Prime Time Thread

I just want to start by saying…Fro Freedom everyone… Fro Freedom.

Rove is planning to ignore the subpoena from Conyers… says he will claim executive privlege again…

I will be back in 2 hours. I want to see the PTT up to 1000 comments by then. GO!!!

GI: no comment.

Hello All! Is anyone feeling a little unbalanced, unhinged, a bit freaked-out lately? I find that ever since last Monday (when all the lay-offs were announced) all I want to do is avoid all media (unless it’s a Vh1 reality show, I adore Bus o’ Whores!), read happy books and nap with the cat.I know our President Obama has Got This, and the hubby is still employed (and things look ok there, too), butI’M SCARED, a little.

No way is DP here now. Really?

>> GI: no comment.Me neither

…or is it me either?

…me too?

Jane? That you?

DP! Is that you?

Woohoo! Bob’s HuffPo column hit BuzzFlash! Good going, Bob!

Have I become invisible?

How wuz review Chris?

Blago looks a bit like the wind has been knocked out of his sails.

The wind could never get past that muskrat on his head.

Nothing could get past that narcissism. Fuck sake.

Blago looks like someone who is crashing after a week-long bender. Which would explain his behavior on Rachel the other night. Somebody needs to get the boy a glass of orange juice.

Error message:”POSITION FLEXIBLE! Your comment submission failed for the following reasons:Too many comments have been submitted from you in a short period of time. Please try again in a short while.”I will shut the fuck up for a while.

I missed his run on Rachel. Did he recite bad poetry while tap dancing on a bar stool?

Jane – didn’t happen. There was an unfortunate incident involving keys & locked cars….and I was all psyched for it, even filled out the little form. All that useless worry wasted.This is my life.

The GDAB demons have sent me the same warnings lately. Beware the demons.

HA!!! Chris Hayes just called all the House Republicans right wing zealots. I love it.

he recited bad poetry in Spanish

It was lovely, DP. He did tap dance, although it wasn’t on a bar stool, it was more around the words gushing from his mouth in a never-ending waterfall. And, as Rachel put it, he looked like he was trying to actually get the words back into his mouth.By the by, good to have you around, DPeeps.

(Is it safe yet?) Good God he is amusing. Especially now that he is out of power.

>>>Too many comments have been submitted from you in a short period of time. Please try again in a short while.Oh, crap. Does this mean we have a limit or something? Who broke the damn tubes?

Joe, you were supposed to be gone for another hour. How can we miss you if you won’t leave?

Thanks for the rundown, guys.And it’s good to be back around. It will come and go for a couple weeks again.

Oh nice! KO does a Philadelphia Story reference!

Has everyone voted in the “Hottest Congressional Freshman” poll? There are only five though. We really need to work on the sexy factor of our elected officials.http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/29/whos-the-hottest-congress_n_162076.html

Well Jane,There was a 18 wheeler blocking the entire road to the gym thus my lazy ass used that as an excuse to run home and blog.

Kat,Wait 25 years and I will fix that problem for you.

“The bush system”……you know, I just don’t understand how these people keep talking and don’t explode. I get that while their beady eyed, no lip son of a bitch was in charge they comforted themselves with the power they had, but they are still spewing this crap? They can’t seriously believe this shit, right? I can’t be the crazy one here.

GI, you can be a lazy fuck now, but you’ll have no excuse once we vote you “hottest freshman Senator”

25 years, Joe? WTF? The guy I voted for in that poll is the same age as you! So you’d better get your ass in motion and bring the sexy back to DC!

Kat, how did a 26-year-old Dem (Glenn Nye the Science Guy) get a position with the State Dept in 2001, you reckon?

I HAVE gone invisible.

Here is what I saw from the other side of the world: a bunch of Americans obsessing over a weirdo. What’s wrong with you people? What’s with this weirdo fetish?I am also impressed that an elected official was fired so quickly.Can we get back to Jane and her minority whip congress with the Boehnerman?

I see you, Minxy.

Goddamn, I would love to whip the minority.I’d even pay to do it.

@ Jane:Can I film it?

Axl, for a small fee, you can even participate if you like.

Baby! I just held a newborn. Still gives me that squiggly feeling and the other one of being relieved that it isn’t mine.

Ooops, bummer placement there.

Ew. Go wash up, DP.

@ Jane:One more time… they’d be paying me. I’ve done research projects on the psychology of S & M… I can crack a mean whip.

You’re right, Axl. I will budget in your fee in my proposal.

I love how offended Axl gets at the idea of paying to whip someone. And I didn’t know that S & M was a college major now – awesome!

@ Kat:It really does offend my sensibilities.Ha… I wish it was. More like Psychology with a concentration in Human Sexuality.Gotta love college nowadays.

Can I join in? It might help with that unhinged feeling that I’ve been having lately. I have a nice black leather zippered camisole…

Remember to use condoms! They will be paid for by the government. Reaching across the aisle, finding common ground. Letting Repubes know it is time to come (heh heh come heh) out of the closet where they have been lurking with pages and wife’s undies.CSPAN-X!

Oh God, Blago is like the tens of thousands losing their jobs…FUCK me.

Axl, I promise to never mention it.So do you have like a price list or anything?

Axl, I promise not to mention it.So, do you have like a price list or anything?

Remember to use condoms! They will be paid for by the government. Reaching across the aisle, finding common ground. Letting Repubes know it is time to come (heh heh come heh) out of the closet where they have been lurking with pages and wife’s undies.CSPAN-X!

Remember to use condoms! They will be paid for by the government. Reaching across the aisle, finding common ground. Letting Repubes know it is time to come (heh heh come heh) out of the closet where they have been lurking with pages and wife’s undies.CSPAN-X!

I don’t think that Ben Franklin was a slave owner Rachel, but I am not a Rhodes Scholar. I’ll give you George and Tom.

Condoms paid for by the Government? Oh noes!!!

Oh, no! It’s the attack of the double (or triple) post! I’ve been infected! Damn those Repubes who wouldn’t give me a damn condom.

You people are so repetitive.

Condoms paid for by the Government? Oh noes!!!

I don’t think that Ben Franklin was a slave owner Rachel, but I am not a Rhodes Scholar. I’ll give you George and Tom.

Aaaaaauuugh Twilight Zone.

Rachel and Michael Isikoff reporting on Bushie trying to extend executive privilege beyond where any other president has extended it before. Shocking. I’m stunned. Practically passing out at my computer. I never would have thought that Bush would be capable of something like that. *said with extreme sarcasm*

My God! Chinese tubes and Bob not paying his tube bill making posting so slow!!! I got impatient and hit post button too many times. Jane got me too excited.

Aaaaaauuugh Twilight Zone.

Sorry Git:http://www.pbs.org/benfranklin/l3_citizen_abolitionist.htmlNever question The Goddess Rachel. She Knows All.

Bob! Pay the tubes bill! Postings are all double triple. Have to hit refresh button after post button. Aiyah!Perhaps it is effed up from NSA Boosh holdouts from the Department of Redundancies Department division reading about Janejane andand minorityminority whipswhips. Time to go enjoy nice sunny Chinese day while you all grapple with depressing evening of slow post tubes.

Fuck off, emsique.Oh, and eat some nice dumplings for me.

Fun Ben Franklin fact:Fortune cookie factories use quotes from Ben Franklin’s “Poor Richard’s Almanac” for their fortunes.Zhanjiang China fact:They don’t have fortune cookies here.

Rachel did a nice review of the current state of the continuing story of Moby Prick™ – The Great White Asshat (played by The Karl Rove) being tenaciously persued by Captain Ahab (played by Rep. Conyers). I hope he’s stupid enough to take Dubya’s advice that he has executive privilege. No one with a REAL™ law degree appears to agree.

I really liked the Afghanistan story with Dan Rather. How old is that man? I really thought she was going to congratulate him on his reporting of the Vietnam war. Jesus.

TY Kat. Learn something every day.I guess that detail was omitted from the 6 or 7 Franklin bios I’ve read. Rewriting history was not invented recently.

Ooh, Cantor and Boehner in a hot tub. Somebody pass me a toaster.

This is NOT Hell’s Kitchen. I’ve seen Hell’s Kitchen & the police hardly ever show up.damn you, Comcast. You got my hopes up & then dashed them…again

Yes emsique, Fortune Cookies, like Egg Foo Yung, are both Chinese-American inventions.Post lag be berry berry bad. I don’t think it’s the NSA, it’s prolly all that pr0n surfing at the NSF.

ok, I am watching CNN and Ed Henry…do you remember the Christmas cartoon, “The Night Before Christmas” and the characters were mice making a clock tower so Santa would find them? Ed Henry reminds me of the character that messes up the clock because he doesn’t believe in Santa….maybe I am the crazy one!!Oh and Ed Henry starts his piece by saying that President Obama is pandering to the nation by being outraged at Wall Street, unfucking believable!!!!

veralynn – Where do these people like Ed Henry come from? I don’t meet anyone like them. Perhaps I would if I lived in a gated community or belonged to a country club.

unfortunately I live and work and am related to some of them. that last one hurts most of all, being related. one of my sisters on FB joined the “Thank you President Bush” group…..uuuugggghhhhhshe doesn’t live in a gated community, but she loves her some jesusbe happy you don’t have to spend holidays with them, she just looks at me and says “you know I pray for you to see the light every night”

“you know I pray for you to see the light every night”

It’s so big of you veralynn to not point out to your sister that you won’t see the light at night, since it’s dark then.

LOL Alan, for me that qualifies for QOTW!!

I knew I smelt some Jesus bashing. Let the games begin.

I too am really related to the blind sheeple that loves them a GOP elected official because they are so good to humanity.

Aaarrrrrrgggghhhhhh.You have my sympathy veralynn.I feel your pain.The good thing about your situation is that it proves that this is not controlled solely by genetics, upbringing, etc. or else you would be another one.I always try to find the silver lining.I usually say “Pray all you want if it makes you feel better. However, since I’m an atheist I wouldn’t want you to waste your time praying for me.”The last time I “saw the light,” it was a popo’s flashlight.

thanks git, that is what gets me through holidays

GI what is your response to your family? or do they leave you alone?

Before I go there. I just watched Suzanne Somer inject a million different hormones into her body on Oprah. She even injects her vagina everyday. She is a drug addict and it doesn’t matter if her drug is the hopes and dreams of adolescent men or heroine. Jesus

eeeeewwwwww

veralynn,I never leave anything alone. I usually start with facts and hypocrisy. Then I work my way into terms that James Dobson hasn’t heard of yet like, prosperity theology and the parent child dynamic. Finally I finish it up with “Fuck you Dad!!!”

Can Rep. John Conyers use “The Bush System”™ to get that information he’s been trying to get for the last two years out of “Moby Prick”™?Who tortures the torturers?Will Nixon end the war?Does Afghanistan have an Afghan shortage?So many questions…

so few answers gitbrilliant GI!

sillygit,what makes you 100 percent sure in your atheism?

I’m shocked that I’m not an atheist. I was raised Roman Catholic and that is usually enough to turn one to atheism– or Neopaganism.

Minx,Don’t worry it will come. One more evangelical president should do it.

my thoughts are one is just as crazy as the other. well, atheism isn’t as crazy as some religions, but no one knows the answer so how can either side be so sure of their beliefs?!

good night everyone

gypsy, I don’t know the answers to the universe but I do know that primitive man didn’t know the answers either. I definitely know that living my life by a book that is the word of God but was written and edited by man isn’t the right way either.

Gypsy -Good question.I’m not 100% certain. It’s a probability deal like quantum mechanics.I find it highly improbable that a creator would be able to create something like this universe and then either completely ignore it, or fuck with it so little that we don’t notice.Everything I see can be explained without needing to invent a creator.I have no problem with people having belief systems different from mine. I know many people that find great comfort in their faith. I am happy for them. However, I found no such comfort.My personal decision is to believe that humanity is a freak ocurrance in a universe dominated by chaos.For a very long time, I called myself an agnostic.I was brought up as a protestant (Presbyterian). The only philosophy/religion I still have any interest in at all is Buddhism. Buddha did not require belief in a creator. God is the life force that runs through everything. I like that concept. It feels correct to me.

absolutely gi. you know i am not religious. but i don’t get atheists certainty either…i’m too sleepy to think of something witty to say. =) see you guys tomorrow…

>>>God is the life force that runs through everything. I like that concept. It feels correct to me.this is how i think. i just try to treat people and things with respect until they f’ it up…i have more to add but i seriously feel drugged…i blame jane! hehe…nite guys…

Just had to say – I loved what Stephen Colbert just proposed on his show. If House Republicans really think that the economic stimulus is so horrible and pork-laden, and that it ultimately won’t help at all, then they should refuse to accept any of said pork in their own districts. You know, show them crazy Democrats who’s boss!

goodnight gypsy

Colbert has a good idea, again.Someone else today said that the House Democrats should rewrite the bill so that none of the spending goes to any of the Republican Representatives’ districts.I like Stephen’s suggestion better.The question is – should the people in those districts be punished for having elected an idiot to represent them?

Night Gyps, have wonderful dreams! We can discuss my travel plans for seeing you later!!

This has been said before, but I’ve never gotten to say this in my young life, so I’m gonna go for it:I really like my president. I don’t just agree with his policies, and I don’t just think he’s a smart politician. I think he is a genuinely decent man who deeply adores his family, who wants to hear and understand people, and who wants to leave the world a better place than when he came to it. I don’t believe that he’s always going to do the right thing, but I do know that he’ll try, and I know that he’ll stay up late thinking about it.In other news: Bob, can you give us a post where you ask a question where the obvious answer is a yes so I can reply ‘yessiree Bob!’? Honestly, I’ve got a lot riding on this.

See, that’s the question, Git. By advocating Colbert’s idea, I would be punishing myself and my family, as well as millions of other Americans. And, honestly, I can’t say for sure how I feel about that – there are surely many people in those districts who did not vote for Republicans (myself included), and did not wish this kind of idiocy upon themselves. However, it might be time for a lot of Americans to see just how idiotic Republicans are.

I will say this for Obama: he has an assertive voice when he is angry, which he flashed today at the Wall Street whores who are abusing the bailout cash. It makes me proud. The chimp didn’t have a confident voice.

Eruleptanero – I live in a similar district. I did not vote for the asshat that voted no. I voted for the other guy, but he lost. That’s why I raised the question.I think the misinformed rube ideologues are going to get a wakeup call regardless. The republicans have dug themselves into a hole and are still digging because they refuse to admit the failure of their ideology. I’m convinced that things are going to get *much* worse before they get better.Frankly, I’m not at all certain that things will ever return to near normalcy. I think that the Greed Brigade has killed the U.S. that we grew up in, and that the U.S. is now doomed to be a has-been third-rate technological backwater.I hope I am wrong, I don’t like being a pessimist.Unfortunately I have seen this coming for over 25 years and I couldn’t believe that it wasn’t obvious to everyone.Theo – I very much agree with you about our President. He is the only reason I have any hope at all. I think he saw this crap coming as I did. It was a no brainer to vote for him. He was the obvious choice to me about a half day after I first heard his name (Google was useful to research him in early 2007. After that the campaign related hits swamped the material that showed what the people that knew him and worked with him thought about him.). He’s the fellow I’ve been hoping might show up some day.I’m not certain that he’s the next Lincoln. But I’m real sure that he’s at least the next JFK, and very possibly the next FDR. People like Barrack Obama don’t show up very often. We are very fortunate that he showed up exactly when we needed him.

AM/DP: Jesus, Git. I had to look down to the bottom of your post to Gypsy on beliefs to make sure I didn’t sleep-post. Right down to the raised-a-Presbyterian. And change Buddhism to Taoism. Sometimes.