here comes the smooth jazz hippies
― that sex version of "blue thunder." (Mr. Que), Thursday, 17 December 2009 21:12 (fourteen years ago) link
we can't be stopped
― a full circle lol (J0hn D.), Thursday, 17 December 2009 21:12 (fourteen years ago) link
sweet
actually we can probably be stopped if we're bumming people out but we would prefer not to stop because our groove is solid
― a full circle lol (J0hn D.), Thursday, 17 December 2009 21:13 (fourteen years ago) link
how did you evade the ilxor saxophone defense system?
― nostragaaaawddamnus (Hunt3r), Thursday, 17 December 2009 21:13 (fourteen years ago) link
J0hn how can you defile the memories of all the punks who fought and died against the smoothness
― Magnolia Caboose Babyfinger (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 17 December 2009 21:14 (fourteen years ago) link
man i knew that program was straight pork :(
― nostragaaaawddamnus (Hunt3r), Thursday, 17 December 2009 21:14 (fourteen years ago) link
they were distracted by our bitchin members only jackets in muted pastels
― a full circle lol (J0hn D.), Thursday, 17 December 2009 21:15 (fourteen years ago) link
gonna go put on some metheny
― max, Thursday, 17 December 2009 21:15 (fourteen years ago) link
*taps toes*
― nostragaaaawddamnus (Hunt3r), Thursday, 17 December 2009 21:15 (fourteen years ago) link
I hope the Christmas album is shipping
xxp
― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 17 December 2009 21:15 (fourteen years ago) link
A Smooth Christmas is in stores now
reviewers are saying it's totally smooth
― a full circle lol (J0hn D.), Thursday, 17 December 2009 21:16 (fourteen years ago) link
metheny & mainstream dem policies are pretty milquetoast ; )
― velko, Thursday, 17 December 2009 21:17 (fourteen years ago) link
Metheny needs more roughly accurate unmanned drones
― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 17 December 2009 21:18 (fourteen years ago) link
"&(*@#@^&-up and smooth, just like Obama-care"
- - R. Christgau
― that sex version of "blue thunder." (Mr. Que), Thursday, 17 December 2009 21:18 (fourteen years ago) link
if max could only see the similarities between avatar and obamacare then he would understand
― velko, Thursday, 17 December 2009 21:20 (fourteen years ago) link
this is why us grouchy types are trying to rebrand it by dropping the "e" - obamacar = rhymes with "avatar" = how'd you feel about "avatar" = cool, maybe you should listen to some smooth jazz
― a full circle lol (J0hn D.), Thursday, 17 December 2009 21:27 (fourteen years ago) link
Obamacar will turn you into a blue-skinned CGI Dem voter who repeats "Politics is the art of the possible" whenever Rahm Emanuel pushes a button
― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 17 December 2009 21:30 (fourteen years ago) link
yes but then I will hack into the supercomputer that allows evil Rahm to carry out this scheme and then when he pushes the button it will make people buy A Smooth Christmas and I will share the wealth with all my ilx bros
― a full circle lol (J0hn D.), Thursday, 17 December 2009 21:31 (fourteen years ago) link
A Smooth Plan, from a Smooth Man
― that sex version of "blue thunder." (Mr. Que), Thursday, 17 December 2009 21:32 (fourteen years ago) link
http://jazzstation-oblogdearnaldodesouteiros.blogspot.com/2008/10/pat-metheny-on-barack-obama.html
― velko, Thursday, 17 December 2009 21:33 (fourteen years ago) link
You guys got onomatopoetic while I was at a two-hour meeting!
― Hell is other people. In an ILE film forum. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 17 December 2009 22:51 (fourteen years ago) link
my man Al Franken tells Lieberman to shut the fuck up
― Magnolia Caboose Babyfinger (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 17 December 2009 23:29 (fourteen years ago) link
The Corner is, predictably, outrated. They quote John McCain approvingly:
Rising to defend Lieberman he told Franken that in 20-plus years in the Senate, he’d never seen a member denied an extra minute or two of floor time.
“I don't know what's happening here in this body,” McCain said, “but I think it is wrong.
Well, did Lincoln Chafee ever oppose the GOP as shamelessly as Joe?
― Hell is other people. In an ILE film forum. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 17 December 2009 23:32 (fourteen years ago) link
LOL then another senator got up and told McDementia that they'd curtailed someone - oooh - about two hours before.
― special vixens unit (suzy), Friday, 18 December 2009 00:16 (fourteen years ago) link
“I don't know what's happeninghere in this body,” McCain said.
― uninspired girls rejoice!!! (Hoot Smalley), Friday, 18 December 2009 00:26 (fourteen years ago) link
grassley's "republican position" that leads the latest issue of NEJM is pretty dumb
― being being kiss-ass fake nice (gbx), Friday, 18 December 2009 04:51 (fourteen years ago) link
MoveOn.org is pushing for Bernie Sanders to drop his support and demand some version of the public option (good luck with that guys)
― larry craig memorial gloryhole (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 18 December 2009 21:05 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, let's push for something that has even less of a chance of passing.
― akm, Friday, 18 December 2009 21:20 (fourteen years ago) link
i 4 1 welcome our insurance overlords
― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 19 December 2009 07:33 (fourteen years ago) link
good luck lolmerica
― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 19 December 2009 14:28 (fourteen years ago) link
watching kuttner and taibbi on moyers last night, :(.
why do some folks who say this bill is not obama's fault because he doesn't have the real power to craft, promote, and pass legislation also argue that the bill MUST pass or else obama will have no chance to craft, promote and pass subsequent crucial reforms?
― nostragaaaawddamnus (Hunt3r), Saturday, 19 December 2009 14:54 (fourteen years ago) link
whos arguing that? my take is that congress should pass this bill so that in the future congress can improve on it. i dont know that obamas influence has anything to do with it, beyond quibbling about how much more he could have done to encourage the legislation.
― max, Saturday, 19 December 2009 14:56 (fourteen years ago) link
that's my take too, but kuttner was big on the political optics/fallout for obama. he also said he's hopeful that obama will promote a more anti corporate/anti wall st agenda after the midterms. hope, change, obama's very new to this etc. taibbi was politely "why on earth do you think that based upon everything that you've seen"?
― nostragaaaawddamnus (Hunt3r), Saturday, 19 December 2009 15:01 (fourteen years ago) link
i do think that obama's influence was more important than you believe though. the parameters of the argument started in his office imo.
― nostragaaaawddamnus (Hunt3r), Saturday, 19 December 2009 15:02 (fourteen years ago) link
its on yall
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB126123257035198659.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_MIDDLETopStories
― max, Saturday, 19 December 2009 15:13 (fourteen years ago) link
I like the way future congresses have "improved on" the USA PATRIOT Act
― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 19 December 2009 15:26 (fourteen years ago) link
impossible to be happy now after the nelson compromise, sorry, max. like for real sorry. I try to buy into the whole "think of the positives, lives saved," etc., and but it still reads as: we're going to let the right continue their march toward undoing the gains of reproductive rights & basically hand the discourse over to them in exchange for getting the bill through. a terrible tradeoff and as I said earlier one that will haunt, not the party - because who cares - but women and families who believe in their right to reproductive choice.
― Herodcare for the Unborn (J0hn D.), Saturday, 19 December 2009 15:41 (fourteen years ago) link
i actually havent seen the specifics of the nelson compromise so im holding off on judgment--like i said on the other thread i agree with you about this issue
― max, Saturday, 19 December 2009 15:42 (fourteen years ago) link
I know you do I'm just crying in my sleeve a little because I know people who gave lots of their lives & selves to the struggle for reproductive rights, who took real hits in their personal lives for it, it sucks to know that their experiences & battles don't count for much with the national party when it comes right down to it.
― Herodcare for the Unborn (J0hn D.), Saturday, 19 December 2009 15:45 (fourteen years ago) link
ill wait till i see exactly what was given up before i let the tears flow
― max, Saturday, 19 December 2009 15:46 (fourteen years ago) link
but point taken
― max, Saturday, 19 December 2009 15:47 (fourteen years ago) link
Then there's this:
Nelson and the Latest 'Compromise' [Kathryn Jean Lopez]
A little earlier, I posted on Twitter, asking what Cecile Richards and Barbara Boxer are getting in exchange for shutting up about language that is making Bill Nelson happy. They'll shut up, though, if it looks nothing like Stupak. And that's what I'm hearing from the Senate — that what Nelson's okaying is nothing like Stupak — which, frankly, Nelson warned us about in his press conference when he noted that some of his colleagues wouldn't agree with him. And so the takeaway this morning is that Nelson's committment to the most innocent human life has a price tag on it? A sickening, dismaying possibility.
― Hell is other people. In an ILE film forum. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 19 December 2009 15:48 (fourteen years ago) link
bear in mind though that you are quoting an insane person so her words should be taken as completely meaningless
― Herodcare for the Unborn (J0hn D.), Saturday, 19 December 2009 15:51 (fourteen years ago) link
A sickening, dismaying possibility.
― Euler, Saturday, 19 December 2009 15:54 (fourteen years ago) link
Unlike the so-called Stupak language in the House, Nelson's abortion language would not forbid people who receive subsidy assistance from the federal government from buying insurance policies that cover abortion. However, according to Nelson, the money that pays for each such policy will have to be separated into two pools--one that pays for the abortion coverage, and one for all other services.
― max, Saturday, 19 December 2009 16:10 (fourteen years ago) link
Politico on what the compromise amounts to.
Nelson agreed to support the bill after Democrats strengthened restrictions on federal funding of abortion. In the bill, states can opt out from allowing plans to cover abortion in the insurance exchange. Also, enrollees in plans covering abortion pay separate checks – one for abortion, one for the rest of services.
should be branded the Scarlet Letter provision imo & is a lowdown dirty shame - I'd think there'd be right-to-privacy issues involved, too (if your plan is through work, anybody in payroll gets to see what you're buying - am I wrong on that?)
xpost
― Herodcare for the Unborn (J0hn D.), Saturday, 19 December 2009 16:10 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah i dont really understand the 'separate checks' thing
― max, Saturday, 19 December 2009 16:12 (fourteen years ago) link
i guess its supposed to SHAME the harlots who are receiving legal & federally guaranteed medical procedures opposed by ben nelson
it affects plans paid by your employer?
― harbl, Saturday, 19 December 2009 16:12 (fourteen years ago) link