LiveBlog for Friday, July 31, 2009
• Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA) calls in at 6:30am Pacific to tell us about her anger at the Blue Dog Democrats and their opposition to meaningful health care reform.
• Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY) calls in at 8:05am Pacific to talk about health care reform.
• Comedian John Fugelsang joins us in studio at 8:10am Pacific to talk about all things politics and pop culture.
• President Obama sat down for a beer at the White House last night with a top African-American professor and the police officer who arrested him earlier this month. After the meeting, Sgt. James Crowley told reporters that the men had a “cordial and productive discussion” in which they agreed to move forward rather than dwell on past events. He said they plan to meet again.
• A key Senate committee won’t vote on its compromise health care overhaul plan before the upcoming month-long August recess, giving GOP-ers and some conservative Dems their desired slowdown in congressional action on President Obama’s top domestic priority.
• According to a new CNN Poll of Polls, 54 percent of Americans approve of how President Obama is handling his duties in the White House. That’s down 7 points from late June. In the same Poll of polls, 48 percent approve of how he’s handling the economy, and 43 percent approve of his handling of health care reform.
Tags: Barack Obama, Barbara Lee, Eliot Engel, Health Care Reform, Henry Louis Gates Jr, James Crowley, John Fugelsang
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Goooood morning all! Happy Fridee!
Mama was smokin’ hot on the TeeVee last night.
#1 Indeed. Loved the “clean and articulate” joke. Of course, I’m reminded of the Homer Simpson quote: “Here’s to alcohol: the cause of, and answer to, all of life’s problems.”
F#^&*ing network
Can’t get into the site that lets me enter my hours for the week.
There, finally. I can get paid.
(not that it matters that much, I could have just emailed my boss and give him the hours).
Morning shaf
When Ed was talking about Sarah filling in for him while he was on vacation my mind started spinning (HEY, WHY NOT ASK STEPH). Then I realized he was talking about his radio show.
Another Friday and I’m the only tech here. And it’s near time to put my programmer’s cap on. Making progress – I’m working on updating our magnetic immunity test software. If’n I’m not careful I suppose you could call it a “credit card eraser”.
Instead about growling about the health care legislation and Congress, I thought I’d share a song from comedian, songwriter and uke-player Kate Micucci. The song, “It’s Time to Get Laid” was written by Kate, and performed by herself and William H. Macy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zJHMad1ZsM
Happy Fridee!
damn these blocked intertubes.
The YouTubes are a no-no.
#6 Bummer! I used to work for a bank and they locked down the firewall so tightly that you couldn’t get to web-mail or most political sites. I was very glad to get away from that environment.
Good morning bloggers.
#6: They tied your youtubes? What about your Gore-given right to unlimited video reproduction?
shaf, #5, hahaha, good start to the day.
Hi Paul, Pj and an official good morning to shaf as well.
May I tell my story of meeting Prof. Gates? Years ago (10-20)I went with friends to their Episcopal Church in Lexington,MA….an affluent, white suburb. There was however a black man at the service to whom my friends introduced me, Prf. Gates. He grew up in the parish and my friend, a retired Episcopal priest, played poker with his father.
Here the story is because of the increasing network requirements due to the use of Windows Mobile we can’t allow non-essential internet use.
This might be important information for teh Beaver Stack:
BREAKING NEWS: Beavercreek family selected for ‘Extreme Makeover,’ friends say
http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/dayton-news/beavercreek-family-selected-for-extreme-makeover-friends-say-227965.html?cxntnid=bn-073009
added to 13
it ESPECIALLY meant streaming sites such as YouTube and the social sites such as Facecrack.
Hi Carol & pj
#14 I dated a woman from Beavercreek during my college years. It’s a nice community.
Great story about meeting Prof. Gates, Carol!
shaf, my brother and his family lived there (in Beavercreek) in the 80′s.
#7: You’d think the bank would leave a door open in their firewall for all those money transfers from Nigerian princes.
ummm, John Fugelsang, ummm.
funny, smart and dreamy!
morning
tho not sure anything good about it
‘cept you all are here
and Momma soon will be
some really funny stuff on the blog yesterday morning before I
got there, reviewed it while laughing out loud
too bad I can’t remember any of it now
could go back there, beauty of the internuthin’ but gotta focus
on today
Good morning, live blogospherians! And happy Fridee!
Our long national nightmare is over. The beer summit appears to have been a success. Now we can get on with frivolous things like health care.
Morning blog!
mornin all! How’s everyone today?
In other news, Sec. of Transportation Ray LaHood was on a Chicago radio show this morning stating that cash for trash program was so successful that they went through the billion dollars allocated in the first four days. The budget office and Congress are now looking for an identical amount to continue the program. (For another four days?)
Hi, Danielle. I’m good. Hope you are feeling better.
Carol, I figured all guys lived there in the 80′s… I just didn’t think it was a family activity… **skates**
Instead of Cash for Trash, they should have called it A Check for Dreck.
Oh it’s Beavercreek, at first I was reading it Beavercrack.
thanks shaf… still a little fever, but at least it means I can work from home.
It’s Miller Time, y’alls!
Goood morning Danielle, Rocky Mountain, LeftCenter and Mark.
Sad to say, I’m still a couple of days behind on my ‘cast listening. Still in Hour 3 of Tuesday’s show. Just too much going on..
Is there still a penalty box here???? LOL
remind me gates & a cop is in the news for 2 weeks. a gay black sailor was killed on duty & his body was burned @ the scene of the crimd. he didn’t get 2 min on cnn.
Difinitive Discrimination in America
Don’t ask don’t tell kills again:
Family says gay sailor killed by closeted serviceman in fear of being outed: http://www.inlookout.com/2009/07/17/family-says-gay-sailor-killed-by-closeted-serviceman-in-fear-of-being-outed/
An aunt of August Provost III, a gay sailor who was killed on guard duty at Camp Pendleton in San Diego last month, suggested that that her nephew may have been murdered by another closeted sailor for fear of being outed.
Navy petty officer charged with gay sailor’s murder
Navy petty officer Jonathan Campos has been charged with the murder of August Provost III, a gay sailor who was shot multiple times while standing guard duty at Camp Pendleton in San Diego. Provost had confronted Campos as he attempted to break into a secure compound and set fire to a hovercraft. http://www.inlookout.com/2009/07/24/navy-petty-officer-charged-with-gay-sailors-murder/
Senate to debate Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell in the Fall
The Senate Armed Services Committee has agreed to hold hearings on Don’t Ask, Don’ Tell (DADT) this fall thanks to a commitment secured by Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) who is trying to overturn the policy. The agreement comes on the heels of an amendment floated by Sen. Gillibrand two weeks ago which would have placed a temporary moratorium on discharges under DADT. The amendment was never introduced as Gillibrand failed to gather the 60 votes necessary for passage. This will be first time Congress has evaluated the policy since it was enacted in 1993 under President Clinton. There are also efforts to overturn the DADT in the House under the leadership of Rep. Patrick Murphy (D-PA), an Iraq war veteran.
Was Provost Killed For Being Gay or Black? Or Because of Where He Stood?: http://www.queerty.com/was-provost-killed-for-being-gay-or-black-or-because-of-where-he-stood-20090706/
Provost III are blaming the military for the death of the 29-year-old, who was found shot dead, execution style, while standing duty at a guard station overnight. “He went to the Navy to serve and protect,” says Provost’s aunt Rose Roy, who insists his murder was because of his race or sexuality. “That phrase is just stupid because it tells them they have no one to speak to.” The Navy maintains there’s no evidence of a hate crime (beyond Provost telling his family he was being harassed on base, apparently).
Does 34 nails shot into the head qualify as a hate crime? You think?:
http://www.inlookout.com/2009/04/27/does-34-nails-shot-into-the-head-qualify-as-a-hate-crime-you-think/
While the Sydney police are reluctant to qualify the Liu’s murder as a hate crime at this time, if it walks and talks like a hate crime… well my friends, it’s probably a hate crime. Whether it’s based on race, sexual orientation or both.
But if you ask Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council, who is vehemently opposed to the hate crimes legislation now coursing its way through Congress, he would likely disagree. From Perkins’ Fight Hate Crimes website:
Hate Crimes legislation is ultimately a Thought Crime law, allowing citizens to be prosecuted for their religious beliefs.
Hate Crimes legislation is a violation of our First Amendment rights of Free Speech and Free Exercise of Religion.
Hate Crimes legislation creates a special class of people based on their “sexual orientation” or “gender identity.”
The Constitutional rights of pastors and religious individuals to peacefully disagree on issues of sexual orientation should be protected.
Again we circle around to the whole religious persecution argument. Mr. Perkins, unless faith is proven to be a major and recurring motive in brutal slayings such as these, then you really don’t have anything to worry about. Or IS that what you’re worried about? This is a free country Mr. Perkins, and you are entitled to your bigotry and hate, but not the violence that flows from it. And that violence should be punished in kind, not to diminish your faith, but to discourage the violence and hate that often uses religion as its source.
Obama urges quick passage of Hate Crimes Bill: http://www.inlookout.com/2009/04/29/obama-urges-quick-passage-of-hate-crimes-bill/
President Obama issued the following statement last night regarding hate crimes legislation which goes before the Congress today.
“This week, the House of Representatives is expected to consider H.R. 1913, the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009. I urge members on both sides of the aisle to act on this important civil rights issue by passing this legislation to protect all of our citizens from violent acts of intolerance – legislation that will enhance civil rights protections, while also protecting our freedom of speech and association. I also urge the Senate to work with my Administration to finalize this bill and to take swift action.”
Police Charged with False Arrests of Gay Men at Adult Video Stores: http://www.gothamgazette.com/article/fea/20090202/202/2813
Anger is building against the police department in the wake of an increase in arrests of gay men for prostitution at Manhattan adult video stores. Last week, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn joined in the outcry. She said she is working with the mayor’s office and commanders of the police department to set up a meeting that will include gay community groups “to get to the bottom of this.”
The arrests have been documented by Duncan Osborne of the Gay City News over the last several months. Police are allegedly using handsome young undercover cops to cruise middle-aged gay men, offering to go home with them for consensual sex. As they leave the store together, the cop offers to pay the man for the sex, confusing the victims who can’t imagine why the younger man would make such a proposal. Then, as they walk out of the store, the victim, despite never having agreed to any exchange of money, is surrounded by undercover cops, handcuffed and charged with prostitution.
Gay activists and civil libertarians see the arrests as part of a continuing effort to shut down porn operations in the city and a tendency by the police department to criminalize gay sexual behavior.
We need to see [the arrest policy] stopped and to figure out how it started,” Quinn told Gotham Gazette, calling the arrests of gay men “the most egregious I have heard of” going back to her days as executive director of the Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project, which is part of a coalition to stop these arrests. “It’s not even entrapment,” she said. “These are false arrests.”
A Raid at a Club in Texas Leaves a Man in the Hospital and Gay Advocates Angry: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/05/us/05texas.html?ref=us
FORT WORTH — The grand opening sign still hangs above the door of the Rainbow Lounge, but the recently opened dance club has already become a rallying point for gay men and lesbians here, after a raid by law enforcement last week left one man hospitalized with a head injury and prompted complaints of brutality.
The raid in the early hours of June 28 by Fort Worth police officers and agents from the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission has set off a political uproar and galvanized gay advocates in Fort Worth, who have traditionally been less vocal than in Dallas and Houston. After years of keeping a low profile, gay men and lesbians in Fort Worth say they are furious, and their complaints have spread on the Internet, attracting support from gay rights groups across the country.
#5 nice vid
appreciate the sentiment
esp funny seeing Bill Macy in there
33… yes, capt left it for us…he even fixed it up all fancy with a TV and fainting couch….
Happy Friday everyone!
Shane-o is this your work??
Let’s not forget Joe Biden’s near beer.
And of course, there’s no fighting in the War Room!
Maybe Obama selected Biden to combat all the people who said the only reason McCain didn’t win was because he had a bumbling idiot running mate???? hmmm…. leveling the playing field so he could say he won on his own merits…
my buddy last nite in the bar loudly proclaimed he
hates social activists [Obama] social scientists [The Prof]
and cops… so I dunno, guess he’s not into the beer summit.
F#&K you ocifer Crowley with your ‘agree to disagree’ crap.
You disagreed and then you proved it to him by arresting him.
Guess you were the bigger man. Oh wait, no, you just had a badge.
But I’m not going there, we don’t talk about that.
Beaver Stack instead!
WHAT IS UP, Y’ALL!!!!! It’s Happee Freakin Casual Fridee!!!!
35 33
and don’t forget the booze closet in the penalty box
42.. considering I’m still in my PJ’s I’d definately agres with the casual part…
I’ve had beaver problems all my life.
Genesee Cream Ale is made in Rochester, not Lockport. And, yes, Chris, it’s not very good, but it IS cheap. At least it’s better than Utica Club Beer, and I’m sure Stephanie would agree!
BTW, Stephanie might like to know that OV splits haven’t been available for years, nor have Rolling Rock or Matts splits (these 8-packs of 7 oz bottles were popular back when they sold for $1.99), or any type of beer in “splits”
Whistling, huh? Learn something new EVERY day!!!!
43… well, we’ve been in there a lot lately Mark, so I figured we cleaned it out already… there were an awful lot of shots yesterday in the live blog…
Oh Stephie and yer Beaver Stack
such juvenile humor
we can’t get enough
Uh oh swipe at Jim and his marriage stuff, Jujumangi
Beaver is not a nuisance.
Nothing like a happy beaver.
I heard that once a month, they were having problems with beaver flooding. *skates*
44 do tell
what kind of pj’s ARE they? bunny rabbits?
tattered by cats
Are the beaver in for Dick?
Do you think you can get a beaver deceiver at the Hustler store?
48 oh no the liquor closet is bottomless… just like[skates]
beaver baffler
with feathers?
Back in my younger, cheap beer drinkin days I was always partial to Schaeffer. $1.69 a Six Pack!!!!! Remember the commercials? “Schaeffer is the ONE beer to have when you’re having more than one.” Or in my case, when you’re having 17 or so!!!!
From beavers to poles… go queen segwey!
53… they’re alwayd in for dick…
They just can’t keep Dick out of their beaver pipes.
Which reminds me, is former Cubs pitching coach Dick Pole still working?
39 no fighting in the war room reminds me of a good webthing I visited
once:
‘no smoking in the skull cave’
no meth in the bra. a psa from Stephie
That’s a big ars bra!
Mark, don’t worry, she couldn’t fit much in there…
That much meth…she must have had a Z-bra.
Maelstrom of moving mammaries! Beautiful!
61 Dick Pole mebbe Dick Trickle retired
Love Jim’s Dragnet
reminds me of Film Noir Femme Fatale Steph: [w/appologies to Steve
Martin]
what are you doing?
you fainted and your breasts got all out of whack I was adjusting
them, there
Oh, thank you, no one’s ever given me credit for having any before
The people at Confuse-A-Cat have branched out. They’re now opening Baffle-A-Beaver.
#37… Danielle, that “Beer Summit” montage was me but I did consult Shane-O quite a bit last night! Not sure why they haven’t assigned credit this week. Oh, well.
Ken, take a bow. It was great!
or is that Bewilder-a-Beaver
Radio stations in LA and SF are still running car dealers’ “cash for clunkers” ads.
boobs are nice
one of the nicer things
in this tired dismal old Mortal Coil
The Goddess must have wanted us to enjoy some things here
or she wouldn’t have made boobs
so what did she have against Stephcha? I guess everybody
gets something, Stephie got wit, humor, a Spectacular Ass
you can’t have everything
what’s the country song line? ‘Nice legs, too bad about the face’
or in Steph’s case, the chest
69… well, it was lovely Ken… **applause** I’m impressed!
#72 They were in Chicago, too. LaHood said that deals made today would be honored.
Hey guys…gonna probably blog and run. Gotta hope into the shower, but if you’re wondering why the insurance companies and their minions hate the public options, check this out.
Why Insurance Companies Oppose the Public Option
They don’t want the competition.
If yer dumb enuff to believe the Health Care Reform will
include forced euthanasia mebbe you DO need to be killed, culled
cash for clunkers isn’t dead. it’s just out of money. They’ll replenish its budget (it’s moved thousands of cars and got thousands of dirty ineffficient cars off the road) and all will be well
Oh come on, Sarah is the ideal Rep. candidate for oh-twelve.
Mark, LOL
#70… Thanks! I can’t bow too much though or my sinuses will explode… Uhhhh.
#69 Excellent work, Ken!
I’m waiting for the “Cash for Drunkards” plan.
#78 They’re trying to get the cash before the Congress goes into recess. LaHood sounded like he’s going to try to find another billion. Well, the first billion only lasted four days, so when they run out of that, who knows?
81.. you sound like you’ve got the same funk I’ve got… no fun..
Schaeffer beer
in Dey-twa in the day we once had the Strohs
ah the Stroh house. get out of mid term exams at U of D and
go drink for free. All you had to do was drive there, keeping
out indigents without cars. free beer all day long. it seems
like a dream but we really used to do it. can’t believe i ditint
spend More time there
salespeople have said that monday was their busiest day in months. It’s working beautifully and it needs to continue.
83, but then what would I do, trade myself in?
Gay Black Sailor Killed on duty.
Difinitive Discrimination in America
Don’t ask don’t tell kills again:
Family says gay sailor killed by closeted serviceman in fear of being outed: http://www.inlookout.com/2009/07/17/family-says-gay-sailor-killed-by-closeted-serviceman-in-fear-of-being-outed/
An aunt of August Provost III, a gay sailor who was killed on guard duty at Camp Pendleton in San Diego last month, suggested that that her nephew may have been murdered by another closeted sailor for fear of being outed.
Navy petty officer charged with gay sailor’s murder
Navy petty officer Jonathan Campos has been charged with the murder of August Provost III, a gay sailor who was shot multiple times while standing guard duty at Camp Pendleton in San Diego. Provost had confronted Campos as he attempted to break into a secure compound and set fire to a hovercraft. http://www.inlookout.com/2009/07/24/navy-petty-officer-charged-with-gay-sailors-murder/
Senate to debate Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell in the Fall
The Senate Armed Services Committee has agreed to hold hearings on Don’t Ask, Don’ Tell (DADT) this fall thanks to a commitment secured by Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) who is trying to overturn the policy. The agreement comes on the heels of an amendment floated by Sen. Gillibrand two weeks ago which would have placed a temporary moratorium on discharges under DADT. The amendment was never introduced as Gillibrand failed to gather the 60 votes necessary for passage. This will be first time Congress has evaluated the policy since it was enacted in 1993 under President Clinton. There are also efforts to overturn the DADT in the House under the leadership of Rep. Patrick Murphy (D-PA), an Iraq war veteran.
Was Provost Killed For Being Gay or Black? Or Because of Where He Stood?: http://www.queerty.com/was-provost-killed-for-being-gay-or-black-or-because-of-where-he-stood-20090706/
Provost III are blaming the military for the death of the 29-year-old, who was found shot dead, execution style, while standing duty at a guard station overnight. “He went to the Navy to serve and protect,” says Provost’s aunt Rose Roy, who insists his murder was because of his race or sexuality. “That phrase is just stupid because it tells them they have no one to speak to.” The Navy maintains there’s no evidence of a hate crime (beyond Provost telling his family he was being harassed on base, apparently).
Does 34 nails shot into the head qualify as a hate crime? You think?:
http://www.inlookout.com/2009/04/27/does-34-nails-shot-into-the-head-qualify-as-a-hate-crime-you-think/
While the Sydney police are reluctant to qualify the Liu’s murder as a hate crime at this time, if it walks and talks like a hate crime… well my friends, it’s probably a hate crime. Whether it’s based on race, sexual orientation or both.
But if you ask Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council, who is vehemently opposed to the hate crimes legislation now coursing its way through Congress, he would likely disagree. From Perkins’ Fight Hate Crimes website:
Hate Crimes legislation is ultimately a Thought Crime law, allowing citizens to be prosecuted for their religious beliefs.
Hate Crimes legislation is a violation of our First Amendment rights of Free Speech and Free Exercise of Religion.
Hate Crimes legislation creates a special class of people based on their “sexual orientation” or “gender identity.”
The Constitutional rights of pastors and religious individuals to peacefully disagree on issues of sexual orientation should be protected.
Again we circle around to the whole religious persecution argument. Mr. Perkins, unless faith is proven to be a major and recurring motive in brutal slayings such as these, then you really don’t have anything to worry about. Or IS that what you’re worried about? This is a free country Mr. Perkins, and you are entitled to your bigotry and hate, but not the violence that flows from it. And that violence should be punished in kind, not to diminish your faith, but to discourage the violence and hate that often uses religion as its source.
Obama urges quick passage of Hate Crimes Bill: http://www.inlookout.com/2009/04/29/obama-urges-quick-passage-of-hate-crimes-bill/
President Obama issued the following statement last night regarding hate crimes legislation which goes before the Congress today.
“This week, the House of Representatives is expected to consider H.R. 1913, the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009. I urge members on both sides of the aisle to act on this important civil rights issue by passing this legislation to protect all of our citizens from violent acts of intolerance – legislation that will enhance civil rights protections, while also protecting our freedom of speech and association. I also urge the Senate to work with my Administration to finalize this bill and to take swift action.”
Police Charged with False Arrests of Gay Men at Adult Video Stores: http://www.gothamgazette.com/article/fea/20090202/202/2813
Anger is building against the police department in the wake of an increase in arrests of gay men for prostitution at Manhattan adult video stores. Last week, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn joined in the outcry. She said she is working with the mayor’s office and commanders of the police department to set up a meeting that will include gay community groups “to get to the bottom of this.”
The arrests have been documented by Duncan Osborne of the Gay City News over the last several months. Police are allegedly using handsome young undercover cops to cruise middle-aged gay men, offering to go home with them for consensual sex. As they leave the store together, the cop offers to pay the man for the sex, confusing the victims who can’t imagine why the younger man would make such a proposal. Then, as they walk out of the store, the victim, despite never having agreed to any exchange of money, is surrounded by undercover cops, handcuffed and charged with prostitution.
Gay activists and civil libertarians see the arrests as part of a continuing effort to shut down porn operations in the city and a tendency by the police department to criminalize gay sexual behavior.
We need to see [the arrest policy] stopped and to figure out how it started,” Quinn told Gotham Gazette, calling the arrests of gay men “the most egregious I have heard of” going back to her days as executive director of the Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project, which is part of a coalition to stop these arrests. “It’s not even entrapment,” she said. “These are false arrests.”
A Raid at a Club in Texas Leaves a Man in the Hospital and Gay Advocates Angry: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/05/us/05texas.html?ref=us
FORT WORTH — The grand opening sign still hangs above the door of the Rainbow Lounge, but the recently opened dance club has already become a rallying point for gay men and lesbians here, after a raid by law enforcement last week left one man hospitalized with a head injury and prompted complaints of brutality.
The raid in the early hours of June 28 by Fort Worth police officers and agents from the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission has set off a political uproar and galvanized gay advocates in Fort Worth, who have traditionally been less vocal than in Dallas and Houston. After years of keeping a low profile, gay men and lesbians in Fort Worth say they are furious, and their complaints have spread on the Internet, attracting support from gay rights groups across the country.
77 – These rwnjs are going to fight reforms on three fronts:
Euthanzing old people, abortion, and illegals getting free medical.
83 cash for drunkards
now yer talkin’
we’d sop most of it up right here
#86 We took a vacation in Detroit several years ago (the ’80s, I think), and toured the Stroh’s brewery. Great tour. *hic*
88 hah! trade yer drunken self in for a sober one so you can start
all over without a howling liver hopefully
When I was 17, a local rock station (one which Stephanie later worked at, playing a part named “Sister Sleaze”) had a free beer day at a local park. They served me free beer all afternoon! I kept getting served by a DJ named “Unkle Rog”! Ah, the 70′s!
It makes me nervous that Green 960 is airing commercials for themselve… my station down here did that just before they were replaced by Fox Sports…
91 it should have been illegal for them to close the
stroh Brewery and the lovely Stroh house with all that free beer
ask why Single Payer can’t at least come up for a vote.
The Denver Post ran an article that the “clunkers” that are traded in cannot be salvaged for parts. I understand the idea of getting them off the road, but to disallow the scavenging of good parts doesn’t seem all that environmentally sound to me.
I ran into a friend yesterday who was on the way to a dealer, title in hand, to trade in an old Jeep Cherokee. I guess he was SOL.
92…LOL… I’m not sure I’d get my deposit back…
but on a side note… if you’re a regular drinker, start taking a milk thistle supplement… it rebuilds and strengthens the liver! (See, how else would I live up to my title: The Official Militant Left Wing Drunken Irish Woman Of the Stephanie Miller Show!)
old Stroh’s beer commercial:
“Son, answer me. Do you drink beer?”
son [tearfully] “Yes, dad, I drink beer. I’m thirty-four years old!”
Morning bloggos
there is constant foment in the radio biz. no way to avoid it.
98 thank you YES milk thistle a requirement for a healthy liver
specially if yer a drunk
who says you can’t learn something good while wasting all your
morning on the SM liveblog
off to the health food store right after the show is over
#97 Nope, they’re honoring deals made through today.
sparta should be easy today, given our mouthy garrulous selves.
101 constant foment
sounds interesting
does it get you f’d up? how does it taste? worse than jaeger?
Constant Foment? Isn’t that a brand of tea?
#87: That’s odd, I heard some car dealer on the news moaning that he was going to lose thousands of dollars on all the clunkers he’d already accepted…
Oh Mark, you always keep me smilin’!
Lies Lies damn lies of the rethug skum and the blew dog filth
and the Big money that owns them they are dragging this out
fighting to maintain their evil grip
so WHERE IS Campaign Finance reform?
#87 LaHood was on the radio this morning (sometime before 7:30 CDT). Maybe the dealer didn’t hear about it.
#99 Definitely remember Stroh’s. Not too bad for a cheap beer as I recall. Surprised it hasn’t made a comeback like Pabst, Schlitz and (God only knows why) Blatz.
Oops #111 was answering #107
Cash for clunkers was derided by the right wing nuts as a program that was going to fail. Well, it did fail…fail to account for all the demand for the program, that is.
Get rid of old, gas guzzling cars, help boost the auto industry of which the taxpayer is now an investor, and reduce oil consumption and carbon emissions?
Who the hell would want to do that?
Yeah! Progressive Caucus!
I have become to despise the “Blue Dogs”.
When have they EVER voted in our interests?
#110 INDEED!!!!! That would solve THIS issue and SOOOO many others.
Not just the Progressive Caucus; the Congressional Black, Hispanic, and Asian Caucuses are standing with the CPC, for a total (accounting for overlap) for about 120 votes.
The crush the Blue Dogs in numbers, and they’re finally standing up to them.
I’m from Milwaukee and I oughtta know
It’s draft brewed Blatz beer
Wherever you go
Smoother, refreshing, less filling it’s clear
Blatz is Milwaukee’s finest beer.
Now you know how I spent my childhood. Memorizing commercial jingles.
102… yes, see I like to combat my drunkeness with vitamins and healthy stuff…
milk thistle for liver
cranberry supplements for kidneys / bladder
vitamin e & c for healing properties
asidophillis probiotics for healthy immune system *apparently not takin’ enoug of this lately**
calcium / magnesium for all the crap the alcohol probably steals from my bones…
wow… you’d think I’ve really thought this out to justify my drinking “solution”… LOL…
kooky Steph
ungawa
harumph
what’s she babbling about
I love the “public announcement” ads. If you’re not paying careful attention, you might think it’s a public service announcement and you’re participating in some kind of medical test.
119 saw palmetto or red clover
if your have a prostate
fish oil for everything heart skin eyes nails hair mood
HR 676
Good Morning, Bloggoes!
Happy Friday!
The Republicans may be in it for the politics, but what are the blue dogs in it for?
BTW, before the show I was listening to an old show where Steph and the Mooks said that Marisa Tomei accidentally got her Oscar.
I’m a fan of Tomei so I looked it up.
Steph and the mooks where wrong.
http://www.snopes.com/movies/actors/tomei.asp
Cash for Clunkers (CARS) is not making any friends with salvage yards, since one of the requirements is that the engine and transmission be destroyed (i.e. turned into scrap). They make more money ‘parting’ out the entire car than they do on scrap metal.
Source: http://jalopnik.com/5324812/cash-for-clunkers-worthless-for-most-auto-recyclers
#118 Cool jingle!!!! We never got that one in my neck of the woods. What was the Schlitz jingle? Didn’t they have a pretty good one too?
Kick out the Blue Dogs!
What difference does it make if they are replaced by a Republican?
The Blue Dogs never vote with us when it matters, anyway.
#115; the Blue Dogs started off as Dems that felt that their concerns were being ignored by the caucus, which was driven by urban liberals.
But because they are intrinsically more business-friendly than the rest of the caucus (since many come from the most authoritarian and hierarchical parts of the country), they were the first Dems targeted by corporate money, and the most open to taking it.
They simply got corrupted. Proof of the need for campaign finance reform – starting with voluntary public funding.
But Jim’s claim that all blue dogs, or even the majority, come from red constituencies is false. Many come from purple, and some (like DiFi) come from solidly blue areas.
124 — can we consider the idea that for some folks, the idea of government run health care is just a total bugaboo. Even with the facts being what they are, the idea of government bureaucracy as the source of health care funding seems scary, scary, scary.
There’s been most of a century of propaganda on the other side.
All I remember of the Schlitz is, “Real gusto in a great light beer.”
#115 We need a catchy description for progressive Dems to counter the conservative “Blue Dogs”. How about “Cool Cats”?
But Single Payer is much simpler than the complex mess that’s being proposed now.
129
More proof of the need for term limits.
It was pointed out over at kos that 29% of America is already covered by government care.
So Chris, not “much smaller”.
121 oh yeah the fake public announcement ads are great
bastards trying to fool us
as if it were the gov’t
I’m tired. It’s Low Ebb. I dunno, mebbe it’s the
heat, or the drink, or lack of work… it’s been so long
since I’ve felt like I was worth anything, or had any
hope. Cynicism, bitterness, hatred… these have been
my bread for too long. The motorcycle is untouched in the
garage, I get no joy from anything ‘cept for getting drunk
at the bar, and that’s getting out of hand. I do get
joy from Steph and hanging with you.
I don’t know what to do. Forty eight years old and used
up. Can it really be? Just the other day I still had so
much vitality. And hair. Now I’m just tired, and I feel
old. The prospects of returning to work are dim, from
both sides. They don’t want me, I don’t feel I got
anything to offer. Was I once some kind of productive
person? Seems like another lifetime.
It’s a dangerous place to be. I’m too young to be this
used up. What the fuck is going on? It’s a useless line
of reasoning. It’s just angst over being constantly broke
and the loss of personhood that goes with it in our vicious
capitalist society. If you can’t earn you have no value in
this social darwinist behavioral sink.
The only thing to do is not think about it. Focus on the
good stuff, the things that are meaningful to me. Humor,
dogs, friends…
Let me get this straight:
Internal Republican Polling indicates that should Health Care reform pass, then the Democrats could control both houses of Congress and the White House for at least the a decade or more;
The Republican Goal is to stop Meaningful Health Care reform at all costs;
The Blue Dog Democrats are doing for the Republicans what they cannot do on their own.
Why does Party leadership allow them to continue to caucus with the Democrats?
Their actions will result in a Republican Majority by 2012…Do the not care about being in the majority, or are they planning on changing parties then?
Boot them from the caucus NOW and remove them from their committee appointments.
#131 And their tagline, “When you’re out of Schlitz, you’re out of beer.”
>> shāf says:
>> #115 We need a catchy description for progressive Dems to counter the conservative “Blue Dogs”. How about “Cool Cats”?
Also, why aren’t we focusing on peeling off Republicans in liberal districts?
Are there none left?
Diane Feinstein isn’t a blue dog.
And Jim is right. Most of the blue dogs come from areas where a traditional democrat will not be able to run and win. If you want to win elections there, you’ve got to put people up who are less progressive than most democrats.
Do you want a democratic majority or not. That’s what you’ve got to decide.
134 — how so, Paul? My feeling about term limits is that it’s usually short for “term limits for folks we don’t like”. Term limits would get rid of Ted Kennedy & Robert Byrd first.
140: What good is a democratic majority if you DON’T USE it…
hey USE IT OR LOSE IT…
Not sure if swatting the ‘Blue Dogs’ on the nose with a rolled up newspaper is quite enough…. I’m thinking that maybe they need to be euthanized.
Isn’t Canada a 10-payer system rather than single payer?
Or is that just their auto insurance that is offered by the provinces?
I just finished calling both my Senators and my Congressman. Of course my Senators are Kerry and Kenedy and my Congressman is Ed Markey and all 3 support single payer.
From the land of sky blue waters (waters)
From the land of pines, lofty balsams
Comes the beer refreshing
Hamm’s the beer refreshing
Hamm’s sponsored Cubs and White Sox baseball in Chicago for years. I had that jingle memorized at age five.
And as it turned out Hamm’s tasted like panther piss (I found out about 16 years later).
Yikes, Richard! You went to the dark site!
I would have suggest the Blues Dogs be fixed.
#134 One unintended consequence of term limits, however, is that there’s less institutional knowledge in the legislative body, thus giving lobbyists more leverage (as a consultative force). We’d need to couple term-limits with campaign finance reform to be truly effective.
LOL…this will tell you what’s up these days. Bloomberg just did a piece on skin stocks — stocks of companies that operate strip clubs or pay per view or other adult ventures.
And those stocks are up. I guess stimulus works, eh?
Of course, it’s not the stimulus that most economists talk about.
This is why Health Car reform should’ve been on the docket every year in congress. It took 30 years for anti-Tobacco legislation to get full force…30 years that RJR and other Smoke industry moguls had to diversify and protect their investors…then we got reform. It’s important to map the profit potential for the health industry the same way..invest in better machinery, training and methods…or it’ll be another 30 years.
146: that leaves two questions:
1. Why would you drink panther piss?
2. How did you obtain it?
Shaf…term limits are one of the problems with California. You don’t have anyone who has the institutional knowledge or who has the relationships to work with people on the other side of the aisle.
#147 Well.. if ‘fixing’ them will fix them, I guess I’m OK with that.
We can expect to get more Democrats in the Senate in 2010. This senate class was elected in 2004, when the country was still in freaking out over the war and such. Those seats are vulnerable now.
#140; there is no “Blue Dog” caucus in the Senate; senators get the label as a perjorative because that’s how they vote. And DiFi is a crooked corporatist like the problem blue dogs.
And your claim is false; many blue dogs come from blue and purple districts, where a more progressive (or at least corrupt) Dem can win.
But then, third-wayers LIKE corrupt Dems, don’t they?
#151 Answer to both: Very carefully while drunk.
Ahhh, shlitz… memories… One of my first years living on my own I was too broke for a christmas tree, or ornaments for that matter, so I bought a pack of ornament hooks and 1 strand of white lights from a friend and decorated a potted dead little tree that the previous tenant had left on the porch with the lights and empty schlitz cans… it went suprisingly well next to the random concrete reindeer someone brought me as a gag gift! LOL…
Hamm’s was cool
It had a cartoon bear in the ads.
even if it did taste like piss-water.
Hamm’s was one of those that yer buddies dad always had in
the cooler, the stuff you stole and drank behind the garage
yer first beers
At the very least, anyone who opposes Obama should not get any pork — whether they are Blue Dogs or Republicans.
The trouble is that these guys think they can oppose our party and our president and STILL get the perks of the office.
#159 Talk about marketing to kids…I loved the Hamm’s commercials.
Make that #158 in #160
Okay, folks. Have a good weekend. I’m out!
141
My feeling is that “lawmaking” shouldn’t be a lifetime job. We don’t (any more) let a President stay on more than 2 terms. 2 terms for a Senator and 6 (just to keep it the same number of years) should be more than enough.
For every Kennedy there’s a Jesse Helms…
Tony,
People also use the term “Blue Dog” to describe all stealth Republicans.
That would include Feinstein.
>> Mark drunken biker old paratrooper in Deetown says:
>> Michael Jackson might have been a drug addict?
And he might have been gay!
Shocking, I know.
163
Yeah, I know Helms is dead but you know what I mean.
#163, if we fixed campaign finance, then I think legislators that have overstayed their use would be taken care of via elections.
Especially if we prohibit office-holders from taking sides in party primaries other than their own.
Morning all! Why is healthcare refom such a big issue for Blue Dogs? They didn’t have any trouble with the fiscal insanity of paying for war and tax cuts. Is it REALLY about power tripping and lining their own pockets? They should be removed from any leadership roles in congress.
When I was young, my grandmother had a summer cottage on an island on the Susquehanna; my Uncle ran a bar in town. He kept a keg of Schmidt’s on tap in the pavilion. That was my and my cousins first beer…
168… it is purely lobbying in my opinion…
#167, like Obama campaigning for Lieberman and (probably) Specter in their primaries.
More Jersey politicians still being caught up in the dopemoney
laundry/fake gucci bags/ black market livers/Rabbis scandal
meanwhile in Detroit we are still seeing fallout from the
Kriminal Kwame Kilpatrick administration… Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick
needs to go, to jail
and Johnny Conyers is prolly guilty too, seeing as his wife is
going to the Federal Pen for 3 to 5 and he was signing letters for
her on behalf of krooked bizness deals she was brokering… the
monitor for the Detroit Police is on her way to jail, having resigned
and bout to stand trial, hopefully… it’s a cesspool
The Blue Dogs should also not get any of the powerful committee assignments after this shameless show of disloyalty to the president and the party.
Blue Dogs should be given assignments like third-chair on the Sub-Committee for Nematode Research.
170. So it’s really all about them and only them. Wow.
I see campaign finance reform as a Catch-22 wrapped in a dilemma and stuffed into a conundrum.
Campaign finance reform requires legislation written and passed by politicians. Politicians need money to run their campaigns. Special interest groups give money go candidates. Candidates receiving the most money generally become the legislators and executives that enact Legislation and appoint the Judiciary.
174… it’s such a shame… It’s disheartening…
166 — On term limits, I’ll reserve judgement. Back to my original point, there’s cultural identity issues to deal with. I think there are lots of people who have spent their whole live being taught that you shouldn’t depend on the government, that government will bite your feeding hand.
I don’t agree with that, but it’s where a lot of people are in their thinking, and it’s deeply entrenched. I think it’s the main problem we have with enacting any kind of meaningful health care reform, and my reason for asking is that we need to answer that concern in an effective way or we’re never getting anywhere.
In my greeting this morning, I mentioned Kucinich’s health care bill — HR676 — and really, I think that’s the solution. But there’s too much superstition out there. It’ll never happen until we cna educate folks away from that way of thinking.
My Congressman is a blue dog. I thought I would look at his website to see what he has done and if it would be better than a Rethug. It’s mostly milquetoast crap. He did cosponsor the bill about taking guns across state lines, but he also cosponsored bills to give tax breaks for biomass electricity and to reduce taxes on beer! A Rethug’s list would be full of abortion issues and tax cuts for the rich. He hasn’t done anything, but that’s better than doing bad things.
woo whoo… she’s reading my letter!
definately drunk!!
hhhmmmm….. is this OUR Danielle?? YES IT IS!!!!!! WOHOO!!!!
ProgressiveInTexas,
When people say, “We can’t fix healthcare until we fix campaign finance” are saying that health care reform is hopeless.
campaign finance reform is something they should turn over to a special master–someone with no dog in the fight who only sees what’s fair. Give it an up or down vote with the understanding that a “down” vote means no party money in the next election and competition in the primary funded by the party.
Danielle, is that your letter?
Yay Danielle!
All right Danielle!
Woo! Danielle!
thanks MAMA!!!!
Yay, Danielle! You RAWK!
I thought the “drunken Irish” thing was just a ugly, empty stereotype until I visited Ireland.
woo-hoo! major shout-out to Danielle!
that rocks!! I can’t wait till my professor hears it!!
I gotta gets me a letter read on the air too. Danielle has inspired me.
Win for Danielle! Awesome!
Woo Hoo Danielle
#157 DrunkenIrishDanielle:
I remember:
“If you got the time,
we got the beer.
Beer after beer.
If you got the time,
we got the beer.
Miller Beer
If you got the time,
we got the beer.
Wyman was always the oldest Stone. Charlie Watts always looked the oldest, I thought…
#196 Probably the best jingle ever for a beer.
182: I think we can fix health care without CFR…though not “perfectly”…
and CFR is a the multi-generational struggle requiring other structural changes in the electoral process…
my phone just started ringing off the hook with people who heard that!
I’m wondering how good Jim’s Bill Wyman is. I haven’t heard the man speak. Still, I’m betting it’s good.
196.. love it!
Thanks all! That was the best graduation present EVER!!!
I felt bad for Bill Wyman. He wrote the awesome and iconic bass riff for Jumping Jack Flash, played it in their concerts, but they wouldn’t let him play it on the album – Keith played it.
3 hour shows takes a lot of prep. She’d quit after a week. Ed Schultz said he’d let her cover his show for a day just to give her a chance. *snicker*
I wish I could remember all of the ’50s Budweiser jingle
Where there’s life there’s Bud….
In a something something something or a something something something
In the bright sunshine or in candle glow
Budweiser beer is for folks who know
Where there’s life there’s Bud…
Budweiser!
BTW, did y’alls hear the return of Shatner to The Tonight Show, this time to read Palin’s Twitters?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/30/william-shatner-reads-pal_n_247598.html
Awesome!
Don’t let her shoot Boo Boo again!
#207 “Soooo cold”
You can get Prilosec (Omeprazole) OTC and it works for me.
Sparta!!!!!!
Speaking of Sarah Palin – I just had to get the German version of the “Farewell Speech!”
Der Abschied Rede von Sarah Palin
Und immer hier, ich sage
es ist die beste Reise in Amerika
steigenden durch die Natur der besten Show.
Denali, die große eins,
Höhenflug unter der Mitternachtssonne.
Und dann den Extremen.
Im Winter ist es der gefrorene Straße,
steht dabei in Konkurrenz zu der Auffassung,
Eis Nebel kalten Schönheit,
die Kälte aber nicht
er die Split Tscheetschakos von der Sourdoughs?
Und dann im Sommer solche extremen
Sommer etwa hundert und fünfzig Grad
wärmer als vor einigen Monaten,
als nur einige Monate von jetzt an,
mit Feuer Unkraut blühen entlang
der Frost hebt und gnadenlosen
Flüsse, die rauschenden und Tranchieren
- und erinnern uns, dass hier,
die Mutter Natur gewinnt.
Es ist, als in ganz Alaska,
dass große wilde Leben wimmelt es an der Straße,
liegt im Norden in die Zukunft.
#210 Too soon.
#203 Didn’t Keith or someone else play pretty much all the bass on ‘Exile…’? Sucks for Bill.
No Shane-o today?
#210 That’s some bad case of Premature Spartaculation.
Lavort likes ‘em starchy and severe
Naked Lucy Lawless there’s a series I could get behind. So to speak.
The irony is that her speech, as done on Conan O’Brien, actually did seem like poetry!
I’ve certainly heard worse at poetry slams.
It’s amazing how well her stuff works as poetry.
Ernest Borgine is 92 years old!!!!
Mornin’ live blog.
What do you get when you combine texting, talking, and driving? A tow truck in a swimming pool in Mama’s hometown.
http://www.wtopnews.com/?nid=104&sid=1729886
“Cause I really don’t care
Who’s side I’m on.
There’s always room at the bottom
Once the lines are drawn
And I know I’ll never win
Just let me go on believing
There’s still a chance
That we could break even.”
(Seemed appropriate today for some reason.)
218… I thought the same thing!
I wonder if all those nervous people in Beverly Hills might need some prescription pills to get through this … I could help you out with some aliases … have your people call my people.
#206, Shatner is truly a god.
I have this theory that Palin makes sense when one is stoned. Reefer makes everything seem comprehensible.
I’m stuck! I wanted to hear something back on my original point made back at 129, which somebody responded only to a tangent of. I tried to reiterate at 177, but that was just the moment when Danielle’s letter was being read, so it got lost again.
I’m pretty frustrated, because I think it’s an important point, but maybe I have my answer. people are too easily distracted by bright, shiny objects.
I think I’m gonna get offa the blog for the week.
But before I go, I wanna say — Mark — hang in there. I know it’s hard to have faith in yourself when the universe is giving you nothing. I think you’re really smart & good. You’re a great writer, maybe you should try to do something with that. Ultimately, though, I think our lives are cyclical, and good things will come around to you if you hang in there through the rough times & don’t get discouraged.
Buh Bye, Bloggoes!
Love you all!
If you are going to talk about Sarah Palin, you are going to have mentione how she quit again. She is not going to speak in California on Aug 8. though there is talk of invited vs comitted vs not saying anything vs what does RSVP mean, doncha know.
#218 Ron:
Now you see why I had turn it into German nature poetry. It was so….Nordic!
226… believe it or not it works for calculus… otherwise I started somehow adding extra steps and over complicating it…
Oh, the source is Shannynne Moore from today’s HufPo
I MUST have the name of the track that plated at 10:20 EDT.
#227 People are distracted by Danielle and beer.
#211 That’s a pretty good translation and I must say, it makes more sense in German!
When I was little I was transfixed everytime the Hamm’s beer commercial came on. A little bear was paddling a canoe and in the background, “From the land of sky blue waters . . . “
#230 I wish I’d known that in college. I lucked out with Cs in calculus.
Palin’s a star maker! Look what she’s done for Tina Fey and Shatner. Michael Richards you could be next.
And every one hundredth word you have to put in “for the troops.”
Going to bed at stupid o’clock, you should try a sleeping mask. They work great to block the light. I love mine, it’s called the hibermate. It’s from Australia. It’s really comfortable.
Yep. Births are filed in the County in which it took place.
227… sorry you’re frustrated.. I felt that way for the past couple weeks… seemingly constantly, to the point I even snapped at some of you beloved bloggers… I just had to take a mental break today as I can’t continue to walk around pissed off and yelling at the radio… but I definately feel ya on people getting so easily distracted.
235… I almost failed until I figured it out…
Here in Oregon I sometimes take my child to a bar — mostly if there is music.
The rule here in Oregon allow kids in the bar-area that serves food.
With non-smoking laws, it’s not a bad place for kids and I like to expose her to good music.
That’s because the one from the hospital is usually just for the baby book, and isn’t a legal document.
>> LeftCenter says:
>> And every one hundredth word you have to put in “for the troops.”
And “Maveriky”
238.. I use one too! I thought only drunkards like me who require more hours of sleep to dry out long after the sun has come up. My bedroom window faces east and I’ve tried every kind of curtain imaginable but it’s still bright as day…
#240 Video games help. When angry and frustrated, put in a Grand Theft Auto and just walk around hitting people. It feels great, and no one real gets hurt.
Before DC had any progressive radio, I used to listen to the Savage Weiner while killing people in GTA. Once I stopped listening to him, I found myself playing the game (following the story line) cause the urge to bludgeon was gone.
>> DrunkNIrishDanielle says:
>> 238.. I use one too! I thought only drunkards like me who require more hours of sleep to dry out long after the sun has come up. My bedroom window faces east and I’ve tried every kind of curtain imaginable but it’s still bright as day…
Floor-to-ceiling black-out curtains? The inner-liner is vinyl or something and it seems perfectly black to me.
I’ve had them and also used them in hotel rooms and they darken (but not blacken because of the edges) up the room pretty-good.
They can be expensive, though.
Just found out why I really like the Hamm’s beer commercials:
‘The first television commercial depicted animated beavers beating their tails to the tom-tom beat of the jingle, as well as live action shots of the forests and lakes of the “enchanted Northland.”‘
Yep, beavers beating their tails on the tom-toms.
challenge to birthers
http://community.thomhartmann.com/_An-Open-Challenge-to-Birthers-Everywhere/blog/481525/93519.html
Steph should try this one:
http://www.hibermate.com/
It also has little ear covers that block sound too for Boy Band’s dog.
#247 Yeah, now that you mention that, I remember the beavers beating their tails on the tom-toms. Thanks for bringing back a wonderful memory.
We as progressives have to do three things in order to advance the cause of healthcare reform. 1)We need to humanize the health care crisis. Put a picture to associate with the 47mil plus without healthcare. We need a posterchild. The second thing is taking a page from what the republican’ts (not a typo) have mastered for years. That is being able to speak in short, simple sentences. We are too inteligent for our own damn good. We need a Healthcare Reform for Dummies book. Better yet, a picture book illustrating the entire 1000+ page bill? How many Americans actually know what “single payer” really means? Third is to talk more about in simplistic terms why we need to reform healthcare. Talk about how this will mean less money that will be deducted from your paycheck, that then can be used to buy more stuff for your families. Also If we get more people healthy, these are more people who can now go to work and not recieve disability benefit payments from the government. We are missing key opportunities by not talking about these things.
just got back from a little car outing and heard Mama read Danielle’s letter. wow! cool! too bad the reception is so bad I couldn’t actually decifer the words, but cool! and I’ll hear it on my podcast.
245… due to the actions of ex boyfriends I HATE those marathon video games that suck people in for 5-6 hours at a time. I’ll play the occasional game of solitare on the computer or tetris on my phone waiting for an appointment, but any game system that can make a guy ignore an offering for sex is evil and is not welcome in my home… (LOL, sorry for the tirade… you hit a nerve… LOL)
The officer acted stupid.
He did.
246… i gave up long ago and got the sleep mask… works great and only cost about 15 bucks.. I’d love the curtains, but I agree.. they are expensive… (have considered putting foil or something over the window, but it looks freakin’ ghetto!)
Obama didn’t even single out Sgt. Crawford. He said the “police acted stupidly.”
251. Totally agree. At least a few simple visual aids with bullet points printed in BIG LETTERS
The Blue Dogs and the Republicans act like the American public is against healthcare reform.
This just didn’t happen!
They have been PROPOGANDIZED against it by the Blue Dogs and the Republicans.
The cop is lawyering up because he was caught lying on his police report. Duh.
>> DrunkNIrishDanielle says:
>> 246… i gave up long ago and got the sleep mask… works great and only cost about 15 bucks.. I’d love the curtains, but I agree.. they are expensive… (have considered putting foil or something over the window, but it looks freakin’ ghetto!)
The only time I have bought black-out curtains was in an extremely hot climate to help with cooling the room, too.
7th and 8th grade isn’t high school.
I can totally see how this guys sees the show, this way.
But if you want to see suck-ups, go no further than the Rush Limbaugh show.
Analogy to High School is funny, except caller Scott is the Principal with the buzz-cut.
260… lol… perhaps I could justify the expense to myself that way… could save on electric bill… hmmmm….
Leave Mama alone! You’re lucky she even does beaver-stack for you!
snarky comments without facts… isn’t that Bill-0 the clowns department?
Testing, testing 1, 2, 3….. (wanted to see if the new Gravatar got saved)
I don’t know about anyone else here, but Chicago shock jock Steve Dahl posted a video of his former partner Garry Meier singing “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” at Wrigley Field on the audio with a video of a chicken getting its head cut off and the rest of the body running around. I thought it was hilarious, so what grade lever is that?
What’s with crazy scotts?
#267 Guess not… may have to log out and back in.
when a beer would taste good, have a Hudepohl
14K say, have a Hudepohl
da-dada goodness,
anytime of day
have a Hudepohl 14K
http://queencitydiscovery.blogspot.com/2009/01/ruins-of-hudepohl-brewing-company_6427.html
#267 Give it a few minutes, Richard. It takes a bit for those pixels to fly across the intertubes.
To the tune of Ciribiribin:
Cheery beery Edelweiss
It tastes so nice
So nice
Drink Edelweiss.
BTW, isn’t it weird how the names of annoying callers kinda go in cycles. Last fall it was variations on Donnie, now it seems the worst wankers are all named Scott.
I’ve got to get out of here and go to work. See you all Monday.
#272 Just logged out and back in. Maybe it’ll show up on Monday?
Mabel
Black Label
The Champagne of bottled beer!
274… you mean that isn’t the same Scott? Scottzie The Nazi??
Even though it should be a Happee Fridee, I am quite bummed here in the Dee Cee. Why? The sexy receptionist is NOT here today. Very sad. She is sometimes the ONLY thing I have to look forward to at work.
Yeah, where is that RW tool Jerry?
I’m really liking Fridays with Fugelsang…there I said it.
#278 No that was a new Scott today.
#277 I thought Miller High Life was the champagne of bottle beer.
rw Jerry got locked in the sauna at the health club. he’s now rw jerky
Wasn’t he supposed to buy her a box of wine?
Jerry, still an Über Tool.
I was just about to type, “What the hell is he talking about.”
Jerry sounds about frazzled.
Jerry is hyperventilating. Hand him a paper bag.
Ubba…ubba…ubba
about=a bit
277 -
Hey Mabel
Black Label
Carling Black Label Beer
I think he may have had a bearclaw with his amphetamenes this morning.
SPARTA!!!!
or not sparta
SPARTA!!!!!!!!
I love the sound of Sparta in the morning!
Stutter stutter versus Sparta sparta
Sparta
that is not the question
Sparta!
sparta!
YESSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!
Too soon….. dang it… and there I was making fun of Shaf’s Premature Spartaculation…
yay LC
LeftCenter, for the win! *bows*
279… aww, cheer up… you can always ask Mama to fill in as “jiggles”
285… LOL… he did, don’t you remember Mama saying she recieved his $20 partly in change!
283.thanks. my beer slogans had a collision
179 awesome! way to go Danielle!
#307 It was all in leaving off the exclamation point. Thanks everybody. *bows*
Nice one left!
Damn, went to get a cup of coffee and missed sparta.. you guys are on fire today!
Very good LC. Congrats!
#312 It’s a combination of your letter being read and beer jingles that made the difference today.
The Blue Dogs and Republicans LIE LIE LIE.
It’s shameless.
Americans can suck on anything
-Bobby Jindal
Thanks Mark… I’m stilled kinda’ shocked that somehow through the booze and dope I managed to graduate Summa Cume Laude… I think it’s from all the smart that rubbed off on me in the live blog…
There was a time when Chuck Grassley made some sense. That time has passed.
Oh Timmy. He is our Jr High Governor.
>>Charlie in St. Paul says:
>> Wasn’t he supposed to buy her a box of wine?
I think he sent her a bottle of something but I thought that was a different bet and he still owed her on the Franken contest.
aww, left, it was nothing more than you being your wonderful self!!! But, aww shucks, thanks….
Huh huh…down Pluto!
320 – yeah, There was a monetary bet for Obama v. McCain, and a JD v Franzia bet for Coleman v. Franken…
I went to school in the late ‘s70s and early 80s and was a “B-” student. Now I’ve gone back and I’m a nearly straight “A” student.
I don’t know if it is grade-inflation or I’m able to focus better. Maybe both.
After today I only have fourteen shows left before my summer vacation ends, and I may miss a few of those to chauffeur my mom and go up to school to unpack supplies. But at least I already know my days off so I can plan when I’ll be here.
277 thank you Maddy even if your gone for the weekend alread
what you were talking about at 130 & 177 is this whole change
that the country has gone through, the ground moving under our
feet. I’ve never been a progressive til now. I was a smarmy
little ‘libertarian’-conservative yuppie butt suck twenty years
ago. And I thought I knew it all. And I didn’t like poor people.
But we can learn, and change, and become more enlightened. Why
is it that college campuses and profs are hotbeds of liberal
progressive thought? Because that’s where people are trying
to learn and grow.
Nothing can stop an idea who’s time has come. We’ve just got
to work to make sure now is the time.
317
Wow!
Congrats Danielle.
#324 I found that after I graduated from college, it took me a few years and some of the stuff I didn’t get all of a sudden I got. I think it has to do with brain development.
317 Summa Cum Laude! and I thought I was doing good w/Magna.
Not bad for a couple of drunks. Whut was yer major? I was
Business and Computer Science… lotta good it did me.
My brother went to Berklee in Boston and he’s managed to make
a living as a musician ever since. I’m just the drunken manque
loser of the family. At least I’m not a lawyer like my two
sisters… the real black sheep
Of course I’ve forgotten most of what I “learned” in college, but I’m a master of high school chemistry and physics. I get 100% on all my tests.
Male brains do develop slower than females, even into the late 20s. Btw, I just made fire!
thanks TR… graduation ceremony is Tuesday… can be seen live on http://www.fau.edu if anyone is really, really, really bored… but then it’s party time the following weekend! I’m really excited! (Hey, it took me 7 years, but I finally did it!)
324 way to go Ron! keep up with that learnin’ stuff, I hear
it’s good for you
#317/329 I should have drunk more and smoked more dope in college….
I think the expectations are different and better in schools today. For instance: In Language Arts (no longer English), instead of having to know what color John’s grandmother’s kitchen was, you have to answer a question about grandmother as a character. Fewer meaningless facts more relevance. YOU GET A GOLD STAR!
329… double major business management and marketing (which I am not likely to use as I’m going for two master in Poli Sci and Journalism… after a little break anyhow!)
>> LeftCenter says:
>> #324 I found that after I graduated from college, it took me a few years and some of the stuff I didn’t get all of a sudden I got. I think it has to do with brain development.
It interesting to know what “sticks” and what doesn’t.
I took Calculus and Trigonometry in high school and now I have only the vaguest idea of what those even are!
But, I can still remember the liberal arts stuff I studied back then. Also, weirdly, I remember a ton from the two physics classes I took.
interesting synchronicity Danielle, I just donated some Yiddish
78 rpm records to Florida Atlantic University, they have the
only repository for such things. Cool story, I found them and
friends located FLU and I knew someone driving to Florida who
took them… one record was by the ‘Lusty Hebrews’ or some such
comedy team from what? 1910 or something
Don’t ask don’t tell kills again:
August Provost III are blaming the military for the death of the 29-year-old, who was found shot dead, execution style, while standing duty at a guard station overnight: http://www.inlookout.com/2009/07/24/navy-petty-officer-charged-with-gay-sailors-murder/
New theme music should be: The roof is on fire.
#335 Unfortunately, I think they still want you to be able to apply the correct types of reactions and balance the equations in organic chem. I’m gonna have to go back and look up the Friedel-Crafts reaction. That seemed to be the go-to reaction when you didn’t know what else to try.
334… I’m not joking when I say I typically studied with a beer (or whiskey)!
>> Mark drunken biker old paratrooper in Deetown says:
>> 324 way to go Ron! keep up with that learnin’ stuff, I hear
it’s good for you
Thanks. My going back to school is because my career took a turn into a nearly useless direction. I loved what I did for ten years but there are no jobs for it in the U.S.
334 ‘I don’t want to advocate drugs or violence to anyone but
hey, it’s always worked for me’ — Hunter Thompson
It is an interesting experience to pit my 50 year old brain against my old 20-year old brain.
My ability to memorize is way down but my ability to focus and to synthesize is better than back then.
It was like covering a golf tournament. BORING!!!
the Professor … in the Lincoln bedroom … with a Red Stripe.
I studied German and Philosophy, and I found both were easier to understand with a lot of beer.
One thing I’ll never forget is a friend of mine and I killing a Friday evening figuring out how to synthesize LSD from methane.
Obama is such a reasonable guy. I love that about him.
But he’s up against people who LIE LIE LIE.
338.. funny, if you donated them to FAU, they probably went to the professor mentioned in the letter Mama read earlier! He’s the tenured prof in the music dept! Small world, huh?
When a dog is hungry enough it’ll eat anything.
#248 German is meant to be understood under the influence of beer.
Well it was better than COPS
>> LeftCenter says:
>> One thing I’ll never forget is a friend of mine and I killing a Friday evening figuring out how to synthesize LSD from methane.
He. He.
I have a vague memory of guys in college Chem lab trying to do that with aspirin and MSG!
the beer summit should have been a university seminar
343 don’t tell me let me guess: Computer
thinking of a cert in networks, I got the chops but not the
paper… only… why? a year and a half with the resume out there,
185 times viewed, 10 times retreived, 1 [ONE!] phone call
zero interviews zero job offers
What is it about major industries that generally think they can poison, kill, subjugate, manipulate, indoctrinate the people. Do they teach that in business school?
I’m a belcher. I demand Obama produces a “Brewed in America” beer label.
353 Genau
#352 Which leads to my current problem. Our new dog (picked up as a stray) still wants to get into our garbage can, even though we feed her.
>> Charlie in St. Paul says:
>> I studied German and Philosophy, and I found both were easier to understand with a lot of beer.
I’ve studied German Philosophers and I’m pretty sure they were drunk when they wrote that stuff. So, it kind of makes sense.
But that officer was stupid when he arrested an old guy breaking into his home.
I’m sorry, but that WAS stupid.
Reagan would have used this incident to fire up his “Southern Strategy” covert racism.
The cop should also have given his badge number when requested (or demanded).
Reagan “We start bombing Gates’ home in the morning”
haH! Momma got to say ‘who’s is bigger’ on MSNBC
she just loves talkin’ dirty
and we love hearing it.
here’s sumpthin’ I rote, a littul humor, forgive me if I’ve
already inflicted it on you:
Downtown Incident
The poor old drunk approached me as I waited to cross
the intersection. I cringed at the stench wafting off
him, and readied myself for his pitch.
“You ever do it doggy-style?” he queried.
“Uh, sure, yeah” I was a little surprised by the question.
“That was mine. I came up with that. God damned fancy pants
corporate bastards. Fucking lawyers. They stole that one from
me. Fucking bastards”
Just another victim of the corporate raiders. I gave him a
dollar. “F#@kin’ Bastards” he muttered.
360… I rescued one of my kitties, who was a stray, 4 years ago and she’s still not conviced that there will be another bowl of food. I have to ration her food or she will eat until she’s sick. I wonder if she’ll ever get over it.
362 – Anyone of else can say “stupid”. However, as we all know in policts words are parsed excessively. If Obama had said both acted rashly. There wouldn’t have been such a much ado.
Sorry, but he is wrong about the neighbor. She is not the villian.
They released the 911 tapes and she never says it’s a black guy. She didn’t know his race and didn’t jump to any conclusions.
Police Charged with False Arrests of Gay Men at Adult Video Stores: http://www.gothamgazette.com/article/fea/20090202/202/2813
Bush – Gates has 24 hours to leave before the bombing starts
else=us. I need coffee.
Blame the neighbor again? You’re about a week late, Fugelsang!
I really don’t care what most whites think about Obama’s response to Gatesgate. I have no idea what it’s like to be African-American. I don’t have the experience with police that blacks do.
357 read John Perkins
‘Confessions of an Economic Hit Man’
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confessions_of_an_Economic_Hit_Man
splains alot of it.
Momma not sure if Apple Pie still made here
We still have the greatest hottest sexiest smartest Women in the world.
Can’t never take that from us.
Where exactly did Obama bring up racism.
This could have all been solved with a rousing game of beer pong
374 agree, but you have The Cup for the weekend, so you may have extra insight.
#369: Once again, someone jumping to conclusions. Talk about channeling your “inner douchebag!”
or Beer Twister
I everyone.
I probably missed this in a previous blog, but I don’t always log in because I’m at work. Anyhoo, What happened to Frangela. Did they get booted off the show or did they have a tragic reaction to “I’m a Celebrity, get me out of here”?
beer lawn darts…
did Sean just refer to himself in the third person? I didn’t know he added a new speed bump on his typical long road of run-on question!
**urge to squeeze Sean Hannity’s hairy little helmet until he pops like the human zit he is**
Ooops.. Sorry, what a way to chime in.
I’ve been lurking for awhile, off listening to the Stephphase audios.
Hope you are all doing well.
I miss Frangela..
Beer ring-around-the-rosy. That ALWAYS is a great time.
“Economic hit men (EHMs) are highly paid professionals who
cheat countries around the globe out of trillions of
dollars. They funnel money from the World Bank, the U.S.
Agency for International Development (USAID), and other foreign
“aid” organizations into the coffers of huge corporations
and the pockets of a few wealthy families who control the
planet’s natural resources. Their tools included fraudulent
financial reports, rigged elections, payoffs, extortion, sex,
and murder. They play a game as old as empire, but one that has
taken on new and terrifying dimensions during this time of globalization.”
and it’s being done domestically too.
I would really like to see Sean’s ‘A beautiful mind’ shed…
I posted my favorite bar beer sign.. No one is looking at it. ;-(
Those of you saying that so and so brand beer takes like horse piss.. I’m asking, HOW DO YOU KNOW?
#379: I meant Fugelsang, not McLovin. Where has he been all week?
#388 I’d tell you, but then I’d have to kill you.
384 hey Ivan
380 Beer twister… or, ‘horrible game of naked twister where it’s all boys and they kill you when you lose’ — Reno 911
382 Beer lawn darts… how do you think Stephie got that Jart
stuck in her head…
beer wood splitting
Beer nail hammering. OOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
beer bird hunting….Dick’s favorite sport..
beer accounting.
Was John really giving away star wars figurines at his yard sale?
A couple weeks ago I notes a VERY SUSPICIOUS “street person” looking in parked car windows and generally “lurking” near some student apartments.
Then a woman approached me and asked me to help her call the cops on this guy.
My trust in the police acting smart in these situations is so low that I am very reluctant to call the cops on any one. I’ve seen it go bad, too often.
So, I just went up to the guy and told him he was scaring people.
He seemed developmentally disabled and said he was waiting for the building manager. I told him he should stop loitering and he did.
Hooray for ISDN!
beer beaver hunting
388 where did you post it?
some beer tastes like horse pee… but we prefer the horse pee
(SPARTA + SPARTA + SPARTA + SPARTA) / (SPARTA + SPARTA + SPARTA)
I would like to see Sean Hannity’s beautiful mind. Start by opening that hair helmet and using my Dremel cutoff blade to remove the lid of his skull. Something like the scene from the Red Dragon movie, I’d let him sample his own beautiful mind.
John Fugelsang, they’re called blew dogs because they did…
Since no one knows why Frangela left, I think we should start our own rumor…
It was a typical Friday in the SMS fort, when Frangela walked in..
Jim, in usual squeezy fashion, grabbed both of their fabulous black asses, and asked Jiggles to get a pad for him to write his latest bit about Darth Vader and an exploding nebula…
Chris started “tooling” around with the sound equipment, but he accidentally spilled Mama’s pint glass of box wine on Angela’s lap.
Angela then knocked Francis out of the shared seat where they sat, head phones stretched over both of their heads. The head phones snapped off, flew accross the room and hit Mama in the face.
Mama was furious and kicked those bitches out of the tree house, never to return again. She poured a new gallon of box wine, made Jim grab her ass, switched on the mike, belched, and vowed Frangela should never again be mentioned on the SMS show!
And now Jim only has Junebug’s ass to grab and the Dick Vader bit is soiled with box wine… it was tragic… simply tragic…
Ivan eww…dont go all sylar on him…
great algebra skills…..not
beer dremel cutting
Well, the moment of parting has come. I have an 11:00 appointment with my barber. See you Monday!
Beer sign on Stephspace, a photo..
How do you know what “horse pee” tastes like?
397 poor guy
jerks wanna call the cops on everyone. this guy was disabled and
waiting to see the building manager.
sometimes just a little human kindness goes a long way. o’course
the guy could have been a violent criminal, and you could have
got mugged trying to talk to him, another reason why bad people
make the world so much the worse place. my heart goes out to
people with problems, the least among us deserve better than
we treat them
>> Margo says:
>> I probably missed this in a previous blog, but I don’t always log in because I’m at work. Anyhoo, What happened to Frangela. Did they get booted off the show or did they have a tragic reaction to “I’m a Celebrity, get me out of here”?
I don’t think they’ve said anything on-air about Frengela, have they?
They disappeared after they did the TV show, so I assume it’s something with that.
Nothing was said after Elaine Bussler disappeared, either.
It kind of bugs me when they do that.
399: that could lead to coyote arm
Danielle, what a beautiful mind you have! I’m lovin’ it..
403… I thought maybe they got the reality show bug and were off taping a show on Borneo…
403 It was, as usual, the tool’s fault
Arlington, a town adjacent to Cambridge, is where I did social work for 30 years. I led a group of community leaders who planned programs for families. These kinds of groups REALLY help community relationships. People who can do things get to know each other. It included the police, teachers, school administration, town leaders, day care administrator, another social worker….
DANG IT!!!! Missed SPARTAC worse than SPARTA… (damn JOB)
397… Good for you! Hopefully the lady who was going to call the cops will think twice next time before assuming they’re a criminal…Not saying there aren’t valid reasons for doing so sometimes… but I agree with mark… a little human compassion can mean a lot…
Aren’t the Blew Dogs really the Dixiecrats?
410 Chris tweeted that they asked not to come back on anymore….
Elaine was the same way, the last time she was on, she said she didn’t want to do it anymore.
419… I heard that too, I just like my version better!
I actual wrote Elaine about it, and she replied that it was so hard to ‘marinate’ in the news like she needed to for the show. I don’t blame her.
403 I love it
Poor Jim, beaten up by Frangella at work and JuJuManJi when he
gets home… and now Steph’s mad at him and Chris has to rewire
the board from the wine spill short-out and Steph’s got wine
all over her box…
Frangela probably have better things to do than be at the same place every 8AM Friday.
408 by drinking it or course
umm! horse pee!
tastes just like box wine
#419 It’s a grueling shift. John will benefit from his move to NYC by being able to appear at 11:00 AM Eastern Time.
Frangela’s more of an evening act…
It’s really difficult for anyone to sit in for or be a regular on the show – Steph’s is pretty unique and difficult for just anyone to do.
radio is hard.
Mama and the mooks make it look easy.
419. So a little local radio show here on KTLA and the occasional VH-1 taping has taken up all their time?? Will miss FWF, but screw-em if they don’t want to work in this town.
John Fugelsang is wrong, wrong, wrong about the 911 caller. First of all, she (not he) doesn’t live there; she works a few doors down. Second, she said absolutely nothing about black men; that magically appeared in the police report. When the dispatcher pressed her for a description, she said one of them might be Hispanic, but she didn’t see the other one well enough before he went in the house. She said that it was possible that the men lived or worked in the house, and she mentioned the fact that they took suitcases inside. There are many places online that you can listen to the actual call. When you do, you will see that the caller is the one person who is entirely blameless in this affair.
The Rethugs WANT YOU TO FEEL DEMORALIZED AND POWERLESS. It’s part of their game. We need to get right in the faces of our reps
‘plonk’… britspeak for cheap wine. whut momma’s breath smells like.
Thunderbird. Wild Irish Rose. MD20-20. ‘fortified wine’. screw-top.
Momma likes to hang out wearing her multi-colored toe socks, face-mud
ratty housecoat and the wineglass. but then who doesn’t
so many don’t wanna come back on the Sensational Stephanie Miller Show.
prolly cause the dry cleaning bills are so high, and some wine
stains just Won’t come out. Plus Jim always there being Squeezy
prolly creeps them. not to mention Chris being Tooley and
surly Radmilla giving them the evil eye for some reason they can’t
figure out…
Thanks for the info. I can’t reply directly to you, but DrunkNlrishDanielle, I love the story.
I had just thought they were probably stalking Spencer waiting for a chance to knock a bottle of water out of his hand.
Slightly off color beer tale. In high school I worked at a “B” grade drive in theater, and we drank beer after hours. One of the regulars was a pretty worthless guy, never bought any beer, and would sneak and steal ours out of the cooler. He was virtually always stumbling drunk, and got sloppier as the evening progressed.
We knew he’d soon stop in and sneak a beer, so we just “offered” him a beer – one which had been carefully opened, drank, and refilled with fresh urine. He joyfully took the “beer” and we all watched intently as he tipped up the bottle and took two good chugs of it before he realized it wasn’t Miller after all! He spat it out and hurried outside to retch and purge himself of it.
So, I’m convinced that you can’t be so drunk as to not know when you are drinking piss.
True story. I have worse ones..
make that wine mug…
beer frangela
433.. they just can’t stand being in the shadow of the wonderous talent that is the SMS show staff!
On a side note, does anyone think it’s wrong of me to consider breaking up with a boyfriend because after a year he still hasn’t figured out not to call during SMS????
429 – You’re missing what 419 & 425 are saying. Radio is difficult. Eventually Hal Sparks may move on.
438. No, I think it’s perfectly reasonable. My wife knows not to interrupt during stephcast time.
when they start framing the single payer/public option as a “Pro Life” issue, they will be able to bludgeon the BDDem’s and Rethugs into the ground with it.
it is both a pro-life and pro-choice issue at the same time.
439 – yeah, they do VH1, their own show, and travel for standup, PLUS francis is an actual momma….THey do have their hands full.
Danielle, sounds like the inconsiderate bastid doesn’t deserve a sweet woman like you. He should come over, feed you peeled grapes, and STFU so you can listen to Steph.
Damn young kids. Don’t know how to treat a woman!
#369, #430: Fugelsang IS wrong about the neighbor. Her name should never have been released in the first place – that only led to hotheads everywhere, EVEN IN THIS LIVEBLOG, to assume she must be a racist. Result: insults and harrassment; luckily no attacks (that I know of), but did I hear Fugelsang joking that “he” should be beaten up for failing to recognize Prof. Gates and calling 9-1-1? Way to go Fugelsang.
440… that’ why she made it to wife apparently! (I kid, I kid…but rather serious on the bf thing…god that’s annoying… and it’s not like I listen to anything he says if the shows on anyway!)
health care is the #1 pro-life issue in this country. Insurance companies certainly aren’t into providing health care–they’re into growing their profit margins at the expense of the lives of the people they supposedly insure.
Getting affordable health care to conservatives gets all the same gratitude as taking the cat to the vet.
438 – He must learn boundaries. Unfortunately I forgot to enclose a SMS clause in my contract at work. Those bastids expect me to do stuff during the show.
aww Ivan, you’re too sweet! **blushing**
Look at all the grown men trying to convince the Drunken Woman to break up with her bf….we’re shameless.
451… it’s all good! I doubt I’d even be joking about such a thing if it wasn’t already a strong possibility… he annoys the hell out of me anyway… calling during SMS… well, hey, everyone has a line… that may be mine!
Hey Obama come to FL, we got Disney!
Yeh, that’s what they all say.. ;->
I do love the women, I don’t see how they can put up with men. Even the bitches, I love them too.
Sorry, I already ate your grapes.
Number one cause of divorce is financial issues. Stormy is just like everyone else, just more comfortable being nude on camera.
Blew up – well she’s used to the blowing.
Free beer and nickel love. I’d vote for the porn star, she’s already trained!
Hey, John just called Obama “middle-aged”!! WTF??? 47 years old is NOT middle aged (this coming from a 50-year-old female lol!!) The older I get the older “middle-aged” gets!
I thought Cheney was tough but he nothing on Karl Rove, the true Don of the political underworld.
Don Siegelman! What about Don Siegelman???
LMAO IVAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
But funny point, I often say the same thing in the opposite direction.. I’d totally be a lesbian, well, because chicks are hot, but damn they’re too much work… I think that’s my issue with the bf… GUYS ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE HIGH MAINTENANCE!!!!! WTF?!?!?
Republican tool is usually redundant.
Have a great weekend, everyone!
Have a good weekend all! See you next month!
well, later ya’ll… have a great weekend!
have a great weekend all!
Have a nice weekend, seeya Mund-Day, fellow MookenBloggenators.
Don’t you ever change a thing.
L.
361 – yeah, we guys should be like Porthos Ivy – stick us in a cupboard without water or air, and we are ready to go when you open it up 3 months later.
Bye all, have a great weekend and see you Monday!
ciao all.
Signing off: New Nicknames:
“Snotty Boy” For Dick Morris
“Alfalfa” for Jeff Sessions
His vote on Sonia Sotomayor shows that he’s a member of the “He Man Woman Hater’s Club!”
precious bloggers, see ya monday
I wish I could be in a liveblog someday…