Mike's Blog Round Up
Good morning. I'm Lance Mannion and I can get it for you wholesale. Just show up at the back of the warehouse Saturday afternoon. Bring cash. And remember, we don't know each other. I'm Mr Clements and if the guy at the desk asks, you're a friend of Pete's.
Sorry. I shouldn't goof around like that. I'm just the guest host for this week's blog round up, after all. I don't goof around like that on my own blog. At my place we're very serious, my commenters and I. It's all high-minded discussions about Art, and Film, and the Meaning of Life.
The gang at Crooked Timber comes to my blog to have their questions answered and they go home, bewildered and ashamed of their own ignorance, to tear up their diplomas and return their Ph.D.'s.
Speaking of Crooked Timber, John Quiggin is saying over there that it's time to dive back down the memory hole and remember that the looting of Iraq was a part of the original plan.
The New York Times scoops the world on this one: A lot of Republicans don't plan to vote for Hillary Clinton! That comes via Oliver Willis. Also Oliver admits that when forced to choose between a real science guy and a well-known conservative idiot, he reflexively sides with the real science guy. Go figure.
Avedon Carol says that Venezuela is looking a lot more like a democracy than some other countries she could name.
The Armchair Generalist follows up on a story that I missed the first go-round, about a couple of characters who got caught trying to smuggle a pound of uranium through Hungary. Story had the makings of a great thriller, says the Generalist, except for one thing. The uranium turns out not to have been weapons grade material.
Ben Cohen of the Daily Banter reports that Karl Rove is offering campaign advice to Barack Obama and it turns out, says Ben, that advice is not half-bad.
And mystery writer Laura Lippman has been at work copy editing her latest novel and reports on the quotidian details of the process, except that she can't use the word, quotidian, because one of the things she found out while reading her own work is that she overuses it and it has to go, along with via and literally and the extra e that does not belong in acknowledgment.
Done for today. Send tips and suggestions to lance AT lancemannion DOT com. And remember. The loading dock. Saturday. Act casual. And wear a necktie so I'll know you.
Here's another scoop:
Very few Venezuelans plan to vote for Romney, or Giuliani, although some Sicilians are having their legs twisted on the Giuliani vote.
Lots of Sapphoans are swinging to Hillary, and Nigerians are leaning toward Barack.
World-wide, the elections are looking like a toss-up, although the London bookies' odds indicate that Diebold is a strong favorite.
Mr "Clements",
I dunno, seems wearing a necktie with a dress and heels is going to draw undue attention to me. ;)
Sincerely,
A friend of Pete's
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The faux-uranium business is heating up, insiders are getting out of the mortgage scam, and even abandoning pork bellies, in order to jump on the psuedo-uranium bandwagon.
Is it too late for you to make a move? Perhaps.
In which case, follow the real in-the-know pros, and start selling Teheran property short.
Son-of-a-bitch! Just as I learned to spell 'Ahmadinejad', it looks like he's gonna be vaporized!
A lot of democrats also plan not to vote for Hillary Clinton, they can see straight through her. Just a shame so many republicans can't see through Rudy McRomney.
The Fabulous Ruins of Detroit Tour.
http://detroityes.com/0tourdetroit.htm#The_Fabulous_Ruins
Rumors are the new NIE, to be released next week, is going to reveal that the US has been taken over by insane Christofascists, and not to believe a word that the leader utters.
It's about time!
Our intelligence IS improving!
"A lot of Republicans don't plan to vote for Hillary Clinton!"
Some 5th grade Journalism class is missing one of its D- midterm papers again. Or it's Tweety's basis for 20 minutes of nonstop obsessing over all things Hillary tonite.
I'll vote for Hillary if she is the party nominee, but not until then. Of course I'm in Florida so I don't know if my primary vote will even be counted.
Oh here's a goody.
FALL FROM GRACE (TV14 - VL)
This disturbing documentary from University of Kansas filmmaker K. Ryan Jones reveals the truth about homophobic "minister" Fred Phelps and his twisted Topeka congregation, as they move from gay-bashing to such equally appalling acts as desecrating the funerals of soldiers killed in Iraq. "Wisely maintains an even keel, letting the garrulous subjects hang themselves," says "Variety."
http://www.sho.com/site/schedules/product_page.do?episodeid=131026&serie...
Preacher Boob @ 8:
I know you are an optimist and are just trying to get our hopes up.
It was interesting being on Costa Rica during the whole CAFTA deal.There's still graffiti saying "No TLC".Democracy is verymuch alive in latin America!
Bush is certain that there's an Iranian plot to plant a nukular device in Times Square, so that when the Big Ball gets to the bottom on New Year's, it's gonna trigger a blast that will make Manhattan disappear. 'God' told him so.
Don't feel bad, New Yorkers, thanks to Bush, odds are good that this may be the last New Year's any of us will see.
Isn't impeachment overdue?
And if we don't impeach, how about lobotomizing the bastard, so he quits 'playing 'god'?
"Good morning. I’m Lance Mannion and I can get it for you wholesale. Just show up at the back of the warehouse Saturday afternoon. Bring cash. And remember, we don’t know each other. I’m Mr Clements and if the guy at the desk asks, you’re a friend of Pete’s. "
Nothing wrong with a little goofing around a bit Lance. Its always good to get a few laughs in now and then. Besides, what you just outlined in your opening paragraph is exactly how I envisioned the Department of Justice operated under Alberto Gonzales. :lol:
I've got it!
Let's give Bush an early Christmas present, the new 'Masturbate Me Elmo' doll.
That ought to keep him occupied for a month or more, and distract him from fu*king up any more world affairs.
By that time, it'll be a new year, maybe 'god' will have made a logical New Year's resolution, and Bush will disappear in a cloud of smoke.
Global warming: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/photogalleries/localnews2004052250...
Any questions? This is Interstate-5, which is the main road that connects Oregon, Washington, and California. The detour is an extra three hours and is costing the economy billions. Our "solution" is supposed to build New Orleans-like flood walls.
Check out the boat launch, formerly known as an overpass.
pissed off patricia @ 2:
PoP, don't forget to put a thong in your clutch, and slip it on before you slip out of your limo.
Unless you want to become a 'media darling', and have us all seeing 'Pissed off Patrica' in tomorrow's headlines.
George (~Bush) @ 17:
We passed the point of no return back in 95.
The dollar of 1939 will now purchase 39 cents in total value. WAKE UP. VOTE RON PAUL!
I don't suppose this will surprise anyone, but the General in charge of the Army Corps of Engineers, the folks who fu*k-up the levees, has ordered his troops to perform a 'rain dance' each morning instead of calisthenics, and is voting in favor of 'Global Warning'.
It's called 'Job Security', the 'Army Smart' way.
J'all hear some southern Italian court, in a case involving a Chinese guy infringing copyrights, has summoned Tweety Bird, Sylvester the Cat, the Road Runner to court?
I'm not sure whether to call Oliver Willis Captain Obvious or Captain Oblivious.
Preacher Boob @ 14:
Joe Scarborough was very candid with his comments this morning. When talking about the NIE and Bush's Iran rhetoric he claimed that the President was either "STUPID" or "LYING". I love it!
Watch it:
http://test.redlasso.com/service/svc/clip/playClip?fid=d132d25d-4010-405...
Some nice updates, and good clips from the Iran fallout with the NIE report:
Chris Matthews Demands Continetti Answer "Is Iran a Strategic Threat?"
http://test.redlasso.com/service/svc/clip/playClip?fid=9fcb21ca-effa-40b...
Joe Scarborough - Bush is either "Lying" or "Stupid"
http://test.redlasso.com/service/svc/clip/playClip?fid=d132d25d-4010-405...
Well, we've certainly brought war to Iraq. And now that a Cholera epidemic has broken out in Baghdad, we've bought pestilence. As soon as that Euphrates dam collapses, we'll have flood and famine, and will have fulfilled all the biblical references for a major catastrophe.
And 'crazy-christian' Lil' Georgie, the Born Again Boob, will just be squirming in his shorts, full of pride that he and his figmental 'god' have wreaked horrific devastation upon a multi-millenia civilization.
All at the whim of the equally insane NeoCon Zionists.
Impeach, then flush. Repeat.
great post by Avedon
Libertarian @ 20:
And he'll make it feel like 1932.
More Examples of Savage Capitalism at the Cost of Human Suffering...in the US.
This is a link to several examples of recent globalism crimes by the US in other nations as well as two recent coporate welfare scams just recently coming to light in the US.
http://willyloman.wordpress.com/2007/12/05/more-recent-examples-of-savag...
This what these bastards have done in Iraq, Iran, Chile, Indonesia, China, and here.
Impeach to end globalization.
Just heard Fred Thompson on Charlie Rose.
He sounds a lot like Safire on OxyContin, or a megadose of Valium'
'Ah,ah,ah,ah, th..th..th..th..think, ah,ah,ah,ah..............'
The only good thing I can think of to say about him as a president, is that his inauguration would take so long it would be time for another election by the time he finished, so he wouldn't have any time to screw things up.
Every once in a while, he comes up with great insights, like 'Every coin has two sides'.
Boy, Scooby-Doo, or whatever show he's on, must sure miss him. It's amazing how he can jam 30 seconds of content into a mere one-hour show.
Preacher Boob @ 32:
While he was boinking his trophy wife last night, he accidentally set their vibrating bed on high.
You know, if we were really smart and pragmatic, in view of the republican's obsession with all forms of sex, we would divide the legislative workload in the Congress so that the republicans ran all the sex-oriented committees, and proposed all the sexual-content bills, and left the dull stuff, like stopping wars, health care, education, the economy, and graft and corruption to the democrats.
That should make everyone happy, and keep the republicans eager to come to work, instead of taking all those long 'vacation' breaks, and three-day wor.k weeks
That Crooked Timber piece on planned looting is great, but who does Willis think he is to question the infallible Krauthammer? ;-)
Bush League "Relief": Why Homeowners Will Scream In Terror
Despite what Microsoft Word and any number of copy editors may tell you, acknowledgement is a correct spelling. The OED notes that this spelling is more in keeping with the values of English letters, and its first citation - from 1594 - uses the "extra" e.
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