December 30, 2009 08:30 PM
Open Thread

She's won "Lie of the Year," "Worst Celebrity Book of Ever," and at my own blog I thank her for her unending bestowal of blog and photoshop topic security.
She can see Russia from her throne. Click here for larger image.
Thanks, Sarah Palin, for being you.
Open thread below...




Foist!
Somewhere ObL is laughing his ass off. A failed underwear bomb sends the USA (world's only superpower) into a tizzy. His plan is working perfectly. Bwahahaha
"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.!!
It's like terrorism works on Republicans and that really sucks.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
It's pathetic watching the display from afar. Really makes the US look cheap and nasty. I feel sorry for you all.
"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.!!
I had a feeling that this IS how we look...
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
the sad thing is that the would-be bomber
borrowed palin's underwear.
she really makes an ugly drag queen,
doesn't she?
was a hoax, designed to give the repugs some talking points. sort of like the bin laden tapes that popped un on the regular.
Some stuff you can't make up!
It seems like the only people in a tizzy are the wingnut talking heads. Their tizziness doesn't seem to be infectious.
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
I don't live there, so I can only go by "the news".
You will be lining up like sheep for three hours to fly anywhere, for ridiculous invasive searches, while the intellegence apparatus to screen passengers remains useless and dysfunctional. Who won?
"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.!!
I am truly pissed off at the Drawers Bomber. (I was calling him the Crotch Bomber, but me and my dad agreed it sounded like some freaky-deaky sex act.)
...Joe Lieberman.
Afghan war claims more lives
Dec. 30: Life During Wartime: Rachel Maddow reports the troubling news of new deaths in Afghanistan including 8 American CIA agents, 4 Canadian soldiers and a Calgary-based journalist.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/vp/34637...
Some stuff you can't make up!
People die in wars? I always thought it was like paintball matches, at the end of the round everyone gets up and shakes hand? You mean people actually die from explosives and bullets? And I like Madcows spin, in an American warzone? I thought this was a NATO warzone hence the Canadian(and British and German and France and ...) soldiers. Also the part about it being a stomach ache that we are using a possible former USSR military base, we learn from them and they learn from us, their ex-base was probably the cheapest and fastest way to go, a bit of repairs and it's ready, why spend more money than needed and why build from scratch what is already there?
Limbaugh suffered from chest pains, sources said. Paramedics treated him and took him to Queen's Medical Center in serious condition.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/...
Amateur video of him passing out here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAPNkVY6csw
Dear Flying Spaghetti Monster,
If he goes please take the Cheneys with him.
Vacationing in Hawaii? Isn't that rather elitist and UN-American.
Poor guy... um all (sniff) the (cough) best Rush.
"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.!!
Cokie Roberts said Hawaii was exotic!
the President was born. Someone on Twitter remarked that he wondered if Rush thought he was being airlifted to Kenya. :)
I've never seen change without a fire
AH-HAH!: he's just trying to get in the birth certificates filing cabinet. Good work there Annaleigh.
"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.!!
Anyway, even though I had some ugly thoughts earlier, I hope for his sake he'll be ok. Lucky him to have health coverage! Too bad he thinks others should be deprived of the same...
I've never seen change without a fire
Obama's in Hawaii. Pelosi's on vacation there also from what I've heard. And now Limbaugh? Sounds suspiciously like stalking behavior on Rush's part. But I guess you can't do too much stalking from a hospital bed in ICCU.
If you speak negatively about someone often enough, then visit their birthplace, eventually karma will catch up with you! Thus it came to pass with Rush upon visiting the birthplace of President Barack Obama ...
but he doesn't have a heart. Perhaps he choked on too many pills?
Seriously, I don't wish anyone bad health. Perhaps a near death experience will cause a moral awakening for him.
No one hear does, but I know what we're all thinking. ;)
"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.!!
A new year without some trash like Limbaugh would be OK with me!
this is one case where I don't really care about being bigger then the other person. Screw Rush Limbaugh.
Exactly how I feel. He was a traitor who wanted the president to fail. I had more feelings for Novak.
Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity. Albert Einstein
to win my 09 dead pool
he is at the top of my list
go rush go
You guys sound like Republicans...STAY CLASSY!
I've been down and kicked when I was there. I don't wish that on anyone. Since I can't think of anything else nice to say I'll stop my post here.
Goodnight, Frau Blücher
or pre-teen boys nearby?
Some stuff you can't make up!
Considering his role in messing up the country with his BS and leading the GOP to ruin, I can't feel sorry for him.
The scary part is that millions of ditto heads will be wondering the streets completely aimless and lost without someone to tell them what to think.
a leftist plot.
Some stuff you can't make up!
i for one don't believe it, i mean it's going to be indigestion. it's always just a gut ache brought on by gluttony. you don't think he would leave out gluttony!
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
he lost 70 pounds in 4 months.
just sayin.
me-oww!
Limbaugh, 58, suffered from chest pains, sources said. Limbaugh was sitting in a chair in his ninth-floor hotel room at the Kahala when emergency crews arrived, sources said. He told medical crews that he was taking medication for a back problem, sources said.
http://www.kitv.com/politics/22094469/detail....
Some stuff you can't make up!
totally wasted
"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.!!
back problems. Isn't that why he was taking oxicontin/hillbilly heroin before. Gotta wonder if it was prescribed.
Back pain + OxyC = "You look marvelous!" weight loss and deafness.
me-oww!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hNjxJCXfis
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
Aaah. Reminds me of that old joke.
A: Wanna lose 20 lbs of ugly fat (in Rush's case 50 lbs)
B: Why, yes.
A: Cut off your head
hyuck hyucl hyuck
"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.!!
Rush will be made into a huge (pun intended) martyr. If he survives, he'll say, see you can get great health care. If he survives, but is severely incapacitated, somehow, it will be Obama's fault.
Unfortunately, liberals need to tread carefully here, even though the ditto heads were foul when Kennedy died.
I had not even thought of that.
It could be almost like armageddon for the nonchristian 98% of the republican party! LOL!
he is suffering from over exercising his
right hand....you can't make flaccid
body items co-operate.
if Obama doesn't come out and make a statement on this in a couple of hours, there'll be right wing hell to pay. They went batshit over the lack of a statement for a failed would be plane bomber dude. Ten times worse to them if Obama high hats Rush.
me-oww!
Why should Obama make a statement about a bloated pill-popping pundit. Or is it because he's the leader of the Republican party? Interesting conundrum.
"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.!!
I think it's weird he made a statement about the Nigerian dude, and that the Shrill Class immediately started screaming "TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE!!!!!!"
me-oww!
Candy Crowley, "Is this Obama's Katrina?"
Gee Candy, some guy lights his underwear on fire and fails -vs- real dead Americans floating around in a flooded US city, while Bush hob-nobs with the elite and ignores it completely. You decide.
"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.!!
is one of the elitests who wouldn't have a job if she didn't have family ties.
that stupid women have to be pretty to be on television.
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
former Sen, Al Damato (NY) was on saying that this 'terror' plot was awful and a sign that the Obama admin. is incompetent. Then he immediately called for the firing of Napolitano and others.
Funny, I don't remember any Rape-ublicans calling for the firing/resignation of Cheney, Bush, Rumsfeld, Tenet, Rice, etc. after the WTC crumbled to dust, after the worst 'invasion/attack on US soil' pretty much ever!
Can you say LYING HYPOCRITES???!!!!
"Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of Stupidity" - Frank Leahy
You know he's faking the symptoms just to get sympathy, just like Micheal J. Fox did.
i think you're right about this guy faking.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
The right will be howling and squealing and farting like a pigs fed Red-hot beans.
OMG! Can you imagine his funeral? Michael Jackson will be envious.
read the comments at TMZ.com. They don't mince words about their feelings about Rush. So expect a lot of whining in next week or so.
in that video. Oh right, it was dedicated to Rush.
Political Setback For MN Governor Pawlenty
Democracy is too important to be entrusted to politicians.
Rise Up!
Protest!
excellent! The repugs must be planning his run for president.
Some stuff you can't make up!
Yeah .. I was thinking the same thing.
He's getting his "unitary executive" chops together on the state level in preparation for defying Congress when he's PreZ.
.. and then the dam court had to intervene and stand up for the legislature .. drat!!
Democracy is too important to be entrusted to politicians.
Rise Up!
Protest!
when that happens..... NOT.
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Some stuff you can't make up!
now I s'pose Newtie will Have to Run afterall!!
"Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of Stupidity" - Frank Leahy
Rick Warren: Useless piece of crap now begging for more money
Well, real estate in Orange County ain't cheap. Looks like Warren should have built his church in Santa Ana instead of Lake Forest...
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
What Sarah Palin needs is a 'house of pancakes' franchise and plenty of snowmobiling. I'm serious. That's what she needs.
That and a new pair of shoes, with rubber treads.
...like the head manager of all the IHOPs in Alaska or something like that.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
She should be running a whine boutique.
Meanwhile, back in the REAL world:
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE5BH2C22...
The people of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage." J.K. Galbraith
"customers".
Some stuff you can't make up!
Aren't they?
With an expanding population and a declining job market the US faces a serious problem of distribution of currency for food, rent, etc.
I applaud the expansion of entitlement programs for basic needs.
I only wish more people viewed such programs as rights instead of handouts.
Democracy is too important to be entrusted to politicians.
Rise Up!
Protest!
If you have Time-Warner, you may be blessed:
NewsCorp threatens to remove Fox stations
Of course, people will call TW some kind of left wing liberal company unless it gives in to Murdoch's blackmail.
a buck per sub
thats a ton of caishe...and time warner aint gonna pay
How many people didn't hook up the HD converters to their old TVs yet?
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
This isn't a matter of all Fox affiliates pulling out of T-W cable, just the affiliates that are directly owned by NewsCorp.
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
I don't mind one bit if there is no fox sports or fox anything on my TV as long as fox news is not there i am happy.
isn't Fox network television? Sorry I need my Family Guy fix. Off to Radio Shack!
NOBODY 2012
Hulu.com or Torrent downloading?
Corporate media tells us to prepare to get naked, but David Swanson holds out hope we are not a broken people.
Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity. Albert Einstein
I just want to be clear about something:
Am I correct in reading that two of the plotters behind the most recent "terrorist" incident on a US flight were released from custody by the Bush administration?
The people of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage." J.K. Galbraith
Released from Gitmo by Bush-Cheney into Saudi custody (over strenuous objections from US military) where they underwent "rehabilitation" and then were released, travelled to Yemen and became leaders of Al Qaeda in The Arabian Peninsula.
Yeah .. that outrageous.
Democracy is too important to be entrusted to politicians.
Rise Up!
Protest!
Dec. 30: MSNBC political analyst Richard Wolffe discusses the latest baseless anti-Obama screed from former Vice President Dick Cheney who seems oblivious to his own responsibility for the state of security in the United States.
Some stuff you can't make up!
Local newspaper just reported that El fatass has been Rushed to a Hawaii hospital for chest pains.
Rush Limbaugh is what a smart person thinks a stupid bigot sounds like.
must not read through the thread.
Hello, "Day-Old News?" Yeah, I'd like to cancel NoGWBpolicyleftinplace's subscription. Yeah. he's going to be giving his business to "Behind the Times." OK. OK, OK. OK. I love you, too. Bye-bye.
Nope. I had to leave and I saw the headline, so I just assumed it was new and thought others here might want to hear the tragic news.
Oh well, thats one on me I guess.
Rush Limbaugh is what a smart person thinks a stupid bigot sounds like.
look up!
Some stuff you can't make up!
:)
Corruption favors the wealthy.
never die, look at THE DICK
Dec. 30: Rachel Maddow holds Dick Cheney and Republican opportunists to account for their shameless hypocrisy, distortions and outright lies in criticizing President Obama's response to the attempted bombing of Flight 253 in the face of their abject, egregious failures to deal with terrorist threats to the United States when they were in power.
Some stuff you can't make up!
It's 'cus Obama's black, huh? Armageddon gets a Russian remake. Another company forced to pay off millions for fraudulently back-dating. America hopes for better luck next year.
http://twitter.com/maddow/status/7225441316
I've never seen change without a fire
she feels rather unclean right now.
against her.
I've never seen change without a fire
Rush makes his living by saying the most outrageously offensive, mean-spirited, racist, bigoted, hateful things about people (i.e. non-wingnut). So, it's extremely difficult to be civil in this matter. Yet, wingnuts have no problem with being over the top hateful when people like Ted Kennedy or Walter Cronkite pass. I'm not saying liberals are better, clearly after reading stuff on TMZ, they are not, but Rush, when his time comes, does not deserve any praise or good thoughts unless his outlook changes. Maybe he should read "A Christmas Carol". But he'd never get it.
say it!
don't accept the false equivalence!
I absolutely will not!
fuck the fascist projectionist righties!
Some stuff you can't make up!
Update. It looks like the f#%ker is still alive. Don't we feel so much better?
"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.!!
But I could send him come cookies and probably finish the job.
Great recipe :) lousy baker :(
Corruption favors the wealthy.
thoughts... :(
I was trying to behave myself!
I've never seen change without a fire
Edwin had given a great Christmas cookie recipe with instructions a week or two ago. Everything was all good till I got my hands in it. I never really knew food could take on that texture....
Corruption favors the wealthy.
was just...umm, I'm not going to say it...but it's a not nice thought...about that old joke about piles of eggs, bacon, and ham...
I've never seen change without a fire
deliver skunkweed to his hospital room for us?
That's not necessarily a bad thing any more :)
Corruption favors the wealthy.
ward off bad spirits and overcome the effects of hillbilly heroin.
You can always try again. Consult someone that knows about these delicate issues. Cooking looks easy, but it takes some talent. I have never beem able to make a cake without "Betty Crocker": mine turn out like lead. (I gave up.)
Those shortbreads are delicate and light. Sorry, it didn't work for you.
"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.!!
I highly recommend Michael Ruhlman's book, Ratio, which teaches the basic ratios behind a number of recipes - the theory being that once you know the ratio, you don't know one recipe, you know a thousand.
There's a cookie recipe that turns out a nice shortbread-style cookie without a lot of hassle, and the addition of a single egg white to the recipe produces a simple butter cookie.
The book helps you understand the role of each ingredient - adding more sugar to the cookie recipe produces a crisper cookie, for example.
Back when I started out, I
readstudied all the "how to" pages in "The Joy of Cooking". I think there are a few hundred: what ingredients do, how to use them, herbs and spices, cooking methods, what cooking instructions mean, etc. It has been invaluable over the years; understanding food and blending and heating it. Seems a little geeky, I know, but sure glad I did it."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.!!
absolutely not! Could care less!
11 o'clock news. Looks like it's a bit late for that, so I suppose I'd better put the pooches to bed and go myself.
GNA! And sorry again, John & C&L staff!
I've never seen change without a fire
ever got...I needed a bit of cheering up this evening...
This is pretty damn funny
Oh and I know, everybody's already seen it, I'm the last one to hear about it--again.
:)
me-oww!
somehow though, it's always funny. :<[)
Some stuff you can't make up!
collections of snapshots of supposed passed out binge drinking college students taped to duct work, carefully outlined in beer bottles, or head covered in shaving cream with cigarette butts sticking out of it--I can still laugh myself sick looking at them.
me-oww!
Deano and Foster Brooks.
Some stuff you can't make up!
... via HuffPo, Jonah Goldberg asks why the aliens in James Cameron's film, Avatar, Catholics?
This morning Washington Journal on c-span is asking what was the most defining event of this decade. To me it was when the Supreme Court decided who our next president would be. What followed that was all awful and down hill.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
... driving the satellite truck back from Sacramento to SF and had the radio tuned to the news, and the announcement almost made me run off the road.
I pulled a John McEnroe: "You have GOT to be KIDDING ME!"
I felt as if someone I knew close had died.
Then, I wondered if I was going to live long enough to see this clown leave. I knew both Bush and Cheney were trouble waiting to happen. But, I had no idea how bad it could really get.
What is your conceptual, continuity?
I am willing to bet that a President Gore would not have sat with his head up his ass if someone had told him UBL was determined to strike within the US. When Richard Clark's hair was on fire I'm pretty sure a President Gore would have listened to what he had to say.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
I agree. I'm pretty sure we wouldn't be in the situation we are in right now. Across the board.
What is your conceptual, continuity?
... requested a meeting with the Principals Committee the week after Bush's inauguration. He continued to be stalled and ignored beyond the August PDB warning of UBL's intent.
And even after 9/11, there was an interest in laying blame for the attack at Saddam's doorstep (per Clarke's Against All Enemies and Ron Suskind's The One-Percent Doctrine).
Damn skippy we wouldn't be here if Gore had been president.
and I don't think he would have been such a great president but I agree there is no way he would have ignored those warnings. Besides Richard Clarke the Clinton administration made OBL their number one recomendation to the next admin regarding security issues. Gore would have done something to retaliate for the Cole and would have taken action that would have prevented or at least ameliorated 9/11.
that we deserved the Bush we got.
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
http://www.democracynow.org/2009/12/28/the_ma...
An amazing story about a guy from Las Vegas who was essentially a con men and told the Bush morons that he had some magic software that could read hidden messages in Al Jazeera TV signals indicating future attacks. His intelligence was used to raise the terror alert level to Orange (second highest) and to cancel various flights. Just from the short description in this article its obvious (both from a computer software standpoint and an intelligence view) that he was a huckster yet he got millions from the Bush admin and helped amp up the be afraid index.
... this guy Nostradamus predicted 9/11, too.
::: roll eyes :::
But then, when our security measures include 'stay in your seat for the last hour of the flight' and 3 oz. bottles to keep terrorists from bringing 20 oz. soda bottles filled with chemical explosives aboard (math is COMMUTATIVE, people!) ... what did you expect?
Bush almost took us over the falls!
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
last night. I really appreciate it, and it won't happen again! :)
I've never seen change without a fire
The Human Genome is not as big as we had hoped - smaller than for some plants and animals.
It's the gene switches that make us different from other animals and yes, plants. We really have not come very far from the slime that was our ancestors in terms of basic genes. It turns out we (life on earth) are still basically that same slime, but we are a slime that is now able to take on any form that suits the environment by switching DNA strings off and on. That's why it takes just a few generations for a group of creatures (including humans) to adapt to a new environment.
We are not just ugly bags of water, but we are part of a single fabric of life, that has the power to morph into anything it needs to in order to get by, and do so pretty efficiently through the turning on or off of a number of control genes. that's why we can be 99% genetically identical to chimps and yet be so very different - same genes with different ones switched on or off. (same machine with custom 'settings').
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
I think you guys will enjoy this 45 minute Robert Newman Standup Comedy on The History of Oil performed in 2006 in the UK.
http://www.askbutwhy.com/2009/12/robert-newman-standup-comedy-on-history.html
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