La Louche Overnight Thread… 29 March 2007
Posted by marisacat in Big Box Blogs, Inconvenient Voice of the Voter.trackback
Via hrh/SV (whose email address he had) Meteor Blades has conveyed an apology w/r/t the Klebold Harris Columbine comment. Here is a snip at the close of the email:
Clearly I used poor judgment in this matter. I was wrong. I shouldn’t have made the accusation. I shouldn’t have stubbornly refused to retract it. I shouldn’t have needed seven reviewers to tell me so. And I apologize unconditionally to everyone who posts at the site.
I have no idea (nor was there mention of that in the email) if MB wishes to comment at the site, but if he should wish to at any time, he certainly can.
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Other than that, at the moment, I don’t have anything in hand to post… 😉
Marisacat 
Michael Ware sets Holy Joe straight this time:
Thank you MB for that apology.
MB, I appreciate the sincere apology. I have always respected your writing on the blogs & it struck me as out of character for you to make the comment in the first place.
Maybe John and JOe would like to move to Baghdad.
Plus we just KNOW they have, over the years, discussed being a ticket. Joe Lieberman – the trans-party Veep.
Talk about the War Party Tick.
Digby links to this piece by a former lawyer in Justice’s civil rights division:
ugh. I did catch Sampson to day trying to explain the phrase that I guess was aobut on the ground “being loyal little Bushies”
Gah.
OK
We’re doing a better job than some blogs have when it comes to accepting apologies. It’ll take time for me to actually believe this is an honest apology. You can only dance around your comments for so long and drag your family out to obfuscate the whole situation so much before my “bullshit detector” pegs. “Fool me once…” and all that.
You’ve gone from honored elder to high minded serial abuser in my eyes MB. You know how we Irish are, NEVER forget. Maybe a few YEARS of good behavior will get you out of karmic debt. I’ll be waiting
Kevin
#4. Yet another nail in Gonzales’ coffin. Has he hired himself an attorney yet? (Oh the irony…)
Even Kermit has been driven to despair.
well, I’ll accept the apology.
in other news–I think I installed the DSL modem correctly. The service won’t start until tomorrow, so I don’t know for sure. It was an annoying procedure–the CD somehow blacked out the visuals of the process. I did my helen keller best.
Madman, it was fated to be as soon as they signed away their empire to D*sn*y.
Oh, and speaking of putting on a happy face, bad me. I baited supersoling at MBM. I know it was wrong, but good lord. Two weeks ago he seemed like just a normal, happy malcontent like the rest of us and now he’s just droning on and on and on about nothing;Proof that you can shit and shit and shit some more and STILL not get off the pot.
Oh, and Madman and any other Emmylou Harris fans might like Alice Stuart. She rules.
oh jesettechristineonrollerblades.
wandered over to bmt, and it looks as if taylormattd from dk, in his only act of participation at bmt has troll-rated lucid & I’s comments in the “maryscott was right diary.”
traveling troll-hunters, what next?
ugh what can I say… the outlet, when the Digital comcast guy came, was behind my bed. Dust.
I sent him off with some cash in an envelope. It seemed fair.
Apology accepted Meteor Blades.
I lost a post in the last thread so will try to reconstruct it – first to Colleen, #92 – I am in awe of the consistently great writers on this site, so a very humble thank you!
From the last thread –
Lol – my investigation got a little off-track (this is more public than private) but I was thinking that if armando is not the originator of the word ‘heh’ we could nail him for copyright violation, being the meanies that we are. Heh! Heh!
I thought it was Beavis and Butthead who made it popular, btw. My legal consultants tell me that re my question about the copyright violator being attached to the ‘psycho history’ of the originator, it might be better to consult a psychiatrist on this.
Heh! Glenn Reynolds? So he could be a sock puppet – the plot thickens.
BHHM continues carving his pear
traveling troll-hunters
Another good name for a band.
They’ll disappear people one way or the other. That’s all they have.
I did my helen keller best.
Bravo! I’m sure she’d be proud of you.
I’m not really into accepting any apologies this week. I’ll stick with seeing is believing as my modus operandi.
Two weeks ago he seemed like just a normal, happy malcontent like the rest of us and now he’s just droning on and on and on about nothing;Proof that you can shit and shit and shit some more and STILL not get off the pot.
I really think these are spring meltdowns. They start earlier every year thanks to that so-called “global warming” thing that all the kids are talking about.
Not to be the turd in the punchbowl, again, but there’s a new post over at tUTT titled: the Once and Future War
glad you liked the new decor! but does my writing suck?
kevin
thanks for that ms. , good stuff.
sabrina
Sorry! I think I jsut got it out of spam… if you like I will repost it here…
catnip’s telling of the Great Myth of “heh” is one of the funnier things I have ever read.
Who does Glenn Reynolds think he is, Monsanto copywriting seeds?
LOL… what a hoot!
Maybe John and JOe would like to move to Baghdad.
They could move in with the Iraq the Model bloggers. They apparently live in the Neverland district of Baghdad. John would feel right at home.
well, he thinks he’s a lawyer who actually deserves his JD, so I guess anything is possible.
You’re welcome, Madman. Oh, and since catnip brings up the double-edged nature of spring’s awakenings, I’ll also post this you-gem:
Terry Callier sings “Lazarus Man.”
…I’ve been from Nazareth
To West Gallilee
And I’ve realized
There’s no rest for me
I’ve been to the desert
I’ve been stranded on the deep
But since he bid me to rise
I ain’t been to sleep…
The awakened conscience really does cut into one’s sleep time. Wishing the blogosphere and the nation many more sleepless nights, then. 😉
well, he thinks he’s a lawyer who actually deserves his JD, so I guess anything is possible.
That could apply to so many persons of interest here…
BHHM–that was cryptic. or I missed something.
Sabrina-I think aravia is an intellectual property lawyer.
maybe you should work on the chapter “Who’s a sanctimonious liar.” (or is it lying sanctimonious something or other…{cough}…need to refamiliarize myself with subject)
Kevin, actually it’s a great-looking page, but I’m not yet registered at WordPress. I suppose now I need to think up a new password, and my aging brain is already having a hard time sorting them all out.
If I sign up, will there be pics of the late, great 28-lb. Tortie ? =^oo^=
(By tomorrow, I will be back to posting actual news so as not to make Mcat sorry she blogrolled me. 😮 )
I thought it was Beavis and Butthead who made it popular, btw.
heh, heh, heh, heh… She said nail. heh, heh.
TWO quick links demonstrating why this country is fucked.
First, “America’s Mayor”, who made his bones prosecuting mobsters, told a grand jury that his former chief investigator remembered having briefed him on some aspects of Bernard B. Kerik’s relationship with a company suspected of ties to organized crime before Mr. Kerik’s appointment as New York City police commissioner, according to court records.
Second, Google Maps has apparently decided that Katrina never happened:
Do no evil my ass.
Rotfl! They are so frustrated that they cannot troll rate here! I bet when they read here, their fingers are on their troll buttons all the time.
Hillarious, he ran over to BMT to use his widdle twoll button. Pathetic. That system totally weakens people’s debating skills. Troll rating is the equivalent of an ignorant fool shooting a superior debating adversary out of a sense of embarrassment and frustration
They will never survive in politics, really. I never troll rated anyone, but did eviscerate one or two of the worst bullies with words and facts, using Lucid’s technique of taking their own words and turning them back on them.
They better stay in their little corner of cyber space, they don’t have the skills to venture forth without their little toy weapons.
It is a compliment Miss D. You are way too much woman for the men of dk. Lol! Silence the whores cunts and bitches! How dare they have an opinion.
oops, from “told a grand jury …” to the end should ALL be in quotes, as it’s the first paragraph of the Times piece.
Oh, and NY Times, while we’re at it … WHY WEREN’T YOU ASKING THESE QUESTIONS WHEN THAT MARTINET WAS IN OFFICE?!?!
feh … need to go to bed before I get more riled up.
wandered over to bmt, and it looks as if taylormattd from dk, in his only act of participation at bmt has troll-rated lucid & I’s comments in the “maryscott was right diary.”
traveling troll-hunters, what next?
Of course.
Daily Kos has been looking to transport it’s ‘culture’ to the other scoop blogs for some time now. I’m delighted to leave Martin to his inevitable fate.
a cultural exchange program between dk & bmt! invite the troll-hunters over to get rid of the people who were banned at kos, but still post at other sites. they did such a good job at dk after all.
Taylormatt is a DHinMI clone – for any of you that have not been around DK lately. He’s an insulting centrist bully that is not only one of the first to TR those not toeing the party line, but is always prominent in hidden comments threads as well – calling people idiots. And he has never contributed anything remotely positive to the blog…
And they call us trash…
They are so frustrated that they cannot troll rate here! I bet when they read here, their fingers are on their troll buttons all the time.
I know.
They’re frustrated they cannot control the speech here. They’ve been intimidating and bullying for so long now online that they’re addicted to their enforced, absurdly complimentary, self aggrandized images. They believe they’re entitled to them whereas the reality is that, if polled, their negative numbers would be greater than their positive ones. I think this is particularly true of the dk admins but also of BT and MLW.
From [Defense] Appropriations Sub-Committee today
Gates on “Progress” and in Iraq and benchmark performance of Iraqi government:
What does he mean by Hydrocarbon newspeak? Up from the ground come a bubblin’ crude? Gates that is.
Peter Pace today on violence in Iraq:
Good news and bad news.
Recap:
Good news on the Death Squad thing.
al Qaeda Bad.
Blowin’ up a good truck: Unforgiveable.
GOP Kansas Rep. Tiahrt out of the gates puts the SECDEF and Chairman through the paces in the context of: “… the success we’ve had…” and refers midstoke to the hopeful eventuality of “relaxing the surge”… This Kansan’s safe in his House, denying he’s aloft and quite happy to be headed for the yellow brick road.
Dem Rep. from Toledo Marcy Kaptur has asked for to “unearth every contract” she wants the amount, who signed the contracts te terms, who they are hiring and their backgrounds and under what terms of military engagement they are operating. Murtha weighed in , from the Chair and said he didn’t know if they could expect every contract but that he wanted to get a real understanding of of the situation.
On Aegis profiteering, Gates chuckled up in astonishished “Regular Guy” moment: “That means they’re making as much as I am.”
Marisacat, yes, if it’s not too much trouble. I think I had a quote from a great post by Lucid in the comment.
Sabrina-I think aravia is an intellectual property lawyer.
Miss D, this is very significant info – there is not much intellectual anything on the BBBs. So, for whom does he work? Heh!
This could be your big chance (and his, btw, didn’t he once say he would like to meet you?) Your first assignment as a PI! Bring the dog!
Sorry for Bad Tags
Blockquotes only for “Good News and Bad News” to Pace.
Well, at least Canadian troops were greeted with flowers (no candy though):
Opium-induced freedom is on the march.
a cultural exchange program between dk & bmt! invite the troll-hunters over to get rid of the people who were banned at kos, but still post at other sites. they did such a good job at dk after all.
Martin’s nice ‘friends’ have been encouraging him to do just that. I’ve read them whining about how he needs to cleanse his site of undesirables over on dki and, as Martin so delicately puts it “garbage”.
Okay, before I go to bed, a little gem from Democracy Risiing.US about Tina Richards and the potential future of citizen lobbying:
BHHM-oh what is it-Worf-Sapir–the stuff you learn in basic linguistics. The Eskimos have more names for snow. Iraq has more names for violence.
Give up the “carving the pear” bit-now!
Sabrina-oh I would bring the dog. he’s a biter.
They better stay in their little corner of cyber space, they don’t have the skills to venture forth without their little toy weapons.
We, on the other hand, are fully prepared. Lock and load! (or whatever it is you’re supposed to say…)
Miss D.
BHHM–that was cryptic. or I missed something.
Pretty straightforward: When receiving apologetic confirmation that I can be assured that I am not associated with spree killing Hitler worshipers, I just continued carving my pear.
I like pears.You like pears? Here, have one…
SB
Think this is it from the previous thread:
105. Sabrina Ballerina – 29 March 2007[Edit]
Colleen # 92 – blushing, really – especially since I am in awe of so many of the great writers on this site. But thank you and back atcha.
Lucid
I also think that appropriating language that is meant to be demeaning or ‘put one in their place’ can be a very effective way to combat that very power dynamic – taking up the tools of the oppressor if you will. I think it is similar to what we’ve been doing here in the last weeks – almost taking ‘bitch cunt whore’ as a rallying cry. Those were words that were meant to demean marisacat, but she has tossed them back in their faces as a way to flip them off.
Yes, exactly – for so long, Dems’ only strategy when confronted by rightwingers was to try to ‘explain’ themselves, always on the defensive. Kerry did this and it drove me crazy. I don’t know who was advising him. Some DC consultant, probably.
Marisacat, good that those threats made it to the press. They are far too common and in one case a few years ago, a man was murdered in NY I think, by someone he had argued with online.
v
catnip–what a hilarious site. I book marked it-must send it to my brothers-they were always creating formations with among the bedcovers–mostly civil war reenactments.
I ventured outdoors with barbie–she had some grand vacation, sunning on the flagstones that were arranged around this little floral peninsula with a birch tree focus, in the back yard.
There is something in the air-the used car jockeys next door are wild tonight.
she’s right.
And then watch those “dates” for Iraq troop begin to “withdraw” slide by.
And watch the ‘status of forces’ allow more and more numbers of combat troops inside Iraq… til it swells by the end of the year…
Obey and nancy and Ike Skelton and Murtha and all of them will concoct new stories for next year.
Mcat #44
Zactly,
Honestly, should this surprise anyone? Giuliani was a racist, corporate enabling SOB who destroyed this city. I moved here right after he took office. Not only did he and his racist police force bring this city to the brink of race riots through the countless murders and tortures of unarmed minorities by police, but he systematically took all publicly owned foreclosed land [which in most cases was being put to fantastic community use – like the community gardens, or squats where people had lived for upwards of 20 years and improved the property on their own dime – sold it to private developers, and kicked everyone out. He destroyed neighborhoods. He destroyed community works projects. He didn’t care… He even ordered the destruction of a former squat with a wrecking ball on East 5th street while people were still in the building.
Not that life has been any better under Bloomberg… [Who 9 out of 10 Kossacks agree is a ‘great mayor’.]
/end rant.
That’s why I take these types of threats very seriously. I also did some digging on the guy who threatened me and he has a history of making violent threats online. One of the problems has been that he’s made them against men, who tend to brush them off. I wish they’d put their macho attitudes aside when things like that happen and just see these types of guys for what they are: threats that need to be dealt with. Just banning them isn’t good enough.
Which reminds me, I definitely would have reported soj at BT if I ran the place when he threatened to shoot people. But nope, he hasn’t even lost his posting privileges, afaik. Those of us who simply disagree over there however must be disappeared.
{cries} BHHM is ignoring me.
catnip–what a hilarious site. I book marked it-must send it to my brothers-they were always creating formations with among the bedcovers–mostly civil war reenactments.
One of my brothers used to roll around on the floor making machine gun noises. I always thought he was a tad disturbed.
one of my brother’s once played an imaginary football hero-solo-in the back yard. the rest of us were looking out the window and observing–oh, I think the coach is patting him on the back now.
he became a lawyer.
I wish people would tell me before they’re going to bury me what the plans are. I don’t recall even having had a chance to have a memorial service.
Via MBM:
Although…since I’m here…perhaps there really is such a thing as reincarnation! Good stuff. I knew giving up Christianity was a smart move.
BHHM-I dried my tears. I miss the comment.
Still, a back-up soothsayer might be good for dealing with you and the paine.
one of my brother’s once played an imaginary football hero-solo-in the back yard.
[Freud] I see. And did you experience jealousy of the imaginary as a result?[/Freud]
cheerfullyWhat? I have warm caramel dip at the ready…
53-no, I just became obsessed with sex lives of total strangers.
54 “Carmel Knowledge”
LOL with all affection
catnip#52–well, I wanted to be cremated.
I have warm caramel dip at the ready…
Good thing I read that twice. I thought you said camel dip and I was like WTF?
no, I just became obsessed with sex lives of total strangers.
“obsessed”? Or “OBSESSED”? There’s a difference (apparently).
well, I wanted to be cremated.
Me too. And I want my ashes scattered all over the BBBs. mwahahaha
CamelNip, Pear lodged sideways in throat laughing madly towards brain Death Incident
“midnight at the oasis
take your camel dip to bed.”
apologies to Maria Muldaur.
I know the background, but really, after finding mcat’s I’ve often wondered Why in THE HELL would ANYBODY want to run this “crowd” out the door…
Take the whole camel
CamelNip, Pear lodged sideways in throat laughing madly towards brain Death Incident
Paging Dr Heimlich. (I said “lich” heh heh heh*)
*”heh” is a registered trademark of Glenn Armando Reynolds
its pear-ilous to post here, a-pearantly.
Is camel dip similar to cow pie? one an hors d’oevre, the other a dessert?
I think it really was the Cyber Lord and Ladies bullshit.
And they knew and know who won’t knuckle under. WOn’t help craft the product for the sales floor.. and so on..
Someones got to knock this off. We’re building a higher pie.
Ah, memories of some of those Miss D/Dave Boyle margin races of wit…
Anyhow. I just registered my wordpress blog… no need to link yet [should anyone so desire] – I have a shitload to do before I’ll actually do anything with it. It’ll be potpourri. My buddy and I are musicians and music critics – so there will be lots of reviews of indie things [for which we’ll be soliciting product]. There will also be plenty of politics, cultural criticism, and general fun. It’ll be a free for all. We will be looking to take it to our own url at some point, but in the meantime, we wanted to at least get it started – as we’ve been having that ‘we’ve gotta start a site’ conversation for quite a while now. It’s registered as lucidculture.
I’ll let you know when there’s content.
Why in THE HELL would ANYBODY want to run this “crowd” out the door…
They’re preparing for The Rapture of the BBBs and we are lowly heathens who will be Left Behind.
Pass the dip. Parteh!
high ritz apple pie in the sky
btw did you know Heimlich insists on the copyright for the manoever? LIke Pat Riley’s “3-peat”. You cannot say “Heimlich” in first aid courses, despite the fact even golden retiriever’s can perform them.
retrievers.
Camel Dick , here
Anyone say “Camel Dick”?
catnip wrote:
I don’t recall even having had a chance to have a memorial service.
Short notice. Best I could do. Sorry.
catnip–czech out the pic at my latest post at Je blague.
walk a mile for a camel dip, fer crissake.
ms_xeno–sorry, can’t view it smoothly until DSL kicks in tomorrow.
Oh, and just a festive snack (top of the page, Ma) por Devore before I go to sleep. (And I really mean it this time, too ! Click on the pics to get the realy glory…)
Thanks for the article on Tina Richards and the citizen lobby:
And from Madman’s excellent post on LSF:
If you haven’t already read Madman’s post, you can find it here:
A Citizen’s Job
Moveon and the BBBs are in the way. Madman said it perfectly, as did Tina Richards. Taking action like ‘We’re Not Buying It’ imo, if it gets enough exposure, are far more effective than peach marches. They don’t care how many people march, it costs them nothing. But huge numbers of people threatening to pull money out of the stock market, refusing to use credit cards etc. that is effective citizen action and you don’t even have to leave the house.
If Moveon was truly a progressive org. they would be using their email list to get the word out. But I am sure they would not lift a finger to help such citizen protests succeed. As msoc would say, ‘Moveon is dead to me’.
ms xeno wow
awesome!
ms_xeno, that is porn!
I can’t even think of the word nougat without being creeped out.
I think I better coil up in the den. I know the dog will want to be walked in 6 hours.
Mmm, ‘peace marches’ not ‘peace or pear marches’! And the ‘thank you’ was to Ms Xeno!
Miss D love your latest post at je blague Myriad Titles Come To Mind
That little dog bites? Lol!
When the dog bites
When the bee stings
When I’m feeling bad
I simply remember my favorite things
And then I don’t feel!
So bad!
Thanks for the chorus, ms x, and the p(ea)r0n.
Miss D, imagery is everything! Ride, Sally, Ride.
Oh, and Miss D, can you make that animated? 😉
86–I’ll czech with dood abides.
Damn, I need sleep ‘peace’ not ‘peach’ marches!
They’re preparing for The Rapture of the BBBs and we are lowly heathens who will be Left Behind.
Do we get their laptops?
Lucid, congrats on the blog – looking forward to it!
Ms xeno, great site, the ‘luscious lemon’ pie looks great!
Hey! I’m just watching Colbert and he has a map of the Neverland district of Baghdad which I referred to in #21. There is a Neverland there. Who knew??
heh*
* trademark of Glenn Armando Reynolds
And I guess I owe Mr Heimlicher a copyright acknowlegment too. [insert little c in circle here]
mcat – Can we have our own trailer , like the big blogs?
coming right up…
well one could tell act blue to stough it and send that contribution to tina richards.
i think people (motivated by something other than office) going around petrified party structure has some degree of hope attached to it. like at least ms richards a perso,n and not some harry-reid hollow suit with a palm out for grease. she’ll get a lot of flack though, and a lot of it will come from democrats,
flack like this good democratic party/advertising liberally member is dishinig.
on an unrelated subject as far as meteor blades goes. the very fact that i just called him meteor blades expresses how i feel about his message, sent via sv. ive run into a lot of trolls in the last couple of years, some mean ones too. don spitz, aog comes to mind, some crazed anti-woman catholics who troll professionally. all kinds of idiot MRAs. ive not met one yet that expressed regret for an action. meteor blades it is.
Who’s really OBSESSED?
Obsession, it’s not just a perfume anymore…
Would you lend me those big, honking binoculars when you’re done with them, mcat?
wellllllllllllll
I was just settling down to listen to Jessica Matthews on with Charlie Rose (yes dull, etc.)… when this was emailed to me.
Obsessed? much?
miss d said
if you mispell a word i fear many of us (at least me 🙂 ) are scratching our heads in confusion wondering why we don’t spot the double sens
spill chick, please!!!!
Fucking Christ! Oh maybe that’s a more appropriate swear than I thought when I uttered it…
Do they have nothing better to do with their time than construct bizarre sexual fantasies for themselves, obliquely projected upon people with whom they’ve never had any correspondance?
Oh – sorry, I guess that would lead us back into our porn discussion of the other day.
funny, funny. I think that made my day.
Oh – hey, I think I just found the solution to ending up in your SPAM file – I registered a wordpress blog & that comment posted instantly…
Woo Hoo! Now I can have simulated wit margin races with Miss D again! Can’t wait.
And Miss D, you still waiting for those H bags?
Damn… that is the biggest Mcat “Blogad”… I’ve ever seen…
Catnip # 92
Sounds like the voice of experience for LG. You know these lasses are the type who think that they just had an empathetic encounterwhen they get off the shrink’s couch . “What a fuckin NUT…” the therapist is likely to mutter after closing the door….
Via the SF Chronicle:
There is a dkos diary about this which has received very little attention (and has been hijacked by various other conversations – I wonder why that would be…). None of the usual bully suspects are in there, of course, except for Miss Laura who said this was going to be the topic of her next Feminisms diary. That should be interesting.
How they cry and moan to defend people who out themselves yet continue with their horrendous behaviour day after day without even giving it a thought – the thread thugs who can’t abide differing political opinions because those are too threatening. But they have no qualms using the intimidation tactics of fascists to try to scare people in mindless submission. It’s all about power and if you don’t have it, be prepared to be attacked.
And then there’s the myth being spread by MSOC and Booman (of all people) that we are “anti-women” and anti-gay here on this blog. A myth that has no roots in reality of any sort.
I suppose it’s “anti-women” to stand up for those who have been abused, bullied and threatened by the likes of their so-called “friends”. Friends who are a part of that “mob rule appear to be leading the discussion into the sewer.” Oh but they have no responsibility for that. They’re just powerless blog owners with no control over their communities – just like poor kos. They count on others to do their community patrolling for them, but when the cops are the corrupt ones, who can the people in need turn to? No one. They must just disappear and be shunned before THEY destroy the precious communities in which they’ve had the bad fortune to trust and call “home”.
It’s all intertwined yet no one wants to take responsibility for what they’ve created unless it becomes a bit too personally uncomfortable for them. Victims are invisible. But that’s just how they wanted them to be anyway.
Sounds like the voice of experience for LG. You know these lasses are the type who think that they just had an empathetic encounterwhen they get off the shrink’s couch . “What a fuckin NUT…” the therapist is likely to mutter after closing the door….
I thought mcat was going to get dinged over the octopus picture but no, it’s the binoculars which little ms feminist theory can work into soft core pr0n hoping to generate some interest in what she must consider to be her biggest emotional trauma du jour. And no, MSOC, that’s not me being “anti-women”. That’s me being “can LG possibly make herself look more ridiculous?” And that is not gender-specific, believe me.
No shit… And the irony is that she doesn’t have the reading comprehension to honestly interpret what she thinks she read – instead it’s all weaved into some bizarre sexual fantasy involving Mcat and binoculars as dildo… God, I can only imagine that such would be uncomfortable – and not particularly arousing either.
And then of course, there is us, the ‘coterie’. We are all ‘yes men’ here. A small flock that waits with baited breath for the proclamation of the ‘she-cat’. It’s funny the rehashing of the ‘rabid lamb’ motif from Dkos…
And she ‘wonders’ why we’re obsessed with her sexuality. I can only think of one person who is obsessed with it… and it ain’t any of us.
Breaking:Pole Dancers Lecture Matrons on Vulgarity at Opera House
Sizzle Beach, baby, Sizzle Beach.
whining (c) a Jason Melrath Term:
Why can’t we be like other blogs, Marisacat??
I’m afwaid. Why can’t WE have genuinely anti Matriarchal Blog “Moms” like at EMSOCs??
Night – Night. Smooch.
Ssshhh, BHHM. You’ll scare the neigbours.
I’m debating whether to inform LG that the author [Zizek] in her ‘tip jar’ actually plagiarized most of “Tarrying with the Negative” from one of my main philosophy profs in college [Richard Eldridge]…
Then again, she probably wouldn’t care, given the reading comprehension displayed in her spewing of Mcat posts that even MSOC eschewed [comment 6].
Nice ad for Marisacat – and free too. ‘They better stay away?” Lol! Oh, don’t worry – run, is my reaction, as far away as possible!
Meantime in the real world, Baghdad is till burning. Millions of Iraqis flee their country. This is a war crime beyong belief and yet, Dems vote to continue funding it. Can no one step in and end it? Clearly this country needs to be rescued from its government.
Madman’s post near the top, about the US Attorney scanda. reminded me of the resignation speech of James Comey, Acting AG who appointed Fitzgerald to the Plame case. The speech was made in 2005. In his speech he alluded to other US attorneys were not present. He praised them for sticking to their principles. He regretted that they were not present, but ‘you know who you are’, he said.
At the time, the impression was that he was trying to tell us something. Congress had to know about this scandal, yet did nothing about it. Had it not been for the US As themselves speaking out finally, refusing to be intimidated by the threats they received, the crime would, like all the other crimes, have continued.
I really was intrigued by Comey’s remarks in his farewell speech. Now, we know that Fitzgerald was on the list. I wonder if Comey was due to retire, or did he do so because he would not go along. It’s too bad that it took this long to stop them.
It will years, maybe decades to undo the damage done by this administration. Impeachment proceedings need to begin. There is no other way to stop them.
Oops, I misspelled NAYbores.
Lol, good one, liberal catnip –
Well, at least someone is addressing the Iran/international waters border issue, not to mention the Dems caving:
I don’t even have that hope. It is irreparable. Our world as a whole is already going down the shitter because of energy concerns, climate concerns and the [not to far off] collapse of the global economy. Democrats will only put off the inevitable for a few more years [hell, why else do you think the Dems won’t STOP THIS FUCKING WAR – we’re racing for resources and using whatever means necessary to achieve them].
I’d like to be proved wrong in the end, and I will always work to that end, but I fear we enter a new dark age.
On a lighter note…
Funny that only MSOC and LG are conversing on that thread…
LC – my thoughts exactly…
I know, I just know without even going over to read it that you PAID for that FP MLW piece, Mcat – c’mon, ‘fess up now!
I still can’t believe that you are getting any flak for that Delaware Dem matter.
The fact is, that the person put his real identity out all over the open internet.
You just pointed out, what was already there to be seen—ciourtesy of the man himself.
There needs to be a word for that: maybe a combination of “echo” and “outing”. Ech-outing. Naw, that sounds too much like accounting.
Maybe amplify and outing: ampliflouting.
The fact is, the fact was. Already. Before you did anything. That is what surprises.
48. Lucid
yup. Since moving here, people are always surprised by how much I hate that nasty little man. They were so won over by the adulation after 911. When I first moved here people would ask me how wonderful he was … after a while they quit asking.
It ESPECIALLY upsets them when I inform him that community policing efforts were actually begun and designed under Dinkins, and all Guiliani did was pervert something that was starting to work and twist it into a sick attempt to turn the City into Long Island through bullying and intimidation.
I don’t know if you’ve seen this yet, from the pale remnant that is the Village Voice:
well, I sort of scanned it. (after Jessica Matthews on Charlie R was Kenan Makiya, what a disgusting performance from that salesman for war.)
If I were msoc (and I surely am not, her big mistake last summer when she ws over here was to insist we “are the same”, uh no) and I had revealed utter ignorance of the written word about DD – in her MBM comments last night – AND I had wanded the people at this site, dead and gone
I would stay away from the obsessional confessional that LG mounted (oh is that a sexual word?).
Also in that post where I used the Norwegian UN peace observer on the Israeli border photo, I also stated at the top… that I have hardly for over a year read Dkos. I did not know of ‘slouise’ other than noting vague references to something I knew nothing about and I read my first OPOL diary in Feb.
I did read Dkos in Feb and march, more so than in a year as Jason Melrath was in a frenzy.
I have told Msoc I can barely read her site as it loads so badly. The FP, I mean.
And sure I comment. And will continue.
I mean if you want a laugh LG was pissed that people here comment on her politics. Someone reminded her, this was in the Suicide / Glinda post at BMT, that she posts her poltiics at political discussion sites.
This all reminds me of a huge GBCW that msoc did I guess sometime in 2005.. She was back at dkos within 24 hours.
All that Glinda shit was just that. Shit.
Geesh.
It will be a Open thread up in a bit… will try for real thread by tonight… (sorry)
Hey, Mcat, that description in #96 makes me think of one of those Dale Chiluly sculptures. Sounds kinda’ cool, actually. Especially done up in those brilliant colors he likes to use. I envision a sort of massive, muscular-yet-girly Medusa figure in a tastefully molded/cast chiton, brandishing a sword rather than falling to one. As she stalks the internets unbowed, replacing the ever-tedious and overpriced series of Orange tubes with colorful new designs of her own making. The naysayers harp on her supposedly voracious sexual appetites because it never occurs to them that sometimes a serpent is just a serpent. :p
bayprairie (#92):
That slam at Richards was probably written by the former co-chair of Republicans For Kerry. Shall we start a pool to see how long it takes the Republicans For Obama group to form ?
Well, if flacks weren’t hypocrites, they wouldn’t be very good flacks, would they ?
And, yeah, I feel honored to share a side of town with the Pix Patisserie. My cardiovascular system only tolerates visits about once a month, and my wallet less than that. But perhaps this weekend will be the one. I had their Dobosh torte for my 40th birthday last summer and it almost made a new woman of me.
Madman,
This will actually be the fourth month in a row that US fatalities in Iraq will hit 80. And the seventh consecutive month the total has reached 70, the eighth in which it has been at least 65. That makes it, by far, the bloodiest such segment of the war. Prior to September of last year, there is not a single four-month period in which at least 70 Americans were killed each month. Obviously, things are getting worse, something amply demonstrated by looking at two time segments exactly two years apart:
August 2004 through March 2005, 619 US service personnel killed.
August 2006 through March 2007, 667 US service personnel killed.
And the former time frame includes three months (November 04 through January 05) for which the fatality count is 316! The count for the current 8-month segment is not only significantly higher overall, but the monthly fatality count far more consistently high, i.e., there is no relative lull where the death total falls in the 35-50 range as used to be the case.
Sorry it that’s a bit too much numbers crunching, but this seems to be a very significant point that’s escaped everyone’s notice.
Fantasizing about a giant metallic dildo – what do you expect from a self-proclaimed pole-dancer? Oh, and a lap dancer too:
SB: None of the usual bully suspects are in there, of course, except for Miss Laura who said this was going to be the topic of her next Feminisms diary. That should be interesting.
Yes, she said later in the thread that she was planning to talk about the misogyny of the attacks. That will give her an excuse to whine about what “woman-haters” we are because we mock her and her crew as Blogmaids and Little Sisters.
Of course, Miz L is at the forefront of the War Against Civility mounted by DHinMI, Armando and the rest of the Kos power structure. She has gone on record many times as railing against civility, admonishing people to “get a thicker skin”, and singing the praises of “criticism” (as long as it’s not of herself or people she agrees with). She is also well-known for her nasty personal attacks, as befits an acolyte of DHinMI:
Some nice violent imagery in there, eh? Funnily enough, that was in a thread in which she was excoriating Booman for calling DH a misogynist.
I appreciate MB’s apology and have accepted it. However, I do notice that he hasn’t yet posted anything at BT apologizing for and retracting his comment. Comments, actually, since he reiterated the slur, with variations, in subsequent posts.
bayprarie–re the heimlich.I heard about that in a first aid class.
I thought the story about the golden retriever was referenced here–a news story about a woman who was choking on an apple (or a pear, or camel dip?) and her golden retriever pulled her to the floor and jumped on her back until the golden apple was retrieved-but now I see it was something svix & I discussed at Je blague.
hope the exacerbates the confusion.
lucid–congrats on the blog–I did not see what it is named. link?
yes, the pun-fests with d.boyle were fun.
Hey lucid, great news that you’re starting your own site! Looking forward to seeing it and reading about interesting music ‘n’ stuff.
Speaking of music, I just found out that my fave Ismo Alanko – Finland’s best-kept secret – has several videos on YouTube, including this one:
Vittu kun Vituttaa
Here are the lyrics, thanks to a Finnish friend who translated them:
The song was banned on Finnish radio because of the Bad Words but became a cult hit thanks to fans sending the mp3 around on the internet.
liberalcatnip, no. 93
Well, that’s quite a thread you link to there. Who but LG and Emsock are going to wade through all that? Well, Armando and Martin probably will.
Dear LG and Emsock,
Life is beautiful, you should both get one.
New Thread
I will get anything in Moderation out (still sending haphasard non moderated to itself… sigh) and whatever spam snagged.. then making coffeee..
Emsock and Martin,
Since you’re both obviously spending a lot of time here trawling around for material to spice up your cratering blogs, here’s a piece you might want to pay attention to so people won’t think you’re petty solipsists concerned with nothing but what others have to say about you:
Just post about these sorts of things, and maybe you’ll attact some intelligent regulars whose comments will drive up traffic (come to think of it, they probably both spend so much time here because they’re trying to figure out how to use this place as a business model0. 🙂
Of course, Martin would have to refrain from sharing with everyone his memories of being a paperboy during the Blackhawk down incident. “Those Somalis are playing with fire, shooting at the soldiers who invaded their country with US backing!”
Nice ad for Marisacat – and free too.
You’re far too kind. The diary screams “I have deep seated mental health issues and no talent for writing whatsoever.”
‘They better stay away?’ Lol! Oh, don’t worry – run, is my reaction, as far away as possible!
quite so. and what an advertisment for John Breaux!
Wow. That My Two Sense creep learned the wrong lesson from the 2004 campaign.
The lesson was stand up to Swiftboating not adopt it as a tactic yourself.