Fitz!

Straws? Why, on the streets of New York, it’s the only way.

Just don’t get caught.

oh lordy! i’m so excited - but, wait! what did Kos tell me to post???

Fitz! Christy!

guys - i have blogged a family photo album. Check out www.ykosfdl.blogspot.com and tell me if i have identified everyone correctly etc. Re redeye - when i post pictures, it posts the orginals, not the modified ones, i don’t know why.

I found this, while out, doing, you know, stuff, a few moments ago. Very bad news. Oh. My. God. We are so busted by the reactionary blogogalaxy. This will be end of us. They have found out everything.

The genesis for the Netroots movement stems from…first, the **stockmarket**, then **astrology**, and it only found politics, probably, when it was barred from engaging in a previous financial fascination that ultimately led to real trouble with the SEC. Just read this quote from the new wizard, who some think is pre-destined to lead the Democrats to the promised land.

Stuart Riddle says:As Saturn turns direct, I’m reminded of the significance of Saturn in Gemini for the United States. Louise McWhirter wrote about this in her seminal text, Astrology and Stock Market Forcasting (New York: AFI Publishers, 1977; originally published in 1938). She confirmed the potential for conflict in the form of domestic and foreign wars during this transit: “Saturn has never passed through Gemini during the past 72 years without bringing a financial depression, financial panic, or war” (p. 92). *TMA Editors note: The last two Saturn-in-gemini periods coincided with the Vietnam War (1971-73) and World War II (1942-44). Saturn visits Gemini again from April 20th, 2001 - June 2003 (It also made a breif(sic) station from Aug 11th - Sept 16th in 2000, foreshadowing the bulk of the transit to come).

http://riehlworldview.com/carn.....troot.html

the redeye is just the rabid-lambitude coming through…

Actually that’s the squirrel’s straw. The can is too heavy.

The “mananana” muppets video on Sadly, No! this morning. I love it so, and now so does my five year old daughter.

Squirrel!

forgot to add that the emphases in #6 is mine. I use asterisks. I don’t like that mark up langage stuff.

Don’t know how to make these links happen but if you’re into Spinal Tap, the cut and paste is worth it. Some guy overdubbing his own audio to two guitar videos.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....mp;search=

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....mp;search=

Also my son turned me on to some new (old school) soul music. Google Sharon Jones and The DAP Kings. Not funny but serious good !

much more likely to encounter a rabid squirrel than a rabid lamb.

Ann Coulter = Rabid Venomous Squirrel (with huge adam’s apple, or is that a nut?)

Sorry, got EPU’d, but this is apt, being my cracker upper for the day. RE: RawStory’s report on Brooks take down of KOS.

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2....._0624.html

Brooks’ “…squadrons of rabid lambs, to unleash their venom on those who stand in the way..” is bound to go down as the worst mixed metaphor in journalistic history. One can imagine his feeling of triumph as his fingers fly across his keyboard, emitting this mastepiece as he goes.

Listen up David, lambs move in flocks, not squadrons, and they do not emit venom, and in any case venom is usually tranferred by injection not unleashing.

He also speaks of Kos “firing up his website..” Now when was the last time anybody “fire up” a website?

He also implies that Kos communicates with Townhouse through DailyKos rather than the much more mundane email or listserve.

Nice try David, but no cigar. You will now be confined to life in the journalistic version of the dunce’s corner.

BTW, I am no Kos partisan. Just pointing out what an a-hole of a writer Brooks is.

Fan-Favorite First Season Of Bush Administration Released On DVD

June 20, 2006 | Issue 42%u202225

WASHINGTON, DC%u2014Responding to growing demand, the Bush Administration has announced that their popular and critically acclaimed first season will be made available as a 12-DVD set later this summer. “We’re including everything we experienced as it was meant to be seen, from the magnificent inauguration to the dark days of the World Trade Center attack,” according to a statement released by the administration. “See the classic cast of characters you loved%u2014Rove, Ashcroft, Laura, and even the president himself%u2014in the roles that made you love them.”

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/49609

Ya gotta love theonion.

And here’s my question: who the hell drinks Budweiser out of a can with a straw?!?

I think you just answered that?

I haven’t found anything especially funny *today*, other than Arlen Specter of all people lamenting that it takes a newspaper investigation to get the Bushies to comply with the law (and why might that be, Arlen?).

But I did hit the trifecta for my Monday Mediablogging feature this week:

Possibly the greatest commercial ever.

Connie Chung singing and [shudder] vamping.

Microsoft designs the packaging for the iPod.

The “mananana” muppets video on Sadly, No! this morning. I love it so, and now so does my five year old daughter.

I prefer the “manana” muppets.

Please tell me my other comment is in moderation. I really don’t want to have to code three hyperlinks again…

I take nothing through a straw. It takes too long.

And here’s my question: who the hell drinks Budweiser out of a can with a straw?!?

Here’s my answer: squirrels.

Christy,

It’s got to be a St. Louis Cardinal squirrel. If it was a Chicago Cubs squirrel, it’d be drinking the Old Style.

Of course, maybe it *is* a Chicago squirrel, and had to resort to the Bud after the Old Style was gone . . .

Brooks’ “%u2026squadrons of rabid lambs, to unleash their venom on those who stand in the way..” is bound to go down as the worst mixed metaphor in journalistic history.

Tourist: Uh…those ARE sheep aren’t they?

Shepherd: Yeh.

Tourist: Hmm, thought they were. Only, what are they doing up in the trees?

Shepherd: A fair question and one that in recent weeks ‘as been much on my mind. It’s my considered opinion that they’re nestin’.

Tourist: Nesting?

Shepherd: Aye.

Tourist: Like birds?

Shepherd: Exactly. It’s my belief that these sheep are laborin’ under the misapprehension that they’re birds. Observe their be’avior. Take for a start the sheeps’ tendency to ‘op about the field on their ‘ind legs. Now witness their attmpts to fly from tree to tree. Notice that they do not so much fly as…plummet.

(Baaa baaa… flap flap flap… whoosh… thud.)

Tourist: Yes, but why do they think they’re birds?

Shepherd: Another fair question. One thing is for sure, the sheep is not a creature of the air. They have enormous difficulty in the comparatively simple act of perchin’. (Baaa baaa… flap flap flap… whoosh… thud.) Trouble is, sheep are very dim. Once they get an idea in their ‘eads, there’s no shiftin’ it.

Here’s my answer: squirrels.

Sigh. That’s what I said in my comment that disappeared. I will now proceed to rail against unfair banning and censorship.

And now for something completely different . . .

Eli — your post is already freed. Refresh your browser.

Anyway, will try again, but with much less effort.

Hilarious “Happy Morning” commercial:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZE4–k9QyU

Connie Chung singing and *shudder* vamping:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZE4–k9QyU

iPod packaging as designed by Microsoft:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZE4–k9QyU

Ack! And I just reposted. Please feel free to delete that one…

#15: squadrons of rabid lambs? Brooks has a gift. I remember when he said that an archtype of oldtime American values was The Nevada Truckdriver. It’s getting weirder and weirder.

My sense is, my gut reaction to all this is that, by golly, the American People just might buy it –if we can get them enough drugs.

Here’s what I find hilarious, that complete strangers will help donate our FDL goal of $1200 to Howie Klein’s recommended progessive candidate Larry Kissell in North Carolina.

We can do it with YOUR help….

Kathryn in MA - thanks so much for posting the pics! …. very kind… especially for those of us who couldn’t be there (whine, whine, whine). ;)

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All this to say, patience would go a long, long way this weekend — as everyone at the Service Desk has had a long, long week and we are all bone weary. Thanks.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming of butt-kicking politics and giggles…

I found this photo rather amusing.

Kathryn in MA - thanks so much for posting the pics! %u2026. very kind%u2026 especially for those of us who couldn’t be there (whine, whine, whine). ;)

Shouldn’t “Mission Impossible Man”’s shirt say “MIM”?

Redd, I hope you could tell I was kidding.

This is very funny. Watch the background carefully during the vido

BUSH AT THE BORDER

http://www.i-am-bored.com/bore.....k_id=17882

Markos and friends ride their rabid lambs to victory in ‘06.

That squirrel has class!

This is seriously funny, and well done, via Ezra Klein:
http://ezraklein.typepad.com/b.....conom.html

Does anyone else secretly wish that Juan Williams and Bill Kristol will just get it over with and brawl on Fox News Sunday? I swear it’ll happen. It is the ONLY reason I stomach Fox News Sunday. My money is on Juan. Lanky, good reach. However, your can’t rule Kristol out. Them NeoCons fight dirty. Watch your back Juan.

Soooo cute! I’m always looking for fun stuff - here’s a few of my latest faves…

This is William Shatners “Lucy in the Sky” set to a fun animation:

http://www.newsfromme.com/arch.....tml#011504

And here is Betty Bowers latest take down of Coulters “Godless”:

http://www.bettybowers.com/coulter.html

fdl is the greatest!

Eli — I’ve been trying to post that in every thread today. I just remembered to do it when I freed up your post is all. Not meant for you, personally.

The moderator volunteers have been working their asses off, and I’m trying to help them all out by reminding the whole community that patience is a virtue on so many levels this weekend… ;-)

That squirrel has class!

Elf booty got soul!

I tried something funny today….I wrote a love letter to Osama from Ann Coulter. I’m not good at this kind of writing, but I gave it a shot anyway.

http://thesoutherndem.blogspot.com/

“Ladies and gentlemen, can I please have your attention. I’ve just been handed an urgent and horrifying news story. I need all of you, to stop what you’re doing and listen. Cannonball!!!!!!!!

-Ron Burgundy

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0357413/quotes

Shoot, I can’t post pictures here?

Here’s the link:

http://www.atlanticvillage.co......-sheep.jpg

watertiger - absolutely hilarious. My daughters loved that one.

i’ve heard beer through a straw increases the buzz, but haven’t tried it myself. squirrels apparently have poor taste in beer. rats have worse; at a post-work al-fresco beer garden along the providence waterfront some years back, a co-worker threw a half-full, warm miller light against the abandoned warehouse next door. as the beer spilled out onto the ground, a rat came out of the warehouse and drank it.

Kathryn @ #5–I love seeing the pics. from Yearly Kos and putting faces to some of the FDL names! Thanks!

Christy,
Hi! I have been away from my computer since Friday morning. Needless to say, I have a lot of reading to do. I had a thought this weekend….Is it possible that the letter Luskin received was actually a target letter for Luskin, and stated that he does not anticipate an indictment for Rove with this grand jury? Could Fitz actually be saving Rove for later? And Luskin doesn’t want to comment because he can’t (censored??)

Rove set up Luskin (knowingly or unknowingly) to take a fall to stall Fitz until after the election. Luskin can’t show the letter because it also mentions that he is a target. Remember, Luskin took gold bars as payment from Drugpins in his earlier life) so we already know what kind of guy he is. And he is promised a pardon…..So, to the voters, it looks like Rove dodged the bullit but he no longer has security clearance so they demote him back to winning the campaign. Because that is what it comes down to….winning the election.

Or something like this…..hell, I’m in $ale$ so this is the best I can do :))

Oops. I apologize for blogwhoring the Connie Chung and MS iPod links - I thought I had linked directly to Youtube, but evidently I screwed that up…

New thread from Jane’s sister, Pam.

That Connie Chung thing is downright scary.

I did my first italics!

*me dancing around the room*

Thanks everyone for the tutorial in the last thread.

Speaking of squirrels, here’s the classic with the large nutsack:
http://www.platkat.com/images/squirrel.jpg
Also, this from 2004:
BAKER LAKE, Wash. — Rain-eeeeer …. Bear?

When state Fish and Wildlife agents recently found a black bear passed out on the lawn of Baker Lake Resort, there were some clues scattered nearby — dozens of empty cans of Rainier Beer.

The bear apparently got into campers’ coolers and used his claws and teeth to puncture the cans. And not just any cans.

”He drank the Rainier and wouldn’t drink the Busch beer,” said Lisa Broxson, bookkeeper at the campground and cabins resort east of Mount Baker.

Fish and Wildlife enforcement Sgt. Bill Heinck said the bear did try one can of Busch, but ignored the rest.

”He didn’t like that (Busch) and consumed, as near as we can tell, about 36 cans of Rainier.”
http://seattletimes.nwsource.c.....ear18.html

That Connie Chung thing is downright scary.

Yes. Yes, it is. Is is a Thing That Should Not Be.

Oh crap.

Kathryn in MA - thank you for the pics. So many faces… I wish I could have met everyone. Those were the best pics I’ve seen yet!

Oh crap.

That goes for me too.

B. Muse,44

Re: Love letter from Ann to Osama.

Excellent. Now we know the secret. What Ann needs to temper her raging fires is a tall, swarthy man in a robe, preferably unwashed.

Hilarious!

http://thesoutherndem.blogspot.com/

You want funny?

The Drudge Report site has been down most of the day (Op Research).

MWWAHHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Is that Rocky hitting the Budweiser? Where is his head gear? I hope he doesn’t plan on flying any time soon…

I just finished with the BBC treatment of Philip K. Dick. (A Scanner Darkly coming soon to a theatre near you, btw…)

Very strange. Season of the Witchy-type stuff. I had not known most of the info. Nor read Valis. Have read ‘Androids Dream…’ (aka Bladerunner)….

Anyway, interview snipppets w/friends like Kim Stanley Robinson and other scifi types from Marin Co. area circa mid-70’s…

FWIW: they say it was a stroke that hit him in ‘74. Eventually another one took him in ‘82.

Worth a listen. Show is ‘CloseUp’ aired 12:30am 6/24.

Kathryn in MA, you identified Mark Warner t-shirt as “Mark Wheeler” tshirt. ;)

Something did crack me up today and here is the link to it:
http://www.sltrib.com/ci_3970622?source=rss - made me wonder whether Lucifer, aka Satan, was employing some of his old archangel training of working in mysterious ways.

Kathryn in MA, Ian Welsh, not Walsh. Well, you asked for it. ;)

“Bear drinks 36 cans of favorite beer”

BAKER LAKE, Wash. (AP) - Rain-eeeeer …. Bear? When state Fish and Wildlife agents recently found a black bear passed out on the lawn of Baker Lake Resort, there were some clues scattered nearby - dozens of empty cans of Rainier Beer.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/o.....bear_x.htm

“He drank the Rainier and wouldn’t drink the Busch beer,” said Lisa Broxson, bookkeeper at the campground and cabins resort east of Mount Baker.

Sona 65

Utah politics at it’s best!

He might win!

Thank you Orangejumpsuit. I needed a break from all the serious stuff that’s been going on. It helped to try to be funny.

Kathryn — Thanks for the pictures. Next time, though, I want a gauze filter or Vaseline or whatever it is they put on a lens to make women of a certain age look younger! I hope the Hawaiian shirts are enjoying their new owner — we have to go shopping again.

Blame it on my aging brain, but I often have trouble remembering what the acronyms stand for, so I sometimes make stuff up, like:

FUBAR = Fucked Up By A Republican

Not bad, huh?

Kathryn in MA, “rbl, op99, Redshift, and my laptop on the chair. Wherever there was an outlet, we plugged in.” The guy you identify as rbl is Karl Corey.

Eli 34 - Thanks!! I should have said Mission Accomplished Man! i have edited it.

Russian squirrel pack ‘kills dog’

Squirrels have bitten to death a stray dog which was barking at them in a Russian park, local media report.

Passers-by were too late to stop the attack by the black squirrels in a village in the far east, which reportedly lasted about a minute.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4489792.stm

Kathryn in MA,”TeddySanFran and rbl at the Firedoglake breakfast”; “rbl” should be rbg.

Did GWB do something right for once? Or, is this simply more of his doublespeak?

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news.....23-10.html

Executive Order: Protecting the Property Rights of the American People

Kathryn in MA, I see you’re still in the house. Thanks for the pix, and I’ll get ya some ginko beloba, lol.

Sorry Dougr, I didn’t see your post. Must…read…through…before…posting…

Thanks op99 - edited that faux pas right out of there!

op99 - thanks!! i knew my memory wasn’t going to be up to the task. Keem ‘em coming. and i can put others’ pictures up if you want.

Watertiger, I don’t know who you are or where you find your pix, but I love them! Please don’t stop!

Now squirrels drink beer from a straw because their arms are too small to wrap around the beer can and pour it down their throats.

Is he still in office?

Peek-a-Boo

Is it safe to come out yet? :-)

Try it with 4 straws-acts like a a 4-barrel carb, and will fuck you up something serious! That squirrel knows what he’s doing.

And Here is what it will take for the Democrats to beat the Republicans in November!

:-)

BarbaraB - Turns out, i had long A-line linen skirts of the exact colors for two of them! So i am spiffy at the office. Dish is great, too. Definitely shopping again! Tuba Les and Joyce should come too!

Nate - Oh My Goodness! I’m dying laughing…Oh My….

Glad you liked them B. Muse! :-) I hope Jane, Christy and the gang get to see them.

Could some filmaker out there pout together a film of all of bush lies, BS, republican BS, corruption.. a 2 hour litany of snippets and facts to be shown at multiplexes… the mind boggles at how much crap they have spewed… Could you imagine sitting through all that?

EPU’d:

neurophius at 379: Now if only somebody would be so kind as to teach me how to embed a link in a word or phrase (since it’s a slow afternoon)…

Ok. Blind leading the blind here, or at least the lame and wobbling newbie teaching the newborn behind.

Type the following: [a href=”the actual link here”]NAME OF LINK HERE[/a] then some other stuff to make sure you successfully closed the html.

Substitute for [] and you’re golden. Hey if I can do this totally anyone can :)

Helpful hint, if you cut and run paste remember to go back and substitute real apostrophes, quotation marks, hypens, and …’s. Otherwise they look like percentage marks and weird numbers.

Substitute the carat marks over comma and period for [ and ].

Don’t know why that wouldn’t print above.

hyphens. sheesh.

egregious at 89, “if you cut and run paste” very funny

This was posted on another forum I frequent:

Taysiders In Space, aka “Scottish Star Trek”.

Imagine a whole ship full of Mr. Scotts, only with much thicker brogues, and you have the idea.

Kathryn in MA

Nooo I am not stuttering, just hit the wrong button.

Thanks for the pictures.

egregious

Thanks for the instructions. I will give it a try.

For a satirical treatment of the attack on blogs by the mainstream media, visit The Rude Pundit (more stuff to see if I closed the html).

Hooray! It works! Thanks again, egregious!

egregious

Your instructions didn’t work for me. You are right though and echo what somebody else told me to do. If I want to embed a URL in a word, I do a Word document then cut and paste. I simply write what I want to write and then highlight the word to embed a URL in, click on Insert menu and select Hyperlink. In the drop down box I enter the URL adress where it asks for it with the relevant highlighted text to display. That works for me although for some reason I have to type the URL ad in as paste facility is mysteriously not available in the Hyperlink dialogue box. Most times I simply can’t be bothered and just copy and paste the URL ad without embedding it in a word or phrase.

I should have added in 97 that my approach works in a Word document but copyng it into comments does not work and the selected text loses its embedded URL.

mananana by Animal is my cell ringtone. I just love the ability to edit an mp3 and download from my PC to the phone - great stuff!

mahnamahna is actually not by Animal, but by his precursor…whose name is…MahnaMahna. hehe. The first time he showed up was on Sesame Street in 69…then again with two pink thingies on the muppet show in 74-76 or so…and one last time in 88 I thik, with Sandra Bullock…

god, im sad.

oh yea, it was originally part of a swedish porn flick…lol

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahna_Mahna

Christy:
Well, the Decider might just drink beer with a straw……..oh, excuse me, that’s cool aid!

That is actually not a squirrel. It`s a wine drunk chipmunk that drank a pint of aged Ripple left over from the first Mt.Adams Art Festivel in 1968 in Cincinnati,Ohio.I think his name is Alvin.
It was thought at that time that if one would drink beer through a straw it would get the job done quicker and cheaper.It was later determined that this was only the case if one used a left-handed straw.However,if Ripple and any kind of straw were used, a quick and powerful feeling of euphoria was achieved each and every time.

Sona at 97:

” . . . for some reason I have to type the URL ad in as paste facility is mysteriously not available in the Hyperlink dialogue box . . . “

Here’s a tip for you: When you find yourself wanting to paste a clip into a form field that you have copied from somewhere else, try using Ctrl V. This generally works in all things Windows/PC based. I don’t know what the maneuver would be on a Mac.

To answer your question “Who the hell drinks Budweiser out of a can with a straw?”,

Any of various arboreal rodents of the genus Sciurus and related genera of the family Sciuridae, having a long flexible bushy tail and including the fox squirrel, gray squirrel, and red squirrel. Also called tree squirrel. (See the picture)

Ciao!