Afternoon Open Thread

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What is going on that interests you this afternoon?

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  1. Unstable Isotope says:
    August 5, 2009 at 3:05 pm

    LOL! We must keep the mistresses’ dogs happy!

  2. nemski teh awesome says:
    August 5, 2009 at 3:06 pm

    Paula Abdul is gone from American Idol.

    That reminds me, I need to put her in my Dead Pool for 2010.

  3. Unstable Isotope says:
    August 5, 2009 at 3:08 pm

    What, are you obsessed with American Idol or something? 🙂

  4. nemski teh awesome says:
    August 5, 2009 at 3:10 pm

    LOL, no, just Hollywood celebs hooked on pain killers.

  5. nemski teh awesome says:
    August 5, 2009 at 3:14 pm

    Oh, wait, I’m also obsessed with Republican politicians who stray from their wives in Men’s bathrooms or the Appalachian Trail.

    This two obsessions keep me very busy.

  6. Perry says:
    August 5, 2009 at 3:17 pm

    I’m still feeling the emotions of the return of our two journalists from North Korea, so satisfying on so many levels!

  7. nemski teh awesome says:
    August 5, 2009 at 3:20 pm

    Perry, I thought Democrats sucked at executing delicate foreign policy. Hmmm, dead pirates and freed journalists. Obama seems to be doing quite well.

  8. Perry says:
    August 5, 2009 at 3:32 pm

    He does, Nemski. This one was near perfect!

  9. cassandra_m says:
    August 5, 2009 at 3:47 pm

    MJ!

    Somebody stole your idea! Kenyan Birth Certificate Generator

  10. anoni says:
    August 5, 2009 at 5:00 pm

    http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h71/DogByte6RER/article-1204213-05F20CC3000005DC-96.jpg?t=1249435030

  11. El Somnambulo says:
    August 5, 2009 at 5:00 pm

    Nemski can have Abdul in the Dead Pool if ‘bulo can have John Daly. Getting your own ‘reality series’ (Octomom’s supposedly getting one too) is a (pardon the expression) ‘dead giveaway’.

  12. anoni says:
    August 5, 2009 at 5:04 pm

    I know, I know, you kids liked this one better:

    http://mtblog.vanityfair.com/online/politics/Bush-the-Joker002-copy%5B1%5D.jpg

  13. Joanne Christian says:
    August 5, 2009 at 5:05 pm

    Well in the personal department…Monday we paid the last and final dental school loan off…just in time for 3 tuition payments come due for this year’s lil’ coeds. Public option? Socialized medicine? That was a heck of a lot of delayed gratification.

  14. Rich Boucher says:
    August 5, 2009 at 7:24 pm

    While I’m on here every day or so to keep on eye on the state that gave me some incredible years, I’m living in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

    ……But.

    My mind this afternoon is on the city of West Palm Beach, Florida, where the 2009 National Poetry Slam is happening. Tonight is night number two of the preliminary bouts, and one of my dear, close friends is on the team of poets representing Philadelphia, PA. I’m hoping they win.

    signed,

    Rich Boucher, poet
    and alum of:

    The 2008 Albuquerque, New Mexico Slam Team
    The 2007 Wilmington, Delaware Slam Team
    (my friend who’s on the ’09 Philly Team was on this team with me)
    The 2001 Washington, D.C. Slam Team
    The 1996 Worcester, Massachusetts Slam Team
    The 1995 Worcester, Massachusetts Slam Team

  15. Tom S says:
    August 5, 2009 at 7:51 pm

    If the public non-option will get rid of lobbyists, lawyers and congressman, then I support it!

  16. Rhymes With Right says:
    August 5, 2009 at 8:13 pm

    Well, I’m waiting for your criticism of this eliminationist rhetoric from an evil talk radio host.

  17. Von Cracker says:
    August 5, 2009 at 8:26 pm

    hoping someone commits suicide is not exactly “eliminationist” rhetoric, by definition stupid.

    actually, it can’t be by definition since it’s not really a word….but I digress.

  18. Von Cracker says:
    August 5, 2009 at 8:27 pm

    most likely, in Beck’s case, it would save lives! 😉

    no, seriously.

  19. Suzanne says:
    August 5, 2009 at 8:33 pm

    This afternoon – hmm..visiting John Brady while he is in the Sussex County Witness Protection Program. He is keeping in touch via the laptop though – so send him a big HELLO!

  20. Rhymes With Right says:
    August 5, 2009 at 8:36 pm

    Well, then, i suppose you would find nothing objectionable to a wish that Obama would open his veins up on national television. Right?

    (By the way, i would object. The notion of President Biden is really frightening.)

  21. cassandra_m says:
    August 5, 2009 at 9:12 pm

    RWR, you have plenty of behavior issues to fix in your own party before you come over here and demand anything.

    How about your teabagging buds calling for Chris Dodd to kill himself as a way to treat his cancer?

    Or the hanging of Rep. Kratovil in effigy?

    There’s lots more, of course, but don’t think that you can equate one bit of bad behavior with the ingrained habits of that stuff by you folks.

  22. cassandra_m says:
    August 5, 2009 at 9:13 pm

    And what’s this about the Sussex County Witness Protection Program?

    Is that a new code for Mojitos on the Beach?

    No wonder John won’t hang out here anymore….

    Hello John!

  23. anon says:
    August 5, 2009 at 9:18 pm

    re Brady: http://www.delmarvanow.com/article/20090801/NEWS01/908010353/1002

  24. Rhymes With Right says:
    August 5, 2009 at 9:30 pm

    Given i’ve got no association with the tea party folks, I don’t know what you are talking about with the Dodd thing — but Von Cracker has made it clear that you folks hear find such rhetoric acceptable, so what is your beef with it (as for teabagging, I don’t want to know about what you do when you pick up strange men after a hard night’s drinking, cassie).

    And hanging in effigy has a long tradition in political speech — and occurred with effigies of Bush 43 — did you object?

    And remember — this is the place that went on about eliminationist rhetoric — so condemn it on your own side or stand convicted of hypocrisy.

  25. cassandra_m says:
    August 5, 2009 at 9:44 pm

    So then we just use your excuse — given that we’ve got no association with the Malloy guy, I don’t know what you are talking about with this thing. But since you clearly condone it for the folks in your own party, I don’t know what your beef with it is (and I’ll not include the tasteless comment on who you sleep with which none of us are old enough to know about anyway. You are the party of Diapers Vitters, you know.)

    ps. And that effigy thing? The vast majority of them were done by Iraqis and Pakistanis.

  26. Suzanne says:
    August 5, 2009 at 9:53 pm

    I could tell you what it means Cassandra – but then I’d have to kill you. .

  27. cassandra_m says:
    August 5, 2009 at 10:07 pm

    LOL, Suzanne!

    And more teabagging craziness — a Congressman’s life is threatened.

  28. Brian Shields says:
    August 6, 2009 at 1:15 am

    Sussex Witness protection? Must be Gumboro. You have to get lost to find it.

    Can’t imagine a more anonymous town in Sussex.

    In Kent it is Houston.

  29. Rhymes With Right says:
    August 6, 2009 at 7:54 am

    And death threats are never acceptable.

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