LiveBlog for Friday, October 2, 2009
• Rep. John Sarbanes (D-MD) calls in at 6:30am Pacific to talk about health care reform.
• Theresa Barrett from WCPT-AM in Chicago calls in at 7:05am Pacific to tell us about the atmosphere at the Olympics announcement at Daley Plaza in Chicago.
• Rep. Lois Capps (D-CA) calls in at 7:30am Pacific to talk about health care reform.
• Comedian John Fugelsang joins us via ISDN from our New York City bureau to talk about all things politics and pop culture.
• In a hometown pitch for the world’s biggest sporting event, President Obama yesterday lobbied Olympic leaders to give the 2016 Summer Games to Chicago, saying the U.S. “is ready and eager to assume that sacred trust.”
• Dems worked to smooth the impact of sweeping health care legislation on working-class families yesterday as they pushed President Obama’s top domestic priority toward a crucial Senate advance. GOP-ers are worried of a potential backlash against the penalty for people who decline to buy insurance.
• A CBS News employee is under arrest for trying to extort $2 Million from David Letterman, forcing the late night host to admit in an extraordinary monologue before millions of viewers last night that he had sexual relationships with female employees. The person who was arrested works on the CBS show “48 Hours” and has been suspended.
Tags: Barack Obama, CBS News, Chicago, David Letterman, Health Care Reform, John Fugelsang, Lois Capps, Olympics, Sarbanes
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Gooood morning all
Good morning, trojanrabbit. It’s cold and rainy here in Columbus. (And since I’ve answered that question, I guess I don’t need to call in.) But, somehow it doesn’t matter because it’s Friday.
Good morning shaf
Clear and cold (40) here in the Boston ‘burbs.
But you’re right, who cares – it’s Friday.
Good morning, mah peeps!
I’m really disappointed in David Letterman. I was hoping that he was one of those good guys who is faithful to his mate, but I guess that’s asking too much of anyone these days. A few women on Shannyn Moore’s Facebook page were trying to get me to admit it was “admirable” of Letterman to confess publicly and apologize, but my answer is: “Why should I admire someone who got caught cheating on his wife and then got blackmailed for it and then apologizes? How about I just admire the guys who DON’T cheat on their wives and actually love and respect them enough not to hurt them like that?” Call me old fashioned.
#4 I agree, Jan. True, there is honor in admitting your mistakes and apologizing. But, how about not committing the transgression in the first place.
OK Jan, you’re old fashioned. And there’s absolutely nothing wrong with that.
I will only point out that he was not married to his current wife until earlier this year (though they’ve been together a long time). A distiction without a difference, maybe. (or is that the other way ’round). Maybe she knew about it, maybe not. Probably not.
Meh – if he was one of those “family values” types it would bother me a lot more.
Cheating is still cheating, even if a legal tie doesn’t exist. I dunno. I’m not trying to be an insufferable prig here, but it just bugs me that people on our side of the arena can’t keep their morality straight. It’s like with Clinton and his affair—I didn’t think it was an impeachable offense, but he was a jerk and an idiot for cheating on Hillary and doing it in the White House. Dave should know better than to shit in his own nest, let alone to shit in his own nest after his faithful mate bears his son.
distinction = distiction.
how about a spell check for this thing
or maybe i should hope for a working brain
7
which is why I said distinction without a difference.
Unfortunately I’ve given up long ago any expectations of faithfulness in public figures.
good morning.
My buddy shipped out for Afghani yesterday, he’s been at some
army post for the last month getting ready. I love the guy, he’s
my bro, we served together, went through some tough things
together… he’s a fool. He’s bought this idea that he’s a Soldier,
and so he’s got to go.
He leaves behind a great job with a Fortune 500 company, making
boocoo bucks… two beautiful kids under 5 years old, and a smoking
hot tall thin gorgeous blonde wife. Dude, you are being played.
You are being used in an ignoble, evil, illegal immoral debacle
that will ruin two countries if not more. It’s not like you are
defending America. You are a servant of Empire, and it’s not
even the American Empire, it’s the Invisible Empire of the
Transnational Corporate Elite.
Yes, you will make Colonel for this. That will be great when
you don’t have family anymore. I hope it will be a consolation.
I’m sorry, I just hate to see this
Good morning early bloggers,
#4 Guess I’m old fashioned too. Hopefully he’s sincere unlike the non-apology apologizing republicans who get caught.
#6 Yeah, he didn’t go around telling others how to live their lives like the do-as-I-say-not-as-I-do republicans.
I am sorry too, Mark. May he be protected and returned safely home to his family.
I’ve been obsessed with these horrible ‘wars’ lately,
I’ve got friends in both of them… Obama can’t/won’t
end them… it’s hideous. I keep studying the Afghan
thing, looking for some way out, some way to win, something
hopeful. I’ve finally found it. We CAN win. We’ve just been
going about it all wrong. There is light at the end of the
tunnel. Here is a fool-proof, fail-safe winning strategy
for the Afghan war:
Use our strength against their weakness. They will be
no more ready to resist out kultcha than the indians
were to defend against a blanket full of smallpox.
Drop every rubber-boob’d hoor we’ve got over there.
Portable back-pack Meth lab, hookers and blow,
porno books, crack, ecstacy, Marlboros… it’s a
JUGgernaught that can’t be stopped. We want Afghanistan
to be like a mini-me version of us, send them that
which makes us us!
Sure they will Try to resist. The mullahs will fulminate
against our offensive. They can scream all they want,
but when they see those sluts in the push-up nippless
bras and crotchless panties they will be defenseless.
It can’t lose.
Thanks Jan, I hope his family is still there for him in a year.
The divorce rate is very high. The burdens of these wars are
heavy and are borne by a disproportionately small segment of
our population.
Well, I would like to think America is more than those assets.
If my Donald went away to war, I can’t imagine that I would want anything except for him to return to me safely. There isn’t anything that would make me give him up.
15 sure Jan, so would I. I hate to see it. But look around.
We are in the War business, that’s for sure. Nepotism is a
booming industry. We make a few cars still I guess. Corner-boy,
crack-whore, Enforcer, blackjack dealer, pimp, prison guard,
lessee, whut other jobs we got? Money Laundry is very lucrative
I understand. Lobbyist. Make money at home selling goods you
never hafta see or warehouse! I earned $5000 last week! NOT
G’morning, blog people!
#13 Mark,
You actually have a good point, if only because they are growing the opium over there and sending it over to our kids (and using the profits to buy guns to shoot us). A little cultural exchange, perhaps, is in order….
Good discussion on the Letterman kerfuffle. While the conduct he admitted to is tawdry, nevertheless he’s at least smart enough to know that his best weapon against extortion is coming clean and being honest about it.
16 I know, you’re a good person and you’d be faithful and wait.
But Dear John letters and Jody stealing your girl while you’re
gone is as old as the army. The Roman Legionnaires cried over
them. It’s a fact of life for the military. If we were really
defending America I’d say all the sacrifices were worth it,
only I see this thing as something entirely different…
Why’d the crucify Jesus on a Friday? They thought he had his
paycheck with him. Three-card monte on the Appian Way… sorry
now I’m just wandering. It’s Miller Time!
It’s Miller Time, y’alls!
18 part of the plan is to seal the Afghan borders. No op gets out.
We WILL help you refine it though. And Free Needles!
Momma you slut! Love that girl
thank you Dave Letterman! just come clean. Sure I did it! so what!
here is Detroit:
http://www.detnews.com/article/20090128/METRO08/901280491/Frozen-in-indifference–Life-goes-on-around-body-found-in-vacant-warehouse/?imw=Y
I love the place, we finally got another mayor who cares and is
competent, Dennis Archer was a good mayor and Dave Bing is trying
his best… Kwame the Hip Hop Thug was a disaster. Poor Detroit.
Robert Bobb is cleaning up the Detroit Public Schools, kicking
over rocks, kicking ass, taking names… people are going to jail,
finally.
Please…I haven’t had breakfast yet…No Ensign sex stuff, okay?
That prosecutor probably just doesn’t want to face charges of ethical misconduct now for having unethical ex parte discussion of Polanski’s sentence with the judge back in the day.
Republican Senator Johnny can’t-keep-his-dick-in-his-pants
Mr Moral Values Christian Living at the Foot of the Cross…
ah ha! leave him office. Let him be an example. Let the Rethugs
be shown for the amoral hypocrites they are, Marky Sanford.
I love Jim…in a platonic, admiring sorta way.
Ensign: Hey, she’s paid up through the end of this fiscal quarter!
26 oh don’t go to my link on Detroit Jan if you are trying
to have breakfast, sorry
Some say, Bill’O is an idiot.
What Letterman did was wrong but he came clean and it isn’t like he had an on going affair with your best friend’s wife or trumpeting how you raise your kids with ‘christian abstinence’ values and then fly off to Argentina or the Dominican Republic thinking nobody will notice.
I respect Letterman, at least he’s no hypocrite, he doesn’t
hold himself up as some kind of leader, or Christian, or moral
paragon… the Rethugs are beneath contempt. I really don’t
care much what they do in their private lives, but what they
are doing screws all of us… without grease
It’s all Chris’s fault, he’s not producing right!
I’ve always said Coulter was in it for the money…I now feel so justified. Whew.
Mornin.
Look…ultimately Dave’s going to have to answer to his wife. I’m not condemning him to any kind of hell for being a dog. His wife will do that.
Does it really make me any better if I don’t hold myself up as a paragon of virtue and morality, but I embezzle funds from my employer?
Rachel Maddow had a great segment two days ago about Rick Berman, the PR guy behind the corporate smear campaign against ACORN (who, by the way, was blowing the whistle early on about the NINJA loans which could’ve softened the financial collapse if people had listened sooner). Apparently ACORN’s sin was to register too many low income voters who will presumably vote Democratic (as Rachel phrased it, the average voter is whiter, older and richer than the eligible voter population).
Berman runs a bunch of websites that tout the virtues of transfat, high fructose corn sugar, meat, etc. and rail against evils like PETA (which kills animals) and MADD (which harshes yer buzz, man). He is allegedly scheduled to appear on Rachel’s show next week :-O
Emoticon trouble
A President who can multitask? Unheard of! (at least for the previous eight years)
38 yes, I think it does. If you admit your a whore and act
like one you are much better than someone who claims to be
some kind of high moral person AND you’re in a position of
power beating up on people for being less moral than you are
blah blah blah you get the idea
Hey General McChrystal you lying scumbag we don’t want perpetual
war and we don’t need it and Afghanistan is wrong and immoral
and evil and we’re going to lose anyway you warmongering bitch…
Mornin’ all.
Good morning!
I’m a long time listener and finally decided to join the live blog.
I’m wondering why we call it “Health Care Reform” instead of what it actually is, “Health Insurance Reform.” It seems to me that that one simple change of wording could really help deliver the message that those ingnorant (by choice, which actually makes them stupid) on the right.
Chris is so full of such good ideas… sell the NY bureau that
Stephie doesn’t even own to pay him off for sex they never had…
#44, McChrystal is a hammer. All he can see are nails.
He’s also a hammer who hangs out and gets advice from neocons.
Good to hear from you Jeremy
The Brunch With Bernie segment on Thom Hartmann’s show on
Fridays is great, Senator Bernie Sanders always articulates
the real issues of this Health Care thing in a simple, easy
to understand way that gets right to the heart of it.
The insurance companies sop up a third [a quarter?] of
all health care money for denying care. How hard is it
to understand? Spend that money on delivering care. Duh!
Welcome, Jeremy!
Sorry, we haven’t had a chance to pick the place up, it’s kind of a mess, and we have some odd customs (like furiously posting SPARTA! at post #300), but we’re good folks!
48 yes thank you Peter, you’re right, he just comes from
a mindset and worldview that leaves out any other way of
looking at things… he’s mentally committed to war, it’s
all he knows. Can’t blame him for being what he is. The
real prollem is in the Congress, where they are whores
to this evil Empire.
Maria Cantwell got a version of the public option passed as an amendment to the finance committee’s bill
If it says public option in the Senate, it is much easier to meld them together in the conference report.
Good morning, fine BlogginMooksterAmigos! Come state?
Hi Mark,
I do hear what you’re saying, and Bernie Sanders is the first senator that I’ve ever truly appreciated. But, he’s really preaching to the choir on that show. I listen, and I do love it. The problem is that the people who need to hear it aren’t the ones listening to different shows for a diverse opinion. They’re comfortable being told their opinion. So, I’m really wanting to start a movement of a verbage change because terms are able to get tossed around casually, and maybe it will help get some people a broader understanding.
It’s just a thought. People really are going to think what they want (or what their told).
Umm! Sorry… that last ” their” is supposed to be “they’re”.
Hiya, Bloggoes!
I can’t stay long today, there’s a lot of boxes to send out, but I’m here in spirit!
Boner and his idiotic garlic milkshake.. What an ignoranus.
#53, I see this going
HOUSE TRI-COMMITTEE: Strong PO
SENATE HELP: Mediocre PO
SENATE FIN: No PO
SENATE FINAL: Weak PO
HOUSE FINAL: Strong PO
CONFERENCE FINAL: Mediocre PO
In 3 years, with the PO a fait accompli, it’s strengthened to little fanfare.
What’s this miniature bra doing hanging from the ceiling fan in the penalty box? Can’t be mine – my moobies are too large for it..
#55, that, and a fencepost has more power in the Senate than Bernie has, sadly.
The healthcare insurance industry ought to brush up their complexity theory, which is best illustrated by a sand hill building up and up until it collapses under its own weight.
By raising premiums, which causes employers to drop benefits and individuals to drop their insurance, they shrink their base of customers and increase the number of uninsured people burdening the system with emergency room care for late-stage illnesses, That is the opposite of the theory underlying “insurance”, which is intended to spread the risk of loss across the widest group possible, and would lower premiums.
Happy Friday!
The newly marginalized Hannity is under pressure to be more radical. Between the rise of the Beck messiah and the Limbaugh gas bag sucking all the air out of right wing radio echo chamber, Hannity has been left behind in a cloud of teardrops and oxycontin powder.
#46 Welcome, Jeremy! That’s an excellent observation. Unfortunately, progressives lost the opportunity to frame the debate long ago. I’m fond of “Medicare for All” which should have been the starting point of the debate (i.e. Single Payer), but that train was never allowed on the tracks.
I assume someone here will be seeing the new Moore film today. I’ll expect a full MookCinemaReport ™ next week on it, OK?
I can’t believe I haven’t read up in here before! There’re some really informed people in here! What an awesome change of pace
67 — yes, we are very samrt around here. And we like the fart jokes.
#65 Thanks
I do believe they actually burned the blueprints for that train. Let alone letting it on the tracks. 
I worked on a California initiative to set up single payer there back in 1996 or so. I think it got 26%.
#68, it’s what makes it fun! I loves me some fart jokes too
I thought Howard Dean said on Rachel that he wants to let people without insurance buy into Medicare– think that’s what the caller was trying to articulate…
Join me in squeezing Hannity’s little fat hair helmet until his eyes bulge and he pops like the pus-filled little human zit he is? Anyone? Bueller?
We don’t deserve democracy. Democracy assumes an informed electorate. Unfortunately, we are stupid enough that Glenn Beck can get good enough ratings to survive in the national media.
Time for everybody to just shut up and listen to me.
Testify, Jim!
Good morning everyone! Cold and rainy here!
Hannity, Beck, Limbaugh, Cheney: phony soldiers.
It’s the perfect term.
The word “holocaust” existed before that particular one.
76 — hiya, Care!
That hasn’t happened here yet. That’s for tomorrow.
At least Jennings reccomended a condom. That obviously didn’t happen in Alaska under former gov. Palin.
Rep Grayson used the phrase “this holocaust” and
holocaust is defined as “a thorough destruction involving extensive loss of life”(http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/holocaust)
which I think is applicable.
#74 I don’t believe for a minute that more than 60% of Beck’s audience actually believe his crap. I figure at least 40% are there for the train wreck.
Momma, give us doggy update please
what’s the new little scamp doing?
How’s that house training coming along?
Chris! cleanup on aisle… cleanup in the
living room… the hall… behind the couch…
Radical homosexual druggie? My friends…….
74 OK Maddy, I vote for you for King! cause I know one
of your first acts will be to force Glenn Beck to stew
in his own putrid juices…
I love the Anthony Perkins voice!
Radical homosexual druggie? sounds like my type o’ guy!
83
You seen the pic? That “scamp” is not little. But he sure is adorable.
I’ll tell you what’s bizzare, that hair color on Tony Perkins!
“Wow, you make a good argument for homosexuality. Suddenly I find your nether bits, which I formerly saw as utterly hideous, to be magnificently appealing! Do things to my body!”
Um… no.
Based on the fallacious belief that you can turn people “fellatious” — only Momma can do that with her Gay Ray!
Morning Spartanbloggers!
It’s too bad David Letterman couldn’t keep it in his WorldWide Pants [TM]. Now Dreadful Sarah will have something new to beat him over the head with.
When Steph was talking about the puppy sleeping on its back on Steph’s tummy yesterday, I assumed it was a little one! Whew.
85 — Peter gave me this idea: If I were the ruler of this great land, I would dress Glenn Beck in motley and call him an “advisor.”
cold wet raining here in Deetown, unemployment rate here whut?
30%? kooky little long-coated chihuahuas not willing to go out
to potty in the yard, they’d rather stay curled up on the bed
like little birds in a nest. I don’t know what I’d do without
them, Momma and you all. It’s keeping me [mostly] sane in a
world gone mad
#94, I thought the court fool was the only one allowed to spout unvarnished wisdom without fear. Beck… wisdom… nah.
I’m thinking Beck needs to be the p*ss boy. Or a village idiot.
Hey all!
About this ‘gay indoctrination’ thing: it’s crap. Point blank: you get hard or wet or you don’t.
I’ll give Beck something to cry about!
Of course the church is now blaming the whole clergy scandal not on pædeophiles but on the gays.
Now the Taliban in Afghanistan are displaying a mastery
of tactics “as if they had graduated US Army Ranger School”.
Well, isn’t that special. Give me a break! These are
fighters who have been at it for over 20 years. They
are natural born guerrillas who are on their own turf.
It’s an insult to say they look like they graduated
Ranger School. They graduated War, War for years and
years. They are not stupid. Whoever made that statement
is stupid. Good luck to the recent Ranger School grad
who gets thrown into that ugly maelstrom. Keep your head down.
YOUJUSTDON’TFUCKINGGETIT!!!
This is not a war; it’s an excuse to continue Empire.
It’s about Profits. It’s about Corporate Power here
in the United States. It’s about the US military establishment
subservient to the War Machine of the profiteers and
the greed-heads.
The lobbyists must all be killed, the prollem is that
Congress is the basement of a pit toilet and they will
not police themselves. The voters are supposed to vote
out the ones that fail to represent them, but it’s pushing
a string. The Money Power has all the control. When
Corporations gained Personhood it all went to hell.
Now even if you killed the Corporations
here they already rule the entire world, they would declare
war on you from their transnational bases. Is it hopeless?
Are we doomed to exist in an Orwellian dystopia? The
American Empire isn’t even American. It’s Empire of
the Invisible Transnational Corporate Elite. It’s the Grunch
of Giants.
Hi all! Happy Friday!
I probably wont be able to stay and play today, or most likely for a while… but for good reason.. I got a promotion! I now have to be professional and all that crap!
I’ll be thinkin’ of ya’ and stop in when I can! Hopefully I can play for a little bit today before getting too busy!
And tomorrow’s the bachelorette party!! WOOOO WHOOOO!!!
I haven’t seen last night’s Letterman yet. It’s on Tivo. I can imagine him asking, “So has anyone else on the show been gettin some the last 20 years?” The horn section all raise their hands.
#92: Oh you betcha say it ain’t so dave I heard that your terroristical tendancies have attacked interns you commie pinko fascist liberal media Satan-lover.
I’m a little disappointed in Letterman, but it doesn’t wreck him as an entertainer for me. Dave’s always been self-deprecating and much of his humor comes from his awareness of his own imperfections. He’s a satirist of a certain stripe, but he’s always included his own foibles in that satire.
We’ve got to stop throwing people under the bus. There are few enough perfect people in this world.
Even one of the Republican Wax People ™ [Lindsey Graham] noticed that Beck is a big bawling baby who needs his ass beaten until his nose bleeds..
Lindsey? What a SISSY name for a Wax Person.
Good lord another puppy?
96 Glenn Beck for piss-boy! Now that’s a job he’d be competent at.
Freddy update! thanx Momma!
90 the only prollem I have with the Gays is when they sneak up
behind you and slip it in while you’re not looking like they do…
sorry I just love that joke, spout it every time the subject comes up
106 Momma crazy dog lady
Wicked lots of congrats, Danielle
#107: Mark if you can’t feel it it’s not the first time for you (^_^)
100: nice rant, Mark. Well done and thanks kindly for posting it..
111 why thank you Ivan! glad you enjoyed it. It’s cathartic for me.
110 hee hee
Hey Danielle! How’s the Single Life treatin’ ya?
Great news, Danielle.
So, can you pay me the $10 you owe me? ;->
I’m happy for your promotion, but your presence here will be missed. I guess we all have to sacrifice..
96 — you run your court your way, I’ll run mine as I see fit. Beck (or Crybaby as I would name him) would be there solely to be mocked. I think I might require him to cry every day.
I think he meant to say “as popular as a GAELIC milkshake”, which is apparently a euphemism for Bailey’s Irish Cream.
Watch your lanaguage, bloggoes! The penalty box awaits.
Both Piss-Bucket and Drool-Bucket duties would be appropriate for Beck..
Jim Ward what a genius
Chris’ cat can dial a phone?
Warning: contains language.
We love ourselves some lesbians!
Hi all! It doesn’t feel like Friday to me.
Glenn Beck: in the running for village idiot.
122 — Hiya, Spiffy!
114 whut’s yer plan for Limbaugh, Madds? turd-burner?
have him flayed and make his skin into a colostomy bag? too easy,
he’s gotta stay alive to suffer…
Word is, St Louis could also be site for some of the Olympic events and that high-speed rail from Chicago would be built to support it. That’s the kind of infrastructure enhancements that stay long after the Olympics.
Single payer would save ALL businesses enormous amounts, and would be a major stimulus to the entire economy..
#4—I think David Letterman is an old fashioned cad but it’s hard to be mad at him because deep down I think he has a very kind heart. The ladies love him and he’s loved a few of them back. Don’t you think his wife knew this about him already? Isn’t that part of why it took him 20 years to marry her?
123—He’s won. Stole the crown from Dubya hands down.
#129: I dunno…Insannity & Limpaugh are still bringing a new definition to crazy.
116 penalty box still trashed from Momma’s birthday party,
somebody’s bra and panties still in there Danielle, confetti,
empty wine boxes, liquor bottles, dog chews…
Hmmm. Lesbian bikers… throbbing bikes… happening hotspot… Stephanie Miller… Yeah, I’ve seen that movie. I think it was called Battle of the Gay-Rays.
I know they are saying the Madison (dane county) would get the bike races. Our governer is going nuts. I hope we get it. it would be an awsome event.
Amazing isn’t it? Who’da thunk it? SEVERAL right wing morons competing with GW for Most Ignorant!
Most common pickup line in a gay bar = Can I push your stool in for you?
119 Chris’s cat can do a lot o’stuff. Whodoya think produces the show?
125 — hmmm, proper treatment for Limbaugh… I’m not a cruel monarch, but it is important to note that Limbaugh has been seditious, and has profitted greatly by his treasonous words. LImbaugh would be forced to confess his crimes, stripped of all property, and put out on the street, stripped naked, in downtown Basra. One interesting aspect of this punishment is that Basra is believed to be the site of the Garden of Eden…
The “surge” was a joke, and had nothing to do with the decrease in casualties. It was a tenth the number Shinseki wanted.
thank you caller. only one right strategy for Afghani. see #13
95—Aw Mark. You’re living in one of the Depression cities. But you know what I envy of those of you living in D-town? You have houses on big lots. You have trees and lots of green plants all around.
When I went to MN this summer it was so open and lovely. Everyone told me the winters are bitter but you know what? You can’t get the sweet without the bitter.
So be grateful for your house and the green. I live in an apartment in a town that would be a desert if Mr. Mulholland had not figured out a way to get water over the mountains. We ration water here. People can only water their lawns 2 days a week.
#135: Hah!!
#130 The saving grace is that Beck and Rush-bo are only mouthpieces, they do not hold real power as “W” did. They may sway opinion of the sheeple, but they can be reigned-in by other opinions (as noted by Mama right now).
Mama just played the Invader Zim sound bite (You lieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee) and I happen to be wearing a shirt with Zim on it right now. A shout out to the live blog?
137 no dope or underage boy hookers for FattyCakes Limbaugh? You
ARE a cruel monarch. I like it
Almost on track for sparta.. ;0
Ok. I’m really confused… why are we even in Afghanistan? Seriously. I feel like it was slipped in while we were all focused on Iraq. (Or, as I like to refer to it… justifying trying to finish what daddy started. I’ve heard that there’s an oil line in Afghanistan that we want. Well, even if we were to secure it, I don’t believe we would be able to keep it secured.
It’s amazing to me how people aren’t up in arms about our soldiers being sent off to defend greed. Not our country.
It’s not really fighting back. They are in two seperate worlds.
Those that believe Glen Pecker-head aren’t going to go the the WH blog to fact check.
The need to get WHSpokesman out there.
I dunno but I’ve always thought that in a gay bar the most common
pickup line is “Wanna have sex?”
146 please see my posts re Afghani at 13 and 100
#143—do they know you’re wearing that t-shirt? Who is invader Zim?
half way to Sparta
#143, and this is where I proudly mention that I know the guy who did GIR’s voice. He pitched a Robotech fanfic I wrote for a comic adaptation to his editors at (now-defunct) Antarctic Comics. Good guy.
146—We’re there because that’s where Al Qaeda had their training camps for the 9/11 terrorists. And because they grown opium there. Opium is bad for us.
@150 Invader Zim (and Grrr) are possibly the best characters ever created. They’re by Jhonen Vasquez, who is famous for JTHM! (Johnny the Homicidal Maniac)
#150 Invader ZIM was this wonderful cartoon on Nickelodeon. They cancelled it in 2002, but Hot Topic still sells merchandise. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invader_zim
Zim has a robot helper named Gir, Gir and Zim are on my shirt today. Gir is a role model (he’s very bad at being a side kick, and when he’s working correctly, he’s very dangerous. ie when Gir is living up to his potential, it’s bad. I admire that).
The more I learn about Grayson, the more awesome I think he is. His major issue is war profiteering.
#153 Opium is very good for us. It’s opium addiction that’s bad.
Initially the Afghanistan involvement was largely reflexive, supposedly to go after Bin Laden. Now I believe the interest there is in securing a pipeline, which would mean U.S. involvement, ad infinitum, with soldiers there to protect the pipeline.
And who’s interest is the pipeline in? It’s not a government owned entity, it’s all about that special brand of “capitalism” the wealthy corporations all believe in – getting government to do what they can make money from..
Coca-Cola built a giant bottling plant in Afghanistan after we
invaded. During the Vietnam war the American soft drink bottling
plant in Saigon [Pepsi? might have been Coke] was a major refinery
for heroin. It’s in the movie “Air America” where Robert Downey Jr’s
character burns the place down. It’s documented in the book Air
America [much more factual than the movie] and also in the monumental
and invaluable {indispensable!] “Poltics Of Heroin In South East
Asia by Prof Alfred J. McCoy University of Wisconsin Press [I know
all this by heart]…
So.
Did the Coca-Cola Corporation put up a massive bottling plant
in the middle of an ugly dirty war in the 4th poorest country in
the world that’s also the biggest producer of opium cause it’s
such a lucrative market for soft drinks?
I think not.
OK, so it’s all about the boxes from here on in today. I love you bloggoes, and I wish you a fun and remarkable weekend! I’ll still be listening to the show, so I’ll be with you in spirit.
Buh Bye, Bloggoes!
153 – Isn’t it true that America help invent Al Qaida?
http://www.useless-knowledge.com/articles/apr/sept326.html
If only John Edwards had used condoms…
#155 Amy, Love Invader Zim! Gir: I’m gonna sing the Doom Song now. Doom doom doom doom doom
#143: Amy deep down you are baloney.
Anybody see Survivor last night – the team captain had a discourse on the racist comments/ intent of one contestant…and that guy ended up voted out. It was so timely, considering the same discussion is occurring in the ‘real world’ without Survivors’ knowledge.
First Joe, The Plumber, now Joe, The Congressman. The GOP sure loves their simple Joes.
I said it before I will say it every time his name comes up:
Osamo Bin Laden always was nothing but a pig’s head on a dress
dummy in Evil Dick Cheney’s basement.
There is no war on terror. The only war is the war on us by
the elite. It’s State Terror False-Flag Burn the Reichstag
Operation Northwoods agent-provocateur strategy of tension,
Marinus van der Lubbe.
It’s about making the Merican people beg for a police state
while war profiteers squat on all the world’s wealth…
#164 When I step outside for 10 minutes and get 3 mosquito bites, all i can say is “I’m delicious!”
not that the producers don’t direct the contestants’ speech…but it’s all interesting that those comments were aired at all.
#162 Or, only if he (Edwards) had kept his hands to himself (in more ways than one).
Deep down we are all baloney.. (when ground)
#65: Train metaphor – me like. They’re adding cars to the crazy train and I haven’t even reached my stop yet. I’m “all aboard” the Olympic Express to St Louis (#126) but the NIMBYs will tear up the tracks and the Boehner will steal the highball…
#168 – My wife and I use that line all the time
It’s morning in America! (cough, cough)
Baloney is people!
#165 I haven’t watched since season 3, but I noticed last night it was Survivor Samoa. Did CBS run anything about the tsunami?
A few years back when wildfires were burning up southern California suburbs, the Showtime series Weeds ran a short segment with the actors explaining that the fires are effecting the area where the show would be (if it were real) and how to help.
good morning!
House Dems Trying To Compromise On The Public Option!
175 soylent people is people!
At first I thought Oprah going over there meant the Olympics were a done deal. Then I remembered the flap about Oprah trying to shop at Hermes in Paris, and realized she’s not as powerful in Europe as she is in America.
Doesn’t matter anyway, since Obama supports the Olympics in Chicago, the right wing opposes it.
CBS had a mention of the Red Cross at the end to aid Samoa’s victims.
Michelle Bachmann is another plastic haired Wax Republican.
Michelle Bachmann needs a mental health clinic.
Michelle Bachmann: She makes up more shit than they did in Star Trek.
you knew that was coming
Caller, that was weak.
A fetus is aborted – a clump of cells NOT A BABY
If it were a baby, the woman would be DEAD.
#183 But, at least in Star Trek, there was some science fact behind the story. In Bachmann’s case, not so much.
181 I like to think of Bachmann and all the other Rethugs as
Almost-People
I gotta go out
if I don’t make it back in time have a great weekend
Hi, John!
Oh man, now I gotta pee. All this talking of stream.
And things of this nature.
#180 Good. Sometimes corporations do the right thing.
One of my coworker’s aunts was swept out to sea, a majority of her family back in American Samoa is now homeless. Hence, it’s on my mind.
shutting down prostitute website is restraint of trade…is it Nevada based?
Here’s the HuffPo article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/02/business/media/02ratings.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss
Morning all! Just finished a garlic milkshake and it wasn’t that bad! Who knew?
Maybe that’s why his girlfriend got pregers, to trap him into finally getting married.
#195 and her photo:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/02/stephanie-birkitt-letterm_n_307558.html
And we promise to laugh, John.
#197 how old-timey
Which is worse, Grudge Sex or Pity Sex?
What about sex with Frangela? Hal?
Hey, I won’t tell about your grudge sex if you send me ONE MILLION DOLLARS!
Stephanie Birkitt was on camera quite often for a time and would bring prize envelopes down the aisle while wearing like a high school letterman jacket when Dave was out in the audience playing “stump the band” type quizzes. He eventually started calling he “Vicki” as if he couldn’t remember her real name. She was cute and the bits were pretty funny.
Brings new meaning to “Prepare for take-off”.
The Stephanie Miller Show has a NYC bureau? Fancy!!!
That explains why on the local RW news talk this morning, they kept saying “anyone who slept with David Letterman gets right on the air.” in between tearing down Obama.
No, it’s demanding sex based on power, Chris
And the LiveStream laughs, again!
Don’t s**t where you eat, don’t f**k where you work.
Again, advice John Edwards could have used.
Don’t dip your quill in the company ink folks.
Irwin!
Wow momma in her house coat and curlers with a cigarette sounds kinda hot.
Austrians? Germans? Oh well, it’s still funny.
Pfui Deibel!
Touch my monkey!
Question – who are the tramps in the survey that can compare across that many countries?
Gawd, the Polanski story is making me ill. If it’s underage, it’s rape. End of story.
Not only did the lawyer said he lied, he said he thought the documentary wasn’t going to air in the US, that’s why he participated. Oops.
Chris in Hell: Mama in housecoat, curlers, big pink slippers, bottle of rye, dog hair all over, acid reflux…ok now I’m getting sick
Ya know, garlic milkshakes kinda burn on the way back up and out.
Chicago has been ELIMINATED from the voting!!
It’s not an ad for birth control, it’s a statement against fertility treatments.
So, now that Jon is fired, he thinks the televising the children is wrong.
Yep, John, the motto of the show should be “It’s a vagina, not a clown car”
Octomom??? go after the Duggars! 18 and counting
bah
the uterus is NOT a clown car
Chicago dropped from 2016 Olympics contention in first round…
Everybody should throw their Nikes at Vick when he shows up. Woof.
#222 Yes, Breaking News:
http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/33138973/ns/sports-olympic_sports/
Shocker! Chicago eliminated in 2016 voting
#226 see: http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/33138973/ns/sports-olympic_sports/
#226 Counting down to the Fox News story explaining how all this Obama’s fault…
If Chicago had gotten the Olypmics, the right wing would have talked about how unfair it was to Rio and corruption, blah blah. Now that Chicago is out of the running, expect to hear how Obama ruined the chances and how much it would have helped the economy, blah blah.
#230 Sad, but likely true. Faux News will dump on Obama, good or bad.
oh yes they are going to go after him
too bad about the Olympics. hard to compete with Carnival.
Uh oh, John just rekindled the Pizza Wars.
I blame Fox News
Chicagoan response:
“Olympic Corruption? We’re not impressed.”
Can’t we blame the REpubliTARDS and all their talk about illegal immigrants not even getting health care?
Faux News will show their true colors. All day yesterday was about how wrong it was for Obama to be there, Chicago doesn’t deserve the Olympics. Now all day today will be about how Obama failed and how much worse off the country will be.
Remember when a McCain campaign worker carved an O in her face and claimed it was an Obama supporter that did it? It was Faux News headlines, utnil it was confirmed as a hoax. Then all mention of the incident and the woman were removed from the site. Just pretend it never happened.
Chocolate chip pancakes?
Vick is saying that only because he got caught.
Why reward him with millins and million of dollars? Because he can throw and catch a football. Duh.
Isn’t Michael Vicks’ speaking tour part of his parole agreement?
Nike withdrew that .. you guys are behind in the news
#224: Speaking of vaginas, did anyone catch the one on “So You Think You Can Dance”? As Christian Slater said in some movie, “Why not – they seem to have an open-door policy on a-holes!”
Vic is not being rewarded for abusing animals. He’s being rewarded for playing football.
I was unaware that in our society, once one has served their time, they are then required to take on janitorial jobs for the rest of their lives.
This woman needs to take a breath.
240, QFT.
It’s not “voluntary” if his actions are motivated by trying to improve his public image and secure lucrative endorsement contracts? She’s acting like he ran a stop sign.
Help the animals displaced by CA wildfires
http://abernhoft.wordpress.com/2009/09/28/help-the-animals-california-wildfires-displace-the-animals-of-serengeti-ranch/
#244 I believe the movie is Heathers. Right after Rod (or Ram) asked if the cafateria had a no f*gs rule, JD said “they seem to have an open door policy on a**holes, don’t they.”
Love that movie!!
“But what about the signal it sends children!?” is social-conservative talk. Why are we hearing this from libs?
111/112- THANKS! See- I had already gotten pulled away with new responsibilities… I just got back to my office.
Mark- the single life is FABULOUS!!!! I’m right on track to be an old pathetic single loser, just like my hero Steph!!
Some crimes are too horrendous to outlive, and Vick will live with this one the rest of his life. That’s punishment. Whatever else he does isn’t going to change that. If we want to judge him, that’s on us.
if vick gives 100% of his nike cash to humane society .. that would shine him in a little better light… will he do that ? there is your answer where his head is at …
wow. I think that’s the first time I ever heard Steph turn down the volume on a caller
Venus
My father was born and raised in from South Carolina. Settled in New York as a grown man and he would never and I do mean NEVER agree with or take part in any kind of animal cruelty. I’m from family that loves animals and always had dogs and cats. Their longevity is a testament to how much we loved and cared for them.
I’d like to question Whoopy Goldberg and ask her what the hell she meant with that nonsense. Does she have any animals? Maybe the Humane Society should get a court injunction and check her home to see how she treats her animals.
yea she puled a Randi
I for one will never buy another pair of nike running shoes… which sucks, because they really are one of the few brands that fit me well
Why doesn’t Nike give a sponsorship to Gentle Giants
#259: not for me…my flat feet prefer other brands
beehive has been shaken
FWIW, I think Vick’s actions are despicable. But, in the interest of fairness, he’s hardly getting a “multi-million dollar shoe deal.”
http://www.philly.com/inquirer/sports/20091002_Nike__Vick_not_under_contract.html
Nike gives him free stuff–like they do for many, many, many pro athletes–but they are not paying him anything.
I also think time is a factor — Vick should be allowed to rehabilitate himself and his reputation by taking various steps to educate people, support the humane society and generally keep out of trouble while doing his job (playing football).
But given the seriousness of his actions, and his really hands-on mistreatment of the dogs (vs. neglect or allowing things to go on), it should take a fair amount of time for him to earn our trust and respect through his actions.
Well said, John.
“rasberries”
#260, because dogs don’t wear shoes.
261- that’s exactly why I like the Nike’s… they are narrow and have high arches… if I run in other shoes my knees hurt…
“‘Nike does not have a contractual relationship with Michael Vick,’ Nike said in a statement yesterday. ‘We have agreed to supply product to Michael Vick as we do a number of athletes who are not under contract with Nike.’
When he was with the Atlanta Falcons, Nike paid him millions to endorse its products and put his name on signature shoes. The company cut its ties to him in 2007, when Vick pleaded guilty to dogfighting charges and went to prison for 18 months. Nike reportedly had manufactured 30,000 Vick V shoes and dropped the shoe before distribution, costing it a reported $1.5 million.”
NIKE lost many of us when they used The Beatles’ REVOLUTION in a crappy commercial
Nope he doesn’t.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/33117603
There is some irony that we’re talking about animals that about a billion people in the world still consider food.
football karma:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090127165938.htm
http://www.entertonement.com/collections/5049/The-Price-is-Right
Isn’t he the won that called us all whiners
Is Lindsey Graham about to announce his retirement from the Senate?
#272 makes me hungry for a little pit bull jerky
#277, Korean food anyone?
5 minutes, get your asses in gear, Mooks, if you want a sparta..
Here’s the Reuter’s link:
http://www.reuters.com/article/sportsNews/idUSTRE5903SW20091002
Looks like Nike is saying they don’t have a contract in force, but the agent was saying there was an endorsement deal.
Are we going for SPARTA??
268: my wide and flat feet don’t run very often
… perhaps they should
Sparta is yours, but only if you REALLY WANT IT.
Give me an “S”!
From a 2004 article:
(http://74.125.155.132/search?q=cache:dFwutfaWOqUJ:www.ddy.com/dl25.html+http://www.ddy.com/dl25.html&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=safari)
“Just Hanging Out with Letterman …
“For Plymouth native Stephanie Birkitt, the dream has become reality as she’s seen by millions of television viewers each week as a regular participant on The Late Show with David Letterman.
“Birkitt, 29, [is] mystified [...] as to how she became a favorite of the late-night comedy host and a weekly regular on the CBS television show. [...]
“It seems like it must be happening to someone else, somebody who is more deserving of this,” Birkitt said during a week off from the show. “It’s so funny, almost like I’m living someone else’s life.”
“It’s like I’m some goofball who made some sort of terrible mistake and I’m waiting for the other shoe to drop all of the time,” she said.
“Working for Letterman
“That shy, self-effacing quality has an obvious appeal for Letterman, who clearly enjoys teasing Birkitt and involves her in all manner of zany activity on the show. He’s had her cover the Olympic Games in Salt Lake City and the Emmy Awards for the show, as well as scaling a climbing wall out on Fifth Avenue and diving into a pool with competitive canines.
“Lately, Letterman has her dressing in outrageous costumes when she announces the weekly “CBS Mailbag” feature, where the host answers viewers’ mail. [...]
“We developed some sort of a phone rapport, just like we get along in real life,” Birkitt recalled. “He teases me and gives me a hard time and I’ll give it back, but overall, he’s super nice.”
Foreshadowing much?
Terry Goddard 2010!!!
Give me an “A”!
281: if you’re going for sparta, you’re doing it too early
Come on, I’ve already revealed My Inner Self ™ and I’m prepared to yield to sparta..
#286 Hell to the yeah!
It’s called “Going Rogue” because when she touched the GOP, she sucked the lifeforce and powers out of it.
Give me an “P”!
Oops, just got chastised by WordPress for posting too quickly
Great show!
No deal..
Okay, NOW give me an “A”!
Time to bring it on home, gang!
Give me an “R”!
SPARTAAAAA!
#291 Nice XMan reference.
Have a great weekend, yall.
There are positive steps Michael Vick can take as he wears his life long scarlet letter for his illegal activities.
He can go along with the police on raids to breakup illegal dog fights.
He still knows the people he was in contact with which should give Vick the jump on where to start.
Heeeeeres SPARTA!
Give me a “T”!
Are we going half the distance each time?
http://abernhoft.wordpress.com/2009/09/28/help-the-animals-california-wildfires-displace-the-animals-of-serengeti-ranch/
again- help the animals
SPARTA!! goes to Condihash — Congrats!
Bye, gang! Have a great weekend!
Condihash, with the Friday Sparta! (bows)
Have a great day! and weekend!
Condihash, I yield to thee. Thou art sparta..
Buh bye Bloggenators and happy weekend.
Have a great weekend, everyone.
Great weekend all! Happy spooning, Steph!
Thank you have a great weekend.
Nutjob Scott just called into Hartmann, during brunch with Bernie.
I didn’t know his mom let him use the phone after noon.
What happened to Oliver?
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