But then I have an unusual sense of what constitutes "fun".

>good shop vac with a 3 micron filter and a special drywall sanding tool and hose attachment (OSH or Home Depot) with the right sanding screens.

This is the kind of thing that makes my socks roll up and down.

Is it safe to say that there is a single political party in the US, the War Party?

Has the 110th Congress failed to roll over even one time for Bush43? Even once?

Osama? Change? Please, it hurts when I laugh.

And I'd suggest that means doing something RADICALLY DIFFERENT. Aim a Luke Skywalker type of shot at the exhaust port on the Bush43 Death Star: Bush knew about 9/11 beforehand and chose to do nothing. All Bush43 et al's lies hinge on 9/11/01.

The Dems need to ATTACK. Even if it means prison time or execution for their erstwhile leaders who may have also been party to foreknowledge AND INACTION regarding 9/11/01.

Perhaps Gitmo for the 110th wouldn't be such a bad idea -- they're useless to the point of complicity. Feinstein would do well to be waterboarded in a tandem, televised ceremony with Dick Cheney riding shotgun.

Votes and resolutions? How about guns and gallows? I'm fucking PISSED OFF.

Are the "Iran has a nuclear arms program" lies not retreads of the "WMDs" lies told prior to the Iraq invasion and occupation?

Am I supposed to not notice that?

WE HAVE TO DO THIS BECAUSE OTHERWISE "ARAB TERRORISTS" WOULD BE ABLE TO MAGICALLY CAUSE SKYSCRAPERS TO COLLAPSE BY USING OUR AIRPLANES AND THEIR SCARY MAGIC CARPET HOODOO.

Honestly. What won't you people put up with? Stop flying. The airlines will be safe when they're bankrupt and all that ancient Boeing steel is rusting somewhere, unused.

As for TSA -- Christ, what won't you put up with? Facts don't affect them. They're drinking the Kool-Aid. Scary liquids over three ounces Must Be Confiscated?

If you can't cattle-prod ("Taser") them for overt and willful stupidity and if it's illegal to shoot them to death for being fascistic morons, DON'T FLY.

[i]I can tell the queen of diamonds / by the way she shines[/i]

Manchurian Candidate anyone?

Read: "People who have found a way to support themselves while acting as if the public good is uppermost in their minds."

Oops. Cynicism. Shame on me.

Especially the "don't go" part.

""The Adventures of Baron Munchausen" I'm of two minds here: I think Gilliam's insane fantasy-adventure, a box-office debacle in 1988 that permanently scorched his career, is one of those failures that's nearly a masterpiece."

IT'S ONE OF THE FIVE BEST FILMS EVERY MADE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And I do mean EVERY light. I imagine Traffic Engineers high-fiving one another while watching on closed-circuit televisions cameras.

Seriously. I want to write a letter to the City complaining if I make it through a green light, or, God forbid, more than one green light in a row. It's disconcerting to not miss each and every fucking traffic light each and every time I drive down my local streets, it could be Christmas Eve at midnight and I'll still miss each and every light in consecutive order. Maddening.

The New Yorker has just shot itself in the foot. Who the hell would green-light such an offensive cover?

When do they run a cover cartoon showing Joe Lieberman wearing a lovely Star of David yarmulki holding McSame's puppet strings with a shadowy pack of Orthodox Jews behind him, grinning? Wow, wouldn't THAT be an hilarious parody? You bet...

And you're thinking about LIVING on a BOAT? Get medical help, there's some serious common-sense imbalance happening on your end.

If the shoe fits, Joe...

Palpatine is a fictional character in George Lucas's science fiction saga Star Wars. The character, portrayed by actor Ian McDiarmid in the feature films, is the main antagonist of the saga; introduced in the original trilogy as the Emperor of the Galactic Empire, an aged, cowled and pale-faced figure, who rises to power in the prequel trilogy through deception and treachery as a middle-aged politician of the Republic. In reality, he is Darth Sidious, a Dark Lord of the Sith who initiates and manipulates the Clone Wars to destroy the Jedi and usher in the totalitarian Galactic Empire.

Briefly mentioned by Grand Moff Tarkin in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (1977), the Emperor, initially named Cos Dashit, was characterized as a cunning but weak politician under the control of powerful bureaucrats in Lucas's original scripts of Star Wars. However, in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back, Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi, the prequels, and Star Wars literature, the character is depicted as the personification of evil and heavy-handed authoritarianism. Palpatine was incorporated into the Star Wars merchandising campaigns that corresponded with the theatrical release of Return of the Jedi and the prequel films. The character has since become a symbol of evil and sinister deception in popular culture, particularly in the United States.

The Danish cartoon of Mohammed created mayhem in the Middle East, not because Danish newspapers are the daily reading fare in mainly Arabic-speaking countries but because some unscrupulous mullahs incited the riots and the death-threats.

Oh, was that it? I don't suppose (it's as if you were a dove that landed on the end of my loaded rifle) you ever took the time to peruse the Iranian "cartoon" exhibition organized in answer to the Dutch Muslim cartoons, did you?

Because I certainly did. More like 1970s European posters, they were all far more visually sophisticated that the Dutch cartoons.

http://irancartoon.com/120/holocaust/index.htm

http://www.irancartoon.com/120/occupation/index2.htm

Did you ever see these in the US mainstream media? Ever? Any whiff of the exhibition? No? But you saw the anti-Muslim cartoons, all far cruder and more venal than any of the Iranian competition entries, and you saw them over and over again.

Media manipulation.