bukvich@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> On May 14, 9:44 pm, Iskander <theinfinitiveo...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> No blood for oil! No money for houses!
> You laugh but the tax and spenders
WHOA! When did you start channeling Grover Norquist?
> want to underwrite a bunch of
> mortgages the market wants to pass the buck on. Life liberty pursuit
> of happiness (and 2500 sq ft on a quarter acre lot). Entitlement
> inflation. Our grandparents would have been more than satisfied with a
> 1000 sq ft on a sixteenth.
They're trying to save the nominal face value of the mortgages to bail
the banks out, regardless of whether the people stay in the houses or not.
I think that is the borrow and spenders doing that.
>> I think that is irony, not schadenfreud.
> The germans need to think up a new word for this one. Do you like
> zitterbewegung? Get help from one of the natives before you try and
> pronounce it in conversation.
ZEET-ter-bev-egg-un, unless you left an umlaut out or something.
>> Dear God. It'd be sorta weirdly comforting if I could not get
it up, or
>> did not wish to get it up, but NO!
> In another 30 or 40 years we are going to find out. The guy who taught
> my last ever landmark seminar series told a room with 80 people in it
> that viagra works from his personal experience.
Because then at least I would be properly old, but no.
> He did not bear any
> resemblance to the statues of Kliobus and Biton. I almost left out the
> best part: his wife was there in the room when he was telling us this.
Well, did she blink?
> When somebody tells you honesty is im****tant that is probably the
> biggest whopper of them all.
Cynicism about politicians and the like might make sense. (True) Utter
cynicism in ze old personal life is basically self-defeating.
OHNGST!
N.B.: I didn't say you had to buy it.
>> Priapism!
> No. It goes away in a few minutes. Priapism is it doesn't go down.
Just like an M.D. to diagnose like that.
> I
> had this in a poem and I tried to woo the M.D. I used to date with it
You dated with priapism?
> and she was grossed out which is pretty typical for my dating
> experiences.
Interesting kind of M.D.
>> It's still a weapon of mass destruction.
> It's a weapon of mass auto destruction when they send a SWAT team with
> body armor, machine guns, tear gas, flamethrowers, and they all got
> the gung ho can do attitude.
Even more massive destruction. You're suffering from mass destruction
inflation.
>> Somehow, I doubt that; one notes that freedom of religion and
an
>> anti-government attitude resulted in ... Mormonism. Not quite up there
>> with the black mass thing.
> My experience with the black mass thing is it's not nearly as good in
> real life as it is in the comic books. Sort of like gothic nightclubs.
Check.
> The reality is pale next to the fantasy when you haven't been in one
> yet.
No, I think they're all a little dweeby. A lot dweeby. Matters not,
since I'm not involved.
>> The thing is, is that the world has never been like that.
Rebellions
>> tend to fail. Rebellions (or revolutions) are practically batting .000,
>> in terms of changing the social mores.
> Well we had a pretty good one in 1776 if you were a white guy who
> owned a bunch of land already.
Secession dude. One notes that it took some time to let go of the
Irish, and they never let go of the Welsh.
>> Guerilla war makes it expensive
>> to occupy. It rarely totally overhauls the culture, and even when it
>> does the effects are usually not that lasting. Note that the Soviets
>> failed to wipe out the Orthodox.
> Energizer Bunny meme.
The bunny hasn't exterminated Jesus.
>> Bah. They could draw ratings lots of ways; they are not
required to be
>> stupid and mendacious. That's a failure of imagination, not a method of
>> meeting demand.
> The guy who was in charge of weapons inspection (I'm drawing a blank
> on his name) was on CSPAN-2 and I thought that was great television.
Scott Ritter. Or the other dude, El-barai.
> You'd think Barbara Walters whould have had him on in prime time in
> between the 2002 state-of-the-union speech and the invade-Iraq
> propaganda but apparently she had to interview Anjelina Jolie's
> plastic surgeon or somebody. Scott Ridder. That's the guy's name.
Well, now, the press likes the war. They aren't responsible, plus lots
of excitement!
> What do you call that pleasurable sensation you have when you recall
> something without trying to a couple minutes after you try and cannot
> recall it?
I've forgotten.
Actually, it isn't pleasurable, much like priapism.
>> That's the argument of the press: the press can't make
uninteresting
>> things interesting. I say the press doesn't know how to make
interesting
>> topics interesting. They do know how to make things sleazy.
> It's a mass-man thing.
It's a bunch of pig-****ing-ignorant dumb***** on the screen thing.
>> How DO you know you aren't a brain in a vat, anyways?
> You can't know in the sense that you know the area of a circle is pi r
> squared or the pythogorean theorem, but the notion that we are brains
> in vats is very very very very very very far fetched. Therefore we are
> pretty sure we are not.
Indubitably.
> All of us but Anton anyways.
Anton's a Dutchman in a hookah!
max
['If you bathed in used bongwater, I'd bet you'd get really high!']
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