Yeah, I know.

♣Bangkok Bob♠ @ 3:

Holy Crap ! ... the cookies look like the insides of clogged arteries.

or something stuck to the walls of your colon.

i'm suprised Rachel Maddow Hosting Countdown has not been mentioned!

Alex @ 6:

i'm suprised Rachel Maddow Hosting Countdown has not been mentioned!

I just watched it on Streaming RSS feed from MSNBC, thought she did great. Hope they can work her in more. She gives us a good voice.

♣Bangkok Bob♠ @ 9:

mudshark @ 4:

♣Bangkok Bob♠ @ 3:

Holy Crap ! ... the cookies look like the insides of clogged arteries.

or something stuck to the walls of your colon.

OW!

By the way muddy, holding down your ALT key while simultaniuosly hitting the Num pad 3 is what you need to try.

♣Bangkok Bob♠ @ 10:

♣Bangkok Bob♠ @ 9:

mudshark @ 4:

♣Bangkok Bob♠ @ 3:
or something stuck to the walls of your colon.

OW!

By the way muddy, holding down your ALT key while simultaniuosly hitting the Num pad 3 is what you need to try.

I get nuthin.

Rachel was EXCELLENT on Countdown tonight...

She did us proud :)

♣Bangkok Bob♠ @ 13:

mudshark hussein @ 12:

♣Bangkok Bob♠ @ 10:

♣Bangkok Bob♠ @ 9:
By the way muddy, holding down your ALT key while simultaniuosly hitting the Num pad 3 is what you need to try.

I get nuthin.

you need the NUm-Lock keyed first. Do you have a number pad to the right of your keyboard?

No, I'm on a lap top.Numbers go across the top.

Venezuela Passes 'Windfall' Oil Tax

I've still got lent in my dryer. It never ends.

Bill Maher was right about zero tolerance equaling zero thought.

Ever notice how much the "Country Is Going in the Right Direction" curve resembles the Laffer Curve? Not implying a causal connection or anything, but it's spooky. And it's still going down.

Dick Cheney has released his report on his trip to the Middle East with a suggestion on how to bring peace, you can see the report here

Tequila @ 22:

Bill Maher was right about zero tolerance equaling zero thought.

Zappa said all of this kind of crap was the right wing plan to turn America into a nation of check mailing nincompoops. and it's been happening for 50 plus years now!

♣Bangkok Bob♠ @ 28:

Mudshark, if your still around
for you it & # 9824 for spade
& # 9827 for Club
& # 9830 Diam
& # 9829 Heart

Leve out the spaces.

Thanks Bob, I'm gonna write that down, I'll get back to ya later.tanx again.

deep fried Oreo cookies?

That's almost as bad as fried coca cola.

Watched the Enron doc. (Smartest Guys in the Room) and I swear, if one of my family died as a result of that manufactured power crisis in California, I'm not sure what I might have done. Watching those greedy bastards express absolutely no remorse or responsibility really steams me. I've said it before (and I sell the bumpersticker at my site....ironic no?)

GREED KILLS

Okay, xiotes, 2b, where is everyone. We need to get a conversation going. A lot has happened around the world and at home this week.

Give me a bloomin onion, deep fried twinkie, french fries, and one of them there fried orios for deeeeezert !

Yee haw. Maw, come watch me kill myself with food !

I feel like I'm completely left out.

Ron @ 36:

Okay, xiotes, 2b, where is everyone. We need to get a conversation going. A lot has happened around the world and at home this week.

Ron, were you ever what you might consider a faithful viewer of Taxi? If so, you might recall two incidental characters in one episode, Lyle and Huey.

In a way, something kindasorta happened that kindasorta mirrors what was depicted in that episode: Lyle shot Huey.

Kindasorta.

But what about the superduperdelegates?!?

i have absolutely no confidence in a liberal administration getting us out of the current economic crisis (which im sure will continue to get worse right up till the election)

i live in los angeles, a lib stronghold, and i have a client who has been in biz for 16 years, built his biz from scratch, was grossing 3mil per year and employed 50 people

then late last year, it was found that he was running a bakery/restaraunt on a site zoned only for retail

now keep in mind, la was already in the midst of a economic crisis, and losing a good biz would be bad for the already fractured tax base

so did the city council work with the guy? hell no

they pretty much fucked him, causing him to lose the biz, putting people out of work...and killing off one of my sources of income

im totally freaking

Cooled down and everything was cool?!?

Anyone seen my thesaurus?

Dahgrostab'ph-r-i @ 25:

♣Bangkok Bob♠ @ 3:

Holy Crap ! ... the cookies look like the insides of clogged arteries.

you are what you eat!

But really, you gotta love carnival folk*...they'll deep-fry anything!

*by carnival folk of course I mean the evangelical side of the Republican party. but then I think deep down you all knew that.

ew, carnies are creepy. they have small hands, and smell like cabbage.

I'm sorry, girl freind called.

Ron @ 36:

Okay, xiotes, 2b, where is everyone. We need to get a conversation going. A lot has happened around the world and at home this week.

2b was banned by the site monitor a few days ago. He should be back within 3-4 days.

woodguy @ 54:

Ron @ 36:

Okay, xiotes, 2b, where is everyone. We need to get a conversation going. A lot has happened around the world and at home this week.

2b was banned by the site monitor a few days ago. He should be back within 3-4 days.

Whoa, slow down there woodguy.

He might have been banned. But some people who are friendly with him chatted with him the other night, and he may have simply given himself a time out.

He's a good guy, imo, who may have heeded their advice. There was a day not too long ago when I chatted with him concerning his McList. He was posting long updates of the list on threads here- lists that hogged bandwidth that the site must pay for with real $$- and when I suggested he start his own page and link to it using the "homepage" feature (you know, the link in your name that turns your name blue?), he happily went out and started that page.

Like I said, he seems to be a good guy. I'll bet you a beer that he's in self-imposed exile.

Ash"Hussy"Williams @ 57:

Andy K Jong Il @ 56:

Like I said, he seems to be a good guy. I'll bet you a beer that he's in self-imposed exile.

Yeah, he seems cool.
And it depends what kind of beer we're talking about here. :)

Hey, I'd be willing to shell out for a Bemish or a Newcastle. You'd be gettin' off cheap if I won: I'm coming up on three years without a beer or whine, or booze, or anything that ends with the suffix "-bomb". And I tipped the bartenders well enough over the years that they comp me my Coke/Pepsi!

There's no question he was banned. I was in on the thread when it happened. We we chatting on Sat. night and things got a little out of hand, you know how he likes double entendre repartee. Well, a few of us egged each other on and the site monitor, correctly I think, thought things were getting out of hand and put in a few choice comments.

Then on Tuesday (April Fool"s Day) he jokingly took X's name and started playing around with it, making comments about people taking a poll to see if he P2 H should be banned,. X came onto the thread and got totally pissed. The site monitor and P2b mutually agreed he'd take a time out. I think that may be when he started his own site

That's the way I remember it , although a few details may be fuzzy. My feeling is that P2b and the site monitor agreed that it would be best, but it wasn't a capital offense.

When does the "surge" stop being the "surge", and just be what it is: a permanent increase in troops levels, paving the way for the next 100 years?

I'm mixed on the deep fried oreos. They might be good, but why try them and find out (get addicted)? On the other hand, I've always wanted to try deep fried ice cream.

... did I miss lent... again... ??

Edwin Hussein (a boo$h booer) @ 62:

When does the "surge" stop being the "surge", and just be what it is: a permanent increase in troops levels, paving the way for the next 100 years?

I'm mixed on the deep fried oreos. They might be good, but why try them and find out (get addicted)? On the other hand, I've always wanted to try deep fried ice cream.

... did I miss lent... again... ??

Ron @ 61:

Andy K Jong Il @ 47:

Peter G @ 45:

Andy K Jong Il @ 42:

I don't think I was involved with the original, but was involved with some comments that were going sideways afterward. Neither were banned but 2b did upset xiotes, not just the site monitor. I don't really have a clue of what's going on.

First- and I'm already hatin' myself for doing this- it's x-o-i-t-e-s(I think it's pronounced "zoyts", told to me by a mutual phone-friend).

I think P2B might have sock-puppeted(posted a handle that spoofed their names in this case- if I recall the SM's edit) a few of the people on that thread, xoites included. I've seen stuff like this before over the years, and that monitor seemed pretty nice, all things considered.

Earlier on that day I saw some commenters complaining about P2B by name- not too cool. I'm not going to be hypocritical on this point and name them, but for you and anyone else who might be reading this, if you've got a complaint about another commenter, write to the site monitors. I know that if I were in P2B's shoes I'd feel uneasy. Hell, I feel uneasy talking about this now, but I don't like reading wild speculation. People assume the worst. How do any of us know that P2B isn't recovering from a tonsilectomy? Taking a sabbatical in a monastery? Writing the Great American Novel? Coming out of the bullpen for the Tigers....wait, that is assuming the worst.

woodguy @ 60:

There's no question he was banned. I was in on the thread when it happened. We we chatting on Sat. night and things got a little out of hand, you know how he likes double entendre repartee. Well, a few of us egged each other on and the site monitor, correctly I think, thought things were getting out of hand and put in a few choice comments.

Then on Tuesday (April Fool"s Day) he jokingly took X's name and started playing around with it, making comments about people taking a poll to see if he P2 H should be banned,. X came onto the thread and got totally pissed. The site monitor and P2b mutually agreed he'd take a time out. I think that may be when he started his own site

That's the way I remember it , although a few details may be fuzzy. My feeling is that P2b and the site monitor agreed that it would be best, but it wasn't a capital offense.

Wait, that's just asking him to cool off. When I was a brash young whippersnapper a monitor asked me suggested that I take some time off...I did, all was good afterwards. I know a few people who were banned at some point. When you're banned, you can't post a comment at all. Ever been moderated? The screen tells you that your comment is awaiting moderation. I assume someone looks at it before they allow your comment to post. It's happened to me both here- a long time ago- and at HuffPo.

But, according to those I know who have been banned, when you attempt to submit your comment nothing happens. It just doesn't appear. But this can happen when your comment gets caught in the spam filter. That's happened to me, and the SM has found the comment and posted it.

Thing is, unless you're P2B, or you're someone who's spoken to him lately, you can only speculate that he's banned. Speculation ain't proof, however.

And I'm pretty sure he's had the site for a few weeks.

And I hope he comes back, because he's got friends here who obviously miss him.

I talk about this alot, but what we've got here is a community. Not everyone agrees with everyone else about everything, but that's just life. Or the Democratic Party. But we've got a good way to build both friendships and networks that might help save the world some day. I hope that everyone learns a little something from this incident.

I've only been commenting a few years at websites like this, so I think we're talking semantics. I'll say it again. P2b and the site monitor ageed MUTUALLY that he would take a week off. He will be back in probably 4 or 5 days. These are the terms that P2b and the site monitor BOTH agreed upon. I was there on Saturday night, I was there on Tuesday. That's the way it happened. Don't take it too seriously. He'll be back soon, I'm sure.

In fact, say hello to him when he returns. I'm leaving on vacation tomorrow, don't have a lap top, so I'll only check in sporadically. I'd appreciate it if someone could say hi to him for me. Thanks.

Rick @ 38:

Give me a bloomin onion, deep fried twinkie, french fries, and one of them there fried orios for deeeeezert !

Yee haw. Maw, come watch me kill myself with food !

hahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!! loved that!

woodguy @ 73:

vjj @ 72:

Rick @ 38:

Give me a bloomin onion, deep fried twinkie, french fries, and one of them there fried orios for deeeeezert !

Yee haw. Maw, come watch me kill myself with food !

hahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!! loved that!

Last week on JurassicPork's website they had a YouTube clip of a guy in Texas who served all kinds of greasy food, but his specialty was deep fried bacon. Whoa! It was hilarious. Heart attack on a plate.

Looked for the deep fried bacon clip, no findee. I think I looked on the wrong site. Searching.

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uncle joe hussein mccarthy @ 46:

i have absolutely no confidence in a liberal administration getting us out of the current economic crisis (which im sure will continue to get worse right up till the election)

i live in los angeles, a lib stronghold, and i have a client who has been in biz for 16 years, built his biz from scratch, was grossing 3mil per year and employed 50 people

then late last year, it was found that he was running a bakery/restaraunt on a site zoned only for retail

now keep in mind, la was already in the midst of a economic crisis, and losing a good biz would be bad for the already fractured tax base

so did the city council work with the guy? hell no

they pretty much fucked him, causing him to lose the biz, putting people out of work...and killing off one of my sources of income

im totally freaking

corporatists cannot by definition be liberals. feinstein is a booshbot dem whose hubby is a war profiteer, being a Dem by label doesn't mean she was ever a liberal. The people at the top don't want any middle anything! no middle class, no middle management, no mid-size business. if it can grow, they want to kill it.

that's booshonomics in a nutshell. nothing that can grow can be allowed to survive, especially your hopes.

Bascombe@78-

"that’s booshonomics in a nutshell. nothing that can grow can be allowed to survive, especially your hopes."

Time to renew that Prozac Rx, Bascombe. That is not boosh economics. Scant details that there are, the business broke the law. Letting the company skate by because it employs people and pays taxes is no excuse to break a law. You are arguing exactly the opposite of how a liberal would view this situation,except for the fact you blame Bush- there you are consistent.

Apply your same logic to Enron. Should they have been allowed to be deceitful because them employed thousands of middle class employees and paid boatloads of taxes? Maybe the SEC should've worked with them. Oh, but they're big business- so no middle managers, no middle class people involved there, right, no suppliers dependent on Enron who could be mid-size businesses?

Corporatists by definition cannot be liberals? Really? Fascinating concept to ponder as I start my day.

I would like to remind everyone that the families of the war profiteers, the oath of office breakers, and corruption should probably not be held accountable.
In fact there are a lot of honest and good folks working for the government that are just as frustrated as us.
A BIG fart of the problem is that shit is being outsourced. Where did the origins of that start and why is it now the NORM?
Federal Employees are also now facing shit ass nasty retirement problems. Where Bush says you should manage your own retirement, the programs that his cronies set up are stacked against them. LOOK AT THE TSP. http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/board.asp?board_id=4258
Only TWO TRADES a month in this volatile environment, and I also argue that it is illegal that the two hat wearing TSP dude illegally changed the rules!

Who eats this crap? Is it the twinkies, overweight, "can't seem to lose it", always on a "diet" fat slobs? Anyone that eats THAT, might as well just open a bag of sugar and eat it by the handfull. Wash 'er all down with a nice big jug of cooking oil.

How OFTEN does GovernmentExecutive.com get their facts wrong?

http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?articleid=30857&dcn=todaysnews

Now then, I would also like to just say right now that there are STILL mistakes that have not been corrected. So what the hell is that? It's propaganda I tell ya!

Why do honest oath honoring federal employees have to put up with that SHIT?!

#87 + #84
My deepest apologies, I was breaking new information. I absolutely take back anything bad directed at you then.

How come NOBODY is mentioning the Bush Tactic Team Clinton has used by divulging tax info on a Friday afternoon? How can a family close to being bankrupt when leaving Washington, earn 109 million in 7 short years? Why are over half the supposed "charitable donations" made to their own family charity that seems to do nothing? Why is 18 million dollars unaccounted for? What/who's balls does Bill have to kiss to collect over 50 million dollars, just for talking? Thought Hillary said words are cheap....apparently not her "husband's" words.

#90 I wouldn't mind having one million dollars. let alone 18 mil.
If I had 18 Mil, I would put a lot into computers, start my own ISP. Then but a bunch of musical instruments and recording studio stuff, then I would get a few trucks and and aircraft, then I would invest in GOLD enough to survive my family and then I would donate the rest to Katrina.

#91 also I am in PAIN 24/7

I messed up. No Health Care for 20+ years Whatever the number is my last health care was in the USAF and that was ... 1985 so that would be 20 not 30.

Phil @ 82:

...
In fact there are a lot of honest and good folks working for the government that are just as frustrated as us.
A BIG fart of the problem is that shit is being outsourced. Where did the origins of that start and why is it now the NORM?
...

Outsourcing avoid many legal and morality problems, inhouse lawyers tend to object in writing about unlawful actions, outside contractors only care about the money.
Outsourcing in government (which follows modern business practices in general) allows incompetent managers to avoid doing much actual work and just tick a box or pick up a phone and magical things happen, in the past with real bosses and real inhouse teams of people doing work and interacting the managers had to manage people and all the problems people create.
Its laziness basically.

I recently, like 5-7 days ago found out I have high blood pressure, cause I needed a tooth extracted and the dentist wouldn't remove it because my shit was 152/120 and each time the BP test was re-done it was higher and higer, even the next day, I tried to meditate and breath and still the number went up. And it cost people that love me about $400 to get my tooth removed. ONE KANINE FRONT TOOTH. last time it was WISDOM TEETH $800 (they had to put me out completely), and before that WISDOM TEETH (I almost jumped in front of a bus to end it all because of the pain, but got it done free at the C street welfare dentist. (whatever you call it))

#98,
I see outsourcing as a real nasty problem.
Take the Corps Of Engineers for my #1 example. They USED to be the shit! I PERSONALLY know historical people from there. Some no longer alive.

They were absolutely trusted and absolutely the best at what they did and how they did it and the jobs they did were beyond belief. But NOW.... They contract every fscking thing out. They don't have shit anymore. they are hated by Katrina victims and they are forced to deal with it. I KNOW BECAUSE MY MOM STILL WORKS FOR THE CORPS!

Me I have the electronics background. I know what MIL SPECS are. Where's the fucking mil specs now?

Look at our god damned voting machines. Built in CHINA!? Parts for our fucking voting machines are BUILT IN CHINA.

Who's watchin that to see if the parts are not exploited at the doping level to manipulate an election? ANYONE?

Welp anyway, I am back to my show. I got to put title screens on videos. No big deal there. but I can NOT allow myself to keep being pissed off. It's literally killing me now.

Can't wait to see Rachel Maddow on Countdown this morning (DVR.) Was out last night celebrating one of those "milestone" birthdays.

About Ms. Maddow... the first time I remember seeing her on the air was as a "guest LIBERAL/LESBIAN" on MSNBC with that Whack-Job with The Bow Tie... I'm sure her presence there was simply to show what a liberal-minded-and-balanced host Tucker Carlson thought himself to be. The IRONIC part about that is that Carlson really DID accomplish a GREAT THING for the liberal/progressive movement of the world. And THAT would be exposing Rachel Maddow to a larger audience.

She is, by far, the brightest light bulb in the room... and I hope her broadcast career continues on the rise that she has been riding for the last year.

The Colombian government is trying to secure congressional passage of the agreement signed in 2006 by Colombian President Alvaro Uribe and the Bush administration.

According to Justice Department filings, Colombia agreed last year to pay Burson-Marsteller $300,000 to help "educate members of the U.S. Congress and other audiences" about the trade deal and secure continued U.S. funding for the $5 billion anti-narcotics program Plan Colombia.

Ah government sleaze in action, explains it all. Wonder who will be the lucky recipients of that $300,000 minus the fees and expenses. Plus the $5 billion flowing the other way into pockets in Columbia.

Its good to see real world examples of people becoming politicians for 'the good of the country' and purely for altruistic reasons, brings back memories of Miss World et al
"I want to meet rich fuckers, party til dawn, marry a senilerichbastard work with animals and teach small children" simper.

Phil @ 104:

Welp anyway, I am back to my show. I got to put title screens on videos. No big deal there. but I can NOT allow myself to keep being pissed off. It's literally killing me now.

Phil- please do yourself a favor and get in to see any doctor that you can. 152/120 is nothing to screw around with. Meditation and breathing won't get that down to where it needs to be even if you're Andrew Weil. Seriously, please.

110, I don't HAVE A DOCTOR.
I CAN NOT AFFORD A DOCTOR.
I need to simply stop being pissed off about everything. I already know it the RESENTMENTS against THIS FSCKING BUSH ADMINISTRATION.
That is what is killing me.
I can not let AMERICA GO.

I be happy to teach you how to publish a show.

You know what, help the TRUCKERS first. Help them HARDEN their website[s] against DDoS DoS social engineering, email, firewall, mirror, bla bla bla.. And teach them Video Youtube, MySpace, Broadcast, etc. Screw my show.

Phil @ 112:

110, I don't HAVE A DOCTOR.
I CAN NOT AFFORD A DOCTOR.
I need to simply stop being pissed off about everything. I already know it the RESENTMENTS against THIS FSCKING BUSH ADMINISTRATION.
That is what is killing me.
I can not let AMERICA GO.

got to your local ER room fake some chest pains, or find a local teaching hospital that does it for free.

118, no need to FAKE chest pain, heh . I have chest pain.

a little history..

since i started saying and speaking out about electronic vote tabulation devices . I started hearing a humming sound.
The closest explanation of the sound is the "Taos Hum." Now there three sound samples on that website, and ONE is the one I hear. It sounds like a diesel truck idling . It's a multiple of at least two frequencies and it fucks with my sleep and daily routine. I get maybe two hours sleep is all. (well right now I have some meds, hydrocodine, vocoden and Pen VK 500's although I stopped taking ALL OF THAT SHIT two days ago.)
My Follow up is on the 8th. Dunno if they are gonna check my BP then. but I can tell you I spent day after day thinking I was going to die. I don't feel good, I am not happy, but I pretend to be.

It would not surprise me if there was not a spook house nearby.

Phil @ 119:

#115,
Yet still, like I been saying, nobody has actually DESTRUCTIVELY REVERSE-ENGINEERED ALL OF THE CHIPS, because it's too costly, and Oh never friggin mind... I am done fighting this argument. Your smart you know physics, you better wise up.

lots of people do the destructive reverse engineering, just that they never admit it in public, RE to be fully legal has to be clean room and working backwards from specs.
I woundnt worry about microcode on the silicon affecting the results, thats too hard to do reliably esp with multiple sourcing of CPUs and the levels of code differences C++/compiled/assembler/run time mc, its easier for them to have the high level code compromised and the results tweakable by memory cards with runnable code modules, that was shown to be the case in court and other places, in theory and tests, real life results compared to exits polls showed very suspicious anomolies, exit poll and votes swapped, and weird bumps and missing votes in some districts.

And yeah Phillip == phil

I'd be banned from DKOS the moment I joined. as I am a Bradblog affiliate.

Why Run For President, Anyway? Oh. Right. The Wealth!

woodguy @ 53:

Kanan @ 14:

Rachel was EXCELLENT on Countdown tonight...

She did us proud :)

Let's hope it's a sign of better things to come. When you think of all the people they had to choose from, it seems as if it could be that MSNBC is thinking of giving her a show of her own. She's come a long way in a short time. Good on her. She deserves itl

Keep Kieth AND give Rachel her own show. Get rid of boring Joe.

I gave up self-restraint for lent. Kinda grew on me. Like my gut.

Love the deep-fried Oreo recipe, but Dick Cheney's birthday was back in January. Easter and Valentine's gift out of the picture as well.

My blood sugars are boiling over already.

Hillary Clinton Supporters Taking Action!!!

Attn: All media organizations
Re: Hillary Supporters Demonstration & National Pro-Hillary day !!!

When: April 11th at 8:00am EST
Where: Rockefeller plaza, NYC

Why: We are all very passionate Hillary Clinton supporters that demand to be heard for Hillary! We refuse to stand by and watch this election become corrupt and unfair!!

"It Takes A Village..." and we are Hillary's Village! We have three main reasons for this demonstration:

1. We want the country to know we are fed up with biased media coverage against Hillary Clinton!
2. We demand that the DNC count the votes from Florida and Michigan
3. We demand the media STOP saying Hillary should quit the race.

JOIN US IN SHOWING YOUR SUPPORT FOR HILLARY !!!

Not near NYC but want to do something ? Want more info on the NYC gathering ?
go to: www.HillaryClintonForum.net