LiveBlog for Tuesday, August 4, 2009
• Rep. Allyson Schwartz (D-PA) calls in at 6:05am Pacific to talk about health care reform.
• Rep. Joe Courtney (D-CT) calls in at 6:30am Pacific to talk about health care reform.
• The American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) President Gerald McEntee calls in at 7:30am Pacific to talk about their grassroots effort to get health care reform passed.
• Comedian Hal Sparks joins us in studio at 8:05am Pacific to talk about all things politics and pop culture.
• The White House shot down concerns yesterday that middle-class families may face a tax increase in order to combat rising deficits and a struggling economy. The concern came after the Obama administration’s two top money men floated the idea that tax increases to fund the nation’s economic recovery could extend into the middle class.
• Frustrated with the pace of bipartisan talks, Dem leaders yesterday promised to push a sweeping health care bill through the Senate whether they get GOP support or not.
• Former President Bill Clinton made an unannounced visit to North Korea this morning on a trip seen as a mission to win the release of two jailed American reporters and to ease tensions over Pyongyang’s recent nuclear defiance.
Tags: AFSCME, Allyson Schwartz, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Gerald McEntee, Hal Sparks, Health Care Reform, Joe Courtney, Larry Summers, Tim Geithner
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Gooood morning all!!
Queen Birfer Orly Taitz totally lost it on MSNBC. When even Ann Coulter thinks you’re a nut…you’re a nut.
http://www.fark.com/cgi/comments.pl?IDLink=4551856
The final damning piece of evidence on the “Kenyan Birth Certificate”. This little comment hidden in the file…
NOTICE: This image is a work of parody and political commentary. It is not a genuine government document. Barack Obama was born in Hawaii. A certified copy of his birth record is freely available online. If you thought this was Obama’s real birth certificate, a “smoking gun” proving he’s not a natural-born citizen, then congratulations. You are an idiot. I made this from scratch. It is completely fake, and no document from Kenya or the United Kingdom resembles it.Obama’s president, and will be for the next 3 1/2 to 7 1/2 years. Get used to it.
Keep it up, Birfers. Take the Rethugs down with you.
#1 The “Kenyan Birth Certificate” debacle should go down in history as an “Epic Facepalm” for the racists who are thinly disguised as “birthers”.
BTW, in case you missed it, Keith had a Special Comment on the legislator selling themselves out to the healthcare and insurance industries. Yes, he names names and calls out both parties for their hypocrisy:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/
Meant plural “legislators”.
Mama must have hit me with the flu-ray. After dinner, I decided to take a short nap. Didn’t wake up until 10:00 PM (with a major headache). Took some OTC meds and went back to sleep until 3:00 AM. Catnapped until my 5:00 AM wake-up. Grrr!
BTW, the wingers are already referring the rumor of a middle-class tax hike as Obama’s “Read my lips” moment (ironically invoking the memory of George H.W. Bush’s now-infamous line). Geez, they are so wanting this President to fail, aren’t they?
4
How many “rays” does Mama have?
Yes, it’s amazing how one can latch on to a rumor and hold it as truth, but the truth can’t be accepted if it goes contrary to your beliefs.
I thought he said the Sheriff was near!
No dadburn it I said the Sheriff was a N****r
Sorry to hear you are sick shaf. I’m gonna have to stand over here.
Hope you feel better soon.
and good morning to my two early am blogger friends.
I heard George Noory, host of Coast to Coast overnight radio show, “courting” birthers. I emailed him (who is not a racist) to please show sense about where our President was born (Hawaii) or risk coming off as a racist.
I also said, Please don’t fan the fires of fanaticism by giving credit to the misconception.
so, the birthers are getting coverage because they are a “movement”.
Well, folks wanting single payer insurance for health care are a “movement”, too.
Get on THAT, msm!
#6 Thanks, Carol. I’m good enough to make it to work. Just need to take things slower today.
Thanks, also, for taking Noory to task. People like him (and Lou Dobbs) should know better than to give any credibility to such nonsense. If they are not racists, then they at the very least ratings whores who will not stoop to such tactics to attract listeners/viewers.
I’m afraid our State Department is involved in more taunting of Dear Leader by sending the husband: “hirrareeee!”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
Godspeed to President Clinton. Happy Birthday!!!! President Obama
#10 Yes. Happy Birthday, Mister President, if you were in-fact… born. Muhahahaha!
If anyone can secure the release of those two journalist, the Big Dog can.
#10 Yes. Happy Birthday, Mister President, if you were in-fact… born. Muhahahaha!
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Is that you, Rachel Maddow?
13: there was a long stretch of time there, where you just never saw sean penn and k d lang in the same place at the same time. – i never would have believed they were two different people, had they not gotten together, and brott us the lovely and always excellent rachel maddow.
Wild Thang
WALKENIZED HAPPY BIRTHDAY:
hey there mister president, if that is your real name, and who am i to say if it is or not, there’s no birth certificate, except i dont really give an auguste rodin tinker’s damn if there is, because let’s face it, “barack hussein president” is a pretty cool name… you go boy! it’s your birthday! just get your birthday suit on and do what brings you contentment and joy! not long from now, you’ll even get a passport to be able to go visit florida, and sit at the grownups’ table at thanksgiving. what are you, 80 ? – oh 48. – i guess i really overshot it with the 80. but it’s your day, barack hussein president, my friend. dont let anybody tell you you cant tap dance the morning away and gorge on a big bucket of extra spicy popeye’s fried chicken. or maybe you prefer church’s. whatever works. hey, some of my best friends (many of them candy bars) have no birth certificate. i say go for it.
Walking on Sunshine
It’s Miller Time!
I’m just plain yogurt
Allyson Schwartz, the Flame Thrower! The kid’s really love that one.
#20 “kids”, not the possessive. Grrr!
james madison famously said that if tax dollars are diverted from private interests to go back into “promoting the general welfare”, then the terrorists win.
when did stephy become a “lay” person? – is hal sparks over there sleeping it off?
#23 Maybe they did consummate the love that dares not speak its name.
Ask her about falling down the well! Is she OK?
#25 Two words: “Acoustic insulation”. She needs some!
A tax credit for me to go out and buy Health Insurance…just another way to say Corporate Welfare for the Insurance Industry…
Will the repugs give me a tax credit to go out and buy private police Protection; Fire Protection….pay tolls on highways…
Hey, lets privitize everything…
Will a bill gets to the House floor, the Repubs will try to add amendments to slow the process even more.
talking points that are lies? – no way – last night, mark levin (if you’re not familiar with the concept, think of michael medved minus the drop of testosterone) was reading a laundry list of groups that advocate healthcare reform, trying to put scary menacing infections upon the words (“MARRRRY POPPPPINS!!!!…..PEOPLE FOR GOOOOODNESSS AND DEEECENCYYY!!!….THE RRREDDDDD CROSSSSS!!!!…”) and levin topped off the list with the climactic revelation: “the A. A. R. P. !!!!”
then they will demand the entire bill be read.. and interupt with points of information…
Chris is an iceberg
Blue-cross dems are shooting themselves in the foot….
28: a bill getting to the floor?
“where’s the money, lewinski?”
“hey, look here in the blue dress. it’s a wad of bill’s”
31: lettuce prey.
Somewhere Keith Olbermann is rolling off his girlfriend to go throw up. Worst special comment…ever!
35: good thing keith olbermann is covered by ben AFLAC
35…Really? You work for an insurance company?
Morning all!
senior canejo trojano, is there some other way to get to the alleged video of orally taints? – i couldnt find anything close to video thru FARK.
Single-Payer will be voted down in September.
Caller, to be fair to the reps, not following national polls doesn’t mean you’re not representing your constituents. Legislators are elected locally, not nationally.
#32 Agreed.
We also need to lay to rest the B.S. that the “Dogs” have to play to the center-right since they are in purple-leaning-red districts. A majority of voters want a public option. Here’s a good open letter to Blue Dogs from Nate Silver (of FiveThirtyEight.com):
http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2009/07/dear-mr-blue-dog.html
1/39: it turns out (according to google translate) that the correct term is “conejo”. no wonder nobody was there.
my standee of stephanie miller would probably be happier with an escort. anybody know where i can purchase a christopher walken tapdancee ?
39
Actually, the video I saw yesterday only showed the birth certificate in the picture, never saw a picture of O’rly or the MSNBC people.
Can’t do any further YouTube searching from here.
Morning Joe is also best watched with the sound off, just sayin’!
Morning, everyone, on this hazy, hot, and humid day. We avoided it for a long time this summer in the DC area, but it’s here now. So, I think that everyone has heard about Geithner going off. I’m glad he did. There needs to be regulatory reform, and people do need to quit their bleeping turf wars.
48… and the picture off…
You should never watch “Morning Jerk”
#48 …and the cable unplugged…
oops 46…can’t cite myself…
48: and the guys from office space adjusting the picture out in the field.
#51 No worries, I got it.
How much of this fake crowd outrage would show up if representatives limited attendanec to people who actually lived in their district?
51: sure you can. just put on the giant putin head from mardi gras, and watch yourself from the front porch.
What’s Up, Y’All!!!!
And the stimulus will kick in towards the back half of the year, and that will create jobs. It takes time for contracts to be awarded and ground to be broken. A lot of people who lost their construction jobs in the housing sector will get them again once stimulus funded construction projects start.
54…vetting people going to a townhall meeting, the would claim that is an infringement on their Rights; they would claim only a nazi’s did such crap…
Any one for a loyalty pledge before entering the meeting?
#54, there’s a diary on Kos about how to neutralize them: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/8/4/761608/-Tea-Baggers-FAIL-to-disrupt-Health-Care-meeting,-lessons-shared.
#47 INDEED!!! The REAL dc summer is about to kick into gear bigtime. The HeaT Miser is coming, and he is PISSED.
#58, if residency is the only requirement, I don’t see that as onerous.
56: barack hussein president will be sporting his birthday suit all day / keith olbermann is covered by ben AFLAC / the AARP has been revealed as one of the terrorist groups that support healthcare / you may see putin’s head floating around, but dont be alarmed; that’s just progressiveintexas.
MSNBC seems to be attempting via Mornin’ Joe to create an AM news show that makes less sense and has less appealing personalities than Fox & Friends. Obviously Fox has the lead in this race to the bottom, but Joe and Mika are gaining ground.
61…remember the GWB town halls…and loyalty pledges?
SPARTA!!! too soon?
#57 And, we already have some road projects in Ohio that note their funding from the Stim. Yep, six months is about right to start seeing the effects.
instead of “fixing” the donut hole, could we “dunk” the donut hole?
Good morning, live blogospherians! Back from giving Daisy T. Beagle a booster shot and here for the duration.
Hats off to Keith Olbermann for naming names last night. It’s time to take no prisoners.
yes, I remember six months after I started taking my daily viagra, I got a four-hour stiffie.
58: they do have a point. the nazis were ferocious about forcing availability of healthcare upon everybody, especially the elderly…
Happy Birthday, Barack!
G’marnin’ Bloggoes!
olbermann was EXCELLENT last night. NAME NAMES!!!
Oh, and happy birthday, Mr. President!
They made the jews see Dr. Mengele.
58/70: and let’s not forget about how the khmer rouge amped up both medicare and public education…
I think they should let anyone in to the event…but check IDs at the door. If they don’t have an ID for the district, they don’t get to speak.
The town hall meetings are for district residents.
And if you disrupt the meeting, then you need to be removed from the room. Free speech is not limitless, and if you disrupt a meeting, you infringe on other people’s free speech rights. So they should be removed.
‘Of course I won’t laugh, said the nurse. I’m a professional. In over twenty years I’ve never laughed at a patient.’
‘Okay then’, said Fred, and he proceeded to drop his trousers, revealing the tiniest ‘man thingy’ the nurse had ever seen.
Length and width, it couldn’t have been bigger than a AAA battery.
Unable to control herself, the nurse started giggling,
then fell to the floor laughing. Ten minutes later she was able to struggle to her feet and regain her composure.
‘I am so sorry,’ she said. ‘I don’t know what came over me. On my honor as a nurse and a lady, I promise it won’t happen again.
Now, tell me, what seems to be the problem?’
‘It’s swollen,’ Fred replied.
76… these people don’t speak..the stand a shout, in unison, drown out any other speaker…
#64, I do indeed, and a residency requirement is worlds away from that. In any event, last I checked, every American was represented by GWB, and so only foreign nationals would have been excluded from his town halls under a similar rule.
Indeed, allowing disruptive outsiders who aren’t represented by a legislator is decidedly anti-democratic; as speech in this format is a zero-sum game. Outbursts by those not represented by a given legislator steals the speech away from those that are. Why do we give out-of-district people the right to steal and squelch speech from actual constituents?
Steph love the Three Stooges. That is sooooo sexy!!!!
the south vietnamese reeducation camps.
A jumbo jet is making its final approach to Tampa Airport
The pilot comes on the intercom, ‘This is your Captain. We’re on our final descent into Tampa .. I want to thank you for flying with us today and hope you enjoy your stay in the Tampa Bay area’.
He forgets to switch off the intercom. Now the whole plane can hear his conversation from the cockpit. The co-pilot can be heard saying to the pilot, ‘So, Skip, whatcha got planned while we’re in Tampa ?’
‘Well,’ says the skipper, ‘first I’m gonna check into the hotel, take a big crap….then I’m gonna take that new stewardess with the huge tits out for dinner…. I’m gonna wine and dine her, take her back to my room and give her a ride on the baloney pony all night long.’
Aghast and amused, everyone on the plane hears this and immediately begins looking up and down the aisle, trying to figure out who this new stewardess is that the pilot’s talking about. Meanwhile, the new stewardess is seated at the very back of the plane. She is so embarrassed that she starts running toward the cockpit to turn the intercom off.
Halfway down the aisle, she trips over an old lady’s bag and down she goes.
The old lady leans over and says: ‘No need to hurry, dear. He’s gotta land the plane and poop first.’
Chris Kofinis called it right last night on Olbermann’s show. Bring people who have been screwed over by the health insurance companies to speak first at the town meetings, and then see what the RWNJ plants have to say about that.
67: lest he be remembered as totally useless, know that it was dennis miller who got to deliver the line, (dubya’s posse was new to the national spotlight, so forgive the inaccuracy) “george bush has surrounded himself with competent people, much the same way that a donut hole surrounds itself with a donut”.
Hey
heart full of hate for everything human this a.m.
current company excluded o’course
where’s my coffee? prolly should spike it, mebbe
that’s half my prollem: the house is empty of anything to drink
BEAVER STACK
An 86-year-old man went to his doctor for his quarterly check-up. The doctor asked him how he was feeling, and the 86-year-old said ,”Things are great and I’ve never felt better. I now have a 20 year-old bride who is pregnant with my child. So what do you think about that Doc?”
The doctor considered his question for a minute and then began to tell a story. “I have an older friend , much like you, who is an avid hunter and never misses a season. One day he was setting off to go hunting. In a bit of a hurry , he accidentally picked up his walking cane instead of his gun. As he neared a lake , he came across a very large beaver sitting at the water’s edge. He realized he’d left his gun at home and so he couldn’t shoot the magnificent creature. Out of habit he raised his cane , aimed it at the animal as if it were his favorite hunting rifle and went ‘bang, bang’. Miraculously , two shots rang out and the beaver fell over dead.. Now, what do you think of that?” asked the doctor.
The 86-year-old said , “Logic would strongly suggest that somebody else pumped a couple of rounds into that beaver.”
The doctor replied , “My point exactly.”
Yeah, you gotta love K.O. Back from a two week break with a scorching Special Comment that hopefully burned a few asses on The Hill.
68: i love to compare the lists between olbermann and sister bertha betterthanyou.
Well, looks like the market can’t hold its gains from yesterday.
I offered to make a bet for a grand with a couple of right wing douchebags who kept calling the market in the winter the Obama market. I said a grand says that Obama will deliver better returns at the end of his first term that Bush did. So, if it’s all his fault, like you’re saying, then put your money where your mouth is.
Wanna guess what they said?
OK, I promise. This is the last one.
I went out with friends yesterday when I suddenly realized I desperately needed to fart. The music was really, really loud, so I timed my farts with the beat.
After a couple of songs, I started to feel better. I finished my beer and noticed that everybody was staring at me.
That was when I suddenly remembered that I was listening to my iPod.
profit taking is always expected after a surge. it’s not a matter of the market not supporting its gains, but of day traders in desperate need of pocket change.
77: in fact, after a while, fred got used to it, and adjusted to the unavoidable laffter…. but i decided to change my name from the rather drab “fred”.
Flaven!
Bleeding ears
90 gabs you bin on fire this morn
I’m gonna appropriate a couple of those…
your friends probably laughed at you, tony. But democrats ALWAYS have stronger stock markets than republicans.
#90, well played.
nothing is more predictable than a powerful market under democrats. more predictable than the spring
97 —
78….then they are being disruptive and should be removed. Ain’t nothing wrong with another don’t tase me bro moment. And as soon as that happens, those mofos will disappear real quick.
What are the two types of Republicans?
Billionaires…
and.
Suckers…
82: thank you for bringing that to our attention. it looks like a sarah palin TV show has possibilities after all.
#90 At least you weren’t golfing…
Tiger Woods farts at the Buick Open:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om0Y-KV4JAo&feature=player_embedded
Who does Steph think she’s fooling. She was here when the Constitution was ratified.
Congress won’t outlaw lobbyists
this healthcare debacle shows the power of money
on the streets
morons spouting lies they’ve absorbed
I just want to burn their little playhouse down
she’s loaded for beaver this morning
#104 I heard she was there for the signing of the Mayflower Compact.
101 great point
Passing a bill with a simple majority is setting a dangerous precedent. But maybe it has to be done this way, this time.
#96, what was the stat? If you invested $10,000 in 1928 and put it in the market only in the 40 years of Republican administrations and under the mattress under Democratic administrations, you’d have $11,500, inflation-adjusted by 2008. If you invested $10,000 in 1928 and put it in the market only in the 40 years of Democratic administrations and under the mattress under Republican administrations, you’d have $325,000, inflation-adjusted by 2008.
the super rich and the super dumb
100..Then faux noise reports: Peaceful Citizens forcibly removed from twon hall by Democrat Gestapo..
90: also, you probably shouldnt have been keeping up with the 1812 overture.
Reconciliation on something as big as the healthcare bill isn’t allowed on major bills under the Byrd rule. Read the summary here:
http://www.rules.house.gov/Archives/byrd_rule.htm
#109, reconciliation is a budget thing. Meaning anything not-budget related can be cut by the Senate Parliamentarian. And it expires after 10 years.
That’s the main problem with reconciliation.
Caller is thinking like the Live Blog. Yay for y’alls!
95: they were released to the beat of the music on gabby’s ipod. how are you going to appropriate them now ?
Randi Rhodes already went over the id check thing yesterday ….
atleast she not stealing from you this time : )
97: and, you must admit, so much more pleasing to all the senses than waterboarding or bagpipes.
Steph’s lookin’ so good this morning in her cowgirl outfit
Somebody tell Jim to put on some pants
Morning all! Happy birthday Barack! Maybe you’ll get a few ass-kickers in Congress as a present. And how about everybody start barking when the corporate-funded teabaggers start going off in town meetings? Bark at them and drown them out til they stfu.
bleeding ears is an anagram for bleeding arse
103: at least it was not your farter’s oldsmobile.
all I want for my birthday is some democrats with teeth
I too am an empath. I can feel what other people are feeling: “I wish this creep would go away…”
‘mornin’ BlookinMogsters.
I hope you all saw Keith Olbermann’s fine rant last night wherein he called out some specific Congresscritters in both parties on their suckling at the massive teat of the insurance and pharma industries. He seemed .. err PASSIONATE about it.
107: my favorite part of the “mayflowers.com” commercial was always “go to the promo box, and enter stephanie”.
this is no mere recession, is the inevitable result
of an organized plan to siphon all the world’s cash
into the pockets of the very few
and who will do anything about it?
Yup. For all the talk of democrats being bad for business and republicans being good, the best market returns are during democratic administrations. No question about it.
Anyway, I’m out. Have a good one.
Wild Thang 2
120 — highland pipes are loud & in the wrong context (anything but parades or military maneuvers or Battlefield Band concerts) harsh sounding, but I love uilleann pipes and northumbrian smallpipes. Kathryn Tickell is one of my favorite musicians in the world.
And yes, you have heard her play.
It’s back in the car for me. I have to go back to North Carolina.
Smurf, I’m goin’ to Carolina in my mind..
129 — umm.. bomb Dubai?
Steph’s a tease..
happy birthday mr pwesident
It didn’t work exactly the way it was supposed to. It worked BETTER than it was supposed to.
Dickhead Armey is head of the organization financing the “dissent” exhibited at the town meeting (attempts)..
whirly teats
I hear there’s a re-birther movement that wants to hot-tub Obama back through his birth experience to see if he blurts out anything about being in Kenya.
I think that they are planning a global pandemic with the specific goal of reducing the world population to a billion. In order the survive the pandemic, they will need islands and hideaways in the mountains but on the other side, they will own all of the property, all of the resources, and the billion or so lucky enough to survive will either be nobles or serfs.
I vant Orley Tates to say “Moose and Squirrel”!
Whoa, Mama! Orly Taitz totally freaked!
Liberal Hussein, Flombaye: In what bizarro alternate universe were you listening to Keith? My man gave the beatdown to those Blue Dawgs!
gabbyhussein, LeftCenter, I hope that Keith names all 26 of the HOR Blue Dogs and how much they were paid over the next three and a half weeks!
Someone call the Gabors! Their missing sister has been found!
#145 Ditto.
My birth certificate is signed by my son, so it must be legit.
Magda!
#146 No, Orly has a Russian accent. The Gabors have a Hungarian accent.
For a minute there Mama sounded like Arianna!
Both parents DON’T have to be U.S. citizens to be a Natural Born citizen. ONE parent must be a U.S. citizen OR you must be born in the U.S.A. regardless of parental citizenship.
Jim must be reading the Live Blog.
I missed the beginning of that, Who the schmeck was that screechy woman?
Love Jim’s Russian accent. “mOOSE AND sQUI8RREL!”
154 — Orly Taitz
Hammer and Sickle TOE!
And now, a story about Yakov Smirnoff!
154/156
aka The Republican Base
Who’s bringin’ th’ fryin’ pan?
natasha’s voice is very deep, deeper than boris’s.
in america, we get smirnoff and then we yakov. WHAT A COUNTRY!
Is it just me, or does Orly Taitz sound alarmingly like the Chicken Lady from Kids in the Hall when she gets worked up?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQ_IXZ0Bksg
WOW…. The is Demint guy is really starting to make a name for himself. And not one I’d reapeat in front of the children.
#163 Scarred. Scarred for life!
#120, well, there’s that.
#132, personally I find the uilleanns to be cloying; and have zero interest pipe band music when I’m not playing in it. I do love solo pipes, esp. playing piobaireachd, and double especially when played at a lower pitch than bands. Northumbrians are quite fun. But most of all, I love the big pipes in a Celtic band, which is why I started one.
Oh Great more Crap outta Joey Blabberman’s stupid mouth
eat
shit;
die
Joey
Isn’t the government running a couple NEW car companies right now? Used cars go hand in hand.
Joe Lieberman is a genocidal master racist.
I have trouble taking Joe Lieberman seriously. I think it’s because he sounds exactly like Willie from ALF.
161 Steph as Natasha, Jim as Boris… Cris as Rocky? Max as Bullwinkle?
Pantsuit in a drinking contest with Ahmadinnerjacket would be the last resort.
But then George McGovern sounded exactly like Liberace, so who knows….
Based on how I’ve heard Gil Shaham’s sister’s name pronounced, Orly Taitz would be pronounced “Whirly Tights”.
172 — beer summit 2: red wine edition!
littul Joey Blabberman
I’d say that he’s more loyal to Tel Aviv than to America
but the truth is he’s loyal to… Joey Blabberman
I took a couple of semesters of po-russky in college, and I have no idea why Orly would be pronounced Whirly? However, Taitz would be pronounced Tights.
172 Pantsuite beats down Dinnerjacket in a drinking contest
winner takes all in the mid east
solution to all our prollems.
I just turned oiff the sound on the Tinnitus thingie.
Sounds like the red line comin’ into Harvard station.
177 it’s pronounced ‘taint’
OK, 3 tinnitus commercials is my limit. Click!
Speaking of ‘pipes and highlanders. An historian recently turned up evidence that haggis was described in an English letter some 100 years earlier than it was supposedly invented in Scotland. Scots are thoroughly pissed over the notion. All the fuss about blood and oatmeal pudding in a warm sheep’s stomach..
And after tinnitus we have the ticket ad that was recorded in the men’s room at McDonald’s.
#177, Orly is either a Yiddish or Hebrew name, not Russian.
red wine
brown liquor
no underpants
Bagpipes and tinnitus commercials: what’s the difference?
Steph could lead a world summit on “Drinking as a Solution”.
What torques my jaw about the tinnitus commercials (or any others that do it) is repeating the goddam telephone number 4 times!! Grr.
#188 What I don’t get is why they even bother to give the phone numbers. After all, you’re already deaf from the ringing sound at the beginning.
orly is a french name. they have a whole airport named that.
188 — they give a phone number?
182 a lot of stuff in Scotland originated in the middle east, traveled
across North Africa, jumped to the Iberian peninsula, and then
went to Ireland and Scotland. The music, the bagpipe, the dancing,
there was another strain that entered east to west, pushed by
succeeding waves of migration
#179 Ironically, I have tinnitus, but it doesn’t sound anything like the commercial.
she’s got a what?
#182, they’re not pissed that it was used in writing 100 years earlier, they’re pissed at the somewhat naive notion that this means the English invented it. Other early English cookbooks consistently refer to it as a “Scots haggis”.
Oh, and haggis isn’t a blood pudding; it’s beef (later sheep) heart, lung, and liver with beef suet and oatmeal and spices. And very very tasty.
anyone see orly tates on Colbert the other night, she said Obmama’s SSN was issued 190 years ago. seems to me social security was created under FDR back in the 1930′s
Palin / Taitz 2012
my tinnitis sounds like a steam turbine turning about 11,000 rpm. I picked it up in the engine room of a navy ship. but my hearing loss isn’t “service-connected.” Go figure. Also, tinnitis is nerve damage. the only way to get rid of it is to get new nerves.
Chris? Are you taunting us?
Okay, that’s it. I can’t concentrate. They keep playing the $#*@ing tinnitus ad. I may move elsewhere if this keeps up.
Quietus must be a Republican company
Looks like another sparta + 100 day! I finally watched Meet the Spartans last night. At least I got through it, the 300 movie I never could make it..
I thought a haggis was for tossing.
#195 Very tasty if you don’t throw up looking at it.
190
You O’rly men?
He who has a thing to sell
And goes and whispers down a well
Is not so apt to get the dollars
as someone who makes annoying screeching sounds over and over again repeatedly until everyone dies of nerve damage.
or something like that.
YEEEEAAHAHHH
I also have tinnitus, which varies. Mine is likely due to diabetes and nerve damage it causes.
Oooo, there they go again with that fricking commercial..
#192, the bagpipe probably came to Scotland and Ireland through the Low Countries – the earliest depictions of Gaelic pipers is in the 1520s, of Gaelic mercenaries in Europe playing pipes indistinguishable from contemporary German bagpipes.
Though pipes did indeed come from North Africa, they spent centuries as the dominant folk dance instrument throughout Europe before migrating to the Gaelic-speaking world; and are still widely distributed throughout Europe: http://www.hotpipes.com/main.html
The similarity between the Spanish Gaita and the Highland pipes probably speaks to a wide-spread 17th century European design rather than a linear connection between Spain and Ireland.
The fascist movement has taken over the Republican party. Their single purpose is to stop debate. They are unpatriotic, they are fascists. The American people need to wake up and the media needs to stop being politically correct and point out the birth of an organized fascist party that has taken over the shell of the former Republican party.
Quietus sucks the bag.. That’s 1-800-s*ck-my-d*ck..
It’s the Chicago Way!
Why is it the Republican VOICES alone just infuriate me nowadays..
#212 “They put one of yours in the hospital, you put one of theirs in the morgue.”
206 I like that
Mitch is a Republican, it is redundant to call him a liar…
The RepubLIEcan Party.
The success of Cash for Clunkers makes me wonder if the original ((silly?)) idea of taking that $700B and giving it to people to pay their mortgages (solving the housing crisis), buy cars and new homes, pay bills, pay the doctor, etc. would have distributed the stimulus in a far more effective way..
#218 Things that make you go, “hmmmmmmm”.
How bout Highway to Hell Reform
and send all these rethugs/blue dogs to hell where they belong
218…what about the billions stripped by Olympia Snow…maybe the stim would have had even more effect if there was more money…
209 ah yer wreckin’ my theory now
Single payer…and let Union negotiated benefit package be supplemental coverage to offset co-pay’s
Joe the Plumber is a faux-collar worker!
I like Haggis
people don’t know just cause it’s cooked in a sheep’s stomach
they think it’s gross.
It’s basically mildly spiced ground beef, like a loose burger.
255… not much different than hog maw…
Yay Gerald!
I had a thought —
as a half measure, what if regular care, check ups, GP visits for things like colds & whatever, up to a certain $ amount could be covered by a single payer plan. Insurance could still be in business for catastrophic care — prolonged illnesses, serious injuries, etc, etc. premiums would go down because they wouldn’t have to cover the day to day stuff, and health expenses in general would go down because people would be doing better health maintenance.
*225*…finger are bad on the number keys today…
Wow, Chicago represents!
228….http://cmdsinc.com/Blogs/Comprehensive_Health_Plan.pdf
#225, yeah, the stomach casement puts them off of haggis, and yet without a second thought many eat sausage – which uses a pig’s poop chute as casement.
Forgive me if this was brought up already.
On Randi’s show last night she said that at these Town Hall Meetings, they should ask for valid driver licenses at the entry. If folks can’t produce a like-state license, they will be denied entry. One way to keep the bussed-in crowd from coming in.
#228 The catastrophic stuff is the stuff they try to avoid paying for.
for got the space so link didn’t take:
http://cmdsinc.com/Blogs/Comprehensive_Health_Plan.pdf
What about Bush’s UNFUNDED prescription drug plan?
Why doesn’t the WH highlight the REpubliTARDS who didn’t have a problem passing this load of crap.
The White House released budget figures yesterday indicating that the new Medicare prescription drug benefit will cost more than $1.2 trillion in the coming decade, a much higher price tag than President Bush suggested when he narrowly won passage of the law in late 2003.
(http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9328-2005Feb8.html)
by they do you mean the insured or the insurers?
Gotta respond to 218
when we spent all the money back in the 30′s we got something for it. we didn’t just give money away we put people to work. the dignity given by having a job is important, and i say that as an unrepentant liberal. the money we spent back then create the infrastructure that allowed businesses to prosper through the rest of the 20th century. just giving money away only helps the asian economy.
#233 Yeah, it was mentioned much earlier today. I liked what Chris Kofinis said last night. The Dems should bring people who have been screwed over by the insurance companies and have them speak, and then see what the wingnut plants do.
Hey- so maybe we hire Hell’s Angels to show up and protect us-:)
Other birthdays today – Billy Bob Thornton is 54 (hard to believe the man is only three days older than I am). Richard Belzer is 65. Happy returns, guys!
238… and Cash for clunkers did NOT have a “assembled in US” condition
Private insurance companies cherry-pick the healthiest people to cover, jack up the rates for those who have been sick and then dump everyone into Medicare once they are older and more likely to get really sick.
Our Senator Ron Wyden is an affordable healthcare obstructionist and I’d LOVE to show up at one of his town halls.
Best I can tell, he isn’t haven’t any.
Did I just hear her drop and f-bomb?
#241 Hard to believe Billy Bob is only two years older than me. He looks like he’s been “ridden hard and put away wet”.
#245 She said, “farking.”
she sain fArking…
245 — I’m not sure it was exactly an f bomb. I think she said “farking”
Ooops, did that caller just use the F word?
#246 Hawk Harrelson, is that you?
#245 I wondered that, too. I’ll need to check on the Stephcast.
i see you can say fucking on the radio now and not get dumped
>> Obamarules says:
>> Private insurance companies cherry-pick the healthiest people to cover, jack up the rates for those who have been sick and then dump everyone into Medicare once they are older and more likely to get really sick.
Replace “Medicare” with “Government option” and that’s why I don’t like government option as much as single payer.
I had to check in on that one… Sure sounded like an F-Bomb… I’ll accept farking to keep the FCC away.
Lisa,
You heard it too! I thought so. I don’t think Chris or the others realized she said it.
That totally sounded like fucking to me.
Stephie on her way to the White House to sing Happy Birthday
to Mr. President ala Marilyn…
She said “FARKING”!
Imagine what Brad Pitt will look like after a few more years with Angelina…
what difference does it make what she said? It was “minutes” ago now.
253. you can say it on basic cable tv very late at night/early morning also too in addition
Let’s hope it was farking.
Didn’t the FCC rule that the stations can be fined, even if it accidentally slips in?
Crazy World of Arthur Brown
‘I am the God of Hellfire’ drop… great commercial years
ago, dj mashes that up with The Archies Honey Honey
it was really cool
It was “Fire” by the Crazy World of Arthur Brown:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOErZuzZpS8
Hey Caller Drew
stfu!
That was pretty close on the vowel….
Make the Republicans fillibuster! Now days, the opposition just threatens a fillibuster and the other side gives up. Call their bluff and make them fillibuster based on the rules. Make them stand up in the Senate for days/weeks until they pass out.
What??? I missed Momma drop an F Bomb? Dang it. At least I didn’t miss sparta…. yet.
uh oh….. RW Tool Alert!!!!
i’m just surprised that they didn’t even say “oh my” when she played it so close with FCC. “farking?” come on people. why test getting your show thrown off the air?
LOL! Drew is an idiot!
You can tell that this guy listens to conservative media.
How would you describe that? It’s a kind of aggression linked with a very limited range of thought.
#270 No, it’s wasn’t Mama. And there’s some debate whether the caller said “farking”.
“Fire” was by the Crazy World of Arthur Brown
Lisa,
I doubt the FCC monitors this blog!
#374 “Friggin’” is common and I’ve never heard “farking.” But there was definitely an “ar” sound in what that caller said.
266. thanks for the ref. took me back to high-school dance memory hole. it was a great tune
That’s why you can’t even call this “the Obama Health Plan” -
1. There are several “plans” out there.
2. It’s all in Congress.
Drummer in Crazy World of Arthur Brown was Carl Palmer
here:
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://polyscience.org/images/news/2005/louse3.jpg&imgrefurl=http://polyscience.org/2005/09/cymothoa-exigua/&usg=__de2M38NfHompmAaKzpEOGdTvgZo=&h=380&w=540&sz=55&hl=en&start=5&sig2=qwJDzzGBCvCpeUqSGBAlKw&tbnid=3DoL2fw-5zfN6M:&tbnh=93&tbnw=132&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dtongue%2Bbiter%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26sa%3DG&ei=Z0x4Suz4DKWqtAO00JDmBA
littul pic of rethugs/lobbyists/blew dogs
Morning all!
we all have tinnitus and can’t tell what the fuck she said
Hey Skyhawk. Just in time to go for Sparta.
278: There’s “farging”.
#284
Good one!
Sparta is totally up for grabs, because I think a lot of recent posts will likely be deleted…
#269, from what I understand, they can’t. Reid is bound by the organizing resolution, which sets the Senate rules.
According to a Kos article I read a while back, when the old filibuster numbers were dropped from 67 to 60, the rules were changed so no actual filibuster is required; just a failed cloture vote. So it’s not Reid in this case (Reid can be blamed for much, just not this).
Sparta during Wild Thang III again today?
Come for farking… stay for the Sparta!
#288 You have to go with what’s here now.
#278, fark is what Fark.com’s content filters turns the f-word into. Indeed, the site name comes from Drew’s euphemism for the f-word.
So we can tell that caller farks, or knows people that do.
SPARTA?? FRAK!
SPARTA!!!!!!!!
Isn’t that Frick and Frack?
The calm before the Sparta?
Here is pdf of the lies going aroung the RW inter-tubes
http://cmdsinc.com/Blogs/Healthcare_Refom_Lies.pdf
sparta, maybe??
It’s now time to SPARTA!
FRAK!!! SSSPPPPAAAAARRRRRTTTTAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!
I haven’t been that exercised about it in a long time…
Farking Sparta!
This Fark is for Sparta!
missed twice!! not my day.
LeftCenter shoots and scores! *bows*
WTFark? Good job LC! Farkin Sparta for a day!
Nicely done, LC. Congrats.
# 301 I think you mean “exorcised”….
When you have 8 big corporations making the lion’s share of profit from 1/6 the GNP, naturally they are going to resist any change in that status quo – like hell.
Thank you all. It was nothing. No, wait…it was Sparta!
As a cover there is Fark.com
Everytime I listen to KTLK, I here traffic and ask, “Where’s the Shondells?”
“Frakin-a” LeftCenter!
#312 Can I assume their traffic guy is Tommy James?
here = hear
#314 No, it’s Terri, but close enough for Rock & Roll!
nice sparta. it’s FARKING HAL SPARKS TIME
Did anyone catch when Jan Schakowsky’s town hall meeting was?
Do Republicans actually consider $250,000 and up to be “middle income”?
#316 Yeah, close enough.
145: to clear some confusion: george the ukravinets, i’ve not in any fashion contravailed the assertion that olbermann, who is covered by ben AFLAC had delivered. i’ve not yet even heard the olbermann piece in question.
150: especially arrianna
why are rich people so skeered of taxes? a slight tax increase would be better than stepping over sick and poor people ON YOUR SIDEWALK when you leave the house
Bill O’Reilly, what we’d all love is a quadruple set of bleeding hemorrhoids for YOU.
Orly baby looks like one of those old-school televangelist wives on meth.
Hi Hal!!!!!
Young Stephanie = the female Eddie Munster
308 — nope. meant exercised. It can mean “to get worked up about something”
Uncle Hal!!!
he said turgid. he he he
Sparks’ hair is erect in anticipation of Steph!
323…but then they would have to pay to keep up the sidewalks..the poor and dying make more economical ground cover
Stirring as in “squeezy” stirring?
Jim does Shatner better than Shatner!
190: and a band
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNsSBxgBX9g
#319, and that isn’t even $250k gross, that’s $250k taxable. Which probably means $300k-$350k gross, depending on one’s deductions.
Brian Copeland interviewed Taitz Sunday. To quiet her down he joked, okay- how about we only take callers to the show that agree with you. And she immediately shut up like a little kid getting his/her ice cream, Okay. And she was serious! Keep these people in the media as much as possible please!
Republican Party R.I.P.
332. good point
188: it’s only 4 times? – maybe that’s how many times you heard it before your hearing mercifully shut down.
336…and that is per person…married its 500K net…
If its a LLC, then it is 250K/partner…
192: that explains “double dutch” jump rope and “texas hold them” poker.
It is kind of funny that Bill C is there to ‘rescue’ those reporters. They both ARE pretty damn foxy.
211: clever move, copying and pasting your ashley-madison line.
Bruce Lewis is a comic book writer and artist of some small fame, a friend of some friends of mine, and quite a jerk.
Awkward!
212/214: you put one of mine in the morgue, i relegate one of yours to the TLC of cthulhu.
Limbaugh is on meth and oxy, apparently.
#341, and that’s $250k profit, not gross, per partner. For a business with payroll, that could be a million gross per partner.
Frell!
Got in for Sparta WAY too late.
Congrats (for now) LC!
Hal Sparks — Larry Sparks is yer dad? Color me impressed!
Didn’t Rush lose weight shortly before he went deaf from the oxy?
I only hope it is some type of painful cancer, like pancreatic!
If they gave Limbaugh an enima, he could be buried in a shoe box..
253: land-o-goshen !! – just how large is your radio ?
#354 Are you saying Rush has about 300 lb of spackle and paste stuck to his colon wall?
Well, they didn’t pull all the video:
Tiger Woods farts at the Buick Open:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om0Y-KV4JAo&feature=player_embedded
Palin / Taitz 2012 aaiieeeee!
Who farted?
The nice thing about farts on the radio? You can’t smell what comes out of the radio (unless you have an old one with vacuum tubes and you smell ozone).
253/255/256/257: apocryphal but true: freddy prince had peter falk over for dinner, and the whole evening, freddy’s mother would only call him “mr colombo”.
I bet he hit bottom when he saw the “bouncing Rush” constantly repeated on the KO Show. I bet he had surgery.
I can’t believe we haven’t heard the tinnitus ad yet this hour.
#359 He who smelt it dealt it!!
*grade school memories flooding back*
357. Wow thanks. That was a robust one!
Limbaugh IS 300 lbs of spackle and paste..
363. WHAT??!!!
LC — you know you will.
#369 That ad should come with a warning.
366…Rush cannot be 300#…. hot air does not weigh that much..
Or #368
360
Nah, you’re smelling a combination of dust, burning wood (or plastic) and bits of wax and asbestos. TVs are the ozone generators.
372…is that the good ozone or the bad ozone?
#370 Except Rush is also full of “spackle and paste.”
b
372
forgot the varnish (from burning transformers) as well
345: OUCH !!! that’s just plain scary, that some mad scientist would have to go blending bruce lee with jerry lewis. – my god, think of how many people will wind up in wheel chairs now.
#372 If you’re smelling it, it’s the bad ozone.
Wascally Wabbit, how about the old car radios with the vibrators? Surely those things are generating sparks and O3?
376
and PCBs from burning old capacitors also too.
Rush Limbaugh is full of nothin’ but Rush Limbaugh.
379
At least they’re sealed (a little bit).
Oh, I forgot the unmistakeable stench of burning selenium (rotten eggs).
My hispanic relatives all say someone “threw a fart”.. Last time I heard that at a backyard family outing, I corrected and said, “no, he HEAVED it!”
#381 Yep. He really is full of himself!
348/352: rush was explaining the diet the last couple of days. the good part: it is an easy diet. – i see no reason rush would be lying about this. rush was also playing clips of commentary about his prodigious weight loss, and supplying corrected numbers (more modest than those being claimed on his behalf). this dietary strategy includes hoodia and supplements. – the bad part: once the extreme levels of excess fat have been reconciled, in order to sustain the lower (and likely optimal) levels of fat, the dieter must employ exercise. REAL exercise. – whether rush can sustain improved health from this process is really up to rush. we can therefore pray for rush’s success, but expect failure.
“Let me answer, moose and squirrel!”
If you don’t eat your meat, you can’t have your pudding!!
354: let’s not be wasteful. i have a matchbox right here.
Shaf,
Rush is a great conservative that way — his illegal Cuban cigars are more important to him than the suffering and death of a poor child.
i miss the soothing sound of sarah palin.
Okay, for y’alls without twitter, I’ll RT:
http://twitpic.com/cqtnm
OK, off to lunch. Bye all.
I zoned out… who was that woman questioning Obama’s citizenship?
She sounded like an immigrant.
Is Hal going retro with the Christopher “Kid” Reid hi-top fade?
370: when it’s as dense as rush, yes it does.
#393 Orly Taitz, lawyer and dentist.
Hi! Just sent Stephanie a comment about the Town Hall chaos. I’m a teacher and I don’t think these meetings should be that hard to get under control if there is security. Just set out the rules, one person can talk at a time, no one can talk over anyone else and if s/he does, s/he has to leave. It can’t be that difficult. Is there no security to usher out these idiots?
I love Hal Sparks.
He is a deconstructionist genius.
“Rounding up from a number that doesn’t exist” perfectly describes it.
Mitch McChinless was born in Brazil and his upper lip was surgically removed so his genetic Hitler mustache can’t grow. Just sayin.
Bye troj, have a great day!
Thanks LeftCenter
SPARTAC
John McCain thinks Sotomayor is not qualified to sit on the Supreme Court, but Palin was qualified for V.P.?
393 – Seems fitting, both occupations are just a lot of mouth.
Any time, Ron.
Orly Taitz, she wants to be a dentist… and a lawyer… and a right-wing loon!
Limbaugh gets his cigars rolled between the sweaty legs of a Cuban teenager..
398: sparks really is a rennaissance man: actor, spackler, artist, gangsta, elevator operator, cashier, candlestick maker, barber, blacksmith, ozone generator….
407: potential clinton copyright lawsuit.
408…you forgot cougar hunter…
Conspicuous Christians away!!
what would jesus fubar?
Actually, the wages of non-union plants are comparable to the union auto plants, a little lower. But only because the Japanese companies are afraid that if they don’t, the plants will organize.
Thom Hartmann points out that for every union job, another job with union-equivalent pay and benefits is created because of employer fear of unionization.
$1B wouldn’t run the goddam Iraq War a WEEK? What’s the problem, Reputhuglicans?
#406, she’s a real-estate agent too!
Oh jeez, get a room! Oh wait, you already have one (the studio).
410: crikey! she’s a strong one! if her jaw clamps down on my stiffie, i’ll bleed out and die! this is exciting! we’ll be right back afta this commewshull !
#414 Precisely what you said. It’s not for a war.
Remind me again how much in CASH evaporated in Iraq..
Republicans are famous for eating an elephant, and then choking on a fly. Hypocrites all, massive fat white quaking Republican asses!
412 — there’s not a T-shirt with that design at cafe press.
Jus’ sayin’.
415: really should have hired sarah palin to deliver the lines thoe… and to write them.
SHAKESPEARE!
Jesus is coming. Look busy.
Hey Chris, are they making you watch?
If I recall my gaelic history correctly, the bagpipe came to hibernia via Turkey. Tulips came to Holland via Turkey. So many things the turks have to pay for.
424: oh, crap, look what you did. hal sparks just added EMT, bus driver, door-to-door gynecologist, hot air balloon repairman, osteopath, and organ grinder.
Here they are:
http://twitpic.com/cqv4z
http://twitpic.com/cqv11
#427 I would have thought that Steph would be the organ grinder.
426: yeah, see? that’s what i mean. just like “texas hold them” poker, and swiss cheese.
#426, not directly. It came to Hibernia from Europe, and Europe from Turkey. Every European country has at least one indigenous variety of Bagpipe, and many have several.
http://twitpic.com/cqu4m
Cute!
how can you have your pudding if you don’t eat your meat?
#399 k to the g: Can you prove that with a forged berf certifikit?
Actually all things being equal, the simplest explanation is the best.
Listen to every audio of him you’ve ever heard:
What if McChinless simply has a mental block against remembering to wear his dentures?
http://twitpic.com/cqtua
Did Hal play in a KISS tribute band?
430: what happens in hal sparks’ libido, STAYS mockingly in chris lavort’s field of vision.
#432: Just play me some uileann pipes!
is there a variation on texas hold-em where you can only see other people’s cards?
432: thus, i checked “zamphir” on wikipedia, and it said “master of the pan flute”. so i checked “pan flute” on wikipedia, and it said “bitch of zamphir”.
Republicans are NOT going to sweep back into office.
The Dems have a net -2 favorability rating.
The Repubs have a net -53 favorability rating.
And, it just gets better!
http://twitpic.com/cqvij
439…Indian?
435. I’ll get that back to ya!
texas indian, maybe?
That’s 4 balls and how many organs?
439: kreskin sent penn and teller down the road wimpering.
Nero was a noted player of a droneless bagpipe called a Chorus.
I piss with the one on the right and screw with the one on the left.
holy crap! he’s a dead soldier too. hal sparks does everything.
Another really fast three hours. See you all tomorrow!
Great show (and pictures!)
Have a fantastic day, peeps!
Good show folks! Back to watching more Hal and Steph smut shots! have a good day!
451: it seems all too short, except 451, which was fair in height
Have a great day all and thanks for the great pics, Chris!
Zamfir was master of the skin flute..
Hasta manana, amigas y amigos. Don’t you ever change a thing!
McEntee was GREAT!!! Please have him back on soon!!!!
Late post:
Prediction on Sotomayor confirmation — no way on getting into the 70′s
64-34 (Byrd shows up 65-34)