Fitz!

Trex!!!

TRex!

an anorexic stop-sign in a Halston gown

Dahling! She was a Valentino gal all the way.

Bionic @ 4

an anorexic stop-sign in a Halston gown

Dahling! She was a Valentino gal all the way.

Are you sure about that? I’ll change it, but I could swear she was all about Halston.

Artists indeed.

Though it has been said many times, I`ll say it again.

These folks just don`t “get” irony.

“There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.” – Niccol Machiavelli

So, the Bushist Fascists are all set to take over the Homeland Department of Creativity? Talibangelical-style?

Hyuk, hyuk.

Well, so far it’s a real knee-slapper!

Why is it these idiots think that if it liberal it is bad? Do they want only a world of Father Knows Best and Leave To Beaver? Jackass I & II? They will never be hip cuz they’re behind the curve, in fact many curves behind!

TRex @ 5

Bionic @ 4

an anorexic stop-sign in a Halston gown

Dahling! She was a Valentino gal all the way.

Are you sure about that? I’ll change it, but I could swear she was all about Halston.

Trex, that comment was just off the top of my head recalling something from the time, but look what I found to back it up. You. Will. Die.

The life and work of couturier valentino garavani, known to the world as just Valentino, can be summed up in two words: Val’s Gals. Val’s Gals are, of course, his devotees. To those in fashion they’re as clearly defined — and as obsessed — a group of people as Manchester United football fans. They aren’t trendy; they aren’t business women; they aren’t even fashion’s most ardent fans. First and foremost, they are rich, and they want to look rich — very, very rich. They are what used to be called the ladies who lunch, but they might better be called the ladies who shop.

snip

It isn’t always hot and it isn’t always sexy, but that’s okay. Neither are many of Val’s Gals, who over the years have included Elizabeth Taylor, Nancy Reagan, Farah Diba of Iran and Imelda Marcos.

It’s worth the click to read the whole thing. lol

Oh man. I’m in moderation hell I think.

Sorry to threadjack ya trex but cheez: Booman thinks that Ari perjured himself today:

You may have aleady noticed a discrepency in the story Dickerson told and the story Fleischer testified to today. Dickerson said that Fleischer gave him a tip to go ask who sent Wilson. Fleischer said he straight-up told Dickerson (and Gregory and Lippert) that Wilson’s wife was responsible.

Also, Dickerson confirms(!) here.

Everyone had heard about Robert Novak, Matt Cooper, and Judith Miller, the reporters who had received the Valerie Plame leak. But now Ari was saying I was in that club, too.

I have a different memory. My recollection is that during a presidential trip to Africa in July 2003, Ari and another senior administration official had given me only hints. They told me to go inquire about who sent Wilson to Niger. As far as I can remember—and I am pretty sure I would remember it—neither of them ever told me that Wilson’s wife worked at the CIA.

Is this significant?? Why is Ari soooo eager to have been the leaker (even if he wasn’t) now that he has immunity? Will Dickerson be called to testify by team libby in order to impeach Ari’s testimony? Help!

I love that she quoted Bill O’Reilly as the Kool Kat dude. Thanks for the rest of the transcript, TRex. I couldn’t transcribe anymore after her first line. I couldn’t stop laughing…

You seem to be pretty handy with the lingo us hepcat liberals talk these days!

And there’s no reason that has to be so. There are plenty of smart, funny conservatives out there who need to get out there and make a product that makes fun of liberals!

Could there be any word less cool than “product”?

Professor Foland @ 13

You seem to be pretty handy with the lingo us hepcat liberals talk these days!

And there’s no reason that has to be so. There are plenty of smart, funny conservatives out there who need to get out there and make a product that makes fun of liberals!

Could there be any word less cool than “product”?

Only Malkin.

Malkin
n.

[Dim. of Maud, the proper name. Cf. Grimalkin.]
[Written also maukin.]

1. Originally, a kitchenmaid; a slattern. Chaucer.

2. A mop made of clouts, used by the kitchen servant.

3. A scarecrow. [Prov. Eng.]

4. (Mil.) A mop or sponge attached to a jointed staff for swabbing out a cannon.

Dennis Miller is one funny dude, isn’t he? cough, cough, cough…

And back to your topic, you can just tell Charen’s spent her life trying to get back at the Kool Kidz who made her highschool life hell when they didn’t appreciate her innate superiority.

And who knew the boatman over the River Styx was married?

Hah. Republic Party.

You’re a pisser.

Hugo has got some balls:
http://www.nctimes.com/article….._29_07.txt

Chavez calls it a new era of “maximum revolution,” setting the tone for months of upheaval as he plans to nationalize companies, impose new taxes on the rich and reorient schools to teach socialist values. With near-religious fervor and plenty of oil wealth, Chavez is mobilizing millions of Venezuelans, intent on creating a more egalitarian society.

We’ll be invading right after Iran. Gotta stop that spreading communism.

Urban Pirate @ 17

Hah. Republic Party.

You’re a pisser.

I was waiting for someone to notice that.

Y’see, I’m like the Preznint. I ain’t good at all that word-pronouncin’ an’ stuff.

Urban Pirate @ 17

Hah. Republic Party.

You’re a pisser.

pronounced re-pubble-ick

Julia and her friends are sad. mocking the mothers of suicide bombers, such hilarity.

I’m going back to “Angel” now. Darla is pregnant and just bit Cordelia…

I don’t think it’s necessary to stoop the GOP level with petty insults like Republic Party. You should follow the proper grammatical usage – the Repuddle Party.

joe falcone @ 21

I don’t think it’s necessary to stoop the GOP level with petty insults like Republic Party. You should follow the proper grammatical usage – the Repuddle Party.

Of course, how silly of me.

OT

Huffington Post has this up:
“President Bush has signed a directive that gives the White House much greater control over the rules and policy statements that the government develops to protect public health, safety, the environment, civil rights and privacy…

…This strengthens the hand of the White House in shaping rules that have, in the past, often been generated by civil servants and scientific experts. It suggests that the administration still has ways to exert its power after the takeover of Congress by the Democrats.”

I am in a panic. He ain’t gona stop. Or am I just tired tonight and maybe this will all be gone in the morning. Or is this a huge power grap, again????

Anyone have a link to pics of Baby Repulican Artists? How do they rate on the cuteness scale, next to kitties, foals and baby otters?

Or is this his response to the Libby Trial? A big FU.

Mary McCurnin @ 23

OT

Huffington Post has this up:
“President Bush has signed a directive that gives the White House much greater control over the rules and policy statements that the government develops to protect public health, safety, the environment, civil rights and privacy…

…This strengthens the hand of the White House in shaping rules that have, in the past, often been generated by civil servants and scientific experts. It suggests that the administration still has ways to exert its power after the takeover of Congress by the Democrats.”

I am in a panic. He ain’t gona stop. Or am I just tired tonight and maybe this will all be gone in the morning. Or is this a huge power grap, again????

De-lurking: I’m afraid it ain’t gonna be gone in the morning. (pouring a stiff drink!)

Another episode of “it’s not an insult, it’s just what we call them!” The President will speak to the House Democratic Caucus this weekend, but:

On the president’s schedule, that event is referred to as the ”House Democrat Conference.”

Heck, they got Donnie and Marie! What more could they want? It is good to know the Repoodlecans don’t think Bill O’Liar is hip.

On the Capitol steps?
http://www.thehill.com/thehill…..sters.html
{clutch pearls}
http://flickr.com/photos/spcoo…..ateposted/

And there’s no reason that has to be so. There are plenty of smart, funny conservatives out there who need to get out there and make a product that makes fun of liberals!

Let’s see, that would be Mallard Fillmore right? Ugh!

Alright, kids. Heading home.

Oh man, that is just painful. I couldn’t make more than two minutes. blerg….

TRex @ 5

Bionic @ 4

an anorexic stop-sign in a Halston gown

Dahling! She was a Valentino gal all the way.

Are you sure about that? I’ll change it, but I could swear she was all about Halston.

That’s what I’ve heard, too.

But please, rich Republicans, do everything you can to turn your children into artists. They may be the only ones with trust funds that are capacious enough to support them through the lean years between graduation and joining the less than 1% of creative artists who earn enough to make a living in their fields. And who knows? You may succeed in creating a generation of artists from “good” homes. Except, of course, if they’re any good at all and have even a modicum of talent, they’ll turn into liberals and curse you in every interview and tell-all biography they ever do. And that might be kind of fun!

And even if they don’t, they can still burn through their trust funds and support real artists as they try to buy themselves some respect among the artists they hang out with. It’s a win-win.

To lay this issue to rest, if you haven’t already, stop by SadlyNo, scroll down to the elephant pic and read the caption. This is the answer to the question, Can you think of ANYONE on the right with a sense of humor this sharp????

TRex!

No Blood for Hubris @
7

So, the Bushist Fascists are all set to take over the Homeland Department of Creativity?

[snip]

and the Pentagon still can’t pull off the Department of Truth

The US Army dropped the subpoena for civilian journalist Sarah Olson to testify in military court.

(rhetorical) question for legal eagles:

OK, I’m a civilian.

I hear active-duty troops express contempt and derision for the Pentagon’s policies.

The Pentagon thinks this violates UCMJ statute whatever.

The Pentagon can go shag.

What possible authority do those uniformed apostates to their oaths to defend the Constitution have…

to pretend to force my civilian ass to appear in their show trials regarding public, non-violent speech offered outside of DOD property?

Who the fuck appointed the same cowards who maintain the Guantanmo gulag the subpoena power to haul civilians into their thought crimes trials?

LoudounLib @ 27

Mary McCurnin @ 23

OT

Huffington Post has this up:
“President Bush has signed a directive that gives the White House much greater control over the rules and policy statements that the government develops to protect public health, safety, the environment, civil rights and privacy…

…This strengthens the hand of the White House in shaping rules that have, in the past, often been generated by civil servants and scientific experts. It suggests that the administration still has ways to exert its power after the takeover of Congress by the Democrats.”

I am in a panic. He ain’t gona stop. Or am I just tired tonight and maybe this will all be gone in the morning. Or is this a huge power grap, again????

De-lurking: I’m afraid it ain’t gonna be gone in the morning. (pouring a stiff drink!)

He’s done this since Day One; this just makes it official. The key thing is that everyone knows now not to trust anything coming from a government agency until after January of 2009.

Are you sure about that? I’ll change it, but I could swear she was all about Halston

Jimmy Galanos fellas

hey, so this is what late nite looks like ! swell clubhouse you got here TRex. and do I really have to watch the Charen tube ? Nurse F’in’ Diesel – lordy

TeddySanFran @
28

Another episode of “it’s not an insult, it’s just what we call them!” The President will speak to the House Democratic Caucus this weekend, but:

On the president’s schedule, that event is referred to as the ”House Democrat Conference.”

And they call Short Ride the “House Democrat,” don’t they? Kinda like the old Field slaves and the House slaves?

Mary McCurnin @ 24

OT

Huffington Post has this up:
“President Bush has signed a directive that gives the White House much greater control over the rules and policy statements that the government develops to protect public health, safety, the environment, civil rights and privacy…

…This strengthens the hand of the White House in shaping rules that have, in the past, often been generated by civil servants and scientific experts. It suggests that the administration still has ways to exert its power after the takeover of Congress by the Democrats.”

I am in a panic. He ain’t gona stop. Or am I just tired tonight and maybe this will all be gone in the morning. Or is this a huge power grap, again????

Yep. Front paged at all the major blogs. An executive order ending now ‘08 granting him the ability to place a puppet at the head of each agency with almost unlimited power. read it, it’s terrifying.

John Amato @ 15

Dennis Miller is one funny dude, isn’t he? cough, cough, cough…

He used to be, before he went republican- I used to live for his ‘rants’. Now I see nothing funny about him, and instead, I log on to see TRex every night. Much funnier- at a George Carlin/Ron White level of humor.

So that’s what Mona Charen looks like? Huh. Does raise a deep philosophical question: Do you think the sour outlook on life makes her look like she just smelled a carton of week-old milk left on the radiator, or does having a face like that produce the sour disposition to go with it?

Phoenix Woman @ 37

He’s done this since Day One; this just makes it official. The key thing is that everyone knows now not to trust anything coming from a government agency until after January of 2009.

This means that nothing will get done in NOLA or anywhere else. And the Global Warming problem will be put on the back burner. (Terrible pun) If he is standing in the way of the EPA then managing Global Warming is gone.

Off topic–I really enjoyed this story from the Columbus Dispatch for some reason

Robbers pick the wrong church
Five parishioners subdue armed thief during Mass

Spot-on. That was perfect, T-Rex.

DrBB @ 42

So that’s what Mona Charen looks like? Huh. Does raise a deep philosophical question: Do you think the sour outlook on life makes her look like she just smelled a carton of week-old milk left on the radiator, or does having a face like that produce the sour disposition to go with it?

My cousin coined the term “pee-pee smell”, to descibe one of those sour bitches who look like they just smelled a rank cat-box.

That wench is pee-pee smell. :)

TRex, the notion does sound ridiculous; they’d actually have to encourage their gay children to flourish, if you think about it.

But I worry that they’d produce artists anyhow, in spite of their, uh, challenges.

Lenni Riefenstahl comes to mind.

I knew nothing about any of these ladies. Just googled Gorin. She wants to be a funny conservative?! Seems to contradictory to logic.

TRex @
14

Malkin
n.
[Dim. of Maud, the proper name. Cf. Grimalkin.]
[Written also maukin.]
1. Originally, a kitchenmaid; a slattern. Chaucer.
2. A mop made of clouts, used by the kitchen servant.
3. A scarecrow. [Prov. Eng.]
4. (Mil.) A mop or sponge attached to a jointed staff for swabbing out a cannon.

If ya look here

You’ll find that:

[Merkin stems] from an “alteration of obsolete malkin, lower-class woman, mop, from Middle English; from Malkin, diminutive of the personal name Matilda.”

And Merkin is “a pubic wig, worn by prostitutes after shaving their genitalia to eliminate lice or to disguise the marks of syphilis.”

Thus endeth the lesson

Rayne @ 47

TRex, the notion does sound ridiculous; they’d actually have to encourage their gay children to flourish, if you think about it.blockquote>

Great! More Log Cabin Republicans!!!

Tooooo SCARY: Creeping Fashionism
http://wonkette.com/politics/c…..232311.php

mikefromtexas @
35

To lay this issue to rest, if you haven’t already, stop by SadlyNo, scroll down to the elephant pic and read the caption. This is the answer to the question, Can you think of ANYONE on the right with a sense of humor this sharp????

I read Sadly, No! every day.

They actually have a cot for me in the back in case I get too snarked to drive.

Now I’ve got Willie Nelson in my brain, “Mama don’t let your babies grow up to be cowboys…”

Great post tonight, TRex.

Does it not occur to Republicans that all the power that Bush has been grabbing for the office of President will someday have a Democrat occupying it once more? How much mewling and howling will we hear from them when a President Clarke or President Gore or President Obama decide to be the Decider?

Oh. My. God. I had to stop that video at about a quarter of the way before my eyeballs melted and my ears stopped up in rebellion.

My Google Images search of ‘Baby Republican Artists’ came up null, which is a drag, ‘cos I need visual proof that they all have an “I am Entitled to…” tattoo on their foreheads.

cbl @
38

Are you sure about that? I’ll change it, but I could swear she was all about Halston

Jimmy Galanos fellas

hey, so this is what late nite looks like ! swell clubhouse you got here TRex. and do I really have to watch the Charen tube ? Nurse F’in’ Diesel – lordy

Well, well, well! You’re up late this evening, cbl. What’s the occasion?

DrBB @
42

So that’s what Mona Charen looks like? Huh. Does raise a deep philosophical question: Do you think the sour outlook on life makes her look like she just smelled a carton of week-old milk left on the radiator, or does having a face like that produce the sour disposition to go with it?

Nature or Nurture?

Julie @ 55

Oh. My. God. I had to stop that video at about a quarter of the way before my eyeballs melted and my ears stopped up in rebellion.

See, I made that mistake the first time he posted that tripe here months ago. I knew what kind of landmine that thing was and just skipped past it. Sorry you had to subject yourself to it, it is truly a comedic disaster in slow motion.

yodermon @ 11

Is this significant?? Why is Ari soooo eager to have been the leaker (even if he wasn’t) now that he has immunity? Will Dickerson be called to testify by team libby in order to impeach Ari’s testimony? Help!

My take is that Ari may have puffed himself up a little bit in his memory, and conversely Dickerson may remember Ari being less direct than he was because he didn’t figure out what he was hinting at before Cooper got a more direct leak. So it’s entirely possible that each honestly believes he’s remembering correctly, and the truth is somewhere in between.

AZ Matt @ 48

I knew nothing about any of these ladies. Just googled Gorin. She wants to be a funny conservative?! Seems to contradictory to logic.

DrBB @
42

So that’s what Mona Charen looks like? Huh. Does raise a deep philosophical question: Do you think the sour outlook on life makes her look like she just smelled a carton of week-old milk left on the radiator, or does having a face like that produce the sour disposition to go with it?

Chicken, egg. Egg, chicken. It’s one of those questions.

I have noticed, however, that the faces of the Right do seem to have a much higher percentage of thin, angry little lips. It’s like the lead singer of Echo and the Bunnymen said in 1985, “Never trust a thin-lipped bastard.”

stibbert @ 55

My Google Images search of ‘Baby Republican Artists’ came up null, which is a drag, ‘cos I need visual proof that they all have an “I am Entitled to…” tattoo on their foreheads.

Now I’ve got “What do you want from life” running through my head.

A foolproof plan
An airtight alibi

perfect for these gooper spawn.

I did read something about the significance of thin lips somewhere. Thin upper lips, if I recall correctly.

TRex @ 62

DrBB @
42

So that’s what Mona Charen looks like? Huh. Does raise a deep philosophical question: Do you think the sour outlook on life makes her look like she just smelled a carton of week-old milk left on the radiator, or does having a face like that produce the sour disposition to go with it?

Chicken, egg. Egg, chicken. It’s one of those questions.

I have noticed, however, that the faces of the Right do seem to have a much higher percentage of thin, angry little lips. It’s like the lead singer of Echo and the Bunnymen said in 1985, “Never trust a thin-lipped bastard.”

Echo and the Bunnymen? are you sure that you aren’t my best friend from high school in disguise? ’cause he is the only person i’ve ever met who would know of them, or be able to quote them. I thought that he was currently being a fashion designer in NYC, but maybe he’s disguised as a 60 foot theropod in Georgia….

My local PBS station ran a documentary about the Berlin airlift tonight, part of the ‘American Experience’ series.

A reminder of a time when the sound of American planes in the air meant something different than it does today.

Echo and the Bunnymen? are you sure that you aren’t my best friend from high school in disguise? ’cause he is the only person i’ve ever met who would know of them, or be able to quote them. I thought that he was currently being a fashion designer in NYC, but maybe he’s disguised as a 60 foot theropod in Georgia….

Unfortunately, no, pm. I’m that band’s Other Fan.

Bionic @ 16

And back to your topic, you can just tell Charen’s spent her life trying to get back at the Kool Kidz who made her highschool life hell when they didn’t appreciate her innate superiority.

I think it’s even worse than that. At my high school, at least, the artists and drama types weren’t the kool kidz. The kool kidz were the jocks and the rich kids — Charen’s kind of people. So I think they’re really pissed that they didn’t get to keep being the kool kidz for the rest of their lives, and the drama club and the computer geeks who could do stuff are now considered cool.

TRex @ 67

Echo and the Bunnymen? are you sure that you aren’t my best friend from high school in disguise? ’cause he is the only person i’ve ever met who would know of them, or be able to quote them. I thought that he was currently being a fashion designer in NYC, but maybe he’s disguised as a 60 foot theropod in Georgia….

Unfortunately, no, pm. I’m that band’s Other Fan.

There are only two of you? Damn, I should introduce you… you might have lots in common…

Julie @
55

Oh. My. God. I had to stop that video at about a quarter of the way before my eyeballs melted and my ears stopped up in rebellion.

When conservatives do comedy, it only emboldens the terrorists.

Well, well, well! You’re up late this evening, cbl. What’s the occasion?

probably just Fitzerpated, and then that eriposte piece on a story that really gets the brain a racin’ – it really is as big as Plame in all it’s implications . . .and a lot more like Watergate wrt to it’s cast of characters, pace, and bungler after bungler crossing the stage, all directed by some meglomaniac at 1600 – oh yeah

but listen kiddo, I usually stop by and enjoy your work almost nightly – awfully funny stuff, same with the gang – and some of the non snark is getting really blogispheric (Let’s Talk About Sects – super, thanks for asking !)

congrats on your YKos gig ! – hope to be there and meet my favorite dino boy

TRex, I was going to watch the “treatment” of Red Scorpion at BoingBoing, but the link doesn’t work. So sad. :sniff:

TRex @ 70

Julie @
55

Oh. My. God. I had to stop that video at about a quarter of the way before my eyeballs melted and my ears stopped up in rebellion.

When conservatives do comedy, it only emboldens the terrorists.

Now the Army will start using the video in Guantanimo, talk about no respect for human rights!

Redshift @ 68

Bionic @ 16

And back to your topic, you can just tell Charen’s spent her life trying to get back at the Kool Kidz who made her highschool life hell when they didn’t appreciate her innate superiority.

I think it’s even worse than that. At my high school, at least, the artists and drama types weren’t the kool kidz. The kool kidz were the jocks and the rich kids — Charen’s kind of people. So I think they’re really pissed that they didn’t get to keep being the kool kidz for the rest of their lives, and the drama club and the computer geeks who could do stuff are now considered cool.

Thats how it worked for so long but then the world changed. Creativity and technical skills have a lot more value now than they used to have. VIVA LA REVOLUCCION DIGITAL!

I might be E&tBm’s 3rd fan – wasn’t Echo the name of their drum machine?

Okay, I don’t remember where I read the “thin lip” thing, with regard to Bush, but I was determined to find something. This is most likely hogwash, as far as being any sort of valid science, but…

Lets take a look at George Bush lips, his upper lip is very ‘thin’ almost like a line when he smiles, the middle folding just above his upper lip between the center of the nose and mouth is not very obvious also, and this make you feel that his lip is even ‘thinner’. This kind of lip in face reading is link to ‘inconsiderate’. You can say Bush is a combination of Brave Inconsiderate Stubborn.

Got that from here.

stibbert @
75

I might be E&tBm’s 3rd fan – wasn’t Echo the name of their drum machine?

You are correct!

stibbert @ 75

I might be E&tBm’s 3rd fan – wasn’t Echo the name of their drum machine?

I wasnt a huge fan but I remember a video they had that was played on 120 Minutes on MTV every week for about a year that I dug very much. I think it was a black & white number with a puppet show involved? Or was that the magic mushrooms I ate working on me back then?

And I do think one of their pieces of equipment was the source of the name Echo though I am not sure what. FWIW there used to be a thing called an Echo Plex back in those days a lot of guitarists played through.

Now the Army will start using the video in Guantanimo, talk about no respect for human rights!

MY GOD WHAT HAVE I DONE??!!

AZ Matt @ 48

I knew nothing about any of these ladies. Just googled Gorin. She wants to be a funny conservative?! Seems to contradictory to logic.

Oh, no! I learned from the (mercifully) temporary salesman at our company who turned out to be a Rush fan that liberals have no sense of humor. I think it was when he was slamming Webb for not appreciating Bush “joking” with him about his son in Iraq.

It really seems like there are two areas of politically-influenced humor. Liberals find jokes at the expense of the powerful to be funny. Conservatives find jokes at the expense of the powerless to be funny. Unfortunately for them, the reason they have trouble finding a wide audience for their “humor” is that most people who are not strongly political find the first sort to be at least moderately amusing, and the second sort to be heartless and cruel.

ooooh, double-you-tee has a fun Judy pic

TRex @ 79

Now the Army will start using the video in Guantanimo, talk about no respect for human rights!

MY GOD WHAT HAVE I DONE??!!

Loose Lips Sink Ships! Republicans do have a talent for torture, it is perhaps their only talent.

Well, root me senseless – Echo/Bunnymen fans at FDL!

I’d fire up one of their LP’s now, except I’ve got issues w/ my turntable – it receives Evangelical Catholic shortwave transmissions when the arm is lifted.

It really seems like there are two areas of politically-influenced humor. Liberals find jokes at the expense of the powerful to be funny. Conservatives find jokes at the expense of the powerless to be funny. Unfortunately for them, the reason they have trouble finding a wide audience for their “humor” is that most people who are not strongly political find the first sort to be at least moderately amusing, and the second sort to be heartless and cruel.

Redshift, I believe you have just struck the nail squarely on its flat little head.

stibbert @ 83

Well, root me senseless – Echo/Bunnymen fans at FDL!

I’d fire up one of their LP’s now, except I’ve got issues w/ my turntable – it receives Evangelical Catholic shortwave transmissions when the arm is lifted.

Call an excorcist.

Or better still, declare it **A MIRACLE!!** and charge Catholics a dollar each to come into your house and hear it.

Redshift @ 80 -

Essentially you are saying that they aren’t funny to the majority of Americans, only to nasty boogers like themselves. Is the result of years of inbredding?! I know in cattle it results in dwarfs.

TRex @ 84

It really seems like there are two areas of politically-influenced humor. Liberals find jokes at the expense of the powerful to be funny. Conservatives find jokes at the expense of the powerless to be funny. Unfortunately for them, the reason they have trouble finding a wide audience for their “humor” is that most people who are not strongly political find the first sort to be at least moderately amusing, and the second sort to be heartless and cruel.

Redshift, I believe you have just struck the nail squarely on its flat little head.

Don’t forget they find lowest common denominator humor funniest. Fart jokes, vomit jokes, stoopid behavior skits, “Git ‘er duuuuun”, etc.

AZ Matt @ 86

Redshift @ 80 -

Essentially you are saying that they aren’t funny to the majority of Americans, only to nasty boogers like themselves. Is the result of years of inbredding?! I know in cattle it results in dwarfs.

Mental midgets.

TRex @ 88

AZ Matt @ 86

Redshift @ 80 -

Essentially you are saying that they aren’t funny to the majority of Americans, only to nasty boogers like themselves. Is the result of years of inbredding?! I know in cattle it results in dwarfs.

Mental midgets.

Damn you are quick! Yes, they are mental!

Damn you are quick! Yes, they are mental!

Fastest draw in all of Lefty Blogistan, pilgrim. And don’t you forget it.

TRex @ 90

Damn you are quick! Yes, they are mental!

Fastest draw in all of Lefty Blogistan, pardner. And don’t you forget it.

With crayons or charcol?

AZ Matt @ 91

TRex @ 90

Damn you are quick! Yes, they are mental!

Fastest draw in all of Lefty Blogistan, pardner. And don’t you forget it.

With crayons or charcol?

MIGHTIER THAN THE SWORD.

okay, just a quick driveby for fini. and this is totally OT. Another source of hilarity with my BF was the woman we saw in an elevator, who was wearing two watches. Figured she must have had a problem keeping track of time.

TRex @ 92

AZ Matt @ 91

TRex @ 90

Damn you are quick! Yes, they are mental!

Fastest draw in all of Lefty Blogistan, pardner. And don’t you forget it.

With crayons or charcol?

MIGHTIER THAN THE SWORD.

Is one MS Word and the other WordPerfect?

Valley Girl @ 93

okay, just a quick driveby for fini. and this is totally OT. Another source of hilarity with my BF was the woman we saw in an elevator, who was wearing two watches. Figured she must have had a problem keeping track of time.

Maybe she loves someone in another time zone.

Valley Girl @ 93

okay, just a quick driveby for fini. and this is totally OT. Another source of hilarity with my BF was the woman we saw in an elevator, who was wearing two watches. Figured she must have had a problem keeping track of time.

LOL…or was leading two busy lives?

TRex @ 95

Valley Girl @ 93

okay, just a quick driveby for fini. and this is totally OT. Another source of hilarity with my BF was the woman we saw in an elevator, who was wearing two watches. Figured she must have had a problem keeping track of time.

Maybe she loves someone in another time zone.

Obviously you’re a “the glass is half full” kinda guy. Or, just too scientific in your thinking.

Trex @ 85 – that’s a great idea! I’ll alert the local TVnews, they go apeshit over those ‘image of virgin mary appears in frost-pattern on storm-door glass’ stories.

I’ve tried grounded tinfoil shielding on my turntable wires, it didn’t help.

Hey, I was just looking at the late comments on earlier threads, and I found this link cited. pdf (quick load) It’s Scooter’s letter (in his very own handwriting), to Ari. Oy vey. We need to call in a Ruritanian handwriting expert. [I did not say this until later in the thread. WP is doing time warp again.]

Okay. So I am going to channel my dear departed mother here and make this comment about a person’s appearance:

Doesn’t Mona Charen in the pic at the top of this post look like some Romulan apparatchik?

Valley Girl @ 99

fini, meet TRex. TRex, meet fini. SNAP!

Oy vey. Representing Blognia-Hurtsgubmintia, y’aaaalllll!!!

LindaR @ 100

Okay. So I am going to channel my dear departed mother here and make this comment about a person’s appearance:

Doesn’t Mona Charen in the pic at the top of this post look like some Romulan apparatchik?

Where is a Romulian Cloaking Device when you need it?

oh, joy.

One of our wingnut welfare classicist bullies actually said “how do we effect the culture”?

Well, first we learn our verbs.

LindaR @ 100

Okay. So I am going to channel my dear departed mother here and make this comment about a person’s appearance:

Doesn’t Mona Charen in the pic at the top of this post look like some Romulan apparatchik?

OOOH a Trekkie! Yeah, if she had the Romulan ears to go with that ‘do of hers totally Romulan yes. I do that all the time, assign a different alien persona from Star Trek to people I see that resemble aliens. Dick Cheney looks like a Cardassian if you ask me.

nowthatchewmentionit, perhaps her eyebrows are tending towards that Romulan look. And the ear-tips are artfully concealed. Let’s photoshop her onto a mesh-metallic mini-dress & see what we think.

Cheney talks like a tough guy, but I think a Cardassian would chew him up for breakfast and spit him out for lunch.

stibbert — Mona in metal? Yikes!

You seem to be pretty handy with the lingo us hepcat liberals talk these days!

well, I’ll be a monkey’s uncle….they’ve already got Cat’sPajamasMedia.com…

(which is on the verge of 23 skidoo!)

okay, ahem. WP did a glitch. my comment here was actually posted after fini’s. I hope this is not a sign of another WP breakdown.

Valley Girl @ 99

Hey, I was just looking at the late comments on earlier threads, and I found this link cited. pdf (quick load) It’s Scooter’s letter (in his very own handwriting), to Ari. Oy vey. We need to call in a Ruritanian handwriting expert.

thus.

Sorry gang, phone call.

OOOH a Trekkie! Yeah, if she had the Romulan ears to go with that ‘do of hers totally Romulan yes. I do that all the time, assign a different alien persona from Star Trek to people I see that resemble aliens. Dick Cheney looks like a Cardassian if you ask me.

I’ve always thought Abu Gonzales looked kind of like an ewok.

My searches for puling Baby Repulican Artists are still coming up dry. Unless one counts Michael Chrichton as a whining baby.

okay, I can read part of the letter from Scooter to Ari- “We’ll still count on you to come to our rescue whenever the going gets tough”

Trex!

Fun blogging with you tonight though I don’t think I would want to do Extreme Cage Writing against you! You are 10X taller than I am! Off to slumberland

Yeah. It’s hard to see teh christianists as creative when all they bend their talents is into one narrow pathway. More stifling than anything else. Sad part is some very christianists sometimes spawn the best and most diverse liberals–if they manage to retain a stable personality.

And the snark and the puns are flying. heh. Cool. *goes back to finishing her music theory homework*

AZ Matt @ 114

Trex!

Fun blogging with you tonight though I don’t think I would want to do Extreme Cage Writing against you! You are 10X taller than I am! Off to slumberland

Wait, wait! I made mojitos!

I’ve always thought Abu Gonzales looked kind of like an ewok.

Which’d almost (but not quite) justify my “Nuke the Ewoks” t-shirt.

stibbert @ 98

I’ve tried grounded tinfoil shielding on my turntable wires, it didn’t help.

Ferrite beads are what you want. A twenty-year-old electrical engineering degree is good for something! Unfortunately, I haven’t used the degree much since then, so I can’t tell you much more than that, but hopefully it’ll put you on the right track. From what I remember (and from what I can find quickly with Google) there isn’t much to them, just add them to the cable that’s picking up interference.

Hehe. Gotta be a little careful TRex.. I mean, remember that they breed faster than us.. married younger, many lily white country kids, no abortions or contraception, etc. This strategy might just succeed :P

stibbert @ 112

My searches for puling Baby Repulican Artists are still coming up dry. Unless one counts Michael Chrichton as a whining baby.

Maybe they’re all going under the wishful thinking name Baby Einsteins…

“I must study politics and war, that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy…in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture…”

John Adams

Adams was considered conservative in his day but he apparently had a concept of duty, history and positive social evolution, which would place him well outside the pale of modern conservatism. These freaks he would have classified with the circus tent revivalists and itinerant snake oil salesmen of his own time.

David Olsen @ 121

“I must study politics and war, that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy…in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture…”

John Adams

Adams was considered conservative in his day but he apparently had a concept of duty, history and positive social evolution, which would place him well outside the pale of modern conservatism. These freaks he would have classified with the circus tent revivalists and itinerant snake oil salesmen of his own time.

Nice quote. Thanks!

but one of the first things that happens when a person with a fertile and flexible imagination meets the world is a phenomenon we call “empathy”.

Empathy is not only found in the arts, but also in good blogging (i.e. TRex). Lack of empathy is found in bad blogging (i.e. MM)

stibbert @
56

My Google Images search of ‘Baby Republican Artists’ came up null, which is a drag, ‘cos I need visual proof that they all have an “I am Entitled to…” tattoo on their foreheads.

look for the mark of the bedeviled: sucks, sucks, sucks

Hey Punaise- just a quick hello before I head down the hallway. Any new cat pix?

Empathy is not only found in the arts, but also in good blogging

Oh, make no mistake. Blogging is an art. Really, take away the computers and give us broadsheets and we are the reincarnation of the political papers of 18th century London. We’re an army of digitized Pepys, Drydens, and Ben Johnsons. We can just reach more people faster now.

From dusty blogs neglected authors come,
Martyrs of pies,
And relics of the bum…

Hi Redshift, I’m not a parent. I don’t know what ‘Baby Einsteins’ are, except that Junior reffed it in SotU, which immediately made me think it was another meaningless BS marketing meme. (No doubt I’m wrong in that opinion, it’s just my reflexive response.) One of my acquaintances is married w/ 3 children, he’s v. much the FoxNews consumer, his wife some kind of born-again, I didn’t enquire closely. I’ve been in there house a dozen times at least, and what the place lacked, was books. It didn’t lack bookshelves, they had shelves full of VHS and DVD movies & game-cartridges. But they didn’t have any books!

TRex @ 126

Empathy is not only found in the arts, but also in good blogging

Oh, make no mistake. Blogging is an art. Really, take away the computers and give us broadsheets and we are the reincarnation of the political papers of 18th century London. We’re an army of digitized Pepys, Drydens, and Ben Johnsons. We can just reach more people faster now.

Very well put. I liken this place here to a kind of digital age version of The Federalist papers Thomas Paine and other Founding Fathers wrote. Same sort of multi-author format, each writer focusing on different subjects but all in the service of the greater good.

I didn’t enquire closely

A wise decision, I think.

For the best.

Valley Girl @ 125

Hey Punaise- just a quick hello before I head down the hallway. Any new cat pix?

been a bit lax with the camera, so nothing new

stibbert @ 128

Hi Redshift, I’m not a parent. I don’t know what ‘Baby Einsteins’ are, except that Junior reffed it in SotU, which immediately made me think it was another meaningless BS marketing meme. (No doubt I’m wrong in that opinion, it’s just my reflexive response.) One of my acquaintances is married w/ 3 children, he’s v. much the FoxNews consumer, his wife some kind of born-again, I didn’t enquire closely. I’ve been in there house a dozen times at least, and what the place lacked, was books. It didn’t lack bookshelves, they had shelves full of VHS and DVD movies & game-cartridges. But they didn’t have any books!

OH gods, how do they survive? No apartment of mine feels like home unless i’ve got at least a quarter of my personal library there with me. There’s so much more to be picked up in words than some of the newer forms of media. Music being the exception, because it will always be powerful.

Valley Girl @ 125

Hey Punaise- just a quick hello before I head down the hallway. Any new cat pix?

going to “pack it in” for the night, eh?

***!!!Rawwwwrr!!! !Chomp, Chomp, Chomp!***

Muy divertido, Sr. Rex.

so.

stibbert @ 128

Hi Redshift, I’m not a parent. I don’t know what ‘Baby Einsteins’ are, except that Junior reffed it in SotU, which immediately made me think it was another meaningless BS marketing meme. (No doubt I’m wrong in that opinion, it’s just my reflexive response.) One of my acquaintances is married w/ 3 children, he’s v. much the FoxNews consumer, his wife some kind of born-again, I didn’t enquire closely. I’ve been in there house a dozen times at least, and what the place lacked, was books. It didn’t lack bookshelves, they had shelves full of VHS and DVD movies & game-cartridges. But they didn’t have any books!

Well now hang on a second. I do a fair amount of reading when not busy occupied with other projects, but I don’t buy books due to the expense involved. I pretty much exclusively read library lended items so if you visited my house you would see a similar lack of books.

TRex @
5

Bionic @ 4

an anorexic stop-sign in a Halston gown

Dahling! She was a Valentino gal all the way.

Are you sure about that? I’ll change it, but I could swear she was all about Halston.

Maybe you’re thinking of Jacqueline K.O., TRex. Halston designed her famous pillbox hats, Cassini many of her clothers during those years.

aliasofwestgate @ 132

stibbert @ 128

Hi Redshift, I’m not a parent. I don’t know what ‘Baby Einsteins’ are, except that Junior reffed it in SotU, which immediately made me think it was another meaningless BS marketing meme. (No doubt I’m wrong in that opinion, it’s just my reflexive response.) One of my acquaintances is married w/ 3 children, he’s v. much the FoxNews consumer, his wife some kind of born-again, I didn’t enquire closely. I’ve been in there house a dozen times at least, and what the place lacked, was books. It didn’t lack bookshelves, they had shelves full of VHS and DVD movies & game-cartridges. But they didn’t have any books!

OH gods, how do they survive? No apartment of mine feels like home unless i’ve got at least a quarter of my personal library there with me. There’s so much more to be picked up in words than some of the newer forms of media. Music being the exception, because it will always be powerful.

Books are heavy, though, and a bitch to move. I probably have 300 pounds of books, easy. And I did a massive purge last year, like, half of them.

I just keep getting more, though. It’s a mania.

http://www.slate.com/id/2158157/entry/2158492/

I might be hours late with this but this is not good news for Flleischer’s credibility.

Okay, gang, this dino needs to feed.

I’ll be back in a bit.

harry @ 138

http://www.slate.com/id/2158157/entry/2158492/

I might be hours late with this but this is not good news for Flleischer’s credibility.

in Bush’s press sec?

I’m shocked, shocked.

Oh, but before I go, I thought this bit from Lady Jane today was particularly exquisite:

It would be like me telling Michelle Malkin she had lovely eyes and wrote with the piquant wit and insouciant delight of a latter day Jane Austen, you know? Really, at that point it becomes obvious that any tether with reality has become severed and a good friend would tell you to seek help.

Mmmmmmm. Delicious. Nobody serves it up like My Sister.

nite, Punaise. Yep, heading down the hallway.

Oh gods TRex i know exaactly what you mean by that. My problem is i can’t really get used to ebook format. It would help a lot of things, but there’s such a bit of solidity about actual print books. Digital media is excellent, but i still end up going for print when this isn’t available.

So i end up lugging around at least 100 lbs–barely half of my still growing collection–of books in my vagabond existance as a college student. (eye huge electronic piano to practice with before bed)

About that Executive Order. It was issued on January 18, and written about at least as early as January 24, by Michelle Chen of The NewStandard (new paper to me). The original at truthout has some useful links on the page.

bullet points from some painfully good progressive navel-gazing by Chris Bowers:

These simple rules should allow you to win pretty much any argument with a single progressive, or a group of progressives….:

1. Someone disagrees with you only because of his or her demographic background.

2. Someone is only a progressive if they focus on the same issues as you.

3. What would Ghandi do?

4. Since when are they so perfect?

5. You’ve got cred, man.*

6. You are too good for them anyway.

*5…Remember that you were the top volunteer for a local campaign for a disappointing Democrat in your area, even if you only went out canvassing only once. Hell, you were beyond a volunteer–you were a staffer, maybe even the campaign manager! Remember that you donated to every campaign and every blog fundraiser, ever. You were at every rally, ever. You had every prediction right, ever. You have been there and done that, no matter where “there” is and what “that” may happen to be. There isn’t a single, specific situation to which your endless activism does not apply. Remember that the person you are talking with isn’t nearly as active as you are on that specific issue, and did not have as much foresight as you did. You earned your cynicism and / or the right to be an asshole–they didn’t. Make sure you point out both of these things to that person.

Fini, I remember when my Mom took my sister & I to the local (Carnegie) library for the 1st time, we were 1st-graders, the building was larger than our church, and smelled better, too! We got library cards, and we could borrow books – to me, that was more ‘holy’ than anything that happened at the 1st United Presbyterian. IIRC my first 2 borrowed books were a Tom Swift and another about sea-turtles.

That it’s the ‘literacy’ that counts, y’see – the attitude towards those printed pages (w/ their occaisonal funny smell) that my folks imprinted on me. That each one had an intrinsic value, and that I could learn from them & about them. Later on I became more discriminating, and could assign relative values among them.

aliasofwestgate @
143

Oh gods TRex i know exaactly what you mean by that. My problem is i can’t really get used to ebook format. It would help a lot of things, but there’s such a bit of solidity about actual print books. Digital media is excellent, but i still end up going for print when this isn’t available.

So i end up lugging around at least 100 lbs–barely half of my still growing collection–of books in my vagabond existance as a college student. (eye huge electronic piano to practice with before bed)

I just want to tell you how much I’m pulling for you.
Music theory is hard! My mom was a piano teacher. She gave up on me. I played by ear, couldn’t read music until I was in my early teens when I discovered Bach 2 part inventions. Then it all fell into place.

stibbert @ 146

Fini, I remember when my Mom took my sister & I to the local (Carnegie) library for the 1st time, we were 1st-graders, the building was larger than our church, and smelled better, too! We got library cards, and we could borrow books – to me, that was more ‘holy’ than anything that happened at the 1st United Presbyterian. IIRC my first 2 borrowed books were a Tom Swift and another about sea-turtles.

That it’s the ‘literacy’ that counts, y’see – the attitude towards those printed pages (w/ their occaisonal funny smell) that my folks imprinted on me. That each one had an intrinsic value, and that I could learn from them & about them. Later on I became more discriminating, and could assign relative values among them.

I was about to start kindergarten the first time Mom took me to the library. I remember I picked out a Clifford the Big Red Dog book. I learned to read very early in life because Mom or Dad always read to me every day out of the newspaper. I already knew the alphabet when I got to kindergarten which I started a year early because I was born on the same day as the age cutoff and the teacher was worried that if I didn’t start school then it would hurt me later.

One of the advantages of living in Indianapolis (yes, there are actually a few of those) is we have a nationally recognized top of the line library system. We have a boatload of branches everywhere and they are all very well stocked and current. It’s one of my favorite activities to go to the library to get the latest books on my list to read.

1. TRex,

The cultural points you bring up about how these people who are destroying culture in their midst, around them, around the world, is a theme I’m drafting some writing on right now. Gave me some very good ideas. Thanks.

2. One of the better latenight comment threads in response to one of TRex’s more highbrow themes he’s undertaken. (hence some people dissing the dinodog)

3. punaise @ #145,

Good link. We see that a lot, don’t we.

harry @ 138

http://www.slate.com/id/2158157/entry/2158492/

I might be hours late with this but this is not good news for Flleischer’s credibility.

Wow! Fitz is not going to be happy about this.

I’m an ear learner too, Margot. It’s figuring out how to hook this stuff on paper and onto my hands into my head with that ear ability. I’ve learned music intuitively since i can remember. When your eternally obsessed with music and sound, it’s in your blood.

For now? i’m slogging through, and i had to set up for a tutor for the Music Theory. Piano is practice, practice, practice and MORE practice.

As virtually everyone above noted … creative they ain’t and can’t be for the many reasons noted above and yes Red Scorpion was absolutely, disturbingly terrible, enough to induce illness.

But I do wish that Conservatives would refrain from encouraging their ‘offspring’ to become educators and lawyers. Those professions are too important to trust to these people.

Just inheriting and junking around or looting the family business are more appropriate fields.

Trust me on this, I’ve known so many.

Wigwam @ 150

harry @ 138

http://www.slate.com/id/2158157/entry/2158492/

I might be hours late with this but this is not good news for Flleischer’s credibility.

Wow! Fitz is not going to be happy about this.

This was covered extensively at about 1800 to 1900 hrs pst here. John Dickerson, the Slate article’s author, isn’t credible.

TRex @ 137

It’s a mania

well that’s ughfortunately true. But I discovered that when you express-mail several boxes at the same time, it’s bulk cheaper than sending each box separately.

When I left Florence, I shipped 18 months worth of riotous bookstore loot back home as one multi-unit expense, which totalled nearly three times my body-weight.

Much ribald comment from the UPS-girl, back home, when she made 3 successive trips to deliver them all. But she was buff-good-lookin’, it did her no harm to tote my Italian treasures right up to the door.

New and classic Hamsher today, on OldLord McCain:

He may be ready for Prime Time but he’s not ready for YouTube

heh – remember McCain’s commencement-speech tour last spring?

Let’s all channel Jean Rohe:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…..21358.html

TeddySanFran @ 155

New and classic Hamsher today, on OldLord McCain:

He may be ready for Prime Time but he’s not ready for YouTube

Could be the opening line of progressive’s 2008 strategy anthem. And not just pertaining to McCain, as you’ve witnessed so well in SFO this winter, Teddy.

In his post this evening, eRiposte presented evidence of the existence of tactical metastasization among members of the coalition of the willing, to all of our detriment. In other words, the U.S. and U.K. governments tag-teamed us in the runaround.

Now it seems that another form of tactical metastasization is ocurring, involving the imitation of memory loss tactics:

[Isabel] Peron testified in 1997 in Madrid as a witness in a Spanish case probing crimes during the military dictatorship. She said she recalled approving a law authorizing the “annihilation” of leftist guerrillas, but did not remember details.

Perhaps some magistrate in Spain or Argentina can make use of some plays in Fitz’s playbook to work around, if not quicken, some of these dull memories—such things after all do not take place in isolation. People in other countries might begin to watch with interest if they do.

Ed*ard Teller @
153

Wigwam @ 150

harry @ 138

http://www.slate.com/id/2158157/entry/2158492/

I might be hours late with this but this is not good news for Flleischer’s credibility.

Wow! Fitz is not going to be happy about this.

This was covered extensively at about 1800 to 1900 hrs pst here. John Dickerson, the Slate article’s author, isn’t credible.

Thanks for that reference. Very interesting.

parm’ me, but what the devil is ‘tactical metastasization’?

stibbert @ 161

parm’ me, but what the devil is ‘tactical metastasization’?

It sounds like something you absolutely positively do not want happening in your underwear.

Good night!

TRex @
162

stibbert @ 161

parm’ me, but what the devil is ‘tactical metastasization’?

It sounds like something you absolutely positively do not want happening in your underwear.

More or less. Knave ‘A’ lays and egg, millions shrink back in horror, but it gives Knave ‘B’ a great idea!

‘cos it really does sound like some meaningless bullsh*t terminology, that pretends relevance by offering clues to ‘tactics’ and ‘metastasis’ without having any relevance of its own.

That the stibbert would prefer to read clear, unambiguous text, that does not depend on using the google when attempting to decipher the meaning.

Fine, stibbert, just me being me. I don’t worry about everything everyone says here, and that works for me. Enjoy your day.

(very small point: adverbs and adjectives do not make a compound adjective: ‘ideologically motivated [something]’ does not need a hypen; only two adjectives do. ty)

Has no one in your family had cancer? ‘Matastasize’ has a pretty clear and deadly meaning and equally dreadful connotation.

’s cool, prostratedragon, your text is yours, use it creatively as you wish, but I’m not req’d to submit to opaque languate.

(btw, you’ve a nice nym, but don’t ever leave out the second ‘r’)

opaque language

crap: ‘metastasize’ i before e except after c

nah, we never have cancer. But if we did, we’d do it involuntarily, not tactically.

Valley Girl @ 109

Valley Girl @ 99

Hey, I was just looking at the late comments on earlier threads, and I found this link cited. pdf (quick load) It’s Scooter’s letter (in his very own handwriting), to Ari. Oy vey. We need to call in a Ruritanian handwriting expert.

thus.

I do some amateur handwriting analysis and Scooter’s script is very unusual, indeed. A combination of an almost hysterical emotional reactivity (extreme rightward slant) combined with substantial repression of feelings (lack of loops). All that intensity has to go somewhere – I guess in serving Cheney’s demands.

mhpcr @
169

Has no one in your family had cancer? ‘Matastasize’ has a pretty clear and deadly meaning and equally dreadful connotation.

Who, me? Yes.

New post.

A man dies in my presence

En route from Russia to U.S., left yesterday at 11am and am still on the road a day later. More at my humble blog.

Looking forward to seeing people at Plamehouse.

Totally loved Jane’s re-entry comment “Did I miss anything?” when out of commission for the beginning of the Libby trial, our focus for so long.

Good morning, pups. 28 degrees here this morning. BRRR… We’re not used to this!

The NYT today has Nicholas Kristof on the World Economic Forum in Davos and good ideas from around the world, and Stacy Schiff calls BS on Dick Cheney for being a hypocrite. The money line? “And our Prohibitionist vice president can’t summon the courage to address the gin mill in the basement?” That’s worthy of TRex!

http://mgpaquin.blogspot.com/

Have a good day, stay warm, and consider http://www.kiva.org. (Kristof made me say that…)

So good, so very good, right on and funny as hell. I tried to watch a tad of this “forum” but didn’t make it very far, about as far as I made it through that “comedy” clip. So I missed Mona’s comment about the artist thingie. Man, they were really grasping at straws. Desperate, desperate women trying to look in control while their little gravy train is drying up.

Do I get to say “Fitz!” if I’m the first one up this morning but it’s the same thread? . . .

Didn’t think so.

[shuffles off dejectedly]

Well, crap, every time I post something they put up a new thread. I think they are trying to tell me something.

[shuffle, shuffle]

If the Dems are too wary of exercising the power of the purse to force change in Iraq, how about cutting Bush and Chee-knee’s presidential budget instead? Let them eat Campbell’s pork and beans.

if a mandrake fitz!s alone in the forest,
does it make a sound?
what is the sound of one hand fitz!ing?

Aw, mandrake, don’t feel bad. Have some coffee (it’s right over there), or hot chocolate because it’s cold, and read Stacy Schiff. She’ll make you feel better. {pats mandrake on the back}

Marion in Savannah @ 183

Aw, mandrake, don’t feel bad. Have some coffee (it’s right over there), or hot chocolate because it’s cold, and read Stacy Schiff. She’ll make you feel better.
{pats mandrake on the back}

You’re sweet, Marion. I was just teasin’ I love the way you make breakfast for us every morning. Sometimes I wish I could teleport those nice muffins in from Savannah. Although I’d much rather have them in person, since I’d much rather be in Savannah!

the only problem with this argument is that it can be rebutted with a number

personally, I have never been able to stand more than 5 minutes of 24 (Keifer Sutherland’s ‘acting’ is as appealing to me as shingles),
but, there is no questioning the popularity and effectivness of the show in reinforcing the OVP talking points

as a side note,
anyone see any God Bless America or United We Stand signage lately?

mandrake, same thing used to happen to Evil Parallel Universe, which is why we call it “getting EPU’d.”

He turned it around and said he was so powerful, a universe unto himself, that every time he commented, it caused a new thread.

Crap, can’t find new thread. Plus, I wanted to beat up on Mona some more. My pet grievance is with the media, especially women who do this because I can’t understand how women can be such incredibly cold, vacuous creatures as these chickies. I realize there’s money in it, or there used to be [let their careers crash and burn, pleeeez, and use Bill Kristol as the fire-starter, puhleeez].

Maybe egregious was actually talking about her new post instead of an FDL post.

Oh, and throw Glenn Beck in there after the blaze really gets goin’

Mack @ 185

the only problem with this argument is that it can be rebutted with a number

personally, I have never been able to stand more than 5 minutes of 24 (Keifer Sutherland’s ‘acting’ is as appealing to me as shingles),
but, there is no questioning the popularity and effectivness of the show in reinforcing the OVP talking points

as a side note,
anyone see any God Bless America or United We Stand signage lately?

You kiddin’? Hell, yeah, around here in Red City – although their getting sorta worn and cracked by now.

gotta get ready for work-nice venting with you all-have a great day and enjoy the trial-never could find the new thread.

What’s funny is, she seems unaware of the fact that many artists are refugees from conservative homes to begin with.

Cons should stick to buying up media outlets — it’s something they know how to do and it seems to work for them.

Good Morning Firedogs,

Hey Marion – we central Texans have endured a similar out of the norm cold snap these past few weeks – 19 deg when it’s normally 55-60 blerrggh, there’s a reason I’ve never lived in snow

Mandrake – Kazuza my ass, I am the Dowager Empress of EPU, but I also cop a zed at least once a week due to the same timing issue . I even have another Firegripe: I’ll post/comment on something, it’s completely ignored, and then 2-3 days later, it’s a front page post – guess that makes me a Firescout :)

and well Good Morning John Casper – was thinking of long time regulars like you last week – Finallly Fitz, E& P attribution, a drive by from a sitting US Senator – all happened a day after I’d spent a couple hours looking/reminiscing (sp?) for something in the archives (omg, 55 comments was a busy thread!)- man oh man, What Hath Hamsher Wrought ?!?!

and today we hear from The Queen of Iraq – zip pa di do dah !

oh and I said it upstairs hours ago – Mona Charen – Nurse Diesel – never seen in the same photograph !

Mornin’ all!

mornin’ twolf1 !

Howdy cbl. It’s not as cold as it was yesterday, it’s 20 degrees already.

Don Imus thinks that Chris Matthews should have been euthanized instead of Barbaro. Then he says Olbermann sucks and is gutless.

I knew there was a reason I never watch Imus.

When you hear from a Mona Charen-type:

“people say . . .”

tune out.

criticize and laugh all you want, but infestation of cultural media IS where the wingnuts are headed now that they’ve blighted local school boards, town councils, and turned corporate news media and the punditocracy into anti-democratic, anti-progressive infotainment. ABC and trash like “The Path to 9/11″, and Clearchannel are only the beginning.
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new thread up top

yodermon @
11

Sorry to threadjack ya trex but cheez: Booman thinks that Ari perjured himself today:

You may have aleady noticed a discrepency in the story Dickerson told and the story Fleischer testified to today. Dickerson said that Fleischer gave him a tip to go ask who sent Wilson. Fleischer said he straight-up told Dickerson (and Gregory and Lippert) that Wilson’s wife was responsible.

Also, Dickerson confirms(!) here.

Everyone had heard about Robert Novak, Matt Cooper, and Judith Miller, the reporters who had received the Valerie Plame leak. But now Ari was saying I was in that club, too.

I have a different memory. My recollection is that during a presidential trip to Africa in July 2003, Ari and another senior administration official had given me only hints. They told me to go inquire about who sent Wilson to Niger. As far as I can remember—and I am pretty sure I would remember it—neither of them ever told me that Wilson’s wife worked at the CIA.

Is this significant?? Why is Ari soooo eager to have been the leaker (even if he wasn’t) now that he has immunity? Will Dickerson be called to testify by team libby in order to impeach Ari’s testimony? Help!

Go check the previous Ari thread. Dickerson’s not exactly a reliable witness. He’s been caught spewing bull before.

Mary McCurnin @
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Phoenix Woman @ 37

He’s done this since Day One; this just makes it official. The key thing is that everyone knows now not to trust anything coming from a government agency until after January of 2009.

This means that nothing will get done in NOLA or anywhere else. And the Global Warming problem will be put on the back burner. (Terrible pun) If he is standing in the way of the EPA then managing Global Warming is gone.

Not necessarily. I can see this being challenged in court as well as in Congress.

Wigwam @
150

harry @ 138

http://www.slate.com/id/2158157/entry/2158492/

I might be hours late with this but this is not good news for Flleischer’s credibility.

Wow! Fitz is not going to be happy about this.

As noted in the Ari thread below, Dickerson has his own credibility issues.

Quite on Man! Far in, as the kids say…

Lou Costello @ 51

Tooooo SCARY: Creeping Fashionism
http://wonkette.com/politics/c…..232311.php

BWAHAHAHA… just looked at this link. Must be the beginning of the wave of new conservative ‘artists’ Mona was talking about.
I understand that smoking crack makes you very “creative”. How could anyone in their right mind put the disgusting vissage of Condaliar on their body?… with the word PEACE on the same garment no less? Garmento-demento

I think Mona just wants some sex. I mean look at her. She is like the bride of Frankenstein. Listening to her or reading her writings would render any man viagra-proof.

as an artist with two GOPig loving parents and two GOPig loving siblings, I thank you for this.

I know only 1% of artists make a living at it and I’m still trying, but I also know I’ll never be a GOPig lover.

thank you thank you, and dare I say “merci”

Hepcat Stevens: Mona Bone Jakon

With the not so subtle message that everything is great, but they just can’t get out the “good” news due to a loony left blockade.

After all tons of biz, law, government, military, enforcement, religion, money… all that is cool, but just not enough. They need some poor folk recruits to do this media grunt work.