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bluegal on Monday, May 19th, 2008 at 8:30 PM - PDT
Every problem ever faced by anyone, in my humble opinion, was addressed by the late Douglas Adams in his Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series. For instance, the words “don’t panic” in large friendly letters has helped me survive many a small child’s birthday party.
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We The People-First!
McCain’s ‘Compelling Logic’ For Not Talking to Our Enemies
http://satiricalpolitical.com/?p=1844
Just on Letterman, “shes found a way to raise money in kentucky, shes sold the stud rights to Bill”
LMAO
New Labour in the UK showing their true colours, and its not very socialist liberal progressive,
if anything Gordon Brown and his cadre are goose stepping fast into the ranks of Mussolini.
RESPECT the uniform or else !
YouTube refuses Lieberman request
http://www.fcw.com/online/news/152587-1.html
Which is the book thats going to show me, answers to questions I don’t even know.
Gas..$4 a gal..Chicago
Yes We Can
MountainMan23 @ 5:
Thanks for that post. Yea YouTube.
Just change a few names & this could be a comment about current politics.
fiddlerbird @ 9:
So why didn’t the link I included no show up?
Douglas Adams and Bill Hicks…two geniuses gone far too soon. We could use the likes of them both now!!!
Obama defends his wife’s honor. Bush and Ted Stevens want to rape
Alaska’s forest.
fiddlerbird @ 9:
I don’t know. 42?
fiddlerbird @ 10:
I meant that for this question…
42?
MountainMan23 @ 5:
Lieberman actually still believes he is relavent. I can’t wait until November when the repugnantcants lose all power in the house and senate and he loses all of his committee positions.
MountainMan23 @ 5:
Why does Joe Lieberman hate free speech?
Ooh ooh more speech directives from Zion…
Palestinians Mark 60th Anniversary of Nakba
On Friday, scores of Palestinians and Arab Americans gathered at the United Nations to mark the sixtieth anniversary of the founding of the state of Israel, what Palestinians call the Nakba, or catastrophe…
Israel Urges UN to Stop Using the Word “Nakba”
The Arab News reports Israel is calling on the United Nations to stop using the word “Nakba” after a comment by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. Israel’s deputy ambassador to the United Nations, Danny Carmon, told Israeli Radio, “Nakba is a tool of Arab propaganda used to undermine the legitimacy of the establishment of the State of Israel, and it must not be part of the lexicon of the UN.”
Nakba, Nakba, Nakba, Nakba, Nakba, Nakba, Nakba, Nakba, Nakba, Nakba, Nakba, Nakba, Nakba, Nakba, Nakba, Nakba, Nakba, Nakba.
There. I said it. Nakba.
MountainMan23 @ 5:
The VP elect practicing while Chimpy is off sorting out his immigration visa.
Or is it a case of the puppeteer being visible while the puppet is away.
Iran is storing 25-30 million bbls of oil in tankers cause there is no market for heavy crude:
HOUSTON, May 14 — Energy prices rebounded May 13 amid speculation that Iran might cut its crude production by 400,000-1 million b/d beginning in June.
Iranian Oil Minister Gholam-Hossein Nozari, however, denied such a move. Hossein Kazempour Ardebili, Iran’s departing governor to the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, told Dow Jones Newswires his country is storing 25 million bbl of heavy crude in 10-12 tankers in the Persian Gulf because it could find no buyers for that supply.
Olivier Jakob at Petromatrix, Zug, Switzerland, noted, “Iran has not reduced production even in times of OPEC quota reduction and with the [United Nations] sanctions [stemming from the dispute over Iran’s nuclear program] it would make little sense for them to lose the little market share they have been able to preserve.” Jakob said, “It is true, however, that they have about 25-30 million bbl of unsold oil sitting afloat on tankers, and talking the market up is good salesmanship to push the potential buyers to finally come to the table.”
Deteriorata (Fluke of the Universe)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faU-SK0pHCI
1Watt @ 18:
I keep maintaining the fact, (THERE IS NOT A SHORTAGE OF OIL.) It’s the multi billionaire speculators that are driving up the price of a barrel of oil. These people are unamerican and do not care about our economy or the economies and starving people all over the world.
Trying to make sense out of the world via the MainStreamMedia is always risky business.
I’ve always thought Adams’ advice about ‘under no circumstances should anyone who actually wants the job (of president) be given it.’
But, minus the extra arm and head, Bush is a perfect Beeblebrox. A complete incompetent to hold the office while others actually run things.
http://www.meridianstar.com/fe.....04343.html
“See? It’s not a tax cut for the rich, only poor people make less than $65k!! HOORAY FOR REPUBLICANS!!”
/me bangs head on desk
Grrrr…..formatting
ferrofluid @ 4:
My problems with so called new Labour notwithstanding, I’m not sure I see much of Mussolini in that article. The title worried me, but it was betrayed by the text, which explained that the government would criminalize discrimination against soldiers in uniform, not mere insults.
Heavy recruitment aimed at younger people is worrisome, but I can’t say I disagree with anti-discrimination laws for veterans.
[I magic binned the first one for you-Sitemonitor]
Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius Vetoes Photo ID Voter Requirement
Don’t panic?
Right.
Oil, the thing that we have based our entire industrialized civilization upon, is apparently SO plentiful, that we have to have a major WAR every fifteen years or so in order to secure what’s left… and gas is going to be seven dollars a FREAKING GALLON by the end of the year…
Don’t panic… spoken like a person who makes more than a hundred thousand dollars a year.
The problem is, the people who write these blogs apparently don’t live in trailer parks.
Sometimes I think that you’re no better than our elitist politicians.
Sorry to come down on you so hard, but the truth is the PROPER time to panic was at least TWENTY YEARS AGO!
Don’t panic… what a joke.
Karen @ 25:
Right on. I was turned away from my precinct in WA state for want of picture ID. Never mind I’ve been registered in the same precinct since 1982.
Ethiopia is screwed again.
miss_kitty Nakba @ 27:
Everyone needs to register early and make sure everything is in order. Just go ahead and assume that they’re going to try to cage your vote. Take it as a given and go ahead and plan for it ahead of time.
Did anyone see Senator Webb on Letterman.
I think you can add Letterman to the group of people who you know who they are standing with..I’d say he’s an Obama guy from what I’ve seen. He talks to them all, like John Stewart, but from things he said, particularly in the interview with Webb, it sounds like he’s for Obama.
I could have done with less Kevin Spacey and a full half hour of Jim Webb. Good interview. Guys got cajones.
miss kitty@16
Well done … now you’ve said it (or at least written it). Are you now done? No one here really cares …
Listening to Bush’s NBC interview I cant help but laugh that this man is Pres.
I mean, all the killing of innocent people the world over, it is funny as hell.
This guy would lose in a 5th grade spelling bee, easy.
Space Coyote @ 29:
And I’m grabbing up my wallet and Passport next time.
I meant to add IGNORING the killing of innocent people. My bad.
James @ 26:
Ok. Let’s all panic! Starting now! Go! Ahhhhhhh!!!!!!!!
Anything fixed yet?
You know, the elitist fat cats who dare to write C&L from their non-mobile homes try to include a little levity in the open thread prompts. And come to think of it, if anyone could make policy by panic sound oddly sensible, it would have been Douglas Adams. :)
Bob Roberts @ 31:
That’s your opinion. Thanks for sharing. I guess otto’s kick your arse on another you’ve decided to come after me. Go pick a fight elsewhere, BR.
Nakba.
Bob Roberts @ 31:
Hey, I happen to think that if Miss Kitty wants to go off on a rant, she’s got my full approval.
miss_kitty Nakba @ 16:
Now dare whisper that the Holocaust is a myth (Which, of course, it isn’t a myth. Millions of innocent people were killed then) and watch the Israeli propaganda machine descend on your house like it’s a DEA raid.
You see, it’s OK if Israel does it. Same as Bush’s logic, it’s OK if we torture, but if someone else does it he whines, “SHAME ON YOU”!
Israel has yet to acknowledge the catastrophe that was and still is the Nakba, either formally or informally.
The hypocrisy is nauseating.
At least Australia apologized to the aborigines. U.S. school textbooks acknowledge the genocide of the Indians (Native Americans) and the enslavement of African Americans.
Israel’s media, schools, books, newspapers, government, parliament, etc.. are pretending like the Palestinians are foreign parasites who get off on killing Jews and are nothing but barbaric animals.
Disclaimer: If anyone finds some depictions or words in my post to be too strong or offensive, perhaps it’s time you familiarized yourself with the facts. Bush’s speech last week comparing Iran’s leader to Hitler, pales in comparison to the kind of venom Israel lobs at the Palestinians, especially domestically. Israel sure knows how to avoid airing its “dirty laundry” in public.
Beg pardon, miss kitty? otto and I disagreed. We get to do that.
I am very amused that you sign on to other’s posts just to disagree with me….
Bob Roberts @ 39:
I can understand if what miss kitty said offended you. (Emotions are very high on both sides of the Israeli / Palestinian conflict.) But she ranted her opinion, and rather than counter it, you publicly declared that nobody cared. Why not counter with arguments?
Bob Roberts @ 39:
Why do you repeat your name and then make a plural of it?
Karen @ 35:
I disagree. Some fucking panic in this country would at least show the elites that the cows are starting to evolve consciousness. Sorry, can I say evolve in this country? Anyway, we are way too far down the rabbit hole for panic to have any effect. The panic should have happened in 2000 when you lost your democracy, again when the patriot act was passed and you lost your constitution, again when we initiated an illegal and unprovoked imperialist war, again in 2004…. awww fuck it. The list is too long and like I said, it won’t make any difference now.