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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
Thanks for telling me about Pandora. It is just what I have been looking for. Have you checked out www.finetune.com?
Prove me wrong, dudes. I'm in no mood for trifling right now, because (a) HuffPost have a picture of John and Cindy McCain giving royal family type waves from the beer jet, and they both look to me like ALIENS, obviously goddam LIZARDS from ZETA RETICULI, and (b) I can't blog it because WordPress seems to be down.
finetune looks interesting. I'll have to spend some time w/ it, tks.
A Thesis: All "Liberals" are secret members of the Communist Party USA, treasonous, and godless haters of all that is good and true.
Now, do these "theses" advance any intelligent discussion here? (Altho I must say I've wanted to ask Pedinska about painting her toenails pink, because I find it very difficult to keep the colors matching when my toes peek from sandals in summer, and the hue-of-the-week on my finger-nails clashes. These are also urgent matters.)
For some reason your post reminds me of the time one of my close friends called me a "Christless, heathen, bastard". I took 2/3 of that as a compliment.
It is quite easy to show that the net effect of libertarian agitation is to drain supporters from the anti-McCain camp into various quixotic alternative campaigns. If you want to offer a mirror image proposition, you could try saying something about Nader supporters, because the same logic certainly does apply to them. But, I wasn't talking about 'card carrying membership' of anything.
That reminds me, though : I do not understand why they have 'open primaries', in which members of opposing parties can vote to tactically split their opponent's campaigns, as in the recent Limbaugh "operation chaos." Why do these 'open primaries' even exist??
wikipedia offer much argument for it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_primary
All "Liberals" are secret members of the Communist Party USA, treasonous, and godless haters of all that is good and true.
If you are Alan Stang, everyone not supporting Ron Paul is a member of the Communist Party's left or right wing.
I doubt that promotes intelligent dialogue but it is factually accurate as regards some people's perceptions and politics is pereption. That is Alan Stang's position and I would have to guess it is shared by more than a few Birchers and others on the far right. It has been their position since the 50's.
;-)
Dr. No already looms on the political horizon like a Category 5 hurricane. Raising ten million dollars in one day would turn that hurricane into a firestorm. The media have been trying to keep the lid on. Right wing Communist talk radio like Limbag and Levin and Mike Weiner try to get through each broadcast without mentioning the hated name, which gets harder to do every day. Right, Mike?
http://www.newswithviews.com/Stang/alan12.htm
The problem I see is the hue-of-the-week strategy. I tend to pick a color and stick with it for at least a couple of months, so coordinating is only a problem for the first week or so until I get sufficiently unlazy and get on with the business of changing my toes.
I am out of synch at the moment, having just discovered a delightful new hue, Didgeridoo Your Nails (I really want that job, naming new colors. I mean, what does one have to do to get that job???). They are close enough though that only a woman, or a really perceptive man, would notice. Not like I'm putting anyone's eyes out with the clash.
I have noticed, however, if you let the hair on your legs get sufficiently long, then it will successfully take the focus off the clash and you can safely go on about your business while those around you ponder the significance of missing links and other wonders.
Not all libertarians are antiwar. Never have been. Another carefully cultivated myth. I think the only people truly 100% opposed to war are authentic pacifists and there are damn few of them around. Rare as hen's teeth. So given a choice between Fidel Castro with an anti-war platform and John McCain, even some currently antiwar libertarians may opt for McCain.
These are American libertarians, of course.
John Hospers, for instance. The first ALP candidate for president was pro Vietnam war and voted for Bush in 2004.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hospers
Hubby rarely knows when the cavalry rides to my rescue, unless you all make me laugh too loudly. At any rate he's fishin' for perch
Best not let him see Jebbie's mullet, then. :>
Thank you for your thoughtful addition to the discussion with cabdriver. My knowledge is that of someone with interests, concerns, some contacts and the ability to dig for the dirt. It will always benefit from that of someone like yourself who has firsthand knowledge and experience.
Thanks for your thanks. As it happens, you brought out a school of similarly-experienced folk today, which can only be a good thing.
You know, of course, that without a discerning mind like yours (bringing your own knowledge and curiosity to the party & doing all that digging), our experiences would be no more than isolated perch-filled ponds ...
Interesting article you linked to.
In fact, I don't think he was deflecting it all. I think he completely misses the point, which is irritating but maybe not that surprising. I'm going to see if I can't goad the good colonel into a renewed exchange, and I'll post or link to anything interesting that comes out of it.
Caio, dahlink ... :* !
I find that the polish on my toes will remain relatively uneroded and vivid for a good three weeks or more, which is not true of my busy-handed fingernails. And I'm lazy enough to be unwilling to change both at the same time, but anal enough that it bugs me when they clash.
As for cool names, whoever works for OPI polish to come up with the label names does the best job in the world.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
Salon headlines in your mailbox
