The party paid to fight and the party paid not to fight unite on getting paid.

What good are photos of nakedness without the proper light bulb?

I just heard a rumor that since there is now a top job opening in North Korea, the Republicans are scheduling their next debate in Pyongyang, with Republican leaders figuring that all their presidential candidates are qualified, if not over-qualified, to replace Kim Jong-Nuts.

And North Korea is a perfect match for all the Republican “dear leader” aspirants. The military and a few wealthy North Korean families running the joint. A huge prison system. No “miranda rights,” no habeas corpus, no trial by jury, no due process, but a whole lot of “enhanced interrogation techniques” practiced to perfection. No social safety net for North Korean citizens. No EPA. No OSHA. No NLRB. Indefinite detentions. Anything liberal banned from North Korean society, with secret renditions/disappearances of “liberals” to make certain everything liberal stays banned. Widespread North Korean black sites, especially at night (I’ve seen the night-time satellite images, with North Korea literally being a black hole into which 25 million North Koreans have fallen or been dragged)). Independent judiciary? Women’s rights? Gay rights? Pro-choice? Child labor laws? Religious freedom and the right to be free from religious tyranny? All non-existent in Kim Jong-Nut’s right-wing militant paradise. And with all the North Koreans sobbing uncontrollably upon hearing of the death of their “dear leader,” I thought I was watching a John Boehner cry-athon.

So, what better place for Republicans to hold their next debate.

they do not even have to make believe they are on opposite sides anymore, big corp wants something big corp is gonna get thumbs up from both sides

They can take the Democrats with them.

Yeah genius, communism is oh so ‘rightwing’. I suppose you ‘think’ Cuba and the former Soviet union are/were ‘right wing’ too!
L.M.F.A.O

Hrrump. The big pornographers are the best citizens on the web. They obey all the net-nanny type of rules, are ruthless to spammers, and use opt-in marketing. They just want to be left alone to peddle their porn. They have their own methods of protecting their product and don’t really want government help.

This is all about the RIAA and the big film studios who think they’re losing billions. I wonder what they’ll do when they get everything they want and discover their bottom line is the same?

Boxturtle (If it passes, I’m gonna shutdown any website that permits others to use parantheicals)

Except Big Corp, (here capitalized to indicate personhood), WANTS those aforementioned better light bulbs. The problem is Frothy-n-Michelle, et al have invested enormous amounts of energy insisting that traditional light bulbs, (like the Pilgrims used), will be banned under the damnable wog Lightbulb Efficiency Act of 2007, signed into law by that most liberal of Liberals, George W Bush. With the toady media reporting what teh craziest of teh crazy say without fact checking, (or mentioning what a pantload their fiction is), what’s a teabagger to believe?

Heh heh.

I’m not sure any of the current crop of GOPers is crazy enough to meet the minimum requirements for that job. Well, Michelle maybe.

Boxturtle (Not sure she’d want the job, there’s nobody to solicit political money from)

Good morning, pups. It’s Brooks, Cohen, Nocera and Bruni today. Bobo gives us “The Sidney Awards, Part I,” and says for anyone looking to reflect well and expand horizons this holiday season, here’s the first installment of the best essays of 2011. In “The American Hitch” Mr. Cohen says like Voltaire, Christopher Hitchens did not view the deathbed as a place for a last-minute rethink. Mr. Nocera addresses “An Inconvenient Truth,” and says Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac didn’t cause the mortgage crisis. Sorry, folks. Mr. Bruni, in “Here Come the Helpmates,” says it is important to see certain tired political fictions and campaign rituals for what they are.

Here they are.

The coffee and tea are ready, and I’ve got apple cranberry muffins today. Back to work. [sigh] The more long weekends I have the more I look forward to not having to go back to work. I’m off to fortify myself with another cup of tea before I have to face the day. Have a great day.

No! the last things i want is somebody like Obama in charge of a country that has nuclear weap….

Boxturtle (Oh, crap)

Yeah, that confused me. The people the GOPers normally pander to don’t want the standards delayed and are proceeding as before.

Somebody pointed out that the big winners are people who are invested in China, where they still make and export the old bulbs cheaply.

I wonder if somewhere we have a big GOP moneyman with a couple warehouses full of the old ones.

Boxturtle (Not sure the CF’s are a good replacement. That’s a LOT of mercury)

If you’re not a fan of CFs, then you needn’t use them. Halogen bulbs also meet those standards.

Chris Christie filibustering for Mitt on MoJoe this morning. A Chris and Joe love fest. Demonizing Obama-who-has-not-led.

By some estimates, porn is a $10 billion per year industry, putting it on a par with motion pictures, video games, and professional sports.

Do the Keystone Pipeline, says Christie, and all will be well. Propaganda flyin’ like confetti this a.m.

Meanwhile, the Plains states are turning into Easter Island, so why not open the spigot on tar sands oil to speed up the process.

IMO those aren’t quite ready for prime time. They’re awfully bright and the spectrum is different. One or the other of that bothers my eyes and gives me headaches.

But I used to feel that way about the CF’s and improvements happened. Now I can use them just fine. My wife thinks I’m crazy, I dispose of them by busting them in a bucket of sulphur and then pitching the pieces. The sulphur reacts easily with the mercury and forms relatively harmless Mercury Sulphate.

Boxturtle (Though I understand that not everyone keeps a bucket of sulphur around)

Another item to make us so proud….

Hey, it’s something we’re producting in country, it employs thousands, you don’t need a university degree, and there’s a strong export market.

Besides, we owe our large hard drives and highspeed, high bandwidth access to the toobz to peoples desire for porn. You think they’re ALL looking at Hubble pictures?

Boxturtle (think of how many creeps never leave their houses anymore)

Thanks…I had not realized I should be so proud & grateful/s

Mittster’s coming up on MoJo next…”good cop” time.

I’m guessing there won’t be any talk of extractionism today.

Big Porn is dying anyway. The proliferation of video technology has allowed amateur performers to flood the internet with content that in most cases is much better than the fake crap coming out of the big porn studios. Don’t ask me how I know this. Big Business is just doing what Big Business does, which is do whatever it takes to crush Small Business.