LiveBlog for Tuesday, September 29, 2009
• Rep. Vic Snyder (D-Ark.) calls in at 6:05am Pacfic to talk about health care reform.
• Rep. Robert Andrews (D-NJ) calls in at 6:33am Pacific to talk about health care reform.
• The Obama administration is planning to push for new sanctions against Iran, targeting its energy, financial, and telecommunications sectors if it does not comply with international demands to come clean about its nuclear program, according to U.S. officials.
• The Senate Finance Committee today is expected to consider whether the government should offer its own insurance plan for the middle class in competition with private carriers. A public option is the top goal for Liberals, but it has no GOP support and moderate Dems say the Senate will never go along.
• In two cases, judges appointed by GOP presidents have refused at an early stage to dismiss lawsuits against former Attorney General John Ashcroft and former Justice Department official John Yoo. The lawsuits stem from law enforcement and intelligence efforts after 9/11
• The U.S. Secret Service is investigating a survey on Facebook that asked whether people thought President Obama should be assassinated. The poll was taken off the site quickly after Facebook officials were alerted to its existence.
Tags: Barack Obama, Facebook, Health Care Reform, Iran, John Ashcroft, John Yoo, Robert Andrews, Secret Service, Vic Snyder
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Good moanin’ Stephies! There is something funny going on wit my gasoline here. Although Chris can be a tool a times he is smart. This Iran thing is moving to fast for preturnatural. I think the Dinner Jacket wants the oil price back up so he shoots off some fireworks. What’s up?
Gooood morning all.
If the lovely Ms. Miller was actually reading this, I’d say.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, STEPHANIE!!!!
Maybe Hal will make a surprise visit and apply the appropriate spankings.
Goooood morning Paul and Bob!
I shall sing the Beatles version of Happy Birthday To You in honor of Stephanie!
Good morning, Jan!
How’s your wife doing, Paulie?
Fine today Jan, thanks. Just takes a little while to get going in the morning.
Boy howdy! I’m there, dude. I feel like the Tin Man. “OIL CAN! OIL CAN!”
Rained so hard last night I was getting soaked in bed. All of a sudden the window shade was out at a 45 degree angle. The window itself was only open about a foot.
Oh, so you had the wind, too. It was blowing like crazy here. Is it cold as hell where you are, too?
Not really. Normal 50′s this morning. It seems to have dried out a little though, not as humid. We had some mornings in the 30′s last week.
I wonder if the bad weather was the reason both cats wanted to be in bed with us last night. Lucky is usually content to stay in the living room, he’ll sleep on the bed during the day.
Bet that’s it. I don’t know about cats, but a lot of dogs I know hate heavy winds or storms.
Either that or the old guy is having jealous streaks when it looks like Cleo is getting the attention.
Paulie, I must sleep for a bit. I’ll miss the show again, but you’ll hold down the fort anyway. Bless you! Take care!
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Thanks for stopping by Jan. It’s so nice having you back again. I’m gonna have to pop off soon and do some work anyway. Just waiting for the engineer to get here and confirm the stuff is in the state it’s supposed to be.
Best wishes to Steph — celebrating her eighteenth year of being in her thirties.
From dListed: Birthday Sluts
Stephanie Miller (48)
Happy Birthday, Missus Steph,
Happy Birthday to you!
To make your birthday turn out good,
we give this present to you!
clap clap clap
clap clap clap
clap clap clap clap clap..
(What is Steph now, 29?)
Good morning fine fellow Mookenbloggsters!
G’morning, earlybird bloggers! I’m back from several weeks of intense work issues, about to take the plunge on the next deadline project, but gosh, I need the whiff of sanity and rational thinking I get here! Too many days spent in the Land of Fox & Fiends
We had the same Old Testament storm front move through last night, I could tell as soon as the cats scampered off during the first intense cell, then woke us up all night, purring like motorboats. They’re more reliable than Doppler radar.
Good Morning Board and Happy Birthday Momma!
She shares her birthday with:
Andrew Dice Clay (51), Silvio Berlusconi (72), Jerry Lee Lewis (73), Lech Walesa (65), Bryant Gumbel (60)and director Robert Benton (77).
It’s also the birthday anniversary of the late Greer Garson, Madeline Kahn, Gene Autry and Stanley Kramer.
Hi Juliet Bravo!
Are you wearing your bowler hat with dice hat-band?
BTW – Hello all!
Happy B’day, Steph!
#22 Nick, Never seen the series but I love Britcoms. I derived my handle from an aviation call sign
http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_sign#Aviation
Ah. Of course.
So…how drunk will mamma be this morning? Think she got an ‘early start’?
Well, radio for the radio. So to speak, since my lame-o radio station dumped the progressive format for “sports” suddenly a couple of years ago and I now have to stream.
#27: yeah. one of ours in Boston switched to salsa & the other has a pretty weak signal…plus they only play teh last 2 hours of mamma. How dare they!
Happy Birthday Stephanie!
Thank you for all you do!
You are a Goddess of Wit Beauty and Humor!
Phew! The dulcet tones of Wild Thing! Did anyone else hear Peter Coyote narrating Ken Burns’ National Parks special and have a Steph Stream ad flashback??
Sorry but after “Baseball” Ken Burns makes me want to cut of my head and play football with it.
When it’s time to relax..
Miller stands clear (beer after beer)..
It’s Miller Time
OMG Sarah Palin’s book is titled “Goin’ Rogue”? Hah!
Steph a goddess; Jim a voice diety; Chris the prodigal son..
What we have here is the Holy Trinity of Talk Radio!
casting a paul over the show so soon ?
Thirty-eight? You’re almost bucking a half-century Steph!
Momma is 38…. calculated in base 12 or something….
#35: >groan<
Or maybe Steph is doing the Benjamin Button thing.
’38 was the year she was born.
1: that’s a great idea for a porn star award – the “moanin’ stephy”
Flom what would the award look like?
the kids love Stephanie
she’s got such Maternal instincts… NOT!
Good morning everyone!!! Happy birthday Mama!!! Cake, ice cream, and box wine in the penalty box for everyone…
Wait… these aren’t balloons… OK, Mark, TR, Flom… who decorated the penalty box with blown up condoms??????
42: wow, it really has been a while. let me check.
Mornin’
44: were they chinchilla ? some of mine are missing.
42 the ‘Moanin’ Stephie’ is in the form of a wine box shaped
statue given to the porn actress judged to have the most
convincing performance in a porn film that includes midgets…
48: greatest trophy format since hitler gave a jew de garland of yellow stars.
Morning bloggers!
“porn actress judged to have the most convincing performance”…that in and of itself would be a challenge.
49: okay, i realize that was sort of camp, but i have no concentration.
44 it just seemed appropriate
how do you like the life sized cardboard Keith Olbermann cut out?
hee hee Steph has a bridal trail at the compound
51: randi rhodes auditioning for xanadu might work.
chinchilla condoms… they just feel great to put on
Beaver alert! Mel Gibson to star in some kind of angry beaver
movie, Jodie Foster to direct
Did Stephie just say she’s got an oily taint?
OK why is Jim suddenly sounding like Skiper from the Penguins of Madagascar?
The whole “bipartisanship” delusion drives me bonkers. It reminds me of seeing a patient, reasonable, caring parent completely dominated by a bratty, foul-mouthed, crotch-kicking kid who has no boundaries or self-control in pursuit of whatever goal (candy bar, toy, whatever) they’ve locked their sights on?
The current Republican party is having one ginormous tantrum, they couldn’t care less about health care or anything else beyond keeping the current corrupt system in place.
Brilliant bit, Jim!
53… life size cut out of keith? What life size cut out?? **walking backward from penalty box with cut out haphazardly hidden behind back**
#57 LOVE Skipper from the Penguins of Madagascar (voiced by Tom McGrath)!
33 Sara Palin found someone to ghost write a book for her?
How long Oh Lord until she goes away?
I saw the 60 minutes interview with our general in Afghanistan – an impressive man. I think his idea that 500K troops would be needed there is probably quite accurate. The question is: why even escalate another war there? What’s the long term interest for the U.S.?
How many goddam wars do we need to be involved in?
what happened to the penalty box? It’s been defiled and pilfered…
Stephanie is the gorilla my dreams.
Sarah Palin’s ‘collaborator’ http://lynnvincent.com/
#63 we just got the hookers out and haven’t had time to really have a tidy
Oh, but you can’t forget Anita Ekberg in her prime:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_99e25pmd5c
Barbra’s new album is out today. I’m Happy!
How come I’ve never heard any mention of KO’s wife outside of this show? There doesn’t seem to be a record of her on the interwebs. Who sent Steph the angry email?
62 Stratfor just did an excellent analysis of the situation in
Iraq, Afghanistan and Iran, it’s too long to post here, I can
forward it to you if you like Ivan…
Happy B-day Momma!
Completely different topic: I just heard on KPHK Phoenix and advert for BA Loans offering, well, loans with potentially ‘no income verification required’. I’ve also heard the same thing from 1800eastwest!
What the hell?
Isn’t this strategy what caused part of the financial collapse?
57: it is because jim has earned a kudos for dredging up the obscure historical odditiy of alxander actually having a measure of success in afghanistan. – and a big fat greek kudos too, upon robobagpiper. – while i was stuck in listen-and-write-only mode yesterday, it evolved (i subsequently found), that the robobagster had gone and googulated some back-up for jim’s assertion that alexander had had some success in afghanistan. – and points thereof were argued with MDB…. as benedick of padua said, “enuff !”. the minor points dont matter so much. – i had been following the intercontinental legend (same as urban legend, but more widely known) that NOBODY invades afghanistan and comfortably lives to whisper of it. i tend to trust robobagpiper; he’s a researchy kind of guy. couldnt really have said the same for jim ward, but then, he also has that geico insurance against mucosic chastisement.
So it looks like we are starting another week of Countdown without Keith Olbermann. I think they must be testing replacements. That would be really unfortunate.
Yeah what is up with Keef?
66 you got the hookers out? they were sposed to be there for the
whole show
68 KO’s wife is hiding from Stephanie, she’s worried the Protection
Order won’t be enough…
It’s because KO doesn’t have a wife.. He has a woman he has lived with for over 10 years, but is unmarried.
Remember, KO dated Laura Ingraham prior to that..
63.. Sorry! The pre-bachelorette party got a little out of control… hope you don’t mind the bras on the ceiling fan….
63: “what happened to the penalty box? It’s been defiled and pilfered…”
my blonde. i was attempting to deify and filter it, so that it would be more wholesome, maybe even a good influence. i can haz spelling lessons ?
I know Keith has mentioned his dad being in the hospital. Maybe that’s the reason.
It’s also 60 years of Chinese Communism today. Wonder how the shallow-end-of-the-gene-pool republiterrorists will spin that and blame Obama.
66 / 75.. Those weren’t hookers… just bachelorette partiers who’ve had way too much tequilla!
#71 Nick, All the banks that are “too big to fail”, inlcuding BofA, are also heavily invested in the derivative market:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/28/derivatives-bailed-out-ba_n_300420.html
They remind of the gambler who keeps losing to the house but plays again anyway because he’s got to recoup his losses.
Anita Ekberg today….Donde Los YIKES!
Looks like she invested in a reverse “Picture of Dorian Gray” (or would that be Dora Gray?)
Her face shows the state of her soul today, while her images from the past remain as angelic, or vixenish,as ever, depending on your point of view.
65: i like that that even open up with all the stuff lynn vincent was doing before even becoming a ghost writer. very impressive versatility. i guess they needed somebody lynnvincible to hear sarah palin’s voice as dictator. that just may make this the scariest ghost-writing experience ever. in fact, wait until you encounter the vincent price.
I think KO’s father is very sick. He just lost his mother a short time ago.
Health insurance companies would love Logan’s Run world where everyone dies at 40.
#82 oh I’m not blaming the people wanting the loans at all. And the derivatives “ie gambling” are definately the problem.
I work in the financial ‘world’ and just can’t believe that trading derivatives is allowed.
67: thank you DTM. at least now, i understand the inspiration behind the youtube’s “whack-a-kitty”.
C’mon, show of hand from those of us who love our health care… **crickets** Anyone? Anyone? Bueler?
#84: no the scariest ghostwriting was Ron Goulart for William Shatner. It meant Shatner was even more over-exposed.
76: ah, yes, laura ingraham…. womankind’s answer to ann coulter.
72 I’ve been researching ezackly that: what is the view of historians
on Alex in Afghan? Did he win or not? Sogdiana and the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom did exist for quite a long time after Alexander… some
say Alex won, some say he lost. I’ll give this one to Peter and
agree that Alexander did win in Afghanistan… but he had to
commit mass killings to do so.
The real point is that it’s a horrible place to fight, we have
no coherent objective, our strategy is flawed, we are losing,
and we likely will lose [since we can't define victory] and we
should leave now instead of leaving later having squandered more
blood and treasure…
i dont remember it being a question.
Hiya, Bloggoes!
Happy birthday Steph and good morning bloggers! I brought a present, now where’s my ice cream?
#86: Last day Capricorn. Now is the time for Carousel. Now is the time for Carousel.
Hey Steph. It is my birthday today as well. Childless losers unite! Happy birthday =)
I thought Logan’s Run sent you to carousel at 30?
Also, Chris Hayes put a pretty understandable explanation of the 5 programs in the bailout up over at the nation last week. A good, understandable read~
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20091012/prins_hayes
77 the bras on the ceiling fan are fine, but who’s panties
are these… I know Stephie doesn’t own a pair
86: “Health insurance companies would love Logan’s Run world where everyone dies at 40.”
KO: …. because of the metric system ?
WILLIAM F NOLAN: check out the big brain on affleck insurance !
the metric system ! that’s right ! you a smart m—–f—– !
(it used to be 30 years.)
Vamping ! Steph’s been vamping for us
Biden should let everyone know that if he becomes president by assassination, he really will take their guns, and send the black helicopters after people, and unleash the UFOs, and let those little gray guys do whatever they want to your ass.
This morning I had the realization that I have lived through the height of Euro-American Civilization. We had some pretty high-up highs, but I think we may have turned a dark corner. It’s like that scene in Walker (Alex Cox, not Chuck Norris) where they run into that totem thing in the jungle… We’ve seen our jungle jinxer & now things are slowly unravelling…
Oh, and Happy Birthday, Steph!
99: the greatest thing about being so blue is that i never seem to be cott blushing.
102: purgatoryzz yes ! both sane and insane people would believe biden. he makes everything sound credible. as christopher walken wore the horrifying sweater for the “three little piggies” reading, so doth biden wear his entire demeanor. i like it. he can and will say anything with a straight face and be believed. biden truly is walken on ornge sunshine.
Check out Huffington Post. Steph has been nominated several times for their Great American Liberal Women calendar.
Time for FCC and Congress to step on news standards and radio licensing.
Repeal the Telecommunications Act.
he should not a have gived that away. they thunk it was funny.
99… ooops… I didn’t realize the cut out of keith was fake… I was JUST trying to get his attention… yeah, yeah, that’s it…
I heard that there’s a good possibility that the Kentucky dealybob was a suicide… PErhaps we need more information before we go flyin’ offa da handle???
102 I like it!
103 I have the same feeling… we’re past our top, it’s the
long slide down now, the tipping point was a while back.
The center of world power/wealth/information/banking is making
the jump over the pacific… it jumped from Holland to London
back in the 1600s, London to New York about 1920, New York/Boston
to LA/Silicon Valley in our lifetimes, now it’s going on farther
west over the sea… places where it’s gone and usually left
shocked, pessimistic, wondering what the hell happened… look
at Detroit, one of the world’s great wonders, now a shell, a husk…
109: no harm done. the pants cut-out for novelty photos was getting a bit over-used anyway.
what ? i didnt say your name, dan.
what ? i didnt say anything about the color of those hairs.
what ?
Happy Birthday ol’ lady!
107
Unfortunately, FCC has little to do with Fixed Noise. Besides they’ve already been given the go-ahead to lie in court.
112… LMAO!
American Thinker Nov 3, 2008-
“No matter who wins Tuesday America is going to be a different country.
When the sun rises on November 5, regardless of who the president-elect is, a more un-United States than has existed since the Civil War will wake to dispute the results of the disgusting campaign that has mercifully come to an end.
Whoever the losers, they will believe they were cheated, and will point fingers at those they believe responsible. Almost half the nation will view the winner as illegitimate, and will do everything in their power to undermine his authority as long as he’s in the White House.”
Talk about a self-fulfilling prophecy.
“i’ve allowed plenty of the redskins to live in my 1765 massacres ! – how can this democrat party pollute turtle island with racism ! – i am shocked ! shocked !” – george washington
104 damn blue people… my girl ran off with the Blue Man Group
109 Dani you scamp!
110 The census worker in Kentucky died of asphyxiation, he was
bound with duct tape at hands, wrists, arms, ankles, he was gagged…
it does not look like suicide to me
kinda like the death of Johnny Rosseli, just before he was
scheduled to testify to the US Congress on the death of JFK:
found in a 55-gallon steel fuel drum floating near Miam.
strangled, shot, legs sawn off…
116: Talk about a self-fulfilling prophecy.
i just know those doritos are going to keep calling me until i load up the backseat and get them to calm down.
i just know it somehow.
Vote for momma for the Great American Liberal Women Calendar:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/28/help-make-a-liberal-women_n_301885.html
118: “kinda like the death of Johnny Rosseli, just before he was
scheduled to testify to the US Congress on the death of JFK:
found in a 55-gallon steel fuel drum floating near Miam.
strangled, shot, legs sawn off…”
okay, but you may recall that that too was ruled a suicide. DUH !
This one time … at Vamp Camp …
118 — His hands were bound with duct tape, but not bound together. The letters “FED” scrawled across his chest were scrawled in felt tip marker. This was a single father, probably in debt, working 2 or possibly 3 jobs and just barely scraping by. Maybe he did this to himself, trying to make it look like a political murder, so that his family could get insurance money?
121: no, MDB. dont even try.
fact is, the prosecutor didnt have a leg to stand on.
Morning, all. The butt, it doth drag this morrow.
119- But then my upholstery gets all covered in sticky orange goop.
Anyone see the comercials that air in az on MSNBC, during rachel & keith, about stopping healthcare and how Obama is giving it to illegals as they cross the border? They show several men women & children walking thru the border?? I would think if they actually had a film crew there filming that footage they should have arreste3d them… no? Just sayin
122: one time at van camp’s you put pork-n-beans WHERE ?
123 — If I’m wrong, fine… I’ve never had a problem with that, but I do think there may be more to this story.
125: ummm…. stephy has a quarter century on you, and coins from around the world can be authenticated by the calibrated bounce off her butt. get thee in gear. you are young yet. just focus on how some day, these will actually be “the good old days”. good moanin. (and please see post 72.)
New Yorker article on the Dreyfus case in France in early 1900s
the famous J’acuse! case
had this to say that is verrrry germane re the Rethugs today:
“In any modernized country, the backward-looking party will always tend toward resentment and grievance. The key is to keep the conservatives feeling that they are an alternative party of modernity. (This was Disraeli’s great achievement, as it was, much later, de Gaulle’s.) When the conservative party comes to see itself as unfairly marginalized, it becomes a party of pure reaction, which is what happened to the French right after Dreyfus. Instead of purging the anti-Semites, people on the right decided to rally behind them. They came to hate the idea of the Republic itself”
from Trial of the Century
by Adam Gopnik New Yorker Magazine
no matter what becomes of obama, biden should be declared VP for life.
it’s an awesomeness thing.
Apparently, the “fire in a crowded theater” bit is wrong, that was from the dissenting opinion – the restrictions on speech are actually more narrow than even that.
#130, sadly, Steph had only 9 years on me.
127 – I’ve got a banner at the bottom of the liveblog here-
“Government-run health insurance risks disrupting the coverage 160 million people already have.”
“Learn more at nchealthreform.com”
The website is run by NC BlueCross/BlueShield, my provider.
Glad to see my premiums are going to a good purpose.
shot twice in the back with a shotgun while hanging by the neck
with hands cuffed behind back, stabbed 20 times and gargling
Drano… ruled suicide… open and shut case
#136, “fell down an elevator shaft onto some bullets”.
I love Mystery Men. Totally underrated movie.
Has anyone noticed that “ORLY” is text-speak for “oh really”?
Kinda fits.
Chris just loves yelling “Cock!”
Stephie likes saying it almost as much a bark park or Cheyboygan
or Guy LaFluer… speaking of which where is the Guy LaFluer cut
out from the Penalty Box?
Chris loves cock. Well well well…
Jim’s Queen Skank-Biscuit
137 — One of my favorites. Amazing dialogue, which was apparently being rewritten constantly as the film was being shot.
That boggles my mind. Janeane Garofalo was brilliant!!!
randy little tart…
Stephy in the SUV with Boxwine
Laaa! Laaa!
#131, Mark, Love Adam Gopnik, thanks for the quote, I’ll dust off my New Yorker and read the rest
Roger IS a hedgehog, possibly the one stalking Dinsdale Piranha (he feared he was being pursued by a giant hedgehog named Spiny Norman “twelve foot tall from snout to tail”):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinsdale_Piranha
Doesn’t… hold… a… candle… to… Shatner’s… version!
Wow that was bloody awful Beatles cover
why are france and poland even fighting over a roman ?
pasta la pizza
Roman wasn’t convicted, he plead guilty, and the judge accepted the plea, but reneged on the terms of the plea bargain. THEN Roman fled.
Roman Polanski prediction — This will all get cleared up and in the end, he’ll be making his next movie in Hollywood.
145 the article on Richard Holbrook is required reading
to fathom the Obama policies on Af-Pak
I think it’s the October New Yorker
Lissen, Polanski was not “convicted”. He pled guilty, was trying to plea-bargain to his 42 days in psychiatric prison, and the judge apparently wanted to throw out the plea-bargain and sentence him to send a message.
Stephie you tease
Where do you apply for the pool boy gig?
Technically, Chris, Polanski had agreed to enter a guilty plea in exchange for an agreed-upon sentencing recommendation. Normally the judge adheres to the plea agreement but is not technically bound, and Polanski heard that the publicity-swayed judge was going to reneg on the deal and give him a much lengthier sentence. ( I think it was the same judge that let Dominck Dunne’s daughter’s murderer off with an unconscionably brief sentence.) I believe Polanski was convicted “in absentia” after he scarpered.
Dinsdale Piranha
Great
Monty
Python
Ref!
#138: She should marry Billo, then she’d be Orly O’Reilly.
Spiny Norman and Savage Henry were never seen in the
same room together… coincidence? I think not.
The Jingle Ball at the Michigan Historical Museum… ad just on
my radio… Cockle, Jingle Ball, Hedgehog… it’s all too much
It’s too bad the Queen’s speech came too late to be replayed in hour three.
You’re not just fine, you’re So Fine, Momma!
There is an Internet rumor I just started
that Stephanie Miller has Alien Hand Syndrome.
First diagnosed in 1966, it’s also known as Dr.
Strangelove’s Disease.
Or is that Alien Vagina Syndrome that Steph has?
birthday mash notes? prolly a good idea…
Good news on the media (and all industry concentration) front – looks like the FTC is going to be using the old formula for calculating market concentration. This means very few new mergers will survive scrutiny, and many old ones may get revisited.
I’m tired of being referred to as a ‘market’. I feel that I’m more of a convenience store.
162 — I said that before I saw 161
I know you all are composing extra special mash notes now…
I found and read the F@#* The South essay. It really is funny. You should Google it.
Isn’t “Going Rogue” a really disingenious title for a book by the VP candidate who, um, helped her ticket LOSE the election by going rogue? Kind of like saying “If I had to do it all over again – say in the next presidential election – I wouldn’t change a thing!”
#167, speaking as a Southerner, I wish to God someone would f@#* me!
#168, I think Palin is too delusional to be disingenuous.
162 164 165 hee hee
I’m always writing mash notes to Momma, but then tearing them up…
I doubt Palin picked the title “Going Rogue”. It was probably the publisher, who also hired the ghost writer. Palin probably hasn’t even seen the SNL skit the title refers to.
I picked the wrong day to quit __________. [fill in the blank]
172 Steph is calling her autobio “Goin’ Commando”
#131. I must be such a nerd. For anybody who saw me in 2005 (?) for that biggest anti-war march on D.C., my sign was almost completely in French. On the front it says (for the benefit of French TV), “An American Says: M. Le President, J’ACCUSE!”
On the back it says, “La VERITÉ est en Marche et RIEN ne l’Arretera!”
Both from Zola of course, regarding the Dreyfus Affair.
#172, doesn’t the title come from a leaked comment from McCain aides?
#173 Looks like I picked the wrong day to quit watching Lloyd Bridges movies.
I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again:
People convinced in the supremacy of the white race are ALWAYS its sorriest exemplars.
178 — like, by definition, eh?
Olympia Snowe is in charge because Obama has a bipartisanship fetish.
The trigger is designed to never be pulled. The trigger goes off when there’s no plan less than 13% of median income. But government subsidies increase long before it gets to that level. So the rates rise, the subsidies rise, the insurance companies get a bonanza on taxpayer dollars, and the trigger condition is never invoked.
It’s a goddamned fraud, Chris. A triggered public option is NO public option at all.
The glaciers are melting faster than the healthcare overhaul.
I picture our health care system in the back of an ambulance, and the GOP blocking the road sayin’ “what’s the rush?”
Wow, I should be Toles or somethin’.
175 Vive La France! Vive La difference!
#173: Looks like I picked the wrong day to quit __________. [fill in the blank]
Stephanie Miller!
I see Stephie’s lookin’ Fine in her Morticia Addams outfit for
her birthday… though she did mumble something about wearing
her Birthday Suit later…
Looks like I picked the wrong day to quit doin’ the snoopy dance!
#187 Unless you’re allergic to cartoon dogs, there’s never a right day to quit doin’ the Snoopy dance.
If I had youtube access, this is where I’d have a link to Xander doing the Snoopy dance in an episode of Buffy The Vampire Slayer.
Happy Birthday Mama! Don’t let the wingnuts get you down today. You rule the land of misfit toys, progressives with heart, and irrational optimists, don’t forget. We love you and your handbasket ride!
Steph,
Roses are red
Violets are not
If it weren’t for the dogs
You’d be smokin’ hot.
Olympia Snowe is a typical out-of-touch politician who only hears people with money. They are her dog-whistle.
I think my poem came across meaner than it sounded in my head! Sorry. ;(
Steph –
I love you period
Do you love me question mark
Please please exclamation point
I wanna hold you in parentheses
OK, I stole that, but you know what I mean…
Who did the flute work on “One Night in Bangkok”? Sounds very Ian Andersontastic.
K to the G,
I thought Olympia Snow was one of the better conservatives. Was I wrong?
Happy Birthday Stephanie Miller!!!
195 — It’s all relative. It’s important to remember that “conservative” is the operative term, and that “better” is simply a modifier.
PeterW,
Are you a Jethro Tull fan?
I did the “arena rock” thing in the 70s and early 80s and Jethro Tull was one of the most memorable. Fantastic. Great music and a huge show.
I can’t believe it’s not health care.
Triggers never shoot.
The GOP will just fight like hell then, just as now.
#198, I am fond of the Tull. Especially some of their folksier stuff. When I’m a better flautist, I’m totally doing the one foot thing on stage once in a while.
/probably on “The Song of the Lower Classes”, to the tune of “Star of the County Down”
195. That’s her crafted image, but she votes party line, which is the only thing that matters. She has been being wined and dined heavily by insurance industry of late, HEAVILY.
Roy Rogers had Trigger stuffed.
Jus’ sayin’.
Why not just unplug the damn thing?
>> madduane
>> 195 — It’s all relative. It’s important to remember that “conservative” is the operative term, and that “better” is simply a modifier.
Are you old enough to remember when there where Republicans that Democrats could support? Honorable conservatives who voted their conscience and for the betterment of America? (don’t ask me to name any! But I remember they existed.)
Ally Sheedy was so hot in that film.
Nobody wants nucular weapons, they don’t do anything. Nuclear is the way to go.
Everyone claiming Iran is seeking a nuclear weapon in DIRECTLY contradicting the US National Intelligence Estimate.
hey, i got an email from Barack Obama today! He closed with:
“I share the sense of urgency that millions of Americans have
voiced. I watched as my ailing mother struggled with stacks of
insurance forms in the last moments of her life. This is not who
we are as a Nation; together, we will fix it.”
Hope, baby, hope.
PeterW,
I can’t really claim to be a huge Tull fan — I owned “Thick as a Brick” and maybe one other.
But I loved them live. About as good as I remember Arena Rock being and I saw many of the big-name acts back then.
Those where the days when an average kid with a little disposable income could afford big-name shows.
178 the character Maynard from Pulp Fiction… “It’s Maynard. The spider just caught a new fly”
archetype of the white rascist trash Xenophobe
>> Amy Outside of DC says:
>> Nobody wants nucular weapons, they don’t do anything. Nuclear is the way to go.
Isn’t “NuClear” a pimple cream? I’m confused.
HAPPY B-DAY MAMA!!!
You have something even better than marriage. You have all of our unconditional love –
Plus you don’t have to share the remote with us or smell our farts or listen to us snore.
And, even better, you have a job where you get to laugh and get paid for it.
THAT’S THE SWEET LIFE!
#210, no kidding about the ticket price.
Last arena show I went to was the Stones, about 5 years back. $300 for row 14 seats (what I had). Even nosebleeds were like $85.
194 I bet that’s a synth on the Night In Bangcock song… the
same thought occurred to me, Ian Andersonish flute noise, I like!
PeterW,
Wow. I did a quick Google — back in the 70s we paid $16 bucks! WITH taxes!
Even adjusted for inflation, that was affordable.
214 — and that’s why rock n roll isn’t rock n roll anymore. It’s society music, not music for rebellious kids.
201 Songs From The Wood
Heavy Horses
love those albums!
#215 One Night in Bangcok is from the musical Chess, so it’s probably the stage band flautist.
I saw a young up coming band last weekend, no cover,
kids dancing… “Macrame Tiger”… they wrocked!!!
music is not dead in Detroit, in fact it’s Huge!!! HUGE!!!~!
Steph and the mooks are really missing the Sheboygan boat this week. I can’t believe there’s no news out of there – no alcohol-fueled shenanigans? No inappropriate sexual remarks by local politicians, not just overheard but posted on the youtubes? No public humiliation or groveling apology?
Really? Nothing?
[cricketsssss]
220 — the kids at that show — did they seem like outsider freaks to you? were they doing anything besides going with the pop culture flow?
221 — PJ, is there something we’re missing? Clue us in!!!
Great flute in “Cross Eyed Mary”… Wine Drunk Stephy… oh Momma
you DO have our undying love and affection, best wishes, lust,
fond thingys, regards, respect… well, mebbe not respect
Happy Birthday Steph!
#215, I’ve also heard it claimed it’s a shakuhachi (Japanese end-blown flute), not a Western transverse flute.
My favorite flute solo is on “Momma Told Me Not To Come.”
it’s so whimpy you have to wonder if they were totally stoned while recording an anti-drug song!
222 uh, they were smoking extremely powerful marijuana out of
a cinnamon stick, drinking lots of booze and dancing crazy… but
they were not protesting the war, fighting for civil rights,
burning their draft cards, doing any community organizing, if
that’s what you mean… but they were making some very cool music,
which is what I was impressed with. I wanna see art harnessed
for political change in this country
The flute solo that stands out to me is “I Saw Her Again Last Night” — so out of tune and cheesy.
Here in Portland there is a steady stream of national acts coming through at reasonable ticket prices.
But, they are very obscure or total has-beens.
Nevertheless, it can be pretty great.
Anyone remember “John Doe” from the band “X”?
I saw him last year and he is doing fantastic solo work. I think he is now my favorite male-artist in the “singer songwriter” category.
227 izzat in the 3 Dog Nite version or someone else’s??
Love the flute in Spill The Wine… Hot Flames of Fire roaring
up my back…
The best B-list rock act I’ve seen were the (post Jimmy Vaughan) Fabulous Thunderbirds. They were opening for BB King.
I only knew them from the radio hits. I had no idea they were a lot more Western Swing, Zydeco, and other Americana than pure rock. Liked it a lot.
BB, of course, was teh awesome.
Joe Bonemassa opened for the Fab T-birds. He was awesome too.
Stephanie Miller… ‘unglaublich Trunkenheit’
Sara Palin… “Our Little Poison Dwarf”
230 — John Doe’s solo stuff is pretty uniformly awesome. Also a big fan of Exene’s band “The Original Sinners”. It’s pretty much an X knockoff, but who better to do that, and damn, but that first OS cd rocks!
228 — That sounds pretty cool. 13 is still outsidery stuff. But the fact is, it’s not gonna create any new cultural neuropathways at this late date. I keep looking for someone who’s having original subversive thoughts, coz to me that means the culture is moving forwards. Talk about crickets.
>> Mark drunken biker old paratrooper in Deetown says:
>> 227 izzat in the 3 Dog Nite version or someone else’s??
Yeah! Three Dog Night. I didn’t think anyone else would remember it!
You can’t be that drunk, yet.
143: “randy little tart…” – is she now ? – have you tried using butterscotch topping ?
Sony Rollins! like seeing Jimi Hendrix if he’d lived to be 70,
or like seeing Mozart… Sony Rollins was draggin’ that sax-horn
around the stage, doubled over almost like the shape of a “C”
I seen a lot of great shows that was one of the greatest
#223: http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&safe=off&client=safari&rls=en-us&newwindow=1&q=sheboygan+mayor+youtube+apology+remarks&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wn
150: “Roman Polanski prediction — This will all get cleared up and in the end,…”
– wowee. just like stephy’s rash.
We can’t bleach President Obama. See what it did to Michael Jackson?
All Obama has to do to counter the RW/corporate propaganda is show up and speak. Huge crowds every time. The wingers hate that. HA HA.
We could go with the Berlusconi plan and just say he has a really good tan.
Wasn’t George Bush totally plastered at the Olympics? That’s what I remember.
153: “Where do you apply for the pool boy gig?”
- provided you’re packing 11 in your side pocket, just go for it.
235 I’ve had to limit my intake of late, it was getting
out of hand. My liver was howling.
236 ummm… butterscotch topping…. on Momma…
Interestingly, Obama’s poll numbers only sank as far as they were on election day. All that happened was the post-inauguration honeymoon wore off – as it was expected to do.
BREATHE, Dick, BREATHE!
157: the real movie about them (“the krays”), has an excellent beginning. it will convert your future dreams to nightmares.
I think Dick Morris’ biggest problem is that bad guys keep getting a hold of his remote control.
>> madduane
It’s nice to meet another John Doe fan.
Most singer-songwriters are just a little so “sensitive” for me. But John Doe has a little heft to his acoustic music, probably borrowing from his punk days. Mostly, though I don’t here much “X” in his new stuff.
243 Bush… drunken chimpy… beneath contempt
244 rats! short-changed again
164: “I feel that I’m more of a convenience store.”
one more reason to love nick at nite. – that, and the time they ran a “what’s happenin” marathon with the screen-multiplied dancing fred berry, and the narrator’s line: “see more re-runs !”
248 I will google The Krays
#253 The Krays were twin brother crime bosses in England. I don’t know much details beyond they were very good at their job, people were terrified. And the accent helped their villany.
Cheney… he’s a Spherical Bastard, that is, a bastard no
matter what angle you look at him from
253 — best Spandau Ballet performance ever…
People are generally nicer to animals than other humans, a mascot might help.
Alien Hand Syndrome… Stephie keeps reaching for the wine bottle
no matter if she’s thinking about it or not
Steph is a Cougar now that she’s of a certain age
Has Steph had a real boyfriend since she started the show?
If so, she’s been pretty quiet about it. She had that date, once, with a vet or a doctor or similar and I think she briefly joked that he freaked her out a little.
The REpubliTARDS don’t understand because they are incapable of actually getting work done and not choking on a pretzel while watching football.
39 more posts. that’s all we need.
Drunken Stephanine Miller Fantasy #354: we’re modern day
Bonnie and Clyde until we get caught…
Happy birthday, Steph. It’s my wife’s birthday, too. You’re Irish twins – you’re exactly a year older than she is, but she prefers her wine out of a bottle.
Hey, on-air doofuses –
the guy who was talking about the Olympics being a great way to end Obama’s presidency was referring to the fact that the Olympics would be held in 2016, which will be the last year of Obama’s 2nd term.
How about a facebook poll that asks “Should America dump the Republican Party and join the rest of the civilized world?”
262 — You’re Serge Gainsbourg and Steph is Brigitte Bardot, right?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKfBJMIANsM
my pooer’s dad,
Nobody really believe Steph drinks wine out of a box, do they? Maybe when she wasn’t so fabulously successful!
That being said, there can be good box wine. A few reds, IMHO. But I kind of like cheap reds.
259 my theory is that Steph maintains her ‘availability’ the
same way a good barmaid does… it’s part of her radio persona,
keeps fanboys like us innerested/obsessed… always just out of
reach, seemingly attainable, but actually not. On a date she’d
prolly get way to drunk on the vino and just when you thought
you was gonna get lucky she’d throw up in yer lap and pass out…
I hate it when that happens
#264 You expect them to do math that fast? Are you new to the show?
looks like i picked the wrong week to remove the burning-man anti-sunburn sombrero.
Got my car inspected this mornin’ for license renewal. Damned thing failed because the oxygen sensor is broke. Grrrrrrr!
#198: Ian Anderson is touring again. I read somewhere that it was of the “unplugged” variety.
http://www.americansongwriter.com/2009/09/jethro-tull-give-you-one-more-chance-to-love-them/
Hey, one year closer to Medicare, Mama!
Name-calling Scott in Chicago,
It just bugs the hell out of us that conservative NEVER EVER ascribe good motives to Obama. EVER.
But if hotels are doing renovations, doesn’t that mean they are hiring people to do that work? Stimulating the economy?
266 Ha! thanks for that
Steph IS Brigitte Bardot! or Edwige Fenech even
267: Cheap reds or cheap redheads?
Where was that caller’s concern when Bush was taking all of his vacations during the first SEVEN years in Afghanistan?
276 — awesome song and video, eh? I was blown away the first time I saw it!
194: “I feel that I’m more of a convenience store.”
– that opera was essentially the composing half of ABBA expressing a surprisingly timeless take on cold-wars and other cyclic politics. – the ABBA sound especially shows during “nobody’s side” and “someone else’s story”.
Happy Birthday Steph!
Please, please, I can use some good Karma today. Anybody got some extra to spare?
Maybe Obama will bring back some good porn from Copenhagen to bribe the Rethugs with.
280: okay, sorry, that was a weird copy-and-paste failure. it was intended to refer to this question:
Who did the flute work on “One Night in Bangkok”? Sounds very Ian Andersontastic. – okay, NOW consult 280.
281 — nam myoho renge kyo
Drunken Mark,
An interesting thing about long-form radio shows is that radio talents try to create an image but the 3-hours a day, 50 weeks a year means they usually can’t really keep it up.
But, if Steph has had a boy friend(s) all these years, she’s done a great job of hiding.
271 Oh-Two sensor might be fairly inexpensive and easy to replace,
depending on make and model, and if you have the confidence to try it
272 I’d love to see Ian Anderson again, gonna have to look him up
Jim Ward channeling Cormack McCarty’s “The Road”… grimmest book ev-er
“I thought Olympia Snow was one of the better conservatives. Was I wrong?” – you were close. olympia snow is one of the butter preservatives. this is why fabio does so well in the alps.
The problem is we’re not used to “smart” yet after the Bush years.
Debate in the Bush adminstration? I don’t believe him. You can’t debate when you only employ staffers who will agree with you.
Let’s just hope while Obama is in Copenhagen he doesn’t try to walk through a locked door.
“Jim Ward channeling Cormack McCarty’s “The Road”… grimmest book ev-er”
but one of the best things I’ve read in a long, long time. Really looking forward to the movie adaptation, due in theaters about 2 1/2 weeks from now!
one night of hedgehog makes an olbermann grumble.
Another “flaming pile of dog poo, politically speaking.”
292 Cock!
277 ooooh snap! Cheap Redheads… that brazen hussy… gad what
a tigress
279 yes love that song and video, surprised I never saw it before
285 Stephanie and I lead a quiet life with our two daughters
Sophie and Sarah, she doesn’t even like wine but we do have
two dogs. The only thing is lately she’s been having this rich
fantasy life where she hangs out with these guys she calls her
‘Mooks’ and claims to be a celebrity… I’m worried about her…
Sparta?
291 Have you read Suttree? Greatest book I’ve ever read. You
feel like Ol’ Sut is your best friend you grew up with
295 — make her take the yellow pill.
also…
SSSSPPPPAAAAAARRRRRRRTTTTAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!
SPARTA!
Everyday is a good day to Sparta!
oooh! just a tad premature. Missed it by THAT much.
bracketed the Sparta
flombaye,
I can’t think of any Republicans who I respect — as long as they always vote in a bloc, and always “no” on anything that helps real working people.
But it wasn’t always that way, was it?
Skyhawk, you dog.
Skyhawk! A fine and effortless-seeming sparta!
cheers!
Skyhawk got more Leonidas cups on his mantel than anyone
254: “And the accent helped their villany.” – - – absolutely. this is robably what inspired the python line: “he didnt want to see doug. nobody wanted to have to see doug. i’ve seen grown men rip their own heads off rather than see doug.”
256: so true
geesh. who saw that one coming? nice Skyhawk!
Mark,
Oh, so YOU are Steph’s secret boyfriend! Cool! How can you stand the dogs? Or was “dogs” a euphemism for you?
308 —
298 good advice, thanks. The yellow pill it is
277: “Cheap reds or cheap redheads?” – by which method matrix be revealed ?
307 we understand he nailed your wife’s head to the coffee table…
Spandau Ballet was great but I think I preferred Bronski Beat from that era and genre.
#292: flomb, if Chris was really paying attention he would have corrected you already.
Damn, I KNEW I should have tried harder to stay in Mars ionospheres research.
313 does the collar match the cuffs? the rug match the
drapes? oh! tile is an ok look too
310 well, she denies it but…
297: “Have you read Suttree? Greatest book I’ve ever read. You
feel like Ol’ Sut is your best friend you grew up with”
crap which has been consecrated !! ol sut is junius maltby ?
Did anyone see “Cougar Town” last night with Courtney Cox?
It made me laugh a few times — which is more than most sitcoms.
303: abraham lincoln ?
Mama covers all the bases, Mars to D-List Slut. What a woman!
The problem with the Polls application on FB is that anyone can create a poll – and so it only takes one idiot to cause a scandal like this one.
Cougar Town made me think of momma. Maybe she can make a cameo.
323 — zackly. That polls app seems to be the domain of the raisin brains too.
porn-principled? changing sides? hello.
Repeal both the Bush and Reagan tax cuts.
#325, one of the many ones I had to hide. I find it annoying.
327 — and institute tarrifs. steep ones.
Schafly is still alive?
315: “Spandau Ballet was great but I think I preferred Bronski Beat from that era and genre.” – - – you must admit the whole excellent-musician-as-smooth-criminal thing just works well…. bowie in labyrinth / michael jackson asking annie if she’s oakley / mike nesmith as the penguin / maybe some day, a hanson brother as karl rove ?
Phyllis Schafly was smoking banana peels on the roof of the White House with Bill the Cat.
to see the great Americans in walmart:
http://peopleofwalmart.com
Skyhawk,
They tried to make Courtney Cox look aging but she looked pretty fantastic to me!
I think I saw the pilot which often is better than the actual series. I will try it again.
Schlafley cooties
330 — was she ever? Isn’t she a Stepford girl?
#333, I love that site.
http://peopleofwalmart.com
Just don’t spill any water on Phyllis Schafly.
316: “if Chris was really paying attention he would have corrected you already….” – clearly, it’s not always that easy to extract the “cock” from chris’ vocal chords.
How many of you had never heard of ACORN before the conservatives started claiming it was the most powerful liberal organization in America?
I hadn’t ever heard of them.
Huck is leading the polls for 2012. Watch your squirrels!
cougars with alien-paw syndrome are just fun.
#339 or feed her after midnight.
People here in the Northwest are laughing at Mt. Vernon.
What about Hal, Mama???
Wait!!! I thought we were getting Momma a pony for her birfday
what happened to that
Sorry to miss sparta – congrats to SkyHawk, I yield to thee and reveal my inner self to thee.
Buh bye!
342 — I think the Mayans must have been Republicans, because I think that’s gonna be the end of them.
Bye all see ya tomorrow!
A few people here in Portland remember when Bill O’Reilly did the local news.
Apparently, he just LOATHED Portland and could not hide it.
Buh Bye, Bloggoes!
347: simple. just take away her knee-pads. and there are her po’ knees.
Bye, and play nice.
Bye all! Congrats to you Steph! Drink something worthy of your awesome self today!
353 oh Snap!
have a great aftershow