LiveBlog for Thursday, October 29, 2009

273 "some people lack the critical thinking skills and/or experience to differentiate the two". That's their base. Satire is useless in those cases, but works for the rest of us.

#269 No, A lemon Party where they all suck.

Maya Angelou? Has she heard the show? Computer says "no". G'day all!

Bye bye bloggoes! You're my favourite waste of time! Wish I could quit you!

273 the Rethugs DO look like a parody of themselves

no Sparta today

have a great afternoon, I'm going to crawl off and try
to feel human again

Back when Busy was wrecking the country and the world
the damned Dems ditint do any fillerbustrin', they just
rubber stamped whutever that evil little git wanted,
now they quake in fear and piss themselves when the Rethugs
say Fillerbuster... it's disgusting

From Conservapedia
Poe's law is often used to mock conservatives and fundamentalists, based on its implicit assertion that fundamentalists and conservatives are so absurd as to be indistinguishable from parody. However, there is a fundamental flaw in this assertion. One might as well argue that genuine works of art are indistinguishable from cheap knockoffs, because some people are unable to distinguish between the two. Clearly, the cause of the mistake is not that the genuine article is no better than a mockery; rather, the cause of the mistake is that some people lack the critical thinking skills and/or experience to differentiate the two -- particularly in cases when an artist (or a parodist) goes to special efforts to emulate the genuine article.

They had to contort that to jive Rushbo's rationale.

Oh, THAT'S what mummification is?

No canopic jars? Natron salt?

I'm in so much trouble.

that's what the spittoon is for!

'Entourage' had a segment on Furries in one of the shows.

266 a lemon party for them, where they get beaten
with pillow cases full of lemons until we get lemonade

#263, talking themselves hoarse isn't in the rules, that's the point. All that has to happen is, should the Republicans "actually" filibuster under the rules, is that one of them has to be present on the floor at all times. They can take shifts, but no discussion must take place. If there is a call for unanimous consent to move Senate business forward, the Republican can refuse unanimous consent and it takes 51 votes to overrule. This generally will happen the next morning, when the Senators return to the floor.

Scumps-Mokey sounds like a brand of chewinf tobacco.

The Scoped Money Trial
who gave those monkeys guns

I think a Lieberman, Bill O'Reilly, Dick Cheney Lemon Party is in order. Three Great Americans United in a single act!

And where was Lieberman when that deficit was being created during those eight years...? Oh, yeah...he was being a Republican in Dems Clothing.

Unfortunately, House bill public option premiums to be negotiated instead of tied to medicare rates :-(

I don't understand this "polite fillibuster" as the Nation described it. Nothing ever gets done because the Republicans simply threaten fillibuster. Let them talk themselves hoarse and totally obstruct Congress and see how long the American public will tolerate it.

first Sarapac (ding) and now Joe-Douche (ding) for freshness in those special places where you stuff the cash.

#25: Amusingly, Babelfish renders "lodernde Frucht" as "blazing fruit" - which suggests a Mel Brooks comedy set in a busy restaurant kitchen specialising in flaming dishes. ("I said NO BEANS!")

252 unfortunately I don't have enuff long coated chihuahuas
to make a dog sled pack, but I always thought that would be
cool. Mush Malamet!

England didn't really lose the Revolution, the Howe bros
threw it deliberately, the Crown lost but the East India
Company didn't lose, it Won...

England got a big dumb toady to do it's bidding around the
world, pull it's cheese out of the fire a couple times...
"The City" still rules the world, tho they got partners
now, Macau, Dubai, New York...

somebody should do a tape of the Senate or House with sound off and subtitles like the spurned cat video.

The MATHERS went up when the Beaver found the water to his block was being turned off.

The President didn't get rid of the F-22, Mama.

He got rid of the extra ones Congress added to appropriations that the Pentagon didn't want.

The F-22 is still in the squadrons.

251
I wanna hear the MATHERS numbers. Or maybe the OSMOND numbers.

All the electronic traffic they had to go on in WW1 was telegrams (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimmermann_Telegram).

#250, that's why the Senate got rid of the stand-and-talk filibuster. It was embarrassing the institution.

249 Ollie scheming the FEMA takeover concentration
camps in the Whitehouse basement, running guns out
and dope in... it's just bidness

final nightmare scenario from england conquering the colonial rebellion:
"i say, i have one simple wish: a hunting pack long-coated chihuahua hounds with bloody laser hardware upon their manes." pasta la pizza.

Momma just likes spouting the DOW numbers so she can sound
like a real newscaster

Senate filibuster could be the best TV EVARR! Plastic hair melting in the lights, botox shifting, lipless drooling...

243: ollie north like s to downplay the extent to which he is a convicted felon. - i once heard a detailed discussion about it between north and randi rhodes. in summary, north was able to prove this: north was convicted as a felon.

The Politics of Heroin, McCoy
Barry And The Boys, Hopsicker
Compromised: Clinton, Bush and the CIA, Reed
The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the
End of the Republic, Chalmers Johnson

if you haven't read those you really don't know what's going on

fyi, a bunch of healthcare protestors were hauled away in front of Regence because they didn't have a permit, so I guess get a permit if you want to exercise your free speech.

Ollie North is still around? criminal freak

#240, the fact that organizing resolutions can be filibustered has come up in discussions of party defections on evenly-split Senates or stripping of committee assignments.

What I don't know is if filibuster rules are contained in the organizing resolution or in a separate resolution. If the former, changes can be filibustered, if the latter, I don't know.

242 I like it

is mccain even abel to think ?
no, not mczactly.

236
While their giblets are roasting in liquid hot mag-ma.

Everyone have a good day bloggos. Headed out to work Screaming Baby airlines.

238. Thom Hartmann indicated the rule change couldn't be filibustered, but you're prob right.

is the "smoke a cyst" commercial playing everywhere ?
that's just gross. and it explains a lot about dennis miller and michael steele.... hmmm... toke'n-a-cyst ?

#236, actually I believe that takes an organizing resolution (which can be filibustered). It does, however, only take 51 votes to uphold the ruling of the Chair on a point of order that the filibuster is un-Constitutional.

236: could we see alan kiester fillibuster, just for fun ?

It only takes 51 votes to change Senate rules that would force filibusterers to actually stand there and talk.

231: and oddly enuff, the most attractive pics i've ever seen are split between "marie clare" and "maxim". yes, marie clare. i jest not. - just look at how gorgeous those women are. the eyeballs fry.

#201: "Alles klar, Herr Commie Czar?" 
(obscure '80s Austro-rap reference)

someone on Bill Press show said a hand-written letter to Congress works best of all.

busheviks remind me of firestarter. - they're reluctant to think, just out of the very vague notion that "something terrible will happen".

Playboy is teh naked, naughty bits discretely hidden.

Penthouse is the naked, naughty bits flaunted, and some 'effin. But with a gallon of vaseline on the camera lens.

Hustler is Penthouse w/o the vaseline on the camera lens, and more 'effin.

Read the Vanity Fair article. I did - it was great. The truth about Sarah, better than any spin.