LiveBlog for Wednesday, November 30, 2011

• Sexy Liberal Hal Sparks joins us in the Los Angeles Bureau at 9am ET / 6am PT for all three hours of Humpdays With Hal

Karl Frisch of Bullfight Strategies calls in at 10am ET / 7am PT to co-host Right Wing World

Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA) calls in at 11:30am ET / 8:30am PT to talk about the failure of the Super Committee, and about the payroll tax extension

Herman Cain told senior campaign staff members Tuesday that he’s “reassessing” his campaign in the wake of a fresh allegation that he engaged in a 13-year-long extramarital affair.

• Speaking to a packed house after a fundraising barbecue for the South Carolina Republican Party last night, Newt Gingrich said that the Obama campaign is already attacking Republican candidates because the president can’t highlight his first-term record.

Four injuries and dozens of arrests were reported during the operation to clear the Occupy LA site last night. Two people were transported to a local hospital but the extent of their injuries was not immediately known.

Rick Perry flubbed both the country’s voting age and the date of the upcoming presidential election at a speech to a group of college students in Manchester Tuesday.

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Klassie 20 pts

I smell a book announcement "The Stephanie Miller Story - From Box to Bottle" or "Stephanie Miller - Hair of the Dog" or.....

Good day all!

Klassie 20 pts

Cain will have a reality show The Real Ho's of Herman Cain

Klassie 20 pts

Happy birthday, Bender and house-husband of "Stephanie Miller"!

Klassie 20 pts

Republicans have old-man-smell policies.

Klassie 20 pts

Dr McDermott knows crazy, being a psychiatrist and all.

juliet bravo 26 pts

Time to amscrae, usterbae - ciao!

juliet bravo 26 pts

Yeah, isn't tipping off his buddies about impending government action so they could position themselves advantageously illegal insider trading?

I'd say he should end up in the slammer crocheting ponchos like Martha Stewart, but Martha wasn't charged with insider trader per se, but rather dissembling to SEC officials. Clearly the greater criminal threat.

Klassie 20 pts

Paulson - another jailbird of the future.Hey, maybe he can be declared a terrorist and put away.

juliet bravo 26 pts

1ScrawnyPilot, Agreed. Pilot unions negotiate safer working hours and more training, all of which eat into the exec's bottom line.

Sully Sullenberger, who heroically landed that jet on the Hudson, courageously used his time in the spotlight to champion pilot's collective bargaining rights just for that reason.

http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/54590...

Klassie 20 pts

Popcorn squirrel is tasty! I miss Huck.

juliet bravo 26 pts

Klassie "Tastes like....squirrel..." LOL

Klassie 20 pts

All this Republican clown-car falderall is a distraction while the senate debated IN SECRET treating American citizens as terrorists with no rights.Take names and throw the treasonous bums out.

Squirrel!

1ScrawnyPilot 5 pts

I love that people are blaming the unions for American Airline's bankruptcy. Meanwhile, SouthWest is turning a healthy profit, is very labor friendly and has some of the best labor pay and work rules in the industry.

Maybe keeping a happy labor force ultimately makes a healthier company? But, I could be wrong.

juliet bravo 26 pts

So thanks to Congress, we'll likely be spending $3-3.5 million of taxpayer money to fund inspections of soon-to-open slaughterhouses to slaughter horses for human consumption. I guess we are creating some great jobs for Americans. As Hal Sparks would say, Yummy!

It's hard to choose, but I think the most disturbing thing about this article is the reference to "pro-slaughter activists". I'm pretty sure that's a euphemism for "paid industry flunkies".

http://news.yahoo.com/horses-could-soon-slaughtere...

Klassie 20 pts

Happy Hump-Day! Dragonkat 42 thanks for the link. Seig heil, y'all!

juliet bravo 26 pts

Dragonkat42, What's shocking is how shameless the Senate is about such a proposal, and their confidence that there will be no repercussions because the public will simply assume that such treatment would only apply to brown people and hippies and such, never themselves.

The economic shocks and stripping of civil liberties are a deliberate strategy - if you haven't read it, check out Naomi Klein's "Shock Doctrine" for a chilling analysis of a product we've been exporting and now appear to be applying to our own country:

http://www.amazon.com/Shock-Doctrine-Rise-Disaster...

dragonkat42 5 pts

juliet bravo Now that I'm thinking about it too, maybe we should ask Emma Sullivan what she thinks? Good thing Brownback didn't have this law right?

Damn uppity kids using their 1st amendment rights, can't have that.

dragonkat42 5 pts

Morning everyone, and in our latest ain't it great to live in the land of the free front.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/29/senate-vo...

So remind me gaain when we became the united states of syria?

dragonkat42 5 pts

ADD ON: KAY HAGAN?!? Seriously?!?

God as if I needed yet another local reason to not vote for Democrats as well.

Seems the only thing both parties can agree on is that the constitution can suck it.

Dawson 6 pts

dragonkat42 Nice to see all those freedoms everyone went to fight for are sure shining brighter then ever.

dragonkat42 5 pts

Dawson Taking bets on how long it is before the occupy crowds get disappeared.

We don't need the terrorists to destory this country, paranoia, fear, and cowards are doing it just fine from within. And the fact that a majority of dems are in on it as well, (besides the usual may as well be R blue dogs)

I hope Obama vetos this garbage, if he does it might be the one thing that convinces me to actually vote for him again.

Dawson 6 pts

dragonkat42 I just came from OWS in New York over the weekend and the place is covered with police vans with cameras mounted on top, portable towers that station multiple cameras and detectives walk around openly carrying video cameras recording speakers.....it is quite frightening but at the same time made me want to double down on my protesting efforts

dragonkat42 5 pts

Dawson Irony being that if it this were any other country (insert middle east revolution here) such actions would be screamed about to the heavens by the freedom loving 'mericans!' spreading Democracy round the world (though amazing how protests worked better then guns and bombs in Iraq)

But do it here against our corporate owned masters? (congress included) Heavens no!

Can we just have our own revolution already?

Dawson 6 pts

dragonkat42 Thought that the right to due process/speedy trial was locked in the constitution......how do they get around that without 2/3rds approval in both houses and the presidents signature?

Dawson 6 pts

Hey isn't Switzerland Socialist.....Bad Newt Bad, Bad, Bad

Kevbo 5 pts

Rick Perry was kicked in the head while milking his horse!

juliet bravo 26 pts

Happy Humpday, Dannybob and livefyrebloggers at large!

Wow, Dannybob, I still have whiplash from that Sarah Palin ad you linked to. At first I seriously wondered if it was a parody of Palin sound bites mashed together by the DNC. Guess that's the political Moebius strip we're living in - "socialism for the extremely rich", "brutal capitalism for the rest of us".... Project much?

Dannybob 6 pts

Happy Humpday Livefyres!

Let's start out the day with a good laugh

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/29/sarah-pal...

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