Ooop, just remembered I’m not supposed to say that.

McCain is one of the people who most could have stopped the war from happening. And more than anyone, he could have helped get it stopped in 2004.

Remember when people fantasized him running on a ticket with his friend John Kerry? Instead, he bumped uglies with Bush.

We can admit that we’re killers … but we’re not going to kill today. That’s all it takes! Knowing that we’re not going to kill today! ~ Captain James T. Kirk, Stardate 3193.0

Trying to be careful for a while; you are not helping.

references to old novels and Pace Picante Sauce commercials could be made to stand-in, couldn’t they?

We can admit that we’re killers … but we’re not going to kill today. That’s all it takes! Knowing that we’re not going to kill today! ~ Captain James T. Kirk, Stardate 3193.0

Here.

I may not be helping myself….

Here.

The real question is whether it will go with the salsa.

Luke 5:39 (CEV)

No one wants new wine after drinking old wine.

They say, “The old wine is better.”

aren’t you?

(It was like an “Oprah’s book” before there was Oprah. Tales of a family whose living came from an Illinois ropewalk, and whose Republican politics opened my young eyes — I got it from the public library— to the world of deceit that is the GOP, and has been since Lincoln’s day.)

But yes, I have loved the Pace commercials ever since we stopped being able to watch the Lone Star Armadillo …

We can admit that we’re killers … but we’re not going to kill today. That’s all it takes! Knowing that we’re not going to kill today! ~ Captain James T. Kirk, Stardate 3193.0

stretch those neurons, make ’em work a little.

We can admit that we’re killers … but we’re not going to kill today. That’s all it takes! Knowing that we’re not going to kill today! ~ Captain James T. Kirk, Stardate 3193.0

Pretty good.

Did I ever tell you my theory of why it gets more and more difficult to recall deta as we get older?

(Confessing I can’t remember whether I already have, or not.)

took the author, Helen Hooven Santmyer, 50 years to write! I don’t feel so slow, knowing that. OTOH, she ended up with a BOTM Club Selection so there’s that difference too.

it was more like .0008 seconds — and a wad of results. But “rope walk” is the title of at least one other book, and there were eight pages of results for it, alone. Sigh.

My theory is there’s nothing wrong with the memory; it’s the index function that breaks down with overuse.

We can admit that we’re killers … but we’re not going to kill today. That’s all it takes! Knowing that we’re not going to kill today! ~ Captain James T. Kirk, Stardate 3193.0

Never been a fast processor. Now I’m running through a terrabyte of brain storage data but all I have is my stock installation I8080 CPU. Sometimes it takes days….

Just about the time I figure out how to use the search function, somebody updates the database interface, and I have to start from scratch again…

We can admit that we’re killers … but we’re not going to kill today. That’s all it takes! Knowing that we’re not going to kill today! ~ Captain James T. Kirk, Stardate 3193.0

is in fine form, good thing since the translator only works intermittently. Batteries are hanging in there, and with an occasional jump start things are, ah, I’ll say, satisfactory - and let it go at that.

bio attitude adjustment salsa, the one on the far right

Clinton a fan of hot peppers

Have two, they’re small.

that’s a diabetic coma [but perhaps that was your intent].

ha! your +2 sweetness is no match for my +5 cuteness.

but nothing to do with dysfunctional Isles of Langerhans.

I am immune to photographs of mammalian parasites; if any, I prefer the nematodes. They, at least, are not disingenuous.

and hugs

That photo won’t open for me, h, but I know exactly what you mean from the URL. For those who wish to learn a bit about the world around us, here’s a whole lot more about carnivorous fungi.

I’m not opposed to pets, per se; I just don’t see the value in anthropomorphizing carnivorous mammals, who always require enormous amounts of care and feeding and expense to maintain and in return for which they will pounce and eat you if given the chance. Not my cup of tea.

For many years I kept a slime mold terrarium, (basic info here, my colony came from here) fascinating creatures, undemanding and with a hardy constitution, the perfect pet. Then one day Wife#1 had a total wigout relapse of her hyper-cleanliness OCD and tossed it all out, along with my well-provenanced Alaskan goldrush sourdough culture. The marital relationship had been shaky for some time, but that day marked with a bright line the beginning of the end.

i can see the attraction of a set-it-and-forget-it pet, but really, i prefer them a bit faster on their feet and a tad brainier. speaking of anthropomorphizing, the 4-footed ones, carnivorous or otherwise, are brainily closer to us than most people want to admit. heck, i’ve even trained fish.

also, they’re all [finny, feathery, furry, or scaly] better company than most people are. none of my carnivores has ever thrown out any of my sourdough starter, for instance. [really? from like 100 years ago? from alaska? i would have to count that a bright line too, i think.]

wife#1? uh, you collect them?

i’ve always been a fan of the erma bombeck lick-and-a-promise school of housecleaning myself: if something spills i let the cats lick it up and promise to do better next time. one would think a multi-cat household would be cleaner… which probably explains why i’ve managed to stay wife#0 this long, legally at least.

yep, carnivorous fungi. that photo had a link to a page that had a link to the page you link to [or something like that] pretty cool photo.

heh. what i used to do for a living. none of them carnivorous as i recall, but useful critters nonetheless. [no, i’m not any of the people listed].

No, no, I mean the pets, not the wives. Friend had a spider monkey. Beastie got loose while he was out, destroyed everything in the house. I mean, destroyed everything in the house.

Nasty hobby, wives, and expensive. I’m over it.

And the petrobugs, funny you should mention. Always had some concern about breeding them. I know, oil spills and all, but once you turn them loose and they get into the oilfields, seems like it could be a bit of a problem; worse than rabbits in Australia.

Training beasties isn’t much of a test for companionability though, is it? You can train a flatworm. Now on the other hand, if you can figure out how to train people…nothing complicated, just sit stay heel and fetch…nah, I’ll stop right there.

Someone should thank Sarah for this thread. What was she on about to start with? Ah, yes, hanging Rumsfeld. Good idea.

companionability-wise. q.e.d.

[thank you, sarah, for the thread!]

kids. husbands.

my previous dog was like that monkey [why would anybody keep their cousins as pets? if someone kept me locked up and i finally got loose, i’d destroy everything in their house too. no brainer.] anyway, i rescued the dog from the pound minutes before his scheduled execution. he’d eaten an entire sofa in one afternoon.

Nasty hobby, wives, and expensive. I’m over it.

otoh, i can sure see why she dumped your slime mold and your sourdough.

scientists, an odd breed. very narrow focus on solving a problem or answering a question. ramifications, especially if they’re of social significance, stemming from the solutions/answers, that’s somebody else’s problem. occasionally a scientist thinks ahead: loose-cannon oil-eating bugs, that could be a problem, i know! we engineer their dna so they die as soon as they run out of oil, before they can spread out further into the environment!

science, now there’s a hellishly expensive hobby.

rumsfeld, i’d volunteer to personally go hunt him down and bring him before a tribunal. cheney too.

your man obama wants to beef up the military by 100,000 more troops. he wants to redeploy the ones we’ve got inside iraq to just outside iraq [even has a timeline, albeit reluctntly], to be ready to rush in if needed, and to contain any violence if crosses the borders out of iraq and into neighboring countries [no ending date on this at all, how long we’ll stick around to take care of those pesky little flare-ups and spill-overs]. nor have i heard a peep out of him about rescinding the iraqi oil law [and oil clauses in their newly-minted constitution] that cheney wrote for them. btw, that ’responsible plan’ in the sidebar doesn’t address righting the wrongs of the oil law either.

you’re big on voter personal responsibility, tell me again why i shouldn’t let all y’all rot in a mccain-governed hell for the next 8 years?

for the next 8 years.
Smart voters are responsible.
Democrats have empathy.

’S a humongous thing, that. Maybe THE big difference between real Democrats and Republicans (and wannabes).

We can admit that we’re killers … but we’re not going to kill today. That’s all it takes! Knowing that we’re not going to kill today! ~ Captain James T. Kirk, Stardate 3193.0

most of my volunteer work for the past decade or so has been helping the victims beneficiaries of welfare reform, you know, that war on program for welfare queens poor people that democrat bill clinton saddled blessed us with.

and then there are the homeless, especially those who are also coping [or not] with mental illness, and i forget what percentage of this population is vietnam veterans, but it’s fairly siginificant, iirc.

these peoples’ lives are unlikely to get measurably better under president obama, but they’re already so far down the food chain that their lives are unlikely to get measurably worse under president mccain.

otoh, there are a lot of liberals — liberals who turn a blind eye to the plight of the most downtrodden, or who offer only token help, or who are just plain blithely clueless — whose lives would get worse under president mccain. most days i wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy, but in my more misanthropic moments i sometimes think this might be a salutary experience for a few of them.