LiveBlog for Friday, October 23, 2009
• Comedian John Fugelsang joins us in studio at 8:05am Pacific for another edition of “Fridays with Fugelsang.”
• The Senate has long been seen as opposing the public health care option in health care reform, but now senior Senate Dems and White House officials are strongly considering including such a measure, but would permit individual states to drop out of the system.
• The White House yesterday forcefully rejected criticism from former Vice President Dick Cheney and other GOP-ers that President Obama’s Afghanistan decision is taking too long. “What Cheney calls dithering, President Obama calls his solemn responsibility,” White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said.
• Physical attacks on people based on their sexual orientation will join the list of federal hate crimes in a major expansion of the civil rights-era law Congress approved yesterday and sent to President Obama. The measure is named for Matthew Shepard. Many GOP-ers voted against the bill, calling it “controversial.”
• Soupy Sales, the rubber-faced comedian whose anything-for-a-chuckle career was built on 20,000 pies to the face and 5,000 live TV appearances across a half-century of laughs, has died at a hospice in the Bronx. He was 83.
Tags: Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, Health Care Reform, John Fugelsang, Matthew Shepard, Robert Gibbs, Soupy Sales
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Gooood morning all!
Another forced “vacation day” because of the smoke at work. Another “happy daddy’s home” day for Lucky, who since he’s been sick pretty much won’t let me out of his sight and has gotten considerably more affectionate.
RIP Soupy Sales
Good morning, trojanrabbit and the rest of our gang!
Soupy Sales influenced me as a comedian and wannabe actor more than I can ever imagine. As a kid, I was making the grunting noises of White Fang and Black Tooth long before there was Scooby Do. I won’t forget ‘ya Soupy!
Sad about Soupy! I used to watch him when I was a toddler. I remember loving his show, but I don’t remember a whole lot about it. I’ve been reminding myself with youtube’s help though.
Worth noting: It’s also National Boston Cream Pie Day.
G’ Mornin’ Bloggoes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNv3rVV1mfs&feature=fvw
Morning, all. Yesterday was a good day for health care reform – Reid enraged Baucus by putting in a Public Option similar to HELP’s, but with opt-out, and thinks he can get 60 for cloture. The House is ~12 votes away from a Medicare+5 Public Option on HR3200. Both houses are moving to strip the insurance industry of its anti-trust exemption.
Our screaming and yelling is paying off. Keep it up!
Mornin TR, Shaf and Madduane. I hate getting up before the sun rises. It feels wierd.
And PeterW
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-OGy3Kh7yM&feature=related
Hiya, Lloyd!
Morning, All. I loved Soupy Sales. And I know that at this very moment God is hitting him in the face with a pie.
The President needs to consider his strategy on Afghanistan. It doesn’t matter what Cheney, or any other Repub. thinks. They’re going to criticize whatever he decides to do, anyway.
Morning bloggos. Just saw Soupy Sales (at least I think it was him) in a Golden Girls rerun (where Sophia marries Max). I’ve started watching them again – had forgotten how funny they were.
It’s Miller Time! Happy Fridee!
It’s Showtime
Time for swirly hate mail music!
If farts are useful, then the answer is yes.
Well, at least we worked The Beatles into his rant.
Steph would burn the strawberries.
It’s a little early to be listening to someone delivering a gas baby Steph, especially mixed in with right winger letter
Strawberry Marmalade Forever.
Nice SCTV ref, Mama!
Damn you Paul Lynde!
Writer probably watches Mad Men for hints on how to conduct his personal relationships.
It would not take a lot of time to “fact check” Cluster Fox. They don’t use facts.
I’m amazed you can pronounce all those misspellings I know are in that letter, Steph.
“Facts” and “farts” are really similar words, you notice.
Ron Reagan was really, really frothing last night. It was awesome.
There is a scene in the movie Good Night and Good Luck, which showed Edward R. Murrow interviewing Liberace. The Liberace part was done by Liberace himself, as the actual interview was recorded. In the interview, Liberace says he hopes one day that he can get married. This was in the 1950’s. I’m just saying….
And see again — everything the repugs complain against can be traced right back to them. But they don’t do research either….
Laura Ingraham and Michelle Bachman. Welcome to the crazy slumber party.
31 — they should invite Michelle Malkin, too.
Bob Dole is a conservative. He’s not a crazy right winger.
Jart incident explain a lot.
Mama is a hazard to herself in others.
So much for her career as a peltast auxiliary for us Spartans.
new vocabulary word — peltast.
Happy Friday!
Is Liz still out there trying to keep daddy out of jail??
#36, so that sound was everyone heading to Wikipedia?
39 — yup
Yeah, lets finally turn it on them. It happened on their watch, they allowed it.
I would like to be the official victim of this season of loss from the economy on the Stephanie Miller Show! Ding!!! Love how funny you make the news and your take. D
What’s Steph complaining about? She finally has some Dick (Cheney) in her box.
38, I understand why Liz is trying to keep daddy out of jail. I don’t understand why Obama is doing the same.
#42 – “…victim of this season of loss from the economy:
We probably all know someone now who has been affected. My youngest sister just got laid off from her job on Tuesday. She had been working for a local company that has been in business for over 50 years – she had been there four years. They restructed her dept and there went the job! One nice thing – she has a car payment with Ford and they let her delay payments for 2 months. It will show up on the back end of the loan, but at least it will buy her some time.
Much box filling packing labelling and shipping must happen today, so while I will be with you in spirit, I will not be on the liveblog. I hope you all have a great day and a great weekend, and I will talk to youse again soon.
One thing before I go
PRODUCER CHRIS–
Thank you for trying to make Steph stop making jokes about transpeople yesterday. The whole “Ann is a man” thing just bugs me, and you were the voice of sensitivity on that yesterday.
Much Appreciated!
♥
Buh Bye, Bloggoes!
What? Outer of the Plame award?
Oh god I had to watch dick and then I had nightmares of the penguin chasing me!
Cheney kept the money safe and us under surveillance.
Morning everyone!
Matthew Shepard bill goes to Barackstar’s desk for signing!
#44 – I thought he was letting the AG do some work on that.
Cheney was scared sh*tless himself which is why we was always in an ‘undisclosed location’.
#54 – sorry – for himself.
It’s more than memory loss. It’s selective history rewritting.
Rethugs don’t reach out, they reach around.
did I hear correctly? cheney won the flamer award?
I wish Biden would tell us what the hell Cheney was doing with all that secret construction at the Vice-President’s residence.
Don’t say “republicans” & “fist” in the same sentence.
down the memory hole. 1984 reference.
didn’t fox’s Billow interview Obama?
Karl Rove actually posited (last night) that the reason the Afghanistan war went “south” in 2006 is because the Democrats took over the House and Senate in the mid-term elections.
Are you effing kidding me?
meat puppet republicans
That award should read, “Keeper of the Shame.”
Mary Cheney is confused
when rove is drowning, everything looks like a life ring.
They are a scary, scary family.
Mad props to Shane-O!
53, Obama is supposedly investigating some people who carried out torture if they went pass the limits set by the Bush White House, but they have refused to pursue the people who set the policy.
Google Karl Rove’s DAD! This is “The Architect” There should be a Nuremborg hearing for Cheney and Co and maybe a hearing for crimes against humanity lodged at the FOX group! Laura Ingraham is what we call out here a reverse Hermaphrodite! No balls no p###y but a hint of both just no where near developed!
I was gone a couple weeks–did I miss anything?
Wasn’t Ron on the outs with his parents for awhile though?
We’re all ashamed of this show. ;-P
Wow – Steph is really enjoying the new fart that Chris put in her box
Jeff Gannon was the one who sponsored the “Keeper of his Flame” award for Dick.
Hey whats up with the twitter?
#70: unfortunatelty because they’re still using some of the same ideas.
Twatter is having issues. Again.
thanks Nick…my one day off and I can tweet
#76 – I think Jeff was visiting Karl Rove.
So I googled Carl Rove’s Dad, and I found this:
http://boingboing.net/2007/08/21/karl-roves-pierced-f.html
That has to be a joke right? 37 piercings, most of which were in his genitals, most performed by a guy named Jim Ward?
#81 Puh-lease, Karl is a married man, he is not gay nor has he ever been gay – obvioulsy!
Hey Chris
Do you think this blog page could update better? Also the newest post is always at the bottom and I have to keep refreshing the page…are there settings I could use to make it more user friendly???it’s way too early to think here!
#83 – So they say
President Obama also had Michael Smerconish do his radio show from the WH.
Jeff Gannon had a hand, and a reach-around. (skates)
oh this screams for the Scooter Libby song… !!!
Scooter Libby also recieved an award at that event. The Service before Self award. Un-F_ing-believable.
#70, in doing so, Obama’s DoJ is saying, effectively, that felony law is what the President’s lawyers say it is, not what Congressional statutes say it is. I expect better from a Constitutional scholar.
Maybe if they don’t have anything nice to say you shouldn’t say anything at all! Silly conservatives!
Hello folks. I loved Soupy Sales when I was a kid. He was a comedian even kids could watch, like Red Skelton.
#89 a.k.a. the Fall Guy award
I hope Obama frees us gays soon!
Woman – she’s a man, baby!
It’s been a long time since we heard the Scooter Libby song. Did that one go “Scooter, Scooter, Scooter watch your pooter, pooter, pooter!?”
#80: mary I just tried again from my G1 and it seems back to ‘normal’
#89 Most of the Bush Administration could earn the Self-Service Award, given that’s what they were doing instead for serving the American people.
89—I love how the Republicans’ solution to all their troubles is to create a society for themselves inside of the greater society.
So they can give Stinkin’ Scooter Libby an award like that because Stinkin’ Scooter Libby has served the gated community well.
That’s why they don’t give a **** about all of us having health care. They would prefer it if we all just dropped dead outside of their gates.
But ya see…the audience of the Faux news will believe it!
“Blondie McProstate” — ::bows to Ethan::
I LOVE that nickname!
Thom Hartmann is right: hate crimes are federal crimes because they’re terrorism.
An attack on a person for money is an attack on a person. An attack on a person because of the class of people to which they belong is an attack on all members of that class, intending to intimidate them.
Why are Republicans against anti-terrorism laws?
Basically it’s a law against specific terrorism.
102 – Exactly what I was thinking.
off to twitterland! Thats Nick…
#96:
Scooter Libby, Libby, Libby’s going to jail, jail, jail,
He will take it, take it, take it in the tail, tail, tail;
Scooter Libby, Libby Libby had the power, power, power,
Better hold on to the soap in the shower, shower, shower.
Wild Thang 2
#98 Good one shaf.
Why isn’t Tom Delay shaking his groove thing behind bars?
#99 – research “dead peasants” and employer life insurance. Interesting stuff from MM’s movie.
A moment of silence for Matthew Shepard. To this day it still makes me cry when heard what had been done to him.
Why don’t they refer to hate crime as terrorism?
That is what it is.
When a crime is directed not just at the victim, but to intimidate a group people to which that victim is a member, it is a greater crime, and subject to more severe punishment.
Sounds exactly like the definition of terrorism to me.
I would think that terrorism law and hate-crime law could be used interchangeably.
#110 – BTW – that’s not new stuff – COLI has been around a long time.
Walking on Sunshine 2
I’d like to introduce a penalty for gay hate crimes: guys are hung legs spread over a small pool & pirannahs can jump out & bite their balls off.
111—I wonder if the “God Hates F**s” might have been a clue to Congress that hate is involved in these crimes?
“motorised lounge chair”?
Hey, remember we had a motorized barstool DUI in Newark, OH. That’s worth points on the Stoopid Meter.
Some of the callers sound about as smart as a plant.
Cupholders? Plural?
in regard to investigating war criminals, I think that obama believes that it’s congress’s responsibility to check and balance the executive, not the executive’s.
Fiero? Wow, that’s almost as cool as my 1974 Pinto with Firestone tires.
for the executive to do the investigation would be the executive sitting in judgment of itself.
I think Chris earned his law degree recently – night school in between recording clips for RWW?
Now: “Executive Producer, Boy Toy, Chris Lavoie, Esquire“
I wish the cast would read the live blog more. PeterW has the best explanation I’ve seen for hate crime legislation #102. Nothing they’ve said on air make sense to me.
There’s also a venue-shift aspect.
A lot of hate crimes take place in areas where the local power structure condones such crimes; if not outright participating in them. Federalizing hate crimes removes the question of justice from the community that is likely more sympathetic to the perpetrators than the victims.
But not all gay-haters have balls!
(de-lurking…)
@ #112–Exactly. Burning a cross on the lawn of a black family isn’t just going to affect that family–it’s both a warning of violence and a warning to other non-whites that they’d be…unwelcome, too. Beating up a gay person for being gay isn’t just an assault upon that person–it’s a warning to other gay people that they should get back in the closet, lest they be injured, too. The Mooks are wrong on this one.
In that ah-ah-area?
fiero was a nice looking car. mid-engine. too bad it was such a turd on wheels.
La Grande Car. Jim had the car from “Pulp Fiction”.
#113 – but a lot of people don’t know that their employers can collect life insurance on them….
I am BEYOND PISSED that Senate Dems would consider an opt-out provision for health reform!
There is already an opt-out in place – it’s called an OPTION that we can choose to take or not.
Do they think we are to stupid to decide for ourselves?
What if we live in a state run by shit-for-brains REpubliTARDS and they opt-out for us
or what if the state legislature switches control, can they opt out and then back in and then out, in, out, in..? STUPID!!!
George Carlin once said since these Republicans want to be able to put people in jail just for thinking about committing a crime, we can just put all of these (expletive deleted) Republicans straight into jail – using the example of the Reagan Administration as an example.
#118: “OK, so ten out of ten for style, but minus several million for good thinking, yeah?” – Zaphod Beeblebrox
we need a volunteer to twitter everything entered on the live blog–then it will get noticed and read.
#124 Really? (Chris, Esq). I’d like him to confirm that rumor.
126—That’s why it’s needed.
she was blinded with science and did not see the global warming
No, that’s Karl Rove’s strategy (withhold an unpopular decision until after an election).
what character does amy ryan play on the office? the new receptionist?
Oh Karl. Put a sock in it.
#133, I don’t have much of a problem with the opt-out.
How many states actually opted out of the stimulus money? None, no matter how much of a stink about how they said they would.
Yes they’re a wild success how else did Obama get elected?
Biased much??
laura Ingram sounds angry no?
“You still got two out of three branches of government. And that ain’t bad!”
Bold Fresh doody…courtesy of Bill O’reilly.
Uh-oh….Dems in my state are all imitating Obama in their campaigning. Gavin Newsome has a MyGavinNewsome webpage. The other day Villaraigosa sent out an email telling us all to email our City Council people about an issue.
I just wonder if all this imitation will backfire—make people become desensitized to calls for change.
#143 how about allowing the opt out – plus that Republican idea of buying insurance over state lines (which would never work in the private insurance market) – so, if your state opts out – you can buy it from another state??
Bold fresh? Is that a play or steal on Bold Progressives??
O’Reilly is the Bold Fresh Douche of Fox News.
/cue the Fresh Prince theme
The kid wit the Bold Fresh bag. “I got a rock.”
Unprecedented outpouring of Fox viewers?
Chris loves “Mars Attacks”? See “Attack of the Killer Tomatoes” – you’ll love that ending, too.
What are the possible uses of a Bill-O tote bag? I mean, the default purpose of carrying stuff around in public is obviously not an option.
Thank you, CallerPaul!
Is that from Michael Steele’s webpage: “What Up?”
I’m telling ya…the facts and the repugs, not so much.
154 – I think he meant the ones from a Meth lab raid.
The only thing I admit to worrying about with the hate-crime bill is will violence against (straight) women be included at some point?
It could be argued that domestic violence & rape are terrorism.
Where does it stop?
Before you take my head off I think that rapists should be catrated & wife-beaters should be beaten within an inch of their life.
Steph needs to work on her Michael Steele impression.
Hey what’s a good cleaner for flat screen monitors. Think I see some spewed coffee dots from listening to Steph and the mooks.
154 – I think he meant the ones from a Meth lab raid.
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The kid went to Todd Palin’s Mother’s house.
So let us recap:
Hate crimes are for:
1) Terrorism
2) Venue shift
Share with your friends.
yes, but they never got lynch-master Woodrow Wilson .
#163: a soft cloth moist with equal parts water & white vinegar. No paper towels and not to wet.
Julie is the smartest Beaver reporter/lawyer in class today!!
WWDL ?
has hal sparks seen twin peaks yet ?
150, why wouldn’t it work to buy private insurance across state lines? It works fine for auto insurance, GEICO anyone?
mens rea – the state of mind matters i.e. Murder vs. Manslauter
good morning, good morning, good morning-ga!
nothing to say, but it’s ok
good morning, good morning, good morning-ga!
Are you ready for the weekend, BloggenMooksteroids?
On the flat screen cleaner, I always use regular Windex. Seems to work.
Hate crimes are also a recidivism issue.
If a guy murders his friend in a bar fight, he’s pretty unlikely to re-offend after he gets out.
If a guy wants to murder all gay people, he’s much more likely to re-offend after he gets out.
Momma you so street! Boy-eeee!!
9: hark the harold; guardian angels extrude cinder blocks.
9: hark the harold; guardian angels extrude cinder blocks.
I think Steph has seen too mancy re-runs of “Yo MTV Raps”
10: the crazy gugenheinymous bosch woodprint bloopers alone will be stellar.
170: why wouldn’t it work for these “pillars of free enterprise” (health insurance companies – catch my eyes!) to function without an exemption from anti-trust laws? For some reason, they’ve had one for over 50 years..
I think the issue for extra-state coverage (why it’s such a good idea to insurance companies) is that they can simply locate in a state with the most regressive and pro-insurance company laws, and operate under those rules. They might all want to relocate to ‘Bammy or ‘Ssippi.
spiritually, soupy sales will never really die. in fact, with winter approaching, i just stocked up on chicken noodle.
Word Steph was searching for at the bottom of hour break: Word!
Perhaps name of segment should be changed to “Right Wing Word”?
170 – because if you have an issue with the insurance company you can’t file a complaint in the state where they are since you don’t live there and the office that could help you in your state has no jurisdiction.
GEICO is nationwide because they have licences in every state and agree to be bound those State’s rules.
Ever watch those health and life insurance ads on cable where there’s a disclaimer that says you can get coverage if you live in these states…..?
and what IS a dick cheney complex ?
a bad shotgun aim deferment ?
161—The problem is, hatred of women (or men for that matter), is more subtle. It comes across in employment choices and in other ways, not usually in beatings and killings.
Plus, during acts of domestic violence it’s usually not hate that is being expressed. It’s the desire and need to dominate and control others that is being expressed.
So how are we going to outlaw domination? We can’t or else we have to throw every member of Congress in jail for dominating Iraq.
#167 – thanks. Was thinking about using some diluted alcohol. Think the vinegar is better.
163—Just use a damp cloth.
Mama, “special circumstance” would apply to the original state crime – one can’t apply Federal Hate Crime statutes as an aggravating factor, should someone be prosecuted out of state laws. However, some state laws do have hate-crime-like provisions that are special or aggravating circumstances.
Federal hate crimes stand on their own, legally.
plant!
170—Since I’m in CA where we have always had multiple plans, I’ve been amazed to learn that Alamama and other states can only choose one provider.
That is disgusting. Free market my ***.
46: “…Much box filling packing labelling and shipping must happen today, so while I will be with you in spirit, I will not be on the liveblog…”
that madduane sure has a lot of elves on his contact list. hmmmm….
Time to get off the live blog and get ready to go to work on screamming baby airlines. Have a great weekend everyone!
Mamma’s attempt at movie theme music: “The Good, The Bad & Coyote Ugly”!
Just kidding
I have a sister who lives in Casper, WY – she calls it Dick Town, or shortened to Dickton. Apparently most of the people in Dick Town are not that proud of being Mr. Cheney’s home..
#170, because across state lines, companies can sell insurance from states with the least protections. Like Delaware and credit cards.
Caller is full of it. The public option is paid for entirely on premiums – not taxes. It will always be cheaper than private insurance because of low overhead.
The subsidies are for all insurance (for the poor), public or private, and that will cost tax money and will require cost controls on the actual delivery of care.
Rob Roy Rabbit? I love it.
Chris settled for the multi-flavored pez.
#169: Huh??
I’m tho thick and tired of boners
Bill Cosby: Worst beating I ever got in my life – my mother said “I’m just sick,” I said “and tired.”
Repeat after me, Bo(eh)ner: the public option does not increase the deficit, because it is paid for entirely out of premiums.
193—Good for Casper. Too bad they have to be associated with him. Talk about your black sheep!
83: “….Puh-lease, Karl is a married man,….”
scariness itself. – is this like the michael savage thing, where you can distinguish the two of them by their garb ?
Speaking of Windex, I wonder if they stopped selling the piss colored version? For some reason, that and the piss colored toilet bowl cleaner never seemed to be that popular.
Wow, I almost saw an upper lip!
paper or plastic?
it’s not Boehner’s nose — it’s the way he pulls the corners of his mouth — an odd twitch, like a half-smile that’s involuntary – makes his nose move a bit. Hard to explain – but watch for it.
Bringing up Dick (Cheney).
Not all of that 25%-30% excess overhead of private insurance is profit. Much of it is waste, the infrastructure of claims adjudication, denial, and appeal processes, and outrageous CEO salaries.
I’d rather pay my insurance premium increases as taxes if it would provide universal health care..
128: “….Burning a cross on the lawn of a black family isn’t just going to affect that family–it’s both a warning of violence and a warning to other non-whites that they’d be…”
first and foremost, it’s trespassing.
trespassing is not optimal.
that is why i have posted warning signs clearly indicating that
WARNING SHOTS MAY CAUSE SEVERE EXIT WOUNDS.
#177: I seem to remember that was spelled “Yo! MTV Raps” or perhaps even “Yo! MTV Raps!” (Watch out for “Yo! GOP Raps”)
201 – on the other hand “it takes a village” lol
Morning all! Can’t we arrest Dick Cheney for the hate crime of killing our buzz every time he opens his death maw?
What’s with the Dow numbers?
Ahh, coffee.. I feel better, as my liver releases some stored glucose (or whatever it actually does, when I take caffeine).
203 – they still do…roommate brought some home the other day
Well I’ve got to leave for work. See you all Monday.
#191: Deb, don’t let your pilots fall asleep and miss their destination by 100 miles…
Will Jiminy Cricket turn Mama’s eggs non-dusty?
I haven’t hike all over the world, like Steph has, but I think Western Oregon is pretty great hiking these days … between the rains! I hike year around here.
The moon?!?!?! lol
Robotrix, they try to refer to it as “fresh lemon” or such, but it still looks like urine to me..
Hey Mooks, Happy Friday!
More Dick: from the guy whose follies your grandchildren will be paying for, mere dithering would have been a considerable improvement
http://airamerica.com/theronreaganshow/blog/10-22-2009/dick-cheney-nose-blowing-incompetent
Steph keeps wishing on Danny Bonaduce. That’s why none of her dreams come true.
States that opt out will lose business, they will see an electoral revolt. They’ll all talk a game, but no state will opt out for long.
I guess I’m OK if red states opt-out.
Those guys are freeloaders anyway.
immediately ?
“dang this heliocentric revisionism ! yer goin too durn fast !”
Caller, the Great Depression was over in 1938, not in WWII. Your facts are wrong.
Boehner is such a whiney little right wing turd. If I slapped the side of his head, I’ll bet a gallon of snot would fly out and cling to the wall!
I’m just the guy to do it, too.
Come in my cabin, Mooks, and fly united on Northwest LOL
Welcome to another episode of “Dick and The Boehner”
Hogwash or Hogwarts?
181: “Perhaps name of segment should be changed to “Right Wing Word”?”
“word up, baby, this codpiece is how we hip streetsters roll !”
Here is what I learned in Macro economics:
The ONLY time deficits are “good” is during recessions.
And then, they should only be used for job creation, preferably on infrastructure. (this would include human infrastructure, like education.)
The WORST kind of deficit spending is what Bush did — dump a bunch of cash, mostly on rich people who are more likely to send it overseas.
Submitted to my local newspaper’s “Sound Off” column:
“Please.. I wish you guys would stop talking about Rush Limbaugh not being allowed to buy an NFL team. You’re going to start me crying again..”
Not published, of course.
The hundreds of thousands which were really tens of thousands who were bussed from event to event?
monster ratings, because the signal went frankenfurther.
50,000 watts of fart power! Mama must have the Aquatane!
I think one reason that conservatives want red states to opt-out is that it then is MUCH BETTER wedge politics for them.
Codpieces aren’t suppose to house an actual COD!!
The A-Team? I love it when a plan comes together.
50,000 watts of fart power! Mama must have the Aquatane!
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“All that power and still have that body!”
-Brian, The Family Guy.
Momma’s recovery from the cough/flu seems to have progressed from Brenda Vacquero (sp?) to Katherine Hepburn..
Rushbo used to come in 9th over and over in Miami in the actual number until the Powers That Be managed to squeeze all other voices out of the market other than sports….
Meanwhile, Rush quoted his “numbers” as being much better using the numbers of people who COULD listen to him on the signal….
Have that from someone in the business
Allowing states to opt out of the public option would bring morning to America. Without the drag of red states on the health care system it would be a great success. When the people of the red states realize the Republicans have led them to a third world existence and that a prayer book isn’t an effective healthcare policy, Democrats will start to win in those state legislatures as people demand to have affordable health care. It’s a great idea.
no matter if there is a state opt-out – since none of the public option plans will be operational until 2013 – even if Congress passes a public option (in ANY form) and Obama signs it — the fight will not be over.
Republicans will wage political war for two election cycles to regain power and if not repeal, at least gut, the public option.
I recently picked a new primary care doctor. After two visits and
exhaustive Lab tests, he said I was doing ‘fairly well’ for my age.
(Now over 60.)
A little concerned about that comment, I couldn’t resist asking him, ‘Do you think I’ll live to be 80?’
He asked, ‘Do you smoke tobacco, or drink beer or wine?’
‘Oh no,’ I replied.. ‘I’m not doing drugs, either!’
Then he asked, ‘Do you eat rib-eye steaks and barbecued ribs?
‘I said, ‘Not much…. my former doctor said that all red meat is very
unhealthy!’
‘Do you spend a lot of time in the sun, like playing golf, sailing,
hiking, or bicycling?’
‘No, I don’t,’ I said.
He asked, ‘Do you gamble, drive fast cars, or have a lot of sex?’
‘No,’ I said.
He looked at me and asked,
‘Then, why do you even give a shit?’
Wild Thang 3
In a decade the AM band will be a shell of what it is now. Too many things going against it.
They should have extended the FM band when they had the chance when TV channels 2-6 went digital. First dibs could be given to any AM station that wanted to move with the same cutoff time we went through with TV. No more nighttime power reduction / static noise crap.
Canada has been moving many stations to FM for a while.
245: “….When the people of the red states realize the Republicans have led them to a third world existence and that a prayer book isn’t an effective healthcare policy,….”
presupposes eventual participation in learnin curve. invalid.
Ironic that Steph and the Mooks could use fart sounds when they were on the air in Miami – but the then highest rated personality in the market, Neil Rogers (he’s since retired) was forbidden from using them by Beasley Broadcasting….
Even though Bubba the Love Sponge was doing worse on the Beasley FM rock station in the same market.
I have to get going too. Have a lovely weekend peoples!
perhaps a miller/limbaugh collaboration is in order…. fart noises with fart sounds.
Limbaugh still pretends that he has an audience of 20 million. Of course, that figure was from a peak about 15 years ago, and refers to a WEEKLY total. But, distorting and misrepresenting and misleading is what Limbaugh does..
Sad little Limbeciles frequently chime in sing song with the 20 million figure, as if it is a daily figure.
253: Fart noises with human fecal matter..
Dow chicka Dow
Walking on Sunshine 3
oprah !
Hey! Did you guys see the website they made for the pro-rape Senators? http://www.republicansforrape.org/legislators/
Sparta: it’s not just for breakfast any more
like beer
Did Steph wait just long enough for the Dow to drop 69 points before announcing it?
they STILL dont eat wood. they chew down trees for architectural reasons.
#242: power, body drop here: http://www.shane-o.com/sm-drops/187-powerbody
Was it a saber-tooth beaver?
I have a Flinstones-like image of the beast.
it would be goofage to observe humans creating adobe bricks and conclude that we are preparing snacks.
254 – Plus some places play his show twice in one day….so they probably count whatever numbers they have there twice…
“In a decade the AM band will be a shell of what it is now. Too many things going against it.”
AM is going to be all sports and “marginal” groups.
Back in Miami it’s almost all Spanish and Creole stations cranked up stronger than the law allows (but the FCC won’t touch because they don’t want the bad publicity) to reach Cuba and Haiti….all the while using language that would get any English station shut down. FCC doesn’t employ translators either.
If anybody knows beaver, it’s Jodie Foster.
#259, do they include Dem Daniel Inouye in that list? Multiple sources indicate that the defense industry has
bribedconvinced him to gut the provision.Jodi Foster is directing a film called The Beaver? That’s not going to help with the lesbian rumors, Ms. Foster.
No Pants is SEXY!
Cue B-52s “Hot Pants”
#269: what rumours? she’s gay. or at least bi.
I like Fridays with Fugelsang, but Frangela has a better theme song.
Stalone is bringing to real life the visual gag from Airplane! (Rocky XXI poster in airport store)
Just when we thought Jim couldn’t sink lower than The Stephaine Miller Show, he does a movie for Roland Emmerich. What’s next, starring in an M. Night Shamalamadingdong film.
rocky seven:
“adrian can perform at sturgis and sarah palin can perform a word salad duet with president stephen baldwin ! ehhhh ! ehhh! ehhh!”
“Stop or My Mom Will Shoot!” Starring Sylvester Stallone, and Stephanie Miller as his mother.
#272 I don’t recall her ever confirming she’s a lesbian, so technically it’s just a rumor.
269: nor is having been kissed by danny bonaduce.
259 Yes, saw that, posted that here yessterday, same old
jackass moron scumbag rethug toole senators you see everywhere
else… Ensign, Vitter, McChinless, et al
Can I get my Stephanie Miller love doll with a Monkey Tail? no.
#274 It’s actually Airplane II, in the background when Sonny Bono is buying a bomb at the airport. And the guy in the poster was Asian. Stallone’s going to need more plastic surgery.
I thott Jodie Foster was quite out as a lesbian
Arec Bawrin?
280: where do eyebrows for a stephy doll ?
BTW, did y’alls hear that The Nation plans to release a competing Palin book “Going Rouge” at the same time as Palin’s “Going Rogue”:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/22/going-rouge-ithe-nationi_n_330682.html
Don’t forget blasting music at the Vatican Embassy when Manuel Noriega was hiding out there.
Who carries an AM radio with them?
#285 What a great idea! They must put Palin on the cover, because lots of these books get bought and never read. The hapless right winger will never know they bought the wrong book.
Was that an un-called for dig at Jackson Brown? From what I’ve heard, he’s a committed progressive who walks the walk.
Fox News – bringing “balance” against common sense and decency..
Here Sparta. Nice Sparta. I have din-din for you. Yummy! Here Sparta
#282 she only said “my beautiful Cydney, who sticks with me through the rotten and the bliss” and Cyndey had ben seen with Jodie’s kids but Amy is correct that she hasn’t come out & said it.
Jodie Foster
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-501256/Jodie-Foster-comes-emotional-tribute-girlfriend-14-years.html
#282 cont’d: of course Liberace never officially came out either…
284: in the center, above the bridge of the nose..
Sparta
#281 You are correct. I was in a hurry to type and didn’t call it as Airplane II: The Sequel.
287: i always carry a newfangled japanese transistor radio. F.M. stopped trying years ago. sheer wall-to-wall cookie-cutter payola.
Sparta
Sparta!
“Some say” Obama sleeps too much to be an effective President.
http://www.fark.com/cgi/comments.pl?IDLink=4718069
Mr. Shaf – the Friday touch!
yay shaf
If they ban the playing of tortuous music, where will I practice bagpipes?
Three cheers and a tiger for me!
I dedicate this Leonidas Cup to our friend Amanda, who is recovering from her liver problems.
jodie has done over fifty films !
that’s like being harvey keitel for a whole month.
pasta la pizza.
The gods created us to toil for them, then split.
They gave up on this unprofitable backwoods mining
operation.
We’re left with their forebrain, but we don’t have
the wisdom we need to go with it. The gods taught us
just enough technology that we are now able to loose
Plutonium on the world.
It’s Sisyphus, Lucifer, Prometheus — the same story
with different names. One of the gods or one faction
of the gods gave us more knowledge then they were
supposed to. The gods also taught us to war, which
now threatens to destroy us.
Although they are gone, their basic social structures
kind of continue. But with no god at the helm, humans
are drifting and the system is out of adjustment.
The vast majority have no idea how we got here or
that we’re living in the ruins of the god’s
civilization. We continue to disassemble the planet,
essentially the task the gods set us to.
Human procreation being what it is we now have an
overabundance of workers. These workers are burdened
with a forebrain but now lack a purpose. Hence
millions of people living wasted lives, unaware
of their potential.
The genetic legacy left us by the gods is our
greatest asset, one that we have yet to fully work
out how to best apply it. Perhaps we are on the verge.
The explosion of information and the synergy of
multidisciplinary cross-pollination may yet overcome
the inertia of calcified obsolete power structures.
It’s a race between greed and stupidity against
enlightenment and wisdom. The outcome is in doubt.
Oh, John, don’t look so downward dog in the mouth.
Ok Mark…have a pop tart.
Supposedly Faux News has been trying to forewarn all the little right wing lemmings, so they don’t accidentally get duped into buying “Going Rouge”.
Since it will not be read anyway, the only “damage” to Sarah will be purely financial.
Love Steph & the Mooks
295 unibrow easy to place prop’ley
but why’d you get the eyes both on one
side of the face, Pablo Picasso?
now she looks like a flounder
When they release the “Moulin Rogue” DVD, it will really screw with the Wingers
309 grate idea.
beer and pop tarts in the Penalty Box, get em while they’re hot
Shaf! Grand Achiever and Dragon of sparta! I submit to thee, I yield to thee, and I reveal to thee My Inner Self ™ whilst pledging my allegiance and service to thee!
[OK, Mooksters, mow press on toward SMARTA..]
Loves me some Sly & the Family Stone!
John Fugelsang: Very informed and pithy! (not pissy!)
Brevity is the soul of wit, and John’s got it!
who’s yer best Harvey Keitel? Bad Lt or Sport the
Pimp? Tony Malatesta
BEER flavored Pop Tarts! What a great idea!
…
[chomp, chomp!] Berry!
What kind of Cruel Hoax is this?
What Fresh Hell?
dessert: okay, yes, the “going rouge” makes sense, but only if sarah ditches the glasses. roped in todd with those gorgeous “khmer and i’ll…. find ya some orgasms and bring em TO ya pumps” – easy to see which side sarah would take in cambodia. pasta la thick crust pizza.
Should President Obama ever do anything buffoonish, the comedians are going to be all over it.
ok I get the Hot Pants Momma’s got on today but whuts with
the roller skates? a} Momma don’t skate and 2> where can you
skate in the studio?
304: I’ll talk! I’ll talk!
Just turn it off! And lower your kilt, Hoot monn.. It’s cold, no one wants to see that.
320: No wonder Grampy McCain was twisting his wedding band!
307. YOU are the same as the gods. It’s all a play, and it’s up to the players to wake up.
War puts our troops in danger.
320 roflmao
Henry Miller and the Buke! Henry was Stephy’s Uncle, right?
Her Uncle Ernie ala Tommy…
268 – I know….I can’t believe that either.
“Who carries around an AM radio?”
I do…my little radio even has a TV band I can’t use anymore since the switch over.
But it’s getting harder and harder to buy one. MP3 players only come with FM.
Yes, John is a Star Wars geek! One of us! One of us!
Rummy is stuck in Mad Men mode, especially the hair.
Every time a Cheney opens their mouth, God kills a kitten.
Free the Enterprise! Damn Tholians!!
Oh wait…free enterprise.
Very different.
What’s up, dog?
325 so true, I think Gurdjieff said it best…
Man’s Disobedience was our First Virtue
“non serviam” — my personal motto
“It’s not the Speed, it’s the acceleration” — my other motto
“Death Before Dishonor. Drugs Before Breakfast” — motto of the
Stephanie Miller Liveblog
328 I know I hate that. FM sux.
AM and Two-Strokes Forever
Really cerebral Bush defenders – that’s a NULL SET.
The filibuster on the civil rights bill was on the old-style filibuster where you had to take the floor and speak. That filibuster ended in 1974, it doesn’t exist anymore.
There are other ways to beat a filibuster, and reconciliation is one of them. IIRC, the Senate can call for a special rule, which takes 51; the Senate can call for a ruling on the legality of the filibuster from the President of the Senate (which is what led to the rule change in ‘74).
But with 60 votes in the Dem caucus, it wouldn’t be a Republican filibuster – the only way there will be a filibuster is if some Dems betray their own side.
In right wing world, identity theft equals free speech.
Maybe they need to throw in the box of Crayolas with Sarah’s book to increase pre-sales.
That would be Identity fraud, not free speech.
I’m with John F., I turn the Palin dreadful screed upside
down on the bookshelfs… prolly Does make good toilet
paper… fecal abstursions
#287: I do. How else would I hear the Show on the go?
It’s INTENTION caller
Mama hasn’t played John McCain saying “huh?” for months now. I miss it.
1st degree Right Wing Stupidity..
Manslaugher or murder?
The Boner thinks?
Is Mrs. Taylor pulling her hair out every time someone asks Steph how she is?
Okay, caller, your “facts” are not facts. STFU!
The burden of proof will be on the prosecutor that the person will be targeted because of their class.
Caller: it’s not a hate crime if the victim is of a different race than the perp. It’s a hate crime if the person is targeted because of race. If you can’t prove the targeting, you can’t prosecute hate crime.
And again: hate crime is about terrorism.
Only 5? WTF??
Straight people don’t have to worry about getting beaten up for being gay, hence the opposition.
Five cops beating the dickens out of a black kid on Cops, for stealing a car.. Now That’s Entertainment!
Jeez caller watch Law & Order sometime. You’ll hear how they decide about 1st & 2nd degree murder or manslaughter and when to prosecute hate crimes.
Wait til haters move orange tobacco-soaked crybabies to THE TOP OF THEIR LIST
352
Maybe 5 in the caller’s back yard.
#353, not true. It’s not at all uncommon for fey/effeminate boys who are straight to be targeted for gay-bashing.
Yeah I don’t see a bunch of butch bears going around beating the daylights out of straight guys because they’re straight.
Yet if they did that it would be a hate crime because they went after someone because they were straight.
Freddy digging a hole in the couch cushions as we blog
Max egging him on
I’m from Minnesota and the crime that the last caller talked about never happened.
#358: true.
I don’t get it — if yer not latently gay or insecure in
your own sexuality what’s yer prollem with gays? Homophobia
is gay, Rethug/Christian anti-gay idiots just afraid o’their
own Tendencies
Cat people? We are them!
Stephy website: “Why is my cat always so wet dot com”
jim sounds bitter he’s married into a cat named Sassy
In response to the fella claiming only 5 gaybashings a year, i think the new legislation not only enhances penalties for hate crimes, but it also REQUIRES THE DEPT OF JUSTICE TO KEEP STATISTICS ON REPORTED HATE CRIMES. the right even objected to this at one point. LOVE THE SHOW!
Here’s the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjHJAvG9zB0
#363: it’s taught.
Poor Sassy.
#358 – thus, the Minnesota hate crimes law includes “actual or perceived sexual orientation.” MINN STAT. §363A.03 (44).
Steph said “ceiling cat is watching me masturbate”
heh heh
Jesus! Cats??!!
Part of the issue of gay-bashing is that homophobia doesn’t seem to be about hating/fearing homosexuality per se, but a rage and phobia by certain males against any other man who fails to conform to normative male sex roles.
So beating someone up for being “gay” may be about being homosexual. Or Emo. Or effeminate. Or not sexually aggressive toward women. Or bookish.
Yes, gays are especially targeted for this, but “gayness” as a target by bashers is broader than homosexuality.
Correction: Straight people think they don’t have to worry about getting beaten up for being gay, hence the opposition.
I take my AM radio everywhere – the only problem is finding places to plug it in ;-( . That and having to buy replacement tubes.
20,000 pies to the face. Right up there with Jenna Jameson.
John F. & SMS: Wit and wits.
It’s good to have both!
Was Steph the inspiration for the Superhero “Squirrel Girl?”
methinks so!
“Escaping the taunts of her fellow school students
regarding her physical mutation, Los-Angeles born Doreen
Green fled into the nearby woods where she quickly
discovered her affinity for squirrels.
Squirrel Girl carries a utility belt comprising multiple
pouches that contain nuts to give as snacks to her squirrel
friends. These are known as her “nut sacks”
her powers and abilities: a furry, prehensile tail
roughly 3–4 feet in length; sizable buck teeth[!],
which are strong enough to chew through wood; and
enhanced agility and strength, enabling her to jump
between trees with ease.”
Annabel Chong took 20,000 something to the face once, but it wasn’t pies.
Off to the penalty box!
the man that was just on from minnesota talking about the man that was beat up by 6 black men had it TOTALY wrong. it was a black man and he was defending his daughter from some white trash dog m—-fkrs. it was grose. i can’t beleive he got it so wrong
376 Oh! off to the penalty box with ya now
plenty beer flavored pop tarts left
#379: welcome to the penalty box. take a seat.
I didn’t even know Soupy Sales threw pies until they lampooned him on The Jetsons as “Soapy Sam”
Wait. Prince is black?
#379: and we won’t even mention Houston.
367. thanks Shaf, and congrats on Sparta
Karl Rove, most prolly closeted gay engineered 2004 political
campaign to scare the Citizens into voting rethug by making
Gay Marriage the huge issue
while rethugs prey on kids
Great Olympia Snow riffs!
Have a great weekend, everyone!
Be seeing you!
RIP Soupy Sales. Great weekend all!
Was Prince hit by a dodge ball when recording When Doves Cry?
Happy Weekend, All.
375
Thankfully you can still buy the 9V batteries for the Japanese transistor radios.
Buh bye, MookenBuddies!
Have a great weekend, see ya Monday.
Don’t you ever change a thing!
L.
Have a great weekend all!
Soupy Sales, Deetroit Boy!
I’m off to the bar, don’t know how I made it this long,
whut with Dopehead back flopped on couch, Girl in a Snit,
weather sukky, head full o’snot, freezer broke,… oh yeah,
thanx to you all and the SMS
have a grate weekend
384 ha! Obama too!
My newest nephew great looking kid half Jamaican
looks just like my Dad
ok now we go to beergarten
Stephanie Louise Miller… now don’t go crazy wit the beer just because it’s the weekend. But have fun! Mooks, too!