It would bring a pair of fresh uncomplicated eyeballs to the Court.
I think a lot of the issues that come before the Court get tangled
up with legalities, technical words, and abstract notions. A regular
but intelligent person who is free of lawyerly and judgerly thinking
would bring the decision-making down to earth. I think most of the
talking that goes on at the Court is just a bunch of lawyers and judges BSing and trying to show how smart they are anyway. If we can have actors
and wrestlers and other relative idiots being President and Governor,
let's have one on the Supreme Court and see how it goes for a while.

I fielded a call at my neighbor's house where I'm
watching the place while they're on a skiing vacation.
The guy (on the phone, not my neighbor) is from the
Bureau of Digital Conversion or something. He wants
to know if I have gotten ready for the switchover to
digital. As a matter of fact, I had not and was starting
to worry about getting a digital converter box. "You could do
that," the guy, Robert Johnston, I beleve it was, says.
"Or you could purchase digital conversion eyeglasses,
which are a lot cheaper." ($5 as opposed to up to $30
for a box). He said I was eligible for both the glasses
and the coupons to buy the glasses. He said with the glasses
you just put them on to watch TV, no set up, no wires etc.
The digital conversion system is a part of the glasses
itself, in the frames or glass. I believe he said
the coupons were the same as for the box, which would mean
I would actually MAKE money, which would show up on the
credit card as a refund. I didn't have my credit card on
me, being at my neighbor's, but my neighbor left his for
me in case I needed it for anything around his place.
So I used his card to get the glasses, figuring he'll be
happy to see he made money off the deal, even though
I'll get the glasses. He's already got satellite Tv
or something. But now I'm starting to wonder,
are the glasses better than the box?

rather than a love of humankind. I think the homophobia that
blossoms here at times like this (and sexism in other
circumstances) comes from that basic hatred,
now eight years of hatred. The danger with such passionate
hatred of a hateful enemy is becoming hateful, too,
in the name of winning over being humane.

Progressivism isnt built on hatred of the other,
it's built on being able to put yourself in another person's
shoes and sense their suffering, relate their suffering to
your own so to work to ease it, sometimes just by identifying.
Hatred & intolerance is "if youre not with us,
youre against us" & results in just the kind of shut-up
sleepwalking who-me? homophobia obvious around here today.

"I dont hate you or your sexuality, I'm all for you getting
everything you want and deserve, but for now SHUT THE FUCK UP!
Swallow your pain and hurt, choke on it if you have to, but
SHUT THE FUCK UP! Start bitching again in 31 days!"

It's a minority, but it doesnt take much to poison the well.
How many gays here today have said they wont vote for Obama/
Biden because of the marriage issue?

People have a hard time holding two powerful & conflicting
thoughts in their mind at once--I am hurt by what you said,
but I'm still with you overall and on your side. "No, to be
on my side, you cannot say anything negative about our side,
you must be quiet until we tell you it is safe to speak."

And I dont even believe anybody advocating shutting up really
believes those troublesome gays are going to ruin or lose
the election or anything close to it. I do believe it's a sign
of that vein of hatred for BushCo leaking out into a greater hatred
for anybody who doesnt put the hatred of Bush above everything else, including empathy for one another's suffering, as you put it so
lovingly and beautifully.

I read it and hear it from a articel on TV or cousin.
What could I do? Would you help me debumk it? I'm
worry.

I thought we were starting to get along pretty good, shmuck.

1. Take notes. It lost me about middle of the way through the cartoon part at the beginning where the names of everybody is. From there on I had no idea of anything that was going on and keep having to ask people around me what was going on. And the movie was so loud that I had to holler my different questions in order just to be heard.

2. They had to have had to destroyed at least $1000 dollars worth of things in that movie. Every time I turned around to ask somebody what was going on I'd look back again and something else was just getting ruined. I mean destroyed. I won't give anything away but there is a house in New Orleans in that movie or wherever they are that is no longer there, to put it mildly. There were a couple fancy cars that must have had $500 dollars worth of damage done to it. The claims guy is going to be shaking his head in the morning at those fenders.

3. At least once or twice in that movie they did something tricky with the camera or something, because I don't think everything in there is actually filmed the way it happened in real life. They jiggled the camera or did something in the darkroom definitely in a couple of scenes.

4. Plus, it costs six dollars!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discu...

I inherited a mixed animal from Uncle living in woods.

Can animals have sex with different animals?
My Uncle Leonard was a hermit that lived alone
in the woods in the mountains for many years. He
had a little money that he left to my sister and
left me a bicycle and drums and this animal that is
part wild and looks and acts like several type
of animals. I would say part dog, part cat and
the way it climbs part monkey. There is some kind
of wolverine or that kind of animal too in my opinion.
I am afraid to take it to the pound if it is illegal
and they take it. Leonard was a scary man to me and
I just don't want to immediately let it go even
though he is dead I just have this funny feeling
I would be in for bad things if I got rid of it.
I don't know why he left me it except that one time
I listened to him tell me the story of his life.
My sister and I were his only relatives. He didn't
have a will but told a neighbor what he wanted
left to who. I don't want to keep it in the house. I am
afraid if I left it outside it would climb over
this big wall we have around the house and hurt
somebody or even eat something. It weighs about
25 or 30 pounds, has stiff fur that is different
colors and lengths, makes sounds kind of like a
digging badger and if you pulled a rope or something
through a cardboard box. It has claws more like a
rodent. The tail is short and furry, but it could
have been broken off or cut off, it doesn't look right.
It doesn't really play, but it looks at you and then
looks awy when you look at it. It likes to root around
in the garden but it is winter and there's not too much
damage it can do out there.

Spatuloon: a combination spatula and spittoon.

Tankerchief: combination tank and handkerchief.

You didn't think I was serious with all those prepositions,
did you? Come on, you can take a choke, can't you? Let's
be friends and all work together now.

I read on a magic site: "By the way, there's scientific anti-gravity gadgets that you can build yourself out of crap from around the house."
QUESTION: Which crap?

We had to put Nicky our sweet kitty to sleep yesterday. Buried him under the Mexican elderberry that he loved to sit in in the sun and the shade. Buried him with his brush and a picture of him and his brother and sister that went before. We were gonna put a can of his fave food in there, and then it was like, well should we open it? And it was like well yeah let's open it. So we did and put it in his bowl. Then it was like well, put the bowl inside the towel he was wrapped in? or on top of the towel? Inside seemed not quite right, but on top then it would be filled with dirt as we buried him. So we took it out and gave it to the other cats around here. Nicky's treat to them. Amen.

Can animals have sex with different animals?
My Uncle Leonard was a hermit that lived alone
in the woods in the mountains for many years. He
had a little money that he left to my sister and
left me a bicycle and drums and this animal that is
part wild and looks and acts like several type
of animals. I would say part dog, part cat and
the way it climbs part monkey. There is some kind
of wolverine or that kind of animal too in my opinion.
I am afraid to take it to the pound if it is illegal
and they take it. Leonard was a scary man to me and
I just don't want to immediately let it go even
though he is dead I just have this funny feeling
I would be in for bad things if I got rid of it.
I don't know why he left me it except that one time
I listened to him tell me the story of his life.
My sister and I were his only relatives. He didn't
have a will but told a neighbor what he wanted
left to who. I don't want to keep it in the house. I am
afraid if I left it outside it would climb over
this big wall we have around the house and hurt
somebody or even eat something. It weighs about
25 or 30 pounds, has stiff fur that is different
colors and lengths, makes sounds kind of like a
digging badger and if you pulled a rope or something
through a cardboard box. It has claws more like a
rodent. The tail is short and furry, but it could
have been broken off or cut off, it doesn't look right.
It doesn't really play, but it looks at you and then
looks awy when you look at it. It likes to root around
in the garden but it is winter and there's not too much
damage it can do out there.

Only better.
This shows how much General Clark likes the voters
and how close he feel to them. Also it made me
think of my good friend Phil Silvers in Sgt Bilko,
another friendly, happy, popular military man:

"General Clark said he had enjoyed a visit
to New Hampshire over the summer that he said
signaled to him how much he would like campaigning.
He compared meeting New Hampshire voters to his work
as the NATO commander. "It's like what we did in the
military when we went to the motor pool and talked to
the troops — only better," he said.

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/19/politics...