knerd's Comments (787)

“George W. Bush inherited many, many warnings about 9/11 as well.

Even when he was on his Texas vacation.”

“I LIED: Although my post above reads like a commerical, I want to disavow my claim on the mileage. It SHOULD be 40-plus MPG, NOT 50-plus. I have never been able to hit the magic five-oh.”

“I am very, very happy with my Smartcar and feel lucky I bought it when I did, for my particular Smart is seldom available anymore. It's a 2005 model made in the Netherlands that I bought here four years ago. These babies were designed and built from the ground up by Mercedes Benz and my "fourtwo" version is the safest micro car made:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOcJu4d2R_c

It has a turbo three-cylinder engine that can zip me up to 85 on the freeway and it gets 59 mpg if I don't try to make the car scream. It is a six speed that can be switched from manual to automatic by pushing a button. I have no trouble going to Costco to take home three cases of diet Pepsi and a full shopping cart of mindlessly purchased and often useless consumer goods. But I admit the packing can sometimes be compared to meticulously building a New England stone fence since the rear "trunk" space is small and the car is only a two-seater.

As I understand it, these new Smartcars are made in America by someone else, they are 8 inches longer and have a totally different engine. Plus the mileage on the current model only gets up into the mid or high 30s. And at around 14 to 16 thousand, you might as well buy a Toyota or something.

My wife and I think it's great and fun to drive.”

“So now I guess you'll next be claiming that human beings can actually co-exist and get along with each other!

Even with (:shudder:) LOVE...”

“We now have John's opinion. Noted.”

“Weather is not climate. Then again, James Inhofe is not Al Gore.”

“Okay, okay, okay !
Noted, noted, noted.”

“Three words: infrastructure, infrastructure, infastructure”

“How DARE Bill O'Reilly let any common sense thinking enter into his diatribes. As everyone already knows, only ME uses common sense around here.”

“Laughter because of discomfort or nervousness. Perfectly normal. We would give ourselves a pass and a clean bill of moral health for doing the same...”

“elfish,

Our work is always cut out for us, isn't it?

I am getting more and more fascinated by the strange and unholy collusion of tea bagger regressives and liberal progressives in some strange Area 51.

They both seem to inhabit the same space like zombies on autopilot. Both sides are pretty blind and both are feeling up the proverbial elephant in the American livingroom.

I think the progressive left has stuck its hand deep into the pachyderm's corporate pile way back in the Bush years. The colorful yet innocently regressive conservatives have been so "astro-turfed" and manipulated by corporatists and banksters that they are arriving a little late to the scene. The liberals are still ahead of them by about 9 years.

But many conservative commonsense thinkers among their lot are finding themselves partying with the Stinking Pile.

Maybe both sides are REALLY starting to WAKE UP. An avalanche ready to roll?”

“I love these slow-motion revolutions. I am just a self-absorbed street fighter, out there with my brothers and sisters. "Up against the wall" and all that. It's a good feeling, I'm tellin' ya.”

“Christopher the ("tingle up the leg") Interrupter said on May 1st, 2003 on MSNBC:

"Americans love having a guy as president, a guy who has a little swagger.... The women like this war. I think we like having a hero as our president.... We're not like the Brits."

His profound political acumen makes my eyes water.”

“Matthews is all left-hemisphere stuff: logic, rationality, the numbers.
Dean stirs up the right side of the brain. But so did Obama.”

“Why is Matthews joining up with Landreau to jab on Dean? Is it always just "the numbers" with this political pundit?

He even uses the old 2004 GOP meme of Dean the "hysterical" or Dean the "shouldn't be allowed to get the votes for being the Democratic front runner"?

Throw the bill over the side. It is not worthy of our country.”

“Dr. Cobern could strike a blow for governmental efficiency by spending a good 12 hours reading the entire bill by himself first and advising the Republicans and the few regressive Democrats to do the same.

Nothing wrong with being an obstructionist. I just don't like all these EMPTY-HEADED obstructionists.”

“Saying and doing things without thinking sounds like the old Joe ("You Lie!") excuse when he "apologized" by saying "I let my emotions get the better of me."

As far as I am concerned, if an American cannot balance their own feelings with at least one eye on a preference for their country's higher good, then that person stands in the way of patriotic citizenship.

I have had my fill of people "letting their emotions get the better of them."”

“Becky Mae Atkins, 66, and Elwood Lester, 14.”

“As the bill stands now, let's just pass it and call it the "Joe Lieberman Healthcare Reform Bill."”

“Guard against mind-reading, guessing at motives and invoking omnipotence. Statements like "You haven't once said a word" are laughable. Unless, of course, you are her cellmate or the court reporter”

“Well, Duh-h....”

“Interesting backstory:

http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/sexandgender/2102/%E2%80%98calling%E2%80%99_rick_warren_to_task_on_anti-gay_ugandan_law/”

“Ronald Reagan stuck in the orginal shiv on this. It's been a power grab for privatization, corporatism and middle class marginalization since the 1980s.”

“The hypocrisy-driven life....”

“I did not come here to be made sport of ! Besides, I'll have you know that avatar is an actual photograph of some woman's son.

Meaningful apology anticipated...”