Who lost all that money in Iraq again?

Who CONTROLLED that TARP money and the manner in which it was alocated? Who demanded the TARP money be ponied up lest we suffer another Great Depression?

kthanksgetfucked

…Republicans really believe that a dollar of tax cuts…[INSERT “for the super-wealthy and for particular corporate clients who probably pay no taxes in the first place given actual tax collection” END INSERT] is always better than…[DELETE “a dollar of public spending” INSERT “anything else in the entire Universe”].

Actually, the Occam solution to the whole thing would be:

…the point is that nobody with even one lick of fucking sense believes that a dollar of tax cuts is always better then a dollar of public spending…

Fixed and Fixed. That way references libertarians and other assorted douchebags.

You know how PGA announcers start wielding ten-year old slang, e.g. “He’s got game”? That’s where we are now with wingnuts breaking out with “kthxbai” and using Twitter. Behind, clueless, yet laughably cocksure.

Yep, Troofus, Democratic Secretary of the Treasury Big Hank Paulson was in charge of teh money!

You’re too easy.

Why Caitlin jes las nite I wuz sayin how it’s teh funnay watching the GOP fuck themselves even worse than they fukked Murka for years. Dere dey iz, doin’ zackly the same thing they been doin, the only thing they know how to do. They aint got shit.

Obama, he got game.

Was it George W. “Raping America Runs In My Family – Just Ask Granddad” Bush?

Why yes … yes it was.

Thank you for still showing everyone how ashamed you are of your original name, now that you’ve made it a synonym for “failure” … please feel free to leave for good: you contribute nothing of value here & are about half as funny as a hangnail.

Wow, The Kroog doesn’t get too far out of reality into Republicanland much, does he.

Maybe that’s a good thing.

Water quality monitoring, law-enforcement, food & drug safety, environmental protection – how do THEY benefit goopers’ stock-portfolios?

Silly liberalz!!11!1!

Video Killed The Radio Star
Video Killed The Radio Star
In My Mind And In My Car, We Can’t Rewind We’ve Gone Too Far
Oh-A-Aho Oh,
Oh-A-Aho Oh

Nothing can kill the innocent republicans urges in their efforts to free mankind from filthy grip of life

Of course they believe in tax cuts, as they and their buddies are the recipients. But don’t worry, they’ll figure a way to get their hands on public spending.

Meanwhile, it’s clear that when it comes to economic stimulus…

…Republicans believe that efforts should be focused like a laser beam on specific projects and industries. Examples include:
-support for American manufacturers of wetsuits
-targeted upgrades to the public amenities at certain airports
-selected contracting opportunities for rebuilding the porches of former Mississippi Senators
-suspending the terms of divorce settlements of former Republican Congressmen from Georgia
-dedicated cash funding to preserve the culture and way of life of certain doughy “writers”

Hmm. George W. Bush steered a shitload of my money to killing Iraqi civilians who were no threat to me.

Back on topic: when did “kthxbi” become obsolete? I’m so behind the curve.

Why, Mr. Bush, why?

I keep hearing this voice from beyond the grave. It doesn’t seem to know it’s dead, poor thing.

“Back on topic: when did “kthxbi” become obsolete? I’m so behind the curve.”

About the time it became fashion here to force-feed the trolls like we’re gonna turn their liver into foie gras… just sayin’.

Back on topic: when did “kthxbi” become obsolete?

If you’re into that sort of thing, I think you have to be one of the cool kids over at 4chan. Or Something Awful if you’re slightly older, less crazy, and more funny. By the time anything cute makes it to, say, mainstream political blogs, it’s not cool anymore.

when did “kthxbi” become obsolete?

you can still use it in an ironic or mocking fashion, or anytime a picture of a cat is involved.

You are now aware of all internet traditions.

“Back on topic: when did “kthxbi” become obsolete? I’m so behind the curve.”

Apparently you are not aware of all internet traditions.

DAMMIT, GD!

By the time anything cute makes it to, say, mainstream political blogs, it’s not cool anymore.

Fo shiz? That’s wack.

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That robot looks to me like it’s working fine.

Any chance of not giving the fucking troll control of this thread? Perhaps we could resist chasing after every talking point it randomly spews?

Why doesn’t Troofus use his real name?

Hmm, I seem to remember that I was passed by the Democratic House and Democratic Senate. The Chairman of the Finance Committe, Barney Frank (D-Financial Crisis) steered some of my money to a hometown bank that was not in trouble.

Now it is fun to see you liberals in denial about this, and whether this will have an electoral consequence (given the massive number of lockstop Democratic voters*) is unknown at this time. But it is fun to call you out on this nonetheless.

That’s nice. You’re a huge Bush supporter. How do you reconcile…

eh, forget it. You’ll just ignore me, as you always do. Why, Troofus, why?

For our next act, Ladies and Gentlemen, the GOP will now continue their hilarious impression of the Black Knight in the Holy Grail, after he’s had all his arms and legs hacked off.

Wow. It’s funny, but I remember talking thru the air traffic control argument just this week…

Now now, fellows, you don’t want to follow my example and have your posts considered poison because you replied to some ignert troll.

I figured I’d pick up g’s work for him since he’s probably at lunch! 😉

Tommmcatt: True, but why don’t we use “the sort of person that would contribute to SarahPAC” instead, for that extra grace note of snark.

Odd, isn’t it, how the post is about tax cuts and how they don’t do as much good for the real economy as actual spending, and the first troll comment is about the Corporate Goody Bag known as TARP?

Troll strategy in a nutshell, right there.

Yes, Actor212 was taken to the proverbial woodshed in the last post for acting like he contributed something to the Sadly,No! commentariat. Don’t make the same mistake. Ignore the trolls and only post things that will make the other posters adore you, for you are ruining the internet everytime you respond to a troll.

Back on topic: when did “kthxbi” become obsolete?

The moment I figured out what it meant. Off the lawn etc.

Actor, isn’t that ignernt?

I am just trying to stay current on all Internet Traditions.

Pretty much, Zombie. Tax cuts do so little for the economy, because the people who need them either a) don’t get them (see Reagan/Bush) or b) have to pay them to banks for loans and such (Clinton/Bush/Bush).

Zombie,

I speak a dialect. I’m from Manhattan.

Besides, CTIC, I think This Particular Internet went bad the first time this happened…

Rush Limbaugh Republicans are scared shitless that Obama will fix the Bush Recession. They are addicted to mediocrity and failure; it’s all they know.

Good times, good times.

All your base are belong to us! Someone set us up the Bomb! *Hamster Dance* ZOMFG look at teh kitteh, he are ride invisble bike! FYWP.

Th’ Prezident is a Demmy-crat!

We eat poop!

ctg, I believe something mentioned over at digby’s; that the reason Repubs all bailed, to the last craven one, is because they are aware that the economy is far worse than has become apparent so far, and this way they can blame the Dems when it goes completely to shit…

I want to believe we’ve bottomed out. but the several hundred thousand newly unemployed have a different song to sing, and I hear it in my sleep. I don’t want to; my business is in the construction industry, which has been stagnating for two years now. But I don’t see a fair wind in any direction. Credit is nonexistent, consumer confidence is nil, the world market is tanked, and the Congress thinks tax cuts will turn it around? Tax cuts mean shit if no one is making any money to pay taxes on…

Just something to remember when we storm Washington with pitchforks and tar.

in the end, thank Internet Gawd for poop jokes.

ZRM,

Nahganhappen, tho. This time, we have a President who actually gives a crap about people. That’s why so much of this stimulus package is about helping them get by, jobs and such, and not about rewarding those who take and won’t give back, even tho they can.

“Tax Cuts” fits into everyone’s stooopid, self-centeredness. Everyone secretly wishes they made $1trillion/yr, paid no taxes and all other 300+million Americans made less than minimum wage so even stuff you had to buy with your trillions, like food, would be like a nickel. At least that’s the GOP theory. Trouble is, if that scenario actually magically happened there would be NOTHING for Mr Trillion to even BUY, and the other 300+million of us would simply TAKE the trillion FROM him (and likely put his head on a pike, as has been done from the dawn of time).

Republicans dream that that scenario comes true asap, only in their stoopidity they imagine they’ll be on the last chopper out, laughing down at the dying, fighting mobs, their Trillions safely stowed in back…bound for…FUCKING *WHERE*?!?!?

And why not believe that? It’s essentially what Bush did at 12:10pm on Jan 20th…

not enough though, actor. and too much of the stim bill is crap like the aforementioned tax cuts.

I agree that BHO cares about people, but how much can he do?

ASCE just estimated that America needs to spend 2.5 to 3 TRILLION dollars in the next five years just to keep the infrastructure from calamitous failure. Talking death, destruction, disease (and I live in Milwaukee, so I know that even a small gap in the water supply can be lethal). That’s just the basics, not including new stuff like broadband and sustainable energy.

I want to share your optimism, I do; convince me. Please.

I heard it summed up yesterday on the radio… by someone who was explaining why the $500 tax cut/credt/refund/thingie was going to be extended to include people who work and pay into SS but make so little that they don’t pay income tax: if you give that money to the rich they might not spend it, but give it to the poor and they WILL spend it, which stimulates the economy, which is the whole and entire point of the stimulus plan.

Why is this so effing hard to understand?

(I’m on cold meds right now, so please forgive my haziness about details.)

Bigby, or more simply, when that group with all the money becomes small enough, something else becomes money.

Why is this so effing hard to understand?

Because the only people who deserve handouts are millionaires.

> Why is this so effing hard to understand?

Stupid librul. The only way the lazy negroes will work is if we starve and beat them.

ZRM,

There is something to be said for a couple more bucks each week in your paycheck.

That kind of sum, $5, $10, $25, is likely to be spent. Maybe a cup of coffee for work, or a movie on the weekend.

Doesn’t sound like much, but now multiply it by 100 million, or 200 million taxpayers. That starts to get into serious money.

That said, I think you’re right: the bank bailout money, as I said at the time on my blog, really would have better served the economy as a direct payment to mortgagors (the homeowners), who could have used it for the most part to pay down their loans, which solves two problems at the same time.

Similarly, infrastructure monies needed to be addressed earlier.

In NY, we had a similar problem back in the 80s with our subways and bridges. For too long, Republican mayors & governors (and the occasional democrat) had balanced the budget partly by deferring simple maintenance, until we ended up having to borrow large sums of money in the form of bonds to pay to even bring our systems up to adequate.

This is the problem Obama faces. The difference between NYC and the US is we didn’t have some yahoo fighting a trillion dollar war in office ahead of the problem.

opie, I actually was talking about this with my son last night. He’s fourteen and goes to a public school and understands it, so I know that even Boehner and our lovely trolls could understand if they wanted to… or else admit that a fourteen year old is smarter than they are.

The argument over repairing the National Mall is an excellent example. (As an aside, we were in DC last summer, and the Mall looks atrocious. embarrassing for a National space.)

What was proposed, $800 grand? That money goes to a landscape contractor, or a couple, who then hire some people to do the work. They also purchase or rent equipment and materials; almost all of the money gets returned into the economy through payroll and so one; suppliers, subcontractors and employees then spend that money yet again; and so on as it permeates deeper into the economy, resulting in a multiplied effect…

Give it to some rich bastardo in the form of a tax cut and it just goes into the back of his helicopter.

George Bush was my daddy, & Paul Bernanke was my mommy.
Or is it the other way around?
I saved America, but now it hates me … wow, I’m just like Jesus!

Ah, men.

Bigby, you can sum up the end of your post with the following:

No country is more than three meals away from a revolution. Eventually, the rich get so rich, the poor get so poor, that the large scale numbers take over and the poor get pitchforks and torches.

Average Republican, even when I was one I was never like you.

(yes, I know this really isn’t a troll)

In NY, we had a similar problem back in the 80s with our subways and bridges. For too long, Republican mayors & governors (and the occasional democrat) had balanced the budget partly by deferring simple maintenance, until we ended up having to borrow large sums of money in the form of bonds to pay to even bring our systems up to adequate.

Had a wonderful example here in beertown. The high rise bridge (one of the newer ones) under Tommy Thompson (remember him? heh; our former Gov. Anyway, it was a state highway, so state maintenance) had maintenance deferred for so long that one day, as a truck drove over it, a WHOLE SPAN SUNK ABOUT 18 INCHES, SUDDENLY AND WITH LITTLE WARNING.

The span had to be blowed up and replaced. Shut down an arterial for a month.

They should show that demolition footage every time some Repub starts talking about cutting spending.

Damn. I am more dull than usual today.

Think I’ll go curl up in a blanket and read some librul book, like An Inconvenient Truth, or watch a librul movie like King Corn. For a while.

I can’t give an unbiased opinion on the landscaping project for the National Mall … my first job was laying sod for a soccer-field.

It’s harsh work – especially when it’s about 40 degrees Celsius out – but that whole “money versus no money” factor is kind of hard to ignore. Unless you’re blessed with life-long ignorance of what the latter feels like, that is.

The GOP: we don’t need no stinkin’ job-programs!

Before I go, though, after reading zrm’s last post, I have to say that mr opie_jeanne is a CIVIL engineer (better than an uncivil one, he always says) and he works for a public agency (keeping Torrance’s water safe from terrerrrists is just one of the things he does).

And he’s a nice guy, quiet, decent, his employees all love him because he’s so nice even though his use of the Red Pencil is legendary throughout the state,and this nice, even-tempered individual becomes nearly apoplectic on the subject of deferred maintenance because he’s had to clean up after this sort of idiocy too many times and the local politicians wherever he’s worked have never wanted to fund it until it’s almost too late. They let roads and bridges fall apart and storm drains and sewers fail because there’s so little glory in maintaining the infrastructure you already have, compared to building a nice new shiny mall or football stadium. Bread and circuses.

Whattaya think – are the Merkin pipples so incredibly obtuse they don’t see the awesome hypocrisy (not to mention incredible comedy) of the GOP suddenly getting religion on deficits? I can’t watch it on teevee without braking out in laughter every time one of them spits that meme out.

Sure, the untruefie’s don’t get it but they are frequently outwitted by potted plants.

Tommy Thompson (remember him?)

FONDLY.

Expanding on his reason for saying at a debate that an employer should be allowed to fire someone for being gay, Tommy Thompson on Saturday blamed a dead hearing aid and his need to use the bathroom.

fuckety fuckety fuck

“breaking out”

I’m not even going to lok for other fuckups, I’ll just pretend they didn’t happen.

I’m not even going to lok for other fuckups

PeeJ has a lok on the fuckup crown!

Expanding on his reason for saying at a debate that an employer should be allowed to fire someone for being gay, Tommy Thompson on Saturday blamed a dead hearing aid and his need to use the bathroom.

Hereby nominated for best citation ever.

I blame WordPress. And my cordless keyboard batteries. And….aw hell I can’t let W off the hook either. And actor212, he’s a sumbitch.

And actor212, he’s a sumbitch.

You’ve met my mom???

GAH! Peej, it has been my experience with my own family is that most people don’t read. And if they do, they don’t read for content. And they only read what supports their predetermined opinion.

Now Google’s got a record of me looking up “Tommy Thompson” and “pee”.

and their memories are conveniently short and very selective.

Yeah, Thompson moving from our state to the national stage simply made my life. I peed myself on the peeing comment. A Shame that he didn’t last longer; he would have given Palin a debate, that’s for darn shootin, you betcha!!

Palin/Thompson 2012!!!

Should we elect a “Designated Troll Squisher” every day? Actor must get a bit weary at time. T

Now Google’s got a record of me looking up “Tommy Thompson” and “pee”.

Now don’t be surprised if you get Friended by Robert Kasten…

he would have given Palin a debate, that’s for darn shootin, you betcha!!

I would love to see them debate.

RB, that nearly killed me.

The argument over repairing the National Mall is an excellent example. (As an aside, we were in DC last summer, and the Mall looks atrocious. embarrassing for a National space.)

Sod the National Mall!

BBBB, let’s plant it with pot!!

Cannabis the Mall!!!

Speaking of which, now THERE’s a sustainable design strategy… planted roofs with cannabis. In addition to reduced heat reflection and additional insulation, it’s a renewable, versatile cash crop!

Bubba, don’t worry. Jizoogle™ only keeps the record for 18 mos. or infinity, whichever comes first.

Or maybe, as I first typo’ed, “18 mos. of infinity.”

PEE!

If only there was some way to get the nutrients locked into the plant back into the ecosystem…you know, like burning it or some such….

Do we want our roofs to smell of skunk? How will we know when a real skunk is in the ‘hood?

Now, you know zrmcd, the Cannabis sativa can also be used for biofuels.

Speaking of which, now THERE’s a sustainable design strategy… planted roofs with cannabis. In addition to reduced heat reflection and additional insulation, it’s a renewable, versatile cash crop!

The Bronx county courthouse green roof.

Sadly, no pot.

Actually this guy gave the “Secret Science Club” lecture at Union Hall this month. Colbert’s interview of him was very funny.

I’d like to see RB’s recipe for troll liver pate.

Only if it includes cannabis garnish, Rusty…

I’d just like to see a troll’s liver, & not an X-Ray or CAT Scan representation thereof, either, IYKWIM.

Do we want our roofs to smell of skunk? How will we know when a real skunk is in the ‘hood?

A more pertinent question would be ‘will we care?’

And we’re trolling (trolling)
Trolling (trolling)
Trolling on the liverrrrrrrrrrrrrr o/~

Actor, go to your room!

Dude, the Wii is broken, man! That’s torture!

And where did the trolls go? They may have realized we’re about to ignore them, & get back to our puns, animal stories, & herbal tea. And that wild, Ted Haggard-style evangelical sex we all enjoy. (Not the gay sex exclusively, just the “evangelicals have better & more sex” that Ted mentioned. Obviously, as Ted had the entire spectrum from which to choose, he was having twice as much!!)

Trolls are scared of Zombeez. It’s an Internet Tradition.

Heh. Bouffant said HERBAL tea.

time for new thread

(Not the gay sex exclusively, just the “evangelicals have better & more sex” that Ted mentioned. Obviously, as Ted had the entire spectrum from which to choose, he was having twice as much!!)

But it wasn’t gay, of course, even if it was with men. No, it was manly man-love, as defined in the Bible. Eroticus 4:69

“Herbal.” Well, you know.

Also: Brace yourselves for the impending “How long until Prez B. O. is forcing white people to wear baggy pants & unlaced sneakers to see him in the Black House?” hissy fits/blog posts that will follow this NYT article.

And he has the nerve not to be a “decorative plate” fan. What next, no Jello-O™? Our precious White Kultur und Kinder are threatened!!

New threads only bump the shit music thread!

And he has the nerve not to be a “decorative plate” fan. \

Thomas Kinkcaide sucks anyway.

212 has it. “Gay” is wearing a Speedo & prancing in the Pride Parade.

Sexually harrassing underlings in your corporate-religio structure, snooting meth, etc. are all in the great Republican tradition, going back to Abe Lincoln, & not “gay” at all. Da Vinci Code notwithstanding, what do you think was going on at that “Last Supper?” A footie team & its coach having a few steaks & brews?

old threads are easier for cannabis enthusiasts….

212 has it. “Gay” is wearing a Speedo & prancing in the Pride Parade.

I thought that was European!

I suspect this quote alone will be fascist fodder for quite some time.

“He’s from Hawaii, O.K.?” said Mr. Obama’s senior adviser, David Axelrod, who occupies the small but strategically located office next door to his boss. “He likes it warm. You could grow orchids in there.”

Carbon foot-prints, not from a rugged Norse clime where men fight their enemies, rather than trying to talk first, etc.

4B has made the connection.

“Sexually harrassing underlings in your corporate-religio structure”

Hell, I know ALL about that!

Fortunately, Bouff, we’ve already got the response:

http://features.csmonitor.com/environment/2008/12/01/obama-plans-to-green-the-white-house/

See! BHO is going to plant pot on the White House roof!!

Call Willie Nelson, stat!!

It is January 29th and Larry Elder is jaded with Obama’s media honeymoon.

I believe his kind calls it “blunts.”

It is January 29th and Larry Elder is jaded with Obama’s media honeymoon.

Larry has a point that Obama’s media honeymoon is endless. However, it is also startless.

There is at least one glaring omission from this stimulus package.

NO Investment Banker Death-matches.

and the fucking Republicans took the lubricants.

Shorter Elder: Obama’s too popular and I’m jealous.

The Villagers will soon be revolting:

“Can I make a comment that is unrelated to the economy, very quickly?” Obama asked. “My children’s school was canceled today because of what — some ice?”

212, I am disturbed that you seem to know the diminutive (“Bouff”) that my both of my friends call me. Very Bush-like.

The Villagers will soon be revolting

Too easy.

I believe his kind calls it “blunts.”

Now, now, it’s only a blunt when one of these:

http://www.altadisusa.com/cigar/philliesblunts.asp

is used in lieu of a rolling paper.

Anybody else having HREF problems? If not, it must be the blunts.

We should probably force feed Obama some Mayonaise to see where his loyalties lie…

I’m with Barack on teh snow and ice thing. I went to law school at a faggity elite Northeastern US institution, where “it’s snowing outside” means, 8 inches +. In my current part of Southwestern Ohio, they announce school closings the night before – when 1 to 2 inches is forecast. When it snows a handsom bit like it did Tuesday and Wednesday around here, it’s the end of the world. Literally: Do. Not. Go. Outside. You. Will. Fucking. Die!! They actually have local news coverage – OF SNOW. Hey, is it snowing where you are, Bill. Yup, how ’bout you, Dianne. Sure is! How long did we know this was coming? Only a couple of days! But those non-existent snow crews – you know, the plows that don’t actually plow – are doing a heck of a job barely making the interstates passable.

Bedwetters.

Dennis Prager Debates Figment of His Imagination, Loses

Snowing? But I thought we have GLOBAL WARMING!! COOKING US OFF THE PLANET!!111!!11

BBBB, next you’ll be telling me this isn’t a “forty.”

Townhall Party! Is this one of the most reasonable things ever written by a Townhall contributor?

If y’all don’t know, the aforementioned Mr. Elder lost his radio gig on the ABC station in L. A. (from where he broadcast, yet) around the end of the yr. Wonder if that’s what’s really bugging him.

Don’t know the exact circumstances, or if his show (which, according to ClownHall, is on “talk radio,”) is totally gone or just MIA in L. A.

But hey, now that there’s a black feller in the White House, they don’t need rightist affirmative action hires any more, do they? (Or do they, to point out that a minuscule portion of the A-A community is not 1,000% behind B. O. rounding up whitey & reëducating him.)

Ugh, winger logic is so illogical.

Well, see, I have a friend who’s name is Poufter and we all call him Pouf for short, so I just extended that, and nevermind that one head of cattle you see prowling around behind me on my webcam, and that’s not a cowboy hat on my head but a tuba.

Heh heh, heh heh.

Dennis Prager Debates Figment of His Imagination, Loses

Communism killed 100,000,000 people, huh… I certainly didn’t learn that at any university. I’d never read it before now.

It makes me seriously crazy when these goofballs use “terror” the way Prager does in that article, like it’s some kind of belief system / strategy / etc. At least when he calls it “jihadism” that makes some sense.

Item No. 2 for the Marijuana Policy Project: In the closing week of Bushdom, the Drug Enforcement Administration rejected Administrative Law Judge Ellen Bittner’s decision to allow the University of Massachusetts to grow marijuana for medical research. Until now, only the University of Mississippi has filled that role — and not well, according to critics.

What, it isn’t supposed to be deep-fried?

Legalize, we have much the same weather-weasel phenomenon here in SoCal, except it’s w/r/t RAIN111!! “Agghh! Melting!!”

As someone who grew up lived in NoCal & Wash. state during the formative yrs. I find this amusing. Of course, none of the fucks here can drive in the rain, so there is a certain basis for the hysteria, as all we ever do in SoCal is drive around until our car finds another car it wants to fuck. (We wait at Starbucks until they’re through.)

Terror IS TOO THE NEW COMMUNISM!

According to Dennis the Menass, Communism “burn[ed] the vaginas of wives of opponents and pull[ed] wires through men’s penises, which were then attached to their ears and plucked.”

Not people. Not tyrants. Communism.

Your friends name is “Poufter?” (I think it would be more Anglophiliac to call him “Poove,” but…) You are a liberal!

Not people. Not tyrants. Communism.

This is how Communism is unlike guns – it kills people.

Your friends name is “Poufter?”

Well, it was Bruce until that night he crawled in the wrong sleeping bag.

Bubba, kin yew di-rect me to how to make them cute little boxes w/ the funnie sayings appear when I cruise yer links? (I promise I won’t use it here, you can have that.)

Also, the reasonable column is either because the author has someone who is ill or dying & the reefer has done some good*, or it’s a “Well, if the states can write their own (liberal) mary jane laws they can write their own damn anti-abortion laws” set-up.

Of course I’m being cynical. Why do you ask?

*”I was a liberal until someone who didn’t look like me mugged me; I was a conservative until I realized that gov’t. wants my older or ill friends & family to die.”

if you give that money to the rich they might not spend it, but give it to the poor and they WILL spend it, which stimulates the economy, which is the whole and entire point of the stimulus plan.
Why is this so effing hard to understand?

Exactly.

In NY, we had a similar problem back in the 80s with our subways and bridges. For too long, Republican mayors & governors (and the occasional democrat) had balanced the budget partly by deferring simple maintenance, until we ended up having to borrow large sums of money in the form of bonds to pay to even bring our systems up to adequate.

And then that whole steam pipe explosion thingy happened and it ended up costing WAY more anyway.

Bye-bye Blago, it appears. CNN has the roll call at this moment. Haven’t heard a “no” or “nay” yet.

Aww, Rusty, you want a wine? Try one of these .

M.B.—

&lta href=”url://goes.here” title=”pop up text goes here”>link text here</a>

we have much the same weather-weasel phenomenon here in SoCal, except it’s w/r/t RAIN111!!

Yes, I love it when the anchors all stand out on PCH in their slickers, peering at south-bound cars and getting all excited when they see one with its wipers going.

Why is this so effing hard to understand?

Violates their bullshit “morality” of “everyone must work like dogs for their masters, if they don’t they’re immoral parasites.”

Or: nose, face, spite.

Escape code fail.

Trying again:

<a href=”url://goes.here” title=”pop up text goes here”<link text here</a>

I give up. Do you understand, M.B.? Despite my best efforts to confuse you…

ARRRGH! MY HREF’s IS GETTING ATED!

Ahem, Rusty, try one of these fine vintages:

http://www.bumwine.com

When I attended a prestigeous bastion of prestige, I had a job with the Anthropology department, during the course of which I had to clean out a sub-basement bomb shelter. I obtained a whole bunch of Civil Defense survival ration “crackers” (they tasted like Play Doh smells- and would’ve been good accompanied by bacon). Anyway, my roommates and I threw a “poor man’s wine and cheese” party, featuring Thunderbird, Night Train, spray cheeze, CheezWhiz, and those crackers, which had been baked six years prior to my birth.

Mind you, this was before the death of irony.

I stole the idea from Kip W who I was immediately mean to when he suggested it because I’m a big dummy. Since I use a macro for links it turned out to be easy and fun to add it, although Kip, I think, wanted the titles to be informative and not just stupid.

This is a good place to learn how to add hyperlinks to your post. Scroll down to “Adding links to other pages.”

I love the song

“Townhall Party” By Black Flag

M. Bouffant and g, you must live not too very far from me. I am currently two miles north of the House of Mouse, behind the Orange Curtain.

Thanks Simba, you’ve provided good tech advice before. As well as amusement. Now i will try it somewhere.

“&It” means “<,” right? And no space between goes.here” & title, eh?

However one says thanks in Swahili!

You know a wine is good when it’s “fortified” and bears the instruction SERVE COLD.

Let me try this again.

<a href=”http://www.website.com/” title=”pop up text goes here”>link text here</a>

Think of it this way—&lt; is left, &gt; is right.

< = &lt;
> = &gt;

FYWP FYWP FYWP FYWP FYWP FYWP FYWP FYWP

FINALLY.

Now, now, it’s only a blunt when one of these:
http://www.altadisusa.com/cigar/philliesblunts.asp
is used in lieu of a rolling paper.

Fuckin’ ass lazy kids today don’t even know how to roll a joint anymore.

Garcon, I’d like a bottle of your second cheapest fortified wine!

opie-jeanne, peeped earlier at your blog after the “Torrance” reference you made to “Mr. Pie.”

I live in a motel in an un-named, almost coastal city (looking for permanent housing in the City of L. A. itself) & “g” lives in a different, almost coastal area. (Don’t mean to give away too much, “g,” & hope I didn’t.)

The coast is the most cuz the surfin’s the best!!

Maybe this summer local SadlyNauts can congregate somewhere. I’m thinking tube steak in a park w/ a sixer of Old Milwaukee, considering the economy. Maybe you’ll all be living in the park by then anyway.

Argh. I mean lt = less than, gt = greater than.

Although Left = Less does work.

I swear, I have had the fucking craziest fucking week of my life, and while this day hasn’t been so bad, I’m dead tired and I should be fucking wired based on my caffeine intake. I feel seriously out of body about now, it’s been so bad. And you know what? Somehow, I still manage to have these moments of genius at work and in class, and keep up with shit. I’ll probably keel over in a few hours, but GOD HELP ME things won’t stay this way.

I am a sedentary beast at heart.

By the way, any FYWPs directed toward the shitty preview are misdirected. The live preview is a plugin.

yup almost coastal area indeed. although I think I work in the same un-named city M Bouffant is in.

Simba, no prob. I pretty much got it, just had forgotten exactly what the subs for the brackets were. (I’ll write that down too.)

Yuck foo, WP, & merci bien, Simba B.!

By the way, any FYWPs directed toward the shitty preview are misdirected. The live preview is a plugin.

Does it still do that gravtar thing? If not, I’ll unblock the script.

Blogos out.

g, no longer, I am currently in a motel (w/ wireless) in Culvertville, if you follow my drift.

A sadlynaut picnic sounds good to me. Hope I’m not living in a park by this summer; more likely my 90 yo dad will move in with me because his broker has finally skint him. I’m pretty sure that $%#@er has churned the account once recently, but Dad doesn’t believe me, thinks I’m too “conservative” when it comes to investments. And no, I can’t get him declared incompetent because this is a macho thing with him, and not evidence of senility.

I think I work in the same un-named city M Bouffant is in.

I am currently in a motel (w/ wireless) in Culvertville, if you follow my drift.

This is fun – it’s like watching the Cold War spies feeding the ducks at the park or something.

Srsly, I like it. It makes a way better thread than troll-kicking, though I’ll confess to having had fun with that last night.

Simba, if you mean the the S,N! preview, in Firefox 3.0.5 the gravatar shows a little red dot in the head for each keystroke & IdiotEx7 (32 & 64 bit) just flashes. They both link to gravatar.com for each stroke, as well. Chrome is just fine.

(If it had a full screen option I might use it exclusively.)

The troll-kicking was excellent. Whatever you do, though, if you decide to have a rotating office of Offical Troll Kicker, please do not put my name on the list. I would not do you proud. I’m more of the “……..Oh… Oh, Yeah?…. well, so’s your old lady ” persuasion, the type who figures out the perfect comeback after too much time has passed to be effective.

Shecky G., I too enjoy inside jokes, even if I have no idea what they really mean or what they’re talking about. What does that say about us?

And just for the hell of it, here’s a picture of the MOTEL I’m in. Come find me, right wing dogs!!

And just for the hell of it, here’s a picture of the MOTEL I’m in.

Where’s the pop-up title? WHERE?

In the spirit of Opie-J’s post, I also have spent my time in the troll wars….

Way back in the Shoelimpy days… gather round, kiddies, let me tell you bout it…

hey!! Where you kids goin!! get the eff back here! dammit!!

Triangulating on M. Bouffant’s position……

Srsly, I like it. It makes a way better thread than troll-kicking, though I’ll confess to having had fun with that last night.

Yeah, Shecky, the troll popped in a couple of times, what with liking pie and all that, but popped out but quick. Hurrah to cheap wine to bad music… and to think, I thought fire and acid were the sovereign weapons against trolls (yeah, total geek here).

M. Bouffant, so I take it that you have moved away from Little Samoa?

RB, I said I’d be nice & let you have the franchise here. Plus I am looking for an apartment, & can only break up my day wasting keystrokes here w/ important stuff.

opie-jeanne, the Samoa thing is a tribute to one of my favorite musical aggregations, The Angry Samoans. When I saw that as one of the options for Bugger™ I had to use it. (Just as many Bugger™ users in NYC & Long Guy Land use the “minor outlying islands” option.)

So no, I didn’t used to live in Carson.

But have you poked your eyes out yet?

No yet, nature has made the peepers less useful over the yrs. w/ little help from me.

I have pulled out several teeth however.

Nor did I save Hitler’s cock.

I was cool more like 30 yrs. ago.

I too enjoy inside jokes, even if I have no idea what they really mean or what they’re talking about. What does that say about us?

I think it’s some artifact of an unusually developed sense-of-humor center in the brain. Maybe I’ll see if I can get a grant for studying it.

Could be. I always enjoyed the Mothers of Invention lyrics that meant nothing to anyone but band members, & they admitted as much.

Billy the Mountain, Bouffant.

A regular, picturesque, pos-tcardy mountain…

post-cardy.

I blame John Boehner.

The quality of troll we’ve been getting lately makes me miss Annie Angel sometimes.

My employer won’t let me look at your picture M Bouffant, so I have to wait till later.

Is it near any good eats?

The quality of troll we’ve been getting lately makes me miss Annie Angel sometimes.

I will admit, she could at least sort of pass the Turing test.

Tax cuts
Tax cuts
Roly-poly tax cuts
Tax cuts
Tax cuts
Eat them up
Yum!

And then that whole steam pipe explosion thingy happened and it ended up costing WAY more anyway.

That was Con Ed. When they were a quasi-subsidized utility (subject to prize limits, but free to earn as large a profit as they could on that, which meant they hit government up for anything and everything), as opposed to a free-market energy wholesaler, that never happened. They did maintenance.