LiveBlog for Monday, June 8, 2009
• CNN’s Senior Political Correspondent Candy Crowley calls in at 7:05am Pacific to talk about President Obama’s overseas trip and other news of the day.
• GOP Strategist and proprietor of Mullings.com Rich Galen calls in at 7:30am Pacific to give us the GOP view of the President’s overseas trip and Sotomayor’s nomination.
• President Obama promised today to deliver more than 600,000 jobs through his $787 billion stimulus plan this summer, with federal agencies pumping billions into public works projects, schools, and summer youth programs. Obama is ramping up his stimulus program this week even as advisers are ramping down expectations about when the spending plan will effect a continuing rise in the nation’s unemployment.
• North Korea’s top court convicted two American journalists and sentenced them to 12 years in a prison today, intensifying the reclusive nation’s confrontation with the U.S. One of the journalists sentenced is Laura Ling, sister of former “The View” host Lisa Ling.
• With 17 bodies pulled so far from the Atlantic, Brazilian and French military ships have no doubt they’ve located the wreckage of an Air France flight a week after it disappeared en route from Rio de Janeiro to Paris.
• Indiana pension funds and consumer groups asked the U.S. Supreme Court yesterday to stop the sale of bankrupt automaker Chrysler to a group led by Italian carmaker Fiat while they challenge the deal.
Tags: Air France, Barack Obama, Candy Crowley, Chrysler, Fiat, Laura Ling, Lisa Ling, North Korea, Rich Galen, Stimulus
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Goooood Monday morning, everyone!
Though around here I think the sun disappears today for about a week and it turns back into March.
Only 4 days left until the world ends as we know it. Unless Congress and the FCC is stupid enough to change the deadline again. Actually having Channels 2-6 go silent around here makes my job a bit easier.
Morning, Stephophiliacs!
How was everyone’s weekend?
My Celtic band played a big music festival in Fairfax, VA yesterday – all went very well, except power went out to our generator just as we were starting a song – but they had it back up in like six minutes, so we played an unplugged set and went on. Good fun.
Good morning, fellow StephieBloggonists! I hope you had a great weekend.
I’m listening to Bill Press until Steph appears.
Good morning PeterW, Ivan.
It was a perfect weekend for lounging outside and unwinding from the usual nutty workweek. Even at 8PM still enough light to do stuff and no mosquitoes yet.
I think we’ll find that over the weekend Stephanie secretly eloped with Sean Hannity at the Talker’s convention. Today’s show will focus on whether Obama is a seekrit Muslin terrist.
hola, conejotrojano, y robo, arigato! – those are fair facts indeed. – as is the fact THAT THE ZEST PHYSICIAN IS ALSO A PHILOSOPHER. i’m excited that galen is going to be on the show today. – i just got back from the petsthatlooklikehitler’r'us discount outlet, ready to play along with the vivisection portion of the program. – which reminds me, with all due arousal to stephy, check this out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wd5clMjlo5A
5: muslin? – that’s the fabric of our society that’s so endangered by a white guy with a black dad?
In a blow to freedom of speech, CBS advertising denied the sale of billboard space to World Nut Daily asking when will Obama release his birth certificate?
These are trying times, my friends.
8: it’s probably a restriction under the racketeering laws against boring people to death. it varies from state to state, but think about it. you cant really have people falling asleep at the wheel. as john lennon said, that would be instant carnage.
9.
Yeah, it’s gonna get you.
10: plus, they could potential employ the tactic famously used by myanmar against the chinese: follow-up billboard signs could be used to deliver subliminal haiku messages that compel drivers to want to place razors near their own necks.
“SUBTLE RAZOR RHYME…
SILLY ENGLISH KNI-GHTS, I’M,
TAUNTING SECONG TIME.”
BURMA SHAVE
You know where the first muslin terrorist cell was founded?
Osnaburg.
Good Morning, my blogging pals! Good Morning, Team Steph!
I am taking Monday off for some R&R. My birthday weekend included shooting a scene from an up-coming local movie. Wisely, I chose to today off (so that I could sleep in to, say 6:30 AM, instead of the usual 5:00). I can’t talk much about it, except to say my role required fight training and a lot of effects make-up (both are firsts for me). Feeling a bit stiff this working. I’ll probably go to the gym with Peggy shortly.
I have to say that I am saddened, but not surprised, by North Korea’s conviction of the two American journalists. The regime’s development is arrested to that China immediate after the Cultural Revolution. It will take generations to undo the Kims’ damage as dictators.
I too am concerned about the muslin threat – these people are warped. You can see them shuttling and bobbing about the country, looming over us menacingly. They’re dyed in the thread bad, I tell you.
/running out of weaving puns, need help!
13: i just checked the wiki on muslin, and it gives at 3 much more ancient credible possibilities for geographic origin. more in keeping with today’s guests however, the wiki also shows a delightful drawing by james gillray, showing what can happen when too much powdered aluminum is used on one’s fine osnaburg fabric. “ich bin ein osnaburger ! – oh! das volken ! “
15: helpdesk to robo: “hey, baby, put down that bagpipe and get my… – oops . wrong page. – here we go – dont worry; steph will be tartan around all morning.
My Saturday afternoon snooze was interrupted by some very low flying planes (say just above treetop level). We have an antique car group in the area that meets at the Gold’s Gym parking lot just up the street every Saturday afternoon. The last two weeks some small planes have been buzzing the area, my guess is since that one of them was a biplane that the two events are related somehow, especially since the same group buzzed the area again this weekend.
Somehow I wonder if it’s right to fly that low in a residential area.
Kim’s so ronery.
antique cars by gold’s gym, now that’s synergy!
16: you could check with your local bailbondsman (bail bond gift certificates are still available on my website.), to find out how surly the bonds of the earth are in your area.
21 was actually about 18
happy mondee, Ivan, flom, troj, shaf and Peter
y’all sure are good entertainment!
Here’s a silly thing: Hammer pants takeover!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfxCnZ4Dp3c
Very nice, Carol! Almost as good as the wedding reception Thriller Dance: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YT6InvLJUzA
Oops, meant this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPmYbP0F4Zw
23: excellent. no wonder herut so loudly. the breakaway has biegun.
Morning Carol.
Bah, I have to remember to look at all these YouTubie thingys later since the YouTubes are blocked here.
for later–
Dolly gave a fabulous commencement speech at U of Tenn:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuOm2lLIOoU
also listened to Larry Page (founder of Google) at UMich:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFb2rvmrahc
to balance it out, Rev. Tutu at N. Carolina
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3F4QU_PaQM
It’s a springtime treat!
25: it’s the fred berry principle in action. it’s always cool when those who look least capable of dancing are actually those who can make it look seamless. the man with violet vest and glasses was poetry.
27: a rabbit with blocked tubes. well i never.
- well, one time, but i had brand new shiny equipment to test.
love the wedding dances.
What the kids are doing these days!
I’m going to the gym. I’ll be back for part of hour two and hour three.
I love reading the comments in any YouTube video. There are always several douchebags that say things like “why waste your time with this, you could be curing cancer!” or “This was totally fake” (it usually isn’t) or “this was rehearsed!” (yeah, obviously).
I think we need a jobs program for these people. Call it the “Clearing out American Moms’ Basements Act of 2009″.
31: remember not to lift those antique benz cars by the bumpers. – by the way, anybody know if those bi-planes required to have gaydar?
32: some might say your idea is “crrrraaapppp!!”, but i say it sounds rather SScottish. – by the way, have you even seen SScottzi’s awesome dance videos? – the man does a pretty mean lambada, so i have to say that his mom is a really good sport.
#32, good luck at the gym. Remember what grasshopper would say, to stop before it hurts.
Funny thing was posted about Carradine’s means of death on another forum:
You gotta wonder how good an asphyxiated orgasm is anyway. I mean, personally, I’ve never had an orgasm and said, “you know, that was okay, but I think I can make it better!”
I’m a little worried about what Mama did over the weekend.
33
I remember watching some antique cars at a hillclimb race (each car is timed up the hill). I was part of a group that was spotting the cars as they went up the course and radioed their position. I was stationed at a hairpin turn where you really had to slow it down to make it. A big old Bentley came zipping by and didn’t slow down enough and it ended up off the road. There’s a little ditch then a hill on each side of the road, so when the Bentley went off, it slid back towards the road and dug its bumper into the ditch. Took about a dozen people to free that bumper from the ditch.
These cars are NOT anything you’d want to be driving on the street (Bentleys, Bugattis, Stanley Steamers…)
37
See #5
why must the weirdest thing one finds on the interweb all
weekend always entail david carradine? why not?
fir warning. this one blends scottishness with carradinity
for a potent synergy of weirditude.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrWUxfaizms
#32, no, but I enjoyed Judson Laipply’s videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMH0bHeiRNg
Adding to 39
She may have been drunk at the time
37/39: sure you dont mean see 23?
Morning, all. I hope that you enjoyed your weekend. It is a sunny, gorgeous early summer day here in the DC area, and the humidity hasn’t kicked in yet.
My tomatoes and flowers are loving the sun, and I’m getting some ladybugs to prevent the aphids from taking over and killing the plants.
I’ve also been doing some blogging. If you want to check out how one person analyzes potential investments, please click on Two Commodity Prospects
Even if you don’t do your investing on your own, it is useful to see what tools can be used to make decisions.
It’s one of my better blog posts if I don’t say so myself!
Well, good friends, I thought I was going to be able to pleasantly talk with you all this morning as I listened to Stephanie and the Mooks.. Unfortunately, it is not to be. The software guys are again insisting that my hardware design doesn’t quite work. So I have to set aside my hardware design hat (a battered old leather beret style cap) and drop on my software design hat (a brass funnel, with handle), to code up just enough to show these bozos how to write a driver and see that my hardware indeed IS working.
I’ve simulated and tested the snot out of this control interface and I know it works. Sometimes I think they prefer to be lazy and let the Old Hardware Fart design their baseline device driver..
Anyway, TMI there, I’m sure all the normal “non-cones” could care less.
I’ll try to come back and at least see what you guys are writing about later if I can.
Hasta luego!
L.
Oh…by the way, anyone from the cult of Mac want to help me figure out what the hell is wrong with my iBook? All of the sudden, I get a Mac version of the blue screen of death. Nothing seems to work. Maybe I’ll borrow my brother’s Tiger disks and install it, because whatever is on there sure ain’t working!
45 Good luck Ivan. My “relaxing” over the weekend consisted of stretching out in my lounge chair in the back and downloading a circuit simulation program on my new laptop. And what did I do simulations on? Vacuum tube circuits. Talk about being an old bastard, eh?
43 Well, since I can’t see the YouTube thingy I can’t comment on it.
Ooh, almost Miller time, have fun all you lucky bastiges.
#45, I feel something vaguely similar to your pain, Ivan. Go show those lolligaggers what coding really is.
Morning folks! Showtime!
piper, you must be paid for sharing the evolution of dance video. the man is really adroit. he also had the courtesy to remember that the satanic goat-head salute is left-handed. – it would have been even better, if he hadnt run out of good music after “walk like an egyptian”. – i’m technically old and embittered, because i can remember when the radio was where to go for good music, as if there was a competitive element to getting on the air, and there were auditions of some type involved. currently, i’m pretty sure that each thing being released is being composed by one guy with a macintosh someplace in about 5 minutes. – i find it’s actually faster to find good music by walking to live venues.
Morning All!!!!! As Tony in DC already mentioned, it is pretty darn nice here in the D to the C (so far). The Blast Furnace hasn’t kicked in yet, and you can actually walk two blocks without sweating through all your clothes.
Hey Peter, I checked out the Wilson Bridge bike lane on Saturday!!! Pretty sweet. As I was on that side I checked out National Harbour too. Never been before. Would have loved to check out the Fairfax stuff but I had to hustle back for a family gathering.
45-Ivan, I’ve been meaning to ask you, are you related to Iver Biggun?
Good Monday Morning Board.
Happy 82nd Birthday Jerry Stiller. And Happy 76th to Joan Rivers. Stephi – cue your impersonation!
Maybe you’ve seen this already, but I am really shocked and disappointed to see the kinds of rhetoric I would expect from mouth breaking right-wingnuts of this country – but there are others in the world (and not just Roseanne whose comedy CD I shredded this weekend):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XavwTg2y2u4
Morning Steph fans!
good morning everyone
EEWwwww
Screaming Baby Airlines. EEEEEE!
Steve Maulsberg (sp?) is a dips***. I loved Mike Malloy calling him a hyienna.
why don’t parents realize that you have to really do EXTRA stuff for kids when flying
Steph….duct tape…..does wonders. Tape the stupid toddler’s mouth shut and tape him to the seat.
I have nothing against kids who can behave but when they act like demon incarnates, they need to be duct taped and shut up.
LMAO John!
stephanie symbolist: “walk with a dalmation…”
#52, yeah, I’m excited about it. I may start biking the distance from Old Town to work starting next week. I’ll drive to Old Town, disgorge my bike, and do the 5 miles. Slowly I’ll drive less and bike more until I have the whole route.
1. give them a bottle so they can pop their ears
2. buy toys that they haven’t seen before
3. get a portable dvd player and cartoon/toddler videos
4. books to read to them
My favorite scenario – you’re waiting for the plane to ascend; you’re strapped into your window seat. A mother with two screaming children – one toddler, one infant, comes walking down the isle. You’re saying to yourself: “Keep going . . . keep going . . . keep going . . . . Aw, S***” They’re seated next to you for the entire flight.
I’m grabbing for my noise-reduction headphones and IPOD faster than you can say Rick Warren!
why do the puppyrazzi even bother with mittens?
Hey kid. Look over there! Whoops, dart in your neck!
Oh….by the way, speaking of Limpdick…I guarantee you that he took his private jet to the event. And he’ll talk about how he’s fighting for the working class guy and he’ll call people elitist?
Damn fat hypocrite.
Whutareyadoin?
It is trying when the screaming babies are in front of you in a line that never, ever, ever moves (no matter where it is: DMV, at a store, at the bank).
68: pretty clever use on the on-board bagpipes.
One reason why I like United is that they usually put the rugrats in the back. I get the e-plus seats and I get to sit in the front, far away from the rugrats. It’s nice!
Steph on a Road Trip
She was going to make me a pot…
Can you get some dates for my friends, too?
– from the Eric Stratton School of Dating
Saw “He’s Just Not That Into You” on DVD this weekend. Frangela was fab (nice healthy girls!) but the rest of the movie was mediocre (not as bad as the star and a half disaster the local reviewer thought it).
Jennifer Aniston showed up in my dreams. “What are you doing here Rachel?”. She just shrugged her shoulders.
bonus feature: a WALKENIZED aviation joke:
” did you hear about the old lady who backed into a moving
airplane propeller? – that propeller cut the ass right off
that poor old lady.”
actually in a train you could have a car that has toddler play ground equipment
get tied. you’re talkin bout a tourist,
whose every move is among the purist.
#76, thanks, now I’m imagining an old lady in a Nazi uniform engaged in a brutal fisticuffs with Harrison Ford.
how can someone tie their own hands above their head?
79: sorry about that. i’ll be right over to pick up mom.
I think the ultimate solution is like space travel in the Alien universe. Put the kids in cryogenic sleep.
80: probably heard thom hartmann’s speech, and got free toes.
80/83: (it was a joint speech)
Simple Snausage: David Carradine was most likely killed for gambling debts or a drug deal gone horribly wrong…
What is Maxine Waters doing to try to help you save your home? She’s lobbying for TARP money for a bank where her husband sits on the board. She’s dirty, uninformed, and she needs to go. You think Pelosi is bad? Waters is 100 times worse.
I change the channel when she comes on.
“mr T and tina” starring samuel l jackson and dakota fanning?
Will Kevin Bacon be in Footloose part II? And what is with Kenny Loggins and cheesy 80s movies?
FYI: Marilyn Manson is Brian Warner from Canton, Ohio.
quote o’the day:
“If all the girls who attended the Yale prom
were laid end to end, I wouldn’t be a bit surprised.”
– Dorothy Parker
Bitte eine Bit!
85 Carradine crossed Savage Henry
the “scream bloody murder” series, by christiane amanpour is available on youtube in 14 parts. parts 5, 7, and 8, are particularly incriminating about potential rescuers knowing what’s happening, but waiting for the situation to cure itself. – there’s also a very surreal juxtaposition showing the instantaneous flip from rumsfeld passionately sucking off saddam hussein, while 50 villages are gassed, to GHWB suddenly waking up 2 years later when kuwait’s oil wells are threatened.
you know, as President Obama was walking beside and slightly behind Angela Merkel, I was seized by great anxiety. “No!” I screamed at the TV. “DON’T GIVE HER A BACKRUB!”
and then I began to worry–did Bush have a reason for rubbing her shoulders? Did he sleep with Angela Merkel the night before?
93: that guy that got 715 home-runs? but he seemed so nice.
we need to know what world leaders are hooking up. What foreign minister is making Mrs. Sarkozy’s toes curl?
let’s try this again: 96 regers to 92. sorry . rented fingers.
93 Saddam was just another of the Bush Crime Family’s
Business Associates… like Hitler, Norriega, Osamo, the
Cali Cartel… funny how they all end up in a closet
w/their hands tied above their heads
or some Instant Carnation Bitch??
I think I regurgitated intraorally, a few CC’s.
96 Savage Henry the Scag Barron. We gotta go to Vegas to croak him.
99: funny-strange, or funny-weird ?
Karl Rove just ended up in the closet.
98
Hope you get a reduced rental fee.
It’s sad to me that a prostitute would have such low self esteem that he would sleep with Karl Rove for money.
Questions about Canada:
Tell us more about the split beavers on the
Canada moneys. Do you know where there are any
pictures of them?
Is it true that Canada was once an independent
country of it’s very own? But I thought that
Queen Maud owned Canada?
Doesn’t Canada have totally nude French-Canadien
table dancers plus 5% alcohol beer and legal
prostitution and free weed and 222s?
Isn’t Canada cute? Does Canada get to go outside all
by itself? I thought Canada was part of Alaska.
Doesn’t the Mrs. President of Canada hang out with
the Rolling Stones and do blow and have sex with negroes?
Wasn’t the Chief of Canadia once in the Navy with
the President of Moscow and they had a TV show together
called Mikail’s Navy?
Does Canada like having a shape-shifting Satan-whorshiping
slum-lord cannibal Reptile Alien for it’s Queen?
102: couldnt joe dimaggio just pitch savage henry some de-caff ?
103 funny like Steph’s here to amuse you?
Speaking of Canada, I tried to make a vegan poutine yesterday. It was okay.
Gabby….it’s all about the money. They sell their services, and they don’t care who pays them.
106: actually, hookers just tell rove “you’re not my type.”
108 Savage O-Henry, Mr. Koughee
110 wassa Poutine?
single payer health care means they give free health care to single people, right?
110: how many vegans are in that recipe?
Nice to have a president that is actually liked.
more cheese curds on my french fries, please.
Steph said Champs Elysee, Cheyboygan… Steph, you spoke French!…
The idea of having sex with Rove is sad. I’m sorry.
166-Eating vegans is just wrong. Their pelts make the best leather, though.
when in Paris, always try the Chinese food restaurants…
118: it’s so offensive to hear that saddam was gassing “his own people”. – who’s people are you supposed to gas?
116-Sorry.
Gabby….if he pulls out enough c-notes, he’ll be just their type. They do it for the money, my friend.
Right wing whackos still yet to say anything productive or meaningful or truthful.
Hannity is beyond hopeless – Bush was not a friend of the Musilim World (neither was America for that matter)
no he wasn’t
Was that Robin Leach?
GWB was the best terrorist recruitment tool EVER. Angry, militant Muslims owe him a great deal.
kennedy said we will put a man on the moon in the decade of the 60s and it was done.
spiro agnew said we would put a man on mars by the end of the 70s and NASA instantly lost virtually all of its funding.
They’re Afghan Muslims. The afghani is a currency, dumb ass!
mornin bloggies!
#12 LOL You definitely have to be of a “certain age” to get that one!
#14 I was initially shocked by the news of Ling & Lee being sentenced to 12 yrs labor in Korea…how their families must be terrified for them. As I read more, it does seem to be a bargaining chip for korea vs u.s. and let’s hope they are releases unharmed soon. I have no doubt that they were most likely nabbed from china’s side of the border…
126: last week, glenn beck confessed “i’m the one who doesnt know anything about economics.”
I would say that the million Iraqi Muslims Bush killed pretty much undoes good from feeding a few Somalis.
Steph to reprise Carolyn Jones’/Anjelica Huston role in the
next Addam’s Family movie? Octopus leg dress… wrow!
Unfortunately, far-right nut case hate talk host Jay Severin was allowed to return to WTKK last week. Though he now has to mix more with the common folk as he has to do his show from the ‘TKK studio rather than from his gated community.
But as with Imus, the radio station itself has “blood on their hands” as well. For however bad it is, they KNEW what they were getting with Severin and specifically asked for over the edge stuff, and when they got it – ‘TKK had to clamp down.
I have a bad feeling we will be having a war with North Korea soon.
GET LING & GEE HOME SOON
Bah, I meant WTTK. Brain shorted out…..
116 how bout single prayer health care?
Okay, folks, peace out….gotta go…check out my blog!
#134 I can’t find it on youtube, but that reminds me of the best campaign commercial ever. It was lots of clips of McCain saying he didn’t know that much on economics, wasn’t an expert on economics, he’ll pick a VP that knows a lot about economics. Then they showed Sarah Palin winking.
140-here’s a good dental plan for any people: Chew on the other side.
How come Angela Landsbury sound ezacly like Jim’s The Queen?
Katrina and Her Wave. Very Popular in The Big Easy.
140: i use this one, and it works very well.
SAINT WALKEN’S ALL-PURPOSE PRAYER:
grant me the kinesis to recycle that which is fubar,
the modularity to adapt that which is not,
and the intel to know the difference.
I’m back from the gym. None the worse for the experience.
How y’alls doin’?
Here’s a cry for help from a soldier I served with.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaP_7TVdATU
warning it’s sad and disturbing. Perfect for a rainy Monday.
war with north korea would be very irresponsible. Even if north korea attacked, we would probably at most be able to muster a holding action at the 43rd parallel. Seoul is well within the range of the guns and rockets stationed along the border. It was foolish to turn Seoul into the Washington DC, New York, Detroit, and Chicago of South Korea. They should have let it remain a frontier outpost and established a decentralized manufacturing, banking, and government system in various medium sized cities along the south coast. A single salvo from North Korea would severely disrupt the pacific rim economy, something the west can scarcely afford–but something of no interest to North Korea at all except strategically.
hi shaf. we catapulted the trojanrabbit, but the gaydar failed and he collided with a bi-plane. also, steph has been practicing the bridal reception thriller dance with hannity dressed as the groom. SScottzi wants to grow up to be just like donald rumsfeld. the saddam hussein inflatable blow-up doll is almost ready.
Downtown Incident
The poor old drunk approached me as I waited to cross the intersection downtown. I cringed at the stench wafting
off him, and readied myself for his pitch.
“You ever f$%k doggy-style?” he queried.
“Uh, sure, yeah” I was a little surprised by the question.
“That was mine. I came up with that. G%d d&mned fancy pants
corporate bast$@ds. F##king lawyers. They stole that one from me.
F@$king bastards”
Just another victim of the corporate raiders. I gave him a dollar.
“F@$kin’ Bast$#ds” he muttered.
It wasn’t perceived IT WAS true … Bush articulated a lot of things and then did NOTHING
For the sake of those of us who lived through Vietnam, could we retire forever the expression “the struggle for the hearts and minds”? Bullets don’t win either. We are simply too dumb, thoughtless, and cruel to make a bid for hearts and minds.
149 It must serve China’s interests to allow that crazy
little git continue to threaten the world. It would seem
to me that if China and the US could get together we could
remove said little git in about two days and free that poor
oppressed land… apparently it’s the pivot that the entire
balance of power in North East Asia swings on. Nobody over
there likes or trusts Japan; they still remember the World
Tour they tried to go on in 1941 and how beastly they acted.
The Koreas have been trampled by Chinese and Japanese so
many times they won’t forget any time soon…
151: was the guy dripping various juices from ginsberg? that may have been michael savage. – i’ve actually heard the wiener rant emphatically about stuff like “those people who are saying ‘REPUBLICRATS’, they stole that from me. i thott of that first. i thott of it 2 and a half years ago, all be myself.. see cause its republicans and democrats combined … cause they’re exactly the same, see? … that was my idea…”
MESS WITH MINE … our deductible is stoopidly high
Is Jim in the crapper? K to the J was mentioned without a word from him.
153: indeed, 2 major features of present pop culture that are already challenging to explain to new arrivals, and will only get much harder to explain, tens of thousands of years from now, are:
1) the cold war
2) how these are the final days
155 the idea of the savage weiner all P.O.’d and with his
head about to explode is strangely satifying in a schadenfreude
kinda way
Question fer da Mooks + Radmilla the Screener wench:
So what’s it like, living on the road with the whole
crew, everybody sleeping in one room, sharing your most
intimate secrets with each other, pillow fights and
sharing each other’s deodorants, you and Jim and Chris
and what’s-her-name, that radio slag… Does Jim
make noises when he sleeps? I heard he makes noises.
It must make it hard to sleep. Like he’s reviewing the
Zapruder film every night? What’s with That?
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Poor David Carradine. Whether or not he wanted to depart that day, I’m sure he didn’t want to leave a legacy of speculation and suffocation jokes.
The Cold War was a fake!
Like every other war.
The War Against Terror [insert rude acronym here] especially.
Otto Von Bismarck: the public shouldn’t see what
goes into making wars, or sausages. Conspiracy Sausages.
159: dont buy the zapruder film alibi; that’s just jim’s recurring dream of rick santorum trying to chew on his appendix.
and John R has a freeway named after him in Detroit.
165: i thott JR was in dallas.
164 eeewww! got some Santorum on ya. not to mention the joementum
“People who love sausage and respect the law should never watch either one being made.” — Mark Twain
David Carridine is on Fox “Mental” Tuesday night.
Dee town freeway names:
John R, Walter Reuther, Fisher… exit 69 Big Beaver corridor!
‘Some Cow Funque’ bumper!
the main reason that the “unemployment rate” is the highest ever is that the stimulus package increased the length of time that unemployment benefits can be received.
the unemployment rate is not an accurate measure the # of unemployed – it only measures the # of people collecting unemployment payments.
Just as if an administration would raise the level of personal income that denotes the “poverty level” — the “poverty rate” would increase immediately.
i knew mitch mcconnell was a marilyn manson fan, but does the chinless one truly believe that private sector stimulus is enuff?
ad fer GM onstar: oh it’s so nice to have someone
looking over yer should at all times tracking where
you are and whut yer doin’. How did I survive w/o it?
Bleet for your servitude, sheeple! Oh OnStar, please
unlock my car doors for me! Oh OnStar, can you baby
sit the kid while I get my hair done and leave them
in the car in the swelterin’ heat?
#172 – Mark Twain (I believe) – “There are three types of lies: lies, damn lies and statistics.”
173 Mister McChinless… please leave the building. And consider
hanging yersef in a closet.
175 Mr McTwain on women:
Even the clearest and most perfect circumstantial
evidence is likely to be at fault, after all, and
therefore ought to be received with great caution.
Take the case of any pencil, sharpened by any woman;
if you have witnesses, you will find she did it with
a knife; but if you take simply the aspect of the
pencil, you will say she did it with her teeth.
- Pudd’nhead Wilson
I’ve been on unemployment from time to time. I find it hard to believe that anyone would prefer to remain on the dole rather than on the job.
#176 Is that the new insult? “You suck. I hope they find you hanging in the closet.”
176: IS that an insult? some of my very favorite people suck.
- and no, rick santorum is NOT one of my favorite people.
#172, if that were true, then U6 wouldn’t be tracking with U3. No, unemployment really is that bad.
Drinks at the sensational Stephanie Miller Compound:
She breezes into the living room wearing an exquisite
peignoir and those multicolored toe socks and trips,
dumping the box of wine off the costly and ornate
chromed plastic serving tray.
Admire the oil painting on velvet of Guy LaFleuer
hanging over the faux fireplace as the dogs bark.
The wine is undamaged, and as she deftly retrieves it from
the floor she also scoops up the plastic martini glasses
and the [horrors!] condoms. French ticklers no less.
Mentally you correct yourself: “Freedom Ticklers”.
There is, after all, a war on.
“Right wing tooly heart”? What an oxymoron. Everyone knows right wingers don’t have a heart (or much of a brain).
179 I don’t know if it’s a new insult but it’s something
I’ve been wishing on rethug bastids fer about the last 10 years…
#178 – I’m not saying anyone would prefer to be unemployed — I’m only saying the measure of the unemployment rate has changed.
Citizens who receive unemployment payments and are unable to get a new job – when they time out, even though they may not have gotten a new job, are not counted as “unemployed.”
The “time out” now is longer – thus a more accurate # now. But not completely correct.
He just called her ‘Randy’, didn’t he??
182: that was exquisite. – i simply dont understand why penthouse forum keeps refusing your letters. hmmm…. maybe if you would try to work “taking off the helmet” into the plot line…
183: or even much of a tool
and many of them were INNOCENT
185 OK so my BS in Computer Science and my 10 years of
experience with programming, networks and third level
support is now worth what? nothing, all those jobs are
in Bangalore.
I see Rich is still hitting the RW Talking Points (GWOT). Once a tool, always a tool!
#190 Agreed, Mark. That’s why I shifted into project management.
186 That’s ‘Randy’ as in ‘do I make you Randy, Baby?’
187 damn Penthouse forum never accepting me letters.
shaf, you must live in a state that still has projects…
190: go with it. bangalore. helmet off. kung fu reruns playing in the next room. this could be the penthouse forum letter setting that lets you break thru.
#191 At least he admitted Republicans don’t read the books they buy. There’s a lot of dust collecting on Mark Levine’s best sellers.
I never thought this would happen to me. One night I went home with a woman I picked up in a bar for a session of sex when I discovered she lived with her 15 year old sister–an double amputee with an enema fetish!
#190 – perhaps I should make this more plain.
MORE people are and have been unemployed than the actual unemployment rate has professed. Because of the way they measure it.
197 tell me Penthouse published yer lettre gabby
I hate it when she cons you into letting her hang
you upside down from the chandelier and then when
your all ready that guy in the batman outfit jumps
out of the amoire
#185, the measure you’re talking about is U3. U6 includes discouraged workers (who stopped looking) and the underemployed. And U6 is like 16.4% now.
#190 – actually with the lid off H1B visas (Thanks Bill Gates!) the jobs might be here, but they’re taken by foreigners.
198: shane-o, well done, as expository writing goes, but sadly, we’re a bit disappointed you didnt put it to the tune of “working 9 to 5″.
marilyn vos savant claims that the notion that unemployment rates are measured by the number of people actually receiving unemployment insurance is an urban myth. She says that the numbers are generated by polling and by tracking the number of people laid off minus the number of people hired in a given period of time.
ProducerChris, I have a guest suggestion, Frank Schaeffer author of “Crazy for God: How I Grew Up as One of the Elect, Helped Found the Religious Right, and Lived to Take All (or Almost All) of It Back.” I heard him yesterday on Background Briefing on KPFK, and he is great. I think the podcast will be here: http://www.ianmasters.org/left_coast.html, when they get around to posting it. It is Pacifica after all.
199: the trick is to go into great detail about robin going down on the “batpole”.
the batman-in-the-armoire fiasco. The bane of my sexual life.
#194 I’m fortunate to have found a University job. There are still projects being done. However, there have been some major cutbacks.
206: and the bat-coolwhip alfredo. EWWWWW !
HEALTH CARE IS A MESS! My husband is a professional firefighter and we pay HUGE premiums for healthcare. We have a disabled daughter that requires a wheelchair. Blue Cross, despite the big premiums and the medical diagnosis of cerebral palsy, would only pay $80 of the $6000 bill for the chair.
” YOU NEED COLLEGEN’” – robert plant
#200 – Peter – see, you are rediculously (which I greatly respect) smart – you (and SMS listeners) know the different unemployment measures.
But, consider how many times anyone in the MSM has spoken about U6 vs. U3? So everyone hears (which isn’t many) 9.4% – highest in 24 years.
Morning all! Just give us the same health plan you have, Congress, you bunch of elitists.
Yeah, thanks Steph (for voting for Reagan)!
#190, 192 – my sympathies, am in the same boat career-wise.
Needed to look for a completely different career. No current opportunities for programming so stopped looking. Also stopped “updating” my technical education as I seemed to be throwing lots of good money out the window. Watched as my 20-something caucasian male conferers whom the consultant firm I worked for thought should be promoted over me (I was 40-plus then and with years more experience), I went to the garbage bin and “laid off”. Jobless for two years. Moved back home and took care of my ailing elderly parents.
Today do QA and technical writing. Such is life.
204 205 got any bat-lube in that utility belt? oooww!
is there a link to that recipe?
214 you and me both Dan, my empathy!
#211, indeed, it’s a problem. Economists have been known to say that quoting U3 without a minute or two of caveats borders on fraud.
My point is, though, that U6 has been increasing pretty much side-by-side with U3, so that the extending of unemployment benefits probably doesn’t contribute to the growth of U3, since those people were always counted on U6.
Is the monkey meat rubbed down with cajun seasoning first?
All of the forum letters are written by a woman in New Jersey, btw. Or at least that’s how it was when I was with the company. I had the job of cleaning up the forum files back to issue one–they had used OCR to convert the magazine into electronic files and they were horrible. A lot of the time I had to go back to the original magazine and type it in. Then I inserted all the needed HTML codes to lay out the column for the internet. Over time, the sameness of the language (sex, tryst, etc, are always referred to as “sessions”–as if the writer were keeping an appointment with a therapist, not having sex with a woman he picked up hitchhiking in Italy. Seeing a couple engaged in sex is always so titillating to a second woman who appears on the scene that she joins in. Every bodily fluid is lapped up to the last drop. And so forth. If I hadn’t been so pressed for time, I was pretty sure I could write a program that would write forum letters indistinguishable from the ones that appear in the magazine.
U3 and U6 are just different rock bands.
P.O.E.! Thanks for the Dr. Strangelove ref, Jim!
#220 – HA! love ya Paul – for cutting the stat arg tension
It’s a perfectly sensible study – it shows that political sensibilities reflect deeper psychological states and less rational stances of issues. There’s already a body of evidence to suggest this: for example, children who are given corporal punishment grow up more inclined towards harsh and punitive political positions (pro-death penalty, pro-war).
I hate it when people pooh-pooh funding science because the answer is “obvious”, or the methodology seems superficially irrelevant. The “disgust triggers” were almost certainly chosen because they are so greatly disconnected from any issues or political positions.
214: cybercondolences sir. reminds me of the one panel comic where a fresh grad in cap and gown is chatting with the janitor. the janitor bursts into laffter: “oh wow, YOUR ph d is ALSO in philosophy?”
during a financial reverse at the dot com I used to work at, the only three people laid off from the tech department were:
1. The only minority (a guy from India)
2. The only woman
3. The only person over 40 (me)
219 Gabby, what? You had to mop up the bathrooms at
Penthouse Magazine?
221 I don’t avoid women Mandrake. But I do deny them my essence.
when mopping the penthouse bathroom, be sure to stretch condoms over your shoes.
219: even more disturbing than the similarities of the “letters” (are they now being done by the same guy who codes “songs” for top 40 radio?) is how every single [fill in the part or secretion] to ever appear is unusually delicious. – sorry, that’s just a mathematical imnpossibility.
General Jack D. Ripper, essense denier.
If Right Wingers don’t read those crappy Right Winger books, who does?
I read the first chapter of one of Ann Coulter’s book since it was a free download.
Wowie, wow wow that woman has a prurient mind! Anal sex this… gang bang that.. She projected it all on liberals, of course, but it was wild.
Sorry to hear that, Dan.
Veggies poutine, talk about the end of the world;) I’ll take tortiere and some sugar pie to review the 2012 end of the world prophecies.
#230, right-wing institutes, think-tanks, and financiers buy the books in bulk and give them away to righties, who may or may not read them.
Very few people buy these books on their own.
Whut was it, back in the day when I first discovered
the wonderful world of pornography every other letter
was an incest number… then it stopped. I dunno what
happened.
Ron – those books are heavily promoted to libraries. It’s big money, and there’s pressure to buy.
230 Coulter is one crazy insane fugly yammering half-bright
right wing nut job loon… how’d you stand getting tru any
of her crap?
#230 Nobody does. It’s like Scientolgists who buy room fulls of Dianetics – the books just sit around, but Dianetics rockets up the best seller list.
The lack of intellect on the right leads me (and others) to believe that right wingers are buying lots of copies of O’Reilly, Levine, etc. They just pile them up in a corner somewhere. They don’t need to read the books because they listen to the radio show and it’s the same stuff, but they buy multiple copies of the book to support their guys (and move it up the best seller list).
230. thank you for reminding me of this lovely youtube discovery. observe this excellent obliteration of coulter’s “arguments” (if you can call them that). this gentleman, jeremy paxson, is so refined, that the two of them pretty much bookend the spectrum.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aiHbUplz3k
World’s Worst Jobs:
1. stall mopper at peep show
2. jr asst crack whore trainee
3. assistant to Ms Miller
4. salad tosser at Repug Nat’l Convention
There seems to be two right-wing radio hosts per right-wing radio listener.
Ann Coulter is one right wing celebrity I’d like to outsource to India. Wonder if anyone there willing to degrade themselves to her level? Or maybe their is joy in the slums, at least they don’t have to be on fox?
Just about time to take a walk, might be the only time this week the weather is good enough for it.
Have a great day everyone. Love you all!
Good morning, All!
237: it is rumored that some dianetics books make filler material from the ending of “magister ludi”, which nobody has ever managed to read.
Bill Press is subbing for Ed Shultz today. I may actually tune into his program today.
Don’t have anything against the Shultz, just don’t care to hear about game stats and hunting!
245-huh?
steph future husband: consult post 6.
Jim should get a cookie for the Torquemada guess. He knows his Inquisitioners.
back to The Sensational Stephanie Miller Klassy Klothing Line:
‘yer not leaving the house in that get-up missy!’
what’s er name, the crazy Christian lady claimed she’s a
Project Monarch sex-slave mind-kontrol zombie courier/assassin:
it’s porn for Christians, tittilation for feebs. It’s a smoke
screen to cover the real MK-Ultra/Project Artichoke horrors
that never did really end. Flush Dim-bulb and his dildo-heads
are proof enough of that…
FYI, Not Gen X (of which I am a member–born 1969) OR Baby Boomer; actually, Momma AND Obama are part of Generation Jones:
See Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_Jones
Generation Jones is a term used to describe the generation of people born between 1954 and 1965. The term is used primarily in English-speaking countries and Western Europe[1], although it is used to some degree globally.[2][3][4] The birth years typically used in the U.S. are 1954-1965, but these tend to vary slightly in other countries, usually starting no earlier than 1953, and ending no later than 1968.[5]
Further down in this Wiki article, see note about Obama and Generation Jones:
The election to the presidency of Barack Obama, born in 1961, focused more attention on Generation Jones. Many journalists, publications, and experts have pointed out that Obama is a member of Generation Jones, including Jonathan Alter (Newsweek),[33] David Brooks (The New York Times) and Karen Tumulty (Time Magazine).[34][35][36][37]
Thanks!
m
detour que nada
Why don’t we do it in the road?
just drive-by blogging today, y’all… work is a tad on the busy side …. hoping to leap out of the bushes in time for SPARTA!!!!… LOOK OUT!!!!
Was shocked when I finally read what Scientologists believed. Thought they were kidding, but guess not.
[PS: Don't have anything against the Sparks personally either, just think he has a big mouth.]
I had a dear friend who had MS. He was riding in his wheelchair, and was arrested for drunk driving.
I’m not a gynecologist, but I’ll take a look…
it was on fire when i went down on it
Why deny sex?
Thanks guys for answering my question. Apparently, lots of people BUY the books but almost nobody READS them!
But, on the left-wing equivalent, I do buy and read some — Al Franken and Micheal Moore, mostly.
Then, of course, there are TONS of serious lefty books that I’ve read.
Is Jim still a non-drinker?
beaver terrorism? such a haskell.
damn beavers
#260 “Apparently, lots of people BUY the books but almost nobody READS them!” That about sums it up (right wing reading habits).
That’s an angry beaver!
Ward, weren’t you a little hard on the Beaver last night?
Beaver with diesel on it? Would that mean the were building diesel dikes?
#266 Dirtiest words ever said on television, according to the sketch at the end of Revenge of the Nerds.
all this beaver talk is getting me sweaty
268 you recognized it!
Bret Michaels got hit in the head with scenery last night.
264: karl rove made a special appearance on the limbaugh show to affirm that dubya does indeed read books. rove to have had a book-reading contest with dubya. something like during a month or so, while rove only read 103 books, dubya read 105. – this was alleged to have happened during a time when an actual president would have been more than consumed by tending to world affairs. so this pretty much kills the old assumptions that rove is either incredibly stupid, or a liar. rove is quite simply an incredibly stupid liar.
#271 Watch it happen at http://tinyurl.com/lowvzu
Mark and Amy,
I think someone said that line was never actually said on the show. Kind of like “flaven” was never said by Jerry Louis.
Do you know?
260: of course, you have the advantage of knowing how to read and having authors that are actually worth reading.
#260, more accurate to say “lots of books are bought” than “lots of people buy the books”!
#270 One of my favorite movies as a kid. Didn’t necessarily understand it all, but I made up my own answers to enjoy the film. I had no idea what a “wonder joint” was, but obviously it made the party more fun. No need for a warning that there’s explicit drug use.
It was nice of Carly Simon to write that song about me.
Hey, Flombay, that was a myth that Bush didn’t read books. He read a couple of “Shakespeares”!
I tried to find the transcript of bin Laden’s recent tape but with no luck. Any of you know where I can read it?
274 apocryphal but true…
274: there was cagney, who never actually said “you dirty rat”,
and then sagan, who never actually said “billions and billions”.
- according to snopes, fonzie’s career as a teacher was quashed,
because that made it too easy to get an “A”.
#270 – “Leave It To Beaver” episode 1-24-63 — “More Blessed To Give”
My kingdom (which ain’t anything) for that drop!!!
Police will arrest a drunk no matter the vehicle. A farmer in England trained a horse to take him home after visiting visiting a local pub. This went on for years, a new constable shows up and is arrested under an old English law, drunk while in charge of a horse.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/4619942.stm
275 authors worth reading Bucky Fuller, Robert Anton Wilson
must do a thing
czech ya later
279: my favorite response to the claim that bush had read “3 shakespurs” while on vacation: from radio guy jack armstrong in sacramento: “one of them was almost surely william”.
but as with anything on the right, there is a rough equivalence: Thurgood Marshall=Clarence Thomas, Hillary Clinton=Sarah Palin, Barack Obama=Michael Steel, etc. So a book of unsupported crap by a right wing author=a researched book by a left wing author. A “foundation” composed of spoiled rich third-generation heirs of a fortune stolen a hundred years ago buying a semi trailer full of cases of unread books=thousands of individual copies purchased by readers in bookstores and over amazon.
AT&T sucks in Santa Cruz, too.
AT&T sucks pretty hard here in the DC area too. I know from personal experience.
#272 Did they say what books GWB read? maybe it was like
#1 Green Eggs and Ham
#2 Go Dog Go
#3 Hop On Pop
etc etc
cagny Public Enemy grapefruit in the face scene,
I thought they were trying to get Steph to reprise
that role, o’couse not telling her the ‘punch’line
ok now really gotta run
Still no SPARTA at 10:30 CST?
gabby,
During the begin of Bush’s second term I tried to keep a list of books critical of and administration which had just been re-elected!
The list was INSANELY long! And it wasn’t just libs hammering on him — many of the books were by former conservative fans or even staff members.
spackle man again!
ta spar or not ta spar
Sheesh.
Sparta?
hammer time
SPARTA!!!!!
*leaps out of bushes*
Missed it.
#290 I used have AT&T. Then I learned that my coworker’s phone on TMobile worked in the basement where we work (and AT&T doesn’t get a signal), so I switched to TMobile.
Didn’t miss it! Yea, Sparta!
dang!!!! premature spartaculation…. hate when that happens.
how sarahfying. achieving spartage by
taoist technique. shades of post 40.
Nice one, Sarah. (sort of).
Maybe it was that book that Britney Shakespears wrote!
Yes, she has written books! But I doubt she’s read them.
304-I’ve got more tao where that came from.
306: while kevin fed her lines?
“That never happened to me before! Give me a few minutes–I’m sure I can get Sparta back up again.”
my son and I went to a party and when we do that, I always let him drink as much as he wants and drive him home. “I’m the designated liver,” I told the host.
Taoism stands for compassion, humility, and moderation.
Moderation?
I guess that’s not me.
Ha! Sarah doubted her own Sparta-ness. I never had any doubts *bows*
The evil empire sucks. Ever try Canada’s Ogerrs cable, video centers and own Toronto’s Oggers Center, where you can’t believe they have customer service?
311: i thott taoism stood for change. wow. taoism sure has changed.
310-I think the important question is, how old is your drunken son?
ogger ogger ogger, oy, oy, oy
ouch! hot chocolate in the ear all day long. “i believe in merkel…”
>> flombaye says:
>> 306: while kevin fed her lines?
I think she co-wrote some with her mother — and a ghost writer, no doubt.
Maybe it’s like what someone said about Fabio’s book:
“Fabio can write even though he can’t read.”
let’s see. born in 73. I guess that would make him 36 in december. He doesn’t drink that much, but it was a party to welcome him back from Iraq, where you can’t drink at all.
but – Bill O NEVER says “shut up”???
So what is this “TAO” that helps one get to Sparta?? Is that the stuff you rub all over your muscle-ridden bodies? Or is that what the Spartans call the war diapers they wear?
325: dont worry. most cub scouts are pretty resilient.
shāf, you’re such a gentleman. By the way, I’ve heard from capt. He’s alive and well, and I hope he knows how much he is missed.
Hey, O’Reilly, you’re not helping out. So you can shut up about it.
Bill O’Reilly is being a jerk but he sort of has a point.
But other countries say, if the US won’t take some prisoners, why should we?
321-My ancestors’ spirits gave me an unfair advantage.
What a GINORMOUS DOUCHEBAG!!!! The Boner, that is.
Men should only cry if something heavy falls on them?!?!
How sexist!
ah – but does KO tick off ProducerChris?
Men also have an exception: they can tear up when Spock says “I never took the no-win scenario. What do you think of my solution?”
322-flombaye is psychic. He responded to #325 before it was written!!!
O’Reilly is overdue for a cage match with Olbermann, evil laugh. Gee, I wonder who would be whimpering in a corner crying?
the i ching is the book of changes. but tao is “path” or “route” or “principle”
it’s pronounced “Dow” and I’ve been waiting for years for someone to create a company called Tao Chemical. Better living through chemistry. I lived 20 miles downwind from Dow when I grew up. God, the smells. We could feel the effluvium crusting on your nose hairs as we waited for the bus.
Besides that time to see if IPhone 3.0 is being announced today.
“Where were they”???? Getting kickbacks, that’s where.
Hey Chris,
A two year Newsweek is still less stale than the ads for Stephcast and Stephjunk on the livestream!
Could you make some where Obama is president, at least?
#330 I can attest. *sniffs*
sorry. typing is much more of a sober person’s sport. hey, i’m a gun-nut, not a writer! okay. correction: 322 was intended to address post 315, but i am a new member of dion warwick’s psychotic friends network. – pasta la pizza.
#333, ah, yes, the Wade-Giles transliteration of Chinese. Tao is “Dow”, T’ao would be “tao”. And Peking is “Beijing”; it’s P’ek’ing that would be pronounced Peking.
On the other hand, it’s still better than Pinyin, which the Communists invented just to drive Westerners insane.
333-I mentioned the “jewels” of Taoism. But the pawnbroker will give me nothing for those gems.
So whatever came of the Haniity Getting Waterboarding thing? I assume he totally pussed out after the Mancow stunt??
“…crusting on OUR nose hairs…” We didn’t actually feel each other’s nose hairs, much as we wanted to.
>> Sarah in Santa Cruz says:
>> 322-flombaye is psychic. He responded to #325 before it was written!!!
He. He. That actually seems like a fun game. Let me try it.
#345 Hey, Fling that cat further!
#341….. oooooh….. bad grammar.. sorry….
“Hannity Getting waterboardED”
GM still doesn’t get it … I DON’T WANT A FRIGGING CATTY
341-coward
342-EW!
“She doesn’t really fly. I fling her.”
Gotta’ run, meeting family for lunch.
Have a great day, everyone!
345-Caddy? Kitty?
It worked!
Bye, shāf
#341 “I assume he totally pussed out after the Mancow stunt??”
He probably pussed out the moment after he said it, but yeah, not happneing. Keith Olbermann already made his donation to help soldiers.
I was shocked that a right wing radio host actually had the cow honeys to submit to waterboarding. But I’m sure Hannity wishes he’d kept his craphole shut and will be silent about it till people forget, then deny he ever said it.
“You really got me” has to be one of the best deranged guitar solos in pop music history.
353-You’re exactly right!
Hannety maybe a bit crazy, but he’s not insane enough to get waterboarded.
Cadillac …
yes caddy
I’m working on a newsletter at the same time I’m LBing (barely) and listening
and underwood
Carbon paper is very cool. But virtually unavailable.
STEPHANIE: you need to turn off “autocomplete”.
http://forums.crackberry.com/f79/remove-auto-complete-text-11477/
ray davies is the greatest genius of rock and roll–without him, no “talking bout my generation” and the stones would have been an obscure blues band. You can’t listen to “(can’t get no) satisfaction” without hearing Davies’ inspiration.
THIS WAS EXCELLENT!
I may have just done a Very Bad Thing… or Not. UPDATE: With amazing new development!
The influential distortion sound of the guitar track was created after guitarist Dave Davies sliced the speaker cone of his guitar amplifier with a razor blade and poked it with a pin.[2] The amplifier was affectionately called “little green,” after the name of the amplifier made by the Elpico company, and purchased in Davies’ neighbourhood music shop, slaved into a Vox AC-30.
But does Steph’s Blackberry butt dial?
283
Really? I’ll have to check my Beaver archives. If it’s there, you got a drop coming.
#359 – I think you can still find Carbon Paper @ Office Despot, Office Max, et al. I remember using it at one of my jobs it and I had an skin allergic reaction to it.
Remember mimeographics? Remember the stinky smell of those purple-lettered things? Thank goodness that technology is dead.
Check out the “honeymoon Photos” from Steph and Keith’s “wedding!” on my community page!
Q: has Sarah Palin picked up a magazine lately?
A: sure. She used a rolled-up copy of Guns&Ammo to club a baby seal……
Thanks for trivia on the Davies and the Kings.
As for me, I just LOVE the wild abandon of that guitar solo in “You Really Got Me” — I can build a whole visual image around it.
As for carbon paper — it’s also useful in crafts and art, so there may still be a small market.
‘bye eMooks.
the best thing I learned in high school (other than oral sex) was that you could get high on freshly mimeoed paper.
carbon paper is also known as “tracing paper” and it’s available in many sizes in any arts and crafts store. No technology can compare when you need to trace something from paper onto canvas.
Have a beautiful week, everyone. You are my sanity (such as it is).
gabby,
You are right about the tracing paper. I goof-around with painting sometimes and carbon paper is very useful for getting a sketch onto a canvas.
But I call “tracing paper” that really thin paper you can sort-of see through.
bye for real, this time. eMooks
366
Bah, nothing compared to the smell of the pickle jar used to develop overhead transparencies.
Covers:
13th Floor Elevators, 1966
The 13th Floor Elevators covered the song in 1966.[10] A live version is included in the 2003 re-release of their album The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators.
The Human Instinct, 1969
New Zealand blues-rock band The Human Instinct included a slow blues version of the song on their 1969 debut album, Burning Up Years. It also appeared as the B-side of their single “I Think I’ll Go Back Home” the same year.
Mott the Hoople, 1969
On Mott the Hoople’s debut album, they did an all instrumental version of the song.[10] A vocal version is included on several later compilation albums.
801, 1976
From a short-lived progressive/glam-rock supergroup featuring Roxy Music’s Phil Manzanera and Roxy alumnus Brian Eno, 801′s debut LP ’801 Live’ included a version of “You Really Got Me” in the mode of the noisier uptempo songs on Eno’s early-1970s rock albums.[10]
Robert Palmer, 1978
In 1978, Robert Palmer released his solo album Double Fun, a collection of Caribbean-influenced rock which included a down-tempo and syncopated version of “You Really Got Me”. The album reached the Top 50 on the US Billboard charts.[10]
Disco Rock Machine, 1978
From their only album (which went by different titles in various markets), this version was a combination of hard rock & electronic disco. Trevor Rabin was a member of this band.[11]
Van Halen, 1978
The single of “You Really Got Me” by Van Halen, released in 1978Probably the most famous non-Kinks version of “You Really Got Me” (help·info) was by the US hard rock band Van Halen, who recorded the song for their 1978 debut album, Van Halen.[10] It was a popular radio hit, and helped jump-start the band’s career[12], just as it had done for The Kinks 14 years earlier. On the radio, it is usually played together with “Eruption,” the instrumental that precedes it on the album.[13]
This version of the song was put in the 2003 video game Karaoke Revolution and the 2006 video game Guitar Hero II.
This version was the soundtrack of the 1995 award-winning Nissan commercial Toys in which “Nick”, driving a toy Nissan 300ZX, entices “Roxanne” out on a date, much to “Tad”‘s dismay. Mattel sued.[14][15]
Dalek I Love You, 1980
Dalek I Love You’s version, on their 1979 album Compass Kumpas[10], is very different from the original; it features a mixture of vocals and synth-pop instrumentation.
Oingo Boingo, 1981
Oingo Boingo’s 1981 version differed markedly from the original, similar in style to Devo’s twisted covers. It was included on Oingo Boingo’s 1981 album Only A Lad.[10]
Sly & The Family Stone, 1983
Sly & the Family Stone covered the song in their last studio album, Ain’t But the One Way.[10]
Toots & the Maytals, 1998
A ska cover leads off the CD Ska Father.[10]
Superdrag, 2001
American power-pop/alternative rock band Superdrag covered the song on their 2001 album Greetings from Tennessee.
Cactus Jack, 2002
Serbian hard rock band Cactus Jack released an “All Day and All of the Night” / “You Really Got Me” medley on their 2002 live album DisCover.
Eve 6, 2002
The song was also covered by the American punk rock band, Eve 6. They put their cover on the soundtrack of the 2002 motion picture, The New Guy.
BoyBand, 2006
In 2006, New Zealand radio station The Edge created New Zealand’s first ever manufactured boy band in a promotion. This group released one single in their promised “15 seconds of fame”, a version of “You Really Got Me”. This single spent one week at number one in the RIANZ New Zealand Singles Chart.
Robots In Disguise, 2006
The female electro punk duo Robots in Disguise covered “You Really Got Me” on their 2006 album, Get RID!.[10]
Sanjaya Malakar, 2007
Sanjaya Malakar, a controversial contestant of American Idol’s sixth season, sang “You Really Got Me” during an episode of the show, which got mostly negative reviews.[16]
Alvin and the Chipmunks, 2007
Alvin and the Chipmunks did a cover of this song in 2007. It was so far only heard in their video game, Alvin and the Chipmunks.