LiveBlog for Monday, August 17, 2009

IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO CONTACT CNN TO LET THEM KNOW HOW YOU FEEL ABOUT THEM BANNING TALK RADIO HOSTS FROM THEIR AIR, CALL 404-827-2600 OR SEND THEM A MESSAGE BY CLICKING HERE.

***Call the White House to let them know how you feel about health care reform… 202-456-1111

***Call Congress and let them know how you feel about health care reform.  (202)224-3121

rudepunditThe Rude Pundit (Lee Papa) calls in at 6:30am Pacific to talk about the madness behind the health care reform town halls.

• President Obama’s administration signaled yesterday it is ready to abandon the idea of giving Americans the option of government-run insurance as part of a new health care system. They left open the chance for a compromise with the GOP that would include health insurance cooperatives instead of a government-run plan.

obama• This weekend in Colorado, President Obama invoked his own anguish over the death his grandmother as he challenged the notion that Dem efforts to overhaul the nation’s health care system would include “death panels” that decided who would get care and who wouldn’t.

• Thousands of people, including many Special Olympians, lined the street Friday outside a Cape Cod church where a private funeral Mass was being held for presidential sister Eunice Kennedy Shriver. Her only living brother, Sen. Ted Kennedy, who has been battling brain cancer, was not planning to attend his sister’s funeral.

Hurricane Bill became the first hurricane of the 2009 Atlantic season as it continued to gain strength but remained far from shore this morning. Claudette, on the other hand, became the first tropical storm to hit the U.S. mainland this year when it made landfall in the Florida Panhandle around 1:00 this morning.

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Maybe I'm getting here too late to tell you, but Frangela is guest hosting on Randi Rhodes's show today and Tuesday. Tune in!

Frangela got busy, I think.

Here's what I wrote to CNN:

How arbitrary and anti-free speech is the plan to ban all radio talk show hosts from your punditry. The ones I listen to do immense research and talk to hundreds of people every week. The radio shows I listen to are stimulating and mostly accurate.
Perhaps your intention is to increase civility...why not have rules about interrupting and language, for example, instead?
Perhaps your intention is to stop false information from being peddled...why should the host not challenge EVERY lie told on air?
I feel you lose and we all lose without seeing and hearing the brilliance of Stephanie Miller. Or is that the intention? I hope not.
Sincerely,

Hey where's Frangela? Was there a break-up? What did Stephanie do now..... Don't get me wrong, I like the boys but I also love to hear from Frangela too.

hey, madduane, are you heading to Texas?
good traveling and come back safe.

468: free enterprise ? - no wonder the borg is screaming about you communists.

461. So no general welfare = no taxes needed. Let the corporations pay for THEIR government.
bye all!

Buh bye beloved Bloggies! Don't you ever change a thing. Hasta manana.

L.

459: sounds like you found a way to bring paschen-back.

End of the fastest three hours on radio. See you tomorrow (possibly the last time this summer, depending on circumstances).

457: sounds french. dont fall for it.

Good show folks! See you tomorrow!

#457 - The preamble has no legal weight, sadly.

But Article I Section 8 does: The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States; but all duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;

See ya when I come back and post stuff here again, whenever that is.

Love you bloggoes!

buh Bye! :mrgreen:

I like pain - both giving and receiving it. I want Rachel to hurt me, real bad. I want to bear her children. I want to mind meld with her. I want our souls to join and travel to the event horizon, whatever the hell it is..

Wanker Cub Scout (as a boy)

See? The Preamble - to promote the general Welfare......

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

Also, those blaming Clinton for DADT - it's Congress, not the President, that regulates the military.

A Full Half Loaf is the name of my next CD

Half a full loaf is better than none?

Half a full load? *Scooby 'duh!'*

I saw that ass whoopin Rachel Maddow gave Dick Army, Rachel is the BEST!

449: i only wear these bellbottm jeans out of modesty.

#440 Ditto. Facts with humor, she makes me feel warm and fuzzy, just like good sex!

446 -- leggy penis?

#445, or Wehrmacht, even.

/turning in my German card

Rachel is so damned cute. And smart. And the more I know about lesbians, the more I think I might be one.

441: vas deferens census bureau ?

That was actually his post-war name. He was born Schwanz Wehrgemacht.

440: is that why your icon is pulling a cartman on the carpet ?

434. :lol: - NOT

Oh, Dick Armey almost had a stroke when Rachel went after him with the facts. ha ha

I thought his name in the original German was Schwanz Bundeswehr.

Rachel Maddow makes me want to become a lesbian..

This world thrives on misconceptions. Whole Foods is a great company. THis country's food culture is far, far better than it would be without them.

Are Unions and churches organizing a march on Washington D.C. for health care reform on Sunday, September 13th, 2009?

#426 In my experience, mushrooms are mushrooms, shrooms are mushrooms containing psylocibin. All shrooms are mushrooms (illegal and lots of fun) but not all mushrooms are shrooms.

Whole Foods - high prices, spoiled produce, expired food. I'm done with them.

433 -- fold in those egg whites carefully -- gently, one might almost say.

419/423: there's a youtubery somewhere of dennis miller on the bill oreilly show, with them discussing "dancing with the stars" - dennis very hilariously (he was trying to do the laffesque sound effects) suggested that a good dance partner for bill would be - get ready. this is very brilliantly funny with a gay implication on bill oreilly - this is like MEGA funny, you could tell, by dennis trying to do the chuckle - a good dance partner for bill would be BARNEY FRANK (!!!) - bill, strangely, didnt bust a gut laffing. - just smiled and said that no thanks, he would have to hold out for ann margaret. good for bill.

I'm pretty sure the universe folds back on itself and we're justing riding a large molecule in a policeman's badge.

pre-existing condition -- addiction to nitrogen/oxygen/argon.

I wish I would have had a GOOD high school physics teacher so I would have gotten interested in it a few more years before I actually did....

Flombaye, I ejected early.

#420, I have nothing to prove; I have professional knowledge on the subject. I am a physicist by profession, so when people bring up misunderstandings of the subject in conversation, it's not showing off to correct.

Regarding the caller: I've heard more than once of people who get dropped because they should have known they had a (previously undiagnosed) pre-existing condition.

Call the White House? - We need to call the First Lady and have her get the Presidents ball out of her J.Crew handbag! - This is rediculous! - George W. Bush marched the country into war with a Republican minority in congress. Obama has total domnination in Washington and he can't get health care reform puched through? - I don't want to hear about bitartisanship, transparency, I want him to just do it! - DO IT! - DO IT! - DO IT!

Chico Brisbane

I'm sooooo out of date these days... I found out this weekend that mushrooms are call shrooms....
I was in a conversation with someone for about 15 minutes before I knew what the hell he was talking about....

422: did you manage to save yourself ?

The next economic bubble that will burst will be the health care lobby bubble. It was reported that there are 6 lobbists for every congressman. After healthcare light passes the money flowing to DC will dry up leading to economic bubble burst in Washington.