KOEB Meeting: 05/06/10 -- A Well-Hung Parliament Edition

[Patsy Stone]

:hi:, kids! It's looking like a lot of people were turned away from the polls in the UK. Are they in for re-votes and legal challenges? Doesn't that sound sadly familiar?

[SharonRB]

1. Great thread title, Pats!

:hi:

I guess we're not the only ones who know how to screw up elections.

[Patsy Stone]

2. I guess not.

I wonder if the Lib Dems would form a coalition with Labour and act as a strong lefter-leaning block than they were as just Labour. But we'll see. :hi:

[SharonRB]

6. How many parties are there?

I don't know much about British Parliment and their politics.

How about that Boehner? He's finally on the right side of an argument.

[Patsy Stone]

11. Lots

but the main ones are Labour, the Liberal Democrats, and the Conservatives or Tories. It looks like the Conservatives will win the most seats, but not a majority of seats. Since Parliament will be hung, I think if the Lib Dems and Labour join, Gordon Brown stays on, at least until they make some vote of confidence later. It's all about the number of seats per party, not the individual candidate for PM, that determines who becomes PM.

The Boner can't be insane all the time. He has to at least get elected.

[SharonRB]

20. I knew some of that stuff

Yes, it would be good if Labour and the Liberal Dems joined forces.

[CBHagman]

61. Don't forget the Official Monster Raving Loony Party.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703322204575225864160523470.html?mod=WSJ_latestheadlines

I'm almost sorry the name is taken; we really need such an appellation here in the States. The truly scary thing is that the the biggest jokes in this country take themselves completely seriously.

[Patsy Stone]

62. That's excellent.

I saw Alan 'Howling Laud' Hope last night standing next to Cameron when they read the results in Witney, but I completely missed the name of his party. There was also a Witney candidate dressed as Jesus(?) with sunglasses on and a sign around his neck, but I didn't get a chance to read what it said.

:hi:

[ralps]

3. Hi Patsy! Hi Everyone!

:hi: :loveya: :hug: :pals: :woohoo:

[Berry Cool]

4. I thought it was England, not Ohio.

:hi: Hi all and meow to Crook!

[ralps]

7. Hi Berry Cool!

:hi: :loveya: :hug: :pals: :woohoo:

[Patsy Stone]

Hi, ralps!

Meow, Crook! :hi:

http://thumb1.visualizeus.com/thumbs/08/01/05/cat,cute,frog,photo-33a8a0f496b9f3b06e56d03131e30294_m.jpg

[WolverineDG]

5. And this just in: hypocrisy is alive & well on DU

In an abrupt & surprising turn-about, it is no longer acceptable on DU to tell someone to report child abuse if the person claiming she *knows* child abuse is happening claims she's so paralyzed about the abuse that happened to herself that she just "can't" do it.

I know you're all shocked by this.

:hi:

dg

[Berry Cool]

8. Oh boy...

:hi: Hi Wolvie.

That is just plain stupid. Sheesh. Sometimes we all have to put ourselves aside and do what we know is right.

Speaking of right, did you ever think we'd be agreeing with the Boner (and even Glenn Beck, who has said on TV that terrorist suspects have Constitutional rights when they're US citizens)? Is this Opposites Week?

[WolverineDG]

12. it's like when I find I'm agreeing with Buchanan

gives me a queasy feeling in my stomach.

Back to the other post, o.m.g., the poster was all over the map, blaming everyone because the statute of limitations bars abuse claims after 12 years after turning 18 in Ohio. While I'm sure it takes quite a while to get over abuse, if you haven't gotten your act together by the age of 30, you've got other problems.

dg

[Berry Cool]

15. Therapy is out there. It can help.

Some people need to try it. And I say that in all compassion.

[WolverineDG]

27. You'd think I was telling her to jump off a bridge

by insisting she report the abuse. Oh no, I'm blaming a victim, I'm happy she was abused, I'm going all "hard ass." Bull shit. Lift up a finger & fucking help yourself. Help is out there, but you have to :gasp: ask for it. Oh no, that's way too hard for her, & I should "understand" & be "more compassionate."

sheesh. :eyes:

dg

[Patsy Stone]

14. I'll add that to the list.

Oy. Hi! My friend sat next to Alex from RHNYC at a hair salon Tuesday. She spoke to her, but I haven't heard the whole story. :)

[WolverineDG]

17. I WANNA HEAR EVERYTHING

and I do mean E.V.E.R.Y.T.H.I.N.G.

btw, look up the blog "I hate Jill Zarin" (hub pages) by lynn n chicago...LOADS of dirt & fun to read :evilgrin:

dg

[Patsy Stone]

29. She's back tomorrow

I promise to get all the details and report back. I'll check out that blog. I also want to read the ones by the RHNJ. I hear they're goooood.

[WolverineDG]

38. Simon's is funny too

but the best thing about IHJZ is that JZ is targetting her & whoever A Chapman (?) is (the top reviewer in Amazon, because she hated Jill's book)

dg

[SharonRB]

33. Jill and her sister were on Morning Shmoe this morning

promoting their book.

[WolverineDG]

36. darn I missed it

not. :)

Jill Zarin is one of the most obnoxious people I've seen. She & the Countless are made for each other. I only feel sorry for her husband & her dog who she's got so wired becomes a poo machines whenever Mommy stresses her out (which is 24/7 pretty much).

dg

[SharonRB]

47. I hate them both, too.

I like Bethenny and Alex the best. Ramona is just psycho crazy...wait, why does that ring a bell? Oh, I remember now...something about 101.

[WolverineDG]

50. lol

I do understand Ramona though. As someone said somewhere, I want to like her. I just wish she'd stop getting so frazzed her eyes bug out. But I *LOVED* it when she asked Kelly "I don't abuse animals, I just kill them to wear them to PETA events" if she'd had her lopsided boobs fixed. :rofl:

dg

[SharonRB]

19. You need to tell us the whole story once you hear it

At least Alex is the reasonably sane one.

[WolverineDG]

Even Simon seems sane now

still dresses weird.

dg

[RevCheesehead]

24. If that person is a teacher, pastor, social worker, etc ....

then they are REQUIRED BY LAW to report it. Sheesh... all it takes is a phone call, and s/he can remain anonymous. :eyes:

:hi: Hi Wolvie!

[WolverineDG]

34. Oh you should have seen the squirming

when I kept pointing out that anyone who suspects child abuse has to report it....oh she can't because she only heard about it, doesn't know names (even though she was supposedly told by relatives), then the abuse happened years ago (child is still minor, though), when her first report of it was that she *knew* it happened.

Fuck that shit. if you were abused by someone but nothing happened (for whatever reason) to your abuser, & then you somehow learn he is abusing another child, what the hell kind of person are you to just do *nothing* about it & claim it's because you're too paralyzed from your own abuse & besides, no one ever does anything about child abuse anyway? :wtf:

dg

[Berry Cool]

39. I couldn't live with myself suspecting a child was being abused and saying nothing.

I've never been abused myself but if I had been, I think I'd be DOUBLY determined.

[WolverineDG]

48. The dogpiling I'm getting from others is amazing

but rest assured, come the next thread on child abuse, they will be demanding the immediate execution of anyone who failed to report the abuse.

dg

[WolverineDG]

9. Happy Birthday Prof. Turley!

:party:

dg

[Berry Cool]

10. Yeah, Happy Birthday!

:party: Boy, it's scary, but he's right. Obama's wrong here, the Boner and Beck are right.

Joe Lieberman--still a douche.

[Berry Cool]

13. A hung Parliament has nothing to do with William Hung.

:rofl: Guess they're not THAT well-hung.

[Patsy Stone]

16. Aw. Yes!

:party: on, Jonathan!

[RevCheesehead]

18. What did I miss so far?

Today has been c-r-a-z-y nuts. :crazy:

:hi:

[Berry Cool]

21. Well then, what you missed fits in.

:hi: Hi Rev! We've been sitting here talking about how when it comes to US citizens having rights even as terrorism suspects and not being stripped (only of their citizenship, we hope), we agree with the Boner and Glenn Beck.

[Berry Cool]

22. Oh, and Keith's segment on the British election

should be called Indecision 2010.

[RevCheesehead]

26. This just in....

the temperature in Hell is dropping.

:hi: Hi Berry!

[WolverineDG]

23. It's Prof. Turley's birthday

as good an excuse to :beer: as I ever heard. :)

:hi:

dg

[SharonRB]

25. I already drank at my going away get-together

[Berry Cool]

28. Hi, Sha-Sha!

:hi: How's tricks?

[Berry Cool]

31. I'm reading Dirk Hayhurst's book.

He's from northeast Ohio--Canton, originally. His book is not the chucklefest I originally thought it was; actually, it's quite dark, in the sense that it's obvious from the first few chapters that he became a pro ballplayer largely to escape his insufferable home life.

[RevCheesehead]

30. I'll bring the brats!

Happy Birthday, Professor! :party::toast::party:

[Patsy Stone]

32. Oh, yummy.

I was going to tell you to leave the kids at home, but those brats are the good kind. :hi:

[RevCheesehead]

40. I'm actually going to cook up a package after the show.

Then I freeze half and zap 'em for lunch. :9

:hi:

[Patsy Stone]

41. Can you please

send the smell this way?

[RevCheesehead]

43. Before, or after consumption?

:evilgrin:

[Patsy Stone]

44. Um...

What do you think? :rofl:

[Berry Cool]

35. I love the graphic for the oil leak story, with the BP logo.

I have always resented BP for buying out Standard Oil of Ohio years ago and removing the beloved red-white-and-blue Sohio gas stations of my childhood from the landscape of my home state. This is just an even bigger reason to hate them. And if they turn out someday to be implicated somehow in the bombing of Pan Am 103, well, that's the trifecta.

[Patsy Stone]

37. That logo

"We're green! We're friendly! Come hug us!" Down here, they were the death of Gulf Oil. Also a classic sign now only in the wayback machine.

:hi:

[Berry Cool]

45. Yeah, no more Gulf stations either. We had those too.

Pretty sad. I saw so many of those legendary gas stations die.

[RevCheesehead]

42. $1.01???

Do you remember when we thought that was kind of high? I do. 1995, North Carolina.

[WolverineDG]

46. I remember telling Mom that 75 cents was too high

back in 1974 or 75? My job was to write down how much the gas cost in this little book my parents kept in the glove compartment.

dg

[RevCheesehead]

49. My dad saved the receipts and wrote the mileage on it.

Then after a while, he'd total it all up and see how many mpg's he was getting. I think he had way too much time on his hands. :)

[WolverineDG]

52. that was the purpose of the book

oh the mathematical calculations my dad had us make. :rofl:

dg

[Berry Cool]

51. Lord, I remember sitting at a gas station sometime in the '70s

and the price of gas was fiftysomething cents a gallon.

My high school yearbook, in a summary of news events of that year, says that the price of gasoline "skyrocketed" during the gas crisis to the point where a gallon could cost 80 cents.

[SharonRB]

54. I remember paying 19 cents when we were first married

But I give away my age...

[Botany]

53. Holy Shit-skies! Palin on O'Rielly The U.S. Constitution is based on God and

the 50 individual state Constitutions which back it up.

I just caught this I was surfing down from another channel to Olbermann.

Good God in butter is she dumb.



anybody want to tell our Constitutional law professor / President this little gem?

[Patsy Stone]

55. Sometimes

I just sit in awe of the stupidity, and its power.

:hi:

[Botany]

56. How can the U.S. Constitution be based on documents .......

.... that had not been written when it (U.S. Constitution) was written?

I could only take 30 seconds her stupidity is awesome.

[Patsy Stone]

58. The world would be a better place

if she had she just stuck to fancy pageant walking.

[Botany]

59. Or fancy flute playing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvp7woNA9gw

this was w/ 10 years practice

[SharonRB]

60. ...

:rofl:

[Berry Cool]

57. That'll teach you not to watch Keith.