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  1. 1.

    b. hussein canuckistani

    Happy towel day. I know where my towel is. If your Terrible Towel is opaque enough to hide you from the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal, it’s good enough.

    *sigh. It’s a sadder world without DNA.

  3. 3.

    4jkb4ia

    Just returned from Indiana Jones IV. Hubby’s review: “A tricked-out Stargate episode”. Everyone here has been warned.

  4. 4.

    Porco Rosso

    Towel day? Me I’m wearing lilac to celebrate the fight for truth, justice, freedom, reasonably priced love, and a hard-boiled egg.

  10. 10.

    Halteclere

    Interestingly enough, I’m in New Orleans working on a highway (toll) project. It doesn’t quite have an intergalactic feel except when I wander over to Bourbon Street.

  12. 12.

    Dug Jay

    Looks like CNN has this blog and its mostly deranged regulars down cold and has decided to give them a little publicity:

    “….if you ever saw the language, the vulgarity, the vitriol that is hauled [sic] at Hillary Clinton by liberal Democrats, by the liberal blogs such as Balloon Juice and Andrew Sullivan, largely by, frankly, Obama supporters, you’d be appalled. I mean, you’d punish your children for this.”

  13. 13.

    DFD

    Out of curiosity, which bobble headed douche bag at CNN actually uttered those words?

  14. 14.

    The Grand Panjandrum

    Looks like CNN has this blog and its mostly deranged regulars down cold and has decided to give them a little publicity:

    “….if you ever saw the language, the vulgarity, the vitriol that is hauled [sic] at Hillary Clinton by liberal Democrats, by the liberal blogs such as Balloon Juice and Andrew Sullivan, largely by, frankly, Obama supporters, you’d be appalled. I mean, you’d punish your children for this.”

    Heh. Who knew Cole and Sullivan were liberals? Welcome to the Hate America First crowd! You pink panties and flag burning kit are in the mail.

    Dug Jay, got a link to that unlinked awesomeness?

  15. 15.

    JGabriel

    4jkb4ia:

    Just returned from Indiana Jones IV. Hubby’s review: “A tricked-out Stargate episode”. Everyone here has been warned.

    Am I the only person on the internet who liked it?

    Yes, it’s dumb, silly, and over the top – just like it’s predecessors. But, the script and movie – I thought- was better than the other two sequels. And the complaint that the ending was over-orchestrated and that the bad guys would have come to the same end whether or not Indy was there applies equally well to ‘Raiders’.

    I just don’t the hate this time around.

    From what I’m reading, it seems like a lot of people are finding some of the visual allusions (Tarzan, The Wild One) to be particularly egregious. They’re jokes, people. They provoke the “Oh, come on…” reaction followed by laughter at how silly they are.

    Anyway, no, ‘Skulls’ is not a great film, any more than the other Indy films were. It’s a clever comic book / serialized movie actioner pastiche. That’s all it was meant to be. I get the feeling that some of the disappointment with it is due to people reading a lot more “meaning” into ‘Raiders’ than was actually there or intended.

    .

  16. 16.

    zzyzx

    Good news! Bob Barr just received the Libertarian nomination. GA is now in play. Thanks Libertarians for selling out your core beliefs in order to help the country for a change!

  17. 17.

    JGabriel

    … the liberal blogs such as Balloon Juice and Andrew Sullivan

    Sully’s a liberal?

    I love the presumption that anyone who’s fed up with Bush is automatically a liberal.

    Yay, team! We’re up to 70% of the country!

    .

  18. 18.

    MaurS

    Yea…it’s all those Librul Blog’s fault for Hillary’s idiotic campaign. Not to mention that all of Clinton supporters on the nets are modicoms’of decorum when it comes to criticism of Obama. I generally go out of my way to not watch CNN. Those rare times I do tune CNN in I invariably find their talking heads trying to “out idiot” themselves. Why does CNN think I’m stupid? It’s precisely because of this dumbed down, inane, ridicuously narrow minded, and just plain stupid discourse that I turned to the blogs in the first place. I couldn’t take it anymore!!!

    And no I would not let my child neccesarily read the blogs, at least not during this primary season, but only because of some of the language. I am an adult. “Bad” language does not offend me and the last time I checked (and thanks to BuschCo I check fairly often) we still live in a country where freedom of expression is a right. These MSM pundits are beginning to see the writing on the wall. The internet is the great leveler. They aren’t speaking to captive audiences anymore who think their every word is a pearl of wisdom. They are being called out on their crap and they can’t handle it.

  19. 19.

    JGabriel

    MaurS:

    “Bad” language does not offend me and the last time I checked (and thanks to BuschCo I check fairly often) we still live in a country where freedom of expression is a right.

    As long as you’re not a Muslim, or a ‘commie-symp’, or a ‘terrorist-symp’, or gay, or counseling someone on reproductive choices, or defending yourself from being outted as a spy, or criticizing a telco, or….

    .

  21. 21.

    SnarkyShark

    ….if you ever saw the language, the vulgarity, the vitriol that is hauled [sic] at Hillary Clinton by liberal Democrats, by the liberal blogs such as Balloon Juice and Andrew Sullivan, largely by, frankly, Obama supporters, you’d be appalled. I mean, you’d punish your children for this.”

    Except for I am not a child, CNN is not my daddy, and any network who employs Glenn Beck and “the Beard” has fuck all to say about anything anyway.

    CNN aint pointing to this blog under any circumstance. They have lost enough viewer-ship already

  22. 22.

    TenguPhule

    I mean, you’d punish your children for this.

    Dug Jay saw that and dropped his panrs.

  27. 27.

    Tom in Texas

    Here’s the CNN clip. The quoted part is 5 minutes in:

    Jesus what a whinefest (I almost used the b word). That panel looked like a WNBA team, with Kurtz as the coach. Marie Cocco is the tool whose ears hurt with the furious anti Clinton rancor out there.

    No Sully.

    No BJ.

    WTF Doug J? At least I got my cranky white women quota for the day.

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