LiveBlog for Wednesday, August 5, 2009
• Gen. Anthony Zinni calls in at 6:30am Pacific to talk about his new book, “Leading the Charge: Leadership Lessons from the Battlefield to the Boardroom.”
• Rep. John Sarbanes (D-MD) calls in at 7:30am Pacific to talk about health care reform.
• Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY) calls in at 8:30am Pacific to talk about health care reform.
• Secretary of State Hillary Clinton today expressed happiness and relief at the release of two journalists, on whose behalf her husband, former President Bill Clinton, sought amnesty from North Korea. North Korea pardoned Laura Ling and Euna Lee after the former US president arrived in Pyongyang.
• After a “pep talk” from President Obama, Senate Dems said yesterday they believe Congress will pass a bipartisan health care bill this year. Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) now says the Dem senators are ready to “take on the world.”
• Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the top US commander in Afghanistan, is expected to ask the Obama administration for additional troops and equipment for conducting intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance, as well as more military resources to deal with roadside bombs and explosives.
• Paula Abdul announced yesterday that she will not be returning to American Idol when the show debuts its ninth season early next year.
Tags: Anthony Zinni, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Eliot Engel, Euna Lee, Harry Reid, Hillary Clinton, John Sarbanes, Laura Ling, Paula Abdul, Stanley McChrystal
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Gooood morning all.
It is drive-by day as I’m waiting for a couple of clients, so a couple of thoughts after listening to the ‘cast and viewing the tweet pics.
1. The caller said ‘farking’. As a farking Farker I should know when someone says ‘farking’.
2. Steph and Hal should get a room. What a cute couple. Steph definitely looked like she was enjoying it.
Blah, after waiting the usual 10 minutes for this stupid beast of a PC to boot up, it now wants to reboot. Wonder what great new software got shoved down the pipe at us last night. It’ll probably take 15 minutes now to boot…..
and hal, being a journeydude carpenter, should BUILD the room.
Good morning, gang! Happy Hump Day (Although by the look of Chris’ pictures, Mama was celebrating a day early
)
Congratulations to former President Bill Clinton for securing the release of the imprisoned journalists from North Korea. The press is drawing parallels with fmr. President Jimmy Carter’s visit in 1994 which set the framework for a deal to freeze production of weapons grade plutonium (which fell apart in 2003).
This will be a hi/bye post for me, I have meetings all morning. I’ll enjoy the show this afternoon via the Stephcast.
1
I meant that in the nicest possible way. I just love Steph’s smile.
i just viewed the famous olbermann countdown which named names. it was good yes, but not the paradigm shift it was hyped to be. indeed, the fact that the threat of losing their jobs rung so hollow, so devoid of karmic balance, obviates the need for some sort of “greenspan reform act”. – inevitably, consequences with real teeth would be named after alan greeenspan, who stands out in world history as somebody whose nollij was tremendously above, and in direct contradiction to, his pronouncements. history will always remember alan greenspan for simply announcing one day “all the very obviously wrong things i’ve been telling you for thirty years about the mechanics of the economy, are wrong…. and by the way, i’m keeping the money”.
WALKENIZED HUMOR:
“i had this dream that i was eating the world’s largest marshmallow. in the morn, when i awoke, the world’s largest marshmallow, which i happen to keep right under my pillow, was missing. i looked everywhere. gone.”
good morning!
I woke up this morning to the local Worcester talk radio host colluding with a listener on disrupting gatherings. So civil-warry!
political “issues” are rarely well represented by a left-right continuum. often, there is a clear above-below continuum or dichotomy, as when the paradigms are split into “mentally evolving” versus “mentally atrophied”. this essay, with the typically engaging snarkage of rachel maddow does a good job of illustrating that difference.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZWxoVEDnR4&NR=1
8: technically, things dont get civil-warry until they start pushing the people of gaelic heritage into the war zones to do the dirty work. – but nevermind that. look who it is. stanley mcchrystal is phoning in today from afghanistan.
Blackwater Founder Implicated in Murder
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090817/scahill
“A former Blackwater employee and an ex-US Marine who has worked as a security operative for the company have made a series of explosive allegations in sworn statements filed on August 3 in federal court in Virginia. The two men claim that the company’s owner, Erik Prince, may have murdered or facilitated the murder of individuals who were cooperating with federal authorities investigating the company. The former employee also alleges that Prince “views himself as a Christian crusader tasked with eliminating Muslims and the Islamic faith from the globe,” and that Prince’s companies “encouraged and rewarded the destruction of Iraqi life.” “
11: too bad erik prince gets out even less than sarah palin. if only erik had heard about the political backlash over the faith-based initiative at the world trade center (2001 sept 11; it made all the headlines.), then erik would have at least formulated a considerably sturdier fallback position with which to hedge against getting cott.
The plane is landing, right now. Vice President Gore is waiting to greet them.
#11, since his crimes were committed in a war zone, shouldn’t he be given a battlefield trial, and a battlefield sentence?
I applaud Sweden for all their work in getting Ling and Lee freed.
GOOOOOOOOOOD Morning all!
Good morning live blogospherians!
Clinton rescues the reporters, RWNJs are disrupting town hall meetings sponsored by Democrats, and the guy who runs Blackwater is implicated in murders. What a boring week!
Shoot…I forgot to finish my thought: No wonder Headline News was leading today with Paula Abdul quitting American Idol.
11: carol, thank you for bringing us this news. i especially get a kick out the segment: “…”Mr. Prince feared, and continues to fear, that the federal authorities will detect and prosecute his various criminal deeds,” states Doe #2. “On more than one occasion, Mr. Prince and his top managers gave orders to destroy emails and other documents. Many incriminating videotapes, documents and emails have been shredded and destroyed…” – - – the feds really do frown on tampering with the electrons, oh lawdy, they shorely do. – i recently had to endure literally a year of harassment from a former employer, who brott to fruition the threat, as long as they were able, of preventing me from getting my unemployment insurance money (west corp. vs. state of nevada), and one of the most spectacularly sloppy things they did was trying to alter dozens of internal emails. seems that several law enforcement agencies had to visitate them. – - – and honestly, if the glenn becks really want to demonize the government, and have people invest unlimited and unwarranted faith in corporations that habitually underperform in the most basic ethics, it would help if they would stop the government from blatantly inconvenient PR moves such as compelling such a corporation to free the 1400 dollars they were (in just this one instance alone) trying to steal from an extremely vulnerable individual. – is this the same kind of crap that the government is trying to pull with health care?
14: maybe just battlefield healthcare benefits. you still have those spongebob squarekilt bandaids?
Wild Thang
18: not that it really matters about paula abdul, because if you’re watching “idle american”, then you’re missing “the those two annoying people from that island with frangela and sam wurzelbacher show”.
Walking on Sunshine
It’s Miller Time!
I’m walking in moonshine, and don’t it feel good!
As hot as it is to see pictures of steph being gang raped, I still have a question. Why is she wearing snow boots?
#27 for the Alaskan webcam audiences.
this is how wildly successful the cash-for-clunkers is:
complete. total. abject. (rush limbaugh even called it a failure.)
I think the DNC needs to have that clip of Bill-o saying the taxes are to low on repeat the next time someone says they oppose raising the taxes on the top 1%…
did jim have to mention the oily taint down under?
Nice one Shane-O!
“groping of the boobies” HA! LOL!
Ach! Mein Femur!
Michael Medved was one of the replacements for Ebert and Siskel when they left Sneak Previews on PBS.
So I noticed on the interwebs yesterday there was a story about a woman blowing up her husband’s penis with fireworks and I figured Momma had to have covered that in penis stack…
I was not listening yesterday because I had my graduation ceremony… did momma cover this oh-so-important news??????
hullo
Jim’s Holmes/Watson is hilarious
the notion that islamic terrorists are not funny is a misconception. many of them have rather good stand-up routines, and several have opened for margaret cho. – the dearth of islamic comedy is largely a product of trying to perform under the caesar nero type audition pressures of saddam hussein’s iraq. being predisposed to treat religionists harshly, saddam would bring far too much pressure to the audition process.
Tears and hugs all ’round at the airport hangar.
35: one of those black cats must have been bad luck.
35 Congrats! Danielle
There was a story about a woman dragging her child through
a store by a leash, I saw the video… disturbing but in
a twisted way, funny
Turn down your volume!
40: so am i the only one who saw the dragging-an-exploding-penis-thru-the-store-on-a-leash story?
Thanks Mark! And see, I had already pegged Momma as never too good to pass up a penis-mishap story!
Did anyone ever see the Saw/Saved By the Bell crossover on Robot Chicken?
#42 I never saw it…but I wasn’t really looking for anything like that at the time.
I think Euna Lee’s daughter is going to hold on to her mother for a few days. It’s so cute, her mom picked her up at the bottom of the airplane stairs and she hasn’t let go since.
44: was pummelling horshak in the flesh not satisfying enuff? did he squoosh the poor guy in playdoh too?
DrunkNIrishDanielle – you need to add another D to your name, as in Diploma. Congratulations on your graduation!
41 yes, when the qietus ads come I the radio goes off.
I may miss Momma when she comes back but no system is
perfect
46: naturally, this will result in more asian kids than ever being named “bill” and “jefferson blythe” and things of this nature.
#48 Hmmm…maybe DrunkenIrishDiplomaedDanielle….
Morning Peeps!
Ugh, they’re painting the office doors and doorframes again today. If I stop posting, it may because I’ve died from the fumes.
49: no system is perfect? – in other words, you’ve not yet seen the pizza bagel and shasta cola funnels i’ve halfrican-rigged in my car.
#46 I spoke too soon. Her dad is holding her while her mom and Laura speak. But I bet she’s going to be extra clingy for a few weeks.
53: lucky bastard. back in the heydey of william s burroughs, that stuff was expensive. – if i stop posting, i’m just having lunch naked.
48 / 51.. LOL… thanks!
#56, I think my coworkers would rather die of paint fumes than see me eat lunch naked.
I wonder how much I can blackmail them for with that threat…
Clinton-Gore together again.
Yes, congratulations, Danielle!
#59 Could’ve been a very different world if Clinton hadn’t messed around with an intern.
9/11 might’ve stll happened, but Gore would’ve sent troops to Afghanistan and left Iraq out of it.
Euna Lee and Laura Ling
you gotta be kidding me the rethugs got
something bad to say about them being freed
I would hope that Gore would have used diplomacy with the Saudi’s to deal with the actual men who attacked us… who were neither Afghani or Iraqi… and then possibly worked with leaders in the region to promote humanitarian efforts in Afghanistan to assit the people in developing their own country… maybe we could have avoided the whole war…but I digress…
#62 Never underestimate the ability of Right Wing World to take a wonderful moment and ruin it.
58: okay, but what’s with this “either/or” mentality. it’s a workplace! you’re there to have fun!
okay, there may be no delicate way to say this, so i’ll say it anyway:
somebody really should give bill clinton a cigar.
#63, or that Gore would have been moved to action by Clarke with his “hair on fire” to prevent it in the first place.
dont forget to tune in to rush limbaugh today. there will surely be an extensive rant on bill clinton’s abyssmal failure.
bill clinton brings something touching. somehow, that works too.
both lauraformity AND eunaformity would be even better.
Hola, amigas y amigos! Yee haa! Journalists released, thanx to the Big Dog, and many others apparently including Bill Richardson.
Wondering what that miserable waste of skin Limbaugh will do to try to spoil the moment..
The falsley imprisoned women have been pardoned and returned to their home country.
Obviously a total failure for everyone involved. :rolleyes:
The release is a good thing. What did it cost us? A picture with an ex-President. What did we get? The return of a mother, daughters, sisters, and children of Americans.
I am thinking we got the best of the deal.
71: see 68
73: looks like robert smiegel’s “ex-presidents” cartoons were prescient wisdom. anybody remember what superpowers reagan, ford, and carter were packing?
evangelical christian? – yonder breaks a new and glorious don.
HIya, Bloggoes!
Today’s favorite billboard “You can’t buy happiness, but you can drink it.” You know, for the kids!
66… I think that comment should get a t-ball trophy! Chris Matthews HA!
The government of Sweden deserves most of the credit.
Okay rw Jerry or Scottzi should be calling in .
73…Who can even begin to imagine the Evil Mr. Il may perpetrate with that photo
evangelical christian? – yonder breaks a new and glorious don.
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He’s a real evangelical christian. Not the fake kind like James Dobson.
#79 Then why didn’t they have someone at the photo op? I don’t think they were mentioned by Ling in her speech, but they could be part of the group she left out but thanked anyway (ie there are people who I haven’t mentioned by I thank them too).
#77, I drank happiness yesterday.
I had a bunch of almost-empty liquor bottles I needed to get rid of. Maybe half a shot each. I also had a bunch of small-brand cane-sugar sweetened sodas. I don’t normally mix drinks anymore, but:
Dad’s Root Beer + blended Scotch = good
Jones Green Apple Soda + Calvados = awesome
Orange soda + Triple Sec = incredible
Jones Root Beer + almond-tequila liqueur = divine
Was definitely drinking happiness.
Gee with this font il looks like a roman numeral 2
#83, the Swedish ambassador was mentioned.
84 — this was for Nestle Quik. I think that goes with Kalua and or Bailey’s
So what about those three hikers that wondered into Iran? Is Big Dawg going there next?
Morning All!!!!!! Another late start fer yers trooly.
#84 Interesting concoctions. You need to give them each a spiffy name.
#86 Thank you for listening closely. I wasn’t really paying attention, just watching Lee’s daughter. She had this look of confusion because of all the people mixed with sheer joy her mom is back.
I’ve never watched an episode of “American Idol”. But I have enjoyed the clips of Paula Abdul loaded.
#87, I believe you’re correct.
Good Morning bloggoes and released journalists…
I will be in and out today … if somebody could just alert the media… Thank you.
Wow, racy pictures of Hal, Steph, and Jim on Twitter yesterday! Including what all us MaleMooks ™ fantasize – a Steph sandwich.
Steph and Rachel are the two cutest women in the media, I’m in deep, hopeless love with both. In addition to Steph being so sweet and cute, I just love Rachel wearing her nerdy glasses on Bill Maher.
We could send George W. Bush to arrange the release of Carrot Top.
#94 Speaking of Hal Sparks, anyone going to see him in Arlington this Friday or Saturday?
BTW, did you see KO getting caught last night referring to Ms. TAINT?
Wow Peter… your day sounded as interesting as mine… after the ceremony people were pretty much just putting drinks in my hand… I know there was definatley champagne involved at some point….
The Big Dog can still hunt, eh? Bill Clinton’s still got it.
Maybe understanding a culture helps with diplomace…maybe.
#63: “with the Saudi’s”? Danielle, FAU is calling – they want their diploma back.
(just sayin’)
100… I think an IQ about 70 is also useful in those situations… Bush just didn’t have the required equipment…
Maybe this means that Steph will be able to dance at the Ichy Kitty in Pyongyang.
We didn’t get anything in return? So those Asian women Clinton flew back with were just Korean hookers pretending to be Lee and Ling?
101… perhaps my point wasn’t stated well, but I was refering to the fact that the people who attacked us on 9-11 were not all Iraqi’s or Afghani’s…the majority of them were Saudi’s…I’m not sure I understand your objection…
Trust the damn right wing to try to piss on this example of diplomacy..
Such idiots. I’m sure such a success really blisters their fat, white, quaking Republican asses.
105 I think it was the incorrect use of apostrophes… As Frank Zappa’s poodle said –
“The crux of the biscuit
Is the Apostrophe”
105 – I think he’s just jazzin’ you about the apostrophe…
Here comes Jamie’s Cryin’
I understood Miss Danielle’s point perfectly, no confusion. And I’m notoriously easily confused..
#105, he’s teasing you about the use of the apostrophe in a plural, rather than a possessive.
Quick!!!! Need to find something to get me through the next 7 minutes of bad commercials and “Wild Thing”……. ahhhh… “Under the Milky Way” by The Church will do nicely…
#108 (and I hope nobody on the LB holds me to that standard – I’d be screwed!)
82/93: dobson, I’M GOING TO TAKE A BATH !! – pasta la pizza
ahhh… the punctuation… sorry… what do you want.. I’m very hung over… I didn’t even catch it when I re-read the post…LOL
Spackle and paste on the walls of the ear canal, causing ringing dissimilar to tinnitus..
I’ve got your spackle and paste! Right HERE!
#105: Sorry … just being a grammar nazi.
my brain is apparently still a bit pickled this morning from mixing some red wine with k-9 pain pills…
Quick poll —
Jen Chapin or tinnitus?
#105 Weren’t they ALL Saudis? Except the one who was Lebanese. And he MISSED the flight he was supposed to be on. At least that’s my recollection. Could be wrong. It has happened once or twice in the last 43 years.
#119 No choice for none of the above?
#112 You could always listen to the show on KTLK. Then instead of getting Wild Thing rifs for 5 minutes you could hear about southern California traffic and other local news.
#120, IIRC, it was 14 of the 19.
I’ll take Jen Chapin for 200, Duane!
#119, one caused the other.
120… I think you’re right, but I wasn’t sure so I was not about to state that as a fact… ya’ know…
122 — which is kinda neato, especially in February.
#125 But the key question is which caused which?
127 — meaning you can pretend you’re in Sunny Southern Cali
KTLK does, however, carry the goddam Quietus ‘mercials..
Wild Thang 2
#115 Ahhhhh yes… the Wednesday Morning Hang-Over. I am QUITE familiar with those as I regularly shoot darts on Tuesday nights. And darts is one of those activities that really CANNOT be done in full sobriety.
#120 According to Wikipedia, all the suspected hijackers were from Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Lebanon or Egypt.
I know Mohammed Atta was Egyptian, his parents still live in Cairo.
Walking on Sunshine 2
I like my five minutes of Wild Thing. When it cuts out, I know I need to wrap things up in the bathroom.
121 — that’s called voting “present”
Hey! It’s Hump Day! (Have you had your hump yet?)
wild thing
you make my bowels move
#136 Then I vote present.
132… I think I’m on the border of still drunk to be honest…makes trying to analyze data very interesting…
convert everything into digital
Limbaugh needs to be in a Turkish prison for his Oxy use.. And be beaten on the soles of his feet.
#122 I have tuned in to that station in the past. But there is always that slight delay on radio. I don’t mind the live stream, I just hit the random button on iTunes when the annoying commercials and Wild Thing kick in.
141 — everything? My “mind” being what it is, my first thought was “digital poo?”
#144 I prefer analog poo.
Limbaugh is clearly back on the Oxy Diet Plan ™, and losing weight like crazy. Even if he gets to 98 lbs, he’ll still be a Fat Head.
#142 “Midnight Express” remake starring Rush Limbaugh???? I’ll green light that!!!
Obama means cool? More evidence global warming is a myth, he he.
Hal Sparks gave Steph a snow boatgasm.
“are” is implied.
Rack? Steph has a rack?
Republicans prefer their wargasms.
the less said about her rack the better.
Now I understand Hal’s appeal to Steph; he sits around licking his eyebrows. (Did Hal play guitar in Kiss?)
#147 Put Limbaugh in short pants, a little CGI and he’s a perfect substitute for the warden’s fat little sons.
107 what is your conceptual continuity?
Goodbye city life!
156 — Is that a real poncho, or is that a Sears poncho?
That T’Aint woman, again..
Is that your Pancho, Cisco?
The Republican party has been taken over by fascists. They are not interested in debate, they are only interested in getting out their own paranoid talking points and not allowing anyone with a different viewpoint to speak. These people are modern day Brown Shirts, encouraged by a political party that now consists of a racist white underclass interested only in installing a regime of Christian totalitarianism. The Democratic leadership needs to hold the Republican leadership accountable for this unpatriotic breakdown of order in their party. Americans died in WWII fighting the same brand of fascism in Europe. We can’t allow these people to plunge the United States of America into chaos.
the CHAT ROOM is too roomy –
Leo Carillo was Cisco’s beach.
she can’t run for President – not a natural-born citizen!
HA!!
Palin-Taintz 2012
Headline from local news: Oops. Drunk man falls off boat. Nobody notices
http://www.wtop.com/?nid=25&sid=1733361
You think he invited himself along? Or maybe he just showed up uninvited?
165.. Taint-N-Palin 2012… it sounds like the next Palin themed porn!
What burns the Republicans is that the UAW might be benefiting from the sale of American automobiles..
I’m still thinking the idea of handing that $700B over to citizens to spend instead of banks would have resulted in immediate recovery of the economy, and solved the housing crisis as well.
**urge to kick Right Wing Jerry’s butt**
I wish Chris would fall on the off switch.
Communism is when workers own means of production.
Health insurance produces nothing.
Thus government ownership can not, by definition, be communism.
i call HR 676 the MEDICAL BILL –
the US MEDICAL is competeing with the US MILITARY –
US MEDICAL is offering housing/education bonuses NOW –
for all willing to break a link in the CHAIN OF SUFFERING –
caused by the MEDICAL INSURANCE INDUSTRY –
NEEDED NOW — brain surgeons , bill collectors, etc –
if you already have housing/education –
direct your voucher to your kids –
no kids??
direct your voucher to a member of your community –
Oh that Scott!!!! What a HOOT!!!!
put the talking points down!!
170 — Don’t confuse Scott with facts.
Illegal aliens can be vectors for infectious diseases too, caller. Illegal aliens clog emergency rooms.
The TB comes from a Republican in an airport men’s room.
YOU are already paying for them… the cost of treatment at Emergencies are already in YOUR insurance premiums…
Obviously this caller has never been to prison. TB is alive and well in the US, dummy.
checking the CHAT ROOM again
Right wing caller is another xenophobic thug. If illegals can be exploited by Republican businessmen, why shouldn’t they get health care?
If caller was in the health care industry, I suspect he was a shithead administrator.
If crazy right-wing Scott is actually from Cape Cod … then he does have problems with health care access. They have a doctor shortage there
Caller, you do know that illegals pay taxes just like you do, but they can’t get the benefits (like SS checks). Indeed, part of the SS surplus comes from illegals who pay in because they work under forged SS numbers, but they can’t collect the benefits.
from http://www.cdc.gov/tb/publications/factsheets/statistics/TBTrends.htm
13,779 TB cases (a rate of 4.6 cases per 100,000 persons) were reported in the United States in 2006
When the main fact of your arguement is a myth and not a fact, your whole argument falls flat, dummy.
175… you and I were thinking the same thing… even if they don’t use the ER, we will still pay for them via paying for treating our own illnesses which could be contracted from a sick individual who can’t afford to get treatment… REGARDLESS of whether they’re legal…
The terms socialism, communism, fascism, marxism, leninism, are all interchangeable to right wing stooges.
#185 Aren’t all isms alike? That’s why they’re isms.
Oops. And *democrat*..
Democrat-ism
ism is what it ism
RDG?
IN AND OUT –
the chat room allows conversation –
the live blog goes slow –
chat flies
#185 yup. In addition, their standard definitions don’t apply; the meaning of all of those words is now “anything Obama supports” or “anything that would make the Obama presidency more successul.”
#190 Chatrooms also fly by too fast to read sometimes.
185 — The terms, dumb ass, moron, hater, self loathing closet case, dogmatic robot, and mr poopy pants are all intertangeable for right wing stooges
really
Does a hummer qualify?
Oops…I meant Hummer, not hummer. Big difference.
Mornin’ all.
Dear Leader wanted to meet Bill Clinton, not George W. Bush. You know that pisses the right wingers off.
#192 — you can read while writing — and see whose in the room
Does “Buddy from Columbus” get on every day or does it just seem that way? Not that I’m complainin’…. he seems like a nice enough fella.
buy why on earth are you allowed to buy a Ford F-250 on the Cash-4-Clunkers program!?!? There should be only high mpg vehicles available….
There was a nice green sign at the top of the airplane stairs saying “Welcome home”. I think you’d need a bunch of them to create a Mission Accomplished banner.
I don’t believe in isms. I believe in Ferris Bueller.
Herro, I rike Stephanie Mirrah. Georgie Bush is an idiot!
#203 and I believe it was in the shower where he quoted John Lennon: I don’t believe in isms, I just believe in me.
Not sure if that was before or after the shampoo mohawk. I love that movie!
#198 KIM J? I? is STAR STRUCK –
i believe he would welcome any celebrity –
send a delegation
bruce willis
julia roberts
i think they could sway him any way
Herro Camp. Bush is an idiot. I rike Birr Krinton. The Leepubreekans are stupid
I get so confused reading my blocked email spam. Apparently, I have a small penis, but Russian women dig me.
#206 What if you sent Trey Parker and Matt Stone? KJI could get a live performance of I’m So Ronery.
#204, he could be the walrus. But he’d still have to bum rides off people.
I rike Juria, but Bloose is kind of sirry. He has no hair. I have rots of hair. Can you prease to send Stephanie?
199… personally, it is impossible for me to work while trying to watch a chat room, where as in the live blog I can refresh the screen and read only the new posts… it is slower, but for me it’s perfect…
A (small case) “hummer” applies everywhere!
#210, Oh, I so solly you had plesidunce rike Bush. He makes Amelika berry berry bad
#210 If they remake that movie (and I hope they never do but Hollywood loves old successes) they’ll have to change the bit about “She got a car, I got a computer.” With that series of tubes, the internets, Ferris could definately use his computer to raise enough funds to get a car.
And Cameron’s parents would have put him on antidepressants at age 5.
no matter how small, your penis is still much bigger than a russian one.
#211 — THAT’S A GOOD ONE !!
we get SM in the valley on MT RAINIER –
the HOLY MESSENGERS — break the peacemaker’s story –
generating broadcasting energetic hygiene –
WE have become the Silent Majority….
Hello all! That’s a greaqt post from Cindy, about Xe (Blackwater) being sued by Iraqi civilians.
So someone tell me why Obama still has them there? Is it only to gather evidence?
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090817/scahill
208: Russian women have small penises..
let my cameron go.
Jim Wald Belly belly funny. He make me raff when he does Boosh. But I no sound rike that
220..becasue of all the steroids they used preparing for the Olympics…
216 I have big one too? I is Kolean and dey sway I so smarr I can’t blake a cheelio
#215, there have been rumors of a sequel for a while. Same plot, but instead of high school students, they’re bored cube farm drones and middle managers.
The president does need to raise his voice a little on health care.
220: LMAO.
Hello Kim Jong. I thought you meant “Leprechans” when you wrote “Republicans”. No offense.
So who is Bill going to introduce you to?
Stephanie makes the world go round,
The brightest light and sweetest sound.
No better way to start the day,
Stephanie Miller is here to stay.
Hey Camp!
What a dilemma for Repulicans – if Lee and Ling stayed in North Korea, it would reflect badly on Obama. But Lee has a child, so they would be endorsing single parenting for the husband Lee left behind.
This must be why Dr. Laura is so against working mothers. If Lee had just stayed home to raise her daughter, she never would have wandered into North Korea and been arrested.
#219, a lot of them are there because their contracts haven’t expired yet. But from what I understand, the contracts aren’t being renewed.
208: Russian women have small penises..
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So we know that Ann Coulter’s an American.
Timmaaaaayyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!
financing HR 676 –
US MEDICAL vs US MILITARY –
breaking the CHAIN OF SUFFERING –
offering $$$$ to all willing to work for the US MEDICAL –
did anyone else see the photo of Kim with Clinton? They blew Kim up so big, he looked like he was almost five feet tall.
#222—I agree. Jim is berry, berry funny. He doesn’t leave you feeling insulted?
kim is waist-high on hillary
K to the J to the IL is in OUR hizzy???? Right on!! Welcome aboard, shorty!! Make yourself useful and go get me some Bul Ko Gi and Kimchee already.
I’m Asian American, and I bet Ann Coulter has a bigger penis than I do
Hello Kim Jong. I thought you meant “Leprechans” when you wrote “Republicans”. No offense.
So who is Bill going to introduce you to?
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Paula Jones. Dear Leader needs a regular girlfriend.
231—-yes, that is what Dr. Laura would say.
#238, I just no sound rike that. But he is berry berry funny. Do I sound rike that? I think I sound more rike Ervis
#242 Is Dr. Laura still on the air?
#241, I want to meet Stephanie Merrah. She is Berry berry funny. I rike her
#230 — good morning from camp luna linda –
going into town this morning –
then i can stay home for 2 days –
then trek to KENT –
it is a lush life –
chat with you in TH + MM rooms tommorrow –
so many options –
244: Yes.. You can still Google her nude photos..
#239, Mmm, I rike Kim chee with lice. eet is derrishus
#244 I don’t know, but I never heard about her retiring or getting cancelled, so she’s probably still doing a radio show.
#234, That you puff puff?
Steph’s a maneater. They’re burnt, of course.
Google ‘incredibly stupid right wing bitch’ for more responses to Dr. Laura queries..
#247, nude photo of Stephanie? Oh Rucky day!
#247 followed by a bleach eye wash.
232—Isn’t it odd that if Charlie Manson tries to start a race war by getting his gang to kill the wealthy but Blackwater leaders try to start a religious war by getting his gang to kill and denegrate Muslims, Charlie gets prosectued and put away for life but Erik Prince
becomes a millionaire thanks to our tax dollars.
So Christian psychopaths get rewarded in our system but atheist psychopaths go to prison.
So when will we put Erik Prince in prison?
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She was canceled in Chicago a couple of years ago…unless she surfaced on the second nutjob station in town.
#244 — i heard DR LAURA sway by a young author that suggested young women are facing mixed message — girls go wild vs saving themselves for marriage — the DR agreed that both treat young women as “goods” –
243—-Kim, you don’t even sound like Elvis when you sing. I’m sorry. When you sing you sound like a Bee Gee—but it works for you!
Seriously…. of ALL the places to go hiking. The IRANIAN Border??? WTF!!!
#255, Hey, they put away Ted Bundy.
244—she is indeed. I don’t hate Dr. Laura. She gives some good advice. But her extremism is horrible.
Bee Gee? Bee Gee? I sound that tellible? Oooo, you gettah me mad
#261 Then he escaped and ran to Florida and killed 4 more.
I reave now. Good bye!
261—but he became a Xstian after he was imprisoned. He didn’t start out that way.
I wonder if Bush supporters feel any shame at all about their choice?
I think it’s the real Laura, pre-”doctor”: (adult material warning)
http://www.pencilnecks.com/Laura.htm
#263 Uh Oh…. K to the J is getting angry!!!! THIS won’t end well.
260…the appalacian trail was too busy…
265—-awww. OK K-to the J. See you on the flip side.
265 — I guess nobody gets too much heaven no more. Bye, K to the J.
*Appalachian*
Hery CamplunaLinda, you still here?
Sparta during wild thing 2?
ProgressiveinTexas, so you live in Austin?
guerilla journalists — walking in the rural roads?
#234, That you puff puff?
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Gooooooobbles!!!!!
Sing more, Steph. You & Jim should do a Donny & Marie-style duet!
#276, hello!
Coming soon: Sparta
#274 Could happen.
#260, sounds like a cover story for spies. Not very good spies.
See how much our intelligence services have suffered since Michael Westen got burned?
Why do these right wingers all whine like a whipped dog?
This guy needs his ass kicked..
tim — yep — i did respond to one of your numbers — read #246 –
#209: Yeah but then who will we send to rescue Trey Parker and Matt Stone?
Camplunalinda, you the same from Mike Malloy’s chat?
What an AssHat!!!!
Caller does a piss poor Kim impression. He should be beaten about the head and shoulders for that.
On the road again. No Sparta for me.
Yeah! Journalists shouldn’t be out there journalizing! They should be punditizing!
#284, Sorry, I missed it! Great to see ya
YES! Dr. Laura isn’t on any Chicago-area stations!
Spart a
This caller is too frazzled. “Before the scenes”? Lisa Ling was released from North Korea?
#290, like Fox
SPARTA!
That’s what I want!
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Time to Sparta!
second attempt sparta
s p a r t a
SPARTA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!…. maybe?
#294, no it was actually from a stage in Hollywood and the Clinton and Kim photos are cut outs
D’oh!!! so close, but yet so far. Congrats, Spiffy.
Congratulations to spiffyhussein!
spiffy nailed it! Happy, happy, joy, joy!
I promise to rule with justice. Let’s see, we need a sparta camp song…
Sparta so fast!
Euna Lee and Laura Ling what a happy story, so
glad the rethug fooles gotta pee on it, just shows
how stupid mean they are
Spiffy done sparta’ed.
Yay for spiffy!
Thank you, thank you. I could not have done it without the number 300.
#307, the Retardicans? F-them
TIM — YEP WE CHATTED LAST NIGHT — gotta go to town —
MEDITATION GROUP —
where the is LOVING KINDNESS and NON-INJURY –
let there be LEADERSHIP –
where there are LEADERS –
let them know LOVING-KINDNESS and NON-INJURY –
when leaders speak –
let them speak of LOVING-KINDNESS AND NON-INJURY –
thank-you for your consideration –
GRATEFULLY EVERYTHING CHANGES –
so many options
testfor[br]echo
#309 Nor the numbers 1-299.
#283—-it’s been my observation that some RWers are the biggest whiners you’d ever want to meet.
camplunalinda says:
August 5, 2009 at 7:02 am
TIM — YEP WE CHATTED LAST NIGHT — gotta go to town —
MEDITATION GROUP —
where the is LOVING KINDNESS and NON-INJURY –
let there be LEADERSHIP –
where there are LEADERS –
let them know LOVING-KINDNESS and NON-INJURY –
when leaders speak –
let them speak of LOVING-KINDNESS AND NON-INJURY –
thank-you for your consideration –
GRATEFULLY EVERYTHING CHANGES –
so many options
You are an awesome Liberal
Always thinking about the world
I expect a lot of RW talk shows today will begin with “I’m happy that the journalists are home BUT” and then explain how Obama messed this up too.
313—-lOl. Yes, I’d like to thank math.
Hey Jim, One German to another Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 “Choral” by Beethoven is “Ode to Joy” not the 4th. Love ya man!
Republicans:
“If you don’t disagree with me, how will I know I’m right?” -Samuel Goldwyn
#318 I think Jim said the fourth movement.
#318, very good.
As I recall, though, it’s the third movement since, as I recall, the 9th Symphony only has three movements. But then again, I could be wrong.
300
is a magic number
yes it is
It’s a magic number
#316, they’re mainly mad that the government engaged in quiet diplomacy and not alpha male displays of chest thumping, feces flinging, and territorial urination.
Without such displays, they are uncertain as to whether their leader – and their band – is strong or not. Why? Because they are stupid screeching pre-verbal apes.
#323 But no a prime number.
316—yup. It’s going to be something to hear them tear this one apart. But they will.
Let’s see, it will be: “Those girls (they always call the women ‘girls’ on FOX) shouldn’t have been there in the 1st place, Obama should have gone himself, Hillary couldn’t get the job done so she sent Bill, Obama should have simply bombed Kim’s palace and started another war, and this will teach journalists to stop wasting the taxpayers’ money to get them rescued from their silliness.”
Mr Jim, Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 “Choral” by Beethoven is “Ode to Joy” not the 4th.
#318, Beethoven got the odd numbers, Star Trek movies the even.
I think we need some answers, why are Fox hosts so damned STUPID?
#322, it’s the latter portion of the 3rd movement; which is sufficiently different from the former portion in both mood and leitmotifs one might almost argue it’s a different movement.
Cash for Clunkers is not the only success. We put in a new energy efficient sliding glass door and can get a tax credit of 30% of the cost up to $1500.
The Marvin Windows guy said the program was helping to save his business.
Plus, we have even been able to turn off our air conditioning and just use the ceiling fans, even on 93+ degree days. I can’t wait until the winter to see the difference. I used to use a space heater when I’d sit in the room before.
Shoot! They came to Burbank airport! I could have jumped over and taken pictures! But I went to bed at 2:30 this morning and didn’t turn on the TV yet. Groggy.
Euna Lee and Laura Ling may have been in China and kidnapped
while near the N. Korea border. It’s happened before. RW Toole stfu!
Who told them to go to North Korea? Their editor? you dumbass, remember what a journalism is?
#318 – Jim said Beethoven’s 9th Symphony, Fourth movement. (All I could think of was “A Clockwork Orange”)
#326 I’m so glad Mama and the Mooks watch RW tv so I don’t have to. They’ll watch the shows and let us know that you were correct.
#330, also some recordings on CD list the “An die Freude” portion of the 3rd movement as a separate track, which adds to the sense that it’s a “4th movement”.
Jim you dummy, Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 “Choral” by Beethoven is “Ode to Joy” not the 4th. Even a dictator knows this.
Anyone here likes Rush?
324—and what they don’t realize is that Clinton IS an alpha male but he’s all alpha with his brains, not with his mouthiness.
Some alpha dogs are all bark. That would be most Republicans.
Shredded, eh? I smell a conspiracy!
339 — Amyl Nitrate?
#329 The smart ones don’t get past the second round of interviews?
So now the Birthers are falsifying documents? Wouldn’t Jesus be pleased?
wow, left for 15 minutes and missed Sparta… congrats Spiffy!
#339 Canadian: yes. American: mostly for mocking.
Uh, you dumbass Retardican, Retardican governor of Hawaii Linda Lingle says Obama’s birth certificate is legit: http://www.starbulletin.com/news/hawaiinews/20081101_officials_verify_birth_certificate_of_obama.html
Keh to de Jeh inn deh Hizze! Vat dis Llait Ving vekjahb sehing?! Of kohs I vant peekcha vit deh Beeg Dahg! He seh I naht guuid enahf foh a reetul deejehtal khehnky – pehnky vit mah hohm boi Beel? Ah teell U samtin’ mah jee dahg Beel bettah den deht Buozoh roozah U hyehd befoh foh eyt yeaz! Bettah dehn deht geezah Mahkkeyhn who kuhdn’t get eet ahp veet Bahby Dahl ahp een Aryeska!
Rook U got dehm haht cheek lepotahs owt din’t yah? Ar Gowah, velly hyehpy! Tehk it, en goawahy!
Keem Owt!
#345 That’s what you get for leaving for 15 minutes. Next time don’t leave for more than one.
345—thank you Danielle. Kim Jong visited us today
Gawd, give up on it already
349… i know, i know…
The northeastern Chinese city of Yanji sits a quick 30 minute drive from the border of North Korea,…Thousands of North Koreans, now refugees, live in the city as well as other cities and small villages in the area…and as two American reporters on assignment discovered last week, the waterway can also be treacherous for journalists.
The party was, according to one report, on the North Korean bank of the Tumen when they were accosted by the local authorities.
(http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1888004,00.html)
None are allowed to be smarter than Steve Douchy..
those damn gay abortions… they’re the worst ones…
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch made it to CNN’s webpage.
Now it will be famous:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/science/08/04/pacific.garbage.patch/index.html
Ms. Danielle, glad you’re back!
While you were gone, Kim visited. He certainly becomes tiresome after a short time.
#329, #343: The smart ones don’t go back for a second round of interviews?
Suck u? From Stephanie? And you’re mad?
maybe Steph WANTED to say ‘suck you’
Chris, it does show how easy it is to be fooled by this nonsense, as we all know you’re quite an intelligent guy… if you can be fooled, there’s no hope for the average fox viewer…
“Suck You” from Steph. A squeezy moment for me.
Um… that’s not a right-wing talking point that reconciliation is for budget matters. It’s true. David Waldman of Kos/Congress Matters has been pointing it out.
The Media Matters article contradicts the Republican claim that it can only be used for deficit reduction, which is a narrower, and false, claim.
Is this Nadia Octomom?
Media Matters article: http://mediamatters.org/research/200908050006
mommy, why are my ears bleeding?
HA! I got back to my office and someone left me a grad gift of a beer coozie that says “The tassle was worth the hassle”… wow, could there be a more perfect gift for me?!?!?!?
I get the impression that people in my office know my favorite way to go through life: Drunk, of course!
yesterday there was a woman who said “fuckin’” on the air. Something like “I have no fuckin idea.” did anyone else hear that?
well, at least “suck you” is a good way to say the other insult and get away with it on the radio rofl
Gabby — see the first post on today’s liveblog
I don’t have enough brain cells to waste on beer. But I drink anyway
I wish I were in Chris’ shoe with Steph telling me Suck U
371 — consider it an investment, then
Oh well, see ya liberals!
see ya, Tim!
thanks madduane. I was worried all night that steph might get one of those six-figure fines.
371… believe it or not a pint glass full of your favorite liqour drink will also fit in the average beer coozie…
And, see, people tell me I don’t add anything to the live blog but dirty jokes…
I don’t like the term ‘retardican’ since it’s mean to mentally
retarded people, even if these republican idiots DO seem to be
mentally challenged. Only worse, since an actually retarded
person was born that way and these rethug fools are simply
ignorant, they refuse to be educated or enlightened
they just wallow in their crapulence
Oh noes! The economy’s doing too badly to address one of the biggest drains on the economy!
Now is the perfect time! Imagine how much more productive healthy workers are?
377 I like yer dirty jokes
Reminder: $1B won’t run the goddam Iraq War for a week..
#344 spiffy:
It’s the thought that counts! The meaning behind it!
378 — It has been suggested that conservatism / fundamentalism is genetic in origin, but I get your point & agree. that term rubs me the wrong way.
#365 – and the statute is here: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/2/641.html
It clearly only applies to budgets. And as you said, it does not require deficit reduction. The Wingers are probably misreading the restrictions on AMENDMENTS (not applicable to the bill when being written) in subsection (d)
381… as I do yours…
does repiglicans insult pigs? repugnicans insult pugs?
For cryin’ out loud!!! We can’t afford health care reform??? We can’t afford NOT to reform health care. Think of the cost savings when insurance companies don’t pay exec salaries in the millions and spend millions in lobbying …
We have THE most expensive health insurance out there–without the quality of care.
Why do all these people believe that Americans cannot implement something that every other country can do? They really cannot think that much of the USA. Every other country implemented a public option. Any idea when the UK implemented their healthcare system? WWII?
Always on point Shane-o!
389 — right after WW II.
379… circular logic at it’s best…or worst… I’m not sure…
#378 Mark:
Not only that, but as a former worker in a sheltered workshop I can say for the most part, retarded people are NICE!
George Sedini couldn’t connect with women… I guess he proved
it to them. Why couldn’t he just kill himself first, he had to
murder innocent women…
The Conspicuous Christian fundies all believe their “causes” are so righteous, that ANY means justify the ends.
#385 – Extraneous Matters in Reconciliation is here: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/2/644.html
395 see 394. I sense some sort of relationship between the 2 sitches.
387 rethuglicans works for me, thugs weren’t nice people either
393 and mean people suck. Greedheads, hypocrites, liars, xenophobes…
Speaking of irritating commercials, what’s with this woman whining about losing her “identity”? That voice..
I want to hear her scream, “Toddddd!!”
399 — She sounds like Nadia Sulieman to me.
Stephanie is so smart! It’s just that sometimes
it’s hard to notice that, what when she’s flippin’
those tassels in your face…
a glue trap for Hannity!
Republiturds works for me.
#394 without knowing much about this guy, it’s a way to get people to notice. The friends and families of these women will feel pain, the survivors will feel trauma. If he just killed himself, it wouldn’t have nearly as much impact on the world at large. Now maybe they’ll feel as awful as he did all the time.
399 / 400.. I can honestly say I’ve had the misfortune to have my identity stolen and that commercial also annoys me…
400 octomom again!
I gotta run people. If your congressperson is having a town hall soon be sure to show up and be intelligent.
Hi kids, why isn’t anybody in the chat room?
402 I like it! Rethugliturds
403 Makes it all that much more sad that he didn’t get some help
instead of killing innocent people
Republiturds have been using the propaganda techniques perfected by top Nazis, for decades now..
407 — coz there’s no Sparta in the chatroom. Couple of other folks asked that, too. I like the blog, m’self.
The phrase I keep using with the righties in blogs / conversations…”If the bill is so bad, why not let it be debated? If the American people are going to hate it so much, then there should be no reason to prevent discussion on it…”
I have yet to get a response that wasn’t on the level with a Scottzie call…
Republican – Coprophile
unless you are a billionaire how can you be a repub in the 21st
Century? They want to make the rest of us peons. Worked to death,
expended and replaced. Their values are lies, murder, treason,
war, chaos, cheating, greed, slavery, death, destruction, corruption…
they wallow in it. They want to twist and pervert EVERYTHING because
they can’t abide living in a world with anything good, beautiful,
innocent, nice or free. Those things threaten them.
Hannity/Flush/Savage/Glenn Beck etc etc ad nauseum are
all graduates of the Joey Goebbels School of Journalism.
They prolly drink Goebel beer
412.. It kills me that the convince the part of the public least likely to make it to their financial level (think Lerleen, queen of the trailer park) to vote against their own best interest…I just can’t wrap my mind around it… I just want to shake some of these people and scream “WAKE UP!!! THEY DON’T GIVE A SHIT ABOUT YOU!!!”
412 — Republicans — acoolytes of Morgoth.
Oh Steph, ‘wiry but scrappy?’ fiesty and stunning
with an ass like that why do you ever wear pants?”
‘Love your swimmer’s build… Your show is the best
three hours of the day! Just what is a “swimmer’s
build”? Just what did I mean by that? Is it really
just a classy way to say “You’ve got a great ass and
boobies like my little brother”?
Can you hear that? Can you hear it? It’s very annoying!
415 ha! my name for little Scotty McClellan was Mouth of Sauron
#412, #414 Here’s an experiment: forget everything you know. Pretend you know nothing about the current state of things, and turn on Fox news. Just watch and pretend everything you see and hear is true.
After a couple of hours, you’ll understand how those who only get their news from a few right wing sources have a twisted view of the world, and find voting Republican the only wise option.
414 415
Lurlene, Lerleen… her and the ol’ man both listen
to rush and vote the straight rethug ticket. Me? I
vot the straight Sodomy ticket every time. That fools ‘em
best bumper sticker: Republicans for Voldemort
Charles KrautHammerAndSickle..
419 a caller to Thom Hartmann on Monday said they are
actually mentally ill and live in a false reality they
have created since our real world threatens them so much.
Plus the greedheads spend billions to brainwash them and lie to them.
this healthcare topic is making me sick, and these pretzels are making me thirsty
421 Krauthammer. Hammer of the Krauts. TurdHammer. Jackass.
Just
Another
Lying
Rethug
Rat
Bastard
423 Here k, have a beer with those pretzels
The teabaggers are also called astroturfers (phony grassroots) in case this hasn’t been mentioned.
mmm. beer. thanks!
424 — I think he needs some umlauts in his name, and a logo that looks like Metallica’s. I think he’d look awesome in a studded leather jacket, with a foot-tall tiger striped mohawk and a tattoo of a skull on the side of his head.
Then he’d be fun to watch.
Rush Rushie Rushbo… my fantasy about you involves
your porcine face shoved into a huge glue trap.
My fantasy about Stephie involves a honey trap…
Local car company calls Cash for Clunkers “incredible”.
http://www.wtop.com/?nid=706&sid=1733318
The CARS program is horrendous and destroying the fabric our country. It is so repugnant to real Americans that noted local capitalist Red McCombs has stipulated none of his dealerships will accept trade-ins under the program. Clear Channel and the San Antonio Express-News have reused to accept advertising from auto dealers promoting their Cash for Clunkers deals. HEB (Texas Grocery Chain owned by Evangelical Family) and many local restaurants have declared that they will refuse service to any Car Salesmen who have made a commission from this program.
Yes, the ONLY people benefiting from the program are the Socialist Auto Workers.
Never forget that the Republicans CHEERED when Bush dumped cash, mostly on rich Americans, financed by the Chinese and the Saudis.
The GOP thought this was GREAT.
love the Big Dog!
428 Heavy Metal Kraüthammer appearing now with Spinal Tap
Heavy Metal Krauthammer – perfect!
Well, have a great day all!
Another three hours fly by. I’m chauffeuring for my mom again tomorrow. See you Fridee.
aw, done already! best hours of the day
always great blogging. I’m off to look at
what you’ve got new on Mayberry Lane, Danielle.
And yes, I’m pimping her blog right here, check it out all
Buh Bye, Bloggoes!
Happy Hump Day everyone, you too Max and Oliver!
431: if you are real, I belch in your general direction.
Krauthammer should be singing Du Hast..
Hasta manana Bloggenmooksters!
Don’t you dare change a thing.
Yay Will Durst on tomorrow!
There are witty, sophisticated stand-ups. Will Durst is one. Guess who’s the regular Stephi guest who isn’t? Hint: His initials are H.S.