I wish my idea of frugal living was close to his.
Greedy Bastard!

In the recent New Yorker article on Stanford and cricket he bragged about having the largest private jet fleet.

They make you take your shoes off?? Oh, the humanity!

"They make you take your shoes off and everything, it's terrible," he said

yes it is. welcome to reality, dumbass. and welcome to America as brought to you by George W. Bush and Company - which you and your greedy, lawless, traitorous ways were part and parcel of.

be glad its just your shoes at a US TSA stop. people like you who paved the way for Bush and all of his administrations' atrocities should really have to live out what the victims of Abu Grahib suffered instead to see first hand what you plutocrats did to this world.

Is it just a coincidence that Al-Zaidi , the guy who threw his shoe at Bush, got his sentence reduced today?

Right, oh my god, this self appointed zarathustra has to take a commercial plane just like 95 percent of the rest of 'little people' ..........

Oh, you're all just jealous that Stanford made his money the old-fashioned way: by scamming his investors in an illegal Ponzi scheme.

"* Glenn Beck told his audience today that the president "will slowly but surely take away your gun or take away your ability to shoot a gun, carry a gun." It's almost as if Beck is trying to create a vioent mob motivated by lies."

And then he wonders why people accuse him of having incited that guy in Pittsburgh. The guy does not have a functioning neural net. His neurons just don't connect one to another.

Beck needs to stop worrying about the government taking guns away, and start worrying about "being taken away" by guys in little white coats. He's ripe.

It is particularly outrageous for Glenn Beck to keep harping on the pretension of Obama taking away "gun rights" overall, after that nutty killer who thought that very thing was going to happen. And if Mike Savage thinks you're nutty on the Right, you must be pretty nutty.

BTW if Obama does want a renewed "assault-weapon" ban, he should announce that well in advance. (Yes in quote since a real AW presumably can fire full auto, not just have removable HC clip etc.) I question if we need such a ban, but would never pretend it was "taking away our right to bear arms" in general.

"They make you take your shoes off and everything, it's terrible," he said.

And then they showed him the hidden camera and they all had a good laugh. Right?

Yes it was nice to see a story about an actor in a prime career position leaving it to pursue a sincere passion for public service.

Also wonderful about Vermont. I noticed that the veto over-ride vote in the House got 100 votes (the bare minimum needed) while the bill itself only had 95 House votes. WOW. That's some excellent campaigning by whoever helped make THAT happen. Iowa *and* Vermont. WOW. Great news recently.

I'm still wondering what the backstory is behind the policy change allowing the media to cover the return of the war dead. Was that ban really in place for 18 years???? We should really be celebrating. I want to know more!!!!! http://www.huffingtonpost.com/greg-mitchell/now-we-see-coffins-coming_b_183627.html

When is someone going to certify Michelle Bachman?

Another criticism of the Geithner-Summers plan, with a worked example:

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/04/07-4

This illustrates what Hilzoy was worried about.

The Kal Penn move is a real shock. I wasn't expecting to see his character killed off so abruptly-- and it wasn't in any of the show summaries on TV Guide or anywhere else. Thought that was odd.
And I noticed he'd suddenly disappeared from the cast list, and his picture was pulled from the group shot. I thought he'd just gone back to movies, since he had a viable career there anyway. Why the "memory hole" treatment, though?
Uh... Fox, anyone? They usually avoid ideology in the entertainment shows (well, mostly) but this was damn strange.
Fox announced an online "Guest Book" for Kuttner, but I haven't checked it out yet. Anybody else notice this?
That said, it's a pretty heroic move. Kudos to Kal!!

* Glenn Beck told his audience today that the president "will slowly but surely take away your gun or take away your ability to shoot a gun, carry a gun." It's almost as if Beck is trying to create a vioent mob motivated by lies.

Glenn Beck is an accessory to the premeditated murder of three uniformed police officers in the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and should be treated as such.

" ... someone willing to walk away from a lucrative career in entertainment to get involved in public service."

hope that the same thing that happened to that football player does not happen to him.

* I get the sense Vice President Biden has a genuine dislike for Dick Cheney. -- Steve Benen

Biden's not alone.

* Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) was on the fence regarding EFCA, but announced today he'll support the bill. -- Steve Benen

Like hell he was "on the fence". The SOB was all poised to vote against it like the rest of those Right wing Dem-Dingos (yellow curs). Just last week, I had an e-mail from him yammering about "accountability" and how it was his bounden duty, vested in him by voters, to fight fiscal waste (Obama's budget, I guess. Or maybe healthcare reform) and cut programs that don't work. True that, but you don't cut them *preemptively*, dammit! First let's see *whether* they work, before we take the wrecking ball to them. I wrote him back -- s-mail -- and told him I was gonna watch his every vote. And, until I see some sign that he knows who elected him and why, DSCC, DNC and he personally weren't getting a dime of support from me...

Mr. Glenn Beck remains in the news and the spotlight is on such incendiary rhetoric. The Pittsburgh Post Gazette Newspaper is following through with an in-depth report on Poplawski's extremist fixations. One can only hope that the angry, inflammatory rants by the inciters-in-chief on the right will be analyzed for what they are. More and more is being exposed about Michelle Bachmann's bizarre views as well.

In a just world, Stanford would be sentenced to working at a minimum wage job and living off of the proceeds of that alone for the rest of his life.

Another criticism of the Geithner-Summers plan, with a worked example: - MatthewRMarler

The scenario Sachs lays out assumes that Treasury and FDIC do zero due diligence and/or are in cahoots with the banks and private investors. It also assumes that no one will charge anyone with fraud. I don't know any way to interpret this without a tinfoil hat.

It's almost as if Beck is trying to create a vioent (sic) mob motivated by lies.

There's no "almost" about it. This is exactly what Beck (and Bachmann and all of their ilk) are trying to do.

There was a defense department report on appeasement which debunks the common conception that Chamberlain made a mistake in appeasing Hitler.

The report claims that Hitler was essentially going to do what he did regardless, and that there were a number of other factors which may have affected at least the timing of the beginning of the war.

Yesterday Palin declared Alaska a sovereign state. I assume she was merely making a misguided attempt to use a long word.

Okay, okay, so Obama appeases like Chamberlain and rouses the enthusiasm of the rabble, just like Hitler. That's a bit mind-bending.

But he is also setting up a fascist government--with secret concentration camps for conservatives!--to run a socialist state. His government will take away the guns of the citizens, re-establish fairness in broadcasting and adopt a world currency that is not the dollar.

oh, boy. Really? I wonder if conservatives ever listen to themselves.

I have mixed feelings about the whole wife rape law brouhaha.

I agree that no countries should have such laws, of course.

However, I'm finding the self-righteousness quotient a little high coming from my fellow Americans.

Laws against spousal rape are only a few decades old in this country. I remember those debates and I'm betting many of our laws still leave a lot to be desired and the enforcement thereof likewise.

"I get the sense Vice President Biden has a genuine dislike for Dick Cheney."

We have a vice president? Who would have guessed? It's normal for those that become vice president to never be heard from again. But Biden is taking that to the extreme. Normally, they just wander off into the desert, but Biden seems to have left the planet. And nobody noticed.

I totally agree, Doretta. I commented on this in another thread. Marital rape has only been a crime in all 50 states since 1993. Push to undo the Afghan law, but spare me the cultural sanctimoniousness.

"will slowly but surely take away your gun or take away your ability to shoot a gun, carry a gun."

That's silly, but even if it were true, it still wouldn't matter. If they come to take my guns away, I'll give them five of them. But I'll keep the other five (I'll just bury them in the mountains until they leave). You can have my .30-06, but you ain't gettin' my AK-47. You can have my .22 revolver, but I'm keepin' the 9mm Luger. And I'll always keep grandpa's cat killin' gun. Sears Roebuck (Remington) .22 bolt action rifle with a kick-ass scope and a twenty round magazine. You can nail a head shot on a cat from 100 yards with that gun. Not that I'd do that, of course. But grandpa did it all the time. There's a reason I call it the cat killin' gun. That's what he used it for. Needless to say, his cat owning neighbors weren't thrilled with him. Grandpa was the head of his local John Birch Society chapter. If he weren't family, I'd hate the guy. But he was family, so I have to love him. And I got a sweet gun when he died.

Push to undo the Afghan law, but spare me the cultural sanctimoniousness. -rabbit

I don't think Steve was, or would ever, speak for the entire culture of the country.

I do think, however, he was speaking to, and is qualified to speak to, his person revulsion.

And furthermore, there is a canyon of difference between not having a law to ban something versus having a law to specifically enable something.

Really, though, you can spare us the whole holier than thou routine. Seriously, your vapid comment boiled down to nothing more than 'I hated spousal rape before it was cool.' So tiring.

Just curious...

Am I the only one who thinks Green Greenwald has gone full-tilt bonkers? He's become the Rush Limbaugh of Geek-dom. What a pisser.

MissMudd, I hope you don't mean Glenn Greenwald. He's a terrific progressive voice, very smart and articulate and tough. If he's picking on Obama and crew lately, he has good technical reasons however much it puts Obama's supporters on edge (including me, but I know all politicians need pressure to stay on the SaN path.)

Yes, that Greenwald (LOL! *Green*). He's disturbing, to me at least, and not in a good or a motivating way. I get the impression he's fishing for a bigger job. Call me skeptical.

"I'm going to tell you who Obama is in world history. Neville Chamberlain."

So says the reincarnation of Hermann Goering.

Deep thought...

Senator Franken

Fanning the gun smoke...

Benen:

Glenn Beck told his audience today that the president "will slowly but surely take away your gun or take away your ability to shoot a gun, carry a gun." It's almost as if Beck is trying to create a vioent mob motivated by lies.

The postings support what Mr. Poplawski’s friends have told reporters: that he was worried about the election of President Obama and that he had said he would defend himself if anyone ever tried to take his guns.
The postings were made on Stormfront, a white supremacist chat site, and Infowars, a Web site affiliated with a radio talk show host, Alex Jones, beginning in late 2007 and continuing until two days before the shootings.
Stormfront’s Web site indicates that Mr. Poplawski last visited the site at 3:32 a.m. Saturday, just hours before the confrontation with the police.

I get the sense Vice President Biden has a genuine dislike for Dick Cheney.

I get the sense MOST OF AMERICA has a genuine dislike for Dick Cheney.

doubtful,

Actually I was talking about Obama's sanctimoniousness, not Steve's. I'm sorry I didn't make that clear.

US rape laws before 1976 included a specific exemption for marriage. So it's not the same as "not having a law to ban something." It was a consciously inserted exception to a law.

I think there are a lot worse things going on in Afghanistan that we are not talking about. But maybe making that point is vapid?

But really? Vapid? Have you looked around here at the general quality of the posts? Or does vapid just mean female?

fostert -- you are a real hoot! Cat-killin' gun... AK-47... yeah, I dig you. Seriously, a person from somewhere other than a gun-owning state may not get your humor. But I do. I never shot a cat, myself, but I've shot lots of gophers and menacing-looking beer cans. I don't know what possesses these folks who think you need a whole arsenal, and that Obama is going to deprive you of what you need! Hah! Just a good .22 cat-killin' gun... well maybe a .357 for the odd varmint of LARGER size... that's all you need!

I snark, because I believe you snark also. Correct me if I'm wrong.

Is there a new* policy on closing posts to comments?

I just spent 20 mins composing a comment to the "Christian Nation" thread from Tues morning, only to find that comments closed during that time, and that comments for several (if not all) previous threads have been closed.

* "new" meaning since I was a regular in these parts, many, many months ago.

What does Rush expect? After all, Chamberlain was a conservative.

If one reads Ian Kershaw’s authoritative biography of Hitler, far from bluffing, Adolph had his heart set on going to war over the Sudetenland and was totally pissed when Chamberlain stopped him. By the time Hitler got his game back Britain had early warning radar and a heck of lot more Hurricanes and Spitfires ready to fight the Battle of Britain. Still, small comfort for the Czechs.

Yes Disputo, the comment closing is a relatively new thing. The moderators here at the Washington Monthly capriciously change posting rules and capacities without warning or justification.

[Comments are turned off when posts drop off the front page and/or are over 24 hours old because at that point they get attacked by spambots, and while you guys don't see them, they complicate our job considerably. --Mod]

What does Rush expect? After all, Chamberlain was a conservative.I have seen something different on kissBBW.c o mlast week.There are many big beautiful women with big bras and big butts.

Well played, paula.

[Comments are turned off when posts drop off the front page and/or are over 24 hours old because at that point they get attacked by spambots, and while you guys don't see them, they complicate our job considerably. --Mod]

Typically for your explanations, this is true as far as it goes but leaves out the rest of the facts. These instances are not the only time comments get turned off. Disputo's example of a post from that morning, still on the front page was only one instance of the current randomness of comment turnoff.