HULK SMASH!!!
:whee:
Whoo!
:woohoo:
3: Profit!
Dang! Missed a SUPERTRAIN thread.
Hi, plantsman. I should probably go call sheets.
If you don't, I will.
Done it.
Duty is done.
Josh Marshall just expanded my vocabulary, provided I learn what the fuck "Florilegium" means.
I think investing in Stoli might be a good bet.
Invest in any company making cheap booze. Your potential customers might not have much cash.
So where is everybody? Locked in passionate discussion of transit issues?
I love the killfile. No more Elias.
There are too many accents in that name. Please remove at least one.
YAY!
I noticed below that Elias has an emergency economic proposal that includes a bake sale and a car wash with cute high school girls in bikinis.
what the fuck "Florilegium" means.
bo
I think it's Flemish for hanky-panky in an arboretum.
"WHERE THE HELL IS BEEKS!"
Just stopped by during lunch break (in committee meetings all day) and saw this. Thanks, Mr. Blumenthal! It's been a while, and I decided I was missing out on way too much fun.
Hmmm. I wonder how many people get these back-in-2004 jokes.
florilegium: a collection of pieces, an anthology.
The University of Gloucestershire says it will investigate after the BBC obtained footage of students taking part in a bizarre initiation rite.
The secretly-filmed video shows students with bags over their heads, drinking and vomiting.
A university spokesman said a formal inquiry was being launched into alleged "bullying and intimidation" during initiation ceremonies.
The National Union of Students has called for a ban on initiations.
Initiation ceremonies have become traditional in UK universities and are normally organised by student sport clubs for first-year undergraduates.
The video obtained by the BBC shows a group of University of Gloucestershire students lined up against a wall with white plastic bags over their heads.
Another student, dressed in a Nazi-style uniform, is seen to encourage them to drink. Several students then vomit onto the ground before being paraded though the streets.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/76.../uk/
7647099.stm
oh my, then they better not go looking at the Cambridge and Oxford dining societies, whicn aremade up of the uber elite who have their own weird and repulsive initiations rights
heh at my Uni's beer race a group of students dressed up in Nazi uniforms
Mrs DWD and son went to see Barack in GR this morning: she was impressed.
Another Obamamaniac is born.
Ha Ha: Limpdick is trying smear lipstick on a moose. He sez the reason Palin is such a fuckup is because she didn't follow anyone's path to success but instead, blazed her own trail and the eggheads don't get it.
Kind of like Honest Abe. Bwhahahaha
What. A. Loser.
Bérubé
Blogging again.
No one will take him seriously ever again.
watching a student try to fake a term paper in real time (Berube)
exactly. when the person you are bullshitting knows what you are talking about, you fail. When the people you are bullshitting don't know any more than you do, then maybe you can get away with it. I hope the press can call bullshit when they see/hear/smell it.
Josh Marshall just expanded my vocabulary, provided I learn what the fuck "Florilegium" means.
I have one in my trunk.
Dodged that bullet. I missed the thread on trains.
“well, the Bush Doctrine, Charlie, is a doctrine developed by George Bush. The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines ‘doctrine’ as ‘a: something that is taught; b: a principle or position or the body of principles in a branch of knowledge or system of belief,’ and the Bush Doctrine has taught us much about the body of principles in George Bush’s system of belief, which is to defend America and never blink, Charlie.”
my niece is visiting tomorrow
so yeah I have a pretty hectic weekend, entertaining my niece and getting ready for my holiday plus a manicure and a pedicure on the Saturday
so much to do, so little time!
Anyone else having problems with the internets this afternoon?
Back to work. [sigh]
Clarence Thomas, was a Palinesque conservative-affirmative-action fuck-you payback for the rejection of Elitist Evil Genius Robert Bork.
Now, that is good prose!
Bérubé Shattered Shattered.
Bérubé Shattered Shattered.
This town's full of money grabbers.
Bite the big apple. Don't mind the maggots..
Bérubé
If you're going to drink and vomit, I recommend not putting a bag over your head.
florilegium: a collection of pieces, an anthology.
plantsman
*sheesh* Isn't saying 'anthology' a lot clearer? These college edujated elitists!
Obama Projects 269 Electoral Votes Even With Six-Point Cushion
We have been calling "battleground states" those states projected within five points, and states projected between 5-10 points "penumbra states." These are somewhat arbitrary labels, though ground game’s outer limit when one is overwhelmingly better than another is about five points.
When we last updated 538’s battleground states, we were in the midst of John McCain’s post-convention, post-Palin bloom-on-the-rose period. At that time, McCain’s projected win would be 274-264. Today, Barack Obama has 269 electoral votes outside the battleground zone.
cosmosis,
Did Drug Rush note that you can win a reformer's reputation by insisting that the bribe money be delivered in an envelope?
Boris Johnson is not totally stupid, getting rid of Ian Blair - Britain's top policeman resigns
He's so scary! He's head is changing the tides.
http://www.michaelberube.com/ima...ds/
zzzputin.jpg
If you're going to drink and vomit, I recommend not putting a bag over your head.
plantsman
This is change I can believe in!
Wah wah wahhhhhh!
.
Another 'free speech' controversy
A friend of mine once saw evil genius Bob Bork walk into a tree.
Today, Barack Obama has 269 electoral votes outside the battleground zone.
That'll make the McCain campaign feel warm and fuzzy.
Did Drug Rush note that you can win a reformer's reputation by insisting that the bribe money be delivered in an envelope?
Professor Wagstaff
No, he was focusing on her basketball skills and even if she doesn't watch the WNBA she's still a superstar.
Have a lovely time with your niece, Moon!
“The thing about Kristol,” I.I. replied, “is that after he’s dead, we’re going to find out not only that he has no vital oils but that he has no internal organs whatsoever. No higher-order consciousness, no pineal gland housing the soul. What’s in there instead? Just balsam wood from tip to toe.” - M. Berube
A minor quibble: I believe Mr. B's Imaginary Interlocutor meant to say "balsa wood", there being nothing pleasant-smelling about Kristol and he is certainly little more than cellulose and a whole lot of air. Other than that, the II is entirely correct.
DWD,
My mother, daughter, and sister were there.
Sister was one of those "special pass" people standing behind Obama. (Air Traffic Controllers for Obama.)
A friend of mine once saw evil genius Bob Bork walk into a tree.
I'll bet he sued the hell out of that tree afterward.
Discovering killfile is like taking your first bite of chocolate truffle mousse. You wonder why you've never allowed yourself the pleasure before.
Now with more accents!
"She's my sister and my daughter!"
"Forget about it Jake, It's Chinatown."
now all we need is a return of Media Whores Online
Wow...Bérubé was blogging in 1985. What a trend-setter!
Has Michael's site been slashdotted or are my toobz clogged?
If Sarah bombs tonight it's a good bet that money will stop flowing to the McCaign campaign and be redirected to Gooper Congresspersons whose seats are in jeopardy.
Unrepentant Fenian :
Bérubé Shattered Shattered.
Bérubé Shattered Shattered.
It's an earworm! It's a pronunciation guide! It's both!
~
jr,
I miss the Horse.
Frankly, anyone investing in stocks now is a fucking retard.
Stunt Woman
HEY!!!!
now all we need is a return of Media Whores Online
jr | 10.02.08 - 1:43 pm | #
I loved the Horse, back in the day.
P'man,
My thanks for the edification. It's so great to be edicated.
If you haven't read the Rude One today, you really
should oughta.
I think you crashed his server.
& it is great to have Michael back
I know.
Has Michael's site been slashdotted or are my toobz clogged?
Atrios'd, apparently.
Has anyone used "The McCain Mutiny" to describe Senator Blue Meanie's slide in the polls? If not, I give you permission to use it. Don't thank me, just pay it forward.
I looked it up.
Discovering killfile is like taking your first bite of chocolate truffle mousse. You wonder why you've never allowed yourself the pleasure before.
I'd make a clever comment here, but now you'll never see it. Sigh.
OK, I got Greasemonkey up, but how to load the .js? What did I miss?
my dad got the gas bill through today
and they want to put it up from £58 to £84 and he's in credit!
says he'll have to have a discussion with them, bartering
Atrios'd, apparently.
ThatGuy | 10.02.08 - 1:44 pm | #
Thanks for the correct terminology -- I forget occasionally. Old age. 
He's so scary! He's head is changing the tides.
http://www.michaelberube.com/ima...ds/ zzzputin.jpg
Monica_A: Is It Over Yet? | 10.02.08 - 1:39 pm
I like this pic of Putin
now all we need is a return of Media Whores Online
jr | 10.02.08 - 1:43 pm | #
I loved the Horse, back in the day.
Soprano, semprelibera | 10.02.08 - 1:44 pm | #
Me too. My proudest moment is when he or she published my correspondence with Andrew Sullivan when that asshole from the WSJ was revealed to have knocked up his girlfriend's daughter and Sullivan defended him.
Good times!
If Sarah bombs tonight
I think expectations are so low that she wins the debate if she can stay below one panic attack per segment.
If you haven't read the Rude One today, you really
should oughta.
plantsman
Yes. He has been uncharacteristically mild mannered of late, but is now back to his more inspired self.
The class politics of free school meals
that asshole from the WSJ
John Fund?
my electric went from $120 last bill to $480 this bill. yeks.
I LOLed until I LOLed again:
(One lovely tidbit from that column: Pollitt quotes Charles Murray’s New York Times Magazine interview with Deborah Solomon. On Palin, he says, “I’m in love. Truly and deeply in love,” Murray said. “The last thing we need are more pointy-headed intellectuals running the government.” Now, I know that Murray has been railing against the evil cognitive elite for much of his career, but the “pointy-headed intellectual” trope is a bit much, since Murray is, after all, an intellectual, and his head is by all accounts very, very pointy. Which is why it fits so well inside that Death Eater hood.)
I just read on Huffington Post how William F. Buckley Cuts Out Grandson out of his will because his son did not want the child.
What a piece of shit. Evil to the end. But again, it shows that money is everything to these scumbags. It trumps everything, family, party, country.
Bérubé Shattered Shattered.
Bérubé Shattered Shattered.
This town's full of money grabbers.
Bite the big apple. Don't mind the maggots..
Bérubé
Unrepentant Fenian | 10.02.08 - 1:38 pm | #
That's right, pun the guy's name, will ya?
It's also EXACTLY what I sang to myself when I saw the thread.
TV has said she will attack Obama's record andd positions on things. Goopers LOVE hating on people.
I think expectations are so low that she wins the debate if she can stay below one panic attack per segment.
DFH in Dubrovnik | 10.02.08 - 1:46 pm | #
And it doesn't matter anyway. She'll still be in the crosshairs of her own stupidity after the debate. What excuses will they use for hiding her after tonight?
that asshole from the WSJ
Lifetime National Scumbag Association Member John Fund!!
Thank you for the killfile instructions. Also for scaring away the widdle trolls, depriving me of the pleasures of killfile. Life isn't fair!
I think I killfiled myself.
TV has said she will attack Obama's record andd positions on things.
If she starts in on her usual schtick, Joe can take the gloves off.
I'm going to try to read at the link again.
BBL
I wish I could be online when this debate takes place tonight! You all are going to be laughing your asses off.
Silent Surge: Bipartisan Terror War Intensifies in Somalia
by Chris Floyd
Goopers LOVE hating on people.
plantsman
That's all they've got. Being afraid makes them hateful and they can't understand why we don't want to join them in their bunker.
(Air Traffic Controllers for Obama.)
Vicki | 10.02.08 - 1:41 pm | #
Obama has his own air traffic controllers?
Berube's amusement with the mental gymnastics the "smart" conservatives are willing to go through to defend/explain Palin's nonsense says it all. GOPers are tribal partisans who hate America.
TV has said she will attack Obama's record andd positions on things.
The thing is, if she wanders one step off the path, it's headlights time.
Opting for Green Wind electricity cost a little more to begin with, but they can't claim wind went up, thankfully.
All this chitter-chatter, chitter-chatter, chitter-chatter bout
Collateralized debt obligations-- I cant give it away on 7th avenue
So far, Teleprompter Barbie has been very different from Informal Barbie. She reads a script well. So far, she hasn't shown anything beyond that.
Say what what you will about Rahm Emanuel, he is a good on TV in these cable news interviews.
John Fund?
Soprano, semprelibera | 10.02.08 - 1:46 pm | #
Yep.
Murray has obviously moved from "The Bell Curve" to the Billo curve.
Has anyone figured out McCain's latest excuse for his loserness, that Obama is leading because "life isn't fair"?
Does anyone know if the debate will be streamed online tonight?
this is a great day for lobbyists
Rahm was made for Andrea.
Errands beckon..back in a few.
Anyone else having problems with the internets this afternoon?
Cookie Fleck
Yeah can't through to the Bérubé link.
Maybe he has some sort of parental block up or something
GOPers are tribal partisans who hate America.
I've noticed the sudden appearance of McCain gear in my very blue community. It appears to be more desperation, gathering the tribal wagons, then anything positive.
plantsman : If you haven't read the Rude One today, you really
should oughta.
It's incredibly awesome. Pure bile as a weapon.
http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2...version-
if.html
~
Gromit : Yes. He has been uncharacteristically mild mannered of late, but is now back to his more inspired self.
He's been fundraising the last week or so.
~
Opting for Green Wind electricity cost a little more to begin with, but they can't claim wind went up, thankfully.
But they can claim energy transportation costs more. My energy company divides out energy costs and transportation costs.
sold my kids' college funds and put it all on red
my electric went from $120 last bill to $480 this bill. yeks.
How is this possible? Does your state lege not have any authority over prices the public utilities charge?
Time to do adult stuff and run some errands. Be good.
my local pizza place has begun running a debate special, where they will open early in order to drop off deliveries in time for the debates.
Only in Seattle.
He's been fundraising the last week or so.
Does that make him more rude or less?
Today, Fatty Arbuckle informs his listeners that Hanky Paulson is a democrat and Obama's best friend is a terrorist. I shit thee not. They are out of their freakin' minds.
The graphic of Putin rearing his head is exactly what I thought when Mooselini made that statement.
Byron York:
But there's no doubt there are concerns about Palin. If you talk to people in Alaska, away from the McCain campaign or Washington Republican circles, there's a feeling that the campaign has mishandled her. For my story on Palin's time as governor, out tomorrow in the electronic version of NR, I talked to some people who have known her for quite a while. Although we were talking about other things, one of them took a detour to the upcoming debate; what was said was just one person's opinion, but it's an opinion informed by a good bit of knowledge.
"The McCain people have got her freaked out," this person told me. "She has not found her voice. She has looked like hell in these interviews. It's not her. I don't know what's going on. I know she doesn't have any Alaska people around her since Todd left New York last week. No one from the governor's office is with her."
"They've circled the wagons around her and got her in a bubble," the source continued. "They've got her flipped out. She's afraid to talk, afraid to make a mistake."
Ditching First Dude was a mistake. He's the go-to guy, Sarah-wise.
linky no worky for me.
Did i miss anythign good?
I can't see Russia, but I can see Mt. Hood from my house. The windfarms are beyond it in the Columbia Gorge -- please don't give my power company any ideas.
my local pizza place has begun running a debate special, where they will open early in order to drop off deliveries in time for the debates.
Is that the Jet City Pizza out on Lake City Way?
Ick. Droopy shilling for Palin on MSNBC.
TV has said she will attack Obama's record andd positions on things.
The problem is she doesn't know about his record and position on things...
I liken it to cramming for all your college midterms at the last minute then facing an oral exam in front of 50 million people...
The emotional and mental meltdown should be interesting to watch.
Hot Damn!! Just uncovered a misplaced bottle of Jaegermeister. I'm good to go for tonight.
For what it's worth, Byron York and Palin have the same hairdo.
So Palin has finished the mock-debate next to the creek?
And the Rocky IV- style training montage?
BTW where is the debate being held?
Byron should put his up more.
The emotional and mental meltdown should be interesting to watch.
Maybe she'll cry.
Piracy off the coast of Somalia has cost up to $30m (£17m) in ransoms so far this year, a report has said.
The study by UK think-tank Chatham House said the number of hijack bids had more than doubled to 61 in 2008.
The report said ransoms received were in the range of $500,000 to $2m per ship and that the pirates were becoming more aggressive and assertive.
Pirates are currently demanding $20m (£10.9m) for a Ukrainian ship carrying 33 military tanks bound for Kenya.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world...ica/
7647631.stm
Washington University, St Louis, MO.
http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2...version- if.html
Wow.
My brain's reeling.
I'd explode if he called her out with 1/5th that force and honesty.
I've noticed the sudden appearance of McCain gear in my very blue community. It appears to be more desperation, gathering the tribal wagons, then anything positive.
I've seen 4 or 5 bumper stickers in the last couple of weeks here in the San Fernando Valley. It seems more like people giving the finger to Blue California.
Danke vielmals, plantsman.
Condi's girlfriend is going to so low-ball this.
Marce,
Wash U, in Saint Louis. My nephew is in law school there.
my local pizza place has begun running a debate special, where they will open early in order to drop off deliveries in time for the debates.
Is that the Jet City Pizza out on Lake City Way?
Could be, but the one I know about it Pagliacci.
my electric went from $120 last bill to $480 this bill. yeks.
How is this possible?
grow house. look out.
I cn haz gravatar nao?
Washington University, St Louis, MO.
heh. My biochemistry professor went to school there and also taught there a number of years.
The emotional and mental meltdown should be interesting to watch.
Maybe she'll cry.
Molly Ivors
Imagine what they'd say if Hillary Clinton ever cried....
When Sarah Palin was anointed of God to become president when John McCain's anger worm or whatever it may be finishes eating his brain, I read a little bit about her and I found that she is a far right religious extremist who is associated with a movement that is literally trying to raise an army to conquer the earth on behalf of Jesus and install Christian dominion over every land. Personally, I can't support that, I don't know about you. However, I was surprised to learn that she is also a blithering idiot.
It turns out that's not necessarily a bad thing. According to all the analyses of the upcoming debate that I've been reading, all she has to do to "win" the debate is ignore the actual questions and spout memorized attack lines against Barack Obama. It turns out that Gwen Ifill isn't allowed to follow up and point out that she didn't answer the question, because she's a member of the negro conspiracy to seize state power. Other than that, Palin just has to refrain from rolling her eyes and sighing, and she has to pretend to take notes while Biden is talking.
Meanwhile, Joe Biden will display astonishing erudition and a profound grasp of history, economics, international affairs and social policy. He will spew facts, figures, historical analogies, acronyms and the names of foreign leaders great and small like an intellectual power washer. His arguments will be concise, well-crafted, logically impeccable, and built on a solid foundation of fact. This means he will be an arrogant, out of touch elitist who cannot possibly understand the struggles of ordinary people and who is a mean bully who is trying to make poor little Sarah look stupid. Even though she is stupid, and that's why we like her.
Only in America is ignorance and indifference to truth and logic a qualification for high office. I would assume that people who don't know a whole lot about medicine don't seek out an incompetent doctor because somebody who actually knows medicine can't possibly understand their problems. I presume that people who don't know anything about plumbing or electrical wiring do not look for the most inept, alcoholic layabout they can possibly find to work on their house because they can relate to that person so much better than an arrogant elitist who went to trade school. But that's been the Republican presidential brand for as long as I can remember. Vote for Ronald Reagan, Vote for George W. Bush, they're just as dumb as you are. And it works.
From the Rude One: So I don't give a fuck about what Bush with boobs here has to say about jack shit.
Piracy off the coast of Somalia has cost up to $30m (£17m) in ransoms so far this year, a report has said.
I blame Johnny Depp.
Just to let you know what the fuckers are up to:
NAIROBI - WND author and staff writer Jerome Corsi has arrived in the Kenyan capital to investigate Sen. Barack Obama's ties to the prime minister, who was appointed to the position to stop a wave of violence by Muslim supporters.
Corsi came at the invitation of Christian missionaries who contend the rise of Islam in the African nation has been spurred by an agreement Obama signed with Muslim leaders in an effort to elect Raila Odinga last December. Odinga lost the election but now shares power with the Kenyan president to appease Islamic leaders.
Corsi's highly critical book examining Obama's career, "The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality," remains on the New York Times best-seller list after its publication Aug. 1. The book was No. 1 on the list for four straight weeks after its launch.
and it goes on and on
Lying about the other guys record doesn't matter. It may be untrue, but the point is that the audience has already heard it.
nice grav, smalfish.
the party with the lead in teh pollz duz not attack. palin will attack doncha know.
Palin will win the debate even if she just sits there and vomits all over the desk, such are the low expectations.
The important thing is that she is the only one on the ticket who the fundies love(because she is a stupid Christian bigot) They care not a jot about McCain. In fact I think they would be quite happy if he fell down dead tomorrow, and she took over at the head of the ticket. Biden just has to avoid making an idiot of himself.
You Betcha!
I've seen almost as many Bob Barr stickers (one) as I have McCain stickers (two).
The best is the "Sarah Palin for Vice President" stickers, in the McCain colors and font, but with no mention of Grampy.
youv'e got to see the utube of afl/cio union chief speech linked to on andrew sullivans blog - the dish - i'm crying like a baby.
Omg. I know how Palin will win the debate.
She'll announce she's pregnant.
Top that one, Biden!!
How is this possible? Does your state lege not have any authority over prices the public utilities charge?
smalfish
It is possible... NYSEG only reads the physical meter every 4 months... and estimates (lowballs) the intervening three. This is common for us.
I have to say, Berube gives great undergrad parody.
But you know, I come here for a break from grading.
Maybe she'll cry.
Molly Ivors
I'm hoping for tears and a desperate cry, "Todd! Come get mamma!"
Imagine what they'd say if Hillary Clinton ever cried....
We know. Remember when she dared to get a bit teary during the primary? She was both (a) faking it in a cold, calculated, political ploy and (b) a weak, emotional woman, unfit to lead.
cervantes speaks for me.
I very much doubt Obama put his plan to force Americans to
convert to Islam in writing.
Omg. I know how Palin will win the debate.
She'll announce she's pregnant.
Top that one, Biden!!
ellroon, Obama/Biden 08 | Homepage | 10.02.08 - 2:02 pm | #
"Congratulations, Governor!"
"Who's the lucky daddy?"
---
Where are you, Jay?
but who knows what secret terms guide the debate? privatized. who could have predicted?
http://www.democracynow.org/
2008..._republican_and
Top that one, Biden!!
ellroon, Obama/Biden 08
"Yeah, well the Jerk store called and they're runnning out of you."
Thanks Molly,
You just reminded me I have a pile of papers to grade. Fuck!
I very much doubt Obama put his plan to force Americans to
convert to Islam in writing.
Cot, ready to debate
Rove is ordering 300 million burkas and using Obama's credit card number....
I'm hoping for tears and a desperate cry, "Todd! Come get mamma!"
If he slaps her on the ass and says "Give Daddy some sugar," I'll puke.
Biden need go no further than backhanded compliments.
yeha our gas bill has gone up, and all because the stupid government did not buy the gas the right way and privatized everything
we only have 9 months storage facilities while the French and German's have six month
because the gas is in the hands of private companies who think 'why should we pay for extra storage'
so in the event of a crisis Britain will freeze to death
our gas comes in from Qatar, on boats
fucking stupid Government
Blog, blog, blog,
Blog, blog Iran.
/John McBérubé
Omg. I know how Palin will win the debate.
She'll announce she's pregnant.
Top that one, Biden!!
ellroon, Obama/Biden 08 | Homepage | 10.02.08 - 2:02 pm | #
Biden's response to win: "And I'm her Babydaddy."
I very much doubt Obama put his plan to force Americans to
convert to Islam in writing.
It is, however a well known fact.
Yep.
I also think Caribou Barbie is going to cry and then wingnuttia is going to call Biden a bully.
Was able to get through to Berube's site; brought back my favorite paragraph.
----
But then a non-imaginary interlocutor said a most interesting thing. (It was a dinner for twelve people, and I didn’t catch his name, or I’d tell you.) He pointed out that the right-wing culture war against pointy-headed intellectuals does not extend to the judiciary. On the contrary, he said, it’s as if they’re willing to run a cephalopod and a bag of hammers for the executive branch (I don’t think these were his exact words), but they actually recruit and train all their intellectual firepower for the courts (those were pretty much his exact words). And, of course, he’s right: Scalia, Alito, Roberts—these are all graduates from Pointyheaded Liberal Elite Law School, Evil Genius Division, and the glaring exception, Clarence Thomas, was a Palinesque conservative-affirmative-action fuck-you payback for the rejection of Elitist Evil Genius Robert Bork.
----
Cephalopod/BagofHammers '08
The emotional and mental meltdown should be interesting to watch.
Maybe she'll cry.
Molly Ivors
Wouldn't it be awesome if she forced her handlers to drive her to a beauty shop in St. Louis, stormed in, picked up the clippers, and shaved her beehive?
"I'm sure Governor Palin is a very able administrator. Let's look at the fate of Wasilla since she left office..."
Where are you, Jay?
Molly Ivors
Boston. So the bumper sticker habits of the American Conservative are going to be unrepresented here, mostly.
The emotional and mental meltdown should be interesting to watch.
I hope you're talking about Palin and not my Cubs tonight.
If Biden attacks anyone of course it should be McCain. He won't
be there, and Palin is in no position to defend McCrazy's policies.
We know. Remember when she[hrc] dared to get a bit teary during the primary?
and it worked. at least for a couple news cycles.
If he slaps her on the ass and says "Give Daddy some sugar," I'll puke.
Sorry, but I'd be willing to pay to see that on teevee.
Piracy off the coast of Somalia has cost up to $30m (£17m) in ransoms so far this year, a report has said.
I'm investing in pirate futures.
Wouldn't it be awesome if she forced her handlers to drive her to a beauty shop in St. Louis, stormed in, picked up the clippers, and shaved her beehive?
And then burned a picture of the pope during the debate.
Yeah, he won't attack Palin. But if he attacks the neocon worldview and McCain in particular, he'll do well.
half a C'cola to Master D for the babbydaddy comment.
obama/joemama 08
I'm investing in pirate futures.
aaaargh.com?
If Biden attacks anyone of course it should be McCain. He won't
be there, and Palin is in no position to defend McCrazy's policies.
Agreed. What Biden mostly needs to do tonight is not do anything to screw up. It won't matter whether the talking heads say she won the debate; VP debates don't win elections. If Biden acts condescending or something he can hurt the ticket. If he just gives good answers and treats Palin w reasonable respect, he'll do fine.
Sorry, but I'd be willing to pay to see that on teevee.
You Texans are so weird. 
McBombBomb is wishing they had picked another moderator.
I wish they would have picked somebody else.
It would have definitely thrown Caribou Barbie off her game.
Coke to Molly.
sheets
owls!!!!!!!!!!
But if he attacks the neocon worldview and McCain in particular, he'll do well.
Molly Ivors
yep. Something like, "Governor Palin is doing a great job. But it is very difficult when what you have to defend is the miserable policies of McBush."
leibniz leibkins : And then burned a picture of the pope during the debate.
You're mixing up your Mediagenic Bald Chicks.
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hope you're talking about Palin and not my Cubs tonight.
Unrepentant Fenian | 10.02.08 - 2:06 pm | #
Why didn't they start Zambrano last night? It's not like they didn't have time to adjust their rotation. I don't get it.
Go Phils!!!
wasn't spalin one of the mccain girls in that video last spring?
What Molly said. He'll put out things that she can't refute, because she won't know enough (anything) about them.
From her all we're going to get are talking points. Possibly in the right order.
sheets
If he just gives good answers and treats Palin w reasonable respect, he'll do fine.
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator
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Any zingers or gotchas will redound against him. Avoid them, stay fact-based and polite, and the contrast between the debaters' knowledge and sophistication will win the day.
Hecate,
Which I am confident he will do. He was famously restrained in the primary debates, and has surely heard the message the last few days.
This will be the most rehersed debate ever, that's for sure.
The real x factor here is Ifill. Will she ask real questions, or the crap we've come to expect at events like these?
Pirates are currently demanding $20m (£10.9m) for a Ukrainian ship carrying 33 military tanks bound for Kenya.
This is interesting for its audacity, and I'm sure Kenya will cough up something because they want their tanks back, but these pirates aren't exactly dealing from a position of strength: 33 tanks are going to be very hard to move on the black market and anyone who would actually buy their tanks from the likes of these pirates likely does not have the capacity to train their people to use them or the skills needed to maintain them.
yep. Something like, "Governor Palin is doing a great job. But it is very difficult when what you have to defend is the miserable policies of McBush."
cosmosis
Oh god, no, no, no. That really would sound condescending.
Will we find out whether or not Sarah Palin has a pen? Because I know for a fact that John McCain has a pen.
I know Palin has become a spectacle, but it still is a little creepy for major news networks to camp out for a whole day on a college campus having a pep rally prior to a VP debate.
sheets
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Berube
There are plenty of Republican-voting people out there, I said, who are resentful and (guess what) bitter . . . because they truly believe they are being governed by high and mighty muck-a-mucks who sneer at their pastimes and their cherished local traditions, and they don’t see Obama (or Hillary either!) as someone who’ll give them the time of day. If this election gets framed as Ordinary People against Mr. Extra Extra Smart, I thought, the Democrats are going down in flames. Every time a liberal says, “of course our side should win this—we’re so much smarter than they are,” he (or she!) plays right into the right’s cultural-resentment script. And they make themselves sound like nineteen-year-old Objectivists into the bargain.
There is some truth to this but Berube goes way too far and he is dipping his toes into "We can't insult the rubes because they will get angry and that is the worst thing evah!" territory.
He did this occasionally during the "intelligent design" muckamuck a few years ago, refusing to deal with the lying scumbags as lying scumbags (i.e., just call them lying scumbags and end it). And that was a victory for "elitism" and "intelligence", but one that only became noteworthy BECAUSE of ignorance and the fear that you can't tell a fundie fuckwad to go fuck his fuckwad self.
And somewhat ironically given the last paragraph in Berube's article, the death blow was dealt by a conservative Republican appointed judge.
I can't emphasize this enough: handwringing by self-described liberals who are worried about offending the dangerous fundamentalist idiots who keep trying to hijack this country is a very bad thing. We've got an opportunity here and we need to take advantage. I don't mean taking advantage like a Repuke and passing bad laws to punish those who have fucked up ideas. I mean take advantage by propagandizing the fact that fundamentalist fucktards are dangerous and should be ashamed of themselves.
Fundies should have no more power and influence in national politics than the KKK, and preferably far less.
Make no mistake, such divisions as exist in our country are the product of deliberate policies by right-wing politicians, the media, and their corporate overlords. It serves their interest to divide and conquer.
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