LiveBlog for Tuesday, November 3, 2009
• Rep. Allyson Schwartz (D-PA) calls in at 6:30am Pacific to talk about health care reform and the encouraging signs in the economy.
• Charlie Pierce, author of “Idiot America,” calls in at 7:30am Pacific to talk about Election Day, health care reform, Afghanistan, and the economy.
• Today is Election Day in many states. Polls are close in the New Jersey governor’s race, Dem Creigh Deeds trails GOP-er Bob McDonnell in the polls by double digits in the Virginia gubernatorial race, Conservative Doug Hoffman leads Dem Bill Owens in NY’s 23rd Congressional District race, Maine voters are being asked if gay marriage should remain legal, and Washington State voters are deciding on a domestic partnerships law.
• While House leaders are moving toward a vote on health care legislation by the end of the week, enough Dems are threatening to oppose the measure over the issue of abortion to create a question about its passage. A bloc of Dems are worried that the bill could lead to public funding of the procedure.
• President Obama called Afghan President Hamid Karzai to congratulate him on being named the winner of that country’s election, and urged him to work to improve governance and end corruption there.
• The Philadelphia Phillies beat the New York Yankees 8-6 in Game 5 of the World Series last night, forcing a Game 6 at Yankee Stadium tomorrow night.
Tags: Allyson Schwartz, Barack Obama, Bill Owens, Bob McDonnell, Charlie Pierce, Creigh Deeds, Doug Hoffman, Hamid Karzai, Health Care Reform, New York Yankees, Philadelphia Phillies
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Good morning all!
Firsties? First time firsties. 5am and dark here on the Left Coast.
Morning, blogospherians. Traffic for the last 2 miles sucked. I really need to get the stamina up to bike-commute.
Gotta figure out where in my day I commit the hopeless act of voting the Dem ticket on the Virginia ballot. See what happens when you ignore the liberal and populous Northern Virginia DC ‘burbs?
G’morning, PJ, you’re up bright and early!
Here’s my thought for the day: we all know Joe Lieberman is just looking for attention and whatever kind of deal he can extract from his “enfant terrible” role in the Senate. So why doesn’t Obama just ship him out as Ambassador to Mookistan or somesuch? Just sayin’
Morning all!
Ann Telnaes takes on Rush’s little Fox appearance: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/opinions/anntelnaes/
God I love her stuff. She always gets it right.
Oh God that’s right! It’s voting day. F*ckity f*ckity f*ck.
Good morning, everyone! PJ qualifies for the Early Riser Club.
Sorry, I can’t stay. Another morning-long meeting. I’ll catch the show on Stephcast this afternoon.
I’ll say in passing that Joe Lieberman (Douche!) has burned what remaining bridges to the Dems. My hope is that he never wins another elected seat for the rest of his miserable life.
Have a great day!
Good morning Peter and Juliet. Speaking of commuting, the San Francisco Bay Bridge is open again.
Needed to proofread.
“I’ll say in passing that Joe Lieberman (Douche!) has burned his last remaining bridge to the Dems. My hope is that he never wins another elected seat for the rest of his miserable life.”
RadioguyChris RT @CraigMayhem: Can Dick Cheney go away for a couple of years? Even Al Gore had the grace to do so.
Yes but that would mean that Cheney had some grace.
#8: I think that it really depends on how much money his opponent(s) get. There’s an awful lot of insurance company’s money behind him.
#8 we got the gist, shaf.
#3, rumor has it Lieberman is backing down in private.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/11/2/205231/786
I can think of a place I’d like Cheney to go away to for a few years.
Wonder how he looks in an orange jumpsuit.
#13 oh the stuff that dreams are made of. Orange jumpsuit. Stress positions. Waterboarding. (Is it torture NOW?) and dogs. Can’t forget the dogs. And a human pyramid of him, Rumsfeld, Dubya, Scooter, Gonzo and Ashcroft. Maybe Stephie can hang a ciggie from her mouth and point at their genitals.
Good morning bloggos!
Flew over the weekend on my job at SBAirlines but finally had one of the good guys on board, Maxine WATERS! She was sitting in the main cabin on her way home to LAX for a weekend visit. I stopped to say hi and shook her hand, told her that I’ve heard her a few times on the Stephanie Miller show. She gave me a big smile and said, “oh I love Stephanie!”.
I love that name!! They through her under the bus and gave her no reason or incentive to support the hard core right winger, no wonder she decided to support the Dems!
The Republican party is imploding, but they’re taking VA down with them.
I was just writing that PeterW!
#17 – VA was already in the clutches of the repugs.
I bet that Momma has heard that before; “I need some ME time” roughly translated as “I’ve been hit with your gay ray and am going to get pegged by the first hot piece that comes by”.
Mornin’ people. Time change means I’m awake around six for once.
“as hamlet said, TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUTHY”.
“hamlet never said that. polonius said it.”
“you’re right ! – how are you suddenly so knowing on shakespeare ?”
“i’m not. – i remember everything mel gibson ever says, and mel gibson never said that”.
Perhaps Leno should go back to being funny and not do a bloody chat show!
13: what is “credible”.
…. i’ll take polynesian royalty for 200.
#17, no, it was pretty purple. We’ve had a Dem governor for a while (Conservadem, but still).
But we had a crappy candidate who ran away from Dem principles and ignored the Dem strongholds in NoVA to burnish his rural-VA credentials, and he and the downtickets are going to pay the price.
We had a better candidate in the primaries with NoVA roots (Brian Moran), but he and professional sleazebag Terry McAuliffe bloodied each other to the point where neither was viable.
#24, what, send him to visit the King of the Cannibal Islands?
/hokey-pokey-winkie-wong
Ummmm..can you can the full version of “bj” on radio?
15: “She gave me a big smile and said, “oh I love Stephanie!”.”
and who doesnt ?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yb8A9UBXYF0
Hello all. Woke up at 4:30 this morning and couldn’t get back to sleep. Too much on my mind. Sure wish I could find my “tribe” in the workplace.
WHERE’S JIM?????
14/17: “The Republican party is imploding, but they’re taking VA down with them.”
will they be taking their DVDA with them as well ?
#31: I’m sure that they’re dividing up their DVDs now.
OK, did i miss something? Why isn’t Jim Ward in studio? He wasn’t in yesterday either…I need my overeducated pithy comments from the Deity.
i’m missing Jim’s comments and asides…
23: “Perhaps Leno should go back to being funny ….”
is that on the history channel ?
Morning everyone!
Maybe Jim is late?
#25 – When are the party bigwigs going to stop paying attention to the pundits and attempt to win votes by mimicking the GOP? Didn’t 2006 and 2008 teach us that by sticking to our party’s values we win? This attempt to be “post-partisan” has been what has been stalling health care reform, has made Olympia Snowe and Joe Lieberman the most powerful members of the Senate, and has gotten us wishy-washy Creigh Deeds in Virginia. Dean’s “Fifty-State Strategy” wasn’t to be become the GOP (the thought would make Dean blanch), but instead was to put up credible candidates everywhere. Rahm, on the other hand, seems to think that the winning strategy is to become a centre-right party, judging by his history going back to the Clinton Administration. That direction needs to change in the next 12 months or we could be seeing 1994 playing out again.
#35: wedged in between “Jewish comedy during the time of the Pharohs” and “The Jester: Ashtray to Kings & Queens”.
15–That’s a nice visit.
#25 – Hi Peter, either way, I’m sorry. I live in a very conservative part of Southern CAL and we can’t even get progressive radio so I know how frustrating it is!
Generals & Majors by XTC…awesome tune
I’m having a bad day too. Maybe it’s the full moon combined with the time change? Makes everyone wacky-cranky.
34: Shane-O, first of all, big fan of your work. Brilliant montages! Can you use your considerable pull and find out what’s going on with Jim Louise Ward? I miss him dearly. I love Chris, but Jim’s comments are so dead on and informative.
41–South OC?
There are technically no Blue Dogs in the Senate.
I say give the Blue Dogs their abortion exclusion, as long as it’s narrowly worded.
Indeed I hope Jim’s ok.
I have several guesses:
1) He’s got an acting or voiceover gig that requires his presence at hours not precluded by being in studio at insane o’clock
2) Stephanie has finally put a recording studio next to the bridal path and she’s got him tied up recording his part of the show while she wears that outfit from Hard Feelings
3) He’s on vacation in another city that has a studio
4) He needed two days to figure out who to vote for in his city council election
5) He’s running for city council and had to campaign
6) He’s helping a family member or friend while they have an illness
I’m hoping it’s one of the odd ones
No mention yesterday or today of where Jim is. I sure hope his absence isn’t permanent!
26: i guess i was about 5 when i heard that song. i found the “wingery-wong” part problematic. – ask anybody who knows no japanese or russian, or german, hindi, or pashtu, to identify spoken samples of conversation in each of those languages…. people can tell you which is which every time. – so pattern recognition can be, on one lobe, a fluid, nebulous thing, but it remains real. – without knowing all the big words that we later associate with elements of formal linuistic studies, even 5-year olds have firm concepts of screening for authenticity in patterns. – - – somewhere in my experiences, i WAS a five-year old. – i attribute this as the reason i am not swayed by repugnican talking points.
I’d like to make a random complaint:
When I’m reading newspapers online, I really HATE those stupid ads for stuff I don’t need or want that open up all over the page so you have to find the nearly invisible close arrow to make them go away.
People come to your newspaper to read the news so Times and Daily News sticks a big, fat ad in their faces.
No wonder people choose to read creeping-ad-free blogs instead.
37: was jim e-mailed a threat from the planet-builder ?
47. Love that list. And ya, I hope it’s just a “previous engagement” or “vacation” thingy. And I think there is a distinct possibility he got lost trying to negotiate finding the exit on Stephanie’s massive and harrowing bridal path.
Coming soon: “Orly Goes to Jail!” And when she’s up for parole, just Let Her Finish her sentence.
47–I think the time change is getting to him. It really does affect people.
#44 if I had any pull – considerable or not, I’d try to find out.
Alas, I do not.
Whatever is going on – ProducerChris knows our concerns (as he monitors the Live Blog) – and Steph will let us know what’s up.
Is she HIGH?? Some of these people are obviously inept and should not be in their jobs. Give me a break….
They’re still running his promos on the streaming site and he’s still providing (recorded) content that doesn’t sound like old bits so it would seem he’s just got some kind of scheduling conflict and he’ll be back in studio soon.
I’d love for Steph or Chris to at least mention that Jim’s not there. Not saying anything about it is a little creepy.
Holy crap, I thought Michelle Bachman was nuts.
Oh Geezus—I have heard that ridiculous Republican song for years: “This bill is more frightening than Dawn of the Dead. Than Dracula. Than me in a bikini!”
SNL should do a skit with Congresspeople running out of the building in terror in reaction to this old song and dance.
Morning….
35 – Leno’s funny when he did “Jaywalking” and weird headlines. If he did a show just of that I’d watch. Otherwise….go away, Jay.
BTW…while one review does not a quorum make (http://www.hitfix.com/blogs/2008-12-6-the-fien-print/posts/tv-review-abc-s-v)….
Looks like “V” is going to suck.
Jim is probably taking care of some family stuff and they will mention it if and when it’s okay to do so.
56—There are a few in Congress—not many—who could easily be replaced by your average Joe. But not the fake plumber Joe.
All these Born Again Christians protesting healthcare reform with fish on their signs…
Tell them I want the same healthcare plan that Lazarus had…just a little quicker.
As a liberal I say scrap the healthcare bill. It is a conservative bill, watered down and weakend to appease conservatives. Liberals should stand up and stop it and then force an up or down vote on expanding medicare to everyone. It’s utterly agonizing for liberals be subjected to 3 more years of half measures and capitulation to conservatives by a weak president and even weaker congressional leadership. The Democratic party is a complete and total failure.
39: “wedged in between “Jewish comedy during the time of the Pharohs” ….”
thank you. somehow, i had forgotten how old some of the jewish comics are. – joey bishop and david brenner have to re-calibrate their plans of opening for soupy sales and alan king. – is rickles alive ? nobody’s really sure. – did you see how creeped out olympia snowe got by woody allen hitting on her ? – he’s going to re-work those pick-up lines involving merit badges…. and mel brooks…. what’s with the yearbook pictures taken along with the 2000 year old man ?
60—Something tells me Jay is not in control of the format of his show. That’s how these things work in Hollywood. It’s a group of cooks, not just one chef.
7) He got too close to one of his conspiracies and he was brought in to be “debriefed”
#15: Good morning Deb – I don’t know which S.B. airline you really work for, but I can just see you setting the satellite radio channel to Steph’s network at each and every seat (yes I know that would take forever).
Good morning Nick, shāf.
43: “Maybe it’s the full moon combined with the time change? Makes everyone wacky-cranky.”
it’s even more harsh on people who are upside-down. makes them crikey.
65–is rickles alive ?
He is! He still is. Good for him!
69—So that’s where that expression came from? Another linguistics mystery solved c/o The Stephanie Miller Live Blog.
#60: wasn’t a fan of the original except Jane Badler. Pretty hot in an early 80s-Dynasty kind of way.
Probably won’t watch the new V except maybe for Moreena Baccarin. Hotness squared. Like the pixie cut.
I’ll probably just save time & rewatch Firefly / Serenity and then “I’ll be in my bunk”.
Yesterday someone said on the liveblog that Jim was injured over the weekend. I can’t figure out how to get to old liveblogs anymore, so I don’t know who said that, or exactly what they said, and I don’t know what is the source. I’m fairly sure they never said it on air. I got the impression from the comment that it wasn’t that serious, and the fact that he seems to be recording bits implies that it’s not too serious. If that’s what it is I don’t understand why they won’t give an update on the air. I’m sure there are a lot of fans who want to know what is going on and are starting to worry about him.
71—Don’t do it Jim!!! Don’t be the Bonaduce!
59: “SNL should do a skit with Congresspeople running out of the building in terror in reaction to this old song and dance.”
well, sure. somebody already invoked one cassidy. why not his brother ?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYkQ2qlANhc
9) He has teamed up with the “Girls Gone Wild” people and went on tour with his own “teabag express”
i get much more calm in wealth.
I am sorry but the congresswoman is candy coating corporate welfare.
Word on the blog is that Jocasta told the police Jim walked into a door. The cops bought it and told Jim to watch where he’s Walken.
66: “That’s how these things work in Hollywood. It’s a group of cooks, not just one chef.”
“so, jay…. dont you want to lean way in, and check that oven temperature ?”
I wish they could get Carlos to fill in for Jim! It’s a little boring without crazy voices in the background.
10) He has been recruited by Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin to help rounding up votes, and failing that to impersonate them during voice votes.
Help: Stephanie is off the air in Missoula on KMPT-AM replaced by Mike Gallagher??? Did I wake up in an alternative universe??? Scream
76—That is sad, odd and nostalgic. I read an article about him once. He was a nice, normal guy who did construction or something before he got cast.
If it’s possibly a dispute over compensation, I’ll chip in to give Jim a raise!
80: “The cops bought it and told Jim to watch where he’s Walken.”
this conjures a scenario of jumangee trying on the thong version of the josephine baker banana skirt, and asking jim if it makes her look like jabaa the hut. – jim hesitated in entrely the wrong tone, and then did it again, so jujubee slapped him on the scrotum with a “slaughtering iron” – probably just a putter, really.
“i mean, darling, you appear a size 4; i guess i really overshot it with the 80″.
81—Aww…Jay’s a nice guy. He signed up for an experiment. The problem is those of us who still watch TV and not Tivo, Hulu, or the NBC/CBS/ABC websites are creatures of habit. When we see a late night show on at 10 we think, “No…this is not how my schedule goes. I watch something til 11:00 then I catch the news, then maybe I catch 10 minutes of a late show.”
Habits are hard to change. Did they figure that in when they created the 10:00 show? Probably not.
dug hoffmann ? – i dug hoffmann, but then he started tellin tales.
Top Ten Pilot Excuses, number ten: Was posting on the SMS live blog.
Problem is, if the Republicans split, the non-crazy right will become Dems, and eventually the Dems will have to split.
#86: voicedeity.com
91: halloween incident: jamiroquois dressed as an insane waiterette, and still weilding the 5-iron, served jim a banana split.
91—I think the Republicans will split. What else can they do? One portion of them will never learn to love all of God’s people, and the rest are leaning toward tolerance and sanity.
It’s like a divorce.
Orrin Hatch reveals the Dems’ diabolical plan: keep themselves permanently in power by passing popular legislation that improves people’s lives:
hell-oh
still dragging despite half a cuppa and an egg
stephy is on fire this a.m.
what would be wrong with having a second political party ?
Republicans may be split – but so are we.
Consider the maneuvering required by the Democrats to hold the Left and the Moderates together — we really have a parliamentary system right now (coalitions needed to do anything) –
A parliamentary system in all ways other than the “no-confidence” votes…
91 – The Dems didn’t split over the Civil Rights Act; that’s why we still have the Blue Dog Caucus. Sure, some of the more extreme elements flipped parties, like Strom Thurmond. But the Democrats have some legitimately conservative members, like Heath Shuler, and they do try and work with them. The GOP just boots anyone who doesn’t toe the party line; Linc Chaffee, Dede Scozzafava, etc.
96: you turn me into a newt, you pay the price.
43 69 the full moon has had me not sleeping and dreaming
bizarre weird dreams when I do manage to drift off
why isn’t Stephanie wearing any pants? not that I’m complaining
97 we got four [count 'em!] parties:
1 Progressive
2 Blew Dogs
3 Rethuglican
4 Conservative, or as it’s properly spelled: Coprophile
jim ward hypothesis: taking a break from working so hard; scaling it back to just “stephanie miller” and “chris lavoie” for now. that’s what happened to “jim ward”, if indeed that really is his name.
werk beckons. pasta la pizza.
#68 – but I can just see you setting the satellite radio channel to Steph’s network at each at every seat…
If only! Just do’n the Lords work
95—LOL. Haven’t they caught on that this what Dems ALWAYS do? God we’re just awful!
95—LOL, that is such a great quote. “Dems take care of people! How dastardly!!”
#99, the Dems DID split over the civil rights act; the Dixiecrats split off and joined the Repubs, as you cite.
There will never be more than 2 major parties in our system for long. The question is the lines along which the coalitions form.
If the Republicans continue to be marginalized into a true fringe party like the Libertarians or Constitution party, the only party left large enough to split will be the Dems.
96—I’m tellin’ ya, it’s the time change hangover.
95 – It’s interesting when the Republicans complain about how the Dems are trying to ensure that they are in power forever, they don’t recall the period from 1860-1912, when they held the White House for all but two non-consecutive Cleveland Administrations, despite rampant corruption in the GOP administrations, because among other things Reconstruction required the Congress to approve the delegations from the readmitted states, and the GOP was the dominant party in most of the country that hadn’t rebelled for about 2 or 3 generations. Cleveland and Wilson were the only Democratic presidents from 1860 to 1932; 16 of 72 years. And the Congress was just as firmly Republican dominated. It took a Great Depression to break that stranglehold on power.
98—We can complain about the Dems a lot. I agree. However, the Dems do occasionally listen to the people. The Conservative party never does. Never.
#106, he’s also admitting that the Republican agenda – as it actually affects people’s lives – is totally unpopular, and can’t win in a democracy.
He’s more concerned with the preservation of 2-party power parity than the principle of democracy, which is the parties do well when they are favored by the people.
23 year old Iraqi woman run over by her father because
she had become “too Westernized”
Stephy’s father, former Nuns teacher bummed out they
didn’t think of it back in the day
Seriously we need to leave. Leave and leave those people
to sort out their Own prollems. We got plenny of our own.
Starting with the need to bash Flush Dimbulb’s head in
w/a large rock.
110—They don’t mention that time period of history because of how evil the Reconstruction period was for so many Americans who were not rich or white.
The last Republican they will claim from the 1800s is Lincoln. Everything after him is a blur.
Dede Scozzafava would be the best canadate for Wisconsin. She is Pro Choice,Pro Gun ( We like our guns in Wisconsin ) Pro Gay Rights, and lot more. Wisconsin is a very, well strange state. We would I would say Consertive Librals. I know myself I want health care to pass, I was pro stimulius, but some other programs we have i disagree with. I would like to see the goverment smaller but not by much. Right now in this time I am pretty happy with the most of the political leaders in our country and My state. I think with the New Republican party You have to be Evengelical to get in the door. That is not american. We use to stand on a platform where it was all about what the candiate stood for and what was best for the people in that area. Now it seem the republicans have a platform that is WHO GIVES A CRAP! Are they Evengelical, If ther not tell them to get the hell out!!
I come from a (Wisconsin) Republican family. They are Pro Gay Rights (Thanks TO me TEE HE HE) and most are pro choice. But I know most of them no longer think they are republicans but they are a DEM.
Has Steph added Zach to her List of Future Pool-Boys yet?
#110, more than a great depression – a shift in the party coalitions. Dems wholeheartedly embraced both Southern populism and Northern labor.
Oh Stephy, I’ll Tweet you
tweet yer littul tweeter
[skating]
hey, who left the beer in the penalty box?
Sorry about typing In a metting
#114, um, Reconstruction was a great progressive leap forward; only Southern revanchists (who managed to put their lies into the High School history books) claim it was evil. It was Jim Crow that followed after Reconstruction ended that was evil. Jim Loewen’s “Lies My Teacher Told Me” has a great section on Reconstruction.
#111 – I wasn’t complaining. Just an observation.
And “listening” only occurs (for the majority of either parties’ members) when they are seeking re-election.
113—I don’t think we can leave because we left them after the Soviet invasion and that didn’t turn out so well for us.
How do you help a country that has no industry except poppies? It’s so sad. We’d have to teach them some kind of something their people can do/make or sell to build up their GDP.
But under a conservative religious domination that’s so hard to do because so many occupations will be banned by the religious leaders.
plus schools for ladies are banned. That’s a problem!
Leiberman® Brand Douche!
The Dochey-ist Douches in the world!
Ask for yours by name!
Make the Rethugs REALLY fillerbuster if they want to.
Stand up there and speak, not go home, have the illegal
maid make you a Rob Roy and force her to watch you masturbate…
heh… a “who’s on first” parody… love it
#3: I’m sure “Joe the No” would be glad to accept an ambassadorship in Offshorebankistan a.k.a. the Cayman Islands, Switzerland or Monaco where his ill-gotten gains would be well looked after.
115—I like how Christian people really want to make sure they can own guns so they can kill a troublemaker.
Commandment: Thou shall not kill.
Ooops. So I guess the Christian gun owners take lots of classes so they can shoot to wound only.
#122 you can not, ever, under any circumstances, conduct military operations and nation-building in the same country at the same time. It is impossible.
If we want to build Afghanistan or Iraq, we have to get the troops out.
122 micro loans and pistols/ammo for any group of Afghan women
who want them. And all our troops leave now. Either that or
flood the country w/back-pack meth labs, marlboros and Brittney
Spears clones
#126, actually, the commandment is better translated “Thou shall not murder”.
McCrystal is the one who covered up the Pat Tillman killing so why are we listening to him?
121—I don’t think so. We Dems, we’re pretty annoying. You just have no idea how angry Dems get when they are fed up with their leaders. I’ve been in those meetings. We are happy to throw the bums out from our party if they ignore us.
#130 McChrystal also ran extrajudicial kidnapping/murder squads out of Baghdad, according to some reporting.
Nice Tramp Stamp Momma! a pony wrasslin’ a centaur while a
unicorn watches… how’da think o’that one? [box wine drunk on]
but don’t you know that young ladies w/tramp stamps [or as they
are also known, 'ass antlers' or 'bulls-eyes'] have prollem
pregnancies? Yes, it’s true. They can’t figure out who the
father is…
skating, again
I missed hearing Steph talk to Zack at the Lieberman office. Is there a recording of that bit somewhere that I can listen too?
PARTAY!
send me your email and I’ll excerpt it for you, summer
Are the crazy right-wingers going to break away & make their own party? Like the British National Party??
Scotch vs Bourbon
hey, they are both brown liqqers. Good for getting the bras off…
127—The military is the wrong force to do nation building, that’s for sure. So what do we replace them with? Expand the red cross or something like it?
“Join Blackwater’s Nation Building Forces! No guns—only Christ’s love changing Afghanistan one wife beater at a time.”
That’s a job for the private sector!
126# We are a Hunting State Frist of all. Also I have taken class on how to wound to defent myself, not to kill. My mother worked for the FBI. I grew up in Northen East Wisconsin. I knew how to shoot befor i would read. I disagree with people who shoot first and ask question later. I have said for alot of years that if you want to have a gun in this state you need to take gun safty ed every 2 years. So just cause I like my guns dont take me for the person who shoots frist and askeds questions later.
134 the Stephy/Zach interaction was priceless. Dunno where it’s
recorded fer posterity. Zach is now in a mental home.
137 – We can only hope. Although the BBC is now allowing the BNP leader to appear on their shows. Good on the Tories, Labour and LibDems for refusing to share a stage with him, though.
129—Another small business formed: Shoot to Wound Classes
I’m renaming Buster and Suzy the long coated chihuahuas
to Chris and Stephie
103, I’m beginning to think you are correct about Jim, Flom. This looks like a programming change. This is the way they handle programming changes. When they dropped Right Wing World, they just did it and never talked about it on air. When it came back they did the same thing. They just act as if it was always that way. This is not the way they handle sick or injured staff people, they talk about that on the air.
I found an interview with Steph where she said this in 2006:
Miller: … One change we made from the last show was he wasn’t in the studio. We prerecorded some bits. He wasn’t there live with me…
It looks to me like they have gone back to that format. Maybe since the Emmy, Jim’s voice acting is taking off and he doesn’t have time to spend 3 hours a day in the studio. It sure would be nice if they would let us know what is really going on.
Gabby it won’t loet me click on your name for you email. What is your ID in Steph’s community and I can send you my email there.
Steph can get all that stuff taken down…
She just has to buy all of the shows from rights owners.
Sell off part of her compound for the money….
#139, no, actually the military can do nation-building very well. And disaster relief. Just not in a place where they’re fighting.
Because the loss of goodwill from any wrongful (or perceived wrongful) killing far exceeds the goodwill gained from the nation building efforts. People would rather live in squalor than live in constant fear of being killed by clumsy or jumpy foreign troops.
Steph sounds awfully worried about that 8mm spring break movie from back in the seventies that keeps showing up on the innertubes.
Well it seems official, the only progressive on-air station in our state just went worse than dead, we now have the undead. KMPT-AM 930 owned by GAP-West broadcasting switched formats overnight without notice to right-wing BS beginning with Mike Gallagher. The only, and I mean only saving grace is that the conservative broadcasts are now on the lowest powered station in the neighborhood. Guess I’ll be back to Stephcasts and Air America podcasts. The sad thing is that this is the second loss of progressive talk in Missoula in the past two years. We lost an Air American franchise station on a high power FM, now we’ve lost AM access. Sad thing to happen on election day/
140—Please don’t think I was talking about you. I was just pointing out the irony of how so many Christians are gun owners and self-defense with weapons advocates in spite of what they learn in church.
I have no problem with hunting for food or even target practice for fun. But too many in our society have gun lust and build up an arsenal out of paranoia—paranoia that Rush and O’Reilly are happy to feed.
“Maybe since the Emmy, Jim’s voice acting is taking off and he doesn’t have time to spend 3 hours a day in the studio. It sure would be nice if they would let us know what is really going on.”
Probably the case…and we should be happy for him and that he still has the time to do the bits he’s doing.
Of course it would be better to have him live but..love Rude Pundit and the guy from Media Matters in the meantime
143 Shoot to Wound, Hunt’n Relase…
130 thank you Yes. McChrystal is a typical military type.
He’s a hammer, all he sees in nails. He should be fired,
Truman sacked MacArthur for far less. PLUS he’s a liar,
starting w/Tillman. Ah, the Military-Industrial Complex
is out of control. I don’t doubt they have threatened
the lives of Obama’s kids if he doesn’t keep a war going
for them…
#145, I sure hope that whatever it is, is not permanent. I love Steph and Chris, but Jim is sooooooooooooooo important to the mix.
148—I agree. It’s hard to trust people who carry stuff on their backs everyday with which to kill you.
It’s also hard to trust them when their bombs have killed your friends.
149 whut’s that link?
Morning all … better late than never.
Where the hell is that recalcitrant ne’er-do-well Jim Ward?
150—I’m sorry for your loss. Write to the station.
czech out my brother on the guit-fiddle:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juF0UvL6rgQ
a very cool Billy Cobham tune, “The Red Baron”
my brother can Play that Strat, I think you’ll agree.
Steph should use that as a bumper
It’s 7:30. I gotta go. Have a lovely day all.
#150: love that the website for is still Missoulaprogressivetalk.com. Sorry to hear that you lost your station. We have one here in Boston but it’s pretty weak. I usually stream and listen from my computer.
summer:
gabbbbyhayes@earthlink.net
anyone: does anyone remember when zack’s little segment was? what day at least? what time, if you remember?
#162 – Wed. 10-28 hour 1 – I believe (could be wrong)
#134, #141: Zach is under observation for possible PTSD; he may also have been exposed to Steph’s gay ray.
#156: I’m still looking for that…
$155, that said, the use of the US military for disaster relief during the Armenian earthquake 20 years ago probably did a lot to warm US-Soviet relations.
The US military did great nation-building in Germany and Japan, but that’s because the Germans and Japanese considered themselves to be honestly beaten aggressors, and laid down arms. The Iraqis and Afghans do not consider themselves to be beaten, and never will – because they were the victims of aggression, and the conflict never was on the level of standing armies (where “beating” or “being beaten” is an option).
I think Steph should come out with a line of inappropriate PAZ dispensers.
What would be your favorite design?
I mean PEZ
Obama’s salvaging. The election was a joke, Karzai has no authority and is incredibly corrupt.
159 sorry about the camera work, my nephew is only seven
the sound comes thru though
listen to his verson of Mercy Mercy Mercy
http://www.youtube.com/user/HowlandStorm#p/a/u/2/KOEuX1QS1kw
that would be SPAZ dispenser in Steph’s case
#166: Rush Limbaugh but it only dispenses sh*t flavour.
#170 Hey now … (ba-dum-bum).
#168 and only ‘rules’ in the area immediately around Kabul.
I’ll write to the Missoula station, its just very ironic that this change happens without warning on election day????? I’m not normally a conspiracy fan but its just too convenient. And after a Day of the Dead parade last night.
I thott I Stephy with a PEZ dispenser for birth control pills
that was shaped like a penis…
#166: can the PEZ dispensers make a sound when opened? Newt’s could say ‘frankly’.
off to work, maybe time to buy satellite radio
#175: how about a replica of Steph’s steam-driven self-pleasuring device?
banshees moan–are ya listenin?
frost on the bones–see it glistenin?
it’s a wonderful night, full of bloody fright
have a happy day of the dead!
#177: can you stream anything? I usually have 1480 KPHX in Phoenix on.
No Country For Old Radio Slags…
#151 I agree. And this is why I think we as a country need change some of the laws.
A John’s ‘Boener’ dispenser might be interesting …
RE: the NY House race. The local district issues don’t matter to the RW wackos. Jesus is the only issue that matters anywhere.
Love Charlie Pierce — and by the way, he’s referencing old Mrs. Dubose, recovering morphine addict and recalcitrant racist who keeps a Confederate pistol under her shawl while she rails at Atticus Finch for defending a black man on a trumped-up rape charge.
must
go
out
hope to see you all before SPARTA
what does “FTW” mean? fuck the world?
#162 – Hour 1, segment 2 – ~15:30 of the Stephcast 10-28-09
gracias, shane-o. you are so damned talented.
#174 – no surprise there. Montana is a red state but you’re right. The timing is suspcious.
when did “red” stop being communist and start being republican?
WTF = what the f—k.
so ftw=fuck the what?
#187 Oopps…just realized it was backwards. Gee maybe your definition is right!
Proposal:
Whereas:The main right-wing tool is orange and
Whereas: When two vowels go walking, the first one does the talking,
Let it be known that:
Orange popsicles should henceforth be known as John Boners
Discussion?
All in favor say Aye …
FBI clears Ca. Assemblyman of sleeping with lobbyists (and vice-versa, I guess):
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-duvall3-2009nov03,0,1184195.story
#189 – de nada – I only remembered because of Ken in Cleveland’s “Douche” bit on the 29th…
#191 – Since we stopped giving a shit about communists.
How best to notify/contact the blue dogs (insult to dogs) that we are not happy about their stand. Is there a complete list of who they all are?
Is Joe Leiberman a “douche” or a “douche bag”
#200: “to Lieberman” is equal “to douching” so he’s a douche.
#201 but then one would not use an indefinite article (“a”) before it.
i love orange popsicles and I’m not putting john boner in my mouth. so no way.
Steph was on Fox last – March 25, 2008.
lieberman not substantial enough to constitute a bag. he is only the junk that goes in the bag.
#203 But you will think about it the next time you do! Mwwaahhhhhaahahaha!
#204 – sorry – March 24, 2008. Here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue0SOl9bO-o
let’s reserve john boner for the somewhat bloody turdsicle.
Where’s Jim?
#208 It could come packaged in a pink sleeve.
come on, people. we’ll never get to sparta at this rate!
take exception. make dumb jokes. brag about your shoe size
“lieberman not substantial enough to constitute a bag. he is only the junk that goes in the bag”
Vinegar and water?
I’m still chuckling about Jim’s Maya “Dice” Angelou reference …
It made me wax poetic -
I know why da caged bird sings,
‘Cause the bitch is in a cage fer Chrissake!
Ohh …
So nobody can tell us what “FTW” means in lolspeak?
#204 – the 25th is when Cavuto bitched Steph out (without actually saying her name)
FTW = For The Win
Morning all! Still no Jim?
#209: Jim’s not here, man!
(nor is Zach, or Zack, or Dave…)
Lieberman is a douche-fart
13EEE…it’s ridiculous trying to find shoes for my Flintstonesque paws.
#218 – Jim Ward? Haven’t heard his dulcet tones at all this a.m.
221…we’ve been pondering Jim’s whereabouts all morning.
#209: No but seriously, Jim has become He Whose Name Shall Not Be Spoken – just like Frangela.
#219 A shower-body gas?
#223 BTW What happened to Frangela?
They’ve played some pre-recorded Jim bits, so I don’t think this is “just like Frangela”.
This Congressional sausage is making me sick. We ain’t gonna get affordable health insurance. Not this time. BUT, IMO it ain’t gonna end here, no way.
#219 actually Lieberman is a queef.
#199 The Blue Dogs have their own website because they are an official caucus in the House. If you Google ‘blue dog’ you will be directed to the page and a Wikipedia page as well.
I always try to get the channel changed!!
216 – Really? Thinking back on when I’ve seen that used before, I wonder if those people knew that because how they used it doesn’t make sense…
224. You have to have had a douche to understand, a real douche.
#228 Ahhh a “vart!”
Too bad Stephanie said fox news instead of fox noise, or cluster fox.
Well, I’ve got to go to work. See you all tomorrow. Have fun speculating about Jim. I’m pretty sure I was right about it in post 145.
230 – I just try to get them to mute the sound. Closed captioning is okay because people who would believe FOX can’t read anyway.
anti-choice people who pay premiums to health insurance companies – they are more directly funding abortions. most health insurance companies provide for the legal medical procedure
The idea of “abortion funding” is a red herring that the right-wingers can take back to their slack-jawed constituents as a justification for voting against the health care bill. After all, if the Dems run against them in 2010 on “your rep voted against health care reform”, they can come back with “I voted against it because it had abortion funding”.
#236 –
Anybody know where Jim is?
YOUR AUNT HAS MEDICAL COVERAGE!!! WHAT ARE YOU BITCHING ABOUT!!!
You might be a redneck if your wheelchair is a hand-me-down.
(Penalty-box?)
Ask this guy if he is going to pass on his medicare AND social security.
Whose life are these ‘pro-life’ jackasses for?
I choose women over tiny clumps of undifferentiated cells that multiply like cancer cells and can result in the death of a woman.
government healthcare -WRONG. It’s just insurance fer cryin out loud.
All medicare wants to do is ensure that the wheelchair the woman is using is fit for her.
I think we already know that the “pro-life” forces are really just “pro-birth, after that you’re on your own kid” forces.
I got lost about halfway through that guy’s story, but retrofitted wheelchair problems aside, I can tell ya that Medicare will be paying for the treatment of those bedsores/bottom sores before they become riproaring infections, assuming that the patient and/or caller/caregiver avail themselves of medical care.
246 – and if she’d taken the Medicare wheelchair, that would have been right for her, she probably would have gotten the bedsores on her backend from the ill-suited hand-me-down wheelchair.
But these are probably the same people who share leftover pills, too.
And, BTW, private insurance NEVER makes you do a lot of stuff (like see primary doctors before you can see a “specialist” like a opthomologist when you know that’s what you need) that wastes your time and costs money…
Dumbass!
#247: so sayeth Ronald of Reagan.
Sure you can be born but if you or your family need help after that you’re now just a burden and a leech on society.
Isn’t the wheel story the waste and fruad the Obama administration want to elimante?
Here is a website that a person WITH a wheelchair can use to get a cushion.
http://www.comfortcompany.com/PDFS/09/MedicareTree.pdf
“Does the patient have a wheelchair and the patient meets
Medicare coverage criteria for it?”
I think the caller was confused. She only needs to prove that she meets the Medicare criteria to have a wheelchair in order to get a cushion.
the whole healthcare thing is SO simple. and obvious.
collapse Medicaid, CHIP and Medicare into the same pool.
increase taxes as put forth in HR 3200.
lump all that together – and expand Medicare to everyone – on the same terms as Medicare now operates (people pay in)
such a bill would be less complicated – and allowed under reconciliation. (screw the 60 req)
pass savings under another bill.
Some say that Jim went over to work for the right-wing.
Hey, with all this sausage bein’ made, can we have a big ol’ bbq when the President signs the sausage.
#248 Actually, Medicare considers pressure sores an ‘untoward outcome’ and does not pay hospitals and nursing homes for the treatment involved in healing them. Don’t know what they do for self-inflicted pressure sores.
Private insurance companies don’t usually cover durable medical goods.
250 – Right, I know that I need to see an ENT about hearing loss in my left ear, but I can’t get to a PCP approved by my insurer to get the referral to the ENT so I can get a hearing test and be told that I may need hearing aid. Now how is this better than just going to an ENT and getting things taken care of, like I would do in any other Western nation?
#255: “Some say”? Well, thank God that’s not true then!
#242 PJ Squeezy
I figured out who the caller is: King “Bacon is good for Me!” Curtis from WIfeswap:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HyuAthXl1c&feature=related
My favorite quotes: along about the 28 second mark is Curtis’s discourse on “the sorry people” (southern for undeserving poor); at 1:10: “She cain’t run in those l’il high heels!”
God, this show is making my ass hurt …
Can we change the subject?
Glen Becks butt surgery? Thought it was brain surgery that went wrong.
254. Yep. Instead they’re making a giant pile of poo.
254 – just adopt the Canadian system. It works fine.
I emailed Jim and begged with my best “PLEASE” come back.
I think I detect a city-state on the horizon…
#263 In Beck’s case it’s the same thing
What they say about Fox “News” is so true. I went through the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in southeast GA (they only locate their training for some reason in swampy redneck areas) in 2004-05 at the height (or nadir) of Bushiness, and the TVs in the public areas, front offices, chow halls were ***always*** set to Fox. I submitted several written comments/complaints to no avail. As far as I know, now that we’re runnning the show, is MSNBC or even CNN on? I think half the time something other than Fox is on. Maybe.
#266 What did you promise him?
265. Heard on Hartmann that the Canadian system started out in one of the provinces and then got adopted because everyone saw how well it worked, We need to let states start their own single-payer.
#263 –
#271 We had that in Wisconsin. It is called ‘BadgerCare Plus’ It was so popular, enrollment had to be stopped 3 months after it started because it couldn’t be funded.
U.S. Congress is a dysfunctional, corrupt, obstructionist arm of the corporations to protect them from the people.
For the past 5 years we’ve been trying to get a single-payer issue on the ballot here in Ohio. Somehow, we can manage to get enough signatures to get anti-gay initiatives, annual casino initiatives and a number of other voter-initiated issues on the ballot, but the single-payer initiative and the paid sick-day initiative can’t get on the ballot!
there is a basic problem with old political theory regarding “independents”
the assumption that they occupy the middle no longer holds
most of the shifts, now, are Dems frustrated with DINO’s going independent to the left and former Republicans going off the Glenn Beck right cliff.
independents are occupying the extremes
Most things butt related save this show (insert fart joke here)
Supposedly that was the reason Rush didn’t go in the military. He’s really a big, spineless coward.
FART NOISES! We need FART NOISES!
276 – Good point, Shane-O. If a poll only gives you options of D, R or “other”, then the Greens are going to report as “independent”.
273. Too bad. I think these days people would see that paying taxes for single-payer would be cheaper than paying premiums to insurance co’s.
It’s the Stephanie Miller Show… now with 30% more butt sores!
I miss Jim
278 – And just remember, Liz Cheney is Daddy’s Little Draft Deferment!
Maybe Jim went ceawling back to Broadway.
#281 Yeah. Unfortunately they had no way of predicting the popularity … I could have told them …
crawling
Bed sores, viruses & other wonderfulness often happen in hospital as well because of understaffing which drives up healthcare costs.
Nurses are our best defense!
Healthcare should be universal and we should all have car insurance paid for by taxes on gas.
But that won’t happen because of the insurance lobbies.
What is the sound of one sore butt, grasshopper?
Hey, can we elevate the discourse around here? I ass-ssore you we have thoroughly discussed every conceivable aspect of suppurations of the gluteous maximus!
#283 – Hi Kat, yup Cheney is the ultimate coward. He’s got his daughter out there now trying to keep his butt out of jail.
289 – Britt Hume?
fart noises with butt sores? isn’t that haemorhoids?
289. Limbaugh, my friends.
It’s almost here!
If Jim has moved on…might mean more of Hal and John on the show. Still…won’t seem the same
Sparta is possible today – YAY!
Sparta?
Good one Steph!! :-0
SPARTA
SPARTA!
Sparta?!
If “Sock” gets a jingle, Zach needs to get one too. Your homework for today (should you choose to accept it) is to write one – something along the lines of (but better than):
Next time you get the urge to dial the 2-0-2,
Just spare a thought for those who have to talk to you-ooh,
They’re just poor interns, so be polite,
They get abuse from left and right,
So pick up your phone, and speed-dial Zach!
He’ll… be… right… back!
nice job Michael!
Oh bugger. Off by one. Damn you Michael!
SPARTA!
YAY! first post-Jim Sparta?
“expanding the reach of government”. Yes that happened under the Bush adminsitration.
We ARE Sparta!
I am humbled. I will wear this honor with pride.
I only wish that Jim Ward were here to share this moment with me.
Thank you all
Okay, now Steph’s just taking a dump on us.
There is a new bio of Ayn Rand. When do all of the Fox people have a Ayn-Randian orgy live on Hannity?
Dang it, missed Sparta! Congrats to Michael!
If you follow Hannity, do you get high from the hairspray fumes?
You know, it’s possible that Jim’s just down with the pig plague or something. Remember, Steph brought crud back with her from NYC.
312 – Ayn Rand…if there was anyone I’d build a time machine to whack…
I still haven’t figured out what’s wrong with a little socialism sprinkled on our capitalism?
315 – he sounds fine in the recordings….
G’bye blog-rockers!
Thanks all! Bye.
318. lol. Bye Everybody, and g’day Jim, wherever you are!
Re: “the number of pages” ofthe healthcare bill…
Last August, I attended one of those Rightwing town halls, where they complained about how long HR3200 was (over 1000 pages).
THEN
They complained about the fact “The Hyde Amendment” wasn’t mentioned in the bill.
So which is it? Is the bill too long or too short? Don’t complain that the bill is “too long” while complaining that it doesn’t duplicate and/or mention existing law in that same bill.
To counteract the Randian crap there needs to be a production of “The Cradle Will Rock”.
Steph,
FYI, Progressive Talk Radio (KMPT) has been “Thrown off the bus” in Missoula Montana, and you have been replaced by right-wing whackos such as Michael Savage !! Which right-wing organization ( ‘ya think? ) has paid GAPWEST Communications to do this ?? I signed up for their new blog as “PissedProgressive” and given them a piece of… (my mind)
Steve
Will reincarnate as BuddyJr if it’s OK w/ you. Wadda happy puppy. Zoomed in on the picture to get a better view of his nose and found it obscured by the tag – oh, that wasn’t his nose, I got lost in the closeup. Cud you maybe repost that delightful picture at a little higher resolution?
Just askin,
BuddyJr
On the three-way in upstate New York – oh yes now a two- way, I’m thinking that Newt’s peculiar loss of bluster in the scuffle over Scozzafava’s campaign probly resulted from the extreme plundering he received at the business end of Sarah’s strap-on – she’s manning up like nobody’s business for this meteoric rise as Facebook celeb, dontcha think?
I, too, have been troubled by no mention of Jim…maybe Janice is unwell and he’s home, still recording, but not coming in? He is sorely missed.