I'd like to thank the Academy, my folks...

And not to be callous or whatever but wow, Kelly Clarkson is one ugly little troll, ain't she? No wonder I didn't know who she was...

Kelly Clarkson just doesn't try or care it seems. that makes me like her all the more.

Those are freaking awesome.

The worst thing about living in a building full of elderly widows is that sometimes the elevator reeks of cheap perfume and soiled diapers. I guess they think one covers up the other. Alas, it does not.

I'll see if my friend who works for Puma can hook you up with those, kmac, if you can get me a few pairs of running shoes from your many industry connections.

Deal?


what's the best thing about it? Does it have anything to do with bengay rubdowns? hawt!

i'm am surrounded by the sweet sweet smell of pine sol.


like a carolina pine forrest!

I can play WMV3 encoded WMA files with Quicktime!

Is that Grimace's wife?

I woke up at 0430 on Wednesday to go to work, I didn't get to bed 'til 11:30 PM. I then had to get up at 0330 on Thursday to help my wife finish packing and get her to the Airport at 0500, I then drove to LA, picked up my Gran'Daughter in Pomona, played with her all day at my parents' in Arcadia, had Dinner, played with her all evening, and dropped her back at her Dad's at 1245 AM Friday Morning! I got back to my parents & into bed by 0130 and didn't wake up 'til 1130.

I'm now online, dialed into work, and fiddling around here on the SOMB at 0330. Damn, but I should be sleeping!.

yikes. i hope you are sleeping now, my dear freddie.

Nope. Work called and I'm at work right now, but hoping to leave in a few minutes.

Is this it?

http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/01/13/news/shutins.php

For some in Japan, a room is their world

By Maggie Jones The New York Times
SUNDAY, JANUARY 15, 2006

One morning when he was 15, Takeshi shut the door to his bedroom, and for the next four years he did not come out. He didn't go to school. He didn't have a job. He didn't have friends. Month after month, he spent 23 hours a day in a room no bigger than a king-size mattress, where he ate dumplings, rice and other leftovers that his mother had cooked, watched TV game shows and listened to Radiohead and Nirvana. "Anything," he said, "that was dark and sounded desperate."

I met Takeshi outside Tokyo not long ago, shortly after he finally left his parents' house to join a job-training program called New Start. He was wiry, with a delicate face, tousled, dyed auburn hair and the intensity of a hungry college freshman. "Don't laugh, but musicians really helped me, especially Radiohead," he told me through an interpreter, before scribbling some lyrics in English in my notebook. "That's what encouraged me to leave my room..."

That guy definitely posts here.

And he definitely voted in the '95-'04 Albums Poll.

If I had someone to make me dumplings, I'd do that for sure.

I think he needed the four years to decide what order he should rank OK Computer, The Bends, and Kid A in for his top three.

Man, why can't I stop watching House of Carters?

Fuck.

Hey, I'm kind of happy.

I just found out that the few painkillers I've borrowed from the gf's dad are actually vicodin/equivalent. God bless Wikipedia and it's infinite wonder. If I hadn't drank what I drank, I'd pop one or two. I'm smiling.

I have one more, then I swear I'll stop abusing this thread.

So I thought I felt an earthquake like thirty seconds ago, but it was really just my dog scratching her ear on the other end of the couch. Logic failed me in a big way.

Somewhere along the way the Complusive Posting Topic became the One Thing I Think thread, complete with its own cadre of regulars. Just sayin'.

Yeah, so? Is that your one thing you think?




hydrocodone? That's what my mom is on. She didn't realize it was vicodin until i told her on Thanksgiving. Good times.

i want to be a regular. how do i start? will i be taunted and teased?

mmmmmm...real maple syrup

stupid n00b.

Oh well.





Fuckin' a.

say that again? my friend didn't hear it.

What's a nubian?

"A new born child has no teeth." "A goose has no teeth." "A rose has no teeth." This last at any rate- one would like to say- is obviously true! It is even surer that a goose has none. - And yet it is none so clear. For where should a rose's teeth have been? The goose has none in its jaw. And neither, of course, has it any in its wings; but no one means that when he says it has no teeth.- Why, suppose one were to say: the cow chews its food and then dungs the rose with it, so the rose has teeth in the mouth of a beast. This would not be absurd, because one has no notion in advance where to look for teeth in a rose.

Life in this society being, at best, an utter bore and no aspect of society being at all relevant to women, there remains to civic-minded, responsible, thrill-seeking females only to overthrow the government, eliminate the money system, institute complete automation and destroy

the male




sex.

Science can now make a woman pregnant without any male involvement (no sperm donor, just two eggs and lots of complicated biology).

I can't fucking wait.

Here's a picture of how it works:

Yay!!!

Video on how to make Cocaine from Cocoa Leaves.

Extra Bonus Link: How to Make Crack.

my girlfriend just said "abroad". I was like, "no you're a broad!"

haha I rule

Did she throw a shoe at your head?

im typing on my psp right now

she appreciated my quick wit.

Sunday, November 26th, 2006

Friends,

Tomorrow marks the day that we will have been in Iraq longer than we were in all of World War II.

That's right. We were able to defeat all of Nazi Germany, Mussolini, and the entire Japanese empire in LESS time than it's taken the world's only superpower to secure the road from the airport to downtown Baghdad.

And we haven't even done THAT. After 1,347 days, in the same time it took us to took us to sweep across North Africa, storm the beaches of Italy, conquer the South Pacific, and liberate all of Western Europe, we cannot, after over 3 and 1/2 years, even take over a single highway and protect ourselves from a homemade device of two tin cans placed in a pothole. No wonder the cab fare from the airport into Baghdad is now running around $35,000 for the 25-minute ride. And that doesn't even include a friggin' helmet.

Is this utter failure the fault of our troops? Hardly. That's because no amount of troops or choppers or democracy shot out of the barrel of a gun is ever going to "win" the war in Iraq. It is a lost war, lost because it never had a right to be won, lost because it was started by men who have never been to war, men who hide behind others sent to fight and die.

Let's listen to what the Iraqi people are saying, according to a recent poll conducted by the University of Maryland:

** 71% of all Iraqis now want the U.S. out of Iraq.

** 61% of all Iraqis SUPPORT insurgent attacks on U.S. troops.

Yes, the vast majority of Iraqi citizens believe that our soldiers should be killed and maimed! So what the hell are we still doing there? Talk about not getting the hint.

There are many ways to liberate a country. Usually the residents of that country rise up and liberate themselves. That's how we did it. You can also do it through nonviolent, mass civil disobedience. That's how India did it. You can get the world to boycott a regime until they are so ostracized they capitulate. That's how South Africa did it. Or you can just wait them out and, sooner or later, the king's legions simply leave (sometimes just because they're too cold). That's how Canada did it.

The one way that DOESN'T work is to invade a country and tell the people, "We are here to liberate you!" -- when they have done NOTHING to liberate themselves. Where were all the suicide bombers when Saddam was oppressing them? Where were the insurgents planting bombs along the roadside as the evildoer Saddam's convoy passed them by? I guess ol' Saddam was a cruel despot -- but not cruel enough for thousands to risk their necks. "Oh no, Mike, they couldn't do that! Saddam would have had them killed!" Really? You don't think King George had any of the colonial insurgents killed? You don't think Patrick Henry or Tom Paine were afraid? That didn't stop them. When tens of thousands aren't willing to shed their own blood to remove a dictator, that should be the first clue that they aren't going to be willing participants when you decide you're going to do the liberating for them.

A country can HELP another people overthrow a tyrant (that's what the French did for us in our revolution), but after you help them, you leave. Immediately. The French didn't stay and tell us how to set up our government. They didn't say, "we're not leaving because we want your natural resources." They left us to our own devices and it took us six years before we had an election. And then we had a bloody civil war. That's what happens, and history is full of these examples. The French didn't say, "Oh, we better stay in America, otherwise they're going to kill each other over that slavery issue!"

The only way a war of liberation has a chance of succeeding is if the oppressed people being liberated have their own citizens behind them -- and a group of Washingtons, Jeffersons, Franklins, Ghandis and Mandellas leading them. Where are these beacons of liberty in Iraq? This is a joke and it's been a joke since the beginning. Yes, the joke's been on us, but with 655,000 Iraqis now dead as a result of our invasion (source: Johns Hopkins University), I guess the cruel joke is on them. At least they've been liberated, permanently.

So I don't want to hear another word about sending more troops (wake up, America, John McCain is bonkers), or "redeploying" them, or waiting four months to begin the "phase-out." There is only one solution and it is this: Leave. Now. Start tonight. Get out of there as fast as we can. As much as people of good heart and conscience don't want to believe this, as much as it kills us to accept defeat, there is nothing we can do to undo the damage we have done. What's happened has happened. If you were to drive drunk down the road and you killed a child, there would be nothing you could do to bring that child back to life. If you invade and destroy a country, plunging it into a civil war, there isn't much you can do 'til the smoke settles and blood is mopped up. Then maybe you can atone for the atrocity you have committed and help the living come back to a better life.

The Soviet Union got out of Afghanistan in 36 weeks. They did so and suffered hardly any losses as they left. They realized the mistake they had made and removed their troops. A civil war ensued. The bad guys won. Later, we overthrew the bad guys and everybody lived happily ever after. See! It all works out in the end!

The responsibility to end this war now falls upon the Democrats. Congress controls the purse strings and the Constitution says only Congress can declare war. Mr. Reid and Ms. Pelosi now hold the power to put an end to this madness. Failure to do so will bring the wrath of the voters. We aren't kidding around, Democrats, and if you don't believe us, just go ahead and continue this war another month. We will fight you harder than we did the Republicans. The opening page of my website has a photo of Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, each made up by a collage of photos of the American soldiers who have died in Bush's War. But it is now about to become the Bush/Democratic Party War unless swift action is taken.

This is what we demand:

1. Bring the troops home now. Not six months from now. NOW. Quit looking for a way to win. We can't win. We've lost. Sometimes you lose. This is one of those times. Be brave and admit it.

2. Apologize to our soldiers and make amends. Tell them we are sorry they were used to fight a war that had NOTHING to do with our national security. We must commit to taking care of them so that they suffer as little as possible. The mentally and physically maimed must get the best care and significant financial compensation. The families of the deceased deserve the biggest apology and they must be taken care of for the rest of their lives.

3. We must atone for the atrocity we have perpetuated on the people of Iraq. There are few evils worse than waging a war based on a lie, invading another country because you want what they have buried under the ground. Now many more will die. Their blood is on our hands, regardless for whom we voted. If you pay taxes, you have contributed to the three billion dollars a week now being spent to drive Iraq into the hellhole it's become. When the civil war is over, we will have to help rebuild Iraq. We can receive no redemption until we have atoned.

In closing, there is one final thing I know. We Americans are better than what has been done in our name. A majority of us were upset and angry after 9/11 and we lost our minds. We didn't think straight and we never looked at a map. Because we are kept stupid through our pathetic education system and our lazy media, we knew nothing of history. We didn't know that WE were the ones funding and arming Saddam for many years, including those when he massacred the Kurds. He was our guy. We didn't know what a Sunni or a Shiite was, never even heard the words. Eighty percent of our young adults (according to National Geographic) were not able to find Iraq on the map. Our leaders played off our stupidity, manipulated us with lies, and scared us to death.

But at our core we are a good people. We may be slow learners, but that "Mission Accomplished" banner struck us as odd, and soon we began to ask some questions. Then we began to get smart. By this past November 7th, we got mad and tried to right our wrongs. The majority now know the truth. The majority now feel a deep sadness and guilt and a hope that somehow we can make make it all right again.

Unfortunately, we can't. So we will accept the consequences of our actions and do our best to be there should the Iraqi people ever dare to seek our help in the future. We ask for their forgiveness.

We demand the Democrats listen to us and get out of Iraq now.

Yours,

Michael Moore
www.michaelmoore.com
mmflint@aol.com

Which one should I be friends with?
http://www.myspace.com/prephraymond
http://www.myspace.com/5769210

Giant Disco Shoe for sale on eBay. I've asked if the other shoe is a separate auction but the seller hasn't answered yet.

$2500?!?!?!?

I bet you could make that shoe into a car.

1. Amazing we're still having such warm weather.
2. Happy Feet was a bit disappointing for me.
3. I'm excited about the upcoming new Patty Griffin record - only a tad over 2 months away.
4. I cut my thumb and hand yesterday - had to get 4 stitches in each.
5. I sure use my thumb for a lot of stuff.

this is such a bad idea. felonious.
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