LiveBlog for Wednesday, April 15, 2009
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• NY Times columnist Frank Rich calls in at 6:30am Pacific to talk about his latest regarding the economy, “Awake and Sing!”
• Rep. Jared Polis (D-CO) calls in at 8:05am Pacific to discuss the anti-gay murders in Iraq and the need for an investigation. Polis was in Baghdad earlier this week.
• Lead Franken attorney Marc Elias calls in at 8:30am Pacific to talk about the latest in the Franken / Coleman fight for the Senate in Minnesota.
• In a speech at Georgetown University yesterday, President Obama balanced painting an optimistic picture on the health of the economy – spurred by what he claims are his administration’s efforts – with the likely rocky road ahead to economic recovery.
• The Liberty Sun, a U.S.-flagged cargo ship bound for Kenya, was attacked last night by Somali pirates. The pirates fired rocket-propelled grenades and automatic weapons at the ship, which sustained damage, but they never made it onto the ship and the vessel is now being escorted by a coalition ship, still bound for Kenya.
• A nationwide “tea party” protest is scheduled in 500 cities for today, Tax Day, in the United States. The protesters’ goal is to pressure Congress and states to reject government spending as a way out of the recession and build an anti-spending coalition around taxpayers.
Tags: Al Franken, Barack Obama, Frank Rich, Jared Polis, Kenya, Marc Elias, New York Times, Norm Coleman, Somalia, Tea Parties
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Good morning Mama, mooks and mookettes and all the Stephanie Fans around the world!
‘morning capt! Listening to stephanie’s show from yesterday on podcast–can’t listen live most days since gotta get to work early…and the Dallas “progressive” talk station (I use the term loosely) dropped mama’s show in favor of some dumbed-down local “progressive” show…(followed by a shopping show, btw)! I had to write a letter in protest to the station! So yea! for podcasts!
Where would the SMS fans be able to get a SMS fix without the podcast?
Thank all that is good in the world for the podcast!
A TEA-BAGGING Q AND A
Q: why tea-bagging?
A: it is referent to the boston tea party, thus meant to conflate
the top 1% income bracket with vandals disguised as locals.
Q: is this traditional?
A: meant to be, but with ever-evolving upgrades on the way…
as watterson pointed out in “calvin and hobbes”, even the
people who are always selling revolution are not necessarily
to be trusted.
Q: is this a definitive guide?
A: no. as in all matters, do not trust the source. do research like
madness in the spring. here’s one excellent alternative source of
info already: http://shakespearessister.blogspot.com/2009/04/believe-it-or-not.html
plus, it’s a good idea to teabo the coverage and scrutinize the
semantic differences.
Q: is tea-bagging a grass-roots movement?
A: many critics have already assailed this tactic, even on FOX, as
a cheesy “astroturf claymation” rather than an organic grass roots
movement. – in bluegrass territory, it is classified as “azureturf”
Q: will steph and the mooks be participating?
A: steph has been known to appear in an above average percentage of
daydreams, alas, often resulting in the appearance of “sleepytime”
whereas lavort is more commonly associated with such varieties as
“lemon zinger” or “earl gay”. jim ward was last seen working on
a north korean recipe for “rindsay rohan rufee”.
Q: are there maps to the best tea-bagging parties?
A: you may recall from MENSA christmas parties, that people of many
stripes, supposedly united by some contrived granfalloon, are very
deeply stupid, and only clinging to the granfalloon in search of
sex. think of tea-baggers as mensans, but with more user-friendly
allowances in spelling and grammar. – just follow the red-state
maps to wherever the impovershed proles want to protect the owning
class from a partial return to paying their taxes.
Q: can tea-bagging improve my credit rating?
A: magic 8-ball says… it’s as effective as any other method.
Q: how long will tea-bagging take to get results?
A: the results are instantaneous! your local tea merchant will sock
away the extra profits into their teetering estate mortgage, with
a sigh of relief, where the equity will maintain value over the
coming decades. (“this creates jobs!”).
Q: does tea-bagging tickle?
A: sometimes
Q: will tea-bagging violate my low carb diet?
A: depends
Morning Flombaye!
Let’s chip in and buy Bunnypants and his ilk some airline tickets to Spain.
A little vacation . . .
Q: is capt referring to the ketotic tactic made famous by bouncin’ bob
atkins?
A: yayezzz! consumption of mass quantities of protein is allowed.
note: please research the atkins diet, before attempting it.
it is not a safe tactic. – what atkins did get right is that
it’s wise to follow one’s appetites.
Q: is tea bagging legal and safe?
A: not always when done in a public place.
(tea rooms are for tea, no?)
lololololo
Q: is tea-bagging while watching woody allen films “dirty”?
A: i happen to have marshall mccluhan right here, and he says
only if you’re doing it right.
That answers my next question . . .
Q: can you teabag incorrectly?
A: obviously
Oh man…all this talk of tea-bagging(EEEEK!) makes me want to…go get another cuppa coffee; then off to work! Wish I could stay longer…
Ciao for now SueC – hurry back when you can!
Q: is tea-bagging hobbit-forming?
A: only if you teabo your TB adventures with teabo baggins.
There’s strong brew on the blog this morning.
*waves away steam*
Good morning Team Steph in all manifestations!
I wish the media would connect the dots to “Alice” and the mad-hatters tea party?
(mad hatter is Glenn Beck?)
Good Morning Carol!
Earl Grey?
yep. We’ll see what the day brings.
Meanwhile, good bye to Phil Spector. Wow, did his life turn out wrong.
Mornin’ all! I see there’s a lovely conversation about teabagging this morning….perfect mental image to have while eating breakfast…
Good Lord, do you people get up in the middle of the night? ;->
Happy Tea Baggin’ Day, everyone! I don’t know about you guys, but I’m looking forward to my tea bagging this morning.. Well, make that coffee, so I can get my eyes open.
How the hell are you people? I’ve been missing out on the blog for awhile. But I did look in and get some chuckles.
Have you all sent out your GOP.com e-postcard, with the selectable type of tea bag on it? See my photo posting, lifted from KOS, where I get so much of my information nowadays..
And Glenn Beck (plus the Texas governor) is rumbling about having Texas secede from the union. Heck for as long as I can remember, we New Mexicans have wanted to saw Texas off, let it float out to the Gulf, drill a hole in it, and let it sink! ;-> I joking! Some of my best bubba pals are from Texas, and I left my heart in San Antonio in 1976, red headed woman with green eyes, staying out all hours of the night with her on the river walk.. Ah, her sweet sighs! Aw, those beautiful eyes..
Of course, Austin is my favorite Texas city, with San Antonio next and then Dallas.
Anyway, how I blather on. Over!
How did Barack arrange this!?!!
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-04/14/content_11184581.htm
“Thousands of dolphins block priate ships…”
good moanin’ celtic one. manly yes, but i like it too.
I have to jet for a few – I’ll be back.
(anybody need anything from the store?)
Good Morning!!
HApPY TEA BAG DAY!
I’ll take mine shaved
crappage… there goes capt. i wanted to ask the capt to pick up some scotts astroturf builder with coultergeist protective sealant.
Bread, milk, and cigarettes, Capn.. Pall Mall unfiltered..
Oops, cigs are about $6 a pack or something nowadays, yikes! And I forgot, I quit 26 years ago on July 17. I still smoke in my dreams, and enjoy them. How’s that for an addiction?
on the tea bags – I kid you not…
Fox & Freaks — just did a little riff about hanging their tea bags from car rear-view mirrors — as one anchor commented “just like fuzzy dice.”
They REALLY don’t get it…
Hubby Arthur Kelly needs to fall in line with all the other husbands who have been told, “If Bruce Springstein looks my way, all bets with you are off.” Works the other way, too. Just a fact of American life.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/04142009/news/regionalnews/judge__divorce_of_bruces_other_woman_to__164412.htm
Well, see if you’re really a REAL Conspicuous Christian Republican Base person, you’re completely ignorant about the term tea baggin’. That and a thousand other things we “worldy people” know all about..
27: they really are getting teste over this.
I may have to look up the satellite channel number for Fox News (I’ve got it blocked so I don’t accidentally land on it while channel surfing) and see how the big “spontaneous” tea parties are doing..
Morning bloggies! XOXO
Hey Shan-o- (still working on getting on steph space- something’s wrong with my log in)- but I think they get it, it’s just they like vulger things like the fake male anatomy that dangles from truck’s rear bumpers….
compensating for something I think….
It’s days like today that I’m proud to have moved to loose tea.
One 8oz tin each of : English breakfast, currant, Irish breakfast, Earl Grey, and gunpowder green on my desk at the office, along with two tea balls and a Cuisinart electric kettle.
Tea bags are for amateurs. I’m tea-ballin’!
#35, which is different, I should point out, from “free-ballin’”.
Hey Dani! – you might be right — but it seemed that one of the three idiots tried to reel in the other two as the conversation regressed… to the surprise of the two dolts.
None of it was particularly important — but it was kinda funny. MSNBC has been TOO hilarious about the whole thing for a while now…
C’mon, any time you get to hear Dr. Maddow give a whole expose on tea-bagging is worth a great laugh!
1. 2M4M
funny video
Rachel and Anna Marie – Shuster, and Olbermann last night have ALL been funny on the subject.
almost showtime…
2. Morning Feature: Columbine – A Lesson in Bad Reporting
3. My Trip to Crazy Town
you almost feel sorry for reasonable republicans
4. Sikhs Say Army Ban Is Religious Discrimination
5. In A Texas Town, A Film Premiere Hits Home
6. IMPORTANT and scary stuff – Ghostnet
how China could destroy us all from the computer
7. You’ve Seen It Before; READ IT AGAIN DAMMIT!! (Redux)
7. You’ve Seen It Before; READ IT AGAIN DAMMIT!! (Redux)
**spirit fingers**
8. It’s official: GOP is the tea bag party
even when you see this, you may not believe it
anyone want to make a pool for when Bill-o’s head will explode???
I’m taking friday I think…
9. My Family’s Experience in the Militia
Am I late for the tea party?
Shan-o… you officially rule!
Shane-WOW! My hero. Beautiful work, Senor, as usual. Thank you.
Pine cone in ‘china beats fir tree in lung every time.
ProducerChris, the seedling can grow a ways on the germ in the seed, before it needs sunlight. It would have eventually died for lack of sunlight.
10. Homeland Security Reports: Right-Wing Terrorist Threat Growing
#57, endosperm, that is.
11. LOL!
Conservatives Dominate Twitte
fail
i suspect that o’reilly would coddle stephy’s peaches. ANYBODY who doesnt save room for peach coddler is a pinhead.
61 LMAO!
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/4/15/720021/-Cheers-and-Jeers:-Wednesday
From the GREAT STATE OF MAINE…
She packed my tea bags last night pre-flight. Zero Hour nine a.m.
The Rude Pundit posts a disturbing photo that sums up what we’ll be witnessing today: a teabagger holding up a protest sign that looks like a game pad from a creepy (and poorly-played) round of Scattergories:
END ALL
UNCONSTITUTIONAL
ANTI-CHRIST
SOCIALISM
FEDERAL
DEFICIT SPENDING
PROGRAMS
the danger of not knowing your countries.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEP7uti0PDw
Jim, I’m sure Denny has not seen 300lbs in the rear view for some time now
Good Morning All!
Heard of Malloy’s show last PM:
When Limbaugh goes “vacationing” in the Dominican Republic . . .
is he the teabag or is he the teapot?
Happy birthday today – gorgeous Claudia Cardinale (71), Emma Thompson (half century!), Harry Potter’s Hermoime Emma Watson (19), and funnyman Seth Rogen (27).
12. Where Were the Teabag Protests 8 Years Ago?
65- or on the scale! (It’s hidden beneath his fat folds)
flombaye, of course you realize, that a pun is the lowest object on the entire spectrum of humor.. ;->
Still, Pal, you’re slaying me!
jury is still out as to whether Seth Rogen is funny
but my half of the jury says “NO”
#63, I wonder if they would include “the military” in those anti-christian federal deficit spending programs, seeing as the other big federal outlay, Social Security, is still running a surplus.
you really want to do a hummer ad on tea bag day?
Say, also didn’t know that Mitch McChinless was/is a closet case. Heard a little rumor.
Gawd, Claudia Cardinale 71! I knew her back when.. (in my dreams)
Yeah, HOWDY!!
I love this crowd. So funny, smart, and hip. And a little nasty at times.
I *like* it!
Steph doing Hummer ads makes baby Jesus cry. Can we take up a collection to make sure neither she or the mooks need to shill for anything with a a herd-of-sasquatch carbon footprint?
nasty???? who me?????? **doing my best innocent face**
Morning all!
Mornin Hawk!
The original tea parties were a protest against government subsidies to a big corporation (the British East India Company) in which the chief executive was a major shareholder, at the expense of small business (private tea importers).
So how about those government contracts to companies in which Dick Cheney held stock?
77, the fact that GM hasn’t already thrown Hummer under the bus makes me cry. That fact alone means their recovery plan fails and we’re screwed.
Fox Flash: Bedbug infestations on the rise across the U.S.
81- sooooooo true…. but the tea-baggers may have to pool their brain cells in order to understand this basic info…
I’ve got two emergency unused teabags in my desk – save them for when I’m feeling really sick (colds, sore throat etc.)
Bigelow Coazy Chamomille (no caffeine) and Mighty Leaf Green Tea Tropical (light caffinated).
I know the values of loose tea, but teabags are so convenient!
81 – excellently said, bilbobagpiper! the situation is helliburstin with irony!
83- they’re running out of things to fear-monger about, huh?
85: and dont forget the by far most effective preventive/curative tea for addressing sore throats is (i kid you not!): lickerish.
Morning all—I hope all this talk of tea bagging doesn’t put my off tea.
#18—boy yes, Phil Spector’s life sure did turn out wrong. I don’t feel sorry for him though. He had a history of threatening women with guns. I guess he was a little more high than usual that night and he pulled the trigger. Not a nice man.
Bilbobagpiper?
Good morning! We don’t want any adventures around here.
88- does that mean Sambuka would be helpful too? (more my speed)
Wow! Fox showing literally TENS of enthusiastic tea baggers!
I don’t think one can qualifier as a tea bagger if you are using herbal tea
Cindy, that’s so French. And probably GAY too.
92- I think that beats any previously established porn record!
flombaye
blech .. I can’t stand Licorice
I won’t even cook with fennel seeds – nor have them here for snacking
qualifier = qualify
OK I just looked at the virtual teabag postcard someone posted. I have never seen anything more lame in my life.
If it’s not from a tea tree, it’s not tea. It’s an herbal infusion.
By golly gosh, real tea is Indian.
93—I think herbal tea is considered commie pinko tea.
99—real tea is the black Irish tea they sell at Trader Joe’s. Strong enough to clean copper I’m sure!
for those who can not abide licorice, graham crackers with cheez wiz are an acceptable substitute for flavor, thoe only bee barf comes close for treatment of sore throats.
85—those teas are probably not Republican enough. Sorry. You cannot participate today with those
.
13. In reporting on tea parties, CNN, MSNBC hosts target Fox News
Good Morning, everyone! Sorry, I’m late to the party.
I had a dental appointment to start the day. Just a routine cleaning and exam. Although, the special on Norm Coleman glow-in-the-dark veneers caught my eye.
kar I posted it
#101, TJ’s teas are quite good, but if you really want awesome, order from Adagio teas online. Their Earl Grey is incredibly aromatic.
It’s not strong enough to clean copper, but their “Next to Godliness” powder dishwasher soap does a fine job.
Jim skates?
Love me some Frank Rich! (He was on the first SMS I ever listened to — all those years ago…
)
Hey did you see Colbert last night? Our hero got the space station treadmill named after him!! Now the astronauts will say, “I’m going to go jump on the Colbert” when they go work out.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/TV/04/15/colbert.nasa/index.html
108—I agree. He’s a good guest.
106—-Thanks. That postcard was ridiculous.
thank you, CIB, for posting entry 39. it’s worth repeating so that all shall see it. – and now that the slow children are discovering the joy and wonder of becoming tech-savage, will they be referring to the voices in their heads as “god-casting”?
For you OLDER folks, remember:
“Lipton Tea’s the brisk tea,
drink it every day.
Now here comes Arthur Godfry,
the talent’s on its way.”
Damn, we were cornballed.
#109 It also got coverage on NPR this morning. At least NASA has a sense of humor (although, they are still sans-Administrator).
#105
Norm Coleman looks like he wants a carrot, or maybe to build a dam using assorted logs.
*nice teeth!*
#113 – “OLDER” here, then!!!
#113 Makes me wonder if the same minds who brought us the game “corn hole” are the ones responsible for naming today’s teabag parties.
Good morning all! Happy Tax Day!
Gee – does this caller listen to Glenn Beck much??? hmmm….
Lame “conservative” caller alert!
Mussolini my ass.
What freedom has caller/ahole lost?
what freedoms has Obama taken away?
Sometimes I think the righties just use parrots to call in…
Oh…I can’t be a selfish PRICK and drive my big penis extension car!
what we can’t have an opinion about what you drive?
What a complete idjut!! Good gawd, there must be a factory crankin’ these fools out and releasing them into the wild.
Who says you HAVE to do anything moron? Just keep being the same selfish, earth-destroying PRICK you always were. We expect it of your ilk!
Oh boy—-this is so sad. New Afghan law says husbands are entitled to demand sex from their wives every 4 days.
What’s the punishment if the lady won’t put out? And who is going to document the evidence against her?
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fgw-afghanistan-protest16-2009apr16,0,7668966.story
This guy makes my ass tired. And when my ass is tired, I’m completely exhausted!
I’m making a call to add chlorine to the gene pool…. seriously…
C’Mon Steph!!! — Solve ALL the world’s problems — NOW!
These stupid ass conservabot callers have GOT NOTHING! There was some dumb idiot calling Malloy last night, trying to play “dumb”. Such incredible misinformation. Cut this stupid ass off, guys!
What gun law has changed? What law has passed that is oppressive? You’re too easy to MOCk – IDIOT!
Libertarianism isn’t a political ideology. It’s antisocial pathology posing as one.
caller:
too crossed eyed to see what’s in front of him, fingers firmly in his ears so he cannot hear reason.
well our city doesn’t give it … you have to pay $3.00
you don’t have to … but if you are over your trash limit you have to put it in a special bag that costs about $2.00 per bag
pay as you throw was done because the COSTS of taking care of our trash went up ,,, it was either that or INCREASING our taxes.
#128, the law was overturned by the Afghan supreme court, AFAIK.
Let’s face it, folks, if they really knew ANYTHING, they would be LIBERALS! LOL
131—
It’s a SHOW people. It’s working hard at being entertaining, not setting public policy!
Coz you know, Hitler was a left-winger.
Hiya, Bloggoes!
#134 I once heard Libertarians described as “Republicans who want to legalize pot”. Probably no too far off the mark.
136—I like pay as you throw. It makes sense. If you make more trash than your neighbor then pay for disposing it.
Why is it the right-wing that’s full of armed people that hate everyone, gov’t that spys without warrants and ignores laws and religious zealots believe that it’s the other side that’s the threat?
kar – that was passed a few weeks ago and the afghan government is going back and looking into changing it
141 What do you call liberals that want to legalize pot? ;o)
teabags AND hummers!
Chris- I think some types of hummers are actually already illegal in Florida- there’s actually a no oral sex law on the books… tihehe
OH! Jim and I collided on that one
Uh oh…boat crashed into bridge in Cali
145 — liberals
#133, Holder and Obama have both talked about reinstating the assault weapons ban, which is a stupid idea for several reasons:
1) “assault weapons” are very rarely used in crimes
2) it bans cosmetic, not real features
3) millions of guns and magazines are grandfathered in
4) it’s an electoral loser in a lot of purple states
5) and responds to emotional fears, not real dangers
6) there was no bump in “assault weapon” violence when the ban expired
The Blue Dogs, in a rare instance of being useful, have indicated to Pelosi that they will block it in the House, saving the Dems from themselves.
But folks, I’m sure you’ve noticed that TRUTH has virtually nothing to do with conservative talking points. They constantly make claims that are absolutely false, and then proceed to argue them.. Vociferously!
thank you Peter … I missed that
Does anyone know if they know what teabagging really means? Are they being dirty/funny or just incredibly ignorant. (Or both!)
speaking of how it’s “wrong” to make fun of the mentally ill…
I’ve a new crazy card trick to amuse ye all during the commercials:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qc0xGU2pxQ
151- you’re point 1 down here is quite a bit off… look up shootings in liberty city florida— KIDS are killed here with ak-47s nearly everyday!
Do comedy widgets require a browser plug-in?
#128 kar – Very sad Afghanistan story: A couple was executed by the Taliban for trying to elope. The 19 and 21-year old were shot on the order of a council of conservative clerics in the district of Khash Rod.
That right wing luv muffin really made me nuts. The conservatives try to legislate to eliminate rights of individuals, not the “progressives who aren’t progressive.” Sure, we want to pass legislation to ENCOURAGE people to drive more environmentally friendly cars, and give people the information about toxins in bottles and the waste of disposable water bottles, but I don’t see anyone trying to forbid any of it.
152 — I’ve been thinking about that lately. When did “conservative” and “delusional” become synonymous?
ooooohhhhh brian… more magic fingers for us…. oh la la!
#141, I’ve know a lot of libertatians, and basically, it boils down to “I don’t like people, and I consider any social interaction an intrusion on hiding in my man-cave”. From this, any social obligation imposed by the government at the behest of the electorate is tyranny. So they feel oppressed when people frown upon behaviors like buying gas-guzzlers or drinking bottled water, because the implied social shame of doing something bad violates their sphere of selfish isolation.
154: Steph and mooks definitely know. But I can’t imagine the family values teabaggers do.
151 I’ve heard very little about any gun issue. Perhaps gun people are only listening for htat out of some paranoid fears?? At any rate, do you believe in ANY restrictions/requirements for gun ownership?
American conservatives who want unlimited freedoms, uncontrolled capitalism, guns galore and a government so small you can “drown it in a bathtub” should move to Somalia. Why waste time creating your conservative utopia when it already exists?
#161
I am glad it entertains ye!
*spirit fingers*
OK, I gotta go. I think my son forgot to take the trash out last night.
Even his hours have been cut at his part-time job. The owner of the business is now working the counter more and more because she doesn’t have to pay herself.
He got a job last year next to an area where a bunch of new condos were going up and new mall stores were being built. I told him last year, “You’re boss is wrong. She got herself a store in a terrible location and since the RE market is going into the dumpster those condos are not going to sell. She will not have enough walk-by customers to stay in business.”
Since he’s 18 he didn’t believe me, as 18-year-olds are inclined to do, but lo and behold, I’m right. He’s lucky if he gets 8 hours a week now.
It’s so sad. All right—have a nice day people!
162: Well said. If there were no government, we would be a nation of ignorant, uneducated fools with no roads to drive on and no public transportation. Wait, after 8 years of Bush, with the assistance of Fox, it seems there ARE a bunch of ignorant, uneducated fools (called children not left behind) and the bridges are collapsing and public transporation is struggling. Hhhm. I think I just confused myself…
As a lifelong hunter myself, I’ve never understood why the Walter Mitty’s always need the “assault weapon” look. I have seven rifles and shotguns, only the Springfield 30-06 is a “military” weapon, and it is in my Dad’s home made stock and scope. My [deceased] would get a horse laugh out of the assault weapon craze.
We truly Manly Men ™ don’t need all this kiddie crap. ;->
#156, really? That doesn’t jibe with the crime statistics I’ve seen. As a fraction of the guns privately owned, “assault weapons” are only likely to kill you if you’re an extra in a movie. Almost all gun violence is with pistols and shotguns. When they are used, they do make a big media splash, mainly because it feeds into an existing (if false) narrative.
The reason they’re not used is that, “assault weapons” are too large to be used in crime violence. You can’t conceal them, you can’t aim them easily in confined spaces, and so on. Even the military doesn’t use them under such circumstances, preferring carbines and submachine guns.
163 Yes, of course. It’s become pretty clear that liberal talking heads and pundints know! LOL The censors must be freaking out! Doesn’t it figure that the only thing that gets boots on the ground in right-wing world is taxes? Talk about anti-American – they don’t even want to pay for their own gov’t!
14. http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/4/15/719776/-Dick-Armeys-tea-baggers
#146 – great minds. I’d consider it an honor – colliding with Jim’s wit
160 …or “conservative” and “nut-job”, for that matter?
There was a time when conservatives and liberals could disagree about policy and process, but still agree that both deserved a seat at the table. This latest generation of conservatives (in their rhetoric, at least) believe that liberals should be removed from the table, the legislature and the country. Sad!
170- I live here… I could care less what the statistics say… it’s horrible to see young children killed when there weapons are shot into crowds at parties or during drive by’s… I’m not exagerating… it’s seriously heart breaking…
#169, though “assault weapons” are poor hunters, they’re good varmint weapons, and excellent sport shooters. I would point out that the 2nd Amendment doesn’t protect hunting guns, but “arms”, which are an infantryman’s weapons. “Need” does not enter into rights; what do you “need” with free speech or freedom of religion?
demdame – actually the village wanted them to marry .. the taliban stepped in and shot them
173- Thank you Shane-O ::bats eyelashes:::
165 A lot of conservatives I know fall into the survival of the fittest mentality of life ie whatever you have to do to get money and power is okay and anyone who doesn’t (like people with ethics/values/etc) deserves their sad lot in life. Gov’t should come into it.
The Supreme Court had a chance to address the “militia” question in D.C. gun ban case. The ruling was just, there is the right to bear arms, and D.C. couldn’t outright ban guns. However, Scalia did write that states have the right to regulate.
ewwww….teabag mom = no no
Is that Dickhead Armey?
He sounds like Tom Anderson in the beginning
#165 scooter
that screams “T-shirt!”
Although, I suppose it’s possible to teabag without a Dick (Armey).
callin out ProducerChris – he cut two beats in the SMS theme (“Walking On Sunshine”) — turns it around… (3 turns to 1)
And we’ve all heard it a hundred times — can’t tell. [wild applause]
Took trying to recreate it to realize it…
182 Dick Armey – a man with the most appropriate name EVER!
#175, in other words, you want to ban a weapon that looks scary, because it might be (but is far less likely to be) used in a violent crime than one you don’t want to ban?
The stats I’m finding are from the mid-90s, and it seems that assault weapons, making up 1.7% of privately-owned guns, are used in less than 1% of gun crimes.
Swirly music!
Mama got it right of course!!!!!
Shane-WOW:
loved your “Family Fued” song yesterday~!!!
Corn fritters?
I can’t believe how bold those pirates are being attacking another ship. Don’t they know that our gov’t has killed indiscriminantly before and could again?
from twitter
mmfa: Joe Scarborough ignores a Bush FBI report to claim that the Obama administration is stoking fear: http://bit.ly/Clo7a
188- then who would really suffer by banning them… look, I don’t want to ban all guns, I think it’s important people have the right to defend themselves… I just don’t see a need for people to have assult weapons… and my heart breaks every time I see another kid dead from some gangbanger down here in florida… what’s wrong with just having rifles and handguns? (or what ever other kinds there are) I wouldn’t see a need to people to have a cannon either… but I’m guess you’ll defend that too, right?
gross out!
employees at Domino’s Pizza captured on video trying to get fired:
http://www.goodasyou.org/good_as_you/2009/04/video-let-the-dominoes-appall.html
Yeah, I wonder what Rea Perlman has to say.
Are assault weapons good for anything other than killing a lot of people very quickly? And again, do you support any gun restrictions or requirements?
Umm Where’s Rhea Pearlman with her frying pan?
#191 – thanks Brian! — was way behind the news cycle… glad that Chris ran it!!!
15. First Thing: Kill All the Boomers
Nyuk nyuk!
Mel- aren’t you in florida as well??? back me up here on how often these dead kids are plastered all over the news…
the 405 in CT …. there is no 405 in CT
#200
brilliant work. you must have a little muse-faerie on your shoulder giving you ideas all the time?
Buscemi talks about his dreams in 140 characters. Often hilariously.
Regarding the right wing fellow who called this morning… I believe his comments can be better summed up thusly: “I’m rubber, you’re glue. Everything you say bounces off of me and sticks to you.”
#195, how about the several million owners who aren’t doing anything wrong? How about the people who get killed from pistols because you addressed legislative efforts at irrational fears, rather than good policy, and end up with a pro-Republican backlash in purple states?
It’s clear that you want them banned because they scare you, not because they present a real danger. So is it then fair for righties to ban everything that irrationally frightens them?
Also, cannons are not “arms” in Constitutional language, and aren’t protected.
Let me guess, you think the “assault weapons” ban addressed full auto weapons, right?
I call them is nit-twits.
delete “is” my bad.
#198, are we legislating intent, now?
I’ve put thousands of rounds through my two assault rifles. At no point has either been pointed at a person. If actual use is any guide, the overwhelming use of every gun in this country is to put holes in paper at long distances. And it’s fun as hell.
oh Chris Scilliza(sP) decided to live tweet the presidents new conference Monday … and was so annoying he lost followers (including me) He needs to take live twittering lessons from Ana Marie Cox
#205 – nah – I just drink a lot
Sarah Plain – Mariska Hargitay
214 – Mariska? I don’t see it
The part of Sarah Palin was played by Gilbert Gottfried
I dunno. Many of the bubbas I see bristling with the “assault style” weapons are filing on them to make them full auto. Something about an extension to an inadequate penis, as far as I can tell. They seem a bit insecure about several things, and are often convinced that the “liberals” are to blame for all their own problems and shortcomings. Assault style weapons are a convenient binky. If you don’t like it, talk to the gun.
Don’t get me wrong, I like guns and would like to own many interesting ones, including handguns, if I had a lot of money. That is, I understand interest and enjoyment of guns and shooting and hunting. At this stage of my life, however, I’ve moved beyond, if I had a lot of money I would donate to my podiatrist so he could spend it on the clinic he is expanding in Guatemala and visits every 3 months.
I would think it applies to semi and fully automatice weapons… if it included shot guns or hunting rifles, I wouldn’t support it… it’s not a matter of them scaring me… it’s a matter of practicality… what does a regular civilian need that? Or hey, if they want them so damn bad, what’s wrong with licensing like Hartmann suggests… I would support any effor to keep ANY weapons out of the hands of criminals (outside of a complete ban anyhow… but I’m not ignorant… I know that it would be nearly impossible to get all the illegal guns off the street…
But why does someone need an ak-47 unless they are planning mass murder… if you simply wanted to shoot one, couldn’t they make it possible to rent it?
15. Dear Conservatives, We’re Sorry You’re So Craz
Steve_Buscemi: never leaves house w/out: turtle toilet seat,cheese wheel hat,7 Habits of Highly Effective People,electric fly swatter,& baby komodo dragon.
211- I’m also a gun owner- I have a taurus pt 9ll 9mm … and I also enjoy going to the range… but I still support the automatics being off the street (it’s just the logisitics part I’m not sure how they would pull it off)
#211, I should also add that neither of my rifles meet the definition of an “assault weapon” under the ban – notably because one has no bayonet lug, and has a welded and pinned muzzle brake in the place of the threaded flash suppressor, but is otherwise identical to a gun that fell under the ban.
This is the very examplar of stupid, emotion-driven legislation. Meanwhile, nitwits with semi-auto Uzis show up at the range with a weapon that can fire as quickly, but can be tucked under a coat or under a car seat.
#221, automatics have been banned since the 1930s. Please do inform yourself.
#217, that filing is 1) a felony, and 2) breaks the gun.
automatice = automatic (obviously)
RWNJs are definitely out in force today. Idjits!
203 I’m actually in Ohio, but I’ve seen the news out of FL and Cali about the use of these weapons by gangs. I believe our local laws prohibit the weapons here. I, too, am not against guns in general, but I think there’s nothing wrong with common sense about something SO dangerous!
#226 Okay, he was punkin’ us!
228 — yeah, it was parody.
I hope Blagojevich gets eaten by Audrey II
Gun history is not a hobby of mine— but I’m informed enough to know it’s not difficult to turn a semi-auto into fully-auto- and I’m guessing the legality part is not a big concern to people who file the pin… I know the logisitics will make the ban nearly useless… but we have to start somewhere
211 It’s not about legislating intent – it’s about having some sense when it comes to deadly weapons. It’s harder to get a driver’s license than a gun and yes, I know you don’t have a RIGHT to drive, but that’s beside the point. Just as you feel people are overly emotional about guns, I feel that gun people are overly emotional about any talk of how to manage the very real threat.
#227, again, if they’re so dangerous, then why are they half as likely to be used in a crime as other guns? The danger isn’t real, it’s emotional.
The fact that anyone thinks we’re talking about full-autos, which have been incredibly tightly restricted since the 1930s, and banned entirely since the ’80s, shows this is not a rational policy debate.
Besides, aren’t we liberals? We’re supposed to think societal ills are caused by inequality and privation, not by people being tempted to sin by allowing inanimate objects to be legal. That’s the social conservative schtick.
#228 – The caller sounded like Wil Arnett. I wouldn’t put it past him to call in.
I think the gun makers work very hard to keep their product from any real debate.
well said mel!
#216 – remember when Gilbert played Carmilla Parker Boles before the wedding (on Late night)? Hysterical!
#234 – Wil = Will
#237 – Gilbert’s been the Octomom on The Tonight Show several times. Funny stuff.
Inspired by their earlier remarks, I googled both Chris and Steph and didn’t find much that I would consider offensive on the first few pages. One new thing was seeing the unabridged and very infamous letter from “Sock”. Wow, what a wordsmith!
233- that’s easy for you to say, because obviously you’re an intelligent, responsible gun owner… these laws are not suggested for people like you… they’re for the ones who aren’t responsible… that’s why I personally support the liscening argument…that and I just don’t see how they’d get the guns out there off the street… but could possibly put in a policy stating the gun is takin away if not liscened properly..
233 Come on now – not a single person has said they believe people are tempted to commit crimes because they own a gun. False argument. You’re ignoring the fact that people who are dangerous/crazy/whatever will find it much easier to kill large numbers of people with assault weapons. You’re not using common sense and making it IMPOSSIBLE to debate this topic. I have this experience EVERYTIME this topic comes up.
Danielle – they want an AK47/look alike because it’s COOL. Admired by all like minded people who think an AK47 is cool. And some kind of statement against all the wimpy liberal limp wristed faggots who aren’t manly enough to understand and want to take away 2nd Amendment rights.. Shooting an automatic weapon definitely makes one feel empowered.
You need to be a male (and immature helps) to fully understand it. Suspect logic, common sense, and let the big dog of EGO eat.
Many are also convinced that if everyone carried a concealed weapon, bad ass 250 lb men who try to rape 98 lb women in the parking lots would cease to exist, overnight.
And another prime fantasy paranoia is that they might need to “refresh the Tree of Liberty” will some blood. You know, stock up the Exploder with plenty of beer, chips, burgers, ammo and guns, then head for the hills and be modern Minute Men. And “take back” the country from the bad old Government.
What pisses me off about many of these gun freaks is that they may actually get our (common citizens) guns banned by being such idiots.
JMNSHO, I got my first rifle at age 12.
#231, it’s a lot more difficult than you think; it’s also already a serious crime, and not one you can conceal once done. And as I said, it effectively breaks the trigger group. It’s more than filing the pin, it’s damaging the sear.
#232 sense with deadly weapons? Then address the ones actually used in crimes: require licensing, training, and background checks for pistols. I’m all for that sort of thing, as long as any fees associated with it don’t make it prohibitive for lower income levels. That is the rational policy solution.
Addressing poverty and prohibition in high-violence neighborhoods, which is the actual cause of violence, not the weapons used, that’s a rational policy solution.
Banning new manufacture of a class of weapon of which at least 4 million (as of the ’90s) will remain grandfathered in private hands, which are less used in crime than average, and which are constitutionally protected, because they’re angular, scary, and used in action movies is irrational policy.
crickets for hannity
god what an ass he is
hannity that is
#241, there are millions of assault rifles in private hands. They are responsible for less than a percent of gun crimes. Seems to me that the overwhelming majority are responsible.
I would be happy to be licensed and background-checked to prove it.
245 — that would be a fine activist group.
http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23teabagging
#243, shooting an automatic weapon is very hard, because you have to be a class III licensee, or know one, and find a range that caters to class III licenses.
The fact that you’re harping on autos shows you don’t know what you’re talking about. I repeat: effectively banned since the 1930s.
love that Fox Sting
Teabags, hummers and carpet munchers.
MI-LLI-ONS!!!
#242, people who are dangerous will cry “Fire” in a crowded theater. Stapling shut the mouths of theater-goers is what is called “prior restraint”, and that’s legal.
Banning a type of weapon that might be dangerous (even though it’s used in crimes half as frequently as you’d think from the number in circulation) is prior restraint.
250 — “nabokovsnose: After I saw the girth of that stimulus I decided to “Go Galt” with my partner, which naturally began with a right old #teabagging. #teaparty”
Hahahahahahaha
“go galt” so that’s what the kinds are calling it these days…
#255 “prior restraint”, and that’s ILlegal.
“People at the ground chuck level…”
This just in:
Tea Baggers inadvertantly helping Obama’s economic recovery by massive teabag purchases?
Peter- it’s not always necessary to file a pin- I have a friend who has one of these ridiculous guns… he put a spring in upside down after cleaning and the next time he went to the range… to his suprise… he had a fully auto ak… and he’s responsible.. it was just an accident.. I just refuse to understand the need for these weapons…
“Many are also convinced that if everyone carried a concealed weapon, bad ass 250 lb men who try to rape 98 lb women in the parking lots would cease to exist, overnight. ”
Which is true ONLY if the 98 lb women knows how to handle the weapon AND is willing to take a life. As my hubby says, a gun is only good for protection if you’re willing to use it. For many people, that’s not an option.
“What pisses me off about many of these gun freaks is that they may actually get our (common citizens) guns banned by being such idiots.”
Most laws are based on the lowest common denominator. Maybe some laws that require training, licensing etc would help, but most gun folks won’t consider it in my experience.
Tea baggers for Obama!
More power to them, ProducerChris? Yeah, 10,000 volts maybe!
#259 Lipton and Tetley stock skyrockets!
148 “I would be happy to be licensed and background-checked to prove it.”
I think this should be required for most, if not all weapons. I have a close friend whose mother was killed thru gun volence so this issue is personal to me.
JOhn Rich — half of “Big & Rich” how apropriate is THAT name?
‘ullo! just enjoying a cup of tea here!
from twitter
bbcworld: A French warship captures 11 Somali pirates off Kenya, amid calls for greater international resolve in dealing.. http://tinyurl.com/clomv7
from twitter
radioguychris: How meta was that? We were talking about twittering, and now I’m twittering about talking about twittering. I think I need to lay down now.
******
makes you dizzy, doesn’t it!
268 — but the msm keeps repeating how impossible it is to do anything… wtf?
I also like Seder’s mention that these ships should be convoying w/ armed escort.
#260, you keep talking about need. What do you need with the right to worship false gods? That’s dangerous, it leads to damnation! What do you need with birth control? That just leads to evil behavior and dead babies!
Rights and freedoms are not, by definition, what you need. Your rationale to ban precisely the types of weapons envisioned by the founders (infantryman’s arms) can be turned immediately around to ban any number of things we liberals cherish as freedoms.
You’re talking like a social conservative. Try talking like a liberal: let’s address poverty and prohibition, let’s break the gangs’ financial backs and put jobs into poor crime-ridden communities.
#265, and magically, we have found common ground. Behold the healing power of the SMS. Group hug!
248: So, I don’t think you are advocating banning handguns or anything, right? (I’m certainly not.). It still comes down to the fact that law abiding citizens like you and I, if we did indeed register our guns (and get sample shots, etc.) and considerable expense/aggravation/inconvenience to the owners. Meanwhile all the criminals will ignore the law, in general.
I don’t see licensing as the answer, although I’m a big advocate of hunter and weapons safety training. Many years ago, when I was in high school, back when the NRA was primarily a hunter safety organization, I was a member. That was before it became a rabid right wing political tool..
We still have to ask ourselves why this country has so many hundreds even thousands of handgun deaths, compared to the rest of the planet. Notice that our neighbors in Canada have at least as many guns as we do, per capita, and a tiny smidgen of gun deaths, per capita.
I admit my bias, a strong one, against ANY and ALL things right wing. So that tends to cloud my purity and absolute objectivity. But I don’t see any real answers coming from Republicans and particularly their extreme right wing positions on everything.
“let’s address poverty and prohibition, let’s break the gangs’ financial backs and put jobs into poor crime-ridden communities.”
I agree that we need to deal with the consequences of poverty, but the problems are big and death is final.
yes – as Steph works on booking…
wow, those are real celebrities
caller, there was plenty of teabaggin’ in the
Bush white house, James Guckert-Gannon!
from twittter
dheerajchand: Republican legislator slips and equates Latinos to dogs….telling. http://bit.ly/fbqOQ
Stephanie:
comedians use blood from a rubber chicken…
I carry a gun. Or actually I’ve got the legal
right to carry one. And I’m despite all appearances
a law abiding citizen. Disarming me and people like
me does no good, plus it’s wrong.
Video game tea-bagging? Oh dear!
OH YES CHRIS YOU DO
that’s how my 13 yo knew what teabagging was BEFORE I knew what it was
I don’t need to carry a gun. my hands and feet are registered with the FBI as lethal weapons, just like Deputy Sherriff Barney Fife.
“Meanwhile all the criminals will ignore the law, in general”
By this logic, why have any laws? With registration, we can make laws for illegal guns stronger and motivate people to follow the law that way. It’s possible that registration and the like could get more guns off the street and make gun owners more responsible for their deadly weapons.
I would hope to think that anyone on this blog is likely mature enough to agree to disagree… it’s my personal opinion on the assult weapons… I’m entitled to it as much as your entitled to yours… and if that’s thinking like a right winger I’d be highly suprised…
Yer werd o’the day:
a chicken bladder full of blood used in a con game
to convince a mark that someone is bleeding or dying
is called a cacklebladder. I think it’s also a great
term for a repug moron asshole talk show scum such
as Flush, O’Biley, Savage Weiner of Jackass Hannity.
280 I have no problem with that.
) Sadly, everyone is not as responsible as you!
I actually never carry the gun. Gets in the way of my drinking.
LOL..288… that damn CWL bar / alcohol rule…
Shara Pal’in’s werd salad… Steph you are
getting close to saying “tossing salad” like
you did yesterday and almost got the FCC on ya…
and fuzzy dice…
I hope all these teabaggers get brown stains!
“There’s no slide whistle in television!” Excellent, ProderChris! :O
Maddy glad you’re a lethal weapon…
293 — nobody told Benny Hill…
Sparta!
292 Mel… reminds me of the story I was
gonna write “George Bush and his Brown Shorts”…
tea bagging must always be commando…
Behold, Glorious Sparta!
…Or Commando Eagle music.
Teabag your Sparta!
Everybody Sparta Now!
SPARTA
had to ‘splain teabaggin’ to my girl yestidday.
She was not amused.
Go shaf! You got the sparta!
from twitter
pandagon: FYI: McDonald’s sweet tea is a dollar, any size. But it’s brewed sans bag, which makes it terror juice.
bow to Shaf… AGAIN!
Bravo.
The jokes are endless! And we thought George Bush was the gift that kept on giving and now we find that all right-wingers are this way!
do you think they planned that name mispronunciation… too funny!
SHAF! You represent the great Spartan virtues!
#274, and won’t go away with a ban.
#284, licensing and registration would help keep guns out of the hands of the unbalanced, and would go a long way toward reducing accidental deaths from poor and insecure storage.
My problem with training and licensing is that it has to be free, or a token fee, or indexed to income. Government-levied user fees on individuals are a ALWAYS (no matter the topic) a way for the middle class to exclude working and poor people from their freedoms.
Shaf! Spartiest of Sparta!
this quote is making it’s rounds on twitter (being rt all over the place)
“Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society.” –Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr
Years ago I wrote an essay about Bush and Cheney being
avid ball-sackers. They claimed it keeps them Up for
any world-governance emergency they might have to face.
I think it’s still out here:
http://www.thespoof.com/news/spoof.cfm?headline=s2i32861
It wasn’t the best thing I ever wrote but I think I
was at least ahead of my time with it, considering
the teabagging story today. Czech it out if you like.
here’s hoping today’s Tea Bagging events are seen as the weak, pathetic Fox News sponsered astro-turf protests that they are.
I’ve never carried a gun, except to go hunting. And my guns are not even loaded (except my 12 gauge shotgun, for home protection). However, for years I carried an axe handle in my car’s trunk, which I’m sure wouldn’t have stood a chance against any sort of gun. But it was my binky. Never used it, just knew it was there.
By the by, my TV is on mute and am watching the closed captioning with Faux News in the background. No massive tea bagging crowds yet, no demonstrations..
Of course, we *knew* “mainstream media” wouldn’t cover them, but Fox News doesn’t seem to be covering the tea parties very well either.
shaf – My belated huzzahs for your great Lipton-flavored Sparta win.
310 I agree about free training or minimal fee. Of course, anything run by the gov’t is bound to look like the DMV, but that’s not an excuse to let it go. Glad to see we have some common ground! I wonder if the right-wing would allow welfare money to go for training and reg for guns? What a dilema for them! LOL
310- I agree with the fee for the license, but I think they need to do a better background check regarding mental health… I work in insurance, so I know this is protected health info that other people aren’t entitled to. Unless you commit a crime due to the mental health issue, there’s not a record of it on your background check… how they fix this… I have no idea… but I think it needs to be addressed..
Wow… did we all agree on one point… I swear this show is just magical!
It’s crazy, an exoskellington:
https://mail.google.com/mail/?hl=en&zx=bhgk9t4h27fn&shva=1#inbox/120a85f2be068afb
next every dumb yuppie will hafta have one
I’m really looking forward to the Polis interview. Did anyone go to the link Chris provided?
318 Wouldn’t it be cool if they could check your mental state like they check your eyes at the DMV? Hmmmm…on second thought that might not be cool! Crazy is relative sometimes.
#317, the only problems I have with the DMV are the REALLY long lines. I’ve never found DMV people to be surly, as per their reputation. Smile, and they smile back!
Me personally wants to kill an elephant and send the head to Micheal Steel’s house as a warning that America does not tolerate violence or stupidity of any kind.
#315
that’s what I was hoping for:
Neal Cavuto and a crowd of …nearly –…one, two, three, four– …tens …of people waving teabags!
#314 What I’d like to see is the Faux News coverage (with the expected tight shots on the crowd) compared to a wide shot by other media. I’m guessing the turnout will be a whole lot smaller than it appears on Fox.
#319 – [gling!]
Yay, shaf.
You are SPARTAMAN!
#319 Yay! it is amazing!
319 {{{{GROUP HUG}}}} Now we sing kumbaya, right?
We also have to understand that it’s not the job of the law to eliminate all risk.
Death is a risk of life. We can reasonably minimize it: but going after the apparently dangerous than the actually dangerous is the wrong way to do it.
and yes I am completely sane.
Hello and good morning!
scooter I got your thing into a tweet!
“I like this observation: Somalia; a conservative utopia! unlmt guns, uncontrld capitalism, bathtub size gov, no taxes. #teabagging
#323 let McDonald’s run the DMV and you’d be in and
out in 2 minutes. In Michigan the Secretary of State’s
office is horribly slow, surly and… anyway no fun.
Someone’s singin’ Lord!
Koom Baah YaaaH!
Greetings Sarah! The room just lit up.
#337 – As in brighter, not in toking.
from twitter
rkref: Not sure which is biggest fail, this Lafayette Park #teabagging party, Twitpic, or my dying iPhone battery. http://twitpic.com/3cm40
#324
you can kill a stuffed animal without offending Toys R Us, but leave the real elephants alone. they never signed off on being the Repugnicans’ mascot.
tsk, tsk!
337-aaaahhhhhhhhh
How goes it?
Thanks for my gling shan-o! I needed that today!
#334 – You got Scooter’s thing into a tweet? Ouch!
#334 great one Cindy. Cheney tried to create it in Iraq
too: the Wild West complete with no government, huge
profits for Robber Barons, gunslingers, genocide, murder,
guns everywhere… fun fun fun!
#340 Blame Thomas Nast:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:NastRepublicanElephant.jpg
A new Rovian conspiracy for you. Fox in promoting psuedo news tea-bagging, like rock stations promote rock concerts, is trying to create a straw man for claiming liberal media bias. This non-newsworthy event, when not covered by the real news media, will be claimed to be a prime example where (non-fox) news outlets are liberally biased, filtering news, so you have to get your real new from on other place than fox. Watch for it. This is a setup.
–John
“the only thing different between a madman and I is
that I am not mad” — Dali, me
#341 Sarah – Still babysitting my fuzzy grandcritter. She tore up her bed yesterday when she didn’t get her way. The terrible twos are ruff!
Oh God, Fox is interviewing an older man with a unkept walrus style moustache, and teabags hanging from both sides of his glasses..
The “crowd” (no wide shots of it) looks like about 25-30 people.
it must be difficult to be a anchor on Faux, having to smile like you didn’t just show a whole bunch of ugly lumpy-looking maroons @ Tea-Bagging Fest ’09
prohibition was the worst idea ever.
who greenlighted THAT? It made the maf
rich and powerful. Then the maf and the
gov’t became partners during WWII. Then
the scumbag Yalie blue-blood swells like
the Bushies made a partnership between
the OSS and the Nazis. So now we have the
maf, the nazis and the cia dealing dope
in the cities, assassinating political
leaders, making us hated around the world,
manipulating the public, blah blah blah
no wonder we’re fucked. Just google
nazis cia mafia.
from twitter
ursulas: RT @charyl: rt @rkref #teabagging Lafayette Park Note woman holding sign: “Watch FOX News” w/ official logo: http://twitpic.com/3cmed
As for Fox, you have to admit that some of their female anchors are gorgeous. Look at Megan Kelly, a beauty, but definitely a right wing bitch in certain circumstances.
Out on the street, the Fox crowd is butt ugly.
It’s hard to get Americans out to protest PERIOD, let alone this obscene-sounding, FAKE protest.
#346 one term for fake news stories is
“Video news releases or VNRs”
raw evil
Fox lying… I’m shocked… shocked I tell you!
348-Are you taking care of yourself, too? I’m chuckling at the thought of the terrible twos happening twice in a lifetime. You’ve got to laugh, or you’ll go crazy.
caller:
the government did order a fleet of hybrids and green vehicle…
Only a Fox News stooge would show up for the tea parties..
er, “vehicles” …above ^
Caller, Repugs are NOT interested in tax fairness. Never have been, never will be.
I have a 2-year-old also, but he’s not at all terrible for some reason. My first son was a nightmare at 2 – tantrums, 20 minute meltdowns over nothing…of course he had just got a new little bro, too. Hate to mention it, but 3 was worse!
340..Not if your related to the Godfather
Roll back the Reagan tax cut to really screw with the rethugs.
Must leave soon for more dr’s appts… I wrote into the show… if someone hears the “Official-militant-left-wing-drunkin-Irish-Family” letter… let me know tomorrow please… I’ll grab it off the podcast… I need some extra smiles about now!
I hate to admit it, but I’m curious to see what the turnout will be for the Fox parties.
#357 – I’m doing just fine – dancing on teabags.
361 Depends on your definition of fair. I know enough of them personally to know that they believe they earned all their money and it’s FAIR for them to keep it.
Now what color is the alert for Tea Bag Terrorists?
#351, prohibition was the ugly side of universal suffrage, the prohibition of alcohol being a major plank in the suffragist movement.
The argument was that alcohol made men abuse their wives and neglect their children.
Proof that no group of people in the electorate is immune to bad ideas.
Newt go on and run you moron!
Kill the rethugs once and for all
#369 Brown or black (the color of tea) I suppose.
Don’t encourage Sarah Palin, mama.
Bo Obama has little white boots. Very cute.
speaking of crazy!
check out my crazy 8s card trick video, and let me know what ye thinketh of it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qc0xGU2pxQ
370-Good points.
364 I mortified a rethug friend by suggesting that Repubs only love Reagan because he gave rich people big taz cuts. LOL
365 Good luck! We’ll be listening for your stuff!
366 Me, too! I hope it’s either pathetic (most likely) or the nutjobs come out of the woodwork. Of course then they’ll just say it was libs in disguise conspiring against them. LOL
#370 Also proof that any good idea (i.e. moderation of alcohol) can be taken to extremes.
370 I think it was complicated as well by the fact that women at the time had few rights prior to getting the vote. They couldn’t own property and their money belonged to hubby (who just might drink it away!). Although I don’t think prohibition was the solution, alcohol still has a bad effect on our society.
366
Don’t trust Faux to tell you the truth.
They’ll say the turnout was HUGE. HUUUUUUUUGE!
Larry Kudlow just gave tip of the hat to Rick Santelli for his role in today’s teabagging protests.
Ya know, our hate of Faux News here is well deserved, but in my opinion CNBC had some of the worst people on earth hosting their shows day after effin day. They really do hate America, I think.
#378, or that social problems are best treated by addressing underlying causes, rather than criminalizing a symptom.
I have to watch the Ed Show on the internet. I am usually working or sleeping around 5 PM.
377–should we prepare the insulting mass e-mail to Fox?
have you heard that there’s a group in Mass. wanting to crush the liberals?
it’s called the Boston Pancake group
375-Brian, you were cheating. I know you were. Who was asleep behind you?
I’m finally eating the lunch I’ve been bringing to work with me since last Tuesday.
Good thing it’s microwavable soup.
<3 ED!
the temperance movement was a horrible,
horrible mistake. And it provides ammo
for the creepy guys who say women shouldn’t
have been given the right to vote, or drive,
smoke, own property, leave the house unescorted…
Jim’s it’s likely because those tea baggers are unemployed. You know, the ones who vote against their best interests.
#379, property law prior to suffrage was more complicated than that, and varied from state to state – some operated under community property laws and common law, others under Napoleonic law. In all cases, the wife was more invested in the property than you suggest, at least in legal theory.
#385
that’s Thomas R. Kittington the 3rd.
he’s a huggable teddy bear of a cat.
The Obamas are adorable and Bo is a good addition! I can’t help but be interested despite myself!
#381 Agreed. With their softball questions to corporate officers and general lack of investigative reporting, CNBC were accomplices in a speculative market run amuck.
Spread out the GOP Budget so Bo has something to whiz on.
Al Carone
Dan Mitrione
Michael Aquino
how can we be the good guys with guys like
this on our side?
389
Yeah, a tax cut is EFFING USELESS if you’re unemployed.
I understand why some people don’t think that Bo is newsworthy, but look at it this way: people love their animal companions…
391-Thomas R. Kittington the 3rd will tell me how you accomplished the card tricks. Cats are known for their honesty.
388–I’m actually thinking of owning a shotgun at my home for self-defense. All of my neighbors are right-wing Confederates, and they have been bugging me lately with my Obama bumper stickers. I am not afraid of actually defending myself and with this increased rhetorical hate that Fox produces. I am taking whatever means necessary of protecting myself.
#396 The Ultimate Republican Tax Cut: if you don’t work, you don’t pay taxes (except property taxes, sales tax, etc.)
399-Adam, keeping a firearm in your home endangers you and yours more than THEM.
My question of the day:
Does NASA think naming the space station treadmill Colbert will make the astronauts more hot to trot?
#398
first you have to pretend to open a can of fancy wet kitty food, then he’ll do what ever you say…
shāf got Sparta AND 400! You’re amazing.
Damn it’s nice to have a President I can call mine.
First one since Johnny Kennedy got his head very
publically blowed off when he tried to renege on
that Deal he made with the devil… but Barack Obama
is my President.
hey Norm Coleman go away!
400
Well, if you’re unemployed for a long period of time, you likely don’t have to worry about paying property taxes….
#397, I love my animal companions to death. I love LOLcats. I like some of my friends’ cats. I love my brother’s Siberian Huskies.
I don’t give one rats anus what pets a political or other celebrity has. Why? Because I will never interact with them in any way. I get no vicarious thrill from a stranger’s pet, baby, or spouse. Nor am I informed by it.
Hence, not newsworthy.
390 While I agree that the laws were complicted because they often varied by state, you’re assuming everyone was a wife it appears. Women were still often without rights to property on their own, unable to divorce and of course, without representation prior to sufferage. Women were 2nd class citizens with only the rights given to them by fathers/husbands prior to sufferage and the fight goes on even today for truly equal rights…
402-hee, hee
Great tax quote from It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.
Love the drop! It’s Johnathan Winters from It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.
#411 Jinx, you owe me a Coke, demdame!
Ooo. Cavuto on Fox, and they finally showed a wider shot of what looks like maybe 50-70 people, holding up signs. I’ve no doubt this is absolutely the BIGGEST such event they can find.
Cavuto explaining why the noble wealthy cannot pay more taxes to solve the problem.
Oh, Peter, you ol’ Scrooge. It’s news to me! (Get it?)
#398 Sarah, your cat is an inherently deceitful animal.
You are simply showing signs of Stockholm Syndrome.
That cat is plotting to kill you. They all are. Just
as soon as they figure out the mystery of the opposable
thumb. They hate us for that.
#409, again, depends on the state. It was complicated. You know, like a Facebook relationship status.
399–what’s to stop them with their firearms that they already have?
DIAF Normie.
And take that crazy biatch Michelle with you.
399 Are you willing to kill someone? If not, the gun is no good to you!
#404
I wasn’t even trying (for the #400).
418–actually 401
Anyone know why Al Franken is so quiet about this?
Is he saving his credibility for when he finally declares himself the victor?
#413 – Coke, Cherry Coke, Coke Zero, Coke Solent Green?
#408
the news cycle will shed the puppy story soon (until he poops at an inappropriate time).
#407 Sad, but true.
i’m not going to use it…just when I have to.
#424 I’d like a Cavity-control Coke please.
After years of owning cats, I finally got a dog.
I have to say, the dog is much sneakier. A lot.
Bagram Airbase = Obama’s Guantanamo
hee hee “Coke Soylent Green”… or in Futurama…
“Soylent Cola” — “how’s it taste?” “depends on
the person”
I live alone so I don’t have anyone else
#427, indeed. Being prepared to do something is not the same as wanting to do something. Indeed, one can be prepared to do what one prays one never has to do.
#428 Or rather, Tartar-control Coke. Just went to the dentist today.
Is capt already gone?
#431 Mark – oops. Solent = Soylent. Love that Futurama quote.
it’s called “cert. denied”
Steve,
Obama didn’t create Bagrahm! Why are you pinning it on him? It was a Bush-Rumsfeld creation.
#435 – capt had an errand to run.
Better a senator from SNL than a president from Bedtime for Bonzo
Damn, every time I hear Sean Hannity, I want to slap him.
Thanks, demdame.
433–I don’t like guns period, but with the latest rounds of hate speech Glenn Beck and others in Fox that cry “REVOLUTION!” all the time, the need to know how to defend myself from domestic terrorism is in order.
How much popcorn is Steph capable of eating?
440-Well said!
#441 My guess is, most of us here would like to line-up (a la Airplane!) to slap Hannity.
That mash-up of Senator Franken’s little speech and O’Reilly’s tirade made me spit out my coffee!
I don’t live in the city either so I don’t have the immediate protection from the police.
#438, Obama’s DoJ have not merely failed to disavow the Bush policy on Bagram, they have actively and affirmatively endorsed them. It’s not an issue of “give him time to fix it”, his DoJ is arguing in court to make it worse.
We have to hold his administration responsible for that; otherwise we’re the same kind of sycophant that supported Bush.
433 I suppose, but a gun for protection only works if you’re willing to use it if necessary. If you brandish it, you have to be prepared to use it since it ups the ante. I personally don’t think I could take a life under any circumstances and w/2 small kids in the house, a gun is not an option for me.
443-I pray that you stay safe.
I gotta go folks. I’ll see ya’ll later.
#448, furthermore, it’s not the police’s job to prevent crimes; but rather to investigate them and restore order once they’ve occurred.
451–I hope Obama delivers more blows to the Republicans. I sense they won’t go away quietly.
shaf – Did you see my comments yesterday for Aidan 5? Showed it to hubby last night. He also thought it was well done. The whole thing, start to finish, was done in 48 hours?
Personally, I love Al Franken. He’s smart, funny, witty and clearly more people in Minnesota agree!
>> k to the g says:
>>Better a senator from SNL than a president from Bedtime for Bonzo
Did you hear Franken’s radio show? I was really impressed with Franken — he is smart, fair and insightful.
But, he doesn’t wear it on his sleeve like Thom Hartmann — so I think lots of people missed-it.
“protect and serve” seems to imply some responsibility to prevent crime.
I can’t wait to see/hear the interviews with the teabaggers today when asked exactly “why” they’re there. Either we’ll hear repeated talking points quoted verbatim from Beck, Hannity, Limbaugh, etc. or we’ll see a lot of vacant stares or gross examples of racism.
#450, yes, but brandishing while willing to use is frequently effective in getting someone to back off. The pumping action of a shotgun is a particularly distinct aural warning.
The claim “you’re at more risk in the house with a gun than without” is ultimately bogus, because it ignores the unquantifiable number of times a firearm is present, but not discharged, in a confrontation with a criminal or intruder.
Haven’t heard this bump in a WHILE
#458, ask a cop if preventing a crime is his job.
Yes, they will investigate suspicious behavior when they see it, but reality is reality: police don’t because they can’t. At best, their presence acts as a deterant.
>> dam-Hussein
>> 451–I hope Obama delivers more blows to the Republicans. I sense they won’t go away quietly.
Me too. These conservative need to be laughed at stripped of their media legitimacy.
Barak might be the right guy to do that.
Ironically, we liberals also need to give credibility to a MATURE AND THOUGHTFUL conservative movement. Barak is the guy for that, too.
#455 I caught up on the LB after my meetings. Thanks, for the kind comments.
Yes, our team received its genre (sci-fi) on Friday (8/14/08) at 7:00 PM and had until Sunday at 7:00 PM to write, shoot, edit, score and package the DVD for presentation. It was challenging and very fun!
457. Agreed. Plus he really wants to serve the people of Minnesota, not further himself.
shāf, you rock.
Got to go everybody. Have a great one.
The Bush people watched Fox because they wanted to make sure they got the memo and they didn’t care about other opinions.
>> mel7190 says:
>> Personally, I love Al Franken. He’s smart, funny, witty and clearly more people in Minnesota agree!
I have roots in MN and, I have to say, Franken isn’t a perfect fit, either.
Remember Minnesotans also gives us some of the least-serious, most crazy candidates ever.
Can’t we blame the GOP for the pirate problems since they were so against the mission in Somalia and kept attacking the Prez during that war like the unAmerican a-holes they are….
Bye Sarah. Happy huff-a-lump day!
I have a major problem with Obama and not going after the war criminals in the Bush Administration. He seems to be sweeping this under the rug; I suspect there are many people on both sides of the aisle in Congress and the Senate, as well as the CIA who don’t want the status quo (ignore it) disturbed.
The other major problem I have is not putting some regs on the credit card companies, who are gouging like hell right now.
Obama is doing a great job on many fronts, but not these two issues.
#463, I think that the trend is irreversible. I think what will happen is that the Dem party will split into a corporatist and populist wing within the next decade, and the Republican party will become spoilers like the Greens do for the Dems.
#438: I’m pinning it on him because he is making the argument in court papers that the people held there have no habeas rights, exactly as Bush did with Gitmo. Obama’s justice department made that argument last Friday. I know Obama didn’t create it, but adopting Bush’s argument is just as bad when he simply could have not argued that.
I can’t help but politely smile and applaud at the teabaggers like a proud parent cheering for their 4-year old in the school play… They try so very hard…
They don’t understand what they’re doing, but they try…
#473, when it comes to what his DoJ argues in court, the buck stops with Obama.
licked the cheese, lol
471 I agree. I know we have big problems, but I think a Prez pissing on the Constitution is a big problem, too.
i bet he CUT the cheese! Oh snap!
My mom used to make grilled cheese sandwiches with Velveeta. It. Was. Awesome!
mel7190,
Good point! I had forgotten that the conservatives were DEADSET against us being involved in Somalia.
I also like to remind my conservative friends that they sided with Al Qaeda when Clinton bombed them.
They did, they really did! You can Google it.
US intellegence said it was a weapons factory. Al Qaelda said it was an aspirin factory. The conservatives sided with Al Qaeda.
I was an Obama supporter, and I despised Bush. However, I will call anyone out on doing the wrong thing…I don’t care who they are. The constitution is paramount to me.
I see Bo poop on Ebay any minute now
Grilled Velveeta with Cheetos sandwiches. Get the smooth and the crunchy fake cheese goodness.
I have a rescue dog. I rescued it from the evil pet shop!
#478, cue the Kelsey Grammer “Irritable Bowel Syndrome” spot.
Preferably redone with Jim’s voice, since he does a MUCH better Kelsey Grammer than whoever did that one.
i sure dont need a gun. you cant drive 5 blocks here where i live without seeing some young highball cop goosing his ford. honestly, Minnesota is already damn near a police state. i bet if i dial 911, there at my house in like seconds, instead of minutes
480 I’ve been listening for that point on radio and tv and haven’t heard it brought up yet. Of course, right-wingers won’t bring it up because they don’t remember anything Fox didn’t say yesterday…
Feh, only honest-to-god sharp cheddar will do on my grilled cheese.
I need a bigger stock pot; I made cheese once a couple years ago, white cheddar aged 6 months, it was easy (though my pot was barely big enough), and it was SOOOO GOOOOOD.
Great show, everybody!
Have a awesome day.
Scott, Al Franken had a good point about how the Democrats love their country like a parent cares about a teenager, while Republicans love their country like a little girl loves her mommy..
that’s a wrap?!
see (read/hear) yas tomorree.
*waves*
Have a great day, all!
Bye y’all. Ta-ta, tea-tea, slurp.
mel7190,
Yeah, they still deny that they sided with Al Qaeda but you can catch them in it, because they STILL will tell you that Clinton bombed an aspirin factory.
Then you say, “But American intelligence said it was a weapons factory. Al Qaeda said it was an aspirin factory. Whose side are you on?”
They fall for this one.
Ivan,
I hadn’t heard that quote about Franken. Funny! I’ll have to think about it, though. I love Franken for that.
Peace, out!
TTFN, bloggers, I love and respect you all, even you that I disagree with a little. I really like the breadth of the people here, you are all sharp and interestng, with a great sense of humor, common sense, and varied interests.
Don’t you ever change; have a great day, and hasta manana, gentes!
bye all
The biggest problem with taxes is that “non paycheck” earners can cheat the system so easily.
Dare I 500?
OMG, Shaf! Well-played.