As Christy pointed out, Ol’ Fred seems a bit mnemonically challenged, to say the least.
On the Terry Schiavo circus, he said:
I can’t pass judgment on it. I know that good people were doing what they thought was best. That’s going back in history. I don’t remember the details of it.
On the differences between his Social Security plan and Dubya’s (which he supported):
I don’t even remember the details of his plan.
And on his lobbying for the pro-choice National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association:
Thompson in a column posted July 11 on the blog Power Line said he does not remember but will not dispute evidence alleging that he lobbied for NFPRHA….
This level of amnesia, apathy, and unpreparedness is shocking in a presidential candidate (or would have been, prior to 2000), but it’s absolutely perfect for the job Fred is really auditioning for. Fred is showing us that he has what it takes to be the next Attorney General of the United States.
Now, I won’t go so far as to suggest that Fred can forget rings around a world-class forgetter like Abu Gonzales, but it’s obvious that he has the exceptional, Olympic-calibre forgetting skills that a modern Republican AG requires. Fred is clearly a man who won all the forgetting bees he competed in as a kid, and was the star of his college Amnesia Bowl team.
Meanwhile, pikers like Ted Olson and Lawrence Silberman, while possessed of admirable partisan hackitude, couldn’t forget their way out of a paper bag. Not only that, but neither of them has ever played a District Attorney on television. The choice is clear.
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http://www.jacklawrencesongwri….._fate.html
zed — the fickle finger of fate
L’shana tova tickvatanu.
Oh this is fun!
Hi Eli!
Hey Big Mitch. Hi Eli!
almost makes up for the Red sox scoring 3 so far in the bottom of the 4th.
Hiya, Elliott! Hiya, Loo Hoo!
oops sorry Mitch
You just think you’re all alone —
Shana tova, big mitch, texbetsy, and everyone. May the new year be sweet.
I was off trying to find the origin of the fickle finger of fate, and when I came back, there was zed calling out to me. But the link I put up is from a 1964 song. Not sure that it preceeded Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In.
skeptic @ 10
We are all together.
OT but an appeals court in Louisiana has reversed the second conviction of Mychal Bell, the only person convicted so far among the Jena 6. Another conviction had previously been overturned. Both judges said the charges should have been brought to juvenile court, not adult court. We’ll just have to wait to see how this plays out.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/09/…..index.html
Snarky!
A lazy Strict Daddy.
“This level of amnesia, apathy, and unpreparedness is shocking in a presidential candidate (or would have been, prior to 2000), but it’s absolutely perfect for the job Fred is really auditioning for. Fred is showing us that he has what it takes to be the next Attorney General of the United States.”
genius! why didn’t the White House think of this.
SouthernDragon @ 14
Oathtakers beware…more magic.
I can’t pass judgment on it.
I don’t even remember the details
aid he does not remember but will not dispute evidence…
oh fer chrissakes.
On the ohter hand, the R’s best chance in 2008 is an electorate that doesn’t remember shit, so maybe ole Fred is the perfect candidate after all.
BigMitch @ 12
Pretty sure R&M started in fall ‘65.
jayt @ 18
This is why they’re against stem cell research. They’d give *everyone* Alzheimer’s if they could.
BigMitch @ 7
BigMitch @ 12
I coulda sworn it was a Shakespearean line… 5-1 Bosox!!! 8-)
I’m not sure Fred is really into the campaign thing.
jayt @ 18
If all else fails, maybe Larry Craig can try that defense.
BigMitch @ 1
Ah. How you doin Mitch?
Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In was an American comedy television program which ran for 140 episodes from January 22, 1968 to May 14, 1973. Wiki
Elliott @ 22
If elected, he could quite possibly the only person who could make Dubya look industrious.
Fred is too lazy to remember or care, but he has strong opinions.
I’m doing so great, that I can hardly believe it. Thanks for asking ccmask.
Fred has that stall worthy look about him.
Eli @ 26
even his leukemia is indolent!
Eli @ 26
707!!!
If all else fails, maybe Larry Craig can try that defense.
“I’m not Gay – I merely forgot that fact for a moment?”
27! Hi Eli!
Jeeze, I still can’t believe this Fred Thompson for prez thing is for real.
(damn, screwed up the numbers…)
radiofreewill @ 27
That’s all a Republican really needs. The facts can be fixed to fit the opinions later.
Elliott @ 30
Not funny. But I laughed anyway.
Eli,
This stuff is really a hoot. These people have the gall to act dumb… when they know better. Or maybe they are dumb.
How did it come to this where we have such idiots who think they should be making such important decisions for the nation. Can you imagine one of these jerks like Huckabee or Freddie in the oval office?
These people have no shame. Can they be embarrassed? Apparently not.
LoudounLib @ 33
Hiya, LL!
It’s not like Fred’s making it easy.
Fred Thompson will not be the problem. It will be his First Lady.
lahoma
GordonM @ 19
BigMitch @ 35
you’re right, that was mean
Elliott @ 22
Freddy, Rudy, Romney :P Brownie, Condi, Cheney, Wolfie… what is this with the vowel-ended names???? Can’t the rethugs get some normal names?
BigMitch @ 25
My parents used to let us watch it. I was age 8 when it started. Pretty progressive of them, when I look back on it.
Elliott @ 22
That might have got Thompson the tevee job but he may have to work a little harder to be preznut2. And dissing the Terry Shiavo affair sure isn’t going to help him with the fundies. Ave Maria.
Oklahoma kiddo @ 38
Dang, Lahoma, ya nailed it…!!! ;-)
Reagan, at least, would lumber around and read teleprompters.
SanderO @ 36
Decidering ain’t got nothin’ to do with yer intelly-gents. It’s like sumthin’ yer born with. Or not.
CTuttle @ 44
What.. now we have something against trophy wives? ;-)
GordonM @ 46
That’s right. Just as long as he can set aside an hour or two each day to make decisions, he should be fine.
Blub @ 41
Dopey, Sleazy…..
George.
BigMitch @ 25
the only(ever)show i never(ever)missed
bring it back. re runs.encore.encore.
Lily Tomlin Goldie Hawne
up there with Monty Python
the best what more can i say?
LS @ 13
So true.
Rowan & Martin
velly intelesting
I have been out of the news loop for the last two days. I saw the pres’s speech, which was mui typico for that moron. I am curious about any blowback about the Move-on.com ad re: Betray-us.
I heard that Giuliani objected like the douchebag he is. I don’t recall if he called out Ann Coulter for any more of her embarrassments.
jayt @ 49
lol!
LoudounLib @ 42
That’s why it was shit-canned.
Thompson reminds me of my divorce attorney. He never showed up for the event. He forgot to go because he was playing pokemon with his son at Toys r Us. When I called him the next day, He said I have good news and bad news.
Watching the McLaughlin group this evening.. it’s just a free for all beating on the Dems.. Everyone is giving Bush a 9 or a 10 for the results this week.
cheney must be salivating at the prospect of yet another marionette to pull strings
on the other hand, knowing cheney I am instead of a marionette he would prefer a dummy to which he can slide his hand up said butt in order to do said bidding
Jonathan @ 52
set that vibe onto tha leeches
heh
Thompson-Cheney 2008: choose a boot in your face forever, with a smile.
Fred probably doesn’t remember much except his lines and the happy time with his trophy.
SanderO @ 36
well, for reality’s sake, abu gonzales didn’ forget anything, “I don’t remember” was the only thing he could answer that wouldn’t admit guilt and they would ahve a hard time proving perjury
ccmask @ 56
wow, what a crumb!
LS @ 13
Here’s a midrash (rabinnic homily) appropriate to that theme, and to the day, which is the anniversary of the earth’s creation:
When God went about to create the fish, the birds and the animals, he created them all at once. But when He came to creating mankind, he created only Adam and Eve? Why?
So nobody could say his ancestors were better or worse than another’s, and so that all mankind would know that they are family.
Blub @ 60
But it’s such a *folksy* boot!
Blub @ 47
No, not at all, I’d like one, but, I’m content with the cheerleader I acquired along the way…! Even though she’s long since lost her rah-rah physique…!!! ;-)
Eureka Springs @ 57
call it – Mclaughin
Goldy can do coulter etc.
Lily can do whatever she bloody weel likes.
i’ll shut up now.
Oklahoma kiddo @ 38
But we’ve never had a mermaid for a first lady before. Be a little progressive!
Eureka Springs @ 57
Are you serious?!
I only get that on Sundays, didn’t know it was shown earlier
5-1 Bosox – middle-a-the fifth
Elliott @ 63
No kidding.
Waaah! Waaaah! Nobody tole me there’s a new thread!!
jayt @ 70
…and Dice-K just struck out A-Rod…!!!
Goldy doing Coulter.
A little hard to picture, but I’d like to see it.
Doody Giuliani is running a “Hillary stabbed the troops in the back” ad.
Who would have known?
-GSD
BigMitch @ 64
I like the beatles version even better;
“I am he as you are he, as he is me and we are ALL together”
Elliott @ 69
Yes. It’s always on friday @ 8pm here.
Eli @ 65
Real men for fascism? Isn’t Freddy just the spittin’ image of Berzelius “Buzz” Windrip, the fascist American president in Sinclair Lewis’ increasingly prophetic, “It Can’t Happen Here”?
may @ 67
Please don’t. I saw Private Benjamin for the first time yesterday.
Loo Hoo. @ 68
The two of them look so sweet in that picture.
I mean Fred and his wife! What did you think I was referring to????
Blub @ 41
Well I am gonna be president cassie or president cassandra. Both vowels.
But we’ve never had a mermaid for a first lady before. Be a little progressive!
*cough*motorboat*cough*
BigMitch @ 53
The MoveOn business was on CNN and MSNBC tonight. Mostly people saying how disrespectful it was. Good time to donate to MoveOn…
SnarKassandra @ 72
Sorry Cassie. I thought you fell asleep!
Eureka Springs @ 77
But they really are giving the week to Bush? T
“Everyone is giving Bush a 9 or a 10 for the results this week.” -ES
BigMitch @ 53
On MSNBC daytime, they had on Jonathon Alter.
Anchor: “Should Hillary distance herself from moveon?”
Alter, looking disgusted: “Why should she?”
The bits I saw on CNN and MSNBC all said Guiliani made a good move, in that he comes out supporting the troops without actually having to, you know, support Bush, but it doesn’t go anywhere.
Actually, Alter went on to say: this is a good indication of how Rudy works – as in when he said the black kid who got shot by the cops was “hardly an alterboy”; he’s not someone with a Presidential temperment. And he brought up your point about Coulter.
Loo Hoo. @ 68
bbbbbwwwwwaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh
Oh loohoo–best ever!
I have not paid Fred Thompson much mind b4. I only recently saw him for the 1st time on teevee, and I must say I am absolutely mystified as to who — or WHAT — he appeals to.
Don’t mean to be too MoDo here, but jeez louise…….he’s UGLY, and his trophy wife dresses him funny.
Elliott @ 63
Hope the good news outweighed the bad, cc.
But really, who in all of America could forget the Terri Schaivo mess?
ccmask @ 84
BigMitch was too busy posting to go down to tell everybody *g*
Loo Hoo at 83
Disrespectful.
I’m in my hotel several blocks from the WH.
I’m hoping the folks who join to march tomorrow are real disrespectful.
ccmask @ 79
The last shot of Clementine in that video atop the post is likely Jeri Thompson’s sexface.
Loo Hoo. @ 89
yeah anyway. Hope the good news wasn’t that he wouldn’t charge you for his services.
Loo Hoo. @ 89
Actually, no. I got $120.00 a month child support for not showing up.
Elliott @ 69
PBS shows like McLaughlin group don’t really have a set time or day. Having lived all over the country I’ve had it come on anywhere from 8PM Friday through 6PM Sunday
jayt @ 80
I bet she twirls her hair…..
TeddySanFran @ 94
Gah.
Loo Hoo. @ 83
Ed Schultz, the liberal radio host, joined Move-on.org just because of the crap they were taking over this ad. And then he said, it is not enough to join; must send a check. Today he said, not enough to send a check, must give them some free publicity. And he did.
Jonathan @ 92
WTG Jonathan. Wish I was there. Got camera?
Elliott @ 95
Good News = You’re divorced.
Bad News = You’re paying the alimony instead of receiving child support.
ccmask @ 96
Even my ex-dad pays more than that and he left 10 yrs ago.
Got camera.
Got game face.
Jonathan @ 92
which hotel are you at?
GordonM @ 86
That must have been on KO. I have that on tivo, but right now there is something on ESPN that I must watch. In the way, one must watch a train wreck as it happens, if you know what I mean. Can’t stand to watch, can’t make myself look away.
BigMitch @ 100
The Goopers are p*ss’d cuz the Betray-us meme is a good one and is getting into the consciousness and there’s nothing they can do about it. The more than whine about Betray-us, the more it becomse the only thing folks remember about him.
Jumping back a few threads, it looks the Dems are going to focus their efforts on the Webb amendment, to force troops to have adequate time off between rotations and thus a de facto pull down. This is good strategy as Jane noted.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09…..ng.html?hp
oddmommy @ 105
what are the vibes in Washington, DC tonight as you gather for the march.
oddmommy @ 88
She dresses herself kinda funny too. I wonder why she married him?
dakine01 @ 107
yep!
dakine01 @ 102
The lawyer ate in my restaurant for free and did all my legal work. I was fighting city hall at the time for a billboard which they claimed wasn’t grandfathered in. When he said he had bad news, my honest to god first thought was that he had become a vegetarian and I’d have to start paying him cash. The good news was I was now a divorced woman and the bad news was that he had been trading cards and got carried away and forgot to go for the 1:00 hearing.
SanderO @ 36
That’s why I was really nonplussed when Chris Dodd was on Countdown this week — I turned to the fiance and asked, “Can you imagine having such an intelligent preznit?”
Our PrezCandi team’s average IQ is higher than the GOP field’s collective IQ — I am sure of it.
CRS (can’t remember sh>T) is a terrible disease, affecting most republicans. Of course, many of us have this problem, but in my case, it’s usually keys. For example, I’m sure I would remember why I fired a bunch of US Attorneys.
masaccio @ 114
Because they lost your keys?
Adam, the incredible African Grey parrot has died.
RIP.
Reminds me of Planet of the Apes,
This beautiful being proved that we, (awareness) is everywhere.
Jonathan @ 92
That’s right, you are there, Jonathan! Please be sure to report back tomorrow night if you can. When do you think you’ll get to the tubes? Will you post pictures?
You go!
oddmommy @ 105
Lombardy
21st and I
BigMitch @ 106
No, it wasn’t KO. It was around noon EDT – the blonde anchor(ette). And the bit of Tweety’s early show was also being pretty harsh. And judging by the Michael Ware clips, CNN has pretty much moved on, too.
Big Mitch, Here’s Ted Stevens latest remarks…
“I know Alaskans are interested in my views on the investigation. While I understand this interest and would like to discuss these issues in great detail, the interests of justice and our state are best served if I make my comments after federal officials complete their work.”
http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/004191.php
ccmask @ 112
that first thought cracked me up but man, cc.
I hoped you clocked him.
CTuttle @ 120
“I am not a crook” would’ve sounded so much more impressive….
Robert Fisk is on free speech radio news right now (18:45 pst) eviscerating the current US lies on Iraq.
Elliott @ 121
Yeah, I held back a side of fries.
ccmask @ 124
lol
Loo Hoo at 117
Won’t be able to post pictures.
All I have is a disposable camera.
Not at all technically proficient.
And FWIW, I hate cell phones (and email).
Is anyone else having difficulty reaching MoveOn besides me. I responded to their request for the new Bush ad and it declined all my information. Everything was classed as “invalid”. I tried going directly through their home page rather than their e-mail and the same thing happened. I sent a message describing the problem – no response. Hummmm!?!
Good on ‘ya, Jonathan – look forward to seeing the pikkies.
RE: Rethuglican CRS (I’ve posted this before; it’s from my blog)
One of the most steadfast members of the Republican legal team is the little known Ike Ferguson. Today, Tony Snowjob revealed that he has lent his considerable talents to the White House.
First some background: Back in the relatively innocent days of Watergate, tape recordings in the Oval Office revealed Nixon channeling Ike Ferguson’s advice to his co-conspirators when he told them how to tailor grand jury testimony. “You say, ‘I don’t remember.’ You can say, ‘I can’t recall. I can’t give an answer to that, that I can recall,’” said Nixon.
Ike Ferguson’s clever hand was guiding the defense of notorious Republican supporter Ken Lay. Kenny-boy, as he was called by his buddy, Dumb Dubya, testified in his own trial, and said he didn’t remember being told about any rules governing the use of loan money by banks to buy stock.
I don’t recall them ever coming to my attention we were not in compliance with any of those loan agreements. I can’t categorically say somebody didn’t, but I sure can’t recall.
Of course, it was not the first time that a corporate criminal took his cues from the indomitable Ike Ferguson.
Dumb Dubya himself was in a tight spot when he dumped a bunch of Harken stock just before it announced an unexpected loss. This could have been a problem because Dumb Dubya was a director and member of the firm’s audit committee. Sounds like insider trading, doesn’t it?
Well, as it happens there are laws about that, and one requires that an insider’s sales of stock has to be reported to the Securities and Exchange Commission. Bush didn’t do this until eight months after the required deadline, but as he explained, he didn’t know about Harken’s impending financial disaster, and he “simply forgot” to file the SEC reports.
Ike Ferguson was an important architect of the Scooter Libby defense team. Back on May 27th, 2006, I reported “Scooter Libby claimed that his misstatements regarding conversations he had with Judy Miller, Joe Cooper and Tim Russert are the products of a faulty memory.” Actually, Scooter didn’t claim this in his trial, since committing perjury at your trial for perjury is just a bad idea. But his lawyers were clearly following Ike Ferguson’s playbook.
Lo, these many years later, King George the Incompetent is still employing the services of Ike Ferguson. Today, March 21st, White House Press Secretary Tony Snow responded to questions about the politically motivated firing of U.S. Attorneys. Here’s what he had to say:
The president has no recollection of this ever being raised with him.
Maybe it’s time to reveal where this legal genius, Ike Ferguson came from.
Many years ago, a young German Jew immigrated to this country. His family sent him off with very little material goods but with plenty of advice. When he came to Ellis Island, he became thoroughly baffled and confused by the noise and cacaphony of the main processing building. When at last he stood before the immigration officer’s desk, hat in hand, the immigration officer barked at him: “Name?”
The young man’s disorientation was so great that he could not recall even his own name. And so he replied, “Ich vergesse!” [fn. 1]
The overworked immigration officer, unperturbed, says, “Right! Ike Ferguson! Next!” and waved the young man on…
“… and tell ’em Big Mitch sent ya!”
[fn. 1] For the Yiddishly challenged, “Ich vergesse!” means, “I forget!”
Jonathan @ 126
When you get the film developed, ask for a CD of the pictures. Then you can ask for help getting them uploaded.
(And good for you, Jonathan!)
LS @ 116
Alex
It’s an acronym for Avian Learning EXperiment
Jonathan @ 118
hmm. Dunno that one. Pretty nice area, though.
If you are a sushi lover you might want to check out Kaz, on I somewhere between 19th and 21st. There’s also Kinkaid’s on Penn if you like your seafood cooked.
Heck, gotta be fortified if yer gonna do all that marching.
GordonM @ 130
Thanks!
LOS ANGELES – Hillary Rodham Clinton pursued votes Friday in the city’s historical black heartland with basketball legend Earvin “Magic” Johnson at her side. Less than a week ago, her rival Barack Obama banked $3 million at a fundraiser at Oprah Winfrey’s seaside estate.
CTuttle @ 120
As you may know, there is a corruption trial going on in Anchorage. A former member of the State House, may be going to the Big House. Today, according to the radio which has a reporter in the courtroom, the testimony showed that Ted Stevens took a bribe. Specifically, the house remodel was in return for support that was being sought by VECO, the oil field service company. I may have the details wrong, but the take-away message is that Ted Stevens is or should be afraid that he may be going to jail.
George W. Bush and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad are quite similar.
Mahmoud:
Following his first visit on September 2005, he told one of Iranian clerics that during his speech at the UN someone had told him that he was “surrounded by a divine halo” and that the attention of all the world’s leaders was focused on him.
George:
“I fully understand that the enemy watches me, the Iraqis are watching me, the troops watch me, and the people watch me,” he said.
Pea meet pod, err, pud.
-GSD
Hey, Jonathan, have a wonderful march.
So many great DeeCee march memories, back to the Mobe daze.
Hope things go well for you — stay safe!!
BigMitch @ 129
Good story, but “ich vergesse” is deutche.
BigMitch @ 129
Dang. Bring it on Big Mitch!!!
Eli @ 115
Anybody that would steal my keys deserves to be fired.
OT.. some of the Jena 6 convictions tossed.. finally
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/09/…..index.html
I cannot believe that these kids have been rotting in jail since December…. for the unbailable offense of fighting against racism in the deep south.
BigMitch @ 135
I agree, but, ya know the DoJ will slow walk this like the Doolittle investigation…!!!
TeddySanFran @ 131
Alex was who he was, no matter how he was labeled.
Teddy and Kirk,
Thanks.
Isn’t Freddie just tryin’ to channel Ronnie?
peanutbutter @ 145
Aren’t they all?
TeddySanFran @ 131
Or from someone a bit closer to Alex.
GordonM @ 130
I use my digital to take pictures of pictures and they come great. Whenever someone shows me pictures and I like one,I take a picture of it with my digital.
Eli @ 146
But why?
ccmask @ 134
Jeebus *unprintable* *redacted* fuckity fuck — we have GOT to have public campaign financing. This is just *redacted* unbelievable, no wonder we have an *unprintable* system of government…
Elliott @ 149
I wish I knew…
Elliott @ 149
Because Reagan was The Greatest Republican Preznit Ever?
peanutbutter @ 150
tell us how you really feel!
GordonM @ 138
Funny you should say that. Yiddish is the language spoken by Jews living in ghettos in Eastern Europe. 60% of it is German. 20% Hebrew, and the rest, Polish, Russian, etc.
When I first heard the joke, it was Sean Ferguson. Someone wrote a note to me to correct my blog, and say that the correct idiom is, indeed, Sean Fergeson. Shayne Fergussen would mean, literally, “already forgotten,” or more figuratively, “I’ve already forgotten.”
If you google the words “Fred Thompson president” under google images, Ronnie’s portrait comes up, first pic on the second row
The Ike story is amazing.
Again people of no moral compass or ethics. How can they feel human?
Elliott @ 153
These people should be pounding the pavement telling US what THEY will do for US when they are elected.
Not out raising money.
SanderO @ 156
I think they’re more concerned with feeling… not in jail.
Eli @ 152
Maybe in another dimension and timeline…
dakine01 @ 159
Which is where all the repug branes are. Which is why it all looks so strange to us over here in reality land…
dakine01 @ 159
a warped one
Bases loaded, 2 outs, tying run on first derick jeter at the bat, full count.
dakine01 @ 159
shrub would’ve been a better president, too, if only he had been senile.
dakine01 @ 159
Hey, I’m not saying *I* believe it, but the Republicans sure as hell do. I’d say no exceptions, but I suspect there are a lot of closet Nixon fans in the GOP.
Beach Impeach tomorrow at Crissy Field in San Francisco
I was no admirer of Ronnie but I gotta say that even against that standard, Fred is like, way down in the ditch. At least Reagan LOOKED the part. Fred, imnsho, looks like the frikkin picture of Dorian Gray…..the one in the attic.
KBigMitch @ 162
K
BigMitch @ 162
…and he struck out…!!!
LS, sorry about Adam. How old was he? Don’t gray parrots have quite a life span?
Jonathan at 126, that’s okay about no pics, just let us know what’s gone down. (Sounded kinda Buffalo Springfieldy, huh!)
Eli @ 164
When is the campaign press gonna ask Freddie about his role as mole for the Nixon White House on the Watergate Committee, and whether that was legal?
CTuttle @ 168
I know that there are a lot of football fans here, but their sport doesn’t have moments like that.
Blub @ 163
Shrub would have been a better preznit if … *brane works furiously*
Shrub would have been a better preznit if .. *bzzzt! pop!! crackles*
Shrub would have been a better preznit if ##000DOES NOT COMPUTE BRANE SHUT DOWN TO AVOID OVERLOAD##000PRESS BIG RED BUTTON TO RESET BRANE###
Slappy Jeter?
Oh wait, that was A-Rod.
-GSD
oddmommy @ 166
Yeah, that’s what I said a few floors down. He don’t have the manly man chin that Ronnie did. It’s not gonna fly. I predict he folds by about Christmas.
Loo Hoo. @ 169
Adam was 31.
QuakerGirl @ 127
Did you go here?
CTuttle @ 168
ok….if yer gonna make me read this stuff, at least EXPLAIN it.
the yankees are playing the red sox? So does that mean one of ‘em’s gonna be in the World Series? Aren’t the red sox cursed or something? What happened to the Mets?
peanutbutter @ 172
If he had Algore’s hand up his ass instead of Cheney’s?
My father’s dad was named Tony. He used to tell us that when he came into Ellis Island from Italy, he had a “To NY” sticker on his bag and they named him Tony. He said that’swhy there are so many Tony’s in Brooklyn.
BigMitch @ 154
Many years ago I worked in a bank in a neighbourhood with a substantial Jewish population. I was conspicuously not-Jewish and the the old ladies would talk Yiddish with each other in front of me. And I understood enough German and Plattdeutsch (the low german was especially helpful) to figure out a fair bit of what they were saying. I got a few good laughs out of it.
Eli @ 178
Okay. Now you have to dump a load of brain bleach on this poor struggling brane. Have some mercy!
BigMitch @ 171
I don’t know I seem to recall Elway’s ‘The Drive’ against the Cleveland Browns…!!! 8-)
The parrot’s name was Alex.
No time to quote.
GSD – you cracked me up. Then I went looking for the pic of Cheney watching the Bush presser from behind a tree, but didn’t find it (was going to say, he forgot Cheney).
Eli – One of McCain’s lines is about returning to the party of Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt and Reagan. Which cracks me up, as I think of what Abe and Teddy would say to Ronnie.
oddmommy @ 177
Ma’am, the Coise has been lifted since ‘04 when the Cardiac Sox came back from a 3-0 game deficit to win the ALCS!!! 8-)
Anybody know what Fred’s net worth/personal wealth is? Can’t seem to find anything on his finances.. either personal or campaign.
TeddySanFran @ 183
Reportedly, the parrot said something like “I’ll see you tomorrow, you’re good, I love you,” the night before he died.
Animal behaviorists deny he could have……well, you know.
My “Lilly White” is 24 years old. Umbrella coccatoo. I’ve had her since she was 3 months old.
Blub @ 186
Surely it’s significant
According to the article, the parrots often live 50-60 years and Alex was middle aged.
Eli @ 164
Oh believe me, I know it was snark. And we’re still dealing with the residue of the Nixon years. Even after his resignation, Nixon still had approval ratings of 24%. Since many of the goopers elected to office since Nixon are the true believers (after the purging of the true Republican moderates), I’ve always felt that the Clinton Impeachment was meant as a payback to the Dems for Nixon.
And I’ve never been a believer in the St ronnie Ray-guns myth and have always liked the old bumpersticker from the 70s/80s: Jane Wyman was right
Hah!!! They’re walking Big Papi…….!!!
Blub @ 186
Is he holding Halliburton?
The Yankees and the Red Sox are described as the greatest rivalry in sports. They are playing each other on TV. If the season were to end today, both would go to the play-offs, but the Red Sox have a better record, and therefore, some home-field advantage. The Yankees need to win today to over-come that, and it is looking grim to Yankee fans.
The Yankees and the Red Sox are in the American league. There are two series, to determine the championship of each league, and the team that emerges, “wins the pennant,” and plays in the World Series, a best of 7 affair. The Mets are in the National League, and they are in 1st place.
A particularly nice story about the Mets is that they have brought back an old pitcher, Pedro Mariniez, and he is doing great. It might be a lot of fun to watch him in the World Series.
The Red Sox have won a world championship in each of the last two centuries. The Yankees have won more championships than any team in any sport. This is why they are regarded as the “evil Empire” Shorter version: Jealousy.
Fern @ 180
My ex-in-laws (of whom I was very fond) would lapse into Yiddish. It didn’t take me more than an hour to realize that when Yiddish is spoken, someone is being insulted (very scatalogically and creatively).
ccmask, We may have a new scandal for your list.
Elliott @ 189
could be, but I read somewhere that his L&O residuals don’t amount to much.. barely a schoolteacher’s salary by one report… ‘course he probably gets massively more from public engagement fees. But I’ve actually be surprised by the disclosures so far.. that McCain is a lot wealthier than Hill Bill, that somehow and for absolutely not reason whatsoever Rudy is filthy rich, and that Joe Biden actually has a negative net worth.
LS @ 188
Did you have Adam since he was a chick? 31 years, LS?
GordonM @ 195
Except that Yiddish, like Low German – at least as spoken by rural Manitoba Mennonites, is one of those languages that sound like you are swearing even when you are not
ccmask @ 179
That’s a great story, but wasn’t his name Antonio?
Blub @ 197
he surely scored big as a lobbyist!
BigMitch @ 194
Heh, in the history of this ancient Rivalry it shall be the Century of the Bosox, the last Yank WS title was 2000!!! ;-)
Eureka Springs @ 196
Thanks Eureka :))
Elliott @ 201
heh. I’m sure.
Who would’ve guessed about Joe Biden though? Biden.. the last honest politician on the Hill ? :P now THAT is funny
Loo Hoo. @ 200
His name was Anthony and like I said, it was just a family story. I don’t even know if it was true.
Eureka Springs @ 196
And did you catch the Think Progress article tonight about the Justice Department spending $7 million on entertainment over the last few years? You blog, girlie!
BigMitch @ 194
If you elide the editorial asides, this is accurate, even if he doesn’t include that Pedro Martinez is (and Johnny Damon and… and Babe Ruth, whose trade created “the curse” are/were) ex-Red Sox. What he really omits is that only non-native NYers are Yankees fans. Real NY-ers are Mets fans.
CTuttle @ 202
Even with my head in the oven I heard that, Charles.
ccmask @ 203
He was 2nd fiddle to Asa Hutchinson at Homeland Security. They are old pals.
perris @ 76
Freddy Boy Beatles = Rocky Racoon
Blub @ 204
well there was that plagiarism thing.
…perfect for the man who wants to replace the President who, 8 years ago, couldn’t name the heads of the 2nd and 7th largest countries. Was Bush able to learn who Musharraf and Vajpayee were when the two threatened to go nuclear on his watch?
BigMitch @ 194
thank you.
So are you a Yankees or a Mets fan?
My good father, rest his soul, hated the Yankees because he was a Brooklyn Dodgers fan.
It’s all, um, baseball to me.
Fern @ 199
In any other language, it would be called swearing. In Yiddish it’s not.
james @ 208
lmao!
Judge Moonbox @ 211
Well, for the presidency, it’s clearly no longer a hindrance. But for AG, it’s a positive *asset*.
GordonM @ 195
My name in Yiddish is Menachem Mendel. My father always said, Menachem Mendel, cock-in-pfendel. One day, in Synagogue, the rabbi wanted me to perform some minor ritual — it is an honor to be called out in this way. So he asked me my Hebrew name. I responded: Menachem Mendel, Cock-in-pfendel.
Later, I learned what it means: “Big Mitch: go shit in a pan.”
Woops.
Loo Hoo. @ 198
Alex was a scientific “project” to see if “other” beings than humans had intelligence could think. Clearly, “Alex” could think.
Ron Fields, accused rapist and accused drug dealer.
Asa Hutchinson’s pal seems a nice fit for DHS.
-GSD
Elliott @ 211
hehe. Good point, although if I was so broke that Dennis Kucinich could buy me out several times over, I’d be tempted to plagiarize too :P
GSD @ 218
How clean is Asa?
he surely scored big as a lobbyist!
If only he remembered where he put the money!!
This is the darling of the Right?
http://www.fred08.com/
I think he’s more interested in by breast or my barbecued ribs.
GordonM @ 207
Go, Mets… The Rocket and Capt. Caveman’s defections still sticks in my craw…!!! ;-)
Big Mitch: I have an original 1955 Brooklyn Dodgers banner.
Jonathan, you are most welcome. I wish I could be there with you.
Lots of folks will watch your back.
The people in the fluorescent chartreuse vests and caps are (if clothed) from the National Lawyers Guild – they are attorneys and legal observers there to protect your rights and document any problems.
Medics will be there for health needs.
Food Not Bombs will have vegan goodies for marchers.
They’ve got your back – and you deserve it.
HAZmaq @ 223
He looks like a creepy Svengali from a 1950’s B movie.
-GSD
Now that is truly, superbly snarky in a very eloquent sort of way- better watch is or TRex will be jealous….
GSD @ 218
Accused of raping a mentally challenged woman.
CTuttle @ 223
You notice that since Torre made Damon shave off his locks, he’s lost all his strenght?
Hmmm… Bases juiced, two out, 7-2, What say you, Big Mitch?!!! ;-)
Who is Lily White? When we were kids, my mom used to always say at bedtime “It’s time for Lilly White’s pajama party”. Never knew what it meant.
HAZmaq @ 223
Hmm. It is an interesting gesture in that picture.
Fred Thompson’s greatest role.
-GSD
ccmask @ 231
never heard that one
postmodernista @ 227
Thanks! That’s the general idea. I probably won’t make a habit of it, though…
GordonM @ 229
Naw, I wouldn’t say that, but, it was poetic justice with the mandatory shorn locks…!!! 8-)
fred08.com..
OMG.. his slogan is really SECURITY! UNITY! PROSPERITY!??????
This is like a scene out of the eighties TV fiasco “V”.. with the rethugs being the fascist lizard-aliens.
Thompson-Cheney, with Thompson as sock puppet, indeed…
One nasty character. He was involved with Iran Contra / Mena airport and ran for Gov. here last year since Rev Gov Huckabee had to step down due to term limits. Bush raised a lot of money for Asa and a week or so back Asa showed up on potential candidate lists for AG.
Blub @ 237
Or V For Vendetta, for that matter.
Eli @ 236
But please please please do- there can never be too much quality snark in the world!
Joe Klein gives a brief interview.
-GSD
postmodernista @ 240
It’s more a matter of aptitude than choice…
Eli @ 240
What precisely does “Security! Unity! Prosperity!” mean? A chicken in every pot, a camera on every corner and a boot in every face? Ugh.. these people are scary. Really. Really. Scary.
ccmask @ 231
Making sure you’re clean and that your teeth are brushed properly???
Is that the clip from his appearance as a dancing California raisin?
Eli @ 243
If you’ve got it, you’ve got it, and it would be a sin not to use it for the betterment of all.
Moyers is doing some heavy lifting tonight. (9-11)
HAZmaq @ 222
Freddie (his real name) sez: “We are steeped in the tradition of honor and sacrifice for the greater good.“
Too bad your “greater good” is completely opposite to the “common good”. He’d start with your breasts, then your ribs, then your heart…
GSD @ 233
Quick! Get that over to MoveOn!
Eureka Springs @ 238
well considering the current State of affairs AR’s got going, perhaps Asa will soon be cc-listed, too.
Loo Hoo. @ 245
I have no idea. The name was mentioned above and I remembered that. Lily white sheets?
Eureka Springs @ 247
Cool, I’m anxiously awaiting the PBS Friday Nite Line-up!!! TGIF!!!
postmodernista @ 246
Most of the time… I don’t got it. Not a full post’s worth, anyway.
Yippee.
I was just watching “Steal this Movie”.
ccmask @ 232
My “Lilly White” is named after the Cat Stevens song, “The Lilly White”.
ccmask @ 254
I take it you give it five stars?
CTuttle @ 253
Oh, it’s on now.
kirk murphy @ 246
***LOL***
oddmommy @ 212
I love both the Yankees and Mets. Elliott @ 234
I’m guessing she was referring to the color of the sheets.
Elliott @ 257
It was good. I’m now watching the PBS 911 so I’ll be throwing things at the teevee in a little while.
ccmask @ 257
we’ve got endless fundraising on all the available PBS channels here. I’ll have to watch online
ccmask @ 257
*sigh* …not in my time zone…! But, no conflict with the Bosox game…!!!
BigMitch @ 259
Dude, Pach is going to be so on your case.
Dusty Springfield!!
Every time I watch stuff like this I start losing it wondering why no fighter jets were sent during those 45 minutes.
Eli @ 254
Damn! Work on that, willya?
LS @ 264
Son of a Preacher Man
Are you people watching Brooks on PBS right now?
kirk murphy @ 245
The Mary Tyler Moore Show’s only funny skit was the Ed Asner dancers (fancy choreography featuring middle aged, balding overweight men).
Freddie will promise an illegal immigrant in every pot.
-GSD
Blub @ 186
His post-Labor Day campaign launch means we won’t see any FEC campaign finance reports until after the first of the year… by which time it may be over.
ccmask @ 266
I’m there too.
GSD @ 270
Dayam, still no spew alert…!!! ;-)
Loo Hoo. @ 269
No, 911 Comission Report. I just heard condi say, Who would have thought….
Elliott @ 268
Hmmm. I prefer this version of SoaPM. Though I don’t know BSL it’s a treat to watch.
GSD @ 270
Well those damn dimmicrats would promise the opposite!
TeddySanFran @ 272
Hehe.. so what? he’s just intended as a a massive media distraction?
with his Cuban emigres as suitcase bombers and Schaivo gaffes, one has to wonder.
ccmask @ 274
Aug 26, ‘01, “Bin Ladin determined to strike…!!!”
Nice catch, Captain.
CTuttle @ 278
Effing commie labor-unionist!
Never saw much of “V”, but…
The Rethug tools (Snow et al; the Congressional Rethug leaders; the smarmy hate preachers…)
when I hear them, I feel the same way I felt inside hearing Mr. Morden.
Cold…like touching a dead thing.
It was the year of fire,
the year of destruction
the year we took back what was ours.
It was the year of rebirth
the year of great sadness
the year of pain
and a year of joy……
It was the year everything changed.
Fred Thompson on Larry Craig, “I don’t remember.”
peanutbutter @ 276
wow, that’s really a great version, amazing! Thanks!
CTuttle @ 279
8/6/01 PBD….?
Obama has Oprah, Clinton has Magic Johnson. Interesting dynamics.
Blub @ 278
I think so. Gotta wonder what Newt’s up to. And Jeb! And Cheney. If there’s a terror attack within our country’s borders, it might just be Dick they go for.
GordonM @ 277
Dhimmicrats. Get the spelling right or you’ll get banned from Atlas Shruggs.
-GSD
GordonM @ 280
Hey, I only borrowed ‘Das Kapital’ from my local library…!!! (oh, wait, the Gmen already know!)
LS @ 17
Amen.
Loo Hoo. @ 285
Nancy Reagan had Mr. T.
LS @ 273
The Russians must have been pissed off to find out it would have been such a cakewalk to hit the Pentagon.
-GSD
GSD @ 288
what? Pammy thinks that the “Dh” dipthong combo makes it look more Islamic?
Aarrgh, back-to-back jacks!!!
Blub @ 293
dhimmi
Speaking about Pammy, anybody know how her husband’s indictment is going? ;-P
TeddySanFran @ 295
Ah.. thanks. Wow. Pammy’s literate.
OT
Fake interviews
CTuttle @ 294
The Evil Empire is surging…
Blub @ 293
A dipthong is two vowels. Dayim!
GordonM @ 277
Pot for every illegal immigrant?
LS @ 285
remember? John O’Neill the man who knew?
GSD @ 291
Not to mention one of our Canadian friends: “After 9/11 I used to tell my American friends that we Canadians, having realized that we could probably destroy the entire US airforce on the ground in a surprise attack and therefore have days of air supremacy before US foreign based air assets could get back to the US, were thinking of invading the US.“
Forgot all about Mr. T., Gordon…
BigMitch @ 300
Thanks. Got a B- in that class…
Blast from the past:
Bradford Lee Gilbert was an architect who practiced in New York City. He designed the first steel-framed curtain wall building, named “The Tower Building”, an eleven story structure which opened in 1889, which is considered the city’s first skyscraper. It had to have the steel-frame construction because on the narrow lot allowed for it, masonry supporting walls would have allowed almost no free space on the first floor.
Within a few months of the grand opening, William Norcross, mad as a hatter and bearing a dynamite bomb, entered the nearby offices of railroad and real-estate baron Russell Sage. He demanded $1.2M. Rebuffed by Sage’s secretary, he hurled the explosive killing the secretary. injured 8 other employees, but Russell was unharmed. Within a year, the office block was demolished by its owners and in 1893, the Empire Building rose on the site of the Sage office bombing.
The new tower would serve for many years as headquarters for JP Morgan’s USSteel Corp.
This Sox-Yankees game is just unreal. Not even any outs yet.
found this site by accident… some of them are kinda funny
http://www.bloggerheads.com/ph…..w_bush.htm
Eli: I really love the “not saying he could forget rings around Alberto” bit. Bravo!
ccmask @ 306
My paternal grandfather was a concrete engineer, and one of his buildings was the first (steel and concrete) “skyscraper” in NY – I think it was 28 stories and demolished in the 50s. Also in his credits – working on the Grand Coolie Dam, and the concrete boats that FDR commissioned.
Thanks, Lynn! I try.
Surely EPUd
But DAY-am, Eli, you’se FUNNY! And the Sesame Street clip is priceless.
Snark AND comedy in the same post. May, you’se HOT!
FunnyDiva
Thanks, FunnyDiva! I only wish I could pull this off more often.
GordonM @ 310
How neat is that? I love the history of buildings in NY. Exciting times they were. Do you have any of his drawings? Be nice framed….My son is a draftsman and printed his first full sized set of plans today. I’m going to frame it for his room. It’s an electrical drawing for a triple gate system for a gated community. He does really well and he’s also going to college and I’m trying to get him to go for architecture but he’s not sure.
Eureka Springs @ 248
He really rips up the Bush admin. I wonder how many people are learning all about it for the first time by watching his show?
GSD @ 292
Puhlease…don’t believe the story in it’s entirety. They say the best lies involve some truth, so you will tend to believe it all.
Wouldn’t you vote for either of these two Sesame Street characters ahead of anyone of the Republican presidential contenders?
Or for AG?
I sure would.
That level of forgetfullness bumps Fred Thompson right up into REAGAN COUNTRY! My god it’ll be…Uh…Morning…In…Uh…Anyway…uh…Reagan!