LiveBlog for Thursday, July 23, 2009
• Rep. Donna Edwards (D-MD) calls in at 6:30am Pacific to handicap the president’s health care reform press conference last night.
• Rep. Ron Kind (D-WI) calls in at 7:30am Pacific to talk to us about the president’s health care reform press conference last night.
• Eric Boehlert, Senior Fellow at Media Matters for America, calls in at 8:30am Pacific to talk about “Birthers,” people who are still demanding to see President Obama’s birth certificate.
• President Obama sought last night to rally support for sweeping health care legislation he’s struggling to push through Congress, expressing support for a surtax on families making more than $1 million a year to help pay for it. He also vowed to reject any measure “primarily funded through taxing middle-class families.”
• Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) announced yesterday he plans to vote for Supreme Court nominee Judge Sonia Sotomayor, bucking the views of most of his conservative GOP colleagues. Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ) and Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss) announced yesterday that they plan to oppose the judge.
• The Senate yesterday narrowly rejected a controversial measure to allow people to carry concealed weapons from state to state. The measure would have required each of the 48 states that currently allow concealed firearms to honor permits issued in other states.
• Outgoing Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is rejecting allegations she broke state ethics laws by letting supporters set up a legal defense fund for her.
Tags: Barack Obama, Donna Edwards, Eric Boehlert, Jon Kyl, Lindsey Graham, Media Matters for America, Ron Kind, Sarah Palin, Thad Cochran
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Goood morning all
Normally I’d be at work already, but I’m going to a seminar this morning, so I’m getting ready to leave now. That makes today another drive-by
We’ll see if our lovely Media Whore gets bumped from the Ed Show again….
Good morning, everyone. This will be another drive-by for me, as well. Our Process Design is going well. However, I look forward to being able to join y’alls next week.
It is ironic to note that yesterday, while we were being treated to some great Voice Monkey fill-in from Carlos Alazraqui, we’d learn that one of his voiced characters passed to the Great Fire Hydrant in the Sky. Gidget, the Chihuahua who starred in a series of Taco Bell commercials and later in Legally Blonde 2 died of a stroke Tuesday at the ripe old age of 15.
Details:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/unleashed/2009/07/gidget-taco-bell-chihuahua-dog-dies.html
Catch you later.
‘morning!
sorry to miss shaf and tr. Til tomorrow, then, guys.
Guess I’ll head to the work table myself.
I look forward to reading your clever and inciteful entries later, along with the highlight of my day, my stephcast.
love youse!
I’ll be dropping in from time to time myself. People expect me to work for some odd reason.
R.I.P Gidget.
Good Morning Board!
Happy Birthday to Actors Daniel Radcliffe (20!), Phillip Seymour Hoffman (42) and Woody Harrelson (48)
I guess it’s not my immagination that anger and intolerance are at an all time high. Look at Prof. Gates and this birthers nonsense.
Taking my seat on the bus this AM, the caucasian “gentlemen” next to me said, “Sit somewhere else c***k.” I could have replied “I paid my fare and will sit wherever I want mother******”, but pretended I didn’t speak English and turned up my podcast of Randi’s show yesterday to drown him out. The best reaction is not to react – my parents taught me that. Problem solved.
Sometimes I have a hard time believing it’s 2009.
TO SHOW OUR SUPPORT … LET’S PICK A DATE, SAY 073109, FRIDAY AND EVERYONE WHO HAS HEALTH INSURANCE – CANCEL OUR POLICIES. we the people should take action like other countries to motivate action, not meetings, not phone calls, not donations, not calling radio shows.
We must help and support our President. He can not do this alone. “yes WE CAN”. Bless you, Jamie
Love your show,
xxxooo
Obama could have stated:
That there were five other plans not just the one the CBO said was costly.
Congress has a health plan paid with our tax dollars. Yet the ones who argue against care refuses to point that out.
Address how medical tourism has risen with more US citizens seeking health care outside the US than Canadians or other foreign nation coming here.
All in all it was a so-so speech that I don’t think helped too much.
Good morning, live blogospherians! Only until somewhere during the third hour this morning (after oversleeping to begin with) and won’t be here tomorrow). I hate it when life inteferes with mama and the mooks.
Adios, Chihuahua! Taco Bell dog dead at 15
Gidget, known for the tagline ‘Yo quiero Taco Bell,’ died from a stroke
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She charmed millions without ever saying a word — and managed to make fast-food tacos adorable. Gidget, the Chihuahua best known for her Taco Bell ad campaign (and her famous overdubbed tagline, “Yo quiero Taco Bell”), died from a stroke on Tuesday night at age 15.
“She made so many people happy,” says Gidget’s trainer, Sue Chipperton. PEOPLE met both Gidget and Sue at a Hollywood animals photo shoot in February, where the pup was a consummate pro and delighted the crew with her playful nature.
“When she’s on a set, she comes alive,” Chipperton said at the time. But when the mostly retired canine actor wasn’t joining her trainer on shoots, the 15-year-old was happy to just kick back. “She goes on hikes with me and she loves the sun,” said Chipperton, who added that Gidget was happy to sleep “for 23 hours and 45 minutes a day. She’ll lay outside when it’s 105 degrees! I like to joke that it’s like looking after a plant.”
speaking of far away dog
Very good Shane-O.
How can Obama be a citizen? He’s a Nazi-Communist-Socialist Arab whose mother wasn’t old enough when he was born for him to be a citizen and was born in the foreign country of Hawaii.
Jim Louise Ward, DAYUM! Enough about your “woodwinds”, already.
Oh, and Good Morning fellow mookskateers.
Way to go Ken and Shane-o!
Mornin’ Bloggies!
One key ingredient in the Republican solution to health care is formaldehyde.
We could use salt and alum to pickle patients. Then when there is a cure for their illness, we could sugar cure them.
I think Jim is making a little pun between the similar sounding words “oboe” and “dildo”
Mornin’ bloggoes!
I feel a little optimistic that we’re gonna get a health care plan w/ a public option this time around.
I love my president.
16 — look what it did for Bela Lugosi!
I’m sorry I missed the news conference last night. Maybe in the next 48 hours I’ll be able to catch it online.
Morning, all. Bit of a drive-by post; I’m playing a funeral at noon, and need to get work done before I change and head out. Have a better one, Stephophiles!
Whoa, whoa, whoa Chris! REAL adirondack chairs are NOT bad for the back!! The cheap flat backed copies from Home Depot are bad for the back. A real adirondack chair has a curved back and is one of the most comfortable chairs on the planet. Cue up “Girl from “Empenima” and state your retraction, NOW!
Of course the Rethugs are trying to make a mountain sized mole hill out of the whole “Cambridge Police behaved stupidly” comment, in order to distract from the far more important issue.
What I thought was interesting was that the MSNBC crew kinda panned the news conf – Matthews, the Ed Show. It lacked ‘the beef’ in their view. Too much appeasing.
Funny yet sad to give these birth “defects” any air time.
Damn, I was just starting to type about having a finned mammal with the certificate when mama picked up on it. That’s why she’s mama!
J’accuse: perhaps this is a reverse conspiracy. The Obama team knows they can squelch this at any time, so they’re letting the fringe go wacko until there’s a Revelation (or the testimony of neighbors, etc.)…and then they can come into the light.
bull, caller. He explained it well, and I think he addressed the issue the best way he could. The rebubbacans are the ones who have made the economy the reason why we can’t do it, and he had to address why the economy is in trouble — health care is too damn expensive!
Opinions that have no basis in fact are called “lunacy.”
In many locations the power grid is run by private enterprise. Where I live it’s Exelon subsidiary Commonwealth Edison that provides power.
Just wondering if the HC bill does address expanding education opportunities for nurses and doctors. Seats in nursing programs are so few many nurse-wannabes have to apply for three years before they can get in.
Is Exelon a Japanese guy in a rubber suit being filmed destroying a miniature model of a hydroelectric dam?
A “do it yourselfer”? Does that mean he runs his own farm rather than have the government check to see if the meat and other foods he is about to eat is safe? Does he make his own medications rather than let that silly FDA determine if what he is taking is safe and effective?
How about we set a coal burning power plant right next door, and tell him he can keep his own air clean.
I thought “do it yourself conservative” had to do with Coulter-inspired fapping
I went to the chat last night for about a minute. Nobody used it!
Hullo!
So we don’t have a President, cause Barack Obama is a fake.
And we don’t have a Pope cause the last real one died in 1958.
And we don’t have a country since George F#@%King BUsh destroyed it
at least we have Steph
My moment of clarity – realizing that being a conformist/unchallenged right-wingnut requires no effort, thought, research or brainpower.
So the last caller was implying that we should just ignore the 47 million uninsured Americans because we just don’t have enough doctors and nurses to take care of them. That sounds like a third world dictatorship. Oh wait….
34 35
I thought the do it yerselfer Rethug meant he screws hisself
#5, I’ve spent the last half hour figuring out which slur was meant by “c***k.” I have discovered that there doesn’t seem to be any search engine that has a wild card character that will replace only one character within a word. There is one, but you have to have at least 3 characters in the word before you use the wild card. I did finally figure that it must be “chink” by looking at a list of slurs on wikipedia.
obama needs a VOODOO STICK!!!
Mornin all! Late start for me today, and I may not be contributing much… I’m finally starting new job functions for the transfer to IT… I have more reports on my desk than any human should ever be required to sift through and thus the last thing I should be doing is spending time blogging… but I was starting to get withdrawl symptoms…
Went out yesterday, bought a nice bottle of Rye,
opened the car door in the driveway
and the bottle ripped through the bottom of the bag
and broke on the pavement
I know of no sadder words
Yay Beckah!
Ross Perot was right about the giant sucking sound of jobs leaving the U.S. after NAFTA was passed.
41 chuck?
chump?
cherk? as in ‘choo a freaking cherk?’
43 congrats Dani you’re working!
the giant sucking sound is the GOP
“chick” is a slur. Call a woman that, but count your teeth afterward.
46 yes it’s tough to have to admit but the jug earr’d littul git was
right
when will we kill GATT and NAFTA? cause until we do we’re doomed
The rethug plan is the Jim Jones Kool-Aid Reform.
I’m so glad the Republicans are gonna solve the health care crisis.
44… So sorry about you loss… time heals all wounds ya’ know…
I’m unfortunately always working… it was just that my last position had become so routine I could do it while blogging without slowing down any work flow.. this unfortunately requires concentration…
gabby… I think Chick being a slur is a matter of opinion… I take absolutely no offense at the word… in fact I’ve kinda felt like the word implies “hotness”
#44: That must have been very sobering for you.
(me, I didn’t even remember to pick up any rye – how sad is that?)
There was a movement to prevent goldwater from running in 64. I remember it well. My eyes nearly rolled out of my face.
I think John McCain is not eligible because he was born before there was a New Knighted States
AZ became a state in 1912
chick implies yellow fuzziness, danielle. It implies four yellow toes.
54 56
I appreciate your condolences
at least I can buy another bottle today
and I’ve still got a liver
one year ago today I shattered my elbow requiring an open reduction.
I’ve still got the plate in there, maybe I’ll have it yanked out next
month. Thanks to you all and Steph for helping me through especially
the vicodin withdrawl. Happily I’ve not had any vicodin for prolly
what? six months
I want my anti-Go’a'uld provisions in this bill!
The deal with McCain was that he was born in a legal limbo. The law defining citizenship didn’t have a provision for people like McCain. Congress *did* pass a law after his birth clarifying the status of people born to citizens overseas.
Since Constitution doesn’t define what a “Natural Born Citizen” is, one imagines the power to define it falls to Congress; and one imagine this extends to the power to retroactively clarify legal loopholes like McCain.
#41 – BINGO!
28 Ruth I think you’re on to something
Let the Rethugs blather about the birth cert
while we get health care reform
60… I’ve thought more that the use of the term in reference to an attractive female was much more like to have originated in the dumb american’s mispronuciation of the French “Chic”
Good morning, BlookenMogsters.. Alas, sparta seems only a distant headlight of an oncoming train in a tunnel.
Where are the Big Guns today?
Did someone cut the cheese in here?
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41 gabby try replacing a single character with a question mark [?]
And as far as I’m concerned, you can call me “Chick” anytime if that’s the intended meaning. If that’s completely against feminism… well…good…
he he
66 — sparta is not important. I’m more of an athens fan, m’self
#2, #4, #9: The real Gidget is presumably alive and well (until someone brings me an authenticated death certificate in a ziplock baggie):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathy_Kohner-Zuckerman
71 — and doing ads for Boniva?
#65 According to Groucho Marx, his brother Chico (pronounce Chick-o) got his nickname for being a “chicken chaser.” That would imply that the term “chicken” for a young woman predated “chick” which would be a contraction of that.
71…LOL
65 Chick/Chic I think yer on to something
btw check out the song Chick Habit by April March
very cool little French girl pop singer throwback
Whoo Hoo Steph Girl’s Nite Out! what’d she say? leave bras home,
bring brown liquor
I’m sure it will be quite a time
Rethugs ditint get abortion illegal even when they controlled
house senate and pres
hey rethug moron voters, get a clue! yer party don’t care about
YOUR ONE MORON ISSUE [I'm talking to YOU, Mom.]
Hmmm.. En espanol, se dice “que buena chica”.. (not to be confused with “que buenas chichis”)..
71 Psycho Beach Party
best
Gidget
parody
ev-er
75 — great song! I’ve had the original french version “laissez tomber les filles” sung by France Gall in my head for years now. Song written by Serge Gainsbourg, who I think is the most rockin’ french dude evah
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMhO0Kfl5Ck
76- nothing good ever comes from drinking brown liqour (Must disclose this is coming from a whiskey drinker)
Is “next year’s math” harder than “today’s math”?
Regarding the birthers. I think it’s really about race. These people are racists who can’t psychologically deal with the fact that we have a black President. Their brains have latched onto this crazy theory because it allows them to believe that we don’t really have a black President, because Obama isn’t really President.
More likely.. mira las chichis grandes!
Bruise relief?
#82 I’ve reached the same conclusion.
Nothing is harder than Chinese Algebra. It’s what they etch diamonds with.
long coated chihuahuas had baths yesterday as
they had rolled in a dead mouse
no more mousey smell
now they are all fluffy
and talking to me ‘mrow mrow mrow…’
Ivan you scally wag! LOL
It’s ALL about race, folks. These idiots are all too happy to believe that Obama is the Anti-Christ, and we all know that would have to be a BLACK MAN..
79 April March does both English and French versions on her album
‘harder than Chinese algebra’ that’s a Mad Tom Wait’s line
It wouldn’t have been chick because it was posted by “Dan the Man”
Larry Flynt admits to having had sex with chickens. Was he a chicken chaser?
Maybe Larry and Chico spent a lot of time on the farm together.
go to Eastern Market bright and early and buy lots of fresh fruit:
melon, citrus etc
buy a new large trash can, thoroughly rinse out
cut up and place fruit in trash can
cover charge to get in: a pint of white liquor
“That’s not what I do here!”
I wonder what area of study Bill-o got his master’s from.
O’Rielly, unfortunately I do not think stupidity will be a covered medical issue on Obama’s new health care plan..
G’day all. BREAKING:President Obama admitted he’s not an American citizen and has booked passage back to Kenya, saying he can’t stand the land of the stupid and greedy anymore.
**urge to strangle Bill Asshole O’Reilly**
damn, those master’s degrees from Harvard must be purely worthless, if O’Reilly is any example
Does Bill actually think most people make $55K a year? Apparently math ain’t his strong point either… minimum wage is what again…
Is that Master’s like his Peabody?
No, O’Reilly is a dumb f***!
you’re right the rethugs are all about a kind of hidden racism
they talk about all the time but try not to be too obvious
92 – Nope a chicken plucker.
Bill O
flaming ten pound pile of crap in a five pound bag
Don Ho was in on it!
People flock to LA in the hope of being discovered by Mama at Schwab’s Drugstore.
Jack Lord! Steph loves to get that in there
from the wiki: “O’Reilly also earned a Master of Public Administration from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.”
Actually the Master’s at Harvard is the consolation prize for people who fail to get the Ph.D., unless it is one of the professional schools.
106 I met Don Ho’s daughter!
well, I’m not sure she was his daughter
but she looked like a Ho.
I think Chris is more of a simple, practical right wing tool… like say, vice grips…
O’Liely, on the other hand, is a completely obsurd, pig-headed tool, like the riding lawnmower the guy next door uses on his 10 sq ft of lawn…
So today the Dow has risen above 9,000 meaning that Obama’s Bear Market, the carefully crafted socialistic plan to demolish American business, is failing just like everything else he touches. Why doesnt’ he just resign?
$30K for a masters at Harvard? That must have been in 1922..
I didn’t think they offered a Masters of Assholery at Harvard.
Thank you Jim!
illegals will be less of a problem when they are illiterate and
tubercular
The thing about legislation is that you can always go back and tweak it.
Undocumented people carry diseases, caller.
114… I thought it was a doctorate in being a bloviating blow-hard…
114 — check the B school. every degree from there is a “masters of assholery”
I’m thinking, however, that a serious beating about the head and shoulders would go a long way toward “educating” Bill O’Reilly. And I’m just the one to administer it!
#117, or rather, carry diseases same as the rest of us. (not that they’re dirty). Infectious diseases. But you only want to treat disease vectors that have citizens?
I want an OnStar stuck up every rethug talk show host’s ass
and then they can all be tracked when we staple them together
and throw them in a lake.
so damned tired of the obnoxious crap they spew
will we make it to “spa”?
118
119
120
YES!!!!!!!!!!!
#108: That’s what she said!
“Stuck in the Nosebleeds” is the rumoured title of the new Aerosmith CD
Entering one’s own home when black.
screw the Cambridge police.
#122 I HATE the OnStar commercials. Who wants to hear about an effin car wreck every ten minutes? Same with the home security spots on TV. I consider these commercial a form of terrorism, i.e. “Buy our product or die!”
Hey, it’s woody guthrie!
Keep your song’s shorter caller.
Great song!
Thank you for cutting him off Steph
he was ok but too long
and not really that good
Steph is thinkin’ Gotta hang up now”
songs
Actually, Gates didn’t break into his own house. He had his keys, but his front lock was stuck. He walked around back, unlocked the back, and let himself in.
He didn’t even break in, and wasn’t seen breaking in. He was seen walking around back.
It’s the Folk Scare of 2009!
125 I didn’t even see that in 108
but you’re spot on
Dick Morris is now “Snotty Boy” Morris
I have a facebook friend from Cambridge. He says the arresting officer has a reputation, not racist, he allegedly treats everybody like dirt.
128 No, SUE the Cambridge Police
Charlie Rangel dials it down to 11.
129 OnStar sucks
Several of the marketeers creating these horrible commercials need to be stripped naked and put in a 12′ cubic room, slowing being filled with sewage, as they hear a continuous loop of their own commercials at 180 dB..
Make that ALL marketeers..
136 Gates ought to get a nice fat settlement that he can spend
educating racist bastards on how to be nice
140 — That’s my impression of most police. Other people being submissive gives them a hardon. other people not being submissive means they have to try harder to get off.
144 I like it. Madison Ave must die
Illegals almost always pay taxes (even if under fraudulent SS#s) and yet get less benefits from them than citizens. Yes, they do compete for our jobs and depress our wages, but that’s their employers’ fault, not their fault.
#6—If you cancel they won’t recover you.
#5—I frequently have trouble remembering we live in 2009 too. There is still so much prejudice and ignorance all over this country. That’s why I didn’t initially support Obama. I didn’t think he’d win because, in case you haven’t noticed, he’s black…
Steph will be like a sailor on shore leave at Girl’s Nite Out
my buddy drive a limo. lot’s of bachelorette parties
oh the stories he tells, when the Girls get liquor’d up and
start talking trash and losing undergarments…
SPA!!!
149 Obama is black?!? What>?! how’d that happen?
Obama is the first President since JFK that I can really feel is MY
President.
I’m afraid too many cops are into full Arian Youth Gestapo mode – that skinhead look is a pretty good clue.
Apologies to the 14 cops in the country who aren’t control freaks..
uh, must depart
try to see you before Sparta
Because he’s a Harvard Prof, a lot of locals here think he was “snooty” and “asking for it”. It’s more a class thing — blue-collar cop versus ivory tower Harvard prof.
But if you look at the relevant state laws, it’s pretty clear why the charges were dropped — the officer did not have a case to arrest him. Even if he was raising his voice — that doesn’t meet the standard for disorderly conduct. (Yes, it’s legal to yell at a cop, even call him names, as long as you aren’t inciting a riot).
Once he’d shown the officer his ID, and the officer realized he was in his own home, the officer should have let the matter drop. But he didn’t, and now he won’t even apologize. Maybe it wasn’t racism, but it was absolutely bad judgement on the cop’s part.
#152 When Obama was running for the U.S. Senate here in IL, I felt like he was the first Democrat to inspire me since JFK. That feeling has just grown since.
#12—you know the whole “He’s not a citizen” debacle? That’s just a cover, IMO, for all sorts of feelings. They are just mad, but you can’t call O’Reilly or Rush and say, “Rush, I’m mad as hell that we lost and the rest of the country doesn’t think like I think. What are we going to do to make 70% of American think like you and me?”
They can’t control the people around them so they are busy creatively dreaming of ways to get the game to go their way. In other words, they couldn’t win fair and square so now they are trying to think of ways to call us cheaters.
156 — I have that feeling about DK, but I know I’m deffo in the minority there.
#157 …while they’re the ones at least trying to cheat.
ewwww
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/22/rep-foxx-fool-me-once-sha_n_243149.html
You know what would solve this whole birther problem? We should all say the pledge of allegiance.
Have you heard Dick Morris speak on the health benefits of toe sucking? Fascinating stuff.
“we just dont want the smoking gun from the presidents weapon of mass medical coverage to be lymphoma”
#152—I think Obama will be one of the best Presidents ever. That’s why the Republicans are splitting at the seams. If he sets a Dem precedent of getting stuff done that sets the stage for another Dem after him. 16 years of Democratic leadership will be a lot like having FDR in charge again. If we have peace, prosperity and health after all this Dem leadership who will the Republicans scare into voting for them??
I say the Pledge of Allegiance every day at work, by law.
washington / adams / jefferson …. do we really need another foreign born disaster like these ?
Did the baggie still have some seeds in the corner?
PLEASE play the “sometimes you dont” voices . where are they?
The stupidity / biggotry levels in this country are truely scarey..
Shane-o, is this your lovely bit??
barack…. what sort of name is that? irish? danish?
“moorish”
*GASP*
167 — She wouldn’t have even been at that event if she had a baggie with seed in the corner.
I HAVE MY BIRTH CERTIFICATE TOOOOOOO!
I love Almond Joys. I also love coconut macaroons like they sell at Trader Joes, but I don’t buy them ’cause I’m the only person in my family who loves coconut, therefore, all those calories will be consumed by ME.
Now if they sold little 2-packs of coconut macaroons, that would be something.
169: fact is, shane-o’s lovely bits number more than one.
mmm macaroons!
164: my PRAYER is that the Repubs will be completely out of control of government for another 40 years. I’d settle for 20..
I think we should all make t-shirts with a picture of Obama’s birth certificate so these people see it EVERYWHERE!!!!!
Hey, Steph, Mixology is Rachels’ bailiwick!
174… oh, don’t I know it!
173: the calorie is your friend. that is why they sell them in portions of 2500 per meal.
165—don’t you notice that the Pledge means a lot more to you now? After all the crap and lies we’ve been through now it really means a lot.
#173 Why not just buy that package of coconut macaroons but ration yourself to two per day?
I had a girlfriend once with lovely bits..
I’m outta here, got to get to work. See you all.
Classic cocktails were never really gone, just that the Jager/Tequila crowd didn’t know about them.
Also Rye is the best American whiskey — a Manhattan made with Rye is the classic recipe.
181: thoe, “in god we trust” on coins is definitely obsolete. a simple matter of credibility.
#181 The pledge itself means a lot. The law that it has to be recited every day? Not so much.
#181, I will never pledge allegiance to a flag.
I’d be happy to pledge allegiance to the Constitution, and the Republic it establishes.
Danielle, what a pregnant idea! If you could do that without the State of Hawaii suing or something..
benadryl + pseudafed + 3 glasses of wine = fabulous!
wisdom of Stephanie.
#155—When my mom was about 81 and a cop stopped her and ticketed her for some minor thing, she flipped him off after he gave her the ticket. She said “Thanks a lot” and gave him the finger.
Oh dear. Old people are just trouble.
When she told me I laughed and laughed.
182: rationing…. what a lovely concept to contemplate over a bucket of popeye’s fried chicken or two. – fact is, as much as some people resist knowing it, not all hypothalama are created equal. my VMH was over-ridden and burned out years ago.
jim got ALL the rhymes for vagina. now dont be a whina.
an 80 something year old stripper once said on another radio show: drink a six pack, smoke some crack, turn out the lights, I’m beautiful.
We can all learn something from that.
Chris, you know you’re going to now have 1000 callers with words that rhyme with vagina… you may as well have done the “Is it raining where you are?”
188: yeah, flaggots have their moments, but allegiance? is that even possible?
194 — see 190
170—Othello was a Moor. What does that mean? (Cue mystery sting.)
194… LMAO!!
I just threw up in my mouth A LOT!!!
194: plus, scrape off the scabs, and i’m gushing wet with arousal.
So today is hump day, I presume.
191 – That’s great. I’m assuming the cop didn’t arrest her for disorderly conduct, though, right?
176—lol, 40 years is a long time. Can we have electric cars now please? Please?
flom… seriously!!! You’re not helping with the horrible mental images!
177—that’s a great idea!
Kathy Lee has an old antique organ that she keeps in a crate when she’s not home, I hear.
205: you call them mental images… i call them sweet high school memories.
201 / 202 / 207 Penalty Box!!! (Is there room in there for all of you??)
#44 — Tragic!
Reminds me of the scene in ‘Animal House’ during the raid on the house and Bluto’s reaction when the guy drops the box full of booze bottles.
177—–except then people will say, “It’s not a Birth Certificate. It’s a Certification of Live of Birth. That’s not a Birth Certificate!”
People are so dumb sometimes. They will argue anything….
#211 It only proves he wasn’t stillborn, I guess.
#169 – Dani – that was a Ken in Cleveland production — I only did the Almond Joy/Mounds commercial mix over his song choice in the intro and bridge section.
202/209: that would have to include bill press’ cohort, peter rugburn, who has a habit of saying “it’s hump-day…. and boy am i tired !”
211 — with true bureaucratic logic, they actually are 2 different things. “Certificate of Live Birth” is the short version of the form.
Has anyone but me noticed how hot Judge Marilyn Milian (People’s Court) is? Another hot latina.. I’ll bet she has some lovely bits.
#177: Two copies, with the caption “Yes they’re real.”
Chili, potatos and burgers were rushed to the museum.
I’d call Kathy Lee a washed-up old hag except for the fact we were born on the same effin day!. That’s makes her a washed-up youthful hag, I guess.
180—LOL. There is part of the health care bill that wants all restaurants, fast or slow, to post the calorie content of their meal items.
That is a law and information whose time has come!!
211… We could use that puffy paint for the seal… then it would even be raised like an official copy… LOLOLOL
Do you think perhaps that may start an argument or two?
So Parker and STone were spot on with their “I’m so ronery” song in Team America.
Oh…poor Kim Jong….I love it when Jim sings as him…
Shane-o, well your bits were still lovely!! (Ti HE HE)
209. Penalty Box has now become a wine bar. Thanks Steph!
Time for me to head out of here. See you Monday!
#216—Hm. I haven’t noticed that. Maybe it’s ’cause I like boys…
Dick Morris – or Snotty Boy?
And so is Eugene Snotty Boy Beady.
225… Well then heck, how do I get it??
All you need to do is pump Kathy Lee’s antique organ a little and it will play again..
#188—Yeah, but to me the flag means all that other stuff. It’s just a piece of cloth but it is attached to the Constitution in my mind.
like that
232 (see 230)
Well.. blow the DUST off the damn thing first!
Good morning!
I love Media Matters.
**Streaks through blogosphere**
233 How’s that?
216: the bailiff definitely noticed, but sadly, it took a while for rusty to realize how hot joseph wapner is.
When do we get to the part where Obama shoots someone during the Republican convention?
236. Bonza! bottoms up!
When are ya going to realize that facts have a liberal bias? Obama can prove nothing to these people, who believe the earth is flat & 6000 years old.
228: the trick to getting thru that, i recall, is to have really wicked and squeezy banter at one’s psychiatry/lemonade stand.
Danielle – you snooze, you lose..
Hawaii is French and Gay.
Or at least French Polynesia and happy.
According to Randi Rhodes, in some states you can’t get a “long-form” birth certificate. She couldn’t get one, and she’s not from Hawaii.
#241 That’ll be 5 cents please.
234: weird flashback of luther van dross on regis and kathy lee …. ata boy luther !!
anyone make a Venn diagram of Birthers, Global warming Deniers and Creationists? maybe add in NRA members…just for yucks..thinking it’s four concentric circles
Vince Foster
240: see? now if only the earth was raised instead of flat, they could believe in that newfangled theory of gravity in such. meanwhile, they just float around in the trailer in a state of doubt, watching for stray bits of green cheese from the sky. – - – onstar, my car was just crushed by one of buzz aldrin’s lovely bits.
I wonder what the Big Bang theory means to the people at C-Street?
S
#250 It’s their favorite show on CBS.
Of course you realize, if the earth were flat there would be a hell of a gravity gradient around the edges?!
250: eternal condom nation
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253: sounds like an italian proverb. 3 ships sail from spain. 2 arrive at santo domingo. – in the wise words of jim ward, ask your doctor if keeping your pie-hole shut is right for you.
#236: I missed that Danielle, could you do it again?
Woe to Rethugs and Blue-Cross Dems if they defeat healthcare reform. You don’t want to face voters with walkers with sharp edges and people off their psych-meds.
When Randi Rhodes did her show on the C-Street she totally got me confuse. I think she was trying to be Rachael Madddow but it was just a mish-mash of “facts.”
For starters, what is the relationship between “The Family” and “Youth With a Mission”?
Rhodes just blurred the two groups but, to my previous understanding, they are distinct organizations.
Anyone know?
A
“Big Bang Theory” is Aerosmith’s album after “Stuck in the Nosebleeds”
262: two albums off one sinus infection? – that’s almost as bad as the rolling stones: about 50 number one hits off one song.
Ron-I believe that both groups are separate, but affiliated.
“IT’S HARD” is not a valid policy on arranging health coverage; it’s an album by doctor who.
R
Hey, Canada, hose off eh? Don’t rub our noses in our own pooteen, eh?
T
Blame Canada!
264: sort of like “tubularbellsheads” and “gascinheads”. – and both are pretty scary.
Conrad – man up, dude.
Thank you, k to the g. And I say
A
“eager to move a package”
hehehe
Canada has beavers on their money . . . heh,heh,heh.
i cant read the back of the bag eh …. IT’S BACK BACON !!!
Hey, go mow the lawn Grasshole.
I’ve personally know or met lots and lots of YWAMers and met more than a few members of “The Family” from the waning days the Jesus Freak movement.
While I don’t endorse either group, YWAM is far less secret and cultish than “The Family.”
So, I was very surprised to hear Rhodes implying (or saying?) the groups are the same.
But there is the weird detail that the C-Street house was owned by YWAM.
Anyone know?
We’re commited to doing it right, because anything the Democrats want is wrong.
275: i wish they would put their money where my mouth is.
Come on, bloggers! We can make it if we try. Sparta can be ours.
#278 Remember the good old days, where the only “family” to fear was your own or Charles Manson’s (yup, that’s what Manson called his cult, the Family).
BFD pantywaist
Dems just need to ram the reform down the rethugs throat, like steak through a vampire’s cold heart.
Insurance companies lie?
Not true Sen. Grassley, the most important piece of legislation in the history of the universe, our glorious Patriot Act, happened quickly. Let’s try and re-capture the magic.
Sparta is close, march on!
278: the jesus freak movement is not over by a long shot. – just like end times prophecies, it will be with us for hundreds of thousands of years. – there will always be these people who say and do things that make jesus freak.
>> Sarah in Santa Cruz says:
>> Ron-I believe that both groups are separate, but affiliated.
That’s certainly the impression one gets — the wiki entry says so.
But I think this is based solely on YWAM owning the C-Street house.
But if “The Family” was renting the house from YWAM, it’s possible YWAM had no active involvement.
Considering how secretive The Family is, this is not hard to imagine.
Lindsay Graham’s moment of sanity.
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Oh golly, I have to find Sarah on Twitter. It would be humorous to follow her.
3-0
282: he must have copied the name from that book by ed sanders.
Sparta!
3-0-0
half-hearted sparta
pizza on earth – lost on velveeta
you can find Sarah on Quitter.com
Electric sparta!
The report is final, but that doesn’t mean it’s final. Remember, we’re talking about Sarah Palin, who thinks finishing her term of governor would be “the quitter’s way out” and dropping out high school does not make her daughter or the baby daddy high school dropouts.
Good Job Spiffy! Congrats!
Ron, not all Christians are like you. Not all are true believers.
Yay! My sparta is pollution free and solar powered! Woo hoo!
Congratulations, spiffy!
292 — I think her twitter ID is about to change, because the current one — AKGoveSarahPalin is about to be no longer valid
300: “stairway to xanadu” applause, featuring led jefflynne
Well, by eMooks.
Geez – no Sparta!
Say, WCPT Chicago’s online connection went down. Have to see if I can hear a replay of the show on another website. (Missing last hour and a half or so).
Bye all
#265—-LOL.
Yay Spiffy – green Sparta!
#306 That will help tomorrow’s live blog reach Sparta much sooner. Someone needs to bring up the topic and we can all post suggested new Twitter ids for Sarah Palin.
Alas, dumberthandirt is already taken.
Buh Bye, Bloggoes!
humble prediction: hannity will spin obama’s comment on the professor arrest as advocacy that in the normal course of their duties, police may shoot at obama.
OK, I’m outta here. Have a good day all!
313—I vote for Caribou Barbie.
Can she write a whole tweet without punctuation?
>> Sarah in Santa Cruz says:
>> Ron, not all Christians are like you. Not all are true believers.
Thanks… I think! (“true believer” has a couple of connotations!)
When I was in college I loved to hitch hike and I drifted around a little.
The cults could easily spot me as prime recruitment material and I got to know most of the active groups — including “The Family” which was know as “Children of God” if I have my cults straight.
Every since, I’ve been interested in the cult phenomenon.
Oh, and I _really_ know the YWAM people. I’ve had more than a few in my home when I lived over seas.
I would call them “culty” rather than a full-blown cult. Very different than “The Family.”
That’s why I was surprised to hear the connection.
But I shouldn’t be too surprised, since the conneciton between the GOP and cults, like the Moonies and “The Family” is weird-crazy but seems to be true.
YWAM is very conservative, for sure.
When I hear “The Family” I immediately think first of Charles Manson, whose little group of friends were known as “the family” and after the Tate and Lobianco murders, “the Manson family.” Then I think of The Godfather.
Just finished watching the ED Show. Great Job Stephanie!!!!!!
You had everyone laughing, and it made for a fun hour of TV.
Can’t wait for Ed to have you back. (NO BUMPING ALLOWED)