1
how did we allow Sestak did to get out of the news cycle?

2
Obama's Watergate and we let 'im off the hook.

/Dennis Green

3 I'm glad Specter was gone but I really wish he had survived long enough to let Toomey administer the finishing blow.

Bird in the hand

4
OT: former Golden Girl star Rue McClanahan being deployed to Gulf to stop gushing oil well.

5

I'm glad Specter was gone but I really wish he had survived long enough to let Toomey administer the finishing blow. It's the sentimentalist in me.

Roger that but, I think if Sestak lost this whole job offer mess would have just eveporated and now it's another dark cloud over the WH and this race for the dems.

Win/Win

6 Outstanding

7 OT but check out the HAWT chick in this video.  Bunk!
http://tinyurl.com/2bgmllr

8 What could Republicans have done to impeach Obama over this?

9 You sick fk.

10 It looks like the Colorado incident might carry more water, no?

11 That Republican congress is still looking good.

12 There's yet another rumbling of this administration trying to get someone out of a race.

http://tinyurl.com/2fse5ae

Obama administration, wheels, some disassembly required.

13 I'm glad Specter was gone but I really wish he had survived long enough to let Toomey administer the finishing blow. It's the sentimentalist in me.

Quit being so soft-headed soft-hearted.

14 Rich Galen and Arlen Specter hardest hit.

15 A serious question:  Are the bribery laws in Illinois significantly different from federal bribery laws?

I still think that the whole Sestak job offer thing was a ruse to convince Specter that it was safe to change parties and vote for Obamacare.  I think they told Specter that Sestak had been offered and accepted SecNav in return for bowing out of the Senate race, that Sestak played along, and that the whole time both the WH and Sestak thought they weren't doing anything wrong because it was all a LIE!

After Specter flipped and cast his vote they didn't give a sh*t anymore and just went on about their business.

That's all supposition, but it's just slimy enough to be the truth.

But to paraphrase Arthur C. Clarke: "The truth, of course, will be far slimyer"

16
just keep it in the news, that's all

hang this scandal around Obama's neck and smear him, that's all.

Just like how we can't stop Kagan from getting on the Court...but we can use Kagan to inflict damage to Obama and the Democrats.

This is politics, not a game of tiddlywinks.

17

how did we allow Sestak did to get out of the news cycle?

Issa has asked for all of the memo's, emails, etc, etc....form the WH by June 9th.  He's not going to let it go - Issa's like a bulldog on a mail mans leg with this whole thing.  Not over yet.

18 I must say, the past 36 hours of posting here at AoS has been some of the most insightful and important reportage (see what I did there?) in the history of blogging. Nikki? check Christie? check Tattoos? check Nikki? check Total Employment Awesomeness? Check Brewer summit, not beer summit? Check Sullivan, Kagan, Clinton, Van der Sloot? What a fucking two days. Don't forget the PO address

19
Not over yet.

egggggcellent!

20 A serious question:  Are the bribery laws in Illinois significantly different from federal bribery laws?

If by significantly different, you mean unenforced, then yes.

21 At what point does this wholesale influence peddling and seat selling start to influence the Blagojevich matter and give Fitzgerald ammo to go hunting for larger game?

22 o/t but.....

im glad kobe bryant ignored that idiot chris rock last night.

23
hahaha, the only people Obama has a tighter leash on than Pat Fitzgerald are Bill & Hillary Clinton.

Don't look to Patrick Fitzgerald for any sort of justice.

24 Dow below 10K! Nice work, Precedent!

25 im glad kobe bryant ignored that idiot chris rock last night. Posted by: str8 outta monongahela at June 04, 2010 01:24 PM (zaGPI) The NBA is still around? I thought they folded after Jordan retired?

26 how did we allow Sestak did to get out of the news cycle?

Don't be so sure about the premise of that question.  Dick Morris (yes, I know he's a blowhard) said on Greta's show last night that the first thing Republicans will do when they take back Congress is put together a committee to draw up articles of impeachment over this and the CO (and any others we hacen't heard of yet-does anyone believe this is the only illegality the Obama regime has been involved in?). 

Do I believe that?  No, they have to elect a Speaker first.  In any case it's pretty clear that Issa isn't going to let this go, and once they get subpeona power, all sorts of possibilities open up.

27
Paul Ryan is not an asshole. He gets it.

Ryan understands the Democrats and their insidious tactics. He is not a boob. He also understands the Republicans need to be proactive in order to win in Novemeber.

28
Do I believe that?  No...

hahahaha!

29

Voters not affiliated with either party strongly prefer Toomey but 34% of the unaffiliateds remain uncommitted to either candidate.

This is going to be Sestak's problem - the independents. And since Indies are more swayed by fiscal realities, Sestak's going to have some splainin to do re: his rubberstamp of 0bamalosi, and his vote on Porkulus.

 

30 Methos, Obama will have us in another war somewhere to deflect that. I'm looking for a cranky Arlen to kick Kagan about it.

31
Nikki? check
Christie? check
Tattoos? check
Nikki? check
Total Employment Awesomeness? Check
Brewer summit, not beer summit? Check
Sullivan, Kagan, Clinton, Van der Sloot?

What a fucking two days. Don't forget the PO address

Posted by: dr kill

 

You left out the Moronette auditions. We had the flying nun (yeah, right) at the tollbooth and the Citibank stimulus package!

32
To be fair, the main reason Dick Morris is wrong is because the Republicans are lazy asses.

Dick Morris is basing his predictions on logical reactions by a motivated party, a party that wants to win. Not his fault the Republicans are listless ninnies.

33 Damn liberals aborted the Rocket Launch!  Heartless bastards.

34

Posted by: Joe Plaice

 

When is the rest of HMS Surprise (Patrick O'Brien's Aubrey/Maturin series) showing up? This is easily the fourth crew member I've seen.

35
wow Obama likes to talk about being 'swift & bold' and 'facing the challenges of our generation,' but Paul Ryan has a plan to wipe out our debt!

36 Wait.

I just thought of the solution to the Gulf oil spill......

"Paging Chuck Norris, Paging Mr. Chuck Norris!"

37 Tommey should win this, why?

* good Rep year
* PA disapproves of dems, Obama (a state he won by 10 points), and Rendell
* the state has consistently had 1 rep and 1 dem senator and having 2 dem senators is not something a swing state electorate will like
* PA governorship is looking like a swing towards Reps
* PA voters approves of the AZ immigration law
* PA voters want the healthcare bill repealed
* Rasmussen is the most correct poll of polls, that's not me, that's study after study that shows Rasmussen is the best poll, even Nate Silver says so

38
so Michael Barone had a good piece yesterday?

brb...

39 Illinois Bribery Laws - it's against the law not to do it. 

40 I agree Pat Toomey should be impeached for what he did with President Bush and the job offer. I am not stupid, I watch MSNBC, Been Unemployed for 15 months, no more unemployment, lost my house, live in my car, my husband left me because he said I was an idiot, and my kids don't call me anymore because they are tired of me bumming money. I intends to vote for Arlin Specter and Barney Obama agains this year.

41 batman - you're right, if the Republicans were channeling Mitchell or O'Neill, Morris would be prophetic - the Gingrich flame out has them scared.

42 Well the senimentalist in me says this is even better. When Sleestak gets beat the Dems can't claim that because he was once a Republican that he didn't get support, Sleestak is one of their own. Not to mention I am just glad to be rid of that douchebag Specter for once and all. The most ball dipping part of this. Barry's Bribe Backfired. (again) It will be great to see Toomey trounce Slestak because of Barry's offer. Old King Dumbo Midas does it once again.  

43 Those damn Joooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooos are screwing over Sestak. This must stop ........

44
You goys leaving ideas at Paul Ryan's America Speaking Out website?

I tired a couple of weeks ago but it was being a pain in the ass, and then I forgot about it.

45 I'm really proud of Issa for staying on this. He's kept it in the news almost single-handedly, and he shows no signs of giving up yet. I figured when this broke that it would be another "HEY! LOOK! A CRIME! aww, hell, you don't give a shit..." case. But Republicans seem like they've had enough and they're really going on offense. Good for them.

46

You goys leaving ideas at Paul Ryan's America Speaking Out website?

Oy vey.........

47 Dick Blumenthal and Phil Hare will be in PA to campaign for Sestak!

48 Not his fault the Republicans are listless ninnies.

I have some optimism that the Republicans newly elected (at least in other states-screw Illinois anyway) are better motivated than the rusted out hulks currently in Congress, and that there will be enough of them to set the agenda (with the help of the few good ones we have now) if for no other reason than the McConnell crowd doesn't have any ideas about what they should be doing.  As much as I'd like Republicans to run on "Repeal and Impeach" I don't think that's the way we get there.  It's more likely that Republicans defund Obamacare next year and he tries some creative bookkeeping of the sort that allowed him to buy GM and Chrysler, which transgresses on Congress' prerogatives enough to start the impeachment process.

As for a distracting war, I question first whether anyone in this White House has enough of a concept of what the American people care about to successfully manipulate such a thing-remember how Dems were going to get a huge bounce out of Obamacare because they 'accomplished something'?  And war where?  Somalia, Yemen?  Too small.  Iran?  To helpful to Israel.  North Korea?  Given what that would involve vis a vis Seoul, he's have to nuke the Norks.  Attack Israel in defense of the Palestinians?  That would gurantee 80 votes in the Senate to Impeach.  Mexico?  Well, that's crazy enough (not militarizing the border, but Obama doing it) it just might work.

49 I fell down into a burnin' ring of fire!

50 ^{Helen Thomas Tells Jews — ‘Get the Hell Out of Palestine’ and Go Back to Germany and poland}

Breitbart@ video

51

 Methos at June 04, 2010 01:47 PM (Xsi7M)

+ 1

 

52 Tommey should win this, why?

...

* PA voters want the healthcare bill repealed

Didn't Sestak write the original Obamacare language in the house?  I seem to remember him bragging about it during the primary on one of the FNC shows.  Seems to me that campaign ad writes itself.

53 OT but Rush's sub just said, "The thing about Seminar Callers is that they run out of things to say after the first 15 or 20 seconds."  Hilarious.

54
Helen Thomas Tells Jews — ‘Get the Hell Out of Palestine’ and Go Back to Germany and poland

She's Lebanese, what do you expect?  That's what all the ulalalalala's look like without a burqa. 

Explains a lot, don't it?

55 You left out the Moronette auditions.

Was just going to bring up this egregious omission.  I watch the version with the extended awesomeness of the General Lee horn whenever I need to smile.  Viewed it five times this morning alone.

56 50 ^{Helen Thomas Tells Jews — ‘Get the Hell Out of Palestine’ and Go Back to Germany and poland}

Breitbart@ video

Posted by: willow at June 04, 2010 01:51 PM (HyUIR)

I posted that up in #7  She is smokin'

57

Posted by: logprof at June 04, 2010 01:53 PM (Mmw0q)

one just called Gibson claiming to be an independent and then bashed Bush for his "emotion" and then went on about how great Obama is and then referred to Gibson as "you guys"

the most annoying ones are the ones who pretend to be Republicans or Independents because they don't do it that well

58
DJIA flirting with sinking below 10,000


As someone said earlier, Wee Wee can only shovel horseshit from one side of the barn to the other for so long before people catch on.  The market has to adjust, no matter how much GS manipulates it with fake transactions.  There has to be an adjustment, you know all those economic numbers are fake.

59 Dang, she needs to lose her job. ( wishful thinking) also why isn't SHE  then in Lebanon?

60 DrewM.: "I'm glad Specter was gone but I really wish he had survived long enough to let Toomey administer the finishing blow."

Never let a wounded animal hang around. The unpredictable is the only certainty.

That man gave politicians a bad name.

61

Posted by: YRM at June 04, 2010 01:59 PM (38UQ3)

worst seminar caller i've ever heard was in August of last year, a "Republican" called into Hughe's show and claimed that she voted Republican "all her life" and that after the "rudeness" of the twon hall she would know be a Democrat

62 Hedgehog, woops didn't mean to step on your toes : {

63

Posted by: Dang Straights at June 04, 2010 01:59 PM (gkXkW)

there goes that talking point for libs

64
also why isn't SHE  then in Lebanon?

Or at least covered head-to-toe in diapers. 

65 Isn't it amazing (ironic on many levels) that the man to whom many attributed and continue to attribute messianic properties, has virtually singlehandedly orchestrated the global collapse of the societal construct that has endured for more than two hundred years. Of course he did warn us that he was out to fundamentally change our way of life. The irony is that had people only believed him one this, one of the few times he has been truthful, we could have avoided this apocalypse. Really, the entire world is in jeopardy and even more ironically, not from global warming.

66 Blue Hen ... Well , I'm in the breadroom with the waisters betting on a rat fight and the Captain and the doctor are playing music in the cabin .

67 OT: everyone know how Michael Smerconish (or however you spell that) is reacting to Obama's meltdown, I know he fucked up his career in talk radio by becoming MSNBC's token conservative along w/ Pat Buchanan and endorsed Obama over McCain (IN GLENN BECK'S SHOW NO LESS) and became a shill for dems while claiming to still be a conservative republican; is he trying to get back to the good side or is he still shilling for the bad guys?

68

 Hussein the Plumber.

didn't you hear Barak say, "plug the damn hole", it's a multi use comment!

69 63 Hedgehog, woops didn't mean to step on your toes : {

Posted by: willow at June 04, 2010 02:01 PM (HyUIR)

Not to worry.  When you wear a size 14 you get used to it.

70

hedgehog,

 blink

o la la

71

Posted by: Mallamutt at June 04, 2010 02:06 PM (OWjjx)

thanks for the update, he annoys me even more then Frum because at least Frum voted for McCain over Obama (granted he is a dumbass when it comes to political strategy)

72
Aight, time to head back to the office.  Think I'll feed the birds on teh way.

73 But Intrade has Sestak up by 20%!!!!!!!!!!

74 Its not a tooomy!!!

75 I would do Helen Thomas. Well, Shit I have to confess I would do anything female.........

76 Issa's a pretty diligent guy. He had great work already done on ACORN corruption and tactics before the O'Keefe-Giles exposé, for example. I don't think he'll unclench his jaw on this juicy, Sestak quid pro quo story. The question really is, "Will his peers spread his word and back his research/inquiry or will they turtle?"

Issa is a good legislator - a serious man amidst goofballs.

77 Praise Allah for Helen Thomas. She is the "Vision of Loveliness" we all desire.  I hope my 72 Virgins look like her.....

78
wow it's rare that 'recent comments' show our comments instead of spammer's spam-bombs

79 Wow.... The Employment Numbers are so good that the DOW is now below 10,000. Way to go Barry the Baffoon.......

80 Dow @ 9,980. With less than an hour away from the usual Friday 3pm boom/bust this is going to get interesting and provide a whole weekend chock full of analysis.

81 Look, the Dow is a second-tier indicator of the robustness of the economy.  We're really focused, laser-like, on reporting how many government jobs were created.  Why, the number really is unprecedented!

82

Remember: if its Friday, its time for the Obama White House to dump some political bad news on the public.

Posted by: Mallamutt at June 04, 2010 02:13 PM (OWjjx)

I'd tend to agree but we will also probably get some lame spin on the Romanoff job offer also.

83 the most annoying ones are the ones who pretend to be Republicans or Independents because they don't do it that well

This will be the left's downfall.  Many years ago (mid 90s), I got frustrated with an asshole at work who had a reputation for asserting shit that simply was not so.  He made a blatantly false statement during a staff meeting that made my blood pressure spike to the point that I had tunnel vision, and I snapped and interrupted him by nastily asking, "Why should I believe anything that comes out of your mouth?"

His face turned about five shades of red, and he had nothing at all to say in his defense.

He left for another job inside of two months.

He had been at that job for about five years before I got there.  Nobody ever called him on his bullshit--not even supervisors--but nobody knew why they didn't.  I know they were pissed about the crap he pulled because I heard earfuls about it.  His last name was almost openly used as a transitive verb synonymous with "screw."

I don't know why *I* never called him on it.  I had to "snap" and go off-personality to do it.

I think that nobody likes to think of other people as liars regardless of clear evidence.  In fact, I'd say that people would rather forget that somebody is a lying sack of shit rather than deal with the problem.

Concern trolls make it really hard to forget that they are lying scumbag pieces of shit who should DIAF.

84
ooh yeah, that's right it's Friday

that means I see dead people.

This weekend, the following celebrities will die:
Tom Brokaw
Nancy Reagan
Harry Morgan (Col Potter)

85 62

Posted by: YRM at June 04, 2010 01:59 PM (38UQ3)

worst seminar caller i've ever heard was in August of last year, a "Republican" called into Hughe's show and claimed that she voted Republican "all her life" and that after the "rudeness" of the twon hall she would know be a Democrat

NPR always finds those people to interview. This morning, they were interviewing a "lifelong Republican" voter who was planning to vote Democrat for the first time in his life this November.

86 "how did we allow Sestak did to get out of the news cycle?"

The Sestak story needs to cycle in and out of the news:
 - out long enough for news-overload to fade, yet let the truth to sink in
 - in every time there is some new, useful development

I figure that a minor rumble every day or two between now and June 10, the day after Issa does his thing, should be about right.

Perhaps a tag-team effort with Romanoff in Colorado is the plan.

I don't know if either or both stories are enough to consider impeachment, but I'd rather see political damage to The Left, the Socialists, and most Democrats.

I'd like to see The Summer of Days of Golf and Evenings of Concerts Sinners and Parties, courtesy of Big 0, N. Pelosi, H. Reid & The Democrats

Lots of reports, pictures, interviews, soundbites, avant-garde fashion, helpful dining eating advice, etc.; real Neronic stuff

Meanwhile,
 - the Norks test another nuke, mobilize a bit more and threaten S Korea,
 - Hamas & Hizballah (and maybe even Iran) have a go at Israel,
 - Hugo "Curious George" Chavez actually makes real trouble for Columbia and Ecuador, and perhaps even Brazil (and Argentina gets ideas, again),
 - Greece defaults, Spain & Italy get real shaky, and the German and French populations riot

 November will be a watershed

87
"Concerts, Dinners and Parties" would be real nice too.

88 You people should be thanking me. I have single-handedly created over 400,000 jobs. I have corrected the Bush errors and now the economy will grow at 45.7% for the rest of the year. Now on to BP and doing my solution to fix the problem -- Raise taxes on all Oil Companies. That will "Plug the Damn Hole".....

89

Blue Falcon, re the economy: provide a whole weekend decade chock full of analysis. [fixed]

90 I would do Helen Thomas. Well, Shit I have to confess I would do anything female.........


Female?

Asserting facts not in evidence.

91

OT

I would really like a thread to bash Paul McCartney!  Drudge has the story up about how Macca dissed George Bush last night at the stupid WH awards show for Macca.  There!

 

92 Female?

Asserting facts not in evidence.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 04, 2010 02:21 PM (E4Pj

That thing may be the female of some species.

93 "And still, Lindsey Lohan will still manage to avoid wrapping an expensive car around a guard rail after an all-night booze and blow bender."

You weren't here for the DFW toll booth jump video thread?

94
Look, the Dow is a second-tier indicator of the robustness of the economy. 

Heh, remember when Google Searches were a leading economic indicator?  I guess that one was so over-the-top stupid and got laughed at so hard they had to back away.

95 O/t:   "Meet The 8,074 New York Transit Workers Who Earn More Than $100,000"

Unions, and you have to have a hook to get into one.  You don't need college to run a train.  This might explain why the NYC subways and the commuter trains are so filthy, all the money is not going to maintenance.

96 And war where?

What about Pakistan? According to Webster G. Tarpley, the most immediate goal of Obama's Great Game strategy in this region is the dismemberment of both Afghanistan and Pakistan by fomenting a secessionist uprising among the ethnic groups on both sides of the border.

http://www.voltairenet.org/article163281.html

97
Harry Morgan (Officer Bill Gannon)

FIFY

98 I would really like a thread to bash Paul McCartney!

Somebody posted a made-up concert bill in my high school after Lennon was shot.  It said "Beatles Reunion" and had three comic-book style gunshots "Blam!  Blam!  Blam!"  below it.

99 It's all of us "bitter clingers"

100 Oh my, watch CNBS....that oil well seems worse than it has ever looked....guess the fix made things worse?

101

That thing may be the female of some species.

Posted by: Hedgehog at June 04, 2010 02:23 PM (oQIfB)

http://www.rathergood.com/hedgehogs

Woah, baby, I'm thinking about your gash.

102

_{This might explain why the NYC subways and the commuter trains are so filthy, all the money is not going to maintenance.}

Unions.  The Sanitation Engineers are paid, but they don't work like it.

103

_{guess the fix made things worse?}

...don't they make a shackle valve that big?

104

http://www.rathergood.com/hedgehogs

Woah, baby, I'm thinking about your gash.

Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at June 04, 2010 02:30 PM (mHQ7T)

Very odd...

105 Remember: if its Friday, its time for the Obama White House to dump some political bad news on the public.

true, but also:  Remember:  if its Friday every day, its time for the Obama White House to dump some tons of political every kind of bad news on the public

106 Rassmussen.....Coats 47 (R) , Ellsworth 33. (D)

Evan Bayhs seat.  HA!

107 I would really like a thread to bash Paul McCartney!

I'm pulling for Ringo to be the Betty White of that particular foursome, IYKWIM.

108 Barney Frank is embarrassed to be a Jew because of the blockade
http://tinyurl.com/268m3pm

I'm sure most Jews are really proud that Barney is one of them...

109 Look people...... A piece of female ass, is a a piece of ass. I mean look at what I am married to? I still don't know the species? At least Obama knows what species his wife is: Wookie......

110

Very odd...

Posted by: Hedgehog at June 04, 2010 02:37 PM (oQIfB)

--You'd think their quills would pop that airplane.

111

NASDAQ @ -3.12%

Dammit! Wait for me!

112 As long as I have a face, Helen Thomas has a place to sit.....

113 curious@101,

The cost of living in NYC is high, but jeebus that's insane. They're not flying planes fer cryin' out loud.

Maybe on Bizarro Earth, New York inhabitants wake up to this nonsense 'cause I still don't see "normal" NY correcting this misallocation of resources.

114 At least Obama knows what species his wife is: Wookie......

Wookiee, Klingon, Ferengi, they all look the same when you're bent over taking the strap-on.

115 115 Look people...... A piece of female ass, is a a piece of ass. I mean look at what I am married to? I still don't know the species? At least Obama knows what species his wife is: Wookie......

Posted by: Bill Clinton at June 04, 2010 02:41 PM (SZy+Y)

A Big Fucking Wookie...

116 If my dog had a face like Helen Thomas, I would shave it's ASS and teach it to walk backwards !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

117

Not to worry.  When you wear a size 14 you get used to it.

Posted by: Hedgehog

How you doin'?

Busy tonight?

118 I would really like a thread to bash Paul McCartney!

See, I knew I was right to hate the Beatles. 

119 Will fed save the 10,000 marker in the DJIA in the last 1/2 hour of trading?  Again?

120 Someone please tell me the species.  Bill C...really...I mean really?
http://tinyurl.com/m88hpr

121

Helen Thomas' face should replace the skull and crossbones on poison bottles.

122

The Nikki Haley onslaught continues:

http://tinyurl.com/2am8cfj

I'm surprised Atwater didn't say he made sweet love to Nikki as well.

 

 

123
replace the skull and crossbones on poison bottles.

Mr. Yuck is mean
Mr. Yuck is greeeeeeen.

124 Here's my theory for Sestak's drop.  The people of PA are pissed at Obama but still fairly moderate liberal overall.  Before the primary Sestak was going on his "Obama wanted me out but I stood up to him and said no" kick so people were looking at him favorably.  So he's going as being Democrat and standing up to Obama.  Bonus for him.  But after the primary he's demonstrated being a good little democrat soldier and following the White House response to what went down.  So people are back to being pissed at him because he's back to being an Obamacrat.  Bye-bye bump.

125

OT: Yahoo News (lowlife MFM) has a headline titled:

'Furious' Obama returning to the Gulf

Is that little bitch Barry actually heeding that little bitch Spike Lee's call to "Go off?"

126 Helen Thomas' face should replace the skull and crossbones on poison bottles.

She's Mrs. Yuck.

127 127 Someone please tell me the species. Bill C...really...I mean really? http://tinyurl.com/m88hpr Posted by: Hedgehog at June 04, 2010 02:46 PM (oQIfB) this!

128 Hey amidst all these problems, we at least have government run healthcare to look forward to.

Meet the procedures that will no longer be covered because they are now "low value"  Overweight...NO HIP FOR YOU!  Hernia, sorry, can't help you.

http://tinyurl.com/22rsmmh

129

Since this appears to be an open thread of sorts, I'll bite.

Umm, why??

130
if I had .gif skillz, I'd make a .gif of Helen Thomas' pic morphing into Danny Devito's The Penguin.

they're practically twins

131 134 127 Someone please tell me the species. Bill C...really...I mean really?
http://tinyurl.com/m88hpr

Posted by: Hedgehog at June 04, 2010 02:46 PM (oQIfB)

this!

Posted by: The Dread Pirate Neck Beard at June 04, 2010 02:50 PM (wOtDN)

LMAO!  Andy Levy is great!

132 Hey, let's re-invent journalism!1!!!!1!!!111

133 136

Since this appears to be an open thread of sorts, I'll bite.

Umm, why??

Posted by: laceyunderalls at June 04, 2010 02:51 PM (pLTLS)

because they're both the ghey?

134

Since this appears to be an open thread of sorts, I'll bite.

Umm, why??

Posted by: laceyunderalls at June 04, 2010 02:51 PM (pLTLS)

Sorry, that's gross!  Hoffman has to be at least 30 years older than him.

135

http://tinyurl.com/m88hpr

Imagine...a hand job with that claw....
Good little lyric for a Beatles song, too.

136

68, 69

I can't pass up an opportunity to slam Smerconish. So now he's dissing 0bama? How funny. He lost almost all of his local audience when he went..."MODERATE". He's syndicated now, his numbers must be awful to once again be posing as a conservative.

He's weird. He lost me years ago when he was still fairly right wing and used to gush over Van Halen. I didn't get why a 40something guy would admit to still liking any band that had DLR as its front man.

137
Umm, why??

It's the Kiss-Cam!  You don't have one at ... wherever you live?  They spot couples that are supposed to kiss during breaks, with sometimes hilarious results.  This is kinda funny, Arrested Development was hilarious.

Although, it looks like Dustin is using some tongue, blehh.

138

I don't know what species Hillary is? Let us begin by quantifying if Hillary is:    1) Animal   2) Plant    3) Mineral ????

 

139

http://tinyurl.com/m88hpr

Imagine...a hand job with that claw....

Gee, gator... umm, glad your back?




_{ya sick f*ck ya}

140 'Furious' Obama returning to the Gulf

Any of you remember this from 2001?

And then someone did a remake with GWB's head (remember when you could compare the POTUS to a primate and get laughs instead of fired?).

Someone needs to do a remake with Furious Obama. 

"Unemployment drops .2% after you massage the numbers! Bite your lip and look concerned.  52 points!"

"Michelle catches you sneaking out for cake and Helen Thomas!  Game over!"

141 142

http://tinyurl.com/m88hpr

Imagine...a hand job with that claw....
Good little lyric for a Beatles song, too.

Posted by: gator at June 04, 2010 02:55 PM (XBdMr)

I want to hold you hand claw

I want to hold you hand claw

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeahhhhhhh.

142 Tatoo de Plane, that was an interesting read, but I think the author was thinking to hard and giving Obama way to much credit for having a master plan (which gets into the discussion of why exactly does anyone believe this guy is smart?).  It seems more likely to me that the troop build-up in Afghanistan was more a cave to pressure here while he was busy trying to get Obamacare passed.  Destabilization of Pakistan is going to happen reagardless of what we do because they created the Taliban and their madrassas have only ever been good for producing mindless jihadis.  In any case that's more India's problem than ours (rather I expect them to see it as such and act, should the Pakistani government fall).

143 Holy Crap..... It's ALIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIVE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

144

I know what the kiss cam is Dang. Doesn't mean you do it!  What if you were sitting next to your sister at a game? Doh!

AD was awesome but this a bit much. But *whatevs*. It's El Lay. Not like they don't see it on every street corner at any given hour. NTTIAWWT.

145 Furious' Obama returning to Golf

Corrected AP headline

146 They spot couples that are supposed to kiss during breaks, with sometimes hilarious results.

It's extra fun if you can lip read.  "Fuck no, he's my brother!"

147

Dang, it's good to be back. I missed talking about claw jobs.

Think it's true the new economy has Helen Thomas living claw to mouth? 

148
Think it's true the new economy has Helen Thomas living claw to mouth? 

She's been living on Dog Chow all her life anyway, no problem for her getting old.

149

Holy Crap....Something married Helen Thomas and did her... Spouse(s) Douglas B. Cornell (1971-1982)

 

150

Right now, the only thing having a worse summer than the Dow is the Greatness that is.................Zach Greinke.

Well Zach needs to move over to give Roy Halladay some room. Roy pitched his perfect game last Sunday thanks to ONE (unearned) run delivered (?) by the AWOL Phillies offense.

151

the most annoying ones are the ones who pretend to be Republicans or Independents because they don't do it that well

Posted by: YRM at June 04, 2010 01:59 PM (38UQ3)

I do believe that we are much better at pretending to be Democrats because we actually follow their "reasoning," and can mimic it, or we simply utilize what are emotion without logic responses would be.  The Democrats don't actually follow Republican reasoning or beliefs.  They go by only the caricatures and lies of what they believe them to be, so when they are asked to pretend to mimic a Republican they do a horrible job.

152 Even....Whatevers.... Need Love Too !!!!!

153

Do the Feds today let the market close down 3%?

154 I am "Creaming" in my pants just thinking about a "Claw Job" from Helen

155

Of course Helen's been married. Bet she's licked a pickle or two in her day.

Is it so hard to believe that someone saw Helen and said to themselves, "There's the hideously deformed ogre of my dreams"?

156

Since this appears to be an open thread of sorts, I'll bite.

Umm, why??

Posted by: laceyunderalls at June 04, 2010 02:51 PM (pLTLS)

I feel shocked!

157 I am "Creaming" in my pants just thinking about a "Claw Job" from Helen


Usually you pay double for that kind of action, Cotton.

158

Since this appears to be an open thread of sorts, I'll bite.

Umm, why??

Posted by: laceyunderalls at June 04, 2010 02:51 PM (pLTLS)

Do they have a movie/movies coming out?

Or is it just the narccisstic attention whore thing?

 

159 167

Since this appears to be an open thread of sorts, I'll bite.

Umm, why??

Posted by: laceyunderalls at June 04, 2010 02:51 PM (pLTLS)

Do they have a movie/movies coming out?

Or is it just the narccisstic attention whore thing?

 

Posted by: dananjcon at June 04, 2010 03:18 PM (pr+up)

It was the kissing cam.  I was at a minor league game when they used it.  You show couples and get them to kiss, then the last one is always a joke, they would have the camera pointed at two of the players in the opposing team's dugout getting everyone to laugh.  I'm sure at the lakers game the kissing cam people saw two celebrities next to eachother and thought "Perfect!"

160 I do believe that we are much better at pretending to be Democrats because we actually follow their "reasoning," and can mimic it, or we simply utilize what are emotion without logic responses would be.  The Democrats don't actually follow Republican reasoning or beliefs.  They go by only the caricatures and lies of what they believe them to be, so when they are asked to pretend to mimic a Republican they do a horrible job.

I read about a linguistics study which showed that conservatives are waaaay better at "speaking liberal" than liberals are at "speaking conservative."  I buy it.  My profession is 99.99% liberal, so I learned long ago how to become bilingual as a matter of self-preservation.  You can couch conservative opinions in lib-speak if you know how to do it right:  "I am listening to you and have meditated on your main point.  Now, here is my feedback:   I'm not sure if that's a sustainable environment for a compassionate global economy..."  If you come outright and use phrases like "abortion.," "the military," and "gun rights," you are asking for tofu poo to be flung.  Since I'm immersed in useful idiots in my work life but my family is staunchly conservative, I can switch back and forth like this on a dime.

For me, it's not pretending to be a liberal so much as anticipating how they think, and then learning the language.  You have to use phrases like "compassionate integrated solutions" and "community well-being," even if you're taking about zoning regulations for an entire Panzer division. 

NUANCE!

161 "I am listening to you and have meditated on your main point.  Now, here is my feedback:   I'm not sure if that's a sustainable environment for a compassionate global economy..."

Filly, do you have a newsletter?

I'm not winning friends and converts with the whole "facts" thing ("The shirt you're wearing in your profile picture is MADE OF PETROLEUM."), I might need to learn feel-good blather.

162
The strategist in me agrees with your Specter/Sestak analysis.  However, having democrats deliver the final blow to Specter(D-R-D-R-D) was some sweet sweet nectar.

163 In any case that's more India's problem than ours (rather I expect them to see it as such and act, should the Pakistani government fall).

Posted by: Methos at June 04, 2010 02:57 PM (Xsi7M)

It was an Indian man on a blog around the time of the Mumbai terrorist attack who mentioned Obama's 1981 trip to Pakistan. In 1981, Obama visits his mother and half-sister in Indonesia, and then continues on for three weeks to Karachi, Pakistan and Hyderabad, India, with his friends Chandoo and Hamid, and finally to Kenya to visit his father's family.

One of Obama's hosts in Pakistan is Muhammadian Mian Soomro, Obama's senior by 11 years, son of a Pakistani politician and himself a politician, who later becomes interim President of Pakistan when Pervez Musharraf resigns in August of 2008. Soomro states that "someone" personally requested that he "watch over" Barack Obama, but Soomro will not name that individual – who today allegedly lives in South America.

It is unknown who financed Obama's costly 1981 trip.

From another article:

"Adding to the mix is the fact that Ann Dunham, ObamaÂ’s mother, had visited at least 13 countries in her lifetime, and had worked for companies that required travel to Pakistan.  Her employers appear to have included the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the Ford Foundation, WomenÂ’s World Bank, and the Asian Development Bank (ADB).  Note that USAID and the Ford Foundation have (allegedly) been used as covers for CIA agents.  As a consultant of ADB, Dunham frequently needed to work in Gujranwala, Pakistan, on an Agricultural Development Program.  She reportedly lived (on and off) at the Hilton International Hotel (now Avari Hotel) in Lahore, and traveled each day to Gujranwala.  When Barack visited, he stayed at that same hotel."

I  won't pretend Obama is intelligent, but he does as he is told. He has been groomed for to be where he is now. How else do you explain how quickly he rose through machine politics to become POTUS with no records or accomplishments?

Maybe I'm overthinking things, as well, but very powerful people put Obama where he is. Those people, like Brzezinski and Soros as obvious examples, have been manipulating geopolitics for decades. Anyway, just throwing out a possibility.

164 I'm not winning friends and converts with the whole "facts" thing ("The shirt you're wearing in your profile picture is MADE OF PETROLEUM.")

That precisely is your problem, and why you're not getting anywhere:  You're using outright, baldly stated facts, not emotion.  These frighten and anger useful idiots. 

Say it like this:  "Perhaps we should take a broader view of this issue.  Consider your point on how corporations exploit the environment.  That's very upsetting, I know.  It can permeate everyday life without us even know it about it.  For example, some fabrics are made using petroleum-- I KNOW, isn't that horrible?  I was horrified when I found out.  Sometimes the bastards sneak it in without putting it on the label.  Strongly consider checking your shirt in your profile picture, because I bet The Gap lied to you too.  Obviously, you couldn't have known that many fishes died to make that shirt you're wearing in your profile picture, because I know you really care, and you wouldn't be wearing it if you knew, but we all make mistakes, right?  It's part of growing as a human being."  Rule of thumb:  The more words, the better.

I'm a writer.  I just spent a month in a residency with a person who, after I told her a story about a scarring first date in which the non-gentleman in question TOOK IT OUT, said:  "But didn't he know you're Catholic? He should have known you wouldn't have sex."  Believe me, I know these people.

165 I don't think ol skip lee gave the right advice to the pres.  Cause really, there are no laws which say that BP has to be responsible and do the right thing.  They are from another country, they can literally just leave and shut down.  Who knows if they would do this but they just might want to save what is left of BP and they aren't willing to have this spill do the company in.  If they left, walked away, what would the prez do?  What recourse would he have?

166 By "Hitler approved", I guess Drew M is acknowledging Rasmussen has been proven to have two flavors of polls: polls that actually try to measure public opinion, and polls that simply work on the idea that public opinion can, to some extent, be driven by poll results. I actually don't care, so long as Rasmussen tells us which flavor he's putting in my cone. But he doesn't. Does Drew M know? I think he does. Thus: "Hitler approved". By the way, congrats to Drew M for the quick draw on Godwin's Law. The only way to beat it would be in the title, like "Hitler Approved: ...".

167 Posted by: Five Thirty-Eights at June 04, 2010 05:05 PM (Npnnx)

Was that intended to convey some thought?

Fail.

168

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