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Open thread for mocking the constant variety of cable news hackery, and whatever else shmears your bagel.

Tonight! He won.

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  • theo

    happy birthday, Packy!

  • dontpanic23

    How do I follow that up except by saying “Me too, happy birthday, Packy!”

  • dontpanic23

    Bob must have either been reading FB or he just felt the need out here.

  • dontpanic23

    (make that need.

  • dontpanic23

    )Try to end parentheses after the fact and got slapped by the site saying I was posting too much. Dayum.

  • jane

    Howdy DP- how’s it going? Tried to call.HAPPY BIRTHDAY PACKSTER!!!!!!!!

  • http://www.broadwaycarl.blogspot.com Broadway Carl

    It’s nice to see that Obama isn’t afraid to lock horns if provoked. Finally, some Democratic backbone.

    Happy Birthday, Packster!

  • JMY

    Seriously, what the hell is wrong with these Republicans and conservatives? Do they hate America? From blocking confirmations of cabinet nominees over trivial bs, complaining about detainees in maximum security prisons (how is that a threat to American people when they probably won’t be in the prison population?), bitching about too much spending and how it won’t stimulate the economy, when they couldn’t figure out shit to keep the economy strong.Oh and Chuck Todd needs to be slapped. He is horrible. He has asked some of the most stupid and trivial questions I’ve ever heard at a press briefing. If I were Gibbs, I’d call him out on it, but then again that’s why I’m not press secretary b/c I wouldn’t last a day.Everyday, conservatives, Republicans, overly-religious people do or say something that makes my head explode.

  • dontpanic23

    Jane, you did? I must have been outside smokin’. Or offspring ignored the call waiting thingie sound to get me back for telling everyone he knows how badly the kitchen stinks because he keeps putting off his turn on the dishes.Want me to try or you try back? Or do the Cesca?

  • jane

    JMY, AdyLeigh also has the Hard On for Chuck Todd today. (I’ve never liked him either.)

  • Kat

    >>>shmears your bagelYuummm….cream cheese. And I’m noticing a trend here, Bob. Let the corniness continue!!And woo hoo – a birthday in the house! Happy day, Packy!

  • http://unrelatedcontent.com Travis D

    From blocking confirmations of cabinet nominees over trivial bs

    Bill’s overseas financial interests aren’t really all that trivial.

  • dontpanic23

    Travis: The sky is blue in the daytime on a sunny earth day.

  • jane

    What the hell is “the Cesca”? A new dance?Just read my emails and was gonna check in witchya.

  • dontpanic23

    ‘Bout didn’t make it–glad the PTT was early. Theo was propping me up from her place.And that’s The Cesca™.

  • http://unrelatedcontent.com Travis D

    Sorry I can’t get on the ol’ Hillary bandwagon! Maybe if she wasn’t basically the second coming of Joe Liberman, I’d feel differently.

  • ceu

    Maybe we should chip in and get him the perfect birthday gift:http://thepoliticalcarnival.blogspot.com/2009/01/sarah-palins-red-naughty-monkey-heels.html

  • dontpanic23

    Chris, count me in. He’d look lovely in them.

  • dontpanic23

    That’s definitely a family member of Palin’s selling them, otherwise the “Aunt Sarah” would make me laugh. Check out the real auction and the spelling in the description. And *someone* needs to be tossed off the governor’s Christmas list for being tacky and selling them (unless Aunt Sarah put her up to it before the book deal).

  • dontpanic23

    Maybe I was being too detailed.Travis: The moon is not made of green cheese.

  • http://www.windonwater.net QueenTiye

    I say we buy a feathered boa and tickle Travis with it.And, also, Happy Birthday, Packy! :) QT

  • Kat

    Hmmmm…what a shame that the “naughty red monkey heels” didn’t make it to some deserving charity. Or oops!…..the garbage bags currently sitting at the RNC offices.

  • http://unrelatedcontent.com Travis D

    People with AOL screennames as their username: quality zingers since 1996!

  • dontpanic23

    Somebody needs to lighten up. As usual.

  • Kat

    So DP, your comment about smoking reminded me that I read a blurb recently about the NC General Assembly looking into medicinal marijuana. :D

  • Lee

    Been busy with school and work now, but I read this today:”It’s a mixed bag. On the one hand, Republicans are showing a few signs of intellectual life and political smarts here,” said Steve Hayward of the American Enterprise Institute. “If you really want stimulus, BETTER TO PUT MONEY PERMANENTLY IN THE HANDS OF PEOPLE QUICKLY TO spend or SAVE, rather than try a massive government spending program that will take time to get going and then may fizzle out … The flaw in the GOP proposal is that a large portion of Americans — I think it may be nearly half of employed households now — pay little or no income taxes at all any more because rates and thresholds and exemptions were lowered so much in previous GOP tax cuts under Bush, etc. This is not necessarily a good thing: everyone should pay *some” share in supporting the general government. And in many cases people pay more in payroll tax than in federal income tax, so that’s where the most bang for the buck would be in terms of cutting taxes.”The whole thing is pretty aweful, but the part I put in all caps…that’s exactly why the first stimulus sucked so hard (for the economy, not my personal expenses) and exactly why the 2nd stimulus is going out in the form of gov’t spending.(Sorry for posting a block, but that’s pretty aweful stuff I think.)

  • jane

    Kat: W000000000OOOO00T!(I have a cornea! Ow!)

  • JMY

    Travis – the Hillary Clinton thing may not be trivial, and I’m sure there are many other issues that are of concern about other nominees, but you can’t sit there and tell me that holding up Holder because of a concern that he may consider prosecuting people who committed torture isn’t trivial.

  • dontpanic23

    Kat, it’ll never happen here. We just got a fucking lottery and they had to call it something different just to get it past the churches.

  • jane

    Buy Your North Carolina Jeebus Tickets Now!!!

  • Kat

    One can always hope, DP.And I have a uterus! Ow!(Not trying to gloat or anything, DP. In fact, I’d be fairly willing to give mine up.)

  • jane

    Uteruses (uteri?) are overrated.That said, could I sell mine on the baby-killing Obama-backed medical black market?

  • http://unrelatedcontent.com Travis D

    One can always hope, DP.

    Funny, I’ve had friends who used that as their dating strategy.

  • jane

    TRAVIS: What part of “Don’t be a dick” is so HARD TO UNDERSTAND?

  • dontpanic23

    Kat, they are definitely overrated when you are finished with them.

  • http://unrelatedcontent.com Travis D

    If double penetration jokes are wrong I don’t wanna be right.

  • http://www.bobcesca.com Bob Cesca

    Just popping in to say… I enjoy good beer, and I’m trying this so-called “Budweiser American Ale” tonight. It’s not terrible. It’s not Samuel Adams by any stretch, but it’s not pissy either. It’s like a thinner Yuengling Lager with a touch of that weird Budweiser-y taste.

  • jane

    Hi Bob! I like pie and beer!*sigh*

  • http://unrelatedcontent.com Travis D

    Just popping in to say… I enjoy good beer, and I’m trying this so-called “Budweiser American Ale” tonight. It’s not terrible

    Does it taste like PBR at all?

  • Kat

    Oh goodness y’all, you have got to go look at this.(and don’t worry – this isn’t one of Jane’s nasty mini-penis-style links.)http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28814847/displaymode/1107/s/2/framenumber/6/

  • jane

    You know what? I love PBR when it comes to cheap American beer! I’m kind of afraid of a Budweiser product, though.

  • http://unrelatedcontent.com Travis D

    My ladder of beer:Natty BohSmithwicksPBRHigh Lifeall others

  • Kat

    I have a mental block with all things Budweiser related. I can’t even look at a Clydesdale.

  • jane

    Well Kat, that link was for that Mongo Jerry guy, not for the General Public.

  • Kat

    Well Jane, you can’t put it out there and NOT expect us to click! It’s like putting a pie in front of you.

  • jane

    Mmmmm, pie.

  • dontpanic23

    Bud gives that pinchy little headache.

  • dontpanic23

    Pie. I missed the piefest.

  • jane

    (will I get banned for saying I’ve never really liked Sam Adams?)Since they popped the cap in NC I’ve never looked back…

  • http://unrelatedcontent.com Travis D

    Sam Adams tastes like Loenbrau or something to me. One of those beers you see people drink but never get around to drinking yourself.

  • Kat

    When I drink beer, which isn’t often because I’m a wino, I drink beer like Stella Artois and Heineken. I like the Europeans. And their beer.

  • http://hedonistperspective.typepad.com Alexander Rose

    Just want to see what the ptt looked like from my Blackberry.Happy birthday Packy.Oh and I’m currently on the road to drunk with a few friends.That is all

  • Kat

    Make us proud, Axl.

  • jane

    go for it Axl! drink a shot of Cuervo for me and Gypsy (she would want it that way!)

  • dontpanic23

    Hello Axl-in-motion.

  • Packy

    Bud is swill. Made from rice. There is no such thing as “not terrible” Budweiser.Sorry, Bob.

  • http://unrelatedcontent.com Travis D

    7:30. Damn I’m jealous. I need to find a tavern around here. Lousy DC area.

  • http://unrelatedcontent.com Travis D

    Rice beer IS kind of the worst.

  • Packy

    Oh. Thanks for the happy birthday wishes, everyone!

  • ceu

    Kat – Spaten

  • http://www.osborneink.com Matt Osborne

    Yuengling, Blue Moon, and Lazy Magnolia.

  • jane

    Hey. There is NOTHING WRONG with alcohol made from rice, people. Go to Asia, and tell me they don’t know how to do it right.

  • Kat

    Jane has a point. Sake is some pretty awesome stuff. I’ve never really loved the taste but dude….after the first sip or two you don’t notice the taste.

  • http://unrelatedcontent.com Travis D

    Unnnngh Kirin IchibanSo bad

  • Packy

    The actually DO know how, in Asia, Jane.Some of the best mass-produced beer I’ve drunk is Japanese and Chinese, both rice beers.Budweiser is teh suck, though.

  • ceu

    skunk piss

  • jane

    Kat, that’s only the beginning. Those fuckers make so many different types of wines from rice.At times of drought etc, they had to forbid the peasants from making their liquors from rice so everyone could eat.

  • prcleburne

    George Will’s paen to George Bush in this weeks Newsweek made me want to puke. To wit :1. Global warming is a ” media- manufactured alarm ” which Bush nobly resisted2. History will look kindly on Bush re: Iraq if ” … a decade hence , Iraq has a non-sectarian regime controlled by a multiparty,recognizably democratic process ” ( if a bullfrog had wings, it wouldn’t bump it’s ass when it tried to jump ).3. Americans who died in Iraq ..” did so for the security of America’s freedom. “4. “..the war ( in Iraq ) was positively related to the fact that there was no attack on America after 9/11.”5. Critics of Bush’s Iraq war are ” unhinged “.6. Bush’s failures viz Katrina were ” secondary to ” the failures of the governments of Louisiana and New Orleans.7. Bush’s appointment of Roberts and Alito are “excellent legacies “.And to think that at one time I had a modicum of respect for George Will. He is just Rush Limbaugh with a thesaurus.

  • http://hedonistperspective.typepad.com Alexander Rose

    I will make everyone proud.No Cuervo, Crown Royal shots (black people you understand)Beer from everywhere is good as long as it isn’t shitty.And good rice liquor is awesome.

  • ceu

    “It’s either him or Porky Pig”, Tweety on picture of Al D’Amato. Hardball, 1/23/09

  • jane

    Axl, remember Jon Stewart on Hillary and Crown Royal? (“It’s 2-for-2 in elitist names!”)

  • Packy

    I like sake, too, Kat. Except for the really bad experience I had with it once in an Asian restaurant in Dutch Harbor. But it might have been the mass quantities I consumed, too.I don’t remember.

  • Packy

    Sam Adams is pretty good stuff… has anyone here taste Alaskan Amber?It’s goooood beer.

  • Packy

    Ok. How did I kill the thread?

  • Packy

    Is this thing on?

  • jane

    Packster, I sampled several many microbrews I’d never seen while there…mmmmm

  • dontpanic23

    Late for me, Cescans. Must watch KO Over There.G’night and you guys give Packy a great birthday pie.

  • Packy

    There’s a local brewery here in Kenai, Jane, and they make some kickass beer. Tasty.

  • GItheScholar

    Beer!!!!!Yuengling Lager for you southern buttholes is the king of beers up here in PA. Draft is the only preferred method of consumption and chased with hot wings.

  • jane

    Packy, what kind of pie or cake do you like? We’ll send a Pony Express.

  • Kat

    You didn’t kill it Packy. Sometimes I think the thread requires a breather. Especially when reminiscing about liquor.G’night DP! It’s great to have you back!

  • ceu

    More eavesdropping info on KO…and Jay Rockefeller said he’s quite prepared to believe what Tice has said.

  • GItheScholar

    Happy Half Century Mark Packy!!!

  • Kat

    Who you callin’ a butthole, Mr. theScholar??

  • Packy

    PeCannnnnnn pie. But I’m not sure Sarah wouldn’t mistake a pony for a moose, and shoot it from a helicopter.

  • GItheScholar

    Nite DP.Oh and Travis I feel compelled to call you a dick from powers outside of my control.

  • Packy

    Ummm. I passed the half-century a number of years back, Joe. But thanks for good wishes.

  • http://unrelatedcontent.com Travis D

    >>Yuengling Lager for you southern buttholes is the king of beers up here in PAUh they sell it as far south as Richmond, and I think even in the deep south.

  • http://unrelatedcontent.com Travis D

    And why do I draw such ire from the functionally illiterate demographic?

  • jane

    Wow, does anybody up North still drink the Genny Cream Ale?

  • GItheScholar

    Sorry Kat. My spirit of bipartisanship is over. I am mirroring our President. I am still in fucking shock from that video Bob posted. Our new President has a giant purple pair of Thatchers.

  • jane

    Travis, you draw ire from every demographic. Consequence of Dickishness, I guess.

  • http://unrelatedcontent.com Travis D

    >>Wow, does anybody up North still drink the Genny Cream Ale?In Cleveland, yes.>>Travis, you draw ire from every demographic. Consequence of Dickishness, I guessWhateva. All I did ITT was dare question the glorious Clinton Revolution, and all the bluehairs piled on. My bad (?).

  • Packy

    I have to run, might be back later. Talk amongst yourselves.Here’s your topic: Kirsten Gillibrand!

  • http://hedonistperspective.typepad.coM Alexander Rose

    Uh oh… Someone broke out the drugs (weed)Stay tuned…

  • GItheScholar

    No offense PTTers. I was just making an entrance. Don’t hold it against me.No, I am not familiar with Genny Cream Soda but Cream soda is the shite.

  • Kat

    Our president is calling people buttholes now, Joe? Who knew. Now, if he was talking to Cornyn or Reid, I could totally understand. But sweet little southerners like me, Jane, DP, veralynn, and Gyps?

  • http://www.broadwaycarl.blogspot.com Broadway Carl

    All I did ITT was dare question the glorious Clinton Revolution, and all the bluehairs piled on.

    …and ingratiate yourself by calling them fuctionally illiterate.

  • jane

    T, was it merely a daring political opinion to say “People with AOL screennames as their username: quality zingers since 1996!”?Just wondering. Cause it looked like Dickishness to me.

  • jane

    Genessee Cream Ale, Joe. Beer, not soda.

  • http://unrelatedcontent.com Travis D

    That was my reaction to his/her/its needling. Heat, kitchen, etc.

  • veralynn

    who doesn’t love John Dean? I ask you, who? on a side note, playing WW trivia and watching KO and readig here….whew I cannot multitask. Happy day Packy!

  • veralynn

    see? can’t spell anymore either

  • jane

    Maybe if it were funnier I’d be on your side.

  • http://unrelatedcontent.com Travis D

    >>who doesn’t love John Dean? I ask you, who?G. Gordon Liddy

  • http://unrelatedcontent.com Travis D

    I’ll note all of this on your customer satisfaction survey, ma’am.

  • jane

    No, make that the definitive: IF it were funny, I’d be on your side.

  • veralynn

    lol Travis and I would add darth cheney to that list come to think of it

  • http://unrelatedcontent.com Travis D

    >>No, make that the definitive: IF it were funny, I’d be on your side.Oh, well NOW I give a shit

  • jane
  • http://unrelatedcontent.com Travis D
  • theo

    for some reason, I’m seeing jane and travis pulling out light sabers while imperial death match plays.

  • jane

    Theo, I’m not into that sci-fi shit. More like Gypsy said, heads in toilets and all.And how you doing, miss overachiever-I’m-taking-40-hours-this-semester-giant-brain?

  • http://unrelatedcontent.com Travis D
  • ceu

    “What drugs do you suppose Blago is on?”, one of the bluehairs idly wondered.

  • theo

    takin’ a fuckin’ break, Jane. I only have to do about four hours of hmwk a week to get 45 credits this semester, so…score.

  • Kat

    The Packster gave the adults a topic: Kirsten Gillibrand. Know anything about her, Jane? Carl? She gets a high rating from the NRA, but supports abortion rights. Lawrence O’Donnell doesn’t have much use for her though:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lawrence-odonnell/new-yorks-next-senator-op_b_160497.html

  • theo

    Travis! Venture Brothers! Go team Venture!

  • jane

    Kat, was reading this earlier. Color me unsure.

  • Kat

    I’m going with acid, Chris. Blago is obviously delusional.

  • http://www.broadwaycarl.blogspot.com Broadway Carl

    Haven’t looked at her resume yet, Kat. She’s from upstate which is probably why she’s pro NRA.

  • theo

    unless I’m wrong, both Burris and Gilibrand will only be serving for two years, correctamundo?

  • GItheBLIND

    Jane and Travis,Consider this a warning. If either of you post something like that again I am going to start posting non stop war stories to kill the thread. I am still in shock from that shit. You two should be ashamed of yourselves.

  • http://unrelatedcontent.com Travis D

    Oh were you in the Army? I couldn’t tell from your posts.

  • theo

    GI: right there with you.did my post of boys kissing make you blind? even so, it wasn’t as bad as that .

  • http://www.broadwaycarl.blogspot.com Broadway Carl

    Theo – Yes, you are correct, both are up for re-election if they decide to run in 2010.

  • ceu

    Christ, he opens his mouth & just dumbs random shit onto the airwaves. He gets lost between the subject & the predicate of a sentence. How was he ever elected governor?

  • Kat

    Holy shit, I hadn’t seen that Blago interview, Chris. I’m changing his drug o’ choice to cocaine. He rambles on like my ex did after he had a couple lines in him.

  • jane

    Joe, you know I lurve and respect you. What the fuck link are you referring to?If it’s the micropenis thing, I understand…too close to home?

  • GItheScholar

    On my first day at boot camp my drill sergeant yelled at me and it was the first time a large black man ever spit in my face. (Many more can follow “T”)

  • ceu

    I’m laughing, but it’s really not funny…

  • theo

    people discussing adult things: so, if either Gilibrand or Burris fucks up hard, they can be replaced in two years. Hopefully they’ll just vote with the party line. I mean, while the US senate has some power to it, two senators won’t be able to fuck up that much.GI: I wonder how many of those pictures were photoshopped?

  • Kat

    Eek! Not the micropenis! (and thanks for the warning – I didn’t click this time)

  • ceu

    And it sounds like Patterson may have screwed his political future for ever and ever amen.

  • veralynn

    herding cattle and roping steer?? really? blago, oh blago

  • GItheScholar

    On my first day in Kuwait my platoon sergeant started getting the itch that he hadn’t scratched since Vietnam. (I can do this for hours jane. Yes, I have a micropenis. Thank you for giving me the clinical name for my condition)

  • cminri

    Why are there so many dumbass governors?

  • theo

    actually, in a huge canadian study, men with micropenises were found to have happier girlfriends/wives, and one or two even had mistresses.

  • GItheScholar

    Really theo? That is wonderful news. I will have to go tell my mistresses. Oh Jane!

  • Kat

    Hmmm…interesting speculation about who might take over the 10:00 p.m. slot on MSNBC after Rachel. If it is Chuck Todd, I will throw a total childish hissy fit.http://www.portfolio.com/views/blogs/mixed-media/2009/01/22/msnbcs-newest-host-bill-maher-could-happen

  • theo

    and GI gets the first QOTW of the night.

  • jane

    (not taking Joe’s calls)

  • jane

    Fuck Todd? I hope not. Worse than Gregory.

  • JG

    Chuck Todd is revealing himself to be a real TOOL–Stretch was a tool based on his echoing right wing TP’s whereas Chuck Todd just asks the dumbest,most inconsequential questions.

  • Kat

    In the rest of that study, Theo, they found that the women were happier because, out of guilt over their micropenises (peni?), the men allowed them to have affairs with hot young construction workers.

  • GItheScholar

    Sweet. I only had to forgo my hubris and insult my penis to get it. I will have to not make that a habit. Jane, when I call you will come.

  • jane

    Kat, I bet you’re right, whether it made it into the study or not.

  • jane

    Yes, Master.

  • theo

    Kat: oooh, burn. gonna have to go find that study now.

  • GItheScholar

    Goddamnit Kat!!!! You ruined the dream. Fucking sluts.

  • jane

    I think Blago means “please draw and quarter me.”

  • GItheScholar

    I loves me my jane. I’s not mad at her for posting pictures of obese gina.{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{Jane}}}}}}}}}}}}}}

  • theo

    y’know, we got to penises really fast.

  • GItheScholar

    Blago is a worthless piece of foreskin. I still have no idea WTF he was talking about. I heard something a 6 horses, Trial, Impeach and Jury.

  • Kat

    Okay, one more from the Link Queen tonight. No micropeni in this one either. But it helps to like a little Beyonce.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PqI12R8YNU

  • GItheScholar

    I bring the penis into the PTT. It is my responsibility to the GDAB blog to talk about wang. However, macro/microwang is something new I need to study and come back with some new material. Just say thank you.

  • http://www.ieatgravel.com/ Alaska (I Eat Gravel)

    I’m I immature for finding this funny?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdDnKh1PgjU

  • jane

    Watching Blago’s like watching Keanu Reeves “acting”. That is to say, sort of train-wrecky.

  • GItheScholar

    Hey, I love keanu and he is one of the greatest actors of my time. Have you ever heard of Point Break?

  • jane

    Elwood, no. No you are not.

  • http://www.broadwaycarl.blogspot.com Broadway Carl

    Wow, remember when we all preferred the newbie on the tubes, Chuck Todd and his magic screen as compared to CNN’s John King? My how the Chuck Todds have fallen. He’s fallen prey to the Beltway.

  • jane

    I liked Point Break, Joe, but it’s not enough to forgive Keanu’s existence. Even adding Bill And Ted’s, just not enough.

  • Kat

    Chuck Todd drank the Kool Aid, Carl. And swallowed the blue pill (along with…oh, nevermind).

  • veralynn

    you know was looking forward to this stimulus package because I work for a heavy constuction equipment dealer and I want to keep my job. But now I hear there is only 18% for infrastructure?? Seriously? WTF?

  • jane

    …the brown acid?

  • jane

    (How can three cats eat the same food yet only one of their poops has that FUNK? Jeeeez)

  • Kat

    Things I could have gone all weekend without knowing, Jane.

  • jane

    Sorry.

  • GItheScholar

    Vera,18% of $825 billion is $148 billion. I saw a report that the governors only had $160 billion total in infrastructure projects. So hang in there. I am sure it will get bigger.Hey, flash a boob signal if you are a little afraid every time you drive over an old bridge.(o)(o)

  • jane

    (oXo)

  • GItheScholar

    I drove over a metal bridge today and was honestly scared. That is a crying shame. (.)(.)

  • veralynn

    thanks GI! (.)(.)

  • jane

    If Gypsy were here I’m sure she’d have something to say about bridges and infrastructure.

  • Kat

    Yea, like why is infrastructure only given 18%??

  • Kat

    (and I mean that in the Gypsy way)

  • GItheScholar

    gypsy likes infrastructure? I really want a light rail system that goes everywhere. I am sick and tired of driving to Alabama.

  • Alan4s

    >> (How can three cats eat the same food yet only one of their poops has that FUNK? Jeeeez)Different breeds of animals have evolved to have different strains of gut bacteria, so would digest the same food differently. It’s the same reason people from different cultures vary in thier ability to digest milk, for example.Proof that I know way too much useless bullshit.

  • GItheScholar

    sorry I missed the joke.I totally slam dunked my conservative history professor today. He was bitching about universal healthcare and I punch him in his bag with this one,”Sir, you were a military man right? (Replies Yes) What kind of healthcare does the military have? (Dirty look and silence)” I was mildly impressed with myself.

  • SillyGit

    Travis -Joe The Leiberman needs to be placed in a stockade in the middle of Gaza City for no less than five days and no more than a fortnight.I think that would be fair.

  • veralynn

    I miss military healthcare…..those were the days

  • jane

    Yay Joe. I’m voting for you.

  • jane

    And yes, Alan, you know faaaaar too much. We’ll have to kill you now.

  • Alan4s

    I could tell you the story about having all four of my wisdom teeth pulled onboard by Navy dentists. A month of eating nothing but instant breakfast.But the price was right, and I was young, so it was okay.

  • GItheScholar

    (Loads multiple Obama Special weapons)

  • veralynn

    lol Alan, that reminds me of one of my favorite West Wing quotes…something to the effect of “that is all part of the service here at CJ’s House of Useless Knowledge”…probably not quoting that correctly, but I have always loved that and I use it frequently

  • ceu

    She (Gillibrand) refused to take a call from the president today?? Did I hear that right?

  • GItheScholar

    I am not saying military healthcare is the best but it is the best priced and should be the model for universal healtcare. Tricare is the actual name for it and I like it. I fucking refuse to pay for medical care. Thus the 9 years of service. This is purely an economic issue for me not a healthcare issue. We can work on that later. But there is no way Americans should be filing bankruptcy for getting cancer. That is the ultimate kick in the junk on the way out.

  • ceu

    oh – clarification. She didn’t actually refuse. She was in the middle of speaking to the press when the call came.

  • GItheScholar

    Blago “Golden Calf of Cable News” HA!!!!!

  • veralynn

    Rachel has popcorn!!

  • Kat

    “Coocoo for Cocoa Puffs territory” – Rachel re: Blago. Ha.

  • SillyGit

    Mr. GI the ScholarYeungling has opened a brewery in Tampa FL and thus it is available all over FL. It is the only lager brewed in the U.S. that I like besides Sam Adams Boston Lager. I like all lagers from Germany, Czech Republic, and several from Belgium and France.I prefer ales, there are lots of good ones of them from all over the place but the best are from England, Belgium, and U.S. Microbreweries.The Michelob Pale Ale is better than the Budweiser Amer. Ale but you are better off buying any ale from Redhook, Harpoon, Shipyard, Bridgeport, Rogue, Anchor, Sierra Nevada, or Sam Adams. There are a bunch of others too. Bunches of good microbrewed stuff in Canada.I am a beer nazi. The best commercial beers come from Belgium.

  • http://www.broadwaycarl.blogspot.com Broadway Carl

    Those Belgian Trappist monks rock when it comes to making beer.

  • gypsysoul

    YO YO YO…let’s get this party started!!!!what have i missed?!did i see the word “foreskin” will scrolling down?!i have a nickel for the one that knows my favorite beer!

  • http://www.broadwaycarl.blogspot.com Broadway Carl

    Gyps – Foreskin Ale. Where’s my nickel?

  • gypsysoul

    where is everyone?!?! i just entered the ptt arms raised, strut in full effect, and bumping to the music only to be welcomed into an empty room…i hate it when that happens! which is kind of a lot! hehe…

  • gypsysoul

    hold on carl, i am throwing up…okay…. WRONG!

  • http://www.broadwaycarl.blogspot.com Broadway Carl

    I don’t know. The thread’s been dead for a while.

  • Kat

    I didn’t think you liked beer, Gyps. I thought you were a Jose Cuervo girl all the way.

  • SillyGit

    Yes Carl, The Trappists brew some goddamn awesome ales. Chimay and Westmalle are my favs.

  • gypsysoul

    that’s b.s.!!! they be lurking in the world wide web at porn…this should bring them back(o)(o) NIPPLES!!!OH HELLO GERARD BUTLER!!!!

  • gypsysoul

    kat…. the answer is in the question grasshopper!

  • Packy

    Excerpt from Sarah Palin’s State of the State speech last night:”Today, when challenges may seem as high as Mt. McKinley, and change as constant as the mighty Yukon flows, and political events send shockwaves through our foundation like the ’64 quake – what do Alaskans do? We climb Denali, we forge the river, we rebuild a stronger foundation on higher ground. When it matters most, lesser differences fall away. Just like family, Alaskans unite.”Just thought GDAB’ers would want to know. Up here in Alaska we FORGE rivers, not ford them.

  • SillyGit

    Other awesome Belgian ales are: Any Lambic from Cantillon (Lambics are very tart, an acquired taste), Kwak, Duvel, Delerium Tremens, Rodenbach Grand Cru. There are bunches of others, all different.I can suggest a beer to go with anything.Examples:Guiness or Murphy’s Stout with Chocolate chip cookies.Chimay Rouge with any salad containing cheese.Westmalle Tripple with any salad with or without cheese.Try Guiness with chocolate chip cookies some time. You can thank me later.

  • GItheScholar

    Hmmm…Beer milkshake and cookies. I believe you are on to something.

  • gypsysoul

    wow. sounds like the palin has been copying and pasting statements from daniel boone! which ironically enough i am related to by the 1/4 that isn’t cherokee…haha..i find that hilarious!

  • http://www.broadwaycarl.blogspot.com Broadway Carl

    Duvel is awesome. And I like the Lambics as well. I’m outta here. Goodnight all.

  • gypsysoul

    nite carl

  • gypsysoul

    i tried to play with you guys before i went out and you douches and douchettes ignored me…psshh…i’m off for the night…fingers crossed i will be the next youtube sensation…a girl can dream!

  • Packy

    Gypsy – I amended it to more accurately reflect her intellectual ability:”Today, when challenges may seem as high as Mt. McKinley, and change as constant as the mighty Yukon flows, and… and… Oh! Look! A bee!”

  • gypsysoul

    haha…packy, you so funny!

  • Alan4s

    Sam Adams Ale is real good, as are most of the seasonal brews. My casual favorites are Redhook ESB and Redhook IPA. Not found around here often, but I really like Anchor Steam too.I went through my snobby beer period, and still really appreciate the good stuff, but for just general refreshment while watching mindless shows on the TeeVee, Budwiser and other mass market beers are really okay. In fact, Budwiser Select is a really good lawnmower beer.

  • SillyGit

    I wonder what kind of forge, hammer and anvil are used to forge a river?Those mighty Yukon flows sound like some sort of female issue. Is O.B. Super insufficient?Will there be photos of Alaskans uniting?

  • Redmond

    Franziskaner with a slice of orange.And, SillyGit, huge fan myself of the Guinness and cookies. (Went with Oreos last night.) But you know what else goes great with Guinness? Another one. POW! That was a freebie.

  • Redmond

    Alan, I’m with you on the simple refreshment of a good cheap beer. Though definitely not any Budweiser product – something about that taste. I go with the Miller Lite myself, or to fulfill Commonwealth of PA residency laws, Yuengling.Can all we agree Coors Light is Rocky Mountain goat urine?

  • Alan4s

    Late here. Time to hang it up for the night. Sleep tight all…

  • Packy

    Not THAT kind of “uniting,” git.Not on Sarah’s watch.Unless they are teenagers who practice abstinence only.

  • SillyGit

    Greetings Red.I’ve never tried Guinness and Oreos, but I agree that that would be good. Next time I get some Guinness I’ll also get Oreos. Thanks for the suggestion.It’s best with the canned Guinness with nitrogen pressurization or draft Guinness both of which have a soft ‘irish mother’s milk’ mouth feel.

  • The Minx

    Here’s the update, Gyps,Jane & Travis got into a pissing contest– think Jane won, Theo is taking 45 credits & trying to have an actual political discussion,GI the Scholar gave one of his profs the intellectual heave-ho; Alan misses Navy dentists and oatmeal, Jane’s cat has that “not so fresh feeling”, It’s Packy’s Birthday & there was a deep & meaningful discussion on Infrastructure & Beer preferences.Whew!! *Wipes Forehead with a damp, Lavender-scented, cloth*

  • Packy

    Gypsy -To be honest, cminri gets credit for the “bee” thing.It was hers, I stole it.

  • SillyGit

    Coor’s and Coor’s Lite are both like making love in a canoe.They are all fucking near water.I prefer Peirier to anything from Coor’s. They all have no beer flavors whatsoever.

  • SillyGit

    I begin to feel bad about making jokes about The Palin. It feels too much like stealing candy from a baby or shooting fish in a barrel. Oh well, pass the rifle…

  • theo

    time check time check!

  • http://unrelatedcontent.com Travis D

    Jane wins nothing by virtue of living in North Carolina alone.

  • dontpanic23

    Dickishness:When all else fails, come back late and snipe at the winner’s location. (Alabama, right?)–functionally illiterate bluehair with “1996 AOL Screen name” (skipped some of the cult classics, eh?)