Comments on: What a Long Strange Trip http://www.cocktailhag.com/blog/thrownshoes/what-a-long-strange-trip/ She drinks, you know. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:06:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Son Gieseking http://www.cocktailhag.com/blog/thrownshoes/what-a-long-strange-trip/comment-page-1/#comment-22084 Son Gieseking Wed, 15 Jun 2011 03:46:10 +0000 http://www.cocktailhag.com/blog/?p=1466#comment-22084 nice, very good post nice, very good post

]]> By: cocktailhag http://www.cocktailhag.com/blog/thrownshoes/what-a-long-strange-trip/comment-page-1/#comment-3240 cocktailhag Mon, 13 Jul 2009 21:16:06 +0000 http://www.cocktailhag.com/blog/?p=1466#comment-3240 That weird obsession has always left me speechless... I don't speak wingnut-ese, so maybe I lose something in the translation. Randi Rhodes endlessly played a clip of Bush talking about "human animal hybrids," and all I could think of was that chimps and humans don't make a nice mix. New post up... That weird obsession has always left me speechless… I don’t speak wingnut-ese, so maybe I lose something in the translation. Randi Rhodes endlessly played a clip of Bush talking about “human animal hybrids,” and all I could think of was that chimps and humans don’t make a nice mix.
New post up…

]]> By: rmp http://www.cocktailhag.com/blog/thrownshoes/what-a-long-strange-trip/comment-page-1/#comment-3239 rmp Mon, 13 Jul 2009 19:58:36 +0000 http://www.cocktailhag.com/blog/?p=1466#comment-3239 Great discussion even though the topic is hard to stomach. But you guys just don't understand the important work that our congress critters do on our behalf to help us with monumental challenges we face especially when trying to fix so many broken systems at the same time. <b>Brownback And Landrieu Introduce Bill To Ban Mermaids (also centaurs and Jersey devils)</b> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/13/brownback-and-landrieu-in_n_230762.html Great discussion even though the topic is hard to stomach. But you guys just don’t understand the important work that our congress critters do on our behalf to help us with monumental challenges we face especially when trying to fix so many broken systems at the same time.

Brownback And Landrieu Introduce Bill To Ban Mermaids (also centaurs and Jersey devils)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/13/brownback-and-landrieu-in_n_230762.html

]]> By: cocktailhag http://www.cocktailhag.com/blog/thrownshoes/what-a-long-strange-trip/comment-page-1/#comment-3238 cocktailhag Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:43:42 +0000 http://www.cocktailhag.com/blog/?p=1466#comment-3238 Yes, I was exaggerating for emphasis as usual.... worst ever is a pretty high standard but it does come close, especially since it's continuing, under new management. (guess it was pretty prescient to start this blog, after the election....) Try not to turn into beef jerky out there, WT, or a human clinker brick. It's cool and cloudy here, and even rained quite a bit yesterday. (that lovely green park does come at some cost...) Yes, I was exaggerating for emphasis as usual…. worst ever is a pretty high standard but it does come close, especially since it’s continuing, under new management. (guess it was pretty prescient to start this blog, after the election….)
Try not to turn into beef jerky out there, WT, or a human clinker brick. It’s cool and cloudy here, and even rained quite a bit yesterday. (that lovely green park does come at some cost…)

]]> By: William Timberman http://www.cocktailhag.com/blog/thrownshoes/what-a-long-strange-trip/comment-page-1/#comment-3237 William Timberman Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:28:12 +0000 http://www.cocktailhag.com/blog/?p=1466#comment-3237 Cocktailhag, you need a cocktailhug. If you hadn't stuck that picture in up at the top, I might have begun to worry about you. It has been a nasty decade. I might disagree with you about its being the <i>worst</i> -- think Vandals (real ones) at the gates of Rome, or Hiroshima, or the demise of the Kulaks -- but that's kinda beside the point. We're around for this one, which inevitably makes it more personal. It could be worse. It was 117 degrees in Phoenix yesterday, the real and the metaphorical hells conjoined, as it were. Even up here, I've rarely ventured outdoors this week without two parasols -- one for me, a la Scarlett O'hara -- and the other for my drink. Cocktailhag, you need a cocktailhug. If you hadn’t stuck that picture in up at the top, I might have begun to worry about you.

It has been a nasty decade. I might disagree with you about its being the worst — think Vandals (real ones) at the gates of Rome, or Hiroshima, or the demise of the Kulaks — but that’s kinda beside the point. We’re around for this one, which inevitably makes it more personal.

It could be worse. It was 117 degrees in Phoenix yesterday, the real and the metaphorical hells conjoined, as it were. Even up here, I’ve rarely ventured outdoors this week without two parasols — one for me, a la Scarlett O’hara — and the other for my drink.

]]> By: cocktailhag http://www.cocktailhag.com/blog/thrownshoes/what-a-long-strange-trip/comment-page-1/#comment-3236 cocktailhag Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:13:32 +0000 http://www.cocktailhag.com/blog/?p=1466#comment-3236 I don't envy you, but I can certainly sympathize. The design side of my business has completely dried up. Although I don't miss all the time spent at the Bureau of Development Services, I certainly miss the money. Now I'm back to laying tile and painting, like I've always done, and meetings on weekends to nail down every (small) project. Easy come, easy go, I guess. At least I no longer worry about my rent being raised again; empty, brand-new buildings everywhere ought to prevent that. I don’t envy you, but I can certainly sympathize. The design side of my business has completely dried up. Although I don’t miss all the time spent at the Bureau of Development Services, I certainly miss the money. Now I’m back to laying tile and painting, like I’ve always done, and meetings on weekends to nail down every (small) project. Easy come, easy go, I guess.
At least I no longer worry about my rent being raised again; empty, brand-new buildings everywhere ought to prevent that.

]]> By: retzilian http://www.cocktailhag.com/blog/thrownshoes/what-a-long-strange-trip/comment-page-1/#comment-3235 retzilian Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:05:20 +0000 http://www.cocktailhag.com/blog/?p=1466#comment-3235 Actually, it makes me want to vomit, but I can't do a damn thing about it. I have to focus on finding gainful employment in the worst job market of my lifetime in a city where jobs have been diminishing for a decade. Actually, it makes me want to vomit, but I can’t do a damn thing about it. I have to focus on finding gainful employment in the worst job market of my lifetime in a city where jobs have been diminishing for a decade.

]]> By: cocktailhag http://www.cocktailhag.com/blog/thrownshoes/what-a-long-strange-trip/comment-page-1/#comment-3234 cocktailhag Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:02:04 +0000 http://www.cocktailhag.com/blog/?p=1466#comment-3234 Well, it isn't really the money, but rather the principle of the thing. We're already being told the many things we can't afford, having blown all the money on wars and bailouts. A trillion here, a trillion there, and all. I guess that Democrats, having embraced war, torture, signing statements, indefinite detention et al, have decided to loot the treasury, too, just like Republicans. I bet Dick Cheney is smiling his crooked smile about now. Having seen it coming doesn't make it any better, but the rude surprise of the Constitutional outrages is a cake that didn't need to be iced with kleptocracy, too. But it was. Well, it isn’t really the money, but rather the principle of the thing. We’re already being told the many things we can’t afford, having blown all the money on wars and bailouts. A trillion here, a trillion there, and all.
I guess that Democrats, having embraced war, torture, signing statements, indefinite detention et al, have decided to loot the treasury, too, just like Republicans. I bet Dick Cheney is smiling his crooked smile about now.
Having seen it coming doesn’t make it any better, but the rude surprise of the Constitutional outrages is a cake that didn’t need to be iced with kleptocracy, too.
But it was.

]]> By: retzilian http://www.cocktailhag.com/blog/thrownshoes/what-a-long-strange-trip/comment-page-1/#comment-3233 retzilian Mon, 13 Jul 2009 14:55:03 +0000 http://www.cocktailhag.com/blog/?p=1466#comment-3233 The story about Goldman and the chronology of the Biggest Con of the Millennium (So Far) doesn't surprise me, doesn't upset me, doesn't even faze me, because I expected it. I saw this one coming since September. To me, the human rights abuses, the civil rights abuses, the pending poh-leece state is much more ominous and infuriating than a bunch of thieves stealing each others' money. They didn't steal any of my money, because I'm too poor to pay any taxes and the only money the fed gets from me is a couple hundred a year in surcharges. So, I got pleny o' nuttin'. The story about Goldman and the chronology of the Biggest Con of the Millennium (So Far) doesn’t surprise me, doesn’t upset me, doesn’t even faze me, because I expected it. I saw this one coming since September.

To me, the human rights abuses, the civil rights abuses, the pending poh-leece state is much more ominous and infuriating than a bunch of thieves stealing each others’ money. They didn’t steal any of my money, because I’m too poor to pay any taxes and the only money the fed gets from me is a couple hundred a year in surcharges.

So, I got pleny o’ nuttin’.

]]> By: cocktailhag http://www.cocktailhag.com/blog/thrownshoes/what-a-long-strange-trip/comment-page-1/#comment-3232 cocktailhag Mon, 13 Jul 2009 14:31:08 +0000 http://www.cocktailhag.com/blog/?p=1466#comment-3232 If you read UT this morning, you'd find that more and more difficult to believe. (I knew I wasn't the only one who felt that way in 2004.... the neighborhood I was working in had 99-1 Kerry signs) If you read UT this morning, you’d find that more and more difficult to believe. (I knew I wasn’t the only one who felt that way in 2004…. the neighborhood I was working in had 99-1 Kerry signs)

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