ThinkFast: May 2, 2006
ThinkFast: May 2, 2006
The CIA has confirmed that “its third-ranking official, Executive Director Kyle ‘Dusty’ Foggo, attended poker games in Washington, D.C., hotel hospitality suites, the use of which is the focus of a federal criminal investigation.” But Foggo “strongly denies anything improper occurred” during the games.
Colbert walk-out: The Comedy Central host “won a rare silent protest from Bush aides and supporters Saturday when several independently left before he finished.” One Bush aide “said that the president was visibly angered by the sharp lines that kept coming. ‘I’ve been there before, and I can see that [Bush] is [angry],’ said a former top aide. ‘He’s got that look that he’s ready to blow.’”
Ten states “plan to file suit this week to force the Bush administration to toughen mileage regulations for sport utility vehicles and other trucks.†The suit “contends that the administration did not do a rigorous enough analysis of the environmental benefits of fuel economy regulations, as required by law, before issuing new rules last month for S.U.V.’s, pickup trucks and minivans.â€
The South Korean government blasted the Bush administration’s special envoy on North Korean human rights, Jay Lefkowtiz, as “biased†and “narrow-minded†due to differences of opinion about how to deal with Pyongyang. The incident is certain to further strain relations between the allies.
Terrence Boyle, “a key circuit court nominee touted by the White House and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist,” has repeatedly violated ethics laws by ruling “in multiple cases involving corporations in which he held investments.”
Senate conservatives yesterday “hurriedly abandoned” their plan to mail $100 checks to voters to ease the burden of high gasoline prices — not because it was widely panned by constituents, but because of a “torrent of objections from business leaders and their advocates” in the oil and gas industries.
16,000: The number of species of animals and plants threatened with global extinction, up more than 500 from last year, according to a World Conservation Union report. New additions include the polar bear and the hippopotamus.
A new report from the libertarian CATO Institute on the Bush presidency: “The pattern that emerges is one of a ceaseless push for power, unchecked by either the courts or Congress, one in short of disdain for constitutional limits.”
Former Homeland Security inspector general Clark Kent Ervin writes in his new memoir, “Clearly, the Homeland Security Department has served to make us only marginally safer, and in the age of terror, marginally safer is not enough.â€
Former undercover CIA agent Valerie Plame was working to track the proliferation of nuclear material into Iran when her cover was blown by White House political operatives in the summer of 2003. The Plame outing is said to have “damaged†the administration’s ability to track Iran’s nuclear ambitions.
And finally: Lou Dobbs states the obvious last night on CNN: “I’m not a guy who’s too keen on Americans celebrating their differences.â€
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One Bush aide “said that the president was visibly angered by the sharp lines that kept coming. ‘I’ve been there before, and I can see that [Bush] is [angry],’ said a former top aide. ‘He’s got that look that he’s ready to blow.’â€
I wish he had. Like the big, hot-air filled blow up doll that he is. POP!
May 2nd, 2006 at 9:06 amOne Bush aide “said that the president was visibly angered by the sharp lines that kept coming. ‘I’ve been there before, and I can see that [Bush] is [angry],’ said a former top aide. ‘He’s got that look that he’s ready to blow.’â€
SO the AIDES left not because of what Colbert said, but because George was “going to blow”
May 2nd, 2006 at 9:08 amSomeone call Jeff Gannon George needs Pacifying
because of a “torrent of objections from business leaders and their advocates†in the oil and gas industries.
Again, how is anyone in the 33% missing that this is Washington’s priority, and not We The People?
May 2nd, 2006 at 9:08 amNew additions include the polar bear and the hippopotamus.
The planet will be safe again when ‘humans’ are on that list as well…
May 2nd, 2006 at 9:10 am“I’m not a guy who’s too keen on Americans celebrating their differences.â€
Wow that could get really deep really quick. Pay attention to your heritage or be a member of the world human organization?
May 2nd, 2006 at 9:12 amoil president, oil vice president, oil energy excutives secret energy meeting = record oil profits + highest gas prices ever = mission accomplished! gee, what happened!?!?
May 2nd, 2006 at 9:19 amGOP= government for profits!
Of course the press will report that Bush and Bridges “bested” Colbert at the correspondent’s dinner — what would we expect them to say - that Colbert’s genius satire was right on target? That Colbert made the press look like the obsequious monkeys they are? That the emperor has no clothes was revealed in a public forum?
May 2nd, 2006 at 9:21 amIn character as a fawning, vacuous news anchor, Colbert said what the press has failed to report all through this presidency - truth!
The 60 minutes interview on Sunday was a fine coda.
End of Trotskyism!!!
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Trotskyist intellectual Boris Fraenkel commits suicide
Published: 5/1/2006
PARIS - Boris Fraenkel, the French intellectual who initiated former French prime minister Lionel Jospin into Trotskyism, has committed suicide aged 85, his family announced Monday.
Fraenkel jumped from a bridge over the river Seine in Paris on April 23, leaving a note saying he had for some time had suicidal intentions, his family said. His body was found two days later.
There, he met the American philosopher Herbert Marcuse and the American psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich, and began translating Trotsky`s works.
May 2nd, 2006 at 9:25 amHe co-founded the Trotskyist International Communist Organisation (OCI), forerunner to the Workers` Party (PT), from which he was expelled at the end of the 1960s.
In 1997 Fraenkel revealed that Jospin had been a member of the group in the 1960s, a claim initially denied by the former French prime minister, who only admitted he had been a member in 2001 — a year before he was ousted from office.
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The ‘inhumans’, the Likudian, Trotskyites Bushaviks are going Wacko and will Self Destruct.
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“I’m not a guy who’s too keen on Americans celebrating their differences.â€
Like Lobbysists and Special Interest Groups?
Non-Partisan Think Tanks? Yeh right.
Neo-Con Mcarthy Politics, Lies, lies, lies,
Is that not a difference?
But Wasn’t America built upon those very differences?
Give me your Poor, your huddled masses…
Lou shutup, and I mean that.
Grrrr…. Bush angry… Bush … SMASH!
May 2nd, 2006 at 9:27 amCould some artist out there please make an animation of Colbert slapping Bush in the face over and over with words for about 15 minutes striaght and then end with Bush’s head exploding into a volcano?
May 2nd, 2006 at 9:27 amSome people can’t handle the truth, and that’s why we have truthiness.
May 2nd, 2006 at 9:29 amThe problem is that truthiness isn’t going to solve the problems of real people dying, the environment really going to hell (warming and everything), the ineptitude of an administration that tries to portray it’s main man like a real leader, which is the greatest insult to the truth of all.
Ever see the movie Man on the Moon?
This is what Colbert did… he gets up in front of a hostile audience and ridicules them reuthlessly over and over… just like Andy Kaufman going down south and doing his redneck bit… You just do not see that type of thing often…. enough..
May 2nd, 2006 at 9:30 amGeorge Bush can get as mad as he wants. It just doesn’t matter that much anymore. Let him fume.
Maybe if he would buy an orgone accumulator, he might just feel better.
May 2nd, 2006 at 9:36 amWhen Bush blows, let me tell you sister!
-Jeff Gannon
May 2nd, 2006 at 9:37 amYesterday’s rally backlash from the usual suspects here. Tancredo and the rest of the alternate reality crowd were out in full force.
May 2nd, 2006 at 9:37 amI hadn’t seen Captain Magma ready to blow like this since I banished him from the tennis court for poor sportsmanship when he was a teen.
May 2nd, 2006 at 9:41 am“16,000: The number of species of animals and plants threatened with global extinction, up more than 500 from last year,”
That just means that 500 of the 15,500 from last year made it thru and are on this years list again. It looks like Bush’s environmental policy is beginning to work, and every year the list will grow larger and larger.
May 2nd, 2006 at 9:45 amSo Bush got angry when criticized by a comedian - poor baby! Imagine how mad he’d get if he EVER took questions from a truly unscreened audience. What a COWARD!
May 2nd, 2006 at 9:52 am#17….
May 2nd, 2006 at 9:54 amI can’t yet quite comprehend your fuzzy math, it’s early here out west….
I do totally understand and accept that King Dubious the Deciders’ environmental policy will continue to add annually to the list of species threatened with extinction.
So let me get this straight: USA Today, in reporting on the Correspondents’ Dinner, asked Bush Administration aides what to say. One by one, the aides gave this “reporter,” Paul Bedard, the talking points: 1. Colbert crossed the line; 2. Bush was very mad; 3. Colbert’s performance did not overshadow Bush’s own funny routine; 4. If you don’t believe us, go read other reports that say Bush easily bested Colbert.
Is this a story from April 1 or May 1!? I mean, come on! One wonders if the reporter even bothered to see the tape of the performances himself.
Should I laugh or cry?
May 2nd, 2006 at 9:57 am#19 I can’t yet quite comprehend your fuzzy math
Your not supposed to, thats why it’s fuzzy.
May 2nd, 2006 at 10:00 amA BushCo judicial appointee with ethical violations? Get that man on the Bench!! Justice Alito does it too, and Republicans don’t have any objections. Corporate protection trumps all else.
May 2nd, 2006 at 10:05 amNew additions include the polar bear and the hippopotamus.
Thank God!!!
These animals are dangerous… I can’t wait till man kind conquers nature once and for all… sarcasm off
May 2nd, 2006 at 10:14 am‘I’ve been there before, and I can see that [Bush] is [angry],’ said a former top aide. ‘He’s got that look that he’s ready to blow.’â€
PAGING JEFF GANNON…..PLEASE REPORT TO THE PODIUM…..JEFF GANNON PAGING…
May 2nd, 2006 at 10:22 amJust put all them N dangered species in a deep fat fryolator and lets see who can swim .HEHE .If ‘n they can swim we take them off the list . Ayways they all taste good n cripy with bar B Q sauce for good eat’n.
May 2nd, 2006 at 10:23 amGeorge Bush can get as mad as he wants. It just doesn’t matter that much anymore. Let him fume….
“I don’t really think about him very much. I’m not that concerned….” ;-)
Cheers,
May 2nd, 2006 at 10:23 amAmericans will wait until it is far too late for any auto company to willingly tool up for high milage vehicles. It is quite obvious that a turbo diesel electric hybrid running on low sulfer diesel fuel would get around 45 to 65 mpg for engines between 1.5 and 2.5 liters.
Instead, the people will continue to moan, whine and complain that they were to stupid to see what has been happening in the resource wars that have been going on around the world for the last 70 years. The auto makers will complain that they wouldn’t sell any cars, just like safety was a pariah for over a decade (air bags were created by GM but they canned the idea). Legislators, who have been involved in covert operations to secure oil reserves around the world for the last 70 years will fake ignorance.
I have no confidence in the majority of the American people which have not done their civic duty in following their elected officials to make sure that they do their job. The legislative and executive branches of this government are now so corrupt and inept, that H.L. Menken would be amazed.
“The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule. ”
May 2nd, 2006 at 10:37 am&
“Under democracy, one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule – and both commonly succeed, and are right.”
Hmm… was he going to blow or do blow? I’m confused.
May 2nd, 2006 at 10:38 am“Former undercover CIA agent Valerie Plame was working to track the proliferation of nuclear material into Iran when her cover was blown by White House political operatives in the summer of 2003. The Plame outing is said to have “damaged†the administration’s ability to track Iran’s nuclear ambitions.”
Personally, I don’t think the current administration cares to “track Iran’s nuclear ambitions”. They’ve already decided that’s the only way to artificially raise Pres. Bush’s approval ratings in any appreciable way, so the plan is to attack and invade, not to track their nuclear program. It also doesn’t matter that Iran is at least 10 years from making enough nuclear material for a single bomb. The facts don’t matter, they’ve made up their mind to invade and “damn to facts, full speed ahead!” (Pardon my artistic license with the previous quote,)
May 2nd, 2006 at 11:21 am#10 - I’d pay cashy money to see that.
May 2nd, 2006 at 11:23 amOne Bush aide “said that the president was visibly angered by the sharp lines that kept coming.
Good, now he knows what 67% of us feel like every single frickin’ day.
May 2nd, 2006 at 11:27 amLike that? I said “frickin’.” Probably later in the day I’ll revert to my standard language.
Terrence Boyle, “a key circuit court nominee touted by the White House and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist,†has repeatedly violated ethics laws by ruling “in multiple cases involving corporations in which he held investments.â€
If it’s good enough for the Supreme Court, it ought to be good enough for the Circuit Court. /sarcasm off
May 2nd, 2006 at 11:29 am#31 We s>applouad/s>..s>aploud/s>…s>apploud/s>…. we’re happy you made the effort.
May 2nd, 2006 at 11:30 am#33 fricken figures, TP dosn’t support strike thru, now my joke just failed.
May 2nd, 2006 at 11:31 amA new report from the libertarian CATO Institute on the Bush presidency: “The pattern that emerges is one of a ceaseless push for power, unchecked by either the courts or Congress, one in short of disdain for constitutional limits.â€
Ya think? They get paid to do this stuff, you know.
May 2nd, 2006 at 11:32 amDemocrats? Knock knock, anybody home?
testing
May 2nd, 2006 at 11:34 am““The pattern that emerges is one of a ceaseless push for power, unchecked by either the courts or Congress, one in short of disdain for constitutional limits.—
So hes short on disdain for consititutional limits? Thats good, it means he’s more likely to follow them.
May 2nd, 2006 at 11:35 amA new report from the libertarian CATO Institute on the Bush presidency: “The pattern that emerges is one of a ceaseless push for power, unchecked by either the courts or Congress, one in short of disdain for constitutional limits.â€
Hmmmm let’s start a betting pool. How long will it take for this to be spun into “democrats hate america and are trying to undermine the presidency for their own political gain”? Can we address the actual issues please and stop shooting the messenger?
My favorite line from the public spanking Colbert gave Dumbya: “Reality has a liberal bias.” Hilarious!
May 2nd, 2006 at 11:37 amLou Dobbs states the obvious last night on CNN: “I’m not a guy who’s too keen on Americans celebrating their differences.â€
Mr. Xenophobic, 2006 and beyond!
May 2nd, 2006 at 11:37 am#33 - I, too, appreciate the effort, Squeegy. ;)
May 2nd, 2006 at 11:41 amThanks for the clarification at #34, now my hair can stop trying to stand on end.
#37 - So hes short on disdain for consititutional limits? Thats good, it means he’s more likely to follow them.
Comment by squegeeboo
“One” refers to the pattern, not GWB’s presidency.
May 2nd, 2006 at 11:45 am#38 - Hmmmm let’s start a betting pool. How long will it take for this to be spun into “democrats hate america and are trying to undermine the presidency for their own political gain�
I pick yesterday, and I’ll wager $1,000,000.
May 2nd, 2006 at 11:48 am#41 good thing you clarified that for me, otherwise I would have never understood the subtle nuainces of your statement :)
May 2nd, 2006 at 11:52 amDumbya’s super secret plan for winning the war in Iraq has finally been exposed:
Updated: 5:22 p.m. ET May 1, 2006
DUBUQUE, Iowa - A grandmother in eastern Iowa is getting one last call to duty.
Janet Grass, 52, had planned to retire from the military in about 10 months after spending 19 years in the U.S. Navy Reserve. Instead, she has been ordered to leave her job as a special-education teacher in Cascade to do security work in the Middle East.
“They’re changing my career just as I’m retiring,” she said. “I guess they wanted to try one more thing for me.”
Grass boarded an airplane Thursday at the Dubuque Regional Airport amid emotional goodbyes from her family, which includes four children and six grandchildren.
Grass will train in California and Texas before deploying to Iraq for 12 to 18 months.
“Being over there is being in a different world,” said her son Tim, who has also served in the military. “It’s about being mentally strong to face things that will confront her. She’s good. She’ll do fine.”
Grass, a petty officer first class, recalled how her son had also served in Iraq in 2003.
“I’m taking over for Tim,” she said, smiling as she prepared to board the airplane. “I get to play in the big sandbox and teach them to play nice. That’s the teacher in me.”
Grass said the toughest part of shipping out was saying goodbye to 300 youngsters at Cascade Elementary School, where a send-off assembly was conducted in her honor. “It was a rough one,” she said.
As Grass prepared to board the airplane, a grandson grabbed her leg in embrace. She smiled at the boy. “I’ll be back,” she said.
Her sisters Julie Small and Jolene Petesch stood nearby, sobbing and holding each other in support. Tim Grass, holding a small American flag, watched his mother pass through the terminal gate as other family members questioned the timing of the deployment.
“I think it’s wrong,” Jolene Petesch said, noting that her sister was about to retire from the military. “The military screwed up there, and I’m angry about it.
“It’s another Vietnam. We don’t belong there, but I still support our troops.”
*Officially hanging my head in shame*
May 2nd, 2006 at 11:58 amAnd this is why the Republican majority in both the House and Senate are afraid of him. This is why Senator McCain has forgotten the title on this own book, “Worth the Fighting For”. And yes, this is the man that has his finger on the nuclear bottom. And believes in Armageddon, I may add. Holy mushroom cloud batman!
What to Do With an Unreachable President?
HHmmm,,, Do you think Bush is angry because Colbert routine was far better than his and his Jay Leno Bush look alike? I don’t know. All I can remember is the previous media event when Bush was lunatic enough to joke about sending our kids, fathers, and mothers to war to find WMD he knew weren’t there. It was terribly disturbing to see people so desensitized or politically loyal that they lost all sense of decency. That pukey feeling you get in the pit of your stomach when the world as you know it is about to crumble, is how I felt when our President made fun of sending our loved ones to war, when our President made fun of WMD’s. Our President knew he lied, knew he exposed a CIA agent, people were dying and our President was joking about it.
May 2nd, 2006 at 12:09 pmYou know, the comments about bush being upset seem at odds with what you actually see on the video of Colbert’s brilliant performance. Colbert snubbed bush. He shook his hand as bush SMILED and seemed to maintain eye contact until Colbert moved on past him. Then, he didn’t even offer a hand to ms. bush, and seemed to spend the same perfunctory moment with her that he had with her husband, the election thief.
Helen Thomas, the great Helen Thomas, seemed to be the one Colbert really wanted to speak with and be associated with on that dais.
I think all this bluster about bush being upset is belied by the fact that he has a smile, fixed probably, and he seems his dumb old self, just sitting there and taking it. It’s bush’s act to not respond to obvious, pointed, warranted criticism. He blithely pretends, as in all things, that the real world didn’t just happen. This Saturday at the dinner seemed to be more of the same from bush.
Rather, the real story here is that Colbert behaved heroically, and he did not shy away from maintaining his stance when it came time to be cordial to the president. He was cordial, then moved on to more important, honest people.
You know, people who are not destroying this planet.
And above all, good for Colbert to dog the media. He really nailed everyone. Why would a patriot do otherwise? Why pretend to like the detestible? Colbert did not betray himself, or his country, or his legions of fans.
May 2nd, 2006 at 12:11 pm#43 - I’m smiling while calling you a smartass. ;)
May 2nd, 2006 at 12:21 pm#46 - Ken, this was Steven Colbert’s “Harry Taylor” moment, and since it included criticism of the press, it has been disdained and ignored by the press.
May 2nd, 2006 at 12:28 pm#47 at least your calling me smart. I’m working my way up!
May 2nd, 2006 at 12:28 pmIt was quite a reversal of roles, that dinner.
May 2nd, 2006 at 1:00 pmBush, who usually tells nothing BUT lies, was funny.
Colbert, who usually is funny, told nothing but truth.
And they did it all for us, the American People.
Personally, I preferrred the truth. But I did enjoy the funny too.
i wanted to post this because i’ve heard the word being used alot and until i heard colbert give his own definition, i thought i knew what it meant - i was mistaken…
TRUTHINESS: “what you WANT the facts to be as opposed to what the facts are - what FEELS like the right answer as opposed to what reality will support”
and, about his character: “i think of him as well intentioned, poorly informed, high status idiot”
lots of REAL ones like that out there…
May 2nd, 2006 at 1:01 pm#49 - Lately “smartass” fits better than “dumbass.” Keep up the good work!
May 2nd, 2006 at 1:10 pm#51 - Like the “Upper Class Twit of the Year” bit on Monty Python. High class humor!
May 2nd, 2006 at 1:12 pmhey zookeeper - i’ve been wanting to ask you - your name - is that a literal title or a figurative mom term…i like your sense of humor, regardless…
May 2nd, 2006 at 1:26 pmTHE DUBYA DUNCE DECIDER
Tuesday 2nd of May 2006
by Jay Randal
The putrid Bush Regime is completely out of control, and the do nothing Congress is too afraid to impeach the Dubya Dunce Decider and the Crazy Cheney, so the American citizenry suffers severe hardships now!
The U.S. military is bogged down in the Iraq fiasco quagmire, and protecting the Opium poppy fields of Afghanistan, as vile Neocons plan a new war on Iran!
The economy is on the verge of total collapse, but the corporate elite do not seem to care, or they desire it to happen, so another “Great Depression” looms soon!
America’s borders are wide open for the desperate poor to cross to seek low-paid jobs, that border on slavery, as American poor are desperate to work too!
The middle class is struggling to survive as well, but nobody in Washington notices, or could care less, so the politicians give themselves pay raises and perks!
Does anyone in DC remember the French revolution?
( Jay Randal, political activist and writer in Stone Mountain, Georgia, USA.)
May 2nd, 2006 at 1:42 pm#54 - katy, even though my sons are 6′4″ & 6′5″, there are only two of them, so they don’t count as a zoo, except when it comes to the food budget.
I acquired the Zookeeper name at work! I wrangle four attorneys all by myself every day, and that’s what they call me. They have a certain level of self awareness, and it’s most helpful in their care and feeding. They hate it when I shoot them with the tranquilizer gun though…
May 2nd, 2006 at 2:21 pm#54 - I’m assuming katy is your actual name. ;)
May 2nd, 2006 at 2:29 pm#56 Zoo, you sound like a women I worked with at my last job, she was one of two people worth knowing on a personal level out of all of the paralegals and secretaries (about 15 total) that the programers had to deal with on a regular basis.
May 2nd, 2006 at 2:30 pm(the worst was when I got in trouble for not trouble shooting a computer ‘issue’ quick enough, I made the woman wait for my coffee to finish filling, apparently those 20 secs were life or death, and her ‘issue’ was an unplugged monitor, that one got me written up and lectured by the head of the firm)
Yo Colbert,
Right on brother!
…you keep speaking truth to incompetence…
…and for those inbred Bushite ass wipers who left?
…FU*K ‘EM if they can’t take a joke…
May 2nd, 2006 at 2:32 pm#58 - Squeegy, I’m wiping a tear from my eye. You’re so sweet. I’ll still call you on your bullsh*t, though, agreed? ;)
I can’t stand people like that. My ability to do my job depends on the absolutely lovely man who keeps my computer running. There’s no way in hell I’m going to make him feel like I don’t respect him. That goes too for the court clerks, UPS guy, mail carrier, process servers, expert witnesses, police, and sometimes jail personnel. The woman who had this job before me could never get anyone to help her out because she had the idea she was really something special. Well, I have the job now, and I got them to give me medical & dental. Firms like the one you worked for will never keep the good people because they don’t deserve them.
May 2nd, 2006 at 2:47 pmFirms like the one you worked for will never keep the good people because they don’t deserve them.
Comment by Zookeeper — May 2, 2006 @ 2:47 pm
Boy ain’t that the truth! My taste in architecture firms is worse than my taste in men. I’ve watch three firms nearly fold under the mass exodus of good people when they implenented assinine policies intended to squeeze people to make them more profits.
Were those big boys of yors equally large babies? Ouch! :)
May 2nd, 2006 at 3:28 pm#61 I’ll still call you on your bullsh*t
If you stopped I’d think less of you, that said, what bullsh*t? I’m always dead on logic/fact/reasoning wise. ALWAYS.
The law firm was doing well enough, but I got to watch the computer company half of it collapse under bad management, that sucked, good bye guranteed job after school.
May 2nd, 2006 at 3:33 pmgood bye guranteed job after school.
Comment by squegeeboo — May 2, 2006 @ 3:33 pm
What about where you are now? Or are they only interested in you because you’re cheap labor as a student?
Oh, and a little tip - no such thing as ‘guaranteed’ jobs anymore. That went away duringthe Reagan Administration.
May 2nd, 2006 at 3:39 pm#63 What about where you are now?
I’m chatting with them about it now, it sounds like I can stay indefinitly as cheap labor, but to move up the ranks to real labor is a bit iffy.
Anything down in Georgia, feel like renting part of your domicile?
May 2nd, 2006 at 3:49 pmAnything down in Georgia,
In your field? Probably. Things have picked up here. But, you wouldn’t want to live here. Or, maybe you would. It’s conservative (though religiously so - can’t buy beer and wine on Sundays from the grocery stores), and at your age, there are more women than men.
feel like renting part of your domicile?
Comment by squegeeboo — May 2, 2006 @ 3:49 pm
There are very specifc reasons I never had children of my own… And this would be one of them :)
May 2nd, 2006 at 4:05 pm#62 - If you stopped I’d think less of you, that said, what bullsh*t? I’m always dead on logic/fact/reasoning wise. ALWAYS.
Comment by squegeeboo
See? I knew you were a bullsh*tter of the first order. There’s a very short book out there called “On Bullshit,” I think you’d like it. ;)
May 2nd, 2006 at 4:11 pm#66 There’s a very short book out there called “On Bullshit,†I think you’d like it. ;)
I have it, it was entertaining. Funny to read a guy writing complete bullsh*t on bullsh*t.
#65 There are very specifc reasons I never had children of my own… And this would be one of them :)
Everyone says if you can deal with me, you can deal with children, what with my lack of growing up mentally (Growing old is inevitable, growing up is an option, my grandfather told me that one on his 60th Bday, something that has always stuck with me)
May 2nd, 2006 at 4:17 pm#61 - Were those big boys of yors equally large babies? Ouch! :)
Comment by unbelievable
Yes, but I’ve forgiven them. But I’ll never forgive Mama Zoo, who told me I’d forget the pain. That’s complete crap! I’m surprised I did it twice, but I’m glad because Zoo Jr is a real sweetheart (and genius). Childbirth is the yardstick against which I measure all pain. Root canal, bring it on…
P.S. Looks like Squeegy has imprinted on you, Salma! :O
May 2nd, 2006 at 4:19 pmChildbirth is the yardstick against which I measure all pain. Root canal, bring it on…
This is why women are the stronger sex. Period. I have brothers. They keel over if you accidentally bump them in the crotch with your foot while playing football. Hardly equivalent to the levl of pain of birthing a ten pound baby…
I have nightmares about being 9 months pregnant. You’re more woman than I Pippi!
P.S. Looks like Squeegy has imprinted on you, Salma! :O
Comment by Zookeeper — May 2, 2006 @ 4:19 pm
120 teenagers are already enough… No college kids. I refuse to be that old yet! ; )
May 2nd, 2006 at 4:53 pmzookeeper - never assume anything… ;-)
but yes, that is my posting name, my internet identity…
(i guess you may be refering to that guru creature’s halucinations?)
just in from mowing - can’t believe the national anthem is still the big story…
or “baseball game theme song” as someone said - cracked me up…
this morning on c-span i watched john bolton lie his smug pompous ass off about the build up to war with iran - wrote TP - still nothing…
now i shall read some posts to catch up…
May 2nd, 2006 at 5:03 pm#69 - I have nightmares about being 9 months pregnant. You’re more woman than I Pippi!
So do I, Zoo Jr was 9 1/2 pounds. The OB said I was made for about an 8 pound baby. If I hadn’t been puking from the Darvocet, I’d have kicked his stupid face in. But I’m not bitter…
I think you may actually be the better woman, Salma, because if I had to deal with 120 of other people’s children, I’d probably become an ax murderer.
May 2nd, 2006 at 5:24 pm#70 - Just think about mowing makes my nose itch. I go back and forth on guru, but I’ve got Squeegy to make my life interesting, so I’ll leave guru to you. ;)
This obsession on the “baseball game theme song” is wearing me out, that’s why I’m hanging around here. People around here (read state) don’t even take off their hats (cowboy or trucker) when the anthem is sung, I don’t know why they care what language it’s in. *sigh*
May 2nd, 2006 at 5:30 pmI’d probably become an ax murderer.
Comment by Zookeeper — May 2, 2006 @ 5:24 pm
Ouch! Seriously… is it too late to have sympathy pains? I’ve heard the horror stories from my friends about giving birth beyond ‘capacity’. Ow, ow, ow ow!
You are the funniest female I know. Most women won’t make strong jokes like you do. So, that also makes you unique. But, I know, you already knew that :)
Well, next year there won’t be 120 of them. More like 40 to 50 juniors and seniors who want to become architects, because I was just offered a job as the Architecture teacher in the school district from which I graduated (at the new Career Academy they’re starting in the Fall). Means I’m stuck in Georgia for now. But, the job was too good to pass up. At least I have you all to keep me sane :)
May 2nd, 2006 at 5:56 pm[…] Think Progress […]
May 2nd, 2006 at 5:57 pmzookeeper #72 - “Just think about mowing makes my nose itch.”
i know what you mean - i really hate mowing - the allergies don’t bother me so much, but i have a phobia about the mower itself - something about missing digits and flying projectiles… but when i divorced my yard man years ago, and paying the neighbors got to be too much, i bought one of those old fashioned reel mowers - told everyone it was for environmental reasons :-)
well, this year i took the big leap and bought a power mower (”try it for 6 months!) - electric, rechargeable, lightweight … my mom asked, “how is this mower different?” (than the ones i’m terrified of)… i’m so proud of myself - i used it the first time last week and, wow, how silly have i been all this time?!,,, not that i like mowing, but i hate it less! i have turned most of my yard into flowere beds anyway, but a little lawn looks nice…
by the way - earlier on randi rhodes, she was talking about a happening in D.C. this mother’s day - mothers meeting/protesting at the white house … it’s not posted on her website, yet - have you heard anything about this?
May 2nd, 2006 at 6:37 pm#73 - You are the funniest female I know. Most women won’t make strong jokes like you do. So, that also makes you unique. But, I know, you already knew that :)
*blush* I accept your compliment and raise you one “you are a woman of quick wit.”
I was just offered a job as the Architecture teacher in the school district from which I graduated (at the new Career Academy they’re starting in the Fall).
Congratulations! I hope this is the job you were interviewing for recently. Those kids should consider themselves lucky to have you, and make sure you tell them. ;)
May 2nd, 2006 at 6:43 pm#75 - I’m with you on the machinery thing. I have a horror of fast moving blades of any kind. When I had a yard I had an electric mower, and it was a hilarious sight. I was terrified to let my sons mow the lawn when they were younger, but I didn’t want them sitting on their asses while I was working, so I had one raking and the other following me around with the wire over my head — I have a horror of electricution too. Good for you! It’s a great work out, too.
Sorry, no go on the Randi Rhodes info. I think it’s against state law for her air waves to cross into Idaho. I would LOVE to protest in DC on Mother’s Day, though. Post on TP when you find the info!
May 2nd, 2006 at 6:53 pm*blush* I accept your compliment and raise you one “you are a woman of quick wit.â€
Wow… how long could we keep upping that ante? Especially without money at stake - just genuine honesty (because we are all that - and modest to boot :)
Congratulations! I hope this is the job you were interviewing for recently. Those kids should consider themselves lucky to have you, and make sure you tell them. ;)
Comment by Zookeeper — May 2, 2006 @ 6:43 pm
Thanks! It is.
Sure, I’ll tell them, the kids at this age already think I’m crazy as it is, so I’m sure they’ll be fine with this sort of proclamation as well :)
Did you catch the reruns of The Daily Show and Colbert Report from last night? What funny, funny stuff!
Enjoy your evening.
May 2nd, 2006 at 8:52 pmI saw theevent. I doubt that the Presidunce even really comprehended what the verbal assault really meant. He had the pouty look of a spoiled child being made to sit at the dinner table. And the scowl sure didn’t show any realization or understanding of the comments being fired at him. He kinda looked like the monkeys and apes at the zoo, they just don’t get what you’re talking about to them.
May 2nd, 2006 at 9:10 pmI have a new theory. BushCo used the illegal wiretaps to gather dirt on everyone in Congress and the Senate. Probably the justices too. And that’s why our government has been so controlled. Nothing else makes sense. Think about it. Nothing.
Oh and Colbert for President!
May 2nd, 2006 at 9:32 pmPost 80 > you are probably right about the spying on members of the Congress > lots of dirt to dig up on them > lol. Remember what happened to Sen. McCain in 2000 > Bush had him smeared by stuff they dug up on him > to this day McCain is scared of Bush!
May 2nd, 2006 at 9:55 pmI’m all up in your cabeza,Perra.
May 3rd, 2006 at 1:20 amAddition:
Some days I think there is hope for our media, and other days not so much:
http://www.projectcensored.org/updatedrealnews/index.htm
I don’t know how we can have a functional democracy if the citizenry is not sufficiently informed on the real challenges facing our nation so we can rationally discuss and publicly debate the issues. It appears from his actions that Bush truly despises Democracy and our Constitution. Someone once told me, people get the government they deserve. I’m afraid the masses just take what the corporation media and marketing machines give them, they are too powerful of a force in this hightech overworked age, and the corporations don’t care about the people, Democracy or liberties. Bush has accumulated power based unheeded, checks and balances are nearly gone.
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May 3rd, 2006 at 2:53 amchange it.
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