Between Switzerland and Liechtenstein
From her California home, Ms Palfrey is accused of running a service that offered, according to her company website, “legal sexual and erotic services across the spectrum of adult sexual behaviour”. It was a lucrative operation, earning Ms Palfrey $750,000 (£380,000) over the last six years, court documents said.
When I want to get flogged by a lawyer, I’ll go to court.
Coulter’s remark was just . . . so gay.
This is just . . . so . . . Mormon.
Progressive cause and effect: Bush visiting Ala. school hit by twister
My home line is down today, so I’ll be scarce. Post all that stuff you were afraid I’d trample on, please.
I was born and raised in Enterprise, Alabama (and yes, we did have electricity and running water!). It’s tough to see the videos of places that were so familiar now totally destroyed.
There is one thing I can guarandamntee you, though—you’re not going to hear all the patented Post-Katrina whining from these folks. They will bury their dead, rebuild their town, and go on with life. It’s what everybody used to do after a tragedy, and what a lot of people still do, even now.
TW: Thank God for good ol’ boys86.
“Post all that stuff you were afraid I’d trample on, please.”
Your footprint leaves no imprint on the rice paper,
grasshopper.
That struck me this morning while listening to some honcho (the mayor?) down there.
“This is a close knit community. We’ll get through this. We’ve already got people doing x, y and z.”
…as opposed to “Why didn’t you make our lives wonderful immediately, Bu$hco?!? BECAUSE YOU HATE US!! YOU DID THIS ON PURPOSE!”
There’s a world of difference there, and it’s hard to miss.
I hope you’re right, slackjaw, but I don’t think FEMA and the gubmint in general will let anybody pull themselves up by their own bootstraps anymore. And once the $2000 credit cards start rolling out, somebody’s bound to whine that they didn’t get theirs.
fwiw, and this may be more in Jeff’s wheelhouse than Dan’s, Amanda’s up in arms about ReichWing Rethuglikkkan activities against Edwards Headquarters – Vandalism, the whole thing – that took place online in ‘Second Life’
http://pandagon.net/2007/03/02/right-wingers-take-another-strong-stance-against-obscenity/
Meanwhile, in the meatspace from 2004:
Amanda couldn’t bestir herself to comment on the issue of people shooting up Republican property at the time at Mousewords.
Though in her contemporaneous account of the virtual ‘destruction’ of John Edward’s online virtual backed-up Second Life campaign headquarters ~ cough ~ Amanda finds the virtual (characterized for reasons uncited by Amanda as ‘male’} vandals cowardly.
So, the people who shot up the Republican office, the Democrat who was arrested and convicted of slashing tires, et cetera have more ‘courage’, per Amanda.
Maybe Jeff can speak to the issues presented by Ms. Marcotte about unhinged virtual mobs pissing on stuff being cowards, and whether or not that vandalism was caused by Rightwing Republican adult thugs, teenage scriptkiddies in Uzbekistan, done as part of an AQ exercise, or by dumbass apolitical types who just like fucking with stuff in Second Life.
I dunno. Maybe Amanda’s responding according according to some sort of narrative imperative or something.
This just in: Edwards campaign applies for FEMA assistance to rebuild demolished virtual headquarters.
Good thing the Swiss did’nt wander into France…..what would they have done with all the POWs’ ?
What is funny about the Edwards HQ dust-up is that it likely had nothing to do with politics. Most on-line gamers go there to escape the real world, and many resent actions that attempt to bring the real world into their fantasy. This was much more likely to be a protest of Edwards not respecting the divide between the two than any reflection on his actual political positions.
I’d love to hear her take on the other instances of violence against Bush/Cheney ‘04 offices. I seem to recall that on one day, 2-3 offices in different states were rushed, broken into, and people inside assaulted. The, um, “activists” involved in this were apparently all connected to the same union or organized labor group, and, apparently, absolutely NOTHING ever came of it.
Me, if I were a federal prosecutor looking to make a name, or a Fed looking to promote justice and sanity, I’d have looked into the possibility of coordination and RICO’d the organizers.
Breaking: Edwards asks Wal*Mart for relief supplies.
From the Australian Mardi Gras link (This is just . . . so . . . Mormon.)
Ha. Good thing those weren’t muslims praying, the carnage would have been horrifying!
Yeah, Amanda assumes that the perps are both male and Republican violates what I call the Virgin Mary Rule : no more than one assumption per argument.
Also, the more I thought about it the more that the Edwards campaign even HAVING a Second Life virtual online campaign headquarters makes me *less* inclined to vote for him.
I mean – for god’s sake, if your campaign feels the need for an official online presence in a virtual community of slacktardic social misfits just save everybody the time and quit.
http://blogs.zdnet.com/social/?p=91
Teleported.
Heh.
A blogger/diarist on Edwards’s official blog confused reality with meta-reality.
I can’t tell from her account if there was an avatar of a person holding an image of a camera taking photos of the event in SL, or if some gal just did screen grabs while looking at her monitor. Presumably in horror tinged with disappointment.
Sounds to me like they’re familiar with the work of his former campaign bloggers.
I find that Big Book of Drawing add very distracting.
Maybe it is just the tingling…..
slackjawedyokel —
You might want to head over to VodkaPundit, where Enterprise High alum Will Collier is holding Old Home Week.
Was Washington trembling, or were their knees just a little wobbly from exhausion?
Bill D Cat:
Remembering how the filthy Hun circumvented the Maginot Line by sneaking through Belgium (oh, the perfidy!), the brave citizens of France took the only option open to them, aud surrendered pre-emptively.
No one told them that the Swiss invading Lichtenstein were going the wrong way . . . .
What is the Carbon Footprint of Edwards’ Virtual HQ?
See?
Clever little fucker, isn’t he?
btw, that Mormon versus Gay link repays study. There are people over there who make alfi look like a Professor of Logical Argument.
I remember the surge of joy I felt when first I heard my then 10 year-old son use “gay” to mean “stupid”, and realised that a stolen word had been restolen by the new generation.
And so it goes.