Hi all - I have news:
We are opening escrow on the house tomorrow!!! (I must be crazy!) However, the house is very old, so I am waiting to see what the pest & home inspectors have to say before I decide for sure to go ahead with the purchase. I don't mind putting some money into the house, but I don't want to buy a money pit... It's a big purchase, and I want to make sure I go into it with eyes wide open.
So, there you have....you can go back to bickering, now.
UPDATE: Well, the home inspection left a lot to be desired. Let's just say that I'm not all that keen on repairing the foundation, replacing the roof, fixing the plumbing, and removing the dry rot...bleah! The search begins anew!!!
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1 – 200 of 755 Newer› Newest»Thank you, ferret. I was beginning to worry.
Congrats!
THE MONEY PIT.
Old Tom Hanks movie.
Maybe worth a watch.
;)
I love old houses. Shut up, Ted.
Good luck ferret!
Just remember to jealously guard your contingency rights, and never forget that "as-is" doesn't mean that you can't exercise those rights.
Best of luck.
Good luck, ferret! When the deal is done, big party at ferret's house! Tell the local H.S. kids...
I always suspected that she was lay teacher in real life...
Now I have to think of a good housewarming photo for her.
"She's a Brat, She's a Brat
Yeah the Brat is Back!
Opening Escrow as a matter of fact..." ;-)
wv: fletione (also Italian)
congrats, FH! Hope it all goes well.
That Bernie Taupin always had a talent for using words that were both verbs and nouns
you can download torchwood show and radio plays from www.thebox.bz
Okay, how many of you want much more news about Jean's house purchase and much less abortion debate between Gina and me?
wv: irick
(have guitar, will travel)
Ferret: that's a shame... but don't give up!
Thanks, WT. I'm not. Every time I go through this, I get a little more educated about the process. The right place just isn't available yet; it'll happen when it's supposed to.
DSG & Gina - thanks for keeping that 'other' discussion on the other thread. ;-)
Jean, don't give up. This can be a great time to buy.
But the other thread is getting tiresome and monotonous.
Censorship rears its ugly head again.
And it is a gorgeous head--just look at the close-up.
I was describing censorship's head, not yours. ;)
wv: bocults
So, dsg, when would you like to concieve thi child?
I think you might redeem your soul in doing so.
conceive this. Conceive this child.
I before e.That much I can remember
I noticed that some sort of faux qua posted on the last thread. Do not be deceived. Or deterred, for that matter. And thank you all for your refusal to engage in the song and dance stuff dominating every other media outlet these days.
hUh?
The only think I noticed was that Hartal got kicked off LaSalle's blog.
I suppose that means that we can expect The Beast to return here.
KRIKEY!
Gina, you're confusing me. Can anyone help me here?
BTW, is anyone else getting tired of North Korea's antics?
wv: convinsu
Yes, dsg, I think we all are. I'm curious if there's any progress or anything at *all* being done about the two journalists as well.
Oh. God. Get a sense of humor dsg. It might help.
Yes, I'm sick of North Korean antics. All I could think of is that they've been waiting to do something. We've tapped our military strength in Iraq, economically we're hurting,and new Democrate president all adds up to our defenses are down and we're more vulnerable than ever. War flashed through my mind.
Kinda scary how disruptive a hostile country can be when they want to.
Gina, I do too have a sense of humor, it's just very XY.
MSM! MSM!
MSM? Clue me in, please.
I'm telling you, hartal got it good on the MSM "contest" thread. Ted and xoot, you should be ashamed of yourselves. Even the Mick got into the spirit of things.
Maybe hartal saved his cri de coeur and can repost it here. He catalogued the innumerable and interminable posts of his that had been deleted FROM THE ARCHIVES. I mean, his lamentations went back to early 2008. Then some "editor" deleted THAT post. What a hoot.
cri de coeur?
Ouch
"Maybe hartal saved his cri de coeur and can repost it here." Not coming back so stop asking in the passive aggressive way that accounts for your five divorces. Have some self-respect. Your game of trying to persuade by assertions of the greatest confidence becomes a bit difficult as long as people can identify you as that person who has been quite wrong in the past, though people are often irrational enough to be convinced by swagger anyway.Yet when a truly embarrassing record of argumentative defeat is there for everyone to see, your self confidence seems pathological. That is why you can't own up to your identity. At least you see the problems. Not coming back--got it?
You have got that interesting debate between gavone and gonzale on abortion--what more could you want?
no one.
Who are you talking to and what are you saying?
He's not coming back? Too good to be true.
btw, hartal, I've never been married. Still sleeping round. I think the person you're attacking married a few times to help women gain residency in the states. Charitable acts. Just my guess.
Anyway, bon voyage!
Thanks for the good wishes. Nice name. Get a life. Enjoy the debate on abortion. Bye
I think the person you're attacking married a few times to help women gain residency in the states. Charitable acts. Just my guess.
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If you're talking about me, it's true. Well, just once. I'm just not sure you're talking about me.
Qua...I think you mean MLS, don't you? Although he can be considered MSM.
Anyway, I thought that exchange was hilarious--especially LaSalle's response.
MSM. Hyperbole. Keep it going...I think I answered my own question.
wv: rotggi. That's Italian too, you know.
Gina, the name of the blog is Maximum Strength Mick, or MSM. Though I can understand your confusion.
Oh. Thank you. I never noticed.
He is doing exactly what he is accusing of others of doing, though, right? Irony? Or mocking himself?
I better post this here before Mick deletes this comment from MSM. I'm not sure why Mick is such a pussy about Hartal's commentary, there were more posts directed towatds him than the original topic. I guess I just answered my own question. Quappy, you do realize don't you, that you owe your entire existence to Hartal. You're rather an ungrateful douchebag, don't you think?
yogi_barracuda7/9/2009 10:28:25 AM
It's impossible to score this fight if one of the combatants has all his comments deleted. Ted and Xootsuit are bragging about the great punches they've landed but I can't take their word for it. I'll have to assume Hartal won. I'm reminded of what Lebron James did the other day. After he got dunked on by an ameteur player, he confiscated the video footage. Next time, don't just delete Hartal's comments, delete the references to his comments as well. That's the fair way to run a blog, or better yet, grow a pair, and stop deleting his comments.
Now this YC, he will never leave. He and his hundred and one blogging names will be around forever. He has nothing else to do. (But now when he gets a jones to ass-kiss hartal, where will he go? Oh, the loss.)
Douche bag. I like that term. But then I am French. And a little Catholic Slut to boot.
I think he just loves playing the Devil's advocate, doncha YC?
wv: cotedere. Hmm. We've now shifted from Italian to French, I see.
Geez, now Nipper/Babbler is posting here. The level of discourse is rising over the floodbanks.
I love that Babbler. Where is he--I don't see him?
Dear Mr. LaSalle: In the film "Juno," the title character decided to have her baby and give it up for adoption. This led to happiness for all. In "Revolutionary Road," Kate Winslet's character had an abortion. This led to her death and Leonardo DiCaprio's misery. Doesn't it make you want to jump up and clap that Hollywood is finally getting it right when it comes to portraying what will happen to you when you make the abortion decision?
Mike Patton, San Francisco
Dear Mr. Patton: Kate Winslet doesn't quite "have an abortion" in "Revolutionary Road." She deliberately commits suicide by giving herself an abortion, in much the same way that many women accidentally committed suicide by giving themselves abortions in the years before it became legal. But to answer your question, yes, I agree. It's good and even historically valid for Hollywood to show what used to happen to women when abortion was illegal.
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Good point Mick, and well delivered.
Well, when your balls are cinched up nice and tight, you're liable to say anything.
He never used to feel that way. And unless he's deleted the posts, which I suspect the pussy has, he thought it was a crime to abort a person after it started to wiggle.
Don't you remember his story about the girl in high school who had two abortions and got pregnant twice because she liked getting pregnant? He had quite the abortion theme going for awhile. I wonder what inspired him to go on and on about it? Now all he seems to go on about is cheating husbands. Hmmm.
You know, when one has committed a sin, one must pay restitution.
You know, I wish I could tell that bastard how my aunt died from a botched abortion performed by a goddamn hack doctor. It took her 22years of lingering pain and kidney failure to do it, but the sob essentially killed her...and got paid to do it.
And will never know the truth about how abortion can kill your soul or make you infertile.
Wonder why LaSalle doesn't have children?
Hollywood will never tell that tale though, will they?
Sory. We will never know the truth.
Jeez. Sorry. Can't write when I'm pissed, either.
Gina - that link seems to have been cut off. Could you make a tinyurl, or put a hard break in there somewhere? I'm dying to see what you've given me!
Still no news...
It's today's photo. Click on inner eyeball.
Hope you like it. I might tweak it some.
It's today's photo. Click on inner eyeball.
Hope you like it. I might tweak it some.
Hey Ferret! thanks for checking in... Sorry there's been no news... D:
Gina, I like that pic you gave FH. I once rescued a hummingbird trapped in a greenhouse and held in my hand for a moment. But it wasn't calm like the one in your photo. How'd you get that shot of yours?
It's the second time I've done it. First time was when I was 19, from the mouth of a very nasty orange cat. That time it let me hold it quite awhile before it flew off. I'm sure it was stunned.
This time was on Father's Day last month. Caught in a web. It was covered with the sticky stuff.
After I cleaned it up, it sat in my hand for the longest while. Luckily, I had my camera right there and was able to take a lot of pictures. We were communing.
Did you know hummers, because of their high metabolism, are always hours away from starvation? Many never live past their first year.
Some people think I'm really scary, but not hummers.
A few years before we were married, my second wife's declawed cat, which was actually a decent sort, caught a hummingbird on the balcony of her apartment and brought it back in through the sliding glass door, which had been open. When she saw her cat come i with the bird, she screamed, and the cat dropped the hummer. The bird lay on the carpet for a couple of minutes and then flew off. I always wondered how that cat was able to catch a hummingbird; I guess it's not quite as rare as I thought.
Gina, you conclusion-jumper, you, I wasn't at her apartment, I heard about it after the fact. My s.o. and I have hummingbird feeders at our house, along with other bird feeders. We get hummers, goldfinches, robins, titmouses, dark-eyed juncos, and rufous-sided towhees in the yard, along with various sparrows. There are also a few mourning doves, mockingbirds and scrub jays around, and we see crows and hawks overhead from time to time. We don't have cats, but we do have a greyhound and a parrot.
His goal in life was to be an echo
Riding alone, town after town, toll after toll
A fixed bayonet through the great southwest to forget her
She appears in his dreams
But in his car and in his arms
A dream can mean anything
A cheap sunset on a television set can upset her
But he never could
Remember to remember me
Standing still in your past
Floating fast like a hummingbird
His goal in life was to be an echo
The type of sound that floats around and then back down
Like a feather
But in the deep chrome canyons of the loudest Manhattans
No one could hear him
Or anything
So he slept on a mountain
In a sleeping bag underneath the stars
He would lie awake and count them
And the gray fountain spray of the great Milky Way
Would never let him
Die alone
Remember to remember me
Standing still in your past
Floating fast like a hummingbird
Remember to remember me
Standing still in your past
Floating fast like a hummingbird
A hummingbird
A hummingbird
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'Hummingbird'/ Wilco
Hey, Gina! Your new avatar reminds me of Warhol, what with the color fields glaring out the facial features and all. Good stuff... :)
That's my most recent picture of myself--that's my aura you're seeing.
oh... I thought that was just me! I need one of them aura-cams myself... ;-)
wv: scent
post your picture--if you're not a chicken, that is--I'll find it for you.
wv:augmanun. Latin for aura-finder.
bawk bawk! :D
Er...I hope you don't take that the wrong way--I'm a fancier of poultry...really!
wv:pluok
WINKINGTIGERCOCK
Wasn't that a Jean Claude Van Damme movie?
You do know fanciers keep poultry for reacreation or pleasure rather than for breeding purposes, right?
wv:sphipwit. As opposed to half-wit
Eh, I probably deserved that because I don't wish to post a picc. :\
wv: gedlycoc (Gina, are you rigging this?) :D
You do know fanciers keep poultry for reacreation or pleasure rather than for breeding purposes, right?
**
That was a rumor about Marlon Brando that *no one* was able to prove
You know it doesn't matter what you look like to me. I see the inner-self.
You do know cameras can be the biggest liars in the world, right?
I swear Ferret rigs this thing. Or Big Brother.
wv:trements.
Jeeezus, Ted. Do not invite trouble by mentioning his name.It's like having a seance.
Re doves: The common pigeon, the so-called "rat with wings," is more properly called the rock dove. They are so named because in the wild they roost in cliffs, which makes them perfectly adaptable to city life. There is an odd phenomenon I've noticed in Los Altos: over the past five years, on occasion, I have seen a flock of all-white doves flying around town. I never see them roosting, only flying, and they are always flying as a flock of at least 30 birds, moving very quickly in the sky together. I thought I saw that same flock of all-white doves in San Jose about a month ago, flying around the intersection of Interstate 280 and Highway 87, but I can't be certain it was the same flock.
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. Squab.
The white ones were probably released at some idiots fancy wedding.
I just got my issue of Notre Dame Magazine, which had a number of letters to the editor cancelling their subscriptions and bemoaning the invitation of Obama to be the commencement speaker, as well as an article about the meeting that occurred between Obama and President Emeritus Ted Hesburgh. That article featured a photo of the two of them embracing and mentioned that Hesburgh gave Obama the famous photograph of Hesburgh and Martin Luther King, Jr., singing arm in arm.
wv: brate
http://tinyurl.com/kj76ky
Hi Ferrethead, would you please weigh in on the Birther Conspiracy Theory. This thread of comments is the funniest fucking thing I've ever read.
http://tinyurl.com/mjr5jd
Now that's a priest I have the utmost respect for.
wv: jewoks
(the chosen ones of the forest moon of Endor)
That reminds me of a joke we used to tell at Notre Dame:
Q: What's the difference between God and Ted Hesburgh?
A: God is everywhere, Hesburgh is everywhere except for Notre Dame.
joelg 11 minutes ago
.. Ah don' know nuthin' bout birthin' babeez, Miz Scarlett.. ah's a rebooblican..
Quit ignoring me.
You know how I hate that.
Well I see Mick and Ted managed to get Hartal banned completely from SF Gate blogs, all his comments have been deleted. Brilliant. What a couple of pussies.
I was thinking about the original post at MSM that started the whole thing. Mick wrote the PUMA party platform, "Vote for McCain if Clinton doesn't get the nomination". It's obvious that Mick and Ted never participated in team sports. We(Democrats) were in camp, trying to determine who would be our quarterback. The waterboy decided that if his first choice didn't get the starting job he and like minded people should go play for the other team. Uhg! What a punch-in-the-face stupid thing to say. I've lost all respect for Mick, never had any for his ass-licking sychophant to begin with.
Ted, if you're reading this, FUCK YOU! Now go e-mail Mick so that you can have me banned as well.
BTW, I was moved by the post about Luis Saguar, I never heard of him, yet was more saddened by his death than all of the celebrities. I even made a contribution in Mick's name. If I offer to send him the receipt so he can write it off, do you think he'd accept?
YC, stop ignoring Gina.
T.I.E., All I know is that Hartal called Mick a coward and he's done nothing but prove that's the case. I seriously doubt you were going to vote for Clinton. The PUMAs actually ended up helping Obama in a big way. Palin was nominated for VP in order to attract the disaffected Clintonistas.
Don't worry. This will be a civil response to YC's post of...wait a minute, I have to scroll down...okay. July 18, 2009 1:29 PM.
Okay. YC. You're an odd sorta duck. Ongoing for the last few months you have accused me of:
1.Being things I've never been
2.Not being things I have been
3.Posting things I've never posted
4.Meaning things I've never meant
5.Doing things I've never done and
6.anticipating things I never would have done
In fact the post mentioned above covered, I think if I counted correctly, 4 out of 6 of these.
Now, I'm not the only victim of fantasy accusations from you. xootsuit's been one of your targets as well. But I, obviously, have the lion's share (which, by the way is a misnomer. The lion's share *really* means all).
So the question becomes...why? Why have I wrought this vehement hatred of me? The first theory, because of the 6 fantasies that you've accused me of, makes one think of delusion. Paranoia. Cowering conspiracy theorists.
But no. Since you pick and choose who you novelize, the only connection I can come up with, as weird and as simple as it may sound, is because hartal, for lack of a better word, dislikes me.
You have decided that since hartal dislikes me and hartal, to you, is some sort of...well, I haven't figured that out yet but simply because hartal dislikes me you've decided I am a target worthy of complete derision.
Even if it means making things up, accusing me of falsehoods, accusing me of...well, I already listed the 6. There's probably more but the 6 only come to mind right away.
That's a strange way to channel your hatred, YC. Very strange way.
Hartal's hatred of me, in your mind, justifies lies, innuendoes, bitterness and just plain cold hatred. No matter whether it's right, justified, logical..no matter. You've made a stand.
Okay. Fine. Go on with your life. And hate all the things you want to hate. Love what you want to love. Your justification for your consistant bashing of me is so..what's the word..fantastical? Really, I can live with your delusional hatred of me. It's like being worried that Carrot Top thinks I have no sense of humor.
:D
Big kiss. And in the words of that most annoying poster on the Giants SFGate blog, hugs to my hartal.
Like I said. You're an odd sorta duck.
Take care. And please, find a more worthy cause.
In my mind's eye, Ted is a slightly smarter and queerer version of Glenn Beck.
Well I see Mick and Ted managed to get Hartal banned completely
July 18, 2009 1:29 PM
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Ted I didn't accuse you of anything
July 18, 2009 11:59 PM
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Uh huh.
And it was a snarky response not a punch in the face because all I said was after the first 2 sentences I didn't understand a word that was written.
Are you saying you did? Then you're a liar. You might have known what he meant, but the words were gibberish. But I was too polite to say that.
I'm through with this conversation and subject. It's a waste of time. It doesn't matter what I post, you'll just make something up about me again or lie as you just did as shown above. Or call me a queer again. That's twice. You did it on the LaSalle blog, too.
Can you imagine what you'd post if I called anyone a queer? Mr. Champion of Unchampioned?
Something about me turns you into a lying hypocrite. What could that be? Oh yeah. Hartal doesn't like me. I keep forgetting.
Anyway, I'm through. Write what you want. Vent away. I don't "kick" people off blogs. If I don't like what they say, I respond or ignore.
Ok Ted, you've got me there, I don't always read Hartal's posts that carefully. His style of writing is certainly fair game, so have at it, Strunk and White have your back.
BTW I never called you a queer, I was pretty careful to use it as an adjective. Not that there's anything wrong with it.
Not bad Gina. As a rule, photographs of people are more interesting that inanimate objects.
Thanks.
Now will you two quit arguing about really dumb things? Say something more interesting? I'm bored.
It's Sunday, fer gawd's sake.
Been a while. Things seem surprisingly quiet. Young C's hartal love is so charming. I especially like the way he believes every autobiographical "fact" hartal posts. What a dupe.
Gina: Going back up to the bird discussion, are you familiar with this?
A Route of Evanescence
With a revolving Wheel -
A Resonance of Emerald
A Rush of Cochineal -
And every Blossom on the Bush
Adjusts its tumbled Head -
The mail from Tunis – probably,
An easy Morning’s Ride -
The people who know about such things love to marvel at the amount of motion in a little poem with only one actual verb. E. Dickinson was the best. So brief!
Quappy! You're going about it all wrong laddie! You'll never win Gina with those gay poems. You've got to know your audience son, know what interests them the most. Off the top of my head I can do better.
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Yo Gina! You hot Scorpio you
Yo Gina! You got hot sweet porcupine stew
Yo Gina! You're like Scarlett
In Gone With The Wind
Yo Gina! You're my starlett
Now can I put it in?
BTW Quappy What's wrong with verbs? Only necrophiliacs like it motionless.
poems without verbs indeed! That's worse than poems that don't rhyme :(
Quappy posts anonymously attacking me and then huffs off after calling me a wimp.
Quappy thinks I'm a fool, perhaps, that's so, but I'm protected by angels. Quappy, anonymously spitting venom is a digital demon from hell, no quarter shall be given.+++++++ Down to Hell Quappy!++++++
wv-palionid The Republican base
Zeno's Hummingbird
Motion decomposed into stills
Stillness created by motion
Nothing moving
Nothing still
The Hummingbird is moving still
Thank you, Qua...I needed something different to analyze.
You, too, Michael Muffett.
And YC. I had to laugh...and that's good, too.
I am multi-dimensional--you guys just don't appreciate my eccentricity, that's all.
wv: ration
I can't believe I'm doing this, editing my ode to Gina. I loved the porcupine, hated the line.
You Gina! You scrumptious Scorpio you
You Gina! This poem is all about you
You Gina! You make love like porcupines do
You Gina! You know I'd like to pork you fine too
wv-woryou, how appropriate, it has you in it. It's a question worth answering.
You know I had this great idea for an SF Gate blog. I'm floating it here first because regardless of whatever polite criticism of TedSpe I may have posted, he's a good writer, and he's the only regular commenter with the interest and talent to make this idea work.....A blog about death. Maximum Strength Obits, ruminations on our mortality, with literary and movie criticism of course, stories from the hospice, stories from the front lines. Everybody's dying...someone should blog about it.
wv-herald
I'm all for the death blog, as long as mor(m)ons are well represented.
yawn. Cut to Black.
Good name for the death blog, qua. "Cut To Black."
Never mind the mor(m)ons, here's the bollocks.
Gina, you've apparently not seen many old men naked.
Gina, good for you on those sculpting skills, don't be upset if I take a pass on your efforts with the danglies. It's enough to see them at the gym after a workout, I really don't want to see them on display somewhere else.
I'm not that old.
CUT TO BLACK
Today, the curator of the artifacts and such of the MPAA passed away. Died. Ceased to exist. Stopped breathing. In short...he's an ex-curator.
Mr. Cushman. Lovely fellow. Dedicated and true. This is not sarcasm, though it is snarky.
He was devoted to his job and will be more than missed. He will not be replaced by anyone as dedicated.
R.I.P.
Oh, and thank you YC. May I return the compliment.
We obviously don't agree.
A LOT!
But I always read your posts. You're a very good and interesting writer. And believe it or not, politically, I'm very close to both you and hartal. My issues are mainly on how you two present your positions. I don't advocate a milquetoast approach necessarily but at times, a little tact can win more recruits. Middle of roaders/fence sitters can be turned off by what appears to be biased vehemence. And then, what was the point? What was accomplished?
Anyway, thanks.
Good night, all.
I find that those that are turned off by the appearance of biased vehemence are really turned off by armed revolution. Slough off the dead weight, I always say.
CBS said that the voice of Walter Cronkite will continue to announce the 'CBS Evening News with Katie Couric.' "
In a related decision, CBS also announced that it will "respectfully reconfigure" portions of its "CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite" archive to create the highly revered late journalist's dramatic guest starring debut on the network's season finale of "The Ghost Whisperer."
"Cronkite" will "play" "Alfred Keagan" a lovable bank security guard who can't seem to face the loss of his Korean war-bride "Oki," played by Miyoshi Umeki (Bill Bixby's live-in maid "Mrs. Livingston" from "The Courtship of Eddie's Father" in her first network television appearance since retiring shortly after her own death in 2007.)
CRAIG BIERKO -HuffPo
ROFLMAO! Huffpo!
YC,
did you see these comments on the birthing controversy left by bernardi (gavone's brother?)
Comment on: The right-wing -- now plus Lou Dobbs -- still doubts Obama's birth certificate at 7/22/2009 10:12 AM PDT
I'm being called a lot of names, and my defense of the birth certificate controversy keeps gettting erased. But it makes a lot more sense than politico's--what's this about his mother's age?
Let me make the issues clear for you people.
Now the other thing is that we have to make a choice. We are living through a social and economic crisis.
How do we make sense of it?
Here are three alternatives.
1. Income inequality concentrated income at the top; it didn't make sense to invest in industry as workers' wages were stagnant. So the money was put into speculative investments, and we allowed the banks to speculate any way they wanted. And now we are bailing them out.
2. The banks were forced to make bad loans to minorities because of affirmative action though most of the financial institutions involved in sub prime debt were not obligated by law to make such bad loans.
3. Illegal immigrants are destroying the country though they do work that others won't do; create demand for new products and services and thus jobs; and pay taxes.
Now I grant that that there is more evidence for 1 than 2 and 3. But it feels better and makes me feel stronger to blame blacks and Mexican immigrants.
And they are an easier target.
It also allows us true Americans to feel solidarity through collective victimization. And what's wrong with feeling good about yourself?
Comment on: The right-wing -- now plus Lou Dobbs -- still doubts Obama's birth certificate at 7/22/2009 10:01 AM PDT
Yes being a friend of America means hating the foes of America. There are those who think we did something wrong interning Japanese Americans during WWII while not interning German and Italian AMericans though Japanese Americans had been here for some time and there was more evidence of German and Italian American espionage. You can be one of those who hates our country and point to the fact of there being absolutely no evidence of Japanese American treason. Or you can understand that we had good reasons not to trust the commitment to citizenship of non European immigrants. What you call racism is not necessarily irrational. It has produced strength.
That's what this birth certificate issue is about. We can't trust that Obama is really American in his blood.
If you don't take us seriously we will fight for the secession of Texas at the tea bag parties.
Make your choice.
Comment on: The right-wing -- now plus Lou Dobbs -- still doubts Obama's birth certificate at 7/22/2009 9:50 AM PDT
Let's see my previous comment was erased. So let restate it in a politically correct way.
It does not matter whether Obama was born here or not. The problem is that he does not represent an American point of view; he represents immigrants. There is a reason why for most of our history we blocked the naturalization or citizenship rights of colored immigrants. We can't trust them--blacks, Latinos and Asians--to serve American interests. Germans, Italians and Irish could become and did become true Americans. But the truth is that we had a lot more suspicion of non-Europeans. Now the politically correct cry racism. I say caution produced strength.
So you should hear what we are really saying in this birth certificate controvery--don't trust Obama, he does not share our blood.
Now here is my position, and I say it for the good of the country.
One should only have full citzenship rights if both parents have been Americans for at least four generations. The Germans who are our true ancestors understand this to this day.
Our presidents should be drawn from such stock even if our ancestors fought for the secession of the slave South. My father was only 1/4 Italian.
My blood is truly American. Obama's is not. I should be president. Or Texas should secede.
I hope that I have restated the point well enough for the liberal SF Gate censors.
And what do you mean about becoming a neo Confederate party. We already are a regional party if you look at the returns from the last election.
We are going back to our roots, and the birth certifcate issue is our banner leading the way!
Wackos. Waco. You decide.
Anonymous, read the main page. Cowards are not welcome, anonymous posts will be deleted.
In other words, if you want to speak here, you have to identify yourself in some regular way.
Gina, I'm a fast reader, and I skimmed most of it.
Somethin' awful familiar 'bout that there anonymous.
We saved the list. It now flourishes without the Beast. Profound thanks to the quas, Gavone and our gracious host.
And more poetry from Michael Muffett, please. That was a brilliant (presumably) image of the hummingbird as the very embodiment of Zeno's paradox.
presumably original image is what I meant to say. It was original, right Michael?
wv: disfros--the late Michael Jackson's hairstyle.
hartal, as usual you miss the point. The MMuffett piece was a word game, not a poem. And running your finger down the dictionary pages with "qua" on them doesn't qualify as wit.
This blog awaits its host's decision on what to do next, not yours, trollite.
I mean, after all, the truth is the truth no matter how you slice it, right? Regardless of propriety or favors wanted.
Shit happens. Be prepared. Those are good words to live by.
Naturally, I'm not speaking to anyone in particular--just generalizing.
???I am just saying that I loved how Michael Muffett connected the hummingbird to Zeno Mostel.
I despise liars. So do the courts.
There seem to be quite a few imitation quas quacking and quaking here now.
Any parent who launches a child custody battle out of spite automatically should lose custody. Should be a state law.
Will the real Qua please stand up and testify to his real identity?
That might solve all sorts of things.
Welcome to Gina and Hartals' blog. Now go home.
Oh no, it's not Hartal's blog. You're not going to blame the descent into madness, triviality and stupidity on me. There was still at times witty (Robert Downey) and even informed discussion (exobiology or Kubrick) when I was here. I left. Gavone got free reign. And please let's not hear about truly disturbing things such as the custody of children.
http://tbn2.google.com/images?q=tbn:Byw2lNDNoGNAFM:http://www.wetcircuit.com/wp-content/myfotos/fantasiahours/Fantasia119.jpg
wv:ached. Heh. Buttheads.
I mean, WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT?
Hey, how come you two haven't made an appearance on ferrethead's new blog? Everyone else is aboard-- dsg, xoot, Ted, SOAB, Lefty, auntie debboo... even ferret herself, if you can believe that!
" TooSense said...
Hey, how come you two haven't made an appearance on ferrethead's new blog? Everyone else is aboard-- dsg, xoot, Ted, SOAB, Lefty, auntie debboo... even ferret herself, if you can believe that!
July 27, 2009 10:59 AM"
Thank god no one told me...
(Ok everybody, he's here... 1... 2... 3...) SURPRISE!!!!!!
Why do I have the urge to throw myself under a truck driven by winkingtiger? A truck which stereo blares J. Geils and Ravi Shankar to drown out my shame filled pleas for forgiveness.
I'm a space case with no face, my friend. And you know I'd forget my own head if it wasn't screwed on crooked...
*temporary fang and claw retraction* :)
Presumably our dear hostess is up to her hiney in real estate deals (or sci-fi series) and doesn't have the time to visit now. Either that, or she got tired of all of us. ;)
Speaking of fangs and claws, I've been listening to a fair amount of old Ted Nugent lately. The man may be nuts, but he sure could play a mean guitar.
Just a question. Does anyone know what term or condition of SF Gate policy this post could have possibly violated such that it was expunged?
"Comment on: People I Just Can't Respect at 7/27/2009 7:27 PM PDT
I don't think we should mistake an exaggeration with an actual policy. There is no one on earth who actually guides his movie viewing in a negative way by any critics' reviews. From what I can make out the actual dispute is over Moon. And friends have said that it is a fine movie. Now because LaSalle does not like it, I have terminated my friendships with them."
At any rate, you should check out what LaSalle does not read--the comments on his articles, especially in regards to his review of Moon.
Is it true that he really panned Blade Runner?
Something hilarious just happened at LaSalle's blog. Someone wrote a harsh response to his critical review of RockaRolla. LaSalle then responded with a well written and fiery post. Then one of the editor's removed LaSalle's post for its violation of the terms and conditions of SF Gate use. At least that's how it appears.
"Either that, or she got tired of all of us. ;)"
Well, not all of you...
dsgonzale6 said...
"Speaking of fangs and claws, I've been listening to a fair amount of old Ted Nugent lately. The man may be nuts, but he sure could play a mean guitar."
I think wearing the lil' raccoon tail helped him play better as well... ;-)
And, for the record, my blog is 100 times better than yours.
And, furthermore, who in the hell still uses the word KEEN!!!!??
Post-modernism--it's the future.
Odd parting shot. Keen is used by most people in the manner JM used it. She didn't say "I think it's really keen", she said "I'm not so keen..."
Pretty standard.
Anyway, I have a question to all youse attorneys out there. Don't worry. Not asking for legal advice. Just curious about charges. I was reading a story in the paper where a guy was convicted for murdering his grandfather for monetary gain. He was found guilty of murder. But he was also found guilty of elder abuse and some other thing.
My question is, if you find someone guilty of murder, why bother finding them guilty of the other things?
Doesn't the murder conviction sort of override lesser charges?
Not only this case, but a number of cases I've read about where someone's convicted of murder and then they add on robbery, assault, attempted murder, etc., etc.
Is there a legal point to this? I've always wondered about this.
Thanks
You're livin' in the Dead Zone, Teddy. Why bother to ask?
Ted, part of it is thoroughness, part of it is redundancy, and part of it is technical relating to questions of proof. The thorough part is including every single crime that is applicable to the particular facts, because if the facts fit the crime, it ought to be charged. The redundancy part is to ensure that, if everything goes to hell, there are some charges that might stick even if others don't. The technical part is that the definition of each crime consists of particular elements, and the elements of the crime of murder and the elements of the crime of elder abuse are not the same, so that elder abuse isn't a lesser included offense under murder.
Wow! MLS and his SF Gate editor friend has had me totally blocked from SF Gate. So not only have my comments to his blog been erased, all my comments have been expunged. What are he and his editor so scared of? Wonder whether those who participate on his blog--ferrethead, dsgonzale6, suzagood, TedSpe, Winkingtiger and TooSense--will register any protest on my behalf.
I have saved copies of my comments on Gates, the birther controversy, the health care legislation, Glenn Beck and of course MSM blog. Some of them are pretty good.
I think the fundamental problem is that MLS friends keep telling me how unfunny I am but my jokes come across as more clever than theirs. MLS can't stand to see that.
I also think MLS is truly pained that some of his main men may be coming across as a bit dim witted (perhaps even addled) and surely not as witty in exchanges with me.
And they still won't let Eric Clapton play the Bottom of the Hill!
Time for another beer summit.
GOD! Get it through your THICK SKULL, Hartal!
You do not have the right to speak on HIS blog if he doesn't want you there!!!!!
I'll leave rights out of it for now. It's not as clear as you think, Gavone.
His blog is not his living room. SF Gate broadcasts his provocative positions to the world. I am one of his many critics. SF Gate is shutting down dissent. And not only to his blog but throughout SF Gate. I am an informed (OK very informed) voice of dissent.
And what kind of critic shuts down criticism?
The point is that he and xootsuit and Ted Spe can't take being outdebated.
See you're the kind of defender that he is embarrassed about. Read again: Leave rights out of it. That was my first sentence. Should SF Gate allow dissent to his provocative positions be shut down? Answer that.
And this really ticks me off, not because of LaSalle but because I was in the middle of a discussion on the Gates incident with someone I imagine was a police officer. It was a very respectful and interesting dialogue. I am sure Belva Davis was happy about it.
I couldn't care less what LaSalle thinks of me. He's insignificant to me.
Why do you think you should be able to dictate the rules to a private enterprise? You're not paying to operate the damn thing.
Go start your own blog if you don't like how they choose to run their business.
I promise to protest deletion of every funny thing you ever posted on sfgate, hartal. Please repost that one here, and I'll be off to email mls. Promise.
oh, look. WV: "stings." Does doesn't it? You'll be a better writer for it, however.
And, it's all about rights--your perceived notion that you somehow have the right to decide the rules of engagement. News flash--you don't.
First, I wonder whether this was really a decision by anyone other than LaSalle who did not make it with the business interests of SF Gate in mind.
Second, I don't think I was hurting the business of SF Gate. One prominent newsreporter recently sent me a message praising how informed she found my comments. And I have been a lot harder on her than LaSalle. LaSalle is a cry baby. A critic who can't handle criticism.
Well you can't read the scores of passages satirizing the birthers and Officer Crowley, but they got great praise.
here are the least ones
Comment on: How to Play The Harmonica at 7/29/2009 10:13 AM PDT
One of the funniest moments of television history has to be Triumph the Insult Dog's interviews at a political gathering. He asked a nasty question to a Republican who then tartly replied that he does not talk to puppets with sticks up their ass. Triumph asked him what exactly he thought he was.
Yes most people happily ignore most of my postings. And that goes for you too, Truffaut. It's true for all us commentators. I can live with that. Make your peace with it.
Comment on: How to Play The Harmonica at 7/28/2009 11:31 PM PDT
Ted Spe, I so want you to be my main main man, but I fear that you are taken. But do know that I value your recommendations, insights and insults as they so obviously derive from real attempts at understanding.
Comment on: How to Play The Harmonica at 7/28/2009 9:20 PM PDT
Oh no you know you're a celebrity when people fight to impugn the humanity of anyone who has dared to utter any criticism of you, and are willing to do anything in the name of your reputation even if it is ultimately counter-productive.
But do you know how to determine when you have been outdebated?
He got me kicked off all of SF Gate. And I am not Hartal
Yes. I see. You're Bernardi Sybill.
And the only one to piss and moan about getting kicked off of SFGate.
Do you see me being a crybaby about it?
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