Oh, good lord. Katherine Harris is rapidly becoming the LaToya "Little Jackson that Couldn’t" Jackson of the Republican party. The Good General kindly (and 100% heterosexually) points us to this article:
ORLANDO, Fla. – Katherine Harris’ attempt to boost her campaign with a series of high-profile endorsements wilted Thursday when none of the officials appeared at her campaign rally and one of them said Harris wrongly included him on her list of supporters.
State Sen. Daniel Webster, R-Winter Garden, said he has not endorsed Harris and instead is supporting one of her challengers, Orlando attorney Will McBride.
Harris, McBride, retired Adm. LeRoy Collins and developer Peter Monroe are battling for the right to take on Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson in the general election.
Webster, a former Florida House speaker and now a state senator, said he’s been with McBride since May, when the candidate jumped into the race.
"I’ve always backed Will," said Webster. "He’ll make a great United States senator."
Webster said he had no idea why Harris listed him as one of her supporters. He said he never endorsed her.
Harris insisted that Webster promised to attend her rally Thursday at Orlando Executive Airport.
"They called back twice and said he’d be here," said Harris. "He said he was going to be here on the stage with me today."
Jesus, Katherine, how many copies of He’s Just Not That Into You am I going to have to send to you this year?
He wasn’t the only no-show for Harris’ "Soaring for the Senate" rally.
None of the nine officials listed on her event flier appeared, leaving Harris on her own to address a group of about 40 supporters, reporters and campaign staff members.
(snip)
Harris spoke in an airplane hangar that seemed to highlight the modest size of the crowd. She said a last-minute location change – required because a tree fell on the hangar where the event was supposed to be held – kept crowd numbers down.
In other words, it’s the "A Big Black Dog Ate My Campaign" approach to coping with failure.
Airport officials, however, said no hangar had been damaged by a downed tree and that the rally was held in the hangar that had been originally booked.
Mm-hmm.
"She’s truth-challenged," McBride said this week. "She has problems with the truth."
You don’t say. Shut. Up. But she was such a paragon of nonpartisan virtue back in 2000 during the recounts!
But wait, it gets better. This bit made me laugh out loud:
Harris spoke for 10 minutes saying she was the only candidate with the conservative credentials to defeat Nelson. When she finished, red, white and blue balloons dropped onto an empty stage, rendered unnecessary by the sparse crowd. (Emphasis mine.)
That image is so beautiful, it calls for a haiku:
The slow balloons fall
Like cherry blossoms in spring.
Your campaign is toast.
I’ve said it before, and I feel fairly certain I’ll say it again. Karma’s a bitch. And she knows where you live.
Dear God,
I don’t know if you just happened to be running low on your supplies of shame and self-awareness on the day you made Little Katie Harris, or if you simply sent her to Earth for comic relief, but thank you. I think. I don’t know if any amount of public humiliation will ever be able to make up for the role she played in unleashing the Bush administration upon the world, but in the meantime, watching her impale herself on the cruel spike of public indifference this fall may be one of the single greatest pleasures of the political season, so thank you.
In Jesus’ name I pray,
Amen.
UPDATE: Darkblack weighs in with his usual aplomb:
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Nedth!
(”Soaring For The Senate”?)
That haiku is spectacular
Eli @ 2
*cough*
Apparently, yes.
“Stalker to the Senate” got scuttled in committee. Too Lieberman-ish.
this is too funny to be true
trex, any chance she’ll “get them back for how they embarrassed me”?
a women scorned and all that, we might be able to talk her into a tell all
Great graphic, too.
Maybe if it was “Scoring For The Senate”…
There seems to be quite an epidemic lately of campaigning Republicans not being able to fill a venue – Katie H., George Felix Allen Jr., Joementum, etc.
Katherine Harris is also a plagiarist, lifting themes from Stephen Colbert:
“This administration is soaring. If anything, they are rearranging the deck chairs on the Hindenburg!”
-GSD
op99 @ 7
Cooties.
I’m just waiting for Harris to completely lose it on camera…like she’ll start beating someone with a metal coathanger or something and screaming obscenities at them. I can’t picture her anymore without seeing Faye Dunaway in my mind in Mommy Dearest hehe.
Eli @ 7
…or in the Senate, or with the Senate…
Did I say that out loud?
Kurt @ 10
You might enjoy this…
Canker Sore-ing for the Senate.
“Whoring For The Senate” would be *too* harsh, right?
Eli @ 15
Senate doesn’t want sloppy seconds, I figure
(maybe that’s too harsh)
Eli @ 15
Mweeeee-heeeee-heeeee.
Of course not. Hundreds of thousands of people all over the world have died as the result of the Bush administration taking office in 2001. And she provided the KY jelly for this ass-fucking of the planet.
And defense contractors bought that boob job, so, uh, no.
Not. Too. Harsh. At all.
I can picture a lipsticked and cold-creamed Katherine Harris beating a poor staffer over the head with a stack of punchcards.
“I said NO hanging chads….arghhhh….”
-GSD
GSD @ 17
I bet she doesn’t leave too many Chads hanging…
TRex @ 17
I believe the lubrication was crude oil.
-GSD
Katherine prefers her Chads hung.
-GSD
I thought that would be the Best Name Ever for a Florida alternative rock band in 2001, “Hanging Chad”.
Yeah.
GSD @ 19
Maybe it was petroleum jelly.
Oh Eli, that was funny hehe…I hadn’t seen that :)
I want Candy’s water!
A tree falls; no one
hears speech or tree. balloons float,
the campaign goes pop.
Eli, your link at 8:53 p.m. is a scream.
The only thing sadder than Katherine Harris is the fact that it doesn’t look like we have a Democrat running in the Florida Senate race at all.
Nelson is not only unresponsive to the grassroots but painfully unresponsive to his constituents as well.
I will have to hold my nose to vote for Nelson at this point.
Hero of 2000
Aspires to Senate greatness
Not in this lifetime
I heard she got arrested for throwing bags of rocks and screwdrivers into Jeb Bush’s yard, and standing on his lawn with a boom-box playing “In Your Eyes” over and over and over.
Joe Lieberman and John McCain:
Two boobs with lateral rippling.
-GSD
thefos @ 26
Yah; Florida is reddish, but not that red.
Eli @ 13
This is a good spot for my favorite TRexism: Uh. Mah. Gawd.
So where does Bill Nelson stand on The Joe Question?
Who knew Floriduh would continue to provide so much electoral comedy for so long?
Fini FiniTOOBZ! @ 33
Everyone, I think.
Has Katherine Harris hired the folks that Lieberman fired yet?
Have they quit yet?
neurophius @ 35
I think Bob Shrum is available.
Say, wasn’t Senator Nelson an astronaut?
http://cgi.ebay.com/I-Dream-of…..otohosting
-GSD
But she looked us straight in the camera and said:
I am going to run, and I will win.
Did she lie to us?
Getting a majority of the House and/or Senate hopefully will be one/two of the greatest pleasures of the political season. To kinda paraphrase Merle Haggard “If We Make it Through October” without any nasty surprises like another ginned up 9-11 or the outbreak of WW3 and cancellation of the election for either reason.
Eli @ 35
I guess prior to 2000 I was not completely aware of FL eccentricities with elections. IN has its own peculiarities, I suppose everyone in America does too.
If Katherine Harris is lying now about who is endorsing her, it would appear that she lied in 2000 about the state of the Florida election. It is sad, that we can only say “I told you so”, but the damage is done. Harris is not only a comical person, but she is truly evil, because she knew exactly what she was doing in 2000. Unfortunately, there will be many more “Katherine Harrises” in the Republican party trying to tamper with the 2006 and 2008 vote.
I think we should urge Katherine Harris to endorse Joe Lieberman. Every other Republican has. What’s her problem?
The thing that might be funnier than the Harris “Crash and Burn 2006″ campaign, would be if Brittney Spears would move there and run for office…that would be pure comedy gold I tell ya.
Kurt @ 43
I’d be too afraid she’d win.
I can’t wait till after she loses and begins pouring kerosene on the Republican election loss fires with some choice statements about 2000.
Well, at least, Britney’s concert tours might keep her from voting in the Senate very often.
Fini FiniTOOBZ! @ 45
My gut feeling is that she’ll keep her mouth shut about 2000.
Back from Vancouver
Now thought of silicone brains
I want my country back !
Kurt @ 44
Kurt must have discovered the fabled secrets of alchemy.
Kat Harris counts up
the Florida votes. Counting
on it to count now.
I’m glad the Gopers at least provide a lot of comic relief to help us through their tragic actions…
Curt @11: Maybe she will heat the coat hangers and brand someone with them. That’s what Bushboy did in his college fraternity at Yale.
Too much mascara.
Is that the worst they can say?
God, I love lipstick.
in a silent room
an awkward fearful woman
thinks she’s justified
Kurt @ 44
To Hell with the Senate for Britney, she’s perfect to replace the preznit! It’s time for a change, an empty dress instead of an empty suit.
GSD @ 21: Don’t we all!
Federline could be the governor, then and have a job!
Eli @ 48
My gut feeling is that she’ll keep her mouth shut about 2000.
Eli’s guts speak for
Kathryn’s shut mouth. 2000
rises from Jeb’s lawn.
angie @ 57
Shouldn’t he be in the K-Federal government?
EvilDrPuma @ 50
Aww come on, tell me this person wouldn’t make a perfect Senator from Florida hehe.
When Kathryn loses,
She runs to Lieberman. He
says, Never you mind.
the big difference between Britney and the Preznit is that she chooses to chew gum while talking trash and does both well.
prolly so, Eli at 60.
Let’ see, Nero fiddled while Rome burned.
What is our modern day Ceasar up to on the 1st anniversary of the Katrina Fiasco?
http://politicalhumor.about.co…..erdome.htm
-GSD
I am so fucking disgusted with this country and the leaders.
there was a “white trash rap” that a radio station in Atlanta used to play – “I’m white!!!! And Trashy!!!!” and it is all I can think of when I think of Britney Spears.
Stupid question: Could she be so inept that Nelson would actually be facing McBride?
I’m all for Harris making a mockery of her own party and I hope her campaign doesn’t completely sizzle out till that objective is completed!
Then, bring on the comic relief and extra mascara!
lots of talent in the room tonite, TRex. You bring out the best in people.
Your legal service
For hearts filled with treachery
sees a just reward
…Now shake your bon bon, the customers are waiting!
;>)
TRex, maybe you should volunteer to “help” Katie out with her “campaign” /wink wink. And then report back with the uncensored confidential video hehe.
I wonder how many gay men in the “Great State of Florida” were created when Katherine turned them off women for ever! Watching that video Eli linked makes me want to run out an marry a man!
Ha!!!!!
Mr. Mehlman looks suitably horrified -
all totally awesome.
darkblack!!
–
TRex-posting a portrait would have been well beyond the bounds of decency. Thankyou!
Darkblack,
I noticed Chubby Scotty MacLellan in that picture. I almost miss the pathetic stool sample. Tony Snow has made him seem almost likeable.
Maybe George Dubba-Ya needs to go down to Florida and have a little chat with Kat, maybe even a little laying on of the hands is needed.
http://politicalhumor.about.co…..assage.htm
-GSD
*ilbo @ 72
though, I must say, having TRex and decency in one sentence just makes me think of that wonderful scene in Gilda – Knock Knock, “Are you decent?”, !Rita Hayworth! “Who, me?”
Darkblack, I have to include that image in the post.
I’m too tired to
be witty, but I couldn’t
just be silent. Alas.
You know, I’ve said it before, but I almost feel bad for the woman. (Emphasis on the “almost”.) We’ve spent the last six years listening to the media blather on and on and on about how much Bush values loyalty. And yet, here’s the woman who threw the election for Bush, and nobody will give her the time of day. I’ll give her an A for effort, though. She’s been stabbed in the back more times than Caesar, and she still carries on.
TRex quoted:
“Harris spoke for 10 minutes saying she was the only candidate with the conservative credentials to defeat Nelson. When she finished, red, white and blue balloons dropped onto an empty stage, rendered unnecessary by the sparse crowd. (Emphasis mine.)”
Is anybody following Harris around with a vidcam? I suppose there’s no need to as this won’t even be close, but there have to be some extremely precious moments trailing her.
Joe and Harris, just a couple of GOP tools. Joe ought to pay attention because harris is prime example of gooper loyalty. They’ll toss him away when they find no further use for him.
I don’t know,but do you think harris would have support if she were a man?
OT but from the dept of can you believe we are living in this mad, mad, mad, mad world?
Breaking on CNN– Karr’s plane lands at LAX with mebbe a snake aboard.
great googly woogly.
Speaking of comedy gold, we even have Britney and Matt Lauer, to give us an idea of what interviewing Sen. Spears would be like hehe.
LOL TRex
You are such a treat.
All that’s missing is guessing how many “bless her heart” votes she’ll get. You know, she’ll probably get some of those. “Bless her lil heart, she just tries so dang hard, and those mean old guys didn’t show up, shame on them!”
Bush gives Angela
a rub. Lieberman a kiss.
Nothing for Harris.
drouse @ 80
I do. She’s getting the same treatment that Liddy Dole got when she ran for President.
David Brooks:
“Polarized primary voters shouldn’t be allowed to define the choices in American politics.”
Peter Beinart:
‘”The DLC remains an organization of politicians that believes the less beholden politicians are to grassroots activists, the better they will represent voters as a whole.”
Senior White Horse souse:
“‘Senior administration officials have acknowledged to me that they are considering alternatives other than democracy’ in Iraq.”
Why do they hate us for our freedoms?
Frank Probst @
84
I agree.
drouse @ 9:34 pm (#80) – I don’t know,but do you think harris would have support if she were a man?
Hard to say. My guess is that she’s just not in the club, whatever that club is. She’s a perennial wannabee. That may be partly due to her being a woman, but if she were a man she’d still need to have the right connections. Having lots of money would help, too.
Also, that appalling sense of entitlment.
YOU OWE ME!!! WAH!!
Can’t wait to see this week’s goofy news. I’m betting the media will be reporting that Bush is getting a huge “bounce” in his poll numbers after the capture of Jon Benet Ramsey’s supposed killer.
You mean she’s not?
I don’t know,but do you think harris would have support if she were a man?
I think most voters would find the giant fake boobs really creepy.
Frank,
Just like the rightwingers who quickly claimed that Pat Robertson was a has been when he started in with the wacky assassination threats against Hugo Chavez.
In between appearances on Fox News, Karl Rove was milking Pat’s flaccid baloney in order to get support for “Supreme Court Flack to be” Scarriet Miers one day, the next day no one has heard of the Pat Robertson in a decade.
Those Bush’s toss used people aside like empty peanut shells.
The co$t of loyalty for the Bush Family.
-GSD
Ms. Harris could make a lot of money telling the story of 2000, I’d wager.
Peter Beinart:
‘”The DLC remains an organization of politicians that believes the less beholden politicians are to grassroots activists, the better they will represent voters as a whole.”
Stupid “ordinary people”. What do they know about voters?
Kathryn flies in a
Plane; her gelly bra explodes.
Terror alert. Red.
Eli @ 91
Straight men don’t care if they’re real or not.
Ed*ard Teller @85
What he really means is “The DLC remains an organization of politicians that believes the less beholden politicians are to grassroots activists, the better they will represent corporations as a whole.”
Ed*ard Teller @ 85
So what do we use, Dave? A Ouija board?
Well done DB! Shrub up ta clearin’ sum brush!
I thought it was telling today when Tweety referred to Maliki as “our Prime Minister.”
theExile @ 100
I thought it was Tony Blair.
EvilDrPuma @
98
A benevolent Dictatorship of the Beltway Pundits would do just fine.
-GSD
EvilDrPuma @ 98
Unfortunately, as long as 30-40 percent of the voting public declines to be part of a political party, they don’t get to affect those choices. So, either let the people who show up make the choices or get the Ouija board out.
GSD @ 102
GSD – Isn’t that what we DO have?
EvilDrPuma @ 98
No. According to Brooks it is Brooks and his friends who should define the choices in American politics.
“the less beholden politicians are to grassroots activists, the better they will represent voters as a whole.”
my head asplode.
The discussion of bloggers/netroots/grassroots often reminds me of the Mr. Show episode where two children and their companions were missing. “I really hope they find those children. . . And the companions, too”
Frank Probst @ 89
Speaking of which. When the networks first started to report on the story, one of the things was that Karr had been arrested on unrealated sex charges. My local news man came up with a great line. He said, “If I were facing life in a Thai prison, I would cop to the Lindburgh baby if it would get me back to the States
drouse @ 9:47 pm (#107) – I missed that little nugget of information. Suddenly, the motivation for a false confession is crystal clear.
Cujo359 @ 103
I don’t know about that. Everybody knows that the Other World has a strong liberal bias.
I finally broke down and emailed CNN an expletive filled complaint about their non-stop terra terra terra and JonBenet coverage. I’m probably on a no-fly list now hehe. But for christsake, enough is enough already! Surely some white woman has gone missing somewhere by now!
All sarcasm aside, and there is room for plenty of sarcasm, I was thinkin’
Has got ot be one of the stupidest statements I have ever read. The more you think about it the stupider it gets.
Eli @
48
Or else be found dead under mysterious circumstances. cf. James Hatfield, author of Fortunate Son.
I asked here yesterday if anybody knew of video of Lieberman questioning Michael Brown during Brown’s Senate confirmation hearing to be head of FEMA. Nobody has responded that I’m aware of. I’m pretty busy doing GOTV for Tuesday’s state primary here and preparing for my classes to begin next week, so I don’t have time to check – besides somebody working or volunteering for Lamont should be tasked for this.
If there is footage of Lieberman sucking up to Brown which can be run on the 1st anniversary of Katrina, it might resonate at force 5.
TRex @ 109
It should. All the conservatives’ victims end up there.
She is certainly becoming a loose cannon. The Bush Family really really doesn’t like loose cannons.
Katherine, DO NOT step foot on any small aircraft EVER again.
ET,
It aint so benevolent I guess.
-GSD
Cujo359 @ 108
I just brought it up because it was such a great line. The later takes seems to indicate that he was set up and I haven’t seen any metion of local(Thai)charges since.
Frank Probst @ 101
Bu$hCo can only have diplomatic relations with countries that have the Bu$hCo candidate as leader. It’s working out well for Tony Blair – thanks to Bu$h his legacy should be right up there with Disraeli and Churchill, I would think. Maliki really isn’t so much PM as “Mayor of the Green Zone” from what I can see.
Morris Sheppard @ 9:52 pm (#111) – Has got ot be one of the stupidest statements I have ever read. The more you think about it the stupider it gets.
I don’t know, it’s kinda zen if you think about it. It has a sort of “one hand pumping” poetry about it.
Kathryn Harris lost
primary, got a job as
Joe’s kiss of death float.
GSD @ 73
Harrisy, I say, GSD!
The only thing missed (by myself) of MacLennan was his nonpareil ability to say absolutely nothing of value in a press scrum for as long as it took for beltway journos to doze off, waking up just in time to book their ‘afternoon delight’ on their BlackBerrys.
;>)
Poor Katie. At least she hasn’t been spotted having breakfast with John Bolton yet.
I was hoping punaise would show up, but it’s getting late, so…
Q. What cult horror thriller are Democratic Senators Carper, Pryor, Salazar, (Ben) Nelson, Mary Landrieu, and Baniel Inouye currently appearing in?
.
.
.
.
.
.
A. “Snakes in a Campaign!”
drouse @ 117
Or that it was reported that Kerr’s ex-wife will alibi him for the date of the murder. She said “He could not have done it because he was with me in Alabama”. Any guy whose ex-wife will provide an alibi … makes ya wonder…
Feeling a little nervious with all this poor Katie stuff… wondering who… Oh that person who is ruining my name!
kathryn harris found
herself holding onto
the bag with steel grip.
If the Senate thing doesn’t work out, maybe Kitty could team up with Pam What’s-Her-Name, from Atlas Who-Gives-A F**k. They could do a Tits On A Blintz II tour of the Holy Land.
Selah.
Neuro at 10:02 p.m.
Oh, sorry. I meant to post this:
http://www.democrats.com/node/9792
Jebby, I’m home.
-GSD
Jebby: well then–
Katy, bar the door!
Good lord, the actress playing Kathreine Harris in the Rejected Katherine Harris Campaign Video is effing brilliant. She’s got it all down. The Botox Smile, the slitted eyes of rage. Excellent. Definitely much better than “Cats”. I intend to see it again and again.
TRex @ 131
All she’s lacking are the ginormous fake boobs. Which kinda surprises me.
Don’t have any linkage for Neocon Joe and the Brown confirmation, but did find this on the Toobz:
Click Me
Reminds me of the Dan Hicks tune:
How can I miss you when you won’t go away?
Check this out. The Brits are getting P.O.ed at the Bushies playing the bomb plot for political advantage.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk…..03,00.html
Now if he ain’t the perfect dining companion for the practicing bulimic.
But the actress did nail the Nancy Grace/ Katherine Harris nostrils perfectly.
Nostrildamus.
hmmmph, well done.
In Kurt’s link at 10:22 p.m., Lieberman, while defending President Bush’s right to keep Brownie on the job after Katrina, advises against playing the “blame game.”
As I recall, that was one of Scotty McClueless’s favorite talking points.
Whatever happened to accountability?
Very interesting OT – the NSA decision distraction
Ed*ard Teller @
85
You’d think that “centrist” advocates would be able to say, “There are more choices than the most extreme opposites on an issue,” without insulting active citizens (grassroots) or those for whom the issues are important enough and the choices clear enough to have made a commitment one way or the other, let alone hinting that committed citizens shouldn’t even be allowed to participate in defining issues.
But apparently neither Brooks nor Beinart can do this. A mind is a terrible thing to waste. And so is a column.
ET– I cannot access the archives for cspan video right now– I get an error page– I watched it then and am almost positive that it is available.
Ms. Harris is a candidate in the great GOP tradition of Alen Keyes, Alan Schkessinger, and some of the REALLY strange critters, like Little Ricky who have actually won. Liberals pride themselves on inclusiveness but where is their outreach to Batshit-Americans?
Bush should do everything in his power to help poor Ms. Harris, she made him, and, he is exactly what you would expect of something she made. If she wants Dubya to hold a prime time news conference touting her candidacy and go down on her in the middle of it, it’s still less than he owes her.
Neuro … you might like Bob Geiger’s own blog where he’s posted the Lieberman scorecard but also has his own good posts *and* the Saturday comics. Bob’s one of the treasures of the blogworld and now that he’s decided to post primarily on his own site, it’s one of my daily visits.
http://bobgeiger.blogspot.com/
drouse @ 135
You prolly won’t find this a shocking surprise:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pag…..n_a_source
I think that I am going to have no choice but to go shake down the dunkin donuts now. If they’re still open. I hear an eclair calling me.
Siun
By Bob Geiger’s own blog, do you mean Democrats.com, where I got the Senate scorecard? Or does he have another one as well? I have been reading Bob since he was “Yellow Dog Democrat.” Got to meet him at Yearly Kos. He’s a great guy and I like his writing–and his cartoon roundup.
Have a safe trip TRex… I am heading off to bed… the start of another work week…
hush Trex! I was just about to fall asleep and you bring up eclairs!
Frank Probst @ 96
That’s funny. And Bull-shit! Them’s nasty!
Siun
Duh. I followed your link and found Bob’s blog. I didn’t realize he was still running it as well as appearing on Democrats.com. Thanks.
Siun @ 143
Thanks for the link, Siun.
Neuro – Bob’s decided to focus on his own blog now instead of dem.com:
http://bobgeiger.blogspot.com/
He’s one of my favorite people and quite an asset but then how many folks actually read the congressional record daily just to keep us all informed?
i just got to say it:
Her karma ran over her dogma.
thank you.
i feel better now.
katymine @ 139– I worry that the CM et al will use that as very ugly & hyped-up xenophobic ammo against transgender/transsexual folks– I put nothing past them. ;(
Goodnight, katymine.
siun – thanks for the Geiger link. His latest essay is certainly a good one. The unreleavedly fatuous news channels are yet another reason that I don’t miss cable TV.
“Sore for the Senate”
Now I find out I’m indifferent to false boobs. Coulda fooled me!
drouse @ 135
I thought I submitted a comment, maybe the link was too long but the Daily Mail has an article that starts out:
TRex– nooooo, not dunkin donuts! The Carlyle Group owns them.
Have some semolina bread and kalamata olives, instead!
newtonusr @ 148
Its only funny until one of them puts an eye out.
Exile – the line “But after two weeks of interrogation..” is rather chilling when you consider what interrogation techniques are like in Pakistan. Has anyone else seen “Karachi Kops” on LinkTV – not sure if it’s still shown but it was the most bizarre reality show and not encouraging about the state of police practises there.
angie @ 10:43 pm (#158) – I used to like the donuts at Albertson’s, but they’ve gone and screwed their workforce. Until Tim Horton’s arrives in the States I guess I’m stuck with Safeway.
angie — “Olive eaters should not be allowed to define the choices of late-niters.” — David Brooks.
;)
angie @ 158
My choice would be whole wheat pita with humus, grape tomatoes, kalamata olives & feta cheese
But But But… kalamata are not just any olive they are Greek ambrosia…
but katymine and angie – there’s no chocolate! no cream filling! no sugar! latenightsnacks need a touch of sin to be truly effective …
angie @ 141
OK, so angie verifies that there is a video of Lieberman questioning Brownie in the Senate confirmation hearing for his appointment at FEMA
Does anyone know how to access those archives? The last time I tried getting in there from the C-SPAN web page, the same thing happened to me as happened to Angie.
Siun @ 165
What about, like, a pita filled with carob fudge or something?
Personally, I could go for some mango and/or honeydew melon and/or fresh blueberries…
Who needs to go out? I’m going to the fridge and snarf some homemade applesauce and raisin cupcakes with a large glass of milk.
I already had a bunch of peach pie a la mode, actually, courtesy of spork_incident and mother_spork_incident, so I’m good for now…
DD was closed.
Ben and Jerry’s Mint Chocolate Cookie from the gas station convenience store.
Since… there is no chocolate, ice cream or cream filling in the house…. some of us have to make due with pitas with humus with tomatoes, feta & olives. To Greek standards right now is dinner time. The Tavernas really do not start serving until after 9 pm…
drouse @ 159
Oh, man – I don’t want to hear any jokes about cutting glass. I already threw up a little in my mouth…
good nite friends and I am off to dream of olives and new ways to speak to wingnuts.
(maybe just a little grilled glazed donut with ice cream on top and careening down the sides…
perfect late nite munching memories from college days.)
we had an interesting concoction for desert: Bodega Bay Goat Cheese “Natilla”: creamy Peruvian style goat cheese with brown sugar, molasses, and vanilla. a little dab’ll do ya. mmmmmmmm.
Siun:
Right you are, I hadn’t really considered the complete import – he prolly shoulda copped to 9/11 and the Lusitania by now. Maybe the Pakis will get Wakied for not “producing” the evidence.
I can’t stop thinking about McCain this morning going on and on about how it would mean the end of the world if the “Mullahs (in Iran) get the Bomb.” How does he think the rest of the world feels knowing the Christian Fundie Mullahs have thousands of bombs already mounted on ICBMs?
TRex @ 171
God, that’s a relief. I was afraid we’d wind up with a tofu mousse.
Well at least you bought something from a once Blue company….
Need to go to bed too … nite Angie…. TRex…. share with JC & friends…
Apparently, this is how the Pakistani/Brit jihadists would have had to pull off their mass bomber immolation scheme:
“Making a quantity of TATP sufficient to bring down an airplane is not quite as simple as ducking into the toilet and mixing two harmless liquids together.
First, you’ve got to get adequately concentrated hydrogen peroxide. This is hard to come by, so a large quantity of the three per cent solution sold in pharmacies might have to be concentrated by boiling off the water. Only this is risky, and can lead to mission failure by means of burning down your makeshift lab before a single infidel has been harmed.
But let’s assume that you can obtain it in the required concentration, or cook it from a dilute solution without ruining your operation. Fine. The remaining ingredients, acetone and sulfuric acid, are far easier to obtain, and we can assume that you’ve got them on hand.
Now for the fun part. Take your hydrogen peroxide, acetone, and sulfuric acid, measure them very carefully, and put them into drinks bottles for convenient smuggling onto a plane. It’s all right to mix the peroxide and acetone in one container, so long as it remains cool. Don’t forget to bring several frozen gel-packs (preferably in a Styrofoam chiller deceptively marked “perishable foods”), a thermometer, a large beaker, a stirring rod, and a medicine dropper. You’re going to need them.
It’s best to fly first class and order Champagne. The bucket full of ice water, which the airline ought to supply, might possibly be adequate – especially if you have those cold gel-packs handy to supplement the ice, and the Styrofoam chiller handy for insulation – to get you through the cookery without starting a fire in the lavvie.
Easy does it
Once the plane is over the ocean, very discreetly bring all of your gear into the toilet. You might need to make several trips to avoid drawing attention. Once your kit is in place, put a beaker containing the peroxide / acetone mixture into the ice water bath (Champagne bucket), and start adding the acid, drop by drop, while stirring constantly. Watch the reaction temperature carefully. The mixture will heat, and if it gets too hot, you’ll end up with a weak explosive. In fact, if it gets really hot, you’ll get a premature explosion possibly sufficient to kill you, but probably no one else.
After a few hours – assuming, by some miracle, that the fumes haven’t overcome you or alerted passengers or the flight crew to your activities – you’ll have a quantity of TATP with which to carry out your mission. Now all you need to do is dry it for an hour or two.
Pretty elegant plot, eh?
punaise
I’m glad you got your just desserts.
I’ll bet they’ve peruvian to be quite tasty.
Just cruising Buzzflash and found this. Funny.
http://rightwingnytimes.cf.huffingtonpost.com/
Did I ever tell you guys I know how to make souffle? The best one I do is a chocolate espresso one, but lemon is good as well.
TRex @ 181
So TRex is all ’bout de souffle?
And THAT Ed*ard Teller is why my flight on Aug 10th was a NO Drinks – NO Bathroom flight… inprisoned for 3 1/2 hrs on a flight from Southern CA to Phoenix (yep explain that one) which is normally 57 minutes.
punaise @ 175
punaise,
I discovered Bodega Bay cheeses last month in Seattle. Nobody carries them within 1,500 miles of where I live, for all I know. I’m planning on putting little bits of purple haze on top of tenderloin medallions (wih a plum glaze) at a dinner I’m hosting this week.
neuro – your comment is Maya-ty funny but Inca-herent
:~)
punaise @ 186
Aztecs all kinds Olmec a world.
katymine @ 184
you got it, katymine – we can’t let the terrorists win…….
My sole superpower is that I *never* need to use a bathroom when I’m on a plane, no matter how long the flight. I can’t really explain it; maybe I was bitten by a radioactive camel or something.
I am… Windowseat Man!
Oh, and finding four-leaf clovers.
My superpower is that I always have a spare pen.
Here I come to save the daaaaay!
SPARE PEN MAAAAAN!!
Ed*ard Teller @ 185
ummm, purple haze, as in Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds? Should make for a very intersting dinner party!
and I’m going to sleep woman …
nite all!
Ed*ard Teller @ 10:59 pm (#178) – Did you find that on a website? I think he’s right about the peroxide, but the rest of the stuff, I have no idea. I only took introductory chemistry, so what those chemicals might do in close proximity with one another ???
Good night everybody. I think I hear the sandman’s car coming up the drive.
Ed*ard at @178:
Somebody on one of the talkin’ heads when confronted with only a bit of how unlikely “liquid bombs” really are only reminded everyone of how dedicated and resourceful those nasty terra people are. He even obliquely referred to the actual 1995 plot involving a liquid bomb in which the bomb actually detonated on the plane in the air and did sweet bugger all other than go bang.
That comical successful (in that the bomb(?) exploded) attempt belies the Bush/Blair pretense that this is some new really scary threat that no one ever thought of before and begs the question of why liquids haven’t been banned for the last 11 years or at least since 9-11 when the real men took over pertecting Amuricans.
Ed*ard Teller says
August 20th, 2006 at 10:59 pm*
The one thing that really annoyed me about the “shoe bomber” is that plastic explosives will not explode if just lit on fire. That takes a blasting cap. They will burn but not explode. The most he could have done is get 3rd degree burns on his feet and create a whole lot of noxious fumes.
So, it turns out that Lieberman didn’t reall y call for Rummy’s resignation Sunday:
Sunday, he said
‘three years ago in October on this show you asked me and I said that I believe that it was time for new leadership at the Pentagon. I think it’s still time for new leadership at the Pentagon. With all respect to Don Rumsfeld, who has done a grueling job for six years, we would benefit from new leadership to work with our military in Iraq.”
but Greg Djerejian has Joe pegged on this:
http://www.belgraviadispatch.c…..sfeld.html
Cujo359 – Thom Hartman on Friday put the whole thing together from a British website about how difficult it would be to make the liquid explosive. This website has all the details.
http://www.interesting-people……00087.html
Cujo359 @ 194
I heard it on Tom Hartman last week on the radio. Then I saw it in this article:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2…..rror_labs/
I love that tag – flying_toilet_terror_labs!
Here ET– Lieberliar and Michael Brown video.
http://hsgac.senate.gov/hearings02.htm
scroll down til you see this:
The nomination of Michael D. Brown to be Deputy Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Wednesday, June 19, 2002, 10:30am
342 Dirksen Office Building
ET, by the way: Redwood Hill Goat Cheeses (Marin County) are good too. Not sure how far north they distribute.
Goodnight TRex.
theExile @ 11:11 pm (#195) – Well, yes, the terrorists are dedicated, but it doesn’t change the nature of those chemicals. Peroxide is combustable (if mixed with flammable materials, at least), sulfuric acid in concentrated form can eat through quite a few substances, and acetone can peel paint off walls. None of that is easy to handle, and I suspect anyone who was bringing them on board would have to do quite a bit of research and trials before attempting such a mission. Since most are highly reactive, they’d probably be easy to detect.
Well, preaching to the choir, but the talking head left out a few details, I think.
ummm, purple haze, as in Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds?
http://video.google.com/videop…..221;purple haze”
http://video.google.com/videop…..#8221;lucy in the sky with diamonds”
TRex @ 182
Marry me, Trex :)
All that intelligence and snark, and he can cook too!
neurophius @
204
thanks for the first link….
http://www.interesting-people……00087.html
Ahhhh breast impants anyone?
the breast and the bitest
Cujo, I was quoting the pertecters of the Amurican peeples lines facetiously when I cited the terra guys dedication and resourcefulness. And trying to make the point that the fellow used the 1995 incident to support the administration line when it does the complete opposite in reality.
as far as I can remember, ET, Brown did not have to go thru another confirmation hearing when he was promoted to head FEMA.
g’nite all!
katymine @ 11:14 pm (#198) – Thanks for the link (and to you, ET). Looks like it’s even harder than I imagined. I have seen shows on making explosives – every once in a while Nova or some other PBS thing does it, and the only thing I remembered from all that, other than the proportions needed to make gunpowder and nitroglycerin, was that it was incredibly dangerous. For some reason, mixing explosive compounds together often results in – brace yourselves for a shock – explosions. That’s been true since gunpowder was the only explosive available.
Needless to say, I’m not in the business and have no plans.
angie @ 201
You are precious! I hope we’ve got a winner here!
theExile @ 11:27 pm (#208) – Yes, I figured that was your point of view. Sorry for not making that more clear.
katymine @ 206
You must be with the terra-rists, you’re giving them ideas, hehe.
theExile @ 11:29 pm (#213) – I don’t want to think about what will happen after some would-be suicide bomber tries to smuggle a bomb in implants or down his pants.
Cujo, I know a lot of what happens here is like singing to the choir, but I like the sense of being among friends and I love the ideas that fly around here and the way so many of the puppies express them. I think hanging here helps us all get up in the morning and go out to face the enemy.
My whole issue is that airline travel is the way I commute to work. The more hurdles they put up, the harder it is for me to just go to work. There are thousands of us road warriors out there going through this hassel over and over again.
My boyfriend works for ESPN, just came off the NBA season and getting ready for Monday Night football. He made premier status on two airlines this year. He too commutes to work via an airlines. It isn’t the occasional vacationer that is inconvienced. This IS how business gets done.
Even Miss Dog avoided me after this last flight from hell Aug 10th…
theExile @ 216, I completely agree…. Alright… I know you do not believe it but I am going to bed… see ya on another thread…
theExile @ 11:34 pm (#215) – It certainly helps me. Until I started reading here and at a few other blogs, I was wondering if people who thought as I did just didn’t exist any more. So, at worst, there are lots of folks out there who share my delusions :) Even that thought is (sort of) comforting.
If implants and makeup become banned, Katherine Harris won’t be hanging around any more hangers – or planes for that matter.
there’s a chimplant in the White House
Didja hear about the terra plot in Vancouver (BC)?
It seems some group, or a guy with a printer, is sticking flyers under the wipers of cars with what we here call Yankee plates (I know only some Americans are Yankees, a baseball team and two guys in Vermont). Anyway the flyers tell the American tourists to Go Home and why they are evil and not welcome. On Global TV news they interviewed a few tourists who were amazed to learn that anybody that has to answer to Stephen Harper could not love America and got a sound bite from the Tourist Bureau calling the insidious plot…..get ready….MINI-TERRORISM!
katymine @ 11:35 pm (#216) – I know you’re leaving, but it’s a good point, anyway. The DoD would grind to a halt if it couldn’t use airlines to transport its workers to and fro. There were some folks in my old job who were out on a trip every other week. I averaged two months a year on the road, and I was one of the lucky ones.
A friend told me that the firm she worked for, one of the “big five” accounting firms, lost several senior managers on 9/11. I saw all sorts of business types on the flights I was on – computer industry, biomedical, just about any business with a high profit margin. This country really does need unfettered air travel or it’s going to have to rebuild the rail system, and I don’t see the latter happening anytime soon.
I haven’t been following the TN Senate race, but this DKos diary says:
He bribed himself … that’s a new twist on GOP corruption
I should stop reading the articles
The nitroglycerin in the pills, patches, and sprays that heart patients use for angina (chest pain) is in fact the same stuff you find in dynamite–the residue the drug leaves on patients’ skin and clothing is often enough to set off airport bomb-sniffing machines.
Well, no flying commercial for Cheney then!
punaise @ 202
My wife and son visited Humboldt State last month. Alex is about to start HS senior year, and is attracted to the school, though they don’t have a Nordic ski team, which is important to him. While they were in Arcata, I was in Seattle and happened on the Humbolt cheeses by accident at Whole Paycheck Foods.
I guess not, they’d have to buy tickets for the rest of the seats, besides the two or three his fat sick ass would fill, for his bodyguards and still have a following plane with his personal mobile hospital.
punaise @ 224
Na… that is standard ReThug corruption… he did not have a bogus charity or 30 front groups with DoD contracts where all of so called employees of the front groups donated their limit to the RNC… just a double bribe…. that is childs play..
TRex would love a place in SF called Cafe Jacquiline on Grant in North Beach…she makes souffles from scratch ( it does take forever) and they are so incredible…she’s been doing it for over 20 years and I so worry that she will just up and close one day…her chocolate ones are beyond the pale but the champagne with leeks and Cowgirl Creamery cheeses are to die for…I have been there and gone through three different souffles (with help of course) spaced with tiny butter lettuce salads…it’s old and dark in there and you can get very drunk waiting for them.
punaise @ 224
I think it is on page 84 of the Tom DeLay guide to public ethics.
Ed*ard Teller @ 226
well that means our sons are the same age.
you might look into CSU Chico or CSU Sacramento – they’re closer to the Sierras and thus more likely to have ski teams (Chico State has a rep as a party school, but I don’t know if that’s current).
punaise jr. is angling for UC Santa Cruz.
no kidding re Whole Food$…
katymine @ 11:47 pm (#224) – Maybe that URL was posted somewhere, but here it is:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2…..rror_labs/
Courtesy of The Reg.
Punaise: think of all the birds who don’t have a home there now because of this greedy man selling off the wetlands for development…may the karma bitch get him good.
My companies main office is in Chico and yes CSU still has a rep as a “party” school. So does ASU but my two kids are going there. I can ask around about the ski team though…..
spiderpaws @ 229
Cowgirl Creamery in Point Reyes Station…the gateway to Point Reyes, one of our favorite haunts….
Cujo359 @ 232
Thanks, I was reading the articles, that is why I cant seem to get my butt to bed…. shouldn’t because it just makes me more pissed…
Hey TRex have you ODed on ice cream?
ET: try Cowgirl Creamery’s Red Hawk. O. M. G. you can order it on the phone from Pt. Reyes Station (they make their own crackers too!)
It is futile to put make-up on a pig’s ass.
“… must be a fatalist.”
madame punaise once pulled off an all souffle dinner, ending with a chocolate one. probably took months for our cholestorol count to level off.
punaise,
He’s chosen Humboldt State because they have a strong program in environmental sciences, but not as rigorous as some. Our older child is starting her junior year at Western Washington, also in environmental science, but he’s been corresponding with one of the profs at HSU, and was impressed with the campus.
The skiing thing will play out this winter. He missed a slot at the National junior olympic Ski Trials by two points last winter.
spiderpaws @ 237
along with bread from the Bovine Bakery, preceeded by fresh extra-small oysters from Tomales Bay Oyster Co. (raw, of course, with a vinegar and minced shallot mignonette sauce)
katymine @ 234
CSU was WELL KNOWN as THE party college when I was in high school forty years ago.
Ed*ard Teller @ 240
my oldest brother did his masters in hydrology at HSU. by all accounts it’s a good school, but the weather is considered to be dreary by CA standards.
Punaise you are killing me…just finished off my scharfenburger chocolate stash in frustration…
Sometimes it’s good to see how others see you.
the Galloping Beaver had this to say in a post about the accelerating desertion of Bush by some formerly right wingnut pundits.
Galloping Beaver
…yes, but if they bomb Iran that means the oil supply will be in jeapardy and they wouldn’t do that, would they?
spiderpaws @ 244
LOL
I’m not into snarfin’ scharfenburger chocolate because it’s so darned bitter – 72% cacao? come on – but I defer to yours and other’s palates
off to rustle up a midnight snack – may check back later
(staring directly into the camera, with faux confidence) “I’m in this race……….and I’m going to win.”
The cat just reminded me that Stargate SG-1 is on, so I guess I’ll sign off. Goodnight, FDLers.
angie, great find! The hearing was pegged at 42 minutes according to most sites and this video is nearly 47 minutes. I scanned over most of a transcript of it.
Since we need to keep up on what the opposition will try to drag out, I found this link at Media Matters:
http://mediamatters.org/items/200509150005
“CNN’s Ed Henry selectively edited video to misleadingly suggest Lieberman supported provision he opposed regarding FEMA director”
spiderpaws @ 245
Haven’t we all figured that out yet? Anything that puts the oil supply in jeopardy – attacking Iraq, Katrina, shoddy pipeline maintenance by BP – makes the cash registers at Bu$hCo go ching-ching-ching! They don’t want to secure access to oil, they want to constrict the supply – like DeBeers and diamonds!
Hey, Shez. I was just gonna mention that story, because in a way, it makes Joe look like the victim. Anyway, Michael Brown got rolled into the Director’s job at FEMA when FEMA got rolled into DHS. No second hearing needed. And that 42 minute hearing was for Brown’s nomination to be “deputy director” of FEMA.
What I find interesting is that Lieberman says he opposed the provision of the Homeland Security bill that allowed Brown’s ascension to the top job once FEMA was rolled into DHS. That’s all fine and dandy, except for the fact that even knowing Brown was likely to become director, Lieberman still alloted all of 42 minutes to confirm the guy.
Monday’s UK Guardian:
CIA’s secret UK bank trawl may be illegal
US effort to track jihadist money transfers faces inquiry over privacy
Alexi Mostrous and Ian Cobain
Monday August 21, 2006
The Guardian
A covert programme under which confidential information about British banking transactions is passed to the CIA with the full knowledge of the government may breach both British and European law, the Guardian has learned.
Surprise, surprise?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/fron…..15,00.html
OK, this REALLY SUCKS!
The DSCC site’s Connecticut page lists recent press articles about Lamont and Lieberman. Here are the bottom four items:
Lieberman touts plant as model
Sen. Joseph Lieberman told Peter Pan Electronic employees the work they are doing “is probably larger than you realize,” and that their company is a model for competing in the global marketplace. “If we pool our resources, our innovation and our willingness to work hard, this country will be full of opportunity for future generations,” he said.
Money to help improve safety communications in Waterbury
Sen. Joseph Lieberman, D-Conn, on a whistle-stop visit to police headquarters, made a formal announcement of the grant Monday. “The bottom line, it means better public safety for the citizens of Waterbury,” Lieberman said.
Lieberman stresses evacuation plan for cities
Is Hartford prepared to handle a mass evacuation? Senator Joseph Lieberman doubts it. In an interview he used Hartford as an example to point out the need for more adequate plans nationwide.
Electricity pricing plan criticized by Lieberman
Now that Connecticut has fended off a Pentagon plan to close the naval submarine base in Groton, the state must address a potentially greater threat to its economy, U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman said Tuesday.
IMHO the person who put that up on that site should be fired by the end of the Monday workday!
LIEberman’s “Money quote” comes at 40:36 into the video:
Mr. Brown I thank you very much – I will certainly support your nomination – I will do my best to move it through the committee – uh as soon as possible so we can have you fully and legally at work at your position….
JWR @
253
Thanks, Jaqrat!
We need to get this video into Lamont ads ASAP:
Sen. Lieberman: Mr. Brown I thank you very much – I will certainly support your nomination – I will do my best to move it through the committee – uh as soon as possible so we can have you fully and legally at work at your position…
One more sample of the Canadian blogosphere before I trundle off to bed. This one is from the Canadian Cynic who is generally a man of few (but deadly) words.
OK,
I’m done playing with the bold and italic stuff for now.
Morning …water heating for coffee, (fuzzy brain), overcast and rain outside at 60 degrees on the Eastern Maine side of the Lake. How’s it with the rest of y’all?
Old Sow @
260
Hola, OS! Finishing up paperwork from hard day slaving, and finishing up a machine in my lab…
Finally cooled off in the SF Bay Area – about 58 degrees! Slight overcast, dry.
Now trying to catch up on All Sunday FDL, since I worked all day. Missed the Sunday shows (I’m better for it), so I’m behind.
OS – just messing with Google Earth – that’s one rugged coast you got there!
Ed*ard Teller @
255
To: press@dscc.org, grassroots@dscc.org
It is *outrageous* that the DSCC is still supporting Lieberman in the CT Senate race. Look at your own web page for CT at http://www.dscc.org/2006races/ct/ and it is clear that the DSCC is supporting the candidate who LOST the Democratic nomination in Connecticut.
I have made it a personal mission through all the blogs to make sure the DSCC doesn’t get a red cent as long as it works traitorously against Democratic voters. Where is your sense of shame?
Sincerely,
Newton, word is that if the coast of Maine were “straightened out” it would equal the distance between Maine & Florida……..
I was away most of the weekend and just caught up with the up thread of this one which is pretty totally hilarious except that we are also talking about the boobs that are already running this country…..waanh
Okay, so this is what I’m also reading now……
…….both sides lie like fishermen…….
http://www.antiwar.com/reese/?articleid=9567
mornin all. kerry blasting lieberman story on cnn now
kos diary – Coleen Rowley getting within MOE v. Republican opponent
YEAH – finally a comment went through!!
Best poem ever.
*atou, mary! OS, Twolf (alphabetically)
Ho y’all doing? Is our Lotus up yet?
Imm, Mary, Twolf, *atou, (in no special order)!!!!!!!! I haven’t seen the Flowah yet today…
and Gabe, which one?
Well, I’m only up because of restless angst, but other than that, I’m good.*g* How’s all?
Utterly off topic, or as one of the many punsters would say to bring it back on thread, udderly…….
Mary, for a little comic relief, a high point of this past weekend was learning that the uninstalled marble bathroom sink that was on the floor under the kitchen table where I was visiting and on which I stubbed my toe, used to belong to George Herbert *alker Bush…it was purchased for $200, and we all wondered if widdle baby Whore-hey had his butt washed in it when he was just a little goober…
Religious fundamentalism, bitter partisan politics and poor science education have all contributed to this denial of evolution in the US, says Jon Miller of Michigan State University in East Lansing, who conducted the survey with his colleagues. “The US is the only country in which [the teaching of evolution] has been politicised,” he says. “Republicans have clearly adopted this as one of their wedge issues. In most of the world, this is a non-issue.”
http://www.newscientist.com/ar…..news_rss20
Old Sow @ 272
….he still is a little goober.
Now Unkee Cheney and Auntee Condee take turns washing his widdle hiney in the first sink.
Instead of snarking at Harris, somebody ought to be talking her into writing her memoirs.
Twolf…he IS still a little goober……I just wish they weren’t washing our faces with the same water…….
Or his mouth washed out with soap?
Is there any way a marble bathroom sink can be truly off topic?
Old Sow @ 276
I thought I smelled something!
*atou @ 263
Thanks for bringing this to my attention. There should be much more focus on what the DSCC is doing – I hope FDL encourages its readers to weigh in with the Democratic Party’s attempt to have it both ways.
Anyway, I sent a letter of protest indicating that he should be removed as he is the de facto Republican candidate. I also told them that if I found out they were funding Lieberman, I would never contribute another dime to the Dem Party.
Oh, and I did see a little pearl clutching at an island–wide gathering…..LOL…..it took all my barely ingrained good manners not to guffaw rudely…….
I’ve learned from Tom Friedman that “America hating” is the only reason for asking pragmatic questions, and I hate to start with the hate so early, but did we ever learn how many MORE American kids Lieberman thinks we need to send to Iraq?
Where he got his number?
How he’s going to pay for them?
How long they need to be there?
Why a religion that is nuts over 150,000 infidels on a crusade in their homeland is going to be happier with more there?
Just kidding – pass the marmelade.
Well, wouldn’t ya just KNOW. TRex does his Alligator Bag take-out and I’m not here for it!
Waaaaaah (sniff) (snort) wahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
And haikus, and souffles, and GHWB’s bafftub, and all! WAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH
Somebody way upthread said something about Chimpy needing to come to FLA and sort-out A.Bag. Well, what I’d give to know where to put my mitts on the photo that so entertained me a couple of months ago:
Tarmac somewhere in The State Whose Official Motto Was (Briefly) Once “Florida — The Rules Are Different Here!” AF One in the background as A.Bag stands close to Chimpy, poking her finger into his chest (maybe I hallucinate that detail?), and Jebbie — a side of beef with a block-shaped head — looms behind them, gloomin’ bad.
WHAT would we give for that audio?
Oh Mary, how about some fresh apricot preserves instead? (passes jar)
America hating is best left to the right wing. I want my country back.
newtonusr, are you still here?
OS, didja have a wunnermous weekend in that undisclosed location?
Did HopeSAT check in last night?
Wouldn’t be nice if I could think of all my questions at once?
I know this is gonna get epu’d but I guess I’ll give it a go;
http://www.thenation.com/doc/2…..rnet_bill;
article | posted August 18, 2006 (web only)
Congress Poised to Unravel the Internet
look, this is really about us, it’s about information, they control conventional media and now they need to get rid of alternative media too
imagine what we would know without the internet
we would all think there WERE weapons of mass destruction, everyonne would believe saddam WAS connected to bin laden, nobody would know liebermant had a challenger, nobody would know lieberman voted for cloture on alito, nobody would know anything but what they wanted us to know
really, this bill is anout us
I GUARANTEE lieberman will supoort this bill, becuase with no doubt, without the internet he would STILL be the candidate for ct seante
I don’t know how we do it but we HAVE to make sure this bill does not get passed..we need to at least stall it untill the elections
if we don’t get a majority in these elections then I guess it doesn’t matter, there won’t be anything for us to do, but we still have some hope
Ed*ard Teller at 10:59 pm quoted a brit article about making the explosive necessary for the much-ballyhooed UK terra plot. I don’t normally comment much (and I know this will probably get me on a list somewhere), but I think my HS chem teacher had us make this or something pretty damned similar (he was a psychotic twit). I remember using peroxide and sulfuric acid (the result being something that ended in “tri-sulfide”). It was a paste that would explode spontaneously when completely dry, or if it wasn’t yet, by striking it with something. (This was all in a teacher-led project to mess with freshman who slammed the lab drawers shut – painted on the inside = drawers blew back out at them.)
I guess ours must have been the weak recipe (tho I wouldn’t put it past that moron to have tried the big-league formula). Regardless, it was an enormously tricky process I can’t imagine doing in an airplane wc.
Yo Lotus, it was a great change of pace. I learned how to shingle with cedar shakes (our friends always seem to invite their friends to help work on the place), met Tracy Kidder, and see my comment at 272 above……….
Tracy Kidder — wow! I really enjoyed his House, which came out just when I was drawing this one. What’s he doing now, OS?
And how’s cedar shaking?
(oooo– sowwy, I should leave such as that to punaise.)
lotus @ 282
I’ve always enjoyed how there’s usually one mention of Florida in Keith Olberman’s show, and usually something like the convenience store robber that lost his wallet and then went back to the store the next day to try and get it back. Amazing…
Tracy was talking about his most recent book Mountains Beyond Mountains about Paul Farmer and his organization Partners in Health. Paul Farmer is an exemplary human being, dedicated to bringing high quality medical care to the poorest on earth and establishing hospitals and clinics staffed by local peoples–currently Haiti and Rwanda. You may have read the magazine article he (TK) wrote that was published in the New Yorker some years ago. It was GREAT to hear someone talking about something good that is happening in the world…
He (TK) was humble and friendly and very generous with his time with all those who bought books for him to sign. (Turned out I had met TK’s wife many years ago just when House was published and growing popular (much to her amazement!!), and she and I enjoyed a mini-renewal of our acquaintence-ship.)
Yuh-huh, FGDave, the onliest Floridians funnier than our convenience-store robbers are in the lege. Tallahassee’s a-chockle with chuckles.
Too cool, OS!
OTing, but you can tell my angst time was spent reading diaries at kos.
This one is worth the read, but disturbing.
Diary on Passaro, the convicted CIA contractor, and the man he beat.
Rats, looks like I missed newtonusr again.
Let’s see, who else can I heckle?
Imm, did Mizriz Imm get in okay and enjoy her trip? How’s your article’s finishing-off coming?
Has lhp been heard from?
What word from the DNC meeting?
Etc., etc.?
Dammit! I missed the Katherine Harris thread! Crap.
Her website is pretty entertaining. By entertaining, of course, I mean “full of crap.” At one point she calls Nelson a tool of the far left.
Mary, thanks for that link. Listening to Hyder Akbar’s stories on “This American Life” has kept me in my parked car more than once. Shaking my head until he finished . . .
Gives a lot more perspective, doesn’t it?
I’d like to know what happened at the DNC conv too if anyone is in the know.
“G’wan” Williams on NPR downtalking Lamont’s rising star……..other talking heads mentioning the many (14) successful (at fund-raising more than 1 million $$/apiece so far) Democratic candidates contesting HOuse & Senate seats…
Ballad of Rickie Bobby and Snakes on a Plane hit the big screen this weekend…….now THAT’S important news……..
And it looks like the sun will break through the clouds here…….hurrah!!
Harris ‘Tree’ Aide Quits
Tree? What Tree?
Naples (FL) News: Gone totally Katherine Harris crazy
HufPo: Katherine Harris: Martha Mitchell Redux?
Hmmm, seems to be a theme developing here . . .
Imus asks Frank Rich the money question this morning:
D’you suppose the Bush administration has deliberately tried to scare us?
D’oh. You think?
And Frank Rich lobs that outa the park. Okay, they’re both circumspect, but finally the question’s out in the open in the MSM.
new thread
Good Morning FDL! There’s a Shiny New Thread!
dab from CT @ 279
Actually, thank Ed*ard Teller!
Please don’t confuse the Democratic Party with the DSCC! The DSCC is thus far showing itself to be an incumbency protection racket as opposed to following the will of Democratic voters. The Democratic Party is (thankfully) much better represented by the DNC under Howard Dean.
Please give money directly to worthy (D) candidates who are facing tough contests, or to the DNC so we have a healthy machine. The machines that work on incumbency over voters’ wishes should be starved into reforming themselves.
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A friend of mine had a theory that Reid was wimping out in a way that would give him an excuse later on. Makes sense, since if he really wanted to set the shoes off in peace he could have just gone to the wroom.
I also remember hearing at the time that one explosive used in his shoes (as usual, I think there were two; what is it about that?) was so unstable that a good stomp could probably have set it off. Click those heels, Dorothy!
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I’m sorry, but how is the DSCC not affiliated with the Democratic Party? Aren’t we splitting hairs here? One assumes that it has been set up with (at least) the blessing of the Dem Party – the fundraising letters that Schumer is sending out certainly imply as much.
What is the history of the group and has it been condoned by Dean? The DSCC web site has little useful information on the subject.
Please enlighten me.
TRex,
Please credit title pictures. That one is from the article, “How To Fix A Flat,” from the PR department of the Hindenburg Blimp Corporation.
kath & alan [schlesinger] should start a support group. god knows their own party doesn’t even support them, which says just as much about the gop [they’ll even eat their own to win] as kath & alan.
hell, they should just start a “tell all” blog: YO, GOP!
or a tavern in northwest pennsylvania. [really sad grim drinking palaces]
Any chance she might lose the primary and spill the beans about all the shenanigans in 2000 out of spite? If the Dems take back the House, they could give her immunity from prosecution in return for her testimony….
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