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HURRICANE KATRINA ELEVEN MONTHS LATER
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WINGNUT VERSUS MOONBAT
Two guest editorialists, one liberal and the other conservative, debate the lessons of the Hurricane Katrina disaster. Who do you think is right? The Wingnut or the Moonbat? Remember to vote in our online poll, at the bottom left of this very page! - YOPJ
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KATRINA... LIBERALISM'S LAST STAND
With Hurricane Katrina, Americans were given a rare opportunity to witness a test of their fellow citizens' mettle. Some came through with flying colors. In the flooded streets of New Orleans, we witnessed countless acts of self-sacrifice, great charity, inspiring heroism, unshakable faith and resolve in the face of adversity. But we also saw far too much of the dark side. In disturbingly short order, the Big Easy turned into a war zone where criminals took advantage of the chaos to loot stores and homes, to assault, rape and kill the helpless, to take pot-shots at their would-be rescuers. In short, to descend into a state of anarchy.
Those were the two extremes: the heroes and villains of Katrina. But what about the people in the middle? The people reduced to sitting around with their hands out like beggars in some Third World country, completely clueless, able only to whine and moan about how "the government" wasn't doing enough to help them? Even more than the criminal element, the behavior of New Orleans' Left Behind illustrates a sorry state of affairs in our nation. Looters and rapists we can handle; a completely helpless and incompetent citizenry is an altogether different matter.
Who is to blame for the pathetic softness that has overtaken this once proud and industrious nation? What happened to make the people of New Orleans so dependent, so incapable of taking care of themselves? I'll tell you what happened… The Great Society happened. The Welfare State happened. The ACLU happened. Big Daddy Government and the Nanny State happened. In other words, LIBERALISM happened.
How else can we explain the mindset on display in New Orleans -- not to mention in most of the media -- that the President should have single-handedly evacuated the city, fed the hungry, healed the sick, and driven back the flood waters with a wave of his finger? Thanks to the long-dominant liberal philosophy, we have inadvertently trained a vast segment of the American public to see themselves as poor and helpless, so-called victims of everything from "institutionalized racism" to plain old bad luck. Instead of rescuing themselves, they wait around to be rescued, and complain when that rescue takes too long.
The lessons of Katrina are hard ones, and I'm worried that my fellow citizens might not see the writing on the wall. Already I've heard talk about the need to "improve" government bureaucracies like FEMA, to better "prepare" for the next catastrophe, and to increase the role of the military in future national emergencies. Don't people understand that "improve" is simply a code word for "more of the same"? And isn't it obvious at this point that the last thing we need is more of the same?
In the sixties, Lyndon Johnson tried to solve poverty by giving poor people more money. The end result? An increase in poverty and race riots in every major American city. In the wake of Katrina, any true improvement will consist of helping people help themselves, and getting rid of the crippling, liberal-tainted mentality that makes people sit down in the middle of the street and wait for somebody else to come to their rescue.
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KATRINA HIGHLIGHTS FAILURES OF CONSERVATISM
A thousand innocent lives and one of America's most culturally important cities weren't the only things washed away by Hurricane Katrina this month. The illusion of the Bush administration's control over the nation's security, as well as the idea of conservative competence in general, lie in sewage-soaked tatters in the streets of New Orleans alongside the still unrecovered corpses being picked apart by starving dogs.
There are already signs that Katrina has changed the way Americans think about their government, and the role it should play in their lives. All of a sudden, people about whom we hardly ever pay attention -- poor people, the elderly, ghettoized minorities -- were forced into our collective consciousness. Via the media, we all witnessed their misery, their tragedy, and their unconscionable abandonment to the cruel vicissitude of nature.
As the initial drowning of New Orleans stretched into long days of chaos and despair, most of us could hardly believe our eyes. In America, the richest and most powerful nation on the planet, people were slowly dying in the streets for lack of water and food. Even on-the-scene reporters from FOX News couldn't believe what they were seeing, couldn't hold back their exasperation and contempt. Why wasn't anybody helping these people? Where was the National Guard? Where was FEMA? Answering these two questions begins to get us at the heart of the matter.
Half of Louisiana's National Guardsmen -- most of whom originally signed up to help out in emergencies just like Katrina -- are currently stuck in Iraq, pawns in an ideologically-driven war game that was carelessly conceived and incompetently implemented by the conservative think tank chicken-hawks who control America's foreign policy.
As for FEMA, it was folded into the Department of Homeland Security during the wholesale bureaucratic restructuring that followed the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. From that day forward, FEMA became just another redundant government entity; a place for inexperienced crony appointees to pad out their résumés. What's worse, FEMA was made subservient to the DHS, an organization which devoted its first four years to creating color-coded terror charts, telling people to stock up on duct tape, and issuing "terror alerts" whenever the President's poll numbers started to dip. And even when FEMA agents did reach New Orleans, their behavior was inexplicable. Cutting communication lines, stopping supplies from entering the city, preventing survivors from leaving... they acted more like an occupying army than a rescue force.
There are many reasons for what happened, and many factors that helped make the Katrina disaster so much worse than it should have been. There is no single, linchpin mistake or bureaucratic roadblock that is solely responsible. The lack of effective federal-state communications played a role, as did putting an Arabian horse expert in charge of FEMA. Cutting the budgets for fixing New Orleans' levees seems like a pretty big mistake in hindsight.
At the end of the day, though, the core problem was not one of structure, but of politics… of the values and principles that guide the Bush administration. Grover Norquist, one of the nation's most influential conservative movement activists, once said: "My goal is to cut government in half in the next twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub." And after the funeral… what then? According to people like Norquist, the dog-eat-dog logic of the market will rule, and all will be well.
Unfortunately, that self-fulfilling prophecy has come to pass, only the bathtub was New Orleans and the dogs aren't restricting themselves to a cannibal's diet. Much to the Bush administration's chagrin, Americans actually care about their fellow citizens, and would rather see the common wealth be used for the common good than to fatten Halliburton's offshore bank accounts.
With the Katrina catastrophe, the core values and principles of the modern conservative movement -- the ideas that individual initiative is paramount, that the market takes care of everything, and that government is unimportant at best -- have been tested, and found wanting.
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Send all Jokes, Letters and other stuff to Jerky:
jerkyleboeuf@gmail.com
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JOKES!
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Today's first joke was sent in by Kerusty Kerlown!
A woman was quite distraught because she had not had a date or any sex in quite some time. She was afraid she might have something wrong with her, so she decided to employ the medical expertise of a sex therapist.
Her doctor recommended that she go and see Dr Chang, the well-known sex therapist. So she went to see him. Upon entering the examination room, Dr Chang said, 'OK, take off all you crose.'
So she did.
Dr Chang then said, 'Ok, now craw rery fass to offa side of room.'
So she did.
Dr Chang then said, 'OK' now craw rery fass to me,'
So she did.
Dr Chang slowly shook his head and said, 'Your ploblem velly bad, you hef Ed Zachary Disease, worse case I ever see, that why you not hef sex or dates.'
Confused the woman asked, 'What is Ed Zachary Disease?'
Dr Chang replied, 'It when your face rook Ed Zachary rike your arse!'
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Thanks to our old pal Brummbaer for sending in today's second joke.
A FIREMAN came home from work one day and told his wife, "You know, we have a wonderful system at the fire station: BELL 1 rings and we all put on our jackets, BELL 2 rings and we all slide down the pole, BELL 3 rings and we're on the fire truck ready to go.
"From now on when I say BELL 1, I want you to strip naked. When say BELL 2, I want you to jump in bed. And when I say BELL 3, we are going to make love all night." The next night he came home from work and yelled, "BELL 1!" The wife promptly took all her clothes off.
When he yelled "BELL 2!", the wife jumped into bed. When he yelled "BELL 3!", they began making love. After a few minutes the wife yelled "BELL 4!" "What the heck is BELL 4?" asked the husband?
"ROLL OUT MORE HOSE," she replied, "YOU'RE NOWHERE NEAR THE FIRE."
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WORST JOKE OF THE DAY
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Today's groaner was sent in by Nan or Ben...
A man and his wife walked into a dentist's office. The man said to the dentist, "Doc, I'm in one hell of a hurry! I have two buddies sitting out in my car waiting for us to go play golf. So forget about the anesthetic and just pull the tooth and be done with it. We have a 10:00 AM tee time at the best golf course in town and it's 9:30 already. I don't have time to wait for the anesthetic to work!"
The dentist thought to himself, "My goodness, this is surely a very brave man asking to have his tooth pulled without using anything to kill the pain." So the dentist ask him, "Which tooth is it sir?"
The man turned to his wife and said, "Open your mouth Honey, and show him."
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THEY SAID IT!
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"Republican House leadership has been so unalterably corrupted by power and money that reasonable Republicans should support Democrats against DeLay-type Republican incumbents in 2006."
- Former Republican Congressman and Presidential candidate Pete McCloskey drops a bombshell.
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"Who is the real Ahmad Chalabi?"
- William River Pitt asks the question, and the only thing yer old pal Jerky is sure of is the fact that Chalabi ain't Eminem, and he smells faintly of hummus.
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ON THIS DAY
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July 27
On this day in 1586, Sir Walter Raleigh brings the first ever shipment of tobacco from the New World (Virginia) to England, where the addiction takes firm hold and begins to spread -- much like cancerous polyps -- across Europe. Eventually, the sweeter leaf makes its way down through the Muslim lands and around Asia until basically, the entire planet is hooked and puffing. Combined with the arrival from the opposite direction of coffee -- and caffeine -- a mere thirty years later, is it any wonder that the ensuing century would be so productive when compared to, say, the previous ten?
On this day in 1837, the United States Mint opens in Charlotte, North Carolina. Exactly seven years later to the day -- in 1844 -- it burns to the ground in a fire. Kinda makes you wonder why they bothered building it in the FIRST fuckin' place!
On this day in 1940, Billboard Magazine publishes the very first Top 20 music chart, helping to foster a cultural environment where The Monkees, Hootie and the Blowfish and Britney Spears are worshipped like gods.
On this day in 1991, "rocker" Jani Lane, of the "rock" group Warrant, marries a model by the name of Bobbie Brown. Hmmm… hold on, let yer old pal Jerky go get his consequentiality-measuring dookicky and run this item through it. Yep! Just as I thought! This is officially the single most inconsequential "on this day" item ever run in the Daily Dirt! You've just been witness to a little slice of history, folks! Give yourselves a round of applause! Go on, you deserve it!!!
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READER'S SOAPBOX!
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Got a gripe? Pet peeve? Have your say in the Daily Dirt! Columns can pretty much be about anything, as long they meet the following criteria: 1) don't write shit that'll get us in trouble. 2) Keep it interesting. 3) Keep it short. 4) We don't edit your mistakes. Oh yeah! feel free to send a picture of yourself if you want.
TOPIC: ANOTHER LAST-CHANCE LAWSUIT
care of: The Honorable Congressman John Conyers Jr. (D-Michigan)
I wanted to update you on the lawsuit I have filed against George W. Bush and members of his administration, referred to in legal parlance as Conyers v. Bush.
You are likely familiar with a number of steps I have taken to challenge the legality and constitutional grounds of the Administration's actions. From the lead up to Iraq, to the Downing Street Minutes, to the outing of a CIA agent, to warrantless wiretapping of U.S. citizens, I have called loudly for the Bush White House to explain itself.
I decided to file suit against the President in Federal Court in Michigan, along with 11 Senior Democratic Members of Congress. This suit was necessary because of a clear violation of the constitution. When the President signed the Deficit Reduction Act (which "reduced" the deficit by cutting taxes, health care benefits, and student loans), he signed into law a bill that had not passed the House and Senate. A different version of the bill passed each house of Congress with a multi-billion dollar difference in funding for life-saving medical equipment.
Anyone who ever watched Schoolhouse Rock knows this to be a problem.
Given the stakes involved I felt it was imperative to aggressively take this fight to the courts. The President's lawyers tried to get the bill dismissed, but late last week I responded with legal filings that stand up for the rule of law and the Constitution and hope to bring the President, and our United States government, back under the rule of law.
I wanted to email you this news today to update you on our efforts and to thank you for your help and support. Thank you also for your continued dedication to a better democracy.
Sincerely,
John Conyers Jr.
[Good luck sir. - Jerky]
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FIRST AMENDMENT ZONE / ASK JERKY!
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Hey there Jerkanator, I need a judgement call-which is more ironic. 1) The fact that Snowflake Children would not exist if it wasnt for stem cell research? or 2) The fact that when snowflake children were "invented" the religious right claimed doctors were playing God? or 3) Considering #2 is it ironic that those whom were protested are now the centerpiece of "family values"? Just asking. I cant figure out which is the better irony. Later, The Dalhi Bobba
[I think it's a big twisted knot of irony. - Jerky]
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Hi Mate; Somehow the immortal Zappa seems to be poping his ugly head up a lot lately. Got me into searching for vids. Now we'll prolly get flooded with them :). Here's one called Stevie's Spanking. Great as Steve Vai is, he took a spanking from the master. I've found some amazing stuff I didn't know that was available about the Man. Check him out. yer mate Sklag
[I've seen it of course, but hopefully others will check out the link and get switched on to Zappa. - Jerky]
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Hey Jerky; This is pretty fucking cool. My HALO 2 poster went 3-D! RW Sharp
[Damn effective optical illusion! - Jerky]
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Jerky; Here's a lesson on how to motivate your employees, based on some ideas by Rube Goldberg. Trembly Dale
[Good old Rube. - Jerky]
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Hey Jerky... Death Squads?! Zod the Great
[Yes, and unfortunately, you have to fight death squads with death squads. - Jerky]
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From the Republican playbook: "Never allow the public to cool off; never admit a fault or wrong; never concede that there may be some good in your enemy; never leave room for alternatives; never accept blame; concentrate on one enemy at a time and blame him for everything that goes wrong; people will believe a big lie sooner than a little one; and if you repeat it frequently enough people will sooner or later believe it." Oh, MY... it seems to have been copied from another playbook (page 51). But, then again... it's ALL About the BIG LIE, huh? Wally
[This certainly appears to be the case. - Jerky]
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Mr LeBoeuf, Here are some Lexicon entries for ya! Aram
MONOFTEN - a monsoon that doesn't end.
PHARMASEX - chemically enabled sex
VIAGRAVATION - getting a phone call during Pharmasex
[Heheheh... - Jerky]
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From Jerky : Nothing homosexual, guys, but the Dirt is in trouble. My employers feel that my efforts would be put to better use elsewhere. One final push is coming, to re-create the Dirt in a more profitable way, but... well... I'll keep you posted, anyway.
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From Jolly Sapper : Good to know I'm not the only one noticing the sudden slowdown on updates. Though I missed any mention of "changes" in the works.
Hell maybe ol' Jerkmeister had another run in with some wasabi.
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From Beudreaux : Well....Sindy....if it's any business of yours I'm wearing my Green Lantern jammies with the feet in them! And I certainly resent these intrusive questions!
The very idear....HEMPH!
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From SofaKing : The local Thai food restaurant just added something called "Jerky Pad Thai"...
Anyone know what that means?
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From Six : I'm telling you- he's MIA as a result of something homosexual. Something to do with the upcoming changes in the 'Dirt.
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From Sindy : Hey Beudreaux, what are YOU wearing?? I seriously doubt Jerky would just disappear without saying good-bye to us, at the very least. My bet is he's coming up with something great to keep his following following. No worries, I'll be here waiting, forcing myself to be patient...
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From Beudreaux : The THAIS finally got him? They probably took him hostage and are making him watch child porn! Those deviates. Their banner ads for Thailands website reads "WELCOME PEDOPHILES! WE DON'T PROSECUTE!" Anybody else read about their King pardoning all those Australian pedophiles? Amazing.
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From FireFox : We could all congregate over at Six's blog, or at my forums if Jerky is done here. Damn, I hate to see this go away. All the years spent here...seems like a good friend has gone.
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From ThousandDemons : They got him? NO-O-O!
NOW where am I gonna get my fix of comedy and old porn?
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From SofaKing : Maybe Jerky's just trying to see how long we'll hang out...
OOOO! I know! The Thai's got him! He never should have underestimated the craftiness of the Southeast Asian.
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From Beudreaux : Hey Sindy....
We'll figure out something to talk about....hmmmmm....
What are you wearing?
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From Sindy : It seems we are, Beudreaux. We need our Daily Dirt to keep going, so we have something new to talk about.
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From Beudreaux : Are we bottomed out here?
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From Helen Handbasket : Helen Handbasket is also a good satire site one MOPJ put a link to in these very pages. remeber VOTE SATAN 2004!
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From Fi : Hey Six, yawninganus is your site isn't it?
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From FireFox : Magyar, it was a joke. To the wingnuts, Soros backs all things liberal, or critical of the Bush junta. That is a running joke on many of the forums/blogs I read.
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From Sindy : Thanks Six, I'll check 'em out!
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From Six : I'm bored too Sindy. Might I recommend 8bm dot com as a poor, but quite entertaining subsititute? Then there's always that class yawninganus dot blogspot dot com to strike paranoia and fear into the pulps of your teeth.
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From Sindy : Here at work SO BORED - where's the New Dirt?? Oh, and please ignore that husband of mine.
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From Magyar : Dear "FIREFOX" what makes you think George Soros the Hungarian Billionaire and founder of the Open Society is financing the Dailydirt?
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From Six : Yikes Beudreaux! That's what I do with my own blog and only post when I'm not spending all my time posting to this one. I think that's sort of like the "Final Change," you know, like someone's "Final expenses."
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From Beudreaux : Perhaps we're already involved in the 'change'. Perhaps this is the last Dirt we will ever see. Maybe this Dirt will remain on the website for three or four months and then thats it. The entire website is eventually shut down.
Jerky...diabolical guy that he is... is showing us that his idea of change is no change at all.... forever?
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From ThousandDemons : Nightmarish scenarios aside, Jerky, what changes do you have in mind?
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From Beudreaux : Jerkys bailing man....I can feel it....and I don't care if he IS gay. (Not that there's anything WRONG with that!) I mean, he wouldn't have said anything about a "change" if was just dirtier porn banners or something.
I've been moping around the scatter all day.
Hey...wait a minute. You don't think he's getting married is he? Maybe to some guy named Lance?
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From SofaKing : Yes, Beaudreau... You are on the right track.
Jerky is actually an Uglitron Nightmare. HER true appearance is that of JerkyHotti and the Pussymonster is what's between HER legs. Yes, she's gay, hence the chick-heavy porn site he works for. As for Sindy... a fictitious female psudonemn designed to represent and soften the blow of the revelation of Jerky's true identity! Now you all know what his... urmm, Her big change is...
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From Beudreaux : Puff puff
Jerkys gay? He knows the pussymonster? Sindys a coaster?
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From FireFox : don't tease us, ya bastard P
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From fla man : i heard the change is gonna be new merchandise. any one for coasters with sindy's pic on it
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From Six : YES!!! I forgot about the Jerky Hotti image. Almost as classic as the pussymonster.
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From FireFox : damn, somebody go get me the windex, I gotta get this tea off my monitor screen.......reloads......puff, puff, pass
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From SofaKing : Good one, Six...
I guess Jerky will have to change his character up a bit to match. May I suggest the Jerky Hotti image?
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From Six : I have insider info on the changes coming up. Some marketing yayhoo discovered that a lot of homos read the 'Dirt (Is Aram gay?) and now it's going to be called The Gayly Girth/Girthfiles and cater to flits and fairies in the ads and content. So look out!
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From Sindy : (LOL at SofaKing - Gimme that, Bogey!) Puff puff pass... I already have a couple of mugs, maybe I should get a T-shirt now...
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From SofaKing : Yeah, Jerky's line about appreciating all of his friends visiting everyday kinda sounded like a "goodbye".
Puff, puff....pass...Psyche!... Puff, puff... pass...
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From FireFox : I was thinking about that last night. Gotta have the 1984 shirt for sure.
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From Beudreaux : Well.... I don't know about youse guys but I'm gonna be hitting DD's accessories website next week and pick up some coffee mugs and t-shirts.
If nothing else, mebbe they'll become memmorabilia or collectors items in a year or two. (sigh)
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From FireFox : It better not be the weeklydirt or the monthlydirt or there's gonna be some ass-whoopin' involved
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From Beudreaux : Puff puff gaghackcoughjesuschrist!
He's gonna bail. I can feel it coming too Sindy.
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From Sindy : Puff puff pass... Maybe it's my paranoia, but Jerky sounded a little ominous in mentioning changes. I sure hope you're not going anywhere, Jerky.
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From Beudreaux : "Change"? Oh gawd.....this can't be good.
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From SofaKing : That was my phrase, Six. But, in the spirit of Jerky's Dirt, plagiarism is accepted. Use it at will, my good man.
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From Six : CHANGES???? I HATE CHANGES!!! But I guess we've all survived the 'Dirt's many changes over the years from Pig McBaker to Horny Toad McSlade to the "Disturbing new banner ads"...what's the worst that change could bring?
Oh yeah Firefox- I'm gonna have to use that "mouse in one hand and rat in the other" gag.
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From Sindy : I hope you'll keep up the great writing.
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From FireFox : Changes? Vee don't need no stinking changes. Are you gonna switch to more of a blog format? Soros giving you more money now? ROFLMFAO
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From Jerky : Sindy's hubby is a generous man, and for that I am eternally thankful. As I am for having such great friends who visit this website on a daily basis. I just want to take a moment here to thank you guys for reading and participating, and to give you a head's up that changes are coming.
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From Sindy : You guys are great - had me laughing all day! I've been here for prolly 8 yrs and now I not only read the Dirt for Jerky's great writing, I get to have a lot of great laughs with you guys. The thing that sucks is it's "out" that I'm married & Jerky won't ask me to marry him anymore! I told you, if I wasn't already married... As for the pic, it's entirely up to Jerky to show the pic I sent. I leave to his esteemed judgement to share or not.
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From Catalog : Very good site! I like it! Thanks!
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From SofaKing : Sindy and Hubby...
You gotta know that we're ALL surprized that there is actually a woman in here. Do us a solid and tell Jerky to share. We're lonely shut-ins with our mouse in one hand and our rat in the other... Show us some titty, if you please.
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From Beudreaux : Well....flamen and Sindy.... you folks are good sports... considering what we put you through.
That was fun.
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From YOPF : Excellent Dirt, but today the comments are even better! Sindy, will you please send me a pic? My email addy is...oh I'm just kidding - though I really would love to see that pic. C'mon, Jerky don't bogart the free porn!
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From FireFox : lol Six, lol....hey wait
flaman, good on ya, bro
you're a better man than I, I would never send Jerky a picture of my woman, he's as twisted as I am.
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From flaman : believe it or not fellows.. im sindy's husband trust me no tan lines.jerky enjoy the pic and use it often. i am a LUCKY MAN.
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From Six : Right Firefox. First he snubs Chuck E. Buoy, then the Thais, now those of us so desperate for human interaction we regularly post to our Old Pal Jerky's Dirtfiles. What's this world coming to?
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From FireFox : So that's how it's gonna be, huh? A faithful reader since the beginning, even when I had a bout of unemployment and had to randomly break into houses, hope they had internet, and guess their dial-up password just to read the dirt. I see how it is.
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From Kaltros : Wingnut is making the argument "The President can't do everything for everybody", and while true, it does ignore the responsibilities the President had to, oh, say... pay attention during the briefing in which he was told the risk of imminent levy failure?
Kindly phrased, Bush is a complete failure at fulfilling his duties. At worst, he is a criminal complicit in rampant theft and murder.
Anybody want to rent seats at the Hague? We can hope...
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From Six : Wait a second- I just figured something out. Sindy is Goatse.cx himself in all his red sock glory, and Jerky is actually Sindy in disguise telling the rest of us to....wait for it....wait for it..."stick a sock in it" about the photo. Now what I want to know is where's Chuck E. Buoy today?
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From Jerky : Sindy's pic is all mine and I ain't sharin, so there.
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From Six : Red sock...that's gotta be a Goatse.cx reference!
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From Sindy : Let's say my tan is average, I don't like cooking in the sun like I used to. And since you guys are regulars, consider the red sock done.
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From Beudreaux : Ok....we know she lives in a Gulf state..... Six? You take Florida. Sofaking? Cover Mississippi. I'll take Louisiana. Obviously we're gonna have to do this the hard way....cuz Jerky ain't parting with the goods. Sindy? Help us out by putting a red sock on your doorknob. We'll find you sweetie.
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From Six : C'mon Sindy... we're desperate here. After all, we're Dirtfiles regulars who don't even get to see the smut from the original 'Dirt because we're at work and TPTB don't like us looking at the 'Dirt on company time.
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From SofaKing : Yes, Sindy... Jerky DOES deserve the pic, but let's not forget what his primary business is Being a Porn Peddler. In that logic, he has a responsibility to share with the rest of us. BTW... Do you have a nice tan, too?
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From Sindy : FireFox, you crack me up! If Jerky wants to keep the pic to himself, I'm fine with that. Dosn't he deserve it?
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From RASTY : Zappa was one of a kind and rules to this day.
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From FireFox : So Sindy is from Florida and probably has a nice tan.....damn you Jerky.
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From Beudreaux : (con't) declare open season on the disabled instead of building them wheelchair ramps.
("skyrocketing" sorry)
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From Sindy : I'm with Moonbat on this one. Having been through 3 of the 4 hurricanes to hit my state a couple of years ago, I really have been there and have seen what it's like - Katrina could have so easily happened to me! Moonbat is right. Great Dirt today Jerky, thanks!
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From YOPF : I guarandamntee you that this wingnut is a soft little slob that's never missed a meal in his life and is still suckling at mommy's tete. As for his position, it's as usual, a pack of lies, half-truths, and omissions. I tell ya I'm way beyond the point where I even debate these assholes anymore. I just tell'em to shut the F up or I'll smack the GD taste out of their mouths. They shut up and pout and that's the end of it. And I'm not kidding.
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From Beudreaux : We tossed out "Survival of the Fittest" when society deemed all life precious. I don't know when that happened but I can guarantee you it was before my time. And the "welfare programs" this idiot wants to dump are the very programs that are helping to turn our impoverished around. Take a look around.... all those "programs" are being dumped even as we speak and the crime rate is skyrockeding. If the neocons want to take this to the next level then perhaps we should declare open season on the disa
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From FireFox : I think the Zappa/Vai video is the single greatest thing I have ever seen. Well, recently anyway.
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From Perplexed : Unless Wingnut would be willing to plop him/herself right down in the midst of the devastation and chaos, be forced to live without food, water, electricity, plumbing and THEN come back and give his/her opinion, perhaps I'd give it some value and consideration. Certainly, there are problems with the Welfare system (designed to keep recipients dependent upon it), but what's that got to do with Katrina? The boob.
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From ThousandDemons : As might be expected, I think that Moonbat's in the right.
Wingnut has missed the whole point, clearly, forgetting that, even if they'd wished to escape, national guardsmen were preventing people leaving. Typical conserva-nut.
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