En route to Trail Mix Southern Command in Orlando my cell phone’s Twitter app all I had for chatting up the Republican meltdown:
- @craig_crawford: My first question for skinny dipping GOP reps in Sea of Galilee, Did you pee in the water?
- @HuffPostPol: How Akin’s rape remark at odds with science http://huff.to/Qijpnk — @craig _crawford: Duh, and babies don’t come from storks http://bit.ly/SIYFqN
- @Slate: What do these weird “test” and “reset” buttons in wall sockets do? http://slate.me/QSofrK — @craig_crawford: Designed by Romney strategists
- @ByronYork: Other than Dem convention, any joint Obama/Biden campaign appearances planned? — @craig_crawford: Not even. WH told Joe convention is in CharlottesVILLE
- @BarackObama: Summer isn’t over yet: Get your #Obama2012 tank top today. http://OFA.BO/iKa1H3 — @craig_crawford: Substance, finally!
- @lynnsweet: Finally. Augusta National Adds First 2 Female members. — @craig_crawford: But do they get a locker room?
- @craig_crawford: KrispyKreme donates to RomneyRyan, welcomes return of the doughnut hole
- @craig_crawford: Akin explains “legitimate rape” comment: “I was talking about voter suppression”
Follow me, friend me or whatever goofy thing the kids are doing on Twitter at http://twitter.com/craig_crawford. I’ll return the favor if I can find the button.
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jasfl, i think i’ll vote for both.
mqw, hope you’re still afloat. sounds pretty sad these days on old man river.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/21/us/drought-clogs-traffic-on-shrunken-mississippi-river.html?_r=1
Did they pee in the Sea of Galilee? Gee, Craig, do you think they had anything left after peeing in our political pool for so long? (BTW, your tweet was snort-worthy!)
Who is running the Romney campaign!?!
Not only was it foolish to have Paul Ryan sitting next to Romney while he mildly scolded Aikin, but to leak the fact that they had Ryan call Aikin to tell him to get out of the race?
Why would you want that piece of info out there when Ryan must think there is something called ‘consensual’ rape if he thinks it’s necessary to ever, ever, EVER use the modifier “forceable.”
Of course, the longer both sides keep this up, the less time there will be to discuss solutions to other issues. They have those, right? Solutions? Shareable, pre-election day, solutions?
The ~braintrust~ has now added a new partner; it is now the Palin/Bachmann/Aiken Brain-Rust.
fried fish with a hint of motor oil… that sounds lip smackin’ good…
Bethy… I didn’t make a list… but you can put Dickie Morris on any list of weaselyassslimeballs…
Hey… the good (?) people of Missouri nominated Akin to be their Republican nominee for Senate. Who the hell are the Republican establishment to tell those folks their votes don’t count.
so STFU and live with what you’ve wrought….
besides… it’s a hoot to watch…
http://www.forbes.com/sites/rickungar/2012/08/21/akin-still-leads-in-missouri-senate-race-after-rape-comment/
so tell me again why mccaskill would rather run against him than his primary opponent?
This is not your father’s Libya war. No one liked Gaddafi, he lacked strong foreign backing, and his military was pretty antiquated. Syria, to no one’s surprise, is just the opposite. The West, the UN will have to sit on the sidelines and watch until the resistance struggles to gain control. Meanwhile the slaughter of innocent civilians continues.
http://yhoo.it/OU7yRK
If every politician dropped out of a race for saying and/or doing stupid nonsense, who would run? Akin is just the, soupe du jour.
First it was Romney’s taxes, then it was Ryan’s budget and Medicare. Now it’s the ultra-extreme views on abortion held by (surprise) not just Aiken but Paul Ryan.
And Romney, too. During the primaries his position was: NO exceptions for rape or incest.
This was all supposed to forgotten as Romney “moved towards the middle” for the general election campaign.
mqw, tote that barge, lift that boat, hope you get a little rain and you’re once more afloat
The Dems are down on Biden right now, but when he debates Ryan, Joe will beat the crap out of him, and all will be forgiven.
Ryan is a sneaky little creep who, like most of the right-wing cockroaches in the House of Representatives, is used to operating in the dark.
Say what you will about Biden, he’s been in the spotlight now for a long time and he will DESTROY Ryan simply by asking him to explain and defend his extreme positions.
what mischief is fox up to now? another stinky and fishy red herring?
http://video.foxnews.com/v/1793391714001/did-obama-campaign-try-to-replace-biden/?intcmp=sem_outloud
Some RNC in the News Today.
Dispute at Channelside complex puts some RNC events at risk
By Jodie Tillman, Tampa Bay Times, August 21, 2012
With rice, beans and optimism, group plans to feed thousands of RNC protesters
By Kim Wilmath, Tampa Bay Times, August 21, 2012
XXX Marks the spot (or does it?)
The Republican National Convention
the new paladins: have cam, will trav
http://www2.tbo.com/news/republican-national-convention/2012/aug/20/social-media-video-can-work-for-against-rnc-protes-ar-468604/
How many former presidents have not released their school records? What will be the call when Romney’s releases his school records yet again, will President Obama release his? We all know that Romney is John Kerry wealthy, we know he has off shore accounts, Swiss bank accounts, we know he pays a lower tax rate because his income is derived mostly from dividends and capital gains, all of which are perfectly legal and ones I’m sure the IRS are well versed on. If voters don’t like how the wealthy are treated then vote for politicians who will change the tax code, but remember a lot of 401-K’s and IRA’s are composed of similar financial holdings. These subjects about taxes and school records are nothing more than distractions. The party that focuses on the main and central themes will win this election, and those themes are jobs, jobs, jobs.
patd,
I don;t know about your state’s ballot but I believe that Obama and Biden are on the same ballot. A vote for one is a vote for both. I am just expressing my disgust for Obama.
During the 2008 election, Obama promised us recovery and prosperity, hope and change. When Barack Obama was elected with strong majorities in both houses of Congress, he had an unprecedented opportunity to shape American history by bringing the country’s new financial oligarchy under control. Obama could have done great things. Instead, he gave us deterioration, poverty, despair and steadfastness.
The only thing worse for the U.S. Economy than President Barack Obama and a Democratic Congress is a Republican President and/or a Republican Congress. Congress is just incompetent regardless of party.
Usually, Republican conventions are tightly controlled.
This time, I think it’s going to an all-out brawl between the pragmatists and the nuts.
Romney will look like a hapless school teacher who “can’t control his class.”
That he did, and that is why a number of his 2008 supporters are backing away. It is the Fool Me Twice syndrome. His first term should have all been about jobs, had he gone that route, the way I believe HRC would have, the Democrats would still hold the House and his second term would be a lock.
Movingon,
I could not agree with you more. The problem as I see it is one of his judgments. Failure to listen to Paul Volcker, Joseph E. Stiglitz, Paul Krugman, Warren Buffett, Elizabeth Warren and Sheila Bair, instead he relied on a virtual constellation of former Bill Clinton’s Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin’s, Goldman Sacks based, and Wall Street loving players of Larry Summers, Tim Geithner, Peter Orszag, Gary Gensler, Michael Froman, Gene Sperling, etc.
Obama’s disaster of an economic team said if Congress passed a grossly inadequate Stimulus (American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009) unemployment wouldn’t top 8%. Obama promised to cut the deficit in half. Obama said if we passed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the health care cost curve would go down rather than up. All judgment failures!
mqw
me too I hope you ok --and still afloat
The goops are ridiculous — Aiken holds identical views to Ryan — he just uses junk science as opposed to the desire to suppress as his excuse
poor mittens — this is the main reason he should not be president — he never considers the unintended consequences of his action
where is the etch-asketch…Rob Portman and Potholes aplenty are probably looking pretty good right now
TODD do not back down! You tell that Rance (really Rance?) go back to Wisconsin and eat cheese.
Make the GOP proud of their platform --stand-up for what they say they believe in --no abortion ever under any circumstances what so ever — personhood for the egg
The Tea Party would be just another bunch of nuts if it weren’t for Koch Bros money — how much has Ryan received from the Koch Bros
That is some mighty fine grouper, Elder Crawford!
I feel sorry for you Craig, spending time with the pugs. Why is it all the republican males have that Larry Craig kind of a creepiness about them? They all remind of the underside of a plucked chicken.
PIT post is excellent.
purple-in-tampa says:
08/21/2012 at 10:58 AM
I disagree with the conclusion on The Affordable Health Care Act But I agree with the rest
purp, that’s what i was hinting at in response to jasfl’s comment to you.
all kidding aside, for some folk declaring a vote for biden gets them off the hook of saying they’ll vote for someone they don’t like yet doesn’t risk letting the other side whom they dislike more win.
Obama should have paid more attention to the housing debacle. When the housing bubble burst and the money handlers were gambling away our nests, that is when Obama should have acted. We are now sitting on eight hundred billion dollars in negative housing equity in this country. There was no bailout for the housing market, no moratorium on foreclosures and the problem just festered and turned into a snowball that took out a lot of innocent landscaping.
Once housing was a bust, the jobs went out of the window. And the more jobs lost, less health insurance and money. More began losing homes. And the banks never lost and were paid to service the mortgages. Another payday for the banks. And the lowly humans and their nests are worth 40% less today. Too big of a hole to climb out of. It will be at least a twenty years before any normalcy will return to the housing market. Not in time for many Americans.
move and purp, i disagree that
one of the first things that should have been done was an immediate moratorium on home mortgage foreclosures that hillary suggested during the 2008 primary. then maybe a few other presidential fiats re job stimulus like wpa, ccc, etc.
bw, great minds think (and drink) alike.
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-todd-akin-releases-tv-ad-asking-for-forgiveness-20120821,0,2415111.story
Great minds not only think alike, they are correct, too.
http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/08/20/one_somewhat_interesting
Seriously… I give kudos to Akin for not resigning the race. And not because I think it’ll mean McCaskill will win…. there’s no guarantee that this won’t blow up in the Democrats face and the Republicans will come out big time to vote for Aikens.
It’s because he won his primary by standing up to the GOP establishment and now he won’t let them run him off. I disagree with everything he stands for… but at least he isn’t folding like a cheap suit… you know, like Romney and/or Obama.
haven’t posted a Christen Science cartoon in a long time…. so here’s a good one…
The real reason the FBI was interested in the naked Galilee swim
Testing new feature today. Twitter users can login here with their Twitter accounts. Using mine now.
“@Slate: What do these weird “test” and “reset” buttons in wall sockets do?”
No wonder I stopped reading Slate years ago.
Last week I obtained an Obama ’12 bumper sticker… it took me several days to actually put it on my car window…a very painful experience…I keep thinking about removing it, but then the GOP does something revolting so it stays…
There is very little enthusiasm here for the election. I have only seen 2 Romney stickers and far fewer Obama than 2008…
Patd, i switched the url in your 1:18 comment above to linked text. that lengthy url was causing trouble. if you need help using the link button in comment box, instructions here. or you can shorten urls at http://tinyurl.com/
I understand the republican platform is being renamed to Fifty Shades of Rape.
It is the only time, the pugs become nuanced…rape.
Their favorite is government rape as in Rick Scott’s Medicare fraud escapade. Corporate gang rape is their favorite.
Congrats on the upgraded tweet feature, Craig.
thanks, boss
pat,
One week ago Akin had a 10 point lead -- 51-41. Now it’s 44-43. That’s a 7 point loss of support (10 net) and 5% more undecideds than a week ago. Not a good week for Akin. I’d guess that for McCaskill it’s one of those devil you know/devil you don’t know things. Akin had a $150k ad buy today -- McCaskill had a $500k buy. If money is the mother’s milk of politics and Crossroads pulls its ads (it has) that 1 point lead looks like it’s akin on the way down. RSCC will undoubtedly throw money into the race closer to the election if Akin can keep it close, but I like McCaskill’s odds now.
New on my blog: Use your Twitter account to comment (see login at end of this page): http://t.co/Dn3bSRLp
I don’t see how the Reps come back from any of this. They’re way behind among so many different demos, other than old white men, that I just don’t see where they make it up. Hysteria about women, minorities (both visible and religious), immigrants isn’t going to be ‘fixed’ in 3 months. It’s only going to get worse as people realize what’s REALLY is the GOP platform, and as they watch the whitest convention play out on their TVs. They’ve had to incorporate the RWNJs in order to even have a chance, but as long as those same RWNJs spew that kind of garbage, ‘traditional’ republicans, those who might even be socially democratic but fiscally republican, will simply not vote. I heard that Rush was all over the airwaves supporting Akin. What a buffoon. If the GOP want to look at WHY they lost post-election, they need look no further than letting the likes of Limbaugh and Trump hold sway while neither of them is actually running for office.
I don’t see how the Reps come back from any of this. They’re way behind among so many different demos, other than old white men, that I just don’t see where they make it up. Hysteria about women, minorities (both visible and religious), immigrants isn’t going to be ‘fixed’ in 3 months. It’s only going to get worse as people realize what’s REALLY is the GOP platform, and as they watch the whitest convention play out on their TVs. They’ve had to incorporate the RWNJs in order to even have a chance, but as long as those same RWNJs spew that kind of garbage, ‘traditional’ republicans, those who might even be socially democratic but fiscally republican, will simply not vote. I heard that Rush was all over the airwaves supporting Akin. What a buffoon. If the GOP want to look at WHY they lost post-election, they need look no further than letting the likes of Limbaugh and Trump hold sway while neither of them is actually running for office.
Hi, folks. I haven’t been here for awhile, but I’m glad to see you are all still carrying on. Regarding Akin, I’d be willing to bet that if he stays in the race and it stays close, the Republicans will find a way to funnel some money his way.
I’m logged in through Twitter. Do our more pertinent remarks get tweeted or do we cross post? Love Patd’s “50 Shades of Rape”. It definitely needs to be a tweet.
There’s a Biden event or two in MN today.
Ministpaulus and Rochester. I think.
Purple-in-Tampa,
You have my best wishes. St Paul hosted the bastards in ’08. Good luck, friend.
All you bastards out there,
You have my sincerest apology. I regret having likened you to the un-publican party.
Movingon,
Re your 9:24 -- when the Syrian rebels finally topple the ba’athist beast, the nation will turn on russia like a piranha on a cow.
The Country clubbers tried to beat Aikens in the primary and he won — so this is just another interparty skirmish
I wish someone would ask him who told him that womens bodies reject the sperm of rapists —
he didn’t have much money in the primary either so I don’t think he’s going to care about Rancid’s checkbook I’m sure the Koch Bros will be more than willing to step up
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZyTZuaiSck
I don’t think this is the late Jerry Orbach.
The type of rape you get depends on what you pay.
Craig
Another form of new media for you to watch (and you might want to contribute to this one)
http://election.tumblr.com/
Nash, re yours of 10:11 am -- You call them pragmatists, I call them neo-cons.
XR
Orbach was in the original 1960 cast. That recording is from the 2006 production.
Try to Remember -- Jerry Orbach
Keep an eye on the weather. Tropical storm developing on track to be Hurricane in Florida in time for the GOP convention.
Is it too much to hope that God might have an opinion?
Jamie
Are you saying god might be a wet blanket at gooper fest
http://craigcrawford.com/2012/08/20/mars-rocks/#comment-295363
Hi Bethy,
Of course you make valid points regarding a Romney/Ryan win and I agree it would be a disaster..I can’t stand Romney and i think even less of Ryan if that’s possible..Still, that doesn’t mean i will jump in with rah rah support for President Obama..I may yet vote for Joe Biden (thank you Purple)whom i like and respect..I am not a supporter of President Obama though. I think he has been a terrible president, not Bush terrible but terrible just the same..I have stated over the years why i feel this way so i won’t repeat it again..If Florida isn’t close i will vote for the Green Party…
Purple,
Excellent posts and i concur entirely..
GOP Votes Down Civil Unions In Platform
A social conservative hard line in Tampa.
Zeke Miller
Mine’s working. It went direct to Twitter. Now the question is does it work in reverse? If I Tweet does it show up here? If a Tweet chirps in the forest does everyone hear?
KGC
I’m hoping God is running the Whirl-A-Way fun ride.
In Rising Toll, Signs of a Changing Conflict
By JAMES DAO and ANDREW W. LEHRENhttp://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/22/us/war-in-afghanistan-claims-2000th-american-life.html?_r=1&emc=na
Testing registration with Google+ here, seems to work
The “In Memoriam” portion of the Oscars this year is going to take up the whole show.
William Windom
Can also register and comment using LinkedIN. testing here
Just so everything I say everywhere doesn’t show up everywhere else.
Okay, i’m done geeking for now. Set up registration for commenting for anyone with these social network accounts:
Twitter
Facebook
LinkedIN
Google+
OpenID
When logged out, you’ll see icons for those options in the comment box.
Jamie, I’ve thought about your notion of the reverse, allowing user posts on other sites to appear here. There are such tools but that’ll take another couple days of geeking, and I’m heading for the pool now.
jamie,and does this mean a 140 character limitation for trail to twitter remarks?
btw, thanks for the kudo but blonde wino is the “50 shades of rape” creator and deserves the applause.
Craig, I am following you on Twitter--but since over there I only post what I’m crocheting or blogging on any given day--and I don’t blog politics--I wouldn’t follow me.
Having said which, if stupidity were criminal, I’d love to be on a jury trying Akin--I’d hold out for life plus ninety-nine--
In cultural news, our local Walle Monde is trying to look uptown: they have a shelf full of Fifty Shades of Gray and one of its sequels in paperback, $12.99 each.
So far they’re selling about like Glenn Beck & Bill O’Reilly--that is to say, not at all. Unless, of course, people are buying FSoG and stashing it in the bottom of their shopping bags, or laying a Bible on top of it. That might be it. (^_^)
question: if the rape expert withdraws by close of business today, could he get back on the ballot for his old congressional post (that is if whoever’s running now will step down)? or is he in the running for both senate and rep seats simultaneously the same as ryan on ballot for vp and cong?
I just saw Romney walking across an airport and he either has a stick up his butt or hemorrhoids jeeze what a stiff
So Wolf Blitzer just said Ryan has changed his position on abortion…Mittens is dragging him to the center…
I wonder what the Catholic Church thinks of Paul’s switch and if he will be going to confession to talk about it
Tea Partiers don’t let go of your one true voice TODD
First News of the gooper platform — they are marching backwards into the dark ages at a great rate of speed
Indentured servants and serfs will be discussed later in the week.
I think it’s great that condiliar can play golf with the guys and as so much of the media pointed being in the halls of powerI hope she tells them are killing the GOP by patronizing women and acting like the only people whose opinions count are wealthy white men
It’s not just the right wing that has “issues” with rape.
Two women in Sweden who have accused Julian Assange (wikileaks guru) of sexual assault. Assange is currently hiding in the Ecuadoran an embassy in London, trying to avoid extradition.
There are quite a few people on the left who think Assange is being “set up.” This has sparked a fierce debate among supporters of wikileaks, and feminsts who think he’s just another egotistical male who thinks, because he’s famous, women can’t say “no” to him.
In both cases, Assange is alleged to have not used a condom when he told the women that he would, and this is considered (misdemeanor) sexual assault in Sweden.
What makes this situation relevant to the present discussion regarding Aiken, is that some left-wing supporters of Assange have made derogatory comments about the women, that they are lying, or that they just want money. (Sound familiar?) Some have even suggested that what Assange was alleged to have done was not really sexual assault, but just “bad manners.”
Two supporters or Assange, Michael Moore and Keith Olbermann, got themselves it hot water with feminists because of some of their comments.
You can read more about this here…http://popwatch.ew.com/2010/12/17/keith-olbermann-michael-moore-twitter-rape/
KGC… you are on fire, girl… I hoist a glass of old vine Zin to you…
I too greatly respect Joe Biden. I hope Obama has enough sense not give in to those that say he should replace Biden on the ticket.
CJoe… good to see you again!
Faire…Hie thee to the nearest Costco! FSoG (and it’s two sequels) are only $9.89 each there. That said, unless you’re interested in a book that is rather poorly written and consists of little more than sex upon sex upon kinky sex with a bit of a story threaded through, save your money. I’m shocked at what passes for good writing these days…without the kinky sex, I can’t see these books generating much interest at all.
And…I’m sorry…but all the misspellings of AKIN are driving me nuts! His name is Todd AKIN…and he’s a stupid ignoramus!
Jamie,
Hurricane Spaghetti Model Tropical Depression NINE
Good chance of hitting Tampa.
Hey Harbor
Thanks — I don’t think I’d seen it in print
Apparently you have a lot of work to do
http://www.wnyc.org/…/opinion-post-akin-romney-ryan-likely-sees-gender...
4 hours ago – Missouri Republican Congressman Todd Aiken’s remark about rape is, I believe, another nail in the GOP deficit of women’s support coffin.
Todd Aiken’s ‘legitimate rape’ and the Romney-Ryan war on women …
http://www.irishcentral.com › … › Manhattan Diary
RR
Thanks ..
I think we’ve all been having a good time at the Republican’s expense…wooohoooo couldn’t happen to a nicer party
LOL…guess I’ll just have to stop looking…can’t possibly keep up with the work of correcting AKIN’s name everywhere it’s being (mis)printed!
harborw… thanks for “Akin”…
I went back and corrected both my posts just for you…
yeah… I can’t believe what passes for good writing these days either. There’s a whole genre of “chick lit. lite” being written just for book clubs. I’ve decided to skip my club whenever it does one of these books from here on…
Over in the Resolutions Committee there is heated discussion on the proposed American Caste System. The argument is whether or not to allow presidents and Supreme Court justices to join the elite.
If it does (hurricane), it will be the first in three quarters of a century. Tampa Bay area much too crowded to handle any kind of hurricane now.
Jamie,
I didn’t think it sounded like Orbach. I saw the Fantasticks a couple of times in the ’60s. It was very edgy in those days !
SE Kupp tried to get Ryan off the hook with a spiel about “forcible” rape being a legitimate criminal offense as opposed to say “statutory” rape for the purposes of Federal funding of an abortion.
So if you are a stupid 16 YO who imagines some 30 YO male is really, really in love with her, the government won’t pay for an abortion but if he forces you, they will.
There has got to be a smidgen of hypocrisy blowing through that legislation.
Maybe we will see a big floor fight between the establishment fiscal conservatives and the far right social conservative, evangelical fundamentalists that took over the Republican Party.
I remember a Republican anti-abortion platform back in 1984 with Ronald Reagan.
GOP party platform sticks with anti-abortion stance, does not address rape exception
By Rosalind S. Helderman, Updated: Tuesday, August 21, 12:11 PM
REPUBLICAN PLATFORM 2000
harbor, thanks for reminding us, but if we spell it right he gets hit credits. never like to spell half-gov or the dick who shall not be named for fear they will be credited with import.
rip ups don’t oppose abortions caused by coal mercury pollution, landmines, or AR-15s. These abortions are protected by the 1st and 2d Amendments. ( :>b))<
“Pollution, it’s how we express ourselves”
- America’s Coal Industry
You get clean coal, West Virginia gets birth defects and abortions.
“We earn our own way … one random 2d Degree Murder at a time” -- Your Landmine Industry
It’s how we express ourselves.
Clean Coal lol
harb, is it ok if we refer to him as aching or maybe acky breaky heart ala billy ray?
“One small squeeze for an M-16, a mass grave for women and foetuses.”
- Your NRA
It’s how we express ourselves.
Oh, but we’re pro-life. We really are.
Sincerely.
Off he went to Washington,
Now he’s your Akin back.
I mean we’re reeeeaaallly pro-life. Really.
Of course, if there’s money to be made ….
Oh, but we’re really pro-life.
Yup.
Stupid CNN and probably the others too — the goops are in a death spiral and they are looking to balance the story with some made up crap about Democrats. I’m sure no Democrat would mind if all the news coverage was about the Republicans.
And this ridiculous attempt to make every voting bloc the most important one — give -it up the Republicans are going down. They hate people who work for a living and have a special contempt for women and minorities and it’s so bad even they can no longer hide it — the Republicans are finally going to have to run on the truth about their platform greed and oppression
Ms Cracker,
And if that weren’t bad enough, they pee in the Sea of Galilee.
I hope Jesus doesn’t step in it.
The coals are hot. I have to go put the Moa on the spit.
XR, Not to worry, I’m sure all responsible deities and their offspring recycle.
He just won’t look the same in bib waders.
Salon on God hugging Tampa real close
New Obama ad on contraception and Planned Parenthood
xr, it’s so hard figuring out here which birth defects are a result of the coal industry and which are a result of incest -- they are sooo hard to tell apart. And this is a Catholic state -- they don’t like abortions here -- well except those mentioned by you at 5:09.
“What we’re seeing right now is a tremendous outpouring of support from just regular small people,” he said. “They’re not the big party people.”
“regular small people…” That Todd Akin really has a way with words, doesn’t he?
“I was able to go in, properly attired … and swim very briefly in the Sea of Galilee and actually was able to take a little vial of water home to baptize my daughter with water from the Sea of Galilee,” [Ben] Quayle [Son of potatoe Dan] said on Fox.
I hope he took that vial of water from upstream of the swimmers.
Hey, Pogo, how much new water has been made in the past couple of hundred million years? Include urine in your answer.
So what’s all this business about Troy Aikman saying something stupid? He should just stick to football, jeez.
Mr. C, can you recommend a good personal retinal-scan authenticator to buy for logging in here? Or should I call you “Mr. O’Brien”?? Hmm???
“Johnson, you’re fired!”
“Why? What did I do?”
“You said something stupid on Trail Mix.”
“How do you know, Boss?”
“You logged on with your LinkedIn account, dummy, and I’m not your boss anymore, now scram!”
Fin
Joe Klein, someone who usually annoys me, said on Hardball today; the Republicans have become the party that celebrates ignorance. I like that statement…
Anderson Cooper traces the source of the idea that women who are raped can’t get pregnant
junk science from an anti-abortionist clown Dr (sic) John Wilkes and points out all the other clowns (republicans) who have said exactly the same thing
Huh…decided to be lazy in log on through facebook instead of JASLF…I forgot that facebook has misspelled my name since I signed up when I first opened my account during the “edu” days. I could sign off…but i’m too fucking lazy.
Nash 2.5 -- The Young Turks has been covering Assange for a while and supporting him. Here’s the latest.
Jamie -- I was going to comment on S.E. Cupp but, then I got a headache and realized…why should I waste my time on that moron?
“Et Tu, Krispy Kreme?!?!”
I am starting a boycott that is going to last…until the company equally helps both candidates…
…Or…
Until Tomorrow Morning when I need a quick breakfast with my Ice Mocha from Coffee Bean / Tea Leaf.
Swimming in the Sea of Galilee?
Ha, I thought those bastards walked on water!
Mr. Akin is now something akin to road kill.
New form of republican birth control. Just pretend you are being raped, and you won’t get pregnant.
Available at snake oil stores everywhere.
Lol flatus. I make water several times a day but that’s not what my kid was baptized with.
“New form of republican birth control. Just pretend you are being raped, and you won’t get pregnant.
Available at snake oil stores everywhere.”
-Jace @ 8:26pm
Worth repeating. Jace, you are hilarious.
Pogo, there are some things that aren’t worth over thinking. One is the fungibility of the components of our water supply.
It used to be prayer. Sincere prayer was sometimes touted as a contraceptive when I was a lad. Italian witches recommended the application of Stercum Elephanti, but I think that would be more effective to prevent penetration, than to head off pregnancy.
That’s Latin for elephant poop.
I love it when you talk dirty!
Romney and the other country clubbers have denounced the statement as stupid. …I wonder how all the other Republicans who have made this statement feel now
I hope Anderson Cooper goes around and asks
Rancid Peeonthebus wants us to think Akin is the only stupid Republican but there are a lot of others…
Harborwoman, thanks for the Costco heads-up but the nearest one to Knobite Corner is somewhere near the airport in Alcoa, I think, where jets come in for landings about ten feet above the road--a route I’d rather avoid--In any case, I’m not into S&M, be it well or badly written.
After all this Achin’ crap, I’m thinking that a course of total news deprivation would be good for my soul--too much GOoPer madness out there--
I’m for akin. I hope he stays in there and doesn’t get a single vote from the women of MO, or any of the Indies of both genders.
If akin gets walloped 84 -- 16 it’ll be serious blow against the Batshitcrazy Wing of the repugnican party.
I am joining jaslf’s boycott. However, as a diabetic, I wouldn’t buy a kreepsy krumbe any way.
XR,
You must be referring to bygone days when young men,
having gone out and sown their wild oats, went home and prayed fervently for a crop failure.
Jace,
I remember a poor high school girl that one of my school mates knocked up. She fervently prayed for, shall we say, surcease. She also got a circle of her ffs to pray with her.
Along the way she ripened. Then, she produced a baby, and all the praying stopped. This was not the answer she’d contemplated in her prayers.
This was around ’64, and the young woman was deeply distressed. I felt badly for her, and was p.o.ed at the guy who used and abandoned her. However, he and his parents did support the child.
Great day for music. In 1995 I went for a weekend trip to nyc to see the big it Showboat and stupidly bought only one copy of the dvd from that. We are wearing it out. I also love the Fantastiks and want to use the lyrics re the rape ballet, but no one else knows them.
Also. I loved Willaim Windom. I also LOVE Joe Biden, but I gotta say anyone who screws up a ballot by votiong of veep but not pres will have NO sympathy from me if mitty wins.
Sorry, Tony, I know waht you mean and agree with it, but taking a chance of destroying the united states of america -- just for the sake of scratching an itch -- is ridiculous and beyond dangerous.
I do love you. tho, Tony, so don’t feel insulted.
So many other things I read today are music to my ears but I’m in a hurry and can’t recall them.
jaslf, I wrote an answer to you query re my condemnation of the dnc etc al, but I didn’t post it in time and lost it.
Basically, I think those folks cheated and pulled all sorts of stunts to get O nominated regardless of the desire of liberals for hrc. Their motives were personal graitfication and emotion. Now we have O looking as if he might have a failure in his history, and we have lost the chance for hrc to be pres. An eaxperienced and more mature O would have been brilliant. I could go into details but it’s irrelevant and boring. You have a point re Dean cuz he wasn’t such a big pusher.
You’re more gracious than I, Bethy. The Democratic leadership of my own state, SC, was hand-in-glove with the DNC in shoving Ms Clinton off the stage. They did the liberal movement in this state tremendous damage.
bethyboo -- Well, to be honest. I don’t think Hillary would have acted any differently. Both Obama and Hillary essentially believed in the same thing. If you listened closely enough you heard it, the media on the other hand got out of control and claimed there was a massive differences. Such created differences got ratings up and tempers flaring over nothing.
XR,
The experience you describe was and remains all too common.
Sadly there is a segment of the population that is pro birth, not necessarily pro life. They are represented by frauds like Akin, Ryan and Romney.
The poor girl you refer to never had a chance to lead a real life, because people just like the contemporary republicans were bound and determined to make her pay for her momentary lapse in judgement, and pass it off as a lesson well learned.
Fuck them then and fuck them now.
Rightly or wrongly an HRC presidency would probably not have pursued a health care initiative in her first term. As far as health care was concerned she was damaged goods.
It is hard to imagine that HRC would have been more aggressive in hunting down the banksters or passing financial regulation than has Obama.
I thought that she got a raw deal from both the Democratic party and the press, and she was definitely my candidate of choice, but I rather doubt that her priorities would have been entirely to my liking had she been elected.
I think that she knew where she could go and where she could not and would have acted accordingly.
Much to the displeasure of many liberals and progressives.
“The poor girl you refer to never had a chance to lead a real life…” -jace
Who the hell are you to judge what constitutes a “real life”?
Hey, I’m all for a woman’s right to choose, but if every unplanned pregnancy was aborted, most of us wouldn’t be here. I realize that prospect is appealing to some, but tough &^$#, you gotta share.
Not judging anything my friend. Just observing as most of us are able to do. The colleges that were not attended, the degrees that were not earned,the opportunities that were bypassed, the jobs not attained, the dreamed never realized and the choices that were never made.
Poor choice of words? Perhaps. Malice or judgement, not on your life.
In future pay closer attention to what I write and less attention to what you think I write.
patd…Yep! Call him whatever you like…even misspell his name, if you want. But I don’t really mind if he gets hits. Those who agree with him will still agree with him, but I’d bet most will just add him to the list of moronic Republicans who’re more than a shade shy of good sense in the science department. Lordy…that party has lost it!
Yay, I was hoping you’d (jace) reply in a timely fashion.
Um, maybe YOU should pay closer attention to what you write, because xrep didn’t give nearly enough information for you to justifiably jump to conclusions such as the ones above, and made no mention of her educational and professional achievements, or lack of them. Probably because he doesn’t know, but he didn’t say if he does.
What do we know? A woman (girl) got pregnant, which as you so lucidly pointed out is “all too common” (also known as “human reproduction”). On top of that, it’s a frickin’ anecdote, and not even your anecdote, upon which you seized to castigate and marginalize whole swaths of people, rightly or wrongly. The supposed woman in question might just value her child more than she would some bull*&^% generic degree that you would prefer her to have. So yeah, that’s kind of judgmental. Also, you ended your post maliciously.
NOW I can go to bed. Thanks. (No more replying, you.)
patd,
You are correct. Before a full economic recovery can occur the home mortgage foreclosure fiasco must be resolved. This was already thought of and is part of TARP complete with $50 billion in TARP funds.
This is yet another example of the failure of President Obama’s judgment and leadership. Tax cheat Tim Geithner as Treasury Secretary is responsible for the program and is doing his best to protect the big banks. What has Obama done to help the program? Nothing!
Even Obama’s friend U.S. Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-ND) warned the president-elect: “You’ve picked the wrong people. I don’t understand how you could do this! You’ve picked the wrong people!” But as the team broke down after a series of bad decisions, Obama failed to nip the problem in the bud.
If Obama had done his job and gotten rid of these clowns then Obama could have been concentrating on the JOBs issue during the first two years instead of his Healthcare plan.
TARP Watchdog Says Foreclosure Plan Is Failing
By Chris Arnold, February 18, 2011
I thought that the inability of doing a cramdown (reclassification of indebtedness exceeding the fair market value of the collateral from secured to unsecured status) was as a result of the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005 but I was wrong.
The 1976 election produced a Democratic President, a House of Representatives with 292 Democrats and 143 Republicans and a Senate with 61 Democrats, 38 Republicans and 1 Independent.
This good Democratic electorate produced The Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978 that provided great help to groups such as the Mortgage Bankers Association. When Congress reformed the bankruptcy laws in 1978, it eliminated the availability of cramdown for mortgages encumbering a debtor’s primary home.
Mortgages and Moral Hazards
By Mike Appleton, August 13, 2012
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/politics/july-dec12/edwards_08-21.html?print
good discussion last night on book “The Parties Versus the People: How to Turn Republicans and Democrats Into Americans”
Champ….
that woman got pregnant out of wedlock in 1964… that’s a whole different ball of wax from someone who found themselves in the same situation in 2004. Women having babies without marriage back then were considered pariah.
She’d have lost respect from friends and most of the community. She’d be considered a “bad element”. She may have loved her baby… but she’d have found life much more difficult than someone in the same situation now. And the kid would have been considered a bastard.
But the boy who got her pregnant… other than the loss of some coin… would feel no other consequences.
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If Claire doesn’t pull through in MO, you blame John McCain. The ex-half-governor is going to prove to be more effective than the GOoPer elite.
I said she was a bunny-boiler when she showed up 4 years ago & I was correct; she will not be ignored.
Not being invited to this year’s prom isn’t going to stop her from being heard.
A convention & a hurricane; look out Florida.
Ha Bethy,
Love you too..Oh and no way am i insulted.
Ha, If VP Joe Biden gets my vote of course Obama being on the ticket with Joe means he gets a check mark from me as well..I just won’t be vocal and proud about playing the lesser of two evils game once again..President Obama doesn’t deserve re-election, ah but Romney definitely doesn’t deserve to be elected, been there done that..
Let’s hope Isaac weakens before it gets to Florida, because the GOoPers already need disaster relief. Seriously though, just read that Romney thinks FEMA should be privitized. Thoughts?
On MoJo, apparently the anti-choice doc from whom Aikin got his bad intel was attached to the Romney campaign in ’08.
I think Akin should call for Romney to get out of the race because Romney claims he knows better yet ..apparently he is a liar and part of the problem giving this fake dr credibility
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