hi thers!

now to read the post

“Conservative” and “schlong” in the same post. I see a pattern happening in this here blogosphere.

Evening, evening.

Thersday! Now with extra snark and *SPRINKLES*!

If conservatives were serious people they wouldn’t be conservatives.

What is his thing with Dr. Maddow? Does he think he can sweet-talk her into going straight like James Bond did with Pussy Galore, or what? Somebody needs to tell him that Ian Fleming is a lousy sex therapist.

You know, you almost have to admire this. This is so out-there crazy, so “Oh Fuck, ladies and gentlemen, the black helicopters are here!”, just so damn weird that Cthulhu itself would have to scratch its head at reading this.

It’s just madness. We are watching people go crazy. We will never forget these times.

Man, the WTF in this post.

Sir, I must say, I find your user name hysterically amusing after reading this post. :)

It has to be something out of the Weekly World News before his fans will sit up and take notice.

Sorted of related, an item at HuffPo/BusinessWeak is saying it’s a done deal. Not the schlong thingy. The health care reform thingy. Here’s a sample paragraph:

The industry has already accomplished its main goal of at least curbing, and maybe blocking altogether, any new publicly administered insurance program that could grab market share from the corporations that dominate the business. UnitedHealth has distinguished itself by more deftly and aggressively feeding sophisticated pricing and actuarial data to information-starved congressional staff members. With its rivals, the carrier has also achieved a secondary aim of constraining the new benefits that will become available to tens of millions of people who are currently uninsured. That will make the new customers more lucrative to the industry.

Isn’t that wonderful news! The rich and powerful carrier was able to “constrain” the benefits that would accrue to the currently uninsured. What an achievement. I say, bonuses for all of them. Thanks guys! You’re just so totally awesome!

Blame my mama and the University of Oklahoma.

We’ve got doctors in the hizzouse.

Oh, yes, UnitedHealth. Whose former CEO McGuire got bonuses on par with what hedge fund owners were getting pre-crash.

Have to say that I find it an interesting (as in psychotic space time quantum leap warped) cognitive leap from the bill mandating collecting and monitoring data on the treatment and outcomes for specific groups, including transgenders/transsexuals, to mandating sexual reassignment surgery.

Don’t go usin’ all them big kollidge wurds on us…

Makes me wonder if putting Halcyon in the water supply might improve our public discourse.

Isn’t it ironic that homophobes are nearly always complete dickheads?

That or strychnine.

T’wernt college, that there were authentic frontier gibberish.

Now there’s a thought. Contract a few tanker trucks, back up to the reservoirs and we’re there.

It has long been my observation that many of them are in fact severely repressed closet cases. Might explain it.

My guess is he’s angling to get on her show. Hence the schoolyard taunting about ratings and the deliberate “I’m not touching you, does this bug you, I’m not touching you” overt-bigot-brinksmanship of the post.

Don’t get me wrong, he’s really a bigot, but he’s also desperate for the teevee exposure.

Which made me leery about even noting him, but then I saw Pam did, so I figured it was OK.

Yeah, here’s another shout out for NewsHour.

I’m wondering if this fait accompli motif is some sort of double-cross gambit. Is it four dimension chess?

I suspect that he is desperate for anybody in the known (or unknown) universe to pay any attention to him. Especially since The Concerned Wankers of America are no longer concerned with retaining his services. Current employment may be a bit shaky and contingent on getting some actually media exposure.

She should make a deal with him. If he wears the same fetching dress as shown in the photo above, he can have his 15 minutes. Well…3 minutes, anyway. Tops.

More like unidimensional tiddly winks.

Just another variation on the “thou doth protest too much” theme.

Hypocrisy being such a common trait in humans, that old adage “you are what you eat” should probably be “you are what you hate.”

Authentic American Frontier Gibberish Warning.

Certainly the number of fine, upstanding married men in Congress who are caught on the down-low would lend credence to that theory.

Well, I don’t think I am a lying, hypocritical bigot, or that you are, so it cannot work in every case.

He’s had so much trouble affording Cheetos his peter is probably losing it’s orange hue.

It is a bit hard to tell with objects that small.

Glurp!

That is just way too much of an image…

Hee hee — the lunkhead is an associate dean at Liberty U.

I shit thee not.

That is just way too much little of an image…

Fixed it for ya.

Is that comparable to onanism. Tiddly in Britain is related to teabagging. Mike the Cool Person played by Adrian Edmundston in Bambi: “I want to wash my smalls and I don’t mean dip my tiddlies in a glass of water.”

Well thank Jebus for that…

Hey, Kelly. Thanks for going to the town hall thingie today. It looks like Harry Teague isn’t going to be doing any on this recess :-(.

That explains almost everything.

I shit thee not.

Shakespeare, right?

Oh dear sweet spreadable Jeebus on a matzoh. As if those poor children were not already being abused enough. I do think we now have proof positive of academic malpractice.

Is this news, or did I miss it?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…..53478.html

Coriolanus.

Heh. I said “Coriolanus.”

Francis Bacon, I think. Or his brother, Canadian.

Old news.

Yer such a ham…

One of the little-known historico-comedies, Julius, Seize her. The line is in Act 68, Scene Three.

Grazie!

@BCT 36 – I was thinking of you actually today. I was thinking we either need a big frikkin brass band (with lots of trombones, natch :) ) Or some new songs!

Need to literally get people singing from the same hymnal, as that sort of thing really makes the incoherence of the other side so much more apparent.

Mad Max is continuing his policy of hiding from constituents so he can hobnob with big money donors and our Rep, the excrescent Denny Rehberg (R-Corrupt and Insane) won’t even come into this part of the state.

I don’t get out much.

Heh, I said “shake spear.”

The sad part, I’ve seen worse deans…

Why would he want to get on her show? Does he think he can Gish Gallop the uppity attractive lesbian woman into submission?

She really should invite him, just to show him how seriously outclassed he is.

I rarely watch the teevee for anything but pro wrestling and Skinemax softcore.

I knew you were a person of sophisticated refinement with cultured tastes.

;>)

Hob Knob.

It kills me that Baucus is directly responsible to what, just under a million Americans, and has Mighty Powers over the healthcare of 300 million Americans. Democracy, feh.

I also like SpongeBob.

Because every lesbian is secretly looking for Mr. Goodbar, right?

Not only that, a large majority of our about 960K people support the public option. He does not even represent his constituents.

Hampton Wick.

I would recommend We Shall Overcome for that sort of gathering. It really makes the rabid right gnash their teeth.

In the alternative, if you’re willing to distribute lyric sheets, Woody Guthrie’s This Land Is Your Land (all, and I do mean all the verses) will make them crazy too.

They think they know the song, and they think it’s about them… it isn’t.

I was just continuing your pork theme.

Heh! Someone should tell Dr. Maddow. She got her doctorate from Oxford, which last I looked was still a fully accredited university, something the Falwell Fundie Factory will never, ever be.

Speaking of which: I wonder if Regent U admissions have dropped off, now that RU grads aren’t assured of DoJ gigs any more?

Yup, aka the Pussy Galore Hypothesis.

His constituents are insurance lobbyists. He represents them to the best of his ability.

Let’s not be too harsh. Maybe he’s not up on all that “new math” stuff. I mean, 960K is a pretty big number, right? On the other hand, if we were talking about a $960K bribe, he’d prolly grasp that concept.

New Math. It’s so capricious.

THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND
words and music by Woody Guthrie

Chorus:
This land is your land, this land is my land
From California, to the New York Island
From the redwood forest, to the gulf stream waters
This land was made for you and me

As I was walking a ribbon of highway
I saw above me an endless skyway
I saw below me a golden valley
This land was made for you and me

Chorus

I’ve roamed and rambled and I’ve followed my footsteps
To the sparkling sands of her diamond deserts
And all around me a voice was sounding
This land was made for you and me

Chorus

The sun comes shining as I was strolling
The wheat fields waving and the dust clouds rolling
The fog was lifting a voice come chanting
This land was made for you and me

Chorus

As I was walkin’ – I saw a sign there
And that sign said – no tress passin’
But on the other side …. it didn’t say nothin!
Now that side was made for you and me!

Chorus

In the squares of the city – In the shadow of the steeple
Near the relief office – I see my people
And some are grumblin’ and some are wonderin’
If this land’s still made for you and me.

Chorus (2x)

mmmmm….bacon…

As Basil Fawlty says, “Keep your pecker up”!

Meh. Constituents, they don’t pay the nut.

I wonder if Regent U admissions have dropped off

One can only hope. They and Liberty really ought to be prosecuted for fraud.

Afraid I’ve missed all the post Sean Connery Bonds. Gotta save something for my dotage.

You’re playing with philosophical matches there. Incipient Obamedislamosocialism beckons with every Krabby Patty.

;>)

Boris Becker.

That is sooo 1964 and Goldfinger … I don’t understand how Mike Meyers missed that aspect in Austin Powers: Gold Member.

Oh, lunkhead baits her for her education, too. He leaves no button unbuttoned on the brownshirt.

No. Those are his owners and like a good whore, he stays bought (or at least rented).

He might be doing some post-whatever academic work at “Liberty U” on the PGH. Yeah. He’ll hit the big time.

Which is exactly the problem.

We need to change the system, so that we are, ahem, the SINGLE PAYERS.

They’d change their tune I do believe.

Dipped in chocolate…

…and they think it’s about them… it isn’t.

boy, could *that* line get over-used….

You can add Patrick Henry College to that list, too.

While receiving his government health benefits.

Oh hell, the bribes he collects are much larger than his constituency. He is (IIRC) the largest recipient of donations from big pharma and the insurance industry. We are talking millions for a hack senator from a podunk state with more prairie dogs than people (which explains the voting patterns in the eastern part of the state).

Totally OT and extremely personal. May I have a moment of silence here, please?
The big screen Sony is dead. Kaput. Toast.
My son is very sad. I couldn’t care less, honestly. The boys are in the process of hooking up the old 24″.

He might be doing some post-whatever academic whatever work at “Liberty U”

sorry – I just can’t abide seeing the words “academic” and “Liberty U” in the same sentence….

And representing the state with the 15th highest rate of uninsured.

Condolences. I am old enough to remember when twenty-four inches seemed like a really big one.

That sounds expensive, demi…

“He is (IIRC) the largest recipient of donations from big pharma and the insurance industry.”

Well that makes me feel a lot better about his qualifications to adequately represent the interests of average people in this whole health care reform thing…

hahahahah
*snork*
I need a paper towel here, my poor keyboard…

She never will, though. He’s too desperate, it’s too obvious.

I mean, he barely got ME to smooch him, and I’m far more wingnutty promiscuous than Maddow.

(Honestly, Barber is one of the wingnuts I usually ignore, because he’s too much of a freak on the make. But occasionally his head pops up far enough on the Whack-a-Mole game that is Townhall, etc., and he gets the big padded hammer.)

How about a moments flatulence? The boys could be tiddlies!

Which he’ll deny are from the government.

Did you pull an Elvis on it when Glenn Beck’s show came on? The .357 or the 9mm?

My apologies.

He really is sort of a Z-list winger.

besides – I think that I may have a degree in “post-whatever-whatever”.

lemme rummage around a little here – should be filed right behind the “Doctor of Inane Letters” certificate.

They could have lived with B&W until they were grown,, like me.
I still don’t understand the appeal of big-screen TVs. (But I don’t have any TV these days. Keeps me saner.)

Hee-hee, sounds like my work here is done.

Going to call it a night. Pleasant evening to all.

that’s what I was gonna ask!

the only proper way to send a dead teevee off – give it the Elvis treatment.

Is there a proper accompanying ceremony?

Yeah, but it’s a circular problem — single payer might get us a better Senate, but how do you get single payer without a radically reformed Senate?

That is awesome, sir, awesome indeed. :)

We had bought it several years ago, used, from a guy I worked with, for $250. Not replacing it with a new one. Now that we moved the dead dude out onto the driveway, vacumned and dusted and the living room is cable and cord central, I sure hope the one we brought in from the bowels of the garage works. *g*

I think that could get you charged with child abuse these days.

Night, rf.

Couple extra Cadillacs and one of them fried peanut butter and banana sandwiches…heavy on the 30 weight…

I’d combine the Elvis treatment with a giant trebuchet. Just be certain the skeet doesn’t hit the fans.

…how do you get single payer without a radically reformed Senate?

perhaps the better question is how to get single payer without a single decent set of balls in said Senate?

I like it.

so much fun to point and jeer at right-wing idiots, but whipping for and supporting the Democratic reform bill that emerges is also hmmm, shall we say, also against the interests of most people here . . .

What people in Washington tend not to discuss, at least on the record, is the open secret that insurers are minimizing their forecasts of the eventual windfall they will enjoy from expanded coverage for Americans. UnitedHealth has given certain key members of Congress details about its finances and tax liability—both historical numbers and figures projected under various cost-sharing scenarios. But some on Capitol Hill are skeptical. “The bottom line,” says an aide to the Senate Finance Committee, “is that health reform would lead to increased revenues and profits [for the insurance industry]. … There will be [added] costs [to the companies], but we’re not sure the revenues and profits will be as low as they say.”

from the same article alank references.

by ‘expanded’ they mean, mandated. yeah. progressives rooting for mandatory enrollment in the for-profit insurance cabal truly take ‘working against one’s own interests’ to a new level.

There are plenty of balls in the Senate. They are just attached to the wrong people. What they have a lack of is scruples.

That’s prolly more appropriate.
I think my family was the last on the block to get color. The big screen was fun to re-watch Star Wars on. No biggie, really. It’s just that the hubby hasn’t eaten dinner yet. Like I said, cleaning and reconnecting stuff at this time of night isn’t our favorite evening activity. But, we’ll be finished soon. Ahhhhhhh.

…a giant trebuchet.

heh – learned a new word.

I was thinking more along the lines of saying a few words in fond memory and celebration of the dead teevee – right before you you shoot it.

or tiddlies.

There are plenty of balls in the Senate. … What they have a lack of is scruples.

yeah – that’s a common problem with balls.

“They are just attached to the wrong people.”

That’s where the mandated gender-manipulation procedures come in. They’ve really thought this stuff through…

That’s where it ain’t circular to me Thers – what’s probably key here would come from a legal challenge to corporate-personhood.

To keep this short, free speech/money/election laws need to be changed so that if you aren’t a human, with a stake in the game as a flesh and blood person, you don’t get to say what goes on.

And while you should be guaranteed your speech, you should not be guaranteed anonymity.

This would solve many, many problems. Will it happen? I think not. At least not in any shortly realizable time frame. I’m just pointing it out.

Think I will head out. Take care all.

nite doc, RF.

Later, DD.

I expect the CBO could estimate the opportunity cost of not having an insurance racket. Then you could back-in to their projected profits from the reform package that comes out of the conference committee.

They are just so confident, those insurance dudes.

sporkovat,

That is precisely why we need health insurance reform combined with a public option open to everyone.

If the insurance companies can make money and provide the mandated benefits on a 2.5% overhead, then more power to them.

Good night, Dr. D.

They are just so confident, those insurance dudes.

“It’s good to be the King”. (Mel Brooks)

wasn’t it part of the deal keeping SP off the table that the CBO was never tasked to run the numbers on such a plan, in fear that they would be favorable?

is there a solid weblink validating this conjecture?

History of the World, Part I, one of the most under-rated Brooks films.

With respect, I don’t think that’s the entire issue — be nice to have more Senators with balls, but look where they’d end up?

“Balls” has to include “reform the Senate.” Gonna be hard to get that to stick once they’re in there.

Seems to me that we could elect 100 brand new Senators, and not a single one of them is ever going to give up the tiniest bit of the power they just acquired. At least not as things are structured now – where fund-raising is more important than serving middle-class constituents.

Public financing of elections is the only way to make the critters actually responsive to the needs of the public – once they need to actually *win*, as opposed to essentially buying, votes, change could come.

Pardon me wile I wax pessimistic.

Amen. And we need to add to that impartial redistricting for the House.

If this was a right wing blog, I would make a suggestion involving the 2nd admendment. But since it isn’t, I won’t. That being said, there are a few members of the Senate that I would like to get ahold of and shake till their teeth rattle.

heh, I know.

OK, I’m a sleepy.

Off for vacation next week. Next Sat & Thurs late night, won’t be me. In a lake cabin in the Adirondacks with the family. I’ll miss you all, but a week of no Intertubes, just nature, my wife, & my kids is very necessary. See ya soon!

enjoy – sounds great.

problem is – we’ll pretty much all be here when you get back.

seriously – have a good time. nite.

Replacing one set of the best politicians money can rent for another set of the best politicians money can rent isn’t going to get us anywhere.

We need fundamental changes in the electoral system in order to get real change we can believe in in Congress.

(1) Public financing for all campaigns for elected office;
(2) Impartial redistricting of congressional districts;
(3) Ethics rules with real teeth;
(4) Change from first-past-the-post to single-transferable-vote elections.

Uh Jayt Check out http://www.youstreet.org maybe if enough of us help we can get rid of the Tainted money of Corporate America!!
And it would be really cool if Corporations lost their misbegotten Freedom Of Speech they acquired in the 1880’s… so much for “Settled Law” has done so much Damage to our country!!

Have a great vacation, Thers. We’ll take care of things here.

One of the favorites, at this household.
Did you kill anyone this week? Did you try to kill anyone this week? Remember that from the beginning?

as long as we are at the wishing well:

(5) break the 2-party duopoly, and make 3rd Party and (I) activism legitimate in ‘progressive’ circles.

though if 1-4 happen, 5 is very likely to follow, especially with (2) and (4) in play.

signing off . . .

Okay, the little old tv from the garage works. What’s funny is how small it looks, sitting there between the big old JBL’s.

Amen. And we need to add to that impartial redistricting for the House.

whoa – that would seriously fuck some stuff up.

not that that’s necessarily a bad thing….

have you shot any teevee’s yet this week?

That is my all time favorite pet peeve. I can buy a corporation but I cannot buy a person. Therefore a corporation is not a person!
Legal fiction my aching ass.

See my more comprehensive list…

The whole purpose of that reform package would be to enable sporkovat’s (5), without making it explicit. If it emerges, then fine. If not, that’s fine too.

Person??? Never!! But they sure can spend the money on things that will make the corporation money at the expense of all of us… I sure wish that “speech crap” could be be revoked.
What has it accomplished but the take over of OUR government by Corporate money… Sure SUCKS!!

That is my all time favorite pet peeve. I can buy a corporation but I cannot buy a person.

actually, we were just talking about congress-creeps. You can certainly buy one of those.

‘Course, that may not meet your definition of “person”.

True! Under the current state of the law, a corporation is considered a person with all the rights that it entails.

har har. I actually am glad that sucker bit the dust. This one is much more appropriate for us. And, the picture is much sharper.

I’m just waiting for a corporation to attempt to exercise its right to dance naked in the back yard on a Saturday night.

(that was for Mary Mac, if she’s lurking).

oh.

well, fer gawd’s sake – don’t shoot the wrong one…..

actually, we were just talking about congress-creeps. You can certainly buy one of those.

Then you get into the definition of an honest one. Meaning of course that once you buy them they stay bought.

The honest ones aren’t for sale, they’re for rent…

It is a sad thing when I have to consider that a true statement.

It never should have happened… it was the beginning of the end for all of us…. Corporate entities just by the $$$ they have access have a bigger voice than the people do. And of course thoses behind it have been taking advantage of it ever since!!
We need a really good Law Firm to bring all this to an end!

The phrase “slim and none ” comes to mind. There is no way the Supreme court as it currently consituted overturning that precedent.

I know but one can Dream that one day a Middle of the road court will see the error of the law as it is currently observed!

Oklahoma has a university?

True to form, she twisted and spun like the Michelle Kwan of yellow journalism.

That is quite the simile. Though he’s probably just trying to be an “anti-PC” asshole on purpose, in which case he’s succeeded — he’s surely an asshole!

To be fair to Matt “Bam Bam” Barber, I think this is more a case of Unfortunate Implications than deliberate racism.

Though you can never be sure with “Bam Bam”.