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Not sure if it's been posted here yet, but that story about that supposed terrorist dry run in Atlanta that the right winger blogs were all in a tizzy about has thoroughly been debunked.
Not sure if it's been posted here yet, but that story about that supposed terrorist dry run in Atlanta that the right winger blogs were all in a tizzy about has thoroughly been debunked.
I hadn't seen that before. It's still surprising anyone bit on that without checking it out first.
I like being old, more and more as time goes on in fact.
When I was in my teens, back in the sixties, old people seemed very mean and altogether too likely to take everything we did too seriously. When young men started growing long hair and beards, for example, the oldsters did not see it as a silly affectation or an attempt to conform to an identifying subculture; they saw it as an attack on civilization itself. The more stridently the old folks reacted, the stronger and more rebellious the hair culture became. The result was hair length as revolutionary symbol and, absurdly, as a major issue in and of itself. Here in the south, young men were regularly harrassed and sometimes beaten for "looking like hippies." It was an obsession for law enforcement and the "straight" citizens they represented. I have mentioned how I dared not venture onto the streets during the Chicago Convention riots of 1968, for fear the cops would take my typical 19-year-old's grooming for antiwar activism and beat me senseless.
I like being old, more and more as time goes on in fact.
When I was in my teens, back in the sixties, old people seemed very mean and altogether too likely to take everything we did too seriously. When young men started growing long hair and beards, for example, the oldsters did not see it as a silly affectation or an attempt to conform to an identifying subculture; they saw it as an attack on civilization itself. The more stridently the old folks reacted, the stronger and more rebellious the hair culture became. The result was hair length as revolutionary symbol and, absurdly, as a major issue in and of itself. Here in the south, young men were regularly harrassed and sometimes beaten for "looking like hippies." It was an obsession for law enforcement and the "straight" citizens they represented. I have mentioned how I dared not venture onto the streets during the Chicago Convention riots of 1968, for fear the cops would take my typical 19-year-old's grooming for antiwar activism and beat me senseless.
My father is of your generation, and was himself a cop for a time. He recalls have a conversation with his partner, who was getting worked up about the elaborately dyed and spiked punk hairstyles popular then on the street.
"Ed," my dad pointed out, "you remember how crazy the old people got back when we were kids, and grew out our hair? Maybe you're overreacting."
"Yeah," Ed protested, "But at least we looked like human beings!"
wow. speechless here. saddest part is he'll probably get slammed on it from some wingnut blogs. as long as you don't take it too seriously, it's pretty hilarious though!
I like being old, more and more as time goes on in fact.
When I was in my teens, back in the sixties, old people seemed very mean and altogether too likely to take everything we did too seriously. When young men started growing long hair and beards, for example, the oldsters did not see it as a silly affectation or an attempt to conform to an identifying subculture; they saw it as an attack on civilization itself. The more stridently the old folks reacted, the stronger and more rebellious the hair culture became. The result was hair length as revolutionary symbol and, absurdly, as a major issue in and of itself. Here in the south, young men were regularly harrassed and sometimes beaten for "looking like hippies." It was an obsession for law enforcement and the "straight" citizens they represented. I have mentioned how I dared not venture onto the streets during the Chicago Convention riots of 1968, for fear the cops would take my typical 19-year-old's grooming for antiwar activism and beat me senseless.
wow. speechless here. saddest part is he'll probably get slammed on it from some wingnut blogs. as long as you don't take it too seriously, it's pretty hilarious though!
Sounds like Elin could give BHO a tip or two on the swing.
OT: Irshad Manji is asking her Muslim readers to write messages condemning anti-Semitism, in response to the European Jewish Students Union's condemnation of the minaret ban.
This woman is truly doing all the stuff we ask moderate Muslims to do. She is cool. And I like her hair.
You just knew Nancy was going to get the best line as always. The anticipation was worth it. I'm fucking stoked right now watching the SEC game and Onion videos during the commercials. Fucking-a man.
Not sure if it's been posted here yet, but that story about that supposed terrorist dry run in Atlanta that the right winger blogs were all in a tizzy about has thoroughly been debunked.
That email had everything but a theme song. It was so obviously made up it wasn't even worth paying attention to... unless you're Glenn Beck.
The alleged promiscuity of young people was a huge issue among the hippie-haters at the time. They apparently believed that every young woman was a whore and every guy with shoulder-length hair could get laid any time he felt like it (which I only wished were true). Among older men, there was more than a hint of jealousy in this and young women were often harassed in ways that would land the perp in jail today. When I got out of the army (temporarily) and went to college, I discovered that the well-scrubbed, church-going "straight" girls were a lot more cooperative than the "hippie chicks" in this respect, especially when I recruited my baby brother (then less than 2 years old) as a prop. In those long-vanished days they let you take kids to class if they weren't a disruption. My brother was a cute little blond tyke and I had only to haul him around the campus to draw a crowd of girls cooing about him.
Buwawaaahaaa!
OT: Irshad Manji is asking her Muslim readers to write messages condemning anti-Semitism, in response to the European Jewish Students Union's condemnation of the minaret ban.
This woman is truly doing all the stuff we ask moderate Muslims to do. She is cool. And I like her hair.
Did you read the comments?
She is indeed cool - and I like her hair, too.
That email had everything but a theme song. It was so obviously made up it wasn't even worth paying attention to... unless you're Glenn Beck.
All ye who mock the 48 hour rule, and act as though people were being PeeeCeee when something does turn out to be terrorism--here's why we're cautious!
All ye who mock the 48 hour rule, and act as though people were being PeeeCeee when something does turn out to be terrorism--here's why we're cautious!
Hell yeah. I read it here, and doubted it, but didn't find out till today that it was bs.
The alleged promiscuity of young people was a huge issue among the hippie-haters at the time. They apparently believed that every young woman was a whore and every guy with shoulder-length hair could get laid any time he felt like it (which I only wished were true). Among older men, there was more than a hint of jealousy in this and young women were often harassed in ways that would land the perp in jail today. When I got out of the army (temporarily) and went to college, I discovered that the well-scrubbed, church-going "straight" girls were a lot more cooperative than the "hippie chicks" in this respect, especially when I recruited my baby brother (then less than 2 years old) as a prop. In those long-vanished days they let you take kids to class if they weren't a disruption. My brother was a cute little blond tyke and I had only to haul him around the campus to draw a crowd of girls cooing about him.
Buwawaaahaaa!
BTW, has anyone here read the account Maziar Bahari wrote for Newsweek about being held by the Iranian government? Scary, but very interesting.
I mention this in light of the above post because there's a bit where the interrogator is going through his contacts, and asks how he met a woman in his phone list. He says he met her at a party, and the guy looks wise and says "a sex party", and doesn't believe him when he says he's never been to a 'sex party'.
The interrogator also insists that you can walk up to any woman on the Champs Elysees and have sex with her. ((I know many the tourist boy who wishes this were so...))
The alleged promiscuity of young people was a huge issue among the hippie-haters at the time. They apparently believed that every young woman was a whore and every guy with shoulder-length hair could get laid any time he felt like it (which I only wished were true). Among older men, there was more than a hint of jealousy in this and young women were often harassed in ways that would land the perp in jail today. When I got out of the army (temporarily) and went to college, I discovered that the well-scrubbed, church-going "straight" girls were a lot more cooperative than the "hippie chicks" in this respect, especially when I recruited my baby brother (then less than 2 years old) as a prop. In those long-vanished days they let you take kids to class if they weren't a disruption. My brother was a cute little blond tyke and I had only to haul him around the campus to draw a crowd of girls cooing about him.
Buwawaaahaaa!
It did, but it backfired: That was how I met my first wife, then a well-scrubbed church girl and ex-cheerleader but later known as Jezebel and Jabba the Slutt.
Yeah, that has been kicking around the blogs for a few days, but the right-o-sphere seems to be trying their best to ignore that yet another one of their heroes is an idiot.
Meanwhile, over on Volokh the lawyer Jim Lindgreen is doing his best to try and legitimize McIntyre by delving into the MWP idiocy of the denial-o-sphere.
Not sure if it's been posted here yet, but that story about that supposed terrorist dry run in Atlanta that the right winger blogs were all in a tizzy about has thoroughly been debunked.
I mentioned it a few days away, with a link to snopes debunking it. I thought some of the right wing sites might correct the story, but instead more have picked it up. One poster suggested all passengers should be given a handgun when boarding to handle things like that. just google Flight 297 Atlanta to Houston if you want some entrainment.
Hal Turner was on the FBI payroll. That's how he got away with his shit for as long as he did.
I was thinking it was like the Departed and how Nicholson's character had been committing all those crimes while simultaneously being a FBI informant. Guess it's similar to the real Whitey Bulger story.
I mentioned it a few days away, with a link to snopes debunking it. I thought some of the right wing sites might correct the story, but instead more have picked it up. One poster suggested all passengers should be given a handgun when boarding to handle things like that. just google Flight 297 Atlanta to Houston if you want some entrainment.
Sure, I'd love to be issued a handgun to 'handle things like that'. I'm just not so sure about everyone else on the plane getting them. I'm sure no one would panic and shoot an Indian actress. (Just remembering the time jets were scrambled to deal with a Bollywood princess and her entourage...anyone remember that?)
Also, if everyone on the plane gets a handgun, doesn't that mean the terrorists have also been armed by the airline?
Sure, I'd love to be issued a handgun to 'handle things like that'. I'm just not so sure about everyone else on the plane getting them. I'm sure no one would panic and shoot an Indian actress. (Just remembering the time jets were scrambled to deal with a Bollywood princess and her entourage...anyone remember that?)
Also, if everyone on the plane gets a handgun, doesn't that mean the terrorists have also been armed by the airline?
Oh, we would never do that. We're too lily livered and PC to admit that all our security problems would be solved by keeping the coloreds cowering at gun point.
You see, when I was a kid I used to save up for a month, so I could get an R&B album and, the same day, the completed works of Anton Webern. Maybe that means something. Maybe that tells you something about my music. -- Excerpt from the book "Rock and Other Four Letter Words", copyright 1968.
Frank says: