I thought you needed something to lighten up after all the bad news about the bailout

We sure do. Thanks loosehead!

CNET Vote for which tech gadget Palin most resembles
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Well, regular folks don’t even know the name of the NATO commander in Afganistan so that makes it all okay, right?

We did. Thank you.

Spew alert indeed — that debate chart is hilarious

sorry this isn’t in the spirit of lightness but thought folks would want to know that pelosi’s press conference on the bailout bill passage has just started on cspan.

Funnier than Palin – Horsey Pre-debate cartoon!!!!!!!!!

I thought the pink “hello kitty” assault rifle was particularly tasteless

Oh, LHP, (wink) I thought Ms. Palin did well (wink) to remind guys and gals why america is so great (wink wink wink).

That’s hilarious!!

regular folks don’t get private tutoring from henry Kissinger. Regular folks aren’t the cheif executive of an energy producing state. She AIN’T regular folks.

When I first saw the chart I had one of those laughing really loud alone in my office events that make the staff here think I’m going around the bend

Hey bloggers, lurkers, and most importantly voters:

If you are feeling pretty pissed off right now, take it to the polls!!!

remember to check and doublecheck your voter registration status at http://www.canivote.org.

“People! I ain’t people!”

the immortal Jean Hagen, stealing the Singing in the Rain show as Lina Lamont.

Too late!!

Oh, lordy, but that’s funny… Thanks for the laugh.

I thought Palin meant Scottie McClellan when she referred to the Nato commander in Afghanistan. It would be funny if she mistook the old WH spokesperson for the “commander.”

Have you ever read “The Masque of the Red Death”? That’s what your appearances remind me of (grinning, winking emoticon).

I’m sure you’ve read this by now, but here it is anyway, an important NYT article that places Paulson at the scene of the crime in removing the capital requirements of the big investment banks in 2004.

The five investment banks led the charge, including Goldman Sachs, which was headed by Henry M. Paulson Jr. Two years later, he left to become Treasury secretary.

The first demand in any real negotation on a bailout bill would have been Paulson’s resignation, even before he penned his stick-up note. The conflict of interest is outrageous.

A good one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUKINg8DCUo

I respond to this @19.

Should I have added a “/s”?

Yep, I was wondering last night if she’s also running for Chief Civil War Buff.

Oh me gad! Those were grreat, LHP.

I printed the chart for my kid’s history class. she’s collecting political cartoons for extra credit. this will put her over the top, I’m sure.

My only niggle about McClellan is that he sounds like he learned something from past mistakes. i think not.

McClellan, a Copperhead, reminds me of this FDR reference to the breed:

After the election of 1936 I was told, and the Congress was told, by an increasing number of politically—and worldly-wise people that I should coast along, enjoy an easy Presidency for four years, and not take the Democratic platform too seriously. They told me that people were getting weary of reform through political effort and would no longer oppose that small minority which, in spite of its own disastrous leadership in 1929, is always eager to resume its control over the Government of the United States. Never in our lifetime has such a concerted campaign of defeatism been thrown at the heads of the President and Senators and Congressmen as in the case of this Seventy-fifth Congress. Never before have we had so many Copperheads—and you will remember that it was the Copperheads who, in the days of the War Between the States, tried their best to make Lincoln and his Congress give up the fight, let the Nation remain split in two and return to peace—peace at any price.

Bernie Sanders is the only one in the den of thieves that noticed the conflict of interest.

oooohhh!, nice catch

I am so sick of the kabuki that precedes total capitulation to the whims of the Chimp administration.

Thanks, but it wasn’t mine. Got it here or at dailykos, or some other low dive.

depressing.

The copperhead reference was mine. The NYT article was someone else’s.

aw come on,this is the cheer you up thread.

I ws referringto the copperhead reference

lhp – a little difficult after Ian’s “go shoot yourselves” post.

The letter was hysterical and the chart had me screaming laughing. I totally had to send that out to other folks.

Thank you for linking to those two gut laughs

ugh. I knew it. I knew the debates were only about getting Ms. Palin on video for the ads. Now I read that new McCain ads feature palin spewing her talking points about the scary ######### raising your taxes.

That is why she didn’t need to answer the questions. Just read the script.

The debate was moderately amusing- like a PTA meeting gone bad.

They have been debunked. She is lying end she will be called on it. Don’t sweat it and keep your head up

did he not have a somewhat checkered history? heh. *cough*

I know Toby which is why I put up the snark.

dang. i couldn’t get registered at the link.

would some kind soul like to add

“dust mop” to the list of sarah/gadgets?

debates were only about getting Ms. Palin on video for the ads. Now I read that new McCain ads feature palin spewing her talking points about the scary ######### raising your taxes.

That is why she didn’t need to answer the questions. Just read the script.

Wow, that’s really efficent of them. I mean that. She may go into election day as the candidate who has said the least number of words in public since becoming the nominee.

thanks wobbly. I’m full up on bs.

Ok my snark meter must be broken–I don’t get the dust mop metaphor?

not grinning. :(

efficient. yes.

biden’s strategy of explaining to viewers what she was doing and not doing in her responses was a good tactic. but taken out of context, her performance gets the job done.

Did you watch? notice the swipe at the media at the end? sorry darlin’ but it comes with the territory.

unmitigated gall. I hope mccain goes down in flames (again).

Per CNN, Ali Velshi, Chicago Board of Trade showing slight loosening of credit..in response to the bill being passed.

Let’s hope for a little good news for a change.

whoops, my “sorry darlin” remark is directed at Ms perky Palin. They really are treating her like a trophy VP.

I swear, I’m feeling totally manipulated by all this financial crap. OK, I gotta get back to the real world for a bit. brb.

thanks for the laughs, lhp!

twould be nice to hear some good news coming out of this mess

i dunno. it’s that roadkill on-a-top-her head. meow

Let’s not stray too far from the plain truth here about last night’s debate.

Sarah Palin is not fit to be VPOTUS.

If a viewer failed to see that, that viewer needs assisted living.

Swopa’s up

hence the dust mop reference at 51

Think there’s a squirrel in there? An old acquaintance from TN would have derisively called Palin’s hairdo a “Dollydo.”

I had to make a SECOND BATCH OF POPCORN during the dabate. It was that entertaining.

She has the ability to utter known untruths with such certainty, amazing.

I thought Biden did an excellent job of self control

ep downd

Record Refutes Palin’s Sudan Claim
Palin Administration Against Sudan Divestment Before It Was For It, Documents Show

By JUSTIN ROOD
October 3, 2008—

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin fought to protest atrocities in Sudan by dropping assets tied to the country’s brutal regime from the state’s multi-billion-dollar investment fund, she claimed during Thursday’s vice presidential debate.

Not quite, according to a review of the public record and according to the recollections of a legislator and others who pushed a measure to divest Alaskan holdings in Sudan-linked investments.

“The [Palin] administration killed our bill,” said Alaska state representative Les Gara, D-Anchorage. Gara and state Rep. Bob Lynn, R-Anchorage, co-sponsored a resolution early this year to force the Alaska Permanent Fund a $40 billion investment fund, a portion of whose dividends are distributed annually to state residents to divest millions of dollars in holdings tied to the Sudanese government.

Hiya, Toby:

You must have missed Southern Dragon’s suggestions on Ian’s thread that what is happening actually offers us what is probably one of the best opportunities we shall have, in this life, to compell meaningful change.

I happen to agree with SD.

The next six months or so will tell just how much courage and resolve we really have.

And, really, there is nothing to be afraid of, or diminished by.

The failures we have witnessed of late are are NOT our failures but they do offer us a chance to change the world. I see that as positive. Not easy, but doable. Grim as things look, and smug as the THUGS might feel, their lies are being exposed and their power, even if they do not yet realize it, is dwindling, in fact hemorhaging away, their ‘legitimacy’ is quite gone.

Our test is to stand together, through whatever happens. Thus, we will endure; we shall overcome the Dark Age the upper classes wish to inflict upon us.

They will fail.

Justice, if we don’t fall for the FEAR! FEAR! FEAR! routine, will out.

;`D

ah, I see. I have to admit it’s the only beehive hairdo I have seen outside “Hairspray”, Amy Winehouse, and the B-52’s

b-52’s from right here in Athens!

The first demand in any real negotation on a bailout bill would have been Paulson’s resignation, even before he penned his stick-up note. The conflict of interest is outrageous.

The second demand would have been that the heads of all of the Wall Street investment banks turn over their stock/stock options in their firms. With the bailout, stock that was previously worthless now had some value, and those — like Hank Greenburg of AIG — who retained it turned right around and sold [in Greenburg’s case, for $18 million, as I recall].

Can anyone name a reason why that $18 million, and similar ill-gotten gains, should not go right to the US Treasury?

Not quite, according to a review of the public record and according to the recollections of a legislator and others who pushed a measure to divest Alaskan holdings in Sudan-linked investments.

“The [Palin] administration killed our bill,” said Alaska state representative Les Gara, D-Anchorage. Gara and state Rep. Bob Lynn, R-Anchorage,

Holy Shit! She tried to take credit for doing something that, not only didn’t happen, but which she–herself–actively killed?

Ya know, here in NY we know a thing or two about chutzpa, but that is just delirious!

The love shack is a little old place where we can get togeeeethhhheeeerr…

I live about 200 yards from the old Allen’s site. “Goin down to Allen’s for a 25 cents beer”.

Only been to Savannah and Atlanta. Does Athens really look like this, per B-52s? Looks like a cute place.

me too, only atlanta and savannagh.

I reffed a rugby tournement in savannah. one of the best games i ever reffed was there. beautiful town. love the squares

Ohmigawd! Where I was, i was the ONLY one who caught. But she said it twice. They thought I was just, ya know, being my “radical” self. I was stationed at Ft. McClellan, AL way back – back further …… keep going.

I kinda like that art school area. A former coworker of mine who went the art school told me fellow students would appear regularly on the Jerry Springer in whatever character (I am sleeping with my sister’s girlfriends uncle’s whatever) so they could get a free ticket to Chicago where they could show off their artwork. Praise to Jerry Springer for supporting poor art students.

Pretty much. “Let’s go crash that party, down in Normaltown tonight”. That is basically where we live. Being mindful that I have only lived here for 24 years and they spit for NYC right before I got here. In those days there were very few clubs, house parties were the deal and the bands, Pylon, REM, 52’s et al played frat parties and the few joints like the 40 Watt. There was a gig 2 summers ago called “Athens Rewind” and a lot of folks came back after 20+ years.

I’m a social member of the GRFC Old Pigs, broke my back in 75 so Rugby was sort of out of the question.

Athens Rewind

For pity’s sake LHP. If you’re going to post something like that at least have the kindness to do it at a reasonable time for those us in benighted time zones. Moreover SPEW ALERT! Does not constitute fair and adequate warning. Have you any idea how difficult it is do get a nurse to bandage aching ribs at this time of night???!!!???

goddamn sunken road

Snort …. giggle … rotflhcdf

PS: Thanks best laugh I’ve had in ages :-)

mfi

*poof*

Thanks for the Pinko letter link. I haven’t laughed like that in a long, long time!

If my faulty old memory serves me, Mr. Lincoln had a serious amount of trouble with one General McClellan. He disagreed with Mr. Lincoln’s desire to end the war.

Unlike Palin and McSame, I actually listened and watched McKiernan and was duly impressed and edumacated.

What a grotesque joke that duo of

mavericks

are.

Stupidicus ignoramus.

(hi mfi!)