Feds' weather information could go dark...The bill, introduced last week by Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pa., would prohibit federal meteorologists from competing with companies such as AccuWeather and The Weather Channel, which offer their own forecasts through paid services and free ad-supported Web sites.[...]...Barry Myers, AccuWeather's executive vice president, said the bill would improve public safety by making the weather service devote its efforts to hurricanes, tsunamis and other dangers, rather than duplicating products already available from the private sector."The National Weather Service has not focused on what its core mission should be, which is protecting other people's lives and property," said Myers, whose company is based in State College, Pa. Instead, he said, "It spends hundreds of millions of dollars a year, every day, producing forecasts of 'warm and sunny.'"Santorum made similar arguments April 14 when introducing his bill. He also said expanded federal services threaten the livelihoods of private weather companies."It is not an easy prospect for a business to attract advertisers, subscribers or investors when the government is providing similar products and services for free," Santorum said.AccuWeather has been an especially vocal critic of the weather service and its parent agency, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.The company has accused the federal agencies of withholding data on hurricanes and other hazards, and failing to ensure that employees don't feed upcoming forecasts to favored investors in farming and energy markets.[...]The rivalry intensified last year, when NOAA shelved a 1991 policy that had barred the weather agency from offering services that private industry could provide.Also last year, the weather service began offering much of its raw data on the Internet in an easily digestible format, allowing entrepreneurs and hobbyists to write simple programs to retrieve the information. At the same time, the weather service's own Web pages have become increasingly sophisticated.Combined, the trends threaten AccuWeather's business of providing detailed weather reports based on an array of government and private data. AccuWeather's 15,000 customers include The Palm Beach Post, which uses the company's hurricane forecast maps on its Web site, PalmBeachPost.com.
...The bill, introduced last week by Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pa., would prohibit federal meteorologists from competing with companies such as AccuWeather and The Weather Channel, which offer their own forecasts through paid services and free ad-supported Web sites.
[...]
...Barry Myers, AccuWeather's executive vice president, said the bill would improve public safety by making the weather service devote its efforts to hurricanes, tsunamis and other dangers, rather than duplicating products already available from the private sector.
"The National Weather Service has not focused on what its core mission should be, which is protecting other people's lives and property," said Myers, whose company is based in State College, Pa. Instead, he said, "It spends hundreds of millions of dollars a year, every day, producing forecasts of 'warm and sunny.'"
Santorum made similar arguments April 14 when introducing his bill. He also said expanded federal services threaten the livelihoods of private weather companies.
"It is not an easy prospect for a business to attract advertisers, subscribers or investors when the government is providing similar products and services for free," Santorum said.
AccuWeather has been an especially vocal critic of the weather service and its parent agency, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
The company has accused the federal agencies of withholding data on hurricanes and other hazards, and failing to ensure that employees don't feed upcoming forecasts to favored investors in farming and energy markets.
The rivalry intensified last year, when NOAA shelved a 1991 policy that had barred the weather agency from offering services that private industry could provide.
Also last year, the weather service began offering much of its raw data on the Internet in an easily digestible format, allowing entrepreneurs and hobbyists to write simple programs to retrieve the information. At the same time, the weather service's own Web pages have become increasingly sophisticated.
Combined, the trends threaten AccuWeather's business of providing detailed weather reports based on an array of government and private data. AccuWeather's 15,000 customers include The Palm Beach Post, which uses the company's hurricane forecast maps on its Web site, PalmBeachPost.com.
Hmm. Such vociferous complaints from a weather company, and one located in Pennsylvania. One wonders if....oh yeah, both the president and vice-president just HAPPENED to give several thousand dollars to Santorum's campaigns, as Wonkette points out today.
So, as you can see, this bill is all about your safety, and written sloppily enough to ban whatever you'd particularly want it to.
― kingfish maximum overdrunk (Kingfish), Saturday, 23 April 2005 02:24 (twenty years ago)
― Ian Riese-Moraine. To Hell with you and your gradual evolution! (Eastern Mantra), Saturday, 23 April 2005 02:30 (twenty years ago)
― kyle (akmonday), Saturday, 23 April 2005 02:31 (twenty years ago)
was it philly who recently had the outrage over free wi-fi squeezing the telecoms out of business?
― teeny (teeny), Saturday, 23 April 2005 02:33 (twenty years ago)
that googlebomb is fucking funny though
actually, it didn't start as a googlebomb. it started from Dan Savage from Savage Love coining the term in response to some of the shit Santorum has said over the 2 years ago about gay folks. Dan asked readers for suggestions for what 'santorum' should connote, and by golly, the readers responded.
oh yeah, and Santorum has Presidential aspirations, too.
― kingfish maximum overdrunk (Kingfish), Saturday, 23 April 2005 02:39 (twenty years ago)
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Saturday, 23 April 2005 03:09 (twenty years ago)
― kingfish maximum overdrunk (Kingfish), Monday, 25 April 2005 13:22 (twenty years ago)
Good idea, Santorum, you fucking cunt.
― diedre mousedropping (Dave225), Monday, 25 April 2005 13:27 (twenty years ago)
― Johnney B (Johnney B), Monday, 25 April 2005 13:34 (twenty years ago)
― miccio (miccio), Monday, 25 April 2005 16:04 (twenty years ago)
― rasheed wallace (rasheed wallace), Monday, 25 April 2005 16:20 (twenty years ago)
― addison, Monday, 25 April 2005 16:29 (twenty years ago)
― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Monday, 25 April 2005 16:46 (twenty years ago)
Why public schooling is bad
"By asking the right question, we can see that when it comes to socialization, mass education is really the aberration, not homeschooling. Never before in human history have a majority of children spent at least half their waking hours in the presence of 25 to 35 unrelated children of exactly the same age (and usually the same socio-economic status), with only one adult to keep order and provide basic mentoring. Never before and never again after their years of mass education will any person live and work in such a radically narrow, age-segregated environment. It’s amazing that so many kids turn out to be fairly normal, considering the weird socialization they get in public schools." (It Takes a Family, 386)
Abortion is worse than slavery:
Slavery Wasn't So Bad: "But unlike abortion today, in most states even the slaveholder did not have the unlimited right to kill his slave." ((It Takes a Family, 241)Diversity is Bad: "The elementary error of relativism becomes clear when we look at multiculturalism. Sometime in the 1980s, universities began to champion the importance of “diversity” as a central educational value." (It Takes a Family, 406)Wal-Mart is NOT Bad: "Another corporate good citizen cooperating with parents to keep kids from inappropriate content has been Wal-Mart." (It Takes a Family, 332)
Diversity is Bad: "The elementary error of relativism becomes clear when we look at multiculturalism. Sometime in the 1980s, universities began to champion the importance of “diversity” as a central educational value." (It Takes a Family, 406)
Wal-Mart is NOT Bad: "Another corporate good citizen cooperating with parents to keep kids from inappropriate content has been Wal-Mart." (It Takes a Family, 332)
― kingfish (Kingfish), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 14:32 (twenty years ago)
― donut e- (donut), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 16:57 (twenty years ago)
― no tech! (ex machina), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 16:59 (twenty years ago)
http://www.spreadingsantorum.com/
― donut e- (donut), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 18:01 (twenty years ago)
yes, look for only brand name santorum where you do your shopping for the finest uncut, 100%-pure santorum! Remember, if it's doesn't have that santorum label, you know its not Real Froth! Don't forget: buy Santorum Bonds where you work & bank!
― kingfish (Kingfish), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 20:36 (twenty years ago)
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 20:38 (twenty years ago)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050713/ap_on_go_co/kennedy_santorum
And you can't pass up a great headline like this:
Kennedy Rips Santorum for 2002 ColumnBy LOLITA C. BALDOR, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 41 minutes ago WASHINGTON - In a rare personal attack on the Senate floor, Massachusetts Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (news, bio, voting record) accused Sen. Rick Santorum (news, bio, voting record) on Wednesday of being self-righteous and insensitive for a column he wrote three years ago linking Boston's liberalism to the sex abuse scandal in its Catholic diocese. Santorum, R-Pa., wrote in the July 2002 column for Catholic Online that promoting alternative lifestyles feeds such aberrant behavior as priests molesting children."Priests, like all of us, are affected by culture," Santorum wrote. "When the culture is sick, every element in it becomes infected. While it is no excuse for this scandal, it is no surprise that Boston, a seat of academic, political and cultural liberalism in America, lies at the center of the storm."In a speech, Kennedy, a Democrat, called for Santorum to retract his remarks and apologize to the people of Boston and Massachusetts."The people of Boston are to blame for the clergy sexual abuse? That is an irresponsible, insensitive and inexcusable thing to say," said Kennedy...
WASHINGTON - In a rare personal attack on the Senate floor, Massachusetts Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (news, bio, voting record) accused Sen. Rick Santorum (news, bio, voting record) on Wednesday of being self-righteous and insensitive for a column he wrote three years ago linking Boston's liberalism to the sex abuse scandal in its Catholic diocese.
Santorum, R-Pa., wrote in the July 2002 column for Catholic Online that promoting alternative lifestyles feeds such aberrant behavior as priests molesting children.
"Priests, like all of us, are affected by culture," Santorum wrote. "When the culture is sick, every element in it becomes infected. While it is no excuse for this scandal, it is no surprise that Boston, a seat of academic, political and cultural liberalism in America, lies at the center of the storm."
In a speech, Kennedy, a Democrat, called for Santorum to retract his remarks and apologize to the people of Boston and Massachusetts.
"The people of Boston are to blame for the clergy sexual abuse? That is an irresponsible, insensitive and inexcusable thing to say," said Kennedy...
tho attacking him as "insensitive" will only strengthen his position and mindset. Guys like these(& their voters) feel that "sensitivity" = "tolerance" = "polical correctness" = "multiculturalism" = "coddling", so being "insensitive" as such is a good thing, to them.
there's the other connotation as well that "sensitivitity" = "not macho" = "faggy", etc.
― kingfish (Kingfish), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 18:15 (twenty years ago)
― matlewis (matlewis), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 18:22 (twenty years ago)
"It is an entire culture that focus (sic) on immediate gratification and the pursuit of happiness and personal pleasure. And it is harming America."
― kingfish (Kingfish), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 00:36 (twenty years ago)
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~klio/im/nazi-art/family2.jpg
― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Saturday, 6 August 2005 18:12 (twenty years ago)
― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Saturday, 6 August 2005 18:32 (twenty years ago)
― hairy pothead, Saturday, 6 August 2005 19:21 (twenty years ago)
― j blount (papa la bas), Saturday, 6 August 2005 19:55 (twenty years ago)
http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=9326
were all about abolishing income taxes and shrinking the government down to a size small enough to "drown it in a bathtub."
― hairy pothead, Saturday, 6 August 2005 20:00 (twenty years ago)
*) got control of the budget
*) realized that the best way to keep being reelected is to disperse government largesse to keep the voters happy
There are occasional protests -- the NRO group were whimpering in an editorial the other day -- but nobody does anything and said group and others can't NOT imagine voting for the GOP regardless.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 6 August 2005 20:08 (twenty years ago)
also, one of the reasons they ran up the deficits so much in the reagan years and now is to deliberately make it impossible to fund any social program except for the ones they agreed with; they knew that things like the army, fbi, etc were always going to be funded.
― kingfish (Kingfish), Saturday, 6 August 2005 21:59 (twenty years ago)
Santorum’s People Toss Young Women out of Barnes & Noble, Trooper Threatens Them with Prison
by Matthew Rothschild On the evening of August 10, Hannah Shaffer of Glen Mills, Pennsylvania, decided to go to the nearby Barnes & Noble outside of Wilmington. She wanted to see Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum, who was promoting his book, “It Takes a Family.”The event was billed as a “book signing and discussion,” Shaffer says.
But discussion was the last thing that the Senator’s people wanted.
Shaffer, her friends, and two other young women were booted out of the store and threatened with imprisonment even before they had a chance to say a word to Santorum, as Al Mascitti first noted in the Delaware News Journal.
Shaffer, 18, thought Santorum’s public appearance might be a good occasion to ask him a few questions.
“He is my Senator,” she says, and she wanted to challenge him on his notorious claim that legalizing gay marriage was akin to legalizing incest and bestiality.
“So I contacted a few of my left-leaning friends, and they said they’d really like to be there because they felt the same way,” she says.
When she arrived at 6:00 p.m., some of her friends were already there, along with two other young women she didn’t know, Stacey Galperin and Miriam Rocek.
As Shaffer was talking with her friends, Rocek made a joke.
She held up a copy of a book by the gay writer Dan Savage called “The Kid,” which is about how he and his partner adopted a son. And Rocek said, “It would be funny if we got Santorum to sign this book.” (To discredit Santorum, Savage and his readers in 2003 came up with a nasty definition of “Santorum” that now often appears on Internet searches for Santorum’s name.)
Not everyone enjoyed the joke.
“A woman nearby snapped: ‘He’s only here to sign his own book. He won’t sign that,’ ” recalls Galperin.
Shaffer says the woman also added, “You’re shameful and disgusting.”
For a minute, the young women thought that would be the end of it.
But no such luck.
A state trooper in full uniform, including hat and gun, was in the store, and, according to Shaffer and Galperin, he met with the person who didn’t care for the Dan Savage joke, along with a few others, including members of the store and Santorum’s people.
Galperin says she heard the trooper ask, “Do you want me to get rid of them?”
And then the trooper, Delaware State Police Sgt. Mark DiJiacomo, who was on detail as a private security guard, came over to the group of women.
Here is the conversation, as Galperin remembers it: “You guys have to leave.”
“Why?”
“Your business is not wanted here. They don’t want you here anymore. If you don’t leave, you’re going to be arrested. If you can’t post bail, you’ll go to prison. Those of you who are under 18 will go to Ferris [the juvenile detention center]. And those of you over 18 will go either to Gander Hill Prison or the woman’s correctional facility. Any questions?”
Shaffer remembers the conversation basically the same way.
“I said, ‘Sir, we’re not doing anything wrong. We’re sitting in a bookstore. On what grounds would we be arrested?’ ”
“He said, ‘This is private property. Are you going to leave on your own, or are you going to leave in cuffs?”
Shaffer decided to leave with her friends.
Galperin and Rocek decided to stay.
“That’s it,” he told them, according to Galperin. “You’re under arrest. Give me your ID. You’re going to prison.”
Sgt. DiJiacomo led the two out to his police car.
“You’re going to embarrass your families,” he told them, she recalls. “Your names are going to be all over the paper.”
He told Rocek to put her hands on the squad car, and then told both of them to call their parents and tell them to bring “at least $1,000 in bail money,” Galperin says.
Galperin reached her father, an attorney.
“I told my dad, ‘I’m under arrest for expressing dissenting opinions.’ ”
Her father asked to speak to the sergeant.
“Your dad says get out of here,” the sergeant told her. “He’ll meet you at home.”
And so they both left.
By this time, Hannah Shaffer managed to reach her mother on the phone, who was planning on going to the event anyway.
“She came and said whoever wants to return to the bookstore should come with her and we would talk respectfully to the police officer and to Barnes & Noble about why they had kicked us out and threatened to arrest us,” Shaffer says.
“Six or seven of the braver kids got in the car and we drove back over to the parking lot of Barnes & Noble,” she recalls. “We were standing outside in the parking lot and my mother went into the store. Just as she entered, the officer came out, and he saw us, and he drove over in his car very fast.”
Here’s her account.
“You’re under arrest. Get into the car.’
“But my mom took us over here and wanted to speak to you.”
“Do I look like your mother? You’re not wanted here. You had your chance. You showed up again. Now you’re under arrest.”
Shaffer said he then asked the ages of everyone in the group, and he used this information to further threaten her.
“Not only will you be arrested for trespassing, but I’ve got you on the counts for contributing to the delinquency of one, two, three, four, five minors,” he said, according to Shaffer. “Those are serious charges. Is that really something you want on your record? Is that something that will make your parents proud?”
And he warned them, she says, that they would be arrested if they ever showed up at the bookstore or the mall again.
At that point, he let Shaffer and the other young women leave.
“I was pretty upset,” Shaffer says.
So was her mother.
“These are the cream of the crop--the outgoing student class president, students who had given hundreds of hours of community service, kids who wouldn’t know how to cause trouble in a public place much less in their own basements,” says Heidi Shaffer, who had encouraged her daughter to go to the book signing. “This is unconscionable.”
Heidi Shaffer says she approached Sergeant DiJiacomo.
“I actually tried to talk humanely to the policemen,” she says. “He told me if I took any of the underaged kids in, I would be charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor.”
Heidi Schaffer says she is most upset about the strong-arm tactics of Sgt. DiJiacomo. “One of the girls came home and was hysterical for about two days,” she says. “Some even were afraid to tell their parents. That this hired gun can say whatever he wants and terrorize these kids is very, very scary.”
Sgt. DiJiacomo did not return my phone calls seeking comment.
“From all indications that we have, he handled his duties and responsibilities appropriately,” says Lieutenant Joseph Aviola, director of public affairs for the Delaware State Police. Aviola says two customers warned Sgt. DiJiacomo that the young women were planning a disturbance and that there had been a previous incident at a book signing with Santorum.
Aviola says it is not uncommon for Delaware state troopers, in their official capacity, to work for private contractors, who later reimburse the state.
Senator Santorum’s office did not provide comment on this story. Robert Traynham, communications director for Santorum, told me to contact the public relations firm that was handling the book tour, Shirley&Banister, in Virginia. Account Supervisor Kevin McVicker at Shirley&Banister failed to return three calls for comment.
When I contacted the Wilmington Barnes & Noble store and asked for a manager, someone named Pam came on the phone, said “No Comment,” wouldn’t give her last name, and hung up.
At Barnes & Noble’s headquarters, Mary Ellen Keating, senior vice president for corporate communications and public affairs, gave this account.
“I spoke to the assistant manager, and what she told me was that the store management was not consulted on how the situation was managed,” she says. “A state policeman, without consulting management, removed these students from the store.”
Drew Fennell, executive director of the Delaware ACLU, sees the incident in a larger context. “This is trickle down from Bush: Politicians are now keeping away, out of sight, anybody who disagrees with them,” she says. “If the Senator’s staff was so put off by the idea he might be asked a difficult question that they brought in the police, that’s a sad commentary on the state of political discourse. ”
Fennel is also particularly concerned about the participation of the Delaware state trooper. “That puts a different and far more disturbing face on this,” she says. “Frankly, it’s a great deal more intimidating to be asked to leave by an armed police officer threatening you with arrest than if the manager does it.”
She says Sgt. DiJiacomo “truly overstepped the bounds” in threatening the young women.
While the ACLU and the women involved have not decided whether to take legal action, they are considering their options.
― Rockist_Scientist (hair by Joelle) (RSLaRue), Saturday, 20 August 2005 19:00 (twenty years ago)
― Fetchboy (Felcher), Saturday, 20 August 2005 19:17 (twenty years ago)
― kingfish fucked up his login (kingfish 2.0), Saturday, 20 August 2005 19:55 (twenty years ago)
Senator Rick Santorum is criticizing the government's emergency response to hurricane Katrina victims. But he's also criticizing the ones who chose to ride out the storm. "I mean, you have people who don't heed those warnings and then put people at risk as a result of not heeding those warnings. There may be a need to look at tougher penalties on those who decide to ride it out and understand that there are consequences to not leaving."
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 21:32 (twenty years ago)
― kingfish, Thursday, 3 November 2005 03:39 (twenty years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 26 January 2006 20:34 (twenty years ago)
You're telling me that Santorum, the 3rd in charge in the Senate, didn't know what was going on? I call HUGE BULLSHIT on that. HUGE. If that guy runs for President, I hope he just gets laughed at. and then shot.
Asshole.
― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Thursday, 26 January 2006 21:04 (twenty years ago)
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/P/PA_SANTORUM_ACLU_LAWSUIT_PAOL-?SITE=WDUN
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 1 June 2006 14:06 (nineteen years ago)
Further proof (and Hewitt as well) -- he kinda hopes you die in a terrorist attack so he can be proven right. Thus:
RS: You know, I’ve talked to all three of the major candidates, that I think will be the major candidates, and that’s Giuliani, Romney and Thompson. I think those will be the three major candidates when we head into the final analysis. And I think all of them understand the issue very, very well, they understand particularly the importance of Iran, and confronting Iran in the Middle East as an absolute lynchpin for our success in that region, and I think they are committed to that. And while it may not be a popular thing to talk about right now, and I know public sentiment is against it, they understand the importance of the national security of this country, and they also understand that between now and November, a lot of things are going to happen, and I believe that by this time next year, the American public’s going to have a very different view of this war, and it will be because, I think, of some unfortunate events, that like we’re seeing unfold in the UK. But I think the American public’s going to have a very different view, and part of it will be the education that these three men will be imparting on the American public during the course of this campaign.HH: I hope you’re right. Rick Santorum
HH: I hope you’re right. Rick Santorum
As Cunning Realist says:
If tomorrow you jump from a skyscraper during a terrorist attack, we pretty much know who will point to your body and say, "See? Maybe now people will understand."
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 12 July 2007 17:37 (eighteen years ago)
http://www.google.com.pk/search?q=define%3Asantorum&hl=ur
― Heave Ho, Thursday, 12 July 2007 17:46 (eighteen years ago)
Unter Santorum versteht man die schaumige Mixtur von Gleitmittel und Kot, die manchmal das Nebenprodukt von Analverkehr darstellt.
― kingfish, Thursday, 12 July 2007 17:47 (eighteen years ago)
Actually, openly jizzing for another domestic attack to boost up the President's poll numbers is growing in popularity.
― kingfish, Thursday, 12 July 2007 19:57 (eighteen years ago)
dude that's jon swift's page.
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 12 July 2007 20:02 (eighteen years ago)
the 29% need to be removed from the pop
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 12 July 2007 20:03 (eighteen years ago)
possibly in a terrorist attack
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 12 July 2007 20:04 (eighteen years ago)
I would be a-okay with a number of public figures being killed in a terrorist attack.
Innocent civilians I happen to politically disagree with, not so much.
― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 12 July 2007 20:30 (eighteen years ago)
I know that's jon swift's page, that's why i linked to it. The quotes were waht i wanted to draw attention to...
― kingfish, Thursday, 12 July 2007 20:36 (eighteen years ago)
There are days when my nihilism takes over, where i just want there to be another Flood, this time, no Ark. Just put some dogs & cats into cryo-storage, launch them into deep space with a note saying "Free To Good Home" or something, then fire off every single nuke anybody has in every silo, just to make sure we wipe the planet clean.
― kingfish, Thursday, 12 July 2007 20:43 (eighteen years ago)
wait I saw that movie
― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 12 July 2007 20:44 (eighteen years ago)
I think it was called Silent Running
These thoughts usually happen when I read about the current state of American education policy, and what we as a species due to ourselves out of spite or stupidity.
xp:
silent running didn't have dogs, so no go
― kingfish, Thursday, 12 July 2007 20:44 (eighteen years ago)
You got my vote.
3xpost
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Thursday, 12 July 2007 20:46 (eighteen years ago)
america's not the only country, and americans don't actually run the planet
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 12 July 2007 20:52 (eighteen years ago)
eh dogs, robots same diff
― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 12 July 2007 20:54 (eighteen years ago)
oh i know, but i figure this is the only way to make sure
― kingfish, Thursday, 12 July 2007 20:57 (eighteen years ago)
Kingfish, I know you're one of the good ones, but you kind of lose me when you refer unironically (I think?) to "another flood."
― M.V., Thursday, 12 July 2007 21:04 (eighteen years ago)
I'm making reference to something Mark Twain allegedly said in his darker moments. I can't remember if it made it into "The Stranger" or not.
― kingfish, Thursday, 12 July 2007 21:10 (eighteen years ago)
check that. "The Mysterious Stranger"
― kingfish, Thursday, 12 July 2007 21:15 (eighteen years ago)
Gotcha.
― M.V., Thursday, 12 July 2007 21:35 (eighteen years ago)
Dan Savage is rounding up votes as to what his new Warren-smacking verb 'saddleback' should mean. should mean.
And speaking of Rick Warren, pastor of Saddleback Church and author of The Purpose Driven Life…
My life's purpose over the last week was reading thousands of proposed new definitions for "saddlebacking" sent in by my readers. As with the new definition of santorum crafted by Savage Love readers ("the frothy mix of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes a byproduct of anal sex"), the new definition of "saddlebacking" has to be some act that 1) needs a name but doesn't already have one (we can't just rename "reverse cowgirl," people) and 2) is naughty enough to discomfort, say, a Reverend Warren, but something that actual people might actually do because that's the only way the actual word will actually get used.
― Abbott of the Trapezoid Monks (Abbott), Thursday, 15 January 2009 00:39 (seventeen years ago)
Vote today!
I don't like any of these enough, I think.
― Alex in SF, Thursday, 15 January 2009 00:48 (seventeen years ago)
Definitely the Back to the Future 3 to the first Back to the Future that is "santorum."
― Abbott of the Trapezoid Monks (Abbott), Thursday, 15 January 2009 00:51 (seventeen years ago)
A sketch from "Rutland Weekend Television"
HOST: Ham sandwich, bucket and water plastic Duralex rubber McFisheries underwear. Plugged rabbit emulsion, zinc custard without sustenance in kippling-duff geriatric scenery, maximizes press insulating government grunting sapphire-clubs incidentally. But tonight, sam pan Bombay Bermuda in diphtheria rustic McAlpine splendor, rabbit and foot-foot-phooey jugs rapidly big biro ruveliners musk-green gauges micturate with nipples and tiptoe rusting machinery, rustically inclined. Good evening and welcome.
GUEST: Hello.
HOST: Foreskin mousetrap view Mount Everest tintray lobotomy in England?
GUEST: Saddleback, saddleback. Lechery billboard kettlebum simpering snuff masticated bowelside handset lemonade enterprisingly apartheid rubberized plumbjoint curvaceously mucking squirrels!
HOST: I see. Rapidly piddlepot strumming Hanover peace pudding [polite chuckle] mouse rumpling cuddly corridor cabinets?
GUEST: Sick in a cup! Toejam whisper tap Sunderland shower curtain, ice wallpaper cups grouchingly rubberking wrapped butter kissing-feathers definitely pheasantry daughter successfully douche dinner-bottom.
HOST (confidentially): Machine-wrapped, with butter?
GUEST: Machine-wrapped, with butter.
HOST: So, nail-attacking butterfly-clouts reputedly. Without I might galvanize sugar, elbow-wrenchingly heartfelt until purse-playing perspicaciously rattled mandibled on asinine shoestring-drawn two lost three butter-machismo whenever cobbled therein. Good night.
GUEST: Good night.
― snoball, Thursday, 15 January 2009 00:52 (seventeen years ago)
― snoball, Thursday, 15 January 2009 00:58 (seventeen years ago)
Definitions 4, 5, and 6 are pretty good. 6 would have been better if it weren't specific to anal sex.
― naus, Thursday, 15 January 2009 05:48 (seventeen years ago)
It's gotta be number 5.
― kate78, Thursday, 15 January 2009 06:13 (seventeen years ago)
I think 1 has legs. The rest are eh
― TOMBOT, Thursday, 15 January 2009 06:30 (seventeen years ago)
This dude should change his name.
― James Mitchell, Thursday, 14 April 2011 15:26 (fourteen years ago)
to Rick Fecal Matter
― in my world of ugly tribadists (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 14 April 2011 15:36 (fourteen years ago)
This guy:
Did God give us the right to pursue a good time? Don't get me wrong-happiness is a wonderful emotion and a state to be desired. But is that what our founders really intended to be the pursuit of our country and its people-to be happy? Let's put it this way: How would you like your tombstone to read, ‘Here lies [your name]. He/she was happy'? Count me out! Isn't life supposed to be more significant than that? Let's face it-many of life's pleasures are not even good for us, as my waistline constantly reminds me.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 23 October 2012 20:48 (thirteen years ago)
Dear Rick:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Declaration_of_Independence
signed, 6th grade history
― Gandalf’s Gobble Melt (DJP), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 21:05 (thirteen years ago)
"Here lies Rick Santorum. He was a miserable fuck."
― Force Boxman (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 21:16 (thirteen years ago)
He'd probably spout some nonsense about the framers concept of happiness being different than our own, etc.
― Sug ban (Nicole), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 21:32 (thirteen years ago)
involved slavery iirc
― Force Boxman (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 21:38 (thirteen years ago)
"horrid and pitiable privation increasing nearly every single second", iirc
― false pie promises (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 21:49 (thirteen years ago)
i had to work with this piece of shit for about an hour a few months ago. it wasn't long after he dropped out of the primaries, and it was at least of some comfort that it seemed like his spirit had been broken some by the campaign experience, but i guess ol' boy got his swag back.
― my mansplain songz (some dude), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 21:54 (thirteen years ago)
Good god, man. I'd feel skeevy even being near him.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 23 October 2012 21:55 (thirteen years ago)
oh i did. i had no idea who the client was until i got there, which was probably deliberate on my employer's part.
― my mansplain songz (some dude), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 22:00 (thirteen years ago)
"He's this family man, a little intense."
"Well that's all right I've dealt with...uh, I quit."
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 23 October 2012 22:01 (thirteen years ago)
Reminds me of the time our office had to help out Donald Wildmon when his printing department's platemaker went down. Luckily I wasn't on press duty that day.
― WilliamC, Tuesday, 23 October 2012 22:07 (thirteen years ago)
i try not to make any excuses, because i really will work with anyone for a paycheck and can't afford not to, plus my boss is gay so if he's OK with taking Santorum's money i may as well be too, but i can at least console myself with the knowledge that i've done more work in the election season on ads for gay marriage legistlation, planned parenthood, etc.
funniest part of the shoot is that Santorum walked in wearing grown-up clothes, but when he went into the next room to get ready and talk to the make-up lady, the two words i overheard clearly in their conversation were "sweater" and "vest," and sure enough dude walked out in his on-camera uniform.
― burrito smalls (some dude), Wednesday, 24 October 2012 01:55 (thirteen years ago)
!!!
― difficult listening hour, Wednesday, 24 October 2012 01:57 (thirteen years ago)
It is his trademark now. He will have to wear sweater vests until the day he can no longer draw five people to listen to him in an old folks home.
― Aimless, Wednesday, 24 October 2012 02:03 (thirteen years ago)
How would you like your tombstone to read, ‘Here lies [your name]. He/she was happy'? Count me out!
gtfo
― j., Wednesday, 24 October 2012 03:01 (thirteen years ago)
i don't think life is all about happiness but i think it is really really not about getting up in other peoples faces & shutting down their chances to get in on some
― *buffs lens* (schlump), Wednesday, 24 October 2012 03:18 (thirteen years ago)
hey if anyone is going to dedicate their life to not being happy, i would like it to be him
― burrito smalls (some dude), Wednesday, 24 October 2012 03:24 (thirteen years ago)
yeah but he's named santorum -- think of the possibilities if he embraced his name
― the ones that I'm near most: fellow outcasts and ilxors (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 24 October 2012 03:24 (thirteen years ago)
first page google results still pretty solid
― j., Wednesday, 24 October 2012 03:25 (thirteen years ago)
some dood OTMFM
― flamboyant goon tie included, Wednesday, 24 October 2012 03:35 (thirteen years ago)
i sometimes wonder if he ran for president just so the frothy mixture thing wouldn't be what he was most famous for. Not sure he succeeded.
― Lee626, Wednesday, 24 October 2012 03:53 (thirteen years ago)
i realized i hadn't thought about the frothy mixture thing in like years and for a second i was worried that meant that the world had forgotten
but google has it locked down
whew
suck it, rick santorum
― j., Friday, 9 August 2013 06:42 (twelve years ago)
― burrito smalls (some dude), Tuesday, October 23, 2012 10:24 PM (9 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
he doesn't seem like a very happy dude to me.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Friday, 9 August 2013 06:55 (twelve years ago)