I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
Hello!
Peace.
hello to you!
I'M JOHN MCCAIN AND YOU'RE NOT
Fine with me.
I was enjoying the Ferraro thread.
I am John McSame & I am soooo confused.
I love the way Obama keeps rubbing McCain's nose in chimpitude.
He is McCain, so he is good and moral and right and correct and anything else is unpossible.
He's a maverick, too... don't forget that he's a maverick.
In spite of what that big red W branded on his ass might lead you to think.
I'm glad that Bonoir is putting it out on the table that our SoS and state legislatur nixed the revote - it had nothing to do with Obama.
John McCain refused to admit that he made a mistake.
He also refuses to admit that he's only four feet tall.
Oregon and other states followed the rules. Levin basically said, tough shit Oregon.
I am John McCain and my behavior has caused the death of people in Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, and on an aircraft carrier. Can Obama say anything like that?
I made a mistake in ordering the meatloaf. I can admit it. It was a mistake.
.
George Bush, John McCain
Just as every sentence from Rudy consisted of a noun, a verb, and 9/11, every sentence from Obama should contain a noun, a verb, and George Bush, John McCain.
John McCain refused to admit that he made a mistake.
The combover doesn't help his case any.
John "Admiral Stockdale" McCain.
Hell, he's not even John McCain any more.
I'm Barry Bonds, and You're Not
(1993 Sports Illustrated cover)
http://www.cosellout.com/wp-cont...07/07/
bonds.jpg
The combover doesn't help his case any.
"At least I don't trowel on the make-up like a trollop, you cunt!"
-- John "Straight-Talkin' Sidney" McCain
John is moral and good and right and correct.
Which one of these attributes allows him to call his wife a c*nt?
The Bar Scene in Star Wars?
No, it's the Dimocrat Party's Rules and Bylaws Committee!
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Am I the only one that thinks Sarah Jessica Parker has a horse face?
"I like the panties on lobbyists fannies"-McCombover
Indian dating spam. Heh.
Camelot -- Actually, maybe a little iced green tea.
Hell, he's not even John McCain any more
Obi-Wan: He's more machine now than man; twisted and evil.
I thought it was, "He's more mosquito than man now..."
On Memorial Day, Joint Chiefs Chairman Admiral Mike Mullen published a letter to uniformed soldiers warning that “the U.S. military must remain apolitical at all times.” Just three days later, however, Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) presidential campaign sent out a fundraising appeal featuring a picture of McCain with Gen. David Petraeus. McCain spokesman Brian Rogers told ABC News’s Jake Tapper that “the image of Petraeus is not at all contrary to the spirit of Mullen’s directive.” But in a press conference today, McCain himself admitted that it was inappropriate, saying “it won’t happen again.”
McCain: That doesn't mean I made a mistake, my friends.
Oregon and other states followed the rules. Levin basically said, tough shit Oregon.
ErinPDX
I don't think it's as simple as that Erin. What he said he and those who agree with him are trying to find an equitable solution the problems of a flawed process in order to achieve the kind or unity that is necessary to win in the fall.
I think everyone wants to revisit the whole problem of sanctioning states for breaking rules when honoring those rules isn't entirely in their parties' hands.
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I can't believe that midday on a Saturday they allow the TV to broadcast all this hot rule on bylaw action!
Which one of these attributes allows him to call his wife a c*nt?
Correct?
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iced green tea coming your way.
I think a push to bring up the 'c*nt' comment once a month should happen from now until September at which time it is brought up bi-weekly.
Am I the only one that thinks Sarah Jessica Parker has a horse face?
Neigh.
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Ferraro is the female Joe Lieberman:
In 1992 she ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic nomination for the New York Senate seat, finishing second in the primary behind State Attorney General Robert Abrams.
In 1998, Ferraro ran for the Senate again. She started off as the frontrunner for the nomination but lost ground in the late summer months. She finished second behind Congressman Charles Schumer
See, it's stuff like this that actually gives me a glimmer of hope that an Obama presidency won't be just another four years of Dems caving to the Repugs on everything.
I said a glimmer..
McCain, speaking to reporters in Milwaukee, refused to acknowledge a mistake, saying that "I said we have drawn down. And we have drawn down."
His advisers said the flap amounted to nothing more than "nitpicking" about "verb tenses."
"It is the essence of semantics," said a frustrated Randy Scheunemann, McCain's top foreign policy adviser, on a conference call organized by the campaign. "We're having this call about a verb tense."
The Republican National Committee also joined in, saying in a statement that "this all goes to show that Obama would sooner go on the attack than go to Iraq."
Lame, unoriginal, obvious horseshit.
In Montana later in the day, Obama refused to back off, saying that "anyone running for commander in chief should know better."
Running for president, not running for commander in chief.
The Sarah Jessica Parker comment is lookism. Perhaps you are confused as to how she, with her looks, gets on the screen, but some would call it progress. The acting-notsomuch.
Foal me once, shame on me.
Where is Vicki Iseman? What happened to her?
Sparkle, I heard him and understand. The whole thing is fucked and that was my point. Basically all of the states that followed the rules were duped. And the MI and FL voters got the screw job, as did Edwards.
The Sarah Jessica Parker comment is lookism.
? I was under the impression most people find horses to be quite beautiful.
Well, this is the danger of the politics of personality rather than the politics of policy, right? George Bush is a righteous man, in good with god, and so nothing he does disturbs that.
One might try judging people by policies, instead.
I was under the impression most people find horses to be quite beautiful.
Camels without humps.
I can't believe that midday on a Saturday they allow the TV to broadcast all this hot rule on bylaw action!
Won't someone think of the children?!?
One might try judging people by policies, instead.
I decided in my youth on the policy of truth.
SJP is HOT!!!
Ferraro is the female Joe Lieberman
She gone on record as saying that we should nuke the Ottoman Empire if they try to fuck with Genoa again.
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Where is Vicki Iseman? What happened to her?
Locked in a cargo container in the Green Zone until November 5.
I believe in the policy of dancing.
? I was under the impression most people find horses to be quite beautiful.
Okay then, you got me, as usual.
I have to say, of all the commenters here, you are the one that is always calling me out. I would love to be angry and frustrated, but you are uncannily correct.
Camels without humps.
That's colt, man.
Why would children be watching television on Saturday?
Why would children be watching television on Saturday?
Cartoons?
The McBeerMoney's have Vicki slaving away in the botox mines on Mt. Kilimanjaro.
Fareed Zakaria GPS? Honestly? That's the best name you could come up with?
would love to be angry and frustrated, but you are uncannily correct. camelot
I just go for the straight lines.
His advisers said the flap amounted to nothing more than "nitpicking" about "verb tenses."
cue: Pluperfect Subjunctive
The Bar Scene in Star Wars?
No, it's the Dimocrat Party's Rules and Bylaws Committee!
Lubyanka | 05.31.08 - 2:04 pm
Speaking of bar scenz, did you guys knw I'm posting from the service bar at TGIFridays? They have a Saturday happy hour, which is very nice, even if it does confuse me -- what day is it if it's SAturday at Fridays?
I'm in on my fourth sidecar, even though AI still dont know what is in them. Is it vodka? Is vodka brown?
Okay, time to go listen to the geatest fucking rockn roll song ever on the walkemen. Loooey Louis, as sung by blue whales recorded by Jacques Cousteay.
Ayfain liyelkurwl away onee..
eektatsh ahip oconstalee...
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eenever acow aamay gitome!!!!!
Fucking blew whales, bitches!!!
Looks like the storm has passed here--I'm going to go stain some bookcases.
Cartoons?
French Open
Sarah Jessica Parker standing in a stall, without makeup. Yikes!
That bastard Lubyanka is so drunk he's namestealing me!!!
I dunno--here it's Fairly Oddparents.
Which, admittedly, is on most days of the week.
Now I'm pissed.
Where does Brian live in Ohio?
While I think their underlying psychologies are slightly different, this is very true about McCain. He is McCain, so he is good and moral and right and correct and anything else is unpossible.
McCain and the media have mind-melded over this. A messy spectacle, if ever there was one.
Fucker did it again!!!
Update on the search for Vicki Iseman:
http://news.nationalgeographic.c...tos/
photo2.html
the Real steve has mail.
Why would children be watching television on Saturday?
Cartoons?
Of course.
Is it just my imagination or with warts and all this DNC rules & bylaws committee meeting working better than our congress usually does?
Whoever's posting for steve, at least he's got the Homepage right!
camelot,
Democracy? You're soaking in it.
Is it just my imagination or with warts and all this DNC rules & bylaws committee meeting working better than our congress usually does?
Maybe the shivs don't make an appearance until the second act. The long knives are saved for the dinner set.
Anybody here got Turner Classic Movies?
Ten pm Eastern -- Screaming Mimi, directed by the great Gerd Oswald.
Fantastic sleazy 50s serial killer B-movie, very expressiontic, with Anita Ekberg (woo hoo!!) and Gypsey Rose Lee -- yes, her -- as a beatnik lesbian.
Seriously, I can't imagine how they got it past the censors. Definitely worth seeing..
JFC - I don't know who this guy is but I already don't like him.
We've been Screaming Mimi free here for days, and it's nice. I backslid today: I hope Atrios doesn't punish me.
Ambassador to canada? Um, good for you. Strenous job?
Maybe Ferraro ought to endow a "White Studies" chair at Harvard or something.
Geez.
Is it just my imagination or with warts and all this DNC rules & bylaws committee meeting working better than our congress usually does?
camelot, Go Pens |
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They should meet in a Bavarian beer garden!
I hope Atrios doesn't punish me.
That might be more convincing if you weren't wearing the Catholic schoolgirl uniform.
Ferraro is the female Joe Lieberman
One more insult from a liberal, and she's backing McSame. There goes the Hard Working Americans, White Americans, vote.
the Real steve has mail.
Molly Ivors | Homepage | 05.31.08 - 2:21 pm | #
Real steve has replied. And loves you.
We've been Screaming Mimi free here for days, and it's nice. I backslid today: I hope Atrios doesn't punish me.
And has Elias been missing as well?
If he were, wouldn't THAT be quite a coincidence.
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That might be more convincing if you weren't wearing the Catholic schoolgirl uniform.
JeffCO
Somewhere, Sigmund Freud is smiling.
Somewhere, Sigmund Freud is smiling.
Sigmund would be a great name for a very energetic black Lab.
And has Elias been missing as well?
Sadly, no
Looks like the storm has passed here--I'm going to go stain some bookcases.
Rain has stopped here too, and the birds are singing. I'm gonna go schlepp groceries.
That might be more convincing if you weren't wearing the Catholic schoolgirl uniform.
Oh, that's for Thers.
And unfortunately, no, Elias is here.
Maybe Ferraro ought to endow a "White Studies" chair at Harvard or something.
And she'll need to make it well endowed to compensate for white men's racialized views of their own inadequate members.
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okay...enough of this MIFL stuff. Dirty Jobs marathon on Discovery.
I like one syllable names for the poochies.
Keep poking John. He'll get pissed and lose it some day. Then we'll have some great youtube.
Sorry for the blogwhore, but my tribute to one of the greatest artists of all time is now up at the homepage.
Keep poking John. He'll get pissed and lose it some day.
Jingle the keys.
Maybe Ferraro ought to endow a "White Studies" chair at Harvard or something.
wadr, if HRC's campaign would listen to the feedback, they might have a shot at showing their ability to adjust their message to join the populace in the 21st C. It's getting late, if not already too late.
as it is, Obama's tracking with the populist undercurrent by saying, "not only change the players, change the game." So far, his actions have been more in line with his words and that's why he's ahead, that's why his message seems almost spiritual - it is precisely the spirit of the fight.
Sorry for the blogwhore, but my tribute to one of the greatest artists of all time is now up at the homepage.
Another Marc Chagall fanboy piece? Please.
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One more insult from a liberal, and she's backing McSame. There goes the Hard Working Americans, White Americans, vote.
Ferraro speaks, and the voters OBEY!
We've been Screaming Mimi free here for days, and it's nice.
I miss her.
Sigmund would be a great name for a very energetic black Lab.
Or a kid who befriends a sea monster.
I got all the lights on in my house to increase the base period for a solar PV system I am about to buy.
it increases the rebate.
having the lights on in daytime is driving me nuts.
for every kilowatt hour I can increase (which costs me 11 cents) I get back $2.52.
pretty nutty.
this only applies on the margins...and in these last few days as we are being penalized for being so careful with electricity in the past.
And has Elias been missing as well
Sadly, he's been here teaching us about paganism and such.
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the greatest artists of all time
I miss her.
NTodd
You're insane.
Sorry for the blogwhore, but my tribute to one of the greatest artists of all time is now up at the homepage. steve hüssein™ simels
Hart, Haim, Feldman... could any good Corey come out of the 80s?
I miss her.
NTodd
You're insane.
res ipsa loquitur
I have never denied that.
Another Marc Chagall fanboy piece? Please.
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William H. Rehnquist | 05.31.08 - 2:29 pm | #
So far, his actions have been more in line with his words and that's why he's ahead
That and the fact that he doesn't have Mark Penn, Geraldine Ferraro and other assorted luminaries running a GOP/DLC style campaign for him.
let's observe him and call it an Intervention
Picture of protesters on the NYT home page. They have signs bearing the map of FL and the words, "Count my vote or count me out."
Your kids will thank you for President McCain.
hi, all
OT, but worth noting: some insurers are declining to underwrite policies for otherwise healthy women who've had c-sections:
“It made no sense,” said Ms. Robertson, 39, who lives in Centennial, Colo. “I’m in perfect health.”
She was turned down because she had given birth by Caesarean section. Having the operation once increases the odds that it will be performed again, and if she became pregnant and needed another Caesarean, Golden Rule did not want to pay for it. A letter from the company explained that if she had been sterilized after the Caesarean, or if she were over 40 and had given birth two or more years before applying, she might have qualified for coverage.
...Although it is not known how many women are in Ms. Robertson’s situation, the number seems likely to increase, because the pool of people seeking individual health insurance, now about 18 million, has been growing steadily — and so has the Caesarean rate, which is at an all-time high of 31.1 percent. In 2006, more than 1.2 million Caesareans were performed in the United States, and researchers estimate that each year, half a million women giving birth have had previous Caesareans.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/0...1insure.html?
hp
For-profit insurance companies like the odds to favor the house, and share all the fervor and moral rectitude of any given casino operator on the subject. Why they should be at the center of a nation's health care continues to baffle me...
Hart, Haim, Feldman... could any good Corey come out of the 80s?
JeffCO | 05.31.08 - 2:32 pm | #
Professor Irwin?
(I just beat Vicki's sister at scrabble. Probably will never happen again.)
They have signs bearing the map of FL
That's not a map of Florida, it's a wang...
They have signs bearing the map of FL and the words, "Count my vote or count me out."
Half of them are probably GOP anyway. Really, this smacks of the Brooks Brothers Riot...
My mother had all of us via C-section. I don't know why. She had a nasty scar.
Picture of protesters on the NYT home page. They have signs bearing the map of FL and the words, "Count my vote or count me out."
res ipsa loquitur | Homepage | 05.31.08 - 2:35 pm | #
As I wondered before -- will we be seeing pictures of that group with their names posted over their faces, a la the Repug congressional staffers that the RNC sent to shut down the Florida recount?
Cause I'm sure that demonstration is SOOOO spontaneous. Just another bourgeois riot....
Everything You Ever Needed to Know About the Democratic Party [Kathryn Jean Lopez]
Florida state rep Arthenia Joyner a little earlier at the DNC confab in D.C.: "the candidates didn't come to Florida so we could ask them how they can make our lives better."
So your life should be made worse like Dumbya believes?
She had a nasty scar.
...after they removed the zipper.
She had a nasty scar.
...after they removed the zipper.
No. After they removed me.
DUBLIN, Ireland (AP) — Chief negotiators of a landmark treaty banning cluster bombs predicted Friday that the United States will never again use the weapons, a critical component of American air and artillery power.
The treaty formally adopted Friday by 111 nations, including many of America's major NATO partners, would outlaw all current designs of cluster munitions and require destruction of stockpiles within eight years. It also opens the possibility that European allies could order U.S. bases located in their countries to remove cluster bombs from their stocks.
The United States and other leading cluster bomb makers — Russia, China, Israel, India and Pakistan — boycotted the talks, emphasized they would not sign the treaty and publicly shrugged off its value. All defended the overriding military value of cluster bombs, which carpet a battlefield with dozens to hundreds of explosions.
carpet bombs rule!
band name?
Sharon Stroschein
We've been Screaming Mimi free here for days, and it's nice.
I miss her.
NTodd, Pink Poseur | Homepage | 05.31.08 - 2:29 pm |
Die now, in whatever manner seems best to you.
Why not give women more delegate power too? After all They didn't get the vote until 1920. They weren't even considered people under the Constitution.
prof wombat, that is one of the most revealing stories about the complete bankruptcy and immorality of health insurance companies and our present system.
insure the well. increase profits.
it has nothing to do with health care. it is a total racket.
FL and MI should listen to Stroschein talk about the glam of being at the *end* of the campaign trail.
Rules shouldn't disenfranchise voters.
Professor Irwin?
I think you're 20 years off, at least!
"I don't want my party to be viewed as the Supreme Court in 2000! That says it all!
peterboy: insurance underwriters are just doing their job. What's immoral is the notion that health care should be for profit, run like a casino whose odds always, always favor the house.
"I don't want my party to be viewed as the Supreme Court in 2000! That says it all!
Bugs | 05.31.08 - 2:45 pm | #
The Insipid Moron Concern Troll Party is going to be a factor in the election?
Who knew?
Mimi once addressed your sometimes bemused correspondent as 'Wombie'.
'Nuff said...
The Floridians have to depose the Republicans that control their voter rolls before their goddamn, fucking vote counts anyway. They are protesting against the wrong people.
ProfW, why do you suppose your very concise and precise statement of that principle is not widely shared? That health care for profit is simply immoral?
How to make people & legislators understand that?
I think you're 20 years off, at least!
dave™© | Homepage | 05.31.08 - 2:45 pm | #
Dude's forever young...
Am I the only one that thinks Sarah Jessica Parker has a horse face?
I always thought that. But I also thought I was the only one with a boner for girls with horse faces. So I was amazed that someone I thought only I would find beautiful is splashed all over the place as a sex symbol.
It's very confusing and discouraging. Kinda ruins it for me.
Mimi once addressed your sometimes bemused correspondent as 'Wombie'.
'Nuff said...
ProfWombat | Homepage | 05.31.08 - 2:47 pm | #
I once addressed her as 'shit fer brains', so it all evens out.
Republicans like to say that individuals should be in charge of their own healthcare and gov't run health insurance would keep that from happening. In what sense is Arlene Robinson able to make decisions about her health care? How is it that insurance company executives making decisions to deny people access to health insurance is acceptable to these people? I don't get it.
Unable to manage their own primary process, Dimocrats seek to manage Executive Branch...
Mimi likes to call me NToad because she loves me. Same with Elias.
Dude's forever young...
Didn't he get his start on Steve Allen?
He's still around, you know...
ProfW, why do you suppose your very concise and precise statement of that principle is not widely shared? That health care for profit is simply immoral?
How to make people & legislators understand that?
It's actually a mixture of for-profit and not-for-profit companies. Aetna is a for-profit company, Blue Cross/Blue Shield is a not-for-profit company. Lots of people get their health insurance through a prepaid group practice, and most of those are not-for-profit.
So it's not just the for-profit motive that is the problem. Or rather, the problem is that high-cost cases are something the companies would not like to accumulate, and they all really have the same incentive to avoid them, even the not-for-profit ones.
Unable to manage their own primary process, Dimocrats seek to manage Executive Branch...
Seems to work just fine. Democracy is messy.
Oh, and sorry for one last pathetic blogwhore, but if anybody wants to weigh in on the greatest pre-2001 F/X movie over at Box Office
http://boxoffice.com/blogs/steve...ania-spec-
4.php
..it would help me get in good with management and ultimately help me afford that romantic getaway in Paris I've been invited to by a certain shady dame.
You know the drill....
How is it that insurance company executives making decisions to deny people access to health insurance is acceptable to these people? I don't get it.
Neponset
When our "representatives" are paid to misunderstand it is amazing how hard it is to get them to understand something. I just don't understand why they sell out so cheaply to the insurance, phone and oil companies.
(whispering)
Should we tell him that we all call him 'Wombie' when he's not here?
Mimi once addressed your sometimes bemused correspondent as 'Wombie'.
Well, the correct term would be "Womble", actually.
ProfW, why do you suppose your very concise and precise statement of that principle is not widely shared? That health care for profit is simply immoral?
I'm not ProfW, but I think it's b/c we've all been brainwashed with this "free market" and "personal responsibility" claptrap for I don't even know how long now.
..it would help me get in good with management and ultimately help me afford that romantic getaway in Paris I've been invited to by a certain shady dame.
You know the drill....
steve hüssein™ simels | Homepage | 05.31.08 - 2:51 pm | #
What the man said.
When our "representatives" are paid to misunderstand it is amazing how hard it is to get them to understand something. I just don't understand why they sell out so cheaply to the insurance, phone and oil companies.
Probably not so cheaply. The money, I understand, is quite good.
On May 7, Dunkin’ Donuts began running an ad on its Web site and others, featuring the celebrity chef Rachael Ray holding a cup of the company’s iced coffee while wearing a black-and-white fringed scarf. In the ad, which was shot in a studio, she is shown standing in front of trees with pink blossoms and a building with a distinctive spire.
On May 23, the conservative blog Little Green Footballs posted an item that likened Ms. Ray’s scarf to the type typically worn by Muslim extremists. The blog said that the ads “casually promote the symbol of Palestinian terrorism and the intifada, the keffiyeh, via Rachael Ray.”
Later that day, the conservative blogger Michelle Malkin chimed in, likening the scarf to a keffiyeh and calling it “jihadi chic.” Then the story, as they say on the Internet, went totally viral.
it's teh stupid that has gone viral...nothing more, and teh NYT, and any other media which doesn't simply denigrate the ratwanger intolerant assholes; show more about how complicit they are in perpetuating stereotypes
Oh, yes. When Obama extols the virtues of his own superior wisdom, it just cries out for someone to take him down a notch.
Y'all are sure gonna need to come up with some good apologies for this man.
Unable to manage their own primary process, Dimocrats seek to manage Executive Branch...
Ol' Barnyarda here is really the commodian. Fill us in on the current head of the exec, BY.
H-H-H-H-H-H-H-H-H-HILARITY E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-ENSUED
simels,
You mention "The Wizard of Oz" in that piece. Yesterday I said to someone, "What you need is a diploma!"
Damn, I came over here hoping Culture of Truth would be liveblogging the Rules Committee meeting. No dice, huh?
Unable to manage their own primary process, Dimocrats seek to manage Executive Branch...
Lubyanka | 05.31.08 - 2:50 pm | #
Incidentally, I can mispell lotsa wodrs besides Dimocretis.
Of course, now I'm on my SITXH!!! sidecar.
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Louis, Louby, bitches!!!!!
They're not upset with Obama because he's black; they're upset because they don't expect to be treated fairly because they're white.
Likewise, Obama will surely be favoring men or women because that's just how people are.
The world according to Geraldine Ferraro, another fucked up has-been from our not-so-distant past.
History leaves tire marks.
Did I mention I'm at the service bar at Hooters now?
They trhew me out of the Olive Garden and TGIFridays.
I'm working my way across the mall....
I'd love to boycott Dunkin' Donuts, but since I don't eat their lousy donuts and don't drink their terrible coffee, I'm at a disadvantage...
How is it that insurance company executives making decisions to deny people access to health insurance is acceptable to these people? I don't get it.
Free market, dood.
Besides, illness is voluntary.
And of course you can always check into any hospital emergency room for your chemotherapy or dialysis or whatever.
dave™©, Do you go to Pete's?
Probably not so cheaply
Reid got less than $10,000 from telecoms and yet he kept selling us out on telecom immunity. The fucking telecoms suit they were getting immunity from probably costs them more than that in lawyers fees in a few hours...
Your kids will thank you for President McCain.
stop insulting HRC supporters. stop insulting HRC supporters.
as I have been so clearly told, any critique of their madness is an insult. they just want the process to play out. if they destroy the nominees chances in the fall is less important than the perceived insult to their sense of fair play for HRC.
Blue Cross/Blue Shield is a not-for-profit company
I thought they went to profit, at least in NYS. I couldn't believe the state approved looting a non-profit.
Y'all are sure gonna need to come up with some good apologies for this man.
Toby Petzold
Petzfucker needs to do the world a favor and stick his ugly fly head into a printing press.
Y'all are sure gonna need to come up with some good apologies for this man.
Toby Petzold | Homepage | 05.31.08 - 2:53 pm | #
That's okay -- the universe is having a hard time apologizing for you.
...sorry for one last pathetic blogwhore, but if anybody wants to weigh in on the greatest pre-2001 F/X movie over at Box Office.
Been there - done that!
Oh, and btw - it's "blogwhoe".
Please make a note of it...
The world according to Geraldine Ferraro, another fucked up has-been from our not-so-distant past.
She reminds me of a woman I met recently. She had resigned herself to BHO and she said, "Do you think they'll want special treatment now?"
And I said, "Who, Harvard graduates?"
as I have been so clearly told, any critique of their madness is an insult. they just want the process to play out.
Play this out:
[pulls down pants and shits on photo of Hillary Clinton]
Toby's here?
Too bad...I gotta head into the city for my traditional SAturday night elitist chardonnay quaffing.
Talk to you all much later ce soir...
Hussein Simels, shouldn't you be wearing a scarf in your boxoffice pic?
Do you go to Pete's?
Yes, and it's Peet's.
And it's not "blogwhoe," it's "blowhore".
Simels etc...
The weather here is gross. About 100% humidity. Sun keeps going in and out. Occasional rain. My hair is huge. The weatherman keeps threatening, "large hail."
Just once in my life I would like to see large hail.
Standing ovation for Conyers.
Full debate after lunch. I'm gonna have to get chips and dip!
Y'all are sure gonna need to come up with some good apologies for this man.
Just as soon as y'all apologize for Bush.
but if anybody wants to weigh in on the greatest pre-2001 F/X movie over at Box Office
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it's teh stupid that has gone viral...nothing more, and teh NYT, and any other media which doesn't simply denigrate the ratwanger intolerant assholes; show more about how complicit they are in perpetuating stereotypes
I used to avoid Dunkin Donuts because of its crappy product, but now I am boycotting them for capitulating to idiotic rightwing terrorism tactics.
shouldn't you be wearing a scarf in your boxoffice pic?
George Johnston
that would be a nice flashmob; but not in GCT, the psychos with teh auto-machine guns may start blasting aqay
I love Peet's - it so much better than Starbugs.
Yes, and it's Peet's.
Whoops!
I thought they went to profit, at least in NYS. I couldn't believe the state approved looting a non-profit.
Empire State did, but most of the association is not-for-profit.
DNC breaking for lunch
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I got that too.
helena: it gets complicated, alas, very quickly. 'Non-profit' hospitals can be billion-dollar businesses. Health care is a seventh of the economy, and inefficiencies in it result in employment of a lot of people, and enrichment of a lot of investors. And there are, of course, those who have nothing against profit per se, who even applaud it, as if a business model that works selling toasters or financial services is equally applicable to health care.
A change away from for-profit health care would gore a lot of oxen. One of my favorite examples is a local orthopedic group, which is building a new office which will include their own MRI machine, which will siphon business away from entirely satisfactory units in local hospitals within a few miles, making the hospitals' balance sheet worse. You go to non-profit, that machine--well over a million dollars--would be closed in a heartbeat. Investors would lose a good chunk of money. Equipment makers would lose business. And so on and on.
Me, were I dictator, I'd nuke the system tomorrow by putting the whole country on Medicare, pay for it by taxing, and let private insurer compete for the Medigap market. I'd eliminate Medicare payments to for-profit entities. I'd increase primary care training, limit the number of specialists. I'd give significant financial incentives to medical students--saddled with average szix-figure educational debts--to do primary care in underserved areas. And I'd get slaughtered, drawn, quartered, and turned into radioactive waste for even suggesting it, unless I was one of those rare, extraordinary popular leaders who had the whole goddamned country on my side.
In fact, although I don't drink coffee I'm thinking of starting just so I can not buy it from DD!
Actually, I go to Peet's when there's one around (and they're opening more and more - they've even started serving Peet's coffee at the bakery in my local grocery store). As I've mentioned, I worked at a place in SF where there was three - count 'em, THREE - Starbucks on the ground level, two across the street, and two more within a block. I'd walk the two blocks to Peet's (which, btw, had a line out the door until 11 am or so).
My elderly aunt in NYC refers to "Starbucks" as "Starburnt". She, too, prefers Peet's!
Whoops!
30 lashes with a wet noodle for you!!!
Just once in my life I would like to see large hail.
Uh, no, you don't. You really don't. You just think you do....
When they get to grapefruit-sized, it's like God dropping bowling balls on everything.
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Yep.
I've registered at that site twice and never gotten the verification email that I have to reply to in order to post comments.
dave™©,
There's some other bay area coffee chain that just opened here. I cannot remember the name of it, but the GC said it's big the bay area. Damn ... I know that helps. Maybe a latino sounding name?
Me, were I dictator, I'd nuke the system tomorrow by putting the whole country on Medicare, pay for it by taxing, and let private insurer compete for the Medigap market. I'd eliminate Medicare payments to for-profit entities. I'd increase primary care training, limit the number of specialists. I'd give significant financial incentives to medical students--saddled with average szix-figure educational debts--to do primary care in underserved areas. And I'd get slaughtered, drawn, quartered, and turned into radioactive waste for even suggesting it, unless I was one of those rare, extraordinary popular leaders who had the whole goddamned country on my side.
ProfWombat
Wombat for Dictator.
Actually, I'm not sure they've got any Dunkin' Donuts out this way... I see their coffee for sale in the coffee aisles, though. In fact, just yesterday, I noticed you can buy a three-pound bag of it at Costco...
She reminds me of a woman I met recently. She had resigned herself to BHO and she said, "Do you think they'll want special treatment now?"
I met a man last week who in conspiratorial tones told me, 'Once they get in..." I intuitively shut down after hearing stupid.
DNC coverage of rules meeting
http://www.justin.tv/democraticvideo
Isn't drinking Dunkin' Donuts coffee a form of torture?
montag,
Once I was in the Lincoln Tunnel and when I came out on the Joisey side it had hailed and all the cars had dents in their hoods. I missed the whole damn thing.
Just once in my life I would like to see large hail.
We had those one summer. My lovely flower garden became a coleslaw. But miraculously, not my car. The neighbor's car was full of bumps afterwards.
I'd nuke the system tomorrow
From orbit.
It's the only way to be sure.
Sufferin': dialysis is a great example. The Feds pay for it, so nobody dies of chronic renal failure for lack of it. Expensive; many dialysis centers run for profit by nephrologists generally doing good work with a difficult population. But note that the feds don't cover care for diabetes, which, when poorly managed, causes most renal failure.
I only go to Tweak Bros. Coffee.
Wombat for Dictator.
I think he'd make a good philosopher king.
History of American Nazis starting on the History Channel.
I suppose if the shoe were on the other foot that the Barack Obama people would be doing all that the Clinton people have done as well?
Or no?
Yeah, I guess the hail trashes plants. Sorry.
Yeah, Wombat for Dictator. I'd sign up for your campaign.
Isn't drinking Dunkin' Donuts coffee a form of torture?
Maybe. In my misspent youth, I liked going into a Dunkin Donuts for a box of Munchkins and end up feeling my eyes start to melt due to the coffee on the back pots.
stop insulting HRC supporters. stop insulting HRC supporters. ~ mrs. ibrahim al-jafaari
.............
[pulls down pants and shits on photo of Hillary Clinton] ~ Stunt Woman
Ahem. That's a bit salty, no?
Steve Gilliard used to talk of 'Charbuck's'.
Miss him.
I like the coffee at Le Pain Quotidien.
There's some other bay area coffee chain that just opened here. I cannot remember the name of it, but the GC said it's big the bay area.
I know Caffe Trieste is expanding... aside from that, I'm stumped.
I guess the thing about coffee is, there's a hundred small independent shops all over the place that make it as good, if not better, than a chain (including Peet's) and are also locally owned. Unless you're really stuck (like in an airport or something), there's no reason not to at least try 'em!
the feds don't cover care for diabetes, which, when poorly managed, causes most renal failure.
Since when does our health care system prefer an ounce of prevention to a ton of cure?
When they get to grapefruit-sized, it's like God dropping bowling balls on everything.
I've been hit by golf ball sized hail. That smarts.
"Charbucks" is a good name. Stuff always tastes burned to me.
thanks, all
Yeah, I guess the hail trashes plants. Sorry.
Don't be sorry - it's God's Roundup™.
History of American Nazis starting on the History Channel.
Toonscribe
They are doing a profile of Bush's grandfather Prescott Bush?
Just once in my life I would like to see large hail.
res ipsa loquitur
Been there, done that. No you don't.
Once I was in the Lincoln Tunnel and when I came out on the Joisey side it had hailed and all the cars had dents in their hoods. I missed the whole damn thing.
We had 2 big hail storms here on the same day in April a year apart.. for a while you'd see hail damaged cars every day.
I only go to Tweak Bros. Coffee.
Mr. Tweak: "for that smooth roasted fine coffee flavor"
Tweak: "gak!"
Yeah, I guess the hail trashes plants. Sorry.
Don't be sorry - it's God's Roundup™.
The garden recovered in a few weeks. The hail did look like white golf balls.
Yeah, I guess the hail trashes plants. Sorry.
I have not seen it but I suspect that grapefruit size hail probably trashes everything that is not solid wood or better.
Been there, done that. No you don't.
yeah once it starts getting bigger than quarter sized it stops being fun.
I'll ask him when I talk to him, dave. He's out there now.
The garden recovered in a few weeks. The hail did look like white golf balls.
How did the snakes handle it?
They are doing a profile of Bush's grandfather Prescott Bush?
Don't think they'll mention him since IIRC, he never joined the Party. The folks they are talking about are kinda scary though.
Hey, res - could it be Spinelli's?
How did the snakes handle it?
Ladders
Sufferin': prevention isn't where the Big Bucks are. A primary doc managing a hypertensive diabetic out of an office in a poor town, or a gynecologist doing prenatal care, doesn't have nearly the cash flow of an invasive cardiologist placing stents, or a nephrologist doing dialysis, or a dermatologist injecting Botox. And if it's all about the Big Bucks, well, what you see is what you get.
I think he'd make a good philosopher king.
Only if he established some form of representative government then abdicated.
terrific, a cspan caller referred to the disenfranchised voters in Florida and Missouri.
Standing ovation for Conyers.
camelot, Go Pens |
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Why? Conyers has not done anything, but makeing threats.
No, it wasn't Spinellis.
I could be imagining the latino-sounding name thing. I just we walked by it and he said, "Hey! This is a Berkeley thing!"
Oh hell, maybe I'm imagining that, too. Maybe I imagined him, for that matter.
Ladders
[wipes cheap chablis off computer screen]
Sufferin': prevention isn't where the Big Bucks are. A primary doc managing a hypertensive diabetic out of an office in a poor town, or a gynecologist doing prenatal care, doesn't have nearly the cash flow of an invasive cardiologist placing stents, or a nephrologist doing dialysis, or a dermatologist injecting Botox. And if it's all about the Big Bucks, well, what you see is what you get.
Certainly. Also, payment tends not to go to those who spend just time with the patient. To get money you need to prescribe stuff.
But I think part of this bias is also due to our focus on the end-stages and extreme illness in general.
I've been hit by golf ball sized hail. That smarts.
billy b |
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That explains everything!
Sufferin': prevention isn't where the Big Bucks are. A primary doc managing a hypertensive diabetic out of an office in a poor town, or a gynecologist doing prenatal care, doesn't have nearly the cash flow of an invasive cardiologist placing stents, or a nephrologist doing dialysis, or a dermatologist injecting Botox. And if it's all about the Big Bucks, well, what you see is what you get.
ProfWombat
The primary care docs have noticed and where the patients are rich enough are going for yearly retainers. Google mdvip.
Only if he established some form of representative government then abdicated.
yeah, but he's the type to do that, right? He'd kind of get everyone to get with the "nice and smart" program (vs. the "mean and dumb" program we've been living with) and then be on his way.
I get it about the costs & the bucks needed to treat conditions and pay back student loans, I just don't comprehend how ins co's can consciously, openly screw one and all and make us still pay them. And how come this egregious meanness isn't getting scrutiny, ridicule, boycott, shaming---hell, SOMETHING, to make it stop.
In Berkeley, there's Freight and Salvage as well as Brewed Awakenings.
Also the Tully's chain.
I honestly don't know what the hell I am talking about with that coffee place.
Once I was in the Lincoln Tunnel and when I came out on the Joisey side it had hailed and all the cars had dents in their hoods. I missed the whole damn thing.
That can happen with just golf ball-sized hail, these days. Automotive sheet metal is pretty thin.
In west Texas, where the hail can get to grapefruit dimensions, they beat up cars so badly that the insurance companies just write a check and off it goes for parts. Beats the hell out of roof shingles, roof sheathing, etc., and if the wind's strong enough, windows, too.
Hail you say? Well the Hail I say.
http://youtube.com/watch?
v=wZr8j...feature=related
Anyone who wants to come up here and mow the lawn, the opportunity is there for you!
I get it about the costs & the bucks needed to treat conditions and pay back student loans
i'm all for student load forgiveness and/or public scholarships for Docs as part of comprehensive health care reform.
yeah, but he's the type to do that, right?
Not a lot of historical precedent for anyone doing that.
But I think part of this bias is also due to our focus on the end-stages and extreme illness in general.
what would be cool would be to find the etiology and cure for this
shawk,
Was it good?
Only if he established some form of representative government then abdicated.
Essentially what Juan Carlos did when Franco handed Spain over to him.
s it is, Obama's tracking with the populist undercurrent by saying,
"not only change the players, change the game." So far, his actions
have been more in line with his words and that's why he's ahead, that's
why his message seems almost spiritual - it is precisely the spirit of
the fight.
I'm pretty sure I must have heard more arrant nonsense over the years, but I'm not sure where. Presumably it's because I am old, white, a racist, inflexible and female.
By the way, appealing to a large number of people is not the definition of populism. And Obama is about as much of a populist as, oh, Margaret Thatcher.
Given all of the Obama gaffes and conflations of history and facts -this is not a road that will get Obama anywhere. McCain is not Clinton. Big media hated Senator Clinton but the love McCain.
Well, if something costs a lot then it must be good, right?
Like keeping a poor person in jail costs more than giving them a decent upbringing and a good education, so jail is good.
Like invading and occupying Iraq costs more than sending a dozen Green Berets into a cave in Waziristan, so that must be good, too.
Heh.
Berkeley? Caffe Mediterranean?
I remember a SF chain called Pasqua that brewed up some good mud. They used to have outlets in NY, but it was watery crap compared to the SF Pasqua.
Hail you say? Well the Hail I say.
I was expecting Chuck Berry - Hail! Hail! Rock & Roll!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/
20080...l_qaida_s_women
Damn. That hail doesn't even look as big as golf balls. It's loud!
shawk,
Was it good?
res ipsa loquitur
Yes, very.
And it had perfect onion rings.
The giant hail is bad, but you really don't want to be out when the frogs start coming down. Save me!
Damn. That's crazy. It IS as big as golf balls -- bigger.
yeah once it starts getting bigger than quarter sized it stops being fun.
The Old Man From Scene 24
A friend of mine got caught on an overpass in Wichita about 10-15 years, some poor guy in an open jeep just ran down the row grabbing car doors until he found shelter. My friends car looked like somebody had taken a good sized hammer to it. That green sky really gives a sick feeling.
I remember a SF chain called Pasqua...
Wow, I haven't heard that name in years! I vaguely remember them... think I worked near one.
shawk,
Maybe I could meet you there on Monday or Tuesday. I've probably walked by that place one hundred times and never noticed it.
conflations of history and facts
I'm having a bit of a problem with this...
Can anyone help me out?
Anyone??
Damn. That's crazy. It IS as big as golf balls -- bigger.
yikes....be careful
yeah, but he's the type to do that, right?
Not a lot of historical precedent for anyone doing that.
If you like you can become Dictator of My Lawn, and ruthlessly mow down all opposition to your plans for lawnal domination.
__league: There's good things and bad about 'concierge medicine', most of which mirror the fact that there are good things about being rich. A damned shame, of course, if you haven't got the money. We accept two-tier (or more) life elsewhere, as a fact of economics. That we accept it, increasingly, for health care speaks to yet another compromise of the social contract. A damned shame, and exactly the wrong direction for the system to be heading.
Echidne: entirely correct, of course. Public health measures, often mundane and unexciting, aren't nearly as aggressively pushed as, say, chemotherapy of diminishing utility for metastatic cancer. A similar phenomenon can be seen in energy use patterns, where routine, unsophisticated conservation measures remain the low-hanging fruit.
No, it wasn't Pasqua. I'm gonna text him ...
Can anyone help me out?
Just ignore the Obama-haters & trolls.
It IS as big as golf balls -- bigger.
Have I left the webcam on... ? Sorry...
That explains everything!
SOIT is the dimmest of the dim bulbs that post here.
Hail you say? Well the Hail I say.
I was expecting Chuck Berry - Hail! Hail! Rock & Roll!
JeffCO | 05.31.08 - 3:18 pm | #
Naw that would have been this http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=j...feature=related
Presumably it's because I am old, white, a racist, inflexible and female.
for the love of all things Atriot, please do not put words in my mouth, umkay?
maybe you missed the part about ConLaw, policy and populism, too. I'm sorry, the part of the comment you left off was directed at HRC's opportunity to connect with populism, but how her game is quite so tired and old school.
Spirit of the law finds its way into the law, hence, policy.
apologies if you lost the thread of logic there, but I stand by it, and so do the masses, apparently.
If you like you can become Dictator of My Lawn, and ruthlessly mow down all opposition to your plans for lawnal domination.
Thers
Didn't it just rain there? The blades are gonna get all eff-ed up.
ProfWombat.
I am now looking (again) for primary care after the last two both went that way. I think the final thing that ensured we were going to go with it was the clause in the contract that stated they could boot you out at the start of any year. In other words if I became diabetic or had some other condition that required a lot of care, then ....
Didn't it just rain there? The blades are gonna get all eff-ed up.
You show insufficient Will to Mower.
Yeah, I guess the hail trashes plants. Sorry.
res ipsa loquitur | Homepage | 05.31.08 - 3:06 pm
And cars, trucks, roofs, and siding.
My sister and her husband got new siding after a particularly nasty hailstorm in suburban Chicago a few years back.
Didn't it just rain there?
Not seriously, alas...
Public health measures, often mundane and unexciting, aren't nearly as aggressively pushed as, say, chemotherapy of diminishing utility for metastatic cancer
Egg-zackly. How do we prevent outbreaks of cholera? By giving everyone cholera shots every few months, or by such socialist measures as water purification and sewage treatment?
I'd walk the two blocks to Peet's (which, btw, had a line out the door until 11 am or so).
My biggest gripe with Peet's is their adoption of the Starbuck's model of serving stupidass "diet soy decaf lattes" and other crap.
If you can't drink lattes, then drink fucking black coffee.
It's the yuppie options that make the lines so frigging long.
shawk,
Maybe I could meet you there on Monday or Tuesday. res ipsa loquitur
Sure, my big consultig gig here seems to be answering one question a day.
{{{ProfWombat}}}
I hope you and Mrs. Dr. Wombat enjoyed the tango last night.
If you don't mind, may I borrow your shoulder--tears seem to be leaking out in weird places these days.
Didn't it just rain there?
Not seriously, alas...
Cats n' dawgs here for awhile...
apologies if you lost the thread of logic there, but I stand by it, and so do the ma--
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...
It's the yuppie options that make the lines so frigging long. Stunt Woman
Goddam your lactose intolerance intolerance!
My latest health care adventure in crazy is the Ins co's determination that the Only Hospital in this 150,000 population city is Not under contract with thim. However, they helpfully pointed out, there is a town 15-20 miles away, pop about 2000, that has a hospital w/contract. Huh?
So I'm going to be looking for new coverage here pdq.
You show insufficient Will to Mower.
Indeed.
Sufferin, you'd think water purification would be so much more cost effective.
But it's public,so no profit to be made.
sallyh: anytime, sweet thing...
The music was great. Bernardo Monk Tango Quintet. They tour; if they show up ya gotta see 'em. They talk to each other with their instruments the way they traded quips at the Algonquin...
apologies if you lost the thread of logic there, but I stand by it, and so do the masses, apparently.
Show Trial
The masses??????????? he barely has more delegates and not enough to win.
If I am a hypocrite and spout clueless drivel
"diet soy decaf lattes"
Gee, my favorite! Goes well with Bosco!
ProfWombat: I'd like to be your Massachussetts Chairwoman when you run for Dictator. When you get elected could I have DSS?
I see the "spout inanity, rotate nyms" trollie persona is here.
my new lawn is approximately 150 square feet of concrete
it's perfect
Pretty good and local SF coffee Martha and Bros.
Naptime! I think crawling under the bureau would be nice.
Goes well with Bosco!
I swear I haven't thought of Bosco since about 1963.
I can haz Culture Ministry in the Wombatian Reich?
Pleez?
actually more like 75 sq. ft
Sconset, The Esteemed Marsupial plans to end the war, implement universal health care, increase funding for education, regulate utilities, and put worker's rights back in place.
And that takes care of the first 24 hours of his Overlordship.
House is clean, laundry is in the dryer.
Settling down to watch "Judgment At Nuremberg" on On Demand.
Hell, I stand on my promise to staff my administration with folk from here. Imagine, say, someone actually knowing some history like GWPDA as national security advisor. Though the notion of NTodd as Secretary of State might be counterintuitive to some...
my new lawn is approximately 150 square feet of concrete
it's perfect
Atrios | 05.31.08 - 3:30 pm | #
Painted green?
my new lawn is approximately 150 square feet of concrete it's perfect
What, no artificial turf?
Sconset, The Esteemed Marsupial plans to end the war, implement universal health care, increase funding for education, regulate utilities, and put worker's rights back in place.
And that takes care of the first 24 hours of his Overlordship.
Then the real trouble begins: Everyone must have pouches.
I got stuck in a nasty hailstorm once. I lived in the mountains on a steep street, and somehow the pine needles and debris from a thunderstorm had directed all the rain in town to flow in a torrent into my backyard. I had to go out and shovel the stuff out of the way, then the hail (golf ball I think) started coming down. I couldn't stop what I was doing even though it felt like I was getting bashed over the head with hundreds of tiny hammers.
my new lawn is approximately 150 square feet of concrete
Paint it green!
Sconset, The Esteemed Marsupial plans to end the war, implement universal health care, increase funding for education, regulate utilities, and put worker's rights back in place.
But what about Poland?
We must never forget Poland.
I can haz Culture Ministry in the Wombatian Reich?
Pleez?
I wish to chair the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Ooops - diet soy Coke to dmark...
I might be ab Obama supporter
You might also be a candidate for Hooked on Phonics.
I swear I haven't thought of Bosco since about 1963.
I can remember commercials for it on the fucking Howdy Doody Show in 1956.
"I love Bosco!
Bosco's good for me!" usw...
Sconset, The Esteemed Marsupial plans to end the war, implement universal health care, increase funding for education, regulate utilities, and put worker's rights back in place.
And that takes care of the first 24 hours of his Overlordship.
Sallyh, Grandmere Poissonniere | 05.31.08 - 3:31 pm | #
Can I be Amb. to New Zealand under this dictatorship?
Hell, I stand on my promise to staff my administration with folk from here.
Dibs on Secretary of Keepin' It Real!
ProfWombat, I think the choice of NTodd for Sec. of State is a good one. Despite his rambunctious nature, I think he could negotiate and everyone would walk away thinking they got a good deal.
I don't care about the capacity crowds...
something coming down out of the clouds...
what is the matter with MaureenDowd...
only SuperDelagate allowed...
hey whatever, I'm with the ones who will vote for the Nominee, either one.
USSC & what about the children and all --
"I love Bosco!
Bosco's good for me!" usw...
Sufferin' Blessed Succotash | 05.31.08 - 3:32 pm | #
Color me skeptical that Bosco was ever good for anyone.
I couldn't stop what I was doing even though it felt like I was getting bashed over the head with hundreds of tiny hammers.
Helpful household tip: motorcycle helmet.
No, seriously.
Can I preside over the Parks Department?
Gromit, I want to fire all the Bush appointed section heads at the NIH and replace them with real scientists. And we'd have a real budget for basic research to work with!
Helpful household tip: motorcycle helmet.
Wish I had one handy!
Cover it with this, Atrios.
I think he could negotiate and everyone would walk away thinking they got a good deal.
When he walks away people will think they got a good deal.
Color me skeptical that Bosco was ever good for anyone.
abyssgazer
Typical DFH attitude. You probably didn't like Chef Boyardee Spaghetti and Meatballs, either.
Helpful household tip: motorcycle helmet.
Wish I had one handy!
A mixing bowl works, too.
Pretty good and local SF coffee Martha and Bros.
I like Royal Grounds... there's one across the street from where my lovely wife works and they've got free wi-fi.
The SF Kronk just did a piece on underground coffee roasters, so I guess that's the new big thang...
my new lawn is approximately 150 square feet of concrete
it's perfect
Atrios
Paint it green.
I want to be Social Secretary.
my new lawn is approximately 150 square feet of concrete; it's perfect
Wish I had that.
Lawn care is teh suck!
Gromit, I want to fire all the Bush appointed section heads at the NIH and replace them with real scientists. And we'd have a real budget for basic research to work with
Yay!
Echidne, only female marsupials have pouches. While the Wombat appreciates a well turned pouch, I'm sure he'd grant full equality for those not so equipped.
hey whatever, I'm with the ones who will vote for the Nominee, either one.
USSC & what about the children and all --
too bad a lot of the hard core Clintonite crowd are going to take their ball and go home, even it does mean that McSame will make the SCOTUS appointment that will result in Roe v Wade being overturned.
Color me skeptical that Bosco was ever good for anyone.
Hey now - Phil Bosco's a hell of a guy!
Cover it with this, Atrios.
"Pleasantly scratchy...."
Huh?
When he walks away people will think they got a good deal.
Some people brighten up a room by entering it, some by leaving it.
Forgot who said that, probably Oscar Wilde.
Color me skeptical that Bosco was ever good for anyone.
abyssgazer
Two words:
Zarex
Fizzies
Damn I knew that was low hanging fruit.
I'll take Ambassabor of Love, please.
Gromit, we do need someone at the FDA to do some actual regulation. I'd rather have the NIH appointment, though.
A mixing bowl works, too.
Echidne
Tied on with a polka dot scarf? Can I see the pictures please?!
While the Wombat appreciates a well turned pouch, I'm sure he'd grant full equality for those not so equipped.
I remain sceptical.
I want to fire all the Bush appointed section heads at the NIH and replace them with real scientists.
It's going to be a real headache getting rid of all those people. The appointees, sure; the higher level managers even. But I'll bet over the years they managed to get a lot of their own people down in the middle level where it won't be so easy to fire them.
too bad a lot of the hard core Clintonite crowd are going to take their ball and go home, even it does mean that McSame will make the SCOTUS appointment that will result in Roe v Wade being overturned.
With respect, I think that's 100% pure grade balonium.
I would like to be Director of the Federal Bureau of Zeppelin.
Tied on with a polka dot scarf? Can I see the pictures please?!
No! It looks a bit Third Reichish but it works.
"too bad a lot of the hard core Clintonite crowd are going to take their ball and go home"
I don't believe that.
Sally: Touche to your comment to Gromit. I have had a rethink: I really would like to work on Truth and Reconcilliation. I don't want to be Secy. of the agency, I'll settle on the one that searches for and locates all of Chimpy's appointees--every last one of them who came to govt. since 2000 and I would toss them out on their bottoms.
I wouldn't rest until I fired each and everyone of them. They would be off that gravy train so fast their heads would spin.
Anyhoo, I gotta go pick up my precious life-giving Zoloft.
Bientot.
Lawn care is teh suck!
Terry C - Overeducated Liberal
When your not trying to promote its growth, you're trying to get rid of it. It drives you crazy.
Tied on with a polka dot scarf?
Ahhhhh!!! The Rachel Ray effect.
stop insulting HRC supporters. stop insulting HRC supporters.
as I have been so clearly told, any critique of their madness is an insult. they just want the process to play out. if they destroy the nominees chances in the fall is less important than the perceived insult to their sense of fair play for HRC.
mrs. ibrahim al-jafaari
Oh, brother.
Wish I had that.
Lawn care is teh suck!
Terry C - Overeducated Liberal
If there are trees anywhere near you can probably find seedlings in your lawn. Mow around them for a few years and you have not quite instant forest. Probably not good for the front lawn, but out back if you don't use the lawn for anything then why not. Is a carbon sink.
But I'll bet over the years they managed to get a lot of their own people down in the middle level where it won't be so easy to fire them.
abyssgazer
I am very concerned about this.
With respect, I think that's 100% pure grade balonium.
i hope so, but read some of the comments at the hard core Obama hating sites and I just don't see those people voting for him.
Terry C, I don't either. Maybe a few WATBs, but overall, I think Dems will get behind the nominee. It's that or more of what we have no, and unless you're part of the inner circle, it's not working for you.
Typical DFH attitude. You probably didn't like Chef Boyardee Spaghetti and Meatballs, either.
Sufferin' Blessed Succotash | 05.31.08 - 3:36 pm | #
Yes, I liked those Franco-American Spaghettios.
Gromit, I want to fire all the Bush appointed section heads at the NIH and replace them with real scientists. And we'd have a real budget for basic research to work with!
Here here!!!!!
I think it's yet another sign that McCain's advancing age has made his mind less tractable.
actually more like 75 sq. ft
McCain: Math is hard, and it is long.
my new lawn is approximately 150 square feet of concrete
You must have a fuck of a time keeping the lawnmower blades sharp.
I don't think McCain had a full complement of marbles to begin with.
too bad a lot of the hard core Clintonite crowd
Like they're really going to vote for a dude who's so anti women.
I don't think McCain had a full complement of marbles to begin with.
MP
Me neither.
================================Like they're really going to vote for a dude who's so anti women.
footloose
Exactly.
mrs. ibrahim al-jafaari
Sorry about the Gators loss. But FSU was blanked by Bucknell, 7-0.
abyssgazer, it took my younger sister, a prof at University of Florida, two years and 21 miles of paper to get rid of a lower level civil service employee who was beyond incompetent. But she did prevail.
Yes, stubbornness runs in my family. Why do you ask?
Is there a Firefox plug-in that will auto refresh haloscan comment boxes?
The nice thing about people posting bullshit from people I've killfiled is, it always validates my decision.
too bad a lot of the hard core Clintonite crowd
Blawgland goes wild!
i hope so, but read some of the comments at the hard core Obama hating sites and I just don't see those people voting for him.
A similar sentiment about Hillary has been expressed here from time to time. But I just can't see many actual Dems who wouldn't vote for either of them in November.
But I'll bet over the years they managed to get a lot of their own people down in the middle level where it won't be so easy to fire them.
abyssgazer
I am very concerned about this.
Gromit | Homepage | 05.31.08 - 3:40 pm | #
G -- thing is, most of them are really chameleons. let's hope changing the initial impulse/environs means persuading them to get on board.
the issue of competence though...
My first plan, once I have real section heads, is to eliminate the Snowflake Embryo program and open full federal funding for stem cell research.
Gromit, I want to fire all the Bush appointed section heads at the NIH and replace them with real scientists. And we'd have a real budget for basic research to work with!
PARTISAN WITCH-HUNT! PARTISAN WITCH-HUNT!
Like they're really going to vote for a dude who's so anti women.
And they've convince themselves Obama is anti-woman. Just look at how often legitimate criticism of the Clinton campaign is characterized as being based in misogyny...
CAIRO, Egypt - Muslim extremist women are challenging al-Qaida's refusal to include — or at least acknowledge — women in its ranks, in an emotional debate that gives rare insight into the gender conflicts lurking beneath one of the strictest strains of Islam.
In response to a female questioner, al-Qaida No. 2 leader Ayman Al-Zawahri said in April that the terrorist group does not have women. A woman's role, he said on the Internet audio recording, is limited to caring for the homes and children of al-Qaida fighters.
His remarks have since prompted an outcry from fundamentalist women, who are fighting or pleading for the right to be terrorists.
The Onion Couldn't Even Write This
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/
20080...l_qaida_s_women
Department of Peace, muthafuckers!
Oooh, thunder. Guess I can't cut the grass now.
The nice thing about people posting bullshit from people I've killfiled is, it always validates my decision. dave™©
Well how else would I get my message to you?
[pulls down pants and shits on photo of Hillary Clinton] ~ Stunt Woman
Ahem. That's a bit salty, no?
mojo
It's a bit much, yes.
G -- thing is, most of them are really chameleons. let's hope changing the initial impulse/environs means persuading them to get on board.
the issue of competence though...
I hope so, but remain skeptical. Also skeptical of their competence level.
The nice thing about people posting bullshit from people I've killfiled is, it always validates my decision.
but you read it anyway you fucking moron.
Thers, until I got a gardener, my goal was to kill my lawn.
I finally told Monsieur, hire someone or pour concrete over it.
A woman's role, he said on the Internet audio recording, is limited to caring for the homes and children of al-Qaida fighters.
They have so much in common with our Xian fundies, it's pathetic.
The only bright spot: Chimpco insisted that employees of DHS not have the usual civil service protections. Of course that was purely ideological, but it's going to make it easier to get rid of those people (most of whom were literally hired right off the street).
My first plan, once I have real section heads, is to eliminate the Snowflake Embryo program
They keep them in one of those globe things you shake up.
Oooh, thunder. Guess I can't cut the grass now.
Thers
Congratulations!
Well how else would I get my message to you?
In a bottle?
And they've convince themselves Obama is anti-woman.
Er. no.
Oooh, thunder. Guess I can't cut the grass now.
Thers
There were thunderstorms predicted for the entire day here so we took the car instead of bikes to the farmers' market this morning.
No real rain to speak of yet.
Dr Mrs Gromit's 10:11 flight outta Burlington has departed the gate and returned twice. Rescheduled for 3:30, but it's still sitting there.
Oooh, thunder. Guess I can't cut the grass now.
Take the lawnmower outside, and tempt the fates.
pulls down pants and shits on photo of Hillary Clinton
Impressive display of two-year-old behavior. You are a superstar!
Do you think Jonah Goldberg looks at all the dopey photoshops of it him at Sadly, No!
[pulls down pants and shits on photo of Hillary Clinton] ~ Stunt Woman
Ahem. That's a bit salty, no?
mojo
It's a bit much, yes.
Waste of good shit, I say. There are others much more deserving....
NBC Derangement Syndrome
http://www.crooksandliars.com/20...ement-syndrome/
Obviously, He Who Must Not Be Named has gotten under Billo’s incredibly thin skin. But rather than call him out directly, O’Reilly opts to declare a jihad against the whole of the NBC News Department.
O’REILLY: If FOXNews ever did what NBC News is doing. In 12 years, FOXNews has never told me what to say, how to say it, and never allowed any org…any of us…any of us! to go in the tank and attack one candidate and give the other a pass.
but you read it anyway you fucking moron.
I finally told Monsieur, hire someone or pour concrete over it.
I'm going to let a lot of trees etc. grow over much of it.
You must have a fuck of a time keeping the lawnmower blades sharp.
Thers
Not that you're bitter or anything.
legitimate criticism of the Clinton campaign is characterized as being based in misogyny...
The GOP message that women are not to be trusted with their genitalia is misogynist. Dismissing a female reporter with "Sweetie" is sexist. I also don't see any Hillary supporters confusing the two or predicting Obama would implement policies harmful to women.
The amount of religious sectarian bullshit in this country is depressing, even if it is in our genes (jeans?)
Gromit, I feel for Mrs. Dr. Gromit.
Hope she's got a laptop to keep herself amused. Or working, if all else fails.
I finally told Monsieur, hire someone or pour concrete over it.
Sallyh, Grandmere Poissonniere | 05.31.08 - 3:46 pm |
I'm tearing up the grass and planting more and more plants, leaving just enough grass for a picnic blanket and a headstand*.
*I have to think of the children!
Ooooh, and here comes the rain again...
sheets
Oooh, thunder. Guess I can't cut the grass now.
Thers
That usually makes me go twice as fast. I was going to say it usually lights a fire under my...doesn't sound good.
Warren, what the fundoids have not realized is that biology is not destiny.
(With apologies to Freud)
Gromit: What is the problem in Burlington today? I did hear this am that you might get a rain storm when the front finally moves through but that wasn't supposed to happen until late this afternoon.
Here it has been overcast all day. I wish it would rain--in fact, I wish it would pour because we really need it--it is very dry--also, my allergies need a rest.
Cool.
John McCain...or a righteous mind is a terrible thing to waste.
And the signs of a righteous mind are when a person cannot admit to making mistakes, making that person somewhat inhuman, because it is said, "to err is human."
Thus, someone with a righteous mind is stubborn, unyielding, blindly certain that they are right, uncompromising, unable to admit that they've made any errors, secretive and prone to either denying or hiding the mistakes that all humans do make in one manner or another. In other words, the righteous mindset is found more often than not in a conservative.
Plus, the idea that a righteous-minded person can, at the same time, be compassionate, is ludicrous. First, compassion requires empathy, and righteous-minded folks often find it very difficult to have empathy. (They are "superior" in their righteous, while everyone else is "inferior). Second, compassion requires unconditional forgiveness and acceptance, which righteous-minded folks also have a hard time with, since they believe that forgiveness must be earned before any acceptance is possible. (Thus, the righteous-minded establish their insulated "superiority" enclaves, separated from those they've judged to be "inferior" and worthy of contempt, as they tend to view everyone beneath their "superior" position in life).
So, how do the three candidates for president fare on the compassion-omometer?
Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton strike me as both being compassionate individuals, with Obama edging out Clinton slightly, thus making both of them excellent presidential material, since they'd tend to represent all U.S. citizens and not just the corporatist elitist class.
John McCain falls short and he has already shown that he's willing to side with the corporatist elitist class, over ordinary, blue-collar Americans, by having so many corporate lobbyists as part of his campaign.
And yet, Obama, Clinton and McCain are far, far superior to the utter lack of compassion that we've seen in the Bush and Cheney administration over the past seven and a half years. These righteous-minded conservative Republicans in the executive branch, along with their sycophantic Republican pals in Congress as well as those in our nation's corporatist elitist class, have proven over and over again that they care less for the well-being of our country and all U.S. citizens than they do for partisan political gain and profit grabbing, at the expense of everyone else. Compassionate? Hardly. Righteous-minded buffoons? Definitely. Patriotic U.S. citizens? Some of these "righteous," "superior" Republicans delude themselves into thinking they are, even as they've done so much damage to our democracy, while driving so many U.S. families into poverty.
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