jesse
@ December 22, 2008


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Season 4, or 5, or something, of The Hills just ended.  I can't actually count all the way to 5 anymore without significant effort - such is the effect of direct exposure to The Hills.  Hopefully it will wear off in a few minutes.  But the Suze, like all women, is without defense to its wiles.  Is that a sentence? Words are hard right now.

Listen: I'm getting to a point.  One good thing came out of the Hills.  It is below, in the following clip, courtesy of The Soup.



"This is crazy that all this is happening while Lauren is gone."

What is that a euphemism for? Watch the clip again, and it will be clear.  It is a euphemism for "I am too dumb to understand what you are talking about so I must deflect attention to a completely different topic."  Somebody gettin' all up in your grill about superstring theory?  Got bitches all over you wanting to talk about the difference between covalent and ionic bonds?

It is crazy that all this is happening while Lauren is gone.

Of course, the power of this phrase (mantra) goes beyond simple misunderstanding.  Use it to deflect uncomfortable political or religious conversations.  What is your opinion on gay marriage? Do you think that we should be using taxpayer dollars to bail out private industries?  Do you accept the Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior?

It is crazy that all this is happening while Lauren is gone.

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The latest big bailout, purportedly of Portugal, now appears to include many billions just for for the use of the Portugese banks, who themselves in turn owe a great deal to many foreign banks. Who is this bailout aimed at exactly, the Portugese people or the international banking system?

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will. Thomas Jefferson

Top content you have here, i dont agree with all the notes but i think its right what you are saying.

When privately-owned banks create money as 'loans', the profits (interest and seignorage) go back to them. If we had more public banks, we could bank with them, get our 'loans' from them too, and the profits would go back to the owners as before except that this time, it being a public bank, it's us! Every time we took out a bank 'loan', we the community would be the ones to profit, not private bankers! So, then let's bring on the publicly owned banks, right? Wrong! Northern Rock, the only completely publicly-owned bank we have in the country, is being sold by the government, the one supposed to act on behalf of the electorate, back to the banking community that ruined it in the first place! This is an appalling misjudgement.

Not sure that the police capptured on film smashing up a suspect's car with baseball bats should have got off the way they were. Do we want Americanisms like that appearing in the UK - I mean, they could at least have used cricket bats LOL!

(and I love it, the democraps scream how the Republicans are stealing elections, while all the while doing it themselves)

In your rant about Dem corruption and the hundred/thousands of data points re: voting fraud, can you point to any which happen to include Massachusetts? I have lived here for forty plus years and we have elected Republican governors and attorney generals quite a few times, and I dont recall much commotion raised by the candidates on either side about fraud during or after the voting. You and a number of other people have intimated that the fix is in, ACORN is here or on the way yada, yada, yada. Brown may win, Coakley may win, but until I see specific evidence to the contrary HERE in Mass., I am going to assume that the election is on the up and up.

assigning a score to a beverage that will change and evolve for up to 10 or more years is analogous to taking a photograph of a marathon runner. Much can be ascertained but, like a picture of a moving object, the wine will also evolve and change.Scores, however, do not reveal the important facts about a wine. The written commentary that accompanies the ratings is a better source of information.

OK, Im going. I havent registered yet because Im waiting for my tax return to arrive. Any day now But Im confused about the workshops. Maybe you can enlighten me. Im not a red-faced writer type, Im a finished-manuscript, published but only in magazines, want to break into the YA novel world, type. Would your workshop work for me or would someone elses be more suited to where I am? Oh, and I already blogged about the conference.

Get real. You wont get prosperous off a single news launch. Youre odds of finding well-known are just about as slim.

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