LiveBlog for Monday, July 27, 2009
• The Rude Pundit (Lee Papa) calls in at 6:30am Pacific to talk about heath care reform and the arrest of Professor Gates.
• Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) calls in at 7:30am Pacific to talk about health care reform, the economy, housing, and protections for consumers.
• Sen. Kent Conrad (D-ND), a key senator in health care reform negotiations, said yesterday that his party lacks the votes to pass a bill through Congress on its own. Conrad is one of a handful of Senate Finance Committee members negotiating a compromise bill that would be the first bipartisan health care proposal.
• President Obama said Friday he spoke with the police officer who arrested a Harvard professor and told the officer he did not mean to malign the Cambridge Police department when he said police acted stupidly. Obama, the officer, and the professor have all agreed to sit down and have a beer together.
• Former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin gave her final speech as Alaska’s governor yesterday before stepping down from her post, telling a Fairbanks crowd that she is resigning “to chart a new course to advance the state.”
• 4 years after his seventh Tour de France win, Lance Armstrong capped his return with an impressive 3rd place finish. Armstrong’s rival and teammate Alberto Contador won the race on Sunday.
Tags: Barack Obama, Kent Conrad, Lee Papa, Maxine Waters, Rude Pundit, Sarah Palin
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Happy mondee everybodee!
Good morning, Carol, and the rest of the early risers! Good morning, Team Steph!
I hope everyone had a great weekend. Ours was a mix of dodging rainstorms, housework and visiting my parents. Dad has had several fainting spells in the past few weeks, each one resulting in him falling. He is scheduled to undergo an electrophysiology study (requiring heart catheterization) on Tues. We hope that it will provide a more clear diagnosis. Stubborn as always, he refuses to use a cane to balance himself. *sigh* What is is about parents?
Good morning live blogospherians!
Missed Friday to be my mother’s chauffeur, and may miss tomorrow for the same reason.
Thursday was one of the greatest days in my life. It isn’t every day when you have a ticket to a ball game and the pitcher throws a perfect game. Heck, it’s the first major league no-hitter I’ve ever seen, and I went to my first game in 1955.
I tried to call Mark Buehrle to congratulate him, but the line was busy. Some guy named Obama was talking to him I later found out.
Stephanie and Mooks, I hope you address Gov Palin and touch on the following.
Palin said, “. . . suggesting American apologetics . . . ” does anyone know what ‘apologetics’ are?
Palin implored the press to quit making things up. Will someone tell me what the press has made up?
The ethics law required reform and she hopes the elected officials will continue that reform. Huh? If she remained in office, that would have and should have been at the top of her agenda.
Alaskan owned natural resources. Does she believe that principle on a national level? Is she prepared to revisit the mining laws that have remained unchanged since 1872 where claims can be made for $2 an acre?
Anti-second amendment anti-hunting circus from Hollywood. Huh? No. There is no concern about gun ownership but concern over how the hunting is conducted. This disturbs me more about Palin than anything else. She does not fully understand what is being said. Hollywood is not interested in taking away our second amendment rights as much as they disagree with hunting wolves from helicopters. Where is the sport in that? Where is her honesty in addressing what her critics actually say?
Delicate celebrity starlets? Huh? But Gov you are delicate or you would have withstood the pressure. You could not handle the pressure so you quite.
We eat therefore we hunt. Do you eat wolves? Stop conflating issues.
Mentioning Ton Van Flien as conscientious Alaskans outside the beauracracy who stepped up to the plate to make Alaska better is an interesting statement. Isn’t he her personal attorney?
Much success is due to Chris Perry, OK what did she do? Be specific. Gov Palin is terrifically unspecific.
Ressisted Fed Gov largesse? Ressisted? You could have said no. You could have been absolute. And, allowed the legislature to over ride you.
Making a living on the water? Alaska is no better than Massachusettes and has inherited rights to fishing grounds. Nope. I could not show up in Alaska and fish where I wanted.
Lame duck session? Are you kidding me? Should every politician resign because they lost an election, that is, quit. What would that accomplish? Good grief what is her opinion on a president who is elected to a second term? Technically it is a lame duck term. Should that President quit? I wish she would answer follow-up questions.
I’m sure we’ll be hearing a lot of Caribou Barbie’s farewell speech on everyone’s newcasts (including the Stephanie Miller Newscast
). All I can say in response is the same advice I gave to Joe the Plumber (by way of blogs), “Andy Warhol called. He wants your fifteen minutes of fame back!”.
apologetics: systematic argumentative discourse in defense (as of a doctrine)
Gooood morning all!
Hope everything goes well with your dad, shaf.
Is Failin still on the job, or did she quit before it was time for her to quit?
shaf, I got my fingers crossed for your family.
Morning All !!!!!! Had meself a pretty damn good weekend. Got in some quality tennis, a kick-ass bike ride (50 miles up and down some serious hills) AND a nice little rock show for the band in wonderful Fells Point, Balitimore (with a few dozen beers thrown in the mix). Not too shabby.
… And I did hear some of Caribou Barbie’s blatherings on Ye Olde Today show. What a crappy way to start the work week… with THAT idiot.
Between the idiotic “birfers” and Caribou Barbie (I STILL like Milfy McMooseburger), the Rethugs are covering themselves with glory….HAHAHAHAHAHA
#11 There are SOOOOO many good nicknames for Palin. She’s the gift that keeps on giving (for comedy writers and punsters). I’m currently partial to Georgette W. Bush.
And in more fun news, the Rethugs are pushing Carly Fiorina to run against Barbara Boxer.
snort
I find it laughable and the very epitome of hypocrisy when Palin said yesterday that there are some who are “hell-bent on tearing down this nation.” My, my, how soon she forgets about AIP, the Alaska Independence Party to which she and Todd had belonged.
Carol, where in central mass do you live? I’m in Hudson.
Morning all!! I missed the word-salad press conference… I imagine I’ll like the mystery-science-theater-version that Steph and the mooks will put on for us today much better any how…
Rock on Rich! Glad to hear the show went well!
#7&8. Thanks, Carol and Paul. You’re well wishes are greatly appreciated.
Okay, another chapter’s power point completed. Time to devote my concentration here because….
It’s Miller Time!!!!
Guten Tag, Alles.
I’m gonna have a massive headache before this day is out. I have to test a talking scale so there’s a microphone in the RF chamber. Unfortunately, the microphone is NOT immune to RF, I’m getting very loud 1000Hz squeals every so often.
Sorta like having to listen to a mixture of Caribou Barbie and Batshiat Crazy Michelle Bachmann.
Really, don’t you expect Palin’ll be running for US Senate ASAP?
#16 Thanks Danielle. It was an unexpectedly good show.
And I’m sure Steph and the Mooks are gonna get MANY laughs out of Caribou Barbie’s incoherent ramblings.
Shaf… I hope everything goes okay with your Dad! At least you’ll hopefully gain some more insight on the situation.
Anyone else not getting the Live Stream? I’m switching to KTLK.
Thanks, Danielle!
Chicago progessive radio works, too.
#24 I’m getting it using RealPlayer.
“An Old Man with a cane.”
Does not imply harmlessness. Anybody every see
“Karate Kid” with Mr. Miaygi? The cane is the
citzen’s equivalent to the police baton.
But I still love you Steph, and you owe Chris a
hug.
And shaf…I missed it the first time (multitasking)…so good luck to your dad. I hope it’s nothing serious.
No joke, the bar my band played at yesterday had TWO babies in it. Granted it was an early show and they both left (with their parents) before we started playing. I can’t imagine infants would dig electric guitars and snare drums.
Morning bloggers!
24- I like Green 960.. for the most part even the commercials are great (love the media matters ones I never got to hear on our local FL station)
We have freedom of speech… we can be rude to cops if we want, it is not a crime!
Live Stream ok? I am ;{
Like a Hitch-hock movie?
#34 I think my urologist asked me that when I saw him last month.
Pictures? Any pictures?
My stream keeps buffering.
But I’m hearing enough to hear Cop-kowtowing Chris’s tooliness.
/no offense ProducerChris
//but you’re being really tooly
Dianne I’m having live stream problems too.
Green 960′s stream is working well!
I am getting the show on Seattle’s AM1090
11: what it will take to satisfy the birthers was best summed up by rush limbaugh: “let’s face it; obama is black”.
hullo!
Momma was right
Chris was wrong
I read the police report. Gates did nothing illegal. He was a jerk.
#42, as with the time he thought he was a wit, Rush is half-right.
Hmmmm, second time I’ve heard “Manic Monday”. Pattern here?
hitch hock
momma still drunk
Good morning! Has anyone mentioned yet that Fugelsang called exactly what President Obama announced at his surprise Friday afternoon briefing appearance? About 10 minutes into Friday’s third hour podcast, he said he should invite Gates and Crowley to the White House to have a beer with him!
Chris…. Dude, why is it always the white guy who never has to deal with racial harassment by the police, the quickest to say quit crying racism?
phineas mcconnell’s energies would be better placed in the pursuit of establishing research into heavier-than-air flight devices.
2 hope your Dad is OK shaf
my mother won’t go to a real dr she prefers her quacks
Thadeus McCotter: major toole. Wouldn’t lift a finger to
try to keep 600 manufacturing jobs in Livonia MI, instead
they went to SOUTH AFRICA to build armored cars for OUR ARMY
McCotter is an ass on a regular basis
Steph on yer lawn in a cop outfit with a billy club
gonna give you a tune-up
you’d mouth off, admit it
they found 110 Chihuahua dogs in a house in Dearborn last week
and 150 dead ones in the freezer
poor little dogs
the guy is mentally ill obviously
48: as darwin mentioned, nature dont give so much as a heavier-than-air flight device trial about you. nature is in the business of propagating cesigns that best suit current circumstances only, and business is good. a clue is no advantage toward successful and prolific replication with viability unto age of repeated replication.
Is that how Steph’s Gay Ray works?
50: looks like jim’s prayers for ass on a regular basis went astray.
Mornin’ board.
53 how does that explain Dreadful Sara Pal’in?
53: accurately
the gates obsession is a device to detract from sam wurzelbacher’s share of today’s headlines.
Live stream is working fine here, so far.
uppity Prof Gates lucky the cop didn’t shoot him
just be like Chris and do whatever the cop tells
you like a good little drone
some of my best friends spent their childhoods obsessed with continuing the work of carl sagan. what’s with this scarcity of black professors crap ?
55 Jim’s wife Jumanga not giving it up?
I’ll bet it was the Harvard ID that pissed off the cop. I’ll bet the Cambridge police see that ID every day from jerks who think it puts them above the law.
Time to dust off the Harriet “Inadequate Black Male” drop!
they have to pin “white issues” equally on obama, or else the “black issues” concerns dont apply.
Switched, after some work to Green 960. Forgot for a bit that it doesn’t work on Firefox, just on Internet Exploder.
I want to know how much jail time this cop is going to serve for False Imprisonment. What? None? Speaking of people who think they’re above the law: see also, cops.
67: why are you even toolin around with clint eastwood while bagpiping?
#69, hey, in 1746, a court in England found that Bagpipes are a weapon of WAR. Means I’m better armed than Dirty Harry and that puny little pistol of his.
57/69: “i am speaking to the person who has stolen the property of the ooo ess ess arrrrrddd”
Morning, everyone. Gonna blog and run but I wanted to say hello this morning. The triple H has finally arrived here in the DC area. Hazy, hot, and humid. Yuck. We managed to put it of for most of the summer but it is here with a vengeance now!
70: i’d be damned if any limey slopes were gonna get their wrong-side-driving paws on your birthright, so for 2 years, i hid these uncomfortable weapons of mass destruction up my ass… actually, in all the confusion, i cant remember if i pulled out five, or i oulled out six…
#72 Just in time for the August recess.
70… So when do we get to vote on the weaponized version of Caribou Barbie’s voice??? I think there’s some serious war-time potential… heck, I think they could replace the music played in Mars Attacks with her voice (as the sound that makes the aliens’ heads explode) and the movie would be soooo much funnier…
72: the triple H has arrived ? – that’s awesome. mark, luke and brett are the greatest entertainers ever.
has the cop accepted the invite to the whitehouse yet
or is he still being a toole?
72/76: or were those the greatest apostles ? (they all look so much alike !!)
#76 That has to be the first Hudson Brothers reference I’ve heard in fifteen years!
Hiya, Bloggoes!
77: no rule that you cant do both. penn jillette pulled a surprise appearance in the oval office. as soon as they shckled him, he was gone.
Police Unions exist to cover for crooked cops. They should be shut down under RICO. Screw them.
ProducerChris has COP friends???? Why can I not envision Chris hanging out with cops??
ProducerChris, would these be cop friends be Hot Cops from Arrested Development? (just kidding!)
Hey, piggie, it’s not a crime to be irrational in your own house.
that cop is an ASS
Gates was a jerk that’s NOT ILLEGAL
Chris you are wrong wrong wrong
Gates was the asshole. As far as I am concerned, he can shove all his degrees and books up his ass and down his throat and choke on them.
The cop was on his way out the door and then Gates went off. Give me a break. You go off on a guy when he’s leaving and then when he says, let’s step outside and discuss this rationally you go off and say I’ll speak with your mother outside?
Dumbass.
When did irrationality become illegal?
William Crystal opens his yapper and someting stupid always comes out.
79: you mean you havent been celebrating murray langston day, and you missed the attack on snoop dog by rod hull’s emu ?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUdTCsvYWUg
If he were threatening the cop, ProducerChris, it would be in the police report. Hell, since cops regularly lie to make their arrests look better, it might have been in the police report even if he hadn’t.
#79 WOW!!!! I hadn’t even THOUGHT about the Hudson Brothers in 20 years or more. But damned if I didn’t watch that show when I was a kid.
CHRIS IS WRONG! Even the cop didn’t say he was being threatened.
Chris, read MASS STATE LAW — the charge that the cop arrested Gates with is bogus — even if you believe the cop’s version of events, it still doesn’t rise to the level of the conduct stipulated in the law.
That’s why the charge was dropped — it would NEVER HAVE STOOD UP IN COURT!
Seriously, can we stop with this subject between Mama and Chris… the arguing is rather annoying… you guys need to agree to disagree… you have different points of view.. there is not a need to convince the other of your point!!
Can we get onto some real issues or fart jokes??
#87 Dumbass but not illegal.
Mama is totally right on this one — the racism is a red herring, the real issue is the cop’s abuse of his power. He should apologize for an improper arrest.
Cambridge is such a diverse community — I have a friend who is a teacher in the school system, and she told me that there are native speakers of over 90 different languages in her school. So I find it hard to believe that a seasoned city cop would be behaving in a knee-jerk racist way. I kinda feel like the whole thing was two guys having a pissing contest that has escalated into a national issue.
Best dickwaving ever.
The cops called him out of his house because that’s the only way they could arrest him. It was entrapment.
Gates should have slammed the door on the cops and called dispatch for the officer’s name and ID.
89: back when david letterman’s show was wacky (the daytime show had weirdness that would never have flown for late nite, such as a regular feature mocking gabriel kaplan), there was a display of christmas gifts that didnt quite make it. – william krystal is a lot like letterman’s “rabid dog shave cream dispenser”, but with undiluted stupiditism.
The cop was wrong to arrest Gates. But let’s not make Gates out to be some kind of hero and victim.
He’s a dumbass and an asshole.
Um, there are SO many police state examples we can use without Godwining the discussion…
92: …. and, damned if you did. – do you suppose that “boss” of theirs was really al franken ?
White or black, if the cop arrested the homeowner for disorderly conduct in the same situation, it still would be wrong!
This is about abuse of police power, not racism.
And on that note, I’m out of here. Later guys.
Bye, Tony!
100. We don’t know that he’s a dumbass and an asshole — we do know that he was jetlagged and tired and accosted in his own home.
I think any of us would be a bit snarky and defensive in such a case. He’s not a saint, but calling him an asshole goes too far the other way.
im really beginning to beleive that steph just has an intense dislike for police officers
95: maybe that’s what i need to engrave my decorative base-and-homeplate edition claymores.
I’m going to weigh-in and say both the police and Gates overreacted. Assuming that both parties recognize that (sharing a beer is optional) we should be able to put this incident to rest.
Is there an opportunity to discuss race relations (i.e. driving while black)? You bet!
#106, being an asshole in your own home is not merely not a crime, it’s a right and a privilege.
Mike…because telling a cop who’s on his way out the door I’ll speak with your mother outside is something that’s cool and polite. That is a good way to get a beatdown.
97: surely youre overlooking the dickwhipping that happened during the major brawl in “orgazmo”.
Producer Chris has both black friends and cop friends? And I suppose he knows cowboys and Indians and construction workers too?
Good Morning Board
Interesting discussion, but dont’ think there’s a wrong or right.
Happy Birthday today to Carol Leifer. She’s 53 today.
112: I’ve not heard the President weigh in on that particular incident.
106: also, one must not fail to consider the impact of what gates actually said to the cop’s mama.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2V5F7g1d6c8
pasta la pizza
#115, But I bet Justice Thomas has.
117 — pube. Coke™ can.
it was said best last week. this isnt a racial thing, its a guy thing. the 2 of them had a pissing contest and the guy with the badge won by default.
Why is Chris giving all the benefit of doubt to the cop concerning Gates behavior. Perhaps the cop didn’t like that he was being berated. That does not justify his arrest.
This incident also reminds me of the Dave Chappell piece about not calling the police to your home because they’ll think the home is too good for you and arrest you as the burglar.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFHpvPwq2i8&feature=related
119 — best evidence yet that people don’t read what I write here…
“Beer: the cause of and solution to all of life’s problems.”
121- sorrry, but im not going to scroll thru the entire page
123 — those who don’t learn history…
123- get a c- on the final?
121 we do so read you Maddy! and you were right then
and you’re right now. It was a testosterone thing.
125 — that might hurt your self-esteem. We’ll give you a b.
I used to think she was awesome!
A story for Chirs LaVoy concerning the Gates matter -
My house was broken into. Someone broke a window to get in, cut themselves on the glass, blood on the wall inside on the wall underneath it, blood on my couch, blood on a ski jacket that was one of many things pulled out and scattered around the house.
Cop shows up and tells me that this wasn’t a burglary – someone just broke my window and never entered. He said I was the one who pulled all this stuff out and just didn’t remember (this was Miami, FL where it was later exposed that they under-reported crimes to make the city look good).
I pointed out the blood and asked him if I opened a vein and forgot that too. Got a blank stare.
I not only yelled at this cop…I told him if he was what was being graduated from the academy these days, god help us all. I told him (very loudly) to get out of my house and send over a REAL cop to investigate this.
Guess what? I wasn’t arrested. He left. Another cop came, said yeah the guy was wrong and fingerprinted the place.
Guess what race I am….
They’re cops, not gods.
129- i thot it was here in broward they did the underreporting thing?
111. Doesn’t matter, it’s not a real threat, and it’s not illegal, and it’s certainly not “disorderly conduct” according to MA state law.
I think this issue has been beaten to death!! I can’t listen to this anymore! Sorry bloggers… will miss you… I’m done for today!
Something I read this weekend: a lot of alpha-male wannabes go into policing because they want to “catch bad guys”.
But that’s not a beat cop’s job – that’s a detective’s job. A beat cop’s principal job is conflict resolution. This cop failed in his job.
ProducerChris, the police can NOT legally order you out of your house to search it. That’s why we have a CONSTITUTIONAL requirement for warrants.
Alright, gang. We need to defuse the situation here. How ’bout some Beaver Stack?
Producer Chris, would you rather have people cry racism every time a white person is arrested?
Chris — forget the racism issue! The cop was still wrong. Even if Gates had been white, and everything had gone down the same way, even according to the cop’s version of events, it still wasn’t “disorderly conduct” worthy of an arrest!
Hello. I love your show. Just wanted to say that you all should check out http://www.theroot.com/views/lawyers-statement-arrest-henry-louis-gates-jr. Apparently, Sgt. Crowley ignored several requests by Gates for Crowley’s badge number while inside the house.
In my opinion the whole matter could have been diffused by Crowley if Crowley would have just given his badge number, apologized, turned around and left. The situation was handled stupidly by the police. Peace.
duh! what did expect from a cop?
cops are assholes
there are exceptions
and racism does exist
I am very bored with the Gates thing. Obama has spoken with the parties involved. Could we please move on. Sorry, but if that’s all we’re going to hear about I’m going to have to listen to something else today… yawn…
How do we know if Jim isn’t just mimicking Chris’ voice?
I vote for a subject change, too!
Okay… This topic was irritating on Friday and it’s about 1000% more irritating on a Monday. It’s just starting to make me feel sick.
#133 That is a great observation, PeterW. It does make me wonder though, if the criteria for selecting patrol officers fails to take that into consideration (i.e. the principle job being conflict resolution).
140 — sometimes they both talk at once…
when Chris gets all tooley over the cop thing
I just want Mamma to whap him
If Mama showed up as the cop
I’d mouth off until she tuned me up
Submit to authority! It’s hot!
Hi all. #2–Shaf, my mother said “no” to almost everything I offered to help her. Everything she said yes to had to be argued into her life. It is so frustrating to those of us who are left to grieve her passing that
she made helping her so hard.
Just make yourself a promise that you’re never going to be that way when you’re old.
This is making for bad radio.
Since this is the Stephanie Miller Show, Chris is a toole and Momma is right. Move on.
4—Palin is a big, deep fried bucket o’ ignorance.
144: Ventriloquism?
“Respect my authority”
-Cartman, South Park
It is easy to reach the conclusion that the cop was first embarrassed and then covered it up by getting mad when Gates asked him for his badge and name, which he refused. Gates was probably talking rings around him and the cop got his macho up and wanted to stop him, put him in his place. Bad behavior on the cop’s part. He shouldn’t take anything personally and make it criminal.
And – to add to the caller – even when the police don’t outright lie, they will spin the police report as much as possible to make their actions look justified.
In some places it’s illegal to videotape cops when they’re in action.
#148 Thanks, Carol. Dad is a very proud man. It’s got to be tough on him to be failing in heath and be dependent on others. He still felt compelled to ask how much we owed him for lunch (even though we said it was our treat).
And Chris isn’t painting with a broad brush here????
Got to run to a meeting. I’ll be back in about an hour.
Soooo… How ’bout them Dodgers, eh? Is Manny just being Manny?
I offer this possible subject change, even though I HATE sports, simply because…
Hi everybody. Maybe we should go back to the ‘toys we had when we were kids’ discussion which went on all season two summers ago. I hope this Gates thing doesn’t go on all summer.
13–who is Carly Fiorina ?
This discussion is SO not making me want to download the ‘cast today.
If I wanted continuous argument I could tune in my local “sports talk” aka “R-W hate with a little bit of sports” radio.
#160 It won’t. Everybody will save face over beer at the White House.
Thank you Laura. And that caller is right. The police report is one side of the story. Does he say in the report that Gates asked for his badge number and name and that he gave them? I haven’t read the report.
Chris is a little too quick to defend the cop’s actions. They both have a problem with admitting they were wrong! Chris, just give Mama your badge number, apologize, and leave the porch!
157: Chris generally paints with a Wagner Powerspray painter when he is screaming about the type of folks who over-generalize.
I have told my own kids, about a million times, to not exaggerate…
Stephanie drinking the vino last weekend
Dreadful Sara bailing out in Alashka
Chris asking for a beat down from Steph
me
still
hung
over
13
One time CEO of Hewlett-Packard who had a big hand in destroying said company. Then went on to be McCain’s campaign finance advisor (I think).
Wow, I can’t believe we are still discussing this incident beyond the 1st 3 minutes. The police report says it all. Sgt. Crowley asked Gates if he would come outside and speak to him and Gates said no and demanded to know who the officer was. At that point the officer should have identified himself to the satisfaction of Professor Gates. He didn’t so the incident blew out of control. The officer felt that just because he was in clear view of Professor Gates that was sufficient. No way…. How many of us were taught that you never open the door for a stranger. Just read the first paragraph of the police report and that will tell you everything you need to know….
Read stupid is as stupid does…
http://wildweezle.wordpress.com/2009/07/26/stupid-is-as-stupid-does/
Has Maxine Waters had a beer with the President?
I’m starting to agree with Ken and Danelle, this story has been kicked to death. It’s time to drop it, and stop talking about it.
I actually saw a Beaver Oil truck on I-90 last week. But my camera was in the glove box, and I was going…er, the un-legal limit…But I had to smile..wonder how much razz the drivers get…”I haul Beaver Oil”
damned blue dogs are crushing me
Congress is corrupt thats why we are doomed
everything they do makes things worse
because they take money from the Big Special Interests
173 — astroglide?
173 can’t you buy that at The Castle Boutique or Fascinations..
173 it’s important to keep the beaver lubricated
The Blue Dogs need to be told to vote for cloture and then vote against the bill if that’s what their consciences (donors) demand, or have funding pulled from their states.
I’d like to see a France-like system; however, their doctors are public employees, and doctors here would never go for such a system.
#178, not to mention a little visit from the FBI on their fundraising practices…
I’m sorry, but I’m tired of politicians calling in and telling us what’s wrong with Congress. I want solutions. What are we, the citizens of states without Blue Dog Dems, supposed to do to coerce the Blue Dogs? If people aren’t calling in with ideas for action I tune out mentally.
It was a one eyed one horned flying purple eater. One eyed one horned flying purple people eater. Who waers short shorts? Crazy little people eater. Sure looks strange to me!
#178, the heath care companies aren’t paying the Blue Dogs just to vote against the bill on the floor, they are paying them to stop it by whatever means.
174—Yeah. I’m sick of hearing about what a bunch of butt-kissers we have elected. Tell me something I don’t know.
Chris need to take a deep breath on this Professor Gates thing. Sorry but I won’t give the police officer the benefit of the doubt. I’m a lawyer and in my experience the biggest liar in the court room is usually the police officer. Many police officers seem to have a “ends justifies the means” mentality. Here it appears we have some major league post facto revisionism and after the fact justification by the police officer going on. While I wasn’t there, I imagine the testosterone was running out the windows. Police officers like to be in complete control and the reaction of most of them to being challenged is to become overly aggressive. The last thing on their minds, it seems, is to try to defuse the situation. I realize Chris is related to police officers and that he sees the issue through that prisim, I on the other hand do not have my observations limited by personal feelings. My views are a result of professional experience. In this case I agree with Stephanie completely, if Professor Gates was a 59 year old white male he would never have been arrested.
I’m going back down to Florida.
And I’m gonna bowl me a perfect game.
I’m gonna cut off my leg down in Florida?
And I’m gonna dance one-legged off in the rain.
Well they say that Sidney Poitier was a blind man.
And they say that LBJ was a Soviet Jew.
I said that when I go down to Florida way,
They’re ain’t no kind of sexual healing that I would not, should not, or could not do, say this right here!
Well I’m movin’ down to Florida.
And you know that I’m gonna hafta potty train the chairman Mao.
I’m gonna make the governor write my doodoo a letter, child. And then I’m gonna grind me up a White Castle slider out of a India sacred cow.
Well, I’m going down to Florida, child
And I’m gonna build me the atomic bomb.
I’m gonna hold time hostage down in Florida, child.
Ain’t nobody, ain’t nobody, gonna tell me what to do.
Stepchild!
By this time I guess you’ve figured out about Florida.
Turn the muddy water in the Vaseline stained.
They be makin’ tadpoles the size of Mercurys in Florida.
That be tellin’ Julio Iglesias what to sing, now.
Now, whoever said that Sidney Poitier was a blind man?
Knew the same of Elvis Presley, too.
’cause all the saugages that dance like Ray Bolger on the hood of a car in the traffic jam,
No, just gettin set, couldn’t…what to do, right here!
Well I be goin’ th’ mornin’
Pole cats settin’ up a Seminole in sin.
Even though I’m in Florida
Just like Vince, I wanna’ win.
Well I’m in Florida.
I got hurt.
So I took all the children down in Florida.
I stuck the dick down in the dirt.
Well I’m never going back to Florida
That’s why I’m leaving today
When I settle down in Florida
I’m gonna explode the whole damn Tampa Bay
Get that boy in Florida.
And teach him what to do.
And why does the President say he doesn’t want to reward failure and yet, that cop failed in his judgment and now Obama is rewarding him with a visit to the White House?
I wonder how many people might harass Obama’s friends now in the hopes of being rewarded?
NO! no more on copgates
especially not from a cop
Phil, you are lying. You can not arrest a man for giving you lip. You do it, you get away with it, but are breaking the law when you do it.
So much for police honesty.
185—That is a very intelligent response to the issue an I agree with about 90% of it.
don’t know the particulars….but the truck had Flammable placards, but no Toxin warnings…so it was Flaming Oil for for non-toxic beavers. Or non-Toxic Oil for Flaming Beavers, and we all want that.
Now Stephanie has a police officer on the air who apparently hasn’t read the police report also:
Tell that police officer to read page 2 paragraph 1 of the police report before he brings his ignorant butt on the radio defending Sgt. Crowley…..
186 what was that Maddy?
Oh thank God, more Michael Jackson non-news to lighten the mood.
188—Yes, it’s turned into a big media stunt and distraction. Maybe Obama will have a picture taken with his shirt off again and that will distract the public anew?
#194 Yeah, but the Jackson story they’re going to tell makes me want to throw up a little in my mouth.
193 — “Moving to Florida” by the Butthole Surfers. Brilliant bit of subversive surrealism.
Newt’s daughter is a boring-as-hell writer:
http://townhall.com/columnists/JackieGingrichCushman/2009/07/26/one_man%E2%80%99s_impact
no more copgates!!!
I’m leaving until this is over
I can’t take it any more
it’s wrecked the show today
#199 Um…they’re moving on to Michael Jackson.
193 thanx
that’s very cool
ah, the Butthole Surfers
back in a while
when there’s no more about cops
#201, I am kinda surprised Mama and the Mooks are continuing to flog this issue.
If only Obama had kept his mouth shut.
Did he somehow get switched with Biden? Or is he catching Biden’s “foot-in-mouth” disease?
#198 If she’s writing as “Jackie Gingrich Cushman”, she’s basically saying read my book because you are a fan of my dad. She’s not confident that her work can stand up on its own merits. Lame.
Damn I want to hear about Michael Jackson’s prosthetic nose! PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well, I’ll say this for Officer Crowley. His ego is going to cost his city a lot of money.
#202:
“I am kinda surprised Mama and the Mooks are cointinuing to flog this issue”
No horse is TOO dead!
204—I just hope to God she never gets hired to write a History book. The students of America should not be so tortured.
#205 How long until some internet comic or Robot Chicken* does a bit about the adventures of Michael Jackson’s nose?
*RC already did a sketch about the crime fighting adventures of William Shatner’s toupee.
Has Sean Hannity been waterboarded yet?
Sorry but this is the most boring show EVER. Two people made mistakes. End of story. Can we move on?
Good morning, fellow BloggenMookiators.
I hope you all had a great weekend.
Tweety finally brought up a point that occurred to me the very instant that the Gates arrest controversy: suppose a college professor locked himself out of his home and had to break in. In the process, a neighbor called the police, and when the police arrived, the professor got huffy and demanded the cop’s badge number and ID. And even though the professor was in his own home and eventually had presented his ID, he was arrested and held for 4 hours or so. Subsequently he was released without charge.
Now, suppose in this instance the college professor were WHITE and the arresting officer were BLACK.
How would people feel about it? Would Good White Folks be quick to suggest racism? Would Good White Republican Folks consider suing for false arrest? Would Good White Liberal Folks point their fingers and complain about police brutality?
Suppose both the professor and the cop were the same race? Suppose one was white and the other hispanic? Suppose it was hispanic and black?
What’s the difference?
My feeling is that I have great sympathy for blacks, who find themselves constantly hassled by police, their entire lives.
210 — not nearly enough, at least. even if it’s already happened, it should happen more.
206—-Are you kidding? Now that’s he’s going to the White House he has enough fodder for a book. It will tell the story of his idyllic upbringing in Cambridge and end with this “tragedy” of the Gates arrest.
Remember the snoring Three Stooges scene?
MY GOD! Talk about Sarah Palin or Iran!
Chris, it doesn’t matter — cops don’t have carte blanche to do whatever they want, they have to follow the rules, this cop didn’t! Get over it. So what if you know cops, you should know that cops are human and sometimes some of them are wrong!
The thing about conflict resolution is that you’ve got to check your ego at the door to do it. If you are part of the conflict, you need to be willing to accept blame you might not think you deserve and step back.
I’m disappointed in Chris. He’s all ready for a Police State, and would happily kiss the Gestapo’s ass.
Just wait until all of Hour 1′s crap gets repeated in Hour 3.
Maybe I’m right. His nose wasn’t in the morgue because it was saving a kidnapped child or something.
#209 Did you see the South Park episode about Michael Jackson?? Pretty funny (if not a tad creepy).
212—I was thinking something similar to that. If this happened to someone of any color who was NOT a friend of the President, who would care? I’m sure it has happened all over the country to anonymous people and their local newspapers don’t care.
I like ProducerChris alot, but IMHO the SMS works best when we’re hearing Chris’s incredible laugh in the background.
#216 Seriously!!! I thought that would be the WHOLE show today. Enough already about Cops/Gates-gate. ENOUGH!!!
219—His dad is a firefighter. Chris probably knew of lots of good cops and firefighters while he was growing up. I think many cops do a good job but racial profiling is real. Still.
Death of the American Constitution
http://fabiusmaximus.wordpress.com/2009/07/04/july4/
I need more details on MJ’s nose. Anything but more Gatesgate!
Nia Vardolos Tweeted this:
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.
Bertrand Russell
Are they going to clone MJ’s nose?
Wow. So MJ had a hole in his face where his nose used to be…maybe he needed all those pain killers…. = /
#230 I’ll have to wait before I ask the doctors. Last I saw, they were in the orgasmatron.
#225… The Gates story has almost completely fallen off of the news radar! Shane-O did a great montage for Palin’s departure, they should focus on that! Play Palin’s greatest hits or something! Ridicule the quitter!
After reading the police report, I’m inclined to think officer Crowley took a lot of unnecessary abuse. Too bad. That still doesn’t make it right for him to cuff and arrest the guy on his own porch. He’s a cop. We have a Constitution. Cops, especially this one, are supposed to know how to respond to situations – like this one. Crowley apparently stated his name, but his own report doesn’t have him producing a badge to show professor Gates. Once Gates showed his ID, it doesn’t matter what he’s yelling, the cop needs to be respectful. And leave.
#233, I wonder how much of this is driven by Mama & the Mooks, and how much by the callers.
If every caller wants to talk about Gatesgate, we may be stuck.
Okay… The Jacko story was pretty good. Creepy, but not really surprising.
I bet Jacko’s shnoz is running loose and Palin has stepped down to put her tracking skills to good use!
Anyone make it over to the comic-con?
230, love the Sleeper reference.
Am I the only one here who knows that Kirstie Alley was not in the first Star Trek movie? She was in II, Wikipedia says she was in III, but not IMDB. I thought she was the bad guy in VI, but that’s not on either.
235: good point
#238 Wasn’t that bald gal the one in ST1?
@237 – Skyhawk…
Oh, I’m so jealous about anyone that’s ever been to SDCC!!! I’ve never made the trip, but this year would have been such a thrill! I’m really excited about everything DC has coming down the pike. I’ve been downloading all the DC podcasts.
#239, it’s also self-reinforcing. The callers call about Gates, it prolongs the discussion, prompts more Gates calls.
Same with the liveblog. We’re gonna talk about Gates as long as they’re talking about it on the show – the instant they move on, we will too, because we have the attention spans of mayflies.
Yes, Sarah Palin chose “not to take the quitter’s way out” by resigning. Palin logic at its finest.
#242 Speak for yourself. My attention isn’t nearly that long!
Yayy! Great job Shane!
In fact my attention span is so short I forgot the span part.
But what will her twitter name be? Come on Mama, you can get a half an hour of fun out of that.
242 — yep. same way in real life. i live in Mass., and this story has been everywhere, and it’s basically all people who’ve made up their minds, seeing what they want to see, without really looking deeply into the facts or the law.
I think the race issue does that, which is too bad, because I really do think race is the red herring in this problem.
Excellent shane-o!
Do you think Palin is going to move to CA and run for something here? the CA Republicans especially love pretty people here. They think pretty is all the voters want. I hope she moves in L.A. HAHA. I don’t think she could endure one month in traffic here!
#238, it’s correct. Kirstie Alley played Saavik in Star Trek II, but decided not to reprise the role in III and IV (the role was taken up by Robin Curtis).
The villain in VI was supposed to be Alley’s character, but she didn’t take the role, and the character’s name was changed and Kim Catrall cast.
Kirstie Alley was also supposed to cameo in a Next Gen episode as the first officer of a captain (played by Kelsey Grammer) of a starship from the past stuck in a time loop where it collides with the Enterprise. But Alley’s schedule couldn’t sync, so it was shot without her.
Remember, a Police Report is prepared by the POLICE. It’s not guaranteed to be precisely objective, in fact, the opposite is almost surely guaranteed.
And what’s this about MJ? Hole in his face where his nose was?
Strange, I have TWO HOLES in my face where my nose is..
243 – what do you thing GOPers would say about a Democratic governor who quit like Palin did? It’s astonishing that she gives this lame spin about how she’s doing it for Alaska, when she’s quitting because it’s too tough or she got bored or she can make more money…
The military style salute was given by Palin because she’s practicing for what she’ll have to do when she wins in 2012.
#254, did she have a head covering?
I think she should be saluted Arnold Rimmer style.
Well, I’ve got to get out of here and go to work. See you all tomorrow. Hopeful, they will be able to drop the Gates story tomorrow.
The whole “CO2 is plant fertilizer” thing the GW deniers are pushing is misleading.
Plant growth is not usually limited by CO2, water, or sunlight – it’s limited by nutrients in the soil. So giving plants more CO2 won’t make them grow faster unless you enrich the soil at the same time.
What an ambitious idea. If the swine flu vaccine is made from dead babies, then everyone getting vaccinated is supporting abortion. This could be fun for both sides of the issue.
And if the flu behaves like the 1918 flu, but right-to-lifers don’t get vaccinated because the vaccine is made from dead babies, their numbers will be decimated.
241 – I hope to attend next year. Until then I’m content with Dragon Con. I know Comic-Con has turned more into a Hollywood trade show, but nonetheless. DC is batting out the good stuff, “Blackest Night” has me totally stoked. I pretty much gave up on Marvel.
Azul is here to prepare the way for Gozer the destructor!
Hey. I liked the first one! Especially the restored version with intelligible dialogue and finished effects. And it was famous Indian actress Persis Khambatta, who died way too young.
From Candy Crowly @ cnn:
Palin to the media:
“So how about in honor of the American soldier, you quit making up things. And don’t underestimate the wisdom of the people. And one other thing for the media — our new governor has a very nice family, too, so leave his kids alone,” she said as she handed off power to Sean Parnell, the lieutenant governor.
“I will tell you one thing — if we get a woman president, let it be her. She is a real woman. She knows what a woman is supposed to be. She is pro-life. She is pro-family. She is pro-woman,” said Jon Eric Thompson, who attended the Sunday picnic in Fairbanks.
But it was not all friendly going. Palin has lost some of her light in Alaska and a lot on the national stage.
Fifty-three percent of Americans view Palin negatively, and 40 percent see her positively, according to the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll.
Worse for Palin, four in 10 Republicans don’t think she understands complex issues, the poll found.
Still Palin wouldn’t be the first politician to rehabilitate herself. And it’s clear that while she handed over the governor’s chair, she doesn’t plan on relinquishing the microphone.
“Now with this decision, now I will be able to fight even harder for you, for what is right and for truth,” Palin said.
Palin is working on a book, she says she’ll help other candidates, and she’ll give speeches. One of her first post-governor events will be August 8 at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California.
She could make good money doing all of that. She also could be on a path that leads to 2012; it’s called keeping your options open.
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“I just asked her that about five minutes ago, and you want to know what she said? She said, ‘I don’t know’ with her little smirk,” said Adele Morgan, who went to high school with Palin and lives in Wasilla.
246: the neat thing about a short atten
Why use the military? To undermine the Constitution. No other reason.
#256 Has anyone told Palin to smeg off yet?
Bush possibly violate the Constitution? Say it ain’t so.
263—I like that even her buddies from high school think Sarah smirks.
Did Palin click her heels together sharply?
Did she say, “there’s no place like home, there’s no place like home”? Oops wrong movie..
Did she say, “I know NOTHING!”?
How about Chautauqua, down the transit? All the real terrorists are here.
Posse Comitatus was done in during the Bush administration, wasn’t it?
252: clearly, you are TWICE as efficient as michael jackson. the loveseat is not your son.
263
A book? A Little Golden Book?
256: we need more daves, not less.
Isn’t the phrase “based on a first-come-first served basis” a little redundant? Based on a basis?
Maybe the Cheney news is why the Gates news is a juggernaut.
265—I was watching “Cronkite Remembers” last night and when he went over the Watergate scandal I became infuriated anew that we didn’t impeach Bush for rigging an election.
There is something deeply, deeply wrong with our society now and it’s because our media really has become the film “Network”. Even the news is owned and controlled by companies that must sell Pampers & oil to survive.
Much reform and many antitrust laws are needed.
How do I set my personal little icon picture thingy?
272—lol. Sarah has lots to say and the Republicans will buy her book in droves. Proof positive that any woman can be an idiot but as long as she is beautiful, her future is assured.
#260… I hear you man! Marvel has really disappointed with their generic-no-pay-off events.
Blackest Night… OMG! Brutal! If you get a chance, go to DC’s site and listen to the Blackest Night panel podcast & the Geoff Johns one too. There’s some great info and some pretty funny stuff as well.
Did you hear about the James Robinson core team that will be in his JLA (not Cry for Justice) once he takes over the book? It looks pretty amazing!
277 – Go to gravatar.com
260: how do you people do it ? – not just the being able to care about comics part, but how do you people manage to select factions. – i find it difficult, sometimes impossible, to trust people who claim they can tell the difference between two different brands of burrito. – it’s sort of the same thing. – i’ll never be able to start drinking wine, or reading comics, because there are just too many to make a choice.
277—go to http://www.gravatar.com and follow the instructions. Then close your browser and reopen it.
278: I know, Right?!! And is that not, in itself, sexism????
280: Danke!
281–I feel that way about cereal. How long would it take to try a new one each day?
263: sarah putin doesnt plan to relinquish the microphone ? – who could have seen that coming ?
Screw it…. I’m too hungry to wait for SPARTA, and too sick of Gategate to hang around.
See y’all tomorrow.
Chris, how is it you think the behavior of cops is subject to whim? Why do you defend that, boy scout?
278
More likely it will zoom to the top of the list because places like Human Events will buy them all and give them away free.
Though it still may have to be dumbed down further for the birther types.
SPARTA?
She’s got a little list!
She’s got a little list!
There’d none of them be missed!
There’d none of them be missed.
I’m back and it’s still copgates
I’m done
bye
266: i’m searching for private smeg ryan to say YES !!! to that, but private smeg ryan may be busy inventing a better light bulb to guard against sneak attack by vlad putin’s floating head.
Did the cop apologize to the caller? I doubt it, cuz he was not a friend of president Obama. What on earth is Chris defending? Bad behavior on the part of cops?
I can’t help myself, thinking I’d like to see Sarah with her clothes off.
Sarah LEE that is. ;->
Once I actually heard Palin say “Absolutely not necessarily” I swear.
SPARTA!!!
s.p.a.r.t.a
If I time this right, I’ll be just in time to…SPARTA!!!!!!!!!!!
All I can say is I sincerely hope Chris has all his papers on him, and in order..
Sparta. It’s the Law!
Or not….
simon bar sparta
Always just one short
Skyhawk strikes again!
281 — wine, comics… beer… literature… music… sports — it’s all essentially the same — with enough experience, you can make distinctions. How do people talk about different pitching styles? Or the guitar work of Aerosmith versus U2?
It’s just a matter of experiencing something often enough to have familiarity.
285: the trick is to wait until lucky charms has all 45 essential components, instead of the primitive stage that it stands at currently. – our grandparents had to get by with toothpaste that was only 3 different stripes of stuff, intead of the full 22 sparkly gleamy gel and paste ingredients available now.
I gotta run too. Good sparta for the day Skyhawk. Happy Monday!
Gates to healthcare… from one messy unfixable issue to another.
A change of subject! YAY!!!!!!!!!!!11
Sorry- no time for nicieties and hellos- (I love you all) But Chris is really making this show lousy with his obnoxious and hostile “I have friends who are cops” prejudice. The last time I heard that was in a jury room where I served where a fellow juror said upfront that she was siding with the cop because she had friends who are cops and “I’ve heard their stories.” … Seriously, Chris is being an ass, and I’m near turning off this program. I agree- “we”(where applicable) are/where wrong for first assuming this was a racial incident.I confess and admit my embarrassment for going there myself. I also agree that there is too much of that. But Chris should admit that the police- not to single out the arresting officer FAILED. They should’ve had a commander there to diffuse the situation between cop and Gates. And yes Gates behaved stupidly, but that was neither illegal nor the cop’s responsibility. And Chris’s statement that a cop doesnt need to explain anything is bull, and stupid. Enough of Chris’snasty tone PLEASE!
288: the “boy scout” epithet doesnt quite work. a boyscout is “cheerful, honest, reverent, not bitchy, …”
306—lol. I did not know that was the secret. Whole wheat Lucky Charms that are frosted, have tiny berries and nuts, and little grape nuts thingies. It sounds possible.
SPARTA!
Congrats Skyhawk, a true spartan is you
Congress should lose its FREE healthcare (FREE for life) until they pass healthcare, and then they should have the same public coverage that all citizens have.
303: despair not. i do believe there’s a “testicle hut” in your nayberhood.
#313 Just a little bit late…
Puttin on the Ritz.
Hmm. Gun to the head.. Maybe a good way to get the goddam Republican thugs to pass healthcare.
We air our dirty laundry in public because we’re Democrats.
Chris,
You’re doing a very poor job making a case for the police by (strongly) implying that they wouldn’t come help Steph because she doesn’t publicly acquiesce to one officer’s version of reality on the air.
So your tactic is to use fear to make people fall in line? Don’t talk back or, you know, exercise your rights because then they might just let you fall victim to a crime or remain unprotected. Gosh, you make it sound a little bit like they’re the Mafia. So don’t talk back, do what they tell you, or you deserve whatever bad things happen… then you deride a caller for suggesting that this is a police state.
If there’s a gun to your head, you might need healthcare later. If you’re lucky.
I have no idea how golfers know which of those little clubs to use, for example… irons and woods and numbers, and stuff. I think they make all that up.
305: the aerosmith / U2 rift is too easy. plenty of people are worthy of U2. – in fact, it was the original defense against putin’s floating head.
The whole problem with healthcare is that the Insurance companies are scamming us, and if anything changes then the insurance companies won’t be able to scam as effectively.
Krauthammer is another pathetic right wing stooge.
***massive urge to squeeze Hannity’s hairy little helmet until it pops like the human zit he is***
Caller is a witless authoritarian.
Argh… caller, just because the cop won’t apologize doesn’t mean he wasn’t wrong, or that his actions weren’t stupid.
THE COP WAS WRONG. EVEN ACCORDING TO THE COP’S OWN REPORT.
The police FREQUENTLY act “stupidly”..
Caller needs to be slapped.
Great birth “defect” on line 1.
312: maybe i’ll invest in a box of lucky charms with the magic hourglass which allows you to stop time (swear to cthulhu it says so on the box), and i’ll work my way thru the 2,876,303 varieties of wine, propably to find out that kroger’s three buck chuck is the best there is.
Why do these “birthers” all sound like they are taking a hard dump when they speak? Seriously… always.
327
Waterboard! Waterboard! Waterboard! Waterboard!
333: because they ARE taking a hard dump..
#333 When they talk sh**, they really talk sh**.
323: i just use an aluminum bat. nobody except the FAA ever complains.
If I were to slap Sean Hannity on the side of his head, a full gallon of snot would fly out and cling to the wall.
Better answer: Because they’re talking out of their ass.
Has any one put the term ‘health care’ into twitter? My G-d if you want your blood pressure to explode beyond your veins, twitter: health care is where it will happen. I swear, all the insurance executives and paid lobbyists are there. Help us out if you get some time please.
Should we start calling the “After-Birthers?”
329: it is sort of a beautiful thing that gates has a solid civil suit here, using crowley’s report as exhibit A.
341 — is Obama’s placenta an American placenta?
If someone thought he was a birther and then suddenly changed his mind and stop thinking it, did he have a Partial Birther Abortion?
341: ewwwww
We all act “stupidly” sometimes (I personally hold some records in this regard). But the police are entrusted with public safety, and when they ACT stupidly, they should admit it, learn from it, and take actions not to repeat it.
343…
Arab placenta
Placenta? Wasn’t that a punk rock band? They used to play with Wound Juice..
another ass talker
343: i think her name is actually pronounced “america FER-RERR-A”, but why did the topic suddenly turn ugly ?
caller: Grunt Grunt gassy hiss poot
Jan is extracting his poll info rectally.
347: no maam, he’s a decent family placenta.
Caller is a liar; 8 companies control almost the whole market, and regionally, it’s often only a couple companies.
Suddenly the damned Republicans are concerned about public DEBT!
Right wing caller desperately needs his nose tweaked.
352: i still cant remember if i extracted five bagpipes or six… do you feel lucky ?
Big Ben! Parliament!
347 and 353
lamont does deal in calphalon quite a lot.
A Rusty Nail is Scotch and Drambuie on the rocks with a lemon twist garnish.
was this j peterman ensign news discovered by the same austrailian amateur astronomer who noticed the expanding gash on jupiter ?
AKA “KISS” go, ace frehl– i mean go paul stanley !!
A stronger believer in abstinence, but a stronger believer in hot 22 year old interns.
A politician cheating on his wife with an intern? Where have I heard that before?
and the mook had no problem with “paul stanley” being someone’s real name?
Have to run, Most Favored People!
God bless, hasta manana. Don’t you ever change a thing.
No Chris, that’s not his real name. He was born Bernie Hoffman.
It’s pronounced a-LAH-mo, I think.
346: exactly. I addmitted I reacted stupidly by first assuming race (kneejerking) was a factor in this particular instance. The police failed in their duties and Gates overacted and the cop acted inappropriately. Now Chris should just acknowledge these thingstoo. IMO
And in anycase, the cops had no business arresting Gates.
guess what. ive got a fever. and the only prescription is a rectal infusion of the blood of the lamb.
I think I’ve seen Tony Alamo in a movie before. I think he played a pizza delivery boy.
Jesus didn’t have any “youthful indiscretions” — unlike Tony Alamo.
370: glad you got your avatar going. you are quite the handsome chap.
#363, I’m a strong believer in 22 year old interns too! And 18 year old fiddle virtuosi. And 40 year old MILFs.
I’m very flexible. In my dreams.
Have a good day everyone!
#370 Wasn’t that Torgo the pizza delivery boy? (Obscure Manos: The Hands of Fate/MST3K reference)
Just popped back in to wish everyone a great day!
368: I agree totally.
371: well, he did chuckle like beavis over the word “myrrh”. “i mean dudes we speak a dead language, and we’re making it worse with words like MYRRH ?”
Another three hours wasted, except for the conversation here. See you tomorrow (I think).
#370, a Jackie Treehorn production?
380: nice colour. you may replace your kilt.
375
Hands:The Hands of Fate???
Thanks to all for putting up with me. I really think you guys are the funniest and smartest bunch on the internet. Have a good day.
Just listening to today’s 1st hour and a half I missed live this morning.
JMO, but Chris makes me want to hurl on this particular issue. Kissing cop asses is NOT required in this country! What a meek little mouse Chris must be – I wonder if everyone pushes him around like he would submit to the cops to do?
I’m beyond disappointed and FWIW, I’ll damn sure talk back to ANY cop inside my own home. It’s MY home, and unless I threaten the cop in some manner, I have no obligation to kiss his butt. I’d damn sure demand to see his badge number.
For Chris, again I’d ask, suppose the professor were white and the cop were black. Now, tell me how all those right wing bubbas wouldn’t be screaming like a stuck hog: RACISM! Uppity black man!
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Better now – must have been a fluke!
I think it is time to switch back to the old theme song. I know I am not walking on sunshine right now and I am not going to take it any more.
I will throw up if I hear more about the Gates/cop story.