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| Thank you for turning me on |
| 05.28.04 (2:51 pm) [edit] |
Did any of you ever have one of these?
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For those of you not in the know, 2-XL was a "robot" that used 8-track "technology" to quiz you on all sorts of things. The commercials for him indicated that he was also supposed to be your friend. A really bizarre friend.
I never really thought about this until today, but what kind of an accent did 2-XL have exactly? Is he from New Jersey? You can help me decide by listening to some of 2-XL's clever witticisms here: http://www.2xlrobot.com/morei... El Wrongo, indeed.
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| The truth behind Bush's bike accident |
| 05.24.04 (8:43 am) [edit] |
Why doesn't this surprise me at all?
[i][url=http://www.dailykos.com/story...]More Bush lies[/url]?
by kos
Sun May 23rd, 2004 at 20:18:22 EDT
Here's the official story line from Crawford:
President Bush took a spill during a Saturday afternoon bike ride on his ranch, suffering bruises and cuts that were visible later on his face just two days before he was to deliver a major prime-time speech on his Iraq policy.
The president was nearing the end of a 17-mile ride on his mountain bike, accompanied by a Secret Service agent, a military aide and his personal physician, Richard Tubb, who treated him at the scene, said White House spokesman Trent Duffy.
"It's been raining a lot and the topsoil is loose," Duffy said. "You know this president. He likes to go all-out. Suffice it to say he wasn't whistling show tunes."
So it's been raining a lot in Crawford, we are told. So here's the recent precipitation levels from Crawford:
May 22: 0"
May 21: 0"
May 20: 0"
May 19: 0"
May 18: 0"
May 17: 0"
May 16: 0"
May 15: 0"
May 14: 0.03"
May 13: 2.79"
May 12: 0"
May 11: 0.15"
May 10: 0"
May 9: 0"
May 13th saw some serious rain, but other than some sprinkles on the 14th, Crawford saw nothing but sun. In the last week alone, the temperature was in the high 80s the entire time.
So rain on the 13th and (barely) 14th was blamed for a Bush fall on the 22nd. As everything else, it wasn't Bush's fault. Nothing is Bush's fault.
Ever.
Liars. [/i]
It's just so silly. People fall off of bikes all the time. It's not like he was [url=http://www.straightdope.com/c...]attacked by a rabbit[/url] (although I'd love to hear how the Bush folks would have spun that story).
And don't get me started on the "whistling show tunes" part.
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| 05.13.04 (10:03 pm) [edit] |
It's happened. Squirrels have now decapitated every one of my tulips. Yesterday I saw one of the little bastards rip the last head off, trailing flower petals as he ran up the nearest tree. What in the hell do they want them for? They don't even appear to eat them.
All of my neighbors' tulips look fine. They must know something I don't about how to keep the squirrels away. When I walk up my street I'm filled with sadness about the sorry state of my own garden.
I'd grow them inside, but one of my cats (who is the cat version of a crackhead) devours them too. I guess I should just learn to accept a tulip-free existence.
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| Andrew Greeley on Kerry and the Church |
| 05.05.04 (9:54 pm) [edit] |
The NY Daily News ran a column by Andrew Greeley the other day. Andrew Greeley is not your typical priest. He's also a sociologist at the University of Chicago and the University of Arizona and, if you're wondering why his name sounds a little familiar to you, he also wrote a couple of bestselling novels, such as [url=http://www.amazon.com/exec/ob...]The Cardinal Sins[/url] and [url=http://www.amazon.com/exec/ob...]Thy Brother's Wife[/url] .
I met him a few years ago when he gave an academic talk and he was pretty cool. I've often told myself that if I were living in the same town he was, I might go to mass again.
In [url=http://www.nydailynews.com/05...]this column[/url] he makes some pretty good points about current flap about Kerry taking communion. Here's part of it:
[i]There is currently a discussion among some Catholic bishops about refusing the sacraments to Democratic Sen. John Kerry for not opposing abortion, thus doing the Republican National Committee's work for it.
But the Pope and the national hierarchy also have condemned the death penalty and the war in Iraq. Are these bishops willing to deny the Eucharist to Catholic politicians who support the death penalty or the Iraq war? And if not, why not?
Moreover, will they tell Catholics that it is a sin to support an unjust war and to vote for a candidate who is responsible for such a war? And, again, if not, why not?
I can think of a couple of reasons. First, denouncing abortion will get you attention in the Vatican. Attacking the death penalty and the war are not likely to promote your career. Second, the rules are different for Democrats and Republicans. It is curious, to say the least, that 30 years after Roe vs. Wade, the issue of denying the sacraments would be raised during this election year.
Bishops also threaten political leaders who support civil unions between homosexuals. Given their tolerance for sexual abusers in the priesthood, that looks a bit hypocritical. I have never heard any of them criticize gay bashing. Followers of Jesus cannot tolerate hatred of anyone, especially since the church now teaches that the homosexual condition is not freely chosen. [/i]
It's funny how Democratic candidates always seem especially liable to be tested on their views about abortion, as if Catholic voters will fall in line with whatever the Vatican says. For the record, in America Catholics are no more likely to be against abortion rights than Protestants are (according to the General Social Survey). Furthermore, I've yet to meet anyone who agrees with every single belief that their church promotes, much less follows them (except for Unitarians. But they get to pick and choose. What's the fun in that?).
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