HULK SMASH!!!

GravatarKerning is for corn isn;t it?

And your Supremes chipping away at the constitution at http://cabdrollery.blogspot.com


Gravatar16 Months, how many deaths is that? they want more more more.


GravatarTake that, Huggy!


GravatarI called sheets.


GravatarThanks, Attaturk.


GravatarPoor McSame.

~


GravatarFuck McSame.


Gravatarbut....but obama is a furrin' policy moron because he doesn't say "kill them all!"


GravatarDigby, anyway.
Moe Szyslak

It looks like The Rude Pundit's name is a widely published thing, too.
Uncle Smokes


Glad to hear that, and sorry to be alarmist. (I can't believe that I was suspicious of the mighty NYT)


GravatarShouldn't that be "time horizon"?
-


GravatarWhy that Maliki, what a cut and stayer ...or something.


GravatarMaliki is a terrorist.


GravatarThis proves it, Obama's One o' Them Towelheads.

/Gramm


GravatarNo, Al-Maliki does not need fiction.


GravatarIt worked!


I have prepared a bucket of extremely hot water and cleaning fluids, along with a scrub brush in anticipation of the anger and frustration from listening to Nancy P. The best scrubbing my kitchen floor will get!


GravatarThe Speaker makes me Scrub!


GravatarMaliki is a whiner.


GravatarAspirational goals, my ass.


GravatarBy Michael Finnegan, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
July 19, 2008
On his trip to the Middle East and Europe, Barack Obama hopes to reassure Americans that he has the foreign-policy expertise to keep the nation safe. Images beamed back from Jerusalem, Berlin and other cities next week will show him meeting heads of state with all the formal trappings of summitry.

If the all-but-certain Democratic nominee avoids mistakes, the intense news coverage -- three network anchors will accompany him -- could ease voter doubts.


shorter corporate media: as a democrat, if obama says ONE bad thing or misspeaks ONE policy, he's toast!


GravatarI have prepared a bucket of extremely hot water and cleaning fluids, along with a scrub brush in anticipation of the anger and frustration from listening to Nancy P. The best scrubbing my kitchen floor will get!
camelot


I save my weeding for those kinds of moods.


GravatarI can't wait to hear what McCain says about this!


GravatarSpeaking of weeds, I will be back after proper attention to the garden. Enjoy.


GravatarGood morning.

Why hasn't anybody put Kit Seelye in a sarcophogus yet?


GravatarSay Billy - wish you could've been with us for Mellencamp /Lucinda Williams last night.

Fuck, they tore down the old Pine Knob.


Gravatarshorter corporate media: as a democrat, if obama says ONE bad thing or misspeaks ONE policy, he's toast!

It will be interesting to read the foreign press on Obama.


GravatarGood morning, gang. Long time no see. Except for the rampant evil in our alleged government, how ya doin'?


GravatarSorry, Maliki, but that time horizon is not general enought, despite "slight changes."

Anyway...let's see. Given the tradition (started with FDR) of a new president's "first 100 days" being the most productive, let's say a plan is laid out by the end of that period.

The 16 months would commence on April 30, 2009, give or take few days.

The withdrawal would be complete around the end of August, 2010, in time for mid-term elections!


GravatarSpeaking of weed, I will be back after proper attention to my bowl

Fried yer tacos, Ruth...


GravatarIf you wanna get your blood pressure up, the WaPo has the editorial for you:

How Big Are Those Bundles?
Barack Obama's failure to practice what he legislates


http://www.washingtonpost.com/ wp...8071802595.html


Gravatarfilk man! Howzit going?


Gravatarhow ya doin'?
filkertom


Mostly glad to see you back! Howaya?


GravatarNah, Gromit; Took my BP meds, saw the title, stayed away.


GravatarGood morning filkertom.


GravatarI left out a crucial comma, filkertom.

I am mortified

Of course, I meant:

Mostly, glad to see you back!


GravatarJohn McCain, whose disclosure of bundlers had been sketchier than Mr. Obama's, told the campaign finance groups it would add employer and occupational information to his list of bundlers, promising monthly updates and saying he would include in the totals the amounts bundlers raised for the Republican National Committee to benefit the McCain campaign. The Obama campaign did not reply to the groups' letter.




Spin. Spin. Spin.


GravatarMaliki sings:


Beyond the time horizon
Waits a beautiful day
Good bye to troops that backed me
Now all I've got's Iraqi's
I feel the time horizon
Will be when we say the war's won
Beyond the time horizon
When we're rid of the dim son.


GravatarHuh. I just got here, but it looks like the rain's stopped so I'm going to bike to the gym.

Oh, and "The Dark Knight"? AWESOME.


GravatarSpin. Spin. Spin.

Sung to the Byrds "Turn, Turn, Turn"...


GravatarMy mother used to order from Der Spiegel catalog.


GravatarGlad to hear that, and sorry to be alarmist. (I can't believe that I was suspicious of the mighty NYT)
Gromit, dirty hippie scientist


Oh, I thought that, too, when I read the op-ed. The piece seemed to be a little too comfortable with disclosing actual identities, but I guess we blogfolk have conditioned ourselves to be protective of on-line personas and privacy.


Gravatarfilkertom! What a pleasure! And honor!

Howya feeling?


GravatarHey, BD, WillVenus! Not bad in the grand scheme, although the summer definitely is not what I planned. I tore my left quad tendon last month, and two surgeries later (one for something unrelated but they had me so by gum they was a-doin' it) I've been in physical therapy for the past several weeks. I hope to be walking again, with assistance at least, by the middle of next month. Shot my gigs to hell, though. And I literally just got back online this past Thursday night, and only with dial-up at that. Remind me to tell you how badly AT&T sucks -- oh, wait, you knew?


GravatarMy mother used to order from Der Spiegel catalog.

Mine too. It was exciting when the order came.


GravatarI am just not feeling that Dark Knight thrill. I am a Spidey girl, I guess.


GravatarKit Seelye

Eric Alterman, now a senior fellow for Media Matters for America, further noted in the October 21, 2002, issue of The Nation that "Katharine Seelye's and Ceci Connolly's coverage turned out to be so egregious that the two were singled out by the conservative Financial Times of London as 'hostile to the [Gore] campaign,' unable to hide their 'contempt for the candidate.' "

Sad that she's still getting paid.
~


Gravataralthough the summer definitely is not what I planned

Fucking life, always getting in the way of the best laid plans.

Why, I outta....

I just want you back to what you were doing, filk. No more, no less.


GravatarBetter and better, Gromit, though I'm still gonna be out of it for awhile. Dunno how much I'll be on for the next few weeks, but I'm online again, and DAMMIT I've missed everybody.

I understood the not-comma perfectly, Venus, no prob. You might want to check out the Spectacular Spider-Man animated on the Kids' CW this morning, which is actually pretty darn good and true to the Lee-Ditko spirit.


GravatarBet Nuri doesn't read MoDo.


GravatarTotally OT, but

King Lincoln Bronzeville v. Blackwell

Psssst.

That's gonna be my "Carthago delenda est" for a while.


GravatarFuck, they tore down the old Pine Knob.


I would have loved to be there, big boy.

Back in 74 when I visited Lansing with a friend, Santana played at Pine Knob.


GravatarAfter months of stubbornly ridiculing his positions, the last week has seen McBush adopt Obama's positions on talking to Iran, beefing up troops in Afghanistan, and a timetable (uh, 'time horizon') for withdrawing from Iraq. The specific length of which Maliki now endorses.

So when can we see the ad pointing out that you can stop wasting lives, time, and money by electing Obama?


GravatarSad that she's still getting paid.

And still obviously trolling for dirt among progressives.

I'm not sufficiently caffeinated to determine if the fact that they sent Seelye rather than MoDo is a good or bad thing.


GravatarWhen is a non-endorsement an endorsement?

Asked if he supported Obama's ideas more than those of John McCain, Republican presidential hopeful, Maliki said he did not want to recommend who people should vote for.

"Whoever is thinking about the shorter term is closer to reality. Artificially extending the stay of U.S. troops would cause problems."


Gravatarholy shit!!!
that's big news.

i've been watching how the press has constantly framed this trip as a chance for obama to fuck up...it's almost like they are waiting to pounce, or it's layed on with so much condescension they act like he's so unsophisticated he'll make some major gaff like pissing in some potted plant in a palace somewhere.

this after 7 years of the most ignorant, embarrassing fuckwit of a president we've ever had...


GravatarBilly - 'twas the first time in my LIFE of going to Pine Knob I ever sat in the actual ampitheatre seats.

We were actually a few rows down from the yellow line seats. - in front of the sound booth.

I felt like actual royalty!


Gravatar"U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama talks about 16 months. That, we think, would be the right timeframe for a withdrawal, with the possibility of slight changes."

Yay!! - as the chimp once wrote - "Let Freedom Reign".


GravatarKewl, Barndog! That sounds great!


GravatarFucking life, always getting in the way of the best laid plans.

Why, I outta....

I just want you back to what you were doing, filk. No more, no less.
Barndog, w/ringing ears | 07.19.08 - 8:39 am


I appreciate the outrage on my behalf, amigo. But don't sweat it. It sucks, but it's gonna be one of those hey-this-is-pretty-darn-good-lemonade-ya-made things. I have found out I have a lot more friends than I ever imagined possible, and they have done some pretty incredible things for me. I've lost some weight, I'm getting physically stronger for the first time in years, and I'm gonna be healthier coming out of this than I was going in. And, as it's not suitable, I'm finally going to get out of my crappy little apartment.

And I'm starting to get back to writing music. So it's all good -- just clumsy and awkward for a few months.


GravatarSo when can we see the ad pointing out that you can stop wasting lives, time, and money by electing Obama?

you'd think it would be a no-brainer....you'd think


GravatarCongratulations, filk.


Gravatarfilkertom-- Physical therapists are good people. Try to do what they tellya.


GravatarThat sounds great!

It did. And, hence the reason my ears are still ringing. All the more worth it, IMO.

Someone here said Mellencamp only played 45 min at Shea stadium the other night?

Show went on at 7:30 w/ Lucinda Williams, and JM started at 9 sharp. We left at 11:30.


GravatarMy PT after my ACL rebuild was awesome!


Gravatar"So when can we see the ad pointing out that you can stop wasting lives, time, and money by electing Obama?"

no. the mccain/chimp camp has eliminated a major obstacle for getting elected in 2008: the public's scorn for iraq and the bush belligerent fp.

so now they are free to run on typical gop fare: guns, god, racism, taxes, homophobia, etc.

you'll get the 'experience' of mcsame but none of the evil liberal social agenda....


GravatarI am glad you are better, Filkertom.

I'm picturing you with a leg cast in traction...but clutching a guitar at an awkward angle, singing up instant songs about the nurses with cold hands.


GravatarAnd, as it's not suitable, I'm finally going to get out of my crappy little apartment

YAY!!! I hope so, Brother.


GravatarIf it's physical, it's therapy.


Gravatarfilkertom you need to be ready for next years Eschacon.

And we miss you around here.


GravatarObama may be the first man to end a war while he was still just running for office.


GravatarObama may be the first man to end a war while he was still just running for office

Now THAT will piss off some republicans.


GravatarMorning, kids.


GravatarNot quite, Unc, but close. I'm actually having my friend Leslie bring the guitar in today, so I can get those muscles going again.

PT people coming soon. I just wanted to FINALLY touch base with you all. Sorry it's been so long -- I'll try to be back tomorrow or Monday. Hugs all around.


GravatarMolly!


GravatarObama may be the first man to end a war while he was still just running for office.

This would be good news for the GOP!

Or so would say the MSM


GravatarOT: that dude on Moyers last night, he made greenspan look and sound like a fucking idiot. good thing he gets no play in public policy, can't have someone with a clue and who truly cares with any real power, no fucking way.


Gravatar(((filk!!)))

My favorite zombie!


Gravatar(O)(O)


GravatarMolly!!!!1


GravatarHBK!

I'm dropping Marce at the bus station a bit later to get the 11:10 to NYC--should put her there 3ish. You'll adore her--she's just as she seems on the threads, plus calm and lovely and generous.


GravatarObama may be the first man to end a war while he was still just running for office.

"Now he'll really be uppity...er, we mean, arrogant"
- Bill Kristol, Chuckles Krauthammer, Fred Hiatt, etc.


GravatarI looked quickly at Spiegel Online -- look again later.


Gravatar16 months strikes me as more of a time-ottoman.


GravatarBrilliant Post, Atta!


GravatarMolly -- so the car is dead?


GravatarThis may be what makes Huggy snap.


GravatarMorning peeps.

Not even 9:00 a.m. and I've done my housework and exercise for the day. I'm supposed to be retired, ya know.

So happy to hear filk is on the mend.


GravatarV4V,
Well, Marce's mom's mechanic will come up and fetch it and give it the old college try, but a 21 year old imported transmission might be a bit hard to come by.


GravatarMolly is Marcellina going back up there tonight or on to Pa.?


GravatarThis may be what makes Huggy snap.

Well, that and the price of acorns.


GravatarAFAIK, she's spending the night in NYC and then heading back down to PA on Sunday.


GravatarObama may be the first man to end a war while he was still just running for office.
Newton Minnow


Part of Eisenhower's 1952 campaign was a pledge to get us out of Korea, which he fulfilled...sort of...we are technically still in a state of war with North Korea with plenty of troops there (though reduced to prop up Iraq).

When the idea that Iraq could follow the "Korea model" is bantered about, I wonder if the history truly comprehended.

When I hear that idea, I hear another euphimism for endless war.


GravatarHow's trolloping?


GravatarRE: Food prices: The cast/crew party last night was at one of those pizza places where the prices are on painted signs mounted behind the register. Except all the food prices were covered by notices explaining that, because of the rapid rise in the cost of food, these prices were no longer accurate. If you wanted a real menu with actual prices, you had to request it.

Better get on those tap-dancing lessons for Rosie.


Gravatarwell it's one two three
what are we fighting for
who cares
i don't give a crap
next stop is old iraq


GravatarWhat did Marce think of the show?


GravatarHow's trolloping?

Not as fun as it sounds. Maybe I need to drop the "sanctimonious" part.


GravatarFunny thing - coming back from Blissfest, the wife grabbed a large bag of Peanut M&M's for the ride home.

Which, in Levering, MI - the cost was $2.39.

At Kroger the other day, I noticed the same bag was $3.89.


GravatarWell, the production itself isn't too bad, but it's my least favorite G&S.


GravatarJust calculated...From Eisenhower's inauguration to the ceasefire with North Korea: 6 months and 1 week.


GravatarMolly should I get the couch ready?


GravatarWhich means the bag in Levering may have had that not-so-fresh feeling.


GravatarHBK, I think this part of the plan has been operative for some time, so arrangements are probably in place. But it couldn't hurt.


GravatarWhich means the bag in Levering may have had that not-so-fresh feeling

It was less than a couple weeks on the shelf old.

I watch that shit also.


GravatarJust calculated...From Eisenhower's inauguration to the ceasefire with North Korea: 6 months and 1 week.
Uncle Smokes



"Eisenhower didn't know how to win wars."
- John McCain


GravatarHmm. Our Kroger-analogue is generally good at prices. But I haven't been there in a while.


GravatarSay Billy - wish you could've been with us for Mellencamp /Lucinda Williams last night.

Sounds great. I would LOVE to see Lucinda.


GravatarLet's just say that the crappy operetta at the beginning of Topsy Turvy--that's the one we're doing.

Fun for me, as the properties person--lots of swords and shackles and armor. But Gilbert at his most annoyingly patriarchally retrograde.


Gravatar"Eisenhower didn't know how to win wars."
- John McCain


Ike had to spend all his time asking for the Brit and Russkies to help him.


GravatarMorning,

Time Horizon is the biggest joke since Bush.


GravatarTesting theory upthread:

tercio7 wrote:
Wash Post is a member of the 90% Democrat Media and accepts the Democrat lie that a person with no relevant experience, Obama, is qualified to be President of ANYTHING.
7/19/2008 8:08:48
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tercio7, maybe you hadn't noticed, with all your hyperventilating, but both Bush and Maliki have adopted Obama's plan of getting out of Iraq.

Making Obama the first president to end a war, even BEFORE he's elected.

Stick that one in your pipe, and smoke it.
~


GravatarNobody at work at the MSM sites, no trace of the Maliki comments.


GravatarWe also had pizza for dinner last night-a splurge because Mr. K got one of those refunds from Circuit City-you know, if you buy something and find it later on a a lower price, they give you money back?


GravatarObama may be the first man to end a war while he was still just running for office
Newton Minnow | 07.19.08 - 8:47 am | #

Now THAT will piss off some republicans.
Barndog, w/ringing ears | 07.19.08 - 8:48 am | #


This theory, to give credit where it is due.
~


GravatarHave gas prices gone down at the pump?


Gravatar"Eisenhower didn't know how to win wars."
- John McCain
Attaturk




Thanks, Attaturk...I didn't know about that "I know how to win wars" crap.

The mind boggles.


GravatarMSNBC said don't expect gas prices to come down for "several weeks".


GravatarNPR not mentioning this in their weekend reports. Just saying this trip could be perplexing for Obama in that he will have to watch his step. Right wing media could use this trip against him. What a corporate tool NPR has become.


GravatarHave gas prices gone down at the pump?

Not here. They've been bouncing between 4.10 and 4.20 for a couple of weeks.


GravatarIt would be pretty funny if Huggy Bear had to keep talking about winning the war while Chimpy withdraws troops. As long as they come home I don't care - which is precisely the difference between DFH's and Rethugs.


GravatarTPM has actual timely news today.


GravatarYes, wholesale gas prices have definitely gone down. Whether it will be immediately reflected at the pump is another question.


GravatarNPR not mentioning this in their weekend reports. Just saying this trip could be perplexing for Obama in that he will have to watch his step. Right wing media could use this trip against him. What a corporate tool NPR has become.
hilldick

I have heard this repeatedly - he had better watch his state because a misstatement here could be fatal - repeated on CNN and MSGOP as well.

The idea that the Corporate Media is the enemy is exactly right. They constantly minimize the Dems and fluff the Republicans. Constantly.


GravatarSo who will be the first ones in the corporate media to write: Obama visits Afghanistan, war still rages on. How will this failure be treated by the electorate?


GravatarYes, wholesale gas prices have definitely gone down. Whether it will be immediately reflected at the pump is another question.

I've noticed a pattern around where I live. On Tuesday the price is up about $4.25 or so. Then Thursday evening, Friday morning, it drops to about $4.18, then by Friday night it's $4.15.

Been doing that for about three weeks now.

Gotta get those humps out on the weekend shopping, you know.


GravatarNot here. They've been bouncing between 4.10 and 4.20 for a couple of weeks.
Molly Ivors | Homepage | 07.19.08 - 9:13 am | #


In downtown Columbus, down to 3.899 from 4.04 earlier in the week. Gas is usually cheaper here than other places, btw.
~


GravatarI know how to win Thumb Wars.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l...h? v=lJ06RKGcPBI


GravatarBloomberg energy prices


Gravatarbarndog. how was the mellencamp gig last night? saw him up in fargo a couple of years ago. best. concert. ever.


Gravatarthunder,
Life is cheap in Ohio.

(ducking)

Actually, we live on the PA border, and the closest station is the cigarettes and fireworks outlet. But their gas does not seem significantly less expensive than ours. So much for the gas tax argument.


GravatarThe media brigade following Obama will seek out any soldier willing to sneer at Obama and the week's narrative will be "How can he be Commander in Cheif if the troops don't respect him?"


GravatarMaliki's statements to Der Spiegel make the MSM's plans inoperable.


GravatarGood morning, bats.

I think I'm suffering from morning-after syndrome. Like, what the hell was I thinking last night?


Gravatarhow was the mellencamp gig last night?

I remember the days of Van Halen, Aerosmith and the like - where Pine Knob was thrashing.

I'll just say, they tore it up. I've never seen so many people know the words to so many songs. People from 8 to probally 80.

An entirely great performance. I'd recommend it highly - however, they are going overseas later this year for a few months.


GravatarAll a-Twitter?


GravatarCatch the wave that's sweeping the country!

Learn why Huggy Bear is the MANLY CHOICE for president!

(No, even I couldn't make this shit up.)


GravatarTwitter? NOOOOOooooo! I haven't even got the hang of Facebook yet.


GravatarI know! Think about how *I* feel!


GravatarAn entirely great performance. I'd recommend it highly - however, they are going overseas later this year for a few months.
Barndog, w/ringing ears

Saw them in GR a couple of years ago: excellent then as well.


Gravataryou can bet a smirk dollar that the rat wang gang are plotting missteps for the Obama trip. the media limbaugh will come up with something that will dominate the news for the next two weeks. something negative for dems. you can take it to the indymac.


GravatarThe other day Mika Btfsplk said Obama would be accompanied by "Military Veteran republican Senator Chuck Hagel and Democratic Senator Jack Reed."

This is Reed's bio, which took 0.04 seconds to find thanks to the Google:

After graduating from West Point and receiving an active duty commission in the United States Army, Reed attended the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University where he received a Masters of Public Policy. Reed, an Army Ranger and a paratrooper, served in the 82nd Airborne Division as an Infantry Platoon Leader, a Company Commander, and a Battalion Staff Officer. He returned to West Point in 1978 as an Associate Professor in the Department of Social Sciences.

http://reed.senate.gov/biography...raphy/ index.cfm


GravatarActually, we live on the PA border, and the closest station is the cigarettes and fireworks outlet. But their gas does not seem significantly less expensive than ours. So much for the gas tax argument.
Molly Ivors | Homepage | 07.19.08 - 9:18 am | #


There's cheap gas in western Md. along I-68, too, btw.
~


GravatarMaybe Mika said "military veterans" but you couldn't hear the "s" because Huggy's cock was in her mouth.


GravatarThis quote from Al-Maliki was put up on this blog over an hour ago, and major "news" sites don't have it up yet.


GravatarI guess Obama has the better "Time Horizon".

And Maliki just got moved to the No Fly List.


GravatarThis quote from Al-Maliki was put up on this blog over an hour ago, and major "news" sites don't have it up yet.
plantsman


They're waiting for an unnamed (Republican) operative to spin it for Drudge.


GravatarFor instance, I can tell you that the federal excise tax on gasoline is 18.4 cents. NY state taxes are about 32 cents, PA is about the same. So add that to the Bloomberg gas price of 3.17 per gallon & you're already at almost 3.68 Then add markups by middleman, and delivery charges, and you can see the gas retailers are not making that much.
Here's a chart of gas taxes, state by state.


GravatarIt's good that Obama will have Hagel & Reed flanking him on this trip.


GravatarA couple of selected reasons why Huggy Bear is the MANLY CHOICE for president:

7. Obama is married to a bitter, angry lawyer who became “proud” of her country for the first time this year. McCain’s wife is a beer heiress who founded an organization to provide MASH-style units to disaster-torn world regions. Did I mention that she’s a beer heiress?

[...]

9. The name John McCain sounds like “John McClain,” the action hero played by Bruce Willis in the manly Die Hard series. “Barack Obama” sounds like the kind of elitist villain John McClain has to outwit and defeat.


Of course, this is from the publication that gave us K-Lo, so consider the source ...


GravatarI think Twitter is weird -- I wouldn't like having every message I send available on the intertoobz.


GravatarTwitter is not for me, either.


GravatarIt's good that Obama will have Hagel & Reed flanking him on this trip

Maybe he won't need a company of Marines to guard them like McStain, Liberfuck and Graham.


GravatarSo beer heiress good, ketchup heiress, bad?


GravatarI think Twitter is weird -- I wouldn't like having every message I send available on the intertoobz.

And why is that?
-NSA supervisor #3851
.
.


GravatarSo beer heiress good, ketchup heiress, bad?

Yeah, sure seems that way.


GravatarKarin at least Budweiser has a good American name . . . er, is a good American company . . . um . . .


GravatarMaybe the military don't hate Obama after all:

"By 3:03 p.m., the senator was on the aircraft, having been saluted by a member of the military on his way aboard."

http:// tpmelectioncentral.talkin...afghanistan.php


GravatarSo beer heiress good, ketchup heiress, bad?


You can't drink enough ketchup to...

Oh, wait.


GravatarAnd why is that?
-NSA supervisor #3851


Because you guys need to feel useful, I guess.


GravatarSo beer heiress good, ketchup heiress, bad?

And one could speak three or four languages, the other can barely get a phoneme out of her plastic surgetized cranked up face.


GravatarSo
beer heiress good,
ketchup heiress, bad?


Budweiser vs Heinz

Must be that merkins like shitty beer better than great ketchup.


GravatarWe (my blogging team) will use Twitter to communicate with each other when we're at the Dem Convention in Denver, so I figured I'd better get used to it now.

You can turn the notifications on and off easily, though, so that's nice.


GravatarOf course, this is from the publication that gave us K-Lo, so consider the source ...


A republic trying to be funny. That was painful.


GravatarMaliki's one of those d00ds who goes outside naked and pleasures himself until a police cruiser takes him away


GravatarFunny, McStain sold out just like Budweiser.


GravatarI am checking and can find no reference to the Maliki story other than the link to Reuters from TPM. Weird.


GravatarSooo where's the lass that'll be getting Guinness? I'd better get a courtin' hadn't I?


GravatarI get the same result, DWD.


GravatarIf you think those points were bad, read the rest of 'em. It's frightening.


GravatarSo beer heiress good, ketchup heiress, bad?

pfft. in this dumbass country, if your LAST NAME is famous, then the idiots equate you with elitism, otherwise, you can be as rich as you wanna be and you are good. it's simple really, uh-mericans do all they can to FORGET reality, but a famous last name makes it easy for teh stupids to equate with rich or elite.

we the people are so dumb. how dumb? we have been buying gas-guzzling vehicles for decades and not giving one shit about it.


GravatarMaliki is going to end up in the trunk of a car.


GravatarDer Spiegel, Chicago, Illinois 60609.


GravatarThe Quest to Un-Stupid the Nation or How the Disastrous Misrule of the GOP Led to a Teaching Moment for the US.

or shorter

It's Morning After in America


GravatarMaliki is going to end up in the trunk of a car.

Naaa. He'll end up in pieces over about 4 square blocks.


GravatarSo how *is* Huggy Bear going to stay all resolute and shit, if WPE has agreed to a Time Don't Call It a Line?


GravatarThis blog sucks.


GravatarTropical depression forming off of Georgia coast. I thought those things were supposed to form elsewhere.


GravatarNaaa. He'll end up in pieces over about 4 square blocks.


I didn't say the car had to be in one piece.


GravatarThe Dems have got to start comparing McCain's habit of lying to the way Bush lied us into war:

“He’s going to go to the American people and say, ‘I want to be commander in chief,’ ” Mr. McCain told reporters on Thursday, “and yet he has been the chairman of the subcommittee that oversights NATO and he has never had a hearing, nor has he ever visited Afghanistan.’ ”

But that criticism was dismissed this week by Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr. of Delaware, the chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, who said issues related to Afghanistan were intentionally being addressed “at the full committee level.”


GravatarThe couch is ready.

Now my back is killing me.

And it's fucking hot.


GravatarYou'd think CNN and MSNBC would check the Reuters page, but I guess you'd be wrong.


GravatarMcCain still thinks Al Qaeda will surrender on the deck of the USS Missouri, then start making cameras and small cars.


Gravatar9. The name John McCain sounds like “John McClain,” the action hero played by Bruce Willis in the manly Die Hard series. “Barack Obama” sounds like the kind of elitist villain John McClain has to outwit and defeat.

Of course, this is from the publication that gave us K-Lo, so consider the source ...
Sinfonian, still groveling | Homepage | 07.19.08 - 9:31 am | #
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3 words: Reverend Henry Kane
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GravatarTropical depression forming off of Georgia coast. I thought those things were supposed to form elsewhere.
leibniz leibkins


Nope, they pretty much form wherever the hell they want to.

In fact, it's more common for them to form near the southeast U.S. coast at this time of year than it is to come off of Africa like Bertha did.


GravatarSHADO is the name of my organization. Please stop using it at once or there will be consequences.


GravatarThere have been 6 committee meetings on Afghanistan in the last two years, McCain attended NONE of them.


GravatarI didn't say the car had to be in one piece

I realize this. Just helping to clear the picture up a little, that's all.


GravatarAnn Rice for Heterosexuals.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y...h? v=YjhkQm5jvNE


GravatarReuters is the only source for the Maliki story, but it is getting picked up by others, like Yahoo. Typically, they bury the lede as the headline just says Obama is in Afghanistan.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/ usa_p...litics_obama_dc


GravatarSorry, I guess being a Floridian, I know a little more about tropical weather than I wish I did.


GravatarSnow has been bummed out about this latest storm.


GravatarYeah it's hot. But I know a nice place to cool off, only about an hour from NYC by bus.
http://www.highlandspool.com/


GravatarI just thought a tropical depression had to form in somewhere near the, er, what do they call it? Oh yeah, the tropics instead of inside Scarlett O'Hara's bedroom.


GravatarWhat happened out at Far Rockaway Beach yesterday?


GravatarRuh Roh. Maliki's about to find out thay he's a Terrist.


GravatarKarin it looks lovely but my diabetes meds say "stay out of direct sunlight" so I don't do pools or beaches.


GravatarI just thought a tropical depression had to form in somewhere near the, er, what do they call it? Oh yeah, the tropics instead of inside Scarlett O'Hara's bedroom.
leibniz leibkins


Nope. They form in the Gulf of Mexico, which is not tropical, and sometimes off the coast as now.

Deceptive suckers, ain't they?


GravatarKaren Tumulty has a post on Swampland about Malaki . . . it's been there for over an hour.


GravatarI just thought a tropical depression had to form in somewhere near the, er, what do they call it?

Back in '93, we were caught for 8 days in the mountains of W.V. in a tropical depression.

Ain't never seen rain like that, and for so damn long.


GravatarNewton,

13 paragraphs in, eh?

WTF?


GravatarKaren Tumulty has been known to lurk here.


Gravatarhttp://youtube.com/watch?v=Y8RfzkhqBLY


GravatarDWD isn't that what's called "burying the lede"?


GravatarKaren Tumulty has been known to lurk here.
plantsman


Yep. We're Facebook friends.

/namedropper


GravatarMust be that merkins like shitty beer better than great ketchup.
Doug


We still have the best ketchup in the world. That's something.


GravatarPrime Minister Nouri al-Maliki
Is acting a little less phallic-y
With moves diplomatic
That don't seem erratic –
They make him appear almost Gallic-y.


GravatarMaybe Maliki will get some dioxin or polonium in his soup.


GravatarCuckoo should be lighting candles for the safety of Maliki.

The other guys over there would throw us out tomorrow.


GravatarNow, Obama has plenty to talk about in Berlin.


GravatarSulfonylureas, eh HBK?


Gravatarplantsman is that what Glucovance is?

If so, yeah.


GravatarWhat is really odd is that under the Reuter's page at the New York Times, the story is there as big as life with a time stamp of 7:36.

So . . . .


GravatarThere is some great beer being made in the US, none of it from any of the major producers. A lot of these local brews never go far from where they are made and sold, except for a few gallon jugs and an occasional keg that the locals drink.


Gravatar3 words: Reverend Henry Kane
ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®©


Three words: Charles Foster Kane

"You know, Mr. Bernstein, if I hadn't been very rich, I might have been a really great man."


Gravatarhbk, this pool has lots of big trees around it, so it's possible to stay in the shade. But how are you going to manage the concert in Central Park? I don't think there's much shade there.


GravatarHmm.

Mystery guest to speak after Nancy Pelosi may very well be Al Gore.

That's the buzz, anyway.


GravatarIt's what Glyburide is, which carrys the sun/UV warning on it also.


GravatarKarin a big hat.

I thought it started like at 4?


GravatarKewl, if so, watertiger!


GravatarMystery guest to speak after Nancy Pelosi may very well be Al Gore.

That's the buzz, anyway.
watertiger


If I were there, it would end up being Joe Lieberman.

Having fun?


GravatarNancy Pelosi went to Netroots Nation?

Well, fuck them. We had Ted Rall.


GravatarThe senator from Illinois will meet with a succession of foreign leaders, make symbolically important visits and hold at least one large public event -- all with an eye to how the trip is playing in the United States.

But the tour is fraught with risks. The large media contingent that will follow Obama means that any misstep or misstatement will be magnified and potentially read as evidence of his inexperience, adding to doubts about him.


GravatarBeer-heiress McCain to profit from foreign takeover of Anheuser Bush

The Associated Press earlier this year examined McCain's finances finding her fortune, which is at least $100 million, has allowed John McCain, the GOP presidential candidate, to enjoy trips on private jets and vacation homes around the country.

Cashing out could leave the McCains with hefty capital gains, which would be taxed at a rate of 15% under the Bush tax cuts that John McCain opposed and now supports. (Barack Obama has proposed raising the capital gains tax.)

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/ Be...reign_0714.html


Gravatarwatertiger!

What time does it start?


GravatarAnd the Rude Pundit and Hamell on Trial.

(Bitchez.)


GravatarWatertiger, Was the Rude Pundit 'out' before Seelye's NYT column? Hope so.


GravatarBut the tour is fraught with risks. The large media contingent that will follow Obama means that any misstep or misstatement will be magnified and potentially read as evidence of his inexperience, adding to doubts about him.

...Except among actual humans.


GravatarAt approximately 3:15 AM Eastern/2:15 AM Central, I received a phone call telling me that Senator Obama had landed at the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan.

Since leaving Washington on Thursday, Senator Obama had stopped and visited troops in Kuwait.


Suck. On. This. McStain.

Notice that hero Obama doesn't need a vast army to nurse him and change his diapers.


Gravatarpotentially read as evidence of his inexperience, adding to doubts about him.
DWD - Officially Retired


Somebody pointed out yesterday that Reagan's foreign policy experience was limited to being a member of the SAG.

Funny that the media clowns never had a problem with that.


GravatarSomebody pointed out yesterday that Reagan's foreign policy experience was limited to being a member of the SAG.

What? "Hellcats of the Navy" doesn't count? What about the blow jobs he was getting from Nancy when they were filming it?


GravatarI don't know about RP, but Kit Seelye should be dropped on her head from a great height for that entire patronizing piece.

having a freakin' blast. I didn't know I knew so many people.

Pelosi's supposed to take the stage around 9:00, Austin time. Don't know whether C-SPAN is carrying it.

Also, there's a counterconference going on about 4 miles from here, with Michelle Malkin, Grover Norquist, etc. I know of at least 2 bloggers who are going to go have some fun there!


GravatarI thought it started like at 4?

It's from 3 to 7. My brother & sil have expressed an interest in coming, so if we get there before, you we'll lay out a blanket and save you a spot.


GravatarBut the tour is fraught with risks. The large media contingent that will follow Obama means that any misstep or misstatement will be magnified and potentially read as evidence of his inexperience, adding to doubts about him.

God forbid he should confuse the Czechoslovakian Sunni and Shia.


GravatarFunny that the media clowns never had a problem with that.
Adam Hominem

And that the positions he has advocated for the last two years are becoming he de facto positions of the United States Government and the McCain Candidacy. . . .


GravatarMystery guest to speak after Nancy Pelosi may very well be Al Gore.

That's the buzz, anyway.
watertiger

If I were there, it would end up being Joe Lieberman.

Having fun?
Gromit, dirty hippie scientist


Better yet...Gore and Lieberman, together again.

Talk about a mixed reaction...Yay! Boo! Yay! Boo! Yayboo! Booyay!

The "What Might Have Been And What Would've Happened Anway" reunion tour...guaranteed to bum you out for all manner of reasons.


Gravatar"The large media contingent that will follow Obama means that any misstep or misstatement will be magnified and potentially read as evidence of his inexperience, adding to doubts about him."

it's almost like the press is just waiting to pounce.

this after 7 years of the most inept, idiotic, embarrassing potus in this country's history, traveling worldwide and behaving like a moron wherever he went.


GravatarSomebody pointed out yesterday that Reagan's foreign policy experience was limited to being a member of the SAG.

Funny that the media clowns never had a problem with that.


but he joked with the media and was a rich elitist rightwing pro-corporate anti-tax guy...IOW, an american's american

knowing better is for those who care, and those who care aren't on the 'rightwing' side of the fence


GravatarAlso, there's a counterconference going on about 4 miles from here, with Michelle Malkin, Grover Norquist, etc.

Get yourself protective eye-gear now! I understand malkin's been doing her kegels.


Gravatar
Talk about a mixed reaction...Yay! Boo! Yay! Boo! Yayboo! Booyay!


Harold Ford got roundly booed yesterday after he said, "I respect my associates at Fox News."

And looked positively indignant that his words were met with such hostility.

Prick.


Gravatarwatertiger not only was Kit patronizing but she wrote that whole article and didn't have one shred of, you know, news in it.

NY Times should be embarrassed.

And she still needs to be entombed in a sarcophogus.


GravatarThat counter-conference is reported to be far smaller.


GravatarGet yourself protective eye-gear now! I understand malkin's been doing her kegels.
A. Morphous, jerked around


Are you saying the local Sportmart just had a run on cheerleader outfits and ping pong balls?


Gravatar"The large media contingent that will follow Obama means that any misstep or misstatement will be magnified and potentially read as evidence of his inexperience, adding to doubts about him."

Threaten them and take away their donuts. The little bitches actually love that.

/McStain.


GravatarNY Times should be embarrassed.

Bobo and Little Tommy are proof they have no shame.


GravatarWhat about the blow jobs he was getting from Nancy when they were filming it?

Didn't Raygun have any foreign affairs?
Or was he only a consumer of domestic blow?


Gravatar
And looked positively indignant that his words were met with such hostility.


These people need to get out into the real world more. Though, he'll undoubtedly use this as anti-DFH-blogger ammo on Fox, and get our even less in the future.


GravatarAre you saying the local Sportmart just had a run on cheerleader outfits and ping pong balls?
Supreme Commander Thor | 07.19.08 - 10:07 am | #

Shot put.


Gravatarthis after 7 years of the most inept, idiotic, embarrassing potus in this country's history, traveling worldwide and behaving like a moron wherever he went.
jdw


Funny, that.

I'd love to know what went on in J-schools in this country over the last 30 years such that they developed an entire generation of incompetent morons. Perhaps it's J-school itself--is this the first generation of journalists who DID go to J-school?

If so, piss on higher education for journalists!


Gravatarwhat if the iraqi's held a peaceful rally for obama somewhere in iraq/baghdad? wingers heads would explode.

of course, that kind of news would be embargoed until at least december...


GravatarHarold Ford got roundly booed yesterday after he said, "I respect my associates at Fox News."

I'm sure Nancy will rectify that with a House resolution on Monday roundly condemning the boos.


GravatarWhat about the blow jobs he was getting from Nancy when they were filming it?

Face it, blowing repukes is not exactly a big meal.


Gravatarwatertiger I hope you get back in time to enjoy some of this lovely heat we're having.

BLECH!


Gravatarof course, that kind of news would be embargoed until at least december...
fokowi | Homepage | 07.19.08 - 10:08 am | #

The NYT wouldn't want to affect the election.


GravatarFace it, blowing repukes is not exactly a big meal.
A. Morphous, jerked around


I still love the fact that Nancy was known in Hollywood as The Blow Job Queen. Of course, the media would never speak about THAT.


GravatarBobo and Little Tommy are proof they have no shame.
Supreme Commander Thor


They say a fish rots from the head down.

Arthur Sulzberger is a disgrace to his family name, his family business, and the country itself.


GravatarHarold Ford got roundly booed yesterday after he said, "I respect my associates at Fox News."

Good. I'd have booed too.


GravatarI'd love to know what went on in J-schools in this country over the last 30 years such that they developed an entire generation of incompetent morons. Perhaps it's J-school itself--is this the first generation of journalists who DID go to J-school?

ever work for a corporation? they REALLY try to ONLY hire rightwingers, ALL of them. Integrity? pfft. that's for wimps, uh-merica is about profit uber-alles; and that profit usually comes from some asshole rightwing fucker owner, manager or boss who buys/signs for something


GravatarI'd love to know what went on in J-schools in this country over the last 30 years such that they developed an entire generation of incompetent morons.

Say it after me: $$$$$


Gravatarwatertiger I hope you get back in time to enjoy some of this lovely heat we're having.

it's hot here, but not as hot as there!

okay, here we go...


GravatarI'm sure Nancy will rectify that with a House resolution

"rectify" is the operative word here.


GravatarThe more time I spend in a university, the more I am convinced that schools of education, journalism and business are completely and irretrievably screwed up.

I hold law schools and med schools in somewhat better esteem, but they could do a lot better too.


GravatarHarold Ford got roundly booed yesterday after he said, "I respect my associates at Fox News."

Let's see what happens to Pelosi.


GravatarHello WT,

Enjoying Austin?


GravatarI guess Dad is out looking for a fish head omelette.


GravatarWhy is it that Republicans don't know their asses from a hole in the ground?

Here we go again ...


Gravatarever work for a corporation? they REALLY try to ONLY hire rightwingers, ALL of them. Integrity? pfft. that's for wimps, uh-merica is about profit uber-alles; and that profit usually comes from some asshole rightwing fucker owner, manager or boss who buys/signs for something
mogwai


Yeah, you're probably right. Corporations are indeed all about hierarchy, and the people in them must respect hierarchy. Which, if it doesn't make you a fascist, at least makes you basically unable to think for yourself.

BTW I just got fired from one mid-size corporation after ten years (attitude played a definite role), and started at another about six weeks ago. Poor me.


GravatarLate summer is officially here. The cicadas have been going at it for days.


Gravatar
Enjoying Austin?


Very much! Not going crazy with the tequila helps.


Gravatarcorporation? they REALLY try to ONLY hire rightwingers, ALL of them
Integrity? pfft. that's for wimps, uh-merica is about profit uber-alles


Under one job title or another, I've been a QA wonk for a very long time. Rat wingers have been the death of US manufacturing. They never support the goal of excellence. (the same goal that most manufactures across the world except for the Chinese meet every day)


GravatarLet's see what happens to Pelosi.
Gimlet


Let's just say I feel a little differently about her now than I did when I met her.


Gravatar"rectify" is the operative word here.
leibniz leibkins ♘☮


Isn't the root of "rectify" rectum?



GravatarWhy is it that Republicans don't know their asses from a hole in the ground?

A republican asshole is known as a tropical depression.


GravatarLet's just say I feel a little differently about her now than I did when I met her.

I recommended that her code name should be "Spineless."


GravatarUnification Church founder Moon hurt in crash

SEOUL, South Korea - A helicopter carrying the Rev. Sun Myung Moon crashed Saturday into a mountain in South Korea, injuring the founder of the Unification Church and 13 others, officials said.

Moon was slightly injured, a hospital official said. Members of Moon's family, including his wife, were also hurt, and one person suffered a serious back injury, fire official Kim Wu-jong said.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25747040

Sorry, no Ascension today.
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GravatarCool. Lloyd Doggett's here.


GravatarI recommended that her code name should be "Spineless."
watertiger


The Inveterate Invertebrate


GravatarAs the Rude One reports from Tex-ass:


1. We were sharing a table awaiting Wesley Clark and Howard Dean's speeches. The young female lobbyist from DC was not amused. And the female green activist from San Francisco looked on dismayed. The YFL hadn't heard of this blog, and so the Rude Pundit attempted to describe it, using examples, including images of raping various conservatives. The idea of using rape for the purposes of humor offended the YFL, even if the recipient of the rape was, say, David Brooks. The FGA looked as if the Rude Pundit had slit a whale's throat. He realized that while we were sitting at the same table, we were, in fact, living on different planets, neither necessarily superior to the other, and the Rude Pundit was glad to cut his losses when the speakers began.

2. Wesley Clark was boring. He came out speaking what were obviously a series of applause lines crammed into a frame for the convention. The clapping was there, but there was no life to it.

3. The Rude Pundit's said it before and he'll say it again. Howard Dean will fuck your shit up. Dean owned the joint. Hyping Obama and all the DNC's candidates and elections, he was exciting and interesting and insightful. It's the first time the Rude Pundit's seen him live, and the man knows how to make a crown rowdy.

4. Oh, and the Rude Pundit was just a little drunk when he met John Aravosis of Americablog in the hotel lobby last night. Tonight, he will be very drunk when he meets others.

More later. There's a link to live streaming of the various panels and speakers, and soon there will be video of this morning's panel on profanity and rude discourse, where you can see Kevin Drum of Washington Monthly seemingly offer a blow job to the Rude Pundit.


GravatarOkay, I'd better go before my son tears my head off. Something about going swimming ... then I'm taking him to the Marlins-Phillies game this afternoon.

Anyway, catch you patriotz laterz.


GravatarI recommended that her code name should be "Spineless."
watertiger


That implies she believes in issues she is unable to support.


GravatarE-mail subject line of the day:

"Living proof that the earth is flat available"


GravatarThis is good. Could start a whole new genre of writing: If the Republican's had been in charge when...

Put more succinctly:

If the Republicans had been in charge on December 7, 1941, we would have gone to war against Australia.
If today's Republicans had been around in April of 1865 after Lincoln's assassination, they would have chased down Gen. George B. McClellan.
If a Republican had written Hamlet, Laertes would have killed Rosencrantz and/or Guildenstern.
You see, for Republicans, it's not about doing the right thing for the state or the country. It's all about getting even. And that's basically why we're in the mess we're in today.


From sinfonian, of course.


GravatarNancy Pelosi went to Netroots Nation?

Well, fuck them. We had Ted Rall.
Sinfonian, still groveling


Yeah! And we had NTodd...um...yeah...we had Ted Rall!


GravatarAmerica won, and Al Qaeda, the Ba'athists, and the Iranians lost. The Editors, New York Sun

So then we could leave Iraq, just like hero Obama suggests?


GravatarCool. Lloyd Doggett's here.

Not who I wanted to see, though I do lurves him


GravatarI recommended that her code name should be "Spineless."
watertiger

Loopner.


GravatarToday's blogwhore: Why has everyone forgotten the big excuse for the LAST gas price hike?


GravatarThis hullabaloo about the "time horizon":

For the first time in his life shrub was being honest!

There is no relationship between a time line and a time horizon.

A time line is a measurable point between two definite points in time, whereas

A time horizon (just like tomorrow) never comes...you can never reach a time horizon...what else did you expect from bush?


Gravatar
Not who I wanted to see, though I do lurves him


Not the special guest. That guest is AFTER Nancy Pelosi.


GravatarMorning, Moonbats! I have black-eyed Susans.


GravatarThere is no relationship between a time line and a time horizon.

What the hell IS a time horizon, anyway?


GravatarMorning, Moonbats! I have black-eyed Susans.


Love 'em!


GravatarNot the special guest. That guest is AFTER Nancy Pelosi.

Ah, cool.

That saves me from going over and shaking the truth out of that very nice producer.


GravatarHere she is...in a pale green pants suit.


GravatarNancy looks fabu


GravatarHere she is...in a pale green pants suit

Phyllis Diller?


GravatarMorning, Moonbats! I have black-eyed Susans.
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator


I planted some this spring. I was a little embarrased at the greenhouse asking for them--I thought maybe they were like dandelions, and what kind of a nut would buy dandelions?

But they sell them, alright. I'm looking forward to a yard-full.


Gravatar[From yesterday]

General -> "Not specific or definite."
+
Time -> "A nonspatial continuum in which events occur in apparently irreversible succession from the past through the present to the future."
+
Horizon -> "The limit or range of perception, knowledge, or the like."
=
General Time Horizon -> Indefinite future limit to a succession of events.

In other words, the time we will be in Iraq will be less than forever. How comforting.


GravatarA helicopter carrying the Rev. Sun Myung Moon crashed Saturday into a mountain in South Korea, injuring the founder of the Unification Church and 13 others, officials said.
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First there is a mountain
Then there is no mountain
THEN THERE IS!


GravatarThere is no relationship between a time line and a time horizon.

How about a ** Lost Horizon **?


.


GravatarBoth the annual and perennial Black-Eyed Susans are gorgeous and widely adapted. I loves 'em!


Gravatar"Nancy looks fabu"

hopefully, she's being booed.


GravatarWhat the hell IS a time horizon, anyway?
Southern Beale


Black holes have an event horizon. It's the point at which nothing can escape, not even light. No further information can be exchanged with the outer universe. Only God and Hawking know what happens to time inside a black hole.

Maybe that's the same thing.


Gravatarhopefully, she's being booed.

Better yet, the audience is shouting "Impeach!"


GravatarIf I'd known you all were going to be in the same room w Pelosi, I'd have spelled some dry powder and given it to you to give to her. Would everyone in the room please whip out their compacts and throw them at her?


Gravatarclimate change, BITCHEZ


GravatarA Horizon is something that appears as though you can reach it, but you actually NEVER can.


GravatarA Horizon is something that appears as though you can reach it, but you actually NEVER can.
plantsman


Ah yes. Good definition. I'm sure that's what they meant.


Gravatarhopefully, she's being booed.

we're being polite for now


GravatarBetter yet, the audience is shouting "Impeach!"
leibniz leibkins


Now for a round of "Immunity"!


GravatarAccording to the New York Times, Bobblespeak will be the last profanity laden blog out there.


But I'm only saying what they're thinking!!


GravatarHow about a ** Lost Horizon **?

Culture of TrÜth


Or an Event Horizon?

"I'm not asking you to believe me. You'll see for yourself... and so will your crew. You're all coming with me."


GravatarThis quote from Maliki (subject of the post) is wonderful news!


GravatarWould everyone in the room please whip out their compacts and throw them at her?

it's a little early for me to get thrown out of the room.


GravatarI'd love to know what went on in J-schools in this country over the last 30 years such that they developed an entire generation of incompetent morons.
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My daughter was convinced she wanted broadcast journalism, and went to The Newhouse School at Syracuse. After one semester she was completely turned off by how vapid and incurious the students were, obsessed only with looking good on TeeVee.
She ended up doing a double major with the Maxwell School of public policy where they actually expect students to think.

Why do you think it is that so many network anchors eithr never graduated from college or didn't go?


GravatarToday's blogwhore: Why has everyone forgotten the big excuse for the LAST gas price hike?
Southern Beale



One of the problems with lies is keeping them straight.
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Gravatarwe're being polite for now

The applause sounds polite. Not excited.


GravatarA Horizon is something that appears as though you can reach it, but you actually NEVER can.

It's just more garbage language from the corpse of Tony Snow. What ever happened to that war czar? And why do we have as many troops in the area after the surge as we did before the surge?


Gravatarfourlegs doesn't strike me as the type of person to carry a compact.

Could be wrong, tho.


GravatarBetter yet, the audience is shouting "Impeach!"
leibniz leibkins

Now for a round of "Immunity"!
Gimlet


Impeach!
Immunity!
Impunity!
Unity...


GravatarWonder if fourlegs brought the Plushies?


Gravatar


GravatarNancy looks fabu

that's how you wear a pants suit.


GravatarThe applause sounds polite. Not excited.
MikeJ


The intensity of a "golf clap"?


GravatarWhy do you think it is that so many network anchors eithr never graduated from college or didn't go?

You want a network anchor who thinks? Are you insane?


GravatarAfter one semester she was completely turned off by how vapid and incurious the students were, obsessed only with looking good on TeeVee.

Newton Minnow


'bout what I thought. But the professors are under no obligation to tolerate this, but they do, and that's what is really sad. More than sad--it's irreperably damaged this country.


Gravatarfourlegs doesn't strike me as the type of person to carry a compact.

Could be wrong, tho.


I could throw my pop tart.

Or pull off a horse shoe.

But that might be considered assault.


GravatarSan Francisco Girls do dress well,


GravatarReally, she's so in love with dry powder, all the women in the room should walk up and donate theirs. (Yeah, I know it's dry gunpowder, but this is symbolism)


GravatarQuestions starting. She appreciates what we do.


GravatarWonder if fourlegs brought the Plushies?

they're at home, watching teh birdies


GravatarWouldn't it be nice if what we needed out of Nancy was fashion.


GravatarWonder if fourlegs brought the Plushies?

just racymind. that's plenty.


Gravatar"It's Mineral Veil, Madame Speaker -- same thing."


Gravatarthat's how you wear a pants suit.

See? I learn something new here everyday. I didn't know there was more than one way to wear a pants suit...


GravatarI could throw my pop tart.

Or pull off a horse shoe.

But that might be considered assault.
fourlegsgood, netrooted


Next year, definitely remember to bring the whipped cream and pie shells!


Gravatarwe're being polite for now
fourlegsgood, netrooted

[ golf claps ]


Gravatarkwestions now

1st, inherent contempt


Gravatarleaping right into inherent contempt.


GravatarReally, she's so in love with dry powder, all the women in the room should walk up and donate theirs. (Yeah, I know it's dry gunpowder, but this is symbolism)
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator


Perhaps if the audience would clap chalk-laden erasers together?


Gravatarimpeachment off the table, WHY BITCHEZ???


GravatarShe appreciates what we do.
MikeJ


Fuck her.


GravatarI don't care if she showed up wearing a horse blanket. Fuck her for her refusal to use her power to end this war.


GravatarSubtely is key.

While she's speaking, just hold up sign showing a rocket headed toward the sun.


GravatarPerhaps if the audience would clap chalk-laden erasers together?

Works for me, but I'm guessing there are more folks there w compacts than w/ chalky erasers.


GravatarNext year, definitely remember to bring the whipped cream and pie shells!

code pink is here

maybe they brought some


GravatarWhat is the answer about taking impeachment off of the table?


Gravatar“God bless him, bless his heart, president of the United States — a total failure, losing all credibility with the American people on the economy, on the war, on energy, you name the subject.” Nancy Pelsoi

So why does she protect him? Why does she empower him? Why allow this moron to spy on us? Or is pandering to her base in California all she is capable of?


GravatarWhile she's speaking, just hold up sign showing a rocket headed toward the sun.

see, if you had gotten UR lazy ass down here, U could have reminded me to do that


GravatarA perfect illustration of modern day christianity.

The electrocuted pickle demonstration.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7...h? v=7JYIJPjpCFc


GravatarPelosi: We'll wait until we've got a Dem President to get things done.

/resumes sitting on her hands


GravatarFuck her for her refusal to use her power to end this war.

come sit by me.

but, as 4LG notes, we're being polite for now.


GravatarWhy? Did she answer the question?


GravatarShe has arguably been given more political power than any woman in US history, and she has flushed it down the drain.


GravatarFuck her for her refusal to use her power to end this war.
leibniz leibkins ♘☮


Not only that. Would that it would be that it was only that.

She has been a complete toady to Bush. Sucked his dick at every opportunity. And from the safest of safe districts.

No excuse. None at all.

She's an accessory to the Bush administration, a collaborator. After WWII some of the collaborators were hung from lamposts; others had their heads shaved and were run out of town.
I wouldn't cry it that happened to Nancy.


GravatarNext year, definitely remember to bring the whipped cream and pie shells!

Al Pieda!


GravatarGina gets a standing ovation for her followup - so we'll see Karl Rove in a jail cell?


GravatarQuestion, are U gonna put Karl in teh basement, arrest him?

[standing ovation]


GravatarCongratulations WaPo. You buried this in graf 5:

"most Iraqis are against what they see as the continuing U.S. occupation"

...of a story with this headline:

"Iraqis Differ on Obama's Plans"

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp...ml? hpid=topnews


GravatarOooh...FISA question.


GravatarGet ready for the boos.


GravatarWhy own up to taking it off the table? Put it in a man's hands. Conyers will deal with it.


You will be able to eat off of my kitchen floor. Grrrr.


GravatarNo pitchforks and torches rushing the stage?

Figgers. Politeness and civility are effective weapons of the ruling class.
-


Gravatarthey're at home, watching teh birdies
fourlegsgood, netrooted


I'm watching the British Open too!


GravatarShe has arguably been given more political power than any woman in US history, and she has flushed it down the drain.

Word. I was so happy when she was sworn in as Speaker, I sat and cried like a baby. She's been a huge, huge disappointment.


GravatarGet ready for the boos.
MikeJ


A large brandy, please...

...oh...nevermind...


Gravatar"Speaker Pelosi: God bless President Bush, that “total failure”
By: SilentPatriot on Friday, July 18th, 2008 at 6:00 PM - PDT In an interview to be aired this Sunday on “Late Edition,” Nancy Pelosi, in response to a quote from Bush about the Democratic Congress’ failures, doesn’t hold back her true feelings for the lame duck President.

Download | Play Download | Play

“God bless him, bless his heart, president of the United States — a total failure, losing all credibility with the American people on the economy, on the war, on energy, you name the subject.”"

http://www.crooksandliars.com/20...-total-failure/


GravatarI'm watching the British Open too!

GMTA


Gravatar"Word. I was so happy when she was sworn in as Speaker, I sat and cried like a baby."

sad thing is, out of the other realistic contenders, none of 'em would have been any better.


GravatarWow, those sneaky Islamists have infiltrated the world of surfing-what next? http://www.lat34.com/girl_on_eri...ni- action.jpg_2


Gravatarwt-

I would come sit by you, but I have a former girl friend in Austin who is slightly insane and dangerous.


GravatarI do not like when a question can be answered with one sentence and I hear about 17.


GravatarI'm sorry, but this is embarrassing. She's being one helluva tap-dancer.


Gravatarnancy, you need better advisers.


GravatarShe appreciates what we do.

Wish we could say the same about her.


GravatarWish we could say the same about her

heh


Gravatar“God bless him,IMPEACH him bless his heart, president of the United States .


GravatarIt's a day to lick the taint of the telcoms.


GravatarShe appreciates what we do.

Wish we could say the same about her.
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator


Oooh! Whe needs witchy powers, when you have a tongue like that?


GravatarWhat the hell IS a time horizon, anyway?
Southern Beale | Homepage | 07.19.08 - 10:22 am | #


out here in the middle of nowhere, 'tis something that when one follows it with the eye, continues going round and round and round. well, that is... until your head spins off anyway.

kinda like what happens when trying to get the mind around the lame-ass rhetoric that the wingers come up with.


GravatarOK, gotta go do things, Moonbats. Thanks to the live-bloggers.


GravatarJesus, I'm gonna need a dentist; I'm grinding my teeth.


Gravatarnancy, you need better advisers.
watertiger


Better yet, she needs to stop listening to them entirely.


Gravatarthe woman moderating this is really good


Gravatar“God bless him, bless his heart,
--------------------------------That's what polite southern women say when they mean "he's a fucking asshole".


GravatarGina Cooper, 4LG. Bigwig Kossack.


GravatarCould we hear a chorus of:

Donations for Democrats not LieberDems!


GravatarSo why does she protect him? Why does she empower him?

seriously. i read her comments and that was exactly my thought. big fucking deal, madam speaker. then why the fuck do you provide him with everyfucking thing he wants.


GravatarOK, I'm watching NRN streaming, now.


GravatarAnswer the motherfucking question, goddammit.


GravatarGina Cooper, 4LG. Bigwig Kossack.

ya, I know

too early to remember names



GravatarDonations for Democrats not LieberDems!

More succinctly, "the ATM is closed."


GravatarShe's gone from being less aggressive than we would like to actively obstructing a liberal agenda.

I believe she's happy just to be Speaker and is comfortable consolidating her position.


GravatarOK, I'm watching NRN streaming, now.
Karin Hussein


Por favor, donde estas?


GravatarHeh! "Sounds like some of your colleagues need to get with the program."


GravatarGuess what, Nancy. Just because there's 106 days to the election doesn't mean the telecoms will be stripped of their immunity.


Gravatarhttp://www.netrootsnation.org/


GravatarHere, Adam
http://netrootsnation.org/node/982


GravatarNRN link.


Gravatar Just because there's 106 days to the election doesn't mean the telecoms will be stripped of their immunity.
watertiger


A guy can dream.


Thanks, Mike.


GravatarWhat the hell IS a time horizon, anyway?
------------------------------
Same as a real horizon. As soon as you start to move toward it, the sucker just up and moves.


GravatarWho the hell made this weak coffee? 


Gravatar"We Have Big Visions, We Make Things Go."


GravatarWhy does she say shit like "God bless the president"? Why not "God bless Tillman's family?" Or just "Bless all of us?" It's like some bad Tony Soprano episode where the sub minion whore bar tender needs some protection and praises Tony to the roof.


GravatarOkay.

Every fucking democrat in elected office needs some fucking media training.

Not a single one of them can answer a question concisely.


for fuck's sake


GravatarWho the hell made this weak coffee?
GWPDA yclept Damaged Historian


Arthur doesn't like you to get too hyper.


GravatarGeez! She talks a lot, but says nothing...even worse she has done nothing!


GravatarFor everyone at NetRoots....

I'm in your house, liberating your kitties.


GravatarWho the hell made this weak coffee?

Well, Arthur doesn't have opposable thumbs, does he?
And is the pool cool enough to swim in? Did you get ice blocks?


Gravatarshe's asked about "vision of government" and she's taking about specific stuff.

stop nao


GravatarNot a single one of them can answer a question concisely.

Concise is good if you want to answer the question. She's ducking questions, long and drawn out works better for that.


GravatarWhat's up with those hand gestures?

Be fun to redub the soundtrack with dirty talk, or some-such.


GravatarCan someone explain to me why La Pelosi isn't being waterboarded onstage right now?

Applause? Fuck you, "Netroots Nation". H


GravatarWhy I believe the Speaker is dis-assembling.


GravatarHey I got NRN streaming on my computer!!


Wheeeeeee!!!!!


GravatarI'm in your house, liberating your kitties.

make sure U get Maddie good and tired


she's been bouncing off the walls


Gravatar
Not a single one of them can answer a question concisely.


It's called "dodging the question." Most politicians learn that early on.


GravatarYeah, I guess I can turn it off, I wanted to hear her answer to impeachment and FISA. She has managed to wriggle and giggle and now we have 'diet not diabetes.'


Jesus H. Christ.


GravatarShe's off on a tangent.


Gravatar“God bless him, bless his heart,

--------------------------------That's what polite southern women say when they mean "he's a fucking asshole".

That would be "Bless his little heart"....  The next step in the relationship usually involves 'blessing out' someone....


GravatarI thought grease was the word.


GravatarWhat's up with those hand gestures?

Be fun to redub the soundtrack with dirty talk, or some-such.


"I can fly!"


GravatarMorning, Moonbats! I have black-eyed Susans.
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator | Homepage | 07.19.08 - 10:22 am


I loved me some black-eyed Susans, back when I was a child.

http://travel.webshots.com/ photo...096501088yqVZZZ


GravatarI thought Grease was the word.


GravatarIran rules out stopping enrichment

McCain: Gramm is fired

Conyers does not support impeachment but creates possible points 4 prosecution


Gravatar"Not a single one of them can answer a question concisely."

she could if she wanted to. but it's easier to filibuster and spew confusing bullshit then the truth.

you folks should be booing. look where politeness has gotten us.


GravatarScience science science is the new Location location location?


GravatarI could liveblogged Nancy if I had known.


GravatarThis whole thing about exercise she just said. She needs to know that the Right uses things like this as a SUBSTITUTE for health care. My old company had a health plan that emphasized vegetables and exercise. If we got sick, we were fucked.

Blaming the victim, it's called.


Gravatar"Erie Canal"???

Sweet Jeebus.


GravatarThe bird is the word.


GravatarConcise is good if you want to answer the question. She's ducking questions, long and drawn out works better for that.

U R missing the point.

She was asked about vision.

U ask a republican that and they can tell you in about 20 seconds.


GravatarCumberland Gap, bastards!!!!!


GravatarMy latest electric drip coffee maker stopped working about 1 day past it's warranty period. Oh well, old fashioned percelator, and cowboy coffee are not too bad to drink, just a pain to make.

Are there any drip coffee makers that do not self destruct in a year or less?


GravatarWho the hell made this weak coffee?

Whip it with a chicory root.
-


GravatarBLITZER: Just because it’s government sponsored doesn’t mean it’s socialist. […] Do you believe Medicare or Medicaid is socialist?

JEFFREY: Well, yes. Actually, I would say that Medicare and Social Security are flat-out socialism.
------------------------------
The mask drops and the right wing war on the New Deal crawls out. The Dems need to call them the radicals they really are.


GravatarI hope she can't dance her way around NRN like the pukes do with the corporate media.

She needs to know how unpopular she is.


GravatarCumberland Gap, bastards!!!!!
Culture of TrÜth


Not the same impact at "Mars, Bitches!"


GravatarI could liveblogged Nancy if I had known.

what's stopping U??


GravatarShe's off on a tangent.

The "Netroots Nation" is too busy downing cocktail wienies to care.

Infrastructure! Applause!!!


GravatarShe has arguably been given more political power than any woman in US history, and she has flushed it down the drain.
leibniz leibkins

Word. I was so happy when she was sworn in as Speaker, I sat and cried like a baby. She's been a huge, huge disappointment.
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator


From the point of view of elite power in this country, Nancy Pelosi is exactly who she is supposed to be: A powerful leader in a party that has largely abandoned its working class roots for corporate oligarchy, that clings to its historical role in making war, and lusts for the power it once had and will have again at any price.

[Price negotiable in back rooms full of consultants and pollsters and lobbyists]


GravatarOK, this is getting ridiculous. This damned thing is a Tropical Depression now. One more upgrade and it gets a name.


GravatarBBL

gonna listen to this


GravatarYour come tastes too acidy.


Gravatar 'diet not diabetes.'


camelot/ armor and alcohol


This is total right-wing crap.

People get sick. They need health care. Period.

Fuck her.


GravatarBlaming the victim, it's called.

Right.
And I don't hear much applause, actually.


GravatarShe needs to know how unpopular she is.

Obviously, the "reality-based community" thinks she's just peachy!


GravatarQ: "When did you ever say no to George Bush?"


GravatarAre there any drip coffee makers that do not self destruct in a year or less?

Look for one that uses a thermal carafe instead of a hot plate to keep coffee hot. You'd be shocked by how much energy the warmer uses.


GravatarCulture of TrÜth |


Don't dirty yourself. She is scum.


GravatarFor everyone at NetRoots....

I'm in your house, liberating your kitties.

Barry from AK in Hong Kong | Homepage | 07.19.08 - 10:48 am |


You need to have a talk with Topaz about not smacking Gomez when he's not even doing anything to her.


GravatarThe "Netroots Nation" is too busy downing cocktail wienies to care.

Oh, fuck off.

We're drinking lattes.


GravatarToldya, Snow.


GravatarAre there any drip coffee makers that do not self destruct in a year or less?

Buy a Melitta ceramic filter and a kettle.  https://shop.melitta.com/search.a...ch.asp? SKW=MACM


GravatarThat storm that blew by my house last night was furious looking but did not drop much rain.


GravatarAre there any drip coffee makers that do not self destruct in a year or less?

My Krupps is 18 years old.


GravatarThe only "applause" she's getting is when she mentions Obama.


Gravatarwhat's stopping U??
fourlegsgood, netrooted

She's rambling now.


GravatarObviously, the "reality-based community" thinks she's just peachy!
dave™© | Homepage | 07.19.08 - 10:53 am | #

I forgot that I'm in a parallel universe.


GravatarBlah blah blah blah blah.

Nancy Pelosi is just stalling so nobody will ask her anymore questions.


GravatarAre you in the auditorium right now? I'll donate $100 to Obama if you stand up and tear into this stupid fucking bitch RIGHT NOW.

The tirade must start with the words "FUCK YOU, NANCY!"


GravatarThat vision question was a plant to waste time! I'm chomping at the bit to hear something substantive for a change!


GravatarAre there any drip coffee makers that do not self destruct in a year or less?
Doug |


A french press is what you need!

easiest & most delish!


GravatarThe Warmer is the element that boils the water, too.


GravatarI'm a believe in technology.

Yep, it does exist.


GravatarDeep Thought:

Because George Bush is a bad President does not make you a great Speaker.


GravatarMy Krupps is 18 years old.
Ralphie | 07.19.08 - 10:54 am | #


You been corrupt for 18 years?


GravatarCofT, others... here's netroot nations link to pelosi live streamed...


GravatarDid someone say the moderator was doing a good job? This is lame!


GravatarHad to turn her off. It's just words, devoid of meaning. A giant gasbag of fart.


Gravatar"Let's turn to the economy."

Let's not. There's really only one issue here, and the "Netroots Nation" is going to go out of their way to avoid it.

This is the same group that gave Harry Reid a nice slurpy blowjob a couple of years ago, remember...


Gravatar"Are there any drip coffee makers that do not self destruct in a year or less?"

try a bunn semi-commercial.


Gravatarsuppose y'all knew that already anyway...

who's the moderator?


GravatarNancy Pelosi is just stalling so nobody will ask her anymore questions.
HoneyBearKellyGoGiants


Ding ding ding! We have a winner!


GravatarMaybe I should post my latest hate mail and response?


GravatarThe Warmer is the element that boils the water, too.

Yeah, but it's fine to turn off the warmer after you've made the coffee. You don't need it to run for an hour if the coffee brews into a thermos type carafe.


GravatarWhat about GM???

Who gives a fuck??


GravatarThat vision question was a plant to waste time!

Yep.

And at this point, the moderator sounds like a real moron.


GravatarHey trademark


I love you.


GravatarFokowi, it's up thread. Gina somebody.


Gravatarwell damn, I was looking everywhere for that ceramic Melitta filter after I lost the one handed down from my mother.


GravatarMaybe I should post my latest hate mail and response?

Barry from AK in Hong Kong



I'd love to see it.


GravatarThat "Netroots" sure is scary. Not one single fucking "boo"? Good fucking Christ...


GravatarI usually turn it off as soon as the coffee is brewed.


Gravatar"Why is impeachment off of the table?" is not a hostile question.


GravatarI'm watching it on Second Life.

I wish they had the crack vans' :punch3:.

This woman is pissing me off.


Gravataras a fellow FDLer just noted, "nice filibuster".


GravatarI find it ironic that China, where much of the US manufacturing has been offshored to seems prone to using the same shakey flakey quality control of the worst of US companies.

It's cheaper not better.
BTW, US workers can produce quality products. Look at the Marysville Oh Hondas. Those are close to perfect for what they were designed to do.


GravatarI wish they had the crack vans' :punch3:.

Heh.


GravatarThis is basically a fucking love fest for Pelosi and it's fucking disgusting. The "Yearly Kos/Netroots Nation" is always a bunch of useless fucking bullshit and this is just another example.


GravatarI don't make much coffee anymore. There's a Caribou (like Starbucks, only better) two blocks away, and their coffee is so much better than anything I could make I just go there.


GravatarIt's called "dodging the question." Most politicians learn that early on.

You wouldn't believe the vast amount of inane questions you get.


Gravatar"This is the only warning you will get from me. I now have you ip and if I get one more thing from you I will contact your isp and get them to remove you. Your ip is 202.64.52.122. Last time. next time I go to your isp.
--
Ed Hale "


So, you're gonna contact my ISP? Maybe you should have looked up my IP before you made that threat. Because if you had, you would have noticed that it's in Hong Kong.

As you may or may not be aware, Hong Kong is not a state in the United States of America. Hong Kong is a Special Administrative Region of The Peoples Republic of China in southeast Asia. Unless you figured it out by now, US law does not apply here. For your information, no Hong Kong law is being violated.

So, if you still want to contact my ISP, I hope you are prepared to speak Chinese, Cantonese dialect.

Have a wonderful day.

Word of the day: soph·o·mor·ic
Pronunciation: "säf-'mOr-ik, -'mor-, -'mär- also "sof- or "sä-f&- or "so-f&-
Function: adjective
Date: 1813
1 : conceited and overconfident of knowledge but poorly informed and immature
2 : of, relating to, or characteristic of a sophomore
3 : see also www.hcsfjm.com

Homepage | 07.19.08 - 11:00 am | #


GravatarPelosi: when i become speaker i will end abstinence only education

Q: you r speaker

Pelosi: i think i can persuade the anti choicers to support contraception if i ask real nice

Q: go 4 it


GravatarWe need more progressives in Congress, Nancy.

We all know how you and I feel about abortions, Nancy, can we please get back to impeachment though? WTF were you thinking?


GravatarLimproots.

If not ye, who?
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GravatarI'm watching it on Second Life.

I'd join you in there, but apparently I can't run the broadcasting stream and SL at the same time.


GravatarSTOP!!!


GravatarNancy Pelosi is just stalling so nobody will ask her anymore questions.
HoneyBearKellyGoGiants

Ding ding ding! We have a winner!
Adam Hominem


Well, I suppose she's only there to find out first hand how much she can ignore the "net roots."

I'm betting she figures she can for quite a while yet.


GravatarScary thing is, if Netroots Nation keeps growing, we'll have three completely useless political parties.


GravatarToyota is going to be making Priuses (Priui?) in Mississippi, due to the high demand.


GravatarStop, Liar! She intimidates the moderator? Puh-lease!


GravatarScary thing is, if Netroots Nation keeps growing, we'll have three completely useless political parties.
Adam Hominem


Let freedom reign!


GravatarI'm betting she figures she can for quite a while yet.

Rule One of the Netroots: Never entrust anything of importance to the Kossacks.


GravatarWhy is impeachment off the table?

Why isn't Karl Rove in jail right about now?

Why can the repigs dominate congress when they have a threadbare majority but democrats are incapable of it?

Why do democrats still give Bush everything he wants and then some when he is the lamest of ducks?


GravatarConfirmed: Al Gore will be speaking.


GravatarI'd like to keep this short.......in the beginning of our country.


GravatarPelosi: can we stop ?

Host: no we must talk about FISA

Pelosi: oh noes

Host: just kidding - what about places with no internets you know remote places like Alaska and below 14th street


GravatarThere's a Caribou (like Starbucks, only better) two blocks away

I keep some pretty strange wakeing hours, when the good coffee shops are not open.

(The TTT truck stop down the freeway does NOT count as a place to get some coffee, or food. Both are shitty there and it's 20 some mile run down the road to go there.)


Gravatar"Why is impeachment off of the table?" is not a hostile question.
Snow (D-SC) |


i yield the floor to the senator from south carolina!


Gravatar Your ip is 202.64.52.122. Last time. next time I go to your isp.
--
Ed Hale "


Who is Ed Hale and what did you do to disturb his slumber?

Is that some dude who fancies himself with a military title?


GravatarWell, Al Gore is going to appear at Netroots Nation this morning. That has to be worth the price of admission.


Gravatar questions | 07.19.08 - 11:02 am

But she's so intimidating! /bullshit fucking moderator


GravatarConfirmed: Al Gore will be speaking.

That'll be the obesity seminar, no?


GravatarConfirmed: Al Gore will be speaking


Thank you, I will certainly need a pick-me-up.




I hope she leaves to silence and he arrives to thunderous applause.


Gravataryou know remote places like Alaska and below 14th street
Culture of TrÜth | Homepage | 07.19.08 - 11:03 am | #




GravatarThe TTT truck stop down the freeway does NOT count as a place to get some coffee, or food. Both are shitty there and it's 20 some mile run down the road to go there.

The blow jobs in the parking lots are to die for.


Gravatarwatertiger you're doing a great job.


GravatarThe thing about the McCain ape rape joke is that it's not funny. However, it probably would be funny to a rapist.


GravatarWhen is Gore coming, after Pelosi or later today? Because I have to go out & do a few things.


GravatarWHEN IS AL SPEAKING????? TELL ME NOW! WHAT'S THE URL????

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GravatarGood one, Barry.

I have a duck joke I send lunatics when I get an e-mail like that. It baffles them, and I like the Zen of it.

A duck walks into a grocery store. "Got any duck food?" she asks.

"No, says the the grocer, "we don't carry duck food".

Happens again, two days in a row. The third day, the grocer threatens to nail the ducks feet to the floor if the duck returns and asks about duck food again.

Fourth day, the duck is back. "Got any nails?" she asks.

"No" says the grocer, "we don't carry nails, either".

"Good!" says the duck. "Got any duck food?"


GravatarWell, the "Netroots" streaming feed just conked out - thank God.

What a steaming fucking pile of total bullshit. Thanks, Kossacks, for your usual stellar job of giving a politician who should be dragged through the streets screaming a nice slurpy blowjob.

What the FUCK is wrong with those people?


GravatarPelosi: i will give to blogging freaks free internets now get off my back

audience: yay!!!!!!!!!


GravatarWho is Ed Hale and what did you do to disturb his slumber?

Is that some dude who fancies himself with a military title?
Snow (D-SC)


I'm guessing he's not this guy.


GravatarWho is Ed Hale and what did you do to disturb his slumber?

Is that some dude who fancies himself with a military title?
Snow (D-SC)


Claims to be a retired Marine Colonel, but he runs one of the "can't vote for a black man" websites that hides behind Hillary.


Gravatarwatertiger you're doing a great job.

my computer's doing a great job. I'm just making sure nothing goes wrong.


GravatarAnother fucking planted question.

Make it about "supporting the troops" instead of "WHY ARE YOU ENABLING BUSH"!

What a fucking stooge.


GravatarThe thing about the McCain ape rape joke is that it's not funny. However, it probably would be funny to a rapist.
Le Jackel


Would that be Nixon's "Silent Majority?"


GravatarThe TTT truck stop
The blow jobs in the parking lots are to die for.


Wear a condom, unless you like giving your doc something "interesting" to giggle at, with his friends.


GravatarHas anyone at the net hoots thingie this morning spotted Atrios?


GravatarQ: why are soldiers begging for tampons

Pelosi: wow i didn't even know Prince Charles was serving in Iraq

q: well he is


GravatarI'm guessing he's not this guy.
Uncle Smokes


No, good lord no, he's not that Ed Hale.


GravatarWoo Hoo! 1st day of Summer Music Festival Season! (Lucinda Williams/Mavis Staples/Big Sandy/Los Straitjackets/buncha others).
We've got sunblock, gatorade, watermelon, white wine, comfort food, reading material, and bail money, if necessary...
Talk you fine peoples much later tonight.


GravatarAnd, in even happier news, contrary to my longstanding fears, Ray Mentzer IS NOT DEAD!

Hip Hip Hurrah!  Hip Hip Hurrah!  Hip Hip Hurrah! 


GravatarFourth day, the duck is back. "Got any nails?" she asks.

"No" says the grocer, "we don't carry nails, either".

"Good!" says the duck. "Got any duck food?"
Adam Hominem | 07.19.08 - 11:05 am | #


Mmmm, barbeque duck.


GravatarNetroots streaming


GravatarWhen is Gore coming, after Pelosi or later today? Because I have to go out & do a few things.

about 15 minutes, from what I can fathom.


GravatarMy ex-post facto prediction is that the fucking "Net Roots" are going to become at least as big a disappointment as the 60's generation.


GravatarThe thing about the McCain ape rape joke is that it's not funny. However, it probably would be funny to a rapist.
Le Jackel


It's funny, but only if your mind never matured past third grade.


GravatarHas anyone at the net hoots thingie this morning spotted Atrios?
leibniz leibkins ♘☮


He's donned his alter-ego. Look for Superman.


GravatarWhy can't Colonel Ed vote for a black man?


GravatarI gotta get out more. Don't have any idea who Ray Mentzer is.


GravatarAdam Hominem | 07.19.08 - 11:08 am |

DING! DING! DING! First prize~!

Would you care for a Kewpie Doll or a stuffed animal?


GravatarThe TTT truck stop

I think Phil Gramm made a porn film called "Truck Stop Whores" or something. And this is McStain's financial advisor.


GravatarWhy can't Colonel Ed vote for a black man?
Snow (D-SC)


'Cause he's black, silly.


GravatarDoes anybody else think "John Cusack character" when they hear the name Lloyd Doggett or is that just me?


GravatarWhy can't Colonel Ed vote for a black man?
Snow (D-SC)


Everyone knows you can't trust 'em in the same room as your wimmen.


Gravatar'Enkew very much indeed.  I shall go get breakfast now.

Doesn't everybody have shrimp curry for breakfast?


GravatarPelosi: we can help the soldiers by showing we honor their sacrifice to Halliburton's profit margin

Q: Well let's get the the shit they need

Pelosi: something is very very wrong in DC

Q: I'm looking right at it


GravatarWhy can't Colonel Ed vote for a black man?
Snow (D-SC)


Beats me in this day and age, but I just guess some people just can't get past some things.

{{{Paging Dr. Phil}}}


GravatarI'm on a break from work, and wish that I was home on SL, watching Pelosi.

I'll have to come back here later to read what your comments.

*Lola Namanari waves to HoneyBearKelly and the rest of the NNinSL folks*


GravatarWe need you to stop enabling the Repubs & Halliburton!


GravatarWhat is funny about getting beaten up and then raped by a guy with a 2 inch dick?


GravatarI gotta get out more. Don't have any idea who Ray Mentzer is.
Adam Hominem | 07.19.08 - 11:10 am | #

Isn't he the guy at the TTT truckstop?


GravatarAL


GravatarAND THERE HE IS!


GravatarAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


GravatarOh! They had a little "bit."


Gravatarustream needs to rethink how many servers they need...


GravatarStop the fucking giggling, at least on mic.


GravatarCome back, GWPDA!


GravatarAl Gore: i don't need to wear a tie - I'm Al Gore, dammit!!

Audience: yay!!!


GravatarIs Al Gore wearing earth tones?
-Katie Couric


Gravatarwowi


GravatarMan, I'm fucking hating Ralph Nader right now.


Gravatarand now we know what Nancy sounds like when she orgasms.


GravatarOn that page, which streaming video has Al Gore?

(I don't want to open all of them)


GravatarWhy can't Colonel Ed vote for a black man?
Snow (D-SC)

Intimidated by his 8 point bulge...


GravatarWhat great leader?


GravatarBlack shirt, blue jacket?


Gravatarand now we know what Nancy sounds like when she orgasms.
camelot/ armor and alcohol


I need a brain wash now, thanks a pantload.


GravatarOn that page, which streaming video has Al Gore?

Exhibit hall 4


GravatarWatching the viewer counts -- it's gone from 560 something to 604 in a couple of minutes.

Who does not love Our Al?


Gravataryay -- i made the streaming work just in time for al!


GravatarGore: thank your for fawning but also just for being you

yay!!

Gore: ok let's get real our media is pack of partisan liars and morons and its killing this country

whoooo!


GravatarAl Gore/Elizabeth Edwards '08

Take over the convention, baby!


GravatarPelosi got a nice slurpy blowjob from the "Netroots" that will totally be forgotten because BIG AL!

Really, kids, I like Gore as much as the next guy, but this whole set-up is total fucking bullshit. Whatever happened to the "reality-based community"? Can whole movements really be bought by for the price of a few cocktail wienies?


GravatarGore: the Bill of Rights don't mean a thing to a nation hooked on the Biggest Loser and American Idol

-clapping-


GravatarAl, could you tell Nancy to STFU. [Now for her multiples.]


GravatarWell, you might represent the leading edge of what it takes to reclaim our democracy.

But letting Pelosi off the hook is no way to accomplish that. I don't think it's necessary to be hostile, but she *has* really fucked us.


GravatarGore: i'm the dog in the dog and pony show

Q: where's the pony

Gore: under Bush's pile of bullshit


GravatarMaliki what?

No way.

Really?

But, how can that be?

Obama's a commie nancy boy without McCain's awesomest war credentials.


GravatarI have access to hoagie data, but not the submarine data.


GravatarWhere is the hostility line?


GravatarGore: the polar ice cap is almost as big as me!

[laughs]

Gore: just kidding - but it's all going to be gone in 5 years

Brit Hume: time to be arctic beachfront property!


GravatarDid he say, "I have ridden the Mighty Moonworm?"


GravatarCan whole movements really be bought by for the price of a few cocktail wienies?

You don't need the whole movement when you can get just the leaders cheaper.


Gravatarnancy! don't reject the mandate! impeach bush!

/Al


GravatarJesus V4V

703 viewers


GravatarWatching the viewer counts -- it's gone from 560 something to 604 in a couple of minutes.

Over 700 now.


Gravatardave. nothing wrong with a little sizzle.

energy secretary will be the most powerful cabinet position in the next administration...


Gravataris there anyone in that audience who didn't listen to al's speech?

just jump up & down, al, and shout impeach impeach impeach!


GravatarGore: Climate and economics and security are all related

[woooo]

Gore: The GOP are wrong about everything

Jimmy Carter: shit i was gore before it was cool


GravatarMorning, all.

Been away pretty much since yesterday, so sorry for the blogwhores.

Over at the homepage, there's a pretty amusing new Listomania, plus what I hope are my last words on the whole New Yorker cover thing.

While at Box Office, I hype a really terrific documentary on the Spanish Civil War, and name my Top 5 anti-fascist fiction flicks.
http://boxoffice.com/blogs/steve...nia-spec- 11.php

As always, if you can see your way to going over there and leaving a comment, I promise to go to Lubyanka's house in Milford Ohio and ring his doorbell and run.


Gravatardave. nothing wrong with a little sizzle.

energy secretary will be the most powerful cabinet position in the next administration...
fokowi | Homepage | 07.19.08 - 11:21 am |


I don't think Al will be ES, but I hope he has influence over who is.


GravatarAl's drunk!


GravatarWho was the energy sec during the Enron fiasco? Oh yeah, Richardson.


Gravatarbush is a drunk! impeach!

/al


Gravatar"Okay, Madame Speaker, we've been pretty nice to you so far, but now the gloves are coming off - what do you say to--"

(Orchestra breaks into "Thanks For The Memories" as Al Gore strolls onto stage to thunderous applause)

"Holy smoke! Al Gore! Al Gore, ladies and gentlemen!"

"Thanks... I was down the hall taping my new holiday special and thought I'd stop by to say hi..."


GravatarI love him.

Hair of the dog....

We need those catch phrases.

Everyone should respond with that to all of the O'Reillys and Limbaughs.


Gravatarenergy secretary will be the most powerful cabinet position in the next administration...

oh, please, please, please. And I think a crash program for renewable energy will also help the economy, which Krugman was warning is not going to get better anytime soon, without forceful action.


GravatarWhy can't Colonel Ed vote for a black man?
Snow (D-SC)



Because Obama's not an overpowering woman?
-


Gravatar[Watching the stream...]

Remember when everyone (MSM that is) complained about the "wooden" Al Gore?

The man's hands are flying--he's rocking to and fro.


GravatarGore: Bush is like an alcoholic with oil except also with alcohol

[ yay ]

Gore: we have to build an underground national electric grid in 10 years


GravatarAl - U can haz all of Arizona and all of New Mexico to set up the solar grid. 

C'mon back out here!


GravatarAt 11:15 EDT MSNBC read the Maliki story.


GravatarJimmy Carter: shit i was gore before it was cool
Culture of TrÜth


I heart you.


GravatarWhy is our best Dem not our nominee?


GravatarNancy Pelosi has conned more experienced pols than what's assembled in that room. She's an ass and a betrayer, but she has mad skills.


Gravatar"Thanks... I was down the hall taping my new holiday special and thought I'd stop by to say hi..."
dave™© | Homepage | 07.19.08 - 11:24 am | #


dave™ sucks cock at the TTT truckstop.


Gravatar766 viewers now.


GravatarWhy is our best Dem not our nominee?
camelot/ armor and alcohol


He haz higher calling at the moment.


GravatarGore: i don't want to say America is a nation of morons but if they buy into ANWR after falling for the invasion of Iraq then i'm moving to Sweden

[ yay!]


Gravatarwhoo! al! takin' the gloves off for netroots -- the dar speech was too civil.


GravatarWho was the energy sec during the Enron fiasco? Oh yeah, Richardson.
leibniz leibkins ♘☮ | 07.19.08 - 11:24 am |


Which seems to be overlook when he gets mentioned as a possible VP choice.


GravatarSTEVE'S MOVIE REVIEWS™

"Mamma Mia!"

Pierce Brosnan sings!!!! (Seriously, he sounds a little like Richard Thompson). Some reviewer said "You'll love this movie even if you hate yourself afterwards." Uh, sorry -- I don't hate myself. I fucking hated the movie, though.

"The Dark Knight."

Too long by about twenty minutes, but otherwise flawless on every level. And I hated the last one.

Seriously, Ledger's unbelievably scary Joker is just the icing on the cake. A great film noir that just happens to be a superhero flick.


Gravatar"Engines of Distraction" - perfect.


GravatarHi, steve. I have "The Good Fight" on VHS tape, from when it was on PBS, many years ago. Great flick, I knew several veterans so it's a particular interest of mine.


Gravatar"Thanks... I was down the hall taping my new holiday special and thought I'd stop by to say hi..."
dave™© | Homepage


Hi-Yoooo......


GravatarJesus

I need to get a grip, I'm moving toward hero worship.


GravatarI didn't want to leave, but my blood-sugar was cratering.


Gravatar826 streaming now


GravatarGore: what the protocol for metioning webiste addresses

Host: its called blogwhoring

Gore: well i'm in


GravatarWho wants one of my spare "Re-elect President Gore '08" bumper stickers?


GravatarHe's soooooo fucking good.


GravatarGore: what the protocol for metioning webiste addresses

Host: its called blogwhoring

Gore: well i'm in
Culture of TrÜth


U r my hero CoT


GravatarWho wants one of my spare "Re-elect President Gore '08" bumper stickers?


I'd say about 900 people.


GravatarGore: it's www.bipartisanelectriccompany.org i promise we will never knock over teh weiner cart


GravatarI need to get a grip, I'm moving toward hero worship.
camelot/ armor and alcohol


Dear spag, I hope Vicki is watching this! She'll be devastated if she misses it!


GravatarGore blogwhored current tv and told people he could go on vacation with hop sing if they left a comment.


GravatarWho wants one of my spare "Re-elect President Gore '08" bumper stickers?
GWPDA yclept Damaged Historian | 07.19.08 - 11:30 am |


me, please!


GravatarKinda fun to listen to an educated Southern accent, ain't it?  Rather than the corrupt false imitation we've been hearing.


GravatarGive Nancy a second to wipe the wet spot off of the chair.


GravatarWhy is our best Dem not our nominee?

I didn't seek it.


GravatarOkay, that rocked


GravatarGore blogwhored current tv and told people he could go on vacation with hop sing if they left a comment.
MikeJ


HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!


GravatarStop gushing, bitch; let someone ask a question.


GravatarTHANKS, AL!

That was good.

I giggled, though, at the last misspoken bit (quickly corected):

"You are on the cutting hedge..."

There's some good comedy in that.


GravatarHost: surprise!

Pelosi: so, my old enemy, we meet at last

Gore: heh heh heh oh nancy


GravatarIna, putting it in the mail today.


GravatarOBAMA Has Come and Gone - Report from Jalalabad Air Field
First Hand Account ^ | 19 JULY 2008 | Captain Shamrock

Posted on Saturday, July 19, 2008 11:17:19 AM by Captain Shamrock

B. Hussein Obama has come and gone on his visit to Jalalabad Air Field in eastern Afghanistan. He landed about 1515 local and was gone by 1800, which is more than enough time for any Democrat to check the Natioanl Defense box, and he is now just as qualified as John McCain to speak on all matters related to Operation Enduring Freedom.

During his visit he toured the Task Force (TF) Bayonet 173rd Brigade (Sky Soldiers!) Headquarters and Tactical Operations Center (TOC).

Well, that's the big news from the front line fellow FReepers. Keep up the fight at home and we'll do our part here.

God Bless, Captain (Now Major) Shamrock


Captain (or is it Major)Shamrock, how dare you divulge the whereabouts of hero Obama?

I guess you never heard the admonition: "Loose lips sunk ships."


GravatarI didn't seek it.
Snow (D-SC)


I will come work next time. You were so close.


GravatarWV guy had good questions.


Gravatarhe carries a note pad, how cool is that?


GravatarOoooooooooh! Accountability question!