Rootz

get a zero, Katymine?

Trying to stay cool and occupied at the sametime…

continuing trying to make katymine feel better: it’s 4am in Baghdad right now and the temperature is down to 88ºF — their air-conditioning is off too because the electricity is probably down again…

“marottes”* — oh man, what a perfect word with which to beckon our one-and-only punaise!

*sculptures on sticks

Thanks for the reminder to check out Fafnir & Giblets. I love Giblets! Good gravy! (The Medium Lobster is also quite delicious, but in a cruel, ethically-vexing sort of way.)

It was 96/108 the last time I checked… dragged the dog into the pool (hates it) but she is feeling better now.

“…against the fantasy-based community.”

That turn of phrase was worth the whole price of admission.

Xeno in 6:
Thanks for the reminder to check out Fafnir & Giblets. I love Giblets! Good gravy! (The Medium Lobster is also quite delicious, but in a cruel, ethically-vexing sort of way.)

The Medium Lobster rules. (Fafnir and Giblets rule too, but in less cosmically transcendent ways.)

After watching kiss kiss bang bang last night, I brought my dog down to the lake, started a fire in the fire pit, sat on a bench and got my dog to howl a prayer with me for Jane’s mom. Some kids at the Christian camp across the lake started howling, then another dog, and maybe a coyote out in the forest to the north. My cat was lurking in the bushes, watching us with some very wide eyes and an unsure look……..

watertiger, dear, you simply dast not leave out the magnifico d r i f t g l a s s!

Excuse me again, but NYT’s lede story is now:

“North Korea appears to have completed fueling of a missile capable of reaching the U.S., and diplomats worked furiously to try to forestall a launch. %u2026 “

(NOTE: This was from “lotus” in the book discussion thread. We try to keep the book discussion solely on book topics, so I’ve moved this to the new thread for everyone to see. Thanks. — CHS)

Wait a minute. Hitchens thinks fellatio is “uniquely American”? Memo to Hitchens: History’s references to Cleopatra’s skill with “the ivory flute” were not referring to her musical ability. We may be enthusiastic fans of the act, but we’re hardly the only ones, now or ever.

ET 10, I dearly hope it helped Jane’s mom more, but I know your image just did me a power o’ good!

Ah, how could I forget driftglass?!

quite the effective State Department we’ve got there.

Again I apologize, Christy, but that was so big I thought I’d better share it. Had I known this thread would be up w/in 5 minutes, I’d have waited. (Probably shoulda had that much sense anyway — but it just startled me so.)

Geez – that picture of Bush makes me think of carnival games where you win something if you can get the disk directly in the clown’s mouth…

I swear, in that picture it looks like dubya forgot to put his dentures in!

Anne, isn’t he the very picture of the comedy mask of ancient Greek theatre?

Christy Hardin Smith says:
June 18th, 2006 at 5:02 pm
Excuse me again, but NYT’s lede story is now:

“North Korea appears to have completed fueling of a missile capable of reaching the U.S., and diplomats worked furiously to try to forestall a launch. %u2026 “

(NOTE: This was from “lotus” in the book discussion thread. We try to keep the book discussion solely on book topics, so I’ve moved this to the new thread for everyone to see. Thanks. %u2014 CHS)
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It’s a missle than can reach us, and the Japanese are worried that it might land on them? I guess the North Koreans are worse at geography than even Americans are.

On the serious side, why would they NOT test it? If I were in their shoes, I’d pick a quiet spot in the south Pacific and see if I could hit it. As isolated (not to mention nutty) as North Korea is, what have they got to lose?

Hume’s Ghost did a rather good job of dissecting Michelle Malkin’s Bizarro World yesterday at Unclaimed Territory.

Snark! Snark in the pond!

North Korea fueling an ICBM?

Is the $megatrillion ABM system functional yet?

Not to worry.

Frank Probst

I have been trying to get through “Cleopatra” with Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. It’s been pretty heavy going even with making rude comments. Still if this is history, all I can say is it had great sets.

Re North Korea’s fueled missile: well, God, if our heads are spinning (and mine sure is), imagine how much faster those empty vessels in our Exec Branch are rotating.

This is not going to be a good week — for Chimpy or anyone else.

lotus, he’s a clown. An insane clown with an emotional age of 7 or so. I would not dignify what Bush represents by comparing it to Greek theater. Ringling Brothers, maybe.

If you have ever seen a CT of an alcoholic’s brain, it looks much on the inside like that picture does on the outside.

props to boadicea in the book thread

Post Traumatic Press Disorder

let’s not forget riesz fisher

MSRNC

and all hail the Mighty Water Tiger!

We got Ringling Bros. with which to counter the world.

Yep, Anne, I think you called that one jes’ about right. Damn.

If fellatio is uniquely American, then I call Extra Super Duper American for cunnilingus.

The Rude Pundit should not be ignored. Bushco (also known as The Kleptocracy) and assorted Cling-Ons are properly addressed.

http://rudepundit.blogspot.com…..er-in.html

being a rather good fellator myself — the very idea of an odious toad like Snitchens writing about the subject is something I find profoundly distasteful !

Thanks for the round-up, Watertiger. One blog I check regularly is Jonathan Schwarz’s A Tiny Revolution. He’s been picking on poor Peter Beinart (Pe-Nart) this week.

Have not been around and so sorry I missed the Lapdogs thread! Apologize if this has been covered to death…

Speaking of LAPDOGS – ALL reporters are barred from Gitmo after the “suicides” of 3 prisoners and the U.S. media are NOT screaming like banshees?

If that’s not definitive proof that the coffin of the Fourth Estate is nailed and buried deep beneath the earth, I can’t imagine what is.

They’re just like dumbya – NON-CURIOUS! It’s just sick – I mean they’re so arrogant, so pleased with themselves and the “job” they’re doing – and they just lay down for being banned from a huge story? I’m flabbergasted!

Fantasty based community.

Mwahahaha…good one, watertiger. :) Great post.

Excellent, JWR.

And Heretik, I’m lookin’ at you…

Perhaps I should clarify: this week’s list is not exclusive. I’ll be visiting as many sites as I can during the week.

Here’s a piece I did about l’il Jeffy in which he talks to his most appreciative audience: a dead guy!

http://steveaudio.blogspot.com…..s-sad.html

Thank you SO MUCH!

The roller coaster between hope and despair was tilting far too much to the latter today reading all that’s going on.

Snark is healthy. Good for the soul!

I have been trying to get through “Cleopatra” with Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. It’s been pretty heavy going even with making rude comments. Still if this is history, all I can say is it had great sets.
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I thought that one was good dumb fun. They should have stuck with Shakespeare’s script, though.

One…craptastic sensation
Every policy headfake.
Like…painful urination
Every bogus move they make
Some lies and suddenly people begin to know,
You know you’ll never get truth from those media ho’s
One moment in his presence
Here comes the rude pseudonym
For the guy takes criticism from none,
Son.
Ooooh! Sigh! Deficit attentions
They…Will…eat up all your pensions
‘Til…They’re…done’

Memo to Dems who can’t get their acts together on Iraq: Just follow Murtha’s lead. Is it really that hard to do?

Taro Aso, the Japanese Foreign Minister cited in the NYTimes story about North Korea, very well may win the upcoming election in Japan. And he has some VERY Bush-like qualities (came from a well connected family, not too bright, prone to making rather outlandish statements that people around him have to bust ass to correct). Because of his standing and because of the rightism that seems to be fucking with the whole world, his statement is not to be swept under the carpet (in my very humble opinion)

everhopeful @ 5:31 pm (#33) – Jon Stewart connected the dots the other night. Yep, it’s all because of Bill O’Reilly. The Daily Show, the kind of journalism you can’t get anywhere else.

Frank Probst @ 5:38 pm (#39) – Oh, everybody does Shakespeare!

oh, and btw, if Japan escalates this stuff with N. Korea (and by extension China), guess who Japan’s going to be looking for to swoop in and save the day?

Don’t forget Kung Fu Monkey

http://kfmonkey.blogspot.com/

Cannonfire

http://cannonfire.blogspot.com/

New Donkey

http://newdonkey.blogspot.com/

and Oliver Willis: Like Kryptonite to Stupid

http://www.oliverwillis.com/

darkblack 40 – catchy! :)

Well, after clogging up your comments with my tales of woe about Sage not finding here, I found a proxy to get me here. Better than nothing, I guess.
Anyone having trouble seeing Jesus General’s new ”ad” try this:
http://webpages.charter.net/micah/lamont.gif

Actually about the Murtha plan, I’m surprised Democrats and progressives haven’t countered cut and run with the Republicans are “in denial”. They failed, they can’t accept it but it is American soldiers and the American people who are paying the price. It fits with

Had enough?

doug r: thanks for the Lamont link — amusing!

this woman makes both punaise AND Tbogg laugh

Edicts of Nancy

bonzarella #43

If Taro Aso is as bad as you say, I think it will not be too difficult to come up with an appropriate epithet for him. He just has one of those names that seems to beg for it.

Just checked the Oliver Willis site, and found this:

The same formula that led to electoral losses in 2002 and 2004 is currently in play. The Democratic leadership along with the same sorry ass Democratic consultants are writing the playbook again. Democrats will wake up after election day, seeing losses or the status quo and wondering why a campaign on healthcare, education and ethics somehow got trampled by a campaign about the most important issue of our time.

Couldn’t have said it better myself. The Democratic leadership wants Bob Caseys – inept, lazy candidates who will, if they manage to be elected, faithfully follow the DLC to oblivion. They’d rather lose with those guys than have to work with independent people like Feingold.

Personally, my version of “Had Enough?” applies to them as much as it does to the Republicans.

President Al Gore will be on CSpan2 next Sunday at 7pm ET to talk about his new book: “An Inconvenient Truth”

hugh 53:
you got it!
I mean, he’s already Foreign Minister Aso!

I watched “Fog of War” again last night. It’s amazing how little we have learned in the last 30 years. Also creepy how much the retoric today matches the last version.

Creepiest part: When LBJ talks about the domino effect and says “What do you think will happen to all those other little countries?” His manner of speaking there is spooky-similar to dubya’s when he pitches his absurd reverse-domino theory.

Cujo 359 #54

I think there is a clear difference between the Republicans and the Democrats. In an election between the criminal and the feckless, I know how I’m voting.

and on another OT note:
the news of the Episcopal Church’s quick and easy decision to elect a female presiding bishop (who favors same-sex marriage and ordination of open GLBT people) is also HUGE news tonight. Her name is Katharine Schori, she’s from Nevada, and people — the Episcopal church only started ordaining women in 1977, so it’s come a long way in a relatively short time. . . justice is slow, and this has been a Hard Week (Rove), but there is hope.

OT – FYI: CNN is rerunning the larry king with al gore now

CSpan2 is running an interview with Andrew Kohut about his devasting polling results about how the world sees America. The Preznit has a 3% approval rating in Turkey — US bloggers now have a new goal to achieve in America!

w a t e r t i g e r ! ! !

In a poll I just took, bush got a 0% approval rating.

-2 humans and 2 cats polled

*ilson46201 #61

So only 3% of Turks are batshit crazy? Well, at least our country leads still leads the world in something.

p u n a i s e ! ! !

:)

bonzarella 59 – AMEN!!!

heh – chimpy marotte

marotte hand don’t know whatma left hand’s doin’

Sharkbabe 30 – cunning linguist

66 HinTN: are you in Tennessee? (So am I. . . )

punaise –

cunning linguist

that would be you, dear.

punaise @ 69 : low hanging fruit

*ilson 72, guilty as charged

we got a new kitten*!

I wanted to name it Fitz the Cat, but the rest of the family is not on board with that. I may post photos in Late Nite and solicit suggestions.

*(8 week old male orange tabby from the shelter…your basic cat)

Fitz the cat is the purrfect name – don’t let them beat you down Punaise!

….back later…

Awwww punaise, we had an orange tabby like that named Henry. He was the best kitty we ever had — so may you have the same luck with your new boy.

North Korea can most likely reach the US with a really good missle. Y’all forget how far out the Alaskan islands go.

How many of you remember the Spanish Naval ship that stoped a North Korean freighter and searched it in October of 2002?? If y’all remember, it had nuclear components hidden amongst the concrete mix. The Spanish quickly called the US Navy to come in. It was quickly passed over for the build up to the Iraq invasion. Yes, it was painfully obvious by the end of October that the US was going to invade, no matter what anyone else may have said or done.

Why the gov’t ignored the elephant for the mouse is beyond me….

Watertiger rules! In the land of snark, she is a Queen!

And every night, after coming here first to firedoglake, then on to HuffPo and Crooks and Liars and Steve Gilliard, I have a late-night dessert of snark served up by the Queen at Dependable Renegade.

Snarkalicious! A treat not to be missed!

WH Press Secretary Snow criticizes media for its fixation on news. WH Press Corps angrily deny charge.

rent a copy of the DVD of “Fritz the Cat” to show the family the deep cultural roots and significance of the name…

Orangerie?

Since humor is the topic, why has no one linked to the latest from Jokeline? Therein, he advises that the Dems can either play politics, or get real and fall in line behind the Bush/Rove agenda. This would be, in Joke’s own words, “the responsible path.”

Oh wait, that’s not funny. That’s very, very sad.

Viktor after Viktor Yushchenko and the Orange
Revolution…

>>>>>>>>>>
Ukraine’s “Orange Revolution” (Ukrainian: %u041F%u043E%u043C%u0430%u0440%u0430%u043D%u0447%u0435%u0432%u0430 %u0440%u0435%u0432%u043E%u043B%u044E%u0446%u0456%u044F) of 2004-2005 was a series of protests and political events that took place throughout the country in response to allegations of massive corruption, voter intimidation and direct electoral fraud during the 2004 Ukrainian presidential election.

Frank I recently saw Cleopatra at the Academy in 70mm stereo. Itreally has to be seen that way. Quite something.Kind of a cross between DeMille and Antonioni.

sorry about the Ukranian that did not make it thru wordpress, folks.

Seems the reason we don’t attack North Korea is that our government knows they can defend themselves. Much better to pick on a country like Grenada (Reagan: another phony cow-poke) or Iraq where you’re sure you can beat the tar out of them. With North Korea or for that matter perhaps Iran, it’s just the Bush rules of playground bullyism on display. Only push around those you know won’t or can’t put up much of a fight. Oh George, you are one bad ass homie. You’re my hero, big guy.

Hey !

Y’all forgot that sterling wit: Cal Thomas

courtesy C & L
(apologies if already posted in earlier thread)

While talking about the shake up at MSNBC, Cal Thomas was very candid about what FOX News is really all about.

Thomas: “All of them are trying to copy FOX News now to be honest. Many of them are doing tabloid, more big lipped blonde’s and all this kind of stuff. There’s only so much of that trailer trash pie to go around.”

“*(8 week old male orange tabby from the shelter … your basic cat)”

I friend of mine told me that 90% of tabbys are male, strange. Mine is too.

Pussnaise?

Purrnaise

Well wonders never cease…Murthas remarks about Miss Piggy Rover sitting on his fat butt made the New Pravda Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06…..mp;emc=rss

Yeah, NK can most likely defend themselves quite handedly. I really wish that ‘they’ would actually try diplomacy. But, might as well wish for the lottery.

lotus @ 19:

There is indeed no difference, except hair on top. Eerie..

Uniquely American?

What a country!!

punaise,

i love the ginger kitties.

Prolly OT, but an interesting take on 2006 messaging strategy over at DKos:

http://www.dailykos.com/storyo…..17613/5042

Anne at 5:17 pm:
→An insane clown with an emotional age of 7 or so. I would not dignify what Bush represents by comparing it to Greek theater. Ringling Brothers, maybe.←

Gee, I don’t know, Anne. Ringling might still be too high an order of drama for BuzzBoy’s level of buffoonery. I happen recently to have run across these old photos of Ringling Bros. clown Emmett Kelly. Looks like that fellow has achieved a higher level of self-knowledge, though I suppose the wardrobe might explain how.

Wolcott….

http://jameswolcott.com/archiv…..corpse.php

Fitz the Cat, that’s too brill – orange tabbies (or ginger cats, in Britspeak) rock. I’ve had two, Freddy and Zippy, both great & memorable cats.

major Lieberman story from the Hartford Courant: http://www.courant.com/news/po…..lines-home

Uniquely American?

What a country!!

You know, that may just be THE most amazingly dumbass/ridiculous notion of Murkan exceptionalism I have yet heard – amid an EXTREMELY crowded field of idiotic contenders. These people really are going to put every last satirist out of business.

I am a cat addict. Felines of any kind. I love them all. But my fave is the Siamese.

the Andrew Kohut book and interview point out how out of sync America and Americans are with the rest of the world on so very many topics …

With the World Cup now in progress, would Christopher Hitchens be considered the Human Auto-Goal?

… for years I had cats but a wild boyfriend persuaded me to get a pitbull. I ended up dumping the BF but keeping the dog …

*ilson #101:

“People are not excited by Lieberman. There are no groups or subgroups of voters who are excited about him.”

Bail out, Joe! Bail out!

bonzarella 70 – yep – been gone to watch big Al on the replay. He was my Congressman in District 4 before he was my Senator and VP. GORE FEINGOLD 2008!!!

Have you joined the Tennessee Roots Project?

*ilson

Thanks for the Courant piece. I should be checking daily, but missed today.

The best line in it is the last:

“Then he was gone.”

Dammit, Watertiger! I just checked in from writing my Late Nite post and I used the word “craptastic”, too.

Grrrrrrr. Now I have to change it.

TPMmuckraker points to this piece by Eric Lipton in the New York times as evidence that journalism is not dead.

new thread — old pie

TRex at 110 — you could leave craptastic in as an homage to Watertiger. *g*

hinTn 108: Ok this is totally embarrassing, but I lost the info on who to email/what to do to join the roots project. Now that summer is here I’ve got more time. . .
and oh yea, Gore/Feingold/and or Obama 08!!!

For Roots Project joining, send an email to stateproject at gmail dot com with the name of your home state in the subject line. HTH!

I love cats. I have a male “tabby point siamese” with slightly crossed eyes who is my interior design inspiration. meow. His name is Gus.

thanks Christy. . .I was mortified to ask because it’s been brought up so many times, but I couldn’t find that info when I sifted the site using the “roots project” filter. . . Thanks for making this the sort of place where someone like me — someone who reads posts/comments everyday but only posts occasionally — doesn’t feel entirely mortified to ask such a question.

al-Scooter 107

“Bail out, Joe! Bail out!”
—

“But it’s MY SEAT! (boo hoo)”

Sen. Joseph Lieberman

Way late and epu’d but great roundup Watertiger (and your captions/pics are always at the top of any lists)

I never knew fafblog, but faf is good stuff. Good good good stuff.

How about CRAZAPPY?

How about Jack? After that orange tabby that chased the bear up the tree?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/5067912.stm

Frank Probst in 13:
Wait a minute. Hitchens thinks fellatio is “uniquely American”?

Maybe only American women (a teeny, tiny minority, I’ll wager) have so little self-respect as to go down on Christopher Hitchens.

Kitty pix awaiting moderation up in the de facto late night thread (”Head of Household”).

al-Scooter

With the World Cup now in progress, would Christopher Hitchens be considered the Human Auto-Goal?

great analogy. he scores on himself.

re: “I’ll Have the Glenfiddich Big Gulp” Hitchens.

watertiger, are you nuts? The guy drinks Johnny Walker black! You think that he has enough taste (or enough cash—at the rate he imbibes) to drink single malt, even Glenfiddich? Anyway, single malt is for sipping, not gulping. When I read that bit about JW Black years ago, I knew that Hitchens was lacking something serious, like good taste.

Does Hitchens mean we have a unique style of BJ’s? or that BJ’s are uniquely American?

Maybe Brits don’t have women that perform Clintons , but surely with all the homosexuals in Britain……..

I can state that BJ’s are an international enjoyment, ably performed by women of all nations in all locations.

Scout’s Honor.

What is your problem with Jurassic Pork’s comments? I thought this was a Democratic/Lberal (as in 1st Amendment rights) blog?

Punaise at 74:
My sister once got a new orange kitten. After watching it in its first attempt at the litterbox, she named it Turd Turner.

Nice and fitting name. DID ANYONE NOTICE THAT GEORGE BUSH WASN’T WEARING HIS WEDDING RING. JUST THOUGHT I’D LET YOU KNOW IF YOU HADN’T NOTICED. I guess there goes family values on to the nice lie.

test

FYI everyone, different blog sites are referring their readers to FDL to see the picture of Dumbya at the top of this topic, standing
at the podium with no wedding ring on his left hand!! What up wit that?? Are Laura and the gerbil
having marital problems?? How does family values Rover spin that in the press?? Someone is bound to have an explanation for the missing ring, right?

He is wearing a wedding ring. (Look closely)

World O’ Crap’s Meet the Press…in Hell. Shouldn’t be missed.