Gerron wi'yer.

When locusts move on, they leave nothing behind

What I wanted to ask you is if Els Pets is in English, meaning The Pets (like kitty-kats), or in Catalan, meaning something like The Bangs (The Hits, The Knocks, The Whacks?) ? (Nothing else).

Since I heard We're From Barcelona I can't get the #!*!!#@! tune out of my head!

When locusts move on, they leave nothing behind

That triumvirate of buffoons would be more fun in a court of law, but the link is good.  Thanks.

_Our knowledge has surpassed our wisdom. --Charu Saxena._

I came home early so's I could get my Bigos stew going. I'd made the stock on tuesday (a pork knuckle and some goat boiled in cider in the pressure cooker for 3 hours).

Now for the stew proper, bacon, sausage,blood sausage, duck with onions, mushrooms, sauerkraut and leave to simmer for 3 - 4 hours.

keep to the Fen Causeway

Especially since we're all atheists/agnostics/deists here!

The Constitution reflects our founders views of a secular government, protecting the freedom of any belief or unbelief. The historian, Robert Middlekauff, observed, "the idea that the Constitution expressed a moral view seems absurd. There were no genuine evangelicals in the Convention, and there were no heated declarations of Christian piety."

Worth reading:
http://www.earlyamerica.com/review/summer97/secular.html

It's good to see you here!  I haven't said on every post, but thank you for your diaries -- they're great.  Your blogs, too!

Maybe we can eventually make language a complete impediment to understanding. -Hobbes

Which language is the live chat in, mostly? Are ETer's (well, one's like me who only remember to read your blog when you crosslink it from an article here!) welcome to join (subject to emailing you to get the password)?

The anti-French bit? Yuck. I guess you get used to that kind of sentiment over there at DK. I don't bother with them anymore. Too much hot air and showing off their "intellectual" superiority I'm afraid.

The only thing necessary for the persistence of evil is for enough good people to do nothing

LOL

I guess now that you don't have to score points with Kos to get to be a front-pager, you can give free rein to your impulses...

Nice brinkmanship.

Those whom the Gods wish to destroy They first make mad. -- Euripides

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA !!!

Sweet. Ttotally sweet.

Sadly I can never be bothered to plough through kos comments so I have no idea how they reacted but, if you're gonna torch the place like that, I guess it ain't gonna be pretty.

{snicker}

keep to the Fen Causeway

Since I don't expect you'll get any substantive criticism over there, here goes.

The world will forget. Sad but true. America is a superpower and people will be overjoyed when it returns to sanity. European leaders will be trampling to meet with the sane new overlords of the US and will be widely praised by 'serious' journalists in their own countries for working on favourable relations. A few bloggers will be kvetching about putting the old criminals in prison, but no-one will listen to them. Rice will become the new Kissinger. In 20 years a drunken British journalist will publish a takedown piece on her which gets famous, after which said journalist will switch to the dark side and publish increasingly incoherent rants about the buddhistofascist threat.

Anti-Americanism in the '90s, for instance, was in my estimation not caused by the country's war crimes in Vietnam back in the 60s and 70s, it had to do with policies the US was enacting and promoting worldwide (neo-liberal transformation) and the effect they had on the environment and people's lifes. Plus those bases in Saudi Arabia, for some people. The same will be true 20 years from now (assuming that America pulls out within the next 2-3 years).

And they wondered why we weren't all excited when the Democrats took Congress.

It's becoming quite predictable:  a few kettle-pot comments (shut up you're French, Algeria, Rwanda, etc...), including from well-known posters, a number of equally vocal supporters, the brass of the site coming down on me for being unpractical and ignorant of political realities, and a lot of substantive comments on why it is or isn't a good idea, along with suggestions to do it more effectively - and a lot of support from the kossack "base".

kos is not the community. I have no idea how this will play out, but it will be interesting.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

Pretty funny set of comments over there on the old Daily Kos, eh?

Note to the Rest Of The World: There is no way that Bush is going to be impeached. Forget it. You see, the Democrats AGREE with most of his policies.

• Where is the statement by a Democrat clarifying that the Geneva convention prevents you from interrogating prisoners of war? What is this "interrogation" of which you speak, anyway? Something from True Crimes television?

  No physical or mental torture, nor any other form of coercion, may be inflicted on prisoners of war to secure from them information of any kind whatever. Prisoners of war who refuse to answer may not be threatened, insulted, or exposed to any unpleasant or disadvantageous treatment of any kind.

  http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/instree/y3gctpw.htm

• Where is the cry for the dismantlement of the CIA, which has proven for its entire 50+ year history that not only is it bad at spying, it's also bad at maniuplating other governments by sponsoring revolutions, murders, etc.?

• Where is the demand by the Democratic party big-wigs for immediate withdrawal from Iraq? Just because a few extremists on the left say something doesn't mean that the party itself supports an idea.

Bush will be president for another couple of years, and then be replaced by another establishment figure who may have an R after HIS name, or perhaps a D. But it won't matter...

Bravo to you, Jérôme, for the diary entry at dKos, which I think a lot of American lurkers like me totally agree with. I don't know why so many self-identified Democrats think we shouldn't try to chew gum and impeach Bush at the same time, especially in view of the crimes he's committed or had committed in his name. I also didn't get what your being French had to do with invalidating your point of view but your sheer and galling non-Americanness obviously irritated a whole segment of the dKos community (and even Mr Kos himself, from what I read). But I hope you'll not let that get you down, I suspect you have some experience in this sort of response (qed, "fireworks expected") so I am sure you can deal. Just wanted you to know that lots of us do appreciate your sentiments and find your logic quite unassailable.

I talked about college kids carrying on a badly-run debate the other day when speaking of DKos. The main thing I see on that thread is that Kos himself is in there, right down on the lowest level: ignorance and knee-jerk exceptionalism.

And, as he says in one of his "comments": he makes the rules...

When locusts move on, they leave nothing behind

For some strange reason, all attempts i make to post anything to that, all seem to fail.

Probably would only have wound them up more.

As we journey through life, we should keep an iron grip, to the very end, on the capacity for silliness. It preserves the soul from dessication.

Nothing like the freedom of a "crancky left" (I bet you support Kucinihihihi, eh don't you.. tell the truth...!!!) in Europe who works for a big bank (oh my dear I love kafka) being somehow liberated about something...

A huge hug, Jerome...although I normally do not get or understand or agree with you...somehow I feel I do this time.

Take care.

A pleasure

I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact. Levi-Strauss, Claude

919 comments as of this time stamp.

And there is no how, no way, I am going to attempt to download that many comments on my steam-powered ISP.

Have epistemological model of Complex Information environments. Will Travel.

That's a totally screwing activity, dvx. Sleep well!

When locusts move on, they leave nothing behind

And then Chris Floyd just sent me his response... he's pretty busy with some work but had time enough to unload this in an email.

Dear Rich,

Yeah, great. Bush can stay in office for two more years and kill
another half a million Iraqis and Afghans and a few thousand more
Americans, and that will be just peachy keen. Then he will exit to an
honored and rich retirement and not give a hoot in hell whether he's
considered the worst president or not. Jesus Christ, impeachment is
not about making Bush look bad or feel bad, or whether or not it
positions Kos' buddies for plum jobs in some incoming Dem
administration; it's about the LAW OF THE LAND, which Bush and Cheney
have violated 13 ways to Sunday.

And how the hell Kos thinks the Democrats are going to be able to
enact some sweeping progressive agenda (assuming they even try), when
they don't have a filibuster-proof majority nor enough votes to
override a presidential veto is beyond me. "People will be held
accountable." How, exactly? The Bushists have already said they'll
fight ever subpoena and demand for documents all the way to the
Supreme Court; they'll stall every investigation for two years then,
like Bush, exit to sweet deals in retirement, through the golden
revolving door in the corporate/lobbying/consulting/academic world.
Where then is the accountability?

I don't really have a dog in this hunt: I have never believed for a
single instant that the Democrats would have balls or brains to even
seriously threaten impeachment, much less pursue it. But by God, if
some of them want to try, I don't think we should come over all snooty
and snotty and pour cold water on them. Too bad Kos wasn't around to
dispense his wisdom in 1974: "Why impeach Nixon? He'll be gone in two
years anyway. What's the big deal? We've got control of Congres