LiveBlog for Monday, June 22, 2009
• Rep. Eric Massa (D-NY) calls in at 6:05am Pacific to talk about health care reform.
• David Shuster, MSNBC’s dayside anchor and regular substitute for “Countdown with Keith Olbermann” calls in at 6:30am Pacific to talk about Iran and health care reform.
• Jennifer Palmieri, Senior Vice President for Communications at the Center for American Progress, calls in at 8:05am Pacific to talk about health care and Iran.
• Lead Franken attorney Marc Elias calls in at 8:30am Pacific to talk about the latest in the Franken / Coleman senate recount.
• Iran’s election authority has rejected claims of voting irregularities by a defeated presidential candidate, while acknowledging that the number of ballots cast in dozens of cities exceeded the number of eligible voters there, state-run TV reported today. Earlier yesterday, thousands of riot police and militia lined Tehran’s streets as the public rift among Iranian leaders appeared to be widening.
• Several senior Dem advisers to the White House are urging President Obama to further step up his personal involvement in the health care debate, as administration allies privately warn the president’s push for a major reform bill is hitting major roadblocks at a critical juncture on Capitol Hill.
• President Obama is set to sign into law an anti-smoking bill today that will give the Food and Drug Administration unprecedented authority to regulate tobacco.
Tags: Al Franken, Barack Obama, David Shuster, Eric Massa, Health Care Reform, Iran, Jennifer Palmieri, Mark Elias, Norm Coleman, Tobacco
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Gooood morning all!
Hope Mama enjoyed her trip aboard Screaming Baby Airlines.
Unfortunately too much work to stick around, just got a couple of things to take care of at my desk before I start.
Another dreary, miserable day, like it will be tomorrow and Wednesday. Thankfully it was sorta decent Saturday, enough to lie down outside and get a little faceburn.
Have fun. If I stop by again it might be late in hour 3. Waiting for the StephCast.
Good morning, everyone.
Mine will be hi-bye post as well. I have three days of classroom training to keep me busy. Thank goodness for the Stephcast!
happy mondee morning, Paul and shaf; hope it’s a good one.
Americans struggle to pay for healthcare-study
http://www.reuters.com/article/euRegulatoryNews/idUSN2146504720090622
A SAVAGE PROPOSAL: – the savage wiener is on a mission lately, to develop a “suffering hero” complex on the premise that efforts are afoot to censor the savage wiener. it seems a good time to offer michael a saturation of requests to tell the story about these efforts at censorship. – - – in fact, we get a 2-for-1 deal. i just found a 2009 june 3 youtubery of mark levin, with a protracted pro-big-government rant about how anybody trying to persecute mark levin will have to get past a laundry list of various government-enabled protective mechanisms. – so here we get a steadfast and resolute failure of public discourse on a mission to develop a suffering-hero complex, and a bonus parasite trying to savor the mantle of not even imaginary suffering, but rather imaginary suffering by proxy (with all possible attendant escape clauses). i say let freedom ring; encourage these twin proxy martyrs to tell the actual stories of how they are being censored. peel away the layers of the onion until there is a story. meanwhile, rumors that steph and i have instigated consideration of changing the name of “the virgin islands” have been greatly exaggerated.
Good morning, fine people. I’m looking forward to hearing what’s going on with Senator Franken. I’ve been wondering just how low Norm Coleman and the Republican Party can slither off to, how long does Minnesota have to be missing their Senator?
I’ll be here about an hour, I’m getting HDTV installed this morning, after waiting about six months with the 42″ TV.. So, I suspect I’ll have a whole new training curve for a remote control, that’s the part I dread. At my age, having to learn/amend anything is starting to be a hassle.
If I were younger, I would have long since had the new DVR and hacked the Tivo to skip commercials. But now I’m too old for such activities.. Too old.
Too old…. ;->
can it really be coincidence that norm coleman has delayed the process until the death of ali akbar khan? – this forces minnesotans to modify the traditional moslem salutation. – those wanting to follow the coming years of coleman’s delay tactics will now have to get full digital islamic conversions.
I can listen to Limbaugh about 2 minutes before I saturate with his bullshit. With Savage, 3 or 4 sentences gives me my quarterly quota..
Typical though, I’m sure, for Savage to see himself as some sort of suffering hero.
It’s Miller time! Where is everyone?
(Who farted?)
he who schmelt it, dealt it.
Good morning!! My friend and wonderful Congressman, Eric Massa is going to be on Steph this am. He was Gen Clark’s assistant in the Navy. He’s really terrific!
it’s the stephanie miller show.
And oh, I forgot. He was also in a never-ending election with Randy Kuhl. The good guy won!!
DELUSION AWARD
as of 2009 june 21, billy cunningham was commenting on the role of khomeini (not khamenei) in iran … and of north korean missiles reaching hawaii … and of dropping 2000 nukes upon korea. – stephen king once pointed out (mentioning nancy grace in particular), that he’s reputed to have a pretty dark imagination, but had failed to imagine this person. – they seem to be cranking them out now, faster than human imagination can lower its standards.
Had we a President McClain, by now we would have attacked Iran..
14: those never-ending elections are so annoying. – nowadays, the commercials say if your election lasts more than four hours, consult a doctor. – who has time to spend all of the fourth and fifth grade at the doctor?
Im confused…thought Hal sparks was filling inall week? Not that I’m complaining….
Single payor is the key to lowering costs. Single payor means a more uniform paper trail.
Single payor may just be to much of change to get through though. It seems though that if we go for single payor we may end up with nothing.
Morning all!
Good morning, live blogospherians! Busy weekend: got the kid married off Saturday, had our 34th wedding anniversary and Fathers Day yesterday. This may be a drive-by for now because I have to pick up the dog from boarding.
Integrity in a Congress Critter. It’s a new day!
For Producer Chris: Can’t use the mp3 version of the live stream. Get some kind of cockamamie stuff on a white background instead.
I bought four picture postcards (for $1)at the drug store; one for Eric (Massa), one for Pres. Obabma, and two for senators. I wrote on them “Single Payer health care. Now.” I signed my name and zip code. Stamps are cheaper, too.
No delay in delivering them, and no security problems. Plus, you can’t help but look at them (the pictures) When I went to mail them, the lady in back of of me ask about them, and I told her. She said SHE would go get some.
Now, if I can get all of YOU to do it — revolution!!!!!
If there is an HONEST calculation of the true cost of health care in this country, it becomes abundantly clear that it is among the most expensive in the world. Of course, the big HMOs, insurance companies, and pharmaceuticals all fight like hell for the status quo – THEY are cleaning up!
I say if the country cannot have single payer, then Congress must lose its single payer plans, and fend for themselves in the insurance market, like ordinary citizens.. Well, most of them are multi-millionaires (one of the problems), so they’ll be able to afford some insurance, but it’s no wonder the bastards don’t care about health insurance for the masses – they’ve got THEIRS!
Speaking of which, here’s a congresscritter who walks the walk!
the U.S. military ? – that sounds french and gay.
#27 You forgot socialistic.
Hiya, Bloggoes!
“Iran Admits More Votes than Voters”
Now where have we heard that one before???
#27 sounds like you have been hanging out in the Rhodes Scholars chat room!
I’m afraid that we won’t get meaningful health care until we get meaningful campaign finance reform!
The Ayatollahs learned from the Bush campaign.
massa wants to make civilian health care access as french and gay as that of the U.S. military services? is this guy the reincarnation of robespierre ?
Off to pick up the doggie. Sorry to quote a Republican, but “I’ll be back.”
34 — How much of a republican can he be if he smokes dope and thinks same sex marraige would be okey-doke?
Consider this: Insurance companies spend a fortune on lobbyists, advertsing, executive bonuses, and making a profit. Single payer would cut all of the fat out.
35: it’s called old school. that party only went taliban (early 1980s i think) when they discovered all the intractible single-issue votes they could exploit in the “pro-life” militias.
good morning bloggies!
#35–exactly!
Counter the right wing talking point about people not wanting a bureaucrat between patient and doctor. There already IS a bureaucrat between us: for-profit corporate bureaucracy with a 30% administrative overhead. Medicare (i.e. single-payer) only has @ 4% admin. overhead. If something has to stand between me and my doctor I’d prefer the government over the corporate greedheads.
McCain remains a pro war turd.
John Kerry did it.
this is a shameful failure by the viet cong. with five years of custody, they could have been much more creative than to just bop john mccain on the head.
Ivan Louise Hussain Biggin — I love your Avatar. “Mein Führer! I can walk!”
david shuster is great.
#42–as politically incorrect as that is, flombaye…LOL!
#39 Amen.
39 — I so agree. I wonder why the RW can’t figure this out?
McCain is all talk. And he’s full of crap. He needs a big scoop of stfu.
Remember all the stuff about the privileged relationship between doctor and patient? Now, anyone who has dealt with insurance knows that is meaningless, you sign a stack of forms giving virtually anyone access to your medical records, that is if you want your insurance company to pay..
Good morning, the MP3 stream is not working here either. I’m listening on KTLK. This is what I get from the MP3:
[playlist]
NumberOfEntries=1
File1=http://c1.mp3.liquidcompass.net/SMS
Length1=-1
Version=2
45: “politically correct” is a bit of a pre-mccain precept, actually. – even in 2000, mccain seemed to have positive qualities, and could have even been polished into looking normal. – unfortunately, thru the campaign process, more and more anecdotes came out, up to and including how mccain exploited the “offer for early release” (a sardonic offer made to all p.o.w. [acceptance would result in courtmartial and execution]), and the real mccain became clear: a habitual criminal whose tried and true response every single time upon getting found out (as in being identidied as the pile of number 2 in the keating 5) was “i’ve learned my lesson, and i’ll be proper from now on. – it’s similar to the situation where al bundy was a possible choice to do a commencement speech. the problem was that the other choice was “terry freakin bradshaw”. bundy summed up bradshaw thusly: “the man’s won more superbowls than i’ve had good days”. – and this is how far the deeds of mccain went: i personally, have won more superbowls, than john mccain seems to have had honorable moments.
Iran’s Supreme Leader chose the 4 finalists for the presidential election out of about 70 contestants. It’s like beauty pageants … just how much difference can there be between the winner and the runners-up? (except Miss Congeniality, of course)
Ronald Regan drinking game–hilarious!
Could the RW get current, please??
I must go, fellow Bloggons. Have a great Munday! Hasta manana, gentes!
L.
#51– well said.
50 — mp3 stream is hunky dory here, RMH.
If the RW get current, that could mean they’re progressive. Their thinking is in the past. That’s why they’re anti-most everything progressives are for. In my opinion.
I’m like a gypsy fortune teller: I forsee a complete lack of Spartulation on today’s blog.
24, that really is a good idea, KSyrahSyrah.
Ice her groin? Chris Louise Lavoie!
I also miss the MP3 version of the livestream!
Watched Michael Moore’s “Sicko” again over the weekend and have gone from mad to damn mad over the Dems in Congress who are dragging their feet. Bill Mahre is right, our current Dems are farther to the right than the traditional [and nearly extinct] Republicans.
61 — ah, the livestream. Jenn Chapin commercials. The cheater dating website. ah, yeah. that’s the ticket!
Good Morning Board – finally!
Happy Monday with Swirly Music!
Happy 60th Birthdays to Meryl Streep and Lidsay Wagner! Also Silver-Tongued Kris Kristofferson is 73.
Childschlep… do I sense another mention on Newsbusters for Jim???
cheeky nut muncher. hahahaha.
CHEEKY NUTMUNCHER LYRICS
“suckin’ slimy furballs…
sent inside forever,
never seein’ no one,
nice again…”
The sultan of Bearnaisse?
ACTUAL ELVIRA MOVIE LINES:
[object falls, bonks elvira]
gentleman: how’s your head ?
elvira: i’ve never had any complaints.
will elvira have a cameo in the cheeky nutmuncher film?
#62 Yeah the commercials on the livestream have an uneven reputation, but for whatever reason the MP3 version seems to use less bandwidth of all my other options. Some of us in rural America are still kinda limping along in the breakdown lane of the information highway.
get back to the cheeky nutchopper !
I hope Elvira writes an autobiography.
71: would that be ghost-written with lots of skeletons in the closets, by al franken and ben stein ?
Saw Richard Simmons in the airport one day while at work…oh girl. It was sad. He was very loud, trying to draw attention to himself it seemed like. He was making comments to people as they walked past but I think they thought he was just some crazy person. Luckily he did not get on my flight that day…he was headed to New York I think.
73: they have a “flaming oh baby airlines” ?
Alternate Timeline Scenario: Richard Simmons never got famous as a “motivator,” achieves a different sort of fame as a colorful street person, even by New Orleans standards.
a fun interview to do would be the other fruit-of-the-loom commercial fruits, lamenting how they missed their chance to drown richard simmons, that cheeky fellow.
Hey all you tech savy types out there…does anyone know a quick & easy way to convert a windows music file to mp3 format? Looks like a lot of software out there to use but I’m not sure which is best.
good morning everyone
77 — iTunes does that, I think.
77: first, you’ll need an 8-year old, and some oatmeal cookies for motivation.
#21—that’s a lot to do in one weekend!
Hi all. My weekend was productive but dull.
Hiya, Cindy!
Hiya, SpiffyHussein!
Happy Monday! good to see everyone
What’s happening in Iran is amazing.
And… Hiya, Mark!
#75 –
not impossible, that’s for sure!
77 Deb, here’s a link to a slow but easy way, there are more
sites with other methods…
http://www.boutell.com/newfaq/creating/converttomp3.html
khamenei is copying the ayatollah hannitei talking point about obama sowing doubt about our thriving economy and fantastic health care system. – this may mean the mother of all lawsuits.
I don’t know why people keep saying Obama should do something about Iran. My God, we had two presidential elections stolen here. So now the Pres’ critics are saying we should call tell Iran how to run an election?
Some Republicans are so stupid.
Tehran Street Photos — Under Siege
2. “Neda!” The Rallying Cry in Iran (Warning: Graphic Video)
The Game of Stephanie Miller:
You start out with a smirking sidekick, a brilliant voice
diety and a surly call screener. You’re also equipped with
a hulking SUV, two giant dogs and a years worth of boxed wine.
The black squares are when you were plunged in hopeless
despair from which it seemed you’d never escape. The short
paths are all those dead-end jobs you had, and the gray
areas are the dating problems you thought you kept from everyone.
The game end with you either experiencing an unending
existential crisis or winning thanks to a trumped-up lawsuit
against the FCC.
Stephanie: “Those are my only two possible outcomes?”
Right now it’s only for one player but the radio audience
get’s to listen and gasp or laugh. But we’re working on a
version that combines what we’ve already got with the old
‘Mystery Date’ game. It’ll be ready as soon as we can figure
out how to make it wine-spill and pool-of-my-own-sick proof.
– With Apologies to Francesco Marciuliano
#80 – don’t have an ipod..just trying to send the file to a friend that has a mac and she can’t open/play windows files. No handy 8 year old either
Richard Simmons – Potty Mouth!
http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/4297/
#77 – Wavepad by NCH will do it – free software (don’t purchase the upgrade – no need) – here: http://www.nch.com.au/wavepad/
Just open the Windows Audio file – Wave Pad converts upon opening then save as an .mp3 file.
(also converts many other audio file types!)
75—I saw Simmons on Cooper’s show Friday night. They were flirting. I’m not used to seeing newsmen flirt with guests. It was kinda weird.
3. Iran Guardian Council Admits Vote Fraud
Ah, the weekend is complete…the doggy is back home!
#95 – I just avoided making eye contact with him as I walked past. Luckily I was in uniform so he left me alone!
4. Iranian State-Run Media Line Weakening
Hey caller Scot, go hang yourself in a closet
Or we could take the money back from the bankers in the form of high taxes on the rich.
This idiot has no idea what he’s talking about.
Scott, don’t answer the question. You might have to think.
#77—here, I think this is the software I’ve used to do that:
http://www.nch.com.au/switch/
Scott’s a little shouty.
5. Tehran Street Photos — Streets On Fire”
Get pissed off at Bush then… not Obama, you dummy.
Jessica Lynch? WTF????
This caller seems rather spectacularly uninformed.
6. Iran Protesters Defy Police Shooting, Attacks Shocking New Vids
Scott’s antenna needs serious adjusting.
Right wing tool, Steph and gang, chew him a new one and cut him off. You are dealing with one hard headed individual. Better yet, does anyone have a two by four available?
I heard yesterday that we give $1.4 billion to Mexico to help them with their drug problems.
I know this sounds isolationist, but I am really tired of bailing out banks and the world with problems they created for themselves while guys like this caller say “WE CAN’T AFFORD HEALTH CARE!”
7. Please Call TODAY For A Strong Public Option!
Scott needs to readjust his tinfoil hat.
114—It’s also really helpful when they call in yelling. No one can hear you when you’re yelling, especially on a phone.
#106 – Thanks!! Your awesome. I will check out after the show. That’s what I’ve needed – a recommend from someone that has actually used a program. There is so much out there that it’s hard to know which is okay to download and use.
91: thank you – they are powerful images on their own merits, and one can clearly see that it CAN happen, IS HAPPENING in a fully modern westernized country. – i can only call it fortune, that such a forefront of hot action has never activated in my own town. – never saw anything even close to it, except when the city of sacramento donated a 2 million dollar subsidy to mansanto. – there was a massive overkill of paramilitary personnel (minus identification) assembled around the monsanto reps’ hotel, and near the capital.
A US military invasion of Iran would be the ulitimate “death to America”!
8. Krugman: “Centrist” Democrats will kill health care reform if we’re not careful.
All the Republicans know how to do is bomb.
If the existing heavily subsidized industrial farm system is allowed to continue, diet and environment related diseases – including obesity, diabetes, heart disease, influenza, and cancer – will likely bankrupt the entire health care system within a decade. While in 1970, US health care spending totaled $75 billion, or $356 per person, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services project that by 2016 health care spending will soar to over $4.1 trillion, or $12,782 per resident, representing a crushing 19.6% of GDP.
http://www.organicconsumers.org/newsletter/ov09spring.cfm
119—I’m pretty sure that’s the one I used. It was so easy I wondered why Apple and Microsoft hadn’t thought of simply making something simple like Switch.
9. My Thoughts On The Public Option In House Draft
They love war because it’s all about the money…it makes a ton for them and the war machine.
#85–it’s what should have happened here in 2000! (sans the killing, however…)
Hey, Bush and Cheney would have gladly ordered the shooting of American protesters . . . if they thought they could have gotten away with it.
Steph: What does it mean? It’s “sound and fury, signifying nothing.”
I hear Mike Huckabee and think that Scott may be right. I can imagine that they would “reluctantly” invade Iran to “free” the people. Because the government it killing it’s people. Sound familiar?
10. From ABCs “This Week”: Lindsey Graham plays the FEAR CARD on the public option plan (Video)
11. Millions of middle class Americans with insurance are priced out of medical care
129 — I don’t know that I agree.
“you know, when you want something really bad and you close your eyes and you wish for it? God’s the guy that ignores you.”
100: the particular uniform does make a difference – he never leaves me alone when i’m the biker, the chief, or the construction worker.
#99–our critters complete us
12. Paul Begala calls out the media: expose the insurance industry!
I green screened my photo myself on twitter – no government conspiracy there.
BE AWARE OF JULY 6TH
UPDATE WITH ACTION: National strike for health care reform – Monday, July 6th
128—-we were drinking the Kool Aid the big media sources fed us in 2000. Obama’s campaign figured out the work-around.
The Iranian people, especially these young women who have been pushed down so hard…getting out there and standing up for human rights are very brave, knowing they could be killed. How can anyone (SCOTT!) think this is not real?
129—that’s true.
14. DoD-Certified Agency’s 9/08 Newsletter Suggested Killing Democrats
Scott didn’t say that this was green screened or faked. He just said it was being spinned to make invasion tolerable. Alls I’m saying is that it may be possible, and we should be wary when the dialog moves from “watching” to acting. Don’t be so quick to dismiss Scott.
Cheney wanted war on Iran, it seems the US military stopped
him. Obama seems to see the problem with the Military/Industrial
Complex, but hey, you can only do so much. The last Pres to
really try to kill the damned thing got very messily and
publicly DEAD right in front of everyone, and the ones who
did I were never called to account.
there were warnings of the Iranian gover. gaming twitter going out last week … on twitter
Ah, my favorite ad on the stream. Get tickets from the toilet where we recorded this dot com.
Good morning, bloggers! Just time for a drive-by today:
#50 Rocky Mtn High: “Good morning, the MP3 stream is not working here either. I’m listening on KTLK. This is what I get from the MP3:
[playlist]
NumberOfEntries=1
File1=http://c1.mp3.liquidcompass.net/SMS
Length1=-1
Version=2″
I had the same problem Friday. I can’t remember if I quit iTunes or restarted the whole computer, but I had to click on the “stop/play” button of iTunes before I could get the darn thing to work.
You can always try http://www.ktlk1150.com for a livestream.
130—I confess I haven’t seen MacBeth since I was about 13 but here’s the quote:
MACBETH
She should have died hereafter;
There would have been a time for such a word.
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time,
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
“The obvious meaning is that life is like a bad play (or as one wit commented, a decent play spoiled by a lousy third act). ”
From here:http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1020813
as post 91 tells us: “voice” is only the prosaic connotation; the name also translates as “divine calling”. – when it comes to icons, it has been stepped in. the tanks which will be made into all-tehran vehicles shall find no traction in trying to posit their cause as moral ascendancy, just as in the coverage of british colonials persisting in their brutality against india. the sheer unmitigated obscenity of murdering neda, and other men, women, and children who so majestically reflect the face of all that is divine, can not be demoted from being the central argument of this insane attack from the faith-based-initiative crowd, upon the people of iran.
15. A Grizzly Ate My Brother – Perseverance in Tough Times
150—In short, he’s depressed.
145 no sorry, I dismiss Scot instantly. The War Machine
may still want war with Iran but it is not feasible.
Ain’t
Gonna
Happen.
And I’ll tell you why: China. Iran has way too much oil,
war in Iran shuts down the flow of oil spiking oil prices
and creating MASSIVE oil shortages, which China will not
sit by for…
16. Sunday Loon Watch: GOP picks a fight with President Obama on Iran
#145 – while it’s a possibility that it’s being spun…folks are still dying for speaking out.
When Jessie Jackson was asked how he would pay for his plans after the Savings & Loan scandal (when will we learn?), Jessie’s answer was “we will get the money from where it went.” It’s the same answer now.
17. More Rove-Fox fail: Conveniently ignores history again
154—ah yes, that’s what they want! A war! A chance to make a lotta money off of killing people. I’m so naive.
How can you tell when a republican is lying? His ass is moving.
18. Updated: Feinstein – We May Not Have the Votes for Obama’s Plan
#160 If you’re talking out of your ass, there’s a good chance you’re not lying.
I agree 154 and 156 but we shouldn’t dismiss Scott so easily.
People were dying in Iraq, but the war had nothing to do with helping them.
It is not above the realm of possibility for the war mongers to use the suffering of others to dispose of a government they don’t like.
Am I wrong?
whut?! not a peep re my brilliant rip off of Sunday’s
Sally Forth @93? Noboddy wants to play The Game of Stephanie Miller,
not even Momma.
OK, here’s a rip off of ‘Anchorman’: Mr. LaVoie, this country
needs its news. And you are going to deprive them of that
because I have an ass? A Spectacular Ass? Now, I am gonna
go on, and if you want to try and stop me, bring it on.
Because I am good at three things: Fighting, screwing, and
reading the news. I’ve already done one of those today, so
what’s the other one gonna be? Huh?
Chris LaVoie: [thinks about it] Screwing?
160—Actually, you can tell a Republican is lying when he or she says they are going to do something for you to help you with that.
war is always feasible. but republicans forget why iran is different from iraq: The government is ethnically the same as the people, they have money and arms, they have an air force, a navy, and a functioning army.
19. Millions of middle class Americans with insurance are priced out of medical care
I forgot to tell you: Eric Massa doesn’t take corporate contributions. His campaign is financed by people only – no lobbyists. Glad you liked him. We got a keeper!
re 15 … now with the link
A Grizzly Ate My Brother – Perseverance in Tough Times
20. And the long love affair ends; g’bye to Ben & Jerry’s
In addition to giving up their public single payer health care, congress should agree to pay its members minimum wage and limit its members to live on that amount of money alone.
The more people who have access to health care, the less time doctors will have to spend treating rich Republicans.
#108 Thanks, Cindy. Great photos. I will share with others.
166—war is not always feasable. We have to stop that kind of thinking. That kind of thinking is what got us Cheney running the government.
And America has a long history of sticking her nose into other countries. What has it got us? The ONLY times we have come away from wars, little or big, feeling great and being praised is when people ASK US for help.
If they don’t ask us, let them work it out on their own.
Obama is already doing the one thing that could
stop Iran from getting The Bomb: talking to Russia.
Give Russia something they want [no US missiles in Poland]
and get Russia to A] stop sending nuc equipment to Iran
and B] intercede with the Iranians
Even if this thing in Iran puts a different President in
place, he’s a figurehead, it’s the Ayatollah who rules.
Iran has dispersed it’s nuc sites and buried them. We’d
need a sustained bombing campaign to have any hope of
destroying enough of it. That would mean no oil being
shipped. China gets way too much Iranian oil to sit by.
Military force is not feasable.
OK, I must go. Have a great Monday and if you want a public health option call your Senators!
170 Ben and Jerrys GONE! No!
Thank You Cindy and DailyKos for the thing on
Jim Ammerman who, through his military chaplain
endorsing agency, The Chaplaincy of Full Gospel Churches
these people are scum.
175 — There’s no way to completely stop these smaller countries from getting the bomb. Eventually, it will happen. You can delay it, but you can’t keep it from happening forever. And the same thing is true of using the damn things.
#170–Very sad. I’ve always Loved Ben & Jerry’s–was willing to pay more for it because I knew the ingredients were REAL, as well as their philanthropic endeavors.
I hear Danny Bonnaducci will be on The Ed Show tomorrow…
177 — oh, yeah, long since. The first thing they did when they took over (what the hell is a unilever? Sounds like it might mean penis) was get rid of my 3 favorite flavors. I’m all done grieving for them. Luckily, there’s Toscanini’s in Central Square…
#181 *Bonaduce
Unilever is the former Lever Brothers. They started as a soap/detergent making company.
So the Republicans are out there saying this will cost a trillion – well you bozos, health care costs us 2 trillion and projected to become 4 trillion.
Why don’t you rich Republicans adopt someone and take care of them Sean?
Did you hear what Bill Press re played on his show from a meeting at the Whitehouse – it is President Obama slipping into a car buying commercial similar to Wayne’s World Adventures, when he begins selling his potato chip.
ITs a scream! please play on your show.
Democrats don’t say anything in their own defense. They just let the right wing scream and say nothing to contradict them.
because SHAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWNNN or SEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNN
companies will not let you adopt a family and allow them to be added to your plan — just try to get your mother who lives with you on your plan or your adult child who is 25 and still in school … you MORON SEAN
SEAN the MORON
189 to end my thought IF IT HAPPENS AT ALL IT IS VERY HARD AND MEANS A FIGHT …. it really hardly ever happens
The US is doomed, unless we kill the Corporations.
Thom Hartmann is right, Personhood for Corporations
was the death of America. And it was gotten by fraud.
#188 – it’s the right wing media machines job to spread misinformation, fear and lies. I think the Dems hope people are smart enough to see through that, but unfortunately that’s not true for everyone and your right…they need to start confronting the outright b.s.
OMG. Hannity thinks we should ADOPT someone to help pay medical bills??? Does that tic-tac-brained idiot have a remote CLUE????? How many of us have $26,000 in our pocket to help that uninsured friend who was injured?
184 no, I go with ‘Penis’
I prefer hip shaking to hip checking.
Stephanie Miller is harmless as a kitten? Did Randi Rhodes just call Mama a pussy?
I’ve got to get to work. See you all tomorrow.
Michelle Bachman calls it a “Gangster Government” (video)
Good Morning, America. I’m [Stephanie Miller]. Tits McGee
is on vacation. — more Anchorman rip off
haiku from drunken Sunday morning:
Stephanie Miller
Goddess of Wit and Beauty
Wine Drunk and Slutty
I am drunk again
Hope your day at work was good
Dinner is ruined
Morning all! I’m gonna start crusing emergency rooms looking for people to adopt. (Hey baby, is that a broken pelvic bone or are you happy to see me?)
skating…
30 minutes to go and only 2/3 of the way to Sparta. What’s wrong with you people?????
It’s hard to come up with 300 in these depressed times.
Congress = Stanley Corporate Tool Box
last week we seemed to get past 300 with no problem .. not sure what’s going on today
you know Nawm is going to take it to the supremes
#204 Work is really busy, I can’t devote as much time to the live blog as usual.
That’s my excuse, can’t speak for anyone else.
We’re all Fred Thompson this morning
Set me free why don’t you babe
Get out my life why don’t you babe
dude on the phone sounds like the BREATHER…
204- Some of the bloggers maybe thinking Steph is on vacation.
can they tack 7 months on to Al’s term at the end of it to make up for Nawms assholeness …. what is going to happen to Norm any other legal punishment for this?
Well that was scrambly.
He’s saying ANYTHING Obama does will be attacked by the republicans
#201: Sparta is a lofty goal not always achieved by mere mortals.
Republicans = Idiot Wind
He was speaking in parables or something.
parables told in a language tantalizingly close to English.
Why even bother commenting on what the loser Rethugs say? Their true believers aren’t listening to us, and we could be having much more fun talking about the future and happy clappy things. I’m tired of Thug talking points. ENOUGH!
218 — I think we ignore them at our peril
I love the commercials recorded in toilets.
219. Well, we could try it. Maybe they’d STFU if we stopped talking about them.
220 — I didn’t think you could make a USB connection work with a tin can on a string, but evidently you can!
just got back – what’s this about bonaduce taking over for ben and jerry? will alan colmes still be there? is it going to be mostly bonaduce and colmes, or hannity and bonaduce? – and what’s this crap about bush’s skydiving. should have spared taxpayers the cost of the parachute at least.
Obama treats his critics like pesky flies. ‘Nuf said.
Girl Talk with Virginia Grahm. Anybody remember that show?
when HMOs tell my 79 yo that she can’t have the steroid that actually takes her pain away and puts her on one that does diddly squat because the other steroid is $$$ more money
Canadian asprin (with codeine) for your friend Flo, Steph.
Ensign Pole-ver?
Jim Louise Ward!
“As Fox bimbos go, she’s not that bad!” Press kit quote!
BLoggoes! Day ovah!
Buh Bye!
See you tomorrow!
I could have sworn Elvira had written a book, but no. Until she does, this’ll have to do: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2005/08/28/elvira-actress-sought-med_n_6317.html
The Crown Prince of Iran!?!?!? Is he the son or grandson of the Shah who was, by the way, not really a monarch?
The Shah was a vicious dictator and any relative of his has NO credibility.
I wish the Iranians would insert themselves into the Minnesota Senate election, where the Republican rulers are trying the suppress the election of Al Franken.
Also, it was proven that the Ohio Presidential election was stolen. There was a Computer Scientist who testified to Congress that the electronic voting machines were tampered with. Not even a whimper from the American people, nothing done by Congress, four more years of Bush.
If we had marched in the streets, the Republicans would have sent Blackwater after the protesters.
I don’t think we have any moral ground to stand on.