Kwatz!

Are you speaking Jewish?

No, Zen.

Osten!

Asshats on parade!

These are the same people who are whining and moaning that we are losing our country and America will never be the same…..with the Obama & bunch turning us into America-hating socialists, or something. I do want to know how it is that they concluded all of ‘Merica’s decline and problems have just commenced? Did they all sleep thru the last 8 years? Or is that brand of lies and idiocy just fine & dandy? Help

Now, be nice . . . at least he actually apologized, and even a full-frontal “it was offensive” apology and not the Elephant-standard “I’m sorry if anybody might have incorrectly taken offense at my non-offensive comment because they’re socialists who hate God and puppies” apology.
He’s still a tool, mind you . . . just less of a tool than the standard Red pol.

It’s okay if WHITE people are responsible for it.

Ah, the heartland. I think it goes something like this (comic here)

Like i said, it’s a start.

Pie!

I looked high and low for that clip of the movie. “You won’t tell anyone I was here, will you?”

Until they apologize for being repiglicans, I don’t much care what they say.

The same bunch offended by a “lipstick on a pig” remark. What delicate and discriminating sensibilities, dontcha think?

w/t! do ya think he will get in more trouble with the r’s for apologizing or for getting caught?

[fans self] Bring me mah smellin’ salts!

Well, sure, when you put it that way.

Wow, I didn’t know he went to the NAACP to make this apology. Will the party throw him out, do you think? What does Lindsay Graham say?

Getting caught, of course, especially if this business about consultant fees to the woman’s son pans out.

Rethugs are only allowed to apologize to and grovel before the leader of their party, Rushbo.

Getting caught.

Definitely getting caught.

I LOVE pie

Where’s the joker who bought the depends ad for our site? Hoot!

Oh, dear. El Lardo is going to be upset about this.

WT!

You left out the part about Rusty first showing up at the offices of the NCAA, where he offered a heartfelt apology to a slightly bemused group of African Americans. After lengthy unsuccessful attempts by his staff to make him comprehend his error, he finally said, “Fuck it,” and apologized to the NAACP too.

HAHAHA!

“Wait, I thought this was NASCAR!”

Hmm…, I don’t know. What kind of pie was it? It doesn’t sound like Crow, and it doesn’t sound particularly Humble. Was it store bought or homemade?

I would like to live in a world where pie made everything better. Maybe we should ban war and become bakers! Americans do make great pies, you know.

And someone said, “well, of course, they all look alike…just like our Daddy said.” /s

Actually he didn’t. He said “I am truly sorry for any offense I have caused,…” which still implies that he may not have caused any offense. The correct way to say it would have been “I am truly sorry for the offensive statement I wrote,…”. That would have been an honest apology.

Dr. Dick, you’re not anywhere near Libby, Montana, are you?

Watertiger is EVIL for posting about the Palin/Letterman kerfuffle at Dependable Renegade and NOT linking to my EXCLUSIVE COVERAGE!

Hope you all don’t mind a bit of OT but just got this email from the Penn:

We Have A New National Leader On Single Payer Health Care (If We Will Get Behind Her)

Please read this whole alert as there is a new video issue ad, a new “text to” cell phone number, a new action page, a critical and groundbreaking conceptional analysis you will find NOWHERE else and more.

First, Marcy Winograd has produced a stunning new issue advocacy video ad on single payer health care. We want to make this a national example of what EVERYBODY needs to be doing in their own districts right now, for us to win the policy change we deserve. In just 30 seconds Marcy takes control of the terms of the health care debate and redefines them. And you really need to see this video right now.

New Single Payer Advocacy Video:
http://winograd4congress.com/p….._video.php

Please watch the video above. And then do everything you can to help get it out there, propagate the link, tell your friends about it, or if you can make a contribution to help get it on the air.

Marcy’s underlying point is resoundingly simple. To get Congress to actually act on good policy, each individual member must feel their OWN re-election directly threatened if they do not. That is why Marcy is about to start running issue challenge campaign ads a YEAR before the primary election in CA-36.

And Marcy has tremendous credibility issuing this challenge to the Democratic incumbent, Jane Harman, having pulled 38% against her opponent in 2006. Harman is one of the worst of the worst, having interceded with the New York Times to stop the publication of a story on George Bush that would have defeated him back in 2004, having being briefed on all the torture as it was happening and doing nothing to stop it, and slavishly serving AIPAC to the detriment of the national interests of her own constituents.

There is a massive industry sponsored conspiracy afoot, to pass off some kind of watered down, phony health care reform bill as the change we believed in. And it all revolves around two MEANINGLESS marketing buzz words they are spending millions of dollars to implant in our brains, and you may not have realized how sinister these two words were until you read this entire alert.

And the two words they are trying to make come out of all our mouths are “quality, affordable”.

Those two words mean NOTHING and stand only for rejection of any fundamental change, and yet they are propagating wildly in the mass media, driven by slick diversionary ads, and perhaps you have unknowingly and unconsciously even uttered them yourself already.
Nobody can “afford” NOT to have health care, regardless of the cost, up to their entire net worth. And we don’t have a shortage of “quality” doctors and nurses, our problem is getting heartless insurance megacorporations to authorize our quality doctors to treat us.

It is no secret that the most mortal sworn enemies of real health care reform got together and concocted this deceptive marketing campaign, as they saw that the compelling majority of the American people favored and were pressing for REAL change. They literally sat down in a room to conspire on what marketing words they could use to SELL their status quo system of gouging us as something new and different.

And if we are to win, those two words must NEVER pass our lips ever again.

What Marcy does so brilliantly in this new video ad is lay claim to and define two truly NEW words, “economical and efficient”, to COUNTERBRAND single payer health care with what it really represents, so that all America can really understand the difference. The disease in health care is the 30% of our resources that medical industry paper pushers steal from every health care dollar. Single payer health care would save that money, thus it is “economical”. And by eliminating insurance conglomerate middlemen, it would be more “efficient”. That is the only cure for what ails us and there is no other real cure.

New Single Payer Advocacy Video:
http://winograd4congress.com/p….._video.php

Do you get it? The enemies of real change have been trying to brand single payer health care with supposedly negative coined expressions like “socialized medicine”, while at the same time branding their own fake reform initiative with those OTHER words (the Q word and the A word), which we must ALL agree to never utter again. Do you get it?
Do you really get it? It is the marketing campaign of our policy change enemies, and for us to prevail, the Q word and the A word must be surgically excised entirely from our own discourse and replaced with the “economical and efficient” mental transplant.

The fact is while Congress fools around trying to concoct a phony “public” option, the original bill proposed in 2005 for single payer health care, H.R. 676 STILL has more co-sponsors than any other. So we need to CONTINUE to press our support for HR 676. Each of us must make a point of submitting an action page on this like clockwork once a week, and we will have new action page links on this for you once a week from now on. Here is the latest action page Marcy has on her site.

New HR 676 Action Page:
http://winograd4congress.com/petitions/pnum995.php

To further support this whole initiative there is a new cell phone “text to” number. All you need to do is text the word “HR676″ to 30644, and we will get you in touch with Marcy to help you organize in your own districts. We need everyone in the country who cares about real health care reform to text “HR676″ to the 30644 short code, to give this out on radio shows, at public events, and everywhere else we can.

THEN, what Marcy will do is put people in their own Congressional districts in touch with each other, to empower you to do exactly what Marcy herself is doing in her own district. We literally need serious candidates NOW, to start running their own issue advocacy ads on single payer right now. The American people are behind us if we just get out there and represent them.

Let Marcy be a national example of just what we ALL need to be doing.
Every bought off member of Congress must feel the heat on the single payer issue in a very personal way from a direct challenger breathing down their neck on this issue right now. Then and only then will be get the change we believed in.

And yes, you can also respond to this action through the new Twitter gateway. Just send the following Twitter reply, and add any personal comment you like.

@cxs #p995

And if you want a step by step explanation of how to set up the Twitter thing here is the link for that.

Twitter Activism Step-By-Step: http://tcxs.net/step_by_step.php

Paid for by Winograd for Congress

Please take action NOW, so we can win all victories that are supposed to be ours, and forward this alert as widely as possible.

Oh yeah Pups good evening just stopping by before a Lamb Curry Dinner..mmmmmmmmmmmm good..

Hope all of ya are doing great!!

Please read this whole alert

Nope.

This is as good as you’re going to get from a Thug.

Taking a moment to blogwhore my comments & slideshow of rally pix from the pro-Iran-democracy rally in Austin. Wangdangdoodle was also there, and comment #9 is one of the organizers being interviewed by Bob Kincaid of the H.O.R.N.. As many as 300 protesters by the end in 100 degree heat.

Shit you’re no fun…. /s

phhphhphhht! NO CAKE FOR YOU!

Wonder if the NASCAR apology circuit will take Rusty anywere near Al Sharpton’s studio? After the show Al and Rusty can do lunch with Bill-O and order some motherf*ckin’ ice-tea!

Wangdangdoodle??
Betsy say Hi for me!

Oh yeah, I’m sure Rusty would LOVE a trip to Sylvia’s.

Josh Marshall coming up on the Colbert Report

Sort of kind of in a Montana sort of way. It is about 180 miles NW of Missoula where I live. I do know quite a few folks from there.

Where’s my motherfucking iced tea? And my motherfucking cake?

me.too. say hi for me!

Great pictures, Betsy.

But wouldn’t putting Sharpton and O’Reilly at the same table generate a naked singularity of mutual loathing that would threaten to consume the entire planet?

will do!

TexBetsy goes to all the trouble of taking those pictures and WATERTIGER won’t even LINK TO THEM!!

Thanks Mary!

My money is on Sharpton.

I was just reading some H.L. Mencken quotes and they’re all so good but this one tickled me. Goes to show that there is nothing new (in politics) under the sun.

A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.
H. L. Mencken

Cage Match!

Y’know, Kenosha, if I see you on Friday, you’re a dead man.

Just sayin’.

I gotta call it a night, peeps! Bon nuit!

I think Sharpton has been bought by the Republican Party and now he is nothing more than a dirty trick that they use when the opportunity presents itself.

g’nite watertiger

Already happened. Bill-O’s description of the event is where the ice-tea reference comes from.

Night!

Agreed, for O’Reilly is a physical coward and a pansy when all is said and done. He just likes to stand in front of a camera and talk like a tough guy.

G’nite WT!

(Did I tell you I may be in NYC weekend of July 4?)

Nighters!

It’s not really what Lindsay Graham says, it’s what he believes. True Southern Republican.

OXWHORE

http://oxdown.firedoglake.com/diary/5817

HOW-ever, if the shoe fits, then perhaps a trip to the nearest DSW is in order.

If the shoe fits, THROW IT!

I dunno, can a guy who appears on TV every day with a giant scrotum dangling below his chin be a coward?

i think he believes what he is told to….

he does seem frigtened for a 6′2guy

Say hi to WWD for me too, Tex!

Anyone who DOESN’T want to say HI to Wangdangdoodle? (She went to sleep. SOME of us have jobs ya know!)

All these rightwing “tough guys” are really a bunch whiny bedwetters who are scared of their own shadows. Fear is what drives them.

All the issues important to the Republican base involve fear. Fear is a powerful motivator that bypasses higher brain functions, perfect tool for the GOP.

“Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.”

My God, I’m quoting Yoda.

Has more credibility than anyone in the Republican Party.

Finally, somebody who has their priorities in order.

PETA wishes Obama hadn’t swatted that fly

I’m pretty sure he could kick O’Reilly’s ass.

stunning isnt it….just high school bullies

*sigh*

Confirms my opinion of PETA.

Yoda you are.

Flies around the world are enjoying a good laugh. Oh, the humanity!

When do we get Presidential apologies?

And looking for PETA members to bite.

niteall…….gonna watch i claudius

Might, Sadly.

Here is something for the shall we say, esoteric cake fancier, Betsy.

g’nite sadly

Oh ratfood! Some cakes are really better left in the pantry…..

Every time I read or hear one of them, I get an overwhelming urge to slap them and ask them if they ever heard of the Cold War. You know, like 15,000 nuclear warheads pointed at us, and only a few dedicated Russian field grade officers between us and Armageddon?

You’d think we’d never faced the possibility of casualties at home.

How do we change MSM where every story or event the next thing you here from is some Repug senator or congressman spouting THE talking points?

I am so sick and tired of this…..

Time for me to head out. Still have young minds to corrupt in the morning.

sleep well sadlyyes.

good night dr d

I bet PETA members still eat chicken. There’s nothing redeeming about a chicken.

I think, with that, that I’ll call it a night. Peace out, y’all!

Think I’d prefer a less hirsute dessert on my birthday.

Good luck with that, and good night.

Hi Cujo….

Or when the redcoats burned Washington DC during the 1812 war or the Indian wars….

We had invading foreign soldiers on our soil and wasn’t as important…..

You know, that’s the best description of one of their non-apologies I’ve ever read.

G’nite EDP, DrDick and everyone else. Time for me to head out too. Sweet dreams to all.

Hi katymine,

Or perhaps the Civil War. What makes the point about the Cold War aggravating is that plenty of us were around during that time. We can’t seem to remember what was going on thirty years ago in this country, even when we lived with it every day.

Mmmm. Chicken PETAs. G’night, EDP.

Good lord. How ridiculous.

Question:
When the repugs put out their version of the stimulus plan, wasn’t around 4 pages with no dollar amounts just like their Heath care plan?

They sure do not learn anything over the crap they got on the stimulus plan did they?

Good night, sleepers.

Nope. Just more stupid.

Yes, that was their original stimulus plan. They amended it to include a couple of meaningless numbers later.

If the Democrats had come up with a good health care plan, I suspect the GOP would be in trouble. As it is, their best course is probably to keep their heads low and their talking points meaningless.

Good night firepups. I think I will sleep well after being out in the heat for the evening.

Goodnight, TexBetsy.

Nite, Betsy. Hi Cujo, nice to see you.

Cujo, how was the drive back to Federal Way?

Haven’t heard about the MRI results, will call tomorrow morning….. had to deal with the IRS who denied my request for an extension for submission of my return….

Hi Margot, I’m back in range of the Internet finally.

It was a good drive. Took us three days, and our path took us through what must be the most boring 300 miles of road in America, but we made it back.

Hope for good news on the MRI. What’s the IRS’s problem? The first delay used to be almost automatic.

Because I filed after April 15 for the extension….. they didn’t know that I was on a non-stop appointments at Mayo from 4/2, in surgery on 4/14 and inpatient for two days, then I became incapacitated. When I called today (wait time 26 minutes) and the guy was really nice, explained why and he told me to write for extension with all the info above. He also gave the phone number of the Taxpayer Advocate service to help taxpayers with issues with the IRS.

Until I know better not going to blame the ex that his best friend’s wife works for the IRS…… like I did for the 10 yrs of audits (that I won)….. the only good thing Senator Kyl has done was to get them off my back…..

Fox is (not) featuring grovel-to-grovel coverage.

“Up yours..” and apology.