Friedman Unit in the talented hands of the fiercely funny Paul Hinrichs. Open thread below....
Tucker Carlson: Reporters Have 'Slavish, Dog-Like Loyalty' to Obama 
Church Member Defends NC Pastor: LGBT People 'Worthy of Death'
Colin Powell Takes Hannity to Task for His Obsession with Bill Ayers and Rev. Wright
Fearmonger-in-Chief Beck reveals 'The Plan': Frighten people into joining a movement of bedwetters |
Ed Schultz Brings National Attention to Florida Voter Roll Purge |
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John Fugelsang: Only in America Can You Be Pro-Death Penalty, Pro-Torture... and Still Call Yourself Pro-Life |
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Bill Maher Knocks Liberty University: It Cheapens My Degree From a Real School |
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Compassionate Conservatism: Romney Meets Medical Marijuana Patient |
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Stockman: Romney Can't Say He Learned How to Create Jobs in the Leveraged Buyout Business |
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Krugman: Romney's Business Career is Fair Game |
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NY Fox 5 Crew Pepper Sprayed And Assaulted By NYPD |
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Bill Maher Sends Alexandra Pelosi Out to Interview Mississippi Residents |
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This is Your Brain After Listening to Too Many Right Wing Talking Points on the Debt Ceiling |
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-113...
"Tea Party star Christine O'Donnell in witchcraft row"
"I dabbled into witchcraft. I never joined a coven," she said on the show.
"I hung around people who were doing these things. I'm not making this stuff up. I know what they told me they do.
"One of my first dates with a witch was on a satanic altar, and I didn't know it. I mean, there's little blood there and stuff like that," she said.
"We went to a movie and then had a little midnight picnic on a satanic altar."
You just can't make that shit up. Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction.
Bite my shiny metal ass.
http://www.startalkradio.net/
again.
Hopefully this will hurt her during the election, but I doubt it, evangelicals will forgive anything if you claim to be an evangelical and claim repentence. Although I think Christine's a Catholic, IIRC, but my point still holds...
Ok, I guess she was raised a Catholic but became evangelical...
"The greatest tyranny is censoring information in order to be better able to control people." - Cristina Saralegui
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiQ1DBhNe_4
Where she discusses mice with human brains with the other human/animal hybrid, Birdbrain O'Really. (Olbermann showed it tonight).
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
Ironically, she's a human with a mouse's brain.
...with apologies to mice.
Olbermann talked about it last week IIRC. Nice vid. I guess she got the mouse with the ear mixed up with fantasy and had a dream about it, and thought that it was real. Just get some Ren and Stimpy in there and you get space madness.
Bite my shiny metal ass.
http://www.startalkradio.net/
as #2 in 'related' (at least for me):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPGu0RebJ6w&fe...
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
It's not my video. The site I used has that set and those two characters. I bet we'll see tons of these make-your-own videos popping up. It's so easy to make one.
far left loon >.<
Looks like those creators are onto something.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
Anyone can make a movie there. It's free. It's a new site. They have about 9 sets. If you want fancier stuff you pay.
far left loon >.<
She's a perky little dipshit.
far left loon >.<
(She) thinks "dipshit" means chocolate-covered feces...
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
Watching jowly Tom F. talk macho is enough to make a guy hurl.
I kept looking at his hair and mustache.
far left loon >.<
...and not a hipster douchebag, either, but a regular old douchebag who thinks the all black wardrobe and the omnipresent mock turtleneck make him a cutting edge clothes horse.
Hey, Friedman, you're a schlub! Nothing in the world can ever change that!
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
That's the kind of stuff I think, not put into print. I do entire character and style assassinations in under 2 seconds (on almost everyone): I'm terrible. As you wrote it, I had a satisfying read.
(Do we all do that, or am I evil?)
far left loon >.<
...has that 80's porn star look going on. Was I the only one expecting the giant foot to come from above and squish him with the appropriate raspberry sound effect?
'And now for something completely different...'
Government + the Federal Reserve = organized crime
BUBBLE HEAD!
The truth will set you free but can you handle the truth?
gets people to assume all sorts of things about me... *shrug*
Anyway, I'll just be glad if I can debate euthanasia tomorrow instead of immigration. My partner in debate class for this debate is a flake.
"The greatest tyranny is censoring information in order to be better able to control people." - Cristina Saralegui
people to choose it leads to enforced euthanasia. I won my argument with that point. Imagine that now.
in a debate that class is now teabagger crazy... *sigh*
"The greatest tyranny is censoring information in order to be better able to control people." - Cristina Saralegui
Just tell them euthanasia is a simple medical decision. It's "Youth in Asia" they should be worried about. If they're really baggers they'll believe you.
far left loon >.<
What is assumed?
Edit: this is a reply to Annaleigh's post.
Bite my shiny metal ass.
http://www.startalkradio.net/
I got into the person thought I as a Latina must be an immigrant when my Mexican-American side is 6th generation. Now I "hate" white people despite being a quarter white myself. ;)
"The greatest tyranny is censoring information in order to be better able to control people." - Cristina Saralegui
(like glenn beck says we libruls want to do) in your coldest possible affect and see how many gasp. Then begin.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
Ah, like that. Who gives a feck! 1st or 600th generation. Black white or purple, so what! (i would be surprised if you would be purple tho, i've not seen many people like that :p)
Fuck 'em! They are idiots. (btw: don't hate me, i'm white ;) )
Bite my shiny metal ass.
http://www.startalkradio.net/
I get stuff from change.org occasionally, but there sure seems to be a plethora of police-involved dog shootings making the news lately.
http://animals.change.org/blog/view/dc_dog_sh...
http://criminaljustice.change.org/blog/view/a...
Thankfully, with Florida's liberal open carry laws, my dog can shoot back...
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
pit under dubious cirumstances... I'll see if I can find an article...
Edit, it was in Maricopa, but the Maricopa here in Kern County, CA, not Arizona.
"The greatest tyranny is censoring information in order to be better able to control people." - Cristina Saralegui
Kinda refreshing, esp. compared to Taft... ;)
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
if it's the same one I saw a video of but it was simply disgusting. I'll try and find it.
Edit, I found the video but it was Missouri no AZ. I'll post it but it is very sad and disgusting watch at your own risk.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/06/video-show...
For the DC shooting, it sounds like the cop screwed up and should be charged and tried. For the Baltimore one? I can't make a decision without knowing more.
But FL does not have liberal open carry laws. Well.. do you mean liberal as in permissive? Or liberal as in political party?
Open carry is not allowed for non leo except I think security guards. Open carry is only allowed while target shooting, hunting, fishing or camping. Pretty much except for that if any part of the gun is shown it is a 2nd degree misd.
I was joking; I should have put a snark. But glad you're paying attention. ;)
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
But sometimes it's hard to read sarcasm. I'd just hate to think of someone reading something and thinking it was legal and getting arrested for it.
And I should of added a caveat to my above post. While FL state statutes state that openly carrying a handgun or long gun (not sure what else is covered in FL) in those pursuits is okay, some localities interpret them differently. I've heard from one person when he contacted govt owned marina that only weapons that could be legally used in those pursuits could be openly carried, ie for fishing a spear gun.
And I will say that your state laws are much more confusing to me than mine. It could be because I have allot more experience with mine but...
And you have people down there getting arrested for carrying a concealed weapon for a pocket knife without a CCW? Seriously?
"Poll After Poll Shows That Both National Parties Are Deeply Unpopular With An Electorate Looking For Something New And Different"
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2010/09/poll-a...
Thousands swarmed Boston Common yesterday afternoon, participating — to various degrees — in a rally advocating legalization of marijuana: And as one person noted... “We don’t have the money to afford universal health care right now, but if we taxed marijuana, we would.’’
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusett...
Expect a fair election in November? 3,221 more votes than voters were found in Republican districts in one County. Who won? Of course Republicans.
http://www.jabberwonk.com/flinker.cfm?cliid=e...
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
presidential election, too. How can anyone believe in any results when this keeps happening? Makes me feel stupid for voting.
We need to vote, we just need to make people aware of the election fraud that is going on regularly and get them interested in fixing our election system by getting rid of this secret software crap. People education through journalism seems to me to be the only viable strategy at this point. Here are some great documentaries on the subject:
And check out this.. http://coloradopols.com/diary/13822/americans...
R.I.P. Mike Connell, killed in a mysterious plane crash after asking for protection from Karl Rove prior to testifying in the 2004 vote fraud case in Ohio.
More Election Integrity Documentaries can be found at this link.
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
we just need to make people aware of the election fraud that is going on regularly and get them interested in fixing our election system by getting rid of this secret software crap
Do you know roughly how many elections could be affected by these machines this November?
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
But then I'm a cynic.
Enough to fuck us over.
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Cool video on nanotechnology and the potential good it could do for our society:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCpkq_AeX50
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
running errands, and I heard the checkers at the store I was at talking about how Child Protective Services had to be called to the Pizza Hut next door the night before. I didn't catch all of it, but I later learned that a toddler had been left behind at the Pizza Hut after dinner, and no one in his family realized the poor baby was missing until the next morning. :-/
"The greatest tyranny is censoring information in order to be better able to control people." - Cristina Saralegui
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OP5Bq7sMXOs
Was supposed to be a light-hearted reply to Geronimo. I guess too light, 'cause it landed here...
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
You are a good man. That is exactly what I needed. Great version. Great Band. Thanks :)
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6g8lFmsCXhg&fe...
I was at the Wiltern for day two of the filming of "Stop Making Sense". Great days.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
Why did I click on that vid?! What the hell is that guy talking about?! Bubble, bubble, bubble. We hit Iraq because we could? Then why not the Solomon Islands?! Why not Tangiers?! Fuck there's lots of places we COULD! Bubble, bubble. What a prick.
I guess the terrists hit NYC because they could too. (Bush let it happen.) Lots of assholes around, eh? Where does it end?
far left loon >.<
schitck, where are the voices of the medical people who should be crucifying her for her lies about condoms not helping in the prevention of HIV? As far as I can tell, she still believes this.
Sorry, I don't have medical figures handy, but she needs to be beaten back with something encased in plastic by someone who's got the figures. I'd hate for even one person to get HIV because they believed this freak.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
incased in plastic, would that be batteries for the vibrator.
;)
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
filled with vibrators loaded with batteries can be a very lethal weapon.
I am having fun, but also highly disturbed that there were enough people to select her with their votes. To me (non-American) it's shocking she would even be considered for a ballot. It does not say much about the American voting public.
far left loon >.<
many of the posters of comments don't live in her state and can't vote for her.
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Delaware's 100% Faith-Based E-Voting
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
O'Donnell-- Yes Wi Ccan.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
We need real public information and journalism more often...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92Syc1agCBk
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
FBI spied on Iowa activists, too: Feds staked out homes, rummaged through trash, pulled phone records.
NY Republican advocated for EUGENICS in 2001 essay
U.S. lawmakers seek power to ‘shut down’ Web sites in other countries
WTF
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
"The FBI records show the agency ended its investigation after finding no involvement in “specific criminal activities.”
Well of course not. Why would the Feds report on themselves?...;)
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
Congressional investigators plan to examine how the FBI determined that one scientist was responsible for the deadly 2001 anthrax attacks
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/09/investigat...
Wall Street Journal (2010) - The Anthrax Attacks Remain Unsolved
The FBI disproved its main theory about how the spores were weaponized.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274...
Cheney and his staff were given doses of the anti-anthrax Cipro right after the 9/11 attacks
"On the night of the Sept. 11 attacks, the White House Medical Office dispensed Cipro to staff accompanying Vice President Dick Cheney as he was secreted off to the safety of Camp David, and told them it was "a precaution," according to one person directly involved."
"Let me put it this way," Bush said. "I'm confident that when I come to work tomorrow, I'll be safe."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline...
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
http://sabbah.biz/mt/archives/2010/09/17/moss...
"There's something happening here
What it is ain't exactly clear
There's a man with a gun over there
Telling me I got to beware
I think it's time we stop, children, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
There's battle lines being drawn
Nobody's right if everybody's wrong
Young people speaking their minds
Getting so much resistance from behind
I think it's time we stop, hey, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
What a field-day for the heat
A thousand people in the street
Singing songs and carrying signs
Mostly say, hooray for our side
It's time we stop, hey, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
Paranoia strikes deep
Into your life it will creep
It starts when you're always afraid
You step out of line, the man come and take you away
We better stop, hey, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
Stop, hey, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
Stop, now, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
Stop, children, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down." - Buffalo Springfield
"The US has an army of 90,000 soldiers in Afghanistan and is spending $100bn a year, but has still been unable to defeat 20,000-25,000 Taliban who receive no pay at all." - Patrick Cockburn
FBI 'gave inaccurate statements' claiming terror link to anti-war rally
Bad guys always going after the good guys. We need more good guys to go after the bad guys more often.
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
perverts
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
E-Vote Vendors to North Carolina: We Don't WANT to Break the Law! Systems uncertified for state-mandated Instant Runoff Voting...
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=8079
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
burned in Houston (Harris Co) TX recently? What will they use in Nov?
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
Hopefully some transparency. But here's what I found.
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
I had to laugh at this.
Obama administration has given up on closing the military detention center at Guantanamo Bay
Middle-Class American To Obama: 'I'm Exhausted Of Defending You'
Vote for true Progressives in the coming elections.
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
From whom, middle class, from whom?
I see progress. Slow but real.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
Executive order, darling. Just do it. Sheesh!
Somehow W managed to get all sorts of shit done. Why is it that Obama can't get a damn thing down without begging, cajoling and whining to the party of NO. Like you said Savannah, executive order.
How is it that when the Republicans want to pass a bill they can get almost all of their members to vote yes? Yet when the Democrats want to pass a bill a quarter of their caucus votes with the Republicans. Who is holding those Democrat/closet Republicans feet to the fire to get them to vote with their party?
and some independants don't always think clearly so, O'Donnell says that the media is going t attack her and they are. Are they going to vote for her because she is being attacked or because that proves she's qualified? Enquiring minds want to know if a witch is qualified to be a senator.
confused. Okay, she's a lot confused. I want her to be elected to embarrass her party to the greatest extent possible.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/natio...
"I hung around people who were doing these things. I'm not making this stuff up. I know what they told me they do," O'Donnell told Maher.
"One of my first dates with a witch was on a satanic altar, and I didn't know it. I mean, there's little blood there and stuff like that," she said. "We went to a movie and then had a little midnight picnic on a satanic altar."
Ummm...was this witch a man or a woman?? I thought male witches were "warlocks" or something?
Is Christine!!! suggesting she had a date with a chick witch or what?
Heh.....
YOUR REPUBLICAN SENATE CANDIDATE FROM DELAWARE!!!!!
HA!
"The US has an army of 90,000 soldiers in Afghanistan and is spending $100bn a year, but has still been unable to defeat 20,000-25,000 Taliban who receive no pay at all." - Patrick Cockburn
But in her defense....never mind.
is a wedge issue. If you are basing your vote on this issue, you are dumber than a box of rocks.
the link
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/ns/msnbc_...
Did I say "illegals"? I was talking about my neighbors! Appeals court overturns injunction against lethal injection in California. Rizzo liked to embezzle. FBI misled Congress over its investigations. Barry supports the troops. Cali's biggest union is for legalizing it. Murkowski admits the Repugs are not very "bi-partisan". The recession's over? News to them. Y contribute to humanity's carbon footprints? No Bliss @ Texas Fort. Yeah, and...? Anyone wanna try some Frankenfish?
How many people on Crooks and Liars want to go to the "Rally to Restore Sanity" or the "March to Keep Fear Alive" but cannot because you live too far away? (Or any other inconvenience that would be solved if the rally was closer.)
http://www.reddit.com/r/RedditCarpool/ carpooling to and from D.C.
http://www.reddit.com/r/PlacetoStay/ for crashing in or near D.C.
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
to the 10/02/2010 rally for the union and NAACP ay the Washington Mall but I can't afford to and I'm in the process of moving to eastern Washington.
but it's back to CA for me at the end of the week.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
If you don't have time to read the open thread today, you can watch (parts of it) in this short movie: Two presidents shoot the shit in the Whote House den. .
http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/7188725/
far left loon >.<
I left a reply to your comment about god giving me a heart in the value voters thread. If you read it I think you will understand my philosophy and my beliefs a bit better.
Yeah. I do. I'm nothing like that.
far left loon >.<
It's hard to read emotion sometimes in text. But I get the feeling you disapprove for lack of a better word my stance. Can I ask why? I can't see much of a problem in it. I'm more than willing to give something to someone in need if I am able, but I'm not willing to let someone take it without my consent.
I can't say I disapprove, I'm just nothing like that. I see myself as passing through. Life is transitory and I am a caretaker on the planet (not an owner). The planet is to be shared with all creatures and people (and I feel we need laws to stop people from destroying it.). I often give things away or get rid of things so I don't form strong attachments to material things. They are a burden I don't want or need.
I'd prefer if people don't help themselves, but if they do I try to understand why. I might have a few cross words for them, but that's it.
When I was in Thailand a few years ago, I woke up to an intruder in my room (a thief). I asked him what he was doing. He looked surprised and apologized. Then he left the room, backing out the door. He seemed genuinely ashamed. I think he was just desperate and maybe I should have given him a few bucks. I went to sleep again. I was not angry.
Did you watch my movie? Starring (the comments of) Annanleigh, Alerta_Alerta, Moi, Andy K, luwslips, RickinSF, savannah43, and some others. I can't recall all right this moment)
(And PS: it's should have not should of-- a common mistake. We use "have/has" and the "past participle" to form the present perfect tense. Eg: I should have known. The confusion comes in the contraction we use/make (only) when speaking, should've. Sorry to be a grammar Nazi, but I teach that stuff.)
far left loon >.<
Movie now deleted.
far left loon >.<
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"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
I deleted a series I made, and it was in there.
far left loon >.<
just got done watching it now. I opened it up last night and got distracted. I liked it, but to tell you the truth the Palin one was funnier. But I'm sure both were a lot of work. Oh and I still have it open. It may be deleted on the web but it's stored in my cache. Muahahahaha.
And I have no problem with you correcting my grammar, I believe you do it to educate I'm fine with that. As a matter of fact, thank you. Some others do it to belittle or to attempt to refute someone ie their entire premise or ideology is incorrect because of a mistake in grammar or spelling. And I do know it is incorrect but it's habit/laziness.
And I can't say I disapprove for the most part with your ideology, except where it infringes on others.
I do believe in ownership, mainly because I believe I own myself. If I own myself I own responsibility of my actions and I own what I acquire with my effort if it doesn't infringe upon someone else's right of ownership iow take without their consent. It's not that they are taking an item, it is that they are in effect making me a slave. The only difference between a slave owner and a thief is a matter of degree. Or and this is a rude example but apt. If I have consensual sex with a woman we both consent and neither is a slave, but if I were to hold her down and rape her against her consent I would be in effect making her my slave for the time for my own pleasure.
If I woke up with a thief in my room, I would probably respond quite differently than you. Because if they are in my home uninvited in that situation, I would have to assume that they are not attempting to make me or my family a slave in a small degree, I will have to assume that they are planning to do serious harm to my family or myself.
But if I found someone in my garden at night stealing to feed their family, I wouldn't hurt them. Hell I would probably feed them. But since they attempted to take without my consent they will have to work for it. They can come over and pick weeds/mow my lawn etc. If they cannot do physical labor I will find something for them to do.
I know what you're saying, but I'm just not that attached to stuff. I understand your slavery analogy. It's like lying is stealing someones right to truth. Stealing is wrong, but I felt sorry for the guy and I was sleepy, so I just went back to sleep. It's not OK to steal, but I just didn't care that much. .
See, in yoga, it goes like this, if you want to be free. There are 5 steps to ignorance.
fear of death (all fear)
hate
attachment
ego
ignorance (of self, etc.) (bliss)
I'm working on diminishing ego. The top 3 are not big issues for me. Ego is hard to do.
far left loon >.<
attached to most stuff myself, the few things I am attached to have sentimental value. Well except for what seems to be this permanent bond with the keyboard at times :)
Such as my grandmothers/great grandmothers and now my wife's ring it's not really the ring itself it's the I won't say the memories it contains but perhaps the memories it evokes, I know I would still have the memories if the ring was gone it's just....
Or I have a .22 revolver that was my dads, it holds some sentimental value, but it is also a physical reminder to myself too make sure I stay close to my own son.
PS I'm not surprised the Palin movie was funnier. Those were largely her own words, the dipstick.
The other was made with erudite comments of C&L posters. ;)
Oh, and my sister used to use should of, and I corrected her. (teacher here)
far left loon >.<
should really stay out of sight.
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far left loon >.<
I was just watching c-span and Lindsey Graham spoke yesterday to the people at AEI. Toward the end of his speech he said the Patriot Act was set to expire the end of this year and no one was talking about it. Is that true? Is it about to expire and will they allow it to?
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
I'm sure it won't be allowed to expire. Sadly.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
For some reason this guy pisses me off even more than people like Kristol. At first I thought it was because Friedman is actually admired at times by some people on the left. That may be part of it but I think I realized the bigger reason just now. I work in IT consulting and Friedman reminds me of the worst kind of business strategy consultants. They guys who don't actually know shit about anything but are really good at slick talking and throwing around a lot of nonsense with such confidence that senior executives will listen with rapt attention and make major changes to their companies based on the business fad of the month.
II agree with MikeD that Tom Friedman (TF) is utterly loathsome. The fact that such a stupid, brainwashed nonsense-spouter can get so much press and coverage tells us enough about US journalism or even, in many cases, scholarship. I disliked this hateful clown from the very first time I had witnessed his frightfully lightweight gibberish, I believe on Charlie Rose (CR), more than 10 years ago. Then, and since, I have noticed how CR routinely brings in obnoxious establishment figures and bearers of hate-propaganda.
I felt suspicious of this vacuous entity that very first time- even more so when they said he had won a Pulitzer. It further devalued that dreadfully dubious honor in my mind.
The crowning revelation of how such tragic empty-suits find resonance in vacuous corporate-types (idiots cloaked in suits) occurred for me when, about 4 years ago, I heard the newly self-appointed Provost at my own university singing high praises for this bigoted, narrow-minded zealot's great literary creation, The World is Flat, and recommended it as a must read for all. It boggled my mind to think the level of intellectual debasement that has become routine even on college campuses these days. Who can ever forget the freak show on the Columbia University campus when an Ivy League University President openly insulted the head of a sovereign nation (Iran) with obvious, shameless political motives. It was a spectacle beyond pathetic. However, I have long convinced myself that so-called prestige institutions are also dens of vicious ignorance, bigotry, glorification of stupidity over wisdom, and the lowest forms of pandering to money and power. The brainless occupant of the WH from 2000-2008, an Ivy League product, is a perfect example.
TF belongs in the hallowed group that includes Judith Miller, David Broder, Bill Kristol, David Horowitz, and the entire gang of corporate press-whores that infect American media. These soulless profiteers and hate-mongers have caused countless deaths of decent, innocent human beings around the world with their baseless, manufactured propaganda, and racial and ethnic bigotry. These are cruel death-dealers in the same ranks as (possibly worse than) a sweet-talking Ted Bundy. The damage they have done is far worse than anything the latter ever did.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIWI_KVGxA4
Seems like everyone (except, perhaps, BP?) has been back-pedaling away from who's "laws" were being broken. Something smells
fishylike shit.BP-- Beyond Perfuming.
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