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No one has to "marry" anyone else politically; no one has to embrace every tenet or belief that an anti-imperialist ally might hold. You simply have to say: "All of us, regardless of our other views, believe this truth to be self-evident: dismantling the empire will bring immediate and enormous benefits to our nation and to the world."
If in your travels you meet the Buddha, throw him through your tv set.
—Davis Fleetwood
I've found that culture, however useful and important, is neither the foundation nor the ceiling of human experience, even if it is commonly used for walls.
I really consider President and Mrs. Mubarak to be friends of my family. So I hope to see him often here in Egypt and in the United States. —Hillary Clinton
The Obama administration worked with Republicans during his first few months in office to protect Bush administration officials facing a criminal investigation overseas for their involvement in establishing policies that some considered torture.
ReplyDeleteThe sugar coating is absolutely dripping off that statement, but overall it's great they are finally giving some recognition to what has been revealed.
Oh damnit! Too much Seagram's!
ReplyDeleteWhy BB2! Yer sloshed! I feel triply virtuous now!
ReplyDeleteHey, I found my way home!
ReplyDeletePoint in your favor.
ReplyDeleteThe weird thing is that there were NO cherry bombs, fire crackers nor even a pot banging here at midnight. It's usually pandemonium for ten minutes or so and I'm hiding under my desk, but nary a peep tonight. Could be the rain and waaaaay too near freezing temperature... or... the Pelican Bay inmate with the most obnoxious family FINALLY got let out and the fuckers moved away....
Rin & Kae are in Frisco at a Grateful Dead Remnants show, Meg's in the front room partying with a few of her friends and I'm here in the bedroom with the dogs and Wagon Train on the tube.
ReplyDeleteWAGON TRAIN?
ReplyDeleteOMG... isn't that, like, fifty years old or something?
Enlightenment lurks behind the buddha down the page....
ReplyDeleteOh, and now a helicopter circling overhead announcing something about the fire department coming. Then there was an explosion and numerous cop cars showed up in front of my house, blocking the intersection. Then a fire engine came, the helicopter left and the police and firemen went walking up the alley across the street.
ReplyDeleteAnother night of excitement in the hood!
I just hate it when firemen think my house is burning down. They make a mess first and ask questions later.
ReplyDeleteYa gotta quit smoking on the porch!
ReplyDeleteWagon Train - ya, about 50 years old. I used to watch it all the time when I was a kid. I'd fantasize that I was the scout Clint McCullough.
ReplyDeleteI think I was fantasizing something else about that scout....
ReplyDeleteLMAO...
ReplyDeleteCrap, my email is conked out - I got a Happy New Year from Homie but keep getting an error message when I try to reply. I tried sending a mail to my work address and got the same error. When I try to download new mail it just times out.
Usually this is a transient problem.
Well the fire department just left so I'm going to give it up for tonight - see ya later.
I'll have to walk the alley tomorrow and see if I can figure out what was going on.
xoxoxox
I'll tell Homie yer trying to reply.
ReplyDeleteHope there aren't any bodies out there!
Happy New year 99 and Bluebear
ReplyDelete99 I now feel fully empowered after that folding clothes vid.
But seriously, I'm looking forward to another year of your outstanding info...
And to you too Blue!
ReplyDeleteYou are veddy, veddy velcome and I hope I can keep it up. I have recently been researched — QUOTED — by Pew, so I have arrived. :o]
It would be a bummer for it all to go south now that I'm part of the establishment's record....
xoxox
When they show a 757 hitting the pentagon on TV let me know.
ReplyDeleteToo little, too late, too bad for those watching it on that new 46" LCD TV from Target.
Happy New Year to all! May 2011 suck less than 2010.
ReplyDeleteHey Blue, OTG & OUD Happy new year!
ReplyDeleteThe alley incident remains another of the many mysteries. Nothing in the news reports, nothing at the police blotter. I walked the alley and no sign of anything burned or exploded. Power pole transformers all looked OK.
About ten years ago some tweakers had their whole back yard full of boxes of clothes and other misc. stuff. The city had already come in once and cleaned it all up, but it built right back up again. Their power had been cut off so to the delight of the neighbors the were running a gas powered generator 24/7. One night the generator caught on fire as did all the stuff in the back yard. The flames from their detached garage got up into the power lines and caused the old transformer to explode spraying PCBs all over the alley.
For the next couple of weeks graders took the alley down about two feet as they hauled away the polluted dirt and gravel. Then many truckloads of new gravel were brought in to bring the alley up to level. Then half a dozen dump truck loads of charred debris were hauled from the yard. The landlord was billed somewhere around $120,000 for the cleanup.
Needless to say the house went into foreclosure, was taken back by the bank and sat vacant for over a year.
99 - Thanks for relaying to Homyra, my email is working again this morning. Not sure if was actually broken, or if the reboot this morning solved the problem.
ReplyDeleteThe only bodies were in South Sac - nothing new for that part of town, and the poor guy that fell off the I street bridge trying to see the fireworks.
OMG
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