Jay Bookman

By @@

December 5, 2008 5:29 PM | Link to this

Nuh Yawk

Nuh Yawk

By AJC/DNC Management

December 5, 2008 5:37 PM | Link to this

“And what?

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Old topic>>>

U.S. home sales and prices began to tumble in 2006 after a five-year boom, dragging the economy into a recession that began in December 2007, according to the National Bureau of Economic Research.-Bloomberg

Blah, blah, blah-

In macroeconomics, a recession is a decline in a country’s gross domestic product (GDP), or negative real economic growth, for two or more successive quarters of a year.

An alternative, less accepted definition of recession is a downward trend in the rate of actual GDP growth as promoted by the business-cycle dating committee of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

More accepted if you are trying to keep the blame off of your Wonder Boy.

Isn’t it rather amazing that the liberal’s goon committee of “experts” took nearly a year to figure out we are “in a recession?”

Gosh, I wonder what recent major event would cause them to make this call, 11 some months after their own benchmark?

I tell you what, toadies, let’s have your “experts” define what a depression is now, so that when Oblahmi drags us into one, we can let your experts know.

Bozos.

By "The Corporal"

December 5, 2008 5:50 PM | Link to this

Ah, that’s nothin!

You haven’t lived until you have heard a female Filipino rock-band (in mini-skirts and white Nancy Sinatra knee boots) sing Soul Man at the R&R Center (Rest and Relaxation/Rape and Riot) at China Beach, Da Nang.

Oh, for the good old days …….

By AJC/DNC Management

December 5, 2008 6:00 PM | Link to this

Yep, just like I thought-

Gross Domestic Product growth by year-

Oct-1994 4.69%

Jan-1995 1.11%

Apr-1995 0.72%

Jul-2007 4.67%

Oct-2007 0.17%

Jan-2008 0.87%

Apr-2008 2.80%

So by the definition of the National Bureau of Economic Research, 1995 was a “recession.”

But yet, they didn’t call it one.

Gosh, I wonder why?

By catlady

December 5, 2008 6:10 PM | Link to this

A Malaysian karaoke enthusiast hogged the microphone for so long that people set upon him and stabbed him to death.

Sounds like a good consequence for stupid politicians. I have a list……

By RW-(the original)

December 5, 2008 6:10 PM | Link to this

This being your blog, Jay B, how can you post something off topic?

A repost from downstairs, but nobody should miss this photo of the incoming White House staff

We’re rebuilding the Clinton administration in more ways than familiar faces. Animal House is back.

By JAY BOOKMAN

December 5, 2008 6:17 PM | Link to this

To RW, re: link

Oops! There’s a lesson he won’t forget.

By ByteMe

December 5, 2008 6:28 PM | Link to this

I would love to be in the meeting between those two when he tries to explain to her what his hand was doing to her cardboard cutout.

By Paul

December 5, 2008 6:32 PM | Link to this

RW

And I thought William Shatner fooling with the lifesize blowup doll of Shirley Schmidt (Candace Bergen) on Boston Legal was getting weird. Looks like Favreau has been sidelining as a series writer.

BTW - killing a karaoke singer is a crime?!!?

By Ray

December 5, 2008 6:42 PM | Link to this

Corporal,

Was at the 95th Evac in DaNang during X-mas of 1970. Just down the beach from the R&R Center. Our nurses did a pretty good version of “Baby Love” with appropriate attire at the X-mas party. Something to remember.

By GOP is gone

December 5, 2008 6:44 PM | Link to this

This is very much off topic, although this is a weird topic to stay on.

I had a nice quiet morning today. I did not have to rush off any where and could drink my dark french roast as long as I wanted. Instead of the usual CNN or MSNBC I looked at yesterday’s mail. I opened what I thought to be another copy of that silly Peach magazine, the one where the beautiful people pose for party pictures. Instead of Peach( I still do not know how I have come to receive this rag) was something that initially made me spew coffee. Yet another unsolicited magazine, but with an unusual twist. The name on this one was intriguing, “Garden and Guns”. Now not being Sarah Palinesk ,I am not savvy to guns. I have to admit that this southern girl has never even held one, much less fired one, although my father tried to make my pack a handgun after I moved out at 21.

I gleefully sat down to see just what this mag had to offer. With the appropriate back ground music of Van Morrison, I proceeded to thumb through my virgin copy of “Garden and Guns”. To make this long story shorter, I was surprised to find one of the best magazines I have ever read. It had me from hello with the cover of “The best Southern Foods, you must try before you die”. I was disappointed to find that these were only dishes served at great southern restaurants, no recipes provided. But I now know where to find the best Pig Ear Sandwich in the south.

Next I was treated to a wonderful article by Daniel Wallace on how to name a dog. Right now I am dog less as my kids procreated Luke, my rescued black lab, when they moved out. It did bring a tear to my eye, Luke is the best dog around.

Next an article on this young kid in north Florida who builds kayaks and canoes from cypress by hand. He is living his dream, one can ask for no more out of this life.

Then comes my favorite, an article on Barry Hannah, a Pulitzer Prize nominated author from Mississippi. I am looking forward to reading his novels. I plan to start with “Geronimo Rex”. You might want to read him Bosch, to redeem yourself from your Girly-man last book. It sounds like he is an all southern hell raising man. I do remember hearing him on NPR interviewed by Terry Gross. Too bad I always listen in the car, hard to take notes.

The point of this diatribe is you can not judge a magazine by it’s dumb name. It opens up so many possibilities you might have otherwise not read.

By Taxpayer

December 5, 2008 6:53 PM | Link to this

Another re-post from below:

By Taxpayer

December 5, 2008 6:30 PM | Link to this

RW,

You lost me with this stuff. What’s the “GFY” in reference to and what’w with the children groping a piece of cardboard? I’m not into weird.

[[By RW-(the original)

December 5, 2008 5:45 PM | Link to this

Good for you, taxpayer.

Now this grope is just a little more obvious]]

By RW-(the original)

December 5, 2008 7:06 PM | Link to this

Jay B.,

Apparently there were lots of pictures from that party. Hillary is probably flattered, but as Paul said it’s way too close to the Boston Legal example.

Paul,

Did you see the flashbacks stuff last week? I forgot how hot Candace Bergen once was.

By Titan

December 5, 2008 7:11 PM | Link to this

Jay, you suck.

By RW-(the original)

December 5, 2008 7:15 PM | Link to this

Taxpayer,

You said you knew the esoteric difference between slander and libel so I gave you an attaboy. It was surprising when you claimed to know after you had gone off in slackjawed wonder over the term “libel” just a few minutes prior, so as I said downstairs, good for you.

The link to the WaPo wasn’t intended for you alone and if I didn’t separate it with a ~~~~~~ I apologize for any confusion I created.

By catlady

December 5, 2008 7:20 PM | Link to this

ANYONE GOT ANY IDEA WHEN THE ADS FOR SAXBY CHAMBLISS ON TNT WILL END? OR IS HE WORKING ON 2014????

By moonbat betty

December 5, 2008 7:20 PM | Link to this

watch tomorrow on snl for tina fey’s karaoke of “devil went down to georgia”

have you ever seen a bunch of libs slaughter a pig with lipstick via pitch forks?

By Taxpayer

December 5, 2008 7:22 PM | Link to this

Well,

Here in Georgia I guess the bad singers will have to settle for getting shot by all the drunks with their concealed handguns. Knives are not allowed in the bars.

By getalife

December 5, 2008 7:27 PM | Link to this

Yeah, Hillary probably LOL when she saw that pic. Hilarious.

Check out the brain on Titan.

Geez.

By Paul

December 5, 2008 7:32 PM | Link to this

RW-(the original)

[[Did you see the flashbacks stuff last week? I forgot how hot Candace Bergen once was.]]

Yeah, she was. Still has that twinkle in here eye. Rewind on the remote came in handy -

GOP is gone

“Guns and Gardens”? I can’t even begin to imagine the committee that came up with that.

About a year ago my wife got a standard poodle. I didn’t want it. Now I’ve done a 180. Probably the smartest dog I’ve had, retrieves like you wouldn’t believe (I don’t hunt, just throw stuff), full of attitude. Only concession my wife made is that the coat is trimmed the same length all over - including her muzzle. Makes her look like a dog, not one of those……you get the idea.

BTW - check out Caribou coffee out of Washington. Great roasts, consistent. caribou dot com. You won’t go back to the other -

By Jerry

December 5, 2008 7:33 PM | Link to this

My fellow-Georgians: This would be a good weekend to think and consider the national/international/worldly horrors you have committed by voting for and continuing to support that drunken imbecile and similar Repunks. The lot of you should be individually taken out and horse-whipped. Along with your Bibles and …rifles. Hmmm. I’ve got an even better location for those rifles.

By Paul

December 5, 2008 7:34 PM | Link to this

getalife

She probably said “you’re not the only one to get the young ones, Bill”

Whack!

By Taxpayer

December 5, 2008 7:36 PM | Link to this

RW,

I was just funnin’ with the phrase attempted libel — as opposed to successful libel (see below) and while I was typing that I was reminded of something that had happened to me (i.e., the incorrect usage of the word, slander) so I threw it in. That’s all.

[[By Taxpayer

December 5, 2008 4:57 PM | Link to this

Attempted “libel”! That’s a new one. Although I did have someone accuse me of writing “slanderously” (Is that a word) before. I couldn’t help but speak out about that.]]

By RW-(the original)

December 5, 2008 7:50 PM | Link to this

Paul,

I’m someone who doesn’t mind just a cup of instant, but my daughter is a district manager for that ubiquitous coffee house chain based in Seattle. Must we have the free Caribou ads here?

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PMSNBC producer loses it

Language alert on the link, but I didn’t link directly to the video. Is that what these news readers are generally hearing in their ears?

By Taxpayer

December 5, 2008 7:55 PM | Link to this

I saw a headline earlier that said “533,000 reasons for tax cuts.” Whoever came up with that title clearly missed the obvious. In fact, the title should have been “533,000 tax cuts.”

By RW-(the original)

December 5, 2008 7:56 PM | Link to this

Geez Taxpayer,

Crack a cold one or swallow a Xanax. I’ll try to remember how neurotic you are from now on.

By AJC/DNC Management

December 5, 2008 7:56 PM | Link to this

By Jerry December 5, 2008 7:33 PM My fellow-Georgians: This would be a good weekend to think and consider the national/international/worldly horrors you have committed by voting for and continuing to support that drunken imbecile and similar Repunks.

Jerry: Have you checked with headquarters this week? They’ve issued newer propaganda, well, if you want to consider the latest Palin whining “new.”

You libs lost the last election, no sense in the continued thumb sucking, go home, take your first shower in months, log in to MYDD and get up to speed with the rest of the zombies.

They’ve MovedOn already.

By Paul

December 5, 2008 7:58 PM | Link to this

RW-(the original)

Hope not. All I see are email ads. Free shipping, 20 percent off, that sort of stuff.

re PMSNBC - told ya’ everyone at those lib stations are all touchy-feely, fostering a harmonious work environment and respectful of others!

By Taxpayer

December 5, 2008 7:59 PM | Link to this

Geez RW,

It sounds to me like you are the one in need of the cold shower. Back at you with the insults.

By GodHatesTrash

December 5, 2008 7:59 PM | Link to this

I am old enough to well remember Caroline’s brother John Jr.’s 3rd birthday, the day they buried her father at Arlington. (Caroline was two days shy of her 6th birthday).

These kids lost a father, then an uncle to America’s dark side.

Yet there are RightWingnuts on Bookman’s blog who mock her and her family.

Disgusting.

By GodHatesTrash

December 5, 2008 8:04 PM | Link to this

Sorry, decent folks, wrong thread.

By Taxpayer

December 5, 2008 8:05 PM | Link to this

GHT,

Did you expect better from them. After all, they’re Republicans.

By RW-(the original)

December 5, 2008 8:08 PM | Link to this

Paul,

I’ll rephrase. She’s a DM with Starbucks so do you mind not pushing Caribou? HAHAHA

Taxpayer,

Cold shower? Is this more fun with words or do you not know what neurotic means either?

By Paul

December 5, 2008 8:08 PM | Link to this

GodHatesTrash

I didn’t read where anyone mocked Pres Kennedy (killed for reasons unknown by a Marxist) or Robert Kennedy (killed by a man celebrating his Arab nationalism).

Tragic events. Doesn’t mean Carolyn, as the daughter and niece of tragedy, should be automatically embraced as a Senatorial candidate.

By Paul

December 5, 2008 8:11 PM | Link to this

RW-(the original)

Got it. Glad she still has a job after all those closings. I’ll bet her territory expanded.

Okay, I won’t push Caribou.

Instead, I’ll recommend it.

:-)

By leni

December 5, 2008 8:14 PM | Link to this

re post @6:44 Can someone explain what palinesk mean?

By AJC/DNC Management

December 5, 2008 8:14 PM | Link to this

Caroline Kennedy’s daddy sent more Americans to their death in Vietnam than George Bush did in Iraq and unlike Iraq, those soldiers died for absolutely no reason whatsoever.

And we can all remember the wonderful things said about the Bush family.

But let us all check and see what the big difference is here, hmmmmmmmmm, I wonder, gee, could it be that Kennedy was a democrat???

Go fondle yourself, God’s Trash, your “umbrage” is hollow, to say the least.

By Taxpayer

December 5, 2008 8:16 PM | Link to this

Calm down RW,

I’m sure business will pick up with those repairs of vacuum tube rectifiers or whatever legacy equipment it is that you take care of. You’ll be OK.

By RW-(the original)

December 5, 2008 8:16 PM | Link to this

Sirhan Sirhan is a right wing Republican??? I wonder if Obama’s buddy William Ayers knew that when he dedicated Prairie Fire to him.

By "The Corporal"

December 5, 2008 8:18 PM | Link to this

To Ray

Ah yes, I was there in 1968 - down for a few days from the DMZ. If we had only had video cameras back then !

Ooo Rah !

By Paul

December 5, 2008 8:23 PM | Link to this

leni

I believe Democrats, in their continuing fascination with all things Palin, liken many people, situations and events to Palin. But being the party of “close enough is good enough” and “if you don’t know, make something up that looks right” they use the phonetic suffix ‘esk” rather than the proper esque, meaning “in the manner of,” as in “Palinesque.”

Geez, it’s French. You think they’d be all over that. Wait, Sarkozy’s a conservative. That explains it.

By RW-(the original)

December 5, 2008 8:37 PM | Link to this

Jay B.,,

Feel free to pull this down if you feel it isn’t bleeped well enough.

To the rest of you watch quick before this goes away.

Plaxico Burress on gun safety

By Paul

December 5, 2008 8:44 PM | Link to this

RW-8:16

I was glad I was sitting down when I read that. Amazing. Despicable, yet amazing. That’s the sort of thing the Left should be outraged over. But I suppose some will make excuses for that, too.

Okay, the youtube had me laughing. thanks

By Paul

December 5, 2008 8:53 PM | Link to this

Pleasant weekend, all -

By GodHatesTrash

December 5, 2008 9:21 PM | Link to this

RightWingnuts love to blow hard and long about things they know nothing about.

The first American casualties in Vietnam were during Ike’s administration. During JFK’s presidency, there were less than 400 deaths. (At the time of his death, there were only 16,300 American troops in Vietnam).

As long as we are on the subject of pointless, Ronnie Rayguns killed almost that many in 90 seconds in Lebanon.

By GodHatesTrash

December 5, 2008 9:31 PM | Link to this

Well Bookman, looks like Duh didn’t get the memo about personal attacks.

Let me know if the rules have been changed.

By AJC/DNC Management

December 5, 2008 9:38 PM | Link to this

I don’t expect you libs to slobber and drool over Ronald Reagan, let’s try to stay on subject, turd blossom.

Kennedy could have pulled all the troops out of Nam and saved the lives of 58,000 soldiers, but no, he led his piddling little political party down the road to ruin, to a place that they did not have the stones to venture into.

So you cowards eventually ran in defeat, only after you slaughtered millions for no reason.

Now we get to see if you do it again.

By GodHatesTrash

December 5, 2008 9:53 PM | Link to this

More lies, stupidity and filth from our RightWingnuts.

JFK could not have pulled the troops out. He was dead.

And, despite what they may have told you folks in GED class, GOPer Tricky Dick Nixon signed the surrender. Over 20,000 Americans died during the 5 years and one week that Nixon and Kissinger were negotiating the ‘peace’.

The definition of pointless.

By AJC/DNC Management

December 5, 2008 10:06 PM | Link to this

Au contraire, wanker-

JFK, to be sure, did make efforts to reduce direct tensions with the USSR following the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the installation of a teletype Hot Line was seen as essential to preventing the slowness of communication that had hampered talks during the crisis from happening again. But merely because JFK wanted to reduce direct tensions with the USSR in no way meant backing away from the basic principle of containment first enunciated in the Truman Doctrine. Khrushchev had still publically declared that the Soviets would support “wars of national liberation” wherever they occurred in the world, and since JFK firmly believed in the “Domino Theory” (as he told David Brinkley in the fall of 1963), then the idea of backing away from containment was impractical from a national security stanpoint, let alone a political one.

It was for these reasons alone, that holding the line in Vietnam was essential. It was JFK who increased America’s troop number from 500 to 16,000 and he repeatedly insisted that while Vietnam might have been “in the final analysis, their war,” American troops were nontheless not there “to see a war lost” and that he totally disagreed with those who were suggesting the idea of a pullout. “I think that would be a mistake,” he said to Walter Cronkite in 1963.

That JFK was determined not to see Vietnam lost was borne out by his actions all throughout 1963. It was JFK who decided that South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem needed to be removed from office not because Diem was engaging in repression against Buddhists, but because Kennedy had become convinced that Diem was an impediment to winning the war. As a result, when prodding from Washington failed to work, it was JFK who authorized the coup that resulted in Diem’s overthrow and assassination on November 1, 1963 (the latter was not desired by JFK, but it was extremely naïve for him to not foresee such a result). Those who insist that JFK was ready to wash his hands of Vietnam and abandon the South never seem to realize that if that were the case, then why did JFK meddle so much in South Vietnamese politics right up to the eve of his death? Since the South was not in any immediate danger of collapse, it would have been far simpler for JFK to disengage than by engineering a coup against Diem.

By GodHatesTrash

December 5, 2008 10:57 PM | Link to this

Blah blah blah cut and paste cut and paste cut and paste.

On November 2, 1963; 3 weeks before his assassination, Kennedy ordered another 800 troops to Vietnam, which would bring the American troop strength to 16,300 at the end of 1963.

There were approximately 400 soldiers killed during the 34 months of his presidency. Out of a total of over 50,000. Less than 1% were on Kennedy’s watch.

Nixon authorized a troop strength of over 540,000 in April 1969, the high-water mark of the American involvement in Vietnam. Kennedy authorized less 3% of that total.

No amount of cutting and pasting can change those facts.

By "The Corporal"

December 6, 2008 12:38 AM | Link to this

To GodHatesTrash

While we’re talking about Kennedy:

1) He came out as a hero concerning his PT 109 debacle (costing the lives of some of his crew). However, the true story is that he had the boat at idle in Japanese infested waters. Many questioned that tactic and some of his superiors actually wanted him courtmartialed ….. but due to who his father was that didn’t happen.

2) Concerning the Bag of Pigs debacle, he brought us to the brink of nuclear war with Russia because he didn’t have the guts to follow through with his promised help of U.S. Marines or at least air support. Generations of Cubans have suffered and died because of that.

3) Concerning just one espisode of his personal life, at the time of his assassination a scandal was ready to break regarding an affair with a woman (who had been passed around Capitol Hill and then passed to him) who later turned out to be an East German Spy. That would have been very interesting.

I could go on and on but that’s enough for now.

P.S. Never get involved in a land war in Asia.

By AJC/DNC Management

December 6, 2008 7:53 AM | Link to this

It wasn’t my fault he got wasted, Nancy, he should have put the top on-

Khrushchev had still publically declared that the Soviets would support “wars of national liberation” wherever they occurred in the world, and since JFK firmly believed in the “Domino Theory” (as he told David Brinkley in the fall of 1963), then the idea of backing away from containment was impractical from a national security standpoint, let alone a political one.

It was for these reasons alone, that holding the line in Vietnam was essential. It was JFK who increased America’s troop number from 500 to 16,000 and he repeatedly insisted that while Vietnam might have been “in the final analysis, their war,” American troops were nontheless not there “to see a war lost” and that he totally disagreed with those who were suggesting the idea of a pullout.

Kennedy is responsible for Vietnam becoming what it did, not to say that if he had lived he wouldn’t have popped a nuke on Hanoi and brought the troops home, but he is the one who escalated it and chose an idiot VP who sissied out when the going got tough.

By "The Corporal"

December 6, 2008 8:33 AM | Link to this

To AJC/DNC

Just curious. We may disagree a little on tactics, etc. but you are very knowledgeable on the subject. Did you serve in that war? If so, what unit, time frame, etc.?

India 3/4 USMC 1967-68