Oompa Loompa Sprayontan Dude
Letting his Party come completely unglued
A laquered corpse, irredeemably screwed
Like the Oompa
Loompa
Sprayontan
Dude!
Crossposted from here. Open thread below...
Update (Blue Gal and the team): Happy Birthday to our own Nicole Belle!
[cartoon by Claus Seidel]
Michael Bloomberg spent a reported 105 million dollars on his re-election campaign, the same amount Norway donated in 2007 to The World Bank for a health care initiative for the poorest nations.
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Please join us TOMORROW for a live book chat with Craig Crawford, co-author of Listen Up, Mr. President: Everything You Always Wanted Your President to Know and Do. The chat will be held at 1 pm Eastern/10 am Pacific.
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George W. Bush the motivational speaker, from Urantian Sojourn. Open thread below...
Here's the audio form today's conference call with Speaker Pelosi about the release of the House bill.. Sorry, I'm a bit under the weather so I don't have the blow by blow, but I was able to get on the call and record it for you. She didn't know if she would allow amendments to the bill, but was against the idea. There were a few questions from bloggers that followed.
(I edited out just a few minutes because there was a technical problem when the conference service tried to connect bloggers to ask their questions.)
UPDATE I: To members of the media, please credit Crooksandliars.com if you use any portion of this audio. Thank you in advance.
UPDATE II:
mcjoan has a great write up of the conference call: Pelosi: House Bill is a "Manifestation of Rejecting Business as Usual"
Because there has been conflicting information this morning on whether amendments would be allowed for the bill, I asked Speaker Pelosi if that decision had been made. As of yet, she says she's been too busy getting the bill melded to focus on that, but that she "would have to be talked into it," but isn't closed. The fly in the ointment on amendments is Rep. Bart Stupak and threat to team up with Republicans "unless Democratic leaders allow a floor vote on an amendment that would add new restrictions on the use of federal funding for health plans that cover abortion with private dollars."
This complicates the issue of the single payer amendment that Rep. Anthony Weiner was promised he would be able to offer. When Chris Bowers asked about it, Pelosi said that she would be meeting with Weiner and Rep. Kucinich today or tomorrow. Additionally, Rep. Grijalva is continuing to push for the robust public option.
"I am not rolling over. I will insist on a Medicare-plus-five amendment on the Floor so that the full Caucus can vote on it. We are hopeful that the Rules Committee will allow this amendment, which has tremendous public support, to be voted on for the record."
Leadership, including Rules Committee chair Louise Slaughter, are going to have some interesting needle-threading to do on the rule for floor action and the amendment process on this one. The schedule has not yet been determined completely. It will be available for the next 72 hours for all members to access, then will be submitted as the manager's amendment Monday morning. Floor action could begin as soon as next Thursday. She said that it's possible to have a vote before Veterans Day, Nov. 11, but as of yet that's not decided.
Rickrolled without internet! The winner of the "If the Internet Disappeared Today" contest; runners up here. Open thread below...
Daily Motion and Steve Martin are holding a music video contest. The rules are, you have to use Steve Martin's song "Wally on the Run" as your soundtrack, and the video must have a dog or dogs in it. I don't expect to win, but I had fun with this.
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Dolphins caught on camera "kicking" jellyfish in the air soccer-ball style. Found at Asylum Australia. Open thread below....
I made this video one year ago this week and can't believe I didn't run it then. My, how times have changed: now the entire GOP is in the toilet.
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Andy Cobb and Josh Funk regarding the Washington Post Pundit Contest. WaPo says "entrants may not have previously written or contributed to a regular column in a major national publication in print or online. Sponsor shall determine, in its sole discretion, what constitutes a 'regular column', 'major national publication' and 'contributed'." In other words, any blogger we don't like is automatically out.
On that note, check out the "entries" from
and yours truly.
The deadline for entering is midnight tonight! Good luck.
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The opening to the movie version of Hitchhiker's Guide, not as good as the BBC version, imo, but then this movie version had a bigger budget. It turns out** that's not always a good thing in entertainment.
**Douglas Adams in The Salmon of Doubt: “Incidentally, am I alone in finding the expression ‘it turns out’ to be incredibly useful? It allows you to make swift, succinct, and authoritative connections between otherwise randomly unconnected statements without the trouble of explaining what your source or authority actually is. It’s great. It’s hugely better than its predecessors ‘I read somewhere that...’ or the craven ‘they say that...’ because it suggests not only that whatever flimsy bit of urban mythology you are passing on is actually based on brand new, ground breaking research, but that it’s research in which you yourself were intimately involved. But again, with no actual authority anywhere in sight.”
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What does a self-described progressive city girl do when she chases love to a remote corner of Kansas? She blogs about the local news media covering the appropriate kind of squirrel meat to serve at Thanksgiving, among other hilarious findings. Mudflap Bubbas definitely worth the click.
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