LiveBlog pour Mardi, 14 Juillet, 2009
• House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-SC) calls in at 6:05am Pacific to talk about health care reform and the Sotomayor hearings.
• Ian Millhiser, Legal Policy Analyst for the Center for American Progress, calls in at 6:30am Pacific to talk about the Sotomayor confirmation hearings.
• Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) calls in at 7:30am Pacific to talk about health care reform and the Sotomayor hearings.
• U.S. Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor said yesterday that her hotly disputed judicial philosophy is, in fact, quite simple: Remain faithful to the law. In her first day of hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sotomayor sat impassively as senators detailed a deep divide between Dems and GOP on whether she is the best choice to fill the vacancy left by Justice David Souter’s retirement.
• Congressional demands for an investigation grew Monday over new disclosures that a secret CIA program to capture or kill Al Qaida leaders was concealed from Congress for 8 years, perhaps at the behest of former Vice President Dick Cheney. The program was cancelled last month by CIA Director Leon Panetta shortly after he himself first learned of it.
• President Obama yesterday pressed Democratic leaders to pass health care reform legislation in both houses of Congress before August and expressed confidence about the ultimate outcome for his top domestic priority. “Don’t bet against us. We are going to make this thing happen,” the president proclaimed.
Tags: Barack Obama, Center for American Progress, David Souter, Dick Cheney, Ian Millhiser, James Clyburn, Jan Schakowsky, Leon Panetta, Sonia Sotomayor
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Okay – took me a minute… Bastille Day.
I would say “Joyeux Quatorze Juillet!” – but, that would be gauche.
Good morning Shane-O
Yeah, beat me to it. Happy Bastille Day!
And, I’ll get this out of the way as well…
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, TROJANRABBIT!
There, I feel better. Don’t you?
Happy Birthday Paul!
good morning all
we’ve gone French?
are there any conservatives on the blog that this will bug?
(cuz I will go get popcorn if there is! >;-) )
YAY! — Happy Birthday Paul!!!!
I did not know. Have a great day!
And, maybe we could refer to Lavoie as ‘FreedomProducerChris’ today – to appease the conservatives on the SMS LiveBlog??
Wish I could embed this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4K1q9Ntcr5g
shane-o
nah
Good moanin’! It’s just little OLD Jefferson, call me “Jeff Beauregard Douchebag” Sessions to Steffie LOL. Ray-gun tried to put me on the federal bench in 1986 and The nomination was killed by the Senate Judiciary Committee, which refused by a 10-8 vote to let the nomination come to the Senate floor for a vote. I also allegedly referred to the NAACP and the ACLU as “un-American” and “Communist-inspired” because of their nasty habit of “forcing civil rights down the throats of people.”
Good moanin’, Good moanin’ Good moanin’ Mooksters!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Sessions#Federal_judgeship
BTW, this caught my eye yesterday…
Space Station Is Near Completion, Maybe the End
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/12/AR2009071201977.html?hpid=topnews
Excerpt:
It would be a great waste of materials and labor (that have gone into ISS construction) if it were de-orbited within a few years of its completion. The article goes on to say that its cost (estimated at $100 – $150 billion) might save it from a premature death. I have a cray idea… why don’t we do an engineering feasibility study to see if it’s possible to robotically boost the ISS out of earth orbit and fly it to the moon? We could then park it in lunar orbit to perform lunar observation and mapping and use it as a staging platform for future lunar landings. We have demonstrated ion propulsion that slowly (but with less risk than chemical rockets) can nudge the platform away from earth. Just spitballin’ here, but who knows?
cray = crazy (yep, I’m crazy!)
Happy day! You say it’s your birthday?
Well, have a great day, Paul!
bien sur!
3.
Yeah, shaf. I feel a LOT better.
Thanks. And thanks to Cindy & Shane-O as well.
About time for me to put my programmer’s hat on for the day.
#8 you’re right.
Thanks Carol!
10
Maybe we could put Sessions, Graham, Cheney and a few of the other Racialists and set the ISS on a slow flight towards the sun.
#10 – just make sure it doesn’t hit Kenny… NASA bastards.
from twitter:
Maybe you should stick to tradition when throwing the bridal bouquet RT @BreakingNewz Bride’s bouquet brings down plane http://is.gd/1yqe3
Mornin’ Mooks! Did anyone see Harry Smith interview Fredo today about the Sotomayor confirmation hearings? Can’t believe that toady has anything worthwhile to say about it. Guess impartiality is why he went to Ashcroft’s sickbed to arm-wrestle him into signing off on wiretapping. What a rube!
Good Morning Mooksters!
Happy Birthday Trojan!!! 21, right?
Shaf- great point on the space station… you really have to wonder how they come up with ideas like destroying such expensive equipment!?!?!?!?!
Shane-o- 16- LOL…
Here’s something to make your head esplode in the “how’d they do that?” category
Click here: Regifting Robin
http://www.regiftable.com/regiftingrobinpopup.html
20… people have WAY too much time on their hands! (Why would someone even create that?)
#20 It’s like she can see into my soul. GET HER OUTTA’ MY HEAD!!!!!!
#22 – nice Family Guy quote, Shaf!!!
19
times 2.57 (approximately)
#23 Oh, that was in Family Guy? I was just freaking out.
#25 – verbatim. i’ll find it for ya, and bring (the clip) to ya!
Bonjour mes amis!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_8dafLxLcI
Bon anniversaire a la comedienne Jane Lynch (43) et
‘Big Pussy’ Vincent Pastore (63)
Morning, people. It is a gorgeous morning here in DC and it’s not going to get too hot. We have avoided the triple Hs so far this summer and I love it.
I want to post this early, because I’ll have to blog and run just like I did yesterday. I saw that some accused me of dropping a turd in the punch bowl with my comment about how I am a Clinton/DLC type of person and how I didn’t see a problem with Goldman doing what they do — make money. Then I saw accusations that all I do is blog whore and that I’m a republican plant, who doesn’t care about progressive issues.
First, on the blog whoring. I’ll post at a max two links to things I blogged about that I think would be of interest to people here. And clearly, it is, because I get anywhere from five to ten people clicking on the link and reading what I write. There are lots of things that I write which I don’t link to here. For example, today, I blogged about how one anchor left CNBC for Bloomberg but I won’t be posting a link to that here because nobody here will care.
Second, on the accusation of dropping a turd in the punch and running. It’s called work. Sometimes, things pop up when you can’t respond to them. Believe me, I would have loved to have stayed for a long debate over whether Goldman is doing anything illegal or wrong for the next two hours, because I do not believe they are. Making money is what they’re supposed to do, otherwise they end up like Lehman or Bear Stearns.
Finally, on me not being progressive. That’s just plain ridiculous. One constant theme on my blog is how going green creates green for companies, which is completely different than the RNC talking point of how environmental regulations will destroy jobs. I also have blogged about universal health insurance, how single payer isn’t socialism and how forcing all employers to either provide health insurance or pay the government is leveling the playing field. I’ve talked about how we need to remove the competitive disadvantage that overseas companies get because they don’t have to pay for health insurance for their workers. And I’ve mocked don’t ask, don’t tell and said it’s ridiculous.
But all that means nothing to those who say I’m a republican plant.
Yes, I have a much more centrist position than most people here. For example, I believe that it’s smart to coopt companies like Wal-Mart and Altria when you want to get legislation passed. When they were pushing for regulating nicotine, how much better was their position when they could say, well, if it’s such a problem, then why is Altria backing the legislation? And now that Wal-Mart has signed on to health care reform and a mandate, how much easier is it to counter talking points by saying Wal-Mart’s behind a mandate, so how bad can it be?
But a centrist position doesn’t mean that I’m a republican plant or anti-progressive.
Don’t become like the right wing nutjobs. We don’t need a left wing echo chamber. It’s not good for anyone.
Shane-o, I take it you’re another Family-Guy junkie, as am I…
Almost show time!!! **SPIRIT FINGERS**
#29 – and you are well-versed in South Park as well!
I31… it’s one of life’s simple pleasures!
i31 = 31
I love France! I love the French! There, I said it!
My BFF and I in Paris the very week the SC chose President Gee-Boo for us. Yeah, well before 9/11. Dollar to then-Franc was terrific! And the people liked us!
Interesting to watch Parisian TV to see their reaction to a newly-appointed US President who’d never been to Europe. BTW, French-dubbed The Sopranos, ER and The Nanny on their network TV.
the french hate americains. they like your money when the exchange rate is good, but they hate your americain guts.
[P.S.: South Park in Quebecois French dub also shown]
It’s Miller Time!!!!
Frenk South Park???? The mind reals…. are the voices the same for the characters??? I mean Cartman’s “YOU WILL RESPECT MY AUTHORIT-I” just wouldn’t be as good without the voice…
Oh, if anyone could pull off a French Cartman, it has to be the all powerful Jim Ward…
Jim, c’mon, say it, please!
Oh, I’m refering to myself as the Drunk, Irish Element from now on!
I predict Judge Sotomayor will handle all questions with intelligence, grace and more patience than those GOP douchebags on the committee deserve. She will be an awesome Justice.
wow, was it something I said???? LOL… Did everyone leave or something??
whew… Shaf… I thought I’d been abandoned..
gabby maybe that’s because we are constantly dissing them and forgetting that they helped us gain independence. They still celebrate our help in WWI and WWII .. but we totally forget theirs
#42 Naw, just multitasking (like always).
#38 – 39
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXe0S0ekplE
a whip? – Orange Whip, or Cool Whhhiip?
47 Shane-O Dream Whip
or Ready Whip
gabby…I have to ask you, it sounds like you’re repeating a talking point you’d hear on Limpdick’s show. The French are just fine with Americans. They don’t like the douchebags that show up with fanny packs and then scream at the top of their lungs “does anyone speak English” but they’re fine with everyone else.
Hell, I don’t like those people.
I was on the Paris Metro and, someone gets on the train. He was the stereotypical ugly American, with the stereotypical ugly American family. He shouts at the top of his lungs in a hillbilly accent, does anyone here speak English?
Nobody answers.
Thinking that if he speaks louder, people will understand, he does it again, shouting I said does anyone here speak English?
He’s met with no response again.
I’m thinking, great. There’s my countryman, making me proud!
Anyway, he waddles over to me, and shouts do you speak English?
I shake my head, and say, sorry, Japanese. No speak English.
The guy walks away and says goddamn, ain’t nobody speaking English here.
Anyway, he and his family waddle off the train a few stops later.
After he leaves, someone comes to me, and asks me in French if I’m American. And when I say yes, the entire train starts laughing. The guy told me that they thought so, but that I just didn’t want to talk to the Ugly American family.
And I said, look, I have to deal with those idiots when I’m in my country. I definitely don’t want to deal with them when I’m in yours.
They all crack up again, and when I do get off, one of them shows me a nice little restaurant where I ended up eating my lunch every day for the rest of my stay.
#49 Cat o’ Nine Tails (with integrated Cat Magnet).
For the BOH:
Cool Whhhip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lich59xsjik
What I want to know when it comes to soon to be Justice Sotomayor is why they wasting time with the kabuki theater. Get it over with, stop the grandstanding sons of bitches and bitches, and vote.
I mean, they’ve got pressing things like health care reform and cap and trade to work on, but they want to piss away a bunch of days grandstanding when they know she’s going to be approved?
Shut up and vote.
Unfortunately, my blog-buddies, I must be in meetings for the rest of the day. Hope you all have a great one! Get some extra fart jokes in for me!
Catch ‘ya tomoree, Danielle!
LOL Tony
My Dad often took Ugly Americans to task when they were in Europe. My Dad would have NONE of it.
All of us (my parents, my kids, my husband, me) love the scene in “A Good Year” when an American couple is at a French resturant but don’t want to eat the food they make, the way they make it.
While in Paris I attempted to speak my baby-talk Berlitz travelers guide French to everyone, including an Asian shopgirl who told me to stop struggling (”I can speak English!) and hotel concierges and other salespeople who spoke English to us tout suite!
I think they were more amused at my attempt, but I think they like it if you at least make an attempt. BTW, just because you have an Asian, African or Middle Eastern face doesn’t mean that they don’t expect you to speak French!
would have LOVED To have booster seats when my kids were younger, but in that in between stage.
Good morning, Bloggenmooksters!
Tony, upset at my comment about tossing a turd in the punchbowl and leaving? Sorry, Pal, like you I tend to speak my mind, and IMO (not necessarily reality), you do tend to embrace some classical Republican notions about things. Like yesterday, defending a big bank who suckled the taxpayer’s tit and promptly had a record setting quarter profits, and rewarded their illustrious staff with a couple of billion in bonuses..
Sorry, you may think it’s fine to play the “suckers”, but I see these huge banks as skid marks on the shorts of American society. There’s no justification for their massive greed. And I repeatedly notice that when it comes to the very wealthy, there’s simply nothing too good for them!
So, Tony, I know you have to work and all, but you do tend to toss turds into the punchbowl and then conveniently leave for work.
American indeed ARE suckers for putting up with this shit from the financial industry.
1. Senator Grassley Pwned on NPR; NPR freaks? Updated
this is good!
I’m gonna have to pop off as well. The programming hat is on and I’m making progress but the workbench has no intertube access. If you haven’t SPARTA’d by lunchtime, I’ll try to vulture it.
2. Dear Scared White Men of America
3. John Ensign Tied To “Do-it-Yourself Exorcism” Movement
4. Huge healthcare fight beginning: Urgent call for volunteers
#61 See ‘ya later! And again, Happy Birthday, Paul.
5. Senator Whitehouse strikes out the Republikkkons with three pitches
OMG! The candidate is actually being allowed to SPEAK!
I don’t mind telling you that watching Sessions and these other hypocritical Republican thug “Senators” yesterday just made my blood bowl. A racist bastard like Sessions tries to besmirch an honorable person like Ms. Sotomayer..
6. Greenwald: Mass Outrage Over Goldman’s “Blowout Profits”
7. Obama Tells Senator Baucus To Step It Up On Health Reform!
Great question from Sen. Leahy and great answer from Judge Sotomayor.\
Leahy’s background included being a Prosecutor.
#62 – really liked the Daily Kos posting.
Maybe this sounds naive, but someday we’ll all look at each other as Americans. Color and gender blind, you know? You’d think that by now we’d all be past that, but guess not.
Ms. Sotomayor is spectacular; she’s making the GOPers look like fools.
Hey, be nice to Sen. Leahy, Steph. He’s one of the good guys!
Ivan…the suckers aren’t the American public. The suckers are the other people on the side of the trade. Goldman doesn’t trade with people like you and me. They trade with institutions like Lehman and Bear Stearns…well, they used to, until those companies imploded.
In the last quarter, where they reported record profits, they did much less business in investment banking and financial advisory services, but they made big profits in trading.
It’s important to remember that in every trade, there is a willing seller and a willing buyer. Someone was buying oil at $73 a barrel last week, and someone was selling it at that price. Yes, the person who bought it at $73 a barrel was a sucker. But that’s the way trading works.
8. Emptywheel Says “Blowjob” on MSNBC
BOOGER!
good moanin’ – 9: “I also allegedly referred to the NAACP and the ACLU as “un-American” and “Communist-inspired” because of their nasty habit of “forcing civil rights down the throats of people.”” – yeppers, reminds me of my favorite talking point, “those activist founding fathers”.
And don’t forget, Goldman paid back the TARP money. I have no problems with companies being told that they have to keep their compensation in line when they’re taking public money.
Once they pay that money back? Hey, do what you want as long as it is legal.
9. Top Comments – Tall Ships Edition – I was there, go look at the pictures!
I can hardly wait until Jeff Sessions tries to unload on Judge Sotomayer when she has the ability to respond. I have no doubt she’ll rip his tiny little raisins off at the base and feed them to him. (speaking figuratively, of course.)
More live feed? Ugh.
If I wanted to hear this, I’d just tune into C-SPAN.
Did Jim get the week off for his honeymoon?
See ya’ll next week!
39: “screw you guys; i’m going homme”.
Tony, you speak of oil speculation as if it doesn’t impact non-trading individuals. What the heck happened to fuel prices when the price of a barrel of oil was driven up due to speculation?
You’re lack of compassion for everyday citizens who felt the impact of Goldman’s actions is one bone that we have to pick with you.
And since you mentioned DLC yesterday, I’ll say without hesitation that the DLC nearly destroyed the Democratic Party by forcing it to act like Republican-lite. I have no love for that organization.
They need to get this over with and vote and then move on to cap and trade and health care reform.
She’s going to be confirmed. They need to stop this grandstanding nonsense.
Of course, there ain’t no such thing as a Senator that isn’t a media whore, so….
And on that note, I am out. Take it easy folks.
And don’t forget, the Republicans all jumped through their asses to rescue the banks. Until their debt is repaid to the government, NONE of their employees should be getting bonuses.
The big financial institutions have proven again and again that they have nothing in their interest except massive grid, and that without regulation they’ll maximize that goal.
By all rights, they should be nationalized. That WOULD solve the problem, and make the financial industry properly stable from here on out.
There is NOTHING to admire about these miserable greedy bastards.
and the awfulness keeps on coming
10. Young America’s Foundation spokesman writes on Facebook that Sotomayor might ’shank’ Scalia.’
#77, great pics Cindy. Loves me some tall ships.
I could be watching the hearings on television if I wanted to. As it is, I turn into the show for snark and fart jokes. Can we leave the live feed for another time?
Ivan raisins? that’s far too large
Massive GREED, not grid.. (see a feeble mind at work – MINE!) ;->
I have a lot of problems with Goldman gaming the system; and because it was allowed to transform from an investment bank to a bank holding company (all with TARP funds), I have a problem with it – and companies like it – being certainly afoul of antitrust legislation.
Speaking of which, when is our AG going to rediscover that Sherman exists?
44: you cant really blame people for the anti-french thing. – for some, it’s just an understandable antipathy for sebastian cabot of course, but apart from that, how many people have really had a chance to hear of lafayette, or of ben franklin ?
Shaf…so what your solution? Outlaw futures trading? Because that’s the only way you can solve the problem.
I believe that futures trading should have the same margin requirements as stocks. That will force companies to have skin in the game.
But unless you outlaw futures trading — which has some very useful purposes for companies that want to lock in prices for commodities — there ain’t no way to stop it.
And keep in mind last year, when oil was going through the roof, the talk was of an economy that was slowing but not in recession in the United States and that people were talking about growth in oil consumption in the emerging markets. Supply was also constrained.
That was simple economics. People thought that consumption was going to increase, not decrease, and they knew there was a constrained supply of oil.
Econ 101 will tell you what happens in that situation.
#91 which is interesting because I have yet to be in a city (even in the west) that doesn’t have a Lafayetts St. or Ave … in fact I grew up on a Lafayette st in Denver
50: that’s a beautiful story. – and i wonder, as the rest of you do, did tony select the “royale with cheese” ?
Hmmm, Leahy and Cheney go hunting in the woods. Two men enter, one man leaves. Sounds like the makings of a great movie!
Cindy, what came to mind for me was Kathy Bates’ line in “Dolores Claiborne” where she was talking to her drunken, child molesting husband – just prior to dropping him into a well..
#91 I was also told out that our here in New England that when a town/small city has a Lafayette St it’s because Lafayette had actually been there!
#96 which was?
#92 I am not an economist, so I cannot recommend a solution. However, like Enron’s impact on utility prices in CA, there obviously needs to be circuit-breakers (no pun untended) on uncontrolled speculative trading.
Tony, simple economics is one thing – blatant manipulation of the market is something else. Again, it is demonstrated that relaxing the rules for the financial industry has resulted in the general screwing of the rest of the planet.
Tight regulation is REQUIRED. Don’t worry, these greedy bastards will still manage a massive profit.
READ, READ, READ!
My daughter’s tragedy: U.S. health care in a nutshell.
and pass it along, especially to this rw idiots who think they are find without health care and insurance because they are “healthy”
Cindy, I can’t quote exactly, but she referred to his “limp noodle” and “dried out raisins”.. If you haven’t seen that movie, I recommend it highly. Bates is one of my favorite actors, so maybe I’m biased.
#102 Ivan
ah, now I remember the quote
12. LOL, boo haa haa haa
Valley Club: No Return To Unfriendly Waters
#100, we had firewalls between commercial banks, consumer banks, and investment banks for decades for a reason. We had antitrust legislation for a reason.
Somehow in the conservative and “centrist” worship of big business (as opposed to medium- and small business, which are the engine of the economy), we’ve forgotten that, and we have paid the price.
I’m laughing because the club is hoisted on it’s own petard
Morning all. Are we speaking French today?
Hello Mooketteers… Happy Birthday TrojanRabbitt!
My Dad was born on this day, 1925
The Congresscritter hearings are boring me to tears.
I’m almost ready to jab knitting needles in my eyes.
Goldman-Sacks is evil. Congress failed to properly
regulate the banking industry and bastards like G-S
took every ample opportunity to reap people. A POX
on them and anybody who thinks they’re cool. They
are criminal banksters, NOTHING MORE.
Sessions is there now, looking like the little snot nosed jerk he is.
An angry leprechaun, speaking in that racist little voice of his..
“Li’l Jeffy Sessions to speak at GAYWAD convention”
“what’s GAYWAD an acronymn for?”
“Nothing, it’s not an acronymn.”
with apologies to the gay community, and the Daily Show
she answered your question asshat
Hello all. Happy birthday TR Paul. Many happy returns of the day.
As I hear the SC hearings I think of that line from Legallyt Blonde 2: “Isn’t writings legal briefs superfun?!”
(Or writing bills or whatever it was.) Such a great line.
Sessions needs a spanking. You know, with one of those little paddles that originally had a rubber band and ball attached..
no he doesn’t understand that … he is saying she has to judge like a white christian male
It’s people like Sessions that confirm my belief that the occupation of the South by the Union army ended a century too early.
He really does look like an angry leprechan.
I think I’d like to sign every post today, “Stubborn, Danish Female” just to honor the day.
Is Sessions the evil-twin of the Travelocity gnome?
Call to John!
haiku:
Stephanie Miller
Goddess of Wit and Beauty
Wine Drunk and Slutty
Kept the nation safe for a little less than eight years, you hag.
108—I agree that Congress is not enforcing pesky things like anti-trust laws with Goldman Sachs and other companies.
Stubborn Progressive Danish Female isn’t it?
This new revelation isn’t about assassination squads. Congressional Dems wouldn’t be up in arms about that.
My money’s on domestic spying of “subversive” groups.
haiku #473:
Good Morning, America
I’m Stephanie Miller
Tits McGee is on vacation.
Oh Sessions is such an idiot. Will having women and minorities on the bench make a difference in every aspect of society? Yes you idiot!! Is that what you’re afraid of?
Bonjour tout le monde! Mlle Sotomayor est tres jolie avec la robe rouge! Ah bon, finalement on va voyer la femme prochaine en SCOTUS.
ok that’s it for me. i pulled a brain muscle on that one.
Thank you, Jim! Perfectly performed.
124 as Danielle said yesterday, EVIL DICK needs to be called
to account. His crimes are massive. He orchestrated the CIA
crap. He tried to destroy America and turn it into a nazi state.
He may have succeeded.
K to the J Ill? No!
123—-The Danes are democratic socialists. I thought adding progressive was a little over the top.
I’ve also read that the Danes are quite as proud of themselves as the Frech are, though my daughter travelled to Denmark and she said everyone she met was lovely even though she is a mere American.
Lectal Breeding!
Uh oh. Sotomayor said she’s friends with someone. Congress better check them out too I guess…. Friends influence us.
from twitter
thenation RT @chrislhayes: I would hope a wise elf like Jeff Sessions would stop acting like a schmuck.
LOL from twitter
chrislhayes Q: Is it possible for a white person to be a reverse racist against white ppl? Cuz Jeff Sessions is getting me there.
Tell me how Dick Cheney wouldn’t absolutely salivate over another attack on U.S. soil..
127—I can’t read that stuff Frenchie.
Cindy, anyone who listens to the Republican Congresscritters any length of time can come to the conclusion that most are racists, and they ALL revel in their own ignorance.
from twitter
feministnews Abstinence-Only Funding Removed from Appropriations Bill http://sn.im/n7k7h
haiku #474
I am drunk again
Hope your day at work was good
Dinner is ruined
I will continue to throw my horrible haiku out there until
I get some kind of response or attention. Only you have the
power to stop me.
Great Point Caller!
l’il Jeffy Sessions: “shouldn’t you be more deferring to men?
and who let you out of the kitchen and gave you shoes? Why
haven’t you been deported as an illegal alien?”
white people suck
140: excellent one
Sessions is SUCH a horse’s ass.
137. Nice dress and good to see her, finally.
#139, now that’s just disappointing.
We all know people who have only had abstinence-only education are more likely to put out. How will the next generation of teenagers get laid?
A tragedy.
OnStar commercial: I don’t care if it will call 911 for me
I don’t want it. Don’t be my nanny, thank you. Don’t keep
track of me, I can keep track of myself. And I hate their
stupid ads. “Hey OnStar, I locked my keys in the trunk,
please help me”… screw you, OnStar
143 you stopped my spree with only two words.
If only Dreadful Sara Palin or L’il Jeffy Sessions
were so easy to shut up
“All a southerner has to do to make an ass of himself is to open his mouth.” –lenny bruce
#147, I would, however, not mind a complimentary trunk monkey: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8avOiTUcD4Y
(yes, I know it’s a chimp, not a monkey)
Onstar, I locked my grandmother in the trunk and I forgot, I shoved my keys down her throat before I killed her.
Onstar, can you help me find a way to remove blood stains from a shovel?
from LB on dailykos about sessions
You are watching the collapse, finally,
of old southern manhood. And hallelujah.
This is awesome. A guy in CA is going to have his case heard re: the legitimacy of Obama’s presidency:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2009/07/opponents-of-barack-obamas-presidency-claim-small-court-victory.html
Onstar, I’m about to rob a bank on the east side of town and I need you to call 911 to report an emergency on the west side of town.
154—I think it’s very funny. It’s great that the OC courts are willing to waste time and taxpayer $$ hearing such a case.
gabby’s functioning psycho is working right now
“The case, Alan Keyes, et al. v Barack H. Obama, et al. was filed on Inauguration Day and is one of a raft of suits alleging Obama is ineligible to be president because he is not a “natural born citizen.” “
“the entire global economy is a money laundry based
on surreptitious illicit revenues derived from drugs
and the laundering of drug profits.” — Uri Dowbenko
There is no possible way the domestic drug trade could
exist without it being run from the top. Protection and
money laundering is obviously essential. ‘The Skull and
Bones Club’ is actually ‘The Russell Trust’. Russell and
Co. were the largest opium importers in the world. The
Bush Crime Family has been involved in it for three
generations.
LB on DK
Shorter Sotomayor:
I understand the law. You, Senator Sessions, don’t have a clue.
THanks Gabbs, love the way you ran with that one.
Suddenly I LIKE the OnStar
Hmmm, sounds like the title of a movie…
Tonight on SpikeTV: Not Without my Prostate.
Insurance companies are the ultimate middlemen. They provide no value, except to administer a risk pool. The notion that such a business is entitled to enormous profits – for doing nothing – is ridiculous.
twitter lighting up
1.
Christopher Hayes
chrislhayesWe are watching the GOP continue to commit demographic suicide.less than a minute ago from web
2.
Teri Beau
TeriBeauNow Sessions is asking her if she was empathetic enough to the Ricci Plaintiffs??????4 minutes ago from web
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Teri Beau
TeriBeauThis is ridiculous. Are we going to have a serious confirmation hearing, or just these silly partisan gamesmanship?4 minutes ago from web
4.
Chris Lavoie
radioguychrisDoes Jeff Sessions really think that all people of Puerto Rican descent think alike? Did he really say that?!??!?! What a racist f***4 minutes ago from web
6.
The Nation
thenationRT @matttbastard: Sessions “You gotta have a REALLY good reason” to favor one race over another. Irony is SCREAMING in dire agony #sotomayor6 minutes ago from twhirl
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Teri Beau
TeriBeauSeemed to me, Sotomayor and her colleagues meant to kick the Ricci case up to the Sup. Ct. Can she admit that, or is it bad for her?6 minutes ago from web
162—lol
163 Yes, Peter I’ve always thought that. Insurance Cos should
never be for profit. Plus they are big slush funds for money
laundering
when it was revealed that bush was arming the contras with money from crack cocaine, the lid almost blew off the russell trust. fortunately, they have enough money and goons to intimidate the publishers of the san jose mercury news to retract the story. they never got the author to, though.
163—yup. Absolutely. They add no value at all.
150. Thanks, too funny.
#163 Reminds of a line from M*A*S*H
“I say ‘No’. It’s my job”
“You’re very good at it. After the war, you should open a ‘No’ stand.”
The intelligence agencies – and the military brass – are packed with people who worship executive power, and have nothing but contempt for the legislature.
Too bad for them that the Constitution puts the Congress is the first among equals, and that it – and not the President – is the one who regulates the military, and by extension, paramilitary intelligence agencies.
56: an entire movie about a tire? – the GM bailout should be no surprise.
“a post-WW II intercontinental inferno of high
finance involving deceit, corruption, fraud, greed,
conspiracy, tax evasion, drug dealing, arms
smuggling and politico-monetary “peekaboo”
sleight-of-hand as government VIPs worldwide,
international bankers, labor unions, the CIA, the Mafia,
the Vatican, the Moonies, Latin American juntas,
African potentates and Middle East terrorists,
Hong Kong and Panama innovators, covert
contra-aiders and assorted illicit combines variously
divert billions from the economy of nations. Secret
Swiss and “offshore” bank accounts, dummy corporations
and the like siphon off “hot money,” which in some
cases may equal a country’s entire national debt.
“There would be no debt crisis,” R.T. Naylor concludes,
“without large-scale capital flight.”
That’s how the ‘banking’ system works. So let’s deregulate
it! Great idea.
Ooo, I like that hip, wow new intro music.
167 didn’t the author die soon after?
Those were great articles. Too bad about the court cases.
Bush Sr had such a krew of kriminals. And most ended up
pardoned and in jr’s evil admin…
The conservative White male or the conservative White female rules the Republicans. If she learns to compliment the males enough, she’s a keeper.
Good morning, Blogomayors!
#11: Thought you meant your “Cray” idea was from a supercomputer.
I can’t believe they’re going to crash the almost-completed International Space Station, after a decade of constuction, $100 billion of our money, to say nothing of the carbon footprint of rocketing 654,000lbs of material into orbit. Thinking back to all those impressive computer-animated videos all over the TV in the 90s, I’m pretty sure we were sold a “permanent space base” – or something like that. Can we send a repo agency after them?
“It’ll be a controlled reentry, to ensure that it doesn’t take out a major city.” Oh, terrific, maybe only a few ships or atolls will have fiery wreckage rain down on them. After all, you can’t steer a wreck. Can’t wait to see what they want to put up there next!
We now return you to your Sotomayor coverage…
74: seems pretty tame to say “blowjob” on air, long after they already allow terms like “schlessinger”, “limbaugh”, “hannity”, and the ever-popular santorum. – the next stage perhaps, is graphic description of felching peanutbutter mixed with santorum, under the rubric of “jif sessions”. – indeed, i must propose that stretches of record-breakingly stupid public speaking must now formally be known as “JEFF” SESSIONS.
allow me to whine: in 9 days it will be a year since I
shattered my elbow on the motorcycle. It still hurts.
Ow!
but not as much as what the rethugs have done to us hurts.
177—Yes, crashing the space station is crazy.
sam brownback, rethug idiot.
Chris: “he’s a freak”
thanks Chris!
Rethug remnant sale on steps of Capitol today: special on Mary-Kay-encrusted church-ladies and plastic-haired Christo-fascist men who will cheat for money.
178 don’t forget ‘Joementum’!
We need more mermaids!
There were centaurs in Harry Potter flicks, too.
95: but if that happens, then whom would leahy…. oh, i get it.
You go, Al! Yay!
97: that explains the ubiquity of waldomart.
please rethugs just keep doing what you’re doing.
most people are finally waking up, and you are doomed.
So just stay the course, for the good of the nation
#189 Agreed. The more they (the Rethugs) open their yaps, the fewer supporters they will retain. At the very least, there’s likely to be more self-identified Independents voting in the 2010 mid-terms.
Got a Tinsel Talk story for y’alls:
Just In Case You Needed Another Reason to Loathe Ryan Seacrest
http://defamer.gawker.com/5314011/just-in-case-you-needed-another-reason-to-loathe-ryan-seacrest
old SNL skit:
Centaur: I’m sorry, could we return to a line of
questioning related to my medical qualifications?
Boss: Absolutely. Let me just find the right
paperwork.. [ looks through his notes ] Um.. here
we go.. Is there Centaur pornography?
Centaur: That is not a medical question!
Boss: Do you want this job?
Centaur: [ sighs ] Yes, there is Centaur porn.
Boss: If I were to watch Centaur porn.. but with the
bottom of the screen blocked out with a piece of
cardboard.. would I find the human halves of the
female actresses appealing?
Centaur: Well.. maybe.. But you’ve got to remember
that, at some point, there’s gonna be a horse penis
in there.
Boss: Fair enough. I think that’s all the Centaur
questions I have. I want to thank you for coming in,
we’ll be in touch.
Centaur: I appreciate it. Um.. can I just ask you: did
I get the job?
Boss: No. I’m sorry.. we don’t hire dirty Centaurs.
118:
MARTIN: that contract is NOT bankrupt…. i have a dream…
JEFF: i’m off to enfarce the guarantee !
MARTIN: i’m praying for backup, black and white, jew and gentile…
JEFF: no ! dont back up !
Bernie Madoff, weekend at Bernie’s, somebody shank that bastid
#192
I had forgotten that one!
124: if you buy their chocolate mints or their lemon creams, the terrorists win.
127: jack lalanne recommends sudoku stretches to prevent injury.
Thank God for Justice Ginsberg!
Yay, swirly music!
camel toe – last desperate look to attract attention
14. Birther Soldier Says “Obama Can’t Send Me To War”
147: “onstar can instantly inform the pimply dispatcher what locations to scoop dirt from to add to your shrine. no mere cell phone can do that. get onstar today!”
Remember… dogs have masters, cats have staff.
(Jim coughs up a hairball)
The article isn’t about constant meowing. It’s about a particular purr where a high-pitch wheeze is accentuated in the middle of a purr.
151: “please know that we’ll be with you, even during conjugal visits”.
just like a toddler
152: please hold while i connect you to flombaye”.
Ha, Jim, harmonica + bagpipes is nothing.
Bombarde and bagpipes, especially the petit binou (an octave above the Highland pipes), now that’s effin’ annoying.
#205 It reminds me of a baby’s cry, which is why we (humans) react to it.
155: “we’re on it like bad rhythm on white people, sir!”
that’s what i have! BINGO !!!
Barbra’s version is still the best . . . Betty Buckley sings like s**t.
Still, can’t stand that song and hated the show.
I love my cat daughter Minnie!
no anvil?
skank-guin
Dr. Henry E. Panky on Flush Dimbulb
“Fatty-cakes Limbaugh like a gross, spoiled, dewlapped
toddler strangely pleased with sitting in his own
dirty diaper”
worth posting again
I thought Linda was hag for the boys. So sad!
161: “subscribe now, and save 20% on our field manual for terminal helmet hair”.
skank-pen?
One of the penguins met Linda at a Christian de-gaying.
hmmmmmm
Eva Longoria likes to be tied up during sex
Stephanie Miller likes being drunk and throwing up on
her date, precluding sex… Yes, Steph’s the girl for me
5 X a day?
Wow, lovin’ with Mel B would require some icing down between session (@ 5 per day).
That’s the reason why God invented devices!
218 it’s called ‘Crazy Owl Hair’
Perhaps someone could pull Senator Sessions aside and explain to him that he is clearly too stupid to understand the intent of Judge Sotomayor’s comments about a wise latina.
She clearly means that as a latina who has been prejudged as, oh lets say, an achor baby who only wants to make more illegitimate babies and live off of welfare, she will be less likely to prejudge others because she understands how unjust it is.
She will know better than to prejudge all old, wealthy, white men as adulterous Republicans because some may actually be closeted, homosexual Republicans, you never know.
Wonder is Scary Spice smokes after sex?
Linda rules the zoo! Sonia rules the rude! Life is good today.
#223, yeah, that would seem to be exhausting.
#228 SOULS!
179: “in 9 days it will be a year since I
shattered my elbow on the motorcycle. It still hurts.
Ow!” — they seriously need to update these chilton’s guides. i cant find the elbow anywhere. – wait a second, let’s try this button — “good morning, onstar zen and motorcycle anatomy service!”
My wife and I will be eating out tonight in celebration of my birthday (thanks all). The last time we ate at this place was our anniversary and MJ died. We are taking requests for your celebrity of choice to knock off tonight.
One aisle seat…please.
228
Hey Steph, do you smoke after sex?
Stephanie Miller: “I don’t know, I never looked”
184: didnt woody allen do a movie about daryl hannah and her sisters?
232. check the tailpipe
A guy comes home from work and the hinge on the door is broken. His wife askes him would hed fix it an d he says. What do I look like a carpenter? The next day the tv breaks again wife asks him to fix it. He sasays what do I look like a tv repairman? The next day its the toilet pluging up. Next day he comes home and the tv is working toilet unplugged door fixed. He says to wife how did all the stuff get fixed? She says her friends boyfriend is a handyman and he fixed everything. The husband says what did it cost? She tells him Well he is a really good guy and he told her all she need do is either b ake him a cake or give him a blowjob. So the husband asks, So what kind of cake she made him? She says what do I look like Betty Crocker!!
To those seemingly surprised that SENATOR Al Franken isn’t cracking jokes at work: Did you also expect Ronal Reagan to show up for the first day of work in the Oval Office with a chimp?
A front-page article in this morning’s paper–the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, who you’d think would be down with SENATOR Al Franken–felt it necessary to say “Franken, who was a comedian,…”. How much longer will that be necessary? Guh.
Typical conversations with my cat:
After changing the litter, and cleaning up the mess in her litter corner: “Minnie honey, don’t make a mess”. She proceeds to scatter the litter everywhere.
Or, cleared and set the dinner table. “Minnie, stay off the table . . . ” She hops right on!
Or beter yet, with the newspapers laid out for reading – “Minnie, I’m reading that”, she sits right on top of it.
222
Stephanie has also brought Oliver on her date, and he’s showing how he’s not quite housetrained yet….
OK, take 2:
Q: Scary Spice, do you smoke after sex?
A: I don’t know. I never looked.
Was that some more of that patented Conservative Humor?
238. Most media are Republican, fyi
The only time humans should be stuck in trunks is in college. Preferably freshman year. And voluntarily.
OOOOh! Juicy rumors from the Johnny Pontillo front, up
the transit from lacport…
wow! lock the wife in the trunk humor! Misogynist.
Don’t quit your day job there, Right Wing John.
The so-called “funny” RW callers, especially the nitwit on the line right now, or this pathetic freak named “Happy” who keeps bothering Randi – they bring a new dimension to the word “pathetic”.
well by practice there is one law for rich and one law for poor
Not two different Laws for Rich and Poor!? Oh Really.
There’s not supposed to be, but there is. Oh yes there is.
So tired of hearing Lindsay Graham getting his hoopskirts in a knot.
Haven’t seen the new RW Closet Gay documentary “Outrage” yet. Going to assume Lindsay’s in it.
popiel pocket drill works for air-holing a trunk. (why did that sound dirty?)
Ah, Orrin Hatch is about to go. Greeeeeat.
What the hell are “Porter Ricans”?
And the walls came down! (very appropriate!)
201: thank you for that glimpse into the bizarre. – i dont want to go to afghanistan either, but i come right out and say it. i dont express that by collecting paychecks on false premise and then chickening out. treason is never pretty. this punk-ass bitch needs a few years in the brig to meditate upon the concept of basic honesty.
#253 Surprised Sessions didn’t ask, “Where ‘da brown women at?”
207: fair warning: you date yourself when you cite such early works of dylan.
237 lololololololololololololol
thanx
225: but why then did god invent device squad?
Gun rights? Hatch is asking her about gun rights? What’s next, grilling her on manumission?
Orrin’s got a small gun, sounds like.
Anglo-American? For whites only?
Necessary to an anglo-american regime? WTF does that mean?
#263 I was wondering that as well, Obamarules.
Hatch is her cat toy!
#263 It’s probably the racial version of “Judeo-Christian heritage”.
Hey kids, it’s Scottzi! Yuck!
it’s SScottzi!
I still don’t understand the racial-angle regarding Judge Sotomayor, i.e. her melanin count appears identical to the nordic-looking lady visible over her left shoulder right now on my teevee. My guess is her heritage is Spanish which is kinda european.
OMG, screw RW Scott.
It’s full of white guys!
and now from the lunatic contingency…
Seriously? 2 freakin’ hours of this live hearing coverage? Makes for awful radio. More callers!
White Christian? Oh, LOL!
cuz sscottzi speaks for all white christians in this country
Time for a “phone line problem”, ProducerChris.
Great, crazy racist right-wing Scott.
for gawds sakes lets not have equality
“Negroism?” I think that Scott is having his stroke in installments.
Scottzi is gay
Hey, Trunk Monkey get over here!
“I resent these blacks, Miss Miller” Wow. There’s a surprise. Douche!
Right, christian americans are on their way out. YAHOO!!!
Lets’ get the party started!!!
Not a momemt too soon!
steph: the difference between gay rights and lesbian rights is explained in kindergarten cop: boys have a penis and girls have a vagina.
Scottzi is a perfect RW Toole; he could
replace Flush
Oh wow…that guy was nutzo!
(revs the Sparta-cycle)
#285 Surprised he doesn’t have his own 3AM radio show on Clear Channel.
Racist Theater, to be followed by Dick Perp-Walk (please Cheesus)
Bathroom Monkey
I don’t know where monkeys come from.. I don’t know how they reproduce.. I don’t know how they eat. But I do know one thing: they were born to clean bathrooms. And when it’s cleaning power is all used up.. [ she discards used Bathroom Monkey ] ..simply pick up another in any of three decorative colors: Red.. [ monkey in red diaper ] ..Blue.. [ monkey in blue diaper ] ..or Orangutan. [ SUPER: "Orangutan will not wear diaper" ] This little guy just started today, and, you know, I think my new Bathoom Monkey and I are gonna make a great team.
We need some Beaver Stack, stat!
“please hold, SScottzi, while we dispatch a white paramedic to remove the negro from your throat… and thank you for using onstar”.
Ask Ted Haggard about that, caller.
#263, it’s a reference to the fact that underlying our law is English Common Law.
BTW, does anyone know where I could get a link to the Sarah Palin with Moose Knuckle pic? Must share with my friends who can’t listen at work!
290 LOL! Best part of that commercial was the “happy” Bathroom Monkey writing “Monkey hate clean” on the bathroom mirror.
Stephanie Miller buying gaydar jammer from Hammacher-Sschmecther…
Oh hello… is this Sparta?
262: anglo-american is correct. the reference is to the post-cromwellian and the magnacartesian roots of the constitution.
On the liveblog, SPARTA is settled law!!
296 you are so right, forgot that part! Very Funny
Here’s Sparta!!!!!
Damn. Premature Spartacization.
Oh Sparta! congrats Scooter!
Yay! A timely and appropriate Sparta from Scooter! *bows*
Schparta Schupreme Kourt discriminates against Persians
in favor of angry greek men…
(Golf claps for Scooter) Well pplayed sir. Tonight you dine… at Arby’s!
299 Angro-Uhmerican?
278: especially weird to cite MJ as an exponent of “negroism”, – a non-threatening very industrious white man who always put his nose to the grindstone.
Spartan Times headline: Blind squirrel finds nut!
thanx caller: scottzi’s ‘Negroization of America’ is freaking classic.
300. well-said!
#309 d’oh!
caucasization?
Actually, the charge of “turning white youth into Negroes” was a common charge against early Rock & Roll by conservatives. It was as dumb then as it is now.
negritude?
So, was SScottzi worried about getting both The Gay and The Negro on himself?
it’s just like how every time there was big trouble in the jungle, tarzan would yell, “WHITE PEOPLE”. – he couldnt stand those folks at first, and then jane and boy showed him that some of them are okay.
a litter?
uh-oh. Steph went there
Okay Steph, that joke was highly inappropriate (but funny)!
315: they ott have been much more affeared of the frizzy fro white guy on “room 222″. – i never quite got over that weirdness.
Sorry, but the sign if your son might be gay doesn’t come when he puts on fingernail polish as an infant . . .
. . . it’s when he keeps falling in love with other boys in second grade . . .
“Clitter?” Oh dear…
Actually, the last common ancestors of humans (mitochondrial Eve) may have been Africans, but they were certainly not “black”. The racial traits of the two distinct black racial groups in Africa are just as much derived characters as racial traits of every other racial group.
#322 – I always though the fro white guy on Room 222 was cute. He’s showed up in a few commercials since – no more ‘fro though.
Trunk Monkey – go get O’Reilly and Hannity and make a dump run.
the clitterati
essential part of the law is MERCY … and you can’t have MERCY unless you have EMPATHY
Solomon would not have been such a great king if it were not for his empathy
326: which commercials? – does he do any stuff for onstar? – and isnt it scary that robby benson and ralph malp were the guys who collided in the reeses peanutbutter cup commercial? – and weirder yet, that they cast those two in something so hetero?
315 Crazy ol’ Hank Ford used to rail about the
evils of jazz music and how it was going to corrupt
the morals of American youth. I guess he was right
Great show and blog.
Have a great day!
330 those were kreepy kommericals
have a grate after All
we don’t have skin samples for lucy, so we have no idea what color she was. Pink as a chimp or dark as a bonobo. some suggest that the kalahari bushmen are the closest to eve, but I don’t see any reason for them to believe that except sentimental reasons. They seem like noble savages, so let’s claim them as our forebears. In fact, we (asians) were kicked out of africa, probably unable to compete for food or space with the people we left behind. We encountered the last generation so weak it couldn’t survive in africa–the neanderthals–and we largely ate them into extinction. And we’ve been eating ever since.
Off to do some work. See y’alls later!
Bye all! Happy Bastille Day!
whenever I hesitate to have unprotected gay sex with a diseased prostitute, I think about David Koz and I’m ready to rodeo.
#326 – found out the actor’s name was David Jolliffe
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0427174/
Si, le puede, Sonia!
#334, mitochondrial Eve is millions of years later than Lucy; she was fully human. But she was not “black” (which is more than just skin color). American notions of African ethnicity are shaped by the fact that American blacks’ ancestors came from West Africa (from a racial group called “Pygmoids”), and are variably mixed with Europeans and Native Americans. This notion seriously undersamples the vast degree of racial and ethnic diversity within Africa.
Africa, in reality, has four distinct racial groups, only two of which are arguably “black”: the Pygmoids concentrated in sub-Saharan West Africa, the Tall Negroid group in the south-Eastern Sahara and Rift Valley. In addition, there are the Caucasoids of the Northern Sahara and the non-black capoids originally dominant in the south, but who mainly exist now, because of the Bantu migrations, in a distinct form in the Khoi-khoi and San peoples. These groups also roughly follow the four language families in Africa (Niger-Congo, Nilotic, Afro-Asiatic, and Khoi-San).
The upshot of all this is that Africa has more genetic diversity than the rest of the world combined; and it’s not consistent with population genetics to suggest that “blackness”, of those ethnoracial traits associated with modern West African populations, is a primeval state of modern humans, and all other ethnicities are derivative – but rather that all ethnicities, including the black ones, are derivative, and adaptive, and quite recent in their evolution.
Sotomayora Sotamayscorea bibbity bobbity boo put it together and what do you got bibbity bobbity boo
Sessons is a hoar. look up the definition!!!!
Small complaint about today’s Stephcast files… the files were not tagged properly at all and hours 1 and 2 cut off early….
Disregard previous comment…. I re-downloaded and the files are the right length now.