Glad she had a good time! Not what all visitors have.

sooooooo beautiful.

Ur a wize man, old friend. v. wise man. Avoid the Queens de Buete

Eli!
Thanks for this disgusting piece of information. I mean,
let me start over

THANKS for this Eli. WHAT a piece of disgusting info!! I really don’t know wht to say about this. I suppose they’ll be putting a McD’s and an amusement park down there next?
WTF???!

comes from the Venezuelan upper crust and, like Paris Hilton, demonstrates why we need confiscatory inheritance taxes.

Hiya, Tex! Long time no see!

This is actually the *only* reason I don’t date beauty queens. I swear.

” the little pieces of broken glass from hundred of years ago. It is pretty to see all the colors shining with the sun….”
There it is.

Dugg right here.

All the depth of a teardrop and the attention span of a gnat.

I am a beauty queen moron. Someone needs to explain this to me. I have no idea what is snark and what is real. HELP!

Million dollar body , ten cent control tower!

Beauty pageant contestants can be shallow? Who knew?

KO needs a new category for biggest dumbest disconnect in the world!!!

Damn! Inflation must be rampant in Venezuela. I wouldn’t give more than 2 cents for the control tower.

LOL!

She may think that water boarding is a sport with something like a surf board and you can wear a cute little bathing suit, also.

I suppose the thing that surprises me is that she is not a product of the U.S. public school system.

Maybe the post is some kind of early April Fool’s, like the Hotelicopter.

Damn, I am so bummed out about the Hotelicopter…

And her mommy and daddy are probably screaming with rage and incomprehension as to why that crude and arrogant peasant Hugo Chavez keeps getting elected.

Now, that explains a lot. Suddenly everything is clear.

Was there a glass factory or some kind of a dump hundreds of years ago? WTH?

OK, that is a beauty.

You mean that isn’t what it’s about!

Or maybe an old fashioned way to wash clothes?

Is a heated toilet something like a crock-pot?

Poor beauty queens, beating down Eli’s door, to no avail….

sorta like what the wingnuts think about our President?

Something tells me that thing won’t fly

You mean the hotelicopter is not real? I’ve already booked my reservations. They told me I’d get a good discount if I paid up front. I’m sure they’ll give me my money back, right?

Looks like a weird insect morphing from the larval stage.

Yep.

A man must remain firm to his principals !

I did enjoy when Chavez addressed the UN the day after Bush and complained that the podium still reeked of sulfur.

You’ve obviously never seen Mansquito.

Hard to get that stench out. Think what it would have been like if Chaney had spoken.

The door was unlocked but that push vs pull option always confuses them.

What do you use to seal a gaping hole to the underworld?

Sort of like our ex-president?

Chavez is my kind of autocrat.

Is that like a Deceptikon, or are they enemies? I can never keep them straight…

That incident in China was probably the high point of his presidency, at least in regard to entertainment value.

I have a lot of issues with Chavez (he really is hugely arrogant), but he is also hugely popular and keeps getting re-elected by substantial margins. His strong point is that he aggressively pursues policies which benefit the majority of Venezuela’s people rather than the small elite represented by tonight’s subject.

Visuals help

Tripping down the stairs at the Olympics was something too.

If he wasn’t drunk on his ass he was doing a pretty fair imitation.

Oooooh, shiny!

Dugg

There was the video of him giving Barney a lipskid on the tarmac. I kinda like that one, too.

We don’t know whether Chavez’s policies benefit the masses. The whole situation is so politically on fire, you can’t believe either side. What I luv about Chavez is his willingness to stand up to the U.S., and to use R tactics to do it. Irony rules!

Kinda sucked for Barney, though. And the kids seemed kinda traumatized as well. How about the pic of him falling off the Segway?

Barney is the only member of that family I support. Hell, he even bites journalists, what’s not to like?

Why do we still have pageants? Could we just get beyond these beauty contests for idiots !

“My greatest wish? Harsher penalties for parole violators…and world peace!”

The segway affair was pretty classic as well.

Whatever disappointments we have with the new guy, I doubt we’ll see him slurring and tripping and rubbing shoulders.

All these comments and only 6 DiGGs! Youse guys can do better than that /s

Is Chavez as bad as they say or is it wingnut media bias?
I really only know what I read in the papers(or the blogs)

An author plugging his book on Book TV presented a balanced perspective on Chavez. Overall, Chavez does a lot for the poor thru delivering educators and doctors to their barrios.

IMHO, Chavez, the populist, must be a pretty good guy, otherwise, he would not be so demonized by the North American Right (and the Expatriated Venezolanos).

I am reminded of Chile’s Allende who was snuffed out by Kissinger and replaced with Pinochet.

Hi, Eli
great post

OT
who the Fork is this Cheney apologist on Maddow?
Well…he really believes what he says…

FunnyDiva

A lot of it has to do with timing. If the U.S. was not already at war on two fronts, taunting a half-wit U.S. president might have been riskier. Just look what the half-wit’s old man did when he was taunted by Noriega.

Anyway, with our economy in a shambles it would take a direct attack on the U.S. before we would open a new theatre, so Chavez is still free to mock us.

Being a major oil producer doesn’t hurt either.

Leave Miss Universe alooooone!

Kathy Morningstar: New Jersey, as you know, there are people who consider the Miss United States Pageant outdated and anti-feminist. What would you say to them?

Gracie Hart: Well, I would have to say that I used to be one of them. And then I came here and I realized that these women are smart, terrific people who are trying to make a difference in the world. And we’ve become really good friends. I mean, I know we all secretly hope the other one will trip and fall flat on her face… but oh wait a minute, I’ve already done that! And for me this experience has been one of the most rewarding and liberating experiences of my life.

Victor Melling: My god, I did it!

Gracie Hart: And if anyone, anyone tries to hurt one of my new friends, I would take them out. I would make them suffer so much that they’d wish they were never born. And if they ran, I would hunt them down. Thank you, Kathy.

Dugg OK!!
I don’t feel like sleepin’ wid da fishes!

Sometimes I miss the comedy. I had grown fond of waking up in the morning and thinking “what will the nitwit do today.”

I’m watching Family Guy. Who say’s I ain’t got great taste?

At The Rock Church in Daytona Beach, Pastor Fred and the congregation which includes a few Venezolanos – pray often for the overthrow of Chavez.

Not watching…is he the same one who appeared on 1600 with Shuster saying “only three peeps were tortured”. Joe Conason just shook his head and said “yeah, yeah, yeah. Only three we know of.”

The sense of relief in the marine world must be palpable.

That and the basketball dribble failure. Course there was the gynecologist screw-up…food on the family fuck up. Then we could get into the serious stuff.

It’s my favorite show but then I’ve never claimed to taste good.

Speaking of beauty queens…

This is the kind of shit that’s made me always worry about Mittmo Romnutz more than any other wingnut:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/200….._us/romney

Can a “reporter” publicly fellate someone any more than this?!?! Jeezus, there’s been no one in political history that gets fluffed more than Mittmo.

Hey BB hows tings in the Bay State??

The Griffins live in Pawtucket R I 20 mins from here!

Bush might have been inarticulate but he never read off a teleprompter. The teleprompter was there of course, he simply couldn’t read it.

Turns out it’s the guy who wrote “Angler.”

“well, Rachel, he doesn’t care what I or you or anyone thinks now…”

Bleah.

FunnyDiva

Is everyone totally missing my Miss Congeniality references???? jeepers, it is THE best Sandra Bullocks movie evah!

No, they live in Quohog.

Snort

Who’s your favorite character? If you have one.
Stu-ee.

Hit mid 60’s this weekend took the ragtop out for a ride

Oh! did he care before? the guy who said “so?” and “go F yourself?”

Palin will give Mitt a fit. Let the yahoos at Yahoo fluff all they want. Mitt is damaged by his wrong religion. Let the Republican Holy War commence.

You right ………….my bad
The brewery is in Pawtucket

Twas a good flick…lots of fun.

Ooo, how about when he tried to explain tribal sovereignty?

Or when he couldn’t bring himself to say “Shame on me”, even in the context of repeating an old saying?

Snowed here yesterday. Today wasn’t bad, up to about 40 and all the snow went away. Supposed to snow again tomorrow. Nothing quite says spring break in Montana, like six inches of heavy wet snow.

Either that or he’s so cocky he told his staff he didn’t need it.

And verily, who let the dogs out?

Who?

Who?

They’re all good. Of course the love/hate relationship between Brian and Stewie is a lot of the show’s appeal.

I got it, but I’m running a bit behind, adding Philly Points Of Interest to my GPS…

I remain a skeptic on what Chavez has really done for the poor in Venezuela. Like in the U.S., it might be that is is just better than the alternative, which does not necessarily make him good.

All you need to do to be demonized by U.S. is thumb your nose at U.S. Not exactly a reason to think Chavez is great.

God how they tried to get Dubya to read the ‘prompter. They spelled the words phoenetically and he still fucked it up.

Nah,
the guy’s point was that Darth is confident that History Will Judge Him to be the Second Coming!

I just found it galling that this guy could just talk calmly about a truly evil man, who’s still meddling, as if he were discussing the weather. Oh, and That Obama was uppity: W and Cheney hadda right to their own foreign policy until the Last Possible Second…(um, Iran Hostages, anyone?).
PeeeYooooo!

FunnyD

It’s not a beauty pageant – it’s a scholarship program!

Weather’s fickle here this time of year 70 in the morning snowing and 30 in the afternoon

You don’t get fooled again…

duh

drool

Springfield, IL (2 hrs west of here) got 5 1/2″ Sat. night and Sunday morning. We only got a trace. Reached the mid 50s today so all gone in both locations.

And verily, who let the dogs out?

Who?

Who?

The guards at gitmo?

Same here, though not quite so warm (those are summer temps here). We are actually much colder than normal lately.

Ugh.

That is what is sooo disturbing. Over at C&L they have a piece on the WaPo piece on the torture. It’s been discussed so ad nauseum and debated etc that I fear no one is appalled any more and it’s cocktail party banter.

Makes me ill.

gtg.

That Gelman (Shooter’s unauthorized biographer) didn’t buy what Rachel was dangling doesn’t surprise me. Gelman is at least partially convinced that Shooter actually believes his line. On this Gelman and I part ways.

Think beer bottles, etc. tossed in the tides and polished in the sands.
More than you want to know here.

Blame it on the wise guys who made an alphabet with 26 letters. Y’know when you try to pour a gallon of knowledge into a thimble for a brain something is going to spill out.

Dubya and Dick need to go to Spain to prove to them Spanish that they ain’t afraid of nuthin’.

the spring peepers(frogs that come out at night) are out 2 weeks earlier than usual ,usually come out mid April or later

And take Gonzo along.

I tell you guys something…this flu sucks. I’ve watched more tv yesterday and today than the entire last year. And, all of it with sonny, who is down with the same thing. I’m also sick of my fabulous homemade chickey soup.

What do you call the guys in raincoats who peer through your windows?

Well thanks. Dang!

Need to jazz up the soup with some sort of hot peppers. Adds zest and helps clear phlegm too.

depends on the time of year LOL

NSA, CIA, & FBI.

Yeah. If they owned any macho, they’d be there in Guzman’s office right about now. Maybe, possibly, they’re chickenshit.

Ain’t no way Gonzo will go to Spain. He’s keepin a low profile. Now Feith, the dumbest fucker on the planet, he could end up going to Spain by way of getting lost on the French Riviera.

And possibly that pervy old dude from Family Guy.

Hope you feel better soon. Awful time of year to have the flu. Maybe brandy?

(((demi and sonny)))

I usually wave at ‘em (leaves my hands free).

And those are the agencies we know about!

Oh, he sounded like he 100% believes that Cheney believes his line. And that, ya know, that’s OK…just a minor difference of opinion. And lumping the VP with lame-duck W as having “the right” to run foreign policy any way he wanted until noon on Jan 20th. Blah blah blah.

Totally rubbed me the wrong way. Glad I wasn’t alone.

FunnyD

Ooooh, now THAT’s a travel fund I’d gladly contribute to!
FunnyD

I’m off to bed. Take care all.

(((((Demi)))))(((SonnyD)))
Sorry about that, sweetie. Want some Campbell’s as a change of pace? NOT.
XXOO
FunnyD

Night Dr….Dick

G’nite DR D

Time and time again, Cheney gets away with saying how he protected us from further attacks even as the greatest attack in modern history occurred under his watchful penguin eyes.

Even Conason missed this snappy retort. I guess nobody wants to say it since Michael Moore had the balls to say it in F-9ll and was lambasted for it.

Worth noting that the Spanish Magistrate seeking indictments against ChimpCo officials is the same dude who got Pinochet.

The case, against former Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales and others, was sent to the prosecutor’s office for review by Baltasar Garzón, the crusading investigative judge who ordered the arrest of the former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet. The official said that it was “highly probable” that the case would go forward and that it could lead to arrest warrants.

Flu on your birthday?
Now that really sucks !!

Worse than that. It’s my birthday.

nite DrD! Make sure you pollute some young minds in the AM! /s

Herbert. Ya gotta like his disabled dog Jesse. The showdown between Jesse, Peter (just struck by a speeding car), and Joe (without his wheelchair), competing to reach Peter’s severed finger was a great moment in television.

“We kept America totally safe, except for that one time. And the anthrax thing. But those don’t count because, um, Bill Clinton.”

G’nite. Enjoy your Spring break.

happy b-day demi. get well soon. celebrate when you are better.

I love that movie!
And I must admit I have a second cousin who was a miss something or other, got her college paid for, so I can’t knock it.

‘evening, all-
I have long suspected that he official vitriol directed at Chavez had to do with his presenting an alternative to the US neo-fascist business/government partnership. It’s not his taunts or bombast that have made him worthy of one attempted coup-and in better times he’d be a candidate for outright invasion-it’s the alternative he represents.

“And whosoever’s name was not written in the Book was cast into the Lake of Fire.”

Chavez has refused to sign the Book, and mocked the publishers. Credit for guts.

I did read that and it does hold out some hope that chimpy and darth get what they have earned!

Goodnight, Dr. Dick!

Ah, right. Herbert the Pervert. I don’t watch that show nearly as often as I’d like – I’m so used to it conflicting with Dexter or the Sci-Fi Syfy Sunday movie, that I’ve fallen out of the habit.

Targets.

“Tried in absentia” isn’t good enough. But it is a start.

Hope you’re feeling better soon ain’t much you can do but ride it out

There you go. Chavez made big oil pay taxes. That meant hell to pay.

What they all said. Happy birthday and get well soon!

Just don’t forget to drag them inside before the cops arrive…

Beach glass = jewelry.
Ms Universe should have higher aspirations in that department.

Happy birthday Demi and I hope you get to feeling better quick.

Happy birthday! Or as close as you can get. Maybe you can have another celebration after the bug flies away.

Powering down, wishing a splendid evening to all.

{{{DEMI}}}
Happy Birthday to you, hon. Get Well Soon.

*not required for Florida Residents. Simply “feeling threatened” justifies lethal force.

‘night, ratfood. Soft landings to you.

Should do for warrants. And reciprocity?

Being inside isn’t sufficient here. First, you are supposed to ask if they intend to hurt you.

Happy birdtree Demi.
Feel better.

Thanks Eli. I will wait to celebrate. (I would have even if the flu hadn’t attacked as the mister is out of town on business, oh could it get any better?
And, I will ride this yuck thing out. It’s not too horrible. I’m even letting sonny have the vaporizer tonight.

I wonder if Florida is off-limits to BillO’s ambush producer.

Well, that is how people have always done it here…nice to have it legally codified….

I recommend sleep. Massive amounts of sleep works well for me, even if there is some delirium…

I don’t know, but I’ll bet Texas has a similar law about feeling threatened and the use of lethal force.

That’s the kind of shit you get for laws when your stacked with stump stupid republican “legislators”.

Happy B-Day Demi and get well quick! This weather is too good to be stuck inside sick!

Nite R F !

I just spelled “your” like a republican spells you are.

Dude, FL is a very bad place to make someone feel endangered. If they can make a case, they will get away with it.

Checking out ,early day t’morrow!

G’nite all!

nite BB happy dreams!

Mmmmm, sexy woman …… shiney object. Lots of comments. What are we about here?

What I’m saying.

Umm… Late Nite?

You know, in a perverse way it testifies to the essential goodness in most people…because a LOT more people in FL could kill people and get away with it than actually do it.

Did you hear about the guy in Palm Bay? Seems this neigborhood bully was always harassing his neigbors. Give ‘em the finger, let air out of tires, etc. He was a little bit off his marbles – lived with his mother.

Well these old boys who work at NASA go down to talk to him and he shoots one of them dead at his doorstep. Got away with it, too.

Oh, thanks everyone for the wishes. You are all the best. It’s so nice to have friends here.
And, yes, sleep sure helps. Think I’ll go grab some now.

Which is good, because if people started popping each other in the street, then other people would start feeling *more* threatened, which would lead to more shooting, until eventually there’d be no-one left.

‘night, demi.

I hadn’t heard about that one, but it sounds sadly similar to stories I hear over here in Tampa with some frequency.

Did you sign up as a facebook fan? I did and it was fun. Folks from all over the world signed up. If anyone is interested, I can go find the link from last night.

One woman’s ceiling is another man’s dungeon… or how does the saying go?

Thanks, Eli. Beauty contest talking points … oy vey.

Hey Loo Hoo!

I bumped into a man who was trying to get into my kitchen. I screamed so loud he got scared and ran.
I asked the police at the time about a gun, and they gave me a big lecture…he has to present a threat, etc.

If you don’t think too hard about what Gitmo is or what it represents, it’s really quite lovely!

In retrospect, the part where she says she didn’t want to leave was particularly ironic. I’m sure she could have found someone willing to trade places.

Didn’t seem to make the news. A lady who works at NASA knew one of the guys.

Happy Birthday, Blondie!!

I dig you, Eli, but for some reason having trouble “digging” you. Will keep trying. :)

I’m flattered, regardless.

The famous Cuban song “Guantanamera” is about a woman from Guantanamo. Nortes sometines sing One Ton Tomata.

Guantes are gloves. I wonder if they made gloves in Guantanamo.

:-) … I digged (dug) you, too, finally.

Yeah, Miss V meet Jane Mayer. We should send her a copy of the dark side book.

Hey, RonD. How’s life in Florida these days. This is supposedly the time of year to visit.

She’d prolly use it as a paperweight.

And even if you’re on the inside, why, it’s just like summer camp, but without due process! Awesome!

My favorite line. Very droll!

I’m in shock. DKos:

Rep. Darrell Issa … praised Obama’s announcement saying he had “struck the right chord in seeking balance between supporting the American auto industry and calling for a much-needed restructuring of GM and Chrysler.”

Prolly holds GM bonds.

I’m thinking that episode would be interesting in a screenplay. Or something Michael Moore could make handy use of. Beauty Queens at Gitmo. It reminded me of a scene from the show The Fantasticks.. when the woman is told by the seducer.. don’t look over there … okay, but look through the “magic” glasses … at the pretty fire. See, no horror. (or something like that.. it was a long while ago)

It’s been just beautiful, but you’re in SoCal, so you know of what I speak. 82 today, a soft breeze.

It’ll be 95 in about three weeks.

Issa’s company stock DEIX, Directed Electronics of Vista, CA is 10 cents a share. IIRC, it’s IPO launch was $14.00 a share. Approx seven year old company.

NH had a case some years back. Fella unloaded a 9 millimeter, all 15 rounds into another man’s back.

The grand jury agreed that the shooter had been bullied by the decedent.

No charges.

-G

No better proof that Obama’s gone seriously off the rails, unless it’s Kristol and Kagan praising his new Af-Pak policy.

As I understand it, the exec Obama fired was willing to take only $1 a year since bailout, now he is leaving with $20 million pension, and his sympatico group-think second in command is taking over GM. So this was a BO cathartic gesture for the pitchforking populace more than serious restructuring.

Yep. same here. Some years back, guy is awakened by the sound of his car being burglarized, grabs a goddam 8-milimeter Mauser, and throws open the door. Burglar runs. Guy with rifle cuts his spine in two from a block away.
No charges. deputy calls it “a clear-cut case of self-defense.”

It’s sourly nice to know that it’s NOT just Florida.

My town had an $80K a yr. City atty who subbed out all his work. They fired him and got a $200K a yr City Atty who subs out all his work. They wanted to fire him too, but he wrote his own severance package. Its cheaper to keep him.

By my calculations, they’d have to pay the next guy $500,000 to sub out all his work.

Deep throat was right. Follow the money.

“Penny wise and pound foolish.” The code of Congress. We only are getting to know the tip of the iceberg with the corruption and it causes one to hyperventilate to try to wrap mind around.

I hear townships don’t want to let go of their modern Diebold machines because then they will have to POSSIBLY deal with messy paper recounts. Just because the delete feature is so convenient on the machine … “why do we have to give away our EFFICIENT machines that eliminated the possibility of a headache (short term).” These aren’t even the crooks. These are just the narrow, lazy thinkers.

And he’d get a fat bonus for subbing out his work more efficiently.

Did y’all read about Rush turning on all his lights and electricity in all six (is it?) houses on Saturday night at 8:30pm? What a guy!

“Fuck you” pretty much sums up his entire ideology.

‘night, all.
The best of all possible tomorrows to you all.

The Taibbi article in Rolling Stone is excellent. The Fed has been secretly back channeling trillions to the big banks for the past year or so.

I read that, I think, on informationclearinghouse. They have some great commentary making me very unnerved about Obama letting patriarchal Wall Street daddies seduce him away from doing what is needed. But I get serious blowback from Obama apologists when I try to talk it up. Talk about more magic glasses.

Rush is physically somewhat like Tim Russert used to be. He’s a massive coronary waiting to happen. Not that I would wish any ill will on the fat pig SOB.

Yeah, he was even thinking of putting up his Christmas tree lights. What a colorful character, huh?

… And they asked McCain if he would support Sarah P. the next election, and he stammered and named about a dozen names he would seriously consider, TOO, and couldn’t bring himself to endorse her even remotely. Yet he CHOSE her for VP. Houses of cards all around.

McCain named Booby Jindall! Tee hee!

He titillates. Our society prefers titillation to truth. Take a ride on his anger train. Duh. Free floating anger… he is the magnet.

Yeah… he was really scraping around, wasn’t he?

Is it true that Tittler Lou Dobbs has an hispanic wife and kids?

Thanks for the chat, Eli and hackworth… g’nite.

wow… you caught me with that one… that comes as a BIG surprise.

Dobbs needs a measure of empathy. You’d think that would do it.

I am so concerned about what is going on in Mexico right now. And our immigration mess is going to be worsened.

Clear Channel Radios’ “Delilah” (nationwide and canada too) is telling people to plant gardens so that they may be self-supporting non-whiners. That is so Limbaugh-style fucked.

Non-whiners? Oy vey. Delilah never heard of. Is she another Tammy Bruce was it? Clear Channel = Big Bucks…. I noticed Rush has fans over at the Guardian. Bombastic is cool, apparently.

When I think of how rich Rush is it makes me dizzy nauseous.

Ron Reagan air america show today, he was saying that some rightie was asserting that reducing gas emissions was bad for plant life. Ron said, “Oh, is that why there were no plants before the Industrial Revolution?”

g’nite!

Clearly, stump-dumb comes in all colors.

I friend of mine once told me that beauty pageant winners in HK would say things like: Um, uh, I think Confucious is the greatest poet in the world?!? And I want to help disabled children as well.