Open thread
This one goes out to all the secretaries and janitors at AIG who have been adversely affected by short-sighted taxpayer anger.
UPDATE: It’s a miracle! An early March miracle! Celebrity singers from around the country have banded together to record this charity single for the poor besmirched AIG employees!
We are the world, AIG! We can get them those bonuses if we all come together and SING!
There comes a time
When we heed a certain call
When the world must come together as one
There are people on Wall Street who can’t afford their blow
And it’s time to lend them money for a call girl,
Don’t make these folks go Galt!We can’t go on
Pretneding day by day
That $80,000 is a lot of money
We are all a part of
God’s great big family
And the truth, you know cash is all we needWe’re AIG
We are the traders
We are the ones who insure derivatives
So let’s start taking
There’s a choice we’re making
We’re saving our own hides
It’s true we’ll make a better day
But just for AIG!
UPDATE II: Just a reminder, guys, that our tip jar is working again! 50% of all proceeds will go toward the Help AIG Traders Get Their Bonuses Fund.
I have a policy with AIG, how about me?
What is this “open thread” of which you speak?
Please, give generously to The Hannah Giles Legal Defense Fund – you know you want to help the little lady out!
http://washingtonindependent.com/78403/hannah-giles-defense-fund-is-looking-for-donors
What is this “open thread” of which you speak?
That’s the kind where everyone stays on topic, amirite?
What is this “open thread” of which you speak?
That’s the kind where everyone stays on topic, amirite?
It’s the kind where everyone pops open a brewski except if they’ve had a raunchy headache for two days straight PITY ME DEAR GOD I NEED A BEER.
I find that smashing my head with the bottle of beer does not help at all.
It’s the kind where everyone pops open a brewski except if they’ve had a raunchy headache for two days straight PITY ME DEAR GOD I NEED A BEER.
Here you go, tig (passes an open bottle of Anchor Steam to tigrismus). Hair o’ the dog and all that.
That’s the kind where everyone stays on topic, amirite?
No way. I’m outta here.
Aw CA, you’re so sweet. I actually own beer, I just can’t drink it with the medicine. Substance, I’m thinking if I hit hard enough I might knock the headache right out. Or myself. Either way.
Just remember: AIG backwards is GIA !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1!1111111111111
Please, give generously to The Hannah Giles Legal Defense Fund – you know you want to help the little lady out!
I do, but not in that way…if ya know what I mean. And I think you do. Also.
Well, you know, tig, depending on the type of medicine, you might be able to double your pleasure.
4 excedrin, 2 sudafed, 2 benadryl, and an imitrex, so no pleasure to double there. I am eating some chocolate, though…
Oooh, quite the cocktail. And you’re still able to type?
That was over the whole day, starting at 5 AM. I also took 4 ginger capsules, a nap, a shower, and two hot baths. It’s gotten enough better that I’ve entered the HOLY CRAP I’M SO FUCKING CRANKY stage.
And there won’t be bonuses on Wall Street for FY09
The greatest gift they’ll get this year is (pffft) options
(Oooh)
Where profits never grow
Can’t keep that bungalow
Do they know it’s Bonus Time at all?
Finally, a way to speak out against the populist agenda that has done nothing but serve the interests of poor people for the last 30 years!
Emergency appeal!- thousands of bankers are trapped under mountains of your cash and need your help- please give generously!
I just opened a Saranac Black Forest. But it’s not all schadenfreudey for moi, I had root canal surgery on Monday so I’m finding that the act of eating food has a vicious downside.
~
Fuckin’ ball buster….:-)
Ouch, thunder, that sounds terrible. Any food hurts or just stuff requiring chewing? Ice cream?
STOP bashing teh aig traiders!!11!!!!!! do u want ur monie back????? then u need tehm!!11!!!!! agi can only urn money if tehy have tehm!
I’ve entered the HOLY CRAP I’M SO FUCKING CRANKY stage.
Welcome to my life.
Brad, sarcasm is *so* unattractive.
“Nice” follow-up to my comment, T&U.
Wait, an Open Thread? But, but, that’s where staying in the boat means that we’ve gotten out of the boat, right?! I… can’t … noooooooo…
“Nice” follow-up to my comment, T&U.
Oh, *THANK YOU*.
BTW, as an “Executive Staff Assistant,” I’m offended by the use of the term “secretary.”
BTW, as an “Executive Staff Assistant,” I’m offended by the use of the term “secretary.”
Really? My secretary prefers “secretary,” as she thinks “assistant” sounds like she has to help me with a colostomy bag.
It’s really beyond even soft food, the trick is eating something while avoiding the top tooth hitting the root canal tooth.
Alcohol is the solution to my problems.
~
Open thread?
How can we tell?
Alcohol is the solution to my problems.
Ain’t it the truth. That is, unless one of your problems is that you’re an alcoholic.
Open thread?
How can we tell?
Fewer poop and penis references?
4 excedrin, 2 sudafed, 2 benadryl, and an imitrex, so no pleasure to double there. I am eating some chocolate, though
Vicodin? Oddly, I’ve found that vodka–and only vodka–helps my migraines. Must be Russian headaches.
Ain’t it the truth. That is, unless one of your problems is that you’re an alcoholic.
So then it would be the solution to all but one of my problems.
Still pretty good, right?
~
Fewer poop and penis references?
Yeah, only sicko exhibitionists display their POOP and PENIS out in the open.
Alcohol is the solution to my problems.
The best part is that it creates new problems that require further solutions.
as long as we’re on topic and all, my blog has a couple of newish posts. So yes, it is a zombie blog, back from the dead. written by a zombie.
couple of newish posts
A few newish posts and a banister and you’ve got a stair handrail.
To alcohol! The cause of… and solution to… all of life’s problems
To alcohol! The cause of… and solution to… all of life’s problems
I’ll drink to that. Salut!
Amateur.
Try about 12 tylenol, six 30mg morphine sulfates, three 600mg Gabopentin, and a 4mg zanaflex muscle relaxer.*
Every day.
For nearly three years.
So, yeah, I feel your pain … although with the list above, you wouldn’t think that’s possible.
It is.
(* I’d throw in a “Partridge in a pear tree,” but I’m more of a Brady Bunch kind of guy — Marsha, preferably.)
Don’t forget weed!
ANTI-SEMITE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh, wait. Newish.
Sorry. Think I channeled Kristol there for a second …
Werd.
Vicodin?
Vicodin? Nearly killed ’em!
…um, wait…
No seriously, who’s “Holden Caufield”?
I was stabbed in the throat several times this afternoon myself and can’t swallow without pain…it’s making it very hard to drink enough alcohol to knock myself out. NEED STRONGER
DRUGSALCOHOL.Okay, it was just some needles and there was lidocaine involved but still, it is not real comfy right now.
Ah, so “open thread” = “House of Pain.”
Got it.
Ah, so “open thread” = “House of Pain.”
If I wanted an organ recital, I’d join the Catholics.
BREAKING NEWZ AROO AROO AROO !!!
A super-duper-secret RNC document has been leaked, & the stalwarts of muckrackery at POLITICO(c) (!) are on the case with a red-hot EXCLUSIVE SCOOP-TYPE-THING!
It appears they plan to play up right-wing fears of Obama & make appeals to donors to “save the country from trending toward socialism” – now, how on Earth will the POTUS be able to successfully respond to such a devastating suprise-attack?
My prediction: evil flying Marxist monkeys with laser-cannon eyeballs.
Couldn’t come up with a clever title?
“Opine Thread”
“Op/Ed Free for All”
“Oedipus Tread”
..“save the country from trending toward socialism” – now, how on Earth will the POTUS be able to successfully respond to such a devastating suprise-attack?
Camps are go!
I’d quit my job to go to work at a FEMA camp – just for the sheer joy of AHEM re-educatin AHEM some folks. As long as I could make some suggestions for additions to The List, I’d be happy.
Really? My secretary prefers “secretary,” as she thinks “assistant” sounds like she has to help me with a colostomy bag.
Honestly, I don’t really give a shit. It’s not my career, though I do hate it when old male doctors call me a secretary, because it always seems creepy.
Honestly, I don’t really give a shit. It’s not my career, though I do hate it when old male doctors call me a secretary, because it always seems creepy.
I bet U Thant and Dag Hamerskjold got that all the time. “Secretary General? What, like you’re in charge of all the secretaries? Har har har har…”
I do hate it when old male doctors call me a secretary, because it always seems creepy.
Old male doctors in groups are like children’s choirs: anything they do is creepy.
If I wanted an organ recital…
Oh, so that’s what the priests are calling it these days.
Um … isn’t that the point of the colostomy bag?
**ba da bump**
I will be here all week, but do NOT try the veal.
**whisper**It isn’t really veal.**whisper**
That’s way it, uh huh uh huh, it happened, uh huh uh huh!
That’s the way uh huh uh huh, honest!, uh huh uh huh!
Interesting piece by Millbank here http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/19/AR2010021904298.html about Rahmbo’s recent concerns and discontents. If we ever want to see the progressive agenda continue, it’s so important to keep supporting Rahm and for him to keep Obama on task. I’m really nervous about how things are going right now. We can’t afford to continue our leftward drift.
America needs more parody trolls.
America needs more parody trolls.
We could expand the Senate to three morons per state…
What’s up DemocRATs!! You are nothing more than pretty knaves, you flaming fakes! You’ll get your Afghanistan pullout when you pry it out of the cold dead hands of Real Americans.
Gaz gooz gugle decrepit commies. May recognition of your strengths make your son spew bone marrow, you batty freaks! How’s Sean Penn working for you now? Got your free education yet?
The fact is, True Patriots will never take your minimum wage you sodden Neanderthal-dipsticks.
Dianetic pentameter:
Brave Elron Hubbard
O noblest of men
Has vanquished our thetans
In Lord Xenu’s name
Oh good, Esther’s back. She’s like Jon Swift, only the exact opposite. The anti-Swift, if you will.
I just don’t want to see us drift unelectably left. If we’re not careful, we’re going to wake up one morning and we’ll have President Mooseburger.
I want to see us march progressively left to the sea, sweeping & crushing the sensible PUMA-parody trolls before us
You see, dear, Swift pretended to be something he wasn’t, but he was damn funny when he did it, and was so good at it that people mistook him for the real thing. You, on the other hand, just suck.
I dont want us to drift progressively left, no drifting, lets go full on, and give these tossers a real taste of Stalinism…..
I want to see us march progressively left to the sea, sweeping & crushing the sensible PUMA-parody trolls before us
Everybody sing!
We’re marching, marching to Shibboleth,
With the Eagle and the Sword!
We’re praising Zion ’til her death,
Until we meet our last reward!
Our Lord’s reward!
Zion! Oh happy Zion!
O’er wrapp’d, but not detained!
Lion, f’rocious Lion!
His beard our mighty mane!
At First and Main!
Oh, we’ll go marching, marching to Omaha,
With the Buckram and the Cord!
You’ll hear us “boom” our State!
Ha, ha!
As we cross the final ford!
The flaming Ford!
Zion! Oh mighty Zion!
Your bison now are dust!
As your cornflakes rise,
‘Gainst the rust-red skies,
Then our blood requires us must
Go …
Marching, marching to Shibboleth,
With the Eagle and the …
The Buckram and the Cord!
Sword!
Praising Zion ’til her death!
Ha, ha!
Until we eat our last reward!
The flaming Ford!
Zion! Oh righteous Zion!
There is no one to blame!
For the homespun pies
‘Neath the cracking skies
Shall release the fulsome rain!
Shall release!
Shall release!
Shall release!
Shall release!
Shall release the vinyl rein!
seriously, the more i hear republicans complain about socialism, the better it sounds to me
and it seems i’m not the only one:
New Poll: Socialism is Gaining Popularity in America, April 9, 2009
i guess wingnuts would be unfamiliar with the law of unintended consequences…
Fuck David Brooks alert #13,475,232:
Fuck you Bobo: Chomsky isn’t alleging shadowy, secret conspiracies, BUT THE SHIT YOU HAVE BEEN WATCHING AT YOUR PUBLICATION. The shit you fuckers celebrate when it seems to fit the shitgeist of the powerful.
Are there still brainless fucktards alleging that the fucking collapse of the entire U.S. financial system enabled by 30 solid years of deregulation and anti-regulatory institutionalism WAS SOMEHOW SOME SORT OF INNOCENT ACCIDENT.
Is there anyone arguing that somehow the decision to invade Iraq using 9/11/2001 as an excuse was some sort of accident, something OTHER THAN A ‘CONSPIRACY’ ALBEIT A COMPLETELY PUBLIC AND OPEN ONE?
My god, is there anything that ANYONE IN POWER CAN DO WRONG about which allegations of wrongdoing is NOT dismissed by celebrity ass-licking pseudo-intellectuals like Brooks?
Fuck you, asshole.
Bobo link.
David Brooks is the faery prince godmother of Sally Quinn’s Village of Simple, Fisher-Folk. Every night, at the stroke of 12, he returns to his acutal form: Esther’s colostomy bag.
I’m against this.
Also I have it on good authority that Esther is actually Breitbart’s cock.
The flaming Ford!
So you’re the one who torched my car. All you had to do was ask… you have my Ford.
David Brooks is the faery prince godmother of Sally Quinn’s Village of Simple, Fisher-Folk. Every night, at the stroke of 12, he returns to his acutal form: Esther’s colostomy bag.
I find that topographically improbable. A colostomy bag has only one opening to its interior void, while Brooks has two or three. Is it possible that Esther’s colostomy bag has a hole in the bottom?
Fuck you Bobo: Chomsky isn’t alleging shadowy, secret conspiracies, BUT THE SHIT YOU HAVE BEEN
WATCHINGWRITING AT YOUR PUBLICATION.Given Chomsky’s focus on the role of “liberal” media types setting the boundaries of the thinkable, I have suggested a fix to your post on Brooks.
My god, is there anything that ANYONE IN POWER CAN DO WRONG about which allegations of wrongdoing is NOT dismissed by celebrity ass-licking pseudo-intellectuals like Brooks?
Yes. Having sex, opinions, or brains while being a non-republican.
I see Bobo is already being manhandled, but if I may…
Shorter David Brooks:
The left? Eww. The right? Ugh. Me? Timeless.
Neanderthal-dipsticks
*thwack*
NOW yer thinkin’ wid yer dipstick, Jimmay!
I just don’t want to see us drift unelectably left.
Sweetie, darling, AL GORE was “unelectably left” to the GOP. Stop it.
Tendenious macerator
o/~ Macerator, won’t you help me place this call? See, the number on the matchbook is old and faded
She’s living in LA, with my tendetious ex-friend Ray…o/~
Good God, Esther, you are the worst troll EVAR. *I* troll better, and I’m painfully earnest and extremely gullible.
Like to emphasize that Gore-LIEBERMAN was unelectably left.
Okay so I know this is going to open me up to criticism, but I really don’t understand all the Brooks hate. Is he too far right for my taste? Yeah, of course. But even people with liberal bona fides as impeccable as Ezra are respectful of Brooks.
But even people with liberal bona fides as impeccable as Ezra are respectful of Brook
Okay, that made me snorfle my coffee a little. I’ll give you that.
But even people with liberal bona fides as impeccable as Ezra are respectful of Brooks.
*looking around*
Does anyone see any respect for Ezra “The Good” Klein here?
Hey I stood up at a meeting and offered to “skullfuck a terrorist” if that’s what it took to make my anti-terrorist bona fides. The fuck has Ezra ever done to establish his liberal bona fides?
Well, whaddya know?
Brad used to be funny!
I knew you had it in you, Bradley!
…but I really don’t understand all the Brooks hate…
That’s because U R DUM.
That out of hte way, allow me to dispense with the mandatory BooBoos in Paradise link:
PENIS.
BooBoos in Paradise
Ahhhhhhhhhhh, the Paultardian Dance #2 by Morandin!
… and I’m painfully earnest and extremely gullible.
Interest… Newsletter &c.
Would you and your mother like to come up and see my etchings?
see my etchings?
I thought the parole board told you no more acid baths?
Would you and your mother like to come up and see my etchings?
MAD used to spell that ECHHings.
I ain’t getting outta the boat for Brooks – the weather is lovely hear in LEAFS SUCK, so there’s no way I’m ruining such a lovely Friday. But based on El Cid’s excerpt, here’s my marginally-Shorter:
Wow, did Obama have his spine removed during his check-up the other day?
Would you and your mother like to come up and see my etchings?
Oh! My mother loves etchings. (If you know what I mean, and I think you do…)
Wow, did Obama have his spine removed during his check-up the other day?
Yeah, people are pooping their pants about it. I’ve been talked down, and will wait to be pissed when/if it actually happens.
I’ve been talked down
But the fact that there are discussions taking place disheartens me. The cynic in me just chuckles at the fact that the right has fanned this fire of fear and loathing while Obama just perpetuates Bushian “security” policies.
Wow, did Obama have his spine removed during his check-up the other day?
It’s funny, because Clinton took the 1993 bomb conspiracy to court on flimsier evidence and won.
I’m thinking that maybe the torture defense would be less effective in a military tribunal. Thanks a lot, Bushies!
Does anyone see any respect for Ezra “The Good” Klein here?
Confession time. I read Ezra occassionally. Yes he’s a careerist jerk-wad and an insider tool and an epically entitled assclown and pretty much a posterboy for the label Fauxgressive.
That said, he is quite diligent (we’re talking about him building his own career here) and actually pretty smart. He’s less likely to reflexively punch a hippie than most others in major media. Sure that’s grading on a curve – but you can really only assess the op-ed writers you have and not the op-ed writers you’d like to push for HCR with.
And yes, I find myself disagreeing with him quite often, but I’m actually more comfortable when I disagree with the WunderKlein (his motives seem to be self-promotion and incidentally helping out the needy) then when I agree with Thomas Friedman (OMFG! China!one1!! HTE YELLOW MENACE!1!11!one)
It’s funny, because Clinton took the 1993 bomb conspiracy to court on flimsier evidence and won.
‘Zacly. And not to mention few hundred Terrests (not the white ones, duh) have we thrown into the clink through civvie trials?
I’m beginning to think politicians aren’t looking out for our best interests and such.
Confession time. I read Ezra occassionally.
I do, too. I agree–he’s not so bad. Wunderkinds in general annoy me and he’s a little bit of a douchenozzle, but he’s definitely not the worst.
His motives seem to be self-promotion and incidentally helping out the needy
His lisp doesn’t make it easy to take him seriously either. He should talk to this guy.
Confession time. I read Ezra occassionally.
And I didn’t mean that he’s not worth the paper he’s printed on, only that we tear him a new one when we have to. It’s not like he gets a flier when he’s wrong.
His lisp doesn’t make it easy to take him seriously either.
God help me, I think it’s kind of cute. Then again, I’ve always thought he was gay.
I was listening to “Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me!” last weekend, and Ed Helms was one of the featured guests.
He does an amazing “Gay Al Gore” impersonation.
God help me, I think it’s kind of cute.
Libbruls are always cute. And the geh.
Him being 25-years-old makes me feel really pathetic considering my contributions to the current political discourse.
Anyways, to answer Esther’s pointless question – it don’t matter who likes Brooks – the guy is a fucking idiot. That perpetual question of “Dishonest or Ignorant” – for Brooks the answer is “All of the Above.”
This is something that people like Esther don’t understand. Even if we did have a high opinion of Ezra Klein, we aren’t going to immediately assume everything he says is right. We aren’t going to change our core values to match his and we aren’t going to stop critically assessing things independently.
Esther, your mother asks you “if that popular girl in your class told you to jump off a cliff, would you?”
She was hoping that you’d say yes. It’s the same damn thing, the message is that you should Think For Yourself.P.S. I know your mom asks you that question because I am, like, so totally doing her. BTW, I’m fucking your mom.
Him being 25-years-old makes me feel really pathetic considering my contributions to the current political discourse.
Dude, I hear you. That’s why wunderkinds annoy me.
D-KW, h/t for you, sir, for the best Post Script I’ve ever read.
I get that secretaries are hired by AIG, but janitors? Most offices I worked at the janitors come from a cleaning service so dopey compensation systems don’t enter into it. Maybe AIG just has no idea how to handle money. OK that much is obvious.
D-KW, h/t for you, sir, for the best Post Script I’ve ever read.
*blushes* I bet you say that to all the men who are doing your mom. I suppose that means you say it a lot – it’s probably on your stationery.
Maybe AIG just has no idea how to our handle money.
Fixididilly
it’s probably on your stationery.
So you did get my Thank You card!
Is this the thread that’s going to go on and on and on before we get a new one?
Is this the thread that’s going to go on and on and on before we get a new one?
It’s the thread that never ends…which reminds me…
“Oedipus Tread”
Oedipus Text.
It’s the thread that never ends…which reminds me…
Of video game blogger cock?
Of video game blogger cock?
No. Zombie threads.
which reminds me…
…of the best new way to power everything from our cars to our homes!
Of video game blogger cock?
No. Zombie threads.
Oh. I guess you can see where my mind is…
OH, THREAD.
I thought you said threat.
…of the best new way to power everything from our cars to our homes!
That’s cool. I wonder if there will be a similar app for the Droid?
Wheeeee, according to MSN.com Pentagon gunman was apparently a Twoofer:
Signs emerged that Bedell harbored ill feelings toward the government and the armed forces, and had questioned the circumstances behind the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
In an Internet posting, a user by the name JPatrickBedell wrote that he was “determined to see that justice is served” in the death of Marine Col. James Sabow, who was found dead in the backyard of his California home in 1991. The death was ruled a suicide but the case has long been the source of theories of a cover up.
Keevill said Friday that authorities had not made “a final determination” that the shooter was the same Bedell.
The user named JPatrickBedell wrote the Sabow case was “a step toward establishing the truth of events such as the September 11 demolitions.”
…And of course, according to the wingnuts that makes him a Leftist because god knows nobody could POSSIBLY have had any issues with the government before The Usurper Obama Blackity X seized power.
Oh. I guess you can see where my mind is…
Is that yours in the gutter next to mind? I wondered what kept goosing it.
…a similar app for the Droid?
PENIS.
<i.I wonder if there will be a similar app for the Droid?
“Cool” was just what I thought T&U. The devs are being stonewalled by Apple for some nonsensical reason, besides the fact that they don’t want people to think that their phone is a block of yellow cake. According to that article, they say while waiting for apple to approve the app they are going ahead with the development of it for BB and Androids.
Tag, I suck.
I cant even spell my own name correctly. I need more rubber cement/coffee.
Oh. I guess you can see where my mind is…
Is that yours in the gutter next to mind? I wondered what kept goosing it.
Yeah, sorry about that. My mind’s kind of an obnoxious asshole.
According to that article, they say while waiting for apple to approve the app they are going ahead with the development of it for BB and Androids.
Oh, that’s what happens when you don’t read closely. Thanks for answering my dumb question!
And, just for the “record”–
Am I the only one who thinks the lines “There’s a choice we’re making/We’re saving our own lives” is musically IDENTICAL to “A star, a star/Shining in the night” from the be-tolerated Xmas song Do You Hear What I Hear? (?)
I wonder what the advocates of racial profiling have to say about Joe Stack and Patrick Bedell.
Yeah, sorry about that.
No no! Harder! HARDER!
I wonder what the advocates of racial profiling have to say about Joe Stack and Patrick Bedell.
That if they weren’t dead, they’d be innocent.
I’ve been talked down, and will wait to be pissed when/if it actually happens.
And good on ye for it. Sorry you got hit by some of the shrapnel, T&U. It’s not everyday that I pick a fight with Teh Glennzilla, especially before coffee.
Am I the only one who thinks the lines “There’s a choice we’re making/We’re saving our own lives” is musically IDENTICAL to “A star, a star/Shining in the night” from the be-tolerated Xmas song Do You Hear What I Hear? (?)
Actually, yes. Though, really, any time I think of “Do You Hear What I Hear?” I think of a mashup that this band (can’t remember their name) did of that song and “Baba O’Riley,” which kicks so much ass it’s unbelievable.
And good on ye for it. Sorry you got hit by some of the shrapnel, T&U. It’s not everyday that I pick a fight with Teh Glennzilla, especially before coffee.
Oh, no problem. I think the Bush years really fucked us all up. Seriously. I mean, when you only hear the tip of the iceberg regarding the evil that an administration perpetuates for eight years, it’s pretty easy to overreact to “leaks.” And if it turns out to be true, it’s not like we’ve lost anything waiting to despair until we know for sure.
(can’t remember their name)
Spiraling.
Thanks! I was thinking it was my boyfriend Sufjan Stevens, but I knew that wasn’t right.
No no! Harder! HARDER!
Excuse me, I didn’t mean to intrude on your curling.
Sufjan Steven
If you like him, check out Sea and The Cake.
It’s funny, because Clinton took the 1993 bomb conspiracy to court on flimsier evidence and won.
I’m thinking that maybe the torture defense would be less effective in a military tribunal. Thanks a lot, Bushies!
I don’t know what Holder thought he was going to take to court. 186 coerced confessions? He probably confessed to being the other shooter on the grassy knoll or anything else he thought might have stopped the torture. I’m still baffled by all of this. Holder sits there and guarantees a conviction, yet every bit of evidence obtained from KSM is completely inadmissable–unless we want to turn the conventional court system into a hybrid of American justice and a kangaroo tribunal, which is even worse than continuing the tribunal system–I think. I don’t know. I do know that I’m glad I’m not the one dealing with this fucking mess. Yeah, thanks Bush, Inc.
Actor, I don’t think you can do anything about it but while visiting your SLB, I clicked the “Next Blog” icon and this gem came up. Enjoy!
If you like him, check out Sea and The Cake.
I will, as soon as I finish listening to all 312 Sufjan Stevens records. (Just kidding. I like them quite a bit.)
I wonder what the advocates of racial profiling have to say about Joe Stack and Patrick Bedell.
They would try to draw some distinction between patriotism and terrorism that doesn’t exist, ignoring the actual question itself. Profiling good. Flying planes into buildings full of innocent people good if you’re white and a member of the brotherhood of psychotic tax rebels.
Esteev,
It’s allegedly a random function. But all I can say is, I’m glad that one is behind me and not in front of so I can stay upwind of it.
I wonder what the advocates of racial profiling have to say about Joe Stack and Patrick Bedell.
“I wish there was some way to profile LIEberals!”
It’s allegedly a random function.
Kinda like the GOP! Zing! *rimshot*
That’s more a random DYSfunction.
I don’t know bout all of you, but I’m more of a fan of this KSM photo as opposed to this one.
In the former, he seems much more likely to be a bowler than a terrust. (terRUSTs never sleeps!) Hence more pathetic
DisemBOWLERs unite! You have nothing to lose but your balls.
Since this is an open thread, how about some REALLY SCARY SHIT!
I dunno, I think this is scary than the end of the world.
Also, Acoustic Kitty. Sadface.
Speaking of scary, how about a comparison of Palin and Obama?
Big Journalism is a Big Joke.
which reminds me…
Heh.
The Sea and Cake are an amazing Chicago band.
That’s great.
This is proven by the fact that LOOK OVER THERE!
Palin is a REAL A*M*E*R*I*C*A*N?
christ, I’d like to follow her shining example then and quit my job and spend the next couple years working talk shows and “writing” books and having my own fucking magazine and generally being a inescapable burr under the saddle of our country.
Speaking of scary, how about a comparison of Palin and Obama?
I will not make fun of Kyle-Anne Shiver’s face…I will not make fun of Kyle-Anne Shiver’s face…I will not make fun of Kyle-Anne Shiver’s face…
is
Kyle-Anne?
Has gender confusion stuck the HEARTLAND?
Open thread, eh? Well then,
PENISBALLS!I will not make fun of Kyle-Anne Shiver’s face…I will not make fun of Kyle-Anne Shiver’s face…I will not make fun of Kyle-Anne Shiver’s face…
Her hair, on the hand…
Her hair, on the hand…
HOT MESS.
Let Kyle-Anne Shiver do the honours:
PeeJ, that link is hilarious! Did you look at the .pdf linked there? It is to howl. (The author of the .pdf resurrected a chapter of his PhD thesis “because of a recent interest in the topic after my 1976 paper was awarded the 2002 Ignobel Prize for Medicine.” Great stuff.)
Let Kyle-Anne Shiver do the honours:
AWESOME.
Oh yeah baby, channel some of that Samuel Clemens sass and bring me some of that subtle backhand, where I won’t know I’ve been made the fool until days later.
uh… er… I guess when you said meant “Southern”, you meant “inbred”.
I was sure I’d typed “other” in there before “hand,” but I guess I must have rushed my comment to get to the BALLS link. It was scrotastic.
She boned up on the internet
I’m sure she has.
But there’s an app for that, now that Apple has allowed adult apps.
Tig’s expertise required here.
Her hair, on the hand…
Is actually sexier than her face.
Is it safe?
Is it safe?
No, we all have Hep C
There once was a salaried banker
Who took his bank down like an anchor
Then he said “Now you own us
So where’s my damned bonus?”
And was shocked at the feeling of rancor.
No, we all have Hep C
Hey, speak for yourself!
I have Hep B.
Heck, Substance, I don’t know that part of the state at all. I wouldn’t recommend Athens unless she knows people, it’s a long way to drive to find out there’s nothing going on, and it’s not pretty yet this early in the year. Warm Springs was a good suggestion, and Tuskegee, AL and Andersonville, GA are also pretty close if she’s interested in historical sites.
Also, worth driving to
Substance, lovely scansion there *golf claps*
I have Hep A+.
Take that, ya fuckin’ slackers!
I’m just hep.
TU, that link is indeed worse than the end of the world. Bring on the clathrate gun.
That logo’s great.
That logo’s great.
It’s not quite suicide food, but it’s close.
The author of the .pdf resurrected a chapter of his PhD thesis “because of a recent interest in the topic after my 1976 paper was awarded the 2002 Ignobel Prize for Medicine.
IIRC Martin Gardner cites that 1976 paper on Greek statuary in one of his Sci Am columns.
More fun with doctored audio!
Saw the previous thread wherein tax payers got yelled at for yelling about the bail out because heavens, there are oppressed secretaries at AIG, too!
I detest this kind of misguided guilt trip. If anyone was “hard” on the lower rung workers it is the criminals who gambled all the money away, not pissed off taxpayers whose treasury is short billions because of a bail out that mostly benefited the slime. Ok, so a few secretaries and lower rung workers got to keep their jobs because of the bail out but that represents a pittance of the bail out. For Christ sake, wasn’t it AIG that took $400,000 of the first bail out and spent it on a party for their stock brokers (hookers, blow, and a big fancy hotel penthouse suite)? I seem to recall this. It is entirely fair for tax payers to be PISSED OFF at these motherfuckers. Nobody is steaming over the secretaries of these assholes.
Thank you, Substance, for getting the scansion right. As so few do.
Kyle-Anne writes of Palin: The other comes from a standard state university background.
Sadly, no. The other comes from four or five standard universities background.
The doctored audio fun was posted by me but FYWP and the like such.
The stimulus is working! (Snarkless)
There once was some lim’rick true purists,
With delight for scansion that didn’t miss
They acknowledged the rhyme
And thought it sublime
But I can never get the last line to work.
Recycling:
There once was a young man called Sven
Who’d been OCD since way back when
He’d count peas on his plate
And make wall-hangings straight
And this kind of thing would drive him nuts.
But the last line gives nothing but tsurris.
Since I take the words “Open Thread” to mean “anything goes” I figure this is as good a time as any to mention that you can find an interview with yours truly in issue #66 of Advanced Photoshop. Granted, it’s no chubby pundit on a toilet, but it’s kinda nifty stuff.
*backs out of thread like a whisper on the wind*
WTF? GET PHOTOSHOPPING.
I expect a rendering of a penis-haired Mitch McConnell in two hours.
have Hep A+.
Dood, I have Hep Cat, man!
That made laugh out loud. I will work on making something for the SN crowd. *evil grin*
Will take more suggestions for the perfect target.
I expect a rendering of a penis-haired Mitch McConnell in two hours.
That might make Medusa turn to stone.
Or it might give her a lady-boner. Medusa’s a freak.
Not mine – in any sense – but OPEN THREAD!
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Just wanted to share how difficult it is to sell wingnut books in the eBay bargain bin. Ugh.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA…
Just wanted to share how difficult it is to sell wingnut books in the eBay bargain bin. Ugh.
I auctioned off a galley proof of Jonah’s book two years ago, and all I got was some belly lint and a papaerclip.
Oh. And a crayoned manifesto about the “nigra in the Oval”.