I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
wow
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.
I'm having a Tex Antoine flashback.
Don't know how you people can watch.
Continuing from below, both George Will and Olbermann are baseball geeks, a genre of male I've always found sort of socially inept with women issues. Am I right, ladies?
Continuing from below, both George Will and Olbermann are baseball geeks, a genre of male I've always found sort of socially inept with women issues.
They're so geeky they don't know a TIE fighter from an X-Wing fighter!!
Continuing from below, both George Will and Olbermann are baseball geeks, a genre of male I've always found sort of socially inept with women issues. Am I right, ladies?
Nah.
Just lie back and enjoy it. How any human being could say something like that is beyond me. And the Republicans were more than happy to beat up on the Clintons for having some courtesy picture taken standing next to some guy who did something bad so I don't have any qualms about holding McCain's feet to the fire on this one.
Why the McCain ads?
Don't know how you people can watch
I would have shot my TV by now.
I've had good, attentive lovers, and bad, inattentive lovers from all walks of life. Sports lovers, handsome, witty, ugly, funny, serious, car geeks, motorcycle freaks, political junkies, PhDs, Catholics, Protestants...
Blogging is like the Holocaust.
Continuing from below, both George Will and Olbermann are baseball geeks, a genre of male I've always found sort of socially inept with women issues. Am I right, ladies?
I'm batting 1.000...
Ntodd is wrong. Okra is like the holocaust.
Meanwhile, folks (DFL and non) are up in arms about a satirical piece that Al Franken wrote eight years ago about Leslie Stahl being raped.
Rape ain't funny. I don't care who's saying it.
I've had good, attentive lovers, and bad, inattentive lovers from all walks of life. Sports lovers, handsome, witty, ugly, funny, serious, car geeks, motorcycle freaks, political junkies, PhDs, Catholics, Protestants...
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore
OK, Vicki, you win.
Leibniz is wrong. Okra is like female circumcision.
oy. Clayton Williams...
I'd blocked him out of my mind for the last 15-20 years.
I think stuff like this is the reason McCain has taken a very wide stance on the Wright affair. He knows he'll lose the assholes-in-your-past contest big time.
Sally Quinn was what finally got me to turn MSNBC off.
dead-threaded as usual:
Front page headline in my local fishwrap today:
'Meet the Press' host elevated political journalism
Oh, he did, did he?
I'm a baseball geek.
virgo, my puppy is doing great, thanks. I visited her last night ... less than four weeks now till I get to take her home with me.
They don't teach you to cross examine people in law school, shitheads.
Where do you learn it?
They really are going to be stuck in an endless loop talking about Timmeh.
Giuliani back out of the woodwork
'Meet the Press' host elevated political journalism
Why, some fellow journalists were amazed that someone like time russert could stack shit so high.
'Meet the Press' host elevated political journalism
In the same way a child elevates something breakable so as to get a more impressive crash when he drops it.
They're so geeky they don't know a TIE fighter from an X-Wing fighter!!
Futhermore, the nerds don't know the difference between Captian Kirk and Captain Picard!
Or for that matter, Captain Janeway!
Repost:
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
Sally Quinn was what finally got me to turn MSNBC off.
trifecta
The Queen of the Village (of the damned).
If Only Timmeh had dropped dead during Katrina. I would still have my job!
first heard from bobby knight.
If anything noteworthy were occurring in the Tim Russert Memorial World (which apparently there isn't) it might be this (from Juan Cole):
Massive Guerrilla attack in AfghanistanOh, yeah... and the complete failure of the Iraqi Parliament. And floods'n'shit.
Pushtun guerrillas mounting an insurgency against the Karzai government and against NATO troops in the Pushtun areas of Afghanistan staged a daring prison break on Friday. They set off bombs at a prison in Qandahar, killing 15 prison guards and allowing 1100 inmates to escape, including 400 captured guerrillas. Although the US refers to the guerrillas as 'Taliban' it is not clear that they are seminary students are actually linked to the Taliban movement of the 1990s. Many appear to be disgruntled Pushtun villagers.
The jailbreak spoke eloquently of the weakness and incompetence of the Karzai government, which many observers believe is in the process of collapsing under the weight of its own corruption.
The collapse seems to be accelerating even though the number of foreign troops in the country has grown enormously, to some 30,000 US and 30,000 NATO soldiers. Foreign donors recently pledged $20 bn in aid, though $10 bn of that came from the US and European donors seemed distinctly wary of having their money go into the pockets of the Afghan bureaucrats and those of their extended families.
In May, more US and allied troops were killed by guerrillas in Afghanistan than in Iraq.
I hope and pray that this media lunacy won't be lost on a significant percentage of the American viewing public.
That headline is A< href="http://alt.coxnewsweb.com/palmbeachpost/pdf/pbp_sat.pdf">here (PDF), if you're interested.
I think it's awesome that Bush is willing to travel to Yurp and threaten a sovereign nation.
We should be so proud.
That headline is here (PDF), if you're interested.
Sorry, I knew I messed that up as soon as I hit "publish." Liveblogging is hard!
I'm not one to speak ill of the dead, other than to tease the Zombie Rehnquist when he comes here to visit, but this deification of Russert on cable television is mind boggling.
This is Example A No. 1 of what is so terribly wrong with the media. He was just a fucking man, who loved and farted and ate too much and fell in line when GE told him to, not the Second Coming, which is how they're characterizing him.
Gotta go take a shower and go to a meeting.
Peace.
If Only Timmeh had dropped dead during Katrina
I was thinking about that walking to work this morning... I think the result would be exactly the same as we're seeing today. Appalling as that is.
Thats' right. They're having a Tet in Afghanistan and nobody is paying any attention. Even slipped my mind.
Jack Welsh used to brag openly about converting Timmeh and Tweety into rightwing spinners.
Is prostitution legal in DC?
They don't teach you to cross examine people in law school, shitheads.
Far be it from me to contradict the King of the Bobbleheads, but I did learn the basics about it in law school ...
If this happened in November, they would have wanted to postpone the election.
I'm genuinely sorry Tim Russert passed away. I'm sure he had family and friends who loved him, and in his own way, tried to do something good for his country.
Think any of these people had similar qualities? I'm sure almost all of them did. And they haven't gotten 2 days (and counting) of effulgent eulogies from the press. Most of them have never even been mentioned on the news.
They set off bombs at a prison in Qandahar, killing 15 prison guards and allowing 1100 inmates to escape, including 400 captured guerrillas.
And just a few days ago the military was creaming over how they controlled Qandahar.
Clayton Williams. Didn't he run to the right of the guy who did the campaign ad featuring all the convicts he'd had convicted?
(((SteveLG!!!)))
How are you, dood?
MSNBC bobblehead: "This is not an election w/o Russert at the helm."
I'm glad I'm not in America to hear the beatification of Russert. He was a TV presenter, by definition, not a high-quality journalist. He was a person.
How are you, dood?
Molly Ivors |
Molly, I've got a lot on my plate but I'm basically doing okay.
I need to get back to work at the moment, but {{{mwah}}} right back at ya!
I was hanging out with a close friend last night, who's quite politically aware and active.
I mentioned Russert and he said "Who?".
Lotsa folks can shape their politics without the help of the knobs in the media. We've really gotta start cutting ourselves some slack. The media's gonna hedgehog themselves into oblivion, as usual. We shouldn't be shocked.
What gets me about the Russert coverage is how all-encompassing it is. It's akin to coverage for the death of a president or pope.
I love how the bobbleheads keep lionizing Russert as such as great interviewer and "cross-examiner," because he never asked followup questions. MTP was highly scripted--there certainly was never any engagement between interviewer and guest.
Shuttle visible from ground. It did not burn up today.
Sinfonian Christine Jennings (running for Katherine Harris' seat in congress) spoke at a screening of Recount I went to last night.
Lots of luck to her.
Lotsa folks can shape their politics without the help of the knobs in the media.
i have co-workers very engaged in political developments; neither have televisions so have no friggin clue who i'm ranting about when i get wound up...
Clayton Williams. Didn't he run to the right of the guy who did the campaign ad featuring all the convicts he'd had convicted?
smitty w, totally fecked
Duh. I mean "all the convicts he'd had executed."
I'm finding the 24 Hours of LeMans to be more interesting than your average motorsport race.
Will Walter Kronkite get this treatment when he dies? I think not.
Cool, they have a live pilot's view from the shuttle. four minutes til touchdown
Sinfonian Christine Jennings (running for Katherine Harris' seat in congress) spoke at a screening of Recount I went to last night.
Lots of luck to her.
HoneyBearKellyGoGiants
Thanks! RIL e-mailed me about that, too.
No hot chicks in the ad downstairs at all. It's making me hot for Paula Kerger.
(not really)
Again:
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.
Back here in the real world (as opposed to the one where Tim Russert was the alpha and omega of teebee infortainment) my father passed away in his sleep last night.
He was 89.
What gets me about the Russert coverage is how all-encompassing it is. It's akin to coverage for the death of a president or pope.
Sinfonian, liveblogging
Last night they were gushing about how he met the pope.
Clayton Williams stirred controversy during his 1990 campaign for governor of Texas with a botched attempt at humor in which he compared rape to weather. Within earshot of a reporter, Williams said: “As long as it’s inevitable, you might as well lie back and enjoy it.”
It's not surprising that McStain -- given his contempt for women -- would find this statement to be "funny."
The joke will be on you, McStain, when the women of America realize your true feelings towards them.
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Oh, gosh. Condolences to you and yours, ATDH.
US Air 737 is on the runway. Shuttle is gonna have to go around again.
Will Walter Kronkite get this treatment when he dies? I think not.
Blerb
Thing is, more people know Heath Ledger than know Tim Russert. For whatever that's worth.
Deepest Condolences, ADH.
The joke will be on you, McStain, when the women of America realize your true feelings towards them.
Lime Rickey ,
To bad you can't say "cunt" on teebee.
Apprentice, I'm so sorry. My stepfather died June 2 at the age of 86, and I just returned from his funeral. My thoughts are with you and your family.
Apprentice to Darth Holden
Condolences. Sounds like a good way to go. Lost my dad last year. Hope yours had a good life.
Shocking confession:
I actually thought it was darkly funny when Bobby Knight made the same joke to a dumbfounded Connie Chung.
She was pressing him for his feelings about recent losses and criticisms and he said something to the effect of: it's like being raped,if there's nothing you can do about it you might as well try to enjoy it.
This was 1987. The way I took it was the opposite of a misogynistic joke. Reporters often descend on the ruins of a home after a tornado and ask people how they feel about losing everything. Duh! That's when you give the reporter the Bobby Knight line. Not because you think rape is funny or that losing your home is equivalent to being raped. The point is that the reporter asked a ridiculously insensitive question in order to try to elicit an emotional response for the sick pleasure of the viewers.
Still I don't like this guy because he mocked Ann Richards who was a giant in my eyes.
Did Tweety have an on-air breakdown over Timmeh's death?
Don't forget the landing gear, guys.
Peace be with you and yours, Apprentice.
Apprentice to Darth Holden
condolensces to you and your family. sucks that it was right before father's day.
Apprentice to Darth Holden
Condolences. I hope it was a peaceful passing after a long, good life.
Shuttle on the ground and coming to a stop.
"Please remain seated until the Shuttle comes to a complete stop."
Apprentice To Darth Holden my sincere condolences.
Losing a parent sucks.
ATDH -
I'm so sorry to hear that.
Condolences, ATDH
Did Tweety have an on-air breakdown over Timmeh's death?
Cookie Fleck `08
Didn't see Tweety, but KO was straining to keep it together.
Has Dr. Turk been around?
Shuttle is down. Astronauts whisked away to nearest MSNBC monitor , lest they miss the Timmyfest.
Didn't see Tweety, but KO was straining to keep it together.
geor3ge, six days!!!
No "Special Comment" about how Timmeh helped enable the war?
George Will
Will is only interested in sniffing baseball players' jockstraps, not in baseball itself.
.Didn't see Tweety, but KO was straining to keep it together.
Some of these guys may have actually watched him die. Must be pretty toughto do that and then immediately talk to millions of people about it on teebee.
Watching the Shuttle land was a nice break.
No "Special Comment" about how Timmeh helped enable the war?
Well, the man was his colleague. He's probably gonna, you know, focus on the fact that he died out of the blue.
Wanker nomination- WAPO features Sandra Day Oconnor blaming Social Security & saying private markets mechanisms are necessary because of their stability. I opined a few things, and other may want to join.
This sort of situation is what the song Show Biz Kids was written for.
Condolences, ATDH.
Did Tweety have an on-air breakdown over Timmeh's death?
Cookie Fleck `08
no surprisingly. it was a couple of hours before he finally came on air; he's in paris. when he did appear, he made the same ridiculously overwrought comments everyone else has about what a staggering influence russert was blahblahblah. but also one of his first comments was how he really wasnt' that close to russert; not like brokaw and al hunt -- who had been on earlier.
Well, the man was his colleague. He's probably gonna, you know, focus on the fact that he died out of the blue.
heh. Good point, my boy...
Sandra Day O'Connor is trashing Social Security? She'll never get another winning Bingo card again.
Florida
Florida
Florida
on an eraserboard was one of the most influential moments in history.
Gee, Timmy had the brilliance to see that it all came down to the last fucking state counting (sort of) the votes when no one as yet had a majority in the electoral college. That never would have occurred to me without St Tim and his Board of Wisdom.
Wanker nomination- WAPO features Sandra Day Oconnor blaming Social Security & saying private markets mechanisms are necessary because of their stability.
Stability? I thought it was her husband that was the victim of senile dementia.
Christ, that woman just hasn't been paying attention, has she?
Sandy's a rough-riding Arizona gal.
Is prostitution legal in DC? -
Chauncey Gardner
See K Street, or the WH, or the Hill. Takes a whole lotta high priced Love makes the goveranance go 'round.
Have they gotten to coverage on Tim's hemmoroids yet? POrobably a day too early for that yet...
I thought it was her husband that was the victim of senile dementia.
Prolly why she refrained from trashing Medicare.
Thanks to all. We have family and friends available to help with all this, but it wasn't unexpected. It's just quite the shock when it actually happens.
Shuttle is down. Astronauts whisked away to nearest MSNBC monitor , lest they miss the Timmyfest.
I'm sure that the crowd in the Village would demand no less.
CNN:
"Russert invented the concept of dividing America into
Red States and Blue States"
Somebody loved him, I suppose. but I hope Russert is spending lots of quality time with Pat Robertson.
."Russert invented the concept of dividing America into
Red States and Blue States"
Culture of TrÜth
Hah. I knew you didn't really turn off the teebee.
Christ, that woman just hasn't been paying attention, has she?
montag
In a just world, The 5 who handed down Bush V. Gore would be reduced to scratching their decisions on cement walls with their fingernails.
Pat Robertson's not dead.
Pat Robertson's not dead.
Unfortunately this is true. He's still alive to spread his vile messages of hatred.
Well, they're all the same to me, too.
http://ccoaler.blogspot.com/2008...rt-is-
dead.html
im very said. russert was one of the best strip show designers i knew. and he had memories all over the place, especially of Joseph Biden. its sad he obviously died for black reasons. may the peast be with him
Falwell, that's the one who went to hell last year.
I've gotta take a bus somewhere.
Later.
Stability? I thought it was her husband that was the victim of senile dementia.
Christ, that woman just hasn't been paying attention, has she?
montag
It apparently wasn't bad enough to leave us with the memory that she brought us the Roborts/Scalito/Thomas gang of four.
Huh, I thought this post was going to be about Bill Ayers.
Aw, gee, sorry, we'd like to rebuild Cedar Rapids but we spent all the money destroying Iraq. I'll say a prayer tho.
"Russert invented the concept of dividing America into
Red States and Blue States"
Yup, I heard that somewhere. Damned near as important an invention as, say, polio vaccine, or air conditioning.
Good thing nobody showed him a map of Asia, or he would have invented tan nations and brown nations and yellow nations.
He's still alive to spread his vile messages of hatred.
Ever noticed that Robertson has the same kind of awkward laugh and grimacing smile as McCain. Psychopaths of a feather....
Pat Robertson's not dead.
Zap Rowsdower...True Story!
Not ... yet.
[ominous music]
Headline at SFGate.com:
Tim Russert's Three Great Loves
Which were: Tim, Russert, and Tim Russert.
Hah. I knew you didn't really turn off the teebee.
Blerb
Hey! I just wanted to see space shuttle land.
I've heard they actually have hills in Cedar Rapids, but I never got to see them.
J. Sidney McCain't weighs in on the SC ruling on Gitmo detainees:
"We made it very clear these are enemy combatants," he told more than 1,000 supporters at a town hall meeting here, echoing the president's criticism of the court decision. "They have not, and never have been, given the rights of citizens of this country."
"We are going to be bollixed up in a way that's terribly unfortunate," he said. "Our first obligation is the safety and security of this nation and the men and women who defend it. This decision will harm our ability to do that."
"We made it very clear"????
Fuck you, J. Sidney. Fuck you and the rest of your stupid ass war criminal cabal.
Of course Huggy Bear's gonna win. With ads like this, how can he lose?
BILL MOYERS: Critics point to September eight, 2002 and to your show in particular, as the classic case of how the press and the government became inseparable.
Someone in the administration plants a dramatic story in the NEW YORK TIMES And then the Vice President comes on your show and points to the NEW YORK TIMES. It's a circular, self-confirming leak.
TIM RUSSERT: I don't know how Judith Miller and Michael Gordon reported that story, who their sources were. It was a front-page story of the NEW YORK TIMES. When Secretary Rice and Vice President Cheney and others came up that Sunday morning on all the Sunday shows, they did exactly that.
TIM RUSSERT: What my concern was, is that there were concerns expressed by other government officials. And to this day, I wish my phone had rung, or I had access to them.
From Moyers' program in April 2007.
awkward laugh and grimacing smile as McCain
And Lou Dobbs
Hey! I just wanted to see space shuttle land.
Culture of TrÜth
Yeah, that's what they all say 
"Pat Robertson's not dead."
Not ... yet.
[ominous music]
Like this?
Which were: Tim, Russert, and Tim Russert.
dave™©
I thought it was Big Russ, Luke, and the Buffalo Bills.
Actually, that might not be snark ... I didn't see the article.
Like this?
dave™©
That always makes me laugh.
me, too.
That always makes me laugh.
Sinfonian, liveblogging
I was going to click on it, but now I know what it is already.
Of course Huggy Bear's gonna win. With ads like this, how can he lose?
Sinfonian, liveblogging
I'm fond of this one.
Fuck you, J. Sidney. Fuck you and the rest of your stupid ass war criminal cabal.
Amen.
What pisses me off the most is the evil that my father and those of his generation fought and died for is firmly ensconsed in this country now, in the form of the deserter, the draft dodger, and the aviator who kept flying planes into the fucking ground.
TIM RUSSERT: I-- look, I'm a blue-collar guy from Buffalo. I know who my sources are. I work 'em very hard. It's the mid-level people that tell you the truth. Now-
BILL MOYERS: They're the ones who know the story?
TIM RUSSERT: Well, they're working on the problem. And they understand the detail much better than a lotta the so-called policy makers and-- and-- and political officials.
BILL MOYERS: But they don't get on the Sunday talk shows--
TIM RUSSERT: No. You-- I mean-- they don't want to be, trust me. I mean, they can lose their jobs, and they know it. But they're-- they can provide information which can help in me challenging or trying to draw out-- sometimes their bosses and other public officials.
Stewart Mott died Thursday - politically, far more important.
The Buffalo Bills will wear Tim Russert's hat size on an armband on their uniforms this season in memoriam.
And Lou Dobbs
Simple Mind
My aunt hates Lou Dobbs ... because he's so liberal.
....er...fought and died fighting against, not for.
Sorry a bit shook up as you can imagine.
Awww...Ron Paul dropped out of the race for president.
Sinf -
Good one. I totally agree with that, also.
ATDH, Peace and ease at this time to you.
Is prostitution legal in DC? -
Chauncey Gardner
See K Street, or the WH, or the Hill. Takes a whole lotta high priced Love makes the goveranance go 'round.
bo | 06.14.08 - 11:29 am
Indeed it does.
Morning, again, folks.
Hey Zap!
I'm just now winding down from 2 consecutive nights of MOB. I CAN'T HEAR A FUCKING THING!
Sorry a bit shook up as you can imagine.
Yes, I can. Condolences.
Stewart Mott died Thursday - politically, far more important.
yep.
A'ight, gotta go be productive or something.
Apprentice, peace.
I'm getting better.
I've stopped watching MSNBC.
My condolences to you and your family, Apprentice to Darth Holden.
Ew. Scarbro has Charlie Crist eulogizing Timmeh.
Yuck.
Awww...Ron Paul dropped out of the race for president.
HoneyBearKellyGoGiants
What, he couldn't pay off his family anymore?
If Lindsey Graham shows up, I'm gonna hurl.....
My sympathies as well, Apprentice.
Is prostitution legal in DC? -
Hmm, I hear the brothels in Kabul are very busy providing services to US troops...but it's not allowed in DC?
What pisses me off the most is the evil that my father and those of his generation fought and died for is firmly ensconsed in this country now, in the form of the deserter, the draft dodger, and the aviator who kept flying planes into the fucking ground.
Yep. I'm equally as pissed and dumbfounded by the fact that we've let such a bunch of mental midgets do this shit to us.
Talk about hare-lipping the Pope...
Ew. Scarbro has Charlie Crist eulogizing Timmeh.
Yuck.
plantsman
Makes me even more proud to be a Floridian ...
Ew. Scarbro has Charlie Crist eulogizing Timmeh.
Yuck
Really, they ought to draw the line at Republicans reminiscing fondly on the knob-slobbings he gave them. Where's the dignity in that?
Shit.
For some reason my teevee stopped responding to the remote.
The cable box still works though so it's not the batteries.
I wonder what a strain it is for that astronaut that was on the ISS for 95 days to return to Earth and gravity?
If you're a journalist, and a very senior White House official calls you up on the phone, what do you do? Do you try to get the official to address issues of urgent concern so that you can then relate that information to the public?
Not if you're NBC Washington bureau chief Tim Russert.
When then-vice presidential chief of staff Scooter Libby called Russert on July 10, 2003, to complain that his name was being unfairly bandied about by MSNBC host Chris Matthews, Russert apparently asked him nothing.
And get this: According to Russert's testimony yesterday at Libby's trial, when any senior government official calls him, they are presumptively off the record.
That's not reporting, that's enabling.
Froomkin, February 2007.
For some reason my teevee stopped responding to the remote.
Did you check to make sure all the little buttons/switches that tell the remote which device it's talking to are set correctly? That gets a lot of people.
When then-vice presidential chief of staff Scooter Libby called Russert on July 10, 2003, to complain that his name was being unfairly bandied about by MSNBC host Chris Matthews, Russert apparently asked him nothing.
And get this: According to Russert's testimony yesterday at Libby's trial, when any senior government official calls him, they are presumptively off the record.
That's not reporting, that's enabling.
Well, Timmeh was an infotainment host, not a journalist, so we'll give him a pass.
Scooter Libby's whole manner gives me the creeps.
I wonder what a strain it is for that astronaut that was on the ISS for 95 days to return to Earth and gravity?
plantsman
The Earth sucks.
Hw would have made a great host of "Password"
.I wonder what a strain it is for that astronaut that was on the ISS for 95 days to return to Earth and gravity?
plantsman
They do pretty well with the bones and muscles now, but I bet for a while they keep passing out whenever they try to stand up.
Back here in the real world (as opposed to the one where Tim Russert was the alpha and omega of teebee infortainment) my father passed away in his sleep last night.
He was 89.
Apprentice to Darth Holden | 06.14.08 - 11:17 am
(((((((((((((hugs))))))))))))))
Jeez...how helpful. Not:
Nine people sickened by a salmonella outbreak linked to fresh tomatoes ate at two restaurants from the same chain, federal officials confirmed Friday.
The chain's name and restaurant location are confidential, said David Acheson, the associate commissioner for foods at the Food and Drug Administration, during a conference call with reporters. A spokesman for the agency also declined to provide the time frame for the cases -- or say whether the restaurants were in the same state.
blerb yeah.
I even got the teevee's own remote out and put new batteries in it and it still doesn't respond.
Oh well.
I guess I'll just have to jump out my chair and hit the mute when Tweety comes on.
This guy told his wife he was horny this morning as they left orbit.
my father passed away in his sleep last night.
Apprentice to Darth Holden
Best wishes to you and your family.
Pat Robertson can squat a 1979 Lincoln Continental. He'll be with us for years.
Tweety's on vacation in Paris and was always jealous of Timmeh. He won't be on.
He was 89.
Apprentice to Darth Holden
Aw, so sorry.
Naomi, I love you, but you really should not use the term "boy' in any association with Obama. That is a major fuck up. Don't do it again, please.
"Obama's Chicago Boys"
http://www.thenation.com/doc/200...630/klein/
print
Condolences to Darth Holden's Apprentice.
"Texas oilman"
That's the description of this guy.
Those two words will, henceforth, have the same connations as "child molester" or "puppy decapitator" or "mass murderer"
He was 89.
Apprentice to Darth Holden
___
He lived a good long life.
Thinking of you
"Guys" would have been fine.
atdh. what that totally fecked smitty w said...
Apprentice to Darth Holden,
My condolences, think of good stories to tell, share as needed, repeat as needed. I'm thinking there has been a lot of this happening of late in our circle. If it isn't pets, it's parents or friends or even more sadly, young ones. Nothing stays forever and yet, we feel it anew every time. And here in the middle of all that we try to make sense of our collective direction. It is no wonder that some times we want to just lay down the talking stick and go work in a garden or go smell the ocean. We aren't meant to be doing the same thing every day. Peace.
This reminds me of those stories that were told of how somber music would come on Soviet TV when the Premier died.
I even got the teevee's own remote out and put new batteries in it and it still doesn't respond.
Oh well.
Have you checked to see if the IR port on the teebee is obstructed or dirty? If it ain't that, I'm stumped.
Pat Robertson can squat a 1979 Lincoln Continental. He'll be with us for years.
Oh, yeah, it's that protein drink he's been hawking for two decades.
Never saw a `79 Lincoln made out of papier mâchč before....
The update to Greasemonkey gives me a smiley monkey with a slightly more raffish haircut when I turn it on.
http://www.thenation.com/doc/200...630/klein/ print
That's a good article. Krugman yesterday or the day before was defending Obama and Furman.
Russert never used hairspray, that must be why Tweety hated him.
They do pretty well with the bones and muscles now, but I bet for a while they keep passing out whenever they try to stand up.
Blerb
That's why they had artificial gravity on the Enterprise, otherwise the away team would pass out every time they transported to the surface. Hard to explore and negotiate when you're lying on your back.
(Sorry, I thought I could make that funny somehow. Must be too depressed about Russert)
Damn, just can't keep my fat Fundamentalist bastards straight. I am getting old. Really didn't need to confirm what I surmised in yesterday's biotech class.
AtDH,
Sorry to hear of your Dad's passing. Good thoughts for you and yours.
Condolences, ATDH.
Russert never used hairspray, that must be why Tweety hated him.
Well, he was a blue-collar, working-class sort of a guy, y'know.
Made up his own pomade out of used crankcase oil and oatmeal, just like his dad.
Apprentice to Darth, I hope your father's journey was peaceful. My heart goes out to you.
BTW, the term "Chicago Boys" has a contextual historical referent: .
Anyone know if the Sweden vs Spain game on ESPN2 is live?
And why are they playing soccer when Tim Russert is dead? Those Europeans have no respect.....
my father passed away in his sleep last night.
He was 89.
Apprentice to Darth Holden
I'm so sorry to hear that. Glad he got such a great, long ride.
Peace to you and your family.
Ya, great article, but as a mixed race Merkin myself, the title made me wince. Some editor at the Nation needs to spend a few days in Alabama to understand the power of oppression associated with the word "boy'.
prolix owls!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
my father passed away in his sleep last night.
He was 89.
Apprentice to Darth Holden
My condolences, AtDH.
Stewart Mott died Thursday - politically, far more important.
Always thought his last name was Foundation.
Most sincere condolences to ADH and family and friends of ADH's pa.
Anyone know if the Sweden vs Spain game on ESPN2 is live?
Yes it is
I wonder what a strain it is for that astronaut that was on the ISS for 95 days to return to Earth and gravity?
plantsman
Has anybody asked the astronauts to eulogize Timmeh yet?
Shit. My friend wants $350 for the puppy I was gonna get, and she never even brought up paying for it for at least two weeks ... well after my kids met the puppy and got used to the idea of having one.
So now I'm between a rock and a hard place. Pay money I can't afford or break my kids' hearts. Or lose a friend. Or some combination thereof. Shit.
blerb it could just be that it's an old teevee.
But thanks for the suggestions.
"rape jokes rule"-McCain while deposting 300k
Sinfonian, liveblogging 06.14.08 - 12:07 pm
I think I learned about this negotiation from a class I took.
Offer up the goods.
Make it attractive.
Give the customers a free "taste"
When they are hooked, hit them with the price.
Make sure that you offer a package deal so that they can't get Less because there is no place to negotiate from there.
GET the MONEY UP FRONT. Because after wards they might say, "350 bucks? For that? That wasn't that great. I'll give you 100 bucks and you are lucky to get that."
Oh, and what did we call this negotiation technique? Guess.
Odd the McCain campaign claims they didn't know about the remark. Obviously, they hadn't read Scott McClellan's book, "What Happened", because he talks about that campaign (which he worked on) very early on!
Of course, it didn't stop them from using talking points on McClellan.
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