LiveBlog for Monday, November 2, 2009
• The Rude Pundit (Lee Papa) calls in at 6:30am Pacific to talk rude about the news of the day.
• Eric Boehlert, Senior Fellow at Media Matters for America, calls in at 7:30am Pacific to co-host Right Wing World.
• Morgan Hurley, reporter for SDGLN.com (San Diego Gay and Lesbian News), calls in at 8:30am Pacific to talk about her story regarding a proposed ban on divorces in California.
• Afghanistan’s Election Commission announced this morning that Saturday’s runoff election between Hamid Karzai and Abdullah Abdullah has been cancelled. Abdullah dropped out of the race yesterday, and the Obama administration said it was prepared to work with Karzai to combat corruption and confront the Taliban insurgency.
• GOP nominee in New York’s 23rd Congressional special election tomorrow, Dede Scozzafava, announced this weekend that she’s suspending her campaign. Her exit leaves Conservative Party nominee Doug Hoffman as the favorite to win the formerly hotly contested 3-way race. Scozzafava threw her support behind Dem Bill Owens.
• The Congressional Budget Office has estimated that just 2 percent of Americans younger than 65 would sign up for the public option plan under the health care bill that Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is steering toward House approval
• The New York Yankees beat the Philadelphia Phillies 7-4 last night to take a 3-1 lead in the World Series.
Tags: Abdullah Abdullah, Afghanistan, Bill Owens, Dede Scozzafava, Doug Hoffman, Eric Boehlert, Hamid Karzai, Health Care Reform, Lee Papa, Media Matters for America, Morgan Hurley, Nancy Pelosi, Rude Pundit, SDGLN
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Good morning, everyone! I hope y’all had a great weekend.
So, what does the withdraw of Abdullah Abdullah from Afghanistan’s runoff election mean to the Obama Administration’s discussion of troop support for the region? Does this give Obama the rationale to draw-down (since this is an un-winnable situation)? Or, does this increase pressure to support a corrupt, but fledgling democracy? Talk amongst yourselves.
Gooood morning all!
I was wondering how long it would take before someone tried to outlaw divorce. After all, if you say you’re “protecting marriage” when you outlaw same-sex marriage then you better “protect marriage” when it comes to divorce. Whatever happened to “what God has joined let no man put asunder” or whatever?
My TV restoration project finally started and is proceeding slowly but surely. I found some significant changes from the drawings and parts lists I have to what is actually in there so I really have to be careful that I don’t screw things up accidentally, I have no way of knowing how it goes back together. Out of the 6 parts I replaced on Sunday, 5 of them were bad, the picture looks much better than it did when I started but there’s still a lot of room for improvement left. The biggest problem I’m going to have is keeping the cats out of the cabinet (and the bare picture tube) when I’m not around.
#2 I can’t remember the comedian who said it, but gays deserve the right to the same hollow, hypocritical marriages as the straights.
Regarding your project, let’s hope Lucky lives up to his name and stays away from the high-voltage components.
#1: being the amateur historian I am I have to wonder what would be the point? No one else has been able to fully stabilise that part of the world through force. How can we?
Afghanistan as a nation really isn’t one and Karzai only controls the immediate area around Khabul.
#2: but Rush & Newt and McCain have all been divorced multipule times and they respect the true sanctity of marriage…Oh wait.
3
Ah it’s only 10,000 volts, it won’t hurt him, much….
Ok everyne let’s go with TrojanRabbit’s idea – let’s launch a campaign to outlaw divorce (or at least make it less easy) and see how the Ruthugs react.
4 > Letter to the Editor
> http://m.detnews.com/BETTER/news.jsp?key=549395&rc=op
> published Sunday, November 1, 2009
>
> End Afghan war
> Our war in Afghanistan must end now. We have no valid
> reason to be there. The Taliban did not attack us on
> Sept. 11, 2001. Afghanistan had nothing to do with
> September 11.
>
> It’s a doomed effort. All the blood and treasure we
> expend there will ultimately be wasted. Genghis Khan,
> Alexander the Great, the British at the height of
> their empire and the Soviet Union have all lost wars
> in Afghanistan. No one has ever won — we will be no
> different.
>
> Mark Drunken Biker Deetroit
============================================
Reply:
“They gave bin Laden refuge. The war on the Taliban was
justified, and making sure they don’t return to power is
a necessity.
Kal”
============================================
MDB/
Every shred of Military Art, Science and History is
screaming GET OUT
Afghanistan, one of the poorest nations on the earth
is threat to the country that spends more on it’s
military than the entire world combined???
Afghanistan has a limited ability to defend itself
using guerrilla war. If we can’t defend ourselves in
our own country why try doing it nine times zones and
21 hours by jet plane away?
We will bankrupt ourselves in these horrible, dirty, illegal,
immoral, disastrous fake wars. Bush and Cheney are criminals.
Continuing what they started is wrong, stupid, evil, bad, dumb,
and ultimately ruinous.
I just don’t know how else I can spell it out for you.
You do not stick your whango is a Suzy-Bake oven. You
don’t fight a war in Afghanistan. It’s that simple.
“Hey, Dolf, Baby, lemme tell ya, this marching on
Stalingrad idea, it’s not a good one.” Learn from
history or be damned.
#8: it’ true. why aren’t we attacking Saudi Arabia?
6
Besides I’m more worried about burning myself than getting shocked. The soldering iron has already slipped a couple of times and burnt my finger.
I just happened to point my new infrared thermometer at one of the tubes while the set was running. 290 degrees. I think that would hurt a bit.
7 – It will just give cheaters the long wished for excuse as to why they can’t leave them to marry you.
#10: “it’s just a flesh wound”
Here is the smartest thing I’ve read about the Afghan Debacle:
http://www.theshalomcenter.org/node/1577
and his plan for micro-loans and pistols for Afghan women is
the best plan yet. Much more humane than flooding the country
with back-pack meth labs, Marlboros and rubber-boob’d hoors,
Next most likely plan to succeed, and the one I came up with,
with help from Sgt. Al, one of the smartest troopies ev-er.
12
“I’ve had worse.”
Every time I imaging Stephy’s mom saying
“Oh Stephanie, you don’t have to work blue”
it sounds exactly like Edith from All In The Family
Morning Mooks! Hope everyone had good treats for Halloween. Now back to the rethugs, and the dirty tricks they keep on giving.
We need to set up the perfect right wing theocracy/Libertarian
anarchy on an island somewhere and let them try it. Oh, wait: Somalia
Momma Time! What kind of get-up is that? Still in her Halloween outfit?
So Stephy went as a Box Wine Souse/Slut/Radio Slag. She didn’t
dress up at all. Love that Girl.
dear stomach flu
i hate you
you give back everything i eat
or turn it all into runny poo
oh dear stomach flu
i hate you
or if you want it in haiku
stomach flu is poo
and running to the bathroom
and pooing some more
But it’s much easier to bash the gays!
Hmmm If Ed takes a vacation will momma fill-in as his guest host?
I’ll say it. Jay Watson needs to get laid.
Lavoris? Is that still around??
2: “Whatever happened to “what God has joined let no man put asunder” or whatever?”
some scholars insist that what passage is strictly designed to protect stephy’s stash of box wine.
what god has adjourned, let no man put to chunder.
#25, and should man ever put asunder what God has joined, there’s always Gorilla Glue.
3: actually, a good old-fashioned vacuum tube can prevent a dog from getting lost.
Scozzafava is more liberal than the Dem. It was a weird race.
4: speaks to the semantic porture of “stabilize”.
how “stabilized” would you feel, with somebody trying to benevolently extract all your blood ?
Barry Goldwater was right-wing warhawk loon when he ran. He moderated decades later.
How could Jim do that bit without getting into the personal relationship between the Bush family and the Hinkley family. They were business partners.
8: in a bit of supreme irony, with rush devoting some gas recently to extra lip-smacky assslurpery of ronald reagan recently (yes, i know; it IS a great word; thank you), active radio host ron reagan just had a guest on who deconstructed in detail, the award-winning irrelevance of afghanistan to U.S. interests, this putting a stake thru the ass of the antique talking-point cited by kal. – some of them may be operating from the hypothesis that talking points get better with age.
10: pain maxes out around fahrenheit 150; after that, the differences are of how much, and how swiftly, cells are decommissioned.
11: what happens during belthaine (or burning man) will STAY in your face.
#32: why don’t they just dig up Reagan and carry him around on their shoulders like they do on saint’s days.
They could even give him a baroque halo & wrap him in a toga to complete the image.
“women are from venus; biker mice, and the lawn-jockey’s ego, are from mars, mister snerdley !”
#29: precisely
I wonder what the tipping point is going to be in the Republican Party finally going under. (Just thinking aloud.) What is it going to take for the public to say…OH, ya…i’ll be leaving your little Psycho Beach Party (good movie, btw
13: it’s well done. – it could even have suffice to let the opening line be “we face a crucible choice” – i’m sure that stephy’s first love, uncle arthur would agree, and would definitely have a gay old time snickering over anybody getting into a land war in asia.
Limbaugh told Chris Wallace that he thought Joe Biden was:
“Pompous, a bit of a windbag, and wrong.”
A man that spends hours each day talking on his radio show only to be given the first half of Fox “News” Sunday to bloviate for an additional 30 minutes, and uses that time to decry not being permitted to “buy an NFL football team”, is calling someone else “pompous” and “a windbag”.
15: archie: eedit’s right. you dont have to work blue.
just look at red skeleton.
23: fortunately, the content of the very first phone call was: “watson, get in here ! – i want you !”. what happened after that is pure speculation, thoe it is known that bell had just dropped acid.
The Republicans are also complaining about the word Shall in the Bill.
CHRIS LOUISE LAVOY!!! “Blew our wad” LOL
You know about those Tea Baggers.
#44, what? It’s a muzzle-loader reference.
40: thank you for the reminder. – cott the sunday replay of rush’s explaining how the famously dismissive remark about mcnab was not rush’s own fault. rush claimed that his job was to speak up and disagree about stuff. – and you know how it is sometimes; you’re prevailed upon to come up with an alternate view on something, and there’s just no other parameter available, except skin color. – rush thus insisted that he was merely following assigned process.
- – - and perhaps most preciously of all, in response to the rejection of rush’s attempt to directly invest in team ownership, rush played audio of steve king (the scary one) quoting the famous rush remark about a dark-skinned player named “mcnab”, thus revealing how completely extraneous the skin-color reference was, lest anybody forget.
steve king then directly proceeded to tell the sports commission that he personally could not find the derogatory racial remark that he had just quoted. – that may or may not be literally a truthful warning about the cerebral limitations of steve king, but either way, king’s approach accomplishes this:
in a perhaps unintended approach, it shines a spotlight upon ronald reagan in the only way necessary; it raises the question: why base policy decisions upon the dictates of occluded or impaired mental acuity ?
Word, because that’s how I Roll.
M.C. Michael Steele
“Lieberman is all about Lieberman” is his opponents attack advert.
46: sad but true factoid: look in anybody’s classic vinyl album collection. everyody has at least one copy of herb alpert’s “santorum and other delights”.
Zack probably got fired for talking to a radio station at all.
He’s being stroked by a particular Insurance Company Lobbyist, also known as his wife.
the 2009 october 30 episode of “the young turks” (interweb stuff starring cenk uygur) features lots of modern progressive health reform strategy, being spoken by lieberman, prior to lieberman’s massive and sadly transparent co-opt by the health “insurance” cartel.
Who would listen to Lieberman other than Repugs at this point, anyway?
#54 apparently about 25% of the country.
40:
I believe that falls under the case of It Takes One vs. To Know One.
Say, I haven’t heard Jim since the Gorbachev bit. Did he go somewhere? Usually Jim does the guess the quote thing.
#52 and when she was finished strokinghim was it an anti-climax!
(oooooh. penalty box is dark and cobwebby)
56: rush is especially on the money with the criticisms along the lines of “this little boy, whose main job in life has been leisure” – there have just been to many of these dubya-inspired descriptions to name; it’s just an on-going stream. – occam would recommend, rather than having rush correct a couple of hundred public statements per week, just do one correction: teach rush to get the name right.
58: Stop talking about momma’s vajayjay like that
Ask about Hadassah Liebermann
Hill & Knowlton as “senior counselor” in the firm’s “health care and pharmaceuticals practice.”
“dave tripper” ?
really ?
it’s not like i was prepared to unleash this sort of weaponry,
but you all saw it. he forced my hand.
foar everywun from boxxy (“it’s like BEATLES !!!”)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yavx9yxTrsw&NR=1
#56
Rush described himself as “proud” when asked what he thought about “the success of Glenn Beck”. Rush went on to take credit for the success… not only of Beck… but ALL of Conservative Media (of which he included “Fox News” by name)… only to then call Biden “pompous”.
#60: oh I’m sure that’s healed over by now.
Love the joke they made on “Wait, Wait” – “I’m dressed up for Halloween as Sarah Palin’s new book – I’ll be in a nice jacket and making no sense at all.”
they’re ripping off chris rock’s spiel about “niggahs” – chris observed that some people actually sound PROUD of not knowing stuff. – not an exact quote, but something like:
JACKIE: say, willie, you read that thing about the new craft NASA is sending to mars ?
WILLIE [PROUDLY]: MAAAaan, i dont KNOW a-BOUT that sshhhYYIT !!!!
65: i’ve waltzed sensibly in love with a women who visited halloween a year ago as PRESIDENT SARAH PALIN. – people voted on best costume by pinning ribbons upon their choices. the actor in question nearly fooled the judges into awarding a win, by answering “how many ribbons did you get?” with “all of them !”. – alas, it didnt quite work, even after collaborating with the other palins present to form the first chapter i’ve ever seen, of “palins for obama”.
Seriously isn’t it weird that Jim isn’t there, and they aren’t saying anything about it at all?
the some-say tactic raises one of the most impotant questions in psychiatry: what distinguishes the dictates of a god from those of an evil twin who just happens to collaborate on one’s agenda ?
All the private health insurance companies out of business…
And this is bad why (as long as people can get health care when they need it)?
68: it’s entirely possible that “eric boehlert” is jim.
Take your pick righties: it’s either Barack Hussein Obama who is a Muslim or Barack Glorious Five-Year Plan Obama who is a communist.
One or the other.
Maybe Jim has stomach flu or something….
1480 KPHX is playing an advert for Jim Kramer’s “Personal Portfolio”. Dear God how can people still believe in this putz.
GOP is completely blank, with no ideas with the same old stuff.
http://www.gop.gov/solutions/healthcare
72 – NO!!! Choice is Anti-American and Anti-Free Enterprise!!!
70: reclls another great highlight of the 2009 october 30 turkcast: if the bailout-funded bonus money of just one company (i believe it was AIG) were equally distributed among all of that company’s employees, they each would receive 630 thousand dollars.
74 – It’s on the online stream too. That’s like in the middle of the real estate meltdown I was still hearing the “invest in real estate for no money down” commercials some places….
It was these “house flippers” who got over extended who were a big part of the problem.
Cable RULZ!
70
Well it would be bad for those who actually work there, especially in this crappy economy.
I’m talking about the regular folks, screw everyone from the VPs on up.
62: Yes, I’m really Dave Tripper
And that video was totally GRODIE. Gag me with Rush Limbaugh’s massive ego.
78: i love that everybody would be wealthy if everybody would just flip property. why are people so harsh about reaganomics ?
73, when Jim is sick they usually comment on it, and make fun of him or something. Even if he just doesn’t show up, they comment on it. They are playing recorded Jim bits, like they were ready for it.
81: now you know why that ego is a precious asset to rush. it’s the only chance rush has, for somebody to stroke it and watch it grow. – there’s also a yotube compilation called “young girl talking about herself”. – check it out, it may even make you totally feel like “lord god king tripper !”.
Griff Jenkins is a little imp.
80 – Let other employers save the money they’re spending on insurance now and they can employ those people. And btw…my roommate worked for Traveler’s for 13 years and was laid-off…
Of course, its because of the economy – in this Depression they can get two or three new people for what they were paying him for his expertise…
83: you mean lavort was recording jim’s bits earlier, for a later-hosin ?
BTW – about by FOX logic everyone is Gay twice…
Bill O’Reilly is Gay twice…in his Sex Dungeon. With Geraldo and then Glenn Beck.
88: how they figure that ?
89 – the caller was saying that if you blew up the numbers of the people who showed up for a Gay Pride gathering in Atlanta over the weekend like FOX did the number of Tea Baggers who showed up for the FOX sponsored “protests”…then everyone in the country would have to be Gay or even Gay twice….
90: sounds like castroturf.
Huh??? So like it would be bad to say that “If it weren’t for this flu vaccine thousands would be dead right now?”
I keep wanting to hate Ah-nuld and then he says something sensible like that….
“we replaced neil cavuto’s regular million mam tea-bagging with folgers crystals. let’s see if he can taste the difference”.
“wow ! this is really good ! just a subtle hint of march hair, thoe i wonder why they’ve added the numbers here to such a low number. are they estimating the rabid whole with a mad adder ?”
Oh. Cheney “cannot recall” if he released Valerie Plame’s name.
So he’s going down the Reagan road. Well…I….well.
Steph, tell your friend thinking about opening the ho house to check out Wendover NV. It’s the closest town in NV to SLC. Could be a good location.
93: it’s okay. everybody has the right to hate ah-nold twice. just remember, “you should not drink and bake”.
Okay…they’re talking about Cheney and Jim’s not involved…
Where did Jim go then?
95: this is why science is so vastly superior to legalese; evidence = evidence. it was good enuff for solomon. requiring somebody to pronounce the exact syllables that admit guilt, is a ridiculous precept, and it makes a ridiculous procedural standard. it’s a standard of evidence that would make O.J. simpson not guilty.
back! and bitter
but sober
mebbee two related.
100: neil cavuto would take issue with you on that…. and two sugars.
42 Watson/Bell on acid, gay sex… I think everyone knew it.
a drunken cheyboyganite… perfect for Steph
i’m inviting steph to the exotic animal sanctuary. i’ll bring the cooking gear. come on, steph. i’ll tweet you to lunch.
The Right Wing: Bat Sh@t Crazy, or Crap House Rat Crazy?
You know, there WAS a show on The Food Network that proved that not all alcohol cooks out of stuff even when flambeed….
Steph w/a great Stack this a.m.
beaver anus bat fellatio… awesome
102: and… ancient but valid observation i remember from somebody on carson: if you get upset by the phone ringing at 3 a.m., be glad it wasnt invented by alexander graham siren.
Monkey see, monkey do.
Jim is not sick, he is injured. And it was from running into a
door, it had NOTHING to do with Jujumanja finding red satin panties
in the glove box
Steph, 24, of Rochester, served underaged? Well, they’re half right.
Geo W, gay… we saw on the Simpson’s that Honest Abe went
both ways… who else? were All the Presidents gay? W. Bush
was blatant.
107: sounds like episode 11.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nNQ89VgRsw&feature=PlayList&p=C16493DF9714DEF0&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=54
Geo W as played by Kelsey Grammer (pffffft! Oh, irritable bowel again)
109: like so ?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrzQtYyfgYw&NR=1
Yay Chris! Rachael Ray is annoying beyond belief!!
that’s funny, Steph has two oil paintings of A Rod over Her bed too~!
112: no, lincoln showed no such tendencies. – men shared beds back then, because that was the state of the technology.
Imagine that…a straight male model…
Blohan was also seen tongue-f*cking with Gerard Butler according to d-listed.
117 as a centaur, of course
Lindsey Lohan, niteclub… must have flashed her beaver. Does
she keep that thing on a leash in niteclubs?
Two werds fer Lindsey’s beaver: Restraining Order
I didn’t know George Washington sounded like Kelsey Grammer.
117: or A-painting of 2 rods. pasta la pizza.
Last time Sting dealt with someone sent by God, he was cut down like the Harkonnen animal he is.
#118: you just HAD to kill the bromance didn’t you flom.
Long Coat Chihuahuas screaming at back door to be let out
to chase… SQUIRREL!!! Squirrel! He’s in our yard! Let Us Out!
116. Has she the oddest rack ever? Are her breastestess too close to her neck?
Whut wuz the report on the kids visiting the creepy house
with the drunk lady who forgets to close her housecoat and
passes out beers and who’s yard is full of Giant dog poops?
or did Steph not give us the update?
Rachel Ray, annoying, yes
112, I think you’re right, W was gay. I think that’s how they controlled him. They have pictures. I wish Obama would open the records of who visited the W White House. Those Gannon/Guckert overnight visits would be really interesting.
Morning all! Anybody know the story on Voice Deity?
Lessee… November Inventory. $12 in bank until the 16th.
Trying not to drink, which is easy, I’m broke. Two crazy
dogs, One depressed/pissed off girlfriend… one motorcycle,
too damn cold to drive. One drunken Radio Slag, a gaggle of
Mooketeers… everything is great!
131 see 110
It’s a Republican district – they were likely to win either way.
ohhhhh, thanks.
124 – Wow…80′s “Dune” reference…
Arrrrggghhhh!!! Now I have that pic of Sting in the Art Deco g-string stuck in my head!!!!
Abdullah Abdullah is getting a cooking show I heard
#137, I thought that’s what the little cartoon guy from the Little Caliph’s Tabouli place said in the commercials.
Don’t knock illegal divorce in California….Tom Cruise would still be married to Mimi Rogers and we would have never suffered through “TomKat”…
Katie Holmes would be free now.
Pro Divorce site – Poe’s Law! I called it!
130 lesee, the scoop on W.’s gayness:
1. secret society membership at Andover Prep, prolly included gay
initiation
2. cheerleader at Yale,
3. room-mate Victor Ashe, also 4. Skull’N'Bones naked
mud-filled-coffin-mate
5. Member of the Gay Squadron, Texas Air National Guard [We're
Very Disciplined]
6. Christian gay-re-education Kamp where beard Laura assigned
Gannon/Guckert/Rove etc
7. While Pressy used the werd “Fabulous!” constantly
8. ever see his dance moves?
Now, I got no prollem w/his being gay ‘cept using the gay
marriage issue and attacking gays… in other werds, It’s
not the Gayness IT’S THE HYPOCRASY!
139. Don’t forget the Kidman Eyes Wide Shut debacle
141 – 9. Heavy use of controlled substances. Trying to forget?
10. Only proof of one conjugal visit to the Marriage Bed. Why didn’t the Bush’s have more kids?
142 – Always wondered…people say that Cruise and Kidman looked like they’d never done any of that before…
There were sex scenes in “Top Gun” between him and Kelly McGinnus….no one’s ever said that looked “unreal’. And she’s since come Out…
Not saying it means anything..just wondering.
(then again, there was “Risky Business” too…)
not gonna make Sparta today obviously
143 yes, heavy drinker/doper trying to blot out his self-loathing.
also yes, were the twins even his? oh wait, drunken whores,
prolly yes
Can we pass a law that makes the Bush family illegal and have them fixed?
146 – Start with Jeb’s Hellspawn – crackwhore and The Stalker
Okay Oly Snowe, time to visit Michelle and give her the secret
145 – “were the twins even his? oh wait, drunken whores,
prolly yes”
That was my thinking too.
148 – Who says she doesn’t know already?
Stephy in stilettoes… wrow
Rude is taking over dear sweet Steph’s personality.
‘pumping party’? sounds like Saturday night!
150. Because Oly has control of O. Doubt that Michelle has the trigger fixation.
Part of why I got out of Florida….
Buh bye
#153 “pumping party”? Sounds like a Seventies style orgy!
G’day all! Watch for “Goat and Yak with Abdullah” on Food Network. Yummo!
have a great aftershow see you tomorrow