I'MMA LET YOU FINISH

Gravatar1st?


GravatarWolf Blitzer just announced that Democrats are descending upon Las Vegas.


GravatarTell us why the interview was priceless!


GravatarHi Vicki.


GravatarHi ql!

How are you?


GravatarHope she doesn't eat the little guy alive!


Gravatar"I think he's going to pork her, Dad."
"He's not going to pork her, Russ."
...

"Well, he may pork her."


GravatarYes!


GravatarWhat, the Times didn't send Friedman?

Bummer.


GravatarWolf admits that Democrats are Heaven-sent?

Leslie's seen the Light! Hallelujah, Sister!


Gravatarvicki's back. yeahhhhh.


GravatarTom Daschle's running for President.

*Sigh.


GravatarBrown sweaters BAD!


GravatarThey are having the "Meta" panel on the day to day matters of Daily Kos.

Where's Holden?


Gravatarok a repost

Poland 0 Ecuador 2

its living in such high altitudes, makes them hardy

they play at home 9000 feet above sea level

means they can run around longer!


Gravatarvicki's back. yeahhhhh.
merelyobserving


Just for a quick minute.


GravatarIf they'd sent Brooks, A-Man would pants him.


GravatarThey are having the "Meta" panel on the day to day matters of Daily Kos.

How inaccessible. Ponies and owls!


GravatarI had nothing to do with it! I was under MoDo's chair, trying to crawl up her dress.


GravatarWhy is the moon exploding right now?


GravatarI'm really not sure how you can write a catty article about Kos, but...I guess we'll find out.


GravatarThe World Cup is a better model for democratic victory.

Study the crowd dynamics at these events.

Fuck Kos, we need a revolution and a terror.


GravatarTom Daschle? Oh, hot damn.


GravatarAl Gore said he had no plans to run on Leno last night.

However, he didn't state it as an absolute.

I'd love his opinion on Ann Coulter.


GravatarHopefully, markos wasn't wearing earth tones. That will be the narrative for MoDo.


GravatarPocahontas (wadent a dim)

those lips
lips like peaches
lips that speak without sound
beautiful native lips
born of america
before there was an america
in dreams when dreams
were still real
those full lips
so full
death is shamed


GravatarI'd have love to have seen that.

Did you like her? When I met her last fall I was surprised to find that I really did.

She's quite bright and charming in person.


GravatarTom Daschle's running for President.

i think that counts as the stupidest thing ever attributed to him, really...
.


GravatarAt least the troll who would be Atrios' butt-boy is not around, for the moment.


GravatarWatching Markos being interviewed by Maureen Dowd.

Did he tell her to fuck off?

Why not???


Gravatara good outside bet, Ivory Coast to get to the final.

good odds 40/1


GravatarI can't believe my red state blue city newspaper had an article on yearlykos this morning. Aside from printing the snide insults from Marshall Mooseboy, it wasn't too bad.


Gravatarthe stupidest thing ever attributed to him, really...
.
WoodyGuthrie

w o r d.


GravatarDid someone ask for content?? I think someone did, but ummm, yeah.

Happy Open Thread! WHOOPEEE!!!!

Buy my CD! And subscribe to my whatever, it's fairly cheap! Donate to my causes! DO AS I COMMAND!!

MUUUAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!


Gravatardith's a Pochahontas poet!


GravatarMy pea-nuts are not salty enough.


GravatarThey are having the "Meta" panel on the day to day matters of Daily Kos.

Where's Holden?


Probably out stealing other people's ponies.

Hoarding bastard that he is.


GravatarNon world cup related Friday Cat Blogging


GravatarWatching Boxer was fun!

Will atrios will be on a panel later?


Gravatarbrought up from below:

been a lotta focus on the English and identity issues.

mainly on the Cross of St George, but also creating a seperate idenity
Moonbootica, Buffy Geek | Homepage | 06.09.06 - 4:38 pm


Speaking of George (and Heidi), shouldn't you be pimping your cats?

I have to get my catblogging fix!
Buckeye, Dealer of Rare Coins | 06.09.06 - 4:46 pm


GravatarHalfdan: I can't believe my red state blue city newspaper had an article on yearlykos this morning. Aside from printing the snide insults from Marshall Mooseboy, it wasn't too bad.

The Raggasseean? No shit?
.


GravatarFrom the Liberal New York Fucking Times:

LAS VEGAS, June 9 — Hundreds of liberal (they'd say progressive) Internet bloggers crawled out of their cybertunnels for face-time and political networking here at the first-ever YearlyKos convention.


GravatarHow do you have a conversation with her with mocking her to her face? I would not be able to resist. "Hey, you remember that one time you made up that fake NASCAR quote? Why didn't you get fired? Do you suck like that on purpose? If Al Gore walked up to you and spit in your face, would you say 'thank you' first or 'I deserved that'?"


GravatarI'd love his opinion on Ann Coulter.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore


As the most intelligent man on the planet, she is beneath his notice.


GravatarA cup-a-noodles is a better model for my brain activity.

Study the fluid dynamics of the fat.

Fuck this, I need an enema.


GravatarFunny, kos said 'meta' about 15 times in 20 seconds.


GravatarShe's quite bright and charming in person.

I like to listen to her talk. I just think she's got a really weird philosophy about the little things in life illuminating the big picture.

It's like she took "feminist epistemology" and blended it with high-school gossip culture.


GravatarSpeaking of catblogging...!


GravatarWhy aren't I on this panel at
Yearlykos?


GravatarDid he tell her to fuck off?

Why not???


I'm telling you, she's really hard to dislike in person.

Believe me, I tried.

Couldn't do it. She's also much better looking in person than she is on camera.


GravatarThe Indian Queen Hotel is the anti-dim zone. There were rallys there.


GravatarCurlyBunnyCurlyBunnyCurlyBunnyCurlyBunnyCurlyBunny
.


Gravatar"Internet bloggers crawled out of their cybertunnels"

Good thing that's not pejorative or anything.


GravatarOne of the guys on the panel just said he doesn't like the word meta. That's a relief!

uh oh. Now he's deconstructing the meaning of good meta and bad meta. LOL.


Gravatarespecially for Buckeye

Friday Cat Blogging


GravatarMa Do, babe


Gravatarhttp://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/ 20060...HNlYwMlJVRPUCUl

'Rep. Rahm Emmanuel, D-Ill., said Thursday on the House floor that Coulter is a "hatemonger" and called on Republicans to denounce her: "I must ask my colleagues on the other side of the aisle: Does Ann Coulter speak for you when she suggests poisoning not Supreme Court Justices or slanders the 9/11 ... widows? If not, speak now. Your silence allows her to be your spokesman."'


GravatarThe Indian Queen Hotel is the anti-dim zone. There were rallys there.
dith


You're going to be really, really disappointed when you learn that I am related to Pochahontas.


GravatarThe Raggasseean? No shit?

Yeppers.

Say, when are you going to post the real story behind that scrape? Were a chainlink fence, a German Shepherd, and a Fox TV camera involved?


GravatarWhy is it that the trolls need to lose brain cells until they regress well below house plant stage before they lose the ability to post in the comments?


Gravatar"Internet bloggers crawled out of their cybertunnels"

"The Morlocks, if you will, of the political establishement..."


GravatarShe's quite bright and charming in person.


She's a drag. A well-known drag.


GravatarMy pea-nuts are not salty enough.
steve simels | 06.09.06 - 4:49 pm | #


jack, buddy, how's it hanging today?


GravatarSpeaking of cat blogging, here's a little PlushyNoirª
Homepage | 06.09.06 - 4:53 pm | #


GravatarAnn Coulter doesn't speak for me! She's a disgusting old hag who should be ashamed but she isn't so shun her and don't talk about her!

Make her go away! She gets her power from you!


Gravatarhttp://www.thesunchronicle.com/a.../city/ city3.txt

'A Foxboro woman whose husband was killed during the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks wants a public apology from conservative commentator Ann Coulter for a new book claiming that some 9-11 widows are `` reveling in their status as celebrities.'''

'McGinty has not been politically outspoken in wake of the terrorist attacks.

She has organized a Family Fun Day in Foxboro annually to celebrate her husband's love of community and to raise funds for a scholarship in his name.'


GravatarAnd not a single mention of Atrios, Eschaton or that Duncan guy (whoever he is).


Gravatarwas this already aired? sigh.


GravatarAh- that explains why that woman is Armondo.


GravatarPlushyNoirª- the power of ra.


Gravatarhow many times did Kos call Armando an asshole? was he kidding? it surprised me


Gravatar "I must ask my colleagues on the other side of the aisle: Does Ann Coulter speak for you when she suggests poisoning not Supreme Court Justices

not Supreme Court justices? Has this quote been altered?


GravatarShe's a drag. A well-known drag.


Okay, don't believe me.

Why would I lie?


GravatarShe's a drag. A well-known drag.
dave™© | Homepage | 06.09.06 - 4:52 pm | #


You turn the sound off and make rude
noises.


GravatarMaureen Dowd is at Yearly Kos?

Damn. This is quite the shindig going on out there. The Bull(shit) Moose must be pissing his pants. (Good!)

I hope Marcus is not going easy on her (even if she is the one doing the interview). He should call her on the "Who among us does not love NASCAR" bullshit she peddled last year.


GravatarYou been poked in your hontas?


GravatarAll Maxx needs is a fedora and he is retro cool.


Gravatarjack, buddy, how's it hanging today? steve simels

That doesn't sound snarly at all.


GravatarNow he's deconstructing the meaning of good meta and bad meta.

Oh oh they're going meta-meta.


GravatarWhy would I lie?
four legs good


You wouldn't. I think I'd like her too.


GravatarThe smallness of it is disturbing.


GravatarBill Maher fears Anne Cloture and the Cloture Vote! He must a dimocrat.(/troll)


GravatarYearlyKos looks very glamorous, guess it goes with the whole theme of Vegas.

glitz, glam and stars!


GravatarI wonder if Atrios and Kos give each other grief for their comment threads. Make WGG jokes and stuff.



GravatarYou turn the sound off and make rude noises.

No... no, the change isn't due for another month. We're OK!


GravatarHalfdan: Say, when are you going to post the real story behind that scrape? Were a chainlink fence, a German Shepherd, and a Fox TV camera involved?

No -- just hurredly trying to get into the condo before the Metro rolled into my part of the parking lot. I was carrying the laundry basket, and a caught a crack in the sidewalk, and BOOM!
.


GravatarI am in education, meta is a code word for bullshit.


GravatarI wonder if Atrios and Kos give each other grief for their comment threads. Make WGG jokes and stuff.




I can think of about a thousand jokes that have made me laugh here.


Gravatarres, did you acquire that lovely Dutch Oven?


GravatarLet's not forget Tony Snow being an ass at yesterday's gaggle. Come see>>>>


GravatarOh oh they're going meta-meta.
The Old Man From Scene 24


hee! It does look fantastic, overall, though - I'll sign up for next year.

Wonder if Armando would've been there if he hadn't been outed?


Gravatarespecially for Buckeye

Friday Cat Blogging
Moonbootica, Buffy Geek | Homepage | 06.09.06 - 4:51 pm |


Thank you!

And thanks as well to four legs good and dave.

I think Atrios should go to Sigfried and Roy's to get some extra special cat blogging taken care of.

Now I flee work to go home and attempt to capture my beasties in pixel.


GravatarI hope Marcus is not going easy on her (even if she is the one doing the interview). He should call her on the "Who among us does not love NASCAR" bullshit she peddled last year.
res ipsa loquitur |

No, the Tom Cruise parody troll/scientologist should make that point...


GravatarOkay, don't believe me.

Why would I lie?


I hate having to explain the jokes to you youngsters...


Gravatarhow many times did Kos call Armando an asshole? was he kidding? it surprised me
DemByDefault


did he say why?


GravatarI am in education, meta is a code word for bullshit.
DWD - Dream Keeper | Homepage | 06.09.06 - 4:55 pm | #


Just a goldarn minute there, mister....


GravatarYou wouldn't. I think I'd like her too.

That's not to say I always agree with her, I don't.

And I won't forgive her for helping to trash Gore in 2000.


Gravatarhttp://news.yahoo.com/s/huffpost...huffpost/ 022511

Now it looks like Coulter is registered to vote in two places which is illegal.


Gravatarfinal result

Poland 0 Ecuador 2

but I think Poland will beat Germany.


Gravatarplantsman ...

I certainly did. And the seller gave me a big break on the shipping because he was so close to where I live!

I'll have to invite you over in the fall when I start making delicious stew-y treats in that thing!


GravatarWow, this woman (the non-armando) is all about the scoop platform.



GravatarHee hee, discussing trolls and namestealers.

Who whouldathunkit.


GravatarWith apologies for channeling Rummy: We've got to work the press we have- not the press we wish we had.


Gravatarhow many times did Kos call Armando an asshole? was he kidding? it surprised me
DemByDefault

did he say why?
jello

No, I tuned in in the middle of it, adn I think he said at least twice. He may have been riffing on an earlier joke.


GravatarI think Atrios should go to Sigfried and Roy's to get some extra special cat blogging taken care of.


I think the Mirage still has the white tigers in the marble living room thing going on... he could snap a few pix there.

Also, the Grand has a tiger display as well, IIRC...


GravatarHunter and "Armando" on CSpan are going on now about how the multi-threaded diary system works so well for this kind of interaction.

Look, nobody says shit about Haloscan like that and gets away with it!


GravatarWolfie, you can toss darts at Big Al all day long, but they'll have no effect. He is a rock of granite, while you are a pissed on pebble.


GravatarI hate having to explain the jokes to you youngsters...

Sorry, I have a headache.

Higher cognition is beyond me today.


GravatarNo -- just hurredly trying to get into the condo before the Metro rolled into my part of the parking lot. I was carrying the laundry basket, and a caught a crack in the sidewalk, and BOOM!

Ouch! You live a charmed life, my man.


GravatarBREAKING--MURTHA V. HOYER

Major news from the House: Pennyslvania Congressman John Murtha has begun delivering a letter to his Democratic House colleagues announcing plans, should Democrats retake the House this fall, to seek the number-two job of House Majority Leader. This would almost certainly entail a showdown with the current House Minority Whip, Steny Hoyer. I just called Murtha's press secretary, who confirmed the letter and read me the following statement from Murtha:

Our goal is to win the House back and if there is an open seat I'm the candidate.

As readers will probably know, Murtha is a close ally of Nancy Pelosi who favors a fast withdrawal from Iraq. Hoyer is more inclined to tough it out in Iraq, and has a long history of friction with Pelosi.

Steny Hoyer's office has given me its own statement in response:

Mr. Hoyer has worked extraordinarily hard to unify the caucus and take back the House for Democrats and that is his first focus. As a result of that unity he is confident that we will be successful in November and intends to run for Majority Leader. He believes his work as whip, caucus chair, and with the DCCC has earned the support of the overwhelming majority of House Democrats.

Adds a senior Democratic aide: "A lot of members are very angry that Jack Murtha has decided to blow up the caucus and declare a leadership race when we are the most unified we've been in years. We're really focused on taking back the house and should not be distracted with a leadership race. It's going to be a huge diversion."


GravatarAnd I won't forgive her for helping to trash Gore in 2000.
four legs good


Neither do I, but I keep it in perspective.

btw, this particular panel really shouldn't be televised. It's too.... meta meta.


GravatarPlease!


GravatarTHAT is Armando?


GravatarTom Daschle's running for President.

*Sigh.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore | 06.09.06 - 4:45 pm | #
-------------------------------
its too late baby


GravatarI don't know if it the quote got altered or somebody at Yahoo made a typo.


GravatarAnd I won't forgive her for helping to trash Gore in 2000.
four legs good


That's what I want to ask all these people: Do they feel any responsibility for the way their trivialization of politics led to very real tragedies all over the world.

I get angry just thinking about it.


GravatarI'm telling you, she's really hard to dislike in person.

Believe me, I tried.

Couldn't do it. She's also much better looking in person than she is on camera.


Wow. Here's one person I don't want on my fucking team.

What the fuck?!?!? You sound just like the fucked up press corps itself!!!!!! This is the same sort of bullshit excuse we heard from THEM when they peddled BuchCo.'s lies.

Like res said:

I hope Marcus is not going easy on her (even if she is the one doing the interview). He should call her on the "Who among us does not love NASCAR" bullshit she peddled last year.

No fucking shit! By failing to call Dowd on her vile clownish behavior, kos just drops the fucking ball. He might as well get on his knees and lick Dowd's pussy until she pisses all over his face.


GravatarWhy do Wolfie and Greenfield feel it's part of their job to offer advice to the GOP?


Gravatarbtw, this particular panel really shouldn't be televised. It's too.... meta meta.
Jenny from the Blog •
It is hilarious that they are on national tv, yet showing only their handle, not real names.


GravatarTHAT is Armando?
ErinPDX


That is Armando in quotes. Her doppelganger would be Armando in double quotes.


GravatarSusanG says Kos and Atrios have become monopolies and are thwarting the growth of diversity.


GravatarIt's like having a camera in your bathroom.

Way too much information.


GravatarAnd you're with Hoyer why, exactly?


GravatarHunter and "Armando" on CSpan are going on now about how the multi-threaded diary system works so well for this kind of interaction.

When people are responding to each other, do they take a step forward, and then another...

A televised version of Haloscan would be something like a cocktail party or the floor of the NYSE (say, during a Bush speech, when it's a fast-moving thread of obscenities. My favorite!).


GravatarAs readers will probably know, Murtha is a close ally of Nancy Pelosi who favors a fast withdrawal from Iraq. Hoyer is more inclined to tough it out in Iraq, and has a long history of friction with Pelosi. - portia

yes, yes, yes!


Gravatar"If you don't cross-post... YOU'RE ALONE".

Oh My God.


GravatarBut it really doesn't meta, meta, meta, meta, meta, meta,
No, it realy doesn't meta, meta, meta, meta, meta, meta,
No, it realy doesn't meta, meta, meta, meta, meta, meta,
No, it really doesn't meta, meta, meta any more.
Meta, meta, meta, meta...


GravatarDamn, Stunt Woman. But you're right, I fear.


Gravatarmeta-tasal


GravatarA televised version of Haloscan would be something like a cocktail party or the floor of the NYSE (say, during a Bush speech, when it's a fast-moving thread of obscenities. My favorite!).

I think it would be more like the Orange Juice Futures trading pit from "Trading Places."

Only louder. And more obscene. With kitties.


GravatarIt is hilarious that they are on national tv, yet showing only their handle, not real names.
ErinPDX


I know. Ha, I can't imagine what ma and pa couch potato are thinking as they watch this.

This panel looks like it's beamed from outer space.


GravatarBy failing to call Dowd on her vile clownish behavior, kos just drops the fucking ball. He might as well get on his knees and lick Dowd's pussy until she pisses all over his face.

...Cause no one knows what goes on behind
closed doors. What happens in Maureen stays in Maureen.


GravatarCulture of life alert!
I'm going to guess this has been posted already but I don't have time to check all the threads ...

Police foil planned abortion clinic bombing
Marylander said he planned to shoot doctors who provide terminations

-----------

I'd like to know if the media is going to continue with its Zarqawi wargasm, if they're going to give this story any play. I've tuned out CNN for the past two days by choice.


Gravatar He might as well get on his knees and lick Dowd's pussy until she pisses all over his face.
Stunt Woman


It's too early for such pillow talk.


GravatarI'm here at Yearly Kos and it is quite a wonderful gathering. Everyone is very open and friendly. The Plame panel was quite good--try to see it on CSPAN if you can.


GravatarAnd I won't forgive her for helping to trash Gore in 2000.
four legs good


she would gear up to do it all over again in a heartbeat if gore were to run again.


GravatarSusanG says Kos and Atrios have become monopolies and are thwarting the
growth of diversity.
jack | 06.09.06 - 5:00 pm | #


KennyG says my nut sac has has established
dominion over the known universe. I say
this is a positive thing!!!!


GravatarWhat the fuck?!?!? You sound just like the fucked up press corps itself!!!!!! This is the same sort of bullshit excuse we heard from THEM when they peddled BuchCo.'s lies.

Don't be stupid.

WHen have I EVER pulled my punches on ANYONE???

give me a break.


GravatarYou bad, plantsman.


GravatarJust saw Barbara Boxer addressing the blogosphere audience in Las Vegas.

She's good. Too bad there aren't a majority of her type in the Senate or the Democratic party.


GravatarHappy afternoon, all.

I'm not in Vegas...I'm not even going to hoist a cool one after work, until I get some face time with my Dad. Not doing so good.

But ya gotta deal with all of it, ya know?


Gravatarthe wingnuts will no doubt declare Zarqawi death as a national holiday


GravatarZubin Meta
oh, not Zubin Mehta, huh?


Gravatarshe would gear up to do it all over again in a heartbeat if gore were to run again.

I hope she learned her lesson.

She has no love for shrub at all.


GravatarUh, that last zubin meta post about
my nut sac was me.

Sorry for the confusion, nut sac fans.


Gravatar"I think he's going to pork her, Dad."
"He's not going to pork her, Russ."
...

"Well, he may pork her."
mdk | 06.09.06 - 4:45 pm | #

oy


GravatarI've tuned out CNN for the past two days by choice.

I've tuned them out for the past two years...


Gravatarhave they talked about yet the ethics of taking a stance you have an interest in without disclosing it?


GravatarPolice foil planned abortion clinic bombing
Marylander said he planned to shoot doctors who provide terminations


but those guys ain't terr'sts...you know, fucking with laws already passed by shooting doctors - no one being terrorized there...but they ain't christofascist, noooo


GravatarI'm here at Yearly Kos and it is quite a wonderful gathering. Everyone is very open and friendly. The Plame panel was quite good--try to see it on CSPAN if you can.
Donna Marie


We are basically loving it, thanks. Just watched Boxer!


GravatarDims dont understand America cuz they dont know dirt roads.


GravatarDon't be stupid.

WHen have I EVER pulled my punches on ANYONE???


I'm giving you shit because you appear to be saying that when you push comes to shove, you'd cave like a boy scout if the ass was tasty.

What is the deal??


GravatarDon't be stupid. WHen have I EVER pulled my punches on ANYONE??? give me a break. -four legs good

SW seems to be something of a moral absolutist. Anything short of a shiv in the kidneys is selling out.


Gravatarcheap shot at FDL: can I say that there's just something about him I don't like...?

I think I can say that here.


Gravatar"Atrios" and "frist!" mentioned by Markos.


Gravatarhttp://www.newsday.com/news/ loca...,0,689949.story

'Richard Klein sold a few hundred copies of Ann Coulter's new book Wednesday when the conservative commentator appeared at his Huntington bookstore, but he may think twice before inviting her back.

"There has been an adverse reaction, more than I anticipated," said Klein, co-owner of the Book Revue. "I may have made a mistake."
The Book Revue co-owner said some regular customers objected to Coulter's appearance to promote the book, in which she calls widows of some 9/11 victims "witches" and "harpies." During the appearance, Coulter ripped up a letter from a Huntington Town Board member who objected to her comments.'

'The Huntington Town Board member, Mark Cuthbertson, said he received about 25 phone calls and an equal number of e-mails yesterday about his confrontation with Coulter. He said 95 percent of the correspondents supported him.

"They really are appalled by her lack of sensitivity," Cuthbertson said. "The negative phone caller said I should stick to sponsoring tulip festivals."'


GravatarHalfdan: Ouch! You live a charmed life, my man.

Well, let me be clear: There were no blue lights, no shouts of "FREEZE!" or anything like that. I just noticed he turned the same way I did, and I didn't give him a chance to get curious.
.


GravatarI try, B1.


Gravatarhave they talked about yet the ethics of taking a stance you have an interest in without disclosing it?

Jesus, have you been up all night digging up that corpse?


GravatarI'm giving you shit because you appear to be saying that when you push comes to shove, you'd cave like a boy scout if the ass was tasty.


Don't put words on my keyboard I didn't type.

I think everyone here knows that's total bullshit.


Gravatardith doesn't understand dims because he isn't in touch with the smell of sex and the earth and all that we are made from.


GravatarI'm giving you shit because you appear to be saying that when you push comes to shove, you'd cave like a boy scout if the ass was tasty.

What is the deal??
Stunt Woman


You really should knock it off right now.


Gravatar He might as well get on his knees and lick Dowd's pussy until she pisses all over his face.
Stunt Woman


MoDo's a squirter?

i didn't know that...


GravatarSpeaking of Vegas, I'll probably be going in August for my lovely wife's birthday?

And what will we be doing while we're there? Seeing her favorite performer... that's right, kids, I'm talking Barry Manilow!


GravatarUh, that last zubin meta post about
my nut sac was me.

Sorry for the confusion, nut sac fans.
jack | 06.09.06 - 5:04 pm | #


"Steve Simels regrets the error..."


Gravatar"Armando" is now "McJoan" being asked a question by audience member "User82275".

It's getting kinda Star Trek conventiony.


GravatarAnn Coulter won't be satisfied until progressives
crucify her live on Deal or No Deal.

Neither will I.


GravatarStunt woman, Cool it, man.

You obviously don't know fourlegsgood like many of us do.


GravatarSW seems to be something of a moral absolutist. Anything short of a shiv in the kidneys is selling out.
JeffCO


How is asking Maureen Dowd a straightford, direct but DIFFICULT question a "shiv in the kidneys"??

Seriously.


GravatarStunt Woman -

I enjoy most of Dowd's columns, not all of them, but many. Go ahead and malign me. Go ahead and call me a dumbshit.


Gravatar I just noticed he turned the same way I did, and I didn't give him a chance to get curious.

You're too funny. Do the South Knox Bubba people need a Nashville franchise?


Gravatar"Atrios" and "frist!" mentioned by Markos.

What did he have to say about them?


GravatarAnn Coulter won't be satisfied until progressives
crucify her live on Deal or No Deal.

Neither will I.


I would like to shoot her into the sun.


GravatarAnd what will we be doing while we're there? Seeing her favorite performer... that's right, kids, I'm talking Barry Manilow!
dave™©


You know, if you have misgivings, I'm still single.


GravatarIt's getting kinda Star Trek conventiony.
Max Planck




GravatarI think I may have to rethink this "employment" thingie.

Three days on the road last week, and now all week on the support hotline. My brain is mush today.

And I'm not in Vegas (did I mention that already?).


GravatarTom Daschle's running for President.

*Sigh.
Vicki, Who ? Al Gore


The gutless wonder.

Do we care?

Does anyone?


Gravatarfourlegsgood has plush, a cool person!


GravatarBut then again, there is a big difference between being a quasi-person here and being a human being in reality. I don't know what I would say to the actual MoDo, for instance. Probably nothing. I don't particularly want to talk to her. But I doubt I would be as over-the-top with the farm animal sex accusations, ya know? But maybe not . . .


GravatarGood reporters are always charming in person... that's how they get people to open up to them.

However, denizens of this watering hole really should know better than to fall for it. Especially when it comes to MoDo...


GravatarMurtha will run for House leadership if Dems win this fall

http://www.cnn.com/2006/ POLITICS...tion=cnn_latest

I don't know how Nancy feels about this, but I think it's a good thing to have this kind of competition. Keeps everybody doing their best.


GravatarC-SPAN is gonna broadcast the panels
tomorrow, as well.

This makes me happy....


GravatarDims dont understand America cuz they dont know dirt roads.
dith


yeah, dirt roads mean soo much - i think dirt road - i think 3rd world country - shit, why stop there, why not close all institutions of higher learning...lemme ask you this how much do you think your town paid for any of the bridges they have - how about almost nothing - the government is always begged when communities need bridges installed or repaired


GravatarFrist and foremost, kos has really given a lot of people voice at this.

I think some people may be turned off by some of the language, those types aren't outraged enough then they never will be.

I think an open minded sixpack type of informed patriot would love what they're hearing.

I think someone who simply lets airwaves reinforce their prejudice would harbor insluated reaction.

Finally, watch the language, we know the FCC wants something to act upon.


GravatarOh, Curly, no... don't lay on my feet, boy! It's 90F in this hothouse!
.


GravatarI don't know how Nancy feels about this, but I think it's a good thing to have this kind of competition. Keeps everybody doing their best.

If the Dems win, Pelosi would be Speaker...


Gravatarthere was a lot of disappointment that busby lost. but shouldn't we have celebrated more the defeat of 10 commandments judge roy moore? i didn't really follow that story. is there a woman in contention for governorship in alabama?


Gravatarimages of katherine harris come to mind...


GravatarDims dont understand America cuz they dont know dirt roads.


I think that's supposed to be populist poetry.

Speaking of populism, I found out today that "Hobo" stands for Homeward Bound. Did y'all know that?

I like Hoboes. Hoboes don't know dirt roads, either. Hoboes know rails. Doesn't get more merkin than a Hoboe riding the rails.


GravatarI'm not at all clear on why they'd let Byron York sit in at Traitorfest '06. You know he's not going to write anything remotely fair. I'd think it would be better just to let him go back crying "they won't let me in" than having another "Night of the Living Liberals" book come out in 3 months.

I mean, fuck him. What is the upside to letting him in?


GravatarMurtha will run for House leadership if Dems win this fall

http://www.cnn.com/2006/ POLITICS...tion=cnn_latest

I don't know how Nancy feels about this, but I think it's a good thing to have this kind of competition. Keeps everybody doing their best.
Monica_A: Freedom Fried

No Marcia - she would be the Speaker of the House! He'd be the Majority Leader. a good team, don't you think??!!


GravatarHowever, denizens of this watering hole really should know better than to fall for it. Especially when it comes to MoDo...

To her credit, she got a LOT of very tough questions, and she didn't duck any of them.

And she was quite tough on the times as well. And you all would have loved hearing her crucify Judy Miller.


GravatarHow is asking Maureen Dowd a straightford, direct but DIFFICULT question a "shiv in the kidneys"?? Seriously. Stunt Woman

Seriously? Well I conflated your attack on 4lg with your position from last week that any member of the military who goes to Iraq is a murderer and deserves naught but scorn and death. The impression you've been building from my reading of your comments over time is that you have a fairly rigid ethos and an unyielding conviction that yours is the right one and that anyone who fails to meet your standards is some variety of ass.

Uhh, not that there's anything wrong with that....


GravatarI'm confused,

Do we hate Kos this week or do we love him?

I only ask because reading him is actually more than I am willing to do.

I get enough sleep as it is.


GravatarRemember:

Murtha's not opposed to the war...

Just to the way it's being mismanaged...
.


GravatarGo ahead and
malign me. Go ahead and call me a dumbshit.
Jenny from the Blog • | 06.09.06 - 5:08 pm | #


If he does, he'll have to go through
me first.


GravatarStunt woman, Cool it, man.

You obviously don't know fourlegsgood like many of us do.


I'm not trashing fourlegs. I'm just disturbed by the sentiment.

I'm not surprised that Dowd is "friendly" in person. Not surprised at all. But before I would ever be "friendly" with her, she's got some serious splainin' to do.

Trying to be friends with her without that splainin' is simply a pointless endeavor, unless one is really really desperate for friends.


GravatarI mean, fuck him. What is the upside to letting him in?
Pope Ratzo


Divulge his secrets about hair product?


GravatarI think Annthrax Coulter should just be ignored.

She's so obviously a pathological and pernicious liar that there is no reason to pay any attention to her at all.

She will continue to publish her tripe, which will continue to be bought by the dimwits who want to believe the lies she's selling.

It's a cottage industry of delusion and hate.

Let her and her dupe audience rot in hell for all I care. I wouldn't pay enough attention to piss on her if she caught fire.


GravatarIn the dim future we'll be lorded over by lawmen and doctors.


GravatarI'm not at all clear on why they'd let Byron York sit in at Traitorfest '06. What is the upside to letting him in?

Pretty, shiny hair!


Gravatarbut shouldn't we have celebrated more the defeat of 10 commandments judge roy moore?

I was rooting for Judge Roy Moore, actually. That was a primary race. How lovely to have the only choice be a Democrat and a foamy-mouthed extremist from the Christian Right. Let's get these nut jobs on the ballot and have Republicans see what has become of their party. They invited these wackos to the table, now they need to own it, not hide from it.


Gravatar...as for the Murtha story, it started on a troll haven(TNR) and I think it sounds like the usual ratfuck piece that is supposed to paint Dems as fractured...


GravatarHow is asking Maureen Dowd a straightford, direct but DIFFICULT question a "shiv in the kidneys"??

Seriously.


When much of the country is seeing and reading about you and your ideas for the very first time, it's a really good idea not to be an asshole and ruin the whole blogging thing for everyone else for years to come.


GravatarMonica_A: Freedom Fried

sorry for calling you Marcia, btw!!


GravatarSeriously? Well I conflated your attack

My advice: don't do that.

I save my grudges and memory banks for important stuff.


GravatarJesus, have you been up all night digging up that corpse?
Stunt Woman


at least i don't stay up all night thinking up new nicknames to use.

if it's such a corpse, where is your refutation of the argument?


GravatarThis meta panel is just the kos community doing housekeeping. Any organization that big does that kind of stuff.


GravatarWhat did he have to say about them?
The Old Man From Scene 24 | 06.09.06 - 5:08 pm | #


"Atrios" and "frist" were mentioned in response to a newbie Kossack who asked how in the world to navigate in Koz and how intimidated he felt. They told him not to worry, just jump in..... every site is different, some are so casual that greetings like Frist! are welcome (it got a laugh).


GravatarOK, kids, I'm out for the weekend. Gotta go wish the little sister my best for her African Adventure.

Talk to you all on Monday . . .


GravatarOish...I accidentally just heard Madonna's
"Like a Virgin" on the radio.

Yuk.....


GravatarI don't know how Nancy feels about this.

Nancy can kiss my black ass. She has sucked as a minority leader.


GravatarTrying to be friends with her without that splainin' is simply a pointless endeavor, unless one is really really desperate for friends.


Who said anything about being friends?

You're being ridiculous.


GravatarI followed the Moore story a little bit. He got his ass handed to him. The winner got over 60 percent of the vote, nearly 2 to 1 over Moore.


GravatarIf he does, he'll have to go through
me first.
steve simels


aw, honey!


GravatarI just don't see myself being starstruck by MoDo. Now, Soledad on the other hand . . .


GravatarWell - later, bats!


Gravataraccording to dith becoming Cambodia should be our goal.


GravatarWhen much of the country is seeing and reading about you and your ideas for the very first time, it's a really good idea not to be an asshole and ruin the whole blogging thing for everyone else for years to come.
Halfdan


OH, my fucking jeebus.

Are you kidding me????

Go ahead and jump on the merry go 'round, then. Joe Klein is waiting for you! See him? He's on that purple horse and he's pointing to his wide open lap. Jump on!!!!


Gravatari'm in touch with the smell of my ass because i have a finger full of it. it doesnt taste as bad as it smells. i don't understand.


GravatarI'm a dim.


GravatarMcJoan! Jeez, thanks Max Planck!


Gravatarmonica, portia ran a link that suggested murtha and pelosi are allies.


GravatarI'd rather have lunch with Dana Priest, myself.


Gravatari predict kos drinks the bland democrat koolaid, joins the mainstream and gets a gig at the NYTimes


GravatarHowever, denizens of this watering hole really should know better than to fall for it. Especially when it comes to MoDo... -dave™©

I met Caroline Daniel of the Financial Times not long ago. Despite her being very charming, I asked her why the DC press refuses to burn its sources when it becomes obvious they've lied to them. She said the problem is that if you do that none of your other sources will keep talking to you. She also said it is then the reporter's duty to quit talking to the liars.


GravatarMoDo will say whatever/make shit up about Kos and the "liberal" blogosphere. You can count on it.


GravatarHow long is the CSpan coverage going on? I won't be at my folks until after 6.

Tough weekend: YKos, Copa Mundial, or a catered BBQ tomorrow? Decisions, decisions...


GravatarKos join the dark side?


GravatarGo ahead and jump on the merry go 'round, then. Joe Klein is waiting for you! See him? He's on that purple horse and he's pointing to his wide open lap. Jump on!!!!

Go to hell.


GravatarGo ahead and jump on the merry go 'round, then. Joe Klein is waiting for you! See him? He's on that purple horse and he's pointing to his wide open lap. Jump on!!!!


Oh, for fuck's sake. Go take a valium and quit acting like an ass.


GravatarThere's at least one right wing blogger there taking pictures and blogging with typical winger disdain for the fact that other than wingers would think they had any business getting together for anything.


GravatarFolks, Stunt Woman is a troll. I've gotten in too many arguments with this lame-brain to count. I think he/she has some serious anger management issues that can be helped with THERAPY and MEDICATION.

I really have a hard time tolerating any person who comes here purely to vent their anger at the world. Go hit a pillow or something, dear.

To any newcomers on the blog today, please don't think Stunt Woman or dith are characteristic of blog discourse. This is a loving place ... most of the time.


GravatarConservatards assiduously DON'T read MoDo. She'll say what she wants and if she doesn't like the way she was treated, it'll be brutal.


Gravatari predict kos drinks the bland democrat koolaid, joins the mainstream and gets a gig at the NYTimes
mogwai


Why would he do that. His fan base -- if you want to call it that -- is there because he stands up to the mainstream and holds the NYT accountable.
What purpose would it serve to sell out?


GravatarI hope I do ok here....


Gravatari predict kos drinks the bland democrat koolaid, joins the mainstream and gets a gig at the NYTimes

I doubt it. I think he's having too much fun the way he's doing things now, and he's making good coin at it, apparently.


GravatarMy balls smell like garlic bread.


GravatarGo ahead and jump on the merry go 'round, then. Joe Klein is waiting for you! See him? He's on that purple horse and he's pointing to his wide open lap. Jump on!!!!
Stunt Woman | 06.09.06 - 5:16 pm | #


Yeah, it's so totally jumping into the beltway establishment's lap when you, uh, don't want to come off as an asshole to the general public. Sterling.


GravatarI was rooting for Judge Roy Moore, actually. That was a primary race. How lovely to have the only choice be a Democrat and a foamy-mouthed extremist from the Christian Right. Let's get these nut jobs on the ballot and have Republicans see what has become of their party. They invited these wackos to the table, now they need to own it, not hide from it. - Sr.SpikeyMaceOfQuietReflection

It would have been interesting to see whether the MSM spun Moore's defeat with the same "the Republicans have moved too far to the right" spin they use when a Democrat "moves to far to the left" in their opinion. Anyway, it will be interesting to see whether, if Hashem forbid the Republican wins, the media will say something about "it was a good thing for the Republicans the whacko didn't win the primary" or if he looses whether there will be a lot of bloviating about "divisive primaries" which expose the party's "rabid base for all to see" (a la how they would spin a Dem. loosing in a parallel situation) or whether they go the other way and say something about the Republicans needing to nominate someone further right next time to get out the vote of the base (they would, of course, never make the parallel comment about Dems).

In any case, whatever the media reports, it'll be a subtle test of how biased against us they still are ...


Gravatarsitting at the philly airport, paid 8 bucks to browse teh internets to wait for my plane to go home...philly airport gives philly a bad name (so does that geno dude who sells steak samwiches "wid wiz")


Gravatarif I don't start making sense its probably because i am on my 3 glass of white wine.

currenlty me and my dad are on a bottle of Australian Riesling.

he is 60 today.


GravatarI like everybody. Except the trolls, and even they come with some funny shit once in a while. But, is this reality? What does the person I seem to you to be, here, have to do with the person I might be out there? I don't know. I write what I think. I think what I think. It's hard to always say what one thinks. And words are just fossil thoughts, not thoughts themselves. Oh, well.


GravatarI snarl at my own shit.


GravatarHunter says maybe someday he'll come out and reveal his real name! haha!
I'm sure nobody will recognize you when they see you on national tv.


GravatarSr.SpikeyMaceOfQuietReflection, I salute you. I have had odd feelings in response to the overweaning negativity of Stunt Woman's posts.
Thank you for verbalizing them so well.


GravatarWhen much of the country is seeing and reading about you and your ideas for the very first time, it's a really good idea not to be an asshole and ruin the whole blogging thing for everyone else for years to come.

This is such a ripe comment that I can't resist another bite.

How about instead of assuming the absolute worst every time the press corps is publically questioned about its behavior, we assume that a very public (i.e., televised) very direct questioning of a televised reporter actually sparks a sincere discussion about the issues in the larger media.

For the first time, pretty much.

Is that totally impossible?

I think "the day kos asked Dowd why she told lies to screw John Kerry" would become a day worth remembering, and not because "the whole blogging thing for everyone else for years to come".


GravatarI had a brief affair two years ago with
a woman who worked at the Times (not
on hard news, but you might know her
name). A good liberal, by any standard,
as a person.

Anyway, whenever I would make any of
the standard critiques of the paper,
i.e. the sort of things we all voice
whenever the Times comes up --
Whitewater, Judy Miller, blah blah -- she
would look at me as if I was a babbling
idiot.

She simply could not wrap her mind
around the idea that the Times wasn't
a great paper with an impeccable
reputation anymore. Or that people
like MoDo were responsible for electing
Bush.


Gravatarhe is 60 today.
Moonbootica, Buffy Geek


He is but a schoolboy.
My pop turned 90 last week.


GravatarWell, best get back to getting ready for the party.

I don't have time or patience to deal with anything other than quality at the moment.

Fourleggers, you are quality. All the way. Give Mr. Plushy a hug for Cosmo and me!


Gravatarcurrenlty me and my dad are on a bottle of Australian Riesling.

he is 60 today.


Tell your Dad Happy Birthday for us, dear.


GravatarB1 Bummer --

I didn't make it to EschaCon last year but have met some Atriots at informal dinner gatherings, and most of them are not too far off from my images of them.

True, you only get a portion of a person here but over time that portion grows & grows.


Gravatari predict kos drinks the bland democrat koolaid, joins the mainstream and gets a gig at the NYTimes

i suspect you might be right about that, if the platform were high enough, the rewards great enough, etc...


GravatarMarkos won't do that, LA Times has been more progressive in comparison, despite its ownership change... NYT is stone set on the other side of the fence and will remain so as an insitution toward olgiarchs.

He'll be in a bid war between tham and sf chron/sf.gate.

A friend got a gig writing for a sports blog there off our raidersfans.net site...

Kos gets bigger numbers and will get a political interactive deal soon.

His readers put money where their hearts are, as do the readers for atrios.


If kos does this right he can get a good offer(leveraged between the two) and develop a base for activism within the big CA area locally past what is already done. Eventually papers will even try to merge via blogs to expand their revenue potential and still maintain distinct infrasturcutre for tax and busienss purposes.


The founders wrote under pen names in the federalist and antifederalist paper editorials of their day, the online community is just as engaged at this time.


GravatarI'd rather have lunch with Dana Priest, myself.
plantsman, lowercase

Me, I'd like to hit the track with Jack Germond, then go out for a few jars. If we get hungry, Johnny Apple can pick the restaurant and pick up the tab.

And Pope Ratzo: York won't be the only one writing "Night of the Living Liberals", I can't wait to see how this gets treated by the NYT and the WaPo. be interesting to compare this to the "folks having fun" coverage of CPAC or whatever those nutjob cranks call themselves


Gravatarhe is 60 today.
Moonbootica, Buffy Geek


Happy B-day, fellow Gemini...moonie's dad.......


Gravatarmy dad says thank you, he is having a very nice time, enjoying wine and watching Stircrazy


Gravatarhe is 60 today. - Moonbootica, Buffy Geek

Well, tell him I said he's just a pup and congratulations!


GravatarI snarl at my own shit.
steve simels | 06.09.06 - 5:21 pm | #


dith, baby, how's it going?


GravatarAnd what will we be doing while we're there? Seeing her favorite performer... that's right, kids, I'm talking Barry Manilow!
dave


You're a keeper.


GravatarWhat purpose would it serve to sell out?
flory


i dunno, money, pass to the better parties...just never thought kos was really that progressive (well maybe he is, i admit i don't read the site much)...just seems like he is "being courted" by teh NYT...it is just a prediction - and you know how those go


GravatarTrue, you only get a portion of a person here but over time that portion grows & grows.
Gummo - 5:23 pm


everybody said i look exactly like me...

funny, dat...


GravatarAnd words are just fossil thoughts, not thoughts themselves.

I am *SO* using that.


Gravatarevery site is different, some are so casual that greetings like Frist! are welcome (it got a laugh).

Heh! Cool.


GravatarDAS, if I think about it, I'll try to write down my take on the Moore thing from the perspective of somebody that lives down here. Or not, it's all just too absurd. Anyhoo, blogwhore, etc. But I always appreciate your thoughts.


GravatarMoonbootica, 3 glasses of white wine will most likely make you even more charming.


GravatarYou're a keeper.
ql in ny


I'd steal him, but he's married.

He is a keeper.


GravatarTime to pop the top off a Bridgeport IPA...

Yum.


GravatarYeah, it's so totally jumping into the beltway establishment's lap when you, uh, don't want to come off as an asshole to the general public.

Okay, let's get it straight, folks.

Did I suggest that kos "be an asshole" to Maureen Dowd?

Nope.

I suggested that kos ask Dowd some straightforward and direct and DIFFICULT questions. You know, the kind of questions that nobody asks Maureen Dowd because they are hypnotized by her beauty and affable nature.

Fucking SHIT some of you are making the SAME ARGUMENTS that we RAIL AGAINST all the time when our lazy press corps defers to the Bush Administration.

What's the deal?

Is Helen Thomas a hero? Or is she an "asshole" who is "ruining the progressive movement for years to come"?


GravatarSERENITY NOW!

Whew that feels better.


Gravatareverybody said i look exactly like me...

funny, dat...
WoodyGuthrie'sGuitar(aka.


An acoustic guitar with "f holes"?


GravatarRun, save yourselves, Matthews is about to start slobbering over Delay. They're gonna need to clean that studio out with a hose.


Gravatari predict kos drinks the bland democrat koolaid, joins the mainstream and gets a gig at the NYTimes

have you read the polls lately? kos is mainstream.

I doubt it. I think he's having too much fun the way he's doing things now, and he's making good coin at it, apparently.
Captain Goto, wage slave |


the convention is geting coverage on cable news outlets. i heard somebody in a segment say kos gets more readership than major newspapers. wouldn't make sense for kos to jump off the forum only to get less readers.


GravatarI hope Marcos kicked her. She knows enough to hate Bush but all campaign long she dumped on Kerry. Useless bint.

What's the cure for the disease of materialism? We need to know if we're going to save the Earth as Al Gore wants us to do.


GravatarStircrazy

The one with Pryor and Wilder? schweet.


Gravatareverybody said i look exactly like me...

funny, dat...
WoodyGuthrie'sGuitar


THAT IS SO TRUE!

btw, I am totally jazzed by this kos convention. I feel like we're all a part of it!!!!


GravatarCan we all descend upon Las Vegas? I'll drive.

No, wait, I was told not to get off the sofa...


Gravatar"Duncan WHO?" - Markos, talking about pseudonyms and how it shouldn't matter because there's just an average person behind the name, ie., "Atrios". Maybe someone else got more details, I'm trying to watch and dry my hair at the same time....


Gravatarwe are cool people!

i like the informal atmosphere here


GravatarBirds have built a nest in my balls.


Gravatareverybody said i look exactly like me...

funny, dat...
WoodyGuthrie'sGuitar(aka.


Nah, I never would have recognized
you. Or the Prior.


GravatarTime to pop the top off a Bridgeport IPA...
Yum.
Cletus the Pastafarian - 5:25 pm


dats WAAAY good brew...

i been drinking Red Hook IPA, cuz it's easier to find, reliably...


GravatarSCROLL TROLL COMMENT SCRUBBED

Vote mauve with teal streaks, not pink!

Something about Howard Dean!


GravatarDid I suggest that kos "be an asshole" to Maureen Dowd?

Nope.


I did. MoDo's an asshole and should be treated as such.


GravatarHey, ql, I'm working on a little baby quilt (for a friend's baby-to-be) that's all flying geese -- and it's turning out very nicely too! (I'm so proud of myself . . .) It's the one in the link here, except without the prairie points along the edge. I'm pretty sure it'll be going into the wash fairly often and it would be a cruelty to ask a working mother of four preschoolers to iron prairie points.

http://quickquilts.com/kidscorne...r/kc16_pattern/


GravatarHecate, popped by your place for the Moon phase
(planted a bunch of things today) and it was GONE!


GravatarMoonbootica,

Lots to celebrate tonight. Your dad's birthday, your completion of exams, your youth. Good times.


GravatarRun, save yourselves, Matthews is about to start slobbering over Delay.

Treating it like a sports retirement ceremony?

Bleh.


GravatarSERENITY NOW!

Whew that feels better.
Sr.SpikeyMaceOfQuietReflection

Hootchie MaamaaAAAA!!!!!!



GravatarWow, Hari Seldon.

Maybe he can tell us the probabilities of the GOP FINALLY being tossed out in 2006?


GravatarNah, I never would have recognized
you. Or the Prior.

steve simels




I beg to differ! And you, I recognized you, immediately! (It was that Patti Smith pic...)


GravatarCan we all descend upon Las Vegas? I'll drive.

No, wait, I was told not to get off the sofa...


We can go in the Buick. It's back seat is as large as a sofa, and had velvet seats.


GravatarMax Planck indeed plus hanging out with such wonderful people here


Gravatarplantsman,

moon is waxing, if that helps. Good time to plant.


GravatarSen. Specter Admits Public is Indifferent to Domestic Spy Program

Pennsylvania US senator Arlen Specter said Vice President Cheney’s lobbying was not the only reason Specter backed off on trying to question phone companies about the president’s eavesdropping program. Another reason, he says, is public apathy.

Specter this week said he will hold off on subpoenaing the telecommunications chiefs, after failing to muster support for the move among members of the Judiciary Committee.

Specter accused Vice President Cheney of swaying members against that.

But speaking at a forum in Philadelphia, Specter also said his colleagues are not hearing a hue and cry from their constitutents:

“When you don’t have any indignation -– and there’s not really much indignation in America today about this issue -– you don’t have that kind of indignation, it's pretty hard to get members of Congress to vote subpoenas and contempt citations.”

Cheney has acknowledged talking with committee members but says that the conversations were not improper.


GravatarRun, save yourselves, Matthews is about to start slobbering over Delay.

Treating it like a sports retirement ceremony?

Bleh.


Today..ay..ay..ay.. I feel like the luckiest man, on the face of the earth.


GravatarHi, Vicki! Is this the party weekend?


GravatarMore Star Trek
"DailyKos is Jupiter."


Gravatarplantsman,

It's still there. 98% full today, all the way full tomorrow. Not sure why you didn't see it.


GravatarThere is a local micro-brewery which makes a decent IPA ale. I'd buy more of it but they only sell "to go" beer in these gallon jugs, which is too much beer to drink, if you don't want half of it to go flat.


GravatarI really have a hard time tolerating any person who comes here purely to vent their anger at the world.

That's nice. Guess what: find the last 200 comments of mine and show me how many of them are "venting my anger at the world."

If it's close to 100%, I'll leave her and never come back.

If not, then you admit you're a liar and fuck off.

Some arguments are actually pretty easy to resolve.


Gravatar♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ Sallyh! ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

I hope you're taking care of those kidneys. Are you feelin' any better?
.


Gravatarthe convention is geting coverage on cable news outlets. i heard somebody in a segment say kos gets more readership than major newspapers. wouldn't make sense for kos to jump off the forum only to get less readers.
jello


The convention accredited 120 news organizations. 60 Minutes is there.

Kos doesn't need to go "mainstream". His message is getting plenty of attention.


Gravatar"DailyKos is Jupiter."

Free Republic? Uranus.

Captain Obvious Humor, @ your service!


GravatarCan we all descend upon Las Vegas? I'll drive.

We need to stop for a sec in Topeka. Gotta take care of some bidness. Only take a minute.


Gravatarmoon is waxing, if that helps. Good time to plant.

Thanks Vicki, I thought it was, but it's nice to know for sure. And the little babes look quite happy!


Gravatarhave you read the polls lately? kos is mainstream. - jello

Are you confusing mainstream (i.e. an opinion, person, etc., within the realm of reasonable political discourse and in agreement with the views of a broad cross section of reasonable people) with the "mainstream" (TM) (what the media defines as acceptible discourse, typically somewhat to the right of where the MSM talking heads stand, that way they can continue to think of themselves as "liberal")?

Of course, a person with mainstream views typically will vote for "mainstream" (TM) candidates rather than those candidates also having mainstream views. Which is part of the problem Dems. have in elections lately ...


GravatarHi pie!

Yeah! Sunday. The house is almost totally spotless - except for the kitchen. I'm going to do that tonight. Garden's in place.

I'm kind of out of steam, though, if the truth is told. I feel like a nap.


GravatarStunt Woman is no troll. We all have disagreements sometimes. Whatever!

Really leaving the crack den now.....


GravatarI beg to differ! And you, I recognized you, immediately! (It was that Patti Smith
pic...)
Vicki, Who ? Al Gore | 06.09.06 - 5:28 pm | #


Yeah, I hadn't changed a bit.


Seriously, I'm getting really jealous
of the Kossacks. I'm sure they're having
an absolutely fab time this weekend...


GravatarMi>I feel like the luckiest man, on the face of the earth.

He's as doomed as Gehrig was.


GravatarSen. Specter Admits Public is Indifferent to Domestic Spy Program

Pennsylvanians must be so proud of their US Senators.


GravatarI kid the Kossacks but they've obviously put on a hell of a shindig, I can only imagine how disturbing a similar gathering of right-wingers would be like.


GravatarIn any case, whatever the media reports, it'll be a subtle test of how biased against us they still are ...
DAS


I have a lot of thoughts about media bias. I do think they've started believing their own prevailing narratives, without ever recognizing that they created the narrative to begin with. Such as "the angry liberal" and "tuff on terra Republican."

On the other hand, I think a lot of the crap we read in the papers really is a result of corporatization of the media. Everything is funneled and broadcast through this one megaphone now. Local papers don't really have any reporting staff anymore, those folks cover local news of the ambulance-chasing variety.

No one does in-depth reporting anymore. Corporate owners have slashed budgets and staff, and increased the workload for existing news staff. So if you get a VNR from a company called the Karen Ryan Group, no one would think twice about running it! It didn't occur to anyone to ask, well, who hired the Karen Ryan Group?

A lot of it has to do with educating editors and newsroom staff.

My .10.


Gravatar♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ Sallyh! ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

damn, darlin, i hand't heard you were down with the poorlies...please, accept my best wishes for your soonest, swiftest, completest recovery...


Gravatarso Daily Kos is one of the gas giants?

what does that make Eschaton?

Mars! bitches


GravatarGood Luck on the party, Vicki!


GravatarWow!! Good for you. Even though it wasn't actually an easy job and was certainly not without its frustrations, I bet everything looks just wonderful.


Now Take that nap, so you can enjoy yourself on Sunday!!!


GravatarWhat's the deal? - Stunt Woman

Last try - you're being an ass to the other posters here. No one here necessarily disagrees with your general point that reporters need to be challenged and held to account, but were you to act toward one of them on TV the way you're acting toward others here, all anyone would conclude is that you're an asshole, which is not very effective.

Whether you are purposely confusing people's responses to *you and your behavior* or not, you are creating a nice example of why making a public ass of yourself tends to obscure whatever point you're trying to make.


GravatarFriday Nudibranch Blogging.

Just sayin'.


GravatarOMG - Michael gave CNN an email that someone sent him that said they were in a cabinet meeting - and someone said The press is giving Brown a hard time, and Bush said "better him then me and Chertoff"

wow!


Gravatarwhat does that make Eschaton?

Mars! bitches


LGF? Ice planet Hoth.


GravatarPennsylvanians must be so proud of their US Senators.

Don't get me started.

And now--bye, all. Catch ya later on in the not-workweek.


GravatarMars! bitches
Moonbootica, Buffy Geek


Right On!!


GravatarJeff,

What's wrong w/ Sallyh???


Gravatarflory:

60 Minutes is there?

Holy shit....


GravatarAll this panel needs is William Shatner.


Gravatar"What, the Times didn't send Friedman? Bummer."

Thers, that WOULD have been hilarious.


GravatarDelay warning democrats about bad kharma. Wow. I wouldn't want to be within five miles of that guy for fear of the collateral kharmic fallout.


GravatarMarkos is going to be on Meet the Press this week, too.


Gravatar♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ Sallyh! ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

Hope you feel better soon Sallyh (and that you're not banned from the occaisonal glass of wine...)


GravatarI can only imagine how disturbing a similar gathering of right-wingers would be like.

I was thinking that exact thing while watching the Plame panel.


Gravatar

I don't know my Kos number.



Gravatarccording to my tide/surf calendar, full moon's Sunday night...
.


GravatarI'm kind of out of steam, though, if the truth is told. I feel like a nap.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore


Go. Nap. Don't worry about the damn kitchen. If you wear yourself to a frazzle worrying about the house, you won't be able to enjoy the party at all.

Take care of yourself. People are coming to the party for the people...they don't care about the kitchen floor.


GravatarLGF is Pluto, because thats not considered a planet by certain astromners.


GravatarPennsylvanians must be so proud of their US Senators.


A gutless worm and a man-on-dog.


GravatarStunt Woman is no troll. We all have disagreements sometimes. Whatever!


I call Stunt Woman a troll because whenever he/she comes in here, he/she disrupts whatever conversation is currently taking place. Right, left or in the middle, trolls come to disrupt, not discuss.

We have enough people coming in here shitting on our living room floor as it is.


GravatarI wish I could go to Vicki's party. Instead I'll be fighting the nightly battle of bedtime to get the little beasties to go to sleep.


GravatarThe docs have probably put Sallyh on a juice and water diet.

Oh well Sallyh, stick with their program, so you get better soon.


GravatarI can only imagine how disturbing a similar gathering of right-wingers would be like.
Attaturk

Have you never seen CPAC? you're a lucky man. It's like watching a fiery wreck (kind of pun kind of intended) that you can turn away from...


Gravatarbtw, I am totally jazzed by this kos convention. I feel like we're all a part of it!!!!
Jenny from the Blog


I'm loving looking at the people there. Partly because blogging is the new cool thing, and they aint kids.


GravatarThanks, you guys! I do have to clean the kitchen tonight, though...need to buy food tomorrow, go to a grad party in the afternoon, and start cooking tomorrow night.

It'll all work out.


GravatarDAS, mainstream with regard to his position on the war.


GravatarIf not, then you admit you're a liar and fuck off.


Got any Lithium lying around?


GravatarWGG, did you hear about the people who were surfing the dunes in Yuma?


GravatarHecate: What's wrong w/ Sallyh???

She's on the couch for a few days, treating a kidney infection. I hope she's feelin' better.
.


GravatarLGF is Krapton. Not Krypton. Krapton.


Gravatarflory, I like the way you think...

i owe so many people e-mails, and good thoughts, and all of that...but the focus has been on my family for the last month.

I apologize to any and all if I've been remiss in responding. I will soon.


Gravatar"Take care of yourself. People are coming to the party for the people...they don't care about the kitchen floor.
flory
"

I do. I'm going to take surreptitious photos and post them on the internets with detailed and devastating critiques. Haloscan will be replete with all of the embarassments of Vicki's homemaking.

If there's so much as one carpet fiber out of place, she will be ashamed to show her face in decent society for years.


GravatarMalkin and mAnn Coulter belong out of the solar system!

O'Reilly is in deep space.


GravatarFriday Nudibranch Blogging.

Is that fuschia or magenta?


GravatarStrawhat:

Ooooh, that is so pretty. You really are expanding your reportoire there. Flying geese can be tricky.

Please buy that camera so I can see pics.


GravatarStrawhat:

Ooooh, that is so pretty. You really are expanding your reportoire there. Flying geese can be tricky.

Please buy that camera so I can see pics.


Gravatari heard somebody in a segment say kos gets more readership than major newspapers.

I think it was more readership than any single major paper.

There's a difference.


GravatarI hope the 10 bucks I spent to get streaming video from KosFest goes to a good cause.

I'm thinking it might not have been such a good idea, putting this on C-Span. If Digby or Greenwald or Wolcott were up there, then OK. But do we really want the nation to see these jerkoffs and thinking "That's them. Come look at the liberals, Marge."?


GravatarMarkos is going to be on Meet the Press this week, too.



Oh my.


Gravatar60 Minutes is there?

Holy shit....
steve simels


So sayeth the SF Chronicle. Not that that necessarily means much.....


GravatarI do. I'm going to take surreptitious photos and post them on the internets with detailed and devastating critiques. Haloscan will be replete with all of the embarassments of Vicki's homemaking.

If there's so much as one carpet fiber out of place, she will be ashamed to show her face in decent society for years.
Nim, ham hock of liberty


Nim,

!!!

I could rat you out, you clean freak, you!


GravatarMike Brown has e-mail proving that Chimpy initiated Hurricane Katrina!


GravatarIf Eschaton is a planet, I'd like it to be Sedna, one of the newly-discovered ones. It's named for a goddess and a blog populated by Athenae, Echidne, and various and sundry blog-goddesses should have a goddess planet.


GravatarFrom what Vicki has tended to say about herself in the time I've been coming here, somehow I DOUBT
it's her homemaking people notice. It's gotta be HER.


Gravatari'm watching YearlyKos in silence


GravatarOkay, I'm gonna go nap!

I'll see all y'all later, maybe! And if not later, then on Sunday in the evening.

Peace!


GravatarWolf asked Brown "Do you think the president might have been joking?"

ha ha riiight! It took him months to take responsibility - after being told that it was a good thing to do!!


GravatarMarkos is going to be on Meet the Press this week, too.

Oh, fuck. That means he's got his eye on the World Bank. Wolfowitz is toast.


GravatarIf there's so much as one carpet fiber out of place, she will be ashamed to show her face in decent society for years.
Nim, ham hock of liberty


And your wedding plans will be on permanent hold.......


Gravatarsorry that should be YearlyKos with the volume turned down


GravatarThis KOS session on CSpan now is a bit like attending CLE.


GravatarNim's a clean freak?

Hmmmmm.

Get your butt over there and help your future SIL.


GravatarIf Eschaton is a planet, I'd like it to be Sedna

On planet Cletus the rivers flow with beer, chicken enchiladas grow on trees and there are no bushes.


GravatarThe convention accredited 120 news organizations. 60 Minutes is there.
Kos doesn't need to go "mainstream". His message is getting plenty of attention.
flory

wow


GravatarMann Coulter to the Oort Cloud, STAT!


GravatarI do think they've started believing their own prevailing narratives, without ever recognizing that they created the narrative to begin with. Such as "the angry liberal" and "tuff on terra Republican." - Sr.SpikeyMaceOfQuietReflection

Judging by the hard-core "future journalists" (who were only a small fraction of the staff -- and many of the people who really wanted to be good journalists avoided the place) I worked with when I was involved with my undergrad school's newspaper, this is certainly the case: once they fixate on a certain turn of phrase, there is no use getting them to recognize when it isn't correct to use: my experience involved an editor inserting in an article of mine that a one time event was a "first annual event" because, in the editor's mindset, any event that isn't gonna be weekly, bi-weekly, monthly, decadely, etc., must be intended to occur annually. The idea of a one-time only event escaped his mindset.

FWIW, the more thoughtful of the conservatives who view the media as liberally biased (yes, these people do exist) also make the same observations about the media's silly narratives and even the media's increasing corporatization: they just have a different (IMHO, a whole lot less compelling) line of reasoning about why a more corporatized media would be more liberal and how the media narratives/lines benefit liberals rather than conservatives. Still, I have heard examples of "liberal bias" from the media that many of us here would find to be conservatively biased (e.g. the way the NPR repeats Republican spin in the guise of reporting on it while not doing the same for the Democrats: conservatives view this as highlighting that Republicans spin while it would seem that Democrats are more 'honest' whereas liberals like me view this as simply providing airtime and even an imprimateur for the Republican message without balancing it with the Democratic message).


GravatarI'm about ready to close up shop. It's been a busy, long, hard week.

Huhhuhhuhuhuh . . . he said "hard."


GravatarAnd your wedding plans will be on permanent hold.......



GravatarGreat sound quality on CSPAN2...

"Daily Kos is the )(*&#^$ and the pro)_@#(*%& is going to be @#(*&$"


GravatarOur sat signal is breaking up, and I'm losing every fifth word from YK.


GravatarMarkos is going to be on Meet the Press this week, too.

With 15 conservative bloggers, right?


GravatarThis KOS session on CSpan now is a bit like attending CLE.
Attaturk


Without the golf.


GravatarNim's a clean freak?


Uhhhh...uhhhhh...Seeing as how there has been so much kerfluffle over "anonymity" - I better not tell you the truth!

Let me give you a hint, though:

He doesn't call himself "the hamhock of liberty" for nothing!


GravatarOn planet Cletus the rivers flow with beer, chicken enchiladas grow on trees and there are no bushes.

So it's Brazilians all the way down?


GravatarOT: That bleached-out venomous hermaphrodite who shall remain nameless compared itself to Mark Twain....?


GravatarKos got banned from Americanblog. It was really catty, from what I heard. He like cried and stuff.



GravatarHa ha, this is hilarious. LA Times piece on the failure of all the GOP initiatives this week (gays, estate tax, etc.)

Trent Lott: "The conservative base will appreciate the fact that we are trying," Lott said.
Hear that, Dobson? They're tryyyying. Got that, Pat Robertson? They are working sooooo hard for you!

ha! Chumps! CHUMPS!!!!

Here's a thought, why not float your own Fundie-gelical candidates and see how far that gets you. Since you think you're part of the mainstream, just send your preacher pols out on the campaign trail.

Oh wait. It didn't work, Roy Moore got smeared in a Bible Belt election, and Ralph Reed is about to get his ass handed to him. Oh that's so rich!

Then here's plan B: Just live your faith and leave everyone else alone, 'kay?


GravatarOn planet Cletus the rivers flow with beer

On planet Clenis, you don't wanna know what the rivers flow with.


GravatarYou could eat off my mother's kitchen floor. We had no kitchen table, so we really had little choice.


GravatarMarkos is going to be on Meet the Press this week, too.

With 15 conservative bloggers, right?
Neponset

No no, with centrists like Hugh Hewitt and Glenn Reynolds.


Gravatar"Nim's a clean freak?

Hmmmmm.
"

Of course I am a slob.

But that won't stop me from making devastating velvet-gloved putdowns of Vicki's place, if it doesn't have the Martha Stewart treatment ^_^


GravatarExtremly Cute


GravatarAravosis is losing it over time, has been for a while.


GravatarLater, gators.


GravatarHow about instead of assuming the absolute worst every time the press corps is publically questioned about its behavior, we assume that a very public (i.e., televised) very direct questioning of a televised reporter actually sparks a sincere discussion about the issues in the larger media.

"Sincere discussion?" Just a minute ago you were discussing intimate details of Maureen Dowd's lady parts and now you're pleading for a "sincere discussion?"

I think "the day kos asked Dowd why she told lies to screw John Kerry" would become a day worth remembering

You know what? I really don't care what Kos thinks about Maureen Dowd. I really really don't. Maybe that makes me a "bad liberal" that I don't walk around all day every day seething with anger and imagining witty yet vulgar insults to be directed at Maureen Dowd were I ever to have the vision to build an online blogging empire with the power to threaten the structure of the dominant political discourse and then were she to be there at my gala extravaganza party asking me questions about my vision for American Democracy.

But I really don't care.


GravatarHow about instead of assuming the absolute worst every time the press corps is publically questioned about its behavior, we assume that a very public (i.e., televised) very direct questioning of a televised reporter actually sparks a sincere discussion about the issues in the larger media.

"Sincere discussion?" Just a minute ago you were discussing intimate details of Maureen Dowd's lady parts and now you're pleading for a "sincere discussion?"

I think "the day kos asked Dowd why she told lies to screw John Kerry" would become a day worth remembering

You know what? I really don't care what Kos thinks about Maureen Dowd. I really really don't. Maybe that makes me a "bad liberal" that I don't walk around all day every day seething with anger and imagining witty yet vulgar insults to be directed at Maureen Dowd were I ever to have the vision to build an online blogging empire with the power to threaten the structure of the dominant political discourse and then were she to be there at my gala extravaganza party asking me questions about my vision for American Democracy.

But I really don't care.


GravatarOMG I just found out there's a teeeny tiny chance that Bill Maher will be at a local Democratic Party event in a couple weeks. I am very excited.


Gravatar,i>On planet Clenis, you don't wanna know what the rivers flow with.



Mmmmm....milk n honey.


GravatarWith 15 conservative bloggers, right?

Or with Jeff Goldstein? Cause that boy can hog some attention and can be, uh let's say, verbose.


GravatarOMG - Michael gave CNN an email that someone sent him that said they were in a cabinet meeting - and someone said The press is giving Brown a hard time, and Bush said "better him then me and Chertoff"

wow!
portia

Wow indeed! Worth posting again. I don't know how I missed this the first time. Just caught it scrolling through....


Gravatarwhy a more corporatized media would be more liberal....DAS

The Corporation is NOT a liberal institution. It is, indeed, very nearly the antithesis of 'liberality.' I doubt i could take seriously anyone who asserted it was...
.


GravatarExtremly Cute

That's wonderful!


GravatarNo no, with centrists like Hugh Hewitt and Glenn Reynolds.




GravatarBut that won't stop me from making devastating velvet-gloved putdowns of Vicki's place, if it doesn't have the Martha Stewart treatment ^_^
Nim, ham hock of liberty


Don't come back here!!!

We luvs our Vicki!!!!


GravatarOT: That bleached-out venomous hermaphrodite who shall remain nameless compared itself to Mark Twain....?

If she's Mark Twain, then I'm one of the Bronte's.


GravatarTweety is interviewed Tom DeLay - After giving him a last chance to slam Democrats before he leaves the Capitol, he ends by saying thank you very much - we'll be seeing you a lot on shows like this - I HOPE!


GravatarMaybe that makes me a "bad liberal" that I don't walk around all day every day seething with anger and imagining witty yet vulgar insults to be directed at Maureen Dowd were I ever to have the vision to build an online blogging empire with the power to threaten the structure of the dominant political discourse and then were she to be there at my gala extravaganza party asking me questions about my vision for American Democracy.


I bow to you.


Gravatari just hang here for the humour


Gravatarand Bush said "better him then me and Chertoff"


The fluff stops here.

What a pussie. The CEO President, yeah, right.


GravatarHalfdan

I don't walk around all day every day seething with anger and imagining witty yet vulgar insults to be directed at Maureen Dowd

Either do I.


Gravataral-Zarqawi's death got Haditha off of the front page tout suite.


GravatarOMG I just found out there's a teeeny tiny chance that Bill Maher will be at a local Democratic Party event in a couple weeks. I am very excited.
Sr.SpikeyMaceOfQuietReflection - 5:46 pm


i sher hope ya getta chance to cock-punch the asswhole...


GravatarI'm thinking are EschaCons are much better. Not as public and such. Maybe if I ever get to one, I'll know for sure.


GravatarWhether you are purposely confusing people's responses to *you and your behavior* or not, you are creating a nice example of why making a public ass of yourself tends to obscure whatever point you're trying to make.

Bingo with a capital B.

Anyone with this much anger is useless to any cause, including their own. Go roll a splif.


Gravatar This KOS session on CSpan now is a bit like attending CLE.

well, everything has an ebb and flow. it'll come back up i'm sure.


GravatarI'm starting to think that Ann Coulter may have jumped the media shark. One can hope.


Gravatari'd do her


GravatarTweety is interviewed Tom DeLay - After giving him a last chance to slam Democrats before he leaves the Capitol, he ends by saying thank you very much - we'll be seeing you a lot on shows like this - I HOPE!
portia

Maybe Tweety needs about five hundred emails about the Northern Marianas.....


GravatarDAS,

A little OT but when I was a copy editor way back in the stone age, we'd always change cliches like "first annual event" because that is inaccurate. You can't be annual if you are the first. And while you can be the first with the intention of being annual, no one can predict the future. So we always changed it to "first" or "planned to be annual" or whatever.


GravatarThat bleached-out venomous hermaphrodite who shall remain nameless compared itself to Mark Twain

i compare myself to gremlins


GravatarHalfdan: You know what? I really don't care what Kos thinks about Maureen Dowd. I really really don't. Maybe that makes me a "bad liberal" that I don't walk around all day every day seething with anger and imagining witty yet vulgar insults to be directed at Maureen Dowd were I ever to have the vision to build an online blogging empire with the power to threaten the structure of the dominant political discourse and then were she to be there at my gala extravaganza party asking me questions about my vision for American Democracy.

But I really don't care.


Note to self: Stay on Halfdan's good side.
.


Gravataral-Zarqawi's death got Haditha off of the front page tout suite.
Max Planck - 5:49 pm


no offense, max, but...

NO SHIT!

which is why any Dem not Dumber than a boxarox should have proclaimed it a fucking stunt...
.


Gravataral-Zarqawi's death got Haditha off of the front page tout suite.

Funny that, isn't it? Why you'd almost think that . . . . Naw.


Gravatari just hang here for the humour
Moonbootica, Buffy Geek | Homepage | 06.09.06 - 5:48 pm | #


I just hang here for the cool free
stuff people send me. CDs, MP3s,
art work, books...

What a racket!!!!


GravatarBut that won't stop me from making devastating velvet-gloved putdowns of Vicki's place, if it doesn't have the Martha Stewart treatment ^_^
Nim, ham hock of liberty

Check the closets and make sure each towel is wrapped with a pretty colored ribbon. Oh, and I want to know if she really does fold her undies.


GravatarSnow, from the descriptions of what's happening in Vegas, it was about the same. The person who organized it made us badges with our handles and gravators. It was a lot of fun. Especially the final car ride with Nim, who took a lot of gruff in good humor. That's we love him.


GravatarIt's kind of interesting watching this policy meeting about the KOS site -- it feeds the policy wonk in me. Is that sad, or what?


GravatarI'm starting to think that Ann Coulter may have jumped the media shark. One can hope.
Hecate, Grammar Fag


I can't imagine her appearance with Matt Lauer will tend to increase her booking opportunites.

That may've been the beginning of the end.


Gravataral-Zarqawi's death got Haditha off of the front page tout suite.


what's haditha


GravatarI just hang here for the cool free
stuff people send me. CDs, MP3s,
art work, books...


[scooches over and listens intently]

Speak to me, my master.


GravatarI'm starting to think that Ann Coulter may have jumped the media shark. One can hope.

Indeed. She's so used to spewing outrageous bile that she completely lost any sense of reality. She crossed a line and never even realized it.

The media her get away with so much other crap, because this kind of controversy serves their purposes so well anyway.


Gravataral-Zarqawi's death got Haditha off of the front page tout suite.

i wonder if they shot their wad though. they could have saved him for an october suprise.


GravatarNote to self: Stay on Halfdan's good side.
.
Jeffraham Prestonian


Yup, I actually have something Halfdan wrote re the struggling middle class saved. I reprinted it the other day (with attribution) cause it was so good.

Now if he just wouldn't hate on Hillary so much.


GravatarBill Maher is no more a beacon of righteous protest than is Dennis Miller.

Good Lord, they are each worth more than $50 million.

Just stop looking for kindred souls in the past words of these showmen.

In the end, they did it all for the buck.


GravatarDoug--I am pretty much only consuming juice and water at this point. But I'd be happy if someone came by and sneaked a little Reposado in my juice.


Gravatarwhat's haditha

Dith's name in French.


Gravatarwow, Mary Scott O'Connor is certainly a scary looking radical, ain't she.


Gravatar"Don't come back here!!!

We luvs our Vicki!!!!
flory
"

I'm the Herpes of Eschaton. Remission, yes. Cure, no.

Plus, don't pretend like you don't enjoy a good dishing. Vicki's a good sport, I'm sure she won't mind the Mr. Blackwell treatment. =D


GravatarDaily Howler assessed (rightly to me) Frank Rich as one of those "I'm smarter than you are" liberals. I think the same could be said for MoDo. That's why they hate Gore so much. They know he's smarter than they are and can't stand it.

Therefore, in a kind way, Kos should have asked, What was your worst column about Gore?


GravatarI'm starting to think that Ann Coulter may have jumped the media shark. One can
hope.


Ann is living proof that Absolut Vodka
corrupts absolutely.


GravatarWGG: which is why any Dem not Dumber than a boxarox should have proclaimed it a fucking stunt...

They might as well have, since the Moonie Times reported that they, in fact, did, y'know. Even though no Dem said such a thang.
.


GravatarTweety is interviewed Tom DeLay - After giving him a last chance to slam Democrats before he leaves the Capitol, he ends by saying thank you very much - we'll be seeing you a lot on shows like this - I HOPE!

That interview was stomach churning.


Gravatarnext weekend its just me and my dad as my mother is off at a scout camp, so our plan is lots of wine and the world cup!


GravatarWhat a racket!!!!

steve simels


Nah, you hang here because of all the drop dead gorgeous female type Atriots.


Gravataral-Zarqawi's death got Haditha off of the front page tout suite.

i wonder if they shot their wad though. they could have saved him for an october suprise.


They can photoshop pics of a dead bin Laden for October. If they time it right, the election will be over before bin Laden makes a tape holding the NYT that says: BIN LADEN DEAD BUSH VICTORIOUS!


Gravatari sher hope ya getta chance to cock-punch the asswhole...


Oh cripes, here we go again.

No, I won't cock-punch the guy. Just because I don't like EVERY SINGLE THING HE"S EVER SAID doesn't mean I don't think he'd be terrific to see at a local Dem Party fundraiser, and he'd also be a great draw that would bring out a lot of folks and raise a lot of money.

Sheesh, did SW poison the water in here or what?


Gravatari wonder if they shot their wad though. they could have saved him for an october suprise.
jello - 5:54 pm


nah, there's still Osama, and Mulla Omar, and a handful of bad-guy Talibans, to say nothing of the guy who takes over zarqawi's job...they got plenty of ammo...

to say nothing of the perps of the next 'terror' attack...

which is coming...
.


Gravatarfrom the descriptions of what's happening in Vegas

C-SPAN was there? Oh, I shall never show up if I may be televised before winter. Maybe, late fall. But definitely not Labor Day. Way too early and warm for me.


GravatarPlus, don't pretend like you don't enjoy a good dishing. Vicki's a good sport, I'm sure she won't mind the Mr. Blackwell treatment. =D
Nim, ham hock of liberty


Well, of course I do. But not after our Vicki's worked her butt off.

You be nice. Or we'll tell the Priestess......


Gravatar"I can't imagine her appearance with Matt Lauer will tend to increase her booking opportunites.

That may've been the beginning of the end.
flory
"

Popular entertainment has devolved into Freakshow of the Month. The infotainment news is no different. And Ann Coulter is a gigantic freak.

She'll get booked all over to be (ostensibly) tut-tutted at.

Think Bob Goldthwait and the Larry Sanders show.


GravatarMaher definitely has a large tool aspect to him, definitely an arrogant narcissist, but I wouldn't compare him to Miller, who hasn't stopped peeing in his sheets since 9/11. Very few other people have told Ann Coulter to her face that she's full of shit.
Granted, she doens't give many people a chance.


Gravatari wonder if they shot their wad though. they could have saved him for an october
suprise.
jello | 06.09.06 - 5:54 pm | #


Osama.

Bet on it.


GravatarSallyh,

Lighting incense for you at my altar tonight! Take care of yourself!!!


GravatarOK I'm gonna go and get dinner ready. Try to lighten up, those of you who need to lighten up. 'kay?


GravatarThe media her get away with so much other crap, because this kind of controversy serves their purposes so well anyway.

joe conason on al franken pointed out how matt lauer told coulter in the end of the interview "it was fun having you here."

ewww. all that bile was "fun"?


GravatarGeno's owner is full of shit. He'd sell a cheesesteak to a fucking drunken mime.


Gravatarbefore bin Laden makes a tape holding the NYT that says: BIN LADEN DEAD BUSH VICTORIOUS

that's beautiful


Gravatarql, this thing is an enormous help. http://www.clotilde.com/cl/produ...asp? g_id=162010

Also spray-starching the fabric within an inch of its life and marking seam lines and guide lines on the pieces before even getting near the needle.

I'm using very soft fluffy cotton flannel (which wants to stretch and sag and carry on like there's no tomorrow) but the starch, the guide lines, and the doojobbie are a real help.


GravatarIsraeli attack leads Hamas to end truce

Palestinian Islamist group Hamas has shelved a 16-month-old truce with Tel Aviv after Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip killed 10 people, including three children.

Hamas, which was elected into government in January, called off the truce in a statement on Friday following deadly Israeli air strikes and artillery fire on a crowded Gaza beach that resulted in the highest Palestinian toll in a single day since late 2004.

"The Israeli massacres represent a direct opening battle and that means the earthquake in the Zionist cities will resume and the herds of occupiers have no choice but to prepare the coffins or the departing luggage," the statement by Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, said.

Sami Abu Zuhri, a Hamas spokesman, confirmed the group would renew its attacks.


GravatarSallyh:

In case I haven't mentioned, feel
better.


GravatarJeffCo

you're being an ass to the other posters here.

Because I got on fourlegsgood's case? That was "being an ass"? Are you "being an ass" for getting on my case? Honestly, I don't mind as long as you don't engage in bullshit smearing. I suppose I could have written some garbage about fourlegsgood and his/her "endless pointless snark" or something but ... why would I do that?

Fourlegsgood is a fine dude who just happened to write something I vehemently disagreed with and I fucking said so. Could I have written it in a more "civilized" manner? Probably. Should I have? In retrospect, no fucking doubt.

Will I apologize? Yes: fourlegsgood, I apologize for implying that I wouldn't want you on my team. I know that you didn't really mean to imply that you aren't disappointed with the presscorp and I shouldn't have implied otherwise. I'm sorry.

No one here necessarily disagrees with your general point that reporters need to be challenged and held to account, but were you to act toward one of them on TV the way you're acting toward others here,

Just show me where in my comments I advocated that kos do anything of the sort, JeffCo. Otherwise, cut the fucking inuendo, okay?

Thanks.


GravatarNote to self: Stay on Halfdan's good side.

Not so hard, really. Even Stunt Woman makes me laugh sometimes.

Did I tell you my daughter loves Curly? When she sees his picture she gets all excited and says "ditty!" (kitty).


Gravatar"ewww. all that bile was "fun"?
jello
"

Yep. Because it's a big game. You don't care if your guests believe what you say, you don't care if you believe what you say...you just get the Freak of the Week on the set and read from the same fill-in-the-blank script you've been reading off of for the last 500 weeks.


GravatarHow much you wanna bet that the longhaired, wild-talking guy with the dumb questions and a hand-lettered sign taped to his chest will be replayed a zillion times on the media?

No offense. My hair is even longer. But I have the good sense not to get on CSPAN and act like a frickin' hippie.


Gravatarthe doojobbie are a real help.
strawhat |


quarter inch seam
quarter inch seam
quarter inch seam
quarter inch seam
And I still fuck it up.


GravatarPopular entertainment has devolved into Freakshow of the Month. The infotainment news is no different. And Ann Coulter is a gigantic freak.

True. But there are boundaries. And taking on the 9/11 widows may've stepped way over those boundaries.


Gravatarwhat's haditha

Dith's name in French.
Cletus the Pastafarian |

Yo, Cletus, you da man on dat! Right arm!


GravatarA little OT but when I was a copy editor way back in the stone age, we'd always change cliches like "first annual event" because that is inaccurate. You can't be annual if you are the first. And while you can be the first with the intention of being annual, no one can predict the future. So we always changed it to "first" or "planned to be annual" or whatever. - Sr.SpikeyMaceOfQuietReflection

In my case, I was looking to get hired as an opinion columnist for my school paper. To be hired by the school paper, you had to write an article for two sections of the paper, so I got myself assigned to write a fluff piece for the news section. Needless to say, I am an even worse journalist than the journalists I regularly criticize in the blogosphere (those who can't do, complain?), so I didn't end up getting hired officially, although I was an un-official opinion columnist and had one of the best records of attendence at staff meetings (I had a crush on all of the babes in the photography department ) -- so I got a free t-shirt out of the deal (although I didn't end up getting any of the photography babes).

Anyway, in my first opinion column after the disaster of my fluff piece (which was disastrous from the beginning -- but the news editor, instead of salvaging it, managed to take all my bad writing and change it to merely mediocre but highly inaccurate writing), I actually made that point about "first annual". All the professors then fell in love with my opinion column and it was actually discussed in classes -- including the probability class I took at 9:00 AM that year. It was kinda awkward, because I always arrived at that class late, with a muffin and coffee I picked up on the way ... but this girl I had a crush on (who viewed me as a good friend, but nothing more) would save me a seat in the front -- so there would be this big production about my entry, especially on days when the class began by discussing my column.

Ah ... the sweet life of an undergrad: how little I appreciated it at the time (I was bitter 'cause I wasn't gettin' any) and how I miss it now ...

I wonder if in a few years I will look back equally fondly on grad school?


GravatarJust in time for xmas, the Left Behind folks are coming out w/ a video game that lets you earn "soul points" for slaying the heathens.


GravatarIf I had balls they would smell like two week old goat cheese. Wait, I do and they do.


GravatarHee hee, Hoff's got the alternative schedule to YKos up at his site.


GravatarHalfdan: Not so hard, really. Even Stunt Woman makes me laugh sometimes.

Oh, no doubt. We all have disagreements, get grouchy and sometimes even have bad breath. I save the grudges for the completely hateful fuckers, and Stunt Woman ain't that. I've been reading her for a long time, now.

Did I tell you my daughter loves Curly? When she sees his picture she gets all excited and says "ditty!" (kitty).

Aww. See, this is what the GWPDA Coalition has done!
.


Gravatar"True. But there are boundaries. And taking on the 9/11 widows may've stepped way over those boundaries.
flory
"

In a sane world, yes. But I think it's just a win-win for the bobbleheads. They can invite her on to furrow their brows and tell her that it's just going too far! ....and meanwhile, they get eyeballs for people tuning in to see what crazy thing that crazy woman will say next.


GravatarSteve--you know, a kiss from a hot, aging, balding Jewish guy wouldn't be a bad thing about now.


Gravatarmainstream with regard to his position on the war. - jello

OK ... I guess here mainstream and "mainstream" opinion coincide 'cause the mainstream just believed blindly what the MSM told them they were supposed to believe ... but I thought Kos was smart enough not to support the war in the first place.

Or do you mean that now that mainstream opinion no longer supports the war, the mainstream has come to hold the same opinions as Kos and CO?


GravatarRoofles.

DailyKos = sexual predator site.

"First-term incumbent Michael G. Fitzpatrick is touting himself as "an independent voice for Pennsylvania," even as automated phone calls from a Washington lobby with Democratic Party ties have accused him - erroneously - of failing to support Congressional ethics reform. . . .
Fitzpatrick recently introduced legislation to protect children from child predators on social networking sites such as Dailykos, Blogger and MySpace.
"


GravatarYup, I actually have something Halfdan wrote re the struggling middle class saved. I reprinted it the other day (with attribution) cause it was so good.

ql in ny


What's the emoticon for blushing?


GravatarJust in time for xmas, the Left Behind folks are coming out w/ a video game that lets you earn "soul points" for slaying the heathens.

Oooooh. Something for the Christmas List. Gimme, gimme, gimme.


GravatarDemByDefault,

I followed Maher, and BTW, his writers produce hilarious monologue material, but when he started on this "Maybe I was wrong. Maybe the President was right in Iraq" fucking bullshit following that horrendous election of 2004, I knew then that he had become ratings based. He, in one fell swoop, tossed aside all the substantial critcisms he had laid at W's feet since 1999 and said "Maybe we should give this guy another chance."

It completely emasculated his position as an indifferent political pundit in my estimation.


GravatarJust in time for xmas, the Left Behind folks are coming out w/ a video game that lets you earn "soul points" for slaying the heathens.
Hecate, Grammar Fag


Hecate:

Honestly, when I first read about that, I thought it was a parody. A video game -- in the supposedly "free exercise of religion" USA -- they're distributing a video game all about killing people of "other" religions.

Aren't these the same people that think GTA is a sign of the devil?


Gravatarto protect children from child predators on social networking sites such as Dailykos, Blogger and MySpace."
Nim, ham hock of liberty

any chance that's actionable by Kos?


Gravatarquarter inch seam! You know what else helps a whole lot??

http://www.husqvarnaviking.com/ u...umber=412914145

I got a cheap knockoff of that, with the little guide along the edge and it does the trick!

(There are more ingenious little items out there, I swear . . . )


GravatarI reprinted it the other day (with attribution) cause it was so good.

I've been cited! Um, where?


GravatarSteve--you know, a kiss from a hot, aging, balding Jewish guy wouldn't be a bad
thing about now.
Sallyh, Grandmere Poissonniere | Homepage | 06.09.06 - 6:04 pm | #


MWAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!


GravatarGeno's owner is full of shit. He'd sell a cheesesteak to a fucking drunken mime.

Same with Pat's?


Gravatarto protect children from child predators on social networking sites such as Dailykos, Blogger and MySpace.

But LGF/StormFront/FreeRepublic etc. are OK.


GravatarJust in time for xmas, the Left Behind folks are coming out w/ a video game that lets you earn "soul points" for slaying the heathens.

How much are Atriots worth?


GravatarI haven't had internet access all day..

Oh, the agony...

What's going on?


GravatarPZ Myers

Well, it really wasn't that bad. My YearlyKos panel on science consisted of me, Wendy Northcutt, Chris Mooney, and that big guy most people have heard of, Wes Clark. Clark got up there with a few brief notes and spoke extemporaneously, eating up 40 minutes of our hour and a quarter. It was good to hear a politician speak out forcefully for science and the separation of church and state, so that's what counts. He also packed the room for us, so we had a huge crowd.

If that angry atheist asshole (TM) PZ Myers liked it, then I surely would have, too!


Gravatar"al-Zarqawi's death got Haditha off of the front page tout suite."

Funny that, isn't it? Why you'd almost think that . . . . Naw.
- Hecate, Grammar Fag

Of course, if the shoe were on the foot (as it kinda was during the Clinton years), the righties would be shouting "wag the dog" in much less guarded language than we are. And instead of the Moonie Times reporting that only a few of the evil Dems. are calling the whole thing a stunt, every paper would either ignore the Republicans calling it a stunt or, in far more neutral terms, ask questions like "do those who claim this is merely wagging the dog have a point?" ...

You just know (based on what they did to Clinton w.r.t. his misadventure in Sudan) that the media is definitely biased here ...


GravatarSo I'm getting a call right now from John Kerry supporting Jim Webb for the Democratic primary. I'm disappointed as Webb's a recent republican "convert" to our party. But I'd vote for him instead of Harris Miller if I thought he could bring down George Allen. Anyone seen any VA polls?


GravatarBut LGF/StormFront/FreeRepublic etc

Like lead paint chips for a child.


GravatarI wouldn't want a child to be reading dKos or this place (mainly because of me), but, other than the trools and concepts they may not understand [and the foul language (again mainly from me)], what danger is here?


Gravatar"How much are Atriots worth?
Halfdan
"

Atrios is the final boss-monster of the game.

You take him out, you get seated at the right hand of baby jebus himself.

But it's a tough fight. He's got 8 heads and shoots lasers out of his ass.


Gravatarann coulter and rush limpballs, etc rile the progressive base...this could be construed as a good thing


GravatarWhen does Lieberman speak?


Gravatar....and meanwhile, they get eyeballs for people tuning in to see what crazy thing that crazy woman will say next.
Nim, ham hock of liberty


Up to a point. She's leveraged that dynamic her whole "career". But there are limits. And she may -- no guarantees -- have passed those limits. 9/11 is still iconic. Fucking with the icons is not good marketing.


GravatarI followed Maher, and BTW, his writers produce hilarious monologue material, but when he started on this "Maybe I was wrong. Maybe the President was right in Iraq"

Oh, Christ, I missed that. I do remember right after 9/11, his babbling the Dumbya might turn out to be our Prince Hal, growing into Henry V.


GravatarI followed Maher, and BTW, his writers produce hilarious monologue material, but when he started on this "Maybe I was wrong. Maybe the President was right in Iraq"

Oh, Christ, I missed that. I do remember right after 9/11, his babbling the Dumbya might turn out to be our Prince Hal, growing into Henry V.


Gravatarworld's tiniest lil chainsaw...i swan...


GravatarWhat exactly is a cheese steak?


GravatarIs Moonbotica still here? Witchvox has a great article about some Roman era tombs that are just now being excavated in Northern Italy.


Gravatarhis babbling the Dumbya might turn out to be our Prince Hal, growing into Henry V.

I would say 'everyone makes mistakes' but did he seriously say something that fucking grossly stupid?


GravatarCoT: When does Lieberman speak?



If a Lieberman falls in Reno, does anyone in Vegas hear it?
.


Gravatarwhat i meant was the world's tiniest lil chainsaw...


GravatarLittle fluffy clouds, recently cloned sheep, baby lamp chops,
Woolite. Fields of wheat, Cream of Wheat,
Wheat Thins, Wheat's New Pussycat.
You dims are lost because you don't understand the wind beneath
my wang, your humanity engorged in whirling rivulets of immorality
and dark despair and chocolate. Dims, accept your
destiny in middle management. You will
never win.


GravatarWhat exactly is a cheese steak?

fried steakumms (thin sliced beef) with cheese served in a hoagie or sub roll, sometimes with lettuce and tomato on the bottom...yuck


GravatarHere you go Halfdan:

Frank’s thesis is that right-wing Republicans have managed to merge political conservatism with religious conservatism, and the result is that Christian rural voters are forced to choose between their Christian identity (pretty much all they have left) and a Godless liberalism.

That may be ignorance, but it’s certainly not stupidity, and Frank never implies that. If you were working two jobs and had three kids and your only social outlet were church, then there’s really not an opportunity for you to be as enlightened as everyone here.


ChiDyke did a whole piece around it over at Corrente.


GravatarI'm disappointed as Webb's a recent republican "convert" to our party. But I'd vote for him instead of Harris Miller if I thought he could bring down George Allen.

Hecate:
I haven't lived in VA in going on 20 years, but Harris Miller was close to a DINO even back the. I haven't seen any polls, but what I've read about Webb is that he is honestly fed up with the current Republican party. His politics are more center than right. And I think he's less likely to pander to the bastards.


GravatarSame with Pat's?
billy b


Correctamente.


GravatarHecate yeah i'm still about.

half lurking


GravatarAwesome. I'm away all day, and I still get a laughing face.

Curly looks good. What are you feeding him?


GravatarAwesome. I'm away all day, and I still get a laughing face.

Curly looks good. What are you feeding him?


GravatarSee children, dith did a lot of drugs. You what drugs are, right? dith is a shining example of why should stay away from drugs.


GravatarCaptain Goto, skipped to the end of the thread to send you good energy. So sorry about your dad.


GravatarMoonbotica,

Here's the link.


GravatarHere you go Halfdan:

Thanks! Now I can blog someone blogging about a comment I made on a blog! How meta!

Here's a secret--until I looked at your blog, I always assumed that "QL" stood for "Queer Lady." Of course thinking back I have no idea why...


GravatarAy, somebody at YKos,

por favor,

go to the Open Thread Panel and ask Kos what he theenks about Armando being outed.

¡Vamos!

so.


GravatarFitzpatrick recently introduced legislation to protect children from child predators on social networking sites such as Dailykos, Blogger and MySpace."

I know there's some vague outcry about Myspace and LJ and places kids actually frequent (which is stupid IMHO), but *Kos*? Shouldn't the guy be more worried about, say, AOL chatrooms?

This sounds like a conservatard who just found out what that funny word "blog" means (and who likely got dissed on a few).


GravatarOkie dokie. Steaks are waiting to be cooked, wine is waiting to be drunk.


GravatarGWPDA, unless there's some strange law in Phoenix about not capturing rain water, rain gutters are a very good way to get extra water for watering your plants, unless you've got water rights to one of the irrigation projects. In which case I'd not bother.
Doug


Proud owner of Salt River Project water rights since 2002 (previously, 1959-1966). $65/year!


GravatarI always assumed that "QL" stood for "Queer Lady."

Hmmmm....

Which would make Mr. QL a lesbian?


GravatarHave great weekend Bats!


GravatarCaptain Goto, skipped to the end of the thread to send you good energy. So sorry about your dad.
Echidne of the snakes - 6:18 pm


Capt. G: i missed something somewhere (not unusual)...be of good heart...it happens, but it passes, too...
.


GravatarThanks, flory. I appreciate the info. I have until next Tuesday to decide. I just worry about Webb doing a reverse Jim Jeffords. But taking out Allen would be a very, very good thing. Long shot, but a good thing.


GravatarTaking a break...see you guys in
a few.


GravatarCoT: Curly looks good. What are you feeding him?

Thanks. He's on the last of the big bag of whatever I got at Sam's Club. It's not hairball control chow, but he's had less problem with that, lately. I've been brushing pounds of hair off him ever week, too.
.


Gravatarhttp://www.theyoungturks.com/

3:15pm PT -- Former Ambassador Joe Wilson

3:30pm PT -- Larry Johnson, Former CIA Analyst

3:50pm PT -- Adam Green, Moveon.org

4:00pm PT -- Judd Legum, Thinkprogress.org

4:15pm PT -- Joe Trippi, Former Campaign Manager for Howard Dean

4:30pm PT -- Dan Froomkin, Washington Post

5:00pm PT -- Melanie Sloan, Executive Director of CREW

5:30pm PT -- Paul Reickoff, Executive Director and founder of IAVA


Gravatartrying out a drop of wiskey at the moment.


GravatarWhich would make Mr. QL a lesbian?

Yeah--that always threw me for a loop. But I'm very liberal!


GravatarOK I am gone home!


GravatarCourt says wiretaps legal.


http://apnews.myway.com/article/.../ D8I4UN2O1.html


GravatarGO AND SEE AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH.

And Deepa Mehta's Water.

And when it comes out, The Road To Guantanamo.


GravatarSee children, dith did a lot of drugs. You what drugs are, right? dith is a shining example of why should stay away from drugs.

Maybe it is the drugs but -- and I do hate to admit it -- the writing itself is somewhat entertaining.

The message is moronic.

The reference to Wheat Thins reminded me of Sandy Duncan and I was shocked to discover that Sandy Duncan is ... sorta hot????

http://www.quinnipiac.edu/ Images...dyduncan240.jpg


GravatarHey, is Atta still around? I have a special thank you song for him.


Gravatartrying out a drop of wiskey at the moment.
Moonbootica, Buffy Geek


There goes ten Latin words down the drain.


Gravatarits Talisker


Gravatar trying out a drop of wiskey at the moment.

DON'T DO IT! Haven't you figured out what made Thers the lout he is?


Gravatarjack | 06.09.06 - 6:24 pm |

Daniel Ellsberg eluded wiretaps with friends and public payphones. In an era of hacking and disposable phones can terrorists be less able to hide than a State Department economist? The taps are about Big Brother, not catching terrorists.


GravatarGoogle Headlines:

* Mideast Truce Threatened
After Shelling

* Zarqawi Said to Briefly
Survive Airstrike

* Liberal Bloggers Gather in Las Vegas


GravatarGO AND SEE AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH.

What k&Y said.


GravatarCourt says wiretaps legal.

Please note that this has JACK shit to do with illegal, warrantless, treasonous wiretapping, as advocated and practiced by the most corrupt administration America has ever known.
.


GravatarCourt says wiretaps legal.

Sentelle, the same guy who authorized the Starr chamber...

he's a relatively young dude--my age?-- and won't die of natural causes for a long time yet...

shit...
.


GravatarMoon,

You had me at: Water source A burn on Cnoc nan Speireag (Hawk Hill).


GravatarCourt says wiretaps legal.

Fucking activist judges.


GravatarWhich would make Mr. QL a lesbian?

A lesbian trapped in a man's body?


GravatarAfternoon, rational people.


Gravatarits Talisker
Moonbootica, Buffy Geek - 6:26 pm


good choice...


GravatarWoody,

David B. Sentelle, Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Law
J.D., University of North Carolina
JUDGE DAVID B. SENTELLE was appointed United States Circuit Judge in October 1987. Judge Sentelle is a 1968 graduate of the University of North Carolina Law School. Following law school, he practiced with the firm of Ussell & Dumont until he became an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Charlotte, N.C. in 1970. From 1974 to 1977, he served as a North Carolina State District Judge but left the bench in 1977 to become a partner with the firm of Tucker, Hicks, Sentelle, Moon & Hodge.

In 1985, Judge Sentelle joined the U.S. District Court, Western District of North Carolina, in Asheville, where he served until his appointment to the D.C. Circuit. Judge Sentelle is the Presiding Judge of the Special Division for the Purpose of Appointing Independent Counsels (1992-present). Judge Sentelle serves as President of the Edward Bennett Williams Inn of the American Inns of Court.


GravatarCourt says wiretaps legal.


i cannot believe the monkeys of sovereignty, individual freedoms and privacy do not care that THEIR GOVERNMENT is collecting ALL their phone calls...this is how i know conservatards are ignorant - they follow blindly whatever their leaders do or say and question nothing except that which comes from the left...what happens when the oppositions is in power - who do the deluded think the government will target with these legal wiretaps?


GravatarHecate thanks for the roman related news things

always interested!


GravatarI would but it's not convenient.

I'll right... I'll go. And drag some friends too.


Gravatar Hey, is Atta still around? I have a special thank you song for him.
NTodd, The Spoiler


:loL:

Just checking in.

Congrats on making your goal.


GravatarA lesbian trapped in a man's body?
DAS | Homepage | 06.09.06 - 6:28 pm |

Men who claim this should be held to it. He is essentially offering lots of free good cunnilingus.


Gravatarhttp://apnews.myway.com/article/.../ D8I4UN2O1.html

Judge David Sentelle


He thought it was a good idea to let Ken Starr sniff around in Monica's panty drawer. No surprise he thinks it's a good idea to let George Bush sniff around in yours.


GravatarEvening rational people.

Why am I hungry all of a sudden?


GravatarCongrats on making your goal.

Still 174 hits shy!


Gravatar trying out a drop of wiskey at the moment.

Have some bacon, too.


GravatarWhy doesn't Atrios have a link to NTodd's magnificent blog on the front page?

Why does Atrios hate NTood?


GravatarIf you're determined to drop some whiskey, remember: my glass is but half empty.


GravatarHave some bacon, too.
Thers
Hell yes, especially when putting whiskey on top of wine. yikes!


Gravatarnetworking sites such as Dailykos, Blogger and MySpace."

I thought that Blogger was where you went when you wanted an argument?


GravatarJudge Sentelle serves as President of the Edward Bennett Williams Inn of the American Inns of Court.
Hecate, Grammar Fag - 6:29 pm


yah, a fucking reaganaught...
joined in his opinion by none other than Janice Rogers Brown...
.


GravatarWhy does Atrios hate NTood?

He is threatened by my mojo. It's sad really.


Gravatarnothing is as evil as Tequila.

me and my friend polished off a whole bottle last year.

felt shit for about 2 days.


GravatarStill 174 hits shy!
NTodd, The Spoiler


Make that 173.


GravatarThe House 'increases indecency fines tenfold,' and passes "the most extensive telecommunications legislation in a decade" without net neutrality provisions, while the Appropriations subcommittee votes to cut $115 million from public broadcasting.

fuck.


GravatarI thought that Blogger was where you went when you wanted an argument?

Blogger's where you go if you don't want to blog.


Gravatarof course before we got to tequila shots we have been on a bit of a bender before.

man bad idea!


GravatarSimels???
if you're around, do you have the (rare) Toyes recording of "Smoke Two Joints?"


????


GravatarI've always hated that term, "Inns of the Court," for some reason.

I have visceral dislike for that Olde English bullshit...


Gravatarjoined in his opinion by none other than Janice Rogers Brown

Urp ulp. I didn't get that far in the article, having noted the emetic name of Sentelle. I don't think I have any vomitus left ... oh wait ... wrong again Maude!


Gravatartrying out a drop of wiskey at the moment.

Have some bacon, too.
Thers

The diet that won the West.

172


Gravatar169


GravatarWhy does Atrios hate NTood?

It's his goddamned Mother Teresa - like modesty.


Gravatar171


Gravatarnothing is as evil as Tequila.

me and my friend polished off a whole bottle last year.


I bet if you polish off that whole bottle of Talisker, you'll feel even worse! Nothing is worse than hurling scotch.


GravatarAtrios is threatened by Tiger Kitty.

His 9 month-old cuteness is too much for some people.


GravatarI smoke two joints in the morning.
I smoke two joints at night.
I smoke two joints in the afternoon, it makes me feel alright
I smoke two joints in time of peace, and two in time of war
I smoke two joints before I smoke two joints,
And then I smoke two more


GravatarAtleast this week is frickin' over.

Of course, that means it's time for Friday Cat Blogging.


GravatarOT:

Cat owns bear


Gravatar trying out a drop of wiskey at the moment.

Have some bacon, too.
Thers


Ah, Friday and I just happen to have a bottle of Irish and a nice bit of fried up bacon - both right here at hand....


Gravatarblerb we're having one small nightcap.

i'm with my dad!


GravatarWhy does Atrios hate NTood?

Atrios is busy being seduced by Vegas.


Gravatari predict kos drinks the bland democrat koolaid, joins the mainstream and gets a gig at the NYTimes
mogwai




that is just, you know, so 'cynical.'
HARRY REID!
HARRY REID!
HARRY REID!

gak


GravatarSo I've done my bit to help NTodd reach his arbitrary hit-goal tonight.

Also, I have an actual picture of NTodd on his bike in the Vermont wilderness!

It is teh sexy.


Gravatarnothing is as evil as Tequila.

me and my friend polished off a whole bottle last year.


I bet if you polish off that whole bottle of Talisker, you'll feel even worse! Nothing is worse than hurling scotch.
blerb

I'm gonna sit this argument out, if that's okay....


GravatarI hate Canada, toast and Alan Colmes.


GravatarI hate Canada, toast and Alan Colmes.


Gravatarof course before we got to tequila shots we have been on a bit of a bender before.


Ahh. The truth comes out. I'll bet it's pretty hard to get a really good bottle of tequila in LOndon anyway. The stuff costs an arm and a leg even here in CA. What brand was it that made you sick, BTW?..


GravatarIt's his goddamned Mother Teresa - like modesty.

That is my best, and most intimidating, quality.


GravatarAgain, please note that the decision linked to by grandma dith had nothing to do with warrantless illegal wiretapping. It concerned a technical issue (which NTodd could better explain... thus gaining 170 or so hits) concerning VoIP phone systems used by businesses and universities, and their accessability by law enforcement for LEGAL, WARRANTED searches.
.


GravatarI'm starting to think that Ann Coulter may have jumped the media shark. One can
hope.

Ann is living proof that Absolut Vodka
corrupts absolutely.

steve simels |


GravatarI smoke two joints in the morning.
I smoke two joints at night.
I smoke two joints in the afternoon, it makes me feel alright
I smoke two joints in time of peace, and two in time of war
I smoke two joints before I smoke two joints,
And then I smoke two more
Johnny Drama - 6:38 pm


b'leeve me pahdnuh, i know the words...

i don't happen to have the recording, however...hoping to remedy that...the record's outta print, and i dont think they ever released it on cd...
.


GravatarI smoke two joints in the morning.
I smoke two joints at night.
I smoke two joints in the afternoon, it makes me feel alright
I smoke two joints in time of peace, and two in time of war
I smoke two joints before I smoke two joints,
And then I smoke two more
Johnny Drama


Are you trying to disrupt the conversation, Johnny? If so, I approve.

By chance, did you bring any joints?


GravatarSo the other day we dropped two five-hundred-pound bunker busters on a man, and not only was he left intact (albeit shaken a little), his bodily mass had been increased by the explosions!


Gravatarblerb i can't recall.

it was from Tesco's

I think it was Sierra Tequila


GravatarAlso, I have an actual picture of NTodd on his bike in the Vermont wilderness!

Oh, thanks for outing me, motherfucker.


GravatarI'm gonna sit this argument out, if that's okay....
DemByDefault

EXPERIMENT, I meant. Damn.


Gravatarzarquawi just escaped the crypt with help of his super bloodsoaked robot dog 'zarquallude'


Gravataryes comming back to me now, Sierra Tequila i can confirm


GravatarBy chance, did you bring any joints?
Stunt Woman | 06.09.06 - 6:41 pm


.....'ear....


GravatarDON'T DO IT! Haven't you figured out what made Thers the lout he is?
NTodd, The Spoiler


Nuh, uh.

It's cause he has 137 filthy children to support so he can only buy the cheap stuff.

Just stick with the good stuff, you'll be fine.


Gravatarthe day of the bender Wales had beaten France in the Six Nations, so hence my welsh friends got very merry.


GravatarI hope the residents of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv are ready for a long, hot fucking summer.


GravatarIt's only a matter of time before a photoshopped picture of Atrios with a toothbrush moustache shows up at Dohiyi Mir (trans: "coprophilia"), with the explanation that Atrios is worse than Hitler for failing to link to NTodd...


GravatarNothing is worse than hurling scotch.

Now that I think of it, you must be right, although I didn't think anything was worse than losing track of how much you drank at nickel-a-beer night at the Quarter Moon Cafe in Columbia, SC.

Can you imagine what the beer must comprise in order to be nickel beer ... in South Carolina?


GravatarAlso, I have an actual picture of NTodd on his bike in the Vermont wilderness!

http://images.google.com/imgres?...6lr%3D%26sa% 3DN

Fuckin' stud.


Gravatar"I don't take dope
I don't drink bourbon
All I want to do is
Shake my turban
now rock!!"

cbc radio report on 'the swingin sikh' of london circa early 80s.


GravatarWhat the fuck? ABC news is actually airing a screaming Palestinian mourning an Israeli artillery attack on a beach. Obviously they go in for total lies; "caught in the crossfire," Israel using artillery in an earnest if misguided attempt to snuff specific individuals which of course they don't mention is a major American atrocity in Iraq and pissed off British officers enough to speak out about it. But actually showing distraught Arab civilias is progress.


Gravatar I hate Canada, toast and Alan Colmes.
CoT-Colbert's Apprentic


Then I shan't have to share.


GravatarRight on WGG.

ahhhhh.......

.... whoa ....

..... damn .... I really AM an asshole!


GravatarIt's cause he has 137 filthy children to support so he can only buy the cheap stuff.

Don't be silly. The government sends us a barrell of Bushmills every week. We are Liberals, you see, sucking the golden pap off the Government Teat.


GravatarGO AND SEE AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH.

What k&Y said.
Hecate, Grammar Fag


What Hecate said.

I'll bore everyone with my story again.....

I have a friend I've been trying to talk into getting rid of her Monster SUV for years. She walked out of the movie and the first thing she said was "I'm selling my car".

It's that powerful.


GravatarCan you imagine what the beer must comprise in order to be nickel beer ... in South Carolina?

HG Bergeron



fermented sow eye........?