off topic, if one can go off topic in an open thread, but @ the very least, obvious link-whore alert ahead:

pls. help my friend gil christner w/his commercial...click here to watch his jimmy dean sausage spot (he's mr. fog); his spot is way behind the others.

he & i would appreciate any and all clicks you could throw his way.

Happy 420 to all who participate.

ROBIN
Alvy, what is so fascinating about a group
of pituitary cases trying to stuff the
ball through a hoop?

ALVY
(Looking at Robin)
What's fascinating is that it's physical.
You know, it's one thing about intellectuals,
they prove that you can be absolutely brilliant
and have no idea what's going on. But on the
other hand ...
(Clears his throat)
the body doesn't lie, as-as we now know.
Alvy reaches over, pulls Robin down onto the bed. He kisses her and moves
farther up on the bed.

ROBIN
Stop acting out.

She sits on the edge of the bed, looking down at the sprawled-out Alvy.

ALVY
No, it'll be great! It'll be great,
be-because all those Ph.D.'s are in
there, you know, like ... discussing
models of alienation and we'll be in
here quietly humping.

He pulls Robin toward him, caressing her as she pulls herself away.

ROBIN
Alvy, don't! You're using sex to
express hostility.

ALVY
"'Why-why do you always r-reduce my
animal urges to psychoanalytic categories?'
(Clears his throat)
he said as he removed her brassiere..."

ROBIN
(Pulling away again)
There are people out there from The New
Yorker magazine. My God! What would they
think?

How about that Ninth Circuit Court and Judge Diarmuid F. O'Scannlain. for for ruling that the Second Amendment is incorporated against the states and local governments.

with a concurring opinion from Judge Ronald M. Gould, who wrote, “The right to bear arms is a bulwark against external invasion…That we have a lawfully armed populace adds a measure of security for all of us and makes it less likely that a band of terrorists could make headway in an attack on any community before more professional forces arrived.”

What patriots.

If you don't like a particular TV program, you call their sponsors
and tell them you will boycott them until the program either goes
off the air or changes to your liking. This works similar with
parties, politicians and their sponsors.

I have a plan to get the HR 676 enacted and more.

Get people to Send a free prewritten fax to Sen. Minority leader Mitch McConnell telling him to STOP EVERY REPUBLICAN FILIBUSTER, get the Employee Free Choice act enacted into law, along with single payer universal health care, a fix for the Medicare Prescription drug benefit, a 10 dollar an hour minimum wage, an end to the Iraq war and until that happens you will boycott some Republican campaign contributors.

You can go to http://action.democratz.org and send Mitch McConnell a free prewritten fax. This web site appears completely noncommercial. I don't sell anything there.

We have to hit the friends of the GOP in their wallets. Oh and if you only send your fax, this will fail. You need to get friends to send the fax and have their friends send the free fax and so on.

Thank you!

PS the prewritten fax reads thusly:

Hello

I want the following actions taken
and legislation enacted into law.

Congress and the President must
enact HR 676 single payer universal
health care and set up a new
prescription drug benefit in
Medicare Part B covering 80% of the
cost of all drugs with no extra
monthly premiums, no extra yearly
deductible, no means tests, no
coverage gaps, and remove the means
test for Medicare Part B and until
that happens, I won't buy ANYTHING
from Republican contributor
Rite Aid Pharmacies.

The President must end the war in
Iraq and until that happens
I will not buy any products from
Republican contributor and War
contractor General Electric
Corporation.

Congress and the President must
enact a $10/HR MINIMUM WAGE
into law and until this happens
I will not go to any Republican
contributor Wendy's Restaurants.

In 2008 Brown-Forman of Kentucky,
the maker of Jack Daniels Whiskey
and Southern Comfort gave Mitch
McConnell money for his campaign.

SENATOR McCONNELL MUST NOT
EXECUTE ANY REPUBLICAN
FILIBUSTERS FOR 8 YEARS
DURING THE OBAMA PRESIDENCY
AND MUST GET THE EMPLOYEE
FREE CHOICE ACT ENACTED
INTO LAW AND UNTIL THAT
HAPPENS I WON'T BUY JACK
DANIELS WHISKEY OR SOUTHERN
COMFORT OR ANY OTHER OF THEIR
PRODUCTS.

Thank you.

A President who's literate.

won a Pulitzer.

I have nothing to support my theory, but I suspect that Cheney was disappointed at how quickly the war was winding down after the initial invasion. After all, this war was simply a way for Cheney to funnel money into the pockets of his old war profiteering buddies (and himself), and a quick end would freaking upset the war mongering backers.

In support of my theory, I present the following: 1) the absolute horrifyingly stupid decision to disband the Iraq army, 2) Gitmo, 3) blatant torture, 4) total disregard to an apparent Iraq civil war, and of course 5)sending in less troops than were requested by the most experienced and highest ranking expert in the field (cough, and then retire him). You either have some really intelligent and experienced people showing some blatant incompetence or perhaps we missed it, this was a willful attempt to prolong and profit from this war.

Okay, what do you think?

GNA!

Obama mocks the Party of Flailers, Pearl Clutchers and Couch Fainters.

Obama mocks GOP criticism
by kos
Mon Apr 20, 2009 at 05:14:04 PM PDT

Very nice. Conservative criticism of Obama's foreign policy approach is so patently ridiculous, that he's now openly mocking the wingers freaking out over his handshake with Hugo Chavez.

"Venezuela is a country whose defense budget is probably 1/600th of the United States’. They own Citgo. It’s unlikely that as a consequence of me shaking hands or having a polite conversation with Mr. Chavez that we are endangering the strategic interests of the United States. I don’t think anybody can find any evidence that that would do so. Even within this imaginative crowd, I think you would be hard-pressed to paint a scenario in which U.S. interests would be damaged as a consequence of us having a more constructive relationship with Venezuela."

Greg Sargent:

It’s worth recalling that there was a time when Dems would quake with fear about national security attacks coming from the right, let alone respond to them with outright mockery. In this sense, Obama’s tone underscores how much the political climate has shifted on such matters.

It’s also a sign of his confidence that the public is with him — and has little trust in the Republicans — even on questions of national security. He appears to feel on solid enough ground that he can respond to the basic ideas underlying Republican efforts to depict him as weak with little more than contempt and derision.

Me, I'm still chuckling at "this imaginative crowd".

go on. do it. hug the one nearest you.

let 'em know you know they're people, too.

let 'em know you know the rumors aren't true -they're family has done nothing but perform honorably through the ages in service of the good of humankind.

let 'em know you don't believe the internet rumors about any sort of "new world order".

let 'em know you don't consider them vampires, figuratively OR literally.

money masters are people, too. remember that.

MONEY MASTERS ARE PEOPLE, TOO.

I really don't want to be a killjoy, but, how many of my fellow liberals have noticed an absolute silence from this administration pertaining to the reversal of the patriot act and the military commissions act. How far can this country progress with these two ridiculous laws still on the books?