Wow. The L&T Casey’s jaws-of-life legs look able for her to use the Xenia Onatopp method of killing people in Goldeneye.

I recommend packing a basset against your lower back for a few days, in addition to the Vicodin-Flomax-H2O-TV regimen. Try to think good thoughts, TBogg. Many will be thinking of you.

I read an article about Vegas and they’re giving hotel rooms away right now. Apparently the financial crisis combined with gas prices is hitting Vegas hard. Maybe all those people you saw were Canadians.

The way the “handlers” are keeping Pai Lin on such a short leash seems like they misunderstood “rope-a-dope, a TACTIC perfected by Muhammad Ali(sounds kind of Islamo…nevermind). I am guessing they thought it was Dope on a Rope?

I guess the crap tables are the new Wall Street.

No, Wall Street is the new craps tables, with a couple of differences:

“Come” and “Don’t come” aren’t bets; they’re selection criteria for extravagantly-priced hookers, like the girls from the former Emperor’s Club VIP; and

At the really high-rollers tables, a player who’s lost his ass can just sign a marker “Hank Paulson,” no questions asked.

Daniel Mendelsohn on Middlesex! Probably worth the whole book.

Feel better and consider yourself to have received a virtual Rosh Hashanah card.

Tom, you don’t have a fever, do you? My husband has had 20+ kidney stones in the past 27 years. He had one 3 weeks ago, tried to ignore it, took hot baths, drank lots of fluid, figured it would pass on its own as always, finally went to the hospital. A CT scan revealed that his kidney was swollen to twice its size, the stone is just as large (staghorn), and infection filled the kidney. He was at risk of renal failure, at the least. The doctors drained the infection via a stent, kept him in hospital for 6 days, and dosed him with heavy-duty antibiotics. He’ll have to have surgery to remove the stone.

He hated the idea of going to the hospital just to get morphine, but if he hadn’t he might be dead by now.

Sorry to be so doom-and-gloom. Please take care.

sorta what CCinNC said: get them to go get the thing. I’ve had three and only passed one (four is waiting to make its move any day now). They have lots of tools: tell ‘em to pick one and get cracking.

Ya know, TBogg, we in Phoenix use this wacky device called air conditioning when it gets hot….

Also, we try to go to San Diego.

If fivethirtyeight.com could just combine with mydd’s amazing interactive electoral map, I would never go outside.

I’m also nervous about the debate, too: expectations for Palin are lower than a basset’s belly, but if you look at her Alaska debates, she did pretty well–not in terms of substance, but in terms of delivery, which seems to be all that matters in these things.

And I’ve gotta believe that despite what Biden says about not pulling any punches, he’s going to be extremely cautious, no matter how tough that is for him.

We’ve stocked in some extra debate wine in my house to get us through Thursday night–in addition to the stuff we didn’t need to drink last Friday.

I hope the stone(s)pass quickly. I put Sayruh’s command of foreign and domestic policy literally on a par with the 15 year old who works weekends in a Chick Fillet in a run down mall. And in a head to head, if the questioner were a scintilla more alert than the comatose, corpsesque Jim Lehrer was (totally pathetic as a moderator; questions bordered on stupid no real moderation or insight and he let McPalin ramble on way past the two minute mark). Obama should have cut McCain off every time he went over the time limit per rules.

I was looking for a crash cart wondering if Lehrer’s EKG was isoelectric at any given moment.

If Gwen Ifill is awake, she can easily drill into Palin and exhibit how stupid she is. Currently Couric is deteriorating back into her old self with Palin trying to have some bonding moments as a 100 millionairess with Stream of Consciousness Barbie.

Isn’t that just what every parent wants for their child?

So sorry about your kidney stone. My husband had two last month, which he was trying to deal with just as a storm hit and knocked our air conditioning out. For three days. In Phoenix. I agree with the commenter above: go to the hospital, get some drugs and make sure there’s no infection.

OUCH. Sorry to hear about the k. stone, t.bogg. My hubby’s suffered from them for years, too. He’s a convert to Magnesium (400 mg a day) and a B-complex (with 6 and 12). Hasn’t had any since doing so. Hope you have a quick and easy recovery.

It’s extremely difficult to tell what’s more comatose. Jim Lehrer’s performance as moderator of Presidential Debate 2008 I or the Clinton’s support of Obama.

The elephant in the room that none of the FDL bloggers or bloginistas will touch or the shit eating comments by Bill Clinton on how “vibrant” Sarah Palin, her first grandson or son were, and how she connects with the public per Bill Clinton. With 38 days to go before McPalin almost completely disappears from the media, Hillruh and Billruh have done next to nothing for Obama’s campaign in the general as I said they would. While FDL is breathlessly covering daily election events, they pretend the Clintons aren’t doing whatever they can to sabotage Obama (though it’s not going to keep Obama from winning and Hillruh and Billruh will finally realize she’s not going to run again).

That the Clintons, the media, and the rest of the world can’t grow a pair of balls and say that Palin is a moronic choice and would literally endanger this country on all fronts is pathetic. She should be a huge headline issue and she isn’t which is an index of how stupid the bell shaped curve of this country and the media are.

Tbogg, I hope you’re taking care and getting better. The manly Mr. Biscuitbarrel has weathered kidney stones, so all I can do is shake my head in sympathy and offer up Great Big Prayers for your return to good health tonight, as Rosh Hashanah begins.

Recently, I tried to distract myself after a ghastly dental procedure by watching the cable news. I don’t recommend looking at McCain while on Vicodin–his glittery little eyes come right through the screen and hang there, as though J.K. Rowling had unleashed her Deluminator, even after you switch channels. I mean, while you’re on Vicodin. G-d knows what McCain is on.

Please hug a basset for me.

Smoking Drinking caffine ease off it does help. A person recommended this stuff to me

http://www.healingdaily.com/de…..e-clay.htm
which I drink with 7-UP daily normally after I have a stone because I forget normally to take care of myself until after it hurts.
But it does seem to work and is in many health food stores. Use as directed by your local alternative medicine person or witch doctor suggests.

I hope the Vicodin-Flomax-H2O cocktail offers some relief. You haven’t recently ingested any Chinese dairy products have you?

Instant coffee in America has the same kidney killing stuff.

http://www.philstar.com/index……0080927208

But given how Bush’s FDA inspects things dropping anything from China might be a good idea. Given how unregulated the food industry is for all we know kraft is taking noodles from China and putting the made in America seal on the package maybe you should go organic and see if that helps.
Avoid the gas station food!

“That the Clintons, the media, and the rest of the world can’t grow a pair of balls and say that Palin is a moronic choice and would literally endanger this country on all fronts is pathetic.”

Problem is, admitting that Palin is a moronic choice would make certain people who are on record as saying she’s a fucking kick-ass BRILLIANT choice look like…….well, morons.

http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/29/its-palin/

A friend of mine had oxalate stones for years. She was told to cut out cigarettes and carbonated beverages entirely; cut back on caffeine, meat consumption, nuts and certain vegetables high in oxalates, such as sorrel, soy, celery, and some greens such as spinach; drink 1.5-2 L of water per day, take a vitamin B supplement or multivitamin, and have a glass of orange or other citrus juice every morning with breakfast. Being young ‘n’ stupid at the time, she didn’t listen–until after she needed surgery. Overall, it seems to have kept the problem from reoccurring.

Well, our “Honorable Elected Officials”–and I say that in all snarkiness– have done such a bang-up job with the bailout package that the market has tanked. It looks like 2001 all over again.

I guess the crap tables are the new Wall Street.

I thought Wall Street was the new crap table?

Wow, Jane said that? I wonder if she has had an opportunity to revise her position? Voting for someone based on their plumbing is no better (or worse) than making the same call on race.

Anyone associated with putting Palin’s “15 year old fast food weekend worker brain” close to the White House is a board certified moron. McCain’s smug “I’m fucking Obama right and left look” was done while he was tromping on his own pud.

Alaska Carabou Barbie and Ted Stevens soon to be on the sanitation patrol in a BOP Prison Hospital located in Hickville, Bumfuck America again led the country in earmarks yesterday, as Congress approved 2300 pet projects including 39 items totaling $238.5 million for Alaska, Home of the Earmark Exterminator Barbie.

It’s going to be fun watching McPalin and the delusional witch he picked as a running mate melt down during the next 38 days. I hear they’re prepping stream of consciousness Barbie to go after Obama. I sure hope so. Every burp from her crazy mouth puts another nail in her coffin.

my dear sir, there is nothing new or unusual about her saying something like that.

Perhaps you were not a frequenter of “the Lake” during the Great “Misogynist” Purges of Primary Season ‘08?

Lemme see if I can paraphrase Sarah here…..

What’s the difference between a fundie wingnut hockey mom using “feminism” to promote her personal political agenda…..and a glamorous emmessemm-style blogger doing the same?

Five kids or three poodles.

Except for intervals of a few weeks, my foot hurt from like October 2006 to maybe September 2007. I couldn’t wear regular shoes. It fucking HURT. At multiple points I felt like I was losing my humanity, like I had lost my ability to do things normal human beings do and that make life enjoyable.

Doctor said gout, and my wife looked around on the Intertruck (with Stevens under a cloud, I think of it as a truck rather than a series of tubes) and found this vitamin sort of thing called Uricinex. It’s supposed to help take uric acid out of your system. It’s not harmful (I’m still alive at any rate). It costs $57 for 60, and I take 3 per day, but if you buy multiple bottles at a time you get big discounts, like buy 2, get 1 free, buy 3, get 2 free. I’ve felt normal for a year. If the thing actually works, it should reduce or eliminate your tendency to get stones. Worth reading up on anyway.

There was nothing mysogynistic in abhoring some of Clinton’s lies. There is nothing mysogynistic in dissecting Palin who happens to have a vagina in her pelvis and ovaries in her abdomen. I don’t care what sex she is–she is a walking satire and a comedy movie waiting to be made. But there is nothing funny about the fact that Palin is your average evangelical wingnut, full of delusions and superstitions, anti-science and anti medical progress, and the perfect storm of ignorance and nastiness in the same package, just like Bush and just like McCain.

The Dems need to hammer Palin’s total lack of qualifications to hold any office period. She’s hardly the “most popular governor” in the US–this is the same bullshit as McCain’s moronic goofey reference (used by Hillary’s shills repeatedly) that Obama heads up a subcommittee in the Senate that oversees Afghanistan affairs.

In fact, Obama heads a sub that oversees European affairs and I honestly don’t know if McCain is too fucking stupid to know the difference or two fucking cynical that Americans are too fucking dumb to know the difference. I do know that most Americans are too fuckking dumb to know the difference. It’s what too fucking dumb MSNBC talking heads call “the weeds.”

Anything that requires a modicum of reading is “the weeds” for the bell shaped curve of Americans–that’s for sure.