What went wrong at oil rig? A lot, probers find (AP)
AP – Bad wiring and a leak in what’s supposed to be a “blowout preventer.” Sealing problems that may have allowed a methane eruption. Even a dead battery, of all things.
I’m just surprised Dick Cheney didn’t shoot it in the face.
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bkny
can we designate halliburton, transocean and bp terrorist organizations, seize their leadership and torture them by stranding them on their million dollar yachts positioned on top of the deepwater horizon.
4.
The Dangerman
Penguins may make you sad tonight, but consider you’re a Cleveland Fan and you’re watching the Cavaliers stink up the playoffs … holy shit, Cleveland should be one one huge suicide watch. This had to be the year (even if the King of Chokers stays, Shaq ain’t getting any younger).
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Kathy
I know I am venturing into shaky territory here but there is another game featuring another Pennsylvania team on tonight and the Penna team is winning this one :)
I never would have thought that the Flyers would outlast the Red Wings. Do I get to sign off Kathy plus 2 since we are coming off of a sports thread? I am not aware of all BJ traditions :)
As someone who is 25 and has yet to embark on his career, I feel slightly encouraged by this. If these are the types of people I am competing against I think I will be fine.
But as someone who cares a lot about the shape of this country and realizes he can’t shoulder the burden by himself, I am ready to cry. If these are the types of people I will need to work with, I might as well kill myself.
In this writer’s defense, if he’s never worked in a particular type of restaurant, or never worked in a restaurant at all, he probably didn’t know how bad it was to step into a chef’s kitchen. Still, that’s not really a reason to bash Lieber. The fact that the guy was berating someone so forcefully and so loudly that he disturbs a guest’s dinner doesn’t do him any favors. The chef comes across as a gigantic douche, and if there’s any justice, he’ll receive a ton of bad publicity for his behavior.
Television: Mythbusters has a new episode this week.
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Violet
The “Soylent Green” tagline reminded me of my trip to the supermarket today. So I went to Whole Foods to get a chicken to roast for dinner. (Yeah, I’m an elitist. I like organic chicken.) And they’ve got this new HD monitor behind the meat counter with rotating images of happy cows in pastures and so forth.
I made my usual comment about how stupid I think the expensive plasma monitor is and how I think the money would be better spent either paying the employees more or saving the customers money. This comment always gets the employees chatting because they think these screens (one behind the meat counter, one behind the fish counter) are really stupid. The employee I was talking with today says, “It has this pastoral photo that reminds me of the euthanasia scene in “Soylent Green.” And we had a big discussion about what if that’s really what these screens are all about and should I worry about what the meats really are.
It was all in good fun, of course. But you should have seen the face of the lady next to me. She went white as a sheet, and could hardly stutter out her order when it was her turn. I felt a little bad. But not that bad. Heh.
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PurpleGirl
TNT was scheduled to show a basketball game…. instead they are showing Lord of the Rings – The Fellowship of the Ring. I haz a happy.
@Proper Gander: So these guys could all end up with felony convictions for being nosy. Seems about right when you consider the banksters got seven years BIG bonuses for fucking up the entire financial system and helping the economy tank.
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Brian J
Has nobody noticed that John Cole is advertising a $400 soccer cleat on his blog?
What an elitist.
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Dave Ruddell
O.K., so I don’t know shit about hockey, so I have to ask, who are the Habs? What is a Hab?
From wiki:
French nicknames for the team include Les Canadiens (or Le Canadien), Le Bleu-Blanc-et-Rouge, La Sainte-Flanelle,[2] Le Tricolore, Les Glorieux (or Nos Glorieux), Les Habitants, Le CH and Le Grand Club. In English, the team’s main nickname is the Habs, an abbreviation of “Les Habitants”. (Note: Even in English, the French spelling, Canadiens, is always used.)
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Comrade Kevin
@Mumphrey: The Montréal Canadiens. Habs is short for “Les Habitants”.
21.
mcd410x
“Organic” has to be the dumbest moniker I know. As opposed to “inorganic” food like … rocks.
Penguins may make you sad tonight, but consider you’re a Cleveland Fan and you’re watching the Cavaliers stink up the playoffs … holy shit, Cleveland should be one one huge suicide watch.
Sports radio in Cleveland today has been, er, entertaining.
@mcd410x:
I don’t really care what they call it. It tastes better than ordinary supermarket chicken, which is filled with a lot of water or chicken broth and loaded up on antibiotics.
@Brian J: I have to admit, I find it perfectly hilarious that Lieber thinks Forgione would have reacted better to a woman confronting him. He’d have seen that as even more of an affront to his masculinity, if that indeed was the issue here.
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Katie5
5-2!
(streaming the game and watching kitchen nightmares)
Neither did I. I clicked on the link thinking it was a some sort of running sneaker or cross trainer. Perhaps the picture of Christiano Ronaldo should have tipped me off.
The stars are aligned for my beloved Blackhawks, John, and I for one appreciate the crappy Pens performance.
Gotta get past the Sharks, but with the Caps and Pens out I’ll take my chances. 1961. I have Cubs fan disease even with the Hawks; grew up with the great Hull and Makita.
So, you know, as someone of a certain age and a big fan of the Steel Curtain/Bradshaw Steelers, try to get over it. It’s tough to repeat.
@PurpleGirl: Oh, yes, that gentle mocking speaks of unrecognized passion. Every rom-com viewer knows that.
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demo woman
@Brian J: Amazing amount of comments for the Diner’s Journal. I saw it yesterday and the comments have doubled since then. If I’m dining out the last thing I want is to hear the chef yelling at an employee.
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Skepticat
Planned? Planned? What is this “plan” concept of which you speak?
There are some completely inorganic ingredients. Salt’s the most obvious example, but people also use calcium oxide in traditional corn processing, and various calcium and magnesium salts in coagulating tofu. Not to mention all of the nutritional additives like reduced iron.
Yeah, my Facebook feed is currently full of people losing their freaking minds (one of those people being my dad.) Personally, while I enjoy hockey, I really don’t give a sweet shit about any particular NHL team. I don’t understand the antipathy towards Crosby, though. Dude’s a good hockey player, and while he’s probably grown some ego, he doesn’t seem to be a total dick about it, anyway.
The favorite conspiracy theory here is that coughKingcough James has given his two week notice on his way to NY, and he’s not one of the ones who goes to work every day during those two weeks.
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Comrade Kevin
@RedKitten: I think an awful lot of the antipathy comes not from anything Crosby himself has done, but the way the media have fawned all over him since came into the league. He has been talked about like he is the second coming of Mario Lemieux and Wayne Gretzky combined.
“Organic” has to be the dumbest moniker I know. As opposed to “inorganic” food like … rocks.
If I remember Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma correctly, “organic” popped up as a protest against “industrial” farming in the 60’s. Industrial farms treat plants and animals like machines to be plugged into a factory system.
So, “organic” farms are supposed to treat plants and animals like organisms.
That said…yes, it is a dumb name.
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Sentient Puddle
Fuck TV. There’s free Portal!
(I originally played it on the 360 because my PC at the time was a piece of crap. As soon as I got one that wasn’t a piece of crap, I remedied this problem with Team Fortress 2, but never Portal.)
AP Washington – After failed attempts to stop the gulf oil leak, progressive leaders are demanding President Obama use his bully pulpit to cap the well.
@John O: I would have preferred a Wings-Canadians finals, but Hawks-Canadians would be alright (it’s looking more and more like the Bruins are going to blow it). I don’t think anyone wants to run into Halak right now. On the other hand, Nabokov is the weak link on the Sharks.
You have my sympathies having your second straight series on the west coast. Hockey needs an Original Six division in the Eastern Conference. Not only do fans in Detroit (and Chicago) have to watch the Blue Jackets or Predators every other week (and the Leafs and Canadians every other year), games out west end the following day and the 10000 miles traveled before the finals takes its toll on the teams.
Hockey fans everywhere should take some comfort knowing that Gary Bettman is crying himself to sleep tonight with the Penguins elimination.
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Corner Stone
Two Evony ads on the same page has convinced me there is in fact a God.
-everyone is dogging it to get the coach fired.
-LeBron is leaving, so it will be easier for the fans to take if he’s a quitter.
-LeBron’s elbow is so bad he’ll need surgery and be out for a year, and this inner turmoil is messing with his head.
-LeBron hates the needle, so instead of shots he’s taking pain killers that are making him a slug.
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Comrade Kevin
@Sentient Puddle: Thanks for that reminder! Cool that Steam is now out for the Mac as well
This whole “Pens” nomenclature gets me every time. It must be my filthy, juvenile, puerile mind…though it does make the comments more entertaining, such as the Grand Panandrum’s comment: Stick a fork in the Pen*s. Much more provocative, eh?
That said, wtf is up with the internets being so boring today? I was finally forced to post something at my own crappy blog, just to deal with the ennui.
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Violet
@mr. whipple:
You used the dash. WP hates the dash and turns it into a strikethrough.
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Corner Stone
Listen. If you haven’t seen that kid doing the Lady Gaga song you really need to take 3 minutes to watch it.
I’ve never listened to a Lady Gaga song in my life but that was incredible. I don’t normally give a damn about internet “buzz” sensations but my 5yr old and I just watched it about 5 times in a row.
And if I could bottle the expression sauce of the girls in the audience behind him I would be a multi-millionaire.
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Comrade Kevin
@BobS: Apart from that awful 7-1 game, Nabokov surely has not been the “weak link” for the Sharks.
The people on the west coast who get to deal with games starting at 4pm are playing the world’s smallest violin, just for you.
That said, wtf is up with the internets being so boring today? I was finally forced to post something at my own crappy blog, just to deal with the ennui.
The internets are very boring at the moment. Are the internets suffering from spring fever or something?
Ever notice the jihadis tend to be highly-educated professionals? Medical doctors, engineers, etc? Now we have this stomp-my-foot, I’ll-shoot-ya-ifin’-ya-come-on-my-land BS from JDs? Hell, I know we’re crazy down here in Texas, but I don’t think David Koresh had an advanced degree in anything but narcissism…
In Kenner, La., where a separate hearing is being held as part of a U.S. Coast Guard and Interior Department investigation, Michael Saucier of the Minerals Management Service testified the government isn’t required to inspect the BOPs [blow-out preventers] as they are built and when installed. Operators are required to test the devices every two weeks, and Saucier said the MMS monitors those tests. He said the agency relies on drillers to ensure the device is working properly.
Ah, another success story of industry self-regulation.
A 2001 report by Transocean, which bought the BOP from Cameron, indicated there can be as many as 260 failure possibilities in the equipment, which is supposed to be the final safeguard against a well blowout by clamping down and sealing a gushing oil well, said Stupak, chairman of the panel’s investigation’s subcommittee.
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“How can a device that has 260 failure modes be considered fail-safe?” asked Stupak.
Well, gee, Stupak I dunno. What fool can sit there in congress while business gets to thumb its nose at regulatory oversite and not see something like this was bound to happen?
Maybe ’cause during all those years while Dubya and his Club Growth Cretins were busy gutting regulation and dismantling oversight guys like you were too busy making mountains out of molehills and frothing the fundies over what a woman can and cannot do with her own zygote to give a tin shit about what corporations can and cannot do with our water, food, air, medicines and economy.
Also too, WTFF is up with the strikethrough? I didn’t use a dash in anything, and I’ve got a strikethrough on everything starting with mr. whipple’s comment.
Dog-riding tortoise much appreciated – I’m sure it’s a relief to that crazy Texas Republican (I have a hard time telling them apart) that it didn’t feature any man-on-boxturtle.
There’s a whole load of dashes, now let’s see what that does.
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robertdsc
LeBron hates the needle,
Have these people seen his tattoos? Geez. Talk about “get a brain, morans”!
66.
The Main Gauche of Mild Reason
Cocktail of the Week–The Sazerac: Muddle a sugar cube with a little water and 3 dashes Peychaud’s bitters, then add 1.5 oz Sazerac rye. Chill and rinse another glass with 1/2 tsp Kubler absinthe and then add the rye/bitters. Garnish with orange peel.
And for historical dweebs here: yes, I know it was originally made with Herbsaint instead of Absinthe; Absinthe is just infinitely better. Accept no substitutes.
Random trivia: the Sazerac was the first “commercial” cocktail. Other examples include the gimlet (which was invented as a way to drink Rose’s lime juice)
@Jennifer: Nothing. It did nothing! The ways of WordPress canna be understood by us mere mortals.
My blog is WordPress and whenever I copy and paste something that is italicized, WordPress thinks I mean for everything to italicized for the rest of forEVAR!!1! I have to resort to actually keying these passages in myself. (I know! The humanity!) Bugs the crap outta me.
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BobS
@Comrade Kevin: I’m glad to see you agree with my point about series that cross too many time zones.
Nabokov isn’t the same goaltender that won the gold medal. He’s fighting the puck too much.
Have the ancient rites in abomination of WordPress started? Cause I want into that.
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Tazistan Jen
@mr. whipple:
I believe if there is a space between the dash on either end and the text, you don’t get the strike-through. Maybe returns break the incipient strike-through? Test:
– this should not strike through –
– nor this-
-nor this –
-but this should-
74.
The Main Gauche of Mild Reason
I think this blog needs some front pagers on the west coast. Anyone with me?
75.
Martin
@ellaesther: Cool. I have a dog and a tortoise, though the corgi really wouldn’t fit on the CA desert tortoise. They’re buds though.
Barnes is still able to practice law. According to a state bar spokesperson, an attorney must be convicted of a serious crime of moral turpitude in order to lose their license.
You used the dash. WP hates the dash and turns it into a strikethrough.
You have to be a fucking mystic to keep from killing this blog. “WP hates the dash”. Reminds me of the monster animals on Aliens figuring stuff out.
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Little Boots
Obama’s had a year to fix wordpress. WHY DOESN” T ANYTHING CHANGE????
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Corner Stone
@The Main Gauche of Mild Reason: What do you have against East Coast Elitists?
WTF is next? You’ll say we should have FP’ers who have been judges? Paper trails? Heterosexually documented activities?
You disgust me.
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patrick II
Lewis Black on the Daily show just did the best I have ever seen him taking down Glenn Beck.
My only observation about the game is, “in your face, Vancouver!”
Bwahahahaa….
I lived in Montreal for a good stint. It’s a great town.
I’m sure I know some long faces tonight; I’ve got some buds on the west coast. I’m equally certain there’s a lot of drinking going on downtown right now.
Sorry it had to go down like that for you, John, but… I guess it had to go down like that. Better you than me, and all that.
Sid handled the post-game interview really well, I thought.
I think Montreal totally solved him; it was the real key to their victory. They held him to a third of his points against Ottawa. Well, that and Halak is totally on fire.
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Martin
@patrick II: I pretty much never miss TDS/Colbert. It’s about 80% of my tv viewing.
@Martin: Made me way happier almost than I’d care to admit. I think it’s the entirely deadpan expression on the dog, and his (her?) apparent rock solid stability on the back of a moving tortoise.
Maybe your tortoise could ride your Corgi? Now that would be quite a YouTube.
@mr. whipple: But will you dart? Will you bolt? How about rushing? Or sprinting? Can we expect any of these in your future?
I believe none have any rules attached, unlike the /patooie!/ dash.
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Ash Can
@John O: I can’t believe how good it looks for the Hawks this year. It’s scary. I mean, I realize that they have to get past the Sharks to even get into the finals, but it really looks like they have the horses this year.
Yowza.
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Martin
@ellaesther: I’d be a bit worried for the tortoise. Corgis are pretty low-slung critters, to say the least, but it’d still be a big fall for the tortoise. We’re not sure how old he is but he’s getting a little slow and is developing a bad habit of flipping himself over. Not exactly the best survival skill, that.
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mai naem
And all this time I was thinking Habs was short for Habaneros.
I may do all of those, but now I’m going to bed. Night all.
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Comrade Kevin
@BobS: In the Sharks’ first year in the playoffs, they had to play Detroit in the first round, and Toronto (!) in the second. That was back in the days of the Campbell and Wales conferences.
Without more teams in the Pacific and Mountain time zones, there isn’t a whole lot that can be done.
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Corner Stone
@Corner Stone: Fuck all of y’all if you haven’t watched this yet.
I’m your biggest fan
I’ll follow you until you love me
Papa-papparazi
@trollhattan: Meh, I’ve about had it giving these guys so much money for TV, getting treated like shit and having ads on top of it. A change is gonna come.
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Corner Stone
@freelancer (itouch): Just sayin’. As a parent, that’s some powerful good shit. That young man is throwin’ it down and should be recognizzzed.
It’s funny. My 5yr old pointed out the tight lipped blonde in the middle row to the right side and said, “She doesn’t want to be there. She’ll look at anything but him.”
I’m just waiting to hear one of the “progressive” Kagan-haters start quoting approvingly from Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III.
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Mike Kay
I’m watching Countdown and keith is insulted that the republicans are saying Kagan is harriet miers, to which I have to laugh cuzz it was keith, himself, who was floated that crap on monday night.
oh, keith, have some grace and say you’re sorry or say you agree, don’t whipsaw.
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Martin
@trollhattan: Oh, and nice bird. We’ve got a nice assortment of birds here in SoCal. I see peregrines fairly regularly and every now and then you can spot a buzzard sitting on a light pole. A neighbors cat was seen getting carried off by one a few months back – maybe hit by a car or something first.
When I was a teenager my dad an I were off hiking in Wyoming and we had just climbed a hill (maybe 2k feet) and I had gotten about 200 feet ahead of him and was looking back waiting for him to catch up. His expression suddenly changed and a few seconds later this enormous hawk flew past me. It approached me from behind and passed probably no more than 5 feet over my head. It must have had a wingspan close to 10 feet. I nearly shit when I saw and heard it (it made a surprisingly loud ‘whoosh’). I suspect that had I been a fair bit smaller, I might have ended up as its dinner. I sure as hell made an easy target, standing there clueless, boy from NY who had never seen anything bigger than a pigeon other than the ostriches at the Bronx Zoo.
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Mike Kay
omg! Ezra just said john roberts was a stealth candidate.
thank you, Ezra. Atleast one liberal blogger not engaging in revisionism and ignoring the gop strategy of nominating stealth candidates (kennedy, souter, thomas, roberts).
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Martin
@Corner Stone: Wow, that’s remarkably observant. Watch out for him/her or you’re going to end up being your kid’s bitch.
Kathleen Parker pulls the “ordinary citizen” card on Kagan because she is from New York city and everyone knows only liberals live there (cough), and ipso facto she fails Obama litmus test of relating to said (ordinary citizens).
Shiver me timbers. My absorbtion limit on concern trolling has been saturated for the day, and I am going to retire for the eve and hopefully conjure Kate Beckinsale to my dreams.
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Corner Stone
@Martin: He’s 5. Sorry to burden you with that.
If I had a dog I’d share some stupid petstory with you?
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Yutsano
@General Egali Tarian Stuck: If you dream of her licking your face, just remember that could be Charlie luvving up on Daddy. I speak from experience here, save the Kate Beckinsdale portion.
@Corner Stone: then you didn’t pay attention to the hearings. no one could expose any of his opinions.
fuck, even constitutional attorney (same title glen uses) Coulter said the same thing. in fact this column, from 2005, in tone, is a mirror image of glen et. al.
“Finally, let’s ponder the fact that Roberts has gone through 50 years on this planet without ever saying anything controversial. That’s just unnatural.”
“Apparently, Roberts decided early on that he wanted to be on the Supreme Court and that the way to do that was not to express a personal opinion on anything to anybody ever.”
“It’s as if he is from some space alien sleeper cell. Maybe the space aliens are trying to help us, but I wish we knew that. If the Senate were in Democrat hands, Roberts would be perfect. But why on earth would Bush waste a nomination on a person who is a complete blank slate when we have a majority in the Senate!”
“Conservatism is sweeping the nation, we have a fully functioning alternative media, we’re ticked off and ready to avenge Robert Bork … and Bush nominates a Rorschach blot.”
“Even as they are losing voters, Democrats don’t hesitate to nominate reliable left-wing lunatics like Ruth Bader Ginsburg to lifetime tenure on the high court. And the vast majority of Americans loathe her views.”
“And Bush responds by nominating a candidate who will allow Democrats to avoid fighting on their weakest ground — substance. He has given us a Supreme Court nomination that will placate no liberals and should please no conservatives.”
“Maybe Roberts will contravene the sordid history of “stealth nominees” and be the Scalia or Thomas that Bush promised us when he was asking for our votes. Or maybe he won’t. The Supreme Court shouldn’t be a game of Russian roulette”
@Corner Stone: It was a compliment to your kid. My daughter (9) is similar. She knows how to read people well. She knows when she’s getting to you, when you’re going to give in – she knows exactly how far to push you without going too far. If she wants to get a classmate in trouble, she knows exactly what button to push for each kid and how to push it while looking perfectly innocent. She knows how to trade her cheese sandwich for your cupcake and make you think you’re getting the better end of the deal.
It’s a good talent to have, so long as they’re headed down an acceptable path.
My son (12) is terrible at it. He’s getting better, but socially it works against him unlike my daughter who is extremely popular.
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Mike Kay
@Corner Stone: then you didn’t pay attention to the hearings. no one could expose any of his opinions.
Even constitutional attorney (same title glen uses) ann coulter said the same thing. in fact this column, from 2005, reads as a mirror image of glen’s current arguments.
@Martin: This is a dastardly useful skill. I hope she will use her powers for good.
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Corner Stone
@Martin: I’ve never thought of being someone’s bitch to be a positive.
But I do love my son, and want so much for him. And have no problems singing his praises. He remembers things he shouldn’t. And puts crazy shit together 2+2 style like it’s supposed to be.
So, meh.
*As a P.S. – the reason this performance made sense to me is that it’s a really strong support for the young man’s parents. In this day and age, not everyone could get behind their male child and let him work this song so damn hard.
And he does rock it. Period.
then you didn’t pay attention to the hearings. no one could expose any of his opinions.
No. This is stupid. No motherfucker alive had to “unearth” his god damn opinions.
Anyone with a brain knew who he was. The shit he wrote for the Reagan admin? Federalist Society. Done. What more needs to be said?
@Yutsano: I think the jury is still out on that. In addition to that skill, she can look you in the eye and lie like Sarah Palin. Fortunately, she’s pretty sensitive so she doesn’t get too far out of shape, but it’s a scary combo.
I pegged both of our kids personalities before they turned 2. My daughter would throw a tantrum and then check out of the corner of her eye to see if it was working or not. My wife didn’t believe it for the longest time, but I kept telling her that the 2 year old was working her. She does a cool divide-and-conquer thing with relationships. She prefers to work with people one-on-one and will find a way to work herself into an existing pair of kids playing and then get one of the pair to push away the other. She’ll then play with the one until she’s had her fill and then go console the other one and play with them. She winds up being hailed as the peacemaker by everyone, including the parents.
“President Bush appears to have intentionally nominated Roberts because he has avoided taking a public position on almost everything. Such persons are known as “stealth” nominations, because they are selected on the theory that they can be more easily confirmed if there is less for the other side to quote and criticize. It is that strategy that is perhaps most troubling to Bush’s supporters.” ~ Phyllis Schlafly
Activists from both sides viewed him as a stealth candidate. Google has all columns.
Now if you want to call the ACLU “motherfuckers” for saying the same thing, that roberts was a stealth nominee, cool. I’m happy there are people to the left of ACLU.
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Martin
@Corner Stone: It’s not a positive for you, which is why I put it out as a warning. But the ability to read others is a very valuable one. It’ll give him the upper hand in many situations.
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Martin
@Mike Kay: The only reason we think the ACLU is ‘left’ is because the right has gone so fucking far down the authoritarian rabbit hole.
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Corner Stone
@Mike Kay: I understand you’re an idiot. But lemme break this down real simple like for you.
FED-UH-REH-LIST SOH-SY-EH-TEE
There is NO MOTHERFUCKING DOUBT ABOUT WHO HE WAS/IS.
And anyone who claims discrepancy is a ridiculous motherfucker. And I couldn’t give a shit less about who it may have been because it wasn’t me who said it.
132.
Comrade Kevin
@Corner Stone: He is trolling you. He doesn’t care what you’re saying.
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Mike Kay
@Corner Stone: I know ya not a member of the reality based community, but facts are facts, even if they’re 5 years old.
John Roberts is an example of how one can maximize one’s chances for confirmation to the court by minimizing any provocative thoughts or utterances. ~ jonathan turley
Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro professor of public interest law at George Washington Law School, where he teaches courses on the Constitution and the Supreme Court.
lotta mutherfuckers – even uber civil libertarian johnny boy turley!
Oh yeah, murtherfucking pat leahy and … gasp… mutherfucking russ feingold (da da duumm) voted for him. Thank goodness black bush, barack obama voted against him.
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Mike Kay
@Comrade Kevin: other way around. I put up a comment about ezra, and he jumped in to say ezra is an idiot, to which I replied it was opinion of both sides of the spectrum that roberts was stealth, to which I attached columns as substantiation. my point isn’t whether they were right or wrong, but rather that’s what they held at the time. at the time they all viewed him as a stealth candidate, to say otherwise, now, is revisionism, which is what some bloggers are doing (ie saying roberts was a flaming winger, singing hitler youth songs, at his 2005 confirmation hearing).
Thank goodness black bush, barack obama voted against him.
Only barely. Remember, that’s when Obama was making a big deal about “it’s the President’s prerogative to nominate whomever he wants to the Supreme Court”. It was basically only a big threat from the leadership that convinced him otherwise.
@The Main Gauche of Mild Reason: what threat? what, was harry reid gonna make barack stay after school? And this so called threat “by the leadership” — somehow it wasn’t made on Leahy and Feingold or did they just buck the “leadership” cuz the BOTH who voted for roberts? this is ridiculous, try again.
the vote was 78-22, with 23 of the 45 democrats voting for roberts. see, the leadership didn’t whip this vote, the majority of the caucus (23-22) voted for the stealth mr. roberts.
fuck, libs like chris dodd, wyden, patty murry, levin joined Leahy and feingold and voted for roberts.
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Corner Stone
@Mike Kay: I understand it’s a foreign concept for you, as you clearly demonstrate day in and out, but I enjoy forming my opinions. Hell, sometimes I even come to my own conclusions!
Just as I do not need GG to tell me anything about Elena Kagan now, I did not need Schlafly, Coulter, Turley or any other punditariot to tell me about Roberts then. I spent a little time doing my own research, in real time, and knew pretty conclusively he was far to the right of the mainstream (or what I considered mainstream for the last few years).
As I’ve stated, it is my opinion that anyone who is a member of the Federalist Society holds a viewpoint that is enough to end discussion on elevation to SCOTUS. Roberts served on the steering committee. I also knew people at Hogan and Hartson, and gathered a couple quick conversations. And after reading a few of the cases/issues that came before him on the DC Circuit, I knew his confirmation should be filibustered. Watching some of the hearings where he non-answered or “balls and strikes” his way through solidified that opinion.
So, as most things in this life, this wasn’t too tricky. And I will reiterate that anyone who claimed him to be a “stealth” candidate is ridiculous and should have their public proclamations scrutinized very fiercely.
I also find it instructive that you will use Schlafly and Coulter now as some weight or validity in your comments but absolutely slander anything Greenwald has to say as a default position.
140.
BobS
@Comrade Kevin: You’re complaining about the inconvenience of playing the Wings and the Leafs in the Sharks first playoff year? Most hockey fans, mindful of the games history, would be thrilled to play two Original Six teams in the same playoffs, despite being forced to watch hockey at 4pm. I wasn’t alive when either of those teams played for their first Cup, but the first finals I got to see was the Leafs beating the Wings in 1963. There’s still a buzz on the too rare occasions when the Leafs visit Detroit (that preceeded and succeeded the fleeting ‘rivalry’ with the Avalanche), regardless of the standings. It’s the only time there’s enough visitor sweaters in the seats to be noticed.
Hawks in seven.
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Quicksand
It’s not over yet!
General Egali Tarian Stuck
The Free Market governing in a country near you
I’m just surprised Dick Cheney didn’t shoot it in the face.
bkny
can we designate halliburton, transocean and bp terrorist organizations, seize their leadership and torture them by stranding them on their million dollar yachts positioned on top of the deepwater horizon.
The Dangerman
Penguins may make you sad tonight, but consider you’re a Cleveland Fan and you’re watching the Cavaliers stink up the playoffs … holy shit, Cleveland should be one one huge suicide watch. This had to be the year (even if the King of Chokers stays, Shaq ain’t getting any younger).
Kathy
I know I am venturing into shaky territory here but there is another game featuring another Pennsylvania team on tonight and the Penna team is winning this one :)
I never would have thought that the Flyers would outlast the Red Wings. Do I get to sign off Kathy plus 2 since we are coming off of a sports thread? I am not aware of all BJ traditions :)
The Grand Panjandrum
Pens are going to make me watch this damn game, aren’t they? 4-2 now.
Brian J
I don’t know if someone posted these links when they first appeared, but they’ve already been discussed, just move on.
1. The (Potential) Intern From Hell
As someone who is 25 and has yet to embark on his career, I feel slightly encouraged by this. If these are the types of people I am competing against I think I will be fine.
But as someone who cares a lot about the shape of this country and realizes he can’t shoulder the burden by himself, I am ready to cry. If these are the types of people I will need to work with, I might as well kill myself.
2. Why I Got Kicked Out of a Restaurant on Saturday Night
In this writer’s defense, if he’s never worked in a particular type of restaurant, or never worked in a restaurant at all, he probably didn’t know how bad it was to step into a chef’s kitchen. Still, that’s not really a reason to bash Lieber. The fact that the guy was berating someone so forcefully and so loudly that he disturbs a guest’s dinner doesn’t do him any favors. The chef comes across as a gigantic douche, and if there’s any justice, he’ll receive a ton of bad publicity for his behavior.
Geoduck
Television: Mythbusters has a new episode this week.
Violet
The “Soylent Green” tagline reminded me of my trip to the supermarket today. So I went to Whole Foods to get a chicken to roast for dinner. (Yeah, I’m an elitist. I like organic chicken.) And they’ve got this new HD monitor behind the meat counter with rotating images of happy cows in pastures and so forth.
I made my usual comment about how stupid I think the expensive plasma monitor is and how I think the money would be better spent either paying the employees more or saving the customers money. This comment always gets the employees chatting because they think these screens (one behind the meat counter, one behind the fish counter) are really stupid. The employee I was talking with today says, “It has this pastoral photo that reminds me of the euthanasia scene in “Soylent Green.” And we had a big discussion about what if that’s really what these screens are all about and should I worry about what the meats really are.
It was all in good fun, of course. But you should have seen the face of the lady next to me. She went white as a sheet, and could hardly stutter out her order when it was her turn. I felt a little bad. But not that bad. Heh.
PurpleGirl
TNT was scheduled to show a basketball game…. instead they are showing Lord of the Rings – The Fellowship of the Ring. I haz a happy.
General Egali Tarian Stuck
Snug as a Bug Charlie
WereBear
@Geoduck: Mmmmm. Another duct tape special!
Proper Gander
http://gazetteonline.com/breaking-news/2010/05/12/coralville-dept-of-education-workers-accused-of-accessing-obamas-student-loan-records
Interesting, wonder where this is going…
The Grand Panjandrum
@General Egali Tarian Stuck: Win.
Mark S.
@PurpleGirl:
That one was always my favorite of the three.
Mumphrey
O.K., so I don’t know shit about hockey, so I have to ask, who are the Habs? What is a Hab?
The Grand Panjandrum
@Proper Gander: So these guys could all end up with felony convictions for being nosy. Seems about right when you consider the banksters got
seven yearsBIG bonuses for fucking up the entire financial system and helping the economy tank.Brian J
Has nobody noticed that John Cole is advertising a $400 soccer cleat on his blog?
What an elitist.
Dave Ruddell
From wiki:
French nicknames for the team include Les Canadiens (or Le Canadien), Le Bleu-Blanc-et-Rouge, La Sainte-Flanelle,[2] Le Tricolore, Les Glorieux (or Nos Glorieux), Les Habitants, Le CH and Le Grand Club. In English, the team’s main nickname is the Habs, an abbreviation of “Les Habitants”. (Note: Even in English, the French spelling, Canadiens, is always used.)
Comrade Kevin
@Mumphrey: The Montréal Canadiens. Habs is short for “Les Habitants”.
mcd410x
“Organic” has to be the dumbest moniker I know. As opposed to “inorganic” food like … rocks.
mr. whipple
@The Dangerman:
Sports radio in Cleveland today has been, er, entertaining.
J.A.F. Rusty Shackleford
@Geoduck:
Has Andrew Sullivan confirmed the emotional orientation of Jamie and Adam on MythBusters? I mean that is one well groomed mustache.
Calming Influence
“Rex, can you point to the place on the doll where Cesar touched you…? Very good! Who’s a good boy! Have a biscuit!”
Peace, fellow animal lovers.
slag
@Brian J: Really? The only elitist ad I see is for AmEx Platinum. I didn’t realize $400 soccer cleats existed.
PurpleGirl
@J.A.F. Rusty Shackleford: LOL. Good observation.
Violet
@mcd410x:
I don’t really care what they call it. It tastes better than ordinary supermarket chicken, which is filled with a lot of water or chicken broth and loaded up on antibiotics.
TooManyJens
@Brian J: I have to admit, I find it perfectly hilarious that Lieber thinks Forgione would have reacted better to a woman confronting him. He’d have seen that as even more of an affront to his masculinity, if that indeed was the issue here.
Katie5
5-2!
(streaming the game and watching kitchen nightmares)
Brian J
@slag:
Neither did I. I clicked on the link thinking it was a some sort of running sneaker or cross trainer. Perhaps the picture of Christiano Ronaldo should have tipped me off.
@TooManyJens:
That’s a good point.
I found it amusing that Jodi Kantor, another Times reporter and also Lieber’s wife, announced this via twitter. Why? I am not sure.
The Grand Panjandrum
Stick a fork in the Pens.
John O
The stars are aligned for my beloved Blackhawks, John, and I for one appreciate the crappy Pens performance.
Gotta get past the Sharks, but with the Caps and Pens out I’ll take my chances. 1961. I have Cubs fan disease even with the Hawks; grew up with the great Hull and Makita.
So, you know, as someone of a certain age and a big fan of the Steel Curtain/Bradshaw Steelers, try to get over it. It’s tough to repeat.
WereBear
@PurpleGirl: Oh, yes, that gentle mocking speaks of unrecognized passion. Every rom-com viewer knows that.
demo woman
@Brian J: Amazing amount of comments for the Diner’s Journal. I saw it yesterday and the comments have doubled since then. If I’m dining out the last thing I want is to hear the chef yelling at an employee.
Skepticat
Planned? Planned? What is this “plan” concept of which you speak?
Roger Moore
@mcd410x:
There are some completely inorganic ingredients. Salt’s the most obvious example, but people also use calcium oxide in traditional corn processing, and various calcium and magnesium salts in coagulating tofu. Not to mention all of the nutritional additives like reduced iron.
RedKitten
Yeah, my Facebook feed is currently full of people losing their freaking minds (one of those people being my dad.) Personally, while I enjoy hockey, I really don’t give a sweet shit about any particular NHL team. I don’t understand the antipathy towards Crosby, though. Dude’s a good hockey player, and while he’s probably grown some ego, he doesn’t seem to be a total dick about it, anyway.
Cat Lady
@mr. whipple:
Sports radio in Boston. Also. Too.
The favorite conspiracy theory here is that coughKingcough James has given his two week notice on his way to NY, and he’s not one of the ones who goes to work every day during those two weeks.
Comrade Kevin
@RedKitten: I think an awful lot of the antipathy comes not from anything Crosby himself has done, but the way the media have fawned all over him since came into the league. He has been talked about like he is the second coming of Mario Lemieux and Wayne Gretzky combined.
Lurker
@mcd410x:
If I remember Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma correctly, “organic” popped up as a protest against “industrial” farming in the 60’s. Industrial farms treat plants and animals like machines to be plugged into a factory system.
So, “organic” farms are supposed to treat plants and animals like organisms.
That said…yes, it is a dumb name.
Sentient Puddle
Fuck TV. There’s free Portal!
(I originally played it on the 360 because my PC at the time was a piece of crap. As soon as I got one that wasn’t a piece of crap, I remedied this problem with Team Fortress 2, but never Portal.)
General Egali Tarian Stuck
my gawd
AP Washington – After failed attempts to stop the gulf oil leak, progressive leaders are demanding President Obama use his bully pulpit to cap the well.
Jeebus H Christ
cleek
@General Egali Tarian Stuck:
you have made the baby jeebus cry
BobS
@John O: I would have preferred a Wings-Canadians finals, but Hawks-Canadians would be alright (it’s looking more and more like the Bruins are going to blow it). I don’t think anyone wants to run into Halak right now. On the other hand, Nabokov is the weak link on the Sharks.
You have my sympathies having your second straight series on the west coast. Hockey needs an Original Six division in the Eastern Conference. Not only do fans in Detroit (and Chicago) have to watch the Blue Jackets or Predators every other week (and the Leafs and Canadians every other year), games out west end the following day and the 10000 miles traveled before the finals takes its toll on the teams.
Hockey fans everywhere should take some comfort knowing that Gary Bettman is crying himself to sleep tonight with the Penguins elimination.
Corner Stone
Two Evony ads on the same page has convinced me there is in fact a God.
mr. whipple
@General Egali Tarian Stuck:
A more liberal scotus pick and the public option could stop that leak, also.
mr. whipple
@Cat Lady:
Among others I heard today:
-everyone is dogging it to get the coach fired.
-LeBron is leaving, so it will be easier for the fans to take if he’s a quitter.
-LeBron’s elbow is so bad he’ll need surgery and be out for a year, and this inner turmoil is messing with his head.
-LeBron hates the needle, so instead of shots he’s taking pain killers that are making him a slug.
Comrade Kevin
@Sentient Puddle: Thanks for that reminder! Cool that Steam is now out for the Mac as well
flukebucket
@General Egali Tarian Stuck:
My Gawd. My Gawd indeed.
ricky
For all you defenders of the legal profession and part time Census takers, this was on my local TV:
http://www.kvue.com/news/Census-worker-shot-at-attorney-arrested-93629169.html
I’d say malpractice is indeed this lady’s specialty.
mr. whipple
I don’t know how I managed to make a strike out in my own post.
The internets remain a mystery to me.
Jennifer
This whole “Pens” nomenclature gets me every time. It must be my filthy, juvenile, puerile mind…though it does make the comments more entertaining, such as the Grand Panandrum’s comment: Stick a fork in the Pen*s. Much more provocative, eh?
That said, wtf is up with the internets being so boring today? I was finally forced to post something at my own crappy blog, just to deal with the ennui.
Violet
@mr. whipple:
You used the dash. WP hates the dash and turns it into a strikethrough.
Corner Stone
Listen. If you haven’t seen that kid doing the Lady Gaga song you really need to take 3 minutes to watch it.
I’ve never listened to a Lady Gaga song in my life but that was incredible. I don’t normally give a damn about internet “buzz” sensations but my 5yr old and I just watched it about 5 times in a row.
And if I could bottle the expression sauce of the girls in the audience behind him I would be a multi-millionaire.
Comrade Kevin
@BobS: Apart from that awful 7-1 game, Nabokov surely has not been the “weak link” for the Sharks.
The people on the west coast who get to deal with games starting at 4pm are playing the world’s smallest violin, just for you.
Violet
@Jennifer:
The internets are very boring at the moment. Are the internets suffering from spring fever or something?
freelancer (itouch)
@General Egali Tarian Stuck:
Dammit Stuck!
kdaug
@ricky: Oh, that’s swell.
Ever notice the jihadis tend to be highly-educated professionals? Medical doctors, engineers, etc? Now we have this stomp-my-foot, I’ll-shoot-ya-ifin’-ya-come-on-my-land BS from JDs? Hell, I know we’re crazy down here in Texas, but I don’t think David Koresh had an advanced degree in anything but narcissism…
Doesn’t help that I live in Pflugerville.
ellaesther
@Violet: and Jennifer: Dog riding a tortoise.
http://emilylhauserinmyhead.wordpress.com/2010/05/12/good-stuff-alternative-transportation/
That is all.
mr. whipple
@Violet:
I used several of them, tho, but only strikes through the last one?
liberal
Major USSC decision involving WV…
binzinerator
@General Egali Tarian Stuck:
Ah, another success story of industry self-regulation.
Well, gee, Stupak I dunno. What fool can sit there in congress while business gets to thumb its nose at regulatory oversite and not see something like this was bound to happen?
Maybe ’cause during all those years while Dubya and his Club Growth Cretins were busy gutting regulation and dismantling oversight guys like you were too busy making mountains out of molehills and frothing the fundies over what a woman can and cannot do with her own zygote to give a tin shit about what corporations can and cannot do with our water, food, air, medicines and economy.
Zuzu's Petals
@General Egali Tarian Stuck:
In passing, a graphic of the mysterious “top hat” device here.
Jennifer
Also too, WTFF is up with the strikethrough? I didn’t use a dash in anything, and I’ve got a strikethrough on everything starting with mr. whipple’s comment.
Dog-riding tortoise much appreciated – I’m sure it’s a relief to that crazy Texas Republican (I have a hard time telling them apart) that it didn’t feature any man-on-boxturtle.
There’s a whole load of dashes, now let’s see what that does.
robertdsc
Have these people seen his tattoos? Geez. Talk about “get a brain, morans”!
The Main Gauche of Mild Reason
Cocktail of the Week–The Sazerac: Muddle a sugar cube with a little water and 3 dashes Peychaud’s bitters, then add 1.5 oz Sazerac rye. Chill and rinse another glass with 1/2 tsp Kubler absinthe and then add the rye/bitters. Garnish with orange peel.
And for historical dweebs here: yes, I know it was originally made with Herbsaint instead of Absinthe; Absinthe is just infinitely better. Accept no substitutes.
Random trivia: the Sazerac was the first “commercial” cocktail. Other examples include the gimlet (which was invented as a way to drink Rose’s lime juice)
+2
binzinerator
@Corner Stone:
Wife went to bed with a migraine and I didn’t get even one stinkin’ Evony ad. There isn’t even any booze in the house. God is dead.
I think I’m just gonna play some sudoku now and call it a night.
The Dangerman
OK, who broke it?
ellaesther
@Jennifer: Nothing. It did nothing! The ways of WordPress canna be understood by us mere mortals.
My blog is WordPress and whenever I copy and paste something that is italicized, WordPress thinks I mean for everything to italicized for the rest of forEVAR!!1! I have to resort to actually keying these passages in myself. (I know! The humanity!) Bugs the crap outta me.
BobS
@Comrade Kevin: I’m glad to see you agree with my point about series that cross too many time zones.
Nabokov isn’t the same goaltender that won the gold medal. He’s fighting the puck too much.
mr. whipple
@The Dangerman:
I am sorry.
Little Boots
Have the ancient rites in abomination of WordPress started? Cause I want into that.
Tazistan Jen
@mr. whipple:
I believe if there is a space between the dash on either end and the text, you don’t get the strike-through. Maybe returns break the incipient strike-through? Test:
– this should not strike through –
– nor this-
-nor this –
-but this should-
The Main Gauche of Mild Reason
I think this blog needs some front pagers on the west coast. Anyone with me?
Martin
@ellaesther: Cool. I have a dog and a tortoise, though the corgi really wouldn’t fit on the CA desert tortoise. They’re buds though.
Tazistan Jen
@Tazistan Jen: I am a genius.
Martin
@The Main Gauche of Mild Reason: Oh, there’s plenty of us around here.
Martin
@Tazistan Jen: Its easier to just say FYWP.
Tazistan Jen
@kdaug:
WTF? Only in Texas.
General Egali Tarian Stuck
You have to be a fucking mystic to keep from killing this blog. “WP hates the dash”. Reminds me of the monster animals on Aliens figuring stuff out.
Little Boots
Obama’s had a year to fix wordpress. WHY DOESN” T ANYTHING CHANGE????
Corner Stone
@The Main Gauche of Mild Reason: What do you have against East Coast Elitists?
WTF is next? You’ll say we should have FP’ers who have been judges? Paper trails? Heterosexually documented activities?
You disgust me.
patrick II
Lewis Black on the Daily show just did the best I have ever seen him taking down Glenn Beck.
mr. whipple
@Tazistan Jen:
“I believe if there is a space between the dash on either end and the text, you don’t get the strike-through.”
I will never be able to remember these rules. I shall never dash again.
mr. whipple
@patrick II:
That was awesome.
Martin
@mr. whipple: East coast elites getting their Daily Show three hours before me are a cancer on society.
patrick II
@Martin: It is worth the wait. A brilliant bit.
polyorchnid octopunch
My only observation about the game is, “in your face, Vancouver!”
Bwahahahaa….
I lived in Montreal for a good stint. It’s a great town.
I’m sure I know some long faces tonight; I’ve got some buds on the west coast. I’m equally certain there’s a lot of drinking going on downtown right now.
Sorry it had to go down like that for you, John, but… I guess it had to go down like that. Better you than me, and all that.
Sid handled the post-game interview really well, I thought.
I think Montreal totally solved him; it was the real key to their victory. They held him to a third of his points against Ottawa. Well, that and Halak is totally on fire.
Martin
@patrick II: I pretty much never miss TDS/Colbert. It’s about 80% of my tv viewing.
ellaesther
@Martin: Made me way happier almost than I’d care to admit. I think it’s the entirely deadpan expression on the dog, and his (her?) apparent rock solid stability on the back of a moving tortoise.
Maybe your tortoise could ride your Corgi? Now that would be quite a YouTube.
ellaesther
@mr. whipple: But will you dart? Will you bolt? How about rushing? Or sprinting? Can we expect any of these in your future?
I believe none have any rules attached, unlike the /patooie!/ dash.
Ash Can
@John O: I can’t believe how good it looks for the Hawks this year. It’s scary. I mean, I realize that they have to get past the Sharks to even get into the finals, but it really looks like they have the horses this year.
Yowza.
Martin
@ellaesther: I’d be a bit worried for the tortoise. Corgis are pretty low-slung critters, to say the least, but it’d still be a big fall for the tortoise. We’re not sure how old he is but he’s getting a little slow and is developing a bad habit of flipping himself over. Not exactly the best survival skill, that.
mai naem
And all this time I was thinking Habs was short for Habaneros.
mr. whipple
@ellaesther:
I may do all of those, but now I’m going to bed. Night all.
Comrade Kevin
@BobS: In the Sharks’ first year in the playoffs, they had to play Detroit in the first round, and Toronto (!) in the second. That was back in the days of the Campbell and Wales conferences.
Without more teams in the Pacific and Mountain time zones, there isn’t a whole lot that can be done.
Corner Stone
@Corner Stone: Fuck all of y’all if you haven’t watched this yet.
I’m your biggest fan
I’ll follow you until you love me
Papa-papparazi
freelancer (itouch)
@Corner Stone:
Calm down CS, I went so far as to embed it.
Bob Arctor
Halak! I know you’re a Pens fan, but that guy has played his ass off!
Yutsano
@freelancer (itouch): Ignore the skeptic. Otherwise I got nothin’ Pre-op for my surgery tomorrow. Woot.
trollhattan
@Martin:
FWIW humble Dish delivers both left and right coast flavors of TDS and Colbert to left coast dwellers. HBO too.
And, we like it!
In thanks, I present Badass Bird with Dinner:
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1132/4603251012_0aa5000ce8_o.jpg
Martin
@trollhattan: Meh, I’ve about had it giving these guys so much money for TV, getting treated like shit and having ads on top of it. A change is gonna come.
Corner Stone
@freelancer (itouch): Just sayin’. As a parent, that’s some powerful good shit. That young man is throwin’ it down and should be recognizzzed.
It’s funny. My 5yr old pointed out the tight lipped blonde in the middle row to the right side and said, “She doesn’t want to be there. She’ll look at anything but him.”
True, true.
Corner Stone
@Yutsano: I don’t know what this means.
Comrade Kevin
I’m just waiting to hear one of the “progressive” Kagan-haters start quoting approvingly from Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III.
Mike Kay
I’m watching Countdown and keith is insulted that the republicans are saying Kagan is harriet miers, to which I have to laugh cuzz it was keith, himself, who was floated that crap on monday night.
oh, keith, have some grace and say you’re sorry or say you agree, don’t whipsaw.
Martin
@trollhattan: Oh, and nice bird. We’ve got a nice assortment of birds here in SoCal. I see peregrines fairly regularly and every now and then you can spot a buzzard sitting on a light pole. A neighbors cat was seen getting carried off by one a few months back – maybe hit by a car or something first.
When I was a teenager my dad an I were off hiking in Wyoming and we had just climbed a hill (maybe 2k feet) and I had gotten about 200 feet ahead of him and was looking back waiting for him to catch up. His expression suddenly changed and a few seconds later this enormous hawk flew past me. It approached me from behind and passed probably no more than 5 feet over my head. It must have had a wingspan close to 10 feet. I nearly shit when I saw and heard it (it made a surprisingly loud ‘whoosh’). I suspect that had I been a fair bit smaller, I might have ended up as its dinner. I sure as hell made an easy target, standing there clueless, boy from NY who had never seen anything bigger than a pigeon other than the ostriches at the Bronx Zoo.
Mike Kay
omg! Ezra just said john roberts was a stealth candidate.
thank you, Ezra. Atleast one liberal blogger not engaging in revisionism and ignoring the gop strategy of nominating stealth candidates (kennedy, souter, thomas, roberts).
Martin
@Corner Stone: Wow, that’s remarkably observant. Watch out for him/her or you’re going to end up being your kid’s bitch.
Yutsano
@Martin: Methinks this may have already occurred.
Corner Stone
@Mike Kay:
Anyone who says he was a stealth candidate should be blocked from public discourse. He’s a member of the Federalist Society. Done.
Martin
@Mike Kay: I have to admit that I didn’t read Roberts well. Still a bit embarrassed about that. Hope I’m not misreading Kagan.
Corner Stone
@Martin: Ok. I guess. Thanks?
Martin
@Corner Stone: True.
Corner Stone
@Yutsano: Hey, just cuz you’re a pre-op trans, don’t knock those of us who have kids the old fashioned way.
General Egali Tarian Stuck
Kathleen Parker pulls the “ordinary citizen” card on Kagan because she is from New York city and everyone knows only liberals live there (cough), and ipso facto she fails Obama litmus test of relating to said (ordinary citizens).
Shiver me timbers. My absorbtion limit on concern trolling has been saturated for the day, and I am going to retire for the eve and hopefully conjure Kate Beckinsale to my dreams.
Corner Stone
@Martin: He’s 5. Sorry to burden you with that.
If I had a dog I’d share some stupid petstory with you?
Yutsano
@General Egali Tarian Stuck: If you dream of her licking your face, just remember that could be Charlie luvving up on Daddy. I speak from experience here, save the Kate Beckinsdale portion.
de stijl
@Tazistan Jen:
Halo 1 reference?
Mike Kay
@Corner Stone: then you didn’t pay attention to the hearings. no one could expose any of his opinions.
fuck, even constitutional attorney (same title glen uses) Coulter said the same thing. in fact this column, from 2005, in tone, is a mirror image of glen et. al.
“Finally, let’s ponder the fact that Roberts has gone through 50 years on this planet without ever saying anything controversial. That’s just unnatural.”
“Apparently, Roberts decided early on that he wanted to be on the Supreme Court and that the way to do that was not to express a personal opinion on anything to anybody ever.”
“It’s as if he is from some space alien sleeper cell. Maybe the space aliens are trying to help us, but I wish we knew that. If the Senate were in Democrat hands, Roberts would be perfect. But why on earth would Bush waste a nomination on a person who is a complete blank slate when we have a majority in the Senate!”
“Conservatism is sweeping the nation, we have a fully functioning alternative media, we’re ticked off and ready to avenge Robert Bork … and Bush nominates a Rorschach blot.”
“Even as they are losing voters, Democrats don’t hesitate to nominate reliable left-wing lunatics like Ruth Bader Ginsburg to lifetime tenure on the high court. And the vast majority of Americans loathe her views.”
“And Bush responds by nominating a candidate who will allow Democrats to avoid fighting on their weakest ground — substance. He has given us a Supreme Court nomination that will placate no liberals and should please no conservatives.”
“Maybe Roberts will contravene the sordid history of “stealth nominees” and be the Scalia or Thomas that Bush promised us when he was asking for our votes. Or maybe he won’t. The Supreme Court shouldn’t be a game of Russian roulette”
http://snipurl.com/w6trs
Martin
@Corner Stone: It was a compliment to your kid. My daughter (9) is similar. She knows how to read people well. She knows when she’s getting to you, when you’re going to give in – she knows exactly how far to push you without going too far. If she wants to get a classmate in trouble, she knows exactly what button to push for each kid and how to push it while looking perfectly innocent. She knows how to trade her cheese sandwich for your cupcake and make you think you’re getting the better end of the deal.
It’s a good talent to have, so long as they’re headed down an acceptable path.
My son (12) is terrible at it. He’s getting better, but socially it works against him unlike my daughter who is extremely popular.
Mike Kay
@Corner Stone: then you didn’t pay attention to the hearings. no one could expose any of his opinions.
Even constitutional attorney (same title glen uses) ann coulter said the same thing. in fact this column, from 2005, reads as a mirror image of glen’s current arguments.
http://snipurl.com/w6trs
Yutsano
@Martin: This is a dastardly useful skill. I hope she will use her powers for good.
Corner Stone
@Martin: I’ve never thought of being someone’s bitch to be a positive.
But I do love my son, and want so much for him. And have no problems singing his praises. He remembers things he shouldn’t. And puts crazy shit together 2+2 style like it’s supposed to be.
So, meh.
*As a P.S. – the reason this performance made sense to me is that it’s a really strong support for the young man’s parents. In this day and age, not everyone could get behind their male child and let him work this song so damn hard.
And he does rock it. Period.
Corner Stone
@Mike Kay:
No. This is stupid. No motherfucker alive had to “unearth” his god damn opinions.
Anyone with a brain knew who he was. The shit he wrote for the Reagan admin? Federalist Society. Done. What more needs to be said?
Zuzu's Petals
@patrick II:
“Glenn Beck has Nazi Tourettes!”
Martin
@Yutsano: I think the jury is still out on that. In addition to that skill, she can look you in the eye and lie like Sarah Palin. Fortunately, she’s pretty sensitive so she doesn’t get too far out of shape, but it’s a scary combo.
I pegged both of our kids personalities before they turned 2. My daughter would throw a tantrum and then check out of the corner of her eye to see if it was working or not. My wife didn’t believe it for the longest time, but I kept telling her that the 2 year old was working her. She does a cool divide-and-conquer thing with relationships. She prefers to work with people one-on-one and will find a way to work herself into an existing pair of kids playing and then get one of the pair to push away the other. She’ll then play with the one until she’s had her fill and then go console the other one and play with them. She winds up being hailed as the peacemaker by everyone, including the parents.
It could go either way with her…
Mike Kay
@Corner Stone:
“President Bush appears to have intentionally nominated Roberts because he has avoided taking a public position on almost everything. Such persons are known as “stealth” nominations, because they are selected on the theory that they can be more easily confirmed if there is less for the other side to quote and criticize. It is that strategy that is perhaps most troubling to Bush’s supporters.” ~ Phyllis Schlafly
Activists from both sides viewed him as a stealth candidate. Google has all columns.
Now if you want to call the ACLU “motherfuckers” for saying the same thing, that roberts was a stealth nominee, cool. I’m happy there are people to the left of ACLU.
Martin
@Corner Stone: It’s not a positive for you, which is why I put it out as a warning. But the ability to read others is a very valuable one. It’ll give him the upper hand in many situations.
Martin
@Mike Kay: The only reason we think the ACLU is ‘left’ is because the right has gone so fucking far down the authoritarian rabbit hole.
Corner Stone
@Mike Kay: I understand you’re an idiot. But lemme break this down real simple like for you.
FED-UH-REH-LIST SOH-SY-EH-TEE
There is NO MOTHERFUCKING DOUBT ABOUT WHO HE WAS/IS.
And anyone who claims discrepancy is a ridiculous motherfucker. And I couldn’t give a shit less about who it may have been because it wasn’t me who said it.
Comrade Kevin
@Corner Stone: He is trolling you. He doesn’t care what you’re saying.
Mike Kay
@Corner Stone: I know ya not a member of the reality based community, but facts are facts, even if they’re 5 years old.
Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro professor of public interest law at George Washington Law School, where he teaches courses on the Constitution and the Supreme Court.
lotta mutherfuckers – even uber civil libertarian johnny boy turley!
Oh yeah, murtherfucking pat leahy and … gasp… mutherfucking russ feingold (da da duumm) voted for him. Thank goodness black bush, barack obama voted against him.
Mike Kay
@Comrade Kevin: other way around. I put up a comment about ezra, and he jumped in to say ezra is an idiot, to which I replied it was opinion of both sides of the spectrum that roberts was stealth, to which I attached columns as substantiation. my point isn’t whether they were right or wrong, but rather that’s what they held at the time. at the time they all viewed him as a stealth candidate, to say otherwise, now, is revisionism, which is what some bloggers are doing (ie saying roberts was a flaming winger, singing hitler youth songs, at his 2005 confirmation hearing).
The Main Gauche of Mild Reason
@Mike Kay:
Only barely. Remember, that’s when Obama was making a big deal about “it’s the President’s prerogative to nominate whomever he wants to the Supreme Court”. It was basically only a big threat from the leadership that convinced him otherwise.
Comrade Kevin
@Mike Kay: Nice try.
Mike Kay
@The Main Gauche of Mild Reason: what threat? what, was harry reid gonna make barack stay after school? And this so called threat “by the leadership” — somehow it wasn’t made on Leahy and Feingold or did they just buck the “leadership” cuz the BOTH who voted for roberts? this is ridiculous, try again.
Mike Kay
@The Main Gauche of Mild Reason:
Here, I just looked up the vote on something called the internet.
http://senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=1&vote=00245
the vote was 78-22, with 23 of the 45 democrats voting for roberts. see, the leadership didn’t whip this vote, the majority of the caucus (23-22) voted for the stealth mr. roberts.
fuck, libs like chris dodd, wyden, patty murry, levin joined Leahy and feingold and voted for roberts.
Corner Stone
@Mike Kay: I understand it’s a foreign concept for you, as you clearly demonstrate day in and out, but I enjoy forming my opinions. Hell, sometimes I even come to my own conclusions!
Just as I do not need GG to tell me anything about Elena Kagan now, I did not need Schlafly, Coulter, Turley or any other punditariot to tell me about Roberts then. I spent a little time doing my own research, in real time, and knew pretty conclusively he was far to the right of the mainstream (or what I considered mainstream for the last few years).
As I’ve stated, it is my opinion that anyone who is a member of the Federalist Society holds a viewpoint that is enough to end discussion on elevation to SCOTUS. Roberts served on the steering committee. I also knew people at Hogan and Hartson, and gathered a couple quick conversations. And after reading a few of the cases/issues that came before him on the DC Circuit, I knew his confirmation should be filibustered. Watching some of the hearings where he non-answered or “balls and strikes” his way through solidified that opinion.
So, as most things in this life, this wasn’t too tricky. And I will reiterate that anyone who claimed him to be a “stealth” candidate is ridiculous and should have their public proclamations scrutinized very fiercely.
I also find it instructive that you will use Schlafly and Coulter now as some weight or validity in your comments but absolutely slander anything Greenwald has to say as a default position.
BobS
@Comrade Kevin: You’re complaining about the inconvenience of playing the Wings and the Leafs in the Sharks first playoff year? Most hockey fans, mindful of the games history, would be thrilled to play two Original Six teams in the same playoffs, despite being forced to watch hockey at 4pm. I wasn’t alive when either of those teams played for their first Cup, but the first finals I got to see was the Leafs beating the Wings in 1963. There’s still a buzz on the too rare occasions when the Leafs visit Detroit (that preceeded and succeeded the fleeting ‘rivalry’ with the Avalanche), regardless of the standings. It’s the only time there’s enough visitor sweaters in the seats to be noticed.
Hawks in seven.