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Tuesday, January 13, 2009 at 1:41 pm
Agreed. Now how about the thing on the right side that says 'Read more' but displays EXACTLY THE SAME TEXT. Perhaps the high sheriffs could look up the word 'more' in the dictionary?
Tuesday, January 13, 2009 at 1:47 pm
1. Preview
2. Keep comments all on one page
Then maybe Swampland can get back to the workable levels it was, pre-clusterf**k.
Tuesday, January 13, 2009 at 1:51 pm
Strongly concur on preview and one page comments.
Also, could we get
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paragraph and line breaks back please?
Tuesday, January 13, 2009 at 1:56 pm
A little Cult of Personality isn't it? After 8 years of one branch government getting away from that symbol would be nice.
Someone linked to the original picture yesterday. The Capital I think it was.
On the other hand, it is just a picture.
Tuesday, January 13, 2009 at 2:04 pm
And if you look real close you can see the PayPal Gaza Proudly Accepted pin on his lapel.
Tuesday, January 13, 2009 at 2:09 pm
What? No Kenyan or Hawaiian or Chicago mobster flags? That don't seem too diverse.
Tuesday, January 13, 2009 at 2:12 pm
hulagate, the king/queen maker is back!
QH/Obamish, after electing BHO president and getting Senator Clinton the SofS job who will you focus on next?
Tuesday, January 13, 2009 at 2:14 pm
Cool pic. It looks like Obama is calling an audible right while getting ready to take the snap. Sadly, the brown object that W is getting ready to hand off is a bit....pungent.
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OT: Did anyone catch schmaltzmeister Mitch Albom's Defense of Detroit in Sports Illustrated last week? Nice counterpoint to the Weekly Standard hatchet job that Michael found. Sometimes, there's a time for balance.
Tuesday, January 13, 2009 at 2:15 pm
Your right-wing hipster thought fugues are blowing my mind with their rat-a-tat-tat righteousness, man! Crazy!
Tuesday, January 13, 2009 at 2:16 pm
Does the Rosty, er, B.H. Obama impeachment for use of foreign funds begin this month, or during Black Vetting History Weekend?
I always get those big fat slacker dinosaur union holidays mixed up.
= RICHIE RICHARDSON ACCOMPLISHED =
Tuesday, January 13, 2009 at 2:22 pm
1-13-09: The day the biggest female shill for Saudi Arabia soaked up the faux Congressional mentor sun, but for the cause of covering Obama's campaign finance flipping be-hind, if butt for the swaddling Barney Frankly sake of the same sack of anti-family shiites that sold the Hispanic Catholics the Bill Richardson Story as if he was actually going anywhere in the DNC Ivy hierarchy.
Enough already about Bush & Cheney's willingness to defend the nation.
When does Admiral Airhead start his promised invasion of Pakiland?
= CARTER LITE ACCOMPLISHED =
Tuesday, January 13, 2009 at 2:23 pm
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hulagate: Does the Rosty, er, B.H. Obama impeachment for use of foreign funds begin this month..
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Nope, that's scheduled sometime after Bradley Schlotzman's prosecution.
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There's gotta be a docket chock full of Bush administration officials to go through before getting to the folks that haven't yet taken office...
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Tuesday, January 13, 2009 at 2:37 pm
Nice counterpoint to the Weekly Standard hatchet job that Michael found.
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Yes, quite the counterpoint. Where's my travel agent?
Tuesday, January 13, 2009 at 2:44 pm
I'm with Paul-no not that one-- politics is bigger than Barack Obama. It was cool to have all 12 or however many dudes up there, but this is... too individual-focused.
Tuesday, January 13, 2009 at 2:45 pm
I mean, one man's opinion, and all-- thanks for updating it.
Tuesday, January 13, 2009 at 2:45 pm
More cow bell. Thanks.
Tuesday, January 13, 2009 at 2:47 pm
Pardon me, but when does Hillary get frog-marched off to Leavenworth prison with Obama and Joe Wilson, for under-reported (if reported at ali) foreign income? Mind you, we're in a deep deficit mode, what with all the Rezko bank bailouts and required UAW shuttering, and certainly the Treasury could use the funds for a whole host of 1000 Bridges To Nowhere projects until the lemmings come home to rut, when they realize in about 18 months that they've selected simply the skinniest empty suit since Jiminy Crater to hep (help) decide which way the wind blows in Mild Shy Stadium.
Senator Skippy ain't even been inaugurized yet, and America already misses the real Americans, eh?
BTW: We are still taking signups for the Counter-Inaugural of 2009, at our new if not yet disproved HULAgate.org humor station location for all across the nation sans ration.
Pending Secret Servile approval we plan to raise our FISA flags somewhere between the Big Gay Day meetup at Lincoln's swollen feet and the original Fedskins Field (aka Booby Kennedy Park). Nationals Financial Gridiron was sadly already booked by the ACLU and PETA, so we've had to relegate ourselves to something even more non-union than usual.
[The sick liberal rumor that we plan to burn Keiffer Oberamergau and Blind Boy Patterson in effigy are completely tentative. We do see a pre-chilled dunk tank with Ariana Hoofington happenin though.]
Donations will not be accepted, but there will be a cash wake for the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform notion between 3 & 5 if we can get Say Joe Klein off the bar stool at the Springfield Trader Vic's to make way for that and the charity Pin The Kickback On The Illinois House Rep session.
PS: Where are the other 53 U.S. flags?
= PRESIDENT OF CANADA ACCOMPLISHED =
Tuesday, January 13, 2009 at 2:54 pm
hulagate
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"Yo Mama"
Tuesday, January 13, 2009 at 2:54 pm
It's a make-no-sense comment poetry slam!
A-tisket, a-tasket, there's a spaceman in my basket. 1-2-3-4, I declare a thumb war! I wish I may, I wish I might, surf on a sea of pudding tonight.
= MIDDLE SCHOOL CREATIVE WRITING EXTRA CREDIT PAPER ACCOMPLISHED =
Tuesday, January 13, 2009 at 3:00 pm
High sheriffs, thanks for your efforts, although I never paid any attention to the banner. Thanks to Time for the blog. Thanks to the commenters who enlighten me, even though sometimes it's bitch, bitch, bitch. Thanks to KT for engaging.
Tuesday, January 13, 2009 at 3:01 pm
Wow! Finally!
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I'm tired of tangling with fellow Dems.
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Question Hillary is Back!
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My, oh, my, dredged up from below the extinction horizon.
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How'd you like that last rock from space, QH? Pretty bad blow for you Palinesque Pony Riders, huh?
Tuesday, January 13, 2009 at 3:03 pm
1,2,3,4
Let's MeetUp
and Lose A War
Gooooooooooooooooooooo Team Vichy!
Tuesday, January 13, 2009 at 3:04 pm
The big question: Is QH etal back after incarceration or rehab?
Tuesday, January 13, 2009 at 3:04 pm
I think the three months of intensive rehab and psychiatric treatment, plus the budding off of yet another poisality, has revived QH.
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Of course, If QH has any children in the armed services, he will have to face the fact that they will have to salute a Black man!
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No choice, QH, it's the law...
Tuesday, January 13, 2009 at 3:06 pm
Why would Time magazine dutifully present the thoroughly unqualified, terrorist fraternizing, community organizer in front of four (four!!!) United States flags when the only "US of KKK A" flags Democrats get near are those they have dipped in kerosene and set on fire? Obama adoration, anyone? BTW, boys and girls, the "US of KKK A" is what Obama's BFF Jeremiah Wright calls the United States. Just thought you would want to know ....
Tuesday, January 13, 2009 at 3:06 pm
Note: to high sheriffs, Gov Richardson is no longer Commerce Sec'y-designate...you might want to take his picture down
http://www.time.com/time/politics
Tuesday, January 13, 2009 at 3:07 pm
Wow!
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A revival of the stoopid!
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I love it...
Tuesday, January 13, 2009 at 3:08 pm
53_3: ECT doesn't work for everyone...or his HMO won't renew his thorazine prescription.
textee: (laughing and pointing)
Tuesday, January 13, 2009 at 3:09 pm
QH, texte:
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Howz that basement? Got candles lit under Timothy McVeighs' picture? How about this:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7825039.stm
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Keep the cult alive!
Tuesday, January 13, 2009 at 3:11 pm
True, Andy, true, but sex offenders are only slightly less prone to recidivism.
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textee: (pointing, hiking my leg and farting, and adding my laughter to the growing chorus)
Tuesday, January 13, 2009 at 3:14 pm
It's like old times, 'cept the shoe is on the other foot now.
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A lot of Americans celebrated, QH and Texte. Now you are the ones crying in the wilderness.
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Only thing is, you're slightly more insane...
Tuesday, January 13, 2009 at 3:25 pm
Please ban the use of the words "czar" and "homeland" unless the writer or speaker is referring to the old Soviet Union or Nazi Germany.
Tuesday, January 13, 2009 at 3:25 pm
In deference to Madame Clixon, later today do expect to see Muffy Tumultuous and little Katie Coolchick prowling around Prince George'e County in a Honda Accord coupe, busily trying to bust some rent-a-cop for pointing out the various former Pell Grantee meth labs to the local sheriff between bathroom runs to the closest Starbust. [Do stay clear of the kitchen for once, eh Katie? The hired help hates you almost as much as the volunteer shareholders.]
I Mena Airport, if CBS and Time-CNN-AOL-Jazeera can't spike a DNC news reader story, who IS?
The back-patting by the press over Sippy Cup Runneth Over Obama makes the latest Jew On Jew crime in Hollyrude a tad more prime Time media palatable perhaps, but why would we ever expect otherwise from the same lefty dolts that brought you Father Bill Moisten (his pansy Now diatribe is off the reality reservation almost as often as Top Sex Cop Spitzer enjoys the occasional Jersey hooker)?
Corruption knows no slow sow season of course, so it behooves you virtual stringer girls to chew the cud as often as you can before the Ken Starr farm hands finally put the loose change pigs back in the factual paddock if not the Illini impeachment line (take a number, Mister Knowitall President Select - your articulate chance for defense of all things not CVV verified will come as sure as Hillaroid will change her Botox injections).
Keep dope alive, keep dope alive, thank Rick Warren almighty, keep dope alive!
http://www.HULAgate.org
PS: Say a prayer for Howie Mandrell. NBC tanks without him.
Tuesday, January 13, 2009 at 3:28 pm
Of course, If QH has any children in the armed services, he will have to face the fact that they will have to salute a Black man?
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Powell's back in uniform?
Watch out Congo, we're comin atcha!
Tuesday, January 13, 2009 at 3:29 pm
Wow, Question Hillary, you sound like David Brooks with a drug problem. You know there *is* help out there...
Tuesday, January 13, 2009 at 3:30 pm
Andy #25 (and others): Maybe the sheriffs really are high - that would explain a lot.
Speaking of high, hulagate call poison control already...
Tuesday, January 13, 2009 at 3:33 pm
Please ban the use of the words "czar" and "homeland" unless the writer or speaker is referring to the old Soviet Union or Nazi Germany.
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STOP PICKING ON THE OBAMITE YOOFS (almost as scary as the teen Nazis, if more heavily drugged).
They know not what they know.
Tuesday, January 13, 2009 at 3:38 pm
textee: You forgot to explain why global warming is a hoax.
Tuesday, January 13, 2009 at 3:44 pm
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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I just got "Rick Rolled" by Nancy Pelosi
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Tuesday, January 13, 2009 at 3:47 pm
53reeper said [ignored by the swimming Seattle masses]
Yo, Brother Pushtan:
When does the 1000 Bridges To Nowhere sea shell make work scheme kick in between Tacoma and Vancouver?
I understand Boeing has a bunch of slacker union dregs they need to unload by next Labor Day.
Since Starbust ain't hiring either.
One rusty Rosty bridge to St Pauli goes kerplunk in the frozen tundra of the Paul Headstone state, and all the lemming loon libs scream GUVMENT PROJECT -- like the public housing in Chicago and Newark was a really good idea too. Amnesia Accomplished!
BTW: Had Powell (speaking of going off the meds) pulled his pants up and run for POTUS in 1996, we might indeed be in better shape than we IS now, no doubt about it. Obama at least doesn't let personal or family fear trump public service (attempted) -- for which he's a credit to his fellow disaffected Aloha ice cream parlor scoopers that have since to hold an actual day job.
I wish the new President-select well, right up until he's IMPEACHED and convicted for using illegal foreign funds to buy 4 major media TV ads for every 1 in fall 2008.
Should be the cakewalk he'll never have in Pakiland.
Tuesday, January 13, 2009 at 3:48 pm
hulagate, please consult with a psychological counselor as soon as possible.
Tuesday, January 13, 2009 at 3:48 pm
MSNBC guests now openly advocate the use of torture. "Anything goes." A "blowtorch" is fine.
http://www.openleft.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=10873
Tuesday, January 13, 2009 at 3:51 pm
We are still seeking the definition of the use of torture. Obama may be of help after the fundamentalists leave town.
Tuesday, January 13, 2009 at 3:54 pm
formerlyjames
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Not Joe Scarborough nor Mike Smerconish. Both of them have basically said the country SHOULD torture if it means saving lives. They aren't even trying to make a distinction anymore. They are using the "24" defense and telling anyone that disagrees to suck it. Mind you I have been a huge fan of 24 since it first started coming on but after watching the new episodes its evident that they are trying to make a political statement this year instead of trying to tell a story. Last season sucked bad enough, I think I am done with it all together now.
Tuesday, January 13, 2009 at 3:55 pm
Please ban hulagate to the children's blog. Thanks.
Tuesday, January 13, 2009 at 4:27 pm
sqr1 Says:
Tuesday, January 13, 2009 at 3:38 pm
"textee: You forgot to explain why global warming is a hoax."
I also forgot to mention that Karl Rove, Dick Cheney, Bushitler, Paul Wolfowitz, Fox News, SUVs, Exxon Mobil, Scooter Libby, Halliburton, Diebold and Blackwater caused the end of the last Ice Age; and the one before that; and the one before that; and .... Right? See: the Sun. It's that big, bright thing in the sky that you see during daylight hours. It causes the earth to be real hottie, especially during summer months .... A couple of days ago, I read that someone was claiming that Google is also responsible for "global warming", although I don't remember if they claimed that the Sun or Google was more responsible for the earth's temperature.
Tuesday, January 13, 2009 at 4:42 pm
There ya go, textee, hulagate shows you how to do it. Mix up the verbal tics and logorhea with lame attempts at humor, spiced up by obscure references nobody can understand. That's how you annoy people - your stuff is pathetic.
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And hulagate - please, go back to QH or obamish, hulagate sounds like a cat throwing up. Not pleasant.
Tuesday, January 13, 2009 at 4:57 pm
let me add my voice to elvis and that "other" Paul, and say that the banner should not be about Obama -- and it certainly shouldn't send the (barely) subliminal message that this one intends. Its graphic "editorializing" in a way that a (theoretically) unbiased publication should not be associated with.
(Is this all Obamamania, ie about "selling" the blog by exploiting Obama's popularity by presenting him with a decidedly positive image -- kinda like the notorious MS magazine cover?
Tuesday, January 13, 2009 at 5:11 pm
plukasiak, I agree about the banner. Is this a cult of Obama? He hasn't had a chance to deliver quite yet. We will see. I hope for the best. Long time comming.
Tuesday, January 13, 2009 at 5:18 pm
Is this a cult of Obama? He hasn't had a chance to deliver quite yet.
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in general, the objects of cult worship never do deliver on their promises. Of course, the cultists never realize that, and 'interpret' everything in a way that affirms their beliefs -- that's why their called 'cultists'
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And there is clearly a 'cult of Obama'--he's a marketing phenomenon, to the point where Pepsi-Cola appears to be deliberately echoing his logo in their new logo (http://www.slate.com/id/2198198/)