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Oh...I'm sorry Annika. Were you looking for input?
I think we are all too wrapped up in Youtubing, talking 80's music and discussion of fart noises to pay attention to the serious analysis you provide.
Our bad...
Posted by: Billy at January 25, 2007 03:20 PM (SLFj+)
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no biggie, Billy. i'm just looking for folks to remind me how awesome i am!
Posted by: annika at January 25, 2007 03:27 PM (zAOEU)
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Well you KNOW how much I love you! In fact, I need to hang out here more often and less over at 6MB...us Californians need to stick together.
Posted by: Billy at January 25, 2007 03:40 PM (SLFj+)
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So that was supposed to be funny eh? Maybe if you played on the old SNL line, Generalissimo Fidel Castro is NOT DEAD YET. Heh, humor has to simple.
Posted by: Casca at January 25, 2007 04:10 PM (2gORp)
Posted by: Preston at December 22, 2006 12:38 PM (HZZuA)
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The Donald might be an obnoxious person himself but that smack down of Rosie O'Donuts was epic. I downloaded it and played it about five times. Each one was as funny as the last.
Posted by: kyle8 at December 22, 2006 04:08 PM (46q4B)
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Now there's a W in O'Donnell. What'll those celebrities think of next?
Posted by: Joules at December 22, 2006 06:12 PM (u4CYb)
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Annika,
I will try and find the citation for that quote, but i assure you it is not the product of Ivy League Dawn. I heard it when I was in my 20's. It is, I'm pretty sure, a character in fiction that said it. I'll let you know.
Posted by: strawman at December 21, 2006 09:56 AM (9ySL4)
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Everyone knows the answer to life, the universe and everything is 42.
Posted by: John at December 21, 2006 11:43 AM (pfhGN)
Posted by: annika at December 05, 2006 10:03 AM (zAOEU)
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Yeah, but can you be rented?
(*Chuckle*... *snort*...)
----
Reminds me of a documentary I was watching on cold fusion. Some brain dead mouth decided to level the charge that cold fusion research was being suppressed because physicists were being bought by big oil. One physicist critical of cold fusion responded something like 'No...no one's paid me off yet... if they want to, I can be reached at the University of...'
Anyhoo, payola for positive reviews isn't really that big of a shock. Hell... they do it all the time for movies. Why else do we see that Ron Noonestein from Podunktown Idaho thought the new Rob Schneider film was a "Tour de Force", a "Film for the ages", and a "Must see event!"?
Posted by: ElMondoHummus at December 05, 2006 11:09 AM (xHyDY)
Posted by: Scof at December 05, 2006 11:39 AM (a3fqn)
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Casca,
Just wondering by your two postings above, does Schizophrenia run in the family, or am I just jumping to conclusions?
(Maybe just channeling GBS?)
Posted by: Brad at December 05, 2006 02:18 PM (9ADYb)
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Obviously you're new, so you have no frame of reference here, Brad. You're like a child who wanders into the middle of a movie and wants to know...
Posted by: Casca at December 05, 2006 04:19 PM (2gORp)
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Bwah ha ha hah! Brad, this should help illustrate the situation. Put simply, Casca views Will as an un-housebroken interloper that soils Annie's wonderful blog which ties his world together.
Posted by: reagan80 at December 05, 2006 05:35 PM (wkyrW)
Posted by: Casca at December 05, 2006 07:46 PM (2gORp)
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Heh, what happened to your wishlist? I want to send you a Christmas present.
Posted by: Casca at December 05, 2006 08:13 PM (2gORp)
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I suspect that right about now, Annie would like an advance copy of the next Bar Exam.
Right aobut Christmas break is when they start getting seriously worried about that sucker. Last one jumped from @49% to 51.8% passing, so they are talking another look at the degree of difficulty.
Posted by: shelly at December 06, 2006 12:31 AM (0Co69)
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Man, you keep being a prick to everybody, and nobody is going to show up at your funeral. At least, that's what momma used to say.
Posted by: Casca at December 06, 2006 07:16 AM (Y7t14)
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Not true, Cas. Someone would gonna wanna piss and dance on said prick's grave.
Well, maybe not in that order... ewww, dancing in piss... anyway...
Posted by: ElMondoHummus at December 06, 2006 07:03 PM (xHyDY)
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I (heart) pissing and dancing on said prick's grave! ;-)
Posted by: Radical Redneck at December 06, 2006 09:30 PM (hvREU)
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Ya know, I *still* haven't rec'd a password from them. I, for one, am not taking back everything I said about the bee, and I'm adding a few more choice comments.
I hope it's a nice article and that it drives visitors to watch The Flirts.
Posted by: Victor at December 03, 2006 10:33 AM (l+W8Z)
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congratulations!
have you seen this yet? it's sully's new book -- www.thepathswechoose.com
Posted by: david at December 03, 2006 10:37 AM (NSKOn)
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Well, Mr. IT Professional, maybe you fucking didn't do something right? That would be my bet.
Take it all back do you? My but your price is low.
Posted by: Casca at December 03, 2006 10:37 AM (2gORp)
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Aw fuck, and they want a login. It will have to remain a mystery. The Sacto Bee is harder to access on the web than the NYT.
Posted by: Casca at December 03, 2006 10:40 AM (2gORp)
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Congrats, Annie!
...and I cracked their high-security environment with:
Userid: Password
Password: Password
Posted by: d-rod at December 03, 2006 11:19 AM (JRBf/)
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You've only been in the hood for a year + and you are already making headlines.....impressive, girl!
Posted by: blu at December 03, 2006 12:04 PM (Wn4WF)
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or is it 2+ years. whatever....not that long regardless....
Posted by: blu at December 03, 2006 12:06 PM (Wn4WF)
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Congrats on the Bee, and on five straight years of winning the Axe!
Posted by: Hugo at December 03, 2006 12:29 PM (Yu24L)
Posted by: Victor at December 03, 2006 05:12 PM (l+W8Z)
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Answering this would be akin to beating an idiot child. But, I was asked. It would be bad manners to ignore the twit.
Those who show up after the fact with weakass excuses offend the sensibilities of those who have made the effort. Had you but carried your weight, our girl would have won outright. Add to this my loathing of mince pies, and all who bake them, and you've entered a very select group in my estimation. I threw in an explanation of your girlfriend's Aunt's strange looks towards you for free. Finally, your posts uniformly suck. Any more questions?
Posted by: Casca at December 03, 2006 07:27 PM (2gORp)
Posted by: Rob at December 03, 2006 07:44 PM (wMSNf)
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Casca:
I TOLD you; pick on someone your own size. These mental midgets are unworthy.
You know better than to take bait that looks too easy. I'm thinking you might be losing a step.
Posted by: shelly at December 04, 2006 12:27 AM (YadGF)
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Hey Casca, you can't get on the NYT or the Bee sites unless you have a super secret liberal decoder ring. You can get yours from Daily Kos.
BTW you also mispelled but (butt) just like me!
Congrats Annie for this dubious distinction. Still, as the infamous corksucker Oscar Wilde said, its better to be talked about than not talked about.
Posted by: kyleN at December 04, 2006 04:00 AM (7y1XD)
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Shelly, I've lost several steps, but not nearly as many as you, and like you, I compensate by being a devious old bastard. Youth is exciting, but maturity is interesting.
Kyle, I did that on purpose to put you at ease, and make you feel welcome. "Corksucker", love it.
Posted by: Casca at December 04, 2006 07:33 AM (Y7t14)
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Congrats on the Bee mention; that's how I just managed to become aware of you just an hour ago. But I do think that when Tower and other music retailers blame Amazon and file-sharing for their woes, they are overlooking their own role in their demise.
Until these recent going-outta-business sales, I hadn't bought new music at Tower in years. Classic albums by Jesus & Mary Chain...30% off a $26.95 list price? Even factoring in gas and bridge tolls, I'd be saving money to buy that at Amoeba Records in Berkeley. Even during these drastic price reductions, the Tower store four blocks from my house in Davis couldn't compete for my dollar next to a mom 'n' pop store 60 miles away. Why is it a surprise that they're folding? Why is it even lamentable?
I'm reading music-related blogs by avant-gardists and obsessed obscuro geeks from all over the planet, and it seems to me that only Americans ever ballyhoo the plight of fading record stores. And DIY labels in America complain loudly about losing their sales to downloaders, but DIYCEO's abroad don't seem as prone to that. I've begun to seriously believe it when my friend Scott--who runs his own DIY record label--says that this problem is uniquely American because of the way we devalue culture here. Europeans, he says, are more enthusiastic about supporting art and music and that they'd never disrespect it enough to steal it.
Indeed, culture is such a low priority for so many Americans that even when we do wanna pay for it, we buy it from the ultra-limited and tame vanilla selections at Wal-Mart and Target. I read somewhere recently that 55% of all music sold here in the USA are sold at Wal-Mart and Target.
Several stores are finding a successful niche selling serious music to serious music fans, the minority of Americans who do not roll over and settle for less. And even a store like The Beat has said that they had a record year in 2005. Amoeba and Aquarius in the Bay Area are as successful as ever. Portland, Oregon, has more record stores now (32 and counting!) than they did last year or ten years ago. These success stories are adapting and finding a new sustainable business model. Tower put up a feeble attempt to adapt; their can't-beat-'em-join-'em approach of offering downloads for purchase on their website shows just how ready they were to capitulate.
I spend probably $500-$1000 per month on new music, but I am not even 1% sad about Tower's bust.
Posted by: Rick Ele at December 04, 2006 04:05 PM (ykE8/)
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Your comment gives me some reason to be optimistic, Rick. Thanks. Tower's prices had been going up, its true. And like I said, I had found other sources myself. Amoeba was a favorite haunt, in my college days. But now, without Tower, there's a vacuum, and technology will find a way to fill it. Pandora.com and satellite radio may be part of the answer. We shall see.
Posted by: annika at December 04, 2006 04:46 PM (zAOEU)
Vote For Me
Here's something new. I got nominated for something or other. I don't know what happens if you vote for me, I didn't read the thing too carefully. Anyways, you should vote for me. It requires a login, but you can use "guest" as the ID and "guest" as the password, then look for my post called "The End Of The CD Era" and rate it as a "5."
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I love you, but it appears that "guest" is only allowed to vote once.
Posted by: d-rod at November 29, 2006 09:08 PM (T10K4)
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Well, if you vote, make sure you hit the 5 rating. I think the default is 3 so you have to select 5. You can always go back and change it.
Posted by: annika at November 29, 2006 09:26 PM (oantJ)
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I done my duty. One vote really gives you a boost. Let me know if you want me to stuff the ballot box.
Posted by: Casca at November 29, 2006 09:51 PM (2gORp)
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It's blog # 15 for those who don't want to have to read all the other sub-standard quality stuff...
Posted by: shelly at November 30, 2006 09:39 AM (0Co69)
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I applied for my own login and have yet to receive my password. On my part, it's not for lack of trying.
Posted by: Victor at November 30, 2006 11:24 AM (WHtgF)
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don't bother with that, victor, just use guest/guest
Posted by: annika at November 30, 2006 11:47 AM (zAOEU)
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I logged in as a "guest" this morning, but it looked like nothing happened when I submitted my rating.
Setting up a Paypal "tip jar" thingy here would probably be more rewarding than whatever that poll is offering to the winner. With that, we could then have a bidding war against Casca for the honorary title of Annika's "Alpha Bitch Supreme." If I win, my email address will be changed to annikasalphabitchsupremereagan80@lycos.com
Posted by: reagan80 at November 30, 2006 11:52 AM (wkyrW)
Posted by: gcotharn at November 30, 2006 12:18 PM (xq9zD)
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Down boy! I already saw you sniffing Moxie's hiney. If I'm not mistaken, you proposed marriage. Seems kinda desperate proposing to a woman with cats on her blog.
Posted by: Casca at November 30, 2006 12:19 PM (Y7t14)
Posted by: reagan80 at November 30, 2006 05:32 PM (pTNVX)
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Since Casca mentioned "sniffing hineys", I guess I'll flaunt the newest addition to my DVD collection. There was a lot of sock puppet molestation going on at the Westminister show.
Posted by: reagan80 at November 30, 2006 06:18 PM (vdQ23)
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OK, Annie.
we need a new post on Ohio State v. USC; the old one is gone and we all need to talk shit about Columbus, and the sieve defense that Michigan picked through...
Posted by: shelly at November 30, 2006 07:13 PM (SLFj+)
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Dammit Shelly, expand your interests a bit. RR just pointed out Shitney's C-section scar. I totally missed that first time round. I missed the flab on her inner thighs too. I'm lucky that way.
You're right Reagan. You didn't propose, it was some other idiot, or perhaps the voices in my head. There's nothing more alluring than a desperate woman with cats entering middleage. You were definitely sniffing though.
Posted by: Casca at November 30, 2006 09:33 PM (2gORp)
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i don't know why guest guest doesn't work, the instructions say it should. oh well. if you're really motivated, you can register for real. But it's a sacramento bee website, so i don't know why you'd want to. except to VOTE FOR ME!!!
Posted by: annika at November 30, 2006 10:15 PM (oantJ)
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Casca wrote: There's nothing more alluring than a desperate woman with cats entering middleage.
Are you always so kind, or was this a special occasion?
Posted by: Moxie at December 01, 2006 12:58 AM (tUFhb)
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Annie:
Voting is closed, so well meaning folks need not register until next time.
Next time, Annie, read the instructions; that's what they teach us in law school, remember?
Looks like you tied for first in percentage, but someone loaded the votes a little better than you did; had twice as many voters. Loading votes is what they teach us in the legislature. That's next for you, I predict.
Casca, ease up on the cat lovers; they can't take it. Pick on someone your own size.
Posted by: shelly at December 01, 2006 03:58 AM (YadGF)
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Reagan, what can I say? You brought the lovely, talented, YOUNG, ATTRACTIVE, Moxie over here... FOR ME TO POOP ON! LMAO, gawd I love that DVD.
Moxie, what kind? Oh, the kind with no regard for the truth? That would be Shelly, and with the aid of modern medicine, I understand that he is occasionally capable of simulating something akin to sex... coitus... the act of love.
Now as for my comments, they were directed to the taunting of Reagan80, but since you asked... lose the aire of desperation, and the cats. Then change the modern legal system where men have no rights after they say, "I do".
Posted by: Casca at December 01, 2006 09:01 AM (Y7t14)
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Whew, DONE!!!
Don't ever ask me to do anything ever again.
That site is difficult to use. I gave you a five.
I'll send some traffic your way from IMAO to see if that might help.
Good Luck.
Posted by: RightWingDuck at December 01, 2006 09:24 AM (1AWMf)
Posted by: Scof at December 01, 2006 12:44 PM (a3fqn)
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"Reagan, what can I say? You brought...."
Just to set the record straight; No, I did not tattle to Moxie.
She found that out on her own.
Posted by: reagan80 at December 01, 2006 03:58 PM (cVvWB)
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I was setting up a joke you silly git... FOR ME TO POOP ON!
Posted by: Casca at December 01, 2006 05:27 PM (2gORp)
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Jesus, how long is the line for folks to take credit for offing Erin Brockovich out of the Beverly high case?
Skip Miller says it was him , and I know my partner, Chris Brisbois did the environmental legal work, and now I read some other dude says he did the lifting.
The way I heard it, they simply fabricated the evidence. or tried. Mssry's dead, so we can't disbar him and Erin isn't a lawyer.
So, Annie won't be like either; dead or a non-lawyer. She's gonna be a force, and probably she'll be the one pooping on Casca. That is, if he survives January 8.
Posted by: shelly at December 01, 2006 05:58 PM (YadGF)
Posted by: annika at December 01, 2006 08:01 PM (oantJ)
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LMAO, Shelly, ya gotta rent the DVD. That is if you're not bleeding from the rectum manana.
Posted by: Casca at December 01, 2006 08:49 PM (2gORp)
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"...and if I survive July 24-26!"
Piece of cake, Annie. Typing or writing?
Heck, it almost got up to 50% last test. We're toughening it up just for you...
Posted by: shelly at December 02, 2006 08:26 AM (0Co69)
LiveBlogging The Results
I'll be liveblogging the results with the boys at Six Meat Buffet tonight. Mix it in between your frantic checks of Drudge, The Corner and Hugh Hewitt, if you please.
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Dems have won the house. FOX just called it @ 8:20 PM PST. Sad day for America. Two years of Nancy Pelosi ought to be enough to remind people what Democrats are all about....
Posted by: blu at November 07, 2006 09:21 PM (MKP3x)
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LMAO, I can't believe that ANYONE reads that stupid fuck! The mere fact that he still exists on the web is a monument to human tenacity. I think of him as a dumber fatter Juan Williams. A touchstone on life's journey, all one need do is shoot a back azimuth from their recommended course.
Posted by: Casca at November 06, 2006 08:02 PM (2gORp)
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It's not possible to say good-bye to Doug. My husband and I met him at Pt. Loma Nazarene College in the mid-80's and we've never been able to forget him. We'll never forget when he rode the baggage carousel at the airport and got detained by airport security, when he ate ground-up crackers from the street, when he rigged the sound system to play Hell's Bells in chapel--sorry--wrong Pt. Loma legend--who would've thought he'd grow up to be a cartoonist?
Posted by: Joules at November 02, 2006 04:18 PM (u4CYb)
Cotillion News
It's been a while since the last Cotillion carnival, but Beth of Blue Star Chronicles has done a wonderful job of collecting the best recent posts from the premiere group of female bloggers. Go check out Cotillion Colloquy. I'm in there!
Project Valour-IT is fundraising again. Superblogger Beth of My Vast Right Wing Conspiracy is on the Marines team, though she's an Air Force veteran. And our very own A-List blogger Cassandra is leading the Marines team.
Every cent raised for Project Valour-IT goes directly to the purchase and shipment of voice-activated laptops for wounded servicemembers. As of October 2006, Valour-IT has distributed nearly 600 laptops to severely wounded Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Marines across the country.
During its initial phase, Valour-IT created “libraries” of laptops equipped with voice-controlled software for the severely wounded staying at major military medical centers. In many cases a laptop was provided to a wounded hero for permanent use.
Click on one of the links and donate whatever you can for this great project.
Art and jewelry collectors take note: Holly Aho (a huge supporter of Soldiers' Angels by the way) has opened a new online store with here original artwork and jewelry. Go send her some love.
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Gah, that brings back memories of my days in kindergarten. I even remember those damn Coke commercials with that guy in them. Back then, I noticed the 5th & 6th graders were using paper book coverings, with Headroom's likeness on them, over their texts.
I didn't understand the point of the character, but after looking at his Wikipedia entry, I realize now that he's just some anti-Thatcher/Reagan persona.
Posted by: reagan80 at October 25, 2006 09:43 PM (dFOlH)
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Yet another frenzied rant by a Faux News dittohead. You could do much better, the Country certainly will...
Posted by: will at October 21, 2006 04:35 AM (h7Ciu)
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You go, Jimbo!!!
Support our troops; wear red on Fridays!
Posted by: shelly at October 21, 2006 05:37 AM (ZGpMS)
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Sure, Will, it was vulgar; but, it was also spot on accurate.
What's "Faux" news got to do with it? You still living in your Through the Looking Glass world where Fox is more biased than, say, CNN (with its decision to run propoganda tapes sent by the enemy, and its ongoing policy of propping up Dems at every chance) or the Associated (with terrorists) Press and their fake photography meant to prop up the enemy and its supporters?
BTW, what are you going to say when Nov 3rd comes and the Reps are still running both the House and Senate? I can't wait to listen to the Lefties howl about voter fraud and stolen elections: basically, the same crap they do every election cycle. (As I predicted some weeks, the MSM is already starting to run interference for Dems with stories about how voting machines might not work; and how the lines might be long; and how new laws might discourage voters. Blah, blah, blah....
Posted by: blu at October 24, 2006 12:55 PM (42Ozp)
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Not me! I just visit here for the witty comments...
Posted by: Drake Steel at October 17, 2006 09:15 AM (l8OMm)
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Annika, What do you think about the elections in Sweden . . . i.e. social democrats kicked out. A new trend? or socialism lite?
Posted by: Sven Sensson at October 17, 2006 10:52 AM (76+ro)
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These elections certainly bear review, inasmuch as both the major political parties are doing their darndest to expose the failures of their opponents.
P.S. "Google" and "ogle" do not rhyme.
P.P.S. I found out that you cannot put the words deserve and comment next to each other when writing.
Posted by: Ontario Emperor at October 17, 2006 12:41 PM (OeJic)
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No wonder Swedish women are so horny. Anni bears some skin, and Sven wants to talk politics.
Posted by: Casca at October 17, 2006 03:18 PM (2gORp)
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I keep clicking and clicking... and NO VIDEO DAMMIT!
Click... Click... Click... Click... Click... Click...
DAAAMMMMIIIIIIIIIIIIITTTT!!!!!
Posted by: ElMondoHummus at October 17, 2006 03:48 PM (9+vj+)
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Too bad, ElMondoHummus. You really should she what Annie can do with a Volvo.
Posted by: Tuning Spork at October 17, 2006 03:55 PM (NR1+F)
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At first, I thought the Emperor was talking about the Swedish elections, but I get it now. He would make a good cryptographer for the NSA.
Posted by: reagan80 at October 17, 2006 03:56 PM (dFOlH)
Posted by: William Teach at October 20, 2006 05:21 AM (doAuV)
22TAKE THE TEST!
Even though it's done in interest of science: not work safe. :-(
Posted by: Radical Redneck at October 20, 2006 08:06 PM (cOyko)
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I was in a hurry when I left yesterday; so didn't have time to click but, to paraphrase the no satisfaction, can't get no girl reaction Stones, I am just a click away.
Posted by: michael at October 21, 2006 10:16 AM (FUxEb)
Whenever a concession is made to Islam, another waits in the wings, ready to be rolled out onto the stage to take its place. ItÂ’s like the Sudetenland in 1938, over and over again. Lop off one piece and give it Hitler, and then another, and another, but somehow itÂ’s never quite enough.
And, if you watch carefully, the Muslim negotiating partner never manages to carry through with his half of any compromise.
. . .
Every time we perform another act of abasement, every time we fall all over ourselves apologizing for insulting Muslims, every time we publicly pretend that Islam is the Religion of Peace, we are doing damage to our collective psyche. All these efforts fly in the face of the obvious truth: historically speaking, right up to the present moment, Islam has been the Religion of War.
The Demonic Convergence is drawing the Left and radical Islam into bed with each other, so that there are very strong forces in our public life which strive to convince us otherwise, that we are bad, bad people, racists and Islamophobes, for thinking such things. It produces a cognitive dissonance in the collective psyche of the West, because the average person, deep down, knows the truth.
Posted by: Casca at September 21, 2006 06:47 AM (qmJpf)
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I would like to extend it a bit further, lets stop apologizing for militarily defeating a bunch of neolithic savages. Lets stop apologizing for being richer and better than everyone else.
Lets stop apologizing for kicking the living shit out of anyone who gets in our way.
and Let's stop apologizing for having a culture that every one else wants to imitate.
Posted by: kyle8 at September 21, 2006 03:46 PM (cxCSP)
Al Qaeda Passes McCain Style Bill?
As reported by Point Five:
On the heels of the Warner/ McCain/ Graham legislation passed out of Senate committee today, which offers expanded rights to terrorists over the bill proposed by President Bush, al Qaeda reportedly has considered changing its long- standing rules on prisoner treatment to include greater protections for Americans in custody.
The new guidelines would set strict requirements for the type and quality of beheading blades, limit the time spent on- camera in execution videos, and place new rules on the use of burning alive, dismembering, and dragging through the streets.
. . .
Under the new al Qaeda guidelines, gasoline would be strongly discouraged as a fuel for blackening infidel corpses, favoring high-temperature, fast burning fuels such as acetylene or MAPP gas. The use of accelerants such as oxygen to more quickly extinguish the cries of agony from the infidels would be “greatly pleasing to Allah.”
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Yeah, no shit. Those Cocksuckers; i.e. McCain, and his minnie me from SC deserve a public ass whipping.
Posted by: Casca at September 14, 2006 07:31 PM (2gORp)
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That idiot from SC has been auditioning for the role of McCain's running-mate for couple of years now, and it sickens me that he's willing to compromise the GWOT for - what he thinks are - political points. I
Hugh Hewitt easily dissected him on the radio today. If you are interested in the interview, go to Hewitt's site and you'll find a link to the transcript.
Posted by: Blu at September 14, 2006 07:59 PM (TVuWZ)
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Yes, I agree. i think America should always take the behaviour of the worst actor and shape its legislation and policies accordingly. The Chinese have been demonstrating for 50 years how we might reshape our civil controls to get rid of all the thinkers and dissenters. Implimenting their methods would solve the many problems of Democracy related to the document that W calls the "Bill of Wrongs". Or the "Bill of Insecuritys". You know the one, that group of paragraphs that are going to get us all killed by the nasties who want to eat our freedoms out of envy.
I think if we were going to be really smart we might offer some of the out of work (I hear their command and control centers and networks have been devistated) Al Qaeda operatives some serious dough to come to work for us interrogating and extracting intel. Now those guy's really know what's up with protecting their shores.
Posted by: Strawman at September 15, 2006 07:42 AM (tuy00)
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Ralph Peters still had the best solution to our prisoner "abuse" problem: no more taking prisoners!
http://tinyurl.com/h2c7j
Posted by: reagan80 at September 15, 2006 08:27 AM (dFOlH)
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Strawman,
Your post demonstrates once again how ill-informed you are about this debate. The issue here is the ambiguity of the Geneva Conventions, (which shouldn't even apply to AQ or any of its members – or any terrorist - as they do not serve a country nor are they signatories.) So, please get a clue, then comment. The President is simply asking the Congress to clarify specifically what they will allow in terms of interrogations, so our men in the field can stay within the law. Perhaps, you can enlighten us and describe specifically how this in any way encroaches on the Bill of Rights and your personal freedoms.
No doubt the leaders of China, N. Korea, and AQ spend a lot of time debating their interrogation tactics with leaders of the legislative branch and the Press, trying to codify those standards in a very clear way.
Don’t you get tired of me pummeling you? It’s really too easy. Time to bring your “A” game Straw because right now you are just my bitch.
Posted by: Blu at September 15, 2006 10:06 AM (TVuWZ)
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bLU,
That sounds so sexy, Blu, I don't know if I'll even look for my A game again.
But, of course, as in the past you dodge the irony and humor of our president's lame position. Just clarify a few things so my professionals know what to do to protect the good people of our fine country, because if they (the professionals) are not clear, they'll sit back on their asses and punt. Oh, and the other thing that will inhibit them is the possibility of prosecuition. What horse shit.
It does affect out rights, blu because W will use the same rules on you or me if for instance we set off the sniffers at the airport because some Nitrogen molecules are in our sock from playing touch football on a recently fertilized lawn. They will bag you and carry you off to who knows where and classify you as a enemy combatant until they prove otherwise which they will be in no hurry to do since hurrying is antithetical to being thorough and to not be thorough is to jeopardize the nation.
You would like me to believe that W and his crowd do not know what article 3 allows because it used vague words like "mutilation, cruel treatment, torture, humiliating treatment, outrages against personal dignity, caring for the sick and wounded, violence to life and person, execution, and no judgement without regularily constituted courts that offer ALL the judicial guarantees which are recognizes as indespensible by civilized people" Yea Blue, that's really vague.
I don't have a clue what I might or might not do to a captive had this been my only guide line.
I know pulling out a fingernail really hurs but its not mutilation since it will grow back, right?
And, hey, dogs bite people everyday all over the US so why is it such a big deal if terrorists are nipped on their peckers a little?
And when you stuff my underpants in my mouth and tell me to play with myself so you can watch, I still get up and go to work the next day, don't I? Mastubation and underpants are a part of your everyday life, right big fella?
And what about all those collge kids making pyramids and laughing and falling all over each other in the gym? Just because they not naked and don't have bags over their heads dosen't mean they wouldn't try it if the coach told them to.
I guess your right, as always, it is so very difficult to know what you can do or can't do when it comes to protecting our sacred shores. Come over here ya big slob and rub my belly some more.
Posted by: Strawman at September 15, 2006 10:47 AM (tuy00)
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Define any of these terms:
"cruel treatment," "torture," (I love this one - I'll bet when you were getting your ass-kicked all through grade school you experienced this a bunch) "humiliating treatment," and the always horrible "outrages against personal dignity."
Hey is loud music and a cold room "torture?" Just curious.
Oh and how many free lawyers, special food, and special religious services should these semi-humans be allowed?
Finally, Straw, if prisoners were forced to read your tortured English prose, would it be considered an "outrage against personal dignity?"
Posted by: Blu at September 15, 2006 11:15 AM (TVuWZ)
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I don't know Blu, I think it reads kinda good other than spelling which I don't put too much stock in.
Of course a cold room and loud music are torture. Go out to you garage this winter, get naked and turn up your boom car to 120db and tell your mom not to look for you for 4 days. Then call me.
Mostly though, its like Justice Stevens said about porn, hard to define but you know it when you see it. Unless less of course you have a big investment in the industry. Like you and Billy Frist do having to lick the porn king's ass every day.
Posted by: Strawman at September 15, 2006 11:33 AM (tuy00)
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To be fair, you writing is pretty good. It's your ideas that are bad.
Posted by: Blu at September 15, 2006 12:13 PM (TVuWZ)
Think for a moment about the concerted action by Democrats, their lawyers, former White House operatives, Bill Clinton, sympathetic historians, and lefty bloggers to stop this show. Remember that this was the same crowd that was full of praise of for Fahrenheit 9/11 for crystallizing their opposition to George Bush. Accuracy and versimilitude didn't bother them then. And they weren't saying a word about 60 Minutes "fake but accurate" story on Bush's National Guard service. Now, ask yourself. If this crowd were to control the White House, how many more of these attempts to stifle any criticism of them would we be seeing? Think of how much has been aired during Bush's tenure, even a movie depicting him being assassinated and more denials of civil liberties gets made without Bush's White House unleashing its lawyers. But, for this thing, the Democrats go to the mattresses. Are they perhaps modeling for us what their response would be to further criticism if they should gain control of the White House - or even of Congress? Don't forget those not-so-veiled threats to ABC's license. Ponder that chill wind.
Exactly. These are the anti-free speech crazies I'm talking about.
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You can tell the that ABC took dramatic license with this film.
The scene where the distraught woman accusing the cowardly members of the NSA of murder could not have happened.
The Clintons would never allow a person with a conscience to work at the White House.
Posted by: Jake at September 10, 2006 09:52 AM (r/5D/)
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Anti-free speech crazies?
I am sure my comments mean nothing to you. You just aren't smart enough to realize that you are allowing yourself to be manipulated. A shame.
The reason their are objections to this movie is due to how the film is a huge multi-million dollar right-wing propaganda effort. Like you, most American's are not well informed and will walk away from seeing that movie with the very incorrect belief that Clinton is primarily culpable and Bush did no wrong - which is just not true.
When the time comes for ignorant Americans - which includes you BTW - to pay the price for all this stupidity and blind belief, please remember my words. I am certain you are too thick headed to pay them much head today.
A little under 70 years ago, people like you were standing on the streets of Berlin, waving little flags - blindly accepting what their leaders told them. You are no different.
Posted by: Barney at September 10, 2006 08:13 PM (Lx+Sm)
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Barney:
Where were you when Michael Moore was selling his revisionist history?
You liberals are all alike; ready to slam anything that smacks of conservative, true or not, but unready to stand up to criticize the liberal lies that are spewed daily.
That is called hypocrisy; the best word in the world to describe the pseudo liberal holier than thou assholes that inhabit the world and the blogisphere.
Go preach somewhere else. We've got your number around here.
Posted by: shelly at September 10, 2006 08:55 PM (ZGpMS)
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"Like you, most American's are not well informed and will walk away from seeing that movie with the very incorrect belief that Clinton is primarily culpable and Bush did no wrong - which is just not true."
Barney, you are an idiot. You haven't seen the film, yet you are willing to pass judgment. If you had seen the film, you'd know that Bush gets hammered - along with The Pervert. Save your propoganda.
So, when did the Dems send out the post to its sheep telling you all to hit up the blogs and let people know how this film was nothing but a "a huge multi-million dollar right-wing propaganda effort."?
And 70 years ago, dipshit, it was people like us willing to fight Nazi's. It was people like you who wanted to appease them and then go join Stalin's communist party.
So, do me a big favor and go blow yourself and the rest of your left-wing nancy boys.
Posted by: Blu at September 10, 2006 09:34 PM (TVuWZ)
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Dear Barney,
The bologna is in the nest.
The pastrami is recyclable.
I only say this in jest,
cuz the dickcheese you will gobble.
Love,
Spanky
Posted by: Spanky at September 10, 2006 10:42 PM (dFOlH)
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Dear Barney, you fucking purple dinosaur. Get yourself two history degrees then pop off. And learn how to fucking spell you idiot.
Posted by: annika at September 10, 2006 10:53 PM (qQD4Q)
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Heh now, I LOVE to hear from meth addicts. They're so... imaginative.
Posted by: Casca at September 10, 2006 10:54 PM (2gORp)
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Its like Rush was saying today, you couldn't paint a starker contrast than Bush warning the NYT not to run a story because it would cost lives, versus Clinton et al warning not to run a story because it would make them look bad.
Posted by: Scof at September 11, 2006 02:02 PM (a3fqn)
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Hey Barn,
Did you ask Aint Bea or Andy if you could use their computer? Fuckin' Tard.
Posted by: tony at September 12, 2006 07:27 AM (/ccf+)
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Damn... I'm sorry I missed this thread when it was fresh, I could've gotten my kick in while Barney F****n' Fife was still conscious.
But, why beat a moron when he's down? He'll take himself out of the gene pool by just opening his mouth and talking. Zero effort on our part.
Posted by: ElMondoHummus at September 13, 2006 03:31 PM (xHyDY)
Insufferable Pricks Party Election Guide
Just so you'll be able to tell the difference between the two major parties on the big issues, Cranky Neocon at 6MB has prepared an informative and handy Election Issues Comparison Chart. It's suitable for printing, so you can take it into the voting booth with you on November 7th!
Hurricane Katrina Anniversary
Tomorrow marks the one year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina's landfall on the Gulf Coast. Lots of bloggers are remembering the event, and I just want to point to two ways it touched my life.
The first was definitely the proudest moment for me as a blogger. This whole exercise in semi-regular public writing is pretty ridiculous most of the time. But last September I can honestly say we made a difference. By we, I mean you, the very generous visitors to annika's journal who pledged $2,250 for hurricane relief.
You folks really deserve congratulations, because you showed how beautiful you are. We outdid some real big time blogs,* as you can see from the final list. Special thanks to Shelly who added a lot of cheerleading and cajoling to his characteristic generosity last year.
The second thing was that I bought a gun and started a disaster preparedness kit. Even though some of the horror stories turned out to be exagerrated, what did happen was still pretty horrible. And it could happen anywhere. I grew up in Oakland and have witnessed my share of natural disasters, so I have no excuse not to be prepared. The one lesson we should all take from Katrina is that each one if us is responsible for his or her own safety. Don't ever count on the government to do it for you, it's your job, and they're not very good at it.
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* I didn't mention it at the time, because I thought it in bad taste (and maybe it still is) but I was really amazed at the sharp political division between the bloggers who joined in the fundraising and those who stood on the sidelines.
I did some informal research during the drive. I checked the biggies, like Kos etc, and they were on the ball. But I was curious about the smaller fish, so I started going down the list of the blogs listed as members of the League of Liberals. I actually went through the whole blogroll. Of those blogs that were still active, I was disappointed to see that the vast majority had absolutely no link to any charitable organization. That was despite the fact that most were not shy in hurling criticism at the administration (deserved) or at conservatives in general (undeserved). I seem to remember that there were only two blogs that had any charity hyperlinks. One of them put it up only after I left a scathing comment. And then it was to PETA or some sort of animal rescue org.
I acknowledge that my point is probably unfair. How do I know what these people donated in private? But the contrast between the left and right sides of the blogosphere back then really surprised me, and I think of it as kind of a watershed moment.
Posted by: Zack at August 29, 2006 01:54 AM (50VFA)
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IIRC, about one-fifth of N.O. cops walked off the job right after Katrina hit. Some of them were even looting.
Yeah, it would be a good idea to prepare for anarchy and arm oneself.
Posted by: reagan80 at August 29, 2006 09:17 AM (iyq/M)
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Just wondering how much water can any gun bail?
The devestation of Katrina was/is much greater than 9/11..
My wife and I went to NOLA in June to visit her neice...
Ya know how traffic slows on our commute because drivers want to see some fender bender? That delay bothers us more than this entire nation turning our back on what happend a year ago.
Our initial response as a nation to 9/11 was my proudest moment as an American. Our response to Katrina made me ashamed.
Posted by: nogo postal at August 29, 2006 02:27 PM (9KUOP)
Piling On Passey
[I can't help but join in the huge Passey hatin' dogpile that's been going on in every corner of the blogosphere lately. She's too easy of a target.]
Every time I looked in the mirror, I cried a little. I'd see my own awful skin blemishes and they'd remind me of how inadequate I was next to Jacqueline Mackie Paisley Passey, the world's most perfect female.
Then I imagine Terrence out with her. And I remember the cruel questions he used to ask me before he dumped me for Jacqueline Mackie Paisley Passey, the world's most perfect female.
"Why can't you be slim like Jacqueline Mackie Paisley Passey, instead of being one of the 62% of women who are fat according to Jacqueline Mackie Paisley Passey?"
"Why can't you be more attractive than 86% of the women whose pictures have been rated by visitors to the website Hot or Not, like Jacqueline Mackie Paisley Passey is?"
"Why can't you be relatively young like Jacqueline Mackie Paisley Passey, instead of being one of the 82% of American adult women who are old according to Jacqueline Mackie Paisley Passey?"
"Why can't you be smarter than 97.5% of the population, like Jacqueline Mackie Paisley Passey, the world's most smartest and perfectest female?"
"Why can't you have your financial shit together like Jacqueline Mackie Paisley Passey the world's most financially shit-togetheringest female?"
"Why can't you have a strong libido and love to have sex like Jacqueline Mackie Paisley Passey, the world's most horniest female, whose lovers never have to beg, except when they have to beg to be allowed to go to sleep?"
"Why can't you have interests that tend to be more popular with men, like science fiction, libertarianism, blogging, politics, economics, guns, gambling, scratching, picking, sniffing, and eating of one's own boogers, like Jacqueline Mackie Paisley Passey, the world's most masculine female?"
After hearing those hurtful questions for months on end from Terrence, and poor me unable to answer them, is it any wonder that he left me for her - Jacqueline Mackie Paisley Passey, the world's most all around perfectest female?
How I wished I could win Terrence back. I cried and cried and cried, boo hoo hoo. Then my best friend told me about the secret of Dr. Passey's Super Stick Treatment!
Dr. Passey's Super Stick Treatment was such a quick, easy way to attain just the tiniest fraction of the perfection that Jacqueline Mackie Paisley Passey, the world's most perfect female was born with!
And since the whole country is littered with low quality men who've been cast off by Jacqueline Mackie Paisley Passey like so many squamous cells after a nightly exfoliation of her perfectly unblemished and taut ass, I realized that all I needed to have was a tiny fraction of Jacqueline Mackie Paisley Passey's perfect perfection in order to hook me a fine low quality man!
Why, if Jacqueline Mackie Paisley Passey can boast of receiving 50 to 100 (sometimes more) responses whenever she trolls for high quality men in the personal ads of her local free newspaper, I was sure I could find at least one medium quality man and perhaps several low quality men by utilizing Dr. Passey's Super Stick Treatment!
And when I heard that Jacqueline Mackie Paisley Passey (who knows how to make money blogging, ask her how) had kicked Terrence to the curb, because he turned out to be just another low quality man (and she being quality, only dates quality), I resolved to give Dr. Passey's Super Stick Treatment a try!
What did I have to lose? I asked. And after only a week of Dr. Passey's Super Stick Treatment, what I gained was Terrence, who became mine again . . . completely!
The secret is in the special patented Super Stick, invented by Dr. Passey. The treatment only takes three minutes a day and the results can be felt instantaneously!
After you wake up in the morning, all you do is take Dr. Passey's Super Stick, apply the special patented Super Stick lubricating ointment to the outside of the Super Stick, apply some more to the outer rim of your anal sphincter, and then shove the Super Stick in as far as it will go!
Walk around like that all day, and I gaurantee you will begin talking, acting, and looking just like Jacqueline Mackie Paisley Passey in no time. She's the world's most perfectest female of them all!
Try Dr. Passey's Super Stick Treatment in the privacy of your own home for a free ten day trial and watch the results on your own face, when you first administer the treatment. I think you'll agree, there's no feeling in the world like the Jacqueline Mackie Paisley Passey feeling. It's absolutely gauranteed to take your breath away!
So act quickly, supplies are limited, and so is the number of low to medium quality men. You may never hope to bag as much high quality man-flesh as Jacqueline Mackie Paisley Passey, the world's most perfectest female, but once you start using Dr. Passey's Super Stick Treatment like she does, you'll be sure to have your pick of the leftovers.
So be a hot chick . . . hop on the stick!
Dr. Passey's Super Stick, that is!
Posted by: E.M. at August 22, 2006 06:10 AM (TSUMu)
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You are always "high quality" to me.
What kind of studip term is that anyway? Sounds like we are talking about roast beef.
Posted by: jane at August 22, 2006 06:16 AM (vFS/o)
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Gee, thanks Annie; I always wanted to know what people meant when they said "Stick it up your ass".
But, I think it is more inforamtion than I needed.
Posted by: shelly at August 22, 2006 06:28 AM (ZGpMS)
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I believe Ms. Passey uses the infinite stick. Hollowed out so you can put sticks in the sticks in the sticks.
Put simply, the stick in her ass has a stick in its ass and so on and so forth.
Posted by: LindaSoG at August 22, 2006 06:49 AM (XHdkE)
Posted by: Stacy at August 22, 2006 07:03 AM (92p8H)
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Okay, that made me laugh. Not nearly as much as Jacqueline Mackie Paisley Passey made me laugh, but it was a nice effort.
Posted by: Mr. Atoz at August 22, 2006 07:20 AM (CgIkY)
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Everything sounds good except that booger eating thing at the end. A few questions: Where do I meet this Jacqueline Mackie Paisley Passey chick? Also, do you know what size stick she uses?
Posted by: Casca at August 22, 2006 09:07 AM (rEC2k)
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Whoopers!!! Found her, geeze who'd guess that she's a serial fag-hag?
"Brien (Bartels): My ex-husband turned gay best friend. We met via the Libertarian Party during the 2000 election campaign. We were both on the hunt for a spouse, discovered that we had a ton in common, and after a speedy courtship we married in January 2001, five weeks after our first date. Our marriage lasted for a little over a year and a half, until Brien finally realized that he was actually (in his words) "GAY GAY GAY". We split up in late 2002 but remain best friends. I have a Brien Bartels category of posts and he has a blog here."
Posted by: Casca at August 22, 2006 09:26 AM (rEC2k)
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Damn, she and her fans are stuck on themselves, aren't they? I've seen less self congratulation at a Democratic primary.
Posted by: ElMondoHummus at August 22, 2006 09:40 AM (DXodP)
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I checked out her site. First of all, it's sucks. Who gives two shits about fucking cats. Secondly, I thought she'd be better lookin' - she's certainly not unattractive but a knock-out she is not. Thirdly, when people tell me they have a really high IQ, I almost always want to call "bullshit." Anyway, hopefully some really over-sexed guy knocks the back out that and then sends her packin'.
Posted by: Blu at August 22, 2006 10:03 AM (j8oa6)
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wow -- I had never heard of this person before your post. Craziness. Her blog cracks me up -- I've never understood why men would go for women who are full of themselves. Far as I'm concerned, a "high quality" man never would -- he'd demand as much respect as he gave (goes for both genders imho). But, hey, if a dude's happy to let some chick walk all over him, I guess, who am I to stand in the way of true love?
Posted by: The Law Fairy at August 22, 2006 10:13 AM (XUsiG)
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LF, you've got to go read the "about me" section of her blog... as if her blog was about anything else. Anyways, read the section about her family, and other's mentioned on her blog.
She married a guy who turned out to be queer. Her brother is "married" to a guy. Dad has three families, mom two, and from the cheapseats where I sit, Terence has GOT to be a goatblower too. One day the truth will out. This sad creature is trying to put a brave face on one hell of a mess of a beginning in life.
Posted by: Casca at August 22, 2006 10:25 AM (rEC2k)
15So be a hot chick . . . hop on the stick!
Hop on this dick. Indeed.
And hey, if she likes splintery anal molto vivace with an old broomstick, I can swing dat.
Kevin
Posted by: Kevin Kim at August 22, 2006 10:31 AM (1PcL3)
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Well, it seems like, ideologically, she's a good match for Skippystalin.
Posted by: reagan80 at August 22, 2006 01:39 PM (U7T8K)
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And, really, what kind of a name is Jackie Mackie Paisley Passey? Her parents must have been high when she was born. Does she also eat green eggs and ham?
Posted by: The Law Fairy at August 22, 2006 01:40 PM (XUsiG)
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When you're as awesome as Jacqueline Mackie Paisley Passey (who has more names than 97.2% of the population), why should you have to tolerate such petty carping by your social inferiors?
Posted by: Leif at August 22, 2006 03:40 PM (M5Jcv)
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Funny! That gave me a good laugh - and it's so true. All that "high quality" crap is hilarious.
Posted by: Carol at August 22, 2006 08:21 PM (fEnUg)
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OMG Annika! Your commenters have me ROTFLMAO!!!
Posted by: Stacy at August 22, 2006 08:37 PM (92p8H)
Posted by: Tony at August 23, 2006 03:13 PM (cNut9)
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It seems that I was wrong about Skippy.
"Then, when we're both convinced beyond any doubt that she'll never feel like that with another man, I'd cum in her hair, dress and leave without a word."
I'm going to be laughing my ass off every time I remember this quote.
Posted by: reagan80 at August 24, 2006 10:36 AM (54GPc)
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That was freaking hysterical. Great one, Annie.
Posted by: physics geek at August 29, 2006 06:21 AM (KqeHJ)
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I believe Maureen Dowd already cried Jackie's song earlier and better. Great take down.
Posted by: MarkD at August 29, 2006 10:12 AM (oQofX)
After you wake up in the morning, all you do is take Dr. Passey's Super Stick, apply the special patented Super Stick lubricating ointment to the outside of the Super Stick, apply some more to the outer rim of your anal sphincter, and then shove the Super Stick in as far as it will go!
