It’s New Years Eve, and I can’t think of a better way to celebrate than to stay home tonight, turn on the radio, and tune in to “The David Goldstein Show” tonight from 7PM to 10PM on Newsradio 710-KIRO. Subject to change, here are the topics for tonight’s show:
7PM: What will 2007 bring us? I’ll be making my predictions for the new year. Call in and give me yours.
8PM: Are you drinking and driving tonight? Well don’t. Sgt. Monica Hunter of the Washington State Patrol will join me for the hour to talk about the patrol’s stepped up DUI enforcement efforts this holiday weekend, and what you can expect if you’re pulled over and blow a .08. (It ain’t pretty.) We’ll also dispel a few popular myths about how to fool the breathalyzer.
9PM: Gen. JC Christian welcomes the end of the times. Gen. JC Christian of the far right-wing religious blog Jesus’ General comes back on the show to talk about the unique way he and his family celebrate the New Year, and to clue us in on his design proposal for the George W. Bush Presidential Library, and his plans to use robots to defeat Iran. Really.
Also, fellow HA blogger Will may call in from time to time with a live update on New Years Eve revelry from various Seattle hotspots. Won’t that be fun?
Tune in tonight (or listen to the live stream) and give me a call: 1-877-710-KIRO (5476).
PROGRAMMING NOTE:
If you’re not too hung over, tune in to 710-KIRO tomorrow afternoon from 4PM to 7PM, when I’ll be filling in for Ron & Don.
Roger Rabbit will be incapacitated shortly after midnight tonight.
Hey trollfucks! Here’s my New Year’s wish for you: Drop dead!* Any questions?
* Just kidding — this is only Ann Coulter humor.
Roger Rabbit’s Suggested New Year’s Resolutions for Repubicans
1. We won’t get more than 3 DUIs this year.
2. We won’t torture more than 3 people this year.
3. We won’t start more than 3 wars this year.
4. We won’t vote for more than 3 morally challenged imbeciles this year.
5. We won’t fuck more than 3 horses this year.
Hey, that’s not too hard, right? I mean, let’s face it, this isn’t a list of great accomplishments, but we all have to start with baby steps and better late than never.
Furball writes his own resolutions for us neocons to approve?
Goldie: I will be doing something else as I can’t stand a voice that sounds like a person scratching a chalkboard with long fingernails!
4 Did I ask for your approval? I don’t remember that. I don’t think I did. If so, I apologize — I intended to shove them up your ass.
5 Yeah, MWS will be busy jerking off while watching the hanging video. Watching people die gives him an orgasm.
HEY RABBIT @ 3
JUST SUBSTITUTE “WON’T” WITH “WILL” AND YOU GOT OUR RESOLUTIONS 100 PERCENT RIGHT!!!
RIGHT.. GET IT. HEH HEH
@8 You and I know what the reality is.
Hey wingnuts! Want to watch Saddam’s neck-stretching party? The Fox News web site has a link to the video. (Who else? Their demographic is voyeuristic for this sort of thing.)
When you were filling in for Ross, you kept your voice pitched lower and steady. But, on your own show, you get kind of up, down and all over the place. It’s nice to passionate, but it is easier to listen to a steady voice on the radio.
Just a suggestion.
I keep listening (expect one night when it got to be too much!)
“expect” s/b except . . .
This will become a huge website.
http://www.hotghettomess.com/
Throughout the invasion and occupation of Iraq, there were a number of moments when I was convinced a grave error was taking place. Among them was the dissolution of the Iraqi army, the failure to have enough troops in place for an effective occupation, etc.
But one of the biggest was when the Army finally captured Saddam and it was announced he was going to be tried by the Iraqi government.
Iraqi government? At the time none existed. And there was no Iraqi law violated. As long as Saddam was alive and in Iraq, he would continue to be a destabalizing influence.
So why didn’t Bush just direct the army to turn him over to the Kuwaitis? They could have tried him for war crimes, for kidnapping and murdering Iraqi civilians, etc., and then afterwards, if Iraq had a stable government, and if the Kuwaitis wanted to, they could consider turning him over to the Iraqis (or Iranians) for additional trials.
But apparantly Bush doesn’t think in pragmatics. He missed history class when they discussed how the British preserved an empire for 400 + years. He figures he knows better.
13 Right up JCH’s alley!
14 Bush has proved he doesn’t know squat about nuthin.
Hey Goldy, whoever scheduled you against the Bears – Packers game must have it in for you!
We’re not conservatives. We’re Republicans.
I am totally amazed that a major writer like Robert Benchley is almost forgotten!!!!!!!!
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What brought that comment on? I am a big fan of Robert Benchley, and Stephen Leacock and H. Allen Smith and many other authors of the time who are all but forgotten these days.
YKM Ain’t Robert the GF of Peter Benchley?
Too bad no Peter Benchley shark is here to eat Furball.
Just kidding… using Furball humor here!
I listened to your General….whatever guest.
I have to know something. Is this guy for real? I’m serious, is he just mocking the left? C’mon you can tell me the truth.
That last comment about his wife helping a depressed person almost every night was just a little over the top dont ya think?
dw
What do you think?
It was a really good show tonight. Except for the state trooper . . . I have a friend who beat the DUI rap by refusing everything. By the time she (yes, a woman)took it, her blood alcohol level was significantly reduced.
BTW, that particular friend knew the ropes because she worked in the court system. She simply refused. Don’t recall if they booked her . . . I’ll have to reconnect with her and ask. Whatever, she doesn’t have a record . . .
Thanks for taking my call tonight, David. And a happy New Year to all!
Throwing Away More Lives to Justify Throwing Away Lives
The White House continues clinging to the discredited argument that its Iraq fiasco has something to do with terrorism:
“Asked about the 3,000 figure, deputy White House press secretary Scott Stanzel said Sunday that … ‘The brave men and women of the U.S. military are fighting extremists in order to stop them from attacking on our soil again[.]’ …
“‘Last year, America continued its mission to fight and win the war on terror …,’ Bush said in [a] statement released from his ranch in Crawford, Texas ….”
http://tinyurl.com/ykfvs5
Roger Rabbit Commentary: It appears the plan now is to squander more American lives in Iraq, which has NOTHING to do with preventing terrorist attacks on America, in order to justify squandering 3,000 American lives in Iraq, which had NOTHING to do with 9/11, WMDs, or anything else. What a load of horse-hooey! Folks, this bullshit isn’t going to end until Bush leaves office.
New T-shirt — They’re not Conservatives. They’re Republicans.
Let’s take the Conservative label away from them too, and leave them with only the Corporatist Nazi label — what they really are!!!
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Give yourself a cigar. Peter is the son of Nathaniel, an author in his own right and an editor of his father Robert’s work.
Or I should say Peter was, because apparently he died last February.
Let’s prepare for ‘o8 with snappy new T-shirts that proclaim: “They’re not Conservatives…. They’re Republicans!!!”
Framing. It’s all about framing.
re 29: My mother in law says that: “The electricity is leaking!!!!!!!!”
Dorothy Parker is snide.
TOPIC: Algonquin: It’s neither a table nor an Indian. Discuss!
Remember the Star Trek episode where Jack the Ripper inhabits the body of a squeeky little Nerd? That’s how I imagine MTR.
Get Busy!!! It’s all just a Google away.
http://www.hotghettomess.com/
I love to have a martini,
two at the very most
three I’m under the table
four I’m under the host.
For Ms. Parker on New Years
BTW, says more about my preference for drink than partners. I have mine and don’t play.
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Ah yes. James Thurber’s mother, described in My Life And Hard Times as living “the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house.” Thurber was one funny guy as well.
Oh, to travel back in time and be a fly on the wall at the Algonquin Hotel when the Thanatopsis Literary Society and Inside Straight Club was in session. Participation would be out of the question; any one of the regulars would have been able to cut me to ribbons (in bon mots or in poker).
Furball: I need a translation.
Please Translate Headless Lucisms for me. His useless blathering makes no sense.
YKM: I forgot PB died 2-2006.
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My favorite is still
Razors pain you,
Rivers are damp,
Acids stain you,
And drugs cause cramp.
Guns aren’t lawful,
Nooses give,
Gas smells awful —
You might as well live.
Ron and Don are so bad, i might listen to Goldy who might be better.
What is this? A retardathon?
I prefer one of her contemporaries “We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
HAPPY NEW YEAR WINGNUTS.
MAY EVERY DAY FOR YOU IN 2007 BE NOV 7, 2006!
I have to know something. Is this guy for real? I’m serious, is he just mocking the left? C’mon you can tell me the truth.
Derik, the General is mocking conservatives. It’s satire.
The problem is, righties these days are so freaking crazy, they’re just too tough to parody.
Rogsher Rabbith hash been drinkthing and ish incapashitated. How big an incashitator do I need to shoot Redneck up to the moon with a flashlight bathery? hic
Heh Heh, I know that the people want me out of office and stop the crazy killing machine I started in Iraq.
So in 2007, I resolve to stop listening to the people.
I am the Decider! And I decided a long time ago that none of you fucking morons lives matter at all. Not even you idiotic numbskulls that voted for me and keep supporting my “policies”.
Fuck you all! Heh Heh. I couldn’t give two shits about any of you! You are nothing. Die Die Die.. Kill you all, Kill Kill Kill!
Heh Heh.
40 HTF would I know? Ashk Lushy.
Ashk not what Rogsher Rabbith can tell yu; ashk what Lushy can tell yu.
49 I ain’t the only one poshting here thash been drinkthing.
oopsh thash be 48
What the hell am I supposed to do with this rabbit passed out on the floor?
burp
Mrs Rabbit: stewed rabbit?
Roger Rabbit @ 52
Heh heh. I only drink the blood of our soldiers. I especially like the younger ones. Heh heh.
Damn good vintage. The supply is unlimited! Just need to keep Shooter from using all their internal organs for transplants for his bloated draft dodging carcass.
And try to keep him from skull fucking all them when their bodies are shipped back to Arlington.
Ever wonder why we don’t allow pictures of the caskets? That’s right. Old Dick prying open the caskets to skull fuck the recently dead soldiers would not be as easily explained as that shooting an old lawyer in the face escapade.
What can I say? Cheney gives less of a shit for our troops than I do.
Heh heh.
That’s my boy!
I taught ’em well. They’ll never be poor . . .money, money, money . . . and a little help from the Third Reich didn’t hurt.
BTW. That heh heh George does? Got it from ol’ grand-daddy! I’m so proud.
Granddad! Oh sweet Gandpapa!
I hope I am living up to your standards!! I know that my old man disappointed you! He refused to sacrifice the life and limbs of tens of thousands of soldiers for our honor… and bank accounts.
While I acknowledge that my Father, your son, killed thousands in the interest of our corporate friends here and abroad… he refused to commit America to an endless quagmire of unending death and loss of the American public treasure!
He was a fool! He actually felt that there were standards of decency that could not be crossed! He felt that, ultimately, the Bush legacy could not include plunging America into its final nightmare of international shame, unending war, and decline to debtor nation status. What do we care? We will never live poor. We are untouchable.
I hate my Father! And I love him!
I must prevail no matter the loss of life, no matter the bankruptcy of America… no matter how much I must lie. I must prevail.. because… I am the Chosen One of God!
I love you Grandpapa!
I will prevail.
No matter the cost.
And Bandar Bush, my Brother from Saudi Arabia agrees.
No matter the cost. No matter the facts.
No matter the reality.
I know that there are idiots who will support me.
We will rape and pillage those idiots later.
They are as stupid as I am. They are just not as rich as I am.
Heh heh.
Fucking Morons.
Okay, New Year’s Weekend is a bad time to have a funeral. How inconvenient (inconsiderate?) of Pres. Ford to die with such bad timing!
Last week we were wondering how Ford’s funeral would compare with Reagan’s. Now we know.
Lots of Democrats sent their regrets, which is unfortunate.
But the list of Republicans who chose not to appear is mind-boggling. Leading the list is Pres. W. Bush, who felt his Christmas vaction in Texas was more important and couldn’t be interrupted. Of course, perhaps the news that Ford considered Bush’s Iraqi invasion idiotic might have had somthing to do with it. Bush is known for carrying a grudge, and having a snit whenever someone dissagress with him. But gee wiz, would one funeral for a former Republican President kill him?
But he wasn’t the only one. Even Rumsfield and James Baker III, who owed much of their careers to Ford, didn’t make it despite being honerary pallbearers.
And yet, Fox News skewered only Democractic non-attenders, criticizing the incoming Sentate Majority Leader for not cancelling a working trip to South America with four other Senators, with commentator Mike Gallagher saying “”He’s the incoming Senate majority leader, for crying out loud, and he can’t even show a little bit of respect?”
Typical of Fox News. A Democrat is faulted for not changing his work schedule to honor a Republican, but a Republican gets a free pass for not interrupting his vacation.
Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16412093/
Faux News – We Distort – We Decide.
Why all the fuss anyway? Ford was the asshole who unleashed Rummy and WHATADICK Cheney on the world.
Wasn’t Dorothy Kilgallen a member of the Thanatopsis Society?
Skagit at 25: It’s a little late for this advice to do ay good, but…
Refusing to take the breath tests usually doesn’t help. You can be convicted of DWI based merely on the officer’s description of your impairment. Technically, they are two seperate offenses, one is driving with tyour BAL above .08, the other is driving while impaired. If they can’t get you on the blood alchohol level, then they can get you on the other.
What happens if you don’t take the test is you get your driver’s licesnse suspended – right then. Even if they prosecute you for driving while impaired, and you are acquitted, you still loose your license. And you can’t even get permission to drive just to work and back. I’ve forgotten how long it lasts, but its a lot more than the DWI.
Democrat Representative John Conyers repeatedly violated House Ethics rules by forcing aides to work on local and state campaigns, live in his house and babysit his kids while his wife attended law school! And then she hung her shingle out FROM HIS OFFICE! AND he allowed a former top aide convicted of fraud to obtain a passport through his office so he could flee to Ghana!
i FEEL so much better knowing this individual will be chairman of the judiciary committee in Nancy’s Pelosi’s “mOST honest and open and most ethical congress in history!”
A CULTURE OF CORRUPTION!
Bennet Cerf
John Charles Dailey
Who was the host of, “Beat the Clock”?
re 64: If Don Ho had a daughter named Heidi, her name would be…
re 64: Bud Colyer was a Communist double agent. Roy Cohn and Whittaker Chambers said so , Pumpkin Head!
I have to admit I rather liked Cheney’s eulogy at the Capitol Rotunda episode of the Gerald Ford Traveling Funeral and Flying Circus. Maybe it was partially because he spoke after Ted Stevens, who repeatedly flubbed his ghost-written lines and obviously didn’t give a shit. Cheney actually showed a trace or two of humanity, and spoke of his former boss as someone he evidently knew well and admired. Too bad, of course, that he didn’t learn anything from him.
I’m waiting to see what sort of semi-coherent, self-serving tripe Dumbya serves up for the ceremony at the National Cathedral.
re 64: He forced the aides to work out of his house by chaining them to his mantle with shackles that he “liberated” from the “privately funded”, Southern Museum of Slavery, in Buboe, GA.
Bud Collier?
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I don’t know. She’s not listed on the Wikipedia page for the Algonquin Round Table, but Wikipedia notes that newspaper columnists frequented the hotel and published some of the quips made there, so it’s likely that she showed up once in a while to pick up material for her Voice of Broadway column.
rph6033 at 65: Hey, all I’m saying is she got away with it. She clerked for a judge and heard DUIs all day once a week every week . . . she knew what she was doing. Maybe laws have changed and police have other ways around it. But, her refusal to cooperate got her off. Whatever and however . . .
In case the right wing child rapists forgot, we KICKED your ASS in Nov. This crap you learned from Handjob Hannity and Lush Flimbaugh…it doesn’t work. You America-hating morons were beaten for a reason. Get used to it. It will be a LONG fucking time before we let you cowardly traitors back into DC!
re 73: Thanks for the info. The scuttlebutt at the time of her death was that she was about to blow the lid off the Kennedy slaying.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.....37561.html
Here’s an interesting article by David Sirota concerning the path Progressives should take when the Dems., as they inevitably will, attempt to reneg on the Progressive ideas that got them into office. We need to keep their weak feet to the fire, like we did with Cantwell, to get some action.
The lesson of Sirota’s article is that the Progressive movement can USE the Dems., but we are not tied to them.
Did we do it with Cantell? I hope so. . . not sure. She had a pretty easy win.
I declare David Sirota to be “Leader of the Progressive Movement.” He’s one of the few that seems to say it well.
64 I like our crooks better than your crooks.