, a linguistic art form.
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it doesn't really take all kinds but we get them anyway
thin skins on taters fried up in very hot oil til crispy are yummy. however as i understand it Bill Clintion was brought up for empeachment for lying about something that was not a crime whether he did it or not.
Knead your dough. Sprinkle flour on the board, fold the fat warm living dough into its own center and mash it down firmly but gently-don't bruise the living yeast cells-over and over, working the outside though to the inside until everything is satiny smooth as a baby's bottom. Grease another bowl with butter, flop a blob of pale brown breathing dough into it, cover with a damp dish towel and set on the top of the fridge, over the hot-air vent, under the ceiling.
Now let it rise, double in volume, a genuine resurrection, an authentic miracle.
Which was the worthier techological achievement, the moon landing or the invention of bread? The bake oven or the nuclear reactor? Only a fool would hesitate to answer.
then=ketchup on hot dogs
now= mustard on hot dogs
he's the kind of man that would sell a rats asshole to a blind man for a wedding ring.....Richard Brautigan
the more interracial marriages, the fewer interracial marriages.
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Hey i have tuned it and turned on. I checked with my friends at La Raza and Yeah we are like over-throwing the USA. We are starting with the seven cities of gold-Las Vegas-Reno-Tahoe-Phoenix-Tucson-Albaturkey and San Diego. As soon as we have liberated the bean fields, melon patches and corn fields (no more whisky for you smart assed gringo's) we are taking back our ancestral lands of Califia, require Catalan as the national language. We plan on allowing a handful of bracero's temporary work permits for out of work women from your cities of Boston-Ann Arbor and, perhaps, Erie P.A. so they can care for our gardens and wet nurse our bambinos. No fruit or cattle will be allowed to cross our borders and you will be allowed turista visa's for no longer than 7 days. We will, of course demand reparations in the form of gold coins with the head of Pancho Villa on the obverse and an image of the Vegas Strip on the other side. UN peace-keepers will man the borders which will be enforced with razor wire tipped with germs containing Montezuma's revenge.
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hey c.i. its all real, it's reel 3 of a 5 reel film entitled "can't we all just get along"
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Actually i am pretty sure the JEWS are behind La Raza stirring up trouble while remaining in the shadows. There is some evidence that JEWS are actually under those KKK robes as well just to throw off the FBI and National Inquirer. Why just last week while driving through Mississippi i saw several enclaves of Jews burning the Star of David on the lawns of uppity blacks. Where oh where are The Daughters of the American Revolution when we need them? Come back McCarthy and save us from the commie JEWS. Oops never mind, i am confusing JEWS with Asians, never mind.
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and as i read this, there is a program on PBS "the illusion of race" the only race is us folks, we are all just people trying to make our way in this world as best we can.
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would that make cancer the leading cause of statistics?
i think they should just show up at Ashcrofts prayer meetings and sing "We shall over run"
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yeah i agree steissd, we allow them gays a little pride next thing you know they will be wanting to vote.
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steissd whats really scary is that those liberals and those lawyers and those democrats are against Ashcroft mandating prayer meetings. What kind of CHRISTAIN nation are we going to have with atheists, pagans, gays, buddhists and yes communists/socialists going around IN PUBLIC speaking their minds. Its an outrage i tell you, an outrage. Why before you know it we will not be allowed to burn witches or blacks or even, you know mexican illegal immigrants. This damned idea of equal rights for, you know, EVERYBODY has got to stop and the sooner the better.
we don't have terrorists, we have covert special ops assisting freedom fighters.
for a check on bias in the media use google search for the topic at hand (franken-o'reilly). i read the first 5 hits and got quite a variety of reportage of said exchange. the CBS appeared to be the most neutral in coverage.
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socialism as in Social Security? Medicare/Mediaid? FDA? Dept of Health? and myriads of other USA programs? yeah virtually all of Europe/North America has been an abysmal failure of socialism.
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pure socialism like pure capitalism is a non-existentent ideal. for someone to demonstate a successful socialistic state, i would ask, in return to demonstate a successful capitalistic state.
Actually i think, OMG, Fox news, in and of itself does a pretty decent job of reporting factual news with an emphasis on what it deems to be "popular." Where it really strays is in its "opinion" shows like O'Reilly which it pretends is non-biased. The "we report, you decide" is just a sham. CNN-MSNBC et al have degenerated to the level of Fox in order to regain a market share. The loss is accurate information from any one them. I now restrict my news information to the BBC and PBS-NPR.
there should be a gay couple in every neighborhood-might keep out the religious fanatics.
Well LittleK, it will at least keep them from having religious weddings, the baby terrorists will then, obviously, become pagan bastard terrorists.
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well yeah, and they will probably build a "stoned hinge" on the White House lawn, dance the bugaloo and sing "Blinded by the Right" (backup vocals by the Omaha Aquarium Choir)
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all you really need is a good 8-track player and some Donnie and Marie tapes. if that dont make a pagan bastard terrorist out of you, nothing will. Wink (not that there's anything wrong with Donnie and Marie)
Um let me see, you know those little plastic tubs that they allow you to put things in while you walk through the machine that beeps anyway? well i put in my watch and stray coins and car/house keys, and since the machine beeped at me anyway i was pulled aside for a more intensive investigation from which i returned to find that the little plastic tub with said items no longer existed. Being the terrorist that i am, i demanded that my items be returned to me. "Oops" they said, "you must be mistaken we dont have anything that matches your description" "Um," I said "I bet you can find my keys because my dog tags happened to be attached on the key ring" After about 20 minutes someone managed to find my keys (dog tags still attached) but, lo and behold, my watch and coins just plumb disappeared in the black hole of "security." So is it the "terrorists" or the "security" that i need to be wary of?
well first of all i was in Vietnam in the very early days pre agent orange. the only information i would have is that on the occassions when i have gone to the V.A. hospital there are quite a few service people there for agent orange as well as gulf war syndrome. it seems that the V.A. takes it seriously.
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War toys are for middle aged men who need to grow up and settle their disputes without resorting to playground muscle. The biggest bully falls the hardest.
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The incubation for terrorism has been long in the making, especially in the middle east. in the modern sense it began with the end of WW I. Neither political view has been astute in its comprehension of the complexities and, if fact, have been horrifically negligent. The Brits mangled the entire region at a time when the Empire was collapsing. Bandaid after bandaid actually exacerbated the cancers by supporting whatever regime was the least obnoxious in delivering the goods necessary to fuel western economies. I believe the Bush administration and in particular Rumsfeld has a very myopic understanding the socio/theological underpinnings of the middle east culture equating terrorists to common and petty criminals to be eradicated by force. Containment may be viable but i believe it will only work with economics not guns. i would think, and i do believe Timberland will agree, the first necessity in conflict is to understand the enemy. Neither Bush nor Rumsfeld has indicted any such understanding.
4 out of 5 dentists say bucky beaver uses Ipana toothpaste while 99.47% of conviceted child molesters drank milk as a child.
i can only assume its something imported to the rest of the world from the US of A, we seem to be the orginators of the clone syndrome. we really really like everyone to think exactly the same, look exactly the same and live exactly the same. i have to think its based on fear. if something is different than i am i might question myself and i certainly don't have any desire to do that. when i was in grad school back in the last century i had a prof that refered to this as the brown shoe on tuesdays syndrome. i could very easily turn this into my favorite rantjust down the road from me is the second fastest growing community in the US called HighLands Ranch, the zoning requirements limit the homes to be one of 5 pastel colours, everyone must have 40% of their front lawn planted in Blue Grass, garage doors must not be left open facing the street when not in use etc etc btw the population is 97% republican and is the center of the "focus on the family" pentecostal movement for the world.
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the entire population of this city (73,000) live in duplicates of this house, 4 bdrms-3 bath and $270,00 and Mrs Stepford drives an SUV. Ever hear of Columbine High School?
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the primary function of gated communities is to keep the residents inside the gates Wink
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i had a GMC S-15 Jimmy for many years 6 cylinder 29 mpg, put 240,000 miles on it loved it, too bad you cant buy those small ones any more.
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springtime in the rockies-woke up a foot of snow this morning-heavy wet spring snow, 35 yr old cherry tree trunk is split down to the ground. apple tree doesn't look too good either. neighbors poplar tree is laying across my back yard.
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Coors, yeah green beer they have to export because no one here will drink it Wink
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I gotta get me a pair of those pink plaid shorts, i'd prolly look like i was riding a flamingo.
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i put the dead ones in my fruit trees to scare away the neighbor kids.
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yeppers thats me, i woulda got a divorce but the damn law says she would still be my cousin.
Did you know that...
because the bush baby's call sounds like the shouts of an exited child, British explorers thus named it its English name.
Some African tribes catch bush babies by leaving out saucers of palm wine for them to drink.
the longest recorded leap by a bush baby from one tree to another was 23 feet.
"Galago" is another term for Bush Babies.
When it comes to taking advange of the system, no group comes within a mile of the corporate/military/industrial/energy/financial/ complex. Billions of welfare for the rich, dozens of dollars for the poor. oh yeah and food stamps. Reminds me of when George the elder was running for re-election, went into a grocery and was amazed at the "scanner."
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Another way to look at this entire issue is to first determine what is deserved by simply being born a citizen in the US.
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nah scrat, us liberals are just dumb. thats why you conservatives are always complaining about all the "liberal" university profs.
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In spite of my not being a "libertarian of limited social conscience" I happen to believe that every man, woman and child in this wealthiest of all nations, deserves a modicum of essential services including food, shelter and medical care regardless of the cause of their situation. We shall be known by the way we treat those most in need without judgement.
well i can see you just don't understand the priciples of conservatism in the republican administration of George W. Bush.
you must understand that the very basis of republicanism is a diminished government in the lives of the citizens, a diminished govenment of size and cost to the citizens all of which is demonstated by simple facts like under Reagan, Bush 1 and Bush 2, the size and cost of government increased at a greater rate than ever before and the private lives of citizens have been invaded beyond the very comprehension of constitutional authority. This is called the principle of political republican reverse-speak. btw started next tuesday everyone will wear brown shoes on tuesdays.
she said she prefered handsome men
but in my case would make an exception
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A week late and a dollar short i jump into this thread with the assumption that it started with the western gathering thread. It seems to me that when we all met appearances were virtually meaningless, Blatham found me in the lobby of the motel and immediately began a dialogue of nearly intimate friendship within seconds soon followed by Lola and Diane. I was totally unaware of any appearance evaluations going on. Personality was the forefront and remained so throughout the gathering. While i think everyone was a bit taken aback by Asherman's loss of beard, it was more in context to our image of him than anything else. With all of us sitting about on Asherman's patio thru the afternoon it was animated and lively chatter and banter and i do believe by the end of the gathering there was far greater empathy for all in attendance, flaws and all. Then in spurts i read the posts and wonder what all the talk is about regarding appearances. The bottom line for me is that everyone was themselves and i think everyone delighted in that simple fact. (althought the constant references to my hands has me puzzled) btw absolutely everyone was beautiful.
