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LiveBlog for Friday, November 6, 2009

sarbanesRep. John Sarbanes (D-MD) calls in at 6:30am Pacific to talk about health care reform and the economy.

Christian Weller, economist with The Center for American Progress, calls in at 7:05am Pacific to give us an update on the economy.

fugelsang John Fugelsang joins us in studio at 8:05am Pacific for “Fridays With Fugelsang.”

Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY) calls in at 8:30am Pacific to talk about health care reform, the economy, and texting while driving.

• Military officials are starting today to piece together what may have pushed an Army psychiatrist trained to help soldiers in distress to turn on his comrades in a shooting rampage that killed 13 people and wounded 30 at Ft. Hood, Texas. The suspected shooter, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, is on a ventilator and unconscious in a hospital after being shot four times by military police.

• Chanting “Kill the bill,” thousands of conservatives rallied at the Capitol yesterday against health care reform. “This bill is the greatest threat to freedom that I have ever seen,” House GOP leader John Boehner told the crowd.

• A drop in unemployment claims gave investors new reason to be optimistic about the economy and sent the Dow jumping by over 200 points to close above 10,000 yesterday.

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323 Responses to “LiveBlog for Friday, November 6, 2009”

  1. Short TV highlight of the day:

    The G4 network got caught in the crossfire between Fox News and CNN. On the cool and funny Attack of the Show yesterday, the cool and pretty Alison Haislip swung back at Fox during the show’s “The Feed” segment, with a sharp putdown and a modification of the usual signoff “… and you just got fed”. It starts at 2:42 into this clip.

  2. Long TV highlight of the day:

    Jon Stewart outdid his usual brilliance with an Emmy-worthy epic parody of Glenn Beck last night. Go to 7:25 into the episode here.

  3. trojanrabbit says:

    Goood morning all.

    It was disgusting listening to our local RW radio nuts immediately go to the terrorism angle when it was believed there were 2 or 3 shooters. I’m positive there won’t be any correction today now that we know it’s just one.

    Blah, feel like crap, sniffles and my eyes are watering. Great.

  4. There’s now a direct link to Jon Stewart’s Glenn Beck parody:

    http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-november-5-2009/the-11-3-project

  5. shāf says:

    Good Morning, Tim and the rest of the gang.

    Our thoughts and prayers to all those affected by yesterday’s shootings at Ft. Hood. My wife noted last night that psychiatrists are required to counsel with their own psychiatrist, since they are at risk of their own form of PTSD (from their counseling sessions). I’m sure this will take a while to sort out.

  6. shāf says:

    #4 BTW, I loved that parody of the man who is, in truth, a parody of Howard Beale (caught the Purity of Essence ref from Dr Strangelove on the blackboard – priceless).

  7. Nick (in the æthership) says:

    Good morning, sinners.

    Well the decorating færies really worked wonders for the penalty box: new paint, new fainting couch and, most importantly, a fully-stocked bar! Oh and the painting of Steph wearing the magic purple sweater.

    Who will christen it by being the first to be thrown in?

    I’ll try: bollocks. No too tame.

    Ummmm…Michelle Bachmann’s little gangb*ng on the steps of the Capitol? Ewwwwww.

    Nope. Got nothin’.

  8. Nick (in the æthership) says:

    #5: how many fox commentators will comment that he is a Muslim? I say all.
    We’ll have to remember that when another shooting happens & it’s a born-again evangelical.

  9. trojanrabbit says:

    7
    Guess I better be on my best behaivor. The smell of new paint makes me ill.

  10. Nick (in the æthership) says:

    Is it any wonder that a significant proportion of the younger generations get their news from the Daily Show?
    Hillarious.
    But not enough crying.

  11. trojanrabbit says:

    8
    That’s all I heard on our local RW “sports” morning show. Aw, the poor Muslim snapped because he was being made fun of, and all his Muslim bretheren were being killed.

    Surprised they didn’t try to pin it on Obama, though I suppose if I listened longer they would have gotten there.

  12. Nick (in the æthership) says:

    #11: how did these people act when Asian-Americans were sent to Japan, Korea & Vietnam? There’s a great episode of M*A*S*H that addresses it.

  13. Nick (in the æthership) says:

    #11: and don’t worry. They’ll pin it on Obama in some way. Like “oh he didn’t bar Muslims from the miltary. That’s the problem. The military is infested with muslim sympathisers. He should ban them like the gays. Their just no good for the nation.” Or something similar.

  14. Nick (in the æthership) says:

    #11: of course this is also the perfect “look over there” moment for the Republicans. The nation’s attention has been diverted from the heathcare debate.

  15. Nick (in the æthership) says:

    Also loved that the Bohner said that he was going to quote from the Constitution and went ahead and read the preamble to the Declaration of Independence.

  16. trojanrabbit says:

    15
    I’m sure the typical Republican/Teabagger didn’t know the difference.

  17. Nick (in the æthership) says:

    #16: true. pathetic but true.

  18. Nick (in the æthership) says:

    Obama is signing a bill extending unemployment benefit, but the real question is when are we going to bring back real jobs (manufacturing for example) to the US? Unemployment will seem better if all you can get is a job at Burger King.

  19. Rocky Mountain High, Colorado says:

    Mornin

  20. shāf says:

    It’s Miller Time!

  21. Nick (in the æthership) says:

    Republican healthcare plan? Prayer & bloodletting??

  22. my gosh… shane-o… is this your lovely and perverted work????

  23. shāf says:

    Great montage, Shane-O and Ken!

  24. Nick (in the æthership) says:

    Shane-o!! And Ken!

  25. Nick (in the æthership) says:

    a LOT of other things would rise as well Steph!

  26. shāf says:

    No, No, No! Do not tell Steph to do a sex tape to advance her career.

    It would only spoil what fantasies we keep in our thought bubbles.

  27. DnDer says:

    Why would Steph need Max when she has all of us for that? =P

  28. flombaye says:

    steph likes the plural ?
    in farrell’s sex tape ?
    or instead of it falling into the wrong hand ?

  29. Shane-O says:

    #23 – partly. Ken is the king of out-of-context clips. I love the “I’m ready to fulfill my duties” clip… he hee!

  30. hey, don’t underestimate the old catholics with sex tapes… I once helped an elderly lady pack up her house to move up north with her kids.. in the process she gave me an old VCR she didn’t want… honest to god, she left a porn in there… which of course wasn’t discovered until I brought the VCR in to work to give to someone else… truth is often stranger than fiction…

  31. Nick (in the æthership) says:

    Lady GaGa’s next costume will be made of condoms. Just. You. Wait.

  32. flombaye says:

    2: “…with an Emmy-worthy epic parody of Glenn Beck…”

    by that logic, glenn beck deserves an emmy; he does such things all the time.

  33. DnDer says:

    #33, only the parody is Emmy-worthy because it’s the high art of parody. Glenn Beck is just a plain bad actor. It’s a little meta, I know, but that just how it works.

  34. flombaye says:

    8: “how many fox commentators will comment that he is a Muslim? I say all. We’ll have to remember that when another shooting happens & it’s a born-again evangelical.”

    it’s easy to see how the soviets outgrew the place the U.S.A. is just now entering by copying the soviets’ old playbook move for move. – they dont care about what people call themselves; they care about what people do.

  35. madduane says:

    Mornin’ Bloggoes! :mrgreen:

    Love you. Long time.

  36. Shane-O says:

    Fox & Freaks are already advocating that all military member who are also Muslim should be investigated. Grr!

  37. flombaye says:

    11: “Surprised they didn’t try to pin it on Obama,…”

    they may just focus instead on how uppity and arrogant obama’s comments sound. mayhaps they’ll start bringing oreos to the teabaggery.

  38. Glenn says:

    What made her do it? Why’d she freak out?

  39. trojanrabbit says:

    Now now, poor Glennie had an appendectomy yesterday. We all have to hope he recovers in considerable pain requiring the same pills another certain fat blowhard got hooked on so much he went deaf – and in addition will now have a pre-existing condition.

  40. shāf says:

    #38 Not surprised.

    Had Faux News been in existence during WWII, they would have been full-throated supporters of the Japanese internment camps.

  41. trojanrabbit says:

    38
    Only if they investigate the Christians (especially the Blackwater wanna-bees) first.

  42. PJ Squeezy Louise Hussein McFlavin says:

    Good morning Tim, Mr. Rabbit, shāf, Nick, Mr. High, Miss Danielle…

    Well done Shane-O and Ken!

  43. flombaye says:

    13: “They’ll pin it on Obama in some way. Like “oh he didn’t bar Muslims from the miltary. That’s the problem. The military is infested with muslim sympathisers. He should ban them like the gays.”

    good call. and again it illustrates how the soviets outgrew the ridiculous practice of listening to peoples own declarations of their wampeters and granfalloons. – the U.S. armed services have an infestation of evangelicals trying to pass themselves off as christians, who have been cott using taxpayer money to fund their evangelism. – - – again, so glaringly simple: dont go by what they call themselves; go by what they do.

  44. tooter says:

    Just watched the Comedy Central replay on TV. Jon’s Beck impersonation was GREAT!! Comes on again at 1:30 ET.

  45. Rocky Mountain High, Colorado says:

    Mornin PJ

  46. flombaye says:

    14: “of course this is also the perfect “look over there” moment for the Republicans. The nation’s attention has been diverted from the heathcare debate….”

    if it had happened in canada, a lot of those people would still be waiting to get shot and then treated.

  47. Nick (in the æthership) says:

    Psychiatrists usually have psychiatrists of their own. Mine certainly have.

  48. shāf says:

    FYI, unless troops are actively training, their weapons are stored. Only the MPs are carrying firearms on base during the bulk of the day.

  49. Skyhawk says:

    Morning bloggers!

  50. shāf says:

    #50 Yes, I noted that back at #5.

  51. spiffyhussein says:

    Hello guys and gals,

    I’m ready to ban all guns. I know that’s ridiculous since the shooting was by a military man who is issued a gun, but how many mass shootings does it take for the NRA to start wondering if maybe we need to control guns just the same way we control alcohol because some drinkers can’t handle it.

  52. Nick (in the æthership) says:

    Sorry Shaf. My bad.

  53. PJ Squeezy Louise Hussein McFlavin says:

    Maybe “interrogate” rather than “dialog”.

  54. Nick (in the æthership) says:

    Wow this conservative caller is ….rational. And intelligent.

  55. flombaye says:

    27: “It would only spoil what fantasies we keep in our thought bubbles.”

    at least some of you havent been affected too harshly yet by the economy. i had to sell mine on ebay (no relation).

  56. shāf says:

    There’s no crying in radio! (Tell that to Glenn Beck!)

  57. shāf says:

    #57 No worries. :)

  58. madduane says:

    55 — Spiffy! :D

    Looks like the gang’s all here!

    A point I’d like to make — Military people don’t have guns all the time, usually they’re under lock & key unless needed. I think a psych officer would not have great access to weapons. I wonder where he got his rifles from?

  59. Shane-O says:

    Don = kick ass caller.

  60. flombaye says:

    42: “Had Faux News been in existence during WWII, they would have been full-throated supporters of the Japanese internment camps.”

    how is tea-bagging connected to the internment ?

  61. Skyhawk says:

    59 – There are some out there believe it or not. The sad thing is they’re getting shouted down and shut out by the rwnjs.

  62. Nick (in the æthership) says:

    #61: actually there’s no whingeing in radio which is what Lonesome Roads does. Crying is ok if it’s waranted (like Cronkite reporting on the death of JFK).

  63. PJ Squeezy Louise Hussein McFlavin says:

    #6, #7: “I do not deny them my essence – but I love the smell of paint fumes in the morning!”

  64. madduane says:

    how is tea-bagging connected to the internment ?

    “We hate and fear everyone who is not exactly like us.”

  65. shāf says:

    #63 It was noted that he carried two civilian-model guns (I assumed he purchased them off the base).

  66. Luther says:

    If we took pause for just a moment and really understood why we yes I said “we” created the Beck’s Hannity’s and Lemon Party O’Reilly’s of the world there would be the possibility of some sort of mutual understanding of basic human need not based on money or position but on the elevation of the human spirit irregardless of the caste system we pretend we don’t aspouse. We could certainly accept Hannity’s Frotting addiction and O’Reilly’s penchant for Lemon Party’s and even Beck’s attempts at us taking seriously his play with tupperware and spoons on the kitchen floor were we to just take pause and ask ourselves what are we truly afraid of?

  67. flombaye says:

    69: i would be much more inclined to hate and fear somebody who IS exactly like me.

  68. Skyhawk says:

    The thing is people just don’t snap, there may have been signs for awhile, but no one paid attention.

  69. DnDer says:

    #63 – I actually heard they were his personal firearms, nothing military-issued.

  70. Nick (in the æthership) says:

    #73: because we don’t take mental health seriously in this country.

  71. flombaye says:

    73: “The thing is people just don’t snap, there may have been signs for awhile, but no one paid attention.”

    also too, did the person even snap ? – that’s a semanyically loaded term. people’s hobbies do vary.

  72. spiffyhussein says:

    #66—John McCain does some great Tweets about waste in the Federal budget.

    Wouldn’t it be nice if Conservatives (I won’t call them Republicans anymore) would concentrate on tacking that, coming from their own colleagues, instead of trying to kill people by keeping them from health care.

  73. madduane says:

    72– The teabaggers would agree with you, you with your clever snarkiness and densely complex wordplay.

    More proof that I am not a teabagger, btw (as if that were in doubt)

  74. flombaye says:

    also too, i’d be deeply embarrassed by a killing spree that only takes out a few. kaczinski needs to be enshrined in the hall of shame.

  75. flombaye says:

    78: nice try, mr lipton

  76. madduane says:

    79 — I wonder what unibomber did on days he wasn’t building bombs?

  77. spiffyhussein says:

    73 and 75—-we don’t take anything serious seriously in this country. The Feds are trying to do something about joblessness, but what do our local leaders do? Not much.

    We ignore homelessness and mental illness. We ignore corruption especially if our leaders, who pull the strings, are getting a cut.

    The past 8 years under Bush and Rove have taught us all not to give a damn. Lesson learned.

  78. spiffyhussein says:

    81—probably read a lot. Geeky guy; no TV.

  79. flombaye says:

    81: huge fan of “what’s happenin. – almost adopted the “hey HEY hey” greeting…. and lot’s of training for tournament level ro-sham-bo…. but couldnt find any friends to spar with.

  80. spiffyhussein says:

    Let’s think of a fun name for the Conservative Party.

  81. flombaye says:

    75/82: i would take mental health seriously, but they’ve not yet seriously offered it.

  82. Shane-O says:

    #72 – Flom – THAT made me laugh. Needed that this a.m.

  83. flombaye says:

    85: “gwyneth”

  84. madduane says:

    The many demands of my day are crowding in for my attention. I love all you bloggoes, but I must leave the liveblog for the week. Stay happy & well. I’ll see ya next week! ♥

  85. Nick (in the æthership) says:

    #82: As a result of the war, corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed. I feel at this moment more anxiety for the safety of my country than ever before, even in the midst of war. God grant that my suspicions may prove groundless.”

    – Letter from Lincoln to Col. William F. Elkins, Nov. 21, 1864

  86. flombaye says:

    87: you… you LAFF at my pain ? ….. gosh, how thottful…. could perhaps get a bar-kays and blossom dearie mash-up song about my embarrassing open sores ?

  87. spiffyhussein says:

    90—Lincoln…such a man of vision. He saw it coming.

  88. Nick (in the æthership) says:

    Unemployment at 10.2%. That’s reported figures. It doesn’t say how many have stopped looking since the last report. A few figures that I heard (and sorry I can’t remember exactly from where) put it closer to 17-20%.

  89. flombaye says:

    90/92: hellz yes ! honor this visionary man somehow ! – let’s celebrate the greatness of lincoln ! quick: each of you send me a five dollar bill.

  90. trojanrabbit says:

    92 Not enough vision, unfortunately he didn’t see it coming.

    skates to try out new refurbished penalty box

  91. shāf says:

    #85 Names for the so-called Conservative Party…

    Know Nothings
    You Betchas
    George
    God Fearin’, Gun Luvin’, Patriuts
    Baggers, Birthers, Deathers Party

  92. Nick (in the æthership) says:

    #92: he saw if nothing else what the railroads did to small towns, public officials of all levels and individuals. If they wanted something they did whatever they wanted to get it.

  93. flombaye says:

    next official talking point: “see? – he wanted to practice medicine. these health care nuts are out of control !”

  94. Nick (in the æthership) says:

    #95 and how is the penalty box Trojanrabbit?

  95. flombaye says:

    95: you never hear the one you sleep thru.

  96. Nick (in the æthership) says:

    I say we call the conservative party “Belgium” because they’res nothing worse that Belgians. (Thank’s Monty Python)

  97. spiffyhussein says:

    I go to the CNN website a lot. I don’t know why I go there. They always have links to stories about murderers, child killers, and rapists. I understand that “if it bleeds it leads” but look, here’s what’s on the menu right now:
    * Jobless rate hits 10.2% CNNMoney
    * 2 NATO soldiers missing in Afghanistan
    * Yankees manager helps accident victim
    * Polygamist guilty in sex assault
    * Family of teen set on fire gets apology
    * Violent message outside a N.Y. mosque
    * Ticker: Palin event ‘bizarre,’ Dem says
    * Child traffickers prey on powerless
    * Chris Brown: ‘What was I thinking?’
    * Vote now for 2009 CNN Hero of the Year

    So out of this list there are 2, maybe 3 things to click on that won’t get you depressed.

    I dunno. I guess I want CNN news to be more like education. Instead it’s more like reading a tabloid.

  98. Skyhawk says:

    Media is about scoops and sensationalism hence the erroroneous reports.

  99. flombaye says:

    101: that’s gumby a hard name to shake.

  100. spiffyhussein says:

    102—But they are competing against the screamers and criers so I
    guess they figure they had better bring in all the shocking stories they can to compete with that.

  101. flombaye says:

    103: you mean we’re not really getting ice cream ?

  102. spiffyhussein says:

    93—I understand the stopping looking. I often acknowledge to myself that I’m back in college because I gave up looking for a new job.

    I still apply, but always with hopelessness in my heart. I’m sure that comes across in my cover letters.

  103. spiffyhussein says:

    LOL, that’s not true Steph. You’ve got Hal. He’s a public flirter. That’s something.

  104. spiffyhussein says:

    96—I like those mocking words like Republitards.

    Conservabrats?

  105. trojanrabbit says:

    99
    An exquisite picture of Mama in her Magical Purple Sweater. But it’s almost like you’re being watched……

  106. Skyhawk says:

    106: No ice cream for you!

  107. shāf says:

    “We’ve got to get out as carefully as we were careless getting in.”

  108. flombaye says:

    steph must tweet her way out as carefully as she was careless in googling her way in.

  109. spiffyhussein says:

    95—No, I think I read that Lincoln told his wife he didn’t think he would live much longer. Didn’t he also have dreams about it? I can’t remember.

  110. trojanrabbit says:

    Maybe the new paint fumes are getting to me. I do believe I’m getting the vapors.

    falls on soft cushy fainting couch

  111. Nick (in the æthership) says:

    #110 are the eyes moving or the boobs? If it’s the eyes I had nothing to do with it.

  112. Skyhawk says:

    109 – Conservabitch, Rapepublicans, Reichwing

  113. spiffyhussein says:

    Conservatives: Conning to Serve a Billionaire.

    Too long, not catchy.

  114. flombaye says:

    109: perhaps a bit too subaruesque…. and that conjures george takei…. i love george takei, as many do, but is that the icon you want ?

  115. spiffyhussein says:

    Hey, Sully is leading the Rose Parade!! I will have to go see that this time.

  116. spiffyhussein says:

    Canservthemselves. Oh I like that.

  117. Skyhawk says:

    When the afghan election was a proven fraud the first time and now again (hmm seems like they got the hang of our democracy) there should have been talks about an exit strategy.

  118. flombaye says:

    114: “, I think I read that Lincoln told his wife he didn’t think he would live much longer….”

    simply a compliment about mary todd’s libido.

  119. spiffyhussein says:

    122—-OK, that’s it. That’s the one I will use until I find something better. Conservatives = Canservthemselves.

  120. flombaye says:

    109/117: turd reich ?

  121. PJ Squeezy Louise Hussein McFlavin says:

    #96:
    thuh anti-librul partee…
    the rainbow-free party…
    Naah, I think “republitards” will do just fine.

  122. wildweezle says:

    How embarrassing…
    I just saw footage from yesterday’s tea party event and watching Michelle Bachman and John Boehner is becoming too difficult… they are really embarrassing….
    And when you watch those nuts in the crowd you can’t help but wonder how many of them are going to be the first to write off the interest on their home mortgages in order to reduce their TAX BURDEN come April 15…
    And you look at their homemade signs expressing concern about how THEIR TAX DOLLARS are being spent… Are these people stupid or just plain evil?
    This is becoming too confusing for me…

  123. Skyhawk says:

    126: I like that one.

  124. flombaye says:

    127: is that rainbow wig john 3:16 guy still in jail ? does he know soy bomb boy ? will kanye ever get to be the greatest amazingly desperate for attention guy of all time ?

  125. Jim just likes saying getting out and getting in

  126. spiffyhussein says:

    128—-Ignorant and emotional with a few evil donuts thrown in to keep the crowd in line.

  127. flombaye says:

    128: a solution you may want to try.
    teach glenn beck the “terrorist fist pump”.
    in person.

  128. trojanrabbit says:

    116
    I didn’t know the Magical Purple Sweater was see-through….

  129. We need a massive jobs program and actual trade policy.

  130. spiffyhussein says:

    I used to joke about becoming a call girl myself. But now that I’m older, I dunno. Too much competition from the young ladies.

  131. flombaye says:

    132: it’s a slang.
    he’s an american.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GaDAjHKYC4

  132. Shane-O says:

    #135 fair rather than free

  133. spiffyhussein says:

    135—Trade policy does need to be created. But all the politicians will tiptoe through that. Don’t want to piss off China.

  134. flombaye says:

    134: as are the donuts. we can see by your grin that you approve.

  135. shāf says:

    #139 Not surprised. China holds a big-azz amount of our debt.

  136. Nick (in the æthership) says:

    #135: I have to agree with a lot of what Thom Hartmann says. We need tariffs again and make it more costly for American-based companies to import from overseas divisions when they could make stuff here.

  137. flombaye says:

    136: i’d call you. are you still at avogadro’s number ?

  138. Nick (in the æthership) says:

    #134: just trying to make life a little better.

  139. spiffyhussein says:

    I have to go peoples. Have a lovely weekend!

  140. Nick (in the æthership) says:

    #136: there’s a big MILF market out there. And many many horny teenagers that want to lose their virginity.

  141. flombaye says:

    what’s embarrassing about a pic of chris and his leader hosin’ him ?

  142. flombaye says:

    146: given the choice, i dont think there are any boys who would have waited to be teenagers.

  143. flombaye says:

    scamwow !

  144. flombaye says:

    you can see b.o. – like in the charlie brown comics ?

  145. flombaye says:

    yes steph, it is an alternative to health care. pasta la pizza.

  146. Seriously… those pics of steph are HI-LAR-I-OUS!!!

  147. Nick (in the æthership) says:

    So Steph was a bush & Joan d’Arc. I see a religious theme. Was the bush burning?

  148. Nick (in the æthership) says:

    someone is peeing orange in Bohner?

  149. Nick (in the æthership) says:

    on Bohner. not in.

  150. shāf says:

    Boehner is an audio version of Highlights Magazine’s ‘Spot the Errors’ cartoon. I lost count.

  151. Skyhawk says:

    Their the party of D’UOH!

  152. Nick (in the æthership) says:

    OMG. Highlights magasine. They’ve been printing the same 5 issues for 50 years.

  153. shāf says:

    Yep. All actors are crazy. I should know! ;)

  154. Shane-O says:

    instead of waving around their copies of the Constitution as props, the GOP should sit down and read it.

    They can’t whine about its length… and it has been posted online for longer than 72 hours.

  155. shāf says:

    Oh Mandy! You came!

  156. PJ Squeezy Louise Hussein McFlavin says:

    Was that Carrie Prejean screeching?

  157. Is it a requirement that republican woman have to have annoying voices???

  158. My public radio reporter ex-girlfriend, who now covers Congress, said on her Facebook page that the teabaggers screamed at her a lot yesterday.

  159. I guess she met the minimum flare requirement!

  160. PJ Squeezy Louise Hussein McFlavin says:

    That scary Boehner speech reminded me of the poster for “Capitalism – A Love Story”, the one showing a man in a suit waving the flag with his right hand while hiding a bag of money behind his back with his left hand.

  161. Spike Lee announced that he will make a movie about yesterday’s rally. It will be called “Get On The Short Bus”.

  162. Skyhawk says:

    161: They first need to know the difference between the Constitution and Declaration of Independence.

  163. I’ve been to Monument! Spent 5 weeks there for work in ’07. It’s a tiny little town.

    Takes his orders from the Rothschilds? What about the Pope, the Queen, the Gettys, and Colonel Sanders before he went tits up?

    /I used to hate the Colonel…

  164. shāf says:

    Fowt Dix? Remember Richard Dix?

  165. PJ Squeezy Louise Hussein McFlavin says:

    “tens of thousands of merkins”?

  166. Amy Outside of DC says:

    #169 Good one. :smile:

  167. Steve says:

    Rep Boehner better watch his back because Rep Bachmann might make a run for his leadership pposition.

    Yep, Rep Bachmann could be the Minority Leader in the House and eventually become the Speaker, should the Republicans reclaim the House.

    Just a thought. Who is scared now?

  168. Skyhawk says:

    Bunker Hill, Hamburger Hill, Faith Hill…

  169. Shane-O says:

    #167 – “I guess we’re not in Kansas anymore”

  170. Amy Outside of DC says:

    The GOP must be slow readers.

  171. trojanrabbit says:

    170
    And wasn’t there another idiot who forgot the lines to the Pledge of Allegiance? He forgot “indivisible”?

  172. PJ Squeezy Louise Hussein McFlavin says:

    “It’s the Stephanie Miller Show. Tragedy … with slide-whistle.”

  173. DnDer says:

    #97, RE: Cut-throat railroads

    If you want a good novel to sit and read about what the railroads did, go pick up Frank Norris’ “The Octopus.”

    The short version: Railroad tries to destroy small western town by control freight prices for wheat – the town’s lifeblood crop.

  174. trojanrabbit says:

    Ever since I took the Evelyn Woodhead Sped Readin Course, my reading has im proved 100% and also comprension has increased won der full ly. I reccommend the Evelyn Woodhead Sped Readin Course to all my friends out there and you tell them that you heard it here first on Roller Derby.

  175. Shane-O says:

    #181 – yup – Rep. Todd Akin. He was more worried about the “Under God” line, got all flustered… gotta have priorities, right?

  176. shāf says:

    #183 Yep. Blazing Saddles was not too far from the truth.

  177. trojanrabbit says:

    AFAIC, every time they use the phrase “Under God” they’re misreading the Pledge.

    Just ask Porky Pig.

  178. 183: Not to be confused the Chuck Norris film “The Octagon” .

  179. Nick (in the æthership) says:

    I wonder how much money is spent on all of Congress’ healthcare annually? That could help the fiscal crises if we ditch that.

  180. Shane-O says:

    #182 “Fair, balanced – and fairly unbalanced… It’s the Stephanie Miller Show”

  181. trojanrabbit says:

    188

    Someone go back and get a shiatload of dimes.

  182. PJ Squeezy Louise Hussein McFlavin says:

    #160: “Yep. All actors are crazy. I should know!” Yes, we know. Just try not to get roped into any more student films, those shoots never end on time and you’ll end up driving half of them home.

  183. shāf says:

    I’m sorry, Steph. You were saying something? ;)

  184. PJ Squeezy Louise Hussein McFlavin says:

    He went from unstable to stable?

  185. Shane-O says:

    #182 – or, a play on MSNBC’s tag line: “THE place for fart jokes… It’s the Stephanie Miller Show”

  186. PJ Squeezy Louise Hussein McFlavin says:

    “This one time … at man camp…”

  187. Nick (in the æthership) says:

    Man camp near SF: it’s called a disco.

  188. Skyhawk says:

    They get together at the man camps and get their beat on. Their drums that is.

  189. Nick (in the æthership) says:

    BTW what’s all this crap about Goldman-Sachs getting doses of H1N1 vaccine but health centers in NY didn’t?

  190. scooter says:

    I believe the Bohemian Club meets near the little town of Occidental in Sonoma County. I’m familiar with the area but am not sure of the exact location.

  191. PJ Squeezy Louise Hussein McFlavin says:

    #169: Need the Bill Murray line “Morons, your bus is leaving!” in there. I forget what movie that’s from.

  192. Nick (in the æthership) says:

    USA Today: Shooter praised God before Fort Hood massacre – 1 hr ago

  193. Amy outside of DC says:

    #204 Considering the shooter was reported dead most of yesterday until the press realized he wasn’t, you should be skeptical about the latest Ft. Hood news.

  194. Nick (in the æthership) says:

    Shall we reach Sparta today? What do you say!

  195. Nick (in the æthership) says:

    #205: true. and this was a link at the BBC.

  196. k to the g says:

    Morning all! Is there a sex tape of Fiorina yet?

  197. PJ Squeezy Louise Hussein McFlavin says:

    That quote about Fiorina not voting sounds like a quote about that E-bay woman who’s also running for office as a republitard. Are they both non-voters?

  198. lavndrblue says:

    If you want to help take Michele Bachmann out of Congress, contributions to the MN 6th Congressional District are welcome. Follow the link below and you can easily donate using the PayPal button:
    http://www.dfl.org/index.asp?Type=B_BASIC&SEC=%7B9FCA6DF3-7360-4243-8B1F-53EBBA335307%7D

    We need everyone’s help throughout the country since our congresswoman is now a national figure with backing by the likes of Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity and Dick Army. She will garner millions from her minions. Bachmann did not get a majority of the votes in 2008 (only 46%) and she won’t again in 2010, but we need funds to put boots on the ground to convince the moderate Republicans and Independents that a vote for a 3rd party candidate will only elect her again.

    Please help!

    Cathy H.

  199. Nick (in the æthership) says:

    Fiorina is strictly a ‘machine’ girl. HP’s R&D budget really went through the roof when she was there.

  200. Shane-O says:

    #203 – Groundhog Day

  201. Amy outside of DC says:

    Again, where is the outrage from the Aryan nation? How can American Nazis just sit there while others mock a black man with Hitler imagery?

  202. Shane-O says:

    Little Caesars – crazy bread

  203. madduane says:

    I’s briefly back. Hiya.

  204. Skyhawk says:

    ’tis the season for the war on xmas.

  205. Why do all the nuts at this ralley sound like they’re reading lines from a Porky’s movie???

  206. PJ Squeezy Louise Hussein McFlavin says:

    #200: Are you calling them a circle of jerks?

  207. k to the g says:

    Glen Beck is an appendix. “a blind-ended tube connected to the cecum” according to wiki

  208. trojanrabbit says:

    218
    Why are you thinking those nuts can read?

  209. shāf says:

    Sorry, I was out foraging for my noontime repast.

  210. Amy outside of DC says:

    #217 Bad enough that the stores put up Xmas stuff on November 1st, now the Faux news is starting their Xmas bs on November 1st as well.

  211. shāf says:

    #223 Yep. Faux is beating the X-mas rush on insanity.

  212. k to the g says:

    Beck will probably get a used wheelchair and get ass-sores during recovery.

  213. shāf says:

    Dang, Levin in stereo!

  214. k to the g says:

    Jim is sure a Chester sometimes with his Guess the Quote and his Tony Perkins confusion

  215. shāf says:

    #226 I’m sorry, domnogin, what were you talking about?

  216. Nick (in the æthership) says:

    #217: oh for Christ’s sake. “War on Christmas”. Again.
    They want a fictional 1950s where everyone was white & christian and America was a powerhouse.
    Hate to break it to ya guys but there are other colours & recognised religions so how about a huge steaming mug of STGDFU.

  217. Amy outside of DC says:

    You can’t use federal money for abortions. Can you use federal money for fertility treatments? How about ED treatments? What about federal aid to cover adoption costs? Just wondering, and too lazy to look it up myself.

  218. Mark Drunken Biker Old Paratrooper in Deetown says:

    late this a.m., better than never.
    Here’s the mini fridge for the Penalty Box

  219. Nick (in the æthership) says:

    #232: ’bout friggin time! Oh wait…friggin is what Prejon was doing on her sex tape.

  220. Mark Drunken Biker Old Paratrooper in Deetown says:

    Stephy’s “Natural Gas/Eureka Moment” ad: unintentionally hilarious?

  221. Amy outside of DC says:

    Unaliable? Not only did he have the wrong document, he had the wrong pronunciation.
    Now I’ve got to worry about my family members attending public schools in Ohio. I hope they’re learning the correct info.

  222. flombaye says:

    did the coffe urn explode from the cow on the tracks’ spoiled juice ?

  223. k to the g says:

    isn’t it “inalienable” rights?

  224. Mark Drunken Biker Old Paratrooper in Deetown says:

    Shane-O/Kevin Carrie Preteen/dancin’ w/meseff: BrillianT!

  225. flombaye says:

    164: “Is it a requirement that republican woman have to have annoying voices???”

    helps distract from the big hair.

  226. PJ Squeezy Louise Hussein McFlavin says:

    #212: Groundhog Day – thank you! The movie I’m going to have to watch over and over again till I stop getting it wrong.

  227. Nick (in the æthership) says:

    #239 I always thought that the hair was because of the loud annoying voices.

  228. flombaye says:

    179: no reason hank hill couldnt be president; already calls his bitch “ladybird”.

  229. madduane says:

    Anyone else thing that John Sarbanes looks like Xander from Buffy the Vampire Slayer?

  230. Mark Drunken Biker Old Paratrooper in Deetown says:

    When exactly wuz it when Stephy recorded “Walking on Sunshine”?
    wuz that when Jim Ward used to be known as “K.C.” and they had
    their “Walken on Sunshine Band”?

  231. madduane says:

    And when I say “thing”, I actually mean “think”.

  232. Nick (in the æthership) says:

    I almost wish that the rapture would come so that the rest of us could get on without the evangelicals.

  233. shāf says:

    #237 Does “in-alienable rights” pertain to the space alien that’s in my stomach?

  234. Mark Drunken Biker Old Paratrooper in Deetown says:

    Chris/Jazz trouble
    uh oh

  235. flombaye says:

    boner shooda hava just read from lincoln’s copy of the pledge of allegiance. – lincoln had one notion under todd.

  236. Mark Drunken Biker Old Paratrooper in Deetown says:

    245 think/thunk/thing whut’s the diff?

  237. shāf says:

    Chris, speak kindly of our feline overlords. ;)

  238. flombaye says:

    198: ““This one time … at man camp…””

    you put the remote where ?

  239. Amy outside of DC says:

    Blaming the porn on your computer on your cat doesn’t work.
    http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/unleashed/2009/08/man-blames-cat-child-pornography.html

  240. Nick (in the æthership) says:

    Obama’s speach is echoing & seems to be backwards as well.
    I can hear the Devil!!

  241. k to the g says:

    246. Maybe we could herd them into Walmarts and lock the doors and tell them it’s their rapture.

  242. Mark Drunken Biker Old Paratrooper in Deetown says:

    funny Jazz story: Buster just tore the “K” key off the laptop.
    I didn’t even know he was listening

  243. PJ Squeezy Louise Hussein McFlavin says:

    #227: “Dang, Levin in stereo!” – Amazing how some people can talk out of both sides of their mouths.

  244. flombaye says:

    obama needs to wear a flag pin to go with all this arrogance.
    it can becalled “flarogance”.

  245. Nick (in the æthership) says:

    #255: We’ll set something up with floodlights behind a figure of Jesus, crosses & guns. Then we’ll call in the airstrike.

  246. flombaye says:

    241: oh, beehive.

  247. Mark Drunken Biker Old Paratrooper in Deetown says:

    7 the Box is looking good! nice touch, 3-D MPS painting on black
    velvet. Even more Magical

  248. Nick (in the æthership) says:

    God what a socialist Obama is. Helping people.

  249. flombaye says:

    244: they stopped performing.
    it was the wrong tone.

  250. Mark Drunken Biker Old Paratrooper in Deetown says:

    Oily Taint at orgasm: “Let Me Finish!”

  251. well… gotta go… have a great weekend all!

  252. flombaye says:

    247: be more careful next time you grays.

  253. Nick (in the æthership) says:

    Mark you biter!

  254. Nick (in the æthership) says:

    and yes the boobs on the pic of Steph do follow you.

  255. Skyhawk says:

    253: I can haz Porn?

  256. k to the g says:

    259. or they could self-rapture once all the food, TV’s, and candy is gone. The guns and coffins are already there.

  257. Mark Drunken Biker Old Paratrooper in Deetown says:

    263 Walken SNL “Pranksters” skit:
    “Don’t be a steffy-stepherson! I want to Prank them in my
    basement for hours”

  258. flombaye says:

    255: updating them to something as hip as blondie could prove the hardest part.

  259. Mark Drunken Biker Old Paratrooper in Deetown says:

    268 L’ingOL

  260. Mark Drunken Biker Old Paratrooper in Deetown says:

    265 Danielle! have a great weekend!

  261. flombaye says:

    264: not even finland has anybody that speaks that much finish.

  262. Nick (in the æthership) says:

    From the BBC:

    US jobless rate rises to over 10%

    The US economy lost 190,000 jobs in October, taking the jobless rate above 10% for the first time since 1983.

    Who was prez in ’83? Oh yeah: Reagan.

  263. shāf says:

    Gee, I remember Steph almost crashing (and dropping the s-bomb) while taking on air and entering the parking garage.

  264. flombaye says:

    do cats have an equivalent of “furries” fetishism, like dressing as mice ?

  265. PJ Squeezy Louise Hussein McFlavin says:

    TXTNG W/DRVING … LOL,LOL,LOL, WTF, OUCH, EMT, ER, OR, ICU, HMO, SOL.

  266. k to the g says:

    My company (a telco) just froze the salaries and pensions of all their management employees. Whew, glad I’m a peon.

  267. Mark Drunken Biker Old Paratrooper in Deetown says:

    275 So Suomi!

  268. Amy outside of DC says:

    #277 If you’re in right wing world, those 1983 numbers are Jimmy Carter’s fault. The only thing Reagan did wrong was develop Alzheimers, silencing his brilliance too early.

  269. shāf says:

    The Hot Gates are in sight! Steph, please cross your legs. ;)

  270. k to the g says:

    283. Prob from all the aspartame Rummy fed him.

  271. Mark Drunken Biker Old Paratrooper in Deetown says:

    284 now that’s a trip to the Box

    watch out for the continuing construction

  272. Shane-O says:

    #278 – damn – I remember that too — seems like so long ago… didn’t CL have to dump an F-Bomb too?

  273. flombaye says:

    282: remember that blooper where tarzan booted up the elephants with ubuntu instead of ungawa ? – did they ever get the tip of the tusk out of his colon ?

  274. shāf says:

    #284 Guess I’ll be spending Sparta in the newly remodeled Penalty Box.

  275. Mark Drunken Biker Old Paratrooper in Deetown says:

    Oh! Steph w/the Diver ref
    Penalty Box fer Momma

    I really like this upholstery on the new fainting couch
    Pleather

  276. shāf says:

    #289 Hey, it’s pretty schwanky in here!

  277. k to the g says:

    Timing?

  278. flombaye says:

    at least joe wilson knows how to take the plame.

  279. Mark Drunken Biker Old Paratrooper in Deetown says:

    288 Tarzan. Two werds: Loin Cloth

  280. flombaye says:

    290: was the guacamole interior really necessary ?

  281. flombaye says:

    maybe aspartame would help.

  282. shāf says:

    #291 Wow, a 60-inch. And the teevee is pretty large, too! (rimshot)

  283. flombaye says:

    “bonerable” ?

  284. Shane-O says:

    Rep Joe Wilson IS Lenny (one more step from the WB cartoon reference) – Of Mice And Men

  285. PJ Squeezy Louise Hussein McFlavin says:

    #279: do cats have an equivalent of “furries” fetishism, like dressing as mice ?”

    Silly flom, haven’t you seen all the fetish sites where cats dress up as humans?

  286. Mark Drunken Biker Old Paratrooper in Deetown says:

    Charlie Crist: Gayer than a tree full of parrots? a fish in a carwash?

  287. shāf says:

    Hooray to trojanrabbit, Friday Spartan! (bows)

  288. Amy outside of DC says:

    Earlier this week, a Canadian firefighter told me that they have over 40 million doses of swine flu vaccine available, even though the country’s populaition is around 33 million. Just another example of the evils of socialized medicine.

  289. flombaye says:

    tell me about the trojanrabbits again, shane-o.

  290. Mark Drunken Biker Old Paratrooper in Deetown says:

    300 Troj! Two in a row! Double Leonidas

  291. flombaye says:

    302: was donnie darko a cat in disguise ?

  292. Mark Drunken Biker Old Paratrooper in Deetown says:

    did James Ward just say Skin Flute?
    Charlie Crist: Cork Soaker?

  293. shāf says:

    Keep ‘winning’ GOP!

  294. trojanrabbit says:

    It’s all Obama’s fault there’s no vaccine. It’s his Katrina. So says the all-knowing reich wing nuts.

  295. Skyhawk says:

    TR! Two days in a row. I sense I have a worthy competitor. Congrats!

  296. Shane-O says:

    #306 – petting Spartan, Trojan, rabbits.

  297. k to the g says:

    297. Don’t look in the spittoon. Nice sparta, rabbit.

  298. Mark Drunken Biker Old Paratrooper in Deetown says:

    Wuz Obama born in Kenya? while researching, found This:
    “The Kenya Colony and Protectorate extend, on the Indian Ocean,
    from the Umba River to Dick’s Head, and inland as far as Lake
    Victoria and Uganda.”

    ok, whatever

  299. flombaye says:

    312: TR can haz aerosmith backstage pass ?

  300. Mark Drunken Biker Old Paratrooper in Deetown says:

    ah it’s ending awreddy again too soon

    have a great weekend

  301. flombaye says:

    fugelsangian things: chuckmangione.com

  302. shāf says:

    Have a great weekend, everyone!

  303. trojanrabbit says:

    blushes at all the attention and looks at the floor of the refurbished penalty box.

  304. Shane-O says:

    #318 – does Feel So Good

  305. k to the g says:

    Bye all! Dunk a teabag for America this weekend.

  306. PJ Squeezy Louise Hussein McFlavin says:

    #322: Bye all! Thanks, I’m going to dunk one right now.