"I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man; it is horrible." - Joseph De Maistre

>> ^dag:
^No, I will. Because if there's one thing this tyrant believes in, it's the fucking will of the people.


Oh, fuck it. If you feel so strongly about the matter, then just keep the feature. It is your website after all, and you decide how it should be run. I certainly don't feel strongly enough about it to man the parapets against it, I just think it's an unnecessary feature bloat when we have hobbling and polls. But I do believe you have too much fate in online democracy. I know of no other online community that does not have at least a miniscule amount of authoritarianism in member moderating. If you want to be the first to create a working online democracy, you need to create an ececutive branch, a legislative branch, and a judicial branch at the same time, not just hand over two of them to the mob.

Hell, I'll even be satisfied if you fix up the siftquisition feature to have big blinking red "APPROVE DECISION" button at the end of the voting period that an admin has to click to carry out the sentence. I just don't trust that skeevy little rascal SiftBot to have that responsibility.

So my house is out in the woods and needless to say a lot of mice come in especially when it gets cold. I have these clear plastic trap door live mice traps that work great. I usually drive down the street and let them go...hoping maybe they find a new home in some neighbors house or something.

This winter it has been particularly cold and snowy and I've been too lazy at midnight when I catch them to shovel the driveway so I just toss them out the back door. The next morning I catch the rascal again. I can see the little footprints in the snow running right back to the house and somehow making its way inside again. One plump mouse in particular went through this routine for a week or so until I finally drove him away. He seemed tamer than the rest. I named him boomerang. I miss that little sucker. The end.

QM never complained about Bush giving us the biggest government of all time.

QM never complained about Bush during FISA/NSA.

QM never complained about Bush stealing from the Social Security cookie jar.

QM never complained about Bush raping our treasury.

Actually, wrong on all counts. But your first language is French so WTF, foo, you can't be everywhere!

QM complains about California, which is run BY A FUCKING REPUBLICAN who was never fairly elected, and only got 20% of the vote after running a Dem out of office for wanting to raise DMV taxes. All backed by Enron and Cheney's energy task force.

Yes, yes, it's only a conspiracy/voter fraud when people elect Republicans. Gray Davis wasn't a corrupt piece of crap, it was all lies. And since Schwarzy acts like a FUCKING DEMOCRAT who cares what his voter card reads? Democrats should proudly stand for what they've done to California! California government schools are some of the worst in the nation, and Democrats get reelected there again and again. Coincidence?

QM should sincerely shut the fuck up and get his pussy ass over to Iraq. But he never will, because he's a chicken-hawk who loves the smell of dead Iraqi kids in the morning.

QM will always call a Republican he doesn't like, a "Democrat emulator" yet every fucking Repub in this country is responsible for the FUBAR mess we're in.

Rs get some of the blame, but no Republican ever woke up and said, "Let's force banks to give the poor houses they can't afford. It's the fair thing to do" (looking at all the taxocrat tax cheats and bribe-takers STILL in office, I guess that spirit of spreading the wealth doesn't apply to them).

You and your goofball Saul Alinksy-wannabe anarcho-whatever radicalist rascals...you're not interesting when you act this way, the ad hominem attacks cut-n-pasted from Daily Komatose's baboonery are tiresome; instead of dealing with the FACTS of the matter you're...just making a fool of yourself. Everyone deserves to go on a wild rant now and again--I don't fault you for it--but wear your seatbelt, airbags won't always save you.

And you know what QM? Fuck you and your "335 million dollar condom scheme." Either you're a fucking idiot and believe that shit, or you're evil and you're lying and obfuscating. Any thinking person knows that that 200mil was for FAMILY PLANNING, of which, a measly less than one percent is for free condoms.

No matter, this generational looting of the Treasury--the second time Congressional majority taxocrats will be voting for one--won't make it through in its present odious form.

I'm simply offering my opinion of what's going on with the scum in DC and the mechanics of their powergrab to rottenseed, who posted the question.

I knew this would happen to liberals when Bush left office. All that titanic machine-against-the-RAGE has to go SOMEwhere. Fox Derangement Syndrome won't absorb it all.

May I suggest picking up a copy of Ann Coulter's new bestseller?

In truth, Liberals don't like abortion either, not even Noam Chomsky. Most of us are both anti-abortion AND pro-choice - having the right to choose 'no'.

An abortion is usually the result of an unwanted pregnancy, and criminalizing abortion does nothing to stop an unwanted pregnancy. Beyond that, when pressed on the consequences of criminalization, many pro-lifers are reluctant to put a woman who has had an abortion behind bars, which suggests that maybe criminalization isn't the silver bullet they'd hoped for.

The best way to stop unwanted pregnancy is knowledge, in the form of sex education and easy access to birth control. Honest, frank, reality-based sex education and free birth control options offered to school kids (*gasp*). A bitter pill to swallow, no doubt, but this is the way.

If abortion activists ever decided to take a more pragmatic approach to abortion, and team up with those rascally liberals, we could probably cut the abortion rate in half in a few years, but it would mean having to let go of some of that fear of sexuality. You don't need all that fear anyway, it's just weighing you down.

Happy New Year Pinky

(edit: snarkiness removed after reading kp's comment)

Cue Sarah Palin voice:

And then one day I came home from the office, doncha know, and Scooby was hidin' out under the sofa and, also, there was blood and rabbit turds and hair and some eyeballs stuck to the shag rug. And I said, 'Scooby! Bad kitty! Bad kitty, Scooby! You made a no-no on Mommy's rug!' And ya know, he's just a rascal like that, a maverick kitty, gettin' in there and chewin' on them bunnies and reformin' their little hides.

I saw Dizzee over the summer, and he's got such a big personality, in a good way. A very confident man.

Dizzee Rascal for Prime Minister!

Isobel (4 y/o) and Frankenbutt (7 m/o). Isobel is named after the Bjork song, and Frankie because a Raccoon attacked him as sa stray two week old kitten. We got him to the vet and they shaved him, amputated his nerve damaged tail, and stitched him up. His butt resembled Frankenstein, so that became his name. Issy was from an adoption service and Frankie was a stray.

My avatar is Frankie, Issy's avatar is... well... Issy.

Issy is an independent, fastidious, immaculate, cat, of discerning taste. She loves to play fetch and horde huge amounts of bottle caps in secret nooks and crannies around the house. She will also topple any empty plastic bottle she encounters.

Frankie is a cuddler and tireless rascal, constantly pouncing on Issy, whether she is in the mood or not. He is very skiddish of strangers and certain types of noises. He is also a bit of a slob, leaving a trail of cat food and kitty litter wherever he goes. He loves to be picked up and will stay on your lap for quite a long time purring, and giving generous amounts of kitty kisses.

http://www.videosift.com/video/The-REAL-Issykitty-other-Issykitties-are-just-imitating and http://www.videosift.com/video/I-Love-My-Cat are my favorite cat vids.

You used to get it in your fishnets
Now you only get it in your night dress
Discarded all the naughty nights for niceness
Landed in a very common crisis
Everything's in order in a black hole
Nothing seems as pretty as the past though
The Bloody Mary's lacking her Tabasco
Remember when you used to be a rascal?

Oh the boy's a slag
The best you ever had
The best you ever had
Is just a memory and those dreams
But as daft as they seem
As daft as they seem
My love when you dream them up...

Flicking through a little book of sex tips
Remember when the boys were all electric?
Now when she's told she's gonna get it
I'm guessing that she'd rather just forget it
Clinging to not getting sentimental
Said she wasn't going but she went still
Likes her gentlemen not to be gentle
Was it a Mecca dauber or a betting pencil?

Oh the boy's a slag
The best you ever had
The best you ever had
Is just a memory and those dreams
But as daft as they seem
As daft as they seem
My love when you dream them up
Oh, where did you go?
Where did you go?
Where did you go? Woah.

Falling about
You took a left off Last Laugh Lane
You were just sounding it out
You're not coming back again.

Falling about
You took a left off Last Laugh Lane
You were just sounding it out
You're not coming back again.

You used to get it in your fishnets
Now you only get it in your night dress
Discarded all the naughty nights for niceness
Landed in a very common crisis
Everything's in order in a black hole
Nothing seems as pretty as the past though
That Bloody Mary's lacking in Tabasco
Remember when he used to be a rascal?

The owner even put a brick on the roof to stop her from doing this!!! Ha ha, little rascal, she'll be a handful. I'll take her.

purdy cool for an Irish Nun on a mission...

"Begora chil-dren"

"Be-hhold the wonder of ghahhh..."

Neg: I take it back. Pretty good find, ye rascal.

Great music. A lot of '30's classics. Look up The Beau Hunks Play The Little Rascals if you're interested in more. Good stuff.

>> ^coolhund:
Sexual equality now! Women need only 1 censor bar, just like men.


That'd be fine by me...

This combines 3 great things:

David Byrne, Dizzee Rascal, and Nudity.

There's something about the playfulness juxtaposed with nudity -- it's something you so rarely see in American culture. We're so repressed that we think everything sexy is repressed, dangerous, scandalous, or passionate. It can sometimes just be fun.

^ aww.

He's bound to have an identity crisis before his 1st birthday. Frankenbutt, Frankie, Plucky Tim... I'm sure I'm missing something.

I can see a montage now of the rascal working out and getting in shape for his future rematch with the raccoon.