HULK SMASH!!!
Okey dokey, John
so he wasn't for it until he was and then wasn't once he knew he was, right?
I'll call sheets
Jesus, this man can't become president.
Did he explain how our oil came to be under the sands of Iraq?
Everybody over to TBogg's house! Partay!
GWPDA, yclept Irate Historian | 05.03.08 - 9:35 am |
So the beagles are Fenway, Wrigley and Beckham?
Buckeye. Dealer of Rare Coins | 05.03.08 - 9:47 am | #
Because the -- all which is on the table begins to address the big cost drivers. For example, how benefits are calculate, for example, is on the table; whether or not benefits rise based upon wage increases or price increases. There's a series of parts of the formula that are being considered. And when you couple that, those different cost drivers, affecting those -- changing those with personal accounts, the idea is to get what has been promised more likely to be -- or closer delivered to what has been promised.
Does that make any sense to you? It's kind of muddled.
Did he hire George Bush for his campaign?
So - what part of "John McCain is a fool" didn't you all get? It's not as tho AZ hasn't brought it up before.
Hell, it's not as tho Barry Goldwater didn't bring it up before.
"Because we will be dependent, because we won’t be dependent, we will no longer be dependent on foreign oil. That’s what my remarks were.”
Thanks for clearing that up for us.
Buckeye: The Three Tonguers are Satchmo, Beckham and now, Fenway.
Its clear to me! I want soup!
/Abe
My congressman, Ralph Hall, arguing against passing the energy bill this session, declared that if we can't drill ANWR and the coastal shelves, we'll have to go to war with yet another country to get ourselves some more oil.
All the GoPerv party does war for oil.
It's his cheeck pouch. Everybody thinks there's a pony in there.
Wow...is McCain getting coached by Rums-Known-Unknowns-Feld?
bill buckner! Went to an all-Massachusetts show last night here in VA. Winterpills (Phillip Price's band) opened for, then backed up the radiantly pregnant Kris Delmhorst. It was a terrific show... by the way, they're playing The Tin Angel in Philly tonight (Atrios, Kris is Mrs. Jeffrey Foucault... you should go, you'll enjoy it), and The Living Room in NYC tomorrow.
It gets harder and harder all the time to drag my elderly butt back out to see a show, but I always wind up getting completely energized. I rarely regret having gone to a show, often regret staying home instead.
Who did you see, Bill?
a lot of Republican leaders seem to have brain damage of some sort, and I don't mean that in a joking way.
personally, I think that they have the early symptoms of Alzheimer's, the period when these people get paranoid, defensive and incoherent.
there's no excuse for the young people who follow them blindly though.
Parse that sucker! (but at least it was English--does he know how to pronounce nuclear?)
It's his cheeck pouch. Everybody thinks there's a pony in there.
blerb, day 3 in the WC
I thought "Abe" had just reached the point where he forgot the onion was to be worn on his belt.
Big Time had used Papa Ratzi's visit to NYC as cover for a fundraiser for this guy
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/
0...03fossella.html
But then McCain was specifically asked by an Associated Press reporter if, when he gave the order to launch missile attacks on Iran he was thinking of Iraq: “No, I was thinking about- it’s not hard to- we will not,” McCain stumbled.
I can't wait to hear McCain in a debate.
He could start by taking on himself.
When does McGoo put his forefinger to his lower lip and go bubububububububub?
Actually, he really is kind of talking straight. I ALWAYS thought the war was about the oil, didn't you?
This does inspire a certain confidence though that the debates we see this year are going to be the ones we wanted to see in 2004.
We should be fuckin ruthless in running this asshole into the ground. We need to hang the corrupt and morally bankrupt policies of the Republican Party around his neck like this....
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?
a...articleid=11189
Youtube is fucked.
I wanted to link that MoveOn ad.
Powerful.
I can't wait to hear McCain in a debate.
Heh. Heh, heh.
That's gonna be good. (DIsclaimer: If he gets any real questions, and if the pundits set the bar above 2nd grade level)
Ooops
Vallejo City Manager Advises Bankruptcy
SFGate, 3 May 2008
Vallejo's city manager advised the City Council on Friday to declare bankruptcy next week after weeks of negotiations with police and fire unions failed to turn around the city's economic tailspin.
If the council votes Tuesday to file for Chapter 9 protection, the city of 117,000 people would be the largest in California to declare bankruptcy - and the first to do so because of long-term economic woes.
City Manager Joseph Tanner made the recommendation after city officials scrambled for two months to fix the budget before the fiscal year ends on June 30, when the city faces a projected $16 million shortfall for the coming year and will have no money in reserve.
"Due to the time constraints we're under, we feel the prudent thing is to be prepared on Tuesday to make this recommendation to the council," city spokeswoman Joann West said. "That said, we still have an opportunity to reach an agreement with labor.
How long before we see people on street corners with signs saying, "Will kill terrorists for food."
Er, Coke to SteveLG....
But then McCain was specifically asked by an Associated Press reporter if, when he pushed the Big Red Button launching Global Thermonuclear War he was thinking of this:
http://www.notcot.com/images/
eas...asybuttons4.jpg
“No, I was thinking about- it’s not hard to- we will not,” McCain stumbled.
He could start by taking on himself.
SteveLG
The media would just say--as they did when he confused Sunni/Shiite--that he's having a "senior moment," like that makes it all okay...not, you know, terrifying for a heavy-duty responsible position...not to mention how insulting that ought to be to other senior citizens.
I can't wait to hear McCain in a debate.
But of course the MSM's hot topic after the first debate will be--natch--Obama's necktie or Hillary's pantsuit.
...we will no longer be dependent on foreign oil.
Statehood for Iraq!
Vallejo City Manager Advises Bankruptcy
Damn. You get the feeling that the whole Delta region is going to swirl down the drain. Broken glass and tumbleweeds.
Buckeye: The Three Tonguers are Satchmo, Beckham and now, Fenway.
GWPDA, yclept Irate Historian | 05.03.08 - 9:49 am | #
Ah, so it's Fenway Wrigley.
Steve LG -
My main man Jim McMurt, a fine Texas songwriter with a very loud guitar. I call his new song "Cheney's Toys" to the attention of all and sundry. (Coming your way in a couple weeks, I strongly advise...)
BTW - Mayor of Northampton Ray Mason opened, and I told RM and bandmates that I'd met our own Whiskeyina in Philly. They were all "oooh, coool...."
Did he hire George Bush for his campaign?
blerb, day 3 in the WC
As a speechwriter...
I'm still offering Obama (who, let's face it, will be the nominee) a weeks pay* if he calls McCain "friendo" during a debate.
*Not over the $2,300 limit.
McGoo will be crawling around on his hands and knees drooling before the nationwide TV audience before our Serious Pundits focus on anything besides the Democratic candidates' fashion accessories.
Bush the Post Turtle
A 70-year-old Texas Rancher got his hand caught in a gate while working cattle. He wrapped the hand in his bandana and drove his pickup to the doctor. While suturing the laceration, the doctor asked the old man about George W. Bush being in the White House.
The old Texan said, "Well, ya know, Bush is a 'Post Turtle.'"
Not knowing what the old man meant, the doctor asked what a Post Turtle was.
The old man looked at him and drawled, "When you're driving down a country road and you come across a fence post with a turtle balanced on top, that's a Post Turtle."
The old man saw a puzzled look on the doctor's face, so he continued to explain:
"You know he didn't get there by himself, he doesn't belong there, he can't get anything done while he's up there, and you just want to help the poor dumb bastard get down."
it's not the youtube server that isn't working, because then the message would be "Server is not responding"
instead, the message is "cannot find server" which means the dns entry for youtube has been scratched.
elementary my dear Watson.
Good morning, friends.
I say "Keep talking, McStain!"
The more he talks, the more people find out how insane he really is!
Actually, he really is kind of talking straight. I ALWAYS thought the war was about the oil, didn't you?
DWD - Let it end now
But notice he is a straight talker while any non-Republican making this observation was branded a tin hatter and a terrorist sympathizer.
Whatever, yo.
It's fucked.
blerb, day 3 in the WC
You know, there are some places one shouldn't take one's computer.
You're one of those cell-phone-flushers, I bet.
Todays quote from Correntewire:
This week, Bill Kristol wrote one of the MSM’s wisest assessments of the Democratic primaries, and Peggy Noonan’s commentary about Reverend Wright is downright thoughtful.
Oy vey.
So YouTube is down the tubes?
mimi is an expert tech guy. He knows his stuff.
Bush the Post Turtle
This is reminiscent of Disraeli's comment that seeing Lord Russell as Prime Minister is like seeing a fly trapped in amber; you don't much care about the fly, but you do wonder how the hell it got there.
I can't wait to hear McCain in a debate.
But of course the MSM's hot topic after the first debate will be--natch--Obama's necktie or Hillary's pantsuit.
Sufferin' Hussein Succotash
I still want Obama to wear a tie "bar" with ROGAINE on it in big letters.
When does McGoo put his forefinger to his lower lip and go bubububububububub?
Sufferin' Hussein Succotash
All Cretins do that when reading the Bibble. That's where the word comes from...
This is reminiscent of Disraeli's comment that seeing Lord Russell as Prime Minister is like seeing a fly trapped in amber; you don't much care about the fly, but you do wonder how the hell it got there.
Sufferin' Hussein Succotash
Speaking of Disraeli, I get a mini-catalog from Movies Unlimited every month and they've finally gotten something on DVD that I have wanted for the longest time:
The 1979 Masterpiece Theater mini-series with Ian McShane as Disraeli.
McStain, it must be difficult for you to pose as the go-it-alone maverick while you're dependent on your wife for every scrap of food that goes into your lying mouth.
Why don't you retire to your "rustic cabin" in AZ. Between your wife's fortune and your own ill-gotten gains, you could live pretty high on the hog -- until the police close in.
trifecta, you don't have to be a male to understand technology. you, sir, are a total sexist!
bill, I love McMurtry's shows... and yeah, he's really. fucking. loud. I'm going to see Jon Dee Graham on Tuesday.
On the way out of IOTA I stopped to tell Phillip Price that it was good to see the 'pills again. I said "I think you know my friend, Ina." He smiled and sent his regards, which I have yet to convey.
The eastern seaboard music scene is a small town.
blerb, day 3 in the WC
Believe it or not, I never twigged to that implication. To me it was just an sarcastic faux Hip Hop way of referring to Walnut Creek. I think I'll retire it now...
HBK, the reason I explained it was so you could get some insight into the problem. Technology is really not so difficult once it's explained.
trifecta, you don't have to be a male to understand technology. you, sir, are a total sexist!
mimi
and you're a headcase, Butler.
Into the killfile with you.
My congressman, Ralph Hall, arguing against passing the energy bill this session, declared that if we can't drill ANWR and the coastal shelves, we'll have to go to war with yet another country to get ourselves some more oil.
All the GoPerv party does war for oil.
Ruth
We CAN find an alternative for oil, but that makes too much sense for the Repukes.
They don't do logic,
So the GOP really does stand for the Got Oil? Party...
So the GOP really does stand for the Got Oil? Party...
George Johnston
I thought it stood for Greedy Old Perverts.
Oops. Didn't paste the right quote there.
They don't do logic,
Terry C - Anti-War Elitist
It would break with the talking point. and that would take intelligence, judgment, nuance, that intelleckshul stuf.
a DNS server is a server that has a huge list of domain names and their IP addresses
so when you type in www.eschatonblog.com, your Internet Service Provider finds a DNS server that can tell it which IP address to go to to find Atrios' blog
there are a whole bunch of DNS servers around the world
So AFAICT McStains plan for healhcare is "go fuck yourself". What's his plan for energy independence? That might be a real winner too.
"republicans give us top 1 percent tax breaks so we let flip flop"-millionaire cable news anchors
we'll have to go to war with yet another country to get ourselves some more oil.
And another well-spent three trillion dollars.
The Spanish had a term for it when Spain was going down the tubes as a great power in the early 17th century: falta de cabezas.
“No, I was thinking about- it’s not hard to- we will not,” McCain stumbled.
This makes Dumbya sound almost coherent. We do NOT need another head case in the WH.
drive-by blogwhore:
The administration's praying mantis
What's his plan for energy independence? That might be a real winner too.
It'll be called independence from Geological Reality.
Yesterday I went to the hardware store and bought a chainsaw, a sledgehammer, and a hefty mattock --quite a little assortment of murder weapons. I'm going to have a lot of fun this weekend using them to rip out retarded improvements the previous owners made to our property.
I thought it stood for Greedy Old Perverts.
Terry C - Anti-War Elitist
We can haz both?
falta de cabezas.
Sufferin' Hussein Succotash
Interestingly, by striking gold & silver in the americas, Spain ruined that for Africa, which is why the slave trade took off. called black gold at the time. there was a falta of decency as well.
I thought McCain's health plan was to find a country with lots of health care and invade it.
Oooh! And then I get to use a rototiller!
Statehood for Iraq!
Meanie-meanie
...we'll have to go to war with yet another country to get ourselves some more oil.
Ruth
Statehoods for the Entire Earth!
I'm going to have a lot of fun this weekend using them to rip out retarded improvements the previous owners made to our property.
Sounds very therapeutic, blerb. Have at it.
So AFAICT McStains plan for healhcare is "go fuck yourself". What's his plan for energy independence? That might be a real winner too.
blerb
I think it's: "Bend over and take a wide stance."
..though chainsaws are not commonly used for household repairs
We do NOT need another head case in the WH.
Well foax, it's been more than a month since McGoo's people said they would release the candidate's medical records "in a few days".
And of course, our crack journalists have been all over that story.
Proverbial heh.
What's left of the Maverick's brain is flaking off like psoriasis.
His fan club in the beltway press corps cry a little more on their pillows each night.
Statehoods for the Entire Earth!
Uncle Smokes
And then, we've got an eye on Mars.
McCain's version of energy independence is we won't be beholden to Arabs but we will do whatever the Keatings and the Ken Lays want.
I think I speak for everyone in the Crack Den when I say what the fuck is he on about now?
He's starting to sound like the uncle or cousin at the party who sits in the corner and talks to dead relatives.
A.
It could generate a certain amount of satisfaction, especially the cainsaw part. I just hope I don't accidentally rip anything out of myself. The lot we're on is an oblong rectangle of 79X214 feet. The house is near the front, and the previous owners didn't want to deal with that huge back yard, so they built a 6-foot deer fence right across the middle and ignored everything behind it -- like a quarter acre of totally untended ground. Anyhow, that sucker's coming out because unlike them I want my whole damn backyard.
I am watching the local news report on great savings on foreclosed property. Without a wince.
His fan club in the beltway press corps cry a little more on their pillows each night.
Nope. They're too busy talking to fictional cabbies or equally fictional Regular Folks sittin' around whittlin' in front of the Ol' General Store in Anytown USA...
You know. Real Murkins.
And then, we've got an eye on Mars.
Ruth
That'll be our new Marianas islands...out of sight, out of mind....
That's gonna be good. (DIsclaimer: If he gets any real questions, and if the pundits set the bar above 2nd grade level)
Gromit | 05.03.08 - 9:54 am | #
Gibsonstepanopouliswilliamskatiecolon:
So, sen mccain, as a war hero and brave, some say sainted american, do you agree with some who say that sen obama is a muslim who hates freedom?
He's starting to sound like the uncle or cousin at the party who sits in the corner and talks to dead relatives.
What America needs now is certainly a President who takes office already further into his dementia than either Reagan or Bush.
Morning, all.
So once again I'm totally out of it, so don't laugh:
Why is McCain Huggy Bear?
Is that a reference to the character on Starsky and Hutch?
And if so, why?
Anyhow, that sucker's coming out because unlike them I want my whole damn backyard.
Oh, good. I was worried that you were gonna use the chainsaw on your house.
Clearing brush, otoh, is a Traditional American Activity.
Have fun!
And of course, our crack journalists have been all over that story.
That cost me more than free booze. The great thing about giving up blonde lobbyists during the campaign is I can turn them over to my press posse.
Anytown USA will be our new Marianas islands. Soon.
So who's going to be the first reporter to say, "What I think McCain meant to say..." and fix it all up for him. They've been doing it for W for years. Gregory has made a career of it.
we've got an eye on Mars
Don't go there. The Angry Red Planet is inhabited by 50-foot parameciums who will gobble you up in a trice.
I saw the movie.
That'll be our new Marianas islands...out of sight, out of mind....
Uncle Smokes
you nailed it. my congressman was famous for a floor speech blaming a woman who was dragged into the slave trade in the Marianas, because she was moral terpitude - ing.
Guam people, Guam!
Steve, Huggy Bear
http://thumbsnap.com/v/E1DlgceP.jpg
steve simels: Huggy Bear
simels, see http://politicalhumor.about.com/...in-Bush-
Hug.htm
cokes all around.
Wow, Simels certainly gets good service around here! as befits his exalted status, of course
Kerry destroyed Bush in the debates. How'd that work out for us?
Post-debate spin: Er... um... Well, okay. So debating may not be Bush's strong suit. But, look, he's still way cooler than Kerry, isn't he? Kerry's, like, nerdy, and stuff. Like a professor. Yeah, that's it, Kerry's just a nerdy ol' professor, and Bush is a cowboy. And cowboys don't have to be good at debating, and stuff. They just have to be good at killing bad guys, and stuff. Vote for Bush.
And 50.73% of the people did. Morons.
The debates will not save us.
Why is McCain Huggy Bear?
Luckily there is one person who hasn't seen the picture of me hugging George Bush. It was a manly hug but the press doctored it so that I looked like a lovelorn teenage girl when I had my nose up W's arm pit.
broken bridge sheets
Clearing brush, otoh, is a Traditional American Activity.
I hope it doesn't turn you into a Republican, because there's a hell of a lot of it for me to do! The two different stupid fences are only the beginning. There are several spindly non-starter trees and a couple of daunting bramble thickets to be obliterated as well. After I've finished using my murder weapons, I'll need to rent a wood chipper to get rid of all the evidence....
Popular picture, must be on millions of hard drives.
Men of Earth, we of the planet Mars give you this warning. Listen carefully and remember. We have known your planet Earth since the first creature crawled out of the primeval slime of your seas to become man. For millennia, we have followed your progress, for centuries, we have watched you, listened to your radio signals and learned your speech and your culture. And now, you have invaded our home. Technological adults, but spiritual and emotional infants. We kept you here deciding your fate. Had the lower forms of life of our planet destroyed you, we would not have interfered. But you survived. Your civilization has not progressed beyond destruction, war and violence against yourselves and others. Do as you will to your own and to your planet, but remember this warning - Do Not Return To Mars. You will be permitted to leave for this sole purpose - Carry The Warning To Earth. Do Not Come Here. We can and will destroy you, all life on your planet, if you do not heed us. You have seen us, been permitted to glimpse our world. Go now. Warn mankind not to return unbidden.
Hair on fire social security going broke in 40 years, maybe! We must act now to cut benefits! And lets spend $2 trillion to occupy Iraq, forever! Now!
/McCentury
I can't wait to hear McCain in a debate.
----------------------------
Everyone watching at home will think that Obama won. Then the talking heads will go to work and complain that Obama seemed "aloof", "distant", "professorial", "elitest", and "out of touch".
Tweety will say: "America loves a warrior president. They love a guy who finished at the bottom of his class. A guy that doesn't talk down to them and make them feel stupid. Every time I look at Obama, I'm seeing Adlai Stevenson, another egghead from Illinois."
Kerry's, like, nerdy, and stuff. Like a professor.
A nerdy French wind-surfing professor, no less.
Speaking of Tweety, here's a blast from the past. Five years ago today:
CHRIS MATTHEWS, host: "Well, we've won the war in Iraq."
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/chr...?0cb=-
s1W109515
I really like the nickname "Huggy Bear," but blogs need to associate the phrase with that McCain hug photo more...so that Google images will show it.
[Side note: Do you wish you had a copy of this, Mr. Simels?]
.Kerry destroyed Bush in the debates. How'd that work out for us?
Kerry won on the merits, but he sucked ass on the salesmanship part. That's where debates really help you. Kerry apparently missed the point entirely. Obama, OTOH, has got serious rhetorical game, and will consequently open up a major can of "There you go again" whoopass on McStain. It will take Huggies Bear hours afterwards to come to his senses sufficiently to understand that that thing in his hands is his ass.
Then the talking heads will go to work and complain that Obama seemed "aloof", "distant", "professorial", "elitest", and "out of touch".
He will not let them do that. He will make it impossible. If you say something good enough, they can't spin it that way. Both Kerry and Gore had no idea how to come across, so it was child's play to do it to them. Obama is another matter. They do that to him at their peril.
Obama, OTOH, has got serious rhetorical game, and will consequently open up a major can of "There you go again" whoopass on McStain
In that respect, he's closer to JFK and Reagan than to Gore and Kerry. He gets it that this "debate" is not a debate--it's showtime! And presumably he's also figured out after that ABC fiasco that this will not be about serious issues.
Huggybear won't like this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x...h?
v=x1V7rJfo1TE
Next time he complains about how unfair it is, I'd like to see somebody ask him this:
You said: “If we leave Iraq prematurely, the jihadists will interpret the withdrawal as their great victory”. Is there any limit to how long you would keep American troops fighting and dying in Iraq to prevent that?
After he refuses to set a limit, he'll wish he could return to the good old days when the ads said he only wanted to stay for 100 years.
Everyone should watch C-Span hearing on unbid contracts, and the gross misspending of money that is still going this very minute in the Bush Administration and will continue in McCain's Administration.
Waste, Fraud & Contractors
Monday
Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-ND) chairs a hearing of the Senate Dem. Policy Cmte. on abuses in Iraq contracting. The Cmte. hears from witnesses describing abuses such as overcharging, double-billing and fraud by U.S. contractors.
Ever since WP Columnist Broder said that Republicans have an affinity for US military. Yeah, as we can see, it's an affinity for war profiteering at the expensive of services for US military forces.
WHY ISN'T Bush and Cheney being brought up on charges for this direct misuse of taxpayer money. This is a very IMPEACHABLE offense. Remember when Bush was saying KBR would be investigated AT THE VERY SAME TIME AS RUMSFELD WAS ON NATIONAL TV TELL VIEWERS THAT KBR DIDN'T MIS-SPEND ANY MONEY. This is how you know that your news media is not worth shit anymore. WHY is this not consider big news? It's far more hideous that the Monica Lewinsky news ever will be. WHY ISN'T Bush and Cheney being impeached for this, how dare Pelosi take impeachment off the table - unless she approves of this shit going on in Iraq. WATCH THAT VIDEO.
"Todays quote from Correntewire:
This week, Bill Kristol wrote one of the MSM’s wisest assessments of the Democratic primaries, and Peggy Noonan’s commentary about Reverend Wright is downright thoughtful."
How do these people intend to come back home after all this shit is over?
wait...you sure that was Huggy Bear? Sounded just like GW Bush.
--I can't wait for the general election debates. McCain is going to be in SUCH deep shit if the nominee is Obama.--
My gawd he's almost as inarticulate as the Chimp himself.
If this keeps up, we're going to run out of stupid animal names for GOP presidents.
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