Open Thread
By bluegal Monday Feb 16, 2009 8:30pmMeet the Press as we'd like to see it, with Space Ghost audio. H/T Driftglass for running the original Space Ghost. Open thread below...
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Which is scarier? Dead-Eye Dickie? Lindsey 'Sausages and Fudge' Graham? David 'Tool' Gregory?
Aye-eeeee!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAwb2H-ZWJY
Ooohhh the humanity!
That is priceless! I love it!
thanks for sharing that.
Yeah, that was pretty good.
"Reinforce..." : )
I always get a good laugh at this no matter how many times I see it!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090216/ts_nm/us_...
bahh, "experts"... what would they know!
Without Oversight > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxuqmPyKqcs&eu...
Snip - "Bernanke has invoked emergency authority and more than doubled the size of the Fed’s balance sheet to $1.8 trillion to combat the worst credit crisis in seven decades."
[ http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsar... ]
$4000.00 per individual citizen, o.m.g.
And it's happening right under our noses.
John Public, "gee honey did you know that the government has given away over 2 trillion dollars of our money".
Jane Public, "shhh silly, American Idol is on".
but they are evil losers.
A Khmer Rouge flunky warms up the war crimes bench for Bush and Cheney. Bubba finally backs Barry on policy, even though he doesn't want to admit that his de-regulation policies are partly why we need Barry in the first place. One good thing about a non-economy: cheaper rent. Kids born with asthma can blame their environment.On a related note, 1/3 of schools are exposed to air pollutants. Update on the FOIA lawsuits: they're evaluating what can and can't be presented as evidence. So much for McCain's defense of nuclear power: Brit and French subs collide.
Pro-tip: Wild animals are usually not good pets. Oil companies manage to out-source their way out of market forces which would normally lower prices.
how about you?
she can put her shoes under my bed any time!
as one of my blogger commenters told me...
If the shoe fits, throw it.
She doesn't cry very convincingly.
I think it's gonna be Kate Winslet. I don't understand why Marisa Tomei wasn't nominated. And what's up with Angelina Jolie getting nominated for the Changeling?
Lindsey doesn't have a shot against Angelina.
More on the far left media.
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2009/021609.html
But its nothing but GOP Re-Runs..........................
All I want to know is what Obama is going to do to protect us from the insects that the terrorists are planning to use to attack our country and spread biological warfare?
Oh, you haven't thought of that one, have you? Well Jack Van Impe has.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEgaXcPxhsc&fe...
Who are these nutbars?
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/562.html
He goes after "automatic" conservatives.
SO LIFE-LIKE
Barry's gonna bring back stem cell research soon. Bush's pollution policies can't stop the Detroit River from being habitable for nature again. Over 400 tv stations make a pre-emptive digital switch. But is it worth it?
Have we ever seen a bigger bunch of drama queens than those in the Republican Party? Actually, I think their leadership (Boehner, Graham, Cantor) are queens, if you know what I mean. Not that there's anything wrong with that except pure hypocrisy.
Everyone knows and/or surmises that Lindsay is gay, but no one on the left cares (except for the hypocrisy). We just know he is a sack of pus and gay people in America shouldn't be held responsible for his behavior. I know, I know. How sick is it that in America Lindsay Graham's deviant persona would be attributed to him being gay and not just one evil motherfucker?
that sums it up nicely!
persons in American public life. It's fitting that he is referred to as 'mini-me,' despite the insult to the real-life mini-me. Nevertheless, Lindsay Graham is one of the biggest criminals in America. He was in the know on the lies used to sell illegal wars, torture, warrantless wiretapping, extraordinary rendition, Roberts and Alito as well as every other crime of Bushco, and he should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Did I mention how much I despise that lying sack of pus.
it bears repeating,
...was also one of the major players in that bizarre ceremony in which reverend moon -yeah, THAT reverend moon- was crowned "messiah".
more proof these guys are all going completely bat$#!+ crazy inside the beltway -and on YOUR tax dollar.
G.M. Presses Union for Cuts in Health Care
By BILL VLASIC and NICK BUNKLEY
With its access to a government lifeline in the balance, G.M. was locked in intense negotiations with union leaders.
motherfuckers!
The mother's charge their sons a fee?
I'm baaaaaaAAAAACK!
Y'all missed me didn'tcha?
Religulous (2008 DVD) -- Now Available (February 17th) Buy it today...
The Real Deal, UN: Urgent need for 'Global Green New Deal.' - http://www.grist.org/news/2009/02/16/greennew...
The tropics on fire: scientist's grim vision of global warming - http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/fe...
Republican War on Science is lost: Even In Dismal Economy, U.S. Must Invest In Space Program, Obama Science Pick Says - http://onthehillblog.blogspot.com/2009/02/eve...
The United States must continue to invest in a robust federal R&D program -- particularly in its space program -- even as it grapples with a faltering economy, according to President Obama's pick as White House science adviser.
Dem House Leadership Vs. Dem Senate Leadership: House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (D-Md.) called on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) to force Senate Republicans to mount actual filibusters if they want to stand in the way of bills “so that the American people can see who’s undermining action.” Easier Solution, Stanley: End the Filibuster.
- http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0209/189...
DAMN STRAIGHT! If they want to play political theater, make their happy asses get up in front of the country and say why they want to vote against a jobs bill...
Getting Better All the Time; 49% of Americans now think government should provide all health insurance, up from 28% in 1979 - http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/01/30/sun...
Nearly half of all Americans....and it will get even higher as insurance companies deny even more claims...
Blacklist Blackwater -- KO Halliburton and KBR -- A BuzzFlash News Analysis - http://buzzflash.com/articles/analysis/629
Really 'Supporting the Troops' Update: Obama pens 'real' notes to fallen troops' families - http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/feb/...
In his first few weeks in office, sometime between celebratory bill signings and phone calls from foreign leaders, President Obama sat in the Oval Office for the most somber task of his presidency - penning letters to families of troops killed in combat. "This was real, it was personal, it was so important to us," said Thya Merz, whose son Marine Lance Cpl. Julian Brennan was killed Jan. 24 in Afghanistan.
The letter was signed "Barack," Ms. Merz told The Washington Times. "Not 'president,' just his first name, and it just felt like, OK, my son has been acknowledged," she said.
Unlike Rumsfeld & Bush's automatic signature letters...
'Free Market' War Update: A 'fraud' bigger than Madoff - http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/ameri...
In what could turn out to be the greatest fraud in US history, American authorities have started to investigate the alleged role of senior military officers in the misuse of $125bn (£88bn) in a US -directed effort to reconstruct Iraq after the fall of Saddam Hussein. The exact sum missing may never be clear, but a report by the US Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR) suggests it may exceed $50bn, making it an even bigger theft than Bernard Madoff's notorious Ponzi scheme.
'We are winning', 'Freedom is on the March', 'Bring em on', 'Its a group of folks that wanna do you harm' - GWBush, worst president ever...
Exclusive: Rove not covered by executive privilege in political prosecution case, lawyer says - http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Lawyer_Rove_won...
Representatives of the Bush White House are no longer advising former White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove that he is protected by executive privilege as regards testimony about the alleged political prosecution of an Alabama governor. In an exchange with Raw Story, Rove’s Washington, D.C. attorney, Robert Luskin, also said Rove won’t invoke his Fifth Amendment right to protect himself from self-incrimination, if and when he testifies about the firing of nine US Attorneys and the prosecution of the former governor.
Worldwide Boycott Against Kellogg's - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0902/S00261.htm
Nearly one out of two Americans have admitted using marijuana - including the last three presidents - and four out of five young New Zealanders. "Whether or not the most decorated athlete in history chooses to unwind during his off time with a glass of wine or a puff of cannabis is really none of the government's --- or our --- business," said NORML New Zealand spokesperson Phil Saxby.
Harvey Wasserman: Was George Washington a gay pot smoker? - http://www.freepress.org/columns/display/7/20...
The questions arise with pre-publication of the shocking satire PASSIONS OF THE PATRIOTS by “Thomas Paine,” which opens with Le General in the hemp-filled embrace of his beloved Marquis de Lafayette.
Corporate front group gives "Defense of the American Worker" awards to anti-worker legislators - http://www.examiner.com/x-2071-DC-Special-Int...
“Amid the worst economic crisis in a generation, organized labor -- which built the middle-class in this country -- is needed and wanted more than ever because unions are the single best tool to create an economy that works for all. More than half of U.S. workers—nearly 60 million—say they would join a union right now if they could. Union members make 28 percent more and are 52 percent more likely to have job-provided health care and nearly three times more likely to have defined-benefit pensions than nonunion workers.
Absurdity incarnate: Bill Berkowitz: 'Culture Wars' Today, Tomorrow, and Forever? - http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/pol...
Why are the workers at fault? GM Pushes Auto Union for Concessions in Restructuring - http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/17/business/ec...
It was the 'strategic' business management decisions (to marry SUVs & Big Oil) that caused the bottom to fall out...not workers who make 180x less than their CEO...
Jim Hightower: Bankers on a Binge - http://jimhightower.com//node/6731
GOP lawmakers tout projects in the stimulus bill they opposed. Hypocrisy is thy middle name. - http://www.mcclatchydc.com/251/story/62181.html
Ignoring the will of the people (again): GOP dead set against possible 59th Democratic Senator Franken - http://www.twincities.com/ci_11715229
Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), chairman of the Rules and Administration Committee that would oversee a dispute in the Minnesota Senate race, expressed confidence that Franken would win the case within a month.
Crude oil is getting cheaper -- so why isn't gas? - http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/G/GAS_PR...
David Michael Green: Serve Republicans for Breakfast, Don't Take Them To Dinner, They’ll only eat you alive - http://www.regressiveantidote.net/Articles/Se...
Here’s another, and far better, scenario: Let the GOP filibuster. Make them actually physically do it, as senators used to have to. Then go to the country with this message: “You’re hurting, and if we don’t do something right now, it’s gonna get lots worse. A majority of the House of Representatives has passed a rescue bill. I will sign that bill immediately when it comes to my desk. A majority of the Senate wants to vote for the bill as well. But it is being held up by the Republican minority who are using Senate procedural rules to block it from even being voted on.
These are the same people who got us into this mess. They have been defeated in two elections in a row, where you, the voters, said you wanted change. Now they stand in-between us and our rescue from a grave threat to our way of life. They say they are worried about the national debt, but they just doubled the size of it during the time they were in control. They say they are worried about deficits, but they want to pass more tax cuts for the wealthy that would add another three trillion dollars to the pile. America, we are about to plunge over an economic cliff.
Don’t you, the American people, deserve the right to have your government, that you’ve chosen, be allowed to vote yes or no on a rescue plan? Haven’t these people done enough damage, already?” I suspect that if Obama had the guts to do that, he would crush the GOP, or else completely marginalize it.
Keith Olbermann responds to Betsy McCaughey's challenge - http://thepoliticalcarnival.blogspot.com/2009...
Photo of President Obama removed at Peterson Air Force Base - http://thepoliticalcarnival.blogspot.com/2009...
Meanwhile, back in the 21st century (see above): Guardian Angelides, Phil Angelides. Grist talks to Apollo Alliance chair Phil Angelides about green jobs.
- http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2009/2/10/19...
$60 Billion for Green in the Stimulus Bill: Where the Money Will Go - http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/02/green...
If Aleister Crowley was alive today, would he be a Hollywood screenwriter of movies like Thelema and Louise?
... he'd probably sneak into cheney's house and take a dump on the rug.
No, you're thinking of John Barrymore.
...who photographed evel knievel $#!++ing his pants after wiping out on a jump?
No, that was:
http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMjEwNzU...
that story i told ya'll the other day was no bull$#!+.
joseph ratzinger and my opa were both teenagers living in germany during world war 2, and near the end, the nazis were running out of men, so they started throwing these kids out to the frontlines.
ratzinger was from bavaria; my opa was from baden. i have no idea if they were in the same unit, but it is quite possible, because both fled the frontlines, both realized they were being driven over a cliff by a madman.
while ratzinger stayed in germany, and with the catholic church, eventually becoming pope benedict, my opa took a different route.
my opa went back to his hometown, learned english in about two weeks from a pocket dictionary, and became the liason for his people when american forces arrived. it was through the americans who married my oma's 2 sisters that our family eventually came to illinois.
like i said, i have no idea if ratzinger and my opa were in the same unit, but it's quite possible.
it's quite possible joseph ratzinger saved my opa's life, or vice versa. if i ever have the divine blessing to meet the pope, i will ask him if he knew my opa.
He'd think you're referring to Opus Dei.
opus dei - opa's day
i get it, and i'm not going to be able to keep rolling with you because i'm headed to work -talk to you soon!!
A closed meeting of the Opus Dei:
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Hills/7207...
One day I'll have to relate my dad's story about the last days of WWII Germany...
But...didn't the new pope, shuffle the pedophile priests around to protect them and the church?
That's not too cool IMHO.
here in urbana, illinois, there stands a hotel named the historic lincoln hotel. it was obviously named after the big cheese, who walked over the land it stands upon many times when he was practicing law in illinois. at one time it was called jumer's, but it has returned to the lincoln name.
it is a truly amazing building; the newer half is done in the bavarian style, the older half a different german style; i can't remember which.
in recent years, the place has fallen under some truly horrible management, and it's truly a shame.
yesterday i went in to take a look around -all of the breathtaking antiques remain -suits of armor, giant oil paintings, etc.
so i got to talking to the manager, and i realized the people running the place are truly incompetent boobs. this gal had no idea what any of this stuff was, or where it came from, or how much it's worth.
perhaps most frightening -she told me the owner was planning on having an antique sale to get rid of everything, and do a renovation. which would be the very worst thing you could do, because it would sap the place of all it's charm.
the reason i'm writing this is because i desperately wish someone with some money would buy the place and restore it to it's proper glory.
there is a HUGE alumni base of illinoisans, many with deep german ancestry, who would come back in droves if the place was renovated, the antiques left intact, the parking lot repaved and a proper advertising campaign.
anyone out there with any money? please help save the historic lincoln hotel!!
I would try the local Illinois Landmark Preservation Agency.
... more along the lines of someone with bavarian roots and a ton of money, a la lord rothschild.
And you think you're gonna find him here?
At least it's the HONEST TRUTH that Reslugs helped destroy America in 8 short years and did't give a shit doing it.
good morning froggy! good posts , as for the above might i add the repigs did help destroy america in 8 short years but might i add the democrats were willing accomplises! and they allso asisted the repigs in stealing the elections for george w bush , i forget the black senators name that stood before al gore and demanded the election ballot count continuie and gore pounded his gavel on the desk and said nothing to see here folks, she said all she needed was one senator to sighn her petition for the recount and not one swingging dick steped forward to oppose the takeover, and al gore pounded his gavel as everyone pleaded for the recount, when we were cheated once more with kerry he came on tv to concede as fast as he could , gave a short , well hey i didnt want the office anyway , sheeesh cant you take a joke speach, they bought bush and cheny and loved them for it , the only honest bastard in dc was kucinich so eat the peach dims ! thier only one party in america its the dimpubs party!now i remember it was sinthia mc kinney! close enough!
http://www.usnews.com/blogs/god-and-country/2...
Now THAT was funny. I laughed so hard I woke up hubby. EE-Vill!
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