@Randy P: How much you want to bet that farm got a federal subsidy? Essentially paid to plow under part of the field in homage to dear, small-government Sarah.
6.
Brick Oven Bill
Pat struggled. His vision was now faded and he fought to retain consciousness. Before him appeared a white object, which seemed to be growing larger.
Small lights right in front of him came in and out of focus, surrounded by darkness and arrows. Then the green that seemed familiar and comforting. But the white object was still there, and it was growing larger.
Panic.
Reflexively, his feet strained, and everything seemed to be moving faster. What was it, what was this growing white object that seemed to be ready to envelop his whole being?
Then Pat crashed his green Ford Mustang into the Capitol complex at 2:30 in the morning. The reason he had driven to the Capitol at 2:30 in the morning was to place a vote, he told the Capitol police, who did not administer a breathalyzer to Pat Kennedy.
Here Pat Kennedy calls Scott Brown’s candidacy ’a joke’.
so what the hell is up with the all Toyota recall all the time channel NPR lately. It’s been like their lead story for the last week and a half. OK, its news but is GM paying them to run this story into the ground?
9.
Ailuridae
I’ve been meaning to ask this for a little bit. Can anyone recommend a decent place where I can watch episodes 3-6 of Season 1 of Chuck as the WB pulled it (only showing episodes 7-13) after I started to watch it sick the other day.
10.
Randy P
@Brick Oven Bill:
What time zone are you in? Isn’t it a little early to be this inebriated?
Poor Blair. How strange it must be to live in a country where your actions MIGHT have consequences even if you are rich and powerful.
Fix’d. Nobody over here expects much from any of this. Still, it’s nice that he had to walk past the protestors calling him a war criminal and murderer.
Hanging out here in Annapolis MD waiting on snowmageddon or snowpocalypse or whatever it’s being called.
I look forward to going home, putting on the old footie pajamas, drinking hot chocolate and watching my husband and neighbor dig us out at some point. Husband likes to go out in the truck and see if anyone needs to be yanked out of a ditch when it snows. I call him “Duty” because he’s all about it. (Nice quality to have in a spouse, I’d say.)
(Trying not to fall asleep at my desk.)
16.
Shibby
Giving a talk to my med school class today about the need for healthcare reform. Wish me luck.
It reminded me of an argument I had with Michael D recently, so I thought I should bring it here. And apologize to Michael D for being a jerk to him instead of being as eloquent in my argument as TNC was in his.
Sorry, Michael D (wherever you are). I shouldn’t have been a jerk to you. And TNC is a better participant than I.
18.
Randy P
@MysticalChick:
Used to live in the DC area (Montgomery County) and the response to snow was always hilarious. I used to listen to Trumble and Core on WMAL back when they were kind of amusing and before Trumble retired and Chris Core apparently became a right-wing loony (based on the last time I was there and tuned him in). They had a running joke about “abandon your cars now” anytime there were a couple of flakes of snow in the air, which was not so far from the truth. People had been known to abandon their cars and clog roads.
I also remember an old DC joke about Marion Barry’s (yes, I said it was an old joke) snow removal plan: It’s called “Spring”.
I could never figure out the mad rush to the grocery store when snow was predicted, emptying the shelves of, typically: toilet paper, steak, and milk. Are those really the first things you think about if you’re stocking up for the apocalypse?
Somebody told me you guys are already out of snow days and starting to take away summer vacation now. True?
19.
R-Jud
@Cat:
PS: Elfyn Llwyd, the minister claiming to have the memo, is known for being a touch… melodramatic. He’s tried to have Blair impeached before, and is with Plaid Cymru, a Welsh nationalist party whose main goal is an independent Wales.
If this had come from someone within Labour, particularly someone known to be a long-time Blair loyalist, I’d be more hopeful about it.
20.
SiubhanDuinne
@Andy: I wasn’t planning to attend until I saw that the “Special Musical Guest” will be Ted Nugent. Ain’t nothin’ gonna stop me now!
/snark
21.
rootless_e
Shelby needs a one-way ticket to Alabama.
He’s also making a fool of Chris Dodd. Chris, here’s a tip. You look like a weakling when you left Shelby call the shots.
What time zone are you in? Isn’t it a little early to be this inebriated?
He forgot his meds when he woke up. Bob, go home and take them, you’re not stable.
23.
ajr22
Shorter Shelby ” If Alabama doesn’t get this pork peoples gone die” What an asshole. As a big city resident nothing pisses me off more then some politician from a state like Alabama freaking out about the dangers of terrorism. As if terrorist are targeting Alabama, the terrorist target the cities that don’t have real Americans didn’t you get the memo.
And best of luck on your med school presentation, Shibby. My daughter’s a third year med student.
26.
Molly
Gibbs called out Shelby. ‘Bout time.
And I will be quite happy if Reid loses the election. Asshat.
27.
Dave C
Can we please officially start referring to the GOP as the “Banana Republicans?” Not my idea–I got it from a commenter at Ezra Klein’s–but it’s an apt and witty description.
I’ve got another interview. This one is with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, as an Assistant National Bank Examiner. So, if I get it, I could let people know what is actually going on.
The opening-night speaker at first ever National Tea Party Convention ripped into President Obama, Sen. John McCain and “the cult of multiculturalism,” asserting that Obama was elected because “we do not have a civics, literacy test before people can vote in this country.”
—-para—-
The speaker, former Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., told about 600 delegates in a Nashville, Tenn., ballroom that in the 2008 election, America “put a committed socialist ideologue in the White House … Barack Hussein Obama.”
34.
RSR
@artem1s: I dunno. I don’t listen that often, but MY tweeted that he’d be on, so I did today.
35.
Randy P
@Origuy: I don’t think too many of the right-wing congressional folks would do too well on a civics test. Especially some of that constitutional stuff.
I’m not sure trying to have Blair impeached is indicative of insanity.
I’ll wait and see on the memo (I’m curious how he came by it), but I won’t discount him for being a third-partier. After all, George Galloway is a bit “out there” too, but he’s been far more consistently right on Iraq than New Labour.
39.
Notorious P.A.T.
I haven’t read “Game Change” and probably won’t, but I have to share this excerpt from it (from “The New Yorker”):
@slag: Wow. Thank you for that link. TNC is such a damn good writer. Sigh. I haz a jelus.
@J. Michael Neal: Good luck! I don’t need to know the details, just good luck.
@Shibby: Good luck with that. Let us know how it goes.
43.
Notorious P.A.T.
Is Pelosi right about not voting on it until after the midterms? Maybe.
Obama, as CIC, could issue an executive order to disregard DADT. But that would require, you know, doing something. And that’s not part of his strategy.
I’m not sure trying to have Blair impeached is indicative of insanity.
I don’t think it makes him insane. I would certainly have welcomed impeachment of Blair, just as I would have welcomed an impeachment of Bush on the same grounds. And I don’t really discount him for being a third party member. But there is something about Llwyd’s past behavior on several issues that smacks of attention-seeking, so I’m skeptical. If this were coming from someone with more to lose from putting a shiv in Blair, I’d be more hopeful.
But right now, I’m not terribly excited by his revelation. We’ll find out more tomorrow night, I guess, when Auntie B airs their interview with him.
BDeevDad
Not to start the whole thread again, but I thought the irony in this was classic.
Randy P
Uh-oh. The aliens who make crop circles have left a really disturbing one this time.
http://www.pajamadeen.com/politics/where-is-sarah-palin-in-an-ohio-corn-field
What can it mean if Sarah has the crop-circle-alien lobby behind her? Weren’t those the invaders in Signs?
Ugh
Colts win by 10.
RSR
check out Matt Yglesias on WHYY/NPR Radio Times:
http://whyy.org/cms/radiotimes/2010/02/05/weekly-political-round-up-2/
Martin
@Randy P: How much you want to bet that farm got a federal subsidy? Essentially paid to plow under part of the field in homage to dear, small-government Sarah.
Brick Oven Bill
Pat struggled. His vision was now faded and he fought to retain consciousness. Before him appeared a white object, which seemed to be growing larger.
Small lights right in front of him came in and out of focus, surrounded by darkness and arrows. Then the green that seemed familiar and comforting. But the white object was still there, and it was growing larger.
Panic.
Reflexively, his feet strained, and everything seemed to be moving faster. What was it, what was this growing white object that seemed to be ready to envelop his whole being?
Then Pat crashed his green Ford Mustang into the Capitol complex at 2:30 in the morning. The reason he had driven to the Capitol at 2:30 in the morning was to place a vote, he told the Capitol police, who did not administer a breathalyzer to Pat Kennedy.
Here Pat Kennedy calls Scott Brown’s candidacy ’a joke’.
A green Mustang?
Cat
Memo ‘shows Blair Iraq war deal with Bush’
Poor Blair. How strange it must be to live in a country where your actions have consequences even if you are rich and powerful.
artem1s
@RSR:
so what the hell is up with
the all Toyota recall all the time channelNPR lately. It’s been like their lead story for the last week and a half. OK, its news but is GM paying them to run this storyinto the ground?Ailuridae
I’ve been meaning to ask this for a little bit. Can anyone recommend a decent place where I can watch episodes 3-6 of Season 1 of Chuck as the WB pulled it (only showing episodes 7-13) after I started to watch it sick the other day.
Randy P
@Brick Oven Bill:
What time zone are you in? Isn’t it a little early to be this inebriated?
Fergus Wooster
@Ailuridae:
You can probably find it on:
http://www.eztv.it/showlist
joes527
So … I’m flying this weekend. I haven’t flown since before the whole pantie bomber thing.
Anything new I should know about the joys of getting in and out of airports?
R-Jud
@Cat:
Fix’d. Nobody over here expects much from any of this. Still, it’s nice that he had to walk past the protestors calling him a war criminal and murderer.
Andy
Tickets are going fast for Super Sunday with Sarah.
Just in case you’re not doing anything Sunday afternoon.
MysticalChick
Hanging out here in Annapolis MD waiting on snowmageddon or snowpocalypse or whatever it’s being called.
I look forward to going home, putting on the old footie pajamas, drinking hot chocolate and watching my husband and neighbor dig us out at some point. Husband likes to go out in the truck and see if anyone needs to be yanked out of a ditch when it snows. I call him “Duty” because he’s all about it. (Nice quality to have in a spouse, I’d say.)
(Trying not to fall asleep at my desk.)
Shibby
Giving a talk to my med school class today about the need for healthcare reform. Wish me luck.
slag
I have to say that the patience and care with which TNC wrote this treatise is fairly awe-inspiring: http://ta-nehisicoates.theatlantic.com/archives/2010/02/my_first_sense_that_it.php.
It reminded me of an argument I had with Michael D recently, so I thought I should bring it here. And apologize to Michael D for being a jerk to him instead of being as eloquent in my argument as TNC was in his.
Sorry, Michael D (wherever you are). I shouldn’t have been a jerk to you. And TNC is a better participant than I.
Randy P
@MysticalChick:
Used to live in the DC area (Montgomery County) and the response to snow was always hilarious. I used to listen to Trumble and Core on WMAL back when they were kind of amusing and before Trumble retired and Chris Core apparently became a right-wing loony (based on the last time I was there and tuned him in). They had a running joke about “abandon your cars now” anytime there were a couple of flakes of snow in the air, which was not so far from the truth. People had been known to abandon their cars and clog roads.
I also remember an old DC joke about Marion Barry’s (yes, I said it was an old joke) snow removal plan: It’s called “Spring”.
I could never figure out the mad rush to the grocery store when snow was predicted, emptying the shelves of, typically: toilet paper, steak, and milk. Are those really the first things you think about if you’re stocking up for the apocalypse?
Somebody told me you guys are already out of snow days and starting to take away summer vacation now. True?
R-Jud
@Cat:
PS: Elfyn Llwyd, the minister claiming to have the memo, is known for being a touch… melodramatic. He’s tried to have Blair impeached before, and is with Plaid Cymru, a Welsh nationalist party whose main goal is an independent Wales.
If this had come from someone within Labour, particularly someone known to be a long-time Blair loyalist, I’d be more hopeful about it.
SiubhanDuinne
@Andy: I wasn’t planning to attend until I saw that the “Special Musical Guest” will be Ted Nugent. Ain’t nothin’ gonna stop me now!
/snark
rootless_e
Shelby needs a one-way ticket to Alabama.
He’s also making a fool of Chris Dodd. Chris, here’s a tip. You look like a weakling when you left Shelby call the shots.
Molly
@Randy P:
He forgot his meds when he woke up. Bob, go home and take them, you’re not stable.
ajr22
Shorter Shelby ” If Alabama doesn’t get this pork peoples gone die” What an asshole. As a big city resident nothing pisses me off more then some politician from a state like Alabama freaking out about the dangers of terrorism. As if terrorist are targeting Alabama, the terrorist target the cities that don’t have real Americans didn’t you get the memo.
Mike E
@Brick Oven Bill: The beginning was cut off:
moe99
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=9xwCG0Ey2Mg
Something uplifting to start the weekend with.
And best of luck on your med school presentation, Shibby. My daughter’s a third year med student.
Molly
Gibbs called out Shelby. ‘Bout time.
And I will be quite happy if Reid loses the election. Asshat.
Dave C
Can we please officially start referring to the GOP as the “Banana Republicans?” Not my idea–I got it from a commenter at Ezra Klein’s–but it’s an apt and witty description.
J. Michael Neal
I’ll put this here, where it belongs:
I’ve got another interview. This one is with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, as an Assistant National Bank Examiner. So, if I get it, I could let people know what is actually going on.
Except then I’d have to kill you.
R-Jud
@J. Michael Neal:
Nice. Here’s hoping you will soon have access to TEH FORBIDDIN NOLLIDGE (and an office/cube equipped with a trap door). Good luck.
handy
@Brick Oven Bill:
Speaking of Pat making jokes, anyone else catch this? (h/t teh Sadlies).
Cat
Palin e-mails reveal a powerful ‘first dude’
How about some Palin bashing since there is no hippie punching going on right now.
GReynoldsCT00
@Cat:
I dunno if I want to read that, I just had lunch
Origuy
Tom Tancredo kicks off the Tea Party Convention with some old-fashioned down-home racism:
RSR
@artem1s: I dunno. I don’t listen that often, but MY tweeted that he’d be on, so I did today.
Randy P
@Origuy: I don’t think too many of the right-wing congressional folks would do too well on a civics test. Especially some of that constitutional stuff.
Mario Piperni
Tom Tancredo does his thing at the Tea Party hate-fest in Nashville.
Life as usual in Wingnuttia.
KDP
In other news:
Corporations are people, too.
If you live in Maryland, vote Murray Hill for Congress
Support the first corporate congress critter. At least, it’s progressive.
Fergus Wooster
@R-Jud:
I’m not sure trying to have Blair impeached is indicative of insanity.
I’ll wait and see on the memo (I’m curious how he came by it), but I won’t discount him for being a third-partier. After all, George Galloway is a bit “out there” too, but he’s been far more consistently right on Iraq than New Labour.
Notorious P.A.T.
I haven’t read “Game Change” and probably won’t, but I have to share this excerpt from it (from “The New Yorker”):
Link
Mike E
@Notorious P.A.T.: ‘Cause, that’s how he rolls. Keepin’ it real.
bondwooley
So regarding Don’t Ask Don’t Tell. Is Pelosi right about not voting on it until after the midterms? Maybe.
But some day we’ll ask how anyone could have thought that any form of a communication gap in the military was a good thing.
Don’t Ask Don’t Tell
(satire)
asiangrrlMN
@slag: Wow. Thank you for that link. TNC is such a damn good writer. Sigh. I haz a jelus.
@J. Michael Neal: Good luck! I don’t need to know the details, just good luck.
@Shibby: Good luck with that. Let us know how it goes.
Notorious P.A.T.
Obama, as CIC, could issue an executive order to disregard DADT. But that would require, you know, doing something. And that’s not part of his strategy.
R-Jud
@Fergus Wooster:
I don’t think it makes him insane. I would certainly have welcomed impeachment of Blair, just as I would have welcomed an impeachment of Bush on the same grounds. And I don’t really discount him for being a third party member. But there is something about Llwyd’s past behavior on several issues that smacks of attention-seeking, so I’m skeptical. If this were coming from someone with more to lose from putting a shiv in Blair, I’d be more hopeful.
But right now, I’m not terribly excited by his revelation. We’ll find out more tomorrow night, I guess, when Auntie B airs their interview with him.
bondwooley
@notorious P.A.T.
Haha! Good one. Also a good point.
J. Michael Neal
@Notorious P.A.T.:
Yes, because it is such a great idea to have Presidents issuing he doexecutive orders to just disregard they don’t like.