The circle jerk has many orifices.
JT |
06.14.08 - 9:21 am | #
Will found it up his arse oriface.
Nancy Willing |
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06.14.08 - 9:21 am | #
Any of the Timmeh coverage get Scooter Libby's reaction yet?
Mike |
06.14.08 - 9:21 am | #
Good morning.
montanaheadcold |
06.14.08 - 9:22 am | #
Why the fuck is the VPOTUS using a reporter as his source for information and not something like, oh, say an agency of the United States?
Snow (WF-SC) |
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06.14.08 - 9:22 am | #
Drudge's well lubed ass?
tomdurk |
06.14.08 - 9:22 am | #
Why the fuck is the VPOTUS using a reporter as his source for information and not something like, oh, say an agency of the United States?
Snow (WF-SC)
Cheney probably leaked the lie to George Will, then used George Will as "his source".
trifecta |
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06.14.08 - 9:24 am | #
Spocko mentioned Timmeh's involvement in the cover up of the Plame outers yesterday. The stress of McClellan's bringing this back had to have been over bearing.
Nancy Willing |
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06.14.08 - 9:24 am | #
Why the fuck is the VPOTUS using a reporter as his source for information and not something like, oh, say an agency of the United States?
B/C if you are Dick Cheney, data & facts really hurt your argument.
tomdurk |
06.14.08 - 9:24 am | #
The VPOTUS knows exactly how bare the Federal cupboard is.
plantsman, |
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06.14.08 - 9:24 am | #
Cheney probably leaked the lie to George Will, then used George Will as "his source".
trifecta
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ding ding ding!
Nancy Willing |
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06.14.08 - 9:24 am | #
"Why the fuck is the VPOTUS using a reporter as his source for information and not something like, oh, say an agency of the United States?"
Cause contemporary reporters might tell you what you want to believe?
montanaheadcold |
06.14.08 - 9:24 am | #
NBC has announced that it replacing Tim Russert on MTP with a little box. When republicans are on the show, the box will say "Yes" "Brilliant" "You're a true American" "You remind me of my dad". When a democrat is on the show, the box will say "You contradicted yourself 10 years ago" "Why do you hate America?" "Why do you favor raising taxes?"
leibniz leibkins ♘☮ |
06.14.08 - 9:24 am | #
So? Cheney admits to erring?
Of course, China still has intentions of making an orifice in Cheney's head and preserving in plastic his wrongheadness for a travelling road show. If only he would release his remains to them.
vox clamantis in red state |
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06.14.08 - 9:25 am | #
From which orifice did Will get it?
http://ohiodailyblog.com/content...uth-house-
floor On June 5th, the truth-challenged "Mean Jean" Schmidt took her misspeaking skills to the floor of the House, denouncing federal limitations on drilling for oil by declaring that China is currently drilling off the Florida coast (video here, about 1:52 in):
This very day there is indeed drilling activity off of our country's coast. Not by our U.S. companies. That would be illegal. Instead, the Chinese are drilling off the coast of Florida with their new energy partner, Cuba.
Gimlet |
06.14.08 - 9:25 am | #
Is the level of expert analysis that brought us to the invasion and occupation of Iraq? No CIA or DIA intelligence, Judith Fucking Miller.
I think it was. None of the evidence for invading cited by this administration came from an intelligence agency but from the reporters this administration is deeply in bed with.
Snow (WF-SC) |
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06.14.08 - 9:25 am | #
Unfortunately, George Will's sphincter has welded itself shut from years and years of being so tightly puckered. So this revelation had to have come from his vagina. Logic, pure and simple.
Iwonder |
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06.14.08 - 9:26 am | #
As always, if you could see your way to leaving a comment, it would really get me in good with management. Plus, I'll buy you an adult beverage if we ever meet.
steve hüssein® simels |
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06.14.08 - 9:26 am | #
Will got it from Scalia, who heard it from Ann Coulter, who got it from Michelle Maulkin, who got it from a commenter on her site.
latte |
06.14.08 - 9:26 am | #
Policy & Journalism from chain email! & you thought bumper-stickers were bad policy!
dusty59 |
06.14.08 - 9:26 am | #
Does Will plan to offer evidence in support of his claim, or will he issue a correction?
C: On to the next bullshit.
V for Virginia, discouraged |
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06.14.08 - 9:27 am | #
A Kos writer reminds us that Cheney touted MTP as the Best Bushco Propaganda Vehicle EVAH!
/Dependable Pumpkinhaid.
Nancy Willing |
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06.14.08 - 9:27 am | #
Afghanistan sounds to be falling apart.
plantsman, |
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06.14.08 - 9:27 am | #
Cheney probably leaked the lie to George Will, then used George Will as "his source".
trifecta
That is exactly what I thought when the thing came up.
V for Virginia, discouraged |
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06.14.08 - 9:27 am | #
The flooding in Ohio and Wisconsin is Iran's fault.
montanaheadcold |
06.14.08 - 9:28 am | #
At least Pat Buchanan is not pining for The Confederacy this morning
plantsman, |
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06.14.08 - 9:28 am | #
STEVE'S MOVIE REVIEWS™
The Incredible Hulk
He actually says "Hulk smash!" but you have to wait till pretty much the end.
The Happening
Zooey Deschanel plays Mantan Moreland.
steve hüssein® simels |
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06.14.08 - 9:28 am | #
i heard it on the grapevine
cubans were drilled with chine
ese
rootless-e, reweird |
06.14.08 - 9:28 am | #
"Why the fuck is the VPOTUS using a reporter as his source for information and not something like, oh, say an agency of the United States?"
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It's a mobious strip. They tell each other so there really is no one source.
foolme1ns |
06.14.08 - 9:28 am | #
steve -- try the link again?
V for Virginia, discouraged |
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06.14.08 - 9:29 am | #
Will got it from Scalia, who heard it from Ann Coulter, who got it from Michelle Maulkin, who got it from a commenter on her site.
...who heard it while driving to work from Jay Severin's call-ins
el |
06.14.08 - 9:29 am | #
steve hüssein® simels
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something new? is it really safe to 'click'?
Nancy Willing |
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06.14.08 - 9:29 am | #
Cheney probably leaked the lie to George Will, then used George Will as "his source".
That is absolutely what happened. Now Cheney's office is apologizing for quoting Will and Cheney is completely off the hook for making it up in the first place. Someone that high up in the oil industry or government doesn't need to get that type of information from George Will except for deniability, which is exactly what he is getting.
Snow (WF-SC) |
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06.14.08 - 9:29 am | #
i'm trying to imagine what could have been blurted out to brian williams and co. by our Great Leader and all my guesses are horribly depressing.
rootless-e, reweird |
06.14.08 - 9:30 am | #
A sudden death of a famous RICH person is good for an entire weekend of handwringing, eulogizing, public mourning, and fatuous annoying commentators telling us the same thing over and over again struggling through the thesaurus to make it sound different.
Seriously: this country is beyond fucked up and into the fire and brimstone retribution from the Almighty area if one was so inclined.
People are starving, being killed in an illegal war, suffering from floods and storms, people are being raped and murdered by men in quasi-government organizations that are being sanctioned and EXCUSED by our government, the elite are partying on the charred bones of the poor and we are expected to mourn the passing of a fool.
Sorry. I have other things to attend to. . . .
DWD - S☮S |
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06.14.08 - 9:30 am | #
Bon matin!
damn! MSNBC still doing wall to wall Timmeh coverage? Was he an ex-president or something?
We wanted him to retire, not die. But still, maybe time to move on, MSNBC people. Look at Iowa being flooded, big prison blow-up in Kandahar Afghanistan, etc. Other people are dying en masse every second on each minutes. Please pay tribute to them as well and let go Timmeh!
i wish they could do the same intensive coverage when locals and GIs die in Iraq...
plum p,better democrats please |
06.14.08 - 9:31 am | #
steve -- try the link again?
V for Virginia, discouraged | Homepage | 06.14.08 - 9:29 am | #
Why the fuck is the VPOTUS using a reporter as his source for information and not something like, oh, say an agency of the United States?
B/C if you are Dick Cheney, data & facts really hurt your argument.
Darth is the Nino Scalia of the Executive Branch.
JT |
06.14.08 - 9:31 am | #
That is absolutely what happened. Now Cheney's office is apologizing for quoting Will and Cheney is completely off the hook for making it up in the first place. Someone that high up in the oil industry or government doesn't need to get that type of information from George Will except for deniability, which is exactly what he is getting.
Snow
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Nancy Willing |
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06.14.08 - 9:31 am | #
listen v, safari is still very upset with your link
el |
06.14.08 - 9:31 am | #
DWD: a case of coke for you
bonne journée mon ami
plum p,better democrats please |
06.14.08 - 9:31 am | #
SURPRISE! reporting without facts.
that's ok, americans can't handle reality anyway, it clouds their beautiful minds
mogwai |
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06.14.08 - 9:32 am | #
A sudden death of a famous RICH person is good for an entire weekend of handwringing, eulogizing, public mourning, and fatuous annoying commentators telling us the same thing over and over again struggling through the thesaurus to make it sound different.
What do you think?
Time for another diet?
Rusty Limbaugh |
06.14.08 - 9:33 am | #
Zooey Deschanel
Have you heard her sing? She's got a new band with Atrios favorite M. Ward called "She and Him". It's quite....pretty good.
Zap Rowsdower...True Story! |
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06.14.08 - 9:33 am | #
damn! MSNBC still doing wall to wall Timmeh coverage? Was he an ex-president or something?
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He was a president maker, or so they believed. You have to remember that no matter what else he was, he was one of them, so they must praise him above all other beings. They have to praise him and themselves, because they are the only ones doing that these days. They are the only ones that think they are doing a good job.
foolme1ns |
06.14.08 - 9:33 am | #
"People are starving, being killed in an illegal war, suffering from floods and storms, people are being raped and murdered by men in quasi-government organizations that are being sanctioned and EXCUSED by our government, the elite are partying on the charred bones of the poor and we are expected to mourn the passing of a fool."
No, it's all Iran's fault ... it's Iran's fault ... they've been secreting seeding the clouds ... they force-feed bacon to our leading lights ... they've been secretly drilling for oil in Lake Superior .... they've been ...
montanaheadcold |
06.14.08 - 9:34 am | #
Have you heard her sing? She's got a new band with Atrios favorite M. Ward called "She and Him". It's quite....pretty good.
Zap Rowsdower...True Story! | Homepage | 06.14.08 - 9:33 am | #
I love her, and her band is charming, but jeebus christ, is she awful in that movie.
Of course, she has help....
steve hüssein® simels |
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06.14.08 - 9:34 am | #
Monsieur Simels! Have i ever told you you're a clone of one of my friend Paul who also works at my radio station? It's eerie! You look so alike! Even if he's 6-7 years younger than you!
plum p,better democrats please |
06.14.08 - 9:35 am | #
DWD: a case of coke for you
bonne journée mon ami
plum p,better democrats please
Let's share with everyone: THIS cannot be said often or loudly enough.
(I just told my sister of my conversation with my best man at my wedding on Monday - we had not seen each other for thirty-five years, he is a minister - and we were in agreement that America has SEVERELY lost its way. Even the church, his interest area, is guilty of the sin of forgetting what is important. It is like we have forgotten that it is our OBLIGATION to be good people FIRST.)
DWD - S☮S |
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06.14.08 - 9:36 am | #
M. Night Shamaylan isn't getting any better, is he?
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06.14.08 - 9:36 am | #
A sudden death of a famous RICH person is good for an entire weekend of handwringing, eulogizing, public mourning, and fatuous annoying commentators telling us the same thing over and over again struggling through the thesaurus to make it sound different.
Wait. It's Saturday morning. Why am I not watching cartoons and eating Captain Crunch?
racymind |
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06.14.08 - 9:36 am | #
You know who died too young,
4,100 American Kids and STEVE GILLIARD that's fuckin' who!
Attaturk |
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06.14.08 - 9:36 am | #
Cheney probably leaked the lie to George Will, then used George Will as "his source".
Frankly, Novak has to figure into this somewhere. So, my guess is that Cheney told one of his people to leak it one of Novak's people, who then claimed to verify it for George Will, because Cheney told Will, when he leaked it to Will, that Novak was a second source.
Unless Tim Russert was the second source, but, we'll never know, will we? Unless Tim Russert blabbed to Mike Allen, so Allen would be impressed with Timmeh's connections to the VP's office.
Hey, it's the Village way....
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06.14.08 - 9:36 am | #
Let's see -- Cedar Rapids is under water and George Bush is now the first American president to preside over the loss of two -- count 'em, TWO -- major American cities.
And yet the news story that most preoccupies our democracy is the death of a fat corporate lackey.
steve hüssein® simels |
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06.14.08 - 9:36 am | #
msn home page... russert: 'a loss for the entire nation.'
fokowi |
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06.14.08 - 9:37 am | #
A lady took exception on C-SPAN this morning to Timmeh's wonderment how the son of garbage man could climb so high.
Nancy Willing |
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06.14.08 - 9:37 am | #
It is like we have forgotten that it is our OBLIGATION to be good people FIRST.)
DWD
we are so old-fashioned. Damn those humanists!!!
plum p,better democrats please |
06.14.08 - 9:37 am | #
Zap ..
Listening to NPR on the way to work, and the leading lights on that conduit tell me that North Minneapolis is a real estate buyers market. Mega-foreclosures. My wife's family built a nice house there in about 1873, but it's been long gone from the family, but I wondered what's the social health of that neighborhood these days. It used to be a write-off zone for the powers that be.
montanaheadcold |
06.14.08 - 9:38 am | #
Let's see -- Cedar Rapids is under water and George Bush is now the first American president to preside over the loss of two -- count 'em, TWO -- major American cities.
Hey...someone's gotta give Angela Merkel a neck massage.
Zap Rowsdower...True Story! |
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06.14.08 - 9:38 am | #
There is also an ON button and that one is seldom used in the first place.
DWD - S☮S |
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06.14.08 - 9:38 am | #
M. Night Shamaylan isn't getting any better, is he?
plantsman
do we have a link to monsieur Simels review of it?
plum p,better democrats please |
06.14.08 - 9:38 am | #
You know who died too young,
4,100 American Kids and STEVE GILLIARD that's fuckin' who!
Attaturk
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yup
Could the fucking news spend a few solid days on the casualties of war (including the collateral innocents, please).
Nancy Willing |
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06.14.08 - 9:39 am | #
There is also an ON button and that one is seldom used in the first place.
DWD
i'm watching Radio-Canada showing the funeral of one of our soldier who died in Afghanistan last week. That's much more appropriate than what's going on on msnbc...
plum p,better democrats please |
06.14.08 - 9:40 am | #
You know who died too young,
4,100 American Kids and STEVE GILLIARD that's fuckin' who!
Attaturk
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Yes, but they weren't in "the village". They weren't the "consumate insiders". They didn't have connections. They didn't count.
foolme1ns |
06.14.08 - 9:40 am | #
i miss mister Gilliard
plum p,better democrats please |
06.14.08 - 9:41 am | #
M. Night Shamaylan isn't getting any better, is he?
plantsman
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He got too rich too soon I guess. And he is supposedly not amenable to advice or I'd try.
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06.14.08 - 9:41 am | #
montanaheadcold,
Yeah...the North Side of Minneapolis was hit very hard by this. One or two companies were responsible for a lot of the housing mayhem that's going on. And the city has been prosecuting them and throwing their pathetic asses in jail.
But there's lots of poverty/drugs/lack of infrastructure over there. The mortgage mess just compounded it.
Zap Rowsdower...True Story! |
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06.14.08 - 9:41 am | #
Ack! CNN is fixing to run a story on whether or not you can still make money flipping houses in this economy!
I am going back to bed.
Snow (WF-SC) |
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06.14.08 - 9:42 am | #
Unless Tim Russert was the second source, but, we'll never know, will we?
Get ready for a cascade of chimpadministration claims of "Russert told me" in defense of their own fabrications or criminal acts.
JT |
06.14.08 - 9:42 am | #
6 or 7 years younger than Simels?
That's umpossible plum.
trifecta
i think monsieur Simels thinks i'm stalking him. He never reply to my posts anymore... i'm sad :-(
plum p,better democrats please |
06.14.08 - 9:42 am | #
i be you wonder how i knew
'bout them chinese drills near miami U
well i heard them on the nutvine
from drudge and friends and joe klein
heard it on the nutline
rootless-e, reweird |
06.14.08 - 9:42 am | #
el -- I am blogless. It's just a placeholder because Haloscan wouldn't let go of the EschaCon auction link.
Sorry!
V for Virginia, discouraged |
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06.14.08 - 9:43 am | #
So, Cheney gets his intelligence from right wing shills like Will instead of the real intel he has complete access to? What a loser he is.
Mark B. from Austin TX |
06.14.08 - 9:43 am | #
nah, plum p; simels ignores most people most of the time.
plantsman, |
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06.14.08 - 9:43 am | #
I just listened to the clip when Russert interviewed Big Time.
That's the only time I've ever heard anyone come even remotely close to calling his ass out.
Zap Rowsdower...True Story! |
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06.14.08 - 9:44 am | #
6 or 7 years younger than Simels?
That's umpossible...
It was revealed the other day that "Ralphie" is 6 or 7 years older than Simels.
So, Cheney gets his intelligence from right wing shills like Will instead of the real intel he has complete access to? What a loser he is.
Mark B. from Austin TX | 06.14.08 - 9:43 am | #
maybe he lost his clearance.
rootless-e, reweird |
06.14.08 - 9:44 am | #
i'm an iowa native and attended the u of i. this is heartbreaking to watch:
Iowa City, Ia. - The Iowa River surged another 2 feet in just 12 hours into Friday, forcing the University of Iowa to cancel classes for a week and to pool every resource possible to protect University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics.
By 4 p.m. Friday, 19 endangered university buildings - including the student union, Hancher Auditorium and the English-philosophy building - were either taking on water or volunteers were trying everything to block it.
"This is an emergency such as we've never seen before, with unprecedented threats to our campus," U of I President Sally Mason said. "This is getting dangerous now."
As the river surged to hit 30.41 feet - 8 feet above flood stage, and 2 feet above the record of 28.52 feet set in August 1993 - officials drilled small holes in bridges to release pressure in hopes of staving off collapses. Police and aid workers were expected to set up satellite operations on both sides of the river.
nona |
06.14.08 - 9:44 am | #
Timmeh reputedly undid Ross Perot and David Duke, too.
plantsman, |
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06.14.08 - 9:45 am | #
nah, plum p; simels ignores most people most of the time.
plantsman
it wasn't always that way... is he one of the fatcats now?
plum p,better democrats please |
06.14.08 - 9:45 am | #
i'm just suprised cheney didn't do it on russerts show
you know, tell the reporter something, have that reporter print it, and cite the reporter, there, instant, independant 3rd party verification of a lie
it worked for judy, kinda, she did some jail time though
tofubo |
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06.14.08 - 9:45 am | #
msn home page... russert: 'a loss for the entire nation.'
fokowi
[sprains several muscles rolling eyes]
V for Virginia, discouraged |
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06.14.08 - 9:45 am | #
You know who died too young,
4,100 American Kids and STEVE GILLIARD that's fuckin' who!
Remember, they volunteered to die, so it does not count. Tough luck, what did they expect, a free lunch?
latte |
06.14.08 - 9:46 am | #
"And the city has been prosecuting them and throwing their pathetic asses in jail.
"
The one thing that I still admire about Minnesota is that city and state governments will sometimes do the right thing. It's a little like Canada ... maybe its the proximity.
Houses, but particularly, condos are still popping up along the I-90/94 corridor like toadstools after a long rain. But, I am told the housing industry is soft and weakening. Talked to a guy that mortgaged his life to build a $600,000 mega-hut on the Missouri River around Toston. He estimates that he would let it go for $300,000 ...
montanaheadcold |
06.14.08 - 9:46 am | #
i think monsieur Simels thinks i'm stalking him. He never reply to my posts anymore... i'm sad :-(
plum p,better democrats please | 06.14.08 - 9:42 am | #
Good lord, no. You've always been aces in my book.
What did you say, chere? I must have missed it due to wi-fi problems....
steve hüssein® simels |
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06.14.08 - 9:46 am | #
Dave, the new Hitlery
Yeah, Michelle is in for it, murkins will have to learn about black culture.
I was fortunate to package photographic portraits of outstanding black women for a travelling show "Women of Courage" based on a Wellesley study of outstanding black women.
Study was done because in early to mid 1900's when black activist women affected unionization of workers on trains and other important civil rights achievements, PAPERS DIDN'T COVER it so no records exist.
Wellesley sent workers into the field to interview these outstanding women, document this history.
It's time black women get treated by members of the human race.
el |
06.14.08 - 9:46 am | #
It was like this a couple years ago - the new gig seems to have enhanced it.
plantsman, |
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06.14.08 - 9:46 am | #
By 4 p.m. Friday, 19 endangered university buildings - including the student union, Hancher Auditorium and the English-philosophy building - were either taking on water or volunteers were trying everything to block it.
"This is an emergency such as we've never seen before, with unprecedented threats to our campus," U of I President Sally Mason said. "This is getting dangerous now."
I'm an alum, they've a LOT of buildings down on that floodplain.
Looks like the Library will be barely missed if the English-Philosophy building is in trouble.
Iowa has a really, really picturesque campus.
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06.14.08 - 9:47 am | #
What did you say, chere? I must have missed it due to wi-fi problems....
steve hüssein® simels
i wanted a link to your M. Night Shamaylan review.
you're the only movie critic i trust!!!
plum p,better democrats please |
06.14.08 - 9:48 am | #
atta -- what side of town do you live on.
nona |
06.14.08 - 9:48 am | #
Monsieur Simels! Have i ever told you you're a clone of one of my friend Paul who also works at my radio station? It's eerie! You look so alike! Even if he's 6-7 years younger than you!
plum p,better democrats please | 06.14.08 - 9:35 am | #
The poor SOB...
steve hüssein® simels |
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06.14.08 - 9:48 am | #
I used to drive people from Grinnell to the U of I Medical Centers. Iowa City has a real charm.
plantsman, |
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06.14.08 - 9:48 am | #
The one thing that I still admire about Minnesota is that city and state governments will sometimes do the right thing. It's a little like Canada ... maybe its the proximity.
I heard a comedian say once that Minnesota was "Canada with guns", so maybe you've got something there.
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06.14.08 - 9:48 am | #
And yet the news story that most preoccupies our democracy is the death of a fat corporate lackey.
That about sums it up.
Toonscribe |
06.14.08 - 9:49 am | #
in a way, it's good that those people are not in front of msnbc watching NOTHING about theire fate... what a slap to them. GET OVAH TIMMEH' DAMMIT!
plum p,better democrats please |
06.14.08 - 9:49 am | #
I used to go down to Iowa City quite a bit (had a friend at Drake in the mid-90s).
I really like that place.
Zap Rowsdower...True Story! |
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06.14.08 - 9:50 am | #
Minnesota didn't used to have pro wrestlers or Republicans as governor (sniff).
plantsman, |
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06.14.08 - 9:50 am | #
Iowa City has a real charm.
yes, it does. i've been watching the research inst i work for to see if they'll be funding new investigators at u of i so i can transfer. otherwise, the job situation in iowa totally sucks.
nona |
06.14.08 - 9:51 am | #
meanwhile, on CNN:
Open House: information magazine about real estate
i'm gonna be sick...
plum p,better democrats please |
06.14.08 - 9:52 am | #
Grinnell, in the 1970's had some of the WORST pizza on earth - two distinctly different horrible kinds of pizza.
plantsman, |
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06.14.08 - 9:53 am | #
Apparently Mr. Russert was the kind of guy you'd like to have a beer with. Y'all have your priorities mixed up.
racymind |
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06.14.08 - 9:53 am | #
'find your foreign bride today?'
well, if it makes the house payment, whatever. but erm, i really get steamed over outfits like that. i guess no one wants a 'foreign husband.' not to mention that many of the shadier ones are run by foreign mobs who enslave young women, forcing them to pretend to want to marry american men. rape and sex-slavery is also widespread.
good morning.
chicago dyke |
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06.14.08 - 9:53 am | #
Minnesota didn't used to have pro wrestlers or Republicans as governor
Frick...one of our most famous ex-governors, Floyd Olson, was an ex-Wobbly. A smart, real person that made foreclosures on farms illegal during the depression. A radical first, and a politician second.
Barnicle bemoaning that kids today want to be stars unlike Tim Russert, who knew it was about being a working class guy who would never ever ever ever ever let you forget it.
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06.14.08 - 9:53 am | #
in a way, it's good that those people are not in front of msnbc watching NOTHING about theire fate...
Has Timmeh been canonized yet? Or did they go straight to sainthood?
Gummo |
06.14.08 - 9:54 am | #
good morning.
chicago dyke
if you ever want to be a canadian, i'm ready to marry you, ma chère
plum p,better democrats please |
06.14.08 - 9:54 am | #
Barnicle says Russert knew it wasn't about journalism school stuff, it was about people.
In other words, it was about pleasing people, which he did very well.
Culture of TrÜth |
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06.14.08 - 9:55 am | #
"Iowa City has a real charm."
...but their gondolla drivers are coarse and rude.
jdw |
06.14.08 - 9:55 am | #
msn home page... russert: 'a loss for the entire nation.'
fokowi
We are in fact witnessing a case study in how the media do "the news." They start from something either completely fabricated or with just a few grains of truth in it, subject to massive but unspoken or unthought qualification, chatter together nonstop with one another exaggerating their exaggerations until they come to some consensus based more on emotion and in crowd feelings of superiority of talent and perspective than anything else and then solemnly repeat the same invention forever as if it were indisputable fact. As with the story on Russert so has been the last 8 years or more of "media coverage."
JT |
06.14.08 - 9:55 am | #
"Frick...one of our most famous ex-governors, Floyd Olson, was an ex-Wobbly. A smart, real person that made foreclosures on farms illegal during the depression. A radical first, and a politician second.
"
The current crew of grafters and incompetents in the federal government make Harold Stassen look like Lincoln.
montanaheadcold |
06.14.08 - 9:55 am | #
i wanted a link to your M. Night Shamaylan review.
you're the only movie critic i trust!!!
plum p,better democrats please | 06.14.08 - 9:48 am | #
I haven't actually written one.
But I'll give you short version.
The Happening
This time, the incredibly lame surprise ending is -- that there's no incredibly lame surprise ending!!! What a masterstroke!
The plot: Essentially, it's a remake of "The Birds" except with trees. And since trees can't really move around or anything, the dramatic possibilities are necessarily, uh, limited.
Somebody really needs to revoke M. Night Shamalamadingdong's artistic license.
Also, Zooey Deschanel spends the entire movie googling out her eyes like Stepin Fetchitt.
steve hüssein® simels |
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06.14.08 - 9:55 am | #
I'll bet the Lake Oswego, OR Farmer's Market is pretty good -- and if the busses ran more frequently than once an hour on Saturdays, I'd go find out.
plantsman, |
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06.14.08 - 9:55 am | #
Barnicle bemoaning that kids today want to be stars unlike Tim Russert, who knew it was about being a working class guy who would never ever ever ever ever let you forget it.
Culture of TrÜth
You've gotta stop. I really cannot start drinking at this hour.
V for Virginia, discouraged |
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06.14.08 - 9:55 am | #
n a way, it's good that those people are not in front of msnbc watching NOTHING about theire fate..
because we all know that 0000s of flooded, drowned americans are worth less than one Bobblehead. gotta lurv the SCLM.
chicago dyke |
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06.14.08 - 9:56 am | #
man, i had this horrible dream someone died and that's all they talked about on teevee.
jdw |
06.14.08 - 9:56 am | #
All about the economic struggles of people these days.
Ed |
06.14.08 - 9:56 am | #
Barnicle bemoaning that kids today want to be stars unlike Tim Russert, who knew it was about being a working class guy who would never ever ever ever ever let you forget it.
Culture of TrÜth
Big Russ was a sanitation engineer who taught Tim to shovel garbage and Tim never looked back.
Gimlet |
06.14.08 - 9:57 am | #
man, i had this horrible dream someone died and that's all they talked about on teevee.
jdw
welcome to our nightmare.
i really cannot take a weekend of the dear, departed st tim. no more cable for me...
nona |
06.14.08 - 9:57 am | #
I still love SNL's send-up of "The Birds", "The Clams" with flying abalone chasing and attacking school kids.
plantsman, |
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06.14.08 - 9:57 am | #
bring back the wobblies!
rootless-e, reweird |
06.14.08 - 9:57 am | #
Has Timmeh been canonized yet? Or did they go straight to sainthood?
Gummo
msnbc is waiting for the live coverage of his funeral to give him his wings and halo...
plum p,better democrats please |
06.14.08 - 9:58 am | #
What I've Learned Since Yesterday:
Tim Russert was Walter Cronkite, Ed Murrow and Diogenes all rolled into one angelic package but he never let it go to his head.
Gummo |
06.14.08 - 9:58 am | #
i'm sick of mike barnicle too
and his regular white guy
shtick
rootless-e, reweird |
06.14.08 - 9:58 am | #
Media Matters asks: Will George Will issue a correction for his error, now rebroadcast by VP Cheney?
No.
This has been another in a series of simple answers to simple questions, a service provided by Atrios and his guests for many years now.
David Derbes, ochen' pissed. |
06.14.08 - 9:59 am | #
The Happening
Does it open with a remake of the Supremes' song?
BTW, Steverino, I am anxiously awaiting your review of "The Love Guru".
Oh, they're still around. I was a member up until about ten years ago, or so. Here they are.
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06.14.08 - 9:59 am | #
oh, plum. /blushes/ i've got a girlfriend coming over this morning, otherwise i'd sit here and flirt with you. she's the jealous type, so ii shouldn't.
msn home page... russert: 'a loss for the entire nation.'
fokowi
i think i'd have to kick the teevee screen in, if i'd been watching that. thank the goddess i don't. anyone feel like taking some pitchforks and torches to the msnbc hq? i bet a lot of iowans would join us.
chicago dyke |
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06.14.08 - 9:59 am | #
Also, Zooey Deschanel spends the entire movie googling out her eyes like Stepin Fetchitt.
I saw your post last night and that's when I knew it must be bad, cause even Zooey can't save it.
virgotex |
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06.14.08 - 9:59 am | #
It is still better than Alex Witless fellating Pat Buchanan as she does every weekend.
plantsman, |
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06.14.08 - 9:59 am | #
Tim Russert was Walter Cronkite, Ed Murrow and Diogenes all rolled into one angelic package but he never let it go to his head.
They've never gone away. Dial them up. I recall that many years ago when no printers in the Twin Cities would printer our lefty newspaper we had to send the proofs to the Wobbly printing enterprise in Chicago to get the work done. They're still there.
montanaheadcold |
06.14.08 - 10:00 am | #
"It happened to me,
and it could happen TO YOU!"
plantsman, |
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06.14.08 - 10:01 am | #
Has Timmeh been canonized yet? Or did they go straight to sainthood?
Gummo
The chimp has already lobbied Ratso on this.
JT |
06.14.08 - 10:01 am | #
Had to be, to hold all that majesty and talent and humility.
Gummo |
06.14.08 - 10:01 am | #
Meanwhile MSNBC keeps showing ads for Viagra "Ask you doctor if your heart is healthy enough for sex."
Culture of TrÜth |
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06.14.08 - 10:01 am | #
BTW, Steverino, I am anxiously awaiting your review of "The Love Guru".
Have you seen the trailer? Vern Troyer (Mini-me) falls of a chair, and Meyers picks him up, looks at the camera and says
"I'd like to thank the members of the Academy...hey -- these things are heavy!"
Fell out of my chair laughing. Whether the rest of the movie is funny is another thing, but that just killed me...
steve hüssein® simels |
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06.14.08 - 10:02 am | #
omg
MSNBC is playing the mournful music from "Saving Private Ryan."
.
Culture of TrÜth |
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06.14.08 - 10:02 am | #
sex with Timmeh?
man, i won't be able to eat all day!
plum p,better democrats please |
06.14.08 - 10:02 am | #
omebody really needs to revoke M. Night Shamalamadingdong's artistic license.
that movie about the village or whatever was one of the biggest bores i've ever had to endure. glad to know there's no reason to give him another try.
chicago dyke |
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06.14.08 - 10:02 am | #
"Unbreakable" was also an artistic fart.
plantsman, |
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06.14.08 - 10:03 am | #
Well, it's Saturday morning and all of a sudden the guys who were supposed to finish fixing our roof months ago are up there stomping and banging around.
Despite the focus on the housing crisis, gasoline prices and the economy in general, the press has not done a good job capturing the intense economic anxiety — and even dread, in some cases — that has gripped tens of millions of working Americans, including many who consider themselves solidly middle class.
Working families are not just changing their travel plans and tightening up on purchases at the mall. There is real fear and a great deal of suffering out there.
Last thing I'll say about Russert. Death is something that should bond us all, remind us that, at birth and death, however our lives diverge, we're all human. To the extent that Russert's death allows people to empathize with a family whose member died young, before he should have, to the extent to which we therefore contemplate our own mortality, our own lives, and strive to make our lives better here and now, and the lives of others better, here and now, in consequence, Russert, or any other human being, is not mourned in vain. To the extent that an imperfect man, as we are all, is exalted beyond the sensible, separated from the rest of us, and from the truth of the matter, it becomes an empty ritual of those who, in celebrating Russert's life under such conditions, are really celebrating their own.
ProfWombat |
06.14.08 - 10:04 am | #
"Ask you doctor if your heart is healthy enough for sex."
Culture of TrÜth |
well, i guess we know why cheney is always so angry and snarling.
chicago dyke |
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06.14.08 - 10:04 am | #
astounding!
rootless-e, reweird |
06.14.08 - 10:05 am | #
Tim Russert was Walter Cronkite, Ed Murrow and Diogenes all rolled into one angelic package but he never let it go to his head.
Gummo
You forgot Ben Franklin!
Willendorf Venus |
06.14.08 - 10:05 am | #
Name That Speaker!
"God had it in his plan to do
what he did yesterday."
Culture of TrÜth |
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06.14.08 - 10:06 am | #
wombat, you're a saint. i already said what i had to say about this Great Loss that is Timmeh's passing. none of it was nice. the SCLM would have to do about 1000 years of 24/7 coverage of the iraqi and american dead over there before i'd begin to forgive them.
chicago dyke |
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06.14.08 - 10:06 am | #
omg
MSNBC is playing the mournful music from "Saving Private Ryan."
last nite i flipped over briefly to catch a video compilation with the springsteen soundtrack. it's nauseating what they're doing.
nona |
06.14.08 - 10:07 am | #
Mike (Der Plaigiarist) Barnicle.
plantsman, |
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06.14.08 - 10:07 am | #
I still wear one that was designed by some folks from Louisville. It's got Rosetta the Riveter.
Zap Rowsdower...True Story! |
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06.14.08 - 10:08 am | #
chidy: hell, m'dear, they aren't mourning Russert, but their idea of Russert, which is inextricably linked with their idea of themselves. They're turning an event which should bond us all into an absurdity.
ProfWombat |
06.14.08 - 10:09 am | #
Silly ProfWombat! The privation of millions of Americans isn't news! The sudden death of a self-aggrandizing multimillionaire TV star is news!
Gummo |
06.14.08 - 10:09 am | #
oh well, time to go to the market and stuff
The cat and bear best friends who simply can't bear are to be apart
"He established himself as the nation's best correspondent."
Except the part about being a correspondent.
"I spent alot of time with him on Nantucket. He belonged to the local angler's club, which had people who lived on the island."
That is incredible - mixing with unwashed fishermen!!
Culture of TrÜth |
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06.14.08 - 10:10 am | #
That is incredible - mixing with unwashed fishermen!!
Yes, we are rather, er, smelly.
Barndog, chilling |
06.14.08 - 10:10 am | #
I watched about the last 20 minutes of the Tim -athon last night, saw Chuck Todd and some other folks, and KO's wrap up. It is evident that the MSNBC pundits aren't acting- they really are blown away, it's clear.
That said, (and Russert's shill rating aside)surely the story ceased being NEWS last night. If they want/need to have a wake, they can do it in private and bring in the second stringers to keep the network going.
virgotex |
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06.14.08 - 10:11 am | #
"I spent alot of time with him on Nantucket. He belonged to the local angler's club, which had people who lived on the island."
Wait...he was Peter Griffin?
Zap Rowsdower...True Story! |
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06.14.08 - 10:11 am | #
Workers of the world unite; you have only your chains to lose.
montanaheadcold |
06.14.08 - 10:11 am | #
Oh, gawd; Jack Welch..........(barfs)
plantsman, |
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06.14.08 - 10:11 am | #
rootless: absolutely. The whole world stood by us the day after 9/11. Le Monde, fakrissake, ran a headline, 'We Are All Americans'. Bushism destroyed that, kicked the shit out of it, and put it on a plane to a black site for extraordinary rendition.
ProfWombat |
06.14.08 - 10:11 am | #
"We used to spend a lot of time on Nantucket, with Capt. Bob taking us out of his boat, Tim was always the life of the party."
- Barnicle, speaking about Bob Wright's "fishing boat."
Culture of TrÜth |
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06.14.08 - 10:11 am | #
Olbermann, Matthews, Scarborough, et al:
"You don't understand! We belong to the bestest, most wonderfullest, noblest club in the world! And the Grand High Poobah of the club just died!"
Gummo |
06.14.08 - 10:12 am | #
by the way, the canadians news stations are covering A LOT the floods in Iowa... at least a foreign country cares...
plum p,better democrats please |
06.14.08 - 10:12 am | #
Jack Welch wrote a book called 'Straight From The Gut'. An elementary knowledge of human gastrointestinal physiology unambiguously identifies the substance referred to.
ProfWombat |
06.14.08 - 10:12 am | #
Welch: "Everyone at GE felt that Tim Russert was their guy."
Ixnay on the Antucketnay!!
Culture of TrÜth |
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06.14.08 - 10:12 am | #
have fun marketing, plum! heh, perhaps i should write some naughty for you, you sexy canadienne, you.
chicago dyke |
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06.14.08 - 10:13 am | #
Matthews, in Paris, has been rather conspicuous by his relative absence.
plantsman, |
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06.14.08 - 10:13 am | #
Hmm, I think I'll leave the TV off.
Molly Ivors |
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06.14.08 - 10:13 am | #
Hmm, I think I'll leave the TV off.
Molly Ivors
You are wise, grasshopper.
Gummo |
06.14.08 - 10:14 am | #
Welch: "Everyone at GE felt that Tim Russert was their guy."
Reminds me of Goodfellas when they talk about the phrase, "A friend of ours."
Willendorf Venus |
06.14.08 - 10:14 am | #
Molly, you have to put your tv antennae at half mast until 1pm on Monday.
trifecta |
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06.14.08 - 10:14 am | #
Television news is no longer about the world we live in. Television news is about the world of television news.
Gummo |
06.14.08 - 10:15 am | #
Don't go anywhere near Buffalo without a full set of tears.
plantsman, |
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06.14.08 - 10:15 am | #
I got some decent news on the US flood situation this morning ... from the BBC
virgotex |
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06.14.08 - 10:15 am | #
Molly, you have to put your tv antennae at half mast until 1pm on Monday
Does that mean I have to put my satellite dish at half mast also?
Barndog, chilling |
06.14.08 - 10:15 am | #
Hmm, I think I'll leave the TV off.
Molly Ivors
I'm pretending mine only plays the opera station.
geor3ge |
06.14.08 - 10:15 am | #
you sexy canadienne, you.
chicago dyke
most of my life i wished i was a lesbian...but sadly no. Oh well.
plum p,better democrats please |
06.14.08 - 10:16 am | #
Barnicle: Jack tell us about how Tim helped you with your charity for homeless people in Boston.
Welch: Tim gave a passionate speech and everyone had tears in their eyes and he got a standing ovation
Culture of TrÜth |
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06.14.08 - 10:16 am | #
I am genuinely sorry that the man died, but this is getting tacky by now.
Tens of thousands of people are suffering in the midwest now. Schedule a 2 hour retrospective tonight on MSNBC, then cover the news until that point.
trifecta |
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06.14.08 - 10:17 am | #
I'm pretending mine only plays the opera station
Is "What's Opera, Doc" the correct answer?
Barndog, chilling |
06.14.08 - 10:17 am | #
Olbermann, Matthews, Scarborough, et al:
"You don't understand! We belong to the bestest, most wonderfullest, noblest club in the world! And the Grand High Poobah of the club just died!"
Gummo |
i hope this puts the KO worship to rest. it's a schtick, he's only a 'great liberal voice' b/c it works in the current media reality. i would bet money that if offered enough money/media power, he'd turn on liberals at the drop of a hat. anyway, color me unsurprised that he's going along with the twisted priorities of the SCLM. did he cover the flooding at all this week?
chicago dyke |
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06.14.08 - 10:17 am | #
So this is what it takes to get the weekend prison programming off MSNBC.
Last night I heard someone on MSNBC say Tim wasn't interested in policy as much as he was in the horse race. Who's up, who's down. Like that was a good thing. It's not. It's bad. I"m sorry he's dead but we don't need that crap being called excellent journalism.
Neponset |
06.14.08 - 10:18 am | #
Barnicle: Jack tell us about how Tim helped you with your charity for homeless people in Boston.
Welch: Tim gave a passionate speech and everyone had tears in their eyes and he got a standing ovation
Culture of TrÜth
Then we all got into our limos, drove to our private planes, and jetted off to Nantucket.
Gummo |
06.14.08 - 10:18 am | #
Scar: tells about Leadership Bob, and what made Tim such a great leader
Bob: he once hosted a show on CNBC and then other people felt more comfortable doing it
Scar: Truly, another Alexander teh Great
Culture of TrÜth |
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06.14.08 - 10:18 am | #
Trifecta, weekends on MSNBC are all about semi-nude men in prison!
plantsman, |
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06.14.08 - 10:18 am | #
Gummo: raising, in all seriousness, the specter of paradoxes of self-reference. You look only at a closed system, that's all you see.
George Lucas is a case in point. His most successful movies, 'Star Wars' and 'American Graffiti', wonderfully referenced and evoked the whole set of cultural tropes of pulp science fiction and the mythology of American adolescence. Once his films referred mostly to themselves, they became forgettable.
ProfWombat |
06.14.08 - 10:18 am | #
well, i guess we know why cheney is always so angry and snarling.
chicago dyke
There's also the possibility that he's into sex with humans, and, you know, on behalf of het women around the globe, ewwwww.
V for Virginia, discouraged |
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06.14.08 - 10:19 am | #
Well, Zapette should be in gaii Parieeeee today. In tribute, I'm gonna gnaw on a baguette, doff Simels' beret, and morph into a freedom fry.
Oh, and I'm gonna go mow the lawn...later.
Zap Rowsdower...True Story! |
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06.14.08 - 10:19 am | #
Bob: he hosted a christmas party every year and it got crowded but he did anyway
Scar: what Leadership!
Bob: of course then we moved it to a restaurant
Scar: well of course
Culture of TrÜth |
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06.14.08 - 10:19 am | #
Matthews, in Paris, has been rather conspicuous by his relative absence.
I heard him briefly last night. He very quickly veered from the Tim worship to bashing the run up to the Iraq war. It was kinda wierd. I'm not sure he'll be on much.
Neponset |
06.14.08 - 10:20 am | #
"I am genuinely sorry that the man died, but this is getting tacky by now."
Anyone check out the seemingly overhelming number of accolades, condolences as well as the pandemic of weepy comments in the comments on Huffingtonpost. Are we inhabiting a parallel universe?
Or, is this some sort of national catharsis in which one person's death is surviving as a national surrogate for all the crap that is coming down around our collective heads? Kinda like a "dying for our calamities" meme?
montanaheadcold |
06.14.08 - 10:20 am | #
well, it's sexy time for me, she's here. later bats.
chicago dyke |
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06.14.08 - 10:20 am | #
ummm.. From Dick Cheney of course.
That's how its worked for the last seven+ years.
Guy |
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06.14.08 - 10:20 am | #
I must be missing something. Did the Pope or the President die?
Chauncey Gardner |
06.14.08 - 10:20 am | #
He very quickly veered from the Tim worship to bashing the run up to the Iraq war.
I'm sure he was singularly contrite.
[eye roll]
geor3ge, six days!!! |
06.14.08 - 10:21 am | #
"I am genuinely sorry that the man died, but this is getting tacky by now."
by now? i'd say it entered the tacky zone in hour #2.
jdw |
06.14.08 - 10:21 am | #
well, it's sexy time for me, she's here. later bats.
chicago dyke
Gummo: thinking further, that's also the weakness of Bushism. They got hermetically sealed in what they called, famously, their own reality, and didn't listen to other opinions, didn't collect information that might contradict their views or show that their policies were failing. They fired folk who told the truth, and kept on doing what they were doing. The catastrophic results argue for Bushism's utter philosophical inadequacy.
The media, which, as you point out and the Russert wake demonstrates anew, have become relentlessly self-referential, are an ideal foil for Bushism on this basis.
ProfWombat |
06.14.08 - 10:22 am | #
I've worked a little bit in a species of broadcast journalism -- radio news -- and I've got a secret for all the journalists out there: it's not that hard. The only thing that makes it difficult is meeting deadlines and not flubbing your lines. Everything else is relatively easy.
Toonscribe |
06.14.08 - 10:22 am | #
ProfWomat --
Exactly.
There is a show on E! called The Soup that reports, in a very funny mocking way, on TV bottomfeeding crap - talk shows, reality shows, soap operas, stuff like that.
We're only minutes away from TV news doing the same thing in all seriousness, but about themselves:
"Today's top story: Brit Hume was stricken with a cold today and had to be rushed to the doctor's office. An official spokesman for Mr. Hume says the cold appears to not be serious but that he will be on a round-the-clock regimen of antihistamines and hot tea for the duration. Donations of tissues and chicken soup can be sent to...."
Gummo |
06.14.08 - 10:22 am | #
Oh, this is hilarious - actual transcript:
Barnicle: he never had an agent, did he
Jack Welch: no he was his own agent but he got more money cause he would use his Irish charm
Barnicle: but he never got a house big enough to host that Christman party
Welch: but he had the house in Nantucket!!
[silence]
Culture of TrÜth |
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06.14.08 - 10:23 am | #
Don't go anywhere near Buffalo without a full set of tears.
plantsman,
Didn't you hear? W has issued an executive order from Italy renaming Buffalo as Russert.
Roadmaster, Milwaukee Office |
06.14.08 - 10:23 am | #
Just because China isn't drilling for oil with Cuba doesn't mean China isn't drilling for oil with China...
After all 'bin laden determined to attack within the US' really didn't mean bin laden was determined to attack within the US........
or something like that.
pigboy |
06.14.08 - 10:23 am | #
back in a few
ProfWombat |
06.14.08 - 10:24 am | #
pigboy -- on topic, how could you?
plantsman, |
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06.14.08 - 10:24 am | #
Breaking News at MSNBC: Space Shuttle leaves orbit, begins hour-long glide back to Earth.
plantsman, |
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06.14.08 - 10:30 am | #
So Pravda was real after all? I'm getting confused.
Chauncey Gardner |
06.14.08 - 10:31 am | #
Dan Rather really ookie is REALLY OOKIE.
plantsman, |
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06.14.08 - 10:32 am | #
From which orifice did Will get it?
My vote goes to Cheney's office. It wouldn't be the first time Cheney has claimed he learned something from the media when in fact his own office leaked a lie to the press to begin with.
Southern Beale |
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06.14.08 - 10:33 am | #
Breaking News at MSNBC: Space Shuttle leaves orbit, begins hour-long glide back to Earth.
What does this have to do with Tim Russert?
Southern Beale |
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06.14.08 - 10:34 am | #
I think it was a way of proving someone at NBC was working on something.
plantsman, |
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06.14.08 - 10:35 am | #
Olbermann, Matthews, Scarborough, et al:
"You don't understand! We belong to the bestest, most wonderfullest, noblest club in the world! And the Grand High Poobah of the club just died!"
Gummo
Keith's reputation continues to descend.
JT |
06.14.08 - 10:35 am | #
Dick Cheney got his from George Will. From
That's a pretty powerful orifice. Nothing that comes out of it would surprise me. It's pretty funny that is looks like some sort of vindication for Darth that he may have merely repeated nonsense this time instead of making it all up himself. They certainly have the bar set low for themselves.
blerb |
06.14.08 - 10:36 am | #
Good morning.
I guess it's going to be all Timmah all the time.
HoneyBearKellyGoGiants |
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06.14.08 - 10:36 am | #
So are all the cable channels still all Russert all the Time?
blerb |
06.14.08 - 10:38 am | #
There were nearly 10 times as many peeps here after the Timmeh news yesterday.
plantsman, |
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06.14.08 - 10:38 am | #
I will say this--for once, Russert can't be blamed for the sorry state of the media at this moment. Unless he left specific instructions to be followed upon his death....
montag |
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06.14.08 - 10:38 am | #
Well that's it for me. I am gone. Every Saturday I am late because of you people I will not allow you to delay me this Saturday. I just won't. You and your big city talk and your big city ways!
pigboy |
06.14.08 - 10:38 am | #
Funny, Paula Deen hasn't said a word about pumpkinhead. Neither did the Hippy Gourmet before her either.
Barndog, chilling |
06.14.08 - 10:38 am | #
MSNBC surely is.
plantsman, |
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06.14.08 - 10:38 am | #
Keith's reputation continues to descend.
Meh, I think all of these people should be valued as newsreaders. They are 'good' to the extent that they report news we need to know, and do it well. Everything else is noise, to be valued no more than the commercials.
Gromit |
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06.14.08 - 10:39 am | #
So are all the cable channels still all Russert all the Time?
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CNN, to their credit, was covering the flood for a bit. Then Sanjay Gupta told us how to prevent migraines at the movies. Seriously.
geor3ge, six days!!! |
06.14.08 - 10:39 am | #
Funny, Paula Deen hasn't said a word about pumpkinhead. Neither did the Hippy Gourmet before her either.
Barndog, chilling
Tracy Turnblad is also ignoring this historic and solemn occasion.
V for Virginia, discouraged |
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06.14.08 - 10:39 am | #
There were nearly 10 times as many peeps here after the Timmeh news yesterday
Kinda like lawyers chasing ambulances ain't it?
Barndog, chilling |
06.14.08 - 10:40 am | #
The truly important question about Russert- Was his delivery vaginal or caesarian?
Gromit |
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06.14.08 - 10:40 am | #
how to prevent migraines at the movies.
don't go see The Happening
virgotex |
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06.14.08 - 10:40 am | #
Keith's reputation continues to descend.
Even if they don't all march in lockstep, they still all live in The Village.
blerb |
06.14.08 - 10:40 am | #
If anyone's interested, liveblogging of the Florida Democratic Party's Jefferson-Jackson Day has commenced at a certain sucky blog in Teh Wang™.
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06.14.08 - 10:40 am | #
Keith has a job, he could walk off it; he's done it before, but he probably likes having a nice life - and he seemed genuinely stunned yesterday.
plantsman, |
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06.14.08 - 10:40 am | #
History Channel is doing a UFO special.
Change the channel to CNN
"...Russert knew it wasn't all about it him..."
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Culture of TrÜth |
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06.14.08 - 10:42 am | #
"Funny, Paula Deen hasn't said a word about pumpkinhead."
maybe she'll make a special punkinhaid pie next week.
jdw |
06.14.08 - 10:43 am | #
Funny, Paula Deen hasn't said a word about pumpkinhead.
You know, there's a marked resemblance--big head and all.
JT |
06.14.08 - 10:43 am | #
My vote goes to Cheney's office.
Not that I would put it past him, but as I think about it, I'm reaching the conclusion that George Will really is the root of all evil. He even sorta has that Damien look.
blerb |
06.14.08 - 10:43 am | #
Folks, it's not the details of whether the Chinese are or are not drilling X miles off the US coast that is important. It's the question of whether government policy should encourage more oil drilling and exploration, refinery regulations, shale/tar sands oil, clean coal, ANWR, etc.
Drill, drill and drill more Gdammit.
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06.14.08 - 10:44 am | #
CNN: "Russert was a lawyer by training..."
They don't teach you to cross examine people in law school, shitheads.
Also I just learned that writing "Florida Florida Florida" on an eraserboard was one of the most influential moments in history.
Culture of TrÜth |
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06.14.08 - 10:44 am | #
Ugh.
The resurrection of Sally Quinn.
HoneyBearKellyGoGiants |
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06.14.08 - 10:45 am | #
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Culture of TrÜth
Ouch. Cold Turkey. Fodder withdrawal is a bitch.
blerb |
06.14.08 - 10:45 am | #
Folks, it's not the details of whether the Chinese are or are not drilling X miles off the US coast that is important.
Yay! Comedy!
V for Virginia, discouraged |
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06.14.08 - 10:45 am | #
i hope this puts the KO worship to rest. it's a schtick, he's only a 'great liberal voice' b/c it works in the current media reality.
I've never had any illusions about Olbermann. He went along with the Clinton Witch Hunt on the original MSNBC for quite some time, although he did have the good sense to eventually quit because of it (the key word being "eventually").
"Also I just learned that writing "Florida Florida Florida" on an eraserboard was one of the most influential moments in history."
we're waaaay deep into 'Onion' territory.
jdw |
06.14.08 - 10:46 am | #
Ew. Warmed-over three-day-old chili beans.
blerb |
06.14.08 - 10:47 am | #
TCB: oil has unique properties, but the ability to move vehicles is not one of them. Wind, wind, and more wind -- as a Texan, you should realize this.
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06.14.08 - 10:47 am | #
jdw - I'll email you later on today once I figure out WTF is going on in a week or so.
I also gotta call John and Steve to see whats up with the fishing. They recieved about 10" of rain thursday night, so I bet it's HIGH.
Kinda like me.
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06.14.08 - 10:47 am | #
Folks, it's not the details of whether the Chinese are or are not drilling X miles off the US coast that is important.
It's neither the sex nor the lying. It's the drilling. Got it.
geor3ge, six days!!! |
06.14.08 - 10:47 am | #
I'm reaching the conclusion that George Will really is the root of all evil
But, but he wrote a book about baseball! And he has a good vocabulary!
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06.14.08 - 10:48 am | #
CNN, to their credit, was covering the flood for a bit. Then Sanjay Gupta told us how to prevent migraines at the movies. Seriously.
Krugman was ruminating on his recent appearance on Larry King, at the end of which King announced: "Tomorrow: psychic kids!"
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06.14.08 - 10:48 am | #
Did anybody go see The Hulk?
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06.14.08 - 10:48 am | #
Olbermann agonized on-air about his loss of love for Senator Clinton and her campaign.
plantsman, |
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06.14.08 - 10:49 am | #
Anybody got some iced tea? It's already 90F and hot coffee just won't do.
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06.14.08 - 10:49 am | #
"jdw - I'll email you later on today once I figure out WTF is going on in a week or so."
mkay, thanks.
jeebus, that a lot of rain. maybe we can fish the banks of the manistee by standing in downtown saginaw.
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06.14.08 - 10:49 am | #
But, but he wrote a book about baseball! And he has a good vocabulary!
Gromit
And Dana Carvey impersonated him! How's that for street cred!
geor3ge, six days!!! |
06.14.08 - 10:49 am | #
NASA TV: I just learned that the shuttle has a pilot attitude indicator.
"Houston, the pilot is very snarky"
Gromit |
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06.14.08 - 10:49 am | #
Then Sanjay Gupta told us how to prevent migraines at the movies. Seriously.
Oy vey.
Southern Beale |
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06.14.08 - 10:50 am | #
I guess the media hasn't yet figured out that Russert was pretty well despised by the segment of the population who knew that he was a big cheerleader for war, and spent an inordinate amount of time getting cuddly with war criminals, and was entirely too friendly with his Repug sources.
I don't expect them to figure it out any time soon, either.
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06.14.08 - 10:50 am | #
later bats, work beckons.
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06.14.08 - 10:51 am | #
Anybody got some iced tea? It's already 90F and hot coffee just won't do.
GWPDA, We have 69° here. C'mon over and bring your bathing suit.
Gromit |
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06.14.08 - 10:51 am | #
The man who called his wife a c*nt thinks that candidate wives should be treated with respect.
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06.14.08 - 10:51 am | #
I guess it's going to be all Timmah all the time.
Not being around a TV yesterday, here's the extent of what I heard about the Death of Pumpkinhead:
1) 2 co-workers talking about it for 5 minutes, if that;
2) My lovely wife saying "Some commentator for 'Meet the Press' died. He was only 58!"
jeebus, that a lot of rain. maybe we can fish the banks of the manistee by standing in downtown saginaw
Speaking of Manistee, they got even more rain than Ludington. Even washed out the only bridge in Freesoil (where my Dad lived for 17 yrs).
I know them folks north of town, got a bit o' travelling to do, just to get to town.
Barndog, chilling |
06.14.08 - 10:52 am | #
On Flipping Out Jeff Lewis is waxing emotional about how much he loves his staff, before firing them all because his coffee wasn't 140-degrees.
Southern Beale |
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06.14.08 - 10:52 am | #
Doris Kearns Goodwin! Getting near the bottom of the network's barrel.
plantsman, |
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06.14.08 - 10:52 am | #
Does anyone have a movie recommendation for this weekend? I haven't been out of the neighborhood in four days.
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06.14.08 - 10:53 am | #
I've beaten this horse before, but is there really anyone who thinks Olbermann is a free agent? Can simply say whatever he wants to and pick and choose what is broadcast on that incredibly valuable and expensive airtime that is owned by his employer?
I happen to admire his intelligence and find him entertaining, and I'm glad that MSNBC chose to market at least once program at my demographic, but he is first and foremost an employee of MSNBC. The Hillary demonization obviously came from orders from above- it was a complete blanket, all the MSNBC pundits engaged in it.
Very very little gets on primetime air by mistake and without vetting.
To say Olberman had/has free will and could have stood up and taken another path is 100 percent naive.
virgotex |
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06.14.08 - 10:53 am | #
Cool and rainy in Nashivlle today. Actually had the porch doors open. There was much feline rejoicing.
Southern Beale |
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06.14.08 - 10:53 am | #
Well, I've got half of the yard mowed.
Push mower + being out of shape =
Zap Rowsdower...True Story! |
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Jeff Lewis is waxing emotional about how much he loves his staff, before firing them all because his coffee wasn't 140-degrees
I'd use a MAPP gas torch, and warm that bastards coffee in his hands for him.
Barndog, chilling |
06.14.08 - 10:54 am | #
Olbermann agonized on-air about his loss of love for Senator Clinton and her campaign.
If that was sincere, it would explain a lot about his obsessive negative coverage thereafter, like that of a hurt lover.
JT |
06.14.08 - 10:54 am | #
What's wrong with Florida Florida Florida?
Besides the obvious batshit craziness, I mean ...
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06.14.08 - 10:54 am | #
Gromit, shouldn't you be swimming over here? Pool temp's up to around 80F and that's pretty nice. After I do some stuff, I think it's time to break out the incredible misting umbbrella and spend the day in the pool with Richard Clarke.
GWPDA, yclept Irate Historian |
06.14.08 - 10:55 am | #
Yeah, the Clinton Campaign's debt and failures are like, totally Keith's fault.
plantsman, |
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06.14.08 - 10:55 am | #
Zap: What does Zapette have planned for Paris?
Gromit |
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06.14.08 - 10:55 am | #
Does anyone have a movie recommendation for this weekend? I haven't been out of the neighborhood in four days.
Don't know if it's still out but we loved "Young At Heart."
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06.14.08 - 10:55 am | #
Anybody got some iced tea? It's already 90F and hot coffee just won't do.
if you find some, give me a glass. It's incredibly hot and muggy here in Texas and it's not even 10 a.m.
virgotex |
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06.14.08 - 10:55 am | #
In other news, it's only in the low 70's today for mid-Michigan.
For the first time in almost 3 weeks.
Barndog, chilling |
06.14.08 - 10:56 am | #
sinfo, how's der Puppy?
virgotex |
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06.14.08 - 10:56 am | #
Gromit, shouldn't you be swimming over here? Pool temp's up to around 80F and that's pretty nice. After I do some stuff, I think it's time to break out the incredible misting umbbrella and spend the day in the pool with Richard Clarke.
80° sounds much nicer. I can't get myself into the lake until July, when the water temp gets over 70.
Say hi to Richard for us!
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06.14.08 - 10:56 am | #
If that was sincere, it would explain a lot about his obsessive negative coverage thereafter, like that of a hurt lover.
Ann Landers, is that you?
plantsman, |
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06.14.08 - 10:57 am | #
Sometimes people just die
When you card is drawn, you run out of luck.
Barndog, chilling |
06.14.08 - 10:57 am | #
Dunno, Gromit. I think she arrived sometime last night. For some reason, it took her nine hours to get from Edinburgh to Paris (probably 'cause she's only paying eighty bucks for that leg of the trip).
Her and her friend are staying at a LGBT-friendly B&B. That's about all I know.
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06.14.08 - 10:57 am | #
Yeah, the Clinton Campaign's debt and failures are like, totally Keith's fault.
Yeah, and that's like just what I meant. Totally.
JT |
06.14.08 - 10:58 am | #
Temp is right around 65 here now.
blerb |
06.14.08 - 10:58 am | #
I hope those two big booms were the Shuttle landing.
V for Virginia, discouraged |
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06.14.08 - 10:59 am | #
Front page headline in my local fishwrap today:
'Meet the Press' host elevated political journalism
Oh, he did, did he?
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06.14.08 - 10:59 am | #
I hope those two big booms were the Shuttle landing.
V for Virginia
Shutlle is still over Pacific, on the NASA TV internet feed. DOn't know how delayed the feed is.
Gromit |
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06.14.08 - 11:01 am | #
Can I tell everyone about my dream?
It was a spy thriller!
On the run.
Trust no one.
But then luckily I turned into a platypus and was safe.
The Monotreme Solution
Sufferin' Blessed Succotash |
06.14.08 - 11:03 am | #
Russertmania has eclipsed the Tet-like attack by the Taleban in Kandhar - freeing hundreds in prison there.
The translation of the Taleban's operation is "The Lesson."
Given W's kindergarten reaction on 9/11, don't bet on it sinking in.
Roadmaster, Milwaukee Office |
06.14.08 - 11:11 am | #
The ur-source seems to be an August 1, 2006 Orlando Sun Sentinel article in which a retiree saw some oil derricks with Chinese lettering on them.