LiveBlog for Wednesday, August 26, 2009
• Comedian Hal Sparks joins us in studio at 8:05am Pacific for another edition of “Humpdays with Hal.”
• Massachusetts Sen. Ted Kennedy, the patriarch of the first family of Democratic politics, died late last night at his home in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, after a lengthy battle with brain cancer. He was 77. “We’ve lost the irreplaceable center of our family and joyous light in our lives, but the inspiration of his faith, optimism, and perseverance will live in our hearts forever,” a family statement said.
• Former Vice President Dick Cheney is again taking aim at President Obama, issuing a statement yesterday suggesting the administration’s decision to name a prosecutor to investigate CIA interrogations under President Bush fuels “doubts about this administration’s ability to be responsible for our nation’s security.”
• The White House now expects the 10-year budget deficit to reach $9.05 trillion, roughly $2 trillion more than it estimated earlier in the year. Budget office director Peter Orszag pointed to a number of measures put in place to stem the pain of the economic downturn.
• President Obama announced yesterday he wants to keep Ben Bernanke on as Fed chairman, saying he shepherded American through the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.
Tags: Barack Obama, Ben Bernanke, Dick Cheney, Hal Sparks, Peter Orszag, Ted Kennedy
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Gooood morning all!
RIP Senator Kennedy
The next 5 months are going to be VERY interesting here in MA. Though if he knew he was this close to the end, he really should have resigned to get the 5 month clock going.
Fun at Chez Trojan. Bearing in the washing machine let go in full spin cycle. Wife thought something landed on the doorstep, who knows what the cats thought, they scattered. Cats are skittish anyway, the roofs in the condo complex are being replaced and the noise is driving them nuts. Wait until the workers are walking on top of our unit hammering away.
“Humpdays with Hal”?
The mind boggles. Is ProducerChris ready with the camera? Are we gonna get to see Mama’s boots again?
Anyway, unfortunately I’ve got visitors coming real soon so I’ll be dropping out…really soon.
If anyone needed any further proof as to who was really running the previous Administration…oh look, Dick’s opening his piehole again.
#1 Also feeling sadness on Sen. Kennedy’s passing. A great public servant serves no more. We must press on to get real health care/insurance reform completed in his honor.
So, does a washer with a bad bearing sound anything like a T.A.R.D.I.S. materializing/de-materializing? Just curious.
I guess Pres. Obama could do worse than re-nominating Ben Bernanke as Fed Chair. He could have brought back Alan ‘Bubbles’ Greenspan!
And, can we all just buy Dick Cheney a big steaming cup of STFU and call it a day? Other than a docket appearance at the Hague, there’s noting more I want to see and hear from that bastid.
It’s a sad day in my house this morning. I’m crying and have to walk the dog. Well, I’ll see what shape my neighbors are in.
Don;t let anyone say his marriage was not a love match. Vicki is for real. I spent a day with her during one campaign when I lived in Arlington.
I am sad at Ted Kennedy’s passing but let’s not let it overshadow some important issues. I am totally creeped out by the CIA torture articles in today’s NY Times. The feeling of having lived in an Orwellian Society for those 8 years makes me sick!
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/26/us/26prison.html?_r=1&hp
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Sounds like it all of a sudden went out of balance. Essentially the tub starts slamming against the sides of the machine. If there wasn’t the matching dryer on top of it, the thing would have probably started “walking”. Those front-loaders really haul when they get to the end of the spin cycle, wouldn’t be a bit surprised if it’s over 1000rpm.
Worst thing was that the washer door remained locked and it insisted that the spin cycle complete before it let me have my clothes back. I had to put it in the delicate (slow spin) cycle and just let the thing screech its way to the finish.
Good morning, Gentlemen. And you two guys as well! ;->
Sad news about Ted Kennedy, a truly great public servant. His personal life had plenty of turmoil and mistakes, but he was a fine legislator. I wish he could have lived to see some meaningful health care reform passed.
Not trying to be unduly negative, but I expect some major attempt to zing Ted Kennedy on his way out by the likes of Limbaugh, Beck, Hannity, O’Reilly, Savage, et al. All the right wing jerks..
Fox News is managing a death notice on their crawler this morning, but otherwise going about their “business”, with a blonde bimbo on their “financial matters” program – important stuff, you see.
Cats wanted no part of me this morning. Soon as I tried to touch Lucky he bit me, even after I offered him his morning treat. Too bad my wife is going to get the brunt of their anger today. They’re really high strung with all the noise.
#5 Indeed. In some ways, I’m feeling vindicated for believing that things done on our country’s name had gotten as bad as they did. On the other hand, things really did get that bad. WTF?
And in typical projection mode, the Right will say that uncovering these war crimes and prosecuting them will weaken our country in the eyes of other nations and leave us vulnerable to future attack.
In case you didn’t see it on his show Real Time with Bill Maher, here’s the text of Bill Maher’s New Rule: No Shame in Being the Sorry Party:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-maher/inew-rulei-no-shame-in-be_b_264695.html
#6 Is this a Kenmore Elite HE3? We’ve got the laundry pair as well. Hmmm, hope mine doesn’t chose to go south (it’s six years old now).
Good morning, Carol.. Didn’t mean to omit ladies, there were only TR and Shaf when I started my post, and I both think and type slowly..
Thinking of Teddy, I’m also reminded of Bobby and John. I think Bobby would have been a great President, I was a prime fan.
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FWIW, I expected much worse on the local “sports talk” show, the resident RW nut focused more on the coming circus of who would fill the spot. And he made a comment as to how the print media would really be left in the lurch because of the timing. I did see some late editions of the Globe being delivered to some machines, but I would think if you got home delivery you’d get no coverage at all in the paper.
The other local RW muckraker, Howie Carr, really declined to say much of anything. He wasn’t going to say anything bad, but he wasn’t going to say anything good either.
I think the locals are going to focus on the attempt to change the MA law to allow the governor to pick an interim Senator. As I said before, a fun 5 months coming up.
Carol – From everything I’ve read, Vicki was a major stabilizing force in his life when he needed it the most. My heart goes out to her.
hullo
condolences to all those who have lost with the passing
of Senator Edward Kennedy
Thanks for #12 Ivan. I was wondering.
I met Senator Kennedy several times. One time was at a luncheon at the Park Plaza in downtown Boston. My sister and I scored free $10,000 tickets to this small lunch for President Clinton and all the pols were there. My sister was holding my Sure Shot camera and I approached the Senator and indicated that a photographer from Life wanted out picture. He grabbed my shoulder and there was my sister with the little camera and he gave a big smile and whispered to me, “send that to my office and I’ll sign it.” But JFK,Jr. died right after that and I didn’t want to bother him.
#15 What a nice story, Carol. Thanks for sharing.
Sen.Kennedy’s death brings back my neighbor of 30 years and our love of him and politics in general. She died five years ago. Once I asked her about Chappaquadic and she nearly rose our of her chair and said, “He wasn’t even there!” what? you ask. She, who would be 88, believed Teddy covered for one of his brothers.
And may I say to the haters, MaryJo forgave him long ago. Also, apply same standards to Laura Bush.
also, my prediction for his repalcement: Ed Markey.
Paul, the washing machine of my childhood broke free one time. It became a family joke, how the machine lept for the door and tried to escape. And the fact that my glamorous Republican mother pulled out her tools and fixed it herself.
TR, sorry to hear about your washer failure. I picked up a used Kenmore about 25 years ago, and had kept it going until last year. I’m a cheap bastid, you see, tending to repair rather than replace. Finally we got one of the new front loading, computerized machines, and my Lord what a difference! Quiet, uses much less soap, gets things very clean, superior in every way.
Similar experience, my false economy of being a cheapo, the wife had a vanilla Chevette and I had a little Nissan truck until 2000. No A/C, both vehicles so spartan (??) that they had no arm rests! Kept them running, even spent $600 on the Chevette to replace its manual transmission, etc. Finally broke down, and got a used loaded 98 Chrysler Concorde with 12K miles in 2000. Great vehicle, I couldn’t believe what we had been missing. In 2004, my beloved 18 year old Nissan pickup got t-boned, and I replaced it with another used Chrysler, a 2002 300M with 21K miles. Both cars have been a true joy, get amazing mileage and have fine power, luxurious.. Damn, we had been enduring our two automotive hairshirts for all those years, waiting for what?
Now I don’t seem so reluctant to indulge myself.. ;0
TIME TO INTRODUCE JEN HUNTLEY
jen huntley writes an essay column for the reno edition of the “snooze and review” family of free but slightly overpriced weekly publications in the west ( http://www.newsreview.com ). the exceprpt provided below is the opening salvo from the 2009-8-20 column. i’m showing it because this is simply a masterpiece of concision.
“I’m no expert on Nazi Germany, but the last time I checked, the regime wasn’t especially famous for its health care system. So where do people get the idea that Obama’s health care reform proposal has anything to do with it? More to the point, why do these crazy lies stick? Why is it that the very people who might have the most to benefit from affordable, consistent health care throw themselves into tirades of opposition to reform?
The strange, twisted irony of the Nazi analogy is that one thing Hitler did really, really well was tap into the deep-seated fears of the disaffected working-class Germans and turn their frustration against the abstract forces of global economics and geopolitics that bounded their lives into rage against a specific, real target—their Jewish neighbors. There was nothing logical or true about this, just as there is nothing logical or true about the irrational fears that are causing people to freak out about health care. But the anger and frustration is real. It is also true that the German people rallied to economic programs and policies that benefited industrial corporations far more than they would enjoy. Should the town hall screaming matches and right-wing talking heads kill health care, it will be a win for the insurance companies at the expense of everyone else. And that is all.”
- the remainder of huntley’s column is, almost by necessity, mere epilogue. i can only give thanks to a writer who nails something to a wall from that distance. especially so, one who comes by and casually splits the first nail. – rather obviates the essentiality of timing as a first ingredient in things, dont you think ? – - – no, it’s not magick; you’re just thinking rather loudly this morning. for those of you who missed yesterday, steph read us a frategenic email that was calm in tone but desperately behind the meme train in timing. the really yummy extra crispy quart of icing on the cupcake was that brother miller sneakily closed with a reference to “the private” world war 2. “extra crispy”, because it’s extra crispy. “yummy”, because like the whole slew of memes and protomemes which jen huntley among others, has so adroitly exposed, the core of problematic machinations in turd reich germany was that people had entrusted runaway private interests to take on the duties of government. it made all the headlines. it’s in any history book. there may even have been movies about this event. even the most fragile of minds can grasp that the apartheid re-distributions of human rights (thus re-distribution of opportunity, and accordantly, oh yes, redistribution of wealth) which typified and indeed motivated nazi “ideology” was not a difference of degree from ordinary political discourse. – it was one manifestation of the very predictable set of consequences of privatizing the armies and the police. [note: somebody started a checklist here yesterday of dubya's similarities to hitler. remember that the "hitler doctrine" was essentially that anybody anywhere was a potential "enemy combatant". the only real differences in effectuality stem from the instantaneity and globalization of mas communication.]
- and lest the point be lost on the most fragile of the mentally challenged, the likes of such incognates as brother miller, it was the nazi party, a private interest group, that proved to be in dire need of adult supervision. ironically, it took that very spooky bogey, “big government” to set them straight. – and nobody wants big government. thus, the lesson for brother miller, and other fans of racketeering who would prefer to see human right enforcement subordinated to private interests, the lesson is simple: i’m not certain whether this comes from jean-jacques rousseau, or al bundy, who said it, but “dont start no stuff, and there wont be no stuff.”
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When you know it’s going to be $200+ just for parts, fixing it doesn’t seem much of an option. I’m afraid it might be out of my league, mechanical-wise.
Might be best to wait for the “Cash for Clunkers” – appliance version. Of course it’s all moot until the wife gets a job.
Morning all, a sad morning, yet it should make us all the more the determined to fight for meaningful health care reform.
8: dont be surprised if their lack of adult supervision over there goes un-interrupted. check out this gem of civility:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SiVasR2Gzo
20 nice
freaking nazi stoats…
Carol, my wife lived on Manhattan in the 70s and went to a reception with JFK, which she said was a real high point. But from everything I’ve heard, Teddy was an extremely amiable, warm, and charming person, and your experience verifies it again.
The stories of washing machines trying to break free made me smile and recall a geek tale of similar vein. In the late 70s I worked for Datapoint in San Antonio, TX. Datapoint was developing their own computer peripherals and had one of the very large disc storage units, the kind with multiple platters and a massive solenoid driving the heads assembly. And these were about the size of a small top loaded washer, on casters as well, and very expensive. Software was written to work these units very hard for extended periods, and I seem to remember 6 of them being tested.
The inertia of the massive solenoid head driver would actually move the unit on its casters if they weren’t locked. Naturally, the programmers soon modified the test program specifically to cause them to move.
Their huge chuckle was having management open the door next morning and finding all the big disk units clustered together in a corner..
Senator Kennedy’s office holds the best staff in DC. What happens to them, their on-going projects, their libraries and research?
9: “always after me lucky charms…. i’ll go samuel l jackson pollock on his ass”
From the Office of Representative Squeezy McFeelpants
Dear Constituent,
As you well know this country faces grave challenges as
we work to provide affordable health care for all citizens.
In recognition of this I am offering a bold new initiative
to help with this issue.
My initiative will make these vital services available by
providing Breast Examinations and OB/GYN services
door to door. I will provide these services personally to
all women ages 18 to 25 residing in my district.
I’m certain you are as excited about this plan as I am
and look forward to this and other innovative solutions
which I am offering…
Humpdays wuth Hal. If it’s Wednesday, momma is anxious.
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Excellent question, Carol.
#25, the computers were in a sidebar, huh? lol
#22, Skyhawk, me,too!
Good Morning Board.
RIP Senator Kennedy. I remember when he came to speak to the attorneys at the Law Firm I worked at many years ago. Even though I was a mere support staffer and I wasn’t supposed to be in the vicinity, I snuck by the glass-walled conference room so I could see the man.
I cannot believe all the vile, disgusting things the knuckle-draggers are posting on AOL comments. Mr. Rove must have his little snits working 24/7.
A cloudy, dark, rainy day in Chicago. Fits my feelings.
Seantor Kennedy convention speech:
“And this is the cause of my life — new hope that we will break the old gridlock and guarantee that every American — north, south, east, west, young, old — will have decent, quality health care as a fundamental right and not a privilege.
We can meet these challenges with Barack Obama. Yes, we can, and finally, yes, we will.”
http://www.hiphopmusic.com/best_of_youtube/2008/08/ted_kennedy_convention_speech.html
10: i hope it’s the right time to say this: TIMING IS THE MOST IMPORTANT INGREDIENT OF ANYTHING. – what enhances the beauty of maher’s contribution even more is that yesterday, mark levin went into screed mode on bill maher, calling maher “a stain”, “a dwarf”, and a “mental midget”. – yes, mark levin said it. is there such a a cyberlingo acronym as NCWFE (no comment whatzo ever) ? i certainly hope so. if i may, i would like to use it here.
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Yes, interesting the amount of hate being spewed from the knuckle-draggers. And I suppose they’ll spew the same amount if one of the previous administrations’ war profiteers (or mass murderers) – Dick, I’m looking at you – happens to snuff it.
22: also, it’s yet another gentle hint for stephanie miller international to switch to a “dead kennedys” theme song.
24: somebody attempted to start a “brush-with-fame” topic, but it was a total deadblog that day. so i’ll try again, since the word “stoat” reminded me. — my brushes-with-fame:
bent larsen
mink stole
marcia wallace
YOW!
32, 35,
I have/had knuckle dragging republican parents who, in the day, refused to travel to Massachusetts to visit their lovely daughters and wonderful grandson because it was “Ted Kennedy’s state”.
At a high school game I told that story to a group of other parents and TWO different people said their out-of-state parents used the same line.
what losers.
34: Levin couldn’t hold Maher’s soiled jock – having him try to gum Maher is a sure sign of Maher’s righteousness.
26: “…Senator Kennedy’s office holds the best staff in DC….” – that’s only until they get keith olbermann to dress as santa for the whitehouse one christmas, and steph arrives at the front of the line with the red-rider BB gun speech all memorized to the hilt… then with a grand smile that lights up the room, steph (holding the best staff in D.C. at this point), accidently recites the entire bill oreilly falafel speech. – olbermann stammers in a rich spondee baritone, and lavort (still struggling to pull his curly elf shoe out of fred phelps’ pale wrinkled thinking quarters) is forced to gently lead stephy away with a giant candy cane, as “jim jong il” distracts the other children from keith’s mounting tension (as doctors call it), with a rousing rendition of “harrerujah”.
Marcia Wallace! The voice of Edna Krabappel !!
Mink Stole — John Waters’ go to girl
gotta love that Waters flick ‘Female Trouble’ from
which I’m always pirating lines… such as:
“I said I wanted cha-cha heels!”
“But Stephanie, nice girls don’t wear cha-cha heels”
“Stephanie Louise Miller you get back in this house this
instant or you’re going to the Home For Girls”
Almost Miller Time!
I hate to see Patriot Majority using the word ‘patriot’, it’s like ‘family’ and ‘Christian’, and a dozen other words which have been commandeered by the right wing.. No suggestion for an alternative, though.
28: fair enuff, but as i posted a while back, hal sparks has already added door-to-door gynecologist to the rezhoomay. – the senator may want to check on copyright issues, because by now, hal is probably also a lawyer.
Hmmm, no visitors yet. Should have been here an hour ago.
25: that’s a lot like the pranks we had going at JPL.
well, not a lot…. maybe a little…. well, no….
actually, yours sounds a lot more legal.
Ted’s eulogy to his brother seems appropriate to me – one of the most moving speeches I’ve ever heard..
#42 Ah, that’s the beauty of it. Just like People for the American Way. It’s time we stop ceding the name ‘Patriot’ to the Right.
32: remember the dark scary gray stormcloud from a couple of months ago ? – - – has anybody ever seen that thing and karl rove in the same place at the same time ?
43 28 just riffing off yesterday’s live blog ideas, Rethug plan
for Community Health Care blah blah
It’s Miller Time! Happy Hump Day!
God bless, Senator Kennedy.
39: i’ll bet you bagels to donuts that he’ll at least make a concerted effort.
Saw someone over at Kos talking about posting the lyrics to “Danny Boy” in honor of Senator Kennedy’s passing. I’d rather see a real Irish song, not one written by an Englishman, to find words to honor this son of Erin’s diaspora. From a song about the Irish patriots of County Kerry:
But now they toil in foreign soil
Where they have made their way
Deep in the heart of London-town
Or over on Broadway
And I am left to sing their deeds
And praise them while I can
Those boys of Barr na Sráide
Who hunted for the wren
[...]
And when the wheel of life runs out
And peace comes over me
Just take me back to that old town
Between the hills and sea
I’ll take my rest in those green fields
The place where life began
With the boys of Barr na Sráide
Who hunted for the wren
Flombaye, when were working you at JPL? I’ve been there a couple of times for a week or two, doing testing in the big deep space simulator up on the hill.. Early 1980s for me.
Some might remember those ancient IBM chain printers.. And of course, some assembly language programmers had toggled in music. And the old computers had core and would retain a program. I’ll never forget one day when we were touring some bigwigs at the Holloman AFB facility for System Development Corporation, and the computer glitched and landed in the Play the Printer program, which loudly played Anchors Aweigh as it spewed reams of folded printer paper..
Gunna miss the big Lion!
Steph’s voice sounds way better now she’s in LA ….
10: Great post, Shaf. If one wants to see other great American appologist, he only needs to look at Abe Lincoln and his protest against the Mexican-American war – land grab. Or, Mark Twain’s writings against the Spanish-American war (another land grab), particullarly how we treated the Filipnos.
re: my cry baby act o’yesterday, wallowing
in self pity and the angst that comes of not
having anything to do with my life:
Volunteering is great, so is walking the dogs,
reading, studying, all that crap in lieu of getting
shit faced at noon BUT IT’S NO SUBSTITUTE
FOR MEANINGFUL WORK which is what I
really miss, such as back when I tested cars
coming off the assembly line and wrote code and
was responsible for Network Servers that carried
critical production data around every Ford Motor
Company production plant in North America
and without which Ford could not ship a single
car and for which I was remunerated to the tune
of $52,000 per annum
the kind of gig I just don’t see me ever landing again
but hell, ‘the dreams ain’t broken down here now
…they’re walking with a limp’
so WTF I don’t even care
you can pour me a cab,
I just can’t drink no more
cause it don’t douse the flames
that are started by dames
ok, it’s a work day. I get it. I’ll go try.
Thanks for being my companions this morning. Loved the marching washing machines!
I love you all.
54: that was humor; i’m not exactly what you call “employable”.
56 Smedley Butler’s War Is A Racket
a must read
Other than butchering their name – Filipinos.
61: how could anybody butcher a name like that ? – they sound like a people who really love pancakes – my kind of people.
59 ‘employable’??
something about ‘not socially acceptable’
‘doesn’t play well with others’
‘lacks personal grooming habits’
‘shows up at 10:23am’
‘torched the boss’s car’
?????
63: all the above, but also “morbidly fat bastard deferment”
Mook vs. Mook!
Two Mooks Enter, One Mook Leaves!
65: “hmmm… curly elf footprints dragging fundamentalist stool samples thru the snow…. watson, what do you conclude ?”
re: the Phillipine Islands and the Natives which encumbered
them.
we sought to assist said natives to no longer encumber said
Islands but instead fertilize them
see also: ‘Civilize ‘em with a Krag[-Jorgenson rifle]‘
see also: ‘Give Me Your Hearts And Minds’[or I'll burn down your hut]
see also: We had to destroy the village to save it…
However, Japan’s and France’s systems are terribly in debt. They are good systems, but they do cost a lot.
67: that’s phlippine uncivilized.
67: Sounds like our Iraq policy.
Mama schools ProducerChris on technology. Oh, snap!
Repubs are found of pointing out that healthcare is 1/6 (or whatever) of the economy, and openly worry about the gummit controlling it. They have no problem with 8 big insurance companies have functional monopolies over that segment. In many regions only 1 or 2 companies control it all.
All the talk about free enterprise, competition, demand and price, are of course, pure bullshit.
Sure, yeh, go try shopping around for a better rate or value on your health insurance!
It’s all bullshit, and the massive GREED of the insurance industry is what drives all the lies, deceipt, and underhanded actions of the Reputhuglicans in the politics of it.
71: at this rate thoe, lavort may never wind up holding the best staff in either AC or DC.
I actually do have something to do this foul a.m.
so I’ll monitor the broadcast [and what a fantastic broad she is]
possibly yak atcha before noon
or not
nice outfit today Stephie… how did you ever come up with
the Slutty Snow White idea anyway?
Hello everyone, Rip Sen Kennedy.
I’m actually awake for this one today somehow.
74: senator sneezy helped.
does randall terry do “freebird” ?
dont overlook the profound political wit of mark levin; nancy pelosi is “ugly”.
#78, I can’t believe we EVER have lost an election to those people.
Seriously.
I’m German, and about three decades ago I started getting severe problems with my back. I was treated for about three years – unfortunately for the wrong thing.
One day, on a Monday, I was having one of my better days and I was in town. I looked into a shoe-shop window and when I went to move on, my legs did not work. I asked someone to get an ambulance and I was taken to the Bonn University clinic on Venusberg in Bonn.
TWO DAYS LATER I was under the knife (even though my legs had started working again) and had two spine surgeries on my lower back (L2-L5). I then got SIX WEEKS of rehabilitation in a rehabilitation clinic in Bad Urach.
Total cost to me – NOTHING apart from the contributions I had paid to the AOK health insurance.
Anyone who could get along with that bastard Hatch has to be a prime peace maker..
Hey guys! Where’s the link to that awesome health care article Steph read about half an hour ago?
I’ll give the LaRouchies this: they hate whoever’s in office. They were just as virulently anti-Bush as they are anti-Obama.
You know, I hate to say this, but you know how JFK’s death was the catalyst that LBJ used to get civil rights done?
Perhaps the sad loss of Ted Kennedy will do what his brother’s death did nearly 40 years ago.
Get a health care bill done. It’s what Ted Kennedy would have wanted. That’s a hell of a selling point.
79 — believe it. and could again.
Hiya, Bloggoes!
Another drive-by. Maybe I’ll try to be back closer to noon, but I may not.
I got the chance to see Senator K give his stump speech this past election cycle. It was interesting to see. He was eloquent, but not showy. His style was very matter of fact. I was impressed most of all by his intelligence, his wit, and his directness. I also was aware of his age & was wondering how many terms more he could serve. We now have our answer, unfortunately. I agree with everyone else here that he was a great pol for our times. He leaves a hole that it’s going to be very hard to fill. I wish more Dems were like him. Too few are.
78: I’ll take smart and “ugly” over the wakadoodle model types on the right.
79: it’s never about outrunning the bear. here in the troposphere, in other words, that which is result-driven tends to sustain and propagate. – there’s always a “JONES” (the farmer, of animal farm). – i distinctly remember learning to see past all the “far side floating head of death” stuff, at a young age, thru a twilight zone episode called “the monsters are due on maple street”. – maybe some reruns are in order. – - – AND, if you want to win an election, you’ll REALLY have to put down the robobagpipes. robots are scary enuff, and even people who like robots are sometimes still scared of them, but nothing is scarier to humans, than bagpipes. – except maybe a sleestak with bagpipes. yeah. that’s scary.
And on a lighter note, here’s something about monkeys, uh, tossing off.
What do you call it when a monkey does it? Humans spank their monkey. So what do monkeys do?
84: But don’t put it past the righties to delay his replacement in order to take away a vote from the dems on health care.
81: other than that. survivor was a pretty good show. i was hoping rudy the seal would win.
Dear Senator McCain:
If the public option is going to suck so bad, then why would it constitute a threat to the private health care system?
Thank you.
#84
That’s exactly what I was thinking when I heard about the tragic news of Teddy Kennedy’s death.
It is sad that he had to die to make potentially the greatest advance to his lifetime work and I will admit that I have tears in my eyes as I write this.
NOUGAT NOW !! – hellz yes !!
Gee, Senator McCain, if ONLY we could get rid of the healthcare insurance companies! These are the greediest and least efficient businesses on the planet.
88: they call it spanking their lavort.
95 — they call it “uh, uh, uh, uh.”
And…
I’m out!
When a right winger says health care is broken, they mean they want to kill medicare and medicaid, just as they want to kill social security.
Morning All!!!!! R.I.P to the Great TK!!!!
97: What a note to leave on.
the worst non-levin video currently on youtube. hold your brain.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYOA2IeLyNo
Yes!
Political commentary, fart joke. That’s the format!
Caller needs a sense of humor..
why didnt you tell me sarah has a stupider sister ?
Caller is upset that her chocolate got in her peanut butter.
Re: caller Alicia: It’s sad when cousins marry.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!
Maybe its at your house!!!
#104, Caller needs to listen to Thom Hartmann. And tune out during the news of the weird. And the bit about the pigeons being robot spies from the planet Xenu.
106: that commercial made the most of donny’s career.
Limbaugh and Hannity fan? Yikes!
Limbaugh/Hannity fan! Complete with stick up the butt, and idiot misinformation..
Lisa has her right wing head up there with the stick.
107: actually, at the level of cousins, diversity is not disturbed.
Drinking Kool-Aid???????? That chick is SWIMMING in it.
109: robot spies ? that’s ridiculous. why would anybody want to spy on robots ?
#115, there’s a big market in Japan for amateur voyeur robot porn.
Section 1302(H) of the stimulus:
“For purposes of taxation, a voucher issued under the program or any payment made for such a voucher pursuant to subsection (a) (3) shall not be considered as gross income of the purchaser of a vehicle for purposes of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986.”
THAT’S THE FACT!!
Is there a link to the US Healthcare myths article that Steph was reading around 9:15?
Ed S.
Steph, you’ve got a call on the other line!
#117 Thanks Shane-O!
Lisa needs to ask why the dealers are complaining they haven’t got their money from the program yet.
116: i was wondering what this “roombatsu no bagpipu” magazine was all about. thank you for the clarity.
117: yeah, that’s what i’m saying; they’ll kill your grandmother.
Shane-O, how did you find that so quickly?
#117 – in addition, state sales tax is computed AFTER the rebate, therefore there is no sales tax on the rebate amount.
A-Wop!
#124 – I’m one of those crazy nuts that reads all important bills — keeps copies, marks them up, etc.
124: years and years of professional cricket gave shane-o some wicked googling skills.
#122, yeah, and you should definitely stay away from Tentakuru Kawaii! weekly.
Mornin!
21, I heard that there is a cash for clunkers for appliances. You don’t even have to turn in the old one, you just get a rebate for buying a energy efficient appliance.
3, considering the effects budget on the old show it wouldn’t surprise me if the sound of the T.A.R.D.I.S. is a washer with a bad bearing.
One website confirms that the Cash for Clunkers vouchers are NOT taxable as income for individuals. Businesses CAN have some small tax liabilities based on depreciation and/or basis value.
http://www.goodfinancialcents.com/cash-for-clunkers-tax-free-credit-rules/
The thing that people like Limpdick want to do is cast doubt on a very successful program. Virtually every economist thinks it was a good program. They have some concerns over whether or not it will pull sales forward, but most of them support it.
Oh, boy, cheating on Kevin in DC?
129: that wont be a problem, as i can not run very fast, and so now the bear is reading my last copy.
We’re lucky they didn’t make the T.A.R.D.I.S. from a washer with a bad bearing.
#135, have you ever watched Dr. Who? I think it’s pretty obvious that they did.
okay, folks, i’m out of here. Have a good one.
135: yes, if the doctor who budget had been high enuff for that, the show wouldnt have had the same charm.
More right wing lies – about the cash for clunkers now.
You want the truth?
I think I deserve it!!
You can’t HANDLE the truth!!
The truth is the Republicans’ real objection to cash for clunkers is that it doesn’t help to put the UNIONS out of business. They couldn’t give a rat’s hiney if the entire American auto industry gets flushed in the process.
These are the same people who jumped through their asses to get $700B into the hands of the financial industry in a week, and balked about $7B to LOAN to the auto industry. Greedy bastards!
My wife has strict instructions – if I EVER vote for a Republican, even for dog catcher, I’m to be rolled out on the porch on the Old Engineer’s home, with my feeding tube and O2 turned OFF..
139: also too, it turned out that a rep of goldman-sachs (other than obama, i mean) was present at the meeting that funneled to AIG just enuff money to pay off their debt to goldman-sachs.
#128
You’ll never understand cricket unless you know the original meaning of the word “silly” (as in “silly mid-on” or “silly mid-off).
The meaning of silly was originally empty, i.e. a silly bucket was an empty one.
So using the word “silly” in cricket denotes a fielding position which is normally left unoccupied, i.e. empty, by a team except under specific circumstances (or plays as you Americans would say).
141: well, DUH, after all, we americans invented cricket. – PLP
a great loss, Ted kennedy. I’m glad I had the privilage of voting for him twice when I lived in Massachusetts
What a skit! Egads..
‘ello, ‘ello?
Morning all.
Tuned in just in time to Rudy and wife Judy?? oy…
Sad about Sen Kennedy. Told a friend after Eunice Shriver passed that I thought Ted would not be far behind.
Dang, when I was stationed on RAF Fylingdales, I didn’t realize they were PUBES!
You have to keep a sense of humor these days. I just got back from spending 6 days with hard core right wing relatives…I’m still recovering.
FAQ you, Right ‘Tards!
Yes, Rebekkah is awesome!
Becky does a heck of a Ross Perot!!
For those who want to see the source on the clunkers tax thing, see page 55-56 of this pdf: http://www.congress.org/congressorg/webreturn/?url=http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c111:H.R.2346:
The story on Chappaquiddick that was on History Channel a few of years ago is that Teddy didn’t “indefensibly” report the accident was that he was not in the car at the time. He’d let Mary Jo drive the car because he had other things to do that evening. It seemed interesting and I guess got archived in the Faux New basement
#142
Nah what you yanks call baseball is what is known as “Rounders” in Britain and is only played by kids.
And I wonder how many of your pansy football players would survive a rugby match if they were not allowed to wear their poofy armour.
Actually probably the reason why rugby players don’t wear all that “San-Francisco values” padding is because they have a better health-care system in the UK.
“Howsat!” for squaring the circle
Hey you, Stephanie Miller show bloggers, good news! The new video game Mosquito will be released on PlayStation, Wii, Xbox, by Xmas. You will be able to bite about a hundred gamers, about half celebrities, all playing games. They are shooting folks in a virtual gamer studio swatting themselves these days. It will have the first instance of a video game feedback loop as you will be able to bite a celeb playing Mosquito with a screen of a celeb playing Mosquito… About four recursions will be visible.
Rebekkah actually called me at home to welcome my subscription to SMS.. My heroine.
I liked how Moran pointed out the anti-abortion folks weren’t from his district. Non-residents crashing town halls just to cause chaos? You’ll never hear that sound bite on Faux news.
Actor Jim Beaver is a real scenery-chewer.
Jim Beaver was on Deadwood. Poor guy.
#156 I would play it on Wii. Pressing a button to kill the mosquito sounds rather simple, but with the Wii, you can actually swat. Has potential.
How could FOXand fiends ignore keddedy’s passing.
154: survive PLAYING a game of rugby? How about surviving WATCHING one? And I thought [American] baseball was boring..
162: Easy – Steve DOUCHY and pals have disinformation to disperse!
162 – You’re kidding right? I’m waiting to hear what twisted stuff the right will say about this.
154: And their teeth are bad anyway.
#154, I’m pretty sure that without the poofy armor, rugby players coming against football players would end up with a lot of broken necks.
Football, by the nature of the game, promotes an arms race of size – about half the players on offense are “designed” to be a defensive wall for the backs; and half on defense are “designed” to breach that wall.
Back in the 40s, the padding was far more modest, because at the beginning of said arms race, football players were about the size of today’s rugby players.
Sorry…Jerry Falwell was a big fat fake.
Aw shuddup, John!
Don’t worry, I’m sure the Fox News “prime time” thugs will have plenty of aspersions to cast.
Caller: BITE me, you pathetic right wing jerk.
John from Amherst wants us to shut up and sing.
Ever notice how every one of these ignorant right wing bastards sound like they are on the verge of having their voice break? Poor little turds.
#162 It’s probably for the best. Faux News is either going with “if you don’t have something nice don’t say anything”, or their writers can’t come up with any backhanded compliments.
They hate him so much and can’t hide it even for a day, so they are ignoring the issue.
#163
If you want to watch something really scary then take a look at Ozzie Rules football.
The irony is, as righties demand that Kennedy’s and Wellstone’s funerals be policy-free, their deification of Reagan at his funeral was all about their bogus claims about Reagan’s accomplishments and philosophy.
Morning all! God bless Ted Kennedy, and how sad for the country that he’s gone. He was one of the last true statesman in our government and a true fighter for the PEOPLE. Let’s carry on the fight in his name.
I can’t remember the last time a beloved Republican Senator died, although I guess the Bubbas of the world were blubbering away when Strom Thurmond and Jesse Helms expired.
174: Or eating vegamite.
Football [Amelican] is a sissy game. Look at all the sissy arm chair quarterbacks sitting on their fat, quaking, ever expanding butts watching it, and spouting worthless statistics.
Futebol [soccer], now there’s a REAL game! Fans frequently get KILLED at big soccer games.. That’s more like it.
No damn co-ops!
175: You mean like riding in on a white horse and killing all the communists, because no democrats ever did anything in history to stand up to the Russians, et al?
I know a few people who like vegemite – right enough none of them are what I would even remotely refer to as friends.
#179, in Britain, America’s beloved baseball (rounders) is a child’s game. In America, Britain’s beloved Association football (soccer) is a child’s game.
There is symmetry.
Oh I don’t think that’s true….of course he knows whats in it!!!
A co-op in North Dakota would be 3 people, a vet, and a thousand prairie dogs.
The problem is, all Republican politicians are complete greedy JERKS. They would sell their own mothers to grab another buck.
#179, a coworker of mine was assaulted at a Skins game for wearing an Eagles jersey. An exhibition game. He was suckerpunched while walking to his seat, knocked against a rail, landed head-first on the concrete step, given a massive concussion, and nearly made comatose.
Violent enough fans for ya?
When I think of Falwell these days, this is what I think of. Check out the mp3s, they’re both creepy and horribly catchy.
http://sparklepony.blogspot.com/2007/05/audioblogging-funeral-music-for-jerry.html
The best comment about the death of Falwell was by Christopher Hitchens when he said on FauxNews, “If you gave Falwell and enema then you could bury him in a matchbox”.
Ah, but have you seen fans bunch up enough to collapse a stadium wall? Now, by God, THAT’S PASSION!
179/188 — I hate sports. This is why.
I think Falwell woke up in Hell and suddenly realized that God was a large black woman..
What was Stephanie just reading from? Was it the Independent in the UK? Anyone have a link to it?
#191, I tend to see it as Darwin at work.
#182 Agreed. Falwell and Robertson and their ilk are the ultimate “false prophets” that the NT warns believers about. The damage those men have done to America is immeasurable.
Glen Greenwald said it most corretly on the YoungTurks show: Democrats started leaning to the right (i.e. “compromise”) because they are in for the insurance, or at least sufficient number of them.
They knew compromise was not possible but it was used as a cover up for their rightward leaning
There is no difference between Democrats and Republicans boys
#192, I don’t hate sports per se (though I’m not especially interested in it). I do despise that some fans become tribally violent over achievements with which they had nothing to do.
I asked who was the power behind Barack Obama getting a seat on the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, a big step on his path to the Presidency. A junior senator rarely gets an appointment to such a powerful committee. Foreign relations among other things is the doorway to all treaties. The answer I got was that Ted Kennedy was probably the guy that got Obama that appointment.
#184
One funny fun fact. In the soccer world cup in 1954 in Bern, Switzerland the USA beat England 1-0. When the teletype of the result came through to the Times, the sports editor thought there must be a mistake and they printed that England had beaten the USA 10-0.
Yay! It’s my rep Jim Moran!
I’ve met him three times. Two of them were at Pat Troy’s pub.
#188 That may have happened, but Philly fans are the ones that booed Santa Claus. Not to mention when they built the new stadium, they included a jail!
I hate sports because they are so damn boring. Football (American) has 4 minutes of action in 4 hours of commentary. Baseball is worse, with hats turned around on each pitch. Basketball is watchable even on TV. Baseball is a great game to actually PLAY, and the experience of seeing it live (say in Baltimore) complete with the beer and hot dog smell and crack of the bats is a decent one.
Football could have more appeal to me, but I can’t stand the crowd who are rehashing it at the water cooler, all a bunch of non-athletic fat pussies themselves, and often of the Republican slant politically.
I only inform myself enough on football to do crossword puzzles.
(Actually, I don’t like anybody very much..)
Moran/Frank 2016
#202, where do you think the miscreant was taken? To the jail at FedEx field.
MLK, Jr. said he may not live to see civil rights in our country, but he was fighting for it anyway. Ted Kennedy probably had similar sentiments in regards to health care.
Should have tazed him.
Love me some Jim Moran. Straight talker with a heart.
That’s because Randalls an idiot.
Has anyone asked Randy Terry is he supports use of federal money for prenatal care? I think his hipocracy might make an appearance.
Message Simplification:
1. How does our Government get money? (Bake Sales?)
a. Taxes.
2. If you are sick, do you get to pay less taxes?
a. No, only if you earn less.
3. So is the government going to get less profit as a result of people being sick?
a. No, the government is non profit.
4. How does the health insurance company get money?
a. Premiums.
5. If you are sick, will you be able to get health insurance.
a. Possible, though preexisting conditions eliminate some people.
6. Why would people be refused private health care?
a. Because private insurance companies are expected to make a profit, so they consider the amount they will have to spend on the sick person versus the amount they intend to profit on their premiums. If the amount they spend is significantly less than what they get, they keep the person.
7. Why “significantly less”?
a. Private insurance has to pay their management huge multimillion dollar bonuses each year. The money for that doesn’t grow on trees.
8. Wouldn’t our government do the same thing?
a. No, nobody makes the big bucks in government, unless they are getting payoffs from private insurance.
I hope Obama gets fired up FINALLY by Kennedy’s passing and comes out FIGHTING with the same passion Teddy always had.
#202; the difference between basketball and football is the difference between tactics and strategy. They have different appeals.
Baseball is boring as sin on TV, but great fun live, because it’s a big social gathering that has sport going on for a few seconds every minute or two.
As far as sports fan goes (and being a sci-fi fan myself), I loved this Onion article: http://www.theonion.com/content/node/38664
Coburn is insane, btw
Bob Marley lives, he does a great impersonation of a Massachusetts academic giving a report on Rastafarians.
I saw a piece on Randall Terry that said he is completely estranged from his family, that his kids have nothing to do with him. That says alot about his character right there.
Why does the GOP want a return to Feudalism? Isn’t that where the person with the most money rules the city/town, and that’s who you go to for help? No government, just neighbors helping neighbors.
216: Because then they could wear cool armor with big cod pieces.
216 — long standing tradition. The original right wingers from France were the pro-monarchists.
Original ideas are not guaranteed money makers.
Just something i thought of a minute or two ago.
#216 GOP’s patron saint (besides Ronnie) must be Mr. Potter from It’s a Wonderful Life.
188: thanks for the link. I’d heard the Monkey Song but not the Ecumenical Movement Song. This is the sort of crap the Conspicuous Christian youth are indoctrinated with.
And the song is wrong – ancestors did swing from the trees..
Why don’t we give the GOP their own state so they can continue to regress and leave the rest of us alone? Maybe that giant floating garbage patch. They could all pull themselves up by their bootstraps and make it into a Walmart.
#215, I wouldn’t necessarily say that. My brother is totally estranged from my mother, has been for 9 years, and both are fine people (with flaws); and at the time that estrangement began, I was totally estranged from my father (since reconciled).
No one calls it estrangement when friends fight and drift apart, because you expect that. But family members are just people, and we have some expectation that they *should* remain close as adults. I don’t think that expectation is realistic.
Unfortunately, we’ve been laboring under a functional plutocracy for decades in this country. The coddled wealthy are coddled some more. The Republican credo is further enrichment of the rich.
#222, we could call it Galtistan.
The GOP embraces the Conspicuous Christians because they are a prime group ignorant and naive enough to buy the Republican Party line.
Good morning, bloggers! I feel as though I should say, “I’m baaaaaaaaaack.”
Ted Kennedy’s death hit me hard. And right on the heels of Eunice Shriver’s passing. My heart goes out to the family.
The girl started high school today. With much trepidation, she sighed, got out of the car, and shuffled away, mummbling. Summer is over. Middle school is behind her. It’s a whole new world.
#210 Software Diplomat:
I hope that Ed Kennedy’s passing will inspire people to pass health care reform.
Tell Tom Coburn, that I’d do the neighborly thing for that poor lady but, jeez my EKG machine is in repair, and I couldn’t afford the payments on my MRI, so it got repo-ed! Sorry!
#222 – I LIKE IT!!
#216, #218 When you find out that I’m the richest guy around, like all the gold in fort Knox rich, don’t hate me. And don’t become a monarchist or ask me for the money to solve all your problems.
Hello all. It’s sad to see Ted Kennedy go. He did so much for this country and IMO, he was always the bravest of all the Kennedys because he was the one who had to stay behind and endure.
Now he is with his brothers and I hope they are playing football in heaven.
Great article at Huffington Post on who is lobbying to kill health reform:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/09/lobbyblog_n_228657.html
Gee – is bill’o on the insurance payroll too?
Bill O’Reilly – is my falafel ready yet?
Put down that pipe and get my pipe UP!
I’m Baaaaaaaaack too!!!! In my case from a yawn-fest of a meeting. But then again, have you even been to a meeting that wasn’t a yawn-fest?? Not I.
So I gotta run at 11:30. Think we’ll make it to SPARTA by then??
YES, WE CAN!!!!!!
227—hugs and a kiss to your girl. The first day of any school is always a bit scary. I was up at 2:00 a.m. here working on some stuff so I saw the CNNers and the MSNBCers up from 2 a.m. eastern time time sounding groggy when talking about Ted’s passing.
#227 Hope a virtual hug from us on the Live Blog will help, Sarah.
231-right on, spiffy
More cowbell!
Hal Sparks, amateur gynecologist.
Yup – it’s the pizza man and he delivers!
Humpty Hump Hal is in the house.
Thanks, shāf.
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#84—I don’t think many in the Senate, especially the newer Senators, really care what Ted wanted.
(Great comment huh??)
∑8·)
#244—I’ll see your ‘ and raise you a %
Yes, I expected her to say “What a world” next.
The Humpty Dance, Here’s Your Chance…. to do the Hump!!!!
I remember that sinking feeling, as my parents’ car faded into the distance. A deep melancholy descended on me immediately, and I asked myself, “Why? What am I doing here?” I wanted to simply CRY.
And that was my first day. At COLLEGE.
I want to participate in a death panel. The no compromises woman could be my first subject … Nuke her now!
#249 Hal stole your bit!!!!!
That’s perfect music for that lady.
251-I think that’s how the girl feels.
They’re ALL stealing your bit, shaf!!!!!
For those who wonder if the founding fathers wanted things like healthcare from the federal government. Look, look, it says general welfare, what could that mean?
Preamble
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.
#252 I’s throw the Death Book at her!
#256 Jim was saying it as I typed it. Scary!
#227 My niece is 5, school started yesterday for them. My brother woke her up, and she looked at him and asked “Is summer over Daddy?”
251.
Steven Segal wants a REALITY SHOW???!!! PLeeeeeeeease Nooooooooo!! Don’t we have enough crap on TV already?
If the Dems do an individual mandate (as opposed to employer mandate) and subsidies WITHOUT a public option, the party will totally destroy itself for a generation.
The Expendables sponsored by Aleve.
The first time I had sex, I was terrified. I was alone..
#257, forget the preamble, “general welfare” is specified in Article I section 8.
EW
NAKED GARDENING!!!!!! OH YEAH!!!! As long as it ain’t my 87 year old neighbor of course.
Repubs only believe in the welfare of the wealthy..
Maybe Earl can use his lottery winnings to save the Burt Reynolds museum!
251—When I started back at college after leaving my ex, starting back full-time because I was going to get a degree and be a teacher, I was about 36. I felt so incredibly old in that first classroom. My only salvation was that there was a lady in my first class who was even older than me, but everyone else was between the ages of 18 and 27.
Now I am used to being the oldest person in the class and frequently even older than the professor. But the first semester is always tough. Sometimes I am seen as a freak. I try to think of myself as equal with any person you see on campus who is in a wheelchair. I’m old, they are handicapped: many people in L.A. see old and handicapped as one in the same.
Screw ‘em.
Okay, whose face lift is scarier? Burt Reynolds or Kenny Rogers?
hell hath no fury like a spurned Catholic brood mare. watch out, Braveheart.
Electronic cigarettes are under investigation for toxicity.
273 That’s because it’s a righteous fury.
#262 We actually have less crap on tv. Although he wasn’t the “winner”, since Ryan Jenkins (allegedly killed his wife, later hung himself in Canadian hotel) was a contestant on Megan Wants a Millionaire, VH1 cancelled it. He was also a participant on season 3 of I Love Money, VH1 won’t be airing that one.
2 fewer reality shows to contend with, and only 1 woman had to die.
#257—-The Republicans will say that General Welfare means you are allowed to be safe. They will say that safety does not include health care.
#272 Kenny Rogers???? Is he still alive????
#222
Here’s a brilliant rant for you:
http://www.fuckthesouth.com/
271. Old age and treachery beat youth and enthusiasm every time.
Shaf, great question. Both look painfully pinched. Fortunately for Reynolds, he can just slide the rug back a little, when his forehead gets pulled down. That, and shave the eyebrows and paint some an inch higher..
#266 – the Article I section 8 clause that seems to have caught on only deals with taxation – SCOTUS reads it as a whole clause – The Taxation Clause.
Commerce Clause is where Constitutional justification will ultimately be found
#272—See Kenny: http://www.virginmedia.com/images/kenny-rogers-galleries-gambling.jpg
#278 Yep. Here’s a link to some bad surgeries:
http://www.topsocialite.com/the-15-worst-celebrity-plastic-surgery-disasters-you-will-ever-see/
Burt Reynolds: http://scrapetv.com/News/News%20Pages/Entertainment/Images/Burt-Reynolds-old.jpg
I’m going with Rogers’ is the scarier one. How did they mess up his eyes?
279. thanks. I feel better now.
#278 Not only is he alive, but he’s got his own amusement park in Pennsylvania. It’s called Kennywood.
Yummity yummity yum
288 was for Hal, NOT Kennywood!
Yes, #266, both in the preamble and in Article I section 8, The Powers of Congress, they mention that militarist General Welfare.
Hollywood seems to have two basic types of facelifts . . . the anti-gravity and the wind tunnel.
prescription drugs
mmm! yummy proton radiation!
#287 Seriously???
299 — Sparta!
SPARTA!!!!!!!!
303 — also SPARTA!
sPARTA (PART DEAUX)
Sparta!
#284—Boy
I’m really sorry I looked at that page.
The mistake so many ladies make with the boobs is that they always go one cup size too big. No one will settle for a normal-looking B-cup anymore. No, no—they go for a D-cup. It’s so odd.
Should I even bother??
On to Sparta, Ted! Second star from the right and on ’til tomorrow.
Spiffy did it! Congratulations!
I do not think my comment about cup sizes is worth a sparta. Who said something profound? I will pass this off to them.
#282, not just taxation, but spending as well. The “Commerce clause” only regulates interstate commerce, and focus on it, rather than on the “General welfare” clause, is the basis of the libertarian claim that Congress has exceeded its authority.
The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
There was a late ’30s SCOTUS case (forget the name) that ruled that Congress Constitutional power to legislate, by virture of this clause, goes well beyond the enumerated powers elsewhere.
alas…. no sparta for me…. congrats Spiffy. I’m off to lunch, y’all. See ya on the morrow.
spiffyhussein with a Spartan boob job! *bows*
Aw. Poor Richard. I will pass my sparta to you. Just don’t put breast implants on the sparta, OK?
Sanford, muhahahaha!
If I had a time machine, I’d go back in time and kick Philo Farnsworth in the nards.
Sanford is getting kicked to the curb. Ha-Ha!
Oooo….Gov. Sanford! Stepping down or running for President and marrying Sarah Palin? Which will it be??
back for the finale
there was some really funny stuff while I was in the car
starting with caller DimWit the Limbaugh lover who didn’t
like the humor or sound effects and who got teased with
the slide whistle
Gov Mark Sanford out of office? and go to jail please!
That’s your Presidential Dream Team: Palin & Sanford 2012.
Congrats btw Spiffy for Sparta.
314 — Todd & Jenny
LOLOL—-That’s a country song: “I Will Shoe Horn My Love On You”.
313-TRY to fall back in love with his wife? What a man!
#315—-Thanks for the congrats. Too bad we can make a symbol for sparta.
The Liverpool accent is one of my favorites.
Spiffy! I yield to thee, and reveal my Inner Self (see in Steph Community photos).
SMARTA next.
We have the power! Where are the celebrities? Where are the Canadian celebrities? The Brits? SPEAK UP!
CBS “The Good Wife” will have plenty of source material to mine. Hey GOP Steppford wives, this show is for you.
That wasn’t Grassley was it?
First, call for Sanford’s resignation… then impeachment.
Delicious!
#305 – yes, Fed can collect taxes and spend them on health care under that clause – regulating insurance cos. – primarily left to the states (which have the power to enact laws for the health, safety and general welfare – 1oth Amend.).
Commerce Clause will allow Fed to stop pre-existing condition policies, recission policies, set medial loss ratios, etc.
#323—That looks like a promising show. Two great lead actors & an interesting perspective. I just hope it is well written.
#314 I would take Palin/Bachmann over Palin/Sanford any day.
Now that he’s not going to be a governor, expect Sanford to fade away the way most disgraced politicians end up doing…
Soon enough, we’ll have enough ex-governors for their own reality show. What should we call it?
I pray for a fast expulsion of Bachmann from Congress.
Keep faith with the unborn? What have they ever done for me?
Shane-O, you’re the smartest boy in class today.
On our knees!
Sanford/Spritzer
Bi-Partisanship you can do without.
#331—-They kept you working hard because you’re always worried about that youngster coming up behind you to take your job.
I don’t get here as often as I should, but whatever happened to Frangela? I loved hearing them. Now it seems like Hal Sparks is on the show practically every day? Or is he on everyday? I don’t think he’s nearly as entertaining as just listening to Steph and the Mooks
That “state” of Hawaii? How many birthers believe that Hawaii is a real state?
Drunky went to the Dominican on a gift certificate from Limbaugh. He’s confused.
Golf clap? I hear a little penicillin will clear that up.
#331 If stem cell treatments were available, the unborn could do lots for you…
#336—I like Hal. He’s very funny. So is that John Fugle-something person. I like Frangela too. I think they are busy. They got to fill in for Randi Rhodes two days while she was on vacation and Randi is national so that’s a big deal.
Maybe Frangela is working on a deal somewhere?
336 – Frangela didn’t want to make the morning time commitments. Hal it now on Wednesdays and Fridays with John Fugelsang.
#340, actually, having spent 12 years as a fertility donor, the unborn made me a healthy side income.
#337—I have never been there so it may not be real.
http://community.stephaniemiller.com/_My-Inner-Self/photo/4954043/81991.html
My Inner Self, revealed to sparta-er..
Sanford will be on Dancing With The Stars doing a nice flamenco
Hey, they are talking about us?
I have to bug out early, amigas y amigos. So I will have to miss SMARTA (400) if it appears.
Buh bye beloveds, don’t you ever change a thing!
Cool it, no helicopter sdfx.
#346 Or a passo dope-le?
The power of Congress to legislate in support of its taxation and spending powers is given in the broadest paragraph in Article I Section 8:
[Congress shall have the power:] To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers,
#350, I’m having a “Strictly Ballroom” flashback.
#345—Holy cow! I like your cuddly polar bear icon much better.
I have to go too. Have a nice day peoples! I am grateful for Ted’s many years of service to our party and our country today. Wait for the books about him to come out—-here they come!
I’m still kinda stunned that it was his brain that killed it and not his liver. He was a Kennedy, after all.
No, I wish they where doing nothing in Iraq
conspiracy snausage: Chappaquiddick was done to cripple
Ted Kennedy politically and keep him from the White House.
Killing all three brothers would have just been too obvious
have a great aftershow
Go Bjork!
A shot of Patron or Chinaco to you Ted! Cheers all!
Have a great rest of the day, everyone.
TTFN
There is just no way that Mary Ann is real. Even a Right winger can’t be that stupid! Wow!!!