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LiveBlog for Monday, June 15, 2009

• Steph will be on MSNBC’s “The Ed Show” today at 6pm Eastern!

Chris Hansen from NBC’s “Dateline” calls in at 7:06am Pacific to talk about his new hidden camera investigation, “Dateline: Vegas Undercover.”

venturaGov. Jesse Ventura calls in at 7:30am Pacific to talk about the paperback release of his book, “Don’t Start the Revolution Without Me.”

stabenowSen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) calls in at 8:30am Pacific to talk about health care reform and the recent news about the auto industry.

Iran’s supreme leader has ordered an investigation into allegations the country’s presidential vote was marred by ballot rigging as chaos following hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s declared victory continued for a third day.

• Media rights group Reporters Without Borders is urging nations to not recognize the results of Iran’s presidential election, citing censorship and a crackdown on journalists. 4 reporters have been arrested by Iranian authorities.

President Obama is ready to roll out on Wednesday an overhaul of the intricate rules and systems that govern America’s troubled financial institutions. The goal is to prevent a recurrence of the economic crisis that erupted in the US and exploded last fall.

• After a flare-up over controversial detainee photos, negotiators from the two chambers of Congress sealed an agreement on Friday on a crucial war-funding bill when President Obama personally guaranteed the photos would never be released.

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391 Responses to “LiveBlog for Monday, June 15, 2009”

  1. Stephanie: Headline News, yes! CNBC, yes! CNN, yes! The Ed Show, yes!

    The last time Steph said “yes” to this many TV people in a 4-day period, she was negotiating for her 1995 late night show.

  2. trojanrabbit says:

    Goooood morning everyone!

    Geez, Mama was really whoring herself out this weekend, eh?

    Like an idiot I found myself up at 2AM this morning calling into a radio talk show about the DTV debacle. I found it really surprising that none of the stations around here made any attempt to mention the historical significance of the event, just either unceremoniously cut the signal or went to the “nightlight”, even the stations that have been around for 60 years. Most in our area can’t get the NBC affiliate because they have to pull out the old transmitter before they can install the new one in its place. Sounds like good planning there, chief. As I listened to the radio this morning, I heard many complaining that their TV radios (the ones that get AM, FM and TV audio) no longer work, and there’s no digital equivalent on the market (these people are blind so would have no need to plunk down $$$ for a new set and a converter would be way too much of a pain to deal with). Again, nice planning FCC, kudos – you bleeped up AM, FM, VHF & UHF. What’s left?

    Congrats on the Lakers winning, Mama & the Mooks. Too bad in every city there are the idiots that think it’s a good excuse to try to burn the city down.

  3. trojanrabbit says:

    I should add that there’s nothing better than seeing Mama’s beautiful smile coming out of the TeeVee machine.

  4. flombaye says:

    “DO ME A FAVOR. OPEN THE DOOR. AND LETTERMAN”.
    the “fifteen minutes” of fame which andy warhol cynically predicted would be doled out to just anybody, has come to fruition. worse, it is packaged as often as not in a 2-stroke self-reinforcing vortex of both cluelessness and arrogance. dubya, it turns out, was not alone in the singular fascination with maintaining public facetime for the sake of public facetime. unable to distinguish between time spent on television, and providing substance for a personal legacy, dubya was, once we understand the abject release from expectations of accomplishment, understandably obsessed with milking the fifteen minutes into an interminable march. – and so went the path of palin, and soon thereafter, so went the path of carrie prejean. and it gets even worse. a talking head named michele malkin has been obediently yapping for scraps in the slipstream of palin’s latest attempt at public folly, and it leaves one sort of appreciating the appeal of carrie prejean by comparison. fair warning: this creature is repulsive. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98pCkmZY6vI – well, i warned you. desperation is not pretty. – and what sparked this renewed opportunism for attention anyway? – david letterman told a joke at the expense of a baseball player who presumably is not at all selective about hooking-up. as of june 15, there is no conspicuous public indication that the baseball player was upset about this. palin’s best move of course, would some swift and public statements of contrition for exploiting the children in this latest attempt to milk the fifteen minutes. – who has the stopwatch ? – let’s see how long it takes palin to find some such statements and bring em to ya.

  5. flombaye says:

    you must forgive the architects of tv for forgetting that there was anything historical in this latest footnote to the demise of television. remember, these are such people as those who tried to foist “HOT L BALTIMORE” and “THE MONTEFUSCOS” upon the public. – fortunately, the ratings were so bad that they were each cancelled after about 11 minutes.

  6. trojanrabbit says:

    5
    I was checking the youtubes for people posting videos of stations shutting down and quite a few did have a ceremony where the chief engineer (usually a guy who’s been there since the first day) hit the switch and immediately the video went to snow.

    One of the Philadelphia stations shut down with the test pattern they used when they first started test transmissions back in the 30′s. So at least there are a few with a sense of history.

    I think the major reason there was no fanfare here in MA is that none of them wanted to bring up the fact that they used to be affiliated with another network. God forbid the competition gets mentioned.

  7. trojanrabbit says:

    Made the mistake of going to the mall outside Gillette Stadium yesterday. Had no idea they had American Idull tryouts. Thousands of idiots there. At least they got soaked $20 for parking for the priviledge. Good.

  8. flombaye says:

    6: good point on the weird avoidance of mentioning the “competition”. – when there were 3 networks, johnny carson’s guests sometimes had shows on “another network”. if the viewer wanted to know which one, let them hire their own darned private detective.

  9. flombaye says:

    7: the irony is delicious. – a rabbit retreating from a bunch of pilgrims in search of “sangraal”.

  10. flombaye says:

    (and did you notice who launched the blog ?) – there are those who call him ….
    “TIM”.

  11. shāf says:

    Good morning, Tim, trojanrabbit, flombaye and the rest of the Live Blog gang. Good morning, Team Steph. I hope everyone had a great weekend.

    The whole NTSC-to-DTV transition points out just how little the masses are paying attention to their television machines. For example, over this past week, the Digital TV Hotline got nearly 800,000 calls (the FCC said that about 317,450 calls went into the help line, 1-888-CALL-FCC, on Friday alone, the day analog signals were cut off. Another 102,000 came in Saturday by 6 p.m. Eastern time.) It’s not like the stations haven’t been running the DTV spots regularly for, say, the past year-and-a-half. The saving grace in this is the number of homes receiving their programming over cable. Without that, it would have been a total cluster-frak.

  12. trojanrabbit says:

    Farewell Never The Same Color sniff

  13. flombaye says:

    shaf, i was intrigued by your parting mention (june 12 friday) of steph’s and the mooks’ “vaca”. – cant really blame any of them for having a cow, but is this by any chance, the specific cow that they were having? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JywLnTGpdYM&feature=related

  14. trojanrabbit says:

    11.

    Yes, I wonder how much sympathy I have for those who didn’t even think about what was going to happen, especially those who say that TV is so important to them. I had forgotten, though, about those who only listen to the audio portions since they are blind and now probably the only alternatives they have are getting a TV that they obviously will never watch and have to spend way more than they need to or a USB tuner for a PC/laptop, but you still have to deal with an antenna that’s very touchy to set up.

  15. flombaye says:

    i really did believe that the tv format switch had happened
    back in feb. – that one i did hear announced for about a
    year. was that a completely separate “tv” system getting
    modified back then ? – and does this mean there are other
    “tv” systems that are going to be modified in the future ?

  16. flombaye says:

    speaking of obsolete entities, here’s some sparkling wit that will surely be entered into the LEGACY OF LIMBAUGH canon:
    speaking on president obama, the constitutional scholar who edited the harvard law review, community college flunkee limbaugh offers:
    “this smug inexperienced egocentric fool needs
    to be stopped … he wanted nothing to do with
    bipartisanship … he did not inherit a deficit;
    he created it … he is destroying the greatest
    engine of freedom that ever exist (sicum).”

    RAMSES: so let it be written; so let it be done.
    MOSES: so let it be written.

  17. Carol Hussein in Central Mass says:

    It’s mondee!
    Hi Tim (still around?), flom, Paul and shaf.

  18. trojanrabbit says:

    15
    Some cities did switch back in February as a test to gauge the public’s reaction, though it was initially planned that all stations would change on that day.

    Stations that are now broadcasting the “nightlight” service will do so for 30 days, after that, except for low power stations and translators – no more NTSC in the US. Canada won’t be switching for another year or so. Mexico has already done so.

    More fun will be coming as cable systems discontinue their analog service and force everyone to get a cable box for each TV.

  19. shāf says:

    #15 You are correct, flombaye. The Feb 17 complete switch to DTV was postponed to give more time for folks to get their converter boxes. Some stations went ahead and switched back then (or reduced power to their NTSC transmitters).

  20. Carol Hussein in Central Mass says:

    I’m watching events in Iran through fingers with my hands overs my eyes. Scary.
    I do notice that the demonstrators are well dressed, young…gawd bless ‘em. They are doing what we didn’t in 2000.

  21. Tony says:

    Morning, all. I noticed a lot of complaints about the transition to digital. I say that those who didn’t bother to keep up have only themselves to blame. They even got a reprieve of a few months to get it together.

    If someone turns on their TV and finds nothing but snow, it’s their fault. What’s the government supposed to do, go house to house and check everyone’s TVs out?

    On another note, I blogged about how for all the talk of green shoots, there are some other potential bombs in the real estate market. Check out More Trouble on the Housing Front and Could Multi-Family Housing Be The Next to Crash? at <a href=”http://buyandholdplus.comBuy and Hold Plus

  22. Carol Hussein in Central Mass says:

    #3, agreed. So proud of our Mama. Smart as a whip, that girl.

  23. Tony says:

    trojan rabbit, I think that what you wrote about Mexico having already made the transition says it all.

    If the Mexicans have already done it, what the hell is wrong with us? We claim to be a technologically superior nation and yet we’ll let the Mexicans adopt new technology before us?

  24. Tony says:

    Speaking of TV, every time I think of Chris Hanson, I hear “why don’t you have a seat right over there?” Is it just me or does everyone think that?

  25. Random says:

    Well…This is new

  26. shāf says:

    #18 Yep. On Friday, I posted the link to NPR’s story on how cable companies were shifting programming to their digital packages (which require the cable box). Here’s the link, again:

    http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=104822934

    That’s the thing Steph was probably talking about, although she wasn’t sure what she was supposed to be worried about. So, does that mean we are going to need a new generation of digital-cable-ready TVs if we don’t want to rent cable boxes?

  27. Carol Hussein in Central Mass says:

    #25, random commment

  28. flombaye says:

    saturday and sunday, witout warning, the local library had a sale unloading oodles of fine books. and i do mean excellent fare, as in up to and including such masterpieces as “broca’s brain” and “isaac asimov’s guide to the bible”. – many of these went for fifty cents, and these people managed to destroy my budget. – how do people evn find the time for tv? – am i just reading the supply of printed works much too slowly? – how do people do it?

  29. Random says:

    27: Twas what god made me for.
    That and screw the TV changeover thing…I took care of that back in january…when all us good americans thought this shit was gonna happen.

  30. trojanrabbit says:

    21.
    Yes, there are many that just ignored what was to happen and I have no sympathy for them. But there are many people in rural areas that depended on a low-band VHF station that had to move to UHF in the digital “upgrade” and in the process lost a good deal of their coverage area. The FCC screwed up in determining how much power a station would be allowed to transmit, but the propagation of VHF vs UHF is different enough that those way on the fringe were going to lose out no matter what. Also remember that while you can watch a snowy picture with analog, there’s no such thing with digital, you either get it or you don’t. Their only option is satellite, cable systems are probably reluctant to run miles of wire for a few customers.

  31. Tony says:

    By the way, is anyone like me anxiously awaiting the proposed new regulations on financial institutions? We could start by, ohmigawd, bringing Glass-Steagall back. Yeah, sure, getting rid of it unleashed innovation. But that innovation backfired sometimes, and it cost the taxpayers billions.

    The separation between depository institutions and other financial institutions needs to come back. That way, if someone makes a bad bet on commodities or Mexican pesos at an investment bank, they don’t drag down the associated depository institution. Then they can go poof and it won’t affect things as much.

  32. Random says:

    30: True, but the signal doesn’t have to be as strong to get a decent picture with digital. it’s not like it has to be perfect, or it won’t work.

  33. Tony says:

    trojan rabbit, that’s what happens any time you upgrade technology. Some people will be left behind. And while I do sympathize with those who live in rural areas with no cable options, they’re the two percent who get shafted so that 98 percent can benefit.

  34. trojanrabbit says:

    26.

    Um….yes?

    Then again, for anything but basic service even a new TV probably won’t help. You’ll need a CableCard (like my TiVo has) and you bet they’ll charge for that. I’ve got a few DVRs that will likely become doorstops.

  35. Carol Hussein in Central Mass says:

    I look forward to hearing Mama talk to Jesse Ventura. I hope he knows who she is, but since he lives simply in Mexico, maybe not.

  36. SueC says:

    Morning, bloggies! Hi Carol, as the 1st female to add to the conversation this am:-)

    #16 Yikes. “…needs to be stopped”; and Jon Voight (who the H cares about him anyway, but,) calling Obama a “false prophet” and to put an end to him. This Hate Speech is very scary stuff–and getting worse. Hello, FBI & DHS—there have been 4 acts of Domestic Terrorism in the last 3 months. And Janet Napolitano apologizing for the report? Really? I am All For Freedom of Speech, of course…but when does it become inciting violence? It’s a tough line to draw…

  37. flombaye says:

    35: ventura still likes to go diving, so it’s possible that ventura is familiar with stephy due to glimpses of ratings from the tv talk show.

  38. trojanrabbit says:

    32
    The system that was chosen is very sensitive to multipath distortion (ghosting in analog). So much so that you can’t receive ATSC in a moving car. That’s a big problem in hilly areas. Or even worse, in the city, but at least there you have a cable option.

  39. DrunkNIrishDanielle says:

    Good Morning All!! Anyone watch the Trueblood Season premier last night on HBO?

  40. trojanrabbit says:

    And that is also part of the reason why the translators (that many rural people depend on) haven’t been forced to change to digital, the other part is the $$$ of a new transmitter.

  41. Carol Hussein in Central Mass says:

    Comcast took MSNBC a year ago from our cable lineup (getting ready for digital).
    It was a tactic to depress Olberman’s ratings, I’m sure.
    I want my MSNBC! Mama! waaaa!

  42. Random says:

    38: Because somehow i feel sorry for people in cars…who can’t get a signal.

  43. Carol Hussein in Central Mass says:

    Oh, well, it’s mondee!
    Enjoy the show.
    Yay, a new podcast show only 3.5 hours away!
    *dancing on sunshine*

  44. shāf says:

    #38 I remember the discussion a few years back, that our broadcast DTV was not the same as other countries’ systems. I thought, “Great, another non-compatable system (like AC power, NTSC vs. PAL)”. What the heck is with the FCC and the manufacturers?

  45. DrunkNIrishDanielle says:

    Carol, I’m so sorry… they just took the local radio station recently down here in Fort Lauderdale… but if I also had to live without MSNBC, I think I might go postal…

  46. Scott (in Burbank (though currently in Vancouver, BC)) says:

    Good morning, all! Happy Monday! Blah…

    Anyone else thinking that the unrest in Iran may be a great thing for us? If we can bond with all of these moderate-leaning protesters, we’ll have a terrific ally in that region (even if I’mADinnerJacket is wearing the shiny center-of-attention crown…)

  47. shāf says:

    It’s Miller Time! Woo Hoo!

  48. flombaye says:

    45: maybe rush got something right. it would seem that going potal without MSNBC would be PMSNBC.

  49. Random says:

    CHRIS HANSON!
    Have a seat…go ahead, have a seat

  50. DrunkNIrishDanielle says:

    lol flom

  51. flombaye says:

    50: is chris the young one that plays the drums ?

  52. Random says:

    52: Well…right…what?

  53. shāf says:

    Moolah? Is that a mullah with a lot of money?

  54. trojanrabbit says:

    44.
    As far as NTSC is concerned, that’s the disadvantage of being almost first, others can improve upon it. It is to their credit that the standard could be modified to accept color and still work as well as they did, unlike in Britain where an entire new service was set up and designed from the ground up for color. They kept the two services up for years while the old black and white sets were traded in. Still, when the old B&W service went away, many complained. Wiki 405 line.

    As far as what FCC does now… $$$$

    The same reason we have a non-functional HD system for radio.

  55. shāf says:

    Caribou Barbie needs a big steaming cup of STFU.

  56. flombaye says:

    a skank trying to seduce a dreadfully non-selective baseball player is “statutory rape”?

  57. LeftCenter says:

    Good morning, live blogospherians! Back after doing errands for my mother on Friday.

  58. flombaye says:

    if you manage to slip past sarah palin’s all-seeing radar, you might be a redneck.

  59. Rocky Mountain High, Colorado says:

    Mornin’ blog

  60. LeftCenter says:

    Hippocrate?

  61. flombaye says:

    it’s a hip crate from italy. it says “fra – jhee – lay”

  62. Tony says:

    The transition to digital has been in the works for nearly a decade. And the TV companies bitched and moaned and didn’t want to give up their current spectrum.

    I think the FCC did a pretty good job on this one.

  63. shāf says:

    #61 It’s how zoos ship their hippos. ;)

  64. Dan The Man says:

    Good Morning Board!

    Swirly music to start the day!

    Hippocrates? HAHAHAHA!

  65. LeftCenter says:

    #63 Naturally on one of the Chicago newscasts Friday, someone said, “There should have been more publicity about it!”

  66. Random says:

    I liked that hate letter, it had a clear and poignant point.
    The the writer was insane.

  67. shāf says:

    #62 Nice “A Christman Story” ref, flombaye!

  68. LeftCenter says:

    #67 It’s always good when they let you know right away that they are insane.

  69. trojanrabbit says:

    Of course it must be recognized that in Britain you pay a license fee for your sets and in the early days the state-funded BBC was all there was.

  70. shāf says:

    Oh noes, a pubic hair reference (on Coke can)!

  71. SueC says:

    I love Jim Ward–he so funny:-)

  72. flombaye says:

    having endured a life without soul, he
    complains of the dallas maids. dole he
    the chanting of “neener”,
    while bar bears demeanor
    (but meaner) of aleister crowley

  73. DrunkNIrishDanielle says:

    as usual… love the prose Flom!

  74. Ay yay yay HW. . .

  75. Rocky Mountain High, Colorado says:

    ProducerChris, or whoever gets movie drops for the show, I heard a great one. My Tivo picked up a movie called “The Fortune Cookie.” At about 55 minutes into the movie a guy says this, “Settle a phony claim? never! It’s not just their money that’s at stake, it’s our integrity. If we let shysters like Gingrich ride roughshod over the laws of this land, well …”

    That would be a great drop for Newt.

  76. LeftCenter says:

    Michelle Malkin is an angry white man?

  77. shāf says:

    Michael Steele – he be the man!

  78. Random says:

    77: Hm…well, they’ve got Coulter to balance that out.

  79. DrunkNIrishDanielle says:

    77… I think she’s in that “other category” with the junk-toting-stick-figure…

  80. flombaye says:

    here’s a beautiful thing that is both a tent, and a pteradactyl:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIlwFpz9s_I

  81. DrunkNIrishDanielle says:

    random… we ran head on into that one…

  82. Dutch Paul says:

    Hey blog, great to be able to listen live to my favorite afternoon-show! Huh, afternoon? Ehm, yes, I live in Amsterdam, Holland, so for me Steph is on between 3 and 6 in the afternoon.

  83. Random says:

    62: Yes…yes we did…but surprisingly, we made two different jokes involving the same person O.o

  84. DrunkNIrishDanielle says:

    83… wow! I’m jealous!

  85. LeftCenter says:

    #83 Amsterdam? What a coincidence that you’re called Dutch Paul! Anyway, welcome!

  86. DrunkNIrishDanielle says:

    84… they’re easy to come up with about that one…

  87. shāf says:

    #83 I guess Stephannie Miller Internationale is not an exaggeration. Welcome, Dutch Paul!

  88. shāf says:

    Correct, caller Sue. We think she (Palin) doth protest too much.

  89. Morning Bloganistas

    Mikey Steal, Mongoloid Asshat. How’s that workin for ya?

  90. DrunkNIrishDanielle says:

    I think tent is appropriate… I can picture the party getting together in one of those crazy church revival tents…

  91. shāf says:

    Is there a propeller on that hat, Mister Steele?

  92. LeftCenter says:

    #90 Not Mongoloid, please.

  93. We’ve got a big tent. . . as long as you agree with everything on the party line. /sarcasm

  94. LeftCenter says:

    The Republican Party is like a pup tent.

  95. Momma on the TeeVee… I saw her on CNBC but not on CNN, tho
    I recorded both CNN things and looked… did I miss something?

  96. Dutch Paul says:

    #88 The Internationale? I hope you don’t mean that vile socialist singalong song! http://twurl.nl/oa37bd

  97. Rocky Mountain High, Colorado says:

    Well, I’ve got to go. Got to be in to work early today. See you all tomorrow.

  98. flombaye says:

    the very same spot where steele shat’ll
    grow famed as a pulpit for prattle.
    prophets powered by glue,
    immunized from the clue,
    speak anew from THE HAT with no cattle.

  99. 94 I meant MONGOLIAN ass hat, sorry

    The Rethuglican Party is like a tent, a tent you make in your pants

  100. LeftCenter says:

    #94 The Republican Party is like a morning tent?

  101. LeftCenter says:

    Oops…Make that #101.

  102. flombaye says:

    101: you really think stephy’s going to swallow that?

  103. Momma on CNBC Reports Looking Gorgeous,
    and sounding So Smart. C’est magnifique!
    Made the guys look like douche bags.

    $24 Million in Lingerie fo’ Momma?! I’m calling
    the CNBC gripe line to complain they ditint keep
    her on longer. What’s she got to do after the few
    minute segment, it’s Friday night, now she’s gotta
    kill the whole rest of the evening. Dogs, box whine
    and parading around in your stolen lingerie only
    takes a girl so far. Hah-rumph!

  104. Momma gave the Mannish-cow a hand what?

  105. LeftCenter says:

    Holocaust Museum, Steph.

  106. 104 Oh Snap! and only 4 posts after a great littul poem…

  107. Tony says:

    The republican party seems to be trying to be like a tent that gets pitched in your pants at the wrong time. You are embarrassed by it, and hope it goes away.

  108. flombaye says:

    the first clue is that they thott “a minute” was something to brag about. – nothing personal, jim.

  109. flombaye says:

    tent amendment?

  110. shāf says:

    #109 Yep, the same way that Ohio is embarrassed by its Boehner (my letter from a few months ago). ;)

  111. LeftCenter says:

    Rusty Nail.

  112. Yet ANOTHER late start…. dangit!!! (anyway…..)

    MORNING ALL!!!! 111 Posts already??? Lordy Lordy Lordy!!! Can’t keep up with y’all.

  113. I looked for Momma on on Vlad Blitzkreig’s tawdry
    show on CNN but all I saw was evil kreepy daddy
    Bush and dreadful rangy, mangy, railroad jawed Sara

  114. Random says:

    I is back…after three minutes of missing.

  115. impracatory Like an imprecation or curse

  116. flombaye says:

    so bizarre to hear any old dork twist
    from reality, somehow uncork mist
    and cloud, speak aloud,
    “terrorists are avowed
    as their pals”, somewhat like grover norquist

  117. 118 terrorist in yer pants

    Washilla Alashka, North South Eastern Alaska’s finest
    burgh, home to the Washilla Fishwrap and Daily Trumpeter,
    THE Journal of Record for Methamphetamine County

    Come to our smorgasbord buffet at the County Seat/Airport/
    Disco Lounge/Hog Rendering Plant and get two free tickets
    to the Washilla Theatre, still playing Rocky Horror after 700
    straight weeks!

  118. LeftCenter says:

    That would be correct, caller. “Christians” does not include Catholics.

  119. flombaye says:

    code of code pink: if bush makes you want to hurl, shoes your actions carefully.

  120. shāf says:

    I find it amazing, the those who claim to practice New Testament Christianity frequently resort to Old Testament expressions of violence and retaliation. The New Covenant was supposed to invalidate of the old rules, judgments and punishments. These folks just don’t get it.

  121. flombaye says:

    121: one fine observation from george carlin’s “brain droppings” is that while carlin is just as qualified as the pope, the difference is that there are less people who recognize it.

  122. Tony says:

    Oh, and as for Wasilla? Most of Alaska is unspoiled and beautiful and natural. Even Anchorage isn’t like your typical sprawled out city.

    But Wasilla? It’s like someone took a few miles of Sprawsville USA and dropped it right in there.

    U-G-L-Y, and Palin ain’t got no alibi.

  123. Random says:

    124: …Well, and Carlin’s dead…but other than that…CARLIN FOR POPE!

  124. The only left-wing (using the term liberally) group I can think of in the last ten years that engaged in violence to get its point across is PETA, and they don’t have the ear of the Democratic Party the way groups like the minutemen have the GOP’s.

  125. DrunkNIrishDanielle says:

    126… I agree… I say we use his DNA for the first cloned Pope!

  126. flombaye says:

    127: at least they opened the hippo crates.

  127. Pope George followed Pope Frank, in my Pope-list

    That corrupt liar Mz Palin, nice mayor. Bankrupted
    the town building a hockey rink for her son… google it

    MKUltra! thanks Jim!

  128. flombaye says:

    128: you’ll change your mind after he’s borgia to death.

  129. Tony says:

    Ah, O’Lielly…does he think that he won’t get called on his BS? Or does he think that his listeners and viewers are so stupid that they’ll not look for themselves.

    Actually, it might be that they’re too senile. I believe that his typical viewer is old enough to collect social security.

  130. flombaye says:

    thoe at first palin only seems whorey,
    dont cha know, there’s some more to the story.
    it has often occured, her
    perceptions of murder
    propound “et pro medico mori”.

  131. uh oh…. RW Tool Alert!!!!

  132. 131 water borgia?

    call Insane, you are entertaining, if stupid

  133. LeftCenter says:

    Come on, you need to ask the guy if the mother should be put in jail for life for having an abortion.

  134. flombaye says:

    the caller is a new superhero: the projector !

  135. shāf says:

    James, it is not your decision whether abortion is legal. It’s up to the courts and legislature. STFU!

  136. awright:
    “Sic gorgiamus allos subjectatos nunc”
    [We gladly feast on those who would subdue us]
    -Addams Family Motto proposed as Motto of the SM Liveblog

    alternate proposed motto:
    Death Before Dishonor, Drink Before Breakfast

    HEY CALLER JAMES, STFU!

  137. flombaye says:

    go beyong wade. roe v waterboard.

  138. OK… cut him off already.

  139. shāf says:

    Ha! James can rant on until he makes a crack about Mama being old. ;)

  140. Dutch Paul says:

    The Partridge Family? Oh Mama, you must be of my age!

  141. Good morning friends.

    Logging on just in time to hear the rabid caller. I would like to ask him if a late term abortion of a dead fetus or one without a brain is still murder.

  142. I’ve said it before:
    Frank Zappa was the Last True Pope.
    How do I know? He’s on the cover of
    every pack of Zig Zag Rolling papers

  143. flombaye says:

    yay! chris henson as kermit is on the way. chris will waterboard him until he remembers how easy it is to be green.

  144. 136 you were right, and Momma never got to it

  145. Oh yeah, and Bill O’Reilly is a miserable asshole, who will no doubt wake up in Hell himself someday.

  146. Random says:

    Ahhh…sooo nice to hear this idiot.
    Have a seat. go ahead, have a seat.

  147. Laura says:

    James and facts don’t do well together. Boy, that guy made NO sense whatsoever … oh, wait, he’s a right-wing tool! Duh.

  148. 129 you gotta poke holes in the hippo crates before
    you ship them so they can breathe

  149. Tony says:

    Okay, folks, I’m out of here. Have a good day and please do visit my blog if you are bored.

  150. 148 he’ll wake up to find the devil likes sex

  151. The right wingers are fond of insisting that liberals are naive and uninformed and driven strictly by their emotions.. Well, I submit that the majority of them are guilty of these traits, which are common features of the most rabidly right wing.

  152. 153: yes, and Satan enjoys anal sex with miserable old right wing assholes like O’Reilly!

  153. flombaye says:

    WALKENIZED RIDDLE:
    Q: in what way is fred flintstone like osama bin laden?
    A: it’s really difficult to get either one of them for an interview.
    not only that, just outside their windows, you see only rocks.

  154. 155 of course, and employing his giant barbed penis

  155. flombaye says:

    155: dont be silly; o’reilly keeps an eye out for evil.

  156. 156 Osamo is a pig’s head on a dress dummy, still in Evil Dick’s
    basement

  157. recurring themes of the SM liveblog: her wit, beauty and
    desirability, her lack of cooking skills, social graces,
    sense of propriety, career success, fashion sense,
    success in love

  158. flombaye says:

    since when does frank zappa let the cardinal rule?

  159. Speaking of Momma on the TV, she’s on the Ed Show tonite. What a refreshing change that will be to the little right wing radio girl who looks like a rabbit..

  160. DrunkNIrishDanielle says:

    Mark, don’t forget sex, fart jokes, and the occasional political conversation…. :)

  161. Uh Oh! Chris Hansen’s gonna arrest Squeezy!

  162. idle question:
    “How do you say ‘your thighs are cutting off my air’ in Japanese?”

  163. LeftCenter says:

    #165 “Gasp!”

  164. 163 thanks Danielle, missed those
    How was the bar Friday? The Wings lost, the bar emptied
    out, half hour later it was full again and nobody said
    a word about it

    got hammered closed the bar
    several amusing anecdotes…

  165. flombaye says:

    165: i cant imagine how such a detail would be worth mentioning.

  166. k to the g. says:

    Morning all! For the anti-abortion crowd, it’s not about children and it’s not about killing, IT’S ABOUT CONTROLLING WOMEN AND THEIR BODIES!

  167. 165: Idiot, you’re supposed to spin the basket! ;->

  168. flombaye says:

    faith-based assassins

  169. @170 All any of them need to do to be reminded of this is to look at what used to happen in Saipan.

    It’s not about abortion. They just don’t want the choice to be in the hands of women.

  170. flombaye says:

    174: WWKL – who would ken lay

  171. shāf says:

    “Something smells like Ohio”? Sorry, it was my breakfast burrito. ;)

  172. LeftCenter says:

    #175 Nobody for the past few years.

  173. k to the g. says:

    I wonder how O’Reilly feels about men having vasectomies. Aren’t they killing potential life?

  174. The Southern Baptist preacher reminds me again why I went from being a Southern Baptist to an agnostic, with my personal notions of spirituality..

  175. I remember the right-wing went crazy when Cindy Sheehan mused about going back in time and killing GWB, even though in the same speech she said she could never kill anyone.

  176. trojanrabbit says:

    160

    Also too don’t forget Stephanie’s and her dogs bodily functions.

  177. Skyhawk says:

    Morning bloggers.

  178. DrunkNIrishDanielle says:

    178…wow! Great point! Never thought of that one… I mean even without the vasectomies… what about condoms, or even occasionally self satisfying…

  179. LeftCenter says:

    #178 If Bill-o is a good Catholic he’s against condoms and vasectomies.

  180. 172 AH! thanks! I knew somebody here could help me

  181. flombaye says:

    183: this is why onan the bararian was considered a troublemaker. onan is the inspiration for “every sperm is sacred”.

  182. every time you masturbate you are murdering sperms…

  183. LeftCenter says:

    #187 Masturbation is considered a mortal sin by the Catholic Church, too.

  184. Juliet Hussein Bravo says:

    Dropping in during a HELLACIOUS Monday because I can’t take the stupid (caller James on late-term abortion):

    People, READ Rowe v. Wade, which BALANCED a woman’s right to terminate a pregnancy against the fetus’s right to continue that pregnancy, by dividing the pregnancy into the 3 medical trimesters.

    First trimester of pregnancy, the women’s right to terminate is paramount. The court was persuaded by evidence (true today as well) that 1 out of 3 pregnancies spontaneously abort in the first trimester due to genetic abnormalities, misplaced placenta, etc. The fetus cannot survive outside the womb and frequently does not survive IN the womb.

    Second trimester is the tricky one – sometime around 4-5 months (20-26 weeks) the fetus becomes viable, albeit with massive medical intervention. In 1973 the court anticipated the medical advancements we enjoy today and made their ruling flexible: the states could fashion their own solutions to balance mom v. baby’s medical outcomes pending scientific improvements.

    I have personal experience with this– I went into premature labor at 24 weeks– my son could have been a late miscarriage or a seriously handicapped preemie. Luckily with complete bedrest he was born only six weeks before his due date. But that is the tipping point which the Roe court refers to as “viability” — can the baby survive, albeit with intensive medical care.

    The toughest challenge is the third trimester, which why anti-abortion groups focus on late-term abortions. The court was clear that during this trimester, as long as the baby is viable (i.e. not dead, which happens) the baby’s interest in continuing the pregnancy trump the mother’s interest in not doing so, UNLESS the life or health of the mother is seriously in danger. I know someone who had pre-eclampsia, a life-threatening condition which would have left her toddler-age kids with no mom. Luckily she was able to give birth to a healthy baby, but not everyone is lucky. I also know a mother who had to carry a dead child (cord wrapped around the neck at 8 months) for several weeks and give birth naturally because that would improve her own health including future pregnancies.

    The double homicide cases in which a murder who kills a pregnant woman with a VIABLE fetus are relatively recent and are correct. One of the first cases you read in first-year law school crim law is a case from the 1940′s or so in which a guy kicked his girlfriend’s 8-month fetus to death (and beat her up but didn’t kill her) and the court dismissed the charges. It really isn’t hard to distinguish between the rights of an unimplanted zygote (RU 486) and say, 8.5-month-old fetus Paul Tate, who lived 20 minutes after his mother Sharon’s death at the hands of the Charlie Manson gang. Totally different.

    :twisted:

  185. k to the g. says:

    I say the time is ripe for some truth-telling about late-term abortion. Maybe a play similar to “Vagina Monologues” – stories of women who have gone through it, told by others of course.

  186. If O’Reilly’s the staunch Catholic he insists he is, wouldn’t he insist that only the rhythm method is permitted for avoiding pregnancy, and be frowning on that as well, considering its INTENT to thwart to Will of God?

  187. flombaye says:

    188: and yet the pope hogs the hat that has the reservoir tip. – does the new republican hat have any cool features like that?

  188. Stephanie Miller: Her Indian name would
    be Princess Drunk’n Slutty. Or Something.

    181 Still can’t get the image of Steph peeing in the yard out…

    176 Ohio? Same as Detroit… south til you smell it, east til
    you step in it…

  189. LeftCenter says:

    #191 The Catholic Church approves of the rhythm method because there is always a chance of conception occurring if the couple screws up their timing.

  190. flombaye says:

    191: correct. in the words of palin (the smart one, not the silly one), god would see right thru such a cheap trick. it’s medical experiments for the lot of ya.

  191. trojanrabbit says:

    187
    And kittens.

  192. 192 Pope Hedge Hog
    reservoir tip dog

    189 thanks JHB, but don’t hold back next time, tell us

  193. Whut was it? Gilber Gottfried: if masturbation was a crime
    I’d be on death row… or something like that

  194. Onanism supposedly forbids both masturbation and coitus interruptus, according to some Old Testament zealots. Casting thy seed upon the ground, and such.

    Seeing as how the average man produces enough sperm during his lifetime to repopulate the entire planet, and women have a couple hundred (?) eggs, and almost all gets WASTED – I’d say that every sperm is not so precious to God.

    My Dad summed up the Baptist philosophy – “if it makes you grin, it’s a sin..”

  195. flombaye says:

    193: lakota translations for SMI team:
    “dances with mooks”
    “struts tae phoo dong for rindsay rohan”
    “laffs like ubergay hyena”
    “channels ricky ricardo”

  196. I don’t even masturbate any more, I don’t know where my hand’s been

  197. Juliet Hussein Bravo says:

    #197, Thanks, Mark, Sorry about the treatise but I had to unload after listening to all those dumbass callers.

  198. #193 Mark: Her Indian name should be: “When-Has-She-Not-Been-Drunk?”

  199. flombaye says:

    199: you mean those nice hagar twins from hee-haw are a sin?

  200. k to the g. says:

    [note to self- do NOT make David Carradine joke]

  201. 199 that’s why you’re going to hell hee hee

    Onan wouldn’t marry his brother’s widow, which
    was the system they used back in the day to support
    widows. His offense had nothing to do with the jacking off

    Jesse! My Man! oh wait that was Otis, but I still love Jesse.
    Speak Truth to Power Man!

  202. Ventura – still a breath of fresh air.

  203. 202 no harm no foul, good info actually

  204. Steph: something something ‘unreliable drunk’

    she said it like there was something wrong with it

  205. I think more liberals should employ Ventura’s policy about Fox.

    WOW! Did he just say he was ashamed of his country over waterboarding?!

  206. k to the g. says:

    uh-oh. a truth-teller steps up. expect attacks on WWF anytime now.

  207. Jesse renewed his hero status with me when he said that George W. Bush was the worst President of his lifetime. Boy howdy!

  208. SpiffyHussein says:

    Hi All,

    Boy, if any of you don’t think we need a form of health care for all in this country here’s a little girl, American citizen, who was born with a facial deformity that was no fault of her own and is not fully covered by her pitiful health “insurance”.

    http://www.flagguys.com/candace.html

  209. LeftCenter says:

    Ya gotta love Jesse Ventura.

  210. lakota translations for SMI team:
    “dances with mooks”
    “struts tae phoo dong for rindsay rohan”
    “laffs like ubergay hyena”
    “channels ricky ricardo

    “When-Has-She-Not-Been-Drunk?”

    hee hee hee
    MORE!

  211. SpiffyHussein says:

    199—”If it makes you grin it’s a sin.” I guess I have to get rid of my cats then. And no flowers for me anymore either!

  212. shāf says:

    Jesse was speaking truth with that Playboy interview.

  213. And another renewal – the very reason I abandoned organized religion.. Thanks, Jesse.

  214. 212 Hunter Thompson on Bush:
    “Well, shit on that dumbness. George W. Bush does
    not speak for me or my son or my mother or my
    friends or the people I respect in the world. We
    didn’t vote for these cheap, greedy little killers
    who speak for America today– and will not vote
    for them again in 2002. Or 2004. Or ever.

    Who does vote for these dishonest shitheads? Who
    are these swine? These flag-sucking half-wits who
    get fleeced and fooled by stupid little rich kids
    like George Bush?

    They are the same ones who wanted to have Muhammad
    Ali locked up for refusing to kill gooks. They speak
    for all that is cruel and stupid and vicious in the
    American character. They are the racists and hate
    mongers among us– they are the Ku Klux Klan. I piss
    down their throats.

    I am too old to worry about whether they like it
    or not. Fuck them”

    GO JESSE! JFK Hit!

  215. SpiffyHussein says:

    189—very good outline of the issues.

  216. happy thing for Monday:

    Mother sells rubbers to sailors
    Dad pokes the heads with a pin
    sister performs the abortions
    my god how the money rolls in

  217. LeftCenter says:

    If you watch pro wrestling, the guy who gets thown and the thrower have to really work well together.

  218. LeftCenter says:

    Oops. I forgot to add: And if either screws up, somebody can get hurt…seriously.

  219. shāf says:

    I saw Randy “The Macho Man” Savage walking thru an airport one time after a match (the night before). He was walking in pain. So, the matches might be choreographed, but they’re not easy.

  220. Oh I so want to see Jesse beat the crap out of Hannity.

  221. SpiffyHussein says:

    Wrestling is theater—that’s for sure.

  222. SpiffyHussein says:

    I hate wrestling by the way—can’t stand watching it. But loved “The Wrestler” because of the story it told of two individuals trying to make it in this crappy world.

  223. Momma’s Hot for Jesse
    she wants to date him…

  224. LeftCenter says:

    #226 It’s theater, but I’ve watched it up close. Those guys are doing a lot of work out there, and there is a tremendous risk if somebody screws up.

  225. It’s the theatricals around wrestling that give it the bad rep.

  226. SpiffyHussein says:

    229—theater is hard work too. Oh you just don’t know what those poor slob actors and dancers go through out there during 8 shows a week. It’s very hard mental and physical work.

  227. k to the g. says:

    225. One pin-prick and the crap would fly out of Hannity like air out of a balloon and it would be over, ALL over everything :mrgreen:

  228. SpiffyHussein says:

    221—”Mother sells rubbers to sailors
    Dad pokes the heads with a pin
    sister performs the abortions
    my god how the money rolls in”

    Wait! That’s Health Net’s business plan! Who told you?!

  229. LeftCenter says:

    #231 I’m not saying theater isn’t hard work. Wrestlers are closer to dancers than actors when in the ring, but when they are thrown, there is often no one to catch them. There’s a lot of give in the ring floor, but if you hit wrong, you’re toast.

  230. #226 It’s theater, but I’ve watched it up close. Those guys are doing a lot of work out there, and there is a tremendous risk if somebody screws up.

    Yep, just ask Owen Hart or Mick Foley.

  231. Back in Black, y’all (damn meetings)….. Just in time for You-Know-What!! It WILL be mine.

  232. LeftCenter says:

    #236 You’ve got a better chance than I do. I have to leave at the top of the hour.

  233. Juliet Hussein Bravo says:

    Love me some Jesse Ventura!

    #220 Thanks, Spiffy– I was honked off at the callers, the livebloggers are awxsome :-D

    It strikes me that the rightwingers have a common theme in a lot of their issues — they impute hedonistic motives (i.e. abortions for fun, or to clean up the mess of a slutty, irresponsible, hedonistic lifestyle) that harkens back to the ’60′s: “squares” in buzz cuts frowning on amoral hippies. They never get to the science or actual cases in the abortion debate.

  234. shāf says:

    Gawd, she (Palin) is soooo soothing! *screams*

  235. “Sub Dial Up speeds”???? Does such a thing really exists? Something is slower that Dial Up?? Hamster Wheel powered internet?

  236. WITHOUT A DOUBT!!!! Palin in White House = Me in Canada

  237. shāf says:

    If Palin is ever elected President, I’m memorizing the following:

    O Canada!
    Our home and native land!
    True patriot love in all thy sons command.

    With glowing hearts we see thee rise,
    The True North strong and free!

    From far and wide,
    O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.

    God keep our land glorious and free!
    O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.

    O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.

  238. SpiffyHussein says:

    238—that’s because so many of them are ardent hedonists.

  239. shāf says:

    #240 Well, I’ve used a 300 baud dial-up connection. That’s pretty freakin’ slow!

  240. Skyhawk says:

    President Palin *screams!* Ski mobile ramps around the front of the and turkey slaughter pen on the south lawn.

  241. Skyhawk says:

    around the front of the white house.

  242. SpiffyHussein says:

    242—If Palin runs for Pres. I will devote every spare moment I have to working against her. She’s DUMB. We’ve already had one dumb president. We cannot afford another!

  243. Richard – “mouse ears” (acoustic modem) at as low as 110 baud..

  244. LeftCenter says:

    #244 Wow…the slowest I ever used was 2400 baud.

  245. LeftCenter says:

    Time to head out of here. Think of me at Sparta time….So long!

  246. k to the g. says:

    243. Or were the ones left out of the party who are bitter.

  247. 242 Oh Canada! Our Homeland and Our Home!
    Oh Canada! You are Where We Live!

    233 Hey Spiff!
    speakin o’ spiff, Do The Google on “Australopithecus spiff-arino”. Trust me on this one

  248. #242 Great minds….. etc.. etc….

  249. Seems I remember the lowest available baud rate for modems was 50 baud. That was what they were using in The Abyss, when Ed Harris texted “LOVE U WIFE”..

  250. flombaye says:

    202: okay. i’m back. i can definitely sympathize about having to unload, but it wasnt from the dumb callers. must have been all the talk about onan the barbarian.

  251. #247 I will certainly join you in that noblest of campaigns (right before I move to Canada)

  252. SpiffyHussein says:

    I’m really disgusted with a few inhabitants of Los Angeles this morning. I do not understand why crazy people think that the Lakers winning is a good opportunity to torch the city, spray grafitti, and damage cars.

    Who can explain this to me? Is it because they are all drunk? I’ve seen plenty of drunk people do stupid stuff.

  253. shāf says:

    #248 Yep, 300 was the theoretical best with an acoustic coupler. Our old TTY devices (our first Compuserve terminals) used ‘em.

  254. SpiffyHussein says:

    ‘K LeftCenter. Have a chemistry day.

  255. Juliet Hussein Bravo says:

    #243 Spiffy: “that’s because so many of them are ardent hedonists.”

    Exactly– they repress it all week, liquor up Friday and Saturday and fall on their knees begging for forgiveness from the Lord Sunday morning. Like that great old country song by Hank Thompson:

    One hell of a weekend, all filled up with sin
    Friday night through Sunday, it’s whiskey, beer and gin
    One hell of a weekend, I’ll be glad when it’s through
    And then baby I’ll come crawlin’ home to you.

    Lather, rinse, repeat.

  256. Listening to “In The Evening” by Zep to avoid Wild Thing. I swear to God they drop a piano out of a building in this song. I know it’s just some Jimmy Page guitar effect, but that’s what it sounds like.

  257. Juliet Hussein Bravo says:

    #251 k to the g: “Or were the ones left out of the party who are bitter.”

    That too!

  258. Shaf – Ah, but have you played Zork over such a link to a PDP-11/45, at 1:30 AM Sunday morning, when all sane people were sleeping or making whoopee?

    And do you own a pocket protector?

  259. flombaye says:

    257: i’m not from here either. culture often boggles me completely. in fact, scientists still have no leads about why “according to jim” is still on the air.

  260. wow~! Ya’ll are dating yerselfs… Zork, dial up… next
    you’ll admit you prog’d in Cobol, Fortran, Assembler
    back when it was ‘data processing’

  261. flombaye says:

    265: you younguns dont even remember threetran, i reckon.

  262. shāf says:

    #263 Never been much of a game player, but I’ve used a PDP-11/45 (as well as a Data General Nova 800). I didn’t have a pocket protector, but I proudly wore a TI Programmer (decimal, octal, hex) calculator on my belt.

  263. shāf says:

    #265 Guilty as charged (Cobol, Fortran, Assembler) Throw in PL/1, Pascal, SNOBOL as well.

  264. flombaye says:

    267: we couldnt get icosa calculators, because of the war.

  265. LUMBERJACK SONG!!!!!! AWESOME PLAY MORE

  266. I’m ancient. I admit it. Never programmed in COBOL (computer oriented business language) but heard it was designed so that management could “understand” the program. That says it all.

    I haven’t programmed in 360 Assembler although I had a class on it. Have done a ton of 8080, Z80, 6800, 68000, Z8000, and 8086 (family) programming, as well as a custom bit slice implemented with AMD2900 parts.

    Nerk, nerk..

  267. flombaye says:

    my cardboard stephy gets way too much use on sneak a kiss day. – actually i thott it was snatch a kiss day, and even then, i got the process backward.

  268. SpiffyHussein says:

    260—It’s not even the drinkin’ that’s the sin. It’s the greed and the lack of compassion for their fellow man and woman.

    If it’s all for a profit it’s all good to them. But let’s not discuss it anymore. I opt for action instead.

  269. Skyhawk says:

    Otherwise it’s national Bill-O’s day.

  270. Juliet Hussein Bravo says:

    Is that the sound of Richard in DC cracking his knuckles for…..SPARTA?

  271. SpiffyHussein says:

    265—I will never admit to that! lol

  272. Dutch Paul says:

    Seymour Beaver? I only know Seymour Hersh

  273. I had an eye doctor when I was a kid who was named Seymour….. no joke.

  274. SpiffyHussein says:

    Why do men feel they need a special day? ;-)

  275. #275 YOU KNOW IT, BABY!!!!

  276. 261 Richard in DC
    trivia:
    Zep idolized Elvis, I think it’s All My Love off the
    In Thru the out door album is the same as Be My Teddy Bear

  277. trojanrabbit says:

    265
    Zork…Bah

    Hunt the Wumpus on a PDP-8 via paper tape.

  278. Seymour Butts – he wrote “Under the Grandstands”, right?

  279. trojanrabbit says:

    Or is that Hunt the SPARTA

  280. flombaye says:

    283: other fine recommended reading:
    “the hole in the bed” by mister completely.

  281. OK, fellow sciento-techies – can you toggle in the Boot for a PDP-11?

  282. MORE Miss California blather??? Aren’t her 15 minutes MORE than over??

  283. Mean comment to Momma:
    “Stephanie, are you wearing a bra?”
    “Yes, yes I am wearing a bra.”
    “What the hell for?”
    Poor Momma. At least she’s got a Spectacular Ass.

  284. trojanrabbit says:

    287
    Used to do that for a PDP-8

  285. flombaye says:

    287: i’ll try it if you’ll try kipling.

  286. Juliet Hussein Bravo says:

    Hmm, a little Spartan here on the liveblog considering we are careening toward….SPARTA!

  287. Skyhawk says:

    Sparta is close.

  288. Juliet Hussein Bravo says:

    SP<3TA!

  289. flombaye says:

    please take us back to the no spinster zone.

  290. shāf says:

    #287 Used to be able to. That part of my memory has faded with OS 360/370 Assembly Language syntax.

  291. flombaye says:

    ALL RISE

  292. trojanrabbit says:

    292
    We’re all holding it in…

    Sparta?

  293. shāf says:

    Sparta y’alls!

  294. Skyhawk says:

    Man up for Sparta!

  295. Juliet Hussein Bravo says:

    I gotta fever…and the only cure is more SPARTA!

  296. don’t you know there ain’t no devil, that’s
    just god when he’s drunk
    – Mad Tom Waits

    “We always knew when Dad was drinking whiskey
    cause when he came home he was mean”
    – Kathleen

    Jim Louise Ward you are a scamp!

  297. Juliet Hussein Bravo says:

    And Skyhawk swoops in for SPARTA! Congrats!

  298. trojanrabbit says:

    yay Skyhawk! Sparta is yours.

  299. shāf says:

    Hey Rocky! Watch me pull a rabbit out of this hat!

  300. Son of a…….

    hit refresh instead of submit or it would have been mine!!!!!

    Congrats, Hawkiekins!!!

  301. shāf says:

    Congrats Skyhawk!

  302. Skyhawk says:

    Couldn’t have spartaed with y’alls. Thanks!

  303. TR – why was the PDP-8 a 12-bit machine? They should have called it a PDP-12, a la Porsche – their 911 with a four cylinder was a 912..

  304. SpiffyHussein says:

    Oh dear. I went to the restroom and missed sparta.

  305. Skyhawk says:

    with = without.

  306. k to the g. says:

    It’s a manly Sparta today! “Men men men men, men men men men” (Monty Python, anyone….Beuller?)

  307. Skyhawk says:

    Two and a half Spartas.

  308. I’ve got a bad liver
    and a broken heart
    drank me a river since [STEPHANIE MILLER] tore me apart
    …….
    I just can’t drink no more,
    ‘Cause it don’t douse the flames
    that are started by dames,
    It ain’t like asbestos — Mad Tom again

  309. SpiffyHussein says:

    All hail Skyhawk!

  310. flombaye says:

    is the view from in sarah palin’s head just sort of like that willie wonka boat ride all the time? – just wondering – latterman mentioned that sarah palin was in new york for a few days, hunting rats from the tourist helicopter. – we can only hope a few were left for the skyhawk’s congratulatory feast.

  311. SpiffyHussein says:

    315—I do enjoy the manly men of Monty Python.

  312. Sara and George Busch in a remake of Of Mice And Men,
    they both play the dumb one

  313. shāf says:

    I did a good thing, George!

  314. I owned two Porsches (one at a time) back when I was a young (<35) single electronic design engineer. I also had a BMW R69S, and a Husky 390-WR and part ownership in an ancient Cessna 150..

  315. 319 ah, to hunt rethugs from a helicopter… better yet, to
    see them all turned lose in a Planet o’The Apes Round Up…
    now THAT’s entertainment

  316. flombaye says:

    321: i’ll try to find you some blue and green and purple rabbits, and i’ll bring em to ya.

  317. k to the g. says:

    Boehner – poster child for nicotine-infected American causing healthcare costs to go up for everybody.

  318. 322 or redo the ending to One Flew Over, w/[name yer asshole] getting
    the pillow treatment from The Chief

  319. flombaye says:

    stephy: i like machines.

  320. Cindy in Boston says:

    Good morning all!!

    I just wrote and posted a diary on DKos

    Shots rang out in the dark

  321. SpiffyHussein says:

    OK peoples—I’m going to take off. Have a nice day and please join the fight for health care for all by calling your congresspeople, even if they don’t like you.

    http://www.congress.org

  322. Skyhawk says:

    Morning Cindy!

  323. Guys . . . & Gals in D.C. says:

    Somebody must have posted about this already, but:

    Yay, according to the “Latest video” title of Stephanie on CNN, we can look forward to seeing Steph on “Saturday 9/13/09″. Excellent! We can predict what Steph will say in the future.

    Sorry Steph, Sept. 13 ’09 is a Sunday, but we love it you’ll be on CNN then! :)

  324. trojanrabbit says:

    312
    Don’t know for sure, but it’s likely the 8 is just a natural progression in the series.

    From Wiki 12 bits was chosen to increase accuracy over 8 bit machines where 16 bits would have been way too expensive to implement.

  325. SpiffyHussein says:

    326—hey, isn’t it SO GREAT that tobacco is now going to be treated like the drug that it is? Regulated and supervised and everything?

    That is fantasitc news!

  326. flombaye says:

    324: especially the part where chuck (taylor) [YES ! - HE'S BOTH A WAR CRIMINAL AND A RUNNING SHOE !] turns to his beloved nova for escape. explosive fun.

  327. Cindy, Cindy, I was going to ask where you were. Will read your diary..

    Nice to see you, Darling, you look marvelous!

  328. flombaye says:

    335: – or mabe the nova just wont go … that’s right. chuck has to switch to a pinto for the explosive fun.

  329. k to the g. says:

    Bye Spiffy! Have a great one!

  330. trojanrabbit says:

    315
    Sounds more like Martin Mull

  331. I live the life of a Country Squire
    one of inebriated indolence
    a disgraced and cashiered Alte Kampfer
    they cut off my stripes and broke my sword
    feed the goldfish, sop up some gin ["rigid w/gin"]
    walk the dogs; drink whishkey;
    blog
    adore Momma from afar
    polish the meth cookers
    living well is the best revenge

  332. Sen Stabs!
    Thanks Steph for the condolences
    We did get drunk though
    so it wasn’t all bad

  333. flombaye says:

    this is similar to mark levin’s analysis of the very same sound bite, that it would be totalitarian government control, because medical institutions and insurance companies would still be required to meet some standards and follow some rules.

  334. 337 the pinto… Lee Iacocca’s Baby.
    He burned a few on the Way To The Top

  335. Steph on the Tee Vee: Three Werdz Momma:
    Magic
    Purple
    Sweater
    !

  336. Cindy in Boston says:

    Men, men, men, it’s ship all filled with men
    You’ll never have to lift the seat
    There’s no one here but men
    We’re men and friends until the end
    And none of us are missus
    At night we’ll sleep in separate beds
    And blow each other kisses

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-m-xZ4gz4MM

  337. Cindy in Boston says:

    Mark – yes that’s me

  338. Steph’s on thuh TeeVee and looking exceptionally alluring
    in her Madonna inspired 1980s trash brat ensemble
    She’s fetching in a WTF, uh, frock? or is that a… vest?
    hooker shoes, multicolored Thigh High Toe Socks and a
    Trashbag/dish strainer alpaca? sweater, shapeless sweatshirt &
    jogging pants ball cap and just woke up hair.
    She smells like plonk. She mentions she’s feeling a little
    drunk and slutty. Love that Girl.

  339. PJ Squeezy Louise Hussein McFlavin says:

    Morning blogovitches … now which one of you’s been messing with my teevee?

  340. 341: same question to Cindy!

  341. flombaye says:

    ah, yes, the threat of “losing” health care. limbaugh recently had a similar disconnect, in trying to scare people over obama: “do you want to wait a year for a job?” – just think of how awesome that would be, if it only took a year to get a job. – it is perhaps unwise to use a scare scenario that people will flock to in droves.

  342. Shots rang out in the dark

    in Detroit two yahoos beat Vincent Chin to death
    because he was of Chinese descent, and they were mad
    a the success of Japanese automakers… neither scum
    went to jail. Famous Ugly case here, w/ a recent anniversary

  343. How cool, Cindy! I’m going to have to catch up on your material on KOS.

    I have a couple of blog entries over there, from months ago, I’m Iva Biggin on KOS. But it seems to me that writing a decent blog is more work than I’m willing to do, at least very often. (besides, I have a hot head which sometimes overcomes me and spoils my writing..).

  344. do you all keep getting the ridiculous ‘Obama you scare
    me cause I don’t know you blah blah’ letter? Three times
    morons have sent it. Including my mother. I asked her to
    refrain w/the idiocy, still she keeps hitting the send button

  345. 351: WTF would Rush Limbaugh know about finding a job? He’s been a total zero his entire life, never really worked for a living.

  346. Skyhawk says:

    Meanwhile Obama is talking the insurance agents in lab coats known as the AMA.

  347. Obamarules says:

    True story
    Dad with Medicare diagnosed with lung cancer gets surgery 3 weeks after diagnosis.
    Sister-in-law with private insurance that brother pays through the ass for as a self-employed person is diagnosed with breast cancer and has to wait for chemo until payment is made ( insurance company considers chemo as a prescription drug instead of a medical treatment and they don’t have prescription coverage) and has to wait for double mastectomy surgery until insurance company approves.
    The only system that rations health care is the private/HMO system that rewards docs with “bonus” payments for keeping “costs” down.

  348. k to the g. says:

    Sen Stabinow – we know what the problem is. It’s CONGRESS! Don’t treat us like idiots.

  349. flombaye says:

    354: 2 years into the presidential campaign, hannity was still ranting that there’s just no info about about obama – we dont know what the guy looks like – has he ever been in politics – is he a hamas muslim, an al quaeda muslim, or a regular saracen-sword-totin muslim? – it’s just total secrecy. – nobody knows anything about this guy. — if only they hadnt hidden all that stuff from hannity in a PDF.

  350. Cindy in Boston says:

    Ivan you can go here too http://orestia.blogspot.com/
    sometimes I post different stuff on there

  351. 358 outlaw lobbying.
    better yet just start killing lobbyists. It’s not like they
    are human, or even have valuable pelts. They are vermin,
    a scourge. Kill Them All, God Will Know His Own. in this case
    God will disavow all of them.

  352. shāf says:

    Blame the producer? Okay. (just kidding)

  353. Cindy in Boston says:

    Ivan yes Clytemnestra is me

  354. Rob’t Palmer video, skinny chicks w/guitars
    they were all guys… urban legend? please advise

  355. flombaye says:

    364: they were each “playing” to different rhythms, so at least we know that they really were white.

  356. 364 – they were all chicks. But they weren’t playing..

  357. k to the g. says:

    361. lobbyists = pimps for parasites

  358. Obamarules says:

    True story –
    People without health insurance probably don’t have jobs that offer other benefits either, like sick time, so they wait until after work and usually end up in the emergency department which ends up costing TONS more money than if they had gone to a family doc who doesn’t have to cover the overhead costs of all the equipment and staff that an emergency department has to have in order to handle emergency/life threatening treatments.

  359. flombaye says:

    366: sounds like a hitchcock script.

  360. Amy "Pro-Life is Forced Birth" Outside of DC says:

    #352 Margaret Cho has a joke about some dumb redneck calling her a chink. She’s actually Korean, so she had to correct him and tell him he should be calling her a gook.

  361. shāf says:

    I have no problem with lobbyists taking to legislators. They can talk until they’re blue in the face. What I can’t abide is the transfer of money in the form of campaign donations that give their voice an implied authority. Come’on, candidates know who their largest contributors are.

    We need public financing of campaigns (including free air time).

  362. Last nite on The Simpsons
    news anchor Kent Brockman
    was doing the O’Biley ‘do it live’ rant

    swear to god

  363. 367 pimps for parasites… I like it, I’m gonna use it

  364. flombaye says:

    372: we couldnt get white loofahs, because of the war. – we” go to shelbyville, and we’ll do it live! AAAAHHHH! DEATH!! – now, where was i?

  365. shāf says:

    #371 Yep, I saw it. The show was also a great spoof of the Da Vinci Code.

  366. k to the g. says:

    Hey Steph, wear some Kotex pads under your arms this time just to be sure, k?

  367. Skyhawk says:

    Palin couldn’t outsmart a house plant.

  368. flombaye says:

    homer battles stupid white men, with
    help from …. a deranged albino.
    D’OH !!

  369. Obamarules says:

    6th commandment reads: You SHALL NOT kill.
    It does not read: You shall not kill unless I ask you to.

  370. Amy "Pro-Life is Forced Birth" Outside of DC says:

    I’m sure lots of men have taken their organs out to look at Carrie Prejean.

    skates…

  371. bye blogger
    miss ya til tomorree

    bye Mooks y Momma

    Love You All

  372. Skyhawk says:

    Bye all, have a good day!

  373. Guess that’s what happens when McCain and Sarah don’t talk to each other.

  374. Skyhawk says:

    Next gig for Carrie – Prejean is Nalin Paylin.

  375. Juliet Hussein Bravo says:

    Bye, gang! Have a great day!

  376. shāf says:

    That’s all for now. Great show and blog!

    Have a great day, everyone!

  377. k to the g. says:

    Byeeee! Have a Stephalicious day all! Oliver, hold your fire til you hit grass, man.

  378. Bye, fine people. Hasta manana.

    Don’t you dare change a thing!

    L.