Folks, you need a sense of humor in hard times, and mine

is flagging. There seems to be no end to the misery * and crew have inflicted on us. Help!!

Maybe it's time to step away from the keyboard and find other interests
that bring joy and a spark of creativity to our lives. But then what
would we have to moan and fret and debate about? So...

NAAAAH! :D

Just put a bright shiny sticker on your monitor and then keep posting.

Plus I am sure that if we didn't post on here we would still be moaning and fretting about this administration, but to different people.

That truth never fails to cheer me up.

I've never heard this mushroom theory.

I'll start with John Allegro, the only secular scholar on the original team to translate the Dead Sea Scrolls:

http://www.csp.org/chrestomathy/sacred_mushroom2.html

Then, if you're curious, I'll point to a work published by Harvard University Press, by Wasson, Ruck and Hoffman: The Road to Eleusis: Unlocking the Secret of the Mysteries. I own this book and it is a mind-blower:

http://www.csp.org/chrestomathy/road_to.html

Then, if you haven't stuck your head in the sand, like most everyone else, I'll show you this:

http://www.jamesarthur.net/mm.html

Have fun, and if you read this stuff, welcome.

I'm just not interested enough to read the theories behind a fictional character.

of esoterica.

on edit: sp

their lives for "a mushroom"

I don't argue that John of Patmos may have been on shrooms.

But I find the idea that Jesus is a mushroom as a little too simplistic.

I've had my fill of shrooms, and I would not have given my life (as early Christians often did) to continue a religion based on a figment of a shroom cult's imagination.

How about some Irony....?

Link for graphic here...

http://www.chris-floyd.com/bloodforoil/

Oh my

Thank you! I needed that

Well, blood-for-gas, anyway. yuk-yuk-yuk

Jean Schmidt: "They think I'm a hottie!"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x5618731

:rofl:

http://jameswolcott.com/

They're Making the Rest of Us Whores Look Bad!
Posted by James Wolcott

That's the wounded buffalo cry coming from NRO's Corner as Jonah Goldberg reacts to the cheesy spectacle of conservative harlots Doug Bandow of the Cato Institute and Peter Ferrara of the Institute for Policy Innovation accepting payola to write opinion columns and twirl their credentials like titty-tassles. First Armstrong Williams, and now this--it taints the whole family of scribes, complains Goldberg.

"In addition to all of that, it's just a huge hassle. We're all going to have to be even more anal about disclosure and answer charges of corruption even more. And for such paltry sums. Even at the full $2,000 per column Bandow made less than $50 K over ten years. Was that really worth the blow to his reputation and Cato's never mind the inconveniences it causes the rest of us?"

Yes, it's a stone-cold drag, but fellow Cornerite Ramesh Ponnuru is more sanguine as he polishes his cufflinks.

"I don't think the problem is widespread. And I don't think Cato's reputation is tarnished, either: They had one bad apple, and got rid of him when they found out. The Institute for Policy Innovation, on the other hand, does not look good."

Y'think?

On the other other hand, TPM's Josh Marshall contends that the problem is commonplace, indeed is quite a bedbug epidemic inside certain conservative slop shops. (The italics below are mine.)


And..................

It's Beginning to Feel a Lot Like Christmas
Posted by James Wolcott

I don't tend to lapse (or drink myself) into rosy-cheeked yuletide merriment, but when I read something like this, and this, it makes the heart sing and swing with seasonal glee.

Now if only a certain someone would cap the holidays by dropping down the chimney with a sackful of subpoenas.
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especially Aqua Teen Hunger force.

n/t

As a long time cynical discordian, with a very sick sense of humor, Bush is the ideal American President. In the words of that old curmudgeon, H.L. Mencken, "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard." Congratulations, America, you finally got a president you deserved.

...you think the elections were fair and square. And if you think the elections were fair and square, I say: prove it.

When anyone looks over the evidence, and realizes the way the untraceable machines counted over thirty percent of the vote, and another sixty percent was kept from a reasonable recount, then one begins to see just how it might have been stolen.

Then, after carefully eyeing the accused perps and seeing how they had means, motive, and opportunity, one simply has to reasonably decide that Kerry was elected President, and America does not deserve what we have.

Ever been to Chicago?

Even if it was proven beyond a shadow of a doubt (ain't gonna happen with our current propagandists... er, media) that Bush stole this election, the American populace would get all up in arms for about 15 minutes. Sure, they'd probably throw the current batch of bums out of office, but they'd be replaced by sleazeballs even worse. Why? Because Americans love been servants of their corporate masters. They love to work dead end jobs for low wages. As long as they can be guaranteed some worthless electronic crap to watch their sporting events on weekends and listen to their pop music on lunch breaks, nothing will change.

Is there a way out? I can envision a possible solution, but the Patriot Act prevents me from posting it.

But my point is that we should have as President - Albert Gore. Things would be VERY different had not our votes been stolen. But yeah, we pretty much sat back and said: "Oh well. Say, what's on TV tonight?"

So, I see your point... but that just reminds me of how much power we can wield if we focus it correctly. Ya see, the sheeple will follow the leaders. We just need to become the leaders, eh? And we would be today's leaders if they had counted the votes right.

(right click, save as ...) - it's about 1.8megs
http://mediamogul.seas.upenn.edu/pennsound/authors/365/365-Days-Project-07-14-omason-terry-cupcake-introduction-cup-cakes-1960.mp3

(That's Terry "Cupcake" O'Mason -"Introduction & Cup Cakes" from a record by ADAM Magazine.)