This is my last week on “Talkshow” (no, I haven’t been fired - we’re about to shoot episodes #21 and #22), so I’ll be dropping by a lot more often… very soon. We’ll get together then, you know we’ll have a good time then.
Meanwhile, I am going to assign some homework.
I’ve noticed in the past couple of days that the Democrats’ big win has caused some of the right’s pundits and players to become unhinged. Okay, more so, I guess. Intemperate accusations, loud scramblings for position, inchoate anger, and crazy, asymmetrical eye movements.
It’s not pretty, but it is a lot of fun. And I’d like to see it documented in the Comments below.
I’ll get us started with this pleasant double dose, from Sean Hannity and Michelle Malkin.
Have at it.
Fanny Roborat
86 comments
dee
November 13, 2006 at 4:43 pm
1Oh golly…where to begin.
Lately I’ve been mesmerized by the incoherent rantings of Pam over at Atlas Shrugs. She makes Ann Coulter look like the Dalai Lama. This is her latest meltdown over the prospect of John Bolton not getting confirmed for the UN.
A sample for those of you who don’t want to bleach your screens after going to the link:
Is this to be the latest blood sacrifice coming out of a bowed Bush White House? And I say here, now, STOP THE INSANITY. Throwing our best, our brightest to the insatiable leftist beast makes them hungrier. Rumsfeld, now Bolton? WTF? and Why?
Someone call that asshat Charlie Chafee McCarthy - who btw - got what was coming to him, and tell that dickless wonder to let the Bolton nomination out of committee. Someone whisper in Chafee’s ear that he has a chance here to do something consequential. To do something historic, important, meaningful - he’ll probably wet his pants at the thought of actually doing anything
And later:
UPDATE: Mara writes, “Look at this asshole”:
Sen. Lincoln Chafee, R-R.I., who was defeated by Democrat Sheldon Whitehouse on Tuesday, told reporters in Rhode Island on Thursday that he would continue opposing Bolton. That would deny Republicans the votes they would need to move Bolton’s nomination from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to the full Senate. Seattle News here
Typical leftist Jew hater
She’s quite the spitfire, that Pam.
SeattleDan
November 13, 2006 at 4:49 pm
2What a tough assignment, Adam. It means we gotta go look at what these people are saying. Ok, here’s Ann’s take on last week:
http://www.anncoulter.com/cgi-local/welcome.cgi
Now I feel dirty.
Jim (OJNTNJ)
November 13, 2006 at 5:53 pm
3Hold up a mirror to the pundits, insert the word “neoconservative republican” everytime they use the word “democrat” or “democratic,” and some of their rants actually hold water.
GW
November 13, 2006 at 6:33 pm
4I hate homework - always have. That’s why Momma got Daddy to send in James Baker, Lee Hamilton, and the rest of the posse to come up with new ideas for winning in Iraq. This Iraq Study Group is like those nerdy tutors and test takers she hired for me at Yale. I guess that’s all taken care of now and I can sit back and take it easy while the pinheads do all the work. It’s good to be rich! Barney - bad dog! Not on the Presidential Chippendale. That’s Mr. Chaney’s favorite chair. Oh well. LAURA! Clean up in the Oval Office! Heh, heh.
George
November 13, 2006 at 6:34 pm
5Adam, I am afraid that link you posted is broken. The audio is all messed up. Everyone is talking at the same time. What’s the point?
piglet
November 13, 2006 at 6:37 pm
6Can I skip the assignment, bike back through campus and try to make dinner out of that last package of ramen and a week-old weenie I found in the fridge, and maybe those mushrooms I hope that I actually purchased and aren’t just “volunteers,” then watch old movies all night instead of finishing the required reading?
Good times.
Fran
November 13, 2006 at 6:43 pm
7What still amazes me is that so many Republicans are still blaming Clinton. They’ve been in charge for six years, and it’s still all Clinton’s fault. Makes me tired.
ken the llama
November 13, 2006 at 7:25 pm
8::We’ll get together then, you know we’ll have a good time then.::
*howls*
you know, i’ve had that dang song in my head for days, and it finally went away this morning, and… awk, there it is again…
thanks, adam =P
Katie
November 13, 2006 at 7:27 pm
9Adam -
My research turned up the fact that both you AND Mo are scheduled for the Dec 14th taping of WWDTM!!!! Bonus!
So that means I need to head to Chicago with bottle of Maker’s Mark and …… hey! Mo, what’s your poison??
Katie
p.s. I really did try to go read the crazed rantings of the religous wrong, but they make my brain hurt, so I went researching fun stuff instead. (And this explains why I never finished college…….. )
SeattleDan
November 13, 2006 at 7:58 pm
10Fran, everytime I get a check back from the bank marked NSF, it’s Clinton’s fault; everytime the Seahawks lose, it’s Clinton’s fault; everytime I have a lousy day, it’s Clinton’s fault. I can document these accusations, easy.
I’m sure you all remember the bad days of the Clinton Administration. The long bread lines, the rampant unemployment, the Clintonvilles that dotted the maps of all the big cities. How did we ever survive those times?
Mike Z
November 13, 2006 at 9:49 pm
11Geez. I forget how gross those shows are. What a gigantic waste of energy. How many barrels a day does it take to keep H&C going?
Does anybody REALLY watch those shows? Or are they only watched by other pundits, pols, and obsessive-compulsive bloggers? It reminds me of those little niches of academia where absolutely nothing relevant to the outside world is happening, but for the people on the inside, it is everything.
Psinorhc
November 13, 2006 at 10:05 pm
12I have the (mis)forturne of seeing Fox News every time I go to break at work but have become rather good at ignoring it. However, I do recall halfway paying attention election night and thinking, “Shepard Smith just sounds bitter.”
historyenne
November 13, 2006 at 10:34 pm
13It’s a sad, sad day when Michelle Malkin is the “open minded” and “forgiving” one of the Republican mouthpieces.
historyenne
November 13, 2006 at 10:34 pm
14It’s a sad, sad day when Michelle Malkin is the “open minded” and “forgiving” one among the Republican mouthpieces.
historyenne
November 13, 2006 at 10:35 pm
15Oops, apologies for the double post
historyenne
November 13, 2006 at 10:37 pm
16BTW, Adam, when you say “crazy, asymmetrical eye movements” does that include Michelle’s eyebrows dancing about in the middle of her forehead? Cuz I love that part
Dale
November 13, 2006 at 10:46 pm
17“It reminds me of those little niches of academia where absolutely nothing relevant to the outside world is happening, but for the people on the inside, it is everything. ”
Aack, aack, knife to the heart! Will someone please step in and assure me that a life dedicated to 17th century Spanish literature is not comparable to being Michelle Malkin?
siobhan
November 14, 2006 at 7:22 am
18Dale, your paycheck should be enough to convince you that it’s not comparable. Oh wait… that probably didn’t make you feel any better.
Mike Z
November 14, 2006 at 10:50 am
19Dale -
Cheer up. Maybe there will be some sort of “Iberian Crisis” in the near future, and your knowledge of the area’s history and culture will be in high demand when we go do our nation-building.
Murray
November 14, 2006 at 11:18 am
20I’ve made a point to avoid right winged bullshit. It exists only to anger and frustrate us liberals. When we tune in, it makes sponsorship worthwhile which perpetuates the bullshit.
We already know their, at best, passing relationship with the truth, their heart stopping hypocrisy, and total immunity to irony. Why revisit this dark and chilling place?
Several weeks ago I was subbing in a local school and as the kids made their way into class one of the girls, pronounced to the class that this was Mr. Murray who has that great baby owl. Another student said that it wasn’t a “baby” owl, to which the first insisted with a shocking amount of force, “Yes it is! I’m right and you’re wrong!”
The other girl let it go. “Wow” I thought, I’m standing right here, if they wanted to know the correct answer it would be easy enough to just ask. (The owl I often bring to school is a 10-year-old Screech Owl of diminutive size but about 2-3 times the normal life span of a wild bird.) It dawned on me that knowing the truth was of little importance, what was vital to the first girl was forcing her point of view onto others.
She has all the makings of a first rate, right wing pundant.
dee
November 14, 2006 at 11:29 am
21Upon reflection, you’re all right, Who wants to read or view any of that stuff anymore? It’s all a background noise of pathetic sputtering and why give them the traffic? Last I heard only about 30% of the American public takes these lunatics seriously, so in a few months they’re all going to be talking to themselves and the rest of us adults can carry on with our lives.
So Mr. Felber, the class respectfully declines to complete the assignment.
AND — if any of you are looking for a good cause to support, I suggest www.anysoldier.com. It’s kind of a clearinghouse for requests from members of the military for care packages and letters. Go, browse, pick a person, send something. And get your Scout troop, bowling team, office, knitting circle to do the same.
Mieke
November 14, 2006 at 11:58 am
22Immediately following the election, I just had to see what they were saying on www.freerepublic.com. So handy! They collect all the “unhinged” rantings of Republicans after the election in one place! Don’t have the time right now to search their forum archives for the post about Rumsfeld’s resignation, but opinions generally went along the lines of, “Those %$#*ing Democrats won’t rest until they annihilate all of our leaders. They’re going to get Rove, Rice, and Cheney next!” Would that it were so. I must say, I find it refreshing to see the paranoia set in as they realise they may actually face some investigation into their actions of the past 6 years, and that bill is now due. Imagine the “unhinging” in the boardroom over at Halliburton. Let the games begin.
waterfowler
November 14, 2006 at 12:09 pm
23Thanks alot Adam & Ken, I’ve been promising dad I’d take him fishing soon, but I’ve been working too much lately and that song has been haunting me for the last month. Guess I’m fishing this weekend.
Certainly I get a homework pass since I’ve already been brainwashed.
Good Luck Wolverines.
Amen dee, awesome link.
Mike Z
November 14, 2006 at 12:48 pm
24Murray -
I’m sure you see that all too often with the kiddies.
And some people grow out of it and become thoughtful adults, while others…well…I guess they never really mature mentally, and so they become propagandists and idealogues.
nato
November 14, 2006 at 1:18 pm
25I’ve never been all that keen on doing my homework assignments correctly, so instead of RightWingRants, here’s the latest dose of GYWO: http://www.mnftiu.cc/mnftiu.cc/war59.html
siobhan
November 14, 2006 at 1:38 pm
26Nato, I checked mnftiu first thing this morning because i though it was about time for another set. I’ve just got to learn to sleep later.
mastmaker
November 14, 2006 at 3:31 pm
27Did I miss something last week? The rantings of (foaming-at-the-mouth) Hannity and Michelle suggested to me that:
1. Republicans won the election by a landslide
2. Democrats are now looking for a conciliatory handout / crumbs at the table.
3. These above-mentioned foaming frontrunners of the above-mentioned victory are contemptously denying the democrats of those crumbs.
BTW, thanks Adam for the most hilarious you-tube piece of the week.
Ann
November 14, 2006 at 5:16 pm
28Dan, I couldn’t help myself—I went to Ann’s site. This is the part I love best:
Seriously, how can she make a concern about inadequate protection for the troops sound like a bad thing? A partisan issue? That beyotch is cra-a-azy!
SeattleDan
November 14, 2006 at 6:12 pm
29I loved the way she turned the election results into something of a victory, as she points out that in the sixth year of two term presidents, the party that holds the White House historically lose seats, and the Democratic seat pick-ups this year dont match some other pick-ups, at least since Roosevelt. And then by some tortured logic uses this information to show that the American people favor our current Iraq policy.
No, you’re right. There’s no logic here. She’s just plain nuts.
GW
November 14, 2006 at 6:21 pm
30Well, I must say I’m glad that meeting with the Big 3 automakers is over with. We put it off for months and months but today was the day. This is the week that Mr. Cheney said I have to eat crow shit and smile while doing it. The Turdblossom lost his mojo, we took a thumpin’ and now we have to play nice with the Defeatocrats - at least as long as the cameras are rolling.
Anyway, these guys from the Big 3 sat down in the Oval Office and immediately started yammering about burdensome health benefits, favorable exchange rates for the yen, high steel tarrifs, and on and on and on and I think my head would have exploded if it hadn’t been for those diecast replicas of the 2007 Dodge, GM and Ford cars they brought with them. Those suckers will flat roll on a good hardwood floor. The Chevy was the fastest, at least until Barney got aholt of it and bit 2 of the dadgum tars off it.
Mr. Cheney said to get plenty of rest because next week we’re flying to Asia and he says I need to be sharp so I don’t accidentally insult any of those gook or chinks. And to watch what I eat so I don’t get sick and ralf into the Prime Minister’s lap, like you know who!
meantim
November 14, 2006 at 6:22 pm
31I just composed an awesome song. I’ve never had a music come to me so fast before. I forgot how much procrastination helped my creativity.
Just Jay
November 14, 2006 at 6:33 pm
32For a summary of non-pundit rants, the Seattle Times letters page from Monday Nov 13 is a good place to start. All of the letters are dire predictions of a world going to Hell. My favorite rant is how the Democratic Party has received congratulatory notes from Hamas, Hezbollah, Al-Quaeda and various Iraqi strongmen. Somehow the mainstream media missed all those notes. Or maybe the liberal media just isn’t reporting it. By the way, the upper left hand corner of the county has now succeeded in driving two conservative pundits away. Micelle Malkin used to write for the Seattle Times, and now James J. Na, who worked for the same fine folks who brought us Intelligent Design has also fled east.
ice weasel
November 14, 2006 at 8:25 pm
33Ah, sweet dee always coming with good answers. How can anyone top pammy anyway? She’s a complete lunatic. And if you’re not familiar with her and you think that transscript was awful, visit her site and watch one of her videos. Complete and utter psycho.
But like many here, I really don’t abide with most of what is tagged as “right wing” media. It’s mostly the same thing, over and over again and it’s not very entertaining. It’s certainly not informative.
That said, in my opinion, the worst offenders of late? You guessed it, NPR. For an organization that has pretenses to objectivity they continue their meteroic drop down the slimey, sputum covered slip-n-slide towards completely wingnut hackery. I usually try to stomach some of Morning Edition, once an avery listenable and interesting program. Now, it’s really just Good Morning America with better voice overs. maraliason’s regular regurgitations of republican talking points make steno sue schmidt jealous. And from what I hear judith miller is ready to kick cokie roberts ass for usurping her role as dominatrix of disinformation.
Sadly, the disease has begun affecting affiliates. I listen to podcasts of Michael Krasny’s Forum from San Francisco’s KQED. Krasny probably has one of best shows in the country and has for some time. Though I’ve noticed a lot of fill-in hosts of late who can’t maintain things. Recently one of these fill-in hosts had John Yoo on and for an hour Yoo spewed forth his nonsense (This guy is fucking professor? At Berkeley?) and it went unchallenged. An objective hosts duty is not to let the guest do whatever they want. Same story when some group of asshats came on Forum to do a post mortum on rummy. I’m sure donny felt his balls being tickled wherever he was because all the guests couldn’t heap enough praise on the failure that is otherwise known as rumsfeld.
Look, objectivity does entail presenting multiple sides of any story, well, sort of. Actually, objectivty demands that you present demonstrable fact colored in with reasonable, thoughtful opinion. The idea that NPR has bought into this nonsense that you present a wingnut side and a centrist side to a story and let whatever they say stand is intellectually bankrupt. That isn’t balance it’s an abidcation of journalistic responsibility. Come to think of it, it’s fox news, or msnbc, or most other acronyms (I know fox isn’t an acronym, quit parsing that closely, relax, have a drink).
It’s sad. It is. But to live in denial and pretend a pathetic imitation of most of the media surrounded a ghost-like veneer of their past makes NPR somehow the “best choice” is pretty unsatisfying.
Ah, now that I think of it, I think it’s hilarious that john tierney, the second dumbest asshole on the planet, just quit the NYT op-ed page in sort of libertarian snit. It was kind of funny in a typically tierney-like, flaccid, inaccurate way.
ice weasel
November 14, 2006 at 8:26 pm
34Sorry about the typing. Tomorrow, I submit. I go buy the new keyboard.
SeattleDan
November 14, 2006 at 10:19 pm
35Just Jay, I hate to dis the Seattle Times after the glowing profile of my store in its Sunday magazine. But editorially, the paper is so out of touch with the people who live here, it’s laughable. I think I’ve posted that here that in Seattle we’d elect Che Guevara the Mayor of our fair city,if he was still alive and wanted to run, and while that may be hyperbole, it’s close to the truth. The Times endorsed the GOP candidate for Senator, who has soundly trashed; it initiated and supported a repeal of the estate “death” tax and that measure was completely rejected. In fact, most of the issues it endorsed and the candidates it supported (they endorsed Democrats in the state legislature that were sure to win anyway), that it was laughable.
But they have some good reporters. Especially the ones who wrote and photographed my store. Anyone need to see the link again?
David
November 15, 2006 at 6:59 am
36How dare we Democrats think we won, since the Republicans just temporarily fell behind? And how dare we celebrate, or Lobster forbid, represent and put into action anything the majority of Americans think or support? How dare we?
ice weasel
November 15, 2006 at 8:05 am
37Nice piece at Huffington Post this morning…
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2006/11/14/fox-news-internal-memo-_n_341 28.html
Nothing new of course, but still, it’s always interesting to see inside the beast.
(: Tom :)
November 15, 2006 at 10:52 am
38Homework? What is this homework thing you speak of? I got all my homework done before class ended…
This was soooo easy anyhow. You can’t turn around without tripping over a half dozen Reich wingnut types speaking in tongues, er, writhing in agony. So I’d like to nominate the Swanky One for this gem:
America’s Dem-nable Pit. It’s got it all: homo-hating, islamo-bashing, WATB religious persecution of the wrong group (don’t christians get their knickers in a twist with frightening speed when you appear to treat them unfavorably?), and evolution-trashing.
I know this was done to scare the rubes before the election. It still ranks up there with the Deomcratic Derangement Syndrome sufferers who have lost it since last Tuesday. And I can only imagine how he feels about the situation now…
But the best part is the hotlinks to condoms, hotel rooms, and debt consolidation for military types that come up when you put your cursor over the linked words in the article. Could the Swankster be taking from Mammon while he spews his christian hatred on the internets?
tess
November 15, 2006 at 2:24 pm
39You want us to do what?
Actually, my brother (a gun nut, but not a Republican) reads through the forums at ar15.com and little green footballs, and had this to say about some of their ranting: “It makes me feel better reading through their forum. No global warming, we’re winning the war on terror, etc. It’s like living in a dream world with magical fairies farting sugar out of their asses.”
Think!
November 15, 2006 at 5:34 pm
40Democracy Now! today featured Dennis Kucinich, George McGovern, and some dude from the American Enterprise Institute. You could just about see the foam coming out of the AEI guy’s mouth, and the smoke out of his ears. He had no contribution except to insult the other two interviewees (in terms that only seemed pathetic to anyone who would even watch Democracy Now!). He must’ve thought he was on some other show. It was hilarious.
SeattleDan
November 15, 2006 at 9:55 pm
41Completely off topic, but this woman’s plight has come to us through a friend we made at Jesus’ General. Please scroll through the blog (it is short), and if there is anything you can do, it would be appreciated. Our blog friend, Anntichristcoulter, is managing the site.
We are looking into seeing if we cant get a FredHutch grant to help her. And if you can help, Thank You.
For Leola
waterfowler
November 16, 2006 at 10:38 am
42Hope all’s well Mr. Cooper.
Harold
November 16, 2006 at 11:32 am
43Heh. I typed a longish response a few days ago and it appears to have gotten eaten - not by Fanny, I think, or by the moderation queue, but by some buggish hiccup in the system.
It’s just as well, I suppose. The bottom line: I try to avoid the extreme right-wing nutjob sites because their insanity is contagious. My post was proof of that.
SeattleDan
November 16, 2006 at 2:02 pm
44I’ll echo fowler and hope all our friends in North Carolina are doing ok. Check in when you get a chance.
cooper
November 16, 2006 at 3:01 pm
45Hi guys. Everything’s A-Okay here in Charlotte. We did get shiploads of rain and there were suspicions that tornados hit in a neighboring county, but we missed out on the really heavy weather. That truly bad stuff was about 200 miles east of here.
wf, I bet you’ve seen a few twisters in your day, huh?
Edith, Mother of all Felbers
November 16, 2006 at 3:10 pm
46>>We did get shiploads of rain >>
Cooper, I applaud your gift for euphemism!
Outstanding!
cooper
November 16, 2006 at 4:48 pm
47Edith, I am honored!
By the way, you do get to pick your new nickname, now that you have a grandchild. My mom could not bear to be called “Grandma” or “Granny”, so from the outset she announced that she would be called “Mimi”. Pick your nickname before it gets picked for you! Remember, you’ve got a couple of comedians in the family - you may not care for what they dream up.
dee
November 16, 2006 at 6:05 pm
48Very tropical weather this morning, if your idea of tropical is a monsoon. Rainy windy and warm until about 10 AM and then the front had passed and the temperature dropped about twenty degrees. All those leaves I blew last Sunday are either back on my lawn or about two blocks down the road, blocking the storm drain. I love November in NC!
libby
November 16, 2006 at 7:29 pm
49Ok, SeattleDan, what’s that link again? I love supporting local business. I’m in Seattle myself, and more than favor the Stranger when it comes to my news sources, despite one of my best clients being the very, very high up in the Times…their endorsement of McGavick was just embarrassing.Seattle is the least liberal Liberal City I know of. It makes me ache for Portland, land of bike lanes, adequate public transport, sincere urban planning, no sales tax, etc….
M. Moskowitz
November 16, 2006 at 7:36 pm
50Darn! My friend who picks-up the garbage at Josh Bolton’s townhouse wasn’t able to get me face time with Condie before they left for Asia and the APEC meeting. He promised, dammit! I had just the thing for their first stopover. Since the police there are so tough with public smokers, spitters and litterbugs in general and tend to rough them up for the slightest infraction, I thought maybe the Presidential party would be interested in advancing their free trade agenda with one my latest products, the Singapore Sling - perfect for that island nation’s scofflaws and truculent teenagers with a chip on their shoulders - not to mention a simple sublux or compound dislocation - after crossing the line with the local constables. Priced to move!
cooper
November 16, 2006 at 7:46 pm
51http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/opinions/cartoonsandvideos/toles_ main.html?name=Toles&date=11152006
Sharon
November 16, 2006 at 8:19 pm
52The monsoon hit the Connecticut shores tonight. It was raining sideways there for awhile, and I had to drive home from New Haven in it. It’s quieted down a little now, but I’m afraid to go down and see what my basement looks like.
SeattleTammy
November 16, 2006 at 11:00 pm
53Sharon,
welcome to the Pineapple Express, East Coast.
I still haven’t looked at the basement.
Today we could sing our theme song:
the Bluuu-est SKYs you’ll e-VER see are in SEA-aaattle…
sing it with me!
Libby, we gotta talk!
another YLlama
November 17, 2006 at 4:56 am
54Sharon, I know what your basement looks like - it is rectangular, about 7 - 8 feet high with piles of junk stacked everywhere… remarkably like mine, no doubt.
David
November 17, 2006 at 5:49 am
55Basements? Basements? We ain’t got no stinkin’ basements. We just pile all that stuff on the porch or in the dead cars out in the yard. (I did sing along with Tammy’s Song - hope I got the tune right.)
Harold
November 17, 2006 at 8:48 am
56I managed to not get any water in my basement yesterday, but flash flooding did massive damage to places all around me in Northeastern Pennsylvania. I’m guessing that this is the same storm system that hit the Carolinas and Connecticut? I haven’t been paying much attention to the weather on TV lately - we just had an ISO audit at work, and that consumed most of my attention.
It's Pat!
November 17, 2006 at 9:23 am
57Geez Harold, I know what an ISO audit is. Do you know what a TS-16949 audit is? If you do, that’s sad.
Weather report for Minnesota: All the leaves are brown, and the sky is gray. I went for a walk on a winter’s day. I would be safe and warm, if I was in LA.
Rebecca
November 17, 2006 at 10:19 am
58Pat - where in Minnesota are you? I live in Eagan!
And yes, it’s resembling winter here. Although, no snow… yet.
ollie
November 17, 2006 at 10:33 am
59Ah, yeh. I know what you mean. I’m in Bemidji and it’s colder than a witch’s tit.
SeattleDan
November 17, 2006 at 10:53 am
60Libby, do you mean my store link? It’s:
http://www.jacksonst-books.com/
In the heart of Seattle’s historic Central District.
Ann
November 17, 2006 at 11:03 am
61Tammy, I have the lyric sheet, complete with a cover photo of the Bolt bros, that prissy lead bride, and the tavern owner with a heart of gold.
dee
November 17, 2006 at 11:14 am
62Somewhere in Redmond there’s a cubicle with Bobby Sherman’s picture on the wall…
Ann
November 17, 2006 at 11:28 am
63And David Soul! Don’t forget David!
Ann
November 17, 2006 at 11:31 am
64I also have a large poster of Ilya Kuryakin. Anyone who visits my office and doesn’t recognize him is treated as a child.
Harold
November 17, 2006 at 12:24 pm
65Hey, does this count as crazy right-wing extra credit? Just in case anyone thought the Bush administration had seen the error of its ways, the answer is “Suck it, you pinko bastards!”
http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/11/17/family.planning.ap/index.html
Contraception, abortion foe to head family-planning office
POSTED: 1:09 p.m. EST, November 17, 2006
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Bush administration, to the consternation of its critics, has picked the medical director of an organization that opposes premarital sex, contraception and abortion to lead the office that oversees federally funded teen pregnancy, family planning and abstinence programs.
The appointment of Eric Keroack, a Marblehead, Massachusetts, obstetrician and gynecologist, to oversee the federal Office of Population Affairs and its $283 million annual budget has angered family-planning advocates.
Keroack currently is medical director of A Woman’s Concern, a Christian nonprofit. The Dorchester, Massachusetts-based organization runs six centers in the state that offer free pregnancy testing, ultrasounds and counseling.
It also works to “help women escape the temptation and violence of abortion,” according to its statement of faith. And it opposes contraception, saying its use increases out-of-wedlock pregnancy and abortion rates.
“A Woman’s Concern is persuaded that the crass commercialization and distribution of birth control is demeaning to women, degrading of human sexuality and adverse to human health and happiness,” its contraception policy reads in part.
dee
November 17, 2006 at 1:05 pm
66Illya! Oooooooh! I’ve got the first season of UNCLE on my wait list on Netflix. Yes I know it’s black and white so you don’t get the full cool blue eyes effect, but who can forget the famous “Just pretend I’m a rock” scene from The Giuoco Piano Affair?
cooper
November 17, 2006 at 1:19 pm
67I was listening to NPR on the way into work today about how the Bush Administration does not check the science used by the abstinence only organization that receive federal funds. It doesn’t require the organizations to verify the science used in their statements or publications, either. And those simpletons thought th’ thumpin’ was just about Iraq.
siobhan
November 17, 2006 at 1:23 pm
68No, no Cooper - the thumpin’ was because they weren’t sufficiently conservative.
dee
November 17, 2006 at 1:28 pm
69Illya! Ooooooooh! I have the first season of UNCLE in my wait list on Netflix. Yes I know it’s in black and white so you don’t get the full cool blue eyes effect, but who can forget the “Just pretend I’m a rock” scene from the Giuoco Piano Affair?
dee
November 17, 2006 at 1:31 pm
70Well shoot I’ve typed the same thing twice now and it’s not showing up at all and I’m not getting a love letter from Franny, either. Let’s see if this works.
dee
November 17, 2006 at 1:32 pm
71Thanks, Fanny, but the moment has passed…
gillian
November 17, 2006 at 1:43 pm
72Ann, one girl’s meat is another girl’s poison -
http://www.all-pictures-photos.com/images/raquel-welch/raquel-welch-02 6-img.jpg
That’s my kind of poster!
Ann
November 17, 2006 at 2:39 pm
73She’s one of history’s most fabulous babes, no argument—but I’m pretty sure I couldn’t have that poster in my office! HR would certainly be paying me a visit (but if they didn’t recognize Ilya…)
SeattleDan
November 17, 2006 at 3:00 pm
74Ilya did sort of define a kind of “cool” that I don’t think exists anymore.
Didn’t his career sort of dry up after “U.N.C.L.E” was cancelled? I can’t recall him doing anything after that.
It's Pat!
November 17, 2006 at 3:03 pm
75I hope Rebecca sees this - i’m just south of you in Northfield.
SeattleDan
November 17, 2006 at 3:06 pm
76Isn’t that where the James-Younger gang had a little problem?
another Matt
November 17, 2006 at 3:12 pm
77David (Ilya K) McCallum has done tons of TV since “uncle” according to the imdb, but it looks like he has avoided the slavic accent since then. I recall he typified TV cool, as did Honey West.
David
November 17, 2006 at 3:24 pm
78Re Raquel link: O…My…God……………………………………..
Harold
November 17, 2006 at 3:27 pm
79I will wait until I am home to check that link!
SeattleDan
November 17, 2006 at 3:49 pm
80Gentelmen, it is worth it. Now if we can find one for the aforementioned Honey West, my day would be made.
Murray
November 17, 2006 at 3:50 pm
81Republicans, God love ‘em. Every single one of them is saying “If they’d have listened to me this wouldn’t have happened.”
Ann, Ilya Kuryakin poster? Wow, David must be like 80 years old now. And Napoleon Solo, who now mostly sells the services of ambulance chasers, must be like 90 or so.
Harold, “it opposes contraception, saying its use increases out-of-wedlock pregnancy and abortion rates.” Boy, have they got that backwards.
dee
November 17, 2006 at 4:08 pm
82Ahem. David McCallum is 73 and is part of the cast of NCIS, in which he plays Dr. “Ducky” Mallard. And as I said in the posts that Fanny ate, I have the first season of UNCLE on my wait list on Netflix. Although it is in black and white and thus one does not get the cool blue eyes effect, one can never forget the “Just pretend I’m a rock” scene in The Giuoco Piano Affair.
Ann, had I known about your Illya fixation at Felberpalooza, we would have polished off a lot more limoncello. Especially since Harold would have been bored to tears and left early.
cooper
November 17, 2006 at 4:50 pm
83SeattleDan, Honey West (a) or Honey West (b)?
http://www.honeywest.com/
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.dustygroove.com/imag es/products/m/mullen_jose_honeywest_101b.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.dust ygroove.com/prip/9/0/387309i.htm&h=348&w=351&sz=40&tbnid=vckZXqTR_Gv_L M:&tbnh=119&tbnw=120&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dhoney%2Bwest&start=3&sa=X&oi=i mages&ct=image&cd=3
Harold
November 17, 2006 at 7:52 pm
84Leave early? Me? NEVAH!
dee, I would have been going on about putting “Teenage Caveman” (with a VERY young Robert Vaughn) on DVD, and about how David McCallum just kind of slouched his way through his performance in a Season 1 episode of Babylon 5. Actually, I may have mentioned “Teenage Caveman” when we passed by Mr. Vaughn’s billboard on the way back from our dinner at the little “Italian restaurant.”
Murray, Keroack and his group know these things through faith. What are you going to counter him with - facts? Studies? “Science”? Everyone knows these are just Democrat talking points!
SeattleDan
November 18, 2006 at 11:11 am
85Coop, I’m going with B.
cooper
November 18, 2006 at 3:40 pm
86Good, Dan; me too.