Like you needed an excuse.
It just hadn't occured to me before now. All our mayoral candidates are boring.
Inara: Who's winning? Simon: I can't tell. They don't seem to be playing by any civilized rules that I know.
'Bushwhacked'
Natter .38 Special
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jesse - Sep 08, 2005 9:11:46 am PDT #5513 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
sarameg - Sep 08, 2005 9:12:34 am PDT #5514 of 10002
I now have snippets of a song called "Who's to blame?" stuck on loop. Thanks!
Nora Deirdre - Sep 08, 2005 9:12:46 am PDT #5515 of 10002
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
there was an interesting opinion piece in Salon today that opines that the press was pretty damn slow to start asking the tough questions, as well.
Gudanov - Sep 08, 2005 9:12:48 am PDT #5516 of 10002
Coding and Sleeping
Limbaugh on New Orleans: "If you, as a mayor, or if you, as a city council, run a city based on the welfare and entitlement thinking of government -- bammo! -- you're going to get poor citizens! If you run a city that believes in entrepreneurialism and growth and so forth, you're not going to have as much of that.
But if your city believes that it's entitled, if that's, if that's the worldview of the leaders of a community, then I don't care what their race is -- if their worldview is that this is a welfare state -- "the government needs to protect us. The government needs to feed us. The government needs to transport us. The government" -- well, guess what? The government needs to build the levees. The government needs to make sure the levees are -- the government. You're passing the buck all over the place and accepting all the money that the government's sending in to you, ah, and then something like this happens and then you start, you know, wringing your hands.
"Oh, look how poor the population --" Well, what do you expect when you have a welfare state mentality as your city government? I mean, I'm not even being critical. I'm just trying to point out something obvious here! That -- talking about this for 18 years, folks -- socialism versus capitalism; entrepreneurialism and self-reliance versus the entitlement mentality -- so much on display here. That's what nobody's got the guts to say.
Dammit, all those people should have had their own private levees instead of having the government take care of it. Ah, what can you expect from a socialist city state like New Orleans.
Allyson - Sep 08, 2005 9:13:10 am PDT #5517 of 10002
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
It would be so awesome if the media brought in shot glasses and bottles of Jack to the next briefing and just started taking shots everytime McClellan says, "blame game."
Betsy HP - Sep 08, 2005 9:13:33 am PDT #5518 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
Holy FUCK.
Even on Tuesday, as still-rising waters covered most of New Orleans, FEMA official Bill Lokey sounded a reassuring note in a Baton Rouge briefing.
"I don't want to alarm everybody that, you know, New Orleans is filling up like a bowl," Lokey said. "That's just not happening."
Fred Pete - Sep 08, 2005 9:13:51 am PDT #5519 of 10002
Ann, that's a ferret.
Limbaugh on New Orleans
Ah, what do you expect from an Oxycontin junkie?
(ETA What I'm referring to)
Topic!Cindy - Sep 08, 2005 9:15:39 am PDT #5520 of 10002
What is even happening?
I now have snippets of a song called "Who's to blame?" stuck on loop. Thanks!
Trade it in for Fats Domino's Ain't That a Shame, instead. It's got a good beat, and you can dance to it.
Nora Deirdre - Sep 08, 2005 9:15:47 am PDT #5521 of 10002
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
That's what nobody's got the guts to say.
Dude, I'd need however many painkillers he's high on to even figure out what the hell HE'S trying to say.
Rush fucking Limbaugh. How completely irrelevant you are. And not even entertaining about it, like, say, Scott McClellan.
Topic!Cindy - Sep 08, 2005 9:16:37 am PDT #5522 of 10002
What is even happening?
I am not allowed to discuss Rush Limbaugh.