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Thursday Night Open Thread

by John Cole|  January 17, 20087:31 pm| 35 Comments

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  1. 1.

    Dreggas

    January 17, 2008 at 7:43 pm

    Ummmmm….what?

  2. 2.

    Xenos

    January 17, 2008 at 7:43 pm

    You know what to do.

    I’ve tried and I’ve tried,
    and I’m still mystified.
    I can’t do it anymore and I’m not satisfied.

  3. 3.

    Haltelcere

    January 17, 2008 at 7:47 pm

    I can’t. That #8 jointer plane on E-bay was taken by someone else. Sometimes I don’t shop so victoriously.

  4. 4.

    Stephen

    January 17, 2008 at 7:48 pm

    Duncan Black continues to take over the internet.

  5. 5.

    Jake

    January 17, 2008 at 8:02 pm

    I can’t decide. Should I give my hard earned money to RedState or Atlass Frugged?

  6. 6.

    Bubblegum Tate

    January 17, 2008 at 8:28 pm

    You know what to do.

    Bust a move?

  7. 7.

    Dennis - SGMM

    January 17, 2008 at 8:33 pm

    I’m getting a little creeped out by Bill Clinton’s acting as an attack dog for Hillary – down to getting in a reporter’s face for asking if he thought that Hillary’s campaign should take a stronger stand against the Nevada lawsuit.

    Jonathon Alter, on “Countdown” tonight made the point that George H.W. Bush did not go out and campaign for his son after the younger Bush’s New Hampshire defeat.

    I understand that Clinton wants to support his wife’s (and his) return to the White House but it seems to me that he’s setting a crappy precedent.

  8. 8.

    andante

    January 17, 2008 at 8:35 pm

    I still await with baited breath to find out what type of vacuum cleaner wins the Cole Contest.

  9. 9.

    andante

    January 17, 2008 at 8:36 pm

    Or is that “bated”?

    Either way, sounds a bit stinky to me. I use chicken livers for bait, and you can’t get much stinkier than that.

    Unless you work for the White House these days.

  10. 10.

    Krista

    January 17, 2008 at 8:43 pm

    I just saw the Goldberg interview on Stewart. Goddamn…that man is beyond retarded. Organic food is fascist? How does he manage to get dressed in the morning without hurting himself?

  11. 11.

    D-Chance.

    January 17, 2008 at 8:57 pm

    Casino caucuses… they’re going to happen. Hillary’s attempts to disenfranchise minority voters fails.

  12. 12.

    AkaDad

    January 17, 2008 at 8:58 pm

    You know what to do.

    Think about you and touch myself?

  13. 13.

    incontrolados

    January 17, 2008 at 9:12 pm

    Organic food is fascist?

    I saw it too and think that he was using the term ‘organic’ in a way that made this list. Cute, right? Like the rest of his vocabulary.

    (But not as cute as puppies! — New crappy pics up — they are 7-8 weeks old now and got their first heartwormer last evening.)

  14. 14.

    Caidence (fmr. Chris)

    January 17, 2008 at 9:35 pm

    Now Krista’s got me watching the Daily Show. Wat has u done!

    “The gloves are coming off”
    “The gloves are coming off”
    “The gloves are coming off”
    “The gloves are coming off”
    “The gloves are coming off”
    “Are the gloves are coming off?”

    lawl.

    OK, I loaded up the Goldburger interview. I’m going to brace myself… maybe take down a couple shots of 121 proof… before I hit play.

  15. 15.

    PaulW

    January 17, 2008 at 9:39 pm

    You know what to do.

    No I don’t, I’m a bleeping virgin.

  16. 16.

    Caidence (fmr. Chris)

    January 17, 2008 at 9:46 pm

    Re: Daily Show and Goldberg, sittin’ in a tree

    – The New Republic is now a liberal magazine?

    – Goldberg actually looks like his brain is functioning on this issue… I’m guessing he knows how to get to Hypothesis, and then he dumps all over it and calls it an Argument.

    In other words, he’s a fat lazy bastard, innit he?

    hahaha “‘WTF’ is the beginning of the conversation”. ha. moron.

  17. 17.

    Jake

    January 17, 2008 at 9:51 pm

    How does he manage to get dressed in the morning without hurting himself?

    I heard him speechificate at a local Borders and started to feel sorry for the guy.

    Have you ever had that dream where you have to give a speech or presentation and you didn’t know you had to give a speech and then you realize you’re not fully dressed and everyone you know is there you wake up?

    JoBurg sounds like you would sound in that dream if you didn’t wake up.

  18. 18.

    Xanthippas

    January 17, 2008 at 10:00 pm

    Anybody know a good home remedy for strep throat? Short of pulling my tonsils out myself that is.

  19. 19.

    incontrolados

    January 17, 2008 at 10:02 pm

    I don’t know about the rest of you, but I’m pretty sure J. Goldberg makes way more money than I do. If I answered my students’ questions the way I have seen/heard/read him answer in his interviews, I wouldn’t have a job.

    Preaching to the choir here, I know, but isn’t wingnut welfare lovely? It’s one of my basic problems with conservatives. . . among all those others.

  20. 20.

    Doug

    January 17, 2008 at 10:17 pm

    If I ever campaign for the Presidency, I’m going to get a big fat lead, then blow off South Carolina. When the press asks me why; I’m gonna say, “Ever hear about Fort Sumter? Fuckin’ traitors.”

    “South Carolina: First in Treason,” I’ll say.

    And then I’ll lose.

  21. 21.

    Krista

    January 17, 2008 at 10:27 pm

    Now Krista’s got me watching the Daily Show. Wat has u done!

    Bwah-ha-ha!

    If you need to purify and soothe your mind after watching Goldberg, try watching clips of the late, great Luciano Pavarotti on YouTube. One “Nessun Dorma” and one “Ave Maria”, and I’m as serene as a sleeping baby.

  22. 22.

    myiq2xu

    January 17, 2008 at 10:30 pm

    I’m getting a little creeped out by Bill Clinton’s acting as an attack dog for Hillary – down to getting in a reporter’s face for asking if he thought that Hillary’s campaign should take a stronger stand against the Nevada lawsuit.

    Oh yeah, he totslly lost it, just like the time he tried to murder Chris Wallace.

    Just like when Hillary went apeshit during the NH debate and tried to stab Obama with he nail file.

    Just like when the two of them murdered Vince Foster.

    Yep.

    /end snark

  23. 23.

    PaulW

    January 17, 2008 at 11:13 pm

    OMG! I was just watching the Daily Show, and they revealed that it was 10 years ago today, Jan. 17th, that Monica Lewinsky entered the political discourse. Along with BJs, the definition of the word “is”, and the more unsavory uses for a cuban cigar.

    OMG! Jon Stewart looked a lot smaller back then. He looked like a 13-year-old cousin wearing your uncle’s 3x dinner jacket for school or something…

    10 years ago, people, 10 years ago the GOP witch hunt machine went ape-sh-t and began the process that led to the Bush years. (insert screams of the damned here)

  24. 24.

    Zuzu

    January 17, 2008 at 11:14 pm

    This time I’ll try for a good link to my favorite example of the fascist liberalism:

    Nazi product launch

  25. 25.

    Zuzu

    January 17, 2008 at 11:14 pm

    This time I’ll try for a good link to my favorite example of fascist liberalism:

    Nazi product launch

  26. 26.

    myiq2xu

    January 17, 2008 at 11:33 pm

    10 years ago, people, 10 years ago the GOP witch hunt machine went ape-sh-t and began the process that led to the Bush years. (insert screams of the damned here)

    The GOP witch hunt machine was running at full steam when Monica was still a virgin.

    Well, maybe not that long ago. Since 1992-93 at least.

  27. 27.

    Zuzu

    January 17, 2008 at 11:33 pm

    Caidence (fmr. Chris) Says:

    Re: Daily Show and Goldberg, sittin’ in a tree

    – The New Republic is now a liberal magazine?
    – Goldberg actually looks like his brain is functioning on this issue… I’m guessing he knows how to get to Hypothesis, and then he dumps all over it and calls it an Argument.

    ous/2007/12/i-rIn other words, he’s a fat lazy bastard, innit he?

    hahaha “’WTF’ is the beginning of the conversation”. ha. moron.

    For a really good discussion of this (over a couple of threads) by someone who actually knows what he’s talking about:

    Acephalous

    He actually tried to help Goldberg at one point and got a supremely arrogant blowoff:

    In October of 2005, Goldberg unashamedly used his Corner pulpit to ask other people to do his research for him:

    I’m working on a chapter of the book which requires me to read a lot about and by Herbert Spencer. There’s simply no way I can read all of it, nor do I really need to. But if there are any real experts on Spencer out there—regardless of ideological affiliation—I’d love to ask you a few questions in case I’m missing something.

    Repeat after me: “Real scholars do their own research. Real scholars do their own research.” Since I was genuinely interested in what someone else had to say about Spencer, I responded to Goldberg’s plea. (Why not aid a fellow Jew maintain the illusion of integrity?) He told me what he thought Spencer was up to.

    I informed him (politely) he couldn’t be more wrong.

    He responded (haughtily) that other people said Spencer had said that.

    I informed him (politely) those other people were wrong too.

    He inquired (brusquely) why they wrote it then.

    I said (politely) Spencer is the most misunderstood thinker of the 19th Century.

    He told me (angrily) I hadn’t helped him at all and not to write back.

    So, without even having read the book, I can say with certainty that whatever it says about Herbert Spencer will not reflect anything Spencer himself wrote or believed. (For that you should go here.) I’ll even go so far as imitate Spencer and draw a sweeping general conclusion from this particular incident:

    People should not write books about things they haven’t read. (That’s what blogs are for.)

    More Acephalous

    In fact, I think Klein has come up with the very best description of the thing so far:

    “Liberal Fascism: Two Words Next to Each Other.”

  28. 28.

    myiq2xu

    January 17, 2008 at 11:34 pm

    Zuzu Says:

    This time I’ll try for a good link to my favorite example of fascist liberalism:

    Nazi product launch

    OMG! Hitler really was a liberal!

  29. 29.

    MJ

    January 17, 2008 at 11:35 pm

    Anybody know a good home remedy for strep throat? Short of pulling my tonsils out myself that is.

    You need an antibiotic. So may be grow some mold or better yet see a MD.

  30. 30.

    myiq2xu

    January 17, 2008 at 11:43 pm

    Anybody know a good home remedy for strep throat? Short of pulling my tonsils out myself that is.

    Liquor in large quantities.

    It won’t cure anything but you won’t care as much about being sick.

  31. 31.

    Bob In Pacifica

    January 17, 2008 at 11:44 pm

    Recount from Manchester, New Hampshire, District Five:

    Clinton 683 (Diebold), 619 (recount)
    Obama 404 (Diebold), 365 (recount)
    Edwards 255 (Diebold), 217 (recount)

    That means the Diebold was off +64 votes for Clinton, off +39 for Obama, off +38 votes for Edwards.

    People farther down the ballot apparently lost votes. There’s a saying, “Close enough for government work,” but this is Diebold miscounting (not the government) and these vote totals aren’t so close. Even if no intentional fraud is found (and it may not be, considering that it’s only a partial count, no one seems to know where the memory cards for the machines went, and there doesn’t seem to be any appreciable chain of custody security over the paper ballots themselves) this is such a piss-poor showing of the privatization of our elections that it should be a ringing endorsement of getting rid of these machines.

    And these particular Diebold optiscan machines, while easily hackable, at least do use paper ballots. What do you do with the touchscreens they’ve got in South Carolina?

    And so it goes.

  32. 32.

    Zuzu

    January 17, 2008 at 11:45 pm

    Oops, make that Kauffman, not Klein.

  33. 33.

    myiq2xu

    January 18, 2008 at 2:08 am

    Where is our late-nite brokeback post by Mike D?

  34. 34.

    Punchy

    January 18, 2008 at 8:45 am

    If I ever campaign for the Presidency, I’m going to get a big fat lead, then blow off South Carolina. When the press asks me why; I’m gonna say, “Ever hear about Fort Sumter? Fuckin’ traitors.”

    “South Carolina: First in Treason,” I’ll say.

    And then I’ll lose.

    /scratches chin….pontificates….scratches chin again.

    Liquor in large quantities

    Chicks like this?

  35. 35.

    DemUnity08

    January 18, 2008 at 2:57 pm

    “Liberal Fascism: Two Words Next to Each Other.”

    LOL.

    Obama/Clinton or Clinton/Obama ’08

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