LiveBlog for Tuesday, October 20, 2009
• Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA) calls in at 6:05am Pacific to update us on his collapsed lung and to discuss health care reform.
• Charlie Pierce, author of “Idiot America,” calls in at 7:30am Pacific to riff on the news of the day.
• Rep. Frank Pallone (D-NJ) calls in at 8:05am Pacific to talk about health care reform.
• MSNBC’s David Shuster calls in at 8:30am Pacific to talk about the big news of the day, including health care reform and Balloon Boy.
• White House advisers have stepped up their attacks on Fox News, claiming the cable television network is a GOP mouthpiece whose programming “is geared toward making money.” Rahm Emanuel, President Obama’s chief of staff, said on Sunday, “It is not a news organization so much as it has a perspective.”
• The White House is waiting for Congress to settle on a final health care bill, even though President Obama has a clear preference in favor of at least once specific – the much-debated public option. Obama, however, will not demand that legislation include a government option.
• The stock market stepped to new highs for the year yesterday after a handful of earnings reports bolstered hopes that the economy is coming back sooner than analysts had thought.
Tags: Adam Smith, Barack Obama, Charlie Pierce, David Shuster, Fox News, Frank Pallone, Health Care Reform, Rahm Emanuel, Stock Market
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Goood morning all
I couldn’t believe it when our local AM blowtorch used the coverage of the Ballooney Family in an AD! What the hell are they trying to say? Listen to us, we can get taken in by hoaxes like everyone else, but we get taken in better?
#1 I can see it now…
“Sure, we just as stupid as the other news outlets. Except, we do it more breathlessly and with more chyron!”
Good morning, everyone. Feeling a bit down today. Fun with our Advanced Improv class last night was tempered with news of the severe liver illness (which may require a transplant) of the 21 year-old daughter of one of our troupe. Please keep Amanda in your thoughts and prayers.
Needing the cheer-up, a Facebook friend shared this video.
When the Pixar logo lamp goes bad…
http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1921845
Sorry to hear that, shaf. I’ll keep Amanda in my thoughts.
Good morning earlybloggers!
I’m happy to get my blog on this early … still dark here on the Left Coast. It’s all about the little things in life.
#5 “Dark… followed by widely scattered light.” – Hal Sleet (the Hippy-dippy Weatherman)
Couldn’t resist dusting off the Carlin chestnut. Good morning, PJ!
Mornin Shaf, TR, and PJ
Morning, all. Sorry to hear about your friend’s daughter. Best wishes to her.
Thanks, I like my chestnuts dusted off. If you could just pull them out of the fire once they’re roasted. Five miles north of me Chris is scrambling, Jim is yawning, Steph is rubbing her eyes and booking her next getaway.
Morning, Rocky Mountain High … LOOKOUT! BALLOON!!
No more lung butter?
Good Morning Bloggies! ‘Mornin’ Steph & Mooks! You sound soooo much better, Steph–flem be gone.
#6 Love the reference, shaf–Hippie Dippy Weatherman rules.
#3: Oh. Your. God. That was HILARIOUS!
Sounds like the Balloonies may end up on a reality show after all. Unfortunately, it will be one of those MSNBC weekend shows.
Good morning internet flesh inhabitants!
#13 Yeah, Lock-up… Heene behind bars. That’s the ticket!
Let’s see where the Co$ and CoC converge:
1) Co$ claim 8 million members – the reality is that they have about
50,000 if that.
1a) CoC claims to have 3 million members – the reality is that they
have 200,000 to 300,000
2) Co$ is having major members leave by the droves
2a) CoC had Nike and Apple leave recently
3) Co$ pursues weak minded “celebrities”
3a) CoC is really into teabagging (so they have something in common
with Co$ if they like Tom Cruise).
BTW “CoC” is the Chamber of Commerce and “Co$ is the Church of Scienoborgs (Scientology).
The price of covering everyone could be too high. If the price is that we force everyone to buy insurance from an unregulated monopoly, then the price is too high.
Well, Mrs. Cleaver, if she was into Goth.
C’mon peeps at this rate we’ll never reach SPARTA
A goth Mrs Cleaver. Hmmmmm.
As a techie, my favourite phrase looking of an acronym is “Computer User, Non-Technical”.
Great montage, Ken!
Sen. Al Franken rocks. He speaks up for women and the most vulnerable in our society, so succinctly. Boooooo to the 30 (white, male) republicans who voted against his amendment.
Ok I want a reality show where it’s just me responding to idiots trying to get a reality show.
Yes, Falcon commits!
Nec_v20: naughty. Go directly to penalty box.
So when does Falcon ‘write’ a book about having a ‘relationship’ with his dad?
#23 And ‘Boooo’ to the Dept. of Defense, which was against Franken’s Anti-Rape Amendment:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/19/defense-department-oppose_n_326569.html
Hiya, Bloggoes!
1.) #3 was just sad. It was an accident!
2.) Can’t stay long today, so much to do! but I wanted to stop in and say yo. I may stay for a little bit…
Defence Dept: rape ok, consentual gay male sex not.
Wait. Huh?
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/15/opinion/15iht-edkeillor.html
Talk about burning bridges – the conservatives he’s talking about are probably half of his listeners.
#24
Join the Republican Party – all the cognitive dissonance you can’t handle.
#29 (ref: #3) I dunno. Looked like “light on ‘I’” violence to me.
#32: Sorry I won’t go that far.
#31, Garrison’s been an outspoken Dem for a while. I think the conservatives who might be offended must manage to insulate himself from his op-eds.
Nick #26.
I’ve had to get rid of the pr0n from my mates computer once again – I am not in a generous mood.
The lawyer was probably part of it. After all the Balloonies™ would need represenation.
This terror attack in Iran is bad. Iran has vowed revenge. On the
US, Britain, and Israel, the powers they consider responsible.
And guess what? We May Be Responsible, along with Israel and
Britain. There are links. Or the Iranians could just be loons.
But prolly not. Sy Hersh was writing about our links to these
groups quite a while back…
Momma Mostly not sick anymore today. But hopped up on home-made
goofballs, hot-rod music and negro dancing. And nyquill and dog medicine
“Missing cat? Check that balloon over there!”
#36 ;p
29 nice new gravatar Madduane!
http://community.stephaniemiller.com/_Joanne-Worley-Laugh/audio/574607/81991.html
PJ Squeezy Louise Hussein McFlavin
Are you advocating for letting the cat out of the bag?
They didn’t like that in the Royal Navy, because that meant that someone was going to get the “cat o’ nine-tails” applied to them.
41 — thanks! I’m still seeing the old one, though…
29 — Now that you mention it… But the results were entirely different this time than all the others.
OK Momma – taking adverts for On Top Magasine! You betta reco’nise!
I don’t see anyone’s avatar. I am sad.
^ Quick search on youtube, a fast download and edit and voila!
39 Missing cat? I thott Momma’s cat wuz not missing, but
always wet [skating]
Squeezy is Oily T(a)its!!!!eleventy-one!
Morning all!
#35: maybe they insulate themselves by not reading too much.
43 cat o’nine tails?
“Don’t talk to me about naval tradition, it’s
all rum, sodomy and the lash! — attributed to Churchill
Lizard People. It’s all real, ask David Icke. Crazy Davey Icke.
Hey, it’s a great metaphor
Good morning, BlookenMogsters..
Hawaii?
Maybe John McClain married Cindy specifically *because* she could open her mouth that wide?! Ever consider that?
Lizard people? He was going to say we were going to be attacked by Sleestaks (sp)?
Shape-shifters? Minions of Queen Doppelpopolis, I warrant!
Sir Phobos, time to enforce Martian Law!
Mr Heene was watching ‘They Live’ WAY too much.
Put on the damn glasses!
It’s the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine.
1: notquite as perverse as the swarm of advertisement in the early 1970s, that came with local tv stations getting their own helicopters.
“why wait for hourly updates ? the huge explosion that engulfed the apartments and killed 25 innocent people was covered by channel 2 news in technicolor AS IT HAPPENED. our crew was on the scene BEFORE THE EVENT TOOK PLACE !!!!!!”
Morning bloggos.
I don’t know…after watching Karl Rove, Cheney and Rumsfeld for awhile, the lizard theory doesn’t seem so crazy!
OK, so Richare Heene is a spot-light sucking loon.
So he’d use his family to perpetrate a hoax for publicity.
But now comes “Inside Edition” spinning the entire damned
thing in a New and Different way: Dick Heene isn’t just a loon,
he plays a conspiracy theorist on the TeeVee. So Whatever
wacky theory he susbscribes to [life/face on Mars, faked Moon
landings, WWII was faked, the Titanic Never Sank, JFK Jr was
murdered, Elvis Needs Boats, Lizard People...etc] becomes
liable for ridicule.
Now try to tell me Bush Knew [more like Cheney Directed; Bush
acted... poorly] or that there was a gunman on the Bushy, er Grassy
Knoll, or that the CIA imports dope, or that the Emperor Has No
Clothes… you will be pointed to as another Richard Heene.
They turn any damned thing into a Mind Kontrol Op, just another
chance to tell you it’s all OK go back to sleep. Everything Is
Under Kontrol. Who is Ricky Heene Working for?
marx place foods ? where obama shops ?
59 Hey Deb! like you say, Cheney, Rove, Wolfie, et al… kinda
does go to the lizard people theory. In any case it Makes A
Great Metaphor. They have a reptilain outlook.
Love Jim’s bear. Wishes he has thumbs.
10: “No more lung butter?”
it must be the hippy dippy weather, man.
The tranq’d bear sounds like The Boehner after too many Rob Roys.
#28 – yes, DoD definitely has culpability in this.
Good morning all. Sorry to hear about your friend Shaf.
Heene sounds mentally ill, which is tragic for his kids.
Thanks, Jim in Saginaw!
We’ve got to get one of her saying “Borrr-ring”
So tired of baloon-boy news…I didn’t even know anything about it until after the fact and now I know far too much…!
Ivan Louise Hussain Biggin
Yeah it was great for her until they started putting the beer into cans. There again didn’t McSame describe having sex with her like dipping a string in a bucket, throwing a sausage up a doorway or describing her as a black hole because even at a three foot distance he still could not see any pink?
LOVE Joanne Worley!
The Lost Saucer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHtWHRBtjUU
59—Perhaps we can blame the Bush Era for Heene’s mental illness. I have to agree that if you studied Bush, Cheney and Rove it’s an easy mistake to make.
So he’s ill, but to what degree??
I liked Ruth Buzzi as the old lady on the park bench that arty johnson was always trying to pick up (laugh in). She could swing that purse pretty hard!
69—At some point it would nice to see all our favorite cable news hosts transition from guffawing to concern for the kids.
20: “A goth Mrs Cleaver. Hmmmmm.”
“ward, i’m concerned that larry mondello’s parochially sublimated oedipal issues may have his carb intake running off the crazy train.”
“yes, dear. say, you’d look really good with a pearl necklace !”
#62 My dad drank Hamm’s beer! Too funny
Answer to Mark @ 60 — The same illuminati we all work for.
OK, I want a reality show where it’s just three smartarses responding to idiots trying to get a reality show. Oh wait, we already have something like that.
I do have to say that I’m over the balloon boy story. On CNN they had people trying to psychoanalyze the family and the dynamics, etc. Time to move on folks…
Well, surprise, surprise, surprise, Skyhawk!
76—It would just be cool to see Mrs. Cleaver CGI-ed into some jeans and a t-shirt, like what modern moms wear.
23: “Al Franken rocks. He speaks up for women and the most vulnerable in our society, so succinctly. Boooooo to the 30 ….”
frankenberry and booberry are both back in the stores. coincidence ?
#76: Ward don’t be so hard on the Beaver.
79: Stephanie Science Theater 3000!
Here’s Balloon GIRL – http://community.stephaniemiller.com/_Balloon-Girl-AKA-Meghan-McCain/photo/5770911/81991.html
Roland Burris could become a useful human being if he keeps up with this.
27—give him 12 to 14 years. Let him get through high school first.
#83: aren’t they always around All Hallows Eve? Like a weird limited edition thingy?
24: “Ok I want a reality show where it’s just me responding to idiots trying to get a reality show.”
i can understand activating the lawn sprinklers, but were the army ants really necessary ?
Sorry guys; Balloon Boy’s father’s interest in lizard people and solar flares just makes him a listener to Art Bell and George Noory on http://www.coasttocoastam.com, often the only entertainment on Fox News Radio affiliates. It does have some real science, helping me to create http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/team_display.php?teamid=13430 to assist in the search for alien signals, in my sleep.
Pakistani government sources say the secret campaign
against Iran by Jundullah was on the agenda when Vice
President Dick Cheney met with Pakistani President
Pervez Musharraf
Jundullah just pulled off the terror attack in Iran.
This is very bad. We are involved.
#27: Young Falcon is going to be one angry punk rocker in a few years. Especially if he has to spend ten years in foster care. My guess is that the parents won’t get long sentences because they are parents.
#86: if she was flying in the Colorado skies O’Reilly would have that on a constant loop.
That bit of tape is on the CNN website right now.
#83 LOL
86: looks like she’s been popped and cropped!
82 Missus Rebekah Taylor, Modern Day June Cleaver, doing
the housework in… high heels, pearls and blue jeans
93—-Yes, people keep saying they want those kids taken away from the parents, but foster care sucks. It sucks terribly. So send them to parenting classes and give more lenience to the mom who seems like a passive follower of her husband.
Blago will be on the Celebrity Apprentice:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-talk-blago-apprentice-folooct20,0,5542212.story
I think Roller Derby ladies are probably great teachers. Get those kids in line!
30: “Defence Dept: rape ok, consentual gay male sex not.
Wait. Huh?”
meet halfway maybe ? perhaps the michael steele strategy:
“this obama healthcare nonsense is just like the foamy wad of santorum from so much furtive illicit gay barracks shower sex…. well i’m going to be the condom right in the middle of the action !”
93: I think that Falcon may be better off in other hands. They’re not teaching him good morals. That said, I’m studying the effects of prison time on families right now. The prognosis for any of those 3 kids is not, not, not too good.
Open the tanning bed or his crypt? Think he’s a vampire that got a little too much sun.
The healthcare process has been “fully public”, like those secret White House PhARMA meetings and Baucus’ secret gang of 6 meetings?
Rahm, you’re an effin’ liar.
New truism…
It’s always darkest, just after the tanning bed shuts off.
Flom. Flom. Oh dear.
Say, we haven’t heard from Darth Cheney recently – has he been spirited off to Dubai?
98—-My mom told me that in the 50s and early 60s she would not leave the house without gloves and a hat. It wasn’t proper to go without unless you were very poor.
32/34: that’s more of an all the king’s horsies and all the king’s dudes sort of a project anyway.
I think Obama’s surrogates are sabotaging him. He needs to fire a bunch of people.
#105 – they would be public if we had real news these days.
91—Art Bell is nuts too.
Saw Capitilism, A Love Story on Friday night. Excellent and highly recommend.
Ok the major difference between Repubs & Demos: Repubs simply follow orders en masse without thinking about it; Demos over-think stuff and don’t act together.
Flying Jiffy Pop! Indeed..
Shiny object = mylar. If he had made it out of plain plastic maybe we could calm down.
good morning!
Barfboy.
Twenty-one liar salute!
Here’s the “Who the hell is Wolf?” clip – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9Ib6d6yVMM
41: if the rest of has had known we were allowed to use beatles….
Add Invader Zim to the canon!
#109: yeah watch Mad Men.
Go Chris Go!
DO MORE PRODUCER CHRIS – DO MORE PRODUCER CHRIS – DO MORE PRODUCER CHRIS -DO MORE PRODUCER CHRIS – DO MORE PRODUCER CHRIS – DO MORE PRODUCER CHRIS – DO MORE PRODUCER CHRIS – DO MORE PRODUCER CHRIS – DO MORE PRODUCER CHRIS – DO MORE PRODUCER CHRIS – DO MORE PRODUCER CHRIS – DO MORE PRODUCER CHRIS – DO MORE PRODUCER CHRIS – DO MORE PRODUCER CHRIS – DO MORE PRODUCER CHRIS – DO MORE PRODUCER CHRIS -
Oh where’s the bette davis liar clip??
I think I have said this here before: I wish I had that liar cannon to play into the phone sometimes in the past when I would have discussions with my ex. Oh that would have been sweet….
Love the Liar Cannon!
51: “maybe they insulate themselves by….”
dang. i’ll always wonder how that turned out.
How to beat the banks?
Join a credit union. Never do business with a for-profit bank again.
111—I’m worried about Tim Geitner.
122 – Brian Epstein?
What that Liar Cannon needs is some Walken. Can you be lyin’ and Walken at the same time?
78 The Illuminati!
from the Book:
“If the Illuminati did not exist, it would be necessary to invent them—such a system can be explained in no other way, except by those cynics who hold that human stupidity is infinite”
http://www.pauladaunt.com/books/Illuminatus/Wilson,%20Robert%20Anton%20&%20Shea,%20Robert%20-%20The%20Illuminatus!%20Tril.html#_RWTOC-26
For Jim Ward,
I can do the perfect Helmut Kohl impression (vocal, not political) let’s hear yours.
The political commentary on the repugs done in Kohl would be hilarious – well at least my girlfriend thinks it isn’t because she hates me when I do the “Kohl”.
#131: http://www.webofdebt.com/
Awesome perspective & ideas about our banking world.
114—I got my kids to go see it Sunday. I was glad they saw it. It is highly educational. I hope it will be standard fare in high school civics classes. Something to counter all the “we love Wall Street” hype on cable.
Why do the TV news anchors worship Wall Street? Oh yeah…because they have all been invited to the party as honored guests.
#132 – Watch the new Moore movie. You won’t be worried but wonder how the hell he got his job. Also, Chris Dodd has some ‘splaining” to do.
Repubs should be issued hob nailed boots.. for walking all over decent people.
Hello Cindy. How is Boston?
53: “Hawaii? – Maybe John McClain married Cindy specifically *because* she could open her mouth that wide?! Ever consider that?”
could also be where mr hand shared “our” first slice of pizza with mrs hand. “WHAT A [*nerd*] !” – and maybe spicoli crashed the car specifically because the star football player was stashing some whoop-ass that was more refreshing than either gatorade or H 2 O.
“kill, forrest, kill !!”
#140- their just happy to steal the money and get away with it.
More cowbell!
Ok fine banks want to screw around again: call the loans & if they fail don’t bail them out.
55: “Sir Phobos, time to enforce Martian Law!”
deimos certainly deserve it.
139—That’s what made me worry. I’m also very worried that Goldman Sachs killed their competitors in this fiasco and Obama and Congress seem powerless to do anything about breaking up the biggest banks.
If a bank is “too big to fail” then that means We the People will forever be called upon to cover their bad investments.
Where is that in The Constitution?
No bail for Polanski. Did he really think that they were going to fall for that again?
146 — scrawled in the margins in blue crayon by the Gipper.
130—Alas, the banks control the whole country, even the credit unions. The credit unions are allowed to grow under their big umbrella, like meaningless little fungi.
Hey all! Very quick hi and bye… no time to blog… just wanted to say I miss you all! I can at least listen now because of the wonders of the iphone…
don’t forget about me… I will be back to my usual antics someday!
XOXOX
#146: and they didn’t do what they said they would. They just bought smaller companies that failed making themelves larger. Now they’re investing in manufacturing overseas (read: China) and not creating American jobs. Thank you Thom Hartmann.
59: i often wondered if m jackson, r fischer, and g w bush were afflicted in the same way. now that all three are brain dead, it will take longer to assemble the answer.
The one thing missing from the “liar-cannon” is Joschka Fischer (former German Foreign Minister) saying in the German Bundestag, “Mit verlaub Herr President, Sie sind ein Arschloch”.
Alan Grayson has a long way to go to catch up with German politics.
I’m reading a memoir about Liberia, and it talks about how they had a revolution there, because 60% of the wealth of the country was concentrated in the hands of the top 4% of the population.
What’s wrong with us?
Yeah, but you sound better Steph. It’s gross when it comes up but it usually means your on the mend!
Stop saying lung butter!
Rebecca got married. Sex tape?
Hi Danielle, Bye Danielle!
82: jim louise ward really should have a talk with her.
More like Barf boy.
Awesome drop, Jim in Saginaw!
159: meant 92, not 82. it’s still dark in reno.
Hi Danielle!
So yer so damned worried about Iran or North Korea having
nukes. O’course you say nothing about Israel having 300
nuclear warheads on missiles, ready to obliterate Tehran,
Damascus, Cairo… anyone who threatens them. Old
I’mADinnerJacket is a jackass and a lose cannon, and the
mullahs are religious fanatics, but they ain’t stupid.
They know damned well that ten minutes after they attack
Tel Aviv, the only place Farsi will be spoken is in Hell.
Whaddafuck? Hey, the Mafia had nukes, they we’ren’t mad
dogs with them. You think I’m kidding. The Italian Treasury
Police confiscated an enriched uranium fuel rod the Maf was
trying to peddle, back in 1998.
The US said “those damned Russkies, so careless with their
nukes”, but it turned out the fuel rod was manufactured
in Michigan and supplied to the Congo under Ike’s moronic
“Atoms For Peace” program, one of the stupider ideas
anyone’s Ever had. Sure, spread ‘em around boys, everybody
promises to play nice. No one will Ever think of diverting
this stuff to make bombs. Hey, it’s called Atoms For Peace!
TRIGA Mk II from General Atomics. Trigger indeed, dumbf#$ks.
So quit yer damned worrying. If you could trust the Maf with
nukes, if that crazy little git over there in Pyongyang
hasn’t nuked Tokyo yet, we’re all gonna be fine. Iran don’t
need to be bombed by Israel, us or anyone else.
Love Charlie Pierce–still need to get his book.
Thanks, SMS, for introducing me to so many cool, funny, intelligent people–like Charlie Pierce, Rude Pundit, Hal Sparks, John fuselgang, and Frangela! BTW, where has Frangela been? I miss them!
Not the Steinberg-Flavin!
Yeah everyone is so outraged about being lied to by the Balloonies™…to bad they didn’t about the lies that started the unneccesary war.
151—They weren’t required to do anything. Congress is bought and sold.
It’s times like this I’m glad I’m out of the donor business.
#168: and I’m ashamed for them. pricks.
Say if that doc were fondling women, would that be a joke? Why is it a joke to do it to men?
So when do the repubs start making Ja-hews wear the Star of David?
154—well we did elect a black President. That still shocks and upsets many millions of us. That’s somethin’.
I think we need leadership on many more issues than just health care. Moore tries to be a leader, and he is in many ways, but you can’t depend on everyone going to see one of his movies.
171 — Squeezy McFeelpants is a hetero molester, y’know.
113: “Art Bell is nuts too.”
he does seem to know it thoe. i think it was around 1996, i once heard him tell a caller they were way too far out there, and truncate the call. – i mentioned it to somebody, who said that art had done that a couple of times before. – let’s see glenn beck do that with a real caller.
120: ignorance is blitzer.
#171 Especially after Cindy shared her story with us (yesterday).
164—The Jewish people have been through the worst of the worse in the 20th century. Therefore it was decided that they could have the fiercest weapons to insure it never happens again. I actually agree with that.
Good Morning. Sorry I am late
So I think it time to not allow any one from the south to visit any other part of the counrty with out a pass port Or go in there with out a pass port.
Sarah Palin Goes Down Cheap on Amazon: Just $9 for “Going Rogue,” A $29.00 Book. WTF?
ANYBODY who doesnt curtail apple pie to save room for peach cobbler is a pinhead.
Saying Taco Bell is Mexican food is like saying Olive Garden is Italian – sort of in the ball park, but not really.
179 — totally disagree with that police state sentiment.
Carrie Prejean (Miss California) has always maintained that she came in second in the Miss USA pageant April 2009. I have often wondered why reporters don’t ask her if she is saying that the “fix” for the pageant was in. Otherwise …how would she KNOW that she would have been first if she hadn’t uttered her thoughts on opposite and same sex marriage.
165—I miss Frangela too. Couldn’t go see them at a live event they had nearby that my friend was going to because it was pricey.
Tim, you need to paint with a smaller brush, dude.
133: “Can you be lyin’ and Walken at the same time?”
only if ferris buehler has just disarmed you, and you’re drunk enuff to do pushups.
182—Olive Garden sucks but boy their marketing is effective. Also the name “Garden”. Who doesn’t want to eat in a nice garden?
It must be true, if the computer says it!
I think he wears neon blue contacts too…they are like REALLY blue – scary.
Thanks Shaf
Rocky Mountain High, Colorado in case you missed this
When all is made hostile; a story of sexual assault
#191 oh yes I forgot to mention … that’s MY story .. I am clytemnestra, I wrote it
Stop saying lung butter! They’re OYSTERS..
193 — I thought they were hockin’ berries.
well that’s it for me today … got to take eldest son around to look for a job.
be good everyone
It’s CACA Bell..
If I get back before the show ends I’ll be back on LB
Bye, Cindy!
I think I needs to end my time on the liveblog for the day, too.
The text to speech on my mac pronounces it “Bay-ner”. Is Steve Jobs a republican?
#193 “Lung butter?” I’m glad i’m not eating solids today!
Taco Hell
180—Isn’t it great the way the RW Christians manipulate the market? They buy up all these crappy books to make them go high in Amazon’s ratings and high on the NY Times Bestsellers list.
So they try to influence the world with LIES. People aren’t buying Palin’s stupid book. Organizations are.
What did God say about lying? Oh yeah, here it is, one of the 10 Commandments:
You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
It could be argued that by perpetrating these lies in the book seller market they are not really hurting their neighbors. However, they are hurting all the people they are lying to when they have, by false witness of purchases, inferred that Palin’s book is popular, or that she’s a good writer, or that she has anything to say that can help anyone.
Sorry for preachin’.
#196, #201 –
134: “those cynics who hold that human stupidity is infinite”
- speaking of which – i’ve been wondering about this anyway. i know i’m a year late finding out about this particular youtube drama, but it’s still fun. i’ve been wondering, is this child for real, or just doing a character. please examine this particular clip from 2009 january 20 before you answer. the screen character never seems to find time to research anything, but just happens to have all the latest talking points handy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9vz9i7gyjM
so, there it is. no symptomology of research on any topic.
full combo platter of talking points.
name: nostradamus type rendering of “lead drone”.
sincerely willful ignorance, or andy kaufman type ruse ?
could this guy be the “global village doren” ?
Kennedy was warned not to go to Dallas but he went anyway. Obama is probably going to be more careful.
#135: You could totally ruin a romantic moment by crooning “Ein Kind Für Helmut” by Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle to your Fräulein.
Nice, I see the Live Blog is getting advertising from the anti-health care bastards. (scroll to the bottom) I understand the show can’t stop people they disagree with from advertising on the air, but can’t they refuse advertising on the web site? Or is the plan to let them waste money on an audience they will never convince? It’s disturbing that the anti-health care bastards have so much money they can afford to spend it here.
does rush ever extrude anything that’s NOT a goo log ?
205 — wasn’t Obama just in Dallas?
#180: “sarah palin goes down”. Heh-a-heh-heh-a-heh.
Uh-oh….God was for days off too. Tell that to some slave-trading Republicans. My daughter has a new job at a big retailer and she often works 7 days a week even though she’s supposed to have 2 days off a week. They call her in. She has to go because they have no one to cover for her. I know her bosses are Republican because her store is in a Republican town.
Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your manservant, nor your maidservant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates.
Yes, but he is more careful and the Secret Service certainly is. Don’t think you will see him riding in an open car.
#211: I hope she gets overtime or is she one of the salaried-slaves>?
OK, I have gotten on my soapbox and that’s a clear signal that it’s time for me to go! Have a good day everyone!
And Sabbath? Stores closed on Sundays?? Business is the new God and money it’s false idol.
154: as with most things, neal peart said it best; it’s a lack of connection to factories in farms. – not that i’m saying the 30 years of aggressively exporting manufacturing capacity is to blame.
211 — A retailer who’s overworking their folks in this economy? That’s pretty wild.
I really must go.
For real, this time!
Buh Bye, Bloggoes! :mrgreen
157: “Rebecca got married. Sex tape?”
the spongbob bandaid seems to be holding up just fine.
#211 – It’s against the law to work someone that way (not that repugs pay attention to that). It’s not her fault they don’t hire enough people. There are a lot of folks looking for jobs right now!
213—Salaried slave. She gets good pay but divide her pay by her real hours and all of a sudden she’s only making $12 an hour. But, because of the economy the Republicans have given us, she will stay there because she’s glad to have a job.
I’m just sick of the Christian hypocrisy. They say, “Work hard and you’ll get ahead” and yet, the Bible is an advocate for proper rest.
Who is wrong? Well, God of course!
“You’ll never get old… you’ll never die.”
220–Tell that to the large corporation! Ain’t gonna happen. She’s young and she doesn’t have kids to worry about. She’s coping but she is very, very stressed.
173: “well we did elect a black President.”
just dont tell duncan. he still thinks barack hussein obama is a celtic name.
195: write if you find work, Cindy.. ;-(
#223 – Is she is at the top of their pay scale? Sometimes they pressure people to leave because they want to hire someone at the starting wage to save .50 cents. Believe me I know about large corporations – I’m one of the cogs in the wheel.
Morning all! I’m with Burris on this one. Public option or trash the whole thing and start over.
OMG, there is is:
http://www.politico.com/blogs/thecrypt/1208/Roland_Burriss_Monument_to_Me.html
200: “I’m glad i’m not eating solids today!”
did you pick a fight with gary coleman again ?
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&source=hp&q=roland+burris+tomb&gbv=2&aq=0&oq=roland+burris+t&aqi=g1
“all that school teaches is CHIT !!
….. and chat”
#180 Palin’s book discounted BEFORE it’s publicly released. Priceless.
beyond atkins…. new nabisco “lunch-nones !”
nun-chucks!
window pole – wow. takes me back!
“Who is the conservative from Orange County?”
“How much time have you got?”
234: underneath chuck norris’ habit, there’s no body, just another bad habit.
chuck norris could win in afhanistan, left-handed.
Too bad we aren’t learning from history…time to get out of the war.
180
That’s WAY overpriced. I’m sure they can get it for free at Human Events.
Get those Poppies! Poppies gotta grow. Nobody has been able to stop that.
As an aside, is it just me or does Stargate Universe REALLY suck?
#197: “Say, we haven’t heard from Darth Cheney recently – has he been spirited off to Dubai?”
He’s got his bags packed and fake death certificate pinned to the door for the feds when they come knocking. Ken Lay’s private jet is waiting…
lung butter is better fried in nose batter
5/6 SPARTA
(almost)
Too Lively Crew?
CHRIS…. My parter told me to ask if you could play doubble kitty. For use who have never knew it existed. I would love to hear it. Could you please please please play it.
Thank YOU
PLEASE!!!!
Yeah, that’s what I thought Chris
#223: no that’s how lot of corporations get around overtime is by running salaried cogs ragged. Also if you hire more people it’s more insurance and benefits.
Humanity: no Republicans need apply..
# 244
Lightly garnished with some sub-foreskin smegma.
Any thing is too lively for Larry King. I am suprised that he is well. alive sometimes. But he always has the best guest next to Stepanie.
If Medicare rates are actually a problem in rural states, shouldn’t we fix that? Why punish the Public Option?
He didn’t say he wouldn’t support a public option, he’s just saying it has to have better reimbursement than medicare.
I think he’s a right wing moron..
#242 I’m still on the fence (re: Stargate Universe). I will say the whole “We don’t trust Dr. Rush” angst is getting old fast.
#249 – insurance and benefits??
Chris- you’re so gullible when it comes to mama.
#242, just you.
254, It’s a problem in rural Colorado too.
Forced to join the army because of privation and poverty? That’s a feature, not a bug, of conservative philosophy.
medicare issue is fig leaf for Cornfed
they actually come right out and say “cheap medical officer” ?
Give Glenn Beck an enema and bury him in a shoe box..
#261 Permanent Underclass? Sounds like the Neo-Con philosophy is coming to plan.
262, then provide for better reimbursement, and take away the fig leaf.
261: the whole concept that the poor are poor because of the poor and are only fit for cannon fodder is one of the prime directives of Republicanism.
These sky-high executive salaries probably don’t even include stock options and the like.
239: “Too bad we aren’t learning from history…time to get out of the war.”
that should be DECLARE VICTORY and get out of the war.
John, sparing us of his wit and wisdom? Bitch, please!
Scary how indoctrinated their employees are – giving someone the finger that has just lost a child???
Geez, right wing caller was just getting a good lather..
#259
I’ll be watching episode 4 in about an hour the download has been somewhat lax recently – so I will get back to you.
The first three episodes were however singularly lacking in cohesion and character.
There’s your time, Jan.
241: “Poppies gotta grow. Nobody has been able to stop that.”
couldnt rebekaa taylor a solution ?
Spreading misinformation, lies, supporting the status quo is “no grief?”
If Glenn Beck is worried about the vaccine, he can always get a shot of just air.
#267, and so it has always been:
http://www.staggernation.com/msb/the_song_of_the_lower_classes.php
(Works to a number of melodies, but I prefer a rocked-out version of “Star of the County Down”
269: who was it who famously said that we should declare that we won in Vietnam and simply come home? I think it applies in Iraq and Afghanistan as well.
242: “is it just me or does Stargate Universe REALLY suck?”
i dont know what that is, but i can surmise from the title alone, that it is probably a waste of space.
277: they need to use a horse syringe full of air and give it to Glenn in a vein..
266. zackly. bet he would find another reason.
251: is there such a thing as “penalty-box-wine” ?
256: doctor who ?
So close to Sparta…
#242: no Stargate sucks.
#280: wast of a universe actually. like star trek (lost in space) voyager bad.
261: amen. it was cute while an anecdote, but the plural of anecdote is data. – thank goodness that most teabaggers are more prone to join the army than to let the government take control of their lives by supplying the medical care that their taxes could potentially afford.
264. he’d fit in one of Drunky’s puked on shoes
#242: no, Stargate sucks.
#284
I remember the original series of that in black and white. Nowadays the Timelord would be black
#284: don’t even.
Looks like sparta soon, if not already. So we’ll likely make SMARTA as well.
#291: nope in ‘colour’.
“lost in space” didnt get bogged down in the error of too much english – yes, i know, there was some kind of babelfish hardware…. but still, so much english was ridiculous. – “lost in space” at least had a mariachi guitar player, where star trek and such have had none.
SPaRtA?
Sparta is loosed from its moorings!
sparta
Now is the time… the time for Sparta!
s… narta!
they’re fleeing the interview to join the army.
SPARTA
Danger! Danger Will Robinson! Sparta! Sparta!!
Damn, just missed it by two
I am Megazor. Future ruler of all Sparta! I have no Earthling defects.
Yay, Ivan! You snagged a Sparta! (bows)
It’s no reform without public option.
Whee doggies! I yield unto myself and reveal my Inner Self ™ to me!
As Muhammed Ali said, so poetically:
“Me!
Whee!”
Sparta needs women. Hey 300 guys can only do so much.
it’s amazing now, watching how they would just allow doctor smith to traipse around with will, when clearly penny would be the safe choice.
Congrats on Sparta, Ivan Louise:-)
300. sparta interrupta?
SMARTA (sparta + 100) is a good place to meet the womens..
Bloop! Bloop!
#310: traipse read as mince.
312: I was making love to myself again.. And climaxed while typing.
Bows to Ivan
309: 300 guys could do chuck norris, and michael steele would still be the condom in the way of the frothy storm of santorum.
Rahm. Is he Obama’s evil doppelganger?
flombaye, Penny was unavailable. thanks to Robot..
Danger! Danger!
chuck norris could locate both waldo and butters before it’s even time to blink.
320: and here’s to you, mrs robinson…
316. Bonza!
Ironically, William Katt was a featured guest at a Sci-fi con in Denver this past April.
323: no, i’ve seen ivan masturbating. it’s actually spelled “bonsai”.
#301- one of my favorite lines from Fargo!
On a serious note, I have been getting lots of my friends to donate to the Countdown appeal.
Some have just given me the cash to send over after telling them about it. Obviously I just pocketed it and mumbled, “sucker” under my breath – like not.
I have gotten together over £150. Who says that folks don’t like America.
Gotta go–have a great Tuesdee, all!
OMG, mini-band mash-up!
324: hello, onstar ? pimp in distress !! get me some channel locks STAT !
Believe it or not George isn’t at hoooome!
Eh. Mother Teresa. Mao. They’re all foreigners so they’re all French & gay.
325: watching, hell! Joining in!
Paris Hilton was “working” in the 1950s R&B sense of the word.
326: chuck norris doesnt lose things. he just thinks he’s gonna barf.
Paris…god is she back?? It was so nice to not have to hear about her, Britney, Lindsey, the rest of them.
Hey Olympia Snowe can play a live lobster, sorta.
Isn’t Paris dead? Or maybe she’s burning??
Bye, SueC. Have a great day!
I need to cut-out as well. Have a lunch meeting.
Have a great day, everyone!
audio collages outstanding today! Thank you, Creators!
did you lose something, falcon ?
That “guest” on Beck — I think was Beck himself. I recorded the 2 am version — I think one or two simple audio edits will get back to Beck’s original voice.
I could be wrong…
Good morning!
Lohan failing to satisfy. Heh-a-heh-heh-heh.
333: exsqueeze me ?
Well we’ll all let Ivan carry on with his ‘morning glory’.
(Thanks Dr James Wilson!)
Dr. Joycelyn Elders refined the experience for me.. until the goddam Repubs ran her off for telling school kids about it.
Paula Poundstone is another of those rare women who love the Three Stooges.
Hi Sarah! Liveblog is a bit squeezy today.
no, I’m done. My eyes are just naturally glassy most of the time..
G’morning, gang! Morning of many meetings….
#338 Nick: “Isn’t Paris dead? Or maybe she’s burning??”
Great WWII reference!
349-I was just thinking that the blogsters were being a tad coarse.
later, it’ll be afternoon delight time..
Honesty is not pretty. Apologies.
Randi had a caller yesterday that said he is very well known in LA as someone trying to desperately get a career going in the movie/tv industry.
Stephie played a commando nun.
Steph as a nun …
Patrica Neal??
Steph is a movie/TV/radio star.
352: “-I was just thinking that the blogsters were being a tad coarse.”
actually, a tad course is a requisite for hooking up with sarah palin.
chuck norris can see moscow from your house.
Steph made a film in the valley? ooooh squeezey likes.
#352: I was thinking about the film http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Is_Burning_(film) but thanks!
355-That could have been one of millions of people in L.A.
“why is this trainer spotting me for pushups ?”
Levi there are other things that are high in protein that are way more fun to get.
356.
Prob the first and last.
Maybe Anita Dunn was just referring to a cute kitty photo for I Can Haz Cheezburger when she alluded to the philosophy of Chairman Meow.
“Clock-mangling booboo”, that’ll be the new catch-phrase…
OK, I’ve got to get out of here and go to work. See you all tomorrow.
Ewww…what’s this on the floor of the penalty box? It’s sticky.
Steph had a eureka moment about Natural Gas? Wonder how she did that commercial with a straight face!!
365: hellz yes ! come on, nick ! let’s you and me put on some dogcatcher uniforms and go pull that routine again !
369. ask Ivan
Hey, speaking of storm chasers, I noticed that the TIV (Tornado Intercept Vehicle) driver is on his own this series. No Dr. Josh and no Doppler radar (DOW); I wonder if there was a falling out?
$11.95 won’t buy much gas. I’ve found that Jim’s album is a steal!
#371 can I be the dog this time
366: always check here for the latest in feminine protection:
http://www.glamguns.com
Has anyone seen my cotton candy? I think I dropped it in the penalty box..
#370: Oh I’m sure that there are plenty of outtakes.
#376 – that’s a great website. Have you seen http://www.despair.com?
367: chuck norris could spot for harold lloyd without even fantasizing about his levis or his “johnston”.
Mmmmmmmmmm…floor cotton candy…
373: imagine if dorothy and toto had had a falling out.
that would have been a much shorter movie.
According to the Denver Post, Balloon-Dad tried to borrow $25,000 from Jimmy Kimmel to promote some lame TV-project. The one thing that those who know him seem to agree on is that Balloon-Dad has a violent temper. Of course it’s already been revealed that the authorities had made some domestic-violence calls at their house.
I pray the story is fizzling out. Finally.
375: promise not to whine about “ringworm around the collar” ?
Who encouraged: CNN?
U2 may throw up on Meredith Viera? Now that I might tune in for.
#384: playing safely.
The “On Top” magazine ad really bugs me.
Guess what? You won’t have visiting rights to your partner at the hospital because he/she will have his/her insurance policy cancelled and be out on his/her ass on the street, condemned to death.
So you just go out on the streets and let the media cover you as a “serious” issue, and watch your partner die in your living-room from an “Ass Inserted Death Sentence” or just denied because of an undisclosed yeast infection and feel really great about your “activism”.
379: seen it, appreciated it, cant remember if it precedes jack handey’s deep thotts…. but i like that whole emo philips / steven wright / todd solonz kind of darkness. thank you for reminding us of that glorious despondency.
I think it’s the second theory David – the prez said he is going to start calling people out on misinformation – about time!
381: “Mmmmmmmmmm…floor cotton candy…”
that trick hasnt really worked on anybody prominent since condi rice.
Newspapers have a different section labelled ‘opinion’.
“girl, there was a time in this country….”
Gee Karl. How’s Mr. Guckert?
394: covered in cotton candy and box wine stains. what up wit dat ?
Balloon dad might be in jail. Don’t think he will be working anywhere anytime soon.
Roland Roland Roland. Ha ha!
“smarting” over, not “doofing” over things ?
Lookit! SMARTA coming round the bend.
just a clever surreality show scheme: the sing-sing singalong hour.
Roland Roland Roland,
Keep those camera’s rollin – rawhide!!
#397
At least he’ll get thre squares a day and health-care.
That’s how to avoid bankruptcy – get jailed.
a bushtown haul ?
yummo !
I redundantly reveal My Inner Self ™ to me. Whee! Me!
Shuster has people on the lookout for Mama, but don’t tell her.
i can haz bush that looks like hitler ?
400. I—VAN. You’re aim is true. Nice double.
405: i “REVERE” thee.
(i [recursively verily revere] thee.)
408: 5 gears and 40 thousand apps. the i-van is simply amazing.
hey, where are the phlegm wad pictures? chris?
leave richard heene alone ! he’s similar to a human ! you’re lucky he even scares the luxurious buttery stomach acid out of his vulnerable son for you bastard people !
you’d think the whitehouse would come off as a bully.
and you’d be wrong.
it’s hambone.
is obama harry bellafonzie ?
he broke my little bottle of polonium-209.
“it’s all a bunch of niggativity, mister snerdley !”
Dick Morris looks just like the turd off the movie “Weird Science”.
Hasta manana, mis bonitas! Tune in again tomorrow. Same bat channel!
Don’t you ever change, you magnificent sons of guns.
L.
i love how chuck norris can totally avoid anti-semitism. jew ?
Good evening all, catch you tomorrow; when I promise not to rant – he lied
)
the one and only salient aspect of the attempt at generating straw target quotes of limbaugh: limbaugh openly takes the blame for quotes for more stupid than the straw target quotes.
Sarah Palin: “Riting books is EASY!!!”
No death panel? I’m not buying it.
I wonder if Margaret Cho likes the Three Stooges.
Bye all.
OK, sorry my participation was limited today,
look forward to seeing you all tomorrow
Ah.. Red mercury. Sweetest of the transition metals.
422: chuck norris can write perfect calligraphy in a rocking snow machine.
423: margaret cho is a major larryhead.
RWW works better than colon-blow some days.
428: fiber six times as well, i hear.
Wow, flombaye! Five posts in a row, right at closing time? How did that happen? Did the internet get re-routed through Reno?
430. Hey WTF?
Steele says the GOP is the party of assimilation? Time to get the DVD mixed pack of STAR TREK: BORG! http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/search/result.html?type=article&search=borg&category=