Love these guys…your morning laugh with the “Back Dorm Boys” lip synching “Don’t Lie” from the Black Eyed Peas…the nostril flaring cracks me up.
Yesterday evening, Mr. ReddHedd decided to torture me by forcing me to vicariously watch Rudy Giuliani giving a stump speech at a public meeting at Drake University in Iowa. I was trying to read something nonpolitical to clear my brain, and he was flipping channels and landed on Rudy on the HDTV Channel. He called it “part of the educational process,” but let’s just say there will be no homemade cinnamon rolls at our house this morning.
During his opening speech, Guiliani said one of the funniest things that I have heard in a long time: “If you don’t elect me, we could end up to the left of France.” (Or something close to that, because our damned Tivo wouldn’t allow me to back it up and get an exact quote. And getting an exact quote is difficult when you almost fall out of your chair laughing.)
Ooooooooh….scare me. Left of France. Slap my ass and pass me the freedom fries, Rudy, because it must be no cliche left behind week and I missed the memo. Frankly, we haven’t had enough half-assed, cliched leadership in this country the last few years, so sign me up for four more years of “my President says whatever comes to mind without thinking about it first.” Oh yeah, baby, doesn’t that sound like just what we need in the US of A?
While we were snickering, Mr. ReddHedd said: “Now, I can tell you this, because I’m an educated man. If we are to the left of France, we are in the Atlantic Ocean. You can look at the map.”
Beyond this point, there be dragons.
(And yes, the snarky Mr. ReddHedd take on the “left of France” idiocy did get him back in my good graces enough for the cinnamon rolls. Plus, I figured why punish myself, too? Mmmmmm…pecan rolls…)
I don’t know about you guys, but the general idiocy of political discourse and media “commentary” thereon has gotten on my last nerve this week. This morning, what I really need more than anything is a good laugh. And so, on your behalf and mine, I’ve looked up a giggle or two on YouTube. And found some good old-fashioned snark to share.
– Same guys singing “As Long As You Love Me.” (YouTube) No idea what it is about them, but they crack me up. Especially the guy in the background working on his computer. mweee heeee
– Did someone say laughter? (YouTube)
– TBogg? He funny.
– This cracked me up, too, although the humor is a little potty. (I feel so punaise.)
– I thought the first part of this was kind of funny (YouTube), in that you could watch it with your grandpa in the room and he’d get a laugh, too, sort of way. And the rest is just a really well executed idea that more campaigns ought to be doing to encourage caucusing in Iowa. More participation is a good thing in my book.
– And finally, why I love Kung Fu Monkey:
You know what I felt, as a “young writer” when the “union albatross” was slipped around my neck? I remember, indeed, my first horrified thought. “Wow, a living wage!”, followed immediately by “Now I can get my loved ones better health insurance.” Years later, as a successful writer, that albatross was the only thing keeping much more powerful, connected humans from taking some of my .3% DVD residual above and beyond what they were already making.
Listen, I get it. You love free markets. So do I. I just know that they weren’t designed by Jesus. They’re not perfect, and sometimes you need a union not out of any high moral stance, but just to maintain fair business practices.
To paraphrase a previous post — I live with the tiger, I love it, but I respect its teeth and instincts. Stop asking why I don’t just pet the kitty.
We should all be supporting the WGA — because fair is fair. But something about that whole “look you moronic nincompoops” smackdown attitude here just made me snicker out loud. Good on ya!
What made you laugh this week? Anything? Do share…and pull up a chair…
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Up early today, Christie?
ZED_
Almost Zed. and perhaps a chance for impeachment.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/11/17/15511/461
money quote after I register my almost Zed.
Good morning Christy!
I’ll tell you what’s making me laugh, the idea of meeting the famous punaise in person today :)
And a cast of thousands! Well, a cast of characters anyway.
re Bluestate@3:
I talked to Curt Gayette today and he thought we have a chance to move the impeachment ball forward….Email and call John Conyers office early and often and ask him to proceed with the bipartisan support of Kucinich’s impeach Dick Cheney resolution! Phone: (313) 961-5670 Phone: (202) 225-5126
Bernie Sanders and Russ Feingold have been saying on the radio that they haven’t been hearing from the public on Kucinich’s proposal so they don’t think we want Shooter impeached…If they get calls all week we may get some movement on this…
From Crooks and Liars.
D——! – would have got the zero if it weren’t for my broken leg!
Good morning. Some unintentional humor
(if you can stomach it):
WaPo services the Judith.
No mention of Louis, for some strange reason.
Hey BlueState! Got your fighting spirit back?
Rudie is a mean SOB. He’s from a mafia family.
The mob may run the country from inside the white house if he wins.
Bush gave the corporations the key and next Rudie will give it to the mob. Lovely.
In the continuing story of unpacking boxes in my house I came across a gift given to me by a church administrator when she came back from a vacation. A tea towel with this printed on it:
“The problem with political jokes is that they get elected”
Did that make me laugh? No. But at least I didn’t cry.
good morning Christy, et al.
Morning, Redd!
Rudy at Drake, you say? . . .
Part one
Part two
Part three
Part four
I couldn’t bring myself to watch it, as (a) I am at my parents home, using their dialup, and (b) the coffee is still brewing, and I can’t bear the thought of clicking on the links without it.
SanderO @ 9
implications for cuba.
The Thugs are all a joke; the problem is that they are all very dangerous.
Meeting Marcie Wheeler and others from Next Hurrah in person in the BlueState by the Bay to hear her on the news and then for a meet up.
Direction on how to join on both late nites.
Also Old Coasties’ one-person effort to stop the petition fraud thing at her Targets meets up via FDL (ok, I was the matchmaker) with others and becomes our rep in a real citizens action.
idem on info down below on late-late
Good Morning Christy!
cinnamon rolls, I can just smell them
mmMmMmmm
Hello all,
Check this out for a good laugh. It had my office rolling yesterday.
He’s not an electrical engineer, he’s a pen ninja.
RevDeb @ 10
in the checkout line at a very nice Italian bakery last week I saw tea towels on sale decorated with little ducks etc… I thought of my mother’s ‘doilies.’ ‘Ah, handcrafted in Napoli’ I thought.
nope. machine crafted-churned-choked out in china.
RevDeb @ 10
Sounds like the perfect towel to keep next to the computer, ready to mop up the spills.
Mr. ReddHedd’s “Left of France” comment might have caused one here, had my coffee been ready.
egregious @ 8
Thanks for remembering that the BlueStater was Blue.
see BlueState@14 to see why.
Whee going to see ET !! (not the movie)
Also an empathy high for Alaskans, see E***D Teller on late-late.
Oh yes, OT, but happy-making. a student of mine who has returned from Pakistan says that her lawyer friends and such are our of jail and were not mistreated there. Some are under house arrest, however.
As for Bhutto, she warns…well that would ruin my high, so fogeddabout it.
we have an aboriginal radio station here on the fm dial. funded by govt. sources in large part i’d imagine.
heard a news item which had me shaking my head in disbelief.
native business people looking into the possibility of factories in china to produce native ‘arts and craft’ gift items.
now I’m imagining a ‘dreamcatcher’ giving off sulphurous fumes….
Good Morning everyone, a cherry pie in the oven and fresh coffee brewing is filling my house with delightful aromas.
BlueStateRedHead @ 14
left you two replies.
Millineryman @ 21
that’s as good as cinnamon buns!
I’d rather be left of France then right of Atillia the Hun.
Gotta clean up the house a bit before going to the weekly peace vigil and then home to bake challah for tomorrow’s church service. Lots to do!
Have a good one everyone. And those going to the thing in Boston, say hi to everyone for me. Wish I was there (just for the day since I like where I moved to) to see you all.
the ol’ time song ‘I’m My Own Grandpa’ sung by a choir:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjApuNTeKpQ
not quite the ‘mountain’ flavour of the original but pretty amusing…
selise @ 22
Got it.
RevDeb @ 25
we’ll miss you!
Millineryman @ 21
We’ll be right over.
Don Henley gave CNN an interview, about the new and final Eagles album coming out:
I’d say the Eagles have had enough. Mmmmm . . . just imagining a Dixie Chicks/Eagles concert brings a smile to my face.
There’s more to the interview, so click through and enjoy.
A singularly uninformative article in NYT on Chavez, IMO. I don’t really know, except in vaugue terms, what’s actually going on, i.e. specifically what his policies are and how that will influence the economy. They standard story is that they appease the masses with oil revenues while deteriorating the structure of the economy. I’d like to know more but don’t get it from NYT. What else is new. Anyone with a more analytical source?
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11…..ez.html?hp
egregious @ 29
The more the merrier!
If you want a moment of faith, check out this story the AP has put up this weekend:
http://www.pantagraph.com/arti…..158499.txt
The Flying Spaghetti Monster is going mainstream!
I hate French bashing. I put it into the same category as immigrant bashing, although the results of immigrant bashing can be that actual immigrants get bashed. It’s just more racism. And Bush had it out there as a matter of POLICY when he went bashing Kerry. What a bunch of scumbags.
George Simian @ 34
90% of French bashing is jealousy.
eCAHNomics @ 31
without being an expert myself I’d imagine a lot of the criticism of Chavez ‘deteriorating the structure of the economy’ is pure ‘concern troll’ commentary.
I’m not sure what the guys long term prospect is (Mugabe or Mandala?) but he’s probably restructuring the ecomomy outside the control of NAFTA as much as possible. Which of course is purely unacceptable from a corporatist point of view.
eCAHNomics @ 35
Some folks seem to think that we joined WWI and WWII to help the French, and they are ingrates. Of course, in both cases we were a little late in joining, if that had been our purpose.
Good Morning, Firedoglakers!
Something we can all look forward to:
http://www.sfgate.com/columnists/morford/
“Bush Death Watch: Countdown!
It’s official: Less than one year until history slaps Dubya to the curb. Can you feel the tingle?”
[Mod: “Bush Death Watch” is the title of the article, we trust, not any desire to see harm done?]
MWS@36
Nice contrast: Mugabe or Mandala.
But someone out there is informed. It IS possible to really know what is going on. You just can’t figure it out from U.S. MSM.
soory to go OT
but this is why POPPY does not stop Chimpy
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/…..-earmarks/
pma @ 37
Do those same idiots forget about France and their help in that little ol thing called the American Revolution?
XKCD makes me laugh every week
But the 5 part epic story of the two greatest hackers in history:
Mrs Roberts and her daughter Elain is priceless
Warning: This is unabashed geek stuff
Hint: Mousover the cartoon for extra interesting information
America has more experts on France than anywhere else in the world.
And amazingly enough they neither speak or read French and neither have they visited France.
It’s truly a ‘marvel.’
pma @ 37
At the end of WW2, we loved France.
Linda @ 38
Soooooooooooooooo much can happen in a year..i for one will not rest till he is gone
France is a wonderful country. What’s not to like about it? Great cuisine, amazing wine, castles, architecture, gorgeous sassy stylish women, cheese, bread, pastry, amazing rivers, seaside towns, cool music, literature, unions, trains that are modern, the Louvre, haute couture, CDG airport, airbus… They are doing just fine without the USA and that pisses off the ignorant Bushwhackos.
The one thing I don’t get about the French is their sense of color. I’d go with the Italians on that.
pma@37
But then there’s the U.S. Revolution. Without the French, we’d still be a colony of the British Empire. (Well, probably not, but that’s another story.)
I find all that stuff so useless as to how to evaluate the here & now. Yes, history is an important ingredient, but not the sole determinant of understanding present & future.
BTW, have you considered that the short version of U.S. foreign policy is that our friends become out enemies & vice versa?
eCAHNomics @ 35
Remember Romney’s leaked playbook this Summer?
Boston Globe. It was all anti-French. Guess he was thinking at the time that Kerry would be running.
Now, imagine that had happened and at a town meeting pres. debate someone asked a question of the two fluent French speakers.
Yowza.
These days one might want to be to the left of france – to the right is Mussolini
need a laugh, this always gets me gigling
Parade Ground from Stripes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEm6B1AXEso
Millineryman @ 41
Well, they liked to say we got help in our infant democracy from the French and we’re doing the same for the Iraq infant democracy. They don’t mentioned that Louis XVI helped, not because he supported democracy, but to do in the British. As a result, he had to raise taxes to pay for it, got overthrown by democratic ideas and beheaded. It worked for us, but not so much for him.
The latest round of French bashing started when Cheney and Rumsfeld went around Europe insulting them and calling the “Old Europe”. This is the M.O. of Bush and Co: alienate the population of a Democratic country and make it impossible for their elected leaders to aide US interests. And then get all pissy when it happens.
Then go on TV and tell everybody that it didn’t really happen that way.
Mabel’s Wig Shack @ 36
not part of nafta… but, i think, he’s leading efforts to create an alternative to the imf for region’s countries… funded, i think, by oil $$. considering how we’ve used the imf to control south american countries and i can see how that would be perceived to be a threat (to our hegemony – not to us)
that’s the limit of my ability to contribute. will look forward to whatever eCAHNomics uncovers.
eCAHNomics @ 47
History is to a society what memory is to an individual. Accordingly, its essential to understand where we are, but is just as susceptible to rationalization, denial, forgetfullness, etc.
…gotta go run some errands if i’m to make it to the meet up later. have great day with lots of laughs, pups.
You should go see The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. It’s a great movie, but it also makes you think that it would never happen in the American health care system where every stitch of humanity has been systematically stripped.
Good Morning everyone. T-, the pen ninja was, indeed, very funny.
Bush Stuffs Spending Bills With Earmarks For Dad’s Foundation, Wife’s Librarian Program
On Monday, President Bush explained his veto of the recent Labor-HHS bill, claiming the “majority” in Congress had abandoned his “clear goals for the Congress to reform the earmarking process” and was “acting like a teenager with a new credit card.”
In reality, Bush “stuffs his budget with billions for pet projects.” According to Senate Democrats, Bush placed 580 earmarks worth $15.6 billion in a recent military and veterans appropriations request, along with “billions” in the energy and water spending bill:
Some presidential earmarks have obvious roots, such as $24 million for the Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program. The president earmarked a billion dollars for the Reading First program, which was criticized by government auditors for steering contracts to favored companies. He also sought $8.9 million for the Points of Light foundation, a pet project started by his father, former President George H.W. Bush.
Congress slashed $676 million from Bush’s request for Reading First and eliminated the Points of Light funding. Bush retaliated by vetoing the Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education bill.
Headline in Guardian America:
Could they be reading FDL?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/…..80,00.html
Some presidential earmarks have obvious roots, such as $24 million for the Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program.
one paragraph per visit please. and dont forget to visit the recruiting station in the ‘biography’ section.
Ma Cherie Christy!
Voulez-vous communard avec moi? :o)
My best laugh of the week — there weren’t many — was this from Glenn Greenwald.
wigwam @ 62
too much eh?
next up:
Barry Bonds speaks to the Little League players on the subject of ‘drugs bad! Beef up with hiking and swimming.’
and
Paula Abdul speaks on the subject of ‘Music is not a competition.Feed your soul. Free your soul.’
eCAHNomics @ 58
They’re crazy if they don’t. ;-)
Very often, when I’m watching Olbermann, I’m convinced that he and his writers had paid a visit to the Lake in the past 24hrs.
We all know that all the projects Bush pushes are never what they seem. I’m thinking right now of the ‘Help America Vote Act’ which was actually ‘Force the States to Buy Hackable Voting Machines From Bush Cronies So They Can Steal Elections and Then Kickback Some of the Profits to the Republican Party Act’.
So I wonder…who’s making money from the ‘No Child Left Behind’ disaster? Is it just to cutoff funds to poor schools and destroy our public education system or is someone raking it in? Of course, I’m thinking of Neil but other than some state money, I don’t see anything there. But you know the program was never designed to help students learn, so I’m wondering what the real motive is.
selise @ 55
Me too, same reason. Again. BayState latewakers.
a meet up after Marcie’s talk at BC. info on late and late late nite. search my name.
See some a ya later. the rest, have a great day.
wigwam @ 64
I’m starting to think a lot of the Democratic callers to CSPAN are reading FDL.
And most of the Republican callers are good for laugh
Well since commanding the leaves in my yard to move themselves to the curb did not work, it looks like I have a chore to take care of.
Have a good day folks, and to everyone going to meet ups, have fun!
solai @ 65
A large part of the motivation is to privatize, which is code for religious schools.
wigwam @ 62
It seems to that the Democratic presidential candidates need to be asked what they think about the unitary executive theory and what they would do to tear it, root, trunk, and branch, from any consideration in the future government of the U.S..
Millineryman @ 68
have fun MM, I’m lucky, the wind has blown them all out of my back yard!
solai @ 65
Big scam..testing companies, text books, etc….WaPo is big winner with its Kaplan(?) subsidiary..~$300 million IIRC
pma @ 70
Quick drive by– I’m a bit busy this morning– I posted a ‘Kos diary this morning on Pete Seeger: The Long View: How Can I Keep From Singing
What Do Retired People Do All Day?
Working people frequently ask retired people what they do to make their days interesting. Well, for example, the other day the wife and I went into town and went into a shop. We were there only about 5 minutes. When we came out, there was a cop writing out a parking ticket. We went up to him and I said, “Come on man, how about giving a senior citizen a break?” He ignored us and continued writing the ticket. I called him a dumb jerk. He glared at me and started writing another ticket for having worn tires. So Mary called him a dunder head. He finished writin a third ticket. This went on for about 20 minutes. The more we abused him, the more tickets he wrote.
Personally, we didn’t care. We came into town by bus. We try to have a little fun each day now that we’re retired. It’s important at our age.
pma @ 73
First order of business: repeal the Bush administration.
For MA firepup meetup with Marcy and BlueStateRedHead and selise and I don’t know who else
here’s BlueStateRedHead’s info from late nite
ironranger @ 75
ha. even better if the car belonged to rush limbaugh.
I laughed at this all week. To quote Olberman: “A dumb supermodel, who would have guessed?”
This is so two months ago, but I recently ran across this Taser Incident video meets Monty Python: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNLQY3bQyaM
solai @ 79
in olden times, that one might not have reached her reproductive years
string tied around the diaper.
good. lord.
in olden times, that one might not have reached her reproductive years
i wanted to play a tune on the bull’s horn
Mabel’s Wig Shack @ 78
LOL. Reminds me of the Peter Sellers thing about, “Does your dog bite?”
If you watched Bill Moyers last night, did you catch the end segment with the terrific tool to end the increasing pile of catalogs spilling out of your mailbox? I started calling the companies to get off their mailing lists & in one week I called at least 25. Meanwhile, the catalogs seem to be multiplying like rabbits, with almost 10 entirely new unrequested catalogs showing up in less than 2 weeks.
The new website is catalogchoice.org & I immediately signed up. Thank goodness someone came up with a terrific way to end the catalog tyranny.
mr. adamson really appreciated all the care the nurses provided for him; changing his bed, bringing him medicine and water, opening his curtains.
he used crayola markers and a great big piece of paper to draw a bouquet of flowers with ‘thank you’ coloured in beautifully.
he left it at the nurses station with a bowl of almonds.
the next morning one of the nurses woke him up with an appreciative smile.
‘we really enjoyed your card mr adamson. it really brightened our mood. it’s so nice to be appreciated.’
‘that’s great,’ he replied. ‘and did you like the almonds too?’
‘they were delicious’ the nurse answered.
‘oh, I’m glad, that’s good’ mr. adamson said. ‘you should have tasted them when they were covered in chocolate.’
Okay, since we’re telling jokes.
Monk joins monestery requiring vow of silence, allowing only three words every ten years:
After first ten years:
Abbot: What do you have to say?
Monk: Food not good.
After second ten years:
Abbot: What do you have to say now?
Monk: Bed too hard.
After third ten years:
Abbot: Well, what do you have to say now?
Monk: I quit.
Abbot: It doesn’t surprise me, you’ve been bitching since you got here.
The Heidi Klum story reminded me of my friend when she was a new mother. Her pediatrician told her the baby was old enough to switch from formula to milk. But, he advised, start with 2% milk. For the next week, she prepared formula and then did the mathematical calculations to determine how much in an 8oz bottle would be 98% formula and 2% whole milk.
Since she’s a very intelligent woman, it took a long time to live that down.
ironranger at 75, LOL, even if it was so wrong.
After third ten years:
Abbot: Well, what do you have to say now?
Monk: I quit.
Abbot: It doesn’t surprise me, you’ve been bitching since you got here.
ha!
and now off to work !
“Does your dog bite?” was one of the best comedic bits ever!
Christi, this is a wonderful post & much needed. And I haven’t even started reading all the contributions. It’s amazing reality based people still have the ability to laugh. This should probably be a regular post, good therapy. With tempers flaring from frustration, everyone needs a release.
Molly Ivins would heartily agree. I love her story of her friends planning how to protest a klan group marching in town. They came up with mooning the group in unison as they passed by them.
So glad for the forum and to join in why do we do it. I heard a snippet of Rush yesterday; no Air America. For just a couple of his insane views: he was lamenting the anger of the Democrats, no ideas, just anger, said one of the angriest men on the planet? Paranoid projection anyone? Then the nauseating opinion about Sen Clinton: the question we should ask is why we the country should decide to be loyal, true, devoted, etc to her when her husband can’t be loyal to her. Is there a nonsequitur here?
How has this man stayed on the radio for years? He is cruel, delusional, maybe, sociopathic. Then his fans call in and say they listen everyday. Urggggg. Thanks for letting me vent.
solai @ 88
just quickly on the way out the door:
leaving early one morning a giant racoon poking around on the sidewalk
partner says ‘look at that racoon.’
‘probably looking for a baby’ i say
partner says ‘what!!???thats’ the dumbest thing i’ve ever heard.’
driving up street it hits me.
partner thinks I meant a ‘human’ baby.
when i meant a lost little racoon
Re: Singularly uninformative article on Venezuela in this morning NYT that I brought up at the end of the last thread.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11…..ez.html?hp
I’ve been muddling around the Venezuela blogs since then. Most of the English blog on this subject are wingnuts. But I came across one that seems a little more open minded:
http://www.borev.net/
And another that seems to cover more countries in Latin America:
http://lanr.blogspot.com/
Both, however, are snippets that assume more background than I have. But perhaps if I follow them for awhile, I’ll pick up the necessary background.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Once again the holidays are upon us. And one more time Lahoma and I will be helping to serve Thanksgiving dinners at the Salvation Army here in southwestern Oklahoma.
It’s not too late to call your favorite organization and offer to volunteer.
And Christmas is just around the corner. There are many children who won’t get anything for Christmas. Won’t you please pick out a needy family from your neighborhood and buy and wrap some presentos for the kids in that family, and leave them on their front porch. Your’s may just be the only things those kids get from Santa. And for those who are unable to do so, but wish they could, it’s the thought that counts.
eCAHNomics @ 35
No, it actually harks back to George Wallace’s pointyheaded intellectuals.
The Republicans use these techniques, along with racist code words, to hold the “Reagan Democrats.” The intention is to convey the idea that they are not one of us–not regular folk who stay here in this country like you should.
This is critical because of the what’s the matter with Kansas effect. The Republicans have not served the interests of the Reagan Democats economically (minimum wage increases help them, for example) or in other policies (their kids are the ones in Iraq right now), so they have to use identity gimmicks to keep them in line.
France also serves as a way of accusing Democrats of being feminine–and, in general, of saying leftists are pussies.
They, and the traditional media, have been beating Edwards over the head with both these tactics–he’s rich and he’s a girly, not one of us. I’ve felt, all along, that the Republicans most fear an Edwards nomination. This election is almost certainly lost, but another effective Southern president could spell serious difficulties for them as they increasingly become a regional party.
solai @ 88
A story I heard decades ago from a dr. who claimed it was true. Mother had small child with diabetes and was taught to inject insulin by practicing with a grapefruit and was sent home. But the child continued to deteriorate. On a subsequent visit, the mother protested that she had been very careful to inject the grapefruit every morning, as she was instructed.
I have been getting fed up with the hyperbole used by the media as of late.
Hillary Clinton is getting bloodied!
John Edwards draws blood!
They are battering each other!
Bashing! Duel! Clubbed! Donnybrook! Attacks!
Easy there lamestream media folks, it is a debate, not an ultimate fighting event.
-GSD
Oklahoma kiddo @ 95
What a great way to lift everybody’s spirits!
Oh well, I don’t Julie Meyers is ever going to enjoy Halloween again: BOO HOOOOO!
WASHINGTON – Just when it appeared Julie Myers had cleared every hurdle in her quest to officially become the nation’s top immigration official, a dreadlocked wig and a prisoner’s outfit could cost her the job.
Myers, director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, ran into trouble earlier this month after she and two other agency managers gave the “most original” costume award to a white employee who came to the agency’s Halloween party dressed as an escaped prisoner
AZ Matt @ 100
But he wasn’t wearing ‘blackface’, just make-up that was ‘darker’ than his own skin.
Jeebus, what a pack of dolts.
-GSD
“Red Meat” especially Ted Johnson always cracks me up.
http://www.redmeat.com/redmeat…..index.html
Joel
Good Morning Christy … freshly baked Cinnamon Rolls sounds heavenly … tastes even better …
My fav this week was AbuG, in an article from HuffPo, he said, “To do the right thing. And I have every confidence that Mike Mukasey will do the right thing. Always do the right thing. Follow the law. That was always my lodestar, my guiding principle, and I’m sure that will guide General Mukasey.”
I’m sure many of us fell off our chairs laughing …
Here is silliness – From Think Progress
GSD @ 98
Someone at DKos wrote about how wonderful it would be to have a debate hosted by liberal bloggers. They also acknowledged that it would never actually happen. Your name was mentioned, Christy, as a potential moderater. Wouldn’t it be wonderful? I’d pay to see it. I’d donate to get it on the air. Why is it impossible? Wouldn’t you all love to see our dem candidates field intelligent questions with equal time?
I don’t have a joke, but I wanted to share my favorite book, it is Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Richard Feynman, yes he won a Nobel Prize in Physics, but only about 1% of the book is Physics and the rest funny.
solai @ 104
Setting aside for the moment the fact that Hillary would veto it, the only leftie blogger who might have a chance of making this happen is probably kos.
I love France. I have little doubt that great nation will come to its senses and get rid of Sarkozy the way the Popular Front got rid of Batala in “Le Crime de Monsieur Lange”
AZ Matt @ 100
Not to mention the NEPOTISM.
~Myers is the niece of Air Force Gen. Richard B. Myers, the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
~She is married to John Wood, the U.S. attorney in Kansas City and former chief of staff to Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff.
~”The way things are going, we may not ever vote on her nomination,” Sen. Kit Bond, R-Mo., who is a second cousin of Myers’ husband, said Friday. Bond’s reaction was a surprise, said ICE spokeswoman Kelly Nantel, and Myers is trying to speak with the senator about it.
Which Myers? Maybe she should have her husband speak to Cousin Kit!
Gonzales tells a funny – Funny Man!
solai @ 105
and Scarecrow and Jane asking questions
Sandman @ 106
The very best of the Feynman lectures are on CD..I have the series loaded on the I-Pod. They are very good.
My 89 yr old pop-in-law is intentionally & unintentionally funny.
A couple of years ago, he & my mom-in-law were heading out the door to somewhere when mom stopped & sniffed the air. She asked him if he had just put on mentholatum. Pop looked at her, said no & then paused & started laughing. He had grabbed the wrong tube & had put mentholatum on his hair instead of groom & clean.
Later when he told the story he ended with saying, “Well, I thought my head was getting kinda warm”.
The Thanksgiving after 9/11, family was gathered at their dinner table & he started off ranting on Ghouliani as he & mom always refer to Rudy. He was & still is irked by the almost adulation of Rudy, continually seeing Rudy’s face on tv with media lauding him. Pop went off on Rudy’s affairs & wondered how Rudy was getting such a free pass while Bill Clinton got crucified over his thing with Monica. What broke us all up was when Pop then said, “Hell, Clinton was just orally molested”.
AZ Matt @ 103
One of my fave moments was when Richardson said that we have got to stop demonizing these people. It’s got to stop. He was quite passionate. If we truly want a unified country, we need more statements like that. Make prejudice shameful again instead of a rallying cry.
Morning, everyone! Christy has to take care of her little Peanut, so I’m Virtual Christy right now. How’s it all going?
AZ Matt @ 104
Gee, Laura, that racist dog-whistling of yours is so shrill it’s well into the audible range of those folks that you’re hoping don’t pick up on it.
What was this again about the GOP’s great advantage among the socially-conservative Hispanic community? And did Laura chew out GW “Arbusto” Bush when he spoke in Spanish during his 2000 campaign?
eCAHNomics @ 97
The african village version of this involves broomsticks, each with a condom carefully in place. Although in this case it’s meant to be a warning about being very clear when providing training rather than a dig at the sophistication of the trainees..
IRT the debate, I was thinking that MoveOn might have the power to get it going. I’d donate.
I liked the Digby-ism from yesterday.
link
On another political chat board my “Magic Negro” op-ed has been rediscovered and is the subject of much hue and cry. The abusive e-mails have started up again as a result.
But if you think this upsets me, you don’t know me very well.
solai @ 105
Bill Maher interviewed Gary Kasparov, the Chess Champion now running for President of Russia … at the end of the interview, Chris Matthews said, “Wow … they’re playing Chess and we’re playing Checkers!” … then Chris went on to blame the Politicians for the slide in intellectual debate.
Chris and the MSM established the rules for the daily fiasco they call news and news shows and then they blame the politicians ?
solai @ 113
I speak mangled Spanish with my wife all the time, she is Costa Rican. Here on Hopi most Hopi speak Hopi when they are together. Maybe Laura wants to return to the boarding school days of washing out mouths if you speak something other than English.
solai @ 114
well the goopers will be gagging on their breakfast this morning
In Name Count, Garcias Are Catching Up to Joneses
This would be funny..except these people are taken seriously.
link
Sandman @ 106
Anecdotes that illustrate practical wisdom as well, like the efficacy of government programs of classification and secrecy. Feynmann used to crack safes as a form of entertainment on the Manhattan Project. While people thought that he had some kind of special facility, it mostly involved the fact that most combinations were easily guessed–and were not infrequently left at the factory combination setting.
One of the essays in that book describes sitting on the California Education Board in charge of selecting textbooks. His essay about that process and about the contents of the candidate texts is both funny and also a very good lesson in the nature of science.
A cowboy walks into a bar and orders a whiskey. As the barman’s pouring it the cowboy looks about him. ‘Where is everybody?’ he says. ‘Gone to the hanging,’ says the barman. ‘Hanging?’ says the cowboy. ’Who they hanging?’‘Brownpaper Pete,’ replies the barman.‘Brownpaper Pete? Why do they call him that?’‘Well,’ says the barman. ‘His hat’s made of brown paper, his shirt’s made of brown paper, his jacket’s made of brown paper and his trousers are made of brown paper.’ ‘Really?’ says the cowboy. ‘What they hanging him for?’‘Rustling.’
Steve-AR @ 112
CDs.
It’s funny to hear his Brooklyn accent, which while affected (IMO) does convey the idea that this stuff isn’t that hard.
However, these lectures are famously difficult. He put together a two year program intended for undergraduates, but by the time he finished, everybody in the department was showing up.
One of the things that makes him a really great writer of popular books (see QED) is that he does not dumb anything down. His conceptual understanding is so sound that he can explain things very clearly in normal English prose.
Anyone who has had to teach something–anything, actually, IMO–very quickly realizes just how sound his or her conceptual understanding of the subject actually is. His writing is like the teaching of someone who knows not merely everything about the topic at hand, but also the framework within which it rests.
Good morning y’all, Go Blue! Big game today, so I have been consumed with all the pre-game coverage. Been a nice distraction from the sewer that is our political discourse. Here’s somthing that cracked me up this week.
http://michiganzone.blogspot.c…..-tosu.html
Leonid Meteor Shower Peaks This Weekend
Feynman would review grade school and high school science textbooks, when he would come to something like an illustration that show show two magnets with the two N ends atracking each other, he would yell out in pain and rip the offending page from the book.
Phoenix Woman @ 115
“Dr.” Laura should stick to prancing about in Purple dresses.
Purple, the color of presumed royalty.
Gonzales is clearly scabbing the writers’ strike with such fabulous comedy writing.
-GSD
A propos of the hunting season:
Q: What do you call a blind reindeer?
A: No-eye-deer.
Q: What do you call a blind reindeer with not legs?
A: Still-no-eye-deer.
Q: What do you call a blind reindeer with no legs and no balls?
A: Still-no-f*cking-eye-deer.
By the way, know how one of the bigger (and one of the only actual) arguments in favor of us staying in Iraq is that withdrawal would lead to an even bigger bloodbath?
Well, the Brits have been effectively out of Basra since early September, and are about to officially turn the city over to the Iraqis, and guess what? The carnage has dropped by 90% since they pulled out.
jayackroyd @ 126
When I listen to him, I think of Lenny Bruce..weird.
Phoenix Woman @ 133
That’s a “duh.” It’s exactly what everyone who knows about these things has been saying all along.
Can we all safely assume that this man will eschew any and all bi-lingual campaigning?
-GSD
G’Mornin’ Christy…. good stuff. I got the coffee on and the radio too…. iradio:
http://www.myradioplace.com/player.htm
What’d I miss? :D Must go a readin’ and catch up…
GSD @ 136
I thought the link was to Tom Tancredo, but I was wrong!
I bought “Sicko” last night. Has anyone here seen it?
Oklahoma kiddo @ 95
I just bought 8 turkeys that will be accompanied by a complete meal and given to a family through Human Services. There is hunger in Iowa, the food production capital of the Midwest.
Bless you and Lahoma for this post and all that you do.Jim C
Great story! Public High School kids in SF: LINK
AZ Matt @ 121
It’s interesting that Laura Ingraham was once engaged to a fairly well-known Hispanic businessman, James V. Reyes. His father is a major figure in the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce.
Last I heard “Hispanic” meant “Spanish Speaking”.
Maybe her attitude expressed here was precisely the problem with that ill-starred match.
cinnamonape @ 130
Aaack! Not that “Laura”…sorry! This one is the “lawyer-speechwriter”.
Okay, this is the most recent place to make me laugh till I cry.
http://lateshowwritersonstrike.com/
David Letterman’s writers not only tell us why it’s critical to support the WGA, they bring the funny.
-S
allan_in_upstate @ 7
Late to the lake this AM. Thanks for the heads up about this article. Could not get over there fast enought to comment…and especially to add a few choice morsels of info that the intrepid WaPo sycophant missed in her reporting.
I need a shower.
Good morning firepups.
Good morning, Betsy!
cinnamonape @ 142
Hispanic refers to culture & heritage, not language. Spanish-speaking refers to the language.
Hi PB. How’s your Saturday so far?
Need to get going and ready my home for Thanksgiving. Not to mention that I have to get to the grocery store. And yet, here I am.
19 new blog posts and news items posted at 4AM. (I hit the button around midnight or so, but they appeared at 4.) More on the way soon.
eCAHNomics @ 59
DING! great catch!
This made me laugh this morning.
Irony? Comedy?
China urges faster Myanmar reforms
http://english.aljazeera.net/N…..C8EB30.htm
from AL JAZEERA
Unusual advice reported by country’s state media after high-level official meeting.
TexBetsy @ 149
Oh, trying to plan it out. I have stuff I need to do, but with it being fall and all it’s harder to motivate myself to get out there and start working on it :-P
Also prepping for thanksgiving. Two pies I’m bringing. What was I thinking?! ;-)
TexBetsy @ 151
I wish I could speed up that pipeline. I’m keeping an eye out for any other plugins that might work differently…
CCR Files Amicus Brief in First Guantánamo Case Before European Court of Human Rights
from AfterDowningStreet.org – Impeach Bush and Cheney Now!
WASHINGTON – November 15 -Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) filed an amicus brief in the first Guantánamo case before the European Court of Human Rights.
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/28790
Boumediene and others v. Bosnia and Herzegovina is the first case on behalf of Guantánamo prisoners before an international tribunal, where international human rights law applies and is enforceable. It is also the first case to address the issue of what responsibility other countries that assisted the U.S. in transferring men to Guantánamo have for the violations that occur at the prison camp.
GSD @ 136
Heh!
Where is everyone?
peanutbutter @ 154
The most important part, what Kind of Pies?
We’re doing store-bought pie.
Sandman @ 160
One is a pecan spice pie. Haven’t quite decided on the other: I love a traditional pumpkin pie, but I’d also like something chocolate for dessert too. So I just might throw in some mousse as well… What the hell, right?
TexBetsy @ 159
No clue. I’ve never seen it this slow. Maybe people are already going on holiday travel, or baking, or…?
TexBetsy @ 161
Not one of your wonderful epies?
C’mon upstairs: Come Saturday Morning: Rudy and the Vixens
eCAHNomics @ 164
Real stuff. Real filling. Baked at the bakery.
LOL! Thanks Christy for a couple good laughs.
eCAHNomics @ 94
eCAHN – I have read good background material at both The Irish Times and at The Guardian (dead tree form), there is a likelyhood their online archives have the same material as well. I would be wary of R. Murdock’s The Times and The Sunday Times but even they would outshine US MSM with the exception of The New Yorker which should have some investigative reporting in its archives. Hope this helps, All the best…….
Morning (late of course) everyone.
This is what made me laugh this week, going to Ian’s place for Friday Catslagging and going back into the archives. It’s not just the pictures…although they are priceless. i also love the quotes.
Sicko is a great and essential film. Everyhting in it is absolutely true — which of course drives the neo-fascists crazy.
Laura Ingraham didn’t object when President Low Normal spoke Spanish. But then consistency is the hogoblin of neo-fascist.
EXTRA BONUS POINTS: He former fiance D’Nesh D’Souza is centimeters away from being outed as a Big Ol’ Gay Homosexual.