US POLITICS: AMERICANS, PLEASE WELCOME YOUR NEW PRESIDENT... SCOTT BROWN!

hey sailor

sup mr que

it got josh marshall to link to the "why do all these homosexuals keep sucking my cock" bit, really haven't wanted to look any closer tbh

onion it, i shd say

dammit, onion BIT christ

seriously it is an amazing story, first he had cancer, then the navy thing, then all this stuff he said on the radio?
this is great

love the stories about rahm, sounds like something out of in the loop

"Let me tell you a story about Rahm Emanuel," Massa started. "I was a congressman in my first eight weeks, and I was in the congressional gym, and I went down and I worked out and I went into the showers...I'm sitting there showering, naked as a jaybird and here comes Rahm Emanuel not even with a towel wrapped around his tush, poking his finger in my chest, yelling at me because I wasn't going to vote for the president's budget. Do you know how awkward it is to have a political argument with a naked man?

it's like traficant, but instead of crazy hair, it's all about shlong hanging out

the whole story could have been pretty easily an episode of ITL, incl. the sex harassment stuff

Massa also got into all sorts of other things, and we’re not sure we’ve ever heard a congressman talk this much about naked men — especially one who’s quitting under cloud of allegations about sexual harassment.

But Massa spent an awful lot of time recalling circumstances in his life with unclothed men, including the angry Rahm encounter, sailors sliding naked down chutes, and catching his shipmate in a rather private act and slapping him on the leg.

wha-?

tbqh when i first saw these headlines i thought it was another reid/rush style racey-race language flap, but the sentences didn't really work that way

http://tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/03/massa-to-sit-down-with-glenn-beck-tomorrow-evening.php

daria i think the universe is conspiring to give you a gift here

yeah that should be a treat! steny hoyer is on the ratigan show an hour earlier to say things about the eric massa situation.

(also ratigan thinks the tea party should prob do something about their nazis and racists. hah, tell them what you really think, now.)

LOL Rahm "is the son of the devil's spawn"

"I'm sitting there showering"

sitting down to shower wtf

something suspicious about anybody who uses "shower" as a verb imo

in the sense of "to take a shower" i mean

Eric Massa: Rahm Emanuel Is The 'Son Of The Devil's Spawn (John 8:44)

I'm gonna form a band called "Al Queda 7" and dedicate our 1st album to the Cheney family and that Bush speechwriter hack Thiessen who now writes for the W. Post and has that ridiculous book out defending torture.

something suspicious about anybody who uses "shower" as a verb imo

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, March 9, 2010 7:10 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

Haha, this is just about everybody in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana . . . the shortening of infinitives is a very Midwestern thing. (cf. "This shirt needs washed" vs. "This shirt needs to be washed," "I need to shower" vs. "I need to take a shower," etc.)

Never heard "this shirt needs washed" but cannot imagine anyone having a problem with "shower" as a verb - like I can't wrap my head around that ever not being correct.

Ditto. Tracer, sometimes I think Europe has warped your brain.

I mean would you object to "bathing"?? Unless you think that means "going swimming" in which case you are an Victorian. Or European (again).

I mean would you object to "bathing"??

If so, Europe has REALLY warped your brain (and your nose).

we say "shower" as a verb in europe

ehhh having a problem with using "shower" like that is kinda like "it's 'was graduated!!!'"

k3vin otm

maybe tracer just doesn't like gerunds

Does anyone actually say that?? "I was showering yesterday.."

I am horrified.

You are ridiculous.

I say, in the fondest way. But you are.

"Are you going to shower after dinner?"

"Shower you with praise, you mean? Well let's see how good you cook that steak first."

"No, with your urine"

I could get behind "This shirt needs washing", if that's what you meant, PH. Not "This shirt needs washed", though, which makes no sense.

"this shirt needs washed" is a brit thing shurely?

i will shower after work today, as a european btw

I actually think French has warped my brain - "to shower" should be / is a reflexive verb in the sense that you guys are using it - one showers oneself - yet English doesn't have an automatic reflexivity indicator ("SE doucher") so when people say this I get this creeping uncertainty about whether they might turn the shower on me or something

How good you cook that steak?? WTF???

Mind you, yesterday I heard someone on the street saying "we drank x number of bottles between the five of us" and mentally corrected him to "among the five of us" so I might be nuts.

"This shirt needs washed" sounds very Alabama-idiomatic to me; I can easily imagine my grandmother saying that.

The "was graduated" thing inspired a weak belt sander joke but its moment has passed.

"this shirt needs washed" is a brit thing shurely?

wtf

never heard this

in fairness when I say "I'm going to shower" I'm never quite clear whether I'm going to do it myself or spray Tracer with the hose

yet English doesn't have an automatic reflexivity indicator ("SE doucher")

However, Americans do have a reflexive indicator for this ("HE douchebag")

Tracer has a little point. 'I was taking a shower' is certainly more the standard here than 'I was showering' but the latter doesn't sound all that odd to me.

Laurel sometimes I cook steaks..?

I've been graduated from the shower and now I take baths

we say "shower" as a verb in europe

wait are we now accepting that the uk is in europe

I get his point about reflexive verbs in French, though.

yeah well neither are that common, there's a limit to the number of interesting things that can happen while you're showering.

You don't cook good, you cook well. Are you sure you're Tracer Hand?

anyway in western pennsylvania we say "this shirt needs worshed"

Laurel sometimes I cook steaks..?

Good vs. well, methinks is her point.