Prime Time Thread

Bob, Lee, and Elvis… AWESOME.First also too and such as.

It does look like a fun filled evening.

Oh my… I’m not sure I can manage such a night…QT

and three makes a party!

heh make that four!

Any chance of converting Queen to liberalism?[I'm just teasing]

Arrh, me bonnie lass Vera, thanks for turning me onto the Pirate English on FB. Very entertaining.

Be There! Aloha!

welcome aboard matey! that is the best thing they have done since I have been on itand thank Kat and Elvis I stole it from them

I really love the saying for minutes=(minutes)shots o’rum agotoo funny, I fear (hope) we all start speaking pirateevening minx

President Obama is coming! President Obama is coming!I LOVE the Pirate English on Teh Book of Faces.

so what stupid questions should I anticipate this evening?

Hail to the Chief.I’m glad Keith didn’t spill latte on his jacket tonight. Or perhaps he had the backup.

He knows it’s not the swine flu.Our news media is a bunch of idiot morons.

why is it that I love to see this president smile and when the idiot did it I just got pissed off?There stupid question out of the way

Git, I first read that as “spit” latte. I was wondering the story behind that one.

Uh oh…He’s using a TELEPROMPTER. Cue up the giggling of the far right crazies.I don’t care about his 100th day in office, but I DID care about his 53rd day in office.

this morning on NPR they did a story saying the gov’t wanted people to stop saying “Swine”, then proceeded ALL day to call it “swine”drove me batty

Same here, veralynn

The tee vee news did the same word trick.Storm coming here. I’ll be pissed if my President gets knocked out by lightning. Virtually speaking.

uh oh DP-should I take cover? I haven’t been watching the weather reports.what happened on the 53rd day Ady?

Yeah, Ady. What happened on the 53rd?

chuck todd really looks like the dick he isjust sayin’

Take cover, Vera. Very rumbly and dark out there.

oh he will pay for saying something nice about bush

my scurvy self be appeciat’in that DP

I love the pirate thingskiba did you know you are “thar scurvy dog”???damn I love that!!

Can we just agree that President Obama is f-ing amazing? I mean, for ALL he has on his plate right now, he KNOWS that we have 50 million courses of Tamiflu available? Holy shit!Makes me want to cheer…”Obama, Obama he’s our man. If he can’t do it, no one can!”

I my head I have renamed Chuck Todd:Chuck Todd => Chuckie TwatwaffleHe is an incredible penis. He wears a necktie to keep the foreskin from giving him away.

Haha, I didn’t know that, veralynn. I’ll have to check it out.

Please move to Pakistan Chuckie. I’ll hold the door open if you want a running start.

Swine flu symptoms like nausea can be attributed to direct exposure to Porkulus.

Pardon me. I just want to say, I love my president.I think I’m madly in love with my president, and my after all be able to brave a phone call to Bob, Lee, and Elvis – because I’m all a-flush with President Obama.”I have seen nothing in the past 100 days to make me question my decision.”YES!QT

agreed QT

why did I think Chuckie Twatwaffle was a decent guy during the election? There were times he made sense, right?

Ady- Was that the day Obama restored public funding to the UN Population Fund?The only other thing I could find was that was Obama and Biden had lunch at 1:15pm.

Agreed with Ady & QT.

The president defines bipartisanship. QT swoons.QT

VeraLynn, there was a time when Chuck Todd kept his twatwaffleness very well hidden. I’m not sure what his problem is these days.

QT -I am not sexually aroused by him, since I am not gay, but I can understand why any woman would be.This man has a way about him that I have not seen since JFK. He is always calm and relaxed and has a good sense of humor. He aways knows the right thing to say. He is wicked smart and will always do the right thing.I am so glad Barack Obama is my president. I wish he was more liberal, but it is such a relief to have a competent leader that I don’t have to worry about what dumb stunt he’ll do next. This guy is the real deal. This shall be a historic administration, I am quite convinced of that.

a very definitive definition of bipartisanshipis that redundant?

thanks Ady, I was askeert I had lost my scurvy mind

Vera -I used to think he was OK too. I agree with Ady. Since Obama became President he’s gone rabid or something. Maybe Rahm pissed in his cornflakes.

my answers to the NY Times guysurprised? that the guy I wanted, a mixed race guy, actually wontroubled? the repugs have gone completely insaneenchanted? MY President, that says it allhumbled? by him wanting the job and he actually won

oh and him recognizing the executive branch is a “co-equal” branch of gov’tlove that

Oh, I just picked his 53rd day in office off the top of my head to illustrate how silly it is to pick his 100th day as a day to summarize Obama’s performance and/or to use it as a means to predict what he might do next.Did I say that I love this man yet? Well, I do. I really, really do.

QTThe president defines bipartisanship. QT swoons”In a two-party system, bipartisan refers to any bill, act, resolution, or any other action of a political body in which BOTH OF THE MAJOR POLITICAL PARTIES ARE IN AGREEMENT”NOTHING could be further from the truth! How can you even make that claim??

@Veralynn, I like that he sees the executive branch as being “co-equal” too.Ah…RockandTroll, I’m sooo glad that you’re here tonight. Your presence means that President Obama is doing well, and that scares you and others just like you.

President speaks on state secrets. Brilliantly explains why he continued the Bush policy. Speaks honestly, fairly, in a way that makes a heck of a lot of sense, and lifts the veil of awfulness from his presidency.Can someone open a window or something? Isn’t it a little warm in here???QT

How Republicans Can Regain PowerAt OpenLeft. Pretty funny.

Hi Silly: Sorry that you’re not a woman in this day and age… President Obama is pretty much droolworthy.QT

Ah…hell no. Not a single “tea bagging” question? Why on earth not?

Whew, rowdy storm.My son commented on how awful it would have been had Bush been handed that 4-part question. Anyone want to act it out?

QT -I drool a bit over Michelle. Don’t let Barack know. I don’t want to piss off my President.

To be fair, a two part question was too awful for Bush. And I’ll be MORE than happy to act it out, DP.Keith and Rachel don’t seem to pleased.

Ady-The Gumby teabaggers aren’t worth the bandwidth.

Git-I would love for them to fund Stephen ColbertDP-I will enjoy everyone’s acting that outWhy does KO think the President would answer if Bush tortured? He can’t answer that question.Is the storm over DP?

Did Fineman watch the same press conference I watched?

I need someone to explain the difference between equal and co-equal. Is it sort of like flammable and inflammable?

The overarching statement the President was making is:I FUCKING GOT THIS, BITCHES!At least that was the message this Git got.

Worst of storm over, Vera, but still rumbley. I feel it’s OK to plug the desktop back in, especially since the router is plugged into the same strip and I lost my connection for a while. I hadn’t thought about that when I snickered at son having to turn off game. Karma.Bush had that excruciating 5 minute stumble when asked if he had made any mistakes. That was horrible.

Co-equal sounds more equal. Flammable sounds more directly dangerous. Inflammable seems passive.

But then I could be full of shit.

I just posted a response to ceuIt is being held, is that because I put 2 links in it?

basically what I found ceu was they pretty much mean the same thingif it ever posts, I gave the definition of both.what I meant by it was, recognizing the separation of powers

What? No humorous Republican response?Anybody here have the nerve to watch Fox News right now? I don’t, but I bet it’s entertaining in a very disturbing way.

Egad, the one night I’m off this week and I miss half the PTT…

ceu -We’ll take equal as a given. The meaning from math is in operation.co-equal is a weasel attorney term.The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) was not needed since equality under the law based on gender is already protected by the existing Constitution and Amendments.This leads to co-equal pay for men and women working the same job with the same training and experience.co-equal is kinda sorta like equal, but in an unequal way.I’ve never heard anyone but bullshit artists use the term co-equal. I always assume I am about to get screwed.

Damn Git–I didn’t mean to sound like a bullshit artist lol(part of me is impressed with me!)

Vera -Only one link per post or else you have to Email Bob to free it from SPAM prison.

thanks Git-I don’t care all that muchlike Bob said in the message, when he gets around to it

*really hoping upcoming homophobic NC congresswoman is not mine*

Hey MattLoved the limpdick story

it is Virginia DP

Vera -You are not a bullshit artist.My entire post was pure snark.And yet truth. It often works that way.

My question wasn’t really aimed at what anyone here said about “co-equal”. Kid said something about “when was the last time you heard a president say there were co-equal branches of gov’t?” which made me wonder why, when people talk about the branches of gov’t, they always seem to say co-equal, when equal would suffice…

GitThat is the beauty of snark. I still like the bullshit artist thing though. I will be telling people tomorrow. If you knew me in person, you would know I am very naive when it comes to spotting it.does he really have to talk to tweety?

me thinks tweety is pissed he can’t run now, no way he would winceu-yeah! the President said it!

*I knew it*Thanks, Vera. I dread it. Again.That woman got a stupid amount of votes. She thinks she stands for us. Oh, shit–I guess she does for 63% of my district and probably 80% of my county.

Vera, thanks for reading it!I gave a copy to a friend at work, who (unbeknownst to me) took it with him to a horror convention last weekend and shared it with Sid Haig. Which is just frakkin awesome.I’m in a new line of business taking complaint calls these days. It’s hectic, but there are some absolute gems I wish I could record and put on the website… People call up with the most hilarious issues. But I work til 11 at nite so I’m rarely able to catch the PTT in progress.

Sorry DPI had a congressman like that. I remember when he said during the election, that liberals were unpatriotic heathens wishing for the destruction of this country.BTW, it was said at a McGramps/Palinator&reg rally that was 10 minutes north of my house.

Yeah, Virginia Foxx said today that Matt Shepard being beat to death was a hoax.The funeral and trials never happened I guess. She lives in her own little alternate universe where she only gets WKKK AM TalkRadio.Her intelligence is a hoax. She is a fascist Gumby. Expect to see her with a ‘kerchief on her head standing in a brook near you yelling MY BRAIN HURTS! GAYS ARE BAD!Please unelect her.

That bitch. I’ve tried and tried voting against her (within legal limits). It has done no good. But the more press she gets nationally the more she will embarrass some of the voters here. Maybe. I hope.

isn’t that the “pro-American parts of America” DP?

DP -It’s not your fault. All you can do is vote against her and try to convince others to also vote against her.I voted against Bush twice and Lieberman twice. Those didn’t work out how I wanted either.

I’m right dead in them, Vera. WKKK wafts through the airwaves with a pervasive stench.

Where are the trolls?! I was expecting a good troll-baiting from Git…

DP-I share your little piece of the world. Maybe next year I can come up and help unelect her.Matt-this Sid guy is a good thing? Congrats!

Git, I have converted one friend. He voted for Obama and usually votes democratic, but tossed one at Foxx because she responded to his particular veteran issue in an election year. He even gets her emails. *aack* But today he sounded like she was starting to get on his nerves. I hope he’s a sign of what’s to come.

*hopefully converted*And yes, it’s very frustrating to keep voting and go for years without being heard. We went though this for decades with Jesse Dead-Now! Helms.

Git – she didn’t say that Shepard’s death was a hoax. She said that the story that he was murdered because he was gay is a hoax.”I also would like to point out that there was a bill — the hate crimes bill that’s called the Matthew Shepard bill is named after a very unfortunate incident that happened where a young man was killed, but we know that that young man was killed in the commitment of a robbery. It wasn’t because he was gay. This — the bill was named for him, hate crimes bill was named for him, but it’s really a hoax that that continues to be used as an excuse for passing these bills,” said Foxx.perRyan Grim at HuffPo

Vera, come on down, as the game show host said.

“that young man was killed in the commitment of a robbery. It wasn’t because he was gay.”Um, what robber takes their victim out in the middle of nowhere and ties them to a fence before beating them to death?

The more National Press attention she gets, the better. She got hammered today in the liberal/progressive blogosphere. Two seconds with goggle is all it takes to shown what an incorrect ass she is.

Vera, Sid Haig is a legend in horror movies. So yeah, it’s a good thing that he read and liked my story. Not necessarily leading to a blockbuster movie deal, but a very nice ego boost.

Whoa! Go Keith! “She is our shame.”

Michele Bachmann, a small hoot with a hollow head.Keith reams the shameful Foxx. Resign. Now. Please.

All donations to her next opponent appreciated.

Thanks, Keith. Well said.what’s the “commitment” of a crime, anyway? Putting it in an insane asylum?

Chris, she also doesn’t speak for me in usage.

QT-you still calling in?

Two of the men who were tried for his death admitted in court that he was killed for being gay. The reason they picked him out for their ‘game’ was because he was gay. This is in the public record. It is in News stories. It is all over the fucking world wide web.Virginia Foxx is either a baldfaced liar, or she is a shameless propagandist. Two seconds with google gets you the facts of the case. Am I to believe she has no staff that can use Teh Google™Virginia Foxx said something that was blatantly not true. She is a liar.

sorry Matt, I read Steven King, but don’t watch a lot of horror movies.

She is both, Git. She is pure, wingnut party line. And it would appear from this recent stink that she is a liar.

Apparently Git, she and Bachman share the same staff. The do not have the ability to use Teh Google.

I think WKKK jams Teh Google. I keep the radio off.

Bachmann and Foxx don’t believe in “facts,” which have a well-known liberal bias. They make up their own realities instead.

Rewriting the history. He wasn’t killed because he was gay. All that lynching of those people never happened either. All that murdering of ‘unfriendly indians’ never happened. Ever notice that settlers were always attacked by ‘unfriendly indians?’

Git, it’s just like “mistakes were made.” No one ever MAKES a mistake, they just sort of get made, all by themselves or something.

Matt -I wondered if you meant ‘that’ Sid Haig. You did. Most cool. My oldest daughter and I are big Sid Haig fans. Lots of people don’t like that sort of thing, but I’m not one of them. I’m a big Rob Zombie movie fan as well.

to be fair to Foxx (gak!) they did steal Shepard’s shoes.Really – she went way, way too far over the outrageousness line. But then, it seems that the GOP no longer realizes that a line exists…

Git, it is definitely MOST cool. I’ve been a fan of Rob Zombie since his earliest days as a musician, and Haig has always had a soft spot in my heart (I hadn’t even known he was in House of 1000 Corpses, and almost leapt from my seat when I saw him come out in the clown suit). So getting that news really made my week.

amen ceuthey don’t have a clue there is a lineand these are the people who didn’t like “General Betrayus” (sp?)

Ceu, was there EVER a line?? The GOP’s been making their own realities for 30 years now.

Okay, going off to blog now! Rep. Foxx has given me plenty to work with…

(Matt, you know that’ll bring me over).

I don’t care what they stole that is irrelevant.It was a hate crime. They decided to ‘have some fun with the faggot.’ He was targeted only because he was gay. They pretended to be gay to lure him out of the bar so they could beat and torture him to death. They admitted to all of this at trial.There is no doubt. There is no question.Virginia Foxx is a liar. Virginia Foxx claims it was not ha hate crime. Virginia Foxx also must think that lynchings are not a hate crime as long as you take the lynchees shoes. Virginia Foxx needs to apologize to Mrs. Sheppard.

Maybe she should be added to your list Git

vera -hehe. already added. this afternoon when I first saw the story.I’m trying to find out if she has any brothers in the Klan.IIRC the Klan killed a Jewish Doctor and a couple of black men in the 70s. I think it was Winston-Salem area but I haven’t found it yet and my memory is sketchy. The Doctor was defying the Klan and the police just ‘disappeared’ Several Klansmen gunned down the Doctor and the black men with him right in the street in broad daylight with hundreds of witnesses. They were never convicted. The Doctor died as his wife tried to clamp a severed artery (she was a nurse).

New blog posted. So good to get even a bit of the PTT tonight! But I must get back to the novel…

I believe that Virginia Foxx knows the details of the trials of Matt Sheppard’s assailants.She does not believe that killing homosexuals is a hate crime because homosexuals *should* be killed.That is what really pisses me off. It’s the same mentality that said lynchings aren’t murder because blacks aren’t human.Killing faggots isn’t a crime because they are an abomination before God.I think this is what Virginia was really saying.If that is true, then she is not only a liar, but she is a criminal bigot. Our laws protect gay people just like it protects her bigoted ass.I don’t much care for Christofascist gumby Klansmen.

Doris Kearns Goodwin!

Nice blog Matt-I will have to side with criminal bigot Git

Doris Kearns Goodwin?he asks cautiously.

I remember that riot in Greensboro. It was late 78 or spring of 79. here is all I could findbut it is from 05 or 06

the Greensboro News and Record would be the best bet. All I did was do a search for klan rally and virginia and didn’t get much, so then i just entered klan rally and got what you seenow, don’t ever show my mother, the englih teacher that lovely paragraph

she was on The Daily Show, silly git.

getting ready to watch the interview with Doris

Doris was a little salty!

fe -I should have watched TDS. I foolishly watched Tweety instead. I must be insane. I keep watching tweety expecting him to be good this time.vera -Greensboro winter 78,79 sounds right. I read about it in the Philadelphia Inquirer. It was also covered on PBS in the early 80s. I think it was an early Frontline.Thanks for the info. It may be hard to find anything online. I could probably get the Inquirer coverage if I pay for the archival articles. I’ll try the News and Record.

I hope no one will mind this…Silly: I wrote a new piece on my blog (linked in my name) that I think you’d like. I wouldn’t mention it here, but you don’t have a facebook! you should get one.

we had just moved here and as a 12 year old it scared the hell out of me. Discovery Channel did a minute by minute on it this past winter. I tried to watch and couldn’t. Some things like that scar you for life.i don’t get the hate and the fear. i never have and it confused me.Anyway, the News and Record is Greensboro, High Point and Winston Salem should have their own papers too. Well, maybe not today. But the News and Record, DP can correct me if I am wrong, is the biggest paper up that way.Raleigh Paper is News and Observer, I think.Charlotte’s is the Charlotte Observer. Both of these cities are about an hour away from any one of those cities.Time to get some sleep now. I have not been sleeping well at all, so I will see you all tomorrow.Good night Git and fe and if Matt comes back, you too!

and yes Git—get on FBMatt too!!

Vera -Thanks again. I’ve read the Raleigh News and Observer, it’s pretty good paper. I used get to the Research Triangle area regularly. My Ex’s family settled there, Chapel Hill, in ’76.I never understood the hate either. The good news is that it isn’t everyone. The really dangerous hate is in a small number of people. The problem is you put enough of them into a mob, and the small number of haters can infect and provoke the otherwise normal folks into ugliness. Most people are decent enough if you keep them away from the instigators.Sleep wel.fe -I’m checking it out. Thanks for the heads up. last night too. I got an email from Kat.