Jon Stewart!

fitz

time to trot out a little Goethe: in Faust, the Devil proclaims himself as the one who says “No!”

I couldn’t remember the movie until you mentioned the stapler. That was so funny.

Yes to laughter, hope, new beginnings, graduates with energy and endurance, justice in our time.

egregious at 4 — yeah, the Stephen Root character made that for me. And whenever I see a stapler now, it is all I can do not to slip into that dialogue…hehehehe

“…and I like to sit by the window, so I can see the squirrels…”

Good Morning Evreyone,

Lotuslander,

here is link to Marine Wife story

Newsweek

Whew — finally got here! Greetings to all.

Thanks for that link, cbl. I’m trying to make it through their cover story but keep having to stop to lose my mind. Maybe I can hack this one instead.

Mary and rwcole: Today’s LAT lead story pertains to your ponders (240ff., Book Salon) on whether it’s mostly (a) Yoo or (b) Addington we can thank for the Great American Torture Policy. No resolution of that one, but it does show (b) remaining staunch:

Army Manual to Skip Geneva Detainee Rule
The Pentagon’s move to omit a ban on prisoner humiliation from the basic guide to soldier conduct faces strong State Dept. opposition.

http://www.latimes.com/news/na…..-headlines

With all this afoot, let’s just hope a major chunk of the country heard Arkansan Mike Mullane on the rule of law (today’s “This I Believe” essay on NPR Morning Edition).

Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert are proving what Al Franken said when he started Air America. The right way to deal with these chowderheads from Bushco os NOT to engage them.

Dealing with them cedes too much power and legitemacy to them. Laugh at them. Laufghat the friggin gay marraige bill.

Oh ho, with gas at $3.50 a gallon and soldiers dying to protect Hallibertun’s cheese convoys, and terrorists consistentaly coming at us through the Canadian border while all our border defense faces south, and mortgage rates about to burst the housing bubble, THE MOST IMPORTANT thing to do is waste the Congress’s time debating a gay marriage bill?

Even CNN was not buying that this AM!

If you can’t even fool Solidad, you know your not fooling anyone.

The beauty of the Stewart/Clobert method is that is both smart and entertaining.

Maybe it’s my Irish ancestry. In ancient Ireland the one thing kings feared most, was sarcasm. Too be lampooned. You can fight back against a guy who comes at you with a sword, but once you become a laughingstock, you have lost all power.

oh crikey !

although I spend no time in cubeland, am definitely having a case of the mondays – the coffee pot dies an ignoble death sometime in the night, AND I am unable to refresh – even if I go out and come back in via the browser

Office Space – often wonder how Mike Judge got it all so perfect – considering he has never had to spend time in cubeland

thank God for Colbert – Thanks Christy

Colbert’s whole speech here:

http://www.knox.edu/x12547.xml

Those grads had ALL the luck. When I think of the droning old bidnessmen, generals, judges and whatnot most of us had to contend with while trying to keep our mortarboards more-or-less on our noggins . . .

Army Manual to Skip Geneva Detainee Rule

of course by now I’m sure one of our many stellar journalists have asked Senator McMicrophoneMcCain his response to this, right ?

Lotuslander – I believe there’s an older USNWR article that paints the torture scenario as Addington driving the effort, Yoo may have been the writer, but Addington appears t/b the instigator and editor. It’s the same article relaying Mueller’s horror at Addington’s advice/request for FBI not to trouble itself with warrants. (I’ll see if I can hunt that one down)

lotuslander, the latimes story begets the Haditha story, or to put it another way: the administration has wrought the ‘anything goes’ mentality of some in the military. I am sure seasoned military are disgusted by this change in our adherence to our own laws– now Cheney and Addington and Rummy are changing the Army Field Manual– they are monsters! From the LATimes article you linked to:

>>>>>>>>>>

President Bush’s critics and supporters have debated whether it is possible to prove a direct link between administration declarations that it will not be bound by Geneva and events such as the abuses at Abu Ghraib or the killings of Iraqi civilians last year in Haditha, allegedly by Marines.

But the exclusion of the Geneva provisions may make it more difficult for the administration to portray such incidents as aberrations. And it undercuts contentions that U.S. forces follow the strictest, most broadly accepted standards when fighting wars.

“The rest of the world is completely convinced that we are busy torturing people,” said Oona A. Hathaway, an expert in international law at Yale Law School. “Whether that is true or not, the fact we keep refusing to provide these protections in our formal directives puts a lot of fuel on the fire.”

“Monsters” they are, angie, down to their molecules. Nothing short of life sentences for that crowd will do.

Oft: Risking their lives for the company store
“Risking their lives for the company store”
By Swopa Jun 4 2006 – 5:01pm
“Lindsay Beyerstein’s review of “The War Tapes” is a must-read:
“The War Tapes” is a milestone in journalism. For the first time in this war, citizen soldiers became citizen journalists. They made a movie unlike anything you’ve ever seen about the war in Iraq.
. . . We see the war from the first-person perspectives of soldiers with cameras. In addition to their hand-held cameras, the Guardsmen also mounted tripods on their gun turrets, and on the dashboard of their Humvee. They also attached cameras to their helmets and body armor…..”

Good morning all! Everyone ready for the first day of the Republican Hate Week?

Today we will be honored by the almighty W. who will enlighten us on the evils of gay marriage.

Tomorrow, Frist and Hastert will play hackey-sack with dead kittens. On Wed they will fill countless barrels of monkeys to allow citizens to make their guess on how many of the monkey’s Santorum thinks are deviants. The winner will get an all expenses paid date with Katherine Harris or John Cornyn.

Great fun in the heartland! Of course all events will have sodas and non-phalic hot dogs. And each event will be closed out by a good ol fashioned fag drag! So don’t forget your rope!!

Happy hate day to all!

Arianna has a moving post up today and a commenter has cited a war vet named John McCarthy who has a powerful essay wrt to this war and war crimes.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…..22130.html

omg– both cspan channels have coverage on gay marriage and cnn and msnbc have letourneau and her hubby… our country is going straight down the toilet. quicker every day.

angie — I know. I usually monitor the news with a low volume in the background as I’m working, but I can’t take it today. It’s just bread and circuses everywhere I turn. Blergh. I’ve got a Best of the Gypsy Kings playing at the moment in the CD player. Much more fun.

Er, cbl . . . that Newsweek link gets me a 404 Error message atop quite the menu of gay porn offerings. Er.

until some activist judges ruled the ban on inter-racial marriages was illegal, that marriage of LeTourneau and her non-white beau would have still been illegal even as adults…

Odd, but this topic doesn’t appear when I go to FDL or click on the “home” banner. It’s still the Late Nite post.

lostuslander — I think Rawstory may have updated its link. Here’s one that is working for me at the moment:

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2….._0604.html

Hope it works for you. (I got the search site with the porn spam via the last link as well…it looks like it’s been updated, though.)

Tommy — we’re having a glitch which, hopefully, will be fixed soon.

Hmmm. Y’all getting the impression that NSA may be jerking our chain this morning?

Naaaah.

Sunspots?

T’anks, Christy.

Well, at least their are some brains on cspan1– Fein and Seidman, etc. rather than the rabble rousers and Allard on 2. love the gypsy kings.

sorry lotuslander,

first off, am trying to link 2 USNWR articles

the ‘9 Pager’ is All Addington, All the time -
per the earlier discussions -

“Whether or not he became the de facto leader of the group, as some administration officials say, Addington’s involvement made for a formidable team. “You put Addington, Yoo, and Gonzales in a room, and there was a race to see who was tougher than the rest and how expansive they could be with respect to presidential power,” says a former Justice Department official. “If you suggested anything less, you were considered a wimp.” Others say Addington and Flanigan influenced Gonzales, who lacked their national security background.”

9 Pager

this link is an older article about Mueller, just do the Control F thing and type in Addington – it will highlight some of his, um, requests to Mueller
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/art…..7fbi_3.htm

then I’ll go and see if I can find a Non Gay Porn link to the Newsweek article

btw, the whole Abu/Mueller ‘we’re gonna resign over Jefferson’ contretempts looks a little different in light of the quote above about making Abu feel a little less manly due to his lack of nat’l security background, doesn’t it ?

Colbert is great, and as a Northwestern grad who had to badger the Registrar’s office to get into graduation – misposted a grade – I’m glad he finally made it!

Ah, humor . . .

Monty Python’s riff on government from The Life of Brian is a classic. The intrepid Judean People’s Front (or was it the People’s Front of Judea?) is getting themselves psyched up to kidnap Pilate’s wife, and the leader tries to stir up the troops. “What have the Romans ever given us?” he asks. The answers are not what he expected: the aqueduct, sanitation, medicine, roads, irrigation, education, wine, public baths, safe streets, etc.

I’d love to see Timmeh pull out that clip the next time some Grover Norquist, cut-every-tax-till-it-bleeds, anti-govenrment suck-up comes on Press the Meat. Ain’t gonna happen, though. Wouldn’t be prudent.

Other classic comedy clips that ought to be shown on Sunday mornings, anyone? Punaise? Sharkbabe?

Okay, everyone, I think the glitch is fixed. This thread should show up on the main page now. :) Whew!

just wanted y’all to know, I got fifteen canned political phone messages yesterday. My husband wants to know how to get on the “no call” list.

I don’t know why anyone thinks this is an effective marketing tactic.

OfT from LATimes: Army Manual to Skip Geneva Detainee Rule
“The Pentagon’s move to omit a ban on prisoner humiliation from the basic guide to soldier conduct faces strong State Dept. opposition.”
By Julian E. Barnes, Times Staff Writer June 5, 2006
“WASHINGTON – The Pentagon has decided to omit from new detainee policies a key tenet of the Geneva Convention that explicitly bans “humiliating and degrading treatment,” according to knowledgeable military officials, a step that would mark a further, potentially permanent, shift away from strict adherence to international human rights standards….”

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We do not interfere with citizens communications. We merely record them and make them available to anybody in the White House that desires to peruse them. Please go about your normal business now and do not cast aspersions about us. Understand?

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mwahahahahaha *ilson — good one!

Aw god, turns out we’re talking about the same story, cbl — the one I couldn’t get through sane. Must. Do. This. For. Their. Sakes.

lina @30

The do-not-call list legislation specifically excludes (1) charities, (2) businesses with which you have a prior relationship, and . . . wait for it . . . political campaigns.

Tell your hubby he’s SOL. At least til the election is over.

EPU’d from last thread…

Yes, Yes, YES! Headline on CNN.com

Democrats: ‘Rubber Stamp Congress’

CNN) – A Vermont Democrat running for Congress said the Bush administration has “no clear strategy for success” in Iraq and that the “Republican ‘Rubber Stamp Congress’ has failed to do its duty when it comes to the oversight of this administration.”

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITI…..index.html

zergle (#15): “non-phallic hot dogs”? hmmmmmm. would they have a kind of triangular shape? or what?

Re the LA Times story – saw the headline this morning walking past a box on my way to the train.
First thought: do Rumsfeld and his buddies realize this opens them up to war crimes charges?
Second thought: do they think signing statements abrogate signed (and ratified) treaties?
Third thought: if someone wants to collect these guys for the Hague, I won’t stand in the way.

fahrender: don’t focus on the non-phallic hot dogs or you will miss the symbolism of the open hot dog buns …

I wonder if the NSA has passed along to BushCo the identity of “Dana L.” from yesterday’s WashPo. She had an opinion piece with the headline “What Happens When There’s No Plan B,” and starts with the line, “The conservative politics of the Bush administration forced me to have an abortion I didn’t want.” It gets better from there.

Except, of course, for the fact that it happened.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/…..05_pf.html

citizens deal with perceived political bias in MSM : http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/5048642.stm

Thank Goodness the whole porn thing was on y’all’s side – really wasn’t looking forward to discussing it with the Teenager

Lotuslander – glad you have the link – again, it is so unusual that all these families are speaking up and at least in these three cases,
(2 Marine families and Marine Wife) it isn’t a case of a def atty trying to put some spin out there – this is just beyond SOP for military families

Peterr (#28):

“Always look on the bright si’ide of life! de-dum, de-dum de-dum de-dum…….”

“Brian” was on my list on the other night’s post on Politics and Pop Culture. One of the funniest and fun-est films of all time.

I’m into the 9-pager now, cbl, and though Chitra Ragavan seems to be doing a good job so far, I sure can’t buy her “apogee”:

“… Consumed by the 9/11 attacks, Americans for the most part didn’t realize that the signing statement accompanying the announcement of the Brown v. Board commission would signal one of the most controversial hallmarks of the Bush presidency: a historic shift in the balance of power away from the legislative branch of government to the executive. The shift began soon after Bush took office and reached its apogee after 9/11, with Bush’s authorization of military tribunals for terrorism suspects, secret detentions and aggressive interrogations of “unlawful enemy combatants,” and warrantless electronic surveillance of terrorism suspects on U.S. soil, including American citizens. …”

Apogee, my foot. Nadir, more like. We shall see . . .

ilson 46201 (#39):

but, but, I wanted to focus on the meat of the matter!

*ilson, Fahrender –

What kind of condiments come with those hot dogs and buns?

I’m guessing sour-kraut, but that’s just a guess.

Russian man takes the test of faith and fails badly.

http://www.rawstory.com/showar…..ON-DC.html

*Perhaps we can get Rev. Pat Robertson to to take the test.

*Asterisk denotes a sarcastic attempt at humor and in no way intends to leave the impression that I or anyone at FDL would like to see Rev. Pat mauled by a lioness.

Peterr (#46): it’s a Special Sauce Shake’n Bake

Zergle,

“Good morning all! Everyone ready for the first day of the Republican Hate Week?”

As a matter of fact, I am ; )

I’ve got a business appointment tomorrow with a guy who has this proudly displayed on his companies web site…”XXXX named 2003 Businessman of the Year by the
National Republican Congressional Committee”

If I remember correctly that particular “award” was FOR SALE via the RNC to anyone and everyone back then and included a photo op with Tom DeLay presenting the “award”, there’s 100’s of them.

We’ll see who the businessman is when I get finished with him, heh heh ; ) I luvs me some Republican money.

Rumsfeld=Geneva, shmeneva.

-GSD

OfT: Per FDL Book Salon yesterday, I emailed this to Brian Calame at public@nytimes.com.
Subject: NYT’s Best Seller, HWAPA, unsupported by “Bulk” orders.

Dear Mr. Calame:
The New York Times placed a “dagger” next to Glenn Greenwald’s HOW WOULD A PATRIOT ACT.
Yesterday in a scheduled chat at
http://www.firedoglake.com/200…..t-pt-ii-2/
Mr. Greenwald’s editor, Jennifer Nix posted this on
June 4th, 2006 at 2:25 pm: “I know of no big orders made by groups or individuals, and would like to know exactly how many books constitute a “bulk.”"
I would be very grateful if you could ask the appropriate person at the New York Times to contact Ms. Nix and confirm that the “dagger” has been removed.
Sincerely,

Hello everyone,

Humor is very effective. I once was attacked by humor and was ROFL so hard I couldn’t get up to belt the guy like I really wanted to. I was paralyzed by laughter and furious at the same time. Weird emotional mixture.

I just returned from spending a lot of time with members of my old military outfit. I’m sure it’s not hard for you to imagine the political atmosphere.

I decided to confront with the bedwetting meme that’s been vectored by progressives. Every time someone pushed the “fear button” I responded dramatically with something like, “Oooooh! I’m wetting myself now. I’m sooooooo scared.” I carried on assorted pee ‘n poop images until I sunk home my point and they were silenced. It actually worked.

I must say, bedwetting ridicule is very potent.

–

Over the weekend I’ve been reading about anti-war sentiment at the NH Dem Convention. Surely NY can’t be that much different, and Zogby has a poll that Hillary Clinton can be defeated in the primary. My question is, since the NY primary is not until September 12, can Tasini, her Dem opponent and an anti-war candidate, be helped by Internet support a la Ned Lamont? Is there anything going on that I don’t know of? I sure would like to help.

Hate Week huh ?

Sharkbabe, will you marry me ? I’m a lot of fun, and am told I am very low maintenance – I even like goats!

Lotuslander -
my hatred of Addington is so visceral, until recently, I couldn’t even see his name in print without feeling my blood pressure actually rise – the legal eagles here may have a deeper appreciation for what he did to the JAG folks – a true Enemy of the People

There’s nobody who dishes up the snark quite like Stephen Colbert…it’s clearly a gift to be able to say things that have a certain segment of the population taking it at face value, while the rest of us laugh. *g*

This constitutional amendment thing is ridiculous and insulting. I swear the media are as well-trained as one of my dogs, who, as soon as I put my lunch in my bag, heads right for her crate. In this case, the administration has decided to change the subject, and the media are all heading for their crates, like the good dogs they are. I mean, how can they let they get away with giving a platform to people who think two people who love each other and want to commit to each other are in any way, shape or form threatening to or eroding “traditional” marriages? You would think from the way they frame this issue that all man/woman marriages were all slated for success, which, given the divorce rate, we know is not the case.

To me, it’s a pretty simple thing, really, but it involves what is clearly considered heresy by some: separating the government’s recognition of a civil service from the religious sacrament of marriage. They are two different things. How do we know this? Because the government does not require couples who obtain a civil license to have a religious ceremony of any kind.

We’re really talking semantics, but you can’t blame the gay community for it. I don’t know when the government began requiring couples to have a license to become legally bound to each other, but someone obviously decided it was easier to just call it “marriage” than to call it something else that had no religious meaning.

Well, we kind of got stuck with it, but it’s time people got over the extreme umbrage they take over the use of the word “marriage” to describe a government-sanctioned union.

We get that a number of people believe that to be gay means one is deviant and abnormal and that “those” kind of people should not be allowed to either sully the sacred bonds of matrimony, or enjoy any of the legal protections and benefits that “normal” people do. But, once again, this group of people seems to think that their views of this issue should control the lives of everyone else – they simply are not happy at the thought that there are people out here in the world who don’t believe as they do. They can’t make anyone believe as they do, so they want the next best thing: prohibit others from acting in any way that does not conform to their beliefs.

I’ve been married for almost 26 years. In that time, my husband and I have faced a number of ups and downs that have, at times, tested our commitment to each other. I can assure the holier-than-thou group that at no time did we ever feel a threat to our marriage from anyone who was gay, or any gay couple who wished to be legally committed to each other. Never. And I have to say that gays getting the same legal rights that my husband and I have does not weaken the bonds of my marriage.

I just can’t believe that anyone would seriously entertain writing discrimination and bigotry into the Constitution. And the fact that it isn’t likely to even make it out of the Senate means that this is nothing more than a “get out the vote” campaign, and we need to call on it both the instigators of this nonsense, and the media pinheads who think it bears reporting on.

Peterr – I read that piece in the WaPo yesterday, and think it bears reading and discussing; pretty powerful example of who is really affected by the right-wing fear that making Plan B over-the-counter will drive the young girls straight into promiscuity.

The other egregious aspect of the whole “gay marriage amendment” is that it is a 180 degree flip-flop for the Conservative mantra of states rights….

The federal government is going to impose their laws on all sorts of states that don’t want to be bothered with them…Federal intrusion into states rights is a very important issue with conservatives…the federal government has NO right to stick their noses in the states business, unless of course it is with No Child Left Behind mandates or the Supreme Court picking the president, or in dealing with them pesky gays…..

The nation sinks deeper into stupidity and moral craveness with every day we live under Buhs and Rove.

-GSD

Yes, but 15 is the MINIMUM number pieces of required flair.

MSNBC Question of the Day
Will the marriage amendment debate help the GOP in November?
Yes 22%
No 78%

mwee hee, Simp — Every time we eat in one of those restaurants where “flare” is a part of the attire, I have to stifle the urge to just laugh at the manager. *g*

new thread: The Real McCain….

The Right Wing “States Rights” red herring has never been about States Rights — it’s always been code for legalized discrimination.

When States actually exercise their Rights and outlaw discrimination, the hatemongers immediately shift gears to “Federal Rights” or “Natural Law” or “Family Values” or “Christian Morality” or whatever else has political salience with their hateful and fear filled constituents.

christy, thank you!

though cubicle-free, i’m having a dastardly case of the mondays today and my usual methods for dealing haven’t been doing the trick. nothing like laughing at smart snark to unblock the blocks.

and a special thanks for including the part about cynicism and ’saying yes.’ answer to a prayer! *g*

really, thanks!!

Anne -

The attack on the gay community and much of the anti-abortion nonsense that has sprung up around Plan B are intertwined. So much of it is about controlling women, and any (like gays and lesbians) who challenge stereotypical gender roles must be confronted and put in their place.

Of course, Monty Python saw this coming, and provided a wonderfully Colbert-esque commentary in song – dare we call it a hymn? – to go along with this ideology . . .

Every sperm is sacred, every sperm is great,
If a sperm is wasted, God gets quite irate.

Let the heathen spill theirs, on the dusty ground,
God shall make them pay for each sperm that can’t be found

Every sperm is wanted, every sperm is good,
Every sperm is needed in your neighbourhood.

Women, don’t have any of the sacred seed? Stand aside for those who do, and gays, quit wasting yours!

I swear, if it wasn’t for humor Mondays would be tough to deal with.

(Or, re recent discussions, should I say “Mondays would be tough with which to deal”?)

isis2 — you are most welcome. I needed it this morning, too — I’m having a horrible case of the Mondays (along with a headache that I just can’t shake…blergh…but hot tea is most helpful, as is a healthy does of snark.)

Is This Michelle Malkin’s puppy?

http://ornerybastard.blogspot.com/

I am sooo going to hell.

Unfortunately, I am actually busy these days studying (don’t ask), and, of course, occassionaly working.

But, the single funniest rift on the “sin” of wasted sperm, is a Father Guido Sarducci monogue from SNL. Unfortunately, I can’t find a transcript – maybe I will search YouTube for it.

Basically, it goes something like this (and this is on memory from 25 years ago, so forgive me if I find the original and I am off by a little.

You have an “account” with god, and you get credited say $10 dollars for doing something good, and debited money for doing something bad/committing a sin. Masterbation is a $0.14 (14 cents) debit. So, in the monologue, some famous person gets to St. Peter and is told they are 14 cents short and can’t get in.

I have to find that monologue.

Anne @ 55
Having just celebrated 22 years of marriage with my husband I am afraid I have to say there might be something to the gays affecting straight marriage.

A number of years ago my husband and I went through a rough patch in our marriage.
At the time our next door neighbours were a lesbian couple who had been together for over 5 years. One of them was a nurse. Around the corner was another gay couple who had also been together for several years. One of them was a teacher.

Down the lane, was another lesbian couple, but we only really saw them in the winter when we would grimace at each in commiseration, when we would shovel the snow.

A few years ago the gay couple moved away when they bought a house in another city. Although we had been friendly with them, we lost touch.

The lesbian couple next door broke up. The nurse has a new partner but we are not that friendly any more.

With global warming we have not had to shovel out the back for a few years, especially since we don’t own a car anymore, so we don’t see the other lesbian couple though I think they are still there as I have seen their Volvo.

And my husband and are back to being happily married. The biggest change that I can see is that the gay couple moved away.

Coincidence? I think not.

so we got remedial “don’t kill babies” training AND we exclude the Geneva conventions from the training manual

does anybody wonder why we need remedial “don’t kill babies” training ???

looseheadprop says:
June 5th, 2006 at 7:11 am

Carl Hiaasen on 60 minutes last night also believes that what politicians fear most is ridicule.

“English was good enough for Jesus Christ and it’s good enough for the children of Texas.” (Miriam “Ma” Ferguson, Governor of Texas, 1924)

Somehow I knew that this quotehad to have come from a Texan….

“Things to Come”

Yesterday while flipping through the Sunday Talk shows (Why are they all on at the same time?) I hit a local talk show on politics with the DFL prospective candidate for the US Senate in 2008 — Al Franken. In case you don’t know this yet — Franken has moved home to Minnesota, got a condo, registered to vote, and attended his precinct caucus this March — an act that makes you a party member. As Walter Mondale put it at the Carter Center recently when asked about the appropriatness of running a stand up comic for the Senate (in the monument to someone who ran for President as both a Peanut Farmer and a Nuclear Engineer,) — “Well, there are lots down in DC who don’t know they are stand up comics — we might as well send them a real one.” Anyhow, given the tone of the Sunday KSTP interview, Franken is hot to announced for the Wellstone Seat for the 2008 contest against Norm Coleman.

Franken took a turn against Coleman making note of the fact that Coleman currently chairs the Permenant Senate Investigating Committee which was established in the early 40’s for Harry Truman’s investigations of Waste, Fraud and Abuse in war procurement during WW II. After going through a list of “evil-dooers” Truman had investigated, and how much money he had saved — Franken turned on Coleman and his failure to investigatively address ANYTHING. He just isn’t appropriately “Trumanisk” and oh — does it work. Just a taste of what we may have to look forward to in 2008.

Anne, after thirty years of marriage I have observed that the gay marriages I have witnessed are no different than other long lasting marriages. They are or can be inspirational in their human spirit and love. But with gays it is even more so in that they face so much more adversity from the hateful unchristian parts of our society.

Somebody suggested laughing at our enemies rather than taking them seriously. And why not? Somebody do me a bumper sticker that says “McCain would be a good McPresident”

I’ve got a business appointment tomorrow with a guy who has this proudly displayed on his companies web site%u2026″XXXX named 2003 Businessman of the Year by the
National Republican Congressional Committee”

Eeeewww, that website has a picture of the aorementioned posing with snarlin’ Oily Dick.
Not to mention this vomit-inducing quote:

It’s not just one or a few businessmen of 2003, but Any and Every businessman, post 9/11, in the US, chin-up, chest thrust forward, leading our national renewal that deserves this accolade. Evidence of our renewal is being demonstrated now in every national economic indicatior.”

Normally you’d have to flip over to the North Korean Central News Agency website to find statements that toadying, sycophantic and cringeworthy.

Anybody that vapidly stupid, it should be easy cleaning their clock.

Good one, Barnacle Bill.

I have worked in offices for 25 years and I can assure you that Office Space is dead-on right. And really, truly, like real offices. (And for 5 years, I did contracting, being in many offices.)

Every single person in that movie reminded me of someone I really knew in my work life.

One of my favorite movies!