KOEB - 3/17 - Incompetent edition

Hi, Sharon. Shabbat Shazzam!

Where in the world did you get that picture?

at olbermann.org

Thanks, _q_!

Was it originally Clooney?

:hi:

But Hanks wasn't in Oceans 11 or 12.

Source: LA Times. http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/39932546.html?did=39932546&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&dids=39932546:39932546:

http://olbermann.org/ko/photo_detail.cfm?photos_id=199#vox

Looks real, no? :hi:

Proof!

But yeah, I guess the pic is real. All those other guys are sports nuts, AFAIK. Makes sense.

The blog link was just to show the source was the LA Times. As for the "proof", who am I to doubt it was him? :shrug:

Oh, btw, I had to go look up that acronym. :)

Huh?


:rofl:


J/K


:hi:

I only acronym at a third grade level. I'm thinking about maybe getting a tutor. :)

And please see my St. Patty's Day post:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=691113&mesg_id=691113


:)

Big smile.



Nice SPD post! I focused more on the ridiculous, however: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=2520075&mesg_id=2520075

Not questioning it's validity, I know it's real. It just doesn't look like him.

Hi, tatia!

makes him look like someone else entirely!

:hi:

after the steroids puffed him up!

:hi: all! Berry is late After the Show! Truckloads of work to do, had to take a late bus, got home just in time to watch Keith and decided to sit back and enjoy for a change. :loveya:

Good to see ya, Berry! :hi:

Always is!

as I was logging on, and lo and behold

It was.

Hello ladies and the botanists who love them

Great to see you.

It really was the most obvious opening.

this incompetence thing.......

one question?
WHAT TOOK THEM SO FREAKING LONG?
we've known he was incompetent since day 1

Also, at the beginning of his first term the world was still happy from Clinton. Once 9/11 happened, everyone rallied around. That lasted until they started scaring everyone with "terra alerts" every ten minutes and we had to go buy duct tape and visqueen.

Then came the lead up to the election and the lies and the cheating, and now, here we are, and everyone's started to look around.

They've also been really busy working two jobs to pay their debts.

Crazy world.

On a happier note:

Hi, doll! Happy St. Patrick's Day! :toast: Nice to see you here.

Great to see you posting tonight! :) Welcome to the new world of journals & MyDU. :)

dg

I'm afraid my journal is woefully uneventful thus far. There's nothing in it, I don't think I've even started one yet, but I read how.

:hi: :loveya: :hug: :pals: :woohoo:

Me likey.

LIAR! 17

I like it, though. I don't know if he'll ever wear the Garcia.

I think we were incredibly lucky he wore the first one, and I don't expect him to wear either. But it was fun shopping. :)

ed: On second thought, I think he's worn this one with the shiny grey suit before.

He's worn it a zillion times before!

How does the new thingie work?
Help.

:hi: :loveya: :hug: :pals: :woohoo:

Then you'll see some of your posts, your buddy list, etc. and a bunch of icons at the top to take you wherever you want to go. It's really pretty efficient.

Thanks.

:hi: :loveya: :hug: :pals: :woohoo:

incompetent idiot.

asshole.

:evilgrin:

but then, I wasn't asked. :evilfrown:

dg

Hi, DG!

:rofl:

Hi Sharon! Shabbat Shalom & Happy St. Patrick's Day all around!

Kiss me, I'm Irish :* You'll have good luck all year 'round. (really!)

dg

if "asshole" and "idiot" got lumped into the same category. :hi:

you can be an asshole & not be an idiot. :hi:

dg

to many years ago, when a friend of mine was trying to explain the difference between "dick" and "prick" to a foreign student. The connotations were eluding her until my friend said, "Look, X is a dick. Y is a prick". Comprehension was immediate. Unfortunately, "Mr. X" overhead the exchange. :rofl:

that you can be an idiot & not be an asshole either.

dg

I wanna see "sucks" and "ass" and "liar" in print.

And: :rofl: for Dana's snark. "Good liar" "Incompetent Christian"!

:hi: :loveya: :hug: :pals: :woohoo:

:yourock:

except I guess that name really belongs to Pickles. :evilgrin:

:rofl:

Hi, Rev!

Shabbat Shazzam to ya! :hi:

Keep up the good work KO!:loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya:

between the coverage on this story and the interview with Turley: :thumbsup::thumbsup: :loveya:

He posited that if the Dems gain control, the Repubs would impeach in December and acquit * so that the Dems can't impeach him and convict. Once he'd been impeached, they couldn't do it again because it would be double jeopardy. I thought it was an interesting theory.

the level of denial there is incredible. I think the WH is truly isolated and doesn't comprehend how much of the country is unhappy with the current state of affairs. I don't know how they explain the polls to themselves.

Yes, the R Congress could do it without *'s consent but even that won't get them re-elected in 2008. In fact, some of the hardcore R voters might feel the President had been betrayed by his own party, no matter what they're told.

I no longer want to fly ANYWHERE! :scared:

Hi ladies, I've finally made it to the thread after a long hellacious week. :hug::bounce::hug::bounce:

I heard this story this morning -- very, very scary.

How are things going with the merger (or acquisition)?

This story is nucking futs.

Oh, work is OK now for the short term, it's the long term I'm concerned about. I just need to Take Steps. ;)

I'm sure it will all work out for the best one way or another.

and update your resume. Start looking. Just in case.

Glad to see you! Sorry you had such a bad week. :hug:

dg

:hug: Good to see you! :bounce:

Bottoms up! :beer: :toast:

dg

Saw about your sitch, and that sucks. As I said, stay low and smile a lot.

I've had a nasty week too. Glad to see it go.

Slainte!

:toast: Yeah, I had me a couple of those today and it was GOOD! :bounce:

Spain in April, and now I'm even more afraid (I hated flying pre-911) than I was before after seeing this report.

Good luck. :hug:

I usually go with one drink at the airport, 2 drinks on the plane, sleep, and then knock down a BIG bottle of water about an hour before landing to knock out the hangover. :P

Its an overnight flight. Problem is, drinking makes me wake up two hours after falling asleep with the room spinning around. The water bottle will help though.

Thanks for the frequent flier tip Crispi.
I'm looking forward to the trip, just not the flight.

:hi: :loveya: :hug: :pals: :woohoo:

i.e., that they were part of an otherwise dry speech given a few weeks ago (as opposed to "I held a press conference today to level this accusation"). Interesting that Roberts is not accorded the deference to speak for the Court that has been given to some other past Chief Justices.

Probably, they are menaces to society.

justices, is of the Right-Wing persuasion. :)

What are you doing here? I thought you had another date tonight.

both of us. My Uncle came to town and her family showed up to celebrate her birthday, a few days early.

I just can't stay away from you all, that's why I'm here. :)

all the anti-woman crap that was being spewed from the pulpit. Oh sure, they paint it all purty & sell some on the idea that the husband should be the leader of the family & the wife submit in all things (!!!!) to him, which then extends to banning women from leading prayers during services because leadership roles belong only to men....let's just say I ran from that place. I also ended at 20+ year friendship with a friend from college who started spewing this crap because she now believes it!!

Yes, they drum it up in the churches, then constantly blame the courts for all the liberal (read: bad) problems in our society, blame the two (& now one) female justice on the Supreme Court for most of this, and then act shocked (shocked!) that all this hatred they've carefully nurtured spills out into actual violence & threats against judges.

dg

the amount of anti-women stuff that comes from the most innocent seeming sources. Like I was just told the other day that "Hello Kitty" doesn't have a mouth. Ok, lets just give little kids it's a good idea to make women shut up. It's subtle, but it's out there. It jolted me at first, now, I just shake my head. It's just so prevalent.

you will be disgusted at how early on the toys and clothes are sex-stereotyped... and what those stereotypes are like. I just want to vomit when I see cut-down designer versions of hey-check-out-the-bod styles in 2T.

there's a realistic role model to start little girls out on. If she want's to grow up to be 7 feet tall, anorexic and have chronic back problems because of her huge.. well, you know.

Nothing like starting them off on the right foot. :)

happened. A lot.

I'm NOT believing this. Jonathan Turley is kicking ass. This administration is a bunch of FUCKING FACISTS and that's the first time I've used the "facist" word but DAMN!

Oh MAN, is THAT going to get people's attention (at least among my friends in the defense bar).
:mad:

One of them has a door mat that says "Come back with a warrant" and she's not kidding.



These fascists really do want to get rid of the Constitution, don't they? Do money & power mean THAT MUCH TO THESE FREAKS?

And it's not :tinfoilhat: if they really are plotting this.

dg


on edit: noun/verb agreement; I hate grammar!

:tinfoilhat:

these issues and was going to drop him an email yesterday to request it but I got busy at work and put it off. Since the NSA stuff is coming up again right after the Senate recess, it would be good to have some accurate information floating around out there. Me, I'm wondering if the President's oath of office is binding or merely ceremonial, 'cause it sure seems like he's broken it six ways from Sunday. What can we do about that, in theory and in practice?

KO: :loveya: exemplary

you are in the wrong church!

I don't suppose you'd consider commuting to WI every weekend, huh? :)

then again, if we had teleporters, I'd still be working my old job in DC. We just need to increase the packet size on internet traffic. }(

:tinfoilhat: :tinfoilhat: :tinfoilhat: :tinfoilhat: :tinfoilhat: :tinfoilhat: :tinfoilhat: :tinfoilhat: :tinfoilhat: :tinfoilhat: :tinfoilhat: :tinfoilhat: :tinfoilhat: :tinfoilhat: :tinfoilhat: :tinfoilhat: :tinfoilhat: :tinfoilhat: :tinfoilhat: :tinfoilhat: :tinfoilhat: :tinfoilhat: :tinfoilhat:

Fanks, Keef!


:hi:

Where'd you get that one?

It does come rather in handy for fun when Keith mentions conspiracy theories.

Good for him for covering Ruth Bader Ginsburg's remarks and discussing the feeling that the media didn't cover Sandra Day O'Connor's remarks at all.

Also for having Jonathan Turley on to discuss the death of the Fourth Amendment and how much we're beginning to resemble 1984.

:loveya:

earlier. About the government lawyer in the Moussaui case sending information to lawyers defending the airlines against a suit brought by the 911 families claiming their negligence in screening passengers for weapons contributed to the deaths of their family members. Apparently this was the information that came to the attention of the judge who threw the Moussaui case out for tampering. I think I have this right, anybody else hear this story?

:hi: :loveya: :hug: :pals: :woohoo:

There was a chance they would throw out the possibility of the death penalty, but they reached a compromise. Now they can bring witnesses who haven't been tampered with. The story has been around all week, but I heard about the compromise on the way home today on Ed's show.

Lots of meat in the show tonight. Thanks, Keith!

:hi: :loveya: :hug: :pals: :woohoo:

The home of Motown.

newscast?

How about you wear the 2006 ties baby, both of them at once would really be a shout-out.
We love you Keef.

for what, April Fools' Day?

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm?

How are you doing? I was hoping you were doing OK this week.

:hug:

I'm better tonight. It's been a crazy week.... but it's over, and I have a whole weekend to myself! Weeee! :bounce: How are you doing?

I wasn't able to do much DUing this week. I really missed.

It's always nice to have some downtime- glad you are getting it this weekend!

Better not be anything more...the lady is married, or so says Wiki. :-)

:rofl: :thumbsup:

And what were you doing...crying in the corner? :rofl:

:hi:

I'm back!

I missed you guys. Been working long hours, finishing a writing project.

Welcome back.

:hi:

We've missed you too.

:beer:?

Thank you.


:loveya:

I know what it's like to be tired...ZZZZZZZZZ

Ouch! Amazing the guy wasn't hurt.

I can't stand watching or even hearing car accidents.

"From racks to wrecks..." :spank: :spank: :spank: :spank: :spank: :spank: :spank: :spank:

Bad boy, Keith. Now come to Mama for a hug. :hug:

and made him take the heat for writing that Keith Moon was the drummer for The Stones was pretty funny.

Go Keef! :bounce:

and name them. It seemed good-natured though but Keef must have been embarrassed. That's a pretty big rock and roll history faux pas.

on the air. He's done it in fun before, but not calling them out. It was a huge mistake and certain to generate thousands of e-mails. I wonder if there's a thread about it in GD? :)

I don't remember what the story was, but they were playing movie clips and apparently didn't switch fast enough. Without changing stride he said "you can change the clip any time now".

Have we the fans lost our sense of humor all of a sudden? :shrug:

just that it's not out of character.

it's not out of character. And it was funny. I just never remember an error so important to him that he called the person responsible on to the set. I think I would have called them out too. :)

He snarks at the staff all the time, and I enjoy seeing all the people responsible for the show get some face time for their efforts. It's always in good humor and, like that scene where everyone was signing the petition, sometimes it's even poking fun at him.

I understand now people are saying the misidentification of Moon as the Stones' drummer was the "mistake" sure to generate lots of e-mails...not the "chewing out" of Mr. Horgan. :-)

that's what I meant. I think he just wanted to stop the e-mails. :)

it was more like, "okay, so we're both idiots". I don't think KO would have done if Dennis had been reluctant. Dennis seems to be the one laughing in the background all the time so there may be a fair bit of camaraderie going on there and I think Dennis was right there on the set, anyway.

If that's what they want to do, then so be it. Who am I to attempt to limit the freedom of women? So please, take it off... I don't mind. :silly:

Being a male feminist is not a bad thing. :)

BTW, I just checked out "The Vagina Monologues" from the library. Seriously. :)

pretend they are just too suavasito to notice at all when some woman walks by with her bodacious ta-tas on parade.

I'd at least have to ask. I don't think I could quell my curiousity. :)

because I purposefully ignore people who are making obvious ploys for attention.

it was when I was an undergraduate. I was on my to the library after supper and he was walking with a group of two or three clothed friends. I simply didn't parse that he was naked until about 15 feet after I'd passed him. :-)

:hi:

I didn't know vaginas talked. :scared:

However I figured by reading the book I could up my feminist street cred. :)

"I'll need some evidence, please..." :rofl:

no evidence exists... none that is satisfactory....

:: slowly inching backward ::

Look it's Gloria Steinem!

:hide:

but some feminist might indeed tell you to "up yours." :rofl:

a man cannot run into feminism like a bull in a china shop. Very dangerous thing to do. :)

that also have teeth. :evilgrin:

Maybe its my TV..... :shrug:

He broadcast from there all week last week.

from Spring Training and the not-so-matching makeup they used. :)

for one more day.

they were talking about what a great force they would be if they teamed up etc. It was a mutual wang sucking lovefest. Oh man, I feel safer already. O'Reilly and Geraldo are looking out for my interests. Those boys got my back! Thank heavens! :rofl:

yeah, I can see why, jeez it nearly made me puke. :)

the man works wonders with a falafel. :)

No, jk. :) I am seeing someone yes. We've only went out once, so far, so we're just starting. :)

and something significant happens!


Good luck!

hell, I'm usually gone when something significant happens to myself, if that makes any sense. :)

I think if they got together it might contain some of the crazy. They wouldn't infect other unsuspecting radio hosts. :shrug: Plus, then you'd get two psychos simultaneously. Twice the insanity -- Same low price!

We need to put a lock on your channels.

See what happens, Keith, when you stop showing nekkid women? Bill here changes the channel to O'LOOFAH!

he just flipped the channel and Fox is the next one down and we both so O'Reilly and Geraldo and started laughing. So we had to listen for a minute or so.

But, yes, Keith, you can keep showing the nekkid women. I'm down with that. :evilgrin:

"The Responsible Journalism Hour"

hope you weren't eating when you read this.

:)

Keith is really related to Mike Tyson through marriage and adoption?

I don't know exactly how, but it does. :)

Is boxer Mike Tyson's cousin by marriage. Tyson's adoptive father, Cus D'Amato's niece married Olbermann's father's brother, making Keith Mike Tyson's cousin.

It's been my ambition for some time now to be Mike Tyson's cousin-in-law. :loveya:

worst person Bill O'Reilly!!! Oh Goody a double dose!! LOL :hi: :loveya: :hug: :pals: :woohoo: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Those kind of remarks seem actionable to me. Equating gay people with hate groups, and speaking out about it in an official capacity.
Class acts, the Irish gay organization said they wouldn't dignify it with a response.

It's like saying gays are somehow a threat to the Irish.

a one-two punch!! :rofl:

cooler than he already was. :)

That remark about O'Reilly hitting "her with a loofah" was one of the best ever.

I also loved the 'Champ of Chomp' header on that story.
LOL

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

Yummmmmmy! :loveya:

:hug:

Doing OK - I spent most of today just sleeping - it felt so good! :hug:

:hi: :loveya: :hug: :pals: :woohoo:

I spent most of the day sleeping, and they spent most of it curled up on the bed right next to me! Kitty love is the best :loveya: of all!

AND a Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Irish I had a Schlitz!



I'll take the beer too!


:)

Patty O'Furniture! :rofl:



I amuse myself. Often. :evilgrin:

And please see my St. Patty's day post:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=691113&mesg_id=691113

:)

...KLUNKKKKKK (and keep that Bay Air away, thank you).

Jeez, thanks, Keith, you WOULD have to bring up Ten-Cent Beer Night again!

http://www.dontshootimhuman.com/
:hi: :loveya: :hug: :pals: :woohoo:

Okay, gang, I'm just getting caught up here because I was out at a Democratic event last night and didn't watch Keith until this morning. But I can't let that George W. Bush sound bite about Saint Patrick spreading the peace pass without this little tidbit, courtesy of the Guardian newspaper.

Yes, yes, I know; we all think that George W. Bush talking about peace is like Hugh Hefner talking about avoiding impure thoughts. But there's more to the story. Apparently Bush's forebears were in the business of sowing discord and violence, too. Read on...

http://www.politics.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1399353,00.html

Quote from the link above:

Scion of traitors and warlords: why Bush is coy about his Irish links

Tapestry artist reveals ancestors of US president as murderous bunch

Angelique Chrisafis, Ireland correspondent
Thursday January 27, 2005
The Guardian


It is perhaps not the best omen for US foreign affairs. Local historians in Wexford have discovered that George Bush is a descendant of Strongbow, the power-hungry warlord who led the Norman invasion of Ireland thus heralding 800 years of mutual misery. With a long line of Scots Irish presidents including Woodrow Wilson, the Irish are normally quick to claim US leaders as their own. But, despite President Bush's large Ulster Scots vote in the American Bible belt, Ireland had let his family escape the genealogical microscope.

(SNIP)

Indeed, when Mr Bush visited a County Clare castle last year, radio talk-show hosts asked: "Is this the most hated American ever to set foot on Irish soil?"

The US president's now apparent ancestor, Richard de Clare, Earl of Pembroke - known as Strongbow for his arrow skills - is remembered as a desperate, land-grabbing warlord whose calamitous foreign adventure led to the suffering of generations. Shunned by Henry II, he offered his services as a mercenary in the 12th-century invasion of Wexford in exchange for power and land. When he eventually died of a festering ulcer in his foot, his enemies said it was the revenge of Irish saints whose shrines he had violated.

The Bush clan - who pride themselves on a distinguished New England family history that can be traced back to the first English in America - may well be looking for a healthy spin on the news. But it seems that Strongbow is not the worst of Bush's newfound ancestors.

The genetic line can also be traced to Dermot MacMurrough, the Gaelic king of Leinster reviled in history books as the man who sold Ireland for personal gain.

(See rest of article)

Hm. Selling a land and a people for personal gain. Who have thunk it?

just remember that, buddy!



Nice post!

soon to be abject poverty. This doesn't count?

"The US president's now apparent ancestor, Richard de Clare, Earl of Pembroke - known as Strongbow for his arrow skills - is remembered as a desperate, land-grabbing warlord whose calamitous foreign adventure led to the suffering of generations."


I can hear it at the impeachment trial: "I was posessed by my great-great-great-great-great-great-great-granddaddy."

:eyes: Well, I guess if you don't have an evil twin, possession by an ancestor will have to do. But you'll never get more than a C+ for something so unimaginative.

Remember the old Doonsbury strips during Poppy's term? He had an evil twin, Skippy, who did all the bad stuff.

I tell ya, that's one fucked-up family.