Comments on: A little levity. http://nancynall.com/2008/06/30/a-little-levity/ one writer's daily download Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:51:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: moe99 http://nancynall.com/2008/06/30/a-little-levity/#comment-194173 moe99 Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:10:10 +0000 http://nancynall.com/?p=1851#comment-194173 Jeff: Voting no on a torture ban bill, makes one a supporter of torture in my book. It may be simplistic, but so is torture--you are either for it or agin it and McCain, as a consequence, despite all the obfuscation thrown up by his freinds in the media, is voting to allow torture. If the press made it that clear and that simple, then maybe people would suffer as a consequence of their actions. It would be nice for a change. btw, coozledad, I am in awe of your rhetorical abilities. Jeff: Voting no on a torture ban bill, makes one a supporter of torture in my book. It may be simplistic, but so is torture–you are either for it or agin it and McCain, as a consequence, despite all the obfuscation thrown up by his freinds in the media, is voting to allow torture. If the press made it that clear and that simple, then maybe people would suffer as a consequence of their actions. It would be nice for a change.

btw, coozledad, I am in awe of your rhetorical abilities.

]]> By: coozledad http://nancynall.com/2008/06/30/a-little-levity/#comment-194158 coozledad Tue, 01 Jul 2008 13:42:54 +0000 http://nancynall.com/?p=1851#comment-194158 Brian: This latest OMG Obama has friends who express an opinion! Flap has my head up my own ass deeper than usual. Maybe jail is too harsh for David Gregory doing his shitsack larval whiteboy dance with Emcee Rove, but a quiet retreat in a Baghdad suburb might just awaken him to the fact he's a rotten corpse. And maybe Bob Schieffer should give up golf, at least with his close personal friends Bush and Cheney, for the sake of appearances. Someone else has mentioned the lack of outrage among our vigilant DC press corps while Bush and Rove insinuated that McCain fathered black babies and and was guilty of spilling military information to the NVA in exchange for cookies and oranges. There was no outrage because all their damned coverage is a drooling infomercial. Bush was paving the way for an absolutist fundy state, courtesy the DOJ, and these people were teabagging him the whole time. They are deeply disappointed in the failure of the totalitarian enterprise, and they're virtually breaking out in stigmata over it . They were thoroughly vested in the end of the republic. Brian: This latest OMG Obama has friends who express an opinion! Flap has my head up my own ass deeper than usual.
Maybe jail is too harsh for David Gregory doing his shitsack larval whiteboy dance with Emcee Rove, but a quiet retreat in a Baghdad suburb might just awaken him to the fact he’s a rotten corpse. And maybe Bob Schieffer should give up golf, at least with his close personal friends Bush and Cheney, for the sake of appearances.
Someone else has mentioned the lack of outrage among our vigilant DC press corps while Bush and Rove insinuated that McCain fathered black babies and and was guilty of spilling military information to the NVA in exchange for cookies and oranges. There was no outrage because all their damned coverage is a drooling infomercial. Bush was paving the way for an absolutist fundy state, courtesy the DOJ, and these people were teabagging him the whole time. They are deeply disappointed in the failure of the totalitarian enterprise, and they’re virtually breaking out in stigmata over it .
They were thoroughly vested in the end of the republic.

]]> By: MichaelG http://nancynall.com/2008/06/30/a-little-levity/#comment-194150 MichaelG Tue, 01 Jul 2008 12:48:08 +0000 http://nancynall.com/?p=1851#comment-194150 MMJeff, Evan Williams is about on a par with Jack Daniels. It isn't as good as Maker's Mark. It's a bit sweeter. I like it over ice. I don't know how it would fare warm. Alright, I'd guess, but again, it's not Maker's Mark. And for the price differential, MM had better be by far the superior sip. MMJeff, Evan Williams is about on a par with Jack Daniels. It isn’t as good as Maker’s Mark. It’s a bit sweeter. I like it over ice. I don’t know how it would fare warm. Alright, I’d guess, but again, it’s not Maker’s Mark. And for the price differential, MM had better be by far the superior sip.

]]> By: brian stouder http://nancynall.com/2008/06/30/a-little-levity/#comment-194149 brian stouder Tue, 01 Jul 2008 12:39:17 +0000 http://nancynall.com/?p=1851#comment-194149 <i>We’ve had enough fail upward enabled by shit-flinging television journos. I think it’s time some of them were jailed.</i> So, gimme a little help, cz. When you call for jail for "some of them" above, are the "them" television journalists? If you meant crooked senators involved in financial chicanery ('John Chicane'? hmmmm...the epithet needs a little more spin, but it could work) then I agree with you. Speaking of chicanery, here's a story I thought I understood - but which I did not. If you have cable tv (and not satellite), you should read it http://redtape.msnbc.com/2008/07/the-other-digit.html#posts an excerpt - <i>D-day for the analog broadcast signal – a date some observers have labeled "Y2K for TV" – is coming on Feb. 17, 2009. That cutoff will be abrupt. But the death of cable analog television is arriving a bit more stealthily, and more piecemeal. While one has almost nothing to do with the other, their coincidental timing and similar nomenclature are sure to make an already confusing situation worse. The prospect of millions of TVs suddenly losing their ability to display cable TV channels at about the same time that antenna-connected TVs stop working entirely is a recipe for chaos. Joel Kelsey, an analyst at Consumers Union, sees it as something even more nefarious than that. He said some cable industry advertisements around the issue have been "extremely misleading." "There's a whole lot of confusion in the marketplace and this is adding to it," he said.<i> and <i>The Federal Communications Commission has set a very low bar for protecting analog customers. Cable providers need only continue to transmit analog versions of broadcast channels (generally, the familiar channels 2-13) for the next three years. When cable firms advertise that its customers won’t have to do anything to keep their televisions working after February 2009, they are promising only to keep those few, local broadcast channels available to all.</i> Speaking of television people who SHOULD BE JAILED...! We’ve had enough fail upward enabled by shit-flinging television journos. I think it’s time some of them were jailed.

So, gimme a little help, cz. When you call for jail for “some of them” above, are the “them” television journalists? If you meant crooked senators involved in financial chicanery (’John Chicane’? hmmmm…the epithet needs a little more spin, but it could work) then I agree with you.

Speaking of chicanery, here’s a story I thought I understood - but which I did not. If you have cable tv (and not satellite), you should read it

http://redtape.msnbc.com/2008/07/the-other-digit.html#posts

an excerpt -

D-day for the analog broadcast signal – a date some observers have labeled “Y2K for TV” – is coming on Feb. 17, 2009. That cutoff will be abrupt. But the death of cable analog television is arriving a bit more stealthily, and more piecemeal. While one has almost nothing to do with the other, their coincidental timing and similar nomenclature are sure to make an already confusing situation worse. The prospect of millions of TVs suddenly losing their ability to display cable TV channels at about the same time that antenna-connected TVs stop working entirely is a recipe for chaos. Joel Kelsey, an analyst at Consumers Union, sees it as something even more nefarious than that. He said some cable industry advertisements around the issue have been “extremely misleading.” “There’s a whole lot of confusion in the marketplace and this is adding to it,” he said.

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The Federal Communications Commission has set a very low bar for protecting analog customers. Cable providers need only continue to transmit analog versions of broadcast channels (generally, the familiar channels 2-13) for the next three years. When cable firms advertise that its customers won’t have to do anything to keep their televisions working after February 2009, they are promising only to keep those few, local broadcast channels available to all.

Speaking of television people who SHOULD BE JAILED…!

]]> By: Jeff (the mild-mannered one) http://nancynall.com/2008/06/30/a-little-levity/#comment-194146 Jeff (the mild-mannered one) Tue, 01 Jul 2008 12:12:09 +0000 http://nancynall.com/?p=1851#comment-194146 Like Obama, love him, or feel cheerful indifference to the phenomenon -- you'll all love this: http://sendbarackyourbaby.com/ Like Obama, love him, or feel cheerful indifference to the phenomenon — you’ll all love this: http://sendbarackyourbaby.com/

]]> By: John http://nancynall.com/2008/06/30/a-little-levity/#comment-194144 John Tue, 01 Jul 2008 11:54:04 +0000 http://nancynall.com/?p=1851#comment-194144 Mad Dog 20/20 or Thunderbird ("What's the word?"). Jesus, I don't know how I remember my college days. Mad Dog 20/20 or Thunderbird (”What’s the word?”).

Jesus, I don’t know how I remember my college days.

]]> By: coozledad http://nancynall.com/2008/06/30/a-little-levity/#comment-194142 coozledad Tue, 01 Jul 2008 11:48:44 +0000 http://nancynall.com/?p=1851#comment-194142 Clark knows what he's talking about. He's a success story. I hear precious little handwringing and hairpulling over the treatment he's getting from our right wing press. McCain, however stars in a Navy film shown to carrier crews demonstrating why you shouldn't behave like a self-absorbed fratboy when you stand a good chance of torching your crewmates. Clark made the grade and kept making it. McCain had to be transferred repeatedly because of his tendency to fail, and fail spectacularly. Then there's the small matter of Charlie Keating. I suppose "Golfin" Bob Schieffer would refer to that halcyon period as McCain's Sentimental Education, and how engaging in graft gives McCain a more nuanced take on the current economic shitstorm- either that, or his habit meticulously balancing his campaign's books with his current trollop's fortune and a strong commitment to public financing (at least as strong as his commitment to his ex trollop). We've had enough fail upward enabled by shit-flinging television journos. I think it's time some of them were jailed. Clark knows what he’s talking about. He’s a success story. I hear precious little handwringing and hairpulling over the treatment he’s getting from our right wing press.
McCain, however stars in a Navy film shown to carrier crews demonstrating why you shouldn’t behave like a self-absorbed fratboy when you stand a good chance of torching your crewmates.
Clark made the grade and kept making it. McCain had to be transferred repeatedly because of his tendency to fail, and fail spectacularly.
Then there’s the small matter of Charlie Keating. I suppose “Golfin” Bob Schieffer would refer to that halcyon period as McCain’s Sentimental Education, and how engaging in graft gives McCain a more nuanced take on the current economic shitstorm- either that, or his habit meticulously balancing his campaign’s books with his current trollop’s fortune and a strong commitment to public financing (at least as strong as his commitment to his ex trollop).
We’ve had enough fail upward enabled by shit-flinging television journos. I think it’s time some of them were jailed.

]]> By: Jeff (the mild-mannered one) http://nancynall.com/2008/06/30/a-little-levity/#comment-194139 Jeff (the mild-mannered one) Tue, 01 Jul 2008 11:17:35 +0000 http://nancynall.com/?p=1851#comment-194139 Moe, i read the link - thanks! - which says, in the SFGate, at the outset that McCain is "the most outspoken of any presidential candidate in his opposition to torture." Who doesn't want to make interrogation a process managed step-by-step by legislation, open to litigation, so he supported a veto of a bill that would do that. Doesn't make him pro-torture, does make your argument tortured. Tell me you're voting against him for his energy policy, health care proposals, or even his Iraq intentions, and we can talk, but saying McCain is pro-torture is like saying your middle name is Hussein -- it makes you feel better, but it still isn't true, and doesn't help us figure out what to do next. John Hussein McCain . . . it does have a ring to it, doesn't it? Moe, i read the link - thanks! - which says, in the SFGate, at the outset that McCain is “the most outspoken of any presidential candidate in his opposition to torture.” Who doesn’t want to make interrogation a process managed step-by-step by legislation, open to litigation, so he supported a veto of a bill that would do that.

Doesn’t make him pro-torture, does make your argument tortured. Tell me you’re voting against him for his energy policy, health care proposals, or even his Iraq intentions, and we can talk, but saying McCain is pro-torture is like saying your middle name is Hussein — it makes you feel better, but it still isn’t true, and doesn’t help us figure out what to do next.

John Hussein McCain . . . it does have a ring to it, doesn’t it?

]]> By: Terry WAlter http://nancynall.com/2008/06/30/a-little-levity/#comment-194109 Terry WAlter Tue, 01 Jul 2008 09:23:45 +0000 http://nancynall.com/?p=1851#comment-194109 OK, Nancy correct me if I'm wrong. I would guess that you support at some level, the draconian anti-smoking laws and high taxes on tobacco. But when they come for your alcohol...... OK, Nancy correct me if I’m wrong. I would guess that you support at some level, the draconian anti-smoking laws and high taxes on tobacco. But when they come for your alcohol……

]]> By: moe99 http://nancynall.com/2008/06/30/a-little-levity/#comment-194075 moe99 Tue, 01 Jul 2008 06:22:39 +0000 http://nancynall.com/?p=1851#comment-194075 Jeff, you are so wrong about McCain and torture. He initially came out against it, but has endorsed it at least in the past 6 months. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/03/09/MNBHVGLVO.DTL Jeff, you are so wrong about McCain and torture. He initially came out against it, but has endorsed it at least in the past 6 months.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/03/09/MNBHVGLVO.DTL

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