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Pouting Baby doesn't understand Markie H. (photo courtesy of Jim White)
Pouting Baby is talking to us again. –JW.
I was watching the television earlier today. I can’t understand why Markie H. is protecting Mr. O even when Mr. O does bad things. Mr. Cenk talked slowly for Markie H., but Markie H. still thinks the bad things that Mr. O is doing are nice things.
Why does Markie H. think it is good for medicine companies to get extra rich even when more people die if they can’t buy their medicine? Why does Markie H. think it’s important to say people are crazy if they want to help poor people not get sick?
Markie H. thinks that everybody should be happy about everything Mr. O does. Mr. Cenk thinks that when Mr. O is doing the same things that Georgie Bush did, we should be mad. I think Mr. Cenk is smart. Maybe if he talks to Markie H. just a little bit slower Markie will understand.
Why is Mr. O getting more and more like Georgie Bush? I didn’t like Georgie Bush. Mr. O said he would change what Georgie was doing.
Mr. O, I really need change! This stinks a lot!
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Mr. O is a grave disappointment.
Indeed. But Markie H disagrees with you. Maybe if you say it slower…
pouting baby!!!
Well done, Cenk.
Halperin’s next book:
Not Getting My Clock Cleaned by the Professional-Left, No Matter How Bad This Looked!
-forward by Ron Christie
Can’t stop laughing at that pic!
Jimmy!
Hmmmm… I wasn’t especially impressed with Cenk’s hosting debut of The Ed show. That may be personal bias though. The guy rubs me the wrong way somehow.
Hi, Suze.
markie isn’t gonna like pouting baby. good :)
very well done jim
Pouting Baby is now on Twitter.
@PoutingBaby
I wanna smack Halperin every time I see that smirk.
Tee hee.
Newtie!
Well see, that gives you good reason to at least like this bit from Cenk. ‘Cause this one’s definitely going to leave a mark.
I hope everyone is following @poutingbaby on Twitter now.
Jane tried to explain the same thing to Howie over the weekend but Howie didn’t get it either. Punditz iz stoopid!
Pouting Baby’s smirk, or Halperin’s?
Of course, smacking Halperin each time we see Pouting Baby would also be satisfying.
Pouting Baby: Saving the world between diaper changes!
I do like things Cenk says but he creeps me out. It’s not on an intellectual level and I’d never claim my dislike for him is rational. We all have people who, for some indefinable reasons, we just can’t stand to watch or listen to.
Definitely a smirk on Markie and a pout on the baby.
Just sayin’…
Must.Have.T-Shirt.
Halperin’s of course! A piece of chocolate would brighten up pouting baby in a trice.
Mister Upton Sinclair explained it nearly one hundred years ago, which is even longer than Mister David Broder’s been alive. He said that it’s really really hard to get someone to understand something if their rich uncles give them lots of money so they don’t understand it.
Would Pouting Baby smirk if Margaret smacked Markie with a coconut cream pie?
Mister Upton Sinclair made a good point, (and David Broder is teh stoopid too)
I’m game to find out! Can I hide a brick inside?
PW..
Always with the Bill Kristol references…
Ahhhhhhh
He would giggle. And crawl over to the splattered pie to eat some.
That’s between you and your parole officer. But really, just the pie would be enough, I think. (Or Lurking Mod would be very cross with us!)
POUTING BABEH! Now with Twitter AUTHORITEH!
What if Lurk IS my parole officer?
Now, now…
KELLY!
Blessings and smooches be upon you!
Kelly!
Oooh! Coconut cream pie! Nummy num nums!
Oh come on! NorskeFlamethrower just told me to “shut the fuck up” and nary a peep. He was serious and I’m just being silly…
Kelly! How goes it?
Dude, I always knew you’d end up front paging here. It was just a matter of a bit more output, and time.
But I had NO IDEA you’d end up with Teh Pouteh Babeh gig too! LOL!
Outing baby needs to come sit by me, after the change, please.
LOL!
Adam Serwer and Chris Hayes on my teevee machine right now.
Who needs gay porn stars?
Outing Baby would have a full time job at the Republican Convention.
PW! Don’t get me going – in a good way. I’m in this kind of Ethel-Merman-Everything’s-Coming-Up-Roses sort of mood, and it would be WAYYYY TOO MUCH for nice people to handle!
Personally I’m holding out for Billion Dollar Baby
Hola, perros del lago del fuego. Como estas este noche?
Flat’s mood
Could you sing a few bars for us? Love Ethel doing that song.
Amen.
That belongs on a sampler, along with Mary “Mother” Jones aphorism: “Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.”
LOL – Peg did it at #43!
Norske went off on me recently for having the temerity to state that there are no genuine progressives in the Democratic Party, including Kucinich who talked a good game right up until he cast his vote for the Senate HCR bill, receiving nothing in return.
Norske went through the roof. I don’t bother to engage with him, seems rather pointless.
Muy bien! Y tu?
↑
Estoy bien, y usted?
Soy bien tambien, gracias.
His pomposity and general appreciation of his own self worth aside, I don’t see where he gets off treating everybody like dirt. I’ve got people standing in line to treat me like shit, I don’t have to come to a blog for it.
Hire more people like this guy Mr. Obama:
RF,
That was a tough vote. Don’t think for an instant that I like the dog’s breakfast that was the ACA, but my view is that President Obama gave the game away before it ever started.
I’m going to judge Congresscritters on how they fix that disgusting bit of political sausage than how they voted on ACA itself.
Your mileage will vary, of course.
Aaiiieee! Que BUENO! Un “thread” con Español!
(Para los puntos de bonificación, “fuck” en español es “chinga”!)
(For bonus points, “fuck” in Spanish is CHINGA!)
Or, the current riddle going around Q: What’s the antonym of progress? A: Congress.
Okage sama de. Ogenki desu ka?
Wo bucuo, ni ne?
OK, people – English is a lot more readable for those of us who…
/~~~
Chingaso is a chinga-thing. Chingadero/a is a chinga lad or lassie.
No estes chinganda perro del fuego!
Does chingar conjugate as a regular -ar verb?
Well, you can’t fix a trombone performance after you’ve given it; nor a test score after you’ve taken it.
Why you’d let the Pros off the hook for their job, when you could never get away with it in yours is something to ask.
I do believe that fuck in Spanish is a regular transitive verb – WEEEEE!
Past tense: Fucked = chingada.
Arrrgh! Can’t get Gimp 2.0 to cooperate.
Whereas “Maricon” is a transvestive noun. ;)
I don’t even recognize the language EDP :-(
We got convoked today, and I feel provoked, now. Big story in Saturday’s Albuquerque Journal, front page (just) above the fold. The administrators at my school sent $3.6 M in state instructional funding and $0.5 M in research (yes, research!?!) funding to our intercollegiate athletics department.
On occasion I’ve seen evidence that he’s a good person but his tolerance of divergent views is a tad underdeveloped. He does seem to get away with murder, figuratively speaking.
Present pluperfect – “I will be soooo fucked” : chingadero, TAMBIEN! (ALSO!)
Well, I’m going to go toddle off to bed. Pout on, y’all!
Don’t hold your breath, they will never fix it IMO. No altruism in the corridors of power.
And what was the point of Dennis swearing he would withhold his vote and then flip-flopping at the end without receiving ANYTHING in return? Political hardball..? NOT.
LOL! But quite “active” when combined with “pinche“!
Speaking of violence – he inspires a WooWooWoo (poink)
Must be his Abbie Hoffman phrasing.
He certainly seems to be free to make the very most personal of attacks without consequence, along with profanity laced tirades that would make George S Patton blush.
LMAO! Indeed!
Niters PW.
Night PW! Not going to be far behind you.
Mandarin Chinese.
Say fucking WHAT?!?!?!
Can that be legal? Aaarghh!
Now Pouting Baby has something else to pout about.
Nighters PW!
IIRC correctly he described me as a deranged shit-throwing lunatic.
I need to learn Kanji so I can REALLY mess with Lurk.
Markie Halperin he was/is pathetic..
Good night, PW. And remember, Pouting Baby does the pouting so you don’t have to.
I’m not sure music performance is the right analogy. In an orchestra (or even more, in small ensembles like my brass quintet or ‘bone quartet) everyone’s cooperating as best the can.
If music is the right analogy, then it’s more like this. There are some people I really love to play with, because I play better when they’re around. There are some people I hate to play with, because I don’t play as well as I can when they’re around. In Congress, you have to play with them who were sent. And you have to play from the score and parts that are provided. Some sets of parts are so poorly edited that they’re impossible to play from (check Holst’s military band transcription of Jupiter if you doubt me. It is so badly edited that it can’t be played.)
Or for another analogy, think about P.D.Q. Bach’s Echo Sonata, for two unfriendly groups of instruments. It’s a really amusing musical joke, but this is the kind of score the GOP is trying to legislate from. And they’re the brass trio…
I am sure that will work out in your favor.
/~~~
Yanno what? Forget the language.
There’s going to be more tribal dinosaurs coming out in November, and then even MORE in 2012, all telling us to “vote pragmatically; politics is practical – who do you want to WIN, FASCISTS? Yer an IDIOT!”
Yep – there’s a certain amount of pragmatism involved, but at the end of the day, if your vote, the pinnacle of your civic actions, isn’t what you believe, then one undoes all the rest of one’s actions.
Abbie was capable of reasoned discourse. Being inflammatory is more effective when it is not one’s sole modus operandi.
You needn’t fret Lurk. I doubt I’ll ever grasp it well enough to use here. I do well to read a few street signs, (and that’s mainly because most of them have the English letters next to them)
Uh, yeah.
Our new president gets inaugurated (since when are University Presidents inaugurated???) tomorrow at the University Faculty Convocation. I’m trying to organize a faculty boycott of the whole chingaso to express our displeasure.
I’ve been told that I’m being immature and counterproductive.
Then we are quite possibly related.
/~~~
Sorry if this is old news.
It’s not even the language that gets me. It’s being treated like shit because I don’t acknowledge his superiority as a noted expert on everything.
As for voting….I’m gonna hafta hold my nose but there are some strong local candidates that I’m very excited about. I’ll vote because I think it’s my duty and it’s about the only right that hasn’t (yet) been stripped from me.
Could be even downright shrill. Go for it! (By not going to it…)
According to the auditors and the Legislative Finance Council it was legal, although apparently more of the it’s-not-illegal form than an example to go into someone’s best-practices handbook.
Is there anyone there who agrees with you??
See if Pouting Baby is busy then.
Oh, no one’s questioning my right to not go. I’m being immature and counterproductive by encouraging others to stay away.
I would die laughing if the only people in the auditorium were the Prez, Provost, Deans and press. It would be especially delicious if the faculty who were receiving awards stayed away…
Some. I’m not sure if it’s enough to make a visible dent in the attendance.
Silly Peg. Must I remind you of the Prime Directive of LGBT rights?
When presented with the bigotry of superiority, one does two things:
Point and Laugh!
Then go have cocktails.
The rest is folly.
Oops! I’m up a half hour later than I meant to be. Oyasumi Nasai kaji koinu. Jaa mata ato de.
A little diversion, courtesy of @GottaLaff:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyaU9JKnKiQ
This is why I love my flat. Goodnight and smooch!
Thanks for stopping by.
By Very Serious People, I’m sure.
Try the boycott. I have a hard time believing that this is a legitimate use of funds, and in the current economic environment it’s simply despicable.
If he’s not careful he might give (us) curmudgeons a bad name. :)
Off to collect my recycling and drag it out to the curb for tomorrows pickup. Wishing a splendid evening to all.
She was charged with assault and battery. Because a pie is just such a dangerous fucking weapon.
G’night, RF.
Good night, RF. ‘night, Margaret.
Smoochback!
Ta, rattykins!
Levin’s response was or course infuriating. Her rash action in no way diminishes the legitimacy of her cause.
Shorter Levin: “We’ll stay at war forever because I got hit with a pie.”
It meets the legal definition. Technically, my ex- jabbing her finger into my chest while she told me what a terminal asshole I was for supporting our son’s request for a change in custody fit the legal definition.
But some things aren’t worth pursuing, you know?
Adios-ing myself. Early day tomorrow.
POUT ON!
Well! What a thread! I arrive late to the party and goodness, I hope we are all using our indoor voices (yes, I think so). Hiya Pups!
Goodnight, Kelly. Thanks for a very enlightening Spanish lesson.
Levin can kiss my hairy white ass with his meringue-coated liver lips.
Good night, Kelly.
“Man, you must really be hungry.”
eww
So, what do folks think about the John Roberts and the Supreme’s denying a writ of certiorari to Orly Taitz?
Hey Chris!
Umm, no. I suspect Dr. Puma believes that Senator Levin might be in need of sustenance.
Hey Margot!
Finally, a beautiful night with breezes.
Here’s what Pouting Baby tweeted earlier today:
I am suddenly in love with the illusion of the Tri-Lateral Commission and the Islamo-fascist conspiracy.
Orly has donors. I would love to see them all in a room together.
All one of them?
Hi, Chris. They’ve been pretty well-behaved. But now I’m going to turn in.
We had a nice weekend with Jack, in from NYC. We are getting ready to split to Copenhagen in Sept. Until then, new semester begins next week, orientation, etc.
Thanks Jim! Sweet dreams, and thank you for this post.
Looks like the Oily Taint is left with nothing more than she started with: her big, fat mouth.
Cenk does not care for Mark Halperin, so it was great seeing them engage.
Jeez, I’m surprised Halp showed up.
Thanks.
I know, what a relief!
Well, yes, that is because it was assault and battery.
Accepting with grace the consequences of your actions, is what separates
principled civil disobedience from a political stunt.
Right now it is a perfect summer night at 70 degrees, no rain, lovely summer night sky. MrCE and I are watching BBC’s Top Gear, a tv show we lovel
But her bank account will apparently be $20K lighter.
See you LLN! Did you check out FB tonight?
Cenk makes clear that Fox is authoritarian right wing MSNBC allows divergent opinions.
Then he esposes the Obama bait and switch while Mark is in paddle down the river in
Egypt. De Nile
Why?
*G*
It just leads to useless info.
;-)
You can get more info here at FDL and Seminal.
LOL
Thanks for doing it so we don’t hafta.
*G*
Yep, 6′ long, 3′ wide, and deep.
Cuz that’s where HE’S burying us.
And them.
Them are burying us too. Also.
Deep.
Will we get over it and say no?
Mo?
No mo?
Never mo?
Lesigh.
She is whacko and got the expected results.
US Congress vote to help states by cutting Food Stamps…the program that the destitute use to survive. So while teachers get funding kids are hungry, i/3 of our homeless are school age children. So wars that take 1/2 of the federal budget prevent funding a jobs recovery program. We are facing another decade of deep recession. The self destruction marches on. Meanwhile social services and non profits face growing demand with less resources due to budget cuts. Businesses are closing here people are losing jobs and more hungry and homeless people are not getting what they need for a subsistence lifestyle. Congress, military and the Administration are serving the interests of the privledged. Eat Cake.
I would be interested to know what restrictions this money comes with.
Also.
CTuttle is upstairs!
Late, Late Night FDL: Fresh Coat Of Paint
Late. Gotta ease upstairs . . .
mark halperin putting his best foot forward to get a white house book deal.
Oh, I forgot, he’s already done that.
Z
Mr. H and the other elites want to keep all the toys for themselves and don’t want to share them with other babies, even if other babies lives and well-being are sacrificed in the process.
That’s the first time I’ve liked a performance by Cenk. He’s making sense with simple intellectual honesty and reinforcing it.
Boy the “professional millionaire media” types like Halperin sure don’t know how to handle it.
I think I’ll DVR Cenk the rest of the week.
Cenk is great. I’ve been part of the TYT Army for years now. The popular culture stuff is insipid and boring, but the politics is good.