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| marantzo |
| Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2005 1:27 pm |
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What have you got against dlharvard? Odour problem or something? |
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| censored-03 |
| Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2005 1:38 pm |
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| I love the charming way you Northerners spell, so continental. (Placing emoticon with Olive Oyl clasping her hands together batting her eyelashes) |
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| ehle64 |
| Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2005 1:40 pm |
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| Methinks the hippster was referencing The Clash. |
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| dlhavard |
| Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2005 2:06 pm |
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Didn't totally disagree Marantzo, allowed Buckaroo Banzai to stay.  
Anywho, I think I was thinking Spinal Tap at the time. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2005 2:27 pm |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2005 5:19 pm |
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I'm pleased to see our Senator Coburn is keeping up his good work. This guy was a loon when he was in the House. The STD gross-out films are from his days in the House but I don't know if he's done it in the Senae. He used to do an annual speech on venereal disease to the House, and some of the Senators could probably use it.
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Watching the Senate confirm Mr. Roberts
Matt Welch
Last week's lengthy confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee John Roberts revealed to the American people at least one important fact about the constitutional separation of powers: Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) is stark raving mad.
"When I ponder our country and its greatness, its weaknesses, its potential, my heart aches for less divisiveness, less polarization, less finger-pointing, less bitterness, less mindless partisanship which, at times, sounds almost hateful to the ear of Americans," Coburn said in his opening statement. Then he choked back sobs. (All quotations are taken verbatim from the hearing transcripts.)
Dr. Coburn—whose idea of bipartisan unity includes but is not limited to praising Fidel Castro's AIDS prisons, railing against "rampant lesbianism" in public schools, and showing anti-STD gross-out films in the World's Greatest Deliberative Body—was not close to being done. He used the Senate's famous "advise and consent" function to ask whether Roberts does indeed "agree that the opposite of being dead is being alive?," to confess that " I remember what I was like when I was 25, and it wasn't very pretty," and to embarrass his own party's nominee by pressing him (without success, mercifully) to "teach the American public" that the Constitution "came from" God. And still he wasn't done.
"I just have one other comment," the Oklahoma Senator said. "As you have been before our committee, I've tried to use my medical skills of observation of body language to ascertain your uncomfortableness and ill-at-ease with questions and responses. And I've honed that over about 23, 24 years. And the other thing that I believe is integrity is at the basis of what we want in judges. And I will tell you that I am very pleased, both in my observational capabilities as a physician, to know that your answers have been honest and forthright as I watch the rest of your body respond to the stress that you're under." |
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| Marc |
| Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2005 5:23 pm |
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Quote: Methinks the hippster was referencing The Clash.
ehle, you give me more hipster cred than I deserve. I hadn't even thought of the Clash lyric. And it took me awhile to recall the lyric you're referencing.
I ended up singing it to myself by accident. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2005 5:39 pm |
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| Syd, I saw him give that speech, but I didn't know he was an Oklahoman. I'm so sorry. |
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| judithannie |
| Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2005 5:41 pm |
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Re: Senator Coburn
Last week I was channel surfing and saw Lou Dobbs tease his show by saying that during that day's hearing a senator became so emotional he was nearly brought to tears.
"I've got to see this," I said to myself.
When he showed the clip of Sen Coburn choking back sobs and he got to the phrase "less mindless partisanship" I had to call my sister and rant about the hypocrasy of the Republicans. I had no idea of this guy's track record until the next night while watching the Daily Show, John Stewart pointed out that this is the same guy who said homosexuality is the greatest threat to our freedom and advocates the death penalty for abortionists. Then he showed him working a crossword puzzle during the hearings before his emotional appeal.
I immediately e mailed CNN and told them how wrong it is that I get more accurate news on a half hour comedy show than on a 24 hour news channel.
(I am so in love with John Stewart.) |
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| Marilyn |
| Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2005 6:01 pm |
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| Marc, I apologize. I must write to Greencine and tell them they're full of it. |
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| lshap |
| Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2005 6:33 pm |
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| Jeremy - I could be wrong...but was it just your birthday? |
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| Marilyn |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2005 7:07 pm |
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| The Korean deal is a good thing if Kim Jung-Il lives up to it. It sounds fairly similar to what they've been wanting all along, which makes me wonder what we gained by dragging it out, or pulling out in 2001. If I'm not mistaken, the reason for the emphasis on light water reactors is to prevent them from making plutonium. However, the first bombs they said they had were U-235. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2005 7:38 pm |
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| North Korea sign an agreement about Nuclear weapons before. The commentators on the BBC news are reserving judgement. |
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