LiveBlog for Thursday, May 21, 2009
• Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN) calls in at 6:05am Pacific to talk about the economy, torture, and the Gitmo controversy. Also, check out what Rep Ellison has to say on the Healthy Families Act here.
• Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-ND) calls in at 7:05am Pacific to talk about the economy, Gitmo, credit card relief, and other news of the day.
• Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) calls in at 7:30am Pacific to talk abou the economy and the current situations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
• Carol Leifer joins us in studio at 8:06am Pacific to promote her new book, “When You Lie About Your Age, The Terrorists Win.”
***AMERICAN IDOL SPOILER ALERT BELOW***
•President Obama today will try to take the reins on the debate over national security and rally support for his plan to shutter the military prison at Guantanamo Bay in what his administration is billing as a major address at 7:10am Pacific today. Former Vice President Cheney is expected to give an opposing argument today at 7:45am Pacific.
• Congress wrapped up sweeping credit card legislation yesterday that limits sudden hikes in interest rates, limits who can receive a card, and restricts how much time people are given to pay their bill. The bill now goes to President Obama, who is expected to sign it into law tomorrow.
• ***SPOILER ALERT!!!***After 100 million votes were cast, Arkansas college student Kris Allen is the new American Idol, beating out the more flamboyant Adam Lambert last night.
Tags: Adam Lambert, Barack Obama, Byron Dorgan, Carol Leifer, Credit Cards, Dick Cheney, Jerrold Nadler, Keith Ellison, Kris Allen
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Goooood morning all
Blasted allergy’s keeping me home again today. Another nasty nosebleed just after I woke up.
Why does Dick the dick deserve to get any airtime, unless it’s under oath and in front of a judge/jury?
#1 Agreed. Then only video I need to see of the Dark Lord now would be live on CourtTV.
Sorry, you are still suffering from the allergy’s. Hopefully, things will improve soon.
I won’t be able to stay long this morning. I have a 10:00 AM EDT meeting on west campus and will need to bug out by 9:40 to get there. Fortunately, I’ll have the Stephcast (gratuitous plug) to hear the rest of the big show.
More of the Man of Steele’s Greatest Hits…
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/05/20/steele-liberalism-kill/
In addition to his argument this past weekend that same-sex marriage would be a huge burden on small businesses, Michael Steele also declared that “liberalism will kill you“:
Wow, the hits just keep on coming!
Speaking of hits, the National Organization For Marriage (NOM) has released another ad. Their latest argument against same-sex marriage? It’ll confuse the children:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haVqcPfeqKI
Oh, won’t someone please think of the children!
#4, I can’t wait to see Colbert’s sendup.
Good morning, friends. I hope you are all well. Sorry to hear about the allergies.. have you tried honey? A couple of good friends got some relief eventually by using local honey, to build up a tolerance to the pollen (I suppose?)..
Switched over to MSNBC, and there’s Joe Scarborough, blathering about Obama giving everyone a “Father Knows Best” speech. I need to find an email address for that program so I can tell them that I switch over to watch Jerry Springer every morning from Joe. I can’t stand Joe, he’s such a prototypical Republican turd. The Republican Party is now simply a collection of rich spoilt brat kiddies..
Hey Ivan. Well, I’ve got a dr appt at 11 this morning (so I miss hour 3). My concern is that nosebleed #3 is worse than 1 or 2 and it happens during the holiday weekend.
Never heard of taking honey for an allergy. Wonder what that would do to blood sugar?
Hi Paul, sorry you don’t feel well. Allergies su*k!
and good morning shaf, Peter.
yea,#1,tr, wtf “expected to give an opposing argument” He has lost all credibility and his only relevance is legal.
Hi Ivan
Well, honey contains sugar, not sure what type. But small amounts of it can probably be tolerated. I assume you are talking about diabetes, which I have myself. I found that a white flour tortilla has far more effect on me than a spoon of sugar.. But you should ask your doctor. The key to honey is that it needs to be local, not the kind you find at the grocery. That way it will contain local pollens, at least that is the theory I’ve heard. BTW, the people this worked for did it for several months, it’s not an instant thing by any means.
#7 You might want to forgo the honey (because of the sugar) and take bee pollen instead:
http://www.nutritional-supplements-health-guide.com/bee-pollen-benefits.html
As noted about honey, bee pollen helps build resistance to allergies. Because bee pollen contains traces of the substances that can trigger allergic hay fever, some allergists prescribe it to help lower sensitivity to local plant pollens.
Hey Good Lookin’! How are you, Carol?
(sit back down, men, I wasn’t talking to you..)
good morning everyone …. sorry about your allergies and nose bleeds Paul … We’ve had a particularly bad allergy season already too
I have a slightly different interpretation of Limbaugh’s ‘WTF moment’ (as presented by Keith Olbermann last night: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/20/olbermann-wtf-moment-rush_n_206137.html )
Rush would never, never admit that he was being hurt by MSNBC. I think his ego is so gi-normous that he actually believes that he is responsible for what ratings MSNBC has (since they apparently talk about him so much). He challenged MSNBC (namely Keith) to not talk about him for 30 days, then see what happens to the ratings. It’s not his fear talking – it’s his bloated ego!
OH this is RICH… (asshat)
from twitter
SEIU_AndyStern: Gov Schwarzenegger to take “stimulus” money-cut 400,000 home care workers to $8.00 an hour defies all logic of Obama administration goals.
shaf- I think actually Keith knows that … he’s just poking Rush even more. He struck me that he was being a cat playing with his live mouse meal.
#16 Ahhh, I get it. Keith’s getting all Captain Chaos on Rush’s fat ass!
*Monty Burns voice* Excellent!
#15
Arnold has been a lack-luster governator. seems to me we should have voted for a QUALIFIED governor rather than a FAMOUS one.
I dunno. Look at Reagan – he was an actor, worse than Arnie, yet he was first knighted and then sainted by the illustrious Republican Party..
My poor English in the previous post was deliberate.. (just qualifying).
Morning Guys & Gals!
I’ve never watched “American Idol” but based on the clips I’ve seen that Kris guy deserved to win. Both guys will sign record deals, and but neither will sell any albums.
Morning, all. It is another nice day here in the DC area, and it is made potentially even nicer by the things that Obama had gotten done. More fuel efficient cars means less pollution and that will help clean up the air around here. So it’s great that he got all the parties together and got them to agree to tougher fuel economy standards.
It’s also nice to see that while every single guest will be talking about Gitmo and the distraction that has become, they will also be talking about the most important thing out there — the economy.
#21
these are the same people that wanted to keep Terry Schiavo alive. they seem to value braindead people more than the nurses and orderlies who take care of them.
I dunno. Look at Reagan – he was an actor, worse than Arnie, yet he was first knighted and then sainted by the illustrious Republican Party..
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And now the Democrats haven the green light to have a public celebration of President Iran-Contra’s 100th birthday.
Good Morning Bloggoes
I just want to say Happy Birthday SENATOR Franken!!! Get to work, why doncha? I know, I know there’s a pawlenty in his way – arrrrrgh1 Get outta the path of progress, timmy!
Cheers,
mfaye
#19 Seriously, Cal-ee-forn-ee-a is no better off financially than when Davis was governor. So the recall was all for naught.
On with the show!!!
It’s Miller Time y’alls!
#28
aye, I thought Davis would do better also.
appearently we need Superman, or Albert Einstein.
bee pollen is indeed a fine staple for all around function, as recommendede by no less than mohammed ali – as for the “sugar” in bee-barf, dont let it faze you. sugar got a bad rap from being introduced in refined form and in inordinate amounts within foods. – of course, nowadays, people actively search for sugar in the ingredients, as opposed to HFCS. – remember when “no cholesterol” fever hit? – you couldnt even buy auto parts or construction supplies without being assaulted by the thermonuclear blurbs that “THIS PRODUCT CONTAINS NO CHOLESTEROL!!!!!!!” – get yor local pollen and honey; both are fine – and it is indeed a gradual systemic correction, not an instant solution. – imagine how much healthier the “medical” paradigm would be with local hemp pollen available everywhere. humanity grew up over millenia in concert with hops and hemp (the only plants of their genus), and full compatability with the particulates of one’s environs is an a-priori state which need neer have been diluted. – to kick allergies in the ‘tocks, get pollinated, stay active, play in the dirt, and as david letterman so wisely said (number 1 in the top ten reasons why we are here): POLKA BABY, POLKA!
Newt, an “Empty clanging horn” Woo hoo!
A flimsy consumer protection bill coupled with legislation for losers who need to have guns in national parks.
It’s the economy, stupid! Good to hear that they’ll talk about it!
Hi All…. I thought Chris said that Carol Leifer was the BASSIST for the show….. I misheard BASIS for Elaine… not enough coffee…
oh yeah… HAPPY BDAY, AL!!!!!
there’s only one reason, maybe two, to have a gun in a national park:
1. bears
2. mountain lions
#34 Yes, please ask Rep. Ellison why/how that stupid (gun) amendment got added to the House’s Credit Card Bill.
Great…so Gitmo will be closed. But what do we do with the prisoners if we can’t lock them up here? Hey, guys, we won’t lock them up here, so can you lock them up for us?
36: the trick is to not let the bass riff from “the people’s court” get stuck in your head.
and just to even things out:
3. wolves
Morning shaf,
How’s it going? Me, I’m looking at a four-day weekend – wooo hooo!
Cheers,
mfaye
The Democratic leadership has no balls. That’s the nicest way to say it.
what a bunch of chicken-littles the Senate is. Ask the jailers and wardens across the US if they think their jails could hold them. What a nothing-burger argument!
I have to run, Mooks. Early doctor appointment.
Be good. Hasta manana.
L.
37:
1. bears
2. mountain lions
3. please kill me; i have the bass riff from
“the people’s court” stuck in my head.
#42 I’m fine. Looking forward to seeing a new family member this Sunday. I’m now a great-uncle (sigh).
lmao, flombaye~!
44: addendum: post 44 was meant to refer to 35….
#40 Don’t remember that bass line (probably a good thing). Whenever I think of chessy bass riffs I turn back the old clock to my youth and the “Barney Miller” theme.
Good Morning!
crushed by allergies, day 28…
I’m gonna try the local honey thing flomb
Today’s Detroit Free Press is talking about
the devastation of Detroit. 40 square miles,
1/3 of the city, is vacant. See freep.com
Rep Ellison sounds smart, wish we had some
like him in Michigan.
Sorry that last one was meant for #38. Sorry for the confusion. REALLLY need more coffee.
there’s only one reason, maybe two, to have a gun in a national park:
1. bears
2. mountain lions
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Great. More intrusion into their habitat, and then punishing the animals for being there.
The rethug scumbags are lying about the gitmo prisoners.
It’s more of the same. Thank you Rep Ellison!
48: think “barney miller theme bass line”, but minus the melody. maybe shane-o can expand the people’s court theme bass line into a musical for us, with newt gingrich doing a grammy-winning torch song.
#51
I didn’t mean that we should go to the parks to hunt them.
guns in national parks just for self defense. (as you point out it seems mean to let rednecks into parks with guns since they don’t respect animals at all.)
48 Wasn’t Barney Miller Stephanie’s uncle?
didn’t he go to prison for taking bribes?
or was that Fish?
would it be feasible to carry road flares, a sub-lethal alternative, in defense against these large animals?
37:
1. bears
2. mountain lions
3. please kill me; i have the bass riff from
“the people’s court” stuck in my head.
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I’m waiting for somebody to get arrested for shooting at fish. Seriously.
Rep. Ellison calls it (the amendment) the ’stupid gun thing’. Love it!
I wouldn’t call Ellison smart. He’s the doofus who asked Ken Lewis of B of A, when B of A had just reported, oh, billions in profits, whether they were going to file for chapter 11.
Christians and Muslims and Jews, Oh My!
#56
would that work?
or would a bear just smack that outta yer hand and eat ya anyways?
55: dangerous territory sir. – the image of “abe vigoda” has the fine vocal stylings of “the knack” stuck in my head. – could i have the bass line from “the people’s court” back please?
I lost all respect for Ellison and Waters after watching that hearing. And for Waters to lecture anyone about ethics? Uh, hello, you lobbied for TARP funds for a bank that your husband had ties to?
As I said yesterday, they’re not worried about the ones they’ll convict. They’re worried about the ones who will be acquitted because there’s no untainted evidence against them.
This is why Obama is floating the (deeply illegal) prospect of permanent detention without trial. He pulls that crap, he’ll get bitch-slapped by the courts, and rightly so.
#35, the issue to me isn’t guns in a national park. It’s concealed guns. There is zero reason to carry concealed in the great outdoors. Open carry or GTFO.
62 Abe Vigoda My Sharona Bark Park Cheyboygan
Barney Miller was not Stephanie’s uncle, he was her cousin.
He went to prison for framing suspects and running the
dope houses on the south side, not bribery. Fish was aquitted
on charges of police brutality
dang . go for a shower and my son logs me out or EVERYTHING
now I gotta take him to work
#65
I’m not going to any national parks overrun with trigger happy rednecks.
no, thank you.
seems like it would be bad for the parks, finacially. (accidents and environmental impact also too.)
66: at least fish would treat you like a king.
financially ^ even
Oh, he’s smug now, but when he’s stuck in a flooded Isengard, Gonzo Wormtongue won’t be full of himself.
64 WTF? how can any court allow the president to hold anyone
without trial indefinitely? Wrong Wrong Wrong
65 I’ll carry my concealed pistol anywhere I want, without
a metal detector who’s to know? It’s concealed!
Woman offers free sex and charges for companionship? Men
pay for hookers cause they don’t want companionship just sex!
Get with the program.
Brain #68
they’ve always been there .. drunk too
the difference is now you won’t see their gun
68: some of my best friends are THRs, and they do not all fit the stereotype of clogging up the national park system.
Frado Gonzalez training montage includes waterboarding babies, kicking puppies, and burning copies of the U.S. Constitution.
Peter that’s my issue too.
#73
sounds like a horror film waiting to happen.
#68, you probably already are. You just don’t know it. The “concealed guns in parks” issue is the most stupid one can imagine; if they’re carrying concealed, unless they start trouble and get patted down or draw, you’ll never know.
be back in a little bit …got to take son to work
Coming up. Hookers. wooooohooooo!!!!!
71 I thought he was The Mouth of Sauron… or was
that Ari Fleischer?
69 Fish was a brutal street cop who’d tune ya up for lookin at him
78: the trick is to remain cool, not make a boo-boo, or one could wind up as cold as boo-boo. jim, how’s he doing by the way?
I doubt allowing people to carry guns in a park is going to do anything one way or another. The ones who are likely to carry them probably already are. The ones who won’t still won’t. Either way, nothing much is going to happen.
Of course, if you’re the one person who runs into the one liquored up douchebag that took his gun into the park because he’s now allowed to…well, the odds just weren’t on your side that day.
be back in a little bit …got to take son to work
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Bring me a Happy Meal.
81: precisely.
“he’s that guy.”
– airheads > steve buscemi
#72, the courts won’t allow it. They’ve already ruled the detainees have rights to due process, through Bush outright ignored the SCOTUS ruling. But Obama is floating the idea, illegal as it is.
82 Boo boo and Yogi, one of the first out
couples sadly boo boo died of AIDS
Yogi was killed after he mauled a camper
enuff if enuff. just exactly how vindicated does my vote for cynthia mckinney have to be?
Enhanced Dating Techniques. It’s only torture when it involves Steph.
I can’t think what the justification would be to have a loaded handgun in a park.
tooda thunk with all that yogi-consciousness, yogi would know better than to mess with some cat who looks like hitler. the guy probbly used a flare on him. hitler used flare.
wow this caller is GOOD
War on Terror! I’m fighting a war so I don’t have to be afraid! Anybody who scares me goes to Guantanamo, because I can’t even have the scary folks in my country! Fear! Fear! Fear!
Michael Moore got that so right in Bowling for Columbine.
Hiya, Bloggoes!
90: there was a post earlier about the dangers one may face, something about bears out for a joyride, and cougars on the prowl, thoe i think you could get stephy off your trail with just a wind-up cardboard cut-out of olbermann (just 39.95 on my website!)
#90, bears, mountain lions. Oh, and the incredibly unlikely possibility of human predators (but that’s more of a Criminal Minds thing than reality).
http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/gallery?Avis=C4&Dato=20090515&Kategori=NEWS&Lopenr=905150805&Ref=PH&GID=V20Ok6xga8KxmXYf1ryOTZdYS1z0AU4FiRaGsxPaJZU%3D
pic of Alberto Gonzales
hey Maddy!
If Steph had been stuck in traffic any longer, Oliver would done his business in the house plant again.
Who knows what the Supreme Court will say about tribunals? They might feel that enough due process will be extended to the detainees with the changes Obama has put in place.
Some of the things Obama has put in there have increased the rights afforded to prisoners. For example, they won’t be able to use evidence obtained through hearsay.
Did Steph just call Obama “Adama”?
heheheheee!
She must be Taurian.
WHAT?? EMPTY PRISONS???? I thought they were all full to the limit?? Interesting.
reason to carry a gun in a National Park: Yogi and Boo Boo
Liberal Hussein Smurf says:
Enhanced Dating Techniques. It’s only torture when it involves Steph.
lolololol Steph could prolly go from charmful armful
to dreadful bedfull in zero elapsed time
The Democrats really irritate me. They claim they don’t want to look partisan, so they gave Bush pretty much everything he wanted. Now, they won’t to withold stuff from President Obama for the same reason. Harry Reid deserves to lose his seat.
Speaking of BSG, As a libra, I have always wondered how Libra would be pronounced in that ‘verse, but I never got to find out!
Sad!
103 Reid is a jerk of the first water
nice fake opposition to Bushy, Harry.
Good morning, like-minded Stephanie Miller fan bloggistas!
#44 flombaye:
1. bears
2. mountain lions
3. please kill me; i have the bass riff from
“the people’s court” stuck in my head.
For bears in parks strategies (and scathingly funny writing) try Bill Bryson’s “A Walk in the Woods”, soon to be a major motion picture if I recall correctly:
http://www.amazon.com/Walk-Woods-Rediscovering-America-Appalachian/dp/0307279464/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1242913666&sr=8-1
103 — I sometimes think the whole Democratic party is a scam and a distraction — the bread and circuses / carrot to the Republicans boot heel / stick.
We’re being gamed?
104 BSG? ya lost me
Pretty much the “Ban Gitmo prisoners from the US” is the same mindset that got us into Iraq. Our elected bozos don’t want to seem soft on terror, so they ignore reason and come up with decisions that allegedly Keep America Safe…just like the set up to get into Iraq, find those WMDs and the Al Qaida connection. They shame us all. It’s all about their re-electability.
“Battle Star Galactica”, Mark!
I’ve heard that the enhanced torture was ordered by “private contractors”. Do we know who they were yet?
107 between the two parties… we’ve been screwed
I’m still hopeful about Obama but I don’t trust
the Dem Party
Hey idiot caller, EVERYONE gets Geneva protection,
otherwise OUR TROOPS don’t
reason to carry a gun in a National Park: Yogi and Boo Boo
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Breaking News: Yogi Bear Has Been Shot
Yogi Bear was shot and killed today during an attempt to steal a picnic basket from a guy with no shirt and no teeth. When asked about his long time friend, Boo Boo Bear said of Yogi, “He was smarter than the average bear, but not smarter than a shotgun blast.”
110 Thanks!
I got a headache in my eye now. Can we just freaking
start the trials of the rethugs now PLEASE
#81 Mark in Deetown: “69 Fish was a brutal street cop who’d tune ya up for lookin at him”
#105 Mark in Deetown again: “Reid is a jerk of the first water
nice fake opposition to Bushy, Harry.”
Bob Cesca compares Harry Reid unfavorably to Droopy Dog in this morning’s HuffPo:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-cesca/closing-guantanamo-and-ou_b_205944.html
Thank You Stephanie, it’s not what works it’s what’s WRONG
POINT OF ORDER:
The ‘training’ that goes on at Sere school is voluntary. Those officers can drop out at any time an President Clinton can not be sued.
The ‘torture’ that goes on at Gitmo is NOT!!
Good Morning Board!
Happy Birthday AL FRANKEN! 58 TODAY!
Mr. T is 57. Judge Rheinhold is 52.
Only in America do we grant media time to a former vice president whose approval rating is in the ‘teens.
If you don’t want to be turned gay, not dating Steph works.
#99, the Constitution precludes any use of hearsay evidence, which is a central component of the tribunals:
The tribunals Obama is floating allow hearsay (which may come from other detainees who were tortured), limiting his ability to call witnesses (ostensibly for national security reasons), and will only be allowed to choose counsel from among government-approved attorneys.
But Obama’s talking about not even using tribunals on some detainees against whom the evidence is so tainted that it wouldn’t be permissible even in these tribunals – they would be held indefinitely on pure suspicion. This is against the law, the SCOTUS has already ruled, and Obama better damned well follow the law.
guerrilla war strategy is not the same as torture. George WASHINGTON refused to torture too!!!!
Randi Rhodes last night did a great show re Don’t Ask Don’t Tell.
Caller: “It’s against the law, people!”
Great point–I loved Chris’s shout-out to the liveblog last week where one of you geniuses posted about how if you want to get rid of someone, murder works. Need money? Robbery works, so does embezzlement. But they’re illegal, because the longterm consequences of bad behavior destroy the community. Duh.
I have to turn down the volume a lot during the call-in segments. I get afraid people are headed in really inappropriate directions & I just have to not hear that.
113 and that cute fluffy little Snuggle the Fabric
Softner Bear mauled a kid… who knew
“A 2,600-page report, published Wednesday following a nine-year probe into child abuse by Ireland’s fading Catholic religious orders, painted a damning portrait of a system that protected child-molesting church officials while consigning generations of Ireland’s poorest children to misery.” (excerpt)
here’s the full article:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30838320/ns/world_news-europe/
#111, I seem to remember that they’re from the CACI corporation. Weren’t these the ones slapp-suing Randi Rhodes?
Franken will be 70 by the time he gets to take office.
Peter, read what Obama said. No hearsay in the tribunals. They will get pretty much all the rights and privileges that military people get when they are court martialed.
If it’s good enough for our troops, it’s good enough for the detainees.
#113, well the Snuggles bear went insane after himself being abused: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gily6BF6AAw
#129, I’ve read it, and you’re wrong. The proposed tribunals allow “limited hearsay”: http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/5/19/14025/3584
Limited hearsay is still unconstitutional.
#111, I seem to remember that they’re from the CACI corporation. Weren’t these the ones slapp-suing Randi Rhodes?
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Yes. Randi won the suit. But they didn’t care. It was a bullying tactic, which didn’t work either.
115 Juliet Hussein Bravo
thanks for noticing
Fish and Wojo were known on the mean streets as Starsky and Hutch
129 — If the Military Tribunal model can be made fair, habeas corpus and all the basic protections, I’m inclined to be in favor, because it’s better than what’s happening in alot of cases — we’ve already so seriously blown it in terms of speedy trials and no cruel & unusual punishment. We have to expedite moving these folks through the system.
I also think American supermax prisons should be just fine for holding those we find guilty.
Enough with the racism & paranoia.
You are aware that limited hearsay is allowed in civilian courts, correct? As a general rule, it is not permitted but there are exceptions. There are exceptions to everything.
Anyway, I’m out. Need to go make some corporatist democrats happy.
#113, well the Snuggles bear went insane after himself being abused: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gily6BF6AAw
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I love robot chicken.
sadly it wasn’t the shotgun blast impact that killed Yogi, but the sub-standard lead shot that led to a slow death, unmitigated by medical aide since the park animals have no healthcare plan
#134, the difference between the military commissions and, say, the international criminal court, is that the latter’s judges are full-time judges, and have the experience to know what evidence to rule against. From what I’m reading, the MCA tribunals would have only one permanent judge per tribunal, and several non-judges acting in that capacity.
136 LHS LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL thanks
That’s not true, mama. More than 8 senators opposed the bill; only 8 opposed cloture, if memory serves.
Morning all!
Here’s an idea. The media could simply not cover Dick Vader’s speech. That won’t happen, of course. They want to spend the day contrasting the two speeches rather than report news.
137 prior to his brutal and unsolved shotgun murder Yogi left Boo Boo for Ranger Smith
investigations were filmed:
“A Day in the Life of Ranger Smith” and “Boo Boo Runs Wild.”
lead shot is wrong!
#137 MidWestRuth, But did Yogi Bear apologize to Dick Cheney for getting in the way of his shotgun?
#133, Mark in DeeTown, Loved that show!
#128 Liberal Smurf: “Franken will be 70 by the time he gets to take office.”
Hey, my last post was #144. Gross!
Here we go, from, Wikipedia:
Most Dems voted the right way on the bill. The 90-8 was a cloture vote. We can blame the Dems for not filibustering.
136 LHS LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL thanks
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PeterW provided the link.
off to the doc.
Have a great day all.
Tennessee Tuxedo and Chumley the Walrus : out?
148 — Paul — Hope everything is A-OK!
148 good luck Rabbit
149 — Mr. PEabody and Sherman. wtf???
Rethugs to supermax! compiling a List
Why did the Dems announce that they won’t provide money to close gitmo until the White House provides them with a plan? Why couldn’t they just wait until he sends them the plan, and then provide the money? But no, they have to create a fight where there isn’t one. Stupid!
Congratulations Uncle shaffie
Cheers,
mfaye
152! lololololololol beastiality or not? what exactly was Mr Peabody
anyway?
and “his boy” Sherman ?
“Help me, Mr. Wizard! I don’t want to be a ________ anymore!
Tudor the Turtle?
Inhofe needs a lobotomy.
Reid:
Bush & Co. let terrorists commit 9/11 even after they had PDBs.
isn’t it likely there are still terrorists on the loose?
154- 2010 elections are coming up and of course the Dems start twitching and second-guessing themselves. They’re letting the rethugs frame the argument.
#159, Reid especially looks like he’s going to get spanked in 2010.
“World of Commander McBragg” actually about Rumsfeld?
Klondike Kat = Bush?
WTF?
#159
it’s hard to find good representation these days.
The CIA never lies? What a pile ‘o crap.
Calling torture “enhanced interrogation” is a lie.
159 — see? carrot & stick. good cop, bad cop. I think we need some fierce leftists. People on that Abbie Hoffman / Huey Newton level.
No more Hubert Humphreys.
#157 – how would we be able to tell?
People tend to want escape a little more when they are being held without charges for an indeterminate period of time, rather than serving a determined sentence with faith in the system to release them.
Just ask Edmond Dantes, who was imprisoned indefinitely on the island prison of Chateau d’If on the strength of a secret letter accusing him of being a spy, which was written by a jealous rival who then married his fiancee. Dantes never stopped trying to escape, and since he knew the only way he was going to leave prison was in a casket, he seized the opportunity to do just that when his friend and mentor died (actually, “The Count of Monte Cristo” was based on a true story).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Count_of_Monte_Cristo
Free colonoscopy for prisoners? It doesn’t count as a medical procedure when someone tells you to ‘Pick Up the Soap’!
Did Chris say the tree would be a pole? So Imhoff’s family is “Poltry?”
Our country was taken over by a criminal gang.
The Dems were a token opposition.
We need a national strike until everyone can be
thrown out, the guilty tried. Not Gonna Happen.
Poultry I mean …
Oops, bad link:
http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Count_of_Monte_Cristo
The best film version of which was the 1998 French/Italian miniseries starring Gerard Depardieu and Ornella Muti — bow-chicka-bow…
Pelosi has a CIA problem? Oh come on. Look at RWR’s CIA record…
Regan CIA liars.
Thomas G. Clines, Central Intelligence Agency agent—Indicted February 22, 1990, on four felony counts of underreporting his earnings to the IRS in the 1985 and 1986 tax years; and falsely stating on his 1985 and 1986 tax returns that he had no foreign financial accounts. On September 18, 1990, Clines was found guilty of all charges. U.S. District Judge Norman P. Ramsey in Baltimore, Md., on December 13, 1990, sentenced Clines to 16 months in prison and $40,000 in fines. He was ordered to pay the cost of the prosecution. The Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in Richmond, Va., on February 27, 1992, upheld the convictions. Clines served his prison sentence.
Alan D. Fiers, Jr. , Chief of the Central Intelligence Agency’s Central American Task Force during the Reagan administration—Pleaded guilty July 9, 1991, to two misdemeanor counts of withholding information from Congress about secret efforts to aid the Nicaraguan contras. U.S. District Chief Judge Aubrey E. Robinson, Jr., sentenced Fiers January 31, 1992, to one year probation and 100 hours community service. Fiers was pardoned December 24, 1992.
Clair E. George, Deputy Director for CIA Operations —Indicted September 6, 1991, on 10 counts of perjury, false statements and obstruction in connection with congressional and Grand Jury investigations. George’s trial on nine counts ended in a mistrial on August 26, 1992. Following a second trial on seven counts, George was found guilty December 9, 1992, of two felony charges of false statements and perjury before Congress. The maximum penalty for each count was five years in prison and $250,000 in fines. U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth set sentencing for February 18, 1993. George was pardoned on December 24, 1992, before sentencing occurred.
Joseph F. Fernandez, CIA station chief in Costa Rica —Indicted June 20, 1988 on five counts of conspiracy to defraud the United States, obstructing the inquiry of the Tower Commission and making false statements to government agencies. The case was dismissed in the District of Columbia for venue reasons on the motion of Independent Counsel. A four-count indictment was issued in the Eastern District of Virginia on April 24, 1989. U.S. District Judge Claude M. Hilton dismissed the four-count case November 24, 1989, after Attorney General Richard Thornburgh blocked the disclosure of classified information ruled relevant to the defense. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in Richmond, Va., on September 6, 1990, upheld Judge Hilton’s rulings under the Classified Information Procedures Act (CIPA). On October 12, 1990, the Attorney General filed a final declaration that he would not disclose the classified information.
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Duane R. Clarridge, career CIA officer —Indicted November 26, 1991, on seven counts of perjury and false statements about a secret shipment of U.S. HAWK missiles to Iran. The maximum penalty for each count was five years in prison and $250,000 in fines. U.S. District Judge Harold H. Greene set a March 15, 1993, trial date. Clarridge was pardoned December 24, 1992.
Oliver L. North, National Security Council staffer in the Reagan administration and point man in the Iran-Contra scandal—Indicted March 16, 1988, on 16 felony counts. After standing trial on 12, North was convicted May 4, 1989 of three charges: accepting an illegal gratuity, aiding and abetting in the obstruction of a congressional inquiry, and destruction of documents. He was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Gerhard A. Gesell on July 5, 1989, to a three-year suspended prison term, two years probation, $150,000 in fines and 1,200 hours community service. A three-judge appeals panel on July 20, 1990, vacated North’s conviction for further proceedings to determine whether his immunized testimony influenced witnesses in the trial. The Supreme Court declined to review the case. Judge Gesell dismissed the case September 16, 1991, after hearings on the immunity issue, on the motion of Independent Counsel
Caspar W. Weinberger, Secretary of Defense in the Reagan administration until 1987—Indicted June 16, 1992, on five counts of obstruction, perjury and false statements in connection with congressional and Independent Counsel investigations of Iran/ contra. On September 29, the obstruction count was dismissed. On October 30, a second indictment was issued, charging one false statement count. The second indictment was dismissed December 11, leaving four counts remaining. The maximum penalty for each count was five years in prison and $250,000 in fines. U.S. District Judge Thomas F. Hogan set a January 5, 1993, trial date. Weinberger was pardoned December 24, 1992.
Robert C. McFarlane, National Security Advisor to President Reagan from 1983 to late 1985 —Pleaded guilty March 11, 1988, to four misdemeanor counts of withholding information from Congress. U.S. District Chief Judge Aubrey E. Robinson, Jr., sentenced McFarlane on March 3, 1989, to two years probation, $20,000 in fines and 200 hours community service. McFarlane was pardoned December 24, 1992.
Am I the first liveblogger to namecheck H. H.?
How can people in prison raise funds for terrorism?
174 — I understand cigarettes are high ticket items there…
I’m Googling the Inhofe thing. If there was an “out” gay person in his family, I thing the bloggers would have found one by now — it’s been three years since that speech. Yet, I’m not seeing anything.
Am I to understand that the terroists (if there are any) will make a federal prison a base of operations? Right …
#157 (L.H.Smurf) & #165 (Shane-O),
Between Coburn and Inhofe, I got worse than nothin’ 
Don’t I know it, living here in the redneck state of Oklahoma, I have NOBODY who represents me or my interests in DC
Cheers,
mfaye
okay i’m back… 125: yes the snuggle bear is extra creepy, but decidedly NOT a reason for firearms… when you fill that thing with lead, and you still hear that disembodied voice of trixie from speed racer, that is NOT a good thing… it’s right up there with “ELMO KNOWS WHERE YOU LIVE!”.
177 — The prison system in this country is one sector of infrastructure where there’s been no stinting. I’ve read descriptions of the the Supermax at FLorence Colorado that make it sound like something even James Bond couldn’t jigger. Really scary places, those. Nobody will run anything from inside those highest security isolation cells.
OMG, Timmy has fallen down the well!!
How many of these Democrats who are opposing the closing of Gitmo never opposed Bush’s opening of it?
167 Fish would give you a colonoscopy with a nitestick
#179
or a short-circuited Teddy Ruxpin bear… going into H.E.M. (Human Eradication Mode)
Newtie’s response to the President’s speech: “Oh, good for you!”
Slam!
Trixie from Speed Racer!? WTF!
and her last name was ‘Turner’
what was worse was Spritle and Chim-Chim
Here’s the transcript of Dick Vader’s response to the president’s speech. “Ah-da-da-dah”.
a bit of an echo in that hall, eh?
184 LOLOLOLOLOLOL
the Mad TV claymation where pillbury dough boy goes bad
and gets shoved in an oven by the cops
You GO Obama, you ARE My President!
echo
echo
echo
echo
He’s saying the right things. Let’s see him do them.
180 like so much in America the prison system is just wrong.
start with the drug war… drugs won, freedom lost, Police
State grew,
WE GOT MORE PERCENT OF POPULATION IN JAIL THAN HITLER OR STALIN
You can watch it live:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/21/obama-national-archives-s_n_206189.html
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jaketapper POTUS: only 3 convictions in 7 years for Bush. meanwhile over 525 detainees released by Bush.
Wow..could there be a more definitive statement on terrorism and the true American values? Obama is just stunning. Finally, we have moral leadership.
193 — agreed.
This is a fantastic speech about a complex subject — and we liberals are diggin’ it.
The RIGHT WING talking head producers are listening for “gottcha” phrases that they will lift out of the speech and hammer him on.
That’s ALL the right wingers will hear of this speech.
obama is recalling the amazing upturn on sales of reeboks and nike in january of 1991, in the middle east. – you all may recall that there was a false alarm, and a swarm of underweight iraqis ran with arms raised high, and huge irrepressible grins, to surrender to the british, and get a chance to taste the legendary CHIP (the english contribution to world cuisine). – the british had to send them back to the starting line, since it was a false alarm, and so the iraqis could not surrender…. and now to the “brutal methods”, the “technique”, – obama is fallen into the trap of preserving the devious semantic… but at least rejecting it conceptually. – i suspect that obama does personally understand the semantic deceit embedded in the wording, and is just keeping the speech simple. similarly, obama would understand that picking up and throwing the ball is not “enhanced golf”, but might preserve that terminology in explaining to dubya that that is not effective practice at playing that game. – indeed, more tellingly, obama seems to have a sense of proportion, an understanding that the events of 9-11 (for example), are not the exact equal in importance to (for example), a golf swing. — refreshing to hear obama speak to the record which is clear. almost like we’ve switched to a president who can process both cause and effect per se.
“We’re cleaning up something that is quite a mess”. How diplomatic. I guess the President can’t call it a flaming pile of dog poo, politically speaking.
The President needs to outline the specific plan for closing gitmo.
200 – Amy — Elephant poo, more like!
Anyways, folks, I gots to leave the liveblog for the day.
Sparta well, I’ll catch you at some near future point, most likely after the Big Weekend.
Love you kids!
Buh Bye, Bloggoes!
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pandagon So, how long until Obama’s speech is assailed as an unprecedented and nasty attack on the prior administration?
much better than mccain’s official ambition: “i’ll put the ’steamie’ in abstemiousness!”
#198, as I said, he’s saying the right things. And that’s important – because national aspirations and symbols matter.
But there’s been a lot of backtracking when it comes to the doing from his administration so far. Whether that’s because of burrowed Bushies, or his appointees going off the reservation, it doesn’t matter. I want results, not just words. As much as I do like the words.
“…picking up and throwing the ball is not ‘enhanced golf’… !!!”
lmao again, flombaye… u funny.
Hey – I just joined this new website for people who want to cheat on their low-carb diets … DollyMadison.com
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danielabrams does Cheney really deserve the equal billing he is getting to Obama in the media re: their national security speeches?
This is a fantastic speech about a complex subject — and we liberals are diggin’ it.
The RIGHT WING talking head producers are listening for “gottcha” phrases that they will lift out of the speech and hammer him on.
That’s ALL the right wingers will hear of this speech.
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They going to hammer the president on the part about how opening gitmo was a mistake in the first place. It was a huge mistake, but they’ll try to twist it into, Obama’s weak on national security.
#205
me too PeterW.
results!!! progress!!! action!!! not just the right words.
“pandagon”? – shape of a bear? – is that before or after one unloads on it for scaring the palin out of one for arising unexpected from one’s laundry down by the creek in a national forest.
>> flombaye says:
>> obama is recalling the amazing upturn on sales of reeboks and nike in january of 1991, in the middle east.
One time I was flying into Balochistan in a plane full of returning Hajis. They all had long beards and were wearing various pieces of cammo gear with their shalwar kumeeses. This was soon after 911 and they were a fairly scary looking bunch.
Yet, they ALL were wearing brand new, bright-white puffy sports shoes.
There must have been a fantastic tennis shoe salesman in Mecca or Medina that year!
199 WOW flomb!
reminds me of “The Assassination of JFK Considered As A Downhill
Motor Race” which BEGS to be rewritten about the Bush regime & 911
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pandagon I wonder if conservatives realize that one of Obama’s strongest talking points is that it’s not his fault?
flombaye
http://twitter.com/pandagon
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212 great story Ron.
Reminds me of flying home from Germany. The plane
was full of Catholic Priests and Monks for some reason.
The whole time the noise of switch blade knives being
opened was heard. They had all bought them in Germany.
long time ago when you could bring yer illegal shiv on a plane.
surreal
flombaye
http://www.pandagon.net/
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bbcworld The US detention camp for terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay weakens national security and rallies enemies, Pre.. http://tinyurl.com/qq9ku9
#214 Nope. To the right wing, everythign is Obama’s fault. They haven’t been dealing with reality for years, they’re not going to start now.
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jaketapper POTUS: “Nobody has ever escaped from one of our federal supermax prisons which hold 100s of convicted terrorists”
>> Liberal Hussein Smurf says:
You are probably right.
The Right Wingers will also claim that we can’t send terrorists before “liberal judges” who will let them go on to our streets.
We can’t prosecute detainees. We might find out that most of them are completely innocent.
from dailykos
Taking down one republican talking point one, by one. This is what happenes when you choose a president with brains and one who respects the Constitution!
by lilkymbo on Thu May 21, 2009 at 07:54:44 AM PDT
>> Mark drunken biker old paratrooper in Deetown says:
>> 212 great story Ron.
>> Reminds me of flying home from Germany. The plane
was full of Catholic Priests and Monks for some reason.
The whole time the noise of switch blade knives being
opened was heard.
He. He. Remember when there were knife stores IN the airport? It wasn’t that long ago.
Stephanie: suck on that dick
oops, she actually said suck on that, Dick
Here’s where Obama is wrong. If you can’t prosecute, you can’t hold. You’ve got to release them. That’s the law. Them’s the breaks.
Suck on that, dick!
Indeed, if Obama is basically saying, “we’ll prosecute those we can, and we’ll just hold those we can’t”, the whole “following the rule of law” bit is Kabuki theater.
This is what I mean by results, not words. Obama just reserved himself the right to be above the law when the law is inconvenient to him.
224 so weird the way things have gone. Ya can’t even buy
a knife in the airport any more. But you can still smoke
on a plane if you cover the smoke detector with a wet towel
and exhale down the sink, it’s got a vacuum… my buddy’s ma
is a stewardess on the transatlantic route, she told me there
is a wet towel over the detector every single flight
Any of you listening to the CNN News feed of the speech?
It’s started out, “Obama SLAMS the Bush administration….:”
Goodness, I hate CNN some times.
226 – We send them to Dick’s house, Rummy’s place and Crawford.
Ahh the pipes … the pipes ….
#229 I wonder why nobody has taken the position “I’m addicted to cigarettes, it’s a medical condition and since I’m stuck on this plane for 9 hours, you’re discriminating against me by not letting me smoke.”
>> Mark drunken biker old paratrooper in Deetown says:
>> 224 so weird the way things have gone. Ya can’t even buy
a knife in the airport any more. But you can still smoke
on a plane if you cover the smoke detector with a wet towel
and exhale down the sink, it’s got a vacuum…
Wow! Can you do that _AND_ actively participate in the mile high club at the same time?
Seriously, that is darn clever.
I did see a guy arrested for disabling a smoke detector. Everybody was all mad at him but I felt sorry that he was so addicted.
just a drive by, with kisses,
http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/obama-official-visits-dayton-announces-help-for-auto-workers-128228.html
thank you, CIB. my suspicion is affirmed. that is indeed the shape of a panda.
>> Amy Outside of DC says:
>> #229 I wonder why nobody has taken the position “I’m addicted to cigarettes, it’s a medical condition and since I’m stuck on this plane for 9 hours, you’re discriminating against me by not letting me smoke.”
It’s a very good point about the addiction, but they can chew the gum or get the nicotine other ways.
Is that gum prescription? Maybe the airplanes should stock a few emergency packs.
hi Carol!
mile high klub angle i hadn’t thought of
I may be walking on sunshine, but I’m sleeping off moonshine.
Anybody else think there is a stink to the new “bomb plot” arrest?
Is this another one of those “sting operations” where the police are actually instigation violence and then arresting people for it?
I’m not accusing anyone, but we’ve seen this before.
Dick won’t be preempted. The media wants this fight. It gets them out of reporting real news.
Bye eMooks.
We have to start a phone/email campaign to CNN and other news networks to stop covering Cheney. His poll numbers are going up!!! because they give him legitamacy which makes some people think his comments have merit.
How do we do this. Email Move.On or Huffington Post?
He isn’t pre-empted, He said he would wait so he wouldn’t take an audience away from the President. Makes him sound magnanamous. What BS
mc lovin, i just got thru researching the SNWA divisions of the nike and reebok sales strategies. their salesvolk did have excellent talking points, such as “no caravan wearing this style of high-top has ever been assaulted by a bear.” and “the only cougar attacks upon anybody wearing this type of running shoe happened during the turk-olbermann campaign”. – P.F. flyers did particularly well among al qaeda greenies. “oh yes, you can fly a hijacked plane much faster in these, allah be praised!”
Jesus gonna come back with his lawyers
and it’s gonna be like the Cleansing of the Temple
all over again
No More Mister Nice Guy
I can’t wait
243 not to mention you can throw then at a scumbag
There are points to quibble about, but overall I think this speech is a fantastic smackdown of Obama’s critics AKA Bush’s zombie brigade.
Who asked you, Leifer?
will they allow throwable running shoes in national forests?
238 you sleepin’ off the moonshine too? cool
Morning all! Hey, maybe Obama can filibuster the media with constant speeches, or at least when any fascist monster like Cheney wants the spotlight!
oh gawd NOT THIS .. you can’t got forward until you FIX what went wrong
Shut up, Leifer!
Oh gooood for you, Leifer!
this is where I part way with Obama
Obama is a grown-up in a nation of sheeple represented (HA!) by a congress of cowardly sell-outs. He just may be too cool for the USA.
‘Morning, Good people!
The truth? We can’t handle the truth! Ouch! My head is going to explode!
what was that weird voice? was that abe vigoda trying to throw nikes at terrorists in a national forest?
Hey Sarah
What in the blue hell is common sense?!
250-Sounds like a good plan to me.
242- The media loves controversy so writing letters to stop Cheney would do little good. Second, freedom of speech. Yes, it even applies to Cheney and to start a campaign serves nothing but to give them spin to say how the Left denies the first amendment to conservatives.
The more Cheney talks, the deeper the whole for them IMHO.
Can’t wait to hear what America’s taliking Dick has to to say after this …
I bet it will have some reference to preventing attacks on Ameria for nearly 7 years blah blah Less safe, blah blah more vulnerable … blah blah
Now, you can talk, Leifer.
ok, load the liar cannon Chris
The President was trying to talk until Dick Vader had another heart attack.
262 thanks Skyhawk, I think yer right about Cheney spouting off
258 you forgot to get Yogi in there flomb
never paid attention to julio iglesias before, but when i searched the youtubes for the best version of “guantanamo era”, i found that julio is the best singer out there.
yogi consciousness is not automatic, but as yogi said, you can observe a lot just by watching.
269!
The “liberal” media loves their Dick.
271: such enthusiasm! i often yell the same thing.
272 I know I love mine!
273 – Me too except without the 2
I really can’t believe the media in this country. Cheney and his horror is out of office and still trying to direct policy via public opinion. The media is so complicit in this. Shame!
Hi All! Spent the early AM doing the mending. Doesn’t that sound domesticy godess-like? Who mends anymore? People just throw out stuff and buy new stuff.
“ignore that silly bitch looking for WMD under the desk!”
277-Did you miss the president’s speech?
Hey gang, I’m back!
Urp! Cheney? There goes my appetite!
Watched the Pres’ speech. That guy is so crazy. He thinks the nation was formed and exists under the rule of law. How crazy is that guy?
FBI files on suspected gay cartoon characters uncovered:
Popeye the Sailor
Yogi Bear and Boo-Boo
Snagglepuss
Tennessee Tuxedo and Chumley the Walrus
The Great Gazoo
Velma Dinkley
and all this time, Bugs Bunny is sashaying around
in a dress, kissing Elmer Fudd. where the fuck was
the FBI then?
http://74.125.45.132/search?q=cache:wZCb7ufzbLUJ:www.subgenius.com/bigfist/FIST2004-1/mar2k5/x/ForgivemeXFBIfilesonsuspectedgaycartooncharactersuncovered.html+yogi+bear+and+boo+boo+are+gay&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
answer: Bugs Bunny is one of their many undercover agents.
#277 I’m a re-hemmer, mender and darner myself also too!
911 HAPPENED ON YOUR WATCH, 911 HAPPENED ON YOUR WATCH, 911 HAPPENED ON YOUR WATCH, 911 HAPPENED ON YOUR WATCH. Just keep repeating that when Cheney invokes the 911 justification strategy.
Where’s my Dick?
just waiting til the Ark of the Covenant gets opened and
Cheney’s face melts off
Cheney—cover ears and sing “LALALALA!” really loudly. Like Randi said during the promo break, Cheney, Rush and Coulter think they are the Republican Party now. What a 3-way….
#277 Not since the economy tanked. Not only is mending back in style, but doing your own mending (instead of giving it to the maid or taking it to a tailor) is in style.
Dick/Bush
Rethug potty talk
The Wonkette.com servers have melted down while live-blogging the speech.
Spiffy, we can be so happy that Darth Cheney is here to tell us what dire straights (not the band) we’re in!
Here’s an idea. A camping jamboree in National Parks sponsored by the NRA and the beer industry. Maybe the gun-loving scaredy-cats can “cull their herd” and get it out of their systems.
286—LOLOL! So that’s how it ends? God I hope they catch that on CNN.
not sure i have the knack for this, so i’ll just warm up by practicing the base line from “shortening bread”….
du -du du du – du – DU du – DU du – DU du DU -
du du du du DU du…. ABE SPARGOTA!
a a a ABE SPARGOTA!
285 – As my mom used to say … “It’s wherever you left it last.”
291—I really want Cheney to be moved to a FOX reality show like I described the other day. What to call it? Maybe just “Reality House.”
SPARTA?
ooops sparta
Sparta, Baby
The reason why they don’t want to close Guantanamo, is because by closing it, it shows that the Republican policy was flawed. The Republicans won’t ever say that they were wrong. So, again, they use fear to bring those held back to the mainland. They are the biggest hypocrites and the worst part is the the Democrats, AGAIN…are letting them get away with it.
This. Is. Sparta!
296: thanks. i just located my virginity in the kitchen.
293, 294, you are killing me ROFLMAO
way to go Sarah congrats
Yay, Sarah! A Sparta for you! *bows*
Sarah got it! Sarah, please sell that sparta on Ebay and use the proceeds to pay off some of California’s deficit, ‘K?
Hoop dee doo!
a special julio iglesias edition of “guanspartamera” for sarah, please.
301—this may come as a news flash to those Republicans who are still deep in denial, but their policy WAS flawed.
Oh the truth hurts….they will get over it.
297 Who ate Dick Cheney’s peanut butter? It had my name right on it
You’re sitting in my chair!
it’s even better than the time the creepy snuggle bear got sparta, then shot boo-boo.
Nice job Sarah! I got distracted by a shiny light on my phone at work.
310-No, Spiff. They will NEVER get over it. They’re just that short-sighted.
313-Work really gets in the way.
297. DickHouse?
Stephanie: I lost my virginity
me: do you still have the box it came in?
315-What did I tell you? The boss just arrived. Bye Bye
312 it was a love triangle
Yay, Let’s get all MST3K on Dick’s ass!
sparta/fnord? WTF?
STFU STFU STFU!
fnord/flaven! ah ha
FBI files on suspected gay cartoon characters uncovered:
Popeye the Sailor
Yogi Bear and Boo-Boo
Snagglepuss
Tennessee Tuxedo and Chumley the Walrus
The Great Gazoo
Velma Dinkley
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Huckleberry Hound
Peppermint Patty
He-Man
She-Ra
*snickers* He said ‘doodie’!
He is no longer in government, thank God! Shut up!
bull shit
324. Nancy?
you tortured someone to get him to give you an excuse to go into Iraq
It is important to protect intelligence personnel. How ’bout Valerie Plame?
cheney didnt learn anything form what obama said only 20 minutes ago. this fully vindicates michael steele’s announcement that the era of repugs learning from their mistakes is over… thoe i dont recall when it was ever happening in the first place. — AND as frangela have so wisely pointed out. this is not about feelings; this is about facts. – i’m not sure that cheney’s math grades would be within the positive range.
324 Peppermint Patty came out in the Peanuts \
Special “You’ve Got AIDs, Charlie Brown”… in
which didn’t Chuck contract the fatal disease from
Pig Pen?
Is Dick Cheney the height of arrogance or what? He “advises” the new admin.
Why doesn’t Dick just become a prison warden in Texas? He has never fought for ANYTHING the way he is fighting for the right to torture and detain people without laws or due process. So if he loves that so much he needs to get himself a job doing it instead of trying to shove that crap down our throats any longer.
On Monday I plan to employ Enhanced Barbecuing Techniques. Let them try and stop me!
won’t it be nice when Cheney is in hell ?
As far as that ass Cheney, if they start an investigation on him and his policies…he will leave the country quick. He is a coward and would never let himself be humiliated. I would take his passport away from him. With Halliburton in Dubai, I am sure most of his funds are off shore, and his bags are probably packed and ready to go. I know, I sound like Jim, but I Cheney has no ethics.
332. Heard it was a dirty needle
333 wasn’t Cheney charged with a crime connected with his
ownership of a private prison in Texas?
332: just shows that you have to be careful at those grateful dead concerts.
Cheney’s gonna go to Aspen and “die” like Ken Lay I’m bettin’
dang it! i think i got a massive dose of “yo quiero taco bell” syndrome from jerry garcia.
337 a dirty needle that Schroeder left laying around
334–Enhanced Barbecuing Techniques: Is that when you barbecue venison or when you use barbecue sauce on hot dogs?
Sarah in Santa Cruz: Sparta winners always get the day off. Buy a bottle of wine, drive down to Westcliff Dr. to about Woodrow Ave., find a bench looking out to sea and relax. You’ve earned it.
335—I just wish he’d shut up and go away.
340 You too? I always thought Kenny Boy Lay faked his death
We blew past Sparta, and I didn’t even notice.
Actually, I did buy a John Deere lawn tractor (but not because Bush told me to).
If I had a Gore/Libermann sticker on my car, I’d sell my car.
my will farrell character bonked your straight A student with a cowbell for using the wrong tone.
343 – I have my own special methods of making …”TERRORWURST!”
Off topic: Do you think the Jon and Kate rumors of affairs are just a way to increase the ratings of their show?
I do.
Popeye is Bi, everybody knows that…
Frankensteph
351—Ah ha! I knew it! I knew it was the hot dogs you will be annoying!
if your suspect falls off the crucifix, the tear a wrists win.
352 – The next season “Jon & Kate Do 8″
349 Little Joey Blabberman, turncoat scumbag.
If Santorum is blah blah then WTF is Joementum?
Rich criminals like Lay never die – they go skiing and disappear. Never saw ANYTHING about the details of his “death” in the media did we?
353: ah yes, the erotogenic effects of the spinach… you et two, brutus?
If Steph had everything done, that means her baby boobs aren’t real. I never would have guessed.
If Bush/Cheney and the PNAC NeoConMen assh#$Les go
free the terrorists win, since they are the freakin terrorists
355 – Iand I will drink a free cola-oscopy along with them
356. Wow! You are doing the Lord’s work today Flombaye. Disturbing yet intriguing.
352—–LOL…..sadly, I can actually see that happening. The show will no longer be about their kids. The show will follow the new divocees around for a year as they jump into the dating world.
Will anyone care? (cue crickets chirping..)
why is the julio iglesias version of “abe vigoda” by the knack, with the snuggle bear and boo-boo on back-up vocals stuck in my head? – dietrich, you got any remedies for this?
361 Steph, say it ain’t so! She’s so cute with those
I can’t believe that if she was having all that work
she wouldn’t have put some money makers up front, what
with her earlier career at the itchy kitty in racita…
360—I eat spinach lasagne about once a week. I have never noticed any of those effects.
364: they say it’s the lord’s work to decide who lives and who dies, so, yes, yes i am.
366 salvo flomb!
I love the title of Carol’s book.
368: you have to eat olive oil to get the full effect.
369 Lord don’t make me kill again…
every bottle of Tequilla should be sold with ____________
a warning label
a bail bondsman’s number
????
Oliver is at home, licking himself after trashing the plant, again
373: bail bond gift certificates are still available on my website.
Should gay couples be allowed to adopt pets?
It might corrupt them!
I’ve got Jim’s brilliant mnemonic for remembering how to pronounce “Abu Zubaydah” stuck in my head:
Manamanah Abu Zubaydah
Manamanah bah-bah-dah-DAH
Manamanah Abu Zubaydah
Was waterboarded 83 times, bah-bah-dah-DAH
Cats rule, and dogs drool.
376 only if they are gay pets
377: you mean they have an arabic version of abe vigoda? – great. now the bass line from barney miller, with carol liefer’s dancing is stuck in my head.
Should gay couples be allowed to adopt pets?
It might corrupt them!
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dogs and cats living together…in sin.
374. LOL
Mark,
But should gay dogs be allowed to have puppies?
She jokes but I have heard people seriously say that homosexuality is simply laziness.
would a gay snuggle fabric softener bear be allowed on airplanes, or is that just too terrifying?
378 cats have a secret network dedicated to the overthrow
of human rule and the return to the days of hunting the
puny monkey-things on the veldt. The remaining unresolved
issue is that whole opposable-thumb/can opener thing
Of course dogs drool, but they are lovable and trainable whereas cats are basically useless
Andy Borowitz weighs in on the great Nancy Pelosi debate:
“Gingrich: Pelosi Not Good Enough Liar to Be Speaker”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andy-borowitz/gingrich-pelosi-not-good_b_206112.html
“My Two Mommies” starring Tom Cruise as Bruno
the superbo court ruled that “separate but splenda” is just plain silly.
383 LOLOLOLOLOL Ron yer really taxin’ my brain this morning.
It’s a matter for the courts to decide I guess
384—-I’ve heard that too. But that was a long time ago.
384 then I guess masturbation is pure out and out sloth…
>> Michael in Waterloo, WI says:
>> Of course dogs drool, but they are lovable and trainable whereas cats are basically useless
My current dog simply will not come. Yet, I’ve been able to teach my last three or four cats to come!
gay + abortion = lavortion
387—-Cats are wonderful. They are self-cleaning, don’t have to be walked, and they are pretty.
Of course dogs drool, but they are lovable and trainable whereas cats are basically useless
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Cats don’t drool, and they do not allow themselves to trained. (except for the litterbox)
#380 flombaye, Yikes! Your only hope is to neutralize that hellish brew with another earworm. Try “My Charona”
gay snuggle fabric softener bear allowed on airplanes?
don’ ask don’t tell!
393: except for masturbating hermaphrodites.
Did she say that she CHOSE to be gay?
393 – Get to the gluttony part! Get to the gluttony part!
bye, guys & gals.
Nymphomaniacs don’t make the best wives. But they make great neighbors
402: that would be oral sex among cannibals
See Friday everyone.
Great show (what I heard of it, anyway). I’ll catch what I missed on the Stephcast this afternoon.
Have a great day ladies and germs!
386—I think cats are dog wannabes. But they don’t want to be happy-happy-jumpy everytime they see their owners. That’s a lot of trouble.
great morning, made the rest of the dismal hopeless day a
little more bearable… snuggle bear able
405 Talk about your wurst nightmare!
386. Those pop-top cans are a giant evolutionary leap for the cats
#394 Ron, Our cats come when they are called by the hum of the electric can opener….
It was a great show. I like how Steph is filling time with more interviews now because there’s not a ton of stuff to mock in this administration the way their was under Dubya. Good paradigm shift Steph and Mooks!
411—now they know the size of the can and the pop of the pop-top. Listen for it…..and…click! Cats are happy.
Great show– see y’all tomorrow!
>> Juliet Hussein Bravo says:
>> #394 Ron, Our cats come when they are called by the hum of the electric can opener….
That too! But I have never had trouble getting my cats to come when called.
Cats are more social than people give them credit for. I’ve spend a lot of time watching feral and farm cats and they are very social. They will try to please the “alpha cat” and that’s what I try to become to my cats… so, they then they want to come for some affection.
Well, I gotta go.
Luv ya eMooks.
thanks for the funny all y’alls! great stuff today
Came on late because stuff happened. But, did you watch Scarborough this morning? That man is on something…the constant giggles, sipping and slurping on his latte. I’m convinced he will be happy when pot becomes legal. But, he needs to save his fun time for after the show. He is not making sense at all.