(Above: One of the many, many Important Things that Michelle Malkin has been doing and that are obviously so much more pressing than debating health care with Ezra Klein.)
Like an eleven year old pitching a tantrum and declaring her side of the room Totally Off Limits to Bratty Little Sisters, Stalkin’ Malkin has called her latest post about the Frost family a “Question for Grownups: Who Deserves Government-Subsidized Health Insurance?”. So nyah, nyah, nyah, you Big Whiny Baby Liberals. Michelle is trying to have A Mature Discussion Here. For Grown-Ups! See the sign she made with construction paper, pink glitter, and Elmer’s Glue and hung on the door?
Which is why she’s undoubtedly about to crank out another shiteous, low-budget video of herself in another cheap-ass costume leaping around in the back yard squawking about “Libtards” and who’s a “meanie” and who isn’t. And then she’s going to go up to her room and slam the door and not even come down for Pepsi and S’mores.
I guess that’ll show us.
As for her ongoing jihad against the Frost family, she has now posted photos of their family vehicles, ostensibly to shame them into selling them for health insurance money or whatever. Really it’s so her readers in the area will know which cars on the Frost’s street to aim their beer bottles, eggs, and paint-bombs at. I’m surprised she didn’t put up their license plate numbers and a list of the grocery stores and other public locations where the Frost family can be cornered and harassed with the greatest ease.
Oh, and about that bet from last night’s post:
Some jerkwad hung a noose on a black professor’s door at Columbia Journalism School. I’ll bet you ten bucks that jerkwad reads Michelle Malkin every single day. I’ll bet you twenty that Stalkin’ Malkin drives up to New York examine the office door and to accuse the professor of hanging the noose there herself.
Apparently la MalKKKin has been too busy watching what cars are coming and going from the Frosts’ driveway to make the trip to Columbia, so she settled for a drive-by post accusing Columbia of obstruction of the investigation and the professor of making it all up.
Will we see a similar outcome as the GWU fake hate crime?
Why else would Columbia refuse to cooperate with law enforcement officers trying to get to the bottom of the case?
Help me out here. Maybe I’m missing something.
A conscience? A brain? A goddamn reason to live?
Stay tuned.
Count on it, sister. I haven’t enjoyed any public flameout this much since Mariah Carey’s spectacular post-”Glitter” collapse.
You guys owe me twenty bucks.
Well, since she hasn’t actually driven up there (yet), we’ll make it fifteen.
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zed.
Two?
Way to go, Ron
TRexitude!
Thank you! I told ‘em downstairs.
Malkin is evil.
Next?
TexBetsy @ 6
Yes and…???
ocho?
I just came back from the new Time.com article about the swiftboating of Graeme Frost, then clicked through to the jerk’s website at FreeRepublic, icwhatudo, who started all this (or was it McConnell’s office?).
Yes, once more into the breech, indeed!
There were no corrections or apologies, of course.
MM: Help me out here. Maybe I’m missing something.
She is beyond help. And she is missing something. It would be hard to compile a short list as to what she is missing.
Tech crew is working on the problems folks. Lots of swearing and the sound of duct tape being pulled off the roll coming outta the tech room and I’m not opening the door.
Can anybody tell me anything about Malkin’s TV show she was going to have with Kirsten Powers, “It’s Out There”? Did it air? How many episodes? Did anyone see it?
Hilarious vid up top.
I am sorely confused. Was that MM on the vid or someone making fun of her?
Suzanne @ 11
Is this a brower issue? I’m on FF and was unaware of a problem.
marymccurnin @ 14
That’s her.
Scary, isn’t it?
that was weird.
You know, my husband runs his own business too. We have insurance. I can tell you it’s damn expensive.
So do I resent the Frosts? No. I can understand how a family who earns less than we do positively cannot afford health insurance, much less the whopping misfortune that landed on them.
Do I blame the Frosts? No!
I blame insurance companies who don’t want to cough it up after they’ve taken it from us!
been some hiccups, vg
You know, in the post-apocalyptic world that these neenerCons hope for us all to inhabit so they can feel good about their squalid, puny souls and the selfish, unenlightened choices that they make with them…At the end of my day’s stalking I’ll be able to set back beside a cozy fire, pick my teeth, and have a reasoned debate (perhaps only with myself, but still…) over whether Republicans ever had good taste.
;>)
Suzanne @ 11
Dammit Jim, I’m a doctor, not a miracle worker!
TRex @ 16
Ok, I take back my #13 as I thought it was a parody of MM. Definitely scary.
TRex @ 16
I can’t look. Did she cast an evil spell on the backstage FDL crew?
TRex. Why do you continue to discuss this woman? She is not worthy of your energy. Why do you continue to play her game and give her further “relevance”? Give it up TRex. She is nothing. She deserves nobody’s attention.
Suzanne @ 11
Wuss…!!!
Loo Hoo. @ 24
When a dog farts, do you listen? Of course not!
do-si-do @ 18
I just have two words to say. Oversight.
Suzanne @ 19
k, thanks. Just went back and read the comments at the end of the previous thread and got clued in. sorry for not keeping up to date. ;)
Loo Hoo. @ 24
TRex teh vampire slayer is trying to drive the final stake through her heart. hard to find the dang thing though. all darkest before the dawn, loohoo
OT…if you ever want to see a comic nightmare about the future, check out Mike Judge’s Idiocracy. Brutally funny, and slightly scary.
I think maybe Malkkkin or one of her ilk is pulling a flying monkey attack here tonight…
test
LoudounLib @ 31
“I’m melting. I’m melting. What a world. What a world.” Attributed to Michelle Malkin
RonD @ 30
Only because it’s true
;>)
Valley Girl @ 32
I copy.
LoudounLib @ 31
maybe the servers are hungry – folks can feed the servers via the donate buttons at the upper right hand side of every page
LoudounLib @ 31
That, on top of the liquid shorting out the circuits of the toobz from melting, melting, melting!
marymccurnin @ 33
707!
LoudounLib @ 35
Just trying to find out what was up. Things seem to be okay on the current thread.
About that time for me as well…big show tomorrow. Sleep well everyone, and the best of all possible tomorrows to you all.
(exit screen left)
Valley Girl @ 32
Test?
Gosh you guys are quick. I’m always at least six comments behind. dang.
do-si-do @ 29
I guess I’m just frustrated because it’s been so many headliners here by my best buddy, TRex. It doesn’t match up. Yes, we all know Coulter is the dumbest of all fucks. Get over it and quit giving her tube time.
G’night RonD, rest well.
nite RonD
Nite, RonD!!!
Michelle Malkin’s stuff is more like junior high. Like totally.
Valley Girl @ 39
Sorry VG, that was me being snarky and reverting to po-lice talk *g*
Suz, good idea re: feeding the hungry servers.
running to grab the ol’ plastic
LoudounLib @ 48
No problem at all! Not at all. I thought you got why I posted that comment. Bec. I read it as “copy, I can see you”. ;)
night RonD
Loo Hoo. @ 24
Because it’s FUN!!
Loo Hoo. @ 43
I know, LooHoo. ((LH)) It is frustrating when we see we’re feeding their illness. I hear ya.
RonD @ 1
ron,
i think you left an “o” out of your blog’s URL.
when i fixed http://nothoughtcontrl.blogspot.com/
it worked.
marymccurnin @ 47
As if!
do-si-do @ 55
Some of us come here to get away from Jr High. And High School.
Every time TRex points out her poison, the message that she is poisonous starts to seep into the collective consciousness – where it will permanently lodge. I can not think of her without thinking of that stupid cheerleader costume crap because that stunt has been referred to over and over.
Repetition cements the facts into the memory.
Suzanne @ 57
Copy that! ;)
do-si-do @ 55
Surely, ya wouldn’t credit her with even a GED…???
This belongs on the last thread.
Speaking of feeding the hungry, servers and otherwise, here’s this from my adopted Liverpool newspaper
a follow up article from Time Magazine on Graeme Frost. It mentions the creepy blogger and National Review dude, but not MM.
For LooHoo
and letter from Mr. Frost
And frankly, when I spoke with Jane on the phone earlier, she sounded a little disappointed that at the time, I had no plans to deliver another installment in the Chronicles of Meltdown Malkin. I figured she deserved a laugh.
Betsy (from a previous thread): Parenting – an act of love and faith. And sometimes the bareknuckled desperate finding of hand and toe holds on the side of the cliff face. I salute your courage and perseverance in the face of crazy-making.
Love and (((((hugs)))))) dear one.
CTuttle @ 59
I’m totally buggin’
TexBetsy @ 60
A-men!
I worked 11 years for various health insurance companies as a Utilization Nurse, Case Manager, Disease Case Manager, the big boys, state wide HMO and for contacted Medicaid companies. On a whole, they were pretty good until around 2001 then they seemed to start drinking the kool-aid which just made me leave that profession. The last company was a third party administrator which covered federal employees, not senators but your everyday federal employee… post office, forest service. Their plain was not that good and there was NO dental insurance.
Elmore, my boyfriend had an issue with an irregular heart rate about 5 years ago and had a full workup. They never found anything that was the cause but he had been working around 100hrs a week and was just plain exhausted. When he was laid off, COBRA was over $1000/month but he was turned down over and over again for individual insurance because of a cardiac condition. The problem is there was no cardiac condition, just a workup.
So people are being penalized for seeking treatment even if the eventual workup is negative. What that does is stops people from seeking care. What a pig mess
Just like the rethugs do with Edwards’ haircut – the constant repetition reinforces the message they want to go out there.
MMkkk is not liking having her crap being repeated day after day, always pointing her in a bad light. She fears the light.
TRex @ 63
Rawk On, Dude…!!! *g*
TRex @ 63
You do the work of the Goddess. xxoo
TRex @ 52
That’s true.
Just received a 404 server error… someone is having lots of fun somewhere
Valley Girl @ 70
What VG said. Keep on hammerin’!
CTuttle @ 69
Right Oh, i say.
This SWIFTBOATING really continues to piss me off. They continue to make a big thing about a NEIGHBORS HOME that sold for a half million, and then try to imply that the Frosts home is somehow LIKE THAT!
Here is a home from Patterson Park that is going for $469,000 on the market. It’s NOT a row-house. http://homes.point2.com/US/Mar…..Featured=T
This is the sort of home that Coulter and her hubby MIGHT “lower” themselves to live in.
Here is a home that is a renovated row house in the Patterson Park neighborhood, going for $239,000 ~ about what the Frosts’ home is appraised for.
http://homes.point2.com/US/Mar…..state.aspx
Just one more of their ridiculous claims. They think that they can suggest that the rowhouse is actually valued at far more suggesting that homes in the same neighborhood could sell at a half million dollars. But anyone with any knowledge of the REAL WORLD outside of the mass-produced developments of cookie cutter housing would know that there are vast differences in home prices in urban and rural America within the same general area.
Thanks GW. I was just overwhelmed by it all last night and did some creative consequence (threat) making today, and things seem better.
Katymine at 67,
I took my daughter to get her hearing checked. it had to be preapproved. the insurance company said they would only pay for it if she had a hearing problem.
So, I say, if I already knew she had a hearing problem, I wouldn’t need the test. Duh.
Well, we can’t pay for it unless she needs it.
I know! Right!
Bottom line; if I had her hearing checked, and it was OK, I had to pay. Hmmm.
katymine @ 72
I’m afraid to go look in the spam folder at what kind of troll traffic we’re getting.
Can we get a spontaneous round of applause for our moderators, please?
*clapclapclapclapclapclapclapclapclap*
marymccurnin @ 14
Ya know, it’s all so confusing, it’s like the first time I got stoned as a teenager with adults.
They were all wierd . . . . the parody was so thick I couldn’t tell the fact from the fiction.
N then, I learnt that life was like that. And the adults didn’t know crap much more than I did.
Apparently, I’m still pretty stupid.
Great video though . . . I’m pretty sure I still hate MM, and AC, too . . . RL, and all the other wingnutz. Hate is not too strong a word, I don’t think . . . ;-)
Teddy Rexy . . . yer over the top, in all the best of ways, whether I grok it on top, or subliminally, or not . . . keep on rawhkin, Lizard. ;-)
It’s like seeing The Tubes at 16 for the first time. Or 25, for THAT matter . . . lol. Yer changed fohEVAH!
katymine @ 72
katymine, for some reason, I have not had that problem, tho it seems that there is some fuckery afoot. thinks are okay on my FF brower.
katymine @ 72
I can guarantee that its not the tech crew or the backstage folks.
*clapclapclapclapclapclapclapclapclap*
{{{{{ Mods }}}}} Standing ovation!
LoudounLib @ 82
Lying down ovation !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
do-si-do @ 77
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!
TRex @ 78
Yeah!
Who let the dogs out? Who? Who who who?
*whistles*
Go Mods, go Mods, GOOOOOOO, MODS!!
We love you, YEAH!!!
*high kicks and lands in a split*
TRex @ 78
Absolutely! I heart and thank the mods. Because it is often a thankless task! (despite it being extremely well paid /s )
TRex @ 78
*dingdingdingdingdingdingdingdingdingding*
Valley Girl @ 79
i got a 404 too. i prefer 707’s.
TexBetsy @ 83
sitting up straight ovation
TRex @ 86
Don’t hurt yourself there, boyfriend *g*
TRex @ 16
NO????? her? . . . (cowers in corner)
Do garlic cloves in a bag around the neck work?
I hate to waste good product, but . . .
marymccurnin @ 84
Oh yeah, baby. And don’t get me started on school districts and IEPs.
Anyway, we’re fine. We’re insured. We’re broke, but insured. I feel for people with heart conditions who are blown off by all insurance companies. That’s. Just. Wrong.
yellowdog jim @ 90
slouching to ovaaaaaaation!
On behalf of the Mod Squad and the Tech crew, thank you – but I will wait to let the Tech Crew know until AFTER the swearing and tossing of things has ceased.
do-si-do @ 77
So far, I cannot complain. My authorizations went through without a hitch and the telling point will be the claims. The best part is that I know about the industry. Spent three years as a medical claims reviewer. Just yesterday at the surgeon’s office they asked for the $45 copay and I told her that under NO circumstances would I pay, surgery is considered a global fee which includes the preop visit, surgery and X number of post office visits.
The sad thing is that the layperson would not know this.
Suz, I hope my modest appeasement via the PayPal link will help to smooth out the kinks tonight…
bows to the tech crew
TRex @ 78
Tireless warriors…!!! *g*
Suzanne @ 94
Do they like Skittles?
darkblack @ 20
It’s that ‘pick my teeth’ and ‘good taste’ part that arched my eyebrow (left one).
More inspiration perhaps, from that ‘Modest Proposal’?
katymine @ 95
Now we firepups do. Thanks! ;)
oh sh*t, tie ballgame, looks like it’s going to be a late late late night…
Time for this old brat to get some sleep. Thanks to TRex, the mods and all you rascals for another memorable late late nite!
i don’t know about skittles but i do know that chocolate (and music) has been known to soothe the savage beast so it must work on Tech Crew types
g’night npb
Am I here, or am I at late night? What year is this?
Well if everyone’s watching baseball I’ll toddle off.
Hugs to everybody, esp. FDL’s Failure is not an Option Tech Crew.
Ooh, tied in Phoenix in the bottom of the ninth…!!!
Valley Girl @ 32
Did somebody say Video? Well now folks I’ve got a couple you really oughta watch. First, a patriotic call to support them troops:
‘Stik a Ribbon on Yer SUV!’
and then a lonely ReichWing hottie wants to know….
‘When is my man comin’ home! I miss him sooooooooo bad!’
Either of these will make yer realize that The Mighty Malkin is a pure-D waste o’ skin.
sleep well tired pups.
hi ET. 1846
CTuttle @ 25
Spewage!
Send keyboard, will trade for recipes.
Garlic garlands extra.
In all due respect and love for Suz, though, if it’s as brutal out here with what WE sling, what’s it like back there trying to sort it all out when we stray from the fold . . ;-)
I may have been smacked up the side of the head by better, but I’ve NEVER been held in line, by more honorable.
Hat tip, Suz . . . and a bow . . . for last night’s obstinence . . . on my part . . .
Welcome to the Twilite Zone, ET
Time for Betsy NewBets:
Guards acquitted in Fla. boot camp case (AP)
from Yahoo! News
Henry McFadden one of the defendants in the Martin Lee Anderson trial spoke to some members of the media Friday after being cleared by a jury of any wrongdoing. McFadden was one of the seven guards and a nurse charged with culpable negligence in the death of Martin Lee Anderson at the Bay County Boot Camp in January 2006.(AP Photo/Robert Cooper,Pool)AP
WOW 10th inning… the TeeVee guys are NOT going to be happy…. They will have 3 plus hours to strike the game after the end…
do-si-do @ 92
Honey. You don’t know the half of it. I have told this story a few times here already. I will make it brief.
In 18 months I have b cancer twice. My husband had an intestinal bleed and open heart surgery.
We are both fine now. Bankruptcy. No insurance for him for two years. I am on medi-cal. (Don’t tell Michelle) Now Ron has insurance through Costco. $500 a month. Crappy coverage. Private insurance wanted $2500 to cover him. We are in constant debt from continuing medical bills. And I have found that we are the lucky ones. I can’t imagine having a sick child and not be able to take care of the problem.
I hate the Bush administration for many reasons and lack of health care being only one.
I don’t understand why you write her name as MalKKKin.
The KKK considers her a subhuman filipina. She is not associated and CANNOT be (even if she wanted to be) associated with them.
She is just a retard, that’s all, not a white-supremacist (since she is a oriental non-white person).
No need to muddy the waters unnecessarily.
wigwam @ 26
Well, that’s all nice and such . . . but we blame it our who ever else is IN the living room at the time. Course, there IS the coralary when someone ELSE farts, and the dog IS in the living room.
I don’t know . . . pull my finger?
TexBetsy @ 110
Oh, great! Just what we need – a war with Mexico! I’m sure the wingnuts are happy to be back there, at least.
i AM just getting this video.
it really threw me.
so michelle is trying to do a trashing/mocking of Amanda?
and mm is portraying Amanda as this psycho, which happens to be very like the very meltdown-malkon that we have seen before.
so, mm is trying to mock Amanda’s support for the right to choose.
too way out for me, i guess.
central texas’ firepups got to meet and picnic with Amanda.
she is mellower than i am.
and, now, it is funny.
Irony, MM knows not thy name.
Mexico City evicts 15,000 traders
from BBC World
Thousands of street vendors are removed from the historic centre of Mexico City by hundreds of riot police
Can’t hang any longer, and it is way late in EDT-ville. Good night all!
((((MaryM))))
do-si-do @ 29
All kidding aside, we do seem to have them on the run for the first time in a long time.
Depsite the uncertainty of our future, I’m kinda enjoying this snippet in our time . . . we DO have some of them on the run, and the stake thru the heart thing is something I concur with.
No mercy. Not now. Not evah.
Back to foolishness, and mindful banter . . ;-)
Ed*ard Teller @ 115
Am I going to be on the Southern War front?
Wait a minute…… if you listen to these idiots we have been been at war with that invasion thingy going on here.
Sleep well LL.
I sometimes disagree with Abe Foxman, but he’s righteously
bitch slappedslammed Ann Coulter.larue @ 112
thanks, larue – i try to be fair and neutral and do things as Jane would want them done – and Jane is one of the most honorable persons around.
foo @ 117
welcome to the lake, foo – just so ya know, we do not use terms such as retard around here – or any terms insulting mental illness or race either.
Suzanne @ 123
Suz, that is exactly right. As some of you may know, I was once a mod, now mod emeritus. And, my mission was to try to act according to what Jane would want. That is the duty of a mod. We don’t make up the rules. We only do our best to do what Jane wants.
p.s. edit, being that this is Jane’s house, and Jane’s invention.
And when Stalkin’ Malkin apparently peerred into the windows of the Frost house she thought the kitchen counters were GRANITE.
Turns out that they aren’t GRANITE but CONCRETE.
Now the Reverse Malkinites, who apparently have never poured and mixed concrete, are asserting that concrete countertops ($20-30/ sq. foot) are more expensive than granite ($50-150/sq. foot)! In addition the former can be installed DIY…while the latter requires professional installation.
Ahem. Sadly they aren’t even close!
http://www.concreteexchange.co…..aq-diy.jsp
http://www.concreteexchange.co…..aq-diy.jsp
Suzanne @ 57
Show no mercy. They have shown the world none. Attack, attack. Show NO mercy.
Point out their poison, and defang them.
Suzanne @ 81
It’s just a bum link. Not an FDL thing, Suz.
bygolly…. Dbacks just might pull this game out of the craper
Valley Girl @ 128
Civilized Discourse…!!! *g*
The mods are here to civilize us? Oh dear. What if it doesn’t take?
katymine @ 133
katymine, what network is carrying the game, please?
newtonusr @ 136
TBS
TRex @ 78
Well, yeah, of course.
But when do we get a shot at the trolls? *smugsweetlysaid*
TexBetsy @ 133
They tried…!!! 8-)
TexBetsy @ 134
i introduce ya’ll to my inner bitch
beddybye for me, me luvlies.
Note GW
CTuttle @ 129
Don’t take shots on the civilized discourse issue. Bec. it isn’t always civil. But, there are certain things that are out of bounds, and for good reason. Advocating violence. Racial, sexual and gender slurs.
Lordy… should NOT watch baseball and try and type…. Nite greenwarrior
katymine @ 142
i’ve noted the nite. enjoy the game.
thank you katymine!
sleep well GW
Good night Greenwarrior woman.
Valley Girl @ 140
VG, in my defense, I’ve never crossed the line…!!! *g*
Lose a spouse, gain a Presidential Coin.
As the President rose to leave after 20 minutes, he said he hoped the visit would help the Falmouth, Maine, woman heal. Halley, 42, replied, “What would really help my healing is if you’d start finding a way to bring our troops home.”
[snip]
“Now he’s dead,” Halley, an artist, says she told Bush, no longer able to contain her anger. “For what? I’ve lost my soul mate.”
“I am so sorry for your loss,” Bush said more than once.
Their conversation ended shortly after Halley began urging Bush to end the war. “We see things differently,” he told her.
Halley says the encounter wasn’t “sharp,” even with her strong words and emotions. As they parted, they shook hands, he kissed her on the cheek and gave her a souvenir presidential coin. Read the rest…
yellowdog jim @ 118
Amanda drives Pandagon.com
she rocks.
especially on the righty-tighty undies-in-a-knot fundies’ twisted ways.
I just got a 404 error. Wad I do?
OMG… 11th inning now…. do not think I can stay up any longer…
TexBetsy @ 151
If he had kissed me I would have thrown up.
U.S. Colonel: Blackwater “Actually Drew Their Weapons On U.S. Soldiers.”
http://www.crooksandliars.com/…..-soldiers/
By: Logan Murphy
Newsweek’s Oct. 15, 2007 issue:
The colonel was furious. “Can you believe it? They actually drew their weapons on U.S. soldiers.” He was describing a 2006 car accident, in which an SUV full of Blackwater operatives had crashed into a U.S. Army Humvee on a street in Baghdad’s Green Zone. The colonel, who was involved in a follow-up investigation and spoke on the condition he not be named, said the Blackwater guards disarmed the U.S. Army soldiers and made them lie on the ground at gunpoint until they could disentangle the SUV. His account was confirmed by the head of another private security company. Asked to address this and other allegations in this story, Blackwater spokesperson Anne Tyrrell said, “This type of gossip has led to many soap operas in the press.” Read more…
As if being trapped in the middle of a bloody civil war by their civilian leadership hasn’t been humiliating enough for our troops, we find out they also have to protect themselves from high-paid thugs from Blackwater — in the Green Zone, no less. I wonder if Crayzie Shayzie will still hold the same unbridled passion for these guys after learning of this hackery? Oh, and Mr. Romney you STILL have Blackwater’s Vice Chairman on your campaign payroll — how’s that working out for you?
Filed Under: Blackwater, Iraq, MSNBC, Middle East, Military, Supporting our Troops
marymccurnin @ 153
Hard refresh, Mary.
greenwarrior @ 142
sweet Dreams, Green Wonder
larue @ 139
trolls are crunchy but freshly fed trolls have a bad aftertaste that lingers
marymccurnin @ 151
Refresh is your friend…. the web browser cannot find the server linked to the web URL. Sometimes it means the server is too busy.
katymine @ 150
but how will you sleep?
TexBetsy @ 156
Part of Blackwater’s mission is to let the troops know how little regard the a**holes in charge have for them. They did the same favor for the Katrina survivors.
katymine @ 160
Does that mean that we have more visitors than usual?
TexBetsy @ 152
Excuse my French! I would’ve promptly f*cking told Blackwater to F*ck Off!!!
do-si-do @ 21
Hah!
TexBetsy @ 132
Put the chllin’s to bed and cuss like hayall?
That’s what happened to me when I was young. ;-)
Baseball records-
Most innings: 33
Total time for one game: 8 hours, 25 minutes
just for us sports challenged pups, who are the d’backs playing?
Suzanne @ 137
*BIGASSGRN*
I sure wish you could meet Miz Linda, from Berry Fest . . . I only met her in ‘01 or so, she’s been a volunteer there since its inception.
Full Cherokee . . . EVERYONE’S best friend. Long Braided PonyTail, kewl black cowboy hat curled up on sides and pointy in front with a silver and turquoise studded hat band.
A long trench coat, and a whip.
A mouth like a sailor, and a heart like like a lion.
Everyone is her best friend.
You and Miz Linda, speak the same language, methinks . . . *G*
I SWEAR I’ve heard her use that line . . . ;-)
marymccurnin @ 163
It can, and FDL has had very high traffic lately. But in this case, it is a backstage technical issue. Working on it now.
Thanks so much for the patience, pups!
Suzanne @ 166
Colorado Rockies V. Arizona Diamondbacks
Suzanne @ 164
The Colorado Rockies!!! The NL Wild Card…!!!
Katymine, fwiw, I got the info for CityWalks from ChronicleBooks.com There is a series of them including London&Paris. And I was wrong the other night, there are 50 mapped walks in each set. Worth checking out!
US Contractors in Iraq Rely on Third-World Labor
from t r u t h o u t
Guy Raz for NPR’s “All Things Considered” reports: “If you thought all contractors in Iraq were gun-toting American mercenaries, think again. Only a fraction of the estimated 180,000 contractors working on behalf of the US government are security contractors – and the overwhelming majority aren’t even from the US.”
CTuttle @ 160
what say we make every security contractor register for the draft.
then we draft them all.
subordinate every one to our G.I.s.
give them the crap work and worse pay.
courts martial for any disobedience.
they want to play cowboy?
make ‘em take orders.
or leavenworth.
US Lets in More Immigrants for Farms
from t r u t h o u t
Nicole Gaouette, The Los Angeles Times: “With a nationwide farmworker shortage threatening to leave unharvested fruits and vegetables rotting in fields, the Bush administration has begun quietly rewriting federal regulations to eliminate barriers that restrict how foreign laborers can legally be brought into the country.”
Felix Moronia @ 173
Will do… sitting here with a stack of travel books on London & Paris on the coffee table.
Thanks
Suzanne @ 155
Agreed, but nothing that a lil panko and seasonings and some deep fry cant’ cure? *G*
YDJ, they wouldn’t have had to shell out all those duckies to SF and Seals in retention bonuses then…!!!
This is going to be interesting…. Two outs, bases loaded and in the 11th inning.
larue @ 178
Panko is some awesome bread crumbs, eh???
Oh my! the most recent entry at SadlyNo is wonderful, esp. the last four paras.
I tried to post this twice last night, with no luck. This time, I think it will work. A very funny song from Tripod
CT, too much stuff to wade thru to find the right code, so I edited as simple as I could. Thanks for some slack on a bad edit job . . .
To my response.
“You can’t call that French!”
*G*
persiflage @ 183
G’day! How’s life? ;-)
CTuttle @ 175
well, right now, we need every troop we can get in uniform.
if i drafted all the contractors, i’d want to retain all our heroes and promote a bunch into command over the new “recruits”.
we are looking at a large cost to rebuild our army anyway.
Fact Checking Media Coverage of the Iowa Caucus Youth Vote
http://futuremajority.com/node/741
from Progressive News Ninja YTL by Mike Connery
If you’re a reader of Newsweek, CBS, The New York Times, The Washington Post, or The National Journal, you’ve probably read a lot about Barack Obama and his “hidden army” of “BarackStars,” young voters who will supposedly propel the Senator to victory in the Iowa caucus; a narrative pushed by Obama campaign manager David Plouffe despite a distinct lack of hard evidence (read: polling) that young voters favor Obama over Clinton to any substantial degree. You’ve also probably read all about Howard Dean and how young voters displayed a similar enthusiasm for his campaign, but burned the governor at the ballot box when they failed to show up at the caucus. The conclusion: young voters don’t turnout and Obama’s strategy is historically risky.
There’s only one problem with this analysis. It’s all wrong.
A little bit of research reveals that young voter participation in the Iowa Caucus did in fact increase dramatically in 2004. According to an analysis of exit polling data by the Center for Independent Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE), the premier research shop for information on youth civic participation, young voter participation in the Iowa Caucus quadrupled in 2004. An estimated 21,000 18-29 year olds participated in the 2004 caucus, 17% of the total 122,000 caucus participants (pdf). That number is strikingly close to 20%, young voters’ share of the eligible electorate, and stands in stark contrast to the participation figures for Generation X. Just 15% of 30-44 year olds participated in the 2004 caucus, despite the fact that Gen X makes up 31% of the Iowa population.
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Felix Moronia @ 178
we gots linky winky.
A Boston Tune in tribute…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..rch=boston
Life’s pretty good Chikka. The sun is shining, the flowers are blooming, the hubby is home. Can’t ask for much more than that.
CTuttle @ 177
Sir, Yes Sir!!!! I like them a lot. *G*
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panko
Spent 20 years in the biz, and to this day, I keep learning stuff I didnt’ learn then.
Panko is a GIFT I didn’t know then . . . but it’s for saute, baking/roasting, or deep frying.
And I like to make my OWN bread crumbs with seasonings . . . but panko is special.
Simply Ming, PBS. Saturday mornings, here, in Sacto, CA.
One of my favs of all time . . . he’s such a hoss.
He makes a base ingredient for every show, a sauce, marinade, whatever. Then 3 or so dishes from that base.
And he brings on a guest chef, who brings their OWN thang to Ming’s base recipe . . . n they sit down and eat.
I like the eating part. I usually get hungry at that point and miss the next show . . . it’s sad, I know . . . ;-)
time to sleep.
night all
g’nighty, Betsy!
painlessness in infinite expanse,
all the better to dream
nite betsy
Thanks Jim. I’ll figure out what that means in the AM. :)
rockies win.
it’s 2-0
Nite betsy… I am out of here….. game over… dang… Rockies won by one run….
See ya tomorrow
TexBetsy @ 189
i wax poetic.
i need sleep.
game over.
sleep well.
yellowdog jim @ 195
No it was 3-2 Rockies
nite katymine. they’ll get’em next time
Romney gets hopped up over medical marijuana in Nevada:
“I believe marijuana is the gateway to drug use that is a plague to our children and a plague to our country,” he said. “Medical marijuana is a Trojan horse for getting marijuana legalized. That is the last thing America needs. We do not need more drugs in our school and homes.”
Sheesh!! He’s LDS. I thought coffee was the gateway drug…….or, is it jello?
Ed*ard Teller @ 201
air
katymine @ 199
the playoff series, my dear. Is it best of 5?
katymine @ 193
i meant the series is 2-0
Ed*ard Teller @ 200
This makes me so pissed….. these people should be sentenced to work Hospice for a year… taking care of cancer patients and seeing the effects of the drugs and therapies.
The scary thing is that Romny will win in AZ due to the Mormon factor
Ed*ard Teller @ 197
yes
perhaps next week, et, eh, for them indictments – with the elder stevens leading the pack with most counts
Ok score was 3-2 but the series was 2-0 duh…
Not sure if my brain works better with the Oxycotin or without?
Now heading to bed…. nite all
katymine @ 202
sleep easy
yellowdog jim @ 206
Not the NLCS, it’s best of seven…!!!
CTuttle @ 210
wow.
sorry.
thanks.
more hope for the dbacks.
No it is a 7 game series…
Game 1 Rockies at Diamondbacks
Game 2 Rockies at Diamondbacks
Game 3 Diamondbacks at Rockies
Game 4 Diamondbacks at Rockies
Game 5 Diamondbacks at Rockies
Game 6 Rockies at Diamondbacks
Game 7 Rockies at Diamondbacks
katymine @ 212
right.
so the D’backs must win 4 out of 5 ?
yellowdog jim @ 213
Nope, they must win four of the next five, and, they play the next three in Denver…!!!
ok, pups, time for me to bail – tomorrow i’ve got a showing to get ready for – in addition to tomorrow morning being the official first day of the bridal gown hunt season. time to vacuum (or as token refers to it, time for him to cower whimpering that the noisy monster will win the wrestling match with mom), dust and all that forking housework crap
a reminder – i won’t be here tomorrow night (see above referenced start of the hunt season) but The Lurking Mod and other members of the Mod Squad will be. see ya sunday nite
katymine @ 212
i learn so much at FDL.
Cowboys or Patriots?
Suzanne @ 215
Bonne Nuit, Ma Cheri! I shall bail too! Aloha Oe!!! *g*
CTuttle @ 214
we agreed.
yellowdog jim @ 213
LOL…
suzanne,
We’ll see. The info I got on the number of indictments was as good as such info gets. It has been a busy week for the Feds, what with all their staff already busy on various trials at various points of the entry ways into the criminal justice stream.
BTW – I think “phony” takes the cake for the most-often misspelled word on the toobz this past two weeks.
A great comment at DKos:
Dinosaurs had a small brain in their head and a second, smaller, brain near their ass to control their hind legs and tail.
Wingnuts have only the small ass-brain.
Ed*ard Teller @ 220
LOL!
outa here pups. nite
Ed*ard Teller @ 219
i agree.
i blame the telcoms for the phony “phoney”.
‘phony’ is a good word:
with hucksters posing as leaders;
chimperor’s clothes.
at least i am a real dog.
Evening all. Anybody still up?
SunnyNobility @ 223
hiya, Sunny.
hi sunny.
i’m afraid i must leave you now.
past my bed time.
why you up?
Thanks to TRex for nice kitty pic on last thread. Gives me nostalgia—I always knew to check my conscience when I saw pupils like that.
Oh, I wanted to move this tremendous opus from Pow Wow up, EPU’d, before retiring. FDL is truly blessed.
Make a pot of coffee and slide into this one from this afternoon.
Awesome.
Hi ET!
Jim, ‘fraid hanging in for the excellent nobel event reset my clock. sleep well.
it was worth it
this thread comes and goes. that’s OK – doing some research on a proposed wingnut land use regulation revision on the Knik River.
larue @ 101
‘I profess, in the sincerity of my heart, that I have not the least personal interest in endeavoring to promote this necessary work’
;>)
Looking ahead:
This promises to be thrilling– or chilling, depending on your POV:
Bob in HI
from the 2000 Presidential Campaign:
“Unseen Al Gore Campaign Video”
Part 1 of 2
and
Part 2 of 2
these are more than 6 minutes apiece.
they are spectacular.
newtonusr @ 227
man-oh-man! newtonusr, than you for that link… i’d missed that thread and hadn’t seen pow wow’s comment! which is exceendingly lame…
Mitt Romney says no to medical marijuana which Montel Williams uses for his MS symptoms. Mitt’s wife Ann also has MS. Strange people, these Romneys.
From MYDD
“Building a true culture of life requires public policies that promote the welfare of the most vulnerable,” said Chris Korzen, executive director of Catholics United. “At the heart of the Christian faith is a deep and abiding concern for the need of others. Pro-life Christians who serve in Congress should honor this commitment by supporting health care for poor children.”
Brilliant.
The script of the radio ads (you can listen to them HERE) is as follows:
“I’m the mother of three children, and I’m pro-life. I believe that protecting the lives our children must be our nation’s number one moral priority. That’s why I’m concerned that Congressman X says he’s pro-life but votes against health care for poor children. That’s not pro-life. That’s not pro-family. Tell Congressman X to vote for health care for children. Call him today at XXXX, that’s XXXXX.”
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, Catholic Charities USA, and the Catholic Health Association have all urged Congress and President Bush to support SCHIP.
http://www.mydd.com/
You have to go down a bit to find the article.
But it looks like some Catholics are jumpin ship, its sure getting hard out there for GOP Divisive Issue Pimps (sorry I luv the song).
I wonder if Malkin or crazy Ann Coulter are going to attack the Catholic Woman in the ads and risk pissing off the Catholic vote?
Or does the GOP only attack children?
Some GOP talking head was talking friday about the Armenian lobby getting the House of Representives to condemm Turkey’s genocide of Armenians.
He claimed that we Democrats were controled by them? Which is the first I heard of this? I thought Jane was our boss and she answers only to the Dark Lord KOS!
I’m sure Kathleen will laugh her head off when she hears this the GOP practicaly offers their daughters to the Prowar rightwingers in Israel, but they lecture us about Armenians? Jeez Talk about projection of your own ideas/fears/desires on somebody else.
We need some connections to the Left in Israel the Righty guys get all the press.
Bill blocked this Armenian bill so our hands are not clean, but we can get the Armenian vote if the Senate votes this, even if Bush vetoes it we win.
We just need our Presidential candidates to do whats both right and will get them votes.
To bad our guys are dragging their feet on ending the war and many of their healthcare plans sound like they were written by the Healthcare industry. Issues that are winners, issues that the public wants and they drag their feet.
WHY!, WHY! are the Democrats forsaking us? and denying they know our name? Did Peter and Judas get reincarnated as Democratic Political Strategy guys?
Superhero Valerie Wilson will be on the tv soon:
(aus mediabistro)
It seems that is when “Fair Game” comes out.
Crazy Ann Coulter “wants Jews to be perfected”?
I want a Senate Resoultion condemming her! I want Holy Joe to be forced to vote one way or another on this. I want the press to ask him uncomfortable questions. I want the press to ask the GOP Presidential candidates if they stand by her on this issue.
I want the Right Wing Jewish vote! Sure I think the Palestians should get a homeland, but you won’t ever catch me saying the Jews need to give up their religon and be like everyone else.
With friends like Ann even the the Right Wingers have to think about putting their pride first before politics.
Good morning!
sup EG?
Good morning Egregious!
WASHINGTON (CNN) — A former commander of coalition forces in Iraq issued a harsh assessment of U.S. management of the war, saying that American political leaders cost American lives on the battlefield with their “lust for power.”
Retired Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, coalition commander in 2003 and 2004, called the Iraq war “a nightmare with no end in sight,” for which he said the Bush administration, the State Department and Congress all share blame.
Sanchez told a group of military reporters in Arlington, Virginia, on Friday that such dereliction of duty by a military officer would mean immediate dismissal or court martial, but the politicians have not been held accountable.
He said the Iraq war plan from the start was “catastrophically flawed, unrealistically optimistic,” and the administration has not provided the resources necessary for victory, which he said the military could never achieve on its own.
CNN
Should I have called him the “soon to be swiftboated” Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez?
Yes!
morning!
“Rieckhoff said that one of the primary reasons that the U.S. uses private security firms is that those workers are not counted among the war’s casualties.”
“You don’t have to report the Blackwater deaths,” he said.
http://www.newsday.com/news/lo…..2241.story
I don’t care if they are Mercs if they are Americans then they deserve to have their names listed amoung our dead in Iraq. Congress is paying for them why can’t we get any numbers of Blackwater dead or is the GOP embarrased about their precious Mercs?
Are they just expendable and when dead forgotten every American deserves to be counted even if I disagree with the war even if I don’t like the idea of Mercs their still American.
Just because a solder decides to go private for better pay doesn’t make them Prince’s pawns and servants of his agenda necesarily.
It just means we should pay all our solders more. Even Mercs deserve free healthcare for their injuries in Iraq.
But they like our solders should have to testify about whats really going on in Iraq.
I suggest a South Africa style truth commission no amnesty unless they talk. I want Prince to answer some questions. I want history to know what happened. But no amnesty for the Bushies who planned this! I suspect the truth will bury the GOP for a generation.
Morning everybody I’m going to sleep soon.
Hey raven, smapdi, selise. How is everybody today?
Am working on sorting thru a backlog *cough*decades of books and papers and random stuff in preparation for moving. In addition to ending up with less for the moving van, it’s interesting to watch how this unwinds psychologically. What to keep, what to release.
Hey Things Come Undone. Sleep well.
Things Come Undone @ 247
amen!
egregious @ 249
i’ve almost always found that to be quite stressful. good luck!
are you making a big move (like cross country)?
Yeah, out of state. I just tell myself that “move” is a four letter word, and use it for swearing when necessary.
Things Come Undone @ 247
I’ve heard that most of these folks are actually drawn from the militaries and paramilitaries of despotic states. They are sort of an American version of the French Foreign Legion, which allowed war-criminals and prisoners in French Prisons into their ranks.
And to think…these guys may have a Federal contract with Homeland Security to replace the National Guard if there is a domestic crisis! That means some murderer from Idi Amin’s Uganda might be handling interrogations of peaceful demonstrators.
And I never quite understood the concept of why these guys are essential to protect diplomatic delegations when those same delegations (like Poland) have troops serving in Iraq. Aren’t these troops adequate to gaurd consular staff? Or are they required to make it “appear” the US is part of a coalition. In addition the Neo-Cons and WH frequently use the number of embassies opened in Iraq to prove “Baghdad is safe”. But this is only because they have been promised this Blackwater protection. If they didn’t have such protection they would pull their delegations out.
And are media escorted by Blackwater, or by regular troops. If by Blackwater it makes one wonder why incidents haven’t already been reported before these recent attacks on unarmed civilians. Are they keeping quiet because of things they have been told, such as “You better think hard about what you say ’cause the next time you are in Iraq just who will be protecting you?” That’s the old Issa threat.
And cinnamonape, makes one wonder about the high ‘accidental’ death rate of western journalists in Iraq.
this was a fun read (from mcclatchy):
continued at the link…
Mornin’, dear early Pups -
A succinct analysis of the US media, Gore, bush, & giuliana:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10…..ref=slogin
Give Herbert a gold star for the day!
P. S. -
Some call-in creature on WashJourno claiming, “We’re close to winning the war over there.”
Don’t know what he’s smoking but it sure ain’t nicotine!
Good morning, pups. Today in the NYT we have TOMC and Bob Herbert. TOMC typed something she calls “The Campaign-So-Far Quiz.” Mr. Herbert reminds us that although Al Gore is much more competent and much better qualified to run the country it’s W who’s actually in the White House.
http://mgpaquin.wordpress.com/
The coffee and tea are ready, and I’ve got a cinnamon streusel coffee cake with pecans. (Well, she temporized, it’s healthier than a box of Krispy Kreme donuts…)
I note that Hillary has picked up an endorsement from Charles Krauthammer. All I have to say is that if Cabbagemallet is for her that’s just one more reason to be VERY, VERY, VERY cautious…
I love TRex’s picture of Juan Carlos in the last thread. It belongs on I Can Has Cheezburger, where I go for a daily giggle.
Good morning, pups!
When TRex wakes up, please tell him he’s won – he’s set the “frame”.
From the third-most prominent article on the LA Times’ website….
“No Peace Prize For Ann Coulter”
The article’s been up since around the start of the Sabbath yesterday.
Tim Rutten:
Regarding Media
Coulter’s anti-Semitic comment too dangerous to ignore
October 13, 2007
do-si-do @ 18
No kidding….
My sister was hit by a driver while in SLC; we live in Boise. Both vehicles are insured by Farmers. She was telling me yesterday how the insurance agent for the other driver (who received three fucking citations) continues to calls harassing her to drop her medical claim.
O hai Marion do u lik cheez too? Its grat luv it kthxbai.
Marion -
Don’t know which is funnier…….the cats or the captions. *g*
Ed*ard Teller @ 201
OHMIGAWD! Green jello with fruit cocktail!!!
Good Morning all. It’s definitely too early for green jello with fruit cocktail. I didn’t read the earlier post, do you know if TRex wimped out and put on the heat? Personally running the air conditioning and heat the same week is just not right.
Mornin’ all!
pull up a chair is upstairs…
For those who might want to see how the other half live…there’s an open house of a half-million dollar property located in Germantown, Md. this Sunday.
BTW It’s next door (or almost) to Michelle Malkin’s…the gal who was complaining about her $1300 Insurance premiums a few years back (but who has seemed to forgotten THAT).
http://www.redfin.com/stingray…..id=1091467
link for selise: http://www.ambrosiasw.com/utilities/wiretap/
maybe you saw it already. i thought u might be interested in it.
twolf1 @ 268
thanks! i hadn’t seen it before… looks very cool – much more than the audio hijack pro i’ve been using… and they give a good rebate to upgrade from audio hijack pro. i’m going to give it a serious look.
if you happen to see something (not too expensive) that will allow me to rip video from real player streams, i’d love to know about it. thanks again!
p.s. please always assume complete ignorance on my part… i won’t be offended and i will be happy to learn new things!
FYI — Malkin didn’t post photographs of the Frost’s cars, she posted photographs of recent showroom models to represent the Frost’s cars, which I suspect are a lot older and more beat up than the showroom models.
On the bright side(for him at least),if Jesse Malkin ever goes for full custody of the kids,that video and most of Hot Air’s “content” is probably most of what he and a good divorce attorney would need to get the job done.
Maybe that’s his master plan,mwahaha.
I saw Mariah Carey in an interview where she said that her CD “Glitter” flopped because it was released on 9/11/01. As the towers fell, she was thinking “What is this going to do to my CD sales??”
anangryoldbroad @ 271
And perhaps he could point out that Hot Air Inc. shares the same address as that of the right-wing paramilitary miltia, the Maryland Minutemen.
http://www.marylandminutemancdc.com/contact.php
They could walk down the hall and have coffee with these folks!
I need to do something to piss Malkin off. I’d love to see a “show room photo” of my 1969 Landcruiser. Oh, wait. She’d just post a pic of a 2007 model and say I’m a kazillionaire!
Michelle looks like a frustrated non actor that flunked her screen test. The the Repug candidates’ platform appears to be “More of the same.” ……..and Michelle’s behavior is proving Einstein’s theory about insanity.
ranting about this bitch is not helping anyone except her
this blog hasn’t become pale like so many others that have given up for hillary’s machine. but if you keep concentrating on this twit, it will lower the bar
why don’t we use her idiocy to help prove universal health care is a constitutional right?
stop whining, and power up
The Sprout who, at 8.5, already knows more than the President, watched the video with me and pronounced it “creepy and stupid”. The grown-ups did, too.
Malkin hasn’t been debating on Billo’s show for weeks. Has Billo chosen spitting Geraldo over Ms. Malkin? One can only hope.
C. Northcote Parkinson, the late Brit observer of bureaucracies, said the larger the appropriation the less it gets discussed. I think the larger the issue, the less confidence we have to discuss it. That’s apparent here where a miniscule appropriation gets so much attention and so great an effort to garner Repub votes when the Iraq war and/or the question of impeaching an unquestionably criminal president and vice president fades from view.
Ed Kunin @ 279
Good point.
If someone said:
What if I told you I drove these three cars (photos are showroom models)
I’d point out “You’re not saying that you own those cars and you’re not saying that your cars are the same year or condition of the photo.”
In other words, Malkin, “You’re an asshole”.
Someday she will look back on that video and…well…….nevermind.
We can all hope and pray Malkin will have her Anita Bryant moment. (Bryant, being the former Miss America, a favorite of Richard Nixon, who railed against gays in FL.) That she wake up and see the error of her ways. That she realizes she allowed herself to be used by the radical right. But let us not forget to pray for her meeting her Anita Bryant fate….a bankrupt has-been in need of govt. health insurance.