Swopa! How’s it shakin’!

Howdy, Swopa. I Remember Clinton too, and wonder what might have been.

swopa!

Fortunately, the Special Prosecutor law was allowed to expire after the last round of GOoPlican abuse, thankyouverymuch Dean Starr. So the House will have to do their own dirty work this time.

Frankly I hope McConnell keeps up the trash talk. Maybe Obama will get pissed off finally. Not holding my breath but you never can tell.

Can’t wait to find out who Obama bumped off in a land deal in Hawaii gone bad.

SHhhhhh. Don’t give those knuckleheads any ideas.

LMAO! Obama doesn’t get pissed off even when he’s being pissed on. Worthless failure. MAWBB.

Ironically, I must admit the Goopers’ rabidness can be their downfall too… Didn’t Erskine say that Bubba’s impeachment waylaid the DLC’s grandioso plan to partially privatize S.S…! 8-(

I don’t recall that, CT. But it wouldn’t surprise me in the least.

The goddam DLC is more dangerous than Bachmann and Co.

Now, now Margaret, everyone has their boiling point.

Maybe Obama should just go soil a dress and be done with it.

;>)

Malloy is laying into R. Scott, Governor-elect of Florida.

I cannot believe the citizens of Florida elected a thief to be their Governor.

Yeah but it’s sorta pointless when one’s boiling point is beyond the temperature at which hydrogen starts to fuse into helium…

hey db

I cannot believe the citizens of Florida elected a thief to be their Governor.

Yeah. As disappointed as I am with Texas voters, at least this cycle I can look around at several states and say, “Wow! You elected more batshit crazy people than we did”.

Hey, Matt! I moved from CA to Chicago, so it’s no longer shakin’– it’s freezin’.

Elaborate theater to avoid talking about overpopulation, resource depletion, environmental degradation, and the inevitable decline and collapse of the American Empire.

Same shit, different day.

I’ll bet at least it won’t be a cheap, tasteless Walmart special… Gotta say though, it was appropriate that Bubba soiled one of those.

chicago? brrrr

Mrs. Dr. BargainCountertenor has maintained since 2000 that we should give Florida to Spain or Cuba… or if necessary, insist one of them take the place back.

After this debacle, I think she was right. I know we aren’t into taking stars off the flag, but that’s a star I think we can do without.

chicago? Fucking brrrr

Fixed it for ya. :-)

I am sure that there are cures for that.

While he was wearing it, even.

:D

Hi, Suz.

hahaha thanks margaret — rahm is back there now so that’s fucking poi-fect

M’eh, I’m not much for ceding any territory. People now…. All states have some of those that wouldn’t be missed.

While he was wearing it, even.

Must. Scrub. Brain.

Helloooo! *waves to all*

Kelly! Smooch!♥

smoochback!

Seriously, Erskine Bowles as co-chair of the Catfood Commission, had freely admitted…

From The New Yorker
The story of how Bill Clinton and Newt Gingrich came close to secretly making a deal on Social Security by cutting out their respective political allies, only to be derailed by Clinton’s philandering…

Yeah, I hear ya.

And New Mexico wasn’t any big prize… in fact, in a normal year our outcomes would have been classifiable as batshit crazy.

Hey Kelly. How’s Denver tonight?

*heh* I think Michelle’s swing would have more impact than Hillary’s did…!

I guess we all owe Monica L a debt of gratitude… think about the consequences of the crash if we’d been invested on Wall Street.

Even at $100 mil a day, that’s like 50 $200 haircuts every second.

Yeah, she gives me the impression of being much more fiery than Clinton. I could see the Secret Service having to intervene.

Thank you, CT. I couldn’t figure out DB’s comment until you established that context.

Oh, come now. The Afghan war is running about $190 M/day.

5 iron or a sand wedge, Tuttle? I kid.

;>)

*heh* And he didn’t even need to post a nefarious pic of his, eh…? Wimp…! ;-)

Saucy! I put up a near perfect Hollandaise for din-din, if I do say so myself.

Media Matters is uncharacteristically silent on the Olbermann vs MSNBC situation. I wonder what’s up with that?

Chi Town Rahm… may be interesting for a while…that mayor’s race may warm up ther town a bit. Have fun at the parties. Bring your body guards. G)

*shudder*

A driver, I think… one of the big-head, 300 g thingies. She could do some serious damage with that.

What was under the Hollandaise?

You’re makin’ me think Eggs Benedict for dinner tomorrow night.

….if I do say so myself.

And of course, you do. :-)

so if not a blue dress… what? will they go after his purchase of his house in chicago?

We get these little baby asparagus here. They were yummy.

I’m envious. I love steamed asparagus under Hollandaise.

I’m thinking of some frito pie tomorrow. I haven’t made that in a while. Nice n spicy! It’s no good if you don’t sweat.

Devil with a blue dress on…

S’posed to drop to low 20s here in central Illinois tonight. Don’t know about Chicago. Nearly long pants weather.

They’ll be yanking up floor boards and knocking holes in the walls, looking for his secret Muslim, communist, socialist, fascist, Kenyan qu’ran stash.

ew.

Mmmm, I love me some frito pie! Our late, lamented local Hard Times Cafe served that, and it was awesome with a cold beer.

Actually, I already know tomorrow. I’ve got some puff paste and chicken breasts that have to be used. Stuff them with roasted green chile and pecans and wrap in puff paste, bake until done.

Well, I have made scrambled eggs out of Hollandaise before, more than once.

Anyways about this welcome-to-the-90s thing.

I don’t know if they could really pull off impeachment, because there would have to be evidence and stuff and it’s not NEARLY as entertaining as the “34 WARSHIPS! $2BILLION DOLLARS! MUSLIN!!!11! W00t!” shit that they do now.

It took me years to perfect my frito pie and the secret it turns out, is in the shape and material of the bowl.

When any sensible person would go look on a bookshelf. That’s where mine sits.

“The lessons are just beginning.”

Actually, I think whatever learning processes he has (and it’s been precious little, to date…) I doubt any more lessons will be very relevant. I see no way that he can turn this mess around, even if he wanted to, and there’s been no real evidence of that, either. They won’t let him turn it around.

I think the republicans will keep him sitting right there in the Oval Office, underneath the 30 foot high sign with pulsating letters that read:

“Beware the posterboy for a failed presidency! He has a loud bark.”

Now, the game is going to be watching to see how soon the administration rats start leaving the ship, and how soon the challengers start gearing up to make a run at him. And of course, if his numbers get low enough, and I believe they will, the democratic leadership will have that word of prayer with him, and he’ll be off to some “centrist” thinktank.

Which, selfishly, I think will be best for all concerned…

except for the republicans who will be in shock at losing their best bud too soon to capitalize on him again.

Yeah but I think they’re going to have to do something with their time. I mean, how much time can you take saying “Hell no”? There may not be impeachment but I’ll be willing to bet that there will be half a dozen specious investigations going at any one time.

What is it that you use for the bowl?

I’m guessing ceramic for the bowl.

“Beware the posterboy for a failed presidency! He has a loud bark.”

Just put him in a politics 101 textbook under “Don’t let this happen to you”.

Against all evidence, I’m going to hope that Boehner is smart enough to know that when McConnell and/or Reid tell him, “The votes aren’t there. There must be something else you can do that won’t waste time and piss off the plebs,” he’ll listen.

Ceramic bowl and it has to be dome shaped, exactly dome shaped. Shallow or flattened bowls won’t do.

Ding!

i can’t believe it. this guy gets rich defrauding the government and says gov’t spending has to be cut. when that stimulus $ runs out, we are totally, totally fucked. weather was gredat today, though. 68-70; not a single cloud. so at least there’s that.

That follows — Hard Times served theirs in a deep dome-shaped bowl. Interesting!

Man, I miss Hard Times…the nearest location is about 20 miles away from me. I need to make that trip sometime.

I really don’t mind if it serves as a distraction and prevents or slows Congress AND Obama in implementing their conservative agenda. Sadly, for many years now government gridlock has been preferable to them actually passing legislation.

wheee!

we having fun yet? :)

Take a round, ceramic bowl and fill 1/4 of the way with fritos. Then a layer of finely chopped onion. Just a thin layer, not enough to overwhelm. Then a layer of shredded cheese, (I use jalapeno jack), making sure you cover the onion layer completely. Then your favorite chili, (not giving you my recipe cause then I’d have to kill you) and more cheese and topped off with more fritos. Let the cheese of top get all melty, then munch out on your salty, spicy, fat bomb with aforementioned cold beer. Yummy!

i’m enjoying the later, y ty ;)

Should also provide for quality entertainment. Hope Russ runs again when his constituents realize just how badly they fucked up.

hey tw3k — long time no see your fonts

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like wise u texty lady u ;D

It would be completely counter to the purpose, but I’ve got a low fat, lentil-based chili. If you use a reduced-fat cheese, that would be a healthy meal.

Impeach Bush! … oh, wait …

ITMFA!!!111…

D:

The cheese layer over the fritos and onions keep the fritos all crispity crunchity and the dome shaped bowl keeps everything together where it needs to be while being eaten. Shallower bowls allow all the ingredients to mix together and they should be mixed in your mouth and not before.

tw3k, hiya!

Sweety, you’re four years late, and Nancy ruled it out before stuff really got rolling.

Not even the republicans are stupid enough to get rid of Obama. With his political ‘nads sitting in a mayo jar on John Boehner’s desk, it’ll be like:

“Ooookay Mr. Preznint; shit here. Gooood dog! Now, shit over there.

Alright! Here’s a bi-partisan dog yummy. Don’t eat it all at once.”

All they have to do is keep him on a short leash via the new congress, so that very little, if anything, gets done, and by mid-2012 they will have forced the democrats looking at a reprise of what happened three nights ago (only, it’ll be even worse, if Obama runs…) to shit or get off the pot, as regards telling this strange, abysmally reticent man, that he’s been sitting too long for any good he may have done…and if he sits any longer, he’ll ruin the democratic party. I think that’ll be enough.

I sure hope so.

omg, I have an overwhelming urge to run out to the 24-hr grocery and pick up the fixins for it!

LMAO! It’s not supposed to be “healthy”! I don’t recommend it for people with high blood pressure and I haven’t had any in a long time because I’ve lost weight and now I’m keeping it off. But when I have frito pie, I pull out the stops.

I’ve been making cigar box guitars :D

Started with a one string. The next model is a three.

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Cigar+Box+Guitar&aq=f

yeah, i forgot the /s tag

Margaret, we shouldn’t laugh. That might be his “legacy”.

(Okay: i AM laughing…but it’s bitter laughter, dammit. :o) )

zomghi2u! :D

howz that ars?

hey, if it’s laugh or cry…..

“howz that ars?”

not sure what this means :-)

Ola

LS

P.S. MSNBC/COMCAST suck.

Yeah, and I was wrong. You were actually 10 years late.

How many of us have run out to buy the Dim Son’s memoir?

/in my best shultz

i see nothing, nothing!

srry.

/tw3k translator
how is the arts with you?

I can’t believe Maher had that steaming pile of dog faeces O’Lielly on tonight. I’m tempted to cancel HBO and tell them Real Time having that dirt bag on is the reason.

I don’t watch the movie channels much now that my sweety’s in Ohio, so that would be the real reason for canning it. On the other hand, one of my guilty pleasures (Big Love) is coming back soon…

i got rat finked via broadstripe and adobe via piratebay last summer, wtf :/

hey ls

I’m with ya girl.

KO has lots of fans across the pond, and I sent out the link to one of the petitions tonight. Should bump up the numbers a bit.

It’s time for me to go to sleep. Good night pups and sleep well. Who knows how many more days we’ll be able to?

More than 145,000 right now…

Can’t find it, but I saw a video today of Governor Goodhair who is pushing his new book before he probably runs for appointment of teh predzicy…and he says W was so great and that W “protected us from Freedom”….hahahaha

Oh! lol ;-) Well I’m starting to pick up the camera again, my fave medium of late. Trying to get my mojo back.

g’nite margaret

With sufficient alcohol, I can sleep well most any night…

Excellent!

Sleep well Margaret, and thanks for sharing your tips about frito pie :-)

Protected us from freedom.

Goodhair has a way with words almost as perverse as the Dim Son’s.

Good night Margaret

mojo rising!

somewhere online (too lazy to go back and check my history links) i saw a proposal that we should start a push to buy Keith Olbermann’s book so he can knock dumbya’s book off the top of the best seller charts.

Rachel was mucho pissed off tonight, as was Mike Malloy. I couldn’t bear to watch Maher, with Bill-O-the-Clown on so I don’t know if he had anything to say about it or not.

fookers

y o y these f00kers vote for feedoms?!

major suck! They put Dyson to shame.

Is Dumbya’s book on the best-seller lists?

God help us. Does anyone know who the ghost-writer was?

Someone posted on Mr. LS’s Facebook. He’s at a gig right now, but if I can and no one else does, I’ll try to post it tomorrow.

Trying, trying! ;-)

Unfortunately I missed Rachel tonight, was out to dinner with the ‘rents who are up visiting for the weekend. Hope to catch a transcript.

That’s really mean, newdeal!

(I like it… :o) )

*waving to ndfg*

:D

I gotta figure out a good way to record again :?

Amazon doesn’t say where it is on their lists.

But you can order the Dim Son’s book and Pickle’s book together for $35 or so and get free shipping.

No word on whether the obligatory brain-and-eye bleach is also provided gratis.

*and waving to Suz too* I’m not so good on the multi-tasking tonight!

She’s probably next. JMHO

The operative part was her closing speech. She was steamed… and it showed.

I think I gotta wash my hair, or something….

Not gonna drop even one penny on that tome.

gawd I hope not — it was like moving heaven and earth until she finally got her show!

*waving back*

Good for her. She is awesome.

That depends on how much KableTowne wants the market niche Olbermann created for MSNBC.

“SSSSPLLLLLAAAaAAAAAASSSSSSHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!111111″

muuuhahahahahha

Margaret’s recipe is about dieing happy not healthy. Lentil chili and lowfat cheese, i think you may deserve Pierce for that suggestion.

I’ll be flossing my cat’s teeth.

Although I would spring for a copy, provided that it was used in evidence in Booshies’ war crimes trial in Den Haag.

Well, there is that possibility! ;-)

*waves back*

I had to lol when I ran against this author…

I present to you, fellow FDLers, this mysteries of Mead. :)

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16441/16441-h/16441-h.htm

The lentil chili is actually quite good.

Reduced fat cheese is okay, too. I make heart-healthy enchiladas with it. The trick is to use a good brand — and not confusing reduced-fat cheese with cheese-like substances. They’re usually called cheese food or something similarly stupid, and virtually always come in individually wrapped slices.

They are going to go down the tooooobs.

I can’t get over the fact that Dubya said Kanye West’s comments during the Katrina telethon was the worst moment of his (p)residency. Really, Dubya?? Katrina itself wasn’t bad enough for you?

dim son & pickles books served together? I think i’ll pass. I’m not too fond of violent food poisoning.

Oh, and no one anywhere on the face of the earth has done anything bad enough to deserve Steve Pearce as their congresscritter.

Not even Charles Manson or Ted Bundy was that evil.

Yeah, isn’t that stuff way past its sell-by date by now?

ah…, the moments of dim young son.

:/

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Hey, tw3k…! It’s been a long time…! ;-)

Katrina, Katrina…is that one of them librul reporters? Bring ‘er on.

bah.

hang ‘em like saddom

word up ma brother

lol — “now watch this drive!”

Aloha, to the both of ya too…! *g*

A beer run and the batch of chili I promised the better half for din-din interceded…! ;-)

What cesspool did you crawl out of??

KKKKKEEEERRRRRSSSSPPPPLLLAAasSSSSH!!!!1111 :D

b double e double r u n!

snark dood

yeah /s…

Now, now, nahant, that is the ‘old’ LS you’re talking too…! ;-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9qO36ZL5YI

From under a dark and slimy bridge. Mwahahaha

Chili? I didn’t know it was possible to make chili in Hilo, man.

all the old piss turns to nitro… muhahahaha 8]

G’night all, I need to be at my bro’s house at 10 AM tomorrow, we’re taking the aforementioned ‘rents out for the day to visit Mount Vernon. My step-mom has never been there before. Should be a nice day out :-)

Peace to all!

Okay, book talk!

Anybody read any of Guy Gavriel Kay’s fantasy histories?

I just finished my first one, “The Sarantine Mosaic”. It’s set in an alternate…city, Sarantium, in the middle east. The city is based on 6th century Byzantium. The protagonist, Caius Crispus, is a mosiacist who’s been called to Sarantium by the Emperor Valerius, only it wasn’t Crispin who was called, it was his mentor who has taught him well, the art of laying mosaic, but who is too old to go, so Crispin, in his 30′s, is finally convinced to impersonate him, and make the journey along rural roads fraught with thieves, prostitutes, religious fanatics, and whatnot.

He makes it, after some amazing adventures, and is immediately caught up in a web of intrigue and sexual politics in Valerius’ court.

If this sounds like just another fantasy book, I promise you, it aint. Guy Kay has crafted a neat pair of novels (Two make up “Mosiac”…
“Sailing to Sarantium” and “The Lord of Emperors”.) and the characters are so real as to be almost in the room with me, as I read it. If any of you have read Gore Vidal’s “Justinian”, you’ll have some sense of this book but I think it’s a lot more entertaining that one.
The women he’s created, poor and rich, are beautiful, intelligent, courageous, and at times, lethally deceitful, not to mention being so sensual that if I could get inside the book and then pop out of it around any of them, I’d get down on all fours and bark like a dog for a chance to get to know them.
I could hardly put it down. At times, it’s like…poetry. I finished it last night at 3 AM. I wouldn’t tell this to anyone to their face but I cried at one scene just before the ending. Haven’t done that in years… The book is just so damn human, and humane.

Jim Bob Tanbark gives it a 9.9, and I can hardly wait to go find some of his other books. Yum.

LOL

c ya for beagals!!!111 :D

g’nite ll

Ta

shit how did ya get past the electric fencing?? Thought I had all that sealed….

No where near nahant’s level, but, I got an immediate thumbs up from the better half when I’d asked her on taste the saltiness…! ;-0

Jimbob,

Allow me to counter with Neal Stephenson’s Baroque Cycle.

aloha! I was just talking to my tai chi instructor today, i won’t be able to attend her annual retreat on Maui this winter because my i-sure-hope-it’s-final eye surgery will be scheduled around that time.

maybe next year i can meet you & mrs ct.

Verrrry carefooly.

shit Tuttle how’d ya know….

No, I mean I didn’t realize you could even get the ingredientses to do it. My mom was making tortillas by hand from Quaker instant masa shipped from the mainland when we lived there.

or, ta ra — as they say in Liverpool ;-)

‘nite!

sounds interesting, i’ll put it on my book list. Thanks for the recc’d.

you must be able to hitch a ride on a gnat’s ass as thats the level I set it for…

I am a gnat’s ass…that’s how I did it.

…i-sure-hope-it’s-final eye surgery…

I sure hope so too…! *g*

OH Now I understand…. havt’a fix that leak….

And where the body was dumped at midnight.

Hi Peoples. Just got here. Looks like I missed a lot. Back to briefly check it out.

*heh* Maybe ’cause I don’t spend two days making it…! ;-)

I believe I’m going to place my tired, aging body between the sheets and await the final day of that abomination known as Daylight Savings Time.

Good night my friends and fellow travelers.

In Hawai’i, when you want to dump a body, you go beyond the reef in search of a friendly tiger shark…

g’nite bct

Ooh, sounds like one of those books you hate to see coming to an end. Thanks for the tip.

DST is soooo annoying. Good night.

That does work marvelously…! However, a Mako will work in a pinch, too…! ;-)

here, in the midwest, we use pigs… ;P

Right behind the Walmart, they’re building a Target, dood…! *gah*

3 days Tuttle 3 days…. sheesh when ya gonna learn….

Thirty minutes worked for moi…! A good pot of sticky rice to boot…! 8-P

First I thought you were talking about making chili, then I went outside to check on something…then I thought you were making chili from Mako, and I thought WTF?….then you mention pigs…and I thought oh they make chili from pork…then I actually read the text…then I remembered seeing a movie where pigs ate someb……EWWWWWWWWW Then you’re talking about chili…

no wonder dood no wonder… shit first taste isn’t till at least six hours into the cooking… you would be surprised what a few hours in the fridge does ta spread the love around the pot..

lol, ;) Don’t blink!

FWIW Maddow said Olbermann is “temporarily” suspended; whereas, earlier today it was reported that he was “indefinitely” suspended. All the calls and emails may be working and they may be in backstroke mode over at MSNBC.

The GOP controlled House can now start choosing how to go about their business of oversight, but the public’s expectations – and needs -are very different now than what the economy dictated in the gravy years of the mid-late 90′s. There is risk for electoral blowback if the GOP thinks they can dust off the same sideshow playbook during a time when the economy is in the shitter, people are out of work, and the public is watching to see if the shift of power spells relief.

Bargain, thanks. I’ll check it out. :o)

This is great…

There’s no money for medicaid or social security but they’ll blow millions of dollars investigating allegations of wasted money.

This is the stupidity implosion.

One group of people became so ****ing dumb that their stupidity caved in on itself…but they’re too ****ing dumb to notice.

Neil Edward Goldschmidt, 33rd governor of Oregon, sexed a girl from her age of 14 until she was 17. He in his thirties. He was the mayor of Portland at the time. Didn’t derail his very successful career, municipal, state, federal, and lobbyist, until 2003, when the sex and the three decades of cover-ups become publicly known. These are often not good people.

Eleanor Clift wrote early in Obama’s term that Washington had already learned he could be rolled.

Obama has falled much further than Bill Clinton.

Clinton was President at the height of the Republican Revolution. It was inevitable that he would suffer some hits and be forced to make compromises. Obama has no such excuses. The Repubs were no their knees when he took office, and the nation was calling out for reform.

Clinton was elected by a plurality, while Obama enjoyed a smashing victory, which he has managed to completely blow.

The corporate media hated Clinton ans his family, whereas they love (or loved) Obama. If the media likes you, it’s deucedly hard to look bad. And yet the Bammer has managed it.

Also, Congress’ demise in the 90s was partly due to the House banking scandal. One can’t honestly pin it on Clinton.

Then there’s the fact that Clinton went on to accomplish many excellent things. Obama, uinfortunately, will just continue destroying the Democratic Party.

The Catfood Commission

The thing we have to remember Clinton gave the world NAFTA the foundation to moveing jobs on the tax payers dime.This jobless recovery is thanks to Clintons NAFTA.

Fortunately, the Special Prosecutor law was allowed to expire after the last round of GOoPlican abuse, thankyouverymuch Dean Starr. So the House will have to do their own dirty work this time.

Has it really taken 200 comments for someone to point out that this is incorrect?

The broad Independent Counsel law under which Ken Starr and, before him, Lawrence Walsh operated has expired, but Special Prosecutors are appointed all the time by administrations’ own DOJs when the heat is on. Hence Patrick Fitzgerald. Hence (for all the fucking good it’s doing) John Durham. Hence, two generations ago (and thanks a megaton for reminding me of my age, BCT!) Archibald Cox and Leon Jaworski.

“It’s the Negro Stupid!”

It could have been a conversation in the i700’s. It could have been a conversation on inauguration day 2009. Those that really run things in America have always known a good thing when they see it, a way to take or maintain power in a racially divided America. When the captains of commerce in Colonial America needed cheap labor for the tobacco and cotton fields and someone to manage the slaves, they turned to those that they could manipulate through fear and loathing to help them maintain power. They turned to the lower class, the uneducated, those that would do their bidding and never know it wasn’t really in their best interest. Managing the poor is an age old enterprise. It is in the DNA of those that would rule the world.

The election of Barack Obama was a godsend to those that would manage the poor and the more poor, the merrier. It is a “gimmee” for hose that would put a match to the tinder box of hate and racism in an uneducated lower class that would do their bidding in the name of “I want my country back.”

Rove and his ilk may not have said it out loud, but they knew the way back to power. “It’s the Negro, stupid!”