Displaying 11,611 To 11,640 Of 11,789 Comments Polling Justice: 6 in 10 Americans Disagree with Adhering to U.S. Rule of Law Bankington Post — thank you! My lord! You’ve got a one in three chance of guessing the main on any day. If it is any indication, when I was there, it was a morgue, to steal KevinSeven’s parlance. I simply didn’t have much to add and said I’m tired of this manufactured outrage, I’ll be over at the planet. » Posted By Khirad On November 16, 2009 @ 10:58 pm Paging Rudy “I was for trials before I was against them” Giuliani. » Posted By Khirad On November 16, 2009 @ 10:56 pm Ask ’em how many want to hang ’em high. I so love that thought-free gut answer. Never mind we’re not the Wild West but a nation of laws, we’ll just do it, somehow… » Posted By Khirad On November 16, 2009 @ 10:55 pm Don’t! NO!!! …much about history… Not the most familiar with Lucian, but I can date that just from the mention of Parthia. Looked him up, I was right. They even made the boldness of the font for Iran look menacing, or as much as you can sans serif, at least. Bibi getting permission to fly over Egypt might be a little trickier though. I too like reading the classics from time to time. However much we may change, satire has long been nearly universal throughout the expanse of both geography and time. » Posted By Khirad On November 17, 2009 @ 10:49 pm And militantly convinced in their ignorance. That’s when it turns from comedy to horror. » Posted By Khirad On November 17, 2009 @ 10:34 pm Weekly Seminar: What number of parties leads to the most progressive politics? What is meant by politics? Like progress in real policy terms? or in the breadth of left-leaning movements? I’m assuming it’s the former. Don’t chew me out for not paying attention or missing that earlier (well okay, if I deserve it). When considering, off the top of my head (discounting the NDP, of course) I come up with SDP, Die Linke, Die Gr » Posted By Khirad On November 16, 2009 @ 10:32 pm I largely agree. And we’ll never be forced into a grand coalition like the last German Bundestag was. I really do need to do some more reading on this. » Posted By Khirad On November 16, 2009 @ 10:10 pm SHANNYN MOORE: Palin’s Oily Lies Drip from the Pages of Going Rogue… By the way whenever I see ads for that movie, I’m reminded of those Chicken Little’s bemoaning and hysterically raving that Obama’s been a failure since hour one. » Posted By Khirad On November 16, 2009 @ 10:51 pm Indeed. Thank goodness for edit feature (I totally just blasted you in a fit of drunken rage). Kidding, just misread that. » Posted By Khirad On November 16, 2009 @ 10:48 pm I only have one question (besides help remembering the latest nickname I heard for her which made me laugh – aargh!). When is Bill Shatner gonna be reading from this brilliant, policy tome? Ah, if only William F. Buckley Jr. could have had a ghostwriter too! I give you Sarah Palin’s America, in an alternate reality, where she has a chance of winning the general (I have doubts about the primary as the head of a ticket).
» Posted By Khirad On November 16, 2009 @ 9:59 pm Where are the Progressive and Liberal Voices on Gitmo? Not only great swearing when you’re angry, but when you’re drunk! It’s funny, I also developed a habit of it so I wouldn’t get in trouble. It actually got so ingrained that when I stub a toe I let out an involuntary Schei » Posted By Khirad On November 15, 2009 @ 9:55 pm I still remember Webb opening the Senate for like five minutes a day to stop Bush from a recess appointment. He’s not been all bad. He seemed to relish sticking it to the Repubs. That being said, he was once one of them, and a Virginia senator from the military to boot. I expect as much from him. Not to say I’m not disappointed, but neither am I surprised. » Posted By Khirad On November 15, 2009 @ 8:27 pm Like the the Pennsylvania Dutch or the lost Dutchman Mine, etc! Hey, just missing an ‘e’! Seriously, my Grandmother came from a German community in the Midwest. She grew up hearing German all the time. After the two wars though hardly anyone could speak it anymore. They were afraid of being singled out, seen as unpatriotic, or worse, so they banned themselves from speaking amongst themselves and in front of the children (this is also an unfortunate characteristic in the Indian-American community, for some reason, to go overboard on assimilating). I’ve looked into it, and this German-American experience was not unique. I somewhat resent having to take it in High School and a little in college building a fantasy of it having been passed on, but, unlike tight communities like the Greeks, or Latinos, etc., would have likely assimilated fully to English by then anyway and I’m just self-consciously kidding myself. And, while fully aware of German guilt I’ve never fully grown up with it instilled from birth. It just makes me bristle when I hear stupid Nazi comments or when I was teased along those lines by the Spanish students (don’t worry, we teased the French class in turn!), many of whom, ironically, had German last names – Idioten! Makes me want to get out my nifty German swearing dictionary just thinking about it! Honestly, that’s what my never-great, sloppy German skills have deteriorated to. » Posted By Khirad On November 15, 2009 @ 8:18 pm President Obama’s Tokyo Speech in full. I was going to ask just that! I thought it looked like Katakana, so doubted it was Yes We Can. That’s about as far as I get with Japanese. » Posted By Khirad On November 15, 2009 @ 7:53 pm Well said on all counts Kalima. Same as they go after him for using Farsi, or citing a famous Urdu poet in Pakistan. They are xenophobes, plain and simple. I would have thought even they might not touch such a famous cultural practice known to Americans through popular culture, but that’s just how know-nothing nativist they are. I googled Japanese proverbs for the heck of it: Baka wa shinanakya naoranai. Sad, but seems to be true, all the same. » Posted By Khirad On November 15, 2009 @ 7:51 pm Debate Night Live – Vote and Discuss! Night. I’ll be moseying off as well. » Posted By Khirad On November 13, 2009 @ 9:51 pm Also why I laugh whenever they bring out their so-called HCR alternatives. Yeah, ’cause it was such a priority for them all those years… » Posted By Khirad On November 13, 2009 @ 9:46 pm Night. » Posted By Khirad On November 13, 2009 @ 9:44 pm You mean when the people whipped up in a frenzy realize that the USSA never materialized and that they were duped? Yeah. Then again, some of those hardcore loons already think it’s here. No hope for the fringe. I’m just talking about bystanders that have fed into this scaremongering crap, but may come around. My grandma was funny when I visited this past fall. Really conservative, especially socially (she moved to live across the street from her evangelical church). But, she also lived through the Depression and just put it: what, do people really think the government is going to treat them worse than the health insurance companies? I think there’s more people out there like that who don’t think of the gov’t as the enemy, and that’s why the Repubs depend upon social wedge issues. » Posted By Khirad On November 13, 2009 @ 9:42 pm It said volumes when I first visited Temple Square and saw their corporate building next to the Temple. They’ve covered themselves on that stuff, legally. » Posted By Khirad On November 13, 2009 @ 9:35 pm You summed it up for me. I have my personal convictions, but I also have pragmatic considerations. If anything, we could have been more progressive in the beginning. I still would like to know where the Dem leadership learned their haggling “skills”… » Posted By Khirad On November 13, 2009 @ 9:23 pm Like with the LDS. » Posted By Khirad On November 13, 2009 @ 9:08 pm Firefox working fine for me, and I’m on a Mac as well. » Posted By Khirad On November 13, 2009 @ 9:05 pm Be prepared across the threads next time, and maybe allow a roll call (or not, we could see members who were there I guess), within reason. I was finishing up another thread and got there less than 10 minutes late myself, and am perhaps just trying to excuse my tardiness! » Posted By Khirad On November 13, 2009 @ 9:04 pm Yeah, that’s why I’m not gonna pile on. Plus, in my opinion, I think it was a hard position to take. » Posted By Khirad On November 13, 2009 @ 8:59 pm Just not me, then? » Posted By Khirad On November 13, 2009 @ 8:14 pm Hello, where is everyone? » Posted By Khirad On November 13, 2009 @ 8:10 pm They’re one of the few bands of the late 2000’s that I think are genuinely good. I like it. » Posted By Khirad On November 13, 2009 @ 7:09 pm Hmmm, that limits me then quite a bit! 😉 » Posted By Khirad On November 13, 2009 @ 6:55 pm In the Sprockets vein: Welle:Erdball – Monoton und Minimal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLZTJTJpZR4 I usually prefer better quality audio tracks over amateur live recordings, but, visuals are to push home the Dieterness. » Posted By Khirad On November 13, 2009 @ 6:50 pmComments Posted By Khirad
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