On us, unfortunately.
Just Another Zero |
09.13.08 - 10:30 am | #
I always find it kind of icky when Toby tries to address me, I must admit.
Molly Ivors |
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09.13.08 - 10:30 am | #
Oh I know...she saw Iraq out the plane window so she knows all about national security.
HoneyBearKellyGoGiants |
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09.13.08 - 10:30 am | #
Good morning, everyone.
Sarah Palin is a serial liar and resume padder.
Toonscribe: Obama/Biden 08 |
09.13.08 - 10:31 am | #
(repeat)
Now I don't know about you, but I think I would feel a lot easier with future war-time operations...if our fiscal policy didn't approach the Reagan-era friendly 'block grants'.
This is the primary reason the corruption exists, meaning the way we have funded it in the first place, and not any way the Democrats have been ineffective in policing their hurricane sized GOP generated problem.
The solution is to attack the original cause, before we go about convicting the KNOWN offenders.
How to fund the Pentagon. IT MUST START WITH NOT ONLY CLOSING LOOPHOLES, BUT 'GRIDLOCKING' THE CREATIVE CORRUPT ACCOUNTING.
Let's see what Lanny goes on to say.
Brian |
09.13.08 - 10:31 am | #
I'm hoping racymind, Meander, and RMJ didn't suffer much.
plantsman |
09.13.08 - 10:31 am | #
In an inadvertent TV stop on the CBS affiliate this morning, I heard an incredibly thin, whiny voice, identified as belonging to Mrs. Palin, asserting that "Obama should have been harder on Hillary - you know he wanted to be" - or words parlously close to those.
The degree of jackassery involved in making such a statement is pretty high.
GWPDA yclept Damaged Historian |
09.13.08 - 10:31 am | #
she did not venture beyond the Kuwait-Iraq border
Yeah, but she could see Iraq from there!
DFH in Dubrovnik |
09.13.08 - 10:31 am | #
I've got a house in the Hamptons that governor Palin might be interested in buying.
George Costanza - Architect/Ma |
09.13.08 - 10:31 am | #
In recent weeks, Maryland Democratic Gov. Martin O’Malley has proposed a comprehensive package of spending cuts, tax cuts, and tax increases to close a structural deficit that he inherited from the prior Republican Gov. Robert Ehrlich exceeding $1.7 billion. One important part of his package includes a classic example of a “targeted” tax—splitting a 1 percent increase in the corporate income tax between higher education subsidies to hold down student tuition and transportation and infrastructure investments. In addition, Gov. O’Malley has proposed increases in various other taxes, such as increasing vehicle titling tax 1 percent and indexing the state gas tax, that would be dedicated only for critical transportation needs. Whether or not the Maryland legislature will add supra-majority requirements to prevent future raiding of these dedicated funds for non-education or non-transportation purposes remains to be seen.
Once the American people trust that these targeted tax revenues cannot be raided by law, then support for new types of taxes should dramatically increase. These could include a targeted, special “value added” or national sales tax (made progressive through lower-income rebates), as well as special income tax surcharges weighted toward wealthier taxpayers.
Here are four potential targeted-tax “trust funds” that reflect the priorities of most Americans.
Brian |
09.13.08 - 10:32 am | #
Is there one thing she hasn't lied about?
She's like the snake in the Bible that screwed Adam and Eve.
Lime Rickey |
09.13.08 - 10:32 am | #
jackassery
I am adopting this word. I will give full credit, of course.
Molly Ivors |
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09.13.08 - 10:32 am | #
Yeah, The Republicans have all become mind-readers. Right.
plantsman |
09.13.08 - 10:32 am | #
Hey Ralphie, what nym or nyms were you using in the early morning, or late night, thread? I didn't think you had in in you. My bad.
Number 13 Troll |
09.13.08 - 10:32 am | #
Aloha Bats. Did anyone watch Real Time with Bill Maher last night? Some righteous smackdown of Gooper John Fund by Janeane Garofalo and Salman Rushdie. It was one of the better round tables I've seen.
I can't believe outlets like NPR put Fund on the air. He was showing his true wingnut colors last night.
Steve McGarrett |
09.13.08 - 10:33 am | #
Palin's moving towards Davy Crockett or Paul Bunyan mythology with every passing day.
I mean, did you hear how she singlehandedly disarmed a female suicide bomber when in Kuwait---she could tell the woman was only feigning pregnancy under that burka.
PS Molly--good morning'ed you downstairs.
noblejoanie |
09.13.08 - 10:33 am | #
noblejoanie,
At various times, during various maternity leaves, I've watched women's programming. The advertising differences are indeed compelling.
But I only see The View when it makes The Soup.
Molly Ivors |
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09.13.08 - 10:34 am | #
Hey Ralphie, what nym or nyms were you using in the early morning, or late night, thread? I didn't think you had in in you. My bad.
I use my own nym. How about you?
Ralphie |
09.13.08 - 10:35 am | #
Janeane was good, Steve. Rushdie wasn't saying much while I was watching, but when she told John Fund he knew he was lying, the look on his face was priceless.
Molly Ivors |
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09.13.08 - 10:35 am | #
An Education Trust Fund could be specifically targeted to build new schools, fund higher teacher salaries, expand Head Start tutorial attention for the poor and the underprivileged, and provide tax breaks for the middle class for college tuition.
A Health Care Trust Fund could guarantee minimal access to insurance and health care 47 for all Americans, with focus on those at the lowest end of the economic ladder. It would also use tax and other market incentives to reward private medicine for cutting medical care costs.
Mass Transit and Environmental Trust Funds could focus on transportation and environmental infrastructure. They could be used to rebuild our decaying bridges and highways, to expand mass transit and public transportation alternatives, and to subsidize investments in technology to ensure cleaner air and water.
An Energy Independence Trust Fund could be for developing clean energy alternatives to achieve independence from foreign oil. They might include synfuels (using new synthetic fuel technologies to convert coal into gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, and other petroleum products as Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer has argued is now both economic and practical at today’s price of oil); safer and environmentally clean nuclear energy; electric-powered cars; and well as solar, wind, and water-power technologies. As Tom Friedman has written, unless America can be weaned from dependence on foreign oil, this country will not be able to regain its economic and political independence that has been so compromised.
Brian |
09.13.08 - 10:35 am | #
My favorite for the sheer obscurity of it is that she lies about her basketball performance. Hit the game-winning shot on a broken ankle? Hardly...she scored 1 point in the state championship game (and her nickname Barracuda was because she was always trying to get more playing time, not because she was a good player - she wasn't). Petty, I know, but they do lie about everything...
Bryce |
09.13.08 - 10:35 am | #
Jeaneane Garafalo just messed up John Funds' bullshit last night on Real Time but he just sat there with a shit eating grin on his face.
HoneyBearKellyGoGiants |
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09.13.08 - 10:35 am | #
You guys laughed two weeks ago when I said that Palin was a net minus for McCain.
steve hüssein® simels |
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09.13.08 - 10:35 am | #
I have greasemonkey, but for some reason it's not offering me killfile. I wish it would.
Molly Ivors |
Homepage |
09.13.08 - 10:36 am | #
personally do not know anyone who watches The View on a regular basis.
Molly Ivors | Homepage | 09.13.08 - 10:23 am |
That's because you work. Back in the day when the show first began, they were the only show on that wasn't soap operas and judge judy shows. Meredith and that woman that now sometimes works for Oprah had intelligent conversations (for daytime)with differing views.
I am in class, but women who stay home watch, and those are the women the Obama campaign need to get.......the women that are independents or conservatives. Don't forget the seniors.
camelot | 09.13.08 - 10:32 am | #
camelot |
09.13.08 - 10:36 am | #
Of course, there are other priorities and public investments that can be paid for by new targeted taxes, such as restructuring Social Security; a massive new Marshall Plan to retrain workers whose jobs are threatened by outsourcing and unfair competition in developing countries; and a national service corps in which all high school graduates are required to perform some form of national service for one to two years after graduation.
Once the targeted tax is accepted as the governing revenue-raising principle, there is a greater chance for selling tax increases in the future to fund new programs such as these, as well as the ability to address the new problems that are bound to arise.
A much better forum for her than a radio show.
Molly Ivors |
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09.13.08 - 10:36 am | #
Loved Maher's comment on the 42 meth labs in Palin's home county, that it suggests Wasilla is not a place one wants to live in sober.
He suggested Tweaker as the next Palin babyname.
noblejoanie |
09.13.08 - 10:36 am | #
This cut and paste asshole Brian needs to be sucked off by an armadillo.
leibniz leibkins ♘☮ |
09.13.08 - 10:37 am | #
Obama is a crypto-misogynist. That's why he appeals to so many of the ponytails and goate-strokers up in this sewer.
Toby Petzold |
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09.13.08 - 10:37 am | #
Molly Ivors
Watching Janeane say "bullshit" to Fund's fictitious framing was priceless.
Steve McGarrett |
09.13.08 - 10:37 am | #
[repeated from yesterday]
The most important thing Obama and Biden have to do to win this election is to stop prefacing their criticisms of McCain with "He's a great guy (P.O.W.) but we disagree on..."
He's not a great guy. He's an evil scumbag. And until they start informing the American people of that fact, they're fighting with one hand behind their backs...
steve hüssein® simels |
Homepage |
09.13.08 - 10:37 am | #
Is there one thing she hasn't lied about?
That Trig is her son? Or, is Atrios the dash dude?
Moe Szyslak |
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09.13.08 - 10:37 am | #
The fact that the media continues to avoid the obvious: Sarah Palin is as prepared to be president as Britney Spears - speaks volumes.
They do not give a shit about the future of this country except as it affects the absolute elite.
What does that leave us with? The possibility that we can affect real change for working people through the electoral system is fading here. Is this experiment about over?
avital |
09.13.08 - 10:37 am | #
Brian rather rates a whole new class of troll: Oblivion Troll, or Non Sequitur Troll -- doncha think?
plantsman |
09.13.08 - 10:37 am | #
This cut and paste asshole Brian needs to be sucked off by an armadillo.
Even a really dumb armadillo would shy away from that fate.
Ralphie |
09.13.08 - 10:38 am | #
1st debate, Biden:
"Governor Palin, if that is your REAL name...."
Culture of TrÜth |
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09.13.08 - 10:38 am | #
I use my own nym. How about you?
Ralphie | 09.13.08 - 10:35 am | #
You weren't in the early morning. Come of don't be coy.
How else could you have lost the l in Ralphie if you weren't changing nyms? You sly dog you. Welcome to the club. It's fun isn't it.
Number 13 Troll |
09.13.08 - 10:38 am | #
Maher calls Palin a stewardess which I think is too kind.
That would imply that she's been somewhere.
HoneyBearKellyGoGiants |
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09.13.08 - 10:39 am | #
How so, Putzhole -- Michelle, Malia, and Sasha seem to love him to pieces?
plantsman |
09.13.08 - 10:39 am | #
Obama is a crypto-misogynist. That's why he appeals to so many of the ponytails and goate-strokers up in this sewer.
Toby Petzold | Homepage | 09.13.08 - 10:37 am | #
Bullshit.
But in any case, McCain is a GENUINE, as opposed to crypto, misogynist. All the Dems have to do is run the clip of him saying "The reason Chelsea Clinton is ugly is because Janet Reno is her father" and the election is over.
Be afraid, Tobes...that ad is coming.
steve hüssein® simels |
Homepage |
09.13.08 - 10:39 am | #
Watching Janeane say "bullshit" to Fund's fictitious framing was priceless.
Steve McGarrett
She was on top of her game last night.
noblejoanie |
09.13.08 - 10:39 am | #
Jeaneane Garafalo just messed up John Funds' bullshit last night on Real Time but he just sat there with a shit eating grin on his face.
HoneyBearKellyGoGiants
Yes, but more like Janeane...More people public calling bullshit on these wingnuts...more people telling these liars to just STFU.
Steve McGarrett |
09.13.08 - 10:39 am | #
goate-strokers
There's an interesting misspelling. Got something on your mind, Tobes?
Moe Szyslak |
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09.13.08 - 10:40 am | #
I think a tax policy mandated by the taxpayers is a much more effective 'earmark' policy, than recklessly scuttling the government before the next party assumes power.
Isn't this the Republican strategy?
Blame-shift? Try to control the television broadcast message?!
This is irresponsible to the country and pure selfish greed.
It is based on the idea there won't be long-term fiscal implications for themselves.
Brian |
09.13.08 - 10:40 am | #
How else could you have lost the l in Ralphie if you weren't changing nyms?
I cleared my cache and cookies and mistyped my nym. What the fuck is your excuse. Moron.
Ralphie |
09.13.08 - 10:40 am | #
MANCHESTER, N.H. -- Sen. Barack Obama's campaign toned down its events Saturday in response to Hurricane Ike, canceling plans for Obama to crack jokes on "Saturday Night Live" and for his running mate to appear at a joint rally Saturday in Manchester.
Obama and running mate Sen. Joe Biden were to campaign together at an outdoor rally in Manchester's Veteran's Memorial Park. But the campaign decided to scale back the event as the storm battered the Gulf Coast. The campaign said Biden decided not to appear.
portia |
09.13.08 - 10:41 am | #
Brian rather rates a whole new class of troll: Oblivion Troll, or Non Sequitur Troll -- doncha think?
plantsman | 09.13.08 - 10:37 am | #
He's the fat Aggie transvestite's newest character.
You can tell because he's incredibly boring....
steve hüssein® simels |
Homepage |
09.13.08 - 10:41 am | #
When is Pat Robertson come on mah teevee and tell me why GOD HATES HOUSTON?
(Oh, and has a special grudge against Orange and Beaumont.)
Good morning.
War On War Off |
09.13.08 - 10:41 am | #
...More people public calling bullshit on these wingnuts...more people telling these liars to just STFU.
Just no journalists. [sigh]
camelot |
09.13.08 - 10:41 am | #
There's an interesting misspelling. Got something on your mind, Tobes?
He will be featured on next month's "Big and Beardy" cover.
Molly Ivors |
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09.13.08 - 10:42 am | #
You miss the point entirely! She could see Iraq from the Kuwait border... therefore she's an expert on Iraq, too.
Stadium Blitzer |
09.13.08 - 10:42 am | #
He will be featured on next month's "Big and Beardy" cover.
Mornin', Molly (emulatin' Palin with the whole "g" droppin' thing)-
ouch, noblejoanie! i have been a g-dropper long before anyone outside of alaska ever heard of that woman.
I once went to Gibraltar and looked at Africa through binoculars.
I know that continent!
Molly Ivors |
i flew icelandair my first trip to europe--saw some icelandic tarmac out the airport window before changing planes that looked like nebraska. what do i win??
ina, holiday spirit |
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09.13.08 - 10:43 am | #
The McCain campaign today repeated its assertion that 2+2=3, causing outcries from Democrats who claim that 2+2=4.
"The notion that 2+2 does not equal 3 is just one more example of Democrat elitism," a Republican spokesperson stated.
Nonpartisan arithmetic textbooks suggest that the Republican position may be a distortion, but the McCain campaign is standing by it, saying there is evidence to back it up. "If you want to go on believing 2+2=4, that's your call," the spokesperson told reporters.
The New York Times |
09.13.08 - 10:43 am | #
Pathological Liars Anonymous
Tommy Flanagan.....Jon Lovitz
Announcer: And now, a message from Pathological Liars Anonymous.
Tommy Flanagan: Hello, my name is Tommy Flanagan, and I'm a member of Pathological Liars Anonymous. In fact.. I'm the president of the organization!
I didn't always lie. No, when I was a kid, I told the truth. But then one day, I got caught stealing money out of my mother's purse. I lied. I told her it was homework - that my teacher told me to do it. And she got fired! Yeah, that's what happened!
After that, lying was easy for me. I lied about my age and joined the army. I was thirteen at the time. Yeah.. I went to Vietnam, and I was injured catching a mortar shell in my teeth. And they made me a three-star general! And then I got a job in journalism, writing for the National Enquire.. er, Geographic! Yeah.. I was making twenty thousand a ye.. month! In fact, I won the Pulitzer Prize that year! Yeah, that's the ticket.
And then my cousin died - Joe Louis - and I took it hard. Maybe too hard - I tried to kill myself. Yeahh.. I did kill myself! Sure! I was medically dead for a week and a half! It was a woman that brought me out of it - Indira Gandhi! Yeah, right.. And she told me about Pathological Liars Anonymous.
Oh, you'd be surprised how many famous people belong. In fact.. at one of the meetings I met my wife - Morgan Fairchild! Yes, I'm a change man now, and all because of Pathological Liars Anonymous. Why, I - I even have my picture on the cover of Newsweek magazine. Yeah. Every day! Yeah.. that's the ticket! Yeah, you betcha!
plantsman racymind is in Dallas with no internet.
HoneyBearKellyGoGiants |
Homepage |
09.13.08 - 10:44 am | #
McCain/Fictional Character.
I am beginning to believe that we will soon find footage of Palin as an actor in a Crest commercial.
Falstaff |
09.13.08 - 10:44 am | #
I cleared my cache and cookies and mistyped my nym. What the fuck is your excuse. Moron.
Ralphie | 09.13.08 - 10:40 am | #
Is that the best excuse you could come up with? Not so good. You even said you had a great time with the early morning thread. Logic is logic my boy. It it fits you must go with it.
Number 13 Troll |
09.13.08 - 10:44 am | #
I think I just saw Lehman Brothers listed on eBay.
Philip Seyman Hoffmore |
09.13.08 - 10:44 am | #
The war is no longer an issue, right? Because it's pretty much over? Nobody fighting or getting killed any more, as far as the nooz would be informing you if they were, right?
Wonder why we need this then...(today's Allentown PA Morning Call):
Hundreds of area soldiers will report for duty Friday for final training before leaving early next year for Iraq as part of Pennsylvania's largest single post-invasion Army National Guard deployment.
The state's 4,000-member 56th Stryker Brigade, which includes units based in Wilson and Kutztown, will head to Camp Shelby, Miss., to prepare for a 12-month tour beginning after the first of the year.***
yup. Troops are coming home, Georgie said so. Pretty much all wound up and over with. Move along, nothing to see here.
xan |
09.13.08 - 10:44 am | #
i flew icelandair my first trip to europe--saw some icelandic tarmac out the airport window before changing planes that looked like nebraska. what do i win??
I actually landed in Iceland on my way to Europe. I'm an expert on geo-thermal energy.
Ralphie |
09.13.08 - 10:44 am | #
what do i win??
A Bjork CD and some very warm socks.
Molly Ivors |
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09.13.08 - 10:44 am | #
I once changed planes at the Frankfurt airport. Go ahead, ask me anything you want to know about Germany. I'm an expert.
Palin is the Holiday Inn Express candidate.
Toonscribe: Obama/Biden 08 |
09.13.08 - 10:45 am | #
ouch, noblejoanie! i have been a g-dropper long before anyone outside of alaska ever heard of that woman.
Yes, ina, but it's real coming from you. This woman finds her "g"s when it suits her. It's part of her Great White North pseudo-folksiness schtick.
noblejoanie |
09.13.08 - 10:46 am | #
On my trip to Sweden and Norway this summer we landed in Copenhagen. Therefore I have no problem stating that I visited Denmark on my trip too. It's quite true.
Southern Beale |
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09.13.08 - 10:46 am | #
(AP) Saudi Arabia's top judiciary official has issued a religious decree saying it is permissible to kill the owners of satellite TV networks that broadcast immoral content.
Palin's model for America.
JT |
09.13.08 - 10:46 am | #
Jackassery is a very good word. Gender neutral (a little species-ist, but tolerable), nice number of fricatives and sibilants.... Not mine, but I'm fond of it. Teh Feral Burros use it quite a lot.
GWPDA yclept Damaged Historian |
09.13.08 - 10:46 am | #
But stay coy Ralphie, I don't mind. It was only a side item for me anyway. I will never mention it again. I go after bigger game.
Number 13 Troll |
09.13.08 - 10:46 am | #
Palin is the Holiday Inn Express candidate.
I love it!!!
Southern Beale |
Homepage |
09.13.08 - 10:47 am | #
On my trip to Sweden and Norway this summer we landed in Copenhagen. Therefore I have no problem stating that I visited Denmark on my trip too. It's quite true.
And you know everything about chewing tobacco, right?
Ralphie |
09.13.08 - 10:47 am | #
Last night I listened to a 15 YO do persuasive calls telling listeners that her brother had just signed up for the military and she wanted the war to be over, that's why she wanted them to vote for Barack Obama.
It was all true and she was proud of herself and truly believes.
I am grateful I get to witness this.
camelot |
09.13.08 - 10:47 am | #
Thanks, trademark dave! I knew I must be missing some plug-in or other.
I can now live free of Toby *and* Brian!
Molly Ivors |
Homepage |
09.13.08 - 10:47 am | #
I live in Seattle, that makes me an expert on Canadia.
Troutski, BTW |
09.13.08 - 10:47 am | #
Jeez, Number 13, what's your problem?
mer |
09.13.08 - 10:47 am | #
I flew over the Northern Pacific on my way to visit Japan once, so i must be all of these things:
1) and oceanographer
2) and expert on fisheries
3) a marine biologist
4) an expert in naval warfare, including submarine operations.
The Palin Doctrine in action.
Doc |
09.13.08 - 10:48 am | #
But stay coy Ralphie, I don't mind. It was only a side item for me anyway. I will never mention it again. I go after bigger game.
Remember not so long ago when McCain was all concerned when Gustav was bearing down on New Orleans?
It appears he doesn't give a shit about the people in Galveston and Houston and Beaumont.
Fucking crickets.
Thumper Johnson |
09.13.08 - 10:48 am | #
(AP) Saudi Arabia's top judiciary official has issued a religious decree saying it is permissible to kill the owners of satellite TV networks that broadcast immoral content.
Wait I thought our glorious Iraq invasion was supposed to spread democracy throughout the Middle East and shit like this was going to stop?
Southern Beale |
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09.13.08 - 10:48 am | #
Simels only sees Butler. Butler is even under Simels' bed, in his closet. Simels sees him everywhere he goes.
Number 13 Troll |
09.13.08 - 10:48 am | #
The same goes for a strong middle-class.
These were ther ideas of our 'progressive' income tax to begin with.
The Republicans as Mr. Obama has said...believe...it's the ownership society.
The haves and the have-nots.
Property...land owners....like before the mercantile class rose against nobles in the history of our mankind's renaissance...
So to them, it's really 'You're on your own society" as Mr. Obama said at the convention, which not only plays a humorous pun...it correctly describes the essence of a defense for a progressive philosophy.
This is your 20th century family values.
What you were taught in school makes this country work for EVERYONE.
Brian |
09.13.08 - 10:48 am | #
SB
I have lusted over George Clooney, therefore I have lived on Lake Como.
camelot |
09.13.08 - 10:49 am | #
I live in Canada. That makes me an expert on Santa Claus.
Moe Szyslak |
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09.13.08 - 10:49 am | #
Although Jeebus is sending a cold front down, which is nice considering they won't have electricity/air conditioning for a week if not more.
War On War Off |
09.13.08 - 10:49 am | #
Before this campaign is over, I bet Palin will have to take over the landing of her plane and successfully putting it down on a narrow strip of interstate.
noblejoanie |
09.13.08 - 10:50 am | #
McPalin voters are a bunch of bedwetting fear-stricken tools. Just ask one why they would go for these losers; it's ultimately because they're afraid of something (terrists? black guy? taxes?).
Point out they are therefore cowards, and that's not the American spirit. Don't get into a shouting match, just quietly hammer them on this repeatedly and they melt down. Seriously, it works.
bah |
09.13.08 - 10:50 am | #
Before this campaign is over, I bet Palin will have to take over the landing of her plane and successfully putting it down on a narrow strip of interstate.
Then she will field-strip an armadillo to feed her children.
Molly Ivors |
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09.13.08 - 10:51 am | #
Preview is my friend, preview is my friend-- "put" it down.
English professors make me terribly self-conscious.
noblejoanie |
09.13.08 - 10:51 am | #
Simels only sees Butler. Butler is even under Simels' bed, in his closet. Simels sees him everywhere he goes.
Number 13 Troll | 09.13.08 - 10:48 am | #
Who's Butler?
steve hüssein® simels |
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09.13.08 - 10:51 am | #
Part of an email I got last night:
I'm from Galveston and this storm is rocking my old stomping grounds.
One of my uncle's is on 56th street holding down his fortress of shit, clutter that he's been hoarding for years. (He's a bonafide packrat with almost more stuff than Wally D) And he's risking the lives of two of his small grandbabies to do it. I'm disgusted with him and worried at the same time. I haven't been able to reach him since about 9pm.
The smarter people in my family have gone to higher ground. I've peeled myself away from the TV. Decided to see the outcome in the morning.
Hopefully he will still be there in the am with my cousins. But I hope, tonight he is scared shitless as his house shakes and moans and he thinks about how fucking ignorant he is... as the small children cry out in fear.
Watching the news, I thought I was going to throw up when I saw the waves tumbling over the 17 foot seawall.
Moe Szyslak |
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09.13.08 - 10:51 am | #
Saw Hecate and her g/son in the store a few minutes ago. He is adorable, as represented.
SteveLG |
09.13.08 - 10:51 am | #
Wheeeeee - teh library just e-mailed me that Nixonland is waiting for me at Yucca branch! Hurrah!
GWPDA yclept Damaged Historian |
09.13.08 - 10:51 am | #
Simels proposed to a hooker last week. When she said no honey you're not getting it for free. Simels became sure she was Butler. She was fat though.
Number 13 Troll |
09.13.08 - 10:52 am | #
It appears he doesn't give a shit about the people in Galveston and Houston and Beaumont.
I wonder why he's not on an oil platform now ...
Southern Beale |
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09.13.08 - 10:52 am | #
But in any case, McCain is a GENUINE, as opposed to crypto, misogynist. All the Dems have to do is run the clip of him saying "The reason Chelsea Clinton is ugly is because Janet Reno is her father" and the election is over.
steve hüssein® simels
And people laughed.
It's not even remotely funny. It's just mean.
Adam Hominem |
09.13.08 - 10:52 am | #
Preview is my friend, preview is my friend-- "put" it down.
If I didn't make at least 2 typos, people would think I was a name-stealer.
Doc |
09.13.08 - 10:52 am | #
OK, I'm off to an Obama rally with Congressman Rothman in the Paris of the Northeast.
Culture of TrÜth |
Homepage |
09.13.08 - 10:53 am | #
I have lusted over George Clooney, therefore I have lived on Lake Como.
We ALL live on Lake Como.
Southern Beale |
Homepage |
09.13.08 - 10:53 am | #
Imagine The First Dood attending a state dinner at the White House.
noblejoanie |
09.13.08 - 10:53 am | #
It is not teh sex, it is teh liEZ!!!!
Larry Craig |
09.13.08 - 10:54 am | #
Galveston actually did better than expected, at the expense of Orange and Beaumont. Apparently Ike shifted at the last moment, so the wall of water went more to the east.
War On War Off |
09.13.08 - 10:54 am | #
I live in Seattle, that makes me an expert on Canadia.
I went to La Canada once. Didn't like it. But I've been to Mesilla, so that makes me an expert on... Billy the Kid! Or Old Mexico! Or something.
GWPDA yclept Damaged Historian |
09.13.08 - 10:54 am | #
Imagine The First Dood attending a state dinner at the White House.
noblejoanie
...exchanging small talk with Carla Bruni, perhaps.
SteveLG |
09.13.08 - 10:54 am | #
I distinctly remember George Carlin talking about "property ownership" last year.
(RIP)
It's a common theme to what's happened.
How we fiscally approach this massive debt ceiling now...will affect all of our lives in the next 50 to 100 years.
Remember, the GOP does not believe there are long term implications.
This is why they have been so concerned about their property value, even though it was historically inflated to begin with.
Brian |
09.13.08 - 10:54 am | #
Imagine The First Dood attending a state dinner at the White House.
noblejoanie
You know Bush always wanted to have a can of Budweiser in a NASCAR coozy on the table at those snooty state dinners.
Doc |
09.13.08 - 10:55 am | #
If you have never really done anything, and have never subjected yourself to self-criticism, everything is easy.
I've been turning down supervisory jobs in my field (of small groups) because I am not good at it.
McOld is a liar, who wants to mess with your Social Security, and voted against medicine for babies and health care for veterans.
A. Morphous |
09.13.08 - 10:55 am | #
I went to La Canada once. Didn't like it. But I've been to Mesilla, so that makes me an expert on... Billy the Kid! Or Old Mexico! Or something.
GWPDA yclept Damaged Historian
They have funny money in Canada.
Adam Hominem |
09.13.08 - 10:55 am | #
And now, STEVE'S MOVIE REVIEWS™
"Burn After Reading"
Mostly very droll. J. Jonah from "Spiderman" steals it. And who knew Tilda Swinton was funny?
"The Women"
I never wanted to be a homosexual so much in my life. Seriously -- Diane English's idea of updating the script is to have a character say "What is this -- some kind of 30s movie?"
"Righteous Kill"
Pacino and DeNiro make Zager and Evans look like Marx and Engels!!!!
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steve hüssein® simels |
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09.13.08 - 10:56 am | #
A Bjork CD and some very warm socks.
Molly Ivors |
yay! just what i wanted! (i did buy a nice blanket in the airport on my way back to the states).
ina, holiday spirit |
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09.13.08 - 10:56 am | #
Hey come on! she's dedicated
deadicated to continuing the ...now well established tradition of having a psychopath in the VP position
blood lust Palin for second seat
Your representatives at home again
common denominator |
09.13.08 - 10:56 am | #
Governor Palin was able to see Ireland, most of the rest of Europe and the whole of the Middle East from the window of her airplane. She even waved to some Heads of State from her seat.
This is much more in line with what Real Americans want from their leaders than all that resume-experience bullshit.
dr. bloor |
09.13.08 - 10:56 am | #
Galveston actually did better than expected, at the expense of Orange and Beaumont. Apparently Ike shifted at the last moment, so the wall of water went more to the east.
War On War Off
Aren't the Bush's from Beaumont?
God hates them!
Adam Hominem |
09.13.08 - 10:56 am | #
They have big-ass Dust Storms in Phoenix.
plantsman |
09.13.08 - 10:56 am | #
Remember that old special of Jackie Kennedy giving a tour of the White House, describing her restoration plans, exuding a love for the place's history?
Then imagine the Palins running the joint.
Ah, get me another Kleenex, will you?
noblejoanie |
09.13.08 - 10:57 am | #
Gibson: Do you agree with the Bush Doctrine?
Palin: In what respect?
Gibson: I ain't givin' you no respect!
JT |
09.13.08 - 10:57 am | #
Sarah "Tommy Flanagan" Palin
Imagine Jon Lovitz doing an ad made up as McCain... That's the ticket!
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09.13.08 - 10:57 am | #
I went to La Canada once. Didn't like it. But I've been to Mesilla, so that makes me an expert on... Billy the Kid! Or Old Mexico! Or something.
When you crossed the border did you feel the urge to follow every 'o' with a 'u' when conversing in print?
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09.13.08 - 10:57 am | #
If Beaumont is in Connecticut.
Snow (D-SC) |
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09.13.08 - 10:58 am | #
i like mccain's excuse for lying about the chronology of his marriage breakup - "that was 30 years ago".
rootless-e, Kuttner/08 |
09.13.08 - 10:58 am | #
No, The Bushes settled in MIdland when they first came to Texas -- but thanks for playing.
plantsman |
09.13.08 - 10:58 am | #
Does anyone really think they would let Palin do anything if she was VP?
mer |
09.13.08 - 10:58 am | #
Aren't the Bush's from Beaumont?
If Beaumont is in Connecticut.
Snow
Well played, sir
noblejoanie |
09.13.08 - 10:58 am | #
I went to Expo 1986 in Vancouver, BC.
Man, that ought to at least qualify me to be Secretary General of the UN.
Doc |
09.13.08 - 10:58 am | #
Air Force One on blocks, in front of the White House.
A. Morphous |
09.13.08 - 10:58 am | #
Does anyone really think they would let Palin do anything if she was VP?
mer | 09.13.08 - 10:58 am | #
she'd have a shiv in Mckeating's back before the inaugural ball.
ronjazz |
09.13.08 - 10:58 am | #
I do admit to wondering why Palin just doesn't sit her ass at home and look at the water. (Beautiful home and property.)Yeah, she's just one of us. umm. hmm.
I think Rumfeld, and Cheney just want some beautiful property they can make money off of, and so what, if there happens to be someone willing to 'give it to them.'
camelot |
09.13.08 - 10:59 am | #
Pacino and DeNiro make Zager and Evans look like Marx and Engels!!!!
This may be the strangest comparison I've ever read. And a three-way at that.
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09.13.08 - 10:59 am | #
Does anyone really think they would let Palin do anything if she was VP?
mer
I doubt she'd be in that position long, certainly not the entire first term of a McCain administration. He'll be lucky to get through this campaign.
noblejoanie |
09.13.08 - 10:59 am | #
I mean, this is so freakin' obvious.
Hesiod |
09.13.08 - 10:59 am | #
noblejoanie,
Oh, c'mon! Jackie Kennedy didn't even install a keg fridge!
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09.13.08 - 10:59 am | #
she'd have a shiv in Mckeating's back before the inaugural ball.
ronjazz | 09.13.08 - 10:58 am | #
McCain plays Hindenberg to Palin's, uh, you know.
rootless-e, Kuttner/08 |
09.13.08 - 11:00 am | #
There needs to be a "McCain/Palin have a problem with the truth" series of ads. Right now.
The ad would show in stark relief 6 or so of the most egregious lies they've been telling over the last 2 weeks, along with quotes from all the major media outlets exposing them as fundamentally untrue.
The close is this: "The party that brought you the last 8 years of corruption and mismanagement in
Washington will say anything to stay in power. Don't let them get away with it."
Cheney's Third Nipple |
09.13.08 - 11:00 am | #
Remember that old special of Jackie Kennedy giving a tour of the White House,
I watched that....
....but I am old.
Toonscribe: Obama/Biden 08 |
09.13.08 - 11:00 am | #
McCain will sideline Palin as soon as he's in the White House. Her sole job will be to "rally the base" for any of his policy proposals.
He will not give her much to do other than that.
Hesiod |
09.13.08 - 11:00 am | #
The following describes why the collapse of the American economy will occur even worse than 2008, within at least the next 20 years.
This is a 'Generation Next' perspective of what it was like before our older people voted for the 'deception' of the Bush era.
Brian |
09.13.08 - 11:00 am | #
Gibson: Do you agree with the Bush Doctrine?
Palin: In what respect?
How about in the respect that you want to be a single geriatric heartbeat away from having to deal with the consequences it has brought down on our heads, you moron?
Doc |
09.13.08 - 11:01 am | #
Aren't the Bush's from Beaumont?
If Beaumont is in Connecticut.
Snow (D-SC)
W was rasied in Midland, not Beaumont.
simels regrets the error.
OTOH, once you've seen one Texas hellhole, I imagine you've seen them all.
Adam Hominem |
09.13.08 - 11:01 am | #
The Government spends most of your money on a few major programs. In 1995, defense accounted for 18 percent, Social Security for 22 percent, Medicare for 10 percent, Medicaid for six percent, and interest payments on the national debt for 15 percent. Together, these five programs accounted for over 70 percent of all Federal spending.
Other programs that will get lots of attention—are controversial programs like welfare (Aid to Families with Dependent Children) and foreign aid—these actually account for tiny portions of spending. Together, welfare and foreign aid accounted for less than three percent of all Federal spending in 1995.
The Government collects most of its revenues from a few main sources. In 1995, Individual income taxes account for 44 percent, social insurance receipts (largely, Social Security payroll taxes) for 36 percent, and corporate income taxes for 11 percent. Together, totals came to over 90 percent of revenues.
Because all of the revenues do not cover the costs of all spending, the Government borrows money to finance this deficit. The total it has borrowed over the years, but not repaid, is the national debt.
To measure the roles that Federal tax and spending policies play in American life, one should compare the budget to the size of the economy--also known as GDP, the total value of U.S. goods and services. Just before the New Deal, Federal spending measured less than five percent of GDP. During the New Deal, it quickly doubled to 10 percent. And it continued to grow to 20-25 percent of GDP in the 1970’s, where it stayed for over 20 years.
Americans who are born today, can expect an expenditure percentage of between 35-40 percent of GDP, by the time they reach their 40th year of life.
That woman, Rep. Fallin (R-OK) is worse than Marsha Blackburn, if that's possible.
plantsman
I'm not sure it's possible. Blackburn is the Medusa of the House of Reps!!
ZuZu'z Petals |
09.13.08 - 11:01 am | #
plantsman
My favorite bluegrass group is playing in flagstaff this weekend. Carolina chocolate drops. Hope they don't get dusted. I think one of them is from az.
overthehillhippie |
09.13.08 - 11:02 am | #
Bill Maher was really busting on Palin last night. He said Palin made Bush look like a professor.
Steve McGarrett |
09.13.08 - 11:02 am | #
Identity politics peddled thru vids like this one distract from the class war. Redistribute today! Call you Congressman! Take his Crown Vic for a joy ride!
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09.13.08 - 11:02 am | #
No, The Bushes settled in MIdland when they first came to Texas -- but thanks for playing.
plantsman
Janis Joplin? Someone famous is from there, dammit.
I kinda thought that update of The Women was going to suck.
Eva Mendes is no Joan Crawford.
"They have a name for you ladies but it isn't used outside of a kennel."
HoneyBearKellyGoGiants |
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09.13.08 - 11:03 am | #
Sorry -- blogwhored without actually blogwhoring.
In any case, over at Box Office, I strongly recommend you check out "J'Accuse," an absolutely astounding anti-war silent film by the great Abel Gance. The new DVD version is really stunning.
I think not!!!!
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09.13.08 - 11:03 am | #
Isn't Tina Fey a big ghouliani supporter? Maybe she likes the SheBush too
She also famously said (of Hillary Clinton) that "Bitch is the new Black."
Fey is an uber liberal femenist. So, I assume she will portray Palin as the senior member of the McCain/Palin ticket -- which will cement the meme I have been pushing for the last couple of weeks.
The skit I would do would be Palin scheme with Republican insiders on how to sump "old man McCain" from the ticket because he's a drag.
Hesiod |
09.13.08 - 11:03 am | #
You look at rural, small town western Canada, the first households to put up Conservative signs on their lawns are the most racist, bigoted people around. Correct me if I'm wrong. The strongest Conservative supporters are the most muliculturalism-hating, French-hating people you could ever meet. I grew-up with these people. That's who they are.
Le Jackel |
09.13.08 - 11:03 am | #
McCain will sideline Palin as soon as he's in the White House. Her sole job will be to "rally the base" for any of his policy proposals.
He will not give her much to do other than that.
Hesiod
And attend funerals. He'll tell her to scrap the hunting gear while there.
ZuZu'z Petals |
09.13.08 - 11:04 am | #
The Clinton legacy was "The Balanced Budget".
It's why his candidate wife emphasized the issue of rising costs for medical care. It was the 800 pound gorilla in the room.
This was BEFORE the current government had considered bailing out our banks.
Certainly the Federal Reserve has considered that fact all along, if it wasn't an immediate concern supported by the baby-boomers like Senator Dodd (in my own party).
Saw the Carolina Chocolate Drops at a music festival in my little hometown. They blew everybody away, and that festival even had Norman Blake.
Doc |
09.13.08 - 11:04 am | #
Simels sees the postman delivering mail, it’s Butler. He gets into a taxi, who’s driving? Butler. Someone bumps into him on the sidewalk, it’s Butler.
But he is now safely entering his world, there he is all alone entering the movie theater as he has been doing like forever. It is his home, his life, just him and the big screen. The usher leads him to his seat, yea it’s Butler. The poor old man just can not catch a break.
Number 13 Troll |
09.13.08 - 11:07 am | #
Bush's number
putrid fraternal hardware salesman asks the idiot to marry his daughter and get he the fuck ways from St Louie
thus the studebaker ride to texas
then they fucked ... Ohhh nooos for america
Decides to become famous by hatching an idea that no one takes serious
in texas it works ... to everyone's astonishment
Gets a mind that what he did we alright and if he's caught so what but going on could be fun
son knows cause dad likes to assauge his guilt by bragging during drunkeness (which he doesn't handle well at all)
son wreaks this and won't come around to father being monumental killer
son reassured by being given texas governorship
still might squeal so fathe buys presidency so son will be impressed and gets the other kids neato gifts too
common denominator |
09.13.08 - 11:07 am | #
McCain will sideline Palin as soon as he's in the White House. Her sole job will be to "rally the base" for any of his policy proposals.
I think the up-do is a lie. Along with the ever-loving birth of Twig tale that we've been cowed into not questioning. But that's just me -- a proud lipstick-wearing pig of a gal. And an obviously self-hating feminist, I mean, sexist. I mean -- I dunno what I mean. No way all that hair is hers though.
charlotte |
09.13.08 - 11:09 am | #
die miss something?
common denominator |
09.13.08 - 11:09 am | #
lying gives Sarah Palin endorphins to help her deal with the genital wart pain
jr |
09.13.08 - 11:10 am | #
So here's why I think it's important to pay attention to the reality checks of independent Senator Sanders.
There's certain "mandated by law" taxes the Federal government doesn't have any discretion in how they spend.
When you see John McCain 'blurring margins' as Media Matters has noted...
What he says about the way Barack Obama intends to do to our military spending IS important.
All of things were written about me here.
So in truth, and you don't need to a college degree to understand "deficit spending"...
Balancing the budget was important for more reasons than just our GDP or job creation in Clinton's days.
It was the entire future of Generation Next.
Brian |
09.13.08 - 11:13 am | #
In Palin's interview with Charles Gibson, she said that prior to this trip she had been to Mexico and Canada. Has anyone obtained the details of those trips? Could the Mexico trip have been nothing more than a college Spring Break bacchanal?
DG |
09.13.08 - 11:14 am | #
Mccain will sideline all of this country ... has already ... but in office hahaha got to be joking ... please tell me you're joking!
common denominator |
09.13.08 - 11:14 am | #
Looks like Butler/Toby's #13 trool is getting no takers.
Excellent.
ronjazz | 09.13.08 - 11:09 am | #
So says the large mouthed bass. You're just too easy ronjazz. I think I will play catch and release with you today. You even go after an empty hook! Wait a while, let me put some bait on it. You take the fun out of it.
Number 13 Troll |
09.13.08 - 11:15 am | #
And attend funerals.
The most important of which is likely to be McCain's.
dr. bloor |
09.13.08 - 11:15 am | #
I have ! I have !
I saw her on the bus with Tom Cruise!
Poor Shelly
She'll be real let down ... Tom Lied!
It was his second blowjob!
Virgin No More |
09.13.08 - 11:17 am | #
brian you mean.... they have off the records financial commitments with sub contractors that can't be discussed but are a signifcant amount of the taxes we pay? OMG! some one alert the Boy Scouts!
Save Us Save Us
P. S. Rusty won't squeal he knows it would mean the (ol' Man) would get out his grassey knoll sniper rifle his father in law gave him to shoot rattlesnakes with
Virgin No More |
09.13.08 - 11:25 am | #
I went into Tijuana twice.
I've been farther into Mexico than Sarah Palin's been in Iraq?
You can see Mexico from San Ysidro, BTW. http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&...038624&t=h&
z=15
doug r |
09.13.08 - 12:34 pm | #
Well, c'MON! She could SEE Iraq from where she was in Kuwait.
Therefore, she is an expurt in Iraq!
getaclue |
09.13.08 - 6:35 pm | #
The most important of which is likely to be McCain's.
dr. bloor | 09.13.08 - 11:15 am | #
One of the Beltboys sez...McSenile must be thankful to him because with Sarah Palin he will pray that he will have a long life. He can not die now because we can't afford to be in the hands of this evil woman...Sarah
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