This is like our own private thread. Come sit closer, baby.
res ipsa loquitur |
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10.20.07 - 9:03 am | #
But those "leaks" were true, Howie. I know it's hard for you to differentiate between a Democratic truth and a bald-fucking-faced Repukkke lie, but please try harder in the future.
Lime Rickey |
10.20.07 - 9:03 am | #
sorry to butt in res & dave
ql optimist |
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10.20.07 - 9:05 am | #
Told you the morning thread woke up Atrios....
Molly Ivors, Vaginal-American |
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10.20.07 - 9:05 am | #
"...Abu Ghraib and secret CIA prisons."
I'm glad to know the cost of Edwards' haircut deserves the same weight as these.
mer |
10.20.07 - 9:05 am | #
Kurtz is worthless
and will never be an different
he is married to a gooper whore and
he is a nerdy geek who likes be led around by his scrotum
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10.20.07 - 9:05 am | #
I missed the whole "Vaginal American" thing. I take it this is some new bit of Wingnuttery. Can someone bottom-line it for me, please?
res ipsa loquitur |
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10.20.07 - 9:06 am | #
This is like our own private thread. Come sit closer, baby.
I missed the whole "Vaginal American" thing. I take it this is some new bit of Wingnuttery. Can someone bottom-line it for me, please?
Aren't bottom line and Vaginal American two entirely different things that should not ever be confused?
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William H. Rehnquist |
10.20.07 - 9:08 am | #
Wasn't the Abu Ghraib story leaked by horrified military families who didn't want their kids to be blamed for it?
Molly Ivors, Vaginal-American |
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10.20.07 - 9:08 am | #
And like all old men, just when the action gets hot and heavy, I fall asleep...
I think I'm gonna wind up one of those cougars I keep reading about.
res ipsa loquitur |
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10.20.07 - 9:09 am | #
Actually, it was Cliff May on Tucker Carlson's former-bow-tie show saying we should refer to Hillary as a Vaginal American.
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William H. Rehnquist |
10.20.07 - 9:09 am | #
Dave, you got to show those cats who's boss. If you can't stand up to a kitteh, how are you going to stand up to a terrorist?
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10.20.07 - 9:09 am | #
we should refer to Hillary as a Vaginal American.
Okay, you know what? I dont' even want to fucking know. What the fuck ever, Cliff.
res ipsa loquitur |
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10.20.07 - 9:10 am | #
Wasn't the Abu Ghraib story leaked by horrified military families who didn't want their kids to be blamed for it?
I thought it was pictures that the yahoo guards were sending to their friends over the internets. And then Sy Hersch.
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William H. Rehnquist |
10.20.07 - 9:10 am | #
I missed the whole "Vaginal American" thing. I take it this is some new bit of Wingnuttery.
I thought it was pictures that the yahoo guards were sending to their friends over the internets.
Well, some sent them to their folks because they wanted a record of what was happening. And then the parents sent them to the press. At least, that's what I recall.
Molly Ivors, Vaginal-American |
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10.20.07 - 9:12 am | #
Cliff May looks like Rick Moranis.
res ipsa loquitur |
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10.20.07 - 9:12 am | #
Is there such a thing as a Weenie American?
Bourgeois Liberal |
10.20.07 - 9:13 am | #
Cliff May is TINY.
plantsman, plant geek |
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10.20.07 - 9:13 am | #
Kurtz is dumber than a bag of hammers.
Cletus the Fetus |
10.20.07 - 9:13 am | #
Rehnquist,
I now associate that fucking rosemary plant with you, so you have to answer all questions about it. So now it's living, but not getting bigger and the base is all dried out, but the leaves (fronds, whatever) are healthy. What the fuck gives with this plant?
res ipsa loquitur |
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10.20.07 - 9:13 am | #
Listening to Stevie Wonder -- "I Was Made to Love Her" ....
res ipsa loquitur |
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10.20.07 - 9:14 am | #
OKay, I have to go find some stupid birthday present for some stupid party the 8YO has to attend today. I think they're going bowling.
Cliff May is a Penile-Challenged-American.
Lime Rickey |
10.20.07 - 9:15 am | #
Holy crap. Watertiger, that picture of Laura with the plant is hil-fucking-arious.
res ipsa loquitur |
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10.20.07 - 9:16 am | #
Kurtz himself was more than happy to pass on the hearsay on hearsay of 2 dead men smear of Jack Murtha. A story which by definition was impossible to verify.
noone |
10.20.07 - 9:16 am | #
Okay, okay, I'm either going to get soaking wet or not eat any meat this week. Guess it's the former. See ya'all.
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10.20.07 - 9:16 am | #
Holy crap. Watertiger, that picture of Laura with the plant is hil-fucking-arious.
I now associate that fucking rosemary plant with you, so you have to answer all questions about it. So now it's living, but not getting bigger and the base is all dried out, but the leaves (fronds, whatever) are healthy. What the fuck gives with this plant?
Jeebus. It's better than being associated with chlamydia I suppose.
The dry base may be that it's getting woody, not to be confused with getting a woody, which, if that's what's happening, it's just getting older and hopefully more hardy. As far as growth, it's probably not getting enough hours of sun and its internal clock is saying winter's on the way. It will start up again in the spring if it survives the winter.
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William H. Rehnquist |
10.20.07 - 9:17 am | #
She's a freakin' zombie.
That's cold.
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William H. Rehnquist |
10.20.07 - 9:18 am | #
Jeebus. It's better than being associated with chlamydia I suppose.
(First big laugh of the day, thanks.)
res ipsa loquitur |
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10.20.07 - 9:18 am | #
I have a Rosemary plant in a pot outside. It survives the winter as long as it has sunshine.
Marcellina |
10.20.07 - 9:18 am | #
That's cold.
Second big laugh of the day!
res ipsa loquitur |
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10.20.07 - 9:19 am | #
er...no offense to the good undead Justice, of course.
watertiger |
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10.20.07 - 9:19 am | #
I think what really makes me mad is watching the Republicans as a minority controlling the agenda. Hell, the Democrats cannot do it with a majority. Their leadership is useless - worse than useless because they prevent people who MIGHT do something from taking charge. I hope Cindi Sheehan unseats Nancy: that would send the clearest message possible.
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10.20.07 - 9:19 am | #
howie's response is the typical uh-merican response: "they do it too"
i learned in 3rd grade to not shift blame or the story in trying to argue...i guess 3rd grade works well with the mindless masses, eh howie?
hey dems - there's your answer, use the "they do it too"
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10.20.07 - 9:19 am | #
The plant is indoors, in the borg window, which is BIG and faces south.
res ipsa loquitur |
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10.20.07 - 9:19 am | #
Plant jokes leave me unmoved.
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10.20.07 - 9:21 am | #
Just want to let y'all know: The last snarklet has left the building.
Goddamned "Mistah" Kurtz. I'm sure he still hasn't figured out how totally he got p3wnd by Jon Stewart.
From the last thread:
Look though, I'm serious about this. I ran into this shit all the time when I was a lobbyist. When you are right, you don't back down, because if you do, you're fucked forever.
I worked several sessions on getting a Dept of Agriculture for our state (yes, it's true, Arkansas was the ONLY STATE in the nation not to have an agriculture dept, thanks to the combined efforts of the Farm Bureau, Tyson foods and various agricultural vendors). Every time we would line up a bill sponsor, the Farm Bureau and Poultry Federation would send the 30 lobbyists they had between them down to shit on the guy's head. Meanwhile, they were engaged in the charming tactic of trying to float rumors about my sexual habits. I got fed up with the shit, enlisted a group of 40 farmers to all show up at the capitol on the same day, and more or less made it a comman performance for the reps that we knew to be friendly. Guess who else showed up at the meeting? The Poultry Fed's longtime super-powerful lobbyist. Whom I asked to leave.
He got up and shouted to everyone in the room about how "he would have helped us but now we could all go to hell." Uh-huh. Then he screamed obscenities at me out in the hallway which echoed all over the building. Real class act, right? Next morning, one of the reps there who regularly had breakfast with this guy brought it up, and I said, hey, you know what? I'm sure that's the FIRST TIME anyone has ever asked him to leave a meeting, and I'm sure it HURT HIS FEELINGS, but what do you think HE would have done if it was HIS meeting and I showed up uninvited to try to force MY agenda on everyone there?
The rep said, I'm sure you're right about that. And, word got around that I hadn't been afraid to tell the guy to leave, and also, that the guy had been witnessed by a lot of people shouting obscenities at a woman in the rotunda of the state capitol, which no one thought was a really great thing.
And we now have a Dept. of Agriculture.
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10.20.07 - 9:22 am | #
The plant is indoors, in the borg window, which is BIG and faces south.
Your office must smell fabulous! Bring in some basil.
The plant may have a chance, but the dry, heated indoor air may undo it -- and it conflicts with the information the hours of light available are telling it.
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10.20.07 - 9:22 am | #
in the borg window,
Maybe the cleaning lady is spraying it with chemicals every night, just to be malicous.
Marcellina |
10.20.07 - 9:23 am | #
Nobody has seen fit to say much of anything about Robbins since his death in 1997, decades after his vogue had — how to put this? — climaxed. But doesn’t a hustling subliterate whose oeuvre changed American publishing deserve at least one kudo, to use a solecism Robbins himself would have been likely to commit to print? Crammed with moronic prurience, achieving logorrhea with the barest of resources, your average Robbins page turner read as if he’d clacked it out using 10, if not 11, thumbs, and his 20 or so engorged books sold more than 750 million copies combined. If you’ve ever wondered just when quality literature and commercial fiction parted ways for good with a shudder, call him Harold Rubicon....
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10.20.07 - 9:23 am | #
Nah, the cleaning woman likes me. I make friends with all those people (the cleaning woman, the mail guys, the security guards, etc.) b/c if you do they will do shit for you when you are jammed up.
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10.20.07 - 9:25 am | #
Then he screamed obscenities at me out in the hallway which echoed all over the building.
That'll be pretty much the whole story about Wingnutistan over the next few years. Screaming obscenities. Raging against the dying of the light.
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10.20.07 - 9:25 am | #
Nah, the cleaning woman likes me. I make friends with all those people (the cleaning woman, the mail guys, the security guards, etc.) b/c if you do they will do shit for you when you are jammed up.
res ipsa loquitur
Treating everyone like a human being has definite advantages in the workplace.
Jennifer |
10.20.07 - 9:26 am | #
Dammit! Gourmet sucked me in with a $12 subscription, and now Bon Appetit is trying the same gambit.
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10.20.07 - 9:26 am | #
I'm sure that's the FIRST TIME anyone has ever asked him to leave a meeting, and I'm sure it HURT HIS FEELINGS, but what do you think HE would have done if it was HIS meeting and I showed up uninvited to try to force MY agenda on everyone there?
freedom isn't free, is it? we can use their wingnut sloganeering for our side too....when the founding fathers argued vehemently about the blessings of liberty, they knew how difficult it was going to be...who uses the word liberty today? i think the dems could do well to dust off that old word
and guess what moron-uhmericans: people struggle against the OWNERS and LORDS - people have ALWAYS struggled against OWNERS and LORDS....that is the struggle of liberty - to fight the OWNERS and LORDS and win!
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10.20.07 - 9:26 am | #
Treating everyone like a human being has definite advantages in the workplace.
Fucking knee-jerk liberal!
Bourgeois Liberal |
10.20.07 - 9:27 am | #
Treating everyone like a human being has definite advantages in the workplace.
My mailroom guy is a doll. A really sweet kid. Saves me an Economist every week and (my guilty pleasure) In Style every month.
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10.20.07 - 9:27 am | #
I make friends with all those people (the cleaning woman, the mail guys, the security guards, etc.) b/c if you do they will do shit for you when you are jammed up.
Same here, with make-up, costumes, the sound guys and the techies. Things run so much more smoothly if you're not "difficult."
Marcellina |
10.20.07 - 9:28 am | #
The lone seedling of fact from which these Grade-Z Scheherazadisms sprang was that, unlike his siblings, young Harold Rubin (not Robbins, just his way of going Gentile into that good night, and in the heyday of the Jewish American novel, too) was the spawn of a previous marriage his father tried to conceal after Harold’s mom died young.
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10.20.07 - 9:29 am | #
Fucking knee-jerk liberal!
Bourgeois Liberal
Fuck that shit. I'm a bleeding heart liberal. I even treat fast food workers like humans.
Comes in handy to be nice to people who do your oil changes when, for example, you get up one morning and your car won't start. People won't hesitate to make a house call to help out someone who's always behaved like a friend.
Jennifer |
10.20.07 - 9:29 am | #
They'll get out of control and we'll be lucky to live through them!
Bourgeois Liberal |
10.20.07 - 9:30 am | #
People won't hesitate to make a house call to help out someone who's always behaved like a friend.
Jennifer
You don't live on the East Coast, do you?
Lime Rickey |
10.20.07 - 9:31 am | #
Mornin' good people!
I am sure that this has been said- but it might bear repetition: donations to Dodd and immediate polling support for him from all who value the constitution are very good vehicles to get the attention of the other pussy-footing candidates. (no intention of insult to our furry friends) Perhaps some sustained support for integrity would encourage some of them to show some of their own?
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10.20.07 - 9:32 am | #
If the Creature from the Black Lagoon had a slutty wife who flouted her big jubblies, he wouldn't be sad. All he wanted was love. The slutty jubbly thing would be a bonus.
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William H. Rehnquist |
10.20.07 - 9:32 am | #
The Evangelicals are all in a snit cause they can't drive the boat anymore - absolutely ignoring the fact that they got to in 2000 and 2004, ran us aground and made this farking mess!
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10.20.07 - 9:33 am | #
If the Creature from the Black Lagoon had a slutty wife who flouted her big jubblies, he wouldn't be sad. All he wanted was love.
Naw. He just wanted to get his webbed mitts on Julie Adams. For which I can't hardly blame him.
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10.20.07 - 9:33 am | #
I am sure that this has been said- but it might bear repetition: donations to Dodd and immediate polling support for him from all who value the constitution are very good vehicles to get the attention of the other pussy-footing candidates.
That would work in theory. But we have low-information candidates.
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William H. Rehnquist |
10.20.07 - 9:35 am | #
Imagine the result were Harold Robbins equipped with a wor-processing computer, rather than a typewriter...
ProfWombat |
10.20.07 - 9:35 am | #
donations to Dodd and immediate polling support for him from all who
value the constitution are very good vehicles to get the attention of
the other pussy-footing candidates.
It already has - Obama and Biden have jumped on the bandwagon.
The Evangelicals are all in a snit cause they can't drive the boat anymore
They're in about the same shape as prohibitionists were around 1931. Their Noble Experiment is winding down.
Bourgeois Liberal |
10.20.07 - 9:36 am | #
"Give me back my turkey baster, you little brat!"
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Oooh, you're mean. But funny!
Brooklyn Girl |
10.20.07 - 9:36 am | #
"Give me back my turkey baster, you little brat!"
watertiger
Fred, are ya sure you're being all you can be?
Lime Rickey |
10.20.07 - 9:36 am | #
Very interesting article (but not suitable for children or kittehs). Bush's Pentagon Papers
Lenore |
10.20.07 - 9:36 am | #
(as plantsman said, no surprise there.)
Marcellina |
10.20.07 - 9:37 am | #
I am sure that this has been said- but it might bear repetition: donations to Dodd and immediate polling support for him from all who value the constitution are very good vehicles to get the attention of the other pussy-footing candidates.
dood is my senator - had i realized that he would be running as a dem should, i would have worked harder for him...i am thinking he is running for VP
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10.20.07 - 9:37 am | #
Bush's Pentagon Papers
Wasn't there a movie made about that?
Bring Me The Head Of Diego Garcia?
Bourgeois Liberal |
10.20.07 - 9:39 am | #
Has Obama signed up for the filibuster or is he just making more empty noises?
rootless-e |
10.20.07 - 9:39 am | #
Howie so perfectly capsulizes the mess the MCM* is in!
Great comment from Hullabloo:
Howard Kurtz Journamalism Conversion Chart:
Joe Wilson is a cuckold = ignoring the 4th Amendment
Hillary Clinton has tits = U.S. is torturing detainees
John Edwards has a fag haircut = the U.S. runs gulags
Thanks for showing us how it's done Howie!
joejoejoe | 10.19.07 - 8:38 pm
It is what they do every time--find some fairly or unfairly minor Dem situation or actual problem, then compare it to really serious stuff.
Which has the effect of trivializing the serious stuff the ReThugs are doing--and is the objective of the Howies.
*MCM--Mainstream Corporate Media
jawbone |
10.20.07 - 10:16 am | #
mogwai--Dodd stated on Charlie Rose that he is running to be president, to have the power to actually acomplish things, fix the mess BushBoy has made, and he will not seek the presidency in 4+ years from now or take the VP slot.
I can't recall if he said he would run for reelection to the Senate; however, he sees that as being more of a place to do things than the vice presidency.
jawbone |
10.20.07 - 10:19 am | #
"Digby isn't charming like Michelle Malkin"-Howie Kurtz
jr |
10.20.07 - 11:20 am | #
How come I can't get a job like Howie has? It seems education or journalistic experience is not a prerequisite, so where do I sign up? I could use about $150,000 a year. All I have to do is repeat Republican and White House talking points and then blame everything on the Democrats and then plead for bipartisanship in this era of tortured politics. Hey Howie: FUCK YOU!
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