Hi Julia.

Yo!

Julia!

How old is the “Nature Boy” anyway? He is at least as old as I am & I bet older.

Even with Obama’s surprise Hulk Hogan endorsement, Democrats

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That is real? I totally predicted that as a joke (not sure who’s name I dropped in there for that. After all its all crap other than the Terminator now (though I do not like him Terminator (’roids boy) is the top action heap). So part two of my call is that Hulk is going to go Suplex the other candidate.

Julia!

“Where do you think I am going to get this stuff in Burma?”

Bwha-ha-ah

(ouch) almond spew

has scored Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger, making him the preferred candidate of the performance-enhancing drug user aging action heroes.

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In what must be great for McCain (considering the time wasting on ‘roids and what not the Senate is doing - not that they should ignore it since USA give MLB a monopoly but not as a priority right now):
Sly was talking up Human Growth hormone a few weeks ago how great it was and how everyone over 50 will want it on an Rx.

McCain/Roids {Hem- |or| Ste-) 2008

@ 1-5: Hi, yo, Suzanne!, 58, yeah, but he’s going through an ugly divorce so he’s on an I’m less of a jerk than you think tour of the media right now.

Uh… I’ve never heard that Wang Dang song before.

yeah, that got me too.

You’re good!

How about the “Hollywood love fest” with those LIBERALS in the debate on CNN. Was that a good play all those rich Hollywood types filing in there and getting cut-aways like the Grammy/Emmys? To me it was stupid.

Did they want that as sort of endorsement of Dems? Was the CNN setting them up to look stupid? Sort of like the jumping Sponge Bob shown when Edwards was suspending his campaign?

McCain has already suggested that he’s going to have Schwarzenegger or Stallone kick Norris’ ass (I’m saying not - we’re talking fake muscles vs. real black belt), while Norris has offered to kick Romney upside the head.

yeap, it was done on purpose - otherwise congress critters like jane harmon would not have been up in the mezzanine.

Julia! Did you guys see the doners and contributions made at HuffPo? Interesting that several spread their bets and donated to Hill, Barack, and John.

There is a changing headline, so if you see the map, it will change.

Yeah, but Norris is only 4 years younger than McCain.

This is a HOT thread, Julia. :o) I didn’t know that about Chuck.

Lesseee…kids by three different women…

Closet Mormon. Who knew? :o)

Can we make it an issue in the general? :o)

As I wise person told me once, most stars in Hollywood if they did not have their celebrity would be flipping burgers.

Portraying someone who is smart is a lot easier than being smart. The difference is that society disproportionately rewards those who can act the part over those who are the part.

For all the mocking of Hollywood that you hear from the right, they sure do love their celebrities.
So, Obama has Caroline Kennedy / Huck has Chuck Norris.
Hmmmm….I think I’ll take the Kennedy.

my local cal station aired a robert kennedy jr ad for hillary, that also featured (iirc) cesar chavez’s son.

People wonder why they’re getting hosed on FISA–the answer lies in CNN–”aka best political team on TV panning to the audience as if they were at a Laker’s game. It takes a Barbie Doll populace of airheads for Congress to roll over. If you’re apathetic, then they don’t care.

Rezko siting on the Hillary Side—oooooooh no no no! National Clinton Campaign Co-Chairman, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has taken two campaign donations from Tony Rezco. At this time he is refusing to return calls and emails asking him to comment. But it does explain why the words didn’t come out of Clinton’s mouth in the mock up of happy talk from local news anchors last night the debate last night before a star studded crowd that put Jane Harmon from the Calleefornee 34th in the cheap seats (maybe where she belongs). After all she may have been kicked off the House PermanantSelect Intelligence Committee (not so permanant for Jane Harmon) by Posturing Pelosi because she was under FBI investigation, but duh Shark is duh Shark man and DiCaprio is DeCaprio and Diane Keaton was in the Woody Allen Movie Manhatten and Godfather I and II 150 years ago.

Ironically John McCain’s real life experience as a prisoner of war is more impressive than anything the Hollywood heroes have done.

So if Huckajeebus wins (ha!) will the Nuge move from Crawford, TX to Arkansas?

Obama raised more money in the last month than any candidate has raised in any quarter including himself.

Hi Julia…

I knew you were going to be pissed when you read this.

McCain is the candidate and Clinton can’t beat him.

Yeah, sadly, it was.

Have you read Schindler’s List? Sometimes people find exactly the circumstances they’re made to be honorable in and do great things. Afterwards not always so much.

hi there.

Why bother?
His ego already covers three states.

hey biodun

Oh, no, don’t be - he’s been on both sides of sex, drugs, militarism, clean living, alcohol… He’s probably lying about wangdanging too.

Hey there…

I know. But I read somewhere today that Hillary raised more for the quarter. I agree that Barack is on a tear, though. I want a Clinton/Obama ticket or an Obama/Clinton ticket. Either would be dynamite!

wang dang utube

Hi, Busted!

True, his ego is monumental, but apparently he likes being close to power. Which I find really funny.

Julia:

Kelsey Grammar

Kelsey Grammer…

I’d presume he knows some grammar…*g*

I haven’t read Schindler’s list but John McCain’s particular talent throughout his life seems to be to piss people off. Not a good quality for a President who will need to work with a Democratic congress to get things done.

I trust you! It’s just a response to WangDangDoodle. Her name was abused through no fault of hers.

Julia - would you like me to fix that grammer/grammar for you?

Didn’t I read somewhere that Nugent accidentally shot himself in the wang dang with his little bow and arrow? *g*

Oh, it’s OK, I’ll do it. I’m forever editing after the fact.

scwarzenegger has a pig valve in his heart. seems apropos.

Now I know I’m gettin’ old, I only had it turned up to 8,
And yes I have this album.

Hey wangdang, this one’s for you!

i’m sure pigs protested the insult to no avail.

I’ve been away from the blogs most of the day. I’m sure this has been discussed but I haven’t seen it:
If we have a ‘majority’ vote on Monday, are Hillary and Obama planning to be there?

Yes, I found it strange that a report from Q4 last year got so much play, especially a day after Obama reports the biggest month ever, which occured this current year.

Never did I see it mentioned that this Hillary report WAS BEFORE IOWA. What difference does that make now?!? Obama’s report came from a time when they were actually going head-to-head. He’s completely mopping up right now. It’s just a matter of if he has enough time to make up ground from disadvantaged beginning.

Man, Hillary’s campaign is desperate to find any positive spin right now. 4th Quarter reports now? Please…

no fault of her own.

OMG, it’s already started.
My cat is looking at me funny.
They do that, ya know, after ya get ‘em fixed.

Good one, LL!

Token (looking fetching in his lavender sweater) says “payback is a bitch”.

harry cave-in reid gave a pass to the gooper bill and it will go ahead in a parlimentary framework that by unanimous consent basically bars filibusters.
we are screwed unless the house leadership grows a pair.
reid is totally bent over on phone co immunity, etc.

Every campaign is doing all they can right now. This is the Friday before Super Tuesday.

Well, the pigs protested, but their congress’persons’ were critterly unable to help them. It seems the good poli-pigs were all being blackmailed into going along, without squealling, as the nasty deed was done; the constitutions of porcine beings continue to be under dire threat.

Arnold’s endorsement means nothing to the California GOP, which hates him with a white-hot loathing. His McCain tap might play outta state where folks don’t know Arnold’s politics, but it’ll be a disadvantage in California’s closed GOP primary on Tuesday.

No independent crossovers for McCain to count on here — only registered GOPs can vote.

If I were for Clinton right now, I’d be feeling pretty good as far as the polls for Soupy Toosday go. If you look at the latest polls, Clinton is winning in most states. But there is a significant however, and this is what makes the delegate count interesting to me.

There is a significant difference between the Democratic Super Tuesday and the Republican one. Republicans in all states are winner take all. But Democrats have states with complicated individual rules–but one common denominator. The delegates will be awarded to Obama and Clinton proportionally. Not all states will be close, but a good number of them probably will.

And Super Tuesday may well not decide anything on the Dem side. The conventional wisdom, is that there will be a clear front runner and a challenger after Tuesday, but some large delegate significant states remain throughout the spring. Both Dems have a carefully planned expensive ad strategy set to go up in those states after Tuesday.

squealings in the sty were met with hamfisted threats

I just can’t get past how incredibly polarized they are. Republican nativists and corporatists loathe McCain, the rest of them (and the press) loathe Romney, and the evangelicals are ready to revolt over Huckabee.

Identity politics much?

Pete - that is the most measured comment I have seen you post yet. Bravo.

I think that’s been a good under noticed point. The California totals are going to be fun to watch.

I like it, the slow tortuous disintegration into cannibalism that is just sweet, sweet music to my ears.
I couldn’t be much happier with the situation.

Yes, ‘but we’re bacon on things changing, um … someday,’ said one piggie, hogging the microphone.

Hey everyone, I scored a three-fer in today’s WaPo chatz with retiring Congressman and Valerie Plame harasser Tom Davis:

San Francisco: Thanks for joining us to chat today, Rep. Davis. Can you give us some insight into your decision not to seek Sen. John Warner’s U.S. Senate seat this year?

Rep. Thomas M. Davis III: The Republican Party chose a nomination vehicle that would require me to talk to nothing but the Republican base for the next six months. Given that Mark Warner is a strong and formidable Democratic opponent, I didn’t think a four- or five-month campaign would be enough to surmount his name ID and financial advantage in the current environment. A primary would’ve allowed me to campaign to a broader electorate much earlier. I still think I would’ve beaten Jim Gilmore in a convention fight, but there would’ve been nothing left for November.

… and…

San Francisco: Having headed the Oversight Committee when it was in GOP hands, do you ever wonder about the Truman Committee during World War Two, and the good work Harry Truman did exposing war profiteers? Do you wish you’d had more of an impact in that arena yourself, especially as we learn more about the atrocities committed by private contractors in Iraq?

Rep. Thomas M. Davis III: We have had an impact — not only the Truman Commission, but Sen. Gerald P. Nye held a commission after World War I. We’ve come a long way since then. Under my watch, we held numerous hearings on contracting in Iraq, exposing problems in the acquisition workforce and contracting in a war zone. Henry Waxman has continued those hearings. However, most contractors shy away from doing business in war zones because of the high risks to their personnel and reputations. We contract as much as we do in Iraq because federal employees are understandably reluctant to go over there. This is a multi-faceted problem that deserves a serious study, not high-flying rhetoric. Waxman and I will continue to try to improve the contracting process. We come at this from different perspectives, but we share a common goal of wanting to improve it.

… and …

San Francisco: Congressman, thanks for taking questions today. Both the Senate and House GOP campaign committees are way behind their Democratic counterparts in fundraising this year. Do you think this has much to do with the wave of GOP retirements? To what do you ascribe the drying up of funds?

Rep. Thomas M. Davis III: I think it has to do with the fact Democrats are in power in the House and Senate. And people like to give to winners. The Republican NATIONAL Committee has outraised the Democratic NATIONAL Committee significantly. It’s only in the House and Senate campaign committtees that Democrats hold a significant advantage.

praise the lard

We need to run that Russ Feingold Explains FISA spot as a commercial during the Super Bowl. I am not even kidding. The American people need to know about this. The Senate needs to be publicly shamed about this.

harry cave-in reid gave a pass to the gooper bill and it will go ahead in a parlimentary framework that by unanimous consent basically bars filibusters.
we are screwed unless the house leadership grows a pair.
reid is totally bent over on phone co immunity, etc.

Whoa, I’m going to go back and read what Feingold said. I thought there was hope. Be back in a bit.

Teddy, nice hat trick!

Then again, I’d pay good money to see Limbaugh and Rove in a cage match.

What’s always fun is to watch what happens to this splintered group though, when one candidate gets the “inevitability number of states” because you will see some very interesting getting behind the candidate by some very angry groups if the Repub candidate is know on Super Tuesday. This is more likely, (nothing’s a sure thing) but more likely because for them every state is winner take all.

woohoo - a 3fer, teddy! is that a record?

Happy belated, Busted.

Great to learn your granny is 94 and doing well.

Suggests ya got good genes and will be around a while yourself, fightin’ the good fight.

Neat. Good for you.

Thank you.

Damn, Teddy! You’re good!

Teddy?
You are very good my man.
gave ‘em plenty of rope and just a gentle shove.
Right on.

hee hee

Have you seen CBoldt’s summary of events in the Senate? It’s probably the most detailed and best on the web:

Scroll Down to Summary of the UC Agreement for Passing FISA

I just got a response to the letter I wrote to the Burner campaign today.

Just read Jane’s piece. Fuck me.

Speaking of herding cats, that was quite the thread earlier.
Ya gonna dish?

Charlie Rangel’s wife Alma endorsed Obama today as did Move On.org

Chuck Norris, a guy who has children by three women, one of them a one-night stand he met while his wife sat home with the kids (in fairness, that was before his current wife was born). According to his book, the blessed event took place in a car.

Okay, that does it — I’m getting a vasectomy . . .

There is zero chance of me wanting to be anything like that dude –

Well bless my pokey rinds, that souns jus’ like sumpthin ol’ Reverind
Hocks-a-bee might a sed, there’s them times when divine innervenshun is ’bout all we kin hope fur, lawdy, lawdy, dis shore has been sum innerresin’ day.

Oh yes, I’ve been following closely. We need a miracle to save the Republic, basically. Hence the Super Bowl idea. To place immense public pressure on the Senate for those votes on Monday.

The central quote:

Sandeep was not speaking for Darcy or for the campaign when he said what he said. If we are going to reclaim our country and right its course, it will take a broad-based movement, including the blogs, working together to get it done.

We are truly sorry that a part-time political consultant associated with this campaign said things to a college student which reflects poorly on Darcy and her campaign. Please know that they do not reflect her views.

There is zero chance of me wanting to be anything like that dude-

Ah, come on. You gotta love that haircut…

California Service Employee’s Union endorsed Obama 600,000 strong–they were backing Edwards. I think all these Senators who are holding back their endorsements including Edwards should have unleashed them by now to help their candidate for Super Tuesday.

Praise th’ lord an’ pass th’ biskits.

an idea that came too late. those ad slots have been sold out for quite some time.

Second that!

This is why you are MY HERO! You go, Teddy. You speak up to the tradmed best.

So, nothing from Darcy herself.
HMMMmmm.

Given Darcy Burner’s background as a Program Manager at Microsoft, I found it pretty hard to fathom that she’d write off blogs and the web in the way that quote seemed to do.

There’s often a fair amount of last-minute jockeying in the ad slots.

Let me know my part in paying for the Superbowl ad.

I don’t know you, but I love you.

It was from Lynn Allen, her outreach director. And sorry for the suspense, busted. I wanted to see if anyone but me was interested.

Praise them biskits, but fer heavens sake, pass the ammunition!!

Actually I was hoping for an angel. I bet some extremely wealthy people are reading right now.

Yer kidding right?
Did you happen to check that thread late this afternoon?
WHOO!

That one dude wore out three shovels all by himself!

KO nailed Clinton’s total mischaracterization of the Levin amendment and what she voted for tonight.

Also she really stepped in it when she invoked the meglomania of Sadam and Osama as a rationale for her vote.

Like all candidates, she believes we are way too stupid to read the Levin amendment or let KO read it for us.

The Levin amendment did not subordinate the US’s role to the U.N. at all. That was a bedtime fairy tale read on Hollywood Blvd. by Clinton.

No kidding, really?

After Calvin Butts came out for Hillary, I had a Harlem establishment closing ranks idea which appears to have been really offbase.

I hadn’t thought of how Harlem’s districts will break down, but that will be pretty interesting to watch Tuesday also.

Seems there’s a powerful lot of shovelin’ of all kinds going on these days.
Perhaps we should look into shovels futures?

i say we pitch in and corner the market on pitchforks.

Torche!

There’s 362 comments on the Loyalty thread!

I was wondering about this last night and my intuition was right;

Last night’s Democratic debate on CNN drew 8,324,000 million total viewers, making it the most-watched primary debate in cable news history, and the second-most watched on TV this election cycle (ABC’s Democratic debate on Jan. 5 drew 9,360,000)

http://www.crooksandliars.com/.....e-history/

What is the difference between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton? A lot more than most think. It lies in their actions and their records, which speak far louder than their similar policy platforms.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyo.....394/448113

OK, 4 shovels.

Lol.

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