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  • ceu

    Palin commenting on Obama’s comment

  • TruthSerum

    Second!

  • gypsy

    truthy…you going to be good tonight?

  • ElMystico

    Special needs education was among the stimulus money she rejected, so what’s really hurting those kids? Also, she mocked fruit fly research which helps autism research.

  • ceu

    she also cut state funding to the Alaska Special Olympics in half last year…

  • ElMystico

    Well, whatever. Sarah Palin was only ever a sideshow. Just give her an afternoon slot on basic cable somewhere and she’ll have all the influence she should.

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

    But Special Olympics and Special Needs Education are better left in the hands of private charity. After all, before the invention of Big Gummint, kids like Trig Palin were treated soooo well.http://www.neonatology.org/classics/down.html

  • Nanotyrannus

    I’m sure the Special Needs Community is thrilled to find that she’s become their spokesman.

  • Kat

    Really? Did Pat Buchanan just say that Obama has too much in common with the people?*jaw drops onto desk*

  • Kat

    *picking up jaw*Why am I shocked? It’s Pat Douchanan.

  • Nanotyrannus

    I’m shocked too. Cue up the tapes of him lamenting Obama’s trip to Elitist Hawaii. I think he was in on that. I could be wrong.

  • bjritz

    OT or New Topic:Right wing Christians celebrate a victory in IraqToward the end of the article is this nutty viewpoint:

    In spite of the enormous, financial cost of the war, there is one more victory which no costly war could discredit—the multitude of individuals who have now had a born-again experience since the ousting of Mr. Hussein. Statistics reveal that during and after the dictator’s reign of terror, there were about 35,000 throughout the nation who became born-again. Seven years later, the numbers rose to over 300,000 believers. Unlike other Arab nations (where it is a capital crime to become a Christian), this increase is very substantial in a predominantly Muslim nation which now has the freedom to choose.

    This is a GIthePotato special and maybe not weekend PTT fare, but the victory of 300,000 new born-agains for the mere price of 4250 U.S. troops dead and 1.3 million Iraqis dead put me over the top.Now that I have decompressed on that, lets have a great weekend anyway knowing that things are changing and perhaps this kind of thinking is shrinking.

  • Nanotyrannus

    Other OT-Tonight is the series finale of Battlestar Galactica.FRAK!

  • bjritz
  • ceu

    there’s a topic?

  • Nanotyrannus

    Actually, ceu, there isn’t. :) Retract the flight pods! PEW! PEW! JUMP PREP! PEW! PEW!

  • ElMystico

    Frakkin’ Cavil! Contacts on DRAEDUS! Whooshing and explodey noises!

  • Nanotyrannus

    Cavil!! That cylon douche! I really hope they have a special death planned for him tonight. That would be awesome.

  • bjritz

    All you BG fans, I’m going with Sarah Conner tonight.Never know what is going to happen, except the machines take over and kill us.

  • bjritz

    Out for TV time – uninterrupted by my blogging.

  • GItheJOE

    FUCK IT, I QUIT!!!I am doing a book report on the, “What Color is Your Parachute, 2009″ and have officially flipped my shadonkleday.I quote, “When the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you to the truth.”(John 16:12) Chapter 12 p. 304.I am fucking shocked! Aren’t there rules or bylaws to leave mythology out of higher education?This book is required reading and a required book report that is GRADED. My professor told us this book is life changind and is a defender of Wal Mart, the Iraq War, AIG, and entrepreneurship. Please tell me I can get him fired for this and still pass the class?However, I just petitioned to graduate today. WOOT!!

  • Nanotyrannus

    DUDE! We went apeshit in my career development class when we saw all the Jesus in that book. We refused to even read it after that. The instructor was puzzled about why and we told him the book could have been written just fine without the Jesus and by the way, everything the fucker says in it we can find on the internet for free.For some reason it’s considered the book to read on the subject of career something or another, but I don’t see it’s appeal.

  • Nanotyrannus

    Wasn’t there something in it too about we were put here to fulfill some purpose God had intended for us and that’s out first responsibility or something? It was awful. What if my God didn’t put me here for anything? What if my God doesn’t really give a shit one way or another?Congrats on your almost graduation!

  • GItheJOE

    nano,This book is insulting to my intelligence. A 90 year old man writes a book on how to find a job and tells us that the internet is the worst way to find a job. ONLY A 4% CHANCE is his magically world of finding a job on the internet.Now I know why the JESUS is in there. Because PRAYER is the best way to get a job, wealth, salvation, and homophobia.

  • GItheJOE

    >>What if my God didn’t put me here for anything?What if I don’t believe in a talking snake?>>What if my God doesn’t really give a shit one way or another?May I refer you to Leviticus and HIS hatred of Women, the GAY, Gentiles, and Egyptians which is code for black people.

  • GItheJOE

    >>Congrats on your almost graduation!Thanks!!!! It only took me 8 years because of a little problem called IRAQ. Most people with 8 years of education are called DOCTOR not Lieutenant.

  • ElMystico

    Joe, I could call you Lt. Doctor, if that helps.

  • jane

    Maybe we should all show up for Joe’s graduation…see what he wears under the robe, so to speak?

  • GItheJOE

    El,I believe the only M.D. I could qualify for is in gynecology. I had fun at college, what can I say.

  • GItheJOE

    Jane,A kilt.

  • GItheJOE

    panty hoes, and pumps.Speaking of which, did you guys see the West Pointer get cut off yesterday on Rachel as soon as he said, “I am ga…” BLACK SCREEN?

  • ElMystico

    Joe, you may not be professional gynecologist, but I’m sure you’re a talented amateur.BTW, what’s under the kilt? Another, smaller kilt?

  • Nanotyrannus

    Yeah, my instructor kind of felt that way about the internets too. He wanted us to conduct face-to-face mock interviews with people in our field. This was impossible for some of us. There are just not a lot of professional animators in my area so I had to rely heavily on email (thank you again Bob!). He just didn’t get it. Right now it’s all about networking on the internet. I mean conceivably I could get a job prospect from any one of you and vice versa, and it would be because of our networking here in the interwebs ether.

  • SillyRatfacedGit

    I have an amazing technicolor parachute.Who’s God?If he has jobs for engineers how do I apply?

  • GItheJOE

    AMATEUR!?How dare you? I have a flashlight, a popsicle stick and a textbook to read from.Under kilt? Magic Underwear that I like to call my jesus suit.

  • GItheJOE

    Git, I hear KBR is hiring and the Defense Department.If that fails…www.goarmy.com?

  • jane

    >>BTW, what’s under the kilt? Another, smaller kilt?Myst, you slay me.

  • SillyRatfacedGit

    In CT, there are only two ways to apply for unemployment compensation: The Web or The Phone.The web is the best way since you have to fill stuff out weekly. It takes about 2 minutes on the web and about 10 minutes on the phone.The ‘fear’ of the intertubes is a common problem amongst the religious right. Apparently satan can be transported over an internet protocol.I need to write an April 1 RFC xxxx SDTP: Satan and Demon Transport Protocol.

  • ElMystico

    Damn it. DAMN IT! Here I was spending all my time worrying about zombies when I should’ve been worried about bionic alligators!

  • gypsy

    gi, from your description you sound better than some i have been to! honest to baby jesus, i had a female doc that allowed a nurse to open the door and hand her the phone! which she then talked on for about 10 minutes while i was in position. (i know t.m.i. but it’s the truth!)

  • GItheJOE

    Jane, I will “slay” you.

  • idreamofskiba

    Eww, Joe the Plumber.

  • Kat

    The problem with gynecology is that men thinks it is a dream job. Women dread it. Which, now that I think about it…..

  • dontpanic23

    I feel like a google newbie but can anybody find a real online video clip of any of the Chuckles the Clown episode of the Mary Tyler Moore Show, possibly the funniest episode of any show ever? I found a transcript and many references to it but no video. One site says it was removed from intertoobs existence.I’m so in on this Joe-in-kilt graduation ceremony. I’ll hitchhike if I have to. I’ll bring the blue ribbon.

  • ElMystico

    Kat, I really have no interest in being a gynecologist. Maybe back in Mad Men days when you could chain smoke during an exam and tell a woman that if she abused her birth control prescription by being a slut you’d take it away from her.Ah, those were the days…the republicans want to go back to…

  • GItheJOE

    Kat, I am VERY aware that women HATE the gyno. I guess the doctors are all huge hand sodomites and don’t know the difference between the NaNa and NoNO.

  • Kat

    Myst, if you look like Jon Hamm, you can be my gynecologist.

  • SillyRatfacedGit

    No more messing with pentagrams, black candles, and those inconvenient newt eyes, NOW, thanks to SDTP, anyone can download a devil whenever they need one.Just point your browser at sdtp://wwe.demoncentral.cx/ and the demon of your choice will be on its way to serve your needs.DISCLAIMER: DemonCentral is not responsible for the eternal disposition of your soul. Consult your spiritual adviser before using our service.

  • GItheJOE

    WOOT!!! PBR!!

  • ElMystico

    Jon Hamm is so darn handsome I’d grow a vagina just so he could look at it.

  • dontpanic23

    Ew, not that blue ribbon. The one from the song “Under the Scotsman’s Kilt”. But then you probably knew that and are yanking my chain.

  • jane
  • dontpanic23

    Jane, I want me some Angry Angel beer!

  • ceu

    HA! You should see how quickly on Twitter how quickly people are unfollowing “Keith Olbermann”. It’s pretty funny.(I’m easily amused. Byte me)

  • dontpanic23

    I probably was number 3 to subtract (when he lead into the show talking about it). Yes, I feel foolish.

  • ceu

    Kieth’s on Real Time tonight!

  • ceu

    Speaking of which, did you guys see the West Pointer get cut off yesterday on Rachel as soon as he said, “I am ga…” BLACK SCREEN?Rachel said he’s back tonight “after being mysteriously cut off”.

  • GItheJOE

    ceu, hell yeah!*begins drinking MGD to wash away Jesus Propaganda*

  • Kat

    I see your Belle, Jane, and raise you a bitch.

  • jane

    Mmmm, grenache.

  • http://nanotyrnns.blogspot.com/ Nanotyrannus

    Holy shit! As a panelist or just big screen guest?

  • GItheJOE

    HOLY SHIT!!! My President can speak Farsi. I love this secret Muslim.

  • ElMystico

    Jane, Kat, I raise you one wench

  • Kat

    With all these women, we need a Fat Bastard.

  • TruthSerum

    Hello GI the Joe….be patient and tolerant. You will achieve the goals that you have set for yourself and when you look back this “struggle” that you are going through will be the best time of your life, besides having your children.

  • jane

    Cheers, Myst! You in Syracuse? ‘Cause the Belle is brewed mere blocks from my house. Neighbor works there, and convenience store nearby sells it. Hence the prevalence of it at my house.

  • ElMystico

    I’m just saying… I think that Wench is moaning. They can call her wailing, but she doesn’t look upset, I’m just saying.

  • ceu

    I got a Spaten for you, Myst.

  • jane

    She’s “screaming with hops.” Heh.

  • GItheJOE

    >>Although the groups are not at all pleased that the administration toyed with the idea of billing veterans’ private insurance companies for treatment of service-connected conditions, the fact that President Barack Obama and his chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, met with the groups, listened to their concerns and ultimately dropped the idea appears to have won them some respect.WE WON!!!!

  • ElMystico

    Jane- I used to be in Syracuse. I moved back to Colorado last year, but I miss…bits of it. Mostly the Middle Ages brewery, which is the happiest place on earth. Next to Wegmans. We used to get growlers filled all the time. *le sigh*. Favorite microbrewery ever. How can you not love a place that calls their stuff Wailing Wench and Kilt Tilter

  • jane

    thank FSM. That was a Doomed policy.

  • jane

    How can you not love a place that brews stuff at 8 and 9%, is what I’m thinking…

  • GItheJOE

    >>Hello GI the Joe….be patient and tolerantTolerance is what has taken this country down the middle road for too long. I am done tolerating snake handlers.But yes, college is the SHIT!! I have learned so much that I am really shocked out how well the system works.One thing I have learned is that Obama is doing EVERYTHING that FDR did in the New Deal. The CCC, WPA, funding Hollywood, the arts, and lots and lots of spending. I love history.

  • fe

    aw, GI, you’re so much nicer than I am. I would’ve ripped Truth a new asshole.

  • ElMystico

    Oh, Jane, they have many a strong brew and they’re so delicious. Once again, le sigh

  • GItheJOE

    fe, truth has been a good boy/girl and is allowed to sit at the big table with the adults. BUT IF HE/SHE FUCKS UP…BAM!!! BACK TO THE KIDS TABLE AND EAT YOUR SPAGHETTI!

  • jane

    I’m so glad they popped the cap in NC. If I wanted to drive 1.5 miles out of my way, I could buy beer at 10-12% from all over America. (*sniff* I LOVE THIS COUNTRY)

  • TruthSerum

    Thanks fe.On what grounds?

  • GItheJOE

    Be nice truth.

  • fe

    I would’ve ripped you a new asshole for the condescending quotation marks around which you put the word struggle.

  • gypsy

    truth was being nice.

  • jane

    Sperm, on the grounds of proven Previous Douchitude. Or because we feel like it.

  • GItheJOE

    HA! “Ring of Fire”I got that once.

  • fe

    ah, SOIG, it’s been a while since we’ve talked. how ya been?

  • jane

    Exhibit A:”Dear LibTards:Limbaugh is not a politician, he is a talking zit head. The boat is leaking and BO and his cronies are pointing and blaming everyone else instead of plugging the leaks. The recession started a year and a half ago and when compared to previous recessions should be ending however the stock market has dropped 25% since BO became President. His policies that attack capitalists and punish investors will perpetuate the economic downturn and he will be to blame if it results in a depression.Liberals in power is like watching a a girl scout troop at a spider farm: lots of screaming and crying.God help us all.”Posted by: TruthSerum at March 3, 2009 2:49 PM

  • ElMystico

    Holy shit…they farm spiders!? Between that and the escaped pythons, I really need a Wailing Wench!

  • AdyLeigh

    Hey, y’all that dude on Rachel’s show just said that I’m his daughter. Rachel found my daddy! Rachel found my daddy! That’s awesome…

  • AdyLeigh

    Who farms spiders? Whaaaaat?

  • fe

    Myst: apparently the world’s deadliest (and ugliest) spider was found crawling around a Whole Foods market in Tulsa.Non alcoholic, but has anyone had Leninade?

  • ElMystico

    Leninade? Are you sure I didn’t make that up? Cos it sounds like me…(Seriously. My friends and I made a video where we were being stalked by a communist who got inside the house by dressing as a girl scout [picture big hairy friends brother dressed as girl scout with a fur hat] and selling us a box of Lenin squares… with HIMSELF inside of it!)

  • Kat

    I think Rachel just used air quotes.

  • jane

    Howdy, UIG, by the way.

  • SillyRatfacedGit

    Was that a freak occurrence or are all Whole Foods stores going to bring in spider performers? I feel left out. At least we have pythons.

  • fe
  • ElMystico

    Air quotes? I must have missed it but Rachel is being extra adorable tonight… between the 1388 sunglasses and the “I can has ride on airforce one?” I’m just…I want to marry her and have little bespectacled wonk babies. I can think of only a few problems with this plan.

  • Kat

    Not really air quotes, Myst. Just that sort of heavy sarcasm air quotes.And yup, you’ve got one big (perhaps? maybe average sized?) problem. I, on the other hand, have the proper equipment and a stellar uterus. MARRY ME AND I’LL HAVE YOUR BABIES, RACHEL!!!

  • ElMystico

    Bwahahaha…I will get both Hammered and Sickled. Awesome.

  • SillyRatfacedGit

    I’m hoping the pythons take out the armadillos.FL has armadillos only because someone brought them here from TX and they got loose. Same for the pythons.

  • GItheJOE

    Someone please tell the neocons that an openly gay lesbian commentator is doing more for veterans than they have ever done with their bullshit flag waving.

  • fe

    myst, you can find leninade at any whole foods. or if you have raley’s where you live.

  • GItheJOE

    Oh…If I sleep with Rachel is she still gay or am I?

  • jane

    Joe: Yes.

  • http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2074/1702912825_f9894664ab.jpg fe

    SOIG, I’m curious. Have you been documenting truth’s bullshit over the last few days as it comes, or are you going back through and looking for it?

  • GItheJOE

    HOLY SHIT!!! Spiders in Oklahoma? I am going there in a couple months and will fuck up a spider.The GF is a 60% disabled veteran because of a spider. FUCK SPIDERS, I WOULD PUNCH EVERY SPIDER IN THE FACE!!!

  • ElMystico

    The phrase ‘stellar uterus’ reminds me of 2001: A Space Odyssey. Kater, are you having star babies?

  • GItheJOE

    SOIG? Is that Super Old Internet Girl?Godddamnit Jane, answer the question.

  • TruthSerum

    Hello Jane,Quite the memory, you cheap slut.(ala Chevy Chase…if you are old enough)I put quotations on “struggle” for GI as it is a period in his life where he is facing challenges…and indeed it is a struggle to maintain enthusiasm and not quit. However when we look back at these times, sleepless nights to finish a paper, reading 3 x 5 note cards in the bathroom for an exam, skipping meals to save money, they are indeed the best times. A challenge presented and mustering fortitude to overcome it.

  • fe

    heh, Joe, the spider in Tulsa definitely had a big enough face.

  • jane

    Just googling, UIG. Nothing complex going on here. (Have we met? I am a lazy motherfucker.)

  • jane

    >>you cheap slutIt is ignorant slut, you ignorant slut.

  • fe

    Truth, I think you got Jane and me confused. She’s been throwing your words back in your face, and I simply said I’d rip you a new asshole.GI, SOIG stands for slightly older internet girlfriend. I don’t have a death wish.

  • Kat

    Damn straight, Myst. You should meet my kid. He’s a fucking star. But not nearly as calm as outer-space alien baby.

  • fe
  • ceu

    It’s a very large brooch Maddie Albright has – it’s almost Gloria Allred big.

  • SillyRatfacedGit

    Good move fe, I call jane ma’am (or sometimes sir).

  • TruthSerum

    I’ll take that as a complement. just don’t make fun of my bulbous forehead or my bionic yeti conspiracy newsletter. w00t!

  • jane

    com·ple·mentn.1.a. Something that completes, makes up a whole, or brings to perfection.

  • jane

    Silly, GET IN MAH BASEMENT

  • ElMystico

    Holy shit Battlestar is intense! As per usual but still wow.

  • SillyRatfacedGit

    Yes Ma’am.

  • jane

    Wow, Baby Stewie is kind of hot. Who knew?

  • Kat

    I want to be Jane when I grow up. Of course, I need to get a basement before then.

  • GItheJOE

    KO is the fucking shit. He said he would do his job even if he could get paid more somewhere else.Bill took on Glenn Beck’s insanity and I imagine Keith will start working it as well.I am a HBO junkie.HA! Junk!

  • GItheJOE

    Shit, I just want to get out of Jane’s basement.

  • ElMystico

    hahaha Madeline Albright is awesome.

  • http://www.thenewwearsoff.com/ Kyle

    Everyone knows jane is an ignorant slut.

  • emsique

    Any of you hippies still awake? It’s ignorant slut and it was Dan Akroyd and Jane Curtin. They were doing a parody of a 60 Minutes feature that had conservative James Kilpatrick and a liberal woman whose name escapes me. They had a little debate each week kind of like Pat Buchannon and Rachel Maddow do. It would be like Pat saying “Rachel, you muff diving ignoramus” and Rachel saying, “Pat you dickless Neanderthal.” Just good clean fun in lieu of intelligent discourse.

  • GItheJOE

    em,I am

  • GItheJOE

    I will be dangerously close to China very soon. What is South Korea like?

  • emsique

    I’ve never been there. I know it’s better than North Korea. If you get leave, try going to Thailand. That’s the funnest place. Get out of Bangkok and fly south to Koh Samui, which is an island in the Gulf of Thailand. From there take a boat to Koh Pagnon. Nice beaches, good beer, pot, Euro trash kids partying all night. Stay on the other side of the island from the Euro trash at the Sunset Bay. Velly nice!

  • GItheJOE

    Will do! I will be in Southy come 2010. I plan on coming to China to check out the market and buy some stock.

  • emsique

    PS. You could also try a trip to Beijing. See the Great Wall and the Forbidden City. Hong Kong is some expensive fun.

  • SillyRatfacedGit

    emsique -I think it was Jane Pauly (sp?) and Kilpatrick.That was the real reason it was Jane, you ignorant slut. Of course Jane Curtin looked somewhat like Pauly and sharing the same first name was a bonus.

  • ceu

    It was Shana Alexander – on 60 Minutes

  • ceu

    Point, Counter-point – James J. Kilpatrick

  • jane

    Shana Alexander.Which now explains a line from Airplane! that I never understood: “Shana, Shana, please…” in the News Montage.

  • jane

    (had to dig through some dusty brain files to figure out where that line came from…)

  • ceu

    heh. the old woman’s memory is still intact. Who would have imagined?! :)

  • ceu

    Jane! I was NOT referring to you! Your comment wasn’t there when i typed that

  • SillyRatfacedGit

    Yes. It was Shana. Damn that was a long time ago now.

  • jane

    heh!

  • emsique

    I’m last! Went out for the afternoon. Almost 90 degrees this afternoon. Drank some Tsing Taos with my Amelican fliend, ate at McDonald’s and watched Shoot Em Up. Almost like I was back in Merka. Shana Alexander! What a bleeding heart! She had a little whine in her voice when she said “Jaaack”. Interesting that James Kilpatrick went from a redneck segregationist to an almost moderate guy who believed in legalizing marijuana. I always liked his later writings on the proper use of the English language.