Health Care Open Thread

Well, it looks like we’ll have an actual vote this weekend.  Hold on tight, people!  This is going to be a bumpy ride.  Kucinich flipped, which almost cerainly means our Commander in Chief convinced him this bill will lead to Universal Health Care in the U.S.  Stupak is still holding out…

Health Care Open Thread

Mr. McSideous raised some interesting, real world issues about health insurance yesterday.  I’ll be addressing that soon, on this post.  But feel free to have at in the Open Thread in the meantime…

Today’s prospectus: Nancy Pelosi does not have the votes, otherwise she would have called a vote.  She’s promised to post all bills on-line [...]

First Annual Threedonia Limerick Contest!

O.K., I’ll go first…

There was a Polack with a Big Journalism by-line,

Who longed to be global warming debunking’s Mark Steyn.

When working a deadline for the late edition,

He was unable to re-fill his viagra prescription,

T’hat’s when his wife learned he’d been hiding the decline.

McFloyd O’Turbo’s turn:

“Hi, My Name’s Floyd and I Subscribe to HBO.”

Sorry, the site doesn’t have embedding.  I thought Floyd and the other 3-donians still subscribing to HBO could learn something from this documentary…

http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/clips/the-phil-donahue-show/2857/

It’s Beer-Thirty!

Be careful out there, Threedonia!

Eric Porvaznik Programming Note

Eric during a broadcast of Radio Free Threedonia…

For the second time our very own Eric Porvaznik will be cheating on us guest hosting Big Hollywood blogger Larry “Stage Right” O’Connor’s BlogTalk Radio show this evening from 9:00 — 11:00 PM PST. Call-in number is (347) 850-1946. Call in and ask any question [...]

Please Stand By…

The mergatroid has gotten out of skew with the frazzmatazz, rendering the whoozit unusable at frequency levels above 7,000 kilofrazzles, so I’ve got to go into the main boiler room at threedonia world headquarters and tighten the jibowitz.  If you notice anything out of wack in the next 1 hour to 3 days, please blame [...]

Site News

The Facebook plugin… missing since our meltdown a couple of weeks ago has been reactivated. We’ve gotten decent traffic from Facebook so thanks in advance for sharing us with your friends — real and otherwise!

Quiz Time!

www.threedonia.com was down for over eight hours today because:

1.  Steve Jobs’s evil Apple minions hacked into our server because we slammed the iMaxiPad iPad?

B)  NAMMB (National Association of Men with Man-Boobs) issued a court injunction against us, claiming our site practices hate speech?

3.  A Russian syndicate hit us with a denial of service attack protesting the [...]

On Air

Is on air… call in 310-878-2273 and help us talk health care with Veruckt and listen at Right Talk Radio live here.

Yeah, That’s Me

Floyd Here: This is also him — after his IVF:

Big Journalism’s latest contributor, that is – only with a considerably better picture than what y’all are used to.

And no, they don’t know what they’ve just got themselves into…

Now That’s Cool

trzupr (artist’s conception)

How cool can one Polack be? Well, not only did yours truly file a brilliant Op-Ed with David Horowitz’s Front Page Mag – which you should read immediately and share with everyone in the civilized world – but, in addition,  Fox is considering running it as well (thanks to [...]

Check it Out, Checkitouters!

If you have not watched the two recent videos posted by Outlaw go watch them.  NOW!  Amazing stuff!!  The future is now.

http://www.threedonia.com/archives/16851

http://www.threedonia.com/archives/16853

Stop the Presses: Rufus says something semi-articulate!

Frequent Threedonia commenter BarryO wrote this,

It’s awesome to see great minds “working it out.” Thanks David & Rufus for great points.

yesterday, and it caused me to write this, in response:

That’s my favorite thing about Threedonia, BarryO, and that’s why I am very happy when folks with differing opinions drop in and give their 2 cents.

 

I [...]

Hold the Phones…

 

 From Big Hollywood:

If one day, Glenn Beck, you become embroiled in a scandal, and you turn out to be imperfect as all heroes put up on pedestals turn out to be…

Is Victoria Jackson one of our lurkers…

Branded

We appreciate equally all of our thousands of readers and our dozens of commenters…. I mean really it’s like choosing between children — you do it you just don’t tell them which one and of course they all know which one is the favorite and which one is the red-headed step child.

I say [...]

X-Ray Ted

Tracy… our dear reader and frequent commenter — love of Dr. Zoon’s — life mentioned in one of our earlier posts that she has a 13-year old who wants to read our blog after I said we were a “family site”. I did one of those Internet quiz thingies on a “Rate your website” [...]

10 Things About Trzupr

 

1.  Middle name is “Esmerelda,” Richard Esmerelda Trzupr.

2.  Lost to Rosie O’Donnel on “Star Search.”

3.  Can often be seen rollerblading in his neighborhood, carrying a boombox blasting, “I Will Survive.”  Wears leg warmers AND spandex bike shorts.

4.  Did not cry when Old Yeller died.

5.  Thinks Lasorda made a huge mistake subbing Kirk Gibson for Dave Anderson.

6.  When [...]

We Knew Him When

Since Lars is too modest* to mention it himself, it falls to me to tell you that he has been asked to join the blogging community at Mere Comments, the blog of Touchstone Magazine.

Mere Comments, along with First Things, are the two religious blogs I read, um, religiously.

Congratulations, Lars!

(Oh and Lars, those guys over there [...]

Tag! I’m It!

Over at her blog, Shredded Cheddar  (and that’s a great blog name, by the way), threedonia regular Enbrethiliel has “tagged” me with some internet meme thingamajig.  I’ve never done one of these before, and I refuse to participate in the “send it immediately to 7 of your closest friends or your harline will recede and you [...]

A Tie! With Spots on it Already!

Happy Anniversary, Threedonia!

On this day in 2008 some ones and zeros were uploaded to a vacant outpost on the world wide web and thus, rather inauspiciously, www.threedonia.com was born!  As with most offspring, threedonia has developed quite differently than Floyd, Chuck and I foresaw, gazing through the celebratory cigar smoke on that storied day.

We began as a spin-off from John Nolte’s Dirty [...]

Radio Free Threedonia

Just a reminder… at the top of the page is a link to our Radio Free Threedonia page containing most of our interviews…. We’ve interviewed Alonzo Rachel, Christian Toto, Evan Sayet, Tom Dreesen and in the chute is our recent interview with author and pundit Andrew Klavan. If you want to hear the [...]

In Which My Genius Is Acknowledged…

Ladies and Gentlemen, and Floyd, I am now the web’s number-one most trusted source when it comes to Biden gaffes, with two (count ‘em, one-two!) cites on the invaluable blog, Joe Biden Said That?

This calls for the full Alfalfa.

Happy Birthday to MEE!

In honor of this special day,
I write this humble ditty.
It’s just like me in every way:
So warm and wise and witty.

I do not want to cause much fuss
By telling you this news;
So please do not get boisterous
And let out loud “yahoos.”

I only want to let you know
As simply as [...]

Please Stand By…

Hi, I’m Doctor Hackenbush, personal physician to Rufus T. Firefly.  Some of you may have noticed Rufus seemed a little out of sorts lately.  “Miami” by Martin Mull?!  WTF?  Then, typing a manifesto on social security that makes Ted Kaczynski look like freakin’ Ernest Hemingway…  Anyway, I’ve administered some medication and you’ll be happy to [...]

The “Reply” Button is Back

Now get off my back (and don’t come running to me when your comments get all out of order, and cattywhumpus!)

Cash For Clunkers Examined

Over at Stromata Blog (which I’ve just blog-rolled), the mighty Tom Veal gives an interesting analogy to the “Cash for Clunkers” program:

Seeing that a careless lad has broken a shopkeeper’s window, spectators offer the consolation that the six francs spent for a new pane of glass will provide business for the glazier. Generalizing, they conclude [...]

Blogroll Update

John Stossel’s Take has been added to the blogroll.  It’s only been around for a few weeks, but it’s a site I visit every day.  (With ABC continuing to delay airing his health care story, it may be the only place to hear from him on the topic.)

Andrew Price’s blog, Commentarama, is an amazingly well-written daily treat.  [...]

Palin Resigns: “We are not retreating, we are advancing in another direction.”

More here, and just about everywhere else on the Internet, including Threedonia’s Friday Open Thread.

(And for the record; we are all in a bar, celebrating Independence Day Eve.  Kriskey caught the news on one of those scrolls when he looked at the bar TV to check on the score of the BoSox-Mariners game (tied up [...]

Very Discreet, Gentlemen…

If any of you teachers or homeschooling parents ever need a real world example to help your students understand the meaning of the word, “shameless” simply point them to this thread at Big Hollywood:

Congratulations, Outlaw!!

 

5 comments on 5 different posts, and done smack dab in the middle of peak posting time!  And, noon Pacific time is like, O-Dark-30 in the midde East, where he’s holed up in an undisclosed location!  And, even with the 130 degree temperature something tells me Outlaw didn’t even break a sweat.

Live Long and Prosper, and God Bless America!

You may have noticed that a new site, Republibot, has recently been added to Threedonia’s blogroll.

From a recent Wired article:

Republibot describes itself as “The science fiction site for people who aren’t drooling knee-jerk liberals.” At first glance, the whole idea seems a little like political overkill. Then again, in a culture where Dick Cheney is often described [...]

Eyewitness to History

Welcome Big Hollywood Readers and Christian Toto Fans!

We’re glad to see you in Threedonia!  Make yourselves at home.  We are a diverse group consisting of two Professors, an Army pilot Aviator, a Hollywood insider who does stand-up, voice work, writing and has produced his own documentary on major league baseball, two journalists, a book store manager who has read every work of [...]

A Fivepeat!

Read it and weep, Kriskey!  You snooze, you lose.

I swear, sometimes I feel like a man among infants.

There Goes the Neighborhood!

Portrait of the artist as a young man

Please join me in welcoming the newest denizen to Threedonia, Mike Kriskey!  Some of you may have noticed that in the past week my IQ spiked by thirty points and I  learned how to spell correctly and use proper grammar.  As many of you likely suspected, it was a [...]

Blackhawk Sighting

Be advised that Blackhawk has been spotted commenting at Big Hollywood.

A little somethin' for the ladies…

All personnel to your stations—this is not a drill.

(I’m sure he would have posted at Threedonia first, but accessing the site today is like trying to pry a Ring Ding out of Rosie O’Donnells maw.)

Guest Post: Fritz

Threedonia friends and family, I am going to give you a history lesson. Not that any of you need it, but I  shall tell a short story of a true American patriot. Not a hero, but a simple man who lived his life productively with God as his lighthouse in the midst of darkness. He was born [...]

Site News

If you’ll notice: the words “Share on Facebook” now appear below each post. Click it and it will post individual posts to your Facebook profiles. The plugin I uploaded doesn’t have the logo like others (I’ll have to go find that one I guess) but the result is the same. Click the [...]

Guess Which Two Commenters Have the Same IP Address?

FullMetalJacket is Earl.  Or maybe it’s vice versa.  Either way they are one and the same.  Which is kind of strange, because even though he or she was belligerent and insulting we never banned Earl, so I’m not sure why she or he would use a new name.

Hey June! We Were Looking For A Natural Blonde

But we settled on you! (Although we’re willing to be proven wrong…)

After two days of intensive meetings and dire threats by Wankette, we – by a very narrow margain – have officially decided to invite you to be our first official guest star on Radio Free Threedonia.

I will pause while you recover from the vapors…

….

Recovered [...]

The Cheapest Super Bowl Pool Ever

Because, dear readers, it costs you nothing. Above is the official Threedonia Reader Super Bowl Squares. It’s final score only, and the prize? Chuck offered to send the winner his special-recipe buttered toast, but I’m not sure our liability insurance covers ptomaine poisoning. Instead, I will make the winner a video, on any subject he [...]

Ba-Ba-Ba-Ba-Trzupr!!

I just spoke to Rich for the first time in my life.  Cat’s got a baritone more velvety than Lou Rawls!  Nothing like what I would have thought an Environmental Engineer would sound like.  If George Lucas needs a stand in for Lord Vader in “Star Wars VII, the Quest to Bleed More Blood from [...]

El Blogging!

In what I believe is a Threedonia first I am blogging from a moving El train, about 15 feet above Chicago’s southwest side; the Orange line.  Anybody have a translation guide to gangland graffitti handy?

And it’s a balmy 14 degrees here!  All the cars are covered in grey and salt and there’s about 3 inches [...]