Republicanastycals looking extra nasty today. Keep it up please.

Oops, I've got movie sign.

Movie sign?

Oh, Git. Love the Pogues. I wasn't up late enough to catch your post on them and probably no one but me checks the PTT in the morning. I miss a lot if I don't--hell, I miss a lot even though I do. Brain damage or something.

McCain just said he recently started "doing the twittering thing." I'm confused. John McCain's been doing "the twit" for a long time.

Also David Frum is insane and David Shuster constantly saying "twittering" makes me feel a little funny.

Tweey is a f***ing madman. I should turn the channel, but I can't look away for some reason.

Leigh, NCIS is on. When I get Tweetyed out that's one place I go.

I am both Tweetyed and Twittered out.

Kyle, it got a lot more interesting when Jane, Kat, Cminri and Skiba started interacting in 140 character psychotic episodes.

Ah, fuck it. Go find a Republican and slap him/her again. I need a drink.

President Obama's decision to speak in Columbus, OH, was a brilliant political move...but I must drink now.

You're right, dp, I'm glad I have them all added so I can get some entertainment throughout the day. I would jump in but I'm frightened.

Be afraid, Kyle. You are smart. Jump in only when wearing a cup.

Heh, good advice for GI Spud on a different subject.

david shuster makes me laugh! his nostrils flare when talking...esp about twitter! it is like colbert's "flap out" ear. i have to make myself not focus in on it or the entire program is ruined for me...

Bob, if you're eyeballing the thread: thanks for the blogroll add! It's good motivation not to abandon my blog this time around since someone is actually linking to it.

I like Shuster, he's entertaining, I just wish he would stop with the awkward "play-a-random-internet-video-to-the-panel-and-watch-them-squirm" bit at the end.

I said this on FB, but I'll repeat here b/c I think it was totally awesome.

I saw a billboard on I-85 south today that had a big pic of MLK,Jr. on it, and it said: "Do you think he would want your dream to fail?

He wouldn't want President Obama to fail b/c he wouldn't want America to fail." (or something like that).

Should I risk my life to get a good picture of it or not? I can't decide.

The National Black Republicans would say "yes", AdyLeigh (to the billboard, not your life-risking!), as they claim MLK was a Republican.

Be cool or be cast-out, right boys and girls?

I have worms.

Aw, snap. Today's Tom Sawyer.

it got a lot more interesting when Jane, Kat, Cminri and Skiba started interacting in 140 character psychotic episodes.

Exsqueeze me? I baking powder? Pot...Kettle is holding for you on line 1.

In other psychotic news, I was completely unable to watch Tweety tonight.

This is hilarious.
Watch the video.

i freaking hate these sarah mclachlan aspca commercials! makes me cry in 2.3 seconds

how awesome is this new cesca blog?! it's so fast!

Ady - I would love a picture of that. Anyway you can get one, without risking your life?

QT

in the aaaaarmssssssss of an angeeeeellllllll

Yeah, gypsy, that commercial is uber-sad.

Thanks, Kyle. *takes another drink* Do I risk my life or not? It IS an awesome sign.

Kat, you have a point.

Checking line one,
Pot

Ady, try doing a drive-by pic of it (not hanging out) with someone else driving and mirrored glass.

They make me and my tv-seeing dog cry. The other dog refuses to see the tv.

Pot?

Where?

Pot? I don't know nuthin'.

Arguing with Ms. Kettle over the bong.

ceu,

Regarding your link: I'm still wondering WTF?

What a doof!

QT, I WILL find a way to get a picture of it. It's so awesome. Unfortunately, it's located on the porttion of I-85 known as the "death corridor". Many folks who just drive through that part of Greenville w/o trying to take a picture don't make it out alive. Maybe very early in the morning would work? Hmmm.

DP, that's a splendid idea. Heh.

I wonder who is paying for those billboards and if there might be one further down 85? I'll find out Sunday, I guess!

So I was reading Aaron Greenspan's HuffPo piece today about suing Google, and it just happens that the world's biggest online advertiser has blocked my site from running anything but PSAs. There's a note in my email telling me to use some PIN number they allegedly sent me.

I'm thinking it's time to find a different advertiser.

I think we got Jane's bong, DP. There's a damn cat in this fucking thing.

Kyle, the National Black Republican Association is paying for them.

SSV > bong

@Matt, that Aaron Greenspan piece is really interesting--not to mention, sort of pleasing. I can't help but love it when someone can stick it to a large corporation that feels it can shaft people without having to deal with the consequences.

*ackk* hairball

I've smoked thru a few different things, but never a mammal.

Would you guys please hurry up and fix the economy? I love it in China, but I would really like an IPA and a burrito from my favorite roach coach.

There are cool bongs to be bought here, but they only smoke tobacco in them. The pot would only be that shitty Burmese stuff, and you wouldn't even want to be stoned here. Trust me. Wouldn't mind some of that lovely S. Orgon polio weed, along with my IPA and burrito. Fix the fucking economy!

It leaves me in a bit of a quandary. I've seen the ad for "advertise liberally" on Hullabaloo but I'm always leery of change...

Limbaugh is A Racist
Your paragraphs linking to Rush's race baiting is hard to refute. Any one is debatable. In total, they are a slam dunk conviction.

The Republicans clearly want to be the SWP - Southern White Party.

I think I may send a letter requesting a ban on all footage of Rush. Watching him, and his jowls, make me physically ill. I would rather stare at pictures of Octomom's horrifically distended pregnant stomach than footage of Rush.

That's SWDP, Dr. D. Southern White Dick Party

I like the image of Rush rotating on a spit with an apple in his mouth over a slow mesquite fire, with the South Park Satan turning the handle.

guys why did i just spike a starbucks frappuccino? i'm left alone to my own devices this weekend. it's about to get weird.

-emsique

"come suck on my salty chocolate balls. put'em in your mouth and suck'em suck'em suck'em"

i love the chef

ceu - that video! Totally WTF?!?! Haha.

Jonah Goldberg makes me want to punch things.

Yeah, Gyps, they could serve up some Rush Ribs and Love Gravy.

We mustn't demonize nor cannibalize Rush.

Kyle, Limbaugh IS a demon. He was spawned in a fiery pit of lard and will not rest until he has brought about the apocalypse.

I agree on cannibalism, though. I mean, who'd want to eat meat that's only 10% lean, anyway?

i don't want rush dead. i just want to see him punched in the stomach (repeatedly) and watch the waves ride that big boy body

Kyle, someone tweeted me that you were a big pussy.

KO's sending me down memory lane here. Although not very far. I don't really remember much about the 90's.

I feel like Joe, poking random campfires with random sticks.

Aw, snap, Rachel called me "baby."

Kyle - I can't take it anymore! What is an SSV!?!?

QT

I would return Rachel's calls and emails. CALL ME RACHEL!!!!!

DP -

Yes. The Pogues were my favorite band of the 80s. I'm a big fan of Enya as well, but she isn't a band.

Movie Sign is a Mystery Science Theater 3000 (MST3K) reference. The show starts with sketch comedy. When it's time to watch this week's cheesey movie, the Movie sign starts to flash MOVIE, MOVIE, MOVIE, .... and Joel (later Mike) and the bots yell "we have Movie sign" and rush into the theater for this week's experiment.

Ever since I became a Mistie have always used the line "we have Movie sign" when I'm about to watch a movie.

I miss Joel and the bots.

Git, have you heard of RiffTrax?

QT: I tweetified an answer to you.

aww, git...(wipes away a tear)

someone said b(.)(.)bs?

SillyGit, I'd like to be Enya.

I'm over it jane, but I still miss them.

Glenn Beck needs to be slapped and sterilized. His contract with Fox must not allow him to take his normal psychotropic medication. He had a very casual relationship with reality before Fox (BF), after Fox he's become completely divorced from reality. I'm hoping that he lives in a bunker permanently since I think that he is a danger to himself and others.

Jonah is just another fuckwit.

Do you ever get the feeling that republicans just don't understand much shit sucked before all the government regulations and stuff they bitch about? They're always bitching about us not trusting people, well, we have reason not to. They should maybe pick up a copy of The Jungle and think about eating rat and ground up factory workers in their sausage. (Stick it to 'em Rachel!)

Also holy shit the opening scene of Battlestar was fucking intense.

Glenn Beck was divorced from reality long before he got to Fox News. Remember when he had surgery to have his head removed from his ass?

Also what does it mean that "Whole Foods" is following me on Twitter? All I can think about now are those stupid "Veggie Tale" movies.

Sorry, couldn't resist the Enya joke...

Ady - Me too. I'd gladly be a woman if I could be Enya.

I'm in love with Claire McCaskell. She rocks.

Let's try again.

Git, have you heard of RiffTrax?

I want to send Whole Foods an evil tweet telling them what douchebags they are for not having bulk quantities of white spelt flour. 2 lb bags are unacceptable. I want 25 lbs.

Sorry Kyle, distracted in FL replies: No. I have not heard of RiffTrax.

Here's a thought provoking question. What's the grossest thing you could possibly eat with peanut butter (the kind w/o the Salmonella included)?

I think a hard boiled egg would be disgusting w/peanut butter on it...

Karl Rove with peanut butter.

@Git: Mike Nelson still does MST3K-style riffs, except now he does them with guests (like Neil Patrick Harris!) and does major motion pictures.

You just play it along with your own copy of the DVD; they're really great, brings back plenty of MST3K memories when I'm watching/listening.

Peanut Butter mixed into your KFC Famous Bowl would be pretty nasty.

Lush Rimjob with or without peanut butter. I like my meat leaner.

Spam with peanut butter?

Rifftrax is of the awesome, but Cinematic Titanic might be more up your alley if you're a Joel fan, Git. Although, Rifftrax does have the advantage of being able to do any movie they want. In fact, that's how I keep up with the big movies these days... wait for the Rifftrax to make it tolerable (I'm looking at you, Spiderman 3, Indiana Jones 4, and Transformers...which was still effing intolerable even with the jokes.)

Oh dear god, SillyGit...now I'm going to be in therapy for years.

Does anybody else find the pictures of a Russian and Hillary Clinton smiling as they hold a big red button sort of... scary?

Kyle, how tall are you? People from your neck of the wood grow very tall...

I'm 6'3", they do grow us tall. Nice and random, btw.

young & tall. Mmmm. Sorry, what? Oops.

kyle it's time for you to facebook...

and how young? like fe young?

Thanks for that info Kyle. I'll check it out.

Worst MST3K movie ever:

Manos, Hands of Fate.

Looney Grounds-keeper Torgo captures Tourists for his evil master Manos. Features full contact ladies nightgown sand wrestling. Without Joel and the bots, this is the most mind numbingly boring movie ever made. It make Ed Wood movies look like masterpieces.

close second:

The Creeping Terror.

Evil huge alien monster made of carpet remnants lands on earth in a flying saucer obviously made from plywood. Even though the monster's top speed is about 1 mph and a person walking briskly could leave it in the dust, it manages to eat half of the town including the unforgettable high school dance scene where half of the students scream and walk directly into the monster's gaping mouth. Tom Servo was really annoyed by that. "This monster is not credible, you could just saunter away from it."

@gypsy I'm 26, so I don't know if that makes me fe-young or not (I have no clue how old fe is!)

Kyle, I damn well KNEW you were tall...

My ex-husband is 6'4", his father wss6'5"...and a friend of mine who lives here now is 6'10". Geez. Sometimes I feel like I'm in an episode of "Little People Big World" in that area.

I wonder if I'd grow taller if I moved down that way. Hmmm...

@Git - I cant believe you mentioned THE CREEPING TERROR!!!

Bobby...Bobby....

Kyle, it's not very random at all. Men from northern GA are freakin' tall.

Hey, you guys like the Etch-A-Sketch? Check this out:

http://www.etchy.org/

Kyle, do you have good insurance?

In China, at 6 ft I am really tall. My wife is 5'2" and is the second tallest in an office of 10 people. You could feed a village with Rush Limbaugh for a week. They use all the parts.

Bill Maher is beating up on a crazy old man!

Also...Manos? The "Hands of Fate?" Yes.

Ady..thanks for the etchy link - i think my son will like that.

Cory Booker + Real Time = The Awesome.

Dude, lit that show up.*

*Except for the whole money = happiness debate where CNBC's Erin Burnett basically insulted the entire country of Japan for being #2 economically and therefore sad, miserable little people. Not even joking.

I'm 5'3" when I round up...

emsique, would they eat Rush with or without peanut butter?

And, yes, El Myst, Bill Maher took off the kids glove for T. Boone Pickens.

"You want America to become less dependent on oil yet you voted for John McCain whose slogan was 'Drill, Baby, Drill!'"

Pwned!

Erin Burnett is not always, umm...accurate.

I joined the Etch-A-Sketch fan club and got a patch several years ago.

There's my geekitude in its full glory.

Git, I also love me some Pogues. Shane McGowan is by far the ugliest yet awesomest front man. If I Should Fall From Grace With God is my fave. Gets me Gaelic bluid bilin.

I think I'd have to use Mongolian spices for Lush, Szechaun (sp?) won't do it.

Mongolian long Pork.

Mongolian long Pork.

Dirty.

I'm afraid to answer that, Ady! Why do you ask?

I wish I had HBO so I could see Maher now instead of tomorrow.

No peanut butter here. That's Thailand. You could make lots of sausage with his miles of innards. Sweet and sour ribs. Fried smoked belly. Grind the tough parts, mouth, feet, brain, make dumplings. Braised Rush fingers. Peppers and loin. Wrap fatty butt in banana leaves and steam with peppers. Lots of fat to fry veggies in. Rush parts with fried noodles. Limbits in bao (steamed filled buns). mmmmm love Chinese food!

Being

And there's no good way to divert my attention.

Um.. Erin Burnett? Dumbass. Alright, fine, people were irresponsible and incurred bad debt, but credit card companies and banks and everyone else spent a lot of time and effort convincing people that we could have everything now. They sowed the wind, and now they're reaping the tornado and saying 'who could've seen a tornado coming?'

Ha! THank you Bill Maher for calling bullshit on the bullshit.

Being less than 5'5" is a good way to get my attention.

...is what that should say, I need to stop using "less than" signs.

You ever hear the album "Shane McGowan and the Popes"? It's awesome. Shane does a duet with Sinaed O'Conner. The whole album is rather critical of the Catholic Church. Songs titles like "The Church of the Holy Spook" sort of give that away.

"Rum, Sodomy, and the lash" and "If I Should Fall From Grace With God" are my two favs.

Kyle, that question scares you? Relax. I was merely asking for all the single, young women around here. I'm old enough to be your mother if I had been an unwed, pregnant 8th grader.

emsique, I think I feel sick.

Ripping on the Catholic Church is always one of my top things since I grew up under the benevolent thumb of the Papists. I'll have to check it out. I read that McGowan was going to get him some teeth.

cminri, you're most welcome. I love playing with that thing. Jane likes 'em too. She even got a patch.

Kyle, do you wear button fly jeans? If you do, then you'll need good insurance b/c I'm old, but it won't matter anymore.

Why do tall men like short women?

I understand that jane is diminutive also, but IIRC Ady has her beat.

They both appear to pack a lot of smarts in a smallish package.

I'm 6'2", my ex is 5'10" and my youngest daughter is 6'. She kicks ass at volleyball.

Age ain't nothin' but a number. I wear button fly, and my HSA is loaded clear up to my deductible.

Ady, I started being particularly fond of short girls when I hit my growth spurt. Rhyme? None. Reason? Nope. Just do.

Ady, always keep an open mind when it comes to food. It makes traveling more fun! My favorite gross food is the Phillippine balut. It's a steamed, fertilized duck embroyo in the egg, with the embryo about 20 days old. I mean it's my favorite, in that it's really gross. Not that I would ever eat it.

Why do tall men like short women?

I like women. Almost any size.

Why is that when Ana Marie Cox is on my Tee Vee I can't take my eyes off of her?

I really have to get over this redhead attraction. (I've been saying that for about 40 years.)

I do not have Jane beat in any, way shape or form. (Please take that back. She doesn't live that far away from me and now I'm scared). Jane always wins.

SillyGit? 6'2"? Hmmm...

Kyle, DAMMIT, DAMMIT, DAMMIT. I wish I didn't have a broken back...

I used to be a competitive gymnast, and I still like to lift weights...

Kyle, please tell me that you HATE sailing.

Why do tall men like short women?

I'm 6'2" and I think there's nothing wrong with tall chicks...Have I mentioned that Robert Gibbs is no CJ Craig?

I didn't finish that. I also played volleyball in high school for a while...

Not all tall men like short women. Yao Ming the Chinese basketball stud's wife is 6 ft. My ex is 5'9" and her hubby is 5'8".

Kyle you MUST stay far AWAY from the Upstate...

emsique, ahhh my god...

Oh well, I have blonde hair. No red.

Not all tall men like short women. Yao Ming the Chinese basketball stud's wife is 6 ft.

Are you implying that Yao Ming doesn't like tall women cos his wife's only 6 feet tall? 6 feet is pretty tall for a girl. You'd probably have to manufacture a height appropriate wife for that dude.

Good news, Ady, I absolutely abhor sailing!

Wow. I always thought 5'4 was average. I'm starting to feel short. I know for certain all these tall men around make me nervous... or something...

QT

Whew...Oh, good. That's good news. I love it. And when I was in high school, we used to go sailing and/or boating on Lake Hartwell all the time.

Remember when there was water in Lake Hartwell?

QT, it's like we're in a virtual episode of "Little People Big World" around here.

Queen -

I don't bite unless you ask me to.

Dude, that's my line...back away from that one, please.

Worst newspaper headline today: "Anderson Coroner Says Death A Mishap."

Shitty headline indeed.

It would have been better as "Anderson Coroner says mishap led to death"

Rectum hell, it fucking killed him.

Ady, I barely remember water in Lake Hartwell. The branch that runs near my house has been completely dried up for about 2 years now. Sad.

Damn we must keep the same hours. In the south they say, "Rectum hell, it darn near killed 'em both.

Now here's some outrage. Did you see this?

Conservatives angry over Michelle Obama's trip to homeless shelter
It seems Michelle Obama can't even do a good deed without inspiring some outrage on the right.

The first lady visited a Washington, D.C., homeless shelter on Thursday, bringing fruit collected in a White House food drive and serving some of the shelter's clients. That alone isn't objectionable, of course. But some conservatives -- sparked by a blog post from the Los Angeles Times' Andrew Malcom -- are in a tizzy over an Associated Press photo that shows a man taking a picture of Obama using a cellphone.

"It doesn't detract from the first lady's generous gesture or the real needs she seeks to highlight to ask two bothersome journalistic questions about these news photos," Malcom wrote, continuing:

If this unidentified meal recipient is too poor to buy his own food, how does he afford a cellphone?

And if he is homeless, where do they send the cellphone bills?

Conservative blogger Michelle Malkin was one of those who joined the resulting scrum, writing that the photo "ruin[ed] what was supposed to be a sob story photo op of the compassionate Mrs. O catering to the downtrodden." She, in turn, linked to another blogger, Kathy Shaidle. Shaidle -- who is, to put it politely, not a particularly nice person -- wrote:

Today's "poor" are the rich Jesus warned you about: fat, slovenly, wasteful of their money and other people's...

He spends all his (our) money on cellphones and, most likely, tattoos and drugs and booze and other crap, and has no money left for a home and food. And why should he bother? We pay for his shelter and food anyhow...

What's really funny in that news story by the way is what they're serving at the soup kitchen: risotto with brocolli. Obviously some rich white liberal did the cooking that day, feeling all proud of herself, and what thanks did she get? Some lowclass loser going, "You expect me to eat this weird crap

http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2009/03/06/cellphone_photo/index.html

Lake Hartwell does look pretty bad. I was down that way in January, actually. Water levels looked lower than I'd ever seen them. But, I grew up (well until sometime in high school) in northeastern OH in a little port town right on Lake Erie which probably explains my love of the water, sailing, boating and such as.

Growing up on the lake in Hartwell, I'm just more comfortable on a pontoon than a sailboat.

The fuss being made over that photo is ridiculous. Even if the man is homeless and has a Blackberry, how does that reflect on the homeless and the extremely poor in general? She seems to think that people enjoy living in poverty--wish she would try it for a while.

She being Kathy Shaidle; made an edit that left a dangling pronoun in there.

FE, if you really want a chincilla I will mail you both of mine. They need to be with someone that will give them more attention. This isn't a joke. Hit my FB with an address and in a couple weeks you will have a an ebony and gray chichi.

I can't even comment on that or I might have a stroke to go along with my broken back.

At some point, I believe Lake Hartwell should be renamed, "Muddy Pit With Some Water Hartwell."
Kyle, I think you're safe. Where in "Lake" Hartwell is the water over 6 ft. deep?

That story is typical Republicanastycal clap trap.

Straw man. Straw man.

Who claimed the guy with a cell phone was a homeless person?

They did.

What evidence did they show that he claimed to be homeless?

None.

Construct a straw man and knock him down.

If Osama bin Laden had bin a straw man, the Rushpublics would have killed him long ago. Unfortunately, they suck at dealing with the real world. They excell at solving their entirely fabricated problems, but real problems are intractable.

Republicanastycal wankers.

Pathos abounds.

That's right people. Today's poor are actually rich now b/c jesus warned us about such a fucked up, backward thing happening. Where and when did jesus issue such a dire warning about the "EVIL" poor people? Seriously, WTF? I want to see the verse.

Would jesus turn away a hungry man b/c he was probably given a damned cellphone?

Conservatives not only hate poor people, they think they're funny too...

Not everyone that shows up at a soup kitchen is homeless. Michelle certainly isn't. The other volunteers are not. How do we know that the guy taking the pictures wasn't a volunteer? He may even have been from Tennessee and been a volunteer volunteer.

Rushpublic propagandists.

Queen - I don't bite unless you ask me to

Silly: Noted.

Note to self: Ask SillyRatfacedGit to bite when we have the Cescans convention.

Regarding homeless people with cellphones: one of the most challenging things for homeless people who are trying to STOP being homeless, is that no one can find them for work or home opportunities. Cellphones are often provided by charity groups, along with addresses.

Frequently in this country - the "homeless" range from the people who ordinarily would be lower middle class to working class to abjectly poor. Homelessness has a lot of causes, and sometimes people can end their homeless condition if you just put enough structure around them to allow the system to re-embrace them.

QT

QT -

Excellent info. It shows that the republicans under consideration have no problem generating straw men because of their stunningly superficial knowledge.

I forgot about charity cellphones. Several groups in New Haven and Bridgeport provided prepaid cellphones to homeless and underemployed persons. Their priority for phones was to mothers of small children that could not afford phones and then to anyone else that showed that they would work when given the opportunity. As you point out, it's not easy to contact a homeless person.

Cellphone issue solved.

What about this bit of lunacy: "Today's "poor" are the rich Jesus warned you about: fat, slovenly, wasteful of their money and other people's..."

And this, which is clearly NOT funny: "What's really funny in that news story by the way is what they're serving at the soup kitchen: risotto with brocolli. Obviously some rich white liberal did the cooking that day, feeling all proud of herself, and what thanks did she get? Some lowclass loser going, "You expect me to eat this weird crap."

What about this bit of lunacy: "Today's "poor" are the rich Jesus warned you about: fat, slovenly, wasteful of their money and other people's..."

They are putting words into Jesus's mouth. Jesus warned about something like that but I don't think it was the 'rich'. He warned about the money changers in the temple who were slovenly, since they only played games with money (like SWGILM) and did not actual useful work. Note that saying that today's poor are like the stockbrokers that Jesus warned us about is nonsensical at best. Their statement is also nonsense. Today's poor are nothing like the rich. The people making this statement are exactly like the people Jesus warned us about. Stupid, slovenly, wasteful twats. I point at the Iraq war as evidence of wastefulness.

And this, which is clearly NOT funny: "What's really funny in that news story by the way is what they're serving at the soup kitchen: risotto with brocolli. Obviously some rich white liberal did the cooking that day, feeling all proud of herself, and what thanks did she get? Some lowclass loser going, "You expect me to eat this weird crap."

Putting words into people's mouths again. Hungry people aren't very picky. These arrogant twats would not know that since they only travel from work, to country club, to home. They've never actually seen a homeless person and they've never gone hungry a day in their lives.

These people are despicable. Arrogant, obnoxious, fat rich assholes. Fuck 'em.

Adding, re cell phones: MA has a program run by one of the smaller phone companies up here that provides free cell phones and service to folks who would qualify for unemployment and foodstamps. It's advertised on TeeVee up here all the time.

(And BTW, I'm 6'4", my wife is 4'10")

DP - I always check the PTT the following day as well. It looks like Alan does also too. ;->

I should have mentioned that Jesus's notion of wastefulness was doing things like buying $15,000 waste cans while homeless people are going hungry. The Rushpublics are identically the rich people Jesus warned us about.

Pepublicanastycals = Hypocrites