Fitz!

Eli you got a ZERO fitz…

Is that good, or does it mean it doesn’t count?

Who could fail to be delighted by fanciful tales of Roy Orbison wrapped in clingfilm?

That’s very good. It’s a momentary phenomenon that no one has explained so far…at least that I’ve understood…people were getting screen shots to prove the zero, but I guess it’s like any other system, you just get used to the quirks after awhile.

Christy, great picture. Nice call on the spew warning with cut-and-run Cheney and the draft.

That paper owes God an apology for letting one of his/her faux followers debase his/her name like that.

This past Thursday, I met Leslie in Ca, John in Sacramento, SherAn, and Donna Marie at a Drinking Liberally event. It was so much fun. Now we are planning on putting up a website about the 2006 races local to the Sacramento area.

This is going to take some time and some work, no problem. But thinking about this project made me realize how much time and work goes into the phenomonon we call FireDogLake. And I thought about the expenses Jane is incurring going to Connecticut for us.

So a made a little donation this morning. (Leslie in CA pointed out there is a handy PayPal link in the upper right corner.)

Jane and Christy et al have too much class to mention these things. But we can, from time to time!

Meanwhile, out here in lotus-land Santa Barbara, our daily paper is melting down. Mass resignations. Out-of-control owner. New publisher that has stated that his editorial views will control news content reported. Cats living with dogs.

http://www.latimes.com/news/lo.....;cset=true

someone on this anti-Olbermann website called Olbermannwatch.com, asked why doesn’t keith speak out against child molesters like O’Reilly does. His conclusion was that Keith Olbermann supports child molestation. It was freaking hilarioius.

The Poor Man has a photo of the ringleader of the Holland Tunnel conspiracy:

http://www.thepoorman.net/2006/07/08/rope-tree/

What’s making us smile in our house? Watching “Cartoon Alley” on TCM right now. Old-time cartoons from the forties.

Something to make us smile while we get ready to leave for the vet appt. with Tandy. [This is just a quick pop-in to say “hi” to everybody here! Be back later….]

One of my friends, a Veterans for Peace activist, has been considering sponsoring public “flag washings” to wash out the moral stains of the Bush Administration.

Mike’s Blog Round Up on C & L this morning has a for (sur)real post on Noron. Humorous in a black way.

How about Louis Farrakhan singing a novelty calypso song about a transsexual?

LindaR at 7 — Aw, thanks! Much appreciated!

at the angry alien site, I also heartily recommend the 30 second Casablanc, and the 30 second Its a Wonderful Life. Oh, and the 30 second Star Wars.

Tennessee’s Statue of Liberation through Christ.

Yes, naschkatze, Mike has my post up about the Fox News-like segment on Hardball last night. It’s here:

http://www.democrats.com/node/9423

The only thing that saved me was that I was sipping a nice bourbon on the rocks that was just enough to numb me and not enough to make me throw a rock through my TV. So unbalanced it was unreal.

My 5 year old also like the 30 second Star Wars, but the 30 Second Rervoir Dogs, even though performed with cartoon bunnies, is not particularly child-appropriate.

at the angry alien site, I also heartily recommend the 30 second Casablanc, and the 30 second Its a Wonderful Life. Oh, and the 30 second Star Wars.

It’s text-only, but Movie-A-Minute is brilliant. I particularly like Jaws and The Professional.

Troy in Fifteen Minutes is also hilarious.

Reservoir. Oh, and Casablanc A.

jmorris, I’m thinking there’s no logic to this stuff at all. This is like that bozo Simon that Jane exposed Friday–he made the statement:

those of us who are particularly staunch on church-state separation (traditionally a liberal position) might find ourselves constrained to defend the Catholics

Is logic a foreign concept to these wingers? Support for church-state separation equals support of church postions? So I should maybe support splinter-group LDS polygamy, or ritual dancing down the street with a shaved head and a hand drum? “2 2=, ahh, shoot I know that one, ah…5? Did I get that right?”

You know what’s next, right? FOX snooze: “SOME PEOPLE have said that it’s clear from his statements on his show that Olbermann supports child moestation. How can he still be on the air? We turn to our in-house team of shills for more baseless comments…”

Anon says:

July 8th, 2006 at 8:50 am

One of my friends, a Veterans for Peace activist, has been considering sponsoring public “flag washings” to wash out the moral stains of the Bush Administration.

Anon says:

July 8th, 2006 at 8:50 am

One of my friends, a Veterans for Peace activist, has been considering sponsoring public “flag washings” to wash out the moral stains of the Bush Administration.

OMG, that is a FANTASTIC idea!
Not only does it turn on it’s head the flag-burning controversy, it is symbolically significant and could even get the attention of conservatives.

Frameshop has some good stuff — 5 lessons for liberals from the Lamont Lieberman race, and a funny cartoon of Rush.

http://www.frameshopisopen.com/

oops, don’t know how to turn off italics. Sorry.

“– If you somehow missed Donita’s “Dormatory Boys” video yesterday, you really have to watch it. It is laugh out loud funny — all the way to the end of the video. Bwahahahaha.”

Here’s another one ; ) LOL

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....=dormitory boys

Who will protect you from The Terrible Secret Of Space?

Eep. Some of the visuals towards the end of that version are a little more… disturbing than the one I saw originally, or else my memory is malfunctioning. My apologies.

One last one and I have to go out. I believe rwcole calls him Pope Benny. Pope Benny is not getting the reception he counted on in Spain. There must still be a lot of descendants of the people who fought on the right (small r) side in the civil war. I’m in a dark humor today because I share looseheadprop’s concern about Fitz. I didn’t get to see the press conf. but read the transcript. It seems ominous when you put it together with this sudden found friendship of Bush and Daley.

Dood Abides newest creation over at DailyKos.

Plus, check out links I provided, here and here in the comments section for a couple hysterical AP photos of Hastert and Bush. I mentioned the first one on TRex’s post last night.

Both good for a few laughs.

Oh dear. Someone just posted The Mother Of All Cheesy 70s Videos over at Eschaton…

yea, there is a nice battle between atrios and bradrocket…lol

http://atrios.blogspot.com/200.....9286643338

http://sadlyno.com/archives/003197.html

Dormitory Boys, one more!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....=dormitory boys

yea, there is a nice battle between atrios and bradrocket…lol

*And* The Editors. The Billy Squier Dance cracks me right up. He who is his own choreographer has a fool for a client.

A friend just sent me this in an internet. Got garbledy and went to hell at the end (part of the joke?), but here’s the intact part:

Warning! Incredibly Harmful Virus!

If you receive an e-mail with a subject line of “Badtimes,” delete it immediately WITHOUT reading it. This is the most dangerous e-mail virus yet.

It will re-write your hard drive. Not only that, but it will scramble any disks that are even close to your computer.

It will recalibrate your refrigerator’s coolness setting so all your ice cream melts and milk curdles.

It will demagnetize the strips on all your credit cards, reprogram your ATM access code, screw up the tracking on your VCR and use subspace field harmonics to scratch any CDs you try to play.

It will give your ex-boy/girlfriend your new phone number.

It will mix antifreeze into your fish tank.

It will drink all your beer and leave its dirty socks on the coffee table when there’s company coming over.

It will hide your car keys when you are late for work and interfere with your car radio so that you hear only static while stuck in traffic.

Badtimes will make you fall in love with a hardened criminal.

It will give you nightmares about circus midgets.

It will replace your shampoo with Nair and your Nair with Rogaine, all while dating your current boy/girlfriend behind your back and billing their dates and [. . .]

And much as I like the Dormitory Boys, *this* remains my all-time favorite.

Hey, I got a solicitation from the DSCC yesterday. (When they publish an official statement that they’ll support the democratic nominee in Connecticut I’ll consider contributing.)

What made me smile, though, was an insert that will cling to the inside of a window (i.e., car, house…). It said “Had Enough? Vote Democratic in ‘06!”

Like we say in the theatre and witchcraft, “If it works, steal it!” Congrats to Needlenose for getting the DSCC on the right track.

Dood Abides newest creation over at Daily Kos.

Plus links to two great AP photos of Hastert and Bush yesterday in Illnois here and here. Check out the expressions and posture. Both great to add your own captions to.

Eli ~ check this out, THE BEST!!EVER!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....arch=disco

A friend just sent me this in an internet. Got garbledy and went to hell at the end (part of the joke?), but here’s the intact part:

I once got an e-mail telling me that it was the Amish virus, and asking me to please delete all my files.

Eli ~ check this out, THE BEST!!EVER!

Yes indeed, which is why I blogged it about a month ago…

Making me laugh this morning is my 4yo nephew.
The kid’s a genius (not that I’m biased…) who is “helping” my 19yo son work on his new (to him) car.

“You need a skew-diver?”

“No, buddy.”

“Yes, you do!”

*exasperated sigh* “Mo-mmmmm!!”

OK, twice I’ve tried to post, but it didn’t register after I hit submit? My post had three links. Could that be the problem?

I’ll just try this one for now:
Dood Abides newest creation over at Daily Kos.

Thank you.

Sorry gang,

I opened a new browser window, opened FDL again, and see that the first finally took. *sigh*

Posted on latenight last night the link to google video’s “Amazing Juggling Finale”–actually it’s also a smiley way to wake up, too…go to google and give it a try.

Rene, posted back atcha at the tail of the last thread.

my latest fave was w. yesterday looking and sounding clueless with Ms. Malveaux. the Viagra man later mocked the press. lol.

Last nite I went to youtube and found this clip that made me smile… it is a prototype of late boomers with enormous carefree talent… love uma and john

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....earch=john travolta

Im not sure about this one…I wanna laugh so hard…but then again, Ill have to go to confession tommorow. ;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....arch=disco

I don’t know where I heard about this but it’s a good story about a dog born without two front legs and how she learned to walk upright. It’s a little bizarre but it’s a feel-good story. Enjoy.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=onL.....;search=bi pedal dog

eli 31
i’ve fallen and i can’t get up.
too funny.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....arch=david hasselhoff

Here, for your giggling enjoyment, is a current headline over on HufPo:

Bush Says He’s “Solving” Global Warming “Debate”…

And if you buy that one, Raw Story has another you’ll like:

Bush: Popularity not very important

Im not sure about this one…I wanna laugh so hard…but then again, Ill have to go to confession tommorow. ;)

Also brilliant.

As for the juggling, check out the five-ball re-enactment of the Chris Bliss finale, or better yet, check out Kris Kremo. The opening routine is fairly pedestrian, but once he moves on to hats and blocks, it’s just amazing.

Dave, I saw that dog story a few weeks ago — truly amazing.

Made me laugh this am:
http://www.correntewire.com/fr.....k_and_post
chicago dyke @ corrente.
Glad she’s on our side of the lake - the lady is razor-equipped!

Hillary can’t wait for 2008!

re the dog story. i read about a cat with no front legs and it scooted around on it’s chest and had a big pad built up where it made contact with the ground. it also had very powerful hind legs. it could jump up on the kitchen counter. that cat did fine just as this dog has done. the point is - don’t have animals put down for handicap reasons. give em a chance. they have zero self pity.

Jesus’ General
“Liveblogging kittybirth”

Love that photo at the top. Kids are something else. Then we “adults” have to come along and corrupt them. My daughter does real estate in San Diego. And she always tells me, “Pop, I’d never sell anybody anything, that I really didn’t think they wanted or needed.” She makes me proud, and I suppose one could say she’s the best thing I’ve got going for me.

John Casper: Awwww

On topic, if only because “we laugh that we may not weep”–

We really need to be giving more coverage to the Mexican election. Because the parallels to what the Republicans have done to us in Florida 2000 and Ohio 2004 are uncanny.

And no matter where the wingers win, they hurt us.

Well, if you cain’t laff at d r i f t g l a s s, you jes’ daid and they ain’t no heppin’ you.

Heaven help the innocents, the YouTube Wars are spreading to FDL…

lotus
Drifty gets the YouTube bug?
…what about the chill’n?

I’s too skeert to contemplate it, newt . . .

Two gut-busters:
1) A deflating companion to the new Superman movie, the website “Superdickery” -
http://www.superdickery.com/galleries.html
has a huge gallery of old superhero comic book covers with hilarious, strange, weirdly inappropriate themes or images. None are Photoshopped; it’s how they appeared in real life. The Batman-Robin torrid love affair evidence is particularly enlightening.
2) For Deadwood fans, an episode reduced to its swearing. The usual words, broken only by E.B. Farnum’s confused utterance, “diarrhea…”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....h=deadwood

lotus
just scrolled below the yTube hit on driftglass…
Must get to the ophthalmologist, quick!

Whaddya thank had me so skeert, newt?

I posted this before, but since she is back in the news for “alleged” plagerism…here is Betty Bowers take down of “Godless”.

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

Lambert - I admit that I haven’t read a lot about the Mexican election, but I was surprised when I heard this little snippet on an NPR Marketplace story a few days ago:

Yet, with the help of US advisors, Calderon ran one of the dirtiest electoral campaigns in Mexican history. [link]

No mention of who those advisors were, but that’s the only mention I’d heard about them.

JWR amd lambert, Greg Palast has a story you’ll want to see in this morning’s Guardian.

This is not new- but it is one of my favorite all time Internet finds.

Love Letter to Condi

“Do you remember that day that we met, you slaped my face because I spilled coke on your vest….
To think I could marry a secretary with more power than most head of states….”

With the exception of my own country, (the U.S.), Mexico is the most corrupt nation I’ve ever been to.

Ripley, Superdickery is one of my favorite sites. Almost every single page is pure gold.

Oh, thank God - Time Cube still lives. My favorite insane crackpot.

Hi Christy, thanks for the linkage and for the birthday wishes. Making it to 43 is certainly better than 6 feet under. :)

Who knew that The Homosexual Agenda and reproductive freedom advocates included inflicting natural disasters via direct contact with the Big Guy upstairs…

Lotus, thanks for the Palast link.

this is an Alleged Plagarist Ann threadjack. Sorry about the repost but I’m wondering if anyone has addressed this yet? I haven’t seen it at rudepundit or americablog or tpmmuckraker or raw or here, so I’m asking.

When does it stop being plagarism and start being violation of copyright? Is there a clear, bright line, or is it all kinda fuzzy and smeary? What happens when the copyright owners sue alleged plagarist Ann and her publishers for stealing their material, and Ann loses?

Pulling her book is one thing- but all it takes is one judgement against her, and the damages will bankrupt her. So how do we get that ball rolling?

I’d propose that step one is finding out who owns the copyrights in the works from which she has lifted material. Then step two is calling each of those wronged parties, and asking them if they’re interested in protecting their copyrights. If you can find one or two, that’s the basis for a lawsuit- she would owe royalties on every single copy of the book.

lotus - Thanks for that link to Palast. I think I found what I was looking for: the “International Republican Institute,” (bringing democracy to a third-world country near you!)

it’s a Palast coup

Dependable Renegade is dependably a fast, from the gut, laugh.

Poorman, Digby, TBogg, Driftglass - I found them all from here and they are all great.

I got a huge laugh out of discovering that Roger Ailes had a dastardly, devious plot to trick me into believing that Joe Klein was a Republican pundit. Now that his covert operation has been revealed, the truth is out.

If they can’t claim Joe - the Republicans have no pundits left. They have neocons, theocons and delayedcons. They have fascionable newsreporters. They have a crew of Losst Boys, clapping so desperately for Tinkerbell that they change global wind patterns. They have a huge horde of well groomed enunciators whose diction is remarkable given how deeply the botox needles penetrated into their frontal lobes. There are a few wooden cue card readers, and even a timorous woolen-molested bleates.

But now that Roger’s cover up is exposed - the ugly truth it out there for all to see. There are no Republican pundits left. They come not to praise fiscal responsibility and civil liberties, but to bury them. And because they have way too much fun dressing in togas.

Other than that - and the Langley air force troll who is beside themself over the danger to small children when objects move at speeds in excess of 50 mph (again - that was an AIR FORCE troll, concerned over speed) - the charges against Berlusconi and the Muckraker piece on Ashcroft and Abramoff made me smile.

Today, Bob’s cartoons make me have sad smiles though.

Annie, Get your Glum

lambert & JWR –

I just posted a comment at Correntewire with the text of a Palast email on the Mexico election — it’s very similar to the Guardian article, but there are some differences.

Warm fuzzy Saturday post:

Only a sustained full metal rabid lamb attack can foil the nefarious scourge of the flatulent raccoon.

‘Sensitive hearts, avoid viewing the above carnage and embrace me instead’

;>)

Fresh blue thread upstairs.

-ck- - Thanks for that. I’m sort of in the camp that says “stop whining about the votes they can steal and start winning by a bigger margin”, but that looks more like wholesale theft.

smiley at 10:43
TRex did a thread on Coultergeist last night, FDL Late night. Interesting idea wrt copyright. I linked (TRex later gave me absolution) to Red State, because it’s the only place I’ve found that actually shows the plagiarism. I can’t vouch for Red State’s accuracy.

“LA Times (appears in a different order than Coulter’s column):

‘In a May, 1976, speech reported in a newspaper account, Souter said he opposed affirmative action, calling it “affirmative discrimination.’

Coulter:

‘In a private speech — not a brief on behalf of a client — Souter attacked affirmative action, calling it “affirmative discrimination.’”

Based on that,(and there are other longer examples at Red State) and I am speculating here, Ann’s hacks writers are very careful to try and hide the plagiarism.
Not sure if this informs your idea about copyright in any way.

Normally, I would relink to a source, but I can’t bring myself to link again to Red State. For anyone interested, you do a “Find” on TRex’s late night thread to take you right to the link.

everything’s gotten so linear all of a sudden

strikethrough lines are gone now

Thanks for the picture, something to remember, a smile is universal and infectious, I like getting bit by that bug.

new thread

http://www.firedoglake.com/200.....hy-fl-5th/

Monkey’s Video

http://www.yikers.com/video_gu.....eless.html

I already made a mention of this over at Kos, with barely a ripple, but figured it’s worth a look here.

http://www.newshounds.com/d/20060707.html

Good take on the flag burning crisis.

i liked “a scanner darkly.”

some damn good dick

In an op-ed, “The high court’s Hamdan power grab”, in the LA Times of 7/7/06, Professor John “torture boy” Yoo vaingloriously compared the Bush Administration’s war crimes against detainees in the Global War on Terror (GWOT) to Lincoln’s emancipation of the slaves: “A PRESIDENT responds to an unprecedented war with unprecedented measures that test the limits of his constitutional authority. He suffers setbacks from hostile Supreme Court justices, a critical media and a divided Congress, all of which challenge his war powers. … this describes President Bush after the Supreme Court last week rejected military commissions for trying terrorists. But it just as easily fits Abraham Lincoln when he issued the Emancipation Proclamation freeing the slaves …”

In Hamdan, the Supreme Court held that: “[The] requirements [of Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions] are general, crafted to accommodate a wide variety of legal systems, but they are requirements nonetheless. The commission convened to try Hamdan does not meet those requirements.” And, per War Crimes Act of 1996: “[any US national who] commits a war crime [e.g., violates Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions] … shall be fined … or imprisoned …, and if death results to the victim, shall also be subject to the penalty of death.” And, death has resulted to more than one victim of the Bush Administration’s violations of Common Article 3.

It is time to ask what our values are. Does America condone war crimes? Do true Americans consider Bush’s war crimes morally and legally on par with Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation?

That’s great, Skippy.

I’m looking forward to “Scanner Darkly” because it was one of my favorite books (Dick’s “Valis” is his greatest, though).

I’m a little apprehensive because the screenplay I thought they were going to use was written by Charlie Kaufman (”Being John Malkovich,” “Human Nature,” “Eternal Sunshine,” “Adaptation”) but somehow Linklater got the film made. Could still be great, but I think Kaufman would have been sensational.

dover,

i’m actually not a fan of kaufman’s, i think he only works w/the right director (spike jonez, the guy who did “spotless mind”) and i think he has big problems writing third acts (who doesn’t?).

linklater did an admirable job, i think. it seemed to me that the plot was always just out of reach of being comprehensible…like one of those magic eye puzzles you look at, and think you know what you’re seeing, but not quite sure.

it wasn’t the best dick i’ve ever had, but it was some good dick. and you can’t ever turn down good dick.

I’m stealing this from a comment at DKos by a poster callled EZWriter, but I thought it was so funny it was worth the larceny. Someone later informed me they thought it was a recycled blonde joke, but it’s so much funnier about GW.

Bush calls in his NASA head and says he’s decided to send a man to the SUN! The NASA guy and his aides were a bit worried. They said, “Mr. President, it is pretty hot on the sun.”

Bush said, “That is OK. We will go at night, when it’s cooler.”

For those of you in a wierd food mood, take a look at “Steve don’t eat it!”

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