Prime Time Thread

It’s not political but it’s a good post about Twitter, really….so I’ll just pimp it in comments – my newest HuffPost thing…http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lee-stranahan/pssst-ashton-demi-youre-s_b_164374.html

Ok, David Shuster and Richard Wolfe (et tu, Richard?) were just doing some major revision on Obama’s approval numbers. They are using the 84& number on “How do you think Obama is handling his transition?” (from December), and comparing it to Obama’s current approval of 65%, and saying “His poll numbers fell 20 points in two weeks!” (Shuster), with Richard saying “Yeah, he cannot afford 10 poitns a week!” Uhhh…..it fell three points, down from 68%, since he took office. I hate to be a stickler about these things and I know it doesn’t really support their dramatic narrative (3 points in two weeks…), but I called MSNBC yesterday when I got pissed off that they were doing this during the day. The person said that other people had called and said the same thing, and that they had “alerted the producers”. Yeahhhh….

Good Lord. This blog is nuts. Do you get paid for this irrational trainwreck of a blog? And I thought Huffington Post was batshit crazy…

Wait..people actually watch MSNBC?

OMG ANYONE WHO DOESNT AGREE WITH ME IS A STUPID MEAN HATEMONGER STUPID HEAD! ARGHHHHHH

Interesting Twitter piece, Lee. I got into following lots of interesting Twitterers when Cminri dragged me into it kicking and screaming a few months ago. Now I love it. Even found our own Axl there. He has some great tweets.

DP? You’re doing it live?

Ain’t memorex! Got to come home for a night. As long as I can stayy up.Fucck typewad again?

OK! I’ve written to all of my Fed reps!Jerry Moran may be worth the trouble, his office still responds in some way when I write them an email.Pat Roberts and Sam Brownback quit responding long ago!Pat Roberts is obsessed with GITMO detainees being located at Leavenworth! Something between foreign combatants polluting the minds of other Federal prisoners (like pot-heads), and having a judge actually release them into Kansas communities!Somewhere between bat-shit crazy and totally fuckin’ insane!Brownback is still stuck in “snowflake” land!http://thinkprogress.org/2006/07/18/brownback-embryo/So, it’s basically a waste of time!I’d really like to drink heavily but I have a surgery scheduled. So, would someone please drink extra for me??????????

You really want to see nuts, you should take a gander at Gateway Pundit.

G.M.Blah, blah …………..If you can’t fix it, then trash it, right?Bite me!

KD, done and done. Is beer okay?

You really want to see nuts, you should take a gander at Gateway Pundit.Hey, guy. I read your blog. Can you explain to me what military the animals down at Gitmo belong to?

Oh. It meant the prisoners, not the guards (I guess).

NOTE: Do not click on G. M. ‘s link!Don’t do it! (like I did)Don’t feed the trolls!Just flip Bob $5.00!I’m gonna do it! I can handle Raman noodle soup a few extra times this month!

Don’t worry, Kansas, I figure I’ll get splashed with porn if I click on a link from any troll and sometimes our friend Jane. So I don’t (except for Jane’s because it’s a requirement).And double fuckity fuck typewad again. What happened while I was gone?

Herro! Another beautiful morning here. Are you having troll issues there?

Emsique, I don’t think its heart is really in it. (But the night is young, and I haven’t read today’s threads…)

It was more like a troll-spasm.

Hey dudes…Have you guys quit using your refridgerators yet? It’s totally the best thing to do if you want to lower your carbon footprint, and thus save the world from the impendinding DOOM OF THE CLIMATE CRISIS!

I’m dubbing some Daily Shows from December (for a rainy day). Goddamn I love that show. President Goofus and President Gallant.

Apple pie? Or cherry?

Apple pie.

“KD, done and done. Is beer okay?”Jane,That works, but I kind of hate that “billiard room” smell when I’m sneaking up from behind early in the morning.Damn, I wish I had something to sneak up behind!

I’m currently building my own coal-burning power plant in my basement, GM, and using my oven to heat the house until it’s ready.

Wow. WTF? Tweety just said, “President Obama wants to get this vote tonight because, the media, we’re not on the President’s side on this thing at all.”Well, there ya go. Chris “Tweety” Matthews just let it slip…Now Tweety, is going off about how President Obama uses a teleprompter, and why he can’t speak w/o it. Said Tweety: “I’m serious. He’s no good on give and take. He’s no good on the stump, the only thing he CAN do well is read a teleprompter.” Can someone please tell me WTF is wrong with that man?

I’m currently building my own coal-burning power plant in my basement, GM, and using my oven to heat the house until it’s ready.”Not very “green” of you. Don’t you know the “climate crisis” is urgently, urgent?

Ady, the sheer volume of spittle flying out of his mouth is a pretty good clue.

Jane, it’s freezing ass cold here. I think it was only 15 degrees this morning. That’s f-ing cold for down here. Let me know when your basement is warm.Brrrr…

GM needs troll lessons.

Not very “laughy” of you. Don’t you know “facetiousness” is a tool used in irony?

MSNBC is totally in the tank for Republicans.

I understand that the exhaust of a Hummer is an excellent source of heat for your home, GM.

It’s some pretty hateful spittle…goddamn, what’s his fucking problem?

is it just me or is GM a very half-assed troll?

“I understand that the exhaust of a Hummer is an excellent source of heat for your home, GM.”Yes. You’re not going to come and take me away to Al Gore reedumukation camp are you?

Ah…Keith’s back.

Please, please tell me that Keith is back tonight so I don’t slit my wrists.I’ll never watch Hardball again. Tweety just asked, “How do you think he talks to his wife? Does he use a teleprompter?” That little fuck just went too far.

He is totally an ass. Just his comments are half assed.

and he brought a Special Comment about Cheney with him.

Ahhh…Keith IS back. I put the razor blades away.Lindsey Graham makes me want to take them back out.

And a special comment on Cheney. Must put popcorn bag on hummer’s exhaust pipe while we watch that sidebar.

Keith Olbermann is very brave. His show is full of contrasting and differing opinions on politics.

G.M.Just to bring you up to date the economy was tanking before Obama took office!Trickle down = voodoo as defined by a Republican!We’re on the brink of true disaster you freakin’ dumb-ass!

am I invisible?

Hi, Chris!

GM, I live in the land of Reeducation Camps!

I’m slow on this tiny keyboard so we crossed posts, C.

“am I invisible?”ceu,Never!I’m usually in “read only” mode but some douche bag pissed me off!

PTTers,Can I smash this asshole yet?

hi, dp!Hi, all!Did ANY of you read Jodi Rell’s budget address from yesterday? And are any of you jealous that OUR republican is sane?

Chris, I read your excerpts last night (late), but not the transcript yet. (She’s an R! Awesome!)

GI, we’ve held back the party just waiting for your government sponsored testosterone to come in and have something to do.

“is it just me or is GM a very half-assed troll?”Full blown! I think it’s one on Lindsay Graham’s staff members.

Chris, I’ve missed anything not plastered to a hospital waiting room wall for several days. I have much catching up to do and not much time to do it.

Guess he was trying to prove he’s not in the tank for Obama after being called a liberal by the right wing one too many times. Oh, Tweety. Will you ever learn?

Quick! Show DP a good time!

Real quick. Was up at 4am and am running on sheer Cescan desperation.

Tweety still can’t decide if he wants to run for something someday so instead of staying neutral he flails about wildly in every direction, including down his leg.

Good analysis, DP. Spot on, as they say.

DP! Good to have to around!Chris, I know. I couldn’t have handled another night of Shuster.

Why is GitheJoeScholar also a potato? I’ve been gone for a while, but a potato? Really?

I saw this at the end of the article on HuffPo talking about McCain’s “stimulus” plan being killed -“Obama defeated McCain for the presidency last fall.”That line should be at the end of every article that mentions John McCain.Oh yes, GM– I have turned off my refrigerator. What with George W. Bush’s corporate-welfare stimulus presidency the past eight years, I have no job and thusly, no food to put in my refrigerator. This means not only is my carbon footprint smaller, the electric bill I don’t eventually pay will be smaller, too. Win-win!

Ady, I’d explain the potato thing, but I’d have to kill you. And everyone reading this.

AAAAAH! Don’t say Spot On!

Thanks, Kat, it’s good to be back even if only for a night. I’ve missed you guys and Keith/Rachel. CNN only where I’ve been. And will be again for most of a week. We’re taking turns having medical crises.

General Moron,Just a couple questions for you?So one women sells her refrigerator to lessen her carbon footprint and every liberal has to sell their refrigerator?That is the same as David Duke calling Michael Steele a racist and the end of the Republican Party and me implying that you don your white sheet.Who is the leader of the GOP?Are you really a conservative or do you like to drive on roads and bridges?When is the Fairness Doctrine coming out?Who is your 401K?

Kansas, you over on the FaceBook yet?

I like “spot on”. It reminds me of my son-in-law and makes the dogs crazy.

Sorry, M-seek. That’s the only context I use that phrase, I missed that thread, and I forgot who it pissed off.

And I’ll choose ignorance over death on the potato issue, thanks.

It pissed someone off?

I absolutely love how certain spoken words drive certain dogs crazy. Like “Yamaguchi.”

DP, it pissed off more than one person, IIRC.

I believe it is gone.The POTATO is top secret but absolutely necessary for national security purposes. Trust me just like you did Dick and Bush. OHHHHHH!!!!!ZINGGGGGGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!

That one didn’t work on these dogs. “Drescher” got them going the other day. That was confusing.

Jane-got it. I’m not really ready to die.

What the fuck? Several people? I missed some crazy shit, sounds like.

Pissed MEEEEE off! Silly Git explained that it is England talk, and since my ancestors are Scot-Irish, genetic propensity is like the hairy dudes in Braveheart!Don’t worry, now I understand and I think of embarrassing stain on GM’s sheets now when I see it.SPOT ON GM’S SHEETS!

Years ago, DP, my brother’s dog began to mistake a Panther’s name for ‘squirrel’ and would look outside and want to go hunt. Boom-something? I’ll remember the player’s name at 3 am.

He Hate Me? Wesley Walls? Kevin Greene?My English blood is always at war with my Welsh, Scottish and Irish blood. But they let “spot-on” slip through since it entered our house from the mouth of a Scot.

Beuerlein?

Biakabutuka?No booms come to mind *she now fixates*

No…Higgyboom? Boom something? It was a silly multisyllabic name.

what is this Boom stuff about? I got lost halfway down the thread…

Don’t remember a Higgyboom. And I collected cards for a decade. Odd. Don’t even think of calling me with it at 3am! Any other time…sure.

higginbotham?

I hadn’t heard the audio of that US Airways flight. Sully was amazingly calm. That was awesome!

Maybe Boomhower from King of the the Hill?

Words that make dogs go nuts, Chris. Jane can’t think of the Panther player’s name that did it.I’m Special Commenting from the bed, guys. Another long one ahead tomorrow. Have fun.

The dogs can’t understand Boomhauer because we mumble his name.

bye DP.

‘Night, Carlos and all…

Kat,Military training is good for stressful situations. That man is an awesome example of good training from the Air Force. Bravo!

Fuck DP, I just scanned an all-time roster. Must not have been a Panther. I’ll call you at 3 am.

G’night, DP!

G.M.You should head over to the Free Fascist Republic website.It’s filled with goose-stepping racist brown-shirts so you should fit right in. They even wear ties and jackets with their brown shirts. They’ve also gone ‘all the way’ with Voodoo economics. They have stopped calling it ‘trickle down economics.’ It is now known as ‘Pissing on the proletariat.’Get along little doggie.

Boomer! Boomer Esiason!What do I win?

Night DP! We lurves and we thinks of you. A lot.

Potato – parenting is pretty good for it, too. But that pilot was a damn cucumber. Very impressive.

Special comment on NOW. Go!

Kat,Not my parents!

Spudman, this week the Chinese High School kids have to go to a mandatory military style boot camp. Builds disciprine!

M-seek, your Engrish is getting better every day.

Time for my morning walk in the warm sun watching the Chinese Navy across the bay. I will be thinking of spots on the sun and minority whips and the beginnings of my blog.

Okay. Y’all lost me…Keith, ahhhh Keith.

Depart this nation & let us have done with you… in the name of God, Go!

Keith, that was AWESOME! “The old men who cry wolf.” Sweetness. But really, did he have to end with a Oliver Cromwell quote? Of all the people to pick?

I fucking hate Lindsey Graham.

Kat,I’m still at work and have no idea what KO was talking about, but he should have found someone else who said essentially the same thing to quote.Cromwell was a fucking douchebag asshole sonofabitch. It’s like quoting Hitler in a favorable way.

BTW, Check out Engrish.com!

Jane, Jesus, you couldn’t have at least held the troll down until I got here. One hour for me to get my Smallswivvle on, is that so long?!

CROMWELL! ENGLISH!!!! AAAAAAAARGH!!!!!!!!!!

I tried to piss it off, Red. Maybe I was too good?

Troll was really just a timid techno weenie troll wannabe. I really gotta go now.

So, what we talking like a Low Level 2 troll? Lame.And, emsique, don’t even try to pretend you can resist the minty glow of the PTT.

Unless Smallville is on…

(holds ‘L’ thumb and forefinger to forehead…)

Packy – Keith’s Special Comment was about Cheney and his acid-tripping-induced interview with Politico yesterday. KO ended by using a quote (look at Chris’s comment above) by Cromwell when he ended Parliment and went off to rape Ireland. It was a great special comment, though. Just mute the last 20 seconds.

Cromwell was a right c_nt and a complete wanker.

(holds middle finger to face. accidentally pokes self in eye. this game sucks!)

I WIN!!!!!

Redmond, very nice work today with the Palin/Judd showdown. Most excellent.

I’ll watch when I get home. But if he was comparing Cheney to Cromwell, then maybe it was ok. They certainly are similar types.

Just ’cause he tried to wipe out the Irish….in a sort of “protect the homeland” sort of way and felt that invasion and indiscriminate killing is the best defense?Shoulda been named Oliver Bush….

So I watch the KO on delay. Did any of you fucking spoilers tell me that Obama salutes the guy attending Marine 1 or whatev, then STOPS AND SHAKES HIS HAND???? (Answer: no, you did not.)I am sometimes overwhelmed ALL OVER again at the change in tone…President Goofus, President Gallant.

Thank you, Kat. I’m not going to lie, I was especially proud of that one.She set herself up with the whole “asking for money during an economic crisis” insanity. Incredible thinking within a week of launching your PAC, governor. Not to mention the asinine rational behind her aerial-induced fetish for wolf blood.

Janerooski – that was my reaction when I watched the Nat. Geo piece about Air Force One. It hits home just what a Genuinely Decent Human Being™ President Obama is.

Red, I confess, it gets me quite hot when you introduce a little politics into your blog.

no, he wasn’t comparing Cheney to Cromwell. Just used the quote, which was fitting, and he probably could have gotten away with attributing it to someone else…but he’s too honest

M-seek – How about spot off?That sounds like an oxyclean product though, but they have to use the sham-wow guy.KO is my hero.Cheney is a steroid enhanced asshat. He should be frogmarched off to the Hague.Chris – Jodi Rell does a good good job for a R. I’d vote for her if I still could. I voted for the D last time.Rowland was a disaster, so she was a huge improvement.For non-CTers, Governor Rowland was convicted on various corruption charges and was housed in PA at a fed. pen. at taxpayer expense for about a year.Rell was the lt. Gov. that replaced him, but she won the next election on her own. I only voted agaainst her because of the R after her name. I was not unhappy that she won, because I didn’t think very highly of the democrat (forgot his name).

Packy, I feel thankful and also angry (WHAT THE HELL WERE WE SETTLING FOR??!?).

Rachel is having Elizabeth Warren on in a bit. Wasn’t she the one who kicked ass one of the other times she was on?

Okay, gently explain to me what just happened in the Senate? Do I need to take the razor blades out again? Is fucking piece of shit Lindsey Graham involved in all this?

I just said “Yamaguchi” in a totally normal tone of voice and both of my dogs went insane!So, I can only assume that Jane has some kind of evil shit going on!I’m not sure what it is, but obviously something “libral”!

Yes and yes, AdyLeigh.

Yes Kat, Warren has kicked ass every time I’ve seen her and certainly when she’s on Rachel’s show.

Palin proposes public policy proposal republican.Too much of the P. Echoes of Dr. Seuss.

kansas – Lipitor freaks my dog out. Only when said by live human, on TV does not get the same response.

Yep. She’s the kick ass one.

Can I possibly, in words, express my FUCKING RIGHTEOUS ANGER when a cat steps on the remote and manages to lose the KO and Maddow in memory?AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Git – Destefano. Frank Destefano.I’m not unhappy with her, either.Imagine if more Republicans were like her?

Ut oh….Rachel’s telling the truth about St. Ron. Dive for cover – I hear wooden desks will protect us from the fallout!

Palin proposes public policy proposal republican.

Someone please inform this overhyped inbred moron that the repubelickins lost the last two elections. Also we have seen repubelickin public policy for 20 of the last 28 years and have no desire to buy any more of that highly defective junk. Sell it to some rube somewhere else. We’re not interested.

I’m diving for cover from the wrath of Jane. I think there are some cats about to lose their tails.

Kat, I have been hyperventilating and fantasizing about the throwing of the Kid across the room, knowing it will not bring my DVR memory back stops me.I need a troll to take out my aggressions on. And a preposition to end a sentence with.

lmfaohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h05ZQ7WHw8Y

That’s what you get for scaring the troll off early. Now, when you really need him, he’s cowering under his bridge.

Hmmm…good point. She’s got ya there, Jane.

So, no stimulating of much of anything is goin’ on anytime soon?I fucking hate Lindsey Graham. Can someone get me out of this state, please?

I think he should be forced to wear a wolf costume, and be sent to Alaska. Let HIM get Palined from a helicopter.

Goddamn. Where’s a troll when you need it? Not on any thread here. Fuck.

Any good trolls on TPC? Ady? Chris? Who’s caught up?

I ranted! I am feeling better now. Can we please start this Recovery Bill over with not one fucking word from the GOP? We don’t need their votes or input. Send them all on a weekend retreat to GITMO and knock this shit out in an afternoon. When they come back from molesting little boys they can start screaming again.

Thanks, Joe. I am feeling better just reading that comment (and restarting my computer).Molesting and screaming, heh.

(wonders, how does everyone calmly drift off to get ready for bed while I get more riled up the longer I hear the news or deal with the innernets?)

when a cat steps on the remote and manages to lose the KO and Maddow in memory

Dude, that sucks. When that happens in my house, flying cats usually follow.

Carl, I had to swallow an incredible amount of rage. It means I will stay up late to watch the Special Comment and Elizabeth Warren. Goddamnit. Or go to bed angry that I missed it.

damn, Jane, that blows. I’d stay up late if I were you, though – if it was just another Countdown, you should go to sleep, but when there’s a special comment…You could probably find it online though.

I was definitely sleep blogging last night. I woke doing the math of shareholder dividends and price to earning ratios. This is on of the signs of the Apocalypse.

it’s worth it to stay up. OTOH, you know that everyone will have the video of it soon…probably by now.

Yeah, yeah. Now they’re all being cute (the cats) and cleaning each other and such as, and (for now) KO and Rachel are currently repeating.Just wish I had a troll to abuse.

Jane, dear:KO SC

Too late Chris, my blood pressure’s up, I’m just gonna do it live.

Did you watch today’s Morning Awesome??

Oh god, Christian Bale vs. Billo. Me likey.

Heh. Thanks, Chris, no I didn’t, but I did screen that version just now. Fucking kids and their editing capabilities nowadays, awful quick on the draw. Great minds, blah blah blah.

We’re gonna be in the Hudson.

Jon Stewart just laid into darth cheney!! fucking brilliant

Cats have no idea just how many times they barely miss instantaneous death from some of their gymnastic excesses.My cats have always been very lucky that I can’t bring myself to exterminate them. They have given me cause. But I know they didn’t intend the damage they caused. (Or at least they have me conned into thinking that.) And they are just so cool most of the time.

Silly, I have one that reliably, invariably knocks over any drink that is not a wine glass or a beer bottle. I swear he’d be on his thirtieth life by now for that sin alone. Except he’s so goddamn cute. Fucker.

You damn people have gotten me hooked on TPC now.I find it disturbing that TPC refers to GDAB as Bob Cesca’s Really Awesome Blog. RAB is just not as awesome as goddamn awesome.

Very mature and intellectually stimulating conversation in here.

Silly, I noticed he’s done (had to do?) the same thing at the HuffPo.Some Blogostrators will point out that they are trying to fly under the radar of people’s work filters. Understandable.The GD in GDAB is what piqued my interest the very first time I came here, whenever that was.

Lindsy Graham is a cock.

I’ve noticed that the conversation ebbed when the Office came on.

jane – yes, I thought as much. I am a hardcore technogeek and so I know all about the censorware shit that they foolishly and misleadingly call filters. I have zero tolerance for censorship.I was somewhat surprised that Bob used that name. I think it is fair advertising. It correctly implies that Bob has a set. I’ve seen no indication that Bob is lacking in the cojones department.Mike H. – I think The Lindsy Gramm is more a miserable wanker than a cock. However I have noticed that he wears tight neckties. That could be to prevent the foreskin from getting loose and giving him away.theo – you may be on to something.

Office Space is one of my favorite movies, so I thought that show might be like a regular sitcom of the some wholesomeness of Office Space. I watched about 10 minutes of the Office (American version) Season 1, hated it, and never looked back.Thanks to Netflix, I started watching the BBC version and I like it. Gervais speaks my language.

Geez, Elwood, give the American version a shot (more than one episode). It’s not great every time, for sure. Gervais EP’d the American version. It has *nothing* to do with the movie Office Space. And it’s prolly best not to compare the UK Office to the US Office. It’s a decent show.(Thinking: WTF does Elwood know aboot American TV? He’s closer to Canada…or Russia. I bet he can watch Russian TV.)

I know it has nothing to do with the movie Office Space; I just hoped it did.

You used the word ‘wholesomeness’ in regard to Office Space.I do not think you understand the meaning of that word.(best movie evaaaaar)

Elwood, do me a favor? Take 5 minutes & go to Hulu.com & watch the opening of Sunday’s episode of The Office. I believe you will laugh. and with that, g’night

It is totally wholesomefully nourishingly awesome.

Is that the ‘Stress Relief’ one?

Oh my god…. Steve Carell is on this show!

Okay, I surrender. That guy just looted the snack machine right after that cat fell through the ceiling.

“Barack is president!”"You’re black!”

…and Elwood is hooked. Huzzah!(I’m going back to bash a motherfucking troll on the latest thread if he shows up again. It’s my little stress relief tonight.)

Jane, that troll was a chicken shit weenie who had nothing to contribute but spots on this pristine surface. Ducked out too fast. Maybe he was CONVERTED!