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Get a load of the nice things he has to say about the Baptist, born-again preacher.

Conveniently ignoring the "fags bad" part of Huckster's agenda.

He should be ASBO'ed on his own threads. That would be funny.

a Democrat who is the most articulate credible African-American candidate for the presidency in history

I don't agree that he's "saying nice things" about Huckabee -- only that he's avoiding saying bad things while he holds his moistened finger in the air to see which way the wind is blowing.

As much as I despise Bill Maher, I feel like quoting him now: "Why do we always have to be the stupid country?"

OTOH, considering that a caucus consists mainly of people with nothing better to do on a workday, perhaps that statement should be heavily qualified.

This country isn't stupid; only its leftist elite is.

I don't think it was the leftist elite who voted for Huckster.

No, but its the leftist elite that puts an America-hating Marxist idiot like Bill Maher on the air and lionizes him.

Leftist elites are actually usually smarter than the rest of us. I don't think there's anything wrong with acknowledging that. But intelligence is not the only virtue, and intelligence can be misused in pursuit of profoundly stupid aims. What they lack is not intelligence but wisdom. There's nothing stupid about most left-wing intellectuals.

Leftist elites are actually usually smarter than the rest of us.

Bullshit. The leftist elites are the ones who best regurgitated all the politically correct, Marxist drivel they were fed in college back to their professors, or best regurgitated it in their newspaper reporting and screenplays.

But actually gather facts, evaluate them, and be able to come up with a conclusion? Their heads would explode first.

Yeah, all these incredibly successful leftist elites, billionaire businessmen, artists and entertainers, professors and scientists, they're all morons. Meanwhile, the basement-dwelling internet troll, bigel, is some kind of a brainiac.

The Miss Othmar-like sound of a conference call on the other side of the hall is putting me to sleep faster than Ambien.

I think he's trying to redefine intelligence as "voting Republican". I don't need to insult my political opponents' intelligence in order to disagree with their politics. The results of the policies they advocate are typically bad, and therefore I'm against them. Whether my opponents are smart or stupid is completely irrelevant to that. Underestimating your opponent will lead to miserable failure every time.

bigel just needs all his enemies to be one-dimensional caricatures because he can't cope with people in the real world who are perfectly capable human beings, yet disagree with him. Therefore there must be something wrong with them. Meanwhile, no one will come within a ten-foot radius of him because of all the flying spittle.

And his (perceived) allies are one-dimensional caricatures, too.

It's just that stupidity is political color-blind.

Just like his imaginary friend Lt. Col. Ariel Hitlerwitz of the IDF, who will launch the coup that removes the spineless Olmert administration, the obstacle in the way of his beloved Simpson Option.

Matt Taibbi on Obama's appeal:

people simply do not trust the politicians they vote for to be anything less than an embarrassment. You get the sense they approach the upcoming election with the enthusiasm of a two-time loser offered a selection of plea deals.

People hate the mechanized speeches, they hate the negative ads, and they especially hate venomous news creatures, myself included. It's now so bad that a poll last month found that fifty-six percent of all likely voters agreed with the phrase that the presidential race is "annoying and a waste of time" -- a shocking number, given that it excludes the forty to fifty percent of Americans who already don't vote in presidential races.

People don't want to feel this way, but the attitude everywhere is the same: What choice do these assholes give us? And it's that grim prejudice that has pervaded this process for a generation, forcing the public to choose from an endless succession of lesser evils and second- raters of the Kerry-Dole genus, stuffed suits who offered nothing like a solution to the main problem of feeling like shit about the American civic experiment.

I like the fact that more power/influence for Obama means less power/influence for Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and their ilk.

Yeah, all these incredibly successful leftist elites, billionaire businessmen, artists and entertainers, professors and scientists, they're all morons. Meanwhile, the basement-dwelling internet troll, bigel, is some kind of a brainiac.

A lot of those are people who were born on third-base and think they hit a triple. Al Gore is a complete moron, who flunked out of law and divinity school. But his inherited wealth has enabled him to employ enough PR people to make him seem half-smart if you don't look closely.

Not that I think many conservative politicians are very intelligent, either. I just happen to agree with their policy prescriptions more than I do with the liberals.

I don't find Obama's speeches to be that un-mechanised.

Matt Taibbi is a prime example of lacking wisdom, not intelligence, phenomenon. Not in the quote above, with which I agree. But I'm familiar with some of his writings from the period when the first clique of leftist twerps took over the NYPress from her previous board.

Agreed on Taibbi, smart but not necessarily all that wise. I like Matt Taibbi's writing, it's a pleasure to read, cutting and smart, even though I disagree with him a lot. He hates being compared to HST, but I don't care-that's who he reminds me of.

I also really hate hearing Obama's voice-it grates on me. Am I the only one?

I would rather see that than the reverse.

I watch so little TV that I couldn't tell you what Obama's voice sounds like.

And it wasn't until very late in 2004 that I had heard Kerry's voice enough that I would recognize it right away.

Er, what if it's only one generation old?

I like Matt Taibbi's writing, it's a pleasure to read, cutting and smart, even though I disagree with him a lot.

You got that right. Though I do have to wonder if Warren Buffett's love affair with the Death Tax would survive if Congress did away with the mechanisms that enable him to shield his own vast wealth from it.

I would probably listen to All Things Considered more often, if the announcers did not all sound exactly the same. In particular, all the men sound like Dick Cavett.

At this time in my life, it's probably accounts for less than one-quarter of my net worth. It actually brought more pain than joy.

For Frank Corey Flintoff Unleashes Sonorous, Pleasantly Modulated String Of Obscenities

Upon injuring a toe Sunday, Corey Flintoff, newscaster for NPR's All Things Considered, unleashed a string of rich, pleasantly modulated obscenities. "God fucking dammit," Flintoff warmly intoned after dropping a heavy-duty router on his foot while working in his garage. "Stupid fucking cocksucking son of a bitch." Added Flintoff in a lush baritone: "Goddamn motherfucking shit-for-brains. This is NPR." Next-door neighbor Cheryl Thomas, who overheard the tirade, said Flintoff's delivery was so melodic, she was unaware that he was swearing.

LMAO!

I love The Onion. :)

#47 V the K, LMAO!

Giuliani Runs For President of 9/11

Really? They all sound alike to me. :P

I still can't stand Garrison Keillor, though.

My favorite show is Fresh Air with Terry Gross.

Giuliani's pro-9/11 message seems to be resonating with potential voters. Said Ames, IA voter Alan Benoit: "I remember seeing Rudolph Giuliani's face, on television, saying reassuring things during a highly emotional moment filled with fear and confusion. He's got my vote."

If Giuliani associates himself too closely with 9/11, he could suffer the fate that Churchill did after the war.

I actually find more merit in the above now then I did then.

"than I did then"

I'm finding plenty of merit in it. Scary.

With all due respect, we have brought freedom to Iraq.

He definitely meant to remove the threat to his Magic Kingdom buddies.

But with Bush, it's hard to tell where venality ends and insanity begins.

Calling Throbert here....it IS all in the DELIVERY! Hee hee.

Now to try this around here....see if Judi reacts ;-P

shedding real tears over the plight of the American Negro, a popular Soviet cause for decades

In reality, the few Negroes in the USSR (mostly mixed-coupling offspring) had it much worse than in the US, of course.

I'd actually rather watch more tape of Britney's meltdown and psychiatric lockdown than any more on the news about the election. For the first time in my life I'm actually considering NOT VOTING, because some of the choices are so bad that I can't even figure out what the lesser of two evils is.

This not voting thing, I was raised to believe it a mortal sin. And yet I'm that disillusioned with nearly all of them. I mean, what if I have to choose between Clinton and Huckabee? I can't make that choice!

I mean, what if I have to choose between Clinton and Huckabee? I can't make that choice!

This not voting thing, I was raised to believe it a mortal sin.

If I'm wrong I'll clean out the kennel for a month...

Well, thank you florrie. That does make me feel better. Although if I do have to make such a choice, I totally think I will follow Lewis's advice.

Kucinich/Paul write in for me.

lol, me too.

Believe me, if I knew his name he would be the front runner.

Welcome back florrie.

According to Bigel's logic...

Kos: Christianist

One thing that's fascinating about the Huckabee victory in Iowa is that the movement that propelled him to victory -- his Evangelical base -- is truly a cousin to our very own people-powered movement.

Think about it -- these are people that have been taken for granted by the Republican establishment, exploited and overworked, only to receive crumbs and empty rhetoric in return. Sick of being marginalized except when needed (election time), they have taken matters into their own hands and -- without money or "professional" organization, propelled their candidate (one of their own) to victory.

I've noted before that Ron Paul was the only people-powered candidate in the race, based on his ridiculous fundraising ($19 million in Q4 alone). But his movement was only able to muster 10 percent in Iowa. It's a new movement, like the Dean people in 2004, and still finding its sea legs in an unfamiliar environment. They can deliver lawn signs and stickers, but it might be a while before they can deliver votes (we'll see how they do in New Hampshire). Huckabee's supporters may not have much scratch to give, but boy can they deliver bodies and votes, even when facing a full frontal assault from their party's establishment. Being part of the GOP's ground game going on two decades, they've got the experience to actually deliver.

They are true gate crashers, perhaps the best we've seen in politics. Trained as worker bees for the GOP machine, they are now throwing off those shackles and attempting a veritable coup.

Their impudence has of course earned the fierce enmity of their party's neocon and corporate con wings, and they will strike hard with every Rovian tool at their disposal. Gate crashing is never greeted with open arms.

Thanks, RWC, hope I didn't miss too many of your graphics while I was gone :-)

I think his name is Toof Johnson.

I have to admit I got a lot of pleasure on seeing a big goose egg under both Dodd's and Kucinich's pictures last night.

Also, the pundits keep droning on and on about the incredible organization of homeschoolers supporting Huckabee.

Since I belong to several national Christian homeschool orgs, I can vouch for their thick support of Huckabee -- but that doesn't mean I want to be lumped into the Homeschoolers for Huckabee movement.

'Cuz I'm not even a member.

Oh, I thought it was Tookies cousin, Toofie Williams. :-P

crickets

Their impudence has of course earned the fierce enmity of their party's neocon and corporate con wings, and they will strike hard with every Rovian tool at their disposal.

I'd like to strike him with this "Rovian" tool~

I thought it was odd that you had this framed picture on your wall...

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the horror!

So which one is the puppy-killer (both of them sure do look that way)?

Apparently, not only a sadist, but a dumbas*.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — David Huckabee, a son of Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, was arrested at Little Rock's airport Thursday after a federal X-ray technician detected a loaded Glock pistol in his carry-on luggage.

"I removed the bag and asked Mr. Huckabee if he knew what he had in the bag," Little Rock police officer Arthur Nugent wrote in a report after being summoned to a security checkpoint. "He replied he did now."

Huckabee, 26, later pleaded guilty in Little Rock District Court after being charged with possessing a weapon in a prohibited place. District Judge Lee Munson gave Huckabee a one-year suspended jail sentence and ordered him into 10 days of community service — which Huckabee can avoid by paying $100. Huckabee will be on probation for a year. Fines and costs totaled $605.

Dude, a frickin' Glock. You bought a Glock? Dumbas*.

oh, and attempting to take it on the plane wasn't such a bright idea either

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Later all, time for some filet mignon!

yes, lazy as* is going to a restaurant instead of doing it himself :-P

Nom nom nom.

I thought it was odd that you had this framed picture on your wall...

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I thought the same thing, packen. The horror.

Before I get a chicken, is the "nom nom nom" from the video?

I'm talking about the kitten/cat eating and saying/purring "nom nom nom." Have you not seen it :-P

I was saying 'nom nom nom' about the filet. It sounded tasty.

nom nom nom

I know what you meant stormimou..:-P..just was wondering if the video was the origin of "nom nom nom." Can't find the video at the moment.

Also, didn't get the filet. GF is a little under the weather.

But, DiSallas' pizza for me then :-)

I was feeling ambitious when I got home from work so I started some cabbage soup in the slow cooker, since it's frickin freezing here (in the 20's!!!!!), so I'll have that this weekend, and I made a baked rigatoni with roasted vegetables. Although the roasted vegetables almost didn't make it into the pasta, they were so yummy I kept picking at them before they went in.

sonofabeetch!

Can we move DL headquarters closer to Stormis house!

DiSallas' is awesome...but it's still just pizza

I think I am going to make a heckuva lot of comfort/cold weather food this weekend. Potato soup, stew, stroganoff, paprikash. Just really in the mood for it now that the crappy holiday insanity is over.

RWC, have you tried the paprikash that was part of a diner post? It is so much awsum!

No. Only because the only real difference was that I add chicken breast meat and omit the dill garnish so I figured it would be pretty much the same.

Also, I serve it like stroganoff - over wide or medium (prefer wide) egg noodles.

I do the same as you, and serve mine with wide egg noodles (or a product they sell down here they call dumplings, that look like super duper wide egg noodles).

Do you like cabbage? If you do a simple bloggie search you'll find my recipe for cabbage soup, which CBA can attest is deelishus and nootrishus.

Was just reading that thread again, another difference- I don't think I have ever used the hot/real paprika. Mine has never been that hot or spicy.

damn...I am getting hungry./i>

ps - I never really used a 'slow cooker' for this, so maybe that had an effect on the breast. Whenever I served it it was firm and juicy, but I cook it seperately and then add to the sauce.

I make a nice big pot of it, eat some, and freeze the rest in 3-portion (or 2-big-portion) containers, for enjoyment at a later date.

Sorry....no cabbage for moi. I guarantee it is getting forwarded to my mom to make for my dad. Cabbage rolls? Probably have to knock my mom out with ether and steal the recipe, but everyone says it's the best.

I guess I really need to get a freezer and stick it in the garage.

I use square containers that stack very nicely.

Another catfight!!!

rwoooohrrrrr.....hisssssssss

Stormi - are "white new potatoes" the same as the "yellow potatoes" you were talking about earlier this week?

No fightin'. We're ladies.

I just don't think the square containers work as well in my freezer because my fridge is one of those side by side ones, and the freezer is very skinny. If I put one container in there, there's no more room to stack anything another one beside it. Bags are just easier for me.

But I keep wanting to buy another box of pizza dough at Sam's Club, only when I did that last year I discovered when I got home that what had previously fit into a medium sized box now took up all of the space in my freezer. So, I need another freezer. It would be awesome if I could convert at least a third to a half of the refrigerator into a freezer, because I don't really use much of the fridge. I only keep milk, cheese, pickles and condiments in my fridge most of the time.

Holland? Are you nuts?

I'm sure Sams has a small (relatively) freezer for a good price. Do you have a place to put it though?

My mom has another fridgefreezer as well as a full freezer in the garage. Great idea if you have the space.

Yukon Gold it is. They're probably easier to find anyway.

I would definitely get one then. If I had the room I would definitely get it. Especially being a member of a warehouse club.

It would be nice to be able to cook more stuff at once when I have the time and inclination to do so, so that I'll have meals ready when I don't have the time or energy to cook. Lack of freezer space is keeping me from doing as much as I want.

Well, I think you know the solution ;-)

New Years Resolution - start the gym - nope, not yet.

Lose weight - cooking pizzs at 11:47pm should help that out.

Well, there's always next week.

You can't lose weight, RWC. You've already been chosen for the Ned Beatty part in Bloggie's performance of Deliverance.

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RIP Ford is playing the John Voight part.
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Bigel, of course.

Dammit frank! Half of Bloggie probably thinks I am too big to get out of my front door with my 'man-boobs' and 'Beatty butt.'

Seriously, I'm not that bad....

oh lookee.....mmmmmmm........chicken........

Aridog = Sheriff of Aintree County

V the K and Throbert = Mountain Men

Guy with Guitar = Jefe

Burt Reynolds = Solus

Don't get me started on your butt, RWC. ;)

If I had man-boobs like I that I wouldn't need to go out.

I just need to know what sickness I had for the last week. All my pants are about an inch looser, and I didn't feel bad or anything. Wasn't hungry, but it didn't make me feel sluggish. Viva la virus!

Deliverance

I want your virus soooo bad, RWC.

Bug chaser.

Hey!

Ooops.

Actually Ned Beatty's briefs were an inch too loose.

But that was because the elastic was shot.