(Limbaugh and friend by darkblack)
Joan Walsh is worried about Rush Limbaugh:
I’m worried about Rush Limbaugh, I really am. He seems to be losing it.
Joan, honey, you know that I adore you, but I think you’re a couple years too late on that particular scoop. But, do go on:
There’s always been an element of entertainment to Limbaugh’s bully act, but lately he’s more thug than comic. Media Matters has the latest, from his Oct. 15 show: Limbaugh bragging that he once threatened a journalist doing a story on him. “We’re going to find out where your kids go to school. We’re going to find out who you knocked up in high school. We’re going to find out what drugs you used.” (emphasis mine)
Cos Rush has never done drugs in his life.
Limbaugh claims the result was a more positive spin on the story that was ultimately produced — of course, he won’t name names or publications, so we have no idea if it’s all a drug-induced fantasy — and the radio bully went on to promote that kind of treatment for other investigative reporters.
Limbaugh has spewed out some truly unhinged rants, but this one, oh, this one…it’s a whole new low:
“I’ll tell you, folks, the way to deal with this — I have always said it. I don’t know anybody who’s doing it. Maybe I should found ProDestroya and get a bunch of people willing to do investigative journalism on these investigative journalists.
Rush, we’ve got an organization like that. It’s called Media Matters.
Unless you’re talking about digging up a bunch of stuff that has nothing to do with what the journalists are reporting and just trashes them for the sake of talking trash. That kind of catch-and-release dirt-mongering we leave to you conservative types.
You know, AntiPublica. They get to sit there — who are these people that get to act as though they are sin-free, that they are as clean and pure as the wind-driven snow, that they’ve got no skeletons in their closet? They can go out and dig up dirt on — and everybody’s got dirt. They can go out and dig whatever up and then they can slant it and taint it, smear it and lie about it, do whatever they want, and nobody examines who these people are. And if you try, they get mad. ‘Well, we’re journalists, we’re immune. You can’t treat us the way we treat other people.’”
Groan. What is he even talking about? I read this and all I really get is an awful mental image of all the various fat deposits on his frame jiggling and jouncing around with the force of his fauxtrage, from his change purse of a chin-wattle to the slabs of blubber dripping from the undersides of his upper arms, all the way to the bulging land-mass of his upper groin and belly, all quivering and trembling and shivering every which way in a symphony of flesh tectonics as he wallows in that poor, poor, overstrained chair in his home studio.
Ooh, I just made up a joke.
Q. Have you seen Rush Limbaugh’s penis in the last twenty years?
A. Yeah, well, neither has he.
But, hey, Joanie, ain’t you heard? Threatening to come to your house and beat you up is the new black for angry, Right Wing bloviators.
Bill O’Reilly via Media Matters:
On the September 27 edition of his nationally syndicated radio show, while discussing media coverage of his recent controversial comments about race, Fox News host Bill O’Reilly asserted: “These people aren’t getting away with this. I’m going to go right where they live. Every corrupt media person in this country is on notice, right now. I’m coming after you.” He went on to warn: “You smear somebody and you can’t back it up, you’re gonna get it. … You go after somebody’s family, you go after them and smear them with defamation that you can’t back up, I’m coming to your house. I’m coming to your house. You’ll have a camera up your nose. OK?”
Uh…charmed, I’m sure.
Thing is, neither big pansy has even stuck a toe outside the doors of their secluded little studios. It’s all just talk, of course, which is all these guys do. It took wee, screechy Michelle Malkin to cross that line and actually start stalking people in their homes. As lamentable a decision as that may have been, she’s making you two jokers look like cringing, shrinking little human scrotums.
I particularly like this bit from O’Reilly’s unhinged rant:
After warning “corrupt media” figures that they are “on notice,” O’Reilly stated: “I’m coming after you. And I don’t care if it’s Bill O’Reilly, [Sen.] Hillary Clinton, [Republican presidential candidates] Rudy Giuliani, Mitt Romney, [Sen.] Barack Obama. Anybody smeared by any media from now on, I’m holding them accountable. I’m going to hunt you down. Got that?“
Well, is he going to be heading over to pay a visit to the Swiftboat Veterans for Truthiness? Mary Matalin? Victoria Toensing? Karl Rove, Ann Coulter, “Captain Ed”, Jeff Goldstein and his droogs and the coterie of mouth-breathers who run RedState.org? What about Matt Drudge? He’s, like, the epicenter earthquake that’s generated a kajillion slime tsunamis. Are you heading over to his house, Bill-O?
Well, then, dammit, Bill. What goddamn good are ya?
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TRex !!
TRex!!!!!
What kind of pill-poppin’ fuckery is this?!?!
g’evening trex – waving to all the pups
TRex and Darkblack!
TRex and Darkblack!
zed
Hi TRex.
memo to the chinese corporation putting lead in my cat food or was it my toy oven?
hey i’m coming after you. i dont care where your kid goes to school or where you live.
[hmmm. seems like an idle threat i suppose]
madmommy @ 7
should have known that “no comments” was too good to be true.
Quite the hootnanny last night. I still have confetti in my hair and can’t get all the cake crumbs off my keyboard.
Evening everyone!
Hmmm… Suz’s entry shoulda tipped me off…!!!
Evening, all. This is a drive-by; I have to go pick up dinner and then do a couple more hours of work.
Well done, TRex.
Threats are, of course, the last resort of the thinking person…and the first resort of sleazy lowlife scum like Limbaugh and O’Reilly.
EPU’d:
OT. need mac help. they re-imaged my computer at work a few weeks ago. since then, my video files have not played properly on realplayer. Audio is perfect and video shows a few frames, freezes, plays a few frames, freezes. Any ideas?
Evening all. Lancing the anal cyst on the American body politic I see, TRex.
Which of those guys was it who threatened to have all the liberals arrested? And possibly the NYT? One of those two, yes?
EvilDrPuma @ 13
That’s because they are bullies and it is all they know how to do. They haven’t changed one bit from taking the little kids lunch money on the playground years ago.
TexBetsy @ 14
newt answered ya :)
No goddamn good at all.
Simple answers etc.
Evening, kids.
How is everyone?
TexBetsy @ 14
Betsy – sorry for the delay…
Answered backthread..
DrDick @ 15
If I were Limbaugh’s anal cyst, I’d file for defamation of character.
EvilDrPuma @ 22
Or at least better working conditions.
madmommy @ 17
Exactly. I think it’s long past due to call zero tolerance on bullies, even if they are fat rich white “adult” males.
TRex @ 20
Good and I see your doing well.
TRex @ 20
If I was talking to you, I would say that I was most upset that you did not wish me a happy birthday …
if i was talking to you
EvilDrPuma @ 13
Threats are all they have. Extortion intimidates the press and keeps them from revealing to full revolting depths of the rightard bloviators depravity and corruption.
Watching Matt Lauer rehabilitate Larry Craig and his lovely beard. Not sure how long I can watch this travesty. Wonder if Mitch McConnell will make a cameo?
DrDick @ 28
And Fox Security!
Suzanne @ 26
Is it your birthday? If so, many happy returns…especially from GoodMrsPuma, who is also celebrating today.
Happy Birthday (late), Suzanne. I can’t believe I didn’t say anything last night.
(Bad, TRex!)
*swats self on back of tiny forelimb claw*
Thanks Newton. Trying it now.
DrDick @ 28
Considering what we DO know about Limbaugh and O’Reilly, I’m truly terrified of what may yet be unrevealed.
TeddySanFran @ 27
Pathetic. I gave up the Today show ages ago, and they just keep getting worse.
EDP, yesterday was (and happy birthday to Mrs EDP)
Suzanne @ 35
I’m to relay her thanks.
Rush Limbaugh is all kinds of tough and threatening till he actually has to face someone, somewhere, without his screener or his dump button.
In the meantime, I wonder how he’d react to a little investigation of what exactly he was doing on a vacation to the Dominican Republic with his bottle of V*agra…After all, if he has nothing to hide, why doesn’t he share that information with the class? I realize it’s not as much fun as beating up on a 12-year-old, but that is so early October, isn’t it?
-S
*MOD NOTE edited
DrDick @ 28
Which is scary considering what we already know about their depravity.
TexBetsy @ 32
Sure Betsy. Let me know…
filed under 707! XMLSpy Awarded Certificate for IBM
Gosh, it was bad enough to watch the undead demon draculacheney on frontline, did you have to post a pic of that fatuous fraud too? A photo of his twin Elmer Fudd would be apropos?
madmommy @ 34
This appears to be a special edition of something called “Matt Lauer Presents.” They are going through the entire story and, I must say, the Craigs are holding up quite well. I suppose if your entire life has been a lie that’s not hard.
Happy Birthday good mrs puma!
EDP, this is where we kept Suzanne’s gifts and cakes.
TRex this is one of your best….. along with darkblack…
RockPaperScizzors @ 40
I had no idea Bugs was on YouTube! Must start a folder of all my favorites, they never show them on teevee anymore.
TexBetsy @ 42
Thank you (nice haul, Suzanne–especially the kitten with the cupcake).
Suzanne @ 26
Happy (late?) birthday, Suzanne!!!
madmommy, they are on the Cartoon Network now… every June they run back to back every bugs cartoon there is – they call it junebugs
spurious, you’re back from your road trip?
Suzanne @ 47
Thanks! The big kid watches CN, but only for pokemon. Such drek, when there are so many classic Warner toons that are fall on the floor funny.
madmommy @ 49
Amen.
madmommy @ 45
Elmer Fudd, Bugs Bunny, and Daffy Duck
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2c0Y2lWJ5o
I honestly tried to listen to Rush today. Can’t get air america in the AM, so the radio was still tuned in to KFI. I was unable to listen to more than one minute. Bless the Media Matters people.
Strategerie @ 37
Mmmmmm. Let’s see. Went with an all male crew to an island notorious as a destination for sex tourists looking for underage children. With a large supply of v*agra. Obviously nothing unsusual or untoward here.
Loo Hoo. @ 52
I’m loooong past being able to stomach a single second of any of these psuedohumans.
WaPo chatz tomorrow; questions accepted anytime!
Frontline producer Michael Kirk at 11am eastern
Dan Froomkin at 1pm eastern
Suzanne @ 49
Yup, dragged in last night. 12000 miles on the poor Roo! Good trip, saw lots of people.
oooooh, tsf, a froomkin chatz tomorrow.. thanks
NewtonUsr, no luck.
who cares about rush? skippy’s got earl scruggs and the byrds, singing together!
TexBetsy @ 59
send email to
n e w t o n u s r
at
a o l
dot
com
We’ll do it there.
TexBetsy @ 58
quictime movies have stopped playing inline in the browser for me since last quictime update.
I don’t use realaudio
Time’s running short, CT.
madmommy @ 63
One out to get four runs…!!! 8-(
Scratch that…!!!
I use RealAudio. I like it better than Quicktime, which refuses to play story files from NPR.
CTuttle @ 63
Too late. Day off tomorrow, then it’s the last chance.
is baseball season over yet?
I think the Thugs are really loosing it; the false bravado about Hillary is the candidate we want to run against has now turned to panic.
Digby’s take on “Hillary..the Vaginal American”
Nutcracker Fever
by digby
Here are Tucker Carlson and Cliff May talkin’ bout bitches ‘n shit.
(snip)
Carlson has well documented issues with Clinton, whom he says makes him “cross his legs” every time he hears her voice. Evidently his “instinctive” revulsion is a perfectly valid reaction, but women who are inspired by the fact that she is the first woman in history to be a serious candidate for president are thinking with their twats. Whatever. His point is so stupid it’s not even worth refuting.
I can only speak for myself, but guys like May and Carlson are why this woman thinks that “Dickhead-Americans” (also known as “Republicans”) have reached the end of their run. This snotty little bully routine has just grown tiresome. Regardless of whether they have a pen*s or vagina, thinking people are sick of this bullshit.
(snip)
link
*MOD NOTE:edited*
Suzanne @ 68
You wish…!!! :P
Suzanne @ 67
No, but your chosen team, teh Cleveland Indians are one win away from going to the World Series against the Rockies.
all fixed. xvid was needed.
Suzanne @ 67
The regular season is, but the chatter just goes on and on.
I have such a crush on this guy.
TRex @ 65
Yup, NPR, CSPAN and Air America.
Craptastic audio format
OOPS..I think I got trapped..by the V and P words..my bad
refresh and it is free steve ar
TeddySanFran @ 28
I think I spotted Mitch under the table…or it could’ve been Lindsey…looking for a piece of paper.
EvilDrPuma @ 73
Is Fox doing the Series again this year? Hard to imagine someone can fuck up baseball, but they sure do try.
Yeah, ’cause conservatives like Rush always make sure they’re absolutely sin-free before they criticize anyone else.
Wowsers! Look what I got from DiFi:
I am opposed to Mr. von Spakovsky serving as a member of the FEC. In January 2006, while the Senate was in recess, President Bush appointed Mr. von Spakovsky to serve on the FEC and he must now be confirmed by the Senate in order to remain in this position. The duties of the FEC, which is an independent regulatory agency, are to disclose campaign finance information, to enforce the provisions of the law such as the limits and prohibitions on contributions, and to oversee the public funding of Presidential elections. Given that the FEC serves a vital role in ensuring the integrity of elections, it is critical that nominees who serve on this commission are subject to a rigorous confirmation process. Elections are the heart of our democracy and we must guarantee that those charged with overseeing them possess the highest professional credentials and personal judgment.
tw3k @ 75
Wish they’d all use Ogg Vorbis, but Real Networks keeps
bribing themmaking irresistable offers.Redshift @ 78
If we just outlawed hypocrisy, we wouldn’t need a Fairness Doctrine.
DiFi is trying to wiggle out of passing him out of committee and onto the floor for a vote.
ain’t gonna cut it, difi. i’m a voter and i remember
Cujo359 @ 79
Skip (or is it Chip) Caray isn’t bad but McCarver grates on my very last nerve. Tony Gwinn was great on TBS’s games.
Suzanne @ 84
Payback’s a bitch, ain’t it?
Cujo359 @ 81
Ogg would be great! Especially non-commercial stuff like CSPAN.
Steve-AR @ 69
They’re just upset that the Vaginal American Club will not accept them as a member – so to speak.
(MOD NOTE*edited)
Skidboot or his offspring for Prezdinent, it is the only thing that makes sense *g*:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2BfzUIBy9A
Suzanne @ 84
Obama has placed a ‘Hold’ on him… If he keeps it it’s a dead issue…!!! *g*
LooHoo-was it you who mentioned the other night about a connection between a kid’s age when they start losing baby teeth and progress in school? I tried to go look for the comment but couldn’t remember when it was.
BTW, Happy Birthday Suzanne!
madmommy @ 85
He does that to people. He knows quite a bit about the game, it’s a shame he doesn’t talk about that rather than whatever it is he’s prattling on about when I tune him out.
My big problem with Fox is that you’re seldom watching the game. There are all the distractions, the graphics, and all those silly sound effects. I really like being able to hear and see the game. I really don’t care who’s in the stands today.
Cujo359 @ 90
Of course, they’ve done precisely the same thing to the news….
TRex @ 74
He’s a doll, and all ANTM commentary is welcome chez TSF. I’ve bookmarked it for the Badger when he gets home from work.
Ya know…all that crapolla…about the Cheney takeover…just makes me ……….
Kiss my f’ing butt!!
Cujo359 @ 92
Yeah, but they gotta flog the shows on the network. I’m sure it’s just a coincidence these actors are at the game.
TeddySanFran @ 94
Just out of curiosity, WTF is ANTM?
OT, but for those of you who’d like a translator for that Redneck neighbor next door:
Redneckapedia
Some examples:
All: a petroleum-based lubricant.
Bard: past tense of borrow.
Barium: What doctors do when patients die.
Cache: Needed when you run out of food stamps.
Coma: A punctuation mark.
And many, many more. LOL!
Evening, Firepups!
Have you recovered from b’day bash, Suzanne? Cassie & TexB’s b’day page was excellent.
And speaking of excellent, yet another excellent post by the Theropod.
LS @ 94
Wow! You can do that !!!111
tw3k @ 87
Seems like a natural fit, doesn’t it? Using an open standard makes it accessible to everyone, not just the folks who have computers the company that owns the patent is willing to support.
Mad Dogs @ 98
Watch yourself there, hoss. I come from a long line of rednecks, hillbillies, and white trash, not to mention the horse thieves and river boat whores.
ndfg, i think i pulled a muscle in my back swinging from the chandelier but otherwise, a good time was had by all
Cujo359 @ 100
exactly!
our genes are gay.
from Our Descent Into Madness by Daisy
http://ourdescent.wordpress.co…..s-are-gay/
More talk about whether there’s a “gay gene.” That post touches on my thoughts about the whole thing which are: demonstrating a solid biological basis for queerness? Interesting, sure, but beside point. The point is that there is no reason to actual discriminate against people in same-sex relationships, whether those people have a choice about the relationship or not.
I’ve got a strong suspicion that if the biological cause of lesbianism were to be discovered, and people could be tested for it, and they were to test me, my results would show I’m queer through and through. That suspicion is based on a lot of things, namely the fact that my liking girls can be traced back through my very early childhood (like, age three). My girlfriend, on the other hand, isn’t gay; she’s had romantic relationships with boys and certainly could have more in the future, and though she definitely likes girls, if I had to guess, I’d guess whatever biological forces are at work within my anatomy aren’t at work in hers.
So is it okay for me to be with girls because that’s my essential nature, and not okay for her, because she could (theoretically) choose to be with boys?
It’s okay for both of us to be with people of any gender, of course. So the whole question of where queerness comes from — which, let’s be honest here, is a question of whether it’s changeable — is just the wrong one to be asking.
There’s a very related discussion going on over here about whether it’s appropriate to ask why or how people have the preferences and orientations they do. And basically I think some people really do have a kind of choice, and some people really don’t. And both of those experiences are valid and real and okay.
tw3k @ 100
]
“Only if I can”….:P Old joke!
Well, I’m gonna call it an early night. Be excellent to each other.
Limbaugh and Rove have got to be genetically linked somewhere in their past.
DD: America’s Next Top Model
Suzanne @ 104
that’s what birthdays are for! Noticed you were dancing on the bar … figured the party was a good ‘un.
DrDick @ 103
As a born and raised southerner, I sincerely wish that, when there is a bad storm or tornado, the local news doesn’t beat a path to the nearest trailer park. Once there, they manage to find some gal with 3 teeth and orange can rollers in her hair talking about how it “sounded just like a freight train!” Which then gets picked up by the networks and all southerners look, once again, like hopelessly backward, ignorant buffoons.
LS @ 105
you must be older than me
Monty Python’s blancmange
They don’t have all-night grocery stores around here anymore, so I gotta go.
Happy Birthday to Mrs. Puma and (belatedly) Suzanne.
And another good rant, TRex.
Ssshhh, please I have a laugh hangover from last night’s party. I think I pulled a guffaw muscle too. Oh and, hi everybody!
kathleen @ 107
genetically altered by their diet
tw3k @ 112
Probably.
sleep well edp.
Suzanne @ 84
I agree. This is the first I had heard that she wouldn’t vote for him.
Loo Hoo. @ 120
If she’s not gonna vote for him, why in the hell did it get out of committee in the first fucking place!!!
exactly, madmommy, why the hell did she
Suzanne @ 121
Yeah!
Sorry.
persi, we’re celebrating with loo hoo tomorrow night
ANTM is a totally ridiculous show called, “America’s Next Top Model” that I don’t even watch and yet I enjoy Rich’s commentary on it so much that I seem to always know what’s going on in the show.
I’m going to NYC to assassinate Rich’s gorgeous boyfriend so that Rich will love me and only me.
707
TexBetsy @ 105
Over a thousand Gay twin siblings are participating in the study, as I read it in my Daily Rag, I thought about TRex and PRex… However, Pat is straight…!!! *g*
TexBetsy @ 105
This is a classic example of the complex interaction between genes and environmental factors which mold our persons. Great show om Nova earlier tonight on this, which is called epigenetics. For instance, childhood abuse not only make you more likely to become an abuser, but also make you more likely to get diabetes, become obese, and several other diseases. Sexuality is even more complex, as there is a wide range of sexual preferences (”basic” human sexuality is not particularly directed, though individuals have their own preferences). We fundamentally obscure the issue by casting it as a dichotomous set when it is a multidimensional continuum. Desire and affection are where they are at the moment and are perfectly natural expressions of our humanity. For the record, primate sexuality generally is pretty indiscriminate.
madmommy @ 120
Nelson of Nebraska flipped
Suzanne..birthday fun is over..born in ‘54..hmmmm..have you had you colonoscopy? The GF is in the next room reading about colon ca and reminded me that 50’s is the right time..Now back to the snark.
Gotta turn in. Tomorrow’s last day on SCHIP. My Congressman now says, well, ok, it doesn’t cover illegals, really, but it’s too easy for them to prove citizenship. Asshole.
G’nite.
One of my pals at DWT, Ken (keninny) paid a visit to the BillO manse back in August. Mike Stark was there also.
Pretty hilarious report, tho maybe too long for this late time in the evening.
DWT pays a morning call on Bill O, and learns that the incarnation of evil looks pretty scary when he fetches his morning paper–oh, those red shorts!
>>As a born and raised southerner, I sincerely wish that, when there is a bad storm or tornado, the local news doesn’t beat a path to the nearest trailer park. Once there, they manage to find some gal with 3 teeth and orange can rollers in her hair talking about how it “sounded just like a freight train!” Which then gets picked up by the networks and all southerners look, once again, like hopelessly backward, ignorant buffoons.
madmommy @ 119
to game her score card?
TRex @ 125
Patience, someday your prince will come and he will love only you. Scaly skin and tiny forelimbs and all.
madmommy @ 91
Yes. But it’s just my theory from years of teaching second graders. Just seems like they’re not ready to read until the baby teeth are gone and the permanent teeth are coming in. Yes, they can learn their sounds and spit out words, but I’ve never seen one enjoy actually reading until their permanent teeth are coming in. Just read to the little ones. They truly love that, and are much more likely to be readers if they enjoy the content early on.
kirk murphy @ 126
Heya Kirk Murphy – and my fellow right-thinking Americans.
Niters EDP – sleep well.
Should follow your lead but I’m waiting for Bill Moyers and am fairly certain Teddy noted earlier it starts here on the left coast at 10 PM. We’re rejoicing that the rain has been saturating our parched forests and farm lands all day here on the central coast.
TexBetsy @ 124
Woo Hoo, it’s Loo Hoo’ birthday tomorrow? I’ll be here with bells on. I won’t say where they’ll be, but I’ll have them.
Rove and Rush might look a bit alike… but I would like to see a side-by-side of Rush and Fred Thompson… honestly, saw a photo of a sun-browned Rush and thought I was seeing an early, chubbier version of Thompson.
*waving to the leaving sleepy pups*
I’m outta here.
See you guys in a bit.
Beerfart Liberal @ 142
listening to the sound of silence?
Suzanne @ 141
waving back
Beerfart Liberal @ 141
mods steal your thoughts?
What I don’t understand is how it came up in committee.
IIRC the Rethugs just stuffed Exec branch nominees (from Clinton) by never even scheduling them for a committee vote.
If this is correct, why won’t Nancy and the Dems use the same majority power?
TeddySanFran @ 129
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Loo Hoo. @ 136
Interesting. The big kid is doing great with the reading, and it has really boomed since the school year began. What got him going-Dick and Jane! Mom sent him a compilation book for Christmas, he pulled it out after school started and found he could easily read it. The culture shock is interesting, to say the least. And still not even a wiggly tooth. He does tend to insert a word he thinks should go there rather than sounding out the actual word. The little guy “reads” to me, hysterical!
TexBetsy @ 146
No, I was gonna post something & changed my mind and I guess I hit the submit button.
Nite.
Tomorow is a big schip day.
madmommy @ 121
Exactly what I emailed her to ask, and hence the reply.
madmommy @ 111
The worst part is that many of those people are actually reasonably intelligent (I have known a lot in my life), though woefully undereducated and often less than articulate.
My grandfather was an Ozark Hillbilly who farmed 60 acres of flint rock and post oak with a horse team into the late 60s. He dropped out of the 6th grade. Both of his sons earned graduate degrees in science and engineering and my other and her sister both got BAs.
The media maintain the knee jerk redneck stereotypes (which helps fuel some of their anger against the intelligentsia). the look for every opportunity to portray them as lazy, stupid, and socially repellent, rather than poor, uneducated, and disenfranchised. This country does not deal at all with issues of social class.
madmommy @ 148
Those were such great days! I have video of texteen, at age 2, reading his favorite story to a stuffed dog. Priceless.
Here’s the AP story… Pretty interesting read…
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/s…..TE=DEFAULT
Beerfart Liberal @ 149
sleep well.
DrDick @ 152
So true. There’s plenty of dirt poor farmers in my family tree.
Dan in Canada @ 140
Rove is so…doughy, dewy even..kind of driven by the hope of reinforcement for his conniving….Thompson is sort of like a bored, sun-dried tomato…needs a nap. Rush…he’s like Rove. JMHO
The Fed is burning money faster than Bernanke can print the stuff. Citibank is broke. And Paulson’s House of Cards was rezoned shithouse.
Goodnacious.
TexBetsy @ 124
How did you know?
And LS, I didn’t get to say HB to you the other day. Happy Birthdaysville!
Loo Hoo. @ 158
Thanks for the thought!
TexBetsy @ 153
Yesterday after his bath the little guy started saying the Pledge of Allegiance. The do it every morning at school. At first I couldn’t figure out what he was saying, but enough of the words were understandable, along with the cadence that I figured it out. Of course I didn’t have the video cam out, and now he won’t do it again. Maybe I should just put cameras in every corner 24/7, the funniest stuff happens when you least expect it.
facebook has the birthday calendar.
LS @ 160
Bwahahahahaha…I was gonna plug that one in here too!!! Perrrrrfect…
The thing with the FEC Appointments is: they come two-by-two, one Dem and one GOP. Currently, there are two vacancies as well as two recess appointments expiring. So there will be four vacancies going into a prez election year, leaving the FEC essentially outta business; there’s only six members total.
In the past (since 2000) the Dem and GOP nominees been voted on together, but not before that. So Mitch McConnell is saying if one (HvS) isn’t voted on, none will be. And DiFi thinks it is irresponsible to leave the FEC without a working quorum in an election year — unable to hear complaints and make decisions at their usual sloth-y pace.
So with an Obama hold on HvS, it’s likely we’ll have a crippled FEC going into the 2008 season, possible prompting more recess appointments from Shrub.
Not saying I agree with DiFi, but there’s been very little reasonableness on this one all the way around. I’d like to hear from those more experienced in the doings of the FEC what penalty the Republic will pay to have four empty seats in an election year; cases are never decided during the season anyway or penalties assessed. Will the GOP try more foolishness with no FEC or with HvS on it?
Off to bed for me. At least I get to read all I missed over morning coffee tomorrow! Goodnight all!!!
“Ladies and gentlemen…The SMEARED TAINTS!“
;>)
i ain’t clickin db. no way.
PLovering @ 158
When are the Democrats going to start talking about the Bank Trust that the banks created this week?
Here’s something for DiFi:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoJZndRfMQU
TeddySanFran @ 163
Can’t claim any expertise here, but it seems to me that we are no worse off with no FEC than with HvS or a bunch of other corrupt Bush partisans. I mean the whole point of his appointment is to insure that the FEC is not able to perform as it should.
be brave, tex, there is a lotta brain bleach stockpiled just for db on late nite
Night MM.
darkblack @ 166
If only Rush could really do something creative, like play guitar.
I wonder if DiFi is worried that Bush will make recess appointments, including HvS, to all four empty slots if the Senate does not act.
Plus, she’s really a GOP.
darkblack @ 167
Rush??? Is that Geddy Lee?
darkblack @ 165
OK. Who has the tanker truck of brain bleach? For a supposedly intelligent and educated person, I sure never seem to learn.
TeddySanFran @ 164
Having a crippled FEC is not necessarily a bad thing, this time around, they couldn’t file charges five days before…!!! *g*
Did ya read the article at 154?
Ewwwwwwwwww….DB!!! I looked 2X.
dr (pause) dick, there are bleach dispensers stationed permanently at every entrance and exit at the lake
Suzanne @ 180
At this rate, though, I’m gonna need an IV… :-O
DrDick @ 176
I always wait for the reactions, before even thinking about it…!!! ;-)
ya’ll are a buncha wusses – ya know you are gonna look so just do it
Suzanne @ 178
I think this one requires even more than industrial quantities.
not me suzanne
i double dog dare ya
3X chcheehkchk…Ewwwwww.
Okay, I’m over it.
Suzanne @ 182
*Bwack* :P
Suzanne @ 180
Suz, let me say how much I love you. In a totally innocent way. Bleach? You would be even wilder as a blond. Maybe. ;)
i triple dog dare ya
Suzanne @ 181
Oh, I looked alright. I always look. On this one, however, db outdid her/himself. This requires massive tanker truck loads of brain bleach.
Maybe Bill can ask Rudy about this quote from Victoria Toesning:
RUDY: “As United States Attorney, I investigated the Leon Klinghoffer murder by Yasir Arafat,” he told the Jewish audience…
Victoria Toensing, the deputy assistant attorney general at the Justice Department in Washington who filed a criminal complaint in the Lauro investigation, says that no one in Giuliani’s office “was involved at all.” Jay Fischer, the Klinghoffer family attorney who spearheaded a 12-year lawsuit against the PLO, says he “never had any contact” with Giuliani or his office…
brain bleach, vg, for db’s links
i was blonde as a child… and a redhead.. now just mouse brown and silver
1:30 and frontline finally on
tw3k @ 194
Where do you live, Newfoundland? If you would like to share.
tw3k @ 194
get the feeling they picked that air time looking for the least possible viewers
tw3k @ 194
Where are you geographically?
(momentarily delurking)
Good evening, everybody-
LS, I missed your birthday-Happy Birthday! And Loo Hoo, it’s your birthday tomorrow?
It’s cold in January…
tw3k @ 193
Shudder….his eyes tell it all. We’re not in Kansas anymore, but the fact that it is out there is reason for hope, I hope.
Trex, ANTM is fascinating and appalling. According to mommy Tyra, it’s a good thing to practice posing in front of a mirror.
LS @ 170
Youth recaptured!
Sandman @ 193
Edinboro: WQLN
Suzanne @ 193
Suz, well, that haircolor thing will be your next adventure! I always wanted to be a redhead.
I looked at the db link, and I don’t see what all the fuss is about. Pretty tame. I especially like all of the band-aids on the left forearm. Subtle.
Loo Hoo. @ 200
*G*
Valley Girl @ 203
vg, from what i know, you already are a readhead
Suzanne @ 193
Joker colors.
Suzanne @ 194
That’s Erie for ya.
you edited it as i quoted it, vg
tw3k @ 206
It was on at primetime here in TX.
Suzanne @ 179
I think I’m gonna head to my secret lab with my trusty assistant, Igor. There we will develop Fuggedaboudit ™, a non-toxic, image-specific mental eraser. Look at or think about the think you want to forget while inhaling Fuggedaboudit’s pleasant-scented spray. Instant ignorance. (Warning: this innovative product works one image at a time. Forgetting the entire Bush presidency is not possible, even with a kajillion buckets of Fuggedaboudit ™.
would rather be joker colors than pickles colors
TexBetsy @ 185
Hi Tex! Hey Suzanne, look over there!
Quick TB, to the snack shack to hide!
Suzanne @ 196
I didn’t even see it on our TV Guide (the one on the TV).
Cheney’s doing…
do-si-do @ 210
Snack shack is EMPTY. You see that party last night???
persi, our congresscritters think we already are under the influence of fuggedaboudit…
they forgot that brain bleach is the anti-fuggedaboudit
LS @ 207
Erie is a real backwater.
do-si-do, it should be in your pbs channel’s listing.. Frontline
tw3k @ 215
Sandwiched between Cleveland and Buffalo!!!
do-si-do @ 211
Erie gets things like: Tom Ridge Environmental Center
mui @ 200
At first I swore ANTM off during the first two seasons, then I got hooked. Then my girls…just tonight my hubby tried to put his foot down. We’ll see if it takes next week. We like to cheer the nice girls and boo the real meanies.
Well, I had better head off to bed. Was really dragging today, having partied ’til the wee hours for Suzanne’s b’day last night. Take care and enjoy the snark.
CTuttle @ 216
Yeah, They used to skrim here, football.
TexBetsy @ 214
Noooooooooooooooo!!!!
Suzanne @ 214
Yeah but brain-bleach makes my lobes smell funny, although they are sparkling white.
night Dr D.
Goodnight, Dr.Dick!
Suzanne @ 208
Suz, hehe…. yep, just a little slip on my part, but maybe true… a “readhead”… you so quick! But really, I think my life would be different if I were a “redhead” rather than a “readhead”!!! ;)
Hi Ron! Yes, 55 tomorrow and can’t believe it! LS shares a birthday with John Dean. Is yours in January?
Nite, Doc…!!!
persi, you must not have seen the unscented dispensers – we have them for those who are sensitive to fragrances
Suzanne @ 217
Yeah, we have the Lost Year of the Iraqi War or something…maybe it’s on really really late, just like Erie! :)
Suzanne @ 229
Ah, as always, you think of everything Suzanne.
Suzanne @ 230
Suz, I just have to ask– were any of your fellow occifers/ officers in the PD aware of your awesome sense of humor?
Do you have any brain floss, Suz?
Loo Hoo. @ 228
Well hell! It’s after midnight here in the muggy environs of central FL, so let me be the first to say it-
HAPPY BIRTHDAY LOO HOO!!!
(blows party horn while grabbing Loo Hoo’s birthday zed, bowing deeply, and returning it to her)
Yes, mine is January 19th, the day of dreams and visions, according to the Birthday Book. How did you know?
tw3k @ 219
Oh. well, that’s good intel (yuk, yuk). We saw a couple of really small colleges that peaked our interest that are in Erie. Is everyone a wingnut or just out of the mainstream of metropolitan America? (Don’t slam me too hard for my word choices!) How diverse it is there?
I have jury duty tomorrow.
Valley Girl @ 203
Oh, Valley Girl, now look what you made me do.
;>)
Loo Hoo. @ 237
oh your birthday? fuck, that sucks big ones loohoo
Loo Hoo. @ 227
Loo Hoo, I’ll catch you up at 55 come December. 1952 was a good year, apparently.
do-si-do @ 220
I am more interested in the twisted mindf*ckery of the judges and probably producers and the mindblowing submission of the “sacrificial maidens.” And the artificial creation of “tradition.” Sorta like “Pledged.”
Thanks, Ron!!! Just a guess because you said it’s cold in January.
darkblack @ 238
That is brilliant. Is that a new one?
persiflage @ 240
My wife’s B’day is in Dec, ‘62 tho…!!! ;-)
Loo Hoo. @ 242
I was trying to explain the raft of birthdays we seem to have in October…;-)
mui @ 241
Yeah, I couldn’t take Janice Dickerson. yikes, she scares me!
Laurels and Hardly.persiflage @ 240
When in December persiflage? You spring chicken, you!
do-si-do @ 220
That is exactly Opposite World of the cheers and boos here.
CTuttle @ 243
What date?
Anyone watch Frontline?-
Oh Loo Hoo. Maybe they’ll reject you by 10 AM and send you home.
I’m spending the next hour curled up with Chris Meloni and his lovely partner Mariska Hargitay. Hell with Cheney. He’ll be there tomorrow, and I might miss a Meloni-tattoo spotting opportunity tonite!
@ 250
Yes. Terrifying. The Rise of the Fourth Reich.
Loo Hoo. @ 246
14th, just before the Christmas rush. I’m often a chicken but I seem to have misplaced my spring.
do-si-do @ 234
It’s totally red around here and diversity is completely frowned upon. I wouldn’t even recommend visiting NWPA.
Valley Girl @ 243
Thank you, VG …Just cleaning out the attic.
frontline starts here in 3 minutes
RonD @ 245
Ah, gotcha. We have so many October birthdays in our family we have an Octoberfest! My dad’s wife and my niece share my birthday tomorrow alone!
TeddySanFran @ 251
Did you see him in Oz? Hoo Boy!! Lotsa Meloni-everything-spotting.
darkblack @ 236
707
RonD @ 253
Okay, I’ll watch it when I get home in a bit. Don’t want to ruin a perfectly good day tomorrow. :)
Valley Girl @ 243
I see Rush as a more of a hypocritically “hygenic” drug addict a la retro. Glass hypos. Starched uniforms, candy stripes and all.
@ 250
It starts here on the central CA coast any minute now.
TeddySanFran @ 248
LOL. I’ll bet!
I don’t get people who refer to themselves in the third person. like jade. “Jade will prevail.” etc.
Did you like Melrose? She was an obnoxious know it all. YOu cheered for her? Not Caridee asked Nigel about his sword? cmon!
persiflage @ 249
The 9th!
darkblack @ 257
Well, people were so timid about the first one, you might have to tell us your birthdate to get them to pay attention to the attic entry ;)
tw3k @ 255
yikes, koolaid in the great lake, eh? thanks for taking the question!
@ 250
It’s on right now. Don’t know if I’ll make it tonight, though.
newspaperbrat @ 263
I’m in Boise; it started at 9:00 pm, unless the cats Tivo’d Hannah Montana instead.
CTuttle @ 264
I’ll make a note of it.
RonD @ 251
Addington: war criminal for detainees?
@ 269
I’ve gotta wait another two hours, NewsHour is on here in the Isles now…!!!
tw3k @ 271
Wasn’t it John Dean who said Addington was at the top of his list for war crimes or something. Yeah, it was on Sunday’s thread about his new book.
just snagged my 2nd zed of the evening. :) Come on up.
do-si-do @ 267
gah, there are even klan meetings around here over by the ohio border.
@ 269
maybe you can distract the cats wtih youtube and grab the teevee.
cheese jerky
@ 273
Yup, the documentary really explains why.
New thread.
If you ever needed evidence that MediaMatters.org is doing God’s work, Limbaugh’s new level of unhing-ed-ness is it.
newspaperbrat @ 263
Of course. Goldsmith gives another version of Abu and Andy Card showing up at the bedside of Ashcroft. It’s more about addington than Cheney. I fault it a little for that disconnect you sometimes get with Scooter and Cheney.
And by the way… Who’s Limbaugh or O’Reilly or whoever going to attack when it comes to MediaMatters?
Yes, that’s right: David Brock. David freakin’ Brock. The David Brock who is the single person most qualfied to speak to the excesses of the right-wing disinformation machine.
DrDick @ 128
Which species of Primate are you referring to? Some are “indiscriminate” but others are not.
Within the apes you have some, like Bonobos, that have sexual activity without regard to sex and even maturity. There is one “taboo” though, mothers and sons have NEVER been seen to have sex with one another. The common chimp doesn’t have this widespread “indiscriminate” sexual behavior, however. Adult males will, however, mate with any female in estrous (other than their mothers, again…and since females emigrate…their sisters). But females definitely show preferences with specific males, running off with them during her peak estrous.
Gorillas are even more restrictive. Females usually mate exclusively with one adult male in the group. To the best of my knowledge, there is no report of “homosexual activity”, at least none that is widespread. And orangutans generally are “sexless” for years on end, until the female returns to estrous and seeks out the established dominant male. There have been cases of younger, wandering males forcibly copulating with females however. The females resist. Indiscriminate?
Then there are the Gibbon family, a cluster of some dozen different species, all of which are more or less monogamous, again with no observed homosexuality.
And such diversity is also apparent when we look at the other 200 species of Primates. There is heterogeneity, and to characterize them as having “indiscriminate sex” not only ignores this fact, but also all the research that indicates that females in many species are actually selective in opting for mating partners, and actually have evolved both physical and cooperative behavioral features to increase such selectivity. And the old “myth” that males are “indiscriminant” is also quite false.
EvilDrPuma @ 83
… hypocrisy hearings, cool!
cinnamonape @ 282
Those Bonobos heating up the Animal Planet. Tsk Tsk.
Glenzilla nails neocon nepotism: http://www.salon.com/opinion/g…..index.html
Loo Hoo. @ 120
I thought he was linked with 3 other nominees in an all or nothing deal ????
cinnamonape @ 282
Long ago, I read a book by primatologist Sarah Hrdy, The Woman that Never Evolved, that went into the mating proactices of roughly 300 species of primates. Among them are a number that are very monogamous. Others, like baboons, are harem oriented. IIRC, orangatans are loners who meet briefly in the forest and each go their own way. With others the whole colony goes into rutting season at the same time. The endless variety of evolved mating practices was truly amazing.
Here’s a MUST SEE VIDEO about rush…
Bill O’Reilly is headin’ over to his own house and that’s why he hasn’t had a chance to stalk anybody else.
TeddySanFran @ 114
Because Rush means to win Wimbleton?
Or because he has a diabolical energy weapon that turns Americans into complete idiots?
There’s a quote from back in the heady days of feminism that I have never been able to source, and I wish I could. It may have been from an early issue of MS magazine (my wife was a charter subscriber):
‘His pen*s is small, and cannot spell.’
Please, please, somebody: an attribution!
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I think my comment ran into trouble with your filter. It used the p-word as you did in your Rush joke.
Anyway, there is a funny quote from back in the heady days of feminism that may have come from an early issue of MS magazine. I haven’t been able to find a cite. Anybody, please help! It is a wonderful put-down:
‘His pe**s is small, and cannot spell.’
Trex,
With respect. Usually I love your work. This post seems a tad bigoted towards overweight people. It is not all those extra pounds that make Rush = Goebbels. What is it then?
Constructive,
With respect and kindness.
PLovering @ 158
Is there news on this I haven’t seen?
It reminds me of a t.v. joke I liked. A White guy gets a ride with a workmate who is Black. during the ride the Black guy plays a tape (old joke) of a rap song that goes “Kill Whitey. Kill whitey.” The White guy asks the name of the song and the Black guy says, “Justice”.
What more could we ask of Justice than for the Rich criminals to all go bankrupt, be exposed for what they are in public and hear they’ve all gone the way of Kenny Boy Lay (saving us the money to incarcerate them)?