In entertainment news, the idea has been floated in Republican Party circles (there are nine of these) to make the Lame Stream Media pay for the rights to broadcast the GOP primary debates.
Apparently this is because the Republican National Committee has run up $22 million in debt, an understandable and inevitable consequence of the party’s commitment to principles of Fiscal Rectitude in real-world practice, which involves expensive booze n’ masturbation fact-finding missions to lesbian bondage-themed strip clubs.
The Official Republican Mind is an inscrutable puzzler, a scratcher, a pancake griddled from confounding, inorganic ingredients.
They believe someone would pay to watch a GOP primary…? Who?
?
Freakshow.
However.
Upon reflection, though, there is rather a perverse logic at work here. Let us remember that even when Democrats control two out of three branches of government, the Republicans are in charge. And how does this government of ours work, and what does it do?
It transfers wealth, from the nation, to the wealthy, for a fee.
The idea that major media corporations should cough up a surcharge for the right to pick the person who is going to work hardest to make them the most money is, in this regard, only Right and Proper.
That there is no actual demand here has nothing to do with what is being offered as regards supply.
Gangster capitalism with socialized risk: brave new world, man. Or, given that we’re talking about Donald Trump as the class of the GOP field, GOP Clown Gangster Capitalism. Trickle down, juggalos!
To be fair I myself if I end up watching the GOP primaries, will be paying the Jameson’s people a reasonable premium to enable that beforehand.
Happy St. Patrick’s Day.



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THERSday!
Now with special saucy!
wedTHERSday nite liveHave to say, Thers, I do not think there is enough Jamesons or Bushmills or both combined in the world to make it possible to watch the Rethuglican debates.
and a clink of the glass to you!
…They believe someone would pay to watch a GOP primary…? Who?…
WWE aficionados…? ;-)
THERS!
Yeah. Good luck with that.
Thersday Night Live!
“They believe someone would pay to watch a GOP primary…? Who?”
CNN, MSNBC, Faux (especially Faux), ABC, NBC, CBS…
…notice that there are no real people on this list.
I have a better idea. Let’s do a fundraiser to pay the networks NOT to broadcast those abominations.
Slainte! (Not that I won’t probably be here tomorrow, but Thers won’t be.)
*clink*
Slainte.
Maybe they’d better keep NPR and PBS around until then at least. They’d jump at the chance, grovel for it.
Broke as my ass is, I’d give for that.
Now, now, EDP. Haven’t you been paying attention to the fatwahs of the Republican High Inquisition? Corporations are the only real, true people, while you and I are just legal fictions.
Had to go grab my Guinness… Slainte…! ;-)
I hate watching “grown” media bosses grovel.
I might PPV to see that.
The Republican High Inquisition can go fuck themselves sideways with a blunt screwdriver.
I don’t watch reality TV (part of my proud ignorance of pop culture). But surely there’s a space in ‘reality’ (aka unreality) TV for RNC convention? Dancing? Singing? 24/7 coverage, including in hotel bathrooms complete with wide stances, diapers, other kinds of voyeurism.
As I say, I’m a complete moran on these matters but even I can see some large money making schemes.
Bet we could get the MLA to chip in so that poor unsuspecting students would not be exposed to that kind of mad hatter giberish word salad masquerading as English. Wouldn’t want them emulating their bitters.
I’m with you.
You know how O’Keefe’s bullshit videos are from “Project Veritas”? I was thinking about starting “Project Mendax.”
And instead of even bothering to video subjects and then falsely edit them, is just to go to the next step and flat out make shit up.
Little bit o’money, but lotta fun.
Our youngest, Sean Patrick, turns 5 tomorrow — yeah, that’s his birthday…
Yer a crrrruel beast
The MLA head is that Berube guy. I’m very suspicious of that fellow…
An interesting thought. Kind of a Candid Camera for the least candid people in the universe…
Oh my. I foresee a long history of b’day debauchery in his future.
That’s very….Irish…of you.
I don’t know who O’Keefe is, but from what I do know about the Rs, there’s plenty of actual raw material with no reason to make shit up.
The key is a clever editor. That would surely not be me or anyone as technologically incompetent and as humorless.
But surely someone on our side has both the tech competence & humor required to make a GREAT R reality show. The raw material is priceless.
Hikes on the Appalachian Trail in VA set on the rock slabs in Rio is the first image that comes to my mind (only bc I’ve been to both places)…
Yeah, I have a cousin whose B-day falls on St. Patty’s…but her father is Welsh.
I know. Alarming.
All right, I’m to bed. Much on tomorrow’s agenda. Niters!
(((sean patrick))) may be fun to him now having everyone celebrate his birthday by wearing green but…
James O’Keefe: purveyor of heavily edited videos of ACORN and PBS among others which, inexplicably, are still treated as if they are god’s own word of truth.
Fabulous!
What’s in store? Green cake with green frosting & candles?
Presumably he’s not into corned beef & cabbage yet. Or Irish beer or whiskey.
g’nite thers
Nighters. Get well rested for the ensuing debacle.
Slapping face for not merembering that ONE.
Inbreeding is a dentist’s best friend.
Right!
So I was thinking James O’Spleef and Lie LaRose would be decent parody fodder.
['night Thers!]
Aloha, Thers…!
Fixed.
Today is the 8th anniversary of Rachel Corrie’s untimely demise…! 8-(
No Guinness in the house, just one Sierra Nevada Torpedo Ale left. You don’t want to drink too many of those at once as they will sink you.
Nice!
Aragato Gozaimasu. :)
(((Rachel Corrie)))
I posted the Corrie’s eloquent statement they’d delivered today…
Let’s also not forget O’Keefe’s history of miserably failing to take sexual advantage of female newscasters. The man will do anything to get at
the truthmedia attention.Back to the headline of this post, I’m fresh outta brain bleach. Anyone got any to spare?
Well, how was that newscaster supposed to tell the difference between a boat full of dildos and O’Keefe?
Thanks CT.
I really despair about Palestine.
Dispensers are posted at all egress points here at the Lake… Well stocked I might add…! ;-)
Or my pet theory that he’s never been laid….
i filled up all brain bleach dispensers with the triple strength stuff when i saw thers headline. its available at the red button next to the power stations
LMAO! The dildos were stiff?
Heh. WHY oh WHY do you tempt me to write terribly nastier things than I already wrote!
Going to call it an early night. Much corrupting to do in the morning. Take care all.
Obviously, O’Keefe is the little white one with…well, the little white one.
g’nite dr dick
*heh* Will it leave us totally confuzzled afterwards… Triple-strength even, dayam…! ;-)
Aloha, Dr. D…!
It’s just our chemistry. Plus it’s fun!
i’ve learned to dose up for thers’ posts depending on his headline…. tonights was a triple for sure (shrudder)
That’s why I throw them back.
Heh. Yes it is; on both counts.
I have always despised Trump.
But several respectable peeps have pointed out interesting aspects of him.
One was my will contest lawyer who made me aware of the fact that no matter how bust he was, he would never go bankrupt in any consequential way. And as much as I found that impossible to imagine, it has turned out to be accurate.
Another intellectually solid example came exactly a year ago. There is an annual historic preservation conference in NYC at this time of year. Not going this year, this coming weekend. But Sat is meetings, Sunday is tours. So one year ago I chose midtown (my neighborhood) historic pres tour. One of the last buildings we looked at was Trump on 55 & 5th. It will be 30 years old this year or next, when it qualifies for historic pres status. As much as I hate the man & everything he’s built, I did find the discussion interesting.
Desperately pressing red button for megadose.
The middle of March at 11:00 at night and it’s almost 70 degrees here and it’s going to be in the eighties during the day for the next 8 days at least, according to the forecast. Nope, no climate change here. Move along.
What Trump patently fails to grasp is that he’s a billionaire, and therefore by definition part of the problem.
Dayam, ya mean his ‘rug’ is eligible for historic preservation…? ;-)
We’re not holding our warm temperatures quite so well yet, but then Iowa is a bit north of Texas. Hardly matters; all I have to do is think about this past winter compared to the ones we had 25 or 30 years ago, and there is little doubt to be had that the times are changing.
The Repugs sure seem determined to make me feel guilty when I don’t vote for
Marshal PetainBarack Obama in 2012.It’s already pretty well encased in lacquer, isn’t it?
It was 73 HERE in Denver today. And belch had Jury Duty.
I had crabby people to make happy after work, especially since Judy just got transferred to LTAC (Long Term Acute Care) yesterday.
Fortunately, I have trained this crew that margaritas and Hindi food go together, and triumphed over them with Samosas, Curry and cocktails.
You’ll have to shoot it and stuff it first….
he never went bankrupt,cause his filthy rich DADDY bailed him out every time….like shrubery
Sure as hell would have triumphed over me. :)
sounds like ya hit a winning combo kelly
*heh* Wanna take a stroll along the Trump Tower Waikiki Beach Walk…? ;-)
I love samosas. The rest of the stuff real good too!
Tropical, Lime and Green – goes with anything HOT!
[I also include it in St. Padraig Day cocktails after tiring of Green Beer. People named Kelly can do that with Irish Impunity.]
Oh baby!
I’d rather chew razor blades.
*passing cocktails down the bar to all*
Slainte, bitchez!
Green beer is just weird. You don’t expect something green to taste like beer.
*clink*
Seems blasphemous he has that. Did he get it honestly?
Kelly,
You THE MAN! Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
thanks babe *smooch*
For some definitions of “honestly,” I’m sure…
Not really, and, he refused to pay the builders/laborers ‘prevailing wage’…! A total dickhead as expected…!
Worse than his rug, which will decay over time, his buildings, which I consider to be the epitome of bad taste.
Since I posted the prior comment, I’ve been trying to reconstruct the conversation from a year ago. Part of my problem was that it was chilly, we’d been touring outside for 2 hours, and I had to pee in the worst way, which did not enhance my memory.
To be serious, our tour guide was VERY solid and would not brook any political nor personality intrusions into architectural evaluation.
So as I can reconstruct the conversation, it revolved around real world impact, how many other bldgs had gone to the lengths of Trump to be so elegant indoors & outdoors at same era.
Having discussed all that, I have a better appreciation for the architecture. I still hate it, but it might fall into the category of better than the alternatives.
Since it tends to be American beer, we can pretty much toss verisimilitude of flavor down the pipes.
Banks bailed Trump out too, bc he is one of the select peeps.
*smoochback* and smooches on all of you.
Just glad lived through yesterday, you know, the Ides of March. And you know what else started here yesterday?
National Data Fusion Center Conference at the Hyatt downtown. Gawd, I just hate even the idea of those folks’ function.
I’m not such a snob. I like American beer. :)
Heh. HAARP Beer doesn’t come in green. *burp!*
so today is the ides of st paddy’s?
Me too! Especially our local Great Lakes Brewery beer and ales. Dortmunder Gold is a winner. I’ll take one, please!
but his dads properties were the collateral
Could be the site of an awesome flash dance.
Trump bought Mar a Lago with little or no down payment and a handshake…iirc
Ides is always the 15th of the month.
[close your eyes if you hate Latin lessons]
In Latin there are the Ides the Nonae and the Calendae of the month. Ides is the middle of the month and Calendae is the last where we get our word “calendar” from.”
[re-open your Latin hating eyes now]
It’s rather ironic that when the ‘Rooms’ were first put on the market, they’d sold out in 24 hrs, now, they’re experiencing mass buyers remorse, not because of the location, etc., but, because they were sold at the height of the Real Estate bubble and they’re all now underwater…! ;-)
I was taken to task by the mods for pointing out that the HAARP theory doesn’t jibe with physics. I felt awfully picked on I must say. I guess calling bullshit is being discouraged now.
I’ve never been able to buy anything like that except an old beater with snow cancer.
i was making bad snark about today being sandwiched in between ides of march and st paddy’s. really bad snark
Speaking of Latin lessons.
mar a lago,rushbos is third scroll down
http://www.hauteliving.com/2007/06/celebrity-living-palm-beach/
he is a fraud and a scam artist,many peeps lost a ton of $$$ with him
LOL! I love that clip
*schling* right over my head! ZOOM!
Well, sorry to pepper you with the old Latin then, ma dear.
Extremely funny.
don’t feel bad, as i said, it was an attempt at bad snark
giving up tonight.
Sweet dreamz everyone.
and i don’t mind the latin lessons at all hon
g’nite ecahn
Reminds me of a Latin teacher I once had. Put John Cleese in a nun habit and give him a ruler instead of a Gladius and you’ve got it.
Ciao bella.
Night eCAHN. And CAHNstance.
Niters eCAHN (and eCAHNstance).
We had the same one then!
Pleasant Dreams, eCAHN…!
nite…me too….evening savings time
LMAO! Mustache and brow ridges? Yeah I think there’s just one who goes from Parish to Parish.
g’nite sadly
Niters sadlyyes.
Night sy!
Heh. Nobody likes them – Latin is DEAD I tell you, DEAD!
But on the language topic, PEG:
Would you agree with me about an item of Japanese pronunciation; follows.
English peeps keep saying fu-ku-SHI-ma and I think it is more properly pronounced fu-KU-sh’ma.
Hiya Suzanne.
Yes, I absolutely agree. The “i” sound is almost never pronounced in the shima, shite and shime suffix. The same as the u at the end of a word after s. Gozaimasu is pronounced Go-zeye-mass for example.
hiya ce
I’m watching Rachel Maddow. Pretty scary.
Want some green beer, Christine? Kelly will get you some.
Hey! Why not?
Thanks – I thought I had that correct. While I have nothing to offer scientifically about the nuclear stuff, the one thing I thought I could bring up was at least saying local names correctly.
Small effort, yes, but one that a person can make. I hate to hear my name or town or street, you know, the small stuff, pronounced badly. It’s like not caring.
Barely comfort at all, and most likely useless as trying to win converts, but, there it is.
I’ll focus further by sending stern tweets to CNN and MSNBC! LOL!
* slide * Opa! Went sliiding past me! There ya’ go.
Daily News front page from NYC: PANIC. Boy, aren’t they they helpful.
Opa! Many thanks!
Schliding some HAARP down the barz at youz and CE. Alwayz on the bright side!
Drink up!
On the other hand, in the phrase “soro soro shitsuree shimasu” the i in “shitsuree” is pronounced as it precedes the “tsu” sound, while the one in “shimasu” isn’t pronounced along with the u. It would sound like “soe-roe soe-roe shee tsu ray sh’mahss” (I’d better be leaving now is the translation)
Tanks, love.
I’d like to write them and tell them that the name of the country is Nihon, the name of the language is Nihongo and the name of the people is the Nihonjin.
Thankee. Can I kiss the Blarney Stone now?
I attended many St. Patrick’s Day Parades in NYC (in the past). Pretty much gave them up after evidence of American politicians support of IRA activities (King). Still, I love the celebration with a nice black arm band. And beer.
And so, I believe I’ll say Soro soro shitsuree shimasu. Totemo tanoshikatta desu. Oyasumi Nasai Koinu.
Excuse me, but the most AWESOME tweet EVAH: From your very own cbl:
Look at this URL: http://imgur.com/7JJ9u
Lamo’s IP and registration. PWND!
is that a g’nite margaret?
Night night!
;D
Ooo-Wee! d00d … I never thought for one minute the guy was rocket scientist material.
*heh* Anon rulz…! Westboro Baptists got hit too…! ;-)
There’s just one thing; Barret Brown ain’t Anonymous. At least anymore.
So taking him out makes Anonymous less credible; at least for a while. I suppose the Anony collective will deal with Barret themselves so as to inoculate Anonymous from Barret.
Interesting times. As long as you can stay on the ride.
If I recall Say’s Law postulates that “production creates demand” therefore air it and they will…watch. The main event would no doubt be The Half-baked Alaskan vs. The Mini Soda Twinky, she kisses Bush you know. The winner gets to wear the Big Gooper Strap-On?