So Much to Bitch About, So Little Time
:D
Is It Just Me...
...or is it highly coincidental that a day after Bush announced that the United States has foiled ten terrorist plots that the intelligence analysts seem to have never heard of that we suddenly get a rash of bomb scares?
New York
Washington
Either Bush is trying to keep you from looking at “The Man Behind the Curtain”, ie. Karl Rove, and prove that his presidency really is worth something or there’s a room full of stoned teenage Iraqi insurgents having too much fun.
Are The Republicans Going to Take Their Party Back?
In wake of the investigation of Karl Rove, VP Cheney’s staff members John Hannah $ Lewis Libby, Bill Frist and the double indictment of Tom Delay as well as the backlash at Bush himself from Hurricane Katrina and the Meir nomination as well as the falling support for the Iraq War (I like that the News has finally started calling it the Iraq War rather than the “War on Terror”, since it’s been pretty obvious to most of us from, oh, a couple years now, that what’s happening in Iraq isn’t stopping terror one damn bit) the moderate Republicans have an opportunity to separate the radical evangelical neo-conservative far-right from their power base and take the party back It will be interesting to see if they actually do it.
Weren’t We Just Talking Bout This?
Oct 9th is National Porn Sunday.
1.“I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk: eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved.
2.I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.
3.I have put off my coat; how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet; how shall I defile them?
4.My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, and my bowels were moved for him.
5.I rose up to open to my beloved; and my hands dropped with myrrh, and my fingers with sweet smelling myrrh, upon the handles of the lock. ~ Song of Solomon, Chapter 5
I need to get me some religion! :D
I had an interesting thought the other day. When I was growing up, we were not allowed to watch Hogans Heros’. Mom had lived in Germany when her father was stationed there after the war and had seen the horrific effect of Nazi POW and concentration Camps on people personally and did not think it a suitable subject for humor, so we were not allowed to watch it.
Do you think I have ever seen an episode of Hogan’s Heroes to this day?
*shakes head*
Like I said, if you have to rely on the government to keep porn out of your children’s hands, you’re doing something wrong.
Good Night and Good Luck
This film looks really, really good. I like the angle and David Strathairn is one of those working actors who has been in practically everything, but is so good, so natural in the role, you forget he’s there. Reviews on this are generally great and I plan on seeing this, hopefully this weekend. It’s creation and release in today’s political environment seems especially poignant.
Something that I discovered a couple years ago was that I liked George Clooney. Yes, yes I know he’s handsome. But he was always such a media approved and marketed heartthrob, “You *will* lust after this man”, he never held much interest for me. “Ah, whatever. Fluff.”
A couple years ago I was running down some of the films in recent years with a friend of mine when.
“Well, Three Kings was fuckin’ awesome, waaay underrated film.” (which BTW, is quietly becoming a classic.)
And a little later on…
“Oh Brother Where Art Thou seriously rocked!”
and a little later on…
“Well, The Perfect Storm, I mean how can you go wrong with that material?”
and then…
“Well, Peacemaker was not *that* bad. It was a solid action film. I don’t know what the people were expecting…”
When I added up that I had also really enjoyed Oceans 11, I suddenly realized, to my utter shock, “Damn. I like George Clooney. The guy may have a smarmy personae, but he’s been picking first rate projects the last few years."
So, between Strathairn and this being Clooney’s second cruise behind the camera, and the History of course ;), I’m looking forward to it.
Random
Y’Know, This Is Just Frightening. It's like hummingbirds on expresso...but worse. ;)
Racing.
Well the furor died down on Tuesday when Jimmie Johnson apologized for causing the wreck at Talladega which is almost good enough for me (though y’know, it’d be nice if he apologized to Dale Jr. for blaming him). That and a lot of practice sessions at Talladega would be good enough for me. His track record there sucks; caused three wrecks in four races there.
If you would like to get inkling of what is it like being behind the wheel at a Superspeedway, this article describing Dale Sr.'s last win at Talladega has audio files from 7 competitors (including Dale Jr.) who shared the track with him that day. It has been my experience that you can learn more about racing listening to a driver talk for 5 minutes than you can reading 50 different articles, books and websites. Worth a listen if you are curious what it’s like out there.
On that note: Good luck and safe race to all at Kansas. Mark, kick some ass and get back up there in the standings. Elliott, kick some ass and get in 11th place. And Dale Jr., just kick ass. ;)
RAmen
Is It Just Me...
...or is it highly coincidental that a day after Bush announced that the United States has foiled ten terrorist plots that the intelligence analysts seem to have never heard of that we suddenly get a rash of bomb scares?
New York
Washington
Either Bush is trying to keep you from looking at “The Man Behind the Curtain”, ie. Karl Rove, and prove that his presidency really is worth something or there’s a room full of stoned teenage Iraqi insurgents having too much fun.
Are The Republicans Going to Take Their Party Back?
In wake of the investigation of Karl Rove, VP Cheney’s staff members John Hannah $ Lewis Libby, Bill Frist and the double indictment of Tom Delay as well as the backlash at Bush himself from Hurricane Katrina and the Meir nomination as well as the falling support for the Iraq War (I like that the News has finally started calling it the Iraq War rather than the “War on Terror”, since it’s been pretty obvious to most of us from, oh, a couple years now, that what’s happening in Iraq isn’t stopping terror one damn bit) the moderate Republicans have an opportunity to separate the radical evangelical neo-conservative far-right from their power base and take the party back It will be interesting to see if they actually do it.
Weren’t We Just Talking Bout This?
Oct 9th is National Porn Sunday.
1.“I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk: eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved.
2.I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.
3.I have put off my coat; how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet; how shall I defile them?
4.My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, and my bowels were moved for him.
5.I rose up to open to my beloved; and my hands dropped with myrrh, and my fingers with sweet smelling myrrh, upon the handles of the lock. ~ Song of Solomon, Chapter 5
I need to get me some religion! :D
I had an interesting thought the other day. When I was growing up, we were not allowed to watch Hogans Heros’. Mom had lived in Germany when her father was stationed there after the war and had seen the horrific effect of Nazi POW and concentration Camps on people personally and did not think it a suitable subject for humor, so we were not allowed to watch it.
Do you think I have ever seen an episode of Hogan’s Heroes to this day?
*shakes head*
Like I said, if you have to rely on the government to keep porn out of your children’s hands, you’re doing something wrong.
Good Night and Good Luck
This film looks really, really good. I like the angle and David Strathairn is one of those working actors who has been in practically everything, but is so good, so natural in the role, you forget he’s there. Reviews on this are generally great and I plan on seeing this, hopefully this weekend. It’s creation and release in today’s political environment seems especially poignant.
Something that I discovered a couple years ago was that I liked George Clooney. Yes, yes I know he’s handsome. But he was always such a media approved and marketed heartthrob, “You *will* lust after this man”, he never held much interest for me. “Ah, whatever. Fluff.”
A couple years ago I was running down some of the films in recent years with a friend of mine when.
“Well, Three Kings was fuckin’ awesome, waaay underrated film.” (which BTW, is quietly becoming a classic.)
And a little later on…
“Oh Brother Where Art Thou seriously rocked!”
and a little later on…
“Well, The Perfect Storm, I mean how can you go wrong with that material?”
and then…
“Well, Peacemaker was not *that* bad. It was a solid action film. I don’t know what the people were expecting…”
When I added up that I had also really enjoyed Oceans 11, I suddenly realized, to my utter shock, “Damn. I like George Clooney. The guy may have a smarmy personae, but he’s been picking first rate projects the last few years."
So, between Strathairn and this being Clooney’s second cruise behind the camera, and the History of course ;), I’m looking forward to it.
Random
Y’Know, This Is Just Frightening. It's like hummingbirds on expresso...but worse. ;)
Racing.
Well the furor died down on Tuesday when Jimmie Johnson apologized for causing the wreck at Talladega which is almost good enough for me (though y’know, it’d be nice if he apologized to Dale Jr. for blaming him). That and a lot of practice sessions at Talladega would be good enough for me. His track record there sucks; caused three wrecks in four races there.
If you would like to get inkling of what is it like being behind the wheel at a Superspeedway, this article describing Dale Sr.'s last win at Talladega has audio files from 7 competitors (including Dale Jr.) who shared the track with him that day. It has been my experience that you can learn more about racing listening to a driver talk for 5 minutes than you can reading 50 different articles, books and websites. Worth a listen if you are curious what it’s like out there.
On that note: Good luck and safe race to all at Kansas. Mark, kick some ass and get back up there in the standings. Elliott, kick some ass and get in 11th place. And Dale Jr., just kick ass. ;)
RAmen
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