Wonkette
Because we are kind of busy, and WTF Jack Reed?, here is your editor’s basic report on what we’re doing, in Denver and Saint Paul and everywhere between, even though your editor just got diagnosed with the Strep Throat.
“This is exactly what you want to catch before flying to Denver and renting a house and covering the DNC and Obama’s stadium acceptance and then driving for two days to St. Paul, because that seemed like a fun idea at the time, and checking into a couple of suites at a business traveler hotel about four cities away from the convention site, and covering McCain’s coronation and the Ron Paul sports arena show and a million protesters and then flying back to California, and probably infecting several hundred thousand people along the way, causing the exact apocalypse we know and love from that Stephen King book.” [AOL Political Machine]
Remember, alcohol kills germs.
John McCain knows a thing or two about strep throat, my friends, which he caught in a Hanoi prison where he lived for FIVE AND A HALF YEARS.
Sersleh, get well Ken! Try not to die!
Oh, strep throat, deep throat, what’s the difference. Just suck it up, know your role, and stop whining.
Thanks friends. I am currently supplementing the Rx with a bottle of Pinot Noir. New treatments will be established as needed, soon.
Larry Craig knows a few things about stirrup throat too. Go easy on the tap dancing!
It’s happening….CNN confirms Clinton, Bayh, and Kaine are out. ABC News confirms Biden has a new Secret Service detail….
DRUGS: TAKE THEM. Anything is possible for like 14 days straight no matter your affliction.
Please cover (drunk) this massive rally for the constitution party:
08/22/2008
Rally Set For “Massive” Move On DNC Turf
‘Who’s Who’ Of Pro- Secure Borders Movement Gather As Democrats Open Convention: Largest 3rd Party Presidential Campaign Headlines Event
Grand Rapids, MI An anti-illegal immigration rally (www.rightmarch.com) is scheduled for Monday, August 25th at Denver’s Congress Park near the site of the Democratic National Convention. The protest is designed for thousands of Americans to show the pro-amnesty, pro-open borders Democrats that their anti-U.S. policies are not in line with the overwhelming majority of voters.
The lineup of speakers includes pro-American, pro-secure borders champions like U.S. Congressman Tom Tancredo (R. CO), Minuteman Civil Defense Corps’ Chris Simcox and Carmen Mercer as well as Constitution Party (www.constitutionparty.com) vice-presidential candidate, attorney and Viet Nam veteran Darrell Castle.
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Full release:
http://www.constitutionparty.com/news.php?aid=764
irisheyes: I see nothing on the Brak Show…
Oh, and really sorry about your throat thingy. Take the meds and you’ll be back on your feet in no time. And eat lots of popsicles. Tequila laden popsicles.
FIVE AND A HALF YEARS, KEN! Sorry, I got off topic, but if you had spent 5 1/2 years in a box, you would have been able to manage and kill a mansy/pansy sore throat.
Strep throat. Right. Almost. More likely Meryl Streep throat, cured by a bottle of Evian, a croissant and an arugala salad.
Does this make me bad or merely misunderstood?
From WikiAnswers:
Dr. Alan Galbraith says:
“There is no reason whatsoever that alcohol cannot be drunk while on amoxycillin or for most antibiotics…”
Highball!
Are you guys going to be in the “Big Tent” (ie blogger and non-profit awesome semi-exile)? Because free massages (it’s the DNC; happy endings presumed) and smoothies (?) and sponsored Happy Hours are, well, spectacular.
Ken Layne: Strep might just laugh at a pinot noir. I’d recommend you take two shots of good white tequila, mix it with a huge tablespoon of honey in a large glass. Run the whole shebang under really hot water until you can stir the honey into the tequila with a spoon. Get a fresh jalapeno. Now shoot the tequila and honey, allowing it to roll around in your throat. Bite as much of the jalapeno as you possibly can.
If you’ve done this right, when you can see again, the strep will be on the run.
Wait, you’re renting a house in Denver? Will there be a hot tub?
RNC Nominating Convention Keynote Speaker: Bernard Getz
By the bye: Will handguns and/or automatic assault rifles be allowed on the floor of the Republican National Convention? America wants to know.
Normally I’m a bourbon man, but whenever something invades my lungs or throat, I reach for the Irish or the Scotch whisky as a bona fide cure and comfort. My personal Rx.
Infect them all, Ken, and let the FSM sort them out. This what Jefferson meant when he said “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.” Cough, man, cough!
Gargle with gin. Hendricks, specifically.
House Party in Denver everyone!
Ken Layne: Just wear a face mask and pretend you are going to China. Otherwise, I hope you feel better soon.
If the St. Ron convention is a real party you might come down with a case of the step throat. The police are usually the carriers.
heavy smoking cures strep throat. i read it on a republican web site so it must be true.
Ken Layne: Iggy Plop raised this first, but I recommend whisk(e)y, in copious quantities — but then that’s my Rx for life, not just illness.
Nothing better for an illness though than the hot whiskey:
Take several whole cloves, put in a mug, add hot water to about 1/2 full.
Add honey and lemon juice to taste (combined should be no more than 1/4th of the mug).
Top with whiskey.
Enjoy.
If you have the ability to just completely zonk out, using Wild Turkey 101 or similar high octane booze is preferred.
(Not afraid to be servicey
Lionel Hutz Esq.: & I want Rocky Mountain Oysters! Balls in my emm’eff’in mouth.
Ken Layne,
Is that bridge still out? Just curious since you are driving.
Sincerely and respectfully,
Mr-Clark