LiveBlog for Friday, December 19, 2008
• Michael Wolff, author of “The Man Who Owns The News: Inside the Secret World of Rupert Murdoch,” calls in at 7:30am Pacific to talk about his book.
• Neil Giuliano, president of The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) calls in at 8:05am Pacific to talk about Pastor Rick Warren giving the invocation at Obama’s inauguration.
• Frangela joins us in studio at 8:30am Pacific for “Fridays with Frangela!”
• The Bush administration is convinced the ailing economy could not withstand the demise of Detroit’s Big Three and is looking at “orderly” bankruptcy to keep the automakers from collapsing. A White House decision on helping the industry could come as early as today.
• House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) urged the president to act with some urgency on the auto maker crisis. She reminded Bush that the nation can’t afford to add to the currently high unemployment rolls that are already zooming at a record setting pace.
• President-elect Obama will likely chose Rep. Hilda Solis (D-CA) as Labor Secretary. Solis is currently serving out her 4th term in the U.S. House. She was the first Latina appointed to the committee on Energy and Commerce.
• Mark Felt, the former FBI second-in-command who revealed himself in 2005 as “Deep Throat” 30 years after Watergate, has died. He was 95.
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Gooood morning everyone.
Staring down the barrel of a foot or more of white stuff this afternoon. If the forecast stays as is I’ll just make it home before it really gets nasty, if not —- I’ll probably be on the road longer than it takes to play a Stephcast
Visitors coming this morning so I can’t stay long. Left in the lurch doing a test I’ve never done before.
Warmest holiday wishes to everyone here, and especially to Stephanie, ProducerChris, Jim and Rebekah. You’ve done so much to lift my spirits when I’ve needed it.
Good, thankfully my visitors cancelled this morning. I know we’re probably getting kicked out of here at noontime.
Good morning, Paul and the rest of my blogging buddies! And, Happy Fridee to Team Steph on their last day before Holiday break!
I know at least one person who was tempted to run a “Best Of” show today, but we’re glad you’re here today. For you efforts, we present you this laurel, and hardy handshake!
How ironic, I was watching Scrubs last night (on Comedy Central). It was the episode where Janitor asks J.D. who was Deep Throat, and J.D. replies, “Mark Felt, it was on the news.” Thanks, Mark, for your honesty and courage.
As always, My Friday AM will be dominated by staff meetings. So, I’ll be popping-in from time to time. Have a great show and a fun blog!
Morning shaf
Yeah, I thought I wouldn’t be here because of visitors, but they (or we) cancelled out. So I’m in one of the darkened “chambahs” carrying on until we get kicked out.
Can’t wait to hear today’s ‘cast when I get home.
Good monring and it’s Friday!
Woo hoo!
Monring, eh?
This place needs an edit function.
Or maybe not, the typos make it more fun.
pre-coffee posting is risky.
I should have waited a minute.
HA!
Good moonring!
lolololo
Darn, coffee is making it worse . . .
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081219/ap_on_re_us/un_gay_rights
UNITED NATIONS – Alone among major Western nations, the United States has refused to sign a declaration presented Thursday at the United Nations calling for worldwide decriminalization of homosexuality.
In all, 66 of the U.N.’s 192 member countries signed the nonbinding declaration — which backers called a historic step to push the General Assembly to deal more forthrightly with any-gay discrimination. More than 70 U.N. members outlaw homosexuality, and in several of them homosexual acts can be punished by execution.
“Orderly Bankruptcy” has a nonsequeter ring to it, like “Quiet Riot”. Although we have safely flown on airlines that were under bankruptcy protection, my big concern is that an auto bankruptcy would give the automakers the cover they need to gut union contracts and rollback advances in labor relations. If you notice, the airlines have a lot less union employees than they used to.
Why didn’t they wait and present this resolution on, say, Jan 21st? I guarantee our wonderful country would’ve signed it.
#10 AND #11
Grrrrr and Grrrrr!
#10 Speaking of the U.N…
Monday, NPR reported that for the fourth year in a row, the United Nations would rubber stamp a resolution pushed by Islamic countries that combats what they consider defamation of religion. Critics, including the U.S., say the resolution clamps down on free speech and religious expression. It was the justification for the firestorm of Islamic protest that followed the Danish cartoon representation of Mohamed:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=98321049
Yeah, when they say “orderly bankruptcy” they should just say what they mean – Chapter 7.
More and more it makes the work ahead all the more daunting.
good moonring! ah, monring! oh, well. Hi guys.
Kinda scarely this the last show for two weeks. Can I hold on? Thanks gawd for Frangela. I hope Steph and the cast have a relaxing holiday.
Seems like having the anti-gay pastor to the Inauguration is an opportunity to fly pro-gay rights banners. If I were going I would carry a “Hetero Christian for Gay Rights” sign.
My heart aches for Detroit.
The bastids. I totally agree there is a union-bashing intent. The bastids, cuz it is against all Americans. The treasonous thieves!
#18,
Me too.
The treasonous thieves!
GAWD I do not like Bush or the GOP in anyway small or large these days.
I think it would be cool if when Warren starts to speak – everybody just stands and turns their back on him. A quiet protest – one I wish had caught on during the Bush terms.
“orderly bankruptcy” is just a Frank Luntz-ism. There are voluntary and involuntary bankruptcies – both are “orderly” in that they are overseen by courts and they are governed by the bankruptcy codes.
Bush has just made up the term “orderly bankruptcy” to make it sound like the “GOOD” kind of happy-clappy bankruptcy — nothing like all those other disorderly BAD ones…
RIP Majel Barrett
capt, I agree. Something calm and clever needs to be done.
Did Warren ever cop to his lie that McCain was in a whatever of silence for that Saddleback Forum, yet we all could see old Johnny-boy knew what to expect?
Wonder if in private our Barack asked him about it?
Yesterday folks were surmising Barack is missing his home church, which no doubt is true, but may I reassuringly point out that his marriage provides a rock for him. And when a marriage is like his, it is a spiritual font.
I’m sure Bunnypants thinks he has had an orderly presidency too.
“And when a marriage is like his, it is a spiritual font.”
Too bad the gays and others can’t have that too?
(I know – I am being redundant)
Change one name and . . ..
http://www.turnyourbackonbush.org/
With directions.
Can’t believe y’all were talking about the Little Match Girl yesterday. It was big in my house.
Poverty is a bitch now….Hans C. Anderson wanted us to know it was back then, too.
“It’s a Blunderful Life” day! Yay!
Well Levi’s Johnson mom is arrested on drug charges. The guy that knock up Bristol Plain.
Snow Day!!! Buffalo/Rochester are schools closed today. I get to listen live for a change….although I’ve gotten used to fast forwarding through the right wing love muffin callers on the podcast (ding)….won’t be able to do that till later.
Steph is going to have some great stories in the new year about her geriatric Republican mom.
If I don’t get a chance later, I’ll say now, have a great two weeks, my friends, capt, Paul, shaf, Shane-O, ElPedro, Brian, Cindy, Cindi, Juliet – all – and know I value the chance to blog with you.
Steph and the Mooks, thanks for the show and may there always be a clean bathroom nearby!
29 No kidding! Where’s a link for that story!?!
Good moodring capt and all.
I hadn’t heard about Majel Barrett. Another rich part of my past falls away.
Thank God for the Frangela!! I miss my mooks when they’re gone!
Boy howdy I bet that ride at the top of the Stratosphere is a lot more exciting when the rails are covered with ice!
Carol,
“I value the chance to blog with you.”
Back at cha!
And Top -o-the morning to all of you all!
SHOWTIME!
*jazz hands*
35 – The roller coaster at the top of the Stratosphere is gone. I believe it was dismantled early in 2008.
Good morning!
We’re preparing for the 6-12″ of snow today.
Sad news: Majel Barret died at 76.
Back later, I hope.
Oh, good farewell beaver stack.
Looks like Whistleass is gonna give the Big Three $13.4 billion from the TARP. He’s reading the crap someone gave him to read right now, no questions.
YAY
Shane-O
Hurray! Shano used the lost onion belt.
37 – boo!
I think we need an actual tip jar for Shane-O!
Seriously.
Thanks for all you do Shane-O – this blog and show would not be a good without ya!
44 – I agree (emptying my pockets of all my change and good-quality lint).
38 – Mike, my normal 1 hour commute turned into 2.5 hours yesterday because of a rash of “Mass****itis” Can’t imagine how bad it will be tonight.
LOLZ @ It’s a Blunderful Life!
lololololo
YAY!!! — Rove – someone’s bitch
Yay what they are ripping off jim?
starts as 6 am PST
46 Paul – you need one of momma’s ointments for that rash.
More Palin family trouble: Levi’s mom’s been arrested
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/58165.html
(per William above)
aww! guess Sean didn’t like his award
Wow, what a moment to come in late.
Love the “Blunderful Christmas”!
Paul,
I know. I’m not working today. I did this last year, and had a similar experience.
#22, if memory serves, Majel also voiced the computer on the fanfilm series Star Trek New Voyges, the latest episode of which airs tomorrow. She and her son Gene jr serve as consulting producers.
Hannity: Douchebag of the year.
53 capt – Oh my. I read the article. It sounds like she might have been dealing.
#55 – don’t worry – they will replay Blunderful many times — and still NOT enough (for my taste)
“Hannity: Douchebag of the year.”
Is that an insult to douchebags?
(kiddin’)
“they will replay Blunderful many times — and still NOT enough (for my taste)”
Me too!
I LOVE it!
Most people here aren’t working today either, Mike. And it will be really desolate the next two weeks. For the employees – take off 5 days, get two weeks off with the holidays thrown in.
I’m forgetting about the unspecified amount of white stuff we’re supposed to get Sunday. Should make the Patriots’ game interesting. Retailers around here are really going to be hurting even more than they would be because of ApeBoy.
Congrats to Media Matters, for blistering Sean Hannity’s ass well enough to get called an “extremist left” group. If we squeezed Hannity’s head, it would pop like a zit, he’s so full of pus.
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And Shane-0! OMG! OMG! This genius, what a concept with the aged Indiana Jones in search of..
Shane-0 rules.
Michael Jackson: She picked up immediately that I was… interested in a boy and gave me the steps I needed to take to successfully stalk him.
Wonder if the RW blather machine will now focus on the “associations” that Caribou Barbie has with drug dealers!
62: SNL said “give me a sandwich and a douchebag, and there’s nothing i can not do!” so, hard to tell. are douchebags’ feelings easily hurt? hmmm. “well it was just envagination, runnin away with me…”
Oh boy…did anyone see that Hannity made it to #1 on Keith’s Worst Person list last night! Looks like someone just made it to the head of the future husband list again.
#62
it was an honor for Hannity to be named “Douchebag of the Year” because that is the most he will ever aspire to (even tho he is in fact lower that a pooper scooper in the social order).
I would like to know how to unsubscribe from the Stephanie Miller podcast thing. I chose the month to month option and I want to discontinue this. I’m sorry, but I can’t figure it out on this website, any help would be appreciated.
I won’t be supporting anyone in any way who would still plan to attend Mr. Obama’s inauguration.
#62, Douchebags leave people feeling spring fresh and clean. Hannity does neither.
Definitely an insult to douchebags.
69: not “worst person”, “misinformer”.
Porpoise-Driven Wife
72: how do sandwiches feel about hannity?
when you go to multiple liquor stores in fear of getting a reputation with the staff… you are a drunk.
(projecting
)
brokeback into the store? more of a chris move
Mama stole Chris a jacket!!!
Come on Franken!
Chris, I’ve had that happen too — with a leather coat I bought a few years back…
get one for steph: a full mental jacket
#76, you wanna go… where everybody knows your name.
82: wow, nice KGB psa!
Umm….no…worst person on Countdown with Keith Olberman. Check it out:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/#28304061
#76
nah, it ain’t like that Shane-O.
*snicker*
you were just “shopping around” for the best prices…
Hiya, Bloggoes!
I have a very important question: Does anybody have any tips for being more out of control with the Stephcast?
it’s so nice that hannity was named “miss informer” – - – and – - – a gem from yesterday’s savage nation about europeans using germ warfare here on turtle island: “the difference is, the aztecs fought back, but we’ve been homosexualized…”
I’ve had enough of these “Screaming O” commercials
Well, I have to leave to get groceries, the shovels, a movie or two, etc., plus cancel tonight’s club. I’ll check in later.
#85 – HA! — I like that one – I can add it to my Irish list of reasons (excuses).
I.e. it’s a holiday, a birth, a death, a wedding, Hanakah, it’s after 12 noon, it’s before 12 noon and I’m planning on taking a nap…
I’m with Lucy. I want real estate for Christmas!
89 — yeah, it’s SNOWMAGEDDON!!! don’t forget the ice cream!
(sorry, former Whole Foods employee cynicism, here
)
#90
yesterday’s excuse, for me, was Rick Warren.
it’s better than gold! it’s better than myrrh! look! up in the sky! it’s a bird! it’s a plane! it’s horse sense! it’s common sense! it’s franken sense!
#93 – that one could lead to a real drinking problem…
#95
B I N G O ! ! !
replace warren with winfrey. at least it’s a purple-driven life
That makes me a big fat party animal.
Tom Selleck… ew. He tucked in his Hawaiian shirts, and wore them whith short shorts.
lolololo
I have to go – I might be back (I hope)
If I don’t make it back – you all have a great weekend and a very Merry Christmas!
yes, but…. jesus lost credibility with that economic analysis in matthew chapters 6 and 7, so….
I hear Jesus was discredited by Tycho Brahe
Um… Matthew 19 is not about marriage. It’s about divorce.
Please check out the funny or die anti-Prop 8 video. Lots of celeb people worked on it.
#100
then there was Jesus’s recession after that, in chapter 8…
“tycho brahe”? the problem is, barack hussein obama wouldnt want a brotha with such a f-d up name doing the invocation.
I’m only thinking of Tycho Brahe because I have a kidney stone.
106 not because of the cool michael jackson nose collection?
Okay, technically Christians should listen to what Jesus says, not Leviticus. Leviticus is about the rules for Judahites for maintaining ritual purity for the Temple.
103 – Here is the link.
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/c0cf508ff8/prop-8-the-musical-starring-jack-black-john-c-reilly-and-many-more-from-fod-team-jack-black-craig-robinson-john-c-reilly-and-rashida-jones
R.I.P. Deep Throat
3000 year old game of telephone… perfect
ProducerChris, calling any part of the bible 3000 years old is being quite generous.
2700 is probably more accurate for the oldest parts.
While a student, Tycho lost part of his nose in a duel with rapiers with Manderup Parsbjerg, a fellow Danish nobleman. This occurred in the Christmas season of 1566, after a fair amount of drinking, while Tycho, just turned 20 years old, was studying at the University of Rostock in Germany. Attending a dance at a professor’s house, he quarreled with Parsbjerg. A subsequent duel (in the dark) resulted in Tycho losing the bridge of his nose. From this event Tycho became interested in medicine and alchemy. For the rest of his life, he was said to have worn a realistic replacement made of silver and gold, using a paste to keep it attached.
what’s with all these phelps folks and their deep throat obsessions? are they just confused? is santa ever going to help the island of misfit fags? why was mommy lap-dancing santa claus? i’m so confused…
112 is depends on how much of the Bible is taken from earlier religions
#113, shortly thereafter, he launched the Webcomic Penny Arcade.
Tycho was said to own one percent of the entire wealth of Denmark at one point in the 1580s and he often held large social gatherings in his castle. He kept a dwarf named Jepp (whom Tycho believed to be clairvoyant) as a court jester who sat under the table during dinner.
#115, true, but as a written document, the oldest parts are at best 2700 yo.
The interesting part is that there are vestiges in it they haven’t quite merged El and Yahweh from two deities to one. Those parts are probably the oldest.
71: Sounds like you might need to act quickly to avoid damage to yourself..
If you figure out this website, let us know.
Still waiting for my 4-D baby photo
117 — Don’t crush that dwarf! (hand me the tweezers)
Matthew 19
(according to lolcats Bible)
(wikipedia excerpt)
Divors
1 When Jebus had finishd sayin thees things, He left Galilee an went into teh region ov Judea to teh othr side ov teh Jordan.2 Large crowdz followd Him, an He heald them thar.
3 Sum Fariseez came to Him to test him. Dey askd, “Iz lawful for man to divors him wife for any an evry reason?”
4 “Havnt yu read,” He replid, “Dat at teh beginnin teh Creator made them male an female5 an sed, for dis reason man will leef his Fathr an Mommy an be unitd 2 his wife, an teh 2 will become wan flesh.6 So they r no longr 2, but wan. Therefore wut Celing Cat has joind togethr, let man not separate.
7 “Y den,” they askd, “Did Mosez command dat man giv his wife certificate ov divorce an send her away?”
8 Jebus replid, “Mosez permitted U 2 divorce ur wivez cuz ur hearts wuz hard. But it wuz not dis wai frum teh beginnin.”9 “I tell U dat anyone hoo divorcez his wife, except 4 marital unfaithfulnes, an marriez anothr woman commits adultery.”
10 Teh disciplez sed 2 Him, “If dis ar teh situashun tween husband an wife, it better not 2 marry.”
11 Jebus replid, “Not everyone can accept dis werd, but only dose 2 whom it has been given.”12 4 Sum r eunuchs cuz they wuz born dat wai; others wuz made dat wai by doodz; an others has renouncd marriage cuz of teh Kingdom ov Heaven. Teh wan hoo can accept dis shud accept it.”
[edit] Lil Childrins
13 Then little children were brought to Jesus for him to place his hands on them and pray for them. But the disciples rebuked those who brought them.
14 Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.”15 When he had placed his hands on them, he went on from there.
[edit] Teh Reech Kitteh
16 Now a d00d cames up to Jebus an ask, “Teacher, I does wat gud stuf so I can has eeturmal lyfs?”*
17 “Whai ju aks me abot whut goodz?” Jebus saied. “Der onlee Wun iz goodz. U wants 2 has lyfs, U obyz teh comandamanamenz.”
18 “Whut comandamanamenz?” aks teh reech kitteh. Jebus saied, ” ‘No kilin doodz, no sexin owtsayd marege, no taksin cheezburgr from peepuls, no can tells lai,19 respeckz ur momz and daz,’ an ‘luvz ur naibors but not wif sexin.’”
20 “Did dat aredy, srsly. I can has eeturmal lyfs nao?”
21 Jebus den sais, “If u wan bee purfex, go, sel ur stufs an gevs ur cheezburgrs 2 teh pors, n den u can has invisible cheezburgr. Den cum, fowul meez.”
22 Den reech mans went awai sadz, becuz he hadz many monys.
23 Den Jeezus sai to hiz desiplz, “Im teh srs, it teh sux 4 a rich kittn to go 2 teh Ceiling.24 Aiz tel yu geiz agin, it srsly moar easier 4 graet daen to fit in teh tiny cat cariur dan for fancey feast kitteh two go to teh Howse uf teh Ceiling Cat.”\
25 Disipulz hearz, dey leik NO WAI!!1 HU B SAEVD DEN??
26 Jeezus lukee dem, sai, “Wif manz dis iz FAIL, but wif Ceiling Cat evrytingz lolcodable.”
27 Petrz leik, “Weez lef ar stufs 2 folow u! Can has cheezburgr or cookie or wut?”
28 Jeezus dun sai 2 demz, “Ai tell u trewfs, @ teh restart, wen Sun of Kittehs sits on his kewl cat condo, u wil urselfs sit on twelv cat condoz, judgin teh twelv breedz uv Israel.29 An evrybudiez lef howsiz or brovrz or sisez or studz or queenz or kittnz or catbowlz 4 maek me cheezburgr will has awsum intrist raet on IOUz an wil has zombi-ness.30 But meny hu r kewl wil has teh suck, an meny hu iz teh suck wil has moar cheezburgrs.
118 – hey I was just reading about El this morning, in regards to Baal and Dagon… interesting stuff for those of us not blinded by Judeo-Christian dogma
Morning all you fine people! Seattle is going to have a white solstice and a white Christmas this year. We have 5-6 inches of snow on our hill will will turn into a gigantic ice sheet soon. The local news casters have been behaving like flaming magma is falling from the sky. Think of this as a Northwest holiday tradition.
If I don’t get a chance to say so later, have a great holiday, everyone! I’ll miss you all if/while the live blog is on vacation.
Of course, in Jesus’ time, admonitions against divorce were there to protect women, not oppress them. Divorce in that kind of culture made women disposable; Jesus, by saying husband and wife are “one flesh”, makes them equal in value.
careful
Dead beavers start to smell? That’s why necrophiliacs prefer morgue freezers. (skates)
#123, you might enjoy reading the works of Mark S. Smith, especially “The Origins of Biblical Monotheism” and “The Early History of God”.
119: thanks for the umm .. help
Juan Williams is a nastly little lickspittle. He needs to STFU. I hated him even when he was on NPR.
Bad Clinton impersonations x2. It burns!
Yeah, comparing the marriage of consenting adults to child rape, no that’s not harsh.
#130 Problem is, he’s still an analyst on NPR. He’s a right-wing tool in NPR clothing!
NPR used to be decent.
educational even.
what hast thou become, NPR?
83% of L.A. girls like guys with girl-approved hair
I’ve been to the “American girl place” more than a few times in my life
BrianMonster 134 – Lately it is clear that they have taken a turn to the right. I think when they started having to shill for corporate funding (when the Repubs cut govt funding) things went down hill.
Once in a while I still listen when I can’t sleep at night. Hearing their analysis of some of the stuff that happened in the presidential campaign sounded biased to me. What a come down. Thank God for progressive radio and websites. We are no longer dependent on NPR for news.
#133 NPR is weighted down by its need to be “respectable”. That means it’s way to deferential to the Village’s conventional wisdom.
(The Village = the Georgetown, DC cocktail party circuit)
I re-watched Jim Henson’s “The Christmas Toy” last night and it’s still very good. It was released in 1986 (well before “Toy Story”) and is a hundred times better than the new Muppet Christmas Special that aired this week on NBC.
As much as I hate the “god guy” choice, I understand that if we want to see gay marriage accepted, we need to bring people together. We can not win the majority with insults and division. It’s going to take holding out a hand to those we don’t agree with, and talking to them. Only by engaging with them, and not treating them like an enemy, will they ever consider our point of view… and then, possibly, embrace it.
#137, no, they’ve been taking corporate funding for a while (the ADM scandals of the ’90s were well-covered by NPR, which had to caveat that ADM was a sponsor).
But unlike most modern news operations (but like news operations in the past), there is an absolute firewall between NPR’s marketing and news operations. Take my word for this: one of my fiddle students is in marketing, and there’s the ex-gf on the news desk.
Their corporate sponsors do not influence their coverage.
scooby “huh?” — I was away from my computer for a few — did they just say they will be back for a few days New Year’s week???
140: so we can expect an invitation to David Duke is forthcoming?
Here’s an idea for Warren’s inauguration participation:
The (hell bound) Jews have a device called a grogger. http://www.oytoys.com/Purim-Grogger-Traditional-p/jet-193.htm
On Purim, whenever someone says the bad guy’s name, your spin the grogger and it makes a loud noise.
So everyone contacts their (hell bound) Jewish friends and borrows a grogger. If the Rev starts to speak something anti-gay, anti-secular, etc., everyone starts spinning and drowns him out.
142 Shane-O – yep.
The Glinch! HA!
veally melly – that’s it for me…
I’m gonna get outta here.
waka waka.
Buh Bye, Bloggoes!
#143
followed by a Hitler Channel highlights montage, and a Cremation of Care ceremony.
PeterW 141 – there may be a firewall, but ask yourself if you have heard any hard hitting investigative stories about, for example, Archer Daniels Midland and the implications of genetic modification and patenting of food sources, since ADM started contributing.
The very act of accepting money from corporate sponsors causes broadcasters to pull their punches. Sponsors don’t have to overtly influence broadcasting – the very act of making large contributions speaks loudly enough.
I used to be a regular listener and contributor, but not anymore.
Yay! Love it, Jim!!!!!!
It’s a Blunderful Life is GREAT!! Brilliant and funny, not to mention right on!
Dog bless you tiny Jim.
Jim gets his wings. Again.
At least he didn’t get his red wings
Every time a bell rings, Karl Rove becomes someone else’s bitch.
PeterW – missed your 141 while composing my 150 – funny that we both reference ADM. Whatever the reason, they are not the broadcasters they used to be when they were more fully government funded.
#150, like I said, they hit ADM hard on the price-fixing stories, yes, while they were taking their money.
No one is covering the patenting of food sources because so far it only screws poor Africans and Indians. No one covers that outside of Common Dreams and The Nation.
NPR liberals are very much establishment liberals. They’re afraid of looking like over-sincere dorks like us.
Yay, officially outta here at noon!
159 – lucky you… I gotta work a full day (grumble grumble)
#156 – if only….
#160 You are not alone. I have to work a regular day too. I don’t even get the day after Christmas off (unlike Federal workers).
sometimes, dead is better??? – Shaf…???
The Matchgirl one sounds quite Dickensian. Potent social commentary.
Christmas isn’t always about feel-good. There’s a strong tradition of using it to show the injustices in our society.
PeterW 158 – over-sincere dorks are some of the most attractive people ever!
BTW – hey – how come I know about patenting food sources and genetic modification of food if no one is covering these things….could it by Amy Goodman and Democracy Now!
I just have to ask is Barack uniting people with Rick Warren or is it pandering to the rabid right wing while still trying to calm their fears that he is a muslim?
#163 I am not going there, again, Shane-O!
Blitzen was the bastard — cuz he was the coach? — P.E. flashbacks again…????
We can look at the preacher thing this way.
Starts with the old busted bigot, ends with the ecumenical pro-equality guy. Symbolic of moving on from the Bush era.
Dick Waygood!!!!! Is he dating Amanda Hugenkiss?
You’ll be awed at the rampant homophobia
I thought the spirit of Christmas was about the fight between Jesus and Santa Claus.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wlijkw2ns6k
#165, I couldn’t agree more. It’s what the ex-gf liked about me (before she had the “OMG it’s too soon after my marriage ended to be in a relationship again!!!” freakout).
And I was remiss for forgetting to mention Amy Goodman.
#167 – it was a movie reference – Fred Gwynne – “Pet Cemetery” — I only called you out because you usually get them…
I only get Xmas day off.
#169 – okay. I feel better…sort of.
Morning all! The point of The Little Match Girl was that she didn’t have any internal “fire” and had to light matches that gave her visions of comfort and wholeness, until she finally ran out of matches and died. It’s about developing your own creativity and expressing it so that you’re not empty inside. It’s an ALLEGORY.
160 & 162 Of course we’re being let out just before a major snowstorm.
Next week the employees here get the day before, the day after and Christmas off. Don’t think for a second the contractors like me get that. I get Christmas. Then next week they’re all getting New Year’s Eve and New Year’s. I get nothing. So it’s like a week forced vacation.
Cornwall…oh yes know Cornwall very well. Went to school there, mother and father live there.
I’m having some calendar hypnosis
on Spliffy and Blissed-out, on Strutter and Temptress, on Sparkly and Lovebeads, on Stoneder and Blitzen… lite the way, won’t you… RoachClip?!
};]-~
Way to work that axe, Jim!!!!!!!!!!
LAWL Janiqua
that is too cool
Wasn’t Mr. Parker-Bowles the first recipient of the horse jumping award?
it’s like Moe’s
Good morning everybody (say it in Steph’s very nasal upstate voice)
Go Jim, go Jim, with the harmonica, with the harmonica…
#174 Yep, missed the reference. Sorry, Shane-O, I let you down.
Rudolf was a rather subversive (for that period) story about tolerance and inclusion. The misfit toys, the free-spirit prospector, the misunderstood abominable snowman, those are the clues!
#188 Sorry, Shane-O, I let you down.
NEVER!
It’s amazing how tolerant one can be when the a**hole is a good earner for the company.
score one for the trophy wife. (
177 k to the g – …or possibly about the fatal effects of hypothermia!
#189 True, one could say they were celebrating our differences.
#187 H:
Steph has avery sexy, vivacious voice!
what a line. just swallow and smile…
(O.o)
193. That too
He’s kind of right. You couldn’t find newspapers anywhere on November 5th. Everyone was snapping them up as collector’s items.
#192 Speaking of scoring with the trophy wife, US gossip sites are awash with stories that Australian media tycoon Rupert Murdoch is being cuckolded by his 39-year old wife Wendi Deng Murdoch. The “other man” is named as Chris DeWolfe, one of the founders of the social networking site MySpace which Murdoch’s News Corp purchased for $580 million in 2005:
http://www.newstin.co.uk/rel/uk/en-010-008548171
#195 – I agree – she should try doing a radio show…
I keed!!!
#191, are you talking about O’Reilly or Rudolph?
2/3 Sparta!
Or .66666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666…
Ugh. I’m an atheist, but I have NO PROBLEM with religion at the inauguration.
Hate the ‘my way or high way’ thinking. Why take something away from those who care about it just because I don’t share their feelings for it.
Party poopers.
Good morning, Live Blogospherians! We got a snow day and I went back to bed…and overslept!
Sad news, Majel Barrett-Roddenberry, Majel Barrett-Roddenberry, the wife of “Star Trek” creator Gene Roddenberry, has passed away, Access Hollywood has learned. She was 76:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28300175/
204: As an atheist, what right did you have put up for a vote to be taken away?
I say everyone who opposes the views of Rick Warren should just turn their back on him when he starts to speak at the inauguration.
shāf Says:
December 19th, 2008 at 11:40 am
#192 Speaking of scoring with the trophy wife, US gossip sites are awash with stories that Australian media tycoon Rupert Murdoch is being cuckolded by his 39-year old wife Wendi Deng Murdoch. The “other man” is named as Chris DeWolfe, one of the founders of the social networking site MySpace which Murdoch’s News Corp purchased for $580 million in 2005:
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Maybe she’s part of the feminist underground. Infiltrating the beds of the evil and rich, forcing them to the left.
Viva la revolution!
#206 The only person to perform in all ST series.
I thought it was raw umber and burnt sienna.
I have the comic the caller is talking about. It’s from 1990 or something. They used to laugh and call him names…
#210, including one of the fan series!
(and Babylon 5)
210 – We saw and spoke briefly with Majel at two ST conventions. She was very kind and patient with the fans. I think she enjoyed being there and chatting.
# crappyjazz Says:
December 19th, 2008 at 11:46 am
204: As an atheist, what right did you have put up for a vote to be taken away?
_____
What? What vote did I lose? I can enjoy the sentiments of a religious speeches w/o believing in the divinity of Jesus.
Erik Hunt used to hang out with Phil Aysho.
wow. it really has been Shoe Week.
lmao
*cheers, Chimpy!*
A pink Bentley? Is Paris selling Mary Kay now?
215 – agree
I don’t believe in divinity, but I’m interested in ancient civilizations, all of whom are religious in nature
#218
I love divinity. I like pecans in it.
215: I might have misunderstood, but it seemed your post was equating any offense that might be felt by an atheist having to listen to a “religous” person at this inauguration thing to that of how gay people might feel about having the bigot and hate-mongerer Rick Warren speak.
Funny, a Fox News search for Sherry Johnston brings up stories about wedding plans, but nothing about her drug bust. Fair and balanced, indeed.
Who?
# Inadequate Blackmail aka Sexual Jihadist Says:
December 19th, 2008 at 11:53 am
215 – agree
I don’t believe in divinity, but I’m interested in ancient civilizations, all of whom are religious in nature
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I agree. For every Jerry Farwell, there’s a Jimmy Carter or MLK. I see it as a way to focus what goodness they have on inside.
Sherry Johnston= mother of Levi Johnston, father of Sarah Palin’s first grandchild.
207: I thought you were outa here..
As a liberal, I have no problem with Warren speaking; I’ve always been able to listen to about anyone and make my own decisions. And I decided long ago that gay people should have equal rights in all accords.
I commend Obama for putting some perspective on the fact that people can well disagree with each other. And the “guilt by association” crowd are now completely confused, which is a common state for them.
Any caller who biatches about the “extreme left” needs to STFU and GBTW. There is no extreme left in this country.
The caller is a dipturd.
Steve – ask for a new radio for Christmas
callers gave that caller that (albeit retarded) perspective.
ProducerChris is off the hook for that one.
That caller must have been listening to the voices in his head.
Good Lord, the rod up Steve’s butt must have a rod up its butt!
#222, he’s trying to express solidarity, dude.
He’s opposed to an older man marrying a child… do you think he objected to Murdoch’s latest marriage? I think there’s more than 30 years age difference.
227: Yes, I’m outta here in that this site isn’t getting any more of my money.
People can indeed disagree with each other, but I do not think that is the same thing as giving a bigot and a hate mongerer the national spotlight.
#234 Only thing is that 39 years old isn’t exactly a child.
Prop 8 can go to Hell.
Fox News can go to Hell.
GWB and Co. can go to Hell.
Rick Warren can get “raptured” ASAP.
Kevin Johnson too.
I’m actually glad for the controversy. Again, it gives a chance to talk about the issue. It takes agitators to make change.
I’m thinking Jon Stewart might have actually moved Gov. Huckabee the other night on the gay marriage issue. It takes civil conversation to change minds. But, takes an agitator to bring it to the for-front of debate.
just had to get that (#237^) out of my system.
#238 I think that’s called “cooler heads prevailing.”
# PeterW Says:
December 19th, 2008 at 11:56 am
Any caller who biatches about the “extreme left” needs to STFU and GBTW. There is no extreme left in this country.
The caller is a dipturd.
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What’s the color of the sky in your world?
Anybody asking Santa for the new men’s fragrance Flame by Burger King? It has “the scent of seduction with a hint of flame-broiled meat”. Maybe they should advertised it on this show.
Wow. We are limping towards Sparta.
#238 Agreed.
I was interesting that in Obama’s presser, he stated that he was a “fierce advocate for equality for gay and lesbian Americans.” Perhaps the Warren’s controversial gave him the cover he needed to make such a strong statement.
Marching through Georgia…Limping towards Sparta
New listener here…what city does Stephanie broadcast from?
#236, though I’m a very childish 38.
#241, okay, other than about a dozen hippies, a few unreformed 60’s communists, and Ralph Nader, there’s no extreme left in this country. Happy now? What gets called “extreme left” is pretty centrist in every other industrialized democracy.
#243 No puppy mill talk today.
# crappyjazz Says:
December 19th, 2008 at 11:53 am
215: I might have misunderstood, but it seemed your post was equating any offense that might be felt by an atheist having to listen to a “religous” person at this inauguration thing to that of how gay people might feel about having the bigot and hate-mongerer Rick Warren speak.
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I was talking about the caller who said just take the religion out of the ceremony. Seems the Mooks and Step might agree. I don’t.
As an atheist, I can enjoy or ignore what doesn’t touch me. I don’t need it removed to satisfy my POV.
It was not made in connection to the Warren issue. I think everyone has a right to be pissed as hell over that.
I think in the long run it will serve to benefit my HPOV. We need to start a dialog and bring people together if we are to win on this issue.
248
SHHHHHHHH!!
Don’t get them started.
242 – This is a real product that is being advertised on the Burger King website. The King is lounging naked with a furry animal placed strategically. Screeem! He’s scary enough with clothes.
A recent survey showed over 80% of Americans believe in God. For them, you can’t take religion out of the inauguration.
246
Hello, new listener!
Stephanie broadcasts out of LA.
Either that or out of her mind…
235: I’m as avid about everything Obama as anyone I know. My shorts are not knotted up about it. There are too many truly important issues to concern ourselves with, such as equal rights for gays. The issue of a religious bigot speaking is so tiny; it’s atomic.
Don’t waste effort being upset about it.
Obama proved he knows how to kill a good buzz. That’s about it.
What does happen to those puppies?
Obama’s dilemma is that he wanted to make a move to incorporate the evangelicals, and he went with the one prominent one who has some ideas that are more tolerant than others. Who else could he select? Robertson? Dobson?
It would be hilarious if Jim Bob Duggar* spoke at the inauguration.
*His stay at home wife just gave birth to their 18th child. Their daughters don’t wear pants, their son didn’t kiss his fiancee until they were married (they were saving themselves).
# k to the g Says:
December 19th, 2008 at 12:10 pm
Obama proved he knows how to kill a good buzz. That’s about it.
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LOL. Very true. But, he is getting to work on issues before ‘day one.’
Anyone’s who has become a millionaire from being a preacher is missing the point of Christ’s message. It’s sad when I know more about their religion than they do.
after Pastor Rick Warren’s Hate Invocation, the New Agers have asked for a drum circle and crystal healing meditation… while the Krishnas pass out booklets and flowers.
#260 You’re exactly right.
#252, why should it be more difficult for them to take God out of the inauguration than it should to take God out of a trip to pick up a carnitas burrito at Baja Fresh?
Mmmm Baha Fresh…
Steph, pack your gay-ray with you and point it at Rick Warren. That should take care of him.
I’m betting this about Warren: He will give a very conciliatory invocation about coming together.
#260, a-freakin’-men.
263 mmmm Baja Fresh
Hey, have you tried Baja Sol? They have a salsa bar with 12 different salsas!
He gave the donuts and water. Not coffee! Water!
#265
unless you’re two consenting adults of the same gender.
#269 He won’t even mention that.
263 – PeterW apropos of nothing in particular, recently I saw a toast enhancement device that one could use to impress an image of the Virgin Mary onto a piece of bread prior to toasting (or after, I didn’t read the instructions). Anyway, I bet it could be used on a tortilla also – they might be able to take God out of the inauguration, but they can’t take the miraculous images of the Virgin Mary out of the toast.
“Everytime a bell rings, Karl Rove becomes somebody’s bitch in the big house.”
best mornings – Jim-packed mornings.
LeftCenter 268 – Warren should call me when he can miraculously turn the water into wine. M-m-m-m-m-m wine and donuts!
#270
nor will he mention that marriage in the Bible was nothing like “one man and one woman” but more like “one man and his wives/slaves/obedient property”
#274 I’d prefer water into beer.
#267, I don’t think we have those around here, but I’d love a 12-salsa bar!
#271, that’s awesome! Does it work on tortillas?
#275 He won’t mention any divisive issues. He will simply talk about the need for discourse. (Or at least I’m betting on that.)
Oingo Boingo reference
277 – next time I am in the store where this fabulous device was displayed, I will check. It kind of looks like a plastic cookie cutter with stencil lines that trace in the face and clothing. Almost bought it for my sister, but thought better of the impulse in the end.
277 – cmon down to Columbus. I’ll take you.
# PeterW Says:
December 19th, 2008 at 12:06 pm
#241, okay, other than about a dozen hippies, a few unreformed 60’s communists, and Ralph Nader, there’s no extreme left in this country. Happy now? What gets called “extreme left” is pretty centrist in every other industrialized democracy.
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Right.
#278
my point is:
what he has said in the past will hang over his “invocation” like a dark cloud of hate.
Amy outside of DC Says:
December 19th, 2008 at 12:17 pm
“Everytime a bell rings, Karl Rove becomes somebody’s bitch in the big house.”
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Sad thing is, he would LOVE that I’m sure.
PeterW and anyone else with the urge to create religious baked wheat products, it is AMAZING what you can find on the web. Totally lacking a life of any kind, I just googled “Virgin Mary” and “Toast”. Voila: http://www.seefred.com/cgi-bin/shop.pl/page=holytoast.htm
Enjoy!
Joyeux Noël
#283 I agree with your point. I’m just saying that he’ll avoid any controversy in his invocation.
BrianMonster 283 – you mean people listen to the invocation?! Who knew!!
Actually I get what you mean, but do understand what Obama is trying to accomplish.
I do think we need to stay focused on all the stuff that needs to be changed (or in some cases changed back to the pre-Bush constitutional way of doing things. I am not going to let this misstep distract me for long.
#282, so just out of curiosity, what is America’s “extreme left”, and how many representatives in Congress do they have?
#287
if he talks in my presence… i would seriously consider throwing a shoe.
#284, well, Jeff Gannon was having sleepovers with someone.
most Canadians wouldn’t never know the Prime Minister changed…
I can’t believe how many Americans become so involved in the ‘changing of the guard’
PeterW 289 – my sister is America’s extreme left. She has no representatives in Congress.
Um caller, gay people still get murdered just for being gay.
in Sacramento recently, a man who merely looked gay was beaten to death by Russian immigrants.
In some places, if you go too far to the extreme left, you might go off a cliff. I suppose the same could be said for the extreme right.
See you all in a while – Nora has just come downstairs and demanded breakfast. She is right – it’s time.
SPAR T A
Happy Christmahanaquanza, Spartans!!!!!
SPARTA – hiyiyiyi!
SP
AR
TA
Too late for Sparta again.
Caller only wants HIS civil rights. He’s got his, jack, so eff everyone else.
There are a lot of unprosecuted hate crimes against gays – many committed by police.
that wasn’t sparta
289 PeterW:
um, if you wanna know what the ‘Extreme Left’ might be, poke around the video & photo documentation of how *reasonable protesters* were treated in Denver outside the AT&T GreenZone…
inside? Democrats gladhanding & backslapping & exchanging businesscards… & waiving at the bicycle cops
outside?
… truncheons, gas, tasers, paddy wagons…
that’s what anything to the left of middle will get ya…
Again, with Sparta
Yes Cyndi, how dare you interrupt Nora’s schedule.
# PeterW Says:
December 19th, 2008 at 12:26 pm
#282, so just out of curiosity, what is America’s “extreme left”, and how many representatives in Congress do they have?
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I thought you said in the country, not in the government. They do not have much representation in the the House. I would say zero in the Senate.
and that makes four….
congo-rats, demdame!
“Things aren’t as bad with gays as they were when they were denying African-Americans their rights.” Yeah, right.
#308, so basically they’re a tiny powerless fringe that no one listens to?
Yeah, precisely my point.
Which political camp gets the anarchist? I’ve seen them at a few marches I’ve been to, but being asses more then anything.
“Teh gay is not a civil right” is an ugly meme I’ve heard from black people, like our last caller. And they never defend any claim–Chris reminds the caller in some places a gay couple can be killed for kissing, and he moves on as if his claim hadn’t been refuted and makes another ridiculous undefendable assertion.
Furthermore, one seems to get labeled “extreme right” because of one’s agenda. An excess of sincerity, not extreme positions, however, is sufficient to get someone labeled “extreme left”.
# PeterW Says:
December 19th, 2008 at 12:31 pm
#308, so basically they’re a tiny powerless fringe that no one listens to?
Yeah, precisely my point.
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That’s not the same as saying they don’t exist.
Code Pink is very real in all it’s glories stupidity.
Enough about the red! It’s turning my head towards severe annoyance.
#314
reminds me of a time when police would ignore the claims of black folk who had been assaulted or robbed, and just move on to the cases brought by white folks.
Yay Frangela!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YAY! I’m actually home to blog for a few!!! Whee! Boy, I’ve missed you guys!!
I quit smoking over a week ago. I hate Christmas. We’re buried in snow. Rick Warren is a gigantic f**head. More later…
That’s about the closest I’ve gotten to Sparta
Hi Jan. Glad you’re back.
My history teacher’s parting admonition to me was to say he was trying to get me to stop being so partisan. I told him I don’t even understand how anybody can pay attention and not be partisan–that reality is not splitting the difference between a fact and a lie. He then tried to claim he was trying to get me to see something from a different perspective, as I never had tried that before. Hopeless.
#317 The red is more appealing than the stuff that sticks to your colon wall like spackle or paste.
#316, again, proving my point. Code Pink’s positions aren’t extreme. They’re mainstream. They’re just overly sincere and kinda noisy.
It takes belief in the unitary executive to make someone extreme right. But all it takes to be called “extreme left” is to be too theatrical and sincere for “moderates”.
# PeterW Says:
December 19th, 2008 at 12:32 pm
Furthermore, one seems to get labeled “extreme right” because of one’s agenda. An excess of sincerity, not extreme positions, however, is sufficient to get someone labeled “extreme left”.
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Well, it’s hard to know what positions you’re talking about. Gay rights is about social justice. That’s a key principle of the Dem. party, so it’s far from being ‘far left.’
But full support of Venezuela President, far left.
320 Tell me about it Jan. They gave me a snow day today…but then I overslept.
Missed you too, Jan.
327 Hey, Lefty! Aren’t snow days for sleeping anyway?
#326, how is support for the democratically elected (and still widely popular) president of a country extreme?
The amount of information on Venezuela out there is enormous. Bur believing misinformation doesn’t make you moderate.
# PeterW Says:
December 19th, 2008 at 12:36 pm
#316, again, proving my point. Code Pink’s positions aren’t extreme. They’re mainstream. They’re just overly sincere and kinda noisy.
It takes belief in the unitary executive to make someone extreme right. But all it takes to be called “extreme left” is to be too theatrical and sincere for “moderates”.
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No, they are not ‘overly sincere.’ There OUT NOW is NOT the mainstream POV.
I am VERY sincere about my stance. I just try to focus attention on my point and not myself like a immature child.
#329 They are for me!
“A disorderly way would be very chaotic.”
More brilliance from the Bush administration.
In my house Log is the hot gift.
*Their
BTW, Hollywood rumor had it that Tippi Hedren (Melanie Grifith’s mother, by the way) got blackballed in the industry because she rebuffed dirty old man Hitchkock.
(((Paul))) How you been?
#336 It wasn’t because Marnie absolutely sucked?
There aren’t pitchforks and torches on Pennsylvania avenue, so thing can get worse.
In our office, all of us who graved the snow and showed up today get a free lunch!
PeterW
the song I NEVER HEAR ON LIBERAL RADIO…
funny that…
“Who Da Bitch Now?” by Eric The Red Schwartz
Well, you found you a coon
Tied him to a truck
He was looking at your girl
Yeah, he was looking for a ride
But you showed that bitch, dintcha?
Now tell your story while the others pinch ya
‘’cause now you’re bunkmates with Bubba
Who won’t use no rubba
For the maximum sentence the law would allow
So tell me boys…
Who Da Bitch Now?
Well, you found you a queer
You promised him some head
Drove him out, tied him up, beat him down and left him for dead
“That’s what you get bitch”
Well that’s what you said
You didn’t see it was wrong, no you were only seeing red…
But now you’ll see pinstripes
Bunched around your ankles every night
You’ll get used to it much quicker
If you give up the fight and just allow…
And Who Da Bitch Now?
The irony is plain to see
If you know the definition
You try to be B.M.O.C.
And end up in this position…
You found you a Haitian
Brought him down to the station
You boinked him with a broomstick
As a standard operation
You thought you’d hide your violence
Behind that big blue wall of silence
But now you’re roomin’
With some of the bitches you’ve been broomin’
I applaud the situation, but I wouldn’t take a bow
Just tell me, officer, Who Da Bitch Now?
(“Self-Bootleg” Bonus Verse)
Well this morning’s communion went off without a hitch
So you said a benediction and made the alter boy your bitch
The most accursed criminal to hide behind a hymnal
But they hung you like a jury with a tube sock for a rope
The paparazzi waited
For a comment from the pope who just said ‘ciao’
And “who da beetch now!”
#334 It’s log! It’s log! It’s big, it’s heavy, it’s wood.
It’s log! It’s log! It’s better than bad, it’s good.
Everyone loves a log. Everyone needs a log….
#338 – aw, thought Marnie was kinda cool (and Connery was real hot in that one, remember?)
Blackballed???
Sounds like some interracial stuff going on
# PeterW Says:
December 19th, 2008 at 12:38 pm
#326, how is support for the democratically elected (and still widely popular) president of a country extreme?
The amount of information on Venezuela out there is enormous. Bur believing misinformation doesn’t make you moderate.
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Right. And you ignoring actual facts because it tarnishes an ideal/myth does not make you moderate.
#331, OUT NOW only means out now if you have a teleporter.
CP would be satisfied with an orderly withdrawal, whatever their slogans. That is a mainstream viewpoint, just argued loudly and theatrically.
#343 Marnie put me to sleep.
342 Amy – thanks for that carol. I danced and butt-bumped with my lab as I sang along.
#320
only one more week of that crappy music left to go!!!
*plugs ears*
(not really… actually i’m listening to Frangela… they’re comforting me right now in my time of need.)
#345, I’m suspecting you don’t have a lot of facts on Venezuela. Go read The Nation some time, they have good (and well-researched) articles on the topic on a regular basis.
But hey, it’s so much easier to be smugly satisfied that the guy actually shouting for what you claim to be for is “extreme”.
Extreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeme
# PeterW Says:
December 19th, 2008 at 12:42 pm
#345, I’m suspecting you don’t have a lot of facts on Venezuela. Go read The Nation some time, they have good (and well-researched) articles on the topic on a regular basis.
But hey, it’s so much easier to be smugly satisfied that the guy actually shouting for what you claim to be for is “extreme”.
—
Did you see the piece PBS’s Frontline just did? *she says smuggly*
A lot of movies sound good on concept, but end up being piles of dogshit.
Exhibit A: Crank
for demdame of the Highlands:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPHtKarae2Q
What rolls down stairs alone or in pairs,and over your neighbor’s dog?
What’s great for a snack,And fits on your back?It’s log, log, log
It’s log, it’s log,It’s big, it’s heavy, it’s wood.
It’s log, it’s log, it’s better than bad, it’s good.
Everyone wants a log
You’re gonna love it, log
Come on and get your log
Everyone needs a log
log log log from Blammo!
(((Jan)))
Just waiting to be buried by snow tonight, then again Sunday. Getting kicked outta work in about 15 minutes before the bad stuff begins.
Holidays seem dead to me this year. Bleah. But we gotta prepare for my nephew and his friend visiting from MS the end of next week.
Oops they’re kicking us out even earlier. WHEEEEEE!
Bye all. If I don’t see you have a GREAT holiday!!!
Missed it. Did they report favorably on HRW’s discredited hit piece?
I certainly wish they would have had superbetaprostate a few years ago….
Yay! My conference call is done, I can party with Frangela (after the SuperBeta Prostate ad, of course!)
#342 – need to watch Ren and Stimpy’s “A Little Stinky Christmas” episode, and listen to their Crock O Christmas CD!
345 & 350
OR!~ you could listen to The Jeff Farias Show’s FREE podcasts (while Stephanie & the Mooks are on vacation, bien sûr) & listen to our many interviews about the Bolivarian Revolution & the pressures on foreign nations by US-enforced exo-domestic policies.
Listen to the show that was *too humanist & international* for NovaMRadio…
If you take Superbetaprostate does it cleanse the prostate of spackle and paste?
#360
is Jeff Farias that guy that sounds like Stephen Wright, sans “funny”?
354 Amy – Did you know that you can buy Log (in small or large size) from Blammo? I almost did last year, just for the packaging alone.
Meanwhile, I hug my real-life Ren and Stimpy (a nasty Jack Russell and rotund Labrador).
#361 I certainly hope so!
# PeterW Says:
December 19th, 2008 at 12:41 pm
#331, OUT NOW only means out now if you have a teleporter.
CP would be satisfied with an orderly withdrawal, whatever their slogans. That is a mainstream viewpoint, just argued loudly and theatrically.
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So, I’m not to believe what they are yelling in hearings, or what they are saying in interviews. Or that fact that their ‘look at me’ antics are actually drawing attention away from great testimony being given at government hearing. ‘Yes, don’t listen to Valerie Plame talking about how she was outted my the White House — look at ME ME ME!!!’
#363 I didn’t realize they were selling logs. Amazing they still have merchandising more than a decade after the cartoon went off the air.
362: are you the guy who thinks he is?
sorry, you’ve got the wrong person, maybe you’re thinking of another show…
You don’t need to go to a wine store for boxed wine.
366 – nostaligia rules! Saw it on ebay.
THE HUGO CHAVEZ SHOW
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/hugochavez/
Drinking Listerine? The man must have no taste buds!
Mmmmmm, minty fresh!
I’m not a drunk, I never have been a drunk. I love my wife…
Hi Steph!
I tried calling in a number of times but either get hung up on by someone on your staff or end up hearing the show but no one answers.
In regards to Reverend Warren, the fundamentalist preacher doing the invocation, I just wanted to point out that no one seems to appreciate the irony here. You have a fundamentalist preacher normally associated with Republicans, bigotry, etc. and here he is giving his blessing to the Obama presidency. This can be used to put to rest any disenchantment Republicans, etc. may still have. It’s a passing of the baton, so to speak, from the ideologue Republican administration to a liberal democratic Obama administration.
there was a time when I aspired to be a “future husband” of Momma’s — back when Feingold and Olbermann were on the list.
lately – seems the standards are slipping…
Man, I’ve swallowed ouzo and retsina without barfing, but Listerine would kill me. Good thing I quit drinking a long time ago before I thought of mouthwash as a beverage.
Bigotry is how losers make themselves feel better.
My wife left me, my kids hate me, I just got furloughed from work… but at least I’m not a (insert persecuted minority).
`#365, you really are hung up on the theatrics.
We were wondering why NPR has veered right: because “establishment liberals” are embarrassed by “non-establishment” theatrics.
That’s what this is about. Not the extremity of positions. Or even tactics. The “extreme left” gets labeled that way for acting out.
The extreme right normalizes torture, believes in the presidency as a quadrenially elected monarch – and puts that belief into practice, engages in the supreme war crime of aggressive warfare, lets cities drown and then sends mercenaries to gun down the fleeing black-skinned residents, but the extreme left dresses loudly and is impolite.
Wow.
#374 I agree, Dave. See my post #244.
Dear Santa: I’ve been very, very good this year…please bring me a new Speaker of the House. And there’s a couple Senate leaders who should be ’sat down’ also…but I don’t want to appear greedy.
Can you hear me now? No.
Look, you two…Colonists threw tea into Boston Harbor dressed up as Indians. Later on, they started showing up with guns and shooting the British. It was called the American Revolution.
IT WAS NOT CALLED “ACTING OUT”!
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Ginger ale is a great belch inducer.
20 Ways to Save Mother Earth – Evo Morales (Bolivia)
New Zealand’s Scoop Magazine –
Stuart Newman/ Jeff Farias Show: Beyond Darwin: “A transcript of interview with Stuart Newman on his work on a new understanding of Darwin’s theories. “
ProducerChris, you can modify film to fit a Brownie camera. There’s also a few sellers of discontinued film:
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#382, the British, technically, fired first.
Shut up, Peter.
Have a great Holiday, Team Steph! We loves ‘ya!!!!!!!
Happy something or other, Steph and Mooks!
HAPPY CHRISTMAHANEKWANZAKA MAMA AND MOOKS!
PeterW 378 – It’s official, you are one of my heros. Well said. While we were being too polite, a band of cut throats stole our country.
Happy stuff everybody!
Have a Wonderful, Jolly, Merry, Happy Festivus Holiday Steph, Chris, Jim and Frangela!
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. . . Joyeux Noël !
Frohliche Weinachten!
Have a wonderful and safe holiday season, everyone. If the days start getting longer, it may be in part because I will be performing a winter solstice ritual, tai chi to the rising sun on the 21st.
Cheers, Cyndi in Seattle
Felice Navidad, y’all! May the farce be with you!
Do we know if the blog will be active next week?
(can never find my dang Alt-combo for umlauts…)
Yes! And I got the coveted 1 1/3 Sparta!
Sprechen zie HUH?
Have a great weekend, everybody!!!!!
Ja, Ich spreche ein bisschen Deutsch and things of this nature.
If only that Iraqi journalist had been wearing lead-filled snowshoes.
HELLO EVERYONE! Happy Holidays to all I hope you have a very happy holidays. Just remeber the war on christmas is at hand everyone get ready for war!
Have a very safe and happy holidays
Ethan In Sacramento
Cowtown Communications LLC is in negotiations to purchase WVKO-FM 103.1. According to the attorney negotiating the deal for Gary Richards (whose last day as GM for WVKO-AM 1580 will be Monday), the asking price is $1.5 million.
Bernard Ohio LLC, which leased the AM to Cowtown until the sale to St. Gabriel Radio was finalized, is currently operating the FM under a Spanish-language format after parting company with the former lessee over the summer.
St. Gabriel will be taking over the AM on Tuesday and airing its Catholic radio format. Frangela has/have been asked to give Stephanie Miller fans words of farewell on Monday during the final broadcast of the Stephanie Miller Show on WVKO-AM.
With the help of Big Eddie and his fellow investors, we hope his absence will be brief. Even though the deal fell through for a progressive talk station in Salem, Oregon, we hope they can make an investment that will help Gary Richards seal the deal.
Gary’s attorney will be getting in touch with Vern Thompson, Big Eddie’s producer, while Vern has Gary’s phone number. The hope is all the parties will get in touch in an effort to bring Big Eddie, Stephanie Miller and Columbus’ other favorite progressive talkers back on the air permanently.
One clarification: Big Eddie is Ed Schultz, whose shows has been airing right after Momma.
#407 Ohio’s Progressive Talk (WVKO) was a noble experiment. We toast its short life and good heart and hope to hear progressive radio in Columbus in the not-too-distant future.
No new sandbox to play in this monday….Awww!
I’m good with it, ElPedro. I’m guessing there will be a small number of regulars this week.
Mornin., Shaf,,good lord its cold here last two mornings….-15F, brr!
looks like Franken is *almost* claiming victory here, his team thinks it will be 50 -75 votes, or so,( out of like 2 1/2 mill, unbelievable!
Good morning or moonring!
WAY colder there than here. We might be as low as 30 but . .
Hey everyone! There’s a fresh new sandbox for you to play in. Go ahead and post there!
Chris – you’re the best of the best!
Thanks!
I just looked out my back door….-17, now, the little dogs, they no wanna go out there today!, the Chihua just sorta puts his tail between his legs and wriggles away, says…’uh-uh, you want me to go do waht?, out theeer, joo must be one craaaazy greeengo’