I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
Fuck Boooosh!!!!
Gimme my drugs and shut up!
Oh yeah, fuck Bush!
It's not a tumor!
If you need Tom freakin' Arnold to prop you up, you MUST be a Girly-man!
Ooohhh, I'd like to thank the Academy: (holding lapels) Four score....
mena - what, you bogart the Ba'al offerings, and now the coveted first spot? Geesh.
Anybody bring the vibrator and headless chicken from the last thread?
Anybody bring the vibrator and headless chicken from the last thread?
and don't leave behind the weed.
After a childhood of seeing the skull and crossbones on poisonous substances, Maria Shriver frightens me.
And on topic: I'm amazed Ahnold doesn't get cut by Mahriah's cheekbones.
So we know why Arnold's ratings are down?
...which discussed fractures and friction in Schwarzenegger's political team as they fight over the oars on the lifeboat.
Sweet.
So Ahnuld didn't show up. Wasn't this the day before his apology for saying he misspoke when he talked about closing the border with Mexico instead of securing it?
He probably expected Zorro to sweep into town and give him a Z he'd never forget.
I posted this below, but what the hell.
Just a drive-by--I'm headed to JazzFest. Anybody want some crawfish monica? 
(Also, I have a new post up about the pharmacist/ birth control debate, if anyone's interested. Short version: Eckerd's has a very good policy, so support Eckerd's if you can. And don't for god's sake shop at walmart if you can help it. Not that I'm perfect about this or anything...)
Er, "Do", not "So".
He has muscles between his ears.
Must show my ignorance here. WTF did Ahhnold do? Will there be a special election to replace him?
"jumped in with both scary cheekbones" 
Anyone who goes after the public employee pension sector deserves to be decapitated in my book.
And then there's this.
NTodd - I was in Santa Fe when Ahnold won the election and I watched the press conference he gave right after with the friend with whom I was staying. She and I could not get over how skeletal Maria looks these days. She looks like she's had her jaw line redone - it's less square than it used to be and that causes her cheekbones to look like razors. She looks like shit, IMO. She looked like a walking corpse in those press conferences.
He was always a joke, no more so than the white house idjit, but still.
Joke time, from an 90 year old Democrat.
Three surgeons were at a bar. One surgeon said, We can do amazing things. I once had a carpenter cut off his fingers in an accident. I reattached them, and that man played the piano at Carnagie last night.
The second surgeon says, Yes, I was over in Iraq. A young soldier lost his legs. I was right there to put them back on, and he made the Olympic team as a sprinter.
Third surgeon says, That's nothing. I was drove up on a train accident. All that was left was a horse's ass. I sewed a cowboy hat on it, and its president today.
And on topic: I'm amazed Ahnold doesn't get cut by Mahriah's cheekbones.
NTodd-I presume you have not seen the insides of his thighs....
Perhaps a Total Recall is in store?
Good Christ, that was terrible. Jay Leno-worthy, almost. wakka wakka wakka.
NYMary, he should have kept taking those steroids.
NTodd, I'm exhaling in your general direction (East!). I mean, relly! What more can I do? (back to holding lapels) ..Our Forefathers...
Sir John Johns,
I love your handle! Should I become Lord Cornelius Plum?
Good lord. I cannot stomach the sight of that freak. His gigantic head and weird body reeks of steriod abuse.
jay Carolina--actually, it was funnier than anything Leno does.
Ahnuld is so in bed with the fine folks that brought us Enron. And that's but one of his crimes.
NTodd-I presume you have not seen the insides of his thighs....
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!
I'm blind.
How old is he? I ask cos I'm thinkin' of my shirtless boyfriend the other day...
You know, Arnold's a public servant. Why didn't he volunteer to go before Congress for the steroid hearings?
I'm waiting for Arnold to come out criticizing "activist movie critics" who don't like his and friend Tom's movies and don't love them as, obviously, our Founding Fathers would have.
I'm so glad I never bulked up.
EEEEWWW naked Schwarzennazi looks uglier than a clothed Ratzi Nazi pope.
spinoza - I nevereverever want to see the insides of his thighs. But I know where you were going with that.
mena - you're the best! Now, who are these forefathers you keep talking about, and can they really score me four?
Stencil,
Hahahahahahaha.
And then there's this.
NYMary
When did Conan become my grandfather? Dude needs a truss, for God's sake!
Beef-cakes they don't make good politicians.
regards
.
I'm blind.
watertiger-I would apologize but you actually posted a picture of him in the flesh. Arnold has contacted Ann Coulter and OJ Simpson asking if he can sue you if the picture appears on the cover of Time.
You know, like Ronnie Raygun, Schwarzennazi dyes his girlie hair on his head.
All his body fur is white.
Dubya does Galveston -- No dissent allowed.
http://www.galvnews.com/
story.la...8b2d69973ec82c2
NYMary--he admitted to his steroid use and said he wouldn't apologize for it.
Don't forget, tomorrow is "Justice League Sunday"! Everybody wear their Superman, Batman or Wonder Woman underoos to support Frist!
The Pope has thunder thighs and Schwarzi has thunder abs.
OT but I just spent the morning going around to the churches, synagogues, and mosques in my neighborhood, following up on phone call I made this week about "Justice Sunday".
Guess, which religious group was the most dense? If you guessed Catholic, you win the cigar this afternoon. "Unless it comes from the diocese..." In addition to handing out a one pager I made with all of the salient facts on it, I had to spend twice as much convincing them to do one fifth as much.
Sheesh.
The good news is that almost everyone else agreed to talk to thier membership about being under attack from the evangelical wing of the Republican party and their naked use of God and religion to acquire more political power.
Dude needs a truss, for God's sake!
==
NTodd - no, they're strictly west coast (( smack!))
Arnold could really help decrease steroid use by saying abusing steroids caused him to go to all those naked gay orgies in the 70s.
Don't forget, tomorrow is "Justice League Sunday"! Everybody wear their Superman, Batman or Wonder Woman underoos to support Frist!
Handover Fist
So is Frist's alter ego "Doctor Chaos" or "The Vivisector"?
EEEEWWW naked Schwarzennazi looks uglier than a clothed Ratzi Nazi pope.
Projectile vomit alert! And don't nobody be postin' a pic of the nekid pope Ratzi.
Every once in awhile, California sort of returns to the '20s..... As tho it just has to have some preposterous figurehead delegate of the Industry in the South and it doesn't really matter who it's going to be. Then it recovers itself, generally with the help of one or the other of a host of real players and it becomes a threat to the Washington power structure in terms of its money, capacity, whatever.... Arnold will be gone soon - certainly he won't be 're-elected'. And between now and then he can amuse himself answering the actions at law in the British courts.
He has muscles between his ears.
cervantes
===
Which apparently haven't gotten too much use.
Dubya does Galveston -- No dissent allowed.
Good luck finding two hundred Republicans that live in Galveston, he's going to have to bus them in.
AT least Arnie has one thing going for him...he's neck-and-neck with Bush to see who's poll numbers will hit zero first.
regards
.
She looks like shit, IMO. She looked like a walking corpse in those press conferences.
Tena
Hahahahaha. agree. They make a really scary couple. They must feel right at home in La La land Caleefahnya.
So is Frist's alter ego "Doctor Chaos" or "The Vivisector"?
How about Dr. Vulture? He swoops in to take advantage of death, like his embellished story of helping AIDS victims in Africa ("We were taking fire from both sides, the pilot was injured, so I transplanted my heart to his, but then I had to land the plane in a minefield....") and the Tsunami Rescure Mission (Can we get more devastation in the background?" during photo-opp).
From Phoenix's link. Notice how defensive the prez's people are getting. Which politician said once you have to start explaining your actions you've lost. I would say they have lost. The only question is how low they will go.
Given w's history and stubborness, I am betting it will pretty damn low.
Maybe DeLay and Frist can take action and insist that Maria feeding tube be reinserted.
chris/tx,
"Good luck finding two hundred Republicans that live in Galveston, he's going to have to bus them in."
Be careful in what you say...they have volunteers lined up, willing to spend "their" money to support Bush.
regards
.
Bush restricting access to people who already support him while he tries to win support for Social Security does not make any sense. He has been losing ground in the polls on the subject since he started pushing it this way.
Only a fool tries doing the same thing over and over again hoping to get a different result.
Given w's history and stubborness, I am betting it will pretty damn low.
QL in NY
==
Agreed. It's the scariest of all the scary things about w and his boys; they can't and won't go without a fight, and a certain amount of permanent damage.
Wolcott is right. Maria Shriver is scary looking. I saw her on teevee the other day and she looks like a skeleton.
I think Catherine Denueve said that after 50 a woman can have a face or a body. Obviously, she went for the body. And she looks awful for it.
off topic here, but it looks as if the huge bear market rally from oct. 2002 to now, just might be over!
go over to financialsense.com and look at tim wood's friday market wrapup.
bad news for bush!! but not really good news for us either!
who knows how bad this bear will get!
stage 2 of the bear should get really ugly. frankly, i am not looking forward to it.
genoasail- very good post, I'm going to share it with lots of people today.
That should say - an *unknown* amount.
Good for you, genoasail.
Bush and social security: If you're digging yourself into a hole, the first thing to do is quit digging.
Dumbass.
Why isn't Rove stopping this failed exercise?
She can go for a face or the body?..
Screw that- I'm going for the beer and the laughs!
I'm so glad I never bulked up.
Joe Citizen
wish I hadn't, these pony keg abs are a pain.
Happy St. George's Day. Slay a Dragon.
I've said it before, but boy do I wish I could write like Wolcott ...
as if the anchors had the Botox injected directly into their brains
Also see this bit about Phil Angelides -- Crazy Like a Fox.
I'm increasingly confident that we're gonna take the Gropenfuehrer down next year ...
--Stu
We ectomorphs are having the last laugh.
dan hoppe
I know what you mean. But if some short term hurting keeps w's permanent destruction of SS from coming to pass, it may be worth it.
BTW - With NASDAQ and Instinet merging, and the NYSE and that other electronic trading exchange merging, how long before lower Manhattan is deader than a doorknob?
If Arnold isn't Governor, maybe Pat Sajak will run.
Halffasthero,
While I agree with you,unfortunately, the people that support Bush are only looking at a small section of the big picture.
Bush can afford to "look" like he's being foolish because he has mastered the art of deception and has a ready audience willing to listen to him and act in accordance to his wishes. Remember, he only needs 50 senators and cheney to get anything passed so making sense would be a losing battle.
regards
.
mena - harsh toke! 
Bush restricting access to people who already support him while he tries to win support for Social Security does not make any sense
I wonder if it is Bush that does this or Rove? I suspect Rove keeps any folks that oppose Bush away from him because of the former's worry about the latter's reaction to adversity.
Bush flips out when someone critices him, questions him, or doesn't kiss his ass. Remember the story about Bush on the bus when the bus went past protesters that had anti-Bush signs and Bush purportedly flipped them the bird? The boy can't handle the pressure.
Later dudes- off to watch the semi -annual THREE STOOGES MARATHON.
Go Pistons!!!
Remember, he only needs 50 senators and cheney to get anything passed so making sense would be a losing battle.
That train has sailed.
The Senate Republicans are splintering, as they should given the insane Bush policies.
But on the other hand, there is still that fuckwad Lieberman.
that is just the thing, ql! it won't be short term. stage 2 will be long and drawn out. the ugly part of the bear is probably just starting.
Go Pistons!!!
Right on. Sorry Philly, I was a Motor City kid first.
Go Pistons!!!
Right on. Sorry Philly, I was a Motor City kid first.
there is still that fuckwad Lieberman.
I wish we lived in the age of dueling. Then maybe Revoltin' Joe and Zell "Crazy Eyes" Miller could shoot each other.
Ahnold is sinking like a concrete piling. Can you say "schaudenfreude" boys and girls?
(or however you spell it)
the ugly part of the bear is probably just starting.
Look, I'm riding a furry tractor!
Martian Mandater,
I'll retrack that when I see that train with a full set of sails in the wind first, mate. Until then, I'm sitting and watching.
regards
.
http://tinyurl.com/axa84
'NYT' Preview: New Public Broadcasting Chief Wants Conservative Viewers
By E&P Staff
Published: April 22, 2005 12:40 PM ET
NEW YORK In this Sunday's New York Times Magazine, Ken Ferree, the new president of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, says he wants PBS, long considered a liberal bastion, to attract more conservative viewers. "Does public television belong to the Democrats?" he asks.
He also says he still has no idea what led to the recent departure of his predecessor, Kathleen Cox, which according to rumors occurred at least partly because of complaints from conservative groups and the "Postcards from Buster" flap.
"I don't know what led to what," he says.
Asked if he is worried that liberal PBS loyalists may exit, he says: "Well, maybe we can attract some new viewers." More conservative ones? Deborah Solomon asks. "Yeah! I would hope that in the long run we can attract new viewers, and we shouldn't limit ourselves to a particular demographic."
But he also says: "Believe it or not, we don't discuss politics here."
Ferree admits that he doesn't watch a lot of PBS shows--"I'm not much of a TV consumer." He likens "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer" to Shakespeare but it is just "slow. ... Sometimes I really just want a People magazine, and often that is in the evening, after a hard day."
He also doesn't listen to much NPR, mainly because, he explains, "I commute to work on my motorcycle, and there is no radio access."
i have always held the highest hoap* for Herr Schickel...er, um, Schwartzengru....er,, um Schwartzenegger...
just sayin...
*hoap = head on a pike
the ugly part of the bear is probably just starting.
Look, I'm riding a furry tractor!
Bear backing?
Did Lord Jesus sweat over his abs?
Did He engage in covert ass grabs?
Did He pop any pills,
Or tramp on treadmills?
Was He noted for fucking rehabs?
chris/tx - Good luck finding two hundred Republicans that live in Galveston, he's going to have to bus them
Oh yeah? Is Galveston Democratic? I had no idea. I haven't been to Galveston since about 1982.
NTodd -
is ((SMOOCH)) better? 'Cause that's about right.
If Jomo votes with Frist on the filibuster he might as well start writing his concession speech.
Anybody bring the vibrator and headless chicken from the last thread?
and don't leave behind the weed.
Spinoza, Sean,
That could have had disastrous consequences for my keyboard and monitor, had I a mouthfull of anything.
Moad-Dib,
Just looking at the bolt from bolton, the sinking of SS reform in the House and Senate, Bush's poll numbers, DeLay's downward spiral, the Republicans' necrophilia with Schiavo, etc.
And gas prices.
But you are right that it is foolish to misunderestimate these lying, greedy, traitorous pack of fucks. Especially when Time magazine performs coulterlingus in public.
mena - now I don't need any herb to get high...
Thanks Bivic and Footloose--it was encouraging to actually go out and talk to the spiritual leaders in my community and get a sense of where things stand. Not surprisingly, the UCC folks are the best informed and have plans in place to protest.
Also, I was surprised to note that the Catholics Bishops organization has taken a stand against Justice Sunday, but that didn't matter one whit to the priests at the local RC churches. "Unless it comes from the diocese...". The hierarchy will be their downfall, mark me. Except of course for my favorite priest, Padre Jose, from Chile. He can pretty much ignore what the diocese says because he is the only Spanish speaking priest in the area, so he's in high, high demand. They don't mess with Padre Jose.
Also, at the www.drivedemocracy.com, they have a very good nine minute video of spiritual leaders from around the country, joining together to denounce Justice Sunday, speaking from St. John's Riverside with Rev. Forbes, who was the successor to the great progressive William Sloan Coffin. So go check that site out if you are interested in this subject.
Good one, Lime Ricky! It scans.
Will somebody just answer me this: ARE WE WINNING YET?
"Crazy Eyes" Miller
At first glance I thought this said "Crazy Eyed Killa", from Curb Your Enthusiasm.
I love that episode.
Sometimes I really just want a People magazine, and often that is in the evening, after a hard day."
Oh, no!!!!! He's going to kill what's left of PBS, just like that jerk trashed CNN.
Sickening.
Bush has one advantage Arnold
doesn't -- if his poll numbers
continue to tank, he can always
allow another terrorist attack
to bring
'em back up.
coulterlingus
eeeeuuuwwww.... 
And yeah, I have to agree, Maria looks skeletal, but that many kids and a career, who the hell has time to eat?
Mornin, freethinkers
But you are right that it is foolish to misunderestimate these lying, greedy, traitorous pack of fucks.
Tell me about it. I grew up watching Iran Contra on television and watching them not only get away with it but avoid prosecution (in Oliver North's case).
Until each one gets a wooden stake through the heart, it's not dead. I've seen enough Angel and Buffy reruns.
She and I could not get over how skeletal Maria looks these days.
I always thought she looked like Skeletor
Shakespeare is slow.
No, you are.
Joe Citizen, been so long had forgotten the 3 classifactions, ecto, meso and ??
Will somebody just answer me this: ARE WE WINNING YET?
Not yet. But we've finished losing.
Moad Dib - and has a ready audience willing to listen to him and act in accordance to his wishes
Then how come his audiences are hand-picked for loyalty and a general brain dead quality? I don't think he has such "ready audiences," besides the few who in each place he goes are allowed in to listen to him.
George Bush is not a popular president.
Let's call it the Social Security Infomercial Tour. Have any of you seen TDS piece Samantha Bee did on Tuesday?
The Hall of Same.
Apologies if this was discussed before, I've haven't been online much this week.
Sometimes I really just want a People magazine, and often that is in the evening, after a hard day.
Sometimes I really just want a Penthouse magazine, and often that is in the evening, after a hard day.
Okay. If you're all going to start talking about repub wimmen, that means it's time for me to go get out in the planting beds. Type atcha all later!
Spot on as usual, Lime Rickey.
Can you imagine a costume party and the embarrassment and gossip when Maria and Coulter both show up dressed in Grim Reaper costumes!
Is Schwarzenegger cooked?
End Of Days
Bush's bankruptcy sellout:
Where The Money Is
I wouldn't say Maria has ever had a career per se. She was hired because of her name and she showed up for work, but I wouldn't call that a career.
When I think of the women that NBC COULD have hired, women with actual talent...
dan hoppe,
So I take it the the rise in the markets since 2002 were nothing more than a false hope of a fraigle fingertip hold as we dangle haplessly over a sheer plunge into the finacial void of Depression?
regards
.
Not yet. But we've finished losing.
Cool. I'd settle for a draw.
George Bush is not a popular president.
And he ain't gonna get any popularer if he keeps only speaking to the faithful. I mean, geesh, it's simple marketing. How the hell is he going to sell people on SS "reform" if he's got a shitty product and he doesn't peddle it to a mass audience?
People Magazine, the cure for cognitive dissonace.
Can you imagine a costume party and the embarrassment and gossip when Maria and Coulter both show up dressed in Grim Reaper costumes!
You mean if they forget their costumes, right?
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ecto, meso and endo, the three Morphx brothers...
NYMary: you're welcome to be Sir Cornelius. The question is: who gets to be The Good Lord?
Molly Ivins -
Arnold looks like a condom stuffed with walnuts.
SS is finished as a topic. People have immediate economic concerns, like gas prices, falling stock prices, job uncertainty, etc.
3 classifactions, ecto, meso and ??
1watt-
rectal, as in Arnuld is a rectalmorph.
Sometimes I really just want a People magazine, and often that is in the evening, after a hard day.
Sometimes I just want a labotomy, and often that is in the evening, after a really hard day of having a fucking brain.
Greets, threefingers....
Let me dispense with the chit-chat and veer wildly off topic:
Jimi Hendrix had a brother? Who knew?
From the Leon Hendrix site, I found a wonderful rock photography site. Steve Simels, you'll enjoy this, as will all you music fans.
My wife actually asked me if I thought Coulter was attractive.
Well, I have to admit, that Nicorette breath drives me crazy!!!!!!!!
Thank Facist Killer!
Well, I have to admit, that Nicorette breath drives me crazy!!!!!!!!
Mmm...Nicorette and Chardonnay...teh sexy!
PBS will only be turned around when people pressure their local stations to demand change. Same as NPR. The local stations are the place to put the pressure.
This new guy is about as stupid a person as they've ever had.
I've never paid much attention to Maria Shriver, so I had to look her up on Google Image to see what people were talking about. Here's one thing that popped up:
Now I get it
Breaking news: Bush wants to keep Medicare patients from seeing judges
You heard me right. A new rule will deny access to COURTS if they want to PULL YOUR LIFE SUPPORT.
This is being put through by the GOP.
GWPDA ...
Deneuve (and Sophia Loren) went for the face. They look good.
My wife actually asked me if I thought Coulter was attractive.
Can't imagine a heterosexual man thinking the freak is attractive. She doesn't even do a thing for me and I'm gay.
Gads. Marie is making that Time Magazine skank look fat.
Tena,
He doesn't have to be "popular" with "everyone"...just those who matter were he can get them to apply enough pressure on their Senators and Representatives to deliver the votes necessary to get his legislation thru.
He's being highly selective in going after only those people where he can have the most influence. And by restricting the audiences to "loyal followers" they, the audience, will be among "their" peers that think as they do...no outside, ugly liberal bias to confuse them.
Keeping the message simple in terms that completely agree with the audiences expectations. He can't succeed if there are people that listen, comphrend, and question.
regards
.
Happy St. George's Day. Slay a Dragon.
GWPDA, Irate Scholar
Hey!! what did I ever do to you??
George Bush is not a popular president.
why does anyone think that matters?
the busheviks have WON...
they STOLE two elections, have coopted BOTH houses of Congress, and are now going to completely overwhelm the Judiciary.
the party's fuckin over, folks...
nobody wanted to ggo into the streets.
nobody wanted to break out the pitchforks, baseball bats and burning brands...
so now you get to enjoy the fruits of your apathy
now just relax and enjoy it, as a former gubernatorial candidate from Texas once advised victims of less overtly political rapine...
Will somebody just answer me this: ARE WE WINNING YET?
Not yet. But we've finished losing.
GWPDA,
I really love that answer and I do believe you are right. We may not be winning - yet. But we are finished losing.
Yes.
"I would have assumed that the MERE PRESENCE of Tom Arnold alone would have drawn a frenzied mob drunk with excitement."
It was a miracle that the Diet Coke that came shooting out my nose narrowly missed my keyboard.
I'm hearing rumors that Arnuld is gonna do a come-back in the movies, playing He-Man in "Masters of the Universe." Marie's up for Skeletor, I believe.
Oh, and the Pope is still alive and still a Nazi.
Schwarzi is ditto. This is unpleasant.
And the Pope will be Mench at Arms.
Can't imagine a heterosexual man thinking the freak is attractive.
I remember when I first saw her on "Politically Incorrect", way before she became a neo-fascist superstar.
I used to feel sorry for her watching Bill Mahr beat up on her but I never found her attractive. I think I saw Jason Alexander beating up her too. She wasn't attractive. She was that weird woman getting smacked around by George Constanza.
OT but my favorite story of the week.
Imagine if that happened here?
PS: Catherine Deneuve is a goddess.
I spent two weeks in Frisco over Xmas, but do you think Arnold invited me to his place? Not likely - hell, he didn't even call to say Hi. fucker...
I see Hendrix' brother plays guitar right-handed, a bad omen.
Maria Shriver has a very obvious eating disorder. Right before the recall election she looked particularly bad. Someone should get her some help before she succeeds in killing herself.
Sometimes I just want a labotomy, and often that is in the evening, after a really hard day of having a fucking brain.
I often ponder a clinic where they dispatch of one's intelligence with three quick blows with a ball-peen hammer.
Then I wonder how long I would wait to make an appointment.
Coulter wanted OJ.
Deneuve (and Sophia Loren) went for the face. They look good.
Damn good. Both are extrememly classy women as well.
Draco--those images were, well, disturbing.
ack.
Tena - The city of Galveston (not the county) is mainly black once you send all the tourists and beach home owners back to Houston. I use to live their, and got invited into the social scene by one of the grand old ladies of the island. Seriously, she could fit all of them into her home for her twice a year parties.
Tell Maria to go to France and crash in a tunnel. Fixes eating disorders.
Moad Dib - we have this same fucking argument over and over and over.
I refuse to spend all day every day believing that Bush cannot be defeated. I don't understand why anyone who believes that would bother to read the news, complain or comment on a blog - what's the fucking point?
I swear to the goddess, no matter what news we get that is encouraging, you will not be encouraged. *sigh*
Sorry - I get tired, Moad Dib. We have had a couple of important wins and have taken a couple of steps forward lately. It is helpful to realize that momentum and to not continue to insist that a president with an approval rating that hovers around the 40% mark is invulnerable.
Rather, I see it as causing the schism in the Repug Party to be widening.
They've got websites:
Phil Angelides
-- Stu
Maria Shriver has a very obvious eating disorder. Right before the recall election she looked particularly bad. Someone should get her some help before she succeeds in killing herself.
However, this would require Gov. He-Man to stop whoring around and actually admit there's a problem in the household. Some Repugs are probably telling him, "Skinny is good; look at Coulter."
What? You mean he wasn't a joke already?????
Sure fooled me.
kent,
They had that very thing in the movie "Frances" about Frances Farmer. It was absolutely harrowing to watch. Apparently, driving a spike thru the eye socket was a way to perform quick, efficient lobotomies. Shouldn't happen to a dog.
Tom Delay should get one monthly.
chris/tx - Oh, I've seen those houses in Galveston - they are beautiful. But I honestly didn't realize the city was mainly black.
Like I said, I've not been there since I was there for a brief afternoon in '82. The last time I spent any time there at all was about 1973. I always like it, I just don't go to the coast anymore. I'm not that crazy about the Texas Gulf Coast. Too much tar and too many jellyfish.
Tena, I think DeLay, Frist, Santorum and some others are doing a pretty good job of pissing into the fan and making a mess of their party.
I'm with you - I'll take any wins we can get.
PBS will only be turned around when people pressure their local stations to demand change. Same as NPR. The local stations are the place to put the pressure.
sorry, pal, but that's bs...
nobody puts more pressure on the local affiliates than i do...
i am totally not a subscriber to the local PatBucahnanShow...for all the reputation of 'Albuqueerque,' this is a relentlessly bourgeois town. That Shelton fuck from Wichita's supposed to be here this week to affront and intimidate the gay population...he'll draw a crowd...
Santa Fe has the second highest number of same-sex couples in the country, in raw numbers; probably there's a higher per/capita ratio of gays to straights in Santa Fe tahn even in SanFrancisco...
but the Leg this year STILL passed an anti-gay marriage/domestic partnership bill, and the fucker Richardson hasn't said he'd veto it...
we're all living in a fucking dream world, where the fascists haven't taken over yet...that's delusional...they'll be figgering out ways to come for you, pretty soon...hell, they have already...
arm youselves...it's your only (howsoever slender) hope...
Arnold wants to be absolute leader. So it's good to see people here waking up to that and turning on him.
Not only is he incapable of negotiating with the state legislature (he is such a girlie man) but he won't even try.
He is pushing a bunch of propositions. (He is paying for signatures.) He keeps saying let the people decide. Then he ignores past referendum created laws that the people decided on but that he doesn't like. Like our guarentee for a specific funding level for education or our coastal comission that controls developement along the coast. He withdrew his public pension reform proposal because of all the angry public employees particularly the cops. But he still is pushing a "fuck the teachers" propostion for a fall election.
As a teacher, I'm worried about the worried about that one, it might pass. It's called something like "Improve Education" and people just look at the titles of these things when they vote. Also the big regional daily at the south end of the state, that great gray mediocrity (LA Times), has spent years bashing teachers -- that's the sum total of the education reporting.
After a childhood of seeing the skull and crossbones on poisonous substances, Maria Shriver frightens me.
Lisa
What is up with her? Maybe the Kennedys should take her back east, plop her down at Teddy's fav restaurant and FEED her.
Or something!
Not that it matters, but Arnold is doing one hell of a better job than Dubya! He is attacking the state retirement fund, but at least no one has died here yet! His lies are much smaller also. It couldn't be more perfect, Phil Angeliedes (sic?) is ready to come roaring in. Arnold is paving the way as we speak!
Tom Delay should get one monthly.
Doc
What was the British show with the puppets called? I remember seeing the one when Margaret Thatcher was sitting down in the chair telling the hair dresser, "Give me a look that will win universal appeal,". The hairdresser nodded and lopped off her head.
Wish we had real TV here.
Elaine, I was just looking at the NYTimes article on the Medicare changes. A couple things really pissed me off:
"A new federal policy will make it significantly more difficult for Medicare beneficiaries to obtain hearings in person before a judge when the government denies their claims for home care, nursing home services, prescription drugs and other treatments. ... Over the last five years, beneficiaries and providers prevailed in two-thirds of the 283,000 cases decided by these judges."
"The law, they noted, says Medicare judges are to be distributed "throughout the United States."
Under the new arrangement, hearings for Medicare beneficiaries in New York, New Jersey and all of New England will normally be held by judges in Cleveland. Hearings for people in Iowa, Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska will be held by judges in southern California."
These bastards want the old and sick to die before their claim is heard. Every time I think the Bush regime can't sink any lower, the elevator plunges a few more floors.
Doc,
I remember that scene from "Frances". Creeped me out. What a sad story.
Still, the possibility of being a mouthbreathing fucktard still seems attractive these days........
Elaine Supkis,
IMHO, what the article said was that the judges have to follow the medicare rules as writen. they would not longer be able to rule on the legality of the rules.
Just that simple interplay of words leaves the patient at the mercy of the Medicare Administrators...the judges are nothing more than rubber stamps for the official policy...be it right or be it wrong.
It put the judges under the wing of the administrators, and can be manipulated to judge in favor of the Goevernment regardless of the circumstances.
regards
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WoodyGsGuitar/Happy Desperado
But you would admit that nothing will change without the thumbscrews being put on the local stations, don't you?
It's got to be a group effort, witholding money and letting them know why you are witholding money. In our state the biggest problem seems to be the programming manager who I've spoken to on a number of occasions. They guy is an arrogant social climber. Targeting the board might be a better tactic. If the board members start thinking that they're associated with tainted goods they might actually do what they're supposed to.
It's not going to be easy and a handfull probably won't change it bit it's worth a try.
Please!!!,
someone tell me what 'victories' against the busheviks we have to celebrate?
just a short, short list will do...
Tena,
The most interting point of Bush's plan relys on the "audience". As we are slowly seeing...it's shrinking. That would explain the run-in-circles-scream-and-shout circus going on on a wide variety of fronts.
I wonder if all the disjointed announcemnets are signs that Bush needs to get things done quickley before the cat is out of the bag and he's up shit creek without a paddle in a leaky canoe.
I may sound pessimistic, however, I have yet to see the Democrats scale the cliffs at their Gallipoli. Once they start, we'll see just how strong and determined the repug's really are. It's but a waiting game until the first blow is struck.
regards
.
Jessica Lange is wonderful.
victories against the bushevicks. Some times it's a victory to still be fighting. Consider what it must have been like to be in Europe in 1940, with fascism everywhere and Naziism where it wasn't. Pius XII was in the Vatican. The Nazis were pushing forward and it wasn't obvious that the United States was going to enter the war.
Imagine what it must have been like in East Asia and the Pacific during the same time.
"I haven't got a right to dispare," Noam Chomsky writing to a certain no one who asked him how he kept going.
I'm not optimistic but given my position, safe and warm as I type this, pessimism is a luxury I don't have any right to indulge.
just a short, short list will do...
well, i think the fact that less and less people are buying his social security bullshit is a victory of sorts.
Moad Dib - I agree with you - I really do.
I'm sorry if I get short with you about this.
I think vis-a-vis the courts, that the radical Repugs still don't quite understand what is going to come down on their heads if they keep this bullshit up about the judiciary.
There are some doctrinaire judges, but most judges hit the bench and become imbued with a sense of personal power that is pretty much next to none. They do not like being told what to do by anyone.
Despite anything Delay may say, funding is not going to be cut. And judges cannot be impeached just because the majority leader and some radical religious right wingnuts don't like their decisions. The judiciary is not going to just lie down and roll over - I can guarantee that to you.
Really late and I know the party's moved on, but this just has to be repeated as often as possible.
...Maria Shriver has jumped in with both scary cheekbones..
her eyes is right. Also there is some opposition in the Senate such as there wasn't last year at this time.
The Terri Schiavo thing may have brought the boil to a head, maybe even burst it. We will see. But normal, non-necrophile Americans got a good chance to see what a bunch of psychopaths the Bush regime is.
We've got to build on these and other small successes
i don't ever want to be on j. wolcott's radar! too bad he has a real job, it deprives us of excellent blog postings.
what i wish/hope for is that the dems get all over his idiocy on social security and the delay debacle and blast it in 06. it is these small things they could use to their advantage, if they play it right.
and it would also help to have media support...
Please!!!,
someone tell me what 'victories' against the busheviks we have to celebrate?
None. It's just the same people who were typing "KERRY IN A LANDSLIDE" last fall while ignoring the 2000 pre-emptive arrests in NYC during the RNC.
Look, I'm all for celebrating victories as much as anybody, but I'm not going to delude myself.
Bill Gates just came out on the side of the anti-gay marriage crowd. The Pope (even if he isn't an ex Nazi) is a whacked out right-wing extremist who's unlikely to criticize Bush the way his predecessor did. People are still dying in Iraq. Social Security "reform" is still on the table.
Ahhhnold: The anti-Hercules; hero to zero in less than a single election cycle!
SWR - Kerry won.
Tena,
I never thought you were being mean-spirited...I love to debate thoughts and ideas. And hold not grudge either.
I do find what you say about the Judicary, the legislature, and funding interesting food for thought.
Can the legislature really, selectively withhold funds from specific courts? I think not, but I'm no expert. To do so would be holding the Judicary hostage. And it would also go against the Separation of Powers established in the Constitution as well.
If it were the case, then the repug's could have done it back in the 1950's when segregation was imposed on the US by the Judicary...they were the majority back then.
I also wonder if such talk of Legislative actions against the Judicary and planning by citizens constitutes treason as defined in the Constitution as well?
Just my thoughts. But, the repug's days do seem to be numbered and I believe they are well aware of it too. It may explain all the hoopla.
regards
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SWR - Kerry won.
Tena | Email | Homepage | 04.23.05 - 1:58 pm | #
He came close but no, he didn't win. And even if he had squeaked by it would have been far from a landslide.
OK. Maybe I'm bad cheerleader/football coach material and that type of person is needed. Maybe I'm the kind of person who lets all of the air out of a room when he walks into it. Maybe I'm a pessimistic killjoy.
But I can't help it. I'm seeing precious little good news. I'm seeing ordinary apolitical people spouting Rush's propaganda and I'm still seeing people dying in Iraq (although, as the media reminds me, more people die in auto accidents).
EPTropy,
"We've got to build on these and other small successes"
The best way for Democrats to succeed is to sit back and let the repugs trip over themselves, pick them up, dust them off, and push them right back into the mess they created.
Our best friends are the repugs tripping all over themselves trying to find the high ground, which should be held and defended by the Democrats
regards
./
SWR,
Our battles have yet to materalize. And as Tina and I were discussing, it all revolves around the select group of people for Bush's audiences...they're growing smaller. Bush may be popluar in the minds of his supports, but the ranks are thinning.
Soon we'll have a battle, most likely in the Senate. There the battle lines will be drawn and everyone will see who is on what side of the line. It's the lull before the storm, but once it breaks either the repugs will go sailing off into the sunset or there will be a bloody mess in the halls of Congress with very few political survivors able to see their next election on the horizon.
It all depends on what the politicans read from the people they serve...right now I'd say there's a lotta uncertainity in Bush and his plans.
regards
.
The best way for Democrats to succeed is to sit back and let the repugs trip over themselves, pick them up, dust them off, and push them right back into the mess they created.
This attitude is really the fatal flaw in the American character that future historians will look back on when they try to figure out how we turned into a fascist country in the first decade of the 2000s.
Most of us, deep inside, believe in a kind of equilibrium, a balance, a sense that the American people are innately decent and moderate.
That's because most of us grew up in relative ease and comfort. Very few of us had to worry about eating or about getting shot or about being rounded up and ethnically cleansed. So, naturally, we think that if we only wait things out, that natural equilibrium will balance us out.
It won't. The only way these right wing extremists are going away is if you confront them and beat them.
And I think this is part of the reason why silly conspiracy theories are so popular these days. Kerry won. Bush planned 9/11. It's this return of the repressed in a highly distorted form. People have the facts right in front of their faces, the rationale for the war being "Support our Troops," the mass arrests in NYC, the Patriot Act, the assault on the judiciary, but it isn't quite enough. It has to be packaged in some conveniently melodramatic, easy, pat narrative.
SWR - it isn't a conspiracy theory that Kerry won. I'm basing that on the evidence that the recount efforts have turned up.
Whatever.
What's the use? If y'all really think that there is no way to fight these people, then what the hell is the use?
SWR - it isn't a conspiracy theory that Kerry won. I'm basing that on the evidence that the recount efforts have turned up.
Whatever.
What's the use? If y'all really think that there is no way to fight these people, then what the hell is the use?
Conspiracy theories are usefull to a certain extent. I still remember the chain e-mails that used to ciriculate in the 90s about all the people Clinton had killed. Eventually that got people fired up enough to impeach him.
But it doesn't mean I have to believe them. I'd rather lose and keep my head on straight.
SWR,
Sometimes the best way to defeat an advesary is to let him take himself out on his own accord. Nothing says we can't help him make himself look foolish, is there?
Right now, the repugs are falling all over themselves because they have been 100% behind Bush and all of a sudden, their people back home have turned 180 degress on them. Now they are re-adjusting their political stances to mirror the people back home and are back-tracking their way out of the mine field they laid hoping they don't step on a mine they set themselves. I just feel the need to "nudge" them every once in a while to scare the crap outta them.
But seriously, the best policy for Democrats is to let the repugs self-destruct on their own..that way the Democrats can't be the whipping boy for the repugs failure.
regards
.
But seriously, the best policy for Democrats is to let the repugs self-destruct on their own..that way the Democrats can't be the whipping boy for the repugs failure.
They're simply not going to. One thing watching the Iran Contra hearings when I was in high-school did was teach me an important lesson. And it's stayed with me through all my political incarnations.
The American people respect power and authority. They will make excuses for anybody with both until that person is decisively and openly knocked down by a bigger bully. They Democrats didn't knock the Republicans out back then and we got Bush I and the Gulf War.
The Republicans, by contrast, tried to impeach Clinton and they did it out in the open. They didn't sit back and let him tie himself up into knots.
It won't. The only way these right wing extremists are going away is if you confront them and beat them.
SWR: Rat awn, pard...
i have been excorriated on this board for being too confrontational, too inclined to meet violence with violence, etc. (TAFFWY™, D-S H™, HOAP&trade
but it's the fucking truth...
nobody ever successfully negotiated with a fascist unless they were holding a gun to the fascists' heads...it is ALL they respect, or respond to...
pitchforks, baseballbats and burning brands, in the streets in the millions, and the willingness to get your hand bloody: that is what it is gonna take, folks...don't delude yourselves to the contrary...
nobody ever successfully negotiated with a fascist unless they were holding a gun to the fascists' heads...it is ALL they respect, or respond to...
pitchforks, baseballbats and burning brands, in the streets in the millions, and the willingness to get your hand bloody: that is what it is gonna take, folks...don't delude yourselves to the contrary...
Read between the lines of people who are fairly moderate, and you'll see how much they realize this.
Bob Herbert.
He said again, as he has many times, that he was sorry
Paret had died. But he added: "He called me a name.
... So I did what I had to do."
How much has changed? As a society, we're still
painfully twisted when it comes to homosexuality. A
couple of guys holding hands. ... Women kissing on the
mouth. ...
We know from the ugly and irrational fury over the gay
marriage issue, and the silly "don't ask, don't tell"
policy in the armed forces, that there are still
tremendous reservoirs of fear and loathing ready to be
unloaded on gay men and women who'd like nothing more
than to live their lives freely, honestly and openly.
Things are not as bad as they were in 1962, but
they're not good."
Barbara Ehrenreich.
"To those who argue that Brown's commendable goals
were sullied by his bloody methods, Reynolds retorts
that violence was in fact central to his message and
his legacy. In the 1850's, it was the pro-slavery
forces that held a monopoly on armed force --
terrorizing antislavery citizens in the Midwest as
well as the South, or proudly proclaiming, as did one
Kansas newspaper editor, that he lived to kill an
abolitionist: ''If I can't kill a man, I'll kill a
woman; and if I can't kill a woman, I'll kill a
child!'' Antislavery activists, on the other hand,
were often pacifists and usually the victims of their
political opponents -- a relationship symbolized by a
South Carolina congressman's crippling beating of the
abolitionist Charles Sumner on the floor of the United
States Senate. With his guns and pikes, Brown reversed
the equation -- stiffening the backbones of Northern
abolitionists, terrifying the white South -- and
hastening, through both effects, the Civil War and
emancipation. "
Most of the smarter liberals out there know they're being bullied and pushed around like rag dolls.
Couldn't be happening to a nicer guy
And the Wolcott description of Botoz brains for the local media is especially apt for all the reporting not just tv. The San Francisco's Carla Marinucci remains loyal to
Maria and the Exaggerator taking only the governor's word for everything and attributing is decline in the polls to the unions ganging up on him as opposed to the fact that he is a terrible governor and the perfect example was his bullying on workers comp.
here in Cali land, Arnold's rep ahs gone south. He is polling negative majorities with moderates and Dems, who used to give him broad favorable polling ratings.
You can fool some of the people all...
He is trailed everywhere he goes now by nurses, firefighters, and teachers who picket his closed hotel fundraisers. He made a big error in targetting "special interests." Only someone with a political deathwish would pick fights at the same time with firefighters, teachers and nurses, whose favorable ratings top the charts and who have the muscle and membership to show up everywhere he goes.
Meanwhile, the oddest sight of all is the national mainstream media parachuting in (Broder, Woodruff)to kiss his ass. They are way behind the curve and still give him fawning, favorable coverage. Here in Cali, Arnold's shit stinks and he is rapidly being tagged as "a Republican Trojan horse" (one of 4 anti-Arnold letters in today's LATimes) and the Chamber's Bitch.
The newest movie soon to be released in California: "Jesse Ventura II."
Only someone with a political deathwish would pick fights at the same time with firefighters, teachers and nurses
The Rethug dream is to smash unions and privatize, so that the political clout of employees is displaced by the clout of cronyist corporations seeking privatization contracts.
You know, like in Texas. Those tactics thankfully won't work here in California, and Governor Panzerfaust's celebrity honeymoon has definitely worn off.
Ah-nuld always WAS a joke!
I mean, c'mon! His films were hardly in the "Citizen Kane" class.
It won't. The only way these right wing extremists are going away is if you confront them and beat them.
SWR: Rat awn, pard...
i have been excorriated on this board for being too confrontational, too inclined to meet violence with violence, etc. (TAFFWY™, D-S H™, HOAP™
but it's the fucking truth...
nobody ever successfully negotiated with a fascist unless they were holding a gun to the fascists' heads...it is ALL they respect, or respond to...
pitchforks, baseballbats and burning brands, in the streets in the millions, and the willingness to get your hand bloody: that is what it is gonna take, folks...don't delude yourselves to the contrary...
WoodyGsGuitar/Happy Desperado
Woody:
I'm with you.
I am SICK of these Pollyannas who think talking nice about these Nazis will get us anywhere.
Hah-hah!
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