Opera Glasses and Popcorn
locked in formation… what will they do next to ride to the top of the Rec List… if only in their own minds.
I suggest a lot of them take a much needed break from the emotional stimulation.
Blunt?, you bet.
This is the down side of the internet, in fullest bloom. For all the good it can do, it can also cause immense harm. – scribe
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An Opera Glasses and Popcorn view of Politics and the Assembled Multitude...
Marisacat -
- Real independent observations on current events with a particular fondness for the follies of the Big Box Blahgers.
Deflates bloated egos like a champion fencer in a balloon warehouse.
- Alan Smithee
Marisacat -
"...polish on a mud wallow"
- Meteor Blades [May 24 at Mcat]
Marisacat -
"... doyenne of donkle deconstruction"
- Who is IOZ [January 2 2007]
Marisacat -
"... hardened professionals and their primary strength lies in their being completely unconflicted."
"... the primary difference is that on the level of criticizing other blogs and bloggers, they can actually do some damage."
"... Not what I look for in a liberal blog product."
- peeder - MLW, Daily Rant [3.24.07]
Democracy NOW! / Amy Goodman Electronic Intifada / General Content Press TV / Middle East News Press TV McClatchy Headlines The Real News Reuters / Politics
on one stage reading their poetry"
"I think Allen Ginsberg standing up there reading - putting himself on the line - was one of the two bravest things I've ever seen. Remember, it was '55. People had crew cuts, and they looked at you like you were misplaced cannon fodder. The country was being run by Luce publications. It was a dangerous, cold, ugly time, and it was scary. . .
In all our memories no one had been so outspoken in poetry before. We had gone beyond a point of no return. None of us wanted to go back to the grey, chill, militaristic silence, to the intellectual void - to the land without poetry - to the spiritual drabness. We wanted to make it new and we wanted to invent it and the process of it as we went into it. We wanted voice and we wanted vision."
-Michael McClure
Over and over, in election year after election year, GE and MidTerms both… the Dems start to purr and preen, they stretch luxuriously - at just being TOLD they are going to win [...]
It never fails.
... in February of 2002, looking over the already joyless congressional stragglers willing to be drafted for duty… they barely dreamed, yet, it was even possible (Howard, a different person then, had not arrived to say it could be done)… but one thing was clear, we could not rely on the party to swing it. Could not. You could smell it, they would screw the deal. And I am not talking about Howard and primary issues here. By the end, that was a passing political story. Chuck it on the heap.
[...]
Upshot? The Republicans make it thru. They hold on.
If you click on La Louche the picture or the words, it leads to the Amazon PayPage, a way to ... oh let's say help with the cat can deliveries.
Thanks to all who made the very kind suggestion.
Marisacat 
Someone at dk posted a diary about American Blackout. high userid, so who knows what it’s fate might be.
and–pastordamning–the logic is pretty tenuous, I’d say.
“its”
LOL.. PD is just one more low traffic Dkos spinoff.
He should not try to say he is not. Kos set it up, runs free (I woould bet anything) banners for Street Profits.
why is he trying to appear disengaged from the FatherLand?
“its”
I love the posessive case.
It is the key to unlocking texts written in pre-latin languages.
& opn As The World Tightens:
oops, that’s WaPo
Mimicking Stoller’s “blog theory” (shhh don’t call it META) from yesterday….
What it is reminding me of is the part in the Titanic… where all the little resue boats had to get as far away from the Titanic… least they be pulled under when it sinks.
I highly, doubt that Kos will still be the sole proprietor of DK 6 months from now… I am sure he is looking to unload it.
Ah, MB is whining at me in email about my posting a private email. Breach of netiquette! GASP!!
He didn’t seem to mind when Land of Enchantment posted an email of mine on DKos. That was just fine.
Will post his missive in a bit when I get back from the post office.
First Amendment Snubbed:
“Prison Legal News has filed a federal lawsuit in Dallas County challenging the jail’s year-old ban on publication subscriptions for inmates. PLN, a 17-year-old monthly magazine that reports on legal issues affecting prisoners and other criminal justice matters, says the ban violates inmates’ First Amendment rights. That’s a position shared by virtually every federal court that’s ever considered the issue, including the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which in a 1986 case concerning Midland County said-and we’re summing up
here-you can’t do that.
But we’re talking the Dallas County jail here, notorious for losing and/or offing inmates, abusing the mentally ill, etc., so what are the odds that little things like plainly written court decisions and the Constitution are going to make a diff? Where do you think we are, America?
“They seem to have a rather callous disregard for the Constitution there,” says PLN’s editor, Paul Wright. That explains why his publication didn’t simply send a letter to the county pointing out it was breaking the rules and hope for reason to carry the day:
Without a court order or consent decree, Wright doubts the jail would
consistently obey the law on what prisoners can access.
Some jails have argued that prisoners can watch TV news in jail, so they don’t need access to publications, says Scott Medlock, prisoners’ rights attorney with the Texas Civil Rights Project, who is representing PLN. The courts say otherwise, as does common sense: If you’re in the Dallas lock-up, what do you need more, a publication about your legal rights, or news on the latest car wreck or Britney’s haircut?
Actually, in our jail, a magazine on home medical treatment or psychiatric care might be more useful, but the inmates can’t get those either. In any event, they’ll never get Penthouse or The Anarchist’s Cookbook, Medlock says. There are some rules. ”
http://www.dallasobserver.com/2007-03-22/news/what-first-amendment/
well we fully exited the brief time of prison reform.
I saw a documentary on Attica many years ago, with news reel from the days it played out (so horifically), live on-camera interviews iwth townspeople who openly said they were also worried for the prisoners.
WOn’t be getting that today, or not so easily.
lucid I got all of your comments out of spam file. SOrry!
we fully exited the brief time of prison reform
politically – socially – yup – but thx to the Prison Law Office outside San Quentin, at least in CA there’s still federal court mandates – not to mention TAKEOVER
It’s all about for profit prisons now… And we know how easy it is to reform private enterprise.
But gun toting Webb is AOK with Mr. L. Vagina
I have not had Cspan on… hmm will poke around see if there is anything of interest…
Announcement:
I don’t have everybody’s e-mail, so this can’t be private. Please send your blog addresses to mr_kevinlynch@sbcglobal.net so I can blogdrool you at the Ugly Truth-Teller (kevinelynch@wordpress.com)
Thanks for giving me the courage to make a fool of myself on the internets!
Kevin
I was just thinking to day that we are living in the most covert/blatant massive privatisation scheme in the history of the US. Small gov’t my ass everything is just being privatized. There is a good series on DK Bush Profiteers collect billions from NCLB… which of course no one is reading when they can read such insightful diaries entitled :I Don’t Care About Rush Limbaugh’s Limp Penis…
Any ole who… NCLB is nothing but a covert way privatizing the Department of Education…
What it is reminding me of is the part in the Titanic… where all the little resue boats had to get as far away from the Titanic… least they be pulled under when it sinks.
I was just thinking about Bowers’ non-meta meta (oops “blog theory”) diary (not that I wanted to, but there it was). I thought it was pretty darn funny that kos showed up there to defend himself and then Bowers basically told kos his site was out of control because of its growth – a growth that Bowers in his ever infinite wisdom and pompousness says he strategically planned against – unlike kos – by using “professionalism” (read “boring tripe”) as his angle. I’ll bet young Chris has more than a bit of growth envy. Then there was the dkos “garbage can” comment which was a nice little swipe against his bestest friend MOB.
And now we have PD distancing himself, rather pathetically, from kos as well. The house of cards (and cads) is collapsing. Tres drole.
I noticed the recommended piece of crap and nearly beat my forehead against my screen. Such substance. Such insight into the important issues of the day.
Hilarious. John McCain’s team uses a template for his MySpace page that the designer didn’t authorize them to use so the designer hacked the site and added:
🙂
hilarious to the tenth.
lucid…
I broke down right before lunch and took a look at the main page. And saw that title.
And really except for a small number, it was largely a joke of titles.
I did not read what rode at the top of the FP, Hunter iirc on the “Booboisie”
Well he should know.
A flea circus.
IN the senate,
Hagel crossed the aisle. So did Pryor and Lieberman. To defeat the Cochran effort to strip the dates (useless as they are) from the bill.
Hmmm calls for Lieberman AND Pryor’s heads on sticks at the edge of town?
They are usually mum about Pryor.
KL
are you saying you opened a WP blog?
Congrats!
Thanks Marisa
Yep, put out the ol’ shingle (and never even TRIED to pass the bar 😉 )
Everybody comment!
Kevin
am i imagining things
or are your posts getting shorter as the comment threads get longer
i love the comments …of course i do
but i come here
for your posts and pix mcat
dare i say
the post kos blow back
takes too much time from the transcription of head to post
of your world view
precious quotes from the koscotheque:
“Sympathy is not a limited commotity”
paine… not in the peak of the rosiest state of health at the moment.
by the way there was a follow up diary – text deleted as well.
The first “BGCW”, both text and comments removed, the second just the “He is Saved!” text.
Not a lot left to say…
commotity
red breasts?
commotity
I don’t think I want to ask… Is it a reference to Elise’s bossom?
Not a lot left to say…
Well, apparently, there is.
It just never ends…
Sorry to hear you’re not feeling well, mcat.
31-I’m laughing.
ok, so I didn’t read the diaries, but I love the juxtaposition of the top two at dk:
I Don’t Care About Tony Snow
by WinSmith
1112 comments
I Don’t Care About Rush Limbaugh’s Limp Penis
by Hippokleides
257 comments
by a margin of 855, more dk denizens don’t care about tony snow’s cancer over rush’s limp penis.
I suspect bob johnson will take his cue next.
Link
I apologize for the long excerpt, but I’ve been obsessing about the Kurdish angle of the Iraq War for a long time, and I ain’t about to quit
now.
I’m sorry to hear that. To your health!
Yes disneykos it has become – debates on whether or not we should pray from Tony Snow. Rather unhumorous diaries about the erectile problems of right wing pundits & centrist pundits bemoaning the punditocracy.
blergh!
What a mess.
The best story today,and for a while, has been the AG scandal. There may be no difference between the parties, but I love to see Gonzales squirm anyway. The Republicans are worse, the Democrats worthless.
I’m posting from an undisclosed location where everyone calls me senora, and I float in the water. Life looks really nice from this perspective.
Have we bombed Iran yet?
I’ll check back manana.
DT
well she is doing well. and as I said re-issuing screams. Change the date and push publish.
The Blahgs so deserve her.
Are you in Barcelona? If so, I’m jealous as hell.
It’s a shame to hear about Tony Snowe. Nobody deserves to get liver cancer, no matter how many prefab lies pour out of their mouths.
What’s with all the health things? Mcat sick, me getting over food poisoning, politicians getting cancer instead of just being a cancer on the body politic…
…it’s getting scary
Kevin
mcat
ever watch the original razor’s edge
something about you being ill
put me in mind
of
clifton webb’s decline into his death scene
very sad and noble
oh I did see The Razor’s Edge. Quite some time ago…
I loved Clifton Webb…
well no one likes to hear of cancer nor the recurrance of cancer… IT never matters who it is..
#35. Tuston, thanks for posting that. Interesting stuff… there’s so much going on that we (the collective “we”) don’t know about.
McCain on CNN said that Petraeus goes out almost every day in an unarmed humvee. Is he incredibly daft or what?? Poor Johnny…still trying to prove how “safe” Baghdad is. What a farce.
Woohoo! Go Sean Penn!.
Tuston..
don’t apologise… thanks for posting that…
😉
Catnip…
madman (or wilfred) just sent the Ware (reporting on CNN from Bagdad) smack down of Mccain over Baghdad… will post the link…
danke right back at ya LC. Vipers Rule!
I hate to be un- PC, and I certainly don’t revel in Tony Snow’s predicament, and I do my best to emanante compassion even for cockroaches but…
Karma is a bitch, and doesn’t always whelp good dogs. Tony is a case on point. I ‘ve heard that everyone has two dogs living inside, and the dog that wins is the dog that is fed the most. Tony starved his good dog to death, and the bad one is fatter than a freak show story from the National Inquirer.
I find TS’s fate ironic because he has helped distribute the carcinogenic DU throught out the ME. How many future cases of cancer has he helped cause?
Sorry, ’cause death and suffering sucks, but not so sorry that someone who has helped curse so many to unclean deaths is having to face the same. (but of course TS has benefit of wealth and the finest medicine)
I will say that I hope he beats it, but that is purely based on his position as a living being and in spite of his person.
Tuston, agree with LC, thanks for the info on in #35. I think you’re right about the importance of the Kurds. Turkey also.
Sorry you’re not feeling well Marisacat –
Tustin – I too have been watching the Kurd situation simmer – Baluchistan as well – & filling my ears w/ music from both as best I can – they don’t deserve what’s coming
Here
Ware push back via crooks and liars.
Ware/CNN smack down of McCain over Baghdad.
i just threw this one up . . .
kevin-in trying out the url for your site, I get this message that someone may be trying to trick me.
Bloggers like Meteor Blades and Martin, frantically searching for examples of homophobic bigotry and racism here may wish to read this example of what racism and homophobic bigotry looks like:
http://www.pamshouseblend.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=1153
Just as a reminder, Beard.
I can’t handle all this relevant discourse; its time for Tuston’s Tumbleweed dispatch of Totally Off Topic posting.
The Giant Dog sized Toad found in Austrailia fluff of the day (GMA and Today this mornin’, yahoo nooze all day) got me thinking about the low down deed of Toad Licking and I found this great old Link
For the record, licking Cane Toads (or their much more pharmacologically interesting cousins Colorado River Toads) will kill you…smoking their venom however is different story.
I just released two from moderation (sigh still nt sure what is triggering non moderated posts being sent there, will send a feedback to WP)
and MB is still trying to post to correct people.
Now he has posted his full text FP requiem for Reagan.. and misread my oneline assessment of it as the less whatever than the other 5 or 6.
Tim:
sans apology…
stop.
They will jsut go to spam and die. Along iwth David Byron. And rape imagery, now that it has been reported to sbc.
Go away and tend to yourself.
Tuston, I saw a pic of the toad next to a normal toad of the specis.
Wow.
Long day today. Tomorrow will be spent collaging, I hope. So please get all the drama out of your systems before midnight tonight, faithful trenchcoat brigade members. Otherwise I’ll spend all day tomorrow eyeballing this space and that just ain’t right.
[passes Mcat some hot chicken soup]
Bufo alvarius is our local related species. I’ve never seen one as large as the cane toad from the story but they regularly eat mice and birds and are huge.
I wonder what this guy was up to, I certain he wasn’t going to eat it
From a Drahma Tent posting at TL:
they so don’t want to be bothered.
well they’re too busy “pragmatically” doing “the peoples work” too be bothered to listen to the people.
If they want to motivate Bernie to move, they should threaten to run Indies in all the VT races next time. You know, real Indies, not poseurs.
Speaking of drama, Smith at Stop Me is in rare form today. I totally want to start a local chapter of the Asphalt Liberation Front. Or a splinter (pebble ?) group called the People’s Republic of Asphalt Liberation. Other name suggestions graciously accepted.
see if this link works…
absolute horror
anyway guy in a bar in downtown nyc the other night spoke of this absolute horror. apparently there’s a depraved slaughter of dolphins that gos on in japan on a regular schedule. I haven’t found the heart and stomach to read about it in detail yet. not for the squeamish.
#52. Thanks for that link, arcturus.
SECTION 1. It is unlawful in this State to lick, kiss, or bite a cane toad or to engage in the act of toad-smoking.
Good to know. I’ll jot that down…
For those who think they’ve got blog “wars” to be all dramatic about, check this out. That’s what happens when people are encouraged to be anti-feminist and who don’t care when their so-called “friends” demonize people who have disagreements with them to the point where they are to be “shunned” and compared with torturers and mass murderers. Just look at the e-mails mcat got yesterday.
Every single one of you reading this – and I know you are, obviously (MB and others) – had better start thinking twice about your hateful hyperbole because that’s the kind of incident you’re contributing to. Let that be a wake up call.
That Ware thing is amazing.
Though NPR is a pale shadow of it’s former self, occasionally there will be something of worth. Yesterday, an an interview with the photographer who took the heartbreaking iconic photograph of the bloodied little girl who’s parents had been shot by Americans at a checkpoint.
THIS is what we’ve wrought.
Blair wants no-fly zone enforced over Darfur:
and not to flog NPR, but today there was a really good interview w/ Mary Tillman:
She was also on the Dan Patrick show on ESPN with Dan and Olbermann (you can find a link to her segment here – Tue. 3.27.07 segment. Keith also played quite a bit of it on Countdown tonight (no link yet). A blogger listening to the show notes:
wow LC, that’s really some fucking ugly shit (#64 link)…I had no idea psychos like that could walk erect, much less operate a computer.
cuz it’s such a winning playbook:
drooling . . .
madman
I caught some of that, Mrs Tillman, on Olberman… thanks for posting I was going to wait for his transcript tomorrow. Better to have it tonight.. she clearly is calling for a congressional hearing.
😉
catnip…
what a link. thanks! for that.
good goddess, where do I start?
another good nap was had, by the way. I like this vacation thing.
“I too have licked the toad and seen the viper”
a paraphrase of ferlinghetti’s paraphrase of rimbaud “I, too, have drunk and seen the spider?” Too complicated to czech sources, and there’s a bit of upheaval here due to Operation Housekeeping/Bite me/ Go to H-bag.
Can’t we establish a few “no-die” zones on the planet?
Don’t go so hard on MB-just my opinion, and I’m not the most sophisticated political observer, and the Columbine comparisons were grotesque–never would have expected it from him. But in my years at dk, I don’t remember him being a dk.
thanks ms xeno fot the tip on Stop Me.
and Mcat–chicken soup with chiles! Am a firm believer in Judeo-Mexican cusisine.
catnip I’ll have to read your link.
For all of you cat lovers.
A friend and I used to walk to an old Jewish delicatessen on Geary, years ago, for hot borscht soup in the winter… somehow chicken soup with chiles Judeo Mexican made me think of that….
😉
colleen-just caught the army recruiter story you referenced on Pam’s House Blend–I remember she used to post at dk a lot, but apparently gave up. go figure.
Mcat-few things beet borscht.
Mcat — Just wanted to say how much I appreciate this place. Recent circumstances prevent me from commenting…I barely have time to read it all, but I try to check in every day anyway. And, thanks to the peeps who comment and send you links. Best to you all!
Madman, I have those on my fridge! Gift from a friend. Funny, the cats don’t get it…
ooo raincat!
Thank you.. 😉
LOL Madman.
you know I’m convinced most cases of dog chasing cats is not malice but merely canines penchant for sniffing poo, and cat poo is dank to them (or so it would seem). At least this appears to be bubbie’s (our neurotic mastif mix) main fixation with our kitties. Booger, grody little freak that he is, seems to enjoy the attention, while Ayla, a tiny calico huntress of fearsome prowess, stops the giant oafish bubbie with a mere gaze and so avoids the indignity.
re Meteor Blades I am sure he feels misrepresented here, as, in fact, he said so.
True left wingers are neither pompous nor prudes. Anyone with acumen and left wing “street cred” who has read/posted on dailykos eventually comes to see for what it is. . Though originally hyped as a major online forum for the Progressives Activist Left, It is not. Far from it.. it is a cheap, particle board soapbox which despite its flaking metallic paint, it is most eagerly let out for rent amidst the severest of thunderstorms and lightening. It’s cool if your into salvaging thoughtful work from bookburners and really dig the gratuitous boob flashing and sidecarloads of high fives and ball scratching. I’m not even going there over the armed settlers carrying Likkuds banner into every I/P thread. All these folks are supposed to be my allies? It’s certainly not my bag. It does NOTHING for the Activist Left. It’s tone has been mostly dismissive if not outright insulting to robust activism. Cindy Sheehan is a case on point. The run off of activists, feminists, moderate greens and independents are not only examples of boorishness but political foolishness as well. Timothy Lange aka “Meteor Blades” professes distance from such matters. Sorry, but BULLSHIT
I am sure he feels misrepresented here, as, in fact, he said so.
Of course he does. I and others have characterised Timothy Lange / Meteor Blades as a characiture of the credentialed liberalhe purports to be.
My bad.
If there is one thing to be learned about incarceration in this country, it’s that doin’ time it’s that it’s hardly despositive proof of anything. When your down, it doesn’t count for shit who or what you were on the streets. And when you’re “back on the block”, it matters what you do with this tenuous thing we optimistically call “freedom”.
A “Holy Man” selling liquor to Indians?
“Movement” insider as snitch or informant to the FBI?
“Bake Sales” as part of the vanguard, and using the movement to pick up “squaw”?
Terrible…..some may say
These fanciful and derivative devices are calculated bits of the inept cultural shorthand, but they are no more derivative, calculated, fanciful or inept than Timothy Lange and Markos Moulitsas use of their resumes as evidence of their present“Progressive” nature. There is a substantial sad record online of their hypocritical behaviour. Sorry duh – hoods and dude – ettes, but I’ve never been asked to dine on such fare of complicity in favoritism, ostracism and banishment. Not at the tables I’ve enjoyed sharing meals at. For me, that goes for soup kitchens, High School cafeterias & Gothic College Dining Halls, Uncle Sam’s Mess Tents and yes, even County Lock ups for wrongful arrests.(Charges always dismissed, colleagues shake their head in dismay, the people and meals at ALL of those tables stay etched in my memory.) I don’t intend to eat conversational shit under any circumstances. It is no wonder with such confusion that a diarist like OPOL has been repeatedly harrassed on Dailykos, and that longtime Feminists and engaged Activists here have taken umbrage when compared to the nation’s most notorious spree killing Hitlerian juveniles.
I intentionally pulled up short on “Mr Blades” resume where it is fashionable for public relations purposes to intimate cozy references to family. This is a rare practice among the Professions other than those whose stock trades on goodwill. I see no need to offer any comment in that regard other than what I wrote literally in a previous post.
I understand the whole cyclical and often countervailing nature of political moblization and the corrosive effect that ego often plays in the demise of worthy goals. That said, We still need stronger, clearer, and unapologetic voices on the Left, in word, in numbers and in deeds, NOW and MOVING FORWARD. It would be a welcome change.
Maybe “Mr. Blades” will yet “move his suitcase over” once again, like Norman Whitfield when he left “The Undisputed Truth”, then found gold for his Papa Was a Rollin Stone with the Temptations. With plenty of airtime, Whitfield’s signature piece with the Temps was all over 8 Tracks nationwide, the veritable I-Pods of their day. Mr Whitfield, though, may be best remembered in later years for [Workin at the] “Car Wash”. Maybe not.
Tuston, if you were online in 2001-2003 rightwingers used to flood political boards, issuing death threats etc. It was very bad. Women especially were targeted –
I can understand how that woman feels, and I noticed that the abuse may be coming from so-called ‘respected’ bloggers.
That disgusting spam that Marisacat received is a direct result of what started with DDs abuse which was condoned by many people on dk, including Pastor Dan and his followers. The continuation of the pretense, the lie, that she outed him contributes to it. It was the attacks from the DD diary that caused me to sign up here –
Soul’s woman-hating attacks on msoc were approved of also on DK by people like Elise, who not only rec’d him but who refused even after being shown his vile abusive comments, to condemn the behavior. She was not alone, others, like Clonecone (who encouraged him beforehand), musings, and others, also supported him. Which is why it’s laughable to think of some of these women as feminists. They have left a trail worse than that of the Edwards bloggers proving otherwise. And their support for this kind of thing is dangerous.
I’m glad to see that there are legal limits to such violent abuse … thanks for the link, LC.
Clarification on the Edwards bloggers comment. I meant that in the sense of ‘if any of them plan on a career in politics’. Not that the Edwards bloggers are not feminists.
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Madman, thanks for the link on the Tillman family. Good for them for not giving up. I am always amazed at those who accuse people who have legitimate reason to be angry, of ‘being angry’! i think they’ve been very patient. I was surprised that the blogger didn’t know about Pat Tillman’s diary being burned.
There are many things about his death, the lies afterwards and then what looks like a cover-up, that are suspicious. I remember his mother saying she blamed Rumsfeld. I think she wants to get him before Congress under oath. I hope it happens.
I know what you mean, Raincat. It takes me a LONG time to just catch up when I get home from work.
SB- I wasn’t around, but its just hard to believe that kind of ugliness exists…I know it does, and is more prevalent than my silly previous comment suggests, (in some of the “best and brightest” of america, in fact) it is just so freakin’ alien and anti-human it seems surreal to me.
PK’s good friend K. works at a local battered womens shelter’s safe house, and I’ve driven her to work more than once. I drop her off in an alley. I don’t know which house it is, cause its exact location has to remain secret for the obvious reasons.
Mike the Mad Biologist:
Sadly, there are MANY more “Lieberman” Democrats, but he’s got Clinton’s number.
The Unapologetic Mexican has some thoughts on cancer, what with it being in the news so much:
Madman, thank you so much for the link to the photographer who took the picture of the little Iraqi girl. I really feel, although there are other more horrific photos of dead children eg, that that picture for some reason, epitomized the horror of war.
Lol, thanks for that link, LC #46!
Miss D – there is a nation-wide search now underway for type H vacuum bags – so, why not just relax, forget about housework until someone locates them, and keep on writing? Lol
Btw, I sort of agree re MB – sometimes people think they can change things from within, who knows why anyone would remain in that environment. Although I have been really disappointed in several of the people there I had originally at least respected.
Looks like the Democrats “BIG WIN”… is to just change the facade on the War in Iraq… from and “Occupation” to “Peace Keeping”.
This was all a set up as there is only one party owned by corporations… the “consessions” will be to change the name from combat soldiers… to peace keepers…
OH Jesus H. Finkelstein on a Moped. The Orange Blarg has a Chevron ad u[ again, but its totally pwogressive ’cause its about bio fuels.
Gimme a fuckin’ break.
I guess the Beard will post that diary about chevron any day now
Madman
hmm I Think mad biologist might be off here, by a tad (meaning she means us no good, no matter) but iirc she was able to ditch the bankruptcy vote. Bill was rushed to the hospital… for the second surgery ugh think it was the second.
I did not pull up the roll call tho… the lousy 108th congress.
So many did vote for it tho…(sigh)_ and she has voted for so many bad bills.
Madman-with reference to the cat-butt stuff.
If you look at my chihuahua-x from the front, he is all eyeball. From the back, all asshole.
but he has an ENERGETIC curly tail.
Pathetic… I guess that makes up for the millions of dollars it spent to defeat progressive environmental bills in CA (which Kos voted in favor of Chevron)….
Yeah… I am sure the Beard is now drafting a “fair and balanced” expose on Chevron…
Miss D
strange, must be another of those “wordpress growing pains”. I promise to never ask for your personal information!
Je Blague is on the blogdrool anyway 😉
and don’t these people know that the internets aren’t as anonymous as they seem? creepy F-ers think they’re the ‘invisible man’ online and start in spewing the ignorant shit. that’s the black soul which leads to lynchings, not someone pointing out the hypocrisy in the BBBs
Kevin
You’re right, Marisacat.
She made an okay statement about it before the vote.
Kevin-I just posted and saw.
Oh, and I am completely bereft of personal information-so- not to worry.
Don’t go so hard on MB-just my opinion, and I’m not the most sophisticated political observer, and the Columbine comparisons were grotesque–never would have expected it from him. But in my years at dk, I don’t remember him being a dk.
He’s not a bouncer, he’s the beard and a highly duplicitous one at that. He is most assuredly a dk as are all of Dana’s FP posters. He’s the dk equivalent to Lieberman. Indeed they’re both still trying to trade off their ’60’s activism. No dignity in that.
Calling the MAJORITY of posters here the equivalent to the Columbine killers and racist and misogynist is outrageous but not unexpected and I’m likewise not suprised he can’t bring himself to retract his words or apologise. Last time he visited here he suggested that I was a maoist sympathiser.
The thing with these folks is that they aren’t posting here in good faith, it’s a waste of time trying to talk with them. MB understands that his Columbine statements were outrageous and unacceptable (so does Martin) He’s annoying Marisa right now because he hopes to break her down. He thinks she’s frightened by the rape fantasy spam and that she’s tired and feeling ill and he’s entertaining himself and his friends trying to break her down.
kevin …
give me your WP url I will add you to the blogroll.
ms_xeno
I went to the one listed on your registration here but it said ‘under construction’ (a few weeks ago, that is) do you want that one listed or the live journal url?
lemme know…
also if anyone else has a blog or journal site… post the address or email it to me,
Marisacat at AOL dot com.
Thanks Mcat 🙂
it’s: kevinelynch.wordpress.com
the Ugly Truth-Teller, I tried to post a foto for avatar usage. Nothing so far
Hey, WordPress lost my blog too! They did find it after asking about it tho, so no harm done
Kevin
Hello, all. Late to the soiree this evening, but about Chevron . . .
A relative of mine who has delivered Chevron gasoline for many years told me a year ago, in April 2006, that the ethanol content of what he was hauling had just gone to over 60%. Such a high percentage caused logistical problems previously unencountered (product separation in the tankers in the presence of any amount of water, etc) and he was not a happy hauler. Still isn’t, for that matter.
So whom do I believe? A man who has told me nothing but the unvarnished and sometimes painful truth for 50 years … or the oil industry’s PR flacks? Not a tough choice. I know nothing about gasoline, but I know him.
So much for the maunderings of so-called experts and that “up to 10%” sign at the pump.
MiTM, marisacat, there was an earlier bankruptcy bill, ??2001 or ?2002, and Hillary voted for it. It was the first slash-and-burn of consumers protection, and she was on the wrong side on that one. The later one, yes, she bowed out IIRC because of Bubba’s surgery.
I remember listening to Franken on Air america after the later bill vote last year and he had that snake Reid on, who voted for it, and Reid just blew him off when Franken asked why he voted for it. Refused to discuss it. Gotta love that contempt for the voters. Nope, we don’t have the right to know why these assholes vote the way they do. We’re just the voters, for fuck sake!
LOL I may be under the weather but I say Good Luck to them trying things.
One reason I have been harsh to the oh let’s say the arrivistes… their efforts are off base but timely.
Arminius, cheap pulpit… advising me to love.. ?? what one wonders. And hour later, after he deciared he was too sick to b out alone and trying to function as an adult, he was in the Romero FP post at wingless declaring his love for ”San Romero” and that he was an immigration lawyer due to ”San Romero”. His was the 14th comment, still there this am…
He shined on the lynching connection that “Its simple IF you ignore the complexity” used in the opening paragrafs.
How nice.. but he had also “confessed” he came here in a lather after reading on the nets/Blahgs aobut whatever they call what is going on.
So he found th stench of compromised religion and he thanked god that he is superior.
He should not return.
Supersoling… who knew cat cans and grocery deliveries were to be an issue, but hell they were. And I am misunderstood to give a flying hoo hooo about his sexuality (I am beyond disinterested) but it is MARTiN (nee Booman) who lies about him. But Super is off to sit and bitch with DavidByron.
Good luck again. He should not return.
And that is just two aside from msoc and Martin and PD’s subversive homily (its simple If you ignore the complexity is a PD acolyte btw) and so on. Blogging Curmudgeon… if they want to preserve some posting ”specialness” at Wingless or BMT ro elsewhere funny how they show up here, or neatly link to Martin’s Paparazzi, to MLW MEta Weep but do not link to Marisacat (a FP linke would be enough for fairness), just for balance.
Oh GMAFB.
I could go on.
Good Luck to them.
They long ago pushed all my buttons. I am not on some mission nor a crusade, I just like to post and I post aobut what matters to me… as much as it pisses them off..
they ARE on a mission, to sell party line, fairly reactionary, center to right Democratic machine politics online to the hapless and the soft, anyone else gets a move on out, as they figure it out… and to be tools and to pick up some flotsam jetsam of all the poltiical cash and tangibles that are around now all year long, every year.
Anyway thre will be a new post up in a little bit… LOL related to Chevron protests out here. Timely… no?
LOL.
kevin
i ahd to try twice for the avatar to take.. and I only posted a pic as I got tired of the “?” in the box.
It also takes 48 hours for the avatar to appear…
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Moiv
thanks for that.. if OK I will use that comment in the post coming up…
Nothing complicated, just some pics and a site that is part of the Chevron prostest and interview about the office occupations. iT sure is related..
Guess hwo was decent to the protesters.. a R who voted for the war but now is opposed.. came out and apologised and spoke iwth them.
God it is just common decency.
argh. what a mess we are in.
She who must not be named
Here’s another George Smiley quote: “Topicality is always suspect.”
Fine with me … for what it’s worth. After all, what would a tanker driver know? Except his job, of course.
And Kevin, congratulations on opening your blog.
Schumer called the “WIN” a “long term battle to get the President to ‘change the course’ ”
…umm… he is only in office 21 more months and the Democrats “WON” the battle is for him to “change the course” in 18 months…
What am I missing here about the “win”????
K..A..B..U..K..I
well in fairness I mean inside the blog BC/ette had up about blog wars or Meta or whatever they are calling it.
(By the way, BC/male version the one who “begoned” catnip at her own site, was wringing his hands in the suicide diary at Wingless. What a stupid day.)
she had me on the blogroll and I asked to be delinked.
How you can link ot Martin’s Paparazzi and not at least offer a link inside the posting to Mcat.. she does not have to hunt for a relevant post (martin’s post ws a fucking mess, I doubt anyone could hunt down the pertinent mcat post to counter his splooge), just the url would be fair.
Mcat and Kevin:
My art page has been under construction for about 5,000 years now. It’s just been one disaster after another. However, you are more than welcome to link to the Remainder Bin at LJ, which I do try and update a bit more often. Oy.
http://ms-xeno.livejournal.com
I would love to have even a custom LJ page, so I could start a blogroll. Not enough techie skill to do even that. But your interest is sincerely appreciated, nonetheless. Don’t forget to peek in the gallery, where I did manage to post some collages before the Great MacDrop of ’07, from which I’m still recovering.
Must sleep now.
Re… Martin nee Booman… did you catch on that in Paparazzi he linked to the wrong post … not the one he was chiding you about about Dodd but a fairly inoculous post from last year.
hmm no missed that. What really stuck in my mind was his smashing together all sorts of sentences from a variety of posters here into one blockquote box.
I long ago considered Boober intellectually dishonest and boy that was the candle on the cupcake of his brain.
BC/male version the one who “begoned” catnip
And I’m still not begoned. Go figure!
BTW, taht dead fish DavidByron was posting “private” comments to me here, that swung in moderation. Samething Pyrrho was doing for a while as recently as few months ago.
Geesh.
I posted in a thread here this am, that if DB kept it up I would notify his IP.
That did it (for wahtever reason), the shit disappeared. Pronto.
boy that was the candle on the cupcake of his brain.
lol…you owe me a new keyboard for that one. I need to invest in some of the those plastic covers if I’m going to stick around here, obviously.
charlatan militarist and martinet.
they all fit him
I think you may be depressing Kos’s sale price. Kos is an idiot about political thought but he is a keen opportunist. Insisting on the Chevron ad IMO is to boost the saleability of the site… just as he promotes his military years (no action) to sell his street cred to the center right and conservatives.
I see no difference between the Chevron ad and this … … both picture the values of the site… If you didn’t know anything and stumbled upon the Chevron ad and Kos dressed like a soldier… what would you think….????
Thanks all { Read much today } appreciated it love mcat’s eye for art too
Night – Night.
I think that quote is not too far off the mark. There were very few cancers prior to the 20th century. Environment plays a huge role, but I also think diet is central as well. Our diet is now rich in what are called PUFA’s [poly unsaturated fatty acids] and low in saturated fats. This has the direct effect of increasing the inflammation response of our immune systems. PUFA’s break down directly into arachidonic acid in the body and it is the arachidonic acid metabolism that is directly responisble for inflammation. Almost all modern chronic disease is inflammation related [from heart disease to cancer to respiratory disorders to arthritis to you name it]. Saturated fat, on the other hand, has a calming effect on the arachidonic acid metabolism. When the ag industry began lobbying the medical establishment to push vegetable oils on the public [in order to sell excess vegetable crop in the form of oil], we begin to see a direct increase in inflammation related disease. In other words, the ‘heart smart’ diet is not very smart for your heart or any other aspect of health. The gross misinterpretation of the original ‘cholesterol’ data is a good example here. If you look at every single major cholesterol study, one finds that the all cause death rate among the PUFA groups is significantly higher than the all cause death rate among the saturated fat groups.
Vegetable oils are pure evil [with the exception of olive oil, which doesn’t break down into arachidonic acid – one reason why the Mediterranean diet, while rich in meat, is exceptionally healthy].
Food prep is another issue to – specifically related to body oxidation. Meats should be cooked as quickly as possible to minimize the amount of time they are exposed to oxygen – the rawer the better. The only problem is that in this day and age most meat is not safe to undercook.
Pasteurization… don’t even get me started. If the body is not malnourished, there is little or no danger in consuming unpasteurized products. Yet it is illegal in most states to purchase unpasteurized dairy.
I suppose this could expand into another contrarian health essay.
Anyhow, just my 2 cents.
Patriarcal, militaristic and corporists… but don’t call him a DLCer.
What is that saying… if it walks like a duck…quacks like a duck… and looks like a duck… more than likely it is a duck.
madman –
you were both right and wrong about hillary’s bankruptcy vote. it passed twice, once in 2001 and once later on. she voted yes on the first and no on the second.
Apparently, springtime has brought a veritable plethora of blogosphere meltdowns. Wow. What a joke that woman is. She attacked Valenti and now she’s the poor victim. And she’s a law professor, to top it all off. Pathetic.
I heard Tillman was engrossed in Chomsky on a plane en-military-route.
Not the theme they wanted, exactly, to roll out at the memorial.
Big Brother is here and is a glutton for us… re the further invasion of privacy noted via car rentals, of all things, as noted in thread somewhere… Ugh… the sheer magnitude of it. I’m thinking one of those giant rubber band balls, but full of knotted threads. So much to undo. If…
Speaking of Big Brother, wasnt that a short lived reality show?
Speaking of reality shows…
Caught the suicide flash, yesterday, linked from here.
And I do mean FLASH!
Now I see all’s well that ends well.
Ahhh.
Well.
She didnt even vote on the second, wu. And she did indeed vote for it the first go-round.
She was visiting huzzie, post heart surgery, when she missed her chance for redemption. (lol)
Given her desire to please the CONTRIBUTOR$, must admit I couldnt help thinking at the time, how convenient.
I mean, she never uttered a word in its defense – our defense, anti b bill – did she? Never uttered a word of regret that she wasnt there to cast her vote against the little peeps.
What a crusader for the masses, our Queen is.
Lucky us.
I meant FOR the little peeps.
Sigh.. rushing off to work.
END
the candle on the cupcake of his brain.
That line is a treat. So were Miss D’s contributions of the past two days, and her link to the Icelandic Phallus Museum.
I also liked the line a couple of days ago about “black helicopters with Marisacat’s logo on them” – was that Sabrina? Pretty funny to think of the La Louche Black Ops Brigade.
Miss D, about your chihuahua – I’ve met several of the breed while at various dog parks and have been astounded by their Attitude. They don’t consider themselves “little dogs”. I once saw one thoroughly intimidate a gigantic Great Dane.
Lol, Miss D has been on a roll lately – SV and no, I did not contribute ‘black helicopters with Marisacat’s logo on them’, I think I missed that. What a great image though. Lol.
After all the suppression of Impeachment talk at dk, (who were they trying to protect?) elsewhere, this obvious Constitutional tool to rid this country of lawless elected officials, is increasingly up for discussion, even on the Joe Scarborough Show:
If only Nancy hadn’t taken it off the table and if only the so-called progressive blogs had not treated part of the Constitution as ‘Impeachment Porn’ but as the legal remedy it was intended to be by the Founding Fathers, to rid the country of lawbreaking elected officials.
These blogs should should have been a megaphone for the people to uphold the Constitution, instead they acted like the hired hands of corrupt machine politics whose job it has been to muzzle the very voices they claim to represent.
Ironic how often we tried to tell them that once the magnitude of the crimes of this administration were made public, their concerns about votes in the Senate for conviction (or excuses) would no longer be valid. Once again the ‘pragmatists’ are proven wrong. Ironic that it is Republicans who are willing to discuss impeachment, and who are backing away from Gonzales, Cheney and increasingly from Bush.
Democrats lost the chance to be out front on responding to the concerns of the people regarding corruption by keeping everything on the table and by being very vocal about it.
MB is still refusing to apologize, or even to say whom he was talking about:
OK, fine, if you want to clutch the anvil of that Columbine comment to your breast while sinking beneath the waves, have at it.
MB is not a thoughtful enough guy to understand the ramifications of likening us to the Columbine killers, or even to disaffected high-school “Goths” sitting at their own table of exile.
What it means is that he is aligning himself with the Forces of Order, the bullies who insist on enforcing the old-school hierarchy – the Dean Wormers, Niedermeyers and Mandy Pepperidges of society. He is neither a rebel nor a revolutionary. He embraces the status quo. He will not, cannot speak truth to power. He is a conservative.
Sorry, wrong.
Lucid, no. 36
A couple of weeks ago, there was a thread devoted to prayers for Steve Gilliard. When someone interrupted the exceedingly kitchsy posts to sensibly point out that this maudlin exhibition would do nothing to save Gilliard’s life, and that his continued existence was entirely in the hands of antibiotics and modern surgery, he received the de rigeur pummeling handed out to anyone who dares to suggest that such displays are rather narcissistic, and serve only to pump up the egos and (more importantly) the mojos of the most exhibitionistic commenters in the thread. The notion of whether or not you should pray for Tony Snow is entirely beside the point since whether or not you do will have no effect on his condition. As to whether or not you should grieve for a man who has done more than a little to bring about the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people in the Iraq War is the relevant matter. My answer would be that I decided long ago that anyone stricken with cancer is worthy of at least a little sympathy, but if you don’t agree, I wouldn’t argue with you.
BTW, that Emsock/Goldfish exchange liberalcatnip linked to in no. 33 was extremely interesting, largely because no one gave the latter any troll ratings. As to Emsock herself, she managed to make herself look remarkably unnattractive, which (if we assume for argument’s sake that her version of events is accurate) is a considerable feat. If we don’t make that assumption, it’s safe to say that even the benighted souls making up the current crew of kossacks sees through her.
One thing is for sure, women who approve of referring to other women as ‘whores, cunts and bitches’ or who support the vile woman-hating speech of Daily Kossack, Soul, (for supporters on dk, check the recs given to these two men, and by ‘feminists’ or is it feminsismsists) certainly cannot claim to represent women, and yet they do make that claim and have been promoted, laughably, by dk as such. Zero credibility is what they have. The record cannot be erased.
So, MB only regrets posting his accusation on another board. Does this mean he still believes those posting on this board are comparable to the Columbine killers? If so, delusional is too good a word, I would not even ask him to prove such an assertion. It would be a ridiculous request. By making the comparison, he has seriously comromised his own reputation. He should apologize, more for his own sake than ours.
SB, no. 125
These blogs should should have been a megaphone for the people to uphold the Constitution, instead they acted like the hired hands of corrupt machine politics whose job it has been to muzzle the very voices they claim to represent.
Yes, that says it all. Really, that sentence encapsulates all that needs to be said.
Meanwhile, the Brits are ramping up the tension with Iran over the 15 marines and sailors taken as hostages. They’ve revealed what is said to be evidence that their personnel were in Iraqi waters, which when you think about it is irrelevant, since what are the Brits doing claiming they have a right to be in Iraqi waters anyway? Anyhow,
Well, as noted above, it’s not easy to discern a legitimate reason for the Brits to have been there anyway, but that doesn’t get mentioned. Nor is the fact that the US is still holding those 5 Iranians we seized for no good reason in Kurdistan a few months ago.
Can anyone say “bargaining chips”?
Ooooppppsss!
Here’s the link to the story about the Brit/Iranian standoff.
lucid, do you know about pumpkinseed oil? I never had it until I went to Slovenia. It’s supposed to be good for you. Anyway, it’s delicious. Too heavy to cook with, it’s used mainly as a salad dressing.
“the candle on the cupcake of his brain.” that’s award-winning.
speaking of writers, the latimes has a review of a one-woman play based on Joan didion’s book she wrote after the death of her husband. starring vanessa redgrave. on Broadway. just funny to think of didion on broadway. I think she tangled badly in self parody in some of her later writings, and often had too much in the way of verbiage before she got to the point, but she was dead-on about so many things in Slouching Towards Bethlehem and The White Album. My copy of Slouching is bound in a rubber band, my little chapel missal of my early 20’s.
The only thing MB regrets is that his giant bloated ego got punctured by a puny cat claw or two. The only “party” MB is for is himself; his “radical” and liberal “cred” is as cheesy as and pase as a “members only” jacket.
BTW Chihuahuas are a noble breed. Our little Yoda has our Mastiff mix in mortal fear of crossing the little bugger. Yoda also has big problems with anyone in uniform, especially the ‘migra. I guess there is some truth that humans resemble their owners (the dogs).
Hemp Seed Oil is really good for you. According to many it is the most perfectly balanced nutritional oil to consume:
Link
Its great for your skin, and there are few all natural “personal lubricantes” that utilize it in their formulation ( I recommend “nude” but there are others)
SV – I don’t know about pumpkin seed oil. I’ll do some googles today. But if you are not cooking with it, it shouldn’t be too much of a problem. The oils that are most dangerous are the one’s you typically find in processed foods, or that are used for cooking – corn, canola, safflower, soy, etc. Look at a bag of commercial potato chips & avoid everything in them.. There’s a reason this stuff can be used to run cars. We wouldn’t want to cook with petroleum now, would we. [Think cancer alley Louisiana]
weren’t chihuahuas buried with Aztec royalty?
I took out this–what turned out to be a terribly written book on dogs and royalty. There was a description of how some?/one? Chinese emperor would have a processional space lined with pugs with candles on their heads. Even if it’s a bullshit story, I still like the imagery.
I find it telling that he interpretted my “freaks & geeks” riff on his comparing us to the Trenchcoat Mafia into “disaffected goths”.
Look, old guy (and I’m no spring chicken myself, but I worked w/ younger people a lot until fairly recently, and have a little more of an idea of what’s going on than a guy who gets his impressions from TV), the kids I was comparing us to are only disaffected if you look at them from the POV of the insiders, the suckups and the jocks. There is NOTHING “disaffected” about following your own path, about building your own community with like-minded folks who DON’T crave the approval of people who exploit or control them. Most “goths”, “punks”, “freaks” and assorted other outsiders I’ve know have been pretty happy, centered kids compared to the neurotic basketcases obsessing over fitting in or their “permanent record”. They THINK, not FOLLOW.
Klebold’s and Harris’s pathology comes from their resentment that they weren’t welcome, weren’t “in”. Those of us jeering from the corner table have no interest in joining the herd. We hold the herd in contempt.
I was just reading the Reuters “security” round-up on Iraq. One of the many incidents listed suggests the mccain promenade might be premature:
BAGHDAD – Police found the bodies of 15 people with gunshot wounds and signs of torture in Baghdad on Monday, police said.
I’m not very clear on what it means when they say “sectarian violence” is down. Does that refer to a cessation of the mutual ethnic cleansings of neighborhoods?
LOL, Miss D: pugs with candles on their heads
Pugs are super-high-energy dogs, stubborn and not easy to train. When I imagine an imperial troop of pugs with candles on their heads I see total chaos, ending with the palace burning to the ground.
Maybe they were stone pugs.
Madman:
Klebold’s and Harris’s pathology comes from their resentment that they weren’t welcome, weren’t “in”. Those of us jeering from the corner table have no interest in joining the herd. We hold the herd in contempt.
Exactly. Because the herd becomes a herd by choosing to exclude certain members who are too individualistic and by demanding allegiance to particular tenets/mores that will root out those individualists.
#128, SB: what they are trying to do is dilute feminism by redefining it as something so vague and all-encompassing that it becomes meaningless. Without agreement on the basic principles, it becomes an empty label. Just like “liberal” and “progressive”.
It’s fine to talk about “different feminisms” – as is popular in academia nowadays – but not if you can’t even agree on the principles behind feminism. The “different feminisms” are subsets of the greater movement. If every time a disagreement comes up, a woman sides with the Fratboyz (e.g., approving of the “bitchcuntwhore” type of comments), and/or she consistently defines herself in the terms of the male-dominated society (e.g., the poledancer) then it’s quite likely that she’s not on board with the greater movement.
Thanks Lucid! Also Tuston, for the suggestion of hempseed oil.
Tuston–thanks also for the reminder about hemp—I am still working on “The Capacity of Dope”
hey missdevore:
If you need any research done for the book let me know; I’ve got years of experience in the field…
Has anyone here read The Botany of Desire? It was recommended to me by a friend over the weekend. It’s supposed to be about the history of the tulip, the apple, potatoes and marijuana.
No good news:
SV – pumpkinseed oil is very rich in Lenolenic Acid, an omega-3 polyunsaturate that offsets the inflammation increasing effects of omega-6 polyunsaturates. If you eat it uncooked, it is probably very good for you.
There is a school of thought, however, that the fewer polyunsaturates we consume over all is better for the body – especially oxidized [cooked] polyunsaturates. Generally speaking though, given contemporary agricultural practices and their effects on our diet, adding unoxidized omega 3’s is never a bad idea, we are all, very likely, overrun with omega-6’s.
When cooking, I have three recommendations – olive oil, coconut oil and organic butter. These don’t oxidize when cooked, they have little arachidonic acid in them.
[…] is a point that DT raised in the previous thread… yes, maybe if you take Chevron ads, well… maybe you just plain old […]
raw story tease:
Bush: Iraqis must have some breathing space: Developing…
does it mean the realtionship is over? Or are the oil contracts finally worked out to satisfaction.? Or would he just rather nuke iran?
Breaking up (a nation) is so hard to do….
SV, I bough the Botony of Desire for my brother after reading a great review of it when it first came out (he is a nurseryman). He loved it and he hadn’t read a book in 20 years since he came out of college so it jumpstarted him reading again, pretty cool.
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Why be for Chevron?
I’ve got to say it. Slight retranslation. “Klebold’s and Harris’s pathology derives from SSRI’s which are well known to cause both violent and suicidal behaviour when prescribed to adolescents”… As with every other mass school shooting.
Seriously. I’m not making this up. Britain has now banned their use in adolescents for precisely this reason.
Thanks again, Lucid. I remember Julia Child heartily scoffing at margarine and saying that she would only ever use BUTTER. Good for her, looks like she was right.
oh, to have REAL butter, not to mention REAL syrup … what the hell were people thinking? Were the engineered substitutes originally adopted to solve storage and cost problems, or is it just about profit? The taste alone makes the switchover puzzling, and now we find out that things like Butter and natural sugars are SO much better for us …
butter is best. always was.
Julia is the best… always was. My father wore out volumes of her French Cooking.
I also have the cook books written by her French cooking partner Simone Beck, also wonderful
she (Julia) never, not once, took endorsement money.
“its not nice to fool mother nature”
I always hated parkay for pissing off mom; they were right up there with the whalers and “the devil” to my young mind.
Butter?…well you can extract various herbs by placing the finely ground vegetative materials by placing them in a pot and simmering them with water and butter (altho I prefer ghee) for 45 minutes or so. While the mixture is hot the marc is filtered through cheesecloth and then washed with boiling water 3X. The coolected mother liquor is cooled in a refridgerator and a delightfully green butter solidifies above some nasty brown water. The butter is easily seperated and now can be used for brownies or garlic bread or whatever.
For the raw foodists amongst us a almond butter can be mixed directly with finely grated herbs. Allow the herbs and butter to “rest” for a few days after mixing, but then you’re good to go.
I wonder what parsely, sage, rosemary, and thyme would taste like in almond butter? (ha!)
On my cynical days, I’m prone to think it was just about profit, as these ‘substitutes’ are what built the ag business we see today. And the disease born of these substitutes built the pharmaceutical empire we have today… and around we go.
I do think though, that we can’t demonize health professionals. While they often make terrible mistakes & are unwitting of the influence born of industry, I think in general their recommendations for vegetable oil substitutes for saturated fats were at least made in good faith – after all, that’s what the government health officials wanted, right? [And it’s not like their budgets aren’t paid for by pandering to the politicians who make them… and it’s not like those politicians don’t keep their jobs by pandering to the industrues that reward them…] ugh.. I guess it’s one of my cynical days.
MCat, I adore Julia – she is one of my big heroes.
Madman, probably profit is the big motivator, but I seem to remember hearing that many of these artificial foods were created during WW2 in response to shortages. My mother told me how during the war, they only had “oleo” and it was white. A little capsule of yellow dye came in the package – it would be broken into the oleo and mixed in to make it look more butter-like. Yum!
Tuston, sounds interesting! I get the impression the herbs you’re talking about aren’t culinary.
It’s fine to talk about “different feminisms” – as is popular in academia nowadays – but not if you can’t even agree on the principles behind feminism.
Good point. And why subject us to definitions of feminism as shallow and self absorbed as those found on DK and, now, BT. I’m not even mildly interested in someone’s PMS or struggles for sexual fulfillment. I’m really not interested in a ‘feminism’ which pretends that being a sex worker is some sort of apex of fulfillment. I’ve had a good many friends who were sex workers. they have explained what the work is like and how it rots their soul and how they are exploited. It’s a very ugly thing those men and women are doing. why not just say they don’t want to talk about discrimination, poverty, reproductive politics and the erosion of church and state boundaries or their own purile attitudes and be done with it?
Well the difference culinary, medicinal,”toxic” (illicit or not) is in the words of Galen (or more accurately the cthonic greek grandmammies who taught the invading dorians their knowledge) is almost always a question of dose. And many “Culinary” Herbs can be medicinal in quantities that flavor foods to savory splendor.
Did you know that basil, or “Albahaca ” in spanish, is used as a flavoring, a pallative tea for a myriad of sundry discomfits(e.g. upset tummy), and a metaphysical “cure” for the more mundane afflictions of the evil eye?
But, yeah those recipes work really good for the nearest botanical relative of hops (nudge nudge, wink wink)
colleen – isn’t it interesting that these women are so “liberated” that they “choose” to continue playing the same old game of male-pleasing. Recall the “feminisms” diary by Elise – “What is Sexy?”- which discussed the sexiness of women. No interest whatsoever in discussing men as sex objects.
tuston – never tried basil tea! My fetish is rosemary – I put it in most dishes, put sprigs by doorways and carry them in my pocket for protection, put it in my bath etc. Good stuff.
missdevore,
I’m not very clear on what it means when they say “sectarian violence” is down.
It really doesn’t mean anything, because it’s a statement that is totally divorced from reality. It’s a talking point meant to burrow into the minds of people who might hear it in the opening minutes of Today while running out the door on the way to work. I wouldn’t even qualify it as “wishful thinking,” becase the person I heard spouting it on Today this AM (guess what I was doing) was John McCain, and he’ll say anthing to keep this war and occupation going. He isn’t stupid enough to believe it’s true, he’s just a demented man with warped priorities who doesn’t care how many people have to die as long as his dreams of American hegemony accomplished through militaristic imperialism are made real.
What ?! Nobody will stand up to defend the fabulousness of walnut oil or peanut oil ?
This outrage will not stand !!!! [shakes fist]