Wish me luck kiddies. I’ve got a quart and a half of scotch and I’m going over to read The Corner.
ETA: Jesus. I don’t know if there is enough scotch in the world.
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Wish me luck kiddies. I’ve got a quart and a half of scotch and I’m going over to read The Corner.
ETA: Jesus. I don’t know if there is enough scotch in the world.
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c u n d gulag
S, P&T,
Sharing is caring!
Svensker
I’ve been there and back. I’d suggest psychedelics. Scotch ain’t gonna cut it.
Anya
Sarah, Proud and Tall, we really appreciate your sacrifice.
Valdivia
You are a brave woman Sarah. But we knew that already. We will await you here, for the horror report.
BGinCHI
You’re gonna need a bigger
boatbottle.ruemara
That’s not enough scotch.
Mnemosyne
Oh dear. Someone at the nursing home is standing by with a stomach pump for when you get back, right?
BGinCHI
David Gregory interviews Moses:
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2012/09/gregory_declares_bibi_king_of_the_jews.php?ref=fpblg
What a fucking idiot.
Chris
Your Scotch can’t repel Corners of that magnitude.
Chris
@BGinCHI:
Oh, for Odin’s sake.
I suppose I should be grateful he used the English and not the German word for “leader.”
wrb
@BGinCHI:
Bibi’s exactly like David
Anya
@BGinCHI: Netanyahu is such a failure as “Leader of the Jews” since American Jews prefer President Obama over Mittenz 70% to 28%.
Chris
@Anya:
And that was a blatant attempt to change that. Which will fail. Miserably.
MikeBoyScout
Sarah, you need to call for back-up booze right now.
amk
Is the scotch for your eyes or for your heart ? They’re gonna burn either way.
Linda Featheringill
Since I have accepted the fact that everything that has gone wrong in the past 300 years is Obama’s fault, I’m not as upset by Republican “analysis.”
BGinCHI
David Gregory is a good example of how a stupid person automatically sides with the GOP. I’m not sure he’s trying to be biased. It’s just that he’s a dimwit.
lamh35
@BGinCHI: just redding on twitter about Gregory apologizing. Did Bibi correct him? Also what else did I miss, did Bibi endorse Nittens
Anya
@Chris: Since Gregory is Jewish himself, I think? Someone should ask him if he considers Netanyahu his leader.
Ben Franklin
@lamh35:
BiBi’s running away from Mitt. I think h’s convinced Obama is gonna win, so he softened the response to the usual leading questions from our sionest friend Gregory.
Andrew Abshier
With our prayers, you shall return safely.
Schlemizel
So you plan to assault yourself with two different brain damaging agents simultaneously?
How did you live to such a fine age if you are this reckless?
Wouldn’t you get the same effect by drinking the scotch and hitting your head with a hammer? The benefit would be you might be able to retain some hope for humanity
Hill Dweller
Gregory was out of his depth as a WH correspondent, now, as the host of MTP, it’s just laughable.
Judas Escargot, Acerbic Prophet of the Mighty Potato God
@BGinCHI:
Ugh, not good. Choice of words often betray true sentiment.
This retarded Biblical mindset just might get millions killed if we don’t rein it in soon.
arguingwithsignposts
Sometimes I wonder if the only people reading the RW blogs are other RW bloggers and left-wing bloggers who are pointing and laughing.
I would venture that 99.9 percent of the people I know IRL would look at me quizzically if I said the names Jonah Goldberg or K-Lo or whatever other dipshits they run at the Corner.
Yutsano
Hang on. I’ll make a few phone calls. I got peeps in Spokane who can do emergency gin deliveries.
BGinCHI
@Hill Dweller: I don’t think he’s qualified to be an aide to his daughter’s Montessori class.
No way he knows all the shapes or how to share.
arguingwithsignposts
@Judas Escargot, Acerbic Prophet of the Mighty Potato God:
I’d say you’re a little too late for that.
Mark S.
I was never impressed with the intelligence of Tim Russert, but David Gregory makes him seem like John Stuart Mill.
jwb
@Chris: Bibi’s appearance on the talking head circuit this morning was an attempt to change it. Also boldly stepped over several diplomatic lines that leaders of countries are not supposed to cross with respect to overtly meddling in other countries’ internal politics. Gregory’s foolish comment, however, spoke the silly belief that was motivating Bibi’s appearance in the first place and so undercut it. If Twitter is any guide, Gregory’s comments are soaking up all the attention. I don’t see Bibi lasting long as Israel PM after Obama is re-elected.
me
@BGinCHI: That expains this song.
amk
speaking of nut n yahoo, jeffery goldberg weighs in.
What Netanyahu Doesn’t Understand About Obama.
Pen
You’re a brave one, I wouldn’t risk it without at least two full quarts of single-malt.
Josie
@lamh35: I posted this on the other open thread. It looks as if Bibi is reading the handwriting on the wall.
http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/09/16/13895630-israeli-pm-tries-to-strike-more-neutral-pose-in-us-election?lite
Jim, Foolish Literalist and Fact Checker
@BGinCHI: I Just saw that. Even after all these years, The Village can still astound me. And still people in his professional/social circles will continue to deny Gregory’s stupidity.
smintheus
Disgusting. The producer of “Innocence of Muslims”, Morris Sadek, went looking to create a firestorm in Egypt timed to Sept. 11 by urging a Cairo journalist to review it. And he kept pushing him to publicize it.
Sadek will however continue to lie low inside the US while risking the lives of Americans who are serving abroad.
Person of Choler
While we wait for the horror report from The Corner, herewith an update on the Arab Spring:
http://tinyurl.com/985ox4j
Bloody hand prints, stolen documents and shocking security failings: Harrowing pictures inside crumbling U.S. consulate in Benghazi after attacks that left ambassador and three others dead
Anya
@lamh35: I think he dialed back his not so thinly veiled anti-Obama rhetoric. This is from HuffPo, so no linky.
Baud
@BGinCHI:
Imagine the right wing freak out if Gregory referred to Obama as leader of the Americans.
Or something like that.Suffern Ace
@arguingwithsignposts: More problematic is that by converting Bibi into a religious leader, we get all the deference we generally want to give to religious leaders.
BGinCHI
@me: Brilliant.
I always liked that record.
BGinCHI
@amk: When you’re an Israeli hawk and you’ve lost Jeffrey Goldberg….
Or something like that.Suffern Ace
@Baud: I think you mean if they called him the leader of the Christians.
Comrade Jake
Apparently Lynne Cheney blamed Obama for abandoning Czechoslovakia today. It’s almost like these people take pride in being ignorant.
BGinCHI
@Baud: Gregory needs to go on an Apology Tour. Can he even drive?
geg6
Heh, Dancin’ Dave shows a whole new level of utter incompetence with his Bibi is the king of the Jews stuff. There are few Villagers who I enjoy seeing step on their dicks more than Fluffy.
And that everyone is completely ignoring Netanyahu to point and laugh at Gregory is just icing on the cake.
Villago Delenda Est
The stoooooopid. It burns!
On edit: Seems that Comrade Jake got there before me, but I’ve got the link!
Chris
@amk:
And if that’s true, the world will go right on spinning.
The worst thing that happens with a nuclear weapon is that we have to live with another country that we can’t simply depose at a whim like we did Saddam, and Israel has to live with a local cold war instead of utterly dominating the region. That’s not the end of the world. It’s certainly not worth getting bogged down in another massive regional war. It may not even be worth conducting air strikes and risking Iranian retaliation (especially with the program being as decentralized as it is).
The fact that we can’t even have that conversation is mind-boggling.
PeakVT
@amk: What Netanyahu doesn’t understand about Iran.
Greg
@arguingwithsignposts: I’ve wondered that too. When I mention NRO to conservative friends all I get is blank stares.
gelfling545
@Linda Featheringill: I got there and was doing ok, less given to screaming & throwing things, until I found out that some republicans now give Mitt more credit than the President for bringing down Bin Laden.
Chris
@smintheus:
I’d say the notion of the film being an October Surprise plan is fairly credible at this point, y’all.
Kane
From Jason Linkins:
These people say anything they want without consequence.
gelfling545
@arguingwithsignposts: This is true for me but, then, the only people I know who are republicans are so because they don’t pay much attention to politics & only know what they see on TV.
BGinCHI
@Villago Delenda Est: That anyone anywhere, including shopkeepers and her family, would ever talk to Liz Cheney mystifies me.
Who the fuck is she? No one. Name one significant thing she has ever done for anyone but herself.
Is there any more stupid, dangerous, or selfish bunch of dicks than the neocons?
Comrade Jake
Edit: Liz Cheney.
Or something like that.Suffern Ace
@smintheus: Yeah. I guess that reporter has no control about what insults to the prophet he chooses to publicize.
BGinCHI
@Kane: But…but…Brian Ross has such a sparkling track record! And he’s on TV!
If he was a student in Poli Sci 201 and said stuff like that he’d be asked to stay after class, then urged to do his homework or drop the class.
JPL
@smintheus: According to PFAW, he was the person who caused Hilary’s car to be pelted with shoes and tomatoes. right wing watch
@BGinCHI: hahaha.. Maybe Gregory wants to get fired.
edit.. just wow a said the s.h.0.e word and didn’t land in moderation..
Xecky Gilchrist
@gelfling545: I found out that some republicans now give Mitt more credit than the President for bringing down Bin Laden.
Amazing, isn’t it? We get to see these goobers rewriting history all the time, but this is an unusually clear case.
Mark S.
Would Bibi agree to a nuclear-free Middle East?
arguingwithsignposts
Liz Cheney is right! EVERYBODY has abandoned Czechoslovakia!
me
@Villago Delenda Est: “Czechoslovakia” aside, how did the President abandon them anyway? By being less intent on building a ABM program allegedly to stop missiles from Iran? Why the fuck would Iran nuke Poland?
Svensker
@Person of Choler:
Horrible. But have you seen this? It will make you sick. They really are such animals.
rachel
Personally, I wonder if Iran being in a position where it could tell Israel to shut up and stop rattling its sabers at them would be such a bad thing.
The wiser course for the US would be to threaten to just jump in and spend even more blood and treasure in Asia? Um… No.
Or something like that.Suffern Ace
@BGinCHI: Misreading aside, is either Slovakia or The Czech Republic being threatened these days in ways they can’t handle?
BGinCHI
@arguingwithsignposts: Not Steve Martin and Dan Aykroyd. Those two wild and crazy guys will never give up on their country.
Not even for Liz Cheney and her big American breasts.
/ok, gross
Hill Dweller
@amk:
Number three on Golberg’s list is utter bullshit.
arguingwithsignposts
@BGinCHI: Assumes facts not in evidence, nor wished to be provided or confirmed.
BGinCHI
@Or something like that.Suffern Ace: I guess you can just never trust the Romanians?
That woman should be run out of town on a discount rail. Let’s not try to understand her; let’s just mock her. It’s all she deserves.
Or something like that.Suffern Ace
@me: They are crazy anti western. They will strike at the weak underbelly, which is probably Belgium, but the missiles don’t reach that far. They will do this knowing that if we do Obama would surrender before even thinking about leveling large swaths of Iran.
jp7505a
From AP –‘Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is making a direct appeal to U.S. voters to elect a president willing to draw a “red line” with Iran.
The hawkish leader on Sunday used this week’s focus on unrest across the Muslim world to warn Americans watching two Sunday talk shows that time is running out to confront Tehran on its nuclear program.
It was an impassioned election-season plea for a world leader who insists he doesn’t want to insert himself into U.S. politics.
‘
Why are the networks giving this guy free air time to campaign for Mittens and war with Iran. If he had limited his comments to Isreali politics maybe it would be justifiable but as soon as he said Americans must elect a president that will set red lines , he crossed a MAJOR redline – foreign leaders do not tell Americans how to vote. He should have be shut down right then and there.
I know it isn’t politically wise or diplomatically possiblebut I would love to see Obama declare him persona non grata and deny him entry to the US when the UN reconvienes in Oct.
pat
Nuclear weapons are SOOO 20th century. Iran ought to be investing in developing DRONES. Imagine some Israeli politician crossing the street in Tel Aviv and suddenly…
Well, what then?
Kane
@rachel: I believe the people that he is referring to are a senior group of bipartisan security experts including Brent Scowcroft, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Richard L. Armitage, Col. Lawrence B. Wilkerson, Chuck Hagel, Gen Anthony C. Zinni, Leslie H. Gelb, Lee H. Hamilton, Ellen Laipson, Adm. William Fallon, Amb. Thomas R. Pickering, Amb. William Luers, and others.
http://nsnetwork.org/scowcroft-brzezinski-call-for-clear-thinking-on-military-action-on-iran/
Or something like that.Suffern Ace
@jp7505a: Yeah. I don’t know how this is tempering his interference.
Corner Stone
@pat:
Wouldn’t that be an act of war?
jwb
@Kane: It’s good to see decent pushback emerging to the neo-con ramp up against Iran.
Person of Choler
@Svensker:
I agree, that makes it all better.
Chris
@rachel:
I’d sure like to know who the hell those reporters are.
How many wars has Iran started?
How many wars has Israel started?
Which of those countries is currently threatening to start another war to prevent another country from acquiring a WMD capacity that the first country already has?
Which of those countries has spent the last three decades invading, occupying and ethnically cleansing foreign soil in order to satisfy lunatic fundamentalist elements of their government?
Should we feel any more comfortable with Likud’s fetish for religious and nationalist fanaticism than Ahmadinejad’s – keeping in mind that Ahmadinejad is not the leader of Iran and that Iran’s fundies do not, at present, have a nuclear button to push?
There’s a reason so many foreigners in the run-up to the Iraq War listed Israel and the U.S. as the number one threats to world peace.
rachel
@Kane: And you can add Joe Klein.
ETA: I never considered him to be a great thinker, but it was heartening to see he’s not crazy.
pat
@corner stone
well, I suppose if you follow it to the logical conclusion, Iran would be turned into a glassy smoldering ruin before the end of the day.
Chris
@pat:
Suicide bombers are cheaper and probably more precise.
arguingwithsignposts
@rachel: He did say “senior group of bipartisan security experts.” Hence, Joe Klein adds less than nothing.
beltane
Did David Gregory really refer to Netanhayu as “leader of the Jewish people”? WTF.
Emma
@BGinCHI: Ye gods. Am I glad I spent my morning sorting out old negatives for digitizing. My sanity, it has remained intact.
Corner Stone
Binyamin Tate for a Texans TD Biznatchies!
ETA, oh poo.
rachel
@arguingwithsignposts: Except to repeat what they said on Morning Joe, thereby giving their assessment some kind of dim chance of reaching the public’s ears. It’s not much, but it’s not nothing.
Corner Stone
And Foster cleans it up.
Anoniminous
Some people say Czechoslovakia hasn’t existed since 1992. Other people say it is leading a stealth existence. It is not the business of Balloon Juice to litigate this matter.
Amir Khalid
@gelfling545:
Okay, now I’m utterly confuzzled. Mitt has spent the past decade and more as a
professionalperennial political candidate, none of that time actually holding any elected or appointed public office. How the crap do those people figure he brought about Osama’s death?Anoniminous
@Kane:
Some bipartisan security say one thing, other people say Iran will soon have a Martian Death Ray orbiting planet that force Americans to have Islamic Gay Baby abortions.
I think it is hardly the business of Balloon Juicers to litigate this matter.
Jim, Foolish Literalist and Fact Checker
Dear Willard,
Please listen carefully to Jennifer Rubin. She is very smart, not at all insane, has a keen ear for what American people want:
John Sununu is the voice of the Swing Voter, who all wish Chris Christie were just a little angrier and a bit less charming.
Baud
Won’t somebody please think of the Czech Republic?
Or something like that.Suffern Ace
@Amir Khalid: Ok. Obama knew that if he didn’t kill Osama, Romney would craftily use that to trounce him in an election about jobs and the economy. Obama did it out of fear for Romney.
Or something like that.Suffern Ace
@Jim, Foolish Literalist and Fact Checker: Doesn’t he already have those people? And Pat Caddell, too.
JPL
@Anoniminous: What’s in a name anyway?
Baud
Who lost China?
Obama lost China.
amk
@Hill Dweller: why ? I am sure he wouldn’t want that in his watch.
Villago Delenda Est
@Kane:
This is the same Brian Ross who said that a guy named “Jim Holmes” of Aurora, CO, is a member of the tea party, and might be the Aurora cinema shooter.
With absolutely nothing to make the connection other than the name.
The wingnutosphere had a grand time identifying “Brian Ross” as a DUI suspect, a registered sex offender, and many other things in retaliation.
Ross is a serious fuckhead.
Valdivia
60 Minutes will have Mofaz the ex mossad guy today saying attacking Iran is the stupidest plan. Preview on their website.
? Martin
@Jim, Foolish Literalist and Fact Checker:
Shorter Rubin: An evil exists that threatens every man, woman and child of this great nation, We must take steps to ensure our domestic security and protect our homeland.
Baud
@? Martin:
Unless she’s talking about Mitt Romney, she’s full of shit.
Villago Delenda Est
@arguingwithsignposts:
To include the Czechs and the Slovaks!
Anoniminous
@JPL:
Some people say nouns refer to persons, place, or thing. Other people say, “fucking nouns, how do they work?”
I submit it is hardly my place to litigate this matter.
Chris
@Jim, Foolish Literalist and Fact Checker:
Does it freak anyone else out that she’s separating “foreign policy” and “radical jihadism” into two different things? Which implies a desire to go after “radical jihadists” (which is usually conservatalk for “Islam in any way shape or form”) right here at home?
Cue the herding people into cattle cars.
Villago Delenda Est
@? Martin:
Ms. Rubin? There’s a call on line 2 from Hell. It’s Roy Cohn, counsel for Julius Streicher, they’re claiming you plagiarized him.
GregB
Is there any chance Dancin’ Dave will reprise the Josh Mostel role in an off-beltway production of Jesus Christ Superstar?
SiubhanDuinne
@Josie:
Oh, nice Belshazzar shout-out!
Or something like that.Suffern Ace
@Chris: Maybe Gingrich is to lead the radical jihad? Well basically Gingich needs a job. She could have put him in charge of NASA. He’s too much of a pants pisser for actually foreign policy, so they need to put him in an arena where people piss their pants easily so they can pretend not to notice.
Villago Delenda Est
@me:
No idea, and don’t want to find out how the vile twit’s mind works. If you can call such a mass of lizard neurons a “mind”.
PurpleGirl
@arguingwithsignposts: Did she really say Czechoslovakia? Because any beader can tell you the beads come from the Czech Republic.
Corner Stone
@pat:
By who? No one but Pakistan or India have admitted to nuclear weapons in the ME.
Corner Stone
Ok, now I get to say it: Binyamin Tate for a Texans TD Biznatchies!
Baud
We need a president who will stand up to the Ottoman Empire.
Corner Stone
@PurpleGirl:
So do some really smokin’ freaking hot women. Also, too.
Just sayin’.
arguingwithsignposts
@Baud: Constantinople, not Istanbul!
quannlace
China’s lost? No, I think it’s still there. Just make a right at India.
dance around in your bones
Press the Meat just started here on the lefty coast. Susan Rice is the only person with brains on the show.
Bibi is bloviating just now – 19 minutes in….fuck it, I’m going back to watch Hoarders.
ETA: I’d rather just read what BJer’s have to say about it.
Villago Delenda Est
@Baud:
We need a President who will stand up to the Sassanids!
West of the Rockies (formerly Frank W.)
I’ve been surfing the various political and progressive (neo-progressive) blogs today (Huff Post, Little Green Footballs, Daily Kos, NPR, Mediaite, Politico — YES, I know those last three definitely are not overtly progressive)…
I’m confused. Obama now apparently has the lead on Medicare/Social Security and foreign policy (people have more confidence in his abiity to oversee those issues). He’s got a substantial lead with people of color, women, college-educated people. He is very close (according to one poll) even among white males. He’s leading in most of the so-called battleground states.
Why do we keep hearing how close the bloody race is? Is it truly the media pushing the political narrative (close horse-race story)?
People like Obama more. I don’t think Ryan is doing any great favors for Romney… what gives? Any thoughts?
Baud
@arguingwithsignposts:
That’s nobody’s business but the Turks.
kay
Sounds like Jake Tapper was just as bad, interviewing Susan Rice.
He’s scrambling a little bit though.
Thanks her for showing up to answer questions on Twitter, after, and says Romney and Ryan won’t.
It’s an explanation, of sorts, that Tweet.
Jake Tapper was repeating Romney’s accusations because Romney wouldn’t show up.
Although why Romney would bother showing up when he has Jake Tapper to play the role of “Mitt Romney” is still a mystery.
I’ll wait for another Tweet. Perhaps he has more to explain.
arguingwithsignposts
Those inches of space in the paper aren’t going to fill themselves!
Villago Delenda Est
@West of the Rockies (formerly Frank W.):
Yes.
SATSQ.
raven
@West of the Rockies (formerly Frank W.):
The future’s uncertain
and the end is always near. . .
Liberty60
@arguingwithsignposts:
She’s right!
If Obama is allowed to continue his policies, Czechoslovakia will cease to exist!
amk
@West of the Rockies (formerly Frank W.): advertising doubloons baybee.
GregB
@West of the Rockies (formerly Frank W.):
The establishment wants a race. More money for advertising.
LanceThruster
In other news, I’ve found “Dr. Who” on my OnDemand (season 6) and am proceeding with “Let’s Kill Mittler”…I mean “Hitler.”
The downside is that my closed caption is giving me gibberish, so I’ll have to pot up the volume and turn my head like the RCA dog to decipher whatever strange and exotic dialect these Brits are speaking. Took me awhile to figure out what they were saying in South Park too (except for Kenny).
It’s already turned out to be a fun ride. How did the sun ever begin to set on the British Empire anyway?
raven
@arguingwithsignposts: Lena Olin left her hat on!
LanceThruster
@raven:
Well then,
let it roll, baby, roll.
TOP123
@Villago Delenda Est: This history nerd calls a win.
Hill Dweller
@dance around in your bones: Susan Rice is always good on the talk shows. I hope she is Clinton’s replacement, but I fear Kerry is the front-runner.
Brachiator
@Baud:
We need a president who will sit down on an ottoman, put his feet up on an ottoman, maybe buy us all ottomans.
JPL
@kay: Maybe it’s time to Tapper to do his own homework and read rather than depending on Mitt’s talking points. Yeah I know reading is hard work.
gelfling545
@Amir Khalid: Sheer moral rectitude? Other than that, no idea.
Jim, Foolish Literalist and Fact Checker
Besides the spectacle of a jibbering idiot jibbering idiotically, there’s an interesting nugget in this:
I like that “no matter what people say”. I don’ think I’ve seen one Villager point out that Romney’s whole ‘apology’ theme is a lie, but even Peter King, whose stupidity goes largely unnotticed in a House that includes Goehmert, Bachmann and brother from another mother Steve, seems to know it’s bullshit. I’m sure it went unchallenged by David Gregory, and his hair.
Corner Stone
@Hill Dweller: I think John Kerry could do an admirable SecState job. What are your concerns?
Corner Stone
@Brachiator: Never been a big fan of ottomans.
? Martin
@Hill Dweller: I don’t think Obama will be able to afford taking anyone out of the Senate.
TOP123
Since it’s an open thread and I always seem to be late to the topical ones, I’d like to re-ask the following, for anyone who has an idea:
RCP has Conn. as a tossup, and McMahon’s numbers improving steadily. Is there a reason why I have yet to see a single Murphy ad? A SINGLE ONE? I’m sure there’s a reason, but I’m not grasping the strategy.
GregB
Did anyone else pick up the quote on MTP from PM Netanyahu that President Obama has met with him more than any other world leader?
Brachiator
@LanceThruster:
There’s been a fun expansion of Doctor Who. You can stream the earlier Matt Smith seasons for free (along with other seasons) if you have the Amazon Prime Instant Video service, for example.
Baud
@Brachiator:
YOU get an Ottoman, YOU get an Ottoman, EVERYBODY GETS AN OTTOMAN!
@Corner Stone:
No Ottoman for YOU! /Ottoman Nazi
Josie
@SiubhanDuinne: Sort of fitting, no?
PurpleGirl
@dance around in your bones: Here on the right coast I’m watching Hoarding: Buried Alive.
Chris
@Jim, Foolish Literalist and Fact Checker:
I love the fact that they suddenly give a shit about allies, after eight years of “fuck them, if they distrust us it’s only because America rocks so much, WOLVERINES!”
Jim, Foolish Literalist and Fact Checker
@Baud: an Ottoman tried to kill Dick Van Dyke.
Baud
@Jim, Foolish Literalist and Fact Checker:
Dick shot first.
LanceThruster
@Brachiator:
Thanks. It looks as if I’ll be exploring the various incarnations for awhile. I’ve largely been in a sci-fi wasteland since they’ve quit making new LEXX or Farscape episodes.
Jim, Foolish Literalist and Fact Checker
@Chris: to say nothing of the continued incoherence of the McCain-Romney et al foreign policy. GOOPers have spent more than a decade now trying to decide if we need to stand by our Iraqi/Afghan/Pakistani allies, or if we need to exterminate the brutes. A week ago, the three neo-con stooges of the Senate were piously moaning that Obama hasn’t done enough to support the Arab Spring, now he hasn’t done enough to stop radical mooslim uprisings.
? Martin
From teh Twitters:
Total # of Sundays so far this year: 38. # of Sundays in 2012 with John McCain on a morning talk show: 17
Who knew tire swings were so effective?
Brachiator
@Corner Stone:
Well, how do you feel about the otter, man?
arguingwithsignposts
@Baud: He shot an ottoman in reno, just to watch it die.
raven
@Brachiator: Or the otterbox.
Southern Beale
Hey y’all didja hear about the California rodeo announcer who thought this racist joke about Michelle Obama was too good not to share over the PA system? Yeah, bad idea.
LanceThruster
@? Martin:
Noam Chomsky – Manufacturing Consent
Sarah, Proud and Tall
Anyone who doesn’t read the comments on here isn’t getting full value for their BJ blog dollar.
Well done, one and all.
Skippy-san
The Corner is not worth the time or the Scotch-especially that douchebag Mark Steyn.
Steyn’s writings about the Middle East-besides being completely fact free about the history of the region- also fail to consider the context that recent events have created for the United States.
He can whine about the multi-polar world all he wants, but he’s powerless to prevent its continuing rise.
dance around in your bones
@PurpleGirl: I have a strange fascination with the show.
All the people are so sad and damaged. The pain is palpable and moving.
Sometimes I think our house here (w/3 little boys age 6 and under) gets chaotic, and then I watch one of these shows and think ‘we’re nowhere near THAT bad’.
JPL
Hope Sarah is okay. If she doesn’t report soon, we should all email John. He loves emails.
OT on the OT.. The Saints need a coach.
edit.. yeah… Sarah is alive.
Chris
@Jim, Foolish Literalist and Fact Checker:
Like I said at the time the Arab Spring got off the ground, they’re waiting to see if Tunisia, Egypt, Libya et al turn into nice respectable democracies with liberty and tax cuts for all, or evil terrorist ragheadistans. Then they’ll know whether to bleat “IT WAS ALL BECAUSE OF BUUUUSH!!!” or “IT WAS ALL BECAUSE OF OBAMAAAA!!!”
The idea that the changes might have had more to do with the internal dynamics of the countries involved than with whoever was sitting in the White House will go completely untouched, just like it did with China, Iran and Russia in the last century. A navel-gazing conviction that whatever happens anywhere in the world, it must be all about us is one of the many hallmarks of American Exceptionalism.
amk
@? Martin: Yup.
lamh35
Bonus Quote of the Day
I hate to link to Halperin, but right after I read Taeggard’s post above, I just happened over to Halperin’s page and read this:
Coming Attractions
Go check the picture of the ad over at Halperin’s page if u want.
amk
@JPL: And plastered, presumably ?
JPL
@dance around in your bones: The local news had a blurb about Honey, Boo, Boo so I googled the show. My goodness, the only redemptive value is that at least a family besides the Palin can make a few bucks grifting.
Chris
@arguingwithsignposts:
I shot an Ottoman in my pajamas once. How he got into my pajamas, I don’t know.
JPL
fywp…duplicate
raven
@Chris:
Talk talk talk
sometimes I think I must go mad
why don’t you go home to your wife”
I’ll tell you what
I’ll go home to your wife and, outside of the improvement, she’ll never know the difference. . .
Brachiator
@arguingwithsignposts:
I heard he thought it was a stool pigeon.
? Martin
Well, the Toobin piece on the PPACA SCOTUS ruling isn’t going to quell the flames any. It reads like a court where 4 court members are fully committed to the GOP political agenda above all else:
Betray?
Conservatives overreaching? Unpossible. Conservatism cannot fail…
Chuck Butcher
thank fsm for BJ comments… a dreary morning vastly improved…
GregB
@? Martin:
I think we need to have a Peak Wingnut Pool.
I think it may occur before the November election.
Villago Delenda Est
@lamh35:
I’m afraid the stupid market is hopelessly bear. There’s so much out there that you have to bribe people to accept drilling rights on the wingnuts’ heads, because it’s so plentiful. Too cheap to meter.
raven
Four Marines were killed and 6 harrier jump jets destroyed in Afghanistan yesterday. We can’t put a price on the Marines but the jets cost $210 million .
FlipYrWhig
@Jim, Foolish Literalist and Fact Checker: I’m not following. Isn’t P. King in that part saying that he doesn’t care what the detractors say, Obama totally was too apologizing for America? Are you giving him credit for admitting the existence of people who don’t believe the hype?
Villago Delenda Est
So, Bibi’s into industrial-grade projection, also, too.
dmsilev
@lamh35: The mind boggles.
Besides, I thought Darth Vader was his real father.
Baud
@lamh35:
After impregnating Obama’s mom in Hawaii, Davis quickly shipped her off too Kenya in order to set up an elaborate ruse to make people believe Obama was actually born in Hawaii.
ETA: FYWP
Chris
@GregB:
I’ve talked about my darker “we’re all doomed!” moments here before. But conversely, in my more wildly optimistic moments I find myself hoping that the teabaggers and 2010 will go down in history as peak wingnut.
Ben Franklin
@raven:
It was not clear if some of the Afghan police turned on their American helpers in the middle of the battle with the insurgents, or afterward, or were somehow forced into attacking the American troops by the insurgents, Gilani said.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/09/16/afghan-inside-attack-kills-4-nato-troops-military-says/#ixzz26f4ym4FM
I feel sure they were under some pressure. Hershey Bar, cigarettes?
FlipYrWhig
@Brachiator: It was a vast conspiracy, set in motion by Chairman Mao. Preparing the ground were Agents Chesterfield and Davenport.
raven
@Ben Franklin: Keef
eta I guess the Harrier deal was a different incident.
Anoniminous
@Brachiator:
Communist.
If people can’t afford to enter the FreeMarket© and buy their own ottomans they will just have to put their feet up on their children like ->GOD<- intended.
(Edited for congruence with English grammar.)
Villago Delenda Est
It’s the ni*CLANG*, stupid!
wrb
I think this study may be important.
Tax Cuts Don’t Lead to Economic Growth, a New 65-Year Study Finds
Kinda screws with Mitt’s argument.
Villago Delenda Est
@FlipYrWhig:
I see what you did there.
Louis Quatorze is not amused!
gene108
@Chris:
That’s because other countries weren’t hand picked by God to be the greatestest country that has ever been and will ever be upon this God’s Earth.
Do you really think God helped write Iran’s or Russian’s or China’s constitutions like he did ours? I know He didn’t.
That’s why everything revolves around us, just like the Sun revolves around the Earth.
Chris
@Anoniminous:
No. Mister President, we CANNOT afford an Ottoman gap.
gwangung
Makes you wonder if they think democracies can be popped out of the microwave, instantly formed. Or just add water…
Xecky Gilchrist
@wrb: I think this study may be important.
Nah, just more liberal academic reality-based fact stuff. Pay it no mind.
trollhattan
@Corner Stone:
Kerry’s seat might could go to another leather hot-pants wearin’ Playgirl centerfold. We can’t trust those Massholes to do the
rightsane thing (my NH brother would be right quick to point out).Ben Franklin
@raven:
Imagine training Charlie to go in the shit wit ya.
Baud
All this talk of ottomans is making me hungary.
Ben Franklin
@Baud:
Czech !
amk
@trollhattan: yup.
Chris
@Baud:
Czech the fridge, there might be some Chile left over.
trollhattan
@Baud:
Speaking of the Ottomans, doesn’t Boardwalk Empire start tonight?
Chris
@Ben Franklin:
Fuck.
raven
@Ben Franklin: They were called Chieu Hoi’s and Kit Carson Scouts.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kit_Carson_Scouts
Jim, Foolish Literalist and Fact Checker
@Chris: don’t be Balkan at Ottoman Empire puns
Baud
@trollhattan:
Can’t help. I don’t get HBO and am generally uncultured.
dance around in your bones
@JPL:
I’ve heard Honey Boo Boo referenced here a few times, but never felt the desire to google it.
Ok, now I have, and I feel much…..diminished…by the experience. In fact, I always flinched at just the NAME of Toddlers and Tiaras when I ran across it while surfing the channel guide.
FlipYrWhig
@gwangung: Democracies are like human life. They begin at conception. Not when they emerge into history.
Bruce S
That’s a waste of good scotch…
? Martin
@gene108:
That’s less satire than you think:
I doubt we’ll hear it, but I REALLY want the 2012 equivalent to the 2008 debate question regarding the Bible. In 2008 in one of the nutty GOP debates, a question was asked whether the King James Version of the Bible was literally true. I want to hear someone ask Romney if he believes the Constitution was divinely inspired. Normally I shy away from religious criticism (I really don’t think any less of Mormonism than Catholicism – they are equally silly) but when you ask a guy to swear an oath to the Constitution, it’s important and valid for the public to understand exactly what he thinks he’s swearing an oath to.
raven
@Baud: Boardwalk Empire tonight, Treme next week!
Ben Franklin
@raven:
I suspect more than 25% of Assghanistan’s Greens are fake Chieu Hoi’s.
amk
the hill (fwiw) – Despite GOP assault, voters give Obama the edge on healthcare.
FlipYrWhig
@Jim, Foolish Literalist and Fact Checker: An opinion is like Anatolian. Everyone’s got one.
catclub
@Mark S.: Indeed.
Is it the case that the Saudis are going apeshit over Iran getting nuclear weapons?
I certainly have not heard that they are, but they are MUCH more likely to be threatened (and intimidated to the extent that an nation can actually use nuclear weapons for intimidation) by Iran going nuclear than Israel. Since Israel has a reported ~200 nuclear weapons, including submarine Launch cruise missiles.
Ben Franklin
@Chris:
Czech-mate?
FlipYrWhig
@dance around in your bones: Definitely a video that ought to provoke rioting.
raven
@Ben Franklin: I was given to understand that not a few of the HC’s would come in, get healthy and go back. Not being of the grunt persuasion I cannot confirm but there are probably no unique clusterfucks in the world.
The wheel is turning and you can’t slow down,
You can’t let go and you can’t hold on,
You can’t go back and you can’t stand still,
If the thunder don’t get you then the lightning will.
gogol's wife
@TOP123:
I’m with you. Every time I see Chris Murphy’s face, I start to cheer up until I realize it’s a McMahon ad attacking him. He’s AWOL. (I guess that’s what she’s criticizing him for, funnily enough.)
Ben Franklin
@raven: Time for a music thread, no?
catclub
@Jim, Foolish Literalist and Fact Checker: Crimenea that’s a bad pun.
raven
@Ben Franklin: Football soon come. I’m sure John has one programmed to pop up. Every thread is a music thread in my skull.
Anya
@Baud: I understand the deranged logic of birthers who claim POTUS was born in Kenya, but what is the up with the ones who claim Frank Marshall Davis was his father? How does that put into question his qualification to be president of the United States? Davis was an American citizen, so what’s their game? Do they think being born out of wedlock disqualifies someone from becoming a president?
These racist fucks are truly deranged.
jp7505a
@wrb: Ignore it. facts have a liberal bias
Brachiator
@FlipYrWhig:
Ultimately, everyone got pardons. Because, as we all know, to err is human, to forgive, divan.
Anoniminous
Bugger all this economics and political stuff!
Time to move on to important things, i.e., when are the Front Pagers going to go Big Foot all over each other?
My guess: 4:08 EST.
catclub
@FlipYrWhig: I thought it was that that American empire guy Cheney wanted Leahy to do something Anatolianly impossible.
FlipYrWhig
@catclub: Bulgar off.
PurpleGirl
@dance around in your bones: I know what you mean. I watch both shows on a rotating basis.
Chris
@? Martin:
I for one don’t think it’s satire – even plenty of atheist Randroids who have no time for this “God” stuff totally buy the America-as-unquestionable-messiah thing.
@Ben Franklin:
Yep, you Finnished me off with that one.
Jim, Foolish Literalist and Fact Checker
@catclub: anybody who doesn’t like Ottoman puns can go straight to Hellespont
amk
Ex-Elf boss Floch-Prigent extradited to Togo in fraud probe.
frakking unbelievable.
catclub
@Anya: Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, but if you have no mind at all, it is not a problem.
I think one of the lesser known commandments, oops, sorry, Constitutional amendments, is that no child of a black communist can be a citizen.
FlipYrWhig
@Brachiator: Every smoking gun ever pointed eventually returns to its upholster.
Ben Franklin
@raven:
Like Miles Davis; you hear it all the time?
Baud
@Anya:
No, they think being a Democrat disqualifies someone from becoming a president.
FlipYrWhig
@Jim, Foolish Literalist and Fact Checker: When your opponent is drowning, throw him an Ankara.
Brachiator
@Anya:
This is part of the other looney tunes argument, that Obama was born and bred to be a radical, and that behind his calm demeanor hides a vicious anti colonial stealth Mooslem Manchurian Candidate revolutionary conditioned to hate and destroy America.
Baud
@Chris:
Couldn’t stand the Prussia, eh?
catclub
@Jim, Foolish Literalist and Fact Checker: Those people just don’t get Armenianings.
JPL
@lamh35: but he was born in Kenya.
trollhattan
@catclub:
They’re doubtless keeping it on the diplomatic downlow, but given the Sunni/Shi’ia, Arab/Persian thing it’s safe to assume they don’t want a nuclear Iran. Shared hatred of Israel only gets you so much accord.
catclub
@Baud: May be finnished off, but will be Hungary again soon.
raven
@Ben Franklin: I may be more lyrically oriented. Almost anything I read or hear brings some song to mind.
Villago Delenda Est
@Brachiator:
The wingtards can’t even get the entire Manchurian Candidate meme right.
The secret candidate was one of them. A wingnut.
Mnemosyne
@lamh35:
I’m not sure exactly what the birthers think this claim gets them other than the fact that they’re basically screeching, “The president’s mother was a whore!” IF the claim is true (which it ain’t), it would make the president the son of two natural-born American citizens and the entire birther claim implodes.
trollhattan
@FlipYrWhig:
I think the vile pun competition has been won. Put a Stickley in it.
Ben Franklin
@Chris: @
I just got it. Nice recovery.
Corner Stone
So many puns about furniture. It’s hard to recover and get back to the materiel at hand.
Brachiator
@FlipYrWhig:
Almost fell for that one hookah, line, and sinker.
Ben Franklin
@raven:
I have to be inspired by the melody, before I listen to the lyrics, which I often misremember.
fleeting expletive
I love puns. I know, worst form of humor and all that. Puts me in a chairy mood.
Anybody see Doctor Who last night?
JPL
@Corner Stone: Would you rather chat about scotch?
LanceThruster
@raven:
Saw the creator of Treme on Maher recently. I liked him an awful lot but I’ve never watched the show. How can a program about the cultural life of NOLA have such a shitty opening theme (particularly in comparison to Boardwalk Empire or True Blood)? I don’t doubt I might give it a chance later, but the intro music soured me on it right off (personal bias to be sure but that’s how I roll).
terry chay
Here’s a video for the next open thread:
“Vote Obama Style”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3gapBh_yqk
Villago Delenda Est
@FlipYrWhig:
Interestingly, an Angora works just as well in most situations.
catclub
@rachel: “It’s not much, but it’s not nothing.”
Or as the earthworm says in James and the Giant Peach, “It’s not dirt, but it’s not bad.”
danah gaz
Jesus wept. My spouse is the laziest person on the planet.
Two notable statements – just today, mind you:
“Fine! I’ll put on pants. =(” It was around noon.
“I’m too lazy to take a nap.” That last one… *shakes head*
raven
@LanceThruster: David Simon. So you haven’t seen The Wire or Generation Kill? Get on it.
catclub
@fleeting expletive: Chair puns will only take you sofar.
Ben Franklin
@LanceThruster:
Treme has never been properly promo’d by HBO. They are becoming the equivalent of AMC,IMHO.
raven
@LanceThruster: Easy on my man John Boutte
Chris
New thread!
::checks::
oh, it’s just football. Nvm.
raven
@Ben Franklin: Neither was The Wire. No one watched but still”
“Despite only receiving modest ratings and never winning major television awards, The Wire has been described by many critics as the greatest TV drama of all time”
catclub
@danah gaz: Of course, it it were, “Fine, I’ll put on the lotion” We might start giving _you_ the half-eye.
FlipYrWhig
@Corner Stone: Yes we cane.
TOP123
@gogol’s wife: Same here, and there are tons upon TONS of those ads online, particularly all over my BaloonJuice pages always.
raven
@Ben Franklin: Did you see Generation Kill? Great fucking mini about 1st Marine Recon in the early days of the Iraq clusterfuck. The title was taken from the book by the embedded Rolling Stone reporter.
Brachiator
@Villago Delenda Est:
Ben Franklin
@raven:
Missed it. They’ll probably store it for the duration. I wish they would play more great series in rerun. They play the same fucking movies incessantly, then roll em over to Cinemax.
Programming fail.
catclub
@Brachiator: It seems far more likely that Romney would have an accident and Paul Ryan lead the nation as savior. But wingnuts apparently think Colbert is conservative, so, um, whatever.
Not Sure
Scotch, meh! Bourbon kicks Scotch’s ass.
SiubhanDuinne
@FlipYrWhig:
So fa, so good.
danah gaz
@catclub: It puts the lotion on it’s skin or else it gets the hose again =)
Villago Delenda Est
@catclub:
That’s the plot from the inferior remake (even with such stars as Denzel and the fabulous Meryl).
The original was much more disturbing. The rabid McCarthy clone was the true Manchurian Candidate.
arguingwithsignposts
@raven:
That’s a fucking fill-in-the-blank sentence there if ever there was one.
Also, fuck HBO and their cableopoly.
Villago Delenda Est
@Not Sure:
If it’s not Scotch, it’s crap!
Brachiator
@raven: Some of the “minor” awards The Wire won weren’t too shabby:
Most of the awards the series won were in seasons 4 and 5. These included TCA’s Heritage Award for season 5 and WGA’s Award for Best Dramatic Series for season 4, plus Crime Thriller, Eddie, Edgar, Directors Guild of America, and Irish Film and Television awards. The series also won ASCAP, Peabody and Artios awards for season 2.
The series won the Broadcasting & Cable critics poll for Best Drama (season 4) and won Time’s critics choice for top television show for seasons 1 and 3.
jwb
@Corner Stone: You mean chess: Czech mate.
SiubhanDuinne
@Baud:
I don’t want to russia, but I’d be happy to fiji.
Mnemosyne
@danah gaz:
It’s 1:15 pm in Los Angeles and I’m still in my bathrobe. I win.
catclub
@Villago Delenda Est: Never saw the remake. Greatest role for Angela Lansbury, and I felt she always wanted to bury it after she started doing Murder, She Wrote.
Funny of course, that she was about 30 playing the mother of a guy who looked close to 50.
catclub
@danah gaz: Indeed. No one said I was subtle.
raven
@arguingwithsignposts: Aw, you no likey. . .
SiubhanDuinne
@Jim, Foolish Literalist and Fact Checker:
The turkey’s a bit greecey.
Villago Delenda Est
@catclub:
In the remake, Raymond Shaw becomes the VP candidate…quite Ryanesque in appearance (Liev Schreiber had the role). Streep had the Lansbury role, and the much more subtle incest angle of the original was made more explicit in the remake…and therefore a lot more disturbing.
Brachiator
@fleeting expletive:
Watched it this morning. I saw where some of the story was headed, but it was still a solid, enjoyable episode. Can’t believe that this segment of the season is almost done already.
The story is set in the old American West, but I understand that the episode was shot in the part of Spain where Sergio Leone filmed A Fistful of Dollars.
And yes, the episode could easily have been called A Fistful of Doctors.
Corner Stone
@Villago Delenda Est: Fer God’s sake man! Whatever you do, don’t lead us back to Mike Myers puns! We could be trapped here for multi generations like Kelsey Grammer as the Captain in that ST:TNG episode.
Please, no.
Villago Delenda Est
Ack, don’t know what I did, but my response to catclub’s last is in moderation hell.
arguingwithsignposts
@raven: I like the show, but I tire of critics talking about “the best drama evah!” about any show. They said the same thing about Hill Street Blues, St. Elsewhere, E.R., now Breaking Bad, etc., etc.
And fuck no, I hate HBO’s cable bullshit.
dance around in your bones
Slightly long report from a friend on the field of OFA:
Which prolly no one will read since it’s FOOZBALL time! and the end of a long thread.
Dee Loralei
@terry chay: That was fun, thanks. I tweeted it and posted to my OFA page.
? Martin
@Brachiator:
Just watched the end of that yesterday. I can probably stop watching it though. Before the TV picture had a chance to click in the sound turned on and there were two gunshots. “Oh, cool, Fistful of Dollars is on.”
When you can peg a western from the gunshots alone, it’s probably time to stop.
catclub
@SiubhanDuinne: If its slippery enough, could you pull a Persian rug out from unter den linden?
catclub
@Villago Delenda Est: And it was probably the kindest, bravest, most wonderful comment you have ever made.
Ben Franklin
@? Martin:
Don’t be so hasty. That CHHIIAAAAAAANNNNGGG !! report was unique to Leone’s films
Ben Franklin
@arguingwithsignposts:
You have a problem with Breaking Bad?
arguingwithsignposts
@Ben Franklin: haven’t watched it. is it better than mad men, which I also haven’t watched, or game of thrones? or weeds? or that western show that used to be on HBO?
? Martin
@Ben Franklin: True, but I could still tell *which* Leone film. I’m a little taken back by that still.
Corner Stone
@arguingwithsignposts: Breaking Bad really isn’t very good. Sorry peeps. It just isn’t.
raven
@arguingwithsignposts: I assume, then, you don’t watch? I mean shit, someone had never seen the show so I was trying to give them a sense of it.
dance around in your bones
@Corner Stone:
I beg to differ with you. The first episode of Breaking Bad is one of the most kick-ass opening episodes I have ever seen.
Granted, it has gotten very dark and over the top lately, but….just watch the first episode and see if you don’t get hooked for a while.
Ben Franklin
@Corner Stone:
I have to ask; Have you watched?
Ben Franklin
@dance around in your bones:
Most people don’t give time to absorb the characters. It takes about three episodes to determine if you give a shit about the people. Also, if you came in mid-season, you’re gonna be lost. Patience.
Corner Stone
@Ben Franklin: “I am! The Danger!”
Shit. Yes, I’ve tried off and on again. It’s just not very good. Sorry.
dance around in your bones
@Ben Franklin:
I have watched every episode of Breaking Bad. I agree one would be lost coming into it halfway through, which is why I said watch the very first opening episode and see if you are not kinda blown away. Then keep watching – I think it’s a great show.
I think the first several seasons are on Netflix.
trollhattan
@Ben Franklin:
I subcontract my BB defense to SEK at LGM, but IMHO it’s probably the best teebee drama at present (that’s a bbl of acronyms).
http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2012/09/breaking-bad-gliding-over-all-until-youre-not
It’s not as unrelentingly engaging as, say, “The Wire” but it rewards careful watching and a good memory and has had more that its share of simply breathtaking moments.
Brachiator
@? Martin:
I haven’t seen the film in a while, but I seem to recall that Leone had a distinctive approach to the sound design of the film.
Might be time to check the movies out again. I love both of his “Once Upon A Time” films.
LanceThruster
@raven:
None of “The Wire” but all of “Generation Kill.” My friend’s Marine son had his unit depicted in one of the final episodes (Marines 1/5) in the scene in the motor pool.
arguingwithsignposts
@raven: No, it’s on Netflix, but honestly, cancer + meth dealer? I have enough to get depressed about without watching it in episodic form.
I watched The Wire after it had finished its run, fwiw.
Ben Franklin
@trollhattan:
Add intricate plot and no bullshit scenes to fool the viewer. Saul is deliciously corrupt.
Ben Franklin
@trollhattan:
Add intricate plot and no bullshit scenes to fool the viewer. Saul is deliciously corrupt.
Citizen_X
@SiubhanDuinne:
Fine, but I don’t want you to be Stalin, either.
Ben Franklin
@trollhattan:
Add intricate plot and no bullshit scenes to fool the viewer. Saul is deliciously corrupt.
LanceThruster
@raven:
Liked the tune that the link loaded up (“No No”). The cast of Treme looks pretty first rate. It sometimes takes me awhile to be willing to set aside any time for something new.
I’m still not crazy about the intro theme music.
Ben Franklin
@trollhattan:
I would say among the best, ever. Intricate plot with no tricks to throw the viewer off, and bravura performances with the exception of Skyler. She’s is too aware of the camera.
edit; I thought the first comment failed, and I see WP makes me a fool by proxy, again.
LanceThruster
Watching the Dr. Who episode “Praise Him.” In love withe the Indian girl in the hospital garb (she looks like a co-worker I’m smitten with – how do I arrange an arranged marriage?). These multicultural casts on BBC don’t seem as token as US casting for whatever reason. It has a peek of the “Weeping Angels” though they were illusary. Can’t wait to see some of those episodes.
trollhattan
@Ben Franklin:
Only a triple, which translates to “fleshwound” in the FYWP pantheon.
I don’t know if there’s a cinematic term for red herring-red herring, but BB has fooled me many times with what I assumed to be a red herring, only to be clobbered by it many episodes, even seasons later. The craft is unimpeachable.
Also, too, did you know Walter White started life as a skunk?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=hX3t_akbjC8
Corner Stone
“You think I knew what we were rollin’ up on?!”
That, my friends, has hallmarks of greatness.
LanceThruster
@LanceThruster:
Actually called “The God Complex>”
I apologize for any inconvenience.
Ben Franklin
@trollhattan:
Nice bit of trivia. Pre-Malcom-in-the-middle. Everybody has to start somewhere.
Bruce S
@Corner Stone:
Dumbest comment I’ve ever read here. Including some of those hysterical ABL threads where ninnies scream “Firebagger” if you’re not deaf, dumb, blind and aren’t literally obsessed with the notion that Glenn Greenwald’s role as internet crank is a greater threat to liberalism and Obama’s re-election than, say, the ineptitude and infatuation with Wall Street of…oh…Tim Geithner. Fine if you don’t happen to like Breaking Bad. But this was just a butt stupid assertion.
Jay in Oregon
@LanceThruster:
Last week’s Doctor Who episode Dinosaurs on a Spaceship had a 24th-century space agency and defense organization (?) that seemed to consist primarily of people of Indian descent.
I’m hoping that the multicultural casting in Doctor Who is reflective of a more multi-ethnic society in the UK, which gives me hope that we can get there someday as well.
trollhattan
@Ben Franklin:
Was halfway through season 1 before I made the MITM connection. Took me a full season to link Jessie to his “Big Love” character.
Yeah, I’m slow.
raven
@LanceThruster: Did you catch the round table on the DVD? There were two or three dudes in the show that were in the outfit (Rudy the body builder for one) and the Stone guy. They said when they watched it it was so real they were not sure if it was a dramatization or a documentary.
LanceThruster
@Jay in Oregon:
I guess at some point their Imperialism/Colonialism actually warmed them to the idea of people other than the melanin-challenged as having worth. Still, aren’t the neo-Nazis and white power fringes still treated in some UK circles as “serious people” (like our own teetards)?
LanceThruster
@raven:
Negative, raven. Sounds like reason enough to check out the DVD extras. I really enjoyed the series. My friend’s son Adam talked about all kinds of personalities making up his fellow Marines (thoughtful, reflective, gung-ho killers, lifers, short timers, etc.)
raven
@LanceThruster: And idiot officers!
Corner Stone
@Bruce S: I’ve got another opinion as well. How bout you go fuck yourself?
LanceThruster
@raven:
Good point. What startled me was that a Marine in gear looks as capable as any other Marine in gear. It took a little bit to recognize the personality types as revealed by their chatter or actions.
Mack
Don’t waste a single malt on those morans. Time to break out the swill. Just sayin.
raven
@LanceThruster: Remember the whole idea of training is to strip you of your individuality and then build you back up as a part of a team. Doesn’t mean you are not who you were.
JustAnotherBob
@Baud:
Dick crossed the red line.
LanceThruster
@raven:
Very true. I remember they didn’t go overboard in making everyone instantly recognizable in appearance like an episode of Combat! so you had to pay attention to piece it together and begin to understand types and motivations.
LanceThruster
Btw, do all Doctor Who productions involve a Scooby-Do cast of helpers and such?
LanceThruster
One other observation thats been made here many times before, as repugnant as the Reich Wing bloggers are, the mindset of their commenters is downright frightening. An unholy mixture of ignorance and arrogance boosted by some sort of stimulant that increases the rage factor and lowers any trace inhibitions.
Ben Franklin
@LanceThruster:
Pavlov’s dog. Their nerve pathways are deep but inflexible. The New Dem is Unfathomable to them, until the Handlers correct course and re-program the collective.
Bruce S
@Corner Stone:
The adult in the room. LOL!
Corner Stone
@Bruce S: No, you are!