The higher you place yourself on moral ground, the longer the fall and harder the crash at the bottom.

True that.

"The Higher the Leap... the Harder the Ground"

Just ask Icarus.

KK, 'nuff blog-fun fer now.

TTYL.

Be Well.

/As a tater do
stage left.

Didn't they say the entire war would cost $50 Billion?

That was later.

Originally?

"...the Iraq war will pay for itself"

~Paul Wolfowitz

And fer extra chuckles let's not fergit Dickless Cheney on MTP before the war...

March 16, 2003

"I think things have gotten so bad inside Iraq, from the standpoint of the Iraqi people, my belief is we will, in fact, be greeted as liberators. . . . I think it will go relatively quickly, . . . (in) weeks rather than months."

Good times, good times.

Be Well.

And...certainly, people who are left-handed feel like it's natural to them...well...because it is natural to them.
Still though.... left-handedness is not the "norm".
Is left-handedness a "bug" in the software?

See how silly it sounds when you put it that way?

In answer to yer original question?

No, homosexuality like handedness is an adaptation, a way of ensuring the species doesn't get "all lined up" and put all our genetic eggs in one basket so to speak.

Personally, Spud has a theory about gay folk.

Wanna hear it?

Here it goes...

Homosexuality is a built-in failsafe device to prevent the human race from breeding itself into extinction through over-population, over-predation, resource depletion and over-pollution.

The higher the worlds population goes the greater the number of gays per capita projects Spud.

Looked at in that sense Gays are not the disease that fundies claim, they are the cure.

K?

Got no hard data to back that up, you understand.

Merely a spuddish hunch is all.

Be Well.

HowEVER do you come up with this stuff, SPUD?

Coming up with the stuff aint the problem it's turning it off that's the biatch.

Basically, Spud goes swinging on a vine over his own stream of conciousness and then plunges in.

Afterwords Spud pops outta the water and shakes hisself dry like a dog.

The drops form patterns which become werds which Spud then replicates in blogworld.

You are a marvel to behold.

TYVM fer them kind werds.

Spud considers it a marvel to be held in such high esteem!

^_^

Be Well.

/Speaking of high... * DB *

James Delingpole is a raving rtard.

He's basically England's equivilant of Ann Coulter ...only less butch.

Far from being a "final nail in the coffin" of Global Warming this story is a perfect indicator of how desperate the OilCo's have become to sow seeds of cognitive dissonance in the general public.

/Unless you think the anonymous hacker who released this info was just doing it fer shits and giggles?

Ah rtards, is there no molehill you can't make a mountain outta?

Be Well.

"No 'Stairway to Heaven'".

www.youtube.com

Denied.

So unfair!

Morriss is a meanie.

Funneh with it but mean nonetheless.

Guess Spud aint allowed to Yodel either?

Man, peoples is always repressing Spud's raw, untrained (read that natural) talent!

Electric Kazoo solo?

No?

Dang.

Be Well.

Maybe tomorrow, eh?

Addendum:

Yer either a Nation of Laws or yer a nation of outlaws.

K?

Be Well.

Travesty in NY?

Well, yeah, Spud's kinda choked that NY won the World Series again but wouldn't go so far as to say that...

Sorry, wot's that?

The KSM trial in NY is a "travesty" and a "Security risk"?

Well, in one sense yer right, it will be a travesty in that America's use of waterboarding, of torture as an instrument of statecraft, will be revealed fer the whole world to see in all it's ugliness.

Security risk?

WTF?

NY is the most appropriate place to hold this trial as this was where most of the victims were.

In terms of "revealing methods"?

Spud wants to hear about these methods quite frankly.

Wants to see the evidence.

Spud's pretty sure that the only really good evidence was extracted prior to the decision to waterboard the guy 183 times in one month so there will be no aquittal here.

Was Obama wrong to predict that KSM would be found guilty and executed?

No, he was not.

He's the POTUS.

He's seen the evidence.

Imagine if he had sed "Alleged" crimes when refering to this case.

The RW media would be in a frenzy declaring that Obama either doesn't think KSM's guilty or is doubtful of his guilt.

By what logic?

The reason KSM is having a civil trial while al-Nashiri is getting a military one is precisely because it has become known globally that KSM was tortured.

At this point a behind closed doors military court would be seen (rightfully or wrongly) as a kangaroo court in the court of popular opinion. More so in the rest of the world than in the US, of course.

1 possibility is that this is a back-door way for Obama to put Bush and the CIA on trial. I hope that isn't the case, but who knows.

Spud hopes it *is* the case but as you say, Jeff, who knows?

America's enemies will find out certain American methods through this trial?

Meh, there's a risk factor there certainly but Spud judges it to be minimal and all part and parcel of the price you pay for living in a free and open society.

Be Well.

This was Al Franken's first piece of legislation. "We don't do business with companies that bar their workers from prosecuting on-the-job rape" -- sounds like a slam-dunk, wouldn't you think? But it was nearly a party-line split. Most of the Republicans voted against it. It isn't surprising they care more about profits than justice, but they're so brazenly open about it.

News to Spud.

Kudos to Al.

Nice werk on this thread, Snoofy.

Be Well.

I don't know, Spud. They can be scary in large numbers in a mindless zombie Night of the Living Dead kind of way.

In large groups you certainly have a point.

Lou "The Independent" Dobbs is mulling a run fer office?

Didn't we know this already?

Wasn't his whole swan song thingy last week pretty much a strong indicator as to where he was going with this?

He sez he's not ruling out a run at the WH?

Spud'd be surprised to find him in double digits in any serious poll on that subject but dare to dream, Lou.

At any national or state level campaign Lou running as an Independent would draw more votes away from the Republican candidate than the Dem one.

Woo Hoo. Another Ross Perot.

Go, Lou, Go!

Be Well.

Glenn Beck attracts idiotic followers like roadkill attracts maggots.

The only difference is that maggots are at least useful.

#53 | Posted by ZombieHunter

Funny Cos It's True Flag!

Case in point? The submitter of this dreck.

Why are people so scared of Glenn?

Why are rtards firmly convinced that lefties fear them?

We laugh at them and pity them sometimes but fear?

Not so much.

Be Well.

1st Century or 14th Century the fact that Jesus' name has been found on the Shroud of Turin in no way proves it's authenticity.

Oh, before his death, Rogers changed his position and believed the Shroud was authentic.

Rogers?

The Blog-God is dead?!?!

Oh Cadenhead we hardly knew ye.

He was so young too.

*sniff*

Shouldn't we at least start an RIP thread or sommat?

Wot's that?

Different guy?

Well, nevermind then.

Be Well.

...I don't care if it's made of ground up kittens...

Its definitely not as good as some of the crazy high-end strains because there is a certain amount of regulation governing potency. But the quality is downright amazing.

Pretty much Spud's take on government grown weed in Canada too.

I still could smoke him under the table.

#7 | Posted by dxlingr

Bloody amature.

#9 | Posted by RevDarko

Pretty much sums up Spud's reaction to this story.

115,000 joints?

* rolls eyes *

If he expects to catch up to Spud he'd better pick up the pace pronto like.

* DB *

/Kush Krush FTW! -_-

Be Well.

/Entering the DRagon
stage left.

Well said, my tuberiscious friend.

TY fer them kind werds, Reverend Darko!

KK. 'Nuff tutoring Goat in the Ways of Righteousness fer one night.

Be Well.

/As a Tater O' Doom like to do
stage left.

It's waaay to early to predict that, but I do understand that as a blind, mindless partisan you are required to, so I will not point out the glaring flaws in making such a stupid statement.

So you have no argument then?

Do you at least have a guess?

My "guess" (and it is absolutely correct) is that using a Bush/Obama correlation to predict his re-election is not logical since Bush will not be running for president in 2012.

Wow, not only no guess but Goat obviously FAILed to read Spud's post again.

As I keep saying, blind partisanship does not a good prediction make. Learn this.

Spud gots more eyes than most and none of them are closed.

Yer blind, partisan, knee-jerk lib-bashing makes yer continual assertions on this topic laughable.

Learn this.

Be Well.

Mod, I commend your attitude on that. I've always found the gay baiting as an insult to be the fall-back of someone who can't think of a GOOD insult.

Seconded on the commendation and agreed as to the "can't think" thing.

If they're gorgeous, I'll shag them...

Or as Spud sez.... "Don't let yer meat loaf!"

Be Well.

Anthony Watts

Or as Spud calls him, Tony Low-Watt.

A real dim-bulb.

As is anyone who can suggest with a straight face that Global temperatures aren't rising.

Be Well.

Ah -- the old "Last administration sucked, so this one is great" argument. Weak at best.

Obama's admin isn't "Great" because BushCo sucked ass.

Obama is good for America because his agenda is one that reaches out to more Americans beyond the corporate douchenozzles and unelected elites that Dumbya kow-towed to.

Obama was right to stop federal authorities from arresting people smoking legal medically prescribed marijuana.

He is right to try and shut down both wars.

He is right to try shutting down Gitmo.

He is right to shun torture as state policy.

He is right to try and reform healthcare.

He is right to seek more equal rights for gays.

He is right to allow women to retain autonomy over their own bodies.

He is right to try and prevent some of the more odious and obvious criminal acts on Wall Street.

Will he have 100% success with all of these initiatives?

Prolly not, but at least he's turned the country around and stopped it from driving completely off the cliff that the last admin was speeding towards.

And that's prolly why he'll get re-elected.

Not just because the other guys are so obviously wrongheaded in all they do and say.

But because Obama is right.

Spud doesn't say with absolute certainty that Obama will get re-elected. America was stupid enuff to elect GWB twice (sort of anyways) who knows, maybe the national IQ will plunge once more in 2012 as well. Obviously Spud hopes not. But this is all just idle speculation on everybody's part. Just Spud's guess really.

Wot's yer guess, Goat?

Do you even have one or is trolling fer left wing outrage all yer here fer?

Be Well.

...he hasn't got the legs for it.

If the stimulus money was reportedly spent in non-existent congressional districts...

The money was spent in real districts.

The reporting of the districts was farkied by those who filled out the paperwork.

K?

Obama is still incompetent. As far as I know, there is no universal constant that guarantees that a bad leader is always followed with a good one.

Obama's administration is still more competent and better for the country overall than the last administration by far.

If he ever gets around to starting a pair of extremely expensive wars, increasing the wealth gap, trying to legalize torture, and letting a massive terrorist attack take place on American soil?

K, then you can start calling him incompetent.

Face it.

Dumbya lowered the bar almost to ground level in terms of competency.

Be Well.

The test was for alcohol. It is possible to be under tha influence (the "I" in DUI) of other substnances.

And it's posible to prosecute someone based on failed field sobriety test w/o any further proof?

Wow, that's pretty fucked up.

If you don't have the right colored year sticker on your tags, you get fined.

Yeah, same here but the tags are "proof of insurance" not registration.

Registration is merely a legal document esplaining who owns the vehicle that gets renewed annually along with yer insurance.

Be Well.

Said same thing about Jimmy Carter in 1977.

Yeah, but that was before Raygun and his cronies cut a deal behind Carters back with the Iranians to hold off releasing the hostages until after the election in return fer under the table military supplies.

Nobody could have predicted that level of corruption and party over country by the GOPhers at that time.

Course, we all know better now.

Some of us, anyways.

Be Well.