to unite the compromise theme and the chuck norris sword to the baby theme, you know what compromise i liked? when king solomon decided to split the baby in two, i thought that was a great idea.
― nostragaaaawddamnus (Hunt3r), Thursday, 17 December 2009 20:31 (fourteen years ago) link
On my motorcycle journeys in the Texas hill country, sometimes I pass the Norris compound north of Camp Wood on Texas Ranch Rd 335. The surroundings are cattle grazed but not too far from wilderness. Mesquite stakes supporting barbed wire by the roadside. Norris's compound is 9 foot plastered concrete block, with broken glass all accross the top.
You can't miss it. He's the only landowner with that sort of defence.
― Derelict, Thursday, 17 December 2009 20:34 (fourteen years ago) link
is it octagonal?
― nostragaaaawddamnus (Hunt3r), Thursday, 17 December 2009 20:36 (fourteen years ago) link
No. It is almost perfectly square, following the lines of the original survey.
― Derelict, Thursday, 17 December 2009 20:37 (fourteen years ago) link
those Chuck Norrises will allow you guys to continue to vote Democrat as the party gets even worse, until you die.
I think this "compromise" has made plenty of people happy, plz look for them at $100,000-a-plate congressional fundraisers.
― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 17 December 2009 21:00 (fourteen years ago) link
or, you know, receiving subsidies for healthcare in 2014
― max, Thursday, 17 December 2009 21:01 (fourteen years ago) link
but i wouldnt want to let the fact that this is the largest social welfare bill since LBJ prevent anyone from feeling really good about their cynically smug adherence to know-nothing orthodoxy
― max, Thursday, 17 December 2009 21:02 (fourteen years ago) link
it's the "cynically smug" Daily Double!
― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 17 December 2009 21:03 (fourteen years ago) link
oh no! insurance companies are happy! because hundreds of thousands of uninsured people will now receive government subsidies to purchase insurance!! how terrible it will be, for those people to receive low-cost healthcare!!
― max, Thursday, 17 December 2009 21:05 (fourteen years ago) link
*lower-cost
is "the largest social welfare bill since LBJ" the new "israel's the only democracy in the middle east"?
― velko, Thursday, 17 December 2009 21:06 (fourteen years ago) link
max, I heart you, but if you're speaking in an Iowa twang next time I seeya I'll know you've turned into Tom Harkin.
― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 17 December 2009 21:08 (fourteen years ago) link
max I know you know what is wrong with that insurance companies are happy equation - basically its just funnelling them taxpayer dollars
― Magnolia Caboose Babyfinger (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 17 December 2009 21:08 (fourteen years ago) link
fuck subsidizing such a bloated, inefficient private industry
max why are you arguing when it makes you feel bad, don't do that to yrself man, take it from a dude who knows you gotta break the cycle of arguing by listening to smooth jazz, it just fixes everything
― a full circle lol (J0hn D.), Thursday, 17 December 2009 21:10 (fourteen years ago) link
here comes the smooth jazz hippies
― that sex version of "blue thunder." (Mr. Que), Thursday, 17 December 2009 21:12 (fourteen years ago) link
we can't be stopped
― a full circle lol (J0hn D.), Thursday, 17 December 2009 21:12 (fourteen years ago) link
sweet
actually we can probably be stopped if we're bumming people out but we would prefer not to stop because our groove is solid
― a full circle lol (J0hn D.), Thursday, 17 December 2009 21:13 (fourteen years ago) link
how did you evade the ilxor saxophone defense system?
― nostragaaaawddamnus (Hunt3r), Thursday, 17 December 2009 21:13 (fourteen years ago) link
J0hn how can you defile the memories of all the punks who fought and died against the smoothness
― Magnolia Caboose Babyfinger (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 17 December 2009 21:14 (fourteen years ago) link
man i knew that program was straight pork :(
― nostragaaaawddamnus (Hunt3r), Thursday, 17 December 2009 21:14 (fourteen years ago) link
they were distracted by our bitchin members only jackets in muted pastels
― a full circle lol (J0hn D.), Thursday, 17 December 2009 21:15 (fourteen years ago) link
gonna go put on some metheny
― max, Thursday, 17 December 2009 21:15 (fourteen years ago) link
*taps toes*
― nostragaaaawddamnus (Hunt3r), Thursday, 17 December 2009 21:15 (fourteen years ago) link
I hope the Christmas album is shipping
xxp
― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 17 December 2009 21:15 (fourteen years ago) link
A Smooth Christmas is in stores now
reviewers are saying it's totally smooth
― a full circle lol (J0hn D.), Thursday, 17 December 2009 21:16 (fourteen years ago) link
metheny & mainstream dem policies are pretty milquetoast ; )
― velko, Thursday, 17 December 2009 21:17 (fourteen years ago) link
Metheny needs more roughly accurate unmanned drones
― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 17 December 2009 21:18 (fourteen years ago) link
"&(*@#@^&-up and smooth, just like Obama-care"
- - R. Christgau
― that sex version of "blue thunder." (Mr. Que), Thursday, 17 December 2009 21:18 (fourteen years ago) link
if max could only see the similarities between avatar and obamacare then he would understand
― velko, Thursday, 17 December 2009 21:20 (fourteen years ago) link
this is why us grouchy types are trying to rebrand it by dropping the "e" - obamacar = rhymes with "avatar" = how'd you feel about "avatar" = cool, maybe you should listen to some smooth jazz
― a full circle lol (J0hn D.), Thursday, 17 December 2009 21:27 (fourteen years ago) link
Obamacar will turn you into a blue-skinned CGI Dem voter who repeats "Politics is the art of the possible" whenever Rahm Emanuel pushes a button
― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 17 December 2009 21:30 (fourteen years ago) link
yes but then I will hack into the supercomputer that allows evil Rahm to carry out this scheme and then when he pushes the button it will make people buy A Smooth Christmas and I will share the wealth with all my ilx bros
― a full circle lol (J0hn D.), Thursday, 17 December 2009 21:31 (fourteen years ago) link
A Smooth Plan, from a Smooth Man
― that sex version of "blue thunder." (Mr. Que), Thursday, 17 December 2009 21:32 (fourteen years ago) link
http://jazzstation-oblogdearnaldodesouteiros.blogspot.com/2008/10/pat-metheny-on-barack-obama.html
― velko, Thursday, 17 December 2009 21:33 (fourteen years ago) link
You guys got onomatopoetic while I was at a two-hour meeting!
― Hell is other people. In an ILE film forum. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 17 December 2009 22:51 (fourteen years ago) link
my man Al Franken tells Lieberman to shut the fuck up
― Magnolia Caboose Babyfinger (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 17 December 2009 23:29 (fourteen years ago) link
The Corner is, predictably, outrated. They quote John McCain approvingly:
Rising to defend Lieberman he told Franken that in 20-plus years in the Senate, he’d never seen a member denied an extra minute or two of floor time.
“I don't know what's happening here in this body,” McCain said, “but I think it is wrong.
Well, did Lincoln Chafee ever oppose the GOP as shamelessly as Joe?
― Hell is other people. In an ILE film forum. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 17 December 2009 23:32 (fourteen years ago) link
LOL then another senator got up and told McDementia that they'd curtailed someone - oooh - about two hours before.
― special vixens unit (suzy), Friday, 18 December 2009 00:16 (fourteen years ago) link
“I don't know what's happeninghere in this body,” McCain said.
― uninspired girls rejoice!!! (Hoot Smalley), Friday, 18 December 2009 00:26 (fourteen years ago) link
grassley's "republican position" that leads the latest issue of NEJM is pretty dumb
― being being kiss-ass fake nice (gbx), Friday, 18 December 2009 04:51 (fourteen years ago) link
MoveOn.org is pushing for Bernie Sanders to drop his support and demand some version of the public option (good luck with that guys)
― larry craig memorial gloryhole (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 18 December 2009 21:05 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, let's push for something that has even less of a chance of passing.
― akm, Friday, 18 December 2009 21:20 (fourteen years ago) link
i 4 1 welcome our insurance overlords
― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 19 December 2009 07:33 (fourteen years ago) link
good luck lolmerica
― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 19 December 2009 14:28 (fourteen years ago) link
watching kuttner and taibbi on moyers last night, :(.
why do some folks who say this bill is not obama's fault because he doesn't have the real power to craft, promote, and pass legislation also argue that the bill MUST pass or else obama will have no chance to craft, promote and pass subsequent crucial reforms?
― nostragaaaawddamnus (Hunt3r), Saturday, 19 December 2009 14:54 (fourteen years ago) link
whos arguing that? my take is that congress should pass this bill so that in the future congress can improve on it. i dont know that obamas influence has anything to do with it, beyond quibbling about how much more he could have done to encourage the legislation.
― max, Saturday, 19 December 2009 14:56 (fourteen years ago) link
that's my take too, but kuttner was big on the political optics/fallout for obama. he also said he's hopeful that obama will promote a more anti corporate/anti wall st agenda after the midterms. hope, change, obama's very new to this etc. taibbi was politely "why on earth do you think that based upon everything that you've seen"?
― nostragaaaawddamnus (Hunt3r), Saturday, 19 December 2009 15:01 (fourteen years ago) link
i do think that obama's influence was more important than you believe though. the parameters of the argument started in his office imo.
― nostragaaaawddamnus (Hunt3r), Saturday, 19 December 2009 15:02 (fourteen years ago) link