This week is winding down a lot faster than I’d like. I’ve been kinda busy, and not able to keep up on things, though I did see that Tom DeLay apparently thinks Stephen Colbert is for real (then again, he probably thinks Bill O’Reilly is for real, too), and I guess CNN has discovered the cure for being gay. Or something. As Olivia over at the Huff Post commented: “I would be more interested in a cure for pedophelia, incest, and that right wing obsession with everybody else’s sex life.” Or as MoeLarryandJesus commented, “Yet more Stupid Christian Tricks. Will you fucking idiots get over it already? Sheesh, don’t you morons realize Jesus was gay? After all, he asked 12 men to eat him. I’ll bet there was a big fight over the ‘wishbone.'”
Otherwise, I’m just trying to get ready to leave. It’s kinda tough to prepare for something you’re trying desperately not to think about having to do.
What is this keep hands off the thugs crap :omg::mad::eek::rant1:
I would bet if I went out and blew away 100,000 rethugs I would get in trouble..( it might be fun though). IRAQis don’t count for some reason ??
Riley was doing such an excellent job of demoralizing the troops I had to turn him off.. The mute button is such a wonderful thing.:rant1::mad::fu:
A campaign by gun rights advocates to make it easier to use deadly force in self-defense is rapidly winning support across the country, as state after state makes it legal for people who feel their lives are in danger to shoot down an attacker — whether in a car-jacking or just on the street.
http://tinyurl.com/qsz86
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I keep thinking this should apply to politicians who pass laws that kill people and CEO’s that do things that ruin peoples lives too.
It’s kinda tough to prepare for something you’re trying desperately not to think about having to do.
PJ, that’s sad. Wish you didn’t have to leave your home. Will the wife walk Siggy? Too bad you can’t take him as your service dog.
Hey there Fred, a quick drive-by…I’m going to take the dorks for a walk early while it’s cool out. Haven’t heard yet from Mr. FK since he landed in the middle east….should be through route irish by now…i think. laters.
You keep rethugs as pets ??:eek::omg:
“use deadly force in self-defense”
Doesn’t that imply a certain level of lawlessness?
Hmmm. Our society is working so well under this “conservative” leadership. Even when they are in power these people are obstructionists.
Rejoice. There is good news on the medical front
Pot is Good and good for you.
A room full of pot smokers was a lot like being in Hammond Indiana in the 1970’s.. You could tell what was going on twenty feet away on the other side of the closed door. I guess some people like the smell of burning rope.
“the smell of burning rope”
I love the smell of burning rope in the morning. It smells like… uh, it smells like… uh, what was I saying? Never mind. Pass me another brownie, please.
Tom DeLay apparently thinks Stephen Colbert is for real
This is your brain.
This is your brain on bug spray.
Any questions? :rofl2::rofl2::rofl2:
HOW THE F-CK ARE THESE IDIOTS STILL IN CHARGE?
In other bizarre news, apparently King Jeb is in line to be the next commissioner of the NFL, which at first thought would at least keep him out of the political arena, but would also keep him in the public eye until the 2012 election. So it’s not good.
Expect support from Tampa Bay Buccaneers GM Bruce Allen. Brother of VA Senator and possible Repig presidential candidate George Allen.
Can Jeb fuck up the NFL as badly as he has fucked up Florida public education?
No Millionaire Left Behind.
:fu::fu::fu:
Extrapolating this news about May Jane can one then construe that living next to a steel mill was good for you ??
“HOW THE F-CK ARE THESE IDIOTS STILL IN CHARGE?”
Kevin, must I remnd you what type of people vote for these guys? Idiots voting for idiots. Don’t forget their primary campaign tactic – attack the messenger. I still haven’t an idea what Elizabeth Dole stands for. But I do know her opponent – Erskine Bowles – is/was a liberal and held Monica Lewinsky down while Bill Clinton read her bad Vogon poetry.
By the way, Erskine Bowles is now the UNC system president over in Chapel Hill.
Colbert’s not for real?
:smack:
Oh, yeah.
Actually, Colbert is real. DeLay and the other rethugs are a bad dream.
. . . must . . . wake . . . up!
Yeah, but not as much as he wants. He never gets it as much as he wants. Like father, like son.
Let us know when you hear that Mike is “safe” in camp NBC.
As Olivia over at the Huff Post commented: “I would be more interested in a cure for pedophelia, incest, and that right wing obsession with everybody else’s sex life.” Or as MoeLarryandJesus commented, “Yet more Stupid Christian Tricks. Will you fucking idiots get over it already? Sheesh, don’t you morons realize Jesus was gay? After all, he asked 12 men to eat him. I’ll bet there was a big fight over the ‘wishbone.'”
This made me laugh this morning, PJ… 🙂
I have to go to the dentist today.:omg:
eeek 🙁
Nicki – for a check up or a cavity search? 😉
I have 400 zillion things to do, but thankfully not that 😮
LOL King Kong
Thanks, Susan. Goodluck on that 400 zillion things to do.
I make to-do lists. More to do than crossed off.
yup, know all about that type of list…I’m looking at one of those Monsters right now – it just gets longer every day :omg:
I keep losing my to do lists. :doh: Maybe I should clean my desk. I’m so confused!
:banana: King Kong, Marc mentioned you and your gift on air last night!
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isi- he finally got it.did he say what it was?
Choco-something KK:nod:
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Ex-CEO and founder convicted on fraud and conspiracy charges in Enron case.
May 25, 2006: 12:26 PM EDT
HOUSTON (CNNMoney.com) – Enron former chief executive Jeffrey Skilling and founder Kenneth Lay were found guilty Thursday of conspiracy and fraud in the granddaddy of all corporate fraud cases.
On the sixth day of deliberations, a jury of eight women and four men convicted the former executives of misleading the public about the true financial health of Enron, whose collapse in late 2001 symbolized the wave of corporate fraud that swept the United States early this decade.
Skilling was found guilty on 19 counts of conspiracy, fraud, false statements and insider trading. He was found not guilty on eight counts of insider trading.
Lay was found guilty on all six counts of conspiracy and fraud.
In a separate bench trial, Judge Sim Lake ruled Lay was guilty of four counts of fraud and false statements.
Both Lay and Skilling could face 20 to 30 years in prison, legal experts say.
Judge Lake set sentencing for the week of Sept 11 and ordered Lay to surrender his passport and post a cash bond. No home confinement was ordered.
The verdict is a major victory for the government and marks the end of one of the most scandalous chapters in the history of corporate America.
more
http://tinyurl.com/jqc6n
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King Kong, he was very disorganized and meant to bring it in the studio, I think. He mentioned a couple of labels and that you were in China. And, said something like Man, we have listeners everywhere. It was right at the beginning of the show, if you get a chance to listen. And, Jim mentioned the map with the bloggers names.
According to MyDD, the House Judiciary Committee voted 20-13-1 for support of the Sensenbrenner-Conyers bill HR 5417 supporting net neutrality.
Only one Democrat voted the wrong way – William Delahunt – but he had been leaning the other way, and voted “present” instead.
This doesn’t end the fight, of course, and has no real binding effect, but it’s certainly better than nothing.
I have a crown that needs to be replaced. Hope nothing else is serious. Everything is too expensive.
Socialized medicine!
Capitalism is a racket!:fu:
you’re in fine funny form today, PJ!
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mr fk made it safely to the compound. They had to take a bit of a detour on Route Irish since suicide bombers had blown up a big bridge a week or so ago. It’s hot, but not as hot as it is in July, he said. Good news: The security guy/chef IS in the compound so decent dinners will be available. mr fk took in spices, Head Country and Dale’s Seasoning to help with the food effort. chicken & lamb, lamb & chicken are the staples. An occasional slab of beef can be had but I’m told it’s usually pitiful. Isn’t all that meat stuff pitiful? Not sure when he’ll be on air…soon though. Not today because of the Enron verdicts.
Speaking of which, were those yahoos offered deals? 20 – 185 years sounds like a long time, even in a country club. Hubris will bite you in the arse every time. wonder if the shrub will pardon KennyBoy….
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Whopping cough has surfaced at our local high school and i had to take the teenager to the doc – he may have it. They have innoculations for adults now, btw. Don’t tell Maron…he probably will not let me download the podcast for fear of catching it! Wonder if I should get a shot….. coughing and a newly fused sternum doesn’t sound so hot.
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Anyone hear from Melina? wondering how Will is.
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Does Hartman grow on you? He sure hasn’t grown on me so I’m going to go listen to the podcast.
what the heck is happening to our country. damn.
Given Hartman or Franken or Hartman or Springer Hartman is better from the not being stupidly funny or stupidly boring stand point.. proactive he’s not. When push comes to shove I have the feeling all the left wing radio hosts will suggest that if we go peaceably to the camps we might not get hurt.
:jason:Pickax Murderer:omg:
HEy, it was a good show last night.
wonder if the shrub will pardon KennyBoy….
Comment by Farmerkat — May 25, 2006 @ 3:20 pm
At least he won’t have a problem remembering the sentencing date, since he mentions it every time he gets near a microphone.
“September the 11th.”
😡
:billcat: Whooping Cough!
Glad to hear MrFK is safe in his compound. Spending the summer in Baghdad, what a deal! 😯
How does a summer in Georgia compare? 😀
Can you say how long his stay will be this time?
Hitting the road tomorrow to attend nephew’s wedding in Stillwater, OK.
Forecast for the wedding 96 degrees. Eat your heart out, Travis! 😎
pick a peck of pickled peppers….
ain’t it the truth.
Isi, Stillwater, huh? Are you driving? I have family near where you live and near where you are going. The dry hot winds of OK. Baghdad is bone dry hot coupled with heavy dust storms. Makes OK look like the beach, I suppose. This trip he won’t have to be there as long as last time. I think they’ll try to rotate them all more frequently, especially with the summer heat coming on.
Hartman doesn’t make me laugh – BORING!
Whoopie doo, I’m finally home :nod:
Hellooo all, what’s happening? The Lay and Skillings verdicts made *my* day, but I’m wond’rin’ what kinda jail *they’ll* get to occupy. Golf course, private quarters, …? Bad Kenny, Bad Jeffrey :no:
Who caught the caller Virginia’s call to Hartmann? She was challenging the picture he presented about the importance of learning the host language. He eventually hung up on her for filibustering. (Anybody know what I am talking about?)
:omg:
I heard it in the car coming home. He couldn’t handle her.
he makes sense sometimes, like when he was talking about the importance of unions and how they’re ignored now, then he launches into something silly
Olmert’s (and Elie Wiesel’s) Roadmap
Countdown to Apartheid
By JEFF HALPER
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s address to both houses of Congress was perhaps the most skilled use of Newspeak since George Orwell invented the term in his novel /1984/. (He had help: author and Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel reportedly drafted large sections of the speech.) Just as Orwell’s totalitarian propagandists proclaimed WAR IS PEACE and Israeli government signs placed at the Wall (sorry, fence) at the entrance to Bethlehem greet Palestinians with the blessing PEACE BE UNTO YOU, so Olmert declared in Washington: UNILATERAL REALIGNMENT IS PEACE.
Because of Olmert’s use of Orwellian language (can anyone, including President Bush or members of Congress, explain to us what “convergence” and “realignment” mean?), we must listen carefully to what is said, what is not said and what is meant.
What was said sounds fine if taken at face value. Olmert, extending “my hand in peace to Mahmoud Abbas, the elected president of the Palestinian Authority,” declared Israel’s willingness to negotiate with him on condition that the Palestinians “renounce terrorism, dismantle the terrorist infrastructure, accept previous agreements and commitments, and recognize the right of Israel to exist.” If they do so, Olmert held out Israel’s commitment to a two-state solution.
What wasn’t said? While reference to a Palestinian state sounds forthcoming, two key elements set down in the Road Map defining that state were missing: an end to the Israeli Occupation and the establishment of a /viable/ Palestinian state. “A settlement,” says the text of the Road Map to which Olmert and Bush constantly declare their allegiance, “will result in the emergence of an independent, democratic, and viable Palestinian state living side by side in peace and security with Israel. The settlement willend the occupation that began in 1967.”
Olmert’s “convergence plan” (now renamed a “realignment plan” because it sounds better in [Newspeak] English), based on the massive “facts on the ground” Israel continues to impose unilaterally with overt American support, cannot possibly give rise to a viable Palestinian state. The “Separation Barrier,” which will be declared Israel’s permanent “demographic border,” takes 10% of the West Bank. That may not sound like much, but consider this: It incorporates into Israel the major settlement blocs (plus a half-million Israeli settlers) while carving the West Bank into a number of small, disconnected, impoverished “cantons”–hardly the basis for a viable state. It removes from the Palestinians their richest agricultural land and /all/ the water. . .
http://www.counterpunch.org/halper05252006.html
Absolutely. He does make sense some times, and some times…:omg:
Much of the contradiction probably comes from his commitment to Jeffersonian smallfarmer ideology.
He does seem to live in a different century. Liberty’s Kids or something.
did you have dental work done?
Hi everyone….just wanted to pop in and say hi.
Will seems a tiny bit better today. Im a little hopeful but very tired!
Hi Melina! I’m glad he’s better. I keep him in my prayers…
Hello everyone.
Kat- so glad that Mr made it OK…I hope the heat is not too bad…maybe the global warming will send him some cool air somehow….its been really cool here. I wilt in the heat..hate it!
Will is seeming OK…am hoping to hear of discharge tomorrow but am not really expecting it. First they said 7-10 days then said 2 weeks. I am just a wreck…but it did me good to see him making jokes a little.
I want him home!
Whooping cough!! Unbelievable. If there is no contraindication or if its not a live vaccine, might as well get it. When I think of how long I suffered with the rib thing from the bronchitis and how you are prone to it….just be careful!
Anyway, Im going to sleep…
Enjoy what there is of the show….
Ill be listening tomorrow morning.
Hey, guess what, sheeple?… I got sunburn. Yup.:banana:
Al Gore on Rachel’s show today. Somebody call in and tell ’em that Anchortown is burnin’ up, man. Record temperatures for, like, the past week!
:smack: I guess somebody just forgot about a certain thing that usually happens everyday at 5:00 am est. Hmm…alright then. :yawn:
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Good morning sheeple. Al Gore!!!
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Travis with a sunburn? :billcat:
Melina, hang in there! I’m glad Will is in good hands and getting better.
80,000 workers? I had no idea 😳
did i miss gore?
Hey everyone…PJ, where are you? Did they disappear you?
FK- Gore is everywhere…Katie (in her last gasp as a morning host, thank god!) did a thing on him…
I love Gore….
wow, fell back to sleep again…I think I’m up for good now…good morning sheeple! I’m missed Marc again. Was Al Gore supposed to be on TV or something?
Dear Chris Matthews,
Saw parts of that crap you aired Thursday evening after the Bush-Blair news conference. Do you people really believe the things you say? You think Bush is a great president? The Bush administration is the most incomepetent, corrupt, anti-American collection of thugs in our history. The greatest threat to the Constitution in our history and you can’t see it becuase you have your heads so far up Bush’s ass you can’t see the world coming aoart around you. And who is at fault other than the corporate operated Republican Mob – this isn’t a party anymore, more like a conspiracy? The media who put on propaganda like that shit you aired on Thursday, May 25, 2006. I hope you get paid by the word. You surely wouldn’t be able to eat if you were paid by the original thought.
NC Blue
American.
I wonder if Al is nervous about being on with this cross dressing lesbian ?? The rethugs in Nay’s district must be a bunch of mental giants.
Maybe Chris Matthews used to live in Nay’s district
Good letter, NC 🙂 Chris Matthew’s Bush too-obvious Bush worship is sickening and unprofessional, the more people call him on it the better.
This is confusing.:omg:
hmmm. I see what you mean. NC, I mean YOUR letter was good, not Bush’s….sheesh
Fred was #1 :banana: YEA:!
And A Very Special Blog
So Hartlessman fell off into the deep end on Randi’s show yesterday.. Anyone hear him fall asleep or sound like he had one to many on the air ??
I thought it was Friday but this will do. Hope PJ didn’t get transformed into a DC zombie the minute he arrived.
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SCUD Bush!