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If you consider the recent email leaks from the McCain campaign that made Palin look pretty bad, and the rather free talk that McCain staffers engaged in with the Vanity Fair reporters, your theory attains plausibility.

Republican elites really don't like messy primary battles. They prefer to rally around an anointed one early, especially someone who isn't nutty. My guess is there is a concerted effort to grease the skids for Romney by taking down potential rivals.

If Huckabee wakes up with a horse's head in his bed next week, then we'll know something really is up.

We had to do this when I landed at Barajas in mid-June. Except the policy was brand-new and the Iberia crew had no foreknowledge of it. The plane was met at the terminal by some functionary with a stack of forms and they told the crew that if every passenger didn't fill it out, we couldn't deboard. So with everyone already standing in the aisles with their luggage waiting to go, they passed them around.

It was a silly form. When asked where in Spain I was staying I wrote "We're just passing through on our way to Portugal" - I was tempted to add "so don't worry about my cough" but was already worried about catching the connection to Lisboa.

We handed them to an Iberia crew member when we got off the plane, who looked like she was just going to drop them on some desk somewhere. Seemed a mostly pointless exercise.

CHARGE

ZOAS BOUQUET

LITTLE BEGGAR

VARIOUS VEINS

SCREAMING FOWL

GLADIOLA SUNSET

TORN SPACE

COLOR BLIND

GRASPING FOR THE FUTURE

RED WHITE & BLUE
(mirror)

MARIONETTE

SIGNAL CHECK

GLIDER ON THE GREEN

GRASS

PRIVATE OBSERVATORY

DISTORTED DANCER

FIELD OF DREAMS

HANGOVER

GALAXIA TENTACLES
(SMALL GREEN ONES)

FIGHT FOR YOUR RIGHTS
(A painting by a very nice friend, since deceased)

DFH

NIGHT LIGHT

ANDIF`S BLENNY

TOP SHELF

3D SUNSET

FLOWER SCULPTURE

EEGSTRAPOLATERS

GO AWAY!!

RHAPSODY IN BLUE

LAVA LAMP

MY BEACH

The views expressed in this rant are those of the misanthropic mess of the narrator alone and do not at all represent those of the commenter; but he does like a nice rant.  Particularly when he just spent time happily taking photos for the first time in a few years.  And what does he read a few days later on the plane?  From Thomas Bernhard's Extinction  (Ausloeschung. Ein Zerfall). In French cause that's what I got it in, laziness and opportunity in parts. And no, I'm not translating it since double translations are way too iffy.  PS, no paragraph breaks because apparently Bernhard doesn't believe in them. At all, in a five hundred page book.

Au fond, je déteste les photographies  [...] Je méprise les gens qui sont constamment en train de photographier et qui se promènent tout le temps avec leur appareil photographique pendu au cou.  Ils sont sans cesse a la recherché d'un sujet et ils photographient tout et n'importe quoi, même ce qu'il y a de plus absurde.  Sans cesse ils n'ont rien d'autre en tête que de se représenter eux-mêmes et toujours de la façon la plus repoussante, ce dont ils n'ont cependant pas conscience.  Ils fixent sure leurs photos un monde perversement déformé, qui n'a rien d'autre en commun avec le monde réel que cette déformation perverse dont ils se sont rendus coupables.  Photographier est une manie ignoble qui atteint peu a peu l'humanité entières, parce qu'elle n'est pas seulement amoureuse de la déformation et de la perversité, mais qu'elle en est entichée et que en vérité, a force de photographier, elle prend a la longue le monde déformé et pervers pour le seul véritable. Ceux qui photographient commettent l'un des crimes les plus ignoble qui puissant être commis, en rendant la nature, sur leurs photographient commettent l'un des crimes les plus ignoble qui puissant être commis, en rendant la nature, sure leurs photographies, perversement grotesque.  Sur leurs photographies, les gens sont des poupées ridicules, désaxées au point d'en être méconnaissables, défigurées, oui, qui regardent d'un air effraye leur ignoble objectif, de façon idiote, repoussante.  Photographier est une passion abjecte qui atteint tous les continents et toutes les couches de la population, une maladie qui a frappe l'humanité entière et dont celle-ci ne pourra jamais être guérie. L'inventeur de l'art photographique est l'inventeur de l'art le plus misanthrope de tous les arts.  C'est à lui que nous devons la déformation définitive de la nature et de l'homme qui y vit, en la caricature perverse de l'une et de l'autre.  Je n'ai encore jamais vu sur aucune photographie un homme naturel, autrement dit un homme veritable et vrai, comme je n'ai encore jamais vu sur aucune photographie une veritable et vraie nature.  La photographie est le plus grand malheur du XXe siècle.

Magnificent series! I've crosslinked - hope no objections?

You're not gong to believe this, but after letting CH write that post, i went outside, to drink on the steps, and found some German household had Dylan escaping through the windows...

"Sometimes even the preznit of the united states must sometime have to stand naked."

Followed by the Boss.  i love deutschland.  false, i'm resigned to deutschland.

With good whisky, one never floats glaciers within. Would that i would have been able to drink whisky tonight, alas, that is not the case. Though we have finished the first sixth of a case of brilliant spanish rioja.

the world needs more Trigs!  (did i get that right?)

Finally, someone with a proper perspective, must be all the Pieces of glacier floating in your whiskey.

i've decided to resign from ET.  My family would like to accent this has nothing to do with the Interpol investigation, which is baseless, groundless, and without base or ground. Nor has it to do with the lack of support for my most brilliant comments, which suffer because ET just doesn't have the ability to understand their suffering on.

I have no desire to recapitulate the exigensis of James Joyce, with his epic press conference conferenced press enter, riverrun.  in fact, in Alaska, due to some phenomena not related to so-called higher temperatures, glaciersrun.

Thus i take leave of the leave-taking, leaving only the question, why take? My mindleaves no answer never, not why or why not. Some will see the background loons as ducks, but they duck loonity, to their own feathered nests.

No i won't!

I take no quarter, as i have often statored, though amenable undercertain sequestrian circumstanciannules to accept an amitigatable two fifths.  She shouldn't either.  

Missus morpheus has chosen another path, which i will follow to morpidity, maundling along the way of the white geese, loonsome.  In Alaska, we take no quarter, though amenable to two-fifths.

Concurrently with my handlers, who in effect are handling me and my hands, at least one of them, i have decided to delete this post, to their detriment, because the riverrun needs to flow, concurrently with the ebbs.  As Joyce said, i am the fookin eggman, koo koo ka choo.

This should have no bearing on my resignation, resigned as i am to hunting bears, which is my inalienabledeordinate right, as you all know.

While you are watching, i will now click post before my handlers get their hands on my hands.

Embezzlement.

Bye, Sarah.

Gotta love the Freepers.

Everyone?

I think everyone is having way too much fun with this.

and look at the size of that moat behind her in the video.

Maybe she forgot to declare her duck pond expenses.

From Twitter

RT @justaservice In honor of Sarah Palin resigning,I propose every city in the nation celebrate by shooting off fireworks tomorrow @HunterDK

its the republicans, i think you'll need a whole tinfoil suit, not just a hat.

Win!