LiveBlog for Friday, July 10, 2009
• Comedian John Fugelsang joins us in studio at 8am Pacific to talk about the news of the day and promote his upcoming gigs.
• AIG Insurance is preparing to pay millions of dollars more in bonuses to several dozen top corporate executives after an earlier round of payments set off a national furor. The troubled insurance giant has been pressing the federal government to bless the payments in hopes of shielding itself from renewed public outrage.
• The White House says it expects “frank” but constructive talks in President Obama’s meeting today with Pope Benedict XVI – two men who share similar views on helping the poor and pushing for Middle East peace, but disagree on abortion and stem cell research.
• CIA Director Leon Panetta has ordered an internal inquiry into the agency’s handling of a contentious and still highly classified program that has caused heated dispute between the CIA and Dems on the House Intelligence Committee.
• Sen. Roland Burris (D-IL) will today be announcing that he will not run for re-election in 2010. In addition to his problems regarding the details of his appointment to the seat by ousted former Gov. Rod Blagojevich, Burris has raised just $845 for the 2010 cycle.
• In April 2008, Sen. John Ensign’s parents each made gifts to the campaign staffer he had his affair with, her husband, and two of their children in the form of a check totaling $96,000. The payments were made as gifts, accepted as gifts, and complied with tax rules governing gifts.
Tags: AIG, Barack Obama, CIA, John Ensign, John Fugelsang, Leon Panetta, Pope Benedict XVI, Rod Blagojevich, Roland Burris
This entry was posted on Friday, July 10th, 2009 at 2:38 am and is filed under liveblog. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.
Gooood morning all!
Another drive-by day. I think. VERY dead here on Fridays. My experimentation plans yesterday fell through when I found there was no 3 phase power in the test bay, the outlet was disconnected because they needed more power for our department servers.
I’d bless the AIG bonuses if each of those execs had to take a cyanide pill after getting said bonus.
I’d be nice if the President said words to the effect of “we’ll listen to what you have to say after you get your priests to stop diddling little boys. If you don’t like it, I have some extra cyanide pills from the stash I bought for the AIG execs.”
troj yer always up here early. Good for you.
I’ve got a thing, so I’ve gotta hit and run
this morning. Sad headlines in the Detroit
papers. Five young people dead, they tried to
beat a train.
The kicker is there were four males, 18 to 21,
and a girl, 14. She was with her 18 year old boyfriend,
and her mother said she had told her to come home but
she expected her 14 year old daughter to ignore her and
go to the beach anyway. Somewhere I lost most of my
sympathy for the mother.
My vote is we get these AIG bastards and we
give them forced cyanide enemas… but that’s
just me.
AIG execs with taxpayer funded bonuses. Can’t we
slowly turn these f#&Kers inside out? Some kind
of mechanical claw that would reach down their
greedy little throats and pull their asses out
their mouths… TheyJustDon’tF#&KingGetIt.
May all their mistresses give them the pox.
Well Mark, I’m up at 4:30 – out on the road by 6 so I can be at work by 7.
I just moved all the equipment I moved yesterday for my experiment back to its proper location. Now I need to move the PC with the LabVIEW software installed. I just hope I remember how everything was hooked up when I bring it back before I go home.
It must be great to have a real job. When I had hair
and a career there were some really cool, quite sophisticated
things I was doing with electronic engine controls, service
bay diagnostics, End Of Line Testing, OBD II, networks,
blah blah blah… seems like a different person, another
life. Of course I was married then too, and actually had
hope and self respect.
No, scratch all that. I was a self centered elitist snob,
a smarmy little yuppie who thought he knew everything.
F%&K that guy.
Good Morning!!!
Mark, you really lit a fire under me yesterday. I did dig out the old stuff, but didn’t have time to post any of it, because your blog inspired me to create my own.
Wont you guys please check out http://themayberrylane.blogspot.com
I also became a follower of the blog you suggested Mark, and I’ll make sure to post stuff there as well!
Thanks for the inspiration!
Good morning, trojanrabbit, Mark and the rest of the gang. Good morning to Team Steph.
One last day (for a while) of catching the show via Stephcast. After today, I should hopefully have another certification under my belt (and more credits toward my project manager continuing education).
You gotta’ hand it to AIG. They must have some big brass ones to attempt the bonuses in such an economic climate. Where’s the Justice Department in all this? Is Eric Holder checking to see if this round of bonuses is a “contractual obligation” like the last round? Or, can we put our collective boot on the throat of AIG and say “Not this time, bucko!”. I sure hope that we can!
Have a great day, everyone. Thank God, it’s Friday!
Danielle, Shaf, good morning. Very Cool! Danielle, good luck,
I’ll be watching your blog. Congrats on yer Cert Shaf. If
only you could get continuing education credits for all your
work here…
Ok, here we go:
“Fossil remains indicate that whales, dolphins,
and porpoises evolved from hoofed land
mammals related to sheep, pigs, deer, camels,
and cows. These animals returned to the sea
about 50 million years ago, during the Eocene
Epoch.”
In other words, they were a lot smarter than
OUR ancestors. They came out, looked around,
and said “Hell NO I’m NOT!”
Dolphins are the only critter with a greater
brain/body weight ratio than humans. But
you can still trick ‘em with a fish. Kind of like
a crack-head. Which leads to my plan to round
up the crack heads. You put holes in walls of
buildings all over town, just big enough to get
your hand in. You put a crack rock in each
hole. The crack-head sees the crack rock,
grabs the crack rock, but can’t get his fist
out once he’s grabbed the crack rock. Then
you just send the Black Mariah
well, good morning.
Paul, #1. amen
Mark, hope you are still around. My son flew into Detroit last night. His best friend from college is getting married. Your story this morning breaks my heart. Five kids chasing to get over the tracks before the train went by. I have a psychotherapist friend who does trauma work with train drivers (here in Boston). This is why.
Good morning, live blogospherians!
Today is Take 2 for trying to adopt the little beagle. After that, I have a feeling we’re going to have our hands full until she gets used to her new digs, so most likely I won’t be around after the first hour.
10 Carol it’s terrible for the train crew, they can’t
stop a train going 70. The kids went around another car
and a gate ignoring the lights and bells. It’s so
senseless.
Where is your son staying, maybe I’ll crash the wedding… just kidding
Lefty Bring Back The Pup! Today’s the day!
What are you going to name her?
#13 We’re going to call her Daisy.
Daisy! great name.
Mark, in spite of annonymity, in my mind you are watching out for my son this weekend.
It’s Miller Time!
14: goldwater fans do tend toward tenacity.
of course he dug hampton. a lot.
So Senator Ensign’s parents [cough, cough] paid his love interest $96,000 for services rendered. WTF?
finally.
finally… ProducerChris makes a grammatical error!
“will today be announcing”
Granted, a small victory (okay, none at all) – but a sigh of relief after all my garbled emails to him over the years – and his emails always being spell-checked, blue-booked and Little Brown Handbook-ed
#17 Never thought of that connection. We were actually thinking of the dog in the “Blondie” comic strip.
19: must you rub it in when bloggo is having a bad day?
Hiya Steph, Mooks, Rebekah!
Ensign, Sanford… not enough morals to resign.
14KG vagina lift… more info than I needed.
I can’t lift anything with my vagina. Maybe that’s because I’m a male.
*dreamy* hummm, John Fugelsang, yummm,
Oh, have a great show, guys!
I await my podcast.
15 I will be watching out for him Carol.
And seriously if he needs anything I’d
give you a way he could get in touch…
20: and clarity unwith grammar no can be.
I’ve known some communes with 5-6 beaver in a single breeding spot.
24 Lefty you’re not in as bad a spot as the
caller yesterday told by the nurse he would
pass his gallstone out his uterus…
Oh Stephie/Mooks and yer kooky Beaver Stack… never gets old.
Just hearing Steph’s perky happy ‘beavah!’ makes my morning
21: chill. i used to use the old “blondie” excuse for tackiling the mailman every day… and then i just accepted that it’s what i love to do.
Mark, you are awesome. He’ll be alright.
Okay, now it’s time for Jan Shakowsky to run for Senate! PLEASE!!!!
second swipe at The Game of Stephanie Miller –
It’s a combination of Mystery Date, Hi Bob and Pin the Tail
on The Drunkey, er Doggy. You start with five cards, two
giant furry dogs, a hulking SUV, two Mooks, an enormous
box of wine, and a surly call screener.
Then you drink some box wine. Next you spin to see who your
Mystery Date is. After you spin you hopefully land on the
Fainting Couch, or Else you have to roll to see if Chris
picks you up. If you fail your saving roll you can still
draw a card to see if Manolo picks you up from behind the
fainting couch. Or continue from there.
More box wine. Then you draw from Community Chest. If you
land on Boredwalk you can see if Keith Olbermann is home,
but if the cops see you then you have to pass go before
they enforce the Restraining Order. Drink more box wine,
then roll to see if the Liquor Barn is open yet.
If you get a seven then you have to see if you can start up
the Central Vacuum System without Consuela’s help. If
Consuela get’s mad and quits you have to tell Chris to call
the place to get you a new Guatemalan maid.
Drink more box wine. Then you draw to see who you drunk dial,
Jim, Rachel Maddow, Randi Rhodes or Al Franken. drink some
more box wine. Each player draws five cards…
24: maybe… just maybe. – but then it didnt stop lou ferrigno from getting some progress in building up a few of the muscles that MJ never knew he had down there. anybody know any good pubococcygeal workout rap songs?
robert plant said it best, rush. “i’m in the mood for melanin…”
the Queen is such a skank biscuit
Oh, this is definitely heading into an Alan Smithee production today…
Lifting a glass ball with one’s vagina? Sounds like the Cinderella story needs an update.
that wasn’t the X rated version?!?
elizabeth mountbattinoneoutofthepark
jim with balloon animals? — considering the range of available voices, i noah nice story ark is in there somewhere.
can you hear it?
It’s Very Annoying!
It’s the ad for Quiettus
Happy Friday everyone!
#42 Today’s math? Did they change the multiplication tables?
What #44 has to do with #42 I have no idea….
38: it does sound like they missed the trend on microprocessors … i’ve picked up a copy of “the glass bead game” by herman hesse. – legend has it that nobody has ever been able to finish reading it. easy to believe. it’s pretty severely hesse even for hesse. still, i have a feeling that the secrets to updating the technology are in there somewhere.
Steph played Basketball, right? All-State Girl’s Reformatory League,
I think. Now, Dreadful Sara keeps blathering on about ‘point guard’,
blah blah blah, ‘From The Paint’, blah blah blah.
OK, charity event, Steph mops the court with the Washilla White Trash,
winner takes all, One on One…
#44, referring to the idiotic commercial? Yeah, kids are failing to learn the same math their parents failed to learn.
The “new math” is an early ’60s thing.
Jim, earthquake weapons? That’s looney.
47: one on one? the movie? you mean they were doing the dueling louise thing over robby benson? am i remembering that correctly? was that the one and only movie that concatenates robby benson and paul williams with seals and crofts?
48: my favorite political shirt BY FAR: “STOP PLATE TECTONICS NOW!”
so rupert murdoch had cell phone records hacked and everybody’s talking about the cyber attack from north korea. but Microsoft, Apple and Google are looking at your searches and files on your PC’s. Microsoft is the most aggregous at this. their worse than what Facebook was planning to do:
http://infotech.indiatimes.com/articleshow/2368094.cms
http://www.pcworld.com/article/137315/chinese_student_sues_microsoft_for_privacy_violation.html
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/329335/is_microsoft_spying_on_you/
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-125321.html
http://www.vanwensveen.nl/rants/microsoft/IhateMS_4.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft#Criticisms_of_the_case
http://www.vanwensveen.nl/rants/microsoft/IhateMS_5.html
http://www.vanwensveen.nl/rants/microsoft/IhateMS_6.html
http://www.vanwensveen.nl/rants/microsoft/IhateMS_7.html
http://www.vanwensveen.nl/rants/microsoft/IhateMS.html
http://i.gizmodo.com/5144366/former-employee-responds-to-microsoft-spying-allegations
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Microsoft-Splying-Through-Windows-Live-Local-14558.shtml
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Microsoft-Admits-It-Is-Spying-Apple-Users-with-Office-2008-for-Mac-80147.shtml
http://www.manilastandardtoday.com/?page=business06_july04_2006
http://www.marketingshift.com/2004/11/microsoft-search-beta-manipulating.cfm
http://www.marketingshift.com/2005/3/is-microsoft-spying-on-you-with.cfm
http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=8956&Itemid=38
http://www.domain-b.com/companies/companies_m/microsoft/19990909spy.html
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/07/18/microsoft_advertising_pc_patent/
http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=179623
http://boycottnovell.com/2008/09/14/corruption-spying-insecurity/
http://virtuelvis.com/archives/2006/02/microsoft-censoring-msn-messenger
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0CGN/is_3741/ai_55695355/
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/852362/posts
http://www.twoengineers.com/Richard/microsoft.html
http://www.businessinsider.com/2008/8/microsoft-of-course-we-spy-on-our-web-users-but-not-as-much-as-the-other-guys
john kerry is currently on the fore-front of regulating electronics and computer. for all intents and purposes he’s quite possibly the closest thing this century has to a ralph nader to tackle coorporate curruption by this almost un-regulated industry. he’s currently tackling wireless providers and their cell phone exclusivity scheme (http://www.johnkerry.com/blog/entry/john_kerry_more_choices_for_wireless_consumers/). contact him at http://kerry.senate.gov/contact/email.cfm or at http://www.johnkerry.com/page/s/contact . microsoft is over do to be dragged in for an anti trust inquiry.
“The late Nobel economist Milton Friedman believed that the antitrust case against Microsoft set a dangerous precedent that foreshadowed increasing government regulation of what was formerly an industry that was relatively free of government intrusion and that future technological progress in the industry will be impeded as a result.[20]
Jean-Louis Gassée, CEO of Be Inc., which at the time made a competing operating system which eventually folded in the face of Microsoft’s dominance, criticized the emphasis on the “packaging problem.”[citation needed] He claimed Microsoft was not really making any money from Internet Explorer, and its incorporation with the operating system was due to consumer expectation to have a browser packaged with the operating system. For example, BeOS comes packaged with its web browser, NetPositive, and Mac OS X with Safari.
Instead, he argued, Microsoft’s true anticompetitive clout was in the rebates it offered to OEMs preventing other operating systems from getting a foothold in the market.”
STOP CYBERNETIC TRYANY.
If it wasn’t briefed, doesn’t that make it a cover-up?
awright, so nobody wants to play
The Game of Stephanie Miller.
Apparently no one wants to ride the ride, either.
[Must Be At Least This Tall To Ride... The Stephanie Miller]
WTF!? ‘The CIA didn’t lie to Congress’??? The CIA lies.
They ALWAYS lie. They are Professional Liars. ‘Nuff Said.
Pete Hoekstra is from Michigan, that little toole.
Ok, so no one wants to play or ride, but I’ve got to ride,
must be miles away in 38 minutes… have a great show, afternoon,
and weekend. There’s No Possible Way You’ll Return Alive, Good Luck.
48: by the way, earthquakes being luney (related to luna), yes, that would be correct.
Good Morning Board!
Burris’ not seeking reelection is no surprise.
Don’t care for Giannoulias – something about the man screams mafia to me. Chris Kennedy and Cheryl R Jackson – need to find out more about them – neithe rhas extensive political experience (but for corrupt Illinois politicians, that might be a good thing).
Bye Mark! Have a great weekend! Don’t forget to check out the new blog!
51: we wont know for sure til we hear from the boehner.
I’ll go back to something my Poli Sci teacher said in a lecture back around 1969-70. He had been a lobbyist in Minnesota before coming to Illinois, and said, “I thought Minnesota politics was corrupt until I moved to Illinois.” And that was BEFORE Paul Powell and his famous shoe boxes full of cash.
Morning, all. Hope you’re having a good morning. I cannot believe it, but the triple Hs of summer in the DC area — hazy, hot, and humid — have not yet kicked in. So, I’m going to enjoy a day at the zoo and maybe check out the National Gallery of Art again.
I may disappear for a while because I plan on blogging about Government Motors. You know how they’ve been accusing Obama of being a socialist? Well, with Government Motors, they’re right. The government will own the means of production.
54: welcome, DTM. – i noticed that “Giannoulias” was misspelled, so i checked wikipedia… not your fault; it turns out they dont HAVE a correct spelling for this name.
Fight The Machine:
so rupert murdoch had cell phone records hacked and everybody’s talking about the cyber attack from north korea. but Microsoft, Apple and Google are looking at your searches and files on your PC’s. Microsoft is the most aggregous at this. their worse than what Facebook was planning to do:
http://infotech.indiatimes.com/articleshow/2368094.cms
http://www.pcworld.com/article/137315/chinese_student_sues_microsoft_for_privacy_violation.html
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/329335/is_microsoft_spying_on_you/
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-125321.html
http://www.vanwensveen.nl/rants/microsoft/IhateMS_4.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft#Criticisms_of_the_case
http://www.vanwensveen.nl/rants/microsoft/IhateMS_5.html
http://www.vanwensveen.nl/rants/microsoft/IhateMS_6.html
http://www.vanwensveen.nl/rants/microsoft/IhateMS_7.html
http://www.vanwensveen.nl/rants/microsoft/IhateMS.html
http://i.gizmodo.com/5144366/former-employee-responds-to-microsoft-spying-allegations
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Microsoft-Splying-Through-Windows-Live-Local-14558.shtml
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Microsoft-Admits-It-Is-Spying-Apple-Users-with-Office-2008-for-Mac-80147.shtml
http://www.manilastandardtoday.com/?page=business06_july04_2006
http://www.marketingshift.com/2004/11/microsoft-search-beta-manipulating.cfm
http://www.marketingshift.com/2005/3/is-microsoft-spying-on-you-with.cfm
http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=8956&Itemid=38
http://www.domain-b.com/companies/companies_m/microsoft/19990909spy.html
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/07/18/microsoft_advertising_pc_patent/
http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=179623
http://boycottnovell.com/2008/09/14/corruption-spying-insecurity/
http://virtuelvis.com/archives/2006/02/microsoft-censoring-msn-messenger
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0CGN/is_3741/ai_55695355/
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/852362/posts
http://www.twoengineers.com/Richard/microsoft.html
http://www.businessinsider.com/2008/8/microsoft-of-course-we-spy-on-our-web-users-but-not-as-much-as-the-other-guys
john kerry is currently on the fore-front of regulating electronics and computer. for all intents and purposes he’s quite possibly the closest thing this century has to a ralph nader to tackle coorporate curruption by this almost un-regulated industry. he’s currently tackling wireless providers and their cell phone exclusivity scheme (http://www.johnkerry.com/blog/entry/john_kerry_more_choices_for_wireless_consumers/). contact him at http://kerry.senate.gov/contact/email.cfm or at http://www.johnkerry.com/page/s/contact . microsoft is over do to be dragged in for an anti trust inquiry.
“The late Nobel economist Milton Friedman believed that the antitrust case against Microsoft set a dangerous precedent that foreshadowed increasing government regulation of what was formerly an industry that was relatively free of government intrusion and that future technological progress in the industry will be impeded as a result.[20]
Jean-Louis Gassée, CEO of Be Inc., which at the time made a competing operating system which eventually folded in the face of Microsoft’s dominance, criticized the emphasis on the “packaging problem.”[citation needed] He claimed Microsoft was not really making any money from Internet Explorer, and its incorporation with the operating system was due to consumer expectation to have a browser packaged with the operating system. For example, BeOS comes packaged with its web browser, NetPositive, and Mac OS X with Safari.
Instead, he argued, Microsoft’s true anticompetitive clout was in the rebates it offered to OEMs preventing other operating systems from getting a foothold in the market.”
STOP CYBERNETIC TRYANY.
morning all…
It might be carefully constructed, but it still sounds like b.s.
Hiya, Bloggoes!
I’m not sticking around long, got lots of boxes to put in the hallway today. I did want to drop by and say “howdy”, however. I figure to miss you guys most all of next week — I’m planning to have a Mama Kin kind of week.
Morning bloggonauts…
Got no job and no dog to tell you about, but I did go to a Joan Baez concert on the Santa Monica pier last night.
#62 – that sounds like fun! How is her voice after all these years??
It’s great that the President and the Pope agree on unions and energy efficiency; this chat is four years late. According to Mike Malloy, the Pope, in 2004 the Chief Inquisitor, was among those who warned Catholics that voting for John Kerry risked excommunication. We know that John Kerry won the vote according to Greg Palast, author of the book the “Don’t tase me, bro” was holding while trying to question Kerry.
62 — How was Ms. Joan? Did she have a protegé in tow? I haven’t been following what she’s up to lately…
actually, lying as ineffectually as condi during the smoking gun mushroom cloud speech did, and similar moves, amounts to lying only technically. always reminds the viewer of a hostage who is pleading with the eyes while reading from the script. – more than anything else short of the actual ignoring of 9-11, i found the most offensive thing about the entire cheney administration to be the abject lack of acting skills. – it was like harvey keitel’s “bad lieuteneant” dropping the bags of dope OVER AND OVER, and those witnessing it just shrugging and figuring there must be some explanation.
#59 – Spelling correct according to the Trib:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/topic/economy-business-finance/alexi-giannoulias-PEPLT000007553.topic
Stretch the truth much Sean??
Well, that’s interesting PJ-
I’m going to see Hank III tonight… super excited!
the double-standard is in failing to recognize how norm coleman is a fighter, not a quitter.
Hannity needs to STFU. Obama still made the overwhelming majority of voted when he was Senator running for President. McCain had the worst attendance record in the Senate.
Chris – they do buy it that’s why Faux news keeps selling it…
Way to plug your own book, Levi.
67: bless their hearts. i know they’re trying… some names just cant be repaired. – it’s like gerard depardieu. try saying it correctly without a mouth full of glass beads. – it cant be done.
#64 – Of course, the vatican is going in the wrong direction about women who serve the church as well.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/02/us/02nuns.html
#63: sounded just fine to me (especially her whiny impression of Dylan)
#65: not sure about a protegé but she had a full band
#69: yay for Hank III & Assjack
BTW she did “We Will Overcome” with a chorus in Farsi.
71: look at the bright side… the mccain crowds inspired really tight camera shots of the audience. this meant that you could see the smiles on people’s faces more clearly. – it also means that when they showed the black guy, you could see the bling-bling more clearly.
Hey All,
I made a new blog yesterday. I’d love for all of you to check it out. I posted the name in #6 above, but for simplicity, please check out http://themayberrylane.blogspot.com
And Mama, of course I had to reference the greatest show on earth, The Stephanie Miller Show, as the original inspiration for the blog.
75: wrong? – an inquisition with a built-in musical – and built-in flying scenes? – sounds like it’s got possibilities. – “nobody expects the FAA inquisition!”
I think McCain showed his feelings about Palin by appearing on SNL with Tina Fey.
80: got that right. in fact you wouldnt come out the lab feeling so loopy from all the lead, if you had just bott some of that mccain fine gold.
SLAVIN!
Shut the hell up Sean! What a moron.
Isn’t 3 points within the margin of error for these kind of polls?
#84 Yup, usually +/- 3-5%, depending on the number polled.
Notice how they never give you a source of the “poll numbers”?
Ok, Sean, you may be giving away more then you want to when you start criticizing lady’s shoes and handbags…. jealous much???
#80, 81 – and we got to see what a terrific hand model Cindy McCain is! She could have a whole other career, you know?
hannity didnt cover the sanford thing at all cause he doesnt appreciate the comedy of redd foxx; didnt cover ensign, because he cant get past robert guillaume’s mumbling.
Well, time to go see if the doggy is still there. If I’m not back later, I’ll see you all Monday.
Hi all,
Enjoyed reading the updates about your lives Troj, Mark, Shaf, et al.
Uh oh! My imaginary future husband Alec Baldwin is upset with Steph’s imaginary future husband Jack Cafferty! This just proves there is no good that comes from having an imagination.
Good Luck Left!
91: “… there is no good that comes from having an imagination” bertrand told me the same thing, but then, the blue armadillos are the most tempestuous of the bunch.
20—Shane-O, I have a friend who is a grammarian and proud of it. He corrects people all the time. There is a great t-shirt for these people at http://www.signals.com . It says, “I am the grammarian about whom your mother warned you”
Morning Mama, mooks, and cybermooks. What’s the buzz this AM?
94: an even better gift for a grammarian “…and proud of it” would be a gift certificate for a life.
50—I like that shirt because if you meet people who get the joke that immeidiately tells you they were paying attention in college. Or they read the newspaper at least.
95: trouble brewing over the double-standard, wherein palin is known as a fighter instead of a quitter, but norm coleman is not. — leftcenter is strapping on ninja gear to go “adopt” a puppy — the levi johnston tell-all book will be printed in 33 languages, including pig-aramaic. you know, the usual.
I was a grammarian once, but listening to Sarah Palin made my head explode.
58—-sorry, but GM is the only company “too big to fail”, IMO, so if the gov’t wants to own the means of production so we can finally get some damned electric cars, God bless them.
His parents paid off the girlfiend?
Is this going to be taught in high schools?
99: the weaponized voice of sarah palin: alka-seltzer for the seagul’s soul
What’s wrong with these parents? You can see why Ensign is so screwed up.
61% is really not much. it’s all that’s left after free-fall.
The Awesome power of the Stephanie Miller Show!!
Swirly music for the Equinox!
. . . and swirly music for the Calendar!
thx flombaye also read a few back that Hannity is being his usual idiot self, Was he going on about Michelle’s purse?
#94 & #96 – don’t get me wrong – I love grammarians — I just feel so inferior – and double email just to correct all my “eff”-ups
I gotta search that site to find the shirt – love it!
I wonder if Sen. Ensign offers healthcare benefits to his “employees”?
DIND said it best; post 87
111 I saw that…LOL
#111 – agreed! Think he is a big closet case!
110: the copays on rugburns are really quite reasonable.
c’mon – (Hal and Steph) – it’s TOO damn cute!
Okay, guys….I just finished blogging about Government Motors
And finally, those who call Obama a socialist will be correct. With Government Motors emerging from chapter 11 and the government owning 61 percent of it, the government now owns the means of production.
That’s socialism for you, comrade!
America Hates Heather Mills! You don’t do a number on beloved Sir Paul and get away with it!
111, 112, 113- I posted two articles on http://themayberrylane.blogspot.com...
Maybe I need to add a satire article about Sean coveting the first lady’s lovely accessories… ti he he
117: i never saw a moor. i never saw the sea, and yet i know that the magnitude of hatred for heather must be off the chart.
It’s a Palindrone!
#116 – Tony, what would you have proposed doing with GM? What about AIG? My personal feeling is they should have been allowed to close, but… a lot of folks would be affected so it’s a tough call.
GM killed the Electric Car over 30 years ago. Karma??
I think men can think of ways to keep her mouth full of something besides word salad!
118: satire? – i must refer you to jane wagner’s timelessly brilliant observation, “no matter how cynical you are, it’s never enuff to keep up”.
109—they have several cute shirts at Signals.
I so very much disagree with LA taxpayers paying for the MJ funeral. The family can afford to pay for it just from what his estate has earned in the past 2 weeks.
Here’s what I wrote on KOS about Palin’s allure:
She’s hot in a different way.
There’s model hot, movie star hot, intrinsically inaccessible hot.
Palin is the proxy for the reasonably attractive older woman one had adolescent sexual desire for: the teacher, the librarian, the friend’s mom, the neighbor, or something a tad more Freudian. She’s the stand-in for the one who was socially inaccessible, but remained part of these mens’ psyches into adulthood.
Hence the “MILF” fetish.
100…spiffy, I disagree. GM and Chrysler could have been allowed to go away. Ford hasn’t gone to the government for any money. Clearly, they screwed up in ways that Ford did not. Why was Ford able to survive while those two could not?
Politically, it couldn’t happen. But from an economic standpoint, I believe that GM and Chrysler could have gone away and the country would have recovered.
On the other hand, if the financial system of the entire world collapsed, that would have sent us into a tailspin which would have made the Depression look like a picnic.
122- Perhaps so.
Was he planning on taking the diprivan and 02 tanks on the road with him to London??
125: you’re overthinking this sir. the appeal of palin is quite simply in the category of “i have no standards hot”.
#99: Was that comma really necessary?
#124 – me too. Was just telling a friend about that yesterday. CA is broke and they provided a lot of police services for this thing, including closing down a highway during the morning rush hour. The family certainly does have the money to reimburse the city or at least meet them half way.
I also wondered if the coffin was empty during the service and he has either already been buried or cremated. Hmmmm….
#130 – k, that, just made me fall, over. Big *Matthews ‘HA!’* PJ!
130: i’ve heard sarah louise palin try to formulate thotts with her beehive hair entrenched firmly to the halfway point of her colon; was that semicolon maneuver really necessary?
Palin? I wouldn’t cross the street to tag that skank. And even if I was hammered and my judgment clouded, the second she opened her mouth I’d either put something in it to shut her up or walk away.
126—I disagree. I think the lasting effects on parts manufactuers, dealers, raw materials suppliers, etc, would have plunged us into a full-blown Depression.
I know capitalists just LOVE to see things fail because in your minds you live in a world of losers and winners and the losers simply go away, never to be heard from again. But in a Depression the losers are on the sides of the road begging for money and food.
Bring all that capitalist theory down to real life and it’s hell on earth.
Friday!!
Yeah Tony, with Palin you wouldn’t need beer-goggles, but some beer-ear plugs may be required!
now on sale at amazon: “solving a problem like maria for dummies”
116—-the gov’t owning ONE business is not socialism. I am so sick of that over-the-top hysterical blather and it’s not even 2010 yet!
i would need the MJ plan to shag palin: dead, lonely, and brain removed.
Oh, please, Oh, please…. I have a great article up about Sotomayor… check out http://themayberrylane.blogspot.com
any chance I could get a plug Steph?
138—LOLOLOL. That is such a dumb show. I watched it once and having been to real theater auditions in my life I have never watched it again. My thoughts: “Just cast the damn show already!”
#134 – Tony, you’ve renewed my belief that not every guy thinks she’s that great – especially after she starts to speak!
142:why do you hate nuns?
#125 Your comment reminded me of my 9th grade science teacher, perhaps the most attractive instructor I ever had. Like Palin, her grating voice, her prissy mannerisms, her thoroughly incomplete knowledge of science, all these made us dislike her more every day. By the end of the year many of my classmates were plotting her demise. If only she had resigned that first week, we’d all still be in love with her.
#135, yeah, that’s a nonsensical statement. A collapse of GM would have been catastrophic.
But consider the source: when you think the American worker is “doing fine” (despite household inflation-adjusted income remaining stagnant since the ’70s while household hours worked increasing 50%, at the same time worker productivity decouples from pay), you’re going to be prone to this sort of thing.
117—I don’t hate Heather Mills but I think she was silly to go out and try to do her divorce in public. People get very annoyed by that.
Sir Paul ain’t no saint and he’s no victim in my eyes. He remarried too soon after Linda died, as many men do after the loss of the first wife, and he should have gone to therapy instead.
Spiffy…those companies you mentioned already are suffering from the downturn. There will be a shade under 10 million cars sold this year, and that means that with or without GM and Chrysler, the parts manufacturers are screwed.
Those 10 million cars would have been made by someone. If GM and Chrysler went away, then we wouldn’t see a Chevy or Chrysler nameplate on them. We might have seen a Ford nameplate, or a Honda nameplate, or a Nissan one.
But there would be 10 million cars made, and to the suppliers, it doesn’t matter what nameplate is on the car.
#145, yeah, I’m not trying to justify Palin’s appeal, but to explain it. The specific appeal is personal, but the appeal of the template she fits is widespread.
There’s this belief out there that the model/actress is the sole template for female sexual attractivity as far as men are concerned. There are, in fact, several other important templates, the MILF and the Tomboy being two other ones.
#139 – yah! – and, um, what’s so bad about socialism, BTW?
The argument that capitalism yields the most efficient economic outcomes has been put into question (if not disproven) by the current circumstances – a direct result of the conscious dismantling of the “New Deal” and “Great Society.”
Destruction started by Regean and continued through Jan 20, 2009.
145—I had such a crush on my 7th grade math teacher. He was so dreamy. I told my mom I had a crush on that guy, she came to open house and met my teachers, and it turned out my math teacher was someone she worked with once before he became a teacher.
That was so disappointing—to come to terms with the idea that he was a grown-up like my mom and ran in those circles. Plus he was married.
One of the non-exotic firemen who won the “reverse” discrimination Supreme Court case, will be called in Monday by the rethugs to testify during Sotomayor’s confirmation.
i sent a copy of this to shane-o months ago, knowing that palin would tenaciously try to stretch the 15 minutes of fame forever… for who wouldnt want to collaborate with shane-o. – unfortunately, it garnered no energy, but since the expectation of palin’s tenacious grip on the spotlight has come to fruition, here is the full lyric of a sarah palin selection story, to the tune of “foxy lady” by jimi hendrix. treat yourselves to it later on.
they all imagine that i chose you for your gluteals,
> (folksy!)
> that i’d drill, baby, drill to feel ripped by your
> cuticles, (folksy!)
> how could your assets be bound?
> i dont need a plane to go down.
> i’d go into a dive for your sound. [you bet
> cha] (folksy lady!)
>
>
> was boris bad enuff to kill off the polar bear?
>
> (folksy!)
> librarian glasses make you hot as a solar flare.
> (folksy!)
> not army, yet, G. I. grunt.
> so i’ll be perfectly blunt.
> you could be my main contributor if you want.
> (folksy lady!)
>
>
> to girls who got screwed: though you are only prey for
> it: (folksy!)
> bitch, dont get raped if you cant dish out some pay for
> it! (folksy!)
> here’s our religion’s main pillar:
> god always sides with a driller.
> dont fear the raper; just go blow wasilla.
> (folksy
> lady!)
>
>
> i’m fit to be tied, gazing on that shape you’re built
> in (folksy!)
> to have my own barbie i need not annoy hilton
>
> (folksy!)
> yes i’m fit to be tied by your locks.
> this time, no missing wood stocks.
> just crusty seamen deployed in all your docks.
> (folksy lady!)
>
>
> they gripe and moan about paying for dressing you.
> (folksy!)
> and i admit that the clothes are expendable, yes i
> do. (folksy!)
> and i will freely allow,
> you’re got the brains of a glue-huffing sow,
> but i crave a-porky-lips now
> [apocalipstick!] (folksy lady!)
>
>
> fab four predicted you’d show some kind of
> cloneliness. (folksy!)
> you know me well, and i would dress you too, only
> less. (folksy!)
> you’re no dan quayle. that’s for sure.
> your family values aint pure,
> but, hey, bulldog, keep on talking; i’ll endure
> (folksy lady!)
#150, banks and autocompanies have gone into government receivership here and in other countries on numerous occasions. They get their crap together, the government sells its interest (often making a profit), and they go back to being private concerns.
No big deal.
Well I’m pissed at the dems that are dragging their feet on the single payer health care – the American public has given them a mandate and they are not serving their constituents.
148—that’s not the way I heard it. I don’t think parts manufacturers here make parts for Hondas and Toyotas. When I buy a Honda factory part I’m pretty sure it’s been made in Japan.
149—I like the template idea. There is a lot of truth to that.
Has Dick traveled outside the country much?
152—-lolol. The “non-exotic firemen”. Oh god, I’m so tired of classifying people by color or race or religion or who they like to sleep with. It does get to the point of ridiculousness with poltical correctness.
#156, as importantly, the sudden shock of the collapse, and of the collapse of suppliers, puts a lot of people out of work. These out of work people are not spending money, meaning the reverse ripple effect sends waves throughout the rest of the economy.
Saying “the economy would eventually recover from a GM collapse” is like saying “the biosphere eventually recovered from the K-T impact”.
So, Mama, is this why Randi calls you a Whore-a?
149/157: with “ralph” from “green acres” and the voice of arianna huffington too, the spine chills keep coming in waves.
Caller, the Supreme Court doesn’t take a case unless it’s likely to overturn it.
115—Hal is very cute and they are cute together.
158: why is bill clinton grinning right now?
Hey John, What you just said make absolutely no sense… at no point, were you even close to something that could be considered an actual point, and everyone within signal range is now dumber for having listened to it…
John’s a little scrambly isn’t he?
In addition, Sotomayor’s overturned rulings are usually following existing precedent; it’s the SCOTUS that is changing direction. Following precedent and old SCOTUS rulings is hardly a black mark against an appealate judge, even when the SCOTUS feels it’s time to revisit that precedent.
#154 – that IS the big deal. Often, no profit during receivership.
Privitized profits, public loses.
#153 – I did get your message on your Hendrix creation – I just don’t have the skillz to create a version like that
Caller, posit this: bite me.
Oh yeah, good morning, Mookenbloggists!
I think those memories were in the part of mama’s memory that’s been pickled with box-wine…
166—-I’m glad to see that I’m not the only one who has those stingers memorized. I once told someone while blogging that “everything you know is wrong” because I got so frustrated I didn’t know what else to say that would sum up my feelings.
Last caller reminds me of the conservabots at my work. You can hear the talking points verbatim as soon as they begin to pontificate. I don’t even waste my breath arguing with them.
154—Weren’t a lot of businesses taken over by the gov’t in WWII?
169: understandable… and this part is worth emphasizing: thank you for the ones that you DO get around to. you are providing a vital and very unpaid enhancement to many people’s QOSCL (quality of so-called life).
Oh I missed the last caller darn it – my toast was burning and my coffee cup empty.
#169, the government made plenty of money selling off banks nationalized in the New Deal era, and IIRC made money off Chrysler when it was sold back to the private sector in the last big bankruptcy round.
Remember, the government doesn’t give away that stock when it divests itself of it. And it acquired that stock at a low, kinda by definition.
You’re right in part, though: bailouts without equity is precisely privatizing profits and publicizing loss. Equity is an absolute essential in a bailout.
173—if you’re one against a pack of them it’s rather pointless. They love mob rule.
Peter, I really don’t have a problem with what happened with GM. I’m just making a smart ass comment about it.
I think that in a few years, after the economy has turned around, the government’s investment in GM will be profitable. The problem for me is that the government will be under a lot of pressure to sell its stake in GM quickly. If they sell too quickly, they won’t make as much money on their — our actually — investment.
As for me saying the American worker is doing fine, what I did say is that all the nonsense about how America doesn’t make things anymore is complete and total BS. The United States is the top manufacturing company in the world, by far.
It bothers me when people let their opinions get in the way of facts. I don’t care what their politics are. And anyone who says stuff like the manufacturing sector in the United States is dead annoys me as much as someone who claims that tax cuts increase revenue.
#174, and the SCOTUS overturned the wartime seizures.
Spiffy, although I also have the stings memorized, I know that quote from its original presentation, in the wonder of deep writing that is the movie “Billy Madison”… which i could likely recite from opening to ending credits for you if you so desire… (before I realized Sandler was a right wing tool!)
161—Steph and Randi tease each other mercilessly. She has mentioned that in earlier shows.
Government involvement in the car industry scares Republicans to death? Then please explain to me the Dept. of Agriculture.
danielle….saw your blog. Good stuff!
danielle…i’ve been showing you mine for a long time and now you finally show me yours…..blogs that is.
Preverts! Get your minds out of the gutter!
172: that opens the ateway to how i would have to respond to the most alluring proposition sarah palin could possibly offer: “there are those who would only have a chance at being acceptable if they begin by starting over, however in your case, i dont believe that even starting over would suffice; you madam, would have to start over entirely, AND have tina fey play the action sequences”.
Thanks Tony! I hope it grows quickly!
Spiffy- I know, I was just trying to get steph to say whore-a!
183—-Absolutely!
oooohhhhh Tony, I love it when you talk dirty!
This crap about Obama in freefall in the polls is based on a poll that was taken in Ohio, where they claim he fell to 49%. This was not even a statewide poll; I am pretty sure it was just Toledo. And if anything, people are pissed because unemployment hasn’t gone down faster.
In some respects Obama is at fault. His tax policy is an extension of Bush’s, in that he is keeping business taxes low. Truth is, if you raise the taxes on businesses, and you change the law so they pay a penalty if they outsource outside the country, the companies will reinvest any profits in the company, to make their profits seem lower, so they can pay less in taxes. What do they reinvest in? Jobs and company infrastructure. That CREATES jobs, and is consistent with Keynesian economics.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keynesian_economics
181: that billy madison really is a great website… so did you get my message?
I admire Obama for trying to build consensus, but at some point he must move the country forward indicated by the majority of American public. On the other hand, maybe he is doing this so he can say he tried and gave the right the oppty to join in and they didn’t so…
Me too! catholic school girls are very naughty!
Flom, you scally wag! Was that a cheap shot at Ashley Madison?
192—I agree. I’m tired of consensus building with the 25% of the country who still support Bush. We can be very nice to them, bear them no malice, but gosh darn it, let’s go with the majority!!
194: well, technically, i didnt have anything cheap in mind. – oh, crap, that was outloud wasnt it…. where’s the frikkin delete…. here it is… oh CRIPERS, i think that was SEND…
That happened in public high schools too (measuring the skirt length).
Chris is right about the bases. Those are the bases.
Wait, I thought 2nd was tongue.
Of course Hal would miss out on the base demonstration with Steph.
“Oh, honey, nothing can happen to you unless you get all the way to home plate!”
LMAO!!! To all of this… the catholic school stories bring up some interesting memories…
and 196- I about fell out of my chair on that one!
198: okay, so you mean all this time, while i’ve been getting “called off becuase of rain”, …. hmmm, that’s not sounding very promising all of a sudden.
Danielle…..a Catholic school girl who’s showing me hers? Do tell more!
Hey, shoot me an email. I’ll give you a link to a site where you can promote your blog for free…and maybe even make a few bucks in the process.
#195, there’s also a huge difference between consensus among the people, and consensus among the Congress – which is far to the right to the people. Obama’s mistake right now is to push only for the consensus in Congress, and so far only tepidly to use the bully pulpit to push, harangue, and browbeat Congress toward the people’s consensus.
good morning everyone …. I’m not here long
but wanted to let you all know that I am alive!
202: how in the world do you manage to fall out of a beanbag chair tucked into the cozy corner of the hookah room?
Oh, and the bases talk? Reminds me of Paradise by the Dashboard Light by Meatloaf. I remember being at a party once and someone was so hammered he was sliding around. When it came time for him to slide home, he tried to slide into a girl he was trying to hook up with, and she just laughed and walked away.
Epic fail, man.
Well…have to go to work now. Geez. Everyone have a good weekend!!
(Catholic girls were the most repressed sexually.. Easy, peasy, Catechismy!)
And, on Sarah P. – not with someone else’s, on a 10 foot pole!
in daily kos poll Obama is okay http://www.dailykos.com/weeklytrends
but teh right will do anything to make it seem as though america has turned against Obama hoping that others will join the band wagon
206: welcome. for speed update, you may consult post 98…. plus, we are discussing the measuring of skirts on young girls, the importance thereof in the defense of modesty, and the resourcefulness of the creepy old men who managed to get that gig into the job description of educators.
Repbulicans how’s that war on science going?
Only 6% of Scientists view themselves as Republicans!
Good morning, all!
I have been here so infrequently this week that I just now heard about Jim’s marriage. Congratulations, Mr. Voice Diety.
212 — well I dictated that when my daughter was a toddler no dress would be short enough to show her butt and after the age of 4 all dresses must hit her at least just above the knee ..
and now I’m gone ….. my son needs to be taken to work!
More swirly music for the Equinox!
Cindy…of course there aren’t many republican scientists. Why would you join a party that mocks people like you and constantly puts people like Palin and Jindal, who are creationists, in the public eye?
BTW, Michael Moore uses the swirly music in the beginning of Roger and Me.
#198: All your bases are “belong to me”.
214: the most diturbing part of marrying a voice deity… the minister asks him “do you take this woman…”, and christopher walken gets to answer. “OH CHRIST. COME ON. LOOK AT THIS YUMMY PIECE OF ASS. CHRIST YES. WHAT WOULD YOU DO IN MY SHOES. HELLZ YES. BY ALL THAT IS HOLY, LOVING THIS GORGEOUS LITTLE GODDESS TO THE HILT, AND FOR ALL OF ETERNITY, IS ONLY THE BEGINNING…”
#215, that’s funny, all my skirts end just above the knee too!
Unless I’m going all old-fashioned, then sometimes I get daring and go to mid-thigh.
Ah, Roland Burris….one of the offshoots of the Three Stooges of Governors. What does that make him? Curly Joe? Shemp?
Bing Bong!
Did you know that Burris has his own mausoleum?
Love the “Crucible” reference!
Cindy, Cindy – good to see you.
Shane-O, you blinkin’ genius! Beautiful work, as always.
Fugelsang slays!
I say Roland Burris is Curly Joe!
Huh? Digital is 3rd base? What’s analog?
I don’t like the term “word salad” because salad is healthy. I prefer the term “word casserole”.
if it was about making dubya look like socrates, why not just offer up some hemlock?
I like John Fugelsang, but where are Frangela?
Quick, they’re still waiting for penacillin and consonants in Kosovo!
228-
What’s the show? Palin’ with Palin?
#231: Aaargh! Take 2: “Quick, they’re still waiting for penacillin and vowels in Kosovo!”
Vowels: the other French letter.
plan B was not very good: lou ferrigno, blinking and confused, pushed out onto the stage, expected to impromptu moonwalk…
There are clearly not enough bases. We need to do this by yard lines.
Own endzone = handshake. We call that a “Safety”!
10 own yardline = a little peck on the cheek. But most of us take a knee, and start off on the
20 own yardline = kiss on the lips
30 own yardline = cop a feel up high, through clothes
40 own yardline = cop a feel up high, under clothes
50 yardline = cop a feel down low, through clothes
40 yardline = cop a feel up high, no clothes
30 yardline = cop a feel down low, through clothes
20 yardline = cop a feel down low, under clothes
10 yardline = cop a feel down low, no clothes
Because you spend so much time in the red zone, I’m sure we could fill out 1-9 with gory detail.
100 yardline = you crossed the plan and got it in the endzone
You can imagine what the extra point is. And the 2-point conversion.
ironically, the real king of pop, vincente fox, got to play president for a while.
Peter, is it getting warm in here?
Michael Jackson’s casket looked like a chafing dish!
236: wish i could believe there is a progressive system of some sort, but i’ve witnessed only “non-sequential” ambushes that eradicate any such hypotheses.
239: how did carrie prejean get mixed up in this?
For God’s sake keep Joe Jackson away from the children! Let them have a somewhat normal life. Plus Joe Jackson is 83 or something like that. Why can’t he just retire?
Oh you know what? While watching all the MJ coverage and looking at Jackson’s nose over the years I began to wonder if he was trying to create a child’s nose on himself? You know how kid’s noses are so tiny and perfect?
Looking at what he wound up with it made me wonder….
236—that is so complicated. Is that going to be on a test because there are a lot of high schoolers who will not bother remembering all of that if it’s not on a test.
#240, see the football analogy works there too.
I, myself, am a great fan of the passing game and going long.
Tony- sorry, stepped away from my desk… I have had issue trying to get into steph space, if that’s the email you were referring to… any other way to get your email without you having to post in the blog?
242: he really should have followed his brother’s wise example…. work a few years as the dictator of czechoslavakia, and retire into obscurity.
We need to learn not to encourage Peter.
Joe Jackson is creepy. He lives away from his wife and family in Las Vegas. May he stay there.
244: yeah, i get all that, but what’s with the note i found on the piano, inviting me to play “bareback”? is that a real position?
#244, and, for the record, my last date ended on my own 29 (first play after getting the ball, which I returned 19 yards on the return), I’m waiting out the play clock with a series of audibles, and I’m in shotgun position for showing 3 receivers.
#236 I like the football system better. Plus the various penalties already have names: Holding, offsides, illegal forward pass, backfield in motion, roughing the kicker, etc.
Whew…blogging is hard work. I had to update my piece on The Three Stooges of Governors in order to incorporate Burris into there.
#220: and the Queen chimes in: “Look here, hurry it up will you? My footmen are waiting for me!”
250: does football come with any english subtitles?
Have to run, happy weekend, Mooksters! Don’t you ever change a thing.
L.
251: it only makes sense until the part where stephy goes for the “seventh inning stretch”.
#251, and you can get sacked and go backward. Or an interception run back the other way.
255: fear not. these socks are going nowhere. pasta la pizza.
Danielle….I don’t know. Can you look me up on Stephspace? Or something like that? You should be able to click on my link and get my email. I think. Someone help us?
Back after the long circuit at high speed
hands and feet still tingling from the vibrations
that beast puts off… better get posting if
we want to see Sparta one more time this week…
Scooter, what would constitute roughing the kicker? More like roughing the passer…if you make a pass at her, and she slaps you, that’s roughing the passer.
If life were only like those Miller Lite ads, where you’d get a ref that comes out and throws a flag when that happens.
I agree with John. His death showed how much we really did take him for granted as an artist. But the child molesting thing was so very bad—from the accusations to the circus trial. It’s hard for people to put up with all of that afterwards.
These stories are always so sad. These people with all the $$ in the world and they cannot figure out how to get help they can trust. Mayn people are blocked from getting help because they are poor. What blocked MJ? Perhaps his little island he built for himself?
That’s why I don’t think he should be buried at Neverland. Why call the island hallowed? Are they trying to rebrand Neverland? Let him be buried in a public place.
Oops, my 50 and 30 are the same. I’ll have to modify the system.
220 I like the Christopher Walken. Notice he DANCES
Tony, I am now officially following your blog. I need to create a Salon account to email you. Now we can really have some show -n- tell.. ti he he
248—I agree. The real nuturer in the family, Katherine Jackson, has not spoken to the press at all and has no plots to make the grandkids famous. She is the only one MJ trusted and for good reason.
264 stupid keyboard/fingers… Walken dances in every movie
I wuz tryin’ to say
I don’t think I can stay until Sparta. Good luck to one and all! See you Mondeeeeeeeee
#236: Is a celebratory outburst allowed once you reach the 100 yard line?
Caller- MJ opened many doors for black people… to not consider the race aspect would be pretending there was never discrimination in this country…
S is for soon
P is for perpetual
A is for AWESOME! ‘K?
#269, yes, but don’t go too far, because that’ll cost you 15 for unsportsmanlike on the kickoff.
R is for ransome for Nevada sons named Ensign
#248: What resides in Vegas doesn’t always stay there.
T is for ….. Theater of the Absurd in politics.
Ensign is proof that what happens in Vegas does not stay in Vegas.
and Then you Drink more boxed wine and
122: I THOTT OF ONE ALREADY !!! – how about this: pasta alfredo ! — oooh! or froot loops ! — wait a second. here’s a good one: slices of kiwi fruit. yeah. okay. that’s a rap. pasta la pizza, baby.
A is for aggregate.
Ensign is typical of these rethug fooles.
And STILL the morons vote for them…
Aye, the Persians are in sight
Danielle…the Salon one is the one to follow. It gets both my finance blog posting via a feed and then other random stuff. Email me when you get a chance.
fatboy slim – weapon of choice
best Christopher Walken dancing ev-er
My friend sent me this:
Apparently the American Medical Association has weighed in
on the new economic stimulus package….
The Allergists voted to scratch it, but the Dermatologists advised not to make any rash moves.
The Gastroenterologists had sort of a gut feeling about it, but the
Neurologists thought the Administration had a lot of nerve.
The Obstetricians felt they were all laboring under a misconception.
Ophthalmologists considered the idea shortsighted.
Pathologists yelled, “Over my dead body!” while the
Pediatricians said, ‘Oh, Grow up!’
The Psychiatrists thought the whole idea was madness, while the
Radiologists could see right through it.
Surgeons decided to wash their hands of the whole thing.
The Internists thought it was a bitter pill to swallow,
and the Plastic Surgeons said, “This puts a whole new face on the
matter.”
The Podiatrists thought it was a step forward, but the Urologists were pissed off at the whole idea.
The Anesthesiologists thought the whole idea was a gas, and the
Cardiologists didn’t have the heart to say no.
In the end, the Proctologists won out, leaving the entire decision up
to the butt holes in Washington .
Senator John Ensign from Nevada admits to giving money to his mistress and her family.
Ensign’s parents gave money to his fuck buddy, Cynthia, Mrs. Doug Hampton.
Ensign employed Doug and found a job for his son.
Ensign writes note to break off affair, but continues.
Doug still works for Ensign after he finds out about the affair.
Doug demands money after he finds out about the affair.
Cynthia gets a $25,000 severance check for being fired.
Cynthia gets $96,000 from Ensign’s Mommy and Daddy in $12,000 increments.
Cynthia is a prostitute. Ensign is a John. Doug is a pimp and an extortionist.
Okay, folks…who is the bigger media whore? Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, or Sarah Palin?
Single payer puts too many people out of work all at once; and no “single payer” system in the world we use for comparison got there in one step.
Robust public option will get you to effective single payer. That is non-negotiable. Employer mandates at the same time.
The main use of single payer, and the reason it’s bad it was never on the table, is that public option becomes the “compromise”, with single payer being the “unreasonable left” position. Without single payer on the table, public option starts on the extreme left of Congress (skewed!) Overton window.
tony, they are all really the same person with different “people” suits… (Ever seen this family guy episode?)
So, folks….zoo or art museum? That’s what I’m pondering.
289—I agree that our current system might not do well under the shock of going to single payer all at once. But I don’t know wnough about economics to say for sure.
However, it was morally wrong for the Pres. not to have it even in the room. I get really annoyed at Obama for stuff like that.
Christopher Walken/Capt. Koons/Pulp Fiction soliloquy
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Pulp_Fiction#Captain_Koons
291—Zoo. If the weather is nice go to the zoo.
I think that we should have a hybrid system.
Everyone pays in to a government plan that provides a base level of care.
And then if you want more, private companies will compete for your business.
You get the best of both worlds that way.
Sparta?
The sparta is not longer coveted?
Spiffy…single payer wasn’t happening. Period. That’s why Obama never pushed for it.
Obama is a pragmatist. That pisses off a LOT of the more ideal, but it’s also the only way things get done.
Sparta!
Damn! Missed it by “that” much
“he hid it in the one place he knew he could hide something. His ass. Five long years, he wore this watch up his ass. Then when he died of dysentery, he gave me the watch. I hid this uncomfortable hunk of metal up my ass for two years. Then, after seven years, I was sent home to my family. And now, little man, I give the watch to you.”
ignoring the fact that dysentry gives you the horrible runs,
making hiding a gold watch up your ass rather difficult…
sorry, I’m stuck on this Christopher Walken kick. He was also
great in Joe Dirt
You gotta crawl before you walk and you gotta walk before you run!
Well then I will have to compete against my own best time.
SPARTA solo. Oh how sad….
Wow… I said I missed it as I got it… strange…
OH! and missed Sparta by one! At least we made it
Dumbing down California colleges – saw on the news this morning that one of the northern california colleges is trying to REDUCE their enrollment by 10% by next year due to the budget “crisis”. Talk about dumbing down America – we’re going the wrong way to improve our economy.
Insurance company execs who deny service and kill patients are guilty of negligent homicide
OH Danielle !! you ditint miss it at all!
Sparta Will ALWAYS be coveted
#292, going instantly to single payer puts out of work everyone currently employed by that 33% overhead private insurance has. Public option, which will be intrinsically superior to it, puts these people out of work gradually, while at the same time the economy sees the benefits of this parasitic industry slowly dwindling (more money in people’s and small business’ pockets).
But yeah, it needed to be on the table, so we could compromise it away. Now, we’re having to fight against public option being compromised away.
#287 Yeah, one wonders how many times that girl “encountered” Ensign for that kind of money? She might be one the most expensive hookers in Nevada, and that’s sayin’ something!
298—but he needed the single payer education and argument at the table to help the public option succeed.
I don’t understand. Why does NASA talk about putting men on Mars? To make them aspire to the highest things.
That same thought process is why we MUST talk about the highest and best plans here in America even if the tools in Congress are too blind to handle them.
Mark, can you believe that? To be b!tch!ng about missing it on the 300th post.. I thought for sure by getting 299, I’d never post in time to get 300…
Old men sleep with their conscience at night
Young men sleep with their dreams
And the mentally ill sit perfectly still
Living their lives in between.
John Prine
apropos of nothing
Congrats Danielle!
Many women have had babies without a man around. Trust me—many married women have birthed and raised children while married without a man around. :-/
Winning the Game of Stephanie Miller
the first player to operate the Central Vacuum
Cleaner System WITHOUT spilling the wine while
drunk dialing Jim Ward to tell his wife she’s a
whore and french kissing Max or Oliver while…
So the show started with beavers and ends with sperm. The Circle of Life . . .
oh, way to go DrunkNIrish!
wouldn’t a woman using her own sperm and egg be like inbreeding?
If the White House and the Dems in congress were really smart they would have started by pushing for single payer and then come to a grand “bipartisan” agreement by relenting to a public option. The Dems dropped that ball way too early in the discussion.
315. taking herself to 4th base?
“Pragmatist” seems to be code for “negotiating from a position of weakness, and then having to fight tooth and claw to even get your reserve”.
You always start asking for far more than you’re hoping to get. Dem “pragmatists” always forget this.
313 I love John Prine, saw him live
very good, very grim
I get him confused with John Campbell
who wrote It Takes A Tiny Coffin [for a five year old child] grim grim
grim
306—it’s sad, but we’re in so much trouble here in CA. The enrollments at Cal States have been put on hold ’til 2010 or 2011 I think. They are impacted because there is so much unemployment.
Truly, I think people are just going to have to move away.
315 320 …4th base while watchin’ Her stories and
324.texting on her iphone
Bobby Sherman didn’t age well. Sorry, Steph.
Well bya all! Thanks for checking out the blog! Tony & Mark, I’ll check yours out this weekend!
Hope everyone has a great weekend!
put Netayahoo and AhmaDinnerJacket in the same
room let them fight it out… two man entah, one man leave…
321—I have begun to wonder if Obama is a bit afeared of the RW media machine and that’s why he won’t negotiate the hard way.
If he asked for single payer on the table here’s all the cries of “COmmie, Commie!” Oh I hate the Bill- 0s.
323 – if health care is too watered down after the bill passes Europe might look good.
texting BOBBY SHERMAN on her I-phone
I have to go too. Have a lovely weekend every one!
Sharon a dove?
Happy Weekend to all . . . ‘Night
Peter, I find it hard to believe that anyone is saying that Obama’s given away the farm. Look, the guy has been in office for less than SIX MONTHS. Look at what has been accomplished so far. The stimulus package got done. Cap and trade passed the House. His budget passed. And now health care reform is on agenda — something that hadn’t been o the agenda for 16 years after Hillarycare got killed.
I thought he was going to be a pansy assed dilletante that couldn’t get anything done. I was wrong.
He is a pragmatist, which pissed idealogues off but I’m just fine with that. Idealism is great, but it doesn’t get things done.
331. YES. Happy weekend all!
Fugelsang has THE BEST daily quotes on Facebook… gotta go!
#329, all Dems are terrified of the RW media, and afraid of being portrayed as “liberal” or “left”. It’s why they’re so far to the right of their constituents.
And on that note, I am out of here. Have a great rest of the day and enjoy your weekend!
ah safely past Sparta, good times…
have a great, safe weekend. I’m going to the bar, on the bike,
so I’m going to limit my alcohol intake
325 331
…while being bumped off the Ed Shultz show WINS THE GAME
#335, cap and trade and the stimulus were at best half-measures. Obama is on the edge of even losing public option. He and the Congressional leadership have been arguing from positions of weakness – unnecessarily – from the beginning. By going into negotiations asking only for the reserve, they have no headroom.
I don’t expect a DLCer to understand this – arguing from weakness is their raison d’etre.
#316: So the whole show was like a protective barrier between on an the other? A little something for the weekend…
Before everyone leaves, can you tell me why Steph doesn’t have Frangela on Fridays?
Sorry is this has been repeated and repeated.