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Executive Producer of The Professional Left Podcast. On staff at Crooks and Liars since 2007. Master's degree from Harvard. Happy wife of Driftglass. Mother of three geniuses. Obsessive knitter. Blogs at http://bgalrstate.blogspot.com. .
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1openmind's picture

Can we please in the future refer to lobbying as bribing?

sixandseveneights's picture

And "Palin supporters" as "the living dead".

Ape-Man's picture

And Hannity's cranium as "kid sized".


"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-

davidhilton's picture

i cant watch more then a 30 secs of hannity...but damn he's a scumbag isnt he?

sherardg's picture

You can watch for 30 seconds? You are good. I can only last about 10 seconds.

When is the bastard going to be watherboarded?

midnight7734's picture

My standard reply to any conservative comment is "You need to get over your Obama derangement syndrome and take the emotion out of your argument. I can't discuss anything with you because you are to emotional."

Ape-Man's picture

Totally.


"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-

ysbaddaden's picture
)O(

Diabolus est Deus Inversus

Freddy Knuckles's picture
sixandseveneights's picture

Rushthugliklan Party co-boss Michael Savage says ""The white Christian heterosexual married male is the epitome of everything right with America"

http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200906180017

Annaleigh's picture

As a mixed-race, spiritual but unaffiliated, bisexual, single lady, I am everything that is *wrong* with America!! :D

Because seriously, if being who I am is wrong (and being Savage is right), I don't want to be right!


I've never seen change without a fire

boocilla69's picture

Nothing wrong with you at all. I always maintain that it would be phenomenally boring if we were all the same. I'm thankful for my gay, lesbian and tg friends. My husband and I have two children and they know that it's healthy to be exactly what you are and not what others think you should.

liberalNmoderation's picture

"As a mixed-race, spiritual but unaffiliated, bisexual, single lady, I am everything that is *wrong* with America!! :D"

Got pics?
};D>

marcellajoy's picture

Um...has Savage heard about Ensign? And if so, is that an example of everything right with America?

MaudeLebowski's picture

Isn't Weiner-Savage Jewish? Plus he's been around the block a couple times with that whole marriage thing...

General Jack D. Ripper's picture

Hannity is an insect. He needs to be swatted, like that fly.

Steven Colbert is pissed tonight (and last night) at Obama for killing that fly! Hilarious!!!

sixandseveneights's picture

Hannity "Only one network doesn't have stars in it's eyes"

That ceased at Fox after Bush left office.

sixandseveneights's picture

Hannity (and Fox) really is that pesky little tiresome buzzing fly Obama keeps swatting Perfect.

Can O Whoopass's picture

Hannity is no fly, he's a maggot living in a dog turd, floating in a sewer, headed out to sea.

MountainMan23's picture

Gotcha: PETA sends Obama a humane fly catcher

No .. it's not a joke .. it's PETA.

The bug will step onto the trapdoor as it closes, and you can carry Katcha Bug outside, where all you need to do is slide the trap door open, allowing the bug to walk away.

.. and then runlike hell to get back into the house before the fly does ..

I guess ..


Democracy is too important to be entrusted to politicians.
Rise Up!
Protest!

an article. :P

PETA's blog said that since Obama isn't a Buddha he has a long way to go in acting towards animals. Gee, so do they, seeing as they put down upwards of 90 percent of their animals in their shelters!


I've never seen change without a fire

liberalNmoderation's picture

PETA is a bunch of damn hypocrites!

calgarylady's picture

That thing is for real? Unbelievable!

MountainMan23's picture

Yesterday I moved the refrigerator.

My little buddy the KitchenToad was stuck.

He'd fled behind the refrigerator when I entered the kitchen a few nights back, but I figured if I left him alone he'd find his way out.

But late yesterday afternoon I heard some creature thrashing about behind the refrigerator. At first I thought it must be one of the big black snakes that come through my cabin looking for mice or young birds.

Flashlight in hand I smooshed my face against the back wall and peered behind the refrigerator. And there he was! Evidently too wide to turn around in the cramped space he'd spent the last coupla days trapped.

Carefully I tipped and turned the refrigerator so as not to inadvertently cruch the little guy. Then picked him up and carried him outside. Put him under the wild blueberry bush just outside the back door, then got a small glass of spring water and poured it over his back to help moisten his skin.

Last night he was back "on the job" sitting just inside the back door waiting to snap up any bugs attracted by the kitchen light.

I shoved a concrete block up against the back wall to block any future access behind the refrigerator.

Oh! and he's a great fly-catcher.

But I dunno if PETA would approve !!!

:-P


Democracy is too important to be entrusted to politicians.
Rise Up!
Protest!

calgarylady's picture

That toad is one lucky dood to have you around ... who cares if PETA approves!

You have a blueberry bush outside your back door? Sounds like a nice little cabin you have there. Lucky you!

;)

MountainMan23's picture

The black snakes are amazing creatures. I watched a seven footer scale the exterior wall - two stories - doubtless on its way to the bird's nests that occasionally appear under the roof line.

And one morning I heard this really LOUD chirping of a baby bird in distress. Too loud! So I went to investigate and found, coiled up in a coil of black plastic hose lying in the grass, one of these black snakes CHIRPING !!

And yes there's a small blueberry bush just outside the back door. The domestic bushes up in the orchard are just ripening (mmm!) .. had a half dozen berried yesterday. The wild bush will ripen in a month or so .. right around blackberry time!

Lucky me .. indeed.

Living on a shoestring .. deep in a forest ..


Democracy is too important to be entrusted to politicians.
Rise Up!
Protest!

calgarylady's picture

I'm in awe that you already have berries on your bushes. Spring was really late here this year ... less than two weeks ago, it snowed and hailed all day long! *heavy sigh*

I've never visited your part of the country but I'd like to see it sometime. Sounds lovely!

MountainMan23's picture

Ah .. I shoulda made it clear .. the black snake was chirping like a little bird in distress .. doubtless attempting to attract a caring parent .. for dinner!

Other animals mimic their prey.

The Great Horned Owls make the blood curdling sound of a rabbit dying - apparently in the hopes of terrifying rabbits into scurrying about where it's easy to catch them.

And the Red Foxes do the same - mimicking the sounds of a dying rabbit.

Night time can be quite noisy out here!


Democracy is too important to be entrusted to politicians.
Rise Up!
Protest!

calgarylady's picture

Seriously, I thought the snake ate him. I wasn't aware that so many animals mimic their prey!

Learn something new every day at C&L :)

MountainMan23's picture
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Well .. at first I thought the same thing .. staring directly into the snake's mouth I kept trying to see the baby bird that had to be in there .. and then finally realized it was the snake making the chirps!!


Democracy is too important to be entrusted to politicians.
Rise Up!
Protest!

liberalNmoderation's picture

I had no idea snakes made any sounds at all!
At my house, I've nearly stepped on two very amorous snakes...black racers...they froze and looked at me like "WTF you looking at perv?" Then they hauled ass still entwined...snakes are cool...

pissed off patricia's picture

I'm pretty sure snakes make so sounds other than maybe a rattle snake and the sound comes from his rattles not his mouth.


Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.

Tyler Durden's picture

I threatened cobra will hiss at you, quite a terrifying sound to hear in the wild.

I dunno if they can make more complex sounds, other than expelling air at high pressure through their mounts/nostrils.

ysbaddaden's picture
)O(

I choke my chicken.


Diabolus est Deus Inversus

liberalNmoderation's picture

walk or rather, climb, into the house last year...during the "winter" down here in the keys, alot of folks leave their doors open, and all kindsa critters can stop by...but this frog just made himself at home, just hangin there on the wall... eating bugs...I let him hang out for a few days, but I started thinkin maybe his skin would dry out...I recommend, if you have to catch a tree frog, or any kind of frog...make sure your hands are wet, preferably with non chlorinated water...dry hands will peel their protective slime layer right off.
Same goes for fish!
But likely, most of y'all won't have any fish crawling around in your house.
Except maybe for ricky...

miss_lola's picture

We have a little tree frog that hangs out by our front door at night, eating the bugs. I guess he lives in our mailbox, since one day I pulled out a letter and he was hanging onto it for dear life.

liberalNmoderation's picture

I was watching some thing about prehistoric life on Discovery or History Channel..and there were some frog/toad type animals waaaaay back, that were as big as volkswagens!

pissed off patricia's picture

You don't have to wet your hands when you pick up a Cuban tree frog, because he's going to pee all over your hand and wet it for you.


Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.

liberalNmoderation's picture

hangin out at my house?
This one didn't pee on me though...

fastfeat's picture

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"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."

---Southwest Airlines

MountainMan23's picture

Why now?

It may feel as if the discontent among young Iranians has blown up out of nowhere, writes Azadeh Moaveni, but they have been growing steadily more angry for years now ..

Azadeh Moaveni has reported on Iran since 1999 for Time magazine and other publications. She is the co-author with Shirin Ebadi of Iran Awakening, author of Lipstick Jihad, and, most recently, Honeymoon in Tehran.


Democracy is too important to be entrusted to politicians.
Rise Up!
Protest!

General Jack D. Ripper's picture

Ari Fleischer claims that it's because Bush invaded Iraq, and now the Iranians have seen what freedom brings!

Yeah, right, Ari. Anything to make your dear (former) leader look good.

gogetem's picture

what an arsehole.


If a drone kills a child in Kandahar, do the crying parents make a sound?

LibertyLover's picture

they still want to invade/bomb Iran....


Only when the last tree has died
and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught
will we realize we cannot eat money.

liberalNmoderation's picture

Have absolutely NO concept of how bad it would be if we intervened in Iran right now...
ONLY, if the UN was sent in and they ask for some troops, could I see us sending in anyone.
Putting the military in that situation right now would make the already bad situation worse by several orders of magnitude!

har's picture

is what acne is to a teenager. Sorry, I just could not watch whatever stupid thing it is he had to say.

Amitola's picture

of Hannity as easily as that!!! And, Rush and Rove and Cheney and Savage and Orally and all of the other insects who are just so freakin' annoying.


"Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of Stupidity" - Frank Leahy

MikeinMD's picture

Flies are attracted to dead, rotting lumps of meat. It's where they lay their eggs. If Seannie isn't careful, soon his brain would be crawling with maggots. Oops, I see its too late....

LibertyLover's picture
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I've been simply amazed at Fox noise's obsession with Obama's fly. ;)


Only when the last tree has died
and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught
will we realize we cannot eat money.

miss_lola's picture

Almost as bad as their obsession with Obama's gift to the Queen. Ridiculous.

ron's picture

with Charlie Sheen. I could identify all of the insects as Hannity, BillO, Rush and several others. Fortunately Sheen was able to kill most of them.

Batocchio's picture

If only.

Isitjustme's picture

Keeping us distracted with flies, Letterman, and Iran, others were busy working in the shadows of darkness.

Torture photos

calgarylady's picture

And I don't mean flies, Letterman or Iran.

Kudos to Hamsher and Greenwald for all the great work they do. It is appreciated!

dadams's picture

does anyone know what is happening with Al Franken?
when is the minn state supreme court making its decision?
or is the repub controlled supreme court now holding
up Al?

MountainMan23's picture
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I just goggled the news for Franken Coleman .. and there had been great anticipation that today would be the day the Minnesota Supreme Court would announce its decision .. but nada.

Oh well ..


Democracy is too important to be entrusted to politicians.
Rise Up!
Protest!

dadams's picture

thanks for the help

Tengrain's picture

...until he opened a few himself.

Regards,

Tengrain

ctalk's picture

Make that fly all of fux noise and the 23% that still call themselves republicans and I like the analogy much more. A pest to the vast majority of what I call real Americans finally eliminated.


Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity. Albert Einstein

here4tehbeer's picture

then his ass has to be stinging something awful.

constituent's picture

http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2009/jun/18/e...

well it looks like nothing is for free. the husband of the woman sen. ensign was having an affair with
was on the payroll as was their 19 y.o. son. apparently the husband came forward to the media that's why ensign came forward.

Ape-Man's picture

Hanity is what happens when you give some people a podium.


"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-

Tequila's picture

Nothing goes down better with beef than TB. Anyone want to work for free @ British Airways? Is Obama in on enabling PlameGate, too? An all-men's club party is worried about Sotomayor having her own club. Will the Senate give more scrutiny to war funding before agreeing to it, anyway? At least gay federal workers get some support from Obama. The CIA needs you to cook their books, er, work for them as financial analysts. The Senate lets you trade your crappy car for some cash for a fuel-efficient one. Guevara's granddaughter does a PETA ad. Strangle someone of a different color, get out of jail after ten days free. Most Americans don't like "free market" health care, because it's usually not free.

ron's picture

shares his experience with a recent health procedure he had. He feels lucky because he is insured.
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2009/061809a.html

ron's picture

on Cheney blocking torture investigations.
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2009/061809a.html

ron's picture
Ape-Man's picture

Wait a minute - cheney wants the investigations to go ahead doesn't he, and have the secret documents made public?!?

He wants a 'tell all' because his torture apparatus was successful right?

...that's the tune Cheney was singing last week anyway.


"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-

MountainMan23's picture

At the time of his death, Jamadi's head was covered with a hood; he was shackled in a crucifixion-like pose that inhibited his ability to breathe; and according to forensic pathologists who have examined the case, he suffocated.

Christian Soldiers ..


Democracy is too important to be entrusted to politicians.
Rise Up!
Protest!

ron's picture
Edwin's picture

Whatever happens, the powers that be were delivered a clear and unmistakable message: People power is a strong thing.

In Seoul, after 200,000 turned out to the streets in protest, the new president (whom I dislike0-- very right-wing, power-hungry, money-type), has been more cautious. He's now thinking twice before cramming things down the public's throat. S. Korea is also at odds; 'libs' vs 'dems'. Still lots of corruption here. Koreans are hot-headed and take to the streets. I like them for that.

Now they are doing rotating strike actions, and teachers and professors are protesting. The new president got a letter with 16,000 teacher's signatures this week, and one from the university professors last week: both protesting a move away from democracy.

Lots going on over here, and we have N. Korea, and the suicide of the ex-president, (suspect reports abound), and riot police action (but they're always around).


"If the US government enforced its banking laws like it did its park regulations, we wouldn't be
in this damn park in the first place." OCCUPY.!!

MountainMan23's picture

Superb reporting.

Amazing situation. The architects of this uprising were the architects of the 1979 uprising that threw out the Shah.

Ayatollah Khameini's job is on the line. The "Supreme Leader" can be replaced by the Council of Experts.

What will tomorrow bring?

Rachel Maddow: Iran on the Brink


Democracy is too important to be entrusted to politicians.
Rise Up!
Protest!

calgarylady's picture

goodnight to all :)

MountainMan23's picture

;)


Democracy is too important to be entrusted to politicians.
Rise Up!
Protest!

Zafod's picture

...a pissant trying to move up to being a cockroach, and failing.


“When fascism comes to America, it will come covered in teabags, riding on a Rascal and waving a cross”

Bobbie's picture

Fox is the National Inquirer of TV. Even the Enquirer does get some things right. Most of the time though, they just make crap up. Always has a grain a truth but goes to lies and speculation for the rest.

goldfish swirling's picture

Monday: Cockfights
Tuesday: Ladies of NOM wet t-shirt contest
Wednesday: Makeover madness with Ann Coulter
Thursday: Donkey Show
Friday: Cooking with Caribou

ysbaddaden's picture
)O(

I hear they have rather singular Donkey Shows in Tijuana.


Diabolus est Deus Inversus

MikeinMD's picture

The Elephant Parades!!!

Here's another Republican Member of Congress whose valiantly guarding the true American Values we all hold so dear! Read them off for us please!!

/snark off

continentalshelf's picture

loves rupert murdick

project's picture

But I got sick after about 15 seconds.
The insanity that is hannity,
is directly in proportion to the lunacy on the right!
republicanism is a mental illness!

project's picture
Hey

Do the monday night cock fights feature billo versus hannity?

brians's picture
Hey

only if billo borrows a couple pills from limpbaugh

sixandseveneights's picture

Just as the 5 Republican appointed Supreme Ayatollahs thwarted the democratic process by deciding the election for George Bush in 2000, their partner in crime the Supreme Ayatollah in Iran has decided the election for Ahmedinejad.

Hard liner birds of a feather.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090619/ap_on_re_...

ysbaddaden's picture
)O(

Diabolus est Deus Inversus

chicano2nd's picture

there fixed it!

Janet's picture

In an interview with Politico about Sen. John Ensign's recent admission of an affair with a campaign staffer, Sen. Lindsey Graham said he had his own secret "sins."

lol, who is he kidding? It's no secret. Ensign's hypocrisy is about the sanctity of marriage. Lindsey's hypocrisy is being anti gay.
Come out of the closet Lindsey.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/18/lind...


We could certainly slow the aging process down if it had to work its way through Congress.
- Will Rogers

goldfish swirling's picture

"...and this is my business associate, Benji."

liberalNmoderation's picture

to STAY secret, ya shouldn't oughtta flapped yer jaw about it.
dumbass...
now people are gonna lookin to expose it...sheeesh!

cosanostradamus's picture

.
They find his odor intoxicating.

There's real news, too, though.
.

ysbaddaden's picture

Diabolus est Deus Inversus

jurassicpork's picture

Mike Flannigan: "Republican democracy vultures who had bitterly and tirelessly fought to subvert the very foundation of our own democracy are now cheering on the very same people whom John McCain wanted to bomb and give lung cancer to."

liberalNmoderation's picture

I'm shocked...SHOCKED!!!
http://www.dailykostv.com/w/001852/

Amitola's picture

if it weren't so annoying.

What it proves is that the American populace, well at least the part that watches Fux 'news', really doesn't pay attention at all; and, that the Repug neo-con creeps are more than delighted to continue lying and conniving (even though they know full well there is videotape) in order to fool all those idiots who watch.

If the health care mess is ever fixed - we need to move, post-haste, to fix the education system!!


"Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of Stupidity" - Frank Leahy

liberalNmoderation's picture
Yup

damn straight...fix it right, and fix it quick!

ysbaddaden's picture
)O(

Diabolus est Deus Inversus

I don't trust Sestak anymore. He always was too wishy washy for my tastes anyway, but now it's getting too embarassing.

He's deliberately dragged his feet on entering the race against Specter, threatening to maybe possibly defy Obama and party insiders who insist on Specter, eliminating any other potential candidates chances at getting a strong foothold in on the nomination.

I've never been sicker of Dems behavior in general. And feel they've proven even more cowardly -hiding under the banner of b-partisanship - than ever before.

Reid and Hoyer are totally useless.

Pelosi is now our only true Party leader with the real cajones.

Tim misses Japan's picture

I don't know if you are able to pick up WLKY (out of Louisville) but on Jul 2, they are airing a story about the Army's Warrior in Transition Units.

If anyone is in the area, please tune in. This is one area in which the Army is really doing right by the Soldiers.

liberalNmoderation's picture

The Soldiers need some goodness too.

Tim misses Japan's picture

I work on a military base with a WTU and it's shocking that the military could be behind something with so much common sense.

The Army really got this one right. Honestly, it warms the heart. It truly does.

Limp-Dick Blimpaugh's picture

What are you referring too, Fattity's lice or crabs??

Luther's picture

Anyone hear about the "man in the street" episode with Hannity where he was observed by police "frotting" a crowd member? There was a possibility of simple assault being charged but apparently the "FiX" was called in and he escaped to Frot another day. Now apparently this has been a problem of the 12 step variety that Hannity supposedly suffers(enjoys!) Frotting Hannity the Manatee!

da lurker's picture

if only it was that easy to get rid of him

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