LiveBlog for Wednesday, June 24, 2009
• Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-CA) calls in at 6:30am Pacific to talk about the Department of Homeland Security’s decision to get rid of the domestic spying program, and about health care reform.
• Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) calls in at 7:30am Pacific to talk about health care reform.
• Comedian Hal Sparks joins us in studio at 8:05am Pacific to hang out and talk about the news of the day.
• President Obama sharpened his language on Iran yesterday, saying at a news conference, “The United States and the international community have been appalled and outraged by the threats, beatings, and imprisonments of the last few days,” adding that he strongly condemns “these unjust actions.”
• President Obama yesterday squared off with the insurance lobby over industry charges that a government health plan he back would dismantle the employer coverage Americans have relied on for 50 years and overtake the system.
• South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford’s aides say he was stunned by all the fuss over his five-day absence and would cut short a secretive hike along the Appalachian Trail. He is expected back in his office today.
• Sen. John Ensign (R-NV) apologized to his GOP colleagues for his affair with a staff member, which has already caused him to step down from his party leadership post and could threaten his Senate career.
Tags: Barack Obama, Chris Van Hollen, Hal Sparks, Health Care Reform, Iran, John Ensign, Loretta Sanchez, Mark Sanford
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Gooood morning all!
ANOTHER dull dreary drizzly day.
Bah
… but nobody can remain unexcited with loretta sanchez on the way…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ae3l9dF2UNw
For Producer Chris:
Here’s a 2001 Onion article pseudo-written by Max Baucus entitled:
I’m such a sh***y Senator
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/33420
Hope this helps!
Good Morning, Live Blog crew! Good Morning, Team Steph!
This is my last day of class (for this week, at least). So, again I’ll be catching up via the Stephcast (only $4.95/month when you buy a year in advance *ding*).
I’ve got to say, a daily dosage of crazy Scott (whether it is the right-wing nut job from Chicag-ee or the Nazi-lover from Mass) is giving rational people named Scott a bad name. It’s becoming a game with us listeners: how soon will there be a ‘problem with the phone line’ that gives us sweet relief from their blathering. Kind of a talk radio version of The Gong Show. Chuck Barris would be proud!
Have fun and give a ‘howdy’ to Hal for me. I’ll see y’alls tomoree!
3: max baucus cant even pun well ? – a big fat greek kudos then upon mark levin, who was in such a fine crescendo of fake indignation (but authentic indignity), that the poor creature issued another FAGWA. – this term is not in any way meant to cast aspersion upon our carpal-rigidity or gynephillically challenged brethren. i’m simply making allusion to the sheer unmigitad enfaggotation that seems to wholly confaggate the inexcusably faggotistical faggotry that parades “proudly” (for lack of a better word) as “the anointed one, mark levin”.
i’m not making this up. this terminally slow child at play is actually authorized by the other sub-scientific clerics to order a FAGWA.
4: such rich and resplendent irony ! – SScottzi is actually quite adept at dancing along with “gene gene, the dancing machine”.
On Sanford: Appalachia, Argentina?? Who knows? At least they both start with “A’s”
(Iraq, Iran, Iowa…)
good morning. Get Back!
Bailed-Out Citigroup Raising Salaries As Much As 50%
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/24/business/24citigroup.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss
the bastids
could it be that representative sandord is secretly shacking up with aunt esther?
New Evidence Links Saudi Royals To Al Qaeda, Extremists
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/24/world/middleeast/24saudi.html
what a shock.
And who was having dinner with the saudi royal financial supporters Sept 10? oh,yeh, george the father.
Good morning MookenBloggers. Steve Jobs gets a liver transplant. Who’d a thunk it? I wonder if he had a drinking problem?
And how ’bout them governors out hiking the Appalachian Trail on Hike Nude Day? This guy sounds more and more like a good Repub presidential candidate!
OMG!!! I just almost got into an argument with a person at work because she said Rachel Maddow doesn’t present fair arguments on her show!!! How the hell could anyone even believe that!?!?!?!?
11: what an unfortunate coincidence that the two federal judges and the second circuit court of appeals answered to this strange synchronicity, becoming obsessively legalistic only when it serves against proceeding along the evidence trail. too bad none of the saudis are named “manuel noriega”. all it took to legalize the arrest of “sovereign nation” president manuel noriega was saying “excuse me a second…”, slipping into the next room, and returning with a piece of paper with a cool embossed seal stating that it’s legal to arrest manuel noriega.
12: so… what did elizabeth say about representative sanford? WAS it the big one?
Carol, there is simply nothing too good for the wealthy.. This is the same sense of entitlement that permeates the Republican Party, which is why they are such a good fit with these spoilt CEOs.
Morning Bloggovians! Great to be here today!
So, Gov. Sanford still “no en casa”? Guess he fails the 3am phone call test. BZZZT!!
Danielle, it’s always UNFAIR when Repubs starting getting their butts whipped. And Rachel is just the one to do it.
13: consider the wise words of richard k obrien [1975]:
“you killed them. i thott you liked them.”
“THEY DIDNT LIKE ME !!!”
“it was your hair.”
“THEY NEVER LIKED ME !!!”
“it was ALWAYS your hair.”
Ivan, they just make me want to scream sometimes!!!!!!!! ARGGHHH!!
Sanford ‘has some ’splainin to do…’
20: an irish pirate? shall we just call you… “irate”?
Gov. Sanford was off looking for Carmen Sandiego.
21: this never would have happened sir, if you had completed your rap song about the effects of vitameatavegamin in a timely manner.
Sunshine on my smickle, makes me happy..
Morning! Hey T-Rabbit I could use some of that drizzle. We’ve had 102-105 degree temps in N. Florida for the past two weeks.
23: hombre, donde is mi carmen ?
off to my other occupation (non-sms blogger) for awhile.
I appreciate the opportunity to complain about a**holes in the news knowing my blogmates keep a sense of humor.
blog on, my stephomites.
I’ll be reading you later.
it’s okay. the bill of my engineer’s cap protected me.
OMG Steph and I are THE SAME PERSON!! (Except for the great ass part.)
mccain’s planning a little douche coup?
Mama went to a catholic school. They don’t require girls to take math and sciences ’cause it messes with their baby-making likelihood.
#27: “The truth is, I never left you!”
My school was very not-Catholic. Plenty of ways to do the stupid.
O Fortuna
I am sure his wife new, she did not want to tell anyone because it was none of their business. She could have said something better than “I don’t know” like, ‘he went somewhere to clear his head, and does not want to be disturbed. If he needs to be reached for something really important, it will be done. No worries.’
But, she is his wife, not a political operative.
Much ado about nothing, though Gov Sanford’s Staff should have had better answers. And, the Governor should have given that answer to them.
My friend said he parted with engineering math when the equations got “worms” (integral signs) in them..
BCBS of NC, which was founded on a grant from Duke and others to help the poor pay their hospital bills and then received all kinds of tax benefits from the government and tax payers as a “non-profit” is going to run similar ads trying to scare people.
Oh, the CEO has given himself something like a 250% raise over the past several years.
I think the Gov of SC got a hickey from his prostitute, oops – head-clearer, and couldn’t return until his mark healed up.
The second law does NOT mean “everything spirals downwards”.
Really, it doesn’t.
einstein said that metter could never be totally destroyed, but einstein never say stephy with five boxes of wine.
Maxwell’s equations suffice to explain just about all. Surface integrals pretty well run nature..
As Stalinist totalitarian hell-holes go, Switzerland is up there with the best of them.
#41, I know for a fact that that wine was not destroyed. I saw Steph at midnight peeing it out on her lawn alongside Max.
mornin’!
JIm Ward’s Obama/McCain ‘Now Hear This!’ has me ROFLMAO and
I’m not even awake yet, haven’t had any coffee… then he
comes with the insurance bit. Which reminds me of the old
Sam Waterston/SNL Old Glory Insurance Co Robot Insurance bit…
#42, Maxwell’s equations cover it all – for classical electromagnetism.
40: thank goodness you’re here. with whitman mayo still dead, and representative sanford spiraling both downward and upward all over nude-appalachian-hiking day, we need somebody who can explain gradients. and without grady, i really have to lamont the situation.
35 Shane-O with the Confederacy of Dunces ref!
Entropy is the tendency of the entire system toward disorder. Eventually, all mass will be at the same energy level, with no differences to be exploited to do useful things (in OUR view). By then, we won’t care.. (I already don’t care.)
Gradients… that’s in the “stroke” menu in Adobe Illustrator, right?
46: okay, i had a suspicion that that’s whose equations covered it all, but i already wrote down “laraby”. missed it by that much.
#42: People just couldn’t get Maxwell’s equations into their heads, that’s why he took up his silver hammer…
50: sounds computery, so i dont know, but that fascist arrogant bowing socialist spear-chucking nazi president of yours would probably cast “whitman dijon”.
#49, true insofar as it goes, but “disorder”, from a thermodynamical standpoint, doesn’t mean what people think it does. State A is more ordered than state B if state A has fewer energy-equivalent configurations.
But people apply a moral gloss to “disorder”, and think it means “things decay”, which isn’t what the 2nd is about. The 2nd is about ensembles of molecules trending from less to more probable configurations, and not a lick more.
PJ – careful, you’ll trigger a Beatles episode with flombaye.. ;->
Happiness is a warm gun, you know.
52: good time to give pat a physical, to see if there’s even a brain.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttQWfmiCaj0
41 Steph likes to make a fort out of the wine boxes
and then camp in there with the pups… ‘we’re running
low on wine rations!… no more for you Oliver’
55: nonsense. you be day trippin.
#49, it also depends on how fast the universe expands. The total entropy of the universe may increase, but the entropy density may actually fall. Granted, it will lead to a universe so rarefied it’ll be hard to take advantage of that dropping energy density, but it’s an interesting theoretical question.
#48 – was actually referring to Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana movement. The ’scary’ music the Wingers like to use under video of tarrawrists…
It’s too bad, only a small percentage of us will see the True Beauty of Maxwell’s Equations..
These are words that go together well.
PeterW – Exactly!
By the time it takes for all the local areas to reach their minimal energy state, the universe will be cold, flat, and featureless.
I’ve just seen a face.
59: at least it explains the “humor” intensity of dennis miller and the firesign theater. – even ann coulter is capable of humor, and i mean the intentional kind. check this out: ann speaks at the CPAC of 2009, and there is a real live intentional funny made between 7:45 and 8:15 into this presentation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwjUX6IRX80
61: ever notice that ms obama’s full name sounds french and gay?
Civil Liberties? I want my Uncivil Liberties, dammit.
F#$K the USA Patriot Act, the Military Commissions Act,
and all the g#d d@mned sh#t-wrapped-w/skin PNAC rethug
NeoConMen A$$holes who inflicted this sh%t on us
62: catholic school flashback? – are you going to keep reciting a bunch of beatletudes?
#60, Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi will never be the same without Don LaFontaine.
ELO may have said it best: “the music is reversible, but time is not. Turn back! Turn back!”
The Police State is the real enemy, or at least the
face of the real enemy we see. Klass Warfare of the
uber-rich against the rest of us, rule by the most
grasping and least moral, rule by the Wolves…
Really, Congresswoman? Where are the leftists shooting people?
STFU with the false equivalences.
Mark, I love it when you talk dirty!
68: hombre, donde es mi carmen ? – - – mi carmen es en rachmaninoff.
I KNEW it! Orbiting spy satellites … domestic surveillance … nude hiking day …
Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana movement
needs more cowbell
When I was younger, I would get my Rachmaninoff two or three times a day. Nowadays, I’m lucky if it’s twice a week..
Let me take you down..
The only lefties I can think of that have committed felonies are the people in the ELF (Earth Liberation Front) who have committed felony arson by setting fire to new developments, but I don’t recall anyone being killed – ever.
71 I’m feeling particularly mean this morn. A heart full
of hatred for most of mankind [present company exluded]
And now they just cut off Steph and started playing the
Emergency Broadcast March… not improving my outlook
attitude and demeanor.
Carmen, ooo ooo ooo oooo ooo!
(to the tune of “Norman My Love”)
It really sickens me when a DC insider talks about “radicals on the right AND the left”.
Really? We had 8 years of the most inciteful right-wing presidency in American history. How many buildings did Bush’s opponents on the left blow up? How many people were shot by leftist terrorists?
There is no equivalency. To compare the left to the racists and theocrats who began shooting people the instant Obama became President is insulting in the extreme.
Lefties don’t shoot, they bomb.. But that hasn’t happened in this country since the 60s..
Coo coo ka choo.
74: despite billy preston’s implicit advocacy of fearlessness of the reaper in post 2, in no way do i advocate subjecting oneself to the 1978 film sgt pepper. it is diabetes-inducing obscenity on a stick. it was won several major awards for being so offensive to the senses. not even the admirable performance of earth wind and fire performing “got to get you into my life” could save this film; they only managed to save themselves. i could do this eight days a week, but due to the second law of thermodynamics, fallin, yes i am fallin… pasta la pizza.
Dirty Sanchez, wants to borrow a shatellite if’n we have
another Ruby Ridge or Waco or other government sponsored
mass murder incident… ok, so call me a gun totin nut
job militia freak
#80, lefties didn’t even bomb to kill in the ’60s – the WU’s only deaths were some of their own from a bomb that when off while it was being made. They engaged in petty vandalism. Just like the ELF. It’s stupid and infantile, but in no way compared to Tim McVeigh’s ilk.
#64: Michelle, Ma Bell, song day mong key vong tray ban on song …
Obladi obladah life goes on – BRA!
Yeh, that’s the ticket.
So is Mama going on a naked hike or to Buenos Aires?
Gov Liar… hiking indeed. Your car and cellphone were
at the Atlanta airport, and you were seen there boarding
a plane. Keep denyin’, see how that works for ya… scumbag.
I missed something: What Day is the National Strike for Healthcare? pass it on…
We can pick a day…start something right here…
84: your French, she is not so good.. ;->
I’d like to be, under the sea..
911 operator: “I’m sorry – RWNJs with assault weapons are not covered on your plan…”
Morning All!!!!! Yet ANOTHER late start fer yers trooly. Dang job.
“President Spock”?? Love it. “Vice President Kirk”, anyone??
Caller = brilliant :rolling:
A public plan wouldn’t dismantle employer-based coverage.
But I guarantee you, if public plans (which have 3% overhead) were available to company HR departments to compete with the private plans (with 30% overhead) they have to choose from, they will put their employees on the one that comes in nearly a quarter cheaper for the same coverage: the public plan.
End employer-based coverage? A public plan will save it.
I’d still hit on Mama, even though she’s old enough to be… my babysitter.
They say it here and it comes out there.. I have MSNBC on captioned mute, and there was President Spock saying the same thing about the insurance companies claiming the government could run anything, yet fearful it would be putting them out of business..
Ever notice that the people who have the very best insurance are convinced that anyone without it is wrong about universal health care.
God bless the cat that’s got his own.
Paul Begala will be the keynote speaker at the ACEP (American College of Emergency Physicians) conference in Boston. AWESOME!!! These are the docs that want a universal health insurance plan because they see the effects of people not having coverage who have put off care.
“Political analyst and commentator for CNN, former senior White House aide and a professor at Georgetown University, Paul Begala applies a blend of quick wit, practical political experience, media analysis and academic expertise to the political and policy landscape. As a counselor to the President in the Clinton White House, Mr. Begala helped define the administration’s agenda and strategy, confronting the domestic and international issues the White House faced each day.
Drawing on his experience, Mr. Begala will share his thought-provoking insights to provide an understanding of how the political landscape may impact the current health care policy debate.
Please join us in Boston, Monday, October 5 at 9:00 AM during the Opening Session as we kick off this year’s Scientific Assembly!”
And George Will saying that people are satisfied with their health CARE doesn’t mean they are satisfied with their health INSURANCE – duh!
Can’t believe you guys and gals hit Sparta yesterday!!! When I signed off it was looking bleak. Belated congrats to all. VERY well done!!!!
Man I hate this song.
Peter – fact is, universal health care would be a tremendous BOON to business, think of the direct cost savings benefits. People are always bitching about how much it costs to build a car for the UAW worker’s insurance.. Well!
And, in reality, when the TRUE total cost of our health care system is considered, it’s clear that we cannot only afford universal health care, but economically, it’s the imperative.
The people whining are of course those making a killing off medical care, the HMOs, the pharmaceuticals, and several related businesses. The influence exhibited here by powerful business lobbies, is precisely what is wrong with our government in general.
#90: I know, it’s like I’ve got A Spaniard in the Works, or something.
Particularly apt – the AFLAC duck goes down, to the government health insurance alligator..
Yeah, Baby! (Do I make you randy?)
Obama still smokes?
“Hey Momma, do you smoke after sex?”
“I never looked…”
97: thanks for the information about this group. Screw the AMA…these are people to support.
95 ummmmm… hott babysitter sex
Dang, I feel a tremendous urge to bang the heads of O’Reilly and Hannity together! Well, first we’ll shave them, then vaseline them up, and put them together, to form a giant right wing ass..
Whee doggies.
The Boehner needs to get away for a while – maybe he should make like Sanford and take a hike.
#99 I assume you’re referring to the annoying “Wild Thing” loop? I always switch over to something else while it’s playing. It is beyond irritating. I asked, nay BEGGED, Producer Chris to change it, but to no avail.
101 Snorr Wife and some several dwarts… kinda like Steph & the mooks
106 staple them together… and throw them in a wood chipper!
Nice job Jim! :applause:
Whoreticulture dicey vicey subculture
gee..who would’a thought Elisabitch would have plagierized (sic)
Steph ‘do it again ! do it again ! do it again !’… to the
waiter, pouring the wine, not to you after sex…
WCMF – yay!
lessee, Sam Kinison used to imply he and Moma were having
hot monkey sex, Sam used to spill whut Moma liked, which
must have been… drinking too much wine and passing out
before anything happened… and knowing Sam, something
prolly happened then…
Jolie for pres? Wow, I can already see the negative ads from her dad.
Jolie as an ambassador would be okay.
Momma’s career @ The Itchy Kitty… being a drunken
parking valet don’t count Momma
Who WASN’T French-kissing their brother in the 90s? Everyone and their mother was doing it.
Angelina Jolie for Secretary of Batsh&t Crazy
120 insert Klassy littul incest number here… such as
‘you’re bigger than daddy’
‘yeah, mom told me’
[skates]
#113:
“Plagiarize!
Let no one else’s work evade your eyes
Remember why the good Lord made your eyes
So don’t shade your eyes
But plagiarize, plagiarize, plagiarize!
(Only be sure always to call it please … Research!)”
(ahem) “borrowed” from Tom Lehrer
Well, good friends, duty calls. I must hang.
Hasta manana. Don’t you ever change a thing!
L.
where’s evvyboddy go? is it just you anme PJ?
we’re all calling our brothers to catch up..memories…
#118: Angelina for ambassador to some place with adorable children available for adoption.
126 hee hee hee sick
Angelina and Madonna should just adopt the whole world…
Governor Missing-In-Action now was in Argentina? WTF?
I been to six county fairs, three hog-killins’ an’ a jug-f&@K… but
I never seen no sh$t like this sh@t…
Sanford to hold press conference 2 pm EST — Woo HOO!
[setting DVR, hitting audio record]
Hey anyone know where I can get that awesome karate sound effect?
.
.
or you Producer Chris?
#125 I’m still here!!! (for now)
#125: Just you and me an our hot steaming mugs of coffee … maybe ProducerChris needs to plug the live blog more, cause it’s a:
“long and winding road that leads to (Sparta)”
129, 130—LOL. I love the guy who goes missing to Argentina for Father’s Day. Is he buying drugs or weapons or does he have a gambling addiction? Or a sex addiction?
I’d love to see Jolie take a Senate seat from one of these conservative “Democrats” like Feinstein.
Hal Sparks is on again today??? Not that I’m complaining. That dude is becoming a full-fledged Mook.
I thought Steph was just making sh#t up, pulling the
most ridiculous cr@p she could think of out of her a$$.. but NO,
it’s Governor Moron topping his own ridicuous BS with something
even more bizarre. OK, so he had to go to Argentina cause he’s
a Hitler Clone and needed to have his programming refreshed…
136—I like Hal Sparks. He has a lot to bring to the table.
#134 One of each?? Sex, drugs, guns and a few hands of Black Jack. Now THAT’S the way to spend Father’s Day.
137—OMG, that’s the perfect noble excuse! “I was in Argentina hunting Nazis.” Problem solved.
139—for some fathers it is.
She is SO a skank. A skank at heart at the very least.
133 yes, hot steaming mugs of coffee, Steph’n'The Mooks, and
the few tattered remnants of the livebloggers, still pressing
on to Sparta, numbers sadly diminished but not
Christina Augularia not a skank? Please Producer Chris, don’t
patronize us.
I love Moonstuck too. I get sucked into watching when it’s on.
Cheradactyl! One of my favorite of Steph’s two impressions!
143—-yes, it’s like those other Live Bloggers have better things to do!
Writing is therapy for me, as is The Stephanie Miller Show. It’s the best of both worlds!
142 a skank is a skank of course of course
and nobody can… shank a skank of course
unless the skank is… Christina Agular
His wife wasn’t even worried.
Maybe Sanford was sleep-travelling on Ambien?
Sanford had to get away from all that machine-gun fire the Boehner was talking about.
Something exotic? What was his name?
Buenos Aires is now known for sex vacations.
Did he say EXOTIC or EROTIC?
OK, something I read somewhere else, and thought it was funny.
Who goes THAT far just for a weekend? Rich, Republican govenors, I guess.
YES! Rethugs are getting voo-doo’d by some of Obama’s African relatives!
I just skimmed the story about Sanford:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/06/24/south.carolina.governor/index.html
and I am sensing the man has a break with reality. He’s a governor but he says he was surprised that his behavior has attracted so much media attention.
He’s a governor! He’s a media figure! Someone needs to bang that into his head!
Huntsman (Utah)
155—-shhh! Don’t tell!
That’s it. Now the CIA will never call you for another mission.
Wikipedia says Jolie was born in LA.
148—sounds like his wife is married in name only. Can someone help this family please?
But its not too early to start the rumor that she was born in Canada so the right wing will never admit that she is President even if she is elected.
154—and just for a drive. “Just heading down Argentine way for a drive honey. Happy Father’s Day.”
Hmm … I’m in the mood for something exotic myself.
Oh, here’s a song for Governor MIA: “He’s a real no-where man…”
You’re welcome!
146 Spiff, it’s ‘a sordid outlet for my obsessions’
He just HAD to get him sonme of that tasty Argentinian Bar-B-Q. Can’t blame the fella. I get the same way occasionally for Five Guys Burgers and Fries. Of course they are a FIVE MINUTE WALK from my house.
145 whut’s Momma’s other impression?
drunken slut don’t count that’s not an impression…
Mommas a slut, not a skank, big diff
From the S Carolina State newspaper:
Evolving details
Accounts of Gov. Mark Sanford’s four-day walkabout from his public duties remain unclear and, in some instances, contradictory. A look at what is known and how accounts by Sanford’s staff have changed as word of his mystery trip became known and public officials became alarmed:
— Thursday, June 18
- Sanford leaves the Governor’s Mansion in a black State Law Enforcement Division Suburban assigned to his security detail. A precise time is unavailable.
- A mobile telephone tower in Atlanta near Hartsfield airport picks up a signal from Sanford’s phone. It is the last signal before his phones are turned off for days.
— Friday, June 19
Law enforcement officials get no response to phone and text messages sent to Sanford.
— Saturday, June 20
- The governor’s office reports to police that there is no reason for concern but provides no details.
- State Sen. Jake Knotts, R-Lexington, calls SLED chief Reggie Lloyd about rumors that no one knows where Sanford is and no one can reach him. Lloyd confirms that Sanford’s whereabouts are known
— Sunday, June 21
- Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer learns Sanford’s whereabouts are unknown.
— Monday, June 22
- Monday morning — Reporters hear rumors that Sanford’s location is a mystery.
- 2:30 p.m. Knotts issues a statement raising questions about Sanford’s absence, asking who is in charge of the executive branch of S.C. government.
- 2:40 p.m. The State newspaper posts an online article saying Sanford has been out of reach for four days.
- 2:50 p.m. The governor’s office issues a statement that Sanford “is taking some time away from the office this week to recharge after the stimulus battle. … We are not going to discuss the specifics.”
- 3 p.m. The Associated Press reports that first lady Jenny Sanford says she does not know where her husband is, but he is taking time away from their four boys, “to write something.” She says she is not worried.
- Midafternoon Sanford security officials are told by the governor’s office that he is OK. No details are provided.
- 3:40 p.m. The lieutenant governor’s office says Sanford’s office says it has spoken to Sanford and knows where he is.
- About 5 p.m. Sawyer denies that Sanford staffers told Bauer’s office that someone had spoken with the governor.
- 5 p.m. As media inquiries escalate to include national news outlets, Sanford spokesman Joel Sawyer issues another statement. It says in part, “Before leaving last week, (Sanford) let staff know his whereabouts and that he’d be difficult to reach.” He declines to elaborate. Sawyer also doesn’t know whether Sanford is still in the country.
- 10:05 p.m. The governor’s office issues a statement saying Sanford is hiking on the Appalachian Trail. Staff members do not know where Sanford is on the trail and will not say whether he is hiking with anyone.
— Tuesday, June 23
- 9:42 a.m. The governor’s office issues a statement saying staffers have spoken with Sanford and he will return to work today.
— Wednesday, June 24
- Gov. Sanford arrives in the early morning at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport for the drive back to Columbia.
— Clif LeBlanc and John O’Connor
166. Why, Kate Hepburn of course!
153 EXOTIC is with feathers, KINKY is w/the chicken
Soory I took up so much Live Blog real estate with that timeline.
Gosh, it’s a good think S.C. wasn’t hit with a hurricane, or a massive wildfire.
164—you say tomato, I say tomato.
166—Momma isn’t really skank or a slut you know. You should meet her in person. She’s very, very smart. She just plays dumb for comedy.
171 shhh! we know that, but she PLAYS one on the radio…
171 leave me with my pathetic illusions, it makes it more
possible to imagine she’ll one day have my child…
Let’s go, y’all!!! Time for a barrage of pointless, random posts to get us to the Promised Land of Sparta.
YES WE CAN!!!!
YES….. WE… CAN!!
“But Stephanie, Nice Girls Don’t Wear Cha-Cha heels…”
“Stephanie Louise Miller you get back in this house right
now, or you’re going to the Home for Girls!”
[scenes from the Miller Christmas, 1975]
174 I thought all our posts were random and thoughtless…
Pointless Post Alert!!!!!
“Penguins is practically chickens”
Shane-O, you beat me to “Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego” but no hard feelings, “Nowhere Man” is just for you. Make us proud!
#176 MOST are, but not all.
My cat looked at his dinner and had it sent back to the kitchen. Apparently there was insufficient sauce.
Chris’s cat should be named Old One Eye for his habit of entering
the room backwards…
[skaates]
paging Dr. Mengele
lessee… Steph went to Catholic School… ummm… saddle shoes,
plaid skirt… love how those krazy Katholic school girls roll
their skirts up at the waist [creating a strange looking bulge]
as soon as they’re out of sight of their moms and
Sister Mary Bezerker…
173—-your illusions are none of my business. Keep them!
Jim, that was a wonderful reading of the fine print of health care contracts.
177—I never thought about that before. It’s true. Penguins are formal chickens.
bow-chicka-bow Mama and Hal!
#178, I always wanted them to do a kid’s guide to Dante’s Inferno. It would be “Where the Hell is Carmen Sandiego”.
Insurance companies to customers: “Life is a sexually transmitted condition, therefore you ALL have pre-existing conditions. HAH!”
“Detroit Rock City”!!!! That was a great, little movie. Really enjoyed it.
So is that tape of Jim’s Health Insurance Commercial available for us health care reformers to pass around to us activists? or could I link to it on my blogspot?
#185, very formal. White-tie even.
180—grrr, let’s not talk about cats who are picky eaters. Where do they get off? but my cats also will not go for the loaf-style food anymore. I introduced the shredded stuff and now they won’t settle for less.
HMO’s are not gay or French and they’re greedy – Republicans’ most important family value
#183 OOOHHHH man…. Stephie in a Catholic School Girls outfit!!!!! Excuse me while I have a private squeezy moment to myself.
#191 hhhhmmmm…. wonder if they’re as tasty as chickens??
Popeyes Penguins and Biscuits!!
Hal and Me both went with the Argentina/Nazi connection first…
HEY… that was almost a LiveBlog shout out wasn’t it?
195—lol!
Governor: getting a little work done and driving along the coast to at least look at the ladies in the g-string bikini. Aren’t those beaches in Argentina?
then there’s panda’s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNYfZd8iV2k
Who cares why he went, what kind of family values guy goes to Argentina without his kids for Father’s Day?
I’m thinking he went for the sultry dance that is tango.
And what’s so “great” about Republicans who do bizarre things is that they have a whole staff who will cover for them.
And that’s teamwork!
194 Sister Mary Krazybitch with the steel ruler in the
detention room… Steph’s been caught again, smokin’
Lucky Strikes, wearing black nylons ["only prostitutes
wear black nylons!"] got her skirt rolled above the knee…
200—-maybe he has a 2nd family in Argentina?
#201 But who was he tangoing WITH?? That’s the question.
Finally here Board!
What no SPARTA yet?
Here in the Windy City, drunk Chicago cop caught on tape beating the ***t out of a lady bartender who refused her service gets a slap on a wrist and probation. The bartender now fears for her life, and justly so. Does the name Drew Peterson mean anything?
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-abbate-24-jun24,0,5965992.story
203—-why don’t you guys just draw a comic book about Steph’s early years?
Now, if he’d gone to Sweden, he’d have come back as Governor Marcela Sanford.
Gov dumbass is a rethug basserd, whudaya expect? liar,
hypocrite, pervert, wrapped in the flag, livin’ at the
foot of the Cross, cheatin’ on his wife with dead ten year
old boys, snortin’ meth, whorshippin’ satan… there is no
depravity beyond these filth.
207 don’t egg us on, we’re bad enough already ain’t we?
#205, does it matter, so long as a the bandoneon plays?
What is Hal saying, that Governor MIA took Mrs Craig to Argentina? How many layovers?
I can’t wait to see the Law & Order version of the Governor MIA story.
#203 hhhhmmmm….. Steph in black nylons smoking Lucky Strikes…
*off for more private squeezy time*
206—that’s disgusting. Just watch. That idiot will get in trouble again.
Why is Chicago such a corrupt mess? In 10 words or less please.
Stephanie was Great as Catwoman in that Batman movie…
I want Mark Sanford to do the Lambada!
203. Sister Charles Bronsen enters and she and Sister Krazybitch fall into each others arms. Steph slips quietly out of the room.
Hal & Momma riding the chair like a momoticky… Vrromm! Vrrom!
I think Hal Sparks gives really bad advice to guys.
#215 -
I can do it in less than ten words:
Dick Daley Jr. (Mayor)
Stephanie is somewhat attractive, for a beautiful woman
with a gorgeous body… [skates]
218 Sister Charles Bronson? lololololol
#220 bad advice is the most fun kind.
Don’t forget public libraries!
Public Option = telling HMO’s to eff off = priceless
Prejean is leading the pack for 2012 so far
Cue frying pan and kabrong-guitar sound effects!!
OOh, Palin-Jolie debate would be awesome!
Oh Jesus! they caught me off guard with that
damned nails-on-a-blackboard Palin drop
Yeah, Fred Barnes, Medicare and the VA have 3% overhead. That is, they for every $1.00 they take in, they pay out $0.97 in benefits.
Private health insurance has 30% overhead. So to get that same $0.97 in benefits, you have to pay not $1.00, but $1.39.
Inhofe = sounds like horses were involved in his lineage at some point
Steph could be the Spokeswoman for abstinence
hey kids, all you need is a couple o’giant dogs
and boxes of wine. Boxes and boxes of wine.
Yeah, there’s no fruit on James Inhofe’s family tree.
Plenty of nuts, though.
#213: It might have to be a more internationally-themed show like “The Unit” or, hmmm, “CSI Buenos Aires”.
Tax lying by government officials and we’d be RICH!
Alcohol is taxed, lady.
Just got into the office. Good morning!
and then add in the overhead change if the new health plan allowed for getting competitive, international bidding on drugs
214 that’s Steph in black nylons, saddle shoes, plaid
skirt rolled up, smoking Lucky Strikes, in the school
bathroom,
squinting, with her lower lip stuck out. Can’t forget that part.
Oh yeah, and collar pegged and sleeves rolled too.
Meybe even a black leather jacket… as long as we’re going there…
Nowhere near Sparta, are we?
Hey, good to hear Hal Sparks. My ideal SMS would be: Hal and Frangela together. That would be fun.
hey sarah, you haven’t missed a thing
#227 PALIN/PREJEAN 2012!!!! We can only pray!!
240-Mark, you devil!
#205: It takes TWO to tango – I learned that the hard way. Up till then I’d been doing it wrong.
GIMME AN S
242-Hah! I missed plenty.
240. suddenly her unibrow catches fire and she douses her head in the sink, causing her fro to spring out of control. there was no more hiding the truth.
GIMME A P
243-Perfect pair
S
GIMME AN A
So I get sidetracked even before the show starts and come back to read about Steph in black nylons? I think I’ll be hyperventilating beside the fainting couch.
GIMME AN R
#207: “203—-why don’t you guys just draw a comic book about Steph’s early years? ”
Good idea – stick figures are about all I can draw.
R
GIMME AN T
I hate that ‘You’re posting too quickly’ message. We’re trying to get to SPARTA here, dammit!!!
Gee. Maybe Hal will invite Frangela to guest. My fantasy could be coming true! Wait. It won’t really work unless Steph and the Mooks are there, too.
Just 4 posts a minute is all we need.
GIMME AN A!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WHAT’S IT SPELL????
T
A
Take THAT Grampy!!!!
SPARTA, BABY!
Our president is right to praise those who stand up for justice.
And
Sparta
Grampy, go to Argentina, wouldja?
SpartaSpartaSpartaSparta
You lost, John Mc
Shut up now.
If McCain/Palin had won (or stolen) the election, we would have already invaded Iran.
Sanford/Palin/Ensign/Prejean in oh-twelve!
244 247 248 253
‘The Further Adventures of Stephanie Miller, Katholic Schoolgirl Tough’
unibrow/fro catches fire… lolololololololololololololololololo
Schparta in Sight, gonna be close.
I scream, you scream,
We all scream for
Sparta
#264 Nicely done, KG.
McCain needs to STFU.
Whatever regime Iran has, we need to deal with them. That’s the difference between domestic and foreign policy.
3 million more votes than people, and they’re saying that’s not a good enough reason to challenge the vote?
I don’t get Persian logic.
After seeing a woman shot and dying in the street, well, not much more to say about that. tragic beyond belief.
255 same thought I had, can’t draw good enuff to do Moma justice,
o’course stick figure would work up top… sorry momma
#268, yeah, and many of those brave protesters would have died by American bombs.
Oh it’s Newtie. Howzabout a tall, frosty mug of STFU!!!!
We’ve only got 7 minutes. Can we Sparta?
Yes we can!
#268 and we’d be in North Korea too..
Paradise By John Prine…. GREAT SONG!!!!!
Newt needs a dogpile on him
can’t go to war with Iran, they pump too much oil
that the world cannot replace.
Plus their nuc stuff too deeply buried, too widely dispersed…
dog pile on Newt, with giant dogs made of stone…
#279 Yes, we will….. or die trying!!!!
#274, it’s all about positions in the oil ministries. Rafsanjani had his people in the ministry until A-jad was elected, and A-jad put Khamenei’s people in those spots. Khamanei knows Mousavi will put Rafsanjani’s people back into those slots.
Control the oil ministries, and you control the money.
man, these RWNJ do not understand the value of keeping normal diplomatic behavior going ESPECIALLY when times get tough
Sparta, Newtie, Sparta!
Newt is a sh%tmonkey, why ditint he stay gone?
John Prine – Illegal Smile
Sparta???
High school shooting in Iowa
. . . and everyone’s so afraid of losing their guns?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31525308/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts
The Gay in the Middle East?
Sparta
I was reading. Sparta
Yet ANOTHER reason to NOT ever go to the Mideast…
“no women”
Sex is gay
Hal is so funny
Prolly gay as a tree full of parrots
or
a fish in a car wash
but that’s ok
Oh, boy! We’re there!
Sparta
Sparta now?
Sparta?
SPARTA!
SPARTA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
…maybe….
Spar
ta
Sparta THIS!
Oh come on sparta!!!!
SParta!
missed it by that much.
Richard did it! Good job and congrats!
Knew a guy from Iran who molested me in junior high. Thank God was too naive to know what was going on.
Congrats Rich!
Oh boo hoo! Richard has gots a sparta again!
Knew you all could do it
Good Work.
Mill About Smartly, Troops.
WOOOOOO freakin HOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
We did it!!!!!
actuallly I did it
*twists arm patting myself on back*
307-Sorry, Dan.
Sparta – the sweet treat we all work for. Good going Richard
Whuddaya think of my title for my autobiography/tribute to Stephanie
Miller?
Street Girls Bringing Sailors into Hotel Must Pay For Rooms in Advance?
Have a good day everyone!
4 posts a minute? I can’t possibly type that fast!
congrats Richard!
Won’t see you guys ’til Monday. Gonna be in the studio recording an album tomorrow and Friday.
PEACE OUT!!! HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND!!!!
274—-Gee, I wonder if the Iranian leaders learned from America’s bad example for the past 8 years and if the Obama administration is going to prosecute anyone for that so we can set an example of justice in the world?
274—well now I’m mad and I want Congressional hearings—now!
Anyway, see you tomorry.
Sounds like fun, Richard.
Bye, bloggers
Ya’ll have a grate after
blog at you soon
thanks Steph and the Mooks and Hal for another awesome show
314. “Ahoy Ho’s” for short?
I’m still here
323 thanks k, I’ll use that
Great another politician from the Great state of falsehood, I wonder why you call these freaks in.
Wow ! It becomes clear now that democrats are just the set of puppets to show that there is another systems, but when comes down to the grind there is one flat system of money.
The democrats refuse to proceed with the health plan because they are the same as the republicans, why don’t you say that?
And then you have Ed Schultz who is louding off “I can’t understand it!” but when it comes to person to person talk with the senators he’s cooling off – he wants of course to be in good terms he also promotes his agenta.
Well Chris stuff it! your “I move to Canada if she is the president” – Palin is your next president and you suck it up.
If Obama f-s up on a couple more of these critical issues it may make her come back even sooner
But don’t worry, in 3 years time you’ll have Stephanie saying “he’s better than palin”, “better” not “good”
Here is Maria
http://d.yimg.com/eur.yimg.com/ng/sp/empics/20080824/12/2590289370-olympics-beijing-olympic-games-2008-day-eleven.jpg
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