Murtha!

Sirota!

Fitz?

Lamont! Strickland! Rootz!

THAT PHOTO OF OUR PRESIDENT makes me laugh, Christy! Until I cry.

Thanks for this goody. Any word from Jane yet today?

lotus at 3 — haven’t spoken with her as yet this morning. I hope she and her sister have been able to get a little sleep. When we spoke yesterday, things sounded not so good for her mom, so if everyone could please keep them in thoughts and prayers (since I can’t think of anything else we can do at the moment), I’d appreciate it. And I’ll update as soon as I have any news.

Thanks for that, Christy, and for the boffo job you’re pulling off, blogging for two!

The best thing about the Murtha clip, which isn’t represented in the transcript, is when he says Karl Rove is “sitting on his big fat backside”. The transcript doesn’t really do this justice. It should be “big fat” (pause) “backside”. We all know the word he wanted to use.

Christy, what had me “dying” last week was the Bukkake Festival. Poor Margaret, so easy to picture the blogacity! I was crying, honestly.

lotus — it’s doesn’t feel so boffo this morning. I may need to start mainlining coffee. lol

Seriously, though, I wouldn’t have it any other way. Jane needs to worry about her family right now, and anything I can do to take the blog load off, I’m more than happy to do it. That goes double for all the fabu folks who’ve offered to pitch in and guest post — the progressive blogosphere is an amazing family.

murtha was fabulous yesterday. i have been enjoying the connecticut papers really giving it to holy joe like this one… http://www.journalinquirer.com.....&rfi=6

ccmask at 7 — you know, I missed all of that since I was at the Take Back America thing (I think — it’s such a blur at this point.) Should probably go back and take a peek at everything, since this is the second time that’s come up in the last coupla days…

One of the funniest videos ever made: “Thank You Mask Man,” from a Lenny Bruce stand-up routine. Genius.

Not necessarily work friendly!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZMTPGc0Z6A

Pretty much any post at Jesus’ General, TBogg or Sadly, No! does it for me.

Along the same lines as the Murtha and Colbert clips, there’s a link from BoingBoing.net to a Science Friday NPR debate between Tom Bethell and Chris Mooney (look for “Science advocate destroys global warming/AIDS dismisser”). It’s not so much funny as it is satisfying, because Chris calmly obliterates anything Bethell says, even though he says it in Authoritative Britsh English ™.

If you have the time, go listen … and tell me if I’m wrong for thinking that Ira Flatow focuses on Bethell and has Chris there just for color and rebuttal, because he constantly lets Bethell prattle on while Chris waits patiently to debunk whatever he’s blathering about. To make it worse, Chris gets the shaft for program breaks and has to wait to give some of his rebuttals. Unwarranted deferrence to right-wing mouthpieces extends to NPR as well. Nevertheless, it’s no contest about who comes across better.

when in need of a smile, I’ll often motor over to sadlyno.com

I generally get a good laugh out of NPR’s “Wait, Wait . . . Don’t Tell Me” news quiz show on Saturday mornings. For those who are not familiar with it, it’s kind of an audio “Who said that?” or “who were they talking about?” taken from the week’s news. Plenty of PG-rated snark, all in good fun.

Love and strength to Jane, and to you as well Christy!

MUST STUDY for a nat’l licensing exam tomorrow (she says over and over). Will check back later.

DairyMaid at 15 — good luck on your exam! :)

its about 5:36pm in Baghdad and the temperature is up to 110ºF — without reliable electricity, air-conditioners are probably down …

Thanks Christy!!!

Without meaning to amuse, a link I’ve just had EPU’d is pretty droll from our standpoint, so here ’tis again:

Whoa. Jay Rosen (online-only WaPo) just missed contributing a goody to our latest Book Salon:

“A decade after major news providers such as The Washington Post began publishing on the Internet, they are finally beginning to ask the right questions about what the Web can do for them and their readers - and to realize how disruptive web technology is to traditional journalism. …”

What makes me laugh these days?

I have two cats,one of which is just plain goofy.Al,a big black and white oaf.I haven’t figured out if he’s just a little slow or flat out insane.

My son,the smart ass.His rendition of the chicken dance in big Tazmanian Devil slippers is not to be missed.

Good Snark.I’m a smart ass too.

When Jon Stewart is on his game and does a righteous smackdown of some hacky conservative.

My favorite Bugs Bunny cartoon,the one with the Evil Scientist and the “innnnteresting monster”.Pinky and the Brain is good too.

George Carlin.

Right now my son is outside my office window making ridiculous faces at me.And armpit farts.

I take my laughs where I can get them,lol.

An umbrella group that includes al-Qaida in Iraq claimed in a Web statement Monday that it had kidnapped two U.S. soldiers reported missing south of Baghdad.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13380881/

Oh *ilson, thanks sooo much.

To quell my outrageous and pathological test anxiety, I can take solace in the fact that not only am I not being cooked alive while I am (not) studying, but come tomorrow a.m. I will probably not be dragged from a bus and murdered on my way to the exam, like children in Iraq were a few weeks ago.

Angry Old Broad at 20 — oh, man, that is one of my fave Bugs Bunny cartoons as well. “Bobby pins, please.” Mwahahaha. Thanks for the reminder — it’s pouring the rain down here at the moment. We need it, but it’s awfully gray and dreary outside. (Of course, the birds on my feeder don’t seem to care at all…)

Pogo always makes me laugh! Last night some good person here linked to a whole Pogo site, too. Thanks, whoever you were.

http://www.igopogo.com

My big laugh of the week was Lewis Black’s new special on HBO. The whole thing is a riot, but I particularly liked his bit about the Old Testament. Basically he goes on about how fundamentalist Christians always get it wrong because, hey, it’s not their book! If their confused, they should just a friendly local Jew to clear up any misunderstandings of the text.

So funny I nearly pitched off of my couch…

His overarching theme of how the Republicans fuck up so badly so often that he can’t write jokes fast enough to keep up is great too.

John Murtha made me feel warm and fuzzy all over this morning when I saw the clip from MTP.

Most of my laughs these days are coming from the FDL community.

I’m still getting mileage out of punaise’s comment about Molt ‘n Bolt Coulter, and that was weeks ago.

Of course my kids and dear mr. s keep me laughing too.

Thanks to everyone for the laughs in these difficult times.

Speaking of Bugs Bunny, the “Flight of the Valkyries” opera one should be deemed a national treasure. Everytime I hear that song all I can think is “Kill the wabbit!”

Bwahahaha!

Susan, yer right — awful hard to beat FDL-homegrown goof!

The Colbert interview with Mr. Ten Commandments was a hoot; this is what we send to Congress? Quite a commentary about the “quality” of our representation in Washington, but didn’t stop me from laughing at what a tool that guy was.

Re: Murtha - you just know he really wanted to say “ass” and checked himself; he was on fire yesterday.

Two stories from my own life that always make me chuckle.

Years ago, my husband had an old computer - an Apple - that he decided to sell. He put an ad in the paper, describing the computer and ending with “$1,500 or best offer.” A couple people called, but not much was happening. Last guy who called was clearly foreign. My husband answered the phone, and man said he was calling about the computer. Husband answered a few questions, and the guy finally said, “Okay, how about $1,600?” My husband tried to explain the concept of “or best offer,” but the guy just wasn’t getting it - he tried to offer $1,700. Finally, husband gave the guy directions to the house, and sold him the computer for $100 over his asking price.

Second story is an “out of the mouths of babes” story. The girls were about 4 and 1, and we were in the grocery store on a busy day. We’re standing in line, and talking about the things kids talk about. Older daughter is asking her usual million questions, and I’m patiently answering them, while distracting the 1 yr old from all the neat stuff in the checkout lane. At the point where our conversation has quieted down, and there’s a general hush in the crowd, older daughter announces, in her loud voice, “Mom, I saw those pictures of you and Daddy having sex.” Now it’s really quiet in my line and the lines around us, as all wait to hear the rest of THIS story…brain scrambling for how to address this announcement without making it worse, I ask her, “Umm, what pictures are you talking about, honey?” (people are, I’m sure, wondering whether there really might be such pictures) She says, “You know, the ones on the shelf in the living room.” (people are snickering now) So, I say, “Honey, I’m not sure I know which pictures you mean.” She says, “You know, Mom - the ones where you’re wearing the pretty dress (at this point, she puts her hand over her mouth as she tried to hide her grin) and you and Daddy are kissing!” People are laughing out loud as I say “Oh, the wedding album!” and I’m relieved that I don’t have to explain what sex is to a 4-year old while standing in a crowded grocery store.

I suspect there are other people who tell the story about the curly-headed blonde kid in the grocery store!

Murtha just keeps getting better every time he is on national TV. My dream ticket for 2008 would be Murtha as VP on a Gore ticket. Imagine him taking on all the Washington Chickenhawks!

Just back from vacation…
Will keep Jane’s mom in our prayers.
Didn’t let Rove’s high wire act spoil the week,
but I sure was disappointed until I tuned in to the FDL reporting dial yesterday…
It’s hot and muggy in Boston, but no rain.
Summer is here…

Bay State Librul

Christy @ 23:
I like the neon sign on the top of the Evil Scientist’s castle/lab thingy.It alternates flashing the words,”Evil Scientist”and “Boo!”Heh,heh.

The opera one is funny too,”I killed the wabbit,killed the wabbit…”

Of course some of the older Bugs/Loony Tunes cartoons are full of racist stereotypes,but there are some classic truly funny ones that aren’t.

Anne–wedding pictures–lol

SamaraiSam: I caught Lewis Black’s HBO special too. It wasn’t as funny as his previous but the Testament skit was priceless.

Ed,
I’d like to see Murtha as Secretary of Defense personally, though VP would be good as well. He’s just too valuable as a Democrat well-connected and respected within the military to leave him sitting in the House.

Given all the accolades that pols like Murtha, Feingold and Gore get when they set aside the CYA rhetoric and just talk straight, one would think other politicians would pick up on the idea. After all, isn’t that why a whole bunch of the Republican sheeple voted for Bush: his straight-talkin’ persona?

Oh,I almost forgot,if you haven’t seen Meercat Manor on Animal Planet,it’s just freaking ADORABLE,you can’t help but smile.

And Lewis Black’s new HBO special is hysterical.How that man keeps his blood pressure from causing him to keel over is a medical marvel,lol.

Whoa, Anne, did you ever handle that one just right — and talk about multi-audience-analysis skill! WHEW.

Good Morning Firepups -

well, well, well, clicked on the Sirota link for a good chuckle and man!

David Sirota is HOT!

that was my first exposure to him other than his name or a brief quote on my screen. Been reading his stuff the last half hour. Wonky smart, solid progressive values, oh, and he works for economic justice - Good God. When we’re all so mainstream we have Men of the Blogosphere calendars, he should have at least three of the months all to his fetching self !

This one made me laugh out loud. I think I read it on HuffPost last week following Ann Coulter’s attack of the 9/11 widows. The blogger (and I apologize for not remembering precisely who it was) said:

“I’d call Ann Coulter a scumbag, but I don’t want to offend bags filled with scum.”

Happy Monday!

cbl @38: saw him at YKos. yep, he’s hot.

The funniest thing I recall happening in my life was when I had a restaurant in Fort Lauderdale and the code inforcer told me I was missing two trees on my property and he gave me 24 hours to plant them. When I arrived at Target I saw the trees he wanted planted were $129 each. I left the store, went to a friends house and we cut off two large branches off his tree. That night I planted them both in their perspective holes. The next morning, while waiting for the inspector to arrive, a great wind kicked up and the branches started doing 360’s….it was so damn funny. I had to quickly take a couple of sticks and kite string to tie them babies down. I dig a well around the branches and filled it with water and passed the test.

Once again, Corrente asks the hard questions:

So how big is Karl Rove’s big, fat, backside?

Take the poll!

I loved how Murtha hesitated before saying backside, I guess he thought bette of what he was going to say initially.

But all this talk of Rove’s backside is making me feel a bit squemish - perish the thought.

Yuch.

I hope all those mealy mouth dems were taking notes yesterday.

Punaise cracks me up more often than not. The man has some serious skills.

My son, Luke, makes me laugh everyday. One day we were driving home from preschool. There comes a big, heavy sigh from the back and he says, in this serious 4 year old voice - “You know, Mom, I really love my pe*is. I wish I had two of them.”
Yeah, you and every other male on the planet, honey.

This site: www.overheardinnewyork.com

Jane and Christy in full snark mode. TRex. Emptywheel (so snide sometimes). Darkblack and the rest of our community.

We can giggle all we want…but I am afraid the big.. but sad joke is the vast swath of “progressive dem timidity” that still exists….

Until the GOP realizes that we are more than willing to gleefully and just as outrageously, cut their nuts… day in… day out…just as they do ours…

Case in point was the way many of our own were so quick to condemn Larry Johnson for his remark about the suicide of Rove’s mother. Yes it was an incendiary remark…but was it not the same as so much of the rabid shit that is constantly heaped on us?

If your foe doesn’t play by any rules.. than why should you? After all, whats the goal again..?

Something to think about…

Hate to post and run but work demands it…will check back in later.

It doesn’t make me laugh, but Paul Krugman had another great column this morning in the NY Times, [behind the firewall] http://select.nytimes.com/2006.....an.html?hp

“Rabbit season!”
“Duck season!”

But if you want a Chuck Jonesesqe YouTube experience, you gotta go to the link below to see how one everyday guy solved the customer service problem with his VOIP carrier. Or substitute whatever you like as the object of the exercise: Paste Boy columns, forged Niger documents, an old SOTU, a PNAC manifesto, your a-hole neighbor’s SUckV, whatever:

(Warning: runs ~ 5:30)

http://www.dealbreaker.com/200.....gence.html

I’m sure glad I stayed with my land line!

cbl can we put Stirling Newberry on our calendar? Smart, progressive, smart, smart.

Whenever I need some comic relief, I go over to the sneeze “half blog, half magazine, half not good with fractions.” The funniest bit is in “Steve, don’t eat it!” Here:

http://www.thesneeze.com/mt-ar.....eat_it.php

Morning all —

Very groggy this AM. So, will need a bit o’coffeee…

Here’s some Courant news from Joe:
…”"If the unexpected happened, do I want to keep open the option of taking my case as an independent Democrat to all the voters of Connecticut so that they can have the last word in November?” Lieberman said. That’s an unanswered question, he said.”…
http://www.courant.com/news/po.....lines-home
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The Globe has an OpEd on Coulter by Cathy Young…I seem to be denied access for now, so if anyone gets there, take a look.
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The late lamented Dad (thinkin’ of you, kid) had quite the pre-snark wit. He’d go with these:

http://www.searchlores.org/contract.html
http://www.baseball-almanac.com/humor4.shtml

—-
Now, for coffee…

Give ‘em Hell, Jack!

Since we’re on a light topic here, can anyone explain to me what *g* means? I’ve successfully figured out a lot of the acronyms on my own, and EPU gets defined periodically. But *g* really baffles me.

Howard Stern always makes me laugh. And he has been hammering the Gambino republicans for a while now, especially about the war. Had the Dixie Chicks on recently and apologized to them for criticising the stand against Bush, told them they were right.

mommybrain

oh heck yeah ! saw lots of good stuff about Stirling in many of the post YKos write ups

we’re probably gonna need one of those 18 month numbers.

your post about Luke and ‘little Luke’ reminded me of my youngest - having a bridal shower and entertaining full set of new in laws for the first time. Let’s call them staid, oh hell, three of the 4 had large sticks up their ass - 3 yr old Oliver wakes from his nap with the requisite stiffy and comes running in to the living room holding the waist band of his underoos with one hand, staring down in to them - and flexing his muscles with the other - and in his best Hulk Hogan voice -

“Mother !, look!, my penis . . . it’s STRON-GER!

Two DVDs that make me laugh helplessly, both of Eddie Izzard: Glorious and Dress to Kill. Really wonderful humor.

“What’s been giving you the giggles?”

Christy: a shopping list of them…but they’re bitter, black-humor giggles. As follows:

Bush, still threatening the Iranians with either JDAMS or sanctions, while the Teheran Mullahs have a hot game of marbles, using his ‘nads, and the Russians and the Chinese, murmur soothing sounds of support for bushCo, while fondling their new zillion dollar energy contracts with Iran.

The bushCo asshats cheering a 3 point “bounce” for killing Zarquawi, while a couple of hundred people died in attacks in the few days after his death.
(Their learning curve is improving; at least they didn’t put up another “Mission Accomplished” sign.)

The joyous announcement that the brits are very near to handing over “security” (”Here! I’m tired of carrying this bucket of shit and mayhem. YOU take it!”) to the Iraqi (Read: militia!) forces in the “quiet” south.
Followed by the announcement by the Japanese government that they would be withdrawing their 500 man contingent soon. (With the Aussies main job having been protecting the “coalition’s” prize Koi, John Howard will now have to redefine the “mission” for the cobber troops.)

At which point, the brits hastily called a press conference and said that the “turnover”, as interpreted by the Japanese, was “100% inaccurate”.
They said that it would only be a partial turnover, since “more work needs to be done in Basra and Karbala.” I’ll say!

Lawrence Eagleberger, responding to Russert’s question of “how long should we stay”, with, surprisingly, some bushCo-cum-Churchill bullshit to the effect of; “as long as it takes to win”.

Tim, ever the hard-nosed media newshound, knew which question not to ask:

Define “winning”?

So many bitter giggles; so little time. But also, so little time, for junior’s corporate 4th reich, before the meat-eating petro-dactyls come winging their way home to their oval office roost.

See everybody at the mid-terms! :o)

*g* = grin
*s* = sigh

This is off topic I know but I haven’t seen much reaction yet to Senator Ted Stevens proposed “compromise” on website impartiality so I thought I’d alert those of you who might be interested.

http://blogs.zdnet.com/ip-telephony/?p=1141

umm…I seem to be moderated.

But that’s an opportunity to chip in that Punaise is quite the artiste.

And, anyone who’s NOT read the HST ‘Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas’ is missing something worth advice from a ‘300-lb Samoan lawyer.’

Larry #45:

Saw your post at the end of that thread. Have you lima-charlie. I went over there and gave LJ some love. Could say more, maybe some other time.

mommybrain #48:

Sterling’s meta-analyses are wonders to behold. I gather he’s quite the renaissance man, too.

It’s “its”, not “it’s”.

This is funny every time I hear it.
http://www.chumfm.com/MorningShow/bits/march24.swf

lotus - kids will test you like nothing else, that’s for sure! It probably helped that I knew there were no sex pictures, and I was darned if I was going to leave that store with all those people thinking there were!

not au courant but the joke that appeared at FDL not too long ago–the why is Laura always on top one…

Fafblog was a new laugh for me. Thank you FDL & Watertiger. TDS, Colbert - esp Colbert’s The Word.

The NRO fundraiser piece made me laugh out loud (I have to thank FDL for TBogg too). The reaction I got from telling someone that the same Tony Snow who cannot tell two black Congresswomen apart learned, on his 4-5 hour Iraqi greenzone jaunt, that to a man, Kurds, Sunnis and Shiites, Iraqis want us to stay in Iraq.

Scarlett, the dumpster kitten who grew to maybe 5 lbs and who contantly terrorizes her 14 lb brother and the 90 lb Ger. Sheps and lab, makes me laugh. If we win the war on terror, I’m afraid Scar will go *poof*

FDL makes me laugh - It might be a usual suspect - GSD, Hugh on language, punaise, etc. and sometimes it is just out of the blue from a new post or someone I think of as very serious.

sofistic, thanks so much for The Sneeze. Tears streaming while reading *g*

cbl - There are so many great ones, we could do a five year plan , call it “Some Like It Hot”. No swim suits, just laptops and pj’s (now THAT could get interesting. I know what MY hubby wears to bed ;-)

Love and light to Jane’s mom and Jane.

Top 10 conservative idiots does it for me on Monday mornings.

http://journals.democraticunde...../top10/248

That 10 commandments dude is a moron. Please don’t think everyone from GA is that bad…case in point, TRex - snarkmaster.

mommybrain 44 - double LOL!

Christy,
Best wishes to Jane and her Mom. I certainly hope things work out okay. Hopes and prayers are coming her way from down here in Florida.

pdxlaw at 62-
That is real funny. I had to pass it on to my sister.

Mommybrain-
Try the Sneeze main page, in which Steve tries to acquire a taste for scotch. Heh.

btw, Y’all make me laugh - daily !

al-Scooter - ‘It’s Duck Season, It’s Rabbit Season’ (with Daffy & Elmer)

is probably my favorite Bugs Bunny cartoon.

we were recently lamenting how our kids don’t have any ’smart/funny’ cartoons like Bulwinkle or Beany & Cecil, but Fairly Odd Parents, despite the fact it’s on 20 out of 24 hours is pretty damn funny.

Lewis Black is hilarious

10? years ago, as a b-day gift, took a girlfriend to see Luther Vandross at the Paramount in Oakland. this ‘unknown’ comic: Chris Tucker opened the show. OMG! quite literally, thousands of folks dressed to the nines, rolling on the floor, gasping for breath - 4 encores - Luther called him out half way through his set and I thought the house was coming down

Unbeknownst to any of us, it was his last stand up appearance ever and I have only seen fleeting glimpses of that in his films, I would put that performance up against any I’ve seen which include a young Robin Williams at the dinky little, up close Holy City Zoo

The Cunctator 61
It’s “its”, not “it’s”.

either that, or it’s
It’s It” (an old SF ice cream sandwich)

…the witty repartee, snark and graphics here at FDL

…watertiger’s captions at dependable renegade

If anybody’s interested, I have a Dean/Goldwater and 2000s/1960s post (the first of many) up over at Good Nonsense at the moment. It’s going to be a pretty long series of posts, so I’d love to get some feedback about it…thanks!

beaming out best wishes to Jane and family

You’re a wag, punaise.

mommybrain, I’m not going to touch that one. :~)

“I know what MY hubby wears to bed ;-)”

OMG, my husband didn’t sneak on here and tell ya all how I made him dress up like Finegold and read . . . pheew!, that would’ve been embarassing

What’s making me laugh?

I’m still getting some mileage from Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum.

Thanks for the Colbert clip. That really starts my day on a high note.

cbl *g* read what?

Yup, that’s a 10-footer, punaise.

gotta get to work. The promised new kitten pix are back here.

(Christy, the placeholder name for this cat at the shelter was….Henry.)

cbl #72:

You might enjoy this site. It has a lot of classic sound clips from WB toons:

http://www.nonstick.com/sounds/

It’s one of my sanctuaries when I don’t think I can stand much more of the world.

Punaise, he’s adorable. Um, did you happen to notice that all your furniture (and your floor) are the same color as the cat? How about Oakie? I used to have a cat named Fitzzz, long before Fitz. He got coyote’d.

Christy, thanks a lot for the update on Jane’s Mom.

punaise– what a cutie pie he is!

I thought of Viktor, Ringo, Lucas or Marley before I saw him this morning. I kinda like Mr. Tibbs, too.

Love all your possibilities: esp Louis, Thibault, Lazlo and Hugo.

PS– check out cspan 2 to meet some of the war profiteers if you dare. Shays held hearings on 6/13.

No giggles … just a sense of the sad waste of energy the progressive blogosphere represents. We make ourselves feel good with the tribal identification and the snarky observations, but when it comes down to it, nobody DOES ANYTHING to turn the ship of state around. And no, Yearly Kos doesn’t count. And what about those rubber stamps delivered to Congress? Boy, we got ‘em on the run! Heh! Oboy!!

We are exactly the same as the 101st Fighting Keyboarders. They say they are fighting for their country, and so do we, but neither side risks losing the soft chairs its butts are resting on. We’re all just muddling along, hoping we won’t be hungry or homeless or locked up forever. I’d say “there has to be a better way,” but this is probably just the human condition, so I will endeavor to lighten up.

Onward.

One more for me: The snarkfest that is the Stephanie Miller Show. Jeebus, they’re funny.

Is it just me, or has Josh Marshall really kicked up the snark meter a couple notches?

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.c.....php#008779

And you, John? WHat are you doing that makes you say this? ARe you full of ideas? Action? Please, let us know what you think we should be doing. Besides, I mean, the local activism many of us engage in.

Oh Punaise - he is adorable, and Henry is a perfectly good name - thanks for the pics

thanks for the link al-Scooter, I’m sure I’ll enjoy it

hey Frank Probst - hope you and all other Houston FDLers are ok - good god, 8 inches in less than 2 hours

Let’s stop allowing the advocates of aristocracy to define the terms of discourse.
Old frame: New frame:
war on terror =endless conflict
war in Iraq =occupation of Iraq
misplaced funds =stolen money
social security debate =social security destruction
patriotism =nationalism
conservative think tank =propagandists
talking points =propaganda
unitary executive =dictatorship
stay the course =refuse to acknowledge reality
ban gay marriage =deny civil rights
allow public school prayers =proselytize in public schools
trickle down economics =aristocracy economics
socialism =cooperative human interaction
defense spending =war expenses
compassionate conservatism -well, you get the idea
If Karl can project, then it is only fair that I can projectile vomit.

Oh hell, I did it again.

Reports that the business community is reallocating donations from the R’s to the D’s.

The $ quote:

“Companies understand that the government is run by Republicans, but the kind of draconian arm-twisting that you’ve had for the last five years is gone now,” he said.

Well, if it sounds like extortion.

Suddenly the big R machine is running like someone pissed in the gastank.

-GSD

PLEASE don’t start out the morning with a picture of George W. Bush. It is too startling for the early morning. Specially the way he is baring his teeth. Too much. Don’t know if I can handle work now. Ugh………

John,
Are you advocating a “riot in the streets, tear down the government” approach? If not, then you seem to be woefully uninformed about the activism engaged in by FDL readers. Beyond that, FDL and other blogs help build a sense of community and shared purpose, which is essential to any political movement. Just look at the conservative movement over the past 30 years to understand that.

The Republican party has been around for 150 years. The netroots? About 2-3 years maybe. Give us some time already. Conservatives spent the last 50 years ruining the country; we’re not going to fix it in 6 months.

punaise 82 — whatta face on that boy, and looky, his ears are still intact too!

Of the candidates still on your list, I’m inclined to either Louis or Thibault. (Once had a Roscoe myself, but the poor little guy’s kidneys failed before he was quite a year old, so that one has a cloud over it for me.)

This made me laugh. Hard.

One of George Bush’s daughters attended Radiohead’s show in New York, despite the band’s well documented hatred for the US president.

….
Yorke added that he was unsure how to react, explaining: “hmm I dont know if we should be
A. honoured
B. amused
C. bemused
D. ask if she had a valid ticket
E. object belatedly on moral grounds
F. ask again if she had a ticket and question whether this really what our gigs are about
G. don’t blame the daughter for the father
H. shut up and smile
answers on a postcard”

The appearence by member of the Bush clan is suprising considering the title of Radiohead’s last album ‘Hail To The Thief’ was a direct attack on President Bush’s narrow election win.

From previous thread…

Phillip and spider (and any others interested hehe)…

If you are fond of the fugue, check out some of Beethoven’s later piano sonatas. While not technically fugues, a few of the movements have been explicitly listed as “fugue”, while others are very fugue-reminiscent. I’m sorry I don’t have my sheet music here, but check the later sonatas, Op. 100ish and up. It’s interesting that he decided to incorporate the fugue form this late in his life, and in the middle of the Romantic period of music. Bach’s fugues tend to sound like studies in architecture, exquisitely formed, while Beethoven’s fugue-inspired pieces are a lot more emotional.

Oh well enough thread derailing hehe.

Whoopsie, that story was at:

http://www.nme.com/news/radiohead/23374

Not enough coffee yet:)

al-Scooter,

“Blaque Jaque Shellaque, that’s who.”

I haven’t heard that one in a long time.

-GSD

Laughing at Anne’s story, reminds me of telling my own older son about how babies are made.
He heard me say that a daddy puts his penis in the mommy’s vagina, and immediately looked down.
“It comes OFF?”

What’s with these WaPo reporters who take my question in their chats, but never answer it? I’m up first with Shailagh Murray, but she never answers my question! (Maybe they are getting tired of me!)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/.....00990.html

John at 8:13.
One of the first FDL Book Salons was on Rick Pearlstein’s BEFORE THE STORM. The rise of the conservative movement began with Barry Goldwater, who as you know got his clock cleaned by LBJ in ‘64.

The Colbert interview with the do-nothingest republican is hilarious though seeing that interview made me wonder if we might in fact be better off having lobbyists write our federal legislation after all. that’s a big yikes.

punaise –

Beautiful little kitty — looks to be 10 weeks old to me. I vote for Henry; kind of a calm name, for a kitty that has enough exitement in him to last a while. Maybe multiple names; Henry and something else, for when he’s an older layabout.

Lots of good posts at TPM — Liebersplat and more.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/

This one especially, for the arm flappers and hand wringers –

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.c.....008778.php

Political insiders consistently overstate the importance of slogans and programs. Political tides aren’t unleashed or weathered because of message discipline or thematic fine-tuning. They come about because of failures or victories abroad, big motions in the economy, or judgments coalescing in the public mind in ways that are as inscrutable in their origins as they can be transparent in their effects. …

I’m not suggesting that anyone just sit back and let history happen. Politics matters. Organization matters. Message matters. But there’s a line from Seneca in which he says, “Fate leads the willing and drags the unwilling.” And there’s a political corollary to this as well. Voters are making a decision about Bush’s presidency and the Republican ascendency in Washington. If voters aren’t happy with them, Nancy Pelosi’s unoriginality or tone deafness won’t be able to stop that judgment any more than President Bush’s handlers can goose his poll numbers.

So, yes, the new theme is dopey and flaccid. But the only thing worse than that would be getting too upset about it. On the Democratic side, the punch of this election is going to come from individual candidates willing to be fiercely candid with voters and fight Republicans tooth and nail.

Let’s be honest. What is this election about?

It’s not about the Democrats. 2008 may be about the Democrats. Maybe 2010. Not 2006. 2006 is about George W. Bush and the Republican party. And, specifically, how many people are fed up with what’s happened over the last six years and want to make a change? The constitution gives the people only one way to do that in 2006 — put a hard brake on the president’s power by turning one or both houses of Congress over to the opposition party.

That’s why Newt Gingrich was so on the mark, ironically, when he suggested the Democrats’ slogan should be “Had Enough?” (As a way of understanding Gingrich’s particular genius, consider that “Had Enough?” and “A New Direction for America” are actually two ways of saying the exact same thing — with the first forceful and infectious and the second limp and denatured.) Everything else the election is allegedly about is chatter. The details are so many fine points about making the sale, framing the question. And, yes, those are important. But that is the question. And nothing the geniuses on either side do will change that from being the question. …

Kurt - 98 :

fugue-etaboutit :~)

This week, front page of the Globe. Laura leaves George because of Condi. Not playing well in the south, as all the KKK christians file by the rags to buy their groceries. Can’t miss it. End times if you can’t believe the Globe. If history is a pendulum..Clinton was impeached for sex. We can hope.

I enjoy any chance to laugh for medical reasons — I think you live longer if you laugh regularly.

I’m enjoying the posts today and I’d like to give special shout out to whoever posted the court transcripts of silly things people say. I laughed until I cried reading that.

For my own “moments with children” where you laugh about it later but it was touch and go at the time:

In 1990 my husband was away working in a city called Kingston doing decorative painting for themed hotel rooms. Any Canadian readers will know that Kingston is famous for the five penetentiaries it has. It is a common phrase to say some has been “sent to Kingston” meaning a long term jail sentence.

At the time I had a four year old, an under one and I was pregnant with my third. My daughter was very chatty and articulate and charmed people when she spoke with that combination of enthusiasm and wisdom that 4 year olds possess.

We were riding on the street car and she was holding forth with the bus driver. Everyone was listening in and smiling or chuckling at what she said. Finally the driver asked what her daddy did.

“My daddy’s in Kingston! He paints clouds!”, she said in a loud proud voice.

You could hear everyone sigh and I don’t think everyone believed me when I explained “Not in Kingston. Working in Kingston. Painting clouds. Working in Kingston, painting clouds. And other stuff. Really.”

I think some of them thought he wasn’t the only one who should be locked up in the loony bin.

Front page of the Globe. Laure leaves George because of Condi. Not playing well in the south.Not mainstream MSM but has a good track record on dem. infidelities.

Sorry for the double post. I’m so excited over the crack in the repub. PR machine.

TeddySanFran,
Great question at the WaPo’s online chat.
IMO, the best we can hope for out of those John F. Harris monitored chats is that they p