That is one scary man!

By the time any of them get into power, there might not be much of an economy, but McCain and crew will be richer and partying on…

Unless…

what’s that on his head – a moose dildo?

ROFL … Jayt !

I listened to that interview he did a couple of days ago with that Miami radio station(the ‘meet with Spain’ one) and I have to tell you — he sounded like someone who had no clue what he was talking about..he was fishing around, trying to sound statesmanlike, trying to get his brain around a complete thought and all the while, I could almost hear the wheels in his head turning and turning, thinking, “Who the hell is this Zapatera?” It would be easy to think he’s just borderline dementia or something like that…but I also think he’s also frightfully stupid. If he and Palin got in, she’d have him locked in a closet in thirty seconds flat.

The world is just too complicated and confusing for John McCain.

Aloha, Eli!

She said it herself today.. Palin McCain administration.

Aloha, CTut!

“Here you go, John, here’s your new office.”

“But it’s dark! And there’s no desk, just mops!”

“Those are special *presidential* mops, sweetie. In you go.”

Do not speak ill of Sarah Palin, our next prez. I hear she’s vindictive.

((( Eli )))

I wish McCrazy would decide whether it’s “Washington” – or “Warshington.

Or at least keep it consistent within the course of a single sentence.

Hiya, Petro!

I guess he doesn’t want to alienate voters who use either pronunciation. This way *everyone* can say “He’s one of us!”

Does he pronounce “nuclear” consistently?

Ha. I thought I was the only nitpicker who picked that up.

Can’t be too harsh (that’s harsh, not hash) on him though. My mother, from western PA always said Warshinton, and it took me until I went to college to recognize the problem.

Please tell me your mom is not a Yinzer…

I’ll admit that the consequences of what happened this week are not something I can yet comprehend. But, what I do know is that if McCain becomes president, his focus will be to not let this disaster hurt the top 1%.
I may be screwed anyway, but with Obama, I figure, I might have a fighting chance.

707!

bom dia pups

This has been some week, no?

My mom is long deceased, but I don’t know what a Yinzer is. Johnstown was her home town.

This is truly the week that was. Despite glorious weather and my addiction to be outdoors at every possible moment, I stayed inside & watched the market far too much. History in the making.

“A vote for me will guarantee that the forces that have brought down our economy will be out of business.”

Libruls. He means us. In camps.

((((( wobbly )))))

It has been bizarre, to say the least …

My apologies. A Yinzer is someone with a thick Pittsburgh accent who says things like “Yinz guys”, and “dahntahn”, and “up ‘ere”. Oh, and the baseball team is the Pahrts, and the football team is the Stillers.

If he and Palin got in, she’d have him locked in a closet in thirty seconds flat.

lol

No, definitely not that bad. Warshington was about as bad as it got. My mom came from a very poor family and tried hard to lift herself. Just couldn’t overcome the R in warsh.

Did I miss a notice in the comments downstairs about a new post up?

(((Petro))) long time no chat. How are you and the family?

Been a surreal week. My face hurts I’ve been grinning so much *g*

eCAHN, up here in CNY, we’ve got this ‘missing consonent’ thing going. Any word that has consonents in the middle just becomes mush. Exampe: Button becomes ‘bu-hutn”, mitten becomes ‘mi-hin’ and so on…drives me nuts because I work on one aid-able ear and one worthless one.

McCain really is a pugnacious guy. Half of what he said was firing this guy, punishing that guy, making someone pay etc. It reminds me of the saying ‘going off half-cocked’. My fear is that it resonates with some rather than Obama’s thoughtful, intelligent, calm statements. Hope I’m wrong. Hope people get tired of all the bull and see him for what he is. An idiot who’d rather fight than solve real problems.

Josh said, awhile ago, that (as far as marketing goes) we shouldn’t be saying “just like Bush”. We should say “worse than Bush”. And, it’s true.

Just a little trick I noticed from the old days of gettin stuck in EPUland. When you refresh and there’s a new post, it tends to end up at the top of the thread rather than at the bottom. Don’t know if it’s deliberate or an accident, but whatever works. Windows/Explorer.

If McSame manages to get elected, his first official act should be to hire a food taster.

and Palin is McCain’s Cheney for sure: secretive, willing to break the law, sees herself above the law, nasty, vindictive, petty.

Very funny. Never (or is it ne-er) heard about that one. Have to ask my relatives in Rochester if they’re aware of it.

At least I’m not getting yelled at on this thread for being critical of how people talk.

That’s not so bad. It’s “yinz guys” that drives me nuts, since “yinz” is *already* the Pittsburgh equivalent of “y’all”. And no-one says “y’all guys”.

and buy body armor, a personal body guard, and put tracking devices on Palin and First Dude all the damn time.

We’re all fine thanks, did you party enough in Brasil for us all ? *g*

I can’t believe McCain/Palin are making this so easy for Obama/Biden …

Yeah, but I don’t think anyone can wrap their head around the idea of someone being *worse* than Bush.

it may be a southern tier thing – one of the funniest ad campaigns I ever heard down here was for Beaver Mountain Log Homes(I think they are in Hancock) – the guy used to use his daughters and listening to them say “Be-er Moun… Log homes” was hilarious.

Um, it’s now Palin/McCain if you haven’t noticed.

In Topeka, KS there is an institution called Washburn University. I do not intend to disparage it in any way, not the least because one of my degrees is from there. But I have heard all kinds of people over the years pronounce it “Warshburn”–including well-educated people who have graduated from there.

And those same people do tend to say “Warshington.”

Got it. You just elicited a loud LOL.

Sorry and thanks for the correction ! *g*

I think the whole physical thing is just that people ’swallow’ the entire middle of the word. Ordinarily, letters like ‘t’ and ‘b’ and ‘p’ are said in the front of your mouth, using the teeth – but around here they tend get swallowed down the back of the mouth and just go to ‘the great lost consonent place’ in the sky.

It’s so amazing listening to John McCain speak this week about the financial crisis our country has now faced. He is a typical right winger where all the finger pointing is outward and then will throw in some lies about Barack just to make himself feel better about being a Savings & Loan Scandal expert and Mr. Deregulater of the Banking Industry!

Jees. He’s a walking Irony Stick.

I had a teacher in HS who used to greet us after lunch by asking us ‘jeat?’ And if we asked him, he’d reply ‘yeah, joo?’. Not the same thing but it made us aware of how sloppily we’d speak.

couple of big differences though – Cheney can put words together into a sentence, and he’s a lot smarter than Palin.

A’a’is, The Lost Consonant.

So here’s my serious response. When I (finally) discovered my verbal gaffs, I corrected them. Why not? Why don’t others do the same? As for my mom, any senior citizen exempted (unless he’s running for prez).

For quite a while I was in the habit of ending my comments here thus:

John McCain supports torture of human beings by the United States of America

John McCain: Worse than Bush

I don’t know why I stopped…

my jaw is still dropped that he has the audacity to talk about O gaming the system and such when his campaign is knee deep in Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac lobbyist. Talk about cahones

I think she had those tendencies before being nominated but the GOP damage control team McCain brought in to keep her candidacy from unraveling are all card-carrying Cheneyites. Lie, cheat, ignore subpoenas, whatever it takes. They’re like the political equivalent of Mr. Wolf in Pulp Fiction.

ROFL!!

That reminds me of Massachusetts and the requirement to leave all R’s pawked at the state line… ;-)

Um, but Palin’s a lot more charismatic than Cheney. Just as dangerous but in a different way.

no friday news dumps huh? I guess the bail out is a big enough dump

If you hadn’t noticed, R tactics straight out of the transference books. Always accuse your opponent of doing what you are doing and do it first. Like asking “When did you stop beating your wife?” Also bitch slapping.

Are you referring to the ’60s song by ‘o’o’a’?

Yes, not making constant strangling motions with your hands certainly creates a less threatening demeanor.

Do you think it’s the attractiveness factor? I mean Dick is just such a smirking asshole.

You know Toby, I’m in exactly the same position as you. One worthless ear, one with aid. Considering a cochlear implant in worthless ear. It will be my 4th surgery trying to get some hearing. I lost mine due to Meniere’s Syndrome (triggered by pregnancy). Why’d you lose yours?

Way down… be’ow the o’ean…

I know! Johnny is a typical right winger who doesn’t understand snark or irony and certainly can’t detect it in his own words.

Last night KO said behind a piece of paper before a commercial break, “Keating 5″. Loved it! I laughed my ass off and then weeped because the MSM is NOT talking about this at all.

It’s still early, wobbs!

Scarecrow is upstairs with new stuff.

Is Meniere’s the one that also produces vertigo?

Otosclerosis..triggered by pregnancy. Hmmm, we’ve got a trend here..obviously the answer is…don’t get pregnancy. If the two of us get together, we’ll be like the weird sisters with one eye between us..we could actually sort of hear…I’ll meet you in Oxford, OK?

I’m charismatically-recognizing challenged. Sarah doesn’t do a thing for me. Nor does any other person who is or was supposed to be charismatic. So all I do is observe that many people have gone nuts over this hair brained human. Don’t ask me why.

Yes, had a couple very bad years. And my children were babies. That was before my first surgery.

It’s the talking dog thing – she’s not old and she’s not a white guy.

thanks, Toby

My charisma blindness may only apply to Republicans. I still don’t see how Dubya is charming in any way. He’s *always* come across as a spoiled, petulant, sociopathic fratboy to me, and I can’t understand how it’s not obvious to everyone.

Jeez, that’s awful. I get intermittent vertigo (of the loose calcium particles variety, I believe), and it’s horrible. The vertigo itself is bad enough, but the motion sickness afterwards is much, much worse.

Or…it’d be like a comedy routine punctured with misunderstandings, innappropriate answers and a lot of “what?”s.

(I *also* have a bad ear – not deaf, but bad tinnitus, and even the quietest electronic sounds are physically painful.)

Thankfully, that’s behind me. But the syndrome left me with a real hearing problem.

So, do you all get frustrated (like me) when these fab videos aren’t captioned?

sounds like my there kids entire childhoods.

Eli, there is a video on the internet about the Epply maneuver for dealing with that kind of vertigo; it’s at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pa6t-Bpg494. It works.

Thanks! I’ve seen diagrams & instructions online, but they’re kinda vague and unhelpful. Fortunately, I only have really noticeable episodes once every week or two.

”So, do you all get frustrated (like me) when these fab videos aren’t captioned?

You better believe I do, but not because I can’t hear them. I can’t see or hear them because I can’t play them with dial up. I’m lucky if I can download a 30 second ad in 15 minutes.

Grit TV? Forget about it. It seems that there is some real good stuff going on there that could lead to great comments, if only there were an accompanying transcript after. Have to admit that around noon, I usually exit the site. Nothing going on.

Communism is when the state seizes the companies and their profits, US Capitalism is when the state seizes the companies and their losses.