Fitz!

That was my second. (I’m easily pleased.)

Now we have a separate Department of Defense internet now, did you know that?

Do you know why?

Not to pile of Sen. Dementia’s-hitting-right-on time, but maybe for security?

I like that he tinks the internet delays things, not the U.S. Mail. Liberal.

Sounds like he thinks the Internet is stovepiped..like much of the government..

Perhaps the concept of a distributed network is too esoteric for Ted. Perhaps he needs to be told net neutrality will allow bigger tubes..

maybe if his internet thingie used transistors instead of tubes, it might get there faster and use less electrical stuff …

I’m telling you, if you haven’t listened to the audio clip, you have NO idea how truly crazy-assed the whole of the spiel was. The transcript above cannot do justice to the whole ramble. All those telecom lobbyists are hanging out at the Mayflower for brunch, counting their money and laughing their asses off…

Bigger tubes, transistors — nope, sorry, I can’t think of a thing that might sneak into that consciousness. What a blockhead.

It doesn’t matter if his facts are correct. He will sound like he knows what he is talking about to most of America - and they will play along. He has the stage to say what he wants — goopers listen.

I still have my internets delivered by carrier pigeon.

It sounds to me like he thinks it’s like those tubes at a drive thru bank. You put your papers you want the teller to see in a tube and it goes in a long tube to the teller and sometimes they get jammed up. I hate when that happens. That’s probably how it was explained to him to convince him to endorse the bill.

epu’d sorry, carry over;

I’m sorry, I used the wtong psste

what I meant was hearch in the new yorker gets it wrong

The high-ranking general added that the military’s experience in Iraq, where intelligence on weapons of mass destruction was deeply flawed,

there was no flawed intel

the intel was that bin laden was no threat, the intel was that the munitions were gone, the intel was that there were no longer wmd programs and the intel was that saddam was the lowest threat to the us in 10 years

none of the military generals wanted to initiate the unprovoked attack on a second front and there was NO flawed intel on wmd’s

the milistary was AGAINST the attack and the intel was AGAINST the attack

drft dodgers with no military experience or clue overuled the sage advise of the finest military minds on the planet

so they could satisfy the edict put forward by the sick fraternity called the PNAC that they were all members

the ONLY people that wanted this war were the members of that sick fraternity%u2026that’s it

Dear Ted,
I’d really like to receive my very own internet from your staff. Can you arrange it? Truly…I don’t mind the wait.
Sincerely,
Tangled Up in Blue

My own personal internet has no fucking tubes Ted.

Did you hear theat, Ted got an internet delivered to his house. But goddamit it got tangled up. How is he going to build a bridge to nowhere.

You can hide a fool till he opens his mouth.
Mark Twain

you know there is an authorized, legal, recognized protocol for using pigeons for Internetworking http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1149.txt It was devised back in 1990 …

seriously!

…sometimes there are worms in the tubes…

Oh for cryin out loud.

I think the House and Senate may need to have a classroom of 6th graders come in and show them how to use the internet and email.The kids would love it and the”grown ups”(I use the term loosely in this case)might just learn something so they don’t sound stupid.

I about spewed my coffee all over the place when I heard this.If so much wasn’t at stake,this would be comedy gold.

Maybe we can send Stevens some legos and pvc pipe and he can build his own internets.

Bet you’re right, cathy.

I first saw those pneumatic tubes when I was a tyke visiting my daddy’s office, about 50 years ago. Astounding! Sen. Ted musta stopped learning right about then, and his mind’s been dead in the water ever since.

maybe with global warming and permafrost melting in Alaska, his tubes are settling and getting filled with slush?

Good Morning Again Firelambies,

I’ll be shocked if this doesn’t make Keith’s show -
Where in the hell is his staff ?!?! even as TelcoBitch wouldn’t his staff want him to sound a tad more informed ? This guy is numero uno of CongressCritter In Need of a Cat Scan, but jeebus is right

Betty Cracker - if you are still about, left you a note downstairs

Somebody is telling Stevens this is a ’supply and demand’ problem…

Lieing their asses off.

“There are too many white cars on the road. That means we need to raise taxes on those cars.”

Whoot! “It’s a terrible thing to lose one’s mind.” Which presupposes that one had a mind to lose, much less to use for governing this country. The sad thing is that this is obfuscation and them in DC have it honed to the finest edge. My local representative here in Tennessee can really piss me off with his empty blather but he’s savvy enough to get water and sewer service installed out in the west end of the county, “for the State Park” - OF COURSE, right near that 300 acre farm of his… Redd at 6 is experzackly right.

look, we can make fun of him all we want, but his strategy will work unless we prepare the democrats

they have to make a laughing stock of him, laughiung about his analogy and making him look like an idiot

we have to discredit the leaders of “the base” so it’s embarrasing for “the basew” to associatet themsleves with these idiots

Oh man. “an internet was sent by my staff…” Oh yeah. Good times.

me to me — what do you think I just did? And Kos? hello — we’re working on it…

Ugh, first a picture of Couler, now Stevens.

If you thought the internets were complex, just take a look at the machine Stevens uses to come up with his good ideas:

http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/~s.....mage3.html

Maybe his Hulk necktie is on too tight and keeping oxygen rich blood from getting to his brain.

http://alaskalegislature.com/s.....vens.shtml

18 cbl says:

July 3rd, 2006 at 5:59 am

Good Morning Again Firelambies,

cbl, I know you mean no bad will, but I HATE being called a “firelamb”

progressives ARE NOT lambs, we aren’t members of a “flock”, we have our own minds our own paths

“flock” is for republicans, not people with a brain

I’m sorry, I don’t think I speak on behalf of anyone else, but I am offended and every time I see your first tag line I think I am about to read a post from a troll, whcih you are not

I would apprciate it if you came up with a differant tag line, somehting that doesn’t make us look like sheep following a flock…we are not

Al Gore may not have invented the internet, but Ted Stevens may destroy it.

ya christy you did good, I’m saying we need to prepare teh democrats for the onslaught.

but ya, you did the trick, I’m sure most tread firedoglake

stevens’ hulk tie:
http://www.wolfblog.net/images/stevenshulk.jpg

What the hell is Stevens talking about? He sounds absolutely inept in his knowledge of the internet.
We are still laughing about the tubes.

Me- are you saying that we musn’t laugh at him-rather we must make fun of him? Don’t get it.

This guy makes Clusterfuck sound articulate and informed.

we are “squadrons of rabid lambs, dripping venom” to use David Brooks’ exact words. It gets shortened to firelambies here sometimes …

Why not get more tubes? Maybe Ted got his tubes tied- he really should ya know.

31 rwcole says:

July 3rd, 2006 at 6:10 am

Me- are you saying that we musn’t laugh at him-rather we must make fun of him? Don’t get it.
,/blockquote>

I made a stupid post, christies blog is doing exactly what I said we should do and I made an itiot of myself

please ignnore

“The internets would move much faster if lubricated with oil from ANWR. And if it was all in English, too. And straight, if you know what I mean. All them kinks in it just slows things down.” — Ted Stevens

maybe if Alaska wasnt so far away, those internet thingies might arrive sooner? ya think? it gets real cold up there — maybe his internet is all froze up?

Ted Stevens. Just another in a very long line of idiot asswipes running our country.

Don’t worry, me to me — many of us do that at least once a day.

new poll numbers on the Preznit : Time Magazine has him down 2% to 35% — lowest ever …

Can you imagine Jon Stewart lying on the floor, slapping his knees, and trying to catch his breath.
“Ted you are killing me here.”

Tubes?

Which genius lobbyist dumbed it down to that level to get him to understand?

Now THAT’S money well spent!

Dear Ted:

Homework.

Love,

Brautigan

everyone knows it’s pipes not tubes

twolf1: some physicists would say it’s all strings

me to me,

in the spirit of FDL civility, will revert to my standing ‘Firepups’ (until of course that offends someone - lol But hope you can see by *ilson’s comment, it is meant as snark and not meant to demean any of us

*ilson,

housekeeping question for ya - when someone is elevated to Chair, do they get more staff ? is their current staff augmented by an existing ‘house’ staff already in place to take care of committee admin. ?

maybe if we used thicker bands to attach the tubes to the telephone poles, giving us more bandwidth, our internets wouldn’t get all tangled up with all those things going on commercially.

I want to be horrified, really I do. But I have to stop laughing first. TUBES ????

This is one of the many Congresscritters who encourages my belief in euthanasia. Y’know, folks keep voting for this guy.

The print version of the NYT has the McCain Bush hug picture in living color on page one.

Now everyone can feel the love.

That’s it, string theory! Obviously his understanding hit Planck’s wall.

Link contains poetry. You have been warned :)
http://www.astropoetica.com/Wi.....asno0.html

cbl @ 46

Every member has their personal staff, and the leadership gets additional staff.

Each committee has its own staff - functionally actually two: majority and minority staffs. The committee chair and ranking member control these, but the work on behalf of the committee.

each Committee in Congress has its own staff which is separate and above any staff an individual Congresscritter is entitled to. The Chair of each committee has primary hiring responsibility but the minority on the Committee also gets to hire staff too — the staffs are thus bipartisan but with the power held by the governing Party.

*ilson46201 45:

My ISP said there were NO strings attached when I signed up to have some of their internets delivered.

First of all, the distinquished (cough) gentleman Mr.Stevans must be talking about Netflix, which does not send movies in the mail for free. They arrive by METERED MAIL which is paid for at the post office.

Jane & Christy–you guys need to give em hell and so do we. Good thing Firedoglake is in its terrible two’s……go Jane & Redd!

thanks PeterR !

The tubernet?

oh goodness, thanks *ilson !

This another example of why Republican voters are so proud of their boys.

Democrats on the Hill need to be shown Stevens’ remarks, to (a) provide material for their own speeches, and (b) to show them what happens when you speak without knowning what the hell you’re talking about.

Can you imagine what the former senator from Tennessee might have said in response? You know - the one who republicans said invented the internets? Maybe he could try to explain it to Mr. Stevens, using small words and some neat pictures.

Misreading your own talking points is such a drag.

Central Services: We do the work, you do the pleasure!

Hi there. I want to talk to you about … ducts …

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Brazil_09.jpg

… designer ducts for your discriminating taste …

But I bet the “tube” from the telco’s to Steven’s bank account isn’t clogged!

So the way he expressed it was not optimal. He did sound like he didn’t know what he was talking about, as his understanding is obviously not solid and detailed. But in general he’s right. The internet is based upon a series of pipes (tubes), and if you saturate a pipe it’s going to take longer for data to get from one end to the other, if it gets through at all.

But then he’s a congressman. Not a network administrator. It’s not his job to be able to configure a cisco router. It’s not his job to be able to wire up a SAN. It’s his job to have a high level understanding of how things work, and it’s our job to educate him if he’s mistaken. However, as far as high level understanding of the workings of the internet goes, he’s pretty much dead on.

Now whether he’s going to draw the appropriate conclusions from that is an entirely different story.

Just in case you’re wondering, I’m a systems administrator for a very large financial company. I know whereof I speak.

Does this mean if I cut the tube feeding my computer my house will flood with blogs and porn?

O.M.G. Tubes? Aluminum tubes? PVC? This is the man with the keys to the internets? Words fail me. We’re doomed.

OT - Since when is Marion Barry involved with the shuttle program?

Crack found in foam on shuttle

Hmm,methinks Senator Ted should be sent a copy of The Internet For Dummies.It was very helpful to me when I got my first computer a few years back(I was WAY late in embracing this whole internet thingy).Between the For Dummies books and my 12 yr old son,I learned my marginal computer skills pretty fast.

I sent my For Dummies books to a friend,kinda wish I’d held onto them now so I could send them on to Ted.Sort of a pay it forward kinda thing.

Some Guy at 62 — did you listen to the entire audio file? Because, if not, it really is worth a listen to comprehend just how little Stevens does understand — and how very little his staffers have bothered to explain to him about it. It’s painful.

Stevens must be thinking of pneumatic tubes. Be a good idea to put the distinquished senator in a tube and blow him into the 21st century, by God!

No, I didn’t listen to the entire file. And I’m willing to admit that I haven’t heard the whole thing and that my opinion might radically change if I heard the whole thing. I don’t have time for that, though, I’m about to get off work and then I have to sleep as I don’t have as much time as I’d usually have…

But based on what’s posted up at top, I don’t see a whole lot to ridicule. It’s kind of how I’d explain it to a novice, myself. Not only are there tubes, but there are virtual tubes (TCP connections), and packets flying around with no virtual tubes at all (ICMP, UDP)… and don’t forget ATM, which has even longer lasting tubes than TCP… :)

That’s why they call the endpoints “sockets”, btw. Because the tubes are called “pipes”. Those are the actual technical terms.

years ago I knew the Apocalypse was upon us when I saw the book : TCP/IP for Dummies. I knew that publishing series had entered its baroque period …

“tubes” is the metaphor used by the telecos, and thus their lobbyists, to refer to the cable and phone lines. He’s just repeating something he doesn’t understand told to him by lobbyists.

Some Guy - He may have the basic outline of it right, but I’ll bet dollars to donuts his actual mental picture is hysterically off the mark.

ann coulter can take one of those long arms of hers and stick it up those internet tubes and she can take the other and stick it up dick cheney’s aluminum tubes and then she won’t be able to type ever again. tie her other tubes too.

Let’s all send him an internet.

Somehow, that reference to tubes reminds me of the movie, Brazil.
Anyway, seriously, the infrastructure was way overbuilt years ago, and there are more dark fibers than light ones.

I used to teach internet stuff to people in a senior center, and it only took a few diagrams and a few minutes to describe packets and routers and servers to them, and they got it right away. Why hasn’t someone explained a few simple concepts to this simpleton?

And, BTW, Gore did work with DARPA during internet development back in the day. He may not have invented it, but he did work on legislation to develop it. He “got” it many years ago.

squirrel hiller 73:

She’ll still be able to use her forked tongue to press control-c then control-v

Stevens is simply repeating a FUD pitch that some lobbyist gave him. (”FUD” stands for Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt, favorite tools of salespeople in the high-tech arena.)

It is possible for email to suffer serious delays on the servers at either end of the transmission, but if problems develop on the Internet itself, the message gets retransmitted, possibly via an alternative route.

CEO at 41, Jon Stewart uses the clip of Stevens bellowing “NO!” on the senate floor (about the Bridge to Nowhere (sorry ET)) almost as much as the clip of the monkey washing the cat.

twolf1 76
heeeeehaw!

Agh. Now we have a better understanding of the mindset required to rationalize a “bridge to nowhere” at $400 million for 88 users.

Sheesh.

Some Guy 6:45am — Stevens is dead on only in a 50,000 foot aerial view sort of way, the way a 5-year-old can be right in their explanations of things like technology. And I’ll bet you’ve also bought on to the same point of view that George Ou-TechRepublic has about net neutrality, that technically net neutrality can’t work.

The technical argument against net neutrality is technical; it’s not about civil or human rights, nor is it really about economics. I’ve worked in IT and consult in that field — and I consult in business management. I know whereof I speak; my living depends on it. You could say I’m betting the farm on it.

The technical argument telcos and IT folks use against net neutrality is rather like the argument the auto industry uses when it says it cannot increase MPG any further. We all know what that kind of attitude ultimately got American car makers (they’re rapidly becoming foreign-owned in order to save themselves from extinction), hence GM-Nissan chatter and Chrysler’s “merger” with Mercedes).

And since Ted Stevens was somehow able to sell that puking “bridge to nowhere” with this same mindset, let’s get serious and talk about how we, the people, are going to have to declare war on the telcos and build an alternative that will resolve the human rights issue while economically taking it to them. Other IT people are already having that discusion.

Here’s something Ted understood in great detail, my tax dollars at work.
Ted Steven’s BRIDGE TO NOWHERE
“Alaska’s Gravina Island (population less than 50) will soon be connected to the megalopolis of Ketchikan (pop. 8,000) by a bridge nearly as long as the Golden Gate and higher than the Brooklyn Bridge….”

maybe if Stevens would try to deal with SPAM which now comprises half of all Email messages, his “internet” would get through faster …

Disclosure:
I am a 20 year IT pro who works ithe networking and network security on a daily basis.

This excerpt has a duch a high density of wrongness as to be undigestable.

That said, it illustrates another aspect of the ‘digital divide’. Digitally enabled individuals do not nessicarilly have the slightest comprehension of the power and scope of their abilities.
And that translates to fear.
And fear can be instilled, nurtured and harnessed to bestow power.

The fundamental lie in the argument against Net Neutrality is that bandwidth is currently free. Customers purchase bandwidth from their internet providers.
The truck analogy is wrong, but the ’super highway’ analogy was (other than sounding stupid) pretty much spot on.
The email, which took inordenatly long in transit was most likely trapped in a relay bogged down by spam. Spam IS a problem.
…
Oh, and as someone observed above, the military has had ‘it’s own internet’ for some time precisely for security reasons. The first non-military users of the internet were educational institutions, and you sure as hell don’t want your vital military information co-mingled chats on with hydropontic growing tips.

“An internet to nowhere” has a nice ring

Ted thinks Pi are round.
Having him in charge of this is like having Delay in charge of Ethic’s,
Sorry, I gotta run, there’s another internets coming up my tube…
OUCH!!!
Lemme see…
Hey Ted, it’s for you!

Some Guy @ 62 is right — Stevens is not too far off with his analogy. Replace “tube” by “pipe” and the Senator would have regurgitated the pap from Big Telco to the word. But that’s all it is — regurgitation.

Oh, and sending “an internet”? What a maroon. Doesn’t he know that the best way to send one is using www.Internets.com? (Assuming he was talking about something more mundane, like an email, sounds like a mail server issue to me, not a matter of bandwidth…)

People like Sen. Stevens are the reason there are more and more rich Nigerians.

The assalt on net neutrality is based on a two of simple observations:
- the name of the game in business is “return on investment.”
- toll lanes on a freeway are worth more simply because you charge for them (i.e., essentially no incremental investment).
So communication companies see charging for differential services as free money just waiting for them to grab — almost infinite return on investment. As they see it, they would be shirking their fiduciary responsibility to their stockholder if they left it just sitting there. ;-)

about 110 years ago, the Indiana Legislature almost mandated Pi (π) to be equal to 3 — somehow, the bill failed.

Mornin’, Lambs. Senator Dud Reasons, what a…choleric worm.

Some Guy
Ted is talking about the tubes he gazed at behind the radio while listening to Joe Pyne in the pre transistor days.

GET IT !

Now I know why my Netflix and Blockbuster dvds are sometimes cracked. They’ve been forced into tubes!

Ted Stevens has jumped from batshit to bugfuck insane. O_o

BTW, FirePups, Dogs, Lambs, whathaveyou: you will hear many IT folks refer to “pipes” and “pipeline”, but it’s slang for the commercially operated network outside your home.

Whatever the slang, it doesn’t fundamentally change that information, as well as the people who create and use it, must be free. As in speech, not as in beer.

Stevens’s internet wasn’t trapped by anything other than his dial-up connection.
The DSL upgrade for his office is trapped in the bridge to nowhere bill.

and how does the good senator pay for his tubes ? a monthly Fee Waybill ???

sorry your punaiseness, sometimes the cheap ones are irresistible

Rayne - I believe Senator Dud Reasons might be inclined to favor pipelines, what with the melting snow and all…

btw: interesting commercial development: cable companies are being hit by DSL competition so they are now offering a “Lite” high-speed cable internet connection at 2/3 the price of the full-featured, regular hookup but the d/l speed is limited to 512kbps — that’s still eight times faster than dialup.

C’mon, lessen up on Texaco Stevens. He just got a bit confused. See, he deals with a lot of hot air, and has to send his hot air a lot of places, including to reporters and other Senators with their hot air, and then to Alaska and his constituents, who of course really really need his hot air, it is so damn cold there so much of the year. And his hot air gets delivered through tubes - inner tubes. I suspect he just got inner tubes and internet confused. Now quit picking on him or he’ll start crying on the Senate floor again and threaten to quit.

Stevens has been senile for a while now. He speaks like that on a host of issues. The “internets” is no exception.

But apparently, having a grasp on reality is not a prerequisite for being a United States Senator or for being President.

Mash - having a grasp on reality may not be a prerequisite for Republican leadership, but “grasping” certainly is.

OfT New York Times is fronting that pic of McCain hugging Bush that FDL has been posting for months.
OT, *ilson, isn’t the DSL (Digital Subscriber Line) a truly dedicated connection and therefore a little safer than a cable connection?

Ok… here’s my assessment after listing to the audio file!1

1) He needs to go to an assisted living place and begin the process of getting older, slowing down and dying. This is clear. Perhaps it’s dementia. Oh god! Like Bush, is he the decision-maker?

2) I hate to admit it, but I did hear him say something about the Defense Department’s Internet. If I understand what he said, he seems to believe that the Internet isn’t functioning, right because he had an e-mail that took too long to get there! That indicates that the Internet doesn’t work because the tubes are full with commercial content I don’t know his word for content. Is it stuff or something like that?

3) Hummm… it works for me and I pay $55 a month ONLY for broadband Internet service. I’d like it to keep working, and I don’t want him to allow the mega-giant telecoms and comcast (ha… my ISP) to start messing with it. I don’t want to use the Internet for dumping (his word) movies and commercial content into the tubes, as he suggests! I don’t want to use the Internet for entertainment purposes! Furthermore, he is asking me to pay so those mega-giant corporations can dump their stuff in my tubes! No thank you. That is not what I want.

4) He wants me/us to pay for the building of that infrastructure! Hell no… I’m not paying. Is that what he’s talking about? He wants them to deliver entertainment without filling the tubes so his e-mail is slowed down, correct? LOL… send him an e-mail and let him know that he doesn’t understand this game they are playing with him! He thinks we’re so stupid that he thinks we believe that he’s going to protect our Internet by giving the telecoms and comcast what they want? Is he that stupid?

There was another moment in the rambling rant where I thought I might have understood something he was trying to say. I think it was something like this:

* The DOD has their own Internet because they don’t want their tubes filled with commercial stuff.

* He said something like, “So there might be a day where they can have their Internet for commercial purposes.”

I will e-mail him AND write a letter to tell him that it’s fine for them to create a commercial Internet where he can go download movies every day like he wife told him about. However, those mega-giant telecommunications/cable companies should do that on their own dime exactly like they did when they built the telephone/cable infrastructure. I bet they could find investors to build those tubes. Also, they can charge their customers who want those movies like his wife told him about. Furthermore, the their investors can make money! Don’t you think that would be nice for everyone who wants those movies?

I get it now: this is another one of those multi-billion dollar giveaway campaign to the mega-corporations, huh? Hell, they probably believe it’s okay to give to them since Bush/Cheney has given so much to the oil guys.

I’ll suggest in my correspondence that if he wants them to have their own tubes, then they should ask the Department of Defense how to do it. They should seek investors and give them dividends when their brilliant Internet system of BIG tubes can start making money for them. Once they have their own commercial Internet like the DOD, they can dump all those things like they did when they slowed down the delivery of his e-mail. That will eliminate the problems with his e-mail. It will stop getting tangled up, like he said, “Because it got tangled up with all these things going on the Internet commercially.”

I see the light! I’m writing him and asking him to get the hell out of the way and leave my tubes alone!

Join me: http://stevens.senate.gov/contact.cfm He’s not interested in e-mail from non-Alaskans, but you can probably make one up. Here’s his address, fax and phone numbers:

The Honorable Ted Stevens
United States Senate
522 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510

(202) 224-3004
(202) 224-2354 FAX

I’m going to blast him and I hope you and everyone else who wants their tubes left alone will bombard him! Poor old guy… and notice how he addresses himself (I copied from his website)… Honorable? @#&* … he’s not honorable, he’s nuts!

Methinks Stevens’s tubes are tied.

Gah! rwcole @ 34 already told the tubes tied joke. That’s what I get for trying to catch up!

96*ilson46201 @ 96
Precisely…
What the telcos do not want is market forces driving price
They have that and hate it

The major problem clogging the pipes (tubes for idiots) is SPAM
Digital delivery of movies is too slow for most consumers at current bandwidth speeds, not because the big telco pip is clogged, but because the pipe consumers rent is too skinny, and it is not cost effective to rent a larger one.
Nothing in the proposed telecommunications act will reduce the price of the consumenr’s pipe or reduce the amount of spam getting in the way of Senator Stevens’ delayed ‘internets’

Victoria2dc - fine rant.

I sure hope one of his aides sit him down and explain the internet to him. “Our” internet neutrality is in his hands? Holy Shit!

We need “term limits” on every one of these idiots in Washington. Stevens is senile, and needs to be replaced. These guys just go on and on and on. My Congressman is Dana Rohrabacher, and only a term limit would get rid of him.

Christy - Gonna post it at at least two other sites…I saw the post at DKos, so I’ll confuse and fill those tubes even more by linking back to all the other posts. Then I’m going to go order my 10 movies….do I get to pick which tube they shove them through?

The HONORABLE Senator’s tube may need some lube.

Aanya,

NO to term limits! Agree that Stevens and Rohrabacher needs to be pried away, but half the reason CA is such a mess right now is term limits. It only takes a few years for institutional memory to seep away. Then we’re stuck with , oh, say, former school board members who believe they’re making the state safe for Christianity, who have no idea what governing means.

Sorry egregious, as you know, I linked to the NYT’s pic without bothering to read your 6:26.

Why look — here’s someone who’s due a “I’m Already Smarter Than Ted Stevens!” t-shirt for his birthday.
(Don’t miss the pix.)

*ilson, did you ever figure out wozzup with these posts a la 112?

From my post, inspired by Christy:

Wow%u2026 The fate of the internet rests in his hands, and he would just mail it off somewhere and bitch about how it took so damn long because it wasn’t delivered on a truck! /snark

Also, who the hell does he think he is; divulging the Defense Department’s internet to the world!? Treason! He is putting a target squarely on the Pentagon! The terrorists didn’t know the DoD even had an internet, much less, where it was located! And separate!? Might as well draw a map! Gas chamber!

Lotus — It’s a track back — from me.

Lotus - I was hoping you were going to link to the picture of my boy in his T-Shirt ;-)

I think those thingies like 112 are some sort of autobot linky thing, like ‘look who has linked to you, won’t you put me on your blogroll now?’ This is totally a WAG. *ilson?

Oh Matt, you kiddoes today are so far beyond us’uns. Now I gotta Google “track back” to learn sumfin else.