Stephanie Miller

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LiveBlog for Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Rep. Bobby Scott (D-VA) calls in at 6:05am Pacific to talk about the new budget and about jobs creation.

Karl Frisch, Senior Fellow at Media Matters for America, calls in at 7:05am Pacific to co-host Right Wing World.

Tarryl Clark calls in at 7:30am Pacific to talk about her run against Rep. Michele Bachmann in Minnesota.

Hal Sparks joins us in studio (in NYC) at 8am Pacific for “Humpdays With Hal.”

• It’s time to repeal the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy and allow gay troops to serve openly for the first time in history, the nation’s top defense officials declared Tuesday, with the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff proclaiming that service members should not be forced to “lie about who they are.”

Obama’s top intelligence officials on Tuesday described it as “certain” that al-Qaeda or its allies will try to attack the United States in the next six months, and they called for new flexibility in how U.S. officials detain and question terrorist suspects.

Two IL Dems were virtually tied today in the race to decide who will defend the governor’s office from a GOP eager to exploit political disarray in President Obama’s home state come November. In the nation’s first 2010 primary, voters selected the candidates who will fight for Obama’s former Senate seat, but the governor’s races were exceptionally tight on both sides.

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289 Responses to “LiveBlog for Wednesday, February 3, 2010”

  1. Nick (in the æthership) says:

    Morning keyboard fondlers!

    Saw the best article tag on the front of the Star (or one of them):

    Rush Limbaugh has 2 years to live!

    How seriously should we take it? Well we still haven’t seen the bat-boy and Jeebus hasn’t come back yet.

  2. shāf says:

    Good morning, everybody!

    I’m listening to the joint podcast Shane-O and Ken in Cleveland. Do I really sound like that? Yikes!

    Regardless, it was fun. We hope to do it again (with the addition of some more voices) in the not too distant future.

  3. bill says:

    Good morning! Whoppee! Iran shoots a rat, 2 turtles, and worms into space. I guess by this time the turtles have eaten the worms By now, the turtles are in either corner of the ring with the rat as referee. Now that would be one fight that could take awhile. Are there cameras on board this 10 foot rocket so we can watch?

  4. Morning, all. More snow here in DC. But it’s the sticky fluffy kind, so while the drive in to work wasn’t hard, it was awfully pretty.

  5. Though, apparently, we’re in for the Snowpocalypse this weekend.

  6. Nick (in the æthership) says:

    Wild Thang!

  7. Nick (in the æthership) says:

    #5: Snowpocalypse, PeterW?

  8. shāf says:

    Wow! I knew Gov. Mark Sanford was a unfaithful douche. I didn’t know how stupid he was…

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/02/jenny-sanford-cheap-mark-_n_446896.html

    “In a new memoir, South Carolina first lady Jenny Sanford writes that Gov. Mark Sanford sought her advice about his romance and how to deal with the media after she discovered his extramarital relationship with an Argentine woman.”

    So, he’s asking his wife for advice about the affair he’s having? (Epic Facepalm)

  9. Nick (in the æthership) says:

    #8: Wow. Stupid to the nth power.

  10. shāf says:

    Nowadays, Mama’s lost between two shores.
    L.A.’s fine, but it ain’t home… New York’s home, but it ain’t hers no more.

  11. Nick (in the æthership) says:

    Obmam’s SOTU: Reality = asswhuppin’. GOP = his Waterloo.

  12. Nick (in the æthership) says:

    #10: as long as she’s not torn between two lovers, feelin’ like a fool…

  13. #7, they’re saying 30 inches in the DC area from Friday night to Sunday morning.

    Should be fun.

  14. The budget commission was a bogus joke. It was a scheme to rob Social Security but absolve Congress of the blame.

  15. Nick (in the æthership) says:

    McCain:
    My friends. There were no gays in the Hanoi Hilton. True a few of the lads did a few ‘undesirable’ things with a little bit more fervour than I did but there were no gays. We were all tough! Manly men!

  16. Nick (in the æthership) says:

    #13: Brilliant! Nobody goin’ nowhere.

  17. #16, good thing I didn’t have a date planned or something!

    Hope the streets are plowed by Sunday afternoon, though. Got a jam session to go to.

  18. Nick (in the æthership) says:

    McCain:
    Boy I miss Lieberman’s soft lips on my tuckus.

  19. Nick (in the æthership) says:

    Boston just created an iPhone app that lets people report potholes, graffiti, &c to the DoPW.

  20. Tough choices on the budget.

    Add two new marginal tax rates:
    50% on incomes greater than $1 million a year.
    70% on incomes greater than $10 million a year.

    Also, tax capital gains the same as other income.

  21. shāf says:

    I saw a Three Stooges movie like that… they wired the plumbing to the electrical. :)

  22. Nick (in the æthership) says:

    Momma? Perhaps you should just take your house out to the field, shoot it & put it out of it’s misery?

  23. Nick (in the æthership) says:

    Hee hee hee. She said Pee-max!

  24. Nick (in the æthership) says:

    sorry. PEE-90x.

  25. Scott says:

    Whoa! Did Mama say SHE is doing P90X???

    That is a brutal workout!

  26. Rlritt says:

    Hey Steph,

    I do P90X and it is great! I’m in the best shape every

  27. Is it a workout or an experimental model of a Belgian submachine gun?

    It’s both!

    (Also a floor wax and a desert topping)

  28. Hi, Bloggoes. :mrgreen:

    I have this pavlovian thing going on with the liveblog. There’s a cafeteria in the building here, and I usually go get brekkie here at work (lets me sleep later, less trouble, etc. etc.) I usually sit down & turn on the interwebs. Just as I log into the live blog I usually have bite of bacon. No wonder I love this place so much.

    mmm… salty meat cookies…. mmmmmmmmmmmm… :P

  29. Nick (in the æthership) says:

    Ah. The p90x is another Gruntmaster™ home gym system thingy. Coatrack in 3 months. Trash in 6.

  30. So out of tune. Everyone else is talking workout, I’m talking bacon. Typical.

  31. shāf says:

    #27 I thought it was a new radio station. Silly me!

  32. Nick (in the æthership) says:

    #30: howzabout we workout with bacon?

  33. shāf says:

    Ha! Geo Metro! :lol:

  34. shāf says:

    Quick! Contact Ghost Hunters on SyFy.

  35. Mama’s bridle trail is on an Indian burial ground.

  36. Nick (in the æthership) says:

    #35: a lift kit & huge tyres?

  37. 32 — I’ve been thinking about it. How could you work the bacon in? I’m actually all for the idea.

  38. Rebekah, you are a goddess! More of you on the radio, not less!

  39. #40 bacon pressing, bacon lifting, bacon curling.

  40. Nick (in the æthership) says:

    Is government really necessary? We could hand all of our decisions over to God. Mmmm mmmmm! Witch burnin’! Thems good eatin’!

  41. 39 — candy apple pink paint job, leather interior, mag wheels, best high performance engine you can put in it without modifying the body too much. I want to have an ostentatiously stylish ride, not a monster truck.

  42. Nick (in the æthership) says:

    #42″ No no no. You stop the bacon curling with the bacon press. And you have to lift the bacon into the pan or griddle.

  43. Nick (in the æthership) says:

    #44: Ewww. I forgot what the Festiva looked like. Geez why not just resurrect a Yugo or Le Car?

  44. Nick (in the æthership) says:

    #44: or a Subaru Justy. At least you could have 4 wheel drive.

  45. trojanrabbit says:

    21
    Hey Moe! No wonder the water don’t work! These pipes is plugged up with wires!
    ….
    I’m looking for a glass of water.
    Just turn on anything – you’ll get it.

    For a short period of time the TiVo Community forum did podcasts featuring random members with interviews. I wasn’t random enough.

  46. shāf says:

    Look at you. You have a baby… in my house.

  47. Nick (in the æthership) says:

    Mmmmm. Babies.

  48. 46 — Did you ever see Drowning Mona? One of the aspects of that quirky little town was that everybody in town had been gifted a Yugo. The problem with making the film was that there weren’t enough working Yugos to make the movie. They just used Festivas and called them Yugos.

  49. Nick (in the æthership) says:

    #49: :lol:

  50. Nick (in the æthership) says:

    #53: Hi my mane is Doug. Will you be my master? Squirrel!! Hi I’m Doug.

  51. Nick (in the æthership) says:

    Because gays are scarrier than rapists :?

  52. spiffyFedUp says:

    Caller brings up point I was thinking of the other day. I think the last I read about 30% or more of women reported being raped in Today’s Armed Forces.

    All the more reason to recruit more gay men. To protect the women.

  53. 56 — because the mindset is that the beasts think every man thinks like them, so they’re afraid they’ll be raped. Morons.

  54. Nick (in the æthership) says:

    And we’ll accept borderline psychopaths before gays. Whuuuuuuuuuut?

  55. spiffyFedUp says:

    Let’s see—-what if the military had a policy that forced recruits to lie about something else—like whether or not they are married? What if people could only serve if they are single?

    Then people would be married in secret so they could serve. It makes no sense.

  56. Nick (in the æthership) says:

    Or will the military ‘use’ the gays like they used blacks & women during WWII them once it was over said “ok go back to the fields and kitchens”?

  57. shāf says:

    McCain is a punk. Old, but still a punk.

  58. spiffyFedUp says:

    35—I once really wanted to own an AMC Pacer. Still one of the funniest looking cars of all time.

  59. Nick (in the æthership) says:

    #60: Isn’t lying supposedly against the military code of conduct? If so then how does DADT work??

  60. spiffyFedUp says:

    61—Sadly, that may happen. We’ll see….

  61. spiffyFedUp says:

    63—I think McCain is just playing politics. He’s telling his constituents what they want to hear.

  62. Nick (in the æthership) says:

    #64: hey I can’t speak too loudly. I drive a Yaris. Kind of like a ladybug with wheels.

  63. spiffyFedUp says:

    LOL—-they want him impeached for being a Democrat. 2nd reason—for being black. LOL

  64. shāf says:

    #65 You are not asked to declare your sexual preference at the time you enlist (the Don’t Ask part). Problem is, there is still rumor and innuendo that forces a disclosure at some time in their career.

  65. spiffyFedUp says:

    69—-Are those noisy? These latest model tiny cars by Toyota and Honda all seem to be very noisy. Lot’s of road noise.

  66. B.BarNavi says:

    Secede from the Union? Go ahead! The Union is better off without you jackasses.

  67. Nick (in the æthership) says:

    The BBC is going to do a piece on Obama & America:

    Obama’s America

    Historian Simon Schama presents a two part documentary for the World Service looking at President Obama’s America and the current difficulties he’s presented with.

    Drawing parellels with other events in America’s past, he believes the US is at a turning point in it’s history, and demonstrates how today’s conflict in Afghanistan has more similarities with the Korean war in the 1950’s than the usual references to Vietnman.

    Obama’s America – on air and online from 10 February

  68. Scott says:

    It’d be interesting to compare the results of that poll SM just read with the beliefs of the Taliban; bet they’d line up pretty well.

  69. #75, so you’re saying debuting in the 2020 TV season will be a bittersweet comedy about the Afghan war that runs twice as long as the war lasted?

  70. spiffyFedUp says:

    71—-And how incredibly uncomfortable it must be to be a part of a unit but you can’t talk about your same-sex BF of GF at home when the others are talking about their GFs and BFs. You can’t hit on anyone when you go out for a social event with your fellow soldiers, and god forbid if you and your same sex partner have a child. What do you do then? Make up a wife or a husband so you can tell people your family is just like theirs?

    And all this lying is supposed to HELP unit cohesiveness?

  71. #76, funny you mention that. Markos Moulitsas commissioned the poll as research for his upcoming book, “American Taliban”.

  72. pjkool says:

    I also noticed that all the right wing folk must have been told not to use the word ‘gay’, as they are all using ‘homosexual’ in its place as if using ‘gay’ indicates some form of tollerance. i wonder if that’s another idea from their chunk style elfkin word bender (Lutz).

  73. spiffyFedUp says:

    78—LOL, ah come on. The BBC does good stuff.

  74. flombaye says:

    did steffers really mean to call the mccainistas “breath-takingly” hypocritical about their gaze into the military ?
    should have been “clutch-the-pearls” hypocritical.

    to the query “why listen to john mccain ?”,
    mccain displays more performance than rush’s mentor, OBL.
    anybody can crash just 4 planes.

  75. Gerard says:

    McCain may be playing the opposition jerk but that caller trying to use his time as a POW against him is out of line.

  76. flombaye says:

    “could i come and see your cooter ?”

    “general lee speaking, but there are hazzards.”

  77. shāf says:

    Ha! Chris just did a “Some say…” :lol:

  78. Mama, we do not want to get into a skirt-lifting battle.

  79. drunken old biker Mark in Deetown says:

    hullo
    I’m gone for a week and come back and Momma’a been showing off
    her cooter to everyone and where was I?

    Still not ready to start paying any attention to polytics again.
    I’ve just been feeling so much better without it. But I have missed
    you all and of course Momma and her mooks… and Mrs. Taylor

  80. flombaye says:

    the U.S. could have beaten japan, if only the “enola butch” had been used.

  81. shāf says:

    It was This Week, not Meet the Press, Steph.

  82. shāf says:

    #93 That’s ’cause I’m listening to KTLK’s stream. The Live Stream is about 30 seconds delayed.

  83. drunken old biker Mark in Deetown says:

    Just what kind of cooter does Momma have? a red-earr’d slider?
    a Speckled Padloper? hopefully not a Snapper.

    and where does he stay? has she got an aquarium for him? an old
    shoebox under the bed?

  84. 94 — I thought it was because you are so forward thinking and futuristic. You know; a man ahead of his time.

  85. drunken old biker Mark in Deetown says:

    91 Hey Maddy! too long!

  86. shāf says:

    #96 I’m more a ‘legend in his own mind’. ;)

  87. drunken old biker Mark in Deetown says:

    Enola Butch? I heard she was hanging out with some Fat Man, and
    a Little Boy…

  88. spiffyFedUp says:

    Obama Admin. is getting Underwear Terrorist to talk by recruiting his family to talk to him.

    Bush Admin. is wishing they had thought of that first: Torture people with their extended family. ;-)

    http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/02/02/plane.bomb.suspect/index.html?hpt=T1

  89. #100, I thought it was the title of Rush Limbaugh’s Dominican Republic vacation slideshow.

  90. drunken old biker Mark in Deetown says:

    79 lotta sex in the military. Waaaay too much testosterone
    all concentrated in one place for anything else. Momma could
    prolly even score on a FOB if there was not too many goats available.
    Just sayin’

  91. 101 — I’ll tell you anything you want to know — just keep Uncle Ernie away from me!

  92. Hipsters, flippsters, finger-poppin’ daddies, and sweet swayin’ soul mammas! Good morning.

    You’re right on track for Sparta today, maybe you don’t need me at all.

  93. drunken old biker Mark in Deetown says:

    99 100 102 ya got something there. What did they know and when did
    they know it?

  94. drunken old biker Mark in Deetown says:

    Momma doin’ the Dorothy Gale thing… no wonder a gay/showtunes icon…

  95. Scott says:

    As if Ailes doesn’t know Beck is making those links. He probably OK’d and helped construct the meme.

  96. drunken old biker Mark in Deetown says:

    105 nice new avatar Ivan, I just watched Dr Strangelove again last nite.

    Momma: I don’t avoid men, Mandrake, er Jim. But I do deny them
    my essence.

    Jim: Is that what you’re calling it these days?

    Momma: Men sense my power, their nostrils flare as I enter the room.

    Jim: maybe massengil, Steph

  97. “Hey, baby, I’m your telephone man
    You just show me where you want it and I’ll put it where I can
    I can put it in the bedroom, I can put it in the hall
    I can put it in the bathroom, I can hang it on the wall
    You can have it with a buzz, you can have it with a ring
    And if you really want it you can have a ding-a-ling
    Because-a hey baby, I’m your telephone man”

    I skate to the penalty box in honor of Meri Wilson

  98. shāf says:

    I’ve I could make what Bill-O makes in one year (even over 10 years) I’d happily pay the taxes. Douche!

  99. O’Reilly is SO worried about fear in the showers with all the gays watching his fat quaking white old man buns..

  100. Because, Sean, Democrats aren’t pathetic dirt bags like Sean Hannity..

  101. One characteristic of about 98% of wealthy people is that they are galled by the notion of having to pay taxes – ANY taxes. It’s the source of Republican ethic – incredible greed, and absolutely nothing too good for them,

  102. Amy outside of snowy DC says:

    They’re sending our panda away. Today’s the last day to see Tai Shan before he is sent back to China.

  103. #116, see, they’re moving ALL our jobs to China.

  104. shāf says:

    #116 I saw that on the news, Amy. Bittersweet, I’m sure.

  105. It doesn’t take me 90 days to go from soft to rock hard.

    Oh, you meant my abs. Never mind.

  106. Amy outside of snowy DC says:

    Thanks Toyota, for making me feel better about my 1999 Corolla. Sure it’s over 110,000 miles and from another century, but it predates all the defects and recalls. :smile:

  107. scooter says:

    #116 Dang panda anyway. Eats shoots and leaves.

  108. You’ll notice that the first answer to economic prosperity for Republicans is ALWAYS tax cuts, with the most massive cuts at the top – you know, specifically for the Noble Wealthy, from whom all blessings flow to the lower proletariat..

  109. shāf says:

    #120 If your abs stay rock hard for more than four hours, consult a physician.

  110. I’ve done what I can, people. Enjoy your political/gastric discussion. I have to do the thing with the boxes. If you know what I mean.

    You are my Bloggoes and I love you all. :mrgreen:

    Buh Bye!

  111. shāf says:

    #125 Bye bye, madduane. Have a great day!

  112. We should ship Limbaugh to China. He’d feed a whole block of families for at least a year..

  113. shāf says:

    Spector is a GOPer in Dems clothing. He sounds like one to me.

  114. Really, is Specter going all populist?

    See, if this is what a credible primary challenge gets you, more please!

  115. Skyhawk says:

    Morning folk!
    Scottzi was on Randi’s show yesterday spewing his discomfort about gays in the military and that it’s all part of the liberal Jewish conspiracy. Randi was slightly amused with Steph’s cat toy and referred him to the ADL to talk about his self-hatred.

  116. Amy outside of snowy DC says:

    #127 That’s a lot of vicodin. Are you trying to start a new opium war?

  117. Um, mama, this is a damned good question.

  118. Hand me those 38s, Stephie. And the gun too. I want to relieve myself from the specter of Spectre..

  119. shāf says:

    It’s like the scene is airplane where the passenger hangs herself instead of listening to Ted Stryker’s story.

  120. shāf says:

    #129 Populism is the new GOP talking-point.

  121. scooter says:

    Guess what, Democratic Senators are windbags too. Who knew?

  122. ADRUMS says:

    I have to tune out during RIGHT WING WORLD
    those people make my stomach turn

  123. El Cid says:

    Steph — don’t be a dumbass. Specter was asking a real question — and the President overturning the international rulings on China’s trade was Bush Jr..

    Try to know what the f*** somebody’s asking before dismissing the question.

  124. Amy outside of snowy DC says:

    #128 Just because there was an R after his name for 90% of his political career you think he might be a Republican?

    This caller has never been in NYC when the UN is in session. The locals HATE the traffic nightmare it creates. Take a poll, most of Manhattan would be happy to put the UN somewhere else.

  125. #135, you missed the memo. Arlen is pretending to be a Democrat. Doing a pretty good impression, actually, better than about a third of the caucus.

  126. El Cid says:

    Does anyone here even have a clue what Specter was asking?

    HE WAS F***ING ADDRESSION LABOR UNION CONCERNS ON UN-REGULATED TRADE WITH CHINA.

    Can you stop being robots long enough to know what the f*** was being asked?

  127. #141, I got it just fine. Arlen will only be a good Dem while his seat is under challenge. But right now, he’s being a damned good Dem.

  128. shāf says:

    #140 Yeah, I know he’s a Dem (for now). Never liked him… never will.

  129. B.BarNavi says:

    Spector is a sneaky snake.

  130. Dan says:

    Yes, we get it, El Cid. We’re smarter than you.

  131. El Cid says:

    Arlen will only be a good Dem while his seat is under challenge. But right now, he’s being a damned good Dem.

    Personally, I was more interested in Obama’s response to and views on the question, but apparently we’ve got to instead hear bitchfests about Specter. Who I hope is replaced, but that’s not what we were listening to.

  132. Amy outside of snowy DC says:

    Mama, you should play these people 10 minutes from Jesse Ventura’s new conspiracy show. That’ll give those Gophers something else to be embarassed about (that man was our governor?!)

  133. El Cid says:

    Yes, we get it, El Cid. We’re smarter than you.

    Citing evidence not present?

  134. Amy outside of snowy DC says:

    #143 The 7 Up of the Senate?

  135. tooter says:

    Hhmm – Faux News dropped live feed Friday of GOP Q and A; and now not showing Dem Q and A. CNN, MSNBC and CSPAN2 all showing it.

  136. ADRUMS says:

    God, please get Bachmann the F@&K outta there!!!

  137. Amy outside of snowy DC says:

    #150 Based on that, Obama must be doing a great job at these Q and A. If it’s making Obama look good, Faux News will ignore it as much as possible.

  138. shāf says:

    Ah, that’s what’s in Mama’s purse! :)

  139. trojanrabbit says:

    140
    Back and to the left.

    He should burn eternally in Hell.

  140. drunken old biker Mark in Deetown says:

    110 there’s a telephone in the Penalty Box now?

  141. shāf says:

    Ken is getting more scrambly as his call drags on.

  142. flombaye says:

    8: “Wow! I knew Gov. Mark Sanford was a unfaithful douche. I didn’t know how stupid he was…….”

    shaf, please !! “stupid” is insensitive.
    they prefer to be called “ditto-americans”.

  143. pjkool says:

    This caller is prime example of how the right takes advantage of the high school or less crowd.

  144. shāf says:

    Adhesion (not cohesion)! Time to break out the banjos.

  145. flombaye says:

    are the gays in the military on a know to knead basis ?

  146. Amy outside of snowy DC says:

    #154 Jews don’t really have a hell, and Specter is a member of the tribe.

  147. shāf says:

    Back to the Code Red!

  148. Caller is a dumb shit.. Must be a non-com lifer.

  149. ADRUMS says:

    156
    and his starting point wasn’t exactly lucid

  150. Skyhawk says:

    The experiment worked for women and minorities caller.

  151. drunken old biker Mark in Deetown says:

    hey caller Ken, you dunce, there was meat-gazers in the showers,
    nobody cared. You can be whatever you want, so long as you got
    my back when the Fifth Mongolian Horde comes over the hill…

  152. Amy outside of snowy DC says:

    #166 I don’t think caller Ken will help you rebuild your City Wall and keep out the “Mongorians”.

  153. flombaye says:

    21: “I saw a Three Stooges movie like that… they wired the plumbing to the electrical.”

    this house has sho gone crazy.

  154. shāf says:

    #167 No, Johnson was strong… Johnson was there!

  155. Amy outside of snowy DC says:

    #167 Witness: Striker was the squadron leader. He brought us in real low, but he couldn’t handle it.
    Prosecuting Attorney: Buddy couldn’t handle it? Was Buddy one of your crew?
    Witness: Right, Buddy was the bombardier, but it was Striker who couldn’t handle it. And he went to pieces.
    Prosecuting Attorney: Andy went to pieces?
    Witness: No, Andy was the navigator, he was all right. Buddy went to pieces. It was awful how he came unglued.
    Prosecuting Attorney: Howie came unglued?
    Witness: Oh no, Howie was a rock, the best tail-gunner in the outfit. Buddy came unglued.
    Prosecuting Attorney: And he bailed out?
    Witness: No, Andy hung tough, Buddy bailed out! How we survived, was a miracle.
    Prosecuting Attorney: Then Howie survived?
    Witness: No, ‘fraid not. We lost Howie the next day.

  156. Robby says:

    How in the world do some of these idiots stumble upon the show when they’re barely smart enough to work their radio? Geez!

    Don’t ask don’t tell…. Really? How hawkish can the Republicans really be on National Security when they turn down people who actually volunteer to serve for a cause that they know is almost certain suicide. If you ask me they sound a little French AND Gay themselves!

  157. scooter says:

    Guess what channel is NOT carrying live coverage of President Obama’s appearance with the Dem caucus? Yep, the people at Faux are talking about John Edwards’ love-child.

  158. drunken old biker Mark in Deetown says:

    147 yes yes Jessie Ventura’s Conspiracy Show. Oughtta be required
    viewing for everyboddy. Just say the one on the Bilderbergers.

    whut’s the quote? “something something very rich people who
    consort in private seldom do so for public good” or some such thing.
    The Bilderbergers, the Bohemian Grove, the Trilateral Commission,
    The Council on Foreign Relations, The Pilgrims Society, The Royal
    Institute of International Affairs, the Club of Rome… there are
    lots of them, with seats at The Table… History is the History of
    Secret Societies. Conspiracy is Normal Politics Conducted by Normal
    Means.

  159. shāf says:

    #170 & 171. Yep, we both went there, Amy. :)

  160. B.BarNavi says:

    That caller doesn’t get that getting rid of DADT is to end the political theatre around it once and for all.

  161. shāf says:

    I never even heard that song.

  162. Amy outside of snowy DC says:

    #173 You should expect nothing less from Faux News. Remember when a McCain staffer claimed a black man beat her up and carved a B into her face (B for Obama?) As soon as she admitted it was a hoax, all versions of the story were removed from foxnews.com. Just ignore and pretend it never happened, that’s how you handle it in right wing world.
    If Faux doesn’t broadcast Obama’s Q+A, there’s a greater chance their viewers will think Obama cancelled it because he’s correupt and afraid of transparency, etc.

  163. Amy outside of snowy DC says:

    #175 I’ll never be over Macho Grande. :wink:

  164. Thanks to you people we’ll never be over Macho Grande.

  165. Nick (in the æthership) says:

    #69: Yeah a little road noisy but it’s a really fun car to drive. I want to get the IQ which is even smaller.

  166. Skyhawk says:

    They’re back to pushing privatizing social security again as well.

  167. Nick (in the æthership) says:

    #82: but we will have to deal with Simon Schama.

  168. shāf says:

    Hmmmm. Very interesting… but stupid!

  169. flombaye says:

    32: “I saw a Three Stooges movie like that… they wired the plumbing to the electrical.”

    i did the sacramento (horizontal) version of the quicksilver. – the movie is a lie. the time between runs is not spent practicing stunts; it is spent trying to ingest enuff water.

  170. drunken old biker Mark in Deetown says:

    lessee, scorecard: three people in my house, none of us workin’.
    two dirty endless wars, still goin’ on.
    one hot momma, on the radio

    evveything still the same…

  171. shāf says:

    #179 No. I don’t think I’ll ever get over Macho Grande.

  172. “Bush area”, Steph? Keep it to yourself.

  173. Amy outside of snowy DC says:

    I was reading some of the comments on the Teabagger convention at Faux News. The story mentioned that a Congressional ethics committee advised Blackburn and Bachmann not to attend, as the event is for profit.
    So one of the commenters had to point out the congressional committee must be made up of Democrats who are stifling Bachmann and Blackburn’s freedom of speech.

    Facts shmacts, they’ll make the truth fit their warped view.

  174. flombaye says:

    40: “I’ve been thinking about it. How could you work the bacon in?”

    that could be accomplished with the “christian” workout. – not the stations of the cross (“cross-training”), the other one – place the bacon upon your skateboard in a ride during heavu traffic, and gleam it into little cubes.

  175. flombaye says:

    45: “….And you have to lift the bacon into the pan or griddle”

    mrs buttofsteel cooking videos will help.

  176. flombaye says:

    i propose OPERATION IRAQI LESBIANS. – jim louise ward could apply the oil.

  177. shāf says:

    Almost time for the LiveStream with Hal.

  178. Nick (in the æthership) says:

    #192: i’m not sure that they’d want him to.

  179. shāf says:

    Hal is live, and Mama is probably already drooling on her laptop! ;)

  180. flombaye says:

    59: “And we’ll accept borderline psychopaths before gays. Whuuuuuuuuuut?”

    how about a compromise ?
    “it exfoliates and cleanses with doctor haushka’s – - – or else it gets the hose again”.

  181. trojanrabbit says:

    196
    Then Steph better be careful or there’ll be sparks coming FROM her laptop. ;)

  182. Nick (in the æthership) says:

    #198: if they’re not already coming from her lap.

  183. flombaye says:

    71: “Problem is, there is still rumor and innuendo that forces a disclosure at some time in their career.”

    the leggings and other full metal accessories are what gave me away.

  184. scooter says:

    Wish I could watch the livecam, but not enough bandwidth. This is one of those moments when living in the middle of nowhere SUCKS!

  185. shāf says:

    Breaking news via ProducerChris:
    Transportation Secretary LaHood advises Toyota owners to not drive their recalled cars.

    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35216587/ns/business-autos/

  186. flombaye says:

    78: “so you’re saying debuting in the 2020 TV season will be a bittersweet comedy about the Afghan war that runs twice as long as the war lasted?”

    tune in for alda war, alda time.

  187. Amy outside of snowy DC says:

    #203 See post #121

  188. Skyhawk says:

    Switching to Livestream.

  189. flombaye says:

    88: “hullo
    I’m gone for a week and come back and Momma’a been showing off
    her cooter to everyone and where was I?….”

    lokks like ODBM picked the wrong week to stop watching dora the explorer while snorting chili powder.

  190. Mugsy says:

    Is Sarah Palin retarded?

    She accused Emmanuel of slurring mentally disabled children, but the word “retarded” does not refer to the mentally disabled specifically. It refers to “growth”… or more precisely, the lack of it.

    So if something is “retarded”, it is simply “lacking” in something. For Palin to think it ONLY refers to mentally disabled children makes me wonder if Palin herself is mentally retarded?

  191. flombaye says:

    99: “Enola Butch? I heard she was hanging out with some Fat Man, and
    a Little Boy…”

    leave the mooks AAALLLLOOOONNNE !!. – you’re lucky they even play with stephy’s knobs for you bastards.

  192. shāf says:

    But how can you chat in two places at once when you’re really no where at all?

  193. flombaye says:

    100: “‘Fat Man and Little Boy” always sounded a little greek to me.”

    you are not here,
    to be comfortable.

  194. Amy outside of snowy DC says:

    #208 She’s not retarded, someone found this from a meeting that happened months ago, but realized she could get air time calling out Emmanuel. Palin doesn’t realize most of us use the “r word” like a regular word and don’t equate it with the “n word” (which is the basis for her outrage).
    Someone on Steele’s staff must’ve been like “Palin’s got a retarded baby, get her to go after Emmanuel for using the word retarded.”

  195. shāf says:

    San Dimas High School rules!

  196. flombaye says:

    the rumors that socrates “LOVES” san dimas have been greatly exaggerated.

  197. flombaye says:

    161: “….Jews don’t really have a hell,….”
    they would sobibored with it by now if they did.

  198. #212, the deal was, it was originally reported that Rahm said “stupid”, but recently it was revealed he said “retarded”, which offended advocates for the mentally handicapped.

    Ever the opportunistic grifter, Palin just took the occasion to hump the issue’s leg.

  199. ADRUMS says:

    anybody have a link for the entire FRI Obama Rep kick ass festival? I can only find snippets on the internet- even cspan only has about 20 minutes of it. Thanks!

  200. flombaye says:

    sorry – bad copy-and-paste.
    post 185 was meant to quote post 32 as “howzabout we workout with bacon?”

  201. shāf says:

    An OSCAR doesn’t guarantee future success. Remember Halle as Catwoman (following Gothica and Monster’s Ball).

  202. ADRUMS says:

    Sparks & Fugelsang should be the next MSNBC show

  203. #120: I’m going to TRY not to remember that next time I see a picture of you in a kilt.

  204. flombaye says:

    186: “….evveything still the same…”

    welcome back ODBM…. actually, at least one major thing is different:
    lady gaga managed to recruit the phelps klan into doing free publicity work. – and tupac bin laden is piping up to take credit for weird stuff like the balloon boy hoax, and obama’s gift certificate for a yugo with a lift kit and knobby tires.

  205. shāf says:

    Vegas, baby, Vegas!

  206. So Hal, how did that economy work out for Gore?

    Hal’s a funny dude, but I’m not impressed with his political savvy.

  207. trojanrabbit says:

    219

    They usually flame out at the end…

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSCAR

  208. Amy outside of snowy DC says:

    The Chinese have a great history of railroad building in this country, what’s the big deal?

  209. flombaye says:

    194: thank you, skyhawk. sufficiently disturbing.
    as they say, you can lead a bee gee to the Y, but you cant make disco stick.

  210. trojanrabbit says:

    Off to the Vomiteria to have lunch. Gonna have to miss SPARTA today.

    Carry on…

  211. shāf says:

    Bye, trojanrabbit. Enjoy the veal!

  212. flombaye says:

    195: “i’m not sure that they’d want him to.”

    they are not here to be comfortable.
    they are here to go beyond the theoretical, the speculative, the fanciful….

  213. #127. Yeuch… No, they’d just harvest his organs and try to sell them back to us.

  214. Steve Pipenger says:

    THIS is why we need to just get rid of the cabal of private bankers, known as the Federal Reserve, controlling our economy.

    http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN0211628820100202

  215. Steve Pipenger says:

    By the way, hi all!!

  216. flombaye says:

    225: “They usually flame out at the end…”

    i did warn them about that carrey-on luggage.

  217. flombaye says:

    226: “The Chinese have a great history of railroad building in this country, ….”

    honest engine ?

  218. scooter says:

    #226 Sounds like the roles are gonna be reversed this time, though. Wonder it they’ll make the Americans wear funny hats?

  219. flombaye says:

    237: a “disco stick on a stick” stand can not be far off.

  220. shāf says:

    Was this before Mama went commando?

  221. flombaye says:

    239: just gaze in the military and find out.

  222. Amy outside of snowy DC says:

    #237 “Dock that honky a day’s pay for napping on the job” ?

  223. The only thing mama falls off is the wagon.

    Which, coincidentally, is another occasion where people are inclined to spontaneously remove their underwear.

  224. shāf says:

    #241 Bailiff, whack his pee-pee!

  225. flombaye says:

    241: and congratulate him for being able to sleep in that tall hat.

  226. shāf says:

    Welcome to The Rock!

  227. Blanche Lincoln is toast in her next election.

  228. Amy outside of snowy DC says:

    I think he said “prosecuted” when he meant “persecuted”.

  229. #181: “I want to get the IQ which is even smaller.”

    Easy – just watch Faux News.

  230. shāf says:

    Water boarding at BB&B: “What’s the thread count on the rag you’re stuffing in my mouth?”

  231. flombaye says:

    he’s almost as severe as wally cleaver dumping the pistachio ice cream on eddie and lumpy. – “sorry, dad. guess i kind of went ape.”

  232. shāf says:

    Fox is stranger than fiction.

  233. Amy outside of snowy DC says:

    That Pence voice sounds like it’s about to ask about his stapler.

  234. flombaye says:

    doctor phil could do en entire season of “fox” edition – - –
    “WHUT WURR YEW SMOKIN ?”

  235. flombaye says:

    252: well, that’s unfortunate. right now, storage B is housing the 280 buns that obama handed to the repugs.

  236. shāf says:

    I love the first thing Boehner did was hand Obama their Health Care “plan”. Obama said, “Yes, I’ve already read this.”

  237. flombaye says:

    255: it’s so nice, i’m going to put it right on the refrigerator.

  238. flombaye says:

    AH ! – pinnocchiobama. clever.

  239. shāf says:

    C’mon gang, Sparta awaits.

  240. I’m reading Aristotle right now. I think he was a Republican.

    From Sparta.

  241. shāf says:

    Woo woo, Supertramp. Something from my era!

  242. B.BarNavi says:

    好厲害!!

  243. shāf says:

    If you Sparta more than 3 times, you’re playing with it, madduane!

  244. B.BarNavi says:

    This is MADNESS!!!

  245. Even if you knock the ball a hundred yards, you still need someone to slap it into the hoop.

    of Sparta.

  246. shāf says:

    Yikes! Keeping good thoughts for Murtha’s recovery.

  247. Amy outside of snowy DC says:

    Now now, the right wing claims that tort reform and allowing insurances companies to cross state lines would fix everything wrong with healthcare. It’s not entirely tort reform.

  248. shāf says:

    I think GOPers just like to add “ism” to anything to use it as an insult to Dems. “G” anyone?

  249. shāf says:

    It’s the way he rolls, baby!

  250. shāf says:

    Michele Steele is the black version of Eugene Levy (Jim’s Dad) in American Pie, except less cool.

  251. shāf says:

    Once more into the breach! Opps, I mean, for Sparta!

  252. Nick (in the æthership) says:

    Has edwards joined Jersey Shore? He’s that skeevey.

  253. I’m getting tired of spartaing all over the place. I’m going to stop now…

    See ya at facebook scramble!

    Sparta!

  254. shāf says:

    #280 I think even the Jesery Shore cast would be offended by Edwards – too skeevy!

  255. Amy outside of snowy DC says:

    #280 he would need weeks of GTL (gym tan laundry) before being worth of the Jersey Shore show.

  256. shāf says:

    Over? It’s not over until we say it’s over!

  257. flombaye says:

    weed can make yoots speak the troot.
    pinnochiobama should try pinocchiojuana.

  258. shāf says:

    Have a great day, everyone! Sorry we couldn’t achieve Spartaness. :(

  259. penelope2 says:

    I was heartened by Adm. Mullen yesterday. Go military!!