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<a href="http://tbogg.blogspot.com/">Return to TboggHomePage</a></strong></center>tboggnoreply@blogger.comBlogger90641100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3796903.post-59982826387320259112010-12-03T00:39:00.000-08:002010-12-03T00:40:42.456-08:00Just a reminder...I don't live here anymore. Move on.... I'm not coming back here.So...here.tboggnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3796903.post-15998830064330532252009-05-14T23:20:00.000-07:002009-05-14T23:27:31.752-07:00Just checking in on the empty housetboggnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3796903.post-41087296923475490662008-06-02T22:21:00.000-07:002008-06-02T22:24:54.103-07:00I am a patient boyI wait I wait I wait I waitWaiting for FDL to come back up....tboggnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3796903.post-54281559427593054522007-12-14T18:57:00.001-08:002007-12-14T18:58:07.735-08:00Try here.tboggnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3796903.post-84606625858637633962007-12-05T08:26:00.000-08:002008-12-08T13:56:53.335-08:00Kiss me on the busIf you knew how I felt nowYou wouldn't act so adult nowHurry, hurry, here comes my stoptboggnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3796903.post-5562370777567162242007-12-04T17:24:00.000-08:002007-12-04T17:47:52.944-08:00All things must pass...tboggnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3796903.post-9320819157115341922007-12-04T08:16:00.000-08:002007-12-04T08:41:25.394-08:00Irrelevancy settled down with incoherency and had a childGeorge W. Bush uses his power-mad drunken logic on America:President Bush said Tuesday that the international community should continue to pressure Iran on its nuclear programs, saying a new U.S. intelligence report finding that Tehran halted its development of a nuclear bomb provides an opportunity."I view this report as a warning signal tboggnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3796903.post-33553483512164214992007-12-03T22:36:00.000-08:002008-12-08T13:56:53.518-08:00Late to the partySince I was otherwise occupied today, I just got around to discovering that the employees of the World Bank are getting their Christmas/Kwanzaa/Hanukkah/Festivus/Dido's Birthday party back this year:After a one-year hiatus -- and a whole lot of water under the bridge since then -- the World Bank is bringing back the office Christmas party.Last year, bank leadership, under tboggnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3796903.post-42500675387399200932007-12-03T22:14:00.000-08:002008-12-08T13:56:53.958-08:00Maybe I'm doing it wrongOur man Mitt! has blown several lifetime's worth of tithing on his campaign, and this is the thanks he gets?Mike Huckabee's surge apparently isn't just happening in Iowa — he's moving up nationwide, too. The new Gallup poll has Huck in a three-way tie for second. Rudy Giuliani leads with a 25% plurality, with Huckabee at 16%, Fred Thompson 15%, John McCain 15%, and Mitt tboggnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3796903.post-67779260182350249182007-12-03T21:30:00.000-08:002007-12-03T21:57:57.158-08:00*Doink!*... I could have been bloggingBut instead I spent the evening letting Tony Kornheiser annoy the crap out of me on Monday Night Football. Jesus, he sucks. I don't know why I didn't just turn the sound off. Normally I would suggest the enthusiastic and profane mrs tbogg as his replacement but I think viewers would eventually get tired of "Gettthimmmm!" followed by "Oh fuck." every time Tomtboggnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3796903.post-43658582781518495592007-12-02T18:42:00.000-08:002008-12-08T13:56:54.230-08:00I'm ready for my confessionalBack when I was a Catholic (Jesus Christ, that was, like, a shitload of years ago) I used to have to go to confession. And when you're only ten years old you don't have much to confess since you're hardly old enough to understand, much less commit, any of the really cool sins. I was pretty much limited to the "name in vain" one and the one about lying; adultery tboggnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3796903.post-87536856199959327792007-12-02T16:06:00.000-08:002007-12-02T16:27:29.779-08:00Bring me the head of Kathryn Jean Lopez.Faced with the prospect of Michelle Malkin hiding out in the bushes and reporting on her kitchen counters ("...appear to be strewn with empty Chunky Monkey tubs. Communist ice cream!") K-Lo blubbers out an apology of sorts over the Lying in Lebanon affair:Michelle Malkin says there isn't a "just blogging" excuse — and that cuts to the heart of my tboggnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3796903.post-88539244629472363462007-12-02T15:33:00.000-08:002007-12-02T15:56:21.352-08:00Sunday Five Brothers Blogging - Mormon Firedrill EditionI realize that most Romney's look alike but, when playing flag/touch/light tackling football, do they really need to wear colored bibs to figure out who is on which team?"Throw it to the white guy! Throw it to the white guy!"I don't even want to get into the weird sexual dynamic of wearing one of your flags by your penis... unless you're tboggnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3796903.post-65976989789867253332007-12-02T12:29:00.000-08:002007-12-02T12:33:15.904-08:00Lactation NationLG&M joins the Chris Muir Weird Pervy Watch.tboggnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3796903.post-3750305981523356572007-12-01T18:54:00.000-08:002007-12-01T19:02:10.377-08:00Uptown Saturday NightThe bootylicious mrs tbogg and I are off to see the fabulous Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings...so you'll just have to get down with your own bad selves tonight.tboggnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3796903.post-55889291568839356372007-12-01T08:29:00.000-08:002007-12-01T08:35:45.433-08:00Ann Althouse to now provide own punchlinesLa Althouse on La Clinton: Did yesterday's hostage crisis teach us anything about Hillary Clinton?You might think we got a chance to see how she deals with a crisis, but that's not really so. She had no executive authority in the matter. The local police had to handle the situation. We did get to see how she looks upon a crisis from a distance — or, at tboggnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3796903.post-88274114280955761892007-11-30T22:47:00.000-08:002008-12-08T13:56:54.517-08:00Miss Perino RegretsDana feels really really really bad about this. Just awfulDana Perino hasn't got time for the Helen Thomas or the pain: Q Why should we depend on him? MS. PERINO: Because he is the commander on the ground, Helen. He's the one who is making sure that the situation is moving — Q You mean how many more people we kill? MS. PERINO: Helen, I find it really unfortunate tboggnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3796903.post-89325585468150925412007-11-30T18:04:00.000-08:002007-11-30T18:07:01.972-08:00Friday Night Palate Cleanser10,000 YearsThe Honeydogstboggnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3796903.post-4774519380549991872007-11-30T11:32:00.000-08:002007-11-30T11:40:18.671-08:00This will, of course, be good news for RepublicansHeadline:Hostages Taken At Clinton Campaign OfficeTomorrows Washington Times headline:Hillary Clinton Proven To Be Too DivisiveTomorrows Washington Post headline:Did Obama Campaign Recruit Mad Bomber?Tomorrows Michelle Malkin headline: Fuck! He Wasn't A Muslim.tboggnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3796903.post-8082697097225093532007-11-30T10:58:00.000-08:002007-11-30T13:40:21.911-08:00Dog Whistle ResponseThe little yappy type dogs that make up the righty-kennel start howling in unison and that can only mean that Howie Kurtz perks up his ears:Conservative bloggers, some of whom deride CNN as the "Clinton News Network," ripped the network yesterday. At InstaPundit, Glenn Reynolds wrote: "Once again, CNN demonstrates an inexplicable failure to background-check pro-Hillary tboggnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3796903.post-67709200716886466222007-11-29T18:02:00.000-08:002008-12-08T13:56:54.813-08:00Pre-Friday Not-So-Random TenWe're on our way out to go see Aimee Mann's 2nd Annual Christmas Show at the Belly Up, and because I think that Ms. Mann is probably the best female songwriter working these days (and this isn't to say that Joni Mitchell, Carole King, Tori Amos, and others aren't working these days. Just not at the same level) I thought this week I would just list my top ten favorite tboggnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3796903.post-43388063287649568852007-11-29T17:53:00.000-08:002008-12-08T13:56:55.252-08:00Thursday Basset BloggingAll Sleep Edition. As if there were All Running or All Obeying Commands Editions.Yes. Basset penis. Just try finding that on the A-list blogs.(Click to enlarge if you dare)tboggnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3796903.post-14136303444470966552007-11-29T08:15:00.000-08:002007-11-29T08:35:34.229-08:00The Death of Citizen JournalismAs shown by the post below, Citizen Journalism must die. Because, after all, what are the YouTube debates other than a chance for the average American to ask the questions (that Joe Klein doesn't have time for) , in order to get answers (that Joe Klein wouldn't understand). Unfortunately we run the risk of someone possibly asking a candidate a question that might tboggnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3796903.post-25793859201390847382007-11-29T07:43:00.000-08:002007-11-29T07:47:39.052-08:00Never mind the Mexicans, here come the AmericansShorter Michelle "Stalkin'" Malkin:All citizens must be investigated before being allowed to ask questions of our leadersBetter gas up the minivan, she has a lot of drive-by's to do this week.tboggnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3796903.post-81868743118628692142007-11-28T20:25:00.000-08:002008-12-08T13:56:55.362-08:00You tube. I'm not gonna tube*Image by Banksy.I've only had about three and a half hours of sleep in the past thirty six (don't ask) so I'm not up to teh blogging tonight, but here's a capsule review of the Great YouTube Debate tonight that is amusing in itself, more so considering the source:So, a good night for for the lowest denominator, a bad night for the GOP. America got to see a vaguely tboggnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3796903.post-84088433709294470532007-11-28T06:35:00.000-08:002007-11-28T15:44:47.132-08:00cougcoughbullshitcoughcoughOur man Mitt!:At an availability with reporters here, Romney answered questions about today's report suggesting that he would not appoint Muslims to his Cabinet. "No, that's not what I said. His question was, Did I need to have a Muslim in my Cabinet in order to confront radical jihad, or would it be important to have a Muslim in my Cabinet?' And I said no, I don't tboggnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3796903.post-85115252275267277532007-11-28T06:12:00.000-08:002007-11-28T15:44:24.281-08:001-800-GOT-GOATOh my:The head of the federal agency investigating Karl Rove's White House political operation is facing allegations that he improperly deleted computer files during another probe, using a private computer-help company, Geeks on Call.Scott Bloch runs the Office of Special Counsel, an agency charged with protecting government whistleblowers and enforcing a ban on federal employees tboggnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3796903.post-18696942224985719062007-11-27T23:00:00.001-08:002008-12-08T13:56:55.657-08:00The sound of the other shoe droppingNewsbusters! 11/13/2007:As Ken Shepherd of this site has pointed out before, if the military falls short of its recruiting goals the MSM trumpet it and frame it as a result of an unpopular war. So how will the media spin this? How will they react to the news that all military components meet and/or exceed their recruiting goals? The first month of fiscal tboggnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3796903.post-90889627921436932112007-11-27T22:58:00.000-08:002007-11-27T23:00:08.617-08:00Off the boobiesStill not funny.Honestly, I mean, what the hell?tboggnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3796903.post-34116765785077296212007-11-27T22:19:00.000-08:002007-11-27T22:26:41.089-08:00Born yesterday. No. Really. Just yesterday.Shorter Peter Beinart:Obama needs to remind people that Hillary Clinton can't wash her previous war support out of her hair...like someone else I know.tboggnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3796903.post-25353109850597284882007-11-27T18:12:00.000-08:002007-11-27T22:55:58.709-08:00Father forgive us for what we must doYou forgive us we'll forgive youWe'll forgive each other till we both turn blueThen we'll whistle and go fishing in heaven.- John PrineExcept for the occasional post, I don't really walk the Joke Line beat. God knows he has enough people sniggering at his complete inability to do more than indulge in Cocktail Weenie Reporting where he breathlessly and tboggnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3796903.post-18197963229481334082007-11-27T08:26:00.000-08:002007-11-27T08:28:32.908-08:00Who wants to be a millionaire?Shorter Thomas Sowell:There but for reality goes you.tboggnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3796903.post-1357935509496477402007-11-26T21:51:00.000-08:002008-12-08T13:56:55.801-08:00The Missionary PositionPresident Mitt Romney finds suitable positions for the wogsIt seems that our man Mitt! thinks it's okay for Muslims to be a part of his administration... just as long as they don't mind sitting in the back of the MittMobile:I asked Mr. Romney whether he would consider including qualified Americans of the Islamic faith in his cabinet as advisers on national security matterstboggnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3796903.post-81761179356199163022007-11-26T21:01:00.000-08:002007-11-26T21:13:54.284-08:00Boobies!For those keeping track at home, Sam the scoliotic female from the execrable Day By Day cartoon strip gave birth to twins and she's been breastfeeding them...for three days running.SundayMondayTuesdayChris Muir: no longer an ass man.Chris Muir: still not funny.tboggnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3796903.post-898743953370637972007-11-26T18:09:00.000-08:002008-12-08T13:56:55.935-08:00Dr. Melissa, Chiropractic Psychologist explains it all to youThe Bad Idea Bears: "Let's get drunk on patriotism and invade Iraq! Yay!"When we last checked in with Dr. Melissa, she was explaining the dangers that still awaited us because Bill Clinton was once (okay, probably more than once) on the receiving end of a blow job and, given how fastidious Dr. Melissa is about teh hygiene one can only tboggnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3796903.post-57331634997264889232007-11-26T17:50:00.000-08:002008-12-08T13:56:56.098-08:00You're a good man.......for the copy of Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography.By the way, today would have been Charles Schulz's 85th birthday.tboggnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3796903.post-32364283595532503892007-11-26T09:31:00.000-08:002007-11-26T11:07:32.954-08:00Black FridayI mentioned this last year and I'll repeat it again:Every year after the Black Friday shopping blitz, the media turns to retail analysts who are generally pleased and optimistic because of an increase in same store sales over the previous year. What they never seem to factor in is the amount of product that was sold at low margin, cost, or below cost. Unless someone like Wal-Mart tboggnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3796903.post-65679661393171218192007-11-25T18:32:00.000-08:002008-12-08T13:56:56.412-08:00HIX FROM STIX NIX PIX, GET CLIXLive from the hinterlands, it's Entertainment Tonight with Hollywood Don Surber:You had better odds of being struck by lightning than seeing this bomb.The New York Post reported this morning that Brian De Palma’s “Redacted” is Hollywood’s latest BDS antiwar film to bomb at the box office. In fact, it was the H-bomb of this genre as it turned off more people than “tboggnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3796903.post-77498465346904837792007-11-24T23:41:00.000-08:002008-12-08T13:56:56.675-08:00The Embryonic Man"Hi. My name is Steve. I'd shake your hand except I'm notplanning on developing any rudimentary limbs until next month.So.... How about them Mets?"Box Turtle Ben has given us much joy through the years; much of it unintentional, the rest copied from other people. This week he comes up with something truly Domenechesque:The issue at hand was taxpayer funding of said research – tboggnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3796903.post-67023799636385770052007-11-24T22:50:00.000-08:002008-12-08T13:56:57.079-08:00Hair Club for He-MenThere is something off-putting about John Edwards that Mark Steyn can't seem to put his finger on:Over on the Democratic side, meanwhile, they've got a woman, a black, a Hispanic, a preening metrosexual with an angled nape – and they all think exactly the same. They remind me of "The Johnny Mathis Christmas Album," which Columbia used to re-release every year in a different tboggnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3796903.post-74895303230881969242007-11-23T21:59:00.000-08:002007-11-23T22:13:22.978-08:00Shake, rattle and spinShorter Kathryn Jean Lopez:I guess Michael J. Fox owes Rush Limbaugh an apology now, doesn't he?Relive the magic:tboggnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3796903.post-66796274883655316202007-11-23T15:22:00.000-08:002007-11-23T15:41:07.303-08:00Guest HostessSlow day so here's Kathy Griffintboggnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3796903.post-53344469706368093012007-11-23T10:33:00.000-08:002007-11-23T10:47:16.794-08:00I got two turntables and a funny hatPope MC Benedict XVI:The Pope is considering a dramatic overhaul of the Vatican in order to force a return to traditional sacred music.After reintroducing the Latin Tridentine Mass, the Pope wants to widen the use of Gregorian chant and baroque sacred music.In an address to the bishops and priests of St Peter's Basilica, he said that there needed to be "tboggnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3796903.post-37381947201469829012007-11-23T09:37:00.000-08:002008-12-08T13:56:57.609-08:00Second prize winner gets two copies of "Unhinged" andI'll personally stalk your house and spy on your neighborsMichelle "Too Hateful for Fox" Malkin is starting a photoshop contest.Want a project for the holidays? Check this out: Arianna Huffington is calling on her minions to design posters that capture their BDS spirit. It’s “A HuffPost Project: Posterizing the Modern GOP.” She hooked up withtboggnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3796903.post-28836173145235275342007-11-22T20:43:00.000-08:002007-11-22T20:49:29.133-08:00Even iPods Get the BluesWe're giving the Pre-Friday Random Ten a rest this week. Here's Super Furry Animals:tboggnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3796903.post-27135484767215064172007-11-22T12:35:00.000-08:002008-12-08T13:56:58.093-08:00 Thursday Basset Blogging - No Harnesses/Commando StyleIt was bath day which means uncontrolled rolling on the carpet and idiotic running up and down the stairs while barking by Beckham:Until he exhausts himself after about two minutesSatchmo finds it all rather boringActually Satchmo finds everything boring unless it involves food or going outside to poop. When I am old I shall be like him.That tboggnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3796903.post-54276291440068544652007-11-22T11:14:00.000-08:002007-11-22T12:15:22.307-08:00Sucker for celloIf you like matt pond.... Sea Wolftboggnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3796903.post-9239824063931039912007-11-22T00:24:00.000-08:002008-12-08T13:56:58.169-08:00Thanksgiving or the nearest thing to it.Some people just aren't cut out for the holidaysI guess this would be the obligatory Thanksgiving holiday post. Here goes...This is the first one of those "family-get-together" type holidays where we actually have a member of the immediate family coming home to celebrate... well, whatever it is that we celebrate at Thanksgiving. The lovely and talented tboggnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3796903.post-78208051031605208932007-11-21T23:18:00.000-08:002008-12-08T13:56:58.382-08:00ThreesomeIt's been over two years since George W. Bush got a heapin' helpin' of wingnut lovin':It must be very strange to be President Bush. A man of extraordinary vision and brilliance approaching to genius, he can't get anyone to notice. He is like a great painter or musician who is ahead of his time, and who unveils one masterpiece after another to a reception that, when not bored, is tboggnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3796903.post-82441300115238309372007-11-21T20:25:00.001-08:002008-12-08T13:56:58.411-08:00Fox Force Five Goes To IraqI'll be there in two shakes of a lamb's tail.Our next CEO President is the man with a plan when it comes to fixing the Mess in Potamia:GOV. MITT ROMNEY: Well, I’m not an expert in nation-building, and I don’t think our military is either. I do recognize that we have a responsibility for this nation, and for the world for that matter, to be successful in Iraq, and what tboggnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3796903.post-83558943037180122052007-11-21T15:42:00.000-08:002007-11-21T16:05:03.133-08:00 Teh Stoopid Floppy Curt:Isn't it curious how the left constantly wailed about Scott McClennan(sic) allegedly lying during his press conferences, but now that he is saying something that smells like trash talk about Bush, he is suddenly a truth teller....and if you thought Curt couldn't be any dumber. Just wait ....3 ....2 ....1 :UPDATEJeff Gannon with some interesting facts:...Yes. Yes, I'm suretboggnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3796903.post-61123689282118243702007-11-21T08:13:00.000-08:002007-11-21T08:37:43.730-08:00Peoples Republic of PlymouthShorter John Stoessel:Starve a Communist, feed a nation.tboggnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3796903.post-73679201150762132622007-11-20T23:22:00.000-08:002008-12-08T13:56:58.595-08:00And you've still got angst in your pantsFrom over at Pam's House an example of The New Prudes:Junior Ryan Haecker of the University Of Texas At Austin wrote a commentary for the Daily Texan. He believes "dresses epitomize womanhood in the Western world,"...The nature of sexual attractiveness in women is objective, immutable and incontrovertible because it is directly related to the constant and tboggnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3796903.post-87211181291881525252007-11-20T19:11:00.000-08:002008-12-08T13:56:58.784-08:00The E-Meter, The Cross, and The Plates of Nephi And then one day our Palms and Blackberries were hacked..Gary L. Jarmin, who is a High Super Grand Fallopian Poobah in the Unification (Moonie) Cult Church gives a stern talking-to to evangelicals who don't like freakish made up pseudo-Christianish cults... like the Mormons:Question: as regards Mitt Romney's presidential candidacy, what do some tboggnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3796903.post-13420604615515251302007-11-20T16:44:00.000-08:002008-12-08T13:56:58.920-08:00A Brief History of Future Press Conferences"I am, in fact, a large black man from Haiti."Dana Perino gets caught up in Scotty McClellan's Groundhog Day:In an excerpt from his forthcoming book, McClellan recounts the 2003 news conference in which he told reporters that aides Karl Rove and I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby were “not involved” in the leak involving operative Valerie Plame.“There was one tboggnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3796903.post-16700504084260602912007-11-20T08:31:00.000-08:002007-11-20T08:38:47.368-08:00Irony lies bleeding in my handsAbu G goes to U of F:Embattled former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales was a few minutes into his speech Monday night when the first two protesters took the stage, their heads covered and hands tied behind their backs like Abu Ghraib prisoners.One of the young men stood silently beside Gonzales, who looked down at his notes and waited for two police officers tboggnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3796903.post-7123556177591755802007-11-20T08:10:00.000-08:002007-11-20T08:17:12.836-08:00...and featuring Jerry Mathers as the BeaverWatching this preview I'm trying to anticipate exactly how the conservative culture warriors are going to react to it. Outside of the obvious (Ace declaring "It's true. It happened to me!!1!!!") I'm guessing that it will somehow be tied to Hillary Clinton.I mean, isn't his how she killed Vince Foster after their lesbian love affair?tboggnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3796903.post-7086566296675537162007-11-19T23:43:00.000-08:002008-12-08T13:56:59.070-08:00Jesus says you're not trying hard enoughIt was later when Jesus remembered that his safeword was "pudding".DECATUR, Ga. - The 80-year-old leader of a suburban Atlanta megachurch is at the center of a sex scandal of biblical dimensions: He slept with his brother's wife and fathered a child by her.Quite honestly if it doesn't involve being discovered suspended from the ceiling while wearing two tboggnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3796903.post-17688580542394008262007-11-19T21:34:00.000-08:002008-12-08T13:56:59.331-08:00Cold Case: The Malkin FilesMichelle's audition for Nova's"The Big Bang Explained" does not go well.Among Michelle Malkin's many talents (historian, journalist, , TV talking head, fashionista, and cheerleader) we can add crimestopper .In todays installment, Michelle digs up the body of Terri Schiavo because it's such a winning issue for conservatives.Memo to ABC, NYTimes: Terri Schiavo was not “tboggnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3796903.post-44044598778498895722007-11-19T21:26:00.000-08:002007-11-19T21:29:52.209-08:00LoyaltyShorter Scott Johnson:Rachel Paulose is my friend. Fuck everyone else.tboggnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3796903.post-10554931532049283202007-11-19T17:49:00.000-08:002008-12-08T13:56:59.569-08:00Eau de Alberto GonzalezThe staff came in early to help you packRachel "Princess Party" Palouse waves a tearful goodbyeThe embattled United States attorney in Minnesota announced today that she would be stepping down to go work at the Justice Department in Washington on legal policy issues.The announcement by the prosecutor, Rachel K. Paulose, 34, came in the wake of reports of new staff turmoil tboggnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3796903.post-46922809630711972642007-11-19T09:12:00.000-08:002007-11-19T09:16:10.382-08:00ApocalyptoFor some reason my radio was tuned into the local hate radio station this morning and this is what I heard from someone called Chip Franklin:Caller: You know, Garcia and Rodriguez are two of the most common names in America right now.Franklin: Well, that's Armageddon right there. I can't even spell those.These guys don't even pretend anymore.tboggnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3796903.post-89002126017806344742007-11-19T07:42:00.000-08:002007-11-19T08:17:05.258-08:00All clearIt's safe to come out of your hideyhole now. Fran Townsend, the Vanna White of Terrorism Color Codes, is calling it quits so things are all better now. As you may have noticed, we haven' been attacked during her four and a half-year tenure, if you don't count al Qaeda trying to set San Diego on fire last month.That makes her the most successful member of this administration. Ever.tboggnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3796903.post-19166000140798234132007-11-18T22:51:00.000-08:002008-12-08T13:56:59.780-08:00From the wonderful folks who gave you the Popeil Pope Poacher™I"m the Virgin Mary and I approve of this message.First off go and view the video here. We'll wait.Hmmm. Hmmmmm...... Hmmm.Cool drink of waterSuch a sweet supriseTaste so goodMake a grown man crySweet cherry pieWell, Swingin' on the front porchSwingin' on the lawnSwingin' where we wantCause there ain't nobody homeSwingin' to the tboggnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3796903.post-17425802138292843582007-11-18T21:58:00.000-08:002007-11-18T22:27:49.293-08:00The Devil Is Either In The Details Or In My PantsThe Pride of Poca is seriously miffed that his MSM compatriots failed to drum up some sectarian triumphalism over the loss of a seat by a state representative in Louisiana:I doubt AP would have downplayed a Republican losing over a racist remark.As a member of the MSM for most of my adult life, I should resent charges of a pro-Democrat bias in the tboggnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3796903.post-14579119676301458652007-11-18T18:35:00.000-08:002008-12-08T13:56:59.992-08:00True love knows no boundaries. None. Not even one.I've been carrying a torch for twenty-three years... and, boy, are my arms tiredAnd you thought this was over...The old joke goes that Vincent van Gogh so loved a prostitute that he cut off one of his ears for her...but she wanted cash.Badda-boom.For all other mysteries of the heart, please see Dan Collins, the smooth talking ( "...still tboggnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3796903.post-32843235646475628292007-11-18T18:09:00.000-08:002007-11-18T18:29:40.564-08:00A Rising TideShorter Kathryn Jean Lopez:The black man will never succeed until the white man takes his boot off of the white man's necktboggnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3796903.post-59406373218716035802007-11-18T00:50:00.000-08:002008-12-08T13:57:00.150-08:00Sunday Five Brothers Blogging - The Hardest Working Man in Show Business Politics EditionWe be ballin'Apparently internal polls within the Romney campaign show that people don't think that DadMitt has been as active as, say, Fred Thompson who has been staving off decomposition by occasionally clearing his throat and shifting in his chair while he naps.Therefore the Five Brothers theme this past tboggnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3796903.post-8209185485599449962007-11-17T17:23:00.000-08:002007-11-17T18:58:55.842-08:00Musical InterludeJeebus. Now that the comments in the post below have turned into a telenovela I felt the need to put up something, anything, to bump it down a notch.And, speaking of the bump....Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings...in San Diego 12/1By the way, my personal record for comments was the famous Alec Rawls thread which ended at about 400 comments or so. Unfortunately the comments tboggnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3796903.post-32494940091426289222007-11-16T20:15:00.000-08:002007-11-17T09:47:26.333-08:00Cockslap fight at the PW Corral (Added)Godlstein Jr. makes a dick move....Papa Godlstein calls him on it. Dirty laundry is aired (keep scrolling)...hilarity ensues.For the record, what Collins did is beyond the pale and I feel bad for Jeff for being tainted by it. And after all of that hard work he did at the YAF Leadership whateverthehellitwas....(Added): The boys just can't help it:Comment by tboggnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3796903.post-14851407782500535842007-11-16T19:10:00.000-08:002007-11-16T19:13:28.807-08:00Friday Night Palate CleanserTeam Sleeptboggnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3796903.post-25444892578584747932007-11-16T18:25:00.000-08:002008-12-08T13:57:00.341-08:00Sayings of Chairman PickensT. Boone and serial trophy wife MadeleineT. Boone Welcher:Rich Texas bastard T. Boone Pickens boasted that he would give $1 million to anyone who can disprove “even a single charge” leveled by the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, who he funded to the tune of $3 milion. Kerry offered to meet with Pickens and do so, with the million dollars going to veterans’ charities.But tboggnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3796903.post-7724729034019082372007-11-16T16:32:00.000-08:002008-12-08T13:57:00.470-08:00Crawling from the wreckage (Added)This showed up in the mail today and, although I'm not a huge Winehouse fan, she does have a certain car-wreck appeal. And for $8, it's cheaper than going to a movie.Female impersonators years hence will look back upon this as the Golden Age.(Added) Later that night....As good as the concert is on the DVD (and it is very good although a touch ragged at the tboggnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3796903.post-77234412276074175692007-11-16T13:18:00.000-08:002008-12-08T13:57:00.602-08:00Exterminating Angels of Moroni"And you know what they call a... a... aQuarter Pounder with Cheese in Paris? "Donning our Drudge fedora today we learn that serial wife collector and dog abuser Mitt! Romney was plotting to be Supreme Elder of these Sacred United States of Utah LLC back when he was still doing missionary work in Paris at the tender age of nineteen. But, like all young people, he tboggnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3796903.post-57434697519554840352007-11-16T12:04:00.000-08:002007-11-16T12:14:12.548-08:00The Pope of AmericaThe Lord, who is the president, is Sherri Shepherd's shepherd: GOLDBERG: But he didn't use it. He did not say it. A woman said it, asked him, "how do we beat the bitch?" And everyone’s angry at him for not saying "don't you say that about Hillary Clinton." SHERRI SHEPHERD: And I think that we are getting so desensitized because look how everybody talks about President Bushtboggnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3796903.post-17732240620933657162007-11-15T21:37:00.000-08:002008-12-08T13:57:00.810-08:00Career OpportunitiesAnd I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because I told, I told Bill that if they move my desk one more time, then, then I'm, I'm quitting, I'm going to quit. And, and I told Don too, because they've moved my desk four times already this year, and I used to be over by the window, and I could see the squirrels, and they were married, but then, they switched from the tboggnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3796903.post-14784145227658993942007-11-15T19:11:00.000-08:002008-12-08T13:57:00.994-08:00Pre-Friday Random TenBut if you must lie and deceitAnd trample people under your feetDon't you know it is wrongIt is the wrong 'em boyoNo God, Only Religion - SpiritualizedPhosphate Skin - Son VoltAmplifier - The dB'sWrong'em Boyo - The ClashEngraved Invitation - Ben HarperImmigrant Song - Led ZeppelinI Started Something I Couldn't Finish - The SmithsIf I Was Young - The RaveonettesBoulder to tboggnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3796903.post-9406056946714451702007-11-15T18:43:00.000-08:002008-12-08T13:57:01.278-08:00Thursday Night Basset BloggingChase dreams-"You let out a great and ferocious howl as you drive the Calico hordes from the Baloney Forest and into the Pet Carrier Catacombs of the damned! Your infantry of Basset Hounds join the chorus of victory as you hoist your salami saber and --hey, wait a minute! Suddenly you're under the kitchen table, lying in a puddle of drool. What happened? And, more tboggnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3796903.post-62790764781427003112007-11-15T08:15:00.000-08:002007-11-15T08:17:49.167-08:00Who was that pajamaed man?I dunno. But he left this silver bullet...Day 17: Ron Silver held hostage.America's nightmare continues.tboggnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3796903.post-58975585233910225052007-11-14T21:49:00.000-08:002008-12-08T13:57:03.227-08:00George Bush or America? A Primer.For those who are still unclear on the concept.George BushAmericaGeorge BushAmericaGeorge BushAmericaGeorge BushAmericaGeorge BushAmericaGeorge BushAmericaGeorge BushAmericaI trust that we won't have to have this talk again.tboggnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3796903.post-79386979036447853442007-11-14T21:21:00.000-08:002008-12-08T13:57:03.483-08:00Move over Doug FeithOtto: Apes don't read philosophy.Wanda: Yes they do, Otto, they just don't understand it.Tim Graham makes a play for the fucking stupidest guy on the face of the earth title. As if the embarrassment of working for Brent Bozell wasn't enough.tboggnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3796903.post-4222483797273728662007-11-14T16:00:00.000-08:002008-12-08T13:57:03.606-08:00You better put away the nice china, dear. I invited the Neocons.`You should learn not to make personalremarks,' Alice said with some severity; `it's very rude.'As has been documented here (...and here), every time you invite a liberal to a dinner party you run the risk that they will express an opinion over the asparagus bisque that is so foul and offensive that it can only result in the guests tboggnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3796903.post-66651716027186587102007-11-14T12:00:00.000-08:002007-11-14T12:10:13.770-08:00NutpickingAs much as I hate the idea of nutpicking, which is selecting comments from a blog and using them to tar the blog itself, the comments on the "seditious" bridge players (see here) at WWE Malkin RAW (who is as predictable as Wednesday Meatloaf Night) are a wonder to behold. As in:how about we add suspending their passports for a couple of years and put them on a no-fly and no-drive list tboggnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3796903.post-11588627843551308202007-11-14T07:36:00.000-08:002007-11-14T08:24:10.564-08:00The Good SoldierI'll leave it to you to read this profile of of former-Bushie Matthew Dowd, but the best I can say for it is that it is a profile in squishy self-serving courage, and a precursor of many more to come, as members of this misbegotten administration will be busy trying to wash the blood from their hands and the stink from their bodies before the last body drops. Each one will be an tboggnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3796903.post-13333783003119854372007-11-14T07:28:00.000-08:002008-12-08T13:57:03.790-08:00About those New Media Laws...Patrick Ruffini, who recently took over as Head Hugh Hewitt Fluffer from Dean Barnett, rambles on about how blogs will make Bill Clinton step down as President and behave and how it's a brave new world of internets and youtube and... oh, hell, he's all over the place like an ADD kid in a room full of shiny new bikes. But this is interesting:It’s also harder to smear tboggnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3796903.post-5336634810698521642007-11-13T23:27:00.000-08:002008-12-08T13:57:03.901-08:00Let the countdown begin....Three cards short of a full deckBridge players hatin' on George Bush America and at 11:27 PST Michelle Malkin has yet to officially declare it a vulgar act of treason and sedition and BDS and demand that people boycott playing cards until they rename them Freedom Cards.tboggnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3796903.post-44373549563427880002007-11-13T23:11:00.001-08:002008-12-08T13:57:04.094-08:00Clenis Envy or: Everyone Is Having More and Better Sex Than YouMitt Romney indulges in a little "dog-whistle politics", and Kathryn Jean Lopez perks up her ears, runs to the end of her chain, and and salivates as expected:Mitt Romney has recently taken to referring to the idea of a Hillary Clinton presidency as electing an “intern.” He recently said, to Fox News host Sean Hannity: “The governmenttboggnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3796903.post-62743013455638312162007-11-13T23:10:00.000-08:002007-11-13T23:15:42.439-08:00Opens this weekRedactedtboggnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3796903.post-89191156037486875672007-11-13T17:26:00.000-08:002008-12-08T13:57:04.796-08:00HomegrownThe new* Tancredo ad:The original version:+=Next week: Oklahoma City and the Not Very Nice Fertilizer Bomb* For all I now this may be the the only Tancredo ad unless there is some footage of him standing outside of an El Torito and berating the customers.tboggnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3796903.post-24099186279198414852007-11-13T07:26:00.000-08:002008-12-08T13:57:04.905-08:00More Chilling Tales from the Foer/Beauchamp CabalGun Counter Gomer (R-Goober) sniffs out media bias no matter where it hides:Read the lede and guess the candidate's political party. Just don't count on finding it in the first six paragraphs:...and the link takes you to the Action News Team at WDSU. Nice catch, Goob. All the other bloggers took the easy way out and went to obscure news sources tboggnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3796903.post-48688766182027733212007-11-12T23:11:00.000-08:002007-11-12T23:34:46.205-08:00Walk this way...Okay, now this way. Nope. Nothing yet. How about trying on the French Maid costume and hopping up on the trampoline... Ah women, sly sexy be-boobed creatures sending off subtle signals under the radar: Love songs may rhapsodise “something in the way she moves”, but a sexy walk is not a sign that a woman is ready to become pregnant. In fact, a new study suggests that the way a tboggnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3796903.post-36527531122123816552007-11-12T22:38:00.000-08:002007-11-12T22:50:24.858-08:00Premature promulgationMicky Kaus, October 16, 2007:How to Get Rich Off Liberal Media Bias (without becoming a pundit)! At a lecture today at the Milken Institute, economist/blogger Tyler Cowen said he didn't think the subprime mortgage crisis was such a big deal for the nation's economy. That's always been my untutored sense--it seemed clear the MSM was hyping the crisis because a) it was the tboggnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3796903.post-65957925646860835192007-11-12T22:11:00.000-08:002008-12-08T13:57:05.095-08:00I know there's a word for this...Unemployed Michelle Malkin is underwhelmed by the recently selected word of the year:A lady from the Oxford University Press e-mailed today to inform me that the New Oxford American Dictionary has chosen its “Word of the Year.” I noted last year’s winner: “Carbon neutral.” Well, this year, they’ve gone environmentally correct again. The word of the year is…drum tboggnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3796903.post-65228883202854215232007-11-12T19:04:00.000-08:002008-12-08T13:57:05.193-08:00The tree of liberty must be refreshed fromtime to time with the blood of some of youse guys...MATTHEWS: No, I‘m just asking a particular question. Would you like to enlist in this war?MATTERA: No, because I‘m fighting a separate battle. I‘m fighting—we‘re fighting the culture war here, but I‘m also supporting the battle that‘s raging in Iraq.MATTHEWS: Well, what kind of people should fight in tboggnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3796903.post-46328695884862035262007-11-12T12:21:00.000-08:002007-11-12T12:28:00.886-08:00Joke LineJoe Klein, Political Nostradamus:As I suspected, Thompson's candidacy is this year's Wes Clark...and an object lesson for future latecomers: It's hard to jump full-speed into a presidential campaign, even an interminable one...and impossible if you're lazy. The early months of a campaign are crucial for fund-raising, yes, but also for getting your stump act together--and for figuring outtboggnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3796903.post-87143993534086695442007-11-11T21:25:00.000-08:002008-12-08T13:57:05.420-08:00Far from the madding crowdI spent the better part of the weekend getting caught up on a few of the movies that we own but had yet to watch (Babel, Les Triplettes de Belleville, and The Station Agent) as well as going to see Michael Clayton. Additionally I got caught up on a little reading of the dead tree kind (go read this and this), so I'm not exactly up to speed on what lunacy lurks in the tboggnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3796903.post-45239618407805039912007-11-11T10:01:00.000-08:002008-12-08T13:57:05.593-08:00"...a sunken wall, cold, horizontal and black"In light of the 25th anniversary of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, I strongly recommend finding a copy of Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision.From the WaPo:Hers was a radical notion for a monument on the mall -- a sunken wall, cold, horizontal and black, etched with the names of more than 57,000 dead soldiers. At the announcement ceremony in the spring oftboggnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3796903.post-78802878355483603702007-11-11T00:48:00.000-08:002008-12-08T13:57:05.743-08:00Sunday Five Brothers Blogging - Are We There Yet? EditionDopey, Grumpy, Bashful, Sleazy, and TaggWith baseball season ended, Los Hermanos Mitt are finding they don't have much to do until DadMitt gets elected Supreme AmericaGod Prime and they can start cashing in, so they've been killing time surfing on the internets at hotmormongirlsdrinkingRedBullandswearing.com and also at YouTube because, tboggnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3796903.post-83924363638606501202007-11-11T00:20:00.000-08:002007-11-11T01:35:38.544-08:00Bad Warporn TheatreAustin Bay, his tired eyes having seen too much war and too many bad Frank Lovejoy movies, sits at a beat-up Underwood and bangs out some corn for the 101st Fighting Keyboarders:He looked at me, the dreadful nearness of it.It’s on us, man, I continued. And I don’t like it. I didn’t like it during the Cold War. Remember 1983? The same creeps who’ve quit now, quit then. Reagan tboggnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3796903.post-25642725914016926662007-11-10T13:59:00.000-08:002007-11-10T14:51:00.808-08:00Excuse me while I defecate on the still warm corpseThe foolish consistency of Roger KimballOn Norman Mailer today:The news that the novelist Norman Mailer died earlier today at the age of 84 has already elicited little hagiographical murmurs. That hushed choir will doubtless turn into a deafening chorus of praise in the coming days and weeks—how much space do you suppose The New York Times will tboggnoreply@blogger.com