I'MMA LET YOU FINISH

GravatarMaybe the protester referenced in the earlier thread meant "MOBA."

http://www.museumofbadart.org/


GravatarLooking for Cheney's undisclosed location?


GravatarCheney is "temporarily" in charge.

What a fucking joke. What a fucking bought-and-sold country.


GravatarOmoigawd! 5 polyps in Shrub! What can it mean?


GravatarLooking for Cheney's undisclosed location?

Not me.


GravatarThey're looking for his brain ... it will take a while.


GravatarMSNBC assures us Chimpy is back in charge.


GravatarWell, at least Jeff Gannon will get his class ring back.


GravatarA colonoscopy is fairly common diagnostic procedure that those of us with health insurance are encouraged to get at some point in our lives.

Anyone else can go to an emergency room.


GravatarI was hoping we could live-blog the colonoscopy... like Katie Couric's.


GravatarWell, at least it distracts them from the Al Gore ate an endangered species story....


GravatarWell, at least Jeff Gannon will get his class ring back.
Seingalt


No, you dint.


GravatarWell, at least Jeff Gannon will get his class ring back.

"Hey, Laura!  Found your cigarette case!"


GravatarWell, at least Jeff Gannon will get his class ring back.
Seingalt | 07.21.07 - 10:44 am | #




*applauds*


GravatarI hear they found a cancerous growth. His head.


GravatarThe comments are getting very uncouth and lack comity.


Gravatardead threaded
See, another guy gets "it" from TPM, "Now, the administration hasn't responded to this report yet, but I'm going to go out on a limb and guess the spin: an increase in attacks is good news because it shows the enemy lashing out in desperation. We've got 'em on the run.

Of course, if the number of attacks had dropped considerably this, too, would be good news, because it would be proof that the administration's policies were having a positive effect.

And of the number of attacks had stayed the same, this would also be good news, because a leveling off would reflect a "cooling" period, harkening a new period of stability after growing tensions throughout 2007.

That's the fun thing about listening to the White House -- the president's policy always right, facts be damned.

--Steve Benen"

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com


GravatarWell, at least Jeff Gannon will get his class ring back.

"Hey, Laura! Found your cigarette case!"


Where's bebe rebozo?


Gravatarlack comity

I dunno, I thought the class ring thing was pretty funny.


Gravatarlack comity

I dunno, I thought the class ring thing was pretty funny.
pixie


Not comedy, comity!


GravatarG tBu H:

"I cannot look a mother and father of a troop in the eye and say, 'I'm sending your kid into combat, but I don't think we can achieve the objective.' "—Washington, D.C., July 12, 2007


GravatarCNN, if they did find something really wrong with the Chimp, they wouldn't tell you anyway. Remember how they hid Lincoln's bullet wound with his hat?


GravatarHis brain might be mistaken for a polyp and removed by mistake.


GravatarA repeat because I got dead-threaded:
There's a great article by Tony Karon of TIME.com, over at TomDispatch.
Yes, Bush Is Naked, What of It?
On the Middle East Catwalk with the Bush Administration


GravatarA colonoscopy is fairly common diagnostic procedure that those of us with health insurance are encouraged to get at some point in our lives.

Actually, men over fifty are encouraged to get them on a regular basis.



You'll see.
.


GravatarA colonoscopy is fairly common diagnostic procedure that those of us with health insurance are encouraged to get at some point in our lives.

Those without insurance, go to the ER and request a colonoscopy. Tell 'em George sent you, they'll roll out the red carpet for you.

http://www.prospect.org/csnc/ blo..._name=post_4199


GravatarWhere's bebe rebozo?

The last time Bob has a colonoscopy, they took enough gerbil fur out of his ass to make me a very nice merkin. And a gerbil merkin is to die for.
-Liddy Dole


GravatarHis brain might be mistaken for a polyp and removed by mistake.

And this would be different from daily life how, exactly?


GravatarA colonoscopy is fairly common diagnostic procedure that those of us with health insurance are encouraged to get at some point in our lives.

I think we can guess what the White House's "Friday Night Dump" consisted of this week.


GravatarI wonder if Chimpy already has nicknames for the polyps.


GravatarI've had my fill of Bush's colon.


Wait...that didn't come out right....


GravatarCNN is just worried they won't find Joe Lieberman in time for the Sunday Bobblehead shows.


Gravatar"they took enough gerbil fur out of his ass to make me a very nice merkin."

merkin patriot is made of fur? who knew?


GravatarAnd this would be different from daily life how, exactly?

A.k.a "the Preznit's brain is missing."


GravatarWhen will we find out what horrible things Cheney did while in charge?


GravatarI've had my fill of Bush's colon.

That's Gannon/Guckert's line.


GravatarHe's a perfect asshole.
But we already knew that.


GravatarI hope Bush is under local anaesthesia.

Wouldn't you love to see the look on his face if, after inserting the probe, his doctor said:

"Nope, no WMD in here. Heh heh."


GravatarLemmiewinks!!


GravatarCNN is just worried they won't find Joe Lieberman in time for the Sunday Bobblehead shows.

He keeps smiling for the colonoscopy camera.


GravatarThey totally covered up how close to death Reagan was.

For the good of the country.

One more inch and we would have George Bush as presnit since 1981.



Note to the kids: not the evil incompetent one, the mendacious stumblebum.


Gravatar<i>, they took enough gerbil fur out of his ass to make Mitt Romney a very nice merkin.</I>

Edited.


GravatarThe last time Bob has a colonoscopy, they took enough gerbil fur out of his ass to make me a very nice merkin. And a gerbil merkin is to die for.
-Liddy Dole


I didn't realize that "merkin" is an actual word as opposed to a corruption of "American".

The things one learns here.

merkin
"female pudenda," 1535, apparently a variant of malkin (q.v.) in its sense of "mop." Meaning "artificial vagina or 'counterfeit hair for a woman's privy parts' " is attested from 1617. According to "The Oxford Companion to the Body," the custom of wearing merkins dates from c.1450, was associated with prostitutes, and was to disguise either pubic hair shaved off to exterminate body lice or evidence of venereal disease.

Merkin

Malkin.

heh.....


GravatarMaybe they'll find his head.


GravatarOn the good side, Bush isn't acting as president right now. Unfortutnately, the evil entity acting in the capacity is far worse.


GravatarThey totally covered up how close to death Reagan was.

And that was true for his entire Preznitcy.


GravatarI've had my fill of Bush's colon.


Wait...that didn't come out right....
Uncle Smokes | Homepage | 07.21.07 - 10:51 am | #


You're going to hell, young man.


GravatarOn the good side, Bush isn't acting as president right now.
Unfortutnately, the evil entity acting in the capacity is far worse.


And this makes today different how, exactly?


GravatarJoel Siegel said he asked his doc, tell me the truth, if I had had a colonscopy earlier, could all this have been prevented.

And the doc said, yep.


GravatarMerkin

Malkin.

heh.....
billy b - get your wings | 07.21.07 - 10:53 am | #



Too funny! You can't make this shit up!


GravatarThey totally covered up how close to death Reagan was.


When Bob was running for president, he fell off a stage when a gerbil shot out of his butt. We covered it up and retired the gerbil to play Fred Thompson in a rodent version of Law & Order.
-Liddy Dole


GravatarYou're going to hell, young man.

steve simels


It's a date, Steve! Should be fun...I understand the music down there is quite good.


Gravatar Virtual colonoscopy (also called CT colonography) is making pretty good strides.
Hopefully the costs will come down in the next few years and insurance companies will support its regular use. (And hopefully we'll have universal health care in the future so everyone can benefit.)


GravatarCNN is just worried they won't find Joe Lieberman in time for the Sunday Bobblehead shows.


Bush shit Diarrhea Droopy last night.
That Fleet laxative be some powerful stuff.

And the part of Droopy that Boots didn't shit was taken care of by the Fleet enema.


GravatarI think we can guess what the White House's "Friday Night Dump" consisted of this week.
SteveLG


Another way to shit on America.


GravatarThey totally covered up how close to death Reagan was.

And that was true for his entire Preznitcy.
JT | 07.21.07 - 10:54 am | #


In 87, Lesley Stahl gave an interview in which she admitted that it was an open secret in the press that Reagan had been senile for the entire second term, and at least part of the first, but that they wouldn't write about it because the American public didn't want to hear anything bad said about that poor nice old man.

For real. I forgot where she said it originally, but it's cited in Paul Slansky's "The Clothes Have No Emperor," the definitive secret history of the 80s.


GravatarWait Wait, Don't Tell Me, on in five minutes.


Gravatardoes CNN really need to be running with that chyron for hours?

Well, the whole post-9/11 scroll and chyron world of cable news is predicated on the idea that everything is BREAKING and IMPORTANT.

Otherwise, you know, people might get bored listening to them.


GravatarWhen will we find out what horrible things Cheney did while in charge?
camelot | 07.21.07 - 10:52 am | #

The news we can use?

Cheney sold us all into indentured servitude to the People's Republic of China.

And now Dick and Lynne have enough money to retire in style.

So brush up on your diecasting and plastic mold operating skillz. We're all making dog food bowls and plastic garden gnomes for the rest of our lives...


GravatarLarry King photoshopped to dumpy normalcy (via boingboing.net)

http://planethiltron.com/?p=368#comments


Gravatarspeaking of boosh:

http://photobucket.com/albums/y1...ot/ 100_0172.jpg


GravatarCheney is "temporarily" in charge.


"Cheney in Charge
Of our days and our nights
Cheney in Charge
Of our wrongs and our rights "


Sorry, that's been bumpling around in my brain.


GravatarAnd the part of Droopy that Boots didn't shit was taken care of by the Fleet enema.
billy b - get your wings | 07.21.07 - 10:57 am | #

Oh, Goergie and his 'friend' in Asheville, TN are very familiar with the handling of a Fleet Emema.

In fact, that might be one thing Bush is actually competent at doing.


GravatarIn 87, Lesley Stahl gave an interview in which she admitted that it was an open secret in the press that Reagan had been senile for the entire second term, and at least part of the first, but that they wouldn't write about it because the American public didn't want to hear anything bad said about that poor nice old man.

For real. I forgot where she said it originally, but it's cited in Paul Slansky's "The Clothes Have No Emperor," the definitive secret history of the 80s.
steve simels


It continues now with the MSM refusing to admit that chimpslime is batshit insane and certifiable.


Gravatarer, scroll should be scrawl, but anyway ...


GravatarI don't want to talk about the asshole, or his asshole. Instead, check out, Why We Don't Vacation Like the French by the good Klein(Ezra)


GravatarComing this fall on Showtime:

"The Days and Nights of Dicky Cheney"


GravatarFor real. I forgot where she said it originally, but it's cited in Paul Slansky's "The Clothes Have No Emperor," the definitive secret history of the 80s.
steve simels


I posit that George H. W. Bush was calling the shots, but maintaining plausible deniability, especially during Iran/Contra--just marking time to when he became the actual thing.

That's when the apparatus learned a hard lesson about keeping a telegenic goofball front man in the president's chair. The mistake will not be repeated.


GravatarIt continues now with the MSM refusing to admit that chimpslime is batshit insane and certifiable.
JT | 07.21.07 - 11:04 am | #



Yup. Have you heard him "speak" lately? Completely incoherent even from a script. He's either nutso or on a LOT of drugs.


GravatarIt continues now with the MSM refusing to admit that chimpslime is batshit insane and certifiable.
JT |

That will come out in the press in 20 some years, right after a Cheney daughter or grandchild is elected with all his money, and I have moved out of the country.


GravatarYup. Have you heard him "speak" lately? Completely incoherent even from a script. He's either nutso or on a LOT of drugs.
Barbarism Begins at Home | 07.21.07 - 11:06 am | #
----------------
Holden did a rundown of the Nashville speech. Every line, bar none, was gibberish.


GravatarHe's either nutso or on a LOT of drugs.

Not necessarily an either/or.


Gravatarbring on the cheeseburger pizzas--the path is clear.


GravatarNixon, Ford, Reagan, Bush, Bush,
The Fall of the American Empire: Who Screwed the Goose


GravatarThat's when the apparatus learned a hard lesson about keeping a telegenic goofball front man in the president's chair. The mistake will not be repeated.
Uncle Smokes


It has been repeated, if you consider Chimpy telegenic.


GravatarDoctors removed five small polyps during the procedure at Camp David. "None appeared worrisome," White House spokesman Scott Stanzel said.

DAMN. Then again Bush IS cancer.


GravatarI cannot believe I have not read this joke already in the blogosphere. But it seems obvious to me.

"They are looking for his head."

Whew! Now I can get on with my day.


Gravatar11:00 And The King Is Still Vomiting


Gravatarno vote no recess.
troops get extended tours, so should congress.
begin the chimpeachment.


GravatarWe should be ashamed at ridiculing King Vomitus.


GravatarSo brush up on your diecasting and plastic mold operating skillz. We're all making dog food bowls and plastic garden gnomes for the rest of our lives...
tellybelly


Nonsense. You can study to become a butler. Brush up on your fake British accent!


GravatarHusband melted down(seperated); he filed bankruptcy, lost job, and admitted to being a gambling addict, only because he is allergic to alcohol.
After a year of many different drugs being fed to him, he got off of them.
The only way his family and I could describe to him his behavior while medicated was to have him watch a Bush speech. (Notice how he seems to have just been fitted with false teeth?)
Going through this and the stupid addictive behavior in a president has been trying to say the least.


Gravatar"None appeared worrisome," White House spokesman Scott Stanzel said.


Which leads to the question of whether Mr. Stanzel inspected them personally ...


GravatarWell, if he really needed some kind of health care he could have gotten it free at the local hospital emergency room.


GravatarI posit that George H. W. Bush was calling the shots, but maintaining plausible deniability, especially during Iran/Contra--just marking time to when he became the actual thing.

Eh-uh. After the Reagan assassination attempt didn't work out he had to work from behind the scenes.
.


Gravatar...and don't think that a bad pun involving Bush's procedure and the word "buttler" didn't cross my mind.

I am instead the model of restraint, comedy with comity.


[I just heard several online visitors all mutter "bullshit" at once. How could I hear that?!]


GravatarConservatives admire Guiliani's record on terrorism? Getting hit on 9/11 is something to admire him for?


Gravatar"The AP reports, “Bush reclaimed his presidential powers and duties at 9:21 a.m. EDT. The transfer of power took place with letters Bush sent to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., president pro tempore of the Senate. Bush reclaimed the powers with follow-up letters once the colonoscopy had ended.”"

Asshole.


GravatarConservatives admire Guiliani's record on terrorism? Getting hit on 9/11 is something to admire him for?
Snow


Putting the emergency response center in the building most likely to be targeted for a terrorist attack-- that's a Bushie-style fuck up. Certainly worthy of admiration.


Gravatar
That's when the apparatus learned a hard lesson about keeping a telegenic goofball front man in the president's chair. The mistake will not be repeated.
Uncle Smokes | Homepage | 07.21.07 - 11:05 am | #


So you're saying Romney will be the next president.


GravatarAfter all, isn't he the asshole in chief?
So we replace the ass by a dick,
a very prickly matter indeed


GravatarIf I can ask a question pertaining to a previous thread, I try to drink more coffee to keep up, but it is not working.
Are the repugs the most worried about Edwards, hence, the slamming? or.. Are they (repugs) just going down the list and taking longer than expected?


GravatarSo brush up on your diecasting and plastic mold operating skillz. We're all making dog food bowls and plastic garden gnomes for the rest of our lives...
tellybelly

Nonsense. You can study to become a butler. Brush up on your fake British accent!
Uncle Smokes | Homepage | 07.21.07 - 11:12 am | #

If only Erich von Stroheim were still alive! He could helm the movie version of my play "Shanghai Valet."

I do wonder what a fake British accent would sound like filtered through hundreds of different Chinese dialects...

BTW, the man who wrote the novel "Auntie Mame" was Ray Kroc's butler for many years. Talk about your weird camp/pop culture coincidences.


GravatarA friend writes...
by John Aravosis (DC) · 7/21/2007 10:20:00 AM ET
Discuss this post here: Comments (37) · digg it · reddit · FARK · · Link


I am a bit disconcerted that GWB is being sedated for his colonoscopy. One would wish that he'd be awake for that; perhaps then it would give him a sense of empathy for what he has been doing to us for the past 7 years.
Indeed.


GravatarDid they find the small tube leading from his lower colon to his brain?


GravatarAre the repugs the most worried about Edwards, hence, the slamming? or.. Are they (repugs) just going down the list and taking longer than expected?
camelot | 07.21.07 - 11:26 am | #


If I had to guess, the latter.

Bottom line: whoever the Dem candidate is, they'll get the Bill/Hillary treatment.

Accused of being murderers, drug traffickers, traitors...anything they can think of, basically.


GravatarHi-ho, Steverino!

By perchance, did you happen to see this? Or this?

Part of my big fundraising telethon... thought they'd be up your alley!


GravatarBottom line: whoever the Dem candidate is, they'll get the Bill/Hillary treatment.

Accused of being murderers, drug traffickers, traitors...anything they can think of, basically.
steve simels


Exactly. Which is why Gore is waiting as long as he can to announce.


Gravatar"The AP reports, “Bush reclaimed his presidential powers and duties at 9:21 a.m. EDT. The transfer of power took place with letters Bush sent to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., president pro tempore of the Senate. Bush reclaimed the powers with follow-up letters once the colonoscopy had ended.”"

Hmm..... I thought with Executive Privilege and all shrub need not bother informing anyone about anything. After all he is Herr Leader.


GravatarThat's when the apparatus learned a hard lesson about keeping a telegenic goofball front man in the president's chair. The mistake will not be repeated.
Uncle Smokes

It has been repeated, if you consider Chimpy telegenic.
Lime Rickey


You bet he is (or was until recently). That hokey homespun halfwit smirk was dished out copiously by the PR industry, and plenty of folks lapped it up like it was the second coming of Reagan's saddle sores.

When I say the mistake is not repeated, I mean that you don't see Cheney running for president. The Republican frontrunners are vying to be the new front man.

Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.


GravatarGood morning.

I've got my priorities straight today. A trip to the scratch and dent appliance store, and attempting to buy Ryan Adams tickets for his second swing through town in the past few months.

I'm dubious of my success on both fronts.


GravatarConservatives admire Guiliani's record on terrorism? Getting hit on 9/11 is something to admire him for?
Snow


Absolutely. It was a great day, after all. We were all united. It felt really good.

In fact, Rudy is running another 9/11 every year while he is Presnit


GravatarBottom line: whoever the Dem candidate is, they'll get the Bill/Hillary treatment.

I have consistently tried to vote on where the candidate stands on the issues and now I am pissed to face the fact that I have to add, how they will be able to face the Murdoch press and people who believe in it. Grrrrrr.


GravatarAh, another great RealClimate resource:

RC Wiki

This site is a supplement to the RealClimate.org website.

It is primarily an index for debunking of various popular media occurrences of climate-related nonsense. Articles are sorted by where they appear (outlet and country), or alphabetically by author. Under each article you will find links to rebuttals of specific arguments and overall critiques of the pieces. This is by no means comprehensive, but should provide a starting point for those interested in seeing why these pieces are wrong. We do not include mainstream journalist pieces that are occasionally mistaken or somewhat sensationalist (see the main website for that kind of commentary), but we do include the op-ed pieces that are specifically designed to confuse, obfuscate and abuse the science.


GravatarI dunno.,....makes me think that even these guys are scared of what Shooter might do before Bush wakes up.


GravatarBush has "resumed power" as of 9:21 EDT.


Gravatar ">Russert: Rudy is a cross-dressing liberal and hated by NYC firefighters

Firefighter: Rudy took away our radios and more than 100 soldiers were killed

Russert: let me here quote Rudy saying he only killed those firefighters because they were communists

Shurm: he's got the reverse midas touch he only hires criminals and perverts sure that works in NYC and Florida but not in Iowa

Hunt: Rudy can take a punch - i know i asked his ex-wives

Murphy: he's going to run promising a new 9/11 every year he is president people may not want that


GravatarThey aborted 5 polyps?!

Gasp...


Gravatar"Gore sees no reason to apologize for not wanting to jump into the electoral fray. As a businessman, he can speak with a candor few successful politicians can maintain. He has made an enormous amount of money and achieved positions of influence from technology to financial services to media. He and Tipper are even setting themselves up as angel investors for a few early-stage tech companies they believe in. In doing one end run after another around the status quo, he has created a new life: a perfect amalgam of environmental activism and a new type of capitalism in which there is more than one bottom line to consider, more than one master to serve."

Al Gore is a funny guy.


GravatarSo you're saying Romney will be the next president.
steve simels


Ah, Steve got what I was saying, though I wouldn't underestimate the desire of the behind-the-curtains folks for Thompson.

"In reverse order, our last eight presidents: A hillbilly with a permanent hard-on, an upper-class bureaucrat-twit, an actor imbecile, a born-again Christian peanut farmer, an unelected college football lineman, a paranoid moral dwarf, a vulgar cowboy criminal, and a mediocre playboy sex fiend."
-- George Carlin (prior to the accession of the born-again mediocre paranoid fake Cowboy son of the upper-class bureaucrat-twit)


GravatarExactly. Which is why Gore is waiting as long as he can to announce.

Nah, he gets the treatment by default.


Gravatar"So you're saying Romney will be the next president."

Well, if the vaseline teeth and the word Dork on the forehead fit, it's Mitt.


GravatarBy Bryan Mitchell, Stars and Stripes
European edition, Saturday, July 21, 2007

RAF MILDENHALL, England — For the second time in less than a week, NATO air forces scrambled fighter jets on Friday in response to Russian aircraft straying toward — and allegedly into — British airspace.

Officials from Norway and Britain confirmed Friday they dispatched fighter jets four days after a contingent of Norwegian F-16s and British Tornados shadowed a set of Russian aircraft traveling toward British airspace.

Russian officials, meanwhile, denied the incident, which occurred amid the escalation of the diplomatic row between the United Kingdom and Russia over the extradition of a high-profile Russian murder suspect.


Gravatar1Watt, Hermit

Soooo, when does Russia hook up with Iran?


GravatarThis was no colonoscopy. This was an attempted recto-cranial reversotomy using advanced microsurgical techniques.

But they were forced to close the patient right up again when they determined that the patient's circulatory system terminated at eyeball-level, with no blood supply to support what remained of the cranium.

Plus, they had problems telling the cranium from the polyps.


GravatarThe Gore Paradox


GravatarHi-ho, Steverino!

By perchance, did you happen to see this? Or this?

Part of my big fundraising telethon... thought they'd be up your alley!
dave™© | Homepage | 07.21.07 - 11:28 am | #


Very cool.

So was your bookstore kind of like the record store in High Fidelity?


GravatarSoooo, when does Russia hook up with Iran?
EkCenTriK

Ya mean those contracts to build nuke power plants & develop oil fields. 7 Years ago.


Gravatarbonjour!

i had a colonoscopy once...it's very unpleasant. I hope Bush was in pain

i'm starting chapter 7, how about you?


Gravatar(where are my manners. i forgot to post...)

Kitten!

http://www.dailykitten.com/archi...hes- junior.html


GravatarIf I were Al Gore I'd come into the race in September - just exactly as the Shrubbery is making its final assault on the United States.

It'd knock the sons of bitches onto their collective asses - and knock out the last possibility that the Shrubbery could attack Iran. The only way they could hope to survive would be to end the illegal war against Iraq.


Gravatar"
Ya mean those contracts to build nuke power plants & develop oil fields. 7 Years ago.
1Watt, Hermit "

As you can see, I am waiting for the other shoe to drop.


Gravatar"Doctors removed five small polyps during the procedure at Camp David. "None appeared worrisome," White House spokesman Scott Stanzel said."

I am legion; for we are many.


GravatarIf I were Al Gore I'd come into the race in September - just exactly as the Shrubbery is making its final assault on the United States.

Our Al has until October 15th.


GravatarBTW, the man who wrote the novel "Auntie Mame" was Ray Kroc's butler for many years. Talk about your weird camp/pop culture coincidences.
tellybelly


Wow. The things you learn! Thanks, tellybelly.


GravatarBush had 5 sub centimeter polyps removed. What WAS his rush to get examined?
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GravatarAs you can see, I am waiting for the other shoe to drop.
EkCenTriK

They've also supplied Iran with anti-aircraft defense systems & supersonic anti ship missiles.


GravatarGWPDA: are you dying of heat yet? Did you receive your canadian passport?


GravatarOur Al has until October 15th.
Vicki, Who ? Al Gore

i agree with our Vicki


GravatarOK, kids, as the big Dave Blog™© fundraiser continues, we're switching to our international feed and bringing you one of Australia's biggest pop sensations!


Gravatar1Watt, Hermit

Have they ever gone active on any mutual defense agreements etc?


GravatarPlumP, I died of the heat long since - and still no passport. Altho Passports Canada has charged my credit card for the privilege of not yet issuing me the document....


GravatarI hate to say it, but it's a shame Chimpy couldn't CATCH what Pony Blow has.

The world would be a better place without them both.



Okay....flame away.


Gravatar"The U.S. Joint Forces Command has paid $400,000 for a report to improve the “brand” of U.S. military operations worldwide. According to the study, “since the U.S. military invaded Iraq in 2003, its ’show of force’ brand has proved to have limited appeal to Iraqi consumers” and “a more attractive brand for the Iraqi people might have been ‘We will help you.’”"

A new product launch in late July.


GravatarWhat happens on Oct. 15? Some filing deadline?

But I agree-- he's going in, just at the last moment.


Gravatari had a colonoscopy once...it's very unpleasant. I hope Bush was in pain

i'm starting chapter 7, how about you?
plum p, who loves Al Gore


Better get a new lower GI doctor. I've had 4 and each was without ANY discomfort. I was actually awake during the last one watching the monitor and told the doctor when to make his turns.


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Gravatari had a colonoscopy once...it's very unpleasant. I hope Bush was in pain



I have the feeling THAT little shit has a very LOW pain threshold.


GravatarI hate to say it, but it's a shame Chimpy couldn't CATCH what Pony Blow has.

The world would be a better place without them both.


::shakes head::

Come on, Terry. Comments like that are uncalled for, and they're exactly the type of comments that Bill O'Really is looking for to make his case to Joe Sixpack.


GravatarI must say, the comments today are hysterical! Bravo, well done.
If we stop laughing, we'll start crying.
Isn't Scrub's Colonoscopy the start of the Dark ages? No pun intended.

Stay Calm, Carry on!


GravatarSpeak for yourself there, Atrios... I'm sure the world has been wondering for quite some time what's up Dubya's ass, besides, of course, Cheney's hand.


Gravatar"The U.S. Joint Forces Command has paid $400,000 for a report to improve the “brand” of U.S. military operations worldwide.

This is how the no name Fred Kagans make their living in this World.
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Gravatari had a colonoscopy once...it's very unpleasant. I hope Bush was in pain

i'm starting chapter 7, how about you?


That's a really, really looooooong colonoscopy.


GravatarCome on, Terry. Comments like that are uncalled for, and they're exactly the type of comments that Bill O'Really is looking for to make his case to Joe Sixpack.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore


I said I was going to get flamed for it....and I KNEW from who.


GravatarAltho Passports Canada has charged my credit card for the privilege of not yet issuing me the document....
GWPDA

bastards! you know deep down it's the Congress' fault, right? Since they now beleive every canadian is a potential terrorist, they have made into law that all canadians needs a passport to cross the border. Blame Canada, always. Welcome home ASAP, GWPDA


GravatarSo was your bookstore kind of like the record store in High Fidelity?

Not that one! It was a big chain store.

Later I worked at a more independent, though still rather commercial, place... the only place I worked that could be considered "High Fidelty"-esque would probably be the comic book shop...


Gravatar"That's a really, really looooooong colonoscopy."

Took a while for the doc to find the right size hip waders.


Gravatari had a colonoscopy once...it's very unpleasant. I hope Bush was in pain

I was whacked out of my head on drugs so I didn't feel a thing. And considering the amount of shit Bush has had in his body (no pun intended), he could have been awake during the procedure. They only reason they knocked him out was Rove was afraid George would go, "Jimmy Jeff, is that you?"


GravatarHave they ever gone active on any mutual defense agreements etc?
EkCenTriK

not officially but the Navy is scared shitless about those anti ship missiles, there is no defense.


Gravatari'm starting chapter 7, how about you?
plum p, who loves Al Gore | Homepage | 07.21.07 - 11:41 am


Mail hasn't arrived yet, so not yet started.

Are you going to finish it by tonight?

Did you wait in line?


Gravatarplum-- I have a friend who just canceled a trip to bring her two daughters-- 7 and 9 years old-- down to the states to meet her mother. The kids' passports didn't come in in time.


GravatarThis just in from CNN: "Bush's colonoscopy complete; President found to be perfect asshole."


GravatarMy primary physician is after me to get one done.

Then the attorney I used to work for told me about her 79 year old uncle who was hale and hearty till he had one done.

The doctor nicked something and the dude died, etc., etc.

Always someone out there with helpful information.


GravatarHey, Steverino, if you're still around, make sure to catch this.

A true classic from Cook and Moore...


GravatarAccording to the study, “since the U.S. military invaded Iraq in 2003, its ’show of force’ brand has proved to have limited appeal to Iraqi consumers” and “a more attractive brand for the Iraqi people might have been ‘We will help you.’”

I thought our brand was "Whatever Bush Touches, Turns to Shit".


Gravatar"not officially but the Navy is scared shitless about those anti ship missiles, there is no defense.
1Watt, Hermit"

No doubt. I keep waiting for either Russia or China to really step in simply to protect one of their markets.

And seemingly now, to tweak our noses.

Problem I see, for us and them, is the POTUS is insane and unpredictable.


Gravatarwhat's up Dubya's ass, besides, of course, Cheney's hand.
Roger Bixley


perfect comment! you win,Roger, nothing to add to this quote!

ATTENTION Daily Show, Colbert and late shows writers, we give it to you free!


Gravatar
I thought our brand was "Whatever Bush Touches, Turns to Shit".


"US Military: Fucking up Other Countries for 100 Years!"


GravatarRussian officials, meanwhile, denied the incident, which occurred amid the escalation of the diplomatic row between the United Kingdom and Russia over the extradition of a high-profile Russian murder suspect.
1Watt, Hermit | Homepage | 07.21.07 - 11:37 am | #



Yeah, that's exactly the kind of bullshit that will start a war. Some pilot gets an itchy trigger finger, and we all go kaboom. Lovely.


GravatarYearn for the health and safety of George W. Bush until Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2009.

An untimely demise would mean lots of shit going down in his vaunted memory under the auspices of President Dick Cheney.*


*Under the 22nd amendment Cheney would still qualify for a full two terms--though, like I said ealier, he's no front man, too despised to pull off electoral victory...not without massive fraud...so...he might make it after all.


Gravatarplum-- I have a friend who just canceled a trip to bring her two daughters-- 7 and 9 years old-- down to the states to meet her mother. The kids' passports didn't come in in time.
Moe Szyslak

the bastards!!! Blame Cheney and Bush, enuff said!


Gravatarposted earlier, $400K to be told the Golden Rule.


GravatarResults of the President's colonoscopy just in: GEORGE BUSH IS STILL AN ASSHOLE!


GravatarI hate to say it, but it's a shame Chimpy couldn't CATCH what Pony Blow has.

The world would be a better place without them both.



Okay....flame away.


You forgot Cheney.


GravatarSeveral other Canadians and I have a pool going as to how much of the five years on the passport will be left by the time we receive ours. My application for renewal - -renewal- mind you - went in in February....


GravatarIs it okay to say that I hope it's too uncomfortable to sit down for awhile?

Or would THAT displease the Pollyanna Contingent, too?


Gravatar"Yeah, that's exactly the kind of bullshit that will start a war. Some pilot gets an itchy trigger finger, and we all go kaboom. Lovely."

I am not sure if that will happen that easily. This has been happening for many decades. I am more concerned about the politicians.


GravatarA true classic from Cook and Moore...

Fookin' wankers...


GravatarOkay....flame away.

You forgot Cheney.
pixie


Oh, there is SUCH a place in hell awaiting HIM.


GravatarYuck, I said that badly.


GravatarDiagnosis: Still an asshole.


GravatarUncle Smokes, please head over to PowerPop and try to talk some sense into that wanker Steve Simels.


GravatarAP headline:

Bush reclaims powers from Cheney after colonoscopy

Who knew that's all it took. One thrust up the ass and he's a new man. Bring on Jimmy Jeff. W will be a new man every day.


Gravatar
"Yeah, that's exactly the kind of bullshit that will start a war. Some pilot gets an itchy trigger finger, and we all go kaboom. Lovely."


Russians shot down a few of our planes during the Cold War, and it was sort of blown off . . . and there was that KAL 007 thing . . . but for the most part that kind of thing only happens in book (like "Alas, Babylon").


GravatarI said I was going to get flamed for it....and I KNEW from who.

Whatever. Toss your hate and anger around all you want. You don't get it, and it's pretty apparent that either you don't want to get it or you're incapable of getting it, so have at it.

As I said, comments like that are precisely the type of comments that O'Reilly and the others use to make their points about the vitriol on the left.


Gravatar"Yeah, that's exactly the kind of bullshit that will start a war. Some pilot gets an itchy trigger finger, and we all go kaboom. Lovely."


Probably more a mssg to the EU about starwars


GravatarBush reclaims powers from Cheney after colonoscopy




"C'mon over, Karl!"


GravatarHeh.

I was just checking out these stills from "Indecision 2000".

Colbert looks very young and thin.


GravatarJeepers, Cheney's on right now, looking quire serious and talking about unforseen complications and uncertain prognosis for Bush's ever regaining conciousness. I guess this is it...

Nah, I'm kidding. Right?


GravatarI am not sure if that will happen that easily. This has been happening for many decades. I am more concerned about the politicians.
EkCenTriK | 07.21.07 - 11:54 am | #



I guess that's what I meant. The reaction by the politicians to any incident is what's scary. Putin's a cold-blooded killer, and Britain' gone really paranoid these days. We've gotta certified looney officially on the button, and a evil shadow emperor egging him on.

That's how I envision the kaboom scenario being all to possible.


GravatarThe only reason I'm watching O'Reilly is because I'm looking for an excuse to hate liberals, so it really doesn't matter what y'all say, cos I'm gonna hate you anyway.


GravatarFrickin' Guiliani!

Asked about increasing federal support for HIV medications, Giuliani discussed what he considers appropriate federal responsibility in health care. "I don't want to promise you the federal government will take over the role," he said, drawing applause and shouts of "all right."
He continued, "My general experience has been that the federal government works best when it helps and assists and encourages and sets guidelines… on a state-by-state, locality-by-locality basis. It's no different from the way I look at homeland security. Maybe having been mayor of the city, I know that your first defense against terrorist attack is that local police station, or that local firehouse."



Guiliani: 9/11 24/7


GravatarAre you going to finish it by tonight?

Did you wait in line?
Buckeye

maybe and yes!

I "borrowed" my 8 years old godchild to have an excuse to go to the bookstore last night at midnight. I had prepaid (excellent idea) so i had it 20 minutes later. Went to sleep at 3:30, woke up at 11:30. Checking with my mates here, and i'll read it all until i go to this exhibit sunday morning.

http://www.centredessciencesdemo...m/BW2/ index.htm


Gravatar"
Bush reclaims powers from Cheney after colonoscopy"

Carefully sitting down at his desk in the Oval Office, Bush asks "Dick, did something happen? The Football is on the desk and open? Seriously, anything I should know?"


Gravatarand told the doctor when to make his turns.

Gives a whole new meaning to the term backseat driver.

.

And -- good morning, everyone.


GravatarAs I said, comments like that are precisely the type of comments that O'Reilly and the others use to make their points about the vitriol on the left.

Did I read that right? Who the fuck cares what O'reilly says?


GravatarGWPDA-- I think you only need the passport to get back into the states, so....


GravatarGuiliani: 9/11 24/7
cheney_usa



That's all he has, really.


GravatarGuiliani: 9/11 24/7
cheney_usa | Homepage | 07.21.07 - 11:58 am | #



It's his entire campaign. What else has he got? Shutting down peepshows? Oooooooh....Presidential!


GravatarSo speaking of PowerPop - what's the story on NY Mary's auto mishap?


GravatarDid I read that right? Who the fuck cares what O'reilly says?

Okay, how about such hate is unamerican.


Gravatar"Yeah, that's exactly the kind of bullshit that will start a war. Some pilot gets an itchy trigger finger, and we all go kaboom. Lovely."

Itchy trigger fingers and war go together like Serbia and Yugoslavia, or Bosnia and Herzegovina.


GravatarDid I read that right? Who the fuck cares what O'reilly says?

The guy who invited Osama bin Laden to attack San Franciso. Scumbag traitor.


GravatarGuiliani's Intellect on Display:

In an extended analogy, Giuliani likened the cost of health care to the price of TVs in the early 1950s -- prices were high because the marketplace was small. With a larger marketplace prices of TVs have gone down and quality has improved with advancing technology. "It happened because there was a free market,"

RE-TARD-ED.


GravatarIt's his entire campaign. What else has he got? Shutting down peepshows? Oooooooh....Presidential!
Barbarism Begins at Home


Yeah, don't ya just love that?

He had to protect the public morality...while setting such a GREAT example of marital fidelity.

I mean, he had SUCH concern for the feelings of his wife and children.


Gravatarcomments like that are precisely the type of comments that O'Reilly and the others use to make their points about the vitriol on the left.

Dance monkeys! WAPISH!


GravatarMy application for renewal - -renewal- mind you - went in in February....
GWPDA

the american dollar hasn't been this weak since 1976 and canadian dollar so strong. (blame Bush of course). So for the first time in ages, canadian tourism in america would have gone up, meaning good for the economy on the US side. But canadians can't get their passport soon enough to go spend cash to improve the american economy! Your govment is so so so so so damn stupid.


GravatarUncle Smokes, please head over to PowerPop and try to talk some sense into that wanker Steve Simels.
The Kenosha Kid


I wouldn't deign to do so...the Zappa thing is by now an old contention between us. I did leave a brief, if somewhat snarky statement.


GravatarFrom the supermarket checkout line:

The Globe (tabloid) cover this week says Bush has had a heart attack (that is being covered up) due to the pressure of Iraq, his forthcoming divorce from his wife, and his heavy drinking.

After two colonoscopies, both of which were optional for 'conscious sedation', unless there is something really wrong with GW's lower gut, there is no reason for multiple hours to pass with the President being disabled. Twenty min. is the standard length of the exam.


GravatarOkay, how about such hate is unamerican.

Thank you, Snow.

With that, I'm off to something called "Appliance Smart".

Later!


GravatarDid I read that right? Who the fuck cares what O'reilly says?
pixie | 07.21.07 - 11:59 am | #



True enough- the only people who watch Falafel are already true believers. I don't know that I'd wish cancer on Chimpy and Snarly, but the world WOULD certainly be a better place without them.


GravatarYour govment is so so so so so damn stupid.
plum p, who loves Al Gore


It's calling cutting off one's nose to spite one's face, I believe.


GravatarI'm driving through New England next week, on my way to Toronto. Figure we'll save on gas, if nothing else.


GravatarWith a larger marketplace prices of TVs have gone down and quality has improved with advancing technology. "It happened because there was a free market,"

That's why medical costs have risen @ twice the rate of inflation, right?


GravatarGWPDA-- I think you only need the passport to get back into the states, so....
Moe Szyslak

good point! We're keeping you forever, GWPDA!


GravatarTrue enough- the only people who watch Falafel are already true believers.

Like it or not, he has a sizable audience, and hatred from the left doesn't do anyone any good.


Gravatar I know that your first defense against terrorist attack is that local police station, or that local firehouse."

Then why did you take away their brass poles, Rudy?


GravatarGuiliani:

"We don't want socialized medicine. Maybe you should go see 'Sicko,' see if you agree with Michael Moore that we should have the Cuban health care system. That's where the Democrats are taking us… All the places that have government-run health care, it's inferior to us. We've got to preserve our private system. People will have to earn some of that access. Let's not become a nanny state. You don't help somebody when you make them dependent. You make it within their realm to do it, but give them a chance to earn it. The system gets destroyed when you start making big promises."

All these arguments can be used against the Repugs efforts to establish a Dominatrix State.


Gravatar"the federal government works best when it helps and assists and encourages and sets guidelines… on a state-by-state, locality-by-locality basis."

Did I say that?


GravatarAfter two colonoscopies, both of which were optional for 'conscious sedation', unless there is something really wrong with GW's lower gut, there is no reason for multiple hours to pass with the President being disabled. Twenty min. is the standard length of the exam.

He'd have to come out of whatever he was under--though, given he's probably under something all the goddamn time it shouldn't make a difference.


GravatarI don't know that I'd wish cancer on Chimpy and Snarly, but the world WOULD certainly be a better place without them.
Barbarism Begins at Home


Upon reflection, I wouldn't either, but I am certainly not going to pretend NOT to hate people who certainly don't like ME.


GravatarSay only what I want you to say, and be surprised when I call you un-american traitors anyway!

WAPISH!


GravatarOff to the gym.


GravatarWith a larger marketplace prices of TVs have gone down and quality has improved with advancing technology. "It happened because there was a free market,"

I'm waiting for flatscreen, HighDef medical care.


Gravatar"the federal government works best when it helps and assists and encourages and sets guidelines… on a state-by-state, locality-by-locality basis."

Or when you need money to off-set getting your ass kicked by terrorists, and you don't wanna look like too much of a bitch.


GravatarI had a colonoscopy last year. The worst part was the day before, having to fast and purge.

The procedure itself was nothing much - I was drugged up for about 2 hours.

I get it that he has to transfer powers, but why make such a big deal out of it? A couple of hours? Or is Shrubby so weak aboiut enduring discomfort he needed to be put down for a day?

I am pleased at imagining him going through the bowle-purging experience, though.


GravatarThe Globe (tabloid) cover this week says Bush has had a heart attack (that is being covered up) due to the pressure of Iraq, his forthcoming divorce from his wife, and his heavy drinking.

JimPortlandOR

we'll start to read the tabloids for "real" news now. Hell, we sure don't get some real stuff in the WaPo or CNN these days. At least reading The Globe makes us laugh!


GravatarIt is wrong, wrong to wish cancer upon the Mission Accomplishers when it is far easier to wish that a beaker of sulfuric acid be thrown in each of their faces.


GravatarSay only what I want you to say, and be surprised when I call you un-american traitors anyway!

All of those firefights you were in, why are there no pictures?


GravatarLike it or not, he has a sizable audience, and hatred from the left doesn't do anyone any good.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore | Homepage | 07.21.07 - 12:04 pm | #



No he doesn't. Only in the rarefied air of cable news land. What's he get, maybe 2-3 million viewers? That's less than 1% of the population. If he were on a real network, he'd have been cancelled long ago. I'm not arguing in favor of hatred, but being afraid to say something because O'Reilly will use it against me? Forget it.


GravatarAfter two colonoscopies, both of which were optional for 'conscious sedation', unless there is something really wrong with GW's lower gut, there is no reason for multiple hours to pass with the President being disabled. Twenty min. is the standard length of the exam.

Most hospitals will not do the procedure unless there is someone to drive (and or escort) you home in attendance.
Waiting a couple of hours for the medication to clear is reasonable.
.


GravatarI wish someone would ask Giuliani the question:

"What experience do YOU have with foreign policy?"


GravatarI'm waiting for flatscreen, HighDef medical care.
cheney_usa


Oh, it's out there.

It's the "marketplace prices have gone down" part that's missing.


GravatarGuiliani: It's Clinton's Fault:

question about cutting military spending. Giuliani responded with a prompt no: "It's already been done. Clinton cut our military budget by enormous amounts in the 1990s, and it left us in a position where we can't face the dangers we're facing right now."


GravatarLet's hope the anesthesiologist has issues with this.


GravatarDon't Canadian citizens get passports from the Canadian govt? Or are you talking about visas? Canadians don't need visas to visit the US do they? What am I missing here?


GravatarI had a colonoscopy last year. The worst part was the day before, having to fast and purge.
g

yes! that chalky white stuff you have to drink to "clean" yourself up. A full day sitting on the toilet...ah! memories...


GravatarIt is wrong, wrong to wish cancer upon the Mission Accomplishers when it is far easier to wish that a beaker of sulfuric acid be thrown in each of their faces.
Doctor Filth


You know what? Forget what I said earlier.

The ideal punishment for all of them would be for them to wind up broke and destitute.

But we know THAT ain't gonna happen.


GravatarAttendee Dave Miller left the event undecided - he's holding out hope that Newt Gingrich will run - but impressed with Giuliani.

RUN NEWT RUN!

Repugs are tards.


GravatarPlumP, the tabloids are essential reading when one stands on a cash line.


GravatarIt's 1979 on 10@10!

Now playing: Elvis' "Goon Squad."

The theme song for the Tipsy McStagger klan...


Gravatarhe's holding out hope that Newt Gingrich will run


They're through scraping the bottom of the barrel.

Now they're thinking of moving the barrel and collecting the stuff underneath.


Gravatarbut I am certainly not going to pretend NOT to hate people who certainly don't like ME.


What good does that constant craving to hate do for you, exactly?

I could not care less if you think I'm a Pollyanna or whatever, but I am not gonna waste my energy wishing, in a public forum, death to Bush via cancer.

This may sound simplistic, but work toward finding a solution instead of always being angry and wishing for something that probably isn't going to happen within your timeframe.


GravatarHow could Bush have a heart attack when he hasn't got anything resembling a heart?


Gravatar"but why make such a big deal out of it? A couple of hours? "


Uh ... Dick Cheney


GravatarClinton cut our military budget by enormous amounts in the 1990s,

As did Reagan and Bush. Sorry, but that is true. I served under all three of them.

and it left us in a position where we can't face the dangers we're facing right now."

That sentence is inconsistent. If we are facing a danger, then it cannot be true that we are unable to face that danger.


GravatarPlumP, the tabloids are essential reading when one stands on a cash line.

And an informed electorate is the very Palladium of the Republic.


GravatarThe Globe (tabloid) cover this week says Bush has had a heart attack (that is being covered up) due to the pressure of Iraq, his forthcoming divorce from his wife, and his heavy drinking.

Had Drudge reported this about a Dem.....


Gravatar"Colonoscopy"? Puh-LEEZE!

He's getting the Keith Richards treatment...


GravatarThis may sound simplistic, but work toward finding a solution instead of always being angry and wishing for something that probably isn't going to happen within your timeframe.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore


Sorry I offended you!


GravatarGuiliani's Health Care Plan: Pony up biaatch, you're on your own.

Giuliani's health-care plan is firmly based in the private sector. He proposes a $15,000 tax exemption for individual health insurance. "If you can find it cheaper, you can keep the difference." He said with 50 million to 100 million Americans participating, this would create a marketplace for affordable individual plans: "Lots of people would buy private health insurance if it was as attractive as employer plans." All plans would have to have some co-payment, to encourage people to make choices about their care.

No clue, or lying, or both.


GravatarDon't Canadian citizens get passports from the Canadian govt? Or are you talking about visas? Canadians don't need visas to visit the US do they? What am I missing here?
Tralfaz

Congress voted a couple of years ago that your friendly canadian neighbors need a passport now to enter your country because we might be nasty terrrrorrrists. The law came in effect in march. So since then, we need a passport to get in. Huge backlog at the canadian passport offices. A big mess.


GravatarThey're through scraping the bottom of the barrel.

Now they're thinking of moving the barrel and collecting the stuff underneath.
Terry C, Wingers R Whiners


With Repukes, it's scum all the way down.


GravatarDid someone mention Jeff Gannon?


Gravatar Let's not become a nanny state

That's rich, Rudy, coming from the diaper-clad WATB GOP.


GravatarDavis, indeed

And at least with the foreign press, you get naked women on page 3. Not my thing, but Monsieur thinks it's cool.


GravatarThe Globe has been on that Bush "divorce" story for months now.


GravatarPretty soon you won't even be able to exclaim when you stub your toe without me calling you a hate-filled leftist.

WAPISH!


Gravatar"Did someone mention Jeff Gannon?"

DNA don't lie.


Gravatarquestion about cutting military spending. Giuliani responded with a prompt no: "It's already been done. Clinton cut our military budget by enormous amounts in the 1990s, and it left us in a position where we can't face the dangers we're facing right now."
cheney_usa


Wasn't Dickus the one urging Mil. spending cuts?


GravatarThe ideal punishment for all of them would be for them to wind up broke and destitute.

But we know THAT ain't gonna happen.
Terry C, Wingers R Whiners


No the ideal is to have Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, Wolfowitz, Perle, Lieberman and the rest manually dig the graves with shovels for the 20 newly killed US soldiers each week. If one of them should have a heart attack or stroke while digging, I would say it's God's will.
.


GravatarIt is wrong, wrong to wish cancer upon the Mission Accomplishers when it is far easier to wish that a beaker of sulfuric acid be thrown in each of their faces.
Doctor Filth

or shooted up in their colons...


GravatarIts so the Republican Faithful know exactly which procedure to ask for from their doctors.

"Closer to Dubya" and all that...


GravatarGiuliani's health-care plan is firmly based in the private sector. He proposes a $15,000 tax exemption for individual health insurance.

Rudy, Rudy, Rudy. [shakes head]

If it depends upon a government tax policy, it is not firmly based in the private sector.


GravatarWith Repukes, it's scum all the way down.
JT


I mean, c'mon.....Newt????

Puhleeze!


GravatarHow could Bush have a heart attack when he hasn't got anything resembling a heart?

Bush had heart surgery when he was a child (a fact that never was discussed during 2004 election), and has some condition. That's why his pulse rate is so low, and why he fell over "choking on a preztel".


GravatarNo clue, or lying, or both.
cheney_usa | Homepage | 07.21.07 - 12:11 pm | #


He's nuts. Our "attractive" employer plan costs us almost $500/month per individual (which cost we eat), a family plan is closer to $1400 (the employee has to come up with the $900/month difference between the two).


The system broken. End of story. Single payer is the only way forward.


GravatarVicki, I see your point--I want real solutions to the very real problems we're facing.

On the other hand, I understand Terry's pov, and let's face it, these bastards hate us. They've openly declared their enmity upon us.

So I'm kind of in both places.


Gravatarcheney, sociopaths have very low pulse rates. Just saying.


Gravatar Let's not become a nanny state

That's rich, Rudy, coming from the diaper-clad WATB GOP.
Lime Rickey


FTW!


Gravatarcheney, sociopaths have very low pulse rates. Just saying.
Sallyh for Hussein, Grandmere


SUPPOSEDLY why they can pass lie detector tests when they're lying their asses off.


GravatarIf it depends upon a government tax policy, it is not firmly based in the private sector.
Snow, Contrary


Like just about everything else 'privatized' by the Bushistas. Somehow it leaves a bigger hole in the tax fed US Treasury.
.


Gravatarcan everybody stop posting for 2 days so i can finish reading my Harry Potter? I cant follow the comments and read the book at the same time. Merci. So now...STOP POSTING, please?


GravatarThe system broken. End of story. Single payer is the only way forward.

Indeed. There's no way to 'fix' the system as it presently exists.


Gravatarthese bastards hate us. They've openly declared their enmity upon us.

Because that is their worldview. If you disagree with them, you are an enemy that must be destroyed.

That isn't your worldview, so why give in to that kind of hate.


Gravatar"cheney, sociopaths have very low pulse rates. Just saying."

Prick them and do they not bleed sand?


GravatarOh, and those rates I mentioned above are a 10.5% increase over the previous year, include only a crappy dental plan, and a bare-bones vision rider. Best healthcare in the world, my ass.


Gravatar"It's already been done. Clinton cut our military budget by enormous amounts in the 1990s, and it left us in a position where we can't face the dangers we're facing right now."



Whatever WOULD the right DO without Bill Clinton to pin all their failures and fuckups on?


GravatarGWPDA-- I think you only need the passport to get back into the states, so....
Moe Szyslak


I have a perfectly valid US passport. I'd like to have an equally valid Canadian passport. As it stands now, Passports Canada has my previous Cdn passport, my money, my application, various photographs and attestations and my birth certificate.


GravatarOur "attractive" employer plan costs us almost $500/month per individual (which cost we eat), a family plan is closer to $1400 (the employee has to come up with the $900/month difference between the two).


The system broken. End of story. Single payer is the only way forward.
Barbarism Begins at Home


Thanks for the numbers, which I didn't have (and obviously no reporter has) to throw common sense and math at his proposal.

I'm sure Rudy's solution will bring down the price to 39.99/mo and we can go to Best Buy and pick it up.

*rolls eyes


Gravatarcan everybody stop posting for 2 days so i can finish reading my Harry Potter? I cant follow the comments and read the book at the same time. Merci. So now...STOP POSTING, please?
plum p, who loves Al Gore


THAT good?


Gravatarcan everybody stop breathing for 2 days so i can finish reading my Harry Potter?

I believe this is what you're really asking


Gravatarcan everybody stop posting for 2 days so i can finish reading my Harry Potter? I cant follow the comments and read the book at the same time. Merci. So now...STOP POSTING, please?
plum p, who loves Al Gore


Wouldn't it be easier if someone just revealed the 'ending'?

[ducks]
.


Gravatar"Indeed. There's no way to 'fix' the system as it presently exists."

The day there is a guaranteed method of health care cut loose from the fetters of employment is the day the entire employment landscape changes.

I would imagine there would be a few companies that simply vanish the day after their employees vanish.


Gravatar"The essence of fanaticism is that it has almost no tolerance for any data that do not confirm its own point of view."
~Postman


GravatarI mean, c'mon.....Newt????

One of the moments of hilarity in an otherwise good program about the mythology of Star Wars on the History Channel was Eye of Newt holding forth totally oblivious of how anti-Repuke the symbolism was.


GravatarEkCenTrik, that giant sucking sound...


GravatarFrench doctors are puzzling over the case of 44-year-old civil servant who has led a quite normal life -- but with an extraordinarily tiny brain.

Insert Bush joke here.


GravatarWouldn't it be easier if someone just revealed the 'ending'?


Good triumphs over evil.

Happy?


Gravatarquestion about cutting military spending. Giuliani responded with a prompt no: "It's already been done. Clinton cut our military budget by enormous amounts in the 1990s, and it left us in a position where we can't face the dangers we're facing right now."
cheney_usa


Wasn't Dickus the one urging Mil. spending cuts?
1Watt, Hermit


There were not "cuts," merely a return to normal (and still high) levels of spending after the Reagan-era splurge.

We maintained our Cold War posture, searching for a new justification, and paradoxically generating the blowback that would bring the new justification.


GravatarGreetings, again, rational people.

I read Atrios's post and laughed. I guess the whole world really is interested in that asshole.


GravatarDavis, indeed

Thomas Jefferson realized that the commonweal might very well hinge on whether the median voter knew enough about Kirstie Alley's eating disorders.

“Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter."
Wise words from our third President, and prescient, seeing as how he never met Tom and Nicole....


GravatarNo he doesn't. Only in the rarefied air of cable news land. What's he get, maybe 2-3 million viewers?

That's a sizable audience. More of an audience than you have, I'm guessing.

Perhaps I'm failing at making this point, so I'm going to try to be as concise as possible.

What he does, what all the righties do, is toss out trial balloons with regard to their talking points to see if what they're saying will fly like a bird or tank like a submarine. I pay attention to this, and I can tell you that I've heard this meme trotted out on several GOP shows - they're trying to get traction with the spin that the Democrat (sic) Party is the party of hate and vitriol.

Why give them fuel for their fire?

Why would anyone here want to lower themselves to the likes of the freepers, or LGF?

From my perspective, taking the high road when it comes to politics is what I want to do, because it makes me feel better about it. Any other topic, I could not care less. However, my one fear is that this country has sunk too low for much of anything to make a difference any more.

And Terry C, you didn't offend me. I just think your comment could be used against you, Atrios, and ultimately the liberal blogosphere.


GravatarAll plans would have to have some co-payment, to encourage people to make choices about their care.

With Co-Pays:
Dr: You can have a shot, which might help for a little bit, or you can have surgery, which will cure you.
Pt: I'll do whichever costs me less.

With Universal:
Dr: You can have a shot, which might help for a little bit, or you can have surgery, which will cure you.
Pt: I'll do whichever costs me less.
Dr: Um, neither will cost you anything, so which one do YOU want.


GravatarNice how shrub gets knocked out for his colonoscopy while the rest of us have to suffer through them wide awake. one more thing the little shit is protected from having to experience.


Gravatar"*rolls eyes
cheney_usa "

Great, the Geek Squad will make medical house calls.

Now I am worried.


Course it would be considered warranty repair and would you care to extend the warranty while you are at it?


GravatarKeep playing my game.

Don't be angry, and certainly don't express your anger in "uncivil" ways, or I'll be on you like flies on shit. Fear me!

WAPISH!


Gravatarbtw Rudy Nine Eleven's foreign policy experience is how to con wealthy governments into believing that he knows something they don't about terrorism, and get paid millions.
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GravatarThere are plenty of unanswered questions about the FBI spyware that, as we reported earlier this week, can be delivered over the Internet and implanted in a suspect's computer remotely.

One of the questions is, "Does it get installed from haloscan or DailyKos?"


GravatarI would imagine there would be a few companies that simply vanish the day after their employees vanish.
EkCenTriK | 07.21.07 - 12:19 pm | #



The thing that I don't understand is why businesses (other than insurance companies, of course), aren't CLAMORING for universal healthcare. Providing health insurance is guaranteed one the biggest expenses facing any company. I just don't get it.


Gravatar...but...but...his colon is all clean now!

Sen. Sununu: I Don’t Want President Bush To Campaign With Me

The New York Times writes this morning that conservatives are trying to walk a fine line between supporting and distancing themselves from President Bush:

There is little question that the winds of discontent are stirring among Republicans on Capitol Hill over the direction of the Iraq war. A majority, of course, continued to support President Bush with their votes this week during the latest Iraq debate. But several Republicans no longer whisper, or walk away, when asked about their skepticism.

One of those conservative trying to strike this delicate balance is Sen. John Sununu (R-NH). “Sununu has faced criticism for his stance on Iraq, with critics charging he is too close to President Bush on war policy.” This week, he voted to filibuster the Levin-Reed amendment.

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07...-campaign-bush/


Gravatar>>A colonoscopy is fairly common diagnostic procedure that those of us with health insurance are encouraged to get at some point in our lives.

Unless, of course, your primary medical provider's software doesn't remind them again if you choose not to have it done upon first recommendation.


GravatarWhy would anyone here want to lower themselves to the likes of the freepers, or LGF?

They seem like they have a pretty rockin' time.


Gravatar"That isn't your worldview, so why give in to that kind of hate."

"Luke, don't give into hate. that leads to the dark side."

true, but liberals have been trying to act christian since day one - summer of love and all that. didn't work, did it? I see today more signs of hope that some kind of progressive country is emerging, a country that just might live up to what it thinks it is, and I attribute it to the left adapting a little Malcolm and saying "by any means necessary!"

doesn't mean we got to want them dead, doesn't mean we gotta hate, but yes we do have to answer back at least as strongly.

just my 02/100 of a $


Gravatarbtw Rudy Nine Eleven's foreign policy experience is how to con wealthy governments into believing that he knows something they don't about terrorism, and get paid millions.

Rudy left office four months after 9/11. He broke more than he fixed. The facts aren't ambiguous.


GravatarDon't be angry, and certainly don't express your anger in "uncivil" ways, or I'll be on you like flies on shit. Fear me!

Firefight pictures! Now!


GravatarTHAT good?
Terry C, Wingers R Whiners | 07.21.07 - 12:19 pm | #

can everybody stop breathing for 2 days so i can finish reading my Harry Potter?

I believe this is what you're really asking
Sallyh for Hussein,

yeah, something like that. A major character is already dead by chapter 6


GravatarSo since then, we need a passport to get in. Huge backlog at the canadian passport offices. A big mess.
plum p, who loves Al Gore


Ah. I see. You're right. It's pretty stupid. It also sux that your passports are only good for 5 yrs.


GravatarThat isn't your worldview, so why give in to that kind of hate.


Now, see, here...Snow up what I've attempted to say in several paragraphs in one simple sentence!

That is exactly it.

And Gomez had it right earlier - Bush is a cancer. With that, I agree, because we can prove with facts how he has been a malignancy to the United States of America.


GravatarGomez knows how Harry Potter ends...


GravatarAh, if I can only hook up with the Royal Military College to teach a couple of courses, then I'll be able to add to my Cdn retirement earnings and quarters sufficiently so as to be properly covered when/if I return....

Chuy but I LOVE the social safety net!


GravatarCan someone with the magic keys put up another post, maybe about urban transport or bad music? I do not need to know anymore about an asshole's asshole.


Gravatar"
The thing that I don't understand is why businesses (other than insurance companies, of course), aren't CLAMORING for universal healthcar"

Well, one is that "Socialist" stigma thing a lot of business owners etc have.

But I really do think it is a game of leverage. I have watched people being told sorry, they have shopped, but coverage is going down and cost is going up. But I know in reality that they didn't shop out the policy at all.

The only reason I can see is incompetence or an ulterior motive.

So with Universal Healthcare, same diff.


Gravataryeah, something like that. A major character is already dead by chapter 6


Aw, come on. Don't do that.


GravatarWouldn't it be easier if someone just revealed the 'ending'?

[ducks]
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Agent Orange

you are dead to me, my friend


GravatarHerbert Read's advice: "Never trust any group larger than a squad."

(From Pizzo's blog)


Gravataryeah, something like that. A major character is already dead by chapter 6

Who? I don't read the books or watch the movies so you won't be ruining anything for me.


Gravatarcan everybody stop posting for 2 days so i can finish reading my Harry Potter? I cant follow the comments and read the book at the same time. Merci. So now...STOP POSTING, please?
plum p, who loves Al Gore | Homepage | 07.21.07 - 12:16 pm |


I figure once my mailman shows up to deliver it, I'll have to lock myself away until around midnight.


GravatarGomez knows how Harry Potter ends...

Gomez sounds like a house elf.


GravatarAw, come on. Don't do that.
billy b

sorry! but JK said she was killing a few, so it's not a shock


Gravataryeah, something like that. A major character is already dead by chapter 6
plum p, who loves Al Gore |


So Harry doesn't lock himself in his bedroom with a loaded pistol and a bottle of "Jack"!
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GravatarGomez knows how Harry Potter ends, but he won't tell me because he's afraid I'll get drunk and tell you all.

And my daughter. He's saving the end for Jesus, and for my daughter.


Gravatarhttp://www.comcast.net/news/inde.../21/ 720243.html


India doesn't sound like a nice place for women to live.


GravatarSpinoza, would you settle for threads about cats or whiskey or human devouring reptilians?


Gravatar
Unless, of course, your primary medical provider's software doesn't remind them again if you choose not to have it done upon first recommendation.
Teabow

Virtual colonoscopy (also called CT colonography) is making pretty good strides.
Tralfaz


Yeah, but the nagware pop-ups are a bitch.


GravatarFrom my perspective, taking the high road when it comes to politics is what I want to do, because it makes me feel better about it.

Nothin' personal Vickie, but this is a weird website to make that particular observation on.

Just sayin'.


GravatarWho? I don't read the books or watch the movies so you won't be ruining anything for me.
Snow

as if I would say who. Silly Snow.


GravatarGomez knows how Harry Potter ends...

Gomez sounds like a house elf.
NTodd, Orthodontist


Give him your pants so that he may be free.


Gravatarbut this is a weird website to make that particular observation on.


Why? I've been here for over three years...my comment is nothing new to the people here who know me.


Gravatar"we can prove with facts how he has been a malignancy to the United States of America."

I am not trying to be snarky, but when have facts mattered in this debate?

facts will tell you the us of a (fuck yeah!) ranks nowhere near #1 in anything but prison population and executing teens, but does that matter? we're dealing with a population that in 2004 was about 1/2 filled with people who really believed bush was the only one who could protect us from the turristz, when a calendar would tell then he fucked it the last time!


GravatarI liked the ending.


GravatarFirefight pictures! Now!

Nope, I'm the one controlling the discourse here, and judging by some of the comments, I'm doing a damned good job of it. Be good and know your place!

WAPISH!


GravatarBush is a cancer. With that, I agree, because we can prove with facts how he has been a malignancy to the United States of America.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore


Agreed. Again, I apologize, but the frustration level is very high.


Gravataras if I would say who. Silly Snow.

If it isn't Hermione, I won't even know who it is.


GravatarPossible that that asshole Vitter's going down?

http:// rossdouthat.theatlantic.c...ign_senator.php


Gravatarthis is a weird website to make that particular observation on.

I said that wrong. What I meant was, if you feel that way, why are you posting here?

Again, nothing personal.


GravatarI think we all want to take the high road, and I think we do. But let's face it, we can't be smacked down for over a half dozen years and not get weary of it. This is a good place to express that and come up with solutions. (Pax, anyone?)


GravatarGive him your pants so that he may be free.
Uncle Smokes

funny

GOMEZ: SHUT UP!


GravatarLooked at CNN and it seems polyps were removed. Poor little polyps, go in peace. I want more respect for life there.

As a person I know let colon cancer go, and yesterday one of the mestaseses had to be removed from his brain, not expected to live much longer, ... go in peace, polyps and friends.


GravatarBe good and know your place!

Fuck you, coward.


GravatarWho? I don't read the books or watch the movies so you won't be ruining anything for me.
Snow, Contrary


I like the fact that the books and movies piss off the fundies.


GravatarThe book is now in alt.binaries.e-book

You need a yenc decoder to download it.


GravatarHeadlines that make you laugh...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/ 2007...ainroyalsanimal
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GravatarOT, but extra-special Saturday Fiona catblogging!


GravatarPossible that that asshole Vitter's going down?

http:// rossdouthat.theatlantic.c...ign_senator.php
1Watt, Hermit


It doesn't sound good for him, but we shall see.


Gravatari do wish cancer on Bush. I'm a bad person for thinking so? Be it then.


GravatarVirtual colonoscopy (also called CT colonography) is making pretty good strides.
Tralfaz

Yeah, but the nagware pop-ups are a bitch.
Uncle Smokes


All I can say is: Ouch.


GravatarIndia doesn't sound like a nice place for women to live.

Just elected their first female President. Maybe things will get better.


GravatarAn undisclosed White House source hinted that four of the five polyps will receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom in a ceremony scheduled for mid-September.


GravatarHeadlines that make you laugh...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/ 2007...ainroyalsanimal
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Agent Orange


I love this quotation: "Camilla is, in fact, absolutely chuffed to bits."


GravatarVicki,


While it's true that Falafel has a larger audience than I do, he's also trying to build such an audience, and I am not. His audience is not large by any objective television standard. Building him up to become some kind of invincible bogeyman is exactly what he wants.

Trying to be polite and inoffensive is what has cost us election after election. 2006 was the first time in memory that the Dems fought fire with fire, and, what do you know, we won! Again, I'm not advocating hate, but I'm not going to kowtow to the "serious" people either. Politics is a hardball game, made ever more serious by the criminal despots who have taken over our government. We need to play to win.


Gravatar"
Yeah, but the nagware pop-ups are a bitch."

:o


GravatarPlum, I wish a lot of bad things on Bush/Cheney, but most of all, I wish them gone.


GravatarFrom my perspective, taking the high road when it comes to politics is what I want to do, because it makes me feel better about it.

The Repugs line the high road with IEDs.


GravatarWhat I meant was, if you feel that way, why are you posting here?


Well, for one, I like a lot of people here - it's a community of friends and our pet trolls.

For two - you think I'm the only one here with that viewpoint? I'm not, trust me.

I think this is the perfect place to hope to take the high road - Atrios' thing here is to tell the truth and expose us to the lies, laziness, and misdeeds of the media. It's a good thing he's doing. We can help him along in his cause but not hoping for "dime-sized holes" in politicians' skulls (e.g. death wishes, etc.).


GravatarOT, but extra-special Saturday Fiona catblogging!
dave™©

oh the lovely Fiona! And may Nicholas' star watch us from above.


GravatarIndia doesn't sound like a nice place for women to live.

Just elected their first female President. Maybe things will get better.
JT


I hope so. I hear about those "honor killings" and I get so pissed off I could scream.


Gravatar"Iraq's parliament took an August vacation and all I got was this lousy coffin."
~Luckovich


GravatarBritain's Prince Charles gives wife sheep for birthday: report
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Prince Charles comes into royal bedroom carrying sheep, says, "This is the pig I fuck when you say you have a headache."

Camilla says, "That's not a pig, you fool-- that's a sheep!"

Prince Charles replies, "I was talking to the sheep."


Gravatarplum p, I am there. some one who pretends a 'respect for life' and tries to put big blocks on stem cell research has earned pain.


GravatarAn undisclosed White House source hinted that four of the five polyps will receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom in a ceremony scheduled for mid-September.

That source is full of shit.


GravatarThe polyps will be sent to the National Archives to be placed next to Carter's hemmies, and Reagans 42 feet of colon...


GravatarHeadlines that make you laugh...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/ 2007...ainroyalsanimal
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Agent Orange

I love this quotation: "Camilla is, in fact, absolutely chuffed to bits."
Uncle Smokes |


Well it's not as good as a new dishwasher let's say but getting 'chuffed to bits' sounds positive.


.


GravatarWAPISH!
Bill O'Reilly


Is it a negligee situation?

Is it two girls?

Do you have your clothes on?


Gravatar...may Nicholas' star watch us from above.

We're planning a memorial service for him this coming Thursday, so if you're in the area...!


GravatarIndia doesn't sound like a nice place for women to live.

Just elected their first female President. Maybe things will get better.
JT


Indira Gandi was a guy?


GravatarTrying to be polite and inoffensive is what has cost us election after election.

No one said you have to be polite and inoffensive. There is a difference between calling someone a fucktard and wishing them dead.


Gravatarplum p, I am there. some one who pretends a 'respect for life' and tries to put big blocks on stem cell research has earned pain.
Ruth


The fact that he doesn't know shit about scientific matters really gets me.

At the 2004 Democratic Convention, Ron Reagan Jr. explained it all so clearly.


GravatarLions' family life. So.dam.cute.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/ pages...in_page_id=1811


GravatarWell, one is that "Socialist" stigma thing a lot of business owners etc have.

el-hi education is socialist. So are most highways, and the military. Why is guarding a child's health less of a priority than teaching her the ABCs? The Milton Friedman Ayn Rand Gary Cooper individualist manifest destiny wonks like Kristol and Coulter have invested in the cost/benefit ratios of Adam Smith's invisible handjob to the detriment of the enlightenment. Adam Smith never said what they use him for, and Ann Coulter going after Darwin like a rabid chipmunk suggests that their ideology conquers all. I await the roman à clef about that NRO cruise. About Norman Pudhoretz on the bow of the boat with Katie O'Burn re-enacting the "Titantic" scene. And then Katie O'Burn says, "Fuck me hard Norm. Fuck me. Just don't use your limp dick. Use this." And she hands him a rolled up copy of a 1962 National Review in which William F Buckley says Martin Luther King may be a communist.


GravatarIndira Gandi was a guy?
cheney_usa


I think Indira was Prime Minister.


GravatarIndira Gandi was a guy?

No, but she wasn't president either. She was Prime Minister.


GravatarSo has anyone else seen Craig Ferguson's Prince Charles impression?

Funny stuff!


GravatarWAPISH!
Bill O'Reilly

Is it a negligee situation?

Is it two girls?

Do you have your clothes on?


Were there reenactments from Ilsa, She-Wolf of the SS?


GravatarBuilding him up to become some kind of invincible bogeyman is exactly what he wants.

You don't know what you're talking about! Get him out of here! CUT HIS MIKE! CUT HIS MIKE!


Gravatar"What about the thousands of other people whose phone numbers are on the D.C. Madam's call list?" Ignatius asks. "Are they fair game?"

Why don't you check them out and tell us? Or would that cut in to your GOP ass-kissing time?


GravatarNo, but she wasn't president either. She was Prime Minister.

Right, doesn't PM hold the power?


Gravatar"Is it a negligee situation?

Is it two girls?

Do you have your clothes on?"



Oh, that WAS disgusting.

And SO O'Reilly.


GravatarWe're planning a memorial service for him this coming Thursday, so if you're in the area...!
dave™©

sadly, i wont. Why did he die?


GravatarI think this is the perfect place to hope to take the high road

I'm afraid we're just going to have to agree to disagree - myself, I have no problem taking the low road.


GravatarAnd Gomez had it right earlier - Bush is a cancer. With that, I agree, because we can prove with facts how he has been a malignancy to the United States of America.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore


[Too obvious, but someone's gotta post it.]

"There is a cancer growing on the Presidency."
-- John Dean to Richard Nixon, March 1973


GravatarThe polyps are leading the field of GoPervert presidential candidates heading to 2008!


GravatarSo has anyone else seen Craig Ferguson's Prince Charles impression?

Funny stuff!
dave™©


Craig Ferguson said the other day that he will never, ever have Paris Hilton on his show.

Says he is sick and tired of her.


GravatarIndira Gandi was a guy?

Umm...Prime...Minister...dickynut.


GravatarWhy don't you check them out and tell us? Or would that cut in to your GOP ass-kissing time?
Lime Rickey | 07.21.07 - 12:37 pm | #



Are you kidding? I'm headed to a FABULOUS party tonight in Georgetown. What to wear, what to wear!!!


Gravatarharry owls!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


GravatarPersonally, I try to avoid actively wishing for people to die a painful death, since I've got enough bad karma (why do you think I'm begging for money - operators are standing by!)

But I do so hope I'm around to see a photo of Tipsy McStagger passed out in a gutter with a five-day growth of stubble during his post-presidential career.

Of course, a trip to the Hague would be nice, too...


GravatarAn undisclosed White House source hinted that four of the five polyps will receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom in a ceremony scheduled for mid-September.
Moritat


The fifth has been appointed to a federal attorney position in Little Rock, Arkansas.


GravatarI hope his ass is doing alright.


GravatarAccording to Peggy Noonan in todays WSJ, according to Robert Novak (what a pedigree this claim has!), Tom Eagleton was the originator of "amnesty, acid, and abortion" - the phrase that was used effectively to demolish McGovern. So, if we can believe these liars, Lieberman was not the original judas VP candidate.

Memo to Democrats: Don't keep appointing your enemies to be your bodyguards.


GravatarIf the biopsy reveals Bush's polyps to be brain cells, then what?
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Gravatar"Trying to be polite and inoffensive is what has cost us election after election."

2000 for sure. Gore acted like a gentleman, bush acted like the commander of a barbarian army. Who won?

I was told as a teacher (and a parent, for that matter) that i needed to set limits. I know for a fact that the more i held out to a student this far and no farther will you go with that behavior the more success I had and the more success i could have.

the right has grown to expect the cuddly liberals to cave when confronted with force. I see nothing wrong with meeting an attempted bitchslap with one of my own - or at least making it clear that one was there if they wanted it.


GravatarThis has my vote for best comment of the month.

First post after David Broder's latest article:

Where is the real David Broder and what have you done to him? No mention of Republican policy priorities, no hint of noble efforts to strive for Congressional consensus, no anecdotes of heart-warming wisdom in the heartlands, not even any pats for Bush and his White House. Does this mean that the long anticipated "Bush Bounce" is now officially dead? Are the Republicans to be consigned by The Dean to the scrap-heap of history?

Broder has his finger deeply embedded in the prevailing winds, and those winds now seem to be blowing in a strongly Democratic direction. Broder prepares to offer his sage advice to the new Democrat constituency. Fire up his order of quail, someone!


http://www.washingtonpost.com/ wp...7072002047.html


Gravatarmgb helps dim the hate


Gravataryep, higher ed is especially socialist, it evens the playing field, so TX is cutting it out. See http://cabdrollery.blogspot.com.


Gravatar"CUT HIS MIKE! CUT HIS MIKE!"

Fat chance.


Gravatar"According to Peggy Noonan in todays WSJ"


Speaking of assholes........


GravatarTrying to be polite and inoffensive is what has cost us election after election. 2006 was the first time in memory that the Dems fought fire with fire, and, what do you know, we won! Again, I'm not advocating hate, but I'm not going to kowtow to the "serious" people either. Politics is a hardball game, made ever more serious by the criminal despots who

Great post.

As my old man, a school superintendent that had to deal with irate and often irrational parents regularly, used to say when said parents wanted to get nasty,

"If you want to swing and ax, then we can swing an ax."

More of this please.


GravatarWhile I don't think that civil discourse as defined by the Broders of this country is viable any longer, I do often worry about the violence our everyday language is filled with.

One of these days I'm going to sift through the Buddhist teachings on right speech and produce an essay, if only for my own benefit and use. I really do have to stop theatening folks with whom I disagree with knee capping or throttling.


GravatarBroder has his finger deeply embedded in the prevailing winds



And his tongue deeply imbedded in Dick Cheney's ass.


GravatarDRAPES


GravatarSo when is Larry Flynt gonna tell us what he's got?

C'mon, Larry - dish.

Inquiring minds want to know.


Gravatar"If you want to swing and ax, then we can swing an ax."

yeah. and honestly, if i thought anyone really wanted someone dead I might feel differently, but I think peoples is just blowing off steam when they say stuff like that.

and honestly - i find it hard to swallow that the lefties have to be so pure while the right has coulter without apparent penalty. cause there may be a difference between a fuckoff and a death wish, but both will be used against the left, and eliminate the death wish and we will be attacked for the fuckoff.

The right is NOT going to fight fair, nor are they ever going to see the left as the loyal opposition. we are in the way of the great neocon fundie wet dream. they will bomb the shit out of the high road if they have to.

if the high road suits your spirit, ok. just don't expect an improvement in the debate or in the behavior of the right.


GravatarWhy?


Gravatar"Why?"

why not?


GravatarJK Rowling did say that at least 5 polyps would be killed off today.


Gravatar"I am pleased, more than I can express in words, to report that I have thoroughly probed the presidential ass.


GravatarI loved the blurb about '...diagnostic procedure that those of us with health insurance...' Ain't that the truth! What's it up to now; $2500?

Yes, sir, Bush is going to get the best of everything. A family friend went to get a colonscopy at a Veteran's Administration hospital in South Carolina where they don't coddle vets and perfom the procedure without any anesthesia at all! Halfway through, he climbed down from the table and said 'Sorry, I can't take the pain.' Meanwhile, Bush is soaring happily pain-free with the birds ...


Gravatar"how do I get you alone"-David Broder singing Heart songs to 43 after the shitscope


GravatarTwenty years from now we can visit him at the ranchette and read him some Brautigan:

"ROMMEL DRIVES ON DEEP INTO EGYPT"
—San Francisco Chronicle headline
June 26, 1942

Rommel is dead.
His army has joined the quicksand legions
of history where the battle is always
a metal echo saluting a rusty shadow.
His tanks are gone.
How's your ass?

--Richard Brautigan 1970


GravatarIt's a tragic loss to the Republic that Bush wasn't forced to hold a press conference the morning after his colonoscopy.

I, for one, would be fascinated to hear what the man might say on the one day of his life when he hasn't been full of shit.


GravatarBut this is not just another colonoscopy. If they could find Bush's head . . .


GravatarCNN's Coverage of Bush's colonoscopy strikes me as the modern day equivalent of LouisXIV having his syncophants gather around for the privilege of watching him defecate.


GravatarIt's fortunate he got a colonoscopy. Now, as commander in chief, he'll be able to effectively discharge his doody.


GravatarBut did they find his microcephalus up there?


GravatarWell, I hope everything came out alright.


Gravatar"A colonoscopy is fairly common diagnostic procedure that those of us with health insurance are encouraged to get at some point in our lives.

Anyone else can go to an emergency room.
P O'Neill"

No you can't just go to an emergency room for this type of examination.

And "at some point in our lives"
doesn't cut it.

Colonoscopy should be done regularly if you're over 50. Would probably be best if started in mid 40s.

Regularly is about every 4 or 5 years if no polyps are found. If polyps are found and are benign INSIST on no more than 3 years but 1 or 2 would be better.


GravatarHear they took out a couple polyps only to find out later that they actually peformed a prefrontal lobotomy.


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