yeah, miggs.....removing Mubarak was really, really precipitous.
he had barely 40 years ruling under emergency powers and was a very youngish 84.
he hardly had a chance to prove himself
just finished watching the tadpole and an angry CIA op named Mudd with a couple of tv journos on Charlie Rose going on about whether Snowden should be shot or returned and debriefed first.
as the kid was one of the guys that Snowden leaked the stuff to, he was a bit overly sentimental
no problem with people having a special place in their hearts and minds for it, Jason.
but their sorta is a problem when the government uses the law to forbid other types of families from having the equal protection of the law ...without being able to demonstrate a legitimate purpose for the ban.
bob, it turned out that Jefferson wasn't everyone........ and that everyone did not at all agree that the purchase was forbidden by the Constitution.......
it seems that neither the Senate, nor the House of Reps, nor even John Marshall and his associates decided that it was.
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If the subject of democracy - the demos, the mob - has proven itself, as always expected by those not taken in by the hustle, unworthy of respect or responsibility, then what basis do Berman, Scialabba, or any of the rest of us have for deeming whatever "Fahrenheit 451- or Blade Runner-style" authoritarian oligarchy to be "catastrophic"? Catastrophe becomes just another name for life on Earth as ever, and authoritarian oligarchy, with space set aside for the New Monks, looks like the best anyone ever could have expected. How else are we supposed to keep billions of ignorant, violent, etc., people from destroying themselves?
West Wing becomes Veep. Obamessiah turns into the psychopathic janitor-in-chief. A figure like Mitt Romney – open fraud, an ambulatory non sequitur whose nonsensical emptiness is his main redeeming quality – becomes theoretically electable as Head of State and Government. The words “citizens united” come to mean “citizenship annihilated,” we wait for the economy to vote for or against itself to no known purpose, and at every crisis the mask slips away further, revealing nothing at all in the foreground, beyond it a coven of vampires ("them") amidst a mass of zombies ("us"). To continue functioning at all, the system will have to finish discarding itself, likely to the applause of those few who even notice.
Scott Miller wrote:
It is destructive, not comforting.
...destructive sometimes to what we think we are or prefer to think we are, and to the goals [...]
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bob wrote:
The multiplicity of Hegels alone should be proof enough for the existence of parallel universes.
Parallel incomplete self-consistent universals. My Hegel describes the "revel." [...]
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Pope praises Rebel campaign---- according to ahram online.
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this made me think of you thinking 'bout me last night..........
getting the horns
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yeah, miggs.....removing Mubarak was really, really precipitous.
he had barely 40 years ruling under emergency powers and was a very youngish 84.
he hardly had a chance to prove himself
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what kind of frog do you think we are?
we only like mammals for friends.....
we have the keys to another kinkdom.
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I guess that there wasn't a sufficient quantity of buttock-proof glass available.
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sure it's fun until somebody gets their .... poked out.
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I really didn't think that you were much of a fan, miggs, but our choices concerning Syria are do nothing or do something.
you have a real good option in mind?
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maybe you and Nasrallah could join in drafting a complaint about it, miggs
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for a tv discussion, it was pretty interesting, miggs......and the tad is still hopping mad about Mudd's mud-flinging
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gimme a link to the League chat, kind sir....
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just finished watching the tadpole and an angry CIA op named Mudd with a couple of tv journos on Charlie Rose going on about whether Snowden should be shot or returned and debriefed first.
as the kid was one of the guys that Snowden leaked the stuff to, he was a bit overly sentimental
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Interesting times.
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regional headquarters snubbed, sends complaint to unruly employee.
On “chart/comment at Daniel Silliman’s “Religiously unaffiliated now at 20%””
do your friends agree with that?
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nah, that's probably not the reason.
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somebody done you wrong, but Happy Mother's Day, Jade.
On “Ignorance Be Not Proud – All Things Are In Sex Edition”
no problem with people having a special place in their hearts and minds for it, Jason.
but their sorta is a problem when the government uses the law to forbid other types of families from having the equal protection of the law ...without being able to demonstrate a legitimate purpose for the ban.
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Catholic school bad girls all growed up.
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whatever Lola wants
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resistance in humans greatly increases as they dry out and chant Ohm.
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it was, in the first two bodies, more kinetically inclusive than potentially.
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bob, it turned out that Jefferson wasn't everyone........ and that everyone did not at all agree that the purchase was forbidden by the Constitution.......
it seems that neither the Senate, nor the House of Reps, nor even John Marshall and his associates decided that it was.
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that was some right skillful word-slinging. take a bow
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Nettie Yahoo
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Nettie's song.