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From dictionary.com
ve·nal [veen-l] Show IP....<br /><br />From dictionary.com<br /><br /><br /><br /><i><b>ve·nal</b> [veen-l] Show IPA <br /><br />adjective <br />1. <br />willing to sell one's influence, especially in return for a bribe; open to bribery; mercenary: a venal judge. <br /><br />2. <br />able to be purchased, as by a bribe: venal acquittals. <br /><br />3. <br />associated with or characterized by bribery: a venal administration; venal agreements.</i> <br /><br /><br />???<br /><br />Sorry, I'm still missing it. What is the connection between venality and "aggressive religiosity" and the conservative view of women?<br /><br />Context? I won't bother to look that one up.<br /><br />.<br /><br />.Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-80234978531137756682012-04-17T06:44:35.278-04:002012-04-17T06:44:35.278-04:00You really should stop drinking.You really should stop drinking.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-28278418617798150202012-04-17T03:49:51.547-04:002012-04-17T03:49:51.547-04:00Rufus, you sad old guy, do you have inkling of wha...Rufus, you sad old guy, do you have inkling of what it is about?<br /><br /><br />Any idea of what true colors is about, or why your mother gave birth to you, or what death is?<br /><br />Any idea?<br /><br />But, the divine mercy is as constant as the divine creativity, so it is said.<br /><br />But damn it gets tough.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-17741918697593125882012-04-17T03:27:12.872-04:002012-04-17T03:27:12.872-04:00A woman's hips
My mother told me
Can sway like...A woman's hips<br />My mother told me<br />Can sway like the sea<br />They can give you birth<br />And will take it away from thee<br /><br />bobbo<br /><br />xxxx<br /><br />Sex = Death<br /><br />SameAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-21243771565316476982012-04-17T03:16:59.216-04:002012-04-17T03:16:59.216-04:00A woman's hips
My mother told me
Can sway like...A woman's hips<br />My mother told me<br />Can sway like the sea<br />They can give you birth<br />And will take it away from thee<br /><br />bobbo<br /><br />xxxxAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-51767838398878268962012-04-17T02:45:42.697-04:002012-04-17T02:45:42.697-04:00women should be woman, obviously, the the early li...women should be woman, obviously, the the early line.<br /><br />Quirk, is it any good, because I am drunk as a Swedish skunk<br /><br />bobbo<br /><br />xxxxx<br /><br /><br />And when I walked<br />Just recently<br />Over to Rosauer's<br />With wolf prints on my mind<br />And the street wet and shining<br />Under the lamps<br />From the recent rain<br />And no wind in the trees<br />I bought a bottle of wine<br />To help take my pain away<br />And the young women<br />At the counter smiled at me<br />And I said<br />Moving my head towards hers<br />When I saw our community<br />And she moved back to me<br />I said, very low<br />"I think you are Swedish"<br />Very silently<br />Her hair was like that of my daughter<br />And I said<br />"You are like my daughter"<br />She laughed and tossed her hair<br />Which went to her shoulders<br />She said yes, "partly"<br />"Irish is the other part?"<br />"I think so" she said.<br />"But I don't know."<br />"For sure."<br />I said, "we founded Dublin."<br />Her hair was like that of my daughter<br />But with more red<br />I said "I have been listening to Celtic Women"<br />"Do you know them?"?<br />"Oh yes" she said.<br />"Do you know True Colors?"<br />"Oh yes!"<br />She said.<br />I will remember her a long time.<br />I said to her<br />"You are beautiful."<br />She said, almost embarrassed<br />"O thank you"<br />Young womanly, beaming.<br /><br />bobboAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-78387658375276091142012-04-17T02:40:49.319-04:002012-04-17T02:40:49.319-04:00She Took My Pain Away
And when I walked
Just rece...She Took My Pain Away<br /><br /><i>And when I walked<br />Just recently<br />Over to Rosauer's<br />With wolf prints on my mind<br />And the street wet and shining<br />Under the lamps<br />From the recent rain<br />And no wind in the trees<br />I bought a bottle of wine<br />To help take my pain away<br />And the young women<br />At the counter smiled at me<br />And I said<br />Moving my head towards hers<br />When I saw our community<br />And she moved back to me<br />I said, very low<br />"I think you are Swedish"<br />Very silently<br />Her hair was like that of my daughter<br />And I said<br />"You are like my daughter"<br />She laughed and tossed her hair<br />Which went to her shoulders<br />She said yes, "partly"<br />"Irish is the other part?"<br />"I think so" she said.<br />"But I don't know."<br />"For sure."<br />I said, "we founded Dublin."<br />Her hair was like that of my daughter<br />But with more red<br />I said "I have been listening to Celtic Women"<br />"Do you know them?"?<br />"Oh yes" she said.<br />"Do you know True Colors?"<br />"Oh yes!"<br />She said.<br />I will remember her a long time.<br />I said to her<br />"You are beautiful."<br />She said, almost embarrassed<br />"O thank you"<br />Young womanly, beaming.</i><br /><br />bobboAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-55086483089095736012012-04-17T02:30:19.305-04:002012-04-17T02:30:19.305-04:00Cause the poem is really not anything but an old m...Cause the poem is really not anything but an old man's pain<br /><br />That is what it is about.<br /><br /><i>Where are you Quirk when I need you?<br /><br />Goddammit I always fuck it up<br /><br />That should end<br /><br />"She took my pain away."<br /><br />And when I walked<br />Just recently<br />Over to Rosauer's<br />With the wolf prints on my mind<br />And the street wet and shining<br />Under the lamps<br />From the recent rain<br />And no wind in the trees<br />I bought a bottle of wine<br />To help take my pain away<br />And the young women<br />At the counter smiled at me<br />And I said<br />Moving my head towards hers<br />When I saw our community<br />And she moved back<br />I said, very low<br />"I think you are Swedish"<br />Very silently<br />Her hair was like that of my daughter<br />And I said<br />"You are like my daughter"<br />She laughed and tossed her hair<br />Which went to her shoulders<br />She said yes, "partly"<br />"Irish is the other part?"<br />"I think so" she said.<br />"But I don't know."<br />"For sure."<br />I said, we founded Dublin.<br />Her hair was like that of my daughter<br />But with more red<br />I said "I have been listening to Celtic Women"<br />"Do you know them?"?<br />"Oh yes" she said.<br />"Do you know True Colors?"<br />"Oh yes!"<br />She said.<br />I will remember her a long time.<br />I said to her<br />"You are beautiful."<br />She said, almost embarrassed<br />"O thank you"<br />Young womanly, beaming.<br /></i><br />bobboAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-41023139930642885982012-04-17T02:17:02.042-04:002012-04-17T02:17:02.042-04:00Where are you Quirk when I need you?
Goddammit I ...Where are you Quirk when I need you?<br /><br />Goddammit I always fuck it up<br /><br />That should end<br /><br />"She took my pain away."<br /><br />And when I walked<br />Just recently<br />Over to Rosauer's<br />With the wolf prints on my mind<br />And the street wet and shining<br />Under the lamps<br />From the recent rain<br />And no wind in the trees<br />I bought a bottle of wine<br />To help take my pain away<br />And the young women<br />At the counter smiled at me<br />And I said<br />Moving my head towards hers<br />When I saw our community<br />And she moved back<br />I said, very low<br />"I think you are Swedish"<br />Very silently<br />Her hair was like that of my daughter<br />And I said<br />"You are like my daughter"<br />She laughed and tossed her hair<br />Which went to her shoulders<br />She said yes, "partly"<br />"Irish is the other part?"<br />"I think so" she said.<br />"But I don't know."<br />"For sure."<br />I said, we founded Dublin.<br />Her hair was like that of my daughter<br />But with more red<br />I said "I have been listening to Celtic Women"<br />"Do you know them?"?<br />"Oh yes" she said.<br />"Do you know True Colors?"<br />"Oh yes!"<br />She said.<br />I will remember her a long time.<br />I said to her<br />"You are beautiful."<br />She said, almost embarrassed<br />"O thank you"<br />Young womanly, beaming.<br /><br />bobboAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-14872488796980457032012-04-17T02:11:51.575-04:002012-04-17T02:11:51.575-04:00Goddammit I always fuck it up
That should end
&q...Goddammit I always fuck it up<br /><br />That should end<br /><br />"She took my pain away."<br /><br />And when I walked<br />Just recently<br />Over to Rosauer's<br />With the wolf prints on my mind<br />And the street wet and shining<br />Under the lamps<br />From the recent rain<br />And no wind in the trees<br />I bought a bottle of wine<br />To help take my pain away<br />And the young women<br />At the counter smiled at me<br />And I said<br />Moving my head towards hers<br />When I saw our community<br />And she moved back<br />I said, very low<br />"I think you are Swedish"<br />Very silently<br />Her hair was like that of my daughter<br />And I said<br />"You are like my daughter"<br />She laughed and tossed her hair<br />Which went to her shoulders<br />She said yes, "partly"<br />"Irish is the other part?"<br />"I think so" she said.<br />"But I don't know."<br />"For sure."<br />I said, we founded Dublin.<br />Her hair was like that of my daughter<br />But with more red<br />I said "I have been listening to Celtic Women"<br />"Do you know them?"?<br />"Oh yes" she said.<br />"Do you know True Colors?"<br />"Oh yes!"<br />She said.<br />I will remember her a long time.<br />I said to her<br />"You are beautiful."<br />She said, almost embarrassed<br />"O thank you"<br />Young womanly, beaming.<br /><br />bobboAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-49663897747455907122012-04-17T02:03:08.512-04:002012-04-17T02:03:08.512-04:00And when I walked
Just recently
Over to Rosauer...And when I walked<br />Just recently<br />Over to Rosauer's<br />With the wolf prints on my mind<br />And the street wet and shining<br />Under the lamps<br />From the recent rain<br />And no wind in the trees<br />I bought a bottle of wine<br />To help take my pain away<br />And the young women<br />At the counter smiled at me<br />And I said<br />Moving my head towards hers<br />When I saw our community<br />And she moved back<br />I said, very low<br />"I think you are Swedish"<br />Very silently<br />Her hair was like that of my daughter<br />And I said<br />"You are like my daughter"<br />She laughed and tossed her hair<br />Which went to her shoulders<br />She said yes, "partly"<br />"Irish is the other part?"<br />"I think so" she said.<br />"But I don't know."<br />"For sure."<br />I said, we founded Dublin.<br />Her hair was like that of my daughter<br />But with more red<br />I said "I have been listening to Celtic Women"<br />"Do you know them?"?<br />"Oh yes" she said.<br />"Do you know True Colors?"<br />"Oh yes!"<br />She said.<br />I will remember her a long time.<br />I said to her<br />"You are beautiful."<br />She said, almost embarrassed<br />"O thank you"<br />Young womanly, beaming.<br /><br />bobboAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-51681926911700675292012-04-17T01:44:51.419-04:002012-04-17T01:44:51.419-04:00Thanks, Quirk. Good one.Thanks, Quirk. Good one.samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11856051164644278989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-32515021317169474002012-04-17T01:01:38.303-04:002012-04-17T01:01:38.303-04:00I explained my support for Roseanne's comments...I explained my support for Roseanne's comments with the venal vs stupid qualifiers to distinguish the two episodes defining the context under discussion. You claimed not to understand "venal" even though I related it directly to aggressive religiosity and a traditional conservative view of women having a specific place in "god's order." The words stand as they are. No mind-reading required to acknowledge context.Max (short for Maxine)http://url.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-21911723865786002892012-04-17T01:00:28.366-04:002012-04-17T01:00:28.366-04:00.
Iran's Nuke Victory?
..<br /><br /><a href="http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/iran_nuke_victory_ONSJsXtmFLlHTL1nOKOOqK" rel="nofollow">Iran's Nuke Victory?</a><br /><br />.Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-19508673467298459602012-04-17T00:49:26.894-04:002012-04-17T00:49:26.894-04:00.
The 7 Strangest Wars"
..<br /><br /><a href="http://www.oddee.com/item_96610.aspx" rel="nofollow">The 7 Strangest Wars"</a><br /><br /><br />.Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-26310434558364014722012-04-17T00:37:19.741-04:002012-04-17T00:37:19.741-04:00As we walk through the Department of Energy’s fiel...<i>As we walk through the Department of Energy’s field office in remote Carlsbad, Susana Martinez is explaining the science of nuclear waste management. At the federally managed Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, about 25 miles east of here and more than 2,000 feet below the dusty, barren surface, the government deposits much of its radioactive waste.<br /><br />...<br /><br />If Martinez is to be believed, then, her next campaign will be for reelection in 2014. After that?<br /><br />Well, that could be interesting.</i><br /><br /><a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/no-susana_637017.html?page=1" rel="nofollow">No Susana</a>samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11856051164644278989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-61405542142723737372012-04-17T00:34:47.710-04:002012-04-17T00:34:47.710-04:00.
Mea culpa.
I apologize for responding to the w....<br /><br />Mea culpa.<br /><br />I apologize for responding to the words you post. In the future, I will try to anticipate what it is you are actually thinking and respond to that instead.<br /><br />.Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-5762685713024740412012-04-17T00:23:20.737-04:002012-04-17T00:23:20.737-04:00It's a blog. If I tried to rhetorically compe...It's a blog. If I tried to rhetorically compensate for every interpretive variant, you would get word salad, which reminds me of some of Ben Stiller's funnier work ... and some of your writing.Max (short for Maxine)http://url.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-64052643887109190052012-04-17T00:11:16.421-04:002012-04-17T00:11:16.421-04:00.
I don't agree completely but ceded the even....<br /><br /><i>I don't agree completely but ceded the event in order to speak to the larger issues defined by the context of the Fluck episode, not necessarily by the episode itself.</i><br /><br /><br />If that was what was actually important to you, perhaps you should have started out with that simple statement rather than merely saying "You go girl" which led us off into a conversation that was only tangentially related.<br /><br />Just saying.<br /><br />.Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-78213170031220544742012-04-17T00:03:51.487-04:002012-04-17T00:03:51.487-04:00Eros and thanatos ...
Someone's been watching...Eros and thanatos ...<br /><br />Someone's been watching <i>Assault on Precinct 13</i> again.Max (short for Maxine)http://url.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-85351794892863552672012-04-16T23:57:28.856-04:002012-04-16T23:57:28.856-04:00I see my Huffington Post link below was printed. ...I see my Huffington Post link below was printed. After several hours. Previous HP links have been chewed up without posting. More than meets the eye.Max (short for Maxine)http://url.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-15346786922304966282012-04-16T23:52:42.562-04:002012-04-16T23:52:42.562-04:00Context. The thing that surrounds most "subj...Context. The thing that surrounds most "subjects" and imbues them with a layered definition. The Fluck incident, by itself, has a singular definition (according to some), which is freedom of religion. I don't agree completely but ceded the event in order to speak to the larger issues defined by the context of the Fluck episode, not necessarily by the episode itself. So here we are again splitting hairs and playing traffic cop. So be it.Max (short for Maxine)http://url.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-55376624539450071092012-04-16T23:41:00.241-04:002012-04-16T23:41:00.241-04:00No, they don't.
You're very clever with w...No, they don't.<br /><br />You're very clever with words but your math needs work.Max (short for Maxine)http://url.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-27531798583929040062012-04-16T23:21:49.970-04:002012-04-16T23:21:49.970-04:00.
I moved on to different subjects but you "....<br /><br /><i>I moved on to different subjects but you "clung bitterly(?)"</i><br /><br /><br />Clung bitterly?<br /><br /><br />:)<br /><br /><br />The initial subject at hand was Roseanne Barr's observation that Rosen's comment was stupid (my word) and the author of the article's (I assume) observation that it was merely the 'kind of "fake issue" both parties use to divide women.'<br /><br /><br />I responded to that. You then said that <i>"the subject is more complicated and directly related to the radical religiosity that erupts from the Right at decidedly odd times in the form of "god's plan/place for woman - and man" ...<br /><br />Coupled with the lingering just below the surface seething hatred of Roe v Wade.</i><br /><br />The subject? What subject, if not the one we were talking about?This comment represented either an extension of the intial point (which I took it to be) or an 180 left turn which you seem to be suggesting right now.<br /><br />In either case, my answers to the questions you asked still apply.<br /><br />However, I do apologize for all the clinging.<br /><br />:)<br /><br /><br />.Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-90891465584834936622012-04-16T22:41:31.738-04:002012-04-16T22:41:31.738-04:00The goal is to appeal to wider audiences than seve...<i>The goal is to appeal to wider audiences than several recent co-productions including Fox Searchlight's "Snow Flower and the Secret Fan," which only grossed $7.1 million in China and $1.2 million in the U.S. Fox Searchlight is owned by News Corp., publisher of The Wall Street Journal.<br /><br />Another worry: seeing popular Chinese movies like "Let the Bullets Fly," a 2010 action-comedy from China Film Group and Emperor Motion Pictures, only play in limited release in the U.S. "Bullets" is China's highest-grossing Chinese film of all time but has brought in roughly $61,000 from 15 locations in the U.S. since its release earlier this year.<br /><br />"The audience for this film is your geek, fan boy and cult film crowds," said Jason Pfardrescher of Well Go USA Entertainment, the studio distributing the film in America. "It's definitely not mainstream America."</i>samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11856051164644278989noreply@blogger.com