News and Current Events, pt. 12

8804. judithathome - 4/18/2007 4:26:22 PM

Left Wingers lied, Virginia Tech Students died.

Right wingers provided the ammo and the weapons, dolt.

8805. judithathome - 4/18/2007 4:28:12 PM

Provide a link to anything that says this loon was a registered Democrat or a follower of Islam...he was Korean, not Arab or Indian or Egyptian.

And anyone can be classist; hell, right wingers are classists out the wahzoo.

8806. wonkers2 - 4/18/2007 4:28:40 PM

Conned, are you sure it wasn't punishment by God for the school's tolerance of gays and heterosexual fornication?

8807. iiibbb - 4/18/2007 4:34:20 PM

You know... it's pretty sick of you guys to blame the killings on left-wing or right-wing.

I'm really getting sick of the lack of civility here at the mote.

8808. iiibbb - 4/18/2007 4:35:35 PM

It seemed different here in the beginning. Strong words, but debate.

Now it's just insults.

Maybe Jex is rubbing off on too many people.

8809. iiibbb - 4/18/2007 4:37:16 PM

That kid was broken in his head... that's just sad. I hope that the powers that could have sequestered him in the past figure out how he slipped through...

But how that has anything to do with peoples' politics is unknown to me.

8810. wonkers2 - 4/18/2007 4:40:22 PM

You're about the kid being sick in the head. But the NRA has a lot to do with politics. It has helped elect a bunch of very conservative politicians and has frustrated the will of the majority who would like to see more effective handgun control and enforcement. If gun laws had been tighter in Virginia and enforced better, there's a chance the massacre might have been avoided. That's why politics isn't irrelevant.

8811. iiibbb - 4/18/2007 4:45:49 PM

And if the politics about the privacy rights he might not have passed the background check.

To say it is the right wings fault or left wings fault is assinine.

It's Cho's fault. He was broken.

8812. arkymalarky - 4/18/2007 4:47:07 PM

Message # 8783

To cite one example, no crime was committed by hiring unqualified crony "Brownie" to run FEMA. Were the circumstances of his hiring therefore off limits to Congressional oversight?

I think after six years of no oversight people forget that it's one of congress' most important jobs.

8813. concerned - 4/18/2007 4:47:24 PM

Re. 8808 -

iiibbb -

You should learn how to have some fun, make lemonade out of lemons. Jexster not only has been spreading mass quantities of fertilizer around the Mote for nearly a decade now, but he's been given his own thread just so the rest of the Motiers can get an extra strong whiff of his style. And you haven't noticed any of that until now?

OTOH, I don't see why the political orientation of American cultural influences shouldn't be acknowledged.

8814. jexster - 4/18/2007 5:37:18 PM

HEY WONK!



BITE ME

8815. jexster - 4/18/2007 5:54:57 PM

in the ground

8816. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 4/18/2007 6:11:01 PM

Hey tful, inept congress or crooked?

Today Russ Feingold and Dianne Feinstein brought S.223, the Senate electronic disclosure bill, to the floor for a unanimous consent vote. When they asked if there was any objection, Sen. Lamar Alexander, filling in for the minority leadership, announced that he had an objection, indicating that some Senator in the Republican caucus has placed a secret hold on the disclosure bill. This is twice in two years that a Senator has placed a secret hold on legislation providing for more disclosure to the public.

8817. jexster - 4/18/2007 6:11:33 PM

I think I shall stage a dramatic reading

I shall call it


Kimchi Ishmael

8818. jexster - 4/18/2007 6:12:58 PM

I dunno about holds but all DiFi had to do was to ask for a roll call vote after he blocked the unanimous consent

8819. jexster - 4/18/2007 6:19:41 PM

DO you know what it feels like to be torched alive?

Your Mercedes wasn't enough!

8820. jexster - 4/18/2007 6:53:11 PM

Ishmael's Sister Works for Bush on Iraq Reconstruction

8821. jexster - 4/18/2007 6:57:27 PM

A transparent RoveBush plot to distract attention to the rapid collapse of IraQ

8822. judithathome - 4/18/2007 10:18:21 PM

Conn'd, you should read some of the stuff that kid wrote...here's an example:

You have vandalized my heart, raped my soul and torched my conscience. You thought it was one pathetic boy’s life you were extinguishing. Thanks to you, I die like Jesus Christ, to inspire generations of the weak and the defenseless people.

So I guess he wasn't Islamic, after all...

8823. jexster - 4/19/2007 6:08:42 AM

No that's not true! In another part he attacks christians for persecuting him and as we all know, the Koran speaks very highly of Jesus


Ishmael was obviusly a Muslim. That's a muslim name and the Koran is manual for murder and mayhem Judith!


Saw a great piece on PBS last night on Islam in America...the producers of course were fooled by the wiley Mohammedins and thus totally missed the true pernicious heart of that so-called religion..they have the small minds of climate scientists


be afraid, be very afraid JAH...they're building mosques in Tejas even as I type

8824. thoughtful - 4/19/2007 7:27:04 AM

Frankly, wiz, it matters not if they are inept or crooked if it yields the same result.

8825. concerned - 4/19/2007 7:57:23 AM

Re. 8822 -

My feeling is not that he was a Muslim per se (certainly not a Christian - can you imagine Christ taking out dozens of innocent bystanders before committing suicide?), but that he was apparently influenced by Islamic ideas relating to jihad and martyrdom.

8826. concerned - 4/19/2007 8:08:05 AM

IAC, it sure doesn't hurt to be a nutjob to buy into flat earth Islamic fundamentalism.

8827. robertjayb - 4/19/2007 8:52:53 AM

8828. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 4/19/2007 9:40:10 AM

8824. thoughtful - 4/19/2007 9:27:04 AM

Frankly, wiz, it matters not if they are inept or crooked if it yields the same result.

I just knew you'd evade all of my points with a smug and diversionary rejoinder.

Your pseudo-pragmatism and your convenient conclusions are politically dishonest and deficient -- just as they are in terms of global warming.

8829. jexster - 4/19/2007 11:10:25 AM

My geekie cute jew boy's upset Wonk!!!

Quote Of The Day II
By Eric Kleefeld | bio

It was like a scene from the Borat movie.

— Ha'aretz correpondent Shmuel Rosner, commenting on Tommy Thompson's recent remark to a Jewish group that making money is "part of the Jewish tradition."

8830. thoughtful - 4/19/2007 11:21:05 AM

Wiz, And what point would that be...all dems are honest and hard working and capable but can't get around the evil, corrupt, obstructionist gopers?

I just don't buy that.

8831. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 4/19/2007 11:49:35 AM

You know that's not my point, tful, yet you still try to deflect it with your derisive red-herring. Feign sincerity now.

8832. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 4/19/2007 12:33:20 PM

8833. poipual - 4/19/2007 12:43:08 PM

while most people are seeing tragedy in VT incident, I see a very positive side, and that is that the shooter's Civil Rights were not violated. True, 33 people died, but Hui's Civil rights were honored.

A less good society might have taken stronger measures as to his aberent behavior, but we do not restrict such behavior or talk as long as long as no illegal action is taken. Even when illegal acts are commited, we often do not take strong measures. We are a compasonate society.

8834. concerned - 4/19/2007 12:51:42 PM

Am I detecting irony here?

8835. poipual - 4/19/2007 12:55:11 PM

Perhaps, perhaps not. But you certainly do not reject the thought, do you?

8836. concerned - 4/19/2007 12:57:01 PM

Certainly not to the extent that we are talking intellectual abstractions.

8837. clydefo - 4/19/2007 1:08:42 PM

Compassionate as our President. Check out our prisons.

8838. thoughtful - 4/19/2007 1:12:26 PM

Wiz,
Exactly which point of yours would you like me to address?

That you think going after gonzales is worthwhile even if fruitless? Fine. Apparently congress agrees with you as that's what they're doing.

The gopers went after wjc for lots of various nefarious things almost all of which went nowhere. (and i would argue that even the perjury business was bogus.) The net result was it didn't change anything except harden the feelings of partisanship. The dems distrust the gopers more...the gopers distrust the dems more. The congress has been more stymied than ever as a result.

Further, all those decisions that the gopers used to their advantage back then, like denying any attorney/client privilege between the pres and the wh attorneys in matters of wh business seems to have completely evaporated. How/why wjc had to testify under oath but w seems to have skirted it entirely is beyond me. How cheney manages to claim privilege for public policy meetings on energy is beyond me.

But there it is. Whose fault is that? Was wjc so inept at managing congress? was the goper-run congress so adept at limiting presidential powers? if so, then they've written the how-to manual for this congress...why haven't they picked up where the gopers left off and executed on it?

If laying out a 10-point contract on america works, why haven't the dems done it. If having 'the hammer' around to make the party toe the line works, then why haven't they done it. If changing all the rules of how the house and senate work kept the dem minority from advancing or blocking any legislation when the gopers were in charge, why isn't it working now?

I conclude ineptitude. I'd be delighted if you can show me where i'm wrong.

8839. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 4/19/2007 2:01:07 PM

Tful- How is trying to find out the truth and the sequence of events with someone under oath, fruitless? Your logic stays the same—essentially, it’s: Why bother?

This is a guy who has snubbed the congress ever since he was given the job. He has also proven himself to be willing to do the bidding of Bush and is in no way an independent part of government. You know this to be true, yet you condemn the Democrats for trying prove it. And if you equate Republican’s motives in the Clinton Impeachment with Democrats' motives, then you reveal your own bias and sympathies. I'm not saying that all democratic motives are pure, I'm say that they have more legitimate reasons for investigating these people.

Finally, to say that being inept and being crooked is the same thing, then you should look them up in a dictionary. Moreover, the Bush Administration has proven to be both crooked and inept. I have no problem with skepticism, but I do take issue with your imperious cynicism, especially when it's based on faulty argumentation.

8840. thoughtful - 4/19/2007 2:46:10 PM

How is finding truth with someone under oath fruitless? You can put me under oath and grill me about what I ate for breakfast this a.m. and you would end up knowing a lot more than you did before. But you won't find anything illegal. You might find a way to besmirch my reputation with that 2nd biscuit I had, but that'd be about it. Fruitless.

I would like to see a fruitful investigation. By that I mean something that will roll back the shift in power to the imperial presidency. By that I mean restoring some of our hard won and precious few civil liberties that have been trampled by this administration. I view these as far more important than proving the president can hire and fire prosecutors at will, which we already know. Managing to get gonzales fired so he can be replaced with another incompetent bush loyalist gains us nothing.

I have nothing specific against gonzales gate and i recognize the importance of independent prosecutions to root out government corruption. But I'm concerned that there are other more precious issues at stake that are being sidelined. E.g., how about rolling back some of the patriot act???

BTW, I didn't say being inept and crooked were the same thing...I said they can lead to the same result. Often the two go together.

8841. concerned - 4/19/2007 2:53:36 PM

Willie O'Wonka and the Congressional 'Rat Pack are jumping sharks left and right looking for another free lunch to justify their fishing expedition. Any indictable administration ham sandwich will do.

8842. jexster - 4/19/2007 2:58:47 PM

Republicans report that Fredo's appearance reminded them of the clubbing of a baby seal TD..


You knew that beaner hack was refried when Bush said he stood by him 100 percent

8843. jexster - 4/19/2007 3:01:24 PM

Beaner With Leaf Blower: Fredo-the-Hack's Next Big Career Move



Thank you Chuck Schumer, Lindsay Graham and Arlen Specter


Fine democrats all

8844. jexster - 4/19/2007 3:03:52 PM

So how is that search for missing game going ConMan??


A little of the ole ultra violence for the Mote's Resident Moron

8845. clydefo - 4/19/2007 3:51:41 PM

8840. You can put me under oath and grill me about what I ate for breakfast this a.m. and you would end up knowing a lot more than you did before. But you won't find anything illegal.

Maybe not, but Congress is charged by the Constitution with overseeing the way breakfast is prepared in order to ensure the proper nutritional result. The breakfast that has been served up is unpalatable.

Except through investigation, Congress cannot know if indeed, laws were broken or if unsavory practices were covered up, but that is incidental to the oversight issue in any event.

8846. judithathome - 4/19/2007 4:14:31 PM

Gonzales should be let go on today's performance alone...I listened to some of it on radio and watched some on TV but he came across as inept in both mediums.

8847. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 4/19/2007 4:31:24 PM

Tful, I didn't expect you to own up to weak logic and a dumb point, but you are advocating something that you damn well know the Democrats can't do, namely, get Republicans to vote against a gangster administration that takes names and will not abide disloyalty. So how can they do any more than what they're trying do in a Senate that has the likes of Orin Hatch and Joe Lieberman?

And if you aren't buying that "Gopers" and Bush have been corrupt (or at the very least play a very dirty game) and that they are just inept, "which amounts to the same results"--then your suggestions are even more ludicrous.

You mince words and assume an air of superior wisdom, but in the last analysis, you say nothing substantial, pontificate with shallow observations and give out suggestions that can't be achieved.

8848. arkymalarky - 4/19/2007 4:32:06 PM

He's a goner, and that's one of the best things for the country we could possibly do. Of them all, he's the most menacing to basic American civil liberties.

8849. arkymalarky - 4/19/2007 4:33:57 PM

Congress is finally stepping up and doing its job, and as Pelosi said, they're beginning to drain the swamp and exposing the slime underneath. Illegal or not, they have been unethical and corrupt and they will be unable to operate without exposure of that in the future. And the GOP congressmen who have enabled six years of such will fall in line or fall into oblivion.

8850. arkymalarky - 4/19/2007 4:37:45 PM

Interesting take on NBC's choice to air their package

I agree, though I read quite a lot of the MSNBC stuff myself--as a 26-year high school teacher who has had more than one student who raised an eyebrow in that time, I was interested. But there's also no doubt in my mind that this guy knew, from the salacious nature of much of what NBC--through MSNBC, mostly--broadcasts (their weekends are filled with that kind of junk), would be his best bet of getting "heard."

8851. clydefo - 4/19/2007 4:44:05 PM

[Gonzales] is the most menacing to basic American civil liberties.

My vote goes to Clarence Thomas and his four other Catholic Fascist horsemen.

8852. arkymalarky - 4/19/2007 4:51:13 PM

I should have said "individual."

8853. jexster - 4/19/2007 5:13:30 PM

This fella's got it right over at TPMC


He's a real sharp maricon!

J. McCutchen

I agree with Republicans for once. Per CNN Fredo looked like a clubbed baby seal

The real question here is why? Why have the Republicans turned on him so remorselessly?

They obviously want him gone, but why? Perhaps they fear having to defend Bush "unitary state" excesses - domestic spying, gulags etc???

8854. clydefo - 4/19/2007 6:24:20 PM

I'm with those who argue that Bush can't dump Gonzales. Who could he get confirmed?
A straight arrow Eagle Scout would breeze through the Senate, but he would discover the can of worms that has been opened and might well need to summon Mr. Fitzgerald from Chicago.
A crony appointment would fare no better than the Harriet Miers embarrassment. He's stuck with him unless Gonzales is really just dumb. But I think it's clear that he's just another Harvard man playing dumb.

8855. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 4/19/2007 6:34:45 PM

Gonzales is a Harvard man?

8856. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 4/19/2007 6:43:32 PM

For tful regarding why the Dems don't do more:

A key part of the Democrats' '06 platform was allowing Medicare to negotiate for lower prices on prescription medication. The idea enjoyed broad public appeal, would save the government money during a difficult budget crunch, passed the House with bi-partisan support, and had the votes to pass the Senate. Right up until Republicans filibustered the legislation to death.

The Senate blocked legislation on Wednesday that would let the government negotiate Medicare drug prices. Democrats couldn’t muster the 60 votes needed to bring the bill up for a vote.

Under the Medicare drug benefit, private insurance plans negotiate with drug makers over the price of medicine for their customers. About 22 million seniors and the disabled are enrolled in such plans. Some lawmakers, mostly Democrats, contend the government could use its leverage to drive a better bargain than individual insurers, which would lower the cost of the program for taxpayers and seniors.

8857. arkymalarky - 4/19/2007 9:31:02 PM

If Dems hadn't been so afraid of not winning in '06 they could have gone with GOP restrictions on the filibuster and Republicans would be sol now.

8858. jexster - 4/19/2007 9:41:19 PM

Naah. Very bad idea.

8859. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 4/19/2007 9:45:45 PM

Well the Republicans won't go for it now . . . or do you think that they would--seeing how they're such a principled group of honest politicians? [;-}

8860. jexster - 4/19/2007 10:03:09 PM

Eliminating the filibuster is NOT a good idea

8861. alistairconnor - 4/20/2007 2:14:52 AM

You people are crazy

More than half of [U.S.] workers simply don't use all of their vacation time, according to a report from Hudson, a worldwide recruitment service. The study, which is based on a national poll of 2,082 U.S. workers, showed that 56% do not use all of their allotted paid time off. The report released Wednesday shows a full 30% said they take less than half of their days off. Plus, one in five workers reported that they only plan on getting away for long weekends this year without taking a full vacation.
[...]
The Hudson study also noted that it's all about workers feeling the need to stay connected and to keep producing. The problem is not that employers aren't making the time available to be taken. People are just hesitant to take it.

8862. wonkers2 - 4/20/2007 7:18:35 AM

There is much to be said for the European custom of summer vacation shutdowns although the practice reduces a plant's annual capacity. The U.S. practice has been to keep the plant running and rotate the vacations with elaborate application procedures and hiring temporary vacation replacement workers.

8863. thoughtful - 4/20/2007 7:35:52 AM

wiz #8847 And if you aren't buying that "Gopers" and Bush have been corrupt (or at the very least play a very dirty game) and that they are just inept...

tful #8787 My point here is that we are looking at probably the most politicized and corrupt and inept administration in a century if not ever.

Wiz, you suffer from the wonker disease of not reading what i've written and somehow using what you think you heard me say as an indictment against me, when it's not what i said at all.

Frankly, why do you even bother to engage me, if it's not just to try and make yourself feel superior at my expense. You spend your time telling me what i know, what I damn well know, what i don't know, how illogical i am, how insincere i am, how ludicrous I am, how shallow and evasive and disingenous i am. And you don't even bother to get what I said straight.

Frankly, you don't need me at all in this process. Just create your own strawman and argue against whatever it is you thought you heard him say and then criticize him for it at will. That way you'll win every time and spare me the unnecessary abuse.

8864. thoughtful - 4/20/2007 7:44:13 AM

It should probably go without saying that I disagree that gonzales is "the most menacing to basic American civil liberties" as Arky suggests.

He's just the front man and an incompetent at that. His only talent seems to be his loyalty to bush.

If you want to know the guy who has done the real damage to your civil liberties and the brain child of the imperial presidency, take a look at David Addington.

David Addington was a key advocate of the Brown v. Board and more than 750 other signing statements the administration has issued since taking office--a record that far outstrips that of any other president....

Name one significant action taken by the Bush White House after 9/11, and chances are better than even that Addington had a role in it. So ubiquitous is he that one Justice Department lawyer calls Addington "Adam Smith's invisible hand" in national security matters. The White House assertion--later proved false--that Saddam Hussein tried to buy nuclear precursors from Niger to advance a banned weapons program? Addington helped vet that. The effort to discredit a former ambassador who publicly dismissed the Niger claim as baseless, by disclosing the name of his wife, a covert CIA officer? Addington was right in the middle of that, too, though he has not been accused of wrongdoing....

If gonzales goes, the best i think we could hope for would be he's replaced with another loyal nincompoop. The worst that could happen would be gonzales would go and be replaced by addington. If that happens, you ain't seen nothing yet.

8865. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 4/20/2007 8:08:37 AM

tful, you are one slippery phony. You still ignore all of my points to distract with another red herring--and don't be concerned, I won't bother engaging you again.

Oh, and one last thing, I find it ironic that the two people here who call themselves adjectives of self-approval are the exact opposite of how they see themselves. You're thoughtless and concerned couldn't care less about people or the facts.

8866. clydefo - 4/20/2007 9:44:24 AM

8861. The Hudson study also noted that it's all about workers feeling the need to stay connected and to keep producing...

8862. There is much to be said for the European custom of summer vacation shutdowns although the practice reduces a plant's annual capacity...

The USA is a young nation with a frontiersman mentality. There's too much still to be done to take more than Sundays off. How much vacation did "Europeans" take when their civilization was only a few centuries old?

8867. wonkers2 - 4/20/2007 9:44:39 AM

Alberto Gonzales's experience as a Bush factotum did not equip him for the job as White House counsel, much less for Attorney General of the United States. These jobs required an individual capable of advising the president based on his independent judgment, and telling him he was wrong when he was wrong. Gonzales apparently was incapable of doing this, either because his judgment was poor, or because he allowed himself to be overpowered by others in the White House such as Cheney, Rove, David Addington and others. Probably his failure was a combination of both--a disinclination to give Bush advice he didn't want to hear and acquiescing to the forces of evil (Cheney, Addington, Rove). Now, he has impaired his credibility with key GOP and Democratic members of Congress. He dug his hole deeper yesterday in testimony before the senate. Here's Salon's take on Gonzales after the Senate hearing. The Attorney General's Tremendous Credibility Problem

8868. wonkers2 - 4/20/2007 9:49:28 AM

Bush needs to find somebody of the caliber of Elliott Richardson and William Ruckelshouse who resigned from the Nixon administration out of principle. Saturday Night Massacre The Bush administration has a shortage of people with principles and who are willing to act on them.

8869. jexster - 4/20/2007 10:04:08 AM

The only thing worth watching on the news this week...

A Nappy Headed Ho

Nikki Giovanni

what kinda nignog name is that wonks?


"We are Virginia Tech"

8870. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 4/20/2007 10:15:00 AM

She's a pisana and a great soul!

8871. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 4/20/2007 10:15:55 AM

And Bush isn't looking for anyone who will not be loyal first.

8872. jexster - 4/20/2007 10:16:24 AM

There youse guys go...thick as Scilian thieves

Or is it Nablidan

8873. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 4/20/2007 10:45:59 AM

Sicilia is closer to Africa, jex--so your first stereotype is more appropriate.

8874. clydefo - 4/20/2007 10:57:08 AM

To me, the most obvious explanation for the whole Gonzales mess is that Bush and Rove never intended their little Texas buddy to be more than a convenient lackey and cover-up man. He took marching orders. The idea of standing up to either of them to "do the right thing" would never enter his head. He is there to give everyone 12 hours to destroy their records before informing staff of a court mandated "retain everything" order. He's the lookout, fixer, bagman, whatever the gang needs. They can't afford to lose him.

He even has to take the rap as the bungler who mishandled and exposed not only the conspiracy to subvert the Prosecutor Corps, but also the disarray and corruption of the Justice Department.
His role in the prosecutor purge was as a rubber stamp when needed by any of his co-conspirators. His "need to know" was only how to work the stamp. He was never meant to be in position to explain any of it away. Bush exhibits the excessive ire of a man who knows the real fault lies in his own inattentiveness . He will only be able to cut the stinking corpse from his neck when he is ready to throw Rove over the side as well.

8875. Magoseph - 4/20/2007 11:55:46 AM

Clyde, your description of the function that Gonzales played in the Bush machine is a hundred percent on target, and says it all.

8876. jexster - 4/20/2007 12:04:13 PM

When I worked that New Haven City Hall renovation claim for Chase, I did so with an Israeli Chief Engineer - Eddie and a Sicilian project manager - Sal

I worked with these 2 10 hours/day for 3 weeks straight. So we get talking and I noted how similar their senses of humor were.

Sal says "oh that's because a Sicilian is part jew, part arab, part Italian" and Eddie says "you forgot part schwarze"

8877. jexster - 4/20/2007 12:12:04 PM

Nikki Giovanni - Hip Hoppin Bitch


Giovanni's writing has been heavily inspired by African American activists and artists. She has a tattoo with the words "Thug life" to honor Tupac Shakur, whom she admired.[7][8] Her book Love Poems (1997) was written in memory of him, and she has stated that she would "rather be with the thugs than the people who are complaining about them."[9] She also tours nationwide and frequently speaks out against hate-motivated violence.

At a 1999 Martin Luther King Day event, she recalled the 1998 murders of James Byrd, Jr. and Matthew Shepard: "What's the difference between dragging a black man behind a truck in Jasper, Texas, and beating a white boy to death in Wyoming because he's gay?"[10]

8878. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 4/20/2007 12:47:15 PM

LOL! So you must also know what a good Naples thin-crust pizza margherita is supposed to taste like--ala Frank Pepe's on Wooster St.?

The Sicilian board of tourism's favorite advertisement says: "Come, conquer Sicily--everyone else has!"

8879. wonkers2 - 4/20/2007 2:04:00 PM

You've got it right Clyde & Mago.

8880. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 4/20/2007 4:26:04 PM

Indeed, and I wonder now if Ashcroft left because he saw the writing on the wall and refused to be a lackey.

8881. jexster - 4/20/2007 7:44:44 PM

Indeed I DO..and the pain, the pain..you would not believe nor would you want to taste a slice in San Francisco...it isn't even properly called pizza - though some have the nerve to call their product "New York style"

8882. concerned - 4/20/2007 8:00:07 PM

jexster -

It's 'Ismail', not 'Ishmael'. World of difference.

Try to get it right next time.

8883. jexster - 4/20/2007 9:06:14 PM

A Republican described the hearing as “watching the clubbing of a baby seal.”


Gonzales Assessed

8884. jexster - 4/20/2007 9:08:13 PM

The Axeman TD?


Why that was a Rove plot to divert attention from the Final Collapse of Bush in Baghdad

8885. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 4/20/2007 9:12:03 PM

Nothing on the page in your link Jexster.

8886. arkymalarky - 4/20/2007 11:21:17 PM

jexster - 4/20/2007 5:03:09 AM

Eliminating the filibuster is NOT a good idea

I agree, and VERY RIGHTFULLY it won't be considered now that saner Dems are in control, but had the GOP succeeded in gutting it, it would at least be funny to watch at this point.

8887. arkymalarky - 4/20/2007 11:25:57 PM

If you want to know the guy who has done the real damage to your civil liberties and the brain child of the imperial presidency, take a look at David Addington.

That isn't judged by the individual, it's judged by the powers and duties of the office he holds, which is why Gonzales is more directly dangerous. That someone else is even capable of directing his actions speaks to that. That Ashcroft had more principle in a hospital bed to protect those basic values--ASHCROFT--speaks to that, as well.

8888. arkymalarky - 4/20/2007 11:27:12 PM

Gonzales' replacement will be one who can get by the Democrats. The days when Bush can slip out bad (Ashcroft) and slip in worse (Gonzales) are over.

8889. arkymalarky - 4/20/2007 11:35:55 PM

Clyde:
He was never meant to be in position to explain any of it away. Bush exhibits the excessive ire of a man who knows the real fault lies in his own inattentiveness . He will only be able to cut the stinking corpse from his neck when he is ready to throw Rove over the side as well.

I agree, and your argument he will stay is a compelling one. I just wonder how "concerned" Republicans are getting about the damage he's doing and how much private pressure they're putting on Bush to get rid of him, considering their public remarks. BUT even if he stays, he's exposed and it will be harder for the puppet-masters to continue to use him as they have been. Even if their machine keeps the same parts, they're really not going to be able to function nearly as well, and that is SOLELY due to the return of Democratic control of congress and this much-needed oversight. Even though it looked like the GOP congress would go forward with Iraq and Katrina, it never actually materialized into anything. I keep going back to Pelosi: "Drain the swamp."

In doing so, you may not kill the slime underneath, but you expose them and hopefully '08 will deprive them completely of the scum they live on.

8890. arkymalarky - 4/20/2007 11:40:04 PM

AND it could be good for the GOP as well. They need to clean up and decide what they really stand for as a party.

8891. jexster - 4/21/2007 4:57:02 AM

Sorry wonk..not my fault..but I love their new site, the fuckt link notwithstanding

Harpers on the Dead Baby Seal

8892. jexster - 4/21/2007 5:06:03 AM

8888 - sign of the Devil Pig

I wonder if Fredo's gonna go for that very reason. I think there's a reason the Republicans want Gonzales out which has nothing much to do with the attorney firings. I don't think they want him as AG because there's been some nasty shit goin down at Justice during the time that the GOP led their CoverUp congress. They don't want to see Fredo in the witness chair defending himself and his hackocracy

If Bush rumsfelds Fredo and appoints a competent attorney general, one that can get confirmed, it maybe better for the GOP in Congress which can then distance itself but not for Fredo, Rove, and Bush

8893. arkymalarky - 4/21/2007 9:24:21 AM

Right. So I think a lot of this discussion is going on privately between the White House and individual congressmen. And what motivation does Bush have to give them their way and remove Gonzales?

8894. clydefo - 4/21/2007 9:52:41 AM

Republicans clearly wish to sell themselves as chastened and born again as the party of integrity and rectitude before Election Day rolls around. Their senators on the Judiciary Committee may well be even more demanding than the Democrats and accept only an AG nominee with the stature of Eliot Richardson. My belief is that such a person is going to find nefariousness that can't be ignored and will be compelled to appoint Special Prosecutors. Rove will have to go and the Enterprise will be seriously hampered. They will try to keep the lid on it, regardless of the discomfort, as long as the looting and gutting of regulatory government can be maintained. Debts to oil patch cronies, the Abramoff crowd and the Elmer Gantrys have not yet been paid in full. Much wealth can still be transferred from the middle class before honest Al takes over in '09, and even after. It will take some time to un-rig the game.

OTOH, if the Gonzales lynch mob grows too large, they can give him up, lose Rove and continue the Enterprise, taking advantage of the perfect cover provided by the rules of an Official Special Prosecutor Investigation that will drag on forever. Even getting rid of Bush may work to their advantage at some point. He has never been more than a malleable front man with the right last name who most likely is not even interested in the details of the heist. He'll do what he's told.

8895. judithathome - 4/21/2007 12:56:07 PM

and the Elmer Gantrys have not yet been paid in full.

Elmer Gantrys...perfect description!

8896. wonkers2 - 4/21/2007 12:57:18 PM

Sick. Sick!

8897. judithathome - 4/21/2007 12:59:43 PM

And what motivation does Bush have to give them their way and remove Gonzales?

The fact they will publically deny him votes on legislation he wants to push through....they're not in this to serve the people anyhow.

8898. jexster - 4/21/2007 1:07:46 PM

Wonkers please welcome all the way from Kazakhstan...

8899. robertjayb - 4/21/2007 2:53:07 PM

CNN is reporting the crash of a Blue Angels aircraft during an airshow at Beaufort, South Carolina.

8900. robertjayb - 4/21/2007 3:36:44 PM

(Beaufort Gazette)---A Blue Angel crashed Saturday afternoon while performing at an air show at the Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort.

Authorities say the pilot, still not identified, was killed in the crash.



Emergency crews at the scene of the crash site called for the coroner about 4:20 p.m., indicating that the pilot was killed in the crash.

Police reports indicate that the Blue Angel clipped power lines near Shanklin Road in Burton about 4 p.m. and went down about 30 minutes into the unit's show at Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort.

8901. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 4/22/2007 1:19:30 PM

I'd like to apologize for my behavior wrt thoughtful and her post: #8863. thoughtful - 4/20/2007 9:35:52 AM--which really annoyed me because of what I deemed to be a really minor point. In my anger I didn't peruse all of her post and upon a reread, I can see that she was really upset and I really didn't appreciate how insulted she was or I never would have called her a "phony"--which I also apologize sincerely for saying--it was over the top and uncalled for. My only defense is that I was frustrated and angry with her and my own inadequacy with words.

I also called her "thoughtless" in anger and a fit of pique and for this I regret and most sincerely apologize as well. Everyone knows she is thoughtful and smart and very well-informed.

All the same, I also want to say that I did indeed label her responses as evasive and distractions away from my points which I felt were salient and not addressed to my satisfaction, but it was addressed to her responses and not to her personally--until I blew it of course. I don't know if I'll be believed, but it's the truth.

So again thoughtful, my most sincere apologies and I'm most sorry about hurting your feelings--which was not my intent whatsoever.

8902. thoughtful - 4/23/2007 12:48:01 PM

this weekend i caught the tail-end of the cspan coverage on gonzales. I know I missed the best parts, but the end cracked me up. They adjourned the session and a bunch of attendees started singing:

Nah nah nah nah
Nah nah nah nah
Gonzales
Good bye!

Then one woman shouted out. 74 times he couldn't remember. 74 times he said he couldn't recall....how did he ever get through law school with such a bad memory!

Cracked me up.

8903. thoughtful - 4/23/2007 1:02:23 PM

Thank you, Wiz.
We'll tread lightly in the future, ok?

8904. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 4/23/2007 1:07:29 PM

Indeed and thanks tful.

8905. jexster - 4/23/2007 2:16:06 PM

America's Bush Shit

KABUL, Afghanistan - An Army sergeant complained in a rare opinion article that the U.S. flag flew at half-staff last week at the largest U.S. base in Afghanistan for those killed at Virginia Tech but the same honor is not given to fallen U.S. troops here and in Iraq.



In the article issued Monday by the public affairs office at Bagram military base north of Kabul, Sgt. Jim Wilt lamented that his comrades' deaths have become a mere blip on the TV screen, ....



What does he expect? The Bushies have stuck yellow ribbons on their tax credited SUV's...flyin the flag...colors don't run, chasin down Democrats and other traitors

8906. clydefo - 4/23/2007 3:06:14 PM

I don't know what military protocol and tradition call for, but essentially keeping a fort's flag at half-mast all the time would strike me as demoralizing rather than inspiring to the troops. It would encourage the enemy. But I sympathize with Sgt Wilt's lament. It's too bad that "support our troops!" means "spend some of your tax cut on bumper stickers!"

8907. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 4/23/2007 6:21:15 PM

At a brief White House event this morning, a reporter asked the president, "The Attorney General is still getting a lot of criticism over the U.S. attorneys situation. Was his explanation sufficient, or is there more he needs to do to try to turn things around?" This is the entirety of Bushís response.

"The Attorney General went up and gave a very candid assessment, and answered every question he could possibly answer, honestly answer, in a way that increased my confidence in his ability to do the job."

"One of the things thatís important for the American people to understand is that the Attorney General has a right to recommend to me to replace U.S. attorneys. U.S. attorneys serve at the pleasure of the President. In other words, we have named them, and I have the right to replace them with somebody else. And as the investigation, the hearings went forward, it was clear that the Attorney General broke no law, did no wrongdoing. And some senators didnít like his explanation, but he answered as honestly as he could. This is an honest, honorable man, in whom I have confidence."

So, Gonzales goes to the Hill, he forgets everything of any significance, he infuriates Republicans on the committee, White House aides pan his performance (one said Gonzales went "down in flames"), but the president now has"increased" confidence in the Attorney Generalís abilities? Which testimony was he watching?

8908. arkymalarky - 4/23/2007 7:58:15 PM

I'm sure he didn't watch it at all. Rove and Cheney filled him in and gave him his cue.

Sort of reminds me of Nancy Reagan feeding her husband a line that he repeated right there for all to see.

What a joke.

8909. robertjayb - 4/23/2007 11:05:16 PM

R.I.P., David Halberstam...(NYTimes)

David Halberstam, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and tireless author of books on topics as varied as America’s military failings in Vietnam, the deaths of firefighters at the World Trade Center and the high-pressure world of professional basketball, was killed yesterday in a car crash south of San Francisco. He was 73, and lived in Manhattan.





Mr. Halberstam was a passenger in a car making a turn in Menlo Park, Calif., when it was hit broadside by another car and knocked into a third vehicle, said the San Mateo County coroner. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

8910. concerned - 4/23/2007 11:51:34 PM

Then one woman shouted out. 74 times he couldn't remember. 74 times he said he couldn't recall....how did he ever get through law school with such a bad memory!

Displaying such a bad or worse memory was virtually a prerequisite to be a member of the Clowntoon administration. Can you say, 'contempt of Congress'?

8911. bubbaette - 4/24/2007 5:21:30 AM

Concerned you need to get with the program. Clinton hasn't been president for 7 years. Count them: 1...2...3...4...5...6...7! Your guy's in charge now. He's the decider.

8912. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 4/24/2007 6:48:04 AM

Hey bubbs! Concerned has already been programed by the GOP -- The Greedy Old People of America. Exploit, mislead and evade taxes!

8913. bubbaette - 4/24/2007 7:54:56 AM

I suppose it should be comforting that some things never change.

8914. clydefo - 4/24/2007 8:05:41 AM

George Bush's refusal to cave to pressure and throw Gonzales under the bus is commendable...- concerned

What do you make of Gonzales not "taking the hint" from the GOP establishment and also White House sources to resign? Regardless of any criminality, Cabinet members with integrity usually step down when they become an embarrassing spectacle.

His own testimony reveals that he is just a figurehead. Taken at face value, it shows that he was out of the loop at Justice. A Harvard Law man with a long career who can't remember what was going on at work a few months ago, including a meeting with the President? Do you believe that?

What sort of person would endure the scathing personal and professional opprobrium of his colleagues, his party and the public?. Why the incongruity of this situation?

Gonzales has no choice in the matter. He , Rove, Bush and even her husband Dick will stay or go at the pleasure of the Godmother.

8915. arkymalarky - 4/24/2007 5:31:25 PM

BUBBA!!!

I thought Con'd was saying Gonzales was holding Congress in contempt. I think he has to add a Clinton tag to everything, like Cato with Carthage. It's a compulsion.

8916. bubbaette - 4/25/2007 8:19:02 AM

Hey Arky!

8917. thoughtful - 4/25/2007 8:31:33 AM

Anyone have any insights into whether this new probe of rove by a goper is a sincere effort or an 'exoneration mission?'

8918. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 4/25/2007 8:36:45 AM

Anyone's guess, tful.

From the LA Times:

First, the inquiry comes from inside the administration, not from Democrats in Congress. Second, unlike the splintered inquiries being pressed on Capitol Hill, it is expected to be a unified investigation covering many facets of the political operation in which Rove played a leading part.

"We will take the evidence where it leads us," Scott J. Bloch, head of the Office of Special Counsel and a presidential appointee, said in an interview Monday. "We will not leave any stone unturned."

Bloch declined to comment on who his investigators would interview, but he said the probe would be independent and uncoordinated with any other agency or government entity.

8919. robertjayb - 4/25/2007 8:52:16 AM

It's an in-house whitewash, setting up the defense that he's been thoroughly investigated and cleared. Move on. Nothing to see here.

8920. clydefo - 4/25/2007 9:07:55 AM

Bloch said all the right things in a CNN interview this morning. Others claim he is a typical Bush lackey who has politicized that independent office.

8921. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 4/25/2007 9:52:36 AM

I was giving them the benefit of the doubt, but I hadn't seen those takes.

8922. thoughtful - 4/25/2007 9:56:32 AM

What I don't understand is, if they're looking for a violation of the hatch act, what about when rove's role was shifted from deputy chief of staff to focus on the reelection?

Rove is giving up oversight of policy development to focus more on politics with the approach of the fall midterm elections.

Tell me how is that not doing political business from the white house?

8923. wonkers2 - 4/25/2007 12:59:43 PM

To Rove, policy development is identical from reelection.

8924. thoughtful - 4/25/2007 2:30:01 PM

That may be, but the point is there would seem to be an obvious place to look if they wanted to find out about hatch act violations.

8925. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 4/25/2007 5:56:37 PM

Judiciary Committee Approves Immunity for Goodling

8926. robertjayb - 4/28/2007 11:29:52 PM

Why don't we have more good news from Iraq?

Rebuilt Iraq Projects Found Crumbling

In a troubling sign for the American-financed rebuilding program in Iraq, inspectors for a federal oversight agency have found that in a sampling of eight projects that the United States had declared successes, seven were no longer operating as designed because of plumbing and electrical failures, lack of proper maintenance, apparent looting and expensive equipment that lay idle.

The United States has previously admitted, sometimes under pressure from federal inspectors, that some of its reconstruction projects have been abandoned, delayed or poorly constructed. But this is the first time inspectors have found that projects officially declared a success — in some cases, as little as six months before the latest inspections — were no longer working properly.

(NYTimes)

8927. jexster - 4/29/2007 9:34:38 AM

Suicide Tanker Truck Bomb Destroys 80/580 Maze in Oakland

8928. jexster - 4/29/2007 10:20:52 AM

Stupid friggin dune coons..THIS is how suicide bombing gets done in the good ole USA!!!

So what he was off one day from his mission


A tanker carrying unleaded gasoline exploded early this morning, causing 250 yards of roadway to collapse near Emeryville. The driver walked away from the incident and took a taxi to a nearby hospital where he is being treated for second-degree burns, according to the California Highway Patrol.

California Highway Patrol officer Trenton Cross said he believed that speed was a factor in the tanker crash, which caused roadway on Interstate

580 at Interstate 80, located near Emeryville to be completely destroyed. The tanker explosion caused the upper deck of a connector ramp to collapse onto the lower deck, according to a California Highway Patrol dispatcher.

Interstate 580 is closed approaching the Bay

8929. wonkers2 - 4/29/2007 2:29:02 PM

Anybody catch the "This American Life" program on NPR in the last couple of days. It won the Peabody Award last year, whatever that is. The producers noticed that none of the prisoners that have been released from Guantanamo had been interview by American media. So, they located several in Bahrein and Pakistan. Very interesting program which revealed what a cruel tragedy has been perpretrated on mostly completely innocent people. Many of them were picked up in Pakistan by Pakistanis to whom we paid bounties for alleged al-Qaida people turned in to the authorities. They were turned over and whisked away to Guantanamo without any effort to verify that they had anything to do with Al-Qaida or any anti-American activity. And they stayed in Guantanamo under very poor conditions where they were repeatedly interrogated, one as many as 500 times, asked the same dumb questions. The way they were treated was shameful, and it was shameful that the NYTimes nor the Washington Post or any other supposedly on the ball media company bothered to interview any of them.

8930. jexster - 4/30/2007 8:13:50 AM

R-E-S-P-E-C-K

Hot songs from the members only section - Rush Limbaugh

8931. jexster - 4/30/2007 1:38:16 PM

Word Up Wonk

The Conversation Continues....

8932. wonkers2 - 4/30/2007 3:05:57 PM

Jex is out of control again--Bay area bridge collapses

8933. jexster - 4/30/2007 4:50:34 PM

WAKE up WORD up Wonk

8927

8934. jexster - 4/30/2007 6:58:21 PM

Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?
Boy George held over male 'escort's' sex kidnap claims

8935. wonkers2 - 5/1/2007 7:40:20 AM

For Jexter: Re the Conversation Continues. Imus and Jex don't follow The Rule

8936. jexster - 5/1/2007 8:44:57 AM

8935 - Limo Libs cry me a river..girlie men..

Barack the Magic Negro
Lives in DC
The LA Times dey call him dat
Cause he's not autheniK like me....

8937. thoughtful - 5/1/2007 3:29:46 PM

Did you hear about this one? Now let me see...when dan rather reported on a false document which the white house itself faxed out liberally, he was axed.

Think anyone will lose their job a faux news????

Fox News Sinks To New Low, Repeatedly Reports Parody Story As Actual News

On Tuesday, Fox News morning show “Fox & Friends” aired at least eight segments on a purported “news” story that was actually a parody article written by a publication similar to The Onion.

The backstory: Last week in the town of Lewiston, Maine, a group of Somalian Muslim middle school students were the subject of a cruel prank when their peers placed a ham steak next to them in order to personally offend the students. School officials filed a report because the students considered the act to be a hate/bias crime.

This actual story was then spoofed by a parody site called Associated Content, which made up quotes and details, such as the school’s intention to “create an anti-ham ‘response plan.’”

On Tuesday, Fox & Friends reported these parody quotes and details as actual news. Poking fun at the students, hosts asked whether ham was “a hate crime…or lunch?” and showed screen shots of ham sandwiches, starving Somalians, belching, animal noises, and mock “reenactments” of the incident. Ironically, the hosts assured viewers several times, “We’re not making this up!”

8938. concerned - 5/1/2007 4:17:22 PM

Re. 8937 -

Dan Rather was not fired, or as far as I can determine, disciplined in any way by CBS for promoting the forged documents as being real, and the White House did not 'distribute' them.

Try to get your facts straight, thoughtful.

8939. concerned - 5/1/2007 7:55:46 PM

Don't weep any tears for Dan Rather, even though Andy Rooney and Morely Safer (I presume) who are his age or older are still working for CBS. They all are 75 or older, and CBS has a retirement clause that they exercised for Dan Rather after he besmirched the whole network.

Never fear. I understand Dan Rather is still in the mix with contract with HDNet for a eponymously named show.

8940. concerned - 5/1/2007 8:00:07 PM

Did you know I'm changing jobs right now?

8941. wonkers2 - 5/1/2007 8:30:03 PM

Good luck on your new job. Adjustment is always an issue, and a new job entails a certain amount of risk. I hope you get a good boss. I was very fortunate in that regard I had several outstanding bosses and only a couple of bad ones. But the bad ones were really bad, and they made my life miserable until I bit the bullet and moved on.

8942. concerned - 5/1/2007 8:32:26 PM

I've had some good bosses, but my last two were pretty bad. I think that it's not good to work for somebody who has neither an understanding of one's area of concentration, and no business or management sense either.

8943. wonkers2 - 5/1/2007 8:43:55 PM

I agree better to move on. Another rule: It's time to think about moving on after you've learned everything your're likely to learn about a particular job. In some jobs that will be after a week; others a lifetime.

Another rule: Don't continue to work with people you don't enjoy being around. Move on. Life is too short.

8944. concerned - 5/1/2007 9:15:04 PM

I saw a reference to a Youtube live action version of the Simpson's opening sequence which has been referred to as 'mind blowing' (I haven't seen it).

I remember when Matt Groening was bitching about whether he might have to draw rabbits for the rest of his life in the '80's. Drawing 'underground' cartoons primarily featuring rabbits as characters was his stock in trade for most of his early career.

8945. thoughtful - 5/2/2007 8:40:58 AM

concerned, #8938, I'm not sure what planet you're on, but on the planet I'm on, Dan Rather, who was anchor of CBS evening, is no longer. The change took place shortly after 'Rathergate' as it was called at the time and his replacement was temporary. So it certainly wasn't a planned job change. That sounds like axing to me. Further, they fired mapes and forced 3 others to resign...any one lose their job at faux news over their bogus report? Nope. The comparison I made still stands.

And if you look at what wikipedia has to say about the event:

Copies of the documents were first released to the public by the White House. Press Secretary Scott McClellan stated that the memos had been provided to them by CBS in the days prior to the report and that, "We had every reason to believe that they were authentic at that time."

8946. thoughtful - 5/2/2007 9:02:24 AM

Of course, to demonstrate the idiocy of network execs, they replaced rather with schieffer who, while 'temping' as anchor, raised viewership by 1 million. They dumped him for katie who has anchored the cbs news alright...right to the bottom for ratings.

8947. jexster - 5/2/2007 8:03:08 PM

CBS wrongfully terminated Imus. He's gone sue the shit out of them. He is contractually bound to be personal, direct, controversial, topical....must be warned for off color jokes


$40,000,000 please

8948. jexster - 5/2/2007 8:05:34 PM

That is a slam dunk...pay now assholes

8949. jexster - 5/2/2007 8:07:24 PM

How can he mitigate damages when the PC polees have defamed him and maliciously wrecked his career?


Give them credit for a WalMart Wage

8950. jexster - 5/3/2007 3:20:06 PM

PC Police in Illinois Threaten Indian Extinction
Trail of Cheers

8951. wonkers2 - 5/3/2007 3:48:06 PM

They can replace Chief Alonawek with Cajun Coonass jex!

8952. greystoke - 5/3/2007 6:49:03 PM

Lying Murderers with Badges

A botched drug raid that ended the life of a 92-year-old woman in a hail of police gunfire is drawing questions from House members about the use of informants.

Police burst into Kathryn Johnston's Atlanta home last fall using a no-knock warrant they obtained by lying to a judge about drug activity there, according to prosecutors.

Afterward, when they realized their mistake, the officers tried to cover their tracks, and one has admitted planting drugs in the house and coaxing a street-level informant to go along with their story, according to court papers.

8953. arkymalarky - 5/3/2007 7:12:29 PM

Hey Grey!

The whole structure of the "Drug War" is majorly flawed. And Clinton is as much to blame for that as anyone.

8954. wonkers2 - 5/3/2007 7:57:43 PM

So true. And it goes back beyond Clinton to Nelson Rockefeller when he was governor of New York, if my memory hasn't failed. As I've said before beware of "wars on" whether it be drugs, terrorism or poverty.

8955. jexster - 5/3/2007 8:05:15 PM

8951 -

LSU Lafayette Ragin Cajuns ...been done

8956. judithathome - 5/3/2007 10:27:09 PM

Obama Placed Under Secret Service Protection

8957. jexster - 5/4/2007 8:49:22 AM

8955

Le poisson armee

8958. jexster - 5/8/2007 5:35:06 PM

Right in the ole neighborhood!!!




LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A fire broke out in the hills above Los Angeles on Tuesday not far from the famed Hollywood sign, forcing evacuation of the city's largest park and snarling traffic on a major freeway.

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The 200-acre (80-hectare) fire, which authorities say was likely started by arson shortly after 1:15 a.m. PDT and fanned by unseasonably high temperatures, low humidity and hot Santa Ana winds.

The blaze was centered in hilly Griffith Park, home of the Griffith Observatory, where scenes from James Dean classic movie "Rebel Without a Cause" were filmed in the 1950s



The Ole Apartment Building..West Side Griffith Park

8959. jexster - 5/8/2007 5:38:27 PM

8960. judithathome - 5/9/2007 6:46:38 AM

Headline story this morning: What's Wrong With The Bees?"

Not shown is the front page teaser with "Why Bees Matter" and two highlighted sentences informing us that $15 billion will be lost to lack of crop pollination and $200 million in honey production.

Yeah, let's hop on this right now because money is at stake!

> Beekeeper Randy Johnson started seeing problems in his hives last fall.

> The worker bees would disappear, then the queen and the rest would die off, leaving combs full of honey and no clue about their fate.

> Bee by bee, hive by hive, he lost about 1,000 of his 1,500 honeybee colonies at the Johnson Honey & Bee Co. outside of Paris. The cost in lost bees, honey and pollination fees has run into the hundreds of thousands of dollars.

> "Nobody can give me any answers," Johnson said. "Nobody knows anything."

8961. alistairconnor - 5/9/2007 7:50:06 AM

My theory is that it's nature's version of poetic justice.

The bees are riddled with every parasite, pesticide and chemical pollutant known to man : that's the reality of agriculture in the USA. The wonder is that it hasn't happened before.

It's pretty strange that, apparently, nobody has been able to work out what's wrong with the honey : the usual opportunistic insects are not robbing the empty hives as would be expected.

There is speculation that it's some sort of auto-immune disorder, possibly related to genetically-modified plants.

8962. thoughtful - 5/9/2007 7:54:55 AM

Blame the beetles for the bee colony collapse.

8963. iiibbb - 5/9/2007 7:56:53 AM

Blame cell phones

8964. clydefo - 5/9/2007 8:02:44 AM

A Place for the Bees - Virgil

First of all, find a protected place for the bees
To make their home, a place that's safe from the wind
That might prevent them from getting back with their food
And safe from the sheep or the wanton kids that trample
The flowers down, or the wandering heifer shaking
The dew from the grass and bruising the rising blades.
Protect the rich stalls of their honeycombs from the scaly
Shiny-backed lizard, and from the bee-eater and other
Birds of the sort, and Procne, whose bloody hands
Have left their signs upon her crimson breast.
Any of these can devastate the bees,
Catching them in their mouths to carry them home
As delicacies to feed to their cruel children.

And there should be a limpid spring nearby,
Or a moss-edged pool, or else a little brook,
Almost unseen, making its way through the grass,
And a big palm tree or oleaster shading
The vestibule of the place where the bees have settled,
So when the kings of the hive lead the swarm forth
In the welcoming season, and glad to be free at last,
The youthful bees are capering and playing,
There'll be a stream bank or a pond bank there,
Where they can escape the unaccustomed heat
And where the leaves of a tree can shelter them.
And whether it's pools or running streams, there must
Be willow shoots and stones disposed across,
As resting places for them to spread their wings
And dry them in the sun, if any had happened
To linger and were caught in a sudden shower,
Or the wind had suddenly blown them into the water.
And there should be sweet blooming marjoram near,
And the odor of serpylla spreading far,
And fragrant savory, and violets
Drinking from the trickling spring or stream.

8965. judithathome - 5/9/2007 8:10:22 AM

Alistair, it's not just in the USA...it's happening world-wide.

8966. iiibbb - 5/9/2007 8:23:27 AM

Wiki on CCD

8967. alistairconnor - 5/9/2007 9:43:43 AM

Well you should know... three eyes, three bees.

Judith : Not happening in France ... Not yet anyway.
Coincidentally or not, France has not deployed GMOs in a big way. Not yet anyway.

8968. clydefo - 5/9/2007 10:34:09 AM

Vegans Sentenced in Baby's Death

(05-09) 07:10 PDT ATLANTA, (AP) -- A vegan couple was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison for the death of their malnourished 6-week-old baby boy, who was fed a diet largely consisting of soy milk and apple juice.

Superior Court Judge L.A. McConnell imposed the sentences on Jade Sanders, 27, and Lamont Thomas, 31. Their son, Crown Shakur, weighed just 3 1/2 pounds when he died of starvation on April 25, 2004.


The couple was found guilty May 2 of malice murder, felony murder, involuntary manslaughter and cruelty to children. A jury deliberated about seven hours before returning the guilty verdicts.


Defense lawyers said the first-time parents did the best they could while adhering to the lifestyle of vegans, who typically use no animal products. They said Sanders and Thomas did not realize the baby, who was born at home, was in danger until minutes before he died.

Life in prison? Where is the intent? How can a jury convict on both felony murder and involuntary manslaughter?

8969. iiibbb - 5/9/2007 10:42:42 AM

I'm personally fairly concerned about the bee situation. I want to read more. I've read very brief allusions (as in the Wiki page) that this kind of thing has happened before.

I've also been told that there are other pollinators out there, but none as efficient as the honey bee.

I don't think anyone knows what's going on yet. I've a lot a beekeeper friends and I ask them pretty often what's going on.

8970. jexster - 5/9/2007 11:09:14 AM

The Griffith Park Fire

8971. wonkers2 - 5/9/2007 3:34:51 PM

Maybe we should be worring more about the bees than global warming. No bees, no food supply or so I've heard.

8972. alistairConnor - 5/9/2007 3:40:28 PM

Hmm come on baby put my fire out

8973. jexster - 5/9/2007 5:01:10 PM

Wonk is old, male, and ugly

8974. wonkers2 - 5/10/2007 9:09:59 PM

Purdue Pharma settles criminal charges against the company and three executives with record $600 million fine paid by the company and $64 million by the executives. Oxycontin is addictive

8975. thoughtful - 5/11/2007 6:51:25 AM

wonks, #8971, Don't tell me you finally agree with me!!!

Mark the date on the calendar!

See Message # 6585 in thread 27.

8976. jexster - 5/12/2007 9:31:24 AM

ORpa Winfrey Makes Me Vomit...



My grandma told me to 'find some good white folk take care of ya'. I am so sad she didn't see just how many good white folks I found to work for me

8977. Wombat - 5/14/2007 7:46:09 PM

It is reported that the son of military theorist, counterinsurgency expert, and war critic Andrew Bacevich was killed in Iraq. He was a 2nd Lieutenant and his father's namesake.

8978. jexster - 5/14/2007 9:00:14 PM

Andrew Bacevich Jr. Killed in Iraq
Son of Prominent War Critic Dies By Suicide Bomber


His dad is one of the great minds of the Realist School of Foreign policy. Served in Vietnam himself. Have linked many of his articles.

8979. jexster - 5/14/2007 9:02:40 PM

Bacevich Wiki

8980. jexster - 5/14/2007 9:09:05 PM

What is Andrew Bacevich, Jr's Life Worth?

8981. judithathome - 5/15/2007 2:32:04 PM

I'm sure Laura and George will attend Jerry Falwell's funeral.

8982. wonkers2 - 5/15/2007 2:39:42 PM

I hope somebody drives a stake through the S.O.B.'s heart!

8983. wonkers2 - 5/15/2007 2:41:05 PM

Sad case, Bacevich. At least his father spoke out against the war.

8984. jexster - 5/15/2007 7:19:11 PM

BOSTON - The war in Iraq hit home for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney as a former aide who also was a son of a war critic was killed while serving in Iraq.


Army 1st Lt. Andrew J. Bacevich, 27, served as a legislative aide to then-Gov. Mitt Romney in 2004, handling all bills sent to the governor's desk for review and signature.

Romney said Tuesday that he talked with Bacevich about his decision to enlist before he left the Massachusetts Statehouse.

"I got to know Andrew as a legislative aide in my office, and before he left we met and talked about his plans," Romney said in a statement. "He was driven by a desire to serve, first as part of our team and then as a member of the military. His loss is a deep personal loss for me and for all of those who knew him."

8985. jexster - 5/15/2007 7:24:20 PM

Guess Smitt'll have to don his special Temple underwear for the occasion

Lovely

8986. jexster - 5/16/2007 11:46:53 AM

Jerry Falwell RIP

March 1980: Falwell tells an Anchorage rally about a conversation with President Carter at the White House. Commenting on a January breakfast meeting, Falwell claimed to have asked Carter why he had “practicing homosexuals” on the senior staff at the White House. According to Falwell, Carter replied, “Well, I am president of all the American people, and I believe I should represent everyone.” When others who attended the White House event insisted that the exchange never happened, Falwell responded that his account “was not intended to be a verbatim report,” but rather an “honest portrayal” of Carter’s position.

August 1980: After Southern Baptist Convention President Bailey Smith tells a Dallas Religious Right gathering that “God Almighty does not hear the prayer of a Jew,” Falwell gives a similar view. “I do not believe,” he told reporters, “that God answers the prayer of any unredeemed Gentile or Jew.” After a meeting with an American Jewish Committee rabbi, he changed course, telling an interviewer on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that “God hears the prayers of all persons…. God hears everything.”

July 1984: Falwell is forced to pay gay activist Jerry Sloan $5,000 after losing a court battle. During a TV debate in Sacramento, Falwell denied calling the gay-oriented Metropolitan Community Churches “brute beasts” and “a vile and Satanic system” that will “one day be utterly annihilated and there will be a celebration in heaven.” When Sloan insisted he had a tape, Falwell promised $5,000 if he could produce it. Sloan did so, Falwell refused to pay and Sloan successfully sued. Falwell appealed, with his attorney charging that the Jewish judge in the case was prejudiced. He lost again and was forced to pay an additional $2,875 in sanctions and court fees.

October 1987: The Federal Election Commission fines Falwell for transferring $6.7 million in funds intended for his ministry to political committees.

February 1988: The U.S. Supreme Court strikes down a $200,000 jury award to Falwell for “emotional distress” he suffered because of a Hustler magazine parody. Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, usually a Falwell favorite, wrote the unanimous opinion in Hustler v. Falwell, ruling that the First Amendment protects free speech.

February 1993: The Internal Revenue Service determines that funds from Falwell’s Old Time Gospel Hour program were illegally funneled to a political action committee. The IRS forced Falwell to pay $50,000 and retroactively revoked the Old Time Gospel Hour’s tax-exempt status for 1986-87.

March 1993: Despite his promise to Jewish groups to stop referring to America as a “Christian nation,” Falwell gives a sermon saying, “We must never allow our children to forget that this is a Christian nation. We must take back what is rightfully ours.”

1994-1995: Falwell is criticized for using his “Old Time Gospel Hour” to hawk a scurrilous video called “The Clinton Chronicles” that makes a number of unsubstantiated charges against President Bill Clinton — among them that he is a drug addict and that he arranged the murders of political enemies in Arkansas. Despite claims he had no ties to the project, evidence surfaced that Falwell helped bankroll the venture with $200,000 paid to a group called Citizens for Honest Government (CHG). CHG’s Pat Matrisciana later admitted that Falwell and he staged an infomercial interview promoting the video in which a silhouetted reporter said his life was in danger for investigating Clinton. (Matrisciana himself posed as the reporter.) “That was Jerry’s idea to do that,” Matrisciana recalled. “He thought that would be dramatic.”

November 1997: Falwell accepts $3.5 million from a front group representing controversial Korean evangelist Sun Myung Moon to ease Liberty University’s financial woes.

April 1998: Confronted on national television with a controversial quote from America Can Be Saved!, a published collection of his sermons, Falwell denies having written the book or had anything to do with it. In the 1979 work, Falwell wrote, “I hope to live to see the day when, as in the early days of our country, we won’t have any public schools. The churches will have taken them over again and Christians will be running them. What a happy day that will be!” Despite Falwell’s denial, Sword of the Lord Publishing, which produced the book, confirms that Falwell wrote it.

January 1999: Falwell tells a pastors’ conference in Kingsport, Tenn., that the Antichrist prophesied in the Bible is alive today and “of course he’ll be Jewish.”

February 1999: Falwell becomes the object of nationwide ridicule after his National Liberty Journal newspaper issues a “parents alert” warning that Tinky Winky, a character on the popular PBS children’s show “Teletubbies,” might be gay.

September 2001: Falwell blames Americans for the 9/11 terrorist attacks. “The abortionists have got to bear some burden for this because God will not be mocked. And when we destroy 40 million little innocent babies, we make God mad. I really believe that the Pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People For the American Way, all of them who have tried to secularize America. I point the finger in their face and say, ‘You helped this happen.’”

November 2005: Falwell spearheads campaign to resist “war on Christmas.”

February 2007: Falwell describes global warming as a conspiracy orchestrated by Satan, liberals, and The Weather Channel.

8987. judithathome - 5/16/2007 1:21:30 PM

Looks familiar...I posted this stuff in Religion this morning.

8988. jexster - 5/16/2007 2:05:25 PM

Came via e-mail Judith..and BTW, someone on the list pegged the originator's plagiarism...it's all over the internets

8989. judithathome - 5/16/2007 3:03:47 PM

whatever

8990. concerned - 5/16/2007 4:24:46 PM

Makes sense. jexster is a 'whatever' kind of Teletubby.

8991. iiibbb - 5/17/2007 7:41:28 AM

For $3,000 he'll apologize.

8992. Magoseph - 5/17/2007 8:42:38 AM

USA TODAY


Nation's minority numbers top 100M
Hispanics account for nearly half of growth
By Haya El Nasser and Paul Overberg
USA TODAY

The nation's minority population has topped 100 million for the first time and now makes up about a third of the USA, a symbolic milestone that signals more challenges for communities adapting to diversity.

Hispanics are fanning out to more states across the nation, creating a sharp contrast between their predominantly young numbers and those of an aging white society, according to Census population estimates out today.

The age gap is widening as every state experienced a growth in Hispanics since 2000.

Hispanics remain the largest minority group at 44.3 million and accounted for almost half the nation's growth of 2.9 million from July 1, 2005, to July 1, 2006. As Hispanics settle in areas where whites are aging and fewer are being born, they're transforming classrooms, workplaces and entire communities.

The non-Hispanic white school-age population dropped 4% since 2000, while the number of Hispanic school-age kids surged 21%. The white under-15 population declined in all but nine states since 2000.

"The melting pot in America is really bubbling at the younger age," says William Frey, demographer at the Brookings Institution. In Nevada, for example, one in four residents was Hispanic in 2006, compared with one in five in 2000. It had the fastest-growing population under age 15, and Hispanic youths accounted for 67% of those gains.

"The pronounced differences between Hispanic populations and non-Hispanic populations agewise sets the stage in coming decades for very different political agendas," says Peter Morrison, demographer at the RAND Corp. "One population is going to form the core of the working age population by all indications. The other one is aging. (There are) two very different sets of economic interests: People who want health care vs. people who want jobs."

Census estimates also show:

•The non-Hispanic black population grew 1.1% to 36.7 million from 2005 to 2006 but declined in three states and the District of Columbia. Hurricane Katrina decimated Louisiana's black population, which dropped by about 130,000 in one year.

•The white population has shrunk in 16 states this decade, including California, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts. The declines stem chiefly from migration to other states.

•There are 2.5 million more non-Hispanic Asians since 2000, a 24.4% increase to 12.9 million.

•New England is becoming the new Florida as the median age climbs in most states in the region. Maine has the nation's oldest median age (41.1), up from third place in 2000. The U.S. median is 36.4.

Vermont (40.4) moved up to second place from fifth. "We may be attracting college-age people, but when they graduate, they leave the state," says Will Sawyer, a state data specialist at the University of Vermont. "They come back to Vermont in their 40s."

•Florida still has the largest share of people 65 and older (16.8%), but it's aging more slowly than other states. Its median age is 39.6, ranking it fourth.

•Immigration accounts for more than 40% of the USA's growth since 2000. "It's pretty impressive," Morrison says. "Two-fifths of why our population is growing is from people being drawn to our nation."

8993. clydefo - 5/19/2007 9:06:44 AM

. . . Feets don't fail me now!

What the ...?
A tribute to desegregated education at gunpoint?
Who cropped the image, David Duke? This thing is ugly and insulting.
The worst yet. Too clunky and heavy to carry, why make them so unattractive?

If the Mint wants to replace the one dollar note, the coin should be solid silver, thin with a milled edge like a dime with a diameter greater than a nickel and less than a quarter, imo.

8994. arkymalarky - 5/19/2007 10:33:46 AM

Maybe they're commemorating the reversal of Brown vs Board

8995. arkymalarky - 5/19/2007 10:34:54 AM

I can't think

8996. arkymalarky - 5/19/2007 10:35:19 AM

of anything newsworthy

8997. arkymalarky - 5/19/2007 10:35:43 AM

except that this supposedly fast satellite broadband

8998. arkymalarky - 5/19/2007 10:35:57 AM

is going awfully slow

8999. arkymalarky - 5/19/2007 10:36:07 AM

for a

9000. arkymalarky - 5/19/2007 10:36:17 AM

millennial

9001. robertjayb - 5/19/2007 7:19:29 PM

Anti-whaling nations secure voting majority...

THE annual battle over the lifting of a moratorium on whaling has swung emphatically in favour of anti-whaling nations with the confirmation of Greece as the latest recruit to the International Whaling Commission.

A clear majority is again within grasp of opponents to whaling at the meeting of the commission in Alaska on May 28, when it will review whale conservation and management.
................................................

Greece's membership was formally notified yesterday. Cyprus, Croatia and Slovenia, the other new European recruits, also oppose whaling.

(Sydney Morning Herald)

9002. jexster - 5/19/2007 7:43:56 PM

Whale Sashimi

9003. robertjayb - 5/19/2007 9:19:32 PM

Savage.

9004. arkymalarky - 5/20/2007 8:37:45 AM

I'm thinking all that food coloring can't be healthy.

9005. jexster - 5/20/2007 5:48:23 PM

Crawferd Texis
"Itsa Liddle Slayce uv Hayvun"

9006. jexster - 5/20/2007 5:54:00 PM

Sashimi of Onomi (dorsal morsels)




Sashimi of Unesu (blubber)


How to Cook Whale Meat
Mrs Onishi's Whale Cuisine

9007. alistairconnor - 5/21/2007 5:00:59 AM

The Japanese eat whale meat and blubber.

So would you...

9008. jexster - 5/21/2007 10:18:25 AM

No shit...in a heartbeat

9009. jexster - 5/21/2007 5:12:36 PM

Where's Wonkers?

Where's the outrage?

Did they serve watermellon?

Sharpton dines with Mormon elder By JENNIFER DOBNER, Associated Press Writer
34 minutes ago



The Rev. Al Sharpton toured Mormon facilities Monday and dined privately with a church elder after drawing criticism two weeks ago for remarks about Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney.

"He's simply here to learn more about us," church spokesman Mike Otterson said of Sharpton's visit. "We want him to know what the church does, what its work is."

Sharpton made the trip after generating criticism during a debate with an atheist author when he said: "As for the one Mormon running for office, those who really believe in God will defeat him anyways, so don't worry about that; that's a temporary situation."

9010. jexster - 5/22/2007 10:57:46 AM

If those GD whales don't get their fat asses out to sea...Sushi Ran Sausalito be happy to TCB

9011. iiibbb - 5/23/2007 11:21:49 AM

Another interesting honeybee article

9012. jexster - 5/23/2007 7:11:25 PM

I found your militia I3!!

Remember the Alamo Robert????



The 'Texan militia

The soldiers in Williamson's platoon have patrolled Iraq elbow-to-elbow in Humvees since November. Among them is Sgt. Andrew Zamacona, nicknamed "Tackleberry" after the character from the movie "Police Academy" who is always gung-ho for a fight. And there's Pfc. Alonzo Duncan, a former mechanic who reenlisted two years ago, at 40. They labeled him "Blue" after a character in the film "Old School" who wants to join the college fraternity in his old age.

Williamson calls himself the governor of Texas as he patrols Khadra. He refers to his soldiers as the Texan militia...

Soldiers here now openly declare pessimism for the mission's chances, unofficially referring to their splinter of heavily fortified land as "the Alamo."

9013. concerned - 5/24/2007 1:13:02 PM

700 Snakes on a Plane, Almost

9014. jexster - 5/24/2007 5:27:08 PM

LUCASVILLE, Ohio - An execution was delayed more than an hour Thursday while prison medical staff struggled to find suitable veins in the condemned man's arms — the second time that has happened in Ohio in little more than a year.



The execution team stuck Christopher Newton at least 10 times with needles to get in place the shunts used to administer the lethal chemicals. Newton, who had insisted on the death penalty as punishment for killing a cellmate, continued to talk, smile and laugh with the prison staff, and at one point was even given a bathroom break.

9015. jexster - 5/27/2007 12:33:15 PM

Renegade Chinaman Jews SF

Ed Jew, newly elected and newly scandalized SF supe..His father's name

Howard Mock Jew


I thought I'd die howling

9016. judithathome - 5/28/2007 10:29:08 AM

Very nice Memorial Day tribute today in our paper: two full pages, top to bottom, in the smallest print possible and column after column with the names and dates of the fallen slodiers of the Afghani and Iraqi wars.

It was touching and chilling at the same time.

9017. judithathome - 5/31/2007 9:11:42 AM

Here's a story from a Seattle paper; please read the highlighted paragraphs below. Did anyone else here know the military bases were doing this?

Three more Stryker soldiers killed in Iraq.

... The deaths came as Fort Lewis leaders said they would no longer be holding individual memorial services for soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, a move other military posts already have taken.

..."As much as we would like to think otherwise, I am afraid that with the number of soldiers we now have in harm's way, our losses will preclude us from continuing to do individual memorial ceremonies," Brig. Gen. William Troy, acting commanding general at Fort Lewis, wrote in a May 22 memo to commanders and staff...

..."This is not an intent to streamline the process or in any way detract from honoring the soldiers," Van Dyken told The News Tribune in Tacoma on Tuesday. "It's just being cognizant of the fact that when you have this many, the time involved in doing each one individually is just prohibitive."

...Other Army posts already consolidating soldier memorials include Fort Carson, Colo., and Fort Hood, Texas.

9018. jexster - 5/31/2007 11:03:32 AM

I had have his consumption and his babies!!




Andrew Speaker
Atlanta Divorce Lawyer
TB Andy

9019. iiibbb - 5/31/2007 11:06:31 AM

Is it at all ironic that he's a personal injury lawyer?

9020. jexster - 5/31/2007 11:50:28 AM

The Speaker Law Firm, PC | Atlanta, Georgia Divorce Lawyers

Andrew Speaker is a licensed member of the State Bar of Georgia. He attended the United States Naval Academy and went on to receive his undergraduate degree ...


And Hunky Monkey Divorce Lawyer!

9021. jexster - 5/31/2007 11:52:51 AM

His site's down..why his pic don't appear...



Randy Andy

9022. jexster - 5/31/2007 12:03:01 PM

Went there for a seminar once...stayed in one of those rooms with a cadet....they were dancing naked back in the day


The Dancing Cadet

9023. jexster - 5/31/2007 1:14:47 PM

Stoops Busts a Move

9024. jexster - 5/31/2007 1:20:17 PM

Stoops and Roomie - Dirty Dancing

9025. Wombat - 5/31/2007 1:55:56 PM

You want irony?

TB guy's new wife is the daughter of a Tuberculosis specialist at CDC. You cannot make this stuff up!

9026. judithathome - 5/31/2007 2:42:25 PM

Lovely...not a word about the soldiers memorials being dumped?

9027. thoughtful - 5/31/2007 2:48:05 PM

what's to say?

9028. judithathome - 6/2/2007 3:00:52 PM

Obviously, not a thing.

9029. robertjayb - 6/2/2007 5:04:33 PM

We're Number One! We're Number One! (HouChron)

WASHINGTON — America may spew more greenhouse gases than any other country, but some states are astonishingly more prolific polluters than others — and it's not always the ones you might expect.

The Associated Press analyzed state-by-state emissions of carbon dioxide from 2003, the latest U.S. Energy Department numbers available. The review shows startling differences in states' contribution to climate change.
.................................................

—Texas, the leader in emitting this greenhouse gas, cranks out more than the next two biggest producers combined, California and Pennsylvania, which together have twice Texas' population.

9030. judithathome - 6/2/2007 6:46:12 PM

You can thak George for that...him and his lacky, Perry.

9031. jexster - 6/2/2007 8:52:17 PM

Death to Tejas

9032. jexster - 6/2/2007 8:54:58 PM

My brother lives in a Perry Home

I think he's the Swift Boat Texican

9033. judithathome - 6/3/2007 4:43:46 AM

Tell him to start saving money now for eventual foundation repairs.

9034. judithathome - 6/3/2007 12:13:37 PM

All The News That's Fit To Fake

Yesterday morning, Caracas awoke to the news in the Venezuelan daily paper, 2001, that US intelligence sources had reported the existence of a secret agreement between Iran and Venezuela whereby Iran will be sending nuclear weapons to Venezuela and Cuba.

Venezuelan Minister of Foreign Relations, Ali Rodriguez Araque, was up before the Caracas morning traffic had begun, denying the claim as “absurd” in an interview with Venezuelan Television. “It tops a chain of absurdities that have been unloaded on Venezuela in recent years," Rodriguez continued. "We have no arms deal with Iran, and the country’s military relations are totally clear and public."

He indicated that Venezuela believes in the elimination of all weapons of mass destruction in the world, although he added that any country should have the right to use nuclear energy with peaceful goals. He went on to condemn the intense US propaganda campaign to portray Iran as a “dark beast.”

Curiously, yesterday’s 2001 article, which caused the stir, is no longer available online.[1] In its place is an article on the Minister’s reaction.[2] A reaction, which has been covered by over 80 media outlets around the world. But according to the AP, which reported only a tiny blurb on the piece, “other papers did not carry the [original] report and the newspaper did not give any details about how it obtained the information.”

A deeper investigation, however, reveals an uncanny similarity between yesterday morning’s 2001 article and the information found in an article by former self-proclaimed criminal and current US law-enforcement collaborator Kenneth Rijock....

9035. robertjayb - 6/3/2007 12:41:24 PM

Hugo Chavez is a stand-by villain of the bushies', sort of an extra club in the bag for use as needed to deflect attention from their persistent and defiant incompetence.

BTW, it has been 2085 days since * promised to get Osama bin Laden dead or alive.

9036. judithathome - 6/3/2007 4:06:23 PM

Yeah...and we see how seriously he took THAT vow.

The asshole.

9037. judithathome - 6/4/2007 8:28:53 AM

So what does the Leader of the Free World do at Camp David?

Review history? Analyse legal issues? Review the resumes of leading contenders for the Supreme Court? Discuss relationships with other world leaders?

Well, er....no....

President George W Bush might have the odd difficulty with English syntax but, it appears, he is a dab hand at jigsaw puzzles.

Puzzles are strewn about the Bush family's homes and many family members have become devotees of Howard Robinson, a British painter of animal scenes for puzzle makers. Now Mr Robinson has received the ultimate accolade - a commission from the White House.

[snip]

Meanwhile the president's enthusiasm for jigsaws has been seized upon by American satirists.

One remarked that he was particularly proud of finishing a puzzle in two weeks - when on the side of the box it said three to five years.

It wasn't a joke, of course!

(With thanks to Striker Davies at Atlantic Refugees for posting this)

9038. anomie - 6/9/2007 9:55:11 PM

Hey, there's nothing about Paris Hilton in here!

Funny the other day I had MSNBC droning on about her all day as I was puttering around, when suddenly they broke in for the announcement about Gen Pace retiring. This took about 1 minute of air time, and then right back to PH coverage. It was a WTF moment that said a lot about the sad state the press is in.

I felt vindicated later when Jon Stewart did a piece on it.

9039. jexster - 6/10/2007 12:23:49 PM

I hear ya....Every time Wonk opens his yap I think "I am about to feel vindicated!"



Abscam Redux
FBI Catches San Francisco Jew in Corruption Sting

9040. jexster - 6/13/2007 10:59:02 AM

Jew Surrenders to Burlingame Authorities

9041. jexster - 6/20/2007 4:18:59 PM

Wilding in Tejas
Juneteenth Celebrants go Berserk in Austin


Animals

9042. wonkers2 - 6/20/2007 8:05:12 PM

Prime resident of Upper Richistan

9043. jexster - 6/24/2007 6:04:15 PM

Mister Sulu rode a float in SF Pride today

Moral degenerate

9044. jexster - 6/25/2007 8:39:17 PM

From the Huntsville Death Gurney
Texican Wants to Die Laughing


A Texas man scheduled to be executed on Tuesday wants to die laughing.


Patrick Knight, 39, has been soliciting jokes on the Internet and plans to tell one of them before receiving a lethal injection, Texas Department of Criminal Justice spokeswoman Michelle Lyons said on Monday.

9045. jexster - 6/27/2007 3:53:16 PM

The Science of Gaydar
If sexual orientation is biological, are the traits that make people seem gay innate, too? The new research on everything from voice pitch to hair whorl.

9046. alistairconnor - 6/29/2007 1:02:18 AM

Good article. Fascinating stuff.
Lots of nuggets :
Immunological response is the ascendant theory, in fact. We know from a string of surveys that in any family, the second-born son is 33 percent more likely than the first to be gay, and the third is 33 percent more likely than the second, and so on, as though there is some sort of “maternal memory,” similar to the way antibodies are memories of an infection. Perhaps she mounts a more effective immunological response to fetal hormones with each new male fetus.

As a fourth son myself, that raises some interesting questions. My little sister, number six, nearly died at birth from a rhesus factor reaction, so this maternal antibody stuff is powerful.

And I like this :
“I don’t yet understand female partner choices very well, and neither does anyone else,” Bailey wrote me in an e-mail.

Gee, and I thought it was just me.

9047. judithathome - 7/2/2007 4:42:23 PM

President Bush commutes the jail sentence of I. Lewis 'Scooter' Libby, former aide to Vice President Dick Cheney, The Associated Press reports

9048. greystoke - 7/3/2007 8:55:02 PM

Uptight Democrats

TOLEDO, Ohio -- A golf outing for local Democrats left some participants embarrassed after they found out strippers were handing out drinks at the event.

One participant said he saw a woman flash a group of golfers. Others at the fundraiser for the Lucas County Democratic Party said they didn't see any inappropriate acts.

"When the word got out that these girls are strippers, it gave the party a black eye," said Clerk of Courts Bernie Quilter. "Every elected official out there was embarrassed."

Quilter said he did not see any improper behavior.

Ryan Kemp, a general manager for a local strip club, said he paid for four people to golf at the outing and had club waitresses staff it.

Domenic Montalto, the Democratic Party's executive director, would not comment. Party chairman John Irish he did not know the strippers were at the golf course.

"It would be something that I would not approve of, but this is sort of a surprise to me," Irish said. "I was there all day. And there was nothing that I was aware of that was inappropriate that happened at all."

About 130 people were at the golf outing Friday.

Lucas County Treasurer Wade Kapszukiewicz said he saw one woman lift up her top and show her chest to a group of golfers. She then lowered her shorts, he said.

"What I saw was inappropriate, offensive and wrong," Kapszukiewicz said. "What I saw did not represent the values of the Democratic Party."

9049. greystoke - 7/3/2007 8:59:59 PM

Let's have a little review here the: beautiful girls were passing out free drinks and one of them flashed her boobs. I thinking that Kapszukiewicz is a Polack.

9050. Ms. No - 7/3/2007 9:45:12 PM

Yeah, who would even have known about it if he hadn't complained? Seriously, if he's so worried about the reputation of the Democratic party he should've just ignored it. Clearly he's running for something and wants to have a strong morally upright plank to stick up his butt when he does so.

And what does he mean not representative of the Democratic Party? Has he checked any of our modern Presidents? Sheesh.

Clearly the man isn't getting laid enough.

9051. OhioSTOPAS - 7/4/2007 5:08:59 AM

Speaking as a Polish Ohio Democrat, I would like to say that Mr. Kapszukiewicz does not speak for all of us.

Now, where are my golf clubs . . .

9052. greystoke - 7/4/2007 7:59:35 AM

OhioStopas,

I think you should run for chairman of the Ohio Democratic Party. After this hoo-ha, you just might win.

Anyone named Irish who didn't know their were strippers on the golf course is clearly not fit to serve.

9053. Ms. No - 7/6/2007 11:45:08 AM

DC Madam's Client List

So, she's a priority and a risk and they're up in arms because she might've made 2 million dollars over the course of thirteen years? Who do they think they're kidding? That's peanuts in D.C. compared to all the payoffs and back-room deals. I'm actually surprised that it isn't five times that amount.

So, any guesses as to why they don't want the list out? Wonder who's on it!

9054. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 7/6/2007 10:38:42 PM

9055. judithathome - 7/7/2007 11:05:37 AM

So, any guesses as to why they don't want the list out? Wonder who's on it!

You can bet your ass it's more Republicans than Democrats or it would have already leaked to the MSM.

9056. Ms. No - 7/7/2007 12:43:57 PM

This was a pretty obscure/minor story. I'm wondering if it will go anywhere. I'm verrrrry interested.

9057. concerned - 7/9/2007 11:10:53 AM

Women demand female Pamplona bull run - with cows

No, it's not from Scrappleface, and no, it's not April 1st.

9058. Ms. No - 7/9/2007 2:47:55 PM

I figure anyone who demands such a thing should get it ---- anyone that moronic deserves a good opportunity to weed him or herself from the gene pool.

9059. Ms. No - 7/10/2007 10:17:41 AM

Here we go D.C. Madam Case Snares Senator

Sin? It's a SIN??? It's a fucking CRIME you moron.

That just chaps my hide. The weeping and wailing and tearing of hair is all a smoke screen to try and keep folks from being prosecuted for something that is a crime in every state in the Union with the exception of a couple of counties in Nevada.

Now, I don't believe it ought to be a crime, but so long as it is, I'm just infuriated that people are going to get up in arms about "sinning" and let somebody off the hook for breaking the law just because he went and cried to his pastor and did the walk of shame for his local parish.

9060. judithathome - 7/10/2007 12:28:31 PM

Amen, sistah!

9061. Ms. No - 7/10/2007 4:05:45 PM

Seriously.

The issue here isn't sex or adultery or sin it's a legislator who willfully, wantonly broke the law and is now trying to behave as if it's a private matter.

If he'd cheated on his wife with a neighbor that would be a private matter, but he committed a crime and that's a public matter especially since he's a legislator.

I'll be interested to see if anyone official comes forward on THAT issue rather than shouting about republican hypocrisy. That's a war that can't be won. People need to start talking about the real issues and not getting bogged down in these ideological sand-traps.

9062. jexster - 7/11/2007 2:33:35 PM

Canal Street Madam Checks In

9063. judithathome - 7/11/2007 4:19:33 PM

Former first lady Lady Bird Johnson has died at her home in Austin,Texas.

CNN

9064. jexster - 7/11/2007 5:09:12 PM

The Last Bird of Tejas


I thought she died years ago

9065. jexster - 7/11/2007 7:20:52 PM

Rare Tejas Lady Bird in Hill (Sic) Country

9066. jexster - 7/12/2007 11:07:24 AM

Robert must be on vacation or somethin else wise I'd done learnt what day it was

July 10th Miss Ima Day in Tejas....


Her name?

Ima Hogg

What a fuckt state..
Remember the Alamo - give em back to Mexico

9067. jexster - 7/12/2007 5:12:20 PM

we’re looking at the man, not his penis.

NOLA Madam Serviced Vitter

Good thing too considering his wife promised to cut it off were it to act up like ole Bill's

Snip snip

9068. jexster - 7/13/2007 1:38:22 PM

Savage Uprising
Big Beaner Bash Prompts PC Police Squad APB for Michael Savage

9069. wonkers2 - 7/15/2007 8:19:51 AM

Archdiocese of Los Angeles settles child abuse cases for $660 million

9070. robertjayb - 7/18/2007 4:17:10 PM

BBC reports explosion in midtown Manhattan with crowds running from the scene.

9071. robertjayb - 7/18/2007 4:27:20 PM

43rd and Lexington. No confirmation of report Dicck Cheney was spotted near the scene.

9072. jexster - 7/18/2007 4:39:29 PM

The Bird's passing hit you hard didn't it

9073. robertjayb - 7/18/2007 5:20:37 PM

I'm all shook up.

9074. jexster - 7/18/2007 6:49:50 PM

From the SF Chron..Only in SF

Patrons of the Twin Peaks bar (aka God's Waiting Room) on Friday night, including spy Lewis Sykes, watched a young man on the sidewalk outside trying to sell a table and dresser, removing first his shirt and then all his clothes, then walking on his hands naked, to the delight of spectators. Police arrived and put him in handcuffs, at which point someone emerged from the bar and explained that patrons had egged him on. The cop let him go, and the young man came in and thanked the patrons. Then he left, put the table on his head, and walked down Market Street.

9075. jexster - 7/18/2007 7:04:45 PM

9069 -


To Catch a Predator

Hey Wonk bet you're a BIG fan!

Never saw a priest caught...lotsa Macaca people tho. Those Injuns are hella preverted....all that Kama Sutra hooey

9076. robertjayb - 7/18/2007 7:14:52 PM

New York blast is steam pipe...

NEW YORK (AP) -- An underground steam pipe explosion tore through a Manhattan street near Grand Central Terminal on Wednesday, swallowing a tow truck and killing one person as hundreds of others ran for cover amid a towering geyser of steam and flying rubble.

New York Police Department spokesman Paul Browne said the explosion was not terrorism.

''There is no reason to believe whatsoever that this is anything other than a failure of our infrastructure,'' Mayor Michael Bloomberg said.

9077. jexster - 7/18/2007 7:55:58 PM

See..Post Lady Bird Stress Disorder

9078. concerned - 7/19/2007 12:12:24 PM

Re. 9076 -

How diabolical. Now they're using steam pipe bombs:)

9079. jexster - 7/21/2007 11:31:34 AM

TD...my condolences

Pre-cancerous growths found in Bush brain biopsy

9080. wonkers2 - 7/25/2007 7:13:30 AM

"To Catch a Predator"= a sick audience watching a show about sick pedophiles produced by a sick and greedy network. I hope they get their ass sued off. One show would have been okay, but week after week of this sick shit? Ugh!

[I'm ashamed to say that Chris Hansen is from my hometown and a graduate of the same H.S. as my kids.

9081. wonkers2 - 7/25/2007 7:19:40 AM

R.I.P. Albert Ellis who died at 93 , founder of cognitive behavior therapy

"I'll retire when I'm dead," he said at 90. "While I'm alive, I want to keep doing what I do. See people. Give workshops. Write and preach the gospel according to St. Albert."

9082. judithathome - 7/25/2007 8:37:15 AM

Pre-cancerous growths found in Bush brain biopsy

I'm holding my sides over this...Jex, that was SO funny. I know I shouldn't be laughing but I just can't help it.

Wish I had read this the day after the colonoscopy...but it still works reading it this late!

9083. arkymalarky - 7/25/2007 9:04:45 AM

Wonk, I ABSOLUTELY agree with you about that show. I've been saying for a while that NBC has some kind of pervert in their production team. Look at the crap they show on weekends on MSNBC.

9084. jexster - 7/29/2007 3:07:29 PM

The Hoffman in the law firm mentioned in the LAT article below, my freshman roommate

New Orleans Jews seek recruits
After Hurricane Katrina, many left and haven't returned

9085. concerned - 7/30/2007 1:49:09 PM

Muslims protest over pet food factory that could cause them to breathe 'pork' molecules

Yes, it's gotten that silly. Soon, Muzzies will be trying to prevent anybody cooking any pork related product because it might 'pollute' them.

9086. jexster - 7/30/2007 4:44:24 PM

I went to the Gourment BBQ ...I have never seen a white person in there EVER...GREAT PIG...I call it "The Pigatorium"

The roast up a half pig and have it hangin there with the ducks etc..plus all kinds of great pig shit

I got me some fat pork belly, green onion/oyster sauce
Some noodle...and some chinee chitlins with green and red peppers


nummy

But the best were the 3/4 # of deep fried smelts...mmm..
2.50

Only the owner speaks any Engrish as far as I can tell

13 dollah all together...

9087. jexster - 7/30/2007 4:48:38 PM

sorry

POK BERRY

my bad

9088. judithathome - 7/30/2007 7:34:22 PM

So, has anyone mentioned that Supreme Court Justice Roberts has had a seizure and is in the hospital?

9089. jexster - 7/30/2007 7:45:49 PM

Robert did in AP...


The family says neuro function A-OK...damn

9090. wonkers2 - 7/31/2007 3:31:27 PM

Bad news--Murdoch is getting the Wall Street Journal, extending his evil empire.

9091. jexster - 7/31/2007 7:38:35 PM

Mass Muslim Conversions in Southern California

Now being interviewed on Jack Abrams


Jack McClellan's Pedophile Website: A Report

NB: I will not post the link to the site for fear of spreading Islam to children


Jack McClellan Legal Pedophile - For more funny movies, click here

9092. concerned - 7/31/2007 8:42:51 PM

The latest movement? Vegesexuals. They don't want to touch anyone who is 'made out of dead animals'.

9093. concerned - 7/31/2007 8:49:22 PM

That's funny. I was just thinking it was pretty disgusting to be made out of plant corpses with a soupcon of insect parts and rat shit.

9094. concerned - 7/31/2007 8:51:51 PM

That's funny. I was just thinking it was pretty disgusting to be made out of plant corpses with a soupcon of insect parts and rat shit.

9095. concerned - 7/31/2007 8:59:40 PM

Gotta see if I can find somebody who makes a personal sized solar powered pork atomizer. Then I could wear a T-Shirt saying something like: "Personal Protection against Cult Lunatics by (so and so's) Pork Atomizer".

9096. concerned - 7/31/2007 9:02:06 PM

In fact, I don't need anything that works. Probably a derelict small mechanical item such as a printer mechanism & little solar cell attached to a vial with a readily identifiable piece of pig meat in it would be just as effective.

9097. jexster - 7/31/2007 9:04:18 PM

You oughta lay a lip on The Chinee Pigatorium's chittlins with garlic and peppers......

9098. jexster - 8/1/2007 11:40:27 AM

Bet They Already Have Pork Air Filtration

The Burj al-Arab
Dubai
Headquarters of Halliburton Inc




"The world's first SIX star hotel"
$7000 a night
World's largest tent structure



I am told they charge $100 if you just want to go into the Lobby

No wonder DubaiVol knew so little of the Middle East.

9099. jexster - 8/1/2007 11:51:42 AM

No wonder Bush schleps 20 billion in the latest in useless death-dealing high tech hardware to the Persian Gulf

Acknowledged as the Best Hotel in the World

Designed to resemble a billowing sail, the hotel soars to a height of 321 metres, dominating the Dubai coastline. At night, it offers an unforgettable sight, surrounded by choreographed colour sculptures of water and fire. This all-suite hotel reflects the finest that the world has to offer.

With your chauffeur driven Rolls Royce, discreet in-suite check in, private reception desk on every floor and a brigade of highly trained butlers who provide around-the-clock attention, you can be assured of a highly personalised service throughout your stay.

*Institutional Investor Magazine
*World Travel Awards 2007

9100. robertjayb - 8/1/2007 7:58:48 PM

Neglected infrastructure: I-35 bridge collapse in Minneapolis...

Last update: August 01, 2007 – 8:48 PM

The Interstate Hwy. 35W bridge over the Mississippi River collapsed during the evening rush hour Wednesday, dumping an estimated 50 vehicles into the water and onto the land below, creating a horrific scene of damage, fire, smoke, injuries, frantic rescuers and bloody, terrified motorists.

It was not clear how many people might have been hurt or killed. As of 7:30, one construction worker was unaccounted for and three injured.

9101. wonkers2 - 8/1/2007 8:06:29 PM

That's what happens when we go overboard on "starving the beast."

9102. jexster - 8/2/2007 2:19:07 PM

It was obviously a terrorist attack.

Bush has to cover it up so he won't be guillotined

9103. jexster - 8/2/2007 3:53:27 PM

al-Sarifiya Bridge - Baghdad


You tell me

9104. jexster - 8/3/2007 10:19:02 AM

Congratulations ARKY!!!

Arkansas Couple Welcomes 17th Child

And you too Bob. Way to go!

Bob-the-Bull

9105. jexster - 8/3/2007 10:21:15 AM

Condolences Robert

That was MARVIN ZINDLER Eyewitness News

9106. concerned - 8/3/2007 11:46:30 AM

Re. 9101 -

I thought Minnesota was a high tax 'socialist paradise', so there should be money galore to monitor their highway infrastructure.

9107. wonkers2 - 8/3/2007 12:05:05 PM

Apparently we've starved the beast a bit too much.

9108. robertjayb - 8/3/2007 12:17:54 PM

But we have a wonderful manned space exploration program, and a perfectly lovely war.

9109. jexster - 8/3/2007 2:57:01 PM

ASCE says it will take 5 trillion dollars to fix the GOP mess


Maybe we could go to Baghdad and pick up some of that Kuwaiti construction company's slave labor

9110. wonkers2 - 8/3/2007 8:51:37 PM

They've been monitoring it but not fixing it.

9111. jexster - 8/3/2007 9:15:51 PM

What kinda name is "Pawlenty"?

Republican??

Macacan?

Injun?


Speaking of Macaca people, Bill Richardson's hired Jim Webb's macaca

9112. jexster - 8/4/2007 2:57:54 PM

Dog days..

In Baghdad it's 130 degrees in the shade, and look who's there to help!



That's why Concerned and I regularly give to the Mighty Mahdi Widows and Orphans Relief Fund

You should to!

Maybe get on GWB's secret sedition black list and get have assets frozen

9113. jexster - 8/6/2007 7:11:08 PM

I ask you Robert, what sort of self respecting white man would have the common decency to eat the business end of a 9mm


Anti-Gay Politician Says Blacks Responsible For Soliciting Gay Sex Charge


(Tampa, Florida) State Rep. Bob Allen (R), a longtime foe of LGBT rights in Florida, has a bizarre excuse for being charged with offering a male cop $20 for oral sex in a washroom at a park.

He was busted last month in a sting at Veteran's Memorial Park in Titusville, Florida. (story)

In taped statements made by Allen to police following his arrest and released by the force Allen admits to soliciting the male officer but claims that it was the result of being nervous by the high number of black men in the park.

"I certainly wasn't there to have sex with anybody and certainly wasn't there to exchange money for it," Allen told officers.

Of the arresting officer Allen said in the tape, "This was a pretty stocky black guy, and there was nothing but other black guys around in the park."

He claimed he feared he "was about to be a statistic" would have said anything just to get away.

But on the tape Allen also admits warning the undercover cop that "undercover cops" were in the area and the man should be careful.

"I said they're around here, you ought to know about that."

He only realized he was talking to an officer when he flashed his badge.

The arresting officer's handwritten report on the arrest also was released by the force.

Titusville Officer Danny Kavanaugh who was on plainclothes duty says he observed Allen entering the washroom twice. Kavanaugh said he was drying his hands in a stall when Allen peered over the stall door.

The officer's report said that after peering over the stall a second time, Allen pushed open the door and joined Kavanaugh inside. Allen muttered "'hi,'v" and then said, "'this is kind of a public place, isn't it,'" the report said.

Kavanaugh wrote that he asked Allen about going somewhere else and Allen suggested going "across the bridge, it's quieter over there."

"Well look, man, I'm trying to make some money; you think you can hook me up with 20 bucks?" Kavanaugh wrote in the report that he had asked Allen.

The Republican lawmaker, the report said, replied, "Sure, I can do that, but this place is too public."

According to Kavanaugh's statement, the officer said, "do you want just (oral sex)?" and Allen replied, "I was thinking you would want one."

It was at that point Allen was arrested.

Ironically, Allen was the Police Union's 2007 Lawmaker of the Year.

In the last session of the Florida legislature he sponsored a failed bill that would have tightened the state's prohibition on public sex. He also has been a supporter of amending the state constitution to ban same-sex marriage and has opposed a bill to curb bullying of gay students.

Allen has been charged with solicitation for prostitution, which has a maximum penalty of one year in jail.

Prior to his arrest Allen was a co-chair of Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign in Florida, a position he has since resigned.

9114. robertjayb - 8/6/2007 7:46:54 PM

Was bad enough when we just had to worry about them mowlestin' our wimmens.

9115. robertjayb - 8/6/2007 7:52:58 PM

Poor fellow was enticed, entrapped and generally done wrong by a big, scary black man. And him a god-fearing republican. Terrorrized into behavior he would never do otherwwise.

He needs a good lawyer, jexster.

9116. robertjayb - 8/6/2007 7:54:08 PM

A twenty-dollar misunderstanding...

9117. alistairconnor - 8/7/2007 2:01:28 AM

9114 ... very good!

9118. jexster - 8/7/2007 7:33:03 AM

He needs to be bull whipped Robert! What if he'd had his WIFE with him? Probably hand her over so the fat nigrah could have his way with her.

Shudder

9119. jexster - 8/7/2007 7:35:08 AM

Tallest Building on the West Coast

My fave of the competitors.

9120. concerned - 8/8/2007 1:01:49 PM

Walking to the shops ‘damages planet more than going by car’

Walking does more than driving to cause global warming, a leading environmentalist has calculated.

Food production is now so energy-intensive that more carbon is emitted providing a person with enough calories to walk to the shops than a car would emit over the same distance. The climate could benefit if people avoided exercise, ate less and became couch potatoes. Provided, of course, they remembered to switch off the TV rather than leaving it on standby.


and...paper or plastic?


Mr Goodall, Green Party parliamentary candidate for Oxford West & Abingdon, is the latest serious thinker to turn popular myths about the environment on their head.

Catching a diesel train is now twice as polluting as travelling by car for an average family, the Rail Safety and Standards Board admitted recently. Paper bags are worse for the environment than plastic because of the extra energy needed to manufacture and transport them, the Government says.


and, betcha didn't know this....


Cattle farming is notorious for its perceived damage to the environment, based on what scientists politely call “methane production” from cows. The gas, released during the digestive process, is 21 times more harmful than CO2 . Organic beef is the most damaging because organic cattle emit more methane.

Don't they have organic Bean-o?

9121. jexster - 8/8/2007 1:46:42 PM

I dunno TD..why do Republicans like to suck d*ck?

9122. thoughtful - 8/8/2007 2:29:27 PM

I just came across a blog newspaper called "The Issue".
Interesting stuff: http://theissue.com

9123. alistairconnor - 8/10/2007 1:58:45 AM

9120 : I know about the cows Con... 25% of New Zealand's greenhouse gases are cow burps. (yes that's right, not farts as you seem to imagine...)

“Don’t buy anything from the supermarket,” Mr Goodall said, “or anything that’s travelled too far.”

That is what I try to live by. I drive to the co-op and buy local produce.

On the other hand... distance isn't the only criterion.

It all depends on how you wield the carbon calculator. Instead of measuring a product’s carbon footprint through food miles alone, the Lincoln University scientists expanded their equations to include other energy-consuming aspects of production — what economists call “factor inputs and externalities” — like water use, harvesting techniques, fertilizer outlays, renewable energy applications, means of transportation (and the kind of fuel used), the amount of carbon dioxide absorbed during photosynthesis, disposal of packaging, storage procedures and dozens of other cultivation inputs.

Incorporating these measurements into their assessments, scientists reached surprising conclusions. Most notably, they found that lamb raised on New Zealand’s clover-choked pastures and shipped 11,000 miles by boat to Britain produced 1,520 pounds of carbon dioxide emissions per ton while British lamb produced 6,280 pounds of carbon dioxide per ton, in part because poorer British pastures force farmers to use feed. In other words, it is four times more energy-efficient for Londoners to buy lamb imported from the other side of the world than to buy it from a producer in their backyard. Similar figures were found for dairy products and fruit.

One doubts that the methodology is strictly the same in the beef and lamb calculations : 36 kg of CO2 for 100g of beef is a ratio of 1:360, whereas the NYT guy quotes a ratio of 1:3 for British lamb, and 3:2 for New Zealand lamb consumed in Britain.

But still. I try not to eat beef (though it would be tough to wean myself off dairy products). I had some local French lamb last night. Better climate here than in the UK.

9124. Magoseph - 8/13/2007 4:24:22 AM

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Karl Rove, U.S. President George W. Bush's senior political adviser, will voluntarily step down from his White House post at the end of the month, senior administration officials said Monday.

Karl Rove was politically extremely close to President George W. Bush

Rove, who has held a top position in the White House since Bush took office in January 2001, is to stand down on August 31.

"I just think it's time," Rove told the Wall Street Journal. "There's always something that can keep you here, and as much as I'd like to be here, I've got to do this for the sake of my family."

He told the newspaper that he would leave Washington to return to Texas and that he had first suggested the idea of leaving a year ago.

However a series of problems for the Bush administration, starting when the Democrats took control of Congress and then as immigration and the Iraq war topped the agenda, made the enormously powerful Rove stay on.

But one of President Bush's most trusted advisors claimed his hand was forced when White House Chief of Staff Joshua Bolten announced that any senior staff that were working past Labor Day (September 3) would be expected to stay on until the end of Bush's term in January 2007.

Deputy White House press secretary Dana Perino paid tribute to Rove. "Obviously its big loss to us he is a great colleague, good friend and a brilliant mind," she said.

"He will be greatly missed but we know he wouldn't be going if he wasn't sure this is the right time to be giving more time to his family, his wife Darby and their son. He will continue to be one of the president's greatest friends."

According to Perino, Rove has been talking to the president for "a long time" about when would be "good time" to go. "There is never a good time to leave just the right time," she added.

A Bush loyalist to the end Rove, who instrumental in all aspects of the executive conservative agenda, told the WSJ that he expected the president's approval ratings to rise and that conditions in Iraq would improve due to the work of the U.S. military.

Rove also fired a parting shot at the Democrats, adding that he thought Hillary Clinton - a "tough, tenacious, fatally flawed candidate" - would win the 2008 presidential nomination.

Loved by conservatives but a hate figure for many Democrats, Rove said he expected his rival party to be divided over the wireless wiretapping issue while the Republicans should come out top in economic issues closer to the 2008 poll.

9125. wonkers2 - 8/13/2007 5:36:52 AM

My, you're up early Mags! Here's the NYT report on Rove's resignation.Rove resigns

9126. jexster - 8/14/2007 9:04:13 AM

Not another BRIDGE COLLAPSE!

Suicide bomber destroys key Iraqi bridge

by Jay Deshmukh1 hour, 29 minutes ago

A suicide truck bomber destroyed a key bridge outside Baghdad on Tuesday, as US and Iraqi troops swept through flashpoints seeking to rein in militants ahead of the holy month of Ramadan.

The blast shattered the concrete bridge linking Baghdad to northern provinces and sent three civilian cars plunging into the river below, killing eight people, security officials said.

9127. jexster - 8/17/2007 1:12:42 PM

Terror Threat Thwarted!


NEW YORK -- A public school teacher was arrested today at John F. Kennedy International Airport as he attempted to board a flight while in possession of a ruler, a protractor, a set square, a slide rule and a calculator.

At a morning press conference, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said he believes the man is a member of the notorious Al-gebra movement. He did not identify the man, who has been charged by the FBI with carrying weapons of math instruction.

"Al-gebra is a problem for us," Gonzales said. "They desire solutions by means and extremes, and sometimes go off on tangents in search of absolute values.

They use secret code names like 'x' and 'y' and refer to themselves as 'unknowns', but we have determined they belong to a common denominator of the axis of medieval with coordinates in every country. As the Greek philanderer Isosceles used to say, 'There are 3 sides to every triangle'."

When asked to comment on the arrest, George W. Bush said, "If God had wanted us to have better weapons of math instruction, He would have given us more fingers and toes."

9128. robertjayb - 8/17/2007 2:17:29 PM

Cops running low on ammo. This is bad news?

— Troops training for and fighting the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are firing more than 1 billion bullets a year, contributing to ammunition shortages hitting police departments nationwide and preventing some officers from training with the weapons they carry on patrol.

An Associated Press review of dozens of police and sheriff's departments found that many are struggling with delays of as long as a year for both handgun and rifle ammunition. And the shortages are resulting in prices as much as double what departments were paying just a year ago.

Issue bows and arrows. Arrows with suction cup tips.

9129. jexster - 8/17/2007 4:50:05 PM

9130. jexster - 8/17/2007 4:56:48 PM

Next thang you know they'll be letting dogs marry 2 year olds

Arkansas Marriage Law Allows Toddlers to Wed

9131. greystoke - 8/17/2007 5:42:21 PM

robertjayb,

Cops need lots of ammo because eventually they might shoot someone who is guilty of something.

9132. arkymalarky - 8/17/2007 9:07:03 PM

HEY GREY!

Who you supportin' in '08?

9133. wonkers2 - 8/29/2007 7:18:53 AM

Turn-around or "dead cat bounce?"

9134. wonkers2 - 8/29/2007 7:20:56 AM

Persistent Fear Drives Stocks Down Sharply

9135. concerned - 8/31/2007 10:56:12 AM

Re. 9132 -

Sounds like a Kucinich partisan to me:)

9136. greystoke - 9/1/2007 8:38:10 PM

Arky,

Sorry its taken me two weeks to see your post.

I have not found someone who I can be enthusiastic about in '08. I think a Clinton / Obama ticket by the Democrats is a loser (unless the Republicans make a huge mistake, which is entirely possible). There are just too many Hillary haters for her to win.

How about you? Have you found a candidate who you can support?

9137. greystoke - 9/1/2007 8:43:27 PM

I would like to see a viable 3rd party candidate enter the race and shake things up. Lieberman? Bill Gates? Arnold?

9138. greystoke - 9/1/2007 8:50:45 PM

Perhaps changing the Constitution prior to winning the election would be too big of a hurdle for Arnold.

9139. arkymalarky - 9/1/2007 10:42:22 PM

Hmm. Last time a third party candidate shook things up we ended up with our current president. I'm for Obama. My nightmare is Hillary vs Huckabee in November.

9140. robertjayb - 9/2/2007 7:02:48 PM

Felix is now category 5 hurricane...

9141. robertjayb - 9/2/2007 7:04:34 PM

ORANJESTAD, Aruba — Hurricane Felix strengthened into a dangerous Category 5 storm Sunday and churned its way into the open waters of the Caribbean Sea after toppling trees and flooding some homes on a cluster of Dutch islands.

The National Hurricane Center in Miami said Felix was packing maximum sustained winds of 165 mph as it plowed westward toward Central America, where it was expected to skirt Honduras' coastline Tuesday before slamming into Belize on Wednesday as a hurricane capable of massive destruction.

9142. alistairconnor - 9/4/2007 7:52:39 AM

France drags Britain, kicking and screaming, into the age of modern transport


1.15pm
Eurostar breaks Paris-London record on new link to St Pancras


Interactive: Channel Tunnel rail link

Mark Oliver and Patrick Barkham
Tuesday September 4, 2007
Guardian Unlimited

A Eurostar train broke the Paris to London rail record today, gliding into the new Eurostar terminal at St Pancras before midday after a trip of two hours, three minutes and 39 seconds.

9143. greystoke - 9/5/2007 7:18:54 PM

Arky,

Sorry, I cannot support Obama. I think he is an empty suit. Where is his administrative experience at any level? I am hard pressed to find any of these losers I can support. Michael Dukakis would look like a giant in this race ......

9144. concerned - 9/5/2007 11:27:29 PM

Doctor Links a Man’s Illness to a Microwave Popcorn Habit

First I've heard that snorting popcorn fumes can kill.

9145. alistairconnor - 9/6/2007 5:02:30 AM

I eat organic popcorn, with real butter.

9146. jexster - 9/6/2007 9:35:47 AM

9147. Magoseph - 9/10/2007 11:30:22 AM

Sept. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Jane Wyman, the Oscar-winning actress who was married in the 1940s to Ronald Reagan, then gained new fame starring in a television drama while he was in the White House, died today. She was at least 90.

Richard Adney, of Forest Lawn Memorial Park and Mortuary, told the Associated Press that Wyman died at her Palm Springs, California, home. AP gave her age as 93.

9148. Magoseph - 9/14/2007 7:44:43 AM

O.J. Simpson, a armed burglar now?

9149. jexster - 9/14/2007 8:56:40 AM

Everyone be REAL nice to Mago. With oil at 80, she's loaded with 55 buck oil futures

9150. Magoseph - 9/14/2007 9:40:13 AM

With oil at 80, she's loaded with 55 buck oil futures

No, she is Not—55 oil was yesterday. She took her profits and stood aside long ago.

Anyway, anybody who has watched Oil and Gold over time recognizes that when oil and gold move strongly in the same direction, you’re long or you’re standing aside. My own feeling is that the market is reflecting the probability of an attack on Iran. No sophisticated trader would be stupid enough to get in front of that possibility.

9151. Magoseph - 9/14/2007 10:18:10 AM

Incidentally, in respect to oil, I received a call yesterday from a brokerage in California with whom I had some business in the past. They informed me that they were advising all their accounts to go heavily short in oil futures. I don’t have an account with this firm so I was curious as why they’d be so aggressive. When I asked why they were that strong on short oil futures, they pointed out that this was the normal period in which oil loses value and, in addition, the cartel was releasing additional product.

This type of solicitation from small firms without strong floor connections has in the past suggested that the floor is going heavily long and to me that’s another reason to stand aside from any short position in oil.

9152. jexster - 9/14/2007 10:45:50 AM

Well I take it all back



55 oil was yesterday. She took her profits and stood aside long ago.

Buy low sell low...Mago's a Moron


Why dod they pay brokers to state the obvious? Once the hurricane season passes - next month; fall begins; next week- and world economies slow - next year, prices will fall enuf to consider a short strategery UNLESS


IraQ continues its path to hell and Bush attacks Iran, in which case, Mago will be homeless

9153. jexster - 9/14/2007 4:48:51 PM

Mago..Here's my investment advice for ya and it won't cost you a sou

Go short in greenbacks

Dollar Retreat Triggers Fear of Collapse

9154. Magoseph - 9/14/2007 7:45:15 PM

Repost this link, Jex.

9155. jexster - 9/14/2007 8:08:54 PM

Just take my word for it Mago..clean out the piggy bank, sell the farm..the cats, dogs, kids

IHT

9156. judithathome - 9/16/2007 1:45:37 PM

Las Vegas police arrest O.J. Simpson in connection with an alleged armed robbery, source tells CNN.

9157. jexster - 9/16/2007 6:03:38 PM

You get a rope
I got a tree



HEY WONK

I know your old heart is bleeding badly about now and I wanna make it worse!

One of the nappy headed hos sued Imus for slander. She later dismissed with prejudice, without payment


Truth being an absolute defense


IMUS VINDICATED!!!!

9158. concerned - 9/16/2007 10:54:54 PM

Left to Right, front: Disbarred, Dead, Arrested for armed robbery, Dead

9159. concerned - 9/16/2007 11:36:53 PM

No jury consisting of over half black women was likely to convict a 'hero' like Simpson of killing his former white wife and her jewish boyfriend.

9160. judithathome - 9/17/2007 7:14:12 AM

He was not her boyfriend.

9161. jexster - 9/17/2007 3:18:51 PM

Damn it's been an up and down day

First I see film of OJ in cuffs = GREAT!

Then, on Discovery Channel a swat team took another out with a head shot..had a hostage! - WOW


Then another swat team felled another but this time with a friggin bean bag - Day takes south turn

THEN, I hear they've freed the colored boy who attempted murder of white kids in Jena, LA - where's my prozac?????

9162. robertjayb - 9/18/2007 9:21:40 AM

NYTimes resumes free access...

The New York Times will stop charging for access to parts of its Web site, effective at midnight Tuesday night.

The move comes two years to the day after The Times began the subscription program, TimesSelect, which has charged $49.95 a year, or $7.95 a month, for online access to the work of its columnists and to the newspaper’s archives. TimesSelect has been free to print subscribers to The Times and to some students and educators.

In addition to opening the entire site to all readers, The Times will also make available its archives from 1987 to the present without charge, as well as those from 1851 to 1922, which are in the public domain. There will be charges for some material from the period 1923 to 1986, and some will be free.

9163. jexster - 9/18/2007 9:28:48 AM

Set up by Jews



Fucking Goldmans smell greeen

9164. jexster - 9/18/2007 4:13:28 PM

Prosecutors file 8 charges against O.J.

Prosecutors filed eight charges, including kidnapping, against O.J. Simpson on Tuesday in an alleged armed robbery in a casino hotel room.

Simpson faces the possibility of life in prison if convicted of the charges filed by Clark County District Attorney David Roger.

Roger added kidnapping and conspiracy to commit kidnapping, both felonies, to the assault and robbery with a deadly weapon charges used to arrest the fallen football star on Sunday, according to documents released by Las Vegas Justice Court.

9165. jexster - 9/18/2007 4:31:56 PM

The White Tree
Jena High School


Damn ain't much white pride left down there!

9166. concerned - 9/18/2007 11:03:07 PM

Now OJ can write another book, something titled like "I'm Not a Crook! ...But if I Committed the Armed Robbery, Here's How I Did It"

Best of all for him, he'll have lots of quiet time in which to do it. But his ability to 'search' for the 'real' robber may be somewhat limited.

9167. jexster - 9/19/2007 5:41:35 AM

The Evil Fred Goldman set him up

9168. jexster - 9/19/2007 5:45:40 AM

SF Considers Congestion Pricing

9169. thoughtful - 9/19/2007 8:34:34 AM

Does anyone else see irony in the fact that he wasn't sent to jail for killing his wife, but he now runs a good risk of being sentenced to life over sports memorabilia?

9170. Jenerator - 9/25/2007 7:27:04 PM

Unless he has the same type of jury.

9171. anomie - 9/26/2007 3:19:18 PM

I'd volunteer for that jury. I've been here since Nov 06 and havn't been called yet. I should be about due.

9172. jexster - 9/28/2007 4:49:12 PM

Cacaa Killed

9173. jexster - 9/30/2007 6:56:31 PM

Hurry Arky!

Caltrans Dumped Road Kill
Remains of deer, raccoons, possums and other animals were tossed into ravine off Route 9 west of Saratoga.

Granny's possum stew! Nummy

Possum Stew
Ingredients:
two cans of tomatoe sauce
three cans of cooked tomatoes
1/2 thickly sliced worthog meat(mainly for flavor)
a big bag of pasta noodles (any redneck kind will do)
salt and pepper
1/2 possum (other 1/2 can be used for breakfast possum-omlettes)

Directions:
Fry bacon in big gramma kettle, over mid. size fire, then fry possum in the grease till golden brown. Take the meat out, then add enough water to pot to fill 2/3 way and then boil noodles. Once cooked add both things of tomatoes to kettle and meat and add enough salt and pepper to old granny's taste. Cook all together for a bout 1 hour simmering over low fire to sautee.

9174. jexster - 10/1/2007 5:20:28 PM

Stop the car, Jethro! They's a fresh kill in the road.
- Can't just leave it there. -


You're right, Granny.
Roadkill stew sounds mighty good right now.

9175. greystoke - 10/3/2007 7:54:27 PM

This is huge. Stick a knife in the RIAA.

In Rainbows will be released as a digital download available only via the band's web site, Radiohead.com. There's no label or distribution partner to cut into the band's profits — but then there may not be any profits. Drop In Rainbows' 15 songs into the online checkout basket and a question mark pops up where the price would normally be. Click it, and the prompt "It's Up To You" appears. Click again and it refreshes with the words "It's Really Up To You" — and really, it is. It's the first major album whose price is determined by what individual consumers want to pay for it. And it's perfectly acceptable to pay nothing at all.

...
While many industry observers speculated that Radiohead might go off-label for its seventh album, it was presumed the band would at least rely on Apple's iTunes or United Kingdom-based online music store 7digital for distribution. Few suspected the band members had the ambition (or the server capacity) to put an album out on their own. The final decision was apparently made just a few weeks ago, and, when informed of the news on Sunday, several record executives admitted that, despite the rumors, they were stunned. "This feels like yet another death knell," emailed an A&R executive at a major European label. "If the best band in the world doesn't want a part of us, I'm not sure what's left for this business."

9176. greystoke - 10/3/2007 7:57:28 PM

Arky,

I didn't mean to offend you with my criticism of Obama. I just think if Hillary and Barack are our main choices, we Democrats are doomed.

9177. arkymalarky - 10/3/2007 8:06:08 PM

Hey, you didn't offend me. If I offended that easily I'd have been gone back in the Fray days!

I do think he's far superior to Hillary, and Dad (prof emeritus whose emphasis is American writers) said his first book is one of the best he's read in a long time. Dad and others I know lean toward Hillary because her "foregone conclusion" strategy is working on them, despite the fact Obama has raised more money over all, from more donors, and is 4% ahead of her in the latest Iowa poll of likely caucus goers. Obama's also done a lot of grassroots work and I very much relate to that. We'll see if that background pays off, but there's no other candidate--Democrat or Republican--who appeals to me in the least.

And I voted for him twice, I don't regret either time, he was wrongfully impeached, and the Clinton years were good--but I don't think I can stomach four more years of that clan.

9178. arkymalarky - 10/3/2007 8:07:04 PM

And I highly resent the way the msm is ignoring all but her here lately. I have never liked Hillary, even when Bill was governor.

9179. arkymalarky - 10/3/2007 8:08:57 PM

Jex, why would I go any further than my own front yard for roadkill? Much fresher, and I know the history of the tires that got it.

9180. arkymalarky - 10/3/2007 8:10:08 PM

I got the crap scared out of me one year, when we found goats' heads in the bottoms in the first "boat ditch." I was sure a satanic cult was meeting up the road, but turned out it was only a Juneteenth barbecue.

9181. robertjayb - 10/5/2007 11:17:18 AM

The peg for this truthout editorial by Leslie Griffith is Dan Rather's lawsuit against CBS. Beyond that though it is a useful review of post 9/11 bush-era media sins:

Just seven years ago, I looked up from my desk and saw my image on the MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour as our staff of independent journalists was described as the best local news in the country. But war broke out and the Internet took off and all over the country local news ratings dropped as viewers turned to the national networks for news from the war fronts. Contrary to all logical thinking, local reporters looked at their retirement plans and their kids in college and promptly puckered their lips on the behinds of corporate media and smooched. If my kids were still in college, I would not have the courage to write this now. In response to fewer viewers, local television panicked into a downward spiral and many a trusting viewer decided to go elsewhere. Corporate media were demanding that reporters adapt to the point of our own extinction.

Morphed into propaganda machines - cheerleaders with pompoms - it was heartbreaking to watch the demise and media corporations' always bass-ackwards responses. With two wars on two fronts they decided to go “Local.” Only local news. The war and the profound implications of it were relegated to 30-second stories buried deep into the newscast. (They don't need to know about that. - But there's a grass fire up the road!) If that's not manipulation, I don't know what is. Here are some other sad results of this corporate bullying toward some of the best journalists in the country: truthout...

9182. jexster - 10/5/2007 6:01:09 PM

Fred Goldman's a total asshole....Karma made in heaven


Court Orders OJ to Turn Fake Rolex over to Goldman

9183. jexster - 10/6/2007 10:54:34 AM

Bite Me Al Sharpton!

Don Imus Close To Deal for Return To Airwaves Dec. 1

9184. jexster - 10/10/2007 11:35:14 AM

Lurziana leads the way!


Noose found at Columbia University

9185. jexster - 10/11/2007 11:28:53 AM

RIP Asa H. Coon

9186. greystoke - 10/13/2007 8:37:44 PM

This cartoon says it all.

9187. wonkers2 - 10/13/2007 8:42:47 PM

Leslie Griffith's story is sad but true.

9188. jexster - 10/16/2007 12:05:42 PM

Wee Weenie Wonkers...IMUS IS BACK

9189. jexster - 10/16/2007 8:51:52 PM

Canibalism Suspect Says Death Was an Accident

9190. jexster - 10/17/2007 11:36:49 AM

From the University that produced Speedy Gonzales

Let me introduce you to Sharon Miller, Rice U class and dorm mate of my sister in law, chief judge on Texas Criminal Court of Appeals which is the highest state court for criminal appeals:

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/5220427.html

9191. jexster - 10/24/2007 10:14:06 AM

Saw this on the local news last night
900 miles out over the ocean

9192. jexster - 10/24/2007 11:34:31 AM

The Witch is a Bitch!



Witch Fire near SD

9194. wonkers2 - 10/29/2007 3:09:16 PM

I test drove one of these yesterday. It equals or surpasses anything Toyota or Honda has to offer in the size range at a lower price. Chevrolet Malibu

9195. arkymalarky - 10/29/2007 4:34:05 PM

Sharp car.

9196. jexster - 10/29/2007 4:49:51 PM

What a sucker!


Wonk didn't tell you that his pension and health care depends on you believing him, did he Arky

9197. jexster - 10/29/2007 4:51:20 PM

Another Detroit piece of styling shit

9199. jexster - 10/29/2007 7:56:37 PM

Now Here's a hot car!

It's a Ford ..sort of

9200. jexster - 10/31/2007 1:09:00 PM

That was a long one!!


5.6 Quake Rocks the Bay


They're saying it increases the stress on the Hayward Fault which is the expected location of the long awaited Big One

9201. wonkers2 - 10/31/2007 6:09:30 PM

Straws in the Wind 10-31

9202. jexster - 10/31/2007 7:12:03 PM

Roughly accurate Wonk. I just heard a clip. Joe's got one thing goin for him if nothing else...razor tongue that even my paraphrase cannot do justice to!

9203. judithathome - 11/1/2007 12:39:15 PM

Jury Awards Grieving Father $11 Million After Funeral

A grieving father won a nearly $11 million verdict Wednesday against a fundamentalist Kansas church that pickets military funerals out of a belief that the war in Iraq is a punishment for the nation's tolerance of homosexuality.

Albert Snyder of York, Pa., sued the Westboro Baptist Church for unspecified damages after members demonstrated at the March 2006 funeral of his son, Lance Cpl. Matthew Snyder, who was killed in Iraq.

Christians, my ass.

9204. jexster - 11/1/2007 1:39:49 PM

I was wondering why Matthew Sheppard's parents didn't do the same for the same stunt at his funeral


My kinda Republicans!

9205. concerned - 11/2/2007 2:03:01 PM

A Harvard study finds two out of three gays reporting domestic abuse.

That's an awful lot of fag on fag violence. Guess most of them can't control any of their baser urges.

9206. judithathome - 11/2/2007 2:19:40 PM

Let's hear the numbers for straight guys who beat the shit outta their wives...what numbers come up? Or the numbers of adult-on-child violence...come on, baser instincts exist everywhere, Conn'd...it isn't just gays.

You might like to think so but, truly, it's not.

And why don't you explain why so many closeted gays are Republicans? I know there are closeted gays that are Democrats but why is it that the ones who keep getting caught in public doing illegal acts...like the guy in Spokane this week...are always Republicans?

Could it be that Democrats are more accepting of ALL types of people...that they don't see gayness as a "sin" and accept gay people into their ranks? But Republicans recoil in horror and yet, closeted gay Republicans STILL seek to be accepted...and never learn the fact that if you solicit gay sex in public places, you'll be caught? Seems like they keep doing what they're doing and getting what they're getting...gives one the idea they never learn from their mistakes.

9207. jexster - 11/2/2007 6:42:06 PM

I think Conned is just trying to bait me Judith...

But I will not be tolerated

The idiotic policies of the United States in Iraq have led to the killing of its troops

9208. concerned - 11/2/2007 11:10:34 PM

Let's hear the numbers for straight guys who beat the shit outta their wives...what numbers come up?

One percent or two? I forget. Boyfriends are several times worse. And women are definitely holding their own wrt starting physical abuse, but seldom are able to hack it when dealt with in kind.

9209. concerned - 11/2/2007 11:12:22 PM

Or the numbers of adult-on-child violence

Non biological parents have this one cornered.

9210. concerned - 11/2/2007 11:16:45 PM

But I will not be tolerated

I tolerate you, you little shitweasel.

9211. concerned - 11/2/2007 11:18:37 PM

Could it be that Democrats are more accepting of ALL types of people...that they don't see gayness as a "sin" and accept gay people into their ranks?

It's not my impression that Democrats 'are more accepting of ALL types of people'. Democrats are the masters of 'soft discrimination'.

9212. concerned - 11/2/2007 11:19:58 PM

AND hard discrimination. Let's not forget the universe of problems Democrat slaveholders caused the country.

9213. concerned - 11/2/2007 11:40:20 PM

The real 'problem' with adults, especially ones who form conventional family units?

They're boooor...ing!

That's mostly it.

9214. concerned - 11/2/2007 11:44:29 PM

Externally conventional contemptible predictable stifling people. In a rut. Yuck Yech ptui!

9215. concerned - 11/3/2007 12:14:20 AM

I mean I can get behing the idea that those roles really are pretty stale, boring, etc. Not much question about that. But who says they were ever intended to be exciting?

9216. jexster - 11/3/2007 5:33:29 AM

How was your IslamoFascist Awareness Week?

9217. judithathome - 11/3/2007 8:17:48 AM

Here's an intersting post from Rainbird, at my forum...shows how caring the Republicans currently in office are for kids:

The head of the Consumer Product Safety Council is apparently not only a free-marketeer who believes in less (or no) regulation, she thinks It's Just Fine to have her travel expenses paid for by the industries she's supposed to be overseeing. Groups like toy manufacturing associations. She and her Bush-era predecessor both took plenty of travel money from these groups, while the Clinton-era CPSC head had such expenses paid for by the government to avoid conflicts of interest.

WaPo: Industries Paid for Top Regulators' Travel - Two Heads of Product Safety Agency Accepted Trips From Manufacturer Groups

Jon Carroll: Nancy Nord and her desire for no oversight

9218. wonkers2 - 11/5/2007 11:15:58 AM

Straws in the Wind 11-5-07

9219. wonkers2 - 11/6/2007 2:13:39 PM

Vultures descend on homeowners in bankruptcies

9220. jexster - 11/6/2007 2:21:29 PM

Don't a fool...Don't buy a Saturn

Jex recommends for the same price, superior workmanship and performance

KIA Amanti - 26,000

Standard Feature Highlights


3.8L, 264hp V6 Engine
8-way Power Driver's Seat w/Lumbar
4-way Power Front Passenger's Seat
Dual Zone Automatic Temperature Control
AM/FM/Cassette/CD w/8-speakers
16" Tires w/ 9-spoke Alloy Wheels
Dual Front Advanced Airbags
Front & Rear Seat-mounted Side Airbags
Full-length Side Curtain Airbags
Tire Pressure Monitoring System
Front Fog Lights
Cruise Control
Front & Rear 12V Power Points (2)
Auto-dimming Rear View Mirror w/ HomeLink®
Remote Keyless Entry & Alarm

9221. jexster - 11/6/2007 2:22:09 PM

Do YOU want to waste YOUR hard earned $$ on Wonker's pension?


Bankrupt GM...sell em to Japan

9222. robertjayb - 11/7/2007 10:35:51 AM

Any doubt these things are killing machines?

KILLEEN, TX
— An 11-year-old boy has died after being bitten on the neck by his family's pit bull, police said.

The Killeen Police Department said the dog jumped from the couch at Seth Lovitt when the boy was running through his home with his little brother Tuesday evening. The dog knocked Seth to the ground and bit him.

Seth's grandmother and mother restrained the dog and called 911.

Seth was pronounced dead about two hours later at Darnall Army Medical Center, police said.

The dog has been quarantined.

Or that the people who own them are dumbasses with little-bitty penises?

9223. jexster - 11/7/2007 2:23:14 PM

Newsom Re-elected in SuperSized Landslide

JAP TERROR: Freighter Hits Emperor Norton Bridge Tower

9224. wonkers2 - 11/7/2007 3:25:26 PM

Straws in the Wind 11-6-07

9225. wonkers2 - 11/7/2007 3:34:08 PM

Another try!

9226. jexster - 11/8/2007 10:14:02 AM

I'll scratch the bitch's eyes out



Mayor Gavin Newsom, flanked by girlfriend Jennifer Siebel and San Francisco Assessor Phil Ting, celebrates his win Tuesday with a victory party at the Ferry Building.

9227. jexster - 11/9/2007 1:35:35 PM

So Proud I Could Pee!



NEW ORLEANS - The FBI is investigating allegations that a public works department supervisor displayed in his office two nooses, a bullwhip and a dart board with a black man as the bull's-eye, an agent said.

A black worker went public with the complaints Wednesday, saying he was fed up with the racist symbols in his white superintendent's office at a sewage lift station in Jefferson Parish.

9228. jexster - 11/9/2007 6:16:15 PM

Subject: Mayor Gavin Newsom Issues Guidance To Public Regarding Oil Spill
To: "Alex Randolph"
From: Alex Randolph
Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2007 15:12:13 -0800


Special advisories issued to swimmers, surfers and boat owners

San Francisco, CA - Departments and agencies throughout the City and County
of San Francisco have responded to yesterday’s incident when a container
ship accidentally hit the D Span of the Bay Bridge, causing approximately
58,000 gallons of heavy duty bunker fuel to spill into the San Francisco
Bay.

The Department of Public Health is advising people to avoid going to the
beaches. Beach closures have been instituted at Baker Beach, Crissy Field,
China Beach, Fort Point and Kirby Cove and Rodeo Beaches in Marin County.
Muir Beach and the Angel Island shoreline are also closed to the public.
Officials are advising beach visitors to avoid water activities including
swimming, surfing or windsurfing at these locations. People should also
avoid bringing unleashed dogs to any of the City’s beaches until they have
been reopened. Additionally, signs have been posted along the beaches and
water access areas of the Port warning people to not fish or enter the
water. Ferry service remains unaffected.

In an effort to curtail the spread of oil along the City’s shoreline and to
save boat owners clean-up costs, City officials are advising all
recreational boaters berthing at the following marinas to remain on dock
until at least Tuesday, November 13, 2007:

San Francisco Marina
415/ 831-6322
Hyde Street Harbor
415/ 274-0533
PIER 39 Marina
415/ 705-5557
South Beach Marina
415/ 495-4911 ext. 1048
Mission Creek Harbor Assoc.
415/ 273-1767
Clipper Cove Marina, Treasure Isl.
415/ 981-2416

The San Francisco Animal Care and Control Department, in conjunction with
Oiled Wildlife Care Network, has set up a system to rescue and clean any
bird or mammal affected by the oil spill. Do not attempt to capture or
assist a wild bird or mammal in distress. Anyone who sees wildlife in
distress is advised to telephone 3-1-1 and identify the location of the
wildlife.

Members of the public who want to volunteer with clean-up efforts should
listen for further announcements regarding how to become involved. City
departments are working with a number of state and federal agencies to
determine the most efficient way to utilize volunteers. Animal rescue
volunteers should visit the website www.owcn.org. Questions for the US
Coast Guard should be directed to their public information office at
415-399-7305.

Anyone with questions or concerns regarding the oil spill should call
3-1-1.

All the best,

Alex

9229. wonkers2 - 11/10/2007 10:11:50 AM

R.I.P. Norman Mailer

9230. arkymalarky - 11/10/2007 10:13:40 AM

Newsom really needs to update his 'do.

9231. jexster - 11/10/2007 10:42:54 AM

It doesn't look like Jenifer minds

9232. judithathome - 11/10/2007 11:23:23 AM

I've read everything Mailer ever wrote (even "Ancient Evenings"!) and he WAS a literary giant...rest in peace, Norman.

9233. jexster - 11/12/2007 7:14:03 PM

I am SO proud. You GO girl!

La. Pol's 'Buckwheat' Remark Sparks Ire

Houma, La. (AP) --


A white state lawmaker in a runoff election called a black civil-rights veteran who had helped her campaign "Buckwheat," prompting the NAACP to urge voters to kick her out of office.


Rep. Carla Blanchard Dartez, a Democrat, acknowledged that she ended a Thursday night conversation with Hazel Boykin by saying, "Talk to you later, Buckwheat." Dartez had been thanking Boykin for driving voters to the polls.


Buckwheat, a black child character in the "Little Rascals" comedies of the 1930s and '40s, is viewed as a racial stereotype.


Boykin, 75, helped desegregate restaurants and the parish school system in the 1960s. Her son, Jerome, is president of the Terrebonne Parish chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

9234. wonkers2 - 11/12/2007 7:25:12 PM

If the NAACp ever catches Jex in Louisiana they'll string him up to a live oak tree.

9235. jexster - 11/12/2007 7:53:07 PM

I don't know what planet you grew up on carpetbagger

9236. jexster - 11/12/2007 8:01:00 PM

I don't like the music. I don't like the food. I don't like the weather, and I sure as hell don't like hearing about what a great state Texas is
Voodoo Tatum
NOLA

9237. jexster - 11/12/2007 9:10:19 PM

9238. OhioSTOPAS - 11/13/2007 6:04:20 AM

From the online NY Times "today's headlines":

- ON THIS DAY -
On Nov. 13, 1956, the Supreme Court struck down laws calling for racial segregation on public buses.

This could be a sentence about today's Supreme Court. Just replace "buses" with "schools" . . . and insert a comma after "laws."

9239. jexster - 11/13/2007 9:37:33 AM

That won't survive a few more sessions of the Roberts' ct

9240. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 11/13/2007 1:44:23 PM

9241. jexster - 11/15/2007 12:00:50 PM

Wonkism Run Amok...


CNN reports that holiday Santa's are being instructed to greet the kiddies with "HA HA HA" instead of "HO HO HO"

9242. wonkers2 - 11/22/2007 8:18:42 AM

Another ugly week in the stock market as "fear overtakes greed.

9243. David Ehrenstein - 11/22/2007 9:11:20 AM

9244. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 11/22/2007 9:03:19 PM

That's a nice bit of work, there.

9245. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 11/22/2007 9:17:44 PM

I'll drag out some oldies . . .

9246. wonkers2 - 11/23/2007 9:26:15 AM

Classic wiz!

9247. jexster - 11/27/2007 8:48:49 PM

Boy Walks 280 Miles for Homeless Kids


Tallahassee, Fla. (AP) --

A 10-year-old boy from the Tampa area walked 280 miles to Tallahassee to turn the spotlight on the plight of homeless kids.

Zach Bonner lives with his family in Valrico. He walked the final mile to the state Capitol Monday morning with his older sister and a group of volunteers. He started walking Nov. 3.

Zach has done charitable work almost all his life. He says he planned his walk after hearing that Congress had declared November as National Homeless Youth Awareness Month.

His project raised awareness of homeless youth and also raised about $25,000 in donations and supplies for them.

9248. David Ehrenstein - 11/29/2007 3:29:58 PM

Poor Rodney. He just can't get a break.

9249. Magoseph - 11/30/2007 2:49:20 PM

November 30, 2007, 2:02 pm
Hostage Situation at Clinton Office in N.H.
By Jeff Zeleny

Updated | 2:25 p.m.
VIENNA, Va., — Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton has cancelled her appearance before the Democratic National Committee this afternoon as her campaign deals with reports of a hostage situation in one of her New Hampshire campaign offices.
As Democratic national chairman Howard Dean made the announcement in a hotel ballroom here, gasps were heard from the crowd of several hundred delegates and party officials.
“Details are sketchy at this time,” Mr. Dean said. “We will keep them in our prayers and hope for a resolution of this situation.”
Mrs. Clinton was scheduled to appear before the D.N.C. meeting this afternoon. Her rivals, Senator Barack Obama, former Senator John Edwards and New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson addressed the crowd this morning. Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr. of Delaware is scheduled to speak this afternoon.
According to reports from WMUR-TV:
ROCHESTER, N.H. — An armed man has taken two campaign workers hostage at the Hillary Clinton campaign office in Rochester, police said.
Officials with the campaign confirmed that there were two workers taken hostage in the office on 28 North Main St. A woman and her baby told workers at a neighboring business that she was released by the hostage-taker.
“A young woman with a 6-month or 8-month-old infant came rushing into the store just in tears, and she said, ‘You need to call 911. A man has just walked into the Clinton office, opened his coat and showed us a bomb strapped to his chest with duct tape,’” witness Lettie Tzizik said.
There are several police officers positioned across the street from the office, crouched down behind cruisers with guns drawn, according to a reported at the scene.
“I walked out and I immediately started running, and I saw that the road was blocked off. They told me to run and keep going,” said Cassandra Hamilton, who works in an office adjacent to the building.
Nearby businesses have been evacuated.

9250. David Ehrenstein - 11/30/2007 3:28:33 PM

My Favorite Hollywood Couple.

9251. robertjayb - 11/30/2007 4:01:05 PM

Hillary should offer herself as a substitute hostage. That might clear things up right away. I'm thinking "Ransom of Red Chief."

9252. OhioSTOPAS - 12/1/2007 7:32:15 AM

Fox reported all afternoon yesterday that the hostage taker's name was Troy Stanley. At about 6, when Carl Cameron was reporting the man's actual name as Lee Eisenberg, the bottom-of-the-screen crawler was still reporting that his name was Troy Stanley. (Cameron fumbled around, speculating that maybe Troy Stanley was an alias used by Eisenberg.)

Troy Stanley appears to be a real person. (Local records show him recently being cited for disorderly conduct and a couple of other minor offenses.) Did America's most trusted news source commit libel?

9253. jexster - 12/1/2007 7:36:52 PM

Eat Shit Wonkers

NEW YORK - Will Don Imus be defiant or contrite? Will he mock his skeptics while making his triumphant return to radio Monday?

9254. wonkers2 - 12/2/2007 7:31:59 PM

I wonder who's sponsoring him? The Republic of Khazakstan?

9255. jexster - 12/2/2007 8:42:20 PM

We don't hear Wonkers honking about the fag bashers do we?


Craig Had Sex With 8 Men

Of course not

9256. jexster - 12/2/2007 8:43:41 PM

Speaking of Kazakhstan

9257. wonkers2 - 12/2/2007 8:50:09 PM

Which fag bashers are you talking about? All the GOP candidates, Colin Powell or the Pope? They're all fag bashers.

9258. wonkers2 - 12/2/2007 8:55:24 PM

Not to mention that cretin Chairman of the Joint Chief, General Peter Pace.

9259. jexster - 12/2/2007 9:06:01 PM

NO! You should be defending Larry Craig..but NO....HONK HONK Honkie

9260. wonkers2 - 12/2/2007 9:56:00 PM

Larry has a lawyer who's defending him. He doesn't need any help from me. And, from what I read, he's been a fag basher himself. So, I'm not overflowing with sympathy for him although I tend to agree that there are better things for the police to do than men's room stings. At least the police didn't try to blackmail him like the former police chief was doing in DC back in the 1990s.

9261. David Ehrenstein - 12/2/2007 11:46:38 PM

Ah, those were the Good Old Days!

9262. David Ehrenstein - 12/2/2007 11:47:33 PM

Larry Craig has eight men.

And Neil Patrick Harris (illustrated above) has only ONE!

Life's not fair.

9263. David Ehrenstein - 12/3/2007 10:14:34 AM

9264. wonkers2 - 12/3/2007 1:22:25 PM

Good news alert from the Wall Street Journal: U.S. intelligence officials now believe Iran stopped it's nuclear weapons program in 2003 as a result of international pressure!!! This represents a change from previous assessments.

9265. jexster - 12/3/2007 3:27:27 PM

Honk Wonk Honk

9266. jexster - 12/3/2007 4:03:04 PM

Wonk Honk - Bamboozled

9267. jexster - 12/4/2007 12:24:03 PM

Celebrate Liberation!

9268. wonkers2 - 12/4/2007 12:43:50 PM

R.I.P Seth Tobias, hedge fund operator, high liver freeroller, drug user who cashed in his chips September 4. His wife of one year found him floating face down in the swimming pool at his Jupiter, Florida, mansion. His will made his four brothers beneficiaries to his estate and didn't mention his wife. Mrs. Tobias and the brothers are involved in an ugly battle over his estate. She claims the will is invalid because it was signed before they were married. The brothers claim she drugged Tobias and lured him into the pool. Wait...it gets better. Bill Ash, Tobias's former assistant, claims Mrs. Tobias confessed to him that she "cajoled her husband into the water while he was on a cocaine binge with a promise of sex with a male go-go dancer known as Tiger." The article also mentioned that Jim Cramer of "Mad Money" was Tobias's former boss on Wall Street.

This is another example of why hedge funds aren't a good place for your retirement savings!

Here's a link to the NYT's fascinating article. Modern day-Jay Gatzby

9269. wonkers2 - 12/6/2007 10:29:45 PM

Corporate Leeches Contribute to High Health Care Costs

9270. wonkers2 - 12/8/2007 1:56:13 PM

In the Bush League art teacher fired over museum field trip on which students saw a nude sculpture

9271. arkymalarky - 12/8/2007 2:10:59 PM

That case was going on when we were in CO last summer. Total idiocy. School choice ought to leave that bunch of whackos with a building empty of all but the most fundamental of fundamentalists, who will pick at them over every word they try to use and every action. This will come back to haunt them in a HUGE way, because now the most fringe parents in the school have total control.

9272. wonkers2 - 12/8/2007 4:18:51 PM

You can see why they objected--all those dirty old men staring at the nude woman! Copenhagen nude

9273. jexster - 12/9/2007 5:01:36 PM

From Saturday's Chron


A Budding Barack!!




Ain't he PRECIOUS!

No wonder Cellar's so friggin jealous!

9274. jexster - 12/10/2007 4:40:43 PM

The Honkers2 PC patrol is now trying to get Huckleberry Finn banned. Twain used the word NIGGER over 200 times

9275. David Ehrenstein - 12/10/2007 5:29:38 PM

I try to steer clear of choirboys, jex.

9276. jexster - 12/10/2007 9:27:22 PM

Give him 5 years...he be legal then!

9277. David Ehrenstein - 12/11/2007 4:49:22 PM

Be Prepared

9278. wonkers2 - 12/11/2007 7:32:22 PM

Berkeley Sea Scout? Did he do something he shouldn't have?

9279. judithathome - 12/12/2007 7:49:21 AM

Man, Keith Olberman really handed one of leaders of some Christian group his ass on a platter last night over remarks the dude made about the shootings of the Christians the last two weeks...he blamed everyone but the shooter and Olberman was really steamed.

Maybe he's always that steamed but I just happened to tune in when he was going off on that guy, whose name I can't recall, (Tony Robinson, I think, because I thought he meant the motivational speaker guy at first, Robbins) accusing him of dancing on the graves of the victims to call attention to his lowlife self...Olberman was GREAT!

9280. judithathome - 12/12/2007 7:56:22 AM

Olbermann's screed can be found HERE.

The guy's name is Tony Perkins and he's head of the Family Research Council.

9281. wonkers2 - 12/12/2007 9:55:26 AM

Olberman is da man! There is no other TV commentator that comes as close as he to expressing my sentiments.

9282. wonkers2 - 12/12/2007 9:57:13 AM

Ironically, Olberman, Wolfowitz, Coulter and wonkers are all graduates of the same university. There must be something wrong with the admissions process!

9283. wonkers2 - 12/12/2007 9:57:52 AM

Well, maybe two correct decisions out of four ain't too bad!:->

9284. jexster - 12/12/2007 5:18:59 PM

BERLIN, Germany (AP) --


A man nearly died from alcohol poisoning after quaffing two pints of vodka at an airport security check instead of handing it over to comply with new rules about carrying liquids aboard a plane, police said Wednesday.


The incident occurred Tuesday at the Nuremberg airport, where the 64-year-old man was switching planes on his way home to Dresden from a vacation in Egypt.


New airport rules prohibit passengers from carrying larger quantities of liquid onto planes, and he was told at a security check he would have to either throw out the bottle of vodka or pay a fee to have his carry-on bag checked.


Instead, he chugged the vodka — and was quickly unable to stand or otherwise function, police said.

9285. wonkers2 - 12/12/2007 7:07:06 PM

A Darwin award candidate. I had a similar experience with a box of Cuban cigars that were confiscated by U.S. Customs. I asked what they were going to do with them. They replied, "Shred them, wanna watch?" I replied, "I couldn't bear to watch."

9286. robertjayb - 12/13/2007 12:51:12 PM

Olbermann on Moyers...

Keith Olbermann joins Bill Moyers Friday on Moyers' PBS program "Journal." From a release: "This week, as Rupert Murdoch takes over The Wall Street Journal and as the FCC is about to allow more newspapers to expand into the broadcast business, Bill Moyers Journal continues its reporting on media consolidation and gets insight from MSNBC's popular and provocative Keith Olbermann." The program airs tomorrow night (Friday) at 9pmET on many PBS stations.

9287. wonkers2 - 12/13/2007 4:12:26 PM

That'll be a good program. Thanks for the heads-up. Unfortunately, I won't be home to watch, and our TIVO crapped out last week.

9288. wonkers2 - 12/17/2007 1:52:40 PM

Death Penalty Repealed in New Jersey

9289. David Ehrenstein - 12/18/2007 11:30:49 PM

Seven year-old beaten for wearing pink nail polish.

9290. wonkers2 - 12/19/2007 8:19:51 AM

A Huckabee supporter, no doubt.

9291. robertjayb - 12/19/2007 10:42:22 AM

Putin is TIME'S Person of the Year...

NEW YORK — Time magazine today named Russian President Vladimir Putin its 2007 "Person of the Year."

The nod went to the Russian leader because of Putin's "extraordinary feat of leadership in taking a country that was in chaos and bringing it stability," said Richard Stengel, Time's managing editor.

Putin, 55, is enormously popular in Russia, presiding over a resurgent economy flush with revenue from oil and natural gas. But critics say he has moved the country away from Russia's democratic reforms of the 1990s by tightening control of the media, courts and parliament.

"He's the new czar of Russia and he's dangerous in the sense that he doesn't care about civil liberties, he doesn't care about free speech," Stengel said.

9292. jexster - 12/19/2007 11:16:33 AM

9289

Should be beaten! Jeezusaleezus

9293. jexster - 12/19/2007 11:17:58 AM

Congratulations Pooty!

9294. jexster - 12/21/2007 10:49:45 AM

Couple days back, I quickly deleted an email from one of the more radical leftist groups inviting me to go to NOLA to protest the demolition of public housing projects (aka "affordable housing")

First thought, these morons have never seen a NOLA housing project! Their life expectancies would have rapidly deteriorated.


Then I saw TV tapes of the big demonstration at the NOLA city council meeting. Funny, I thought, no black faces. Where did all these angry white people come from?

Apparently from New York, Michigan and California


Was that you chained to the fence Honkers2?

9295. jexster - 12/21/2007 7:09:03 PM

Another Clinton Coverup!


WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. - For more than a year, a disbarred lawyer and neighbor of Bill and Hillary Clinton has insisted that his wife was killed by an assailant who forced their car off a dark road, climbed in through the back and shot her in the head and him in the belly.



Carlos Perez-Olivo, 59, said he figured it was a paid killer, targeting him, perhaps hired by a dissatisfied client. He drew a sketch, gave the police some names and continued to live in his house in Chappaqua, three doors down from the Dutch Colonial the Clintons bought in 1999.

On Friday, Westchester District Attorney Janet DiFiore provided a less complicated explanation: "Mr. Perez-Olivo pulled the car over to the side of the road and shot his wife once in the back of the head

9296. robertjayb - 12/21/2007 10:39:19 PM

Wait for Santa Claus!

ROCK SPRINGS, Wyo. — A woman stabbed her husband with a kitchen knife following an argument that began when she accused him of opening a Christmas present early, authorities said Friday.

Misty Johnson, 34, was arrested and charged with aggravated assault and battery, a felony, and misdemeanor domestic battery. Her husband, Shawn Fay Johnson, 34, was treated at a hospital for a wound to the chest, police said.

9297. jexster - 12/25/2007 7:13:55 PM

Baby Grace Says "Remember Me This Christmas"!

Executions Drop Everywhere Except Tejas

60% of all executions take place at Hunts-vul

Obviously still too many Texicans

9298. wonkers2 - 12/25/2007 11:11:55 PM

They just keep 'em around and torture 'em in Angola (LA).

9299. jexster - 12/26/2007 10:02:28 AM

Most Dangerous Cities in the US





1. St. Louis
2. Detroit
3. Flint, Mich.

9300. jexster - 12/26/2007 10:06:52 AM

Tiger Bait

Fatal S.F. Zoo Mauling


The S.F. Zoo tiger that attacked a keeper last December went on a rampage just after closing time Christmas evening. The 350-pound Tatiana escaped her enclosure, killing one visitor and severely injuring two others.

9301. jexster - 12/26/2007 10:12:43 AM

In news of other wild animal maulings


Macacans Attack Christians on Christmas

9302. jexster - 12/26/2007 1:59:21 PM

somethin tells me

9303. wonkers2 - 12/27/2007 9:53:59 AM

Benazir Bhutto was assassinated in a bomb blast today.

9304. wonkers2 - 12/27/2007 10:00:25 AM

Benazir Bhutto Assassinated

9305. jexster - 12/31/2007 5:15:05 PM

I've Warned Honkers About These People

12-30) 21:27 PST San Francisco -- The father of the 17-year-old boy who was killed by a tiger at the San Francisco Zoo said Sunday that he would like to hear from the two young men who survived the attack.

"I would love to talk to them. I would love to hear from them," Carlos Sousa Sr. told The Chronicle.

Sousa was responding to reports Sunday by some news outlets that claimed that brothers Kulbir Dhaliwal, 23, and Paul Dhaliwal, 19, had phoned him to say they were sorry and had done everything they could to save his son, Carlos Sousa Jr., in the Christmas Day attack.

9306. wonkers2 - 12/31/2007 6:14:40 PM

George Allen, Jex's kinda guy! Confederate flags on the wall and white sheets in the closet!

9307. jexster - 12/31/2007 7:41:42 PM

Welcome to the real world of Virginia macaca-in-law

9308. David Ehrenstein - 12/31/2007 7:54:14 PM

.Latest FaBlog: Fait Divers -- Sondheim Sings Again.

9309. jexster - 1/1/2008 12:34:00 PM

Newsom/Siebel Engaged

9310. jexster - 1/1/2008 12:35:17 PM

9311. David Ehrenstein - 1/3/2008 4:30:53 PM

I'm always chasing Rimbauds

9312. David Ehrenstein - 1/4/2008 5:39:45 PM

"Gay Panic" Defense still works.

9313. David Ehrenstein - 1/6/2008 12:40:49 PM

CLICK!

9314. David Ehrenstein - 1/7/2008 2:07:21 PM

9315. wonkers2 - 1/7/2008 7:14:45 PM

One of the many pernicious effects of religious fanatics.

9316. David Ehrenstein - 1/8/2008 3:05:44 PM

It's so important that we keep our priorities straight.

9317. David Ehrenstein - 1/9/2008 8:55:52 AM

Oh enough of this election piffle! THE COUNT IS RETIRING FROM THE MET!!!!

9318. wonkers2 - 1/11/2008 11:19:57 AM

Straws in the Wind January 11, 2008

9319. robertjayb - 1/14/2008 6:05:36 PM

2007 Darwin Award winners...

THE ENEMA WITHIN (Confirmed True by Darwin)

May 2004, Texas | Michael was an alcoholic. And not an ordinary alcoholic, but an alcoholic who liked to take his liquor... well, rectally. His wife said he was "addicted to enemas" and often used alcohol in this manner. The result was the same: inebriation. And tonight, Michael was in for one hell of a party.

Two 1.5 litre bottles of sherry, more than 100 fluid ounces, right up the old address!

When the rest of us have had enough, we either stop drinking or pass out. When Michael had had enough (and subsequently passed out) the alcohol remaining in his rectal cavity continued to be absorbed. The next morning, Michael was dead.

The 58-year-old did a pretty good job of embalming himself. Toxicology reports measured his blood alcohol level as 0.47%.

In order to qualify for a Darwin Award, a person must remove himself from the gene pool via an "astounding misapplication of judgment." Three litres of sherry up the butt can only be described as astounding. Unsurprisingly, his neighbors said they were surprised to learn of the incident.

9320. concerned - 1/16/2008 12:49:07 AM

It Couldn't Happen to a More Deserving Guy Dept:

Mike Nifong Bankrupt
Disgraced Duke prosecutor lists $180M in liabilities
JANUARY 15--Disgraced and disbarred, Mike Nifong is now bankrupt. The former North Carolina prosecutor, whose career imploded with his botched handling of the Duke University rape case, today filed for bankruptcy, listing liabilities in excess of $180 million. A summary schedule from Nifong's Chapter 7 petition can be found below. Almost all of that sum represents legal claims filed against the former Durham County district attorney by members of Duke's 2006 lacrosse team, including the three players who were accused of raping a stripper at a team party. Included among Nifong's assets are a 2003 Honda Accord, about $9000 in personal property, and his $235,000 home. He lists nearly $5000 monthly in pension or retirement income and describes himself, charitably, as retired.

Nifong must have had himself confused with the OJ Simpson jury.

9321. jexster - 1/17/2008 8:42:49 PM

One of the Bush bitches is marrying a total dork

9322. alistairconnor - 1/18/2008 7:12:06 AM

Ah it's so hard to break out of the examples our parents give us.

9323. judithathome - 1/18/2008 9:30:54 AM

One of the Bush bitches is marrying a total dork

He's not exactly getting a prize, either.

9324. alistairConnor - 1/19/2008 5:04:57 AM

The former British chess champion Bill Hartston once said: "Chess doesn't drive people mad, it keeps mad people sane."

It's shame Bobby stopped playing chess thirty years ago.

RIP/burn in hell Bobby Fischer

9325. thoughtful - 1/22/2008 10:25:27 AM

The fed cut interest rates in a surprise move this am. Clearly they are worried about the economy especially after the stock mkt shocks globally yesterday. The stuation is looking dire at this point. The financial mkts have not unlocked as was hoped they would by now which is a bad thing. If solvency becomes a big issue then the US could start looking a lot like japan of the last 10 yrs. Fasten your seat belts. Its going to be a bumpy ride.

9326. judithathome - 1/22/2008 10:40:20 AM

I am sick over this but should have known we'd be left broken and penniless as a nation with Captain Happy at the helm for 8 years.

I suppose this is STILL Clinton's fault....

9327. alistairConnor - 1/22/2008 5:57:21 PM

Interest rate cut may be a trigger for foreign dollar buyers to cut and run? Bottomless fall for the buck?

9328. wonkers2 - 1/22/2008 6:07:48 PM

Heath Ledger found dead in his apartment, apparently of a drug overdose.

Fred Thompson dropped out.

9329. concerned - 1/23/2008 11:40:12 AM

Three Little Pigs 'too offensive'



They're truly losing their marbles in Great Britain over this kind of thing. Pretty soon any mention of a pig and god knows what else will be subject to censorship over there.

9330. alistairconnor - 1/24/2008 6:26:18 AM

France leads the world in creative financial engineering!
French bank Societe Generale said Thursday it has uncovered a $7.14 billion fraud — one of history's biggest — by a single futures trader who fooled investors and overstepped his authority.

The fraud destabilized a major bank already exposed to the subprime crisis. France's second-largest bank by market value said it would be forced to seek 5.5 billion euros ($8.02 billion) in new capital.

Trading in Societe Generale's shares, which have lost nearly half their value over the past six months, was suspended on the Paris bourse. It was unclear when trading would resume.
[...]
The trader, who was not named, used his knowledge of the group's security systems to conceal his fraudulent positions, a statement from the bank said.

The individual confessed to the fraud, the bank said, and was being dismissed. [...]
The fraud appeared to be the largest ever by a single trader. If confirmed, it would far outstrip the Nick Leeson trading scandal in 1995 that bankrupted British bank Barings.

9331. Marc-Albert - 1/24/2008 1:29:07 PM

I wonder if he got a good Christmas bonus...

At the press conference, reporters couldn't believe it: The bank officials merely fired the man who stole 5.5 billion dollars from his employer, and have no idea where he is now. The bank president meekly answered to the dumbfounded reporters that they didn't know at the time under what legal charge he could be arrested.

Incroyable, in a country where, up to a very recent past, careless or strapped people were summarily arrested, handcuffed, and sent to jail for a rent cheque, any cheque, that had bounced.

9332. Marc-Albert - 1/24/2008 1:32:26 PM

On edit: 8.02 billion dollars.........

9333. David Ehrenstein - 1/24/2008 1:36:52 PM

And now the news. . .

9334. wonkers2 - 1/24/2008 5:43:02 PM

Pretty cynical, but pretty true as well. Sad.

9335. David Ehrenstein - 2/4/2008 12:16:30 AM

Latest FaBlog: Fait Divers -- Myth-ing in Action

9336. David Ehrenstein - 2/4/2008 4:25:41 PM

Adam Block is dead.

9337. jexster - 2/4/2008 10:18:46 PM

Federal spending under Bush may have gone up 1 trillion bucks but that's because he forgot how to budget the Tejas Way:


HOUSTON (AP) --

A convicted murderer awaiting execution killed himself in his cell at a psychiatric center just three days after another condemned man on Texas' death row did the same, prison officials said Monday.

William Robinson, 49, used a sheet to hang himself from a vent, Texas Department Criminal Justice spokeswoman Michelle Lyons said.

Only eight other condemned killers have committed suicide since death row reopened in 1974, including Jesus Flores, who killed himself Jan. 29.

Robinson, who was sentenced to death for a 1985 murder, had been held at the Jester IV psychiatric facility in Richmond since September and had spent time there periodically throughout his years on death row, Lyons said.

Officers found Robinson hanging at about 5 a.m., Lyons said. They cut the sheet and performed CPR; he was taken to a hospital alive but unresponsive and was put on life support.

Robinson's mother decided to cut off life support after doctors said he was most likely brain dead, Lyons said.

Lyons said privacy laws prevented her from discussing Robinson's medical records, but she said he did injure himself with a razor in 2006.

Michael Charlton, Robinson's former attorney, said Robinson had paranoid schizophrenia and had repeatedly attempted suicide.

"Despite years of that history, to leave William unsupervised and not on a suicide watch to me, it's just appalling," Charlton said.

9338. David Ehrenstein - 2/5/2008 7:01:25 PM

THE SIXTIES ARE OVAH!!!!!

9339. wonkers2 - 2/12/2008 8:39:36 PM

Ready to be SPACked?

9340. robertjayb - 2/14/2008 5:55:10 PM

Shooting at N. Illinois University

From Associated Press
February 14, 2008 5:33 PM EST

DEKALB, Ill. - A gunman opened fire in a lecture hall at Northern Illinois University on Thursday, injuring as many as 15 people, authorities said.

"Campus police report that the immediate danger has passed. The gunman is no longer a threat," the school reported on its Web site at 4:14 p.m.

Kishwaukee Community Hospital said on its Web site up to 15 victims were arriving, including three to four with head wounds.

The shooting took place around 3 p.m. in Cole Hall near the King Commons, a central gathering place on the 25,000-student campus, according to the Web site.

9341. David Ehrenstein - 2/14/2008 7:29:15 PM

They're throwing the book at him.

GOOD!

9342. wonkers2 - 2/15/2008 10:30:16 AM

The people they should throw the book at are the people who provided him the guns.

9343. David Ehrenstein - 2/15/2008 10:57:29 AM

Them too. But I'm sick of this "Oh he's just a kid" crap. The little shit knew precisely what he was doing and who he was doing it to. And by that I mean the whole school. Lawrence King was by no means universally despised. Other kids like him. But all it takes is an asshole with a gun.

Note that he didn't lay in wait for him outside class but shot him right in front of everyone.

9344. David Ehrenstein - 2/15/2008 9:25:46 PM

Gone fishin'

9345. judithathome - 2/22/2008 11:11:37 AM

Some real Breaking News: In Dallas, a motocycle cop in the Hillary Clinton motorcade was killed in a accident while escorting her limo to an appearence there.

9346. jexster - 2/25/2008 9:24:32 AM

Faggots!

Saw on the news last night...Newsom hired a new planning director from out of town. These types get housed at some fancy historical monument..an old firehouse ..real sweet deal while they look for permanent housing in the city



Well this guy got into a little a tiff with his boyfriend who proceeded to throw matresses out broken windows..tomatoes at the front door and in general 10-15000 in damage

FAGGOTS

9347. jexster - 2/27/2008 11:26:05 AM

William F. Buckley

RIP

9348. David Ehrenstein - 2/27/2008 1:15:56 PM

Latest FaBlog: My Last Nerve.

9349. David Ehrenstein - 3/7/2008 12:10:19 AM

TIMES SQUARE BOMBER CAPTURED!

9350. judithathome - 3/7/2008 7:15:02 AM

Revlon's Unibomber Ruby...when you need an explosive red for that special occasion!

9351. jexster - 3/7/2008 10:43:24 AM

Did y'all realize that this weekend is Daylight Savings again?????

9352. David Ehrenstein - 3/7/2008 3:38:06 PM

Latest FaBlog: Fait Divers - "Unsavory"

9353. jexster - 3/8/2008 11:50:29 AM

They Shoot Fags in Oxnard Don't They?

9354. David Ehrenstein - 3/8/2008 4:45:47 PM

They certainly do. Notice how much the school cared

NOT!!!!!!!

9355. jexster - 3/9/2008 10:02:13 AM

Some girls have all the luck

The Team Mother of a high school basketball team in Solano county was arrested for having sex with one of the players. She fucked him at least twice and is suspected of doing the nasty with other players as well

9356. David Ehrenstein - 3/10/2008 11:03:28 AM

WE'RE AS DOOMED AS DOOMED CAN BE !!!!!

9357. David Ehrenstein - 3/11/2008 5:11:13 PM

Well now we can all forget about Elliot Spitzer cause today's top story is MARY ANN GOT BUSTED FOR POT!!!!!!

9358. judithathome - 3/13/2008 10:10:38 PM

Bush's Legacy

9359. jexster - 3/14/2008 2:36:08 PM

The Bush Crash: The Crack Houses R Coming!

Welcome to Slumburbia
Bay Area Home Prices Drop 15%


Don't worry folks
Be happy

The economists say we won't see a depression


The same economists who, 2 months ago, all but guaranteed that uwe wouldn't see a recession.

9360. jexster - 3/25/2008 12:05:36 PM

GALVESTON, Texas - A young father was found guilty Tuesday of badly injuring his infant daughter by putting her in a microwave, with jurors rejecting his claim that he was insane at the time.


California happily cedes its rep as the Freakazoid Capital of the USA to the Great State

9361. concerned - 3/27/2008 1:37:04 PM

Man Claims to Speak 'Australian' After Allegedly Being Raped by Wombat

9362. Wombat - 3/27/2008 2:46:46 PM

Wasn't there, don't swing that way. Sorry.

9363. Ms. No - 4/1/2008 11:23:04 AM

Urban Graduation Rates a Catastrophe

The rates were shocking enough, but what's even worse is the gap between urban and suburban.

9364. David Ehrenstein - 4/3/2008 1:05:15 PM

I'm sure Mel will claim that Fotzgerald is a greedy Jew.

9365. robertjayb - 4/5/2008 4:15:39 PM

Divorce dilemma: How to split the cow?

BELGRADE (Reuters) - A Serb farmer used a grinding machine to cut in half his farm tools and machines to comply with a court ruling that he must share all his property with his ex-wife, local media reported on Thursday.

Branko Zivkov, 76, told Belgrade daily Kurir he had been ready to give his wife Vukadinka her equal share of everything earned during their 45-year marriage, but was furious at being asked to give away half his farming equipment.

Instead, he bought a grinder and cut in two all his tools, including large items such as cattle scales, a harrow and a sowing machine.

"I still haven't decided how to split the cow," he told the newspaper. "She should just say what she wants -- the part with the horns or the part with the tail."

9366. jexster - 4/5/2008 5:21:49 PM

The State of Tejas just gets sicker and sicker

First some guy put a baby in a microwave and now this..


A goddamn resort for child molesters! NAMBLA who?

(04-05) 15:07 PDT Eldorado, Texas (AP) --

Child welfare officials have now removed nearly 200 women and children from a secretive West Texas religious retreat built by polygamist leader Warren Jeffs, authorities said Saturday.

The investigation began after a 16-year-old living there complained of physical abuse. A search warrant authorized state troopers to enter the retreat run by the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and look for evidence of a marriage between the girl and a 50-year-old man.

The warrant said the girl had a baby eight months ago, when she was 15.

9367. anomie - 4/5/2008 7:07:41 PM

Well if you agree that the state should interfere with the reproductive protocols of a religious society, then I'd say Texas is being a bit more progressive than other states for taking proactive measures to control the young wombs. I don't think Arizona or Utah has done much about the situation.

And I don't think anyone much cares about the abuse of young boys being brought up to believe this religious crap. In fact, I don't think it's about abuse at all. It's about the state controlling the role of women in society.

9368. anomie - 4/5/2008 7:35:47 PM

And I wonder if the quote is correct. They removed "women". Let's hope the "women" went voluntarily.

9369. robertjayb - 4/5/2008 8:37:23 PM

Another Waco in the making?

ELDORADO, Texas — Sect leaders at a polygamist compound in West Texas refused Saturday to let authorities search a temple for a teenage girl whose report of abuse led to the raid, and authorities said they were preparing "for the worst."

If no agreement is reached with sect leaders, authorities will forcibly remove the sect's followers "as peaceably as possible," Allison Palmer, a prosecutor in Tom Green County, told the San Angelo Standard-Times.

Medical workers are being sent "in case this were to a go in a way that no one wants," Palmer said. Law enforcers are "preparing for the worst," she said.

"Within the religion that we have encountered, their place of worship is very special to them," Palmer said. "It appears to be of great concern to them if a person from outside their congregation even attempts to step inside their place of worship."

I do fervently wish that cops everywhere could be implanted with a "Stop and think..." mechanism. Also a "Back the fuck off" device.

9370. anomie - 4/6/2008 7:54:26 AM

Mission: Protect and control young vaginas!

I hope some of these "women" are arrested alongside the men for brainwashing their sons and daughters into this lifestyle.

9371. anomie - 4/6/2008 8:26:00 AM

Per CNN, authorities are removing all the children, girls and boys. Good. Hope they keep em.

Now, on to the Jesus camps...those kids need some relief too.

9372. wonkers2 - 4/6/2008 9:16:46 AM

Maybe they should offer them free transportation to Afghanistan.

9373. jexster - 4/6/2008 9:43:34 AM

9374. anomie - 4/6/2008 10:06:16 AM

Wonks, I think they do offer that free trip once the kids are 17 or 18. All they have to do is sign some paperwork and go to boot camp for a few weeks.

9375. David Ehrenstein - 4/6/2008 10:32:55 AM

Latest FaBlog: Death of An Axiom.

9376. jexster - 4/6/2008 10:35:53 AM

“Get your hands off me you damned dirty ape!”

9377. jexster - 4/8/2008 6:47:03 PM

More sordid detail on the Tejas chapter of the NAtional Man Girl Love Assn

9378. David Ehrenstein - 4/11/2008 8:47:37 AM

The "Gay Panic Defense" still works: Murderer gets 15 years.

9379. wonkers2 - 4/11/2008 10:31:19 AM

Anomie, my suggested trip to Afghanistan was intended for the adult true believers, i.e., the men and willing women, not the children. I didn't make that clear.

9380. anomie - 4/12/2008 5:24:11 PM

Ah just the adults. They wouldn't need much training then I suppose. Ha!

9381. robertjayb - 4/13/2008 8:36:49 AM

Will work for food...

(NYTimes)---Alberto R. Gonzales, like many others recently unemployed, has discovered how difficult it can be to find a new job. Mr. Gonzales, the former attorney general, who was forced to resign last year, has been unable to interest law firms in adding his name to their roster, Washington lawyers and his associates said in recent interviews.

He has, through friends, put out inquiries, they said, and has not found any takers. What makes Mr. Gonzales’s case extraordinary is that former attorneys general, the government’s chief lawyer, are typically highly sought.

9382. anomie - 4/14/2008 9:46:58 AM

I'm starting to sympathize with polygamists somewhat. These people have been convicted of nothing and yet the authorities let the press in the compound to video their homes. I assume this is private property and this bothers me. I don't think anything would justify such a massive and purposeful invasion of privacy. And I don't see how it helps the kids. If a judge or jury needs to see these areas, fine. But what interest does it serve for me to see it? It's none of my business. It's pure voyerism. I think the government has way overstepped its bounds and I hope it leads to some lawsuits.

9383. robertjayb - 4/14/2008 9:54:50 AM

Don't worry, there will be plenty of lawsuits and huge expense to the state of Texas.

9384. anomie - 4/14/2008 10:00:52 AM

I'm all for getting the kids out of there, but I think the government should be checked on its excesses.

9385. robertjayb - 4/14/2008 10:14:24 AM

Even as we speak...

SAN ANGELO, Texas — (AP)- A court began laying the groundwork Monday to sort out the custody arrangements for hundreds of young children seized from a polygamist sect, with nearly four dozen lawyers seeking to represent the children in attendance.

State District Judge Barbara Walther held the hearing to prepare for Thursday's expected marathon session, when the state will plea for permanent custody of the 416 children taken early this month from the Eldorado ranch of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, a renegade Mormon sect.

9386. anomie - 4/14/2008 7:13:00 PM

After my rant I learn that the residents themselves invited the press in to show how normal they are.

I feel like Rosanne Rosannadana...nevermind.

9387. David Ehrenstein - 4/15/2008 7:03:10 PM

When Mikey Met Pope-y

9388. OhioSTOPAS - 4/16/2008 5:17:47 PM

Anomie: Regardless of how you feel, it is sad to see children taken away from their . . .





husbands.

9389. arkymalarky - 4/16/2008 5:32:23 PM

You mean Emily Latella?

I was born in San Angelo.

Not in that compound.

9390. jexster - 4/17/2008 7:04:21 PM

Here's an idea!


Let's send TD to France for a summer vacation


Bardot on trial for allegedly inciting anti-Muslim hatred





Brigitte Bardot is back on trial in France, facing charges of fanning discrimination and racial hatred against Muslims.

In a Paris court hearing Tuesday, prosecutors said they are seeking a two-month suspended prison sentence and a $23,900 fine against the former screen siren and animal rights campaigner.

Bardot, 73, was not present for the hearing. A verdict is expected June 3.

A leading French anti-racism group known as MRAP filed suit last year over a letter that Bardot sent to then-Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy, and which was published in her foundation's quarterly journal.

In the letter to Sarkozy, now the president, Bardot accused France's Muslim population of destroying France, and complained about the Muslim feast of Eid al-Adha.

French anti-racism laws prevent inciting hatred and discrimination on racial or religious or racial grounds. Bardot has been convicted four times for inciting racial hatred.

9391. Ms. No - 4/18/2008 12:32:01 AM

What is it with the constant need of every single frickin' media report on the Polygamist Sect to mention the 19th Century dresses and hairstyles of the women? I mean, honestly, would Hassidic Jews get the same treatment?

Who gives a shit about the clothing? They're entitled to their religious beliefs. The issue is about child endangerment and wrongful incarceration of those who would wish to leave.

The more the media harps on the trivial things and how "weird" these people are, the worse the government's position looks. Of course, the media are a bunch of slavering dolts with this kind of thing. It's like they've all got Paris Hilton Disease. "Ew! Did you see those horrid dresses? How totally un-hot."

9392. wonkers2 - 4/18/2008 3:43:22 PM

What about letting the women choose ONE husband (and annul the others) and release the children to the two of them?

9393. wonkers2 - 4/18/2008 3:43:55 PM

letting EACH woman choose one husband

9394. jexster - 4/18/2008 5:01:42 PM

Our incompetent governor is fucking up CA schools. Heckuva job..UR basic republican incompetent

Flurry of Pink Slips, Other States Woo California Teachers


Arkadelphia on line 2 for MsNo

9395. David Ehrenstein - 4/19/2008 12:18:00 PM

Latest FaBlog: Fait Divers -- Things Go Better With Pope

9396. anomie - 4/19/2008 3:28:06 PM

Ms No, Valid point about the dress. I haven't heard the media mention it myself, but it doesn't surprise. I did hear one of escaped, (deprogrammed?) wives talk about how restrictive and uncomfortable the dress and long underwear was, and how it got worse over time.

9397. anomie - 4/19/2008 3:29:02 PM

Ohio, Now that's funny! I don't care who you are...

9398. robertjayb - 4/19/2008 4:56:12 PM

Saw it. Went right over my head...

Yes, funny.

9399. robertjayb - 4/19/2008 5:08:55 PM

Not so funny...

Arrest in polygamy case...(HouChron)

Rozita Swinton, 33, was arrested in Colorado Springs, Colo., and charged with false reporting to authorities in connection with the Fundamental Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints case in Texas.

The article doesn't say this woman is suspected as the mystery caller who triggered the whole operation, but methinks it comes pretty close.

9400. jexster - 4/19/2008 6:12:28 PM

NAMGLA

9401. David Ehrenstein - 4/19/2008 6:42:51 PM

One Fun Dude! (The last line is a killer.)

9402. jexster - 4/20/2008 6:08:31 PM

NAMGLA Unleashes Massive PR Offensive in Tejas

9403. Ms. No - 4/21/2008 9:18:19 AM

Wonk,

They can't each choose a husband because there aren't enough husbands to go around. The FLDS plans it that way. You can't very well promote polygamy if you have a bunch of single men around at the end of the day. The whole point of it is for a man to have his harem on earth --- even if they are screwing their houris through a hole in the Garment.

9404. robertjayb - 4/23/2008 2:46:58 AM

Guard those private parts...

KINSHASA (Reuters) - Police in Congo have arrested 13 suspected sorcerers accused of using black magic to steal or shrink men's penises after a wave of panic and attempted lynchings triggered by the alleged witchcraft.

Reports of so-called penis snatching are not uncommon in West Africa, where belief in traditional religions and witchcraft remains widespread, and where ritual killings to obtain blood or body parts still occur.

Rumors of penis theft began circulating last week in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo's sprawling capital of some 8 million inhabitants. They quickly dominated radio call-in shows, with listeners advised to beware of fellow passengers in communal taxis wearing gold rings.

Purported victims, 14 of whom were also detained by police, claimed that sorcerers simply touched them to make their genitals shrink or disappear, in what some residents said was an attempt to extort cash with the promise of a cure.

9405. jexster - 4/23/2008 10:52:44 AM

US Has 5% of World Population, 25% of Its Prisoners


And NAMGLA STILL runs wild and free in Tejas

9406. David Ehrenstein - 4/25/2008 12:24:34 PM

Latest FaBlog: Fait Divers -- "Get Over It!"

9407. concerned - 4/27/2008 8:16:42 PM

9408. jexster - 4/28/2008 3:32:01 PM

Concerned was RIGHT AGAIN!

They sure are sick in Olde Yurrup..

SICK, SICK, SICK

9409. jexster - 4/28/2008 5:03:48 PM

Then there's NAMGLA - Tejas Chapter

9410. jexster - 4/29/2008 12:00:59 PM

It'll have to do until we can get Tejas ready for return to its rightful owner

Don't Fence Me Out
Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-CO) suggests running the border wall north of Brownsville.

--David Kurtz

9411. jexster - 4/30/2008 11:39:15 AM

NAMBLA, NAMGLA
The Tejas 2step


AUSTIN, Texas - Texas officials have told legislators they're looking at the possible sexual abuse of some young boys taken from the polygamist sect's ranch.



In a written update provided to lawmakers Wednesday, the state Child Protective Services division says it is looking into possible sexual abuse of boys based on interviews and journal entries.

The agency provided no other details.

9412. jexster - 5/3/2008 9:16:43 AM

Oh I git it now

“We’ll start playing a little bit of catch-up,” said William R. Hubbarth, a spokesman for Justice for All, a victims rights group based in Houston.

“It’s not like we have a cheering section for the death penalty.” Mr. Hubbarth said. But, he added: “The capital murderers set to be executed should be executed post-haste. It’s not about killing the inmate. It’s about imposing the penalty that 12 of his peers have assessed.”

Back from vacation


Don't you just hate people who think it's all about them

9413. David Ehrenstein - 5/3/2008 10:00:53 AM

Pharaoh's Don't Cry

9414. jexster - 5/4/2008 10:04:52 AM

Oh to be young and beautiful again
They didn't allow this shit back in my day in the sun


Mark McKeon, left, and Ruzly Mantara describe what they heard in the early morning hours of Saturday, May 3, 2008, in Berkeley. McKeon and Mantara live in the Oscar Wilde House next door to the Chi Omega sorority house where a 21-year-old male Cal student was stabbed to death in the parking lot

9415. jexster - 5/5/2008 10:33:40 AM

In Texas they're microwaved

OLPE, Germany - A 44-year-old woman was arrested on suspicion of killing her own babies after her grown children found the bodies of three infants stashed in the family's freezer while looking for a frozen pizza, police said Monday.

9416. David Ehrenstein - 5/5/2008 12:07:31 PM

Mildred Loving has died.

9417. David Ehrenstein - 5/5/2008 6:58:09 PM

9418. wonkers2 - 5/8/2008 9:19:21 AM

Philadelphia police beat three suspects Philadelphia Police Beating Video

9419. iiibbb - 5/8/2008 10:16:53 AM

And some think they're the only ones who should be armed.

9420. thoughtful - 5/8/2008 11:12:36 AM

just makes you wonder how many times this goes on without a video camera at the ready...

9421. thoughtful - 5/8/2008 12:25:10 PM

let me guess...the cops were white and the perps were black...just a shot in the dark, so to speak.

9422. wonkers2 - 5/8/2008 12:29:52 PM

Now, why would you say that?!

9423. stamper2 - 5/8/2008 3:16:17 PM

I have been trying to post but no can do!

9424. stamper2 - 5/8/2008 3:17:57 PM

I guess one has to preview, ecause that's the only thing I did different. I tried the Inferno but no box to post in.

9425. David Ehrenstein - 5/8/2008 5:58:13 PM

Such a great story. Made my day.

9426. judithathome - 5/9/2008 6:56:42 AM

At 2am this morning, a little Korean woman was at her donut shop up the street starting the day's product and filling special orders...she also make delicious tea sandwiches...this is less than a mile from my house. A guy came busting into her shop, demanding the keys to her car outside. She refused, he started pistol whipping her and she broke free, ran outside and screamed.

The man who lives across the street from her ran to her aid and killed the robber with his shotgun. Just then, the police were driving past and stopped. The robber was carrying a fake gun but the good samaritan likely will not be charged.

The victim? After beig interviewed by the local news this morning, she excused herself and went back in to finish her work and fill her orders.

This woman is the widow of a ex-GI and she has built this business over the years on her own...she has made enough money to open a second store for her son. It's a more upscale place which serves breakfast 6 days a week.

Her business is called Happy Donut and his is Sunny Cafe.

Very admirable, hard-working lady...she had her arm in a sling and cuts and bruises on her face and other arm and STILL she went back to work...that takes dedication.

9427. wonkers2 - 5/9/2008 7:50:28 AM

Great stories David and Judith. The times really must be changin' for Matthew's story to come from Kansas.

9428. jexster - 5/9/2008 12:21:19 PM

Tejas - A State of Perversions


Houston police have arrested three teenage boys for digging up a grave and using the skull of a ten year old boy to smoke pot

Film at 11

9429. judithathome - 5/14/2008 6:38:12 AM

Now, I don't want to hear anybody else say that George Bush hasn't sacrificed for our our troops.

Among the many disgusting things Bush has said, this has to be the most moronic and out-of-touch thing ever uttered by that fool. What a slap in the face to all those who have lost loved ones to this filthy war.

9430. thoughtful - 5/14/2008 7:13:40 AM

Well, what do you expect from a guy who, when asked what the best day of his presidency was replied the day he caught that fish in his pond in Tx!

Not the passage of Rx coverage for seniors, not the fall of saddam's statue, not the passage of the tax relief bill...nothing that had anything at all to do with his role as president...fishing!

You wanna bet if he's given that up?

9431. jexster - 5/17/2008 10:33:16 AM

Disgusting



Castro Street
SF

9432. David Ehrenstein - 5/17/2008 10:54:12 AM

9433. David Ehrenstein - 5/17/2008 10:55:19 AM

And now a flashback:

9434. jexster - 5/17/2008 11:53:17 AM

You mean I can have Brad Pitt's children?

Doogie Howzer's?

9435. jexster - 5/17/2008 11:56:44 AM

Jim Illig does the honors

9436. David Ehrenstein - 5/17/2008 3:45:32 PM

Latest FaBlog: The Marriage Broker Joke

9437. jexster - 5/18/2008 11:17:41 AM

Disgusting...
SF hopes for big slice of gay marriage money



San Francisco's tourist industry is betting that gay marriage will lead to a boon in same-sex wedding and honeymoon packages.

Nationally, gay tourism amounts to a $60 billion-a-year industry. Thanks to Thursday's ruling by the state Supreme Court striking down the ban on same-sex marriage, California stands to become a destination spot for gay and lesbian couples from around the world who want to get hitched.

And San Francisco is hoping for the biggest slice of the wedding cake.

No sooner did the court decision come down than the San Francisco Convention and Visitors Bureau fired off a release to the gay press, inviting couples to get married in the city where "lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender history continues to be made."

"The beauty of it is, all the news reports have made this a San Francisco thing because we led the charge," said visitors bureau chief Joe D'Allesandro, who is likely to get married to his partner as soon as the court's decision takes effect within the next month.

Unlike Massachusetts, the only other state with gay nuptials, California doesn't limit marriages to residents of the state - so same-sex couples could pour in from all over.

"That's huge," said David Paisley, senior project director of Community Marketing Inc., a firm in the Castro that specializes in gay and lesbian tourism.

California already has four of the top 10 U.S. gay destinations - Los Angeles, San Diego, Palm Springs and San Francisco, which was rated the No. 1 gay-friendly destination in a 2006 Travel Industry Association survey.

And talk about timing - the court ruling on same-sex marriage will kick in just two weeks ahead of the city's big Gay Pride celebration June 28-29, which brings in throngs of visitors every year.

D'Allesandro said the visitors bureau is scrambling to come up with a promotional campaign urging same-sex couples to come to town over that weekend to get married.

As for the theme?

"Well," D'Allesandro said, "we already have, 'Only in San Francisco.' "

9438. jexster - 5/18/2008 11:36:01 AM

Marriage Ruling Boosts Newsom's Run for Governator

Maybe
Maybe not

9439. jexster - 5/18/2008 11:36:30 AM

better today than if he'd lost the suit

9440. David Ehrenstein - 5/20/2008 11:32:27 AM

Teddy has a brain tumor

Does NOT look good for him.

9441. jexster - 5/20/2008 12:16:37 PM

Ain't good

Beats a stroke though

9442. jexster - 5/30/2008 10:12:10 AM

NAMGLA Growing Young Texicans

05-30) 07:01 PDT Fort Worth, Texas (AP) --

Three teenagers accused of forcing girls as young as 12 into prostitution have reached plea agreements and been sentenced to a juvenile detention center.

The boys — two are 17 and one is 16 — will be released no later than their 19th birthdays, according to the plea agreement.

They each pleaded guilty Thursday to one count of compelling prostitution. In exchange, prosecutors dropped other charges, including human trafficking. Charges against others allegedly involved in the ring are pending in adult court.

Police said they discovered the ring in August after a woman was caught offering men sex with a 14-year-old girl for $50. The teenagers were arrested in January after they had taken the girl to a convenience store to have sex with the owner, a regular customer of the ring, police said.

The teens, suspected members of the Varrio Central gang, were accused of befriending runaways and other girls with unstable homes and taking them to regular customers or finding new ones by trolling apartment complexes.

If the girls refused to have sex for money, the gang members beat and sexually assaulted them and threatened their families, police said.

9443. jexster - 5/30/2008 10:22:34 AM

Texas High Court Legalizes Man-Girl Love

9444. David Ehrenstein - 6/1/2008 5:30:29 PM

YSL est mort.

9445. concerned - 6/3/2008 4:39:09 PM

FBI, sheriff: Lynching report false

ARDMORE — A black man who told police he was nearly lynched by a group of white men actually ran into a clothesline after arguing with his wife, said Carter County Sheriff Ken Grace.

Last week, the man whose name was not immediately available, called the sheriff and said a group of men tried to hang him in rural Carter County after he stopped to help an elderly farmer round up straying cattle.

Grace said deputies and FBI agents investigated the case, and the man told officers that he made up the false claim.

"He said they accused him of stealing cattle, wrapped a rope around his neck and dragged him around and beat him," Grace said. "Later, he admitted that he was arguing with his wife at an apartment complex and went running through the yard and ran into a clothesline and got the burn on his neck. His wife confirmed that."

They ought to convict this moron of Aggravated Obama-Style Racist Victimry.

9446. judithathome - 6/4/2008 9:37:19 AM

groan

9447. robertjayb - 6/4/2008 9:50:35 AM

Calling Al Sharpton...

9448. jexster - 6/5/2008 1:25:32 PM

Luke Klipp on Marriage Equality

I voted for him for SF DCCC but he lost

I have proposed marriage..Licenses issued 6/17

I could be a JUNE BRIDE! He cries halfway thru.

"Whenever I have met the right person...."

9449. jexster - 6/5/2008 1:56:36 PM

I'm getting verklempt again....


Wonder ...Is he of the Hebrew Persuasion?

9450. jexster - 6/5/2008 2:02:14 PM

MARRY ME LUKE!

9451. jexster - 6/7/2008 4:50:21 PM

She Dresses to Win Robert!

9452. jexster - 6/9/2008 3:55:06 PM

Jesus
Mary
Joseph

Adam and Steve


AP correspondent "Norma Love"???

9453. David Ehrenstein - 6/9/2008 5:48:05 PM

Latest FaBlog: 117

9454. jexster - 6/15/2008 10:09:21 AM

I am told this sort of thing turns straight men on


Oh joy..here we go again

9455. jexster - 6/16/2008 7:03:05 PM

Adelaide and Eve

9456. alistairconnor - 6/17/2008 3:12:54 AM

AP correspondent "Norma Love"???

There is no such thing as "normal love"
La de da da da
Marguerita told Tom

9457. jexster - 6/17/2008 10:34:19 AM

Marital bliss, same-sex style, has begun to break out at county clerk offices all over the Bay Area, with gay and lesbian couples beginning marriages the moment the offices opened this morning

9458. David Ehrenstein - 6/17/2008 11:27:39 AM

9459. jexster - 6/17/2008 11:34:11 AM

U need Jesus

I need a husband.

Either one will do

9460. jexster - 6/17/2008 12:58:54 PM

There's just one thing I'm lookin for
And he dont wear a dress




I need a man

9461. jexster - 6/17/2008 7:29:39 PM

Adam and Steve...Just bout dropped my socks


That's SCOTT ON THE RIGHT!!!


PBS Gay Marriage in CA Segment

SPENCER MICHELS, NewsHour Correspondent: Late this morning, 64-year-old Seth Lawrence and 46-year-old Scott Hammond, a gay couple who've been together 14 years, stepped up to the city clerk's office in San Francisco and applied for a wedding license.

9462. jexster - 6/17/2008 7:51:12 PM

But that's not SETH
That's SCOTT






Seth Lawrence
Gay man marrying in San Francisco

We have a motto that says: We'll do it until they get it right, and until we get equal protection and equal rights. Hopefully, in 15 years from now, we'll all look back at this and wonder what the whole fuss was all about.

9463. jexster - 6/18/2008 2:06:07 PM

Special Reminder

Robert will NOT be here tomorrow. Thursday is JUNETEENTH and Robert will be manning the smoker

9464. jexster - 6/18/2008 4:57:34 PM

9465. thoughtful - 6/21/2008 9:23:40 AM

Has anyone been following this story? It is the most bizarre one I've come across in years.

Fifth Foot Found in BC

A human foot was discovered partially submerged in the water near Westham Island in Ladner, B.C., Delta police said Monday.

It's the fifth human foot police have found in the province in less than a year.

"As far as it being linked to other partial remains found, we haven't dismissed that. We're considering all possibilities," Const. Sharlene Brooks told CBC News.

A couple out for a walk in the 2800 block of Savage Road spotted a shoe floating in the water around 10:30 a.m. and called police, she said.

Investigators said it's a left foot.


'Come on, there is something weird and unnatural going on here.'

"Right now we're working very closely with the B.C. coroners service to identity the person whose remains we have recovered," Brooks said.

Four right feet, each wearing a sock and sneaker, have been discovered in the province since August.

Isn't Dahmer dead? Did he have a brother?

What's really weird is apparently the coroner says these feet show no signs of having been forcibly removed or severed.

How weird is that?

9466. jexster - 6/21/2008 12:28:42 PM

Herds of Big Fat Nasty Razorbacks Invade East Texas, Terror Grips Longhorn State


Smoke em Robert!

9467. jexster - 6/22/2008 6:37:53 PM

Texas, the NAMGLA state, explores new depths of perversion

MINEOLA- In the windowless front rooms of a former day care center in a tiny Texas community, children as young as 5 were fed powerful painkillers they knew as "silly pills" and forced to perform sex shows for a crowd of adults.

Silly pills = Texican for Vicodin

9468. arkymalarky - 6/23/2008 5:46:21 PM

RIP George Carlin. I didn't realize he was over 70.

9469. Ms. No - 6/23/2008 7:53:49 PM

One of my all-time favorites. Brilliant and hilarious.

Go HERE for an obit and some clips --- including the Seven Words

9470. wonkers2 - 6/23/2008 8:46:33 PM

R.I.P.George Carlin

9471. robertjayb - 6/23/2008 9:40:55 PM

Keeping us safe! Boy George denied entry to U.S.

LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - Culture Club frontman Boy George has been forced to cancel his North American summer tour after U.S. authorities refused to issue him a visa, citing looming legal issues overseas.

George's 24-date North American trek was scheduled to begin July 11 at the House of Blues in Las Vegas, and wrap August 23 at the House of Blues in Dallas.

"At the moment, Boy George cannot come to the United States of America because he has been refused permission to enter by the USA Administration," read a statement from the artist's management. "This is not in respect of anything he has done in the past but because he is facing a trial in November in London for something that happened in April last year."

George was arrested last year after a 28-year-old male escort from Norway accused the singer/DJ of false imprisonment and assault.

What to make of this?

Brother Merle may have been on to something:

"I've lived at the very end of what must have been a wonderful country."

Merle Haggard, Esquire, September '07

9472. Ms. No - 6/23/2008 10:00:37 PM

They dis Martha Stewart so we dis Boy George?

Paybacks are a bitch, eh?

9473. jexster - 6/28/2008 8:08:42 PM

OMIGAWD NO! My brother asked me about the Smoke. What smoke? The fires...Ah naaah that's in the Valley and East Bay...we've had a strong offshore flow all day

Then the wind died down

I can smell the smoke...I can't imagine what Stockton/Sacto are like

stew of smoke and ash

Lord...I am either going to have to stop smoking or get a bottle of oxygen

9474. jexster - 6/30/2008 6:45:46 PM

Guy on the bus ...cell phone "Damn you shoulda seen Frisco yesterday. Never seen so many people. They're nothing but gays here"


Bring Adam back NOW

9475. jexster - 6/30/2008 6:46:33 PM

Look at the arms on that bull dyke! Sheesh..ain't natural

9476. David Ehrenstein - 7/1/2008 12:16:00 PM

Pamela Tiffin's Ex-Husband Dies at 82

9477. wonkers2 - 7/4/2008 9:54:31 AM

I hope they drove a stake through his heart!

9478. jexster - 7/5/2008 11:56:09 AM

9479. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 7/6/2008 11:53:59 AM

This is an astonishing example of the pathetic ineptitude of the people in Bush Administration. No wonder their supporters buy guns and hide their valuables under the bed . . .

9480. robertjayb - 7/8/2008 10:10:15 AM

Oh my gosh!

Lara Logan is knocked up!

Lara Logan is pregnant and will marry the father of her baby, Joe Burkett, the state department contractor whose marriage she was accused of destroying. Rumors swirled around Logan's romantic life last month, including a love triangle involving CNN's Michael Ware. Now, Logan has told the Washington Post's Howard Kurtz that she is expecting a baby and will marry Burkett "eventually" (presumably once their respective divorces are finalized)

(HuffPost)

9481. concerned - 7/8/2008 10:40:27 AM

9%...Worst...Congress...Ever...9%

9482. jexster - 7/8/2008 3:33:07 PM

It's a HillBilly Riot!


I bet Arky/Bob were PISSED!

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Crowds in Arkansas came for the lure of cage fighting and $1 beer, but police say what they got instead was men ripping each others' clothes off and kissing _ a stunt suspected of being orchestrated by Sacha Baron Cohen of "Borat" fame.

"We had a contract for cage fighting. We were deceived," said Dwight Duncan, president and CEO of Four States Fair Grounds in Texarkana, where the first of two Arkansas fights raised suspicions last month.

Matt Labov, a Los Angeles-based publicist for Baron Cohen, said he had no comment Monday about the faked fights. One of Baron Cohen's movies is due out next year.

9483. robertjayb - 7/9/2008 10:06:35 AM

An American hero!

RALEIGH - L.F. Eason III gave up the only job he'd ever had rather than lower a flag to honor former U.S. Sen. Jesse Helms.

Eason, a 29-year veteran of the state Department of Agriculture, instructed his staff at a small Raleigh lab not to fly the U.S. or North Carolina flags at half-staff Monday, as called for in a directive to all state agencies by Gov. Mike Easley.

When a superior ordered the lab to follow the directive, Eason decided to retire rather than pay tribute to Helms. After several hours' delay, one of Eason's employees hung the flags at half-staff.

...

In a string of e-mail messages with his superiors, Eason was told he could either lower the flags or retire effective immediately.

Though he's only 51, Eason chose to retire, although he pleaded several times to be allowed to stay at the lab. Eason, who had worked for the Agriculture Department since graduating from college, was paid $65,235 a year as the laboratory manager.

(Raleigh News & Observer)

9484. arkymalarky - 7/9/2008 10:20:39 AM

Rednecks got punked. That's rich.

9485. concerned - 7/9/2008 5:13:18 PM

Say, AC, what do you see here that is 'wiping out' the polar bears, as the hysterical chicken littles are screaming?

9486. concerned - 7/9/2008 5:27:14 PM

India Issues Report Challenging Global Warming Fears

India Vows Not To Reduce Emissions

The Australian Herald article noted that this declaration “means India won't stop its per capita emissions (now at 1.02 tonnes) from growing until they match those of countries such as the US (now 20 tonnes).”

IOW, it's up to the US, Europe, etc. to scale back our living standards by over 90% to stop India from vastly increasing its carbon footprint.

Sounds to me like a pretty comprehensive 'Fuck You!' to the global warming chicken littles from 1.1 billion Indians.

9487. concerned - 7/9/2008 5:36:59 PM

About that global warming consensus.....


I take it that Al Gore's 'An Inconvenient Truth' wasn't too persuasive in Asia. That's assuming anyone bothered to even watch it there.

9488. jexster - 7/11/2008 3:16:10 PM

Arky'll Have Last Laugh

LONDON - Waste not, want not.


Evoking an era of World War II austerity, British families are being urged to cut food waste and use leftovers in a nationwide effort to fight sharply rising global food prices.

It's not back to ration books, "victory gardens" or squirrel-tail soup yet, but warning bells are being rung by experts at all levels of Britain's government as well as from the World Food Program.

With food and energy prices soaring around the world, a constant supply of high-quality, affordable food is no longer guaranteed, the officials are warning Britons. That could mean an era of scarcity like Britain's 1940-54 food rationing, during the war and its aftermath...

9489. jexster - 7/13/2008 4:45:11 PM

LAGUNA NIGUEL, Calif.—The moons aren't shining in the Orange County beach town of Laguna Niguel.
Sheriff's deputies told some 8,000 partyers to lift up their pants Saturday afternoon, shutting down the annual celebration known as "Moon Over Amtrak."

The yearly event that originated in 1979 has been drawing an ever-growing crowd of revelers who bare their rears at passing Metrolink and Amtrak trains.

About 50 deputies shut down this year's celebration because of complaints about public nudity and reports of public alcohol consumption.

Sheriff's spokesman Jim Amormino says officials decided the event had gotten out of hand when some people took off all their clothes and some women started lifting up their T-shirts.

He says the crowd is dispersing peacefully and no arrests have been made.

9490. wonkers2 - 7/15/2008 10:11:06 AM

Bloggers and the Law--Attack on Room 8

9491. concerned - 7/16/2008 10:55:08 PM

Bernanke says Fannie and Freddie are good to go.

9492. wonkers2 - 7/17/2008 6:41:36 AM

Bernanke and Paulson are among the few bright spots in the Bush administration. They are doing a yeoman's job.

9493. arkymalarky - 7/17/2008 7:17:48 AM

Why do you think so, Wonk?

9494. jexster - 7/24/2008 9:23:58 AM

Sticky Obama issue with these McKains leads to arrest

Sugar Land police say a woman confronted a couple who had a bumper sticker showing someone urinating on candidate's name



SUGAR LAND — In case their Plantation Bend neighbors had any questions about how Doug and Wendy McKain feel about Barack Obama, the bumper sticker on their pickup could be a clue.

But when Chynethia Gragg spotted the sticker — depicting someone urinating on the name "Obama" — Sugar Land police say, she stopped to express her disapproval, and that's when things got ugly.

Gragg, 35, has been charged with making a terroristic threat after confronting the McKains, telling them the sticker was racist, police said.

Gragg declined to comment, and her attorney, Roy Smith, said he would have to review the police report and talk with his client before commenting.

Doug McKain declined to comment.

According to court documents, police officer H. Norris went to the couple's house about 3 p.m. Tuesday to investigate a verbal disturbance.

Court documents said Gragg told Norris she saw the sticker on the back of a pickup and stopped in front of the McKain house. She told Norris she confronted McKain about the sticker, saying it was racist.

McKain told the officer he and his wife were driving home when they noticed a female motorist looking closely at his truck. The couple drove home then pulled into their driveway.

"Mr. McKain said shortly later the same person (Ms. Gragg) pulled up to his residence (blocking his driveway behind his truck.) Mr. McKain said Ms. Gragg began to rant and rave about the sticker on the back of his truck," the court document states.

McKain told police Gragg shouted numerous profanities at him and his wife.

"Mr. McKain said Ms. Gragg said she (would) get someone to take care of him later," the report said.

Gragg was issued a trespass warning and then arrested on the threat charge, a misdemeanor. She was released Wednesday from the Fort Bend County Jail on $500 bond.

9495. jexster - 7/24/2008 9:32:32 AM

Political Communities and 'The Fringe'
By Bill Bishop

What happens to political minorities in communities with large political majorities?

They shut up

9496. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 7/24/2008 3:49:06 PM

9497. robertjayb - 7/26/2008 1:26:04 PM

Ever felt like this?

MILWAUKEE — A 56-year-old Milwaukee man is accused of shooting his lawn mower because it wouldn't start.

Keith Walendowski was charged with felony possession of a short-barreled shotgun or rifle and misdemeanor disorderly conduct while armed.

Walendowski said he was angry because his Lawn Boy wouldn't start Wednesday morning, according to the criminal complaint.

"I can do that, it's my lawn mower and my yard so I can shoot it if I want," Walendowski told police.

LESSON: If you are determined to kill your lawnmower or any other stubborn apparatus, use a legal weapon.

9498. jexster - 7/27/2008 10:34:33 AM

Bitteroot Sweeeties - SF's cowboy mayor $ bride

9499. jexster - 7/28/2008 11:15:22 AM

Bob Novak's got a brain tumor

9500. David Ehrenstein - 7/28/2008 3:19:13 PM

Newsweek gets slammed

9501. concerned - 7/28/2008 4:50:55 PM

Re. 9496 -

Wonder what he does for a living.

9502. arkymalarky - 7/28/2008 6:28:04 PM

Considering how he stores knives, I hope he's not a butcher.

9503. arkymalarky - 7/28/2008 6:29:05 PM

Perhaps he preps veggies for salads at the local Denny's.

9504. David Ehrenstein - 8/2/2008 1:02:12 PM

AIDS: It's What's For Dinner.

9505. wonkers2 - 8/2/2008 5:05:23 PM

Just another Bush administration lie.

9506. jexster - 8/4/2008 10:35:15 AM

Shit Canned by Miss Daisy

9507. jexster - 8/6/2008 12:57:08 PM

Yet another reason to return Tejas to Mexico

Civilize those assholes

9508. Max Macks - 8/6/2008 1:07:20 PM

isthat really a guy with knives thru his nose??

9509. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 8/6/2008 1:24:01 PM

Max- LOL! I don't Photoshop every image I post!

9510. jexster - 8/8/2008 1:23:47 PM

This means WAR!


California to be wiped off Russia’s map

Deputies of Russia’s Nizhni Novgorod region intend to liquidate several settlements in the region, including the village of California.

Vladimir Gryzhin, an official of the Sechenovsky district, where the village is situated, said that the village of California was a deserted settlement, which had absolutely no perspectives for development since there was not even a power line in California.

Another official of the district, Vladimir Osokin, advised Gryzhin should ask the US Senate for help to recreate California.

California’s last residents moved to the village of Lipovka in the beginning of the 1990s. Nevertheless, the village of California was left on the map and still has its zip code, Lenta.ru reports.

There are several variants to explain the existence of the settlement with such an unusual name in Russia. One of them says that a local landowner visited the USA in the second half of the 19th century and subsequently renamed one of his villages to California.

9511. tmesis - 8/10/2008 3:14:54 AM

Bernie Mac, 1957-2008

Stay black, brother.

9512. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 8/10/2008 9:20:40 AM

MSNBC Picture Story of events in Georgia

9513. wonkers2 - 8/10/2008 10:45:08 AM

Thanks. Those are powerful pictures. War is hell.

9514. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 8/10/2008 2:44:57 PM

Bush's in-your-face foreign policy is more than partially to blame for this fiasco--and where is he?--watching basketball in Beijing.

9515. magoseph - 8/10/2008 3:45:56 PM

9516. judithathome - 8/14/2008 9:53:10 AM

Wow. Arky, I had no idea people in your state took their politics so seriously!

9517. judithathome - 8/14/2008 9:56:34 AM

Arkansas Democrat Chairman Killed In Little Rock

9518. jexster - 8/15/2008 10:35:00 AM

Officer killed by scumbag recidivist.

Media questions the pursuit

SFPD spokesman Rips the Media New Assholes

OUTSTANDING

9519. jexster - 8/15/2008 10:40:30 AM

OOPS (WMV file)

9520. wonkers2 - 8/15/2008 10:56:04 AM

Here're some exerpts from an article from the master wordsmith on politics, Lewis Lapham in the September Harper's Magazine. I would link the article but the webzine is open only to subscribers, and it apparently doesn't allow cutting and pasting.

Elegy for a Rubber Stamp by Lewis H. Lapham

"Fulfilling your duties, where does that land you? Into jealousy, upsets, persecution. Is that the way to get on? Buter people up, good God, butter them up0, watch the great, study their tastes, fall in with their whims, pander to their vices, approve of their injustices. That's the secret." Denis Diderot, "Rameau's Nephew"

Lapham leads off with a detailed description of the extravagant and lengthy attention devoted by MSNBC to Tim Russert's death and extended funeral observations ending with "The program signed off with an orchestra playing "Over the Rainbow" while the guests made their way out to the limousines to be be blessed by a sign from Heaven. Lo and behold, right there in the gray twilight, swinging low over the White House and the Washington Monument, right there in plain sight, there was a real rainbow in the sky...Later that night on MSNBC's rebroadcast of the proceedings, Olbermann reported the rainbow as no coincicdence. "I know that was Russert," he said. "I'd recognize him anywhere."

Olbermann is an intelligent man, and how else could an intelligent man interpret the glorification of Russert if not as a joke, or as a ninety-six hour public-service announcement paid for by General Electric, the company that owns the NBC network but depends for its profit margins on its patriotic dealings as one of the nation's primary weapons manufacturers. Jack Welch, the company's former chairman and CEO, was among the mourners making a cameo appearance in the weekend film clips. "We all felt he was our friend. He represented us. We were proud of him. We loved him." [Lapham doesn't miss a connection!]

I mean no disrespect to his widow or to his son, but if I have no reason to doubt his virtues as a man, neither do I have any reason to credit the miracle of Russert as a journalist eager to speak truth to poser. In his professional as opposed to his personal character, his on-air persona was that of an attentive and accommodating headwaiter, as helpless as Charlie Rose in his infatuation with A-list celebrity, his modus operandi the same one that pointed Rameau's obliging nephew to the roast pheasant and the coupe aux marrons in eighteenth-century Paris: "Butter people up, good God, butter people up!"

9521. wonkers2 - 8/15/2008 10:56:48 AM

With the butter Russert was a master craftsman, his specialty the mixing of it with just the right drizzle of salt...To an important personage Russert asked one or two faintly impertinent questions, usually about a subject of little or no concern to anybody outside the official rope lines around official Washington; sometimes he discovered a contradiction between a recently issued press release and one that was distributed by the same politician some months or years previously. No matter with which spoon Russert stirred the butter, the reply was of no interest to him, not worth his notice or further comment. He had sprinkled his trademark salt, his work was done. The important personage was free to choose from a menu offering three forms of response--silence, spin, rancid lie. If silence, Russert moved on to another topic; if spin, he nodded wisely; if rancid lie, he swallowed it. The highlight reels for the most part show him in the act of swallowing...

9522. wonkers2 - 8/15/2008 10:57:30 AM

With the butter Russert was a master craftsman, his specialty the mixing of it with just the right drizzle of salt...To an important personage Russert asked one or two faintly impertinent questions, usually about a subject of little or no concern to anybody outside the official rope lines around official Washington; sometimes he discovered a contradiction between a recently issued press release and one that was distributed by the same politician some months or years previously. No matter with which spoon Russert With the butter Russert was a master craftsman, his specialty the mixing of it with just the right drizzle of salt...To an important personage Russert asked one or two faintly impertinent questions, usually about a subject of little or no concern to anybody outside the official rope lines around official Washington; sometimes he discovered a contradiction between a recently issued press release and one that was distributed by the same politician some months or years previously. No matter with which spoon Russert stirred the butter, the reply was of no interest to him, not worth his notice or further comment. He had sprinkled his trademark salt, his work was done. The important personage was free to choose from a menu offering three forms of response--silence, spin, rancid lie. If silence, Russert moved on to another topic; if spin, he nodded wisely; if rancid lie, he swallowed it. The highlight reels for the most part show him in the act of swallowing...

9523. wonkers2 - 8/15/2008 11:14:15 AM

February 8, 2004: Question for President Bush, "In light of not finding the weapons of mass destruction, do you believe the war in Iraq is a war of choice or a war of necessity?"

A. "That's an interesting question. Please elaborate on that a little bit. A war of choice or a war of necessity. It's a war of necessity."

Having seen the original broadcast of the interview with President Bush, I remember Russert's attitude as that of a trend-setting restauranteur anxious to please his best customer....

Madeleine Albright expressed her gratitude to Olbermann: "Tim was amazing because I can tell you that, as a public official, it was really, first of all, a treat to get on the show. Mary Matalin...seconded the motion, attributing Russert's profound knowledge of national politics to his superb qualities as a rubber stamp. "He respected politicians," Matalin said. "He knew that they got blamed for everything, got credit for nothing. He knew how much they meant. He never treated them with the cynicism that attends some of these interviews. SO THEY HAD A PLACE TO BE LOVED!"

Speaking truth to power doesn't make successful Suinday-morning television, leads to "jealousy, upsets, persecution," doesn't draw a salary of $5 million or more....

On television the voices of dissent can't be counted upon to match the studio drapes or serve as a tasteful lead-in to the advertisements for Pantene Pro-V and the U.S. Marine Corps. What we now know as the "news media" serve at the pleasure of the corporate sponsor, THEIR PURPOSE NOT TO TELL TRUTH TO THE POWERFUL BUT TO TRANSMIT LIES TO THE POWERLESS....

When requesting explanations from secretaries of defense or congressional committee chairmen, they do so with the understanding that any explanation will do. Explain to us, my captain, why the United States must go to war in Iraq, and we will relay the message to the American people in words of one or two syllables. Instruct us, Mr. Chairman in the reasons why K-Street lobbyists produce the paper that Congress passes into law, and we will show that the reasons are healthy, wealthy, and wise. Do not be frightened by our pretending to be suspicious or scornful Together with the television camera that sees but doesn't think, we're here to watch, to fall in with your whims and approve your injustices. Give us this day our daily bread, and we will hide your vices in the rosebushes of salacious gossip and clothe your crimes in the aura of inspirational anecdote.

MORE

9524. wonkers2 - 8/15/2008 11:23:12 AM

CONT'd

I don't doubt that Russert was as good at the game as anybody in Washington, but why the five-star goodbye?...The production values were so far out of line with the object of their affections that the memorial services collapsed into absurdity.
[Why--eyeballs for NBC, of course.]


The notion that journalists were once in the habit of speaking truth to power we borrow from the medium of pring, from writers in the tradition of Mark Twain, Upton Sinclair, H.L. Mencken, I.F. Stone, Hunter Thompson, and Walter Karp, who assumed that what was once known as "the press" received its accreditation as a fourth estate on the theory that it represented the interests of the citizenry as opposed to those of the government. Long ago in the days before journalists became celebrities, their enterprise was reviled and poorly paid, and it was understood by working newspapermen that the presence of more than two people at their funeral could be taken as a sign that they had disgraced the profession.

[The above exerpts don't do justice to the elegance and intelligence of Lapham's elegy to Russert. If you are a subscriber read it. If not, Lapham's article alone is worth the newsstand price.]

9525. jexster - 8/15/2008 3:51:40 PM

Those Russians really have messed those crazy crackers' minds:

Current headlines from SF Chron RSS

-Georgia leader signs truce, but will Russia leave? -
-An uneasy calm in a key Georgia city...
- Georgia men claim hairy, frozen corpse is Bigfoot

9526. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 8/15/2008 4:54:17 PM

That was the August issue, wonk and I loved it. The Wizard got lots of complaints for not pulling the Chucky Russert cartoon off the site.

He was a phony blowhard and I relished Lapham's candor, integrity and courage to speak truth to greedy power.

9527. anomie - 8/15/2008 9:59:38 PM

I always liked Russert until he started peddling that maudlin book about his father.
As to the role of journalists, each kind has its place. We need a little more Woodward, Bernstein, and Deep Throat.

9528. jexster - 8/16/2008 1:00:21 PM

Let's see if this works Wonk..I doubt it but free Harpers for the People!


Elegy for a rubber stamp
By Lewis H. Lapham

Fulfilling your duties, where does that land you? Into jealousy, upsets, persecution. Is that the way to get on? Butter people up, good God, butter them up, watch the great, study their tastes, fall in with their whims, pander to their vices, approve of their injustices. That’s the secret.

Diederot, "Rameau's Nephew"

9529. jexster - 8/16/2008 1:24:42 PM

H. L. Mencken, I. F. Stone, Hunter Thompson, and Walter Karp, who assumed that what was once known as “the press” received its accreditation as a fourth estate on the theory that it represented the interests of the citizenry as opposed to those of the government. Long ago in the days before journalists became celebrities, their enterprise was reviled and poorly paid, and it was understood by working newspapermen that the presence of more than two people at their funeral could be taken as a sign that they had disgraced the profession.



God must be on the GE payroll - a rainbow as the bereaved exited the Kennedy Center..that really slayed me

And we wonder how we got into Iraq or that a candidate for President actually declared that we'd become dual citizens of Georgia - and so few people died laughing

9530. jexster - 8/19/2008 9:24:07 AM

What do you people think this is? Some sort of Urban Freak Show?????


Gawking Tourists Not Welcome in Castro


Someone's gonna scratch someone's eyes out then all hell will break loose

9531. jexster - 8/19/2008 9:26:49 AM

No shit....This is nothing new. The straight women hold their menfolk tight while walking down the street. I laugh every time I see it..never grows old..then I gawk at the boy


This became an issue about three months ago, which is when Michael Woo, manager of the tour department of America Asia Express sightseeing tours, said their buses began to let passengers out at Castro and 18th. He said as many as three of his company's buses stop on Thursdays and Sundays, and they are often joined by an equal number of buses from another tour company.

"They come down from Twin Peaks on the way to Civic Center," Woo said. "The tour guide told me to stop there for about 20 minutes so they can get out."

Woo said it is just to give the passengers a chance to stretch their legs, but residents say the tourists tend to cluster together in large, nervous groups, pointing at residents and taking photos.

"Many of them seem uncomfortable or shocked by their surroundings," Guite said. "You've got these throngs of people walking up and down Market and 18th, holding hands to make it clear that they are heterosexual."

9532. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 8/19/2008 3:22:33 PM

It's one of the reasons Provincetown is so much fun to visit.

9533. David Ehrenstein - 8/19/2008 3:46:52 PM

Latest FaBlog: "A Complete Accurate Picture."

9534. David Ehrenstein - 8/20/2008 3:07:11 PM

Latest FaBlog: Fait Diver -- Graverobbers From Vatican City

9535. jexster - 8/20/2008 6:21:44 PM

Reports of her death were premature....


Tubbs Jones RIP

9536. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 8/26/2008 10:07:51 AM

Plot to kill Barack Obama uncovered
Four people have been arrested after plotting to assassinate Barack Obama

9537. David Ehrenstein - 8/26/2008 3:49:30 PM

It was MURDER!

9538. jexster - 8/31/2008 5:14:35 PM

Well the fags have screwed things up again!

Southern Decadence Labor Day Weekend

9539. jexster - 9/2/2008 4:31:41 PM

DEVASTATION IN NEW ROADS - Historic Major House SMASHED

Video Report on Hurricane Damage in WBR and Pointe Coupee Parishes

9540. jexster - 9/3/2008 8:42:26 AM

Ms. Alioto's invited me to be her guest at the 9/27 dedication at the National Shrine of St. Francis

Two years ago in Assisi, Italy, Angela Alioto and some friends got down on their knees in the Porziuncola, the little stone chapel where St. Francis found his calling. But they weren't praying. They were surreptitiously measuring the floor of the holy site with dental floss.


That's because the Franciscan fathers who oversee the mystical chapel - an ancient Benedictine structure Francis rebuilt around 1209 - never allowed it to be photographed or otherwise disturbed. But Alioto would not be deterred.


Angela Alioto's Obsession - Porziuncola SF

9541. jexster - 9/7/2008 10:28:34 AM

I Like Ike

9542. jexster - 9/8/2008 5:46:41 PM

God's Righteous Anger!!!!

9543. jexster - 9/8/2008 6:04:46 PM

Think I'll open a franchise



Dothan AL Paying $50K Each for Jews

9544. jexster - 9/8/2008 6:06:44 PM

I will not let the spinmeisters turn [the Bridge to Nowhere] into something negative Gov McMoose

9545. jexster - 9/8/2008 6:06:55 PM

2006

9546. Jenerator - 9/9/2008 9:28:27 PM

Jexster,

Will you be rejoicing if Ike kills Americans, or are you happy it's killed Carribbeans so far?

9547. anomie - 9/10/2008 11:04:27 AM

Hurricanes don't kill people. Gods with hurricanes kill people. You do not rejoice in God's will Jen?

9548. Jenerator - 9/10/2008 12:03:56 PM

Not always, anomie.

9549. anomie - 9/10/2008 12:38:02 PM

To your credit then Jen. Good to hear it.

9550. jexster - 9/11/2008 3:19:28 PM

headed straight for H'Town!!!


My eldest nephew is a high functioning autistic....drives his parents nuts under calm conditions


Goes BONKERS when a hurricane comes

hehe..I have received an emergency communication to help calm him down

Not an Uncle's job

9551. robertjayb - 9/11/2008 3:58:31 PM

Ike refugees have arrived in my community and are clogging the streets and grocery stores. So far not as bad as Rita but Ike is not expected to strike Houston until Saturday morning. Still, you known it's serious when high school football games are cancelled.

9552. jexster - 9/11/2008 4:09:10 PM

100 mph barely a breeze..hardly worth the trouble of grabbing the cats

9553. Jenerator - 9/11/2008 5:05:37 PM

I hope that Galveston is not destroyed. I love that city.

9554. judithathome - 9/11/2008 5:41:18 PM

Me, too...they've survived worse, though, so I have faith they will again.

Heh.

9555. jexster - 9/11/2008 5:56:40 PM

My brother's securing the yard hoping it hits Galveston and not Freeport (run it right thru Ft Bend county)

Both of us betting it turns even more northerly and hits BeaumontVidor

9556. jexster - 9/12/2008 8:24:53 AM

Sucker's not strong but it sure is big



Lotsa folks are gonna get real wet

9557. robertjayb - 9/12/2008 12:24:51 PM

Dr. Jeff Masters predicts a badass storm:

"...a good measure of the storm surge potential is Integrated Kinetic Energy (IKE). Ike continues to grow larger and has intensified slightly since yesterday, and the hurricane's Integrated Kinetic Energy has increased from 134 to 149 Terajoules. This is 30% higher than Katrina's total energy at landfall. All this extra energy has gone into piling up a vast storm surge that will probably be higher than anything in recorded history along the Texas coast. Storm surge heights of 20-25 feet are possible from Galveston northwards to the Louisiana border. The Texas storm surge record is held by Hurricane Carla of 1961. Carla was a Category 4 hurricane with 145 mph winds at landfall, and drove a 10 foot or higher storm surge to a 180-mile stretch of Texas coast. A maximum storm surge of 22 feet was recorded at Port Lavaca, Texas."

I've been worried about those Terajoules myself.

Did I ever mention that the Great Galveston storm of 1900 reached far enough inland (about 90 miles) to blow down a tree on my grandpa's brand new farm wagon? Broke it.

9558. jexster - 9/12/2008 12:39:58 PM

9559. jexster - 9/12/2008 12:42:01 PM

Galveston, oh Galveston, I am so afraid of dying
Before I dry the tears she's crying
Before I watch your sea birds flying in the sun
At Galveston, at Galveston

9560. jexster - 9/12/2008 12:44:12 PM

Dr. Frank Tells Sugarlump and Katy about storm surge

9561. jexster - 9/12/2008 12:47:29 PM

I clean my gun...

9562. jexster - 9/12/2008 1:04:52 PM

If you trust a colored weather man Here's ABC13 live stream

Have said my last goodbye's to the familia

9563. jexster - 9/12/2008 1:54:30 PM

They can't speak Texican at the Dept of Homeland Security

Bolivar Peninisula is "Bah-lih-vehr" not "BOH-lih-vahr"


It isn't Be-X-ar as in English

It's BAY-Har

9564. jexster - 9/12/2008 1:55:56 PM

Those idiots won't know they're supposed to evaculate

Heckuva job

9565. jexster - 9/12/2008 3:11:17 PM

9546

9566. jexster - 9/12/2008 3:37:36 PM

This live stream is GREAT!

570,000 souls live in the surge area....I can watch live as God decides who to kill Jen!

9567. jexster - 9/12/2008 4:05:13 PM

Not to mention the contempt He is about to display for private property rats

9568. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 9/12/2008 4:17:44 PM

You BAAAAD!

9569. Jenerator - 9/12/2008 4:43:49 PM

Yes.... look into the light! The Lord and I are pleased with your lust for destruction! Keep praying for deaths, Jexster. Keep belittling people who own homes. It's so funny!!!!!!!!!!

9570. jexster - 9/12/2008 4:57:25 PM

Fires now burning out of control as God makes His wrath to be felt

9571. jexster - 9/12/2008 5:00:47 PM

9572. jexster - 9/12/2008 5:02:04 PM

God just took the end of a pier

9573. jexster - 9/12/2008 5:03:12 PM

As the Whore of Waco continues her demonic war against the Queen of Heaven, the Body of Christ

9574. jexster - 9/12/2008 5:05:48 PM

Watch God Destroy and Drown Texans LIVE
ABC13 H'town

9575. jexster - 9/12/2008 5:10:11 PM

God's flood waters are rising over Galveston and into Harris County and His rain hasn't begun to fall

9576. jexster - 9/12/2008 5:13:31 PM

God's Wrath headed straight for

Montrose
Gay Town
H'Town



How many will perish in the Flood....Wave your hands to Jaysus

9577. Jenerator - 9/12/2008 5:16:24 PM

I just called the Catholic League, Jexster. You are in BIG trouble!

9578. Jenerator - 9/12/2008 5:18:33 PM

Catholics of the Jexster variety worshipping their second God

9579. jexster - 9/12/2008 5:19:09 PM

God just took two houses near Freeport!

9580. jexster - 9/12/2008 5:20:10 PM

There are no Catholics who do not venerate the Mother of God Jen...I guess that means there are a billion of us

The Whore of Wacko

9581. Jenerator - 9/12/2008 5:20:20 PM

You should be happy.

9582. Jenerator - 9/12/2008 5:20:39 PM

Jex - yes, you worship Mary.

9583. jexster - 9/12/2008 5:21:14 PM

U got that right

9584. jexster - 9/12/2008 5:21:43 PM

God drowning man near Quintara

9585. Jenerator - 9/12/2008 5:23:56 PM

Is your Holy Mother proud of you right now?

9586. jexster - 9/12/2008 5:30:18 PM

Our Holy Mother Jen!
Mother of Christ, Mother of the Church

The Lord is bringing in a Category 4 storm surge with a Category 2 storm...25 foot wall of water headed for Texas City

Holy God We Praise Thy Name

9587. Jenerator - 9/12/2008 5:44:44 PM

I don't worship Mary, Jexster. That's a big difference between Protestants and Catholics.

9588. jexster - 9/12/2008 5:46:50 PM

Hail Holy Queen!

9589. jexster - 9/12/2008 5:47:10 PM

You aren't a member of the Catholic Church

DUH

9590. jexster - 9/12/2008 5:47:49 PM

She's still your Mother because outside the Church there is no salvation

9591. jexster - 9/12/2008 5:48:45 PM

God is flooding Clearlake

9592. jexster - 9/12/2008 5:51:06 PM

Bayou's backing up..even as Jen's discovers Catholic devotion to Our Lady

9593. jexster - 9/12/2008 5:52:09 PM

Our Lady of Sorrows

9594. jexster - 9/12/2008 5:53:09 PM

Lotsa Catholics in H'town these days..mexicans


Maybe that's why God's attacking!

9595. Jenerator - 9/12/2008 5:57:13 PM

The house we rented this summer is the 4th one behind the one on fire.

9596. jexster - 9/12/2008 6:00:35 PM

Ain't God GREAT!!

9597. jexster - 9/12/2008 6:04:47 PM

God stranded Ole Curtis Brown in Wharton County....he's cryin like a bitch on ABC13 now

9598. jexster - 9/12/2008 6:05:27 PM

His truck done broke down near Huggerford

9599. jexster - 9/12/2008 6:05:47 PM

Not God's
Curtis's

9600. jexster - 9/12/2008 6:11:25 PM

Might God be punishing Galveston because the Whore of Waco slept there?

Is that what you're trying to confess Jen?

9601. jexster - 9/12/2008 6:18:06 PM

Damn ...I can't see God's Wrath on Jen's Booty Bungalow ...He's turned the sky dark and TowerCam don't work

9602. jexster - 9/12/2008 6:32:28 PM

Inasmuch as Sarah Palin's been caught in so many lies in such a short period of time, should she be playing with poisonous snakes at the next Assembly of God worship service?


What would you advise Jen?

9603. jexster - 9/12/2008 6:53:35 PM

Blessed be the Great Mother of God Mary Most Holy!



Laura Whitley ABC13 terrified in Clearlake

9604. jexster - 9/12/2008 7:29:04 PM

God's throwing garbage from the Gulf all over Galveston Island

9605. jexster - 9/12/2008 7:33:33 PM

Mandatory curfew in Fort Bend County!

9606. jexster - 9/12/2008 7:33:56 PM

Lots of Assemblies of God in the area

9607. jexster - 9/12/2008 7:42:35 PM

God is going to put 30 feet of water through the Ship Channel unleashing his Terrors in the dead of night

9608. jexster - 9/12/2008 7:45:25 PM

Wayne Dolcefing reports that the Fire at Jen's Booty Palace continues to rage and there is nothing that can be done.


If Wayne stays out there much longer, God will rapture his ass

Right Jen?

9609. jexster - 9/12/2008 7:52:39 PM

My brother's about to lose power..lights are blinkin..winds are building..Galveston's drowning because of your desecrating sacrilege

but I can watch the Glory of God live on channel 13 Jen!

9610. jexster - 9/12/2008 8:05:46 PM

12 fires now raging out of control in Galveston

Guess His ways aren't Jen's ways nor His thoughts her thoughts
(Isaiah 55:8)

9611. Jenerator - 9/12/2008 8:22:02 PM

Just keep praying to your other god, Jexster.

9612. Jenerator - 9/12/2008 8:35:55 PM

Uh oh Jexster. According to the Catechism of your Catholic Church...

While they [homosexuals] may not choose their desires, homosexuals do have the ability to choose whether they act on those desires, just as an alcholic has the choice of whether to act on his desire to get drunk and just as a heterosexual has the choice of acting on his desires. For this reason, the Catechism states, "Basing itself on Sacred Scripture, which presents homosexual acts as acts of grave depravity, traditions has always declared that homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered. They are contrary to natural law . . . . Under no circumstances can they be approved . . . . Homosexual persons are called to chastity. By the virtues of self-mastery that teach them inner freedom, at times by the support of disinterested friendship, by prayer and sacramental grace, they can and should gradually and resolutely approach Christian perfection" (CCC 2357, 2359).

Yikes!

9613. iiibbb - 9/12/2008 10:35:46 PM

I suspect some of the fires are arson. We learned from Katrina that if your house blows/burns down before the flood wipes it away you'll get more coverage, than if you get water alone.

9614. Jenerator - 9/12/2008 10:40:32 PM

If the house is completely gone, how do they determine it was burned down first?

9615. iiibbb - 9/12/2008 10:43:01 PM

Well... news footage from overflights can determine it... but it's pretty hard for a house that's flooded to catch fire.

9616. iiibbb - 9/12/2008 10:43:54 PM

See the picture above too... you take that picture to your agent and say, "See?"

9617. jexster - 9/13/2008 8:13:55 AM