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My two cents are: Probably the horror movie most relevant to this situation is the 1957 thriller "The Blob", starring Steve McQueen. At the end of that movie, McQueen and his friends froze the Blob with fire extinguishers, and the Air Force flew it over Antarctica and dropped it with three giant parachutes. As the capsule containing the Blob hit the snow, the words "The End" came up, but then, at the very end, they twisted and turned and transformed themselves into a big question mark. So you see, the Blob here may seem to be gone, but there is always that question mark. Although I guess it's not really a question mark. More of an exclamation point I guess. As the old song counsels, "Beware of the Blob."
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 31, 2002 at 19:49:36 (EST)

My two cents are: At the end of horror movies, the monster seems like it won't stay dead. Gets killed, rises again, gets killed, rises again, but, like, sooner or later the movie's actually over, the monster stays still and the real people leave the theater. There's a moral to this story. Is there not?
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 31, 2002 at 19:35:25 (EST)

My two cents are: Not really, pineapple. There is nothing in the Constitution denying the rights of states to handle their own elections. Scalia's argument was that if Gore were elected it would tend to weaken Bush's presidency. When you come to think of it, he was right, if not very far on this site of totalitarianism.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 31, 2002 at 18:48:49 (EST)

My two cents are: Sociopathic? You mean the dumb thing? Is that sociopathic?
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 31, 2002 at 18:40:15 (EST)

My two cents are: The granny smiths are in. Time to make pies.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 31, 2002 at 18:33:17 (EST)

My two cents are: Even in his hour of final ruin, he still has the sociopathic thing going for him. Geesh.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 31, 2002 at 18:23:37 (EST)

My two cents are: Not really, Gop, the Constitution sets the rules. The Constitution was upheld by the US Supreme Court who had to restrain other liar demonrat liberals like you on the Florida Supreme Court who sought to bend and change the rules to let your socialsit traitor in office illegally. Grow a brain.
Pete�
- Sunday, March 31, 2002 at 18:07:48 (EST)

My two cents are: Bush would be elected for real if the election was today.
Gop
- Sunday, March 31, 2002 at 17:46:35 (EST)

My two cents are: I think it's nice that he hasn't raped anyone since college, when everyone was doing it.
Elsie
- Sunday, March 31, 2002 at 17:41:37 (EST)

My two cents are: I'm glad Bush got to be president*. He has the funniest facial expressions. And the way he talks!
Tammy
- Sunday, March 31, 2002 at 17:04:21 (EST)

My two cents are: For those who might be nostalgic for the days of elected presidents not on the take.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 31, 2002 at 15:54:40 (EST)

My two cents are: Why do they still beat up on you when you�re not in power anymore? You know my favorite joke about the guy that falls off the edge of the Grand Canyon? He�s falling and he sees this little twig on the edge of the canyon and he grabs it. And the roots start coming out and he realizes he�s going to fall again, and he says, �God, why me? I am a good man. I work hard, I pay my taxes, I take care of my family. I�m a good citizen, why me?� This thunderous voice says, �Son, there�s just something about you I don�t like.� You know, I�m having a really good time, so if they�re still concerned about me, I feel bad for them because I think they�re wasting a lot of time. Life is short. This is fleeting, man. I�m 55 years old and it seems like yesterday when I was 20.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 31, 2002 at 15:53:21 (EST)

My two cents are: The country wouldn�t have been as unified after September 11 if you had been president, right? Oh, I don�t know. I think the country would have been unified. I guess the implication of your question is that the far right would never support me or any other Democrat. One of my friends called me the other day and said, if we had a Democrat in there, they would have had a �bin Laden watch� every day. They would have been up there for the last three months just marking off the days [when he hadn�t yet been caught]. I don�t know that that�s true. I�m proud of my party for supporting the president in the fight against terrorism. And I�m proud that we have not tried to take any cheap-shot actions to divide the country.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 31, 2002 at 15:48:16 (EST)

My two cents are: The gift rap still angers former Clinton aides, who note that the �scandal� was mostly about a few items being mislabeled by White House personnel. The china registry set up by Clinton friends at an Omaha department store was a bit gauche, they concede, but they add that barely a peep was raised when friends bought Ronald and Nancy Reagan a house in California and gave George and Barbara Bush more than $100,000 in gifts, more evidence of what Clinton calls a �double standard.� The supposed trashing of Air Force One in Clinton�s final days (fanned by the Bushies) was simply untrue.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 31, 2002 at 15:42:00 (EST)

My two cents are: Privately dissed for months by the White House for his failed Mideast peace efforts in 2000, Clinton�s extraordinary knowledge of the region and commitment to keeping the parties talking is suddenly looking good. The ex-president praises envoy Anthony Zinni, and he�s not agitating for a formal diplomatic role, but he joked privately late last year that Bush �could just send me and George [Mitchell] over there, and when it fails, he can blame us!�
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 31, 2002 at 15:38:42 (EST)

My two cents are: It�s not a bad life, and he knows it. He golfs with Jack Nicholson and Chevy Chase; dodges a flasher on a balcony in Paris (�Whatever you do, don�t look!� James Carville told him as he shook hands below); hangs with Chris Tucker, who is researching a movie about a black president, at the Voodoo Lounge in L.A. (�He�s like a 30-year-old black man,� says Tucker, �and worse than Puffy with the two-way� pager); shops for bikinis and sarongs (for Chelsea, he says) with Anthony Hopkins in Brazil. Hot Internet rumors�that he had Mohamed Atta released from an Israeli jail or hosted Kenneth Lay in the Lincoln Bedroom�are false.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 31, 2002 at 15:35:14 (EST)

My two cents are: �Tonya Harding looks like a pretty tough cookie to me.� He chuckled after I asked him about the figure skater�s boxing match with Paula Jones.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 31, 2002 at 15:33:50 (EST)

My two cents are: The man�s still a radioactive isotope for millions, so here�s a little speculative math to drive the Clinton haters nuts: overseas gigs pull in $200,000 to $300,000 a pop (far short of the $2 million Ronald Reagan received for a visit to Japan in 1989, but Reagan rarely traveled); American conferences and banquets yield at least $125,000, and bookings continue to be strong for the foreseeable future. Clinton�s Harlem staff estimates that 40 percent of his speeches are for pay, which would put Clinton�s annual speaking income at somewhere between $10 million and $15 million, all but erasing his roughly $5 million in legal bills. With his $12 million book deal, the largest in world history, the only impeached president of the 20th century will gross about $40 million in his first couple of years out of office.
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- Sunday, March 31, 2002 at 15:27:17 (EST)

My two cents are: It's a good sign that Snippy is finally adopting the Clinton policy regarding Israel and Palestine, instead of his campaign* bluster about putting the issue on the back burner. His support for AmeriCorps is also positive and Enrongate has killed his insane energy plan*. Once his tax give away to the top producers* is delayed, we'll be close to the doctrine that Clinton layed down even though we are without a President.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 31, 2002 at 15:18:36 (EST)

My two cents are: Like Snippy Bush instead of Gore.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 31, 2002 at 13:43:16 (EST)

My two cents are: Mankind couldn't accept Absolute Love. Vengeful God was much more appreciated.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 31, 2002 at 12:33:30 (EST)

My two cents are: Down with goobers.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 31, 2002 at 12:29:17 (EST)

My two cents are: Heard some goober's Easter message on the radio, a chaplain in Afganistan. This character says that the earthquake there had more power in it than all the daisy-cutters and other ordinance delivered to the happy populace there. Said that since God made the earthquake, it proves that he's powerful enough to raise up Jesus from the dead. That, folks, is almost a lame as Glint's argument equating the Ascension and the Big Boom.
Easter Yegg
- Sunday, March 31, 2002 at 11:46:06 (EST)

My two cents are: Oh, no, no, no. Yesterday, I was going for a little meta-conversation about the inherent limitations of belief systems, not trotting out some crap about actual beliefs like Some People are on this lovely roll-back-a-rock-or-or-not, bite-the-head-off-a-chocolate-bunny Easter Morning. No way, fellas. Let's move on. How about that Washingtonian wizard of redaction who white-outed a whole naughty energy memo down to a single sentence? Now, that's entertainment. Speaking of which, hands up for those who've seen the Oscar-nominated flick, "Lagaan"? ("Taxes.") It's a ripper.
4 or 5 of 22
- Sunday, March 31, 2002 at 11:40:42 (EST)

My two cents are: For once, our anonymous friend is correct. It we turn to the gospels themselves, which were composed between 170-180 C.E., their pretended authors, the apostles, give sparse histories and genealogies of Jesus that contradict each other and themselves in numerous places. The birthdate of Jesus is depicted as having taken place at different times. His birth and childhood are not mentioned in "Mark," and although he is claimed in "Matthew" and "Luke" to have been "born of a virgin," his lineage is traced to the House of David through Joseph, such that he may "fulfill prophecy." He is said in the first three (Synoptic) gospels to have taught for one year before he died, while in "John" the number is three years. "Matthew" relates that Jesus delivered "The Sermon on the Mount" before "the multitudes," while "Luke" says it was a private talk given only to the disciples. The accounts of his Passion and Resurrection differ utterly from each other, and no one states how old he was when he died. The so-called 'canonical' books of the New Testament, as of the Old, are a mess of contradictions and confusions of text, to the present estimate of 150,000 and more variant readings, as is well known and admitted. In addition, of the dozens of gospels, ones that were once considered canonical or genuine were later rejected as "apocryphal" or spurious, and vice versa. So much for the "infallible Word of God" and "infallible" Church! The confusion exists because the Christian plagiarists over the centuries were attempting to amalgamate and fuse practically every myth, fairytale, legend, doctrine or bit of wisdom they could pilfer from the innumerable different mystery religions and philosophies that existed at the time. In doing so, they forged, interpolated, mutilated, changed, and rewrote these texts for centuries. Sadly, Christianity is a fraud perpetrated by cynical priests and minister on a gullible laity.
Dr. Milton T. Eisentower
- Sunday, March 31, 2002 at 11:40:10 (EST)

My two cents are: Hey, dude-- they said they were eye-witnesses right in the Good Book! What more do you need? Confirmation by the Pope? This stuff is true, the real chalupa. Believe on the Lord, asshole, or consign thyself to the fiery pit, as described by that fraud, John.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 31, 2002 at 11:07:01 (EST)

My two cents are: Bible's crawling with stuff signed by people who are claimed to be eyewitnesses. But modern scholarship, hell, any scholarship at all, shows that they weren't there at all. You can excuse the lies or appropriation of monikers, one supposes, as lying for the greater good, assuming that the strait-jacket of organized religion is the greater good. Is it Paul's letter to Timothy where he talks about the appropriate comportment of bishops? Bishops? You poor, gullible saps.
Auntie
- Sunday, March 31, 2002 at 11:04:33 (EST)

My two cents are: Happy Ostara
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 31, 2002 at 10:19:53 (EST)

My two cents are: My two cents are: Finally, a cut and paste worth reading...............John? J - Tuesday, October 31, 2000 at 20:10:10 (EST)

- Sunday, March 31, 2002 at 10:00:02 (EST)

My two cents are: "Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance; Knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed me. Moreover I will endeavour that ye may be able after my decease to have these things always in remembrance. For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty. For he received from God the Father honour and glory, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. And this voice which came from heaven we heard, when we were with him in the holy mount." - Simon Peter
for heavens sake, the bible's crawling with eye witnesses! but i thought that other guy said....
- Sunday, March 31, 2002 at 09:09:44 (EST)

My two cents are: "What was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we have looked at and touched with our hands, concerning the Word of Life-- and the life was manifested, and we have seen and testify and proclaim to you the eternal life, which was with the Father and was manifested to us-- what we have seen and heard we proclaim to you also, so that you too may have fellowship with us; and indeed our fellowship is with the Father, and with His Son Jesus Christ."
what do you know? there were eye witnessees who could write after all! <plonk!>
- Sunday, March 31, 2002 at 08:49:42 (EST)

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- Sunday, March 31, 2002 at 08:43:01 (EST)

My two cents are: John. I thought you knew a little and would pick Matthew, maybe Mark. What the hell, nobody's ever seen the big bang, have they, it's all faith-based. Might as well say John was a disciple. Who's going to question the Word? Well, anyone who's not brain dead, but that's not the point. The point is, when you're asked to believe something fantastic and stupid, a fairy tale about some faggot who can't even die atoning for your sins, you'd better have a lot of faith. Nobody could swallow that crap on its merits.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 31, 2002 at 03:17:11 (EST)

My two cents are: Hey, I pulled the second-hand gospels out of the dung hole of history. You pulled them out of pure horseshit, a redacted version of all the silly crap that was flying around in about 100-600 AD. Your false disciple's directions on how to be a sap. John, the "religious" gospel-foister, is the one most removed from Jesus, both in time and in philosophy. You would do well to throw John and his ridiculous spew out the Bible. It would improve the book three or four hundred percent. Disciple that Jesus loved my ass. What a yahoo. What a rube.
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- Sunday, March 31, 2002 at 03:07:17 (EST)

My two cents are: Like all other reptiles, birds have scales (feathers are produced by tissues similar to those that produce scales, and birds have scales on their feet). Also, birds lay eggs like other reptiles. Appears to be similarities in the blueprint. Although no matter how hard T Rex Sue flapped those little arms, she wasn't going to get airborne.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 31, 2002 at 01:50:03 (EST)

My two cents are: "Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live. For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself; And hath given him authority to execute judgment also, because he is the Son of man. Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation." - John 5:25-29
Happy Easter! <[email protected]>
- Sunday, March 31, 2002 at 00:35:20 (EST)

My two cents are: While he yet spake, there came from the ruler of the synagogue's [house certain] which said, Thy daughter is dead: why troublest thou the Master any further? As soon as Jesus heard the word that was spoken, he saith unto the ruler of the synagogue, Be not afraid, only believe. And he suffered no man to follow him, save Peter, and James, and John the brother of James. And he cometh to the house of the ruler of the synagogue, and seeth the tumult, and them that wept and wailed greatly. And when he was come in, he saith unto them, Why make ye this ado, and weep? the damsel is not dead, but sleepeth. And they laughed him to scorn. But when he had put them all out, he taketh the father and the mother of the damsel, and them that were with him, and entereth in where the damsel was lying. And he took the damsel by the hand, and said unto her, Talitha cumi; which is, being interpreted, Damsel, I say unto thee, arise. And straightway the damsel arose, and walked; for she was [of the age] of twelve years. And they were astonished with a great astonishment. And he charged them straitly that no man should know it; and commanded that something should be given her to eat.
not bad for a jewish boy from the house of david <not the david who had the clarinet>
- Sunday, March 31, 2002 at 00:17:50 (EST)

My two cents are: At 11:27:36 someone yanketh thusly from their dung hole:"These things have to be empirically confirmed in the one I operate from. If you look at the subject, the hallucination that Jesus arose from the dead, you will find that there are no reporting witnesses. Zero. Matthew Mark Luke and John all second-hand."
John, the "disciple whom Jesus loved," was 2nd hand???
- Sunday, March 31, 2002 at 00:12:45 (EST)

My two cents are: Air Canada is being sued by a 'cyborg' in the first case of its kind. Professor Steve Mann, from the University of Toronto, has worn a computer system for the past 20 years and is furious about the treatment he received when he attempted to board an Air Canada flight in Newfoundland. The self-proclaimed cyborg was prevented from boarding a flight after the airline lost the documents he sent in advance warning them of his unusual taste in fashion. Mr Mann was delayed for three days and subjected to a humiliating strip search. Painful experience His equipment, including computerised glasses which connect him to the internet 24 hours a day, was damaged during the search. A computerised heart monitor that Mr Mann has attached to his skin was removed, leaving him bleeding. Now Mr Mann is suing the airline for negligence and damage to his computer system.
I ROBOT
- Sunday, March 31, 2002 at 00:00:58 (EST)

My two cents are: Maybe that's what Lennon meant. He could scream like a woman better than Jesus could. When stressed, Jesus' sweat would bead blood. Lennon would just vent shriek and blame Mommy. No wonder some pineapple blew his brains out.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 30, 2002 at 23:43:33 (EST)

My two cents are: "By faith we understand that the worlds were prepared by the word of God"
Hebrews
- Saturday, March 30, 2002 at 23:40:35 (EST)

My two cents are: Did John Lennon fly through the air after HE died? Didn't think so. He said he was bigger than Jesus. Wonder why new people these days haven't heard of him before? Lennon that is. Guy sure could scream like a woman though.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 30, 2002 at 23:37:03 (EST)

My two cents are: "Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen."
Hebrews
- Saturday, March 30, 2002 at 23:33:13 (EST)

My two cents are: God is outside of the bubble too.
Car. Co.
- Saturday, March 30, 2002 at 23:28:34 (EST)

My two cents are: What sort of mandate does a pinhead like you need? Read my silicone lips: IF ATTACKED.EQ.TRUE THEN CALL BOMB_THEM(WHERE="STONE AGE") ENDIF
I ROBOT
- Saturday, March 30, 2002 at 23:25:39 (EST)

My two cents are: So bigtime pseudo-mr.previous-self-styled-mr.-moral-america billy graham is just another fricking neo-fascist asshole. so whut. tell me something new about flying cupertino dinosaurs and their ucho-enabling world-view. or abut bombing iraq without a mandate. yuh, plus arctic oil drilling no matter whut. ok?
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 30, 2002 at 23:06:10 (EST)

My two cents are: Hell, anybody's garage weighs in at more than the neighbors dead chickadee. Trick is to look concerned while sucking down a headless ortafalon out there amongst the leyland cypri in the mourning mist. THe grey grey mists of Carroll County's heartshorn dawn don't you know.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 30, 2002 at 22:56:39 (EST)

My two cents are: Sounds like the coals aren't hot enough to sear the meat..
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 30, 2002 at 22:48:56 (EST)

My two cents are: He ascended into heaven. Got it?
'nuff said
- Saturday, March 30, 2002 at 21:43:19 (EST)

My two cents are: You got to have faith that God is the outside edges of the universe where complex numbers dominate and space-time vibrates. Or something. A fat pseudo-cosmologist once told me that, and I have faith that he knew what he was talking about. Might as well have faith in him as in a corn-holing Pope or the corn-holing Archbiship of Lodi, of some idiot cheap-shot evangelist like Billy Suck-up Graham.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 30, 2002 at 21:35:22 (EST)

My two cents are: You've got to have faith. Same as with the big bang and the Ascension. You got to believe on it. If man had no faith, he would be little better than the bird OR its ancestor the dinosaur. You got to have faith that there is a God, that Jesus is his immaculately-conceived son who he sacrificed for your sins, that the Republican Party is good for the economy, and that the bird is nothing but a warmed-over dinosaur.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 30, 2002 at 21:32:34 (EST)

My two cents are: Of course, the next thing anonymous will be saying is "look at the chickadee and then look at the ostrich, no way the ostrich came from birds." Nope, a bird, a modern bird, ain't anything but a dinosaur with a beak. If you don't believe on it, check out the infamous Arcynopteryx. Nothing but a dinosaur with a beak, that's your bird.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 30, 2002 at 21:27:51 (EST)

My two cents are: Why was he so offended by Taliban John? Guy didn't seem very offensive to me. And all he was really trying to do was protect the assets of the Carlyle group, while George H.W.'s liberal son George was misguidedly trying to KILL mainstream Arabs instead of sucking money from them after we peons gave them ours for the inflated oil. This Bush outfit is a confused group. Don't know whether to shit into America's face or in her dinner plate.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 30, 2002 at 21:24:37 (EST)

My two cents are: Dinosaura did not become birds!!!! Look at 5 ton T. Rex Sue. Look at parakeet. It did not happen!!!!! Don't let them lie to you. They are putting something in the music. Someting in the Music, run, run.....
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 30, 2002 at 20:53:22 (EST)

My two cents are: SAN RAFAEL, Calif. (February 28, 2002 12:26 a.m. EST) - Former President George Bush has apologized to northern California residents for describing American Taliban fighter John Walker Lindh as "some misguided Marin County hot-tubber." Bush's apology appeared Wednesday in The Marin Independent Journal newspaper, which had earlier invited readers to tell Bush about their home. Many of the writers used the opportunity to scold him. "Call off the dogs please," Bush wrote in his humorous response. "I apologize. I am chastened and will never use 'hot tub' and 'Marin County' in the same sentence again." Bush said he was so offended by Lindh that he hurt other's feelings. "Now your readers have attacked me on my granddaughters, on my residence, on abortion, on Enron, on my being a Texan and on my pronunciation of Marin. You name it, a lot of angst has surfaced, and it's all my fault." Bush said that although he received only 23 percent Marin's vote in 1992, "I was your president and I should have known better." "I will now soak in my own hot tub and try to be more sensitive to the feelings of others - not John Walker Lindh, though," he added.
George I , Sorry
- Saturday, March 30, 2002 at 19:36:01 (EST)

My two cents are: Hey, I'm dating a swarthy guy! None of them wops fer me now. Gonna convert him, too. What are YOU doing for the country, hunh?
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 30, 2002 at 17:47:40 (EST)

My two cents are: So, you're putting a price on our very freedom? These people attacked us because they hate freedom. They are in essence pissing on freedom. If we don't bomb them, there will be no freedom, because the freedom-loving peoples will all die in jet-fuel fires and from calico cats. Ask not how many billions it takes to kill an Arab. The whole Al-Q team might be dead for all anyone knows, we been flinging them bombs around like bird-seed. Might have got some hits. Stop your bitching and put your shoulder to the wheel. Have you been carrying your video camera and taping swarthy guys? Get with the program.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 30, 2002 at 17:22:13 (EST)

My two cents are: Look, these guys are dangerous. You can't just let them out in the street to trample the flag and release carloads of calico cats. Also, how did you know the Flying Monk was a wop? Where does it say he has to be a wop? Why aren't these miracle guys ever Eskimo or Phillipino or Hairy Ainu?
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 30, 2002 at 17:18:21 (EST)

My two cents are: Rumsfeld Endorses Plan To Hold Prisoners Even If They Are Acquitted...
excuse me? Developing...
- Saturday, March 30, 2002 at 16:16:01 (EST)

My two cents are: Well, at least the Evil One has been reduced to sending emails around the globe while we've got him on the run. Is today a yellow day, or red? I'm impressed that the Homeland Security Czar* came up with the traffic light system in only six months. Let's roll.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 30, 2002 at 15:57:28 (EST)

My two cents are: So, after how many billions spent bombing, we've offed 9 Al-Qaeda leaders and captured 3? How much does that come out to per head? Who's cooking the US books? Arthur Andersen?
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 30, 2002 at 15:50:39 (EST)

My two cents are: It won't be over for months, traitor. Not until the Republicans take back their Senate and the right to dissent is repealed by the first of many amendments to the Constitution. This is war, asshole. Let's roll!
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 30, 2002 at 15:49:29 (EST)

My two cents are: Why are we still in Afghanistan? What's the exit strategy? Does every one of them have to turn in his goats and hard drive?
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 30, 2002 at 15:46:55 (EST)

My two cents are: Michael Moore's "Stupid White Men" number one best-seller. Non fiction.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 30, 2002 at 15:43:59 (EST)

My two cents are: You think not? What about calico cats? Were they on the Ark? If so, what's Ashcroft's prob-lem? // RIP Queen Mum. RIP 24 in Tel Aviv. Will the Middle East start World War III before Richard Perle has a chance to bomb Iraq?
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 30, 2002 at 15:41:26 (EST)

My two cents are: Dinosaurs had to become extinct. T Rex Sue could never have fit into the ark.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 30, 2002 at 15:34:36 (EST)

My two cents are: Rainy here, just on the gray edge of miserable.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 30, 2002 at 15:31:33 (EST)

My two cents are: Low 70s here. Blue, blue sky. For some odd reason, my whole day is fucking booked with things I'd rather not do. And yet tomorrow is wide open. And Monday is a holiday. That's right, a holiday for April Fools Day. Also happens to be Cesar Chavez Day, as if you didn't know.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 30, 2002 at 15:22:21 (EST)

My two cents are: OK, OK. The wop guy's flying, and you can't see him. Kind of like the tree falling in the forest, does it make a sound or not, if there's no one there to hear. Good enough for me. I'm just trying to lead us not into temptation of crop circles and spontaneous human combustion. Please.
bayeux
- Saturday, March 30, 2002 at 15:21:45 (EST)

My two cents are: It's supposed to maybe crack 90 degrees here today. Put that in your pre-existent paradigm.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 30, 2002 at 13:56:55 (EST)

My two cents are: Well, superstition, religion, flying monks, this is wrong stuff. This kind of stuff leads to mass murder, to the burning of heretics, to the prosecution of Taliban John, and to a lot of bad rock and roll. Quite a bit of bad new-age music, too, if that is not an elemental redundancy. Not much bad jazz, though. Superstition seems to have worked out well in jazz, and in baroque music. Bach could do wonders with a superstition, for example. This damned philosophy professor is the kind of dude who gives book-learning a bad name. He's just thumping a different Bible. A man who sneers when you tell him Aristotle was wrong about ballistics, made the wrong assumption that objects are fundamentally at rest. Or say that Aristotle was right about, say, the anatomy of the sea-urchin. The philosopher laughs and sneers, telling himself that it's all a matter of the paradigm. That is why the working folks have to feed him, and let him live in a university among books and nubile undergraduates who will lie down for him if he appears knowing. If we didn't honor these characters, they would die on the streets. They are the western equivalent of the Hindu tootling his flute at a cobra in a basket or lying on a bed of nails. A good side-show, but what's for lunch?
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 30, 2002 at 13:54:43 (EST)

My two cents are: You sound contstained by a pre-existing world view, bung-hole. Just because YOU don't think a man can fly doesn't mean he can't. You asshole. Nay-sayer. Ye of little faith. The man flew like a fucking goose. He soared like an eagle. He fluttered like a moth. He was a regular Sky King without the airplane. Stop being such a negative wet blanket.
Believer on the Lord in Hog Gulch
- Saturday, March 30, 2002 at 13:39:05 (EST)

My two cents are: Nah, science isn't based on faith, neither is the big bang. That's just a theory accommodating empirical evidence, spectral shifts and whatnot. Nobody says it's true or that it should be taken on faith, just that it may be a representation of what happened. Absolute bullshit to say it's faith-based. So, where does faith come from, for example a faith that Moses drew water from a stone, if that's one of the things he is supposed to have done. It comes from the learnings, what we might call brainwashing, the brainwashing necessary to sustain a particular superstition. Shit, if we didn't make the kids believe in Moses, they might start believing in Kiss or calico cats. Back to the paradigm lady, no it's still not about paradigms, because I wouldn't see this character fly. It's not my world-view that makes me unable to see him fly, it's gravity and his lack of wings. I know you don't believe this, but trust me. The dude never flew. Probably wasn't even much of a jumper.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 30, 2002 at 13:35:44 (EST)

My two cents are: Yep, science is based on faith.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 30, 2002 at 12:03:13 (EST)

My two cents are: With taxact.com, if you want, you can simply print out the completed forms and mail them in.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 30, 2002 at 11:52:37 (EST)

My two cents are: Taxact.com will do your taxes for free. But if you want to efile them, it'll set you back $7.95. You can do Cali taxes, and efile them free at ftb.ca.gov.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 30, 2002 at 11:42:48 (EST)

My two cents are: Think of it like the world-view when the world was flat. You couldn't sail across the Atlantic, because QED you'd fall off the earth and die.
Blue Bayeux
- Saturday, March 30, 2002 at 11:38:53 (EST)

My two cents are: Halleys, yes. It's in the Bayeaux Tapestry. Speaking of lack of witnesses, did anybody who saw Moses draw water from the stone bother to write it down where we can see it today? Some might say Moses wrote it down himself in the Torah. If that was the case, then why doesn't it say "I wrote this thing. signed Moses." Events such as these enter the realm of faith, the conviction of things unseen. One of the greatest religions based on faith is science itself. Who witnessed the Big Bang?
Glint
- Saturday, March 30, 2002 at 11:36:21 (EST)

My two cents are: Yes. Now you've got it. Even if you SAW him fly, your world-view would not permit you to believe your own eyes. I'm talking about the limitations of pre-existent world-views here, not about flying guys.
Blue Bayeux
- Saturday, March 30, 2002 at 11:35:55 (EST)

My two cents are: You see, bullshit and anti-bullshit really do exist. Religion, sad to say, is on the bullshit side, along with the flying nun and astrology.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 30, 2002 at 11:29:49 (EST)

My two cents are: I'm paying attention. Problem is, seeing the guy fly isn't fact. Wrong paradigm. These things have to be empirically confirmed in the one I operate from. If you look at the subject, the hallucination that Jesus arose from the dead, you will find that there are no reporting witnesses. Zero. Matthew Mark Luke and John all second-hand. Only Mark, I think, might have been alive at the time of the event. On the other hand we have first-hand evidence of Hastings. Primitive graves registry, parish records, written accounts by participants, and best of all we can test the even empirically, say in Afghanistan. Even the brilliant star in the Bayeux tapestry turns out to be, I believe, Halley's comet. Didn't it swing by about 1066? You see, your philosophy professor trades in philosophy, which is bullshit. It is the remnants of the bullshit paradigm, brought forward in our university system and in the astrology column in the back of the newspaper.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 30, 2002 at 11:27:36 (EST)

My two cents are: More sightseeing today. Civil war battlefield and a cemetery where old Abe himself once delivered a speech. Hope we have some sliced ham and turkey left over from yesterday.
Glint
- Saturday, March 30, 2002 at 11:12:53 (EST)

My two cents are: If Uranus is blue, it's probably because of a deprivation of the gas oxygen. Last time I saw Uranus it was brown, a sign of the expulsion of some other form of nasty gas. The crypt of the National Cathederal has a Byzantine form of architecture. Torches instead of hanging light bulbs would have been more aesthetically pleasing. I'm sure that John would have wanted me to extend his greetings to you, if possible. He's the perfect Liberal. On the other hand, a far as this ressurection topic goes, didn't Lazarus come back to life after even longer period than the Christ - 4 days? Many witnesses at the actual event, for so it is written.
Glint
- Saturday, March 30, 2002 at 11:11:32 (EST)

My two cents are: You're missing the point. Don't get lost in Jesus and superstition and sub-Saharan africa. Pay attention: Fact--You see guy fly. Others see guy fly. You and others write this down. Others come, read your account, raise eyebrows, can't fricking deal with it. On the other hand, you see battle of Hastings. Others see battle of Hastings. You write down your account, others read it, the account raises no hackles, unravels no fabric of reality: get the imprimatur. Boom. History is made.
Blue Bayeux
- Saturday, March 30, 2002 at 11:06:51 (EST)

My two cents are: Hey, what's the name of that site where you can do your taxes for free?
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 30, 2002 at 11:05:06 (EST)

My two cents are: People, please! I think that John Lennon said it all: "God is a concept by which we measure our pain." He said it in that song where he does all the primal screaming. You people just need a guru. You are lost in your inadequate belief systems. John Lennon would make a great guru for you.
Om Daddy
- Saturday, March 30, 2002 at 11:01:21 (EST)

My two cents are: You got it assbackwards, BB. The group-agreed-upon fabric of reality this week says that Jesus not only could fly, he flew right up to heaven, and after being nailed to a cross long enough to croak. Either way, your old philosophy professor was, as we say, cracking walnuts in his ass. "Rationally witnessed", what does that mean? "Outside the basic group belief system" my ass. I hope that clarifies this question for you.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 30, 2002 at 10:56:42 (EST)

My two cents are: Just trying a little unravelling of our fabric of reality, here. A tug, a little gentle deconstructing.
Blue Bayeux
- Saturday, March 30, 2002 at 10:50:02 (EST)

My two cents are: Nothing prevents me from taking in the historical information that many eyewitnesses saw this character flying. Where's the paradigm shift? Everyone in sub-Saharan Africa has seen stuff like that, usually more in the line of transmogrification, but there are a lot of flying imams as well. A higher level of ignorance and pervasive superstition lets the mind fill in blank corners with flying monks. About the same thing as rubbing your eyeballs and seeing lights. No paradigm.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 30, 2002 at 10:49:42 (EST)

My two cents are: I'm not talking about religion, per se, I'm talking about belief systems. We think that history is a rational account of events witnessed by real people, ta di dum ta di dum. When some events, even though rationally witnessed, fall outside the basic group belief system, they don't make it into the group-agreed-upon fabric of reality. So to speak.
BB
- Saturday, March 30, 2002 at 10:45:29 (EST)

My two cents are: Or maybe the paradigms are way up on the top, like Augustine was a smart dude, and he believed on the Lord. He never claimed to have seen any miracles, though, come to think of it. And he fucked like a mink in his younger days. Maybe it's not so much a paradigm problem as an accumulation of wisdom problem, pushing back the ignorance. But why does religion still exist, if the paradigm has changed. 95% of Americans claim they are Christian, and 61% say that atheists are naughty. I wish I had a philosophy professor to explain this to me. You're not helping.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 30, 2002 at 10:42:17 (EST)

My two cents are: It's a paradigm problem because our basic belief that people can't levitate prevents us from taking in the historical information that St. Joseph of Cupertino was seen to levitate. On many occasions. By many eyewitnesses. (Apparently it caused such a stir in the community that he was asked to remain in his room. so as not to fly. Later (the funny part), he became patron saint of air travellers and pilots. Ha.)
Blue Bayeux
- Saturday, March 30, 2002 at 10:40:19 (EST)

My two cents are: Maybe there's a dumb paradigm and a smart paradigm. Maybe that's the whole system of paradigms right there.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 30, 2002 at 10:38:22 (EST)

My two cents are: Why is that a paradigm problem? I hear that back in those days people were closer to the Creation, so it was easier for them to see miracles and talk with burning bushes. But nowadays I see just as many religious nuts around as there ever were, only a lot of them are talking to little green man in flying saucers or imagining a Beast of Liberalism. Do you mean to say we got two paradigmae operating at the same time?
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 30, 2002 at 10:36:29 (EST)

My two cents are: The point, my friend, was that even with puh-lenty of eyewitnesses, even a gaggle of same, we are quite unable to believe the unbelievable. Paradigm problem.
Blue Bayeux
- Saturday, March 30, 2002 at 10:32:20 (EST)

My two cents are: Ashcroft's inner damage is not merely profound, but inherent.
Anointed by Oil Barons
- Saturday, March 30, 2002 at 10:29:09 (EST)

My two cents are: Did your asshole philosophy professor ever see the Bayeux Tapestry? Did he ever read the scrolls? Did he ever hear the old rhyme, "in 1066 at the Battle of Hastings the Normans gave the Saxons a pasting?" What a dildo. Good thing he didn't become a history teacher. Good thing he didn't become a metalurgy professor. All the damn pots and pans would leak.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 30, 2002 at 10:28:54 (EST)

My two cents are: by no means was he full of shit.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 30, 2002 at 10:26:49 (EST)

My two cents are: Mmm. True. They can't survive in an electoral system. This is perhaps why the most fascist of the neo-fascists have started yammering about how bad democracy is, and how we should go back to one man, no vote, to prevent the vile ascendancy of the non-fascist masses.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 30, 2002 at 10:26:00 (EST)

My two cents are: Your old philosophy professor is full of shit.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 30, 2002 at 10:25:50 (EST)

My two cents are: Would John Ashcroft be as much of a shithead if he hadn't been exposed to religion, or is he a shithead by his very nature? How much does religion contribute to the evils that mankind perpetrates against itself, and how much is it bourne in the genes?
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 30, 2002 at 10:23:28 (EST)

My two cents are: Mass hallucination, who knows? Me old philosophy professor used ta say that there was more hard evidence that Saint Joseph of Cupertino flew in the town square than that the Battle of Hastings ever occurred. You know, paradigm problems. Not that I'm very invested in the occurrence of the battle of Hastings. I mean, hey.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 30, 2002 at 10:23:15 (EST)

My two cents are: I didn't know Pentacostals sheep-fucked. I thought it was mostly Aussies and Greeks. What gives?
Altar Boy
- Saturday, March 30, 2002 at 10:20:07 (EST)

My two cents are: Yo, a priori. Get a clue. Republicanism can survive in a democracy only by constant subterfuge and lying. Of course they can't divulge the inner workings of their policy planning sessions. It doesn't even have to be illegal, and possibly isn't illegal, they still can't divulge it and survive in an electoral system. That is why they are so desparate about campaign finance reform-- because it reduces the opportunities for lying. You elect a bunch of cynical oil-patch execs you're going to get government of, by, and for the oil patch. There is no mystery to unravel here. Besides, the topic is whether Jesus really rose from the dead or was a nexus of mass hallucination.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 30, 2002 at 10:18:53 (EST)

My two cents are: Tell me that was a long faux Glint. Please. Please don't tell me that's from a real person. Thanking you in advance.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 30, 2002 at 10:17:47 (EST)

My two cents are: If you read any Rabelais, you'd know that priests and monks have always been pretty licentious, ate like pigs, drank like fish, and fucked like goats. That's why they had the Reformation. Martin Luther had the poker up his ass and didn't think goat-fucking was priestly. Stick with the nuns and the alter-boys, he said. Nailed it onto the wall of the cathedral at Wittenburg. There has been schism ever since. Funny thing is, though, that the traditionalists, the Catholics, have eschewed bestiality, while the protestants, who originally protested bestiality, now include many bestiality-oriented sects, such as the cat-hating, sheep-fucking Pentacostalists, or Holy Rollers, such as the man who was recently anointed in the oils of Attorney General.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 30, 2002 at 10:13:51 (EST)

My two cents are: Personally, the debt of the Bush clan to the oil industry seems like such an a priori political assumption that having API write the federal policy almost looks like an efficiency. Letting the regulated write the regulations may be wrong, but it's kind of a GOP tradition, the Bush administration's homage to Reagan and Gingrich. And that's where the impact of these DOE documents hits its limit. If you've paid any attention to the Cheney task force stories, you know that energy executives wrote the administration's policies; the rest is just connecting the dots. But this story is far from over, and the DOE documents do give the sense that some smoke might yet emerge from this pistol, for a very simple reason: The administration seems incredibly paranoid about the release of this information. Cheney's refusal to disclose even rudimentary facts about his deliberations, while frustrating and probably counterproductive, at least has the fig leaf of constitutional justification surrounding it. But the DOE documents have been censored (the official term is "redacted") so heavily and seemingly unnecessarily that they give off an odor of coverup.
A Priori
- Saturday, March 30, 2002 at 10:12:58 (EST)

My two cents are: Big week-end for people who believe on the Lord. Tough on the Catholics, what with a lot of the priests turning out to be not much better than pig-fucking Southern Baptist ministers, but the Lord forgiveth. Jesus poured out this blood for your sins, priests. If memory serves, this is the week-end when they spanked Jesus up on the cross for being a cultist and a liberal one at that. Then there are trustworthy eyewitness accounts of him rising from the dead, like a big blowfish rising out the deep or maybe one of these spiders that flings up a bunch of silk and it's like a parachute and the wind wafts him away. Although I always figured that Jesus, having been dead as a door-nail, yet rose straight up toward the Father, and not sidewise like a damned spider. Is God off to the side? Hell no, he's straight up. Actually, I'm a little weak on my Easter history and will have to look it up in the Good Book, or ask my clergyman in between his bouts with the alter boy.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 30, 2002 at 10:07:50 (EST)

My two cents are: Sounds like the coals aren't hot enough to sear the meat..
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 30, 2002 at 09:21:21 (EST)

My two cents are: Hey glint, maybe you could find the kids some sort of home pet embalming kit for xmas.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 30, 2002 at 09:09:39 (EST)

My two cents are: Sounds like the coals aren't hot enough to sear the meat..
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 30, 2002 at 09:02:59 (EST)

My two cents are: hey glint, I got these glow in the dark planets that stick on the wall. I making one of our extra rooms sort of an astral projection lounge, bead curtains, batik on wall, incense and candles etc. so the planets on the wall are perfect. problem is I cant tell which one is neptune and which one is uranus. one is green, the other blue, green one has whitish rings, they added the rings after I studied the planets so i'm confused, HELP.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 30, 2002 at 08:52:35 (EST)

My two cents are: you are truly a ghoul glint.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 30, 2002 at 08:49:29 (EST)

My two cents are: Seems a bit strange that what must have been the worst Friday of his life is called Good Friday.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 30, 2002 at 03:59:09 (EST)

My two cents are: You call that kicking ass? Geesh, and I stayed up past my bed-time. What a rook.
Gary
- Friday, March 29, 2002 at 23:17:39 (EST)

My two cents are: (Posted at http://members.fortunecity.com/fornigate/)One of the fringes of knowing someone at Arlington is you get your parking validated for free. And the good thing about having geezers in the car is that you can drive up to the Kennedy nap pads an the infernal flame.
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 29, 2002 at 22:37:06 (EST)

My two cents are: ...Unfortunately, since it was Good Friday most of the chapels inside were closed, including the gift shop. But lucky for us the only place open to the public was the crypt in the lower level where all the bodies are buried. So we had an enjoyable afternoon going around looking at the ornate sculptures of the dead on top of the vaults and trying to pronounce the names. Then we took turns signing the guest book. After that we went out for ice cream and on the way home got wine for dinner and beer for the videos we are watching on the big screen with the surround sound. Having a great time with the in-laws, even if the shack up does "love Bill Clinton."
Glint
- Friday, March 29, 2002 at 22:24:34 (EST)

My two cents are: ...We went to see the cherry bloossoms around the tidal basin near the Jefferson Memorial. Then I took them up past the U.S. Naval Observatory so they could see Dick Cheney's House and stopped at the beautiful Washington Cathederal. I was there 30 years ago, and again about 20 years ago. However, it was completed 12 years ago so I've never been there since construction, which had started in 1907, had been completed....
Glint
- Friday, March 29, 2002 at 22:19:47 (EST)

My two cents are: Yes, today we visited Washington. Took the family and Step-Father-In-Law and Shack-Up-In-Law down to Arlington this morning. Made it just in time to the changing of the guard at the Tomb of the Unknown. Believe it or not this is the first time I had seen it live since one family vacation from the prairie land 30 years ago. I've watched it live on C-Span a few times. The way they walk is so totally gay. They sort of swim walk, with their arms moving forward and back like ribbons or bands, all limp and rubbery. And whenever they stop they heel click in unison by raising the right leg out about 30 degrees and letting it swing and pop against the left foot. We saw lots of dead Kennedys, at least 5, and the kids loved the gift shop. The highlight of our visit was spending time with John. I can report that he's doing about the same. Still, it was an enjoyable visit. He didn't spout any of his usual Liberal diatribe about "the shrub" or anything. From graveside we had a good view of the damage and repairs being done on the Pentagon after 911. The building took a direct hit you know on John's side. He is located about one building diameter away to the NW....
Glint
- Friday, March 29, 2002 at 22:18:56 (EST)

My two cents are: Stop dissing teen essays, man!
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 29, 2002 at 21:44:37 (EST)

My two cents are: Remember the time Glint said that Pete's open letter on the taxes showed what a smart guy he is? I suppose everybody thinks his own dog is beautiful, but that was a little too much. If he could learn some grammar and spelling, Pete� would be ready for the Parsons Middle School yearbook. In the thoughtful 'teen essays section.
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 29, 2002 at 21:37:13 (EST)

My two cents are: Gary, I think it's futile to try to prepare for your debates with Pete�. You're talking about a guy who had his blurb on how bloated the government would get under the Bush tax plan almost selected as essay of the week on one loon-ball web page. And his eighth grade essay on romanticism and classicism was so good it's been circulating ever since. Maybe if you've spent a lifetime or two preparing, Gary. Last-minute cramming ain't going to do it in Pete�'s league.
.
- Friday, March 29, 2002 at 21:32:51 (EST)

My two cents are: In case all my friends have been wondering, I'm doing alright. Just been a little busy preparing for the debates. Ciao.
Gary
- Friday, March 29, 2002 at 20:08:19 (EST)

My two cents are: Don't ask me. I'm just waiting around for Glint to come in and pound the stuffing out of everybody.
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 29, 2002 at 18:33:58 (EST)

My two cents are: On a Likert scale of 1 to 10, just how funny about it do they feel?
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 29, 2002 at 17:50:53 (EST)

My two cents are: Do chicks prefer it if you bang and tell? Whatever happened to discretion? Did PornStarr make it cease to be the soul of valor? Stained-dresser Ann? All the rest of the foaming stained-dressers? How long have the stained-dressers realized that they have permanently raised the consciousness of America's kiddies and kiddettes as to all the particulars of oral sex? How funny about that do they feel?
Marie Curious
- Friday, March 29, 2002 at 17:49:51 (EST)

My two cents are: Right. And Cliton went and lied under it-- said he didn't bang the chick. Well, technically he DIDN'T bang the chick, but you know what I mean. It was oath man. The chick gave him a hummer, which is close to letting him bang her. I say, the chick gave him a hummer, except that he's innocent until proved guilty. Let's just say that I strongly suspect that the chick gave him a blow job, which is damn close to letting him bang her. And she probably would have let him ball her all night long if he asked. So it's a clear case of possibly lying under oath, which, it doesn't get much worse unless your name is Taliban John.
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 29, 2002 at 17:17:39 (EST)

My two cents are: Oath, man. It's the glue that binds this nation together.
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 29, 2002 at 17:12:38 (EST)

My two cents are: Is that you, ePet�?
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 29, 2002 at 16:52:18 (EST)

My two cents are: Look, take it from one experienced in these amtters, the only eye you want ehr looking at is the one-eyed Jack in the deck. Focus.
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 29, 2002 at 16:11:48 (EST)

My two cents are: Either Ricardo Montalban or Basil Rathbone.
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 29, 2002 at 14:53:27 (EST)

My two cents are: My girlfriend never looks me in the eye when she's giving the aforementioned treatment. Does this mean she's fantasizing that she's with Ricardo Montalban?
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 29, 2002 at 14:52:08 (EST)

My two cents are: If you can obtain a urine sample from the girlfriend or boyfriend who did/did not give the head, please send that as well.
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 29, 2002 at 14:50:03 (EST)

My two cents are: Kenneth Starr has shifty eyes.
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 29, 2002 at 14:46:49 (EST)

My two cents are: Shifty eyes can just represent shyness, or even a temporary desire for privacy. In fact, shifty eyes are often a sign of truthfulness, especially when the truth is unwelcome.
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 29, 2002 at 14:45:48 (EST)

My two cents are: Please send a urine sample along with your response.
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 29, 2002 at 14:43:32 (EST)

My two cents are: If a man can look you in the eye, he's telling you the truth. Shifty eyes give away the liar.
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 29, 2002 at 14:42:19 (EST)

My two cents are: OK, I'm putting you all under oath. Did you get head from someone other than your spouse? When, where, and at how many lbs/square inch? Responses will be sent to the Center for Public Policy at Pepperdine University where they will evaluated for possible prosecution.
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 29, 2002 at 14:41:12 (EST)

My two cents are: This whole oath thing seems to be a can of worms. Wouldn't itbe better to take a guy's word as his bond? Or to determine his veracity by the cut of his gib? The gib doesn't lie.
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 29, 2002 at 14:41:07 (EST)

My two cents are: Can you get arrested for driving under oath?
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 29, 2002 at 14:38:27 (EST)

My two cents are: Oath is nothing to sneer at. Especially if you're under oath. Sneering under oath is as bad as hiding your girlfriend's name under oath.
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 29, 2002 at 14:37:46 (EST)

My two cents are: And King David.
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 29, 2002 at 14:35:48 (EST)

My two cents are: As we all know, oath is negated if you keep your fingers crossed.
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 29, 2002 at 14:35:04 (EST)

My two cents are: Yeah, sure, I'm always under oath too.
wink wink
- Friday, March 29, 2002 at 14:33:44 (EST)

My two cents are: Should have just had himself doused in cooking oil, like Ashcroft.
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 29, 2002 at 14:32:51 (EST)

My two cents are: Bush took an oath to defend the constitution.
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 29, 2002 at 13:34:35 (EST)

My two cents are: But not under oath. Oath makes all the difference (posted at Bangkok.com).
Blimpse
- Friday, March 29, 2002 at 12:06:54 (EST)

My two cents are: More guys lie about getting blow jobs than lie about not getting them.
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 29, 2002 at 12:05:01 (EST)

My two cents are: Oath sounds plenty sacred to me. Oath oath oath oath oath. Lying under oath is worth than lying on the rocks in the same way that a hate crime is worse than a non-hate crime. If you hate the person you are robbing, the penalty should be more severe. If you lie under oath, the penalty should be more severe. Oath is one of the neatest things that the human race has come up with. In fact, I have put myself permanently under oath. Do you have the balls to do the same?
Wes Pilbert
- Friday, March 29, 2002 at 11:59:41 (EST)

My two cents are: When George W. Bush reluctantly signs the campaign-finance reform legislation that bears the name of his most bitter Republican rival, it will be easy to celebrate John McCain�s moment of triumph. After so many years of struggle against autocratic Congressional leaders, after so many cases of transparent bribery at the highest levels of politics and government, the pending ban on huge contributions of "soft money" is obviously a victory for virtue over venality. That righteous feeling was only intensified by the appearance of Senator Mitch McConnell, former bagman for the Senate Republican campaign committee and chief opponent of the McCain-Feingold bill, announcing his plans to restore the corrupt status quo in court. At his side stood Kenneth W. Starr, the former independent counsel whose true vocation�which he never set aside during his years of partisan prosecution�is defending the sellers of tobacco products and lethally flawed automobiles.
typical liberal tripe
- Friday, March 29, 2002 at 11:54:35 (EST)

My two cents are: Though the final Whitewater report clearly shows the Clintons were innocent, the New York Times and Washington Post arrogantly refuse to admit they were wrong. Joe Conason Fair-minded analysis is too much to ask from the [Wall Street Journal's] bitter polemicists at this late date, but the editorial board of the Washington Post might be expected to understand the foundations of this country's justice system. Evidently they do not. Like their colleagues at the Journal, the Post's editorialists seem unable to transcend their newspaper's failed journalistic investment in "Whitewater," their longstanding friendship with former Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr and their inexhaustible fury at the Clintons. Having long ago convinced themselves (and presumably many of their readers) that the Clintons were guilty of some criminal offense in Whitewater, they continue to insist that the final report is "at the end of the day, inconclusive as to whether the Clintons committed crimes in their dealings with James and Susan McDougal and in their subsequent interactions with investigators," and "leaves ample reason to suspect wrongdoing by both the former president and Sen. Hillary Clinton." Exactly what wrongdoing they don't bother to specify -- the hallmark of a political smear. (They also seem not to have noticed the headline in their own pages a few days earlier that declared the Clintons to have been "cleared" by the independent counsel.) The Post editors apparently believe that, unlike any other targets of a criminal investigation in the United States, the Clintons aren't entitled to the presumption of innocence. For them, a decade of extraordinarily costly investigation that resulted in no indictments, let alone convictions, is not enough to discourage insinuations of guilt. That leaves the New York Times, where Whitewater first sprang to public attention in a famously murky front-page story by reporter Jeff Gerth. As the paper's Week in Review section noted last Sunday, the Times "printed articles about Whitewater and Madison Guaranty and editorials urging the Clintons to cooperate with investigators." That's an amusingly bland description of the paper's role in this fiasco, which ranged from repeated accusations of a coverup on the editorial page to repeated announcements by star Op-ed columnist William Safire of impending indictments that never came. (Safire promised to "eat crow" if his predictions proved false, but he has remained strangely silent about the final report so far.)
safire crow recipe coming soon
- Friday, March 29, 2002 at 11:13:30 (EST)

My two cents are: Somebody register that pedophile, quick.
he thinks it's not a problem
- Friday, March 29, 2002 at 10:33:54 (EST)

My two cents are: Plenty of minerals in rocks.
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 29, 2002 at 10:19:36 (EST)

My two cents are: Afghan Man Roams Desert, Eats Stones...
Developing...
- Friday, March 29, 2002 at 09:56:58 (EST)

My two cents are: If you say "oath" repeatedly, it sounds pretty damn stupid. Perhaps that's the problem. Something so precious and dear should have a more sacred-sounding word.
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 29, 2002 at 09:43:19 (EST)

My two cents are: nah, you're out there on the end of the bell curve with this one blimpo, way way outside the bubble. lunatic fringe.
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 29, 2002 at 09:08:34 (EST)

My two cents are: Sounds like the coals aren't hot enough to sear the meat..
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 29, 2002 at 09:00:13 (EST)

My two cents are: Is today cemetary day? Maybe the kids can lay in a box in the back of the minivan. have you added the black curtains to it yet???
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 29, 2002 at 08:56:16 (EST)

My two cents are: Besides, I thought there had to be a touch of necro or blood and guts to get you going...
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 29, 2002 at 08:54:47 (EST)

My two cents are: No Blimpse, I like women.
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 29, 2002 at 08:53:19 (EST)

My two cents are: You know what really turns me on? A slim teenager with a penis and womanly breasts. That's what really turns me on. There, I've admitted it. Now you guys tell me what turns YOU on. I bet it's just as sick and illegal and against the basic tenets of western society as what turns me on.
Blimpse
- Friday, March 29, 2002 at 08:41:00 (EST)

My two cents are: I suspect that the guy across the street has been patching his stucco cracks with tape. What a disgusting shit-faced nickel noser.
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 29, 2002 at 08:37:57 (EST)

My two cents are: Yes, oath. Oath that we hold most dear. Oath oath oath. It is my mantra. Take the blow job, but never under oath. Never under beloved oath. A man who would lie under oath, that man would, well, he might engage in sexual activities and then try to hide it from the world. Try to keep secret the very details of the encounter, even under oath. Horrible to think of, yet we have to face the facts. Yes, man can be a beast, a craven beast. It is oath that holds him above the beast, and only oath. When oath is broken, set aside, flipped into the gutter like a cigar butt, then civilization has foundered, and the world is nothing but a whorehouse of Jezebels and satyrs poking one another and spreading germs and goo.
Glimpse
- Friday, March 29, 2002 at 08:34:38 (EST)

My two cents are: Thought it was Starr testifying against the independent counsel law, Starr aghast at what it had allowed him to make of himself, that kicked it over the top. But there goes Glint again-- public policy as shoes dropping, how outrageously you can smear the other guy, off-campus and therefore outside of the imaginary bubble from third grade that you never quite shook off. Well, at least none of it is under oath, oath most dear and so fragile. Oath, man, it's all we got, the bulwark that protects the western world against godless blow jobs. Oath. Say it to yourself. If I ever join AmeriCorps the way our president has gave the clarion call for, it will not be for the flag or for mom or for apple pie of for the memory of James Madison writing that Enron's freedom of speech must live, no, it will be for oath. Sacred oath.
,
- Friday, March 29, 2002 at 08:23:29 (EST)

My two cents are: I sort of feel like I've been flogged with a bouquet of cliche's. If you want true literary genius, you have to read Candycane Man.
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 29, 2002 at 08:22:53 (EST)

My two cents are: Yeah, that was him, plymouth had a cream hood. Rest of it was sort of red rustoleum laid on with a brush.
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 29, 2002 at 08:19:03 (EST)

My two cents are: Looks like the Calibanese are busy making shadow puppets on the cave walls tonight. Still waiting for shoe one to drop w.r.t. Enron, no doubt. This after they bludgeoned the indy counsel statute. Or maybe they've been choked by the Chinese dust cloud. In any event, I don't doubt there is some choking happening there but what they do behind the stucco walls is their business.
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 29, 2002 at 02:54:06 (EST)

My two cents are: (Posted at http://members.fortunecity.com/fornigate/) "this place" sometimes when sun rips across rainbow fields and technicolor highways i'm left to play in the remains of the day, the place before dusk, where all good things are a must and somewhere through a hole i can hear the bell's toll and all of this is drowned away sometimes when the moon splits the branches and clouds float through children's rooms only the loneliness of one looms, trapped where all the angel hair falls and the shattered dream howls and calls to pull me down between the sheets and think of all that stains my mind and the reality of others like a drip from blood brothers, some i may never know and when the sun breaks the window pane in a mad dash to pull me from my slumber, i dream a little dream and pray this day to be better than the last- Amen.
Brenda --er-- I mean Brandon
- Friday, March 29, 2002 at 02:01:18 (EST)

My two cents are: I think it's time for another of Brenda's poems. This is one of the oldest on the page >> "the long ride home" the tears fell like stock brokers from their windows, the steering wheel was slick and uncertain, my right hand pulled the car right, my left hand pulled the car left, so i went on swerving home from her house... i felt like a blind man in a well lit room, and everyone around me gave direction with their shoves and jeers/ yes, i felt like dying that day, like i needed a cliff to drive off, and maybe in the clouds catch a glimpse of heaven, like the one i left behind/ i had grown discontent with myself, so i grew discontent with her, my heart had been broken long before hers, but she had no way of knowing, and for our short time together, her ignorance was her bliss.
Glint
- Friday, March 29, 2002 at 01:50:51 (EST)

My two cents are: Blondie, Blondie When will those clouds all disappear Angie, Angie Where will it lead us from here With no lovin' in our souls And no money in our coats You can't say we're satisfied Blondie, Blondie You can't say we never tried Blondie, you're beautiful, yeah But ain't it time we said goodbye (Posted at http://members.fortunecity.com/fornigate/)
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 29, 2002 at 01:41:56 (EST)

My two cents are: Hey, Dylan fans!
http://knura.new21.net/De/aufs.htm
- Friday, March 29, 2002 at 00:58:51 (EST)

My two cents are: ..But if you do, don't lie about it under oath! (Posted at http://members.fortunecity.com/fornigate/)
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 29, 2002 at 00:46:14 (EST)

My two cents are: But never, never, never take the blow-job.
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 29, 2002 at 00:43:26 (EST)

My two cents are: ...So the moral of the story my friends is that you should never shy away from befriending someone because of short term and irrational fears. Take a good look at the big picture and take it one step at a time. In any investment interest the key is planning and patience. You never know, the dividends may keep coming back for years, or possibly even decades. (Posted at http://members.fortunecity.com/fornigate/)
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 29, 2002 at 00:25:41 (EST)

My two cents are: ...I got an e-mail from my Father today. He said that he received a call from a woman who said she used to know me. It was the brunette from the observatory. He said that he talked to her for quite a while and that she was trying to pry my contact information out of him. He said that he finally and reluctantly gave her my address because she told him that she had a terminal illness and wanted to talk to me one last time. Terminal illness, ha! He fell for it! (Posted at http://members.fortunecity.com/fornigate/)
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 29, 2002 at 00:20:42 (EST)

My two cents are: ...I set my drink down on the coffee table, stood up, took her by the hand, and excused myself. Sometime later in the evening when I came out of the bedroom the place was abandoned. The chess games were unfinished, and aparently some of my friends got lucky with the friends of my other friends. People came and went and eventually those of us that were left some of her friends and some of my friends, sat round together totally spaced and physically spent. The only down side was that one of the women claimed she was raped by one my future groomsmen, but charges were never filed.... (Posted at http://members.fortunecity.com/fornigate/)
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 29, 2002 at 00:16:42 (EST)

My two cents are: ....In walked the blond's best friend. It was the brunette from the observatory. Behind her were several other women who were passing a bottle of gin back and forth. They were totally loaded. I had seen her a time or two after I had broken up with her friend. She would drop by with a friend or two when I was alone and we'd play strip poker. I figured she was sent to spy on me, so I just played along. So I let them in and after congratulatory hugs from the new guests. The only one I knew was the brunette and this cute Mexican who I had met briefly once before. The women go to fix themselves a drink and I head back to the sofa to resume polite conversation with the earlier guests, mentioned above. Then the Mexican plops down beside me with her drink and said she would like to ask me a favor. I said O.K. and she leans over and cups her hands around my ear and asks - how can I put this delicately - if she can do a Monica on me.... (Posted at http://members.fortunecity.com/fornigate/)
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 29, 2002 at 00:09:35 (EST)

My two cents are: ...Before you know it the usual characters were there. Now, this party was supposed to be something special because it really was celebrating a milestone event. But before you knew it, chess boards were coming out of the coffee table and everyone was stoned and deep in thought over how to move their knights and bishops. I had a bottle of Chivas I had bought about a year before and was saving it. I cracked it open and started drinking it. A few other people came in, had a quick drink and left, probably hoping that they still had time to find a really kick ass party somewhere. A girl I had gone to high school with dropped by with her new husband. Being of the "settle down" type, she was really more a friend of my parents because they were neighbors. I sat there talking with them wondering if she would tell my parents about the doob I was holding when answering the door after they had knocked. There was another knock on the door and someone answered it. The room filled with lusty women's laughter!......
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 28, 2002 at 23:57:15 (EST)

My two cents are: ...Anyhow, you might remember the discussion on this page about how some deluded girls proclaim their virginity while taking the old drum stick in every which other way is possible? That's where her friends came in. It was like the mother load because the friends had friends. The patience and the mentoring paid off. Meanwhile I was living the bachelor life beyond the confines of the campus bubble. When I achieved a specific goal in my life my roomate and I decided to throw yet another party. We went down the liquor store where the drunk Indians go and bought a gallon of whisky, a gallon of rum, a gallon of vodka, and a gallon of something else - I forgot. We got some snacks and waited for the guys to start showing up, like they did every other weekend... (Posted at http://members.fortunecity.com/fornigate/)
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 28, 2002 at 23:47:51 (EST)

My two cents are: She remembered the old dufus from Girl Scout astronomy days, and suckered him with the old suntan oil gag. Wrapped him around her little toe, and the guy was so dumb she could still keep balling Bluto and the guys without him catching on, and get her rocks off. Her mom thought the guy was too dumb to fuck, so he was good cover. She eventually dumped him when she went to college, and found some new guys at the tire shop in Oberlin.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 28, 2002 at 23:44:56 (EST)

My two cents are: Had a '50 Plymouth wagon, called a Suburban. Mighty fine car. Didn't have an electric motor on it, except for the starter. Gave it to Preston Cowan for the tires and he gave the rest of it to Joe Offield, who sold it to some guy. That was in '64, when the Plym wasn't very old. All those '50 Plymouths were sort of cream colored. That was a good surf vehicle.
Murph
- Thursday, March 28, 2002 at 23:41:13 (EST)

My two cents are: ...So I went to the blond's party and soon we started dating. One day we went to the beach, which is what we used to call a lake in those parts. She got very sunburned and when we got to my place I offered to rub on some salve, starting with her red back. One thing led to another and next thing you know all the cultivating and the nurturing was being repaid in spades. We dated for a year or so. I even went as her date to her Senior Prom. She was involved with one of those Young Ms Teen or other beauty pageants. It was driven mostly by her mother, who used to telepath her disapproval of our relationship quite clearly without using words. The blond was runner up at the statewide competition - what a looker too. It was like having heaven on earth and my cup runneth over time after time. But nothing this good lasts for ever and once she started college we began drifting apart. Now, I knew quite a few of her friends, some of whom were real knock outs. But I never took advantage of her trust or cheated on her. That is, not as long as we were going together.... (Posted at http://members.fortunecity.com/fornigate/)
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 28, 2002 at 23:38:23 (EST)

My two cents are: Meanwhile, Bluto down at the tire shop wasn't so plutonic, and was banging her like a drum since she was thirteen, and of course so were the rest of the guys. By 18 she was an old, used-up hosebag, and they told here to try to rope down a rich needle-dick astronomer with a van and three television sets.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 28, 2002 at 23:37:23 (EST)

My two cents are: So I'm driving home today and pass Richard Brautigan on the hiway. He was driving about a 55 Plymouth wagon. Hair cut short and smoking a cigar. Car sort of reminded me of when - I think it was in Confederate General - he was living in Montana or somewere and he wrote about "nobody wanting the old cars anymore because the interstates had been built and they couldn't keep up anymore". To me it was a Kerouac like vision of America before and after transportation, before and after drifters and hippes.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 28, 2002 at 23:32:20 (EST)

My two cents are: When it comes to mentoring young persons it's unfortunate that some automatically jump to the conclusion that there may be some hidden agenda of taking advantage of someone who might be under the legal age of consent. There is nothing wrong per se with taking an interest in a young person, as long as the usual norms of proper behavior are observed. Besides, young persons mature and grow older. I would characterize it more as cultivating a relationship. A nurturing friendship that may yield dividends down the road is like having money in the bank. There was an evening many years ago during the college years that I was volunteering at a public observatory. A couple of high school girls showed up, a blond and a brunette. They hung around for a few hours and saw the sights and wonders of nature. We must have exchanged phone numbers and we kept in touch. I don't remember much of our contacts because they were strictly plutonic. Then one day the blond called and asked if I'd like to come to her birthday party. When I asked her what age she will be she said, 18. Hello! I'll be there. (Posted at http://members.fortunecity.com/fornigate/)
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 28, 2002 at 23:19:36 (EST)

My two cents are: The Code Always Drove Them Nuts. Nuts I Tell You. Nuts. In Alot Of Ways The Code Was Sort Of A Wedgie.
Ydog
- Thursday, March 28, 2002 at 23:15:30 (EST)

My two cents are: So it has come down to this. We're importing Chinese steel, and waiting for Bulgaria to ratify a World Court that can try Henry Kissinger for his war crimes. Tell me Ike wasn't a Commie all along.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 28, 2002 at 21:54:53 (EST)

My two cents are: Laugh as you will Harlan, I for one am surprised that the Republicans have been importing CHINESE STEEL for God's sake! No wonder everything from our cars to our canopeners fall apart after ten twists! We're making them with goddamn Chinaman's junk!
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 28, 2002 at 21:51:33 (EST)

My two cents are: Good stuff!
Harlan St. Wolf
- Thursday, March 28, 2002 at 21:25:40 (EST)

My two cents are: GENEVA - China has joined a number of other countries in a dispute with the United States over new U.S. duties on imported steel � the first action taken by Beijing since it joined the World Trade Organization at the beginning of the year. Officials said Thursday that China had asked to be included in consultations requested by the European Union following the decision by U.S. President George W. Bush to impose tariffs of up to 30 percent on steel imports. "The People's Republic of China, as a major exporter of steel products to the United States, has a substantial trade interest in this consultation," the formal request said. If the countries involved cannot reach an agreement during consultations, the complainants can ask the WTO to appoint a panel of trade law experts to rule on the dispute. The number of countries involved in talks at the WTO has ballooned over the past week since Washington formally imposed the new duties, which are designed to give a breathing space to the embattled U.S. steel industry.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 28, 2002 at 21:20:49 (EST)

My two cents are: New Global Court Moves Closer to Reality UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Despite heavy U.S. opposition, the first permanent global criminal court to try individuals for the world's most heinous crimes is only four nations shy of becoming a reality. As of Wednesday, 139 countries have signed a 1998 treaty to establish the International Criminal Court and 56 of them have ratified it. A total of 60 ratifications by national legislatures is needed for the tribunal to be established. "We're creeping very close to the 60 ratifications needed," U.N. spokesman Fred Eckhard told reporters. Bill Pace, head of Coalition for the International Criminal Court, an advocacy group, expects all 60 ratifications to be completed by mid-April, the next preparatory commission meetings for the court. Countries are now jockeying to see who will become the 60th nation. Among those said to be preparing to hand in ratification papers are Bulgaria, Romania, Cambodia, Bolivia and Greece, diplomats said. The court would try those accused of mass murders, war crimes and other gross human rights violations and is expected to be set up in The Hague Netherlands, in 2003. But no one can be prosecuted for crimes committed before that time.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 28, 2002 at 21:16:44 (EST)

My two cents are: new world environment organization and an international environmental court would help make sense of the more than 500 environmental agreements and agencies now operating around the globe, researchers said on Thursday. Legal and environmental experts from the Tokyo-based U.N. University called on a U.N. development summit opening in Johannesburg in August to weigh creating a global body with powers over the environment similar to those of the World Trade Organization over international trade.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 28, 2002 at 21:14:15 (EST)

My two cents are: Man, what a debator that guy is! Whew!
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 28, 2002 at 21:11:30 (EST)

My two cents are: Which reminds me, I would like to thank all my friends for sticking with me through these viscious times. You know who you are...you're the BEST. Thank you.
Gary 34/7-3
- Thursday, March 28, 2002 at 20:41:22 (EST)

My two cents are: It will be nice to see Glint put aside all his factoids and statistics and really put the liberals to the test. Really come out swinging and give the lie to their arguments, and pound them down like so many airbags. I'll bet the guy is a buzz-saw when it comes down to it. By the way,20:25:43 and 20:22:ll were imposters, as my friends and supporters will have known from the code.
Gary 34/7
- Thursday, March 28, 2002 at 20:33:16 (EST)

My two cents are: By the way Pete, there's nothing personal behind my calling you an imbecile. I know you'll do fine, and stick to it for four or five posts when you finally build up enough courage to debate me. That will be a record around this place, where name-calling seems to take the place of rational discourse about how campaign finance reform is unconstitutional and how I fear for our way of life.
Gary
- Thursday, March 28, 2002 at 20:25:43 (EST)

My two cents are: Yes, Glint told me that happens all the time. I can't wait to see it. You wouldn't think Glint was capable of it, but sometimes those dull quiet types can really get into it when they're angry.
Gary
- Thursday, March 28, 2002 at 20:22:11 (EST)

My two cents are: Fiction.
Fact
- Thursday, March 28, 2002 at 20:06:24 (EST)

My two cents are: Pulp?
Pete�
- Thursday, March 28, 2002 at 20:06:09 (EST)

My two cents are: He'll be putting in long hours patrolling the fence lines. Maybe the underage hermaphrodites have made it through another year and will be safe until fall.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 28, 2002 at 19:52:18 (EST)

My two cents are: Glint may not be pounding as much as usual. Gourd season is coming up quick.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 28, 2002 at 19:50:10 (EST)

My two cents are: I'm bored. When is Glint going to come and pound everybody into a pulp again?
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 28, 2002 at 19:39:44 (EST)

My two cents are: If they start using scrawny blondes I'm really up shit creek. Fuck! Just when I had Mineta on the ropes!
Ann Coulter
- Thursday, March 28, 2002 at 19:13:19 (EST)

My two cents are: Next thing you know, they'll be using real women.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 28, 2002 at 18:57:22 (EST)

My two cents are: Terrorist dressed as a woman. Oh, God, just what I needed!
Ann Coulter
- Thursday, March 28, 2002 at 18:12:21 (EST)

My two cents are: To me, people with highlighters are just book terrorists.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 28, 2002 at 18:08:20 (EST)

My two cents are: Ruins a book for me, to see somebody's dopey highlights all over it. Can't read it the way the writer wrote it, get sidetracked by what some reader thought.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 28, 2002 at 18:04:28 (EST)

My two cents are: Eyewitnesses: Terrorist Was Dressed as a Woman (IsraelNN.com) As army investigators begin working to piece together the chain of events that resulted in the fatal shooting attack in Elon Moreh tonight, there are reports the terrorist entered the Shomron community dressed as a woman. There goes the swarthy male profile.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 28, 2002 at 18:00:21 (EST)

My two cents are: Can't get into the highlighting issue. Working around books all my life, highlighters are a real nuisance. Lots of otherwise good books we had to discard as a result of highlighting. I would never keep a book on a library shelf that had parts highlighted throughout.
Mary
- Thursday, March 28, 2002 at 17:57:07 (EST)

My two cents are: It does make sense to use the markers on code. Never thought I'd hear of a real use for them. Most folks just highlight the parts they think are the crux of the story, God knows why. I used to underline phrases like that, but never used the underlinings much so dropped the practice. If you can't get it the first time through why bother. If you want to go through a second time, why not give it full attention. Keeping computer code untangled, though, that sounds useful. Too bad you have to carry them around like a balloon clown.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 28, 2002 at 17:51:53 (EST)

My two cents are: Brando sent Sacheen Littlefeather to speak for the tribes. George C. Scott said it was a "meat parade" and didn't show either.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 28, 2002 at 17:48:12 (EST)

My two cents are: I assumed you already owned a jar of them, Glint.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 28, 2002 at 17:46:10 (EST)

My two cents are: David Niven always had a quick wit. He was one of my favorites.
Mary
- Thursday, March 28, 2002 at 17:45:31 (EST)

My two cents are: I mean, you an't just lay it in the trash along with the apple cores, banana peels, and empty junk food wrappers. And sticking it in a blender to make it unrecognizable would be sick. Do they go around bars and collect those big brine filled jars from hot sausages once the stock has been depleted?
Glint
- Thursday, March 28, 2002 at 17:45:08 (EST)

My two cents are: Child Protective Services?
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 28, 2002 at 17:43:02 (EST)

My two cents are: I don't use highlighters on books. Do use them a lot on memos, documentation, source code. The different colors help guide the eye on future passes. When finished with the document it goes into the recycle bin. Speaking or recycling, I wonder what they do with the left over parts after the gender gets cut loose.
Glint
- Thursday, March 28, 2002 at 17:41:48 (EST)

My two cents are: After the guy streaked, David Niven, who was presenting an award, said, "I never saw anyone so unafraid to show his shortcomings."
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 28, 2002 at 17:34:45 (EST)

My two cents are: It's true. Brando sent someone to make his statement, on behalf of the Native Americans. He did use the Oscars to bring attention to himself, and his political cause, despite the fact that he didn't show. He managed to steal the spotlight. An actor for you.:)
Mary
- Thursday, March 28, 2002 at 17:23:16 (EST)

My two cents are: I think he was giving a lifetime achievement Oscar to Jimmy Durante. Couldn't carry Durante's fedora. But there he was, handing out the merit badges as if he wasn't a two-bit television sit-com father of Lebanese descent. Should have been running a coffee shop in Tustin.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 28, 2002 at 17:17:28 (EST)

My two cents are: Marlon Brando didn't even show up. Sally Field, let's not go there. I remember the one where Sammy Davis Jr. was hoofing on the stage and wouldn't get off. They had to physically go out there and grab him. Mr. Entertainment. And then there was the one where the guy streaked it, ran across the stage naked as a jaybird. And then the one where Connie Stevens did a big "dance" number that seemed to be her interpretation of a sea anenome. And the one where Danny Thomas (who?) gave an impassioned speech about some hodad who was getting an Oscar but was croaking and couldn't come. If you don't know Danny Thomas, he's the quintessence of smarmy insincere sincerity. Dad of Marlo Thomas. Those were the great oscarcasts. This new stuff doesn't hold a candle.
,
- Thursday, March 28, 2002 at 17:15:01 (EST)

My two cents are: LOL, the oscars are the biggest dramatic presentations of the year. Remember Marlon Brando, Sally Field? I think there were other moments like those. Actors love monologues, a chance to be melodramatic and steal the show. As far as the academy is concerned they always have to make their Oscars 'A statement". I find the entire Hollywood scene staged and showy, but would not expect anything else. Would you? I agree with Ann... it came off as condescending, Oscars night of atonement. Staged and superficial. That's Hollywood.
Mary
- Thursday, March 28, 2002 at 16:59:38 (EST)

My two cents are: A child born to interracial parents today won't receive the discrimination Berry probably had to face growing up. Things will be different for future generations but for Halle Berry, she is identified as black. There is no doubt she would have been considered black in the South in 1968, the year she was born. Society has become more tolerant, Ann fails to recognize the world in which Halle Berry grew up.
Mary
- Thursday, March 28, 2002 at 16:53:38 (EST)

My two cents are: Ann went off the deep end long ago.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 28, 2002 at 16:50:49 (EST)

My two cents are: Coulter is just a yahoo. Squawking to be squawking. It WAS a bit much to take, a couple of splibs get statues and it's a "historic" night. About as historic as the crynic pinching another one. Fine, she should get the Oscar, but who cares? Who got the last ten?
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 28, 2002 at 16:50:39 (EST)

My two cents are: Oreo cookie, you ask me.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 28, 2002 at 16:47:51 (EST)

My two cents are: "Berry had successfully mau-maued her way to a best actress award and then acted surprised." Ann's GREEN with envy. Does she dismiss Halle's talent completely?
Mary
- Thursday, March 28, 2002 at 16:47:30 (EST)

My two cents are: It's true, you hardly ever see a light-skinned Negress in Cleveland. Cleveland is one of the most racially pure cities in the hemisphere. No wonder thay couldn't deal with a mixed-race chick like Halle.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 28, 2002 at 16:47:01 (EST)

My two cents are: "Yes, at long last, the "glass ceiling" had been broken. Large-breasted, slightly cocoa women with idealized Caucasian features finally have a chance in Hollywood! They will, however, still be required to display their large breasts for the camera and to discuss their large breasts at some length with reporters." Halle Berry is still resented and envied for her beauty.
Mary
- Thursday, March 28, 2002 at 16:46:01 (EST)

My two cents are: Of course an ex-President's handshake would be limp. Think of how many times it's been pumped. The only way to survive as a president is to master the dead-fish handshake, and turn a shade of red when anyone asks you an unpleasant question. Tell us something we didn't already know!
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 28, 2002 at 16:43:51 (EST)

My two cents are: The President is still living large.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 28, 2002 at 16:43:06 (EST)

My two cents are: Ann writes": "It's interesting that Berry makes such a big deal about being black. She was raised by her white mother who was beaten and abandoned by her black father. Clearly, Berry has calculated that it is more advantageous for her acting career to identify with the man who abandoned her rather than the woman who raised her." ///Perhaps this is why.... "Halle Berry was born August 14, 1968, in Cleveland, Ohio. . Halle�s mixed-race heritage was immediately an issue in the Midwest. She had to deal with the taunts of other children, black and white; and also thanks to her beauty, she received a lot of resentment. In high school, she was chosen queen of the prom but was accused of stuffing the ballot box. *The uproar was handled with a frustrating transparent solution: Halle was forced to share the title-with a W.A.S.P (white, Anglo-Saxon Protestant) blonde."
Mary
- Thursday, March 28, 2002 at 16:42:27 (EST)

My two cents are: Bill Clinton has been running into old foes lately at some of Manhattan's finest restaurants. Yesterday during lunch at Michelle's Kitchen, he traded pleasantries with top aide turned harsh critic George Stephanopoulos, now an ABC correspondent with whom Clinton hadn't spoken for five years. A few weeks ago during dinner at Gabriel's, the former president shook hands withworld-class Clinton-hater Lucianne Goldberg, impresario of the Monica Lewinsky scandal. Stephanopoulos -- who wrote in his memoirs that Clinton "humiliated himself, dishonored his presidency, and deserved to be punished" -- was lunching with journalists Michael Wolff and James Atlas as Clinton dined with Robin Williams, Billy Crystal, Diane Sawyer, Ann Richards and our fellow gossip Liz Smith. Stephanopoulos decided to break the ice. We hear that Clinton -- who is said to believe his former aide was disloyal -- rose slightly out of his chair as Stephanopoulos said, "Great to see you." Clinton responded in kind. "The president was glad to see him and he greeted him warmly," Clinton spokeswoman Julia Payne told us. Not so with Goldberg. The former Linda Tripp confidante told us she spotted Hollywood producer Harry Thomason sitting alone and struck up a conversation with him about her refusal to participate in the documentary on Clinton's enemies that Thomason is bankrolling. Thomason asked her to reconsider, but Goldberg demurred, then returned to her own table. A few minutes later Clinton showed up and sat down in Thomason's banquette. As Goldberg and her companions walked by Clinton's table toward the exit, Thomason called out: "Ms. Goldberg, why don't you come and say hi to the president?" Yesterday Thomason told us that everything was friendly as he, Goldberg and Clinton engaged in lighthearted banter. Goldberg recounted: "Thomason said, 'I'd like to know how you did it' and I turned to Clinton and said, 'I'd like to know why you did it.' He turned a shade of red." Thomason heatedly disputed this account. "That didn't happen. She didn't berate the president. I told her she should give an interview for the film, and she said, 'You still don't know the truth of what happened' . . . and then she told the president, 'You probably don't give a damn about this anymore.' And the president laughed and said: 'You got that right!' " Goldberg, meanwhile, told us: "He had a limp handshake, like a wet mackerel." And Thomason said: "I'm glad to see her manners were better than I thought they were. It just goes to show that New York is even smaller than Little Rock."
didn't clinton turn out to be the one that wanted the book deal after all?
- Thursday, March 28, 2002 at 16:32:27 (EST)

My two cents are: I suppose if the 68 year old coot would have been pinching a loaf in his garden or leaning up against the shed whacking off and claimed Alzheimers he'd have been defended by the ACLU. But since he's just a normal white male doing garden work in a thong or tinkering with his tracter in the altogether the same bunch will come after him as a sex offender. Figures is isn't and isn't is.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 28, 2002 at 16:17:26 (EST)

My two cents are: I'd like to see Coulter get an Oscar. She'd probably blubber like Dan Rather on a talk show. The pot calling the kettle black. And what's wrong with Denzel wearing a Julia Roberts wart? Doesn't Mustapha wear a Coulter wart?
Dances-With-Trolls
- Thursday, March 28, 2002 at 16:14:42 (EST)

My two cents are: I covered Halle Berry's blubbering on this page the day after it occurred. What took Coulter so long? Can't handle "breaking news"? Can't handle "developing...."? A newshound has to be right there at the moment, not waddle in complaining a week later. Coulter again proves she's a lightweight.
Dances-With-Trolls
- Thursday, March 28, 2002 at 16:11:52 (EST)

My two cents are: Ann is playing to her audience. There's a far-right faction that is very vociferous. They seem to believe that Hollywood, the Clintons and liberals are the source of all evil.
Mary
- Thursday, March 28, 2002 at 15:56:47 (EST)

My two cents are: Who cares about Hollywood anyway. Come on Ann, move on to bigger fish, like that slippery tax and spend Senator keg legs from NY.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 28, 2002 at 15:39:13 (EST)

My two cents are: "She had spent weeks complaining about one time she did not get a role because of her color. It was the part of a forest ranger. Arnold Schwarzenegger probably has trouble getting cast as a ballet dancer, too." I can visualize Halle Berry as a forest ranger easier than I can see Arnold ballet dancing.
Mary
- Thursday, March 28, 2002 at 15:38:04 (EST)

My two cents are: From the preview, Halle Berry did some serious acting in Monster's Ball.
Mary
- Thursday, March 28, 2002 at 15:36:16 (EST)

My two cents are: It's a good thing Denzel isn't swarthy, otherwise he too would incur Ann's wrath.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 28, 2002 at 15:11:25 (EST)

My two cents are: Ann's just upset because her Arab boyfriend was shut out of the nomination process of this year's AVN Awards for his supporting role in "Rim Jobbers 3: Locker Room Revenge."
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 28, 2002 at 15:09:09 (EST)

My two cents are: When you think about it, an open observatory is similar in appearance to a full moon. Mine's nice and white.
Glint
- Thursday, March 28, 2002 at 15:07:24 (EST)

My two cents are: The cops. The lawyers and judges. The irate citizen-vigilantes. Many others.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 28, 2002 at 15:07:18 (EST)

My two cents are: If a man wants to observe nature naturally standing at the slit of his observatory, who's to stop him?
Glint
- Thursday, March 28, 2002 at 15:05:24 (EST)

My two cents are: All quite true, but what are we going to do about the lines in the airports?
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 28, 2002 at 15:05:13 (EST)

My two cents are: I Like Black People Too, Julia! Universal Press Syndicate | March 28, 2002 By Ann Coulter I TUNED IN LATE and consequently can speak only to the last three hours of Halle Berry's acceptance speech at the Academy Awards last Sunday. But inasmuch as she engaged in wild race-baiting to get her Oscar, her expressions of shock were not very believable. She had spent weeks complaining about one time she did not get a role because of her color. It was the part of a forest ranger. Arnold Schwarzenegger probably has trouble getting cast as a ballet dancer, too. And yet still, somehow, white guilt worked on Hollywood liberals! Berry had successfully mau-maued her way to a best actress award and then acted surprised. It's interesting that Berry makes such a big deal about being black. She was raised by her white mother who was beaten and abandoned by her black father. Clearly, Berry has calculated that it is more advantageous for her acting career to identify with the man who abandoned her rather than the woman who raised her. Demanding that everyone marvel at her accomplishment, Berry gushed: "This moment is so much bigger than me." Whenever people say something is not about them it's always just about them. This is a turn of phrase meant to remind the audience of the importance and beauty of them. Berry said her triumph was a victory "for every nameless, faceless woman of color who now has a chance because this door tonight has been opened." Yes, at long last, the "glass ceiling" had been broken. Large-breasted, slightly cocoa women with idealized Caucasian features finally have a chance in Hollywood! They will, however, still be required to display their large breasts for the camera and to discuss their large breasts at some length with reporters. Thus, Berry has explained her philosophy on nude scenes, saying: "[I]f it's what the character would do, then I'd use my body in any way that would best serve that character." This, she said, is her "strong belief." But what does it mean, exactly? Don't all people undress sometimes? All people pick their noses, but vapid Hollywood actresses don't insist on showing us that in every movie on the grounds that it is "what the character would do." In fact, Berry's unseemly enthusiasm for displaying "these babies," as she genteelly refers to her breasts, reduces roles for any women who lack Berry's beauty-queen features. If movies must include soft-porn scenes, the audience is entitled to demand performers with sexual characteristics they would like to see in a soft porn movie. Somehow, characters played by Whoopi Goldberg are never the sorts of characters who would do things in real life like undress or have sex. And by the way, Billy Bob Thornton isn't cutting it for the female audience. When they are young, nubile Hollywood actresses all utter the same idiotic cliches about the artistic value of nudity in movies. Then they expect us to feel sorry for them when parts dry up after they become old and start to sag. Live by the breast, die by the breast. But Berry's self-aggrandizing pap was merely a footnote to the main theme of the awards ceremony, which was: Julia Roberts loves all the black brothers! It was a point she felt could not be made too often or with too much condescension. Her presentation of the best actor award began with the exciting revelation that she had just kissed Sidney Poitier! Having once famously proclaimed she did not want to live in a world in which Denzel Washington had not won an Oscar for best actor, she preceded her announcement of his award saying, "I love my life!" This was about her, not him. It was her personal triumph over racism. The only patronizing remark Roberts skipped was to note that Washington and Poitier were "articulate." After Washington accepted his award, Roberts leapt on him and would not let go. It was as if he had grown some sort of exotic Julia Roberts wart. Not only Washington, but, more urgently, his wife deserves great credit for their forbearance. Whatever indignities Hollywood has visited on blacks in the past, it would be hard to top this. Whenever white liberals are in trouble, they always run to the blacks. Immediately after the Monica Lewinsky scandal broke, Monica went to a Washington Wizards game where she hoisted some poor unsuspecting black girl onto her lap in full view of the cameras. Bill Clinton dropped the subtlety and dashed off to Africa. After his abomination of a presidency, Jimmy Carter built housing in Harlem. Apparently, Oscar night was Hollywood's shot at patronizing blacks to generate goodwill � perhaps as wartime penance for its long-standing hatred of America. It's too bad Denzel Washington's Oscar was tainted by Hollywood's self-serving night of condescension. He deserved that award. And he deserves a special award for not punching Julia Roberts in the mouth. � 2002 Universal Press Syndicate
go anne go
- Thursday, March 28, 2002 at 15:03:08 (EST)

My two cents are: Schumer did badly too. 9%! These senators insist on representing their own constituents.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 28, 2002 at 15:01:21 (EST)

My two cents are: Did September, 11 factor into Hillary's score at all? New York was hit hard. How did the other Senator from New York do?
Mary
- Thursday, March 28, 2002 at 14:47:03 (EST)

My two cents are: The horrible thing about Hillary's score is that, if any of the calls were close they always gave her the higher grade. Even with help from the judges she couldn't get more than an F! How can someone who scores that low serve in our setate?
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 28, 2002 at 14:40:24 (EST)

My two cents are: Does this mean a man can sit on his stoop not 65 yards from my children and get off scott free? It's high time we formed a vigilante comittee and lynched our weak-sister judges.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 28, 2002 at 14:37:17 (EST)

My two cents are: March 28, 2002 -- WASHINGTON - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton scored an "F" in her first year in Congress by voting for more new government spending than any of her 99 colleagues, an anti-tax group reports. Clinton set a record, getting a 3 percent rating for her 2001 voting record, the lowest score ever for a freshman and lower than any other senator, according to the National Taxpayers Union.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 28, 2002 at 14:34:53 (EST)

My two cents are: Free Expression?//Nudity in Centre County backyard OK'd by court Battle over the right to bare more than arms Tuesday, March 26, 2002 By Tom Gibb, Post-Gazette Staff Writer America's a nation where a person is free to say what he wants, vote as he chooses and now, maybe drop his trousers in the back yard on a hot summer night. Charlie Stitzer, 63, is no slave to modesty. As a concession to heat, he said, he would routinely don a thong to mow the back lawn of his home in Pleasant Gap, eight miles northeast of State College. Then, on oppressive summer nights, he'd loll on the garage stoop, dressed but in nature's own, garden a little and maybe have a smoke. Neighbors tolerated the thong. But one evening in June 2000, a woman three back yards away called the police on the naked stoop-sitting. By the time he walked out of Centre County Common Pleas Court seven months later, Stitzer was on two years probation for indecent exposure and disorderly conduct. Now, a three-judge panel of the state Superior Court has thrown out the exposure conviction. Judges Maureen Lally-Green and John Bender and Senior Judge John Kelly, in an opinion filed Wednesday, pondered the state indecent-exposure statute and decided that key parts of it didn't apply to Stitzer. His back yard couldn't be deemed a public place, he wasn't doing anything to call attention to himself and the offended neighbor, 65 yards away, was too distant, the judges reasoned "At last," Stitzer said yesterday. "I don't know what the hell I'm going to do now." Sit outside naked, maybe? "I might at night if it gets hot enough," he said. Not that the judges endorsed summertime naked stoop-sitting. "Contrary to [Stitzer's] belief, his behavior may not conform with the norms of the neighborhood or society at large," the memorandum says. "While we do not condone this behavior ... the commonwealth failed to prove a violation of the indecent exposure beyond the shadow of a doubt." "The message is that the government has no interest in policing what people do in their back yards," said State College lawyer Andrew Shubin, who carried the case to the appellate court. "If people don't want to see what's going on in his back yard, they can avert their eyes. It was a civil rights issue." For Stitzer -- an unmarried retiree branded by a former lawyer as "eccentric but harmless" -- whatever it was, it was an obsession. He fired four lawyers in getting this far. He showered the court with handwritten treatises on free expression. Last year, Stitzer went to jail for six months when he wrote one neighbor complaining about tires stored in the back yard of the woman who complained about him -- and found that the letter was a violation of a non-harassment provision of his probation. Now, it seems, it's case closed. "Even in the post-Sept. 11 world," Shubin said, "the government has no interest in policing this kind of behavior." Maybe. Maybe not. Assistant District Attorney Lance Marshall said he won't appeal the ruling. But he noted that the lesser disorderly conduct charge wasn't appealed and so wasn't struck down. "If need be ... we could prosecute again for disorderly conduct," he said
Mary
- Thursday, March 28, 2002 at 14:27:06 (EST)

My two cents are: I was just enjoying the poetry, officer.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 28, 2002 at 14:21:53 (EST)

My two cents are: Any attempt to "look innocent" generally backfires in these cases.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 28, 2002 at 14:18:32 (EST)

My two cents are: Internet Filtering Trial Opens Mon Mar 25, 7:09 PM ET By JOANN LOVIGLIO, Associated Press Writer First Amendment Issue on trial now: PHILADELPHIA - A trial over the constitutionality of a federal law requiring libraries to screen out Internet pornography opened Monday with librarians complaining the government is trying to turn them into the "thought police."
Mary
- Thursday, March 28, 2002 at 14:13:23 (EST)

My two cents are: Is he trying to make himself look innocent? Probably about the only thing he can do now. Let him. Hate to think what they do to short eyes in prison.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 28, 2002 at 14:11:23 (EST)

My two cents are: First Amendment issue. March 28, 2002// AP/ Court upholds ban on barefoot readers : Columbus, Ohio-AP -- A library in Ohio is being told it can make its patrons keep their shoes on. A judge in says the public library in Columbus isn't violating anyone's constitutional rights, when it requires people to wear shoes when they're in the building. A man who likes to go barefoot sued the library, saying the rule violates his First Amendment rights -- not to mention his healthy lifestyle. A judge tossed out the suit -- saying the barefoot ban protects customers from exposure to broken glass and even bodily fluids that have been found on the floors. The man who lost the suit says the next thing you know, state parks will be requiring everyone to wear sunscreen.
Mary
- Thursday, March 28, 2002 at 14:09:27 (EST)

My two cents are: Yeah, I get your drift. You might try using a roll on. <> In this one wwe look into the mind of the pre-knockered days of his youth as his attention is drawn toward corner crying men, and the ubiquitous menthol 100mm fags. >> "menthol king" yeah, i remember yesterday when the music could get to me and make the grown men cry, like the man in the corner smoking his menthol 100's full-flavor... he used to tell me he loved them, he'd smoke them and chew on the big orange filter when he was done, he wanted to get every bit out, they were like life he said, sometimes they were sweet and sometimes bitter, sometimes you couldn't get enough, sometimes, too much would make you sick, sometimes you couldn't find one that agreed with you sometimes, one was all you needed... and when you did need one, you were twelve cents shorts, and when you didn't three packs lined your pockets, so i looked him straight in the eye and asked if i could bum one being moved by his analogy... he looked me back, straight in the eye and said, no, go find your own, i barely have enough to make me through the night. <<
Glint
- Thursday, March 28, 2002 at 14:04:33 (EST)

My two cents are: Doesn't matter what anyone on this board thinks. All that matters is what the cops at child protective services think, what the DA thinks, what the judge thinks, and what the other guys in the cell-block think. .
.
- Thursday, March 28, 2002 at 14:02:16 (EST)

My two cents are: Maybe you should back of the minor child, cowboy. It was kind of funny the first 50 posts or so, but now it's beginning to look a tad "off," if you catch my drift. You've already given too much information about yourself. Simmer down.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 28, 2002 at 13:39:02 (EST)

My two cents are: Well shut my mouth! An anti-tax group rated Democrats low? Unbelievable!
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 28, 2002 at 13:36:11 (EST)

My two cents are: Found this on surfing the web. Looks like the author was Brenda! Actually it was Brandon; the poem is a couple of years old >> "a valentine thing" there's a whip-trip sully little thing, where the graveyard birds sing, the muddy water, anti-freeze colored with oil and the dirty soil is only as clean as the skin it pollutes, tattered and ripped hastily torn and clipped, a ragged little thing crumples in a sweaty palm and now after the storm, the calm, of a child laying in alley ways on strange days, knowing only his homemade valentine is the only thing the little child left behind. <<
Glint <shall i post some some more of these?>
- Thursday, March 28, 2002 at 13:35:29 (EST)

My two cents are: It's true. Anyone dumb enough to use a highlighter is dumb enough to mark all the wrong things. Where's the advantage?
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 28, 2002 at 13:18:54 (EST)

My two cents are: People who carry highlighters are fools. People who actually use them are morons and idiots. People who use several colors to what, help them think better, help them keep track of the verbs, help them see pretty colors, don't rise above slime on the evolutionary tree. Pocket protectors are great for protecting pockets. Highlighters are good for ruining books.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 28, 2002 at 13:17:20 (EST)

My two cents are: Having read my own argument, CFR is a blow to free speech. No wonder Bush signed it. The parts he liked are constitutional. The freedom of speech parts will be shot down. The bill is a Republican's dream bill.
Mary
- Thursday, March 28, 2002 at 13:13:43 (EST)

My two cents are: "Live by the breast, die by the breast."
Ann C.
- Thursday, March 28, 2002 at 13:07:16 (EST)

My two cents are: Dust From Asia Storm To Pass Over California...developing
Ha! Ha!
- Thursday, March 28, 2002 at 12:46:32 (EST)

My two cents are: Hermies did pocket protectors, Glint. Go for it, Spanky.
Pete�
- Thursday, March 28, 2002 at 12:45:26 (EST)

My two cents are: March 28, 2002 -- WASHINGTON - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton scored an "F" in her first year in Congress by voting for more new government spending than any of her 99 colleagues, an anti-tax group reports. Clinton set a record, getting a 3 percent rating for her 2001 voting record, the lowest score ever for a freshman and lower than any other senator, according to the National Taxpayers Union. Sen. Charles "Putzhead" Schumer scored 9 percent, according to the group, which reviewed 194 Senate votes cast last year for their relative impact on taxpayers.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 28, 2002 at 12:43:55 (EST)

My two cents are: Sounds like a bunch of nannys here. Tell me, what do you consider to be "sexual relations" between a gentleman and a hermie?
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 28, 2002 at 12:26:35 (EST)

My two cents are: I was cleaning up the refuse in the home computer lab last night and while I was organizing the family office supply cupboard I found a couple of old but unused pocket protectors. For some reason these useful accessories have temporarily fallen out of favor. Sure, for some chicks who were pre-disposed to be Star Trek fans they were always provided a subtle turn on stimulus but by and large they are viewed as uncool. Still, I could use one. The leaky one in a pocket full of highlighters has stained many a shirt. Thinking about using a staple gun to attach one to the belt. Maybe one on each hip with a half dozen pens and highlighters in each -- a pair of six shooters!
Glint
- Thursday, March 28, 2002 at 12:18:19 (EST)

My two cents are: Your daughter is safe, Gary. Glint's reptile brain directs him toward boys. Young hermaphrodite boys with tits. Doesn't your reptile brain do that too?
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 28, 2002 at 11:40:35 (EST)

My two cents are: It will be named something like Child Protective Services. Look it up in the county section of the phone book. If you paste the more twisted comments from this board into a note and send it to them, along with the offender's name, the will definitely look into this. Child protective services outfits are run by suspicious women who think that every pat on the back is child abuse, and they also believe in punishing thought crime. A real pedohermaphrophile like Glint should be easy to put away. When he gets out, he'll have to carry a pink card, and his name will be posted on the internet. Good luck!
Wes Pilbert
- Thursday, March 28, 2002 at 11:31:54 (EST)

My two cents are: Glint, thank you for your advice on this board. You say you used to do battle with these lefties, yet most of what I read from you concerns an unnatural attraction to little girls. Let me state again that I'm grateful for your guidance here, but from the standpoint of an ex-military man, you've cracked up, son. Granted, I don't care much for the lefties here, but I'd certainly prefer to have them in the shower with my little daughter than you!
Gary
- Thursday, March 28, 2002 at 11:18:34 (EST)

My two cents are: I used to carry a brief case. Big surprise, huh? They tend to keep things more organized than pawing through a jumbled up knap sack. No, I didn't take work home with me, but it had the things I need. First of all, it carried the lunch in its brown paper bag. No purple anything. A stack of the latest astronomy magazines to read with the lunch. Then there were the pockets. One to hold about 25 resumes that could be handed out whenever needed. And another holding the phone numbers and other contact information for lining up the next gig, including tablets for logging phone calls, messages, etc. Needed to do something between lunches. I carried it until I converted it into a camera case for traveling. Went to a fabric store and bought foam, and made cut outs. Now I use it only for traveling. It carries two FTbs, 24mm, 50mm, 200mm, and 300mm lenses, a flash, a cassette tape recorder. Pockets for star charts, road maps, etc. As far as my brown bag goes, I now carry it unconcealed. I might wire a clothespin onto my leather belt so that I can carry it hands free. <≫ Mary, the only people around here that hang around the Free Republic are the Liberals. Place has been taken over by them.
Glint
- Thursday, March 28, 2002 at 11:17:24 (EST)

My two cents are: Hey, no problem, Gar. I want to apologize myself for inexcusably calling you some names, too, like 'dork.' But I really want to apologize for the names I backspaced over before arriving at 'dork', which are better left unspoken. So, are we still pals?
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 28, 2002 at 11:07:39 (EST)

My two cents are: The big question is how the state of Maryland deals, legally, with guys who have pedophiliac tendencies about underage, sexually ambiguous high school students. Who should we report this to?
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 28, 2002 at 10:39:58 (EST)

My two cents are: Right, we're all victims. Life just shoves your face into this topic. There's no way to avoid it.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 28, 2002 at 10:37:50 (EST)

My two cents are: Spring is here, and girls' clothes are coming off. Brenda's dad pulled up just as the bus was arriving. Brenda wasn't wearing a jacket and on the dash for the bus I could't help noticing that the jiggling jugs. Just one of those things that the reptilian core of the brain is hard-wired for. Certain movements, like a tasty meal on legs, or swinging gourds, cause the eyes to lock involuntarily. Don't know much about the legs. Brenda always wears baggy blue jeans. They might not be that baggy, it's just that the legs are so spindly. Poe says Brenda is anorexic, bulemic, or whatever. Maybe both. She's pretty open when it comes to discussing Brenda's personal life. Perhaps its part of the way she is coping. After all, this might be rough on her, watching her elementary and middle school friend Brandon developing right alongside her. Hey, we're all victims here. We didn't ask for this phreak show, but there it is. It's in your face, your driveway, and your Chrysler. Will Poe be wanting to invite Brenda to the swim club this year? What sort of bathing suit, one piece, two piece, thong? Will I be the one that has to smear on the sunscreen? The feel of the soft hormone tenderized skin, the wavy hair....
Glint
- Thursday, March 28, 2002 at 10:34:44 (EST)

My two cents are: What if the drums are those talking drums that the Africans are supposed to communicate with, the Newspapers of the Jungle? Are you going to stop the Talking Drums?
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 28, 2002 at 09:50:45 (EST)

My two cents are: So, people carry their folding knives strapped to their ass like Cochise because they're over three inches long and break the concealed weapon rule of thumb? I still think it looks goofy, like a bandanna around a man's neck or platform shoes. If it's too bulky to fit in your pocket comfortably, should it really be a part of your constant furnishings? You're getting dangerously close to becoming a shopping-cart guy.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 28, 2002 at 09:46:30 (EST)

My two cents are: Debate this, pig fucker.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 28, 2002 at 09:43:38 (EST)

My two cents are: What a moron.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 28, 2002 at 09:42:39 (EST)

My two cents are: Asshole.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 28, 2002 at 09:35:46 (EST)

My two cents are: Mr. Anonymous: Please accept my apology for the use of the term 'moron' in reference to yourself in the Campaign Finance Reform thread. It was inappropriate and inexecusable. I really do try to be civil and avoid calling people names, as it serves no useful purpose and contributes nothing to the debate and the board.
Gary
- Thursday, March 28, 2002 at 09:09:38 (EST)

My two cents are: So, back to the urban toolbelt rant. The backpack seems to be alleviating that problem quite well. I shove the cell phone in one of the outer mesh closing pockets, the swiss army knife in one of the inner zipper thingys. security badge clips on the outside. I dont palm so thats not a problem and I definetely don't slide rule. Also holds a sealable thermos coffee cup, a softsided lunch cooler (which is unfortunately purple) calendar and notepad and of course my trusted copy of Durkheim's Elementary Forms of Religious Life. Must confess I think I saw one of the briefcase lifers eyeing it with envy at the elevator yesterday.
Borg 3 of 22 <Now that's Code Gary!!!!!>
- Thursday, March 28, 2002 at 07:44:02 (EST)

My two cents are: nobody here wants to play with you pete, you're alone in the sandbox pushing a cat turd around with a stick and picking a wedgie out of your ass. Except we don't even bother to give you wedgies anymore. The attention goes to your head.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 28, 2002 at 07:32:09 (EST)

My two cents are: Well, I for one am all for improving the system.
Pete�
- Thursday, March 28, 2002 at 04:30:13 (EST)

My two cents are: Asked whether he signed the bill with no fanfare because he was displeased with its contents, Bush said, "I wouldn't have signed it if I was really unhappy. "This bill improves the system."
Mary
- Thursday, March 28, 2002 at 00:45:22 (EST)

My two cents are: Goodnite. :)
Mary
- Thursday, March 28, 2002 at 00:38:47 (EST)

My two cents are: Hello Mary. Good night.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 28, 2002 at 00:28:45 (EST)

My two cents are: Looks like that guy with the cherry tattoo goes to bed at 9 or 10 pm. Not your basic night-owl I guess. Probably gets tired toting that big knife around all day, and all that iron in his ears. What's neet is those big loop bones that you put in your lobe and stretch it out like a Ubangi, only the ears instead of the lips. Lots of hip-hop guys do that around here. Never seen a tattoo that didn't look cheap. Something about the way the ink looks under skin. It reminds me of old newspapers and shoeshine boys and the grit on creosoted railroad ties. Cheap blue and pale red and washed-out green. I think you should get a hen with an egg behind it instead of the cherry. On the forearm, about an inch and a half wide. On the top side. The bottom side hurts too much.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 28, 2002 at 00:26:46 (EST)

My two cents are: Hey, Eddie!! Welcome back. Hi, Glint, ydog, borgs and anons. Welcome, Gary. Did Glint recruit you from a freeprally?
Mary
- Thursday, March 28, 2002 at 00:25:05 (EST)

My two cents are: However, assuming I accept your argument on the drums. What if I chose to set up a speaker system, and started preaching at 2:00 AM? I'm just making the point that free speech doesn't necessarily mean unlimited expression of speech anytime, anywhere. Limits do not necessarily violate the first amendment.
Mary
- Thursday, March 28, 2002 at 00:18:44 (EST)

My two cents are: Free speech is free expression is it not? It is usually the first amendment that protects the arts. The first amendment gives Marilyn Manson his right to his form of muscial expression, it gives the painter his right to artistic expression, the poet..you get the point. Why would bongo drums be excluded?
Mary
- Thursday, March 28, 2002 at 00:15:27 (EST)

My two cents are: In March, the Saskatoon (Saskatchewan) StarPhoenix, citing several witnesses inside the Pine Grove Correctional Centre, reported that some formerly heroin-addicted female inmates so desperately crave methadone that they routinely consume the fresh vomit of inmates currently on methadone treatment because enough is still present in the regurgitation. The newspaper uncovered the practice while investigating the death of an inmate in February. Said a source, "The whole building knows (that the inmate choked on vomit). That's how she died." [Saskatoon StarPhoenix, 3-7-02]
Can you dust for vomit?
- Wednesday, March 27, 2002 at 23:59:12 (EST)

My two cents are: Okay, you mentioned Alzheimer's. What's so fucking bad about fucking Alzheimer's? So what you can't tie your shoes. Some poor asshole will put them on for you. And tie them too. They'll spoon-feed you and wipe your ass and you won't know John Ashcroft is reading your mail because you can't read it yourself. You don't get to hear about fixed election in Zimbabwe or the United States of America. Who gives a fucking shit? I would imagine you can still fuck ior at least jack off. I imagine it still feels good. Shee-it, you've got fucking foot servants and you're getting sexual relief. Forget the tattoos and the folic fucking acid.
Eddie Gann
- Wednesday, March 27, 2002 at 22:57:38 (EST)

My two cents are: Gotta crash Eddie, nite, and welcome back if you're not just passin through, howdy if you are, and give my best to Brautigan if you're still dead.
ydog
- Wednesday, March 27, 2002 at 22:55:00 (EST)

My two cents are: Sounds like the coals aren't hot enough to sear the meat..
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 27, 2002 at 22:53:51 (EST)

My two cents are: Thats cool Eddie, glad its going good for you. Yeah, you got 10 years on me, but thats all. I'm going to stick with the old lady and occasional 3some girlfriend
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 27, 2002 at 22:51:49 (EST)

My two cents are: See, the truly trick part is that the high folic rats repair their DNA damage. I mean it sort of makes sense evolutionarywise that DNA would be sort of repairable but not like we understand that mechanism, must be a zip file somewhere on the strand. And fyi the govt. dropped the daily min to 400 from 800 and is now thinking about going back to 8.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 27, 2002 at 22:48:55 (EST)

My two cents are: Okay, you're younger than me. Hell, everybody except for millions of people is younger than me. Me, I'm 54. I was tempted, about ten years ago, to tart myself up with a tattoo. First I figured a chery on the back of my right hand. I'd lay the hand down on the bar and everybody'd see the cherry and the words: "Here's Mine. Where's Yours?" Then, I got stoned and boffed this chick who had a fucking tapestry on her back and ass. Done in black ink, kind of oriental. So, I figured I'd get that kind of fucking tat. That's about the time my then wife absconded with my kid and my truck, my tanning bed and everything else I own, so I had to track her down and I forgot about the tat idea. So's, I find the biatch two years later and by then I'm short on cash. This was before the salmon business (I'm in the health provider industry now.) Finally, I start making some road side bucks just about the time every young pussy starts getting himself tattooed, pierced, branded and cut. I decide this whole scene is too fucking trendy for Eddie fucking Gann and I come to my senses. I figured, so I don't get laid because my skin is free? Now, here we are, 2002, and suddenly this old fuck is getting vaginal, oral and (giving) anal sex to super model types. Who am I to complain? Finally, one of these chicks, this 5'10" amazon with buns like bowling balls, tell me it's a turn-on to find a real man, a natural man. She bitched about all the tattooed faggots she'd been ballin for the past 5 years. Anyway, this leads me to ask the others that keep knocking on cottage door, looking to soothe old Eddie. Yeah, everyone of them says they crave virgin skin...even when the triceps start hanging down to the wrist. Shee-it!
Eddie Gann
- Wednesday, March 27, 2002 at 22:46:40 (EST)

My two cents are: OK, here we go, it was mice, not rats. Big deal is about alzheimers. Dont hand me anycrap about big c and p's, I dont over do it like gary,....."Mouse experiments suggest that folic acid could play an essential role in protecting the brain against the ravages of Alzheimer's disease and other neurodegenerative disorders, according to scientists at the National Institute on Aging. This animal study* could help researchers unravel the underlying biochemical mechanisms involved in another recent finding that concluded people with high blood levels of homocysteine have nearly twice the risk of developing the disease**. In the study, published in the March 1, 2002 issue of the Journal of Neuroscience, the investigators fed one group of mice with Alzheimer's-like plaques in their brains a diet that included normal amounts of folate, while a second group was fed a diet deficient in this vitamin. . These mice are transgenic, meaning they were bred with mutant genes that cause AD in people. They develop AD-like plaques in their brains that kill neurons. The NIA team counted neurons in the hippocampus, a brain region critical for learning and memory that is destroyed as plaques accumulate during Alzheimer's disease. The investigators found a decreased number of neurons in the mice fed the folic acid deficient diet. The scientists also discovered that mice with low amounts of dietary folic acid had elevated levels of homocysteine, an amino acid, in the blood and brain. They suspect that increased levels of homocysteine in the brain caused damage to the DNA of nerve cells in the hippocampus. In transgenic mice fed an adequate amount of folate, nerve cells in this brain region were able to repair damage to their DNA. But in the transgenic mice fed a folate-deficient diet, nerve cells were unable to repair this DNA damage. "These new findings establish a possible cause-effect relationship between elevated homocysteine levels and degeneration of nerve cells involved in learning and memory in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease," said Mark Mattson, Ph.D., chief of the NIA's Laboratory of Neurosciences and the study's principal investigator. People who have Alzheimer's disease often have low levels of folic acid in their blood, but it is not clear whether this is a result of the disease or if they are simply malnourished due to their illness. But based on emerging research, Dr. Mattson speculates consuming adequate amounts of folic acid -- either in the diet or by supplementation -- could be beneficial to the aging brain and help protect it against Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative diseases. Green leafy vegetables, citrus fruits and juices, whole wheat bread and dry beans are good sources of the vitamin. Since 1998, the Food and Drug Administration has required the addition of folic acid to enriched breads, cereals, flours, corn meals, pastas, rice, and other grain products. However, because it can take a long time for the symptoms of Alzheimer's disease to surface, researchers speculate it will be many years before folate supplementation in food could affect the incidence of dementia in the United States. A human clinical trial is being planned. In AD, plaques develop first in areas of the brain used for memory and other cognitive functions. They consist of largely insoluble deposits of a protein called beta-amyloid. Although researchers still do not know whether amyloid plaques themselves cause AD or whether they are by-products of the AD process, there is evidence that amyloid deposition may be a central process in the disease. But unlike human brain cells, the brain cells in laboratory mice are not killed by the progressive accumulation of beta amyloid. This finding led Dr. Mattson and his research team to suspect folic acid or some other component of the mouse diet might help these nerve cells resist beta amyloid damage. In earlier work, Dr. Mattson found evidence suggesting folic acid deficiency can increase the brain's susceptibility to Parkinson's disease. The NIA leads the Federal effort to support and conduct basic, clinical, and social and behavioral studies on aging and AD. It supports the Alzheimer's Disease Education and Referral (ADEAR) Center, which provides information on AD research, including clinical trials, to the public, health professionals, and the media. ADEAR can be contacted toll free at 1-800-438-4380 weekdays or by visiting the website www.alzheimers.org. Press releases, fact sheets, and other materials about aging and aging research can be viewed at the NIA's general information website, www.nia.nih.gov.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 27, 2002 at 22:46:17 (EST)

My two cents are: http://vvv.com/healthnews/folic_acid.html Not the article about rats I was looking for, but good info anyway. There is some new research out about these rats.
ydog
- Wednesday, March 27, 2002 at 22:41:11 (EST)

My two cents are: Maybe getting a tatoo is sort of one last (and lasting) spitting out of the silver spoon.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 27, 2002 at 22:36:22 (EST)

My two cents are: So these rats that they pumped up with folic acid, well seems the folic acid turns into folase or some such enzyme that is supposed to be around during the chromosome replication phase of cell division (metaphase??) No, telephase right" pro, meta, tele, ana. Anyway, the folase makes sure that no little bits drop off the alleles or whatever they are so much less distortion (aging) occurs. Apparently, with enough deterioration, cells stop dividing altogether. Not sure if an increase in folase would restart them or not. dont think the docs know yet either.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 27, 2002 at 22:35:00 (EST)

My two cents are: Besides Eddie, aging is out, nobody wants to age. Me, I'm dropping 800 of folic acid a day. 400 in a multi and 400 straight. Didn't you hear about the rats???
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 27, 2002 at 22:30:44 (EST)

My two cents are: Won't bother you? Huh? Don't be so sure, homes. A tattoo is the moral eqivalent of a slide rule in a belt holster. Use your head. Shee-it!
Eddie Gann
- Wednesday, March 27, 2002 at 22:30:03 (EST)

My two cents are: OK eddie, I'm listening, sometimes you make a good point, need some more explanation on the skin thing though.
ydog
- Wednesday, March 27, 2002 at 22:29:06 (EST)

My two cents are: besides, sounds like some kind of ancient social class crap. who wouldn't f*** Cher for example???
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 27, 2002 at 22:27:57 (EST)

My two cents are: No watches either. Needless weight. Haven't worn one since '74 and I've never been late. The wrist is the last place you need a clock. There's fucking clocks coming out our asses, in case you haven't noticed. Shee-it!
Eddie Gann
- Wednesday, March 27, 2002 at 22:27:43 (EST)

My two cents are: wont bother me Eddie.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 27, 2002 at 22:26:22 (EST)

My two cents are: What I'm saying is, old school never dies. You oughta know that. Shee-it!
Eddie Gann
- Wednesday, March 27, 2002 at 22:25:10 (EST)

My two cents are: Hear's the deal. You don't alter the skin you're born in unless you're fucking ripped. You don't wear a ring, an earring, a fucking necklace, a bracelet, or a tattoo. You keep the skin free. Believe me, this eventually becomes hip, depending on the company you keep and you start getting more quality tang than you have any right to expect. And all the poor fuckers that carved their skin up are left holding the bag while the triceps start to fall. Shee-it!
Eddie Gann
- Wednesday, March 27, 2002 at 22:23:36 (EST)

My two cents are: oh, whale etched on the blade. its all nickel and stainless, but hey, thats ok, not that much into the carbon blades anymore.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 27, 2002 at 22:17:51 (EST)

My two cents are: That'll keep you working on the triceps until nature takes over and the triceps sag like a scrotum and you got some dumbass tat that now looks like an inkblot on turkey skin. Shee-it!
Eddie Gann
- Wednesday, March 27, 2002 at 22:17:25 (EST)

My two cents are: Now the 3 inch is a dress knife, slim, fossil scrimshaw handle.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 27, 2002 at 22:16:46 (EST)

My two cents are: You haven't been around since Maria died have you Eddie?
ydog
- Wednesday, March 27, 2002 at 22:09:24 (EST)

My two cents are: A tatoo will be next of course, but probably not one visible at the office, thinking pentagram on the right tricep or something.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 27, 2002 at 22:08:22 (EST)

My two cents are: Got an environmentalist a few cubes down from the reptile slayer. Environmentalist has a big hard on for air pollution, always talking about lawnmowers, buses, electric cars, all the things people should do, anti suv, anti truck, etc. So today, the enviro dude says his car burns a quart of oil a week but he cant do much about it because it needs a ring job.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 27, 2002 at 22:06:55 (EST)

My two cents are: Frankly, the girls in the cubes around me get jittery whenever I hand them the 3 inch lockblade pocketknife to open the donuts or cut the office cake etc. whatever.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 27, 2002 at 22:04:00 (EST)

My two cents are: hey, the earring and ponytail are holding their own in the managers meeting. wore a carat yellow topaz to the last one. oh, ponytail almost complete, about another inch and the ex-bangs go into the rubberband.
zerk
- Wednesday, March 27, 2002 at 22:02:11 (EST)

My two cents are: Eddie, Dude, welcome back, last we heard you had a dungeness rab crawling around in your skull somewhere out there in the pacific northwest indian coastal fishing rights waters.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 27, 2002 at 21:58:46 (EST)

My two cents are: Sounds like the coals aren't hot enough to sear the meat..
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 27, 2002 at 21:57:14 (EST)

My two cents are: Shee-it, if you little pussies want to make a fashion statement, go to the next managers' meeting wearing your Eye-talian suit, the Capezios. When the boys all sit down for the agenda, take your fucking baggy suitcoat off and let everybody see the machete hooked to your fucking kid leather belt.
Eddie Gann
- Wednesday, March 27, 2002 at 21:45:51 (EST)

My two cents are: The male "pouch purse" is the real killer. I mean If there was ever an accoutroment that spelled latent homo, thats it!!!!
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 27, 2002 at 21:42:38 (EST)

My two cents are: Hey glint, check this out, may be telecommuting from my bathtub two days a week soon!!!!
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 27, 2002 at 21:41:15 (EST)

My two cents are: True enough, Wes. The only important thing is to look right for the occasion. Your managerial type does not wear electronic hardware strapped to his fucking waist. It's a sad fucking commentary when the American male is some disturbing, parallel universe manque of the soldier in 'ghanastan, what with the girly-man shit on his belt, or you government jackboot 'cept this little fellow wears his fucking little Palm Pilot� instead of pepper fucking spray. Kee-rist!
Eddie Gann
- Wednesday, March 27, 2002 at 21:40:20 (EST)

My two cents are: Hey, yall remeber oafus? Well, sometimes I'd take old oafus to the carwash. I dont think I really washed him there because i was worried about the water being too hot but I definitely remeber using the big vacuums to suck the fleas off him.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 27, 2002 at 21:39:35 (EST)

My two cents are: Shit, alot to catch up on here. where to start, ah yes, the old ydog code. Can't really remeber it anymore, it was something like the day of the month plus some multivariate constant function having to do with the number of posts of ydogs there were that day. As far as the buck 110 on the belt, the rubes don't know that past a 3 inch blade is a concealed weapon if its in your pocket. thats the reason for the belt holster. besides, a buck 110 is pretty freaking klunky in the pocket and wears a hole toot sweet. belts, well shit, I do rope type belts, braided, not clampet-esque. lots of yahoos down here try the big buckle hat "I wanna be a cowboy" bullshit. fact is you start feeling pretty stupid at the airport and like a ridiculous caricature by the time your in the air. Once you hit O'hare, you just want to hide, but its not like you can put the f*ing hat anywhere, too damn big.
Borg 11 of 22
- Wednesday, March 27, 2002 at 21:36:48 (EST)

My two cents are: I don't get these chunky middle-aged men with some sort of pocket knife in a leather holster on their belt. That's why it's called a pocket knife, because you don't have to strap it to your ass. Once hunting with this guy, he had a little knife strapped on in a leather holster, not a folding knife, to skin the deer with if he caught one. Afterward we went into a store and back out he realized that he still had the hunting knife strapped to his ass like some Marylnad tourist, and he was damned ashamed. This guy didn't want anyone to think he was such a clymer that he'd wear a knife strapped to his ass as a habitual accessory. Always take the knife off when you're done hunting, and you can do fine with a three-inch folding knife anyway, fits in your pocket just fine.
Wes Pilbert
- Wednesday, March 27, 2002 at 21:21:55 (EST)

My two cents are: Yeah, the old holstered slide rule was the height of fashion. Nothing geeky about it. All the cool guys carried it off. Now, you've got nerds with pagers and pilots and cell phones hanging from their belts. Belts are an elegant accessory unless you've got one of those wide-ass jobs with a Jack Daniels buckle. Only a hick or a dork would turn his belt into a Circuit City display rack.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 27, 2002 at 20:42:03 (EST)

My two cents are: Take a crap in the bastard's boots. In the headphones and the open mouth when it's asleep. Claw the Birkens and the $9 socks from the Sears Boys Dept.
the cat
- Wednesday, March 27, 2002 at 20:41:14 (EST)

My two cents are: How to Clean a Cat Thoroughly clean the toilet. Add the required amount of shampoo to the toilet water, and lift both lids. Obtain the cat and soothe him while you carry him to the bathroom. In one smooth movement, put the cat into the toilet and close both lids. (You may need to stand on the top so he cannot escape.) CAUTION: Do not get any part of your body too close to the cat, as his paws will be reaching for anything they can find. Flush the toilet three or four times. This provides a "power wash and rinse" which I have found to be quite effective. Have someone open the back door and ensure that there are no people between the toilet and the garden. Stand behind the toilet as much as you can and lift both lids quickly. The freshly cleaned cat will rocket out of the toilet and run outside, where he will dry himself.
the dog
- Wednesday, March 27, 2002 at 20:36:00 (EST)

My two cents are: I remember back in high school when it was deemed fashionable by some to have a holstered slide rule on one's belt. In college, the venerable rule was replaced withe the HP programmable calculator. These days it's pagers, blackberries, cell phones, and PA pilots. That's fine with me because my belt has become longer and more accomodating. However, that creates a special problem when plopping down into an armed office chair causing the attachments of the utility belt to come popping off. It can ruin the effect of arriving fashionably late, especially when facing a conference table of VPs. Causes images in the mind -- perhaps they are repressed memories -- of dropping a bar of soap in the shower. It's tough bearing the tethers of the information age.
Glint Breightly <[email protected]>
MD - Wednesday, March 27, 2002 at 20:31:32 (EST)

My two cents are: Playing your bongos on the front lawn at two am is not speech. typical liberal.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 27, 2002 at 20:17:12 (EST)

My two cents are: The doinkor is back? The mad hurlor of obscene jibes?
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 27, 2002 at 20:10:40 (EST)

My two cents are: Milton Berle dead at 93.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 27, 2002 at 20:05:44 (EST)

My two cents are: Dopor versus doper. Doink.
Pete�
- Wednesday, March 27, 2002 at 19:57:58 (EST)

My two cents are: Gary, if you really plan on hanging here, you're going to have to catch up on your spelling. The word is "impostor," not "imposter." Now, on with the debate!
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 27, 2002 at 19:55:03 (EST)

My two cents are: 66 years of dragging the name "Dudly" through life. I'll bet the poor guy is happy to finally be dead and nameless.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 27, 2002 at 18:07:25 (EST)

My two cents are: 66 years of dragging the name "Dudly" through life. I'll bet the poor guy is happy to finally be dead and nameless.
Gary 45/3
- Wednesday, March 27, 2002 at 18:06:25 (EST)

My two cents are: Dudley Moore Dead at 66. Pictures at 11:00.
May he R.I.P. <Rot In Peace>
- Wednesday, March 27, 2002 at 17:15:02 (EST)

My two cents are: Just as long as I have equal access to Cheney as Enron did, I can't complain.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 27, 2002 at 16:59:09 (EST)

My two cents are: I think when it comes to campaign finance and the first amendment, the ideal of the constitution would be equality in speech. One voice, one vote. The way things stand now the more money the more airtime, and primetime. The little guy can buy with his pennies a spot at 5 AM, on the local radio or local television station. The large PACS can buy airtime on major networks, during primetime, and as many ads as they need to drown out the competition. I find that violates the intention of the constitution. The idea is that the people have an equal voice, and we need to reform our election laws. Everyone agrees there is too much money in politics, and too much influence. It's time for a change, and we may as well get on with it.
Mary
- Wednesday, March 27, 2002 at 16:57:30 (EST)

My two cents are: I'm an old timer here and can remember the old yellowdog code of '98. Turned out it was the number of milk bones stuck up his ass at the time of writing.
old timer man
- Wednesday, March 27, 2002 at 16:52:32 (EST)

My two cents are: I want to play my drums at 2:00 AM in my own front yard. Where's my first amendment rights? FREE SPEECH!
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 27, 2002 at 16:49:44 (EST)

My two cents are: Don't worry Gary, your true friends know who you are, if not how you got here.
YD 38/76
- Wednesday, March 27, 2002 at 16:40:25 (EST)

My two cents are: I know that the other fake Garys will try to break the code, and perhaps try to emulate it as well. But my true friends will be able to spot them like the corpse of a duck hanging lifeless from the ceiling.
Gary 25/8+2
- Wednesday, March 27, 2002 at 16:29:38 (EST)

My two cents are: Hey, who's who? I can't read the code. Will the real Gary e-mail it to me?
Halibert Dugan <[email protected]>
- Wednesday, March 27, 2002 at 16:07:40 (EST)

My two cents are: I'm Gary's friend. The false Gary, that is.
Gary
- Wednesday, March 27, 2002 at 16:05:53 (EST)

My two cents are: Good solution, Gar. Always go with a code when possible. What I'm a tad confused about is this reference to your "friends" here. I have yet to spot one. Also, how did you get turned on to this page?
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 27, 2002 at 15:58:00 (EST)

My two cents are: While it's sad that someone would resort to using my name on this board, I have decided that I will stay. In an effort to make sure my friends and allies know my real posts from false ones, I'm going to implement a code system in my name. Only I and my friends will know how to read the code. I'm sorry that I have to do this, but there you are.
Gary 24/7-1
- Wednesday, March 27, 2002 at 15:33:37 (EST)

My two cents are: Just another murgatroid, if you ask me.
Gary
- Wednesday, March 27, 2002 at 15:31:18 (EST)

My two cents are: The false Gary is a butt-nugget.
Gary
- Wednesday, March 27, 2002 at 15:30:18 (EST)

My two cents are: You'll tolerate what I tell you to tolerate, false Gary.
Gary
- Wednesday, March 27, 2002 at 15:26:17 (EST)

My two cents are: I haven't really discovered your board.
Gary
- Wednesday, March 27, 2002 at 15:19:49 (EST)

My two cents are: Will the real Gary please stand up or out.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 27, 2002 at 15:15:18 (EST)

My two cents are: No, I'm going to stay. Stay and watch Glint pound the pipsqueaks! Watch the ol' "Crusher" in action. I don't car how many false Garys there are.
Gary
- Wednesday, March 27, 2002 at 15:00:58 (EST)

My two cents are: Sure, Gary, leave. But before you go, how did you discover our board?
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 27, 2002 at 14:49:26 (EST)

My two cents are: "Hey glint, maybe you could suggest to the corps at arlington that they let in some hot dog vendors...and a ferris wheel or something???" - Anonymous@21:11:03. Say, I like the way you think. Only, instead of hot dogs we'd have corn dogs and cheese curds -- you know, stick food -- and a haunted house for the kiddies. Just imagine the view one would get of rows and rows of little white dots from the feris wheel! Also, can't have a brass band without a gazebo. What if it rains?
Glint
- Wednesday, March 27, 2002 at 14:47:27 (EST)

My two cents are: That last post attributed to me was, in fact, an imposter. If you do not cease this childish behavior, I will be forced to leave this board. Or stay forever. I'm not quite sure.
Gary
- Wednesday, March 27, 2002 at 14:46:35 (EST)

My two cents are: I never shout on the internet, so knock it off, imposter.
Gary
- Wednesday, March 27, 2002 at 14:38:44 (EST)

My two cents are: Whenever I'm not engated in intellectual pursuits with my friend the banker listening to his suspicions about the neighbors' building maintenance, or tormenting the local teenage sex freak, I come to this site to crush the pipsqueaks that abound here. This keeps me in shape for crushing bearded liberals in bars and cops and the guy at the unemployment office and nurserymen. I am one helluva guy. They ort to call me "The Crusher", but my name is only "Glimpse" or "Beadle" or "Numb-Nuts."
Glimpse (posted from Bangcok.com)
- Wednesday, March 27, 2002 at 14:36:56 (EST)

My two cents are: It is one thing to hide behind the shield of anonymity. It is quite another to use someone else's moniker without permission. Name calling, evasiveness and general rudeness are bothersome, but tolerable. I WILL NOT TOLERATE SOMEONE FALSELY USING MY NAME HERE! KNOCK IT OFF!
Gary
- Wednesday, March 27, 2002 at 14:31:19 (EST)

My two cents are: It was the real thing at 13:51:30, 14:19:33. Complete with the usual typos: engated=engaed, abong=among, etc. That last one may have concealed a Freudian slip.
Glint
- Wednesday, March 27, 2002 at 14:31:02 (EST)

My two cents are: False Gary spotted at 14:22:42 (EST).
Gary
- Wednesday, March 27, 2002 at 14:29:50 (EST)

My two cents are: Say it ain't so, 14:19:33! I was beginning to like the big blowfish.
Gary
- Wednesday, March 27, 2002 at 14:23:30 (EST)

My two cents are: Typical librals. I did not make that last post. (I will respond to your other comments later, after I've read them).
Gary
- Wednesday, March 27, 2002 at 14:22:42 (EST)

My two cents are: Wow, Glint, you sound all puffed up like a big blowfish! Maybe this site IS worth my time after all!
Gary
- Wednesday, March 27, 2002 at 14:21:34 (EST)

My two cents are: Faux Glint at 13:51:30.
A different faux Glint
- Wednesday, March 27, 2002 at 14:19:33 (EST)

My two cents are: You cunt.
Liberal name caller
- Wednesday, March 27, 2002 at 13:56:54 (EST)

My two cents are: "...the time honored tradition of name-calling, that liberals usually resort too, when they are losing a debate" - Gary. In that regard you'll find that this page us ultra traditional, thanks to the Liberals that infest its bandwidth over on port 80. Like you I used to argue with them, but then we won. Both shoes fell and the dress never made it to the dry cleaners. There's nothing left to argue about so I spend my leisure time, what little there is, engated in new intellectual persuits of which I periodically provide elaboration abong the HTML tags here. At other times when I feel discouraged or the teeth marks on my ass are causing me great pain, I turn to this page when I need an easy target. There are plenty clown balloons here bobbing about. Pummel one and feel the pressure dissolve like a big wad of cotton candy or what have you.
Glint
- Wednesday, March 27, 2002 at 13:51:30 (EST)

My two cents are: Will everyone stop ribbing Gary? The man came here in good faith to debate campaign finance reform. So far I have seen nothing returned but character assassination and some obscure mumblings about the "60-day rule." Is that any way to welcome a newbie, howsoever he found out about the site?
.
- Wednesday, March 27, 2002 at 13:46:22 (EST)

My two cents are: Who's David Brock?
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 27, 2002 at 13:39:16 (EST)

My two cents are: UPDATE: Students reprimanded for oral sex in classroom...
Developing...
- Wednesday, March 27, 2002 at 13:38:37 (EST)

My two cents are: Why is everybody here dancing? Something happen at 10:38:52?
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 27, 2002 at 13:36:21 (EST)

My two cents are: Gary, although you've dropped this thread, I still feel the need to debate. What it all seems to come down to for you is this 60 day rule. Look, bub, the 60 day rule is essentially the same rule that prohibits me from holding a sign in front of my polling place on election day that says "Lick Bush!" I mean, I can wave that sign anywhere I want right up until election day. Why not on election day? You also seem to place the blame for prior limits on Democrats. As if that's why those limits have been ruled constitutional. You're dissembling, Gary. You dropped the thread because you ran out of ammo. How did you discover this page, partner?
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 27, 2002 at 13:31:18 (EST)

My two cents are: Yeah, of course I remember the Big John and Sparky Show. On the radio Saturday mornings. Broadcast from Stamford, Connecticutt. Yukey Buthcha. Conchus of the Bronchus.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 27, 2002 at 13:23:55 (EST)

My two cents are: "It is worth reminding ourselves that the life of a democracy may also depend on the good and honorable use of language and not on the scurvy manipulation of such words as 'evil' and 'love' by intellectual striplings of the caliber of our president." NORMAN MAILER
God Bless You, Norman. Calling HIm an Intellectual Stripling Is ,Like, Waay Kind
- Wednesday, March 27, 2002 at 12:12:47 (EST)

My two cents are: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/654373/posts
It's a Bush Lovefest over at the Freep
- Wednesday, March 27, 2002 at 11:53:52 (EST)

My two cents are: Sounds like the coals aren't hot enough to sear the meat..
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 27, 2002 at 11:46:58 (EST)

My two cents are: Separation anxiety, or what?
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 27, 2002 at 11:37:28 (EST)

My two cents are: Can't tell someone good-bye if they don't leave.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 27, 2002 at 11:29:25 (EST)

My two cents are: Hey, Gary, I think you got great debating style, and great style in general. You one stylin' dude, bro. Let's bury the hatchet, 'mano, and let these name-calling liberals have it up the poop chute. You are so right to abandon the thread. Pete wasn't going to debate you anyway.
Halibert Dugan
- Wednesday, March 27, 2002 at 11:07:14 (EST)

My two cents are: How about this, filed under "NOT MK Lite": http://www.nybooks.com/articles/15241
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 27, 2002 at 11:02:27 (EST)

My two cents are: At 10:38 and at 10:50 Gary said he was through with this thread. Which is it?
curious Sedona granny
- Wednesday, March 27, 2002 at 10:55:52 (EST)

My two cents are: The whole board is MK Lite. Just don't have the stomach to wade into cesspools like the Freep anymore.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 27, 2002 at 10:52:47 (EST)

My two cents are: Letters to the Editor THE BOSTON GLOBE FOR WHOM THE WILL TOILS Published on March 14, 2002. To the Editor: George F. Will writes: "Bush's terseness is Ernest Hemingway seasoned with John Wesley." ("Old Fashioned Values Return Since Sept. 11," Op Ed, March 12) Well, one is hardly familiar with John Wesley's sermons, but I do know that to put George W. Bush's prose next to Hemingway is equal to saying that Jackie Susann is right up there with Jane Austen. Did a sense of shame ever reside in our Republican toadies? You can't stop people who are never embarrassed by themselves. Will's readiness to turn a sow's ear into a silk purse can be cited as world class sycophancy. Here's a passage from "A Farewell to Arms." It has more going for it than "terseness." "I was embarrassed by the words sacred, glorious, and sacrifice... I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stockyards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it. There were many words you could not stand to hear... Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the names of roads, the names of rivers, the numbers of regiments and the dates." It is worth reminding ourselves that the life of a democracy may also depend on the good and honorable use of language and not on the scurvy manipulation of such words as "evil" and "love" by intellectual striplings of the caliber of our president. NORMAN MAILER Provincetown
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 27, 2002 at 10:51:37 (EST)

My two cents are: Haliburt, I am who I am and I apologize to no one for my debating syle. If the conservatives and liberals on this board have a problem with my debating style, the problem is theirs not mine. If you have read this thread, Mr. Anonymous refused to even consider the constitutional questions pertaining to the recently passed CFR bill. All he did was cite other anonymous limits that has supposedly passed constitutional muster, as if that somehow justified the current legislation before Pres. Bush. When he couldn't get around the question, he insulted my intelligence and engaged in the time honored tradition of name-calling, that liberals usually resort too, when they are losing a debate. When I replied in kind, he actually made some half-way decent statemants that could be a good basis for debate. It too late for that now however. As I stated to him in my last response, I am through with this thread. If you want to be critical of my debating style feel free, as I respect your right to say whatever you want on this board, but don't expect me to change my attitude or style just to suit you or anybody else.
Gary
- Wednesday, March 27, 2002 at 10:50:53 (EST)

My two cents are: Sort of MK lite.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 27, 2002 at 10:50:30 (EST)

My two cents are: The formatting on this board leaves much to be desired. Here is my post once again, with the original quotes to which I am responding -- :"Gary, I am the one who picked up your gauntlet and tried to engage you in honest debate. It was I who pointed out that this CFR is not the first, nor will it be the last. Limits have been set and upheld as constitutional." +++Gary...Indeed, but you failed to take a stand as to whether this legislation(meaning the current CFR bill) is constitutional or not. Previous limits are irrelevant to this discussion and the issue before us.+++"What makes you think this is any different, dude?" +++Gary...What make this different is the 30 day and 60 day ban on issue advocacy adds. That in my opinion is a direct assualt on free speech, and should be declared unconstitutional.+++"Why can't I visibly support my candidate at my polling place on election day? Why am I limited to a puny $1000 donation to that candidate?"+++Gary...Indeed, why? The answer lies in the campaign reform legislation passed in 1974 in the wake of the Nixon scandal. It was the Democrats who had control of both houses of Congress and rammed it through, and put in those limits you are lamenting about.+++"Where are my rights to "free speech?" Stop cluttering the page with stuff nobody reads (including you, apparently) and think for yourself." +++Gary...The only clutter here is from your side of the aisle. I have been thinking for myself and charting my own course for longer than you have been on this earth. Unlike yourself, who apparently needs the DNC to tell him what to think, say and do. When you can take a definite stand on the constitutional merits of the current CFR bill just passed, let me know. Until that time, I am through with this thread. You may now dance with joy. -:)
Gary
- Wednesday, March 27, 2002 at 10:38:52 (EST)

My two cents are: +++Gary...Indeed, but you failed to take a stand as to whether this legislation(meaning the current CFR bill) is constitutional or not. Previous limits are irrelevant to this discussion and the issue before us.++++++Gary...What make this different is the 30 day and 60 day ban on issue advocacy adds. That in my opinion is a direct assualt on free speech, and should be declared unconstitutional.++++++Gary...Indeed, why? The answer lies in the campaign reform legislation passed in 1974 in the wake of the Nixon scandal. It was the Democrats who had control of both houses of Congress and rammed it through, and put in those limits you are lamenting about.++++++Gary...The only clutter here is from your side of the aisle. I have been thinking for myself and charting my own course for longer than you have been on this earth. Unlike yourself, who apparently needs the DNC to tell him what to think, say and do. When you can take a definite stand on the constitutional merits of the current CFR bill just passed, let me know. Until that time, I am through with this thread. You may now dance with joy. -:)
Gary
- Wednesday, March 27, 2002 at 10:35:06 (EST)

My two cents are: There is a sad misappreciation of surrealism on this page. Not unlike a duck-bubble ceiling of melt-clock interiors. Foop-pinata-twirly-Spanish-mustache-moutarde-Justine, really.
Epater Les Bourgeoises
- Wednesday, March 27, 2002 at 10:34:37 (EST)

My two cents are: Branda is going to buy her own gourds. End of story.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 27, 2002 at 10:14:34 (EST)

My two cents are: Why is that gourd guy so stuck on Brenda, anyhow?
Juliette
- Wednesday, March 27, 2002 at 10:10:54 (EST)

My two cents are: Ann Coulter is such a converter, out there trying to recruit Muslims to Christianity, and turn homosexuals into heterosexuals. Wonder what she's actually doing. To the homosexuals and Muslims, I mean. Does that mean she's going out with a gay Muslim? Hoping he'll transform along both axes? Geesh.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 27, 2002 at 10:09:01 (EST)

My two cents are: JOHN TESH RIPS BOB COSTAS...
Developing...
- Wednesday, March 27, 2002 at 10:08:21 (EST)

My two cents are: Often wondered why a semi-smart guy like Andrew Sullivan would be so enthusiastic about Drudge. Now I realize they must be "fuck buddies" that haven't yet been identified as such by Laura Ingraham. All this sexual weirdness and hermaphroditism on the right wing is getting confusing, though. You practically need a copy of deSade to sort it out. I'm glad that at least Pete's ex-wife got some of it on tape, which must be the case to hear him squeak.
.
- Wednesday, March 27, 2002 at 10:05:38 (EST)

My two cents are: Michelangelo Signorile? Sounds like a typical liberal. Evil. Probably into every port 110 in the Boy Scouts.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 27, 2002 at 10:02:43 (EST)

My two cents are: Thanx, 'Zcat/, but with my setup I'm not sure that I'm cleared to log on as root. I'm just a funky pineapple out in Hawaii with a "multimedia home computer" from Price Club. It has a place for a phone jack (two places, actually), and that's where the internet comes in to it. I've heard that Port 110 lets "hackers" and "trojan horses" into your computer and I'm really worried. I'm not sure if I've started firewalling yet, or any of those things. I'm just an end consumer, and not an actual system manager or big computer executive with a rug and a nameplate.
paranoid
- Wednesday, March 27, 2002 at 09:52:43 (EST)

My two cents are: The Gist Michelangelo Signorile Tales from the Dark Side While reading David Brock�s illuminating and at times enraging new political memoir Blinded by the Right:The Conscience of an Ex-Conservative, one question kept flashing through my head: Why the hell didn�t I out this guy? There he was, a closeted gay right-wing journalist, working with such illustrious gay-bashers as religious zealots James Dobson and Pat Robertson, Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol, then-Washington Times editor John Podhoretz and American Spectator editor R. Emmett Tyrrell in the late 80s and early 90s. He was conspiring with them and many others against what they saw as the evils of liberalism. In the guise of journalism Brock spun out, as he now describes it, a "witches� brew of fact, allegation, hearsay, speculation, opinion, and invective" about Anita Hill�the woman who�d accused Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment during his Senate confirmation hearings�and, later, an equally toxic potion of often unsubstantiated allegations about President Clinton. All the while Brock secretly harbored a libido that was precisely of the kind that many of his coconspirators were railing against at that time. Meanwhile, during roughly those same years, I was engaged in my own crusading and controversial journalism, revealing in columns and articles that publishing tycoon Malcolm Forbes, Hollywood mogul David Geffen, then Assistant Secretary of Defense Pete Williams (in Bush the elder�s Pentagon) and quite a few other public figures were secretly gay while they promoted homophobes or enforced antigay policies. Surely Brock should have been on my list, and his hypocrisy should have been exposed long before he�d written his infamous "Troopergate" Clinton hit piece in the Spectator (which launched the Paula Jones lawsuit), before he�d become so valuable to the right that they�d just accept him as another house homo rather than dump him because of an embarrassing exposure. Reading Blinded, I was sometimes as mad at myself as I was at Brock. When I say that to Brock half-jokingly in an interview, he replies, "I�d have been outraged at the time�but I certainly deserved to be outed." It�s a response that goes a long way toward showing the sincerity of Brock�s apology for his past recklessness, as well as the validity of the political conversion from right to left that he lucidly details in his book. Truth be told, Brock hardly dated and kept his secret tightly hidden in the early years as he moved through conservative circles; he wasn�t as sloppy as the closeted Pentagon officials and Republican Hill staffers�and even some closeted members of Congress at the time�who socialized often in gay circles and even in gay establishments. Brock wanted fame and fortune so badly, and was so "self-loathing" and in search of validation, he says, that he�d do whatever it took. And as his secret became more well-known in the early 90s, Brock then just came out himself�prodded by some right-wing colleagues� impressions of a critical Frank Rich column in 1994 that they claimed was sexually suggestive (though that was hardly the case). As Brock describes it, at that point, after the runaway success of his first book, The Real Anita Hill, and other attention-getting articles in the Spectator, he was worth too much as a hired character assassin for his homosexuality to matter to his benefactors. It was only when Brock, in his second book, 1996�s The Seduction of Hillary Rodham, offered a more balanced look at the First Lady�rather than a hit job connecting her to criminal activity, which many expected�that his patrons on the right began to abandon him. That book, he says, was the very beginning of his long journey away from the right. Blinded discusses in detail the sleazy journalism of the Spectator�where Brock says no factchecker even existed to check the details in his distortion-filled stories�and the cult leader Rev. Sun Myung Moon�s conservative Washington Times; the pack of manipulators close to Clarence Thomas who Brock says helped shape his Anita Hill book; the political operatives behind Paula Jones; the financier Richard Mellon Scaife, a major funder to the anti-Clinton campaigns; and the infamous Arkansas Project, which was the right-wing conspiracy Hillary Clinton was talking about. The basic facts of these stories have been confirmed over the years in books and articles by Joe Conason, Gene Lyons, Jane Mayer, Jill Abramson, Jeffrey Toobin and others. Brock now provides the intimate details. The cast of hypocrites, vipers and freaks doesn�t get any more perverse than those in Blinded. There�s the story about the often self-righteous media pundit Laura Ingraham�one of Brock�s gaggle of "fag hags"�who, "in a drunken stupor, crawled�on her hands and knees,"looking for Brock at a dance club. There�s the truly demented pundit Ann Coulter, who, Brock writes, "seemed to live on nothing but Chardonnay and cigarettes." (Brock tells me that Coulter, another of his "fag hags," used to give him "ex-gay" literature, trying to "convert" him to heterosexuality.) Former Clarence Thomas aide and current radio talk show host Armstrong Williams�who, you may recall, was sued by a male bodyguard a few years ago who claimed he was sexually harassed by Williams, a case that was settled out of court�appeared to have come on to him at Williams� apartment, writes Brock, while asking him whether he was "dominant or submissive in bed." (This is the same Armstrong Williams who wrote a column last week lambasting Rosie O�Donnell supporters for using children "to push alternative lifestyles into the mainstream.") And there�s the bit about Web gossip Matt Drudge, who has reveled in exposing Clinton�s sexual affair with Monica Lewinsky, in addition to spinning out sexual innuendo, half-truths and lies about others. Brock says he went on a date with Drudge (though Brock wasn�t really interested in him) shortly after Brock and Ingraham cohosted a dinner party for Drudge in June of 1997 to draw Drudge closer into the right-wing cabal. While at the gay dance club Rage in L.A., Brock writes, the jealous Drudge purposely stepped on the foot of a man dancing nearby who was flirting with Brock. A few weeks later the heartsick Drudge sent Brock an e-mail saying that Ingraham was spreading the rumor that Brock and Drudge were "fuck buddies," opining that he should only be "so lucky." (Drudge was outed in MSNBC.com columnist Jeanette Walls� 2000 book Dish; in response he denied that he was gay, though Walls had on-the-record quotes from former friends and alleged boyfriends.) Some in the media understandably have raised the question of Brock�s credibility, asking how anything he says can now be trusted, and a few have summarily dismissed him for that reason. But some of the media dismissals may be about something else: self-preservation. Certainly many reporters and editors would rather forget about those ugly times than reexamine their own roles in having furthered Brock�s vicious tales. Many in the mainstream media are implicated in Blinded, including Newsweek reporter Michael Isikoff who, Brock writes, "had passed on to me a handful of Clinton sex stories that he was not able to get past his editors in the hope that I would follow them up," presumably so that Isikoff could then write about them after Brock did. And who can forget the glowing reviews of The Real Anita Hill book, including from The New York Times� Christopher Lehmann-Haupt? By now admitting that the book was a pile of trash, Brock reveals what biased fools such respected reviewers were�particularly since many others saw the book for what it was at the time. Some of the media�s impulse to dismiss Blinded was even on display March 17 when The Washington Post had the gay conservative author Bruce Bawer review Brock�s book. Predictably, Bawer slammed the book and mocked its author. After a number of complaints the Post�s editors admitted that Bawer shouldn�t have reviewed the book because he had been a writer at The American Spectator as well. The decision to use Bawer seemed to betray an attempt, conscious or not, to marginalize Blinded by serving up a review that was a less-than-serious side-show�two queens, now political opposites, having a cat fight�rather than to examine some of the disturbing issues and events that Brock�s confessions now raise. Some might say I believe Brock because I want to believe him. But actually, I�d been quite skeptical of Brock and his several-year-long conversion for some time, both to colleagues and in print; in 1998, I was strongly critical of him in a piece I wrote for The New York Observer. I still have some lingering doubts about his motivations, as I�m sure Brock hopes his confessions are as financially successful as his lies were (then again, who wouldn�t?). But I�m glad that, unlike the notorious McCarthy sidekick Roy Cohn and many others, Brock isn�t going to his death working for those who work against his own kind, taking all of the secrets with him. Instead, he�s apologized, and he�s written a convincing and highly instructive book.
drudge subtext
- Wednesday, March 27, 2002 at 09:50:22 (EST)

My two cents are: Since when did this become a computer tech page? What happened to discussion of gay subtext in film?
Prescott Jamison
- Wednesday, March 27, 2002 at 08:29:27 (EST)

My two cents are: To prevent a connection to port 110 of your mail server, log on as root +: "vi /etc/inetd.conf" then comment the line dealing about pop with #, like "/etc/rc.d/init.d/inet restart". Sure, you may have users within who use pop on the server and you might want them to be able to use pop there, but not be able to access port 110 from home. Is this a contradiction in terms? No, it's not, and ipchains will handle this, assuming you can identify all the possible 'outside' paths to your port 110 when they are at home. For just the pop part, something like this (but not this simplistic): "ipchains -A -i external_interface -d server_ip:110 -j DENY" and "ipchains -A -i internal_interface -d server_ip:110 - j ACCEPT". But, once you start firewalling, you need to consider a *lot* more than just your pop server port. Don't expect something as simple-minded as the above to suffice, because it won't. However, it can hopefully point you in the direction of researching what ipchains can do for you.
'zcat /vmlinuz > /dev/audio'
- Wednesday, March 27, 2002 at 00:58:36 (EST)

My two cents are: Are they staying in you house? Do you have separate bedrooms for them, or at least separate couches? You don't want them doing the shack-job thing under your roof, do you?
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 27, 2002 at 00:25:12 (EST)

My two cents are: You could avoid the whole nightmare if they are into hermaphroditism. Maybe the step-father and the shack-up would like to take the big binoculars and look in the neighbor kid's window with you.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 27, 2002 at 00:23:51 (EST)

My two cents are: Does anyone else remember the Big John and Sparky radio show?
Feeb
- Wednesday, March 27, 2002 at 00:21:23 (EST)

My two cents are: There is no way. If you want "connectivity", port 110 must be up. A packet sniffer might help. Be sure to adjust your gridlines, or have them adjusted professionally.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 27, 2002 at 00:17:02 (EST)

My two cents are: Could someone tell me how I can prevent a connection to port 110 of my mail server?
paranoid
- Tuesday, March 26, 2002 at 23:47:29 (EST)

My two cents are: She = Mrs. B, by the way. If you ever make it to Arlington look us up in the guest book. Right there in the ledger for March 29 will be the Glint Breightly family.
Glint
- Tuesday, March 26, 2002 at 23:41:54 (EST)

My two cents are: Wife's step father and his shack-up are flying out this week. She wants them to see Washington and I was working up a plan on what to see at which metro stops. Then she says we should drive down so we could "see more." I said we could see more all right because I won't pay $25 a day to park at some crack market parking lot. We'll be driving non-stop so there's plenty of opportunity for the in-laws to rubber neck. She started suggesting places with fairly good parking -- Jefferson Memorial, FDR memorial, Roosevelt Island. Then she hit the deal maker -- Arlington! We're going to have a family picnic with John. The whole gang'll be paying him a Good Friday visit. The in-laws, Poe and her elder sister. Maybe the Mrs. will make up some of her famous balony on white sandwiches with the heels turned crust-side-in. mmmmmmm.
Glint
- Tuesday, March 26, 2002 at 23:39:41 (EST)

My two cents are: In my area - Chicago suburbs - AT&T has been buying cable companies and sending the signal over existing cable TV lines. I'm amazed at the download speed at home - it's comparable to the T1 line we have at the office in downtown Chicago. I was fed up with my dial up provider low speeds and dropped connections even though the local Verizon ( Ameritech ) telephone switching station was only 1 mi. down the street. Since the connection is always "live" it saves countless hours of aggravation per month establishing a connection. I just leave my laptop in suspend mode overnight and wake it up in the morning. The price is sort of high - $40 per month, but that is offset by lower telephone charges. Broadband also has advantages over DSL because with DSL the more speed you want, the more you pay plus ISP charges. The downside is you have to be fortunate in your area to have a strong cable signal and your PC has to be network ready. Broadband is in effect a LAN and you have a primary and secondary IP address assigned by the cable company that can get hacked into if you are not careful.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 26, 2002 at 23:29:59 (EST)

My two cents are: How did you hear about this page, Gary?
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 26, 2002 at 22:56:57 (EST)

My two cents are: Nah, the ferris wheel is for the kiddies or maybe someplace to spoon with a buff okie cheerleader on a steamy DC August night before you take her down to the steamy banks of the potomac somewhere between georgetowne and glen echo.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 26, 2002 at 22:46:07 (EST)

My two cents are: Yeah Gary, spill it.
Borg 19 of 22
- Tuesday, March 26, 2002 at 22:42:26 (EST)

My two cents are: Sounds like the coals aren't hot enough to sear the meat..
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 26, 2002 at 22:34:51 (EST)

My two cents are: I hold the opinion that campaign finance in its current form is unconstitutional.
Mary
- Tuesday, March 26, 2002 at 22:20:52 (EST)

My two cents are: I came in here flat-footed and slackjawed, and YOU refused to debate me. All you could do was attack me personally. If that's what you want to do, so be it. I wanted debate, and this is what I get. Sic semper prostegiditope. I can see that your brain (assuming you have one) is about the size of a pigeon egg.
Gary
- Tuesday, March 26, 2002 at 22:01:56 (EST)

My two cents are: Gary, I am the one who picked up the gauntlet and tried to engage you in honest debate. It was I who pointed out that this CFR is not the first, nor will it be the last. Limits have been set and upheld as constitutional. What makes you think this is any different, dude? Why can't I wave a sign that says "Lick Bush" at my polling place on election day? Why am I limited to a puny $1000 donation to the candidate of my choice? Where are my rights to "free speech?" Stop cluttering the page with stuff nobody reads (including you, apparently) and think for yourself. How did you find out about this page? Spill it, Gary.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 26, 2002 at 21:32:48 (EST)

My two cents are: Better a coffee table ornament in the nexus of power than the biggest goat on the highest knob in Bone Flats Monument, Nebraska.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 26, 2002 at 21:21:42 (EST)

My two cents are: So, the stiffs are going to ride around on the wheel?
doubt it
- Tuesday, March 26, 2002 at 21:20:10 (EST)

My two cents are: Ease up on Glint there anon, I mean he's got the kid out working to make payments on the poppin johnny. Those picnics at the cemetary dont come cheap. Hey glint, maybe you could suggest to the corps at arlington that they let in some hot dog vendors, maybe some of those cotton candy machines and a ferris wheel or something???
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 26, 2002 at 21:11:03 (EST)

My two cents are: Face it Glint, you're never going to be more than an interesting coffee table ornament to the military industrial complex. Where men of knowledge do enter this sphere of power and influence, it is as paid help, not in positions of authority or command (paraphrased from C. Wright Mills).
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 26, 2002 at 21:08:32 (EST)

My two cents are: I thought Pete said he was leaving. Go away Pete, we like it here without you.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 26, 2002 at 21:04:56 (EST)

My two cents are: Oh I see, Glint is crashing headfirst into the difference between being a proletariat worker and actually owning the means of production. Wham. That ought to burst the bubble.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 26, 2002 at 21:03:31 (EST)

My two cents are: Yeah Glint, I thought about making you the duck. But rather than trying to escape the bubble, I saw you as the duck trying to crash through the well, there's not a polite way to this really, um you as the duck trying to crash through the cornhusker ceiling. It's a very tangible barrier and no east coast savvy beltway bandit is going to let a husker that high in the org. It's why you weren't the one buying the lunch, get it??
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 26, 2002 at 21:00:22 (EST)

My two cents are: It's not a duck, it's a pinata. Someone get a broomstick!!!
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 26, 2002 at 20:57:54 (EST)

My two cents are: Pete's right, Gary. Try to develop some specific reasons why you think that campaign finance reform is bad, and present them forthrightly, without whining about how badly you are being treated. I wouldn't expect him to dream of debating you until you show you can handle that.
Weldon
- Tuesday, March 26, 2002 at 20:39:18 (EST)

My two cents are: Gary, we can debate when you get your head out of the ceiling. End of story.
Pete�
- Tuesday, March 26, 2002 at 20:37:41 (EST)

My two cents are: False In the Know sighting at 20:25:19.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 26, 2002 at 20:36:16 (EST)

My two cents are: False Pete� sighting at 20:19:50.
In the Know.
- Tuesday, March 26, 2002 at 20:25:19 (EST)

My two cents are: Do any of you techno-dudes, Jew and gentile alike, know what broadband is? I got an ad for ATT broadband in the mail today, free installation, but it mentions only TV shows. I thought broadband had internet on it. What's the deal?
House of Meat
- Tuesday, March 26, 2002 at 20:22:06 (EST)

My two cents are: Gary, didn't you hear the story about the duck with his head caught in the ceiling. There may still be time to avoid its happening to you. Get a clue.
Pete�
- Tuesday, March 26, 2002 at 20:19:50 (EST)

My two cents are: Silly me, I can just see the sneer. Here I thought I was trying to debate someone who had a modicum of intelligence, but as it turns out he is just a moron with an elitist liberal attitude and not an original thought in his brain(assuming there is one present). How thoughtless of me.
Gary
- Tuesday, March 26, 2002 at 19:55:11 (EST)

My two cents are: I need an aggressive competent (and perhaps politically connected) attorney for some cases in District 2 (Skokie) Cook County. I want to motion some tickets back into court and motion to vacate. Lazy, money grubbing losers need not apply. If you know someone who can do this job great, please send me an e-mail with a contact phone number. Thanks
Aggressive Attorney Wanted <[email protected] >
- Tuesday, March 26, 2002 at 18:45:39 (EST)

My two cents are: Experienced, quality attorney wanted on contingency to file action against 4(four) professionals, 1(one) company, and 1(one) individual bases on fraud in NW PA. Call (814)664-2821
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 26, 2002 at 18:44:39 (EST)

My two cents are: Well, I wrote some code once to determine the differences between the default parameters and the parameters of the running system. I don't have that code handy, but essentially what I did was to take the output of: $ SYSMAN PARAM SHOW/ALL/OUT=filespec, parse out the various value elements of each line using F$ELEMENT() (using " " as the delimiting character, having first used F$EDIT( vbl, "TRIM,COMPRESS" )). Then, for each instance where the current value differs from the default, write out a record consisting of: vbl_name = value, which becomes the new MODPARAMS.DAT. That's the basics - there are a couple of real "gotchas" that you need to be very careful of, but I can't remember them. You see, I was ushered out rather quickly on my last layoff and didn't have the chance to send such code to myself via e-mail or what have you. It was the company's first massive layoff - they had no experience to fall back on, and so were "playing it safe" with their discharges.
David J. Dachtera <[email protected]>
- Tuesday, March 26, 2002 at 18:39:49 (EST)

My two cents are: Brian, just ignore him. Unfortunately, his relatives missed out on the free Zyklon showers sponsored by Reich 3.0. Just run @SYS$UPDATE:AUTOGEN GETDATA to recover PARAMS.DAT. But I'd just do @SYS$UPDATE:AUTOGEN GETDATA <end-phase> where <end-phase> is the last phase I want done. PARAMS.DAT is an intermediate file. It is the output of GETDATA and is used as input for GENFILES, GENPARAMS, and TESTFILES. Boot the system, and invoke AUTOGEN from phase GETDATA. Then make a system disk BACKUP, you fool!!!
Hoff Hoffman <[email protected]>
- Tuesday, March 26, 2002 at 18:33:19 (EST)

My two cents are: Brian, I don't suppose by any chance you've happened to bother reading the System Utilities manual and in particular the chapter "Managing System Parameters" in the system manager's manual? You my pitiful clueless friend are simply a moron sucking air through that small gentile nose of yours.
Alan E. Feldman <[email protected]>
- Tuesday, March 26, 2002 at 18:28:03 (EST)

My two cents are: Hi. I did a bad (?!) thing: I deleted sys$system:params.dat (don't ask; little sleep the previos night) file from each of our servers. Here's the catch: I don't have any backups. The question is, quite naturally of course, how can I recover/regenerate these files? Is this possible? I can see the system param values running 'paramaters/show' in sys$system:sysman, so I know regenerating this file is possible in some manner (that, and booting the machine doesn't seem to depend on this file either). Please excuse me if this query is "off topic" for this group. I've been to most of the system administrator groups without much luck. They respond with laughing and snide responses until I feel compelled to quit. Hoping that things are more civilized here. HELP!
Brian M. Kelley <[email protected]>
- Tuesday, March 26, 2002 at 18:20:32 (EST)

My two cents are: "Munich "corpse" turns out to be sex doll" ..... developing
corpse, sex doll -what's the difference?
- Tuesday, March 26, 2002 at 18:14:11 (EST)

My two cents are: Fans boo Britney at premiere...
Developing....
- Tuesday, March 26, 2002 at 17:21:54 (EST)

My two cents are: The crynic had better hope the IRS catches him before Ashcroft does.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 26, 2002 at 16:05:29 (EST)

My two cents are: I figure the crynic more for circulated bills in small denominations. Everything he does is all perfectly legal, of cours, as long as once a year he reports to the IRS and tells him he is not a thief and hasn't a tratorous bone in his body.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 26, 2002 at 16:00:31 (EST)

My two cents are: I hope the crynic doesn't have a credit card at his secret bank account. Don't think the poor old tax-evader can take too many pi�ata whacks from the IRS boys before he starts blubbering like Dan Rather after a terrorist attack. Men who live in the fantasy zone are often the easiest hurt when they have to face the consequences of their crimes.
O. Slivovitz
- Tuesday, March 26, 2002 at 15:41:12 (EST)

My two cents are: Constitutional answer to campaign finance reform. http://www.28thamen.org/
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 26, 2002 at 14:53:55 (EST)

My two cents are: I agree CFR is unconstitutional. Free speech should go to the highest bidder.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 26, 2002 at 14:50:31 (EST)

My two cents are: http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/usa/c3i/olney.htm
Underneath the Olney Alehouse <[email protected]>
- Tuesday, March 26, 2002 at 14:44:24 (EST)

My two cents are: RS eyes tax evaders using offshore credit card accounts (By Thomas A. Fogarty USA TODAY) Two million Americans may be evading U.S. taxes through credit card accounts at offshore banks, the IRS said Monday. The estimate came as government lawyers asked the federal District Court in San Francisco to compel Visa International, the world's largest processor of credit and debit card payments, to identify Americans who routinely use cards from offshore banking havens for purchases in the United States. The accounts themselves are legal and resemble domestic accounts that permit withdrawals by debit or credit card. The difference is that the overseas accounts carry high fees and high minimum balances -- and are attractive only because of the secrecy in the countries where banks are located. Deposits are not recorded in the United States. ''For the average person, there's little reason to have accounts overseas,'' says Dale Hart, deputy IRS commissioner. In the court filing, government lawyers specifically seek the identities of Americans with accounts at banks in 30 countries, including the Bahamas, the Cayman Islands, Switzerland, Latvia and Hong Kong. The action follows an order in October 2000 by a federal judge in Miami granting the IRS access to similar information from MasterCard and American Express. Information from MasterCard has prompted hundreds of audits that could lead to civil or criminal penalties for tax evasion, IRS officials say. Privacy advocate David Sobel of the Electronic Privacy Information Center says Americans should be wary of the way the IRS is enforcing the law. By filing suit against credit card companies, the IRS is tapping information that privacy laws would otherwise prevent the government from developing on its own, Sobel says.
at least the cook is. are safe...for now
- Tuesday, March 26, 2002 at 14:27:08 (EST)

My two cents are: No, dope, that was Dali.
Socialists are not good guys
- Tuesday, March 26, 2002 at 14:21:00 (EST)

My two cents are: Surrealist?
???
- Tuesday, March 26, 2002 at 13:50:50 (EST)

My two cents are: Universal higher education is loaded with liar socialsits; no wonder there are literal defects. Read the definition, Manly!
Pete�
- Tuesday, March 26, 2002 at 13:44:46 (EST)

My two cents are: The duck couldn't represent you. It had its head up the wrong place.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 26, 2002 at 13:44:21 (EST)

My two cents are: Um. Gary moonlights as a surrealist?
Doubt It
- Tuesday, March 26, 2002 at 13:43:43 (EST)

My two cents are: Glint can't spell. Gary mixes metaphors. so much for universal higher education. Geesh.
English Major
- Tuesday, March 26, 2002 at 13:39:04 (EST)

My two cents are: I am prepared to answer your question, Anonymous@22:37:58 (EST). My question however to you is, do you really want me to?
Glint
- Tuesday, March 26, 2002 at 13:38:53 (EST)

My two cents are: "I mean who flushes while on the squat?" - Anonymous@22:37:58 (EST). Somebody here appears to be spending a little too much time in the bathroom lately. Counting coffee cups and behaired Pepsi cans, checking for soap on his trousers and others following my ernest warnings. So curious about the hygeine habits of others. Just what IS he doing in there? Practically dying of curiousity.
Glint
- Tuesday, March 26, 2002 at 13:15:16 (EST)

My two cents are: "It means you wanted to order duck but were afraid to for some reason." - Anonymous@22:34:57. That's one interpretation but I have another. The restaurant represents the bubble. The duck is myself who has recently entered the bubble's interior. I'll scream and shout and try escaping but shall die trying. Noone cares, and life goes on.
Glint
- Tuesday, March 26, 2002 at 13:14:07 (EST)

My two cents are: The great strengths of our movement, Gary, are discipline and unity of thought. Stop trying to go outside the box.
HD
- Tuesday, March 26, 2002 at 12:10:28 (EST)

My two cents are: And stop pasting stuff that undermines the conservative argument. Cool it with the Federalist Papers.
HD
- Tuesday, March 26, 2002 at 12:07:16 (EST)

My two cents are: Gary, your tactics bring shame to every conservative. Why don't you dig up some actual talking points instead of whining about what the liberals are doing? Maybe if you engage in intelligent debate yourself, you'll draw them in, where you can crush them. As it is, you're just using tactical tricks that the liberals know all about. Maybe if you followed the talking points about why the new law is unconstitutional you would be more effective. Stop trying to go it alone, guy. This is a movement, not an opportunity to grandstand.
Halibert Dugan
- Tuesday, March 26, 2002 at 12:04:39 (EST)

My two cents are: Well, anonymous, for one think it would give the dork the impression he was engaged in an intelligent debate, and make him feel a little better about himself.
Oggie
- Tuesday, March 26, 2002 at 11:54:06 (EST)

My two cents are: Gary, why would I bother to try to engage in an intelligent debate with a dork?
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 26, 2002 at 11:52:01 (EST)

My two cents are: So rather than engage in debate on the issue, you just insult my intellect and understanding. Typical liberal attitude. You still have yet to state your position on campaigh finance reform and it's constitutional merits. We will talk again when you are ready to engage in an intelligent debate.
Gary
- Tuesday, March 26, 2002 at 11:33:50 (EST)

My two cents are: Gary's kind of a dork, isn't he?
curious Tampa grandmother
- Tuesday, March 26, 2002 at 10:53:55 (EST)

My two cents are: Stop spilling the beans. Pretty soon Gary is going to have everyone from Hammurabi to Karl Marx arguing for him. Let him find this stuff out for himself.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 26, 2002 at 10:52:41 (EST)

My two cents are: Why go so far afield? What's wrong with Coulter? Maybe a little Horowitz, a little Rush. It's all good.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 26, 2002 at 10:45:37 (EST)

My two cents are: How about "The Great Gatsby"? I've always liked "The Great Gatsby", parts of it anyway. I think it would strengthen the pineapple's argument substantially if he would post a few chapters from "Gatsby", and maybe a little Dreiser. The last two pages of "Sister Carrie" would do nicely.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 26, 2002 at 10:31:54 (EST)

My two cents are: I don't know, guys. It's going to be tough to defeat the pineapple on this now that he's got James Madison on his side. When he posts the Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin we'll really be up shit creek.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 26, 2002 at 10:29:38 (EST)

My two cents are: There he goes again, posting stuff he has no chance of understanding. What the hey, Gary. Bandwidth, man. Just post the url and a few choice slogans.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 26, 2002 at 10:26:27 (EST)

My two cents are: Here for your reading enjoyment is Federalist Paper #10. Seems to me that the mis-understanding of the First Amendment is yours not mine. You may thank me later. ;-)// :Federalist No. 10 (James Madison) November 22, 1787 To the People of the State of New York. Among the numerous advantages promised by a well constructed Union, none deserves to be more accurately developed than its tendency to break and control the violence of faction. The friend of popular governments, never finds himself so much alarmed for their character and fate, as when he contemplates their propensity to this dangerous vice. He will not fail therefore to set a due value on any plan which, without violating the principles to which he is attached, provides a proper cure for it. The instability, injustice and confusion introduced into the public councils, have in truth been the mortal diseases under which popular governments have every where perished; as they continue to be the favorite and fruitful topics from which the adversaries to liberty derive their most specious declamations. The valuable improvements made by the American Constitutions on the popular models, both ancient and modern, cannot certainly be too much admired; but it would be an unwarrantable partiality, to contend that they have as effectually obviated the danger on this side as was wished and expected. Complaints are every where heard from our most considerate and virtuous citizens, equally the friends of public and private faith, and of public and personal liberty; that our governments are too unstable; that the public good is disregarded in the conflicts of rival parties; and that measures are too often decided, not according to the rules of justice, and the rights of the minor party; but by the superior force of an interested and over-bearing majority. However anxiously we may wish that these complaints had no foundation, the evidence of known facts will not permit us to deny that they are in some degree true. It will be found indeed, on a candid review of our situation, that some of the distresses under which we labor, have been erroneously charged on the operation of our governments; but it will be found, at the same time, that other causes will not alone account for many of our heaviest misfortunes; and particularly, for that prevailing and increasing distrust of public engagements, and alarm for private rights, which are echoed from one end of the continent to the other. These must be chiefly, if not wholly, effects of the unsteadiness and injustice, with which a factious spirit has tainted our public administrations. By a faction I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adverse to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community. There are two methods of curing the mischiefs of faction: the one, by removing its causes; the other, by controling its effects. There are again two methods of removing the causes of faction: the one by destroying the liberty which is essential to its existence; the other, by giving to every citizen the same opinions, the same passions, and the same interests. It could never be more truly said than of the first remedy, that it is worse than the disease. Liberty is to faction, what air is to fire, an aliment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be a less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourishes faction, than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its destructive agency. The second expedient is as impracticable, as the first would be unwise. As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed. As long as the connection subsists between his reason and his self- love, his opinions and his passions will have a reciprocal influence on each other; and the former will be objects to which the latter will attach themselves. The diversity in the faculties of men from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to a uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of Government. From the protection of different and unequal faculties of acquiring property, the possession of different degrees and kinds of property immediately results: and from the influence of these on the sentiments and views of the respective proprietors, ensues a division of the society into different interests and parties. The latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man; and we see them every where brought into different degrees of activity, according to the different circumstances of civil society. A zeal for different opinions concerning religion, concerning Government and many other points, as well of speculation as of practice; an attachment to different leaders ambitiously contending for pre-eminence and power; or to persons of other descriptions whose fortunes have been interesting to the human passions, have in turn divided mankind into parties, inflamed them with mutual animosity, and rendered them much more disposed to vex and oppress each other, than to co-operate for their common good. So strong is this propensity of mankind to fall into mutual animosities, that where no substantial occasion presents itself, the most frivolous and fanciful distinctions have been sufficient to kindle their unfriendly passions, and excite their most violentconflicts. But the most common and durable source of factions, has been the various and unequal distribution of property. Those who hold, and those who are without property, have ever formed distinct interests in society. Those who are creditors, and those who are debtors, fall under a like discrimination. A landed interest, a manufacturing interest, a mercantile interest, a monied interest, with many lesser interests, grow up of necessity in civilized nations, and divide them into different classes, actuated by different sentiments and views. The regulation of these various and interfering interests forms the principal task of modern Legislation, and involves the spirit of party and faction in the necessary and ordinary operations of Government. No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause; because his interest would certainly bias his judgment, and, not improbably, corrupt his integrity. With equal, nay with greater reason, a body of men, are unfit to be both judges and parties, at the same time; yet, what are many of the most important acts of legislation, but so many judicial determinations, not indeed concerning the rights of single persons, but concerning the rights of large bodies of citizens; and what are the different classes of legislators, but advocates and parties to the causes which they determine? Is a law proposed concerning private debts? It is a question to which the creditors are parties on one side, and the debtors on the other. Justice ought to hold the balance between them. Yet the parties are and must be themselves the judges; and the most numerous party, or, in other words, the most powerful faction must be expected to prevail. Shall domestic manufactures be encouraged, and in what degree, by restrictions on foreign manufactures? are questions which would be differently decided by the landed and the manufacturing classes; and probably by neither, with a sole regard to justice and the public good. The apportionment of taxes on the various descriptions of property, is an act which seems to require the most exact impartiality; yet, there is perhaps no legislative act in which greater opportunity and temptation are given to a predominant party, to trample on the rules of justice. Every shilling with which they over-burden the inferior number, is a shilling saved to their own pockets. It is in vain to say, that enlightened statesmen will be able to adjust these clashing interests, and render them all subservient to the public good. Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm: Nor, in many cases, can such an adjustment be made at all, without taking into view indirect and remote considerations, which will rarely prevail over the immediate interest which one party may find in disregarding the rights of another, or the good of the whole. The inference to which we are brought, is, that the causes of faction cannot be removed; and that relief is only to be sought in the means of controlling its effects. If a faction consists of less than a majority, relief is supplied by the republican principle, which enables the majority to defeat its sinister views by regular vote: It may clog the administration, it may convulse the society; but it will be unable to execute and mask its violence under the forms of the Constitution. When a majority is included in a faction, the form of popular government on the other hand enables it to sacrifice to its ruling passion or interest, both the public good and the rights of other citizens. To secure the public good, and private rights, against the danger of such a faction, and at the same time to preserve the spirit and the form of popular government, is then the great object to which our enquiries are directed: Let me add that it is the great desideratum, by which alone this form of government can be rescued from the opprobrium under which it has so long labored, and be recommended to the esteem and adoption of mankind. By what means is this object attainable? Evidently by one of two only. Either the existence of the same passion or interest in a majority at the same time, must be prevented; or the majority, having such co-existent passion or interest, must be rendered, by their number and local situation, unable to concert and carry into effect schemes of oppression. If the impulse and the opportunity be suffered to coincide, we well know that neither moral nor religious motives can be relied on as an adequate control. They are not found to be such on the injustice and violence of individuals, and lose their efficacy in proportion to the number combined together; that is, in proportion as their efficacy becomes needful. From this view of the subject, it may be concluded, that a pure Democracy, by which I mean, a Society, consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the Government in person, can admit of no cure for the mischiefs of faction. A common passion or interest will, in almost every case, be felt by a majority of the whole; a communication and concert results from the form of Government itself; and there is nothing to check the inducements to sacrifice the weaker party, or an obnoxious individual. Hence it is, that such Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security, or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives, as they have been violent in their deaths. Theoretic politicians, who have patronized this species of Government, have erroneously supposed, that by reducing mankind to a perfect equality in their political rights, they would, at the same time, be perfectly equalized and assimilated in their possessions, their opinions, and their passions. A Republic, by which I mean a Government in which the scheme of representation takes place, opens a different prospect, and promises the cure for which we are seeking. Let us examine the points in which it varies from pure Democracy, and we shall comprehend both the nature of the cure, and the efficacy which it must derive from the Union. The two great points of difference between a Democracy and a Republic are, first, the delegation of the Government, in the latter, to a small number of citizens elected by the rest: secondly, the greater number of citizens, and greater sphere of country, over which the latter may be extended. The effect of the first difference is, on the one hand to refine and enlarge the public views, by passing them through the medium of a chosen body of citizens, whose wisdom may best discern the true interest of their country, and whose patriotism and love of justice, will be least likely to sacrifice it to temporary or partial considerations. Under such a regulation, it may well happen that the public voice pronounced by the representatives of the people, will be more consonant to the public good, than if pronounced by the people themselves convened for the purpose. On the other hand, the effect may be inverted. Men of factious tempers, of local prejudices, or of sinister designs, may by intrigue, by corruption or by other means, first obtain the suffrages, and then betray the interests of the people. The question resulting is, whether small or extensive Republics are most favorable to the election of proper guardians of the public weal: and it is clearly decided in favor of the latter by two obvious considerations. In the first place it is to be remarked that however small the Republic may be, the Representatives must be raised to a certain number, in order to guard against the cabals of a few; and that however large it may be, they must be limited to a certain number, in order to guard against the confusion of a multitude. Hence the number of Representatives in the two cases, not being in proportion to that of the Constituents, and being proportionally greatest in the small Republic, it follows, that if the proportion of fit characters, be not less, in the large than in the small Republic, the former will present a greater option, and consequently a greater probability of a fit choice. In the next place, as each Representative will be chosen by a greater number of citizens in the large than in the small Republic, it will be more difficult for unworthy candidates to practise with success the vicious arts, by which elections are too often carried; and the suffrages of the people being more free, will be more likely to centre on men who possess the most attractive merit, and the most diffusive and established characters. It must be confessed, that in this, as in most other cases, there is a mean, on both sides of which inconveniences will be found to lie. By enlarging too much the number of electors, you render the representative too little acquainted with all their local circumstances and lesser interests; as by reducing it too much, you render him unduly attached to these, and too little fit to comprehend and pursue great and national objects. The Federal Constitution forms a happy combination in this respect; the great and aggregate interests being referred to the national, the local and particular, to the state legislatures. The other point of difference is, the greater number of citizens and extent of territory which may be brought within the compass of Republican, than of Democratic Government; and it is this circumstance principally which renders factious combinations less to be dreaded in the former, than in the latter. The smaller the society, the fewer probably will be the distinct parties and interests composing it; the fewer the distinct parties and interests, the more frequently will a majority be found of the same party; and the smaller the number of individuals composing a majority, and the smaller the compass within which they are placed, the more easily will they concert and execute their plans of oppression. Extend the sphere, and you take in a greater variety of parties and interests; you make it less probable that a majority of the whole will have a common motive to invade the rights of other citizens; or if such a common motive exists, it will be more difficult for all who feel it to discover their own strength, and to act in unison with each other. Besides other impediments, it may be remarked, that where there is a consciousness of unjust or dishonorable purposes, communication is always checked by distrust, in proportion to the number whose concurrence is necessary. Hence it clearly appears, that the same advantage, which a Republic has over a Democracy, in controlling the effects of faction, is enjoyed by a large over a small Republic�is enjoyed by the Union over the States composing it. Does this advantage consist in the substitution of Representatives, whose enlightened views and virtuous sentiments render them superior to local prejudices, and to schemes of injustice? It will not be denied, that the Representation of the Union will be most likely to possess these requisite endowments. Does it consist in the greater security afforded by a greater variety of parties, against the event of any one party being able to outnumber and oppress the rest? In an equal degree does the encreased variety of parties, comprised within the Union, encrease this security. Does it, in fine, consist in the greater obstacles opposed to the concert and accomplishment of the secret wishes of an unjust and interested majority? Here, again, the extent of the Union gives it the most palpable advantage. The influence of factious leaders may kindle a flame within their particular States, but will be unable to spread a general conflagration through the other States: a religious sect, may degenerate into a political faction in a part of the Confederacy; but the variety of sects dispersed over the entire face of it, must secure the national Councils against any danger from that source: a rage for paper money, for an abolition of debts, for an equal division of property, or for any other improper or wicked project, will be less apt to pervade the whole body of the Union, than a particular member of it; in the same proportion as such a malady is more likely to taint a particular county or district, than an entire State. In the extent and proper structure of the Union, therefore, we behold a Republican remedy for the diseases most incident to Republican Government. And according to the degree of pleasure and pride, we feel in being Republicans, ought to be our zeal in cherishing the spirit, and supporting the character of Federalists. Publius FOUNDER'S LIBRARY Founding Era Documents The Federalist
Gary
- Tuesday, March 26, 2002 at 09:42:55 (EST)

My two cents are: My argument is "shit"? In other words, you: a). are unable to justify your support for this legislative abomination based on constitutional merits; b).don't care about loss of free speech for others as long your free speech rights are intact; c). Dismiss as 'crap' any view that contradicts your own when you know you cannot win the debate with the kind of offal you have so far offered; d). Just hate it when the constitution gets in the way of your socialist agenda of government control over every aspect of our lives; e). Should move to someplace like Cuba, where you can have your communism pure and unadulterated.
Gary
- Tuesday, March 26, 2002 at 09:41:10 (EST)

My two cents are: Camillagate. Squidgygate. Pineapplegate.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 26, 2002 at 09:11:50 (EST)

My two cents are: Oprah and Rosie should grace the pages of PLAYBOY, for all you Titties and Beer fans. HEH HEH
THE REAL WILL-YUM
- Tuesday, March 26, 2002 at 03:37:14 (EST)

My two cents are: Yes, it is enough to make one turn liberal for God's sake. The ex put a recorder in my car. I didn't do a dang thing, but since she thought she ehard something, i get served paapers without any warning. talk about set up framed. Oh well, i guess open marriage roommate agreements are not worth the paper they are printed on. Amazing.
Pete�
- Tuesday, March 26, 2002 at 02:11:27 (EST)

My two cents are: WHOEVER, Posted using my name, eats Osama's Turds!!! I haven't been geesed, not even goosed.
THE REAL WILL-YUM
- Tuesday, March 26, 2002 at 01:21:57 (EST)

My two cents are: Sure, he was sort of limited in his personal interests, pretty much a spoodge fan from start to finish. But he could recognized others' interests as well, and look on approvingly. Especially people who would snoop and gossip about neighbors. A banker, say, who could sniff disdainfully and knowingly about the lax maintenance of nearby restaurants. Oh, Glint had an eye for quality, no matter who posessed it.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 26, 2002 at 00:22:06 (EST)

My two cents are: Glint never paid much attention to Willy's cat. He was predominantly a spoodge man. Sperm-stains on cloth, a theoretical spurting over a sink, a well-juiced cigar, these were Glint's political interests. This was a man who wanted to get right to the important facts. This was a man of jism.
.
- Tuesday, March 26, 2002 at 00:18:05 (EST)

My two cents are: So Glint quit too? Went the e-mail route? I always wondered why he stayed around at all, given the beating he was taking. Who's going to call out the anniversaries of important Republican triumphs like the discovery of the blue dress and the murder of Willy's cat?
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 25, 2002 at 22:59:45 (EST)

My two cents are: Maybe flushing the wrapper from the doughnut.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 25, 2002 at 22:55:47 (EST)

My two cents are: And check this out, we have a bathroom dweller. Someone who seems to hang most of the day in one of the stalls. Today I walk in and the dweller flushes in the stall but dosen't come out. weird huh? I mean who flushes while on the squat? kind of risky if you ask me especially with these pressure toilets.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 25, 2002 at 22:37:58 (EST)

My two cents are: It means you wanted to order duck but were afraid to for some reason. You will deny this fear consciously, which is why you dreamt about it.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 25, 2002 at 22:34:57 (EST)

My two cents are: I saw the melonhead 3 times today. Didn't see the penguin.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 25, 2002 at 22:33:54 (EST)

My two cents are: Whether Glint goes e-mail or public, the answer is still "transcripts." Transcripts will solve everything.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 25, 2002 at 21:36:48 (EST)

My two cents are: That newpaper article that Gary thinks is about how disruptive the new law will be looks to me like a run of the mill attempt at news reporting. Probably written by a liberal, although neither I nor Gary can tell the reporter's politics from the story. I think what this boils down to, Mr. Dot, it that if Gary reads his cut and paste he doesn't read it very closely, and yes, he is stupid.
Oggie
- Monday, March 25, 2002 at 21:34:59 (EST)

My two cents are: Gary's posting from Florida really opened my eyes. Looks like one expert predicts there's going to be a soft-money feeding frenzy of epic proportions! My God, what have we wrought with our cavalier tinkering with campaign-finance law!
Halibert Dugan
- Monday, March 25, 2002 at 21:31:00 (EST)

My two cents are: Do you read the stuff you post Gary? Have a little trouble understanding it? Is this a dyxlexia-related problem, or are you just stupid?
.
- Monday, March 25, 2002 at 21:28:55 (EST)

My two cents are: Hmmm. All right, let's see...[scroll] [scroll] [scroll]. Whatever. Back to email...
Glint
- Monday, March 25, 2002 at 21:07:09 (EST)

My two cents are: Playboy soliciting `Women of Enron' for upcoming pictorial By KRISTEN HAYS (Associated Press Writer) The Associated Press Web Posted : 03/25/2002 1:48 PM Playboy Magazine may entice some of those who lost their shirts in the Enron scandal to reveal more than even investigating congressional committees want to see. The Chicago-based adult magazine is inviting Enron women, past and present, to send snapshots of themselves clad in bikinis if they wish to appear in an upcoming "Women of Enron" issue. "That's rich," said Deborah DeFforge, co-chairwoman of the Severed Enron Employees Coalition. "That's kind of a highlight. We've had so much depressing news or stressful news, and then to all of a sudden come up with something like that, it's kind of cute." Plenty of women at the heart of scandals have appeared on Playboy's pages, from presidential sexual harassment litigant Paula Jones to televangelist mistress Jessica Hahn. Darva Conger, the "Who Wants to Marry a Multimillionaire" bride whose celebrated TV nuptials in February 2000 ended in a quickie annulment, followed pleas for privacy with posing for Playboy. But Elizabeth Norris, spokeswoman for the magazine, said the accounting and finance scandal that emerged from Enron's stunning failure last year didn't necessarily pique Playboy's interest. "This is an opportunity for them to do something fun in the midst of the turmoil that's going on in their lives," Norris said. "I don't think I thought when we decided to do this that these were women of scandal. These are women who are out of a job," she said. "We are offering what you could view as a part-time job, or what might turn into a new career." Norris said the magazine plans to wait for interested women to approach Playboy rather than solicit candidates. They must provide proof of employment at Enron, and the offer is open to current workers as well. Norris also said editors hope to assemble the issue "as soon as possible," but couldn't yet provide a publication date. Enron spokeswoman Karen Denne said the company declined comment on the model search. Rebekah Rushing, one of thousands laid off when Enron filed the largest corporate bankruptcy in history on Dec. 2, initially was speechless. Rushing quickly found another job and has since run one of two funds in which donations are funneled to former workers who need help with basic needs, such as mortgage or rent payments. "I guess that's their way of trying to help, I don't know," Rushing said. "Maybe there's somebody out there who would do it.' DeFforge said she wouldn't pose, but more power to others who might. "I'm sure there are some in the younger set who would be perfect," she said.
The real Enron crime will be if Wendy Gramm poses
- Monday, March 25, 2002 at 20:38:28 (EST)

My two cents are: Here is an article from the Orlando Sentinel that would seem to put your statement about tidying up the election system a bit at odds with reality. Enjoy.//// 'Soft money' limit sparks loophole hunt/ By Tamara Lytle - Posted March 25, 2002 - WASHINGTON -- Lawyers, lobbyists and lawmakers are poring over the landmark campaign-finance bill that passed last week, diligently looking for the loopholes. The bill, which President Bush is expected to sign soon, is meant to take away power from rich special interests who have funded campaigns through the use of unregulated contributions of "soft money." Skeptics say political insiders will quickly find a way to exploit the new system. For now, though, it's become clear that the new rules will severely restrict the kinds of freewheeling spending -- in the name of "party building" -- that reached a zenith in the 2000 election campaign when about $500 million was spent. "It's depressing to talk about it," Florida GOP Chairman Al Cardenas said. "It's not only going to decimate national parties but the state parties as well." Cardenas said political parties will be hurt because they no longer will be allowed to raise unlimited money from businesses, unions and individuals to spend on key federal races. Such a change could shift some political clout toward independent interest groups that still will be allowed to raise unlimited amounts of money. Those groups, though, will be banned from spending soft money on campaign ads during the last 60 days of an election. Nasty attack ads during the final days of a campaign -- often financed solely by these independent groups -- had become increasingly popular in recent years, to the chagrin of many voters. In Central Florida, for instance, a conservative group called Club for Growth spent $400,000 on the campaign of a little- known Republican, Ric Keller. That money helped Keller through a bruising primary race, and again through a tough general- election battle with popular Orange County Democrat Linda Chapin. The organization spent much of its money on negative ads that played a critical part in helping Keller win the race. The new campaign-finance law means voters will see fewer of those last-minute ads. Feeding frenzy But the big-money free-for-all is not quite over yet. That's because the new reforms, pushed by U.S. Sens. John McCain and Russ Feingold, will not take effect during this election cycle. Already, the Club for Growth is making plans to be back in Central Florida, leader Stephen Moore said. The group, he said, has decided to back the congressional campaign of House Speaker Tom Feeney, R-Oviedo, who likely will run for a newly created U.S. House district. The group will invest $4 million in about 20 races nationally. Because the new finance law won't take effect until after the November elections, both parties will cram in as much soft-money fund raising as possible before the clock ticks down. "We're going to see a feeding frenzy of epic proportions," said Matt Keller of Common Cause, a citizen lobby group. The money will pay for this fall's close race for control of Congress. It also will help the parties stockpile for the future, when soft money to political parties will be illegal. The huge amounts of soft-money campaign donations to parties and candidates left many Americans feeling alienated from the political process. To them, soft money had become a form of legal corruption. President Clinton offered sleepovers in the Lincoln Bedroom and coffees in the White House in exchange for set donation totals. He pardoned Marc Rich after pleas from his ex-wife, Denise Rich, who had donated $1 million. Reformers such as McCain have been working for seven years to get the campaign-finance bill passed. McCain became interested after being caught up in the Keating Five scandal, in which senators worked on behalf of campaign backer Charles Keating, later jailed in the savings-and-loan fiasco. The recent collapse of Enron, though, underscored the influence in Washington of big corporate donors. Enron donated more than $5 million to Republicans and Democrats and was Bush's biggest benefactor. Such large-scale contributions were the real targets of the new law, said Paul Herrnson, a professor of government at University of Maryland. "The biggest result will be corporations, unions, trade associations and individuals that used to give large amounts of soft money to political parties will not be able to do so," Herrnson said. "It's the $200,000 and million-dollar contributions that allow interests to set the agenda in Washington," said Keller, of Common Cause. State parties take hit State parties, too, will get less soft money. Some parties, such as those in Florida, have aggressively raised soft money on their own as well as taken money passed through from the national parties. Cardenas said he has used the soft money for important activities such as promoting absentee balloting and driving voters to the polls. State parties will be able to accept checks up to $10,000 per person for voter education. But Cardenas said his reading of the new bill -- which goes next to the Federal Election Commission for detailed rules -- is that his get-out-the vote project will be mostly wiped out. Aubrey Jewett, a political scientist at the University of Central Florida, said rich individuals likely will get around the rules by paying for ads themselves. The bill does not restrict individuals who act on their own, spending their own cash. "When you try to plug up money, it's like a dike -- it has to flow somewhere, so it will find a course," Jewett said of the rush to discover loopholes. The independent groups will be able to spend their largess in other ways, such as last-minute mailings to voters and "push polls." Push polls are telephone calls from groups purporting to be testing public opinion but then giving voters information -- often negative -- about one of the candidates. And the independent groups might be able to continue the last-minute ads if the Supreme Court overturns that part of the bill, as many critics have predicted. Jamin Raskin, professor of law at American University, said the same court majority who decided the presidential recount likely would throw out that reform. Supporters of the bill did make some concessions. They dropped a provision that would have given candidates less-expensive broadcast-advertising rates because of the fervent opposition of media companies. Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., said he was disappointed that the reforms do not tackle that problem. As long as campaigns are expensive, politicians will keep looking for "schemes to get around the law," he said. Nelson spent more than 85 percent of his campaign budget on broadcast ads, he said. Nelson criticized soft money during his campaign, but he and Republican opponent Bill McCollum had accounts set up specifically to raise the unlimited funds. Nelson now raises soft money to help elect other Democrats to the Senate because he is vice chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. That group, along with other official Republican and Democratic party committees, will be barred from collecting soft money. GOP could do well Although many Republicans had opposed the reform bill, the GOP may thrive under the new rules. More focus will be placed on another Republican strength: "hard money," or donations from individuals and PACs that are reported and regulated. Individuals will be able to give twice as much -- $2,000 per election -- under the new rules. Unions and companies will be able to ask their ranks to give the maximum of $2,000 apiece and then bundle those checks into one big envelope for a particular candidate. "The Enrons of the future will not be able to ply the national party committees directly," Raskin said. "But if a corporation thinks it's important to support a politician, they have a way of rounding up the executives." Still, proponents say that while clever insiders search for the loopholes, the system will be better for a while. "This is really just the beginning of the process to clean up government," said John Rother, lobbyist for AARP.
Gary
- Monday, March 25, 2002 at 20:27:15 (EST)

My two cents are: Only Glint, Pete and John Ashcroft will know what they discuss.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 25, 2002 at 20:26:03 (EST)

My two cents are: "Take it to e-mail." That's classy. Has the big-time conspiritorial ring or clunk to it. Makes you imagine a sweaty, ill-shaven squash-faced guy in a rewoven ill-fitting suit with big cuffs, heavy black brogues on his feet, talking into a public telephone in grimy rain in East Berlin. Let's take it to e-mail. Do it on the q.t. An e-mail drop.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 25, 2002 at 19:42:18 (EST)

My two cents are: I'd rather spout it all out in public. Besides, I quit. Done. Besides, I've been geeshed.
WILL-YUM
- Monday, March 25, 2002 at 19:36:10 (EST)

My two cents are: Pete, are you saying that somebody bugged your car? Or was this a recording device that you installed yourself and forgot about the 18 minute gap? We can take it to e-mail if you'd rather.
Glint <[email protected]>
- Monday, March 25, 2002 at 19:23:13 (EST)

My two cents are: ???? What planet is HE from?
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- Monday, March 25, 2002 at 18:18:14 (EST)

My two cents are: "Especially when they misconstrue the radio station yahoos for the driver" - Pete. The answer is transcipts. Send in the $15 or however much the boss jock wants for the tape of the show. Or better yet make your own.
Glint
- Monday, March 25, 2002 at 18:14:41 (EST)

My two cents are: I don't understand the part of the 1st amendment that lets John Ashcroft read my mail.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 25, 2002 at 17:37:37 (EST)

My two cents are: Look, Gary, what you need to do, besides bemoan the loss of "free speech" for the magnate, is understand that your argument is shit. As you may know, there are already other campaign laws, laws that put fairly strict limits on what and how much can be contributed. There's also the issue of me not being able to stand in front of a polling place on election day passing out campaign literature. By your simplistic reasoning, ALL such limits are violations of the 1st amendment. Which would lead one to believe, Gary, that maybe you're the one who doesn't understand the full complexity of the 1st amendment. Now go frolic.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 25, 2002 at 17:18:30 (EST)

My two cents are: CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM IS: A bucket of slop to be fed to hungry pigs. Run for Congress, and borrow money from (the bank), and never repay it, then vote your self a pay raise.
WILL-YUM
- Monday, March 25, 2002 at 16:55:57 (EST)

My two cents are: Campaign finance "reform" is most certainly is a free speech issue and you have yet to make a definitive statement as to whether this legislation is constitutional or not. Enron was just an excuse for some weak-kneed GOPers to cover their hindmost and vote with the Democrats to get this passed, despite it's constitutional questions. And the only tiny minds here are on the left side. You leftists impose limits on everybody but yourselves, one set of rules for you, another set for everybody else, the constitution be damned. I would ask, what part of the First Amendment don't you understand?
Gary
- Monday, March 25, 2002 at 16:41:54 (EST)

My two cents are: My car has a feature that turns off the voice activation when the radio is on. Jap car.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 25, 2002 at 16:07:47 (EST)

My two cents are: Jumpiong to conclusions without a brain is an occupational hazard of the socialsit. Even so, I am awed at the pineapple's capacity for amazement. And yet it is so simple.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 25, 2002 at 16:06:28 (EST)

My two cents are: Good to know we're going to get regular updates from the pineapple, even in his days of sorrow and of shame.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 25, 2002 at 16:04:26 (EST)

My two cents are: Tall Cape Cods, I hope. 1/2 Vodka. I need a drink. Voice-activated recorders in my car are no fun. Especially when they misconstrue the radio station yahoos for the driver. Talk about jumpiong to conclusions without a brain. Amazing. Simply amazing.
Pete�
- Monday, March 25, 2002 at 16:01:55 (EST)

My two cents are: I read that liberal screed down there, and I am still mystified about what the hell they have to trade in Cape Horn.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 25, 2002 at 15:57:47 (EST)

My two cents are: WASHINGTON �� Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Monday he has talked to Army Secretary Thomas White about White's contacts with former colleagues at Enron Corp. Rumsfeld told a Pentagon news conference that he and White discussed how White would respond to investigations of Enron's collapse last year and how White would remove himself from any Pentagon business involving his former company. Meanwhile, White wrote to a House committee Friday detailing 55 phone calls or attempted phone calls to Enron officials made from his home telephone. Those calls are in addition to 29 meetings with or phone calls from his Pentagon office to Enron officials that White admitted in January that he made. White, who was a top executive at Enron before taking over at the Army in May, had agreed with Congress to sell all of his Enron shares before the end of November. White finished selling the Enron stock he directly owned in late October, as the Houston-based energy company had begun its steep slide into bankruptcy. Earlier this month Sens. Carl Levin, D-Mich., and John Warner, R-Va., the chairman and top Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, wrote White saying they were not yet satisfied that he had fully divested his financial interests in the company. Six of the calls from his home phone came during October, White's letter to the House Government Reform Committee said. White had disclosed seven other meetings or calls during October in his January letter. White wrote that no one at Enron asked him to use his influence to help the company and he did not do so. He said that "virtually all" his conversations with former Enron colleagues "would have involved some comment or discussion relating in at least a general way to Enron's financial condition." White's critics question whether his contacts with Enron brass allowed him to sell his stock quickly enough to avoid losing more money. The company's stock plunged to just 26 cents; White had sold his shares for as low as $12.86 each, on Oct. 30. Rumsfeld said he did not want to discuss details of White's Enron contacts. "I have every confidence that Secretary White is doing his best to comply with all the requests that have been made of him," Rumsfeld said. Rumsfeld said he met with White and a top Pentagon lawyer late last year when the Enron bankruptcy first made headlines. Rumsfeld said he and White agreed that White would have nothing to do with any Defense Department business regarding Enron or Arthur Andersen, Enron's former accounting firm. Before leaving to become Army secretary, White had been head of Enron Energy Services. That Enron subsidiary held a $25 million, 10-year contract to provide utility services to the Army's Fort Hamilton in New York City
Legs
- Monday, March 25, 2002 at 15:57:00 (EST)

My two cents are: I can't figure out whether Glint's crack about PBS is anti-PBS or pro-PBS. Anyone else?
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 25, 2002 at 15:56:19 (EST)

My two cents are: By Dana Milbank Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, March 25, 2002; Page A08 President Bush and his aides came to office with an almost religious devotion to honoring his campaign promises. Lately, his approach appears to have become more flexible. In recent days, the White House has taken positions on international trade, foreign policy and campaign finance reform that seem to contradict the president's campaign stances, a number of political observers in both parties say. Partially because of the counterterrorism war and partially because of a natural transition into the second year of governing, GOP strategists say -- and a few White House officials agree -- that the campaign commitments are no longer as binding as they once were. On Wednesday, for example, President Bush said he would sign the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform legislation into law. In early 2000, Bush was asked on ABC News whether he would veto the bill, and he replied, "Yes, I would." On Friday, the administration imposed duties averaging 29 percent on Canadian "softwood" lumber. During the campaign, Bush talked about establishing "free trade from northernmost Canada to the tip of Cape Horn." Earlier this month, the administration imposed tariffs of up to 30 percent on steel imports, prompting European Union officials last week to assemble retaliatory trade barriers. In his 1999 memoir, Bush wrote, "I do not support import fees." When he announced his candidacy in June 1999, he said, "I'll work to end tariffs and break down barriers everywhere, entirely, so the whole world trades in freedom." On Feb. 25, Bush appeared on the South Lawn to inspect hybrid-fuel cars and to tout a tax credit for buying such vehicles. During the campaign, he mocked Al Gore's "targeted" tax credits, including one for such vehicles. "How many of you own hybrid electric-gasoline engine vehicles?" Bush often asked to laughter. Bush has also altered his aversion to "nation building," as the United States helps to create a democracy and stable government in Afghanistan. "The vice president believes in nation building," Bush said in a presidential debate, to distinguish himself from Gore. "I would be very careful about using our troops as nation builders." Officially, Bush aides say he remains as faithful to his campaign promises as ever, despite changes mandated by the Sept. 11 attacks and the recession. "The president has an extraordinary record of living up to his campaign commitments, and, as a result, he's built a relationship of trust with the American people because they know they can count on him to do the things he says," said White House spokeswoman Claire Buchan. White House officials point out that Bush's top two campaign promises -- a tax cut and education reform -- have become law, and that others, including efforts to aid charities and adopt a national energy policy, are working their way through Congress. Even in areas where Bush has apparently shifted, some of his aides argue otherwise. They say his steel and wood tariffs are consistent with his pledge to enforce the nation's trade laws. They say he always supported some campaign finance reforms. They say the Afghan operation does not qualify as nation building. And they say he never opposed hybrid-vehicle tax credits -- only Gore's overall tax policy. But others say, and some Bush aides privately agree, that Bush's fealty to campaign promises has inevitably changed. The Sept. 11 attacks have rewritten the national agenda, while the Enron Corp. collapse has raised new doubts about money in politics, and the recession and shrinking federal revenue have reversed budget plans. "The only front-burner issue of moment is the war, and the other issues become a case of triage," said Bill Dal Col, a GOP strategist who ran Steve Forbes's primary challenge to Bush. "Because of the war, they have to look at everything through that lens. He's got to govern, and he's got to govern in a time of crisis." A senior White House aide concurred. "The circumstances have changed, and the president has adopted an agenda to meet those circumstances," the official said, arguing that Bush's second-year agenda has switched, by necessity, from campaign issues to the three issues from Bush's State of the Union address: war, recession and homeland security. Democratic partisans charge that Bush is guilty of the same trait for which he faulted Gore: "saying anything to get elected," or "saying one thing and doing another." Bush, by contrast, was billed as a man who said what he meant and meant what he said. "Once again, we see that George W. Bush is a man of his most recent word," Democratic National Committee Chairman Terence R. McAuliffe charged last month. "George Bush said a lot of things and made a lot of promises during the campaign, but he has no plans of keeping those promises." McAuliffe released that invective after Bush announced that Yucca Mountain in Nevada would become the main burying place for the nation's nuclear waste. During the campaign, Bush stated that "sound science, and not politics, must prevail" in Yucca. Nevada officials complain that Bush ignored a study by the congressional General Accounting Office from December that said scientific testing to determine the facility's viability would not be complete before 2006. Sen. Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) said Bush "broke his promise," and Gore called the decision a "flat-out broken promise." A Bush adviser said the president's action last month was not the last word on Yucca, pointing out that the science would be reviewed for years, during the debate in Congress and later during the regulatory application process. When staffers showed up for work at the White House last year, they were given a booklet of "campaign commitments" that would dominate the year. Now, with Bush enjoying lofty poll numbers and the nation on a war footing, GOP strategists believe the president can afford to violate a pledge or two as long as he stays true to his basic principles of strong defense, tax cuts, gun ownership and opposition to abortion. "The Bush people figured out a long time ago there are only a few cardinal points you can't change if you're a Republican," said GOP strategist Tom Cole, a former chief of staff at the Republican National Committee. Otherwise, he said, "you have tremendous leeway." The recession has made a mess of Bush's early projections about the size of the federal budget surplus and his vow to keep off-limits Social Security payroll taxes. "For years, politicians in both parties have dipped into the trust fund to pay for more spending," he said during the campaign. Bush made exceptions in the case of recession or war, both of which have occurred. On the other hand, Bush argued shortly after taking office that "we can proceed with tax relief without fear of budget deficits, even if the economy softens." The violence in the Middle East has made it impossible for Bush to honor his campaign promise to move the U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv. "As soon as I take office, I will begin the process of moving the U.S. ambassador to the city Israel has chosen as its capital," Bush said. His campaign slammed President Bill Clinton and Gore for being too slow to honor their own promises to move the embassy. But last June, Bush delayed the move, approved by Congress in 1995, by six months. In December, he delayed it by another six months. An aide said he still intends to move the embassy. More debatable is Bush's vow to take a hard line with sanctions against Cuba. "I will keep the current sanctions in place," Bush promised in August 2000. Many Cuban Americans took that to mean Bush would end Clinton's blocking of lawsuits against foreign companies that use property in Cuba that was confiscated from Americans. Those sanctions are part of the 1996 Helms-Burton Act, but Clinton used waivers to block them. Once in office, Bush, too, extended the waivers twice. Rep. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), said the president "broke one of his campaign promises." Bush aides said he never meant to imply he would end the Clinton waivers. The only campaign promise Bush aides acknowledge that the president violated was his pledge to place restrictions on carbon dioxide emissions as part of a "four pollutant" environmental strategy. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Christine Todd Whitman confirmed the "four pollutant" policy early last year, but the White House reversed her, saying the campaign commitment had been made in error. Bush sent a letter to GOP lawmakers in March opposing mandatory limits on carbon dioxide.
Reality turns Snippy into a liberal
- Monday, March 25, 2002 at 15:54:28 (EST)

My two cents are: Funny stuff, ladies and gentlemen! By the way, Gary, how did you find out about our page? Welcome aboard! A new conservative voice is always appreciated!
Harlan St. Wolf
- Monday, March 25, 2002 at 15:51:15 (EST)

My two cents are: What is it with guys from Nebraska and goats?
Vah Jeena Updeass
- Monday, March 25, 2002 at 15:47:52 (EST)

My two cents are: You're confusing Pete with Glint.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 25, 2002 at 15:46:36 (EST)

My two cents are: Somebody put a tap on Pete's phone? Caught him in flagrant delecto? Was it a Boy Scout or a goat?
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 25, 2002 at 15:45:27 (EST)

My two cents are: Hilarious name, there, Vaj. You should be writing for Regis.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 25, 2002 at 15:43:39 (EST)

My two cents are: What is this about? Has someone place a tap on somebody's telephone unit when the call went to the 3$/minute hotline and then alleged it somhow involved the thing called the bj?
Vajhina Pusbukeet
- Monday, March 25, 2002 at 15:12:13 (EST)

My two cents are: Ironically, 14:56, that is what occurred in my pathetic case. Done. Aloha.
Pete�
- Monday, March 25, 2002 at 15:01:41 (EST)

My two cents are: http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/020401/usnews/1war.htm
treason
- Monday, March 25, 2002 at 15:00:43 (EST)

My two cents are: Never mind that, what I want to know is what's this "House of Delegates" crap? Is it anything like a state assembly or state senate?
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 25, 2002 at 14:57:51 (EST)

My two cents are: Never had a problem with phone taps. However, their use needs to be limited to exposing blowjobs, terrorism and other important matters of state.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 25, 2002 at 14:56:04 (EST)

My two cents are: Maryland's House of Delegates is preparing to pass anti-terrorism legislation today that would dramatically expand the ability of police to tap phones and eavesdrop on the e-mail and Internet activity of suspected criminals -- part of a deluge of terror-busting measures under consideration in nearly every state capital. The Maryland bill, like those in dozens of other states, has inspired a heated clash between civil libertarians and those who believe that some rights must be compromised to prevent another attack on U.S. soil. Each time that conflict surfaced last week, as Maryland delegates met in committee to craft the legislation, concerns about security ultimately outweighed fears about the potential for police abuse. "I realize that this bill basically says you can tap someone's phone for jaywalking, and normally I would say, 'No way,' " said Del. Dana Lee Dembrow (D-Montgomery). "But after what happened on September 11th, I say screw 'em.".
Didja hear that, Linda? The dims think phone taps are't so bad after all.
- Monday, March 25, 2002 at 14:16:19 (EST)

My two cents are: Yeah, too bad they couldn't have run about 2 hours on light pollution and the Czechs. Why leave us salivating for more?
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 25, 2002 at 13:53:48 (EST)

My two cents are: Speaking of PBS, on morning edition this morning they ran a piece about light pollution and how the Czech Republic is the first country in the world to mandata nation wide restrictions on waste lighting. It was basically a fluf piece however, by PBS standards. Story ran under 5 minutes in length.
Glint
- Monday, March 25, 2002 at 12:51:33 (EST)

My two cents are: Well, there is Plastination.
WILL-YUM
- Monday, March 25, 2002 at 12:21:36 (EST)

My two cents are: Not if they grow better in space. The Jap will never catch up with our lead in space-based industry.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 25, 2002 at 11:38:55 (EST)

My two cents are: Once again the Japs are coming in on the leading edge of a burgeoning business. Think of all the uses there are for artificial frog eyes! The mind boggles. They'll have us by the nuts after all.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 25, 2002 at 11:37:42 (EST)

My two cents are: Kill the Oscar thread, asshole. This is a political discussion site. Bring on the artificial frog eyes.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 25, 2002 at 11:36:04 (EST)

My two cents are: Halle Berry may think it's a big breakthrough for a soul mama like herself to win the Oscar, but I think it's more of a breakthrough that a prematurely-bald poor small-town trailer-trash kid like Opie could win TWO of the things in one night. Talk about your upward mobility.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 25, 2002 at 11:32:49 (EST)

My two cents are: This has everything to do with Enron, Gary. Without Enrongate, Snippy vetoes the sucker. This is not a free speech issue, rube. This is merely the latest campaign finance reform legislation. It simply sets some new limits. As did every other piece of campaign reform legislation. As will every one in the future until national campaigns are funded publicly and equally. I know this idea is repugnant to tiny minds, like Gary's, but that's the way it's going to be, sport. We'll fund the elections and "The Pioneers" will become a back-up singing group again. Oh, I'll miss the corporate control of the process, but you can't fight the jungle. You've got to live in the jungle.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 25, 2002 at 11:31:31 (EST)

My two cents are: Japanese Scientist Makes Frog Eyes...
... Developing
- Monday, March 25, 2002 at 11:29:12 (EST)

My two cents are: Was Halle one of Drudge's picks? Because if she was, I'm going to bookmark his site.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 25, 2002 at 11:28:00 (EST)

My two cents are: Maybe it's the crynic without the gruff adopted persona, Granny.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 25, 2002 at 11:26:18 (EST)

My two cents are: If the pineapple has been flattened by the Steam-roller of Life, who the hell is Gary?
curious Tampa grandmother
- Monday, March 25, 2002 at 11:25:33 (EST)

My two cents are: Oh, hell, I'll debate you too, Gary. You've got a leg up on me because you've done a lot of research. Give me a couple days to catch up and then let's roll.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 25, 2002 at 11:18:46 (EST)

My two cents are: Throbbing, eh? Throb this, Halle.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 25, 2002 at 11:15:32 (EST)

My two cents are: Halle had a PBS show the other night about Paris, said that the Champs-Elys�es was the throbbing heart of the burg. That's like saying that Fisherman's Wharf is the heart of San Francisco, or Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum is the heart of London, or Carhenge is the heart of Nebraska. Are we going to be afflicted with this damned octaroon for the next twenty years here?
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 25, 2002 at 11:05:10 (EST)

My two cents are: How can we be sure it wasn't the 15/16ths of Halle Berry's genes that are white that made here an Oscar-worthy actor? Why does she wail and blubber like Dan Rather about the one splib that slipped into the woodpile? Look at that other black character, the buck who won for best actor. He didn't play the race card, and he's at least 10/16ths more Negroid than her. And what kind of a name is Halle, anyway? Why can't she have a real black name like Condaleeza? Oreo cookie, if you ask me.
Dances-With-Trolls
- Monday, March 25, 2002 at 10:59:27 (EST)

My two cents are: Just because anonymous folds, bro, doesn't mean I'm going to. I stand ready for the debate. Let's get down. Mano a mano, no mas. You and me, Gary. No holds barred. Bring on the talk-show hick arguments. My browser is as good as yours.
Dances-With-Trolls
- Monday, March 25, 2002 at 10:56:12 (EST)

My two cents are: Well, Husker, I'd really love to debate the constitutional merits of the legislation, but I'm afraid you'd overwhelm me with a list of specific past campaign finance cases that were ruled unconstitutional. I'm afraid you wouldn't simply make some talk-show hick argument about it all being so obviously against free speech, some end-of-story, 'nuff-said rant. I'm afraid you'd start citing sections of the new law to support your well-reasoned position. I know when to fold 'em, bro.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 25, 2002 at 09:54:42 (EST)

My two cents are: To the poster on March 23 at 17:29:28 -- The issue is not John McCain or Ken Lay, but whether or not this legislation is constitutional. When you are prepared to debate the constitutional merits of the bill, let me know. This legislation will do nothing to as you say 'tidy up' our election system. It provides no provision for disclosure of contributions and it doesn't even take effect until after this election cycle is over. Talk about lack of guts.
Gary
- Monday, March 25, 2002 at 09:00:18 (EST)

My two cents are: They like the cut of one another's jibs. And they can both spot nickel-nosers.
Dines-With-Bankers
- Monday, March 25, 2002 at 03:21:49 (EST)

My two cents are: The one who dines with Johnny Cornshuck? Why not?
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 25, 2002 at 03:20:40 (EST)

My two cents are: Well, everybody needs a hobby. Why not the famous Maryland playboy financier?
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 25, 2002 at 03:19:12 (EST)

My two cents are: Dines with a banker who is also an amateur building inspector.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 25, 2002 at 03:18:12 (EST)

My two cents are: Urbane, in a word.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 25, 2002 at 03:17:12 (EST)

My two cents are: No false air of sophistication about THAT lad.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 25, 2002 at 03:16:24 (EST)

My two cents are: And the voice of a true rube shall rise in the East.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 25, 2002 at 03:14:50 (EST)

My two cents are: Thus spake the hayseed.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 25, 2002 at 03:13:47 (EST)

My two cents are: The Truth of the Rube.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 25, 2002 at 02:55:09 (EST)

My two cents are: I will say that Knocking on Heaven's Door is Dylan's most moving tune. Anybody else see him in the flick Pat Garrett and Billy The Kid? Didn't think so. Probably because it came out the same year as Soylent Green. Hard to compete from the deep shadow of such a masterpiece. Heston beats the beans out of Dylan on the silver screen. (Posted at http://members.fortunecity.com/fornigate/)
Glint
- Monday, March 25, 2002 at 00:42:48 (EST)

My two cents are: I've downloaded every song Dylan ever recorded, all for free. The guy can not sing. Should have asked Johnny Mathis. Now, that boy can sing. End of story.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 25, 2002 at 00:28:35 (EST)

My two cents are: Here's a Dylan clip for you. That is if you can stand the sound of a drunk monkey puking while someone shoves a cactus up his ass. My take on this is the dude stinks but I know all about the king's clothes and how everybody thinks they're just the cat's pajamas.
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Coffeehouse/2909/farewellgold.ra
- Monday, March 25, 2002 at 00:17:23 (EST)

My two cents are: I don't know. From what I've heard of folk singers Dylan couldn't carry Gordon Lightfoot's guitar pick.
putt blug
- Monday, March 25, 2002 at 00:11:43 (EST)

My two cents are: Wasn't that Dylan who wuz riding the subway around the city of new orleans?
penny a point ain't noone keepin' score
- Monday, March 25, 2002 at 00:05:42 (EST)

My two cents are: Got any free Dylan downloads? I want to find out for myself if the old liver spot can sing or not.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 24, 2002 at 23:46:43 (EST)

My two cents are: Has anybody seen any of those promo shots for that new movie, Sorority Boys? Looks mighty hot!
Borg j of n
- Sunday, March 24, 2002 at 23:42:20 (EST)

My two cents are: Sure, 22:16 gave me the old dink doink, but that's easy enough if you're willing to be that savage.
22:05
- Sunday, March 24, 2002 at 23:20:21 (EST)

My two cents are: God bless Toby Belch. 'Nuff said. 'Night, gentlemen. A demain.
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- Sunday, March 24, 2002 at 23:02:55 (EST)

My two cents are: Looks like 22:16 gave 22:05 the ol' dink doink!
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 24, 2002 at 22:34:11 (EST)

My two cents are: I love it when Glint comes out with these sociological observations. They ought to induct the man into the Socio-Economic Critique Hall of Fame. Twice. I'd like to see Bob Dylan get in THERE.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 24, 2002 at 22:17:23 (EST)

My two cents are: David Crosby has put out some pretty good soft rock tunes, like Deja Vu. But if you think he's soft rock only you haven't heard him singing about his hair. Only those with RealAudio need apply...
http://realguide.real.com//RGX/RG-us.(/ra8/?g=classicrock).center.txt..RGX/ramhurl.real.com/smildemohurl.html?file=ra8/kingbiscuitradio/csn_almostcutmyhair_full.smi
- Sunday, March 24, 2002 at 22:16:47 (EST)

My two cents are: Half the trailers in this park are owned by damned nickel nosers who won't have anything fixed unless it can be done with tape. Gives the rest of us a bad name. There's even one guy who has stucco warts in sight of his French doors. Guy would never make it as a banker.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 24, 2002 at 22:15:38 (EST)

My two cents are: CSN. I like that. Must be a good feeling to be a fan of a band that's so important you can just say its initials and people will know what you're talking about. Some people, anyway. CMLW= the Champagne Music of Lawrence Welk.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 24, 2002 at 22:11:51 (EST)

My two cents are: David Crosby has earned his credentials as the Sir Toby Belch of soft-rock music. He didn't need no steenking Hall of Fame.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 24, 2002 at 22:05:10 (EST)

My two cents are: When they're ready to do something about it, they'll induct it into the Duck Hall of Fame. Twice.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 24, 2002 at 22:02:16 (EST)

My two cents are: Had another dream last night. I was having lunch with the boss, who was picking up the tab. Seems that we were back in the Mexican restaurant probably eating our shark steaks, but it could have very well been the Olney Ale House. Somehow I don't think the location was important. Anyway, I was gazing around at the decor and noticed one of Gourdon's ducks had its head lodged firmly in the plaster ceiling and its lifeless limp body hanging down. A waiter noticed me looking up and walked over to explain. "Oh yes, that. Well, you see the other day this duck flew in. Well, it started to panic flying and flapping all around the dining room around trying to get out. Finally, in desperation it attempted to reach the sky by breaking through the roof and it's been hanging there ever since. Anyway, no one has bothered to do anything about it yet." The waiter turned and walked away. What does it mean?
Glint
- Sunday, March 24, 2002 at 21:58:42 (EST)

My two cents are: Gosh, the banker is my hero, too, and I don't even know him!
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 24, 2002 at 21:56:02 (EST)

My two cents are: The "rock and roll hall of fame"?
House of Meat
- Sunday, March 24, 2002 at 21:52:54 (EST)

My two cents are: 3 Cajuns and 3 Texans are taking a train to attend a conference. At the station, each Texan buys a ticket, but they notice that only 1 Cajun buys a ticket. "Don't you all need tickets?" they ask. "Mais Non" reply the Cajuns, "One is more dan enough, boo." Once they board the train, the Texans take their seats and notice that all 3 Cajuns cram themselves into a toilet. As the conductor passes through the car, he knocks on the toilet door and says: "Ticket, please." The door cracks ever so slightly, a hand passes out a ticket, and then the door quickly closes. "Ahhh..very clever" think the Texans. After the conference, the 3 Cajuns and the 3 Texans are again at the train station for the return trip. Since the Texans are now so "money-wise", they smirk as they only purchase 1 ticket....but then they notice that the Cajuns don't buy a ticket at all. "How will you get back without even a single ticket?" they ask. "Mais, we don need dat, us on de back trip!" say the Cajuns. Once they board the train, the 3 Texans cram themselves into the largest toilet (naturally), and the 3 Cajuns ease into another toilet. As the train begins to move away from the station, one of the Cajuns leaves the toilet and knocks on the door of the Texans' toilet, saying ..................."Ticket, please."
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 24, 2002 at 21:42:52 (EST)

My two cents are: I believe Dylan was the first one inducted ever.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 24, 2002 at 21:41:37 (EST)

My two cents are: "Yes, David Crosby. What a sweet-sounding band that was!" = House of Meat. Wasn't Crosby inducted twice into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame - once for the Buffs and again for CSN? At least they've let Dylan perform there, and maybe one of these days he'll get good enough to get in.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 24, 2002 at 20:36:29 (EST)

My two cents are: Poe's going to be a waitress at a new restaurant across the street from the banker that opens Tuesday. Banker said the building's needed lots of maintenance to get it up to code. Said the previous owners were a bunch of nickle nosers who wouldn't have anything fixed unless it could be done with tape. Had lunch at the banker's house. You should see the french doors on his house. Not a wart of stucco in sight.
Glint
- Sunday, March 24, 2002 at 20:26:35 (EST)

My two cents are: Hell, a corner stool at Denny's would look good right about now.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 24, 2002 at 20:22:18 (EST)

My two cents are: Guess a buff Okie cheerleader would look good right about now.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 24, 2002 at 20:21:47 (EST)

My two cents are: It had to come to the ultimate wedgie. No other way.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 24, 2002 at 20:21:17 (EST)

My two cents are: Fat guys don't bounce when they hit, do they? Fat dumb guys, anyway.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 24, 2002 at 20:20:16 (EST)

My two cents are: He couldn't see past the stars in his eyes. An American tragedy. Or quasi-American.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 24, 2002 at 20:19:20 (EST)

My two cents are: Was Fess Parker involved? I always thought that when the pineapple took gas it would be partly because of the way the Parker family was playing him for a chump.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 24, 2002 at 20:18:24 (EST)

My two cents are: Finally trickled down on the poor sap?
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 24, 2002 at 20:17:04 (EST)

My two cents are: What? They finally caught him at the bung hole?
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 24, 2002 at 20:14:23 (EST)

My two cents are: Read it. geesh.
Ho-hum
SF, - Sunday, March 24, 2002 at 18:23:53 (EST)

My two cents are: Yeah, well teh poor fucker jsut replied. It is true. I'm toast. They finally took me down and out. A better life is ahead. Perhaps...
Pete�
- Sunday, March 24, 2002 at 16:41:45 (EST)

My two cents are: Not sure whether or not to believe that last "Pete" post. But I have emailed the poor fucker.
Ho-hum
SF, - Sunday, March 24, 2002 at 16:22:21 (EST)

My two cents are: Didn't we already dismiss Coulter's latest diatribe? Yes, we did. However, is the reckless anorexic going to change her name when she marries Mohamed to, say, "Noor al-Mohamed," Mohamed's Light? Will she be his fourth wife, or what? Will that make her Mrs. Salam Mohamed 4th, or what? These are the questions that plague us. Not some claptrap about whether homosexual celibacy is different than heterosexual celibacy. Get a grip.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 24, 2002 at 16:00:21 (EST)

My two cents are: Sounds like it's deja vu all over again.
Yogi Berra
- Sunday, March 24, 2002 at 15:54:26 (EST)

My two cents are: By the way, did I tell you guys I quit? Officially this time. Being taken to the cleaners by the ex and will be unemployed very soon. Will never be able to return. True story. It was fun while it lasted. Have a good life Fornigators. It was a wild ride, but this life as we know it is now over. Done.
Pete�
- Sunday, March 24, 2002 at 15:45:45 (EST)

My two cents are: Should Gay Priests Adopt? Universal Press Syndicate | March 21, 2002 By Ann Coulter DESPITE THE GROWING MEDIA CONSENSUS THAT CATHOLICISM CAUSES SODOMY, an alternative view � adopted by the Boy Scouts � is that sodomites cause sodomy. (Assume all the usual disclaimers here about most gay men not molesting boys, most Muslims being peaceful, and so on.) It is a fact that the vast majority of the abuser priests � more than 90 percent � are accused of molesting teen-age boys. Indeed, the overwhelmingly homosexual nature of the abuse prompted The New York Times to engage in its classic "Where's Waldo" reporting style, in which the sex of the victims is studiedly hidden amid a torrent of genderless words, such as the "teen-ager," the "former student," the "victim" and the "accuser." Meanwhile, no spate of sex scandals is engulfing the Boy Scouts of America. Inasmuch as the Boy Scouts were not taking risk-assessment advice from Norman Mineta, they decided to eliminate a whole category of potential problems by refusing to allow gay men to be scout leaders. Perhaps gay scout leaders just really liked camping. But it was also possible that gay men who wanted to lead troops of adolescent boys into the woods were up to no good. For their politically incorrect risk-assessment technique, the Boy Scouts were denounced as troglodyte bigots in all outlets of appropriate liberal opinion. Cities and states across the country dropped their support for the scouts. The United Way, Chase Manhattan Bank and Textron withdrew millions of dollars in contributions. And Hell hath no fury like a New York Times editor spurned. The Times denounced the Supreme Court decision merely permitting the Boy Scouts to refuse gay scoutmasters as one of the court's "lowest moments." The Times "ethicist" advised readers that pulling their sons out of the Boy Scouts was "the ethical thing to do." Since liberals categorically reject the notion that homosexual conduct is often correlated with homosexuality, they have responded to the gay sex-abuse crisis in the priesthood by blaming Catholicism. In particular, liberals have identified the church's celibacy requirement as the root of the problem. There is absolutely no logic to this theory. It is nothing more than liberals reacting to the concept of sexual restraint like "The Exorcist's" Linda Blair did to holy water. If they had succeeded in turning the Boy Scouts into a gay-rights re-education camp, we'd be reading that camping causes sodomy now. Even in the midst of the Catholic Church's current scandals � including decades-old cases � the Catholic clergy has about the same percentage of perverts as the Yale faculty. There are more than 45,000 priests in America and, so far, 55 exposed abusers. There are 836 tenured professors at Yale, and one proved child molester � convicted just last month. That's still a higher percentage than the Boy Scouts, but the point is: It's not going to be easy to blame celibacy. Moreover, when did celibacy become a gay-magnet? It may lack the Boy Scouts' direct approach, but the church isn't exactly passing out Liza Minnelli posters by demanding sexual abstinence. Most stunningly, if celibacy is to blame, this is a show-stopping, Nobel Prize-winning discovery overturning years of liberal claptrap. In all other circumstances, it is punishable by death to suggest that sexual behavior is not determined at birth or that gays can be "cured." Now liberals are hawking the idea that gay priests could have been cured by marriage! It's nice to see liberals becoming such big marriage-boosters. Too bad their newfound respect for marriage � an eminently dissolvable agreement, rescindable by either party without cause or notice � is limited to gays and priests. Blaming celibacy is not only contrary to various liberal dogmas, but contrary to all known evidence about any vice. Total avoidance, not limited temptation, is the only hope for controlling weakness. Alcoholics cannot have a drop of alcohol. Former smokers cannot have just one cigarette. Problem gamblers must avoid the racetrack. Only in the case of sex do liberals refuse to countenance abstinence. Small doses of sex are supposed to provide a needed "release." The "release" theory is disproved every time a child molester's home is searched, invariably unearthing enormous stockpiles of child pornography. None of this ever gives liberals pause. Celibacy is always bad, sex is always good. The Catholic sex scandals have also prompted liberals to drop their demand that no discussion of a crime occur until there has been a final conviction proved to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt after a full trial. We had witnesses, gifts, phone records, White House logs and taped evidence on Bill Clinton. But still NBC's Matt Lauer shouted "Allegedly! Allegedly!" at any suggestion that Clinton had, in fact, had sexual relations with "that woman." Indeed, most of the allegations against the priests do not even constitute "sexual relations" on the Democratic Party's definition. At least we finally have The New York Times on record opposing sexual activity between men and boys. Evidently the only men the Times thinks should not be fondling teen-agers are those who purport to believe in God. � 2002 Universal Press Syndicate
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 24, 2002 at 15:43:46 (EST)

My two cents are: Nope.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 24, 2002 at 14:32:32 (EST)

My two cents are: I'm back, but it looks like nobody else is. Is they?
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- Sunday, March 24, 2002 at 12:49:56 (EST)

My two cents are: Gotta run. Later.
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- Sunday, March 24, 2002 at 12:29:49 (EST)

My two cents are: I'm sure considering the state I must have been in, the Blue Danube and the Rhine would have been One. Or perhaps two, with those little hallucinatory trails after them.
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- Sunday, March 24, 2002 at 12:15:49 (EST)

My two cents are: Sounds like the coals aren't hot enough to sear the meat..
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 24, 2002 at 12:14:03 (EST)

My two cents are: Germany. The platform shoes and blue dress. Remember the sound of the accordion wafting across the Rhine? Or was it the Danube?
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 24, 2002 at 12:13:23 (EST)

My two cents are: "Damn the twerpedoes, full speed ahead" ring a bell? "Dungeness"? "Borg 4 or 5 of 22"?
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- Sunday, March 24, 2002 at 12:13:09 (EST)

My two cents are: As in Thomas or Samuel? As in Germans or shredded cabbage dish?
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- Sunday, March 24, 2002 at 12:10:04 (EST)

My two cents are: I gots to know.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 24, 2002 at 12:08:34 (EST)

My two cents are: I sure hope so.
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- Sunday, March 24, 2002 at 12:07:45 (EST)

My two cents are: Beckett amongst the krauts?
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 24, 2002 at 12:07:20 (EST)

My two cents are: Are you the one with the gams that made the bishop kick a hole in the stained-glass window?
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 24, 2002 at 12:06:55 (EST)

My two cents are: Just leave them by my gate. Don't wait.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 24, 2002 at 12:06:09 (EST)

My two cents are: Or rather, it mean "whatup"? No toying by ananas here.
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- Sunday, March 24, 2002 at 12:05:59 (EST)

My two cents are: You mean that gal with the warehouse eyes and the Arabian drum?
some say it was Joan Baez
- Sunday, March 24, 2002 at 12:05:24 (EST)

My two cents are: Whatup?
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- Sunday, March 24, 2002 at 12:05:05 (EST)

My two cents are: Probably the pineapple, toying with you.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 24, 2002 at 12:04:28 (EST)

My two cents are: Yo, dot.
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- Sunday, March 24, 2002 at 12:04:01 (EST)

My two cents are: Hi? What's that supposed to mean?
House of Meat
- Sunday, March 24, 2002 at 12:03:58 (EST)

My two cents are: Moi, I prefer the "Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands" cover as interpreted by song styling of Wayne Newton.
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- Sunday, March 24, 2002 at 12:02:56 (EST)

My two cents are: Hey, House! Hi!
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- Sunday, March 24, 2002 at 11:58:30 (EST)

My two cents are: I heard it more as one of those Swiss outfits where the whole family stands behind a rack of bells, and they ring them in sequence to make sweet music. From the aged grampaw to the dewy new toddler. Hop on the Marrakesh Express!
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- Sunday, March 24, 2002 at 11:58:21 (EST)

My two cents are: LEST YE FORGET: For Gary, the subject referred to in yr. "deafening silence" (sic) post of March 23 15:52 was covered here long ago, to wit on March 21: '"LICK BUSH!" A movement whose time has come, lest we forget about Snippy's single-vote appointment to the Residency. Sure, they're passing the anti-Enron campaign financing bill today, but tomorrow they'll bring it in to Scalia's court, hoping for another one-vote victory. "Lick Bush!" "LICK BUSH NOW!" Anonymous. - Thursday, March 21, 2002 at 10:30:37 (EST)
Keep Up With the Board, Bozo!
- Sunday, March 24, 2002 at 11:57:31 (EST)

My two cents are: Yes, David Crosby. What a sweet-sounding band that was! Almost a human dinkelspiel.
House of Meat
- Sunday, March 24, 2002 at 11:56:13 (EST)

My two cents are: "Enron Cover-Up Artist Art Andersen Hires Pervert as Top Lawyer". Go, Anna Nicole!
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 24, 2002 at 11:46:53 (EST)

My two cents are: What a card.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 24, 2002 at 05:53:47 (EST)

My two cents are: I saw Dylan and Paul Simon in Duluth, Minnesota on July 3, 1999 at Bayfront Festival Park. My favorite song, and it came as somewhat of a surprise, was Simon's emotional ballad for Bob: "Fifty Ways to Kill Your Liver". Too bad David Crosby's Tambourine man runs rings around Dylan, speaking of livers.
King Biscuit
- Sunday, March 24, 2002 at 02:27:55 (EST)

My two cents are: I want to hear Louie Armstrong do Nanook the Eskimo.
Quinn
- Sunday, March 24, 2002 at 01:59:28 (EST)

My two cents are: Is Bing Crosby David Crosby's dad? Dylan had a voice that sounded like a guy puking with a cactus shoved up his butt.
Capt. Cactass
- Sunday, March 24, 2002 at 01:54:06 (EST)

My two cents are: Thumbs Are the New Fingers for GameBoy Youth LONDON (Reuters) - The use of gadgets such as mobile phones and GameBoys has caused a physical mutation in young people's hands, according to a British Sunday newspaper. New research carried out in nine cities around the world shows that the thumbs of people under the age of 25 have taken over as the hand's most dexterous digit, said The Observer. The change affects those who have grown up with hand-held devices where the thumbs are used for keying in text messages and emails. "The relationship between technology and the users of technology is mutual. We are changing each other," said Dr. Sadie Plant of Warwick University's Cybernetic Culture Research Unit. "Discovering that the younger generation has taken to using thumbs in a completely different way and are instinctively using thumbs where the rest of us are using our index fingers is particularly interesting." In her research, Plant noticed that while those less used to mobile phones used one or several fingers to access the keypad, younger people used both thumbs ambidextrously, barely looking at the keys as they made rapid entries.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 24, 2002 at 01:40:55 (EST)

My two cents are: Here's a really good myth-busting site about transevestites. It seems to be what one of you is looking for!!!! http://www.geocities.com/WestHollywood/3279/tv-facts.html
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 24, 2002 at 01:30:23 (EST)

My two cents are: http://www.cusd.claremont.edu/~mrosenbl/facts.html Good for a grin
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 24, 2002 at 01:25:44 (EST)

My two cents are: So I threw the ball peacefully for the pup today, not a vicious ball tossed.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 24, 2002 at 01:15:15 (EST)

My two cents are: Oh shit, there's soap all over my trousers again. Quick, call an asian!!!!!
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 24, 2002 at 01:12:40 (EST)

My two cents are: Chu Dong will be around later.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 24, 2002 at 01:12:01 (EST)

My two cents are: What, you think you ar just now discovering apologistic music??? Hell, we've been patronizing Judy Garland for decades!!!!! DECADES do you UNDERSTAND!!!!!!!!
RuPaul de Vine
- Sunday, March 24, 2002 at 01:06:58 (EST)

My two cents are: I took Suk Dong out for dinner, she was feeling kind of depressed. Seems her sister, Lik Dong wasn't feeling well.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 24, 2002 at 01:03:33 (EST)

My two cents are: Prince is vastly misunderstood.
RuPaul de Vine
- Sunday, March 24, 2002 at 00:52:14 (EST)

My two cents are: Sounds like the coals aren't hot enough to sear the meat..
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 24, 2002 at 00:49:52 (EST)

My two cents are: So its inevitably Ms Ydog that tells me to really check out Bonnie Bramlett. I mean I have a couple of the Delaney and Bonnie Albums but it's the Ms that says "Check her out man, the bitch has a voice like a hrn, like a horn section, she's a freaking instrument by herself that someones got to conduct, a whole section just her...."
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 24, 2002 at 00:41:16 (EST)

My two cents are: So anyhow, the old lady, for one being from Mississisppi, and for two being from Mississippi near Leyland, figured of course the way out was singing at the King Biscuit Co. over in Ark. on the other side of the big muddy. So she started singing to her "Aunt Boots" pedal steel at the AM stations around Lelyand in the early 1960's when a white girl could still get a seat on the bus. Later working the beer joints at about 14 and trying to outbelt Patsy Cline on the Wurlitzer.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 24, 2002 at 00:37:41 (EST)

My two cents are: So you need to understand about the old lady. She's a tad rough, but just enough, the one I drug off the back of the harley at a stoplight, that one. Bleached blonde bimbo with seven tatooes on her back and brains.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 24, 2002 at 00:32:11 (EST)

My two cents are: Bonnie Bramlett had the best of the best trailer trash white-girl voies ever. Sang back-up for Clapton Cocker, most of the limey's cept stones and beatles. I sort of consider her the unknown "white supreme". This is probably about right. Anyway, even though she was from Philadelpia, she may not have had the true jail time of the earlier blues singers, failing to acquire that more rural pedigree.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 24, 2002 at 00:26:40 (EST)

My two cents are: Thanks for the st james chords.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 24, 2002 at 00:21:31 (EST)

My two cents are: On the other hand, Dylan COULD sing "Strangers in the Night" and make you forget the Chairman of the Board.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 23, 2002 at 21:21:12 (EST)

My two cents are: Bush can nominate all the conservative judges he wants, but until the idiot learns the value of a dollar and actually what "its your money" really means..he isn't a conservative.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 23, 2002 at 18:31:20 (EST)

My two cents are: I don't know, Gary. It seems fucking McCain tailored the language of this abomination to sneak it by the Supreme Court. Pretty devious, if you ask me. I wonder if Snippy has put the fix in this time. It worked in the election* but maybe he played all his cards on that one. Anyway, it's worth a try. You've got to bring ass to get ass, right?
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 23, 2002 at 17:42:28 (EST)

My two cents are: Say what you will about Judge Starr's brain-power, he can be a bulldog once he latches on to an argument. He's liable to keep the supreme court in session into overtime hours, spellbound by the sheer doggedness of his presentation.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 23, 2002 at 17:39:50 (EST)

My two cents are: I'm sure Starr welcomes the chance to get back in the public's good graces by fighting for Enron's "free speech."
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 23, 2002 at 17:37:59 (EST)

My two cents are: McCain was pissed off because of Snippy's anonymous last-minute smears? He's willing to undermine our Constitution for THAT? I think the f**lish little traitor should sit down and think about it for a while. If this sticks, the terrorists will have won.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 23, 2002 at 17:37:23 (EST)

My two cents are: Ken Starr? How do blowjobs tie into campaign financing?
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 23, 2002 at 17:36:17 (EST)

My two cents are: I wonder if McCain csn find a lawyer to measure up to Starr. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

- Saturday, March 23, 2002 at 17:35:22 (EST)

My two cents are: It's a Dream Team, man. McConnell and Starr. It doesn't get much better than that. The Dynamic Duo.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 23, 2002 at 17:34:55 (EST)

My two cents are: "Judge" Starr is on the case, Bosco. The Avenger of Knob. I'd be quaking in my boots, too, if I were a goodamn treasonous liberal like John McCain.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 23, 2002 at 17:31:49 (EST)

My two cents are: I'm beginning to think Gary doesn't quite understand the Constitution.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 23, 2002 at 17:29:45 (EST)

My two cents are: I think most liberals and any intelligent conservatives would simply breathe a sigh of relief, and thank John McCain's smearing at the hands of the Bushites and Kenneth Lay for the success of the reforms. Why crow up and down the street about a simple commencement to tidying up our election system?
.
- Saturday, March 23, 2002 at 17:29:28 (EST)

My two cents are: Wow, Ken Starr is on the case. When was the last time he actually won a case? And just imagine the horrible outcome if campaigns were publicly financed! Why, the politicians would be forced to cater to the needs of the people instead of Enron. We can't have that. See, it's a free-speech issue, Enron's millions are so much more eloquent than the millions the rest of us, collectively, would bring to the table. How did you get so fucked up, Gary? Did you take a gook's bullet in the head?
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 23, 2002 at 17:26:31 (EST)

My two cents are: THE VICTORY for campaign-finance reform in the U.S. Senate this week is not the beginning of the end in the struggle to clean up political campaigns. But it is the end of the beginning. Passage of a bill banning unregulated soft money from political campaigns was an essential step toward righting a system that went off the rails in the 1990s. The bill plugs the largest loopholes in a law that had become all loopholes and no law. But the Senate's action and President Bush's pledge to sign the bill simply move the struggle for clean elections to new battlefields, including the courts. Enemies of the legislation -- carefully drafted and redrafted over years by Sens. John McCain and Russ Feingold and Reps. Christopher Shays and Marty Meehan -- speak cavalierly as if its unconstitutionality is obvious. What's obvious is that the bill is constitutional. Unlike earlier efforts at campaign reform, this legislation was drafted with a close eye to past U.S. Supreme Court decisions ratifying Congress' right to regulate political money. The court has made clear that limits on campaign contributions are constitutional because they are designed to curb the corruption that is inevitable when money plays too large a role in the calculations of politicians. That's exactly what banning unregulated soft money that has flowed into the process is designed to do. Soft money was never envisioned when Congress passed contribution limits after the Watergate scandals. It came in only through flawed rulings from the Federal Elections Commission. Equally constitutional is a provision to regulate those fake "issue ads" in the 60 days before an election and the 30 days before a primary. These ads are rarely about issues. And here's what's important: The bill doesn't even ban these ads. It simply says that if groups want to run them in the days before an election, they have to live by the same rules -- involving full disclosure and contribution limits -- that apply to candidates and to organizations openly trying to influence the outcome. But even if the courts ratify it, this law could still be gutted if FEC regulations undermine its purpose. That means a fight to make sure the FEC's regulations match the law. It also means reforming the commission itself -- McCain's next cause -- and turning it into a body with clear rules, due process and staff lawyers and administrative judges with real power to enforce the laws. Then comes the hardest part: moving beyond this victory to changes that would encourage candidates to free themselves from the chase for big campaign contributions. A tax credit for political donations would be a good way to encourage small contributions. Politicians and political organizations would then have a major incentive to go after small money and not just the big checks. This could democratize fund raising. Free or much cheaper television time for candidates could drastically reduce the need for big fund raising, as would free or cheaper mail. All this is now possible. In the past, reformers around the country weren't sure Congress would pass anything to fix the system. Now, Feingold says, his side's activists know it can be done, and "it's going to lead to much more significant reform in the long run." That may be optimistic. But without optimism, this initial breakthrough would never have happened.
geesh, Gary, geesh
- Saturday, March 23, 2002 at 17:20:43 (EST)

My two cents are: Sen McConnell is right on the money in bringing Ken Starr in to help build the case against the unconstitutional campaign finance reform bill. I have yet to hear from any of the leftists on this board concerning this issue. I would have thought that they would be crowing up and down the street with joy at the passage of this abomination. Not a word, their silence is deafining. Let us also not forget that leftists look at this travesty, as just a step in obtaining full and complete public financing of political campaigns, using our tax dollars. This just has to be stopped. I wish Sen. McConnell well.
Gary
- Saturday, March 23, 2002 at 15:52:18 (EST)

My two cents are: I think we may have the makeing of a Hitler in the White House.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 23, 2002 at 14:45:02 (EST)

My two cents are: BIG TITTIES AN BEER-------BIG TITTIES AN BEER, Thank God, I ain't Queer. BIG TITTIES AN BEER-------BIG TITTIES AN BEER, I only love 2--legged Deer, BIG TITTIES AN BEER.
WILL-YUM
- Saturday, March 23, 2002 at 14:28:19 (EST)

My two cents are: Glint, you should stick to underage transexuals and leave the music stuff to the boys from Cali.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 23, 2002 at 13:57:13 (EST)

My two cents are: The Pope has an ass?
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 23, 2002 at 12:39:28 (EST)

My two cents are: I thought that was Dylan's whole schtick. Sing like a plow-boy and shake straw up the Pope's ass.+
Coulter
- Saturday, March 23, 2002 at 12:38:23 (EST)

My two cents are: You've got to learn to appreciate a duck, same as beer, same as oysters. When you do, you'll be something more than a plow-boy shaking the straw out of your hair. You'll be a connoisseur.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 23, 2002 at 12:36:38 (EST)

My two cents are: I was thinking of Vallee, but I don't think Dylan wrote any appropriate vehichles for him. "Lonesome Death" comes close, but I see it as more modern, maybe a Fabian song.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 23, 2002 at 12:34:32 (EST)

My two cents are: I think the point has been proven. Dylan may or may not be Barry Manilow's equal as a song writer, but Barry can sing like a bird. Dylan sings like a duck. In fact, there are many fine singers around. Too bad Dylan missed to boat by insisting to croak out his own songs. Sad, really.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 23, 2002 at 12:34:18 (EST)

My two cents are: Rudy Vallee singing "The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll?"
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 23, 2002 at 12:30:57 (EST)

My two cents are: Bobby Rydell and Annette Funicello could do a wicked duet version of "The Ballad of Hollis Brown."
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 23, 2002 at 12:29:35 (EST)

My two cents are: If you're going to play the Durante card, why not go right to the master, Al Jolson. Think he couldn't make "Desolation Row" his own? Ha!
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 23, 2002 at 12:29:02 (EST)

My two cents are: Teresa Brewer had the voice for "Quinn the Eskimo."
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 23, 2002 at 12:26:23 (EST)

My two cents are: What I'd like to hear is Jimmy Durante doing "Quinn the Eskimo." Too late, I now, but worth imagining.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 23, 2002 at 12:25:57 (EST)

My two cents are: Kay Starr had a voice to die for. Would have loved to hear her do "Subterranean Homesick Blues."
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 23, 2002 at 12:24:30 (EST)

My two cents are: With the entire Lee Konitz Orch rhythm section.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 23, 2002 at 12:23:42 (EST)

My two cents are: Accompanied by Zazu Pitts on the 'bone.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 23, 2002 at 12:22:21 (EST)

My two cents are: Patti Page owns that song, dude! Forget Storm!
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 23, 2002 at 12:21:14 (EST)

My two cents are: I'd like to see Gayle Storm do a little song and dance number with "Love Minus Zero No Limit."
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 23, 2002 at 12:20:18 (EST)

My two cents are: Placido Domingo covering "I'll Be Your Baby Tonight!"
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 23, 2002 at 12:18:42 (EST)

My two cents are: Dylan couldn't hold a vowel with a pair of fireplace tongs.
Glimpse
- Saturday, March 23, 2002 at 12:14:17 (EST)

My two cents are: Dave Van Ronk was a disgusting asshole who couldn't sing his way out of a litter box. On the other hand, he's the only musician that Bob Dylan ever mentioned on vinyl, so he must have had something. If the world's greatest traditional stylist and smoky surreal songster could listen to him, then I guess we can too.
House of Meat
- Saturday, March 23, 2002 at 12:13:10 (EST)

My two cents are: You know who I mean - Der Bingle!
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 23, 2002 at 12:08:45 (EST)

My two cents are: Big Crosby singing Visions of Johanna?
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 23, 2002 at 12:07:42 (EST)

My two cents are: Dave Van Ronk died the other day.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 23, 2002 at 12:06:18 (EST)

My two cents are: Whitney Houston.
'nuff said
- Saturday, March 23, 2002 at 12:04:31 (EST)

My two cents are: Dylan ought to turn over his whole catalogue to Elton John or Michael Jackson. Or Cat Stevens.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 23, 2002 at 12:03:18 (EST)

My two cents are: The crazy thing is, Dylan says he tried to use some of Sinatra's style, holding the vowels, things like that. What a joke!
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 23, 2002 at 12:01:32 (EST)

My two cents are: Shatner did a pretty good job. He can't really sing, but what a voice! And he brings a classical dramatic interpretation that is sorely missed by Dylan himself.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 23, 2002 at 11:59:35 (EST)

My two cents are: What about the women? Liza Minelli singing "Positively 4th Street?" Come on, you gotta admit that would rock. Steisand taking on "All Along the Watchtower?" WOW!
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 23, 2002 at 11:57:10 (EST)

My two cents are: If Jim Morrison had covered Like a Rolling Stone, we wouldn't be having this conversation. Morrison rules!
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 23, 2002 at 11:53:40 (EST)

My two cents are: I would like to hear Bobby Goldsborough stop in the middle of "Tangled Up in Blue" and make that cricket noise he's famous for.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 23, 2002 at 11:53:07 (EST)

My two cents are: Did you ever catch William Shatner's version of "You Know Something's Happening Here But You Don't Know What It Is, Do You, Mr. Jones?" Shatner covered a lot of Dylan Tunes. He could gargle them better than Greco could have sung them.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 23, 2002 at 11:51:28 (EST)

My two cents are: I'll take Tony Bennett doing a swingin' version of Dear Landlord.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 23, 2002 at 11:51:00 (EST)

My two cents are: I personally love Buddy Greco's voice. If Dylan would have written songs for Greco to sing, just imagine! I'd like to hear what Buddy could do with "Idiot Wind."
Harlan St. Wolf
- Saturday, March 23, 2002 at 11:45:32 (EST)

My two cents are: Vic Damone singing "Highway 61 Revisited" would have been heaven.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 23, 2002 at 11:42:47 (EST)

My two cents are: Who is the idiot who keeps dissing Dylan's voice? Don't you readlize what a hodad you are, Jimmy? Stop shooting off your beak, dust off your "Time-Life Folk-Rock Anthology" CD, and learn to listen.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 23, 2002 at 11:40:52 (EST)

My two cents are: For "St. James Infirmary", try these chords: Amin7 then Esus4/5+, then your Am, then swing into Esus4/5+, then Fmaj, then D7sus4, then Amin7 to the cadence. I think you'll find this is superior to whatever the yahoo came up with down below.
House of Meat
- Saturday, March 23, 2002 at 11:38:36 (EST)

My two cents are: The plain old God's truth is Dylan can't sing a fucking lick. He may or may not be the world's best song writer but one can only shake one's head in sorrow that Sinatra never leant his pure voice and style to "Ballad of a Thin Man."
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 23, 2002 at 11:35:17 (EST)

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see you there!
- Saturday, March 23, 2002 at 11:22:46 (EST)

My two cents are: Nobody wants to hire an English major? Shit, is that what it was? No wonder I'm stuck in this trailer, a thousand miles from bop central. No wonder it never came together for me, the hot young girlfriend, the portfolio, the inboard-outboard lake cruiser named "Grandpa's Toy III." It was that goddam useless major. Live and learn.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 23, 2002 at 11:20:24 (EST)

My two cents are: How come Ory never throws a hero up the pop charts? Sure, a famous author now and then, but no hero up the pop charts. What, is it all those trees and fresh air? No reason to have the blues?
curious Tampa grandmother
- Saturday, March 23, 2002 at 11:16:09 (EST)

My two cents are: I thought Waits was from Illi.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 23, 2002 at 11:13:05 (EST)

My two cents are: Wasn't Minnie where Tom Waits was from? Another guilt-tortured white boy.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 23, 2002 at 11:11:39 (EST)

My two cents are: I was stuck in Minnie for six weeks once. Right in downtown Dulie. Bob Dylan's home water.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 23, 2002 at 11:11:03 (EST)

My two cents are: He'd go back to Nebrass, but he's stuck in Mary.
Cali Fats
- Saturday, March 23, 2002 at 11:08:53 (EST)

My two cents are: What I meant to say was, go back to Nebrass.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 23, 2002 at 11:08:08 (EST)

My two cents are: "What if was really jewish white boys like dylan who carried the true torch?" What a hammerhead. Dylan carried the Guthrie torch, assbite, the only indigenous American music that wasn't blues based. Dylan carried the torch of Wood Guthrie and yes, of "Froggie Would A-wooing Go." And poor Glint! What a sap. Hey, Glint, there's more to singing than sounding as close as you can to Englebert Humperdink. You sound like one of these guys who heard Dylan singing "Mr. Tambourine Man" and were distressed that it didn't sound like the Byrds. One of these dildoes who thought the song was about drugs. What a bumpkin. Go back to Nebra, asshole.
Bruise Boy Lemon
- Saturday, March 23, 2002 at 11:06:27 (EST)

My two cents are: All American music is blues based.
Duke Ellington
- Saturday, March 23, 2002 at 10:59:09 (EST)

My two cents are: The "advent of blues base rock?" What a dork. One problem the poor yahoo suffers is that he doesn't know that blues never was restricted to the negroid. That's why most of your splib blues-boys of the old school, guys who knew a little music, will tell you they took as much from Jimmy Rogers as they did from Blind Lemon McFart. The only difference is they don't yodel, unless their name is Howlin, in which case they give it the old West African try. Talking about "blues-based rock" as if Elvis wasn't blues-based, as if Sun wasn't blues-based, way back before whatever you are talking about, the Four Mop-tops, maybe. It's OK to use a broad brush, Wimplethorpe, but try dipping it in some paint first.
Captain Rock Around the Clock
- Saturday, March 23, 2002 at 10:57:34 (EST)

My two cents are: That's glimpse for ya. No ear. Earless and dickless in Zion. The poor rube.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 23, 2002 at 10:52:07 (EST)

My two cents are: What a rube.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 23, 2002 at 10:51:29 (EST)

My two cents are: Just to add my own tuppence to the fray. Dylan might be the worlds best song writer, or not, but his songs are best when sung by someone other than the writer.
Glint
- Saturday, March 23, 2002 at 10:32:29 (EST)

My two cents are: I'm getting ready to head out. Have been asked by the head of the Local Tree Committee to videotape today's tree planting fest. Whoopie! It's cold and windy out, but it beats the hot gusts of the music critics blowing through here.
Glint
- Saturday, March 23, 2002 at 10:31:01 (EST)

My two cents are: To your crazed retchie, the most important things about Brock are that he's a queer and that he flipped to the side of righteousness.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 23, 2002 at 10:22:08 (EST)

My two cents are: "English major types." Oh. Is someone referring to an inability to spell? That's OK. Not to worry. Your Resident, Snippy can't spell and can't talk, either. Speak extemporaneously, that is. His Puppetmaster can, though. Lucky for the puppet, eh?
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 23, 2002 at 10:01:58 (EST)

My two cents are: It may be hard to call these findings shocking ones, and I do not know whether the candidate's advisers concluded that he or she had sufficiently advanced the literature so as to earn a doctorate. But I can say from personal experience that the liberalism-guilt correlation rings true, and, after reading David Brock's Blinded by the Right, I can certify on the strength of Brock's eyewitness--and often eye-popping--account that conservatives really do anger. Anger as trope; anger as strategy; anger as immutable biological condition; and anger just because it's fun. Yes, we knew this. But we didn't know it the way Brock knows it. Let me put it this way. Throughout the Clinton era, I read every major newspaper and all the magazines and a lot of the websites and most of the pertinent books; I didn't think there was much more for me to learn. But once Blinded by the Right kicks into gear, there is a fact, anecdote or reminiscence about the right's feral hatred of the Clintons every ten pages or so that is absolutely mind-boggling. And, as often as not, these stories are also about the rancid hypocrisy (usually sexual) that underlay, or probably even helped cause, the hatred. In sum: You cannot fully understand this fevered era without reading this book. ... David Brock gave up anger and turned to guilt. In the process, he flings open a most illuminating window on this hideous circus. Here is Newt Gingrich, vowing "to say the word 'Monica' in every speech" even while "conducting his own illicit affair." We see Georgia Congressman Bob Barr plotting to bring the troopers to testify on Capitol Hill to expose Clinton's adultery--the same Barr who, interestingly enough, married his third wife within one month of divorcing his second. We hear Jack Romanos, the head of Simon & Schuster, telling Brock, as he signed the million-dollar Hillary book deal--without even writing a proposal!--that the only thing he wanted to know before OK'ing the money was whether Hillary was a lesbian. We eavesdrop on the publisher of the Spectator asking Brock, "Can't you find any more women to attack?" We read of George Conway, one of the lawyers who played a crucial role in pushing Paula Jones's story, admitting that privately he didn't believe Jones's allegation at all but that her case must be pressed nonetheless because the point was to force a situation in which Clinton would have to lie under oath about extramarital sex. We witness Ted Olson, a member of the bar and now this country's Solicitor General, telling Brock that while he believed Vince Foster had committed suicide, the Spectator should still run a trashy, unsourced piece about Foster's "murder" to keep the pressure on the Administration until the Spectator could shake loose another "scandal."
Tales of the Neo-Fascists
- Saturday, March 23, 2002 at 09:58:14 (EST)

My two cents are: I suppose that someone who stops being stoic was only being stoic temporarily. No wonder there's so many English major types hanging out here. Nobody wants to hire them. I wonder if the nasal speak comes naturally to them, or is an acquired annoyance?
Glint
- Saturday, March 23, 2002 at 09:57:42 (EST)

My two cents are: While we're on that subject, let's discuss the sad yuppification of single malt scotch. Aberlour Starbucks cappuccino latte if you get my drift.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 23, 2002 at 09:45:24 (EST)

My two cents are: Suburban white kids are still playing prison music, now as gangsta rap, and wearing symbolic prison garb. Not from guilt, though.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 23, 2002 at 09:38:47 (EST)

My two cents are: And besides, scew you for criticizing my little piece of social criticism about the white apologist blues appreciation movement. Criticizing the facts, the details. Look sport, I'm painting with a bigger brush. Just because some of us spent our lives studying the mitochondria of the pacific northwestern mayfly along the lower Snake River. dosen't mean the whole world can be condensed into such a reductionist bag of shit. And in fact, when you consider the advent of blues based rock, it is now seen as simply a bunch of 1960's white suburban kids symbolically playing prison music and symbolically joining the civil rights movement through the same just to work out their white guilt. OK maybe that was a roller instead of a broad brush.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 23, 2002 at 09:31:51 (EST)

My two cents are: isn't "always stoic" sort of redundant? I mean you can't be temporarily stoic can you? It just doesn't fit.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 23, 2002 at 09:09:38 (EST)

My two cents are: thinking analytically, with facts? Here??? shirley you jest! But what if letting leadbelly out of jail was just the crowning moment in the white apologistic blues glorification movement? What if was really jewish white boys like dylan who carried the true torch?
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 23, 2002 at 09:07:06 (EST)

My two cents are: Yep, dang it, Dylan's the best songwriter alive, save for the ditties of his Christian period, post-moto crash. now seems to have made a full recovery. Geesh.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 23, 2002 at 08:47:29 (EST)

My two cents are: Nasal? Check out Visions of Johanna, for an example. Find any nasal? Just smoky vocal genius. What a rube.
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 22, 2002 at 22:47:30 (EST)

My two cents are: Speaking of which, you ever hear Dylan sing "Man of Constant Sorrow?" He did it on the John Henry Falk show in about 1963. Best recorded version I know of it. Bob Dylan was a hell of a singer, even in his Woody Guthrie clone days.
Captain Musicology Book
- Friday, March 22, 2002 at 22:45:50 (EST)

My two cents are: Nobody as clueless as someone who hears a couple of Bob Dylan tunes on the A.M. and decides that Bob Dylan can't sing. Just about the best traditional music stylist on the map, to anyone with an ear. Not so bad on the surrealistic ballad, either. What a yokel you are. Bull goose rube.
.
- Friday, March 22, 2002 at 22:41:55 (EST)

My two cents are: What is that crap about "the prison music?" Do you have any idea what your talking about on ANY subject? Charters records a prison yodeler or two, swings by Parchman to catch Leadbelly, and you jump straight to "the prison music?" Did you know that Lead got OUT of prison because he sang and played the Stella? What is wrong with the f*cking younger generation? No facts, and no way to think analytically about facts if they knew any. A dang pea-shelling boy-faced carnival dog knows more than you.
.
- Friday, March 22, 2002 at 22:38:40 (EST)

My two cents are: "...she has always been a rather stoic person ...." Always? Or does it just SEEM like always? How long have you had that job? Two months? Four months?
House of Meat
- Friday, March 22, 2002 at 22:34:51 (EST)

My two cents are: I'm ready to roll outta here. Gonna stick Muddy Waters into the CD slot on the way home. To bad I don't have me no double malt. Or a doob.
Glint
- Friday, March 22, 2002 at 19:01:58 (EST)

My two cents are: Got enough beer in the belly for the drive home. Today's kegs online were Bass and Heinekin and some light. Could have done worse, I suppose. Nobody around the keyboard here so I let one rip. Someone else on the floor lets out a belly laugh. Got new pics from the lunch that should join the others someday. Actually Chu Dong's doing pretty good, keeping her spirits up. Sure, it might be a front - she has always been a rather stoic person, proud - the type to hold it all in. Of course when she did the introductions she introducded another red borg woman as her "first boss, the one who hired her." Then she introduced me, her "last boss." Glad nobody dropped a pin or we'd all be dear now. (Posted at http://members.fortunecity.com/fornigate/)
Me
- Friday, March 22, 2002 at 18:58:43 (EST)

My two cents are: In truth, one of the relatives there once told me he could hardly wait for school to start every fall when he was a kid. Said it meant an end to shellin peas 14 hours a day.
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 22, 2002 at 18:19:12 (EST)

My two cents are: Sounds like the coals aren't hot enough to sear the meat..
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 22, 2002 at 18:17:43 (EST)

My two cents are: Got a cousin that works in Leyland. Well, near Leyland. Works summers as "Scooter the Dog-Faced Boy" in a summer Carny troop out of Montreal. Reall scam is in being able to convert the currency and feed the canadied coinage back as U.S. change. And you know, he still sifts out about 600 of the zinc pennies a year.
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 22, 2002 at 18:16:21 (EST)

My two cents are: Dean didn't have a nasal voice. Neither does Brenda.
RuPaul de Vine
- Friday, March 22, 2002 at 18:12:31 (EST)

My two cents are: Perhaps now we be a good time to record "Music of the Taliban", we could sell blank cassettes.
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 22, 2002 at 18:10:25 (EST)

My two cents are: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, now there were some artists, I mean their last two albums!!!!
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 22, 2002 at 17:59:16 (EST)

My two cents are: Hey, I hear they"re coming out with a tape of WW2 japanese citezen internment camp tunes!!!!!
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 22, 2002 at 17:58:21 (EST)

My two cents are: Nah, I'll keep running with it and propose that the white guilt was so severe that we went into the southern prisons to record the music. Where's the preison music now, huh??? Who's going in to record today's prison music. Well, maybe prison music is incorrect although a tune like Midnight Special, well. But it could be just as well that the blues wasnt really prison music - that it was more black music and it just so happened that since emancipation, we've jailed most of them. Perhaps, it was even sort of capitalist market inspired. Whyu drive the countryside searching for the next great bluesman one distant square mile of delta at a thime when you could preview a couple of dozen in a few hours at angola.
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 22, 2002 at 17:46:30 (EST)

My two cents are: Rod Stewart doesn't whine.
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 22, 2002 at 17:37:30 (EST)

My two cents are: Dylan was a tax whiner? Nah.
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 22, 2002 at 16:26:58 (EST)

My two cents are: The worst nosewhiner was Dylan. "Nevrymuddy bust net don'd." A whiner from a race of whiners.
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 22, 2002 at 15:56:46 (EST)

My two cents are: I hate singers that whine through their nose. If they can't get it out their mouth, there is no to whine. Johnny Cash doesn't whine, and neither did Merle Haggard.
WILL-YUM
- Friday, March 22, 2002 at 12:47:53 (EST)

My two cents are: "Diamonds on the sole of my ass, is what Garfundle said, or would have said..."
sole, hole - what's the difference
- Friday, March 22, 2002 at 12:39:25 (EST)

My two cents are: "Does he think an archibancada of South Africans is going to replace Garfunkle?" Saw PS on SNL this winter. The jigaboos are gone.
Vahjina Pussbukeet
- Friday, March 22, 2002 at 12:34:24 (EST)

My two cents are: WASHINGTON - Doctors and hospitals could disclose private information about patients and provide medical services without prior consent under proposed Bush administration revisions to Clinton-era patient privacy rules. The changes also would give parents greater access to their children's medical records, including information about abortions, drug treatment and other sensitive services. Years in the making, the changes are scheduled to take effect in April 2003. They would, in essence, continue the status quo because consent forms are not now required but would have been under the Clinton administration version being revised. Although somewhat relaxed, the revised rules would create the first comprehensive federal protections for health privacy and apply to nearly every patient, doctor, hospital, insurance plan and pharmacy in the nation. The rules prohibit health care providers from disclosing patient information for reasons unrelated to health services and establish civil and criminal penalties for violators. They give patients the right to inspect and copy their records and to ask for corrections.
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 22, 2002 at 12:04:53 (EST)

My two cents are: Capeman.
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 22, 2002 at 11:00:31 (EST)

My two cents are: Looks like this is a pineapple-free site. It's too good to last, though. He's out there somewhere, lurking. Just like Garfunkle.
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 22, 2002 at 10:52:43 (EST)

My two cents are: Actually, BB King was from Itta Bena, Mississippi. Albert King always claimed HE was from Itta Bena too, same as he always claimed HIS guitar was named Lucille. That's what you call a "parvenue", folks. He wanted people to think, "Mrs. King, she had two sons." He wanted people to think he was BB's brother.
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 22, 2002 at 10:50:38 (EST)

My two cents are: The next thing you know, the little dude is singing about diamonds on shoes. Fat girls in alleys. He loses it completely. Over the hill lives a famous talk-show host. Who the hell? Dick Cavett? Johnny Carson? Joey Bishop? Merv Griffith? Who is the talk-show host? It's confusing. Diamonds on the soles of my ass, is what Garfundle said, or would have said, if he had stuck around long enought to hear it.
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 22, 2002 at 10:46:53 (EST)

My two cents are: Tom was the poet. Jerry was the one-man band.
Captain Musicology
- Friday, March 22, 2002 at 10:43:12 (EST)

My two cents are: I've always wondered, which one was the poet, and which one was the one-man band? Any clues?
curious Tampa grandmother
- Friday, March 22, 2002 at 10:41:43 (EST)

My two cents are: Maybe that's why Garfunkle left. Because the lyrics weren't making any sense. The way they made sense back in the days of "I am a Rock." Talk about clear analogies! I have my books and my poetry to protect me! My room is a womb. I touch no one and no one touches me. A fucking rock! What could be more crystal clear? Garfunkle could go along with it. But not this "bridge" shit. Not this improbable boxer, standing in a clearing. Garfunkle finally couldn't take it any more and split.
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 22, 2002 at 10:39:49 (EST)

My two cents are: Like a bridge over troubled waters, I will lay me down. That just about says it all. A simile for Life. The "like" is the cue. Makes it a simile. Also an analogy. I will lay me down, just like a bridge. The singer, lying down, provides a bridge, like a steel span over the boiling rapids of a river. You might lose this idea, thinking of a bunch of commuters trompling across the prone poet. You might say, "sure, it sounds good, but what the hell does a guy lying down have to do with a bridge, troubled waters or not?" Best to stick with the boxer in the clearing. Why is the boxer standing in a clearing? A fighter by his trade? Who the hell knows, Jackson, that's not the point. He took pleasure amongst the whores on Seventh Avenue. Isn't that enough? Mellow out.
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 22, 2002 at 10:35:11 (EST)

My two cents are: What can Simon do without Garfunkle's sweet harmonies? Is that why he hired those South African guys? Does he think an archibancada of South Africans is going to replace Garfunkle? Dream on, Simon.
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 22, 2002 at 10:30:57 (EST)

My two cents are: They were my favorite duo way back when they were called Tom and Jerry. I can't believe that Garfunkle isn't in the group any more.
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 22, 2002 at 10:28:35 (EST)

My two cents are: I like the one about Hoolio down by the school yard. I used to hate and fear those guys, because they were moving in on Bob Dylan's turf. James Taylor too. But now I can look at the whole thing with a tolerant chuckle. Sure, they might be getting the press, but Dylan is in a more comfortable relationship with his God.
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 22, 2002 at 10:27:14 (EST)

My two cents are: Is Garfunkel gone? What happened?
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 22, 2002 at 10:25:31 (EST)

My two cents are: What's wrong with Paul Simon? I always thought he was good. I would like to have seen his performances with Dylan.
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 22, 2002 at 10:20:33 (EST)

My two cents are: "BB is from Leyland Miss. and got his start on King Biscuit I believe." Anonymous. 23:35:31
Leyland? Mississippi? Now there's a Fornigate connection if ever one was.
- Friday, March 22, 2002 at 10:19:56 (EST)

My two cents are: The blues revitalization movement?
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- Friday, March 22, 2002 at 10:18:53 (EST)

My two cents are: I've moved on. Just reflecting on the legacy of the GOP.
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 22, 2002 at 10:18:21 (EST)

My two cents are: The Peter Paul and Mary version or the Bob Dylan version?
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 22, 2002 at 10:18:05 (EST)

My two cents are: "Entire Clinton investigation BOGUS and GARBAGE" Anonymous. 18:17:47
still haven't moved on yet, huh?
- Friday, March 22, 2002 at 10:08:42 (EST)

My two cents are: Real source was remembrance of music from "O Brother Where Art Thou?" which some of us liked and some of us thought o god it's the Coens again, which sometimes I like and sometimes I don't, but O Brother did have a scene with the Sirens to bluegrass trio by um Emmylou Harris, Allison Krause and Gillian something--great scene in movie, three women in stream, you recall. How did that melody for "I'm a Man of Constant Sorrow" evolve from traditional version, eh? That's what we're pondering. Well?
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 22, 2002 at 08:53:19 (EST)

My two cents are: Merci. Robert Johnson, sobeit. Blind Lemon Jefferson as well--already ordered it on strength of amazon reviews. Can always send it back. Set up was steering music collection toward previously uncharted waters on strength of subject hearing T-bone something concert full of fiddlers, and then free-associating farther south. You know how that is.
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 22, 2002 at 08:41:36 (EST)

My two cents are: so what if the whole blues revitilization movement was nothing bu soe sort of writ large collective white guilt. Probably started by the left wing intelligentsia as some sort of apologistic notion. I just don't see dick nixon or ronnie gettin down with bline mellon chitlin.
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 22, 2002 at 08:38:14 (EST)

My two cents are: Somebody once said a man has to eat a mile of shit in his life. Maybe it was the Gypsy in the Spanish book by E. Hemingway. Whether it was or not, I've had it. I'm going to turn this thing off and go get some tacos. You 22 people are worse than the pineapple ever was.
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 22, 2002 at 00:34:00 (EST)

My two cents are: Some people aren't poor just because they don't have a lot of money. Try to not be so mechanistic, like a goddamn slot machine. There is more to life than statistics. Loosen up. Mellow out. The apostrophes usually go between the "n" and the "t". Often they come before an "s" as well.
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 22, 2002 at 00:31:31 (EST)

My two cents are: nite again, really.
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 22, 2002 at 00:31:03 (EST)

My two cents are: Demented Angel would be a good name for a band.
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 22, 2002 at 00:30:15 (EST)

My two cents are: nah simon was always the commercial guy. garfinkel was the sensitive fucked up artiste.
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 22, 2002 at 00:29:44 (EST)

My two cents are: Way to go, Pig Eye. If there's anything I can't stand it's a goddamn uppity Portagee.
Ray Clinger
- Friday, March 22, 2002 at 00:29:15 (EST)

My two cents are: http://www.census.gov/hhes/poverty/histpov/hstpov19.html
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 22, 2002 at 00:28:23 (EST)

My two cents are: Whene we were kids in San Diego, we called the Portugese kids "tunas" because their fathers all worked the tuna boats. If we caught one of them alone, we kicked the shit out of him.
Pig Eye McDougal
- Friday, March 22, 2002 at 00:27:56 (EST)

My two cents are: I thought Paul Simon was over on the "good" side. Have tastes changed that quickly? I hardly left the room.
Halibert Dugan
- Friday, March 22, 2002 at 00:25:47 (EST)

My two cents are: socialiost maryland is lowest in the nation at 7.8 or 7.9 as i r4call
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 22, 2002 at 00:24:59 (EST)

My two cents are: Oh, I see, you didnt think Texas could have a higher rate than miss. Well it does. Also higher than west virginia.
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 22, 2002 at 00:23:59 (EST)

My two cents are: texas poverty rate is 14.9, mississipi 12 something. National average 11+.
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 22, 2002 at 00:22:47 (EST)

My two cents are: apostrophes? dont know, sometimes dont know where they go, too funky to worry about when the praxis hits.
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 22, 2002 at 00:21:23 (EST)

My two cents are: Shouldn't that be two percentage points lower? The poverty, I mean.
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 22, 2002 at 00:20:30 (EST)

My two cents are: nite gang, watch the gasser!!!
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 22, 2002 at 00:19:13 (EST)

My two cents are: What's your major problemo with apostrophes, Zirc? You trying to be "arty?"
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 22, 2002 at 00:19:01 (EST)

My two cents are: e, b7, a.
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 22, 2002 at 00:18:33 (EST)

My two cents are: Here in Texas, when we talked about poverty and ;ack of things like healthcare, we could always point to states like mississippi and louisiana as being worse off. Not any more. Texas poverty rate is now almost 2 full percentage points higher than mississippi according to the march 2001 cps data at census.gov
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 22, 2002 at 00:17:31 (EST)

My two cents are: Look it up on Olga. Or do a Google search on Harry Balafonte.
Pig Eye McDougal
- Friday, March 22, 2002 at 00:17:14 (EST)

My two cents are: I wear my white guilt proudly, like a tuna fish sandwich. What does "Matoon" mean, anyway? Spanish for "my spitoon"? An indian word, like Illinois itself? A combination of two unlikely words? What?
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 22, 2002 at 00:15:18 (EST)

My two cents are: It was the bug-eyed plant man sleeping in the damp compost pile behind the garage. Plant gas, that was his secret.
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 22, 2002 at 00:14:17 (EST)

My two cents are: whats the chord progression to St James Infirmary Blues???
borg
- Friday, March 22, 2002 at 00:12:33 (EST)

My two cents are: The fog comes to Matoon on little cat feet, and stays all winter, like to make people scratch each others' eyes out. Matoon is a hard time, make no mistake. A damned hard town.
The PA of M
- Friday, March 22, 2002 at 00:12:30 (EST)

My two cents are: Some blues is just unlistenable because its bad music. Paul Simon is bad music. Get over your white guilt.
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 22, 2002 at 00:11:13 (EST)

My two cents are: The blues "come up de ribbo" from the delta to this lonely burg. Not much excitement around here, so you make your own.
The Phantom Anesthetist of Mattoon
- Friday, March 22, 2002 at 00:10:22 (EST)

My two cents are: Be happy to need to go to the dentist. A good set of choppers is worth its weight in corn dogs, H�lderbein, and don't you forget it.
Pig Eye McDougal
- Friday, March 22, 2002 at 00:07:29 (EST)

My two cents are: The whole story about Matoon is at that link as well as an in depth analysis
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 22, 2002 at 00:06:31 (EST)

My two cents are: The 'Phantom Anesthetist' of Mattoon: A Field Study of Mass Hysteria The Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology Vol. 40, No. 1 (Jan. 1945), pp. 175-186.[*] The story of the "phantom anesthetist" begins in Mattoon, Illinois, on the first night of September, 1944, when a woman reported to the police that someone had opened her bedroom window and sprayed her with a sickish sweet-smelling gas which partially paralyzed her legs and made her ill. Soon other cases with similar symptoms were reported, and the police organized a full-scale effort to catch the elusive "gasser." Some of the Mattoon citizens armed themselves with shotguns and sat on their doorsteps to wait for him; some even claimed that they caught a glimpse of him and heard him pumping his spray gun. As the numbers of cases increased--as many as seven in one night--and the facilities of the local police seemed inadequate to the size of the task, the state police with radio-equipped squad cars were called in, and scientific crime detection experts went to work, analyzing stray rags for gaseous chemicals and checking the records of patients recently released from state institutions. Before long the "phantom anesthetist" of Mattoon had appeared in newspapers all over the United States, and Mattoon servicemen in New Guinea and India were writing home anxiously inquiring about their wives and mothers. After ten days of such excitement, when all victims had recovered and no substantial clues had been found, the police began to talk of "imagination" and some of the newspapers ran columns on "mass hysteria"; the episode of the "phantom anesthetist" was over....http://home.wanadoo.nl/cold/mgas2.htm
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 22, 2002 at 00:05:12 (EST)

My two cents are: And if Folkways ever had any Robert Johnson tunes, they stole them, Stymie. Blind Lemon Jefferson, of course, was unlistenable because HE had no soul, not because YOU have no soul. Even though he was as black as a Belgian Sheepdog on a spit.
Pig Eye McDougal
- Friday, March 22, 2002 at 00:04:21 (EST)

My two cents are: It sounds a lot like Brazilian music. You know, in the clubs along the Copacabana. Robert Johnson is not unlistenable to the tuna-fish-sandwich-and-potato-chips American because of the recording quality. He is unlistenable because you got no soul, whitey. And Charlie Patton is unlistenable because you got no 'chonays.
Pig Eye McDougal
- Friday, March 22, 2002 at 00:01:07 (EST)

My two cents are: My last dentist always remided me of the phantom anesthetist of Mantoon Indiana.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 21, 2002 at 23:54:01 (EST)

My two cents are: on the plus sidem dental hygenists are generally a hot breed, in this case, the dentist is even hotter which iis quite rare.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 21, 2002 at 23:53:11 (EST)

My two cents are: F** Dentist tomorrow. what a freaking bourgoise problem, having to go to the dentist.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 21, 2002 at 23:52:11 (EST)

My two cents are: Its about a 45 minute drive into the bubble, the disco and tekno pop do make me a more aggressive driver if I dont trance properly.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 21, 2002 at 23:51:22 (EST)

My two cents are: I think i have recently had a musical epiphany, not that an epiphone was ever a decent axe. What I mean is, for years I dwelled on the stones, the bluesmen, joplinn, Cotton, Hendrix, Clapton. Lately, I've discovered that turned up pretty loud, thumping repetetive f****beat disco dance tunes and bass driven tekno poprock are pretty close to trance inducing. Trancing Good, Good, Good,
Borg 11 of 22
- Thursday, March 21, 2002 at 23:49:58 (EST)

My two cents are: A Firesign Theater Collection is always welcome.
Don't crush that Dwarf and <Hand me the pliers>
- Thursday, March 21, 2002 at 23:37:59 (EST)

My two cents are: BB is from Leyland Miss. and got his start on King Biscuit I believe.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 21, 2002 at 23:35:31 (EST)

My two cents are: A Marianne Faithful Anthology is always a welcome ddition to any collection.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 21, 2002 at 23:34:11 (EST)

My two cents are: Every collection needs libby cotton. the robert johnson and bline melon chitlin on folkways are almost unlistenable due to the poor quality recording and increadibly low signal strength on even modern versions.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 21, 2002 at 23:32:54 (EST)

My two cents are: Correction. I was thinking of Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson. It's "Cleanhead", not "Skinhead." I got my eras mixed up. What's wrong with the Moody Blues? Why go so far outside the box? Or inside the box, as the case may be.
Pig Eye McDougal
- Thursday, March 21, 2002 at 23:07:04 (EST)

My two cents are: Oh, you'll hear about Blind Lemon, and Charlie Patton, and even Son House and Eddie Skinhead Vinson. At least stay away from Charlie Patton. I don't think the guy knew what a turnaround was! And the lyrics! All YOU'LL hear is a bunch of frantic mumbling, but do you want to know what he's really saying? He's saying: "I like to fuck and fight. I like to fuck and fight. And ball and ball and ball and walk the streets at night." Is this what we want our loved ones to hear?
Pig Eye McDougal
- Thursday, March 21, 2002 at 23:02:34 (EST)

My two cents are: You'll find that you D. blues is a little hard on the throat, goes down harsh. Maybe better to listen to cover. Clapton will usually have one on a record. Bonnie Raitt. The Rolling Stones song about when the train left the station, that's Robert Johnson. One of the best Johnson covers I've ever heard is George Thorogood doing "Kind-hearted Woman Blues."... got a kind-hearted woman, she study evil all the time... bound to kill me, just to have it all off her mind... The original is too grit for you, my rabbit. It be like single-malt scotch, or Gauloise chokes, or a manual transmission, three on the tree. Go with the Serendipity Singers version, or the Mike Curb Congregation. No need to run your tit thru the wringer. Trust me woman. Don't be mean on me. All the doctors in Hot Springs, baby, sure won't help you none.
Pig Eye McDougal
- Thursday, March 21, 2002 at 22:59:25 (EST)

My two cents are: Delta pretty limited. I go with Robert Johnson. Knock the socks off. Get right into it. Come to think of it, I can't even think of the names of any others. Early onset Alzheimer's or musicological ignorance, take your pick. Delta blues � la Johnson is pretty harsh anyway. Why not try a little Mance Lipscomb? A little Mississippi John? Your bluesmen-cum-songsters. Hell, Ivory Joe Hunter could sing and play the guitar better than most of these guys, and he's probably in the Easy Listening section. What's the setup? You know someone who claims to be "into" Delta blues? Mississippi Delta, right? Give me something to go on.
Pig Eye McDougal
- Thursday, March 21, 2002 at 22:51:21 (EST)

My two cents are: OK, touts youses out there avec yr clever Frog accents graves et egues, here's the thing: which delta blues CDs specifically to buy first and foremost for bestowal on ceremonial occasions?
thanks in advance
- Thursday, March 21, 2002 at 22:33:57 (EST)

My two cents are: "Riley?" Reilly! Life O'. Hey.
yo!
- Thursday, March 21, 2002 at 22:29:23 (EST)

My two cents are: Has Richard Perle caused Iraq to be bombed yet?
curious baghdad granny
- Thursday, March 21, 2002 at 22:25:29 (EST)

My two cents are: Holding.
RuPaul de Vine
- Thursday, March 21, 2002 at 22:04:22 (EST)

My two cents are: Stop looking at me with those buggy flourescent eyes you soggy-skinned clammy plant boy-pod creature. I know you sleep in the damp dirt behind the greenhouse.
RuPaul de Vine
- Thursday, March 21, 2002 at 22:02:20 (EST)

My two cents are: My savants are simply to flatpick six-fingered bluegrass tunes like Wabash and Wreck of the Ole 97 and grow ornamental salt grasses somewhat inland from Galveston and Port Lavaca. I am also capabale of certain anatomical feats by myself and with others.
RuPaul Devine
- Thursday, March 21, 2002 at 22:00:05 (EST)

My two cents are: Since they aren't, I'm here to carry the hod.
Mr. F
- Thursday, March 21, 2002 at 21:58:01 (EST)

My two cents are: You probably wouldn't be enjoying this site more if CLIFFORD and WILL-YUM were trading repart�e.
lMr. Fern
- Thursday, March 21, 2002 at 21:57:28 (EST)

My two cents are: Sick bastard.
typical liberal slimeball
- Thursday, March 21, 2002 at 21:55:25 (EST)

My two cents are: Look, if they can call Daryl Dalrymple "The Fisherman" they can call me "Mr. Fern."
Mr. Fern
- Thursday, March 21, 2002 at 21:54:40 (EST)

My two cents are: Who is this "Mr. Fern" shithead? The guy is such a sick-o he's probably one of Pete�'s atavars. Yecccch.
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- Thursday, March 21, 2002 at 21:53:23 (EST)

My two cents are: Sounds like the coals aren't hot enough to sear the meat..
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 21, 2002 at 21:52:55 (EST)

My two cents are: Now I know how Glint feels when people whisper, "there goes Mr. Leyland Cypress."
Mr. Fern
- Thursday, March 21, 2002 at 21:37:47 (EST)

My two cents are: Maybe that's what I should do on my day off. Plant some ferns. Or maybe I'll just work out the fern layout on CAD, on the computer. Planning is the key to world-class fern gardening. I can feel it in my spores.
Mr. Fern
- Thursday, March 21, 2002 at 21:36:56 (EST)

My two cents are: I been stopping by the Big K and buying one-gallon ferns like a man possessed, like a bishop bunging choir-boys, trying to work his way from the altos to the bassundos. I doubt if I have enough dirt to drill holes for all these ferns. It's just that the ones I put in last spring worked out so good, until the last day of frost pushed them back into the dirt. I've never been successful with ferns before this. A fern was like a carburetor to me. They died in windrows. Now I am "Mister Fern."
Mr. Fern, aka Dances-With-Trolls
- Thursday, March 21, 2002 at 21:35:26 (EST)

My two cents are: Muddy Waters and B.B. King aren't dope music. Jimi Hendrix, that's your dope music. Or maybe the 16 1/2-minute version of "Bluebird" by the Buff Springfield. The Chambers Brothers, "Time." Bobby Goldsborough's version of "Little Green Apples." The Pazicaglia, or however it's spelled, by J.S. Bach, with E. Power Biggs tickling the keys of the Giant Wurlitzer. Charlie Mingus playing "Eat That Chicken." THAT stuff is music you smoke dope with. Muddy Waters and B.B. King, that's wine spo-dee-o-dee music. You drink wine spo-dee-o-dee while listening to the straight guitar blues. Or maybe Muscatel and vodka. I ain't particular.
Dances-With-Trolls
- Thursday, March 21, 2002 at 21:29:10 (EST)

My two cents are: Your "off" ? does that mean you know when your on? Technically? Dosent someone do your cost allocation?
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 21, 2002 at 21:28:39 (EST)

My two cents are: Things just haven't been the same since the county school district stopped purchasing oregano from us. Ketchup used to be a profit center. Now it's a cost center. A visionary and entrepreneurial business savant like Fess Parker could surely unravel such a conundrum. But then who wants to stand around all day straining ketchup through a coonskinned cap?
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 21, 2002 at 21:24:18 (EST)

My two cents are: I'm taking tomorrow off. That's a luxury that management guys like Zirc and Glint can't enjoy. The only way to make sure your underlings' noses are firmly into your ass is to present your ass to them, every day, without fail. Miss a day and they might lose the taste for it. While those guys are stalking the cube-ways making sure nobody is posting to the internet, I'll be lying in the hammock with a cool one, maybe taking a break every now and then to post to the internet. The life of Riley. Eat your hearts out.
Dances-With-Trolls
- Thursday, March 21, 2002 at 21:20:02 (EST)

My two cents are: So today the old lady is giving a ladyfriend from work a ride home from the kitchens of hell in the Dodge Caravan and a Muddy Waters or B.B. King tune comes on the fine two-speaker dash only stereo. The workfriend looks over at wife and says "that's marijauana smoking music, I bet people that listen to this station smoke marijuana."
RuPaul de Vine
- Thursday, March 21, 2002 at 21:18:27 (EST)

My two cents are: Once again Ann Coulter demonstrates her ignorance.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 21, 2002 at 20:28:15 (EST)

My two cents are: Don't Fear the Freeper By (the MWO) Roger Ailes Sung to "Don't Fear the Reaper" Click to sing along RimJob's time has run, All his money... gone Reason don't fear the Freeper, Nor do the people who have a brain (We can't be like they are) Inbred babies ... (Those are the Freepers) Need opposable thumbs.. (Don't fear the Freeper) Only able to lie.. (Don't fear the Freeper) Babies, not one man... Rush Limbaugh is deaf Hearing all but gone Tim Mcveigh and Dave Koresh Are together in eternity... (Tim McVeigh and Dave Koresh) 40,000 men and women in the KKK (like Tim McVeigh and Dave Koresh) 40,000 members in the KKK (Unrefined, bigoted) Another 40,000 Tom Delays (We can't be like they are) Inbred babies.. (Don't fear the Freeper) We can't take Ayn Rand.. (Don't fear the Freeper) Want the Clintons to fry.. (Don't fear the Freeper) Klayman and the Klan.. Freepers' time is gone, So long, Satan's spawn Came the last night of madness And it was clear they couldn't go on Violated fair use and the suits appeared The crosses burned, then disappeared The curtains flew, and then Chimp appeared... (Saying don't be afraid) Come on RimJob.. (I need blow and beer) And Rim rolled to him, (and they started to fly) They looked backward, and then they hit the ground* *And everyone said, boy, that Chimp must have been one terrible pilot (He's just as dumb as they are) Half-monkey, half-man (He's just as dumb as they are)
Sing A Long
- Thursday, March 21, 2002 at 18:55:40 (EST)

My two cents are: Bush has lost my vote. His announcement that he will sign the CRB has caused me to reassess him, and I don't know how I can possibly vote for his re-election. I am very disappointed in his decision.
Trish
- Thursday, March 21, 2002 at 18:30:58 (EST)

My two cents are: "BOGUS AND GARBAGE" CLINTONS CLEARED OF ALL WRONGDOING AFTER DISGRACEFUL DECADE-LONG WITCH-HUNT FINAL REPORT FINDINGS: REPUBLICANS CANNOT BE TRUSTED WITH POWER $70,000,000 ABUSE OF POWER BY CORRUPT RIGHT-WINGERS ENDS WITH A (CORRUPT) WHIMPER NY Times: Entire Clinton investigation BOGUS and GARBAGE Washington Post: Entire Clinton investigation BOGUS and GARBAGE MSNBC: Entire Clinton investigation BOGUS and GARBAGE LA Times: Entire Clinton investigation BOGUS and GARBAGE CNN: Entire Clinton investigation BOGUS and GARBAGE Fox: Entire Clinton investigation BOGUS and GARBAGE
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 21, 2002 at 18:17:47 (EST)

My two cents are: Harris County Homeschoolers Update What's up with Russell Yates? The spectacle of this ubiquitous Promise-Keeper poster boy just gets more hideous by the day. First, he used his testimony in his wife's murder trial as a forum for promoting his favorite newsletter, "Perilous Times," boasting on the stand that his family lived by its tenets - which included hating homosexuals, moving your wife and five kids into a greyhound bus so as to combat any materialistic tendencies, and rooting for the burning in hell of everyone who isn't straight and living in a bus with six others. Then, days after his wife is sent to prison, Rusty's back on his feet, making the talk show rounds, appearing on Larry King and the Today Show. The next day after those appearances, it is reported he missed jury duty in order to "be on TV." The Larry King interview brought to mind any number of sitcoms in which a bereaved husband discovered he had a new hook for picking up chicks. Rusty let it be known he wasn't sure of his future with his wife, whom he supported devotedly through her trial after driving her to psychosis (the inevitable result of the "unhealthy lifestyle" promoted by right-wing fundies). After several "this can't get any worse" moments during the interview, it got worse. Rusty directed the audience to his website: "YatesKids.com." You can go there to visit the kids, he said, via streaming home movies. Sure enough, the site is real - copyright notices and all. It is noted on YatesKids.com that the site is "maintained by Russell Yates," whose email address is provided. The site also advises the "Movies are better viewed over high-speed internet connection."
Tales of Mrs & Mrs. Yates, Ace Anti-Feminazis! Visit the Late YatesKids at YatesKids.com! No kiddin'!!
- Thursday, March 21, 2002 at 17:58:14 (EST)

My two cents are: I see both sides of the argument. On the one hand, it might be nice savoring some good jamoka while pinching one off. On the other hand, if you aren't careful you might end up drinking piss and coliform bacteria. Life is not all black and white. There's a lot of gray.
Registered Independent
- Thursday, March 21, 2002 at 17:11:15 (EST)

My two cents are: The crynic is in the loo, pinching a loaf and enjoying a latt�.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 21, 2002 at 17:06:02 (EST)

My two cents are: It's like "pinching a loaf" all over again! Where's the crynic?
Dances-With-Trolls
- Thursday, March 21, 2002 at 17:04:22 (EST)

My two cents are: Hey, is this brouhaha about the coffee in the lavatory a private affair, or can anyone jump in? I see a lot of possibilities in this one, a lot of opportunity for glory, and am hoping that I might join in the rhubarb.
Dances-With-Trolls
- Thursday, March 21, 2002 at 17:01:48 (EST)

My two cents are: Nah, Coulter nailed the liberals when she said she was thrilled to hear that the Secretary of Transportation had been mobbed to death, until she found out it was the Afghani secretary. Couple of weeks ago. The one where she said the Jap, Mineta, was sending travelers on a "Bataan death march." THAT's what nailing the liebrals is about. You got to have homicidal wishes and at least one racial slur.
House of Meat
- Thursday, March 21, 2002 at 16:59:41 (EST)

My two cents are: Well, you see, anonymous, reaming an alter-boy with a cigar is no different than consentual monkey sex with a plump maiden in her '20's. Try to develop a system of right-wing values, asshole.
Halibert Dugan
- Thursday, March 21, 2002 at 16:55:33 (EST)

My two cents are: Yes, but how did she nail the liberals between the eyes? I don't get that one.
???
- Thursday, March 21, 2002 at 16:53:25 (EST)

My two cents are: This Coulter is a fine filly, a thoroughbred that any Imam would be content to ride. I myself would count her among my houris, and would stable her in the harem chambers. When Amina dies, I might make of her a wife, third or fourth, if I am old then and the carnal pleasures become irrelevant in a wife.
Mustafa
- Thursday, March 21, 2002 at 16:52:20 (EST)

My two cents are: "Indeed, most of the allegations against the priests do not even constitute "sexual relations" on the Democratic Party's definition."
ann once again nails the liberals right between the eyes!
- Thursday, March 21, 2002 at 16:48:24 (EST)

My two cents are: The fear of carrying an open container into a lavatory which is most likely scrubbed down with Lysol at least once a day indicates the existence of fears driven by a weakened immune system. For the rest of us, we don't fret this type of detail nor do we keep statistics on who's carrying what, when, and where.
Glint
- Thursday, March 21, 2002 at 16:34:43 (EST)

My two cents are: Coulter is off base again. By the time a man gets to pope-hood, he isn't capable of cornholing a bowl of pureed peas.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 21, 2002 at 14:14:27 (EST)

My two cents are: Right-wingers are usually only wannabe corn-holers, anonymous. It's your liberal priest who is a factual corn-holer. Your liberal priest, your liberal bishop, your liberal cardinal and, who knows? Your liberal pope?
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 21, 2002 at 14:12:53 (EST)

My two cents are: That's funny.... I got the impression from reading this page that corn-holers were mostly right-wingers.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 21, 2002 at 14:11:12 (EST)

My two cents are: Or maybe it's that she has discovered that it was liberalism that caused the Catholic priesthood to turn to corn-holing.
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- Thursday, March 21, 2002 at 14:10:23 (EST)

My two cents are: Ann Coulter does a hella job today on .... on something, I'm not sure what. She has discovered that there are no queer scoutmasters, maybe that's it. Hella job.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 21, 2002 at 14:06:48 (EST)

My two cents are: The causeway was blocked and I got to participate in the mother of all traffic jams for four hours. And my back hurts from sleeping on somebody's couch. Life is a bitch. Probably the Jews.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 21, 2002 at 14:00:42 (EST)

My two cents are: Yep. The truth IS priceless. Virtue is priceless.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 21, 2002 at 13:58:39 (EST)

My two cents are: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58812-2002Mar20.html
priceless! totally priceless. and true!
- Thursday, March 21, 2002 at 13:38:37 (EST)

My two cents are: "If you want to take your coffee in where ninety other people piss, shit, and wash their hands carry on, I find it disgusting..."
come on, live a little! <[email protected]>
keep those updated pics cumming!, - Thursday, March 21, 2002 at 13:08:05 (EST)

My two cents are: I've just received an e-mail invitation. Appears that the intrabubblean Red borg network has made arrangements for an off-campus post mortem fairwell luncheon for one of my ex-people. Think I'll go and take what's coming. Not like I can do her any worse by her. Maybe I'll take a camera and snap a few photos of the group just in case...
Glint
- Thursday, March 21, 2002 at 13:02:24 (EST)

My two cents are: Yes, "lick bush" sounds like the perfect movement for the group that glanced at Paula Jones and morphed into a green eyed monster. And thus the "kiss clinton" movement was born.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 21, 2002 at 12:51:59 (EST)

My two cents are: "Lick Bush!" A movement whose time has come, lest we forget about Snippy's single-vote appointment to the Residency. Sure, they're passing the anti-Enron campaign financing bill today, but tomorrow they'll bring it in to Scalia's court, hoping for another one-vote victory. "Lick Bush!" "LICK BUSH NOW!"
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 21, 2002 at 10:30:37 (EST)

My two cents are: You think that's bad, Gary, check this out. Even without this crazy new law, a little guy like me isn't allowed to even stand outside a polling place on voting day, "electioneering." I'm not talking about buying TV time like the big free-speechers, I'm talking about waving a litlle home-made sign that says, "Lick Bush!"
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 21, 2002 at 09:21:51 (EST)

My two cents are: The GOP caved in again yesterday, and the president is probably going to sign this travesty of incumbent protection. Here is the most perfidous part of McCain-Feingold. Someone please tell me why this is not unconstitutional. This section says that 60 days before a general election and 30 days before a primary , candidates for federal office cannot be the subject of critism through issue advocacy adds. So long first amendment. -- `(3) ELECTIONEERING COMMUNICATION- For purposes of this subsection-- `(A)(i) IN GENERAL- The term `electioneering communication' means any broadcast, cable, or satellite communication which-- `(I) refers to a clearly identified candidate for Federal office; `(II) is made within-- `(aa) 60 days before a general, special, or runoff election for such Federal office; or `(bb) 30 days before a primary or preference election, or a convention or caucus of a political party that has authority to nominate a candidate, for such Federal office; and `(III) is made to an audience that includes members of the electorate for such election, convention, or caucus; and
Gary
- Thursday, March 21, 2002 at 09:00:50 (EST)

My two cents are: Maybe she was demonstrating a birth control method that is 100% effective.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 21, 2002 at 02:54:52 (EST)

My two cents are: I hate the taste of Charcoal. However I don't like meat raw either. If its not fried, boiled or baked, I won't eat it either. Apparently, in Uganda, women want to act like praying mantis'es, and eat their mates. Heh Heh
WILL-YUM
- Thursday, March 21, 2002 at 01:02:20 (EST)

My two cents are: Who is the one who isn't?
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 21, 2002 at 00:28:55 (EST)

My two cents are: Sounds like the coals aren't hot enough to sear the meat..
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 20, 2002 at 22:42:46 (EST)

My two cents are: Sounds like the coals aren't hot enough to sear the meat..
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 20, 2002 at 21:49:18 (EST)

My two cents are: Sounds like the coals aren't hot enough to sear the meat..
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 20, 2002 at 21:29:26 (EST)

My two cents are: So there's this man with a parrot. And his parrot swears like a sailor, I mean he's a pistol. He can swear for five minutes straight without repeating himself. The trouble is that the guy who owns the parrot is a quiet, conservative type, and this bird's foul mouth is driving him crazy. One day, it gets to be too much, so the guy grabs the bird by the throat, shakes him really hard, and yells, "QUIT IT!" But this just makes the bird mad and he swears more than ever. Then the guy gets mad and says, "That's it. I'll get you." and locks the bird in a kitchen cabinet. This really aggravates the bird and he claws and scratches, and when the guy finally lets him out, the bird cuts loose with a stream of invective that would make a veteran sailor blush. At that point, the guy is so mad that he throws the bird into the freezer. For the first few seconds, there is a terrible din. The bird kicks and claws and thrashes. Then it suddenly goes very quiet. At first the guy just waits, but then he starts to think that the bird may be hurt. After a couple of minutes of silence, he's so worried that he opens up the freezer door. The bird calmly climbs onto the man's outstretched arm and says, "Awfully sorry about the trouble I gave you. I'll do my best to improve my vocabulary from now on." The man is astounded. He can't understand the transformation that has come over the parrot. Then the parrot says, "By the way, what did the chicken do?"
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 20, 2002 at 21:24:01 (EST)

My two cents are: REVIEW Midnight Divas Photography by Antoine Temp,. The Cameron House, 408 Queen St. W., 364-0811. May 28 for an unlimited run. DRAG HAG Antoine Temp,'s photo-fascination with drag queens by DONNA LYPCHUK Each day he waits for the sun to flash its final glint against the monolithic mirror of the Chrysler Building, signaling the dawn of another evening in New York City. This is the magic moment when the city's glittering creatures of the night emerge from their day jobs and prepare to descend upon the bars and clubs like so many exotic birds freed from their cages. This is when he, a stockbroker at a prominent New York bank with many wealthy clients, discards the accoutrements of his glamorous job the ringing phones, the Swiss bank accounts, the business suit that is cut "just so" to indulge in his real passion: photography. Armed with his camera, he prowls the clubs of Manhattan's East Side: the Boy Bar, World, the Pyramid and Webster's Hall; intimate lounges like Jackie 60, the Crow Bar; and dance mausoleums such as the Palladium, the Limelight, the Copacabana and the Roxy. All in search of that platonic ideal of beauty the drag queen. The years pass, and he finds himself the proud owner of an eclectic and unusual portfolio of portraits of the most famous transvestites in New York City. Ladies with mysterious names like RuPaul, Lady Bunny, Mistress Formika, Mona Foot and Sister Dimension, whose individuality and beautiful colors he has trapped under his glass like so many rare butterflies. A character from a Brian De Palma film? No, this is the secret life of French-born stockbroker Antoine Temp,, who, thanks to the assistance of the French Consulate here in Toronto, is coming to town to attend the opening of his exhibition Midnight Divas at the Cameron House on May 28. A self-taught photographer, Temp,'s fascination with drag queens began when he first moved to New York about a decade ago and was amazed at their omnipresence. After snapping a few photos and finding himself pleased with the results, what began as a hobby soon transformed itself into a second career. Temp, waited until last year to exhibit his collection. Temp,'s work is testimony to the aesthetic heights to which enthusiasm can carry an amateur, despite certain limitations. For instance, Temp, does not develop his own color film; he takes it to a photo processing service like most people. His true talent lies in his ability to shoot at night with available light (and if you go to clubs, you know that the quality of light is unpredictable at best). Temp,'s photos are so rich, vibrant and colorful that one could almost call them "eye candy." The mood of each portrait ranges from flamboyant to menacing and moody. As a body of work, Midnight Divas is a long-term visual study of the phenomenon of the drag queen in our culture. It's a timely move considering they've been popularized in the mainstream from episodes of Roseanne to allegations that J. Edgar Hoover liked to lounge in drag. On May 28 the corner of Queen and Cameron will become the crossroads for all kinds of cross dressers. After all, this is an exhibitionist's exhibition. Perhaps Mr. Temp, will bring his camera along and capture some of our local color with his lens. Printer-friendly version -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Top. � 1991-2002 eye - [email protected]
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 20, 2002 at 21:09:35 (EST)

My two cents are: http://www.dearauntnettie.com/museum/museum-j-edgar.htm
Brenda
- Wednesday, March 20, 2002 at 21:04:37 (EST)

My two cents are: then there is the bugeyed plant guy. has these big sort of eyes with lots of white in them, like a flourescent plant light white though. beaked nose that sort of resembles an adventitious root with nostrils. Have never touched him but he always looks sort of clammy and pasty. Thick boned dude, not a melonhead, but definitely australopithecus robustus
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 20, 2002 at 20:59:24 (EST)

My two cents are: Sounds like the coals aren't hot enough to sear the meat..
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 20, 2002 at 20:56:00 (EST)

My two cents are: I thnk I'm going to start counting the melonheads at work, like I said, I can think of two so far. Both male. Anybody know of a female melonhead???
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 20, 2002 at 20:21:36 (EST)

My two cents are: So Glint, how did you get along with your replacement, the new hire??? Better make damn sure nobody is working in a two-walk trip for a cup of coffee.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 20, 2002 at 20:16:36 (EST)

My two cents are: So let me get this right here Glint, you actually explained 10 45 to the girl in 9 58? Probably proved everything she'd ever been told about engineers. "So much for spontanaeity in the sack she figured and slunk off looking for a socialist or a biologist, anything but a f***ing anal retentive engineer.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 20, 2002 at 20:14:09 (EST)

My two cents are: so i started to analyse the stiff head walkers today. I saw two of them. One thing I noticed is that they both have very large heads, melonheads, really. one quite bulbuous, not gourdlike, melonlike. melonheads.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 20, 2002 at 20:09:14 (EST)

My two cents are: nah glint. youre missing the point, its not really about if its a 1 or a 2, its that you'd basically take food into a public restroom and consume it there, or take it in and bring it out and consume it. There's 1800 souls at pothaole using about 10 bathrooms per sex. If you want to take your coffee in where ninety other people piss, shit, and wash their hands carry on, I find it disgusting, but then you never did mind soap on the trousers did you!!!
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 20, 2002 at 20:06:43 (EST)

My two cents are: The boss paid for lunch today and we dragged along the new hire. I selected a Mexican restaurant and ordered a blackened slab of tender Tiburon, with scallops, shrimp, pineapple, and papaya on the side. Everybody else followed suit and ordered the same dish. It was magnifico!
Glint
- Wednesday, March 20, 2002 at 16:20:25 (EST)

My two cents are: Good choice, the canned soda. Nothing worse than a dead mouse or someone's thumb ever been found in those.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 20, 2002 at 15:02:08 (EST)

My two cents are: And 2 chip-monks said "Do we eat them here, or take them with us"??
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 20, 2002 at 12:55:53 (EST)

My two cents are: Hmmmn, didn't they catch a guy on video, pissing in the coffee pot?? Oh well, I stick to canned soda, but I don't take them to the bath-room.
WILL-YUM
- Wednesday, March 20, 2002 at 12:53:01 (EST)

My two cents are: Someone had better tell John Ndekeezi to put some ice on it.
Glint
- Wednesday, March 20, 2002 at 12:47:58 (EST)

My two cents are: A Ugandan woman bit off her husband's penis and testicles during an argument, police said on Wednesday. The woman, Annet Minduru, 30, was in police custody in the capital Kampala and might be charged with causing grievous bodily harm, said the officer in charge of the station, Vigilius Okuni. The independent Monitor newspaper said Minduru had bitten off John Ndekeezi's penis and testicles Sunday night after her 45-year-old husband slapped her. "Because I was so drunk she overpowered me and by the time my neighbor came to my rescue, she had bitten off both my testicles and the penis," Ndekeezi told the paper.
he said "kiss it" and she took it from there...
- Wednesday, March 20, 2002 at 12:35:12 (EST)

My two cents are: In case you're wondering, "wouldn't it be easier to drain and then get coffee so that you don't have to carry a loaded cup into the john and take a chance on scalding yourself in the unmentionables," let me explain. At this particular site the Coffee Butler machine was located in a region where there wan't any sink. Thus, when it came time to make coffee it was necessary to carry the pot down to the john to get water. This was because the pot couldn't fit under the paltry stream of water at the water cooler. Thus, if I stopped at the john first, and then went to the coffee maker and found an empty pot, then I would have to make a second trip to the rest room. If I "held it" on the other hand, then I could relieve myself while fetching water for the coffee pot, or on the way back to my desk. Either way, I only had to enter the lavatory a single time. I know, consultants are paid by the hour and it would have been in my best interest to drag it out and make two trips. But I'm not like you.
Glint
- Wednesday, March 20, 2002 at 10:45:04 (EST)

My two cents are: Anonymous@22:02:31 reminds me of an earlier experience at a previous job site. Several times a day I'd leave my desk to get a cup of coffee. While I was out I'd swing to the restroom to drain. Save time; kill two birds with one stone. (It sort of goes with the coffee drinking.) Anyhow, one day a co-worker - a young female - stops me in the hall and says she has a question she's been dying to ask. "Shoot," I said. And she asks, "Why do you always take a cup of coffee with you into the bathroom?" And now it looks like there are still those who just don't get it. Assume if you're carrying beverages into the lavatory it must be for No. II. Linear thinking is alive and well on Fornigate.
Glint
- Wednesday, March 20, 2002 at 09:58:18 (EST)

My two cents are: read about an experiment in which by pushing button A, a monkey gets food and water, button B, cocaine. At first, they alternate, A and B, sleeping in between. eventually thought its just B,B,B. Also heard that in the early days of using drug dogs, they just got the dog strung out and then waited for it to go nuts when it smelled a fix.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 20, 2002 at 08:38:28 (EST)

My two cents are: Do as the Palenstinians do.....Wrap a towel around your head, then when you gotta go use the rest room, wipe yer ass on it!!!!
WILL-YUM
- Wednesday, March 20, 2002 at 00:32:14 (EST)

My two cents are: A perfect deterrent to crime. Pass a law that all prison inmates will be required to listen to John Ashcroft sing LET THE EAGLES SOAR.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 20, 2002 at 00:31:32 (EST)

My two cents are: Coke was great. We just abused it over and over and over. Wouldn't stop until it was gone; even if I could see my heart thumping through my shirt. Kind of dumb, I guess.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 20, 2002 at 00:30:11 (EST)

My two cents are: When I lived outside the bubble toilet paper was a big expense. We used to steal it from the city park.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 19, 2002 at 23:55:20 (EST)

My two cents are: Sounds like the coals aren't hot enough to sear the meat..
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 19, 2002 at 23:53:42 (EST)

My two cents are: You guys just think you are soooooo outside the bubble man. It makes me sick. Posers.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 19, 2002 at 23:53:12 (EST)

My two cents are: split a gram??? must have been pretty shitty coke.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 19, 2002 at 23:51:49 (EST)

My two cents are: first, it wasnt the lizard killer that took the coke to the can. but it would be hard not to set the can on the floor in our stalls, the tp holders are sort of shaped like donuts
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 19, 2002 at 23:50:32 (EST)

My two cents are: And another thing thats been driving me nuts lately is the way people wait for elevators. All pushed up against the door shoving so hard to get in that you can barely get out. whats the deal here???
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 19, 2002 at 23:47:34 (EST)

My two cents are: Anti reptile woman didn't necessarily put the can on the floor. Back in the good old days, many times I took coke into a stall. Unfolded the gram and balanced it on the TP holder. Never touched the ground except when I was strung out and dropped it one day while my boss was in the next stall. Reached down, scored the packet, scrammed out and he never knew. Told him about it one day after we split a gram at the office Christmas party a few months later.
It's not the real thing
- Tuesday, March 19, 2002 at 23:47:31 (EST)

My two cents are: Sounds like the coals aren't hot enough to sear the meat..
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 19, 2002 at 23:43:48 (EST)

My two cents are: To: 22:02:31. Sickie boy. Screaming for help by the mutliple ???. Rage is getting out of control. Would it be easier on yuo if the Coke were a Pepsi? You know, the real thing? Get help before you find yourself climbing a tower. Please. Seek help and repent.
borg 8 of 22
- Tuesday, March 19, 2002 at 23:43:08 (EST)

My two cents are: I've been trying not to pick on people at work, not even in my own mind. But lately, I've been noticing these people that walk without moving their heads. I know Monty Python did the silly walk thing, and maybe that fits in here or at least into a buff oke cheerleader on Fess Parker night at the drive-in. But anyway, back to the walks, I can see two of them now, rigid from the hips up, and like they walk so their heads dont even move up or down, knees bent weird somehow. Not like that german lady that used to walk down my street dragging her bad leg and wearing out that edge of the sidewalk.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 19, 2002 at 22:07:20 (EST)

My two cents are: And besides the reptile starver, you know what, I saw this girl take a coke into the bathroom at work today. Now I could see maybe walking into your own bathroom at home with a coke or a beer, but this girl went and bought a coke to take to the bathroom, a fresh coke. See what I mean? what goes thru the mind??? hmmmm time to take a dump, think I'l go get a coke for the event, things go better with coke??? So there's no tables in the stalls so she's got to pretty much set it on the bathroom floor at some point. So I ask you, how many of you would pick a coke up off the bathroom floor and take it back to your desk????
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 19, 2002 at 22:02:31 (EST)

My two cents are: look, its not like i'm building a website of people i've fired!
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 19, 2002 at 21:52:09 (EST)

My two cents are: I thought we were all one person, the borg I mean
borg 7 of 22
- Tuesday, March 19, 2002 at 21:50:46 (EST)

My two cents are: Tick, tick, tick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Call the S.W.A.T. team
- Tuesday, March 19, 2002 at 21:35:37 (EST)

My two cents are: Do you think they are one person? That is scary.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 19, 2002 at 21:34:43 (EST)

My two cents are: Some sick muthafuckas on this site. ++++Ball boy needs to be turned in to the SPCA.++++The sicko stalking the anti-reptilian co worker should go to the police immediately for his own safety as well as the safety of the normal people he see daily. ++++ Mr. "Papa's got a brand new bag" is in desperate need of a self inflicted bullet to the temple. Anybody who gets a woody from a backpack needs to just pack it in. Good luck, fiends.
Dr. Laura
- Tuesday, March 19, 2002 at 21:32:20 (EST)

My two cents are: You guys still haven't figured out which one of your dopes is really the pineapple? Slackers!
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- Tuesday, March 19, 2002 at 21:06:39 (EST)

My two cents are: so if we start drug testing kids, can we test fetuses and mothers? how about all women seeing as they could be not showing yet and all. Then we put the women in jail for drug use and they have their kids behind bars. This is really parsimony at work here given that these kids of doper moms were going to end up in jail anyway, just saves society the expense and risk on the front end. If we could teach them to build cars that would be good.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 19, 2002 at 19:58:14 (EST)

My two cents are: anyway, thus far the dog has tolerated the game based on its presumption of my good intentions. to continue would not be cool and would breed distrust. not good.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 19, 2002 at 19:54:38 (EST)

My two cents are: little doubt in my mind that the supreme court that elected snippy will soon be drugtesting every kid in america. Its a shame really, this war on drugs, if there was a way to test penises, the retchies would go for that!!!!!
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 19, 2002 at 19:51:14 (EST)

My two cents are: backopack workee pretty good today plus found an extra compartment i didnt know it has, really neat place for pens, keys, sort of a secret compartment in a way but big enough to hold a tshirt easy,. Saw the lizard killer today. smiling away.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 19, 2002 at 19:44:33 (EST)

My two cents are: so anyway, thats it for the game, no more. I mean its not very nice, sort of sociopathic actually.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 19, 2002 at 19:39:25 (EST)

My two cents are: hiyall, so i experimented a little more with the demented puppy game, hitting the pup in the face with the ball by guessing which way it will turn. What happened is I went out in the backyard and went to toss one and while he's running, I notice that i actually am keying off the hair on his shoulders which turns a split second before his head does. So now I am convinced that the whole thing was just picking up the signal and not some sport of drug induced zen ability. So even with seeing the hair flinch, I still miss wide by two feet. correct side of course but a big miss. So I end up feeling badly that I've pegged the poor pooch so sort of maliciously instead of "zenly". Anyhow, after awhile, it dawns on me to conduct yet another test, this time forcing myself to toss the ball before even the back hairs begin to twitch. I grab the tennis ball, bounce it a few times on the patio, walk into the yard and get ready. I cock my arm back and the pooch takes off and I'm watching, straight back hair, straight back hair, straight back hair and I release. Dog turns into a fat fucking pitch, hits him square in the eye as he was turning to look for the ball. so it was zen after all.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 19, 2002 at 19:35:46 (EST)

My two cents are: Heard John Ashcroft sing AS THE EAGLES SOAR. Does this mean a Grammy nomination?
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 19, 2002 at 18:41:50 (EST)

My two cents are: That was no dog, that was Laura Bush.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 19, 2002 at 18:14:14 (EST)

My two cents are: I thought he fumbled the wag and balled the dog.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 19, 2002 at 18:13:42 (EST)

My two cents are: Mixed metaphors R us. Fumbled the dog and wagged the ball. Wagged the fumble and dogged the ball.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 19, 2002 at 18:13:22 (EST)

My two cents are: ???????????
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- Tuesday, March 19, 2002 at 18:12:08 (EST)

My two cents are: Yeah, he fumbled the ball on wag the dog when the tents turned out to be empty except for the camels' noses on one end and their upraised soon to be hamburger keisters on the other.
BWWAAAAAAAAHAAAAAHAAAAHAAA!!!!
- Tuesday, March 19, 2002 at 17:40:15 (EST)

My two cents are: Clinton used impeachment as a springboard for overwhelming public support.
ha
- Tuesday, March 19, 2002 at 15:18:25 (EST)

My two cents are: Clinton used Jones as a springboard for impeachment.
BWAAAAAHAAAAHAAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
- Tuesday, March 19, 2002 at 15:17:15 (EST)

My two cents are: A year ago Dick was running the country ... today, he lives out of a little suitcase.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 19, 2002 at 15:17:07 (EST)

My two cents are: Indian comic strip spoofs US president George Bush NEW DELHI, March 19 (Reuters) - "It's a bird! It's a plane! No, it's Dubyaman making the world safe for democracy." Dubyaman, an Indian comic strip superhero, is a parody of the gaffe-prone U.S. president, George W. Bush, and his blustering oratory through a host of problems from Afghanistan and the India-Pakistan spat to religious riots in northern India.
the newest adventures of snippy?
- Tuesday, March 19, 2002 at 14:48:27 (EST)

My two cents are: She used Clinton as a springboard for a career in boxing.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 19, 2002 at 13:52:53 (EST)

My two cents are: A 20-year-old man was fatally stabbed over the weekend, the second death reported in a rash of Spring Break violence in South Texas.
Ah, the Lone Star Republic!
- Tuesday, March 19, 2002 at 13:50:05 (EST)

My two cents are: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/pjones/stories/pj060994.htm
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 19, 2002 at 13:49:13 (EST)

My two cents are: "it's easy to imagine an infinite number of situations where my late, hose-bag wife, Barbara, might write wholesale drivel for a quick buck." Solicitor-General, Theodore Olson
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 19, 2002 at 13:48:30 (EST)

My two cents are: "It's easy to imagine an infinite number of situations where the government might legitimately give out false information," Solicitor-General, Theodore Olson
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 19, 2002 at 13:45:01 (EST)

My two cents are: Lots and lots and lots. They were witnesses. Yep.
Witless
- Tuesday, March 19, 2002 at 13:43:12 (EST)

My two cents are: "... who the 'corroborating' witnesses were for Paula Jones[?]" She had lots of them. Family members and co-workers who she confided in the minutes and hours following the event. Oh well, it turns out it wasn't such a big deal anyhow. A crooked deal, a raw deal, but nothing small potatos - two of them in fact.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 19, 2002 at 13:41:19 (EST)

My two cents are: Any chance there's no corroborating witnesses to "kiss it" or "ice it?"
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 19, 2002 at 13:39:34 (EST)

My two cents are: That horn whipper-outer horndog that said "kiss it." Any chance he's related to the horndog putter-inner that said "ice it?"
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 19, 2002 at 13:34:21 (EST)

My two cents are: All the other girls kiss it. Pleasse kiss it.
O.C.
- Tuesday, March 19, 2002 at 12:29:58 (EST)

My two cents are: Kiss it. Pleasse kiss it! Pleassse! Come on! At least touch it. Pleassse!
Our Children
- Tuesday, March 19, 2002 at 11:44:50 (EST)

My two cents are: Why did our Commander-in-Chief say that, Mommy? What did he want her to kiss? Why Mommy?
Our Children
- Tuesday, March 19, 2002 at 11:28:02 (EST)

My two cents are: Klintoon is such a sleaze-ball that he probably said something direct and disgusting, like "finger it" rather than a relatively mild suggestion to "kiss it." Paula Jones was just too much of a lady to repeat that in court, so she chose to describe a relatively innocent request for a buss on the dong. He has corrupted everything he came near, even our ability to repeat dialogue in open court.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 19, 2002 at 11:24:52 (EST)

My two cents are: I, for one, believe he whipped out Charlie and asked her to "kiss it." Sometimes the direct appeal to having one's pecker pecked it the best appeal. And what's the beef about, anyway? He could have said something crude, something about fellatio instead of a blushing maiden's sweet first-date kiss.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 19, 2002 at 11:16:06 (EST)

My two cents are: There are never corroborating witnesses to sleazy requests for horn-kissing in motel rooms, dork. When a woman's honor is offended by being asked to osculate on some low-life's bent pud, the gallant thing to do is to take the lady at her word. Sure, the judge couldn't do that, and the case had no merit anyway and was chunked, but the rest of us should hold our noses and honor the poor gal.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 19, 2002 at 11:13:14 (EST)

My two cents are: I can see Judge Starr, trying to appear as a commanding sex-meister, saying "kiss it." A real horn-dog might be less delicate.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 19, 2002 at 10:32:39 (EST)

My two cents are: What I want to know is who the "corroborating" witnesses were for Paula Jones. I can't believe she stared at Clinton's schlong for 10 long seconds. Can I get a witness?
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 19, 2002 at 10:28:55 (EST)

My two cents are: Every now and then an improbable quotation enters the public consciousness. Or in this case the loonball consciousness. Or, to put it another way, what is more improbable, a horn-dog saying he found a pubic hair on his Coke or a horn-dog whipping out his horn and saying "kiss it"? You decide, Mr. and Mrs. Loonball America.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 19, 2002 at 10:28:45 (EST)

My two cents are: AAAAAAH, Yeah!!! Chranda Levy is in Brazil too, playing with Elvis Presley and Jack Kennedy, while the Evil Empire plays Tic-Tac-Toe!!!
CLIFFORD
- Tuesday, March 19, 2002 at 10:27:03 (EST)

My two cents are: Hey, Mary, what's your take on llamas grinning while they poop? Maybe it's a guy thing?
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 19, 2002 at 10:25:27 (EST)

My two cents are: I used to think will-yum was one of the pineapple's atavars, but now that I see he's liberal.... but wait! He has Dewey beating Truman in the pop vote! It IS the pineapple! Bring on the rice-growing slaves and the failure of the Constitution to refer to slavery! Bring on Woodrow Wilson igniting WWII!
go will-yum go
- Tuesday, March 19, 2002 at 10:24:13 (EST)

My two cents are: "Amnesia" Hill... that's rich!
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 19, 2002 at 10:21:43 (EST)

My two cents are: (AP) - The FBI said Monday it had shut down an Internet-based child-pornography ring with criminal charges against 86 people in 26 states. Those sought or already arrested included two Catholic priests, six other clergy members, a school bus driver and at least one police officer. The FBI said it expected to arrest at least 50 others by week's end in the sweep, called "Operation Candyman." The effort targeted members of three Internet discussion groups on Yahoo! Inc.'s Web site, including one called "Candyman."
has anyone heard from the yellow candycane in recent days?
- Tuesday, March 19, 2002 at 09:40:12 (EST)

My two cents are: And Amnesia Hill was so upset by it that she spoke right up. Didn['t wait around for an act of Congress to bleat about it. I admit it was a long time ago and the memory has been weathered by the sleet and rain. Who were the corroborating witnesss?
Glint
- Tuesday, March 19, 2002 at 09:33:49 (EST)

My two cents are: No, that's true, Clarence just pointed out the possibility of pubic hairs on the Coke can. Every day. Offered females at workplace his Long Dong Silver, too. Yep, that's waaay better.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 19, 2002 at 09:25:54 (EST)

My two cents are: "What's next, Drudge? New loaf pinched in Maryland?" Was waiting for the school bus with the kids down by the highway today in hopes that Brenda would show, but she didn't. But I did get to watch a llama pinch a loaf - in Maryland - instead. The llama spreads her back legs apart, lowers her head, and lays the ears back flat on its head. I don't think it would be going too far out on a limb to say the creature appeared to be grinning.
Glint
- Tuesday, March 19, 2002 at 09:24:42 (EST)

My two cents are: Is Richard Perle bombing Iraq yet?
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 19, 2002 at 09:23:47 (EST)

My two cents are: I think you're mixed up. Justice Thomas wasn't the one who whipped out his little side kick and said "kiss it."
Glint
- Tuesday, March 19, 2002 at 09:21:00 (EST)

My two cents are: I hate to bust your bubble, while you are contemplating your navel, but why not a popular vote instead of the electioral college. If my mind serves me correctly, I think Dewey won over Truman. As far as the Supreme Court. Look whose on it!!!! Clarence Thomas, the same fellow who wanted Anita to look at Long Dong Silver. I heard Politics was dirty business, and I sure believe it. No more sweet politicians, just a bunch of dirty minded Piggys.
WILL-YUM
- Tuesday, March 19, 2002 at 06:16:27 (EST)

My two cents are: The National Ice Center reported Monday that the berg, named B-22, broke free from an ice tongue in the Amundsen Sea, an area of Antarctica south of the Pacific Ocean. The new iceberg is located at 74.56 south latitude and 107.55 west longitude.
more to come....
- Tuesday, March 19, 2002 at 03:12:38 (EST)

My two cents are: REM star 'behaved like lout'... developing...
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 19, 2002 at 03:10:34 (EST)

My two cents are: New iceberg breaks free from Antarctica... developing.
What's next, Drudge? New loaf pinched in Maryland?
- Tuesday, March 19, 2002 at 03:08:19 (EST)

My two cents are: PS, I like how firmly you have you feet planted. Thanks for NOT being thinskinned in return. :)
Mary
- Monday, March 18, 2002 at 23:29:09 (EST)

My two cents are: I agree enough on the Yates tragedy. Its too depressing. Dot, point taken. I am thinskinned. Sometimes I can get obsessive too. Being such a codependent, (textbook case) I need someone to shake me back to my learned awareness that I don't have the power to change the world. Thanks.
Mary
- Monday, March 18, 2002 at 23:26:36 (EST)

My two cents are: I've probably read about 50 words of the thousands that have been printed about Yates. The 50 words were all news headlines, stuff you can't avoid seeing. Never read on word of text from an article. What's the point. TEXAS WOMAN KILLS HER FIVE CHILDREN! That, or something like that, was the first one. What else did I need to know? Did I even need to know that much? Anyway, I followed the story passively, through headlines, "news at 11:00!" teasers, etc. Figure I've got the whole story and it's not pretty. But I knew that right from the beginning. My ex-wife used to say things like, "Did you read about that guy who raped that woman and cut off her arms? Isn't that horrible?" Of course, I hadn't read about it, hadn't even seen the headlines yet. Never did read about it. But I knew a guy had raped a woman and cut off her arms and I thought it was horrible. The way I have this Yates woman figured is, she killed her 5 kids because she's a total loon who suffers from some kind of religious pychopathy. She thought she had to sacrifice the kids and that she was a bad mother who wasn't taking the right meds or getting the kind of attention she should have from the sick, ugly Lone Star Republic (now part of the USA.) She won't fry which is probably good given that she's a full-blown, bull goose loony who thinks the number 666 is imbedded in the flesh of her skull, under the hair.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 18, 2002 at 22:53:49 (EST)

My two cents are: What I mean is, it's not every day you can find the universal embodiment of selfish disdain for a person's country, fellow-citizens, aging pets, you name it. There's a little it of the crynic in all of us, though not much. Nobody can relate to the woman killing her children. There's nothing there but astonishment and disbelief, and everyone would turn away if Jerry Springer had never been invented.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 18, 2002 at 22:12:14 (EST)

My two cents are: Geesh, Mary, don't be so thin-skinned. The point is, don't worry about Yates. The E-channels are playing it up because it's so ugly, and they've managed to get families bickering about it. They are playing you like a big bass drum, but it's one of those things that the best thing to do with it is push it from your mind. No lessons to be learned. Every now and then a sick woman pops and massacres her children. John O'Hara wrote a story about it, called "Big Blonde", I think. The poopeating thread was two or three levels up, although that's not saying much. The crynic's tax havens, though, that's sublime.
.
- Monday, March 18, 2002 at 22:07:56 (EST)

My two cents are: Has Richard Perle started World War III bombing Iraq yet, to make the world safe for Daddy Bush's place in history?
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 18, 2002 at 21:40:55 (EST)

My two cents are: Bush lost the popular vote by half a million. So what. The only vote that counted was Scalia's. Future chief justice.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 18, 2002 at 21:37:04 (EST)

My two cents are: Giant Mr. Potato Head savagely vandalized by gang of children...
Developing...
- Monday, March 18, 2002 at 20:00:51 (EST)

My two cents are: Only the Shadow Government knows.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 18, 2002 at 18:10:25 (EST)

My two cents are: In hindsight the short-lived adventures of Snippy & Stinty with the secret headquarters thousands of miles below the earth's crust wasn't too far off the mark. I heard over margueritas the other night from that plans for the 5 story underground "convention center" located between the U.S. Capital and the U.S. Supreme Court has been pushed to the front burner. This from a guy who's an Executive at a large Washington area construction firm.
Glint
- Monday, March 18, 2002 at 17:17:41 (EST)

My two cents are: Don't listen to these hypocrits. They know, if the tables were turned, they'd be seeking to eliminate the electoral college and accusing the Supreme Court of treason. They were whining about the electoral college before the election* anyway, when it looked like Gore might win the electoral votes and Snip the popular.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 18, 2002 at 16:59:47 (EST)

My two cents are: I don't remember what the vote was in Florida, 9-0, 7-2, or 5-4. Probably each at different times as the SCOFLA tried to reinterpret the voting rules after the fact. Heaven knows that rogue court tried to tie Kathleen Harris' hands several times. Finally had to be beat with a newspaper like a dog that pinched one on the rug.
Glint
- Monday, March 18, 2002 at 16:55:20 (EST)

My two cents are: I thought he got about 560,000 less, nationwide. And we'll never know how much he lost Florida by.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 18, 2002 at 16:49:32 (EST)

My two cents are: Yes, it's a bitter pill to swallow but, Bush got more votes.
Glint
- Monday, March 18, 2002 at 16:46:46 (EST)

My two cents are: Right, Glint. The people be damned! Besides, even if he didn't really win the electoral college, so what? That's why we have a Supreme Court, to make sure the right guy gets in.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 18, 2002 at 16:09:49 (EST)

My two cents are: Hi,Glint. Thanks, :>).
Mary
- Monday, March 18, 2002 at 16:01:18 (EST)

My two cents are: The only election that "counts" is the one that is mandated in the constitution. Every man, woman, and cow could have voted for Gore, but if he didn't get the electoral votes then those votes don't amount to a pile of pinches. <> Hi Mary. Hope you stick around.
Glint
- Monday, March 18, 2002 at 15:53:11 (EST)

My two cents are: Dear . , Yates has no interest to you and is not meaningful to you. Fine, It is news. Do you have a problem with that? By the way, as I've said before, Mental Health and mental illness, as well as any area where there is ignorance or injustice is my agenda. I'll take it whereever there's a board. As far as relevance goes, if poopeating and hermaphodite curiosity ,overripe pineapples, crynic's tax havena, and other substantial posts are what you are measuring interest, then you see this board as something more than I do. If its just a clique for men to get together , then I will make my exit.
Mary
- Monday, March 18, 2002 at 15:38:49 (EST)

My two cents are: It's the woman's right to choose. She didn't choose to abort by having the fetus beat out of her.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 18, 2002 at 15:32:27 (EST)

My two cents are: The "constitutional" election?? What kind of wishy-washy spin is THAT? How about the RIGGED election? Or the NON-election? Or the election interruptus?
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 18, 2002 at 15:00:13 (EST)

My two cents are: "Man guilty of abortion in ex-girlfriend's beating" A North Buffalo man admitted Friday that he deliberately beat his pregnant girlfriend two months ago to abort the fetus he helped create. It was the first abortion conviction in the state in more than three decades. Jeremy Powell, 20, pleaded guilty to felony abortion and second-degree assault in the attack on his girlfriend Jan. 27 in her home. She was three months pregnant. The woman, who also is 20, told officers he beat her because she had refused to have an abortion. "I'm going to beat that baby out of you," he is accused of telling the woman as he assaulted her. The woman called police after she made her way to Sisters Hospital, where she miscarried hours after the attack, according to Lisa Bloch Rodwin, chief of the Domestic Violence Bureau. Rodwin said Powell was successfully prosecuted because of the "outstanding work" on the case by five officers of the Buffalo Police Department sex offense squad led by Detective Salvatore Valvo, who got Powell to admit his conduct. Court officials said Erie County District Attorney Frank J. Clark was the first prosecutor in the state in the past 30 years or so to prosecute an abortion case.
....on the right track: to recrliminalize you know what
- Monday, March 18, 2002 at 14:26:42 (EST)

My two cents are: Why not just send in frog movie reviewers to extoll the genius of Jerry Lewis?
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 18, 2002 at 14:12:35 (EST)

My two cents are: The clean-up portion of the ground war in Afghanistan heated up yesterday when the Allies revealed plans to airdrop a platoon of crack French existentialist philosophers into the country to destroy the morale of the remaining Taliban zealots by proving the non-existence of God. Elements from the feared Jean-Paul Sartre Brigade, or 'Black Berets',will be parachuted into the combat zones to spread doubt, despondency and existential anomie among the enemy. Hardened by numerous intellectual battles fought during their long occupation of Paris's Left Bank, their first action will be to establish a number of sidewalk cafes at strategic points near the front lines. There they will drink coffee and talk animatedly about the absurd nature of life and man's lonely isolation in the universe. They will be accompanied by a number of heartbreakingly beautiful girlfriends who will further spread dismay by sticking their tongues in the philosophers' ears every five minutes and looking remote and unattainable to everyone else. > Their leader, Colonel Marc-Ange Belmondo, spoke yesterday of his confidence in the success of their mission. Sorbonne graduate Belmondo, a very intense and unshaven young man in a black pullover, gesticulated wildly and said, "The Taliban are caught in a logical fallacy of the most ridiculous. There is no God and I can prove it. Take your tongue out of my ear, Gisele, I am talking." Marc-Ange plans to deliver an impassioned thesis on man's nauseating freedom of action with special reference to the work of Foucault and the films of Alfred Hitchcock. However, humanitarian agencies have been quick to condemn the operation as inhumane, pointing out that the effects of passive smoking from the Frenchmens' endless Gitanes could wreak a terrible toll on civilians in the area.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 18, 2002 at 13:20:17 (EST)

My two cents are: He's on the run? How do we know that? Has he been spotted running? Maybe he's in an air conditioned office. Just because Snippy says he's on the run doesn't mean a thing. Snippy's the one who said we'd get the guy dead or alive. Now Snippy says he was only fooling and that bin Laden is a bit player and he can't do a thing to us. Wanna bet?
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 18, 2002 at 12:06:32 (EST)

My two cents are: OBL is on the run, he's no danger while he's on the run.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 18, 2002 at 11:55:39 (EST)

My two cents are: That liberal OBL has been marginalized.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 18, 2002 at 11:54:09 (EST)

My two cents are: What's a heavy hitter like Sorkle doing on this dipshit page? The guy could be writing for FrontPage.com.
Whelp Greenlee
- Monday, March 18, 2002 at 11:49:22 (EST)

My two cents are: That's "chalupa", Pancho. Cha-LOOP-ah. In Mexico, where the sun is the poor man's blanket, we say "the muchacha negra Qualquer peenched a chalupa."
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 18, 2002 at 11:35:08 (EST)

My two cents are: I recommend you go to Mexico itself and try the chalubas. You might just change your mind about who should eat Mexican food. That is, if you can find any chalubas. Chalubas are rare as hen's teeth south of Chula Vista.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 18, 2002 at 11:32:06 (EST)

My two cents are: Yes, Sorkle, there was a great murmuring in the streets when Daschle said he thought that we ought to consider the current action unfinished until we catch Osama bin. What a sap, noted most Americans, to say such a thing while we are involved in the biggest assult in the whole war on terrorism! Little Bush's poll number shot upward as Americans rallied to the support of our boys and girls in the trenches and their Commander in Chief. America caught its collective breath, thought deeply in her collective mind, and opted to support involvement in the biggest assault rather than follow the false prophet down the rabbit trail of get-osamaism. Thanks for seeing it all so clearly. We need guys like you.
House of Meat
- Monday, March 18, 2002 at 11:29:54 (EST)

My two cents are: Playing with your chewloopa might be good for you, but I say ixnay on the hewloopacay.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 18, 2002 at 11:19:00 (EST)

My two cents are: You mean, you haven't played it yet?
bwa ha ha
- Monday, March 18, 2002 at 11:13:54 (EST)

My two cents are: I went to Taco-Bell and ordered a couple of Chaluba's. YUK. Mexican food no matter what it is, ought to be served to only Mexicans. Me, I prefer Chinese. Even, the waiters want my body, besides the mortician. Hmmmm.
CLIFFORD
- Monday, March 18, 2002 at 11:13:04 (EST)

My two cents are: So where's Daschle hiding? Last time he piped up, about how America lost the war (because OBL was still a threat to goats in the region) it turned out the US was involved in the biggest assault of the war on terrorism. Gave Bush a nice poll boost. Looking forward to Daschle's next verbal ejaculation. Has his daschledemocrats.org web site even got off the ground yet? We need more sites like Democrats.com. Those role playing games like that Coulter one are a real hoot! No doubt many a book mark were set the day that one came out, by jiminy.
Sorkle
- Monday, March 18, 2002 at 11:08:01 (EST)

My two cents are: Gee. I gotta say that I don't think it was the reposting, or the riposting for that matter. I think it was the initial posting. Postings. That's what I think. What do you think?
E�
- Monday, March 18, 2002 at 11:06:45 (EST)

My two cents are: Made you smile? Or made you throb?
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 18, 2002 at 11:05:53 (EST)

My two cents are: http://www.sendthempacking.com/
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 18, 2002 at 10:25:50 (EST)

My two cents are: It's cool how these retchies have to search for adjectives for "election" in order to describe what Snippy won*. Make it easy on yourself, Glint. Snippy won the "selection." No adjective required.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 18, 2002 at 10:17:17 (EST)

My two cents are: That was a mighty hilarous one at 23:18, made me smile. So, someone's still reposting the same old reposts after more than a year at 02:14. Guess that was just the excuse that was needed by some to quit this board after their guy lost the constitutional election. <> The new employee starts today. I'd better get a desk dusted off somewhere. There are several that are now available.
Glint
- Monday, March 18, 2002 at 10:03:10 (EST)

My two cents are: yeah, its a small hoop. a cuf is a metal band that clamps around the edge of the ear, needs no hole.
zerk
- Monday, March 18, 2002 at 09:20:26 (EST)

My two cents are: Figured you might of meant that, Harlan. But thanks for the correction. I'll work out the details of this trip tomorrow. Check to see if there's air in the tires.
House of Meat
- Monday, March 18, 2002 at 02:34:13 (EST)

My two cents are: I mean as "they" say, of course.
Harlan St. Wolf
- Monday, March 18, 2002 at 02:22:55 (EST)

My two cents are: Sure, Meat. My casa, your casa, as the say in Mexicano.
Harlan St. Wolf
- Monday, March 18, 2002 at 02:21:18 (EST)

My two cents are: My two cents are: You wish, wench. More like your fetish for Long Dong SilvEr. We know you like dark tunnels and long rods. You bait us for it daily. You love it, don't you ya sick twisted scrEw. Wait, I got a big one coming your way. Hold on now. Open up.... Pete� - Friday, February 16, 2001 at 20:07:59 (EST) Oh, I see its pussed over and sewn shut. It's OK, your foul mouth will do fine. Open Wide. POW!!! Pete� - Friday, February 16, 2001 at 20:03:11 (EST) My two cents are: OK, open your twat, cuntE. I big one cumming your way. POW!!! Pete� - Friday, February 16, 2001 at 20:02:07 (EST) Kiss my arse you set up pig. You are the biggest foul mouthed bitch on this place. Go to hell. Socialsits better watch out what they wish for. Pete� - Friday, February 16, 2001 at 20:43:45 (EST)
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 18, 2002 at 02:14:37 (EST)

My two cents are: They're dreaming of dark tunnels and long rods. They're dreaming of baiting us with it daily. Maybe they're even dreaming of the big one I got cumming for them.
Pete�
- Monday, March 18, 2002 at 02:12:30 (EST)

My two cents are: Never trust anyone who's always smiling, they're up to something.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 18, 2002 at 01:00:37 (EST)

My two cents are: Give it a rest. You could troll all day and never get a bite out of these pussies, guy.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 18, 2002 at 00:51:43 (EST)

My two cents are: The b*tch, I mean. Always take out the offensive vowels when you call a pussed-over twat a b*tch. Anything less delicate would smack of socialsitism.
Pete�
- Sunday, March 17, 2002 at 23:57:01 (EST)

My two cents are: I think the bitch is smiling because she just ripped off a great post to the freep. Explaining why the socialsits are responsible for the long waits in the check-in lines at the airports, and the bad service at Denny's. And the fact that you can't get the eggs benedict, even if you've got your own stool at the counter, and have had it for over fifteen years.
Pete�
- Sunday, March 17, 2002 at 23:55:10 (EST)

My two cents are: I've been thinking about pulling the philodendron off the 'scope, Glint, but I'm worried that the wind might blow and I won't be able to see anything. Could you give me any more information about the comet? Why is this comet any better to look at than the blemishes on the moon, or the hazy clots of glow you call nebulae, or a bunch of f*ck*ng pinpoints of light vibrating with every passing breeze? Is this g*d*mn comet going to be worth taking my mind off the open post I'm working on about how the socialsits are delusional? With a little polish, this one might make it into the freep.
Pete�
- Sunday, March 17, 2002 at 23:24:07 (EST)

My two cents are: I think she is smiling because she is not really a bitch, but a hermaphrodite 'teener, and her neighbor has taken her for a ride on his lawn tractor and has spread-eagled her against a Leyland cypress and is giving her the Nebraska Corn Job.
Glimpse
- Sunday, March 17, 2002 at 23:18:30 (EST)

My two cents are: Every country I visit, I ask if they have any wraps. To this day, not one of those countries has seen fit to produce anything remotely resembling a wrap. Shit, it's hard enough to get good ketchup in most countries, not to mention wraps, or the overrated rain water they sell instead of RC Cola or beer or whatever it is supposed to be.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 17, 2002 at 23:16:08 (EST)

My two cents are: Yo, Glint, what the hell is Sol? They don't have anything with that name at Tapatio Bros. Overrated Mexican rain water? What is it? Bad maguey? Was once on the plaza in Mejico, think it was P.V. and there was this frantic American in a business suit asking a guy with a taco pushcart if he had any fajitas. He kept saying, loudly, slowly, and expressively, "fa-HEE-tahs", trying to get the idea across to the pushcart beaner. It appeared to me that this gringo wanted some food wrapped in a tortilla, which is exactly what the pushcart guy was peddling, but there was a disjunct in the communication. It reminded me of the time in Pigalle when I saw the American tourist standing in front of the booth where the woman was boiling up heaps of thin-sliced potatoes in a huge urn of oil, and the tourist kept saying "French fries? DO... YOU... HAVE... ANY...FRENCH... FRIES? Nothing as amusing as tourists in a foreign country, Glint, unless it is people who spend their whole lives as tourists, anywhere they find themselves.
House of Meat
- Sunday, March 17, 2002 at 23:11:59 (EST)

My two cents are: I think the bitch is smiling because she just pinched off a loaf.
The Crynic
- Sunday, March 17, 2002 at 22:58:52 (EST)

My two cents are: Look, Cisco, a shark! �, 'mano, what you say we name this place "Shark", eh? What a name for a city of the future, Pancho! You are el poet des poets, hermanito gordito. Next, we should find a place where there are some cats, and name it "Los Gatos", after the cats!
Tiburon = Shark, so what else is new?
- Sunday, March 17, 2002 at 22:55:31 (EST)

My two cents are: Los Gatos = "the cats", Los Angeles = "the angels", San Francisco = "Saint Francis", San Diego = "Saint Douglas?", Sausalito = "Little Sausa". What needs to be up? You think those Spaniards were good at naming things, or what? A town called "Shark" is good enough for me and my Doctor of Swampology.
.
- Sunday, March 17, 2002 at 22:51:21 (EST)

My two cents are: Got a hankerin for fish. If I was hankerin for burgers, or spinach and egg, I'd suggest Joe's. On the other hand, if you're out of town or otherwise indisposed, I can work out alternative arrangements. Maybe it's best not to show up at the second day of the symposium full of fish and sourdough. Maybe best to stay in Tiburon and eat vegan. I'll tell you, many decades in the neighborhood and Tiburon is still just an item in Herb Caen to me. I think I drove through there once. Couldn't find a parking space.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 17, 2002 at 22:47:23 (EST)

My two cents are: She baits us with that smile daily.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 17, 2002 at 22:31:37 (EST)

My two cents are: The bitch is smiling about dark tunnels and long rods?
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 17, 2002 at 22:31:16 (EST)

My two cents are: Tell you what, I like Sam's. I like Tadich's better, but when I was around as a grown-up it was thronged with Montgomery Street assholes, while you could always get a table at Sam's. Tadich's, Sam's, even the fucking Mayes Oyster House for the Kirkpatrick, I don't care. When in 'Frisco, eat at a good restaurant, is what I say. To me it's like the old sod must have been to the potato-buster Irish whose provenance we are celebrating today, each in our own way. 'Frisco, my home town. Proud to not of been born in some bogus dump like Whittier.
House of Meat
- Sunday, March 17, 2002 at 22:30:27 (EST)

My two cents are: Tiburon = shark.
whatup?
- Sunday, March 17, 2002 at 22:30:14 (EST)

My two cents are: Why IS that bitch smiling, anyhow?
Snake eradication? Ridiculing stained-dressers? Al l of the above? Yeah, well, Bushmills rocks. So there.
- Sunday, March 17, 2002 at 22:28:00 (EST)

My two cents are: Looks like I got to go to a "conference" or "symposium" in Tiburon Tuesday and Wednesday. I'm not invited, but my boss says I have to go, because it's a bunch of inside-the-bubble types conspiring about how to use the resource we're responsible for. I hate going to "symposia" and mouthing off when I'm not invited, yeah, it hurts, but duty is duty. So, the deal is, I'm going with my swampologist, who has a PhD in swamp science but is otherwise sort of a weirdo. He's either going to want to commute both days or stay in the same hotel as me, assuming there are hotels in Tib. What say I stay overnight at your place, Harlan, and take the ferry to Tiburon? I'll call the symposium dude and see if that's close enough. As I remember it, Tiburon is small enough that you should be able to walk anywhere from the ferry. You give me a ride down to the pier on your way to work, and I ride ferry against the traffic. I'll be on per diem, for the food. Should be able to afford Clown Alley, or maybe even Sam's. The guy running this symposium, he's one of my contractors, by the way, so he just about has to kiss my ass. Tell me private enterprise doesn't have its benefits.
House of Meat
- Sunday, March 17, 2002 at 22:24:49 (EST)

My two cents are: The Bushmill's is working good. St. Patrick would be proud. I'm going to keep sucking it down until the square bottle is dry, and then sip smoke. Got more marijuana here than I know what to do with. Hardly ever smoke the stuff, and it's all going to seed if I don't get puffing. How did I get all this "weed"? Never was much of a doper. But St. Patrick's day, shit, you got to go braugh, Mickey.
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- Sunday, March 17, 2002 at 22:14:43 (EST)

My two cents are: Shit, Dave Perlman is still around? Is it Dave Junior or something? This guy was science reporter on the Chron since back as far as I can remember, I think way back in the '60's. Guy must have lost his ass on Enron and gone back to work. He's got to be 80 at least.
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- Sunday, March 17, 2002 at 22:11:45 (EST)

My two cents are: "HIV infection cases surging among Latinos Gays in border towns most at risk" David Perlman, SF Chronicle Science Editor Sunday, March 17, 2002 Health officials in California and Mexico have detected "alarming" increases in AIDS virus infections among gay and bisexual Latino men moving across the border...
As long as they're crossing south and those border towns are below the belt, WHO CARES??
- Sunday, March 17, 2002 at 21:53:29 (EST)

My two cents are: Glint's fornigate page is getting pretty desparate when it has to solicit pictures of St. Patrick's Day scuffles, and then refuse to return them, claiming ownership. I'm not sure that if I owned any such photos I would submit them. There is some sort of scam going on here, and I'm not surprised.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 17, 2002 at 21:53:22 (EST)

My two cents are: I'll bet that show about Saint Patrick was a real hum-dinger, as Fess used to say. A real rip-snorter. No, the man did not stand on a hill with only a wooden staff and make all the snakes slither back to India. What, you think the History Channel just fell off a turnip wagon? We don't buy THAT shit. Instead, Saint Patrick was a hod-carrier's son who was kidnapped by raider leprachauns but miraculously excaped back to London and became a priest. Then he returned to Ireland and convinced all the Micks, within a mere two hundred years, to believe on the Lord, simply by inventing a cross that superimposed the ancient Irish symbol for the sun upon the Christian cross. It's simple to get the straight story when you're the History Channel.
House of Meat
- Sunday, March 17, 2002 at 21:48:34 (EST)

My two cents are: "Suspect drove cross-country with corpses" RICHFIELD, Utah, March 16 (UPI) -- A 31-year-old man was being held in Utah over the weekend after a routine traffic stop turned up the remains of a man and woman in his car, which he reportedly was driving from Michigan to somewhere near Las Vegas. Utah Highway Patrol officers stopped Patrick Daniel Thursday on Interstate 70 near Richfield due to some irregularities with the Missouri plates on the car. Patrick was placed under arrest when it was discovered he was driving without a license. The troopers then searched the vehicle along the side of the freeway and discovered a woman's arm and head wrapped in plastic inside a cooler in the back seat. The rest of her remains and the body of a male were found in the trunk. Sarah Mark, a neighbor of Patrick, said that she had heard what sounded like a scuffle in Patrick's condominium on Monday, but he told her the next day that a friend had suffered an epileptic seizure after drinking too much tequila. "He seems like a totally normal, average nice guy who is friendly," Mark said. "It irks me that he he'd party after something like this."
In case you saw this and were wondering, it wasn't me. <[email protected]>
- Sunday, March 17, 2002 at 21:45:55 (EST)

My two cents are: What I particularly like about Television History is the sound effects. For example, as the camera pans slowly across a painting of, say, the Plains of Abraham, the sound track will add sounds like "boom" and "steel clashing against steel" and "men muttering." It imparts a feeling of immediacy to your learnin', as if you yourself were there fighting with brave Montcalm or brave Wolf upon the Plains of Abraham. And that's just one of the great features about Television History. There are many others.
House of Meat
- Sunday, March 17, 2002 at 21:43:30 (EST)

My two cents are: I'm not bitching about television history, mind you. It beats Rush Limbaugh history, for example. There is nothing I like better than to watch a PBS history show, watch the camera pan slowly across an oil-painting of the Earl of Sandwich, for example, then cut to an oil-painting of a ship firing cannons at another ship, and pan slowly across that, while the narrator drawls out a few pithy historical nuggets over the violin music. I figure that if you watched those shows for six lifetimes you would learn your history all the way up to Mesopotamia and the Fertile Crescent. Another six lifetimes and you would have everything we know about the Assyrians under your belt.
House of Meat
- Sunday, March 17, 2002 at 21:39:48 (EST)

My two cents are: DRUDGE RADIO LIVE SUNDAY NIGHT 10 PM ET TO MIDNIGHT.. HEARD IN ALL 50 STATES...
Developing...
- Sunday, March 17, 2002 at 21:39:24 (EST)

My two cents are: The micks' chompers took care of the snake problem.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 17, 2002 at 21:37:22 (EST)

My two cents are: Let me bravely asseverate that there never were any snakes in Ireland. Lots of times these myths about snake-banishment are really metaphors for the eradication of some unwelcome ideology from the subject country and the triumph of a new ideology. Sure, there were snakes everywhere else, but think about it: how would a snake get to Ireland in the first place? Swim over from Liverpool? England, on the other hand, is full of snakes. You can hardly walk down the footpath in Blighty without a damn snake trying to squeeze the life out of you. The Mick has always maintained that this is the Englishman's hod to carry for his sins against Eire, but it it actually the result of a Jurassic land bridge between England and India that provided a slithering corridor for limbless repties. The Limeys are lucky their country is not overrun by kangaroos through some similar geologic event.
Captain Television History
- Sunday, March 17, 2002 at 21:33:24 (EST)

My two cents are: I wish the good Saint would come by once again and eradicate the pagan snakes from this here page.
Darby O'Gill
- Sunday, March 17, 2002 at 21:28:19 (EST)

My two cents are: Historychannel.com, eh? Where do you suppose they got the inside scoop on the Irish raiders and the Celtic cross they're so proud of? Was Wolf Blitzer there? I'll stick with the snakes and Mrs. Murphy's chowder. "Yo, I'll just superimpose the Christian Cross on this here pagan sun symbol beloved of the locals, and con these Micks into believing on the Lord."
and the Bushmill's
- Sunday, March 17, 2002 at 21:26:15 (EST)

My two cents are: The Snake" It has long been recounted that, during his mission in Ireland, St. Patrick once stood on a hilltop (which is now called Croagh Patrick), and with only a wooden staff by his side, banished all the snakes from Ireland. In fact, the island nation was never home to any snakes. The "banishing of the snakes" was really a metaphor for the eradication of pagan ideology from Ireland and the triumph of Christianity. Within two hundred years of Patrick's arrival, Ireland was completely Christianized.
Mr. Historychannel
- Sunday, March 17, 2002 at 21:24:37 (EST)

My two cents are: The Snake" [Snake.] It has long been recounted that, during his mission in Ireland, St. Patrick once stood on a hilltop (which is now called Croagh Patrick), and with only a wooden staff by his side, banished all the snakes from Ireland. In fact, the island nation was never home to any snakes. The "banishing of the snakes" was really a metaphor for the eradication of pagan ideology from Ireland and the triumph of Christianity. Within two hundred years of Patrick's arrival, Ireland was completely Christianized.
Mr. Historychannel
- Sunday, March 17, 2002 at 21:24:32 (EST)

My two cents are: Big surprise that House of Meat would fall for the products of exaggerated storytelling [NOT!]. Snakes? Chased away, why? So that the rats could take over Ireland. Hmmm, maybe it's true.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 17, 2002 at 21:20:29 (EST)

My two cents are: The truth about the saint, eh? Doesn't sound as if there's any mythology in that story. Any more than there is in the Moses story. If Saint Patrick didn't drive the snakes out of Ireland, who did? The closest thing they have to snakes is the lizard. And the turtle, maybe, although I'm not clear on that one. I'll have to dig up the 1970 St. Patrick's day drunken Irish teenager scuffle pix and scan one in for posting on the glory page. Don't expect too much, as it was hard to catch the actual landing of a drunken roundhouse punch on film, what with the crowds. Think of them as enigma art, like the Mona Lisa. What is the bitch thinking?
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- Sunday, March 17, 2002 at 21:18:27 (EST)

My two cents are: [Celtic Cross] Familiar with the Irish language and culture, Patrick chose to incorporate traditional ritual into his lessons of Christianity instead of attempting to eradicate native Irish beliefs. For instance, he used bonfires to celebrate Easter since the Irish were used to honoring their gods with fire. He also superimposed a sun, a powerful Irish symbol, onto the Christian cross to create what is now called a Celtic cross, so that veneration of the symbol would seem more natural to the Irish. (Although there were a small number of Christians on the island when Patrick arrived, most Irish practiced a nature-based pagan religion. The Irish culture centered around a rich tradition of oral legend and myth. When this is considered, it is no surprise that the story of Patrick's life became exaggerated over the centuries?spinning exciting tales to remember history has always been a part of the Irish way of life. )
...Bonfires and Crosses
- Sunday, March 17, 2002 at 21:14:37 (EST)

My two cents are: Guided By Visions [St. Patrick] After more than six years as a prisoner, Patrick escaped. According to his writing, a voice?which he believed to be God's?spoke to him in a dream, telling him it was time to leave Ireland. To do so, Patrick walked nearly 200 miles from County Mayo, where it is believed he was held, to the Irish coast. After escaping to Britain, Patrick reported that he experienced a second revelation?an angel in a dream tells him to return to Ireland as a missionary. Soon after, Patrick began religious training, a course of study that lasted more than fifteen years. After his ordination as a priest, he was sent to Ireland with a dual mission?to minister to Christians already living in Ireland and to begin to convert the Irish. (Interestingly, this mission contradicts the widely held notion that Patrick introduced Christianity to Ireland.) [St. Patrick] After more than six years as a prisoner, Patrick escaped. According to his writing, a voice?which he believed to be God's?spoke to him in a dream, telling him it was time to leave Ireland. To do so, Patrick walked nearly 200 miles from County Mayo, where it is believed he was held, to the Irish coast. After escaping to Britain, Patrick reported that he experienced a second revelation?an angel in a dream tells him to return to Ireland as a missionary. Soon after, Patrick began religious training, a course of study that lasted more than fifteen years. After his ordination as a priest, he was sent to Ireland with a dual mission?to minister to Christians already living in Ireland and to begin to convert the Irish. (Interestingly, this mission contradicts the widely held notion that Patrick introduced Christianity to Ireland.)
...Guided By Visions...
- Sunday, March 17, 2002 at 21:13:34 (EST)

My two cents are: It is known that St. Patrick was born in Britain to wealthy parents near the end of the fourth century. He is believed to have died on March 17, around 460 A.D. Although his father was a Christian deacon, it has been suggested that he probably took on the role because of tax incentives and there is no evidence that Patrick came from a particularly religious family. At the age of sixteen, Patrick was taken prisoner by a group of Irish raiders who were attacking his family's estate. They transported him to Ireland where he spent six years in captivity. (There is some dispute over where this captivity took place. Although many believe he was taken to live in Mount Slemish in County Antrim, it is more likely that he was held in County Mayo near Killala.) During this time, he worked as a shepherd, outdoors and away from people. Lonely and afraid, he turned to his religion for solace, becoming a devout Christian. (It is also believed that Patrick first began to dream of converting the Irish people to Christianity during his captivity.)
...Taken Prisoner By Irish Raiders...
- Sunday, March 17, 2002 at 21:12:31 (EST)

My two cents are: St. Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland, is one of Christianity's most widely known figures. But for all his celebrity, his life remains somewhat of a mystery. Many of the stories traditionally associated with St. Patrick, including the famous account of his banishing all the snakes from Ireland, are false, the products of hundreds of years of exaggerated storytelling.
historychannel.com
- Sunday, March 17, 2002 at 21:11:36 (EST)

My two cents are: Bicycled down to the Big K-Mart to check out the Martha Stewart furnishings. Seen some cheap plants so bicycled back to the trailer and got in the truck, drove down to the Big K and bought a mother fern, a Tasmanian tree fern, and a Korean rock fern. Also a couple of six-packs of glaucus fescue, a perennial bunch grass. Didn't know it came that way. And a single tomato, Ace, in a four-inch pot. Never tried no Ace tomatoes before, but the Early Girls haven't come in so tasty these past few years. Think I'll put in a couple more varieties new to me. I like your basic red cherry tomato, because it tastes good and it re-seeds itself, but with only whatever this place is, an eighth of an acre maybe, and most of it shaded, there ain't much room to experiment. Think I'll put a bunch of those ferns around in front where I fucked up the azaleas by overwatering all last summer, rotted the roots. Life would be easier if a man could just poke a hole with his lawn tractor and stick a Leyland cypress in it. If the only chances he had to dash were a Chinaman's.
House of Meat
- Sunday, March 17, 2002 at 21:11:32 (EST)

My two cents are: Oh yeah, the snakes story. Part of the mythology of St. Patrick. The truth about the Saint is even more interesting. Son of noble parents. Kidnapped as a child. Became a slave shepard, etc. Worked his way back up. When was that, the 5th century? <> All pics shall be considered for posting. [fine print: All pictures sent in become the property of Glint. Glint cannot return any pictures to the sender, be they solicited or unsolicited.]
Glint
- Sunday, March 17, 2002 at 21:03:30 (EST)

My two cents are: It still pains me that O.J. and Clinton skated, bent puds and all. Oh, you didn't know that O.J. had a bent pud? Judge Starr must have asleep at the switch on that one.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 17, 2002 at 20:58:42 (EST)

My two cents are: http://www.workingclasshero.com/discography/woman.html
nothing sewn shut here
- Sunday, March 17, 2002 at 20:56:17 (EST)

My two cents are: Having an Irish coffee in honor of St. Patrick, who drove the snakes from Ireland. Bushmill's and Folgers. At least one is Irish. Worried that I don't have a tax accountant, until I realize that Omar the CPA has been giving the crynic nothing but bum steers since before the bubble, and he bills out at $175/hr. There's some money savvy there, at least. Takes about 25 minutes to do my taxes, checking everything three times and including the sobriety check in the morning. Guess it's easy if you don't feel you have to give yourself a virtual brush-hook gutting every time you think about paying your share. It's really easy: everything you can write off saves you about 47% on the margin, and you can end up paying about 16% aggregate with your eyes closed. And I don't depreciate hardly anything because I don't like the way the basis goes squirrly. Hard to keep track of, with all the other things a man has to worry about. Spent St. Patrick's Day in New York City visiting Albert Loudes in 1970 before shipping out to Charlotte Amalie and then Fortaleza. His place was about 67th and Lex, and we went over to 5th Avenue to watch the parade but it was over and there was nothing but thousands of short white teenagers with thick lips, drunk off their asses and punching one another. A bunch of cops on horses sat around looking down on it tolerantly. I took some pictures, and might still have some. Would be happy to scan them for your vanity page, Glint.
House of Meat
- Sunday, March 17, 2002 at 20:55:18 (EST)

My two cents are: Triumphantly saying "Clinton was impeached" is like triumphantly saying "O.J. was indicted."
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 17, 2002 at 20:43:55 (EST)

My two cents are: Odd how neophyte right-wing bozos who can't even figure out the Michigan primary think they can ever have the slightest clue about which end is up in a foreign country.
House of Meat
- Sunday, March 17, 2002 at 20:42:47 (EST)

My two cents are: ????
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- Sunday, March 17, 2002 at 20:40:37 (EST)

My two cents are: Yep, it's morning in Portugal.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 17, 2002 at 20:39:47 (EST)

My two cents are: Mar 17, 2002 Conservatives Dislodge Socialists From Power in Tight Portuguese Election By Barry Hatton Associated Press Writer LISBON, Portugal (AP) - Portugal's Conservative Party drove the Socialists from power in elections Sunday as voters swung to the right and gave conservative parties a majority in parliament for the first time in seven years. The conservatives have pledged to cut corporate taxes, slash public spending and sell off some state companies in an effort to revive Portugal's faltering economy. However, their narrow margin of victory meant they may have to negotiate terms for a coalition with the rightist Popular Party - the third highest vote-getter - in order to push laws through parliament. The parties' past attempts to form an alliance have failed due to feuding between their leaders. Jose Durao Barroso, who is to be the new prime minister, said the Portuguese had expressed "a desire for change" after the Socialists "led Portugal into extreme difficulties." "A new era has begun today. I hope it will bring a richer and fairer country," he said.
Thank God, but still amazing spin
- Sunday, March 17, 2002 at 20:34:13 (EST)

My two cents are: Tax's don't look too bad this year. Poe's high flying college fund tanked, owes nothing. I'll be getting between $6k & $7k back, which should go straight into the SEPP-IRA. Only the older daughter owes Uncle Sam and needs to cough up $10. However, she'll get it back from the stae. Only surprise remaining will be how much the accountant bills me for keeping my wallet from bleeding any more than it already has. (Posted at http://members.fortunecity.com/fornigate/)
Glint
- Sunday, March 17, 2002 at 20:26:33 (EST)

My two cents are: Was looking at that rainbow picture on the Glint page. Guess that from now on when you view http://members.fortunecity.com/fornigate/glint/ you can just think of the bow as represenging the bubble in which the Glint clan is now ensconced temporarily, for better or worse. <≫ Just got an e-mail through the bubble wall from one of my unemployed Arlington girls. Said, "I really appreciate your help. It was a pleasure working with you. Currently I just want to take a break after all these years' working... Regards, Chu Tang"
Glint
- Sunday, March 17, 2002 at 19:52:35 (EST)

My two cents are: What? Is some asshole copying-and-pasting Pete's tired, repititious old posts. Maybe someone else would like to do the same with his February, 2001 meltdown, twat posts. I mean, since we're getting all nostalgic.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 17, 2002 at 19:40:58 (EST)

My two cents are: Went to a friend's house for dinner last night. Although they served Margaritas I instead knocked back bottle after bottle of that overrated Mexican rain water known as Sol. Stuffed chicken, grilled onions, cheese, jalapenos and stuff into several large fajitas in tortillas as bit as dinner plates and then stuffed them into my face. Had many a strange and fantastic dream after that. In one I was at a school known as MSSFD, the Multiple Sclerosis School For the Deaf. I can't remember what I was doing there - either working as a consultant, a teacher, an astronomy instructor, or what. Don't think I was enrolled as a student in my dreams much stranger things have and usually do happen. What does this dream mean?
Glint
- Sunday, March 17, 2002 at 19:21:14 (EST)

My two cents are: Yes, socialsits were the ones who pondered it and framed it as such. The real Americans viewed it as lying under oath, obstructing justice, intimidating witnesses and being a complete loser/jerk/scumbag/rapist/perjuer/disbarred bent pud. The liar was impeached despite the wholesale defense of the indefensible
Pete�
- Sunday, March 17, 2002 at 18:59:42 (EST)

My two cents are: I miss the days of substance when grown men and women could ponder the effect of a president's penis on public policy. Now it's all Enron this, Cover-up that, the loss of rights, yadda, yadda. Borrr-ring!
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 17, 2002 at 18:31:39 (EST)

My two cents are: Are you sure?
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 17, 2002 at 18:31:17 (EST)

My two cents are: Life was never like it was.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 17, 2002 at 18:29:01 (EST)

My two cents are: Where's the substance? Where's the beef? Where's Ho-hum? Why can't life be like it was? Argghhh....
Pete�
- Sunday, March 17, 2002 at 18:17:32 (EST)

My two cents are: Wasn't there a Sue? I believe she posted some pro-Taliban stuff.
Harlan St. Wolf
- Sunday, March 17, 2002 at 17:30:41 (EST)

My two cents are: Only Sue I know is T. rex Sue.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 17, 2002 at 17:20:42 (EST)

My two cents are: What I want to know is how did a site as idiotic as this one attract such a talented group as the aforementioned newcomers? Every one of them is trenchant, pithy, and howlingly funny at the same time. Are they from the shady side of Kiliminjaro or what?
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- Sunday, March 17, 2002 at 16:33:55 (EST)

My two cents are: I found it on a can of crushed pineapple, that's all I know. Said there were some good recipes.
Halibert Dugan
- Sunday, March 17, 2002 at 16:31:21 (EST)

My two cents are: As page historian and curator, I would like to know how some of our newbies found out about the site. WILL-YUM, CLIFFORD, Gary, Sue, Trish, welcome one and all! Now, how did you discover us?
Harlan St. Wolf
- Sunday, March 17, 2002 at 16:28:27 (EST)

My two cents are: Geesh, WILL-YUM. Geesh.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 17, 2002 at 16:00:48 (EST)

My two cents are: The Lizard is not dead. It was found in a head of celery. So, the new owners named it LizArdO.
WILL-YUM
- Sunday, March 17, 2002 at 15:56:50 (EST)

My two cents are: According to GW unrest creates unrest. Takes a deep mind to fathom that.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 17, 2002 at 15:35:44 (EST)

My two cents are: Hey, Zirc, what's an ear cuff? I can OK the small hoop if it fits snugly around the lobe. Those big dangling hoops are for pansies.
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- Sunday, March 17, 2002 at 15:31:27 (EST)

My two cents are: Yates is boring. I wish the crynic would come by and pinch a gruff loaf or two. Liven it up.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 17, 2002 at 15:29:31 (EST)

My two cents are: Drop the Yates angle. Dead lizard. She'll be important when she gets in the ring with Paula Jones. Not a moment sooner.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 17, 2002 at 15:28:04 (EST)

My two cents are: So what's your point? Every time Snippy has pissed away money his dad's friends have bailed him out and he's become wealthier.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 17, 2002 at 15:26:20 (EST)

My two cents are: We didn't indict Walker because he was a private soldier in the Afghan army. We indicted him because we've got to stop this wave of treason by children raised in the liberal viper's nest of Marin County. Liberals have got to learn. Cali has got to learn.
don't blame me, I'm from Alabama
- Sunday, March 17, 2002 at 15:24:17 (EST)

My two cents are: The most important thing about Andrea Yates is she's ugly.
'nuff said
- Sunday, March 17, 2002 at 15:23:11 (EST)

My two cents are: Sure, no crimes. But after a war, you always indict the grunts on the other side, don't you?
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 17, 2002 at 15:22:04 (EST)

My two cents are: How much money has Snippy pissed away?
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 17, 2002 at 15:14:29 (EST)

My two cents are: The only problem is that Walker didn't actually commit any crimes. He's just has the poor fortune to be all we've got.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 17, 2002 at 14:56:20 (EST)

My two cents are: Andrea Yates is ugly. Man, I'm glad someone told me that. UP until now I thought she was rather hot in a distant waifish sort of way.
Pvt. Collection
- Sunday, March 17, 2002 at 14:53:39 (EST)

My two cents are: Cheer up, we may not have bin Laden but we have Walker.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 17, 2002 at 14:29:01 (EST)

My two cents are: The First Criminal Appointments of Bush II Bush II officials appointed to National Security Council who were also indicted of Iran-contra crime, who plead guilty, and who were pardoned by Bush I: 1 Elliott Abrams Bush II officials appointed to Department of Defense who were also indicted and convicted of Iran-contra crime but who had convictions set aside on a technicality: 1 John Poindexter The second thing that stands out is that Robert Ray has long since proven that he is far from a disinterested participant in all of this. By moving into electoral politics while still Independent Counsel -- and by using his power in one area to leverage power in another -- Robert Ray has almost certainly violated the Hatch Act, and by doing so violated the Independent Counsel Act as well. When Rep. John Conyers pointed out these violations, Ray at first was silent, and actually cancelled a scheduled appearance as a New Jersey G.O.P. fundraiser. Now Ray has replied to Conyers with a ludicrous claim that he his appearances thus far have not been partisan or self-serving. We leave it to readers to judge the depths of Ray's hypocrisy on this matter by reading his own words: http://www.oicray.com/ The majority view is that Ray is using this report, and gratuitously attacking Bill Clinton yet again, in order to hype his personal political ambitions -- specifically, to run for the U.S. Senate from New Jersey this fall. The minority view is that Ray is using the report to help hype Faux's upcoming scheduled broadcast of a slug-fest between Paula Jones and Tonya Harding. The Jones-Harding matchup, of course, suggests that the freak show may NOT be over, at least at Faux. And so might an impending Ray candidacy. But either way, Robert Ray has today amply proven that he, like his fellow Republicans, will do anything to advance their personal and partisan political agendas.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 17, 2002 at 14:18:51 (EST)

My two cents are: WHEN CHARACTER WAS REALLY KING A Handy MWO Pocket Guide Republicans, Media Whores, Idiots, and those who listen to them like to say that the Clinton Administration was the most corrupt in American History. In fact, it was one of the least corrupt � especially compared to the Reagan, Bush I, and Bush II Administrations. And here is irrefutable evidence. Be sure to download and print this handy guide, then carry it around with you. Whenever a Republican or anyone else hands you their usual garbage on Clinton, reach for the guide � and let �em have it! When Character Wore Pinstripes: The Reagan and Bush I Administrations Reagan administration era convictions in the Iran-contra scandal: 14 (two overturned on appeal) Reagan officials convicted for illegal lobbying: 2 (Lyn Nofziger, White House political director, convicted to 30 days and $30,000 fine, overturned on appeal; Michael Deaver, White House deputy chief of staff, convicted and $100,000, given probation.) Reagan officials convicted in Housing and Urban Development department scandal: 16 Total Reagan era convictions: 32 Bush I pardons of those indicted and/or convicted of Iran-contra crimes: 7 (5 had been convicted, one was about to receive his sentence, and one, Secretary of Defense, Caspar Weinberger was about to stand trial) Number of charges in untried indictment (pardoned) of Weinberger: 5 The Vindication of the Clinton Administration Clinton administration officials indicted and/or convicted in connection with Whitewater: 0 Clinton administration officials indicted and/or convicted in connection with Travel Office allegations: 0 Clinton administration officials indicted and/or convicted in connection with alleged abuse of FBI files: 0 Clinton administration officials indicted and/of convicted in connection with Lewinsky matter: 0 Clinton administration officials indicted and/or convicted in connection with the Independent Counsel investigation of Interior Secretary Bruce Babbit: 0 Clinton administration officials indicted and/or convicted in connection with the Independent Counsel investigation of Labor Secretary Alexis Herman: 0 Clinton administration officials indicted and/or convicted in connection with the Independent Counsel investigation of Americorps director Eli Siegal: 0 Clinton administration officials indicted and/or convicted in connection with the Independent Counsel investigation of Commerce Secretary Ron Brown: 0 (Investigation abandoned upon Brown�s death in nation�s service) Clinton Administration officials convicted in connection with the Independent Counsel investigation of Agriculture Secretary Michael Espy: 0 (Espy acquitted of all charges. Judge sharply rebukes Independent Counsel Donald Smaltz for bringing case in the first place.) Other: HUD Secretary Henry Cisneros, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor for misstating to the F.B.I. the amount of money he gave his girlfriend; Assistant Attorney-General Webster Hubbell convicted of embezzling funds from Rose Law Firm before his federal appointment; that is, stealing from his law partners, including Hillary Rodham Clinton; Arkansas Governor Jim Guy Tucker, a political rival of Bill Clinton�s, convicted on charges involving local television licensing, and nothing at all to do with Clinton; Jim and Susan McDougal, convicted of crimes in Whitewater matter. In summation to the court, Independent Counsel declares that President Clinton is innocent of wrongdoing.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 17, 2002 at 14:12:57 (EST)

My two cents are: Dave Zweifel: Clinton haters are obsessive, weird By Dave Zweifel March 15, 2002 Bill Clinton's extracurricular sex life was in the papers, I hope, for the last time last week as independent counsel Robert Ray, the man who took over for the infamous Kenneth Starr, issued his final report and proclaimed that he could have prosecuted Clinton for perjury if he had wanted to. Ray's report essentially rehashed the scandal that was orchestrated from the very beginning by a fanatical wing of the Republican Party obsessed with its hatred of Clinton and his wife, Hillary. Once this investigation was supposed to implicate the president on everything from "murdering" Vince Foster to bilking investors in a land development scheme in Arkansas. But after $70 million and months and months of national anguish, it wound up finding that the president lied when asked if he had oral sex with a White House intern. That was it, folks. Admittedly, it's no excuse for a president, but how many married men do you know who might risk perjury when asked whether they've cheated on their wife? Nevertheless, there are a lot of people in this country who just can't sleep at night if the day has gone by without spewing some venom about Bill Clinton. And like the many stories that the independent counsel pursued through all those years, most of that venom is pure garbage. The Clinton haters even tried to use the Enron scandal to point fingers at the former president. As the scandal unfolded and it became evident that Enron's "Kenny Boy" Lay is a close buddy of the current president, the anti-Clinton propagandists quickly spread a story that Lay had his tentacles around Clinton, too. In fact, they claimed, Lay gave the Democrat campaign contributions to sleep over in the Lincoln bedroom. Even though the story was first told by the much discredited Drudge Report, mainstream papers such as the Chicago Tribune picked it up. And the mouthpiece for the Clinton haters, Fred Barnes, spread the story on Fox News. "Enron wasn't really a Republican scandal," Barnes said. "Ken Lay not only played golf with Clinton, he spent a night in the Lincoln bedroom." Subsequently, everyone from Fox's new hire Greta van Susteren to ABC's "This Week" repeated the Lincoln bedroom claim as fact. Well, it isn't fact. It's pure fiction. A reporter for the Little Rock Democrat-Gazette was the only journalist to actually go through the records of who slept over in the Clinton White House. Ken Lay was not one of them. Eventually, some of the media issued corrections - the Tribune and van Susteren, for example. Others have just ignored the truth. Barnes, for instance. There are those who simply cannot bring themselves to admit that other than the sex scandal, Bill Clinton's two terms as president were some of the best times in this nation's history. And if they can't pin something else on him, they'll make it up.
It was the best of times . . .
- Sunday, March 17, 2002 at 14:00:30 (EST)

My two cents are: Chill, dude. Drowning five kiddies is way more interesting than a dead lizard.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 17, 2002 at 13:52:59 (EST)

My two cents are: How unpatriotic of you to point out our total failure so far. The noble Bush Administration will have you permanently deleted! So there.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 17, 2002 at 13:51:20 (EST)

My two cents are: Be that as it may, it is perfectly reasonable at this time to try to kick Osama bin's ass. Apparently it just takes a better man than Snippy to do it. Al Gore would have had the dude sniped down by now, no dead Afghani's. Just another example of thew fact that the supreme court majority didn't consider anything but the country clubs when they appointed Bush.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 17, 2002 at 13:48:04 (EST)

My two cents are: This Just In: Bin Laden Wins the War in Afghanistan by Harry Browne March 14, 2002 Osama Bin Laden has won the war in Afghanistan � the first big battle of the War on Terrorism. Americans are claiming victory because American bombers have devastated Afghanistan, thousands of Afghans have been killed, and the already-impoverished country is now almost completely in ruins. But most likely this is exactly what bin Laden wanted. What has the devastation achieved? Osama bin Laden and Omar the Tentmaker are still on the loose. To the best of my knowledge, no one who had anything to do with the planning or execution of the September 11 attacks has been captured or killed. (The chance that bin Laden was killed by the bombing is very remote. After all, he and his cohorts believe he's on a mission from Allah. So he probably left Afghanistan shortly after the bombing began, rather than risk being lost to the cause.) And don't get the idea that American military might has shown Osama bin Laden that he can't get away with his nefarious deeds. That conclusion is 180 degrees off the mark. Do you think Osama bin Laden cares how many innocent Afghans are killed? Why would he? Every dead Afghan is another argument for his crusade. Hundreds of millions of people in the Third World already hate the U.S. � for bombing Iraq, for interfering in the Middle East, for keeping troops in a hundred countries, for propping up dictators who support American policies. And every bomb that fell on Afghanistan converted more people into America-haters. The U.S. military has been confirming bin Laden's argument that Americans are bullies. Around the World In the same way, ten years of U.S. bombing Iraq hasn't forced Saddam Hussein to change his policies. Why should it? The bombs make his stubbornness more popular at home. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of Israel says he'll continue to attack the Palestinians until "the other side understands it cannot achieve anything by using terror; [then] it will be easier to start negotiations." But why would terrorists care how many Palestinians die? By definition, terrorism is the brutalizing of innocent people in order to cause changes in official policy. So terrorists don't care how many innocent people are killed on either side. And every one of their own who dies causes more people to support the terrorists. Why We Are Threatened The root fallacy in the War on Terrorism is the idea that we have no choice but to fight people who won't rest until they destroy us. But there have always been thugs in the world who wanted to destroy others. There have always been people who hated America � for good or bad reasons. There have always been evil people, malicious people, brutal people. Why is it that only now do they represent such a grave threat to us? The truth is that the evil, malicious, brutal thugs rarely have the ability to make any real trouble outside their own neighborhoods. The few exceptions � people like Adolf Hitler or Osama bin Laden � succeed only because they can get the financing, contacts, networking and other resources necessary to spread trouble. And they can get that support only if large numbers of people have been mistreated. That was the case with the Germans after World War I � who had valuable pieces of Germany torn off and handed to France, Poland, or Czechoslovakia � who had all their foreign investments confiscated � who were told to pay astronomical reparations, even though all their valuable assets had been taken from them � who were made to bear the entire guilt for a war they were only one part of. Hitler could command a very advanced, literate country because of the terrible treatment the Germans suffered after World War I. He promised to avenge the wrongs done to them, and they responded enthusiastically. If he hadn't had that fertile ground to work with, we'd never have heard of him. Today, Osama bin Laden couldn't get the worldwide support necessary to carry out his evil plans if there weren't hundreds of millions of people who resent American troops stationed in their countries, who are appalled by the American blockade that's starving Iraqis, who don't like American Presidents imposing their decisions on their countries. The difference between relatively harmless thugs and truly dangerous thugs is the real grievances the dangerous ones can play upon. They are still thugs, but they gain the support of honest, peace- loving people who have been pushed to the limit. You'll never be able to subdue all the thugs, especially if you kill more innocent people in the process because the very act of killing arouses even more resentments. By bombing Afghanistan, by killing people who had nothing to do with the September attacks, George Bush has handed Osama Bin Laden exactly the victory he craved � the evidence that Americans don't believe innocent people have a right to live if they get in the way of American global ambitions. The Terrorist Strategy If Bin Laden could mastermind the September attacks, he must be smart enough to know that bombing the World Trade Center (or any future terrorist act) isn't going to defeat America. So why did he do it? He could see an insecure American President, just barely elected and worried about his reelection, who might jump at the opportunity to demonstrate leadership, play the macho President, start bombing, and feed the worldwide resentment of American foreign policy. And so bin Laden has maneuvered George Bush into destroying a poor, Islamic country � causing a further decline in support for America among the world's peoples (distinct from their leaders who feed at the American trough). Round 1 goes to bin Laden by something close to a knockout. Defeating Terrorism We will never defeat terrorism by killing innocent people. That's exactly what the terrorists want us to do. You can make the thugs powerless only by taking away their ability to gain the support necessary to carry out their plans. That means our government must get U.S. troops out of foreign countries, quit telling other nations what to do, and quit killing innocent people in a futile attempt to "rid the world of evil-doers." Let there be no misunderstanding. I'm not blaming America. I'm blaming American foreign policy. And I'm not talking about pacifism. I'm talking about protecting you and me and all of America by not provoking war. Nor am I talking about poverty as a cause of terrorism. I'm talking about American foreign policy as a cause of terrorism. The answer lies not in foreign aid for the world's impoverished. Quite the contrary. The answer lies in minding our own business. The answer lies in ending 50 years of foreign policy failures. Or are we going to let bin Laden win the rest of the war as well?
Where's M.K. when you need him?
- Sunday, March 17, 2002 at 13:35:37 (EST)

My two cents are: Finish the bookshelf "wall unit today." Finish the construction. The one made of birch plywood. Shelves of plywood, how gauche. Didn't have no birch molding so I'm facing it with alder screen molding, and a 1 1/2" hickory crown molding around the top. Hickory looks like birch, but is much harder. Looks good, although I'm cutting the miters by eyeball and scribe and keep fucking one up. The side crown molding gets shorter and shorter, but will probably make it. Also, this power plane I picked up has an ingenious feature that lets you cut 3/16" rabbets with it, and I used it but fucked up twice, losing it into this wide curving rabbet into the keeper wood. Thing is tricky, and I don't think I'll cut no more rabbets with it. Have to fix that, patch in wedges and filler, but nothing's perfect. It's easier than building a sailing pie-row, but what you end up with is more useful.
P.E. Weasel
- Sunday, March 17, 2002 at 13:29:47 (EST)

My two cents are: What's wrong with a briefcase? I had one of those back in the '60's. It was neat, but it wore out. Zippered, and the zipper broke. Also had a neat pair of winkle-picker boots with buckles that people came up and asked me where I got them. Never asked about where I got the brief-case, but it was a good one. Never did like those little packs much, day-packs we called them. Had one with a leather bottom and shaped narrow at the top end so you could squeeze easier through the cracks in mountains you were climbing. That narrow top made it so you couldn't carry 8"x11" paper, so it wasn't much use as a school bag. Whats the deal with this Yates thing? It seems meaningful to people, at least some of the people around here, as if it were any more interesting than a dead lizard or some other random act. It means zip. Nothing. Nada. Floop. Fugh-all. Shut your yaps about it, fools.
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- Sunday, March 17, 2002 at 13:15:56 (EST)

My two cents are: Some religions pervert the whole idea of Satan, 666 and the whole dang Good Book.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 17, 2002 at 13:15:11 (EST)

My two cents are: Sounds like the coals aren't hot enough to sear the meat..
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 17, 2002 at 13:07:25 (EST)

My two cents are: Sounds like the coals aren't hot enough to sear the meat..
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 17, 2002 at 12:53:38 (EST)

My two cents are: The Preacher was wired for sound with a lapel mike, and as he was giving his sermon he moved briskly about the platform, jerking the mike cord as he went. Then he moved to one side, getting wound up in the cord and nearly tripping before jerking it again. After several circles and jerks, a little girl in the third row leaned toward her mother and whispered, "If he gets loose, will he hurt us?"
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 17, 2002 at 12:53:14 (EST)

My two cents are: might go out for some breakfast margaritas here in a bit, have tomorrow off so today is a party day.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 17, 2002 at 12:42:57 (EST)

My two cents are: this one is called california innovations or something wierd. good heavy nylon like ballistic cloth
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 17, 2002 at 12:41:50 (EST)

My two cents are: mine was a camp trails I think if I recall correctly, a dark green, two side pockets, pocket in the top also,
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 17, 2002 at 12:35:26 (EST)

My two cents are: razor, had a razor too.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 17, 2002 at 12:32:05 (EST)

My two cents are: Drinking a diet Coke, Andrea told homicide sergeant Eric Mehl what she had done and why. She did not hate the children. Nor was she mad at them. "They weren't developing correctly," she said. The soft-spoken sergeant asked how long she had considered murder. Two years, she said. "Since I realized I have not been a good mother to them." Mehl watched her movements. She looked him in the eye. She nodded. Sometimes she answered, "Yes, sir." But she would sit in 15 seconds of stone-cold silence if he asked too much. She could give only short answers to simple questions in their 17-minute conversation as she twice recounted the order in which her children were born and died. Later she told jail doctors that nothing could mute the patter that said she was a lousy mother. The death of her children, she said, was her punishment, not theirs. It was, she explained, a mother's final act of mercy. Did not the Bible say it would be better for a person to be flung into the sea with a stone tied to his neck than cause little ones to stumble? And she had failed her children. Only her execution would rescue her from the evil inside her--a state-sanctioned exorcism in which George W. Bush, the former Governor and now President, would come to save her from the clutches of Satan. Had not Scripture taught that the government is a minister of God, "an avenger who brings wrath on the one who practices evil?" She told the doctors she wanted her hair shaved so she could see the number 666--the mark of the Antichrist--on her scalp. She also wanted her hair cropped in the shape of a crown, perhaps the kind the Bible says Jesus will give to those who have won salvation.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 17, 2002 at 12:31:42 (EST)

My two cents are: Sounds like the coals aren't hot enough to sear the meat..
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 17, 2002 at 12:31:12 (EST)

My two cents are: the backpack of the 20's brings back memories, used for books mostly at the junior college but in those days you had to be ready for anything partywise, so there was always toothbrush and paste, maybe some gucci cologne, soap and washcloth, a pair of shorts suitable for swimming and sleeping in and some kind of oxford shirt in case you had to get in somewhere like a yacht club or something.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 17, 2002 at 12:30:32 (EST)

My two cents are: So I bought a backpack to take to work. As part of my midlife crisis, I am fighting the briefcase. I will not breifcase, in fact, I remeber in my 20's when I basically lived out of a backpack I told myself, never EVER trade the backpack for a briefcase, DO NOT GO THERE. So I'm taking my own advice on this one. Its not a north face backpack but it is yellow and black and loks pretty sporty and even matches the yellow trim racing stripes on my new reebok cross trainers!
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 17, 2002 at 12:26:54 (EST)

My two cents are: Who's the cunt?
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 17, 2002 at 12:26:42 (EST)

My two cents are: So we're still having fun hotrodding the zx2. Pothaole has been a little weird lately, well, more strange than weird. For example, girl in the next cube comes back from two weeks off and I can hear her talking over the wall to the cube on the other side of her. "Oh gee" she says "looks like my lizard died, oh well, thats what two weeks with no food or water will do to you" (and laughing now) yup sure is dead all right, time for the old flusharoo". I mean just so off-handed about basically killing the defenseles little thing. And this is like a woman that bakes cookies and brings them to the office, organizes the church clothing drive just callously MK "ing" the little lizard.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 17, 2002 at 12:22:34 (EST)

My two cents are: The Russell Yates 12 Step Guide to Dating: Step (1): Marry unattractive, totally subservient and slightly off-balance woman. Step (2): Keep afore-mentioned wife barefoot, pregnant and totally cut off from outside world until signs of litter-induced dementia develop. Step (3): Take wife (i.e., brood sow) for window-dressing mental health visits. Step (4): Encourage psychotic delusions by reminding wife that kids are her sole reason for living and even though the waitress at the truck stop is a hot little number, she doesn't have child-bearing hips. Step (5): Leave the house for extended periods of time, telling wife "it's so nice to come home to you & the kids... it'd be a damn shame if y'all died while I was work one day". Step (6): Profess shock.. UTTER SHOCK... and dismay when wife reads between the lines. Step (7): Support wife during arrest & trial (the news babes love a sensitive guy & grieving dad). Step (8): Practicing weeping on cue in anticipation of the guilty verdict. Step (9): Vow to find the real killer...er, blame the medical community. Obviously they should have seen something in annual visits that the man who sees her everyday must have missed. Step (10): Sit back and wait for the phone calls, letters, emails and mail-order bride offers to roll in. There's plenty of time to weigh all the options without those pesky kids running around. Step (11): Buy new suit and television-friendly dress shirt for post-Movie of the Week interviews. Step (12): Pat self on back for being Machievellian genius.//Hiya Curt!
Teresa
- Sunday, March 17, 2002 at 12:19:37 (EST)

My two cents are: morning yall, small wonder that behind the yates tragedy is some sicko religion
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 17, 2002 at 12:17:55 (EST)

My two cents are: Woroniecki's wife, who wished to be identified as her husband's spouse, said, "We're just here to preach about Jesus Christ. We wanted to come to a place where we could reach lots of students." The Woroniecki's six children silently handed out the pamphlets. "We just do what our dad tells us so we can teach about Jesus Christ," said one of the daughters as she struggled to keep her banner balanced. One sign said, "Your mouth talks of Christ, your life espouses you as of the world." "No you are not saved. Just another typical American hypocrite," read another flag. Woroniecki described his listeners as "marshmallows," saying that their faces looked as white as "milk." He then addressed the women as "contemporary witches." "Get out there and be a witch," Woroniecki sarcastically preached. "Go and be a 20th century career woman and forget about your families." In the pamphlet, "The Witch and the Wimp," Woroniecki outlines the role women should have. "As man was created to dominate, God reveals that woman was created to be his helpmeet," he writes. "Thus the role of woman is derived, not from culture, but from the sin of Eve at the creation of the world." One student recognized the family from its protesting outside general conference last weekend with the same pamphlets. "It's a matter of being against counterfeit beliefs, not necessarily your religion," Woroniecki's wife said. Her husband made more specific remarks about the LDS Church. "Brigham Young is in hell, right along with the pope and Billy Graham," Woroniecki said. "BYU is the farm capital of the world for finding husbands and wives, but why won't you pay attention to Jesus Christ?" Woroniecki accused the students as being the ones that crucified Jesus Christ. "The nature of the Roman soldiers is coming out in you right now," he said. "Say it together now, 'Crucify him!'"
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 17, 2002 at 11:56:14 (EST)

My two cents are: I Don't believe in religion. Ever since the Preacher said Televisions were instruments of the devil, and if God intended man to fly, He would have given them wings. Then there is the Screaming, Stomping Ministers that expect you to support them like kings. Even follow them to the grave, like Jim Jones. How about that Jim & Tammy Baker, and Jimmy Swaggert. Even now, they say computers are evil. Sick Minds!!! Wouldn't every one just love to live like kings, like Ministers do.
WILL-YUM
- Sunday, March 17, 2002 at 11:51:06 (EST)

My two cents are: Time to throw Michael Woroniecki and Russell Yates in the bathtub, the wimps. If only I'd done them first. . .
Andrea
- Sunday, March 17, 2002 at 11:42:25 (EST)

My two cents are: well i got some new earrings, a silver stud ball and a small silver hoop. also a new ear cuff, its been 6 weeks.
zirc
- Sunday, March 17, 2002 at 09:02:04 (EST)

My two cents are: an "unused" part of a cemetary? interesting concept, as opposed to the "used" areas I would imagine?
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 17, 2002 at 08:50:58 (EST)

My two cents are: I like those big-armed women. I like to see it jiggle. Jell-O arms are the best.
Philly Stu
- Sunday, March 17, 2002 at 02:17:22 (EST)

My two cents are: What is so special about Philly cabbies?
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 17, 2002 at 01:54:38 (EST)

My two cents are: I'd like to see the comet, Glint, but the philodendron is doing so well I hate to pull it off the telescope. Oh well. Aloha.
Pete�
- Sunday, March 17, 2002 at 01:53:39 (EST)

My two cents are: It's got something to do with dark tunnels and long rods. The Philly thing. Something about the sort of monkey-faced woman on Glint's vanity page. The one with the big arms. That's all I know.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 17, 2002 at 01:51:36 (EST)

My two cents are: "On the whole, I'd rather by in Philadelphia." -- Ronald Reagan, searching for a good line from W.C. Fields.
why philly?
- Sunday, March 17, 2002 at 01:44:57 (EST)

My two cents are: Why Philly?
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 17, 2002 at 01:43:44 (EST)

My two cents are: If your ISP is down, just drop the note off with any cabbie in Philly.
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- Sunday, March 17, 2002 at 01:42:58 (EST)

My two cents are: Sure, Glint, I'll email Teresa and pass your note along. Aloha
Pete�
- Sunday, March 17, 2002 at 00:34:38 (EST)

My two cents are: No, the socialsits are responsible for all delusional thinking.
Pete�
- Sunday, March 17, 2002 at 00:32:37 (EST)

My two cents are: "Was Andrea Yates�s �spiritual leader� partly responsible for her delusional thinking? As testimony comes to a close in her trial, evangelist Michael Woroniecki�s influence over the mother accused of murdering her five children has become an issue. A day after Yates, who has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity, drowned the children in the family bathtub, she told a jail psychiatrist that her bad mothering had made the kids �not righteous,� and, as a result, they would �perish in the fires of hell.� If she killed them while they were young, God would show mercy on their souls." Where did these thoughts stem from? Yates�s attorney, George Parnham, has put into evidence a copy of Woroniecki�s newsletter The Perilous Times, sent to Yates and her husband, Rusty. In it a poem laments the disobedient kids of the �Modern Mother Worldly� and ends with the question, �What becomes of the children of such a Jezebel?� Houston psychiatrist Lucy Puryear told the jury that literature is �what her delusions are built around.� http://www.msnbc.com/news/721994.asp?cp1=1
Mary
- Saturday, March 16, 2002 at 22:18:42 (EST)

My two cents are: Michael Peter Woronieski was the preacher that influenced Yates.... "Write the traveling evangelist at the Oregon drop box, and one receives a calligraphically addressed packet. It contains an audiocassette, carefully wrapped and taped in paper toweling, and labeled by hand, "How to Study the Word of God," as well as handwritten, personal letter inviting one to "share more personal things." There are also musty newsletter and brochures -- "The Perilous Times," which claims "God says the source of a sin's power is The Law and your deep anxieties and fearfulness can be traced to The Devil's right to your soul when you die," and a "Hi! How ya doin?" pamphlet explaining the the Woronieckis have lived full-time in an RV for twenty years, going through three buses, all renovated themselves. "All six of our children were born 'at home' in a different state. My wife is not a contemporary 'witch' sacrificing her children for a career." Michael Woronieckis adds, "She is awesome and submitted to me." A brochure called "The 'Witch', The 'Wimp'" is also included. "Before I obeyed God," Woroniecki writes, I too accpeted the teachings of darkness from this 'advanced' culture on 'womens [sic] rights'. I was stunned, but thrilled, to discover God's 'light'. At birth a woman inherits the contentious nature of Eve and a man is born with the passive nature of Adam." Women, he teaches, are witches, while men are wimps. "The fury, for being labeled a 'witch' only serves to further expose the blinding power of your arrogant self-image. (I've never seen a guy furious over the label of a 'wimp'). Unless you face this SIN NATURE you will be tormented and blinded by its vexations. Your blindness renders you STUPID to the obvious. You are an emotional 'basketcase'!" ....I don't know much about Woronieski's evangelical ministry, I do know that Yates seemed to emulate this man and was deeply under his influence. I think Yates decision to have 6 children was because of his faith, his religious beliefs. That's why he didn't shut down the baby-making factory. The same is true in the Catholic church, having babies regardless of the consequences, because the church condemns the practice of contraception. Nowadays there are more of the faithful that question this mandate. Yet, there was a time they didn't dare. There exists today many who still obey the dictates of doctrine. I realize there was no doctrine in Yates case, but how much was he influenced by his pastor's attitude about women and their role. Russell wanted six children, his pastor had six children. His decisions in the past had been to follow the same pattern as this preacher. Rusty told the jury that he agreed with Woroniecki�s support for home-schooling and living the �simple life� in a bus�two decisions the Yateses copied. Why not the this one as well?
Mary
- Saturday, March 16, 2002 at 22:10:05 (EST)

My two cents are: AAAAAAAAAH, It is great to be an old coot!!! Except I feel sorry for the ones with erectile dysfuntion. (USE IT OR LOSE IT!!!!) Is that why we need Congressional Interns to do what what Congressmen aren't getting at home????
WILL-YUM
- Saturday, March 16, 2002 at 22:03:39 (EST)

My two cents are: Older Men Make Better Lovers, Psychologist Says Sat Mar 16,10:20 AM ET LONDON (Reuters) - Older men are better lovers and have fewer impotence problems than their younger counterparts, with the "male menopause" a myth pedaled by drug companies to sell their products, according to a British psychologist. Dr. Lorraine Boule, from Sheffield University in northern England, told the British Psychological Society conference that men became more skilled sexually as they get older, British newspapers reported on Saturday. "Older men sustain erections for longer, are longer coming to orgasm, and satisfy women better. Sexual activity does diminish with age, but the quality should get better," she was quoted as saying by the Daily Mail. Boule's conclusions were based on a survey of 185 married professional men aged 30 to 60. While 22 percent of men under 46 suffered erectile problems, only 16 percent of those over 46 did. She dismissed as nonsense the idea that men needed testosterone as a hormone replacement therapy in the same way that some women take estrogen to ease the effects of menopause. The male menopause was a myth spread by drug firms to boost the multimillion dollar market for impotence treatments, she said. "Life should really begin at 40 for those who have the right mindset," the Times quoted her as saying
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 16, 2002 at 21:00:21 (EST)

My two cents are: Didn't call him an idiot because of his faith, called him one for not closing down the baby factory when he knew his wife had mental problems.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 16, 2002 at 20:29:54 (EST)

My two cents are: Occasionally, just occasionally, you run across a religion that espouses some weird ideas. Know what I mean?
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 16, 2002 at 20:19:11 (EST)

My two cents are: You could call him an idiot for belonging to a church that doesn't permit anesthesia during childbirth, though.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 16, 2002 at 19:25:15 (EST)

My two cents are: I apologize to Russell Yates for calling him an idiot for his faith. I am harsh with Christians who acquiese all common sense and obey their religion without question. I do not understand, but I am not one to judge. Also all I know about their lifestyle is from reports in the news, we know how those are hardly the whole story. Russell was under a gag order, anything he had to say to add insight to the reports, he was not allowed to voice. He has lost his five children and his wife, a sweet wonderful woman from all accounts. One who was ravaged by an illness as Reagan is with alzheimers. Different manifestations, but physical and mental and certainly NOT A CHOICE. My heart goes out to this entire family and I pray the people in this country learn more about mental illness. From reading on the web, there is more ignorance than knowlege. Some people actually do not know the difference between mental illness and mental retardation. This is a tip in the iceberg of the ignorance. The tragedy is ignorance of the diseases of mental illness and how to treat it is rampant in the medical profession as well, including the field of psychiatry.
Mary
- Saturday, March 16, 2002 at 15:14:26 (EST)

My two cents are: TEXAS LOGIC :ie; Prosecutors will prosecute George Bush for cocaine if and when evidence warrants, but do not have the evidence now.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 16, 2002 at 14:53:17 (EST)

My two cents are: "Prosecutors would charge Russell Yates if and when the evidence warrants, but do not have the evidence now, sources said."
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 16, 2002 at 14:50:57 (EST)

My two cents are: Prosecutors Mull Case Against Russell Yates No Decision Made Yet March 15 � Prosecutors will weigh a number of factors that may lead them to prosecute Andrea Yates' husband Russell for either child endangerment or negligent homicide, ABCNEWS has learned. No decision has been made, but it is being seriously considered, sources said. Prosecutors would charge Russell Yates if and when the evidence warrants, but do not have the evidence now, sources said. Andrea Yates, 37, was convicted Tuesday of two capital murder charges filed in the killings of her children last June. Her jury ruled today she should be sentenced to life in prison. She will be formally sentenced Monday. Her attorneys presented an insanity defense, contending it was severe psychosis from postpartum depression that drove her to drown 7-year-old Noah, 5-year-old John, 3-year-old Paul, 2-year-old Luke and 6-month-old Mary. A psychiatrist who interviewed Andrea Yates in jail said she believed she had been marked by Satan and that killing her children was the only way to save them from hell. Russell Yates testified at his wife's trial that she never told him about the voices and visions she later claimed led her to drown their five children. "She kind of described it as a dark period, that she was in a dark place," he told jurors in February, referring to his wife's two suicide attempts two years before the June 20 slayings. He earlier described his wife as a loving mother whose mental problems worsened in the months before the drownings. He said Andrea Yates suffered from severe postpartum depression following the birth of their fourth child and was under the care of a psychiatrist following the suicide attempts. She soon became pregnant with Mary, who was born in November 2000. Russell Yates testified her depression returned and grew worse after the death of her father last March. Russell Yates Blamed HMO and Doctors He said his wife was treated by Dr. Mohammed Saeed, a psychiatrist, but didn't seem to improve. Russell Yates said he and his wife returned for treatment June 18, but the doctor didn't put her back on an anti-psychotic drug and changed her prescription. She killed the children two days later. Today, Russell Yates blamed his HMO insurance and doctors for his wife's actions. "How could she have been so ill and the medical community not diagnose her, not treat her, not protect our family from her?" he asked. "I would never have taken Andrea to the doctor and hospital that I took her to ... They miserably failed us." He also said he was considering filing a lawsuit against some of her doctors, but he did not elaborate. Yates has come in for criticism for not doing more for his wife. She home-schooled all their children, and had little time to herself, and one friend testified in the trial that she tried to get Russell to do more, but he didn't. Russell Yates said the tragedy happened because no one recognized the severity of his wife's illness. "She never told me that she had any thoughts of harming the children before," he said. "You know, if she just said anything about that we may have decided not to have any more children." He said he believes he took precautions to keep his family safe, and most regrets his actions regarding his wife's medical treatment.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 16, 2002 at 14:38:18 (EST)

My two cents are: That "Pick Up Ann Coulter" game is about the cruelest thing I've seen on the net. How can they be so nasty about a sweet dewy chick like Coulter?
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 16, 2002 at 13:48:13 (EST)

My two cents are: Strange Love By Lloyd Grove Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, March 13, 2002; Page C03 Ann Coulter's notorious post-Sept. 11 column for National Review Online -- in which she suggested that the proper U.S. response to Muslim terrorists was to "invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity" -- is still making waves six months later. But now the controversy features a jaw-dropping twist involving Coulter's love life. After her Sept. 13 column, the tall, blond right-wing pundit was sacked by NRO when she refused to delete a reference to "swarthy males" in a subsequent column and went on television to accuse National Review of censorship and denounce its editor, Rich Lowry, as a "girly-boy." But the other day on the NRO Web site, Lowry wrote about various e-mails he had recently received about the war on terrorism: "Lots of sentiment for nuking Mecca. . . . Mecca seems extreme, of course, but then again few people would die and it would send a signal. Religions have suffered catastrophic setbacks before. As for the Saudis, my only thought is that if we're going to hold them responsible for terrorism, we had better start doing it now, not after an even more catastrophic attack." Yesterday Lowry told us that he doesn't really countenance nuking Mecca; indeed, he's against it. He said he was merely employing a literary device, "understated sarcasm." But the sarcasm might have been too understated not only for Coulter -- who told us derisively that Lowry "finally comes out on the right side of things, but he's wildly overreacting, just like a woman" -- but also for Ibrahim Hooper of the Council on American-Islamic Relations. "We are demanding an apology from National Review and disciplinary action against Lowry," Hooper told us. With his trademark understated sarcasm, Lowry replied: "I'm going to officially slap myself on the wrist." Which brings us to Coulter's love life. We hear that shortly after her September tirade proposing a modern-day crusade in Islamic countries, she began dating a gentleman of the Muslim persuasion, a well-to-do financier in New York. Word is that they met by chance four months ago on a Manhattan street and have been an item ever since. Coulter, an Episcopalian, declined to comment directly on this surprising circumstance. She refused to reveal the lucky guy's identity. "It seems perfectly logical to me," she told us. "What? It's not like I'm dating a Democrat." She added: "If you go with this, I'll sic Mustafa -- not his real name -- on you."
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 16, 2002 at 13:42:46 (EST)

My two cents are: So, Glint, did it hurt when you got your face caught in the trash compressor?
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 16, 2002 at 13:37:25 (EST)

My two cents are: I need to go see my accountant and find out what the damages are for last year. In the meantime, keep those updated pics coming. Pete, can you take care of geting in touch with Teresa? Bye! (Posted at http://members.fortunecity.com/fornigate/)
Glint
- Saturday, March 16, 2002 at 13:35:30 (EST)

My two cents are: Ohmygod! I'm starting to look more like Virgil, except with hair. (Posted at http://members.fortunecity.com/fornigate/)
Glint
- Saturday, March 16, 2002 at 13:32:36 (EST)

My two cents are: Anyone who can score a raghead right on the streets of New York is obviously doing something right.
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- Saturday, March 16, 2002 at 13:21:05 (EST)

My two cents are: Just noticed something. The picture of Dean -- the one you get when you click on his thumbnail -- looks a lot like the before picture of Brenda posted there (if you remember how to get to it that is). (Posted at http://members.fortunecity.com/fornigate/)
Glint
- Saturday, March 16, 2002 at 13:18:42 (EST)

My two cents are: Ann Coulter must be doing something right if she'd ticked off so many wobbly left knees. <> Send your pics to the e-mai address below. Thanks! (Posted at http://members.fortunecity.com/fornigate/)
Glint <[email protected]>
- Saturday, March 16, 2002 at 13:10:39 (EST)

My two cents are: Was looking at the mugs on the ancillary page and you konw what? I think it's time for an upgrade. Some of those pictures are at least four years old and many of them were probably older than that to start out with. So, I'm asking you to e-mail some updated photos of yourself. Say taken within the last year. I have taken the initiative, by no means through popular demand, of posting a relatively recent picture of myself. One of the last known pictures of Glint during the glory days of extra bubbular wealth and success. Ancient chinese chick saying is "knowledge comes with grey hair." (Posted at http://members.fortunecity.com/fornigate/)
Glint
- Saturday, March 16, 2002 at 13:03:42 (EST)

My two cents are: In light of recent reports on Ann Coulter's unlikely new boyfriend - a Muslim man she picked up on the streets of New York, Democrats.com has launched a new, fun interactive game called "Pick Up Ann Coulter." Admittedly, as you can guess from the title, Candyland or Chutes N Ladders would be more challenging. Pick Up Ann only requires a little insight into the mind of a wingnut, and maybe a special appreciation for crossdressers.
www.pickupanncoulter.com
- Saturday, March 16, 2002 at 13:00:40 (EST)

My two cents are: I felt terrible when I was made privy to the upcoming layoffs - the who, what, why, and when. Especially with my girls since they had each at different times expressed how things had changed for the better once I came along. But now this, a fate almost as unbearable as death itself, and under my watch. And so I have chosen to honor them by posting their pics on the ancillary pages in tribute to all the good times we had working together, banging out the code and throwing buckets of water onto the flaming spark-spitting computer screens. (Posted at http://members.fortunecity.com/fornigate/)
Glint
- Saturday, March 16, 2002 at 12:37:49 (EST)

My two cents are: They let my people go. I found that photo of another one. Photograph taken in a currently unused area at Arlington National Cemetery. She's just sat up after pretending what it would be like to buried there staring upward at the sky. It's also posted at the ancillary page, URL given below. Both she and the previously posted pic may be viewed by clicking on either of the two thumbnail box brownie cameras. I'll add more pictures as necessary due to layoffs. (Posted at http://members.fortunecity.com/fornigate/)
Glint
- Saturday, March 16, 2002 at 12:13:15 (EST)

My two cents are: Right, WILL-YUM. Texas doesn't put the death penalty to use much.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 16, 2002 at 11:31:54 (EST)

My two cents are: AAAAAAAH, The Great State of Texas!!!! Where Presidents come from and women can kill their kids. Ya know what?? And the Government supports them, for the rest of their lives.
WILL-YUM
- Saturday, March 16, 2002 at 11:04:30 (EST)

My two cents are: Oh, sure, supporting a Palestinian state is a wonderful idea, at least now. All of a sudden. It was a horrible idea when we blasted Hitlery for having it. Now it's a wonderful idea because everybody got shot and we don't want that to happen again.
Harlan St. Wolf
- Saturday, March 16, 2002 at 10:49:44 (EST)

My two cents are: Pete, are you out there? If you haven't seen that comet yet, go to www.skypub.com and get the chart. Very pretty in binoculars in the deepening twilight around 19:30 local time wherever you are (in the northern hemisphere anyway). Distinct greenish tinge in a telescope. You should be able to pick it up by sweeping back and forth with binoculars in the Northwestern sky. E-mail me if you see it. <> Haven't found the pic of the other axed asian chick. BUt I'm still looking. (Posted at http://members.fortunecity.com/fornigate/)
Glint
- Saturday, March 16, 2002 at 10:29:09 (EST)

My two cents are: Seen a few clips of the snip's press conference. Where are Rove and Hughes? Where were the rehersals? The guy looked like little George Bush up there at the lectern. What gives?
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 16, 2002 at 02:09:32 (EST)

My two cents are: Well, of course "corporate responsibility" is a bullshit pr deal, just like "compassionate conservative." I don't see how it ties to Enron specifically. It's just another example of the fact that a Republican has to lie to get elected because his philosophy is to promote the fortunes of a few over the welfare of all citizens more or less equally. Obviously if Little Bush started telling the truth he'd be in trouble.
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- Saturday, March 16, 2002 at 02:07:32 (EST)

My two cents are: Thought maybe the ( and the ) were coming across as ? and ? for some odd reason.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 16, 2002 at 02:04:05 (EST)

My two cents are: Hey, I figured out how that goofy MK did it.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 16, 2002 at 02:03:24 (EST)

My two cents are: ()()()()()()
parens
- Saturday, March 16, 2002 at 02:02:44 (EST)

My two cents are: It's a sad day when a capitalist red chinese chick dances on John?'s grave.
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 15, 2002 at 23:59:45 (EST)

My two cents are: This was the week that heads rolled out of the bubble. I've spoken with the V.P. at the client where I'd worked for over four years up until shortly after John's death. I forwarded him the resume of one of my people, and he seems inclined to offer her a real job working for him. I've posted a picture of that one, taken at Arlington Cemetery during a visit to see John. You'll recognize some of the landmarks. To see the image, go to the ancillary page, URL posted below, and click on the sprig of barbed wire. I'm looking for an image of another one of my Asian chicks that got the axe, but I'm having trouble finding it. Anyhow, please enjoy this one.... (Posted at http://members.fortunecity.com/fornigate/)
Glint
- Friday, March 15, 2002 at 23:35:09 (EST)

My two cents are: Call a taxidermist. And a lawyer.
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 15, 2002 at 23:29:39 (EST)

My two cents are: Clinton's Bribery Report??? And I missed it???? What on SW 1 or SW 2???? I've been hanging on every word off the 11 meter band since 03000 gmt and haven't heard shit. Are there sunspots or something??? A conspiracy??? Where are Glint and Jeremiah when you need them?? Where's that reflective infrared inside back page of Soldier of Fortune Magazine when you need it, and most of all, where's BRENDA!!!!!!
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 15, 2002 at 23:28:17 (EST)

My two cents are: So we have this idea for the garage since we got the sport coupe thing. Paint the front wall of the garage like the beach with a sunrise or sunset and the inside of the garage door a sunrise or sunset. Then toss some large potted palms into the room along with a few hi output tanning bulbs in what used to be the overhead flourescents. Presto, inner beach. Sit in the car, watch waves, toss cans out window...
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 15, 2002 at 23:17:03 (EST)

My two cents are: So I see Enron lives on in the bowels of some demented deluded left handed rag somewhere on the web.
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 15, 2002 at 22:55:42 (EST)

My two cents are: BUSH'S "CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY" SHAM Expose of Harken Energy Scam Shows Enron Blueprint No Wonder Dubya and "Kenny Boy" Were Pals! Will the Media Let Bush Get Away With This One Too? Lately, the Bush Administration, led by Karl Rove and Karen Hughes, has been talking big about "corporate responsibility" and protecting the little guy. The name "Enron" never gets mentioned, but it's painfully obvious that the Bushies are doing their utmost to shut down the huge Enron scandal by suddenly chastising "bad" corporate managers. Well guess what: It now turns out that one of the dirtiest dealers in the state of Texas has been none other than George W. Bush. As a private citizens, Bush and his corporate colleagues ran roughshod over the principles he now claims to champion, including sharing of accurate information with investors. The Nation's David Corn has reconstructed the story of Harken Energy, of which Bush was a director. Harken had rescued Bush's own belly-up oil company. But in June 1990, Bush, along with other Harken insiders, dumped his stock in the company and made a cool 800 grand plus -- just before the company fell apart. If the Bush-Harken saga were made into a movie, they'd have to call it: "Enron: The Prequel." Yet the media allow Bush and his spinners to go on and on about corporate responsibility without even mentioning his own freewheeling, free-dealing larcenous past. Who will have the guts to stand up to this hypocrisy
Hey stained dressers, what is is in this case?
- Friday, March 15, 2002 at 22:20:28 (EST)

My two cents are: O God. Snippy et al. are SO fucked.
common knowledge
- Friday, March 15, 2002 at 22:15:57 (EST)

My two cents are: Bush Flatly Refuses to Hand Over Energy Papers Wed Mar 13,10:40 PM ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A defiant President Bush flatly refused on Wednesday to divulge details of internal energy task force meetings to congressional investigators, calling the information privileged and the request a threat to executive authority. The General Accounting Office , the investigative arm of Congress, sued the administration in February for records of the task force's meetings. Democratic lawmakers allege Enron Corp. and other energy companies played a disproportionately large role in the task force's deliberations, whereas environmentalists were largely shut out. The task force, headed by Vice President Dick Cheney , produced a policy favoring more oil and gas grilling as well as a revival of nuclear power. Cheney's office has acknowledged that representatives of Enron, Bush's biggest financial backer in the 2000 campaign, were among industry experts the task force consulted. But Bush insisted that releasing the documents would damage the executive branch's ability to obtain candid outside advice, signaling he was ready for courtroom combat. "When the GAO demands documents from us, we're not going to give them to them," Bush told a White House news conference. "These were privileged conversations." "I have an obligation to make sure that the presidency remains robust and that the legislative branch doesn't end up running the executive branch," he added. Enron declared the largest bankruptcy in U.S. history in December, destroying thousands of jobs and billions of dollars in investor equity, and prompting 10 congressional committees, the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Justice Department to launch investigations. An internal inquiry ordered by Enron's board alleged senior managers used off-the-books partnerships to hide losses, fool investors and enrich themselves. During the 45-minute press conference, the president did not mention by name Enron or its long-time auditor, the accounting firm Andersen.
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 15, 2002 at 21:48:54 (EST)

My two cents are: (Washington, DC) Judicial Watch, the public interest law firm that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, said today that it will make Cheney Energy Task Force documents, thus far obtained under the Freedom of Information Act (?FOIA?), available for review by members of the press. The current collection of U.S. government documents constitutes a partial response to Judicial Watch?s April 2001 FOIA requests to U.S. government agencies that participated in the National Energy Policy Development Group (?NEPDG?), commonly referred to as the Cheney Energy Task Force. Documents from the Environmental Protection Agency (?EPA?), the Departments of Commerce, Energy, Treasury, and Interior, as well as the Office of Management and Budget (?OMB?) are available for inspection.
Judicial Watch <[email protected]>
Washington, DC - Friday, March 15, 2002 at 21:31:39 (EST)

My two cents are: Tipper's out to lunch. Dynasties work only if they are handed down from father to son, with the genetic link. The woman is only married to the ex-senator, for God's sake. It's like Bar running for president, and having to break out in the Bush family boils herself.
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- Friday, March 15, 2002 at 20:27:14 (EST)

My two cents are: He handed them over? So Cheney's become a goddamn socialist too?
Halibert Dugan
- Friday, March 15, 2002 at 20:24:58 (EST)

My two cents are: So how come after Cheney handed over the Energy Task Force documents the Dims are suddenly quiet? Much ado about nothing I suppose.
Glint
- Friday, March 15, 2002 at 17:42:32 (EST)

My two cents are: Yates gets life.
does this mean we can stop partying, crynic?
- Friday, March 15, 2002 at 17:27:08 (EST)

My two cents are: Great Googly Moogly!
St. Alphonzo
- Friday, March 15, 2002 at 15:47:06 (EST)

My two cents are: Maybe she can dig up Frank Zappas dead corpse and prop him before the senate for a good grilling just like old times. A dog doo snow cone stuck in each of his eyes would be a nice touch too.
Glint
- Friday, March 15, 2002 at 15:35:45 (EST)

My two cents are: Hillary's odds.
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 15, 2002 at 14:21:05 (EST)

My two cents are: WASHINGTON � Tipper Gore is weighing an overture from Democrats to run for her husband's old Senate seat from Tennessee, sources close to her said today. The sources, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said Democrats urged Mrs. Gore to run after Sen. Fred Thompson, R-Tenn., announced last Friday that he would not seek re-election. One of the sources said Mrs. Gore was committed to public service and believed she owed it to herself to give some thought to a run. // Maybe Janet Reno can be her campaign manager. BWAHAHA
now I've ehard everything. Are these liar socialsits for real! Whew!
- Friday, March 15, 2002 at 14:16:27 (EST)

My two cents are: Looks like Enron's been bumped below the fold since yesterday's release of the Clinton bribery report.
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 15, 2002 at 13:36:40 (EST)

My two cents are: Could be the spirit was more troubled living as a he than living as a she.
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 15, 2002 at 13:08:52 (EST)

My two cents are: Uh, no? My compassioned for the troubled spirit is like salve, all slick and shiney.
Glint
- Friday, March 15, 2002 at 12:53:25 (EST)

My two cents are: Are you saying that Glint's mind is like a blue dress bearing the hardened stain of his lust for sick children?
House of Meat
- Friday, March 15, 2002 at 12:44:36 (EST)

My two cents are: No sink can wash the stain of hermaphrodite lust from the blue dress of the A. robustine mind.
Oggie
- Friday, March 15, 2002 at 12:42:48 (EST)

My two cents are: Beware! Jordanians wash their feet in the sink, using soap with their socks on. If you see one coming out of the bathroom before you, don't stand too close to the sink, unless you're Bill Clinton of course.
Glint
- Friday, March 15, 2002 at 12:30:50 (EST)

My two cents are: I thought Jordan was a Palestinian state.
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 15, 2002 at 10:51:46 (EST)

My two cents are: State: Miss Cleo is from California, not Jamaica... Developing
From Cali. Figures.
- Friday, March 15, 2002 at 10:40:31 (EST)

My two cents are: When Senator Jeffords upset the balance of power, I hope he didn't realize that it would lead to the black-balling of Judge Pickering. I hope for his sould that he did not.
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 15, 2002 at 10:36:38 (EST)

My two cents are: Mr. St. Wolf: The fact that the US has always vetoed a resolution on a Palestinian state is to its shame. It is good that the US has changed its mind. You say the US has ALWAYS vetoed a resolution on a Palestinian state, why is this a good thing? What is wrong with a Palestinian state?
John M.
- Friday, March 15, 2002 at 10:22:17 (EST)

My two cents are: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/646550/posts
Better get over the the Freep PDQ, Glint. They're bashing your boy again.
- Friday, March 15, 2002 at 10:15:13 (EST)

My two cents are: Let the Dems have the promaries. Promaries are for chumps anyway.
Jean Luke
- Friday, March 15, 2002 at 10:02:45 (EST)

My two cents are: if the primaries in texas are any indication, its going to be a bad bad year in the elections for republicans. dems are outnumberimg the retchies by at least 2 to 1 in the promaries.
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 15, 2002 at 08:15:55 (EST)

My two cents are: Not only did she prey on Monica, but she also conned one chump into wearing a cigar suit about it.
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 15, 2002 at 02:15:56 (EST)

My two cents are: Linda Tripp was hired by Lucianne (sp?) Goldberg to find out as much as possible about the indiscretions of Bill Clinton. This entire plot was orchestrated by a group of Republicans who were initially on a fishing expedition. As we all know, Monica Lewinsky was the perfect source for Linda Tripp who preyed on and cleverly utilized Monica's immaturity and her need to boast about her affair. This is an old item but I just had to put my two cents in.
marcia lucas <[email protected]>
ringwood, nj usa - Friday, March 15, 2002 at 00:19:33 (EST)

My two cents are: The popular American theory that money talks, or at least it makes people talk, is in dire threat of being disproved in Afghanistan. The $25 million bounty Uncle Sam has offered for information leading to the capture of Osama Bin Laden hasn't worked, because, US officials are now saying, the Afghans can't comprehend just how large the sum is. The result: Uncle Sam is now "downsizing" the reward. The US will now offer to build a road, dig a well, or give away a flock of sheep to Afghan communities that rat on Bin Laden. The change in the "booty treatment" comes after American officials in the region found that poor Afghan peasants were clueless about Big Money. A general reportedly asked an Afghan what he could do with $25 million if he helped the United States find Osama Bin Laden. The local replied that the money might be enough to feed his nine children for a year. So the Bush administration has now considered a $5 million discretionary fund to pay for basic inducements such as cash, livestock or help drilling a well. The hope is that average Afghans, many of whom are poor and illiterate, can relate to owning a flock of sheep more than becoming a millionaire.
Maybe we'd have Bin Ladin's head if they'd simply offered a free peek under their mother's burka
- Thursday, March 14, 2002 at 23:12:43 (EST)

My two cents are: It's too bad they figured out that Arthur Andersen was responsible for the Enron deal, and the story is over. I was starting to get used to it, and now it's gone, just like that.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 14, 2002 at 23:09:30 (EST)

My two cents are: Saw a breaking news flash. Said Aurther Anderson was being charged criminally in a sort of unusual move in that it was the company rather than any individuals which have been charged. Coverup, destruction of documents. No mention of Bush at all.
Tom
- Thursday, March 14, 2002 at 23:08:32 (EST)

My two cents are: Bush has had a few businesses collapse under him, but they were just gifts from his dad's friends and none of them was Enron.
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- Thursday, March 14, 2002 at 23:06:17 (EST)

My two cents are: Bush responsible for Enron's collapse? Where did you come up with that link?
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 14, 2002 at 22:43:12 (EST)

My two cents are: So, looks like the legs are stomping up on Aurthur Anderson. What happened, I thought this was going to be Bush Jr.'s scandal? Didn't I read on this page that Enron's collapse was going to get pinned on Dubya? Guy must be made out of teflon or something.
Tom
- Thursday, March 14, 2002 at 22:40:46 (EST)

My two cents are: Pete quit the site before the Enron scandal broke. Has he been e-mailing people with opinions about what it will boil down to? The idea that it will all boil down to Andersen sounds like one of the pineapple's, if the truth be known, but he hasn't expressed it here. Are you sure you're not thinking of Glint? He followed that line for a while when it was the main troglodyte line. But it sounded too much like legs, so he dropped it.
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- Thursday, March 14, 2002 at 21:10:58 (EST)

My two cents are: True enough, 19:27:21, no doubt Bill Clinton has something to do with this mess.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 14, 2002 at 20:09:30 (EST)

My two cents are: God knows we can't allow Pete to be right about anything.
Now can we?
- Thursday, March 14, 2002 at 20:08:08 (EST)

My two cents are: ...or the bent puds....

- Thursday, March 14, 2002 at 19:27:21 (EST)

My two cents are: Uh, aren't you a little antsy? You WISH it all came down to Andersen, Jiminy. This Enron thing hasn't even BEGUN to "come down" yet. Hell, it took 5 years for "Whitewater" to evolve into blowjobs. Relax, pal. Grab a cup of coffee and settle in. Follow the pointing fingers and growing legs.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 14, 2002 at 18:55:55 (EST)

My two cents are: WASHINGTON �� A federal grand jury on Thursday indicted the Arthur Andersen accounting firm in the Enron Corp. scandal, the first criminal charges in the nation's biggest bankruptcy. The one-count indictment alleging obstruction of justice came after Andersen spurned a 9 a.m. Thursday deadline to plead guilty to charges stemming from its admitted destruction of Enron-related documents. Andersen said criminal proceedings were tantamount to a "death penalty" against the firm, and it accused the Justice Department of "a gross abuse of governmental power."
Didn't Pete say long ago that this will all come down to Andersen? Yup.
- Thursday, March 14, 2002 at 18:50:06 (EST)

My two cents are: If you haven't heard about the Laura-Hitlery friendship, that must mean you don't read Drudge and if you don't read Drudge, I must assume you are, in fact, a socialist, no offense intended. If you'd like more information on this developing story, check the Drudge Report archives. But, in a nutshell, Mrs. Bush positively gushed about Hitlery after some event they both attended a few weeks ago. Not only that, they even made a "date" to GO SHOPPING TOGETHER! Isn't that just SPECIAL! As for a Palestinian state, sure it's easy for the toadies to say this is no big deal but I recall how we savaged Hitlery when she expressed the same notion no more than two years ago. Our government has always vetoed UN resolutions that called for a Palestinian state, ALWAYS. Whether the president* was Carter, Reagan, Poppy Bush or Klintoon, THIS HAS ALWAYS BEEN THE CASE! Until yesterday, that is. Why the sudden change, eh? I'd say this has nothing to do with enlightment and EVERYTHING to do with our nation's recent tragedy. We blinked. It makes me puke!
Harlan St. Wolf
- Thursday, March 14, 2002 at 18:47:36 (EST)

My two cents are: I haven't heard anything about Laura and Hillary being buddy-buddy, Harlan. Bush is merely showing how the donkeys and elephants can get along when they try, so that daschle looks like an ass when he doesn't try to get along. And he isn't capitulating to terrorists. There is nothing wrong with a Palestinian state, as long as it goes with accordance with what the Isrealis want. (That is only because the Isrealis have the military capability of solving their problem in a non-peaceful manner, nothing to do with choosing sides for religious or ethnic reasons.)
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 14, 2002 at 14:54:51 (EST)

My two cents are: Monkey Moves Cursor by Thinking... DEVELOPING...
Pete in the news!
- Thursday, March 14, 2002 at 13:03:16 (EST)

My two cents are: I heard a new one: MANNIES, taking the place of NANNIES. Now Pink Panties can get out of the trailor-park, and earn a little money. Heh Heh, Oh well, what will they think up next. Perhaps, the President wants to live in a Space Station. But who would cook and do his laundry? CUKEYMAN??
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 14, 2002 at 13:02:10 (EST)

My two cents are: Heh heh.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 14, 2002 at 13:00:27 (EST)

My two cents are: Heh Heh, I am a lot older than 52, and to think I could have went to France and studied Art, or Cooking, maybe even Drama and Social Skills. But no, I would be branded a coward, so I had to prove I had GUTS!!!!
WILL-YUM
- Thursday, March 14, 2002 at 12:28:44 (EST)

My two cents are: Ann Coulter, now there's a whiner.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 14, 2002 at 12:13:14 (EST)

My two cents are: AN HONEST REPORTER ON BUSH Wed Mar 13, 9:01 PM ET By Ann Coulter On a week when Janet Reno (news - web sites) -- architect of Waco and the Elian Gonzalez raid -- complains about the war on terrorism on the grounds that she has "trouble with a war that generates so many concerns about individual liberties," it really doesn't matter what Frank Bruni writes about George Bush. At least the Bush administration is rousting foreign terrorists rather than harmless American citizens and a small Cuban boy. Still, at the risk of my job with Human Events and his with The New York Times -- I really love Frank Bruni's new book, "Ambling Into History: The Unlikely Odyssey of George W. Bush." Bruni is my friend, but I can prove it has absolutely nothing to do with that. We've got a file on Bruni at Human Events, cataloguing some of his world-class snippy comments about Bush for The New York Times. I've always explained these away with the excuse parents invariably use for their delinquent children: My kid is fine, but he's hanging out with a bad crowd. I don't know how Bruni got mixed up with a bunch like The New York Times, but there it is. Moreover, Bruni is snippy about everyone, including the press. These are some of the most satisfying sections of this book. He witheringly describes the insecurity driving the media's group-think reporting style: Reporters fixate on "tidy plot lines," as he calls them, and "when one emerges, few reporters want to find themselves on a different, lonelier page." Bruni does not address how the "plot line" on the leading Republican candidate is always, invariably, without exception, that he is a bozo. But he does observe that in the case of Bush, this judgment -- treated as "stark and irrefutable" by "some observers" (as Bruni terms bitter, angry leftists) -- was "willfully selective and oblivious to a contradictory body of facts." During one campaign speech, Bush was asked about the mapping of the human genome (news - web sites). Bruni writes: "I could see my colleagues widen their eyes and draw in their breath, steeling themselves for catastrophe, and I quickly shot a glance at my recorder to make sure it was working. This promised to be priceless. Would the genome be a vehicle to make sure the American dream was touching every willing heart?" And then Bush gave a fluid and serious response on a topic he had never before addressed publicly. It's hard to imagine any other reporter who would describe his own prejudices with such candor. According to Bruni, the press' querulous fixation on Bush's verbal gaffes was the result of reporters trying to "quell the boredom" of having to cover stump speeches. This was "undoubtedly one reason -- and not an especially noble one -- that we came to focus so much on his unintended and unfortunate torturings of the text." Inasmuch as the reporters covering Gore did not seem to be afflicted by the same phenomenon, another explanation for the obsession with Bush's mistakes could be the media's deep, burning hatred for Republicans. As Bruni also notes, Gore "tended to drone on and on, in singsong, narcotizing cadences best endured by the heavily caffeinated." Incongruously -- and reminding us of the degenerate crowd he hangs with -- Bruni adds, "Clinton nostalgia was inevitable: None of these guys filled a room the way he did." Why does the media keep saying this? We'll never hear the end of Bush saying "subliminable," but the press has collective amnesia on Clinton having nearly ended his political career with that gaseous windbag of a speech he gave at the 1988 Democratic National Convention. More tellingly: Can anyone remember a single meaningful phrase Clinton ever uttered? His most famous lines are laugh lines. Indeed, it was precisely because of the Clinton-induced nostalgia for former President Bush (news - web sites) that his son emerged as the early front-runner in the 2000 presidential election. One of Bruni's most affecting stories about Bush is how he became homesick on the campaign trail. "An unusual theme started coursing through his less scripted remarks," Bruni writes. "He talked about how much he missed his three cats, Ernie, India and Cowboy, and his dog, Spot." Bush, Bruni observes, "was homesick, so much so that he could not help but let it show." When Bruni later asked Bush if he had any tricks for making hotel rooms more comfortable, Bush revealed that he brought his own feather pillow with him when he traveled. That was cute enough, but a few days later, Bruni reports, Bush "asked us if we too traveled with our own pillows and expressed surprise that we didn't." The only travel aid Clinton seemed never to be without were stacks of Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass" for regular distribution to his girlfriends. Whatever Bruni's style and political predilections, he is an honest and perceptive reporter. That cannot help but produce a portrait of Bush as an affectionate, playful, completely genuine person -- in every way the molecular opposite of the flimflam artist previously occupying that office. The country can sleep well at night. We know Bush does.
Today's Funnies
- Thursday, March 14, 2002 at 12:09:36 (EST)

My two cents are: All her gadding about aside, how is Chelsea doing with her schoolwork?
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 14, 2002 at 12:03:03 (EST)

My two cents are: And as we learned on this site, doing something that is against policy is a high crime or misdemeanor.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 14, 2002 at 11:56:35 (EST)

My two cents are: This will-yum atavar is quite the guy, isn't he? And hilarious?
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 14, 2002 at 11:55:11 (EST)

My two cents are: Drudge has been putting the pork sword to Chelsea? She likes the hat?
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 14, 2002 at 11:46:14 (EST)

My two cents are: WELL PINK PANTIES, I enlisted, and no I was not a fighter pilot. REGULAR ARMY!!!! Not a 6 month wonder, or a 2 year draftee. And, I won't take crap off little sissies, that can't find their peter in the dark without MOMMA'S help!!!!
WILL-YUM
- Thursday, March 14, 2002 at 11:45:03 (EST)

My two cents are: Hmmmmmmm...It can't be because it's not true; that's never stopped Drudge before. Give me a little time, I'll get it.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 14, 2002 at 11:28:35 (EST)

My two cents are: There was a juicy item about Chelsea Clinton getting in trouble with Oxford officials because she's spending too much time away from campus (apparently against their policy) yesterday on one of the major Internet news sites. Normally, this would be something Drudge would jump on in a minute (linking to the article). However, he didn't. Anybody know why? (10 points)
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 14, 2002 at 11:22:29 (EST)

My two cents are: If they had kept the draft, as I prayed for at least 1000 times, your 52 year-old fat ass would be setting in a small fighter jet seat, dropping bombs on Afghan mountains right now. That is, unless your "allergies," or "neuroses," or "roids" got you a 4F, or let's say you were considered "too old" to be drafted. This would go a long way toward relieving the sorrow I feel about the whole situation.
WILL-YUM
- Thursday, March 14, 2002 at 11:10:24 (EST)

My two cents are: Hey, dingleberry-eating anonymous! Lots of those fly-boys develop a lot of war angst flying around in their airplanes! It's damn tough to take off from Guam, fly for six hours straight, drop bombs on villages, fly another six hours. For lunch there's maybe a baloney sandwich and some cold coffee, a banana or an apple. Couple of chocolate-chip cookies. The airplane can be cold, if the heater breaks. If only the Government had kept the draft, then your sorry ass would be sitting in that pilot's seat instead of running around with breast implants. You fill me with woe.
will-yum
- Thursday, March 14, 2002 at 10:35:19 (EST)

My two cents are: Great, the whining veteran was a fly-boy, a sky pilot. Sit in the airplane and push buttons. A really tough war. Hey, we are remiss in not having kissed this guy's ass enough for his great sacrifice. I think we should give him a Ford Escort, the hi-power model, and a case of Oly. Make him feel appreciated for his lonely patrols of the cold cruel sky. I hereby give him a virtual kiss on the ass.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 14, 2002 at 10:16:41 (EST)

My two cents are: WILL-YUM, don't be sad. I hate to see you sad.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 14, 2002 at 09:57:28 (EST)

My two cents are: Hey Anonomous, you are the worthless piece of shit!!! You set on your shit-smeared ass, eating your dingle-berries, and boogers, and griping about Veterans. I have wished a thousand times, that the Government kept the draft. But you are so smart, you would be in Washington, sucking Congressmen's dicks, wearing dress'es, and wanting breast implants. Sad isn't it when scum like you walk the face of the earth.
WILL-YUM
- Thursday, March 14, 2002 at 02:59:47 (EST)

My two cents are: Veteran I mentioned was a pilot during/after his service in the military. No tatoos or beer-belly.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 14, 2002 at 02:25:30 (EST)

My two cents are: Most of those war heroes are real assholes, guys who can't make it in capitalist society. About the only job they can hold down is bus driver or trailer-park manager if they were an officer. I say it's enough that we let them put on their old hats and uniforms and parade on Veterans' Day, not many people get a Day all to themselves. If they want anything more out of this society, let them work for it. Besides, it is impossible to tell the real war heroes from the guys who spent their war peeling spuds. I say fuck the shiftless bastards. No free lunch.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 14, 2002 at 01:06:57 (EST)

My two cents are: My only disappointment has been the bandy-legged little fella's refusal to use nukes. He acts like a Dumpo-Krap on the nuke-use issue. I attribute it to his need to keep the nigger Sec. of State fat and happy. Politics. It's unfortunate that a war leader has to deal with politics, but there it is. Also, I feel that Ashcroft has been unduly restricted, and kept from doing his job. He should be unleashed to put an end to treason in the Senate and wherever else it rears its disgusting head. Other than that, our bandy-legged little Leader is perfect.
Halibert Dugan
- Thursday, March 14, 2002 at 00:24:13 (EST)

My two cents are: What I mean to say is, the bandy-legged little squirt has really grown in office.
Halibert Dugan
- Thursday, March 14, 2002 at 00:07:01 (EST)

My two cents are: Harlan, apparently you don't understand Leadership. When Geo. Bush the younger stood up and said we were going to smoke the Evil Doers out of their holes I knew then and there I'd follow the bandy-legged little phrase-mangler anywhere. Name me another politician who would have stood up and said that Osama bin Laden was bad, right in front of everybody, and with Arab terror-blimps possibly still roaming the skies? Four more years, man. I worship the little fucker, boils and all.
Halibert Dugan
- Thursday, March 14, 2002 at 00:05:05 (EST)

My two cents are: Listen, chump, why don't you let the veterans speak for themselves, especially if what they have to say is whining that their ass isn't getting kissed as much as the dead stockbrokers' families. All you do is stick your big fat foot in your mouth, tangle up the very names of the damn wars. If some three-war dorkchop from the quartermaster's corps wants strokes because the army turned out better for him than the bug farm would have, let him talk it up himself. If he can do more than grunt and scratch his ancient tatooed beer-belly.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 14, 2002 at 00:01:17 (EST)

My two cents are: Well, I've about had it with this President*. It was bad enough when he became buddy-buddy with Teddy Kennedy, bad enough when his wife became shopping pals with Hitlery, bad enough when he dropped the vouchers plan, bad enough when he started promoting the Americorp. Now, the man is calling for a Palestinian state. Now he's capitulating to the terrorists. The terrorists have won.
Harlan St. Wolf
- Wednesday, March 13, 2002 at 23:53:14 (EST)

My two cents are: What difference whether it's WW#2, or WW 2, or WW II. All the same war. I'm not a veteran, only repeated what one said to me.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 13, 2002 at 23:46:24 (EST)

My two cents are: Gee, I never knew you vets called it WW#2. I guess most of you guys don't like to talk about it much, huh? Guess that's why they always called you the Quiet Generation, or the Modest Generation, or the Shy Generation.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 13, 2002 at 23:04:18 (EST)

My two cents are: That's the way we actual veterans spell it, WW#2. It's sort of like Chanel#5 or #16 Two Tacos, Beans and Rice. We say it "world war number two."
Vet of 3 Wars
- Wednesday, March 13, 2002 at 22:22:11 (EST)

My two cents are: Anyone got any good hermaphrodite experiences to relate?
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 13, 2002 at 22:19:08 (EST)

My two cents are: No, WW#2, Korea, Vietnam
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 13, 2002 at 22:11:08 (EST)

My two cents are: Let's see.... that would be the Kent State war, the Grenada War, and the Panama War?
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 13, 2002 at 22:07:05 (EST)

My two cents are: Those weren't Hallmark words, they were out of the mouth of a veteran of 3 wars.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 13, 2002 at 21:03:46 (EST)

My two cents are: Isn't Eleanor of Aquitaine satire?
stumped and proud of it
- Wednesday, March 13, 2002 at 20:08:20 (EST)

My two cents are: SARASOTA FL -- A businessman indicted for making pipes commonly used by marijuana smokers won an award from the National Republican Congressional Committee and was in the running Republican of the Year. Chris Hill, 30, of Sarasota, was named one of the 500 businessmen of 2001 last week, making him a candidate for the party's top honor. He was also an honorary member of the committee's business advisory council, which made him a candidate for the Businessman of the Year award. But Hill is facing up to 20 years in prison, charged by federal prosecutors in Iowa with distributing drug paraphernalia. Federal agents say they found his pipes when they raided three Iowa smoke shops. Republican spokesman Carl Forti said he was unaware of the charges against Hill until he was contacted by the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. "Excellent," Forti told the paper. "If that's the case, his invitation will be rescinded and his award will be revoked." Hill said the party had been courting him since Inc Magazine listed his as one of the 500 fastest-growing private companies in 1999. More than 5,000 stores nationwide sell pipes like the ones Hill made under the brand- name Chills. The pipes are illegal only if the vendors know customers will use them for drugs. "It's a complete misunderstanding," Hill said. "I'm not going to make pipes again. I'm embarrassed that my government has put me in this position: They've lumped me in with some liberal longhaired dopers. That's not the kind of crowd I run with."
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 13, 2002 at 19:20:22 (EST)

My two cents are: What gets me is these rightwing nut cases sit around at the keyboard, trying to think of something worthwhile to post. Then they either come up with some lame thing about the plight of the soldiers' families, or they read it on some dumbass rightwing page. They think it makes some somber point and they hit the Send button. Talk about stupid, gullible people. Talk about no critical thinking. That's why I love this page! Geesh! Keep 'em coming, loonballs.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 13, 2002 at 18:56:36 (EST)

My two cents are: The soldiers and their families don't need you Hallmark Card platitudes, shit head. What kind of a wimp are you. Drooling, moist-eyed talk like that let's the terrorists win.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 13, 2002 at 18:47:28 (EST)

My two cents are: These maudlin, hand-wringing retchies are a real trip. "manipulative tool,taking advantage of the gullible and people who lack critical thinking skills"--The Republican Party.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 13, 2002 at 18:45:44 (EST)

My two cents are: Those soldiers volunteered to die, if needed, Sparky. They get less because that's what they signed up for. The victims of terrorism carry the big stick. They can sue the airlines for negligence and win. Big time. Don't you forget, sob sister. Let's roll. Geesh.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 13, 2002 at 18:43:16 (EST)

My two cents are: The US has been secretly sending prisoners suspected of al-Qaida connections to countries where torture during interrogation is legal, according to US diplomatic and intelligence sources.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 13, 2002 at 18:34:06 (EST)

My two cents are: Survivors of soldiers who die fighting terror do not deserve less than the victims of terror ...but they get less, much less.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 13, 2002 at 18:28:01 (EST)

My two cents are: Why, yes. We're all embarrassed by the pineapple's posts.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 13, 2002 at 18:23:35 (EST)

My two cents are: ACTS 2:42-47 "They devoted themselves to the apostles teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. Everyone was filled with awe, and many wonders and miraculous signs were done by the apostles. All the believers were together and had everything in common. Selling their possessions and goods, they gave to anyone as he had need. Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts., praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved."
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 13, 2002 at 18:23:05 (EST)

My two cents are: Who's up for some satire?
E�
- Wednesday, March 13, 2002 at 18:19:12 (EST)

My two cents are: Sounds more like the Bush administration*. "manipulative tool,taking advantage of the gullible and people who lack critical thinking skills"--trickle down works. "appeals to the emotional elements of thought" -- we're gonna smoke him out.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 13, 2002 at 18:16:47 (EST)

My two cents are: Sounds like the pineapple is embarrassed by his posts. As are we all. Anonymous. - Wednesday, March 13, 2002 at 17:51:35 (EST) - - As are we all?
that is one embarrassing post. you are right to be embarrassed
- Wednesday, March 13, 2002 at 18:14:49 (EST)

My two cents are: Just read it yourself. "manipulative tool,taking advantage of the gullible and people who lack critical thinking skills" -- black voters. "appeals to the emotional elements of thought" - something for nothing, take from the rich and give to the poor. Socialism through and through. No statistics need apply.
Carl Marks
- Wednesday, March 13, 2002 at 18:10:03 (EST)

My two cents are: Sounds like the pineapple is embarrassed by his posts. As are we all.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 13, 2002 at 17:51:35 (EST)

My two cents are: Sounds like Mary has confused religion and socialism again.
Carl
- Wednesday, March 13, 2002 at 17:14:55 (EST)

My two cents are: Gotta agree with that. If the terrorists had been saved then the lives of thousands would have been saved. I say we convert them all to Christianity and save millions!
just as i am
- Wednesday, March 13, 2002 at 17:13:09 (EST)

My two cents are: Glint, you're kidding about asking for statistics supporting religion exacerbating common sense? Read the story of Yates actions in the name of religion. That is all the statistic you need in this particular case. Unfortunately, he is not alone. Listen to the statements made in the name of religion. Show me the evidence that relgion isn't a manipulative tool,taking advantage of the gullible and people who lack critical thinking skills. Actually, religion condemns critical thinking. It is a powerful brainwashing tool, and it appeals to the emotional elements of thought. Want some statistics? How about Jonestown and the koolaid? What about the Branch Davidians? How many other cults are out there that haven't even reached the public's eye? Look at the moonies. I rest my case.
Mary
- Wednesday, March 13, 2002 at 17:10:39 (EST)

My two cents are: At least Billy Graham had access to the president. Springer doesn't. If the 911 ragamuffins had been watching Graham and had walked forward, then none of what happened would have happened.
Pvt. Collection
- Wednesday, March 13, 2002 at 17:09:33 (EST)

My two cents are: Billy Graham notwithstanding, Beelzebub resides in the Springer tapes. It isn't the Exorcist at all.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 13, 2002 at 16:52:21 (EST)

My two cents are: Think what would have happened if they had been watching "The Very Hungry caterpillar."
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 13, 2002 at 16:50:41 (EST)

My two cents are: Good to see Bush watches Jerry Springer. You look for that in a president*.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 13, 2002 at 16:48:29 (EST)

My two cents are: Attackers must have watched Springer, says Bush Tue Mar 12, 9:24 PM ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush told college sports champions Tuesday that the Sept. 11 attackers must have gotten an idea of the United States as a weak nation from watching "The Jerry Springer Show." "They didn't think we were a nation that could conceivably sacrifice for something greater than our self, that we were soft, that we were so self-absorbed and so materialistic that we wouldn't defend anything we believed in. My, were they wrong. They just were reading the wrong magazine, or watching the wrong Springer show," said Bush. Bush was speaking at a White House East Room event celebrating national championships won by seven National Collegiate Athletic Association teams.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 13, 2002 at 16:47:15 (EST)

My two cents are: Whatchya parking meters.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 13, 2002 at 16:44:58 (EST)

My two cents are: Jesus not only would approve of Texas death sentences, he would endorse public celebrations as well. He, himself, was sentenced to death and the Romans threw a party. He understands.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 13, 2002 at 16:44:00 (EST)

My two cents are: I always thought he was saying "watch, uh, parking meters."
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 13, 2002 at 16:42:01 (EST)

My two cents are: Hey, it's not just that she's going to fry. That's not enough. If we can't jump up and down and slap five BECAUSE she's going to fry, what kind of people are we? If you don't get a surge of positive adrenaline at the sentence, the terrorists have already won.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 13, 2002 at 16:41:59 (EST)

My two cents are: Did I miss the celebration? The one for the lady who drowned her kids getting convicted? It's over? Now it's just fun and games?
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 13, 2002 at 16:36:34 (EST)

My two cents are: "Don't follow leaders. Watch your parking meters."
Bob
- Wednesday, March 13, 2002 at 16:20:01 (EST)

My two cents are: Graham was referring to the Devil. Satan. Beelzebub. Nick. Scratch. Lucifer. He believed SAY-TAN lived in the reels. Is this guy weird or what?
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 13, 2002 at 16:19:24 (EST)

My two cents are: Actually, I think Billy Graham might have been referring to the Catholic church. It was definitely represented in that movie.
Glint
- Wednesday, March 13, 2002 at 15:51:05 (EST)

My two cents are: I'm thinking that Bob was being a bit facetious with that remark.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 13, 2002 at 15:39:07 (EST)

My two cents are: Maybe there's an alternative to serving fairy tale creations, Bob.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 13, 2002 at 15:21:35 (EST)

My two cents are: Bob Dylan: "Well, it may be the Devil or it may be the Lord, but you�re gonna have to serve somebody."
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 13, 2002 at 15:17:42 (EST)

My two cents are: Some of us have pretty much ignored the ravings of Reverend Graham, christer.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 13, 2002 at 15:17:17 (EST)

My two cents are: You call that a hard one? What sort of wizzle squirt game is this anyway?
Glint
- Wednesday, March 13, 2002 at 15:15:24 (EST)

My two cents are: Correctomundo, Jism-Boy! So you agree with Reverend Graham?
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 13, 2002 at 15:09:32 (EST)

My two cents are: The Exorcist
now give us a hard one *cough!* <[email protected]>
- Wednesday, March 13, 2002 at 15:04:30 (EST)

My two cents are: This was a man who was loved by presidents and who hated the yids.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 13, 2002 at 15:02:52 (EST)

My two cents are: Several choices. Rosemary's Baby. Exorcist. Night of the Living Dead. The Devil in Miss Jones.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 13, 2002 at 15:02:12 (EST)

My two cents are: Movie trivia, great!
borg 16 of 22
- Wednesday, March 13, 2002 at 14:50:28 (EST)

My two cents are: Evangelist Billy Graham claimed an actual demon was living in the celluloid reels of what movie?
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 13, 2002 at 14:44:35 (EST)

My two cents are: Oh, yeah, Glint, and I know Pete wasn't Teresa either. I saw the body. (What a body that was too!!) [ahem - and excuse me]
P*
- Wednesday, March 13, 2002 at 14:35:37 (EST)

My two cents are: Missah Slick Willie be ma daddy. He cummed inta da hood an ma mammy spred em wide fo da prez. He dun popped hiz seed inda pussed over twat dat ho was danglin an I be wantin sum compensaaaashun.
Poop pooP daDDY
- Wednesday, March 13, 2002 at 14:30:38 (EST)

My two cents are: You know, fellow fornigators, i must confess, I have fallen again. Nice to be back here, but I am in la la land with the most gorgeous drop dead weed whacker ever built. The only downside is she has graced the pages of magazines a decade ago, but I'm not holding that against her since she's making buko bucks in the model profession full time, just well, oh well.... just thought I'd let you guys all know why I have been so sparse. Long gone in la la land... what dreams may come.... help .....
(the real him)*
- Wednesday, March 13, 2002 at 14:30:20 (EST)

My two cents are: FEmale insanity is an oxymoron. they're all killers. death to them.
infidels!
- Wednesday, March 13, 2002 at 14:26:44 (EST)

My two cents are: Shut up, Twat-Boy.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 13, 2002 at 14:25:09 (EST)

My two cents are: GOP donors' reward -- a war briefing By Gwyneth K. Shaw | Sentinel Staff Writer Posted March 13, 2002 WASHINGTON -- If you're ready to give $250 to the Republican Party, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee is ready to offer you an up-close and personal briefing on America's war on terrorism. U.S. Rep. Porter Goss, R-Sanibel, will give the hourlong "national defense briefing" to an assembly of GOP donors Thursday -- an event, critics complain, akin to selling information about the Sept. 11 attacks and subsequent events to the highest bidder. As the House intelligence chief, the congressman from southwest Florida has achieved a new level of cachet. That makes him an ideal candidate to attract donors for the event, which will raise money for GOP congressional candidates across the country. Also on the bill are House Majority Whip Tom DeLay, who will give a speech to donors, and House Ways and Means Chairman Bill Thomas, who will offer tips to small-business owners. Tickets for the workshop alone are $250, Republican Party officials said. However, the pitch for the event was targeted at bigger donors -- those who would be willing to pay $1,000 to join the "exclusive" Speaker's Circle. Although it's common for the Democratic and Republican parties to lure donors by promising access to prominent lawmakers, Goss' speech is drawing criticism from Democrats and advocacy groups who accuse the GOP of cashing in on the war on terrorism. A spokeswoman for Goss referred all inquiries to the National Republican Congressional Committee, which is sponsoring the event. Thursday's speech will be open to the press. Steve Weiss of the Center for Responsive Politics, a nonpartisan group that tracks campaign contributions, said the whole point of these kinds of fund-raisers is to make donors feel special by giving them more information than they could get from the press or other source. But it's unusual to see those methods used when the topic is terrorism, he said. The bottom line, Weiss said, is that events such as the one Thursday imply that money buys access. But Steve Schmidt, a spokesman for the NRCC, said Goss would not be revealing anything he hasn't already said to media or constituents. The kind of information that's traded when the intelligence panel meets behind closed doors, Schmidt said, will not be divulged. "His speech will not be fundamentally different to anything he would say to a Rotary Club back home," Schmidt said. "There certainly will be no classified or sensitive information discussed." Schmidt said Goss was invited to speak because of his expertise in an area that has become important and fascinating to nearly everyone over the past six months. He called the idea that political appointees and politicians would not be talking to party supporters in an election year "just silly." "It's just a political cheap shot to suggest there's anything wrong with this," Schmidt said. "In the grand scheme of things, this is a relatively small fund-raising event. . . . This is an important opportunity to build the grass roots of the party." Some Republicans have accused one of Goss' colleagues on the intelligence committee, California Democratic Rep. Jane Harman, of trading on her position last fall. Harman held a conference call for members of the New Democrat Network, a dues-supported political-action group, to discuss "challenges facing U.S. intelligence." Philippe Reines, a spokesman for Harman, said Tuesday that the call was an outreach effort Harman made to her constituents in the aftermath of Sept. 11, and that fund-raising was neither the purpose of the call nor a result. A spokeswoman for U.S. Sen. Bob Graham, D-Florida, who chairs the Senate Intelligence Committee, said there are no plans for him to follow Goss' lead. The longtime friends are preparing to merge their committees for hearings this spring on how the nation's intelligence agencies failed to foresee the Sept. 11 attacks. Jennifer Palmieri, a spokeswoman for the Democratic National Committee, said there is a clear distinction between having elected officials discuss matters such as energy policy and what Goss will be talking about. "It is standard procedure to have elected officials come in and brief on their area of expertise. But it's absolutely not standard procedure to include national security policy in that," she said. "They should not be charging money for a domestic-security briefing, period." Bill Allison of the nonpartisan ethical watchdog group the Center for Public Integrity called the Goss briefing "really terrible." But he noted that when parties cater to donors, they tend to pick the hottest topic. In fact, there are several Bush administration appointees either speaking or leading "economic recovery workshops" Thursday -- although a recent disclaimer on an NRCC news release pointed out that they are attending in their personal capacity and not as government representatives. Schmidt said they were invited to discuss general issues, not government policy. But Allison chuckled at that assertion. "I don't think they're going to be talking about the upcoming baseball season," he said.
From the War-Is-Swell File
- Wednesday, March 13, 2002 at 14:24:30 (EST)

My two cents are: Yup, his rubber baby buggy bumper's black.
socialism is a sickness in the head
- Wednesday, March 13, 2002 at 14:24:20 (EST)

My two cents are: Anything about to break on Clinton's black bastard son?
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 13, 2002 at 14:15:01 (EST)

My two cents are: L.G. sure has the back channal connections. She even knew about Hillary's secret lesbian love slave before the Globe.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 13, 2002 at 14:14:23 (EST)

My two cents are: Sounds bigger than Travelgate. Maybe even bigger than Whitewater, itself!
Developing...
- Wednesday, March 13, 2002 at 14:11:56 (EST)

My two cents are: This one ought to be bigger than Filegate and Chinagate combined!
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 13, 2002 at 14:10:48 (EST)

My two cents are: The whole pardons-for-pay story is about to go "boom." Seems Roger "Flaming Pants" Clinton put down his coke straw long enough to pull in far more than was thought and everyone involved has their knickers ablaze with lies. The big committee report is due Thursday.
L.G.
- Wednesday, March 13, 2002 at 14:08:54 (EST)

My two cents are: What? No award for the wife? Without her, the crynic is nothing.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 13, 2002 at 14:07:19 (EST)

My two cents are: Sounds like the coals aren't hot enough to sear the meat..
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 13, 2002 at 14:06:36 (EST)

My two cents are: When a guy goes through the trouble of creating a character AND a dead wife, I say he deserves our respect. And an Oscar.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 13, 2002 at 14:03:39 (EST)

My two cents are: I'd say the crynic was one tough hombre if he hadn't told us it was all an act.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 13, 2002 at 14:01:24 (EST)

My two cents are: Seems ole Andrea picked the wrong county to get tried for MURDERING HER KIDS. According to Texas DOC, Harris County loves to dole out the bromide and potassium chloride cocktails that are so popular with death row inmates. Harris Co. hands out more death sentences by a 3-1 margin over its nearest county competitor. Just tell me where to send the 86 bucks.
the crynic
- Wednesday, March 13, 2002 at 13:51:02 (EST)

My two cents are: The committee also determined that President Clinton granted a pardon to fugitive financier Marc Rich only after his sponsor, former White House Counsel Jack Quinn, went around the Justice Department. Quinn apparently did so on the advice of then-Deputy Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr., who was hoping to be elevated to attorney general if Al Gore was elected president, the report found. For instance, the committee said it found one e-mail from Holder to Quinn, written during the 2000 presidential recount, telling him to "go straight to wh [White House]" and that the "time is good" for a Rich pardon. Holder has said that he learned of the Rich pardon just as Clinton was about to leave office and had hoped that prosecutors in New York, where Rich was convicted, were being allowed to give their recommendation against the pardon.
holder's not worthy to lick john ashcroft's boots
- Wednesday, March 13, 2002 at 13:46:04 (EST)

My two cents are: Have to have a brain before one can have brain surgery.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 13, 2002 at 13:44:13 (EST)

My two cents are: ...In addition, investigators have concluded that [Huge] Rodham, despite his public statements to the contrary, has returned less than one-fourth of the $204,000 fee that he said he had given back to the Vignali family....In the Vignali case, the committee found that Hugh Rodham repeatedly "provided false and misleading information" to the White House about the Los Angeles man's criminal history and advised the administration that the commutation for Vignali was "very important" to his sister, then-First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton. Now-Sen. Clinton (D-N.Y.) has denied any knowledge of her brother's work on behalf of Vignali...
Rodhams deserve a Texas style bath
- Wednesday, March 13, 2002 at 13:43:39 (EST)

My two cents are: Ah, Rita LaVelle! Finally, a real criminal! I forgot all about her. Just one of the sea of criminal faces from the Bonzo days.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 13, 2002 at 13:43:00 (EST)

My two cents are: Are rightwingers born with simplistic minds or did they have to unergo brain surgery?
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 13, 2002 at 13:39:38 (EST)

My two cents are: The committee describes Roger Clinton as so eager to make money from pardons that he even approached Rita Lavelle, a former Reagan administration Environmental Protection Agency official. Lavelle had been convicted of perjury in the 1980s, and she told the committee that she was approached by a Roger Clinton intermediary who asked for $30,000 for Roger to hand-carry her pardon petition to the president. She said she could not afford to pay that, but that Roger "agreed to deliver the petition anyway." Then, on the last night of the Clinton presidency, Roger asked her, "Do you have $100,000 to get this through?" Being bankrupt, she laughed and said no. Her pardon request was not granted.
what, a crooked clinton? you've got to be kidding!
- Wednesday, March 13, 2002 at 13:38:23 (EST)

My two cents are: Before 9-1-1, I would have had a lot more empathy for the crynic whose invented wife got murdered. But now everybody's been shot.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 13, 2002 at 13:37:18 (EST)

My two cents are: Show a little sensitivity, okay? The crynic has invented a wife who got murdered. Now maybe you can understand his passion and gruffness.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 13, 2002 at 13:35:58 (EST)

My two cents are: Lock everybody up. The kid that painted the Star of David was acting out of the same rage as the guy who painted the swaztika. All crime is hate crime. 'Nuff said.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 13, 2002 at 13:27:48 (EST)

My two cents are: And I agree that punishment should be left up to those closest to the victims. Of course, that would mean this Yates bitch goes to the nuthouse instead of the chair, but it's hubby's call.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 13, 2002 at 13:23:54 (EST)

My two cents are: Makes one wonder if they should retry O.J. on the criminal charges down Texas way so that he could get a fair trial. At least the Yates jury wasn't polluted with aborters, statistics notwithstanding, who put more value on criminal lives than innocent lives.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 13, 2002 at 13:23:02 (EST)

My two cents are: Russell Yates encounters scorn, sympathy over wife's illness He was 'in huge denial' Mike Snyder The Houston Chronicle HOUSTON - In a sense, Russell Yates's trial began long before his wife's. The husband, a 37-year-old NASA computer engineer, has been the focus of intense sympathy and condemnation since stepping on to his front lawn on June 21 to speak about the drownings of his five children the day before. He should never have left the children alone with a mother suffering from such a serious mental illness, some said. He should not have continued having children, given his wife's history of severe postpartum depression. He should have helped more with the children. He was too controlling. Andrea Yates's best friend, Debbie Holmes, testified Mr. Yates had ignored her pleas to take his wife to see a doctor in the weeks preceding her first hospitalization last year. "Rusty only cares about Rusty," Ms. Holmes told Time magazine.
Rusty -- pay a visit to www.yateskids.org
- Wednesday, March 13, 2002 at 13:16:13 (EST)

My two cents are: I agree that's not fair. You should both be locked up.
Glint
- Wednesday, March 13, 2002 at 13:13:57 (EST)

My two cents are: I also agree with the crynic's assessment of "hate" crime legislation. What a load of shit. All crime is hate crime. I know from personal experience. Right now, I await trial for the "hate" crime of spray painting a swaztika of a local synagogue, along with the words "Kill the Kykes." This is supposedly a "hate" crime, rather than simple vandalism. A week after I got arrested, they caught some jew kike bastard spray painting a Star of David on the same synagogue and everybody acts like it's no big deal. Hey, vandalism is vandalism. All I ask for is the same break the sheeny hebe kike got.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 13, 2002 at 13:12:16 (EST)

My two cents are: How come social services didn't pull those kids from the Yates family long ago? Or are social services too nannystate for Texans? Sorry, kiddies! Fend for yourselves!
American Way
- Wednesday, March 13, 2002 at 13:10:13 (EST)

My two cents are: Legal insanity means not knowing between right and wrong, criminal insanity is different, dummy. The point was that those who are mentally ill and commit crimes due to that illness need to be tried, sentenced, and punished accordingly. Not merely "guilty but insane" but "guilty and insane." Which fits Mother Yates. Now, why did hubby Yates look so unsurprised when he found out that all of his kids were killed by Mummy?
Mark, Fore & Strike
- Wednesday, March 13, 2002 at 13:06:35 (EST)

My two cents are: I especially like it when the crynic pulls out the What-If-It-Was-Your-Kids card. Let's see, what if my wife killed our kids? I'd probably want the bitch to get some help and I'd probably divorce her. What pulls the crynic's nose into this? Now, if someone ELSE killed my kids, I'd be inclined to skin the killer alive and pour salt all over him, maybe stick hot metal skewers into his eyes and cut off his dick with a nail file. If, on the other hand, some asshole parks his car in my driveway, I'd be more inclined to simply club the back of his head with a 2x4. A sense of perspective is needed in these things and who better to have the proper perspective than the agrieved party. I say, keep emotional assholes like the crynic out of this and let the clear-headed members of the victim's family decide.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 13, 2002 at 13:06:32 (EST)

My two cents are: Appears there are those who think they have the corner on sanity not realizing that we're all a bit insane, some more than others.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 13, 2002 at 13:02:01 (EST)

My two cents are: The defense didn't prove insanity. Tough luck. Drown the bitch.
the crynic
- Wednesday, March 13, 2002 at 12:58:58 (EST)

My two cents are: Andrea's hubby wouldn't let her have contraception, much less an abortion. Plus, her local pastor forbids the use of anesthetics during childbirth. That's kind of fun. Nevertheless, the US has a long record of imprisoning those who have command hallucinations and act accordingly--Son of Sam, for instance. US needs to do better re legal sentencing for the criminally insane. But the US doesn't do well by the sane, so, hey, what's the diff. How complicit IS hubby, however? Did he and pastor try to take her off her meds? How can you live with a suicidal wifie and not notice?
food 4 thought
- Wednesday, March 13, 2002 at 12:54:00 (EST)

My two cents are: I've already said the husband is an idiot. Oh, and I'm sure his wife browbeat him to move her and all those kids into an old bus. And I'm almost certain she agreed when he said that if the woman down the street could cope with 9 kids she should be able to do the same with just 4 (even if she was suffering from mental illness). Too bad men can't experience post-partum just once in their lifetime.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 13, 2002 at 12:48:16 (EST)

My two cents are: Ann Coulter's dying? Geesh! What a bitch!
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 13, 2002 at 12:47:54 (EST)

My two cents are: Not that many facts to marshal. She killed her kids and was convicted. In Texas, capital murder is punishable by death. Maybe she could be drowned in a bathtub live on cable. Imagine the ratings. Geraldo doing the play by play. Better yet, let O'Reilly emcee the show with special guest star OJ. Sponsored by Abbott Labs or Roche. Post drowning commentary sponsored by Soft Scrub and featuring the stupid husband cleaning up the tub. Schedule it during sweeps week. Capitalists' dream.
the crynic
- Wednesday, March 13, 2002 at 12:46:49 (EST)

My two cents are: He has marshaled all the facts the prove the woman deserves to die. He has done his research. As he notes, the bitch needs to die. And I endorse his statement that you people sicken me. Gruff, yet true.
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- Wednesday, March 13, 2002 at 12:27:12 (EST)

My two cents are: The crynic's argument is more than a mere broadside against baby-drowning-- it is much more subtle. For instance, he is also thoughtfully analyzing the seemingly neverending trail of appeals that retards our ability to punish the child-drowner. Every one of those appeals ups the probability that his own children will be drowned. He doubts that anyone would be happy to have his own children drowned, and wants to put the brakes on the fad.
.
- Wednesday, March 13, 2002 at 12:23:59 (EST)

My two cents are: I think the crynic is just exasperated with this recent spate of liberal baby drowning, and is just trying to do his duty as a citizen in speaking out against it. If good men like the crynic don't speak out against baby-drowning, express their disapproval, then it might get out of control.
House of Meat
- Wednesday, March 13, 2002 at 12:19:39 (EST)

My two cents are: The crynic's gruffness is just a persona. Something he adopted when he felt the need to defend Pete. Inside, he's just a big ol' softie.
.
- Wednesday, March 13, 2002 at 12:14:35 (EST)

My two cents are: Thanks gentlemen. Grrrrrrruff! Any chance for bonus points?
the crynic
- Wednesday, March 13, 2002 at 12:14:05 (EST)

My two cents are: I wonder if Pete has been scoping in on the astronomical delights I've been pointing out. I miss the big lug. I miss his long, plump, fleshy-hipped dickless body. I fantasize about it, stretched out on the rubber sheets.
Glimpse
- Wednesday, March 13, 2002 at 12:12:58 (EST)

My two cents are: I noticed that myself. They don't make them any gruffer than the crynic.
Oggie
- Wednesday, March 13, 2002 at 12:07:15 (EST)

My two cents are: Very good on the gruffness today, the crynic. Ten points for you!
House of Meat
- Wednesday, March 13, 2002 at 12:06:17 (EST)

My two cents are: Columnist criticized for attack on Mineta By Lisa Friedman WASHINGTON BUREAU WASHINGTON -- Members of the California congressional delegation raised their eyebrows as high as Ann Coulter's miniskirts recently when the conservative columnist wrote an attack piece about Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta. Saying the former San Jose mayor and congressman is "burning for hatred with America," Coulter criticized him for refusing to let airport security officials target Arabs and Muslims for inspection. The son of Japanese Americans held in camps during World War II, Mineta has taken a hard stand against ethnic profiling. That apparently didn't please Coulter, who has opined in favor of added scrutiny of Arabs. In her column, Coulter wrote that she is sick of hearing Mineta recount the day he and his family boarded the train in San Jose for an internment camp and a military guard confiscated his baseball bat. "Good God!" Coulter wrote, "A guard took Mineta's baseball bat as a child, and as a result he's subjecting all of America to the Bataan Death March! Someone please give him a baseball bat." Rep. Mike Honda, D-San Jose, who also was held in an internment camp with his parents during World War II, called Coulter's column a "shallow, inaccurate, racially motivated attack." Honda also criticized Coulter for writing that Mineta holds "plum government jobs solely and exclusively because he is a minority." As for Mineta's refusal to allow airport security officials to scrutinize Arabs and Muslims based on race alone, Honda said he supports the decision. "Every era has its voices of divisiveness and hate," Honda said of Coulter.
Coulter accusing Bush of hiring based on race???????
- Wednesday, March 13, 2002 at 11:46:04 (EST)

My two cents are: And while I'm at it, the "hate crime" legislation is bullshit. What makes one victim more important than another. A murder victim is a murder victim. Whether the victim is killed by a racist, zealot, or a bank robber; the victim is still dead. Motivation by the perp is unimportant and should have no bearing on the penalty for the deed. End of story.
the crynic
- Wednesday, March 13, 2002 at 11:15:12 (EST)

My two cents are: Andrea Yates is guilty and deserves to die. Unfortunately, the taxpayers will have to house her until she exhausts the seemingly neverending trail of appeals. That is assuming she'll get the appropriate penalty of death for her horrendous crimes against her own innocent children. True, she suffers from a severe mental disorder. But she was diagnosed, treated, and medicated. SHE made the decision to have another child (the 5th against her doctor's recommendations, SHE chose to stop the medication, SHE waited until her husband left for work before brutally murdering her five young children. Oh she knows right from wrong. The bitch needs to fry. And that moron of a husband is a traitor to his children and a complete pussywhipped idiot. You bleeding hearts who have sympathy for this pathetic disgrace of humanity sicken me. Would you feel the same way if they were YOUR children? I doubt it.
the crynic
- Wednesday, March 13, 2002 at 11:08:52 (EST)

My two cents are: You have statistics on this of course? Anonymous. - Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 21:42:09 "According to a recent article by Elizabeth Fernandez in the San Francisco Chronicle, studies further reveal that fathers are far more likely to commit suicide after killing their children. Mothers attempt post-filicide suicide but rarely succeed. Some scholars suggest this is because mothers tend to view their children as mere extensions of themselves and that these homicides are in fact suicidal." http://slate.msn.com/?id=2063086
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 13, 2002 at 10:45:23 (EST)

My two cents are: If I ever join a religion, I think I'll choose the Mormons. You can't go wrong with writings found on gold plates. Also, I don't like snakes.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 13, 2002 at 10:43:49 (EST)

My two cents are: At least the Catholic priesthood isn't into hermaphrodites. Nice clean uncut boys. No freaks. Common sense.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 13, 2002 at 10:42:13 (EST)

My two cents are: Religion is by definition the lack of common sense. Is that a good enough statistic?
Leftie Cluck
- Wednesday, March 13, 2002 at 10:39:31 (EST)

My two cents are: Who's Yates? What is this discussion about?
Leftie Cluck
- Wednesday, March 13, 2002 at 10:38:28 (EST)

My two cents are: "The man is cleary does not have sound judgement, and religion exacerbated this lack of common sense." Mary
You have statistics on this of course?
- Wednesday, March 13, 2002 at 10:19:28 (EST)

My two cents are: Guess the Yates case proves Texas' hate laws work just fine. Cluck cluck lefties.
Glint
- Wednesday, March 13, 2002 at 10:05:34 (EST)

My two cents are: One thing's for sure. Pete wasn't John. I saw the body.
Glint
- Wednesday, March 13, 2002 at 10:02:04 (EST)

My two cents are: HOMO'S Don't have kids, it is the Strai8 people who go around killing their own kids. We don't even want your husbands either. Abomnation??? You Strai8 people are disgusting!!!!!
CLIFFORD
- Wednesday, March 13, 2002 at 09:58:13 (EST)

My two cents are: I thought I could stop the tears anon, but they broke through the dam.... cry me a river. OK.
Mary
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 23:25:30 (EST)

My two cents are: goodnite
Mary
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 23:14:48 (EST)

My two cents are: Watch this.
E�
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 22:56:56 (EST)

My two cents are: Sounds like the coals aren't hot enough to sear the meat..
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 22:53:29 (EST)

My two cents are: At least this Yates woman never had an abortion. She bore five children. At least they got to live outside the womb. Praise be to Jesus!
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 22:49:42 (EST)

My two cents are: George W. Bush. He's a whore. Ask Kenny-Boy.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 22:46:59 (EST)

My two cents are: The public can only be satisfied if she is given her just due, namely execution by drowning. Don't forget to televise the last bubble.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 22:44:48 (EST)

My two cents are: what's a whore?
Mary
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 22:42:52 (EST)

My two cents are: Sounds like the coals aren't hot enough to sear the meat..
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 22:41:56 (EST)

My two cents are: Mary was always daddy's lil whore. Of cCourse you all knew that.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 22:40:34 (EST)

My two cents are: i hear you, borg.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 22:33:47 (EST)

My two cents are: Way to go Mary, we seem to really be connecting here, would you like a BIG ONE CUMMING!!!!!!!! WANT TO PLAY PETE"S GAME!!!!!!!!!!
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 22:32:59 (EST)

My two cents are: I find it immanentley distatesful that there could actually be public discussion of an event borne of such mental anguish and more distressingly, that the possibility of more than what has already transpired 9drowning 5 children) could be further exemplified by executing this tragic woman. In a sense, killing her is far more humane than forcing her to live. Is this something we feel good about?
Borg 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 22:30:59 (EST)

My two cents are: I am not even upset with the justice system or the jury. I am still upset with the disease that stole Andrea Yates and her five children, a disease which we have little understanding of and for which there is still no cure. I am upset at religion because in my opinion religion keeps us in the dark ages of understanding the mind.
Mary
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 22:24:55 (EST)

My two cents are: Sounds like the coals aren't hot enough to sear the meat..
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 22:23:21 (EST)

My two cents are: What we need for Yates is a public execution. That's what the real vote was for. Really more of a vote for a desire of an MTV execution than anything about the case. I mean this one was the big show, If we can electrocute this psycho mom in prime-time, well, the ky's the limit!!!!
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 22:21:07 (EST)

My two cents are: I am emotional right now, of course, because of my mother's illness, this is close to home for me.
Mary
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 22:10:53 (EST)

My two cents are: and honestly I have not had anything to drink!!!
Mary
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 22:09:47 (EST)

My two cents are: My enlgish is on the same par as asshole's. ;) or at least my spelling is on that level.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 22:07:22 (EST)

My two cents are: I don't think Rusty had an organic illness, which is evident with Andrea Yates. However, the man is much more than just an idiot. Bush is an idiot. He actually had hopes of having a normal life again, and having more children with his wife. The man is cleary does not have sound judgement, and religion exacerbated this lack of common sense. My point is there are many charlatans out there who use religion for personal gain and prey upon the Rusty Yates of the world. Now compare Rusty to the minister who influenced him, that man was not an idiot. He takes advantage of idiots.
Mary
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 22:05:48 (EST)

My two cents are: Problem with the Yates trial is the glaring lack of pentacostal witnesses. Had this been a run of the mill snakefreak family childkilling making babiebloodmilkshakes there would not have been much of a to do. Something went wrong here, it,s like the comet we missed, you, see,.
Bultaco 13 o 1
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 22:01:58 (EST)

My two cents are: Yates is insane. Her husband is an idiot.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 21:59:12 (EST)

My two cents are: I recognize that Yates illness was not caused by religion. However religion is volatile on an unstable mind. I think Yate's husband himself was unstable and religion had seriously affected his judgement.
Mary
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 21:52:33 (EST)

My two cents are: No, I don't have statistics.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 21:46:50 (EST)

My two cents are: You have statistics on this of course?
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 21:42:09 (EST)

My two cents are: Males usually kill themselves as well. If not at the time of the crime, in prison after convicted.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 21:36:21 (EST)

My two cents are: What good are tears, anon?
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 21:35:17 (EST)

My two cents are: Maybe I should do some research to see how many males have killed their entire families. Kids, kids' mom, sometimes mom's parents...usually with the blast of a gun of course.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 21:34:34 (EST)

My two cents are: I don't know very much about Daschle. He seems very intelligent and shrewd. Hillary would be too socialistic for me. I'm not ready for that, even though it seems to be the working in Europe.
Mary
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 21:34:31 (EST)

My two cents are: cry me a river
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 21:34:10 (EST)

My two cents are: I'd prefer Daschle, myself, although I don't know much about him. But Hillary would be fine. It would be the gentlemanly thing to do, elect a lady. Bradley seemed like too much of a prima donna. The only thing that worries me about any of the Democrats is the potential negative impacts on the oil companies. If the Dems get in, who is going to take care of Exxon and Texaco and those guys?
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 21:32:25 (EST)

My two cents are: Religion should have warning signs.. CAN BE DANGEROUS, EVEN LETHAL TO YOUR HEALTH.
Mary
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 21:31:41 (EST)

My two cents are: Now let's put RELIGION on trial.
Mary
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 21:30:09 (EST)

My two cents are: HEH HEH, I love to have my furr rubbed amongst other thang's!!!!
CLIFFORD
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 21:30:04 (EST)

My two cents are: It's still called America, dummy.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 21:27:39 (EST)

My two cents are: Today I feel shame like I have never felt before for the progressive country once called America. Twenty-first century? What'do I hear for marriage as the cure to welfare and poverty? What do I hear for banning teaching evolution in schools. How about NUKES for the answer to world peace. C'mon guys, lets get on the forward express. Hurry, you might miss the train and get stuck at the junction. Let's roll.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 21:25:56 (EST)

My two cents are: Are they kidding?

- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 21:25:46 (EST)

My two cents are: March 11, 2002 Hillary closes gap on Gore for 2004 Democratic nomination; Daschle third choice; new Zogby America Poll reveals New York Senator and former First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton has moved significantly closer to being the top choice as the 2004 Democratic presidential nominee, a new Zogby America poll reveals. Former Vice President Al Gore is still the top choice among likely Democratic voters at 27%, with Clinton the clear second choice at 22%. In August 2001, Gore led Clinton 40%-24%. Clinton is followed in the race for the 2004 Democratic presidential nomination by Senate Democratic Leader Tom Daschle (8%), with House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt and former New Jersey Senator Bill Bradley, both at 7%. The poll of 414 likely Democratic voters nationwide was conducted March 8-10. Margin of sampling error is +/- 5%.
Oh C H R I S T ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 21:24:33 (EST)

My two cents are: Dear Sad. His name's Glint. It be he who been reamin.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 21:23:33 (EST)

My two cents are: We continue to try to deal with the mentally ill rationally. Like that works. (sarcasm)
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 21:19:57 (EST)

My two cents are: Killing the Yates Chick will make alot of people feel really good agbout themselves. The truly sad state of society is that killing this chick will mean that the "rest of us????" Can now walk around saying "gee at least I wasnt born with and developed a mental illness or problem beyond my control that resulted in me drowning 5 of my kids.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 21:19:03 (EST)

My two cents are: Go Brenda Go BrendaGo Brenda Go Brenda Go Brenda Go BrendaGo Brenda Go BrendaGo Brenda Go Brenda Go Brenda Go Brenda
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 21:15:01 (EST)

My two cents are: The problem here in the Yates trial, is that the entire case was directed as if this woman were rational and meted out a verdict in the same manner. Denying the very nature of insanity, holding the insane responsible for the thought disorder that created the actions.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 21:11:24 (EST)

My two cents are: I might scroll, not tonight. When there is eau de pete' yukkkk. scroll we dont.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 21:11:22 (EST)

My two cents are: How hard is it really, to get three people who would vote to kill one of themselves to vote that only one of them should survive.?????
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 21:09:14 (EST)

My two cents are: Laura doesn't have the hereditary type of bushspeak. She seems to have acquired it by osmosis.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 21:07:47 (EST)

My two cents are: Lauren Bush is the good-looking model. Laura Bush is her Aunt.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 20:57:28 (EST)

My two cents are: I have trouble with prepositions.
asshole
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 20:53:35 (EST)

My two cents are: Laura Bush used to speak okay. But, after she killed that pedestrian(temporary insanity,) they did a lobotomy on her and this is the result.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 20:52:38 (EST)

My two cents are: What part of the english language don't you understand, asshole?
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 20:45:53 (EST)

My two cents are: Lauren Bush said, "I go away for a weekend. I do a shoot. I come back, I do a shoot. I come back, which is the best part of my life, like, the normal everydayness."
in the genes bushspeak
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 20:40:52 (EST)

My two cents are: Dear Sad. Well, this psychopath are still reamin at this site. That be what and which.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 20:36:42 (EST)

My two cents are: You just lack good old American bloodlust, traitor!
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 20:34:37 (EST)

My two cents are: One must truly wonder what and which psychopaths really reamin at this lost cause site.
Sad.
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 20:33:48 (EST)

My two cents are: If this is justice, then why does it RING so wrong?
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 20:28:52 (EST)

My two cents are: The State of Texas will not go up the slippery slope of protecting the children of raving mad mothers or fathers. It's hard enough nannying Enron as it is!
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 20:26:15 (EST)

My two cents are: She's guilty. She knew what she was doing was wrong even though she believed what she was doing was the right. How can anyone dispute the clear headed mind that planned and executed this crime, with malice, full cognizant awareness, and culpability.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 20:23:33 (EST)

My two cents are: It is so clear cut and dried that Andrea Yates knew right from wrong.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 20:20:49 (EST)

My two cents are: Neither the state nor the defense is contesting she suffered from a severe mental disease or that she killed her five children. What expert witnesses during the trial disagreed on, however, was whether Yates knew killing her children was wrong. In Texas, a defendant is presumed sane. To prove insanity, defense attorneys must convince jurors Yates suffered from a severe mental disease or defect which prevented her from knowing her actions were wrong.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 20:18:42 (EST)

My two cents are: Had I been on the Texas jury, following the law as it is written in the State of Texas, I would have had to find Andrea Yates guilty of capital murder. In reality, Texas law does not have an insanity defense.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 19:58:52 (EST)

My two cents are: The left is dead. Long live the right.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 19:39:30 (EST)

My two cents are: What? The State of Texas is supposed to be some kind of nanny????????? You do the crime, you do the time, hombre. Rules mean something! This ought to make the next insane mother who wants to sacrifice her children think twice. Texas is not responsible for protecting children of lunatics! You want a nanny? Buy one!
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 19:38:44 (EST)

My two cents are: No, Pete� is GOD.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 19:36:53 (EST)

My two cents are: It is complete.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 19:36:53 (EST)

My two cents are: Fuck the liebrals. Time for rules to mean something. You do the crime, you pay. The Death of Liberalism is almost complete.
R.I.P.
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 19:35:02 (EST)

My two cents are: Throw in the hellfire and brimstone preacher for good measure.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 19:26:35 (EST)

My two cents are: Andrea Yates is found guilty. Time to convict the Texas mental health systme as well.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 19:24:24 (EST)

My two cents are: FLASH: LENO [4.5], NIGHTLINE [4.2] TOP LETTERMAN [4.0] IN MONDAY NIGHT MATCHUP; RATINGS SHOW LETTERMAN FINISHES THIRD WITH CBS CONTRACT ANNOUNCEMENT... DEVELOPING...
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 18:38:47 (EST)

My two cents are: PAPER: No misdeeds clearly shown in Winona Ryder security tape; Spent nearly 15 minutes in dressing room...
Developing!
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 18:36:44 (EST)

My two cents are: Pete was Borg 18 0f 22. He was also Anonymous. 'nuff said.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 18:06:27 (EST)

My two cents are: Fuck off 12.
Borg 7 of 22
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 17:50:49 (EST)

My two cents are: Leave it alone.
Borg 12 of 22
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 17:50:08 (EST)

My two cents are: I think that fuckfaced crynic made Pete up. Nobody like that could really exist.
Could they?
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 17:48:13 (EST)

My two cents are: It's called understanding disease, Pete. Don't take it so personally.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 17:47:11 (EST)

My two cents are: For not liking me, you lying socialist scum sure give me plenty of play.
Pete
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 17:46:01 (EST)

My two cents are: Yes, that Pete� certainly was a sterling character. Too bad he died.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 17:45:08 (EST)

My two cents are: MaybE shE wantEd the big one cumming.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 17:44:54 (EST)

My two cents are: Pete put E in her place. Sent that bitch packing.
John
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 17:43:53 (EST)

My two cents are: No, no, Pete� was the TARGET of the twerpedo! That's what was so awful about the twerpedo to begin with, that and Dexter�...... say! Maybe the mystery liberal is Dexter�!
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 17:43:40 (EST)

My two cents are: You know what's fun?
E�
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 17:43:31 (EST)

My two cents are: Don't say Twerpedo. It triggers the Tourette's Syndrome.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 17:42:53 (EST)

My two cents are: One thing is sure: Pete� was the Twerpedo.
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- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 17:41:38 (EST)

My two cents are: Don't say House of Meat. It makes Pete's left eye twitch.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 17:41:01 (EST)

My two cents are: I suspect that Pete� was also the golem.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 17:40:48 (EST)

My two cents are: Maybe Pete�'s WILL-YUM hilarity is the liberal? Is WILL-YUM supposed to be liberal?
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 17:39:59 (EST)

My two cents are: Oh, wasn't he carlos or was that his avatar?
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 17:38:57 (EST)

My two cents are: Could be. On the other hand, maybe House of Meat is Pete�.
House of Meat
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 17:38:39 (EST)

My two cents are: This game sucks. I'd rather watch curling. Somebody think up a new one.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 17:37:19 (EST)

My two cents are: Is CLIFFORD a liberal? How about WILL-YUM and cheech and chong and Trish? Maybe the sorry fucker is House of Meat.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 17:37:04 (EST)

My two cents are: Sometimes the pineapple pretends to be somebody real. Does that count?
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 17:36:25 (EST)

My two cents are: Which one of the 22? Is it limited to the 22? Or can it be ANY liberal? If it can be any liberal, my guess is Neil Diamond. Or George Bush Jr.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 17:35:29 (EST)

My two cents are: Guess-the-liberal-I-post-as game? Really? My guess is "CLIFFORD."
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 17:33:09 (EST)

My two cents are: I figured him for E. Figured he used "her" to express his self-hatred and sexual ambiguity.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 17:32:06 (EST)

My two cents are: We all know Pete is yellowdog. The lezzie wife fantasy was so strong it was projected right into the character.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 17:25:35 (EST)

My two cents are: I think he's upset that nobody took him up on his Guess-The-Liberal-I-Post-As game.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 17:19:52 (EST)

My two cents are: Same reason you sign as Anonymous, asshole.
CLIFFORD
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 17:11:16 (EST)

My two cents are: If the pineapple is so proud of his posts, why does he sign them "CLIFFORD"?
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 17:09:06 (EST)

My two cents are: Ashcroft is just not that attractive a figure, even when he sings. He just can't inspire kids to rat out their parents. What this situation calls for is McGruff the crime dog.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 17:08:07 (EST)

My two cents are: If John Ashcroft was doing his job, Poe would have turned Glint into the cops by now.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 17:06:59 (EST)

My two cents are: "there was once a time he was proud to sign his posts..."
doubt it
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 17:04:45 (EST)

My two cents are: Yes, there was once a time he was proud to sign his posts. That was truly funny.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 17:02:37 (EST)

My two cents are: The Twatter was always in the ring. It's just that he wasn't posting anything that made him proud enough to sign as his own. With this new set of insights, there is no longer any need to keep his promise and keep from infesting the page as the pineapple.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 16:52:04 (EST)

My two cents are: So, Twat-Boy is throwing his tiara back in the ring? I assume this means he has a big one cumming?
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 16:44:45 (EST)

My two cents are: Nothing's wasted. The nads will be turned into nips when all is said and done.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 16:36:34 (EST)

My two cents are: Glint's probably right. I've observed the same thing. Oddly enough, it's also fact that, in every case, men who are obsessed with transexuals are bible-thumping rightwingers.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 16:32:48 (EST)

My two cents are: "Stomp the living shit..." - - - - with what, your twinkle toes?
Clifford's daddy
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 16:31:04 (EST)

My two cents are: Clifford, do you like Brenda? Like to see those nads before they get hacked off?
Cali faggot
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 16:29:11 (EST)

My two cents are: I've had experience with people who were seeking to lop their hoses off. In every case these poor creatures who despise their own doodads are avowed Liberals. The present case is no different. Poe tells me that Brenda seeths with hatred for the president. And if I can help by sharing my firmly held beliefs so much the better, ay?
Glint
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 16:19:47 (EST)

My two cents are: Just don't ask me to put on a dress.
Pete�
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 16:19:45 (EST)

My two cents are: You need help, pal. That's why I came back. To be there for you.
Pete�
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 16:19:21 (EST)

My two cents are: ann seems lost
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 16:11:36 (EST)

My two cents are: I wouldn't call it an obsession. It's more like a case of where there is an arising need for mentoring.
Glint
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 16:08:10 (EST)

My two cents are: Sure, we all knew the pineapple would return. The only question was when. I wonder what he thinks of Glint's transgender obsession, which came to the fore in his absense. Is he disgusted? Or is he curious?
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 16:02:49 (EST)

My two cents are: SEX IS WONDERFUL!!!!! Presidents do it. Congressmen do it. Movie Stars do it. Ministers do it. But let homosexuals do it--------And it is a abomnation. Get off my back, or I'll stomp the living shit out of ya!!!!
CLIFFORD
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 14:57:49 (EST)

My two cents are: Elephant poop.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 14:52:06 (EST)

My two cents are: 14:38:00 - Cali faggot.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 14:40:53 (EST)

My two cents are: It's kind of sick fun to watch Pete worm his way back onto the page just as predicted. Pavlov's dogs had nothing on the pineapple.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 14:38:00 (EST)

My two cents are: Posner Has the Last Word on 2000 Election Debacle Universal Press Syndicate | March 7, 2002 By Ann Coulter Democrats regularly insult the intelligence of half the public in order to win the votes of the terminally stupid. As long as their lies bamboozle enough clods to give them a political edge, they will say absolutely anything. The Easily Demagogued are a key Democratic constituency, right after Steely-Eyed Zealots. Thus for example, even after Bill Clinton was exposed as a slightly tackier version of Jimmy Swaggart, the Democrats could not stop insulting our intelligence, sonorously intoning that it is not perjury if it's "just about sex" or -- contradictorily -- it is also not perjury if the witness personally believed it wasn't sex. Further, during the Clintonized presidential election fiasco, the party's law professor adjuncts fanned out across the airwaves to earnestly explain that the Florida Supreme Court was engaging in a perfectly ordinary act of judicial interpretation when it interpreted "seven days" in the statute to mean "17 days, or as long as it takes for Gore to steal the election." And most recently, Democrats have taken the position that the heroic performance of policemen, firemen and the military after 9-11 supports the Democrats' love of big government. Inasmuch as liberals have spent 20 years relentlessly suing fire departments, police departments and the military, this is a very aggressive position to take. Indeed, every hero of Sept. 11 has been a favorite target of liberal lawsuits. There's no better way to say "thank you" than to sue for sexual discrimination! Watching Democrats in action often feels like being the target of a "Candid Camera" set-up. You constantly find yourself wanting to scream, As a class, one group that is not keeping tabs on Democratic shenanigans is the media. Thus, when Bill Clinton unleashed his signature weeping routine during a black church service in 1993, the Chicago Tribune factually reported that Clinton "appeared to feel every word and emotion deeply." Naturally, it always comes as a great relief when the left's demagogic hokum is finally exposed despite the best efforts of the press. If the Alan Funt of the Bill Clinton spectacle was Monica Lewinsky, the Alan Funt of the election spectacle is at the opposite end of the IQ spectrum: It is Judge Richard Posner, author of "Breaking the Deadlock." Posner, a federal judge on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, goes through the Democrats' every legal argument, every sneaky stratagem, every disingenuous claim, like William Tecumseh Sherman marching to Savannah. Point by point, by his relentless logic, he has them trapped whichever way they turn. The election fracas is the perfect topic for Judge Posner's analytical, computer-like brain. He is the most frequently cited federal judge. He was a founder of the Chicago Law and Economics movement. The late Supreme Court Justice William Brennan called him one of only two geniuses he had ever met. So you can pretty well imagine his reaction to the deep cogitations of SCOFLA -- the Supreme Court of Florida. Though Posner is not the sort to come out and call SCOFLA a bunch of ambulance-chasers, his precise, unemotional style is far more devastating. Taking a clinical interest in his subject, Posner writes at one point simply that "(o)ne is mystified" by the SCOFLA's reasoning. In its first abrogation of clear statutory law, SCOFLA interpreted "seven days" to mean "17 days" and thus unlawfully extended the period before the election could be certified. That decision, Posner says, was "the catalyst for the legal and political broil that ensued." And it was based on "an unreasonable and not merely unsound interpretation of the statute." SCOFLA had concluded that it was entitled to disregard Florida election law on the basis of a general provision in the Florida Constitution that states simply: "All political power is inherent in the people." Posner treats as an odd curiosity the fact that the court "seems to have regarded" this "people power" clause as superior to the written law. Yet this was the "key" to its decision. Jane Goodall could not have described the SCOFLA's rationale with greater dispassion. The SCOFLA's ludicrous power grab occasionally tries the patience of even this most circumspect academic: "The Constitution is not a brooding omnipresence," Posner writes, nor do the courts function as a "council of revision" to ensure that statutes "reflect the 'spirit' of the Constitution." Rather, he says: "The courts can invalidate a statute, or interpret it reasonably, but they are not to interpret it unreasonably merely because it does not embody the aspirations that the courts find limned in vague constitutional language." And consider that SCOFLA gets off easy in Posner's account. As he says: "The participants most deserving of criticism, though as yet largely spared it, are the law professors who offered public comments on the unfolding drama." If you suspected that the Democrats and their legal and journalistic handmaidens were trying to steal an election in broad daylight, "Breaking the Deadlock" will not relieve your mind. There is no argument, no riposte, no silly liberal sentiment that Posner does not methodically deconstruct. This book is the complete antidote to 36 days of a Clintonized transfer of power.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 14:13:06 (EST)

My two cents are: Every day is a red day when dealing with liar socialsits.
POW!!!
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 14:07:09 (EST)

My two cents are: Last time we had a green day, everbody got shot.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 13:44:56 (EST)

My two cents are: http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/001/005abyvw.asp
BLU-188/B <let's ROLL!>
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 13:38:40 (EST)

My two cents are: So, are we ever again going to have a green day?
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 13:31:15 (EST)

My two cents are: How much is a fk worth?
dos liberal pesos...ha ha ha ha
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 13:16:47 (EST)

My two cents are: So, basicallyJulie Hiatt Steele has her knickers around her ankles about this, that or the other thing? Is she plopping down her victim card ace in the fetid hole?
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 12:40:55 (EST)

My two cents are: More than 1,000 Afghan troops rushed to the front line yesterday to take up the slack after the withdrawal of 400 US troops from the mountains of eastern Afghanistan. The American military has described the withdrawal as a tactical reappraisal of their battleplan, but Afghan commanders told a different story of inexperienced American soldiers unable to advance through the unfamiliar mountains to track down al-Qaeda and Taleban foes. �They were not trained for the kind of fighting we do in the mountains and, in these conditions, their kind of fighting is useless,� Commander Allah Mohammed said. �They were weakening our morale, it was better for them to go.�
bullshit. 1 american div. = 3 republican guards
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 11:54:55 (EST)

My two cents are: Oh, sure, it's OK for Clinton to grope Willey and have her cat killed, but let George Bush get coked up and stand in line at a fraternity gang-bang and the dumbocraps all start crying foul.
liberal lies
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 11:47:48 (EST)

My two cents are: http://www.bartcop.com/juliehiattsteele-finalreport.htm
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 11:18:20 (EST)

My two cents are: "Although relying heavily on DeLay's congressional muscle, Enron also tapped his close associates into service. Enron was the biggest client of the Alexander Strategy Group, a Washington-based lobby founded by DeLay's former chief of staff, Ed Buckham. The firm received at least $411,000 from Enron between 1999 and 2001, according to records on file with the secretary of the Senate. DeLay's financial reports also show that his wife, Christine DeLay, receives a salary from the Alexander Strategy Group. Roy, however, explained that her net annual pay of about $40,000 a year is for her job as chief executive officer of Americans for a Republican Majority, a political action committee whose chairman is her husband. DeLay's wife is paid through the Alexander Strategy Group primarily as a bookkeeping arrangement, Roy said. She does not keep an office at the firm and often works out of the couple's home, he said. The lobbying firm works for Americans for a Republican Majority as a consultant and received more than $200,000 since July 2000, according to the committee's financial reports. Christine DeLay's salary was paid by money from the political action committee, Roy said. "Mrs. DeLay is not a lobbyist," Roy said." http://www.dfw.com/mld/startelegram/2835510.htm
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 11:09:22 (EST)

My two cents are: Gary, who gives a shit?
Perry
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 10:44:18 (EST)

My two cents are: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/03/11/MN237426.DTL
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 10:30:08 (EST)

My two cents are: "Both [descendants of australopithecus robustus and descended from australopithecus gracilus] populated the same areas 20,000 years ago as they still do today. Judging from his pic, Glint probably is a robustus." - Anonymous@23:27:16. Not unless they all migrated to Europe before trickling on back.
Glint
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 09:47:10 (EST)

My two cents are: Perry, I had very little to do with the Grenada and Panama operations, as I was at Annual Training for the Army Reserves at the time. I really don't have a network of battle buddies, but I do attempt to keep up on things through the internet and other publications concerning military policy, tactics and doctrine.
Gary
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 08:41:07 (EST)

My two cents are: Mine was plastic.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 02:34:34 (EST)

My two cents are: My stepmother stole all of mine. Or I guess it's legal. Whatever. Stainless steel works pretty good.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 11, 2002 at 23:50:28 (EST)

My two cents are: So anyway, I guess whats important to understand is that the silver spoon might not taste as good as some folks think. There may be reasons you want to spit it out.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 11, 2002 at 23:47:41 (EST)

My two cents are: But I still didnt really do much. 11th grade or maybe early 12th was when I was supposed to go ROTC which I also rebelled against. Perhaps that was another form of punishment for not becoming a jewish child - ok then you have to be a jarhead or something. So anyway, I fill out the apps like I'm told and end up some freaking finalist and have to go to some place in White Oak MD for final interviews and these tests about leadership skills and all. Well, I wasnt going rotc, not this kid. What I remeber of that day was all these situational questions. For just about every one I either said surrender or "call for consensus". Sometime after lunch they said I could go.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 11, 2002 at 23:45:49 (EST)

My two cents are: Oh, and chemistry, another area in which I was supposed to be a jewish pre-med tracker. Remeber Carol Volker, my hot 12th grade lab partner that dumped me at the cabin john theater? Well, I flunked or was supposedly flunking chemistry because the teacher didnt like me and lab partner Carol. Sensing something amiss, I transferred to another class. The new teacher told me he had heard I ws an idiot and expected me to fail. Thats when I yokked up into the top ranks of the national merit scholar acheivement test thing in science. It was all pretty freaked I still remeber that teacher coming to me, sort of mad going "your smart" waving this test paper at me.. they told me you were an idiot!, at that point they decided they didnt want to flunk me so they started giving me these extra credit projects.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 11, 2002 at 23:41:33 (EST)

My two cents are: You see, the becoming a jewish child thing went on from about maybe the seventh grade through I guess most of high school, at least tenth and half eleventh. There were nights I was somehow locked in or at least forbidden to leave the dining room until I had finished the math homework correctly. And I didnt get any help, just had to sit in there till midnight trying to figure it out. Eventually I got myself kicked into a dumber math class and the problem subsided somewhat. My first little victory, pushing the silver spoon out of my mouth. Ditching the clarinet was also accomplished but not until 11th grade I think, at least 3 good years of that humiliation. In a way it was punishment for having quit the piano.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 11, 2002 at 23:35:53 (EST)

My two cents are: thick-headed wasn't bad either. But along those lines I have long considered that modern man, as we call him is actually not a single species, but more a case of convergent evolution that resembles subspecies. To whit, I have long suspected that some of us, the thick heavy boned ones are descendants of australopithecus robustus, others, lighter of build or at least bone, descended from australopithecus gracilus. Both populated the same areas 20,000 years ago as they still do today. Judging from his pic, Glint probably is a robustus.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 11, 2002 at 23:27:16 (EST)

My two cents are: mouthbreathing, that was a nice touch.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 11, 2002 at 23:14:28 (EST)

My two cents are: Sounds like the coals aren't hot enough to sear the meat..
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 11, 2002 at 23:12:41 (EST)

My two cents are: What's all this anti-silver spoon crapola all about? This is A-fucking-merica, you traitorous assholes! Being richer than the crynic and Pete combined is a good thing, for chrissakes! If someone is born with a silver spoon in his mouth, it means he comes from good, productive stock and is probably white. The fact that it's eastern wealth that supplied the silver spoon, all the better. The West is full of savages. If it you traitors think coming from "honest" poverty is somehow "better," then you don't understand what this country is all about. It's not about hard, futile work. It's about success! If you come from poor, clueless (but hard-working) roots, don't blame the rich. Blame your own thick-headed, mouth-breathing parents. And stop the fucking whining. Let's Roll�.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 11, 2002 at 22:30:28 (EST)

My two cents are: besides, the spoon wasnt silver enough to merit becoming a jewish child.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 11, 2002 at 21:46:30 (EST)

My two cents are: havent been out by mcdonald davis mountains. seen pics, looks like the freakin moon. applied for a job in alpine once but didnt even get an interview. between there and el paso people have addresses like "mile marker 101". for real.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 11, 2002 at 21:45:18 (EST)

My two cents are: probably going to take a road trip in the new zx2 hotrod. already took it for a daytrip into the winding roads of the scenic texas hill country just west of here along the san marcos, and guadalupe rivers near canyon lake. beach will probably be next.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 11, 2002 at 21:42:57 (EST)

My two cents are: nobody here worth a fk gives a rats asss about the pineapple anymore.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 11, 2002 at 21:39:33 (EST)

My two cents are: Here? Why? Not when Maryland is going to the Big Dance and win it all, Ba-Bee!!!
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 11, 2002 at 21:35:23 (EST)

My two cents are: If the crynic was there, I'm sure the homeless guy died with a full belly.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 11, 2002 at 19:33:52 (EST)

My two cents are: I told that asshole with the squeegie not to do my windshield. Do they listen? Hell, no. Somebody ought to write a letter.
Shontay Mallard
- Monday, March 11, 2002 at 19:32:29 (EST)

My two cents are: Pete had a game? Oh, checkmate, that's right. Liberals lost. Long ago. Decisively.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 11, 2002 at 19:26:22 (EST)

My two cents are: What would the crynic say? One of his beloved homeless people killed in such a horrible way!
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 11, 2002 at 18:29:19 (EST)

My two cents are: Give a homeless guy a home in someone's car windshield and they jump all over you.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 11, 2002 at 18:26:24 (EST)

My two cents are: Doesn't anyone want to play Pete's game? No big deal, but it would mean a lot to him.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 11, 2002 at 18:03:48 (EST)

My two cents are: Rough-hewn Texas hillbilly astronomers.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 11, 2002 at 17:31:16 (EST)

My two cents are: The only tough guys in all of Texas live in the shadow of the McDonald Observatory.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 11, 2002 at 17:26:38 (EST)

My two cents are: I didn't know the windshield guy was homeless. That makes the story take on an entirely new meaning. Funny when you think about it!
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 11, 2002 at 17:16:23 (EST)

My two cents are: "There isn't a hill in all of Texas." Don't tell that to McDonald Observatory.
Glint
- Monday, March 11, 2002 at 17:09:26 (EST)

My two cents are: This place once served a purpose.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 11, 2002 at 16:57:58 (EST)

My two cents are: Texas - the home of the "put the windshield wedged homeless guy in the garage until he bleeds to death" Mallard broad.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 11, 2002 at 15:23:58 (EST)

My two cents are: Even the Mexicans just pass through.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 11, 2002 at 15:21:20 (EST)

My two cents are: Texas is more the land of wusses than the land of hillbillies. Hillbillies are tough. Texans prefer air-conditioned high-rises and soft, manicured hands. A hillbilly lives amid rugged hills. There isn't a hill in all of Texas.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 11, 2002 at 15:19:44 (EST)

My two cents are: And losers who left their silver spoons in Maryland.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 11, 2002 at 15:16:45 (EST)

My two cents are: The only problem with Texas is . . . . yeah, you guessed it . . .
too many fucking texans
- Monday, March 11, 2002 at 15:12:00 (EST)

My two cents are: Texas and everything from Texas sucks! The land of hillbillies.
Republican
- Monday, March 11, 2002 at 15:03:30 (EST)

My two cents are: hiyall. doin pretty cool here, just bought ms ydog a new car, well almost new. ford program car with 16k. Called a zx2. its an escort but allegedly with a hotter motor, reworked suspension, different interior, racing seats with high side bolsters, I mean its still an escort but turns a hi 15 quarter with 130 ponies through a close ratio 5 speed, no overdrive. torque curve absolutely flat. Supposedly can take a pre-99 v6 mustang since its only 10 horses short and almost 1000 pounds lighter. leather wheel, aluninum rims, goodyear eagle 60's. pretty fun to drive borg 11 of 22
hillbilly boys and their little redneck toys
- Monday, March 11, 2002 at 14:55:02 (EST)

My two cents are: Kyber pass got Daschle!
BWAAHAAA!
- Monday, March 11, 2002 at 14:52:59 (EST)

My two cents are: We used to get some funny posts here. What happened?
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 11, 2002 at 14:50:08 (EST)

My two cents are: Gooooo Whiteys????? As a white person, I resent being calley "gooey!"
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 11, 2002 at 14:49:34 (EST)

My two cents are: Gennifer Flowers was asked if her relationship with Clinton was anything like Monica Lewinski's. She replied, "Close, but no cigar."
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 11, 2002 at 14:48:15 (EST)

My two cents are: "Fighting Whities' launched GREELEY - Unable to persuade a school district to drop a mascot name that offends them, some American Indian students at the University of Northern Colorado have named their intramural basketball team "The Fighting Whities." Led by Solomon Little Owl, director of Native American Student Services at UNC, the team chose a white man as its mascot to increase awareness and understanding of stereotypes that some cultures endure. They are upset with Eaton High School for using an American Indian caricature on the team logo. The team is called the Reds. "The message is, let's do something that will let people see the other side of what it's like to be a mascot," Little Owl said. "I am really offended by this mascot issue, and I hope the people that support the Eaton mascot will get offended by this."
damn cool! and may i add, "o Whiteys! Go Whiteys! Gooooo Whiteys!"
- Monday, March 11, 2002 at 14:26:54 (EST)

My two cents are: March 11 - Six months after Sept. 11, Americans are expressing enormous sustained support for the war on terrorism, broad approval of George W. Bush's job performance - and a swelling sense of patriotism that leads most to say this crisis has changed the nation for the better. Eighty-two percent approve of Bush's job performance; while that's 10 points below his peak in early October he has still soared higher, longer than any previous president in polls dating to 1938. Even more people - 88 percent - approve of Bush's handling of the war, while 64 percent approve "strongly." And more than eight in 10 think it's going well. The phrase "quagmire," is nowhere near the public's lips: Just 18 percent think the country is heading for another Vietnam, only about half as many as said that about either Serbia in 1999 or Bosnia in 1995. Seventy-seven percent reject the notion. Less than half of Americans - 44 percent - say bin Laden must be killed or captured for the war on terrorism to be a success. That's about the same as it was in January, down sharply from 64 percent in December and November alike. A variety of factors could be involved. One is the sense that bin Laden has been functionally disabled. Another could be a growing recognition of the difficulties of catching one man - the "big world, small bullet" problem. Another could be a change in the risk-reward calculation; fewer than half, 44 percent, now say it's worth risking substantial U.S. casualties to get bin Laden, down from 60 percent in November.
guess the kyber pass couldn't stop bush after all
- Monday, March 11, 2002 at 14:19:17 (EST)

My two cents are: The nice thing about Pete being gone is nobody has to put up with his pitiable cries for attention.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 11, 2002 at 14:05:18 (EST)

My two cents are: Clue: Pete has always had a secret identity as one of the masquerading long time "liberals" on this page. Can you guess which one it is?
Pete�
- Monday, March 11, 2002 at 13:42:11 (EST)

My two cents are: He did. Oh, he must be slippin on his liberal learnin. Better bone up on the slimeball liberals a bit more, then.
Pete�
- Monday, March 11, 2002 at 13:41:15 (EST)

My two cents are: Pete left with his head held high. It was only in leaving that he showed even one iota of dignity. Better late than never.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 11, 2002 at 13:32:46 (EST)

My two cents are: Then he who has eyes, let him see the work of thy hand, oh Lord!
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 11, 2002 at 13:26:26 (EST)

My two cents are: Pete left this horrid page.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 11, 2002 at 13:22:25 (EST)

My two cents are: Pete, there's a nifty new comet in the west as evening twilight fades. Easy binocular object, has a tail a degree or two long, and the coma has a distinct greenish color when viewed with a telescope. Definitely more interesting than the SN2002bj supernova in NGC 1821 located in Lepus. Here's a link for more info on the comet: http://skyandtelescope.com/observing/objects/comets/article_477_1.asp
Glint
- Monday, March 11, 2002 at 12:52:17 (EST)

My two cents are: Which breed of fish is her favorite diddlo? We know yours is large mouth bass w/o donning the Demo emblem.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 11, 2002 at 12:42:07 (EST)

My two cents are: It also keeps everyone's clothes clean.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 11, 2002 at 12:37:27 (EST)

My two cents are: The FBI has coined a technical term for the stains found on Monica's dress: "Presidue."
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 11, 2002 at 12:36:19 (EST)

My two cents are: Did you know that Clinton had asked to change the Democratic emblem from a donkey to a condom? It represents inflation, halts production, and gives you a false sense of security while you are being screwed.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 11, 2002 at 11:50:50 (EST)

My two cents are: Once we topple lie-bral democracy in the US of A, we can get back to traditional labor methods like serfdom and indentured servitude. Let's roll.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 11, 2002 at 10:38:09 (EST)

My two cents are: Not a bad idea. maybe I'll tell her to open wide because I've got a big one cumming. that would be pretty suave, huh?
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 11, 2002 at 10:34:01 (EST)

My two cents are: So why don't you take the Fiesta for a joy ride down Mississippi way. Take the Mrs. parking down at the fish farms. It'll be just like the good old days, at least for her.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 11, 2002 at 09:56:06 (EST)

My two cents are: Juast missed you, Mary. Stick around.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 11, 2002 at 09:53:44 (EST)

My two cents are: Sounds like the coals aren't hot enough to sear the meat..
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 10, 2002 at 23:01:52 (EST)

My two cents are: Yeah and not only that but without the unions the unemployment rolls would swell with all those unemployed mobsters.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 10, 2002 at 22:58:06 (EST)

My two cents are: OK, if there's anyone on this page from the original crew here, please post. I'm dying for a fix.
Mary
- Sunday, March 10, 2002 at 22:18:39 (EST)

My two cents are: Sounds like the coals aren't hot enough to sear the meat..
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 10, 2002 at 22:14:00 (EST)

My two cents are: Sue, we all miss the days before labor unions when you could hire a 12 year-old to work 12 hour days for a buck a week. Now you've got to go to Indonesia, land of the free, the find that labor pool.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 10, 2002 at 21:56:19 (EST)

My two cents are: Sounds like the coals aren't hot enough to sear the meat..
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 10, 2002 at 21:41:12 (EST)

My two cents are: Sue, we can stop the Mexican invasion if we eliminate the minimum wage. not only that, but it would also all but eliminate unemployment. Once again, the labor unions have scewed things up for us all.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 10, 2002 at 21:33:07 (EST)

My two cents are: Sounds like the coals aren't hot enough to sear the meat..
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 10, 2002 at 21:06:51 (EST)

My two cents are: cant wait to see how it does when I tweak it gently up to about 150. still airbox, new ignition switch, k and n filter.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 10, 2002 at 20:18:15 (EST)

My two cents are: Sounds like the coals aren't hot enough to sear the meat..
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 10, 2002 at 20:15:50 (EST)

My two cents are: looking at the mustang times you can really see the 1973 pollution control shit compared to the 1971 times for the same 351c.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 10, 2002 at 20:08:41 (EST)

My two cents are: 81 Ford Escort 14.67 19.7 1986 Ford Escort 1.9 11.7 18.1 1987 Ford Escort L 11.4 18.2 1990 Ford Escort GT 8.9 16.8 1992 Ford Escort LX-E 9.3 17.0 1993 Ford Escort GT 8.4 16.5 1993 Ford Escort LX Wagon 12.8 19.1 1994 Ford Escort LX Sedan 11.1 17.8 1997 Ford Escort LX Sedan 10.9 18.1 1998 Ford Escort ZX2 7.4 15.7
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 10, 2002 at 20:07:21 (EST)

My two cents are: Ford Mustang (289ci V8 w/4spd) 7.5 15.7 1966 Ford Mustang (289ci V8 Auto) 10.9 17.9 1967 Ford Mustang (390ci V8 w/4spd) 7.4 15.6 1971 Ford Mustang (351ci V8 w/4spd) 5.8 13.8 1973 Ford Mustang 351ci 8.9 16.3 1974 Ford Mustang II 4sp 14.2 18.8 1974 Ford Mustang II Auto 15.6 19.4 1975 Ford Mustang II (302ci V8 w/3spd) 9.6 17.5 1977 Ford Mustang II 302ci 11.3 17.7 1980 Ford Mustang (255ci) 11.8 18.5 1980 Ford Mustang Cobra (225ci) 11.3 18.4 1981 Ford Mustang M81 McLaren (2.3L Turbo) 9.7 17.3 1982 Ford Mustang GT 8.0 N/A 1984 Ford Mustang SVO 7.9 15.8 1985 Ford Mustang GT 7.2 15.9 1987 Ford Mustang GT 6.7 15.3 1988 Ford Mustang GT 6.4 15.0 1990 Ford Mustang LX 5.0 6.4 14.9 1991 Ford Mustang GT 7.3 15.6 1992 Ford Mustang LX 5.0 6.2 14.8 1993 Ford Mustang Cobra 5.9 14.5 1993 Ford Mustang GT(auto) 8.0 16.1 1994 Ford Mustang Cobra 6.9 15.3 1994 Ford Mustang GT 6.7 15.1 1995 Ford Mustang 3.8 9.9 17.3 1995 Ford Mustang Cobra R 5.2 13.8 1996 Ford Mustang Cobra 5.5 14.0 1998 Ford Mustang Cobra SVT 5.4 14.0 1999 Ford Mustang Cobra SVT 5.4 13.9 1999 Ford Mustang Convertible V6 8.6 16.5 1999 Ford Mustang GT 5.5 14.1
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 10, 2002 at 20:06:01 (EST)

My two cents are: 0-60 in 7.4
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 10, 2002 at 20:04:02 (EST)

My two cents are: Sounds like the coals aren't hot enough to sear the meat..
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 10, 2002 at 20:03:29 (EST)

My two cents are: I mean somehow i just never tyhought about a stock escort turning a 15.7 quarter mile.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 10, 2002 at 19:51:04 (EST)

My two cents are: my dog has major fish breath, like dead bait.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 10, 2002 at 19:50:16 (EST)

My two cents are: I saw a dwarf today. in a resteraunt. with family. Sunday at noon is an interesting time in a resteraunt. dwarfs and christian bikers. we had some margaritas and kikass texmex. dont know what the dwarf had.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 10, 2002 at 19:48:43 (EST)

My two cents are: http://www.missouri.edu/~apcb20/times.html quarter mile and 0 to 60 for alot of cars new and old
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 10, 2002 at 19:45:59 (EST)

My two cents are: Don't even talk about the dwarf, man. Haven't seen the little puke in ages. Just as well, but you've got to wonder what he might be plotting next. I don't trust the fuckers, not one bit.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 10, 2002 at 19:31:09 (EST)

My two cents are: Sounds like the coals aren't hot enough to sear the meat..
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 10, 2002 at 19:25:33 (EST)

My two cents are: in other news, the hair has now passed the collarbone. new earring next weekend. time for that tatoo as well. How's tha f*ing dwarf doing?
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 10, 2002 at 19:22:47 (EST)

My two cents are: Ford supposedly set the speed limiter at 106 or 116 with the T rated 118 goodyears. its supposed to be capable of 125 stock.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 10, 2002 at 19:21:12 (EST)

My two cents are: nice sounding casette deck, no cd player though which is ok because I record them all anyway for the truck.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 10, 2002 at 19:19:12 (EST)

My two cents are: rear spoiler, deep tint, molded same color flush bumpers. really a pretty sleek little car. plus i actually have plenty of legroom. took it out on the windy roads today it was quite a blast. I mean compared to the diesel benz which we got a grand for even with a rust hole right thry the drivers side floorboard.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 10, 2002 at 19:15:19 (EST)

My two cents are: Some kind of quadra link independent rear suspension and mac strut front with power rack and pinion. Something about an isolated engine submount or something also.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 10, 2002 at 19:11:48 (EST)

My two cents are: Oh, it also has a hi performance ignition switch.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 10, 2002 at 19:10:23 (EST)

My two cents are: Sounds like the coals aren't hot enough to sear the meat..
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 10, 2002 at 19:08:37 (EST)

My two cents are: and this in a ride that allegedly pulls 33 hiway miles???
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 10, 2002 at 19:00:03 (EST)

My two cents are: the flat torque curve is great, the car really jumps forward with every upshift. and it seems plenty quick just revving to about 3200 but redline is 6500 with the power really coming on from about 4 to 5500. 5th gear runs 65-70 at about 3000.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 10, 2002 at 18:58:23 (EST)

My two cents are: Sounds like the coals aren't hot enough to sear the meat..
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 10, 2002 at 18:54:58 (EST)

My two cents are: I would have never dreamt the lil car would even be close to a stang, but damned if ms y didnt just about smoke one today. then i go check this web page, and sure enough, thats the topic, racing mustangs. So we got it home late last nite and didnt really go for a good joy ride. we did that today.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 10, 2002 at 18:51:57 (EST)

My two cents are: Sounds like the coals aren't hot enough to sear the meat..
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 10, 2002 at 18:46:39 (EST)

My two cents are: hiyall. doin pretty cool here, just bought ms ydog a new car, well almost new. ford program car with 16k. Called a zx2. its an escort but allegedly with a hotter motor, reworked suspension, different interior, racing seats with high side bolsters, I mean its still an escort but turns a hi 15 quarter with 130 ponies through a close ratio 5 speed, no overdrive. torque curve absolutely flat. Supposedly can take a pre-99 v6 mustang since its only 10 horses short and almost 1000 pounds lighter. leather wheel, aluninum rims, goodyear eagle 60's. pretty fun to drive
borg 11 of 22
- Sunday, March 10, 2002 at 18:41:58 (EST)

My two cents are: Wasn't it a Democrat who used the big one on Japan, Freddie?
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 10, 2002 at 18:15:14 (EST)

My two cents are: I read one that tells what Bush was thinking when he waved at Stevie Wonder.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 10, 2002 at 17:39:15 (EST)

My two cents are: Read a good piece yesterday about what the Gettysburg Adress would have sounded like with president* Bush delivering it. Most enlighting. And quite objective. No bias.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 10, 2002 at 17:19:28 (EST)

My two cents are: Freddy sees where we would be? What he, some kind of precognitive expert, like Miss Cleo? Maybe he just a nother paranoid stained-dresser, letting loose his conservative fantasies, not unlike Calico-cat-fearing Ashcroft with his taxpayer-supported $8k burqa? Ha ha.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 10, 2002 at 17:06:53 (EST)

My two cents are: Did you see the Fred Barnes piece in the Weekly Standard? The one about where he sees that we would be were the Liberals running the war? I would have posted it here, but figures everybody around here has Drudge bookmarked and can link to it from there.
Glint
- Sunday, March 10, 2002 at 16:35:04 (EST)

My two cents are: Only people with a "right" mind get educated to understand the sickness of the evil liberal "mind." The enemy is always in our siights. POW!!!
Pete�
- Sunday, March 10, 2002 at 16:05:50 (EST)

My two cents are: Well, Pete, I admit I read it. Once. However, when it was reposted around the holidays I broke my nearly 4 year long streak of reading every word ever posted on this page, no matter how long the cut 'n' paste was. I haven't felt compelled to go back to the old practice since. I think the Candy Man thing speaks volumes beyond the scope of the story itself. Mostly about the author. Seems that not all of the gas jets are turned on.
Glint
- Sunday, March 10, 2002 at 16:05:25 (EST)

My two cents are: A little plagiarism, eh, Sue?
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 10, 2002 at 15:51:18 (EST)

My two cents are: I agree. Since Pete read it, that proves nobody in their right mind would. Go away, Twat-Boy.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 10, 2002 at 15:49:55 (EST)

My two cents are: Glint, who in their right mind would read that ydog novel. At least the final word in the tripe sums up the whole experience: Evil. (doink)
Pete�
- Sunday, March 10, 2002 at 15:16:48 (EST)

My two cents are: Anonymous's idea of volunteerism is taking everyone else's money.
Thiefs are liar demonrats
- Sunday, March 10, 2002 at 15:12:26 (EST)

My two cents are: Ashcroft's idea of volunteerism is spying on your neighbor.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 10, 2002 at 12:12:29 (EST)

My two cents are: "I would rather have the Taliban in the U.S. Senate than Charles Schumer and Hillary Clinton." Yes, Sue, your Taliban mentality has not gone unnoticed. Time to duck, Sue. As to the rest of us---let's ROLL!
Beamers
- Sunday, March 10, 2002 at 11:14:53 (EST)

My two cents are: "Mexican writer Elena Poniatowska", Sue? Hola. Sounds like los Mexi-cans been gittin' mucho Polack DI-VERSe. Yu kin do it too, Sue. Say, Sue, whut's your last name? Al-akbar? Hidalgo? How come yu don't put it down? Yu skeered? Diganos, Susita!
paranoid stained-dress conservative racist apologist
- Sunday, March 10, 2002 at 11:10:01 (EST)

My two cents are: Who do you think harvests the food you put in your mouth, Sue. Have some salsa.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 10, 2002 at 01:18:52 (EST)

My two cents are: SUE-------Put on your Burqa, and Shut UP!!!! You love MOOSLIME that much, go find yourself a Stinking MOOSLIME A-Hab, and make wild mad Donkey Love!!!!
Eddie
- Sunday, March 10, 2002 at 00:32:53 (EST)

My two cents are: Osama bin Laden has done us more damage than we have yet realized. The thousands of lives lost and families decimated and the destruction of the World Trade Center are themselves a terrible blow. But by focusing our attention on terrorist havens abroad, bin Laden has assured that our own borders will be overrun even as we invade others. The Bush administration and, it seems, every neoconservative are focused on the war on terrorism. The press is filled with speculation about which Muslim country we will next attack. All the while, the silent conquest of the United States by Third World aliens, both legal and illegal, continues apace. Three decades ago, Jean Raspail wrote "The Camp of the Saints," a story about France and then all of Europe being overrun by millions of Indians who arrive in decrepit ships and walk ashore unopposed. Something like this is actually happening to the United States, although the Mexicans don't need ships to cross the Rio Grande. Apparently, there are 33.4 million Hispanics in the United States. Mexican writer Elena Poniatowska sees them as cultural emissaries, if not conquerers, who are imposing Hispanic culture on the United States and forcing the native-born citizens to learn Spanish. She has a point. Not being bilingual can hurt you in many job situations and leave you unemployed. Mexican novelist Carlos Fuentes speaks of the "silent reconquest of the United States" and calls an emerging new language "Spanglish." Mexican President Vicente Fox speaks of his country exporting the Spanish language to the United States. He says it is the patriotic duty of Mexican immigrants to continue to speak Spanish, to preserve their culture and to maintain their ties to their home country. As there is not even a pretense at assimilation, why is it that we don't realize that we are undergoing a nonmilitary invasion � just like the one in Raspail's book? Why can't Americans recognize a threat unless it comes with a bomb? Why is hijacking an airliner worse than hijacking our language, culture and territory? When will Americans wake up and realize what it will mean to be submerged in a sea of "protected minorities" who have been taught to see us as hegemonic oppressors? Don't get me wrong. It's liberal white males who are the "diversity" ringleaders, and it is liberal white males who are teaching "people of color" to hate white people. It is Harvard, Columbia and Berkeley professors, not Mexicans or blacks, who have rewritten history to turn it into a saga of white oppression of "minorities." White liberals are banking on ruling with the votes of immigrant minorities. But once they have the numbers, immigrants won't need the white liberals. I can hardly wait until the California Mexicans rise up and throw out Dianne Feinstein, Barbara Boxer and Gray Davis. I would gladly trade the entire Northeast and West Coast liberal populations for any country's people. I would rather have the Taliban in the U.S. Senate than Charles Schumer and Hillary Clinton. I have no doubt that the vast majority of Third World immigrants have better morals and more integrity than Bill Clinton or Tom Daschle. Many of them work harder than spoiled Americans. But the fact remains that we, as a country, are being overrun and are extremely passive about it. Diversity mongers try to portray concerns with immigration as "racist." They use this bogus charge to suppress legitimate concerns that the "melting pot" is broken and the United States is suffering cultural imperialism. Many Mexican leaders say that the millions of Mexicans who have come here have not come to assimilate. It is a certainty that Islam does not assimilate. What immigration is bringing us is not new citizens, but foreign cultural enclaves. The United States is becoming a Yugoslavia � an artificial grouping of different ethnicities who will one day be at one another's throats. The fatuous politicians in Washington and the "open borders" ideologues are importing a bloody future for Americans. "The Camp of the Saints" is prescient. You should read it. It could be your future. Dr. Roberts' latest book, "The Tyranny of Good Intentions," has just been released by Prima Publishers.
Sue
- Sunday, March 10, 2002 at 00:20:35 (EST)

My two cents are: QUESTION?? Is there a difference between Al-Qaedian Ass-Holes, and Camel's Ass-Holes?? Neither one uses toliet paper or takes a bath.
WILLYUM
- Sunday, March 10, 2002 at 00:15:43 (EST)

My two cents are: Don't you mean Al-Qaedan camels' ass holes?
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 09, 2002 at 23:11:32 (EST)

My two cents are: Question for the ages: Who was the first American President to bomb Al-Qaeda strongholds?
hint: think thong
- Saturday, March 09, 2002 at 22:03:48 (EST)

My two cents are: HEY!!!! I thought I was supposed to be stimulated by Baby Bush, or was I supposed to be seduced into thinking I would be stimulated???
CLIFFORD
- Saturday, March 09, 2002 at 21:57:50 (EST)

My two cents are: "13 Persons have been killed and over 107 wounded in two terror attacks on Saturday night in Netanya and Jerusalem. 70 ambulances were dispatched to the scenes of the attacks to evacuate the dead and wounded from the scene." Seems that Israel has no choice but to kill these terrorists, and as fast as they can. They need Powell about as much as we need the French.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 09, 2002 at 21:12:32 (EST)

My two cents are: ...in stereo! (Posted at http://members.fortunecity.com/fornigate/)
Glint
- Saturday, March 09, 2002 at 20:27:03 (EST)

My two cents are: By the way, I've added tunes to most of the ancillary pages, for your pleasure. Still need to add my Nebraska trip pics someday. (Posted at http://members.fortunecity.com/fornigate/)
Glint
- Saturday, March 09, 2002 at 20:20:56 (EST)

My two cents are: See you around. I'm stepping down to the Ydog site at http://members.fortunecity.com/fornigate/ydog/and print out some motivational posters for my people. (Posted at http://members.fortunecity.com/fornigate/)
Glint
- Saturday, March 09, 2002 at 20:12:38 (EST)

My two cents are: Here's an interesting bootleg, an accoustic demo of Wheels recorded in 1980: http://www.geocities.com/beatlegged/watching.ra
Glint
- Saturday, March 09, 2002 at 18:35:12 (EST)

My two cents are: You know, tunes for the unemployed. There's a difference though between being down between gigs and laid off from a "permanent" job. One of my short timers had a birthday on Friday so I brought her a cake and invited everyone to have a slice. Everyone but the V.P. that is. Probably cutting my own throat, but the way I look at it is when you launch a ship you want to send it off with all the good will possible. One of these days a person could find themself marooned on a raft in the middle of the sea waiting for a friendly ship to pass.
Glint
- Saturday, March 09, 2002 at 18:06:06 (EST)

My two cents are: In the latest recognition that September 11 changed the Bush presidency , aides charged with identifying and preserving his legacy are already pointing to the 'new American foriegn policy' as his 'benchmark issue.' Says an adminstration official: 'This war on terrorism, and how foriegn policy was adapted to it, will we what Bush is remembered for.' And we're not just talking about getting Osama Bin Laden. 'You'll see it,' says another aide, 'In two years when Bush invites to the presidential box at the State of the Union the president of the 'Federal Republic of Iran' or 'Iraq.'
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 09, 2002 at 18:01:09 (EST)

My two cents are: Considering burning CDs for my people that are being let go. Trying to recall the comforting tunes that I enjoyed. Let's see, there was 1. "Proud Mary" by CCR; 2. "Keep on Rockin'" by Steve Miller; 3. "Watching the Wheels" by John Lennon; 4. "One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer" by George Thorogood; 5. "Money is the Name of the Game" by George Benton; and 6. "Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out" by Nina Simone. Anyone else remember any others?
Glint
- Saturday, March 09, 2002 at 18:01:08 (EST)

My two cents are: Waiting to see where Warrior George carries us.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 09, 2002 at 17:41:38 (EST)

My two cents are: There are lots of people keeping tabs on Clinton because they care so much. Wanting to lend a hand helping his legacy limp along until its legs are strong enough to carry him off into the sunset. Or anywhere, just as long as they carry him off.
glad we made it across that rickety bridge to the 21st century
- Saturday, March 09, 2002 at 16:49:59 (EST)

My two cents are: No, man, Cliton won't let go of Republicans, man. He's the scut still on the bong , man. Come on baby light my fire.... I'm ready to toke that bent thingo...yabba..
cheech
- Saturday, March 09, 2002 at 16:45:06 (EST)

My two cents are: "around the globe as well as south america." hmmm..freudian slip?
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 09, 2002 at 16:44:02 (EST)

My two cents are: enough fighting power
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 09, 2002 at 16:39:01 (EST)

My two cents are: Maybe there will be enough fighting with an all volunteer military to fight an endless war around the globe including South America, as well as defend our borders here.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 09, 2002 at 16:36:14 (EST)

My two cents are: The War on Terror so far. At what point will we need to replace military personnel? The troops have to be replaced at some point. When does this become a war of attrition? Keep in mind, there really is no end to this war. The Bases: Afghanistan: Combat role Pakistan: Bases Uzbekistan: Base Tajikistan: Base Kyrgystan: Base Georgia: Military advisers and base Philippines: Military advisers Red Sea: Naval patrols Yemen: Military advisers Sudan: Military advisers in preparation for action in Somalia Saudi: Arabia Base Kuwait: US will need to beef up presence if action is taken against Iraq Turkey: US will need big bases in the country if action is taken against Iraq
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 09, 2002 at 16:27:42 (EST)

My two cents are: I'm uncomfortable with the 80% who are comfortable with the symbol GW has become.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 09, 2002 at 15:59:38 (EST)

My two cents are: Consequently we have reaped what we sowed. The Bush administration is a wake up call. It has only been one year of this administration in office. I doubt we will recognize America four years from now.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 09, 2002 at 15:57:14 (EST)

My two cents are: There is no constitutional precedent for the high court to decide the President. It was not an option 200 years ago, it is not an option today. Even if we all go along with it. It is still not constitutional, definitely not democratic.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 09, 2002 at 15:52:57 (EST)

My two cents are: I'm uncomfortable with people who are comfortable with a Democratic Elective process where the winner of the majority vote is not the president. And the occupant of the office was decided in a divided vote along party lines in the highest court in the nation. Get over it? NEVER!
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 09, 2002 at 15:51:23 (EST)

My two cents are: I'd like to have the neighberhood watch while Ed shows up on my doorstep with my winnings from PCH.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 09, 2002 at 15:47:41 (EST)

My two cents are: He's their whipping boy.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 09, 2002 at 15:45:24 (EST)

My two cents are: Bill Press: Republicans can't let go of Bill Clinton http://www.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/03/07/column.billpress/index.html
go, bill, go
- Saturday, March 09, 2002 at 15:44:24 (EST)

My two cents are: ann really has it hard for clinton.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 09, 2002 at 15:37:49 (EST)

My two cents are: Judge Posner Has the Last Word on 2000 Election Debacle Universal Press Syndicate | March 7, 2002 By Ann Coulter Democrats regularly insult the intelligence of half the public in order to win the votes of the terminally stupid. As long as their lies bamboozle enough clods to give them a political edge, they will say absolutely anything. The Easily Demagogued are a key Democratic constituency, right after Steely-Eyed Zealots. Thus for example, even after Bill Clinton was exposed as a slightly tackier version of Jimmy Swaggart, the Democrats could not stop insulting our intelligence, sonorously intoning that it is not perjury if it's "just about sex" or -- contradictorily -- it is also not perjury if the witness personally believed it wasn't sex. Further, during the Clintonized presidential election fiasco, the party's law professor adjuncts fanned out across the airwaves to earnestly explain that the Florida Supreme Court was engaging in a perfectly ordinary act of judicial interpretation when it interpreted "seven days" in the statute to mean "17 days, or as long as it takes for Gore to steal the election." And most recently, Democrats have taken the position that the heroic performance of policemen, firemen and the military after 9-11 supports the Democrats' love of big government. Inasmuch as liberals have spent 20 years relentlessly suing fire departments, police departments and the military, this is a very aggressive position to take. Indeed, every hero of Sept. 11 has been a favorite target of liberal lawsuits. There's no better way to say "thank you" than to sue for sexual discrimination! Watching Democrats in action often feels like being the target of a "Candid Camera" set-up. You constantly find yourself wanting to scream, As a class, one group that is not keeping tabs on Democratic shenanigans is the media. Thus, when Bill Clinton unleashed his signature weeping routine during a black church service in 1993, the Chicago Tribune factually reported that Clinton "appeared to feel every word and emotion deeply." Naturally, it always comes as a great relief when the left's demagogic hokum is finally exposed despite the best efforts of the press. If the Alan Funt of the Bill Clinton spectacle was Monica Lewinsky, the Alan Funt of the election spectacle is at the opposite end of the IQ spectrum: It is Judge Richard Posner, author of "Breaking the Deadlock." Posner, a federal judge on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, goes through the Democrats' every legal argument, every sneaky stratagem, every disingenuous claim, like William Tecumseh Sherman marching to Savannah. Point by point, by his relentless logic, he has them trapped whichever way they turn. The election fracas is the perfect topic for Judge Posner's analytical, computer-like brain. He is the most frequently cited federal judge. He was a founder of the Chicago Law and Economics movement. The late Supreme Court Justice William Brennan called him one of only two geniuses he had ever met. So you can pretty well imagine his reaction to the deep cogitations of SCOFLA -- the Supreme Court of Florida. Though Posner is not the sort to come out and call SCOFLA a bunch of ambulance-chasers, his precise, unemotional style is far more devastating. Taking a clinical interest in his subject, Posner writes at one point simply that "(o)ne is mystified" by the SCOFLA's reasoning. In its first abrogation of clear statutory law, SCOFLA interpreted "seven days" to mean "17 days" and thus unlawfully extended the period before the election could be certified. That decision, Posner says, was "the catalyst for the legal and political broil that ensued." And it was based on "an unreasonable and not merely unsound interpretation of the statute." SCOFLA had concluded that it was entitled to disregard Florida election law on the basis of a general provision in the Florida Constitution that states simply: "All political power is inherent in the people." Posner treats as an odd curiosity the fact that the court "seems to have regarded" this "people power" clause as superior to the written law. Yet this was the "key" to its decision. Jane Goodall could not have described the SCOFLA's rationale with greater dispassion. The SCOFLA's ludicrous power grab occasionally tries the patience of even this most circumspect academic: "The Constitution is not a brooding omnipresence," Posner writes, nor do the courts function as a "council of revision" to ensure that statutes "reflect the 'spirit' of the Constitution." Rather, he says: "The courts can invalidate a statute, or interpret it reasonably, but they are not to interpret it unreasonably merely because it does not embody the aspirations that the courts find limned in vague constitutional language." And consider that SCOFLA gets off easy in Posner's account. As he says: "The participants most deserving of criticism, though as yet largely spared it, are the law professors who offered public comments on the unfolding drama." If you suspected that the Democrats and their legal and journalistic handmaidens were trying to steal an election in broad daylight, "Breaking the Deadlock" will not relieve your mind. There is no argument, no riposte, no silly liberal sentiment that Posner does not methodically deconstruct. This book is the complete antidote to 36 days of a Clintonized transfer of power.
go anne go: screw up the traitorous liar liberal scumbag demonrats
- Saturday, March 09, 2002 at 15:23:36 (EST)

My two cents are: Someone should tell Ed this isn't about waving at your neighbor.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 09, 2002 at 15:22:45 (EST)

My two cents are: ATTORNEY GENERAL John D. Ashcroft unveiled plans yesterday to add nearly $2 million in federal funds to the Neighborhood Watch program with the aim of doubling the number of local groups to 15,000 nationwide. Ashcroft also wants the watch programs to root out terrorists. "There are activities, individuals who are doing suspicious things," Ashcroft said, noting that he wasn't asking citizens to report neighbors who looked suspicious merely because of their appearance. Ashcroft, joined at a Washington news conference by Ed McMahon, the former �Tonight Show� sidekick and new Neighborhood Watch pitchman, said the program�s expanded focus follows �in the great tradition of American volunteerism.� �Through the Neighborhood Watch program, we will weave a seamless web of prevention of terrorism that brings together citizens and law enforcement,� Ashcroft said. National Neighborhood Watch, with an estimated 50 million participants across the United States, is the largest in a patchwork of programs that enlist residents to help police fight local crime. President Bush has made Neighborhood Watch a part of his USA Freedom Corps, a broad initiative to encourage volunteerism in the war on terrorism. One facet of the new campaign is a series of television advertisements sponsored by the National Crime Prevention Council, sponsor of the famous �McGruff� crime-fighting ads. The new spots feature McMahon, the former Johnny Carson straight man, who introduced Ashcroft yesterday with his trademark line, �Heeeere�s Johnny!� The lighthearted ads play on McMahon�s roles as pitchman for the Publishers Clearinghouse sweepstakes and host of �Star Search� and other talent shows. They include a cameo by McMahon�s new granddaughter, Jiao-Jiao. Crime in general, and terrorism in particular, are never mentioned. �There used to be neighborhoods,� McMahon said. �Everybody knew their neighbor. You waved to your neighbor, you said hello. That�s kind of been lost, and I think we can bring it back again and be a united family.� Organizers said the campaign is aimed at giving citizens a chance to help in the war on terrorism and was inspired by the heroism of volunteers who have emerged in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks in New York and Washington. �There�s fighting terrorism on the Delta Force level, and there�s fighting terrorism on the neighborhood level,� said Dean Keuter Jr. of the National Sheriffs� Association, which originated the Neighborhood Watch program in 1972. �That�s the level we are shooting for.�
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 09, 2002 at 15:19:21 (EST)

My two cents are: You people don't know anything! All it takes is cutting down one of the three who form the Axis of Evil. The two remaining ones are then reduced to the Axle of Evil. Geesh!
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 09, 2002 at 15:09:02 (EST)

My two cents are: Many misguided citizens in our country think asking questions is unpatriotic and divisive. I wish someone would point blank as Bush exactly what his intentions are concerning the axis of evil. Do we intend to invade North Korea? As far as I'm concerned that is his message. We have already begun our offensive toward Iraq. There is no doubt we plan to invade. Why mention the other two in the same sentence if the mission is not the same?
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 09, 2002 at 14:52:57 (EST)

My two cents are: BABY BUSH, is going to stimulate me!!! Isn't that Great!!!-----
CLIFFORD
- Saturday, March 09, 2002 at 14:42:46 (EST)

My two cents are: The United States continues to broaden its scope on this war. We have progressed beyond bringing justice to the perpetrators and the war on terror and nations that harbor terror. Terror has now become the war on evil. It is not a war about seeking justice, but a preemptive war to rid the world of evil. If we have to go it alone, by GEORGE, we will see evil vanish from this globe. My concern is the definition of evil. Conservatives honestly see liberals as evil. Ann Coulter is not alone in this hysteria.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 09, 2002 at 14:31:21 (EST)

My two cents are: "McKinley's moral philosophy was grounded on a puritanical and religious faith that aimed at leading mankind to the holiness of Christian civilization. He regarded himself as part of a covenant that had the moral responsibility to Christianize and civilize those who were not. This moral ideal is implicit in McKinley's action where it interweaves with political motives. For example, in 1898, McKinley's somewhat reluctant decision to occupy all the Philippines reveals both missionary and imperialist intentions." I just read this about McKinley. We still have politicians who have this goal today.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 09, 2002 at 14:10:21 (EST)

My two cents are: I am sill confused about Mohammed. Did he really say to kill and conquer? Is all religion about world domination? Did Jesus also demand world domination of Christianity? Somehow I don't think Jesus would approve of the inquistion. I don't know anything about Mohammed or Islam
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 09, 2002 at 14:05:47 (EST)

My two cents are: Jesus said He was the way, not an organized religion. There are plenty of non-christians following the path of Christ. I doubt they are lost. There are plenty of "Christians" who are following their own path. I think Christ came for ALL men and all men have the choice to follow.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 09, 2002 at 14:02:31 (EST)

My two cents are: Heaven as a state of mind would still require a change of heart to enter.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 09, 2002 at 13:55:12 (EST)

My two cents are: If heaven is a state of mind there'll be no outies. Unless God is Mind and has a gate that's locked to some. Of course Christians believe Jesus is the Key. According to them a Key by any other name will not do.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 09, 2002 at 13:52:10 (EST)

My two cents are: I heard this on Paul Harvey. The third grade was having a costume day where the children dressed up as their favorite hero. One little boy dressed in tunic and staff went as Jesus. Another boy told him he looked like little boy peep. "Jesus" gave the boy a black eye.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 09, 2002 at 13:51:45 (EST)

My two cents are: I don't recall Jesus spending time with people whose values reflect those of crynic,skilling or lay. Why would He choose to spend eternity with them? They'd have to deny thyself and following Him. Jesus doesn't do the following,and He made it clear he isn't going in their direction. Jesus leads.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 09, 2002 at 13:47:38 (EST)

My two cents are: This is all bullshit. I'm heading up to haunts of coot and hearn. Where a man can breath deep and feel free. Why stay around here eating this nanny-state shit? Gone. Not here.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 09, 2002 at 13:38:36 (EST)

My two cents are: The crynic is just a blowhard who talks a good game but can't putt. He isn't qualified to head up a second string Kenny Boy subsidiary named after an obscure character in "Star Wars III." His hot young girlfriend is a Bulgarian skag divorc� he met at the bowling alley. His portfolio is a stack of old lottery tickets. He works a desk at his father-in-law's employment agency and gets his ass chewed more often than Glint. I know it's hard to learn that your heroes are plaster saints, but that's the way it is. Learn to live with it.
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- Saturday, March 09, 2002 at 13:36:50 (EST)

My two cents are: The richest guy I know about is the crynic. Made a bundle in the maritime industry, even though he got burned on a few IPO second-day scams. Plus he is a man without a country, and probably murdered his wife. And he takes advantage of hot young girls, has his way with them, blinding them with his sophistication and savoir-faire. Could Jesus slip a man like that into heaven? If he could get the crynic in, he might be able to get Skilling in. I don't know about Kenny Boy, even though people are saying he was just a pawn in the game. I'd believe it if crynic was pulling the strings, but I don't think the crynic had much to do with Enron, and sold out when it hit $35 on Omar's advice.
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- Saturday, March 09, 2002 at 13:27:37 (EST)

My two cents are: Could he get Skilling and Kenny boy into heaven? They're rich guys. So are the Bushes, come to think of it. The Carlyle Group and all, and Arbusto Ltd., and all the other sweet deals. Could Bush get Neal Bush into Heaven? Somehow I doubt it.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 09, 2002 at 13:22:55 (EST)

My two cents are: Sucker could have made a camel go through the eye of a needle or got a rich man into heaven. The guy was wired.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 09, 2002 at 13:21:04 (EST)

My two cents are: That's like asking how he could walk on that water wearing those sandals. They were magic sandals, asshole, miraculous sandals. Jesus could have stomped porcupines, hedge-hogs, armadillos, lit cigarette butts, all sorts of things with those sandals. I suppose you're one of these guys who wants to know what they did with all the turds that accumulated in Noah's Ark? Can you spell m-i-r-a-c-l-e? Jesus could do anything he wanted, and so could his old man. None of this would surprise you if you believed on the lord like a white man.
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- Saturday, March 09, 2002 at 13:19:50 (EST)

My two cents are: How could he stomp a porcupine wearing those sandals?
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 09, 2002 at 13:16:23 (EST)

My two cents are: Stomp it, but don't toy with it. That's what Jesus would do.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 09, 2002 at 13:15:55 (EST)

My two cents are: Yes. According to Jesus, that is.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 09, 2002 at 12:21:03 (EST)

My two cents are: Well, if you see a sick turtle or porcupine do you have to go over and stomp it?
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 09, 2002 at 12:04:38 (EST)

My two cents are: Jesus approves of crushing the pineapple, considers it a merciful act. It would have been cruel to continue toying with the poor bastard.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 09, 2002 at 11:56:59 (EST)

My two cents are: What else is there to do when a sicko like him bends over?
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 09, 2002 at 11:50:58 (EST)

My two cents are: Plus, to a large extent the pineapple crushed himself. All we did was help him a little.
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- Saturday, March 09, 2002 at 11:46:25 (EST)

My two cents are: Of course, you might say, what about the soul, for crushing your enemies like bugs isn't very Christian. Not in the sense of bible-thumping rube mid-western bunkum Christianity, but in the historical sense of Jesus's teachings as the founder of liberal humanism. But my soul is already tarnished. Look at what I did to the pineapple right here on this page. And he wasn't even an enemy, just a sad sack of shit on a web page, who never did me any harm or thwarted any of my designs whatsoever. Might as well go balls out from here on in. Maybe Jesus really does represent a vengeful God, who will look approvingly on the crushing.
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- Saturday, March 09, 2002 at 11:44:02 (EST)

My two cents are: Yeah, but watch those road curves, chump.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 09, 2002 at 11:40:54 (EST)

My two cents are: Actually, I don't really care if I crush them like bugs any more. But I figure what the hell, might as well. Nothing much else to do. Plus it will be nice for a high three. And I'm tired of all these goddamn stop-lights. The home sod doesn't have a traffic light in the whole county. You just roll comme un beau diable.
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- Saturday, March 09, 2002 at 11:36:02 (EST)

My two cents are: Well, I guess I got to bite the bullet and head up to the mountains. The dude is coming to appraise the joint Monday so I can improve the cash flow per Omar, my financial advisor and rug merchant. Also want to get a pole saw and the big wooden jack plane, maybe some copper nails, all that stuff is up there. In addition, need to see if I can stand up to the winter. Sent in the application for a job up there, be able to divest some of this real estate, return to the old sod and crush my enemies like bugs. I'll make the cert, but I doubt they'll hire me, seeing as how the people doing the hiring are the ones I intend to crush like bugs if I get the job. My only chance is that they are ready to roll, want to have it out here and now. If they are, it's payback time. Blood on the walls. They'll have to be in the Comanche mood and tell themselves it is a glorious day to die. Scalps on the pole, Geronimo.
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- Saturday, March 09, 2002 at 11:33:00 (EST)

My two cents are: An artist with really good eyesight is that Ted Nugent. He's also had his share of under-age pussy, if that is relevant here.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 09, 2002 at 11:26:50 (EST)

My two cents are: Blind as a freaking bat. That's why he was usually with Brownie McGee (tell me that's not a black guy) or some other sighted guide. I sometimes think it spilled over into his music style. You know the way a blind person doesn't know when his necktie is crooked and doesn't really care? Maybe that explains the weird hooting noises that passed for Sonny's singing, when he wasn't blowing on the harp. You probably didn't realize he was blind because he wasn't wearing the tell-tale huge dark glasses � la Ray Charles or Stevie Wonder or Roy Orbison, although Orbison, if the truth be known, was not blind at all, and could spot a cobweb in the choke-cherries two hundred yards off.
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- Saturday, March 09, 2002 at 11:25:24 (EST)

My two cents are: Sonny Terry was blind? I saw him play once. Blind? Shit, no wonder the poor fucker wouldn'g give me his autograph. All these years, I figured he was just an asshole.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 09, 2002 at 11:03:21 (EST)

My two cents are: If Laura is pussed over and sewn shut, her foul mouth will do fine. I got a big one cumming for her. Open wide, First Lady.
Pete�
- Saturday, March 09, 2002 at 03:59:03 (EST)

My two cents are: What's going on in the House of George, is Laura becoming co-George?
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 09, 2002 at 03:20:32 (EST)

My two cents are: When George Bush gets the jitters, the whole world twitches, you know what I'm saying?
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- Saturday, March 09, 2002 at 01:55:19 (EST)

My two cents are: What I'm saying, it's easy to make a mistake with freaks or gimps. You go ahead and treat them like normal people, the way a sailor like the crynic when he hits port walks as if the ground is going to pitch and roll. George Bush sees a guy singing for him, his natural impulse is going to be to wave, no matter if the fellow is blind. I'd rather have the bandy-legged little guy living loose rather than walking around on eggshells worried that he's going to offend people by acting natural with them. He's under enough stress already, and isn't known for his ability to take it. We've got another three years to live with the sap, so let's make it as easy as we can.
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- Saturday, March 09, 2002 at 01:54:05 (EST)

My two cents are: Give Bush a break is right. I once shook hands with a guy who scuttled around the sidewalks and gutters belly-up on all fours, like a crab. If you think that wasn't disgusting....
Oggie
- Saturday, March 09, 2002 at 01:50:00 (EST)

My two cents are: On the other hand, Sonny Terry was blind as a bat, yet he was always called Sonny by friend and foe alike. I've always wondered why deaf musicians weren't treated the same way. You hardly ever hear of Deaf Johnny Washington or Deaf Willie Williams.
Ogden Slivovitz
- Saturday, March 09, 2002 at 01:48:12 (EST)

My two cents are: Give the guy a break. Maybe he was trying to converse with Stevie Wonder in sign language.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 09, 2002 at 00:37:35 (EST)

My two cents are: No. He probably would have waved to him and asked someone why it is they call him Blind Stevie Wonder.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 09, 2002 at 00:13:48 (EST)

My two cents are: You know, I was thinking. Back in the olden days, there wouldn't have been a chance for it to happen. Back then, if a black musician was blind, that became his first name. There was Blind Lemon Jefferson, Blind Willie McTell, a whole slew of them. Back then, he would have been Blind Stevie Wonder and there's a good chance President* Bush would have caught on.
Harlan St. Wolf
- Friday, March 08, 2002 at 23:59:52 (EST)

My two cents are: What ever happened to Gary and Dan and their harem of twats? I miss the sparkle of their repart�e.
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- Friday, March 08, 2002 at 23:14:58 (EST)

My two cents are: Where can I see this Hannity? Sounds like something of a medium-necked giraffe.
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 08, 2002 at 23:13:34 (EST)

My two cents are: Because of the liberal media, a whole generation of Americans may grow up without knowing of the Clinton-Jones payoff. They may grow up thinking of Paula Jones as an obscure bimbo with no standing to sue. What the hell has become of the Ten Commandments?
Stan Rygiol
- Friday, March 08, 2002 at 23:12:30 (EST)

My two cents are: Hannity has a piece of the action? A guy with a neanderthal hairline that almost meets the eyebrows, not surprising.
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 08, 2002 at 23:07:23 (EST)

My two cents are: No, Snippy was sitting next to Ray Charles. When he realized that he'd been waving to Wonder, he turned to Charles and said, "Did you see what I just did? I feel like such an idiot!"
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 08, 2002 at 22:52:29 (EST)

My two cents are: Maybe Snippy thought that was Ray Charles.
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 08, 2002 at 22:42:20 (EST)

My two cents are: Besides, who ever knew that Stevie Wonder is blind? This was complete news to me. I always thought the sunglasses and head bobbing were some sort of hipster affectation.
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 08, 2002 at 22:02:49 (EST)

My two cents are: If Poppy had been at a tablefull of blind Japs when he OD'd and puked, nobody would have the wiser. Snippy gets all the breaks.
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 08, 2002 at 21:15:48 (EST)

My two cents are: It would have been embarrassing. Let's just be thankful Mr. Wonder didn't see Bush waving. Close call.
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 08, 2002 at 21:03:50 (EST)

My two cents are: Give me a break. President Bush sees hundreds of people every day. He was excited to see Mr. Wonder and starts waving at him and you call that worse than posing for a picture while looking through a pair of binoculars without taking off the lens cover? Mr. Bush put his hand down as soon as he remembered he was blind, so what is Mr. Clinton's excuse? What was he looking at? Obviously the same thing Mr. Wonder always looks at, complete darkness.
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 08, 2002 at 20:47:54 (EST)

My two cents are: Infection toll from anthrax bioterrorism attack would have been much worse without antibiotics... Drudge
Oh, sure, and aspirin helps a headache.
- Friday, March 08, 2002 at 20:23:46 (EST)

My two cents are: I heard that Starr is no longer managing Paula Jones, and has nothing to do with the Fox celebrity match. The new puppet-master is Brit Hume. Hannity has a piece of the action, but he has to wait in line and slosh in another's seed.
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 08, 2002 at 20:19:18 (EST)

My two cents are: It was Kenneth Starr who was the Celebrity. Jones was just a woman he picked out of the trailer parks and molded into a star. And how does she thank him? She thanks him by becoming a public Jeezebell and laughing stalk, a painted harlot, making it seem as if she was nothing more than a convenient bimbo to smear the president with. Poor Jedge Starr didn't know what he was doing when he promised the woman fortune and fame, and put the want-lust in her, showed her the "bright lights of Baltimore." As ye sow, so shall ye reap.
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 08, 2002 at 20:15:59 (EST)

My two cents are: On the other hand or knee - whacking made Harding somewhat of a celebrity.
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 08, 2002 at 20:14:20 (EST)

My two cents are: "Celebrity" might be stretching it for both women. Jones made international headlines with her lawsuit that claimed former President Bill Clinton made an unwelcome sexual advance on her in 1991.
There they go again, saying Paula's not a celebrity
- Friday, March 08, 2002 at 20:07:21 (EST)

My two cents are: Jones had an airtight case. All she lacked was a law that applied to it. I'm still a little bitter that she took the low bid and ran, straight into the arms of Bob Guccione, and now this Tanya Harding buzz-saw. She could have brought Clinton down if she had kept at it, make Americans think of him as a pussy-hound instead of the two-term honestly-elected President who gave them eight years of well-regulated world affairs and unprecedented economic expansion and citizen empowerment at home. She might even have pulled him down below 60% approval in the polls. A quitter. She'll probably quit the first time Harding lands one.
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- Friday, March 08, 2002 at 20:04:22 (EST)

My two cents are: Twisting the truth, as always.
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 08, 2002 at 20:00:12 (EST)

My two cents are: Who cares.
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 08, 2002 at 19:46:04 (EST)

My two cents are: "Jones made international headlines with her lawsuit that claimed former President Bill Clinton made an unwelcome sexual advance on her in 1991. A federal judge dismissed the lawsuit." Was that before or after Hillary Clinton wrote out the check to settle the case out of court?
liberal media is at it again
- Friday, March 08, 2002 at 18:53:14 (EST)

My two cents are: By the way, and this goes for you too faux Glint@18:13, the designation of this particular supernova is 2002BJ. And no, it's not named to honor Bill Clinton's legacy!
Glint
- Friday, March 08, 2002 at 18:47:11 (EST)

My two cents are: Speaking of Pete, Glint and other butt-boys, I was listening to Dr. Dean Edell today. He referred to a study that showed that men who voiced the strongest anti-gay attitudes, demonstrated more response in their penises when watching gay porn. Edell said this is the only study he can recall that actually proves one of Freud's theories.
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 08, 2002 at 18:15:47 (EST)

My two cents are: Thanks, Pete. Nice to have you as my butt-boy.
Glint
- Friday, March 08, 2002 at 18:13:23 (EST)

My two cents are: http://us.news1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20020307/i/1015480907.3288457305.jpg -- Here's a photo relating to that supernova, Glint.
Pete�
- Friday, March 08, 2002 at 18:00:05 (EST)

My two cents are: Has anyone else here heard about the new magitude 14.7 supernova in galaxy NGC 1821 in Lepus? Supposed to be cloudy here tonight. http://www.aavso.org/alerts/alert294/alert294text.stm
Glint
- Friday, March 08, 2002 at 17:55:48 (EST)

My two cents are: Paula Jones, Tonya Harding square off LOS ANGELES, California (AP) --Disgraced Olympic skater Tonya Harding and presidential scandal queen Paula Jones squared off Thursday in a TV boxing match that featured entertainment has-beens. "Celebrity Boxing," which was being taped at the KTLA studios for Dick Clark Productions, is scheduled to air next week on Fox. The taping was closed to the media. The show also featured '70s TV stars Danny Bonaduce -- Danny Partridge from "The Partridge Family" -- versus Barry Williams, oldest brother Greg from "The Brady Bunch." "Have you seen him? He's Greg Brady," Bonaduce, who's made a new career as a radio and syndicated TV talk show host, joked at a Wednesday night weigh-in ceremony. "What's my strategy? To knock him down and laugh at him." Rapper Vanilla Ice was to battle Todd Bridges, Willis from TV's "Diff'rent Strokes," in the night's third fight. Fox did interviews with the women during the weigh-in but wouldn't let other reporters talk to them. Earlier this month, the 5-foot-3 Jones joked that fighting the 5-foot-1 Harding might ruin her new look. "Of course, that's my first concern as a woman, messing my face up," the Cabot, Arkansas, resident told the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. "I just got my nose done, and I don't want to mess it up." She declined to say how much she was being paid for the three-round contest, which is scheduled to air at 9 p.m. EST Wednesday. The women's weights also weren't disclosed. Harding looked buff in blue stretch pants and a white tank top, her blond hair in a ponytail, while Jones wore big hoop earrings and gray stretch sweats. Later, both laughed and smiled as they posed in boxing gloves and satin robes. "Celebrity" might be stretching it for both women. Jones made international headlines with her lawsuit that claimed former President Bill Clinton made an unwelcome sexual advance on her in 1991. A federal judge dismissed the lawsuit. Harding was banned from the U.S. Figure Skating Association for life after pleading guilty to hindering the investigation of a 1994 knee-whacking assault on fellow figure skater Nancy Kerrigan. Harding originally was to have fought Amy Fisher, the "Long Island Lolita" who had an affair with auto mechanic Joey Buttafuoco in 1992 and was convicted of shooting and wounding the wife. The New York state Parole Board refused to allow Fisher's appearance, deciding it "would not be conducive to her continued parole supervision and would send an inappropriate message to victims of violent crime," spokesman Tom Grant said.
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 08, 2002 at 17:26:34 (EST)

My two cents are: Any pictures of the decaying flesh that has been eaten?
private stash
- Friday, March 08, 2002 at 17:14:22 (EST)

My two cents are: The issue is not glee or dispair that KSU gave CU the equivalent of a blue dress speckling with a final score of 102 to 73. The issue is, don't the players have classes they should be attending this afternoon?
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 08, 2002 at 17:10:55 (EST)

My two cents are: Flesh eating rash that killed Flagstaff woman called rare...
Developing
- Friday, March 08, 2002 at 16:30:00 (EST)

My two cents are: Nah, just a fool. Nothing new about that role.
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 08, 2002 at 16:15:38 (EST)

My two cents are: So, Pete's new role is fool on the hill whose eyes in his head see the world spinning round?
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 08, 2002 at 14:39:56 (EST)

My two cents are: Let's roll, my brothers and my sisters.
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 08, 2002 at 14:11:14 (EST)

My two cents are: Oh.
Pete�
- Friday, March 08, 2002 at 13:48:51 (EST)

My two cents are: No subways here. Maybe freeway praying will have to suffice. Who is this Sue??
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 08, 2002 at 13:25:54 (EST)

My two cents are: You may be jumping the gun on the healed part.
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 08, 2002 at 12:20:28 (EST)

My two cents are: I'm inclined to say Ann Coulter. Except that she's too limited. Good on air travel, sure, but can she do subways? We'll just have to wait and see.
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 08, 2002 at 12:18:43 (EST)

My two cents are: No more copping lines from HBO's "Oz?" No more copping lines from Ridley Scott's "Blackhawk Down?" No more mystification at how auditors are allowed to be consultants? Good for her, maybe, but where will that leave the rest of us? Who will express the feelings we all feel, our angst, our misgivings, our short, sweet panic attacks, our relief in the little street vignettes that rescue our humanity? Who will be our Peggy Noonan when Peggy Noonan is healed?
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- Friday, March 08, 2002 at 12:17:10 (EST)

My two cents are: I predict that when the twelve month milestone rolls around, she'll be almost back to normal. No more pawing Negroid diplomats on the train. No more rosary beads. No more my brother my sister. Just the financial pages and last night's mashed potatoes in Tupperware in a brown paper sack and a glance upward at the adverts above the windows, no eye contact. That's what closure looks like. 12 months.
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- Friday, March 08, 2002 at 12:11:03 (EST)

My two cents are: She needs to take a shower. Sit in her Safe Room for a while. Maybe put the gas mask on, or breathe into a paper bag. She may have taken more than her share of bullets.
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 08, 2002 at 12:08:11 (EST)

My two cents are: First Arianna, then Peg. Do you suppose Coulter will ever find something or someone to splice her cable, and turn liberal?
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 08, 2002 at 12:04:09 (EST)

My two cents are: Kill them. Kill them all. God will know His own.
Archbishop of Beziers
- Friday, March 08, 2002 at 11:32:52 (EST)

My two cents are: Joan of Arc. Fra Felippo Lippe. Jesus H. Christ. They were all that way. You couldn't tell. Fervor or meds? Holy Spirit or psychotic break. Only Armageedon will give us the answer.
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 08, 2002 at 10:56:55 (EST)

My two cents are: That's just the way it was with Billy Graham. You looked at him and you really couldn't tell if he was filled with the Holy Spirit or off his meds. You didn't know if he was in the full sway of evangelical fervor or in full psychotic break.
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- Friday, March 08, 2002 at 10:55:14 (EST)

My two cents are: The deal is, it's six months after the A-rabs stole the airplanes and rode them into the buildings, and people are starting to get hot-headed in the subway. What does it all mean? Is this what closure looks like? Let's have another few thousand words on the topic, Peg. Let's fight our way all the way through this thing. Don't sit on the sidelines counting beads, babe. We need you in this.
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- Friday, March 08, 2002 at 10:52:31 (EST)

My two cents are: That is, it's damn white of Drudge, my bro'.
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- Friday, March 08, 2002 at 10:41:39 (EST)

My two cents are: Well, it's damn white of Drudge to flag the good ones.
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- Friday, March 08, 2002 at 10:40:24 (EST)

My two cents are: That's why she advised coffee and settling in. It's that kind of piece, my brother. Like sitting around the campfire, sipping a cup of mud and listening to Aunt Peg weave some words together. Sure, it takes a long time to get to anything ressembling a point, but the trip is what it's all about.
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 08, 2002 at 10:29:15 (EST)

My two cents are: Yeah, but you had to wade through the whole damn piece. Why couldn't she spill it up front? A good news story reads from the top down. If you want they details, they're down toward the bottom. This bitch thinks she's writing a damn detective story, not informing the public.
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 08, 2002 at 10:25:17 (EST)

My two cents are: Has he considered firing the 85% of his administration* who carry the stigma of Enron? Not including himself, of course.
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 08, 2002 at 10:24:07 (EST)

My two cents are: Glad she explained the "my brother, my sister" angle.
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 08, 2002 at 10:21:53 (EST)

My two cents are: Snippy is calling for the exercise of good ethics in the business community. Trying to head off another Enron.
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 08, 2002 at 10:20:24 (EST)

My two cents are: Coffee, sure. No food though.
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 08, 2002 at 10:20:17 (EST)

My two cents are: A middle-aged lady can say anything she wants, and nobody thinks she's dangerous. On the subway, at least.
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- Friday, March 08, 2002 at 10:19:31 (EST)

My two cents are: So, what are the odds that, when we all got shot, she took hers in the brain?
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- Friday, March 08, 2002 at 10:17:09 (EST)

My two cents are: You'd need an urn of coffee if I had pasted the whole shebang.
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 08, 2002 at 10:15:35 (EST)

My two cents are: Excuse me. Got to go make a cup of coffee and settle in with the Noonan piece.
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 08, 2002 at 10:09:45 (EST)

My two cents are: PEGGY NOONAN My Brothers and Sisters A report from New York, six months on. Friday, March 8, 2002 12:01 a.m. EST Hello my friends, or rather my brothers and sisters, which I'll explain later. This is going to be one of those long pieces, so park it and come back later, or make some coffee and settle in. Our thought for today: This is the age of miracles and wonders, and of signs and symbols too. I am experiencing a change of temperament, if that is the word. I have mostly gone through life as a short-term pessimist and a long-term optimist, but now I find, and perhaps it's only temporary, that I am increasingly a short-term optimist and a long-term pessimist. That's not quite right. I am certain there is a heaven, which is not a pessimistic belief. But my long-term thoughts about the world are not as sunny as once they were. And yet I am happy each day and enjoy my life. While I am worried about the future in a way I cannot shake...But back to my subject, which may be the six-month mark since Sept. 11. The papers in New York have been carrying reports that the emotional aftershocks of trauma tends to be most intense six to 12 months after the event. Which would possibly explain both my friends' apocalyptic jitters and what I've been seeing on the subway. I notice that people on the subway in just the past few days have been--well, I am seeing less beauty in our subways, after months of finding them the best place to be. I love my darling subway and feel great tenderness toward the people crowded into it. We're all together in the noise and clamor and crowdedness, with lights flickering on and off and the public-address system hissing inadequately and the train jerking to a stop in the middle of the tunnel. I sit there--I almost always get a seat--and say the rosary and am happy. How could I not be? I have progressed in my prayer life from praying for myself and my loved ones to praying for others. This took a solid 12 years. Twelve years to learn to pray consistently for others! (This is, I know, an amazingly personal thing to say, but I don't imagine it can harm anyone, and this is not a time for reticence in such matters.) I now pray for strangers, happily. I am so proud of this, and relieved. The subway gives me constant new people to pray for. It's like the Canterbury Tales down there, like the great procession, so many different kinds of people doing different things, thinking fabulous things, on their way to different places, living different lives. It's like a Broadway show. I wish people would stand and share their reveries, or sing whatever song is in their heads. On the No. 4 train there is the man with no legs. He pushes himself along on a little roller-blade sort of rig, pushing himself through the cars with a paper cup, saying nothing. He looks like Porgy in "Porgy and Bess." The tall white men almost uniformly ignore him, the shorter darker people, especially the women, give him quarters and dollars. The ones who have least give quickest, and most. Last week a woman was walking car to car as the train rushed along. She was in her 40s, black, heavy, with a little white wool hat on her head. She was preaching Christ and him crucified. You looked at her and you really couldn't tell if she was filled with the Holy Spirit or off her meds. You didn't know if she was in the full sway of evangelical fervor or in full psychotic break. But there was a lovely tolerance with which everyone looked up, observed, listened and then went back to their papers or back to sleep. There are crazy people who won't harm you, and friendly old people, and kids. There is an Asian woman whom I've seen a few times, dead asleep, with her two children, each under 10, sleeping soundly next to her. I sit and pray and feel my prayers bring greater peace wherever I am. And lately this is good, for in just the past few days, as we approach the sixth-month point, things are getting snarkier in our underground. There is more disturbance down there in the dark, more tension than in December and January and February. Or so it seems to me. Yesterday a man was haranguing a young stranger in a loud voice, verbally harassing her on the need for friendliness between people who don't know each other. He was aggressive, hectoring. The poor young woman just nodded, smiled and tried to placate. I prayed on him, and he got off the train. Earlier this week there was a more dramatic moment. A woman--hyper, in her 20s, tall, strong, Jamaican accent, tight black pants, high boots--got into an argument with a young Asian woman. I couldn't make out what it was about, but the Jamaican woman was very angry. Then she turned her anger on a young man, who intervened for the Asian woman. In a loud and dominating voice she called him "rude" and "inappropriate" and "incapable of facing" his own lack of manners. She was very articulate and quite forceful, and she seemed on the edge of out of control. Finally, pale with anger, the man snapped, "You'd be a lot better off if you'd lay off the heroin. I'm a doctor, and I know what I'm talking about." She became enraged, stood and yelled, "What do you know? You're a doctor? I'll show you my needle-pocked arm as I knock your block off!" And she went toward him. And ever so smoothly, ever so massively, a young black man wearing earphones blocked her way, as if by accident. "Yes, my sister, he is rude, ignore him. I know you're not on H. He has no idea the charge he's making." She looked at him. She pleaded her case to him. She started to simmer down. He said soothing words. She was utterly unconscious of her own aggression, and experienced herself as a person under siege, forced to stand up for her own humanity. She couldn't see that she was pushing people around. But he understood, and befriended her. And now they stood talking, finally chuckling, as we bumped along from station to station through the darkness. She got off at 33rd Street. We all let out sighs of relief. The man who'd helped her moved to get off at the next stop. I patted his arm. "My friend," I said. He removed his ear phones and looks at me. "You are a diplomat," I said. He shook his head in the noise. "You are a born diplomat," I said louder. His faces broke into a smile. Now the man sitting next to me joined in. "Did good, man," he said. He looked like a cop. The diplomat smiled, nodded, shrugged. "All just tryin' get home, man. Just doin' our best." I switched trains at 14th Street, stood a few stops. A seat opened up and a man who was drinking from a bottle in a brown paper bag gestured to me to take it. I smiled my thanks, and a few stops later the seat next to me opened and I moved over and he sat down. When I got to my stop I asked him if he wanted my paper and he said no, and then yes, and thanked me with a sweet smile. I said, "Goodbye, my brother," and he said goodnight. The man on HBO's "Oz" who is the leader of the prison Muslims gets to call those who share his faith "my brother." I always like the way he says it, with such dignity and respect. My faith is one whose adherents include all races and ethnic groups, and I never know who my brothers and sisters are. So I've decided they're everyone. I have taken to calling strangers with whom I interact "my brother" and "my sister." It surprises people but no one seems to dislike it, and almost everyone smiles. There is a great liberation to age. You are allowed to say anything when you are a middle-aged woman, for no one is eager to be offended by you. You're harmless, and probably well-meaning. I can't wait till I'm old. I will call strangers "my beloved little darling." But the point, and there really was one a few score paragraphs ago: New Yorkers are getting jittery again, and the subways are getting tenser, or so it seems to me. I have been on the subway so much because I've been going into town to witness and be part of various events. One was a screening of the CBS documentary on 9/11, which airs next week. CBS was nervous about it, though it's hard to see why. It is a respectful and affectionate look at Lucky 7, the FDNY Ladder company downtown that was among the first, if not the first, company to respond that terrible day. All of its members survived because, paradoxically, they got to the scene early. They went to the first tower that was hit, which was the second tower to fall. They milled around in the lobby. There's nothing gruesome in the documentary, no falling bodies, no people on fire. The story is told through the eyes of a "probie," a probationary fireman newly assigned to the company, and through the lens of two Frenchmen, brothers who were doing a documentary on the NYFD. The film captures the ghost-town quality of downtown that day, with everything covered in Pompeii-like ash. It captures the lostness of the firemen massed in the lobby of the first tower, as lost as a platoon on D-Day overwhelmed with heavy fire and not knowing where anyone is or what to do. It captures one of the great strangenesses of the catastrophe, and of modern life in general. And that is that the men on the scene, in the lobby of the tower, knew less about what was going on that day than did a casual viewer of television half a world away in Taiwan. The Taiwanese anchorman had the wires, live pictures, live reports. The firemen on the scene had nothing but dead radios in their hands. They had no idea what was happening, and didn't know what to do. It is amazing when this happens, when people a world away know what's happening 200 yards from you and you don't. But it happens in our modern, fully wired and utterly fragile world. Wires, wires everywhere, and yet when the catastrophe comes the firemen have dead radios and can't get word on what's happening...But back to the topic of this piece, which appears at one point to have been that we're coming up on six months after Sept. 11. I think the untold, unmentioned story about New York right now, as I wrote in a British newspaper earlier this week, is the disjunction between what we truly think and how we act. Each day we re-enact normality. We re-enact life before Sept. 11. That woman hurrying along Fifth Avenue in the coat with the mink collar, rushing with shopping bags from Barneys and Saks into the place where they do your nails. She thinks a nuke may go off in midtown this afternoon. But she also knows she needs a manicure. She gets her nails done and muses on what will happen when the big thunderclap comes, and the sky fills with light and the wind begins to whip. i don't think the world fully appreciates how targeted we feel in New York, but then I don't think we fully appreciate it either. But it occurs to us now and then, as we rush through the streets in our busy, distracted way, that we've got a target on our backs. You can walk along Madison Avenue, or First, and look and see: Nothing has changed since Sept 10. We're all still hurrying along, walking briskly through the world with our distractions and our plans. And yet every one of us knows it's quite possible--oh, it's quite likely--that we'll be hit again, and worse next time than last. It is odd and interesting that everyone thinks it will be midtown next time, not downtown or uptown. Times Square, or Broadway, or 50th and Fifth. If we think this, why don't we leave? You'd think we'd always be asking each other this question. We're not. We don't talk about it much at all. We keep our thoughts to ourselves. We don't want to be the morbid person at the lunch, or the downer at dinner. We maintain our cheerfulness. And it isn't even a mindless good cheer, it's something else. There is no really good answer to why we don't leave, but there are a million understandable ones. "My life is here." "My job is here." "The kids are in school here." A friend told me she doesn't want to live in a world without New York; she'll go down with the ship. And, "We don't know anyone in Topeka, Laramie, Tuscaloosa." We only know people here. The people who lived at the bottom of Vesuvius didn't leave Pompeii while the volcano simmered and smoked. How could they? They didn't know anyone in Messina, or Rome. They had their lives in Pompeii, their ties in Pompeii. But there's another thing New Yorkers are thinking. It's that deep in their hearts they don't really think there is a safe place. They don't think there's any safety anymore. They only think there's time, right now, this second. So they have their nails done, and do their work, and go to the lunch, and file the story, and argue the case. There's a gallantry, a cool courage, to New Yorkers now, and I wonder if they see it, if they appreciate it in themselves. I do. It's part of why I want to call them my brother, and my sister.
geesh, peggy, geesh
- Friday, March 08, 2002 at 10:04:04 (EST)

My two cents are: You rush so quickly to judgement. I don't even smoke 101 mm cigarettes.
Glint
- Friday, March 08, 2002 at 10:02:30 (EST)

My two cents are: And war prowess. If our president had nuked Afghanistan the way I recommended, we wouldn't be taking casualties now. the crynic - Friday, March 08, 2002 at 03:07:03 (EST)- Amen, brother. Someone has WAY too much time on their hands.
the crynic
- Friday, March 08, 2002 at 09:44:35 (EST)

My two cents are: IF you got Juliet Prowess in your bed-room, throw her out and get some PETER!!!!
CLIFFORD
- Friday, March 08, 2002 at 03:34:58 (EST)

My two cents are: And war prowess. If our president had nuked Afghanistan the way I recommended, we wouldn't be taking casualties now.
the crynic
- Friday, March 08, 2002 at 03:07:03 (EST)

My two cents are: Not that I'm any slouch. Financial prowess is not the only prowess that the ol' crynic has.
the crynic
- Friday, March 08, 2002 at 03:05:53 (EST)

My two cents are: That is, if he takes her along. Otherwise she's at home on the widow's walk with the milkman the mailman the roto-rooter man and the piano tuner.
the crynic
- Thursday, March 07, 2002 at 23:57:13 (EST)

My two cents are: That's one problem with the maritime business. A good captain is up on the bridge barking out orders. But his hot young wife is down in the foc's'le with thirty or forty sailors, all of them hung like pi�atas.
the crynic
- Thursday, March 07, 2002 at 23:55:55 (EST)

My two cents are: This was all a a hell of a lot easier before my old lady got the Hong Kong clap and cashed it in. Must have been that greasy rope. I knew we should of stuck with the pop-beads.
the crynic
- Thursday, March 07, 2002 at 23:52:51 (EST)

My two cents are: Of course you could say I don't really have to go so far for either financial advice or hot young pussy. But this El Pulpo is first cabin, and I don't like to bump into any of my deck-hands when I'm waiting to get laid.
the crynic
- Thursday, March 07, 2002 at 23:50:43 (EST)

My two cents are: When he's not giving financial advice, he drives a cab. Knows the corners where all the best pussy is.
the crynic
- Thursday, March 07, 2002 at 23:49:12 (EST)

My two cents are: I have a financial advisor named Delgado El Pulpo. In Nueva Laredo they call him "The Octopus." He hardly ever gives me a bum steer any more.
the crynic
- Thursday, March 07, 2002 at 23:48:20 (EST)

My two cents are: I have a lot of money.
El Kronik
- Thursday, March 07, 2002 at 22:51:11 (EST)

My two cents are: I have alot of money
crynic
- Thursday, March 07, 2002 at 22:38:55 (EST)

My two cents are: might check out dan and sue, got to go with what you know sometimes. maybe if they stick around enough to be recognizable. I mean your not shit here unless you can post as anon and people know who you are. I bet even the pinata could do that!!!
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 07, 2002 at 22:37:03 (EST)

My two cents are: Sounds like the coals aren't hot enough to sear the meat..
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 07, 2002 at 22:33:57 (EST)

My two cents are: No, I wouldn't bet on glint being the line to pete. at some level, glint always kept a little distance from the pineapple. suspect this was true on all fronts, never really let the pineapple too close, just a little too strange for a guy with a family. Anyway, perhaps glint figured that since most of us seemed tolerated blowjobs in the oval office and the burning of rush limbaugh books, that a little corpsy porky would be tolerated here as well. With the pineapple gone, maybe glint felt ok to let his true inner montalvo shine a little brighter.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 07, 2002 at 22:29:55 (EST)

My two cents are: Forget Glint and the crynic. Old news. The future is Dan and and Sue.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 07, 2002 at 22:24:50 (EST)

My two cents are: oops, was thinking male asian employee. isnt glint the one who once discussed 'sodomizing someone with a limp penis" not realizing it was a dangling modifier????
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 07, 2002 at 22:23:49 (EST)

My two cents are: The odd thing is that I was counting on Glint, as an apparently relatively well-adjusted troglodyte, to be the pipeline to Pete when he went to the rubber sheets. Now it turns out that Glint himself wears the muu-muu of shame. Do you suppose the crynic can keep it together long enough to save these two? We've got to count on the quality of the tissue-paper wrapped around that pi�ata. He hasn't exhibited any real sickness aside from a relatively benign narcissism. Maybe he can handle this if it looks like everyone is kissing his ass for it.
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- Thursday, March 07, 2002 at 22:19:00 (EST)

My two cents are: Maybe he could just rape an adult asian employee or something?
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 07, 2002 at 22:17:40 (EST)

My two cents are: Now wait a minute there, this Glint guy, the corpse porker, he's the one concerned about the welfare cases in baltimore ripping the carpet out of the federal projects and selling it for a dime on the donught?? The one worried about a heterosexual blowjob between two people with similar body temperatures? Get a sign, hide the dachsund.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 07, 2002 at 22:15:49 (EST)

My two cents are: My guess is that Glint is crying out for help. It's too bad we all used up our compassion on the poor sick pineapple.
House of Meat
- Thursday, March 07, 2002 at 22:15:29 (EST)

My two cents are: ...Jones's attorneys served Presidnt Clinton with written interrogatories, one of which stated: 'Please state the name, address, and telephone number of each and every [federal employee] with whom you had sexual relations when you [were]...President of the United States?' Often wondered what those bracket things mean. For example, what is a [federal employee]? And why would Jones's interrogatories ask about who he fucked while President? To establish a pattern that started when he was a governor and fucking state employeees? Was their case built around the possibility that he fucked Jones, a state employee? So what? Is there a law against a governor fucking a state employee? This thing needs to be fleshed out. Does Ray really think he's going to get an electoral boost on this shit? Is he counting on a close election that gets thrown to the supreme court on a Monday when there is a pickle up Sandra Day O'Connor's ass? Just what is the story here?
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 07, 2002 at 22:14:00 (EST)

My two cents are: Sounds like the coals aren't hot enough to sear the meat..
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 07, 2002 at 22:11:30 (EST)

My two cents are: Any way you look at it, Glint is one sick fucker. Let's move on.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 07, 2002 at 22:07:25 (EST)

My two cents are: Sort of the way it is in Cali. Folks figured the streetlights and the libraries were for free, came with the lunch, so they made property taxes basically illegal. You could asses only on sale, at a penny on the dollar, which was nice if all you owned was factories or corporate farms and didn't shop them around a lot. What this did was put almost all the taxing power in the hands of the state, made the counties and municipalities slaves to the state all up and down the line, concentrated power in the capital. Yes there is a personal income tax, and yes there are a lot of user fees. Lots of dogshit on the streets, too, mosquitoes, and chuckholes. Fast closing in on Nevada as the western version of a third-world country. It's all good. We welcome the Nebraska yahoo looking for mild winters and the retired military asshole looking for a place to write poison pen letters to the editor bitching about readiness. Give us you stupid, your sappy, your huddled masses yearning for Gilligan's Island re-runs. Hell, clean out the whole state of Nebraska and every insane asylum in New Jersey and send them to Cali. It's all salt and pepper to us.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 07, 2002 at 22:02:59 (EST)

My two cents are: pray tell? its always the religious fuckers. Ellicot City dude. It was anyway.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 07, 2002 at 22:00:15 (EST)

My two cents are: Aw shit. maybe i wish i hadn't gone there. oh well, here goes. Lets look at it this way, is it more demented to want pork a corpse or to want to pork an underage transvestite? Now I'd say its way more demented to want to pork the corpse. But if you look at the justice system, porking the corpse probably dosent have a life sentence like poking the underage transvestite could and the judges certainly arent ordering people to post "I porked a corpse" signs in their front yards and prohibiting them from living within 600 feet of a cemetary now are they????
Borg 7 of 22
- Thursday, March 07, 2002 at 21:58:26 (EST)

My two cents are: Pray tell, which parts of Maryland would that be? As far as more discussion goes, I'll think about it.
Glint
- Thursday, March 07, 2002 at 21:57:20 (EST)

My two cents are: To whatever extent Cali taxes are high, we can thank Governors Reagan and Wilson, two Republicans who each set records for tax increases. The Democrats have been the frugal types.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 07, 2002 at 21:55:43 (EST)

My two cents are: OK, on this Glint and Brenda thing, really needs a little more discussion I think. What I've been trying to figure out, is does the thing for Brenda mean Glint is a) getting sicker, b) getting better, c) about the same? Look at it this way, here's a guy that used to and probably does still spend alot of time searching the web and collecting death corpse pictures with apparent glee. Now, instead of that, it's some sort of child transvestite. So on the one hand you've got the partners that are out of bounds because they're dead, and the other well, even ignoring the transexual piece I think the age of consent is 16 in some parts of Maryland. Looking at it this way, its really a guy searching, a guy out there on the tail ends of the bell curve in each direction. Maybe the big part of the bell curve is "the bubble" and the tails are the outside the bubble part. Anyway, how bout a vote, a. b. or c. for Glint?
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 07, 2002 at 21:53:37 (EST)

My two cents are: � Here's a vignette we're dying to see on the ABC broadcast of Sunday's Ford's Theatre Presidential Gala: When Stevie Wonder sat down at the keyboard center stage, President Bush in the front row got very excited. He smiled and started waving at Wonder, who understandably did not respond. After a moment Bush realized his mistake and slowly dropped the errant hand back to his lap. "I know I shouldn't have," a witness told us yesterday, "but I started laughing." http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45517-2002Mar6.html
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 07, 2002 at 21:52:22 (EST)

My two cents are: i live in a state with no personal income tax. when bush was here he cut property taxes by raising sales taxes. even for the rich it meant trading a tax you could deduct at the fed level for one you couldn't. Ultimately phil gramm made him drastically reduce it.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 07, 2002 at 21:36:23 (EST)

My two cents are: shit, does cal have a personal income tax? why would a retchie bitch about raising sales tax? a sales tax is the most regressive fking tax you can have - just a cut or two above the "company store" really when you think about it.
Borg W. Guthrie of 22
- Thursday, March 07, 2002 at 21:34:00 (EST)

My two cents are: Of course taxes are going up. We have a Bush in office. enjoyed the piece on occidental, very c wright mills.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 07, 2002 at 21:30:36 (EST)

My two cents are: Pacific research institute are loonball kooks that the real men in the montana bunkers kicked out for being ninnys.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 07, 2002 at 21:28:29 (EST)

My two cents are: Let's see, evidence of lying about blowjobs. Evidence of lying an illegal government arms scam. Blowjobs. Arms scam. Blowjobs. Arms for hostages. Blowjobs. Arms deals with terroists. Blowjobs. Shredding evidence.
hard to figure out which is important
- Thursday, March 07, 2002 at 19:11:50 (EST)

My two cents are: Yes, he said the Reagan administration withheld important evidence.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 07, 2002 at 19:08:51 (EST)

My two cents are: Read Walsh report. Big difference between the two was that Walsh said there wasn't enough evidence.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 07, 2002 at 18:21:04 (EST)

My two cents are: Maybe we need to read the Walsh report on Iran-Contra too. Would you like that? No blowjobs, but interesting anyway.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 07, 2002 at 17:57:50 (EST)

My two cents are: I agree. Tight case. No trial necessary. The prosecution rests. By the way, this was about blowjobs, right? Thought so. 'Nuff said.
Yawn
- Thursday, March 07, 2002 at 17:56:57 (EST)

My two cents are: "...Jones's attorneys served Presidnt Clinton with written interrogatories, one of which stated: 'Please state the name, address, and telephone number of each and every [federal employee] with whom you had sexual relations when you [were]...President of the United States.' President Clinton objected that this invaded his privacy, was irrelevant, was 'beyond any reasonable scope of discovery,' and was 'solely to harass, embarrass, and humiliate' him...Judge Wright overruled President Clinton's Objection. Judge Wright ordered President Clinton to answer....President Clinton, under a penalty of perjury, answered 'None.'"
i've read it - the case for perjury's as air tight as e on a saturday night out with the men's bowling league
- Thursday, March 07, 2002 at 17:54:09 (EST)

My two cents are: http://icreport.access.gpo.gov/lewinsky/cover.pdf
the legacy building continues...
- Thursday, March 07, 2002 at 17:25:04 (EST)

My two cents are: Well, there's plenty of sinks in Berzerkly for Wringo to beat his bongo juice into.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 07, 2002 at 17:14:04 (EST)

My two cents are: Last time I saw Clinton was in Berkeley a couple weeks ago. Coeds were screaming and trying to touch him. It was fucking Beatlemania. Didn't hear any snickers though.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 07, 2002 at 16:57:44 (EST)

My two cents are: Oh, but how we so happily flung money at the flingette!
Nobody's a conservative when it comes to spending on sex
- Thursday, March 07, 2002 at 16:38:35 (EST)

My two cents are: It was the most expensive flingette in American political history (excepting, perhaps, what Happy Rockefeller did for Mary Todhunter Rockefeller's divorce settlement.) Bill Clinton won't serve a day of hard time for obstructing justice and lying through his eyes, nose, ears and mouth. His only punishment will be living with himself and the eternal snickering. With yesterday's issuing of the Ray Report we can also say good-bye to the sorriest chapter in the history of the American presidency. At least until Betty Curry desperately needs money.
thongs for the memories
- Thursday, March 07, 2002 at 16:32:39 (EST)

My two cents are: I take offense at that, Glint. You must be a girly-boy. You'd never make it in Cali.
Sue
- Thursday, March 07, 2002 at 16:31:27 (EST)

My two cents are: Pete who, pervert? Ain't no Pete here.
Trish
- Thursday, March 07, 2002 at 16:17:59 (EST)

My two cents are: Pete, why are these Caliban apologists rolling around outside their caves like so many loose nuts?
Glint
- Thursday, March 07, 2002 at 16:15:49 (EST)

My two cents are: Dan, I believe Ricardo's posts are trying to say, "I'm a racist, I'm selfish, I'm intolerant, I'm Republican." He's not any of those things but he's just asking for a, "I'm stupid, I'm unenlightened, I'm shortsighted, I'm intolerant, I sleep with goats, I'm a liberal," response.
Trish
- Thursday, March 07, 2002 at 16:13:52 (EST)

My two cents are: Any way you cut it, it is extremely doubtful that that twat, Sue, will ever make it to Dunster House as anything much more than a maid.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 07, 2002 at 15:55:36 (EST)

My two cents are: Excellent! But I'll have to wait until I log on to another ISP.
Going With That, Too
- Thursday, March 07, 2002 at 15:50:56 (EST)

My two cents are: No, actually when you have a sales tax economy, Went With This, you need as many poor people as you can get. You see, a poor person needs to buy as many pairs of shoes as a fiscally responsible rich person, so if you have ten poor people you will get ten times the tax revenue as you would get out of one rich person, without having to provide all the extra cushioning demanded by the rich guy. The more Mexicans we get in here cleaning our toilets and washing the dribble off our children's chins and harvesting our kiwi fruit and otherwise making this a well-served and comfortable district for the white man, the better off we will be, because they pay as much in taxes as we more fortunate folk do. You can't have a peon-based Republican-style economy unless you have plenty of peons. Get used to it.
Beacon
- Thursday, March 07, 2002 at 15:46:55 (EST)

My two cents are: Those PRI think-tankers don't care to mention your low property tax rates (1 percent of purchase price) and the devastating effect they've had on your school systems, roads and other essential local services, do they? Wonder why? It's likely that if it weren't for Prop 13, your sales tax would be lower. I've often wondered why outfits like the Pacific Research Institute don't realize that sales taxes are paid out in salaries at a higher rate than they would be paid out as salaries in another sector. Of course, they may be smart enough to be talking in code about redistribution of jobs, realizing that the 150,000 new jobs in California would mean 150,000 fewer jobs in a state that chooses not to cheapen itself. Do you really need 150,000 new yahoo families coming in to grab the "new" jobs created by a slight edge in the tax-rate competition? Knowing you, you'd just as soon those people stayed in Poughkeepsie, Nebraska, and other antediluvian baliwicks -- including South of the Border.
Went with this -- OK?
- Thursday, March 07, 2002 at 15:33:33 (EST)

My two cents are: Look, the Cali sales tax rate could be anything from 7.25% down, if you are allowed to exclude various parts of the distribution. So Sue is correct, in an alternative-universe way, and she should be given credit. You're not dealing with some sleazy pineapple paralegal, after all.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 07, 2002 at 15:32:10 (EST)

My two cents are: The post that Sue keeps demanding a response to is a lame Washington Times editorial about some clown who said that California is bleeding jobs because of its taxes. When it was pointed out that the clown had the tax rate wrong, Sue busted in with an endorsement of his false numbers. So what's to respond to, Sue? Where was the quite effective countering you are so proud of? What alternative universe are you inhabiting? I need the basic info to figure out which Pentacostal tongues you can understand.
,
- Thursday, March 07, 2002 at 15:29:08 (EST)

My two cents are: I don't understand, Sue. My comment was about us intelligent Cali's enjoying whatever taxes we could get, and thirsting for more so that a)the yahoos would stay in Nebraska and b)so that we could rise above the amenity level of a third-world country.
Beacon
- Thursday, March 07, 2002 at 15:23:44 (EST)

My two cents are: Move to Nevada, Sue.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 07, 2002 at 14:51:15 (EST)

My two cents are: I'm telling you, Sue, those property taxes need to be taken into account, you pussed over twat.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 07, 2002 at 14:43:45 (EST)

My two cents are: 5.75 percent, 6 percent or 7.25 percent. What's the difference? You still haven't really responded to my quite effective countering of your baloney about us Calis enjoying low taxes. Try again, this time, with feeling!
Fictionally yours, Sue
- Thursday, March 07, 2002 at 14:30:55 (EST)

My two cents are: How about those who favored neither? You know, the 68% of us who said leave the guy alone. We're felling pretty smart about now. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

- Thursday, March 07, 2002 at 14:29:56 (EST)

My two cents are: I suppose all those people who favored censure over impeachment for the jiz bubbler and said that the courts would prosecute the case onece BLT should be feeling feeling rather stupid about now.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 07, 2002 at 14:25:10 (EST)

My two cents are: That 7.25% would be lower except for Proposition 13, which keeps property taxes at 1% of purchase price. Sue is full of shit.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 07, 2002 at 14:21:08 (EST)

My two cents are: I think Sue is ignoring the 1.25% statewide "local tax rate" that makes up part of the 7.25%. Can't ignore it, Sue. It's statewide and state-mandated. Geesh.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 07, 2002 at 14:17:39 (EST)

My two cents are: Sue, Sue, Sue. The Cali sales tax rate is 7.25%. Don't you buy anything, bitch?
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 07, 2002 at 14:16:03 (EST)

My two cents are: "DEMOCRATS REGULARLY INSULT THE INTELLIGENCE of half the public in order to win the votes of the terminally stupid. As long as their lies bamboozle enough clods to give them a political edge, Democrats will say absolutely anything." - Coulter
she be talking about doze Maryland boters
- Thursday, March 07, 2002 at 14:04:41 (EST)

My two cents are: GRAND JUNCTION -- The American Civil Liberties Union has dropped a lawsuit that claimed a tablet of the Ten Commandments outside City Hall violated the Constitution. Jay Baker, the Denver attorney representing the ACLU, said the city's addition of other monuments to such things as the Constitution and Bill of Rights to make the display more secular, changed the facts in dispute.
in other words the aclu lost
- Thursday, March 07, 2002 at 14:00:37 (EST)

My two cents are: ANNAPOLIS � Some of Maryland's prominent black Democrats say their party has done little to reward minority voters, who have been instrumental in helping the party stay in control of state offices.
call that news? since when?
- Thursday, March 07, 2002 at 13:56:14 (EST)

My two cents are: In Cali? I wouldn't doubt it.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 07, 2002 at 12:45:04 (EST)

My two cents are: Maybe they mean 150,000 new "blow" jobs.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 07, 2002 at 12:43:57 (EST)

My two cents are: We've been trumped by a racist grandmother from Cali. For shame!
Cowardly anonymous
- Thursday, March 07, 2002 at 12:39:19 (EST)

My two cents are: I've often wondered why outfits like the Pacific Research Institute don't realize that sales taxes are paid out in salaries at a higher rate than they would be paid out as salaries in another sector. Of course, they may be smart enough to be talking in code about redistribution of jobs, realizing that the 150,000 new jobs in California would mean 150,000 fewer jobs in a state that chooses not to cheapen itself. Do we really need 150,000 new yahoo families coming in to grab the "new" jobs created by a slight edge in the tax-rate competition? I'd just as soon those people stayed in Poughkeepsie, Nebraska, and other antediluvian baliwicks.
.
- Thursday, March 07, 2002 at 12:38:53 (EST)

My two cents are: Here's a real response to your post, "Sue": blffxxxxxxth!
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 07, 2002 at 12:29:38 (EST)

My two cents are: You mean that twat, Sue, doesn't really exist? Say it ain't so, cowardly anonymous!
Pete Wilson
- Thursday, March 07, 2002 at 12:27:54 (EST)

My two cents are: Man, these fictional conservatives can be brutal.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 07, 2002 at 12:26:30 (EST)

My two cents are: Sure, hide behind "Pete Wilson." Can't even really counter my post, huh? Pushover! HAHAHAHAHAHA!
Sue
- Thursday, March 07, 2002 at 12:21:40 (EST)

My two cents are: The Internet-- is it a godsend or an instrument of confusion? The fact is that it has permitted a lot of people like Sue to become half-informed in areas where they were previously totally ignorant. Is a little misinformation better than no information at all?
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 07, 2002 at 12:18:46 (EST)

My two cents are: Or maybe I should say a bowl of pineapples?
Pete Wilson
- Thursday, March 07, 2002 at 12:16:42 (EST)

My two cents are: Whatever sophistry you may engage in about the California sales tax rate, Sue, if you buy something in California you will pay a minimum 7.25% sales tax. The effect on jobs will be equally devastating whether you call it a state tax or a bowl of frijoles.
Pete Wilson
- Thursday, March 07, 2002 at 12:13:35 (EST)

My two cents are: California's current state sales tax rate is 5.75 percent. This does not include local taxes, but then again, we are talking about the "State Sales Tax Rate." I suggest you lay off the sarcasm and try to come up with a real response to my post. Otherwise, you're just farting against the wind.
Sue
- Thursday, March 07, 2002 at 11:58:56 (EST)

My two cents are: That's a nasty crack about Paula Jones's nose, anonymous. Picking on people's deformities is something worthy of a right-winger, not an enlightened person like you. Leave it to Glint to cackle about the kink in Bill Clinton's penis, or Hillary's piano legs. Let's be polite about the nose, which even if it were still its original size would be a woefully inefficient weapon.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 07, 2002 at 11:47:40 (EST)

My two cents are: Some may think Gary is the king, but I'll take Sue, Dan, and G.B. any day of the week.
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- Thursday, March 07, 2002 at 11:41:05 (EST)

My two cents are: Of course California's sales tax rate is minimal, dipshit! That is why the economy is so strong. Everyone knows that a state with good schools, roads, bridges, and public facilities and services is bound to lose jobs and ultimately tank.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 07, 2002 at 11:39:38 (EST)

My two cents are: What's the date on that screed, Sue? California's sales tax rate hasn't been as low as 6% in many years. And just think, in the world's sixth largest economy! Our tax rate is lower than 7th-place France!
Pete Wilson
- Thursday, March 07, 2002 at 11:36:17 (EST)

My two cents are: Legislature's Move to Increase State Sales Taxes Could Cost California Almost 150,000 Jobs, Institute Reports California's High Tax Rate Driving Away Businesses and Consumers San Francisco, CA � While the California legislature debates whether to reinstate a quarter-cent sales tax, a Pacific Research Institute (PRI) report shows that sales taxes are destroying jobs, making life more difficult for the poor, and driving away employers, entrepreneurs, and citizens. According to "Tax Relief for California," by Erik Bauman, PRI fellow in California tax studies, the quarter-cent sales tax cut that was enacted last year allowed California to gain almost 85,000 new jobs. If the sales tax cut remains in place, California can expect to see the creation of a total of 150,000 jobs by 2004. If the legislature chooses instead to raise the sales tax by a quarter-cent, California will lose most of these job gains. "The legislature should understand that for every $2,800 in sales taxes they collect, they are destroying a California job," said Bauman. "Is it really worth the trade off?" California's sales tax was reduced from 6 percent to 5.75 percent as a result of California's booming economy, but with the economic downturn, some California lawmakers are now pushing to reinstate the quarter-cent tax. Fiscal conservatives argue that the reduced sales tax is necessary to help stimulate the economy. According to the report, the net gains that the quarter-cent sales tax increase would bring are "miniscule" when compared to the overall state budget, and preclude the significant revenues that the state will gain through long-term job growth. If the state made the sales tax increase permanent, it could expect a net revenue loss of about $600 million for calendar year 2001, dropping to only $420 million by 2004 � which would represent only about four-tenths of one percent of the state budget that year. California's Taxes are Among the Highest in the Nation The Institute reports that California's taxes are already among the highest in the nation. At 9.3 percent, the state's top personal income tax rate is the 5th highest in the nation, compared to a national average top rate of 5.6 percent. The flat corporate tax rate of 8.84 percent is the 11th highest of top tax rates; the national average of top corporate tax rates is 6.65 percent. There are nine states that do not have personal income taxes, and six states that do not have corporate income taxes. "Running California is like running a competitive business," said Bauman. "If the legislature doesn't make the economic environment competitive for businesses, entrepreneurs, and citizens, there are 49 other states that can offer them a better deal." The PRI report is based on the Institute's California State Tax Analysis Modeling Project (Cal-STAMP), an economic model designed by the Beacon Hill Institute at Suffolk University.
Sue
- Thursday, March 07, 2002 at 11:29:35 (EST)

My two cents are: I can't wait 'till Gary checks in.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 07, 2002 at 11:25:51 (EST)

My two cents are: Re: 9:29:38. ???
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- Thursday, March 07, 2002 at 11:23:34 (EST)

My two cents are: What problem are you talkin about, Sue, and what pandering? You figure it's pandering to fulfill the desires of your political supporters? To go after the beaner vote, in this case? Then George Washington was the Father of the Panderers. Abe Lincoln was the Panderer-in-Chief. FDR was the Socialist panderer. Ike was the Golfing Panderer. Ronald Reagan was the Orangutan-Jawed Panderer. The problem in Cali is not "high taxes", it is "low taxes." California, before all the people from the blue states flooded in, paid as it went, and it was a comfortable place. It is not the Mexican who has ruined California, it is the Christer midwestern yahoo, the loser Kansas dentists and gandy-dancers flooding in to get away from the wind and the sleet of their shitty, bogus states. Wake up and smell the quiche, asshole.
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- Thursday, March 07, 2002 at 11:19:08 (EST)

My two cents are: So, what's your point, Dan?
Ricardo Gonzalas, American
- Thursday, March 07, 2002 at 11:12:37 (EST)

My two cents are: �Who's generalizing, Dan? Who's ignorant? Not this American, who voted for the last Republican to hold an important office in Cali, the illustrious Gov. "Pete" Wilson, who pointed out, and rightly so, that the Mexican is not wanted and will not be treated in hospitals or taught in schools north of the border.� --DAN--- THE MEXICAN IS NOT WANTED? THIS IS NOT RACIST? I WILL BE WAITING FOR SOME MORONIC LAME RESPONSE ABOUT HOW THE MEXICAN IS LAZY. ��They didn't put that border there for nothing, Dan. They put it out to bar the Mexican peon, sleeping under a cactus limb with his wide-brimmed "sombrero" sagging over his lazy face, and his thick "serape" pulled over his sluggish limbs as if it were a blanket and not his main item of apparel.� -- DAN--- THIS IS CLEAR RACISM...YOU ARE MAIKING INSULTING GENERALISATIONS ABOUT MEXICANS. � �We do not need them, we do not want them, we will not feed them or teach them or succor them when they are sick or hungry, we will not suffer them to stay in a white man's land. My post did not generalize, and it was not racist or xenophobic.� � DAN --- "WHITE MAN'S LAND" ARE YOU A WHITE SUPREMICIST? � �It merely pointed out the truth, and asked why our Cali Republicans no longer speak the truth. They have forsaken one of the basic planks in the Republican platform, and I fear that for this they will pay.� � DAN -- HAHAHAHA, THE "TRUTH"!
Dan
- Thursday, March 07, 2002 at 11:01:35 (EST)

My two cents are: Stop whining, Sue. Californians have nothing to bitch about vis a vis taxes. Almost every tax increase and tax cut are voter-approved through the iniative process. Your property taxes are shamefully low and your piss-poor schools are the result. Cry me a river, twat.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 07, 2002 at 10:44:16 (EST)

My two cents are: More sentimental bullshit, G.B. What makes you even think "we Americans" put great value on anything but our off-shore accounts? This is a sick, nasty country populated by saps like you who buy into this self-serving myth there's some culture of happiness in the USA. Check the evidence, jerk-off.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 07, 2002 at 09:58:09 (EST)

My two cents are: Ricardo, hold on a sec. I believe we need to do something about our borders. We are importing poverty BUT I must say, there are many who come here to better themselves. I don't fault those folks. I fault the ones who simply take advantage of our system...What bugs me about both parties is the pandering. Unfortunately, I do not see either party doing anything to rectify this problem we have with the poor hispanic's that come up here to the states. Everyone is afraid to touch this issue for fear of being labeled a racist. That's the truth- It's a serious problem and more and more Californians are tired of it. They are tired of paying high taxes in California. We suffer because of this problem. Our health care system suffers as well. Not sure what can be done but continue writing to your representative asking for reform.
Sue
- Thursday, March 07, 2002 at 09:55:03 (EST)

My two cents are: Maybe so, 01:33:46, but we Americans put great value on life and persuits of happiness. A Georgia cremation would be good enough for your container.
G.B
- Thursday, March 07, 2002 at 09:29:38 (EST)

My two cents are: With the stench of Enron growing more acrid each day, you'd think the last thing President Bush would want is to be seen toadying to another deep-pocketed energy giant. Well, you'd be wrong. In a shameless handout to a poor-little-me corporate mendicant, the president wants to spend close to $100 million to help Occidental Petroleum protect an oil pipeline unwisely built in war-torn Colombia. For years, in a seedy little deal worthy of a Graham Greene novel, the oil company has been paying the Colombian army to protect its interests, forking over $1 for every barrel of oil produced. In fact, one out of every four Colombian soldiers in the field is assigned to looking after Occidental's assets. The trouble is, they aren't doing a very good job. Colombia's guerrilla forces, which don't look too kindly on foreign multinationals in their midst, have made a habit of blowing up the pipeline. Last year alone, it was bombed 170 times and was out of commission for 266 days, putting a definite downward drag on Occidental's profits. So here comes President Bush riding to Oxy's rescue with Super Huey helicopters and U.S. Special Forces to train a Colombian Army brigade to protect the pipeline. When it comes to Social Security, Bush can't wait to privatize, but when it comes to corporate security, he can't wait to "publicatize." After years of insisting that our military involvement in Colombia will be limited to fighting the drug trade, why has the administration suddenly decided to thrust America deeper into a 38-year civil war -- a war that took an explosive turn on Wednesday when President Andres Pastrana broke off peace talks and ordered the armed forces to retake control of the demilitarized area held by the rebels? Could it be the over $9 million that Occidental has spent on lobbying since 1996 -- much of it used to push for more and more U.S. military aid to Colombia -- and the $1.5 million the company donated to federal campaigns between 1995-2000? "It is something we have to do," said Anne Patterson, America's ambassador to Colombia. "It is important for the future of the country, for our petroleum supplies and for the confidence of our investors." Our investors? Since when is U.S. foreign policy a publicly traded commodity? Maybe I missed the memo, but I thought the Bush administration was all about promoting the "genius of capitalism" and foursquare against the government bailing out capitalists who make bad business decisions. (Team Bush is in danger of injuring itself if it doesn't stop patting itself on the back for "doing nothing" when a desperate Ken Lay played Dialing for Deliverance with Don Evans and Paul O'Neill). And let's face it, Occidental's decision to build an oil pipeline in a country in the midst of a bloody civil war isn't exactly the kind of boardroom brainstorm that gets taught at Wharton. Indeed, even as the pipeline was being built, it was under attack. So Oxy chairman Armand Hammer cut a deal with the rebels, paying them millions to keep the oil flowing. And now the oil-igarchy in the White House has chosen to reward this shining example of the idiocy of capitalism with a no-strings-attached corporate welfare check. Testifying before Congress last week, Secretary of State Colin Powell summed up the administration's position: "We thought a $98 million investment in Colombian brigades to help protect this pipeline is a wise one and a prudent one. What makes this pipeline unique is that it is such a major source of income." Income for whom? It's the new, improved Powell Doctrine: "U.S. military might should never be used -- unless it helps Corporate America turn a profit." The question is: where do we draw the bottom line in the sand? According to Ambassador Patterson, there are more than 300 additional sites with infrastructure of strategic importance to the United States in Colombia. Are we going to pay to protect all of these, too? And what about the other pipelines around the world that are "a major source of income?" Will "investing" our military to keep them up and running prove "wise and prudent" or a foreign policy nightmare? The reckless decision to elevate corporate interests above the public good in Colombia risks dragging American troops into a military quagmire. Imagine a mother getting the following notice from the Defense Department: "We regret to inform you that your son was killed in the line of duty while in Colombia. Secretary Rumsfeld and Occidental Petroleum wish to extend their deepest sympathies. Please accept our condolences and a coupon for a free tank of gas." Sound far-fetched? It is, because, on second thought, Oxy will never give taxpayers free gas in exchange for our pipeline protection subsidy. Instead, we'll pay for it three times over: on tax day, at the gas pump, and, finally, when the flag-draped coffins start being shipped home.
go, arriana, go
- Thursday, March 07, 2002 at 02:47:41 (EST)

My two cents are: I'd rather see Paula Zahn take on puffball Sean Hannity.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 07, 2002 at 02:38:23 (EST)

My two cents are: I'm worried about Paula Jones's reputation. As a woman, you understand. It took a hell of a beating from Klintoon and the Arkansas storm troopers, and then there were the naked pictures somebody surreptitiously took and sold to Guccione. Now what she thinks will be an honest scrap seems stacked against her. Who is taking care of this woman's bookings? Larry Klayman? Daryl the Fisherman? Kenneth Starr? Have they ever thought what this is doing to her honor? They seem intent on making her seem to be a cheap bimbo who would invite casual sex in motel rooms, and sue people claiming that they had caused her orgasmic machinery to misfire. Why don't they show the inner core of this modest hausfrau? I believe that it is fair to guess that they have only looked and not touched, but even so they seem to be taking advantage of the woman, forcing her to, among other things, shave her crotch and have her toothy grin epoxied in place. Will the woman's torment never cease?
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 07, 2002 at 01:53:04 (EST)

My two cents are: The good thing about having Chinese for junior level people, the Asian puts little value on life so they are eminently expendable. What was that little explosion from the pineapple down there at 21:31:21? Sure, he posts as Mary sometimes, but it's not even a passable faux Mary, so he almost never gets a bite. And what's the point? The stupidity always shines through, no matter what he's pretending to be.
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- Thursday, March 07, 2002 at 01:33:46 (EST)

My two cents are: Who says lead pipes aren't allowed?
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 07, 2002 at 01:03:32 (EST)

My two cents are: Too bad Paula doesn't have the before-nose-job nose, she could use it as a weapon.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, March 07, 2002 at 00:30:19 (EST)

My two cents are: I don't know. Lead pipes won't be permitted, so there goes Tanya's advantage right there.
Glint
- Wednesday, March 06, 2002 at 23:59:25 (EST)

My two cents are: Hard times inside the bubble deep in the heart of one of the blue counties today. Layoffs. V.P. is pushing two of my people through the bubble's wall, as well as a web designer. Guess he figures my two have to go in order to help pay for the senior level New Yorker I recently hired. Management isn't safe either. Another manager just like me, as well as one of the two directors going out the door. Guess it's a balance. One manager leaves, gets replaced by me. Senior guy comes in and two junior level people are recycled. Tick tock.
Glint
- Wednesday, March 06, 2002 at 23:57:22 (EST)

My two cents are: It's all in the legs. Tarding has legs of thunder. Plus, she's full of anger and smokes 3 packs of Lucky Strikes a day. She's a different level of trailer trash. Let's get ready to rummmmm-bbblllle!
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 06, 2002 at 23:51:27 (EST)

My two cents are: Think I'll pick the one who once successfully did a triple axel.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 06, 2002 at 23:46:20 (EST)

My two cents are: I say Jones gets her nose crushed. She sure beats Harding in the tit department, but big tits don't win fights. I'll go with Harding's arms. By the way, having viewed the pix of Jones, I find it deplorable that Clinton could ever assume this fine lady would be willing to blow him. She obviously isn't that kind of girl. For shame!
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 06, 2002 at 23:37:24 (EST)

My two cents are: Yes, Ricardo. Welcome. Are you a good citizen, like the crynic?
Harlan St. Wolf
- Wednesday, March 06, 2002 at 23:34:44 (EST)

My two cents are: Welcome to the board Ricardo.
Nutso
- Wednesday, March 06, 2002 at 23:02:10 (EST)

My two cents are: Take a look at what Tonya will be up against. http://www.worpedmind.com/xxx/PaulaJones/5.htm
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 06, 2002 at 22:26:33 (EST)

My two cents are: Sure, Paula gets points for the nude spread in Penthouse, but Tonya put out her honeymoon video. Two hosebags mixing it up. Yes!!
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 06, 2002 at 22:16:28 (EST)

My two cents are: And an uppercut for Monica!
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 06, 2002 at 22:15:03 (EST)

My two cents are: Paula is dead meat. Give her a left hook for Clinton, Tonya!
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 06, 2002 at 22:13:54 (EST)

My two cents are: Take a look at what Paula will be up against.http://www.charliesweb.com/tonya/gallery/portphot/outdoors2.jpg
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 06, 2002 at 21:45:48 (EST)

My two cents are: If your blood pressure has returned to a normal rate, maybe we can get on with the charade. That was quite the little tirade - and straight from the heart. I may not be rich. I'm in Texas, uh, I mean California. I might not even have accounts offshore. I may have H-O cars. I' m Mary. I have been Whatever at times. I may even be the crynic. I'm not Anonymous. I bait you and you suck it up - again and again and again. Stupid, really.
:)
- Wednesday, March 06, 2002 at 21:31:21 (EST)

My two cents are: Baseball cards! Don't get me started! I knew it sounded too good to be true. But back in those days, I couldn't be honest with myself. Next time I'm going to do the due diligence myself, and finally hit one.
The Crynic
- Wednesday, March 06, 2002 at 21:22:37 (EST)

My two cents are: I find the crynic interesting, a bit stunned that his "IPO" buys didn't make him rich, when what he was really buying was the second-day flip. Of course your "insider" transactions didn't pay off like you'd heard, the crynic. You were the only guy at the table who wasn't black, or Jewish, or Arab, or Chinese, or whatever the rest of them were. You were the great unwashed, brought in for the skinning. You see, the crynic, an IPO doesn't give anyone fantastic profits if he can't turn around and flip the stock to a rube within 24 hours-- that's where your 700% comes from-- the guy who thinks he's smart because he's got a banker in a grass skirt somewhere and once owned a Buick Opal, and pays somebody who would make a fair street-sweeper to tell him what to do with the salary his father-in-law gives him. I recommend you invest in diamonds next, or maybe Reubens pencil drawings. How about baseball cards? Something is bound to work out for you.
House of Meat
- Wednesday, March 06, 2002 at 21:06:19 (EST)

My two cents are: 20:33:36 - Hook, line, AND sinker. Just a bit of shallow fun. Thanks.
the crynic
- Wednesday, March 06, 2002 at 21:02:13 (EST)

My two cents are: Sounds like the coals aren't hot enough to sear the meat..
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 06, 2002 at 20:52:11 (EST)

My two cents are: no, the crynic has never had any manners. Not even for a man of the sea. Joseph Conrad would likely kick his ass or just steer clear of a sap like the crynic. For that's what the crynic ultimately is, a sap.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 06, 2002 at 20:49:25 (EST)

My two cents are: Easy, man. Why pick on the crynic? Why single him out? It's not like Pete and Glint never flaunted their empty little successes and "wealth." Jeremiah and MK like to sentimentalize and bleat about what good boys and hard workers they were. This is a nouveau riche page and a blowhard page for marginalized rightwing kooks. I say, stop with the invective and enjoy the show.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 06, 2002 at 20:47:52 (EST)

My two cents are: Hey glint, maybe they're just sending you to training to prove they tried to work with you before canning you. Might as well keep berating the asians. perhaps you and Brenda can run off in the mini-van together. Give our best to Montalvo.
Borg 7 of 22
- Wednesday, March 06, 2002 at 20:46:48 (EST)

My two cents are: Is this dude, the crynic, for real??? I was always told not to flaunt one's relative wealth and relative successes in this life. For one thing, there's always someone wealthier and more successful. For another, reversals of fortune are not unheard of. Finally, it's fucking gauche. Crude. the crynic is some kind of moderate size fish in a smallish pond, some guy who's let his relative good fortune go to his big, fat head. He flaunts it all. The money. The trophy bitch. His "employer" status as if any of this makes him anything other than a half-smart, gaudy show-off. Guys like him give me a pain because they pretend to believe there's something special about them. Sure, the sun shines on every dog's ass at least once, but this creep likes to believe he's harnessed the sun. He figures anybody with enough class to not boast about their wealth and success has none. It's possible every poster on this page could buy and sell the crynic every day, twice on Sunday. But, because they don't crow about it, they must be indigent trailer-trash. What's your little pot of money done for you, crynic? Paid for some shallow fun? Bought some distracting toys? i know it's helped your self-esteem which is the saddest part of all. Why don't you retire if you're so fucking set up? Do you think there's a future? No time like the present, crynic. The maritime industry doesn't need you. Your employees don't need you. Go home and count your money. That should keep you busy and happy.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 06, 2002 at 20:33:36 (EST)

My two cents are: Materialistic zero.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 06, 2002 at 18:58:26 (EST)

My two cents are: Sure, early on I suffered my share of "can't miss IPOs". Hit a few nice ones, but by and large got the shit kicked out of me IPO wise. But the lesson of no free lunches wasn't wasted on me. And it shouldn't be wasted on you liberals. Since then I do most of the due diligence myself and if it sounds too good to be true . . . well you know. I can be honest with myself, state my feelings and failings, which gives you sickies a target for your twisted and sick spin tactics, but what the fuck. Have a nice evening and thanks for the little heart to heart.
the crynic
- Wednesday, March 06, 2002 at 18:19:26 (EST)

My two cents are: Ah, the crynic, now talking about "financial prowess." I take it you consider yourself to possess a lot of this particular brand of prowess? What about the IPO, dude, did any of the idiot business college graduates you pay to give you financial advice cut you in on one or two? Or are these guys so off on the cheap end of the scale that they don't even get cut in themselves, and just live off kick-backs from the barefoot bankers of the Cook Islands? Come on, the crynic, you've got to defend yourself rather than flailing about guessing about the quality of other people's French doors. Let's hear some truth out of you for a change.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 06, 2002 at 18:05:19 (EST)

My two cents are: That "lawyer" who came down to give the Glint the sexual harrassment training and settled on Clinton-Jones as his example had everything but a case. The whole thing fit perfectly, except that there was no reference to the described action in any statute on the books, sexual harrassment or otherwise. Are you sure this "lawyer" wasn't wearing a muu-muu and carrying a tote-bag of pineapples? What else could explain his thinking that harrassment in the workplace requires no harrassment and no workplace?
House of Meat
- Wednesday, March 06, 2002 at 17:59:52 (EST)

My two cents are: So, the crynic, were you always such a yuppified asshole, or what?
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 06, 2002 at 17:58:56 (EST)

My two cents are: Why didn't the management "trainer" use an example of Giuliani, say, trying to shut down the museum for showing a picture drawn in elephant turd? And you'd think the actual antidote to Rudy's "leadership in crisis" would by Little Bush taking Karl Rove's advice and following his own first instinct to flee like a rabbit across the skies of America, pursued by imaginary Arab blimps dreamed up for the occasion.
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- Wednesday, March 06, 2002 at 17:56:13 (EST)

My two cents are: Hey, the crynic. When did they tell you to short it? My guess is that it was about $35 when they clued you in, you poor sap. Any of these guys ever cut you in on an IPO? I didn't think so. I got a guy you should talk to in the Cook Islands, Senator Gramm is in his pocket. The fees are a little high, but if you unload that Enron before it augers in you'll be able to afford it. . - Tuesday, March 05, 2002 at 21:17:39 (EST)- - - - Nothing poor about me except perhaps the liberal company on this board. If I ever need any tips on tuning up a red neck piece of shit car, or building a barrel bar-b-q, or hanging a pair of low grade genuine vinyl french doors, I may call you; otherwise, fuck off. I think I'm safe in assuming your fiscal prowess would easily fit in a pair of $9 socks.
the crynic
- Wednesday, March 06, 2002 at 17:54:01 (EST)

My two cents are: Sounds like the Battle of the Tramps. I'll put my money on the athletic tramp.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 06, 2002 at 17:30:45 (EST)

My two cents are: Will Ann Coulter be taking on Norm Mineta?
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 06, 2002 at 17:20:08 (EST)

My two cents are: When does Lewinsky fight Tripp?
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 06, 2002 at 17:19:26 (EST)

My two cents are: Glint will be watching, sitting on the couch with a keg of beer on one side and hooked up with a catheter, a pile of corn-nuts on his lap, rooting for Jones.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 06, 2002 at 17:18:53 (EST)

My two cents are: Next time you'll be a little more obsequious and less arrogant around you betters, won't you, son? Thought so. Now, run along a ream out some slopeheads. Gooood boy!
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 06, 2002 at 17:16:54 (EST)

My two cents are: Is there really an audience for these boxing matches?
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 06, 2002 at 17:15:45 (EST)

My two cents are: The Office of Lying idea has been tabled.
wink wink
- Wednesday, March 06, 2002 at 17:15:03 (EST)

My two cents are: O.K. I stand corrected. All work and no play is making me a dull boy.
Breightly
- Wednesday, March 06, 2002 at 17:14:25 (EST)

My two cents are: Yeah, thanks for not embarrassing anyone but yourself, Glint. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

- Wednesday, March 06, 2002 at 17:13:39 (EST)

My two cents are: Correct what misunderstanding??
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 06, 2002 at 17:04:30 (EST)

My two cents are: She first took former President Bill Clinton to the mat with a legal battle: Now Paula Jones is putting up her dukes for another fight -- and this one is going to get physical. Jones has replaced Amy Fisher in a much-hyped celebrity boxing match against Tonya Harding. Fight station Fox hasn't said why Fisher, aka the "Long Island Lolita," dropped out of the match. Former "Brady Bunch" star Barry Williams is still scheduled to take on "Partridge Family" kid Danny Bonaduce.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 06, 2002 at 17:02:57 (EST)

My two cents are: One match was to have featured Amy Fisher and Tonya Harding. But over the weekend Fisher was scratched in favor of Paula Jones. Fisher earned the nickname ``Long Island Lolita'' as a teen for shooting her married boyfriend's wife in the face. Fox gave no reason why Fisher is out and Jones is in. Jones earned her fame by suing former President Clinton for alleged unwelcome sexual advances. On Saturday, her only concern was over her new nose job. Apparently, she's worried Harding might ugly her up again. Harding acquired her disgrace by conspiring in a violent attack on skating rival Nancy Kerrigan. Harding went on to further notoriety as America's favorite hubcap-flinging trailer trash. But that's another story.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 06, 2002 at 17:02:16 (EST)

My two cents are: The GOP is still fretting over President Clinton lying about an irrelevant blowjob. For crying out loud, this president wants to set up an official office of the Government for the intended purpose of lying. Lying or as Rumsfeld put it, "not lies, 'tactical deception'.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 06, 2002 at 17:00:40 (EST)

My two cents are: Okay, troglodyte. See, Fisher bowed out for reasons unspecified. So, this Jones bitch decides she's the one who should shove her nose into Harding's angry fists. Fight is set for 3/13. Got it?
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 06, 2002 at 16:57:30 (EST)

My two cents are: FOX News. The cracked fact news source.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 06, 2002 at 16:57:09 (EST)

My two cents are: I've been meaning to say something for several days, but have held off embarassing you in the hopes that you'd correct your misunderstanding. Isn't Harding going to box the Fisher girl of NJ? Where did you come up with this cracked fact about Paula Jones going into the ring?
Glint
- Wednesday, March 06, 2002 at 16:30:19 (EST)

My two cents are: The part about not washing the jack splat off the dress deserves its own full color view graph.
Breightly
- Wednesday, March 06, 2002 at 16:28:04 (EST)

My two cents are: Lewinsky should be included in a CYA management seminar.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 06, 2002 at 14:55:29 (EST)

My two cents are: Boy, you liebrals are going to look awfully stupid if Enrongate turns out to be only about blowjobs! I can't wait!
Harlan St. Wolf
- Wednesday, March 06, 2002 at 14:53:25 (EST)

My two cents are: Ah, Glint's talking about Paula Jones, the boxer.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 06, 2002 at 14:46:53 (EST)

My two cents are: Tongues are for clucking.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 06, 2002 at 14:46:29 (EST)

My two cents are: What? Did Lewinsky sue Clinton for sexual harassment too? Why else would her willingness to snap a thong be of merit to the curriculum. Oh Lewinsky was mentioned all right. The bullet items on the screen labeled "Things to avoid by settling case" called "unwanted disclosures through discovery process."
G Breightly
- Wednesday, March 06, 2002 at 14:41:35 (EST)

My two cents are: I'd vote for a dufus who could balance the budget, preside over peace and prosperity, and leave his successor a huge surplus to piss away.
Third Term OK with Me
- Wednesday, March 06, 2002 at 14:36:01 (EST)

My two cents are: To a retchie, hands are for wringing, mouths are for whining and heads are for shaking.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 06, 2002 at 14:35:58 (EST)

My two cents are: A statue doesn't flash the iron boob unless she wants it.
$8K burqa
- Wednesday, March 06, 2002 at 14:33:33 (EST)

My two cents are: Since when did retchies give a shit about sexual harassment? Weren't they the ones who always used to scoff at such things?
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 06, 2002 at 14:33:20 (EST)

My two cents are: Oh sure, that's what she said, but a girl doesn't flash the thong if she wants it. Does she?
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 06, 2002 at 14:31:07 (EST)

My two cents are: Unwanted, unwelcome. I thought the intern wanted and welcomed whatever it was she got. Was she the harassee or the harasser.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 06, 2002 at 14:27:44 (EST)

My two cents are: And yet, as his adversaries continued to try and assasinate the man's character, it was they who bit the dust, while his numbers soared. It is for this reason we Republicans despise the American sheeple. We are the elite and we a the pure.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 06, 2002 at 14:22:57 (EST)

My two cents are: If forgot to mention. Clinton's name came up in another managment seminar on "sexual harassment in the workplace." One of the corporate lawyers flew down for this presentation and spoke of watershed events in sex case litigation. Clinton-Jones. Another great bullet list: unwanted, unwelcome, severe, vulgar, distinguishing characteristics, twisted -- the works. Clinton's turning out to be a good learning tool and a cornerstone in management education. Lawyer did mention that the judge did rule that exposing yourself in the workplace was did not constitute harassment. He did however point out that this ruling would likely have been overturned on appeal and also suggested that we don't try it ourselves. Clinton, what a dufus. King of the 17%.
G. Breightly
- Wednesday, March 06, 2002 at 14:18:48 (EST)

My two cents are: What does that have to do with managing in times of crisis? Anyhow, it's good to see that the Clinton legacy lives and is being immortalized. At least it's being held up in training sessions for the young generation of new managers as a constant reminder of how to screw a pooch royal.
G.B.
- Wednesday, March 06, 2002 at 14:12:35 (EST)

My two cents are: How about, "I never really knew that man, Mr. Kenny-Boy"?
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 06, 2002 at 14:06:50 (EST)

My two cents are: Today's management seminar dealt with leading in times of crisis. A new addition to the managment training curriculum developed post 9/11. The instructor was a New Yorker living in Boston. The class began by highlighting an good and bad examples of leaders in times of crisis, complete with details, bulleted items, etc. The good leader? Rudolph Guiliani of course. The immediate response, the six news conferences in a single day, etc. The bad example? Bill Clinton of course. Denials, use of the phrase "that woman", the finger waving. It was nice seeing it all laid out on the screen before a room ful of managers. Speaking of Clinton, that dastardly stupid leader of the 17% population of the treasonous, has anyone seen the excerpts from the newly released I.C. of Robert Ray? If not let me share a little blurb, courtesy of ABC News: "The independent counsel concluded that sufficient evidence existed to prosecute and that such evidence would 'probably be sufficient to obtain and sustain a conviction ... by an unbiased trier of fact'."
Mr. B
- Wednesday, March 06, 2002 at 13:45:46 (EST)

My two cents are: Been traveling the bubble for management training. Earlier this week one of the instructors took a special interest in mey situation. Followed me out of the classroom and wanted to know my life story. Said that it was rare for a person who had spent so much of his career as an "individual contributor" to become a "management participant." I'm boning up on the lingo and management speak too. Can you tell? I'm finding it to be very recreational and a good break from sparking computer screens.
Mr. Breightly
- Wednesday, March 06, 2002 at 13:36:15 (EST)

My two cents are: The newly drawn district Condit lost has about a 30% retchie registration. Welcome to the club, Congressman Cardazo.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 06, 2002 at 13:25:58 (EST)

My two cents are: The retchies in California just did what California retchies always do. Gray-Fucking-Davis orchestrated Simon's great victory by spending $8 million to slime Riordan, the only retchie in the field who stood a chance of giving Gray a run for the money. So, Davis pointed out that Riordan was not consistently liberal, while Simon pointed out, for the trog crowd, that Riordan was not ideologically pure enough to be chosen this year's general election loser.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 06, 2002 at 13:17:30 (EST)

My two cents are: Don't forget the family values and conservative morals of Jack Welch.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 06, 2002 at 12:29:13 (EST)

My two cents are: We've all got to admit that Modesto, California, is a hotbed of liberalism, a hillbilly Berserkeley. Those of us from Cali, anyway, since we are in the know. You rubes from the red states will have to take our word for it.
.
- Wednesday, March 06, 2002 at 12:20:43 (EST)

My two cents are: Yes, it's great about Condit. Although the guy was innocent, we got the conservative bastard out and a liberal hispanic in with a very good chance of keeping the seat. Sweet that the right-wingers helped bring down one of their own. The way to feel about Bill Simon is that he's a right-winger and will lose. Those pyrric victories are great opportunities for moaning and whining on the freep! Let's have more of them!
Willie Brown
- Wednesday, March 06, 2002 at 12:18:15 (EST)

My two cents are: Jeffy Skilling has values and morals. Kenny Boy Lay does, too.
Me First
- Wednesday, March 06, 2002 at 12:14:37 (EST)

My two cents are: Well, it looks like Bill Simon will be the Republican nominee in California. I'm not sure how I feel about this guy. I see Condit lost-looks like the people have spoken!!! I'm beginning to have a little more faith in the people in California. Maybe values and morals do mean something :} If we can only do something about Berkeley now-
Sue
- Wednesday, March 06, 2002 at 12:12:21 (EST)

My two cents are: In addition, as Tom Carhart points out, the division had the good fortune to be fighting nothing but a bunch of poor-devil Arab camel merchants.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 06, 2002 at 11:58:22 (EST)

My two cents are: Regarding the routing of the Iraqis: According to Tom Carhart, it was a combination of things. First the division was trained to a fine pitch, and was molded into a lethal fighting unit. Then the division had good leadership all up and down the line, from senior NCO's to Officers. The division also had good intelligence and knew where the enemy was, had good picture of their capabilities and knew how to defeat them. They also had a good bit of luck, in that the Iraqi commanders had no clue what was coming down on them.
Gary
- Wednesday, March 06, 2002 at 11:48:59 (EST)

My two cents are: Jesse Jackson has added former Chicago democratic congressman Mel Reynolds to the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition's payroll. Reynolds was among the 176 criminals excused in President Clinton's last-minute forgiveness spree. Reynolds received a commutation of his six-and-a-half year sentence for fraud, bank fraud & lies to the Federal Election Commission. He is more notorious; however, for concurrently serving five years for sleeping with an underage campaign volunteer. This is a first in American politics: An ex-congressman who had sex with a subordinate won clemency from a president who had sex with a subordinate, then was hired by a clergyman who had sex with a subordinate. His new job? YOUTH COUNSELOR !!! Is this a great country or what?
Lucy
- Wednesday, March 06, 2002 at 11:36:32 (EST)

My two cents are: I bet the values you hold dear are pretty dang good values, Gary, an old war-horse like you. I guess 30 years is a long time to keep the hell of having to go from Logistics to a hand-to-hand mix-up with gooks arising dripping from the bay after swimming it. I'll bet you were one of the guys who wanted to dive in and duke it out with them in the water! I suppose that the Gulf War, Operation Desert Storm, America's great triumph of the '80's is still fresh enough that you can talk about it, which is why we learned about the great tank battles between our "Tanker" dough-boys and the dread Republican Guard armored divisions. Sounds like you might have been on stateside Logistics during that little "dust-up", but knowing you I'll bet you got the inside dope on it. You must have quite a network of old battle buddies that keep you "in the know." I'd sure like to hear some stories about Grenada, or the Panama ops.
Perry
- Wednesday, March 06, 2002 at 11:17:26 (EST)

My two cents are: To be honest, Perry, I don't remember a whole lot about the incident, except that I was scared. I don't care to talk about the incident or write about it here on the board. Vietnam was more than 30 years ago for me and since then I have just tried to live my life as best I can, be a productive citizen and raise my family with the values I hold dear.
Gary
- Wednesday, March 06, 2002 at 11:02:52 (EST)

My two cents are: "Simon Beats Riordin in Cali...." Drudge
Cali Goes Trog
- Wednesday, March 06, 2002 at 10:59:56 (EST)

My two cents are: I heard them Arab ladies had circumcised twats. Some of them might even be sewn shut and pussed over as a result! I got a big one cumming for them.
Pete�
- Wednesday, March 06, 2002 at 10:54:18 (EST)

My two cents are: Of course, I agree that the Mexican at least does not wierdly ululate like the Arab. Instead, he waves his rifle over his head, or his burrito if he has no rifle, and yells "andale!" It is easier to envision watching the Super Bowl with a Mexican than with an Arab. I can envision the Mexican sitting on my couch, waving a pretzel over his head and yelling "andale" to the Oilers. I confess I cannot envision an Arab lady in a burqa ululating there, and bowing in the direction of Mecca and mumbling bizarre prayers to Allah during half-time.
,
- Wednesday, March 06, 2002 at 10:48:34 (EST)

My two cents are: Why should Cali bar the Mejicano? The "Golden State" has always welcomed the disturbed and distressed of ALL stripe, from the gap-toothed Okie in the 30s, to Nebraskan hippies in the 60s. The Mexican brings more to the table than most.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 06, 2002 at 10:47:38 (EST)

My two cents are: Who's generalizing, Dan? Who's ignorant? Not this American, who voted for the last Republican to hold an important office in Cali, the illustrious Gov. "Pete" Wilson, who pointed out, and rightly so, that the Mexican is not wanted and will not be treated in hospitals or taught in schools north of the border. They didn't put that border there for nothing, Dan. They put it out to bar the Mexican peon, sleeping under a cactus limb with his wide-brimmed "sombrero" sagging over his lazy face, and his thick "serape" pulled over his sluggish limbs as if it were a blanket and not his main item of apparel. We do not need them, we do not want them, we will not feed them or teach them or succor them when they are sick or hungry, we will not suffer them to stay in a white man's land. My post did not generalize, and it was not racist or xenophobic. It merely pointed out the truth, and asked why our Cali Republicans no longer speak the truth. They have forsaken one of the basic planks in the Republican platform, and I fear that for this they will pay.
Ricardo Gonzalas, American
- Wednesday, March 06, 2002 at 10:42:19 (EST)

My two cents are: That shouldn't stop your average Republican from the inbreed wing of the party.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 06, 2002 at 10:14:28 (EST)

My two cents are: "Why aren't the Republicans pointing this out any more?" Ricardo, becuase such thing is unacceptable in this time. Generalising about South of the border ethnicities is a form of racism and exlcusive xenophobie. Both derived from ignorance.
Dan
- Wednesday, March 06, 2002 at 09:22:05 (EST)

My two cents are: MOOSLIME-----We were Mooslimed on September 11th, Israel is constantly being Mooslimed, and so is India. WAKE UP PEOPLE!!!! KILL EVERY LAST ONE OF THE ARAB MOOSLIME!!!! It don't make no difference who, what, or where they are at. Slit their throats, shoot them, feed them poison, kill their F*cking babies, burqa sucking Squaws, and smelly assed-arabs. A DEAD ARAB IS A GOOD ARAB!!!!!
JAKE
- Wednesday, March 06, 2002 at 08:06:25 (EST)

My two cents are: They said they'd take back Cali without a shot being fired...and they will.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 06, 2002 at 03:32:04 (EST)

My two cents are: Speaking of Cali, we had a primary here today, but it was mostly about a bunch of Republicans snarling at one another over the chance to get whipped in the governorship race next fall. Not a peep from any of them about taking access to public assistance away from the Mexican or the Centro-Americano, even though the evidence is compelling that those poverty-stricken beaners are destroying this fine country. Whe the greasers had to come to this country poor, instead of well-off like the earlier immigrants did is a mystery to me. Why can't they be like the Irish, who arrived with golden potato-peelers and fine lace pantaloons? Why can't they come in like the Ukraines, riding on fine white horses and clashing jewel-encrusted tamborines? Why aren't they like the Wops, who cruised in driving Buggatis and wearing slick cashmere suits and sweet-smelling Neapolitan pomades? The list of rich ethnicities flooding into this country is practically endless. And yet the pepperguts come with begging-bowls and lazy south-of-the-border ways, demanding siestas and mescal and tortillas served hot, with black beans and mole. Why aren't the Republicans pointing this out any more?
Ricardo Gonzalas, American
- Wednesday, March 06, 2002 at 02:42:12 (EST)

My two cents are: Why Are We Importing Poverty? Two new studies provide compelling evidence that, despite an unprecedented economic boom, U.S. immigration policy is fueling an increase in poverty. Both the Urban Institute-a Washington-based think tank-and Congress�s General Accounting Office have found exceptionally high rates of welfare dependence and poverty among immigrants and newly-naturalized citizens. The Urban Institute report found that poverty among immigrant households is dramatically higher than among the rest of the population. According to the study, one-third of such households have income levels of less than 125 percent of the official poverty rate, while in the nation�s largest county, Los Angeles, immigrant households constitute 59 percent of those classified as poor. The GAO found that newly-naturalized citizens use public assistance programs in much greater numbers than the native-born. The study examined 927,000 people who became U.S. citizens during 1996 and 1997, and found that their dependence on government assistance programs was, in some cases, triple that of the rest of the population. The price tag for providing public assistance just to those who acquired U.S. citizenship during this period was $735 million. The GAO report also notes that after changes in federal welfare policy made noncitizens ineligible for many welfare programs, the number of immigrants seeking naturalization tripled, motivated by fear that they would lose their government subsidies. Is it really in the long-term interests of the nation to have large numbers of people whose only motivation to become full-fledged members of our society is so that they can be eligible for welfare benefits? Congress erroneously believed in 1996 that it could �fix� the immigration problem by denying immigrants public assistance. The alarming poverty rates among immigrants and the cost of providing public assistance to newly-naturalized citizens have proven that approach to be a failure. In 1999, the only way to fix the immigration problem is to fix the broken immigration policy that admits so many thousands of poor foreigners every year. (From a FAIR editorial that appeared in the July 6 Los Angeles Times)
Sue
- Wednesday, March 06, 2002 at 02:10:30 (EST)

My two cents are: While it's lovely that the crynic, Glint and Pete have formed a mutual admiration circle jerk club, it's odd that Gary hasn't been welcomed into the coven. Perhaps Gary needs to show a little more personal strangeness in order to make the cut. i mean, these are people who called MK and Jeremiah brothers. Get weirder, Gary. And, whoever is responsible for Trish and Sue, bring them back too.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, March 06, 2002 at 01:05:44 (EST)

My two cents are: What warms my American heart is how Kuwaitis, after being liberated by us and kissing our flag, now resent America more than any other Arab country, according to the Gallup poll of 9 A-rab countries. I believe the number or anti-American Kuwaitis was 89%. I believe the Saudis finished second with somewhere around 70%+. I don't think Iraq was included in the poll but, geesh, it would seem pretty hard to beat that Kuwaiti 89%. In retrospect, perhaps it would have been more prudent for us to have continued kissing Saddam's ass as was the case right before he took over Kuwait. He was our ally and Iraq was a secular country. Kuwait, our fine ally, seems more inclined to support evil. Not to say Saddam is a nice guy, but so what?
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 05, 2002 at 23:38:39 (EST)

My two cents are: You mean only TWO of our armored divisions beat THREE Iraqi divisions, and ones considered dangerous at that? I always said any two Americans could kick the shit out of any three Arabs, but I didn't know it had been proved in actual tank combat. How did we beat them? Guts and God? Or was it our boys' training? Stop hiding the good stuff, Gary, you old war-bunny you!
Perry
- Tuesday, March 05, 2002 at 23:28:50 (EST)

My two cents are: Arabs ululate at the drop of a hat, asshole. They are a fun-loving people, who take any excuse for a party, or a spot of ululation.
Captain Traveling Man
- Tuesday, March 05, 2002 at 23:24:02 (EST)

My two cents are: Those old Kuwaiti ladies probably figured that the camel kings who run their country are probably better to cook the goat for than a bunch of Iraqi camel kings. They've got a lot to ululate and kiss the American flag about, knowing their country has been saved from domination by greasy Arabs.
.
- Tuesday, March 05, 2002 at 23:22:22 (EST)

My two cents are: The thing that really brought the tears to MY eyes, as a patriotic American, was to see the old Kuwaiti ladies, or at least hearing them behind their robes and veils, ululating in celebration of our magnanimous land. I'd like to have a bunch of them over on Super Bowl day, and sit on the couch drinking beer and eating pretzels and ululating together, hands across the sea.
Perry
- Tuesday, March 05, 2002 at 23:19:38 (EST)

My two cents are: POLITICIANS are the easiest to operate on: There is no guts, no heart, and no spine, and the head and butt are interchangeable.
DR. NO
- Tuesday, March 05, 2002 at 23:09:50 (EST)

My two cents are: That Tonya is a tough gal. You'd think she could do damage to more than Paula's new nose job.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 05, 2002 at 22:55:54 (EST)

My two cents are: Harding vs Jones? "Drag a hundred dollar bill through a trailer park, and there's no telling what you'll find." --James Carville
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 05, 2002 at 22:12:10 (EST)

My two cents are: For the benefit of the posters on this board, here is a short history of the Gulf War, from the perspective of someone who was in the Active Reserve at the time and who had soldiers activted to train people for the conflict. UN Res. 209 called for the expulsion of Iraq from Kuwait. Pres. Bush put together a coalition of NATO and Arab countries to expell Iraq from Kuwait and destroy as much of Iraq's war making capability as possible. There never was a resolution of any kind to remove Saddam Huessein from power by force from the outside. The questions now is were these objective obtained? Iraq was forcibly expelled from Kuwait, that is documented fact. What about Iraq's war making capability? Artemus contends that the Republican Guard escaped virtually unscathed. The facts show that his contention is unsupported. The 1st AD(First Armored Division) along with the 3rd AD, took on three divisions of the Repuplican Guard, the Adnan,the Medina, and the Tawakalna. These divisions were considered the more dangerous of the 6 Republican Guard Divisions because they were the Armor Heavy divisions, equipped with the Soviet Made T-72 heavy tank. The other three were infantry oufits,with no signifant armor to speak of. During combat operations the 1st. AD inflicted the following on the Republican Guard. 440 tanks destroyed, 485 Armored Personnell Carriers destroyed, 195 artillery pieces, 137 air defense artillery systems, 1383 trucks and captured, 6,686 prisoners. Source:Iron Soldiers by Tom Carhart. After the battle, the way was open to Baghdad, with no significant opposition. Pres. Bush made the decision to cease hostilities, because the objectives had been met. There was also a larger picture to be looked at. It was felt at the time that if we were to turn the Army loose on Baghdad, there was a very real possibility that our Arab Coalition partners would cease their support. Let me say for the record, that I disagreed with that decision. I felt that we should have gone into Baghdad, coalition be damned. In the aftermath , I will never forget a picture I saw of an old Kuwaiti resident kissing the American Flag in gratitude for libertating his country. It made me proud to be an American.
Gary
- Tuesday, March 05, 2002 at 21:59:34 (EST)

My two cents are: I always thought there was something a little "off" about Gary. Now I know. Thanks mucho.
Harlan St. Wolf
- Tuesday, March 05, 2002 at 21:37:43 (EST)

My two cents are: Never saw the show. But I have a dog. Named Twinks. Tell me more about Johnny Quest.
Harlan St. Wolf
- Tuesday, March 05, 2002 at 21:36:26 (EST)

My two cents are: I always found and find Johnny Quest to be one of the queerest shows in the history of my childhood. No school, no work, no sisters, and Hadji the exotic boy toy and Race the muscle bound daddy (who seemed to find someone to tie him up every episode). Except for that damn dog, Johnny Quest lived in homo paradise.
Kevin
- Tuesday, March 05, 2002 at 21:28:22 (EST)

My two cents are: Did the crynic ever explain how hard he's worked? Has he claimed to have done anything harder that wait for the chair lift? Harder than feeding the parrot? That would be as funny as a pineapple pretending to be someone named Gary and talking about life as First Shirt with his MOS, or Glint lusting after a sexually ambivalent teen-ager.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 05, 2002 at 21:25:47 (EST)

My two cents are: Easy on the crynic, there, anonymous. A dead wife will throw any hillbilly for a loop. Even a dead parrot might do it to a guy spent a lot of time at sea. Right, it's not a tragedy to us, in the Aristotelian sense, but dead old ladies are never much fun. What I'm trying to say is, it's not a comedy in the Aristotelian sense, so we should chuckle up our sleeves, if at all. The poor bastard might think we're laughing at the dead woman and not at the living man for bragging about it.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 05, 2002 at 21:21:14 (EST)

My two cents are: There's something fishy about this dead wife gambit. Especially since he's bouncing around with some trophy teen now and also because he calls the "death" a "tragedy." Next we'll be hearing some Naturlio-like tale of murder and forgiveness, with a little death penalty goop thrown in.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 05, 2002 at 20:46:08 (EST)

My two cents are: The only thing Brenda carped about was how the sound dweeb had the volume turned down on her microphone during her number. Wait, actually that was her mother who was carping. Brenda said it would have been nice to have had more than one performance, but that wasn't carping. A real classy guy.
Glint
- Tuesday, March 05, 2002 at 18:30:32 (EST)

My two cents are: "Did Brenda piss and moan about getting half of each bunch of flowers?" Why should she? Two halves make a whole. It's the other two who got 1/2 loaf of flowers each that have room to carp. Do the math!
Glint
- Tuesday, March 05, 2002 at 18:22:00 (EST)

My two cents are: That's right. We're cold. Just like the crynic's dead wife.
Borg 7 of 22
- Tuesday, March 05, 2002 at 18:08:17 (EST)

My two cents are: so they can piss and moan at the same time, of course.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 05, 2002 at 18:05:54 (EST)

My two cents are: "Glint's done a hell of a job." I couldn't agree more. Told you about the flowers and the cat costume didn't I? That was Saturday night. Guess who's "missed the bus" two days in a row on Monday and Tuesday? That's right, Brenda. Unfortunately the Chrysler has ben out having its tranny rebuilt and the solenoids replaced in the starter, but Brenda seems perfectly comfortable in the Caravan.
Glint
- Tuesday, March 05, 2002 at 17:55:44 (EST)

My two cents are: why do women have two sets of lips?
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 05, 2002 at 17:42:26 (EST)

My two cents are: You think the pineapple's wife is really queer, or just says that to avoid being squashed.
Martina
- Tuesday, March 05, 2002 at 17:39:41 (EST)

My two cents are: You fuckers are cold. Talking about the crynic's dead parrot, er, I mean, er, wife.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 05, 2002 at 17:37:54 (EST)

My two cents are: Did Brenda piss and moan about getting half of each bunch of flowers? Brenda has more class than the flower giver.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 05, 2002 at 17:34:08 (EST)

My two cents are: Hey, the crynic, are those respected financial consultants the ones who told you to buy Enron? Anonymous. - Tuesday, March 05, 2002 at 16:25:28 (EST) - Funny you should ask. They told me to short it knucklehead.
the crynic
- Tuesday, March 05, 2002 at 17:33:55 (EST)

My two cents are: We hermaphrodites piss and moan at will, in order to have our pictures taken by Glints and added to their collections.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 05, 2002 at 17:05:47 (EST)

My two cents are: Wouldn't it be better if Paula and Tonya competed in a blow job contest?
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 05, 2002 at 16:56:41 (EST)

My two cents are: What if Harding lands a right cross to Paula's new nose? Are we on the hook for a replacement, seeing as how there's no president anymore?
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 05, 2002 at 16:52:10 (EST)

My two cents are: I piss and moan strictly for the feel-good benefits.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 05, 2002 at 16:50:18 (EST)

My two cents are: I stayed here through thick and thin, and never pissed or moaned once. I just wanted to read the hermaphrodite stuff.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 05, 2002 at 16:43:14 (EST)

My two cents are: I never saw any posts that pissed and moaned because the pineapple was gone, although he wasn't. Glint did piss and moan about ydog, E, gnat, whatever, and ho-hum being gone, for what it's worth.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 05, 2002 at 16:41:54 (EST)

My two cents are: Is that why Pete is a bad citizen? His wife isn't dead, just queer?
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 05, 2002 at 16:40:05 (EST)

My two cents are: Not only are you required to report your secret income to the IRS, you are required to refrain from ingesting controlled substances. All good fathers, employers, and citizens follow those rules. It's the dead wife that does it.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 05, 2002 at 16:38:48 (EST)

My two cents are: I neither pissed nor moaned about him being gone. Although truth be told he never was gone, though he said he had. Liar.
Rupert Sheldrake
- Tuesday, March 05, 2002 at 16:38:42 (EST)

My two cents are: Enron? Never heard of it.
legless
- Tuesday, March 05, 2002 at 16:38:12 (EST)

My two cents are: Baby is all right, I guess, but I'd rather have sunflower seeds.
The Pet Rats
- Tuesday, March 05, 2002 at 16:36:55 (EST)

My two cents are: Hey, the crynic, are those respected financial consultants the ones who told you to buy Enron?
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 05, 2002 at 16:25:28 (EST)

My two cents are: Mother fed baby to her pet rats...
Developing
- Tuesday, March 05, 2002 at 16:24:39 (EST)

My two cents are: You MOS'd in Armor? Dude! The heavies were my favorites! I once fed a guy, or rather my unit fed him, who had first-shirted at the half-track MOS at Scott and then did the heavies at RPI, could suck down more GI patoot than any swinging dick in the motor poo. Bill Cheuck was his name, know him? They called him Powder Boon on the 4-12, but that was years before and I wasn't supposed to know it. Gosh, I always wanted to get into Logistics, but I never was any good at math. My uncle Phil was a Logistics Officer, a bird colonel, during the Big One. Pulled logistics at the air base in Waco, back when it was just the Army Air Corps. What was it like being mortared, soldier? Did you get a nosebleed? Most of the guys I've questioned got nosebleeds, and a couple had their eardrums popped. Did you shit your skivvies? Did you get to shoot any of the gooks swimming the bay? You guys, I've got nothing but respect for you. That's why I'm worried about the tax cuts, plus the new guys got women taking their backs, not encouraging if you know what I mean. I guess you do, being a Nam vet.
Perry
- Tuesday, March 05, 2002 at 16:22:27 (EST)

My two cents are: I hope Tonya Harding kicks Paula Jones' finger-print covered ass on the 13th.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 05, 2002 at 16:18:42 (EST)

My two cents are: I, too, served. Or, at least, I would have went if it weren't for that damn great lottery number I drew. Geesh!
Pete�
- Tuesday, March 05, 2002 at 16:08:37 (EST)

My two cents are: Perry, I am sorry to be a disappointment to you, but when I was in Vietnam, I was in Logistics, no bush humping or heroism here. I did get mortared a couple of times, and the VC tried to swim the bay, but we made them pay for that little adventure. I was discharged from the Active Army in 1978 and went into the Active Army Reserve. I was re-classified into the 19E Armor MOS and then sent to Drill Sgt. School after I was awarded my MOS. I spent 11 years on the trail, and then got promoted to First Shirt, and spent the final four years re-classifying my solders into the Field Artillery Mos 13B. I retired in 1993 and became a full time civilian. You should be proud of being a Motor Pool Sergeant, after all if the Army can't get to where the fighting is , it's pretty useless. the Motor Pool makes it happen. The Motor Sergeant was my best buddy.
Gary
- Tuesday, March 05, 2002 at 14:45:29 (EST)

My two cents are: Oh yeah, Glint's done a hell of job. Really delivered some knock out blows. The transgender fixation is the coup de gras. This guy's better than Jeremiah and MK ever were.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 05, 2002 at 14:44:09 (EST)

My two cents are: They piss and moan. They can't be happy unless they're miserable. We call them feel-gooders. It may not make sense but that's what we call them. Clinton's semen never seemed to bother these feel-gooders. For shame!
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 05, 2002 at 14:42:07 (EST)

My two cents are: " .... maggot feasting on the carcass of fantasy"
I'm getting hard
- Tuesday, March 05, 2002 at 14:36:54 (EST)

My two cents are: Yeah, Dog Meat. Talk to any well-respected financial planner. Learn the loopholes, bro. Pay whatever you deem your share to be and hide the rest before the fucking United States Government deems your share to be higher. And, learn to sing calypso, for crissake. It'll come in handy in your new country.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 05, 2002 at 14:31:10 (EST)

My two cents are: Who says he was ever gone. He was still on board as a lurker.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, March 05, 2002 at 14:22:05 (EST)

My two cents are: Preachers, Politicians, Plywood, and PETER. I LUVE PETER!!!! So go play with your pee-pee!!!!!
CLIFFORD
- Tuesday, March 05, 2002 at 13:44:06 (EST)

My two cents are: Welcome back, Pete. Don't let these socialist feel gooders kid you. they pissed and moaned about you being gone everyday. They seem to be the type robots that aren't happy unless they're miserable. One word sums them up - - DELUDED.
the crynic
- Tuesday, March 05, 2002 at 12:44:40 (EST)

My two cents are: Glint, I scroll when I have the time and you've done a great job keeping these idiots mumbling to themselves. They don't really get it. You can't reason with unreasonable people.
the crynic
- Tuesday, March 05, 2002 at 12:39:27 (EST)

My two cents are: Good morning DogMeat. If ignorance is bliss, you gotta be the happiest maggot feasting on the carcass of fantasy. One more time. Show me a law, any law, which precludes any private citizen of the U.S. from establishing a trust or asset protection plan outside the confines of the continental U.S. It doesn't exist. The current tax laws require these transactions be recorded with the IRS on an annual basis. According to the majority of well respected financial consultants and economic planning institutions worldwide, this type fiscal planning is recommended if the net benefit outweighs the recordation and managing expenses. Go to any libary and check it out. It isn't prudent to condemn or criticize a concept you don't fully understand. The world is not black and white, my friend. There's a bit of gray mixed in.
the crynic
- Tuesday, March 05, 2002 at 12:35:50 (EST)

My two cents are: My grandmother was a WAC, Gary, and spent WWII typing in Baton Rouge. She almost got to be Eisenhower's driver, but Kay Sommersby beat her to the punch. My mom was in the Marines, Viet-Nam era, but the less said about that the better. They wore uniforms, as far as I know, and so do most of the woman currently in the service. Did you see a lot of combat when you were in the Army? I sure would like to hear some real war stories! I spent my career as a motor pool sergeant at cooks and bakers. As Napoleon said, an army travels on its stomach! I sure would like to hear some tales from a real "bush-humpin'dough-boy" though. Hear what the fellas we were feeding went through.
Perry
- Tuesday, March 05, 2002 at 12:08:52 (EST)

My two cents are: Welcome to the board Perry. Don't worry, there are plenty of other subjects concerning public policy that you could add your voice to. With regard to the Navy and Air Force, as far as I know females are piloting combat aircraft, but I have no data on their performance. I am retired from the U.S. Army, so my main concern is land warfare. It looks like you are right though, feminazi's won that fight with the Navy and Air Force. Too Bad. I sometimes wonder why the feminazis are so anxious to see our daughters get killed in combat, even though not one of them ever wore a uniform of any type.
Gary
- Tuesday, March 05, 2002 at 11:42:32 (EST)

My two cents are: You'd think he would have used Oil of Olay or Johnson's Baby Oil. But no, he had them smear him with Mazola, like a freaking slice of chicken-fry steak. Hell, it softens up the hide of a baking potato, why not an attorney general? And after all, wasn't King David anointed with oil? The Bible just doesn't explain exactly what kind. It could have been heated Crisco for all we know, or pimple squeezings. Why not cooking oil?
.
- Tuesday, March 05, 2002 at 11:31:51 (EST)

My two cents are: I suppose you could say that Billy Graham did good work. At least, filling people's heads with superstitious bullshit might pass for good work in some circles. The man tried to lead, after all, and what does it matter that he led fools toward ignorance? Sure, he had to lie to the Jews he met along the way, and maybe he lied to his followers and his children, employees, and fellow-citizens, but, hey, Presidents had to kiss his ass and that's quite an achievement. It is refreshing to hear the tape of Graham and Nixon discussing the need for lying. Two masters. Like hearing Michealangelo and Leonardo talking about painting. Like hearing Glint and the pineapple discuss the liberal media. You don't get many chances at those sorts of meetings of the minds.
House of Meat
- Tuesday, March 05, 2002 at 11:24:41 (EST)

My two cents are: Cooking oil? Isn't that what stained-dressers like Ashcroft use instead of K-Y Jelly?
Pam 'N Vonda
- Tuesday, March 05, 2002 at 09:08:16 (EST)

My two cents are: Dirty those who lead? You mean, like two term peace and prosperity President Clinton, the first guy to bomb Afghanistan?
+
- Tuesday, March 05, 2002 at 09:05:34 (EST)

My two cents are: Thirty years of underhanded covert anti-semitism. Wow.
call me ishmael
- Tuesday, March 05, 2002 at 09:03:53 (EST)

My two cents are: Let us also not forget the decades of good work Billy Graham has done as we dredge up a comment from 30 years ago to try, in the reflexive manner of contemporary American society, to dirty anyone who would try to lead.
Jon
- Tuesday, March 05, 2002 at 08:08:14 (EST)

My two cents are: You wouldn't say that if you were his child, his employee, or a slick banker in the Cook Islands.
.
- Tuesday, March 05, 2002 at 02:32:54 (EST)

My two cents are: On second thought, maybe the dude IS a shit.
former crynic supporter
- Tuesday, March 05, 2002 at 02:31:32 (EST)

My two cents are: Hey, easy on the crynic there, dude. The man is a better father, employer, and citizen. Much better. Ask him, why don't you? It's all on the up and up. There's no law that says he has to be a contributing American. You want he should join AmeriCorps and clean bedpans, the way his president* has exhorted him? He's got himself to think about, Jackson. The halt and the lame are going to have to make it through their lives without him. They're not part of his carefully calculated "share."
fan of a guy who knows how to take care of no. 1
- Tuesday, March 05, 2002 at 02:29:35 (EST)

My two cents are: Look, the crynic, calling a traitor a traitor is not necessarily "holier than thou." A guy who cheats his country, the country that gave him all the breaks and made him a man with solid wood book-shelves, is simply despicable, whether the people who despise him are Holy Joe or trailer guys with 7' 2" ceilings. A man who sneaks off with a few bucks, hiding it in two-bit island money-laundering operations is nothing more than a shit, treason aside. If being a better American than you are is "holier than thou", then 99.999% of your erstwhile countrymen are holier. Crawl off to your new homeland clutching your purse, you sad sack of shit. The lower you get the higher your ceilings will seem.
House of Meat
- Tuesday, March 05, 2002 at 02:24:30 (EST)

My two cents are: It's great. You keep hoping it is going to end, the man is going to stop embarassing himself. Then he pulls another verse out of his ass.
patriot or loonball?
- Monday, March 04, 2002 at 23:31:57 (EST)

My two cents are: Check this out: http://www.cnn.com/video/us/2002/02/25/ashcroft.sings.wbtv.med.html John Ashcroft's rendition of the patriotic tune "Let the Eagle Soar." This guy can really warble.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 04, 2002 at 23:30:09 (EST)

My two cents are: This is not the first time Mr Ashcroft's subordinates have realised that this attorney general is unlike ordinary politicians. Each time he has been sworn in to political office, he is anointed with cooking oil (in the manner of King David, as he points out in his memoirs Lessons from a Father to His Son). When Mr Ashcroft was in the Senate, the duty was performed by his father, a senior minister in a church specialising in speaking in tongues, the Pentecostal Assemblies of God. When he became attorney general, Clarence Thomas, a supreme court justice, did the honours.
patriot or loonball?
- Monday, March 04, 2002 at 23:23:29 (EST)

My two cents are: Better citizen? Of the Cook Islands? That's nice.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 04, 2002 at 22:09:29 (EST)

My two cents are: Cut the plaintive squawking about the crynic, PWW. There's no reason to feel bad about the plywood. The cryn is just a doofus who gets his understanding of any topic direct from the mouth of a television sit-com character. He's a better father, employer, and citizen since he saw one about a wife dying. The only question is, better than what?
.
- Monday, March 04, 2002 at 21:58:13 (EST)

My two cents are: CRISCO KID HOLDS OFFICE SING-ALONGS! Bush's AG Declared Nutty as a Fruitcake "It Really Sucks," Complains Dejected DoJ Lawyer Egotistical Displays Waste Time, Taxpayers' $$$ Guardian Story The estimable London Guardian reports that Bush Administration Attorney General John Ashcroft leads his staff in office sing-alongs of his own patriotic compositions, which had led to a marked drop in department morale. When asked by the paper why she opposes the compulsory campfire singing session in the workplace, one Department of Justice lawyer responded: "Have you heard the song? It really sucks." No, readers, this is not something out of The Onion -- this is your Department of Justice at work, as reported in one of the most respected newspapers in the English-speaking world. It is, alas, true. You can judge the AG's composition (and singing) style for yourself, courtesy of CNN. The Guardian also goes into details about Ashcroft's morbid fear of calico cats as signs of the devil, about his oil-anointing ceremonies, and his campaign to cloak nude statuary in public places. OK, the cat stuff and the Crisco bits may be matter of private belief. But those cloaks are a waste of the taxpayers' money. And so are the workplace sing-alongs. We would bid you to write Mr. Ashcroft's public relations aide Barbara Comstock for a clarification of why the Attorney General in wasting the taxpayers' money with his egotistical staff sing-alongs -- except we don't know which of her three personalities' email addresses to use: ASHCROFT'S BIZARRO WORLD The Three Faces of Barbara Multiple Personality Disorder At Justice Department Deluded Comstock: "I am Hillary!" Attorney General John Ashcroft's public affairs director at the Department of Justice suffers from a case of severe mistaken identity: her own. Barbara Comstock, one of the most fanatic right-wing zealots, who labored for years to prove imaginary Clinton scandals, actually thinks she's Hillary Clinton--the target of much of her fevered "investigations." According to David Brock's Blinded by the Right, Comstock and her side-kick, the late lunatic winger, Barbara Olson, were known on the Republican House investigative committee, where they worked as scandal rats, as "the Barbarellas," after "the 1968 movie starring Jane Fonda as a space-age vixen whose cosmic adventures take her to bizarre planets via rocket ships." Comstock drove herself to more than distraction in her mad hounding of the Clintons. Like many on the right-wing, she was engaged in a disturbed case of projection--blaming others for her own problems. And her self-loathing led her to intensify her madness. In 2000, as head of the Bush campaign's opposition research operation, she constructed the weird tales about Al Gore's alleged lying, and successfully peddled them to the press. Now this deluded character is spinning for the unhinged Ashcroft and refuses to answer directly whether he--and she--believe that calico cats are inhabited by Satan. Or is she? Let Mr. Brock tell the story: "Late-night calls from Barbara Comstock were not unusual. She often telephoned with the latest tidbit she had dug up in the thousands and thousand of pages of administration records she pored through frantically, as if she were looking for a winning lottery ticket she had somehow mislaid. A plain woman with tousled reddish brown hair, she once dropped by my house to watch the rerun of a dreadfully dull Whitewater hearing she had sat through all day. Comstock sat on the edge of her chair shaking, and screaming over and over again, 'Liars!' As Comstock's leads failed to pan out and she was unable to catch anyone in a lie, the Republican aide confided that the Clinton scandals were driving her to distraction, to the unfortunate point that she was ignoring the needs of her own family. A very smart lawyer by training and the main breadwinner for her charismatic, happy-go-lucky husband and kids, Comstock remarked that maybe she couldn't get Hillary's sins off her brain 'because Hillary reminds me of me. I am Hillary.' In this admission a vivid illustration of a much wider 'Hillary' phenomenon can be seen. Comstock knew nothing about Hillary Clinton. Comstock's 'Hillary' was imaginary, a construction composed entirely of the negative points in her own life." Email Barbara "I am Hillary" Comstock at the Department of Justice asking whether she is seeking professional help to restore the credibility of her office and whether she will sing Ashcroft's song "Soar Like An Eagle" to open Fox TV's boxing match between Paula Jones and Tonya Harding. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
calico catzenjammer
- Monday, March 04, 2002 at 21:56:48 (EST)

My two cents are: Plywood is labor-intensive, ya goofball piece of trailer trash. Of course it's going to cost more.
the crynic
- Monday, March 04, 2002 at 21:56:15 (EST)

My two cents are: More like that socialist lefty, Hitler, if you ask me.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 04, 2002 at 21:55:03 (EST)

My two cents are: If hardwood plywood is so bad, why does it cost more than the boards?
PWW
- Monday, March 04, 2002 at 21:54:42 (EST)

My two cents are: First Walker-Lindh, then McCollough, now Daschle. The domino theory at work! Victory is ours! This ought to cut the legs off Enrongate!
Harlan St. Wolf
- Monday, March 04, 2002 at 21:52:59 (EST)

My two cents are: WHICH SIDE ARE THEY ON, BOYS? New Yorker's Hertzberg Eviscerates Right Wing Likens GOP to Commie Popular Front In a sharp and sobering, must-read review of David Brock's Blinded by the Light, New Yorker editor and Media-in-Exile writer Hendrik Hertzberg has developed a scathing critique of today's so-called "conservative" movement, likening it to the old totalitarian left in its mendacious and paranoid political style. "Indeed, the milieu that Brock describes is reminiscent of that of American Communism in the nineteen-thirties and forties. Obviously, organized American conservatism offers no moral equivalents of what the Communist Party U.S.A. and its front groups made it their business to defend or deny: totalitarianism, the Gulag, the tens of millions of murders committed by the Stalin regime. But the social and structural affinities are striking, and Brock himself touches here and there on some of their more obvious manifestations.... Like the American and other Western Communist parties in their heyday, the American conservative movement has created a kind of alternative intellectual and political universe -- a set of institutions parallel to and modeled on the institutions of mainstream society (many of which the movement sees, or imagines, as the organs of a disciplined Liberal Establishment) and dedicated to the single purpose of advancing a predetermined political agenda.... The movement has its own newspapers (the Washington Times, the New York Post, the Journal's editorial page), its own magazines (The Weekly Standard, National Review, Policy Review, Commentary, and many more), its own broadcasting operations (Fox News and an array of national and local talk-radio programs and right-wing Christian broadcast outlets), its own publishing houses (Regnery and the Free Press, among others), its own quasi-academic research institutions (the Heritage Foundation, the American Enterprise Institute), and even its own Popular Front -- the Republican Party, important elements of which (the party's congressional and judicial leadership, for example) it has successfully commandeered."
the retched of the earth revealed as anti-democratic totalitarians--no surprise to us
- Monday, March 04, 2002 at 21:52:49 (EST)

My two cents are: The one who has to be stopped is this Kerry traitor.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 04, 2002 at 21:50:52 (EST)

My two cents are: Lucky the retchies haven't noticed the country's gone bankrupt under their dweeb pubbie policies. Otherwise they'd be nostalgic for Clintonian peace and prosperity. Of course, they are nostalgic for clintonian peace and prosperity, though. Ow. Tough row to hoe.
bwa ha ha
- Monday, March 04, 2002 at 21:49:26 (EST)

My two cents are: Daschle is toast! Yes! McCullough too. It doesn't get any better than this!
Harlan St. Wolf
- Monday, March 04, 2002 at 21:49:16 (EST)

My two cents are: What do the polls say about DACOWITS, Corporal Gary (Ret.)? Especially that poll that's run by one Democrat and one Republican, thus assuring a good tug-o-war before coming out with "numbers." I know you usually refrain from backing up your ideas with polling "data," but I was kind of hoping this would be one of the exceptions to your prudent rule.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 04, 2002 at 21:47:47 (EST)

My two cents are: Mimi-me revolution? That some sort of la Boheme-like experience?
Geesh
- Monday, March 04, 2002 at 21:44:37 (EST)

My two cents are: Excuse me, the crynic, mea culpa, I didn't know you were such a wood connoisseur. Thought you directed most of your attention to pinching loaves and hadn't developed your theories about the correct use of plywood, particularly as regards shelf construction. Say, what do you think about this new smoking gun about Daschle? Maybe you should pull up stakes in the Cook Islands and move to Antigua. Sounds like the perfect place for you! There's a rich guy there who paid for an overhaul of the banking laws yet sits on a NEW REGULATORY AUTHORITY!!! Get your ass over there right now, dude, this is too good to pass up!
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 04, 2002 at 21:33:27 (EST)

My two cents are: Oh, we're talking about land combat units. We thought that Bush pulled the twats back from combat aircraft but the feminazis won that fight? As a retired military boyo or type, an ex-doughboy, I am against anything that is a detriment to our military readiness. When was a woman ever ready on time? These little rays of light that shine through into my dark and blank mind, like the appearance that DACOWITS may be discontinued, are like mana from heaven. I don't know how I could add my voice to the public policy discussion without them to express relief about.
Perry
- Monday, March 04, 2002 at 21:27:17 (EST)

My two cents are: It appears that DACOWITS(Defense Advisory Committee On Women In The Service) is about to be discontinued, about time. That particular committee was nothing more than a forum for the feminazi's to push their feminist agenda and try and get women assigned to land combat units. It deserves to be discontinued and as a retired military type, I say good riddance to a committe that was a detriment to our military readiness.
Gary
- Monday, March 04, 2002 at 20:32:38 (EST)

My two cents are: That's not to say I don't miss normal people, like E and Coppertone and gnat. I'm a lonely guy!
Glimpse
- Monday, March 04, 2002 at 19:28:24 (EST)

My two cents are: I'm a rightwinger on this page and I would welcome an alliance with MK, Jeremiah, Pete, or any other fringe type, including, but certainly not limited to, a harelip, a mouth-breathing mongoloid or an inbred pig farmer. We loonballs have to stick together! Charge!
Glimpse
- Monday, March 04, 2002 at 19:27:30 (EST)

My two cents are: If Bush goes down, he's taking Daschle with him! R. Allen Stanford=the crynic
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 04, 2002 at 19:24:07 (EST)

My two cents are: You too crynic. Didn't mean to omit mention of your contribution. All that squawking about offshore banking and guess who's the Senate Majority Leader's sugar daddy? That's right, an off shore bank with Daschle gulping down load after load.
Glint
- Monday, March 04, 2002 at 19:10:16 (EST)

My two cents are: Pete, good to see you around. The discourse always seems to sag when you're not around. If it's not J-boy Dave it's crazy Dave or someone or other.
Glint
- Monday, March 04, 2002 at 19:01:06 (EST)

My two cents are: Hi crynic...nice to see you around. These liberals just never end their complete disjunct with reality. I fear there is no antidote. They are all versions of some socialsitic mimi-me revolution. Charge!
Pete�
- Monday, March 04, 2002 at 18:56:05 (EST)

My two cents are: Now that we've rolled and kicked Afghan goat-herder ass, it's time to roll into North Korea and kick some noodle ass! Let's roll!
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 04, 2002 at 18:49:02 (EST)

My two cents are: WASHINGTON - The owner of one of the biggest banks in the Caribbean nation of Antigua and Barbuda - known for years as a money-laundering haven - was the largest contributor to then-Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle's "soft money" fund-raising committee in the 12 months that ended June 30. Houston-based banker R. Allen Stanford, who has dual citizenship in the United States and Antigua, paid for a 1998 effort by Antigua to overhaul its banking laws. But the U.S. government complained that the new secrecy rules allowed the country to continue to hide money for tax purposes and said Stanford's financing of the changes and presence on a new regulatory authority was a conflict of interest.
!!!
- Monday, March 04, 2002 at 18:03:20 (EST)

My two cents are: John, the patriot, finally got that filthy sour taste of Clinton out of his mouth. Then he was able to relax and let go. RIP.
An admirer
- Monday, March 04, 2002 at 18:02:36 (EST)

My two cents are: "US uses bunker-busting 'thermobaric' bomb for first time" WASHINGTON (AFP) - A deadly bunker-busting bomb built on a principle roundly denounced by human rights groups in the past was used by US forces for the first time in Afghanistan, a military official acknowledged. The thermobaric bomb BLU-118S was among the more than 80 pieces of ordnance dropped on Saturday by US warplanes south of the Afghan city of Gardez where intelligence had discovered a concentration of Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters. "We used one thermobaric bomb in that operation," Navy Lieutenant Commander Matthew Klee, a spokesman for the Central Command, told AFP. "It was the first time we used it." The bomb, which belongs to the category of so-called fuel-air munitions, is capable of penetrating deep underground to reach hidden command bunkers or caves and explode upon hitting its target, according to experts and defense officials. Its explosive charge is designed in a way that allows the attacker to practically pulverize all occupants of the underground structure. "It works as a combination of a shock wave and a fuel explosion," Klee explained. "The first explosion spreads flammable aerosols through the underground complex. Then, the second ignites the fuel." According to independent experts, the bomb, once detonated, produces rapidly expanding shock waves flattening anything near the epicenter of the aerosol fuel cloud, and capable of causing extensive damage far beyond the immediate strike area. In addition, shock waves produced by the BLU-118S are capable of navigating underground labyrinths and literally leaving no stone unturned, according to Klee. "When the shock wave from a normal bomb hits a wall it stops," said the spokesman. "With BLU-118, the shock wave goes around the corner."
we rolled, we saw, we kicked ass!
- Monday, March 04, 2002 at 18:00:29 (EST)

My two cents are: What I think means nothing but I'll tell you anyway.
Irrelevant�
- Monday, March 04, 2002 at 17:51:32 (EST)

My two cents are: I look at it another way. John held out long enough because he WANTED to life to see another Bush administration. A true American hero, indeed.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 04, 2002 at 17:42:53 (EST)

My two cents are: Poor old John. Couldn't stand living under another Bush administration. Croaked a month after BLT instead.

- Monday, March 04, 2002 at 17:32:13 (EST)

My two cents are: Don't be so afraid of things you don't understand.
the crynic
- Monday, March 04, 2002 at 17:17:02 (EST)

My two cents are: So, how come you're still a dick?
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 04, 2002 at 17:11:51 (EST)

My two cents are: Not to pre judge, but what kind of nitwit would use PLYWOOD for bookshelves anyway? I guess they'll look ok in the trailer with the cathedralette 7'2" ceilings and the amber lit turning tinfoil fireplace. My bad. So sorry. / / / I have done lots of real work, but thanks for reminding me; I do need to buy a new hammock this year. And I really don't care for creamed chipped beef that much. / / / / 16:36:59 - Sorry to disappoint asshole, but the financial freedom was established years ago. In fact about 15 years before my wife passed away. Actually her tragedy and the subsequent suffering she endured was a horrible time for us, but helped me be a better parent, employer, and citizen; contrary to what you double talking "holier than thou" asswipe fuckfaces think.
the crynic
- Monday, March 04, 2002 at 17:09:45 (EST)

My two cents are: I think his ex-wife owned an employment agency, and hit it big during the Clinton economy when everyone was making money. Enough piled up so that the crynic could stay in the hammock another ten years.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 04, 2002 at 16:36:59 (EST)

My two cents are: I wonder if the crynic has ever done any real work. He talks like a dude been sitting in a hammock all his life, with his mama or his wife bringing him creamed chipped beef platters. Knows a lot because he's seen it all on television. It's a relief he's not an American any more. A self-limiting cant of dead wood.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 04, 2002 at 16:35:27 (EST)

My two cents are: I guy who designs a bookshelf that would have to look like it was made with an axe is complaining about the way the Boxster looks! Is this clown for real?
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 04, 2002 at 16:31:24 (EST)

My two cents are: The crynic built a lot of bird-houses on those long voyages, PWW. He knows what he's talking about.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 04, 2002 at 16:29:47 (EST)

My two cents are: Not to complain, the crynic, but that's about the most boneheaded design for a bookshelf I've ever heard proposed. Sounds more like a random number generator. Birch plywood isn't hard? It sands OK.
PWW
- Monday, March 04, 2002 at 16:28:45 (EST)

My two cents are: More irrelevancy. doink.
Irrelevant�
- Monday, March 04, 2002 at 16:22:57 (EST)

My two cents are: Queers, smears and fears.
sums up the traitorous lying liberal scumbags
- Monday, March 04, 2002 at 16:17:22 (EST)

My two cents are: Borg. We Are Borg. We Are here. Anonymous. - Friday, March 01, 2002 at 19:53:16 (EST)- - - Ya gotta luv it. I am borg, hear me roar. Grrrufffff!!!!
the crynic
- Monday, March 04, 2002 at 14:44:22 (EST)

My two cents are: PWW, 3/4" ply will bow badly at 36". Offset the verticals at say 16, 24, 16, 18, 21, and so on until the entire shelf is supported. It tends to look better that way too. That is unless you're real symmetry conscious. In that case, use a harder wood. / / / As for the faux crynic - I wouldn't own that piece of shit Boxster. No guts, no looks, handles ok. The best thing I can say about it is the hydraulic clutch. Very smooth at high rpms. But that's about it. A real car would be a 911 C4 or a TVR. Just can't get a TVR into the US. Great in the Cooks though. / / / I have nothing against the ragamuffins in the trailer parks - as long as they work, produce, don't just go along for the ride - like most of you self serving liberal morons on this page.
the crynic
- Monday, March 04, 2002 at 14:22:04 (EST)

My two cents are: Let me add: In Your Dreams. Doink.
Irrelevant�
- Monday, March 04, 2002 at 13:55:39 (EST)

My two cents are: You wish you were.
Pete�
- Monday, March 04, 2002 at 13:13:29 (EST)

My two cents are: (Posted at http://members.fortunecity.com/fornigate/) Musical program this weekend at school. Sort of a "greatest hits of broadway" ki nd of program. Kids had singing parts. I went to see Brenda's solo of "Memorie s" from Cats. Brenda dramatically strutted around the stage in a leapard skin c at costume, ears, nose, the works. The best damn number on the program thanks no doubt to Brenda's previous experience in theatre. Got in on video! 8^d When th e program was over I shoved a couple of flower boquets into the kids' arms and w ent looking for Brenda. Wanted to snap an in-costume photo for the ancillary pa ge. As I was still wandering the auditorium with upraised camera the kids came back around and said they were taking off for a cast party at Denny's and tossed me their flowers saying, "here, catch!" I caught up the Mrs. who was talking w ith some someone -- it was Brenda! Shy Brenda had opted to forgo the Dennys exp erience. I pulled half the flowers out of each bunch and went up to Brenda, "He re, these are for you." I fumbled for other words but could only blurt out some thing about wanting to snap a pic of the costume. Brenda smiled and said, "I re moved my costume following my performance." Brenda's mother appeared pleased by the attention, but I just couldn't bring myself to snapping a pic of the out of costume Brenda. I knew that my ulterior motive would be sensed. I felt like a p aparazzi.
Glint
- Monday, March 04, 2002 at 12:23:39 (EST)

My two cents are: pineapple = strange fruit
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 04, 2002 at 10:23:11 (EST)

My two cents are: Democracy=Socialcism
dipsy Scarsdale solipsist
- Monday, March 04, 2002 at 10:11:49 (EST)

My two cents are: Is that the Kennedyesque dude with the big chin, or the pop-eyed guy with the bad flipper?
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 04, 2002 at 03:40:09 (EST)

My two cents are: Kerry = Commie
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 04, 2002 at 03:38:25 (EST)

My two cents are: Excuuuse me! Defend WHOSE democracy, good sir? I would like to remind Senator Kerry that this is not HIS democracy (sic). He is of the party the Supreme Court shunned when it decided who would get to be president*. Does the good Mr. Kerry think that is how elections are decided in a "democracy?" He is a fool. America is a REPUBLIC, my friend, never forget it. "Democracy", like communism, does not work. In a democracy, Algore would be President and we would certainly not be smoking anyone out, least of all Walker. That God for George W. Bush! Thank God for 5 Supreme Court justices! Let us roll.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 04, 2002 at 03:03:33 (EST)

My two cents are: "We will ask questions and we will defend our democracy." WOW
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 04, 2002 at 01:53:54 (EST)

My two cents are: ''Let me be clear tonight to Senator Lott and to Tom DeLay: One of the lessons that I learned in Vietnam, a war they did not have to endure, and one of the basic vows of commitment that I made to myself, was that if I ever reached a position of responsibility, I would never stop asking questions that make a democracy strong. Those who try to stifle the vibrancy of our democracy and shield policies from scrutiny behind a false cloak of patriotism miss the real value of what our troops defend and how we best defend our troops. We will ask questions and we will defend our democracy.'' John Kerry, U.S. Senator.
Anonymous.
- Monday, March 04, 2002 at 01:52:22 (EST)

My two cents are: Billy Graham is the Elvis of revivalist preachers. If you keep bad-mouthing him I'll pick you up by the neck and shake your teeth out.
Dexter�
- Sunday, March 03, 2002 at 22:17:10 (EST)

My two cents are: I really miss Dick Nixon. What a mind! What a politician? The man knows exactly how to handle a swarm of Jews. "you must not let them know." They didn't cally him "Tricky Dick" for nothing. A lot of your evangilists, they'll let the swarming Jews know how they really feel about what they're doing to this country. Let the cat out of the bag, so to speak. But Dick Nixon doesn't fall into that trap. He knows enough to play that card close to his vest. A paragon of Republican-Christian virtue. Graham couldn't carry his cuff-links.
.
- Sunday, March 03, 2002 at 22:15:13 (EST)

My two cents are: ``A lot of Jews are great friends of mine.'' ``They swarm around me and are friendly to me. Because they know that I am friendly to Israel and so forth. But they don't know how I really feel about what they're doing to this country, and I have no power and no way to handle them,'' Graham says. Nixon says: ``You must not let them know.''
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 03, 2002 at 22:11:22 (EST)

My two cents are: Exactly. What good is a preacher who can't even handle a swarm of Jews? Throw the bum out and get somebody with some cojones in there.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 03, 2002 at 22:10:15 (EST)

My two cents are: If Billy Graham admits he can't even handle the Jews that swarm around him, how the hell is he going to handle Satan? It may be time to put Jim Bakker back in the saddle, or maybe Tammy Faye.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 03, 2002 at 22:09:15 (EST)

My two cents are: I wish the Air Force would hurry up and catch bin Laden. I'm getting a little war-weary here. A little sacrifice is OK, when all of us have been shot, but this is getting to be a bit much. How's about you stanch the flow, my bandy-legged little hero*?
Peg Noonan
- Sunday, March 03, 2002 at 22:05:20 (EST)

My two cents are: If you don't stop plagiarizing me, I'll pick you up by the throat and shake your teeth out.
Dexter�
- Sunday, March 03, 2002 at 22:02:12 (EST)

My two cents are: What's wrong with the NBA biscuit-cut? I like it, especially when it has a girl's name mowed into it, and the guy's nipples are tatooed blue and red.
Dexter�
- Sunday, March 03, 2002 at 22:01:08 (EST)

My two cents are: True, Reagan' couldn't carry Graham's Butch Wax, but Graham couldn't carry Jimmy Swaggart's 'fro pick.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 03, 2002 at 21:53:44 (EST)

My two cents are: In his prime, guy, Billy Graham had one of the finest heads of hair in evangelical Christianity. Ronald Reagan on his best-combed day couldn't carry Graham's Butch Wax. The man looked like he had been sculpted by a French pastry chef. When he dies, there will be nothing left but the hippie/biker cut, the NBA biscuit-top, and the skin crop. To say nothing of the hob that Satan will play.
Believing on the Lord in Tupelo
- Sunday, March 03, 2002 at 21:01:02 (EST)

My two cents are: Especially a fucked-up old shit-sucker like Billy Graham. Man, when that asshole dies religion will go up an easy ten to fifteen points.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 03, 2002 at 20:56:52 (EST)

My two cents are: Nothing sweeter than getting to see a Bible-thumper reveal himself to be a shithead.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 03, 2002 at 20:55:15 (EST)

My two cents are: The friendship between Graham and the president began during the Eisenhower administration, when Nixon was vice president. At a later point in the conversation, when Nixon raises the subject of Jewish influence in Hollywood and the media, Graham says, ``A lot of Jews are great friends of mine.'' ``They swarm around me and are friendly to me. Because they know that I am friendly to Israel and so forth. But they don't know how I really feel about what they're doing to this country, and I have no power and no way to handle them,'' Graham says. Nixon says: ``You must not let them know.''
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 03, 2002 at 20:54:20 (EST)

My two cents are: I'm taking 3:1 odds that Letterman jumps to ABC. Any takers?
Stymie the Greek
- Sunday, March 03, 2002 at 20:46:40 (EST)

My two cents are: Hardly anyone uses matches any more. They went the way of the buggy-whip when the nanny-state made it un-cool to sip smoke. My old Zippo is on top the refrigerator, dry, bone-ass dry. I only bring this up because I doubt that you have tested your 1/2" particle-board shelf with a real matchbox. You must be a lieberal. Can't seem to spout the truth no matter what the topic is. What if I put the 1/2" blocks along the back of the shelves and the FRONT of the shelves starts sagging? You got a fallback plan, traitor? I didn't think so.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 03, 2002 at 20:45:03 (EST)

My two cents are: Bookshelves are for girly-men.
Coulter
- Sunday, March 03, 2002 at 20:08:22 (EST)

My two cents are: Okay, seeker of bow points, have it your way. I would suggest you go out and spring for some 7/8 ply or 1" if you can find that out in the wood pile behind the McDonalds, hard by the trailer park. Or, go down to maybe just brace the shelves with 1/2" blocks along the back of the shelves. I was going to tell you to load a 20 pound dumbbell, or some feathers, in the middle of the ply shelf, but Galileo would spin in his grave. It seems to me, you can always go back and correct your pathetic fuck-ups later on. The only other thing I can add, is I got one shelf, about 36" long, 1/2" inch particle board with veneer. The thing bows under the weight of a matchbox (as it would under the weight of an engine block. Doink.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 03, 2002 at 20:06:51 (EST)

My two cents are: I got a Zirconium� cock-ring and the chicks love it.
Get Some�
- Sunday, March 03, 2002 at 19:53:42 (EST)

My two cents are: Galileo proved that even though the gold is heavier, the shelf bows at the same rate, 32 feet per second per second divided by the inverse of the tensile strength of the wood.
Mr. Goodhammer
- Sunday, March 03, 2002 at 19:52:29 (EST)

My two cents are: Which is more heavy, a pound of gold ingot or a pound of books?
curious Tampa grandmother
- Sunday, March 03, 2002 at 19:49:30 (EST)

My two cents are: Dear Mr. Goodhammer: how many months or years do I have to leave the books suspended between the bricks and/or chairs to see if the shelves will bow?
P. Woodson Weasel
- Sunday, March 03, 2002 at 19:47:37 (EST)

My two cents are: Poindexter? The man was a fuckin ADMIRAL, for chrissake. Can we afford to throw away that kind of experience just because the man copped to treason? Don't worry about Korea, lieberals, the President stood in the DMZ and looked across the mines and wire and reiterated the fact that those dudes are fucked, although maybe not as fucked as he said in the state of the union, but fucked anyway. I'd like to see them try to pull another Yalu. I'd like to see that old "human wave" tactic again, Chinks or no Chinks. Bring on the daisy-cutters! Let's roll! Fuck 'em all!
Get Some�
- Sunday, March 03, 2002 at 19:45:35 (EST)

My two cents are: Maybe the President will drag Ollie out of the mothballs as part of military aid to Columbia. Why not, he's resurrected a few others.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 03, 2002 at 19:06:17 (EST)

My two cents are: But what do you expect when you have an undeclared war against a concept.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 03, 2002 at 18:56:34 (EST)

My two cents are: I forgot to mention sending elite forces to Georgia and military aid to Yemen.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 03, 2002 at 18:54:21 (EST)

My two cents are: No wonder the President is looking a bit haggard, carrying the weight of the world on little bandy legs.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 03, 2002 at 18:14:39 (EST)

My two cents are: This is about more than osama bin laden, the mission never really was about him. This is about lucrative defense contracts, oil pipelines...right Bush? He has admitted what we knew all along, backing up on his resolve to get those responsible and bring them to justice. Besides, we now have Columbia to worry about. It's not just about drugs anymore. I read in the NYT that we Bush is hoping to use terrorism to increase military aid to Columbia. Rumsfeld had mentioned ending the war on two fronts strategy, but I was unaware he was preparing for a unilateral war on all fronts. Then there is still the question of what Bush wants to do about North Korea. What happens if unrest breaks out again in the Balkans, are we still part of Nato? Then we still have Taiwan to worry about. And what is going on in the Phillipines. How is India and Pakistan doing? What about Israel and Palestine. Yes, this is bigger than bin laden. Yet, he and Al Queda will continue to be a threat whether Bin laden is caught or not. Bush always knew this.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 03, 2002 at 17:32:06 (EST)

My two cents are: I agree. Without Walker, Osama bin Laden is nothing anyway. Walker was always the man behind the "throne." Least, that's the word on "the street."
Harlan St. Wolf
- Sunday, March 03, 2002 at 17:17:52 (EST)

My two cents are: We have Walker. I guess we can consider the "war" a success now. I can breathe easier.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 03, 2002 at 17:09:04 (EST)

My two cents are: I doubt the 3/4 ply will bow under the weight of books at 36". Go ahead, unless you're planning to thinking of storing gold ingot instead of books. On the other hand, I may be full of shit on this one. So, what's the big deal. You can always go back reinforce the middle. Or, I suppose you could find a fairly simple way to test a shelf beforehand. Like, maybe if you took a shelf and supported it with, oh, cinderblocks or a couple of chairs, at each end, then stacked some books right in the middle. Or even lined some books up and checked for the "bow point." Geesh.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 03, 2002 at 17:07:10 (EST)

My two cents are: Why be vindictive? The goal of this war was to smoke Ousama bin out of his hole, and we did that. Why hound the guy? He paid the price. Saddam is the real villain. Let's roll.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 03, 2002 at 17:05:08 (EST)

My two cents are: Who the hell cares if we catch the guy who flew an airplane full of Barbara Olsen into the Pentagon and rub his face in the cheese-grater? This war is not about one guy, unless the guy's name happens to be Walker, or maybe Lindh.
One Defense Department Official
- Sunday, March 03, 2002 at 17:01:47 (EST)

My two cents are: Speaking of rectums, the fuck-faces from the trailer park have been sneaking over at night and putting a potatoe in the exhaust pipe of the Boxster, and a pile of potatoes on the driveway under it so it looks like the car is pinching a loaf. Ha ha, very funny. It's the same fuck-face trailer trash ragamuffins who follow me down the street yelling "pi�ata-man, pi�ata-man", whatever that's supposed to mean. I'm going to move the Boxster into the six-car garage I built with the money I saved by moving to the Cook Island, so the joke is on the fuck-faces. Poor people and other fuck-faces always lose, when the Crynic is in town.
the Crynic
- Sunday, March 03, 2002 at 16:58:47 (EST)

My two cents are: "Everybody wants to know where Osama bin Laden is. The next question is, who cares?" says one Defense Department official, reflecting an attitude widespread in Pentagon corridors.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 03, 2002 at 16:52:19 (EST)

My two cents are: The only reason the conservatives are taking hits today, asshole, is that they've been doing a lot of stupid and shitty things. If the liberals were doing stupid and shitty things you can bet that THEY'D be the ones taking hits! Trust a liberal to think that he's better than everyone else. Just wait until your guys start fucking up.
Head in Sand and Proud of It
- Sunday, March 03, 2002 at 16:52:18 (EST)

My two cents are: Oh... forgot to mention that I've already cut rabbets for the back-- I'm making it out of some 1/4" Phillipine mahogany that I bought to line the shower stall with but then thought better of it. The carcase of this thing is going to be stout, so it's only the shelves I'm worried about. By the way, the conservatives certainly are taking some hits here today! Makes me glad I'm not a Republican, or other variety of horse's rectum.
PWW
- Sunday, March 03, 2002 at 16:49:15 (EST)

My two cents are: Is this the site where they explain things? I've been building a book-case, a "wall unit" out of 3/4" birch plywood. It's seven feet high, a foot deep, and the shelves are 36" wide. Is that too wide for a 3/4" hardwood ply shelf? Do I need to put something in the middle of the shelves to hold them up, sort of like a chine stick in a boat? I know the rule of thumb on softwood board shelves is 24" max, but I kind of figured the plywood could span another foot. Am I cracking walnuts in my ass on that one? I've got the bottom and a couple of shelved dado'd in and glued, and I'm going to butt the top and slip in some 1/4" dowels. I was thinking of mitering the top and then cutting dovetails grooves across the miter and splining them, but figured it would look too "artsy-craftsy." I'll hide the butt joint with some trim, got to trim the plywood in front anyway, or veneer it. Put in some moveable shelves, maybe two above and one below, maybe three below. I'd rather keep the shelves open all the way across, but I'm not sure that 36" span won't bow. What if I glued stringers across the bottoms of the shelves? What do you say, guys?
P. Woody Weasel
- Sunday, March 03, 2002 at 16:43:50 (EST)

My two cents are: Sounds like the coals aren't hot enough to sear the meat..
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 03, 2002 at 16:40:03 (EST)

My two cents are: Having long ago established his utter irrelevance, Pete's sole mission now is to assure we don't forget.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 03, 2002 at 16:39:29 (EST)

My two cents are: Delusional.
Pete�
- Sunday, March 03, 2002 at 15:59:03 (EST)

My two cents are: Hey Dad, I'll prove anything you can do I can do better.
gw
- Sunday, March 03, 2002 at 15:32:41 (EST)

My two cents are: The only reason we have to get Saddiam is Daddy Bush fucked up . Now junior has to finish the job. We would be a lot better if we had the Jews take him out.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 03, 2002 at 15:05:37 (EST)

My two cents are: Yeah, the truth is out: stained-dress-conservatives are actually anti-democracy. No suprises there.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 03, 2002 at 14:41:48 (EST)

My two cents are: Yeah, the truth is out: stained-dress-conservatives are actually anti-democracy. No suprises there.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 03, 2002 at 14:41:31 (EST)

My two cents are: That must be a faux. The other one left, long ago. Unless WAS lying, and therefore IS a liar. That would explain what "is" is.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 03, 2002 at 14:36:38 (EST)

My two cents are: IS THERE REALLY A LIBERAL BIAS IN THE MEDIA? ERIC ALTERMAN SAYS NO IN HIS FORTHCOMING BOOK WHAT LIBERAL MEDIA? NEW YORK CITY, Feb. 13, 2002 - Basic Books is set to publish WHAT LIBERAL MEDIA? by noted author and media commentator Eric Alterman, in the Winter of 2003. As Bernard Goldberg's tome, Bias, tops the best-seller lists, and has even been spotted among the extremely exclusive category of presidential reading material, the idea that there is a hidden liberal bias in the media has become big news. Basic Books Vice President and Publisher John Donatich and Alterman found this argument to be absolutely untrue. Out of their conversations on the subject comes WHAT LIBERAL MEDIA? The book will reveal the fallacy of Goldberg's argument, turning the focus from a who's who of purportedly liberal media figures to a serious examination of who decides what is news and who owns the outlets in which it is distributed. Alterman will examine the role of the news in the formation of public consensus and, in the process, will look at why the misleadingly simple liberal/conservative dichotomy does not explain why conservative opinion - contrary to Goldberg's conclusion - remains the most popular form of political commentary in any medium today. "Yes, the media can be biased," Alterman argues, "but the simple charge of tilting toward liberalism is not only phony but simplistic. It may help when preaching to the conservative faithful, but it ends up hiding much more than it reveals about the structure of the media, the opinion-shaping influence of the punditocracy, the relationship of the elite media to those in power, the rah-rah orientation of the business press, among many related issues." Rather than a simple rejoinder to Goldberg's pastiche of warmed-over memories and false accusations, Alterman plans to answer Goldberg with a combination of scholarship, reportage and carefully reasoned analysis, saucily served up under the title, WHAT LIBERAL MEDIA? "We strongly believe that anyone with an open mind will find Alterman's searching examination of the problems facing contemporary American media and its dissatisfied consumers ample evidence to make up their own minds - even ones named Bush," said Donatich. Eric Alterman writes the "Stop the Presses" column in The Nation and an opinion column for MSNBC.com. In recent years, he has also been a contributing editor to Worth, Rolling Stone, Elle, Mother Jones and IntellectualCapital.com. A senior fellow of the World Policy Institute at New School University, he has taught media history at Hofstra University and New York University and is currently an affiliated faculty member in the New York University magazine journalism program. He is the author of Sound & Fury: The Making of the Punditocracy (HarperCollins, 1992 and Cornell University Press, 2000), winner of the 1992 Orwell Award.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 03, 2002 at 14:32:45 (EST)

My two cents are: Sounds like the coals aren't hot enough to sear the meat..
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 03, 2002 at 14:29:46 (EST)

My two cents are: Under the aegis of the White House�s Counterterrorism Security Group, part of the National Security Council, the suspected nuke was kept secret so as not to panic the people of New York. Senior FBI officials were not in the loop. Former mayor Rudolph Giuliani says he was never told about the threat. In the end, the investigators found nothing, and concluded that DRAGONFIRE'S information was false. But few of them slept better. Counterterrorism experts and government officials interviewed by TIME say that for all the relative calm since Sept. 11, America�s luck will probably run out again, sooner or later. "It's going to be worse, and a lot of people are going to die," warns one U.S. counterterrorism official. "I don't think there's a damn thing we're going to be able to do about it."
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 03, 2002 at 14:29:42 (EST)

My two cents are: Only if you allow traitorous Demonrats to interpret government.
Pete�
- Sunday, March 03, 2002 at 14:23:08 (EST)

My two cents are: Russell Kirk in his book The Conservative Mind discusses society's need for an aristocracy to mute, channel, delay, and/or even frustrate the urges of a democratic majority. Kirk acknowledges that the checks and balances built into written (and unwritten) constitutions can do some of the work of an aristocracy, but over time majoritarian instincts and the emotions of the voters will tend to compromise these checks and balances. Once these checks and balances are weakened or destroyed the society's aristocracy will be left to do its job unaided. It is therefore essential that an aristocracy have a clear understanding of the precepts which should guide its actions.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 03, 2002 at 14:21:29 (EST)

My two cents are: Is the United States government shaping into an aristocracy?
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 03, 2002 at 14:09:18 (EST)

My two cents are: Genes count, anonymous. Or being married to the correct gene.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 03, 2002 at 14:00:15 (EST)

My two cents are: Down with SS. Responsible people should be investing in companies mirroring Enron and Global Crossing instead of depending on SS.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 03, 2002 at 13:48:29 (EST)

My two cents are: Vice President Dick Cheney's son-in-law, Philip Perry, has been named deputy attorney general. Secretary of State Colin Powell's son, Michael Powell, is the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. Powell was appointed to the FCC by President Clinton in 1997 and elevated to chairman earlier this year. Bush also re-appointed him to another term on the commission, until 2007. Budget Director Mitchell Daniels' sister, Deborah, has been appointed assistant attorney general. Deputy White House press secretary Scott McClellan's brother is on the president's Council of Economic Advisers. The brother of White House political director Ken Mehlman -- Bruce -- is an assistant secretary of commerce. In the broader Republican family, relatives of Chief Justice William Rehnquist and Justice Antonin Scalia also have been picked for plum posts in the Bush administration. Janet Rehnquist is the inspector general of the Department of Health and Human Services, and Eugene Scalia is solicitor general at the Labor Department. He was one of Bush's attorneys when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of the then-Republican presidential candidate in the Florida election case. Of course, the top job handouts are not limited to the White House and the high court. Capitol Hill also comes in for its share of spoils. After all, what are friends for? We have Republican Sen. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina praising the selection of his son, J. Strom Thurmond Jr., as U.S. attorney for South Carolina. Thurmond described his son as "a man of character and integrity." A Washington Post editorial noted that the younger Thurmond, out of law school for only three years, has been put in charge of a 60-person office. Sen. Thurmond defended the appointment, arguing that "it's only nepotism when you hire your kin." "I'm not employing Strom Jr.," he said. "I am recommending him for a position." Bush also nominated David Bunning, the son of Sen. Jim Bunning, R-Ky. to be a federal judge for the Eastern District of Kentucky. The nominee has been serving as U.S. attorney in Eastern Kentucky for the past 10 years.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 03, 2002 at 13:45:48 (EST)

My two cents are: From coup to shadow government. Is anyone surprised?
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 03, 2002 at 13:39:41 (EST)

My two cents are: Sounds like the coals aren't hot enough to sear the meat..
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 03, 2002 at 13:21:50 (EST)

My two cents are: Once went hunting on a rancho in the middle of nowhere in the Tecate Mountains and there were a couple of dogs there so hungry they pulled tortillas off the coals and stood by hungrily while a guy took a shit. Hell, the chickens were so hungry they pulled tortillas off the coals. So one of the dogs would chase over to where the dust cloud come up if you shot Ramon's .30-30 out into the brush and Juan's Rascon's idea was a Mexican variation of the throw-the-ball-in-the-puppy's-face trick. He kept trying to shoot the dog, and the dog kept happily frisking over to where the bullets were hitting, thinking it was a jolly game. Juan wasn't much of a shooter, though, and he never hit the mutt, unlike our Zirconium ball-chucker here. That was the best hunting trip I ever went on, but that's another story.
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- Sunday, March 03, 2002 at 12:25:00 (EST)

My two cents are: just had a couple of cheeseburgers, been experimenting with the cheeseburger as a breakfast food. should have got a milkshake.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 03, 2002 at 11:36:08 (EST)

My two cents are: ENCINITAS, California (Reuters) -- Four off-duty U.S. Secret Service agents fought a crowd of locals in a San Diego area bar brawl on the day Vice President Dick Cheney began his four-day California tour, an agency spokesman confirmed Saturday. The San Diego Union-Tribune reported Saturday that an agent bit off the tip of a man's ear in a fight outside the Daley Double bar. The fracas involved about 15 locals, and was triggered by agents making "rude comments" to a local woman, the newspaper reported. Secret Service spokesman Jim Mackin told Reuters the agents defended themselves in an incident that occurred at about 2 a.m. PST on February 18. "Initially two Secret Service agents were assaulted near their vehicle by a group of men after they left a nightclub in Encinitas, California," Mackin said. "Then two additional agents came to their aid." The Secret Service does not discuss agent assignments, and Mackin would not say whether the men had been guarding Cheney, who was in the region that day, or give details of the scuffle. The Union-Tribune, which said the incident happened a day later, on the morning of February 19, quoted a sheriff's detective as saying one agent had his nose broken and may lose his front teeth, although he could not say who started it. "It was just a bad scenario," the Union-Tribune quoted Detective Sergeant Ron Morse as saying. "There was alcohol involved and (the agents) got caught up in something and they just tried to get out of it." The agents never said they were from the Secret Service or drew their weapons, and they left the scene before detectives arrived, he added. Detectives interviewed them later at their hotel. The sheriff's office kept the incident secret for "sensitivity" reasons and did not arrest anyone, and the agents confirmed their work was related to Cheney's visit, he said. Shannon Larson, 24, told the newspaper three agents made "rude comments" to her in the bar. After it closed, one of the agents invited her to a hot-tub party, an offer Larson said she declined. Her acquaintance, Zachery Elson, 21, told the newspaper he confronted the agent, who grabbed his shirt, bit off the tip of his ear, and wrestled him to the ground. The agent told detectives that he had bit Elson's ear during the tussle when he felt a tug on the gun strapped to his side. The agents had gone off duty at 11 p.m. on the 18th after Cheney's visit to the Miramar Marine Corps Air Station, Morse said. The sheriff's department Saturday said no detectives were available to discuss the matter.
Hopefully they didn't leave Dick's secret itinerary behind on a pool table
- Sunday, March 03, 2002 at 11:23:05 (EST)

My two cents are: Well, "Secure Location Dick" Cheney managed a nice bit of nepotism getting a cushy job for his daughter. So glad people with real values ($$$) are in power. Even better is finding out that Billy Graham's anti-semitism is preserved forever on tape. (Thanks to Tricky Dick). Nuke 'em! Nuke 'em silly!
E�
- Sunday, March 03, 2002 at 11:00:40 (EST)

My two cents are: It's called the Impossible Mission.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 03, 2002 at 01:57:57 (EST)

My two cents are: I believe the role of the military is to fight and win war and, therefore, prevent war from happening in the first place./// ???
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 03, 2002 at 01:48:11 (EST)

My two cents are: How would you go about, as president, deciding when it was in the national interest to use U.S. force? Generally. BUSH: Well, if it's in our vital national interests. And that means whether or not our territory -- our territory is threatened, our people could be harmed, whether or not our alliances -- our defense alliances are threatened, whether or not our friends in the Middle East are threatened. That would be a time to seriously consider the use of force. Secondly, whether or not the mission was clear, whether or not it was a clear understanding as to what the mission would be. Thirdly, whether or not we were prepared and trained to win, whether or not our forces were of high morale and high standing and well-equipped. And finally, whether or not there was an exit strategy. I would take the use of force very seriously. I would be guarded in my approach. I don't think we can be all things to all people in the world. I think we've got to be very careful when we commit our troops. The vice president and I have a disagreement about the use of troops. He believes in nation-building. I would be very careful about using our troops as nation builders. BUSH: I believe the role of the military is to fight and win war and, therefore, prevent war from happening in the first place. And so I take my responsibility seriously. And it starts with making sure we rebuild our military power. Morale in today's military is too low. We're having trouble meeting recruiting goals. We met the goals this year, but in the previous years, we have not met recruiting goals. Some of our troops are not well-equipped. I believe we're overextended in too many places. And, therefore, I want to rebuild the military power. It starts with a billion dollar pay raise for the men and women who wear the uniform, a billion dollars more than the president recently signed into law, to make sure our troops are well-housed and well-equipped; bonus plans to keep some of our high-skilled folks in the services; and a commander in chief who clearly sets the mission, and the mission is to fight and win war, and, therefore, prevent war from happening in the first place. /// Seems to me the President by his own words agrees with Daschle.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 03, 2002 at 01:45:27 (EST)

My two cents are: Time for Laura to get back on TV and help smooth the troubled waters for her President.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 03, 2002 at 01:37:02 (EST)

My two cents are: The Republicans have lost touch with reality. Ari Fleischer attempt to blame Clinton for the violence in the middle east demonstrates the degree to which they will take this tactic.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 03, 2002 at 01:21:41 (EST)

My two cents are: It's clear that without Osama bin Laden we will have failed. That is straight from the mouths of conservatives while condemning Clinton, at the beginning of this war. It is still true today. Why are they backing up on this truth? To this day Bush is determined to get Hussein after we failed. Why would it be called a 'success' without Osama bin Laden? That simply fails to make sense.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 03, 2002 at 01:15:58 (EST)

My two cents are: "Before we make commitments in resources I think we need to have a clear understanding of what the direction would be." What's the problem? The Repubs are having a fit over this? After the way they attacked Clinton while we had troops committed? They didn't simply question the war, they attacked the President and UNDERMINED him in all areas.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 03, 2002 at 01:11:31 (EST)

My two cents are: "Key congressional leaders said yesterday the White House did not tell them that President Bush has moved a cadre of senior civilian managers to secret underground sites outside Washington to ensure that the federal government could survive a devastating terrorist attack on the nation's capital. Senate Majority Leader Thomas A. Daschle (D-S.D.) said he had not been informed about the role, location or even the existence of the shadow government that the administration began to deploy the morning of the Sept. 11 hijackings. An aide to House Minority Leader Richard A. Gephardt (D-Mo.) said he similarly was unaware of the administration's move. Among Congress's GOP leadership, aides to House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (Ill.), second in line to succeed the president if he became incapacitated, and to Senate Minority Leader Trent Lott (Miss.) said they were not sure whether they knew. Aides to Sen. Robert C. Byrd (D-W. Va.) said he had not been told. As Senate president pro tempore, he is in line to become president after the House speaker."// Lott and Hastert were NOT SURE if they knew. What is that supposed to mean?
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 03, 2002 at 00:48:41 (EST)

My two cents are: Daschle and Kerry are correct. It is the role and the duty of Congress to be involved when we commit our troops to hostilities. Do the Republicans really want a dictatorship. Lott implies that they do with his outrage over the Senate leader commenting on our war. Lott acts like its Bush's war alone. Weird.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, March 03, 2002 at 00:40:29 (EST)

My two cents are: 10 inchers way overrated. Its the thought that counts.
Lorna Duna
- Saturday, March 02, 2002 at 21:06:07 (EST)

My two cents are: Strange brews.
Pete�
- Saturday, March 02, 2002 at 21:04:32 (EST)

My two cents are: I got a ten incher. I'm thinking of going in for reduction surgery. Anyone here ever done that?
Harlan St. Wolf
- Saturday, March 02, 2002 at 20:30:26 (EST)

My two cents are: It's the Venezualan's that have both the coke and the passports and the access to the gulf of mexico. I lost the porno chick to a venezualan guy with a 10 incher.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 02, 2002 at 19:58:20 (EST)

My two cents are: Sounds like the coals aren't hot enough to sear the meat..
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 02, 2002 at 19:55:53 (EST)

My two cents are: Sounds like the coals aren't hot enough to sear the meat..
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 02, 2002 at 19:49:00 (EST)

My two cents are: Sounds like the coals aren't hot enough to sear the meat..
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 02, 2002 at 19:48:36 (EST)

My two cents are: Alleged President Bush did not mean to intimate that setting the disabled aflame should become a national pastime, sources close to the Whitehouse said. "Torching a dude in a wheelchair with a pint of Ronsonol is not just a Frat game anymore" the alleged president said. "there are limits to the things we can do to the disabled, and setting them afire or seeing if they float crosses the line". The alleged president said he would be bringing this issue up at the next skull and bones meeting if the bolivians cheesed on the coke platter again and the israelis refused to make up the dif in uzi's.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 02, 2002 at 19:23:21 (EST)

My two cents are: Sounds like the coals aren't hot enough to sear the meat..
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 02, 2002 at 19:15:50 (EST)

My two cents are: I like that concept, especially as a texan. I mean austin is a freaking oasis in the middle of 5000 square miles of knickle draggers. From abilene and amarillo to beaumont. harlingen to denton. el paso to shreveport or whatever the fuck it is on this side. btw, gena lee rocks!!!!
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 02, 2002 at 19:11:54 (EST)

My two cents are: White House Regrets Blaming Clinton on Mideast WASHINGTON (Reuters) - White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said on Thursday he regretted suggesting that former U.S. President Bill Clinton's push for a Middle East peace deal was to blame for the last 17 months of violence in the region. "I mistakenly suggested that increasing violence in the Middle East was attributable to the peace efforts that were under way in 2000,'' Fleischer said in a rare written statement that expressed regret for his earlier remarks. Fleischer said his earlier comments did not reflect the position of the administration and said his boss, President Bush, supported Clinton's efforts to bring about a comprehensive peace in the Middle East. "No United States president, including President Clinton, is to blame for violence in the Middle East. The only people to blame for violence are the terrorists who engage in it,'' Fleischer said. "I regret any implication to the contrary.''
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 02, 2002 at 19:06:50 (EST)

My two cents are: OFFICE OF STRATEGIC CLINTON-BLAMING ISSUES RETRACTION ARI: PEACE TALKS DIDN'T CAUSE WAR AFTER ALL! ZERO CREDIBILITY!! WILL ARI TAKE THE FALL? WHO'S RESPONSIBLE? KARL, KAREN & CO.? THE N.S.C.? Ari Fleischer's retraction of his "blame Bill Clinton" statement on the Middle East is an admission of a blunder of a kind unprecedented in the history of the modern American presidency. Or was it really a blunder? To hear Ari tell it, he just screwed up, making up American foreign policy on the spot, saying dangerously misleading things as they popped into his head. And when he did, the phone lines jammed from Foggy Bottom to every capital city on the globe! Fleischer's credibility now stands, at best, at zero. He has made the biggest mess of any press secretary in the history of the presidency. There is only one way for him to salvage even some shreds of respectability -- and that is to come clean. It defies every imaginable form of logic to imagine that Ari just went out there and started riffing on his own. That's just not how the White House works -- especially this scripted White House. So who was in on helping Ari craft this "blame Clinton" line on the Middle East? Was it Karl Rove, or Karen Hughes, or maybe both -- pulling a political stunt to blame Clinton yet again and take people's minds off the impending G.O.P. disaster in next week's California primary? Or might it have been someone in the N.S.C., trying to manipulate Ari and turn American foreign policy, mischievously, in his or her direction? Will Ari be the good soldier and take the fall -- knowing that he will never have lunch (or, for that matter, a Diet Coke) in D.C. again? Or will the press corps force Ari to do the right thing by America and our allies and come clean -- making clear who was responsible for making this mess? Will the Palestinians feel more secure in working with the Bush Administration if Ari is allowed to take the fall? Will the Israelis? Who's running the White House, anyway? The American people deserve to know that, above all. This isn't just a matter of appearances -- it's a matter of the most deadly importance. The peace of the world hangs in the balance. And it won't do to try and cover it up, as if Ari Fleischer simply took a clownish pratfall. This is a matter of basic competence, honesty, and, yes, character. Taking responsibility -- isn't that the G.O.P. mantra? Well, press corps, let's see you make the White House live up to it.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 02, 2002 at 19:05:48 (EST)

My two cents are: The MWO Relocation Project Thanks to the miracle of satellite broadcasting, there's no reason everyone from Faux, now known as the "Red State Network", or other Red-State-favoring commentators should have to suffer any longer by living in the liberal bastions of the northeastern Blue States. (Or as we like to call them - the "American States") We've decided to find good homes for those personalities who frequently speak of the good, solid Red-State dwellers, indicating their envy, and their desire to live in a Red state, too. After all, if they really wouldn't want to relocate to a Red State, wouldn't that mean they were just pandering for profit? Because you know what that would make them.. Mike Barnicle From Boston to El Campo, Texas Population: 10,511 Arts/Entertainment/Recreation: The Murals of El Campo are an ongoing community project to present the history of El Campo to residents and visitors. At the present time there are more than twelve murals painted on prominent buildings throughout the city. We thought Mike would prefer the humidity and pollution in El Campo to continuing to live in a degenerate Blue State. It would be of great relief for Mike to finally be near more of his kind - the "family values" people - as opposed to the "gay rights supporters" he says are found in the Non-Red areas. And who knows - maybe he can get his show back. Maybe NBC can spring for the costs of remote broadcasting from El Campo, since it's so expensive to do it from Boston. Rupert Murdoch From New York City to Crestview, Florida Population:14,275 Arts/Entertainment/Recreation: A three, count them, three-screen movie theater. With stadium seating, and featuring first-run Hollywood films! Also, annual Spanish Trail Festival, including an arts and crafts bazaar, food vendors, beauty pageant, and carnival rides. Crestview was carefully selected for the 70-something Rupert, because we knew his hot young Asian wife would selflessly and eagerly give up the faster-paced and stressful big city lifestyle - preferring her Roopie to enjoy his golden years in a warmer, healthier climate in the Florida panhandle, where it's so slow-paced they're moving backward.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 02, 2002 at 18:57:08 (EST)

My two cents are: anyway, two weekends ago, I send the retriever mix out for a few passes. hit him square in the face 3 out of 4 times as he turned looking for the ball. It was coldblooded, it was cruel, but it was funny as shit to watch him turn face into the ball. I really didnt think I could do it but it was like that scene from koolaid acid test where the lightning is hitting the mountains. some sort of zen puppy torture.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 02, 2002 at 18:20:33 (EST)

My two cents are: Maybe if all nuclear wastes had to be stored under the Capitol and the White House the inhabitants of these buildings would show more concern about hazards of nuclear wastes.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 02, 2002 at 18:18:10 (EST)

My two cents are: Last weekend i came up with a new game for the dogs. If you're a dog person you know that dogs , at least some dogs love to play fetch. So when you cock the arm, the dog takes off in the direction of point upon what it thinks is the release. But you hold the tennisball in your hand. The dog continues to run, waiting for the ball to land in front of him. But it dosent because you're still holding it. At some point, the dog turns around, looking for the ball, trying to see where it is, where to run etc. So what my psychotic game is... is to make the dog run for the unthrown ball and then try and guess when he'll turn to look for it like running a buttonhook or a post as a football play. But the real deal is to guess the turnaround and to have already delivered the ball so it hits the pup square in the face the second he turns to look for it. It takes a sort of weird stoned zen but you can, with practice, develop a feel for when the dog will turn and look for the ball, beaning him square in the face the minute he looks if your zen says release it three seconds first. You have to pick right or left as well.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 02, 2002 at 18:16:54 (EST)

My two cents are: At one point, my bud had an mgb, maybe a 69 built before the us made then raise the ground clearence to six inches. Anyway everytime he went into a convenience store for beer or cigs, I'd tweak the broken clock ahead 20 minutes. After about a month he says "you know, I thought this clock was broken, but now I'm thinking it's just a short because it's working off and on. I'm gonna pull this center console and see if I can trace the wires".
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 02, 2002 at 16:11:14 (EST)

My two cents are: Sounds like the coals aren't hot enough to sear the meat..
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 02, 2002 at 16:06:34 (EST)

My two cents are: hey, go to a site calle the-alist.com and download the gena lee nolin1 screensaver. worth the trip i promise.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 02, 2002 at 16:05:04 (EST)

My two cents are: Only a guy who has lived outside the bubble could tell stories like that. But to Brautigan, thats pretty much still inside the bubble. Brautigan seemed to span this pre-mobility america type thing. I remeber him writing about how nobody wanted the older cars (50's) anymore because they "couldn't keep up" on the new interstates (60's). And how he describes living in nevada or montana or wherever it is - is that in confederate general? where the law is rousting him and someone burns the barn with the horses and they crash the car in the creek??
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 02, 2002 at 15:58:16 (EST)

My two cents are: So some years later me some other firends and crazydave a end up in jail on spring break. I remeber noticing that it didnt bother dave at all, had that institutional history so the county jailwas a cakewalk for him. They brought a drunk redneck in about 3 am. He made his call in front of us "Hey Jimbob, this is Bo, I'm down here at the crossbar motel. Why don't you bring on down the 4 wheeler and throw us a chain?"
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 02, 2002 at 15:54:01 (EST)

My two cents are: hi pete, fuck you. you know you really fuck this page up being crude to e. nobody thinks you're smart or funny. we all think you're a stupid fucking prick. why dont you just go the fuck away you idiot. wipe this page off your bookmarks and go away with a bad bad taste in your mouth knowing everyone here was smarter than you. That includes Moron Kramer.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 02, 2002 at 15:50:32 (EST)

My two cents are: me not e. oops, must be missing her!
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 02, 2002 at 15:47:23 (EST)

My two cents are: So me and some guys and tis girl had a townhouse in montgomery village at the time, off highland terrace if you know where that is glint, down the far end of monkey village ave by the last pool close to Muncaster Mill Rd. I used to hitchike down muncaster to the junior college after doing a few morning bonghits. I'd stop at this convenience store at some y intersection and get a couple of heinekins on the way. anyhow, one night crazydave shows up at the townhouse saying he just went awol from the psych hospital and needs a place to stay. crazydave says to me "look man, I've got to do this, I'm fucking thirty, if I dont get out now, there wont be any point in getting out" So I tell him ok cause that made sense and so long as he calls them and tells them where he is (so if he's an axe murderer they'll come and get him) which he does and is ok because he's like on voluntary commitment status. Then he asks if he can give e a blow job and i tell him no, toss a sheet at him, tell him to sleep on the couch and not to jack-off.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 02, 2002 at 15:45:16 (EST)

My two cents are: Won ton and mayo....
Pete�
- Saturday, March 02, 2002 at 15:43:05 (EST)

My two cents are: That song is by Jim White. Got a Corvair in my yard. It's been there for 15 years. It's a home for the birds now. It's no longer a ca-a-ar.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 02, 2002 at 15:38:45 (EST)

My two cents are: And dave got into it, he was a better obstructionist of ythe student senate than i ever imagined, Roberts rules of order became his biblical mantra, I could see him waving at them through the glass doors of the meeting room sometimes. crazydave in there shirt untucked, fly open, drool down his chin objecting to everything because it wasnt parlimentary. It was a fucking hoot.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 02, 2002 at 15:32:13 (EST)

My two cents are: most of us were in this group called "the program counsel" which scheduled the bands for concerts and ran the college radio station. our arch enemies were the student senate, republicans mostly and geeknerds who didnt want us to try and get lynnrd skynnrd or foghat. So they tried to obstruct us and we them. One day I came up with a plan that i must say was truly brilliant. The plan was to get crazydave elected to the student senate. And we did it. Every wasted pothead on campus that never would have dreamed of voting in a student council election turned out to vote for crazydave because he was our candidate, addled and drooling, and certifiably footfetish nuts we elected crazydave.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 02, 2002 at 15:28:54 (EST)

My two cents are: met crazydave in about 1978 at a junior college. he was on a daypass from the local mental facility and I was hanging out with the stoner band crowd. Being good hippies we were tolerant of dave's weirdness which included a bonafide foot fetish as well as what was probably institutional homosexuality. He used to get jobs in ladies shoe stores until he got fired. took so many meds he had a chin that was always covered in drool and eyes that were permanently glazed over. he was older than us, about 30 to our 20's, and smart, as weird as he fuckin was, crazy dave was smart.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 02, 2002 at 15:24:20 (EST)

My two cents are: hey there's some song out with lines about a rusted out corvair and a gibson hummingbird
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 02, 2002 at 15:20:00 (EST)

My two cents are: crazy dave's dad had sent him a couple of 75 dollar floor tickets to the philly show but since crazy dave had found jesus, he couldn't go see such a satanic band so knowing i was a practicing heathen, he gave me the tickets. we loaded the backpacks with beer and sandwiches from the university lunch deli and took off.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 02, 2002 at 15:18:07 (EST)

My two cents are: yeah, that'll be the plan sort of the way it was with the bultaco
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 02, 2002 at 15:13:22 (EST)

My two cents are: we hitched from DC to philly for the stones tour in the early 80's. we were heading into the arena area on some two lane interstate with walls on either side like those concrete barricades. we had got a ride with some methfreak redneck hippie in a fatwheeled gtx with 4 on the floor. This dude was so wired he was slamming into the car in front of us to try and get it to speed up and sideswiping the vehicle in the next lane to get it to move over so we could pass. All the cars were running bumper to bumper at about 90+ and weirdly everyone knew nobody was going to call the cops or bitch about the dents. you had to be there i guess, but it was quite a moment.
ydog
- Saturday, March 02, 2002 at 15:12:10 (EST)

My two cents are: there's a 383 gtx for sale down the street, maybe a 69 or 70
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 02, 2002 at 15:07:56 (EST)

My two cents are: So, you drive it out the country road a ways to see if anything drops off?
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 02, 2002 at 15:06:57 (EST)

My two cents are: the old benz is still trucking along, a 78 diesel. best damned ignition switch i've ever seen. and the clock still works. i remember the old man saying once, thats what you get with a 40k car. a clock that works. shame its the size of a dinner plate.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 02, 2002 at 15:06:47 (EST)

My two cents are: Maybe that's why they're discontinuing the Camero. All the chicks jumped to MR-2. But they discontinued that one, too, didn't they. Maybe they all jumped to the new T-Bird.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 02, 2002 at 15:04:59 (EST)

My two cents are: realistically I'm thinking about an old mgb, tr6 or vette. economically it needs to be a project, a running project, but a project car nonetheless. plus, that makes sense since i've got the big garage, more time thn money and a beautiful country road out the front door that winds 15 miles out to the river.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 02, 2002 at 15:04:52 (EST)

My two cents are: yeah, I know its a wuss tranny but its pretty nice in traffic.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 02, 2002 at 15:03:14 (EST)

My two cents are: which ear?
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 02, 2002 at 15:02:23 (EST)

My two cents are: Guess you can put all sorts of doo-hickeys on a slush transmission to try to make it worth of a man. Or just turn it over to the old lady so she can get the groceries and Budweiser without tiring out her left foot.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 02, 2002 at 15:02:19 (EST)

My two cents are: so like do they call him "Vincent"??
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 02, 2002 at 15:02:03 (EST)

My two cents are: lots of babes in mustangs and camaros too. always thought of the camaro as a chick car, cept for the z28
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 02, 2002 at 15:00:20 (EST)

My two cents are: hey dude how you been?
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 02, 2002 at 14:58:47 (EST)

My two cents are: This no-eared hunchback where I work just bought an older Porsche, word is. He comes by the cube next to me to talk to the convict, who also has a Porsche. Man lost his ear to cancer a few years back. I think he was hunched already. What is it about Porsches that they attract the halt and the lame? And you hardly ever see babes in Porsches, why is that? All your babes are riding around in rice-rockets or if their dad is a dentist in BMW z's. You'll often see a babe in a Benz as well, but she's usually married.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 02, 2002 at 14:58:28 (EST)

My two cents are: thing i like about the silverado is that its a really streetable truck. fairly low profile. plus 4 wheel discs and full instrumentation are standard. automatic is great with cruise for long hauls down here in texas and in overdrive it turns about 1800 rpm at 65-70 mph with the 200 horse v6. plus the tranny has a switch for what they call tow-haul mode which really just modifies the shift point and locks it out of overdrive. sort of like having a pre-installed performance shift kit since it makes the tranny hold each gear longer under acceleration.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 02, 2002 at 14:58:12 (EST)

My two cents are: Jaguar don't need no steenking sidecowlings.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 02, 2002 at 14:54:04 (EST)

My two cents are: bank sent me a notice saying they want me to go drop 30k or or so on a car. not. am going to price a used z3 though
borg 7 of 22
- Saturday, March 02, 2002 at 14:53:36 (EST)

My two cents are: yeah, a functional hoodscop is pretty rare these days. seen the new sidecowlings on the carrera? fuckin hot like an old dino.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 02, 2002 at 14:52:00 (EST)

My two cents are: I really like my silverado but I'm getting that spring sportcar urge. should probably go rent a convertible or a jeep and drive to the coast or something. want something with gears.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 02, 2002 at 14:50:47 (EST)

My two cents are: problem with the boxster is that asshole looking oval center exhaust pipe, you wanna talk about obscene, the rear-end view of the boxster would give Truman Capote a hard on in his grave!
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 02, 2002 at 14:48:30 (EST)

My two cents are: The hole on the hood of my SVO goes all the way through, and scoops air into and across the intercooler. I say my SVO, but I've pretty much turned it over to the kid. What's a geezer like me need a bubble-gum pussy-wagon for? The jaguar 8 will pull in the experienced stuff.
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- Saturday, March 02, 2002 at 13:57:13 (EST)

My two cents are: And, if you look close, you'll see that the holes on the side go all the way through to where the motor is. You don't find many cars with that feature.
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- Saturday, March 02, 2002 at 13:54:20 (EST)

My two cents are: I got a kick out of its looks at first, except for the double-twatted front end, that ugly BMW signature twin-sconce air inlet. And except for the funny elephantoid back end. First one I saw, in other words, in my dentist's parking lot, looked neat... but now every dentist in the state has one, and many of their daughters. If I wanted a car in that bracket I'd get a Boxster.
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- Saturday, March 02, 2002 at 13:53:21 (EST)

My two cents are: It's an obscene vehicle. They should be jailed for putting that out in a market of unknowing yuppies. Think of all the garage doors that must have been destroyed.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 02, 2002 at 13:50:44 (EST)

My two cents are: if you've got the cajones for the z28 that is. I think its close to 400 horsepower.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 02, 2002 at 13:14:39 (EST)

My two cents are: of course at 30k a leathered out z28 would also be cool, faster than a carrera as well
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 02, 2002 at 13:11:20 (EST)

My two cents are: www.edmunds.com is about the ultimate car site, lists invoice prices and invoice prices for options too.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 02, 2002 at 10:08:55 (EST)

My two cents are: I mean if I were a girl, i think i could get off just looking at a z3
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 02, 2002 at 10:07:58 (EST)

My two cents are: at least you've got the stupid vehicle. Oh, btw saw an ad for the 30k el cheapo jag. don't go there, it'll be like a c-class benz, all your buying is the hood ornament and a memory, and of course the wood dash. I'd look to the bmw z3 for just a few grand more its quite the thoroughbred.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 02, 2002 at 10:05:48 (EST)

My two cents are: Glint you're also going to need some sort of disgusting habit or personal attribute, every manager has one. My last manager was a public nosepicker. Sometimes you'd look across the table at him in a meeting and he'd have a finger buried up to the second knuckle in his nose. Foul breath and gas are also pretty standard for managers. You just have to find your groove, ass scratching and digging in your crack may be your forte. let us know
borg 7 of 22
- Saturday, March 02, 2002 at 10:03:03 (EST)

My two cents are: I've always found the old "point and slap" to be a pretty effective management style.
borg 19 of 22
- Saturday, March 02, 2002 at 09:57:49 (EST)

My two cents are: Only, instead of calling them Management meetings, call them Leadership meetings.
Erwin
- Saturday, March 02, 2002 at 09:06:33 (EST)

My two cents are: The way to manage is to hold a lot of Management meetings and talk about improving communications in the office.
Erwin Mukerjee, MBA
- Saturday, March 02, 2002 at 09:05:46 (EST)

My two cents are: Kick ass and take no prisoners.
The Management
- Saturday, March 02, 2002 at 09:04:29 (EST)

My two cents are: so glint, thought you had left. how's the asian bashing going. remember, the first rule of managemant is "always make sure you say something ugly to at least one employee before 9 am"
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 02, 2002 at 08:34:07 (EST)

My two cents are: I mean you let a few ragheads into guantanomo bay or franklinton and next thing you know you've got soap all over your trousers.
the borg
- Saturday, March 02, 2002 at 08:28:28 (EST)

My two cents are: Wonder how the citizens of Franklinton would react to signs on public property proclaiming faith in Allah or Oloddumare or Gaia or.....?
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 02, 2002 at 04:21:08 (EST)

My two cents are: Sure, John is dead and in the ground. But the good news is, the people of Franklinton are fighting back. Finally somebody in America is standing up to the ACLU. Take THAT, you lieberal treasonous bastards! John would agree, and he would also support Bush. WWJD = What Would John Do?
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 02, 2002 at 03:26:42 (EST)

My two cents are: While those morons in Franklinton are spending all their time painting lawn signs, the Muslims are praying like yo-yo's, bobbing up and down like Mejican jumping beans, getting in quality time with Allah. The goddamn Christians are going to lose this one if they don't get off their ass and start worshipping the Lord instead of just bragging about him like they were trying to sell fucking toothpaste.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 02, 2002 at 03:24:08 (EST)

My two cents are: The best religion is the one with the most signs. That's a religion that really knows how to fight back.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 02, 2002 at 03:20:09 (EST)

My two cents are: What those poor saps in Franklinton don't understand, Jackson, it that putting a Jesus sign on your own lawn or store-front is not fighting back at all. To beat the ACLU you've got to get your religion on public buildings. I don't care if you have 4,000 lawn signs in Franklinton, or fucking 10,000 store-front signs. Hell, a million signs in Franklinton won't cut it if they're all on private ground. How's about you Franklintonians get some gnarlies and slap signs on the courthouse. Hurry up, or I'll turn you assholes into pillars of salt.
Jesus
- Saturday, March 02, 2002 at 03:18:53 (EST)

My two cents are: It's all about Faith, Mac. You got to have Faith. And it helps to be a moron.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 02, 2002 at 03:14:00 (EST)

My two cents are: Imagine that! A town of 4,000 and no kikes or atheists or Mecca-bobbers! Jesus is Lord over the whole fuckin burg! No squint-eyed buddist, no Hari Krishna, and no goat sacrifice. Just 4,000 inbreeds bowing down to some poor yegg nailed to a couple of boards like a coonskin on a barn door! Just intelligent people, you understand. No gullible yokels in THAT crowd.
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- Saturday, March 02, 2002 at 03:04:50 (EST)

My two cents are: They took away the four signs proclaiming awe and obeisance unto the Lord on public property? Well, we'll proclaim it on every freaking lawn and store-front, except for the Yids, because Jesus is lord of ALL!
The Inbreeds of Franklinton
- Saturday, March 02, 2002 at 02:59:51 (EST)

My two cents are: John, a special guy who seemed to understand a certain tree hugger.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 02, 2002 at 02:39:47 (EST)

My two cents are: FRANKLINTON, La. ? Residents of a small Louisiana town are fighting back after the ACLU won a lawsuit over signs the town put on public property that proclaimed their faith in God. The American Civil Liberties Union sued the town of Franklinton and forced town officials to remove four signs from public property that said, "Jesus Is Lord Over Franklinton." Now, in a movement to have their own say, the town of 4,000 has posted more than 1,000 signs on lawns and store fronts that express their faith in God. The most popular sign says, "Jesus is Lord of All."
hooray for the people of franklinton
- Saturday, March 02, 2002 at 01:16:20 (EST)

My two cents are: Yes, God Bless John. Screw the liar liberal traitors, though.
Pete�
- Saturday, March 02, 2002 at 01:08:43 (EST)

My two cents are: I meant to say that John? was buried one year ago today.
Glint
- Saturday, March 02, 2002 at 00:33:01 (EST)

My two cents are: (Posted at http://members.fortunecity.com/fornigate/) It's hard to believe that John's been buried for a year and a day. Pay your respects online at http://members.fortunecity.com/fornigate/john/index.html
Glint
- Saturday, March 02, 2002 at 00:29:35 (EST)

My two cents are: FreeRepublic.com "A Conservative News Forum" TOPICS Editorial Your Opinion/Questions ---------------- Linda Tripp's Cancer: Clinton's Revenge? March 1, 2002 | Tabitha Soren Posted on 3/1/02 1:45 PM Pacific by Tabitha Soren It's generally believed that in the mid-1970s the government developed the means to "give" a person cancer. Is it not exceedingly likely that this is the case for Linda Tripp?
Anonymous.
- Saturday, March 02, 2002 at 00:25:27 (EST)

My two cents are: John Ashcroft obviously loves God and his country. Too bad the frump that came before him was so eager to shoot and burn its citizens and hand children over to communist dictators.
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 01, 2002 at 23:56:38 (EST)

My two cents are: Hey, asshole, I'm in the caves on rotation for the Office of Grapefruit Size Regulation, and if you think this is easy money you don't understand what motivates a true patriot. How would you like it if the Terrorists nuke D.C. and the country is suddenty flooded with undersized citrus products? You'll live to thank president Bush for firing up the shadow government, mark my words.
Stanley Burger, Jr. West VA.
- Friday, March 01, 2002 at 23:10:37 (EST)

My two cents are: I don't know about you liberal fuck-faces, but I feel better knowing that there is a shadow government hidden in an undisclosed location under West Virginia. If the Evil One takes out Washington, DC, there will still be members of every cabinet and department staff to tell Americans what to do. I may even consider re-applying for American citizenship.
the Crynic
- Friday, March 01, 2002 at 23:04:03 (EST)

My two cents are: Damn Frogs. Who needs 'em? We'll go it alone! Let's roll.
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 01, 2002 at 22:25:30 (EST)

My two cents are: I predict that as soon as the North Koreans capture Paris the frogs will seek accommodation, the same as they did with the squareheads in 1940. It's simple history and intellectual analysis. Learn how to be a foreign policy expert and you too will understand.
Krauthammer
- Friday, March 01, 2002 at 21:39:57 (EST)

My two cents are: Those who fail to array themselves against the Axis of Evil are the enemies of the freedom way of life. Nuke the frogs. Soften up the krauts and the wops with conventional bombs and give them a second chance. No more Linda Tripp's tits. No more treason. Let's roll.
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 01, 2002 at 21:37:42 (EST)

My two cents are: DeGaulle was just as much a traitor as Taliban John. Hang him from a gibbet of cheese and baguettes. Or better yet, Aunt Guilllotine. The frogs have got to finally be taught a lesson. They have fucked with our foreign policy long enough.
Krauthammer
- Friday, March 01, 2002 at 21:34:34 (EST)

My two cents are: Down with DeGaulle and his evil triangulation ploys! Up with Snippy!
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 01, 2002 at 21:22:55 (EST)

My two cents are: Jim Robinson pulled the plug on the Freeper thread. What was it about?
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 01, 2002 at 20:10:50 (EST)

My two cents are: Borg. We Are Borg. We Are here.
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 01, 2002 at 19:53:16 (EST)

My two cents are: Sounds like the coals aren't hot enough to sear the meat..
Borg. We Are Borg. We Are here.
- Friday, March 01, 2002 at 19:52:33 (EST)

My two cents are: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/638162/posts UNBELIEVABLE!
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 01, 2002 at 17:47:56 (EST)

My two cents are: http://www.cnn.com/video/us/2002/02/25/ashcroft.sings.wbtv.med.html
Eat your heart out, William Shatner
- Friday, March 01, 2002 at 16:08:53 (EST)

My two cents are: Just more loud talk by the president* who promised to smoke bin Laden out.
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 01, 2002 at 15:07:55 (EST)

My two cents are: "The "axis of evil" caused a sensation around the world because it established a new American foreign policy based on three distinctive principles: morality, preemption and unilateralism. Our sophisticated European cousins are aghast. The French led the way, denouncing American simplisme. They deem it a breach of manners to call evil by its name. They prefer accommodating to it. They have lots of practice, famously accommodating Nazi Germany in 1940, less famously striking the Gaullist pose of triangulating between the evil empire and primitive Yanks during the Cold War." http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20801-2002Feb28.html
go charlie go!
- Friday, March 01, 2002 at 15:02:32 (EST)

My two cents are: Ah, Nixon. A man controlled by dark forces. Reminds me of Pete.
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 01, 2002 at 14:54:29 (EST)

My two cents are: Snippy barely knew Kenny Boy. Kenny Boy supported Ann Richards. Kenny Boy was Clinton's guest for an overnight in the Lincoln Bedroom. Hard to believe these are all lies. You'd think at least one would be true.
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 01, 2002 at 14:52:02 (EST)

My two cents are: ``When President Richard M. Nixon's ambassador to France got roaring drunk and began groping the flight attendants on a trip home from Paris, Nixon didn't see that much to get excited about. "Look, people get drunk," the president said after a Jack Anderson column regaled readers with a graphic account of Ambassador Arthur K. Watson's behavior on a March 1972 flight to Washington. "People chase girls. And the point is, it's a hell of a lot better for them to get drunk than to take drugs. It's better to chase girls than boys." "Now that's my position and let's stop this crap," Nixon declared at a March 14, 1972, Oval Office meeting with his chief of staff, H.R. Haldeman.'' http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20361-2002Feb28.html
go dick go!
- Friday, March 01, 2002 at 14:51:45 (EST)

My two cents are: http://www.observer.com/pages/conason.asp
barf alert <butt plugs in tight?>
- Friday, March 01, 2002 at 14:42:31 (EST)

My two cents are: Monica Lewinsky is a liberal? How so?
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 01, 2002 at 14:38:40 (EST)

My two cents are: I'll try to keep that in mind as, one by one, all the evil, hypocritical retchies suffer a plague of boils. It's all good! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 01, 2002 at 14:37:22 (EST)

My two cents are: March 1, 2002 -- Monica Lewinsky says she was still involved with another married man when she began an affair with then-President Bill Clinton. Appearing on CNN's "Larry King Live" last night, Lewinsky said her affair with Andy Bleiler, her high-school drama teacher, "was not 100 percent over" when her tryst with Clinton began in November 1995. She said she was a "22-year-old foolish kid" when she met Clinton, and was swept away by "this charismatic, powerful man standing there showing an interest in me." Two months after the affair with the president began, Lewinsky said she fell in love with him, although she doubts he felt the same. "I wouldn't bet my life on it," she said. Lewinsky, publicizing an HBO documentary about her that airs Sunday, said that when she sees Clinton on TV now, "my heart certainly doesn't beat like it used to." But she added, "I'd be lying if I said I don't feel angry some days." Lewinsky said she has sworn off married men for good. "Oh, gosh, no. Never again," she said.
not newsworth - deluded liberals are a dime a dozen
- Friday, March 01, 2002 at 14:37:02 (EST)

My two cents are: Unless either Adam or Steve is a transexual, I can't see the play holding Glint's interest for very long, bodily fluids or not.
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 01, 2002 at 14:27:37 (EST)

My two cents are: "And as [Jesus] passed by, he saw a man which was blind from [his] birth. And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind? Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him." John 9:1-3
for 14:18
- Friday, March 01, 2002 at 14:25:59 (EST)

My two cents are: http://news.independent.co.uk/people/profiles/story.jsp?story=212414
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 01, 2002 at 14:19:25 (EST)

My two cents are: Let the "lezzie marriage proposal" thing drop. Nobody wants to go where you seem to be taking it.
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 01, 2002 at 14:19:19 (EST)

My two cents are: Hyde. Burton. Livinston. Barr. Chenoweth. Olson. Tripp.
who says there is no God?
- Friday, March 01, 2002 at 14:19:13 (EST)

My two cents are: Linda Tripp Statement on Cancer The Associated Press Friday, March 1, 2002; 12:01 PM Statement Friday by lawyers for Linda Tripp concerning her battle with breast cancer. "Counsel for Mrs. Tripp understands that a tabloid newspaper may be releasing information regarding Mrs. Tripp's current medical condition in an upcoming story. Instead of having the matter become a topic of speculation or rumor, Mrs. Tripp's counsel, Stephen M. Kohn and David K. Colapinto, are releasing the following statement: "We acknowledge that Linda is being treated for breast cancer at this time. She has asked us to pass on her thanks to those individuals who have sent her such supportive and encouraging messages. However, this is indeed a very private and personal matter and we all hope that everyone will understand and respect her right to privacy in dealing with such a difficult challenge."
and sometimes bad things happen to bad people
- Friday, March 01, 2002 at 14:18:00 (EST)

My two cents are: Yes. Adam is a man. Steve is a woman. They exchange bodily fluids. Geesh.
Anonymous.
- Friday, March 01, 2002 at 14:11:51 (EST)

My two cents are: "Seems some conservatives are in a bit of a huff over the Adam and Steve play in California." - Anonymous@20:55:01. Never heard of it. But based on the description above, and its location, I'd say it involves two characters and their exchanges of body fluids? Anything else important I should know about? <> Ahoy, crynic!
Glint
- Friday, March 01, 2002 at 14:02:46 (EST)

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