** “He sprang to his sleigh, to his team gave a whistle,
And away they all flew like the down of a thistle.
But I heard him exclaim, ere he drove out of sight,
Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good night.”
Whoops! That’s over a month away, several lifetimes in a campaign.
“May Premier George Walter Bush drink the blood of every man, woman, and child in Iraq!”
Much better. Happy Thanksgiving!
** Track computer memory prices on a daily basis.
** Track global and national energy prices in near real time via Bloomberg. Crude oil prices are around $58 per barrel with the resumption of full operations in Alaska following the end of the extreme weather conditions in the Port of Valdez.
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Indeed.
The line isn’t from Casino Royale.
I see Maviglio is trashing Schwarzeneger again in the press. He isn’t really very good, his work for Angerlides sucked, ridiculously lying. Nunez should replace him with someone his allies don’t want to strangle.
No, the line is not Bond, it is another B.
Let’s remember this is Thanksgiving Day. Irritating as some things are, let’s rise above.
Meanwhile, another Thanksgiving wish. Let’s end the hyperpartisan Democratic snark, and the Republican ideological bullheadedness.
That must be Borat.
I will be thankful for give and take. Last year bipartisanship was the label used to increase the size and scope of state government. May the coming season be the one where bipartsanship is used to reduce the size and scope of state government.
If not, may I at least get an Xbox 360 for Hannukah!
Change or die.
Happy Thanksgiving.
Yes, the Thanksgiving line is from Borat because, no, I have not taken leave of my senses.
The New James Bond is perfect for this world. He is tough, brutal, ruthless, smart, ready for anything, not afraid of the PC. I look forward to many more movies of his unshaken and unstirred remedy for terror.
Okay, I’ll be nice to the idiots and liars infest politics. For Thanksgiving, for now.
Oh, my stomach
Happy Turkey and Pumpkin pie day.
Turkey bad. Pumpkin pie good.
Roast pork, brown rice, baked squash, satueed brussles sprouts with bacon and onions, old vine zinfadel and ice cream better.
My mouth is watering.
I was good. Very good.
Hi guys! I had turkey, ham, mashed potates, dressing, creamed pearl onions, green beans, cranberries, mashed rutabagas, champagne, apple crisp, pumpkin pie and fresh whipped cream with a little powdered sugar and vanilla and vanilla ice cream….just a little of each but boy was it good…Bill I’m glad you have not taken leave of your senses….I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving today:)
SS yes you were very good I on the other hand was bad but in a very good way
Jillian,
King of Tyops meant to say “it” was very good as I have never been good! Now, back to misbehaving!
Who pays for their memory? lol
rotflamo SS and please by all means misbehave away!
lol Ann I think maybe they meant the memory in your computer….that’s the only memory I know of you have to pay for..
Jillian,
Thanks, think I will continue misbehaving. Have some nice salami, cheese and crackers around so that I can polish off the Zin while I watch a very nice presentation on the History Channel concerning the crossing of the Mayflower.
Hope that you, and all others who read this message, have a most pleasant rest of this Thursday evening.
thx SS sounds like a winner to me…I watching/listening to the marathon showing of The Closer on TNT I enjoy that show
I was joking around. lol
Bauer is the new Bond. Borat is the new Kaufman. “Jericho” is the new “Lost” for conservatives. “CSI” is the new “Quincy, M.D.” Black is the new Black.
Any questions?
Despite my differences with Mr. Bauer, I am thankful for the show “24.”
I am thankful for all of you being “bizarrely useful.”
And, of course, I am thankful for Bill for taking the time and effort to create this blog and giving us a forum to rough each other up.
Ann:Who pays for their memory?
Bill Champlin is fond of saying he paid top dollar for his memory loss…
I hope you get your XBox, Flashman… I think even a Reep Leg majority would be unlikely to deliver your other wish.
Notice, Gospodin Bierko, that Jack Bauer has the same initials as James Bond.
As does Jason Bourne, for that matter.
There is no coincidence here, on either side of the equation.
They even all have the same initials as Jerry Brown.
Surely a coincidence, of course. And yet the new attorney general, and former governor and presidential candidate, is the closest thing we have to an “M” in California.
It was a figure of speech.
Coincidence is the staff of life, along with bread, water, and spin.
I am not a big believer in coincidence.
Ah, Jason Bourne. He’s never gotten the kind of prestige treatment as Bond, even though he does have some good adventures. It’s a shame that the recent Bourne movies were so bad. There’s a Richard Chamberlain miniseries (from the ’80s, I guess?) that’s quite good…
Saw Stranger than Fiction last night (the parents, and my S.O., were more in the mood for something like that than a Bond flick). Very, very good — a lot of reviews I had seen were saying “ersatz Kaufman” and “not as good as Being John Malkovich or Eternal Sunshine“. I think they’re wrong — it’s on par with ES, distinctly better than BJM, and possibly the best American work of magical realist cinema ever made.
Mr. Bradley: am not a big believer in coincidence
Good. Because nothing is a coincidence…absolutely nothing….
Well, there are some coincidences. It’s not an entirely non-random universe.
I think the new Jason Bourne movies with Matt Damon are better than the old miniseries.
I used to love Robert Ludlum. But then you go back and look at some of the writing.
“It was INSANE! The Albino kept firing, even as his shinbone was shattered by heavy machine gun fire. And still he came ON! His pistol shots sending splinters into Bourne’s eyebrow. Would the man never go DOWN?”
And all of it utterly unironic. Yet the plots were like popcorn.