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Saturday, June 2, 2007 01:23 PM

..overhyped?

Let's just put it this way, if indeed the album is overhyped, it didn't have anything to do with the horrendous Robert Stigwood production or Frampton and the Bee-Gees... Ask anyone who heard it in the day for the first time, or kids who got into the Beatles 12 years after the album came out and got to discover the Beatles "out of sequence". I/They would tell you the Sgt. Pepper was the Beatles thematic bomb and changed studio musical art forever.

Thursday, May 31, 2007 08:13 AM
Original article: Inside the Creation Museum

Build it

and the morons will come.. I wonder, is there an exhibit that speaks of the other religions in this marvelous and diverse world of ours? I'll bet that God says "Multiculturalism is dirty word". 6000 years is apparently not long enough to smite the security blanket of complete and utter bullshit. I'd say that I'm going to Hell but now I'm pretty certain that I'm already here.

Tuesday, May 29, 2007 01:17 PM
Original article: Who killed the honeybees?

Interesting questions and answers

Thanks Salon for much needed info on the subject. When McDonald mentions killing the cornbelt to fuel SUV's and the "very bad disconnect" along the line it makes me much happier to know that its not the cell phones. I think people are so stupid that they would continue to use them to till their own undoing.

Tuesday, April 17, 2007 03:13 PM

Would you like your pathos..

over or Understated?? It's tragic enough but here's more, just in case. I happened to glance at a newspaper stand today while waiting for a friend. A complete stranger saw my expression and proceeded to tell me that if those students had been allowed to carry weapons then none of that would have happened. I said nothing in return but of course my opinion is completely different in the fact that I don't believe we need guns at all. That means I'm a "lefty" I guess and the guy with the comment doesn't even know what pathos means..

Thursday, March 29, 2007 03:51 PM
Original article: Fox's Ann Coulter 2.0

Conserva-babe?

Conserva-boob is more like it. She's got all the right baggage for Fox though and I do like the Coulter 2.0 jest. Just because you're potentially physically attractive (to somebody, personally I wouldn't touch her rake!) doesn't mean they won't bite you. Just asks her old bedfellows! This girl looks and sounds like a succubus for certain.

Friday, March 23, 2007 01:15 PM
Original article: MoveOn moves in with Pelosi

The right direction

Rome was not built in a day, and neither will Bush and his ravers be dispatched by a proposal for immediate and complete withdrawal. The Pelosi "best chance" proposal and its support from and by polling members of MoveOn is not an affront to anyone who desires an end to the war. It is a step in the right direction and in this ridiculous situation that has been thrust upon us by a pride blinded buffoon and his stoically incompetent advisory that I am certain everyone is just as fed up as I am. That does not however give any of us a pass-card to exercise power and authority without serious consideration of cause and effect, or compromise and debate. We all have thank God that the issue is even on the table today and take realistic steps to bringing our soldiers home and then to responsibly face the even more daunting and impossible task of dealing in Iraq with the diplomatic and political sandstorm that is our fault as a nation. We’re on the same team.

Thursday, March 15, 2007 11:15 AM
Original article: Screw you for not smoking

The Jedi mind trick

I quit smoking ~ 12 years ago with the help of a program that taught you to embrace your cravings/withdrawal or whatever you want to call it. In the course you chose to have the feeling to train your mind and heal your body. Other than a few "smoking dreams" over the years (equivalent to a recovered alcoholic's drinking dream) that left me feeling like I had failed myself, I have noticed no adverse health effects from not smoking. Addiction provides an never ending list of excuses to fail and this account reads very similarly to that endless list.

Tuesday, February 27, 2007 03:05 PM
Original article: A hallmark of idiocy

About Cheney..

I don't think anybody posted something that everybody else wasn't already thinking. I'd rather see Cheney in an orange jumpsuit being waterboarded with no possibility of a trial than have him being mercifully blown up. Copy and Paste that!

Saturday, February 24, 2007 12:32 PM

So sorry

I've "hated" Britney since I saw her clips in Fahrenheit 9/11. When I was her age I made less than 20K a year, became an insulin dependant diabetic, went through a shitty break-up with my "adulterous" significant bummer (whom I was so blindly in love with), filed bankruptcy (everything we "owned" was in my name), had a dead end job basically taking a bath in Acetone, Chlorinated Solvents, Acid vapors and DiBenzyl Diselenide (a real goodie as exposure can and did cause severe depression and I was already clinically and depressed in situ), had nothing but a HS education under my belt but, guess what? I picked myself up every day and helped other people along the way! Anybody wanna feel sorry for me? I didn't think so. So sorry Britney.

Thursday, February 22, 2007 08:57 PM

Boo-hoo..

Britney just needs a part-time job at the Jack in the Box and the necessity to find a way to live on less than 25K renting a shitty apartment in Southern California. That would fix her biggest problems in a snap. No people I know cry out for help by shaving their heads and getting a tattoo or for that matter have a mile of money. Britney needs to volunteer at hospice care, volunteer for community outreach, basket weave, do something with her life besides be the rich/poor white trash girl media spectacle she has chosen to become! There are so many people in this world with real problems and not just a total lack of personal responsibility that I really don't have an ounce sympathy. I will be glad to send her an employment application for Jack in the Box and an apartment guide for East San Diego!

Thursday, February 8, 2007 07:52 AM

Sure it's lame

but I have to say it:

Heck of a job there Bushie! Heck of a job..

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