Senor Chang, why do you teach spanish?

Community Episode 2. Could be this be something great?

Atrios and Phil Nugent: Verbatim

For those of us who are moderately sentient, it's been clear all along that the Republican strategy was to block health care reform at any cost. Their extra strategy is to do their best to make the bill as shitty as possible so that it's unpopular. Whether the Dems who are getting played get it and are just playing along or whether they're really stupid I do not know.

I've been at a loss for anything much to say about all this because what can you say? When you see people fervently declaring that a plan whose whole point is to extend the reach of medical care to those who can't freely pay for it will have the effect of costing more lives, or when you see a bunch of people who are protesting the very idea of government getting involved in medical care acknowledging that they're on Medicare and have no plans to divest themselves of it, you can't tell whether they're dupes or whether they're people setting an example for those they mean to dupe. When you spend some time at a health-care blog and notice that the comments section seems to feature some fellow who's there to say that he "respects" some of the people he disagrees with on health care but there have been inaccuracies on both sides--like, you know, Obama is overly confident that his program will pay for itself, and then there are people on the other side who think that it'll include a panel whose job is to kill Trig Palin--and, you know, there may be some good ideas in that mess Obama is pushing, but who in their right mind could ever support end-of-life counseling, you don't know whether to log in and gently explain what end-of-life counseling really is and all the ways that it would have been beneficial to the reputation of the Republican party if Terri Schiavo and her family had availed themselves of it, yet at the same time a part of you wonders if you should just assume that every blog on the subject has one of these characters issued to it by the GOP, to confuse everyone by acting dim as hell but, still, polite. And the first time you hear the one about the guy who insisted that Stephen Hawking wouldn't have lived if he'd been British, you have to wonder if you're the only person whose first reaction was, as in my case, to laugh out loud at something that you immediately assumed was meant as a joke? The issues at hand get lost somewhere in the swirl of trying to decide who's lying and who, like the editorial writer who made that blooper about Hawking, simply as dumb as a goddamned post.

http://philnugentexperience.blogspot.com/2009/08/sick-sick-sick.html#links

http://www.eschatonblog.com/

20 movies

10 audio with 10 video
I think I got 16 on the first pass. Figured out 3 more on the second pass. Anybody figure out the video for number 9?

What Happened on 16 July 1969, 9:32AM EDT?

Trivial Boat Fever

Name the ship/Boat(s):

1 When asked by interviewers how he became a war hero, Kennedy's grim reply was, "It was involuntary. They sank my boat.
2 Shipwrecked on Gilligan's Island

3 Yacht involved in demise of Gary Harts Run for Presidency

4 A 19th-century US Navy ship, exploded and sank in 1898, preceding the spanish-american war.

5 The main boat in the movie Jaws "We are going to need a bigger boat"

6 The site of the surrender of the Empire of Japan which ended World War II.

7 Popeye's Boat

8 Cristopher Columbus' three ships

9 The 20 million dollar yacht bought by Tiger Woods in 2006

10 An ocean liner owned by the Cunard Line and built by John Brown and Company of Clydebank, Scotland, torpedoed by a German U-boat on May 7th 1915.

11. Hudson River Museum reopened in november 2005

12. The raft used by Norwegian Thor Heyerdahl in his 1947 expedition from South America to the Polynesian islands. It was named after the Inca sun god.

13. The series aired on PBS and was created by the Bank Street College of Education in 1984 to teach middle-schoolers about science and mathematics in an interesting and interactive way, where every lesson related to real world applications. one main character "Ben Affleck" has claimed it was the worst experience of his life.

14. Whose dead body does Jim find on the wrecked boat in "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn."

15. Captain Nemo's Boat in 20000 Leagues Under the Sea

16. Capatin Ahab's Whaleship in Moby Dick

17. May 1st, 2003, the end of major combat operations in Iraq, was proclaimed on this ships deck by bush with the additional visual of a "mission accomplished" banner

18. The main vessel in the "Love Boat"

19. Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Herman Wouk. The novel grew out of Wouk's personal experiences aboard a destroyer-minesweeper in the Pacific in World War II . Later a movie with Humphery bogart as Captain Queeg.

20. oil spill occurred in the Prince William Sound, Alaska, on March 24, 1989. It is considered one of the most devastating human-caused environmental disasters ever to occur at sea.

Welcome to America

Welcome to America

A few guesses at some of the songs? that might come up for the trivia round named "welcome to america"?. Anybody have any more guesses?


stars and stripes forever - John Phillip Souza



America - West Side Story- Leonard Bernstein


America-- Simon and Garfunkle


Courtesy of the Red White and Blue - Toby Keith


America - F*ck Yeah - Trey Parker & Matt Stone


This land is your land - Woody Guthrie


Star Spangled Banner -- Francis Scott Key


America the Beautiful -- Katharine Bates



Youre A Grand Old Flag -- George M Cohan


Born in the USA -- Bruce SpringSteen


America -- Neil Diamond



God Bless the USA -- Lee greenWood



American Idiot -- Green Day



Living in America -- James Brown


God Bless- America -- Irving berlin


Ballad of the Green Beret -- Barry Saddler

At least he is *trying*

During an emotional interview at his Statehouse office with The Associated Press on Tuesday, Sanford said Chapur is his soul mate but he's trying to fall back in love with his wife.