BNN Special Weekend Rambling Goose/Gander Edition.

'Twas a sad day (2.00 / 3)

yesterday when I was subjected to having to hear all the dropping of g's once again.  I'd forgotten just how annoying it is.  Someone really ought to explain to her that if she's looking for cred perhaps learning how to speak English might not be a bad idea... but then I suppose she wouldn't be as appealing to the knuckle draggers as she is....

The government does not run on unicorn kisses and/or butterfly farts.

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by: masslass @ Sat Mar 27, 2010 at 16:43:57 PM UTC

I only made it (2.00 / 2)

to 10 seconds of sound.  McCain's face is priceless though.  

It's his Prostate Exam face: "Really, I'm okay with this.....see how I'm smiling"

More shoot 'em up down the road too.

http://www.azstarnet.com/news/...

T-L SOTB

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by: nocatz @ Sat Mar 27, 2010 at 18:09:03 PM UTC

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Don't think we can blame her (2.00 / 3)

for that... but this is all on her:

Showdown in Searchlight: tea party targets Reid
Thousands of tea party activists streamed into Sen. Harry Reid's hometown in Nevada Saturday morning, bringing American flags, "Don't Tread on Me" signs and outspoken anger toward President Barack Obama and his health care overhaul.

The activists' star, Sarah Palin, will rally the crowds later Saturday from a makeshift stage in a patch of dusty desert about 60 miles north of Las Vegas.

Organizers predict as many as 10,000 people could come to tiny Searchlight, the hardscrabble former mining town where the Senate Democratic leader grew up and owns a home. By midmorning, cars and RVs filled the area as people set up lawn chairs and braced against a stiff wind whipping up dust clouds and blowing dozens of flags straight out.  more idiocy

You have know that the chances of this not going well are high...

The government does not run on unicorn kisses and/or butterfly farts.

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by: masslass @ Sat Mar 27, 2010 at 18:27:55 PM UTC

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Best line I saw (2.00 / 1)

(ferget where)...went something like :  Only 7000 of them in Nevada? That's not a rally, that's a Vicki Carr concert.

T-L SOTB

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by: nocatz @ Sun Mar 28, 2010 at 16:00:56 PM UTC

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i was doing the dishes and heard in the living room (2.00 / 3)

the unmistakable palin whine. i ran in and said: this is NOT representative of AMericans. ej and his son had to drag me out of the living room, as i endlessly repeated "she is not really one of us........................."


Simplify.

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by: pfiore8 @ Sun Mar 28, 2010 at 19:18:16 PM UTC

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Damn (2.00 / 2)

what a quite day/night.... hope everyone is having a fun time!

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by: masslass @ Sun Mar 28, 2010 at 02:42:34 AM UTC

Long day for me. Had the whole (2.00 / 3)

Coffee Party thingy to put together, prep work to do, coordinate with the local media and then facilitate the actual meeting.  DAMN this volunteering can be hard work or something!  ;-)

Everything went well.  All attendee's, I mean every last one of them decided that they wanted to have a face to face with Richard Burr (Dumbass Republican - NC), Kay Hagan (Jury is still out Democrat - NC), and David Price (Democrat - NC).  So, now that Congress is on break for the Easter season and all these people will be in town (Raleigh) it's time to coordinate a meet and greet with each of them.  That should be fun.  David Price will probably buy us lunch considering what he went through with the Tea Bagger Hatriots back in the Summer.  Kay Hagan will likely send a staffer to see us.  Richard Burr might send his handyman if we are lucky.  

The one thing we have going for us is that the media here locally already know who we are and they are interested in covering us right now.  So, if any of these REPRESENTATIVES does not give us the right answer about at least meeting with us face-to-face, we will make some phone calls and get some air time.

We agreed on the top questions we want to ask everyone.  We are going to ask the same things across the board to see what kind of answers we get, and also so we can stay on topic as to the answer we are looking for in order to better the legislation process for the American people.  

Hey!  It's a start and at least we aren't being rude to anyone...

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by: brobin @ Sun Mar 28, 2010 at 06:12:24 AM UTC

good for you (2.00 / 3)

I been kinda out of it.  What's the "manifesto" of the Coffee Party, or is it simply the traditional Democratic large tent with many camels?  I'm feeling a little rowdy & might consider seeing how many bricks I can get chucked through my windows, and how many retreating Teapers my doughty spouse can bag in the aftermath.  

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by: flagpole @ Sun Mar 28, 2010 at 12:20:18 PM UTC

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In a nutshell (2.00 / 2)

COFFEE PARTY MISSION STATEMENT: The Coffee Party Movement gives voice to Americans who want to see cooperation in government. We recognize that the federal government is not the enemy of the people, but the expression of our collective will, and that we must participate in the democratic process in order to address the challenges that we face as Americans. As voters and grassroots volunteers, we will support leaders who work toward positive solutions, and hold accountable those who obstruct them.

Check them out here on the web

http://www.coffeepartyusa.com/

Or here on Facebook

http://www.facebook.com/coffee...

I find that Facebook is far more interactive, of course.  Both places have their usefulness however.

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by: brobin @ Sun Mar 28, 2010 at 14:02:34 PM UTC

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This is most excellent, b! (2.00 / 2)

That is some positive mission statement!  

And please do keep us updated... this is just great!

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by: masslass @ Sun Mar 28, 2010 at 15:40:08 PM UTC

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Saw a bit of the D.C. (2.00 / 3)

coffee meeting on CSPAN .  People spoke in complete sentences, and often strung several sentences together!!!!! It's madness I tell you!! MADNESS!!!!  Never work.

Also, is it wrong of me to want to get some Obama and Giffords bumper stickers and drive around hoping some asshole will fuck with me?

T-L SOTB

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by: nocatz @ Sun Mar 28, 2010 at 16:25:01 PM UTC

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Just had an idea... (2.00 / 3)

How about if we add extra gg's to replace the ones Sarah drops?
I was ggoingg to sugggest addingg then only at the end of  words, but hell, she's dropped so many of them I'm thinkingg we could put them in willy nilly...

The government does not run on unicorn kisses and/or butterfly farts.

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by: masslass @ Sun Mar 28, 2010 at 16:39:31 PM UTC

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ggood idea (2.00 / 2)

although it will make nocatz' life harder, being a ggringgo and all.

I once wrote a several pagge letter to my sister Polly, wherein I doubled all the consonants on ggeneral principles.

However, be aware that double-"gg"s demand the "hard" pronunciation, making it hard to assuagge and hastening the delugge.

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by: flagpole @ Sun Mar 28, 2010 at 19:35:01 PM UTC

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oops (2.00 / 2)

"althouggh"

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by: flagpole @ Sun Mar 28, 2010 at 19:35:29 PM UTC

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also oops... (2.00 / 1)

makinggg (threw in an extra extra for you)..

The government does not run on unicorn kisses and/or butterfly farts.

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by: masslass @ Sun Mar 28, 2010 at 21:27:04 PM UTC

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I've actually had the same thought, nc (2.00 / 2)

I'm considering leaving behind my life-long discomfort with making my car into a rolling advertisement mobile and putting an Obama and Brad Miller sticker on.  The wingers hate Brad Miller with a passion, and we know about their deal with Obama.  My only worry is that no one will fuck with me in person and I'll just end up with dents, broken windows and key marks down the length of the car.

Still, I'm thinking...

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by: brobin @ Sun Mar 28, 2010 at 19:01:15 PM UTC

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I'm trying to be patient... (2.00 / 1)

We just now started rounding them up for the FEMA Camps.  I'll have plenty of opportunities in the near future.   Once we get them so trained that anytime someone says,"Tea Party at such and such..."  bunches of them will rush to wherever we say...all we'll have to do is close the gates.

 I think Bugs Bunny once did something similar.  "Over here, over here. No, over there, over there...."

T-L SOTB

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by: nocatz @ Sun Mar 28, 2010 at 21:09:26 PM UTC

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if so, (2.00 / 2)

I'm way bad wrong, too.  but that's common knowledge.  I'm looking for something particularly egregious, also trying to find my baseball bat.  Though my riggin' axe would probably be more effective in a fight ("g" dropped for ML's benefit).

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by: flagpole @ Sun Mar 28, 2010 at 19:29:12 PM UTC

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Kurt Vonnegut, agnostic, gives a (2.00 / 2)

Palm Sunday Sermon to the congregation of St. Clement's Episcopal Church in 1980.  Being Kurt Vonnegut, he comes to the point ever so well and puts the greedy mouth breathers in their place as should be.  Kurt had a very strong kung-fu, so read it.  You will be happy you did.

I am enchanted by the Sermon on the Mount. Being merciful, it seems to me, is the only good idea we have received so far. Perhaps we will get another idea that good by and by-and then we will have two good ideas. What might that second good idea be? I don't know. How could I know? I will make a wild guess that it will come from music somehow. I have often wondered what music is and why we love it so. It may be that music is that second good idea being born.

I choose as my text the first eight verses of John 12, which deal not with Palm Sunday but with the night before-with Palm Sunday Eve, with what we might call "Spikenard Saturday." I hope that will be close enough to Palm Sunday to leave you more or less satisfied. I asked an Episcopalian priest the other day what I should say to you about Palm Sunday itself. She told me to say that it was a brilliant satire on pomp and circumstance and high honors in this world. So I tell you that.

The priest was [civil rights activist] Carol Anderson, who sold her physical church in order that her spiritual parish might survive.

Now, as to the verses about Palm Sunday Eve: I choose them because Jesus says something in the eighth verse which many people I have known have taken as proof that Jesus himself occasionally got sick and tired of people who needed mercy all the time. I read from the Revised Standard Bible rather than the King James, because it is easier for me to understand. Also, I will argue afterward that Jesus was only joking, and it is impossible to joke in King James English. The funniest joke in the world, if told in King James English, is doomed to sound like Charlton Heston.

I read: "Six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, whom Jesus had raised from the dead. There they made Him supper; Martha served, but Lazarus was one of those at table with him.

  "Mary took a pound of costly ointment of pure nard and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped his feet with her hair; and the house was filled with the fragrance of the ointment.

  "But Judas Iscariot, one of His disciples (he who was to betray Him) said, 'Why was this ointment not sold for 300 denarii and given to the poor?' This, he said, not that he cared for the poor but because he was a thief, and, as he had the money box, he used to take what was put into it.

  "Jesus said, 'Let her alone, let her keep it for the day of my burial. The poor you always have with you, but you do not always have Me.'"

Thus ends the reading, and, although I have promised a joke, there is not much of a chuckle in there anywhere. The reading, in fact, ends with at least two quite depressing implications: That Jesus could be a touch self-pitying, and that He was, with His mission to Earth about to end, at least momentarily sick and tired of hearing about the poor.

The King James version of the last verse, by the way, is almost identical: "'For the poor always ye have with you; but you do not always have Me.'"

Whatever it was that Jesus really said to Judas was said in Aramaic, of course-and has come to us through Hebrew and Greek and Latin and archaic English. Maybe He only said something a lot like, "The poor you always have with you, but you do not always have Me." Perhaps a little something has been lost in translation. And let us remember, too, that in translations jokes are commonly the first things to go.

I would like to recapture what has been lost. Why? Because I, as a Christ-worshipping agnostic, have seen so much un-Christian impatience with the poor encouraged by the quotation "For the poor always ye have with you."

I am speaking mainly of my youth in Indianapolis, Ind. No matter where I am and how old I become, I still speak of nothing but my youth in Indianapolis, Ind. Whenever anybody out that way began to worry a lot about the poor people when I was young, some eminently respectable Hoosier, possibly an uncle or an aunt, would say that Jesus Himself had given up on doing much about the poor. He or she would paraphrase John 12, verse 8: "The poor people are hopeless. We'll always be stuck with them."

The general company was then free to say that the poor were hopeless because they were so lazy or dumb, that they drank too much and had too many children and kept coal in the bathtub, and so on. Somebody was likely to quote Kim Hubbard, the Hoosier humorist, who said that he know a man who was so poor that he owned 22 dogs. And so on.

If those Hoosiers were still alive, which they are not, I would tell them now that Jesus was only joking, and the He was not even thinking much about the poor.

I would tell them, too, what I don't have to tell this particular congregation, that jokes can be noble. Laughs are exactly as honorable as tears. Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion, to the futility of thinking and striving anymore. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning-up to do afterward-and since I can start thinking and striving again that much sooner.

All right:

It is the evening before Palm Sunday. Jesus is frustrated and exhausted. He knows that one of His close associates will soon betray Him for money-and that He is going to be mocked and tortured and killed. He is going to feel all that a mortal feels when He dies in convulsions on the cross. His visit among us is almost over-but life must still go on for just a little while.

It is again suppertime.

His male companions for supper are themselves a mockery. One is Judas, who will betray Him. The other is Lazarus, who has recently been dead for four days. Lazarus was so dead that he stunk, the Bible says. Lazarus is surely dead, and not much of a conversationalist-and not necessarily grateful, either, to be alive again. It is a very mixed blessing, to be brought back from the dead.

If I had read a little further, we would have learned that there is a crowd outside, crazy to see Lazarus, not Jesus. Lazarus is the man of the hour as far as the crowd is concerned.

Trust a crowd to look at the wrong end of a miracle every time.

There are two sisters of Lazarus there-Martha and Mary. They, at least, are sympathetic and imaginatively helpful. Mary begins to massage and perfume the feet of Jesus Christ with an ointment made from the spikenard plant. Jesus has the bones of a man and is clothed in the flesh of a man-so it must feel awfully nice, what Mary is doing to His feet. Would it be heretical of us to suppose that Jesus closes His eyes?

This is too much for that envious hypocrite Judas, who says, trying to be more Catholic than the Pope: "Hey-this is very un-Christian. Instead of wasting that stuff on Your feet, we should have sold it and given the money to the poor people."

To which Jesus replies in Aramaic: "Judas, don't worry about it. There will still be plenty of poor people left long after I'm gone."

This is about what Mark Twain or Abraham Lincoln would have said under similar circumstances.

If Jesus did in fact say that, it is a divine black joke, well suited to the occasion. It says everything about hypocrisy and nothing about the poor. It is a Christian joke, which allows Jesus to remain civil to Judas, but to chide him for his hypocrisy all the same.

"Judas, don't worry about it. There will still be plenty of poor people left long after I'm gone."

Shall I regarble it for you? "The poor you always have with you, but you do not always have Me."

My own translation does no violence to the words in the Bible. I have changed their order some, not merely to make them into the joke the situation calls for but to harmonize them, too, with the Sermon on the Mount. The Sermon on the Mount suggests a mercifulness that can never waver or fade.

This has no doubt been a silly sermon. I am sure you do not mind. People don't come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God.

I thank you for your sweetly faked attention.

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by: brobin @ Sun Mar 28, 2010 at 19:15:20 PM UTC

Thanks brob in (2.00 / 2)

What a great man.

I think that the only time  I ever had tears in my eyes over the death of a public figure was his.

T-L SOTB

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by: nocatz @ Sun Mar 28, 2010 at 21:15:49 PM UTC

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It was a day to reflect. (2.00 / 1)

There are only so many hero's and anti-hero's in any lifetime.

He was both and neither.  Just as he planned it.

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by: brobin @ Sun Mar 28, 2010 at 22:21:37 PM UTC

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Doggs (2.00 / 3)

since pf is taking her sweet time .....here's the two maniac of which I am taking care for a few days. They are CRAZY, keep me hoppin all the time. WOOOOOOOOOooooooooooHOOOOOOOOOOOoooo!!!!!!!!!!!

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by: nocatz @ Sun Mar 28, 2010 at 21:24:39 PM UTC

They do look like (2.00 / 2)

.. live wires... heh.  Are you sure you can keep up with them?

The government does not run on unicorn kisses and/or butterfly farts.

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by: masslass @ Sun Mar 28, 2010 at 21:30:34 PM UTC

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they're ready to (2.00 / 2)

leap into action whenever it's time to eat!!!!!!!!

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by: nocatz @ Sun Mar 28, 2010 at 21:44:50 PM UTC

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Fill my eyes, with that double vision... (2.00 / 2)

For ml.  The car version.  GGood, right?

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by: brobin @ Sun Mar 28, 2010 at 22:13:37 PM UTC

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or (2.00 / 2)

pee.  

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by: nocatz @ Sun Mar 28, 2010 at 22:52:42 PM UTC

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As longg as they don't ggagg and ggarggle their lunch all over (2.00 / 2)

the carpet, it's ggood

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by: brobin @ Sun Mar 28, 2010 at 22:56:06 PM UTC

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that's okay (2.00 / 2)

that's why it's ggood to have two.

I've been looking back at more of the reaction back when ELF burned the ski lift in Vail....it's wild to see these people shrieking about domestic terrorism ...even quoting the FBI...

"The unlawful use of force or violence against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives."

--FBI Definition of Terrorism

But what's really odd is that currently the 'Left did it too' justifiers keep going back decades for their examples...Sadlies have yer buddy Erick the Erick talking about the Weathermen.....

just my gguess is the above example....if they go to more recent events it's too easy to find examples of them calling such behavior domestic terrorism....
 

T-L SOTB

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by: nocatz @ Sun Mar 28, 2010 at 23:09:18 PM UTC

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Oh, BTW. We will be victorious (2.00 / 2)

Yeah, it's good.

Of course they are from the UK.  If you want real news about the USA, don't YOU go to BBC?

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by: brobin @ Sun Mar 28, 2010 at 22:19:10 PM UTC

bwahahhaaaaaaaaaaaaa (2.00 / 2)

and the cry goes 'round the world.  From the Triangle to Tienanmen.....

FUCKING DUUUUUUUUUUUKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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by: nocatz @ Sun Mar 28, 2010 at 23:32:41 PM UTC

Payback's a bitch, isn't it.... (2.00 / 2)

ADRIAN, Mich. - The FBI  said Sunday that agents conducted weekend raids in Michigan, Indiana and Ohio and arrested at least three people, and a militia leader in Michigan said the target of at least one of the raids was a Christian militia group.

Federal warrants were sealed, but a federal law enforcement official speaking on condition of anonymity said some of those arrested face gun charges and officials are pursuing other suspects.

FBI spokeswoman Sandra Berchtold said there had been activity in two southeast Michigan counties near the Ohio state line. She wouldn't say whether they were tied to the raids in the other states.

FBI spokesman Scott Wilson in Cleveland said agents arrested two people Saturday after raids in two towns in Ohio. A third arrest was made in northeast Illinois on Sunday, a day after a raid took place just over the border in northwest Indiana.
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by: masslass @ Mon Mar 29, 2010 at 00:15:58 AM UTC

Yes. (2.00 / 2)

But I knew nothing about it when I started thinking about how people reacted to the ELF arsons.  

Various poo is clogging the tubes already.

(Reminder that Ruby Ridge was Pappy Bush, only Waco was Clenis. )  

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by: nocatz @ Mon Mar 29, 2010 at 00:40:03 AM UTC

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To each his own (2.00 / 1)

and I suppose Iraq was W's...

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by: masslass @ Mon Mar 29, 2010 at 02:41:10 AM UTC

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