We're working on it.

Get an undergraduate degree. How about an associates degree or becoming a dental assistant?

Once you get that piece of paper hung on the wall, the worm will turn for us all. College as an end, and not just a mean, from Mr. Doing Stuff, who lectures others on not doing the amazing things he is doing to change things, like getting an undergraduate degree. If only Adnoto was going to college, all our problems would be solved.

I got nothing against old people going back to school, but when they are completely vain and feel the need to brag about it three times a day it loses its novelty.

(relevance? zero. Just thinking about the cultural meanings of torture.)

Torture-Free but Still a Rock Star

A story about Jeff Tweedy of Wilco.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/05/arts/music/05carr.html

"No longer the tortured artist on the bus whose only steady companions were pills and the demons they were meant to tame, Mr. Tweedy keeps his tour jaunts short and his family close."

...

"I suppose because everything about my life is better, markedly so, I’m a significantly happier person — well, I’m not being very eloquent about it,” he said, pausing, and then continued: “Having a solid base allows you to look at darker things and actually think about them. I debate people about this suffering myth, this tortured artist stuff, and they almost never buy it.”"

Your mother probably already told you this, but you need another hobby other than stalking omooex. No one who posts here has the level of interest in me necessary to understand what you're talking about; I don't think that even people who dislike me WHO KNOW ME, have that level of obsessive interest. Personally, I find your bug-eyed insults--as you literally expose everything it is that would insult you--mildly humorous.

There were various reports that an American soldier was captured recently by insurgents in Afghanistan.

If the insurgents applied waterboarding to him, would the American media claim that he is being tortured?

If the insurgents kept him sleep deprived for days on end, would that be considered torture by our media...including NPR, CNN and others?

If he was only required to stand, shackled to a wall, in a cold cell for a week or so, is that torture?(this can't be that bad, can it? ...afterall, Rumsfeld said that he was used to standing many hours each day)

You can bet that if even the mildest of techniques that were cited as 'enhanced interrogation techniques' when used by Americans on captured prisoners of the war on terror, are used on the captured American, there will be much disgust, anger and outrage because our honorable soldier is being tortured by a bunch of terrorists.Not one of our trusted media sources will have any internal debate about whether or not to use the word torture - it will be a given. They will have readily decided that torture is very easy to recogonize.

Our media is so broken...

Heru-ur at Ondellete: How many innocent children's lives will it take to slake your blood thirst?

-- heru-ur

About two days later:

Heru--ur at Ondelette: That, my friend, is a good question.

-- heru-ur

Reminds me of Bob Dylan's opening lyric from Positively 4th Street: "You've got a lot of nerve to say you are my friend."

http://www.bobdylan.com/#/songs/positively-4th-street

On Open Letter to Barack Obama

Mr. Preesident -

Say Jebs you old git why not try writing your open letter to Barry the African in a lingo he might understand. Here is the one used by his father. The Dholuo language belongs to the Luo grouping within the Western Nilotic grouping of the Nilo-Saharan language family and is used in Kenya by the Luo tribe.

Can't do no harm seeing you can't write in English. What's with the "Mr Preesident"? You came over all like a fluttery eyed Marilyn at the thought of writing to your new Commander in Chieftain did you? Give it a rest son, its not his birthday yet.

The official languages of Kenya are Swahili and English.

Hey asshat, nice to see you contribute to yet another thread. Not much there but then, you are the kitty.

A whole lot of bug-eyed insults flying around UT these days. The main guilty parties are Kitt, omooex, Jebbie, me, and a few others.

You know you like it omooex, since you hurled insults my way day after day after day until I decided to play along again with the speckled egg bunch. Why whine when you are getting exactly what you want? I must be missing something here.

You want to see obsessive; look at Kitt --- that old drug pusher is obsessive. Butts in to every conversation to find something he does not like. Must be an extended bad trip.

A whole lot of bug-eyed insults flying around UT these days. The main guilty parties are Kitt, omooex, Jebbie, me, and a few others.

This is so true. Honestly, I think you guys have more in common than different in terms of worldview, and I think you're generally smart and well-intentioned. But since each thread degrades into another dick measuring contest between you, I've learned to simply scroll past everything you guys say.

(Which is NOT my way of claiming that my dick is longer. Even though it is. ;) )

you got to be careful - don't y'all know by now how much I love nonsense and absurdity -

Your posts always bring out the best in me and I can't resist to take us all over the top!

Do you really want that - bitches??

Firstly, Dholuo has no traditional written component, though some attempts have been made to give it a modern Latin based alphabet to prevent language death. Many of Kenya's traditional languages face language death, and those at risk are those where there is no formal written component.

This makes it an open question as to whether Barack Senior was fluent in the language. Let me know, I'm actually interested in the answer but don't have the time to research myself--as the official UT chronicler of Obama's African-ness, you are probably in a better position to know.

One thing's for certain, neither Junior or Senior could read or write the language. Careful; to play this game you must have exact information otherwise you come off sounding like grumbling, bigoted and ignorant twat [please pronounce this with British "ah", not American English "ah"].