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stevedeshazer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-06-06 11:52 PM
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" Down, down, down. Would the fall never come to an end!"
"`I wonder how many miles I've fallen by this time?' she said aloud. `I must be getting somewhere near the centre of the earth. Let me see: that would be four thousand miles down, I think--' (for, you see, Alice had learnt several things of this sort in her lessons in the schoolroom, and though this was not a very good opportunity for showing off her knowledge, as there was no one to listen to her, still it was good practice to say it over) `--yes, that's about the right distance--but then I wonder what Latitude or Longitude I've got to?' (Alice had no idea what Latitude was, or Longitude either, but thought they were nice grand words to say."

Presently she began again. `I wonder if I shall fall right through the earth! How funny it'll seem to come out among the people that walk with their heads downward! The Antipathies, I think--' (she was rather glad there was no one listening, this time, as it didn't sound at all the right word) `--but I shall have to ask them what the name of the country is, you know. Please, Ma'am, is this New Zealand or Australia?' (and she tried to curtsey as she spoke--fancy curtseying as you're falling through the air! Do you think you could manage it?) `And what an ignorant little girl she'll think me for asking! No, it'll never do to ask: perhaps I shall see it written up somewhere.'

-from Alice In Wonderland

I can't explain myself, I'm afraid, Sir, because I'm not myself you see.

Curiouser and curiouser! Well, I never heard it before, but it sounds uncommon nonsense.
We're all mad here.
Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end: then stop.
It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.
What is the use of repeating all that stuff, if you don't explain it as you go on? It's by far the most confusing thing I ever heard!

What if I should fall right through the center of the earth... oh, and come out the other side, where people walk upside down.
If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?

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liberalhistorian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-06-06 11:59 PM
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1. Wow!
Very powerful, good job! And so very appropriate, too; I've felt like we were all Alices in Wonderland for the past five years.
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cry baby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-07-06 12:04 AM
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2. It seems we are through the looking glass.
makes me sad.
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liberalhistorian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-07-06 12:14 AM
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3. That pic of Lieberman is especially
damning. I wish to hell he'd just make it official and switch parties already; he's a repub in all but name.
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stevedeshazer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-07-06 12:15 AM
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4. Republican-land
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Kurovski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-07-06 03:11 AM
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9. Complete with a flowing stream of Kool-aid.
Edited on Tue Feb-07-06 03:13 AM by Kurovski
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UL_Approved Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-07-06 12:22 AM
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5. Very nice, very nice.
This pretty much sums up the last six years of drivel. Now someone needs to do an Orwell pictorial of the shenanigans.

Minilove is in full force, and is now in the spotlight. Any other takers?
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bleever Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-07-06 12:37 AM
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6. Oh what a tangled web we weave,
Or unweave,
If our name be Steve.




Beautifully put together.
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ClayZ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-07-06 12:41 AM
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7. White Rabbit! Thanks Steve_DeShazer
When logic and proportion
Have fallen sloppy dead
And the White Knight is talking backwards
And the Red Queen's "off with her head!"
Remember what the dormouse said:
"Feed your head


Jefferson Airplane
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stevedeshazer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-07-06 12:59 AM
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8. “When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.”-Hunter S. Thompson


-“Just as high as the fucker can go. And when it comes to that fantastic note where the rabbit bites its own head off, I want you to throw that fuckin‘ radio into the tub with me.”

Raoul Duke in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
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ItsTheMediaStupid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-07-06 10:42 AM
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10. Alice in Pig Vomit Conservatives Land
Edited on Tue Feb-07-06 10:43 AM by ItsTheMediaStupid
PVC - It's not just for plumbing anymore.
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EVDebs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-07-06 11:46 AM
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11. Nixon era plans for SaudiArabia tweaked for use in Iraq....
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MissWaverly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-07-06 04:47 PM
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12. At last we found the source for White House policy
Finally, we understand why up is down and down is up, we are through the looking glass.
Great Post.
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Just Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-07-06 04:53 PM
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13. They really do believe,....they can MAKE others fit into their fantasy.
They continue to proceed IN SPITE OF reality.

The "crazies" are in charge! The "crazies" are in charge!!!
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