LiveBlog for Monday, June 28, 2010

I know I'm talking to myself here, but: NOW I remember why I hate the fill-in clowns! Liberal guys who are scrupulously fair to gays, women and presumably everybody else, but have no problem equating Argentina with Nazi Germany for a cheap laugh? FOAD.

June gloom, you saw me standin' alone
Without a dream in my heart, without a bar on my phone.
June gloom, you knew just what I was there for
You heard me sayin' a prayer for
A fun road trip to prepare for.

Morning again all! (Feels like deja vu all over again in here)

Hey, Hal says they have a chat room where they talk about things and stuff. Ain't that something?

BTW, I just saw on HuffPo, that actor Jeffrey Jones was charged Wednesday with failing to update his sex offender registration status:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/30/jeffrey-j...

So, besides Howard the Duck, I now have a second reason to not like him.

Good morning, trojanrabbit and the rest of the gang!

I've been busily trying to wrap up project work so that I can take Friday off. So, I haven't been contributing much this week.

Hope everyone is fine and are getting ready for Independence Day.

WTF
No Sparta even after 3 days?!?

My excuse is that it's been hella busy, now the next two days I'll likely be twiddling my thumbs.

Yeah, I suppose everyone's over at Hal's Place, or taking a decompression week while Mama & Mooks are out.

wtf? It's 7:30 in the evening here in Massachusetts.
Sure would like to get my Stephcast.

After 3 pm pacific, and still no podcast. :( What is up???

I'm starting to get a little twitchy from SM Show withdrawls. Someone wake up Sparks and tell him to send out the podcast! Cocktail hour approaches!

Is anybody out there? Anybody at all...?

Would somebody call in the guy who wants to be a dentist to upload the Stephcast to the series of tubes.

Much thanks.

where's the podcast 4 today?? NEEED my Hal fix - esp on a humpday!

http://www.facebook.com/#!/group.php?gid=131561276...

<__>

Hello? Anyone there?

[steals #200 and tiptoes away in the night]

Bye eMooks.

I love David Bender. Hal is doing a great job this week.

I love it when Hal forces the caller to stick with one talking point and then deconstructs it and reveals the absurdity of the claim.

Darn, I missed Hal slapping down Donnie. Hal is FANTASTIC at slapping down RW talking points. Surprisingly, quite a few other talk-show hosts are not.

Morning all!

#176, #180: Why not surprise Mama with a nice card: "Welcome Back... I know what you did last week at 742 Evergreen Terrace*, Palm Springs!"

(*not a real address)

Being a religious non-profit corporation can have some advantages with transparency and accountability, if done properly. I've seen it done well with the pastoral staff having a real board they answer to as well as public reporting of their finances.

I love the argument that if Gays get married then people will want to marry animals... I say LET THEM! in fact people have and may still marry animals (google it) and so f#$%ing what? SO WHAT... and then? then they will have sex with animals? is that the argument? It's empty and meaningless, how does it change your marriage?

HOW does gay marriage diminish your marriage? how does it affect anyone else? Fact is these people are COWARDS, they are AFRAID, they live their lives in fear and are controlled by hate, ignorance and fear!

Social engineering is code for enhancing the commons through legislation and regulation, which benefits the people, the environment, and the economy. Wingnuts want none of that.

Wow! Hal geeked-out over Susan Sarandon worse that Steph does! You could hear she was cringing a little at the end.

It's been a while since reading it... But I thought the lesson of "The Giving Tree" was that if you keep taking without giving, you end up dying on top of nothing.

If I heard Hal right, he thinks it means that it's okay to take everything until there's nothing left, and you die happy?

Next time you argue with someone like this, try to explain that some churches now marry gays, so this guy wants to interfere with *their> free exercise of religion. And when did the dictionary become the ultimate source of Truth?

#187 - Social engineering is the process of convincing people to give you something you want, usually through duplicitous means.

I read a great book about the applications of social engineering in the field of IT. It's called "The Art of Deception." I think the author's name is Mitnick.

"Social Engineering?" I missed the episode of kooky talk where this was hailed as the new slogan to cover up crazy neo-con ideology and "confuse" us reglar folks. Doy.

Vote for Democrats and demand they get better while they are IN office. I have no practical use for a perfect progressive politician with no legislative abilities. Wake up far-left.

Some RW callers are like cat toys, but agreed let's not spend too much time on them.

The RW callers are a waste of time.Let's get some forward-thinking progressives on, Hal. Woof.

#181 - But then I hear the progressives say "national guard."

A standing, armed force of troops maintained by the federal government is not a well-regulated militia on the citizens' level. Militias, in a Constitutional context (as I understand it), are designed to stand as an opposing force to a tyrannical government, in the exact same way the Minutemen stood against soldiers of the British crown.

Nice job, with this guy Hal. I kept finding myself laughing at how this guy's reliance on Right Wing talking points kept him running in circles as you exposed the flaws in his "logic."

But man he was prepared to throw out the "social engineering" meme wasn't he?

And yeah, Paula, I imagine most Right Wingers imagine the 2nd Ammendment says plainly "The right to bear arms." Here's a hint to any Right Winger reading this, it doesn't.

Donnie will make this circular, get another caller on Hal.

What these gun rights people forget is the phrase "WELL REGULATED" before militia.

176 - No stalking momma. She can only be harassed when she's in studio. ;)

Caller has lame logic.

Donnie is trying very hard to have an argument. He's losing the fight.Donnie is dumb.

We don't make anything in America and we are not developing anything like we used too. There is no money for R&D and venture capital is non-existant for any inovative new business. Because of this there will never be enough jobs. Everyone in America is on their own!

Hi blog. Is Steph vacationing in Palm Springs? I just noticed that the location on her twitter account is a real specific latitude-longitude number. When you pop that into google maps, you get what looks like a condo in Palm Springs.

HI all,

I'm pretty sure most have gone over to Hal's Ustream.

Where's the live blog?

I needed to hear what people were saying about Stephanie no longer being able to be "on" Larry King. :)

Hope all is well in Mook-World. I really miss you folks. I miss my streaming audio even more.

MTL

Hmmm . . . no link for June 30??

In any case, once again, no audio for the callers . . .

Good morning, everyone! Another drive-by posting for me. I have meetings an reports to finish. Have a great day, y'alls!

I believe Chris does the podcasts (can you imagine momma doing them?) so it probably won't be until next week.

Mornin' all.

Hal is hosting this week??? So much for me listening.

(later) Thanks, I appreciate the podcasts..

Show's been over for over 3-1/2 hours now. So where's the PODCASTS?

Jay Rockefeller is no Bob Byrd. But they were running into GPS problems with everything in W. Virginia named Byrd this and Byrd that.

I blame Conservatives for their deception, corruption, selfishness, etc. (this is a long list), I blame Libs & Progressives for chasing their tails and taking conservatives seriously after they have proven time & again that they are sociopathic liars who are terribly mislead and far too arrogant to ever admit they've made a mistake...

When people tell you that everyone is dishonest, selfish & war-like ask them if they aren't just projecting!

>> Shroomduke says:
>> dems & liberals are always chacing our own tails trying to address the meaningless bullshit conservatives spew,

I just want to say "right on" before I log-off.

ALL Republicans and a small clutch of conservative Democrats will vote against America.

But who do the liberals blame? The Democrats!

Bye eMooks. Luv ya.

GOOD JOB HAL!

You are getting much better at hosting a show. You've really improved since your first try at this.