LiveBlog for Wednesday, September 23, 2009
• Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) calls in at 6:05am Pacific to talk about health care reform.
• Rep. Allyson Schwartz (D-PA) calls in at 6:30am Pacific to talk about health care reform.
• Karl Frisch, Senior Fellow at Media Matters for America, calls in at 7:05am Pacific for a live edition of Right Wing World.
• Comedian Hal Sparks joins us in studio at 8:05am Pacific for another edition of “Humpdays with Hal.”
• Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus yesterday unveiled changes to his compromise health care proposal intended to alleviate the concerns of fellow Dems as the panel began debating more than 560 proposed amendments to the measure. Sens. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) and Charles Schumer (D-NY) both introduced amendments to include a public option in the Baucus plan.
• World leaders, including President Obama, converged yesterday in New York to focus on climate change, with the clock ticking down toward a summit this year in Denmark, where a global climate change pact is to be signed. Negotiations for the global pact have stalled and yesterday’s gathering was aimed at jump-starting those talks.
• Prodding Israel and the Palestinian Authority to restart talks aimed at a permanent resolution of their conflict, President Obama dropped a demand for an Israeli settlement freeze.
Tags: Allyson Schwartz, Barack Obama, Charles Schumer, Climate Change, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Hal Sparks, Israel, Jay Rockefeller, Karl Frisch, Max Baucus, Media Matters for America, Palestine
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Goood morning all!
I’m heartbroken. World Series hero, right-wing shill and general loudmouth Curt Schilling has decided not to run for Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat.
Good morning, trojanrabbit and the rest of the early risers!
Speaking of political races, I heard this morning that former eBay CEO Meg Whitman is throwing her hat in the ring for the 2010 Republican Gubernatorial nomination:
http://features.csmonitor.com/politics/2009/09/22/meg-whitman-ebay-billionaire-to-run-for-california-governor/
According to the press release, Whitman said Tuesday that she would make at least $15 billion in permanent spending cuts. She also said she would put a moratorium on the 2006 law on reducing statewide greenhouse-gas emissions.
So, another business-leader-turned-politician who thinks we need to run the state like a business? I have a bad feeling about this.
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Morning shaf!
Maybe Meg and Carly Fiorina will cancel each other out in a blaze of wharrgarbl.
Shaf- that literally makes me sick to my stomach… all I can seem to think these days is “What the hell is wrong with these people?!?!?!?!?”
Happy Hump Day everyone!
Wanna see a sucky website?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/22/carly-fiorina-launches-wo_n_295233.html
FAX PAUSE OF THE CENTURY
wish i had exact names to go with it …. yesterday, thom hartmann exposed a fax pause (an embarrassing breakdown of communication), from the “virtue values” summit, that had induced some chap to try to take the al quaeda approach to affirming kakistocratic values, with the take that one’s reward for kakistocracy is “hot” women ….. like michelle malkin. – - – I AM NOT MAKING THIS UP – like stephen king, my imagination only goes so far …. anybody know the name of this old man who was set up without ever having seen or heard michelle malkin ?
#6 OMG! Yep, two of the four horsemen (er, horsewomen?) of the apocalypse (Carly and Meg).
It’s Miller Time, ‘ya bastids!
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz from Down… Town!
Mornin Blog!
Mornin’, RMH!
6: the complexity (and complexion) of the website are deceptively implicative of a complexity and grasp of issues that fiorina is unfortunately lacking. – but i especially like the huffpo’s mention of fiorina’s admiration for the mccain business acumen; crash five planes if you must, but leave the taxpayers to pay the bill.
african dictators slide into second base ?
Mornin’ evrybuddy! It’s a beautiful Wednesday!
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And now for something completely different…
Some of us wonder why or where did W. get the phrase “September THE eleventh”, when most people just say “September eleventh”.
So, on TCM yesterday eve, I was interested to see that the establishing captions for Alfred Hitchcock’s “Psycho”, the date is written as “December the Eleventh”.
A connection?
Good Morning Board
MacKenizie Phillips admits to having sex with a relative.
15: that’s all ? – it was probably just a phillips screwdriver.
stream is down again!!!!!!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364×2141321
. . . actually, it was her Father. Eewwww. . . .
a priest had sex with a girl ?
. . . no, it was her dad John Phillips. You’re funny, flombaye!
maybe he thott she was one of those altered boys.
“busted, disgusted, the aging cant be trusted ….”
Gang, please avoid the second-base (third-base… home-run) euphemism when discussing the McKenzie Phillips story, ‘kay?
i partyed with her ata dead show .. weird!
sometimes, the dad is more of a rock star.
so sayeth marilyn.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xhnt3RW0r1g
californication…
Ugh, bump music!
And we care because?
One skank at a time?
Boundaries?
smelly….
Good morning all…
ProducerChris, please don’t tease bad news like that. It’s like saying “Another actor has terminal cancer, we’ll tell you who after these messages!”
The lsd was pretty strong (extremily!!) back then….
See Steph- it really is a drinking “solution”!
named after a screwdriver, and her life spiraled ? who could see that coming ? – by far, the funnest part is the people who protest too much.
Rehab counselor is the Dr. Nick Rivera of counselors.
BTW 3/4 of the Mamas and the Papas are deceased.
Kind of liked that song “I Saw Her Again Last Night” when it first came out. Guess that song brings up bad memories for poor MacKenzie.
To her defense, the woman was higher than a kite most of the time.
. . . and Governor Sanford’s wife is writing a BOOK!
What a horrible story. Terrible story.
What has this to do with Healthcare Reform. Is the point to have a robust psychiatric health care coverage included in the Bill?
i just cott a traffic report that included “heavy pedestrian traffic”. – hasnt there been quite enuff of the HFCS ?
This story would have been huge news like 30 years ago. Now? Not so much. We already knew MP was given drugs when she was a pre-schooler by her idiotic parents, so the element of surprise is lacking.
I just got home from the foot doctor. Did I miss much?
42: carlyfornia dreaming is becoming a reality.
BTW #2, Happy Birthday to Mickey Rooney, 89 YO today.
Also, Happy returns to Jason Alexander – big Five-Oh!
44: when is mickey going to reach full height ?
Good argument on Huffington Post that MacKenzie was in fact raped.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/22/mackenzie-phillips-secret_n_295561.html
Legislative process for Health Care should carry the following road sign: Heavy Merge.
hiya. bloggoes!
*waves both arms* Over here!!!
concerning the anemia of the liveblog of late — everybody’s on their own trip these days. not so much interaction, therefore, less posts. liveblog less fun that it used to be, too.
#44 I’m older than Jason? Damn!
people with boundaries do not mix paisley with nehru.
IJTUIMMALB
49: who’s the black private dick who ha significant shrinkage with all the chicks ?
SHAF !
44 — omg, I’m almost exactly the same age as George.
Started a Steph subscription yesterday ’cause I missed yesterday’s show live.
Remember when we were all discussing to beware of random “software protection” popups you get, and DO NOT CLICK ON THEM! Well, guess what I did at work this week?
Our Tech guy had to run all sorts of diagnostics to get rid of the pests. Need to “watch” my messages and the like. Really hard to avoid apparently.
#52 I had been swimming!
good morning… what did I tune in on omg?
Agree w/ #41. Enough with this Mack story. Just sordid. What are you, more interested in healthcare reform, or just cheapening your House of Representative interviews with gossip?
53: but can you push down an old woman, with as much panache ?
Rachel Maddow said it best, “It burns!”
Tom was basically telling everyone to kiss his indicted felon a$$.
58 — No, I can’t.
LOL! Randi did a number on Tom DeLay’s dancing on her show yesterday! So funny . . .
hey #54 that was me who sent the warning it cost me eighty dollars!
62 — Not to mention having exactly the right tone in her moral outrage. Dude needs to be in jail, yesterday.
Tom’s getting into shape for his next show, “Dancing with Bubba”.
I’d like to point out that Tom would dance just as well with one a them ankle bracelets on.
Flombaye gets shout out!
yay, flombaye!
Yay to Flombaye!
Oh, dear. Why is this a story? Are the Spice Girls planning another reunion or something?
#63 – live and learn, ya know?
Sorry, but DeLay looked SOOOO gay (and I don’t mean that in a good way either). Still, he’s coming back next week.
Catherine Zeta-Jones and Angela Lansbury as Desiree and Mme Arnfeldt respectively in Sondheim’s Little Night Music on B’way announced. Actually, that might be good.
The frustrating part is these statistics only consider insurance premiums… we also have increases in out of pocket limits, deductibles, Rx costs, non-covered items, etc… I’d love to know how much the rates have increased with all that factored in…
71 Love Sondheim! This sounds awesome.
DeLay’s next dance should be a FoxTrot to “Jailhouse Rock”, and a tango to “He Had it Comin’” from the show Chicago.
Link to Funny or Die bit (play later):
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/041b5acaf5/protect-insurance-companies-psa
Bipartisan drool, YES!!!
bill would be improved by the addition of Republican saliva.
It’s time for Eddie van Halen!
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/041b5acaf5/protect-insurance-companies-psa
re: 77
Dept. of Remembering Early-Adulthood Cultural Trauma
I remember all the times I would mention liking punk rock in those days & all the goobers I knew trying to be polite (when they could manage it) and saying the only punk band they liked was (you guessed it) Van Halen. I would then explain that Van Halen actually *wasn’t* a punk band, and they would way “oh.” There would be an uncomfortable silence, and then the subject would get changed. I barely remember one occasion where I was totally out of control drunk (hey, I was a teenager, what can I say) and LZ’s In Through The Out Door had just come out. Everybody was playing it on their pumpin’ car stereos at this boonie party I was at. Seople would ask me what I though of it, and I would say I liked it, but I was disappointed that it didn’t rock more. I liked The Sex Pistols alb a lot better, and I was not afraid to say so. I was really out of it, so I don’t remember, but my friend that I was there with said somebody punched me in the face over it.
Rock n roll, baby.
Good morning, BloggenMookenologists. Sorry I’m late, what have I missed?
Hiya, Ivan. Evidently, there’s a story about Michelle Phillips that everyone is kinda stirred up over.
Merikans is smurt!
Fox keeps you infrummed – when David Frum is on.
I also like the one that says “No PUBIC OPTION”
81 — That should read “Mackenzie Phillips” sorry, Michelle.
How is dropping a demand that settlements stop “prod” I/P negotiations forward?
G’morning, gang!
#65 Jim in Saginaw: “Tom’s getting into shape for his next show, “Dancing with Bubba”
Hey, I was just in Saginaw! Anyway, even a mainstream progressive dj said yesterday that his girlfriend made him watch Tom DeLay dancing on “Dancing with the Stars and commented “It was like a watching a ten-car pile-up. Every second was painful with no end in sight.”
Progressive meant something entirely different when Theodore Roosevelt called himself one, you know.
Have eye bleach on hand before clicking. http://community.stephaniemiller.com/_Steph-Cats/photo/5361609/81991.html
89: ROFL!!!
Frankly
#70: I want to know what the president is doing to protect us from the threat of another Spice Girls reunion!
I posted some new videos for you guys, hope you will like them (I’m cunningham-designs).
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O’Reilly needs to be beaten about the head and shoulders..
I like Joe Scarborough, Mika Brszeszinski, Barnicle and Co. because they have “call ‘em as I see ‘em” courage. NOBODY gets off the hook on Morning Joe, and they don’t talk the horse race! They clash ideas there.
#42: You missed a whole segment about foot fetishists who pose as podiatrists.
Actually, Fox News has some foxes doing their “news”, but they are either complete bubbleheads or venomous little bitches.
Sean Hannity is also a venomous little bitch.
Hannity’s run-on questions make me want to jam a pencil in my EYE!!
96 — small quibble. Fox bitches are vixens. Sean Hannity is a vixen.
Hello all! Love the silly StepCats picture~
General McChrystal collaborated on the report with PNAC Republican partians; and arranged for it to be leaked to embarrass the President.
This is flat-out insubordination. McChrystal needs to be given the choice of retirement or the stockade.
Karl Rove needs to be castrated with a butter knife.
Woops—stephcats
Hiya, Spiffy!
Hannity’s run-on questions make me want to jam a pencil in *HIS* EYE!!
Mama Cass want to share a ham sandwich with Mckenzie.
Ivan, I suppose that would be a greater favor to humanity!
SM and the mooks are riding this Mackenzie Phillips story like a weekend binge! Good for ratings? Computer says no.
This is funny. It’s funny protest signs. The best one is from a anti-prop 8 march. It says, “We can’t ALL marry Liza Minnelli.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/21/the-funniest-protest-sign_n_292342.html
I like Mackenzie. She’s had a rough go, but I think she’s talented & I’ve liked lotsa the creative stuff she’s done.
Hmm.. Where’s my Zoloft? I need another dose, I’m unusually venomous myself today..
Sorry.
Peace, joy, happiness.
Rom rom rom rom rom..
Read Only Memory
http://www.casselliot.com/images/scooby.jpg
she ate a ham @ brisket sandwich…….
110 — the Hannity’s eye comment? what? I don’t see the problem
i wonder if her mom was in bed with them too?
Actually MOST of the Faux celebretards ask one or two paragraph questions, then as the guest attempts to answer they interrupt and spew out a one or two paragraph criticism of what they think the guest was trying to say. Wash, rinse, repeat, click.
IMDB shows the last thing Bonnie Franklin did was an episode of Touched by an Angel in 2000.
Wikipedia says of Bonnie Frankin “More recently, she appeared in Neil Simon’s [[Broadway Bound]] at the Pico Playhouse in January 2008″
115 — I think Bonnie went the way every actress over 40 goes — into enforced retirement for being “too old.”
http://abcnews.go.com/images/Entertainment/apg_phillips_080919_mn.jpg
good times…………..
OFF THE CHARTS!!!
I keep almost forgetting that.
I noticed that some of those “foxes” at Fox News looked more wrinkled in HDTV..
#115—Isn’t it sad what happens to most actors, especially actresses? They all start out so young and strong, some extraordinarily talented, and then due to Market Research of what and who audiences want to see there is nowhere to go.
I have known some actors and enjoyed doing it myself when I was younger, but in the end it’s very hard for many of them to keep working. It’s the saddest of all the arts I think.
Everyone looks more wrinkled in HDTV.
Max Bawk.. Bawk.. BUICK!
Hey guys-I’m joining a protest this weekend in Mount Vernon, WA some podunk Mayor decided to give Glenn Beck the key to the city. A great sign idea a friend of mine has: “Glenn Beck you can suck it! P.S. Jesus hates you.”
Too much?
#110 I got some extra. Like Mike Tyson once said, I’m on the Zoloft to keep from killin’ y’all.
121 — Dancing is like that only worse, because the lifespan in that art is shorter & retirement often has to do with injuries incurred from doing the artform well.
oily taints
124 — I admire the spirit of that.
Spiffy, aging is a bitch. Life sucks, and then you die..
I’ve decided to return to my 15 year old mentality, complete with all the naivete and idealism, and acne.
I wonder if Orly Taitz is a selfish lover?
129 — I’ve decided to do puberty again, too!
Orly doesn’t enjoy down time, does she?
Republican “base” is BASE.. You’re required to abandon all thinking to be a modern Republican, which suits these folks perfectly.
Hey—big news!(said with sarcasm) Another scandal and cover up in Los Angeles:
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-lopez23-2009sep23,0,5991275.column?page=1
Article says Cardinal Mahony knew about the molesting priests. Msgr.Loomis says he informed him of some. Now Loomis is being charged with sexual misconduct. Some say it’s a backlash from the Catholic church. Others say Loomis made up the story to cover his *ss.
If I were Pope I’d fire Mahony, Loomis and anyone else who had been accused of a cover up or molestations and start over with this archdiocese. Put them all on paid leave while the sinister mess gets worked out.
But I guess they are short of fill-in priests?
Soily Taint is mad as a hatter.
#124—I don’t think Jesus hates Glenn Beck.
Jesus is cool like that.
Y’know, Alan Keyes, ’cause he’s really, really, really BLACK!
134 — That’s not how it worked in Boston. Cardinal O’Malley just got reassigned. Catholics around here were *pissed*!
She probably saw Axel Foley messing around behind her car . . .
#126, I watched a career-ending injury to a dancer right before my eyes. I was playing for some Highland Dancers at a wedding (the bride was a dancer), and one of them, a highly-regarded instructor in her mid 40s, landed wrong and tore her Achilles tendon loose.
Her flight back from DC to Seattle was at 6 AM the next morning, so she couldn’t go to the hospital until she got back. We were all crestfallen.
Jesus doesn’t hate. But even He can’t love Glenn Beck.
#134 Should a news story about pedophile priests really use the phrase “cover his *ss”?
142 — it’s never more appropriate!
#126—Ballet dancers especially really tear up their bodies. But yeah, I guess dancers over about age 35 really have nowhere to go except a dinner theater production of “Cats” in Springfield, IL.
#142—That was just me. The reporter didn’t write it that way, but I’ll bet he wishes he could have!
#136-it is a little much huh! i just can’t believe some one thought giving the key to the city to Glenn beck was a swell idea. What a joke.
#142—I didn’t get that joke at first. Now I get it.
#138—-That’s is awful. That is just so awful.
Morning (urp) all! Candy is dandy, coke is oke, incest is best. OMG time to barf again…
I’m here! barely.
no coffee yet
Oily Tainz is frightening. She is disgusting. At first
I was inclined to pity her as mentally ill. She’s dangerous.
She is loathsome. Hate filled. Strident, Shrill, a Shit Bird.
on the other hand she’s so damned bat shit crazy she embarrasses
the Rethug neo-fascists, which ain’t bad.
I guess we don’t get any kind of reform. Congress is too Corrupt,
too many Americans toodamnedstudpid.
146 — I guess it depends on how you feel about “Jesus.” I think of Jesus as the hero of a very famous novel, who has become a legend & gets stretched to fit whoever is using the symbolic mangod’s agenda.
A good Christian once said “fleas make nits” after all…
#146—and did they ever consider what that would do to real estate values in that town?? Ewww!
You saw Demi Moore at Griffith Park, Steph?
Jim: I was (unfortunately) thinking the same thing when you guys played “push push in the bush”.
That’s a pain that will linger
My doctor gave me a prescription for 60 Vicodin tablets a month, and I can take up to 4 of them a day if my neuropathy pain gets bad enough. For some time now I’ve been getting pretty good control over the neuropathy with Lyrica and vitamin B12, and normally can use OTC ibuprofin to manage the pain. So, I seldom take any Vicodin, but continue getting the prescription filled (copay is $10 I think)..
So, I have a couple of large pill bottles, packed to the brim. I’m thinking I can resell these for a buck a pill if I need some quick cash. Whaddya think? I’ve been exploring ideas for practicing free enterprise and capitalism..
;->
Can someone explain Cougar Town to me? I don’t get it.
I don’t understand why the Viewing Public thinks older women dating young men is a cool thing to observe. What is cool about it?
#152-The towns not that great anyway but they do have a considerable hispanic population—it just doesn’t make any sense to me. Im so irritated.
Bush Sr coined New World Order!
I heard this caller likes to eat babies with tartar sauce
Maybe I should just pass them out to my friends here..
Other people bring carrot cake or donuts, I’ll bring the Vicodin.
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NWO. New World Moron..
124
Maybe you could fly a kite with a key at the end of the string with a sign saying “HEY GLENN, SUCK ON THIS!!!!!
Even better if there was a thunderstorm going on.
that caller was a dope.
The right is throwing around the “New World Order”.
But then, they’re still throwing around “Communist/Socialist”, and that stopped being fashionable in, like 1959.
#155—That is illegal. It’s too bad you can’t return them to the pharmacy. Pharmacies should really take back old pills so they can be disposed of properly.
Well I think that, well, y’know, that the, uh, y’know, country, is becoming a fascist, y’know, uh, takeover (?).
#156, I find it refreshing – it validates the sexuality of adult women.
the New World Order?!?~! WTF!! Bush Senior proclaimed the
New World Order… his rotten scumbag little son implemented
it. You saw how it worked out. Empire, Police State, WAR
death chaos, ruin… caller Dim-Bulb, go back to your Lyndon
LaRouche website ya foole…
#157—Write a letter to the mayor of the local newspaper. That’s all you can do.
#155 Can you get to North Carolina?
http://www.thepilot.com/stories/20090923/news/local/20090923Drug.html
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And Bernard Cardinal Law has a nice assignment in Rome.
164: of course.. I’m pulling your leg.
However, I do have plenty of Vicodin, should I ever need it.
#164: some cities have a monthly collection to dispose of old pharma otherwise they either get tossed & leach into the water table or they get flushed out to sea & turn our fish gay. Or French. And they have french gay abortions. Or something.
166 — yeah, but for some reason the term “cougar” bugs me. I don’t know why, other than it’s a manufactured term. There’s more to it, though. Seems vaguely insulting.
166 I’m with you. Older Women get to get younger guys, the
same way older guys been going after younger women forever.
I just watched The Graduate the other night. Gotta love
Mrs. Robinson. Especially her Attitude.
Stephanie Louise Miller what IS that Get-up you’re wearing today?
Your mother would have never let you go out of the house like that.
Sister Mary Bezerker would have sent you home to change.
I kinda like it.
Likeability > Personal Approval > Job Approval.
Standard formula in polling.
#166—But do you think that’s what the Viewing Public thinks too?
I just find such ideas to be pure fantasy. Every once in a blue moon I have seen an older woman/younger man couple in real life, but those are just two unusual people who were fortunate to find each other.
It’s about as realistic as The Flying Nun to me.
Maybe it’s a travel thing. Congress is always flying back and forth between DC and their districts, they can’t fit big balls into the overhead compartment and they don’t want to pay to check their luggage. So they just don’t bother having big balls at all.
Good one caller….the so called “leak” is obviously politically motivated….
So what is an aggressive male that trolls for young booty called?
#173, one of the people I’m going out with (who’s 4 years older than me, and 7 years older than the husband she’s splitting with) doesn’t like the term either.
I think it’s funny. I imagine it started with the notion of a kitty on the prowl.
176 — my girlfriend is about 6 years older than me. Of course, I am definitely an unusual person…
#173—-When I first heard the term “cougar” I had to ask the person who said it what it meant. I’m that out of touch with the entertainment industry.
#179, a male.
#179 Heterosexual?
Or maybe rich?
181—6 years in nothing when you get into your 30s, 40s and beyond. Anything over about 8 years is a lot, IMO.
151 poor Jesus. all the bad stuff been done in his name.
‘Christianisty’ got nothing to with Christ. These rotten
greedy bastards make Baby Jesus cry.
#183: Do they have a term like…wildebeast or…great sloth…
what term for Cougar would you rather see?
#180—-Yeah! That’s not a complimentary image is it? Like once the “cougar” gets her prey what’s she going to do with him?
Is that some common male dream? “Come and take me cougar?”
#188—My Old Lady, LOL.
#184: I didn’t specify the gender of the prey…although “daddy” is kind of ruined from today onwards.
Listening on the KTLK feed, they just had a story about somewhere they passed a law limiting households to 1 rooster, unless they get a permit.
So the town has too much cock?
…off to the penalty box, hey it’s dusty in here…
Call the show “Old Lady Town”. That’s an awesome show name.
#189, well, all kitties play with their catch before eating it.
I’m out of here. Got to get to work. See you all later.
Can the Wild Thing interlude be any longer? And if your gonna give us the instrumental why not just play the whole Tone Loc song?
#177—-A good theory.
#189, the point being, the woman is doing the hunting, not the man, for once. Is there anything wrong with that?
#192: heh heh heh
Pace increasing. SPARTA today?
the crack head moron is on the whatever again… time to change
the locks again
good thing I saved the lockset from last time
it’s such an old, old game. the little piece of dog-s%#t.
But a mother’s love is strong. She’ll keep forgiving him,
enabling him, etc etc etc
#189 Pretend you’re a horny guy in your 20s. Along comes a woman, she’s more than 10 years older than you, but she’s horny and has money to buy all the drinks. So you decide to become a “cougar hunter”.
It seems like a good idea, men and women wanting sex and getting together to have it. Unless you’re a teacher, then maybe you should stay away from the underage boys.
http://www.wtop.com/?nid=25&sid=1767695
192 — Yeah, that ol’ penalty box has been neglected lately. Mark earns a trip just about every day, but never goes. He’s a scofflaw, that Mark.
And to be clear, I’m as likely to watch Cougar Town as I am to watch Desperate Housesluts. As in zero.
Now if they did a show about cougars set on an interstellar warship in the 26th century, I might watch that.
176 I am 11 years younger than my girlfriend. We’ve been together
whut? almost 15 years
205 don’t tell Stephanie
Actually, I’m aware of the prescription pill addiction problems, look at Herr Limbaugh.
However, I’m inclined to think the meth problem may be the true scourge. Get on that and you really are screwed.
I’ve been dealing with regular pain for 6-7 years now, and I avoid painkillers most of the time, even ibuprofin. And Vicodin leaves me drowsy and dull (more than normal), I can’t quite see any desirable features of its “high”.
For those with similar problems with neuropathy (e.g. most diabetics), I have found that the pain tends to come on to a point, is regenerative (the more it hurts, the more it hurts), and being nerve damage induced, is hard to mask with drugs. However I have found that as soon as I sense to onset of an episode with it, I can actually “distract” my mind with some other activity (even watching a movie, or listening to music) and often it will wane.
If you haven’t experienced neuropathy, it’s hard to describe. The onset for me is a condition I call the “heeba jeebas”, where I feel extremely nervous and uneasy. The regenerative nature of it is that if it gets worse, it gets even worse. So, if you can divert that escalation of pain, just distract it, it will often back off.
Those with chronic pain may notice that it often occurs at night. That is when your mental activity is reduced, and I think there is a connection. I’ve tried to relate nerve pain to blood glucose level and it doesn’t track.
I guess I shouldn’t be trying to make jokes about Vicodin..
204 thats Degenerate Housesluts. You gotta love’em.
Except that show is so damned violent. Nevefr seen so
many people get killed.
The older you are, the less age differences matter.
When you can count the grades in between you and your S.O., that could be trouble.
But when you’re 65 and your S.O. is 75? No big deal.
#198—No, no, no—women can hunt. I have met women like that. Live and let live. I just didn’t understand when that cougar dating show can on a year or two ago and don’t understand the new sitcom about it.
But there is a lot I don’t understand so that’s OK. Was just looking for some insight into the phenomenon.
203 thanx for the recognition Maddy!
Jim Ward caught at the coin laundry sans pants… again
210 — not likely to watch the show, though I kinda like Courtney Cox, and I have read a positive review of the show.
#202: it’s not just guys either
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/8266780.stm
Is she still a cougar?
#207 not only is meth worse than prescription drugs abuse, but it’s really bad for the enviornment. Home meth labs create lots of toxic substances. This means police need to wear Haz Mat gear when they raid the place, and specially trained people are required to clean up the chemicals.
Plus many meth makers have small (neglected) children at home, crawling around in the toxic waste. Meth is one of the worst on so many levels.
192 definitely off to the Penalty Box with you Amy
a town with too much cock… prolly got Beaver Fever too
ok, scootch down on that penalty box bench Ame
#210 Only recently have scientists discovered women want to have sex when they’re over 40.
Older women are so much better
they know what they want, they are not put off by
whatever dirty nasty freaky weird twisted thing you wanna do…
plus they can buy beer
158: Nick wrote:
“Bush Sr coined New World Order”
Not so much. It was first used in 1873 by Bahá’u'lláh in “Kitáb-i-Aqdas”.
I doubt Poppy ever coined anything though he sure inherited a lot of coin from his Nazi supporting father.
Sha Na Na played Woodstock. That still blows my mind, man. I imagine some unfortunate wannabe hippy who timed the drugs wrong and peaked during their set.
That poor unfortunate went on to become Rush Limbaugh…
214 we volunteer to pick up trash along a section of highway here.
You must first watch the safety video. Prominent on the video is
the warnings against picking up parts of meth labs, which litter
the roadsides here in beautiful Michigan
Amy, I’ve been wanting to try out one of the alpha wave machines. My ex boss had been in a terrible accident and had plastic surgery repairs to most of his face, with looked great. But he had terrible pain. He said he used one of the machines, and learned to control his pain completely.
He said it worked so well, it could be dangerous, with pain turned off that you might need to be aware of. But he also told me he learned to meditate with it, get into alpha state for about 20 minutes, and awake feeling like he had slept for 8 hours.
#205—I was at an event once where I saw a woman who looked to be almost my age and she was with a 30-something man and they had a baby between them. They looked very happy. More power to them.
But I think TV takes that idea and runs with it because it’s so unusual. That’s all I’m saying. The Flying Nun was also based on a real nun somewhere who could glide for a while when the wind picked up.
I’m just asking questions. Don’t take it personally!
219 ah Ha! Sha Na Na and a head full of the bad brown acid created
Rushbo… the truth has finally outted.
Jim Ward, my eternal hero and mentor. He does a beautiful Harry Reed!
#218: my apologies. I meant that he re-introduced it into the majority public consciousness while trying to show everyone how big his junk was.
The Ennio Morricone is perfect for Harry Reid! Awesome choice, Steph & Mooks!
#207—Wow. That’s sad. I also don’t like Vicodin too much. I’ll take it after a root canal but then switch to Ibuprofen ASAP.
I’m sorry you have to live with chronic pain. That sucks.
Have you ever tried sleeping on one of those sheep wool mattress covers?
I heard that they help those with fibromyaligia sometimes.
#208—I’ll watch Desperate Housewives sometimes. Only sometimes.
would you try ayahuasca ?
in a spiritual ceremony, designed to achieve deep insight and wisdom
may provide limited telepathy… but you must be morally pure
before doing it…
#216—-LOL! Another science breakthrough!
#216: wonder what kind of study they ran.
230 — right up there with “Columbus discovers the clitoris”
anyone remember Tina Fey doing her nasty old chain smoking
Cougar bit with Amy Poeler on the SNL Weekend Update? It
was great, she become so gross for just a minute. Love that
girl almost as much as Momma
#230 That’s why this cougar thing is a new phenomenon.
222 Spiff, TV pisses all over EVERYTHING don’t it?
64 more posts to go! IT. CAN. BE. DONE.
Spiffy, it’s in pretty good control now. Three or four years ago I was miserable with it. I’m comfortable perhaps 85-90 per cent of the time.
But continous pain, even mild and at a low level, works on you and wears you down.
I can understand how some people get in over their head with painkiller meds.
If you’re not in pain, be thankful. Thank God for that condition.
Goose!
#232 “right up there with “Columbus discovers the clitoris”:
And not realising that the Vikings & Chinese had discovered it before him!
Don’t forget about the GOP KY Gov. candidate Steve Nunn who shot and killed his ex-girlfriend who had a restraining order against him for violence and stalking
It’s understandable that RAPEublicans are concerned about Obama’s overexposure, everytime he speaks publicly, his poll numbers go up and a huge majority agrees with him.
I often go to Snopes to check out the latest Republican talking points.
239 — So true. (though I’d be surprised if the Vikings actually knew…)
“Columbus discovers the clitoris”
– whut? are you saying that’s not True? the boy in the boat, yeah,
1492… also cigaretts for after…
#240 Ex-girlfriend? She wasn’t family, so you can’t accuse him of trampling on family values.
I was surprised to see Jon Hamm (Don Draper in Mad Men) out of character in that Funny Or Die bit.
“Obama’s over-exposure”?
The Republicans are still parading Reagan’s corpse through the streets.
Dr Barry Fell “America B.C.”
“They All Discovered America”by Charles Michael Boland
“Ancient American Magazine”
etc etc etc etc
pre-Columbia contact was not isolated; the oceans
were highways not barriers
as far as the clitoris goes many men haven’t discovered it yet…
243 the number one Viking implement found at the remains of
their settlement at L’Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland… the lice comb
Near the end of his career, anatomist Matteo Renaldus Columbus published an anatomy, called “De Re Anatomica,” announcing that he had discovered the clitoris. It was a revolutionary discovery, for European men, at least.
248
Stan found it eventually.
250 — this was 1546 A. D., in Padua
#233—I agree. Tina and Amy are two talented dames.
Cheer up Mama, Anthony Edwards may have had the bigger career, but you still have your hair (and it’s gorgeous)!
252 — He was Paduan, but he was not a Jedi.
*snrk*
I miss Mike Monroe!!!
Empowering Kenyans with running? Busting down those sterotypes.
247: That’s true, and nicely put, hanging from the back of a Ford Pinto, I might add!
Nick, absolutely on RR. He’s so over fondly remembered! In reality, RR may have been stupider that GW, but he could read a teleprompter and look presidential.
Screw the Repubs whining about Obama’s exposure. It’s precisely what is needed and he should have started sooner.
Hey liveblog, you’ll never reach Sparta if you don’t post.
256 — Though he was right to ditch McConnell!
who the F!@#$K WAS this ‘Columbus’ anyway?
you think you know. Hey, he signed his name “Xpo Ferenz”.
no one really knows what country he came from. He may have
been Maltese. do the google you’ll be surprised. And how did
he know where he was going? Basque pilots maybe? guys who had
already been there fishing?
go read Dr Barry Fell about the Ogam script. Fascinating. Like Momma
I love pop culture references that only I get!
#234—-It’s just like heart disease and heart attacks in women. Researchers never included women in their studies of heart attacks because they assumed that only men experienced stress in their lives.
Male doctors and male medical professors must be kinda dumb overall.
Tina and Amy… a couple of the Best. I bet palin round with
those two and Momma would be a hoot. A drunken, possibly
w/legal entanglements hoot.
I believe sparta is in the cards today. Unless you all clam up on us.
Ivan Louise: If they could have preserved him like Lenin they would have…and made it a required pilgrimage for any up-and-coming republicans.
Love Anthony Edwards. I was really sad when he left ER.
Spartans, get postin!
I asked my buddy in the bar the other night what he thought
Amish Porn was like. His reply “HOT!”
#260 Sorry, job was calling for the past hour. I even missed Anthony Edwards. Thank Dog for the Stephcast!
Amish porn? ankle-length skirts, right?
Amish Porn: “Oh yea! Oh yea!! I shall churn thee like butter!”
Has anyone at the U.N. heckled the President yet?
I didn’t think so.
GW was, above all, a COMPLETE EMBARRASSMENT.
is Momma a cougar?
Bowling ball situation! LOL!
Amish Porn 2: “Yea see how thou dost raise my barn!”
Mamma slays me.
old bar hound to me: “I sew clothes. Gimmie a call if you
Pop A Button sometime” [while handing me her phone number]
always nice to know someone is interested in you…
Amish Porn 3: “Get down on thy knees and pray, woman! Worship my manhood”
To have a cup hand grab on it, an ass needs to be pretty small..
Nick! on fire w/ the Amish Porn!
Verily!
I comfort my rod and staff..
#274—Worse than an embarrassment. Blind, unethical, immoral and a hypocrite. But he can clear brush with the best of them. A good farmhand all around.
Amish Porn 3: “I shall do ye with the lantern on.”
“The first time I had sex, I was terrified. I was alone.” -Rodney Dangerfield
271 Yeah, the ankle length skirt, the high collar, long sleeves…
best of all, a bonnet!
280 — sOh, your porn is not *for* the Amish, it’s *About* the Amish. There must be some of that around. I was trying to think what would be port *to* the Amish.
Republican Porn: Liberals die and 2 seconds later it’s over. “I’m sorry. That’s never happened before.”
i Just heard that Glenn Beck is supposedly speaking at Safeco Field this weekend prior to him recieving the key to Mount Vernon. One guy just told me he is going and they are predicting 40k peeps. SERIOUSLY. The fact that he is even coming to my state really irritates me to no end but now hes invading our sports arenas!!! He’s gonna leave such a stink on that stadium there will be no way the Mariners will win anything.
I still believe GWB’s reaction on 9/11 was the look of a man who just realized he was going to have to work at his job.
Glenn Beck porn: “Get me off with a phone! get me off with a phone!!”
#288 Porn for the Amish:
“let’s do it like it’s Rumspringa!”
286 great Rodney quote Ivan
don’t you hate it when you have one of those really intense
orgasms and you pass out and hit your head on the tile and
no one finds you for a couple days?
Duh! I just got the connection: AMY AMISH..
#262, Fell’s claims about the Ogham script have been thoroughly debunked. The guy was a loon and a fraud.
Oh We are Going to Sparta this morning.
SPARTA!!!! HA!!!
Portnoy’s Complaint: “I can’t hit the light bulb from here..”
I feel like SPARTAing again!
Smarta!
Sparta!
my buddy was obviously correct: Amish Porn: HOT!
300 Maddy! Congrats!
I always miss sparta!! I leave the page at always the wrong time.
Yea, madduane with the Sparta-tastic-ness! *bows*
288: Porn FOR the Amish? Hmmmm…well it wouldn’t be video since most don’t use ‘worldly items’ such as TV or a DVD. So…live in front of a studio audience?
Mad Duane, I acknowledge thy suprematude, and yield to thee.
I reveal my Inner Self (see posted photo) to thee.
and congrats to all of us for getting there, finally
Steph putcher panties back on, Hal isn’t going to do anything
I’m convinced that Hal Sparks never sleeps, so much energy!
Rumspringa!
#291—I think it was the reaction of someone who was scared.
I feel sorry for Mackenzie Phillips.
Nerk, nerk.. spartans again..
“I keep tryin’ ta think, and nothin’ happens” -Curly Howard
wow thanks for sharing, McKenzie Phillips… NOT!!!!
gross!
Remember the advert: you’re also sleeping with the last 10 people they slept with. So was Ack-Kensie seeing anyone ever?
309 — I think we have to enforce the rules, Mark. Get in that penalty box, you!
Thank you all for acknowledging my sparta! I promise to drink nothing containing HFCS from the Leonidas Cup™.
Curly Howard… did you see that movie? really sad
gotta love ya some Curly.
291: I think GW was wondering if his Presidential Diapers were packed. He looked like he soiled himself.
I’m thinking of a new diet plan. Read a chapter from MacKenzie Phillip’s new book before eating anything.
Sorry: “The person you’re also sleeping with…”
Fiji? don’t drink that water. Sure it’s nice water, but do
you know what it takes to get it here? in it’s plastic bottle
made from Oil? and then thrown in a landfill… can’t stand
seeing one-shot disposable water bottles filled with tap water
drank once… get bottle and refill it with filtered water, please
Stephie played a Nun
hee hee
It is a wonder that she didn’t kill daddy. run him through with a spear.
Boy, it’s been a rough morning. Molesting priests, Phillips’ book, and remembering GW Bush. Too many sad things all at once.
319 that would work. “I Just Threw Up in …”
#322, well he ran her through with one.
Papa John Phillips… roast in hell you molesting bastard
Mikey Steel… ah ha! dumbass.
BTW, there is no Elvis in Michael Steele. Just sayin’.
#325! Penalty Box! Now!!
One of my favorite sights from the Inaugration was a woman wearing a button that said “I voted for that one”.
328 — Nice Mojo Nixon Ref! awesome, Shaf!
322—people who have been molested are also dependent on their molesters. It’s a very complicated thing. Why didn’t Jaycee Dugard leave Garrido when she became an adult? Because they become psychologically dependent as a way to survive. Staying alive is priority #1 and any other normal thing one would want for one’s life falls by the wayside.
JC Watts’ own father said “A black man voting republican is like a chicken voting for colonel Sanderss.”
326—I’ll never be able to enjoy singing along on with Mamas & Papas songs again.
Anyone remember Amazon Women on the Moon? Black born w/o soul.
#334 Agreed.
Have a great day, y’alls!
see you all soon
have a great afternoon
#330—ha! That’s a good button!
OK bloggers, it’s been a morning. May all of us win the lottery today, just for fun!
Hey, we made it! A good day on the liveblog.
Love you Bloggoes!
Buh Bye!
Molesting in any form is sick sick sick. I can’t help but have nothing but contempt and raw hatred for the people doing it. I want to hurt them badly. Sons of bitches..
Well, you guys did it, full sparta with 10% overage. Can you dig it? I *knew* you could.
Don’t you ever change a thing, hasta manana, bananas!
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