It's true, Doc, I am filled with irrational hatreds. The little guy and his cousin were playing in my car recently and I think they dropped some coins into the air vents in the dash, so that now when I drive around corners the coins slide around in there and make an irritating noise.
I hate that.
I think that anyone who is sorry that Bush won has no reason to apologize for the result.
Check out these cartograms,especially the last one, for another view of Bush's "mandate".
David writes:
I will get around to studying Greek before I die
Necesse est ad urbem redire.
The Americanist Heresy?
We Believe in One Nation,
The Greatest in Heaven or Earth,
Up-holder of all things Civilized,
the best there is, seen or unseen.
We believe in One Constitution,
the Definition of our Nation,
Inerrantly devised by the Founding Fathers,
rules from Rule, rights from Right, true laws from True Law.
Inspired, not invented, of one Being with the Nation,
Through It civilization was made.
For us and for our emancipation
it came down from Heaven,
a Platonic Ideal of society,
it was ratified by constitutional convention
and became law.
By our will it was amended to include rights
like free speech and the right to bear arms,
and guarantees against self-incrimination.
In the Civil War it was refined further,
above States, not of them,
applied to all regardless of skin color.
It will preserve us always from the sea of enemies,
foreign and domestic, which stands against us.
We believe in the separation of powers, the Supreme court,
the representative legislature and the executive arm,
which proceed from the Holy Constitution.
Together with the Constitution they guarantee divided
government, and this is a feature, not a bug.
We believe in an immutable electoral system, unrepresentative
and slow, which shall elect the two houses of the legislature.
A different strange system shall elect the President, and through
him alone Supreme Court judges shall be appointed.
We believe that without these arcane rules no nation can be civilized,
and to those foreigners who diss our Holy Government we say:
"If it ain't broke, don't fix it".
Amen.
Espresso is a style of coffee made using pressurised water heated to a bit less than boiling temperature. It's an Italian style, but looking at www.lavazza.com, their espresso coffees are blends of African and South American arabicas and robustos (at the cheaper end), so there isn't really a particular coffee bean you could point to and say that it's an espresso bean.
Italian espresso blends tend to be full flavoured without the French Roast burnt flavour (or Starbucks carbonized flavour, for that matter), so I'd guess that the chocolate coffee bean makers settled on a particular bean/roast combination which matches the average taste of an Italian espresso blend.
Yes, I did get a Gaggia for my birthday.
Hi liz, as noted upthread "Chicken Chasseur" is just a fancy name for a fairly simple chicken stew, and not gourmet fare.
At my son's daycare place they write the lunch menu on a whiteboard at the front door for our information. Today's dish: Chicken Chaucer.
It took me three beats to realize what he would really be getting, but then I was left wondering what actual Chicken Chaucer would be like.
Google to the rescue!
Chiknes with the Marybones
Larry, this would have been in, erm, 1990, I think.
Checking the Particle showing P&TNH's new neighborhood, I see that the nearest I have ever been to their new home was when I rode the D line out to the aquarium at Coney Island. There's a station at 36th Street and 4th Avenue, which must be close.
From that Clemson bio page: "He is also co-authoring a textbook on creative writing for Longman Publishing due out in 2005."
OK, just needs a title. How about:
_How to Win A Nobel Prize for Literature Without Really Lying_
News to me (via Atrios, buried at the end of a New York Observer piece today, the 18th of June:
What’s more, the decades-old procedure for a quick response by the nation’s air defense had been changed in June of 2001. Now, instead of NORAD’s military commanders being able to issue the command to launch fighter jets, approval had to be sought from the civilian Defense Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld. This change is extremely significant, because Mr. Rumsfeld claims to have been "out of the loop" nearly the entire morning of 9/11. He isn’t on the record as having given any orders that morning. In fact, he didn’t even go to the White House situation room; he had to walk to the window of his office in the Pentagon to see that the country’s military headquarters was in flames.
Mr. Rumsfeld claimed at a previous commission hearing that protection against attack inside the homeland was not his responsibility. It was, he said, "a law-enforcement issue."
The evils of the Shrub are about to be eclipsed forever. Ming the Merciless has just been elected to public office here in Ireland!
Today Roscommon County Council, tomorrow the Universe!
Due to the recent arrival of heir #3, I was up late last night and caught this report in an oddly Dan Ratherless show called "CBS Evening News with Dan Rather" on satellite TV.
The first story was Bush lawyering up for the Plame Grand Jury, then these Enron fuckers, including comments from a Democratic senator, then Pin the Leak on the White House Traitor again, this time for the leak to Chalabi while drunk, no less, then a non-story about General Karpinski shoplifting which did at least keep the torture story in the news.
Only after 3 solid stories about treason and daylight robbery by Bush&Co and one thin one about US torture related program activities did the show lapse into pap about Teens Take Drugs! Parents Shocked! for the final piece.
I seldom see CBS news (or any US news program) except in bits excerpted in Irish or UK shows and I was surprised that this show pulled so few punches. Is this unusual? A sign that CBS are turning on the White House?
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