(2007-10-05) — Following Idaho Sen. Larry Craig’s announcement that he would remain in the senate working to clear his name after pleading guilty to disorderly conduct charges, C-Span announced today it would add Senate restroom-cam programming to its C-Span2 lineup.
“As part of our mission to hold public officials accountable for their actions in Washington,” said an unnamed C-Span spokesman, “during our regular programming, we’ll continually display a picture-within-picture video feed of the floor under the stall walls of senate restrooms.”
Sen. Craig, a Republican, said “I’ve come to realize that the people of Idaho elected me primarily to make them feel good about themselves. Now, I can serve them best by using my taxpayer-funded salary, office and staff to work hard for Idahoans to assure they’ll no longer bear the shame of hearing the phrase ‘disgraced former Idaho senator’.”
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1 Libby Gone // Oct 5, 2007 at 9:44 am
I’m going to tip toe tap around this one.
2 Just Ranting // Oct 5, 2007 at 9:52 am
God Bless American Standard.
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4 Just Ranting // Oct 5, 2007 at 10:18 am
OT
Jesus and Satan were having an on-going argument about who was better on the computer. They had been going at it for days, and frankly God was tired of hearing all the bickering.
Finally fed up, God the Father said, “THAT’S IT! I have had enough. I am going to set up a test that will run for two hours, and from those results, I will judge who does the better job.”
So Satan and Jesus sat down at the keyboards and typed away.
They moused. They faxed. They e-mailed. They e-mailed with attachments. They downloaded.
They did spreadsheets! They wrote reports.They created labels and cards. They created charts and graphs. They did some genealogy reports. They did every job known to man. Jesus worked with heavenly efficiency and Satan was faster than hell.
Then, ten minutes before their time was up, lightning suddenly flashed across the sky, thunder rolled, rain poured, and, of course, the power went off.
Satan stared at his blank screen and screamed every curse word known in the underworld. Jesus just sighed. Finally the electricity came back on, and each of them restarted their computers. Satan started searching frantically,
screaming, “It’s gone! It’s all GONE! I lost everything when the power went out!”
Meanwhile, Jesus quietly started printing out all of his files from the past two hours of work. Satan observed this and became irate. “Wait!” he screamed. “That’s not fair! He cheated! How come he has all his work and I don’t have any?”
God the Father just shrugged and said, “JESUS SAVES”
5 Just Ranting // Oct 5, 2007 at 10:30 am
It is hard to imagine Briam Lamb doing an interview from in there. One would have to be quite circumspect in placing microphones. The ambient noise could be mistaken for a speach by Senator Robert Byrd (D-West Moonbatinia) on the the Senate Floor. That would be a “pity, pity, pity”.
6 nylecoj // Oct 5, 2007 at 10:31 am
JR,
One of my favorite jokes.
7 Ms RightWing, Ink // Oct 5, 2007 at 10:37 am
“……to work hard for Idahoans to assure they’ll no longer bear the shame of hearing the phrase ‘disgraced former Idaho senator’.” ”
Idaho senator? Do they call him Tater Tot gone bad or did he give Idaho a black “eye.”
Well I think they went to great lengths to “uncover dirt,” on him.
Perhaps C-Span needs to “peel” away the layers and see he’s not “half baked.”
8 conserve-a-tips // Oct 5, 2007 at 10:39 am
I take it that this is in “loo” of really holding them accountable?
“Outhouse Politics” - i.e., full of SCHIP
9 Just Ranting // Oct 5, 2007 at 10:48 am
Ms RW, stop spud-derring. Tell us what you really think.
10 boberinyetagain // Oct 5, 2007 at 10:55 am
I assume you’ve heard (I couldn’t make this up) that they are installing new dividers in the suspect mens room, ones that go nearly to the floor.
Problem solved, no more homosexuals! Now perhaps we can move on to something that actually matters.
Smoke and mirrors people, try to focus
11 da Bunny // Oct 5, 2007 at 11:19 am
Perverts are as perverts do…anyone trying to “hook up” in a public restroom has a lot more problems than just being “gay.”
12 da Bunny // Oct 5, 2007 at 11:23 am
I don’t watch C-SPIN much anyway, unless there’s a conservative event being covered, or a conservative discussing their latest book on “Book-TV.” I’ll have to start tuning in to see those “Senate restroom-cam” live shots. Perhaps they could pipe in some “toe-tapping” music to liven up the shot?
13 RedPepper // Oct 5, 2007 at 11:29 am
Now, all Sen. Craig needs to do is announce that he’s decided to run again. You know … 6 more years to work on clearing his name …
14 Ms RightWing, Ink // Oct 5, 2007 at 11:57 am
Just Ranting
I just think they are trying to boil him in hot water. Is he gay or is someone trying to cook this up. Butter get it right
15 boberinyetagain // Oct 5, 2007 at 12:32 pm
He’s not going to rest until he finds the “real” pervert.
Perhaps he an OJ can team up
16 JamesonLewis3rd // Oct 5, 2007 at 12:48 pm
The “news” media are doing all they can to portray this schizophrenic, psychopathological deviate as a “victim” and, therefore, a “hero.”
Craig’s loving it-it’s like a Universal Comprehensive Group Hug or something. In his sick mind, he’s validated by the media adulation of his disgusting perversion-something that should make him want to repent and seek Almighty God’s forgiveness.
My heart goes out to his wife and family. I mean, how mortifying can you get? Yeesh…..
17 Darthmeister // Oct 5, 2007 at 12:57 pm
Restroom cams? Say, in liberal land isn’t video pornography protected “speech”? I wonder when restroom homosexuals will start complaining about an invasion of privacy?
I bet any number of free thinking liberals will pay good money for that video feed. NAMBLA will probably start agitating for video “security” cams in elementary school bathrooms. I mean, they vote Democrat, don’t they?
18 Hawkeye // Oct 5, 2007 at 1:01 pm
Before you know it, Democrats will be claiming they have a “wider stance” than the Republicans… and that they’re proud of it!
19 Ms RightWing, Ink // Oct 5, 2007 at 1:03 pm
I think the whole thing is au gratin. Now, no more Idaho tater jokes.
20 Hawkeye // Oct 5, 2007 at 1:06 pm
If Craig was a Democrat, he’d be a “shoe-in” for re-election.
21 Hawkeye // Oct 5, 2007 at 1:16 pm
Ms RW #19,
You’re right, we should drop the tater jokes like a hot po… err, tomale!
Or, as Anheuser-Busch would say… “This Spud’s For You”. (Ducking and running)
22 Hawkeye // Oct 5, 2007 at 1:23 pm
According to Wikipedia, an Eye In The Sky is a camera mounted in the ceiling. I guess these C-SPAN cameras could be dubbed an “Eye On The Fly”??
23 Just Ranting // Oct 5, 2007 at 2:28 pm
Yes, enough of this chive potatoe talk. I think we’ve throughly mashed this one out. Now its back to work. Must keep the home fries burning you know.
24 prettyold // Oct 5, 2007 at 3:44 pm
So the C-can Cam will finally give all of us the answer to the question we’ve all wondered about for years.
Boxers or Briefs?
Or again maybe this doesn’t a-peel to everyone.
I hope they do the Lady’s C-Can Cam ,too . Ive really been curious about the B or B question with Hillary.
My guess would be Boxers
25 JamesonLewis3rd // Oct 5, 2007 at 4:31 pm
Yesterday, after having returned from the mall to view The Bourne Ultimatum, and while I hunkered over the chicken Leg/Thighs sizzling in my barbecue’s inferno, my wife toiled to create a perfect batch of smashed taters. Green Beans, too.
I’ve had BBQ Chicken for breakfast and lunch, so far. Yummy…..
26 boberinyetagain // Oct 5, 2007 at 4:45 pm
Time for recipes I guess. It’s been a while…
Go Phillies!
27 Effeminem // Oct 5, 2007 at 4:46 pm
I voted for the War on Science before I voted against it.
28 Hawkeye // Oct 5, 2007 at 4:56 pm
I invented the War on Science.
-Al Gore
29 Effeminem // Oct 5, 2007 at 5:41 pm
That depends on what the meaning of “War on Science” is.
30 everthink // Oct 5, 2007 at 6:10 pm
“I voted for the War on Science before I voted against it.”
“I invented the War on Science.”
“That depends on what the meaning of “War on Science” is.”
Ah, those were the days, a time when Bush Monkeys could crack, and feel, wise.
Now? Why don’t you just pick each other’s flees instead?
31 JamesonLewis3rd // Oct 5, 2007 at 6:12 pm
Overheard during a recent Clandestine Clinton/Soros/Socialist Colluders Conference:
“It’s all over the Blogosphere! The Majority of Americans compare The War on Science to The Potato War (Kartoffelkrieg)!”
“Pass me some o’them fries,” belched Chris Matthews.
“…..but the crowd called out for more…..”~~Procol Harem (summer 1967)
32 Effeminem // Oct 5, 2007 at 6:21 pm
.. fleas.
33 prettyold // Oct 5, 2007 at 7:28 pm
Oh, Effeminem,I’m so sorry to hear that . They have sprays for those fleas ,now and powders , but the best thing is good old flea soap. It will make those fleas flee. But be careful if you have sheep because the fleas might flee to the fleece.
And the stump thunk the skunk stunk.
34 conserve-a-tips // Oct 5, 2007 at 8:14 pm
Hmm. The John flushed my post:
Ms Rightwing, Ink - re #19 - I heard it said by a C-Spank common-tater that Craig is “persona au gratin” to the Republicans and they just wish that they could juilienne his career.
And I’ll stop now.
35 conserve-a-tips // Oct 5, 2007 at 8:20 pm
Prettyold, actually fleas can’t stand the lanoline in sheep’s fleece and so you won’t find a fleaey fleece, but you will find sheep keds (ticks), not to be confused with the tenny pumps that might have been ‘tip-tip-tapping and rap-rap-rapping on the bathroom floor, while the senate shook their heads and quoth, “nevermore.”
36 Ms RightWing, Ink // Oct 5, 2007 at 9:37 pm
Have you all been reading Carl Sandburg’s Rootabaga stories, or what.
“Now the people in the village all understand the winds with their wind songs in summer and winter. And they understand the rough wind who comes sometimes and picks up the village and blows it away off high in the sky all by itself.
“If you go to the public square in the middle of the village you will see a big roundhouse. If you take off the top off the roundhouse you will see a big spool with a long string winding up around the spool.
“Now whenever the rough wind comes and picks up the village and blows it away off high in the sky all by itself then the string winds loose off the spool, because the village is fastened to the string. So the rough winds blows and blows and the string on the spool winds loosed and looser the farther the village goes blowing away off into the sky all by itself….”
Later in the Book
The Potato Face Blind Man Who Lost the Diamond Rabbit on His Gold Accordion
There was a Potato Face Blind Man used to play an accordion on the Main Street corner nearest the post office in the Village of Liver-and-Onions.
Any Ice Today came along and said, “It looks like it used to be an 18 carat gold accordion with rich pawnshop diamonds in it; it looks like it used to be a grand accordion once and not so grand now.”
“Oh, yes, oh, yes, it was gold all over on the outside,” said the Potato Face Blind Man, “and
there was a diamond rabbit next to the handles on each side, two diamond rabbits.”
“How do you mean diamond rabbits?” Any Ice Today asked.
“Ears, legs, head, feet, ribs, tail, all fixed out in diamonds to make a nice rabbit with his diamond chin on his diamond toenails. When I play good pieces so people cry hearing my accordion music, then I put my fingers over and feel of the rabbit’s diamond chin on his diamond toenails, ‘Attaboy, li’l bunny, attaboy, li’l bunny.’”
“Yes I hear you talking but it is like dream talking. I wonder why your accordion looks like somebody stole it and took it to a pawnshop and took it out and somebody stole it again and took it to a pawnshop and took it out and somebody stole it again. And they kept on stealing it and taking it out of the pawnshop and stealing it again till the gold wore off so it looks like a used-to-be-yesterday.”
And goes the book for 300 hundred more pages. Actually one of my favorite “silly” books
37 Ms RightWing, Ink // Oct 5, 2007 at 9:38 pm
push
38 gafisher // Oct 6, 2007 at 8:36 am
The whole idea sounds potty to me.
———————————————————
“Who da man?”
Well, I don’ know
But in da Men’s Room
Idaho!”
……………………….. Larry Craig
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39 random // Oct 6, 2007 at 9:44 am
#24 By the look on her face I would guess a tight fitting thong.
40 Beerme // Oct 6, 2007 at 12:56 pm
Random,
ugghh!
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42 onlineanalyst // Oct 6, 2007 at 7:45 pm
Will all of the stalls in the Senate restroom have to be converted to be handicapped-accessible for those with a wide stance? The tendency to cruise restrooms for dates is a handicap, isn’t it? Or is that remark not PC enough?
43 prettyold // Oct 6, 2007 at 9:29 pm
#38 and at Christmas is Larry the
Idaho-ho-ho?
44 Darthmeister // Oct 7, 2007 at 5:31 am
The left has given us yet another lie by attributing the quote, “Dissent is the highest form of patriotism”, to Thomas Jefferson. Mr. Jefferson never said such a thing which can easily be factchecked through a Google search. Such is the MO of leftists who mindlessly gravitate toward outright lies like moths to flame.
The “Jefferson quote” appears to be the work of one Howard Zinn who in turn may have gotten it from a female isolationist protesting World War II!
But in some parts of the country, like here in a midwest campus town where the hollow-headed halls of wackademia reign supreme, “patriotism is the highest form of dissent”. We dissent from the corrupt ideology of leftism.
This is not a blind patriotism but rather an informed patriotism. The author makes the point that what the America liberals are “patriotic” toward is not the America as it is, warts and all, but rather the America they want it to be.
Conservatives take a more honest and sensible approach in that we believe in our country right or wrong, and where wrong to make it right. But that can’t be done through lies and deception which the left is no stranger to, dissent must be based on clear moral principle and the unvarnished truth - both in short supply among hate-Bush/blame-American leftists. It’s becoming increasingly clear what the left wants to do is destroy the last vestiges of western civilization, Pax Americana, and then build their socialist utopia upon those ashes. That’s not patriotism, that’s a profound devotion to a pipe dream. It’s no more real than an airbrushed Hollyweird celebrity that has had three plastic surgeries.
Given the real human condition, socialism/collectivism always leads to totalitarianism. Some forms of totalitarianism are somewhat benign, like what one finds in Sweden for example. But there the people are like cattle, offering no resistance to the government collective. Freedom has been cultivated out of Swedes through generations of neglect. As a result the government confiscates the majority of their paycheck and offers the illusion of peace, prosperity and security … until it meets its match in Islamists and closet jihadists. The Gates of Vienna has the real news of what is happening in the Swedish utopia which the lamestream media and socialists in this country ignore to our own peril.
45 Darthmeister // Oct 7, 2007 at 5:32 am
… push.
46 gafisher // Oct 7, 2007 at 7:14 am
Darth Re#44: “The author makes the point that what the America liberals are “patriotic” toward is not the America as it is, warts and all, but rather the America they want it to be.”
This may roughly describe an aspect of the attitude of modern so-called “liberals,” but I think it’s far more true of Classical American Liberalism, the sort which the founders indeed practiced; the principles of individual liberty and limited government now referred to as Conservatism.
The Founders’ vision was not one of “making do” with the American Colonies, nor even with remaining Colonies per se, but was a vision of America as a free and independent nation well before it became one. The most significant difference between the Founders’ version of loyalty toward what could be and that of the modern so-called “liberals” is that modern “liberals” envision a future without God, while the Founders and their Conservative heirs see America as it could be ” … under God … “.
47 gafisher // Oct 7, 2007 at 7:26 am
Postscript: Does George W. Bush share that hopeful vision of the Founders? Does the GOP?
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49 Darthmeister // Oct 7, 2007 at 6:20 pm
Point well taken, gafisher. The American founders also recognized the real nature of mankind and not some gooey, feel-good utopianism that man is perfectible if only the right system was in place to perfect society and hence, perfect man. Rather the principles of government the founders agreed upon was that it should be limited and the powers be divided so that no one man or one group could gather enough power unto themselves to create a totalitarian government. They saw a time where liberty would flourish as much as possible but the moral condition of man would not change much. Their understanding of “self-government” wasn’t so much government of the people, by the people and for the people - though that certainly was an important principle which undergirds a constitutional republic - but rather, as James Madison said, we conduct our lives in a self-disciplined manner in accordance with the Ten Commandments of God. When the vast bulk of the citizenry voluntarily does that - exercise moral self-control - then the need for government and even law enforcement is proportionately diminished and hence civil society can enjoy even more freedoms.
The liberal secular today believes that government should be big enough to enforce egalitarian policies across the land (liberals deciding what constitutes “egalitarianism” of course) from the top-down and when an increasingly altruistic society has become perfected then we will all live happily ever after in our velvet-lined guilded cage … you know, one big happy family with all our needs taken care of FOR FREE by a benign and beneficient nanny government! What naiveté!
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