And that is why you always need to confirm your teleport destination.

Wait, what?

And what sort of places do these bottom-of-the-food-chain doctors work in? Places that are really a pit. You find that along with the culture of death go all kinds of other law-breaking: not following good sanitary procedure, giving abortions to women who are not actually pregnant, cheating on taxes, all these kinds of things, misuse of anesthetics so that people die or almost die...

-Todd Akin

re: #2 goddamnedfrank

Wait, what?

I saw that earlier. Really makes you wonder about what kind of morons are being elected to Congress or in Akin's case being nominated for the Senate.

re: #1 Kragar

And that is why you always need to confirm your teleport destination.

"He means he went to one galaxy, his ass went to another"

re: #2 goddamnedfrank

Wait, what?

Makes you wonder if the one misusing the anesthetic is Akin.

I just do not get how Republicans/conservatives can look at someone like this psycho and be cool with him representing their party.

And it's not like he's some outlier, either.

re: #1 Kragar

And that is why you always need to confirm your teleport destination.

Always hire a professional:

re: #5 Mattand

Makes you wonder if the one misusing the anesthetic is Akin.

I just do not get how Republicans/conservatives can look at someone like this psycho and be cool with him representing their party.

And it's not like he's some outlier, either.

What's sad is the relatively sane ones like Huntsman are the outliers.

re: #7 HappyWarrior

What's sad is the relatively sane ones like Huntsman are the outliers.

What's really sad is that even the outliers like Huntsman have to pander to the economic illiteracy and shitty ideas of the nutbars to get anywhere in the GOP.

How did the teleporter know where in the galaxy universe to send him seeing as the picture of the black hole he was looking at was just an artist's rendition of what a black hole might look like?

re: #8 Lidane

What's really sad is that even the outliers like Huntsman have to pander to the economic illiteracy and shitty ideas of the nutbars to get anywhere in the GOP.

Yep. Fucking nuts.

Note tonight's AP story on today's managed outrage:

Conservatives seize on 2007 Obama video

[...]

There's no way you can listen to this speech and not hear it as a deliberately divisive speech that pits Americans against each other and does so largely with racial innuendoes that are very, very clear when you hear the speech," former Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich said on Fox News, which aired segments of the videotaped speech.

At issue Tuesday, one day before the first presidential debate and as Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney trails in polls, was a speech then-candidate Obama made to black clergy at Hampton University, a historically black institution in Virginia. Media outlets including The Associated Press and Fox News covered the remarks at the time.

[...]

Fox News host Sean Hannity said [...]

Conservative pundit Tucker Carlson of The Daily Caller, [...]

I highlighted the only part of the wire story that made it clear that this is a rerun, an attempt to make something out of what didn't work years ago.

re: #11 freetoken

Note tonight's AP story on today's managed outrage:

Conservatives seize on 2007 Obama video

I highlighted the only part of the wire story that made it clear that this is a rerun, an attempt to make something out of what didn't work years ago.

I guess we should be happy, the wingnuts have taken up recycling.

re: #11 freetoken

Note tonight's AP story on today's managed outrage:

Conservatives seize on 2007 Obama video

I highlighted the only part of the wire story that made it clear that this is a rerun, an attempt to make something out of what didn't work years ago.

I love how Fox's Hannity is saying no one covered this story and the rest of the media hid it while his own freaking network reported on this five years ago. I found it very easy to find on Youtube. All it took was Obama Hampton 2007 and a video from 2007 was the third result. Really if they think there's a conspiracy to cover up this speech? Then I have to say that the right wingers at Daily CAller, Fox, etc are even more stupid than I thought.

Fox news latest shocking new never before seen video shows Obama debating John McCain.

re: #13 HappyWarrior

I love how Fox's Hannity is saying no one covered this story and the rest of the media hid it. I found it very easy to find on Youtube. All it took was Obama Hampton 2007 and a video from 2007 was the third result. Really if they think there's a conspiracy to cover up this speech? Then I have to say that the right wingers at Daily CAller, Fox, etc are even more stupid than I thought.

Remember that the political memory of most of the electorate is measured in months, a couple years at the most. To them, '06 was the ancient past.

Maybe a glimmer of hope that open birtherism is starting to be a little unproductive for the conservative candidate:

Republican Ted Cruz and Democrat Paul Sadler, candidates for U.S. Senate, took turns treating each other like hostile witnesses during a tense hour at WFAA-TV studios in Dallas on Tuesday night.

More often, it was Sadler furiously trying to pin down Cruz on a single yes-or-no question such as whether Cruz believed Obama was a Christian or was born in the Untied States. Sadler would repeatedly cut Cruz off mid-sentence if Cruz didn't begin his response with "yes" or "no." Each time, Cruz survived the interrogation without giving Sadler the information that he wanted. (When pressed by reporters afterward, Cruz refused to say his views on Obama’s religion or place of birth and said he was focused on "the issues.")
[Link: www.texastribune.org...]

It's amazing to me, that one skinny, brown man has caused a whole population to collectively lose their shit.
Even the lemmings are confused.

Tomorrow night's gonna be interesting. Already heard one pundit opine that no matter how badly Romney does, most pundits are gonna dub him the "winner." I think that's pretty much a given.

re: #18 Targetpractice

Tomorrow night's gonna be interesting. Already heard one pundit opine that no matter how badly Romney does, most pundits are gonna dub him the "winner." I think that's pretty much a given.

Yay for lowered expectations. "Romney didn't call Obama the n-word so he clearly won the debate."

re: #17 Reverend Mother Ramallo

It's amazing to me, that one skinny, brown man has caused a whole population to collectively lose their shit.
Even the lemmings are confused.

"... that one [intelligent, well educated,] skinny, brown man ..."

Does that explain it?

re: #19 HappyWarrior

Yay for lowered expectations. "Romney didn't call Obama the n-word so he clearly won the debate."

The expectations were already lower than the Titanic. Remember, these are the same people who said that Palin "exceeded expectations" in '08 by not falling asleep at the podium.

re: #21 Targetpractice

The expectations were already lower than the Titanic. Remember, these are the same people who said that Palin "exceeded expectations" in '08 by not falling asleep at the podium.

Yeah, I was thinking about that.

RCP silently drops another inconvenient poll midday while keeping others from the same start date. This time it's the FOX poll from 9/24 that had Obama up +5, and again the dropped poll hasn't been superseded by a new one.

I've seen them do this at least half a dozen times or so now, drop inconvenient polls in seeming violation of whatever model they're using at that time, flexibly expanding and contracting the date range to create the smallest spread possible.

re: #9 Mich-again

How did the teleporter know where in the galaxy universe to send him seeing as the picture of the black hole he was looking at was just an artist's rendition of what a black hole might look like?

It just found the one closest to 12 million LY away and took him to it.

Simple.

re: #20 reflections of a raging redneck

"... that one [intelligent, well educated,] skinny, brown man ..."

Does that explain it?

Yep, but I still don't get it.

Turns out my book arrived today, on its release day, didn't have to wait till this weekend.

This Book Is Full of Spiders: Seriously, Dude, Don't Touch It

.@joanwalsh says '@seanhannity and @tuckercarlson Are Having An Ethnic Nervous Breakdown' ow.ly/eaV0q

— Noel Sheppard (@NoelSheppard) October 3, 2012

re: #27 Lidane

And then there's this:

Do not wield charges of hypocrisy without proper training RT @jim_newell: This tweet deserves an encore. Bravo! is.gd/KTytnY

— Jess Zimmerman (@j_zimms) October 3, 2012

I still remember back in '08, when Obama pointed out that his opponent and his critics would make his race an issue, the wingnuts got into a tizzy because "OMG, he's playing the race card!!" And for much of his presidency, they snickered that he wasn't a "true black president" and asking black folks "where's your messiah now!?"

Now? They're shocked and outraged that he was on camera, 6 years ago, talking about the black community and black people.

re: #18 Targetpractice

Tomorrow night's gonna be interesting. Already heard one pundit opine that no matter how badly Romney does, most pundits are gonna dub him the "winner." I think that's pretty much a given.

The important thing, which they pointed out on MSNBC this morning, is that most viewers get their impressions in real time, and whatever the pundits say afterward is meaningless, except to those who didn't watch the debate to begin with...so they're low-information voters anyway.

re: #30 darthstar

The important thing, which they pointed out on MSNBC this morning, is that most viewers get their impressions in real time, and whatever the pundits say afterward is meaningless, except to those who didn't watch the debate to begin with...so they're low-information voters anyway.

Yeah. Another pundit was laying out that Romney has to make his move in the first 30 minutes, has to win the debate then, cause otherwise he's not gonna make it happen.

re: #31 Targetpractice

Yeah. Another pundit was laying out that Romney has to make his move in the first 30 minutes, has to win the debate then, cause otherwise he's not gonna make it happen.

Yep...After 30 minutes you lose a good chunk of your viewers to Wheel of Fortune...or reruns of The Family Guy on the WB.

Alan Jackson - Chattahoochee (Lyrics): youtu.be/ZWDGYa5gvuk via @youtube #Obama #ObamaBiden2012 #NASCAR #NASA #SpaceCoast #Florida #KEDW

— Gus (@Gus_802) October 3, 2012

The only people who think this video would hurt Obama's campaign are the same one who think being black hurts his campaign.

Grease.

re: #32 darthstar

Yep...After 30 minutes you lose a good chunk of your viewers to Wheel of Fortune...or reruns of The Family Guy on the WB.

I'd rather watch Family Guy re-runs than hear Mitt talk.

re: #29 Targetpractice

The whole thing is hilarious in its tone deafness.

"ZOMG! A black Senator got up in front of a bunch of black clergy at a historically black university and spoke about issues important to black people! Also, did we mention he's black? RACE CARD! Eleventy!"

Totally pathetic. These guys are rank amateurs, and they just proved that racism is all they've got to run on.

re: #29 Targetpractice

I still remember back in '08, when Obama pointed out that his opponent and his critics would make his race an issue, the wingnuts got into a tizzy because "OMG, he's playing the race card!!" And for much of his presidency, they snickered that he wasn't a "true black president" and asking black folks "where's your messiah now!?"

Now? They're shocked and outraged that he was on camera, 6 years ago, talking about the black community and black people.

The important thing is that we never lose track of the fact that white people with wingnut sympathies are the sole arbiters of racial identity, authenticity, and how black your accent (blackcent?) is.

re: #36 HappyWarrior

I'd rather watch Family Guy re-runs than hear Mitt talk.

Welcome to the 86%

re: #37 Lidane

The whole thing is hilarious in its tone deafness.

Totally pathetic. These guys are rank amateurs, and they just proved that racism is all they've got to run on.

That's been obvious for awhile. Today's little escapade was a very lame attempt at getting attention to something that the wingnuts hoped would serve as a distraction from tonight's debate. So much for that.

re: #39 darthstar

Welcome to the 86%

Ha, I've been watching Family Guy since before it was popular.

I hereby dub this evening the slow-motion Backwards B

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) October 3, 2012

re: #34 Kragar

The only people who think this video would hurt Obama's campaign are the same one who think being black hurts his campaign.

And those people were already going to vote for Romney. Every day Fox News redefines preaching to the choir.

re: #43 Mich-again

And those people were already going to vote for Romney. Every day Fox News redefines preaching to the choir.

Seriously. Hannity was saying oh this is going to change the outcome of the election. All it means is some dumb wingnuts will hate Obama even more now.

#FooFighters - Best Of You: youtu.be/h_L4Rixya64 via @youtube

— Gus (@Gus_802) October 3, 2012

Can someone tell me how many hours till the debate?
Timezones suck, it was better when the earth was flat.

re: #45 Gus

Thanks for that Gus.. still reeling a bit over the news they are on an official hiatus. I don't think people realize how great the FF have been for 18 years now? Right up there with the greatest rock bands ever.

re: #46 ozbloke

Can someone tell me how many hours till the debate?

Yes.

I'm live-Tweeting the debate tomorrow. I also recommend @warrenellis, @dougbenson, @mikedrucker & @frankconniff... #21hours

— Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) October 3, 2012

re: #41 HappyWarrior

Ha, I've been watching Family Guy since before it was popular.

I watched it before it was popular and I watched it after it was popular. I'm still wondering why...

re: #47 Mich-again

Thanks for that Gus.. still reeling a bit over the news they are on an official hiatus. I don't think people realize how great the FF have been for 18 years now? Right up there with the greatest rock bands ever.

Foo Fighters - Monkey Wrench: youtu.be/I7rCNiiNPxA via @youtube

— Gus (@Gus_802) October 3, 2012

re: #44 HappyWarrior

Seriously. Hannity was saying oh this is going to change the outcome of the election. All it means is some dumb wingnuts will hate Obama even more now.

Net bump for Rmoney from Hann11ty report.. Zee-Ro

I'm not sure that there's any way that #RomneyRyan2012 can win in a country so nuts for Gangnam Style.

— bob calhoun (@bob_calhoun) October 3, 2012

re: #48 Kragar

Yes.

Why thank you sir.

re: #54 ozbloke

Why thank you sir.

Glad I could help.

Conservative media release old video of Obama in failed 'explosive' exclusive trib.al/fwuHJn

— GuardianUS (@GuardianUS) October 3, 2012

re: #51 Gus

These Days..

re: #55 Kragar

Glad I could help.

Your worth your weight in gold
fish...

re: #57 Mich-again

These Days..

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Grohl rules.

From the concert I attended last year;

re: #40 Targetpractice

That's been obvious for awhile. Today's little escapade was a very lame attempt at getting attention to something that the wingnuts hoped would serve as a distraction from tonight's debate. So much for that.

They've been looking desperately for the Obama equivalent to Romney's '47%' video. They were hoping with all their hearts that this video was it - and it appears that Han11ty (I love that!), Drudge and Carlson actually talked each other into believing it.

Idiots.

Night Lizards. And as always.

May The Deity Of Your Choice Smile Down Upon You and Yours.

Foo Fighters - The Pretender: youtu.be/SBjQ9tuuTJQ via @youtube

— Gus (@Gus_802) October 3, 2012

OWS

Pepper spray.

KT

Rapey stabby?

re: #61 makeitstop

They've been looking desperately for the Obama equivalent to Romney's '47%' video. They were hoping with all their hearts that this video was it - and it appears that Han11ty (I love that!), Drudge and Carlson actually talked each other into believing it.

Idiots.

That's what I was thinking. They've been trying so desperately to find something, anything, that was as devastating to Obama as the 47% video was to Romney. Yet they keep missing the point of why the video was so devastating to Romney in the first place.

re: #67 HappyWarrior

Rapey stabby?

Sometimes.

re: #59 Gus

No kidding.. huge fan ever since the days of Nirvana. I even took the family on a bit of a side trip when we were driving through Ohio to see Dave Grohl Alley in Warren Ohio this past Summer. Unofficial shrine to the greatest rocker of our time.

re: #66 Gus

[Link: en.wikipedia.org...]

re: #63 Gus

That one still gets me fired up.. I must have watched this 100 times.. 101 now.

re: #71 jaunte

[Link: en.wikipedia.org...]

Classic. That's pretty standard. ;)

The good part is that I haven't been outraged all day. I spent most of the day laughing.

re: #68 Targetpractice

Reposting from earlierL

"You see here, we have a video where Obama mentions Reverend Wright."
"Yeah, so whats the big deal?"
"We have a video where Obama mentions Reverend Wright"
"And?"
"See, we have a video."
"Yeah, got that."
"And Obama mentions Reverend Wright in it."
"Okay, so what is the bombshell?"
"We have a video where Obama mentions Reverend Wright."

re: #63 Gus

Charles made a thread out of that video back around the time of the Robert Spencer flounce party here..

re: #74 Gus

Looking around Twitter: Jason B. Whitman, Chuck Woolery, Brooks Bayne, D. Loesch, Adam Baldwin... they all seem a little tense.

Ha, some right wing idiot I know is posting this infographic with corporations that Bain invested in and using it as proof that Romney's somehow competent on the economy. Yeah, it took a real genius to invest in Dunkin Donuts when they were already a multimillion dollar corp.

re: #74 Gus

The good part is that I haven't been outraged all day. I spent most of the day laughing.

That's the best part. I haven't seen any actual outrage anywhere. Most people are just pointing and laughing that the big reveal was a video of a speech that's been on YouTube since 2007 and which was widely covered in the press at the time.

What a bunch of losers.

re: #77 jaunte

Looking around Twitter: Jason B. Whitman, Chuck Woolery, Brooks Bayne, D. Loesch, Adam Baldwin... they all seem a little tense.

Oh that made me laugh to a snort.

re: #77 jaunte

Looking around Twitter: Jason B. Whitman, Chuck Woolery, Brooks Bayne, D. Loesch, Adam Baldwin... they all seem a little tense.

Adam Baldwin was Animal Mother in Full Metal Jacket, right? I always get him mixed up with the one Baldwin brother who became a born again.

Poor fellas.

re: #81 HappyWarrior

Adam Baldwin was Animal Mother in Full Metal Jacket, right? I always get him mixed up with the one Baldwin brother who became a born again.

Adam is the non-Baldwin Baldwin.

re: #79 Lidane

That's the best part. I haven't seen any actual outrage anywhere. Most people are just pointing and laughing that the big reveal was a video of a speech that's been on YouTube since 2007 and which was widely covered in the press at the time.

What a bunch of losers.

They're also claiming the media "hid" the video. It was so easy to find on youtube. Really these jokers should be embarrassed. I'm so amused by them at this point.

re: #81 HappyWarrior

Stephen; I always remember Adam as "The Bodyguard."

re: #78 HappyWarrior

Ha, some right wing idiot I know is posting this infographic with corporations that Bain invested in and using it as proof that Romney's somehow competent on the economy. Yeah, it took a real genius to invest in Dunkin Donuts when they were already a multimillion dollar corp.

I've seen that floating around for a while. It's like bragging that you invested in Apple two years ago. The REAL genius is the guy who invested in Apple back when Steve Jobs wasn't there, and has held on to his stocks since.

re: #83 Kragar

Adam is the non-Baldwin Baldwin.

Ah thanks.

re: #81 HappyWarrior

Adam Baldwin was Animal Mother in Full Metal Jacket, right? I always get him mixed up with the one Baldwin brother who became a born again.

Yes. He's also Jayne Cobb in both Firefly and Serenity and he was on Chuck.

Shame he turned out to be a wingnut. Oh well. At least his Jayne hat is cool.

Another mention of the fact that Drudge's race-baiting top-of-the-page teaser about the 2007 video linked to the Romney Campaign's donation page:
[Link: www.theatlantic.com...]

For several hours, the Drudge Report has been teasing that a bombshell video will air on Sean Hannity's Fox News show Tuesday night -- some of it while linking to a page for donations on Mitt Romney's site.

Someone should ask them how much higher than normal their incoming donation totals were -- we can then suss out the racial animus driven drudge money.

RT @iowahawkblog "Breaking: @tuckercarlson sent to jail for 'probation violation'."

— Adam Baldwin (@adamsbaldwin) October 3, 2012

I will be doing live commentary tomorrow night during the debate. Hope you can join me.

— Chuck Woolery (@chuckwoolery) October 2, 2012

re: #67 HappyWarrior

Rapey stabby?

If you insist.

re: #78 HappyWarrior

Ha, some right wing idiot I know is posting this infographic with corporations that Bain invested in and using it as proof that Romney's somehow competent on the economy. Yeah, it took a real genius to invest in Dunkin Donuts when they were already a multimillion dollar corp.

That's alright, I got one who thinks that the GST guys should actually be thankful to Bain, because their profitable plant was gonna be shut down in '94 if no buyer could be found, but instead got to work until Bain ran the company into the ground in '01 and disappeared before the debt collectors showed up. In other words, he thinks they should be thankful they got to work 8 more years, even if they don't have a pension or healthcare now that their company's gone belly-up.

re: #90 Gus

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Oh derpy derp. Though I have to say, it should have been a felony to wear all those bowties that Tucker wears.

re: #94 HappyWarrior

Has anyone asked him if he feels bad about copying George Will?

re: #93 Targetpractice

That's alright, I got one who thinks that the GST guys should actually be thankful to Bain, because their profitable plant was gonna be shut down in '94 if no buyer could be found, but instead got to work until Bain ran the company into the ground in '01 and disappeared before the debt collectors showed up. In other words, he thinks they should be thankful they got to work 8 more years, even if they don't have a pension or healthcare now that their company's gone belly-up.

Lovely.

re: #94 HappyWarrior

Oh derpy derp. Though I have to say, it should have been a felony to wear all those bowties that Tucker wears.

I'm laughing my ass off.

what losing looks like; RT @ewerickson And can we hear Elizabeth Warren's Indian accent now?

— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) October 3, 2012

re: #97 Gus

I'm laughing my ass off.

Oh I am too. This is even more hilarious to me than Mitt using that audio clip from 1998 after the 47% clip came out. The desperation these guys have is so amusing to me.

re: #96 HappyWarrior

Lovely.

Seriously, he argues that somehow, 8 years of paychecks makes up for the fact that the bankrupt company had to renege its promises to pensions, healthcare, severance pay, and so forth.

re: #100 Targetpractice

Seriously, he argues that somehow, 8 years of paychecks makes up for the fact that the bankrupt company had to renege its promises to pensions, healthcare, severance pay, and so forth.

I believe it. Seriously fucked up. And I really feel for any worker that happened to. My great uncle worked for Bethelem Steel for a good forty years before he got sick. He passed away before Bethelem took away the pension they promised to the employees but man it was hard not to think of him when I read about that ten years or so back.

Poor Erick, Son of Erick. It must hurt to realize your candidate sucks. Haha.

Bullet Dodged: Ann Coulter Tells Joy Behar That Playboy Magazine Asked Her To Pose Nude (VIDEO) mediaite.com/a/onczg Column By @tommyxtopher

— Mediaite (@mediaite) October 3, 2012

blech..

re: #103 Mich-again

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Yeah.....because when I think of Playboy posing material, I think of Ann Coulter.

re: #103 Mich-again

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blech..

I didn't think playboy posted images of penises.

re: #103 Mich-again

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blech..

I will not comment on this, as some of the womenfolk around this blog have a tendency to get edgy when the looks of conservative women are commented upon.

Haha the like Mitt Romney page on facebook is so pathetic "The choice can't be any more clear, we can't afford four more years of stagnant job creation." We'd have more job creation if Romney and Ryan's party weren't opposing job creation bills left and right morons.

Preserve this moment for CNN management.

And can we hear Elizabeth Warren's Indian accent now?

— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) October 3, 2012

re: #108 jaunte

Preserve this moment for CNN management.

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I don't know Eric, can we hear you with your head up your asshole? Really these attacks on Warren are so fucking pathetic. Way to be total douches right wing again.

re: #108 jaunte

The reality is people like Philip Kent, who runs TBS division of Time Warner, doesn't care. All he cares about is getting a bigger audience for CNN, and the way to do that in this day an age is to be more controversial.

The twitterverse can do all it wants to raise stinks, but notice that the people who really run the show, like Kent, don't do their own Twitter accounts.

This and the last election are gonna get a special place in the history books next to the fears about JFK being a Roman Catholic, the question of whether Clinton inhaled or not, and Gore talking about "inventing the Internet."

The board of Time Warner doesn't give one whit about what Eric son of Erick says or does.

They only care about the numbers at the end of the quarter.

"Can we hear your money accent now?"

Here's Time Warner's official twitter account:

[Link: twitter.com...]

Try and see if you get any response from them.

re: #114 freetoken

Pretty sure it's an intern or first year hire in charge of 'social media' that's on the other end of that.

re: #115 jaunte

In the mean time, the actual board members sit in clubs and mansions listening to packaged presentations by the "handlers" for people like Romney.

Continuing on with my musical adventures on the internet, another interesting little piece by Villa-Lobos, which I doubt many have heard: "Mandu çarará ballet for mixed choir, children choir and orchestra" (W417) :

An old NYT article on Romney's Campaign Manager & Drudge-whisperer, Matt Rhoades:

[Link: www.nytimes.com...]

The early advantage on their side, in the view of several Republicans, seems to have gone to Mitt Romney, who hired the former Bush political aide who had been the central party’s prime point of contact with Mr. Drudge, Matthew Rhoades. His status was solidified after the 2004 election at a steakhouse dinner in Miami with Mr. Drudge, who for all his renown in politics is a somewhat spectral presence who rarely agrees to meet with political operatives or journalists and who did not respond to requests for an interview for this article.

So important was the Romney camp’s perceived advantage in the eyes of aides to Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona, that at one point this year they even considered sending an emissary to Miami to build their own relationship with him, two former McCain campaign officials said. (Mr. Drudge ignored the invitation, one of the officials said.)

...

Before Mr. Griffin left politics to work as a military lawyer in 2005, he had a dinner with Mr. Drudge and Mr. Rhoades to solidify Mr. Rhoades’s new place as the main Drudge Report contact for the central party. That dinner was first reported in the book “The Way to Win,” by Mark Halperin and John F. Harris, published last year.

As the Bush political team dispersed among the Republican candidates this year, some of Mr. Rhoades’s former colleagues came to regret his special relationship with Mr. Drudge. Former aides to Mr. McCain said in interviews that they had cursed Mr. Rhoades’s name daily this year as Mr. Drudge ran a series of photographs making Mr. McCain look old and other items, like one wrongly raising the possibility that a bump he took to the head in Iraq was cancer.

re: #118 simoom

An old NYT article on Romney's Campaign Manager & Drudge-whisperer, Matt Rhoades:

[Link: www.nytimes.com...]

Sounds like another sleazeball.

Hi, all. How goes the evening?

re: #120 Dark_Falcon

Hi, all. How goes the evening?

Enjoying my new book several days before I expected to.

re: #120 Dark_Falcon

Hi, all. How goes the evening?

I can neither confirm nor deny that.

//sorry...practicing my Romney responses for the debate/pre-trial hearing.

re: #121 Kragar

Enjoying my new book several days before I expected to.

Very cool.

re: #120 Dark_Falcon

Did you get a call back on that interview?

Fucking seriously?Now Obama talks too black?Somebody wake me up when this bullshit is over.

— Imani ABL (@AngryBlackLady) October 3, 2012

re: #124 darthstar

Did you get a call back on that interview?

I actually got an offer. The pay is good, but I'm not sure I can do the work well, given my narcolepsy problem (it turned out to be a call center job). So I'm talking things over with some people to see if this job is one I should take.

Hint: its not RT @mckaycoppins Romney campaign tells me that had nothing to do with the Obama video, and is unsure whether it's newsworthy.

— Michael J. Zalewski (@mjzalewski) October 3, 2012

No, they just wanted to see if it would score them any points. Bill Ayers video will come out the day before debate #2...accidentally...and with the same disclaimer.

Desperate loser motherfuckers.

re: #126 Dark_Falcon

I actually got an offer. The pay is good, but I'm not sure I can do the work well, given my narcolepsy problem (it turned out to be a call center job). So I'm talking things over with some people to see if this job is one I should take.

That's great news. As far as the narcolepsy goes, you could always take up methamphetamine. You only have to worry about blowing a hole in your aorta the first few times you do it...then you figure out how much your body can handle...for a while.

Seriously, if the hours suck, it's not the job for you. Call center sounds kind of entry-level anyway. You've been in the working world for a good decade now. Apply UP...don't go for lateral positions. Or sell yourself as a "senior" level sales-critter. Get team lead for two or three years, then move into a management role...that's where you'll be happiest.

And don't start taking meth. Sure, you'll be good for four or five days, but then you'll fall asleep in the middle of the freeway, and trust me, that's not good.

#Iran president begs people to stop selling off currency as it drops to new low against dollar nyti.ms/Qog9d7 v @thomaserdbrink

— Borzou Daragahi (@borzou) October 3, 2012

And Romney thinks we should engage them militarily? That would only help them.

re: #128 darthstar

That's great news. As far as the narcolepsy goes, you could always take up methamphetamine. You only have to worry about blowing a hole in your aorta the first few times you do it...then you figure out how much your body can handle...for a while.

Seriously, if the hours suck, it's not the job for you. Call center sounds kind of entry-level anyway. You've been in the working world for a good decade now. Apply UP...don't go for lateral positions. Or sell yourself as a "senior" level sales-critter. Get team lead for two or three years, then move into a management role...that's where you'll be happiest.

And don't start taking meth. Sure, you'll be good for four or five days, but then you'll fall asleep in the middle of the freeway, and trust me, that's not good.

The middle part is good advice. The starting and ending paragraphs should be used as part of a DirecTV ad in the "Don't reenact war movies with Charlie Sheen vein." They're that good.

Tonight's sunset from my phone. It was an okay day here on the coast.

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When the Tucker Carlson Memorial Chair in Career Self-Immolation is finally endowed, we shall look back on this moment fondly

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) October 3, 2012

Ann Coulter: ugly from the inside to the outside.

re: #130 Dark_Falcon

The middle part is good advice. The starting and ending paragraphs should be used as part of a DirecTV ad in the "Don't reenact war movies with Charlie Sheen vein." They're that good.

Hey, I speak from experience. And as far as the job search goes, I'm not saying you won't suck at whatever you do (that's entirely for you to decide). I'm just (again, speaking from experience) trying to give you the best advice I can so you can suck (or not suck) at the best possible jobs you can get. You were a sales person before, now you're selling a product you have to believe in more than anything else...yourself. And no, you won't suck. that's just me fucking with you (as is my nature).

Okay...dodgers two outs away from missing a wild card slot. Going to enjoy the moment. Good night everyone.

I do believe I just saw a clip of the absolute craziest adult entertainment I have ever laid eyes on. The man was wearing a chicken suit and clucking the whole time.

I really don't know what to make of it.

re: #133 Reverend Mother Ramallo

Ann Coulter: ugly from the inside to the outside.

Beauty may only be skin-deep, but ugly goes all the way down to the bone.

re: #136 Kragar

So which came first, the chicken or the chick?

re: #138 Lidane

So which came first, the chicken or the chick?

re: #138 Lidane

So which came first, the chicken or the chick?

I didn't watch it for that long. More of a "What in the... (15 seconds later)... Okay, I think that is quite enough of that."

re: #140 Kragar

I didn't watch it for that long. More of a "What in the... (15 seconds later)... Okay, I think that is quite enough of that."

More or less weird than tentacle porn?

re: #139 Targetpractice

Yes, it's a bad joke. But inevitable. Haha.

re: #141 Targetpractice

More or less weird than tentacle porn?

Much, much weirder.

re: #143 Kragar

Much, much funnier.

FTFY. I think if I saw something like that, I'd be too busy laughing to be creeped out by it.

re: #143 Kragar

Much, much weirder.

More or less weird than tentacle porn starring Cthulhu?

re: #144 Lidane

FTFY. I think if I saw something like that, I'd be too busy laughing to be creeped out by it.

Oh, there was laugher.

The video apparently was part of a whole DVD full of the same thing with different girls.

It was called "Choke my chicken."

I shit you not.

re: #145 Targetpractice

More or less weird than tentacle porn starring Cthulhu?

All tentacle porn stars Cthulhu.

Drudge, Daily Caller, and Fox call 2007 tape "exclusively obtained by Daily Caller" Was open event that CNN & others covered.

— Sam Feist (@SamFeistCNN) October 3, 2012

Here's CNN's coverage of the speech from back in 2007:
[Link: politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com...]

re: #136 Kragar

I do believe I just saw a clip of the absolute craziest adult entertainment I have ever laid eyes on. The man was wearing a chicken suit and clucking the whole time.

I really don't know what to make of it.

You sure it wasn't that Submissive Chicken viral ad that Burger King did a few years back?

re: #146 Kragar

Oh, there was laugher.

The video apparently was part of a whole DVD full of the same thing with different girls.

It was called "Choke my chicken."

I shit you not.

Haha! Multiple entendre!

/

re: #146 Kragar

Oh, there was laugher.

The video apparently was part of a whole DVD full of the same thing with different girls.

It was called "Choke my chicken."

I shit you not.

Here's a clip:

re: #146 Kragar

Oh, there was laugher.

The video apparently was part of a whole DVD full of the same thing with different girls.

It was called "Choke my chicken."

I shit you not.

That sounds like something Troma would come up with, but without the mindless violence. Heh.

Huh, just read that The Pirate Bay's been down since Monday. The owners are claiming power outage, while the media's claiming a government raid on their servers.

re: #148 simoom

[Embedded content]

Here's CNN's coverage of the speech from back in 2007:
[Link: politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com...]

Exclusively obtained? Is that what going to YouTube is called now? I just wish they'd reveal that this is just one stupid joke but they won't because this is real to them.

re: #153 Targetpractice

Huh, just read that The Pirate Bay's been down since Monday. The owners are claiming power outage, while the media's claiming a government raid on their servers.

I was wondering about that. Government raid wouldn't shock me.

re: #155 HappyWarrior

I was wondering about that. Government raid wouldn't shock me.

Apparently their servers host, along with TPB, the infamous Wikileaks amongst other controversial sites. Somehow, a power outage that keeps them down for two days seems a little far-fetched.

re: #150 Targetpractice

Haha! Multiple entendre!

/

Hee hee hee hee... SMACK!

re: #153 Targetpractice

Huh, just read that The Pirate Bay's been down since Monday. The owners are claiming power outage, while the media's claiming a government raid on their servers.

A government raid would certainly explain the power outage.

Wouldn't shock me at all.

re: #153 Targetpractice

Yeah.

But in the end it won't matter. There are a zillion different torrent indexers, and anyone can create a torrent, post it somewhere, and Google will find it, and you're off and running.

re: #159 freetoken

Yeah.

But in the end it won't matter. There are a zillion different torrent indexers, and anyone can create a torrent, post it somewhere, and Google will find it, and you're off and running.

Yep. If the TPB is truly gone, somebody else will simply rise to the top of the heap. So long as there are pirates, there will be a pirate ship in one form or another.

re: #160 Targetpractice

And the heap is big.

And, most western language speaking people aren't aware of this, but the biggest increase in websites and other online activities has been in the world of chinese character set, and for the most part the anti-piracy crusaders aren't even in the loop on those.

And lastly, like I mentioned, all one has to do is make a torrent and post it on some forum somewhere... and if you seed it just a little bit it will then have a life of its own.

re: #161 freetoken

And the heap is big.

And, most western language speaking people aren't aware of this, but the biggest increase in websites and other online activities has been in the world of chinese character set, and for the most part the anti-piracy crusaders aren't even in the loop on those.

And lastly, like I mentioned, all one has to do is make a torrent and post it on some forum somewhere... and if you seed it just a little bit it will then have a life of its own.

Ayep. The tools are there, it's just a matter of utilizing them. So long as its decentralized, you'll never put a sure end to it. You may rip up a good portion of it, but so long as something survives, it'll start up again.

latest romney plan to win the election

a bucket of free money! $17 thousand dollars worth!

"you can fill the bucket!"

re: #164 engineer cat

latest romney plan to win the election

a bucket of free money! $17 thousand dollars worth!

"you can fill the bucket!"

I'm expecting that any day now, Reince Priebus will walk out on stage with a pistol, a puppy, and an ultimatum. "Vote for Mitt or the puppy gets it. This is on you."

another devastating ad, currently playing in Ohio...

I do most of my financial stuff online... and so I go to pay a Citibank credit card and discover that Citi is now using pop-up windows on their payment page, and furthermore requires saving cookies and running a plug-in to see details the payment page!

Who in their right mind could think this was an improvement, in either security or usability?

Business in America has for years now has suffered from symptoms of executives of (big) corporations being immune to their own products - they don't have to use them so have no clue at how bad they can be sometimes.

I bet the senior execs at Citibank never worry about having to block pop-ups or cookies - they have underlings who do all that for them.

Morning, all

re: #163 freetoken

Bueno!

Department of Unforced Errors

It must be annoying to have a campaign ‘tracker’ following and videotaping your every move. Then again, you don’t have to run for Senate. But word to the wise. Don’t shove a tracker and then lie about it by saying he shoved you first when the guy’s friggin’ videotaping the whole thing and there’s a reporter there watching too.

Stay classy, GOP

For those not familiar with this, Naxos allows one to listen online (for $20/yr) to their rather large library of recordings. It's quite a deal if you buy lots of classical music.

re: #172 freetoken

Thanks for that heads up.

7-Eleven has started their "7-Election" informal presidential poll.

[Link: eatocracy.cnn.com...]

The 7-Eleven chain of stores is running a fourth "7-Election" campaign to predict the winner of the 2012 presidential election. While the method - having customers select either a red Romney or blue Obama cup for their coffee - is decidedly unscientific, the results in previous installments have closely mirrored those of the last two elections, and accurately predicted the winner in all three.

It should be noted that their sales data has been extremely accurate regarding how the election turns out - the percentage-point differentials between their coffee cup sales to the actual election numbers has matched almost exactly.

Current sales totals - broken down by state, as well as individual cities is here - and it's not a pretty picture at all for the Romney campaign:

[Link: www.7-eleven.com...]

Morning Honcos.

Larry Spurling Of Nebraska Allegedly Attacks Wife With Sandwich, Gets Jail Time
[Link: www.huffingtonpost.com...]

When will these senseless culinary attacks end?
/

This song is promoted on Youtube, but I'm sharing it anyway because it's cute tight inspiring wonderfluff.

re: #174 RadicalModerate

7-Eleven has started their "7-Election" informal presidential poll.

[Link: eatocracy.cnn.com...]

It should be noted that their sales data has been extremely accurate regarding how the election turns out - the percentage-point differentials between their coffee cup sales to the actual election numbers has matched almost exactly.

Current sales totals - broken down by state, as well as individual cities is here - and it's not a pretty picture at all for the Romney campaign:

[Link: www.7-eleven.com...]

Other surprisingly accurate predictors:

Halloween masks of which candidate's face sell better
Which candidate's hometown baseball team goes further in the playoffs
If the Redskins win the last home game before the election, the in party stays in.

Lake County considers 'trash-cams' at school cafeterias
TAVARES, Fla. -Lake County School Board officials are considering attaching cameras to school cafeteria trash cans to study what students are tossing after officials found that most of the vegetables on the school menu end up in the trash can.
[Link: www.clickorlando.com...]

Woman who rode manatee at Fort De Soto turns herself in
Under the Florida Manatee Sanctuary Act, sea cow molestation constitutes a second-degree misdemeanor, an offense punishable by a $500 fine or a term of up to 60 days in the county jail.

Authorities do not believe the manatee was physically hurt. The psychological impact of the incident is harder to assess.
[Link: www.tampabay.com...]

What's the drinking came codewords for tonight?

re: #181 sagehen

What's the drinking came codewords for tonight?

Law Hawk posted a bunch the other day. Here's a link with a few.
[Link: www.ibtimes.com...]

re: #180 Cannadian Club Akbar

Woman who rode manatee at Fort De Soto turns herself in
Under the Florida Manatee Sanctuary Act, sea cow molestation constitutes a second-degree misdemeanor, an offense punishable by a $500 fine or a term of up to 60 days in the county jail.

Authorities do not believe the manatee was physically hurt. The psychological impact of the incident is harder to assess.
[Link: www.tampabay.com...]

How the hell do you ride a manatee? I've blundered into them at Crystal (not) River, snorkelling in the vegetation-tea. Top speed is what, about 0.4 MPH?

re: #183 Decatur Deb

How the hell do you ride a manatee? I've blundered into them at Crystal (not) River, snorkelling in the vegetation-tea. Top speed is what, about 0.4 MPH?

She was just riding it. She wasn't trying to ski.
/

re: #184 Cannadian Club Akbar

fixed

re: #184 Cannadian Club Akbar

She was just riding it. She wasn't trying to ski.
/

Looks like she was trying to hump it. 'Riding' would be like riding a Barcalounger.

re: #182 Cannadian Club Akbar

Law Hawk posted a bunch the other day. Here's a link with a few.
[Link: www.ibtimes.com...]

[Link: www.theboozebox.com...]
I want the shirt at the top right. Heh.

re: #186 Decatur Deb

Looks like she was trying to hump it. 'Riding' would be like riding a Barcalounger.

I worked at a place that had boat slips and a manatee found its way there.The tourist seemed to have a good time.

re: #188 Cannadian Club Akbar

I worked at a place that had boat slips and a manatee found its way there.The tourist seemed to have a good time.

I think the boat props are the real threat. It was weird to see the young manatee in the Disney tank, because it didn't have any scars. The kids each had an 'adopted' manatee, I remember Brutus.

re: #189 Decatur Deb

I think the boat props are the real threat. It was weird to see the young manatee in the Disney tank, because it didn't have any scars. The kids each had an 'adopted' manatee, I remember Brutus.

I was boating on the Peace River once and saw one that was dead after being hit by a prop. Not sure where in the river it was hit but the entire river is pretty much a no wake zone. Although it was connected to Charlotte Harbor.

Drinking games are for kids, and GET OFF MY LAWN!

Snooty Cam!! From 8-5.
[Link: www.southfloridamuseum.org...]

re: #192 Cannadian Club Akbar

Snooty Cam!! From 8-5.
[Link: www.southfloridamuseum.org...]

Cool. Thnx.

re: #193 Decatur Deb

Cool. Thnx.

This is downtown, right next to the lieberry I used to post from once a week.

Bastard!!!

re: #194 Cannadian Club Akbar

This is downtown, right next to the lieberry I used to post from once a week.

Ah, Bradenton. We'll be in the area this week, registering (I think) at USF.

re: #196 Decatur Deb

Ah, Bradenton. We'll be in the area this week, registering (I think) at USF.

USF in Tampa or Sarasota? Or Venice for that matter.

Oh hai Lizards. I just survived a weekend with three of my sons. Two are Obama supporters and the other one is a wingnut. They had at each other for two whole days. Sometimes they would just change sides suddenly so they wouldn't get bored repeating the same talking points. Then they opened a case of beer, ordered pizza and sat back to watch the baseball game.

re: #106 Targetpractice

I've noticed that, which is why I am not sharing my memories of Coulter from the '80s in Ann Arbor.

re: #197 Cannadian Club Akbar

USF in Tampa or Sarasota? Or Venice for that matter.

S. of 75 going into Tampa. (That's if the locals send us there.) It's the kind of environment we did well in up at Gainesville.

re: #197 Cannadian Club Akbar

USF in Tampa or Sarasota? Or Venice for that matter.

Minus Venice. Was thinking of MCC.

re: #200 Decatur Deb

S. of 75 going into Tampa. (That's if the locals send us there.) It's the kind of environment we did well in up at Gainesville.

You'll be going West on either Fowler or Fletcher.

re: #202 Cannadian Club Akbar

You'll be going West on either Fowler or Fletcher.

We'll be going wherever the nice GPS lady sends us. Sending an email right now asking again for USF.

Effing BSOD. I need a new computer.

Florida Supreme Court considers: Can immigrant illegally in U.S. practice law?
TALLAHASSEE — In a unique case followed closely by immigration experts, the Florida Supreme Court will consider whether an undocumented immigrant can practice law in Florida.

Jose Godinez-Samperio, 26, of Tampa is the undocumented child of immigrants and a "dreamer," in the jargon of the DREAM Act. His story puts a vivid human face on the ambiguity of U.S. immigration policy.

He is ready to be a lawyer except for one thing: He's not a U.S. citizen.

He has a law degree but no Social Security number.
[Link: www.tampabay.com...]

re: #204 Cannadian Club Akbar

Effing BSOD. I need a new computer.

A Linux missionary will arrive at your door in a minute. He's the one dressed as a penguin.

re: #206 Decatur Deb

A Linux missionary will arrive at your door in a minute. He's the one dressed as a penguin.

I used to have Jehovah's come to my house. I was always nice to them. Then they asked if I'd like to host a meeting at my house to help spread the word. Sorry.

re: #2 goddamnedfrank

...giving abortions to women who are not actually pregnant...

I've asked my derp translator to explain this to me. (I have relatives who are still drinking the Republican Kool-aid). There is a paranoid belief that if a woman goes to Planned Parenthood with a pregnancy scare, but she is not actually pregnant, that the doctors at Planned Parenthood will purposely render the woman sterile and call it "an abortion." It's all part of their secret agenda of eugenics and destroying the family, you see.

I'm not sure which is worse, thinking that you can perform an abortion on a woman that is not pregnant or thinking that you can render a woman sterile in a procedure that mimics an abortion.

"abortions to women who are not actually pregnant"...

When a woman has a miscarriage, she probably needs a D&C for her aftercare, which procedure is exactly the same as the procedure for a 1st trimester abortion.

Some abortions (but not all of them) are D&C's; some D&C's (but not all of them) are abortions.

Todd Akin Most men find this confusing.

re: #207 Cannadian Club Akbar

I used to have Jehovah's come to my house. I was always nice to them. Then they asked if I'd like to host a meeting at my house to help spread the word. Sorry.

When we were stationed in Italy a couple used to come a lot--mostly they just wanted a drink of water, a friendly toilet, and a chance to practice English. Their missionaries had a hard row to hoe in such a Catholic/non-religious country.

Dog walk. BBL

Holy crap.

I just got an Adsense ad on this page from the Leadership Institute, and this one looks like it came straight out of Stormfront.
Given that they are catering to folks like the YWC now, they are blowing that dogwhistle as hard as they can.

Adsense- Leadership Institute

Adsense link goes here:

[Link: www.campusreformaction.org...]

re: #212 RadicalModerate

Holy crap.

I just got an Adsense ad on this page from the Leadership Institute, and this one looks like it came straight out of Stormfront.
Given that they are catering to folks like the YWC now, they are blowing that dogwhistle as hard as they can.

Adsense- Leadership Institute

Adsense link goes here:

[Link: www.campusreformaction.org...]

Get a subscription to LGF.

If you don't want to do that, use Firefox or Chrome with Ad Block Plus.

re: #212 RadicalModerate

There is a case in front of the SC to stop using race as a factor to get admitted.
[Link: www.washingtonpost.com...]

re: #214 Cannadian Club Akbar

There is a case in front of the SC to stop using race as a factor to get admitted.
[Link: www.washingtonpost.com...]

Yeah, I've been following that one - there's a significant number of people on the right who are hoping that this case will overturn the 1964 Civil Rights Act, of which Affirmative Action is an intrinsic part. (see Texas, Republican Party Platform, 2012)

re: #212 RadicalModerate

Holy crap.

I just got an Adsense ad on this page from the Leadership Institute, and this one looks like it came straight out of Stormfront.
Given that they are catering to folks like the YWC now, they are blowing that dogwhistle as hard as they can.

Adsense- Leadership Institute

Adsense link goes here:

[Link: www.campusreformaction.org...]

Leadership Institute is one of the important nexuses of the cynical hard right. Breitbart and O'Keefe have a history there. I'ts much like a grad school for the worst of the College Rupblican National Committee assholes.

re: #215 RadicalModerate

Yeah, I've been following that one - there's a significant number of people on the right who are hoping that this case will overturn the 1964 Civil Rights Act, of which Affirmative Action is an intrinsic part. (see Texas, Republican Party Platform, 2012)

Affirmative Action has nothing to do with the 1964 Civil Rights Act; AA was passed during the Nixon administration.

re: #216 Decatur Deb

Leadership Institute is one of the important nexuses of the cynical hard right. Breitbart and O'Keefe have a history there. I'ts much like a grad school for the worst of the College Rupblican National Committee assholes.

Like I mentioned before, their associations have gone beyond simple Republican vs Democratic politics.

Here's a recent SPLC article documenting their ties to the racist "Youth for Western Civilization" college group:

[Link: www.splcenter.org...]

re: #208 Stephen T.

Well, they could if they did an endometrial ablation, basically burning the lining of the uterus. That would be pretty obvious, though, when a woman's periods stopped.

Morning, Lizards,

Man, that video sure worked on some people. I see people openly calling Obama a racist on Facebook and in high dudgeon over O's 'shout-out' to Rev. Wright.

I'm enjoying asking them if they don't feel just a little bit manipulated, freaking out over something that they already freaked out over four years ago. Absolutely Pavlovian, it is.

Han11ty must be having a really good laugh this morning, knowing that he pushed a bullshit story and got a percentage of the American populace to froth on cue.

re: #217 sagehen

Affirmative Action has nothing to do with the 1964 Civil Rights Act; AA was passed during the Nixon administration.

Nope. AA got its start in the Kennedy Administration, via several Executive Orders, then was codified by Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. What the Nixon Administration did (via a revision to the Philadelphia Plan) was set it up as a mandate for groups doing business with the federal government.

re: #218 RadicalModerate

Like I mentioned before, their associations have gone beyond simple Republican vs Democratic politics.

Here's a recent SPLC article documenting their ties to the racist "Youth for Western Civilization" college group:

[Link: www.splcenter.org...]

Yup. CRNC is actually beyond Dem/GOP. They have a strong preppy-punk racist history--the Compton Cookouts and such. Ashley Todd, the Pittsburgh 'B' girl, was one of their field workers. Lots of libertarian in the CRNC.

NBC Latino/IBOPE Zogby survey: Majority of Latinos in favor of gay marriage | NBC Latino: nbclatino.com/2012/10/03/nbc... via @nbclatino

— Adrian Carrasquillo (@RealAdrianC) October 3, 2012

Todd Akin: Transgenders are having gender reassignment just to have abortions.

— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) October 3, 2012

Good morning lizards!

‘Birth Control Is Turning the Men Gay!’ 14 Lessons from the Most Bizarre Anti-Contraception Video Ever

In the run-up to an election, it's not uncommon for special interest groups to release ads pushing a specific agenda in the hopes of swaying voters as they head to the polls. But only once in a generation does a social awareness ad reach the heights of hyperbole-murdering crazy reached by this anti-contraception spot, released by a group of nuns in Ohio who hope to convince fellow Catholics that "contracepting" is responsible for all manner of social ills, from homosexuality to beastiality to straight up murder. What other lessons can we learn from the awesomely insane YOU DESERVE TO KNOW THE TRUTH: CONTRACEPTION? Let's take a journey through the 14 most important "facts."

Kentucky shuts down Chinese food restaurant for keeping roadkill deer in the kitchen | bit.ly/OBMn7Z

— UPI.com (@UPI) October 2, 2012

re: #127 darthstar

No, they just wanted to see if it would score them any points. Bill Ayers video will come out the day before debate #2...accidentally...and with the same disclaimer.

Desperate loser motherfuckers.

This flip comes pre-flopped.

re: #176 Cannadian Club Akbar

Larry Spurling Of Nebraska Allegedly Attacks Wife With Sandwich, Gets Jail Time
[Link: www.huffingtonpost.com...]

When will these senseless culinary attacks end?
/

James Cagney makes grapefruit assault famous and these copycats simply can't get it right that you have to use Florida citrus in order to support America.

Now attacking someone in England with fresh fruit is right out. They have training classes for how to deal with that!
;)

re: #183 Decatur Deb

How the hell do you ride a manatee? I've blundered into them at Crystal (not) River, snorkelling in the vegetation-tea. Top speed is what, about 0.4 MPH?

Vegetation-tea pretty much describes it. I was in the Peace River (inland) just over a year ago and the water was basically the color of tea with little to no visibility to see how deep the water was or what the bottom consisted of there.

re: #230 Feline Emperor of the Conservative Waste

Vegetation-tea pretty much describes it. I was in the Peace River (inland) just over a year ago and the water was basically the color of tea with little to no visibility to see how deep the water was or what the bottom consisted of there.

Used to boat and canoe there. More canoeing than boating. Ray's Canoe.

Romney Campaign Encourages Voters To Consider Drudge's Race Video thkpr.gs/QOTTv4 via @thinkprogress

— Lorraine W. (@Ms_Raine) October 3, 2012

Libya can't or won't act against #Benghazi attackers. So US Special Ops preparing to go after killers. nyti.ms/QWgRxp

— Jim Roberts (@nytjim) October 3, 2012

Debate Checklist

[ ] Booze
[ ] Popcorn
[ ] Drinking Game Words
[ ] Snacks
[ ] Fresh Bong Water

re: #232 Gus

So Romney HQ wants voters to see a good, thoughtful speech from Barack Obama right before the election?

re: #235 Lidane

So Romney HQ wants voters to see a good, thoughtful speech from Barack Obama right before the election?

Same weak response like they did/do with the birther stuff.

re: #234 Gus

Debate Checklist

[ ] Booze
[ ] Popcorn
[ ] Drinking Game Words
[ ] Snacks
[ ] Fresh Bong Water

Debate Checklist

[ ] Google directions to Gus' house.
/

re: #233 NJDhockeyfan

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It'll need to be a drone strike most likely, but its something we'll need to do. The Libyans ran Ansar al-Shariah out of Benghazi, but actually fighting them will be much harder and not a job I'd task to militia. But we need to nail those bastards, and if that means we get some backlash then that's what happens.

re: #237 Cannadian Club Akbar

Debate Checklist

[ ] Google directions to Gus' house.
/

It's going to be a zoo around DU. They're also going to close down parts of I-25.

re: #239 Gus

It's going to be a zoo around DU. They're also going to close down parts of I-25.

That's right. Tonight's is in Denver. My radio said this morning the 3rd debate will be going up against MNF. Can't wait for those ratings.
/

re: #240 Cannadian Club Akbar

That's right. Tonight's is in Denver. My radio said this morning the 3rd debate will be going up against MNF. Can't wait for those ratings.
/

Wonk night.

re: #231 Cannadian Club Akbar

Used to boat and canoe there. More canoeing than boating. Ray's Canoe.

Saw a bunch of canoeists that morning. We were in a shallow spot with shovels and a sieve collecting fossil shark teeth and such from the bottom gravel.

re: #233 NJDhockeyfan

Not very covert when it is announced in advance on Twitter...

re: #242 Feline Emperor of the Conservative Waste

Saw a bunch of canoeists that morning. We were in a shallow spot with shovels and a sieve collecting fossil shark teeth and such from the bottom gravel.

Tons of shark teeth in Venice. We were doing a housing development about 5 miles from the beach and one foreman got a tooth that was 4" long.

re: #240 Cannadian Club Akbar

That's right. Tonight's is in Denver. My radio said this morning the 3rd debate will be going up against MNF. Can't wait for those ratings.
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I'd rather listen to Romney than Gruden & Co. Talk about repetitive talking points, trying to hammer a misfitting chosen narrative into events that it doesn't match, and annoying presentation techniques.
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re: #244 Cannadian Club Akbar

Tons of shark teeth in Venice. We were doing a housing development about 5 miles from the beach and one foreman got a tooth that was 4" long.

That's a real good one. There's a well-known beach in Venice where they wash up since the same strata we were scraping in the Peace River is being eroded out by the sea right there. And they find the larger teeth in such in the quarries around there as well.

(We were staying in Venice specifically to go walk that beach a few times. Besides fossil shark teeth we also found a few "current" ones. I still have a box with some teeth and scallop shells sitting somewhere in the apartment.)

Also had a really, really, good lunch that day at a crab shack down near Port Charlotte. Group having lunch next to us included Sam Shields father (or the business partner of his father, I forget which.) It was right after the Super Bowl and the man had a Shields jersey on.

re: #246 Feline Emperor of the Conservative Waste

I spent 3 1/2 years in Port Charlotte. Did you get to go to Boca Grande?

re: #245 Feline Emperor of the Conservative Waste

I'd rather listen to Romney than Gruden & Co. Talk about repetitive talking points, trying to hammer a misfitting chosen narrative into events that it doesn't match, and annoying presentation techniques.
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If you can get the debate on the radio, try having the game on TV with the volume muted, and the debate on the radio.

re: #246 Feline Emperor of the Conservative Waste

AND Tyrone Williams went to my high skool. He was the Grand Marshall in the Rubonia Marti Gras.

re: #248 Dark_Falcon

If you can get the debate on the radio, try having the game on TV with the volume muted, and the debate on the radio.

You can stream the debate with iHeartradio.

Morning everybody...still waiting to go back to work. IT at the place I'm going to is taking their time about setting up system access.

re: #247 Cannadian Club Akbar

I spent 3 1/2 years in Port Charlotte. Did you get to go to Boca Grande?

I don't think so. We were only down there for 2-3 days in late February. Stayed in a hotel in Venice, and the day trips were the Peace River - down through Port Charlotte thing, a day up around Sarasota including the aquarium there (with Hugh the Manatee), and some time at the beaches in Venice. The rest was getting to and from Tampa. Limited time and my brother was handling the itinerary.

I should note that the game that conflicts with the 3rd debate is Lions vs. Bears at Soldier Field. Mitt's from Michigan, Obama adopted Chicago, maybe they should just replace the debate with having Romney and Obama take over announcing duties for the football game.

/kidding about that last, but it would be funny and it would get me to listen to them. Because I seriously will be watching the game rather than the debate.

Twenty years ago today, I married the love of my life and my best friend. Happy anniversary, Michelle. -bo

— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) October 3, 2012

re: #252 Feline Emperor of the Conservative Waste

I don't think so. We were only down there for 2-3 days in late February. Stayed in a hotel in Venice, and the day trips were the Peace River - down through Port Charlotte thing, a day up around Sarasota including the aquarium there (with Hugh the Manatee), and some time at the beaches in Venice. The rest was getting to and from Tampa. Limited time and my brother was handling the itinerary.

Do you mean Mote Marine?

A dog is alive and well after an 11-mile ride wedged in a driver's front grill. No word yet if there was any damage to Mitt Romney's car.

— Stephen Colbert (@StephenAtHome) October 3, 2012