Mike's Blog Round Up
Ah, the smell of a good White House scandal in the morning! Welcome back, friends of democracy and logic. Brad Jacobson of MediaBloodhound in for your a.m.-linked drive-by. Buckle up, stop signs will not be observed:
The CIA tapes scandal beats on: Laura Rozen thinks former CIA interrogator John Kiriakou is likely a Hayden surrogate, Spencer Ackerman explores how classified letters get classified and Larry Johnson queries former intelligence officers.
Pierre Tristam: “Peace isn’t breaking out in Iraq. A colder, longer war is.”
After a vigorous workout on the elliptical, what would Jesus drink? Holy Drinking Water, of course.
Will Bunch pinpoints Giuliani’s solution to problems involving people: No people, no problem. But the trains always run on time.
John Cole’s twist on The Most Vulgar, Disgusting, Foul Joke in the Word (h/t skippy). Never heard the original? Whether you have or not, this is considered one of the best versions among comedy intelligentsia (warning: not intended for office, children or foes of dark hyperbole). But for my money, this might top it.
Greg Sargent catches WashPo with two separate allusions to John Edwards’ $400 haircut in one day, then retraces the newspaper’s longtime addiction. (Plus, Rudy Giggliani!)
Speaking of skippy, experience the picket line at Paramount Studios on “Star Trek Day.” Live long and prosper get your residuals.
OK, that’s a wrap. Tomorrow is ours. Send those post suggestions to mediabloodhound (at) yahoo (dot) com.
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I told that joke a year ago on FireDogLake. Damn it. It is my joke. Geez.
My humor button must be broken, cause I didn't think the joke was funny. You could see where is was going from the beginning. :(
8 questions for Huckleberry:
http://www.cjr.org/campaign_desk/post_83.php
marymac @ 2:
It is not funny. Why is it called a joke?
Empty wheel at Firedoglake always digging for us.
EW’s latest at Firedoglake on the Fisa wiretapping and data mining
http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2007/12/12/all-your-data-bel
ongs-to-george/#comments
All Your Data Belongs to George
By: emptywheel Wednesday December 12, 2007 6:26 am
I think all of our data may belong to AmDocs or Comverse Infosys
Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwckJoP7-wg&feature=related
Part 2 Amdocs (how wiretapping and data mining work
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhAEjSQghj8
Part 3 Amdocs/Comverse Infosys
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENwze5owq4w
Part 4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwckJoP7-wg&feature=related
Ron @ 5:
The original joke isn't funny either. It is creepy. It is supposed to be creepy. The dems are being creepy and spineless.
Sometimes a joke is a vehicle to take us somewhere else. Don't think about it so hard.
FYI
If you are up for some laughs and stuff, today at two (eastern time) the repubs will hold a debate and MSNBC will be covering it.
Sorry here is Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fm0_7jVqcE
The numbers of how many people have watched these videos has stayed the same or gone down over the last six years. Hmmmm
Tens of thousands of people have now seen these videos without a doubt
And here I thought they already made a movie version of the most vulgar, foul and disgusting joke in the world in the movie The Aristocats.
Of course I also like the quick 1969 bit where Graham Chapman, on Monty Python's Flying Circus, was dressed like a little ol' lady. "She" said, "I object to all this sex on telly! Well I mean, I keep falling off!"
My dream has come true...
Clinton loosing in Iowa
and today Clinton losses lead in NH's latest poll - could it be America rejects this corrupt corporate bitch?
http://www.wmur.com/politics/14826607/detail.html
Plus lots of polls show Obama gaining strongly in SC
The Clinton royal family may not fool us after all
thank you sensible people for seeing through her facade
I can imagine the comment section to Will Bunch's post... Why are you so biiiiiiaaassed?
Waaa waaa waaa waaa waa waaa Somebody please help me
Please note: On that Kevin Pollack Aristocrats joke (his imitation of Christopher Walken), though still funny - not sure if someone does a better Walken - what I intended to have there when I said "but for my money, this might top it," was actually Kevin Pollack's imitation and riff as Albert Brooks, which is not in the film but on the DVD version. THAT is funnier, IMHO. I've never seen anyone do an Albert Brooks imitation, probably because not enough people know who he is. But if you do and are a fan of Brooks, it's one of the funniest things I've seen in years.
Good Ol' USA. . . Return of the "Unenlightened Age"
http://tinyurl.com/3boxta
L.A. Confidential @ 14:
I can just see the future at this rate.
"Bloggers and others convicted of anti government activities chain gang smash laptops and computers instead of rocks at the Alabama Re Education Center."
Now this is funny!
"Return of the Unenlightened Age" boy did you say a mouthful there. I would never have dreamed when I was growing up in the 60s and 70s that we would start going backwards to the Victorian age by the year 2000.
Senator Bond says that waterboarding is like swimming. And there are diffenret styles, like back stroke, free style...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8aFtOLJdWM
My Name is URL.
pissed off patricia @ 16:
That's why I put in yesterday's roundup ;-)
Martys Mull's is kind of memorable ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itl44eSdebg
Good stuff.
Of course, Mussolini didn't make the trains run on time. He just had the papers print that. There was a British study of the whole thing years back... As if trains running on time is a fair trade-off for fascism, anyway! Not to mention it's a classic false choice, as if one can't have efficiency in a free society. It's all the more bogus because corruption and incompetence feed each other (current admin in point). It's a feature, not a bug.
kudos to skippy
Batocchio @ 22:
Thanks.
And you know what? Neither did Giuliani. I can say the F train here in Brooklyn sucked throughout his administration.
earl @ 21:
I agree. Thanks for reminding me of this. A brilliant twist and punchline!
The World Financial Crisis is in the process of being solved, and not a moment too soon.
The Central Banks are loaning Billions to the private banks, so they'll have cash on hand to loan.
But, but, where do the Central Banks get the money?
From Governments.
And where do Governments get the money?
They either borrow it, or print it.
Tip for Christmas, buy everyone smaller wallets, their money is shrinking.
Did you hear the original Johnny Carson Friar's Club roast where William B. Williams told about going down on Kate Smith, and the punchline was
"I only said it once, I only said it once, I only said it once, I only said...........'
Broke Carson up, he was rolling on the floor.
Here's how letters get classified. First, they're all put in a big pile.
Then a guy goes through them and separates them into two piles, 'Porn', and 'Non-Porn'.
The 'Non-Porn' ones get tossed. Then the guy goes through the 'Porn' pile, and separates them into 'Keep' and 'Don't Keep'.
The 'Don't Keep' ones get tossed. Then the guy goes through the 'Keep' pile, and.......
Yadada, yadada, yadada, yadada.
At the end, the guy says, 'Make me a half-dozen wallet-sized, and send the original to my mother-in-law, and a copy to my ex-wife'.
Back to the big, disgusting joke that Gilbert Gottfried told.
There's no honor among comedians anymore!
I told that joke forty years ago at a friend of mine's daughter's bar mitzvah and it brought the house down.
Except, instead of 'The Aristocrats', it was 'The Sophisticates'.
Stagflation: This Is Going To Hurt. A lot!
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