LiveBlog for Monday, October 12, 2009
• Eric Boehlert, Senior Fellow at Media Matters for America, calls in at 7:05am Pacific to co-host Right Wing World.
• The Rude Pundit (Lee Papa) joins Steph in studio in NYC at 8:05am Pacific for “Rude Mondays”
• Tim Robbins calls in at 8:35am Pacific to promote “The WTF Festival” at The Actors Gang in Culver City, CA.
• President Obama pledged to end the ban on gays serving openly in the military in a speech to the Human Rights Campaign Saturday, but acknowledged to a cheering crowd that the policy changes he promised on the campaign trail are not coming as quickly as they expected.
• Secretary of State Hillary Clinton travels to Russia today hoping to win Moscow’s backing for a strong stance on Iran’s nuclear program and looking for progress on a new arms control pact.
• Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) said yesterday that any added military deployment in Afghanistan smaller than the 40,000 troops reportedly requested by the top U.S. commander there “would be an error of historic proportions.” McCain also said that the war there could not be won with fewer than the 40,000 troops requested.
Tags: Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Eric Boehlert, Hillary Clinton, Human Rights Campaign, Iran, John McCain, Lee Papa, Media Matters for America, The Rude Pundit, Tim Robbins
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Gooood morning from Loserville!
Congrats to the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim whew for their sweep of the Sox. I need not worry now about the sight of Jonathan Papelbon doing an Irish jig in his underwear or with an empty beer carton on his head, or having to listen to the Dropkick Murphys after every half-inning.
Frost on the car this morning
brrrrrr
I still need to listen to Friday’s show, it sounds like Mama’s in NYC today with Mr. Rude.
DEUTSCH LIMBAUGH
no need to fear a frenchman dancing irish style, indeed. much more grim punishments are already on display, such as an obtuse anglo getting smacked down from a knee-high flight of ambition. – i think it was john deutsch who earned a lifetime imprimatur as the diarrherun appointee who was put in charge over government scientists who had actually gotten into college, to pass the whitehouse final edits of their scientific findings as filtered thru prescribed agenda.
as inglorious as this bastardization was, deutsch managed to find a way to divorce it even further from resembling a real job. the lad had lied about having a college degree…. AND….
had lied not even about having a REAL degree, but rather about having a degree in journalism. it was a gamble. deutsch was pinning all hopes on the assumption that nobody would ever check on a pedigree that low, and rightly so, because if deutsch had claimed any type of science degree, the charade would have dissolved in a matter of minutes.
a degree, in journalism.
that’s a stupefyingly low bar for somebody assigned
to try to re-write the findings of scientists.
ALMOST too low a bar for anybody to fail.
fast forward….
joe scarborough.
a pretty slow-moving duck in a none-too-spacious barrel,
for anybody who wants to ridicule a cerebral lightweight.
….. well, ALMOST anybody.
rush limbaugh took on this modest substitute for an easy slam-dunk…. and managed only to get bitch-slapped, and that, most resolutely.
scarborough simply referred to the eight years wherein limbaugh’s spectacularly atrophied “testicles” had been placed into a blind trust in diarrherun. scarborough recalled an infamous scene of limbaugh having diarrherun carry the luggage into the whitehouse, and pointing out that we now know what was in the luggage.
limbaugh really ott find better things to do than fail at attacking such blatantly easy pickings. and REALLY ott find better paradigms than just agreeing with whatever al quaeda does; that’s SO september eleventh.
Good moanin to all Steph-Mooksters! I have a small suggestion for the show today: can we please hear the Grampy McCain-Mutiny’s onion-belt story again, please… about how BAM can have his own Vietnam in Afghanistan now if he acts fast with the escalation? Please… oh please?! Thanks.
Morning, trojanrabbit. Sorry about the Sox.
Yep, it’s a tab chilly in C’bus this morning as well (40 degrees). I stepped up from my windbreaker to my fall jacket (glad I did).
Hope everyone had a relaxing and fun weekend. For the first time in a while, I had nothing on my appointment/social calendar. Almost forgot what it’s like to have a down weekend. Fought it at first, but enjoyed it by Sunday afternoon. Viewed and cleared a lot of programming off the DVR.
So, Sen McCain is calling for 40,000 troops and insists that the war in Afghanistan is ‘winnable’. Well, I’ll give him points for consistency. Unfortunately, taking that approach (that it’s primarily a military issue) will likely give us the same results as in Vietnam. I applaud President Obama for taking time to assess the situation from not only a military standpoint, but also diplomatically. The validity of the Afghan Presidential election is still in question and there may be a call a run-off between Karzai and the second-place finisher:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5gU-9JsR0GCruQtIJ9zEsrAsrvInQ
Morning shaf
I placed my parts order for my TV restoration project, so with any luck I will be able to start by the weekend. Made a little demo video just in case through my incompetent hands it doesn’t survive surgery so I can prove it DID work at one time. Replaced my workbench monitor with a little LCD job, the PC promptly died afterwards, just a series of long beeeeeeeeps. I done kilt it good.
If you have a few minutes to spare, check out Paul Krugman’s op-ed:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/12/opinion/12krugman.html?_r=1
Excerpt:
Good morning all!
Back from a training seminar in St. Louis. Momma is tweeting now? Will wonders never cease?
From HuffPo:
The 10 Creepiest Unintentionally-Sexual Ads of All Time
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/11/the-11-creepiest-unintent_n_316963.html
Good morning earlybloggers!
TGIM!
So, if Steph is in NYC, do we get to hear the sausage being made at the top of the hour?
Good morning, ProducerChris and Steph!
You are five-by-five, Mama!
Mama needs a Ricola, stat!
Daniel Stern
Hi Rebekah!
We heard that!
Root canal without Anastasia!
“Anastasia screamed in vain”
Good morning, live blogospherians! First time here since school started for the fall. I came here on Labor Day, but no one was here.
Did Momma get to sleep late, today?
Love the Time Check lesson.
What part of the United States is on Atlantic Standard time?
It’s like New Foundland, or something
We annexed Newfoundland from Canada?
Yeah Chris, how come the time checks are always wrong on the podcast?
If anybody wants to do a movie about Wyatt Earp, mama can always play Doc Holiday!
it’s getting too chilly for bill press to wear a thong.
Will Momma please press the mute button while she’s hacking up a lung. I don’t need to hear that!
steph said “madison?” with the same inflection as “chlamydia?”.
#20 To my knowledge, none of the United States is in the Atlantic Time Zone.
From wikipedia (Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/index.html?curid=1059683)
Mama’s new name – Phlembaye.
26: it’s a cyberskills thing. the twittering and the hacking enhance each other.
#26 Unfortunately, she is sans ‘cough button’ in the NYC studio.
Jim didn’t go far enough. The right equates fascism, communism, and socialism.
you dont have to spell it, jim. chris can take it.
oh, wait. nevermind. he was saying “effigy”.
Shaf #31, pa, couh…hkkk, ak, patooey, i mean, thank you!
Yep, Kayne was protesting. Good job, Shane-O!
From my facebook wall, “When I woke up this morning and heard that Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize, I thought, “WHY???????” Then I remembered how the world looked at the United States just one year ago, and I thought, “Oh, yeah!”
shāf, seven posts in a row!
#37 So true!
when you see seven posts in a row, please dont take a fence.
#38 Just getting us on the road to Thermopylae.
Yeah, why does Rush hate America?
clarity at last – michael steele really apologized to rush when realizing how much rush digs al quaeda. in the spirit of fairness, i forwarded a copy of post 2 to rush, and made sure it wasnt in a PDF so that rush could read it.
The only Republican President to win a Nobel Peace Prize was Teddy Roosevelt, and he abandoned the party a few years later.
There was a great oped piece in the St. Louis Post Dispatch this weekend on Rush’s bid for the Rams. In it, the author poses the question on how Rush will react to socialism once an owner of the team, since St. Louis is required by contract to build a new stadium for the team.
45
It’s not socialism when it benefits him.
#20, #28: “What part of the United States is on Atlantic Standard time?”
No part that I can find, but Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands are in it, does the Show have any stations there?
46: Just like it’s not drug abuse when it affects him. And his dumb ass listeners will buy it.
Ah, forgot about Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands….
48
Megadittoes Rush, hurrr durrr
Water water everywhere, nor any drop to drink….
Steph, now try asking for a cough sweet, a hot tea or an in-line XLR switch.
I should have driven up to Madison for that.
#40: Help! Our flombaye is on fire!
Mornin!
Med-VYED-eff
#47 & #49 Good point. I found a little more detail on AST:
Source: http://www.timetemperature.com/tzus/time_zone.shtml
The only thing I got out of my two semesters of Russian in college was the ability to pronounce the words.
54: i knew there was a flaming fruit in here somewhere.
witness the uppity lawnjockey’s arrogance with your own ears.
His removal of anti missle systems from East Europe is a good start. He should take the next leap and close US Military bases abroad.
I didn’t know this (until I searched wikipedia) but Curtis “”Bombs Away” LeMay was born in Columbus, OH on 15 November 1906:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_LeMay
I prefer to call him Napalm LeMay.
One of my co-workers said Friday, “Maybe they gave it to him to send a message to not send more troops to Afghanistan.”
I have a feeling Beck has a lot of experience winning “participation” trophies himself.
Gak! Did you need to bring up the Dr. Laura spread, Steph? It’s too close to breakfast!
64: john mccain wants to send more troops to afghanistan, and that should be sufficient impetus to refrain.
Couln’t get to a computer last week but heard on Stephanie’s show she was talking about her new dog Freddie. What happened to Oliver?
65: that’s why he’s still waiting for that “world’s greatest lover” coffee mug.
As a U.S. Senator and Presidential candidate, Obama was just another Jedi Knight like Kucinich, Gravel, and Hillary. As President, he became a Jedi Master. The Nobel Peace Prize made him what Liam Neeson called George Lucas, the Ultimate Jedi Master! Let’s hope his “promotion” will let him choose correctly in Afghanistan.
beauregard was okay, but let’s hear the doctor lala rant on the woman’s ingratitude for all that action.
Mama’s riding her Segway again?
Where were all these Republicans when George Bush was in office when it came to demanding more troops for Afghanistan? Furthermore, why didn’t they protest when he invaded Iraq, thus taking available troops away from Afghanistan? Jesus, what a bunch of barf bags.
Time to take the dog to the vet. Back sometime during hour 2.
#68 Paula, Steph mentioned two weeks ago that she needed to give back Oliver to Gentle Giants Rescue during a family crisis. They found another family to adopt him.
Too much streaming, ProducerChris!
Good morning, Jim. Is it raining where you are?
Jim did a bid two weeks ago on insurance, I believe.
bid = bit (sorry)
It’s good to see universities finally taking the zombie threat seriously. Until the guardians of academia had it taken down, one college in Florida had instructions for surviving an invasion of the undead posted on its web site along with the usual disaster plans for hurricanes, alligators, etc.:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hONt0eybRkSjBswGTey2Tp8SX6EwD9B2K2M80
http://image3.examiner.com/images/blog/EXID16753/images/2193614078_177552e675.jpg
okay, yeah, there just is no gentle way to say it.
this is as far as i know, the most appealing videoblogger on the entire interweb. cuter, in some ways, than philip defranco even.
there, i said it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyGlt10PwvQ&feature=SeriesPlayList&p=5393258A8A58ADB4
Wow, sounds like eating at McDonalds really IS bad for your health.
on ACORN: “story” is a pretty strong word.
82: not possible.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVcRecCk8sw
#80n Well, we can’t say the University of Florida didn’t warn us.
85: but we can say they only did it to distract from that story…. no, not d-day, not the moon landing, not 9-11….. the BIG STORY:
ACORN !!
sounds like gomert’s pile.
The right wing still loves America, they just hate Obama more.
Limbaugh: “…first POST accomplishment Nobel Prize winner.”
Uh, Rush, if it’s POST accomplishment, doesn’t that mean he HAS accomplished something?
the irony stems not only from rush being disadvantageously positioned to mention accomplishment, but more tellingly, from the fact that rush is disadvantageously positioned within that parameter, when it is measured in boolean.
Megadildos, fellow MookenBloggenators!
Sorry I’m late, what did I miss?
Celebrating Columbus Day are we? What’s with the stale donuts and underwear hanging from the fan in the penalty box?
I’ve always heard you can tell you’ve been a great lover if you wake up and your face feels like a glazed donut..
Amy, the right wing loves what they perceive as THEIR America..
#86: ACORN zombies coming to your door – to take away your guns!
91: scooter got a new segway. TR posted a segway to jim. jim gave bennet cerf the shaf. shaf bott a new scooter. beck came out of the closet again. michael steele apologized personally to osama bin laden. rush learned how to spell “PDF”. and a rapper named “T.I.” had a movie made about him by stanley kubrick, but then kubrick died and so spielberg finished it, but there were too many flowers and smiley faces in the auswicz crematorium scene, so beyonce had to pick up the nobel peace prize for him. you know, the usual.
#91: So what does it mean if you wake up and your dog seems to think your face tastes like a glazed donut?
I just love the right wing’s blistered asses over Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize..
81: So does Obama need to bail out the watch industry?
Morning, all. Hope you’re doing well. I haven’t been around as much because I’ve had a lot of things to deal with but I wanted to say hello to my blogging buddies.
Anyway, one of the things I’ve found out is that, no surprise, an actual analysis of the data on the CRA shows that guys like Limpdick and Beck are pulling nonsense directly out of their ass. They’ve been blaming it for the problems in the housing market and a study that used actual data and facts found that’s just not so. You can read about it on my blog.
Good Morning all. Sorry I am late. Computer did not wanna get going this morning. So how is every one this am. I think we made momma sick. See madison has such clean air when people from large city’s come here they get sick cause of all the fresh air.
88: They might love American, but they don’t love democracy.
dang, i hate losing my erection overnite, and the glazed donut falling off. anybody seen a glazed donut anywhere ?
95: it means that Fido *wuvs* you.. something good.
#88: “The right wing still loves America” – like a stalker ex-lover with a restraining order.
Amy, the America the right wing idealizes never existed and it never will. That’s why they can say keep your government mitts off my Medicare. Or say we’re turning into Russia at the same time they get on TV and say, we’ll be very happy when my parents can go on Medicare like the dimwit who shouted at Spector in his town hall meeting said.
That’s what makes them so laughable. They have no grasp of reality. No, dumbass, we won’t levy the estate tax on your doublewide. It’s not worth enough.
flombaye, there’s a miniature powdered sugar donut sticking to the ass on your leather pants..
103: Funny!
wasnt looking for this. found it just now entirely by accident. apparently, we’ve opened the loveblog in bad form; one is not to talk about phlegm.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wE2D3NM8vrQ&feature=channel
Okay, I gotta go. Have a good one, folks.
91: Unless your a berliner.
note to Jeff Birnbaum: Ghandi never won the Nobel
105: thank you for looking there.
#103 An abusive stalker ex-lover with no sense of irony.
108: is it just a coincidence ? – tony was just here wearing the same type of leather pants, and i just found a cheerio.
Sorry, flombaye, it’s on the front side – I thought you were turned around, but you weren’t..
didnt want it enuff ? – jim, that was the poehler opposite of sensitivity.
reach around, eh?
112: Funnier!
what kind of session ?
oh, “concession”
Yeah, Mama usually has the problem with ‘cock’.
Obama could just do like Bush and wait a few months and make a recess appointment. No suprise that Bush had an expert understanding of recess.
what does waylon flowers’ partner NOT find difficult to understand.
Morning all! Mama, you been smoking road flares with Randi Rhodes?
“shoot the moon” – the last sebastion of vintage abstract pop lyrics.
123: hitler did randy things on the road with flares.
Don’t forget the Tang!
125. that’s why Eva was braun
My God, it’s full of stars!
the moon is sterile. fried eggs on moonrock would be edible, and free of sulfides too, due to easy gaseous sublimation in the absence of atmospheric pressure. the biggest challenge really is to cook it quickly before michael collins hogs all the tang.
Which reminds me of the dumbest thing I ever tried in college: vodka with Tang.
hullo
back from the chiropractor the spine is somewhat straight now,
gotta put some heat on it
Way Too Much Stupid Drama around the house this weekend; the
dope head is back on the couch when not reaping the
refrigerator or any of the other annoying things he does.
Why not finish the ice cream and put the empty carton back
in the freezer? Try cornering the dogs again; they love
that.
#128 You know, Hal Sparks tweeted that on Friday. The link takes you to a nice mashup of movies.
“My God… It’s Full of Stars” http://bit.ly/2zE7Aa
just found a great slogan for stephy’s many future transgressions against moderation and decorum:
“IT’S NOT MEAN; IT’S JUST PHYSICS !”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2iWyZ1FApI&feature=channel
#131 Try vodka and Tang. You won’t worry about any of that stuff anymore.
#130 I believe that’s called an Agent Orange. That’s up there with a Cement Mixer (Baileys and something that curdles the Baileys) as the most disgusting drinks of all time.
I’m glad I didn’t try to watch the impact when we bombed the moon. Talk about a visual dud….
130: was the name of that drink Moon Shot, by any chance?
#130 Sounds like the preferred cocktail of the International Space Station.
130: i dont understand. what’s so dumb about drinking vodka on the moon ?
#136 I did (I was at work at 7:30 EDT) and it was (a dud).
2 you bin busy over the weekend; nice
Joe Biden’s National Security Advisor says we need to
leave Afghanistan… what is his name? Where is his quote?
I can’t find it. Like it vanished. Please advise
‘cepting, they call it ‘wodka’..
131: Is my brother at your house?
One of the platforms of the right wing: never admit or acknowledge a mistake.
#130 I didn’t give it a name. If anybody invented it before I did, they may have. I arrived at the combination independently. I haven’t had vodka since.
131: hi MDB.
“gotta put some heat on it”
try telling your spine that it has exactly three seconds to wipe that stupid smile off its face, or you will gouge out its eyeballs, ….
130: silly college student! Vodka with POONTANG! Get it now?
Connor is a cute little devil on the new Gallery… sorry I can’t put ‘em through college this year ;-(
#147 D’oh!
“Stephy’s many transgressions against moderation and decorum”
Not to mention her lack of theology and geometry.
#141 Mark, perchance you are referring to this article on HuffPo?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20091004/us-us-afghanistan/
139: they said the projectile only went twice the speed of a bullet. that’s a more mild landing than letting tommy lee jones drive. or al gore after he’s had too many tang-n-vodkas.
142
And scotch was inwented by little old lady from Leningrad.
One day I’d like Kanye West to interrupt the Stephanie Miller Show to tell us that George W. Bush was one of the worst presidents of all time. Of all time!
131: you need to get a blonde to walk on your back; sex is unimportant but they should weigh no more that 115#.
#105, #111: Hence the saying “those donuts always go straight to my ass.”
hey, there’s tang in the penalty box
HEY! Wait a minute. “Chekhov” was from Chicago. Obama IS a Socialist.
134 Vodka and Tang! Stephie’s fav when she runs the Liquor
Barn out of box wine… btw I like the housecoat fuzzy slippers
and curlers she’s sporting this a.m.
Guess it’s Monday
Squeezy to the rescue!
May I volunteer for that airlift? *snaps salute*
159 and the phlemy laughs
Captain Squeezy – U.S. Diplomat to Afghanistan.
Awe, Jim. At least leave the men a few goats.
154: treat yourself to page 29 of immaletyoufinish.com.
in the cruel time, who here likes tang ?
If they are over 115#, you really should cover yourself with mud (or oatmeal) for cushion effect..
Chris is shocked that you can still read a newspaper article without resorting to technology.
Yep. Roy, was very creepy.
(#167: Yes I know, it’s funny cause … she’s in NYC).
Jim Ward wants to airlift anyone w/a Vagina out of Afghani…
while I wanna parachute Britney Spears, the Kardashian sisters,
the Simpsons Jessica and What’s ‘er name, Paris ‘n Nicky…
send them all. Every Rubber Boob’d Hoor we got, plus backpack
portable Meth labs with instructions in Pashtuni… Marlboros,
Ecstasy, Crack… flood them with our Kultcha. They got as much
defense against that as the Indians did against Firewater and
Smallpox Blankets…
Lee needs to mic up.
Don’t forget guys, Jimmie was like 40 years old when he was doing the Mickey Mouse Club.
Rude can’t find Steph’s button.
Hi, Lee. You are sounding good.
RUDE RUDE RUDE RUDE!
#167 Thanks, it’s nice.
I wish I had a Mac again.
170: that’s incorrect. they’ve been defending themselves against cromwellian era encroachment very effectively with bullets. bullet therapy works. it’s precisely what the turtle island populace was proportionately lacking.
147 ah the Correct Ingredient List
now off to the Penalty Box with ya
#172 FYI, Jimmie was born was born Ivan Wesley Dodd on March 28, 1910 in Cincinnati:
http://www.originalmmc.com/jimmie.html
177: go for it. you just need the grades. you can get bags of them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bN7PiCA6FEg
So he was more like 45 when he was doing the Mouseketeers.
#177 I’m torn between a Mac or a netbook for my next purchase. Won’t touch an iPhone until AT&T is no longer the sole provider of 3G.
151 thanks Shaf, czeching now…
143 Pooer’s Dad, I’m sorry if your brother is a lone o’that…
casey kasem is compatible with cabbies because of the “lebanese geek” appeal. the other choices being ralph nader, kahlil gibran, and jamie farr, they just ask WWSD ?
155 don’t ask Steph to walk on your back… just sayin’
182: i just checked with hannity’s file on kevin jennings, and that’s correct.
Random question – Alfred Nobel was Swedish, yet he has Norwegians hand out his prize. I learned from watching Mad Men that Norway and Sweden are not fond of each other*. Why did Nobel set up his prize in such a way?
*Peggy Olson (Norwegian) was looking for a roommate and was interviewing a woman who was Swedish. Peggy replied “I’m Norwegian” and the woman said she’d tell her parents Peggy is Swedish. In a later scene, Peggy told her mother her new roommate was Norwegian.
Sheboygan! Finally back on the SMS news radar.
Jim could bust in
#183 Me too! I’m typing this on my new Mac, and I’ll get an iPhone as soon as it doesn’t require AT+T.
And I know you can crack your phone and use another carrier, but then you can’t use the App store. And Apps are half the fun of the iPhone.
But how’s the snu-snu?
Ah those Chinamen always believing whatever fanstasy
about buxom blonde Swedish lesbians living in a Compound…
Raffles The Amateur Cracksman . Amateur? AMATEUR? The
fucker’s a god damned Professional. Amateur my ass.
McChrystal can’t be blamed for being who he is. He’s a General.
He’s a hammer. All he sees is nails. He don’t know no better.
McChrystal ain’t the entire Military-Industrial Complex. He’s
not the Empire. He’s not the corrupt Congress or the parasite
glutton marrow-feeding ‘defense’ contractors.
How about we just declare defeat and surrender to al-Qaeda.
What will happen? It’s not like they can occupy us, or enslave
us. What could they possibly demand? That we leave Afghanistan?
That we quit our unconditional support of whatever Likud wants
to do this week? That we stop bombing Afghan weddings using
Predator drones? What?
“The senior leadership of the U.S. Army is overly bureaucratic,
risk averse, professionally inadequate and, unsuited to the complex
military tasks entrusted to them.
They are compliant, sycophantic officers fatally dependent on the
goodwill of the Secretary of Defense and the President.
America’s enemies have had no navies, weak air forces,
weak to non-existent air defenses, and incompetent armies
that lacked both the will and the training to fight effectively.
Our superb combat soldiers easily overpowered their
enemies regardless of what decisions or actions the senior
military leadership took.
Draw a vertical line. On one side are you and I.
On the other side is the “enemy”. Now draw a
horizontal line, creating a cross. Now our diagram
has been quartered. Label the top half the “Elites”,
and the bottom half “Everyone Else”.
Now you may see that the Elites in the top half have
more in common with each other than with the
people below them. Those in the bottom half are
encouraged to hate, fear and kill those on the “other
side” while the Elites at the top on both sides profit
from the false division.
188: they had to admit that his idea was dynamite.
Reminds me of the story in the Weekly World News several years ago, about a village in Italy, where everyone had the same face. They had a group photo of the village, and sure enough, every one had the same face, and it was facing the same direction. And it was an ugly face, with a unibrow..
The same issue had a story of a motel in Lubbock where an Holy Bible is suspended in the air above a bed (fishing line clearly visible in photo of the floating Book of Life)..
#170: Kind of like “Operation Dumbo Drop”, Mark?
Bill Crystal dreams of war and relishes it when it’s here
188, at the time of Nobel’s death Norway and Sweden were a “personal union” ie. they shared the same sovereign.
snu snu!~
a broken pelvis is a small price to pay
Ironically, it was snow (euphemism for cocaine) that broke the hold of the poppies in The Wizard of Oz.
we also know you must suck on lemons every morning McLipless
194:
“Draw a vertical line. On one side are you and I.
On the other side is the “enemy”. Now draw a
horizontal line, creating a cross. Now our diagram
has been quartered. Label the top half the “Elites”,
and the bottom half “Everyone Else”.
Now you may see that the Elites in the top half have
more in common with each other than with the
people below them. Those in the bottom half are
encouraged to hate, fear and kill those on the “other
side” while the Elites at the top on both sides profit
from the false division.”
this is a good object lesson in why the bible is so choppy and uneven. – “half my life spent in books’ written pages, living, learning from fools and from sages….” – when a librarian has sufficient sense to keep something so concise and so adroit, freely accepting from the aforementioned list of qualified contributors, it makes for a choppy collection of styles, as a sacrifice to benefit the attempt at assembling a comprehensive store of functional wisdom. thank you for this simple but effective upgrade to collective human wisdom’s modern canon.
197 we could call it “Operation Slut-Cakes Drop”
200: sanka ! are you dead ?
#199 Thank you. I guess the situation changed between 1896 and 1963.
203 hey glad it’s a useful thing to you. It’s just something
that occurred to me over the weekend, prolly while drunk…
why is Jim wearing that ridiculous moth-eaten false beard
this morning? and those blue glasses?
#147: Ouch! Isn’t that called a Stinger?
201 never thought about that. Wizard of Oz symbolism runs deep…
wicked witches o’east and west = big banks?
op = opiate o’the masses?
Dorothy = Steph? Chris the tinman? Rebekah = Glinda? Freddy is Toto?
207: al franken said of jesus:
“he had a lot of really good ideas…
none of them, new”.
in a similar way, you have described what is in fact considered already a textbook analysis, but what i like is that your description is highly accessible. being simple is actually an indispensibly important part
of teaching.
208: never underestimate the wiles of joachim phoenix with samhain approaching.
#211 Lafayette on True Blood said of jesus:
“Jesus and I agreed to see other people, don’t mean we still don’t talk time to time.”
Human rights are GAY!
208: or maybe jim is just plotting to get back in time to cook breakfast on la range (HAW HAW HAW HAW !)
209. Stinger is brandy and creme de menthe over ice and it’s a velvet hammer!
When are people going to realize that Obama’s administration has actually stifled efforts in Congress to mitigate the effects of DADT? This guy is nothing but talk talk talk.
214 vaginas are gay!… skating
Repealing DADT does have to go thru Congress. It was signed into law. It wasn’t just an executive order or something. It is a law. Obama is enforcing laws even if he doesn’t agree with them for a change.
“people, people we’re losing daylight”. we’d be hearing it on the battlefield.
210: rebekah’s an evil c-word who could have helped but decided to pull a titus instead ? are you sure about that. well, at least we know that stephy was really truly sincerely squooshed, because of the socks.
(”it’s time for sock” and “we represent the glory-hole guild” now available along with more ray bolger falderal, on MP3).
Ha! Steph is such an offence against propriety and
decency… love that girl
#216 Then, there’s my favorite from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: The Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster
219: you are right. But, see this:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/30/alcee-hastings-withdrew-d_n_247726.html
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1163956.html?storylink=mirelated
216: that tool that elvis is using to adjust the tv picture in my painting on the wall…. THAT’s a velvet hammer.
221 “we represent the glory-hole guild”
is that an auger over your shoulder? or are you just happy to see me?
#223 The effect of drinking one “is like having your brain smashed out by a slice of lemon wrapped round a large gold brick.”
Tim’s on the run from Steph, just like Keith and Russ
226: ironic that your penetrating twist doesnt auger well.
Ironically, I dreamed last week that I kissed Susan Sarandon on the set of a movie that we were both working. Sorry for the REM-transgression, Mr. Robbins.
he has quite a list, but not as much as stephy after a pan-galactic glory-hole inverter.
230: i wasnt going to ask WHERE you kissed ms sarandon, thoe the question did occur.
#232 A gentleman doesn’t dream and tell!
“God does not play dice with the universe; He
plays an ineffable game of His own devising,
which might be compared, from the perspective
of the players, (ie everybody), to being involved
in an obscure and complex version of poker in a
pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite
stakes, with a Dealer who won’t tell you the rules,
and who smiles all the time.”
–Neil Gaiman/Terry Pratchett
the problem with the arts getting hit real bad, is that they wind up all looking like venus de milo and scribblings of pablo pigasshole.
224, yea that is unfortunate. I hope he is just focusing on health care and plans to fix DADT when that is done. But if he still doesn’t get heath care despite the focus, I’m going to be pissed that he didn’t get anything.
234: o,men that was good.
Favorite Sarandon movies: Bull Durham, Rocky Horror Picture Show, White Castle
“Build a man a fire, and he’ll be warm for a day.
Set a man on fire, and he’ll be warm for the
rest of his life.” — Neil Gaiman
I’d so love to help keep Rush keep warm for the
rest of his life.
or as I’ve said, ‘Masturbate a Man, he comes once.
Teach a man to masturbate he’ll come for the rest
of his life”
[skating]
234, the only think you can do in that situation is bluff.
239: i learned how to masturbate with fire, just to play it safe.
240 think = thing
240: which means that if the gods play chess with the universe, the augering is only beginning. – in chess, nobody can see you bluff.
“i dont believe in psychology; i believe in good moves”
- bobby
no, the asshats are coming out into the light to be exorcised.
Chris, time to sabotage her chair or computer after that remark
It’s spackle and paste time!
238 I think you mean White Palace, not White Castle.
244: “posterior chain cephalobics” ?
241 lighter fluid: great lube
#246 Could be worse. Remember contagion, the cult of a simple mayon, we settle our stomachs, we do what we can.?
240 good one
ditint think o’that
247: i think you mean jack palance, who some say sticks to the colon wall like curly fries or a lemon wedge wrapped around a bronk.
235 pablo pigasshole
he’s got a RW radio show now
247. Yes, thank-you. Oh and Thelma and Louise
249: the lighter, the better.
“ka-ro,
ka-a-a-ro
karo come and me wanna go home”.
Blue Ball Democrats! Luv it!
is a big gay march a subset of a big gay spring ?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tm9UklULTjo
Looks like no Sparta for us today. Hey, I tried!
#256 Me too, but we know the Democrats don’t have balls or spines.
Being gay is equated to a nervous tick?
#259 Except for that Congressman from FL.
260: go ask glenn beck what’s shakin.
#260 Didn’t Larry Craig have a foot tick? Tap tap tap…
#261 Very true. My bad.
263: wide you ask ?
#263 Larry Craig was practicing his tap dancing in the stall…while seated…with a wide stance.
that’s an excellent keanu baldwin.
That’s what you get for ruining Con Air.
I love Con Air. It’s so bad, it’s great!
How many movies does Nick Cage need to do to pay his taxes?
Read that news story before each meal and watch the pounds melt away.
and where would Katie be during all this?
Oh, my breakfast!
Bye all.
#269 Con Air is a great movie except for Cage. It’s like everyone was working on Con Air except for Cage, he was just doing a Keanu impression.
Time to head out. See you all on November 9 (my next day off from work).
Bye all! Mama, remember Broadway doesn’t go for booze and dope
Great show! Have a wonderful rest of the day.
#258: Columbus doesn’t do SPARTA.
#273: I always thought Cage was doing his Elvis impression throughout the movie. He was on a roll where he did Elvis in every movie. I hadn’t seen much Keanu Reeves up to that point, so I never made the connection. So, you think he was channelling Johnny Utah or Jack Traven?
“Put… the… bunny… down”
There’s nothing socially redeeming inthe movie, that’s for sure, but for a mindless goof, I really enjoyed it.
To each, their own, I guess.