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Monday, December 8, 2008 12:00 AM

Gen. Hayden and the claimed irrelevance of presidential appointments

Since when did people start believing that high-level appointments and Cabinet secretaries were irrelevant?

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Tuesday, December 9, 2008 12:01 PM

The quarter-hour produces the man.

of the enormous amount of bailout money that the Democrats will use

The biggest and most wasteful bailout, of the finance industry seems to be taking place entirely during a Republican Administration, and it'll be mostly gone by the time Obama is sworn in.

But thanks for proving my point about the great alacrity with which Repubs will be desperate to prove some sort of equivalence between Bush and Obama.

Tuesday, December 9, 2008 12:12 PM

edelbrock -

i always knew you were the dude!

Tuesday, December 9, 2008 12:18 PM

Mr. Moose

There is an old proverb which I choose to believe it:

"Trust in Allah

But tie up your camel."

Tuesday, December 9, 2008 12:23 PM

Jebbie. Silence,

~

We have come a long way. All I's say,

If you ever visit, I've a Moslum fez hat.

You be so cute with a 'fez' candy stick.

A fez hat will fit perfect as you blinks.

A Turkish tassel keeps poking the eye.

A fez is suitable to wear with VA gown.

Pedinska wishes to pop your eyes out?

A troll? `'Um smirks at Klytus photo's?

Klytus? `A boy, or a girl? Klytus brawl?

okay? Now I get it. Jeb-E loves Klytus?

Great! The robe has a back-open style.

Wear a blue VA gown to B.O. inaugural.

Ay. O Derbig Mooser sew butt-buttons?

It is a strapless. VA has no seamstress's.

I do assume thee new VA General helps.

Be respecting. Please sew back butt-up?

I did read thee Wa/Po ref: The VA Chief.

Maybe he's real nice. Ask him to dance?

Tuesday, December 9, 2008 12:27 PM

Klytus...

Is Obama the camel in this scenario? And is that Joe Camel, or just a camel? He does smoke after all, and many view him as "cool". And I thought that it was already proven that he wasn't a Muslim camel. Was I wrong? I'm so confused now. In'Shallah!

Tuesday, December 9, 2008 12:32 PM

Celery sez a fez is a fez

What vegetable

Gerber Baby Food

Moosh

All who know

The ancient tongue

Know

That a "fez"

Is really

A tarboosh

Tuesday, December 9, 2008 12:39 PM

Kovie

I find your interpretation

Worthy of much grieving

Rather silly Celeryish

And totally misleading

I take the words at their simple face value

You however, attempt to dissect them

To their very marrow...

Tuesday, December 9, 2008 12:40 PM

Klytus. Please go at a tree nearby the hen coop....

Break off a Hemlock fir tree branch.

Brush your teeth, or scratch backs.

I bet Barrack Obama has itches.

O dada, dada, ta ta, a mule do.

Tuesday, December 9, 2008 01:29 PM

Klytus. phooey. ugh.

The nurse is so worried. She says you are all drenched.

Are you lactating? Maybe you have screaming leprosy?

Have you done over-dosed again on raw goat cheese?

Green pistachio ice cream? Go to a zoo. Ay the ostrich.

The momma wants a bab sitter. Sit on her ostrich nest.

Readers may access who screams the loudest. Ya shrill.

Physicians think you'll never fly. Wing-lame. Right-left?

Both wings are broke? You project thee Hypochondriacs.

Tuesday, December 9, 2008 01:31 PM

Gonna be jumping all over the web, today!

As soon as I jumped into this thread, many people responded to me and/or gave a shout-out to me. I always feel funny if I leave without saying thanks. And so, "thanks" to all who responded to me or at least tolerated me.

Tuesday, December 9, 2008 01:39 PM

Oh!, Klytus

"Klatu barrada nikto."-- Klytus

Nice catch.

"Gort! Klaatu barada nikto!"

Tuesday, December 9, 2008 01:43 PM

krick

collide-a-neck-tie

Tuesday, December 9, 2008 01:48 PM

Glenn. banter? I vow to be quiet. o ,O, la mental sobriety. Sigh.

Thanks for killing a few wild comments.

In the deadly bush jungle that's Looking!

It's looking over another shoulder.O outs.

A "enemy" lurks. O maybe yes, and no eh?

No? If one gets off-base, any one gets kilt!

No just sit idly. Grunts say:one round kills.

It is sensical in Life/Death encounter. UT?

It's paintball shots? Flea bites. O whoopee?

Tuesday, December 9, 2008 02:07 PM

Why does kovie hate third parties???

Was he a victim of the sadly under-discussed Nader/Perot 50-state gangrape spree of 1998???

Tuesday, December 9, 2008 02:20 PM

Oh!, Bop and Klytus

Shush! or I will order Klaatu to vaporize both your asses.

True.

Tuesday, December 9, 2008 02:24 PM

Earth be Still!

That power is Gort's alone

Subject of course

To Klatu's discretion and will

Tuesday, December 9, 2008 10:47 PM

The federal game...

CIA allies make sense, the argument that Obama was looking to appoint someone he wouldn't confirm seems unlikely.

The reason this guy got elected is because he's a fence mender. He started with the Clintons and solidified the Democratic party. Now he's shining the Democratic brand with moderates and what we euphemistically call, "fiscal conservatives".

A few short press conferences later, it's 1968 on Wall St and Obama is Jerry Garcia. 78% of the country thinks he's doing a good job. He's filling positions in the government at a record clip. George Bush has even started talking about himself in the past tense. The conservative intelligentsia are apoplectic and he hasn't even been sworn in.

No offense Glenn but I say let the man work.

Tuesday, December 9, 2008 11:20 PM

dijetlo

Obama is Jerry Garcia.

I don't know, but I've been told

if the horse don't pull, you got to carry that load.

I don't know whose back's that strong.

Maybe find out before too long.

Wednesday, December 10, 2008 06:49 AM

I hope that Holder is up for a good prosection...

cuz I figure Blago is gonna be in the docket real soon.

I have to step back now, so as not to get caught in the commentary twixt GC and Klytus.

It's like crossing Georgia Avenue between Silver Spring and Olney; keep your head on a swivel or else!

Wednesday, December 10, 2008 06:49 AM

prosecution, that is

Spell check is your friend.

Wednesday, December 10, 2008 08:21 AM

Tune in DC.

No worry. It's over. Finished. I defer to Tune off in DC. Iin de'`Nam.

a rum, rye, or rice wine-o-drunk can close both eyes, cross-eyes,

wear a torture KKK hood, and begin to stagger. Sliver Spring & Olney Lane.

Any rickshaw cabbie, 50-cc Honda scooter, or a luxury Mercedes Benz chauffeur,

can just swerve around podiatrist, pediatricians, penguins, pigeons, and baby duck peeps.

I know a fine Lady Veterinarian who practices in Silver Spring, Maryland. Olney? The Quaker?

There is a elder there who is in his eighties who still gardens. Visit his great vegetable stand.

I use to sell the Quaker man flats of Blueberry. I had a mid-week food run into Columbia Md.,

I assume he alive. He could not bend his knees. And he walks with a wood staff stick. Honest.

Ask for a farm tour? He grows great Mung, Hillbilly, Pineapple, Tiger Stripe, etc., odd heirlooms.

To Tune in DC.

I defer. Ya Sing.

No ain't talking.

Ya. finie, done.

You speak hon.

Honorable one.

Wednesday, December 10, 2008 04:10 PM

Obama track record

Obama, wasn't he the Messiah that preached out about the lawlessness of the government spying on Americans and the breaking of the FISA law by the telecoms for GWB, and then VOTED IN FAVOR for Telecom Immunity? Great track record. Expect 4 more years of the same. He has two faces, though they look the same, they act different. One is for public consumption, the other for his own personal business (the telecoms knew this, and I'm sure they donated to his campaign). Like every other President and politician out there in the past 100 years or more, they are bought and paid for.

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