They forgot, they’re not supposed to wear white hoods after Labor Day [h/t TRex]

quel faux pas… cela ne se fait pas!

the cane, it’s plain, should fall mainly on the pain (in the ass from SC)

Shorter Joe Wilson:
I regret that I have only one lie to give for my country.

Ohhhhhhh Man! Can I use your desk to bang my head? Seriously, this state has been abused and embarrassed for far too long. I will admit that there is an over abundance of these idiots in the state. However, not all of us are insane. The problem is vote rigging. Always has been, always will be unless Brad follows up on my e-mails and takes it public.

Elections here and in North Carolina are mostly farces. The only reason NC, made out last year was because Liddy Dole went after her opponenants faith. The masses that went to the polls could not have been swept under the rug and they knew it.

How many sitcoms did they portray Thurmond in? Sheesh, I think the goopers would still try to pry his withered hand out of the grave to vote aye. Oh yeah, and they would get away with it had it been under Bush’s watch. I pray that after the past three years of exposed dirt this state will gain something closer to sane representatives.

Will they bring back the Anti Sass Society?

AquaKitteh!!!

Rep Anthony Weiner on KO…”I’m already compromising.” Good man. On message. Can’t we put him in charge of some important committee or something?

FunnyWheelieDiva

Well, the saddest part is there are some liberals who completely agree with this vile South Carolinian racist buffoon. Sad country we have today after 8 years of the Bush Regime. The war criminals are running loose, armed militias and other violent groups are being created to ‘take the President down’, and for some reason liberals and others are referring to these asswipes as the place to go for ‘facts’ and ‘how to move forward’!

Screw the republicans! Van Jones was right. They’re assholes. Pure and simple. No further explanation needed. Continue what you were doing. The End.

Oh, go ahead and criticize, but look at SC’s educational stats first. Pay particular attention to reading.

I think therein lies the clue to lack of comprehension… especially when reading pending bills.

[My apologies to PeasantParty!]

Lindsey Graham, though, is the just the kind of fellah a girl would like to bring home to her folks. Such good manners, so smelly-good, so uninterested in pressing himself on her.

Every time I think about how nutty, rutty Southern politicians are, I remember I live in California, home of its own large assortment of wacked out politicians.

And that Lite-in-his-loafers Guv, Andre Bauer! *swoon*

Edited on Thu Sep-10-09 06:42 PM by babylonsister
http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs…..9/0…

Joe Wilson’s Dirty Health-Care Secret
Newsweek

By Adam Weinstein

Poor Joe Wilson. The conservative Republican representative from South Carolina stepped in it Wednesday night when he broke with centuries of decorum by screaming, “You lie!” at President Obama during his health-care speech to a joint session of Congress.

Cut the man some slack. He’s passionate! I know this because he told me, in the sole message that blazes across his campaign Web site: JOE WILSON IS PASSIONATE ABOUT STOPPING GOVERNMENT RUN HEALTH CARE!

Except that he’s not─at least not when it comes to his, and his family’s, government-run health care. As a retired Army National Guard colonel, Wilson gets a lot of benefits (one of which, apparently, was not a full appreciation of the customs, traditions, and courtesies that mandate respect for one’s commander in chief). And with four sons in the armed services, the entire Wilson brood has enjoyed multiple generations of free military medical coverage, known as TRICARE.

Yes, it’s true. As politicos and town-hall criers debate the finer points of the public option, employer mandates, coverage for undocumented immigrants, and who’s more Hitler-like, they seem to miss a larger point:

Mod note: Please respect others copyrights. Limit cut and paste to a small highlight with a link. Thank you.

Now Teddy. Lindsey is just a very gentle gentleman.

My family came from France and settled in SC in the early 1750s. My great great grandad gave an arm and an eye for “The Cause” but I only had one crazy aunt and she was funny and harmless. They used to have good schools.

The list of sins that define South Carolina is not restricted to politics. Anyone who has driven I95 through the state knows the curse that is South of the Border.

thilly thavage

We came through there on our way back from the Outer Banks this summer and the joint appeared to be in serious trouble, lots of closed stuff all over.

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, originally from nearby Dillon, South Carolina, worked for a summer as a poncho-wearing waiter at South of the Border to help pay his way through Harvard.

that is hilarious!

A (not so) oldy but goody from South Carolina’s Republican swamp
(with a Ghouliani connection for extra special goodness).

Misses Lindsay has her girdle in a twist

I was incredibly disappointed in the tone of his speech,” said Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.).”At times, I found his tone to be overly combative and believe he behaved in a manner beneath the dignity of the office. I fear his speech tonight has made it more difficult — not less — to find common ground.

Yeah, it’s pretty well shot, now, but at least the Wiki article memorialized a lot of the worst signs…

Bein that I live down south I thought you meant this Goody’s!

I found his tone to be overly combative…. I fear his speech tonight has made it more difficult — not less — to find common ground.

WHAT. THE. F***.????

Riiiiight, his tone was overly combative and made it more difficult to find common ground.

But those nice, soft-spoken tea-baggers throughout the entire effen country throughout the entire effen month of August…….

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!

Calm down OFG, about to blow a gasket.

Thanks for the post, watertiger.

This putz sleazeball, Wilson, deserves all the scorn he so boldly earned and more. His pathetic backpedal apology today, by his own admission at the urging of his fellow republicans, exposed him for the weasel he is. (sorry to all weasel)

It’s beer-thirty here, can I get you something soothing?

FWDiva

I visited Beaufort a couple of times… thought it was a very nice place, albeit with a very high median age. It’s in Liar’s district. btw.. I heard his opponent Miller raised nearly half a mill today… guess that’s what happens when you seriously annoy about a quarter of a billion people….

another twit

While U.S. Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC) has been pilloried for yelling at President Obama during his address to Congress Wednesday evening, one of his Republican colleagues has escaped public scrutiny for a less vocal protest.

Rep. John Shimkus, from Collinsville, Illinois, walked out on the President’s health care speech before it was over.

The reason? Obama’s tone wasn’t cooperative and his ideas were not new, Shimkus’ spokesman told the Tribune’s Mark Silva.

Are you a Huguenot descendant?

Better make it a double, maam.

That explains sooo much.

Added on edit: Along with the fact that his childhood home went into foreclosure.

Lindsey G and his pals today realized they have made themselves irrelevant.

They can get all crazy and blame it on Obamadrama. Ain’t gonna play.

rollingrock,Tsingtao,XX

Over $587,000 and still rising steadily…

Frank Zappa sings about a woman and “her rancid poncho” in the song “Camarillo Brillo”, from the 1973 album Over-Nite Sensation. During the song’s fade-out, Zappa inquires, “Is that a real poncho? I mean is that a Mexican poncho or is that a Sears poncho?” In “Cosmik Debris” on his next album, the narrator asks the Mystery Man, “Is that a real poncho or is that a Sears poncho?”

My folks and I used to go through there every year in the 40s and 50s on the way to Myrtle Beach from DC, Alexandria, VA actually. Nothing but tobacco fields, farmland, long stretches of empty road and great little restaurants. In those days it was just like eatin’ at home.

BBBBBOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO…YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

That’s the true beauty of our country… we’re a collection of diverse States, and each State seems to have it’s own culture, history, traits, geography, politics, and other attributes that make it unique. I love the fact that we’re all so different and free to pursue our own ways, yet united under a common purpose and set of core values (well, at least in theory).

But based on what I’ve heard about the Carolinas (never been there), I have no desire to visit them at this time. How is it even possible for hateful people like Joe Wilson to get elected in the first place? My stomach turned when I heard him yell at our President yesterday. Obama was clearly shocked by it, but reacted very well. I don’t remember any Dem Congressperson treating Bush like that. Ever.

One needs little imagination to speculate about Bernanke’s poncho. Thanks for contributing to my (otherwise) dismal education on pop culture.

As a South Carolina native, I need to remind you that Preston Brooks and Strom Thurmond and the current Republican zoo are not the only politicians that South Carolina has had.

For example, Google (or Wikipedia these):

Secretary of State James F. Byrnes
Senator Olin D. Johnston
Senator Ernest F. “Fritz” Holling
Governor Richard Riley
Governor Robert McNair
Governor Benjamin F. Perry
Governor James L. Orr
Congresswoman Elizabeth J. Patterson

And for some legendary porkers, try Congressman Mendel Rivers

And currently, there are Congressman John Spratt and Congressman Jim Clyburn and Inez Tenebaum, Head of the Consumer Products Safety Commission

And of those most like Jim Hightower, there is Tom Turnipseed, who was an early victim of Lee Atwater’s style of campaigning.

And I’ll make a wager; though I might lose; that if somebody with better intertube searching abilities than mine (which is to say they can actually find anything) did a search, I’d bet somewhere, sometime, someplace in that silly season known as August the one and same L. Ghoun, Graham, or whatever, probably made a statement in defense of the teabaggers and their “tone.”

Betcha.

Yes, in the last 6 hours, $30K, slowing down a little from the thousand an hour he was getting this morning.

If god ain’t a tarheel why is the sky Carolina blue?

Nope. The du Barry family, pretenders to the throne. Two brothers, either leave the country or …. My early ancestors changed the spelling. My dad had the entire chart, worked on it for years, but my stepmother got it after he died and I have no idea where it is. Would love to have a copy.

Didn’t Wilson insult his commanding officer?

Miller must be very happy today. Votes for Vets is also asking for money for him. He’s a former Marine which couldn’t hurt.

it really was most disgusting!

No need to apologize. I was not raised here.

That’s my second zappa quote of the day!

It was certainly insubordination.

He’s not in the military. Vets can run off at the mouth, huh Dragon?

OMG, I have, though not recently. And it is an eyesore.

there was also that bunch of Texas delegation reps that were misbehaving and holding up signs during the speech. Too bad TX and SC don’t share a common border. They could secede together and form that more perfect union under Generalisimmo Perry.

Charleston, SC is well worth a visit. Wonderful historic homes and great ambiance.

I wouldn’t blame the whole state.

Minnesota is usually pretty cool (literally, lol), and one batshit crazy Congresswoman hails from that state.

I mean batshit crazy. Tin foil hat crazy. Glenn Beck crazy.

I was in the middle of composing that comment when I saw yours… and I didn’t want to pile on. ;~)

Edisto Island is quiet as it could be and they let pups on the beach!

funny thing about that………………..ahuh

strip him of his TRICARE

How is it even possible for hateful people like Joe Wilson to get elected in the first place?

The same way that Rep. Pete King (R-NY) got elected.

I resemble that remark. *g*

I thought this clown was in the Army Reserve? An officer? Conduct unbecoming an officer.

Isn’t he in the reserves?

I think he’s out, lemmme check.

Coke for you, my friend.

Now don’t get your Carolinas confused. Tarheels are North Carolinians. South Carolinians go by the nickname of Sandlappers. The University of South Carolina sports teams are the Gamecocks.

CONGRESSIONAL TEA BAGGERS
bless my soul

colonel

Something else, please? Been boycotting Coke for quite a while. *g*

Just a guess on my part. I’m on the Board of Historic Huguenot Street in New Paltz, NY, one of the places they settled. I also own an historic Huguenot house. I don’t know a lot about the history of Huguenots, but do know that another place they settled in N. America was in S. Carolina. However, as you are of the other Xtian sect, perhaps I should apologize. *g*

son, I live in Athens Ga, you don’t have to school me. I responded to this

But based on what I’ve heard about the Carolinas

I think his son is active.

Is there a YouTube I should watch?

Colonel? Full bird? This…this…*spittin’ & gaggin’*

well. Duncan Hunter and Dana Rohrabacher keep on gettin’ reelected from this state. I think it’s because rethugs respect authoritarian personalities. They want to be ruled, with the boot of someone who shares their worldview on their throats.

He is NOT in the military

From 1972 to 1975, Wilson served in the United States Army Reserve, and then as a Staff Judge Advocate in the South Carolina Army National Guard assigned to the 218th Mechanized Infantry Brigade until retiring from military service as a Colonel in 2003.

Hey, it’s South Carolina’s answer to South Dakota’s Wall Drug Store. It’s the way a whole lot of Florida used to be. It’s what Las Vegas can only dream of being.

And where else can you get the Honeymoon Suite with a hot tub and a heart-shaped bed?

That don’t count. Sure wouldn’t wanna put the “sins of the fathers” hex on the guy.

All edrinks cost the same. All desires should be efilled.

sounds right…say it with me
Plantation congresscritters

Sorry, one never knows. And condolences on your idiot Doctor Congressman.

Too bad. They could’ve burned his ass.

Lol, tell me about it man! Michele is CRAZY indeed. Yet breathtakingly beautiful. How sad… she’s as UGLY on the inside as she is beautiful on the outside (just like Sarah Palin, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, Lyn Jenkins, and so many other GOP women).

no shit

One for each fist, slidin’ gently down the bar to ya.
Cheers, mate!

FWDiva

Don’t go picking on South of the Border now.. at least not without better cause.

They acquired and are now the sole source of Blenheim Ginger Ale – a beverage for the gods! See the Blenheim Shrine

Zappa’s stuff get’s taken down as soon as it goes up. Read the lyrics to the great Trouble Everyday.

Well, I seen the fires burnin’
And the local people turnin’
On the merchants and the shops
Who used to sell their brooms and mops
And every other household item
Watched the mob just turn and bite ‘em
And they say it served ‘em right
Because a few of them are white,
And it’s the same across the nation
Black and white discrimination
Yellin’ “You can’t understand me!”
‘N all that other jazz they hand me
In the papers and TV and
All that mass stupidity
That seems to grow more every day
Each time you hear some nitwit say
He wants to go and do you in
Because the color of your skin
Just don’t appeal to him
(No matter if it’s black or white)
Because he’s out for blood tonight

this was written right after Watts

active what?
(I will let all of your imaginations fill in the blank rather than getting myself into a whole lot of potential mod trouble.)

Rachel just said “The Great State of Rhode Island” in introducing Lincoln Chafee. No offense, but could someone tell me what’s great about RI? I know about, and have visited the mansions in Newport. What else?

is that anywhere near where the Clintons’ live?

Sarah Palin, Elisabeth Hasselbeck?
You have got to be kidding me!

for the teabaggerz

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgqVCJpRqWQ

she ain’t THAT good lookin

Good point. I totally forgot about Pete King. NYC is supposed to progressive, and yet they elect a bigot. It’s jokers like King and Wilson who make me question the honesty of our voting system.

Providence is a great city if you’re into brooding 19th century architecture… and some decent food too. Also, they have a cool river where they do a funky annual festival.

DFH stuff, squared. Thanks for the intro. My contractor is coming tomorrow to finish off some bits & pieces. He’s the sort who would know about Zappa. I’ll ask him.

Muffin Man

the creamery?…………crabcakes?

Why, much obliged, pretty lady!

Good idea too, keeps my fists from pounding through this puter screen, which they seem compelled to want to do at times.

Thank ya!

Isn’t the mafia big, too.

i dnt think she is at all attractive, Vampira comes to mind

LOL

No. They live in the suburbs, probably about 50 miles from New Paltz, on the east side of the Hudson. New Paltz is probably best described now as exurbs, about 85 miles from NYC, on the west side of the Hudson. Still has a lot of farms (bless their souls) and open space, owing to some special circumstances. And, except for a post-9/11 real estate bulge, has somehow managed to remain a bit of a backwater. Except for leaf peakers weekend, when you must NOT go anywhere in your car.

Creamery? Crab cakes I thought were a Maryland thing.

about 7 yrs ago I met a NY state US congresscritter who asked me to my face, “You’re not a communist are you? You look like you could be one.” I didn’t remember his name though.

I thought Vampira was attractive. We used to run into Elvira of Late Night TV fame in the grocery store all the time. She was hawt.

The SC 2nd District is quite a gerrymander job.

You live upstate and you think NYS is progressive??!! Dysfunctional, yes; progressive, not so much.

The problems with this state and its politicians? Anyone in the mood for a dissertation? Look, this state is totally screwed. It can’t be adequately addressed in a comment post, but I’ll take a stab at it. The problems are not contained to any single area, they closely overlap, and there are some more notable than others. Primarily, I see the problems as residing in three areas: culture, economics, and race. I recognize that race can be a subset of culture, but for now let’s keep them separate.

I’ll tackle race first. I grew up here in the 60’s and the 70’s, therefore I experienced all the racial hatred first hand. (I should note I am white.) I grew up witnessing KKK cross-burnings, segregated everything (from water fountains to doctors’ office), and a hatred between people that wasn’t contained. It was everything depicted in documentaries and more. However, I was one of the fortunate few. My parents did not allow racist remarks or behavior. We were never allowed us to use the n-word and African-Americans were to be treated with respect, which wasn’t easy for kids exposed to the environment within the public school systems.

Fortunately, and smartly, I left and went elsewhere, many elsewheres (sic), after graduating from a state university. My parents remained and my return visits were contained primarily to weekends, therefore I never really experienced the social environment for many years. I never lived any place remotely similar to S.C. for literally decades. I knew S.C. was still as bass-ackward as could be, but I always assumed like the rest of the world, there was some progression. Silly me.

My profession took me all over the place, including living in other countries, so racism wasn’t nearly the consideration that I experienced as I grew up. In 2000, I decided to return because my parents were getting old and I wanted to be closer. I was shocked after I returned. The racism had been internalized and there wasn’t any progression. It was worse. The only thing that changed was that it wasn’t as overt. Whites no longer, for the most part, never outwardly called people niggers, they just said it with their eyes and their actions. And it wasn’t any different in the African-American community. The hatred was internalized and equally as bad.

All of the racism and hate literally makes the environment toxic here and it effects everything else. If people don’t believe Joe Wilson’s outburst was not racially motivated at some level, they are morons.

Economics. This place is so blasted poor it’s unbelievable. And that causes an imbalance in everything. There are families that live in rural areas where they have never traveled more than two miles beyond their homes for literally generations. Need I say more with respect to economic impact?

Culture. Clearly the first two have considerable influence on culture, but there is still a 19th century Deep South mentality that permeates virtually everything. I could go on, but let your history lessons be your guide.

When you add all these factors together, you get Joe Wilson, Mark Sanford, Jim DeMint, and Lindsey Graham. But here’s the bad part: they’re the upper crust of polite society. The Elites. Never move here unless there are very compelling reasons otherwise.

Montana

my summer in Newport

What does a communist look like? I have never heard that one before. Do you have small, beady eyes?

aunt and uncle live in Bedford/Armonk

I’ve been to Providence. Some nice historic buildings, but not impressive (great, in Rachel’s words) by Boston standards. Don’t know about the river festival. Also haven’t been to Providence for more than a decade, so perhaps my impression is out of date.

Nice place to spend a summer. In a mansion?

Classy!

oh not speaking o fElvira………..who was too kewl for skewl

Don’t a lot of Rethugs have small, beady eyes? They’re really communists? Wow.

Frank was pretty amazing, totally over the top, no dope and he died young.

I think I had those round glasses at the time.. that must’ve been it. Maybe he thought I was aiming for a Trotsky look.

ha! closer quarters……………..48 ft ketch

How young, and how did he die?

they are very down to Earth……auntie is a DFH in her early 80s

OMG. If you try a Blenheim Ginger Ale, try the Triple Hot.

And BTW, Blenheim is where my dad grew up (valedictorian in a class of 8 in 1933). It is in John Spratt’s Congressional District, and Marlboro County went for Obama 62-37. Demographics are 50% black, 45% white.

I think they’ve really made an effort to fix it up. The Waterfire Festival is less only about 6 years old. Google it… it’s actually well worth visiting Providence for.

Well, she wasn’t the sharpest tool in the shed. Fun to be around, though.

Well, that’s not too shabby, especially in that location. There is something about the ocean in New England. I lived for several years, college and post college, in MA, and visited the ocean frequently. It has a special look that I haven’t seen elsewhere. Clear, hard, chisled and spectacular.

careful, there, mon
don’t hurt your Firepup “friends in the computer” now!

FWDiva
and thanks for the compliment.

Every state is great when you are introducing an officeholder from that state on television. It’s a figure of speech, not a descriptor.

But there is Brown, too!

Better still! Bless you’re auntie. Hope to be one in a decade and a half.

MichelleB …is this ones twin i believe

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…..icient.jpg

Happy to hear they’ve fixed up Providence. I’m an historic building nut, and good restoration and usage gives me a charge.

eCAHN, I spent some summers in Little Compton/Sakonnet Point RI. It’s across the Sakonnet River from Newport. Beautiful old shingle houses, great beach, wonderful sailing, fishing for swordfish and tuna, and quahogging. All in all a summer paradise.

It was small and quiet when I was there. Our phone number was 3 :-)

it looks like Brittany,Normandy,and the Scottish coast too……..enthralling

Oh I know about the cliche introduction of senators from “great states.” I was jerking chains, and accomplished my objective, which was to elicit new information (for me) on Rhode Island. Kudos to all who contributed to my new knowledge.

Added on edit: I’ve never figured out what’s so great about Brown. I know it’s an Ivy, and became incredibly popular about a decade or two ago. But other than a reputation for being liberal, esp. little grade accountability, what’s so special? (Ducking under computer while Brown alum throw brickbats at me.)

Mary Matalin, Ice Queen. Woman really creeps me out. Her ol’ man isn’t any better.

Wanna know what kind of “rebels” South carolinians are? Preston Brooks and Joe Wilson are kindred S.C. spirtits, loud mouthed and hot headed. South Carolina initiated the beggining of hostilities during the CW. Georgia, Missisippi,Virginia and Tennesee were the main theatres of the war. Thats where the hammer struck the anvil. Georgia was so devastated it became a sysmbol for the entire confederacy. However,when georgia’s neighbor S.C. has the opportunity to be obliterated in a last defence of the “sacred south” they couldnt surrender fast enough. Charleston is one of the only places you can find colonial southern architecture intact because south carolinians are at heart, “cheese eating (or mint julip swilling) surrender monkeys”

i adore! the Indian names!!!

opportunists

Best story so far. Never before met someone with a single digit phone number. Was it a party line?

I actually spent the last couple of months of my tour in the Nam in a NG outfit from Providence. Crazy mofo’s they were. . .

saw him inthe DeeCee train station………….reallllllllly creepy……ug

I’m an addict, but it’s touch and go finding it. Whole Paycheck sometimes, occasionally Harris Teeter.

I’ve seen a bit of those coasts. Thinking about the similarities, which there are some. But also differences that make New England unique, like cottage architecture, no golf courses. (Once, while flying into Glasgow, saw about 4 golf courses on the coast of Scotland.)

wow,you always have something interesting to share,thanx

A special Providence kind of mofo? BTW, what’s a mofo?

The stereotype seems to be Scotch-Irish. Or is that VA?

Added on edit: Couldn’t agree with you more about Charleston. Love that town.

you are pure as the driven snow. mutherfuker

/hahaha
not fair,thats a birds eye view…………..did you ever read Kate Hepburns recount of survival of the 1938 hurricane in New England a good read

I think the legal name of RI is something like the State of Rhode Island and the Providence Plantations.

Forget about Brooks – what about Garfield?

I thought it was Lil Rhody!

Nah, operator placed all the calls. Just pick up the phone and say “3, please”. She did get huffy when we tried to place late night calls.

anybody want a cookie….did SD go walk the tigerz?

Not pure. Just haven’t heard that particular short version, while having heard several others referring to the same thing. Perhaps I should have googled before displaying my ignorance.

To be frank, I love asking Qs like that. Everyone can’t know everything. It is one of my missions in life (not the one I’ll be remembered for, no doubt), to ask the obvious Qs that others are embarrassed to ask.

LOL I was thinkin’ the same exact thing, pure as the driven snow. LOL

No, haven’t read Hepburn on anything, including that. Sounds like a should. Amazon query, or do you have a link?

You military guys talk funny. Can’t ’spect us civilians to understand what you say.

No, went to stuff a piece of turkey sub in my face. Was supposed to be reading long time ago. Got ambushed, sidetracked, ended up at the Lake. *g*

Waking an operator up in the middle of the night can piss her off.

amazon good…………i survived a hurricane or 2,but her recount was really amazing,quite Katrinaesque

Ah mah have a suthern aksent but Ah tawk lak everbody else.

heard one doc say………our brains are already too big……..so dont ask anymore Qs …….mokay? dont want yours to splode!

My wife says “You have so many sayings”! When you grow up a squid, spend 3 years as a doggie and then the next 20 on the basketball court you use lots of colorful terminology. Bic?

LOL….hahahaha

Cookie?!!

dunno. I think Providnce used to have a mayor with reputed LCN ties. RI has a colorful history. Massachusetts used to banish it’s political and religious dissidents to RI during the late Puritan era… which meant that early Providence became more of a cultural and intellectual haven. At one point, it was a capital offense to return to MA from RI.

To those of us of a certain age, that is REALLY funny!

how many books ya reading now?

chocolate brownie bits cooookie……….good..sending thru intertubes…gotmilk?

Haven’t come close to ’sploding mine yet, but suspect I’m a mutant.

How crazy is that Bob Inglis is the most reasonable Republican we got down here?

hahaha…i think my feet are growing…….funny dat

My problem in this tete a tete is that economists’ jargon would put the thread to sleep PDQ. I can’t compete, therefore, I complain.

MMMMM. Ice cold, too!
Mmmmm.
mmmmFanks!

FWDiva

Feet for brains?

I do too. My sister calls em indoscat names. Thinks many sound scatological:-) Lots like that in Maine..

Actively working? 4 and today I received from Amazon “The Keynes Solution” by Paul Davidson, which is gonna be at the Book Saloon in Oct, and “Sin Patron, Stories From Argentina’s Worker-Run Factories” edited by Naomi Klein and Avi Lewis, so that makes 6.

hahahahahaha

ohhhhh you!

i want to read this

http://www.amazon.com/Republic…..1568583982

i love all the indian,names themes,spirits……always did even as a wee child

must go walk dogs….see ya all in the am….nighters

I thougt you were rereading Chalmers Johnson.

Ohhh, that looks good. Just came out, too. Nice to see that The Nation is publishing its own books. Don’t know how long they’ve done it but sure makes sense nowadays.

I’ve gotta do some research. I remember Dean mentioning a progressive book club. Wouldn’t join but would sure use their reading list.

Preaching to the choir. Gotta luv it.

What I imagined Joe Biden would have said if he’d spoken his mind at that moment.

Rep. Wilson seems to have quite a history of insane outbursts. Wikipedia mentioned one outburst against Rep. Bob Filner, for which Wilson apologized. TPM has a story about him dissing the out-of-wedlock daughter of Strom Thurmond. Josh Marshall said he later had to apologize for that one, too.

I’m reading After America now. It’s a good book.

That’s one of my working 4. Civil War, A Narrative, Vol 2 by Shelby Foote, The Tao of Philosophy by Alan Watts and Capital, Vol 2

he called Waxman and then minority leader Pelosi terrorist sympathizers and said that they were sendng a “guerilla army” to fight America, when they dared to, timidly, question rendition, torture and gitmo in ‘05.

Tourettes?

What a guy. You can see why they keep sending him back to DC. Especially the folks who live in his neighborhood.

Best book ever, I’m rereading: King of the Mountain by Arnold Ludwig.

Some form of impulse control problem, perhaps.

Albeit selective.

Armchair psychologists couldn’t possibly be wrong. Maybe he’s just an asshole.

That was my initial diagnosis.

That’s right, pick the easy answer. LOL now that I’ve seen Cujo359s.

To be serious for a moment, an undiagnosed, unremediated problem bears a surprising resemblance to assholism.

LOL

Too much time on the machine, eyes hurt.

Be good to yourselves, and all other living things.

Namaste

‘Nite SD. Read well.

one should consider the possibility that he does these things precisely because this is what his base wants him to do? ‘course his base is probably no more than half the population of his district and I would imagine that much of the other half (the half he no doubt ignores) are heavily African American and probably view him with utter contempt. Hopefully Mr. Miller will be able to attract enough people at the margins to come over to his side and end this orc’s Apartheid rule.

Is it really necessary to act like a complete jerk to appeal to the base? Perhaps that is a rhetorical Q, if you’re a R.

I’ve been thinking the same thing.

Possibly. I think either he’s there because whatever personality defect or disorder that makes him the way he is is a desirable trait to his supporters, or because he’s doing this to get the attention of such people. Either way, it seems to me that makes him a bigot; it’s just the reason he has decided to be so outspoken that’s in question.

it’s that rethug authoritarianism again. they equate arseholism with leadership. Thurmond, Helms, Macaca Allen in VA, Lott down in MS, all of the thugs in LA… all of a mold, I think. Although Helms at least believed in the rule of law, racist authoritarian as he was. I had a measure of respect for him.

Late to the thread, as usual these days. Was going to ask how old that asshole was, til I saw your comment about hte Army Reserve from ‘72-’75. That would put him in the latter Vietnam days. As I remember from basic, the reserves and NG got the least respect from the drilll instructors, ’cause everyone knew why they were in reserves or NG. Cowards with political connections or rich daddies!!

A little late to the discussion, but I am excused due to my sense of entitlement. I am a South Carolinian.
The problem here is that the water supply is poisoned with azwholeium braneded. (Ya, go ahead and try to decipher that one!) We can’t help ourselves.
The side effects include a complete lack of intellectual ability, the willingness to absorb the hot air farted by fat radio talkers (or skinny ones, too), a propensity for violence (after all, who started the war of Yankee Aggression? Oops, I guess I better use the other name here, the Civil War), a desire to sink all of the territory of the state under the weight of military installations, a complete disbelief in the prospect of global warming which will eventually consume 1/2 of the state with 2/3 of the most overpriced real estate. Well anyway, you get the idea.
The source seems to be in the foothills of the Appalachians, because the closer you get to the Upstate of SC, the crazier they get.
So lay off. We are victims here. We have the poisoned water supply syndrome, so how about a little sympathy.