LiveBlog for Monday, October 19, 2009
• The Rude Pundit (Lee Papa) calls in at 6:30am Pacific to talk about gays in the military, and the historical inaccuracies at the GOP’s new website.
• Eric Boehlert, Senior Fellow at Media Matters for America, calls in at 7:05am Pacific to co-host Right Wing World.
• Rep. Joe Sestak (D-PA) calls in at 8:30am Pacific to make a major announcement about his campaign to be senator from Pennsylvania.
• Three days after the world watched a giant balloon fly through the air as a tearful family expressed fears that their 6-year-old boy could be inside, authorities announced what millions already suspected: The whole thing was staged. Colorado authorities believe the event was a “publicity stunt” by the family to market themselves for a reality show.
• The White House will not commit to health care legislation that would cap insurance premiums or tax benefits, taking a wait-and-see approach as congressional negotiators seek a deal. President Obama will not demand that a final bill include a public option, though that’s his preference, advisers said yesterday.
• Defense Secretary Robert Gates is undertaking the tricky task of trying to persuade allies to remain committed to the war in Afghanistan even as the Obama administration debates whether to send more troops to fight. Allies like Japan and Great Britain, however, are showing signs of pulling back.
Tags: Afghanistan, Balloon Boy, Barack Obama, Eric Boehlert, Health Care Reform, Joe Sestak, Lee Papa, Media Matters for America, Robert Gates, Rude Pundit
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Good morning, everyone! I hope y’all had a fun weekend. Hopefully, Steph is back in voice and rested from her ordeal last week.
Gooood morning all.
Hope Stephanie is feeling better today.
Little surprise snowstorm on Sunday, again collecting mostly on the cars and grass and making yesterday’s Pats game very interesting.
Heard Scott the Nazi this morning on our Right Wing “Sports” Station, in full Jew-bashing mode, first going after Patriots owner Robert Kraft for allowing the score to be run up on the hapless Tennessee Titans, then going to Reebok chief Paul Fireman since Reebok is the shoe supplier of the NFL. I doubt if Scottzi would try that on the show today, but you never know.
Lucky is still recovering, almost through with his meds – he now understands he can be let out of his room when his food is finished, he chows it right down.
STEELE RESOLVE
those of you alert to the latest news already know about professional token darkie michael steele’s excellent adventure chasing a helium balloon. – after the fleeting moment of well-earned fame on ho-swap
( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CznCqQCOhT8 ) had worn off, and the wicked kanye of the west stepped in to swiftly taylor the direction of the spotlight, ironic mike was left languishing for DAYS without any real publicity. thus, when the next twister came along, ironic mike cleverly notified the FAA and the local tv station, before calling 911 to declare that the nation’s health reform ambitions were coalescing like a twister, and that he, ironic mike, was newly transformed into the cow in the twister’s path. – naturally, all the world became transfixed out of concern for ironic mike’s talking points, because some of them were only six years old. fortunately, these talking points could be followed as various government agencies followed ironic mike’s blog, entitled “WHUD UP, FOO ?!!!”.
2: that’s scary stuff. apparently, TR’s town is infested with frozen irishmen AND he has a pet leprechaun. manly, yes, but i like it too !
4
Celtics aren’t playing for real yet.
just found this. a bit odd, but a good resolution of curiosity for those of you who have ever wondered at the consequences of jack cafferty meeting randi rhodes. – and an excellent cameo by samwell also too as well: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmHu_XHCjfY&feature=related
5: repelled the romans with mere warm-ups ? that’s pretty formidable.
must be beyond the whiter shades of the pale.
Morning, all.
Sunday went well for me an my coworkers: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5758RBjNJvg
We have a sensor on that USAF weather satellite.
pure serendipity. wasnt looking for this, but just found it. how DID ironic mike get so twisted and wind up chasing twisters ? apparently, it was the combined influence of twisted pizza crust, and a lot of head trauma: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPxOxfOLUyk&NR=1
Morning bloggers,
Enjoy breakfast as you read about these tasty treats.
15 of the most disgusting Halloween candies you can buy:
http://scifiwire.com/2009/10/xx-of-the-most-disgusting.php
jessup from the coast to deliver the gospel. – there’s only one thing worse than being lied unto, and that’s NOT being lied unto. the looks on the girl after a minute and a half in, constitute a masterpiece of visual dichotomy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0bL_ydCVAA&NR=1
10: yo, ronald clark o’brien…. i’m really happy for you, and i’m a let you finish, but you would skyhock up a lung trying to feed your kids some of these tasty treats. – yo, way to go luther, i’m really happy for you too, and pope malcom X, i’m a let you finish your diet of worms, but skyhawk must have the most spartan diet of all time.
thank you, skyhawk. not only was it rewarding to find that my favorite breakfast actually has a name (“zombie brownies”), but there was also the handy link to creepy kids that not even angelina jolie would adopt…. yep, that kid who starred in “the bad seed” is definitely the same one who played gilbert on “leave it to beaver”.
#10, and it doesn’t even have the “French-kiss Jar Jar Binks” lollipop: http://cellar.org/showthread.php?t=1376
14: excellent. have you applied yet to be the repulsion czar ? this makes my licorice light saber with moaning james earl jones voice chip seem almost kosher.
#8 That’s a good-looking launch, PeterW! Interesting stat, BTW, 50 years of Atlas launches.
14 – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rb3k18y6_j0
14: also too, speaking of extraneous and annoyingly overdone characters (full circle), i propose a raft of speculations on how ironic mike will next climsily attempt to upgrade the self-aggrandisement memes, such as the accidentally dylanesque cow metaphor. perhaps this one is in the wings: “health reform is gathering like a dark scary gay storm, and i’m going to be the dog too dumb to come in out of the rain !!”
good morning all
Good Morning all
It’s Miller Time, y’alls!
Yep, I’m looking forward to charges being filed by Larimer County Sheriff Jim Alderden. This thing has stunk of ‘publicity stunt’ from the very beginning. Saturday, Richard Heene played ‘ringmaster of the media circus’ and offered to answer written questions submitted to a box that he waived in front of reporters. I’m hoping that the spotlight will quit shining on this bozo as soon as possible.
Momma still a little horsey, but welcome back!
God Christ are we still talking about the Balloonies™?
Mornin’ all.
Good report, Tommy!
Will this story be on Law & Order as well?
“Ripped from the headlines”
23: excellent observation, skyhawk. – it’s pretty obvious, factoring in steph’s own admissions of spreading disease that there was an attempt to establish a polopony.
ms miller keeps calling me names, mister snerdley !
The Stephanie Miller reality show?
For the record, I’m not trying to get on a reality teevee show. Scripted comedy or drama? Well, that’s another story.
“something involving the FAA that will get us a show” ?
already done. al qaeda.
Falcon? Where’s the Snowman?
Falcon is his indian name…also know as maize.
#32, or Dynomutt, at least.
Hey Shaf I said that last week!
Biter!!
Ray and Robert Lavoie are heroes this morning for saving car
crash victims outside of Milwaukee… Relatives, Chris?
Balloon Boy Hoax! Ah-Ha! Stephie’s on Fire this a.m.
in 2003, in salzburg, falcon butters heene was born.
“at the dais, at the dais, at the dais,
at the dais, at the dais….
[blaaauuuugggghhhhhh !!]“
33- You call it maize, we call it corn.
#35 Sorry, I used it last week on another blog.
Possible domestic violence? Wow, some of the commenters on Kos really called it.
32/35: at the north pole, watching falcon puke on cornelius.
#39. That’s ok. I love you & you’re pretty.
36: especially if the crash itself was IN milwaukee…. spectacular !
1. San Diego Students to Hate-Mongers: You’re not in Kansas any more
Followup questions are considered impolite in Mainstream Media Land.
Christ on a bike I’m sick of this Balloonies™ story.
This has taken up more news coverage than Walter Cronkite’s death.
2 Scotzi gets on yer local sports show? Awesome, ‘cept the creep
shouldn’t get the chance to spout his crap
3 “professional token darkie michael steele”
that’s spelled “Steal”
Right on, Jim!
Jim- how about a wanna be reality star using his children to get a show
Maybe Wolf Blitzer should have gone & huffed some of the helium from the balloon.
If these peope want so much attention can’t they do it the old fashioned way & shoot up a mall or something.
46: as the general told hauk in “good morning vietnam”, it’s nothing personal. people just like butters more than they like walter. even god likes butters better; there are currently no plans afoot for god to get butters for what he said.
2. this is my story, I wrote it Friday morning and posted when the SMS had 15 minutes left When all is made hostile; a story of sexual assault
#52: I can’t believe it’s not butters?
32 33 37 38
“FBI says I killed a border patrolman
in Laredo, Texas. [pukes]” — Falcon
3. Liz Cheney Is Scared Of Rachel Maddow
Wow the one good song by Savage Garden..
4. How Orly Got That Way
Hey of they can give January Jones boobs they can give them to Steph.
Hiya, Bloggoes!
Cain’t believe it! We got snowed on here yesterday. Too soon! How was y’all’s weekend?
for gawds sake they are from BLEEDING KANSAS … what they hell do they think when on? every woman in Kansas has their period at the same time?
when on = went on
I stumbled across this on Saturday & thought that I would share:
http://www.politico.com/click/stories/0910/theres_a_rep_for_that.html
In Boston we got some heavy wet slush-like muck that covered cars and made things slippery but it was all gone this morning.
powerful powerful ad … a must see
5. Must-See Ad from Nevada questioning Reid’s strength (updated w/ donation link)
Whut’s with the Bjork/Hedghog costume this
morning, Steph? Wake up drunken cross eyed and
grab yer halloween outfit early?
#64, it also helped the Patriots mop the floor with the Titans. Glorious! (I hate Bud Adams)
yeah nick we were in NOrth Smithfield RI and were getting snow, we called Boston and they said no – thinking we were nuts .. by the time we got home they didn’t think we were nuts any more
#64 No doubt, it magically disappeared after that ‘big light in the sky’ showed up. Hail Ra!
Hi Peoples! Been too busy to breathe lately. Just dropping by for a drive by. Had no time to even send a Get Well Tweet to Stephanie. I think my crops on Farmville (Facebook)have withered. What’s a student to do?
PeterW … yeah especially after the Sunday before, this was great
Yeah it was kind of like precipitation made of Astroglide.
Nick @ 63 — that was cool!
Mornin blog.
59 January Jones?
Christina Hendricks! Now THATs a Woman! w/curves!
Maybe Steph needs to go ‘vegetarian’ since she turns most men gay?
Just sayin’
Organizing for America is having a mass “call your freakin’ Senators day” tomorrow. Would be nice to see if all that calling could shut down AT&T.
http://www.barackobama.com/
63—very funny
60—Snow. Oh ear. It was 90 here yesterday. I don’t like 90 in October. Nor do I like snow in Oct.
79—should say “oh dear”.
#75. OMG yes. I remember first seeing her on ER & then in Firefly. Such a pin-up girl.
53: (CIB) a powerful and essential piece of prose. on behalf of future medical personnel, psychologists, and all people, thank you for enduring the obviously painful processes which must have been entailed in telling the story. surely i speak for many, in saying we despise the perpetrator, and wish you whatever respect and peace is still possible. blessed be.
69
Actually, most of it was gone this morning without any help from the sun.
Deeetroit
whut a town. We’re cursed. Under and Bad Sign. We can’t even
have a Marathon w/o THREE PEOPLE DYING… Detroit Free Press
Marathon yesterday. No, they were not shot during the run,
they collapsed and died. Another uplifting tale from Dee Town.
Rude Pundit Salvo! Even rocked Momma back… girlfriend anal tease
on birthday… Momma sounded… flustered
55: yeah, but laredo has that effect on everybody.
Laredo was an excellent navigator and pilot.
If gays want to join the military & protect our country by all means let them.
Have an all-gay platoon or something if the straights are paranoid.
Remember the guy that saves your ass may, in fact, be gay. Does that make him / her bad? Would you be happier dead??
#61 Yep, Kansas started out with a huge majority of its citizens firmly in the anti-slavery camp, John Brown et.al., but they forgot to build a wall around it after statehood and ever since we’ve had a steady influx of racist wingnuts. They’re a small but embarrassing minority but give the state a huge black eye. And don’t forget the homophobes. Fred Phelps may live in Topeka but his brand of prejudice seems more inline with the places and the era in which he grew up, Mississippi and Louisiana in the 1950s.
Yeah but the Netherlands are French & gay.
58: yep. orly is quite ridiculous. – the attempt to draw a parallel of obama with osama bin laden breaks down, because rush limbaugh has never professed having the same mindset as obama.
Steph, Were those 20 megaton nuclear wing-tipped wooden shoes?
Could we have crossed the line with that joke?
Rude!! Boo-yah!!
Good morning SMS newshounds, weather chasers and hoax spotters!
Is balloon dad on the TSA no-fly list yet?
63/66: there’s a shtupp for that.
#89, Fred Phelps isn’t so much a bigot as he is a crooked (and disbarred) lawyer running a family of crooked lawyers. Westboro Baptist is a lawsuit mill.
53 thank you for sharing that Cindy, I hope the act of doing
so is cathartic for you. It makes my blood boil, I’d like to
get ahold of the so called dr and beat him… or at least see
him thrown out of a job… who else is he sexually assaulting?
and the Halliburton case, I’ve read about. Disgusting. Just
what you’d expect from that evil organization. May they fry
in hell, soon.
95: he’s toast, but he’s not allowed to take butters onto the plane.
We’ve got to break up all these huge corporations. They are too powerful and, besides the specifically economic ramifications, they also warp society.
“i’ve got my veto cigar right here…. oops.”
#53/98 I share Mark’s anger. Teaching hospitals need to have a course (if they don’t already) devoted to instruction on patient relations (what is proper and improper behavior).
#102 Granted, there’s already the rule on examinations. But, there needs to be more than just the ‘rule’.
Westboro Baptist Church, disgusting creeps
1. be as outrageous and offensive as you can
2. when people get sick of it, try to goad them to shut you up
3. sue them for ‘infringing on your right of free speech’
4. roast in hell, soon
google the Eastboro Baptist Church
Rude’s comment re Flush/dope/Domincan Boy cum… priceless
Nothing stops Rush from forming HIS OWN GROUP!!!
104 — how big is that congregation? Isn’t it just his family?
53
I read that earlier Cindy, and at the time just couldn’t say anything – I was stunned. Still don’t really know what to say. Must have taken a lot to relive that experience and blog about it.
Precisely, “I regret if anyone was offended”.
102
But it’s not just teaching hospitals. The point needs to be driven home at ALL hospitals.
106: and the all-you-can-eat buffet only encourages rush to form his own group.
102 that sexual predator bastard won’t ‘learn’ not to rape women
in some class… most people learn what’s not right when they are
whut? five years old? seven? that @$@#$@# should never be a dr.
He needs to be in prison.
Remember, the “R” stands for Rapeublican.
107: there are even more members than in the catholic coalition, thoe not quite as many I.Q. points.
jim is a legal-basis nazi.
#110 Good point. It should be part of employee orientation for all medical providers.
It appears I’ve missed Rude boy once again, damn it all.
But, good morning to the rest of you!
Impeach Obama? finally, I got a President who I feel is MY President.
I’ll put up money against these morons, if they ever get to be a
real threat…
Their money pitch sounds like a PBS fundraiser.
Do I get the umbrella or the Dr. Who scarf?
“Why yes, I am willing to sit back and let Barack Hussein Obama do a bit of bulldozing on the property.”
Hiya, Jan!
#119 $500 donation gets you the “I am a Rightwing Asshat” t-shirt.
119 — I want the disappearing tardis cup!
119: i actually knew a guy who was so nerdy that one halloween, donning the doctor who scarf, he suddenly for the first time looked natural.
#123, ah, the old classic
Good morning Jan!
Good morning, Duane!
Good morning, Paul!
No sausage today!
124 — my kinda fella
120: how revealing is that ? – one can actually picture obama operating a bulldozer, with or without intensive instruction; not so dubya. – indeed, can anybody picture any combination of medical procedures and training modules that would ever get dubya to seem like he could be something like a president, or at least a grown-up ? – well, i cant either, and that’s rather sad, because i have a notoriously potent imagination, but for this one i could not justify spending any more energy.
123: isnt that just called “flashing” ?
why oh why didnt butters just hit the onstar button ?
I still get amazed at the conservative’s ability to project their worst traits on the Dems.
For example, that impeachment petition accused Obama of trying to turn American in to a Third World nation.
Third world nation! That is EXACTLY the conservative vision for America. They want a huge military, no social safety net, no taxes for rich people, ruled by a small clutch of billionaires with the rest of the population working for free-market minimum wage.
131 — I can’t believe Chimp In A Suit was ever a jet pilot. That boggles me gulliver.
Here’s the Radio Equalizer segment:
Wow, major Dodge Dart starting action!
I HATE HATE HATE it when talk show hosts give the Dow, instead of the time.
If we have learned anything, it’s that Wall Street is not our friend.
i left my iphone out under the sprinklers this morning…shit still works…
phew
129
Sausage only made when Steph is not in the LA studio.
#136: Evidence?
Media Matters has plenty!
134: you’re missing the big picture. ultimately, “free-market minimum wage” becomes a dispensable oxymoron.
138 — It would be cool to replace it with the “daily surrealist koan” as a report on the state of the world.
#105 Mark wrote: “google the Eastboro Baptist Church”
Hey, are you suggesting that the Westboro Baptist Church swings both ways?
The good news is that the Westboro congregation is pretty small. The bad news is that members of Fred Phelps family, especially daughter Shirley, seem intent on continuing their insanity even after the old bastard dies. BTW, they have been kicked out of all the Baptist denominations and are unaffiliated with any other churches.
#137, don’t drive like my brother.
#123: I got the Doctor Who mug once upon a year ….and a Doctor Qui poster a’la Talouse Lautrec…now I have my sonic screwdriver & Tom Baker’s Doctor scarf (really 6+ ft long).
Can you tell I’m a fan?
135: give credit where credit is due: not just any jet pilot, but one of the elite few who was diverted to train specifically for the planes being phased out from use in vietnam.
Instead of Dow updates, perhaps a simple haiku?
Morning all, so glad to hear Moma’s voice is getting better. not that it sounded bad, it sounded painful to her.
Fake Noise can kiss my ass.
149 — Hiya, Amy!
I am SO HAPPY that the white house is doing push-back on Fox News.
Of course, Obama can’t do it directly — except with humor. He is really great at the zinger.
Juan Williams *snort. If he’s a liberal I’m “balloon boy”.
#147, somebody had to fly them out to that airplane graveyard out in the Arizona desert or something.
House slave? Is he one of Sirius Black’s house elves?
What?! Juan Williams isn’t a “house slave”…
…he’s an uncle tom, big difference.
155 — I think Kreature is Cheney
I can’t even LISTEN to that prick anymore. Cheezuz, he’s a whiny bastard.
I do care about Wall Street but not as much as my job!
Karl, you’re just such an optimist!
Ummm…I care what Barackstar is talking about.
#153 I cringe whenever I hear any NPR analysis by Williams, Mara Liasson, or Cokie Roberts. All three are complicit in furthering the Beltway Spin.
I suspect that Juan Williams is angry because he stupidly hitched his cart to a really stupid horse.
He was pretty-good on Talk of the Nation but he went for the bucks.
I think the best thing for Obama to do to counter-act the “expansion of government” talk is to repeal the Patriot Act.
162 — the Beltway Spin is one of my favorite dances, right up there with the Aqua Velva.
I think I may have misspelled “”Aqua Velva”
Aqua Vulva
#164 – doesn’t need to be repealed — it sunsets. just don’t renew
Wow…a man that knows how to spell “vulva”.
Charles Krauthammer is a constipated prune.
167 — exactly
#146 – Want to make a TARDIS cake? http://www.doitmyself.org/2009/08/tardis-cake.html
#168, sadly, Obama’s people are on the Hill explaining how it’s so very important that it be renewed and expanded.
#172 – no doubt
#64: Accidental Astroglide discharge at 40,000 feet – sorry!
Peter — are highland pipes are played with a bellows? No particular reason to ask that, it just occurred to me to ask.
#169: Janincarnate! I’m hurt.
#172, that is sad…
#171: oh I have a few sites marked. I wnt to do one that’s vertical like of Ace of Cakes of something.
#174: I thought that it smelled familiar.
#176 You are? Did someone metaphorically kick you in the vas deferens?
#172 One would think that Obama (a Constitutional scholar) would appreciate the unprecedented shift in power caused by the Patriot Act and would seek its repeal. The fact that it hasn’t been (repealed) indicates the danger, that power in the hands of even well-meaning officials can still potentially be abused.
Silly caller, logic doesn’t work in the right wing perspective.
#175, no, the highland pipes are mouth-blown. Uilleann pipes; and modern smallpipes, border pipes, and Northumbrian pipes are bellows-blown.
182 — when facts disagree with their prejudices, it’s time for the facts to change. See “the Conservative Bible Project.” Their whole thing is very tribal.
#181, you’d think. But this same Constitutional Scholar also was proposing lawless indefinite preventative detention, which the founders considered the height of tyranny.
Power corrupts – not just the person in power, but even more so the courtiers who are that filter that person’s information about the world.
Mark, you’re really going to have to come out of your shell let it all hang out. Really.
136: that was a very good transcript, but there was one glaring error: where it said “(lavoie laffing in the background)”, it should have said “(lavoie laffing REALLY REALLY GAILY in the background)”.
#181 – who, in power, has ever worked to give it away?
That’s why I liked Richardson – he explicitly stated that he would work to reduce exec power (not that he would have – but he was the only one who at least pledged to do so)
Missing W, Jim? Maybe you should aim more carefully. Get some tips from Cheney.
138: but sometimes wall street has good candy.
#180:
And if someone did kick me in the goolies they may have indeed connected with my vas deferens but no that’s not why…why wouldn’t I know how to spell vulva?
#192 It was a joke, dear. I’m quite proud that you do know how to spell “vulva”.
Stop talking about the effing Dow!
144: the restraining order they got along ago from jesus should have clued them in, if anything would.
#193: thank you very muchly.
Dubya is not one of the thousand points of light.
He’s one of the million points of dim.
#197 *wild applause* BRILLIANT!
187 thanx Jan next time I’ll tell you how I REALLY feel
169: “Wow…a man that knows how to spell “vulva”. Charles Krauthammer is a constipated prune.”
see the difference ? volvo is boxy but good. chuckles is just boxy.
175: only tony nelson, roger healy, and the lovely amanda know for sure.
Rove is such a poster child for takes one to know one.
HUH! FOX! What is it good for?
ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!
180: accidentally ?
“whatever, i do what i want !!”
Grab whose hose?
#199
175/183 — there was a typo there. I know the highland pipes use the biological bellows generally. The second “are” there, the one that makes no sense in context, was supposed to be “ever”.
184: “Like a six year old “But Evil Dick, you said we were doing
this for the show…””
there is a certain pretzel logic to diarrherun’s prestigurgitation.
Conservatives are like the snotty frat boys who trash the frat house.
… the next day, they start drinking early as they taunt the clean-up crew.
187: i am quietly laffing out loud inside.
“Let me show you sumthin’!” – Fire mMrshal Bill
#207, no, that variety has never been adapted to bellows, probably because of the high operating pressure. The pipes that switched from breath to bellows tend to be ones that operate at lower pressures, and also have small reeds which are more sensitive to high humidity. And most of the switching happened in the 18th century.
209 roflmao
and it’s so true
189: oh, yeah, that’s right, there was jesus, and cincinnatus, and to some extent, festus hagin.
#44: Re. Kansas: I was perusing town names on a map the other day and noticed that the only Liberal in Kansas lies right between Johnson (KS) and Beaver (OK). And of course there’s a Hooker (OK) nearby.
Chris re Stephie: yer built like a surfboard
yeah, but a REALLY SEXXY surfboard
Fire Marshall Bill:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdR2T6YKAUc
192: “…why wouldn’t I know how to spell vulva?”
they must have seen your infamous incident in the middle of “spellbound”:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGdCeMayUjk
214 — That Festus, he was a mensch.
#193: Spell it? I used to drive one.
216 — Mark — you writing mash notes to Chris now? This is new.
136 thanx
Fattycakes Limbaugh is a racist bastard, it’s common knowledge.
may i be her berliner ?
i’m calling for fascist backup !
“I am going to die?” – Travelocity Nome
#225 Nome = Gnome (sorry)
219: now that you menschen it, miss kitty was quite the fascist germalinguist. – but enuff of gnomenclature….
Hoerl? Isn’t that Falcon’s nickname?
221 naw, yer readin’ it all wrong. I was quoting Chris from
earlier in the show when he told Stephie she was built like
a surfboard, ie flat
while I maintain she might not be overly endowed she’s still
gorgeous. No mash notes to Chris, I’m still crushin’ on Momma…
as usual
from my first ever mash note to Momma… “Love your swimmer’s
build… is that just a Klassy way of saying you’ve got a
Spectacular Ass, and titties like my little brother?”
*applauding the umlaut*
Steph: “It’s an oh with two dots over it…” – oh, you mean like an emoticon?
it was HO-GAAAAANNNNN ! in the alehouse, with the blonde volvo.
Anytime one uses Gnomes as Nazis, it’s hard to accuse them of glorifying the Nazis.
OMG, that’s awesome, Jim!
Das ist bullshit!
#231
229: “when he told Stephie she was built like
a surfboard,…” – is that why steph has to get waxed daily ?
#233 Of course, they’ll get labeled as ‘gnome-appeasers’.
#232, it may be blonde on hood, but the upholstery is brunette.
/ducks
Waxing is for sissies. Yank them short hairs out with yer teeth, dammit.
I don’t think we want to place that Boehner anywhere.
It drives me crazy when former-Bushies FINALLY say the right thing after they leave office.
They remain silent when they could have DONE something positive.
237 Ha! way to bring in the waxing
most women don’t get their backs done, wolf-grrrl
233: “Anytime one uses Gnomes as Nazis, it’s hard to accuse them of glorifying the Nazis.”
until the german-built volkswagen beatle.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oQQl86U3QY
Springtime for Hitler…and Germanyyyyyyyyy….
239 OH! Penalty box for Peter… at least you can play yer
pipes while you’re in there…
Marge Simpson in Playboy this month, we finally get
to see if the carpet matches the beehive
#240 Brings new meaning to ‘flossing’
243: and while steph is waxing, jim is already gibbous.
#247 *applauds Shaf vigorously*
i’m very anti-trust (not that it’s any of your bizness).
I must leave you now. Please…don’t weep. I’ll be back…one day. Air kisses for everyone!
242 so true, these scum said nothing while the Rule of Law
was destroyed, while the Neo Con Men turned us into the
Evil Empire… now they come forward when it’s too late.
They got paid, they took the money, they kept their mouths
shut. They only speak out after the fact. It’s not enough
to keep them out of Hell.
Bye Jan!
240 247 “how to occupy yourself in an incredibly
boring situation #3, post coital snuggling time…
flosh w/ a pube” — w/apologies to the old NatLamp
252: score one for jesus. “if this is what they do under the greenspan, what will be done in the dry ?”
Jaaaaannn!!!! NNOOOOOO!!!!!!!!
#248: Oooooohhh. Astronomy humour.
257 — sshhhh! don’t tell anyone, but I thinnk there may be nerds on this blog…
Nerds? Neeeerrrdddssss!
Hey, Mark in Deetown!
Did you see that they are doing a remake of Red Dawn in Detroit? Here’s pictures of tanks in downtown:
http://jalopnik.com/5384554/red-dawn-tanks-invade-downtown-detroit
259 — ssshhhh!!!!!
Red Dawn, the gift that keeps on giving.
260 — Uhh, the Soviets are gone, and they wouldn’t be interested in Detroit any more, now would they. This sounds like a doomed protect.
WOLVERINES!!!!
260 Yes Shaf they blew up an old gas station last week,
Detroit is becoming a big movie town… Clint Eastwood
filmed Gran Torino here, in my barbershop. Ted Widgren,
my barber, is 94 years old, still steady enough to straight
razor shave you. He was standing in the back of his shop
while the filming was happening. When the actor delivered
his line “that haircut ought to last you six weeks you
son of a bitch” Ted said “Geez, I’d never talk to one of
my customers that way”… “CUT!!! QUIET ON THE SET!!! Ted,
you’re gonna hafta stand outside…”
What happened to Oliver?
Flombay,
It checked out your link to the Harrison video — what a memory you have for obscure Nazi gnome references!
256: here it is: the all-inspiring all-purpose josh brolin audition, revealing a potential future in which obama authorizes a fruitful investigation into 9-11. the critical juncture appears from 3:00 to about 4:04.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwcLL0Ffj7I&feature=related
265 — We don’t talk about Oliver. He’s gone to another family.
#265 A few weeks ago, Steph mentioned that Oliver was placed with another family during a Miller-family crisis. He’s doing well.
Morning all. Chris, we don’t need that ovulation sound effect ever again.
Oh Momma so glad yer back and healthy again, you’re
so… wondermus! Even in the Bjork/Hedgehog getup…
Steph would make someone a really nice beard.
258: “sshhhh! don’t tell anyone, but I thinnk there may be nerds on this blog…” – just remember who has secret keeping-a-secret skills from the government.
270 yes, thanks k, Chris is banned from using that
Thanks Shaf.
262: tony orlando: the man who keeps on grinning.
Sometimes I forget how pathetic and ridiculous this conservative “Obama is a communist” charge is.
I mean, how clueless, how out-of-touch, how paranoid it reveals them to be.
270 — ovulation sound effect? I missed it! could we hear it again, ProducerChris?
266: memory ? – well, no, it’s not memory; i just sort of live such crap.
Oliver didn’t go to the glue factory… or so Stephy claims.
Orly Taintz ain’t buyin’ it… no proof
#270: agree. never. use. that. again.
It isn’t just the terrain in Afghanistan — it’s also the lack of any sort of resources or development. It ALL has to be brought in from a long distance.
that’s what you get after 8 years of religion batting science around like a cat with a new mouse toy.
Oliver was a symptom of The Brady Bunch jumping the shark.
If it’s jeapordy shouldn’t jim be answering with a question?
Motley Fool stick guys say invest in wind energy bigtime.
268: first rule of oliver: we dont talk about more. second rule: in the midnight hour, we dont cry “MORE MORE MORE”. for the rest of the rules, please consult the volumes over on those shelves.
stick=stock
285
“The Mayflower”
Flombay,
it was nice to see George Harrison — I was an off-and-on fan of his as a solo artist. He had some real moments of brilliance. The video reminded me that he also had real on-camera charm.
Halloween. Will Elvira be back?
285 — and Steph should be phrasing her questions in the form of an answer.
this person sounds all wet.
I’ll come to your house momma.
Has anyone figured-out who the boy band neighbor is?
I can see SPARTA now, the snow is gone.
sparta?
In an orange jumpsuit? Wouldn’t that be a Guantanamo reference?
SPARTA!!! humanoid Sparta!
Steph, invite Elvira to co-host your Trick-or-Treat night. Kids of all ages (especially men ages 20-60) will be there!
don’t hold back everyone sparta
How is that offensive to legal immigrants? From what I’ve seen, they have illegals as much as conseratives do – I waited in line and did things the right way, why can’t they? blah blah…
#302 have = hate
Hey, I just Sparta’d on myself! Sorry.
but Mommy I DON’T WANNA go to the scary dog ladies house this year…
last year she gave me a can of beer… and I stepped in dog poop
in her yard… why is she naked all the time?
284: i’m really happy for bernie madoff, and i’m a let him finish nappy time with the fishes, but jumping the shark was the greatest fonzie scheme of all time.
Happy Sparta Shaf!
300
Got a feeling Steph couldn’t afford that as the hostess of a show no one listens to.
Oh, congrats on your Sparta
Oh dear not CHER!!!
>> Skyhawk says:
>> I’ll come to your house momma.
You can do a better Squeezy than that!
How about,
“Can I get a piece of candy at your house, momma?”
Is it a boy band currently on tour rhymes with Slackstreet Toys?
300. Good idea and Sparta, Shaf!
C & C Music Factory! TImeless. It annoys me now as much as it did then…
290: indeed. and one of the best things about the beatles, is that no matter which of the four primary beatles was your favorite, you were still correct. george harrison a gnomadic mensch, worthy of love and respect, wherever across the universe, he may roam.
Tyson-Holyfield Bromance? Scary!
Mike Tyson: I love this guy, he tastes good.
I wonder if Tyson was a muncher like on the Simpsons last night.
305: so the helmet started out as a sort of security blanket ? do you by chance, have a feminazi sister who never puts out for the bald kid ?
#311, Mama’s comment that “one of the members – not the one who lives next door – has swine flu” gave the band away, but not the particular boy (though it excluded one).
“Has anyone figured-out who the boy band neighbor is?”
Something Mama said once about him convinced me that it’s AJ McLean of The Backstreet Boys – and they are on tour right now.
305/310: “hey, did you guys go by the naked scotsman’s house ? – my little sister said his atlas rocket shrugged, and we all got these cool autographed jar jar binx candies !”
305 — Klassick!
does jim just like impossible needy little girls who will emotionally bond over nothing ?
What about the one with the mouse who called Santa a fraud?
309 – You’re right, back to Squeezy school for me.
I have to agree: Frosty blows. Too twee.
Need I remind you people that it’s OCTOBER! NO CHRISTMAS!!!! War on Christmas!!!
318 feminazi sister who never puts out for the bald kid?
ref too obscure please advise
bald kid? boy in boat? wha?
The best Frosty is the Family Guy parody where Lois breathes fire on him.
You mooks going to give away the plots to all the Christmas specials? Just proves how NOT kid-safe this show is!
323 Oily Taintz representing Santa in Santa VS The Martians
epic lawsuit
Obama in cahoots w/the Martians
“the insurance reform is like an ACORN functionary trying to foist representative voting upon the american people, and i’m going to be the young blood with jar jar bling, busting a backwardly-worn cap upon they ass yo, and they’re going to have to stop that train to straighten my cap !” – m. s.
Strange bedfellows…so many jokes so little time.
My favorite Christmas Special is the Star Trek: TOS one.
320: okay, yes, 320 was actually intended to address 309 rather than 310. sorry. darned walmart abacus !
330 — oh, man, now I’m getting militant. Please don’t conflate Orly Taitz with Pia Zadora. Please.
Strange bedfellows on BOTH sides? Helllo…
98. – Mark . thank you (sorry had to be away for a bit)
108 – Paul … a lot of people have had that response. Especially many people who thought they knew me … it’s okay … after writing it I couldn’t respond to people’s comments so I understand
I was rather surprised how much it took out of me to write.
Thank you both.
327: “feminazi sister who never puts out for the bald kid?
ref too obscure please advise”.
charlie brown / lucy / football
#328 Then he starts melting and the kids put the hat back on him and bring him back to life screaming “take it off take it off!” and they take the hat off and he just melts.
I love this show.
Why surprised that they swing both ways? They’re already whores selling to the highest bidder.
Steph and the mooks wondered why a Blue Dog would support a higher paying “Medicare for all”
Ed Shultz has covered this — a main reason blue dogs are against government option is because they are worried it will lower payments to hospitals, especially Medicare payments.
Since Chris seems to have deleted a post for swearing, does TR now get Sparta credit?
341. but I’ve heard they can fix the medicare reimbursement problem.
334: wow yeah crappability ! sorry. my abacus skills really are off the beam: this whole substring was intended referent to 304, not 305 in the first place…. so, MDB: are you easily distinguished at all in public from linus van pelt ? – that’s the crux. – ever seen two snowflakes that look exactly alike ?
342 — I don’t think there’s been a clear ruling on that. I tend to favor whoever actually hits the sparta at the time, even if the numbers change.
Ned Lamnot should have been Senator. But the beltway rallied behind their boy. Look what we got in return!
333: jesus would flick a wet languid booger in your general direction, with sufficient force to drop a charging african elephant.
meant “Lamont” (anger affects typing)
338 Stephy is always yanking that perticular football out
from under guys… Hal Sparks
“wanna see my underpants? tricked ya! I’m not wearing any!”
>> Nick (somewhere in the æther) says:
>> Oh dear not CHER!!!
Am I the only straight guy in America who likes Cher?
I think she is fantastic.
346. and the beltway has rallied around Specter too. lesson learned?
350: you just earned free ski lessons. here. try these sonny bono tapes.
security blanket/L. van Pelt
I have bin known to hang out in punkin patches waiting fer the
Great Pumpkin… boozey security blanket.
Best Peanuts Special Ever: “You’ve Got AIDS, Charlie Brown”
caught it from Pig Pen…
#345 Hey, I have no problem relinquishing the Leonidas Cup for today.
351: it’s not how you phil; it’s the way you look.
I’ve heard pretty convincing reasons why forgiving principle has problems.
Another plan, I’ve heard, is to re-finance 30 year loans to a 50 year loan with freedom to pre-pay.
Basically, this lowers monthly payments until the housing market rebounds again.
345 I think Maddy has it, it’s who has the magic number at the time
Ned! Please run against Joe Lieberman again! We’ll work so much harder next time! Joe’s gotta go!
somebody PLEASE beat that little git and get him
the hell out of the Senate… littul Joey Blabberman, Filth
353: but it was a bit insensitive of them to recycle the halloween party everybody dancing merrily scene. still, schroeder as a thriller zombie was inspired ! – pretty cool, how charlie brown took the opportunity to kick lucy’s head off, and nobody noticed until after halloween.
I did love Jim Ward’s Blabberman/McCain bits… demmed funny
356: but you cant really stay in third grade without one.
Whew! Thought Lamont and Sestak were going to announce they’re getting married! We don’t need that right now.
Lucy was always crushin on Schroeder who couldn’t care less
all he wanted was another Fix
#350: I temped for about a month with a guy whos only love in life was Cher. I was never a fan before but now I want to claw my eardrums with broken glass.
Those crazy cons are at it again:
http://www.impeachobamacampaign.com
Holy smokes those OnStar cars crash a lot. No thanks.
363: that would bring the dig one, elizabeth.
354
Co-spartans
367 — I think it’s the phone calls that cause it. They shouldn’t be calling people while they’re driving.
“Hi this is OnStar. Boo!” >screeeeeeck! crash!!<
Isn’t the Max Baucus plan just like “Medicare Part D”?
It’s a windfall for corporations in the guise of reform.
Nena!!!
Ah the bipolar advert is back although in a short form.
#356 I’ve also heard a proposal to force banks to renegotiate the balance of the ‘upside down’ loans based on the current property value (not the value during the housing boom, when the loan was written).
It’s a non-starter with the banks, though. Their logic… you borrowed their money, they want it back (with interest) even if the property is no longer worth it.
364: that’s the way the william burrows.
>> Nick (somewhere in the æther) says:
>> “Hi this is OnStar. Boo!” >screeeeeeck! crash!!<
Maybe the OnStar locks-up the brakes, just to get good ad-material.
Mama does the dog-rearing.
375 — the case could be made that property values have gone down because of banks’ lending policies. they should have to take a beating, too.
#372: they’re working it like Romney did here in MA, so people that literally can’t afford the premiums on even a craptastic plan will get fined for not having the craptastic useless plan.
373: i probably have never been accused of having an especially good memory (cant be sure), but i seem to recall that nena had some really nice balloons.
So Steph found the right combination of red wine and her dog’s painkillers!
#379 Agreed. Unfortunately, I’ve yet to see a Day of Reckoning for the mortgagers.
Shāf,
For sure, the banks will have to be forced into any compassionate loans.
Another reason we don’t have meaningful re-financining is because rich people LOVE the bargains they are getting right now. They groove on down-markets.
380. are the fines cheaper than the premiums?
“hello, onstar ? – i have a real emergency here. could you please alert all the local news channels, and maury and geraldo, that my weather balloon has become untethered, and that my small frail innocent six year old prop has gotten a black eye while untying it? – oh, thank goodness !”
He said “deep penetration of American women in the workplace” a-heh-heh-heh-heh, a-heh-heh-heh-heh-heh.
no robust public option = Obama toast
387: with god as my witness, big guy would never tolerate such inappropriate language from a bunch of turkeys.
give a big enuff blender, and i shall.
388 – with butter, cinnamon, and a little sugar.
#385: yes but I’m not sure if they go up after a 2d, 3d violation.
A guy who lived near me worked as a school janitor. He wasn’t the brightest guy but nice & I loved his cat so we’d chat. When the requirement started he had to pay $40/week premium and his deductible was $2500. Where exactly is that supposed to work? Oh yeah: extra premiums for the insurance companies.
#387, yeah, they made me take a sensitivity training class over that whole thing.
cozy warmth for the troops !
afghan build-up now !
I know it is too late for new health care reform ideas but I’ve always thought that free clinics and hospitals is another good way to reform the system.
It would probably be cheaper to just fully-fund county hospitals and clinics.
Nobody get turned-away and the fee is a sliding-scale according to your income.
Most people would not be satisfied with the free system and would get private health insurance, instead. But nobody would go untreated.
#388 flombaye:
How ’bout a “spunky” public option?
Precisely, Jim. Birthers, Deathers, now Nobel-ers!
crochet for peace!
Have a great day, everyone!
can’t ungift. wouldn’t be prudent. bye all!
Good show folks see you tomorrow.
396: i’ll be right over. i’m bringing some awesome lollipops i got from the naked scottish guy.
Buh Bye, Bloggoes!
#394 If not an afghan build-up, how about Snuggies?
Peace Out, y’alls!
396: you DO like licorice, right ?
>> k to the g says:
>> no robust public option = Obama toast
I’d say more like cocoa. Or coffee with cream.
Oh, wait-a-minute. I get what you mean now.
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