Yes. We must kill the economic stimulus to save Jodie Foster.

an iraqi cab driver alerted uk intelligence to saddam’s missiles that could reach target in 45 minutes

zed?

oh almost

Tonka rules.

Not David Broder …. Louie de Palma

Apparently the cab driver never heard Sarah Palin speak. Now that’s some scary shit.

As former cab driver Merl said on another thread, “I never NEVER discussed politics with any of my fares. Unless they brought it up, then I agreed with them 101% (I wanted a tip).”

Good morning, pups. It’s Monday so it’s [groan] The Pasty Little Putz and Prof. Krugman. This is rich. The Pasty Little Putz is calling the president naïve. In “The Dream of Zero” the asshole says that linking the antiproliferation agenda to the dream of universal nuclear abolition, as President Obama seems intent on doing, is a naïve approach a very difficult problem. I’m sure that he’s devoted most of his 30 years to studying this. Well, when he wasn’t busy being a film critic, a Republican strategist and a religious scold… Prof. Krugman says “America Is Not Yet Lost,” and that the way the Senate works is no longer consistent with a functioning government, and senators should change the rules to end obstructionism.

Here they are.

The coffee, tea and hot chocolate are ready, and the biscuits are out of the oven. I was under the impression that cab drivers had to sign some sort of agreement that they would only give interviews to The Moustache of Wisdom, but I may have been wrong about that… Have a great day.

Kouric speaks Farsi?

Good morning Marion, all. Did you read the letters to the editor in yesterday’s NYT? Many of them were bashing pasty. Very satisfying reading.

Oh, and for those of you who, like me, boycotted the Super “anti-choice” Bowl, New Orleans won.

Who is really and truly “scared to death” of the deficit? Wall Street, that’s who. And when Wall Street wants a subject front and center on the “news” and wants the citizenry to be really and truly frightened, it ALWAYS gets what it wants. So we’re all bombarded by concern from the media, from our neighbors, from the zeitgeist about the deficit now.

Truly, no one should be concerned about the deficit until the recession is over and people are back at work. Well, there is no recession left on Wall Street. Wall Street is back at work, the banks have been bailed out, bonuses are being paid for profits shown on paper, and the stock market is on an upward trajectory. So Wall Street is no longer concerned about the health of the economy; they have turned their concern to the deficit. And we are being dragged along, because no one we trust – not the president, not congress, and precious few in the media (certainly no one on TV) – is willing to tell us the truth: that cutting the federal budget now will make recovery for us real people more prolonged, more painful and more life-shattering.

The girls caught a bit of Puppy Bowl VI. Star performance by Tonka, although I personally think he shows too much puppy ‘roid rage. Yums was also a fan favorite. They then switched over to The Sound of Music.

Dr. Turk is still ticked the Vikings missed out.

Favre favre, favreity favre-favre, favreful favring favrosity favre favre.

Thanks for the tip. I’ll go back and check them out.

WHO DAT WHO DAT WHO DAT WHO DAT WHO DAT WHO DAT WHO DAT WHO DAT WHO DAT WHO DAT WHO DAT WHO DAT WHO DAT WHO DAT WHO DAT WHO DAT WHO DAT WHO DAT WHO DAT

Aw, Everyone knows the Colts rolled over to make Obama happy and piss off Conservatives from the Heartland of the Homeland.

Yay! I really don’t give a crap about football, but this result pleased me greatly.

Broder would make a good cab driver. He never veers from his employer’s directions.

Thanks Marion, and attaturk, and nomolos, and yes, had to enjoy the Saints winning, it meant a whole bunch to NO – tho only if you can afford a ticket and stuff will it get anywhere near you except for your taxes to pay for the bowl and parking facilities.

[snort] I hereby award you three internets.

As former cab driver Merl said on another thread, “I never NEVER discussed politics with any of my fares. Unless they brought it up, then I agreed with them 101% (I wanted a tip).”

I doubted the existence of this cab driver, but if he or she does exist that was the likely scenario.

The Winners, DATs Who. Best news in months and so happy for the city that also got a new Mayor on Saturday. Le Bon Temps Roulez, if I still recall. Just Fantastic for that struggling city.

The scenes from Bourbon St. were just great, the city and my cousins in the suburbs were just ecstatic. Even tho they know the tax concessions to rebuild the bowl, and all the other goodies like streets to the bowl, cost them – and the owners don’t repay the city.

The Associated Press’ Liz Sidoti tea bags the Tea Baggers.
Really has to be read to be believed.

Good morning all.

What is the Puppy Bowl?

And the city has a holiday today…Mardi Gras starting early (not til next week) Just keep it going, as only NOLA can do. I have been pulling for that city almost like a fragile child….it needs a comeback. So maybe this is it.

Cable show on Animal Planet. It’s alternative programming to the Super Bowl. And preferred viewing for embittered fans of other teams (like the Vikings) who can’t bear to watch hours of “shoulda, woulda, coulda”.

And as for taxi drivers, I’ve had many an interesting conversation with them, apologies to the Mustache. In Manhattan, they tend to be educated foreigners, who often know much more about world affairs than the average American. I usually ask them about their coutry of origin and they like to talk about it, including its politics. Or any other topic. Awhile ago, I had a Morroccan who talked about the climate & about his families’ orchard. We got into the difference in beekeeping in a semi-tropical climate vs. beekeeping in a northern climate. Good stuff.

Aha. I’ll have to figure out which channel is animal planet on my cable. Not one I watch.

eeeek, we have the teabaggage exploiter here, from your link;
‘using the latest technology to come together and vent their frustrations about their country and plot to install a new group in charge of the government.’

reminds me that in the campaign for the worst president ever, the press all refused to expose the gap between his line and reality.

in the DFW circuit, they tend to be Latin American, and we always talk about how our media ignore the southern continent, and how their economies are more suitable for working people.

Ho-leee cow! That thing actually contained this:

Will the latest political phenomenon become a society-changing movement influencing elections and beyond?

600 people who think Sarah Palin is the Second Coming of Reagan? Not fricking likely…

Sounds like you can have interesting conversations there too.

Scary it could be that many…..

Say, is Louie any kin to Harry?

who are all still referring to the ‘Million Plus march on Washington’ – this is the same group that uses telephone trees put together by their evangelical churches for all info, and the reference to technology is plain wrong – at least in the rural/underdeveloped areas where I’ve seen them at work.

Still think all the money for film production & airtime for the commercial ads should have just been donated to the people of the city New Orleans. Talk about bandaids: millionaire small business pro sports camouflaged as civic pride.
Another People Management tool for a democracy that isn’t.

Sounds like the story why women have trouble with depth perception….(Can’t repeat it here….about exaggeration)

*snort*

Mr. President, I just talked to a cab driver who says he’s scared to death of the Deficit

And bloviating Katie’s remark just “makes” this so [now everyone's concerning about the deficit].

It was probably a limo driver, not a cab driver, but the point is Katie has few opportunities to talk to non-millionaires these days.

The last time I talked politics with a cabby was in response to my offhandedly mentioning how the city and MnDOT weren’t plowing as often as they should. That touched off a long discussion on taxation and Lee Atwater’s explanation of how the Southern Strategy was about corporate entities convincing bigots that cutting taxes for the rich was good because it screwed blacks worse than whites. And the cabby, a recent emigrant from Nigeria, was doing most of the talking.

Somehow I don’t think that Friedman’s or Broder’s or Couric’s cabbies would ever complain that we don’t tax the rich enough, much less allow the words “Southern Strategy” to pass their non-existent lips.

Q: Why do women have such trouble with math?

A: Because they keep getting told that this [hands held up about four inches apart] is eight inches.

Disclaimer: This should not be construed as sympathy for Wall Streeters as a whole. Actually, although Wall Street itself is doing fine, there are still a number of unemployed former Wall Streeters. I come from an area rife with them.

We ignore things like this at our peril. The administration needs to explain this to the American people like they are all cab drivers, or Sarah Palins for that matter. One of the best communicators of our age, Obama, is asleep at the switch. The moron GW Bush spoke at a level the average American can understand, that is one of the reasons he got re-elected. As long as the right has so many media outlets to spew their half-assed theories from, the President has to be out there ‘splainin it to everybody. Remember in the movie American President that Louis made the statement “They are the only ones talking” or something like that; meaning, if we concede the field to the enemy they will win. Our pathetic little blogs, only read by the choir can only do so much. Obama still has overall approval, he has got to get out there and hammer the GOP with the truth. I think the half day televised health care summit with the Repubs is a good start. Beck and Hannity will have a hard time lying about something that everyone can watch. We as progressives have to gear up and start fighting like we did the last two years. Do we really think the Dem Senators from the red states are going to commit political suicide when we threaten to withhold support from them when they never got it before? They know how to win in their states and unless we change the dynamic they will do what they always do. Maybe if we pledged to back them instead of kill them, and proved it with a money bomb it might change their minds and their votes. We want to see their guts BEFORE we help them. Maybe they want to see our guts before they walk the plank. If we are tired of having pussies in our party we have to quit acting like pussies ourselves. We should show them our support up front. Not everyone can be an Alan Grayson.

Hate to betray my ignorance, but who is “the mustache”?

Tom Friedman

Danny DeVito’s character from the sitcom, Taxi — no relation to Harry, that I know of.

(You’re missing the pun – think Harry and his sister Mary)