LiveBlog for Friday, July 17. 2009
• CNN’s Senior Political Correspondent Candy Crowley calls in at 6:05am Pacific to talk about the Sonia Sotomayor confirmation hearings.
• Comedian John Fugelsang joins us in studio at 8:05am Pacific to talk about the news of the day.
• Questions surrounding Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s past speeches generated more controversy in the final day of her Supreme Court confirmation hearings yesterday, as Dems again called her a mainstream jurist and GOPers portrayed her as a liberal activist likely to legislate from the bench.
• Speaker Nancy Pelosi said yesterday she would be willing to lower the amount of a new surtax on wealthy Americans to pay for health care legislation if more savings from proposed reforms can cover the cost of the bill.
• Speaking at the NAACP’s annual convention in New York, President Obama last night commended the progress of African-Americans but said there was still much work to be done. Obama highlighted some of his administration’s policies as examples of how the government is attempting to break down the barriers of inequity.
• Explosions tore through the Ritz-Carlton and J.W. Marriott hotels this morning in south Jakarta, Indonesia, killing nine people and wounding at least 50. Police found an unexploded bomb on the 18th floor of the J.W. Marriott Hotel, but they were able to diffuse it.
Tags: Barack Obama, Candy Crowley, Indonesia, John Fugelsang, NAACP, Nancy Pelosi, Sonia Sotomayor
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Morning! Wasn’t around yesterday – but did read the LiveBlog (and now I get 3 hours of the SMS to listen to over the weekend – love the StephCast *gling*)
Saw #43 – Mark in Deetown’s query about the 30 Rock quote (Jack calling Kenneth the Page an inner-city Latina).
I posted the full clip on StephSpace – it’s from the “Believe in the Stars” episode (the Oprah one).
(BTW – That episode is also the source of the “May cause dizziness, sexual nightmares and sleep crime” liner…)
Gooood morning all!!
An extra special salute this morning to Stephanie, ProducerChris, Jim and Rebekah. No matter what kind of a day I’ve had, I can always depend on the show to pick me up.
I still haven’t picked my jaw off the floor after hearing Pat Buchanan’s tirade on Rachel’s show last night. I hope there will be commentary from Mama today.
It’s aboot as dead here as it is at work today. Nobody around on Fridees.
Morning Shane-O, Trojan…
Good morning Shane-O and Danielle!
Hi trojan! Hi Danielle! Hi Shane-0!
My son went to a wedding outside Detroit last weekend and stayed two extra days, to get to know the sister of the bride….oh, yes, there is something brewing here. And Shane-O, she starts a graduate program at UMich this fall. Think I’m gonna like this girl? well, I am certainly ready to.
Guten Morgen meine Stefanimüllerdirektblogfreunde!
Why is Pat Buchanan still on our TV? I suppose just because he doesn’t use certain racial slurs on air the producers keep allowing him back. But cheezus, hate-speech is hate-speech! If you can bear it, watch his idiotic ramblings on Rachel Maddow here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/16/rachel-maddow-duels-with_n_237036.html
Congrats Carol… and see you were worried about something bad happening to him…
#8, I wasn’t worried about him except that he got on an airplane. Mark our drunken biker friend offered to look out for him.
The trouble with my schedule is I miss interacting with so many here. Hope Mark reads #6. hehe.
I think there is gonna be more plane trips to Detroit (one is already scheduled in August). Ah, young I’m-interested-in-someone-special!
9- Well, apparently Mark did a great job!
Funny, he’s been helping me with blog stuff too! I guess he’s just mr. wonderful on the SMS blog. (Tony’s been helping me too! Must give credit to him too!)
#7, Barack was fired up at the NAACP!
I loved that he again connected gay rights to the struggles of black people.
Hi Carol & scooter
7- it’s on my DVR as I was not home last night, I’ll have to watch it later!
I really like your Lady Liberty poem, Danielle.
I guess I love that cuban/Irish way of saying things.
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I made the mistake of downloading it from my DVR to my laptop last night and then watched it first thing when I woke up this morning. UGH! I don’t know how Rachel kept from going all Beck on him.
LOLOLOL…. Thanks! Alot! I’ve been getting a lot of good feedback on the poem / blog, but to be honest, the comments from the SMS blog mean the most to me!!
15- I like to tortue myself with the local fox station in the morning… I find yelling at the TV is an effective way to clear out the mental cobwebs!
Rep. Todd Tiahrt, R-Kans. wonders if the President’s mother might have had an abortion.
chee-SUS! I will quote a blog entry under the article:
That has to be one of the most stupid things a man could bring up in public.
Speculation taken to an obscene level.
Don’t these GOP Congressmen have any sense of decorum at all?
What an insult to intelligent people.
What a truly stupid question.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/16/gop-rep-tiahrt-asks-wheth_n_236814.html
18- that turned my stomach… too much! They will try anything! They would light someone on fire in the middle of one of these hearings if it proved their point!
#18 Todd Tiahrt is gearing up to run for the U.S. Senate so expect even more insane RW-nuttery out of him in coming months. His chances of winning the seat being vacated by Brownback are essentially zero and he is currently trailing Rep. Jerry Moran both in the polls and in fundraising. One of my good friends knows Todd Tiahrt personally and tells me that if Tiarht’s IQ were the temperature of a room, well . . . you’d better bring along a sweater. Or maybe a parka.
#7 Buchanan makes me ashamed to be a white male.
Hi scooter.
HaHaHa! “…IQ the temperature of a room…”
#18 “Don’t these GOP Congressmen have any sense of decorum at all?”
No. Mainly because the profile of the RWNJs in Congress and in other positions of power often fits that of a sociopath.
Hi, y’alls! I’ll be missing hour one due to meetings. Blogging is a no-go today because of that pesky thing called ‘work’. So I’ll wish everyone an great show and blog and an awesome weekend!
Oh, and good morning, live blogospherians! It’s Fridee! (Sadly that means two whole days sans Steph and mooks.
#25 (Close parentheses)
Dang – I go out for coffee and cigarettes and the LiveBlog starts up!
#6 – so glad for your son, Carol! — another Wolverine love story… awwww
Ticked that I missed (and didn’t record) Maddow… grr! – I’ll catch it online, I guess.
Looking forward to Momma on the TeeVee tonight – twice – YAY!
22
In Celsius
#24 – oh, c’mon Shaf — at least come in for Sparta???
#23, yep, LC, symptomatic behavior indeed.
The rw talking point about “Liberalism is a mental disorder” is meant to combat that obvious problem.
Happy Friday Board!
And Happy Returns to the “Hoff”, Germany’s superstar David Hasselhoff is 57. Donald Sutherland is 74.
Don’t ordinarily listen, but heard a little bit of Ed Shultz. Sounds like he’d like to challenge Rush to a cagematch. The macho middle-aged bravado gets kinda tired after a while, though.
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Yeah, I’m sure that will either be on the YouTubes or at crooksandliars.
Momma’s on twice tonight?? Wheeee!!
Ode To Mama
In a land of laughs and wonder,
There lives a special lass,
Who showers in pure box wine,
And has a smokin’ ass.
She may not be a lady,
But Oh, She’s so much more,
As she longs for Jim to grope her,
As she’s passed out on the floor.
She may never get to marry,
Or use her bridal trail,
The only love she’s getting’
Comes with a different kinda’ tail.
She belches like a truck driver,
And like a sailor does she curse,
And if you want to ask Fox News,
They’ll tell you she’s the worst.
She loves to torture Chris,
With midnight, drunken calls,
To ramble on about some song,
And just drive him up a wall.
But Mama is the best you see,
There is throughout this land,
For only here on Stephanie Miller,
Are you more family than fan.
We love her fart-joke politics,
And we’ll kill for beaver stack.
We all laugh to tinsel talk,
And we know that Rodney’s black.
So, oh we do salute you,
Stephanie Miller Queen of Crass,
We will follow you forever,
And not just to grab your ass!
Twice? Was there another email sent out that I haven’t gotten to yet?
Oh – and Shaf – I still owe you the “get outta my head” drop from Family Guy. The episode is “Rhode to Rhode Island.” I thought I had it on one of the DVR’s — alas, I had deleted it. When it replays, I’ll record and email it to you. Sorry for the delay.
#34 – it was in the same one – “The Ed Show” at 6 EST and CNBC at 8:30 EST, tonight.
ProducerChris: Ya just gotta read DNID’s wonderful poem on air today!
Mornin’ Blogoes!
Hmmm…I guess I didn’t get past the Ed Show part. That’s what I get for not reading carefully.
#33 – lol
eggsalent!
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Danielle, I’m in awe.
#33 That’s our mama, all right. Great job!
This kid will knock your socks off! Don’t miss Tallan Noble Latz, age 9, from America’s Got Talent. omg. enjoy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-tPRZZ5XhQ
But speak for yourself about the “not to grab your ass” part.
Morning bloggies! It’s been while since i hopped in here. How’s the weather been? LOVE the poem.
lol… thanks all… left, I was only saying that’s not the ONLY reason we follow her…
It’s Miller time!
**spirit fingers**
Morning all!
#46 Okay, just as long as you’re clear about that! lol
#45 It’s July 17 and the predicted high is 71. What the hell is going on here?
50… I’ll trade you, it was 98 here not considering the humidity! You can’t walk from car to house without melting!
It was like 88 and humid here yesterday. I don’t mind 71 in July, but that’s just not Chicago area weather.
I think you should get extra points for bugging him!
21: “Buchanan makes me ashamed to be a white male.” — yeah, that was a pretty problematic presidency all right. you can sort of tell that kotter was embarrassed to have to teach at a school named after that guy… and then there’s still the problem of chevy chase, clem grogan, and carrot top. looks like you picked a bad time to be a white male. – amazing how their obsessed over solving a “problem” like maria… check out the lumberyard in jeff sessions’ eyeball:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-5yFNpNbSc
Please, Please, Please —–Can anyone tell me why Frangela isn’t on Steph’s show anymore????????
55- we’ve all been trying to figure that out!
Hello all. Candy Crowley is the smartest lady on TV besides our local gal, Sheri—something or another who teaches at USC.
ironic. it’s actually sessions who has views that range from poor-to-reekin’
#57 I’d say Rachel Maddow is in the running for that title.
It’s a veiled attempt at saying “See, I like hispanics”… they use it as a comparison point just to have another Hispanic that they can pretend to support… in their little pee-brains, they think it shows they’re not racist!
44: absotively.
leprechaun ears? did steph get a bad copy of the youtube?
Did anyone watch Morning Joe? Man Micka’s parents must do an intervention. She’s drinking too much of that Joe-kool-aid
Good morning, felow bloggistas!
#9 scooter: I watched Pat Buchanan on Rachel Maddow last night too arguing about the whole Sotomayor-affirmative-action thing. Pat argued that Sotomayor had been admitted to Princeton despite having lower test scores, etc. (in fact his argument perfectly applied to Clarence Thomas), citing the reverse discrimination cases Bakke and the UMich Law School case, http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grutter_v._Bollinger_ .
I had to clutch my sides with laughter because I got a whole new take on affirmative action and college admissions while navigating the application process with my kid last year. The Ivy League schools (and others) regularly boast of the number of perfect-SAT score kids they turn away, claiming they want “well-rounded” applicants, and quite openly skew the process in favor of legacy kids (which is obviously in their self-interest in terms of continued charitable donations).
This process began in the 1920’s when the “best students” approach admitted too many Jews, and WASPs began to shun those colleges such as Columbia who continued to do so. The new “best graduates” process focused on which more “clubbable” students would preserve the elite institutions “brand”. Really. Read the WashPost’s book review of “The Chosen”, and Malcolm Gladwell’s article riffing on same:
http://www.amazon.com/Chosen-History-Admission-Exclusion-Princeton/dp/B0027VT0HE/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1247832826&sr=8-3
Mr. Buchanan’s quaint idea that only the most qualified students with the highest scores should be admitted, which he thinks would yield more white male admissions, in fact would undo the whole unstated affirmative action legacy program, which admits roughly two less-qualified legacy kids for every non-athlete, non-legacy applicant.
http://www.gladwell.com/2005/2005_10_10_a_admissions.html
Interestingly, Gladwell asserts that these same fuzzy standards allowed colleges to bend to professorial pressure to admit more brains, and student pressure to increase diversity in the 1970s (against the efforts of alumni/donors). This tactical change opened the door to Princeton for Judge Sotomayor.
61- Hey, I ‘splained that already… not saying we wouldn’t grab it, just that fer spectacular ass is not the ONLY reason we follow her! (Hey, some may prefer the magic purple sweater to her ass… we all have our preferences.) Ti HE HE HE
63… I’d actually rather watch fox… he annoys the hell out of me…
44/46/50: credit where credit is due; presenting: the time rush got something right: “I LIKE THE WOMEN’S MOVEMENT !! – ESPECIALLY WHEN VIEWED FROM BEHIND !”
#62 – reminds me of that little alien guy that showed up on the later episodes of The Flintstones.
Either Sessions or Geithner — can’t figure which…
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What isn’t there to like. The magic purple sweater, the spectacular ass, that sexy voice (even when she belches and snorts) and that gorgeous smile.
Harry and Louise would support EFCA if the check was right. Of course the Dems wusses out again:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/17/business/17union.html?hp
“I’m GONNA lose my mind today”???????
The Beck scream is my new ringtone.
Sorry for the long-winded post! I’ve just been stewing throughout the Sotomayor hearings listening to the covert attempts to rile conservatives up about affirmative action, which is I think their chief complaint about her.
wow, if I was an advertiser, I sure wouldn’t want someone speaking to my patrons that way…
52
This is only the third night this summer where we’ve needed the AC, and only because the humidity is going up.
#64 – WOW! That’s way back! — April 30, 2007? MSNBC!
Wow!
68… cheers to that!
WHERE WAS BECK HIDING WHEN LED ZEP WAS SEARCHING FOR A NEW LEAD VOCAL?
One of Ken in Cleveland’s best efforts!
So kick-ass Kenny-Pick!
75… I’ve been a fan for at least 4 years now!
And the sweater is only good if sold with the armpit maxi-pad accessories… (skates)
Ken in CLeveland, great!
*applause* to Ken!
#81 – you got me beat – four years! I took my first dose, Nov. 2006
Glenn Beck es un peridor!
65- the only reason I watch it is because hoping that a guest might actually stand up to them and set them straight. CCN is so punchless
(yes, 54 ott have said “they’re” rather than their. this is the dark side of punctuality.) — and as an addendum, incorporating beck’s stellar immigrant song audition, i’m sure i need not emphasize too fiercely that sessions’ family pole does after all, come from the land of the ice and snow. now wonder lindsey wanted maria to take a cocker-spaniel sized chill pill and stop reaping all her ruin.
I have shows going back to 2005, so I guess that’s almost 4 years.
85: we used to DREAM of living with a peridor !
one time, at band camp, i lent my sousaphone to stephanie…. nobody thott that would get done either.
plexing over commies taking away the fruit drinks? – trying to keep up with the joneses?
Shane-o, I feel like you’re an SMS celebrity… but I believe somewhere in the dregs of my memory I remember your early musical works and how excited they got Mama and the mookies!
I pity the fuel
shane-o when will you release a cd for us?
94… GREAT IDEA!!! I’d buy that!
when you lend your sousaphone to someone, remember that you’re lending your sousaphone to everyone who loaned that person a sousaphone their whole life. Keep two mouthpieces and avoid cold sores.
Good morning everyone!
I almost broke my TV last night …. odious Pat just irritated me tooo damn much
imagine a team effort by shane-o and heather mills. “come on, i lean…”
1. Maddow Decides She’s Had Enough–Updated with video Hotlist
Can someone tell me why the LA County Health Dept. has to enforce condom use in porn?
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-porn-hiv17-2009jul17,0,7108914.story
Is it because the porn players think they are invincible? Dumb. Just dumb.
cameras in gere? — ahhhhh!!! a giant gerbil !!
Gee and I was getting ready for giant calamari.
Seems like squid have been getting alot of ink lately.
2. Buchanan is right. This white man is full of resentment.
103: it’s probably due to an octo god.
#92 & 94 – no CD – I’m just lousy at putting up the old clips on the StephSpace. I’ll keep doing it – they’ll all be there eventually!
3. A Word on Princeton and Affirmative Action
#7 scooter: “Why is Pat Buchanan still on our TV? I suppose just because he doesn’t use certain racial slurs on air the producers keep allowing him back. But cheezus, hate-speech is hate-speech! If you can bear it, watch his idiotic ramblings on Rachel Maddow”
I had a chuckle watching that as well– the Republicans’ attempts to portray Judge Sotomayor as an unqualified affirmative action candidate who jumped the turnstiles to get where she is are completely whack. Buchanan argues that promoting candidates with lower test scores is unfair and keeps white males from jobs for which they are qualified.
But the whole secondary education admission process is already skewed AWAY from merely admitting the students with the highest scores:
http://www.amazon.com/Chosen-History-Admission-Exclusion-Princeton/dp/B0027VT0HE/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1247832826&sr=8-3
http://www.gladwell.com/2005/2005_10_10_a_admissions.html
scooter – boooooooooooooo hissssssssssssssssssssss
Is LaVoie going to San Diego Comiccon this weekend? That could be dangerous for someone who doesn’t like elves and swords…
107: i’ve had doubts about princeton since they let einstein in. after all, if he’s so smart, why is he dead? — give me harvard, where they hold out for lofty minds like kaczynski and scalia.
Hi Cindy!
shane-o, just out of curiousity, I checked back to emails I’ve sent into the show… my first was 6/15/07, where I reference already listening for a long while, in which I asked Steph to give my dad a father’s day shout out and asked to be the official militant left wing drunken irish family of the stephanie miller show!
4. As ALWAYS the RIGHT is CLAIMING Victory in the Maddow vs Buchanan match up
Hi Paul!
110: “private lavort. why did you join my beloved corps?”
“to kill, sir”
“let’s see your warface!”
“sir?”
“your warface. AAAHHHHH!!!! that’s a warface”
“AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH !!”
“you dont scare me ! work on it ! … nice krieghosen !”
actually I think the GOP and their head, Rush Limbaugh should really, really take Buchanan’s advice … do it go BIG, go LOUD
and make yourself a smaller minority — alienate all but racist white men (and their white women followers)
Bush was a hahvahd man
114: a proud tradition since george “burt ward” bush squared off against michael “bruce lee” dukakis. – i actually felt sorry for completely extraneous clueless white men when i saw that abject japslapping.
117: make yourself a smaller minority? – anybody familiar with the howard stern show understands the difference between rush limbaugh and betelgeuse; one is a pinhead, and one is a gas giant.
hello from the den of stephy’s penalty box, which is full of dog excrement, vomit, stale wine, urine and blood.
#113 – hah! — I just looked through my archives — the first time anything I sent was mentioned onair (just an email, no audio – Chris had it) for me, was 6-28-07 – when Ann Coulter said “I’m more of a man than any liberal”
You have me beat by a couple weeks!!!
113
Pretty sure I have that show, was your email read?
The only way I’d involve those two in child-rearing is an example of how NOT to behave!
Oh, that’s cute. Steph still remembers cramps.
My mother who is in so much pain and is passing out from it is being denied pain killers that work because of her damn insurance company
Cramps? Wasn’t he a character on Lassie back in the ’50s.
125: it’s also cute how ann coulter still remembers how we had to hide behind our schoolbooks when the cute girls would walk by.
Ding ding ding!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ON7Y581IsQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ON7Y581IsQ
here’s steph an her old nose
#123 – it was read during RWW, hour 1 – the next day – 6-29-07 – and Chris had already captured (and he ran) the clip of Coulter on Bill-O’s show.
Something about Momma being an oracle.
Isn’t that gooey thing off Alaska the same thing that ate Denise Crosby on Star Trek TNG?
Steph at the Improv:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ON7Y581IsQ
123- it was, but I already burned it to CD for my dad… who I tease mercilessly that he sits around playing it back like Steph with Olberman saying her name… he just wants to here “Danny” over and over again from the magnificant lips of Stephanie Miller!
Some of my favorite emails that have been read, if you have the shows:
8/14/07- email: “Operation phantom strike”
8/16/07- “Bad brothers”
4/18/08- McGreevy dinner table / potatoe skins
There were more, but these were my funniset…
How is the Alaska Gunk related to the Palin resignation?
Steph looks older in the 80s than she does now. Oh yeah- plastic surgery.
all polka moves are great polka moves.
131.. LOL… I guess we both go back father then our pickled brains can remember…
“bar baby”? – wa sthat song by the guess who, or was it rare earth?
#134 – damn – I SOOO remember the McGreevy potato-skin one…
This also proves what a scam those vacation travel insurance packages are…if you’re going to national care countries you don’t need that insurance. They will take care of you. However, if you have money as an injured foreigner here, you’ll get soaked. I met an Isaeli woman who ended up paying $70K after an accident caused compound leg fractures.
DId anyone see Bruno? The baby had a shirt that said GAYBY!
138: and any prince fan will admit that “pickled brain” was one intensely sentimental ballad. – “i only want to see you lying down like kurt co bain. kurt co bain, kurt co bain ….”
#138 – I can’t remember yesterday…
144: i think it was released on APPLE
Are they going to cover this story:
Ex-Marine fends off lion with chainsaw:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31951883/ns/us_news-life/
I miss rare earth.
140.. when Chris and Steph were in their Hillary / Obama war… it was:
Oh Mama and the Mooks,
Please don’t fight!! Us, your loving and loyal listeners, look to you as our morning smile, our sunshine, our reason for getting our hung-over asses to work in the morning! When you fight it puts us in the middle like potato-skins on the McGreevy dinner table! We need your celbu-tard-stack, your right-wing-world, and even your mispronunciation of many words! Although many agree with Steph that Obama got it tougher in than Hillary, Chris’s main point holds the most truth….an opinion can not be wrong!!!
Now Chris, unwad your panties…we love you…and some of us out here got your back!
We love you both, even when you’re wrong.
Danielle in Fort Lauderdale
their razor sharp beaks are sharp as razors.
wow … stephanie lost her nasaly voice …. halal freeken luya
that stand up was painful enough … she obviously took some speech lessons … and I’m so glad she did
146: it was a relief to read the details, after the disturbing ambiguity of the title. bet they were both doing the glenn beck scream at some point.
150… that’s just what happens when your voice deepens after a diet of nothing but box wine and mercury filled sushi!
Good morning bloggies,
I just want to say how thrilled I am that Chicago has finally seen fit to honor local hero Wesley Willis by renaming the Sears Tower in his memory.
“Rock over London, Rock on Chicago!”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wesley_Willis
148: that’s a nice conceit on paper, that an opinion can not be wrong, but in practice, it’s always just an excuse for BEING WRONG. ten billion people can have the opinion that michael bolton, whitney houston, and frank sinatra can sing. it’s wrong. math supercedes opinion.
#145 – really? I thought the Beatles weren’t on iTunes still…??
hmm…
#153 So the Sears Tower hasn’t been purchased by Bruce Willis after all? Damn that Cobert!
Good morning, fine people. Looking forward to the weekend, are we?
Here’s a current example of insurance company stupidity. I wear what is called a Bledsoe Charcot Boot, essentially a specialized “cam walker” boot on my right foot. This is a wonderful device and it costs my insurance company $178. It also replaces a weekly cast, which, with medication and special padding, costs over $400.
As I said, it is a wonderful device, however it has a small design flaw – the soft aluminum straps which connect to the metal shoe portion are attached with four rivets. The problem is that the rivet holes in the straps are punched, and their sharp edges cause a “stress riser”, which causes the strap to crack and fail. I’ve had four of them, and they ALL eventually cracked and broke, at exactly the same place. I’m not alone, multiple others in my same clinic have had the same experience.
The problem could be remedied by installing some brass eyelets, chamfering the edges of the hole, even using a slightly different aluminum alloy for the straps.. I’ve written Bledsoe about it..
Anyway, these boots have a 90 day warranty, and the last one went exactly 100 days before it broke. Out of warranty. The insurance company’s policy is to pay for up to two of these boots a year, so they would not pay for a replacement (so soon). I could have bought one from my doctor, with his markup, it would have cost $350. Instead I bought one privately from Bledsoe, and it cost me $218. I *need* the thing, the alternative is a weekly cast, so I bought one – last week.
I tried to explain to the insurance company that it was in everyone’s interest for them to pay $178 for a replacement, even every 90 days or so, rather than a weekly cast at over $400! I just sent them a long letter about it, complete with pictures of the failure. I also pointed out that when the boot suddenly failed, the shoe twisted and nearly broke my foot – that might have required me to get surgery, costing tens of thousands of bucks, so the judgement to not replace the boot was a poor one.
No reply yet. But an example of a “bureaucrat” at BCBS getting between me and my doctor.
I still don’t understand why Stephie doesn’t market The Mercury Diet–lose weight fast and never put it back on.
#153 We need a rousing chorus of “Illinois State Police” (by far my favorite Wesley Willis song).
154… LOL…. couldn’t agree more… but the comment worked for the email at the time… Chris was just trying to state his opinion and Mama was a little prickley about it… lol
155: private leprechaun, why did you join my beloved apple core?
WTF??? Oh those Alabanans
Bill-o… who’s running CA… oh yeah, that’s right A REPUBLICAN!!!
158: that danged tapeworm cartel
6. This is the END, either for the GOP, or for America
so love that laugh
I like little Audrey’s impression of Charlie Wrangle myself!
165: best worst post ever ever
If they federally tax marijuana, but don’t make it legal…then Treasury can pursue dealers for tax evasion, taking the expense away from local law enforcement. Or better yet..LEGALIZE IT.
Wow… I’m from Florida… I never really realized we sound that southern…
169: it’s a good start that they legalized helium for this caller.
171… LOLOLOLOLOLOL
you know when swine flu hits this fall there will be more pressure for the public option … too bad one can’t delay the vote long enough to make sure the public really understands the cost
Eric Massa is the Congressman who gave up his health care until everyone has it!!
#167 – raise your hand, SMS fans – can you help but try a gravel-voiced, attempt at Sir Jim’s “Charlie Wrangle” every time Wrangle is on the TeeVee…??
Ricci don’t lose that number.
#175 I do when Charlie Wrangle’s name is even mentioned.
176: a staple cover essential to all confused bo donaldson karaoke
Love Sen Franken
175… LOL… or can you see Mitch McConnel without yelling McChinless… or how often do you use “Computer says yes, computer says no”…or so many others!
If squid were flying over San Diego, I’d scratch their backs and they’d scratch mine. Ya know, squid pro quo.
The Case of the Deadly Verdict.” 10/17/1963.
#137: Moving polka out of the Grammys categories: not so much.
#154: That’s what I was wondering when I watched “Triumph of the Will”: Can 100,000 satisfied customers be wrong? Hmm, I guess so.
Scooter, you realize of course that the pun is the lowest member on the spectrum of humor?
175: private leprechaun! your war-wrangle doesnt scare me! WORK ON IT !!
can someone verify for me really quick…did the AMA support the bill that came out of the house?
The client was found guilty at the beginning of the show, and Perry spends the rest of the show proving w/he was innocent, iirc.
Victor Berger and Lt. Cragg, virtually always had their heads up their asses in the end. And something about Berger’s sneering voice made me want to slap him, like I feel about Sean Hannity nowadays.
“in the first-season episode “The Case of the Terrified Typist”, not only is Mason’s client convicted of murder – he turns out to be really guilty! (However, Mason figures out that the murderer was impersonating someone else, and since some of the prosecution’s evidence was related to the actual person whose identity had been stolen, a mistrial is declared, meaning a second trial for the defendant, presumably without Mason’s services.)”
republicans get really prickly when you suggest that they’re the party of rape, hate, and death.
154/173/183: yep, the evidence just keeps rolling in; opinions CAN be wrong. it’s the very nature of the beast. – consider for example, how rowan was said to have died in “the wickerman”. cant have that here. time for lunch. pasta la pizza.
#182 – nope — Mason lost, but in the end, a mistrial was declared.
“The Case Ot The Terrified Typist” 1958 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0673410/
#188 That’s Hamilton “Ham” Burger and Lt. Tragg.
Correction, that was Hamilton Burger..
and Lt. TRAGG..
In the next round is Franken going to ask if rulings on Parry Mason create precedent?
Ya gotta love Erle Stanely Gardner for naming the DA that Mason routinely beats “Hamilton Burger.”
190/192: okay then, let’s just summarize it as the case of the typified terrorists and be done. pasta la extra slice.
“Lurleen, hid the guns! Acorn’s at the door to take ‘em away!”
I think if it’s discovered the “taking away guns” nonsense was simply a plow by gun manufacturers to increase sales, they should be held responsible for these recent shooting deaths in which the potential loss of guns is cited as a reason BY THE SHOOTER for the violence!!!
And Paul Drake was apparently a great ladies man; Della Street was clearly a bit more than a secretary..
In one of the Perry Mason movies from the ’30s Mason, played by the mediocre Warren William, marries Della Street.
Has anyone asked her what she thought of Bush v. Gore? Should the Supreme Court appoint a president?
203: Good point
And in the Perry Mason movies Paul Drake became comic relief as “Spudsy Drake.”
(labored breathing) .. and now, Mike..
(more labored breathing) .. our next millionaire..
Remember John Bedsford Tipton?
ha! – awesome SM drop…
John Beresford Tipton, voiced by the great Paul Frees with Michael Anthony played by the reliable Marvin Miller.
I seem to remember Paul Drake driving a Corvette..
Hey, Tony posted that on his blog a couple days ago!
You know what, Jeff Sessions? It’s off to the wood shed for you – go cut me a switch. If it isn’t big enough, *I’ll* cut one!
Sense when is “bug the hell out of me” an appropriate comment for a supreme court nomination hearing!?!?!?!
#212 Since yesterday.
NO … he is just trying to make sure there are enough sound bites of him liking her that he doesn’t alienate the Latino vote …. then he rips her and shows his true feelings
I totally agree with Stephanie.
Graham was and is patronizing. His life of ease and priviledge comes through in every word he speaks. I hate him and all who are like him. I’d like to see him go volunteer to work with the homeless once a week in a soup kitchen and then maybe he’d stop being quite such an ass.
Getting to SPARTA today!
I’m with Stephanie. Graham is such a freaking closet queen!
Steph’s family knows she’s much more comfortable with fart jokes and dodging “Bupkiss” (spelling?)!!
Morning all! GOP got schooled by Sotomayor, the bunch of woman-hating racist pantywaists.
NO they won’t be happy until there is a WHITE REPUBLICAN back in the white house
Come on, I had a good idea – shaving Sessions’ and Graham’s heads, coating them with Crisco, and slamming them together, to create a huge, fat, quaking Republican ass..
According to USA Today, the guy who played the one that Perry Mason lost is AL FRANKEN’S COUNSIN!!
#220 That was a GREAT idea!
Swirly music legal definitions!
I think it’s his honest attempt to be nice… he’s just stupid to know he’s patronizing!
In his confirmation hearing, Alito said:
“When I get a case about discrimination, I have to think about people in my own family who suffered discrimination because of their ethnic background or because of religion or because of gender. And I do take that into account.”
Did’t the Italian Alito vote with the Italian Ricci?
Chris, the Sweet Muffin.. ;->
and take our your organ, Mister!
hey, speaking of spectacular ass… perhaps my poem will be read?
oh gawd yes …. Chris’ guns have now caused me distraction!!!
prima face – at first face…
Dani – since you don’t do the StephSpace thing, email, if you want…
shanemichaelfarnan@yahoo.com
You can’t cut ProducerChris off from his Air Supply! Then he’d be all out of love.
Called in with my comment and when i was told it would be 20 minutes, the line dropped….
The Republicans in Congress are all patronizing to women. It’s like all they know how to do is screw the ladies or talk to them like they are little girls. We’re you ready to hear Session or Graham call Sotomayor “sweetheart” any minute now? It’s disgusting.
Danielle, I almost forgot to compliment you on the poetry! Good work.
It crossed my mind that Shane-0 might put some of that material to music.
Or not?
#219—White Republicans are God’s chosen people. Haven’t you read your Bible?
I submit that your average Republican lawmaker *does not* know how to screw a woman. Not properly.
#221—-Nepotism in Hollywood and Congress? I’m shocked…just shocked I tell you!
236: They’re too busy screwing the entire country….
#236–that’s why I called it screw.
Thanks Shane-0!!! I’ve been trying to do Steph space but have been experiencing technical difficulties! my email is kdguilday@live.com which I’d never post on any other blog… but I consider this one my second home!
and just for kicks… one of my closest friends is also a Shane Michael… but first name spelled Schane… small world!
234- I could think of no higher honor!!
Ken! Superb work.
Wow, Beck really is a psycho!
oh, Ken… that brought tears to my eyes!!
Glen Beck, tragically, sounds like my ex-husband when he yells. But my ex never did the upper range falsetto scream.
245—I’m so glad I never talk to him anymore. None. Zero. Zip. Thank God.
Maybe that’s the overall Obama strategy – drive the Right to insanity
247—LOL, I think it is an unintentional consequence. But I’m all for it!
I actually considered using my limited audio skills to put “GETOFFMYPHONE!!!” to Beethoven’s Fifth. It just seems to fit the tempo. Weekend project? Shane-O?
DON’T TAX MY HIGH-FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP!!
A trio of house committees? Probably not as harmonious as it sounds.
DON’T TAX MY COKE BRO’!
#252 – ha! — have a Tax and a Smile…
252. lol. tax cigarettes and coke so high that America becomes Glen Beckistan
#249 – sounds like fun – I hope you give it a try!
They should tax bottled water…
no they should offer deposits on bottled water
and tax the damn soda pop
255…LOLOLOLOLOL… I was thinkin’ you may take the “I’m not a damn drop-monkey” view on that… (no offense 249!)
256. Excellent idea!
256—they should outlaw bottled water and if people want to buy water instead of soda they should put in in aluminum cans. Plastic water bottles are evil.
well that’s it for me today … I may or may not be in for most of next week like I wasn’t in for most of this week.
Leave Shane-O alone! You’re lucky he even makes one montage a day for ‘ya bastids!
#262 Hope I wasn’t out of line with the ‘bastids’ comment.
260. Excellent idea
230—Prima facie is a Latin expression meaning on its first appearance, or by first instance; at first sight.
262…cue the streaming of bad eye makeup!
And when they say Pontiacs will be gone, they aren’t kidding. The brand will be phased out by the New GM.
#260 Plastic bottles in general are evil. We had a keynote speaker at the Illinois Association of Chemistry Teachers annual meeting a few years ago who has found a link between a residual chemical found in plastic bottles and reduced average sperm count that has been occurring in males for the past 30 years or so.
261—bye cindy. have fun with your boys!
.. urge to squeeze Sean Hannity’s hairy little head until it pops like the human zit he is..
spiffyhussein -
I won’t let my kids touch aluminum cans if we can help it. deposits help insure that bottles go back to be recycled because people will dumpster dive to make that 5 cents for each one they collect.
we recycle 95% of all the plastic water bottles we use … and I’m on a diet I need those bottles
#268 You mean I wasted all that money on a vasectomy for nuthin’?
Leave Shane-0 alone! You’re BASTARD PEOPLE!
i need a drink…stupid marines screwing with the hubby’s leave again…damn guys…he just spent 6 months in iraq…let him come home and see his wife and daughter…
sorry for the vent in here guys…this page was up
Am I too late for Cindy? Rats! Catch ya later, Mrs.
268—-yes, that’s another lobby we’ll have to fight in the future. Now more plastic grocery bags and no more plastic bottles. There are plenty of other materials that we can use for those functions and the plastic is killing the world.
#272 *Raises hand* Non-breeder, too!
274-Vent away
jram… many hopes he comes safely home soon!!!
277-I adopted.
Narnia! LOL
271—can’t you recycle aluminum for money in your state?
#272 Could be.
Little known trivia fact: The plastic bottle was invented by Nathaniel Wyeth, brother of Andrew Wyeth. His goal (at least 20 years or so ago) was to recycle them to make car bodies.
Babies for dummies
http://www.davidwallace.com/2008/02/caring-for-newborn-babies-for-dummies/
Hispanicles
DNID…he is home…he is just stationed 3 states away unfortunately for the next 7 months before he retires. he got back july 3rd, and he has been getting tossed around…
sigh
I have 3 grown kids. I love them like crazy but since they have gotten into their 20s they have dumped me. I remember I did the same thing to my mom. There is something is very self-involved about the teen years and the 20s. I was the same way.
did I miss something? — why is it I’m to be left alone?
didn’t I just post my email address??
and – love ya Shaf – but lately, it’s been more like once a week.
thank god for Ken — and I WANT DJ BACK!
282… no refunds for anything down here in florida… you either do it because you give a damn… or you don’t because you’re a worthless lazy ass who doesn’t mind passing off their problems to another generation… (I may be perhaps venting here as well…)
Dj was great… I loved your wars!
#287 We have one son. In his 20s he seemed to show up when he was in trouble.
Sparta countdown!
8…
284-funny
6…
Julie – YAY!
Sparta!
#288 Quantity may be down, but quality is still way high!
Sparta too late
ok… just going for it… SPARTA!!!
It’s time to say: SPARTA!
i think it is interesting to note in here…
he has degenerative disc disease…3 are pretty much gone. he spent 6 months in iraq hopped up on percocet, fentenyl (sp?) and morphine based pain killers…
yeah…that is how stretched out the military is…
Sparta!
GET OFF MY SPARTA!!! GETOFFMYSPARTA!!!
WTG Danielle!
“Rock over London! Rock on SPARTA!”
“Wesley Willis Tower: ask for it by name when you get in the cab.”
Congratulations, Danielle!
Danielle takes the Cup! *bows and hugs*
<—- **doing a little sparta cha-cha** (hey had to pull a cuban reference after all my shmack talk yesterday!)
Blue dog – offensive to decent canines
#309 And I’ll play the congas!
I think 304 should be a surrogate sparta today… that post was way funnier than mine!
Congrats Danielle!
Man, I got engrossed in my work and I come back just as Danielle takes Sparta.
Well done!!!
First class Poet and Spartan * bows *
Yay, chick Sparta! Good poem and good Sparta!
wow… just got the visual of Mama if she had a kid… both sitting on the couch, surrounded by giant dogs, and the kid asking “Mommy, why is your juicy-box so much bigger than mine????”
Tax momma’s box wine? Well that should help cut down California’s deficit!
I’m pleased to say Daisy T. Beagle is NOT, I repeat NOT, a blue dog.
Sullen, resentful Jim?
No.
Contrary Chris
Left- glad to hear you ended up getting her!!!!!
Mama’s former BFF Bay Buchanan is on MSNBC right now. She’s had some ‘work’ done, I think. Still the same old head full of crap though.
Danielle-Yup. Today’s her one-week anniversary. She’s a real sweetie.
284—that is hysterical!
#321 Internal head crap is really hard to evacuate.
322—you got a puppy? That’s nice. I like beagles.
What no more “Friday’s with Frangela”???? What’s up?
#325 Not a puppy. She’s probably about 4 years old. Got her from the township animal control facility.
326—I think Frangela got superbusy and can’t fit in Steph’s show anymore.
326… they’ve been gone a while… no one knows why…
327—oh that’s even better!
stepped away – Dani grabs the Sparta trophy for the day. *bows*
#321 – no doubt – Bay is “Death Becomes Her” on the newz
Hey everybody! Thanks for all the kind word about the Beck montage!!! I wish I could hang out more on the Live Blog with y’all!!! My boss would kill me!
I have to admit I was really happy with this one too… The Gene Wilder bit from the Producers and repeated phone slams even had me crying when I was making it. Such a perfect match for Becks shrill freak out!
But really thanks for all the kudos!
Is John Boner burnt umber yet?
John Boehner, speaking for Bronzian Americans.
333… I think he’s just burnt…
#330 We’ve now adopted three dogs from that facility over the past 21 years. I wouldn’t do it any other way. It’s a kill facility, so I really feel good about adopting from them.
Methinks Frangela got Sparked off. Just sayin’
although I have considered if his stupidity is perhaps due to chemical seepage into his brain….
322
So happy for you LC
Ken’s here – yay!
okay, he’s probably gone by now, but – loved the Beck bit!!
It would be good to hear from Steph where Frangela is.
341-That was quite a sentence, wasn’t it?
Do you think Beck’s mic has a sneeze/spittle shield on it?
Beck sounds like a parody of a lunatic.
“prostrate”? — sounds like Sipowitz on NYPD Blue
Glen, your mind is already gone.
Just went to Bay Buchanan’s wiki to check out something and found out something rather astonishing, she converted from Catholicism to Mormonism 20 years ago. What’s that all about, I wonder? Alas, no mention of her glorious friendship with Mama.
BTW, get Beck off my computer!!
the conflation of supertramp and the stones maketh me laff somehow. – superstone! — BE HE HE HA HA !!
Gawd. Hope he doesn’t volunteer on crisis hotline
343-EW
That was an awesome clip Ken! Congrats to the newbie!
Supertramp and The Rolling Stones… Chris and Steph, both right?
let us start a national association for the advancement of YOU people.
Perhaps the Boehner was that kid who ate all the crayolas in 1st grade …
349—LOLOLOL
346
In order for the mind to be gone, he had to have one in the first place.
going to have to sing off before end of show… post a comment if she reads my poem and I’ll grab it from the podcast…
Ta ta!
346—it’s true. He’s a living car wreck. That’s why the Nascar crowd tune in.
what about dracula? that dude is WAY un-belgian, almost as much as jackie chan.
Take care, Danielle!
349: i kind of hope he does. – i always thott it would be fun to teach dogs to dial 911 and teach cats to answer, then sit back and see worldwide chaos.
is it too late for glenn beck to go to work as a wedding singer?
Makes it easier to find the foam impacts (on both her and the shuttle).
Shane-O… I’m still poking around. This is a record! I’ve never had a montage played 3 times!
Thanks again to everybody and have a stellar weekend!
#361 I’m glad I wasn’t taking a drink when I read that!
#364 Excellent work, Ken. Kudos!
One more thing… Beck says he lost his voice because his daughter has a cold? I thought he spent the week in NY and then commuted home on the weekends. If anyone has seen clips of his show from that day, you can tell he blew his voice.
I’m a singer, so I know if I screamed as loud as him, I’d lose my voice. Unfortunately, I’m no good at falsetto shrieks.
I’m thinking this falls into Lying Sack of Crap territory
#366… Thanks Shaf!
361. “Meow”
“Bark, bark. Timmy’s trapped in the mine”
“Meow”. click.
369
Then the cat goes back to sleep.
369-
!
Wow! I just found out that Paul Frees played the voice of K.A.R.R. in the famous K.I.T.T. vs. K.A.R.R. episode of “Knight Rider!
367—I agree. If you scream like that it does hurt your voice. Maybe he will go dumb for life? We can only hope…
I gotta go. Thanks for the entertainment bloggers and show!
The Ed Show! Yea!
Steph can be the Money Bunny of CNBC.
Bye, spif
Bye spiffy!
John Fugelsang! Good job!
375
Money Bunny, RAWR
Italian Chandelier is forbidden in the Bible, also too
Never have thought much of Paul.
John is right about celebacy in the Roman Catholic church. It was about church property bequeathed to the children of married priests.
Someone’s trying to copy Steph and get a shout out on the rwnj blogs.
Did John just say that the priest abuse was only hetero? Surely he knows better.
I do agree, generally, with his point though.
John is on a roll today!
383-That wasn’t his meaning.
IN MY OPINION, I should have added, Ron.
For most evangelicals, Johns argument about Old Testament law does not hold too much weight.
They believe that some, but not all, of those laws apply today — the ones that are repeated in the New Testament. And Paul does condemn homosexuality.
The truth is, though, that few or no Christians obey all the teachings of the NT.
uh-oh. tool alert
#380 Makes we wonder how many Italian Chandeliers there really are in the Vatican. Hmmmm.
Happy weekend people! Missing you already!
Bye, All
See you Mondeeee
Have a great weekend. See you all Monday!
Great show (but you already know that!)
Have a sooper-de-dooper weekend, boys and girls! (Barney! GET OUTTA MY HEAD!)
389. Prob none that are moving! HA! Flavin! Great weekend all!
Have a great weekend everybody!
Sarah,
I think he misspoke — everybody knows that a lot of the priest abuse was homosexual.
Like I said, I agree generally with his point.
I think the celibacy and anti-gay rules caused Catholic clergy to have sex “in the closet” — and we all know the dysfunction that fosters.
Good bye Walter Cronkite
America lost our good daddy.
rip
*sniff*
magic purple sweater alert!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78Q8oFBT3zo
steph on ed, fri 7-17-09
Great job Stephanie! You got it all said!