LiveBlog for Thursday, March 11, 2010
• Hal Sparks joins us in the L.A. Bureau at 6am Pacific for all three hours of “Humpdays With Hal on Thursday.”
• Comedian Kate Clinton calls in at 7:05am Pacific to talk about the news of the day.
• Comedy Royalty Lily Tomlin calls in at 7:30am Pacific to promote her upcoming dates at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.
• Rep. Ron Kind (D-WI) calls in at 8:05am Pacific to talk about health care reform.
• President Obama invited members of the Congressional Black Caucus and the Congressional Hispanic Caucus to meet with him today to discuss health legislation. The White House also said Obama would travel to Ohio on Monday for an appearance near the hometown of an uninsured cancer patient named Natoma Canfield, whom the president has made a symbol of the need for reform.
• House Democratic leaders announced Wednesday that they will ban the much-criticized practice of using annual spending bills to direct pet projects to companies that often return the favor with campaign contributions.
• The foreclosure crisis isn’t over, but the pace of growth may finally be slowing down. The number of U.S. households facing foreclosure in February grew 6 percent from the year-ago level, the smallest annual increase in four years.
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Gooood morning all
Another drive-by probably. Still listening to yesterday’s hour 1.
Morning TR…
hullo
The continuing saga of corruption in Detroit still plays out. Foul
mouthed ignorant corrupt greedy embezzler/crook Monica Conyers tried
to withdraw her guilty plea yesterday while shooting her mouth off
to the judge during her sentencing. There are a dozen people in the
process of being convicted/sentenced for the pay-to-play shakedown
skam that ran for years in Detroit under Kwame Kilpatrick, the self
proclaimed hip-hop mayor. His daddy, Bernard Kilpatrick, ‘The Bag Man’
has yet to be tried. John Conyers has distanced himself from his
scummy wife. Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick, the Matriarch of the Kriminal
Gang, still squats in Washington DC. What a skurvy krew.
Good Morning, TR, Danielle and the rest of the gang!
This is going to be a show for the Archives, I just feel it. Or, maybe it was the remnants of a ‘tickle fight’, who can say.
Good morning, Steph and Chris! Have an awesome show, won’t you?
Morning bloggoes.
Morning all my little Steph loves!
Hope all is well with everyone ~
Catty-wumpus again?
Steph sounds like she needs a little coffee
“That happens when Bob comes, too.”
That’s what she said!
brb…getting coffee.
Mouse needs coffee….
Never underestimate Zoltan!
Steph – Would love to take care of the pup’s
My pupu’s would love to play with yours
Mouse problems used to be caused by old mice with dirty balls (don’t even go there), but she’s using a modern one piece mouse….?
Hal is in the house!
La la la la. I didn’t all that personal stuff.
Show time!
hear
P9OX appears to be working great for Steph. Also, some proof she may have been in the military.
http://www.stephmiller.net/
Sparta!
Good montage, Ken!
20… Wow… I didn’t know Momma was a body builder… I would be afraid to have a naked tickle party with that Steph
The Right looked like the people on Antiques Roadshow who have just been told that their ‘priceless’ family antique is a cheap knockoff.
“Tickle fight…THIS IS SPARTA!”
They rescheduled my meeting. 11:00 is TOO EARLY for lunch at Qdoba.
Also, Good morning mooks, eMooks. Bloggoes, and also Steph!
Whut?! Buggery on the High Seas!? gay guys in the Navy guys? Who knew!?
Where’s the Village People when you need them?
Being awakened by Mr. Massa does NOT seem to b a good thing, especially if your not gay. NOT good Massa…
DIRTY BALLS????
Tickle party! Ooh la la!
Good mornin’ you lovely people.
24: lmao.
Aye Steph ya salty sea wench!
28: Gay sailors; Not just for the Greek navy.
Snorkeling, like with Snorks?
http://capslove.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/snorks1.jpg
Where is HAl & the video stream?? Anyone?
24 oh THAT priceless family antique! Yes, your grandmother used
to hang that in the window of her parlour to let Chinese railway
laborers know she was ready to service them…
Oh Larry………
24 – agreed, Shaf. They were expecting someone who was going to come out and rail against the Dems and how awful they were for forcing him out. Instead, they got a guy with an over-active sex drive, who seems to be a bit to friendly with other men while insisting that it wasn’t sexual and that he’s not gay or bi.
And it was strange bedfellows from the start, since Massa was one of the more progressive Democrats. So for the GOP to try to make him a darling, it would have simply destroy the Republican-wing of the Democratic Party. The guys that they could have the bi-partisan love-fests with.
Massa has been in the closet way to long……..
Thing with the salad?????????
Yep, the Urban Dictionary has several definitions. I’ll leave the remainder of the exercise to the class to complete.
quit snorkeling me while I’m sleeping…
Snark-eling, doncha mean?
40: I suspect it was referring to the tossing of a salad..
huh>!? Whaddaya know!? I just punched “Massa” into the google and
the thing immediately completed with “snorkeling”
I think Hal’s got it right, Massa is embarrassing to other gays! And it’s going to set back repeal of DADT, which is too bad!
“Massa was notorious for making unwanted advances toward subordinates.”
there’s nothing funny about that.
Hey all… I just had to pop in to let you know the “Sparta!” drop was just for all of you!!!
Have a great day!
Why wasn’t Massa kicked the hell out of the Navy and court-martialed?
He should have gone to Leavenworth, not the Congress.
Thank You d.o.b.M.i.D. ~
Anyone seeing the mooks & Hal on U Stream???
#46 – I’m surprized he got away with that.?
Ken – I figured that was a nod to the liveblog. And we look like we could reach Sparta today, too.
45 — When what it really shows is that we have to move the cultural shift forward more. He obviously grew up repressed (like a lot of us did) and all of this is happening because on some level, there’s a whole lot of shame involved and it’s creating a huge, life-wrecking conflict. I feel as sad for him as I do for those he’s harassed.
Speaking of not knowing certain terms, scroll down to the drill seargent from full metal jacket having to explain what a “reach around” was to Stanley Kubrick ; )
http://www.bspcn.com/2010/01/14/7-classic-movie-moments-you-didnt-know-were-improv/
followed the link to Massa+snorkeling and got here:
http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2010/03/eric_massa_groping_tickling_an.html?imw=Y&f=most-viewed-24h5
but the kicker is, scroll to the bottom of the page and look at
the pictures
Ken, it was a great little piece, thank you for your work..
Watching C-Span 2 (yesterday’s hearing on the Budget Request with Geithner) I have to tell ya HE bugs me – i still do NO know why Obama kept him on.
48 – He got away with it because no one brought it up to superiors, that’s why. Conspiracy of silence in the military. And after DADT went into effect it was very possible that a soldier could be told “if you mention this to the superiors they’ll drum YOU out for violation of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ too!”
Kat… I’ll have to keep the LB open in a tab and check in…
Oh, and thanks for the compliment Shaf!
Rachel points with both index fingers (like Issac)
You realize it’s only a matter of time before the far right forms the “Snorkel Party” protesting…um…government gag orders?
It’s like curling, but without ice.
#62 …or beer.
Hey thanks for the info. drunken old biker Mark in Deetown!
I hope I get there. I really like the idea of being an old lady someday.
shuffleboard is easy–it’s like curling. You shove your puck down the field trying to knock your opponent’s pucks out of the triangle shape while at the same time trying to get your puck into the space with the most points associated with it.
headline:
In 2008, No Matter What You Told Them, 20 Percent of People
Would Not Stop Believing Obama Is a Muslim
but it’s really not surprising. There are plenty of idiots in
the world.
66 you make shuffleboard sound so dirty Gabby.
64 yer quite welcome, Treah
67… Considering 25% of the population have IQ scores under 90, I’d say that statistic seems about right…
Harry Reid has just opened up the Senate
They have already said the opening prayer
& pledge of allegiance
McChinless is spouting his shit now about how the Health
Care bill is going to ruin the country
But Mama goes commando, right?
Momma doesn’t sleep in a negligee and pumps? instead
it’s flannel pajamas WITH FEET?! my whole world is in ruins.
Hal- open mouth, insert OTHER foot!
snorkel this [----] begins with two [----] in a [----] filled with warm water, preferably around 85 degrees fahrenheit. One of the [----]dons a mask, snorkel, and swim fins, and [----] [----] the other [----]‘s [----] with both [----]s until it [----] underwater. He then dips the open end of his snorkel deep below the surface, and [----] up the clouds of [----] before they have time to [----], swallowing them whole.
Spear and Magic Helmet?
“Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.” Robert Heinlein, The Notebooks of Lazarus Long
open mouth, insert snorkel
Rethug Nazis must die
Steph, you’re a Baby Boomer, and Hal is GenX. You ARE different generations.
73… would you believe that actually make adult size, pink footy-pajamas…so freakin’ cute…
don’t forget oral roberts
77 good one Maddy. also
“the path of intelligence is all hard work, low pay, and a
high probability that the fanatics of all ideologies will
gang up on you.”
This is what happens when you decide, “Hey, honey, let’s play naked Twister!”
81 I’m sure you’re adorable in them Danielle… Momma too
Ya got that right drunken old biker, I got a guy @ work who is a biker
actually (I do really like him) but he really does think Obama is a Muslim – I have tried telling him that, that just is NOT the case. He also believes 2 planes brought down the WTT 2. Now I know everyone has their different thoughts on that, but I (personally) do not believe the lies & stories that the government told us.
WTF with all the chat room love? What about us live bloggers??? I see how quickly you forget us Momma…
Waiting for an ‘Oh Dear’ from Steph.
82 — definition #1 at Urban Dictionary
70 Bushie has an IQ of what? 89?
Steph is a Baby Boomer just like me ! How many of us here r???
85… as much as I appreciate the thought… there isn’t much need for them down here in Florida… but they were a really funny gift… lol
80: Coo Coo Coo Chu, Mrs. Robinson.
Wit AND wits, Steph AND Chris AND Hal AND Jim have BOTH!
87 – Danielle, it’s because Hal isn’t paying attention to us, just to the people that are on his chat. Hal doesn’t love the LiveBlog.
Mark… you’re way too nice… I was thinking more along the lines of about 75…
86 yes, Traeh, some people will believe anything
87 so THATs how it’s gonna be…
I use enough blankets in winter that footie pajamas would not be comfortable for me.
95.. See, his deadbeat doggy daddy-ness has now bled over into making momma neglect her LB children…
96 75… or 69?
25 or 6 to 4?
Does anyone else hate when works takes time away from your liveblogging?
I must be responsible! I’ll talk to ya later, Liveblog.
Love you all so!
98 which goes with your negligee and pumps, I’m sure, Kat
103 have a great day Maddy. Stuff those boxes
3: DOBM, thou dost harsh monica conters’ rep. dont forget it was fresh M.C. okeefe that coerced monica into this life of crime.
99 – Exactly. That, or maybe she just ignores us because Chris watches us, and he’s just the hired help and not Hal.
Way too much math on the blog for me today.
Morning all…
Down periscope, sailor!
99 Hal is not the steadying influence on Momma that we hoped…
103 work gets in the way of all the good stuff.
“Starved for the center of attention,” says the radio talk show host. Stones and glass houses much?
=P
Morning all
No, no negligee and pumps either, Mark. My nightwear is more of the “t-shirt and pajama bottoms” variety. I know, how very sorority house of me.
34: kliban foresaw the snork genital design by several years.
Finally got Hal & the Mook’s on livestream – alright
106 MonCon trashed Detroit for years. She starts altercations
everywhere she goes. She is one ugly person. Ignorant, Foulmouthed,
Arrogant, Crooked. She turned Detroit City Council Meetings into…
words fail me. Farce doesn’t even start. She made Detroit a national
joke. She did horrible damage to a place that really needed help.
She wasn’t the only one either. Kwame Kilpatrick, Sam Riddle… there
is a whole nest of criminals not yet brought to justice.
“Brandy”, good call, Chris!
100: EW EW EW EW EW EW: W’ is not the kind of Bush anyone should be thinking about in correlation to 69… I think I just threw up a little
113 quit harshin’ my buzz. I’ll picture you how I wanna [hee hee]
Gabby izzat your letter to Steph?
One of my dirty little secrets is I love that song, “Brandi”…..
118 sorry!
the biggest disappointment available on “antiques roadshow” comes not from finding something is of no special source, but from finding that it IS…. and it should have remained untouched. – “yes, we’ve verified that it’s one of only twelve that were made that year, and it survived the crusades in remarkably good shape…. now this potentially could draw at auction, about 325 thousand dollars… in a bad year, 275 thousand at the very least…. but the layer of grit and dust has been wiped off from these surfaces, which unfortunately diminishes the value, but you still could get easily about six hundred dollars for it”.
this letter from Gabby don’t sound good.
Moon River!
in the navy
My plan for my 50th is to go to Hooters and have a PBJ sandwich from the children’s menu.
Pump him up… I guess Elvis was wrong, you DO really feel it.
it takes a real man to cope with the navy
122 hate when that happens. My grandmother’s antique lantern is almost
worthless now…
That “Gabby” is lying!!
118 – I don’t think any Bush should be associated with 69, though the twins may come close.
I can’t remember what I did on my fiftieth. but for my 25th wedding anniversary, we restated our vows while flying over las vegas in a giant hot air balloon (one of the biggest hot air balloons in the world) called “Little White Chapel in the Sky”
“If you ever change your mind
Which you do from time to time
Never chew a pickle
With a little slap and tickle
You have to throw the stone
To get the pool to ripple”
Something tells me the Charlie Christ has seen Marc Rubio’s naked back too.
Damn! Guys just trying all kinds-a mechanical things with inserting and places. This is gettin’ coffee-spittin’ time!
Good morning, Jim!
Blow ballast!
39: “Massa has been in the closet way to long……..”
beyond massa: this character is intriguing.
his name is ryan sorba.
see if you can tell whether he’s prepping to come out of the closet,
or trying to dive further in….
http://www.youtube.com/user/howtheworldworks?blend=1&ob=4#p/u/6/lZF1WWZqRB8
Damn, damn, damn, now she’s got me in a sex joke mood, and cups running over gives me too much…
bush is not so much dumb as ignorant. I’m sure his IQ is in the low 90s or high 80s, within a standard deviation of normal. He just doesn’t care that everything he says and does exposes him as an ignoramus.
Sure, women couldn’t serve on ships back when Gabby was sailing… But what ever happened to discrete shore leave with native island girls in some little-known southeast asian country?
I keep thinking of that Python sketch about there not being cannibalism in the British Navy, for some reason…
but the ones that massa gives you don’t do anything at all.
“What? With the gamy leg?”
61: “graydancer” ? – congratulations. not many things are better than dancing with joel gray. pasta la pizza.
Give money to Bart Stupak’s primary challenger, Connie Saltonstall!
Go to actblue.com:
http://www.actblue.com/entity/fundraisers/24052
“sucky fucky tongue in the ass round the world for a buck and a pack of marlboros” is how sailors describe shore leave in Naples.
#139 – Well, we can joke one of two ways… We can talk about how Steph’s cups will never be overflowing because they’re too small, or we can joke about how we’d want to make her “cup” (“Chalice” for you Dan Brown fanboys) runneth over.
I happen to like Steph’s cups… So I think I’ll just make jokes about filling her cup till it runneth over.
guys were caught all the time giving each other oral sex, but just like casual marijuana abuse, it was largely ignored when I was in because there was such a critical shortage of trained sailors.
142 That’s one of my favorite python skits Kat
now you’ve gone and mentioned the Evil Bush in conjuction with
the nice one… how can I get that image outta my head? oh wait,
I’ll just go back to the negligee/pumps image…
@Shaf…
I snagged the theme from The Snorks and shot it off to Chris…
First lyric line “Come along with the Snorks”
if your cup is small, it will overflow more, not less.
here’s one I saw a lot in navy bathrooms:
If your hose is short
and your pump is weak
better stand close
or you’ll piss on your feet.
#151 Nice!
#151 – Props for ruining my childhood.
I once made one of my best friends cry when I asked her if she ever remembered seeing a “My Little Pony Show.”
149 Trained sailors?
I think there’s been a tad homaseckuality in the navy since.. there
bin navies… whut wuz the old SNL Belushi skit?
Well, almost cry. She did say I ruined her childhood after that.
I would bet that a bad piss test won’t get you kicked out even now, particularly if you have training in a critical field.
The Raging Queen
Remind me to not live near your parents, Chris.
something like “Great Expectations” starring Michael Palin. Gee, I never realized that there was a python with the same name as wasillagator.
154 lol
Is it ‘computer acting up’ Day? First Steph’s now Jim’s.
Hi Guys and Gals–
152—Bathroom Poetry (from an article about the drought in Santa Barbara many moons ago)
Here in the land of sea and sun,
We never flush for Number 1.
(They told people not to flush until the water was a nice, deep yellow.)
enny truth to the internet rumor i just started that Momma will
star in an X-rated remake of the Disney movie about the indian chick?
Pokemahaunces? -[skating to penalty box... hey, there's booze in here!]
the new Dickins novel Miles Cowperthwaite.
Useless email of the day:
“Advance Casting Alert!!
Thursday, March 11, 2010 12:07 AM
Your Hollywood OS profile has come up in a specific talent search for the following project and you may be suitable for the following role. Thanks for being a part of the Talent Search Engine.
Wrestler Type Needed”
BZZZT… wrong! Thanks for playing.
(SPARTA?)
http://snltranscripts.jt.org/78/78rcowperthwaite.phtml if you want to read the transcript of the bit.
163… There’s a lot of signs like that down in the keys…
horsedrawn us?
I’m impressed that we have all this technology available.
is a wrestler type a person who likes to have full body contact with other mostly naked people covered with oil and of the same sex?
east coast guy here — I could NOT deal with the earthquakes when living in LA.
ya hear what sounds like a freight train in your deep sleep – and run to a door way from slumber in about 1.5 seconds.
no fun
#169 – I don’t possibly see how. He can’t even hold the pencil.
#154… Soiling memories is one of my specialties!
if it’s yellow, let it mellow. If it’s brown, flush it down.
163: If it’s yellow, let it mellow.
#162 – mine too – can’t refresh on ANY computer – direct or via the router
“Massaged kale.” Sounds like another dirty euphemism.
150 – Mark, have that image all you want, it’s not the reality. Too Jackie Collins for me.
Oh, news busters will be all over that one… “Proof that you will be denied healthcare based on political party!”
navy showers (an actual practice when something is wrong with the fresh water): Get in line with dozens of other naked men. When it’s your turn, five seconds under a stream of water, then out of the shower stall. Lather up naked while continuing to move forward in line. Back into a stream of water for five seconds, during which you’d better get rid of all the suds or you’ll itch a lot until your next shower in two or three days.
I think we need a Hal Sparks, Stephanie Miller ticket!
180: I could get behind that.
Maybe Flo from Progressive is a jihadist. Who knows what she has under that ‘do.
#175 – Who remembers the Harvey Birdman episode where they cut costs… and the regulations took hold in the bathroom.
Wasn’t the old motto of the British Navy something like “rum, sodomy and the lash”?
#132: “I can’t remember what I did on my fiftieth. but for my 25th wedding anniversary, we restated our vows while flying over las vegas in a giant hot air balloon (one of the biggest hot air balloons in the world) called “Little White Chapel in the Sky””
Wow! Sounds like you had everything but that team of parachuting Elvises!
whenever I’m in california, I live every moment with the dread that the “big one” will arrive while I’m there. Yet the only earthquake I have ever felt was a 4.0 quake in kentucky, which I felt in my living room in michigan.
179 in reality I liked yer tee shirt/pajama bottoms just fine…
who wears pumps to bed? yer gonna puncture the waterbed with those…
and a negligee? yer gonna catch cold~!
187: it was unforgettable, even without the elvises.
Morning bloggers.
186 great quote from Winston Churchill, that.
“Don’t talk to be about Navy Tradition! It’s just Rum, Sodomy and the
Lash!”
#186: A Churchill one-liner.
192 be = me
more likely grog, buggery, and the lash
Gabby, I thought for sure that the Navy had developed salt water soap..
166—So sad. So many people believe those. It’s sad.
184 Flo the Progressive Chick. mebbe actually Momma. I’ll go over it
again:
both kooky brunettes
both screamers
both progressives
neither wear underwear
never seen together
both have big tricked out nametags
both like big dogs and boxed wine
168—You’d think we’d learn how to use sea water for toilets by now. Can’t plastic plumbing handle that?
Oh! Great news! My son just randomly commented to me about how annoying his stepmom is!
I admit I like it when my kids complain about her. Ever seen “Ordinary People”? From what they have told me I imagine she’s a lot like Mary Tyler Moore’s character in that fine film.
200 good for you Spiff
Snarf snarf.
172—Earthquakes are fine. It’s a chance to get closer to your neighbors. What’s hell is the joblessness.
The Taliban were OK with getting bombarded and shot at; what really stirred up the hornets’ nest was the non-stop lineup of “The Birdcage”, “Boys in the Band” and “Queer as Folk” broadcast on every channel from a B-52 circling overhead.
203—That’s the thing. When there is an earthquake the help comes out in droves. People pull together. We do that really well.
When you can’t find a job or very low income housing when you’re unemployed and poor, that’s when there is no help here.
They have job centers, but they are like food pantries that have run out of food.
[news item]
George W. Bush, the disgraced former leader of the United
States said today in a prepared statement that “he knows
he will die soon and go straight to Hell.”
Mr. Bush elaborated, saying “I deserve it for what I’ve
done. Look at me. I’m just a horrible, horrible person.
I betrayed my country and let a criminal cabal do whatever
it wanted for eight years. I destroyed America and a good
part of the world. Millions of lives were ruined because of me.
“I’m just a despicable, worthless waste of a human being.
I should have never been born. My parents hate me, Dick
Cheney says I’m beneath contempt, even the neo-con criminals
I empowered ridicule me to my face. Not even my wife Laura has
any respect for me. I’m going home to Texas to hang myself in
a closet. Please don’t look for me.”
Sources close to the ousted criminal had no comment, but his
mother, Barbara Bush, was overheard berating him, telling her
son “You’re nothing but a sniveling little coward. You don’t
have the guts to hang yourself, little mister sissy-britches.
You disgust me.”
Is there a diaphragm to go with that jelly?
204: Of course, you remember they attacked us because of the homosexual agenda, and they hate our freedoms. Although, homosexuals don’t have the same freedoms as heterosexuals in this country, so, I’m a bit confused by the logic.
My older sister went to prom in a tux with another girl… but she did it totally just for kicks… she’s a straight as they come… it was a tux with tails and they wore shorts with it instead of pants…
#171: I’m so wrong for the part I don’t even know what what a wrestler type is! I think I’ll tell them I have Andy Kaufman’s number, and see if they bite.
With all the Massa talk, Mitch needs to be careful about saying ‘jamming it down our throats.”
There’s a bright red, male cardinal on my bird feeder singing a beautiful son. Spring!
“These Democrat snorkelers keep shoving it down our throats…”
Is my car a time bomb? Well, I owned a Pinto back in the day.
209 !? What?? there’s more like you at home!?
188—-You just have to know what to do. If you’re inside dive under the nearest heavy table or desk if you can’t get to a doorway.
If you’re driving stop your car. Pull over if you can, but if you can’t, just stop.
If you’re outside just sit down unless you are under a power line. If you’re directly under a power line run away and then sit down.
Our buildings have all been built up to new codes since the 1970s. Plus, most of our buildings have already made it through 6.7s.
Those that weren’t well built already fell down.
209: That’s hot on so many levels.
I didn’t go to prom. Mainly because I couldn’t find a girl who’d go with me, and I didn’t want to go by myself (wouldn’t say it’s going “stag”, for obvious reasons…would it be going “doe” in that case?).
Massa Trigo or Massa Harina?
#212 I’ve seen eight cardinals at my bird feeder, mypooersdad. I saw a robin a few weeks ago, so spring is on the way.
212 that’a so cool! we’ve got cardinals, chickadees, junkos,
mourning doves, sparrows… and squirrels at our feeder
206—-Another joke email that cannot be believed!
Huzzah, Lily!
220—I envy the east coast its many colorful birds. We have red-tailed hawks soaring over the Hollywood freeway. I saw one the other day. They are really creeping into the city since the Forest Service let their forest burn up last fall.
The Nat’l Forest Service really screwed us during the Station Fire.
Dollars are TOO round! *pulls out a dollar coin*
#212: A an embarassed clergyman is serenading you with “My Beautiful Son” by Hole? Lucky you!
Huzzah, Lily ditto. She is so talented.
215: LOL… I’m the youngest of 6 kids… 3 girls, 3 boys.
Laugh-In reunion on the Steph show, please?
Farts in the Joke Wall? You do NOT want to go in there!
224 – So if the red-tailed hawks are coming into the city, they’re probably feeding on mice and other small critters like that.
#207 – It’s diaphragm and jelly time. It’s diaphragm and jelly time. Where it’s at. Where’s it at. Diaphragm and jelly with a baseball bat. Diaphragm and jelly with a baseball bat.
I’m hoping the birds come back who occupied a birdhouse in the
back yard last year… I think they were Wrens. The male had the
coolest song I’ve ever heard.
226: I gave him a twenty, and he handed me a little cracker and left.
Love the Edith Ann rocking chair!
#228 – Is that an opening for us to make a comment about a good Irish Catholic family?
231—-I don’t think the hawks are choosy. I’m sure they will grab puppies if they think they can get ‘em.
Ernestine, FTW!
222 I know, I only wish it were real and not something I made up.
I’ve seen/heard a lot of owls this year for some reason.
#228 – Dani Brady?
Random question: Anyone watch Harry Smith’s colonoscopy? Not me.
61: where wuz we ?
graydancer…. great name !
“you renamed me ‘REMO SNORKEL’ ?”
“a lot of thott went into it.”
“why did you change my face ?”
“we had a really good reason. you were too ugly to snorkel.”
Tell Lilly that she can have individualized ear molds made that can be used with headphones. I have small ears too!
Love me the snort.
65: wowzers. any excuse to wear purple.
239—I wish it were real too.
Yes! “We’re Big Insurance… we don’t have to care.”
237 – Where I grew up, my parents had a red-tailed hawk that took up residence nearby. My dad used to feed it suet. By the time they moved, my dad would place the suet on the porch rail, and before he was back in the house the hawk was swooping in for it.
68: “you make shuffleboard sound so dirty Gabby”
it’s a talent. he even made it sound dirty the first time we played “old maid”. – not that i didnt like my costume.
236.. No worries. That’s been covered a few times. But feel free if you’d like to. Both parents were Irish Catholic. There’s only an 8 year gap between me and the oldest… do the math…
241.. we even have a Cindy… although she’s the oldest and she spells it Cyndi…
Custom earpods
http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/articles/comments/why-custom-earphones-cost-so-much-inside-ultimate-ears-labs/
And that’s the truth… phffffffffft!
i seem to have found that several of the world’s hottest women have preferred sleeping in flannel. – it really could be a generational thing.
237 I’m always watching out for the hawk when our two chihuahuas are
out… fortunately they are long-coated, which also makes them larger
than most chihuahuas. Buster is so fat I don’t think the hawk
could lift him, Suzy I worry about. I worry about both of them. The
hawk might kill him even if she couldn’t carry him off. I worry about
him being too fat… we’re always talking about how we’re gonna starve
him until he’s thin, don’t want him to have a short life. They are
the sweetest dogs… I never wanted a yappy little chihuahua but
when we were given Suzy it turned out to be so great, and she had
three litters, all beautiful little whelps. Buster is from the first
litter, he is the calmest, most serene, affectionate cute little dog
you could image. He taught himself to sit up and talk, he’s got a
very large vocabulary. Obviously we dote on them.
#251 That’s funny. My parents are Irish Catholic. We had big family and my oldest sister spells her name Chrys.
Damages is a spectacular show!
248—Wouldn’t life be easier if big business adopted truthful slogans?
Kaiser-Permanente: Die
Aw, love to the Mooks!
#203: “172—Earthquakes are fine. It’s a chance to get closer to your neighbors…”
Just like tickle fights!
That was awesome!
98: “I use enough blankets in winter that footie pajamas would not be comfortable for me.”
effectively defeating the purpose of the wishful imagery in my daydreams, of kat sporting pigtails and a plush hello kitty.
Love you Lily!
251: Every sperm is sacred.
249—Hmmm… that’s a good idea, I guess, unless you have a small dog that goes outside anywhere near where the suet is posted.
256.. but did your sister decide to change the spelling? My parents named her Cynthia and called her Cindy just like everyone else, but she decided in middle school she was just going to spell it C-y-n-d-i… lol
243 Remo Williams ref… you sure can dredge up the obscure, flombe
Lilly Tomlin is a national treasure. She should be nominated for a Kennedy Center Honor.
255—Change their food. Some dog and cat foods can really pack on the pounds.
254: I think men everywhere shed a tear when victoria secret began selling flannel pjs… not exactly what they expected to see coming out of those fancy little bags…
263 Kat and her plush hello kitty!?
now yer making me all sweaty
howdja know she keeps it plush?
260—-I don’t think earthquakes can be classified as harassment…yet.
Just wait until the Supreme Court gets a hold of natural disasters!
108: “Way too much math on the blog for me today.”
there’s no escaping it. any mention of obama brings division. even dubya was a divider. the mimic causes addition of characters. when hal is in da house, there’s the damoclean prospect of multiplication.
265 – My dad isn’t a pet person, so small dogs weren’t a concern. And I seem to like birds of prey more than I like canines, for some reason.
Is that Jim’s voice in that PSA?
268: Hear! Hear!
268—I agree.
Speaking of Remo Williams, there is a follow up movie which truly sucks the bag. Joel Gray’s part in original made the movie..
#266 Although my older sister is odd, the spelling is all my parents fault. Their names are George and Georgia.
Chris, you ARE SOMEBODY!
113: “….My nightwear is more of the “t-shirt and pajama bottoms” variety…..”
that’s kind of a neat phenomenon, how mere words on a screen can make one hear the squeezy music. “oh, my !!!”
269 you’re right, Spiff, Buster needs to lose weight, I’m buying him
the diet stuff next time
270 mohair negligee… so yer just itchin’ to get out of it…
#275 SO sounds like it!! gotta be – maybe the SMS players will let us know for sure
We’re getting Wolfgang Puck on their asses!
118: “EW: W’ is not the kind of Bush anyone should be thinking about in correlation to 69….”
let me check my stack of quaint and curious volumes of forgetten lauren.
http://images.nymag.com/images/2/daily/2009/03/20090325_laurenbush_560x375.jpg
I imagine Lily Tomlin as president doing a fire-side chat in a giant rocking chair. That would be sweet.
Why is it that I can always get the guys turned on. They are NOT the target market!
279. My parents won’t admit it, but I think they were high during the naming of some of my siblings. We are Shea August, Reed Justin, Cynthia Moreen, Skyler Thortan, Timothy James, and me Kathleen Danielle – which is just another point… if they wanted to call me Danielle my whole life, why make my first name Kathleen. None of my other siblings are addressed by middle names. But, can you spot the “I’m a proud ex-hippie” names my mother got to choose?
126: “My plan for my 50th is to go to Hooters and have a PBJ sandwich from the children’s menu.”
from a plate is another good option.
William Sonoma has an AMAZING meat tenderizer club with spikes…
“EVERYONE brings their meat thermometer to the theater!”
That’s true – mine showed up in my girlfriend’s popcorn once.
133: “….Never chew a pickle
With a little slap and tickle….”
gawd, i freakin love yeats !
288 – My nephew is named Reed Hunter. My brother picked the middle name to honor his hero, Mr. Thompson.
141: “Sure, women couldn’t serve on ships back when Gabby was sailing…….”
even the tourists thrilling over the construction of stonehenge knew better than to affront poseidon.
142: “….about there not being cannibalism in the British Navy, for some reason…”
one of the reasons was that one guy had a gummy leg.
Getting closer…
Protein, then carb… GTK
C’mon how long does it take to do three freakin’ posts?
Sparta?
149: “guys were caught all the time giving each other oral sex, but just like casual marijuana abuse, it was largely ignored when I was in because there was such a critical shortage of trained sailors.”
trained ? how much training does it really take to get that into one’s head ?
Athens had a great navy.
flombaye with the Sparta! (bows)
Flombaye! Three Cheers and a Sparta for you!
Dang…just a millisecond too early! Grats, Flom.
288 those aren’t hippie names. hippie names are “Granola” and “Burning Man” and “Woodstock” “Leaf” “Rainn” “River” Juaquim Coyote Cody Dakota Rainbow Waverly Starshine etc. Some kids are named after the town they were conceived in. Or the car. Dodge and Ford are good names. Jeep and Hummer are not.
#300 – See, was it a shortage of trained sailors or trained women that made such behavior acceptable?
spurta
288 – I guess August and Skyler – the rest sound vaguely gaelic/irish
154: “I once made one of my best friends cry when I asked her if she ever remembered seeing a “My Little Pony Show.””
“with god as my witness, i thott pony express riders could fly.”
Mama doesn’t really get the pillow speaker thing. If she wants to hear you talk though a pillow she’ll just hold it over your face.
Shaf, I had visions in my head of a thousand bloggoes furiously clicking “reload” and saying “post already, dammit! Not close enough to try and claim ‘Sparta’ just yet!” ;D
305.. LOL… I know a “Rainn”, a “Star”, and a “Sunny”
160: “….Gee, I never realized that there was a python with the same name as wasillagator.”
they’ve been doing some MAJOR copying off python. not just by taking the title of world’s silliest palin away – the whole overt SILLY PARTY thing, the albatross, silly walks, a thrill running up my gummy leg, the holy nuclear option of antioch, the copying of python ideas is truly massive.
#311 Yep, saw that too!
285 wrow! nice Bush
310 lol!
165: “the new Dickins novel Miles Cowperthwaite.”
“we’ll have to amputate your beaver. – you see, when we pulled you out of the water, it was…. soaking wet.”
probably, 306. The navy was growing and the draft had just ended. No one was re-enlisting. The Vietnam War had left everyone in uniform with a three-digit IQ bitter and angry. The work was hard, miserable, and thankless. Race riots were commonplace. Gang activity had arrived. Ships kept catching fire and blowing up without the help of the enemy, which was so weak it couldn’t lay a finger on us. The brass had informed us that the Soviet Union had become such a powerful military force that in the event of war, we were doomed. They couldn’t fill all the billets.
293 that is so cool. Doktor Thompson is one of my literary heroes.
and a true patriot
Thanks again for the kick-a$$ drop Ken!
I so want one of those signs for my house!!! I would seriously pay good money for that!!!!
Is a “Dunkin Donut” fest the opposite of a “Sausage” Fest???
Steph wishes she had a wine bar downstairs.
Can we get a sign with the generic stick figure with a lampshade on its head??
damn I want one of those signs!
Lily and Kate on the same show? Wow…
“Heaven…I’m in heaven…”
there is a liquor store on nearly every block – and all of them are on my mental Rolodex
186: “Wasn’t the old motto of the British Navy something like “rum, sodomy and the lash”?”
doesnt sound nearly as harsh when disney does it.
“rum-sodomy, rum-sodomy, rum-sod-domeeee,
a lash is as lucky as lashing can beeee….”
287 ha! Kat
it’s the thought of the hot girl on girl action that gets us all
rev’d up… we can’t help it, we gots the testosterone poisoning
#320… Thank you Danielle! Spring has sprung so hopefully all this added daylight will get me back on montage track!
flombaye, thou Keeper of the Sparta. I salute thee and yield to thee, and genuflect multiple times. Where would you command me, oh Massa?
#321 & 325 – we’d probably get run over trying to steal one…
188: “whenever I’m in california, I live every moment with the dread that the “big one” will arrive while I’m there…..”
where’s lamont when you need him ?
Farrah out, Michael in. That was never the way it was on *my* bedroom wall.
327… screw having one on every corner… I have a drive-thru liqour store less then a 1/4 mile from my house!!!! Hence I can go out for a bottle and be back in under 15 minutes…
John Belushi playing the captain of the gay pirate
ship, “The Raging Queen”. Amazing scene props and Belushi
at the height of his manic nuttiness when they capture a
British ship filled with young sailors…
sailors had to be high school graduates and show high technical competence. It’s not the old swab the deck and batten down the hatches navy. My shop alone maintained catapults, arresting gear, air compressors, liquid oxygen, fire pumps, air conditioning equipment, all the boats’ engines, steering gear, capstans, winches, cranes, fresh water evaporators, and on and on. And you had to be an expert in all of these to be an E-5. That’s the equivalent of millions of dollars of training per sailor.
#330 – i hope so!
Billy Mays didn’t get mentioned either. Move along.
ok, I finally get the “Miles Cowperthwaite” ref
#323: “Steph wishes she had a wine bar downstairs.”
- or even a rack upstairs.
332. Well, it would be highly likely that we’d be drunk while trying… we could make a game out of pretending to be each drunk stick figure pictured on the sign. I personally like the description of crawling with a drink… it can’t be easy to crawl with only one free hand…
#335 JD & CM always fifteen minutes away – yay!
200: “….From what they have told me I imagine she’s a lot like Mary Tyler Moore’s character in that fine film.”
thank goodness. i havent even seen the film, and i know that it’s less harmful than MTM in this piece of weirdness. – this is from a list i’m assembling lately, of THE MOST DISTURBING CLIPS ON THE INTERWEB.
i swear homegirl gives drugs a bad name. do not dance like this; you could be shot for your own protection.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANvMAyXuQpI&feature=related
Well, some people think “Lindsey + drug prefix-holic” is a direct dig (or fair use parody) of Lindsey Lohan’s less-than-sober identity.
#287: “Why is it that I can always get the guys turned on. They are NOT the target market!”
Aww, are you sure? I find your t-shirt and pajama bottoms irresistable…
#341 – Mama has a rack. It might not be a gun rack… But I wouldn’t mind putting my sword on it.
287. I think guys just get more turned on by finding out they aren’t the target…
337 have you seen how the navy has a completely wrecked and worse
than worthless procurement system now? they can’t build a ship.
The DDG-1000 “Zumwalt” class… garbage. Tried to go high tech and
stealthy and bleeding edge with every system… ended up costing
the same as an aircraft carrier for a ship that can’t do anything
well… and has a crew too small to maintain it, or do damage control.
same with the LCS… WAY overpriced garbage. We used to be able to
build a patrol boat… not any more. The air force and army screwed
up too… Congress and the Corporations are killing us.
also google the holly graf case if you haven’t seen it, Gabby
344—Had to step away for a moment. I believe MTM was originally trained as a dancer. I don’t think that’s such a bad clip, though I do wonder if the writers were trying to create the female, white Desi Arnaz.
Think of it: “Luuuu-cy!”
“Oh-h-h-h- Rob!”
Ingredients in a top sitcom: Lead must be able to call other lead’s name in an iconic, memorable fashion.
Others need not apply.
206: the story on dubya finding redemption almost works, but it breaks apart here: “….Barbara Bush, was overheard berating him, telling her
son “You’re nothing but a sniveling little coward.”
al franken famously told the story on air of catching bar in a huge lie.
“…i love ALL of my children !!”
“even neil ?”
bar chose to be adamant on that point, and refused to converse with franken any more. – and while on the most superficial level, it was an advocacy of cowardice above all else, the medium is always the real message. cott in a lie. cornered. checkmate. proven wrong. above all, it would never occur to bar to issue a direct and constructive bit of criticism.
Looks like the President is finally trying to mobilize his supporters to push for Health Care reform. I received an email from David Plouffe about an all out 7-day effort to get the facts out called: “The Final March for Reform”. Today is day 2. The website is:
http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/finalmarch-day1
Spread the word!
#348: Squeezy like!
346 – unlike Eric Massa and other politicos, I don’t run from my non-standard sexuality; therefore, yes I’m sure that guys aren’t the target market. There’s a reason I have had to refuse Uncle Sam’s kind invitation to a commission if only I’d join the Army.
348 – It would seem that way, Danielle. Forbidden fruit and all that.
#347: Thing about guns… sometimes they go off unexpectedly.
348 247 ha! We’re guys… so predictable
341 347 Momma’s rack. hee hee
345 – Even if Lindsey meant Lohan, it was the bitchy character who said it. No one complains when Ming calls Earth a puny planet.
“Tom tightens the leash” … or noose.
337—My dad was in the Navy. He was really smart. Chief Radioman.
I was always surprised that my dad did not jump into computers when they came out while he was alive. I even suggested it to him. Some elderly people can still experiment with new things and new ideas. Others cannot. My parents were both stuck in their ways.
209/215: “What?? there’s more like you at home!?”
formal daisy dukes can still be worn with the stars and bars fro wig.
357. I think I’ve more than demonstrated I’m as much of a pervert as all a’ yall’s… hence why we all get along so well.
351 did Franken really say that to Bar?
#358 – Now I’m going to have “Flash Gordon” in my head all day. Not that Timothy Dalton sporting a fancy moustache and fancier tights isn’t unappealing… but I’m a dude, and it’s just wrong what you put in my head.
Do you know how many viewings of “The Rocketeer” I’m going to have to go through to restore Dalton’s badassery in my mind.
Now… if I could just sync “The Rocketeer” somehow with the “Flash Gordon” soundtrack…
228: “….I’m the youngest of 6 kids….”
right in between protestant and catholic. – back in the mexican part of town, small talk assaults would often begin like…
“so how old are you ?”
“i’m nineteen.”
“how many kids do you have ?”
“none”.
[BLANK STARE. DOES NOT COMPUTE]
Eric Massa should know that 10,000 sailors and one disappointed wife can’t be wrong!
OK, I must depart. Have a grizzly bear day everyone!
Cap’N Ned: “Now, men, I run a mans’ ship. I will run it in a
manful and masculine way! I will tolerate no men under my
command who act in such a way so as to discredit their manhood
and manliness! Do I make myself clear?”
367 by Spiff! have a great afternoon
WAKENIZED JOKE
i met this hobo, only one citizen from a nation of hoboim….
and he told me he hadnt had a bit in three days.
so i walked him over to the subway sandwich shop and bit him really hard.
362 – The guys just don’t like to think that the gals are perverts. Still invested in the image of women as pure and virginal, even when all evidence suggests otherwise.
363 – That’s the story that Al always tells. Forget where it allegedly happened, but may have been a White House correspondents’ dinner or something.
260: “Earthquakes are fine. It’s a chance to get closer to your neighbors…” Just like tickle fights!”
step away from the TICKLE ME HOMO doll.
364 – Don’t pull a Massa on us here and blame us for the thoughts in your head. Just go and have a tickle party and get it all worked out of your system.
funny thing – that drop — the “yah, like 2000 bottles” was Christa Miller — related?
#371 – Are you kidding? Guys dig virginal, sure, but who said anything about pure? We like our women, virginal or not, with a little bit of kink to them.
If we wanted you to just lie there, all pure (and boring) and virginal, we’d find a good British woman.
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Just got a couple of things today. bart stupack
farty barty had a party
and everyone was there.
says farty barty at the party.
“give me a little air”
mithc mcconnell
mitch mitch bo bitch
banana fanna foe fitch
fee fi mo mitch
mitch.
#234: Hmm. Sorry, that one flew right over my head.
371 there’s nothing better than a dirty girl
“I can see RUSSIA on my chart!”
278: “Speaking of Remo Williams, there is a follow up movie which truly sucks the bag.”
remo and gidgit go snorkeling ?
#373 – [Flash (Gordon) es Kat]
371. Re:362. I disagree… I think most guys like women that have just as dirty minds as they do… especially when they’re both thinking dirty things about some other woman…
Boys… thoughts?
Does Beck see flaming WTC towers in Alaska?
376 go Rusty! at least we can make fun of these filth.
Why isn’t the C street family being investigated? Bart Stupid is
up to no good there, I’m sure of it
287: “Why is it that I can always get the guys turned on. They are NOT the target market! ”
it’s the same perverse force of nature that sends a cat in the room to the ONE person who doesnt want to pet the cat.
LOL.. I see 375 and 378 beat me to the punch on that…
#382 – About other women? Often.
About my woman having thoughts about other women? Always. More often if I think she’ll include me.
Hey maybe that chick who stabbed that guy in the neck with the meat thermometer just wanted to see if he was done.
291: “EVERYONE brings their meat thermometer to the theater!” That’s true – mine showed up in my girlfriend’s popcorn once.”
nobody believes you’re telling the truth. according to what she has posted on youtube, it’s a lot more than once.
375 / 378 / 387 – See, this is why my friends all joke that I’m really a guy stuck in a chick’s body… this and that I’d rather work on cars, drink beer, and watch football, then shop, go get my nails done, or well, anything… lol
382 SNL skit where the knight decides he doesn’t want to rescue the
virgin, he wants the slutty one instead…
I’ll never tire of saying it: drunk and slutty is a great way for
a young woman to go through life. Or sober and slutty. Or an older
woman. my buddy said it, back in the day, while we were sitting
around the barracks… “Beautiful Sluts, they make the world go around”
Kathleen: “what, are you saying you liked me because you thought I
was a slut?!”
Me: “No, I liked you because you were just slutty enough to go out
with me.”
does anyone know where that poke SFX comes from – the ‘bloink” one ProC ran? i can’t find it!
intriguing. just how many ORAL SEX SPARTAE have there been so far ?
390 you are so cool Danielle. I love you!
LOL… back at ‘ya Mark!
#265: And of course squirrels can get into ANYTHING – and they’ll spend all day trying, cause they’ve got nothing better to do. Far less squirrels here in LA than back East, unless you live somewhere leafy.
Well, there’s some sort of psych theory about men’s views on women that’s characterizes their preferences to be something along the lines of “innocent whore” or something like that. I forget exactly the term for it. Basically, it’s that guys like dirty-minded women who at the same time are innocent. *shrugs* Then again, most of psych seems about as scientific as astrology sometimes.
Me, it’s not that I don’t like the guys having dirty thoughts about me, but I’d rather hear the dirty thoughts that girls have about me.
388 that’s what I wanted to know, what was the guy’s temperature? but
I think it got answered here yesterday, something like “medium rare”,
or “taffy”
does KJI rounge alround a dey? on rov-seats?
I’ve heard more coherent rants (and less whiny) from WWE episodes.
dang, bit overmodulated rep Kennedy?
the stealth destroyer escorts are designed to manage a battle from beyond the horizon. All the maintenance normally done by the crew would be handled in the yards. Virtually all of the crew would be experts in battle systems, so you’d have men able to run the missle systems but unable to maintain them. An awacs would detect jets in the sky a hundred miles away, identify them as enemy, and then the escort could remove them from the sky, never having seen them. Sonar would detect a submarine at great distance, make sure it’s an enemy craft, and them blow it up with a subroc. An aircraft task force approaching a hundred miles away would be identified and counted and a salvo of tiny missiles would take out the lightly armored ships one by one. Essentially, a single destroyer escort could replace a submarine, a fleet of surface ships, and several wings of airplanes.
Yii! Who *SMARTAed* ??
362: “I think I’ve more than demonstrated I’m as much of a pervert as all a’ yall’s…”
and it explains the innovative research, whereby we now know that the formal fro wig can also be worn with the stars-and-bars daisy dukes.
363: “did Franken really say that to Bar?”
that is for reals. – a conversation on airforce-1.
the stealth destroyer escorts are designed to manage a battle from beyond the horizon. All the maintenance normally done by the crew would be handled in the yards. Virtually all of the crew would be experts in battle systems, so you’d have men able to run the missle systems but unable to maintain them. An awacs would detect jets in the sky a hundred miles away, identify them as enemy, and then the escort could remove them from the sky, never having seen them. Sonar would detect a submarine at great distance, make sure it’s an enemy craft, and them blow it up with a subroc. An aircraft task force approaching a hundred miles away would be identified and counted and a salvo of tiny missiles would take out the lightly armored ships one by one. Essentially, a single destroyer escort could replace a submarine, a fleet of surface ships, and several wings of airplanes. If it works, it could save billions of dollars in fuel, training, and shipbuilding. If it doesn’t, we’re betting our future on a slender reed.
404. Daisy dukes can be worn with anything! But to be honest, you’d be much more likely to find me in jeans, boots, and a cowboy hat.
Someone I recently befriended on FB told me my pics contain more cowboy hats then they’d seen in their whole life… lol
397 well, slutty is good, but I try to draw the line at diseased skank
Not sure where bean bag chairs and black lights were channeled from, but does any1 remember beer can collections? Do people still do that?
364: “….Do you know how many viewings of “The Rocketeer” I’m going to have to go through to restore Dalton’s badassery in my mind…..”
i do know that according to massa, the word rockatier describes the amount of energy released by a coliseumload of soldiers from his yearbook. – good luck getting past that word.
I need to try a Toasters bump…
In the commercial for the LiveBlog, I always wonder what the beeping sound is. It always sounds like you guys are generating some awful Windows error messages.
#382: Agreed! It takes all sorts. Different strokes and all that. Dirty thoughts in clean jammies…
coliseumload… is that the standard equivalent of a metric ****-tonne?
407 – Pardon me while I swoon at the cowgirl image.
411.. the Toasters rock.. as do the Skafollaws, the Pietasters, Ruder Than You, etc…
All probably have “drop-worthy” music. 
406 I like your analysis, but it reminds me of why the Navy bought
the F-4 Phantom jet back in the late 50s… with no gun, ’cause all
aerial combat would be done beyond visual range with missiles. Then
came Vietnam, and ancient obsolete MiGs were beating us, because
they could dogfight, and we couldn’t. Like you said, we’re betting
on a slender reed. Originally 36 Zumwalts were to be built, now I
think just two, or none… and ya got the numbering screwed up,
the next DDG shouldn’t be 1000… and most Zumwalt era sailors hated
Zumwalt, said he wrecked the Navy.
415… are you on facebook?
Look up in the4 sky it’s a bird it’s a plane it’s superman!! Yes it’s superman strange visitor from another planet who came to earth with powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men. Yes it’s superman who can change the corse of mighty rivers, bend steel in his bare hands. And who disguised as clark kent(puts on glasses)mild mannered reporter for a great metropolitan newspaper fights a never ending battle for truth justice and the american way!!
So enjoy when Hal “visits”…AND, Patrick Kennedy IS so “spot on”…my heroes will be those who stand up loud and proud and take on our awful and inept paid for media both on the telly and in print! It became painfully obvious during the BUSH YEARS that an informed citizenry incapable of critical thinking was preferred by many in POWER…especially those in the lunatic right…easier to dump religion and fundamentalist claptrap down the throats (or “jam it down” as they seem to prefer)…the “MEDIA” we have today facilitates this position continually!!!! Just two sad examples: Chris Matthews and David Gregory (not worth mentioning Faux News)…tune in to PBS/NPR for half a chance an unbiased reporting in detail….
#416 – yup
well, I have to run before you can answer that… if you are, look me up under kdguilday@live.com.
407: “….Someone I recently befriended on FB told me my pics contain more cowboy hats then they’d seen in their whole life”
in other words, they hadnt seen MY fb pics yet. if i remember right, that’s ALL i have on.
later ya’lls.
Stupak posse of obstructionists
423… Had to comment before I left… I really was starting to feel like the only liberal redneck.. nice to know I’m not..
toodles!
Mama’s washing machine has been running WAY TOO SMOOTHLY… so she’s calling the repair man to the laundry room to give him a piece of her mind.
(bow-chicka-bow-bow)
418 – I am, yes.
415: good work, daniellesan. now we have kat half asleep in frakkin frog pajamas. we’ll have to wheel her into the village, incognito.
I see everyone is having fun today. I’m just reduced to banging my head against my desk.
I really should remember to bring a radio with me tomorrow so I can catch hours 2 & 3 at the Fortress. But I’ll probably forget.
have a great afternoon everyone!
418: it’s like 186K mps; it’s not just a good idea; it’s the law.
430: just get a cheaper dentist. save money and hear the show too.
Hear that, Danielle? Fort Lauderdale!
OK, bye all.
I liked zumwalt, personally. maybe he wrecked the navy. it looked pretty wrecked to begin with. The f-4 was the most deadly looking plane ever. a 280Z with power windows. but it wasn’t built for an actual battle zone but some science fiction battle zone. the american military seems to think in terms of domination–dominate the skies and you won’t have to actually dogfight. But that requires a lot of cooperation from the enemy. I remember an art buchwald column of the era that cited a plane flown by the North Vietnamese that couldn’t be shot down by our supersonic jets because it was too slow. He had a lot of fun with that, imagining the air force requisitioning a thousand kitty hawk era biplanes so the pilot, lying across the wing, could engage the enemy with a pellet gun.
there’s a new kind of dentist available, trained in the third world and unlicensed in the US–you can find them all over Detroit. They do their work with ether and a dremel tool. Fillings, bridges, and crowns are hand-molded epoxy.