It’s That Time

June 21st, 2008, 12:00 AM EDT

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  1. FIRST! GOT YA SUCKERSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!

  2. SECOND

  3. I have diabetes myself. I am going to have to check out this zero coke.

  4. It’s like in a red and black can…drink it ice cold!

  5. DAMN IT! I’M FOURTH.

  6. son of a bitch… i started the whole first thing…

    Epiphany, why don’t you go to sleep!

  7. i hate diet coke diet ice tea. always taste like metal to me.

  8. lol, i bet wfg and directorpooh are still on the other screen, staring at the screen and wondering what happened to everyone else.

  9. flap, what state you live in?

  10. i never drink anything unless it’s ice cold. i put ice into everything.

  11. boom…rim shot

    Posted by directorpooh
    June 21st, 2008 at 12:08 am
  12. flap and pooh are southerners. cool, i like both TX and TN.

  13. TENNESSEE, born raised and educated! I am thus at a disadvantage to the rest of you city-folk… :D

  14. Well, bowing out of chatting here. yap whenever.

  15. Tennessee is southern….Texans are Texan…strange as it sounds there is a difference…

    Posted by directorpooh
    June 21st, 2008 at 12:10 am
  16. there you are, wfg. i just went to find you.

  17. oh brother. texans are like new yorkers. might as well give them their own countries.

  18. if the most un-American thing you can do is not pay your taxes, what does it mean if you cheat on your taxes?

  19. no we texans love our country…but if everyone gets chippy, we’ll step off

    :)

    Posted by directorpooh
    June 21st, 2008 at 12:14 am
  20. what was with that last call?? no taxes and conspiracy night?

    Posted by directorpooh
    June 21st, 2008 at 12:15 am
  21. Alan gave us a SHOUT OUT! Wassuuppp!!!!

  22. what up big al!!

    Posted by directorpooh
    June 21st, 2008 at 12:15 am
  23. my supermarket is open 24 hours a day. i could go out later and buy some zero coke/

    Hahahaha the same 5 or 6 people Alan?

    Hey what are we Alan … CHOPPED LIVER???????

  24. I’M FAMOUS!

  25. you know we should all call in one night for the fun of it

    Posted by directorpooh
    June 21st, 2008 at 12:16 am
  26. i wasn’t able to catch much of what the guy was saying. i heard what alan said about taxes, and that made me want to ask you guys that question.

  27. lol, you guys are killin’ me

  28. you didn’t miss much…think he was hearing the blackhawk helicopters over his house

    Posted by directorpooh
    June 21st, 2008 at 12:18 am
  29. well, i’ve called a few times before. i haven’t called the last couple of weeks bc i’m temporarily without phone service.

  30. LMAO, pooh.

  31. Ice in coffee? Alan, that’s just not right. I drink my coffee black…no sugar, creamer, milk, ice, etc.
    Since it’s free for all time, I also want to say I am very disappointed in how spineless this democratically controlled congress has been. We voted for them to stand up to Bush & Cheney.

    Posted by Jason from Alabama
    June 21st, 2008 at 12:19 am
  32. okay pooh, you get the FUNNIEST COMMENT OF THE NIGHT award

  33. i’ve had two coke zeros tonight and i think i’m getting a buzz going…i never have caffiene

    Posted by directorpooh
    June 21st, 2008 at 12:20 am
  34. Cheryl, have you tried Skype? I don’t know if you have dial-up, but if you have broadband it’s dirt cheap phone service over the computer.

  35. that sounds cool, flap…know i’ve never even heard of it

    Posted by directorpooh
    June 21st, 2008 at 12:21 am
  36. I hear about Comcast for $33 and Vonage for $29 but Skype averages to $5 a month…a little more technically difficult to set up though.

  37. some callers are not too bright

    Posted by directorpooh
    June 21st, 2008 at 12:23 am
  38. good thinking, flap. i appreciate the suggestion! have you ever used it, or have you heard good reviews about it?

    i’m waiting for you guys to respond about my taxes question. that wasn’t a joke, i was being 4 real that time.

    pooh, you should drink more caffeine. good stuff, man.

  39. callers on cell phones with bad connections are one of Big A’s pet peeves. mine too.

  40. what was the question?

    Posted by directorpooh
    June 21st, 2008 at 12:24 am
  41. hello jason from alabama.

  42. I set my parents up for Skype…it’s not *quite* as good quality as a landline and no 911 service and a little harder to set up, but those are the only drawbacks I see.

    Landline with all the taxes and fees is like around $40-60 in this part of the country, and Skype is around $5.

  43. if the most un-American thing you can do is not pay your taxes. What does it mean if you cheat on your taxes?

  44. Then you are a Canadian

    Posted by directorpooh
    June 21st, 2008 at 12:26 am
  45. awww shit… dunkin donuts is part of the carlisle group???

    i won’t be shopping there again.

  46. Dunkin’ Donuts has good donuts too. Especially if you dunk ‘em.

  47. ALAN IS PART OF THE CONSPIRACY! CARLYLE GROUP!

  48. god…i’m paying 3.89 for gas right now

    Posted by directorpooh
    June 21st, 2008 at 12:27 am
  49. So if you like Dunkin Donuts you are now part of the Carlyle Group…that’s un-American!

    Posted by directorpooh
    June 21st, 2008 at 12:28 am
  50. 62% of Alan’s callers are from Virginia.

  51. god…i’m paying 3.89 for gas right now
    —————-

    You’re lucky. I’m paying $4.05

  52. not bad, Epiphany.

    pooh, that’s what i’m paying.

    flap and pooh, do you guys garden?

  53. michael! where you been all night, homie?

  54. I have mixed feelings about cheating on taxes. I personally wouldn’t, but people who do…I dunno. Past a certain point I think taxes are essentially STEALING from your hard work.

  55. Oh, heck no. That would infringe on my masculinity. But seriously it’d probably be fun.

  56. i have a plant…i water it…it keeps growing…that’s all the interaction we have…it’s better that way for both

    Posted by directorpooh
    June 21st, 2008 at 12:31 am
  57. i don’t cheat on taxes because i’m too paranoid about getting caught

    Posted by directorpooh
    June 21st, 2008 at 12:32 am
  58. Ooh, I misspelled it…Carlisle Group. I need to keep up with my conspiracy theories better.

  59. hell flap i followed you….i’m part of the conspiracy too

    Posted by directorpooh
    June 21st, 2008 at 12:33 am
  60. well, when i saw how you spelled it i just figured that i was wrong.

    pooh, you sound like your thumb is as green as epiphany’s. :-D

    yeah, i’ve got to be more careful with my taxes.

  61. Hello cheryll carroll

    Posted by Jason from Alabama
    June 21st, 2008 at 12:34 am
  62. Wait, there’s a CARLYLE and CARLISLE group…the rabbit hole goes even deeper!

    I think Carlyle is the conspiracy one. 81 billion and 286,000 people…they control the universe.

  63. they are the same country….that’s how they fool you!

    Posted by directorpooh
    June 21st, 2008 at 12:36 am
  64. company….i’m an idiot

    Posted by directorpooh
    June 21st, 2008 at 12:37 am
  65. ATTENTION- We have a visitor, folks. Be on your BEST behavior.

    Jason, you are welcome here. You are amongst friends, have no fear.

  66. Be afraid Jason… be very afraid…

  67. Alan, please buy Della a computer.

    This is my second request. Don’t make me ask again, sir.

  68. Drill here, Drill now, save money. Cultivate renewable resources, increase 3rd generation nuclear power and vote GOP.

  69. the blackhawk helicopters will be over shortly for you jason…

    Posted by directorpooh
    June 21st, 2008 at 12:39 am
  70. JESUS IS FOR JOHN MCCAIN! It says so somewhere in the Bible…can’t remember where.

  71. near the back somewhere flap

    Posted by directorpooh
    June 21st, 2008 at 12:40 am
  72. Jesus was a liberal and a revolutionary. :)

  73. i said “best” behavior, not “normal” behavior. lol

  74. i like in mojoito park

    Posted by directorpooh
    June 21st, 2008 at 12:42 am
  75. the blackhawks have already come to get WFG

  76. i wish RC and FuryUs were bloggin’ with us tonight

  77. I enjoy flapjacks

  78. i live in mojoito park…god i can’t type tonight

    Posted by directorpooh
    June 21st, 2008 at 12:43 am
  79. Jesus was a liberal in many ways but ALSO a conservative. Dual nature.

    John 14:6 is hardly pluralistic! “I am the way…no man cometh to the Father…except by me.”

  80. Hahaha FuRy. He’s usually in a furious kind of mood.

  81. so jesus was like 80 percent of the population

    Posted by directorpooh
    June 21st, 2008 at 12:45 am
  82. i didn’t know that cindy’s relationship with Mr. McNasty started while he was still married

  83. Cindy was having an affair with John while he was married??? Holy Moly.

  84. So what if Cindy McCain has money. Didn’t John Kerry divorce a millionaire to marry a billionaire? Alan, don’t take calls about the candidates spouses, its beneath the integrity of the show.

  85. Wasn’t aware either.

  86. pooh, i googled that and can’t find it.

    you can’t fit jesus into a “dem” or “con” category, folks

  87. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pob2rwO0Cfo

    Minute number 43 (You can skip to it by just clicking around that area on the video.

    Bill O’Reilly told Charlie Rose in 2000 that he’d like to see John McCain as President.

    Next time he tells you he’s “impartial” and “independent”, remember this.

  88. hey kato. what’s up? thanks for joining the conversation. flap is a conservative, too.

  89. Hey, extramarital affairs are horrendous. I don’t excuse what McCain did. But he’s not exactly a “conservative” thus the problem that many right-wingers had against him from the beginning.

  90. good call, michael.

  91. Ahhhhhhnold for President

  92. WE’LL DO IT LIVE!!!

  93. Michael, McCain is obviously more conservative than liberal but he’s like O’Reilly…populist and slants conservative. Of course Bill would be for him.

  94. WE’LL DO IT LIVE!!!!!!!

    Posted by directorpooh
    June 21st, 2008 at 12:50 am
  95. “THIS F*ING SUCKS!” “Play us out…I don’t know what that means!”

  96. @flap

    yeah I know, I’m just trying to point out how truly “independent” he is on this.

    Hahaha, this just made me think of Tim Russert. If Tim was interviewing Bill he would have definitely found that and brought it up.

  97. LMAO

    I love that video

  98. did o’reilly ever respond to that?

  99. WE’LL DO IT LIVE! should be a ringtone.

  100. i love the part at the end when he gets up from the desk…i work in tv news and i’ve seen some anchors do that before….good crazy memories

    Posted by directorpooh
    June 21st, 2008 at 12:52 am
  101. Oh, I agree Bill would be biased in favor of a conservative-moderate, especially in the mold of McCain.

  102. you’re damned right he would have, michael. he also would have hunted down his teachers, right down to preschool. :0) damn he was thorough

  103. Yes he did Cheryl. He tried to “poopoo” it away as if it were nothing. He must have had a FIT when it got out, all over youtube and on Keith Olbermann’s program, Joh Stewart, Stephen Colbert (who did a parody off of it) CNN etc.

  104. Cheryl

    Yeah, he just laughed it off pretty much. Probably what I would do.

  105. WAIT A MINUTE… i thought you hated ring tones?

    i put 5 bucks down Della doesn’t call in tonight

  106. yeah, i saw the colbert parody of that. i’ll have to check out the junx from the daily show

  107. Russert never rubbed me the wrong way…he grilled both sides and searched for inconsistencies. Someone said that Russert just wanted to hear politician’s unadulterated opinions…no “gotcha” stuff or quick soundbites that we see from both sides.

  108. ha ha, i’m glad alan hung up on that one guy

  109. goodnight friends

  110. Radio graffiti is so hilarious…Alan is awesome to allow people to do it.

  111. until the next time internet family

    Posted by directorpooh
    June 21st, 2008 at 12:58 am
  112. Thank you and goodnight!

  113. Goodnight. Im off to get some zero coke. Well maybe tomorrow.

    Peace be with you!

  114. well, since everyone else is leaving….

    guess I will too

    peace out

  115. Ack, I missed the fun.

    I was thinking Alan should try a new segment sometime, call it Primal Rage. Everyone calls in about whatever really pisses them off, but they have to scream like they’re insane (or get cut off).

    It’d be silly, but it might be funny. Kind of like, “I’m mad as Hell and I’m not gonna take it any more!” Call it an Ode to Network.

    Posted by RC from Smithtown
    June 21st, 2008 at 1:17 am
  116. wow this blog is packed tonight!

  117. RC, how dare you not be on the blog last night?! You too, Louie!

    E~ did you get your Coke Zero yet?

    Did anyone else watch Scott McClellan’s testimony yesterday?

  118. For all this activity, what was actually said that matters? First, second, fourth, Primal rage and Coke Zero. This is why Liberals get their lunch handed to them by Conservative thought. Common sense defeats us way too easily.

    Conspiracy talkers, have you found the “Bush Fly” yet? Swatting Flies was a code word for “Someone or something too small to officially respect that is being a pest.” Bin Laden wasn’t too small or President Bush underestimated him. Bin Laden wasn’t even active in the public eye. Scott McClellan told us the Bush Team never ended campaign mode. He won the Supreme Court decision and kept fighting his domestic political battles. Who was his opposition? Why did campaign finance reform pass? Who put VP Dick Cheney in the bunker? Wouldn’t you like to be a “Fly” on the wall to know this history? Why did they shatter the Constitution to spy domestically?

    Posted by Cecil Jones
    June 21st, 2008 at 11:01 am
  119. It’s a Free for all, so I want to talk about something else-”Scary Code Words.” Anyone who doesn’t think the Republicans will go negative trying to win this election is a Republican. What are some of the words they will use as “Code?” Liberals, Negros, Sexists, Racists, Polygamists, Unpatriotic, Muslim, Oprah, Jihadists, “Cut and Run”, Iran, Surrender, The Olympics, 888, September 11th, October Surprise, and anything bad they can dig up about Dr. King shared through one of the many black people hired by the RNC. Isn’t it sad that they have hired so many blacks to be critical of Obama and Michelle? They have placed so many on TV it’s like they represent a majority? They represent at best 5 to 10% of the black population. Republicans give new meaning to welfare when it comes to handing out work on television. I’d say bad things about Obama for a million dollar contract. I’d even be funny about it. What other scary words can you think of? I almost forgot “Gay Marriage.”

    Posted by Cecil Jones
    June 21st, 2008 at 11:11 am
  120. After all this bro-ha-ha Scott McCellen had NOTHING to say.

    What was his complains’

    = Bush Admin was in campaign-mode selling the war. Um . no kidding ! That’s what govts do.

    = As far as the leaks thing goes.. there was no crime. Plame was not covert. And if she was, sending her husband on that trip was totally unacceptable, and she should have been fired for having such poor judgement.

    = Bush “ignored” contrary intelligence. McClellen doesn’t say what this intelligence is, and is it reasonable for a Press Sec. to have access to it to know what it said?

    = He wants to end partisan bickering…. Yeah right.. this surely wasn’t the way to go about doing it.

    Sorry , the guy had nothing new to tell anyone and what he did say was completely lacking in any detail.

    >kept fighting his domestic political battles. Who was his opposition?

    The White House had a shitty relationship with the GOP leadership in House and Senate.. and with the Dems too.

    >Why did campaign finance reform pass?

    That was McCains bright idea. Bush didn’t like the bill but said he would sign it , hoping the USSC would overturn it. Stupid ass move.

    >Why did they shatter the Constitution to spy domestically?

    I dont know what’s so hard to understand about thios.. they “spy” on international calls that pass through US.

  121. Cecil~ please remove the stick from your arse and lighten up. Thank you.

    Everyone else~ just saw this on BBC. How do you pro-choicers feel about abortion in this circumstance?

  122. damn it, it won’t take the link. here’s the story.

    India baby girl deaths ‘increase’

    The number of girls born and surviving in India has hit an all time low compared to boys, ActionAid says.

    A report by the UK charity says increasing numbers of female foetuses were being aborted and baby girls deliberately neglected and left to die.

    In one site in the Punjab state, there are just 300 girls to every 1,000 boys among higher caste families, it says.

    ActionAid says India faces a “bleak” future if it does not end its practice of cultural preference for boys.

    Girls ‘condemned’

    ActionAid teamed up with Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC) to produce the Disappearing Daughters report.

    More than 6,000 households in sites across five states in north-western India were interviewed and statistical comparisons were made with national census date.

    Under “normal” circumstances, there should be about 950 girls for every 1,000 boys, the charity said.

    But it said that in three of the five sites, that number was below 800.

    In four of the five sites surveyed, the proportion of girls to boys had declined since a 2001 census, the report said.

    The research also found that ratios of girls to boys were declining fastest in comparatively prosperous urban areas.

    ActionAid suggested the increasing use of ultrasound technology may be a factor in the trend.

    The document says that Indian woman are put under intense pressure to produce sons, in a culture that predominantly views girls as a burden rather than an asset.

    It says many families now use ultrasound scans and abort female foetuses, despite the existence of the 1994 law banning gender selection and selective abortion.

    The charity also blames other illegal practices – such as allowing the umbilical cord to become infected – for the growing gender imbalance.

    “The real horror of the situation is that, for women, avoiding having daughters is a rational choice. But for wider society it’s creating an appalling and desperate state of affairs,” Laura Turquet, women’s rights policy official at ActionAid said.

    “In the long term, cultural attitudes need to change. India must address economic and social barriers including property rights, marriage dowries and gender roles that condemn girls before they are even born.

    “If we don’t act now the future looks bleak,” Ms Turquet said.

    Some 10 million female foetuses have been aborted in India in the past 20 years, the British medical journal the Lancet has said.

  123. Cecil, the Olympics scare me into a coma.

  124. FISA Amendments Act 2008:
    The right to have your day in Court is not something to take lightly, nor is it strictly a liberal or conservative issue; rather it is a principle of Liberty and Justice. The new FISA issue before Congress is an issue that will remove the Constitutional principle of a right of redress of grievances. The House has said through by their vote on 08-20-08 that they do not care about oversight (checks and balances) and possibly will ruin our Fourth Amendment Protection to Privacy. They have said that they would trade Liberty for the perception of safety, thus proving B. Franklin a wise man whose warning rings true now more than ever. All Americans should feel a sense of sadness towards the Yes votes in the House on this first day of Summer and potentially the last day of reason and logic by those who voted with reckless abandon for Liberty. This Act is an affront to Freedom, a gift to Tyranny and a pardon for illegal activity. “Driven from every other corner of the earth, freedom of thought and the right of private judgment in matters of conscience, direct their course to this happy country as their last asylum.” Sam Adams-
    1791 – The 4th Amendment: “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.” Amendment 1: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” The First Amendment and the Fourth Amendment may suffer damage that the Founding Fathers would shed a tear for if the Senate does not correct the bad judgment exhibited by the House. Pray that they see the light of Liberty.

    Posted by John David Prince
    June 21st, 2008 at 2:56 pm
  125. Amen brother John David Prince! Amazing how many don’t get it!

    Posted by spyglass10
    June 21st, 2008 at 4:22 pm
  126. Give government agents the power of last resort, to be used at their discretion, and they will use it routinely, every day, every hour on the hour.

    Posted by RC from Smithtown
    June 21st, 2008 at 5:42 pm
  127. Good you tube video michael, O rielly lays it on pretty thick with the Zero death penalty for serious crimes and as always beats the old drum “there is no truth in todays news” chalk up another one for the NO SPIN hero.

    I cant seem to forget those famous words “this war is the knobel thing to do” meaning iraq freedom. Its easy to take your words back {as orielly has} too bad we cant take back the lives lost over there, 4000+ and climbing.

    Posted by Mr. sardonicus
    June 21st, 2008 at 7:56 pm
  128. Am I last?

    I have been playing with the Internet Archive: Wayback Machine that archive internet websites. http://www.archive.org/web/web.php

    Been playing with it, you see what FoxNews website. No I am being good I promise. I am just viewing old pages from way back in 1996, news articles from the 2000 election, and anything between No videos, but it is interesting to play around with.

    Posted by From A Republican
    June 22nd, 2008 at 11:07 pm