Comments on: Dean: Is McCain a Puppet … or a Racist?

By: radiofreewill

radiofreewill — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:55:57 +0000

Olmert might be talking about returning the Golan as a ‘give-back’ for that rude little bombing Israel put on Syria.

It may be a separate issue from the Palestinian Peace Process, or at least it could be.

By: 4jkb4ia

4jkb4ia — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:24:23 +0000

This is EPUd from last thread. No one will read it anyway.

Olmert is talking about returning the Golan Heights. This essentially means IMHO that the Palestinian peace process is entirely stalled and he wants to have something positive to talk about.

Even under the various Clinton plans, Israel would keep some of the West Bank, especially near Jerusalem. Bush was trying to say in the letter that he is making room for organic growth in the settlements that already exist. However perhaps EW was too diplomatic to point out that the illegal “outposts” are certainly a result of market demand *g*

By: masaccio

masaccio — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 02:38:59 +0000

Obama should make a speech saying that if he hears that someone is making a commercial calling McCain a misogynist because of the way he treated his wives, then Obama will demand that they stop, and will fire anyone who makes such a commercial. Same if he hears that there is a commercial saying McCain is too old to be president, or that he has anger management issues.

By: earlofhuntingdon

earlofhuntingdon — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 00:27:21 +0000

One, Ms. Dowd has a lock on the trollop thingy. Two, as for impotent, you thought McCain’s blue pills were for his migraines?

By: JohnLopresti

JohnLopresti — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 23:25:28 +0000

Oh, and Dean can lecture McAuliffe at the convention in one of those smokefilled backroom events about credentials of the MI delegation.

By: zAmboni

zAmboni — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 23:24:48 +0000

But what was the name of the cheese steak place on Michigan, again? I told mr. emptywheel about it and we’re itching to do a Corner Brewery/Cheese steak drive cross-county.

EW. It is Gabriel’s cheese steaks. I didn’t know but they actually have a website now. A no frills website, but it sorta fits their shop. The food speaks for itself

http://www.gabrielshoagies.com

By: JohnLopresti

JohnLopresti — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 23:24:30 +0000

It is unsatisfying to say banned four-letter words in a foreign language. Also, when in a foreign land, it is difficult to show the appropriate scintilla of excitement when local cursewords reference some pious tract or sectarian legend; they know a visitor is alien by the absence of primitive response. And Phoenician expletives serve for naught in most situations, though the deities may be listening and understand the concomitant frustration in the human condition in such moments. I suspect the cameramen at NPR were transplants from the NoNewsIsXNews event where ew also was riled. Way OT, our town’s pub has top flite cuisine and Beamish. We could pretent we had only blogged and did not know each other at all; but it is way on the other side of the nation to drive there, should the two of you be interested, and if the addition on the house is constructed on schedule; a chaotic year in these parts.

By: radiofreewill

radiofreewill — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 23:15:18 +0000

OT A guy walks into a crowded bar in Manhattan, works his way to the bartender and orders a Black and Tan.

While he’s waiting, he overhears an animated conversation behind him.

“Say, I fancy by your brogue that you’re from the Emerald Isle? Is that so?”

“Why, yes! That I am! Dublin, actually, Cheers!”

“No! So am I! Cheers! I’m from a small section of our Sainted town that you’ve probably never heard of, Kilkinney! Cheers!”

“What? Kilkinney did you say? Well, the little one, Mary and Joseph, too! Not only am I from Kilkinney, I lived on the clover covered lane called McCorkandale! Number 62! Cheers!”

“62?! Well then, this must have been meant to be! Hooray! Me too! Cheers!”

About that time the bartender returns with the BnT and the guy says, “How about that? That’s unbelievable! Only in Manhattan could two guys discover that they had lived in the same house - half a world away!”

The bartender looks over at the two Irishmen, now dancing a jig, and says, “Oh them, that’s just the Clancy Twins - they’re drunk again.”

By: LabDancer

LabDancer — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 23:11:34 +0000

Mental Health Self-Examination, Question #43:

Here are two examples in which the rhetorical device of ”repetition” has been used by a public figure.

Which one appears more likely to have been chosen by a speaker who is in control of his temper employing a measure of sarcasm as a strategic tool in response to his opponent’s having attempted an emotional appeal?

Which one appears more likely to have been produced by a speaker who has lost control of his temper caught up in barely restrained insensibility in response to his having been questioned on something for which he has no meritorious response?

[a] Madness! Madness! Madness!

[b] It’s nonesense - it’s nonsense - it’s nonesense - it’s nonesense - it’s nonesense. I don’t have anything additional to say. It’s nonesense - it’s nonesense - it’s nonesense. I don’t have anything more to say. It’s nonesense.”

Per @ 27 - Ms E Wheel: May I suggest that if in fact you do choose to feature the Days Since Last Tantrum sign described above starting today it appears reasonable to set the same at ”zero”.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/191056.php

By: Rayne

Rayne — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 22:45:03 +0000

That’s a load of crap.

This is the same MSU that’s permitted world-class haters like Nick Griffin to propel their hate speech on campus at the invitation of the only Young Americans for Freedom chapter identified as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Using the word “pissed” is pretty damned tame compared to allowing white supremacists/nationalists to speak on campus in MSU facilities under protection of MSU campus security.