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"A toll is a toll
And a roll is a roll
And if I don't get my tolls
Then I don't get no rolls.
Made that up myself."
-Little John, Robin Hood (Men in Tights)
"Blinkin, what are you doing up there"
"I'm guessing, I guesss nobodys coming"
If you have the dvd version, watch all of the credits and the "thanks to". At almost the very end, comes the line "and absolutely no thanks to Bill Clinton." I saw that in the theater when it came out and my boyfriend and I almost rolled on the floor.
Meanwhile, Steele is said to be hoping that his entry into the race will scare off other hopefuls, including current RNC chairman Mike Duncan.
Others vying for the post include Chip Saltsman, who chaired Mike Huckabee's presidential campaign.
Mike who? That could explain some of the recent lackluster performance of the party. It seems to me the head of the RNC should have a higher profile. And anyone associated with the Huckabee campaign has no business in leadership, IMO.
Dumbledore: Harry, pay close attention to my words and concentrate, as you watch the powerful magical sphere.
Harry: Ooooh, pretty, pretty ball!
D: HARRY! It's not pretty, it contains powerful magic that will help you defeat Voldemort!
H: It's shiny, and it has swirly green and pink and gold and magenta - can I hold it and play with it?
D: (exasperated) Screw this, where's Hermione?
Charles,
Nice photographic composition. Nice form on taking the photo. Hands in proper location too. What kind of camera were you using? Can't quite make that out in the reflection on the orb.
So what does everybody thinK about Obama's loudmouth minions? Think its on purpose, or think he has employed idiots who can not be trusted.
or both?
tough call. Was it Obama's keen intellect which won him the white house or was it the chicago machine and he is just a cog. My money is on cog and as such, does what the machine says.
From the perspective of being 54-46 looks pretty damn good., lol
Ha! I was a bit sad about being outside the 18-45 demographic coveted by television advertisers. Most of the stuff I watch seems to be sponsored by AARP, the Scooter Store, and various denture creams (none of which I need). I'm hip, really, I swear!
I turn 40 in June. I can honestly say I never expected to live this long.
You ain't there yet. Lots of potential nastiness is out there. So, live every day as if it were going to be your last. One day, you're sure to be right.
Mike who? That could explain some of the recent lackluster performance of the party. It seems to me the head of the RNC should have a higher profile. And anyone associated with the Huckabee campaign has no business in leadership, IMO.
STEELE ! STEELE! STEELE! !
Listen, this is one of the best people we have in the GOP today.
(Unfortunately, he CAN'T be a governor or senator because he is from DEMaryland.)
I turned 41 last month. On Halloween I was talking with a 42 year old about Dio (as in Ronnie James) and she asked me how a 28'er knew so much about him. ;-> I'm the man in the Silver mountain.
STEELE ! STEELE! STEELE! !
Listen, this is one of the best people we have in the GOP today.
(Unfortunately, he CAN'T be a governor or senator because he is from DEMaryland.)
Great. We have a commie as president-elect and now we want a man whose name in Russian is "Stalin" to run the GOP. Got any more warm n'fuzzies for me?
Ah.
Well ...
Any bets that B0/Biden will be screaming for even more missile defences everywhere once the content of the CIA and NSA briefings have started to sink in?
"Senator Obama may not be familiar with a long-standing tradition of presidents holding their private conversations, private," a senior adviser explained to the DRUDGE REPORT.
Obama may not be familiar with anything which could be construed as classy. imo.
Great. We have a commie as president-elect and now we want a man whose name in Russian is "Stalin" to run the GOP. Got any more warm n'fuzzies for me?
No, that would be Staline, which means, I dunno. Stalin was a nom-de-guerre as his real name is Josef Larionivich or Jones or something. His ruthlessness put his nemeses (no Godwin here) to shame, although too bad we couldn't have nuked 'em both somewhere on the dusty steppe. Thanks for propping him up, FDR.
Didn't make it up or anything. Here it is in full (at least all I've heard)
THE BIRTHDAY DIRGE
Now you've aged another year
Now you know that Death is near
They say that cancer's caused by beer
Death, destruction, and despair
People dying everywhere
Typhoid, plague and polio
Coffins lined up in a row
Now that you're the age you are
Your demise cannot be far
Long ago your hair turned grey
Now it's falling out, they say
Birthdays come but once a year
Marking time as Death draws near
Pain, sorrow and despair
People dying everywhere
Oh - Happy Birthday
Ah.
Well ...
Any bets that B0/Biden will be screaming for even more missile defences everywhere once the content of the CIA and NSA briefings have started to sink in?
At least 4 years of Barry turning to Biden asking, "You knew about all this?!?"
No, that would be Staline, which means, I dunno. Stalin was a nom-de-guerre as his real name is Josef Larionivich or Jones or something. His ruthlessness put his nemeses (no Godwin here) to shame, although too bad we couldn't have nuked 'em both somewhere on the dusty steppe. Thanks for propping him up, FDR.
Are they really. Well, if he keeps up his indiscretions, he might end up a lot like Jesus--metaphorically speaking. Let's see if he can come back from the politically dead.
Charles,
Nice photographic composition. Nice form on taking the photo. Hands in proper location too. What kind of camera were you using? Can't quite make that out in the reflection on the orb.
It's my early Christmas present to myself: [Link: www.amazon.com...]
Are they really. Well, if he keeps up his indiscretions, he might end up a lot like Jesus--metaphorically speaking. Let's see if he can come back from the politically dead.
What we were once respectable news orgs have turned to dime store tabloid trash...this is the swing away from Bush as the Worst Living Human Ever.
You, it is kinda funny to think of using the theme song from "The Jeffersons" as the music for the inaugural parade. In fact, Biden would make a good Harry Bentley.
You, it is kinda funny to think of using the theme song from "The Jeffersons" as the music for the inaugural parade. In fact, Biden would make a good Harry Bentley.
Was he the white guy who was married to wizzie's friend?
I read Gitmo, that "Terror Prison" according to The One, is going to closes just as soon as he can. Fair trials for all interred (unless they are set free, of course) I guess the US taxpayer will fund this as well?
I read Gitmo, that "Terror Prison" according to The One, is going to closes just as soon as he can. Fair trials for all interred (unless they are set free, of course) I guess the US taxpayer will fund this as well?
No sarc
Most of these swell fellows will be let go since the information needed to convict them could never be made public.
You, it is kinda funny to think of using the theme song from "The Jeffersons" as the music for the inaugural parade. In fact, Biden would make a good Harry Bentley.
I can totally see WAB as Mother Jefferson--they each have an excellent CBF.
You, it is kinda funny to think of using the theme song from "The Jeffersons" as the music for the inaugural parade. In fact, Biden would make a good Harry Bentley.
I'm not even gonna ask if you saw what I think you saw...I sure didn't.
I believe the story starts something like this...He arrived out of nowhere to copious amounts of adoration...Sound familiar?
Yeah. It took the Jewish elders only a week to solve their problem of that pesky Nazarene rabbi. I fear it might take a tad longer for our elders to figure a solution to Comrade Barry.
If it weren't so scary it would be funny. What, exactly, do they think this guy is going to/able to do?
Beats me. What I find worrisome is how much he eats this stuff up. If he weren't a narcissist he'd be telling people he's no messiah, just a man. The fact that he calls himself a Christian, yet is strangely silent in telling the media who the real Messiah is - that's troubling.
I read Gitmo, that "Terror Prison" according to The One, is going to closes just as soon as he can. Fair trials for all interred (unless they are set free, of course) I guess the US taxpayer will fund this as well?
No sarc
If Obama can truly grant fair trials to the already interred, then I guess he really is the One.
Florida was Maude's maid before she move to Chicago and had "Good Times"
Oh, dear Lord, how is it our minds have become full of completely worthless information? I suppose it does help to immunize us from alien abductions and random anal probing.
Obama made a joke a couple of weeks ago about "The Jefferson's", "Weezy, I'm coming to join you!".
Even mixed up "Sanford and Son" with "The Jeffersons".
Shit, I'm blacker than he is.
Probably think the maids name on "The Jeffersons" was Florida.
Florida was Maude's maid before she move to Chicago and had "Good Times"
Oh, dear Lord, how is it our minds have become full of completely worthless information? I suppose it does help to immunize us from alien abductions and random anal probing.
hahaha - I was thinking the same thing. We all know so much about so little. :)
Perhaps OT - but I had a quick look at the video on the Beeb, about B0 and WAB (she's not 'First' yet!) meeting President Bush and his wife.
Struck me that WAB didn't seem to really shake Pres.Bush's hand - and then she grabbed Mts. Bush and must have kept hold of her.
As they all stood for the photographers, Mrs. Bush sort of tweaked her arm away and gave WAB a look ...
I thought to meself - whoa, did WAB pinch her?
Back to the photo - the figure you can see in there reminded me of that classic ebay pic where the fat naked guy took the photo of something shiny and his reflection was in the auction photo.
I just had a moonbat tell me that a lot of $ was pulled from social programs to fund the war in Iraq. I know this is BS and I know that Bush hasn't cut any domestic funding (much to our chagrin), has he? Anyone know where I can find some stats on this? Thank you.
No, not at all! I hope you will find, as I have, that some of the things that upset you or worried you in your 20s and 30s just don't matter and that you're less afraid to stand up for yourself.
You do know some of Jesus' most vitriolic attackers were the same people who had been praising him mere days before. Comrade Barry might want to take note that the MSM can be pretty bitchy.
YOu don't think that Barry and Michelle (maybe with a couple of friends) are going to check out historical files like FBI files on famous people or friends, CIA files?
It's going to be like high-school in there.
I can hear it now, "I always wondered if this or that were true..." and off they go to check.
You do know some of Jesus' most vitriolic attackers were the same people who had been praising him mere days before. Comrade Barry might want to take note that the MSM can be pretty bitchy.
Sorry, I am having huge problems with attempted connections between Jesus any anybody like this. Even in jest.
Sorry, I am having huge problems with attempted connections between Jesus any anybody like this. Even in jest.
It's not in jest. There are people out there who consider him to be a least a prophet if not the second coming. As with Christ, these people are going to be in for a let down when he cannot, or will not, deliver on the things they want and they will turn on him in a fury. Sadly, this is nothing new in history.
I think she technically attempted to compared him to Moses too. ("born in palaces" -although technically Moses wasn't born in a Palace so I could be wrong)
What if Google knew before anyone else that a fast-spreading flu outbreak was putting you at heightened risk of getting sick? And what if it could alert you, your doctor and your local public health officials before the muscle aches and chills kicked in?
That, in essence, is the promise of Google Flu Trends, a new Web tool that Google.org, the company’s philanthropic unit, unveiled on Tuesday, just as flu season was getting under way in the United States.
Google Flu Trends is based on the simple idea that people who are feeling sick will probably turn to the Web for information, typing things like “flu symptoms” or “muscle aches” into Google. The service tracks such queries and charts their ebb and flow, broken down by regions and states.
Early tests suggest that the service may be able to detect regional outbreaks of the flu a week to 10 days before they are reported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Some public health experts say that could help accelerate the response of doctors, hospitals and public health officials to a nasty flu season, reducing the spread of the disease and, potentially, saving lives.
It's not in jest. There are people out there who consider him to be a least a prophet if not the second coming. As with Christ, these people are going to be in for a let down when he cannot, or will not, deliver on the things they want and they will turn on him in a fury. Sadly, this is nothing new in history.
But I will pull this out of Jesus Christ Superstar to describe "O"...
It's not in jest. There are people out there who consider him to be a least a prophet if not the second coming. As with Christ, these people are going to be in for a let down when he cannot, or will not, deliver on the things they want and they will turn on him in a fury. Sadly, this is nothing new in history.
Well, I can disqualify the bastard immediately. My Lord was/is not a liar.
Now ... Rosemary's Baby? That's a whole 'nother story.
Actually, there's a bunch of spinoffs from Happy Days:
Joanie loves Chachi
Laverne and Shirley
Mork and Mindy
Blanskey's Beauties
Out of the Blue
and two cartoons:
The Fonz and the Happy Days Gang
The Mork & Mindy/Laverne & Shirley/Fonz Hour
Crazy!
I pity you. I really do, especially if you devoted any time in you finet existence to watching any--ANY-- of these shows. I am sure, that if the Catholics are right on this Purgatory concept--that and endless loop of all these shows--all the mediocre sitcoms from the 1970' and 80's- play for eternity. Hell would be just listening to the theme music.
..and Saudi Arabia is heading to New York to preach religious tolerance and foster a culture of peace. Sounds like a really bad joke. At least this time, Human Rights Watch seem to on to it:
World leaders should press King Abdullah to end systematic religious discrimination in Saudi Arabia, Human Rights Watch said today. The leaders will gather on November 12 at the United Nations for an interfaith meeting spearheaded by Saudi Arabia to foster the culture of peace.
“There is no religious freedom in Saudi Arabia, yet the kingdom asks the world to listen to its message of religious tolerance,” said Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East director at Human Rights Watch. “The dialogue should be about where religious intolerance runs deepest, and that includes Saudi Arabia.”
- but still not quite: "Saudi Arabia should practice at home what it preaches abroad,” Whitson said. Saudi Arabia already does that. Many rights, tolerance and respect for Sunni Muslims. No rights, no tolerance and no respect for non-sunni-Muslims. We all already know, that when Saudi Arabia speak of religious tolerance they speak of religious tolerance of Islam only.
Errr. Wrong Answer. Our judges were looking for Gavin Herlihy. Thanks for playing the game today. Don Pardo, please tell our contestant about our lovely door prizes...
Errr. Wrong Answer. Our judges were looking for Gavin Herlihy. Thanks for playing the game today. Don Pardo, please tell our contestant about our lovely door prizes...
Speaking of which . . does anyone remember the old Wheel of Fortune? "I'll take the porcelain Greyhound for $60.00 Pat, and . . . the Wicker Home Sweet Home kitchen hanging for $120.00 . . ."
Speaking of which . . does anyone remember the old Wheel of Fortune? "I'll take the porcelain Greyhound for $60.00 Pat, and . . . the Wicker Home Sweet Home kitchen hanging for $120.00 . . ."
Speaking of which . . does anyone remember the old Wheel of Fortune? "I'll take the porcelain Greyhound for $60.00 Pat, and . . . the Wicker Home Sweet Home kitchen hanging for $120.00 . . ."
How the hell did we get here? hahaha!
Oh yeah. H.R. Pufnstuf rocked.
Now that Jimmy'd washed ashore
Puf arrived to save the day
Which made the witch so mad and sore
She shook her fist and screamed away...
No, not at all! I hope you will find, as I have, that some of the things that upset you or worried you in your 20s and 30s just don't matter and that you're less afraid to stand up for yourself.
I LOVE being 40-something!
Indeed. I'm 40-something, and this Halloween I was all "get off of my lawn" for the first time ever. I scared the hell out of five or six kids.
I was freaked out by HR Puff'n stuff when I was a kid. By most all of the characters, to be honest.
Yet still, the theme song runs through my head...
"HR Puff 'n stuff - always there when things get rough.
HR Puff 'n stuff - you can't get a little if you can't get enough."What the hell does that mean, anyway?
I had to spend $2,000 at the Bunny Ranch outside of Vegas to find that out!
Speaking of which . . does anyone remember the old Wheel of Fortune? "I'll take the porcelain Greyhound for $60.00 Pat, and . . . the Wicker Home Sweet Home kitchen hanging for $120.00 . . ."
and what about that year supply of Rice a' Roni--the San Francisco Treat. You know, I have NEVER been able to get good Rice a' Roni in San Francisco--don't know why.
It was so funny when Sally was pitching for the poor starving kids around the world.
Oh, that was a sick joke. I swear, some of those kids looked at here like she was an alien--not because of her skin hue, but that she had her own gravitational field.
You're so cynical. The fact that EVERY "new fond' vote just happens to be democrat is totally coincidental!
It's their own fault for it even being close. First Jesse "The Body" and now "Stuart Smalley." I heard "Barney" is considering a run for Minnesota's 14th Congressional district.
Oh, that was a sick joke. I swear, some of those kids looked at here like she was an alien--not because of her skin hue, but that she had her own gravitational field.
The kids were thinking that the food packages would never get past her.
I pity you. I really do, especially if you devoted any time in you finet existence to watching any--ANY-- of these shows. I am sure, that if the Catholics are right on this Purgatory concept--that and endless loop of all these shows--all the mediocre sitcoms from the 1970' and 80's- play for eternity. Hell would be just listening to the theme music.
Obama really can't win here. No human being could possibly live up to the expectations of his devoted, and highly-placed, disciples. His acolytes really do believe that he's some sort of deity. Unreal.
I have to admonish Mr. Wolf about fatty jokes, given that it's 4 kids and nearly 3 decades since I was his skinny little bride.
Of course, there is middle-age spread and m-i-d-d-l-e-a-g-e s-p-r-e-a-d, i.e., the capitalist version and the spread-it-all-around socialist version.
Perhaps we should be charitable and say that Sally Struthers is quite a socialist these days!
Oh, that was a sick joke. I swear, some of those kids looked at here like she was an alien--not because of her skin hue, but that she had her own gravitational field.
My husband adopted one of those kids. Come to think of it, he's still sending money. Kid must be 30 years old by now!
My favorite was the NFL football thing with the little football players that "moved" when you turned the thing on. Never did get a decent game out of that thing.
I have to admonish Mr. Wolf about fatty jokes, given that it's 4 kids and nearly 3 decades since I was his skinny little bride.
Of course, there is middle-age spread and m-i-d-d-l-e-a-g-e s-p-r-e-a-d, i.e., the capitalist version and the spread-it-all-around socialist version.
Perhaps we should be charitable and say that Sally Struthers is quite a socialist these days!
Sally wrote the joke all by herself, by not realizing how the ad would look.
Remember Sigmund and the Seamonster? Land of the Lost? ROTFLOL
Such bad TV, yet so much fun.
All those years of therapy, dealing with the issues cause by those shows--and the other cultural abominations from the fetid minds of Sid & Marty Kroft--has just gone out the window, thanks to you. Curse you!
Five words; "Electra Woman and Dyna-Girl", forever scared my teen-age dating life.///
My favorite was the NFL football thing with the little football players that "moved" when you turned the thing on. Never did get a decent game out of that thing.
Yeah, that game was a piece of crap...although I believe there are guys who still play it in competitive tournaments.
We are in the process of uninstalling Google Toolbars from all corporate systems and will not use Google ever again. Taking any of our information, even if in aggregate counts and turning it over to Federal agencies is a bad president, um, precedent ("Freud! I slipped and can't get up!").
Obama really can't win here. No human being could possibly live up to the expectations of his devoted, and highly-placed, disciples. His acolytes really do believe that he's some sort of deity. Unreal.
Long as it don't end with a kool-aid party, I guess they'll all muddle thru somehow.
Ahmad Yousuf, Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh's political advisor, said that during the recent US presidential race a secret meeting between senior Islamist group figures and advisors to President-elect Barack Obama was held in Gaza.
"We were in contact with a number of Obama's aides through the Internet, and later met with some of them in Gaza, but they advised us not to come out with any statements, as they may have a negative effect on his election campaign and be used by Republican candidate John McCain (to attack Obama)," Yousuf said in an interview with London-based Arabic-language newspaper Al-Hayat, published Tuesday
Any show that neutered Robin Williams in his prime was mediocre. Like Richard Pryor's variety show---on NBC--in family viewing time. That was a howler.
My favorite was the NFL football thing with the little football players that "moved" when you turned the thing on. Never did get a decent game out of that thing.
We had that one, too. Of course, the "field" just vibrated and the little players moved basically at random. It might have worked better as a rugby game.
Not to sound spoiled (which I basically was), we had tons of games when I was a kid. Most of them are sitting in my mom's basement. I would love to have the time to put them up on eBay and make some money for her, but she lives in another state.
This has given me an idea. Trying to debrief my brain from all the election crap, so maybe I'll settle in tonight with a grilled cheese, Campbell's tomato soup, and a few hours of TV Land sitcoms. Were the 70s a simpler time, or do they just seem so in hindsight?
Any show that neutered Robin Williams in his prime was mediocre. Like Richard Pryor's variety show---on NBC--in family viewing time. That was a howler.
How about his kids show, "Pryor's Place"? Now THAT was bizarre!
Me too! Like he should have been in a McDonald's commercial. LOL
FROM WIKIPEDIA...
In popular culture
The show was the subject of a successful lawsuit brought by the Kroffts against the fast food restaurant McDonald's, whose McDonaldland characters were found to have infringed the show's copyright. (Sid & Marty Krofft Television Productions, Inc. v. McDonald's Corp., 562 F.2d 1157, decided by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in 1977.)[3]
This has given me an idea. Trying to debrief my brain from all the election crap, so maybe I'll settle in tonight with a grilled cheese, Campbell's tomato soup, and a few hours of TV Land sitcoms. Were the 70s a simpler time, or do they just seem so in hindsight?
They were simpler from our point of view because we were children. My biggest problem back then was getting teased for wearing floaties at the Brownies' pool party.
Mork and Mindy suffered from utterly terrible writing. Watching some of the second and third year episodes is truly painful.
During those years, head writers tended to hog all the credits in order to be paid twice, and it was very profitable to let the show go to hell rather than bring in new blood.
For a young writer, was practically impossible to break into comedy writing during those days unless your father worked on "Your Show of Shows" or you lived next door to someone who did.
Obama really can't win here. No human being could possibly live up to the expectations of his devoted, and highly-placed, disciples. His acolytes really do believe that he's some sort of deity. Unreal.
"When Man ceases to worship God he does not worship nothing but worships everything." - G.K. Chesterton
This has given me an idea. Trying to debrief my brain from all the election crap, so maybe I'll settle in tonight with a grilled cheese, Campbell's tomato soup, and a few hours of TV Land sitcoms. Were the 70s a simpler time, or do they just seem so in hindsight?
They were simpler from our point of view because we were children. My biggest problem back then was getting teased for wearing floaties at the Brownies' pool party.
At least you didn't leave a brownie floating in the pool. Or did you?
This has given me an idea. Trying to debrief my brain from all the election crap, so maybe I'll settle in tonight with a grilled cheese, Campbell's tomato soup, and a few hours of TV Land sitcoms. Were the 70s a simpler time, or do they just seem so in hindsight?
One of my babysitters during my prekindergarden stage would not let me watch I Love Lucy. (we're talkin mid 50s). She said Lucy was a liar and not good to see. Damn if she wasn't right. But it's wall to wall on TV land.
Anyone remember "Real People" with Skip Stephenson, or "That's Incredible?"
They did a Real People episode here featuring the Rhinestone Cowboy. Not rip off Glen Campbell, but the O-riginal Rhinestone Cowboy. He even had 'em in his dentures.
The 70's were a simpler time only if you were a kid and had no idea what was going on!
Otherwise the whole decade between '66 and '76 was just god-awful.
Horowitz didn't call it the destructive generation for nothing.
I remember my parents watching "That's Incredible" when I was little. Some of the stories gave me nightmares... I remember seeing show, but can't remember any of the stories today.
They did a Real People episode here featuring the Rhinestone Cowboy. Not rip off Glen Campbell, but the O-riginal Rhinestone Cowboy. He even had 'em in his dentures.
Hey - don't knock Glen Campbell. Rhinestone Cowboy was my first ever album. I must have been 4 or 5.
They did a Real People episode here featuring the Rhinestone Cowboy. Not rip off Glen Campbell, but the O-riginal Rhinestone Cowboy. He even had 'em in his dentures.
Very cool. I prefer the Canons after getting one as an engagement gift (Rebel 2000), and then upgraded to the Rebel XTi in time for my 5th anniversary trip to Paris. Once you spend all that money on lenses for one brand, it locks you in to sticking with that brand. Not that I mind with the Canon line. Lots of lenses to choose from and they have great compatibility. It will probably be a few years before I consider upgrading again, although at that point it would probably be to the 5D Mark II (or something along those lines when I'm in the mood to plunk down serious change for a nice toy for myself).
Can somebody please explain what the game "Twister" has to do with
"Brown Chicken Brown Cow"?
"Brown Chicken Brown Cow" is a verbal approximation of '70s pr0n music ("bow chicka bow bow"). Twister was a game of opportunity for curious adolescents to enjoy some innocent proximity, grinding & groping under cover of a game.
"Brown Chicken Brown Cow" is a verbal approximation of '70s pr0n music ("bow chicka bow bow"). Twister was a game of opportunity for curious adolescents to enjoy some innocent proximity, grinding & groping under cover of a game.
This has given me an idea. Trying to debrief my brain from all the election crap, so maybe I'll settle in tonight with a grilled cheese, Campbell's tomato soup, and a few hours of TV Land sitcoms. Were the 70s a simpler time, or do they just seem so in hindsight?
I'm told by people who should know that over time the human mind loses unpleasant memories faster than pleasant ones, hence the past seems like the "the good old days".
The truth is that the '70 sucked and like a brown acid flashback from Woodstock we are about to re-live them.
"Brown Chicken Brown Cow" is a verbal approximation of '70s pr0n music ("bow chicka bow bow"). Twister was a game of opportunity for curious adolescents to enjoy some innocent proximity, grinding & groping under cover of a game.
I'm told by people who should know that over time the human mind loses unpleasant memories faster than pleasant ones, hence the past seems like the "the good old days".
The truth is that the '70 sucked and like a brown acid flashback from Woodstock we are about to re-live them.
Right. There was nothin' "good ole days" about 15% inflation.
I'm told by people who should know that over time the human mind loses unpleasant memories faster than pleasant ones, hence the past seems like the "the good old days".
The truth is that the '70 sucked and like a brown acid flashback from Woodstock we are about to re-live them.
I had an email the other day about how an Obama presidency was going to be like the Carter years...long gas lines, Iran showing their ass, and disco. Can we really stand four more years of disco?
Perhaps I wasn't clear - I mean Clinton had a hundred more than President Bush. In general, Democrats seem to have more per year. Roosevelt had over a thousand in 12 years which seems like a lot but he had a War and a Depression.
The good thing about turning 40 is people quit trying to tell you what you should or should not do. You are now old enough to mess up and hopefuly only blame yourself.
My son, 10, drew a beautiful water color drawing in school of frollicking seals. I was admiring the picture until I started reading:
Save the Seals
Avoid Humans (one seal to another)
Hunting is brutal and ruthless.
I asked him where he heard that hunting was brutal and ruthless.
He said, "Oh everywhere at school."
Now we are hunters. Mr DT teaches hunting and trapping classes, for goodness sake. The kids all have bows, arrows, and BB-guns that they can use with supervision.
The 70's were a simpler time only if you were a kid and had no idea what was going on!
Otherwise the whole decade between '66 and '76 was just god-awful.
Horowitz didn't call it the destructive generation for nothing.
Not to mention that it was the beginning of the big slide for the American auto industry. '66 Chevelle SS 396 anybody? Now, how about a nice '76 Nova?
David Brooks has set up a false set of choices for Republicans over at the NYT:
In one camp, there are the Traditionalists, the people who believe that conservatives have lost elections because they have strayed from the true creed. George W. Bush was a big-government type who betrayed conservatism. John McCain was a Republican moderate, and his defeat discredits the moderate wing.
To regain power, the Traditionalists argue, the G.O.P. should return to its core ideas: Cut government, cut taxes, restrict immigration. Rally behind Sarah Palin.
That is the definition of camp 1? Really? That must set up a strange "opposite camp" which he does -
The other camp, the Reformers, argue that the old G.O.P. priorities were fine for the 1970s but need to be modernized for new conditions. The reformers tend to believe that American voters will not support a party whose main idea is slashing government. The Reformers propose new policies to address inequality and middle-class economic anxiety. They tend to take global warming seriously. They tend to be intrigued by the way David Cameron has modernized the British Conservative Party.
So the "other camp" wants to (1) emulate a European model, (2) address economic inequality, (3) "tends" to want to fight global warming (eg "take it seriously") and (4) "modernize".
Linguists call this a "false binary opposition" - Brooks has set up 2 opposing strawmen that are going to fight to the death, no doubt for "bobo" spoils.
Hey David - do you slum LGF? If you do, here are the actual "battle lines" - A libertarian model vs a social conservative model. The libertarians (I am one of them) argue that candidates who lead with social conservatism, outside of being divisive, have rarely delivered on bringing growth in government to heal. Growth in spending is obvious, but more subtle is the growth in federal power which almost makes state governments redundant, except that they won't stand for simply melting away. Growth as in a profound inability to adopt management and information systems innovations of the last 35 years to deliver information (which is most of what government does) from point A to point B with fewer salaried persons in between.
Now Social Conservatives will say they are completely committed to economic conservatism, except that we just had 8 years of a guy that never wavered on social conservative issues and never performed on slowing the government down, and legislative priorities of the 6 year Republican congress under Bush went along. Embarrassingly, it was Bill Clinton who spent at a slower rate and actually worked off some of the debt. Now there are all sorts of reasons for that (like a Republican congress that choked dollars off from the Clintons).
The goal at this point is not to "slash" government. Slowing it down would be a major accomplishment, but certainly not an impulse of those who ran our party for the last 8 years.
Underscoring how unworkable your strawman battle is , David, if we are to think that printing money (since we can't borrow what we need anymore given asset depreciation) and spending it on social and economic aid is going to bring about economic equality, you are dead wrong. The word is "inflation" and it disproportionately punishes the poor and the middle class before it hurts the rich. I don't know any Republicans eager to follow that path to income equality. You are more likely to here about opportunity equality leading to income equality out of republicans i know.
Iron law of firsties: Say you're first in the first comment, get deleted. (Charles's house, Charles's rules.)
Neither here nor there, but, reminds me of something funny. I live in the small rural city of Seaford, DE. They have a sign up along the highway that says, "Voted 29th best small city in America".
That always makes me smile, cause I can just hear people chanting, "We're number 29! We're number 29! We're numb..."
I had an email the other day about how an Obama presidency was going to be like the Carter years...long gas lines, Iran showing their ass, and disco. Can we really stand four more years of disco?
Proof positive of Murphy's Last Law:
"If it was bad, it will be back!"
"Blinkin, what are you doing up there"
"I'm guessing, I guesss nobodys coming"
If you have the dvd version, watch all of the credits and the "thanks to". At almost the very end, comes the line "and absolutely no thanks to Bill Clinton." I saw that in the theater when it came out and my boyfriend and I almost rolled on the floor.
My favorite was the NFL football thing with the little football players that "moved" when you turned the thing on. Never did get a decent game out of that thing.
Yeah, the vibrating metal football field alleged "game" with little plastic footbal players.
What a fraud that was.
More like a physics experiment in random motion.
I wrote a song about dental floss but did anyone's teeth get cleaner? -- In response to Tipper Gore's allegations that music incites people towards deviant behavior, or influences their behavior in general.
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