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Froupie:
pesky moonslugs.
(Fri Apr 11, 2003 - 9:29:18 am)
bela:
Well I'm back from the desert. Shopping in LA sucks ass. I did get a cute little reversable bag, it has a hawiian print for one bag and you turn it inside out and its astro turf. Pretty cool.
(Fri Apr 11, 2003 - 9:35:44 am)
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Well we're back from the desert. looting in Basra sucks ass. I did get a cute little reversable bag, it has a camo print for one bag and you turn it inside out and its Saddam Hussein.
(Fri Apr 11, 2003 - 9:42:07 am)
Froupie:
saddam would make a saggy leathery bag. hello bela.
(Fri Apr 11, 2003 - 9:42:58 am)
bela:
Yeah! No security at JFK, I don't know what all the fuss is about. Everyone telling me to get to the airport 2 hours early. Bah.
(Fri Apr 11, 2003 - 9:43:17 am)
Froupie:
where in LA were you?
(Fri Apr 11, 2003 - 9:43:40 am)
bela:
My last day off of vacation and its shitty weather. Sucks.
(Fri Apr 11, 2003 - 9:44:25 am)
Froupie:
i got my first chocolate bunny today. roll on easter.
(Fri Apr 11, 2003 - 9:46:11 am)
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(Fri Apr 11, 2003 - 10:01:42 am)
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Come on baby, do the locomotion.
(Fri Apr 11, 2003 - 10:09:25 am)
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The Unknown
As we know,
There are known knowns.
There are things we know we know.
We also know
There are known unknowns.
That is to say
We know there are some things
We do not know.
But there are also unknown unknowns,
The ones we don't know
We don't know.
(Fri Apr 11, 2003 - 10:19:51 am)
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A Confession
Once in a while,
I'm standing here, doing something.
And I think,
"What in the world am I doing here?"
It's a big surprise.
(Fri Apr 11, 2003 - 10:22:04 am)
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It follows that all food pretending to be something else is food in drag. The "tofuburger," for example. Tofu is a fascinating substance because it takes on the qualities of whatever it is put with, whether in soup, sauces, or stir-fry. Tofu is a food that "passes."
(Fri Apr 11, 2003 - 10:28:15 am)
Heruka:
did you hit rodeo drive?
(Fri Apr 11, 2003 - 12:34:12 pm)
Myk Murphy:
Hope you enjoyed it, bela.
(Fri Apr 11, 2003 - 1:19:45 pm)
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This week Castro continued his crackdown on dissidents with the speedy conviction of at least 74 nonviolent government opponents in nonpublic kangaroo-court proceedings. Rounded up last month, the jailed independent journalists and pro-democracy activists, including reporter-photographer Omar Rodriguez Saludes, writer Raul Rivero and magazine editor Ricardo Gonzalez, received sentences of up to 27 years each.
The U.S. State Department called the actions "the most egregious act of political repression in Cuba in the last decade." Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa said that Castro's draconian crackdown was the "natural progression of a dictatorship that has been oppressing human rights for years." The House passed a condemning resolution, 414-0, and Amnesty International, Reporters Without Borders and International PEN, among others, joined the chorus of condemnation.
Not, though, the Castro Faithful--the media moguls, celebrity journalists, filmmakers and Hollywood glitterati who continue to break bread with the Cuban dictator and idolize him as "one hell of a guy," in Ted Turner's words. No, they were silent. And given protest-happy Hollywood's long love affair with the unelected "President" Fidel--"one of the most mysterious leaders in the world," cooed Barbara Walters on ABC's "20/20" in October, as she puffed up his "personal magnetism" and supposed social triumphs--it's unlikely that there will be any expression of disapproval from these quarters soon.
Perhaps they don't know any better, as they return with Cuban cigars and fawning praise: "It was an experience of a lifetime" (Kevin Costner); "he is a genius" (Jack Nicholson); a "source of inspiration to the world" (Naomi Campbell). But people who should know better make the pilgrimage too. Director Steven Spielberg, founder of the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation and winner of an Academy Award for illuminating the horrors of the Holocaust, described his meeting with Castro in November as "the eight most important hours of my life." Never forget, indeed.
This week, as reported in Newsweek International's Global Buzz column, a pack of New York media VIPs, each willing to pony up $6,500 for travel costs, are set to jet to Cuba with Yoko Ono to meet with the Bearded One, just as his crackdown hits overdrive. Slate's blogger Mickey Kaus shrewdly comments: "It's especially ironic that press and publishing executives are paying an enormous premium to meet with a man who is busy jailing journalists and writers for being journalists and writers."
(Fri Apr 11, 2003 - 1:41:50 pm)
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(Fri Apr 11, 2003 - 1:46:05 pm)
Queenie:
bum, bum, bum, satellite of love, bum, bum, bum, satellite of love
(Fri Apr 11, 2003 - 1:54:04 pm)
Queenie:
big event tonight, can't wait for it to be oooooover
(Fri Apr 11, 2003 - 2:01:55 pm)
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1. Ancient Egypt was inhabited by mummies and they all wrote in hydraulics. They lived in the Sarah Dessert. The climate of the Sarah is such that all the inhabitants have to live elsewhere.
2. Moses led the Hebrew slaves to the Red Sea where they made unleavened bread, which is bread made without any ingredients. Moses went up on Mount Cyanide to get the ten commandments. He died before he ever reached Canada.
3. Solomon had three hundred wives and seven hundred porcupines.
4. The Greeks were a highly sculptured people, and without them we wouldn’t have any history. The Greeks also had myths. A myth is a female moth.
5. Socrates was a famous Greek teacher who went around giving people advice. They killed him. Socrates died from an overdose of wedlock. After his death, his career suffered a dramatic decline.
6. Julius Caesar extinguished himself on the battlefields of Gaul. The Ides of March murdered him because they thought he was going to be made king. Dying, he gasped out: “Tee hee, Brutus.”
7. Joan of Arc was burnt to a steak and was canonized by Bernard Shaw.
8. It was an age of great inventions and discoveries. Gutenberg invented removable type and the Bible. Another important invention was the circulation of blood. Sir Walter Raleigh is a historical figure because he invented cigarettes and started smoking.
9. Sir Francis Drake circumcised the world with a 100-foot clipper.
10. The greatest writer of the Renaissance was William Shakespeare. He was born in the year 1564, supposedly on his birthday. He never made much Monday and is famous only because of his plays. He wrote tragedies, comedies and hysterectomies, all in Islamic pentameter. Romeo and Juliet are an explain of a heroic couple. Romeo’s last wish was to be laid by Juliet.
11. Writing at the same time as Shakespeare was Miguel Cervantes. He wrote Donkey Hote, The next great author was John Milton. Milton wrote Paradise lost. Then his wife died and he wrote Paradise Regained.
12. Delegates from the original 13 states formed the Contented Congress. Thomas Jefferson, a Virgin, and Benjamin Franklin were two singers of the Declaration of Independence. Franklin discovered electricity by rubbing two cats backward and declared, “A horse divided against itself cannot stand.” Franklin died in 1790, and is still dead.
13. Abraham Lincoln became America’s greatest Precedent. Lincoln’s mother died in infancy, and he was born in a log cabin which he built with his own hands. Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves by signing the Emasculation Proclamation. On the night of April 14, 1864, Lincoln went to the theater and was shot in his seat by one of the actors in a moving picture show. They believe the assinator was John Wilkes Booth, and supposingly insane actor. This ruined Booth’s career.
14. Johann Bach wrote a great many musical compositions, and had a large number of children. In between, he practiced on an old spinster which he kept up in his attic. Bach died from 1750to the present. Bach was the most famous composer in the world and so was Handel. Handel was half German, half Italian, and half English. He was very large.
15. Beethoven wrote music even though he was deaf. He was so deaf he wrote loud music. He took long walks in the forest even when everyone was calling for him. Beethoven expired in 1872 and later died for this.
16. The nineteenth century was a time of a great many thoughts and inventions. People stopped reproducing by hand and started reproducing by machine. The invention of the steamboat caused a network of rivers to spring up. Cyrus McCormick invented the McCormick raper, which did the work of a hundred men. Louis Pasteur discovered a cure for rabbits. Charles Darwin was a naturalist who wrote the Organ of the Species. Madman Curie discovered the radio. Karl Marx became one of the Marx Brothers.
Nice eh?
(Fri Apr 11, 2003 - 2:32:17 pm)
Heh:
Dying, he gasped out: “Tee hee, Brutus.”
(Fri Apr 11, 2003 - 4:13:54 pm)
Queenie:
ok what the hell is that stuff?
(Fri Apr 11, 2003 - 4:16:00 pm)
Heruka:
Just a reminder, Dennis Miller is on tomorrow on HBO. He's like Bill Mahr, only with a brain.
(Fri Apr 11, 2003 - 4:32:33 pm)
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(Fri Apr 11, 2003 - 10:09:53 pm)
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(Fri Apr 11, 2003 - 10:29:42 pm)
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Honk if you like honking!!!
(Sat Apr 12, 2003 - 4:34:21 pm)
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My heart turns to mush, like the soilings in a mongoloid's underpants.
(Sat Apr 12, 2003 - 6:19:19 pm)
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(Sun Apr 13, 2003 - 9:08:22 am)
Myk Murphy:
good morning, folks. i was watching brent sadler from cnn drive unopposed into tikrit ...around 2am last night. some guy told him that he could just drive into tikrit, and because he had been finding abandoned military bases and such, they decided to go in. i turned off the tv, wondering what would happen. this morning, the news of the POW release was the big news, but i saw on cnn online that sadler's convoy had been shot at by saddam loyalists just a short bit into town. one person in the convoy was injured by shattering glass.
did any of this seem like a good idea?
(Sun Apr 13, 2003 - 11:42:22 am)
Detlef Sping:
I saw that too Myk I thought to myself "has Brent gone insane?" A Toyota 4-Runner is a good truck but no match for RPG's or crazy Arabs with guns. I think he should have doubted the whole thing at the point the night before, when that Arab guy they met told them to go into town because it was safely patrolled by the Republican guards
(Sun Apr 13, 2003 - 1:40:43 pm)
Baghdad Bob:
Tikrit is full of soldiers and they with surely roast your stomaches.
(Sun Apr 13, 2003 - 1:54:43 pm)
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(Sun Apr 13, 2003 - 2:08:51 pm)
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chewie chew bacca ruled the netherworld
but soon to be depleted
(Sun Apr 13, 2003 - 3:14:12 pm)