The pastor focused especially on bloggers, who've been leading the opposition, discussing "bloggers who really need to get a life" and saying, "A lot of people think that because they can sit in the quietness of their own home and hide behind the screen, they can hurl all kinds of bombs at people and get away with it. Well, no, they're just being rude."

This guy's just a pussy. That's a good thing because that's part of the female (or feline, if bestiality is your thing) anatomy.

The pastor focused especially on bloggers, who've been leading the opposition, discussing "bloggers who really need to get a life" and saying, "A lot of people think that because they can sit in the quietness of their own home and hide behind the screen, they can hurl all kinds of bombs at people and get away with it. Well, no, they're just being rude."

Let me come out from behind my screen and declare this guy's just a pussy. That's a good thing because that's part of the female (or feline, if bestiality is your thing) anatomy and. thus, not forbidden. That ought to make everyone happy lest, God forfend, we talk about gay or lesbian issues regarding equality.

I posted before I was finished (the first time).

Apologies to all, well, whomever.

Post # 193

That guy never has anything to say. "Numbers," he repeats, ad nauseam, as if we're all Einsteins (although I once had a professor ....).

I, too, wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. In truth, I'm not sure who you are (although I believe you used to post here regularly, judging by the comments of others), and I take no offense at not having been mentioned my name (while currently deflating, what with my thinly skinned psychological profile).

Jokes aside, good fortune in the future!

I understand why you recused...

What was the reason?

Yes, okay, I think I remember him now.

That's too bad he went away.

We got about a foot of snow over the past two/three days. That's a lot for potato-land.

How's about youse?

From Daily Kos, citing first the NYTimes' Jeff Zeleney: "[Obama] chatted for a moment, telling the traveling press pool to have a beer and put it on his tab. No one took him up on the offer.

Then CNN's Ed Henry: [T]he key here is reporters covering the President-elect are having more fun here in Hawaii than we had in Crawford, Texas — and 85 degrees in the middle of the afternoon here is way better than the cold winds blowing through Chicago too. But none of the journalists were corrupted by free beer — we pay our own tabs.

As the Diarist notes, McCain greeted reporters as he tended to the grill -- tongs in hand -- on the deck of his ranch house. Clad in a green Maine Maritime Academy baseball hat, white sweat shirt with a photograph of his family on it, faded Levis jeans and New Balance sneakers, the presidential candidate stood over two large, sizzling barbecues, preparing baby back ribs and grilled chicken.

Gosh, what integrity--"we pay our own tabs."

too, Cocktailhag!

I have a balcony but also a backyard. I'm not shoveling anything right now but my usual you-know-what.

Or to put it another way, "it has been said by some that CNN news anchor Lou Dobbs is often inebriated during his broadcasts."

I really think it's his dental work rather than booze. Notice how white his teeth are? They didn't used to be that way (when he was drinking bourbon, on air).

It's conceivable that individuals in the Bush administration violated criminal law. But if they did so as part of a post- 9/11 response to terrorism, it would be all but impossible to prosecute them successfully

and I want to add that apparently, and unbeknown to the rest of us, the Constitution was suspended during this "post-9/11 response to terrorism."

The LA Times says so, so it must be true!

Thanks for the link bamage (I think it was you?).

Also, I agree with Retzilian that "Happy Holidays" is lame. I'll go with Kovie's (and let me paraphrase) HappyMerryChristmasKwanzkuh (and that's a no-spin zone word if I ever saw one).

Did I say "Merry Christmas" to you? I meant to. I know you say you aren't a poet, but you are.

And Merry Christmas/Happy Hanukkah to everyone else, too: Kitt, Jebbie, Ondelette, RMP, Retzilian, wbgonne (yes!), El Cid, sysprog, pow wow, Cocktailhag, Pedinska, ethics_professor, bystander, bamage, William Timberman, Sinnard, omooex, heru-ur, adnoto, and any others I left out (timothy3).

Time to light the candles (again).

and you, too, Glenn! How could I have missed that? It's like the elephant in the room.

Speaking of which, Elephantman and shooter242, I also wish you the season's tidings. Health to you both (and the gift of perspicacity).

But I do think it's important to recognize that at least some of what Glenn describes here is a centuries-old American problem.

I think this is true. We (nationally) are only now wakening to this. How many of us (all of us) were implicitly taught about American exceptionalism? I know I was. Whether it was "Remember the Maine!" or anything involving WWI or II (never mind anything else along those lines), we've been inundated with this sort of "specialness." Maybe, at some point, that "specialness" will come to mean special-ed.

PhD: Pin-headed Dope.

I know I'm going to catch a lot of shit for this . . . but can no one here honestly imagine a situation in which torture would not be immoral?

I'll only say that, by all accounts, it simply isn't effective. And that's apart from the morality of it (which, in truth, is not really apart).