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A Show On Trashy, Nasty, Out-of-Control Internet Assaults + More AIGgravation

If you read this blog, you know that some of the participants (the followers) can be a bit nasty. Is that an understatement Larry, or what? The discourse on in this blog ranges from creative writing from some thoughtful people, to some very unusual writers. Check it out. You might get enlightened or develop instant nausea.

In the spirit of trying to deal with the defaming internet writers (not all, just a naughty few) my Voice of Reason Show Sunday at 9:30 on Comcast Network is devoted to cleaning up the Internet, without killings its freedoms. I am not a censor, but I abhor over-the-edge comments on race, religion and gender, unless they are reasonably intelligent. Bottom line: EDGY is good. SUPER NASTY is not. Get the drift?

As I write, the Attorney General of Connecticut reports that the AIG executives have under-reported those big bonuses by over 50 million dollars. Why is it that states have been dead on to the AIG disaster, but the Feds seems a day late and millions of dollars short?

Political question: Why is ex VP Dick Cheney suddenly the GOP’s attack weapon against Barack Obama? His attacks on Obama’s security decisions seem like “sour grapes.” If Rush Limbaugh and Dick Cheney are all the GOP has to offer, I would worry about the future of the two-party system.

Final questions: Whats happened to Mitt Romney? The guy shows up at a Republican conference a month  ago and hasn’t said a word since. The man wants to be the President. Perhaps his strategy is simple: make no controversial statements. No news is good news. But you can’t hide forever. I would have expected a stronger strategy at this point from the Governor. Also, are you wondering what I’m wondering about the strange case of some GOP Governors, who are turning down stimulus money. One of them is Haley Barbour of Mississippi. That state is economically depressed and needs stimulus.  The voters could very well pay the Governor back the next time around.


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Comments

  1. Leo Bloom
    March 22nd, 2009 | 12:46 am

    Mitt is raising money. Don’t worry: the man in the magic underpants will return to face off against the Federal Welfare Queen of Wasilla in a no-holds barred primary featuring the ugliest race to the bottom that the Republican Party has to offer.

    States have been issuing subpoenas to AIG whereas the federal government, first under Bush and now under Obama, are trying to keep AIG from failing. My big gripe is that no one at all is focusing on FREE AIR. Will Josh Shapiro deliver?

  2. Larry Kaighn
    March 22nd, 2009 | 5:54 am

    Rise and shine! Another beauty here in Boca. Sorry for my gruff blog above but I had 5 blog responses come in after 8PM last night. Please respect my beauty sleep and do not blog after 8PM! I am a public figure and appearance is as important on TV as it was 20 years ago. Botox alone will not get the job done.
    Mae Volen Senior Center offers a lox and bagels brunch from 9-11AM. Ethel and I are heading over at 8:45 before the parking gets bad. Then to Ft Laudersdale Airport and my Southwest flight back to PHL. See you tonight on Comcast! It will be a no holds barred report on the internet. A real humdinger!

  3. Tim Geithner
    March 22nd, 2009 | 6:22 am

    Larry let me take a shot at your first point. You do have a way of oversimplifying everything. Perhaps that’s because you are a vapid, uneducated reader of teleprompters. Only a handful of us Harvard Business School guys actually understand this problem and how to fix it. You would just as soon see AIG, CitiGroup and BOA go under and their management in prison. Do you really think that would best serve the American people. Those of us in the know don’t and that all that matters. We are not interested in symbolism. We are only interested in fixing this financial mess.
    You may question our ability to fix the problem. Many of the pundits led by Philly’s own Jim Cramer have pointed out every mistake we have made along the way. They have been painted as unpatriotic and wishing the President to fail. Fact is that we have yet to announce a comprehensive economic program that will address all of its ills. We appear indecisive, uncertain and basically clueless 90 days into the crisis. It is now clear that the President views me as damaged goods. Damaged beyond repair. He expects me to fall on the administration’s sword and take one for the team. I will be the fall guy. He’ll announce a new Wall Street insider as Secretary of the Treasury. That person will have the same pedigree and foibles as me. He will initially inspire new confidence. He too will fail. Print that Larry.

  4. Dick Cheney
    March 22nd, 2009 | 7:01 am

    Larry let me take a shot at addressing your second point. No need to wear a hunters vest or duck. I made a funny. Ha Ha Ha.
    The Democrats in recent history have shown an inability to articulate a position that resonates or select a candidate that the American people could rally behind. It is my opinion that they would have failed again in 2008 if the economy had not tanked 10 weeks before the election. Coincidence perhaps. Candidate Obama stamped out the last Clinton flames in September. He then turned the heat on my old friend John McCain. He painted him as old and out of touch. The press jumped on the Obama bandwagon and squelched any hopes of a fair fight. They attack Sarah Palin and her family. They convinced the American people that Obama offered the US its only hope. As the election drew closer the attacks on Palin heighten as if her qualifications were more important than John’s. Palin turned out to be more of a liability for John than an asset. The press got their ultra liberal, feel good President. Alas, the tyrant George W Bush and his war loving fascists were being drummed out of Washington. An age of enlightenment would come to Washington. We would again come together as a people. President Obama would unite the parties and diffuse idiological differences. After all he won and he had the mandate. Republicans everywhere were ashamed, embarrassed and unwilling to appear anti-American by speaking out against the new President. Anyone that does speak out against policy is considered to be anti-American.
    So the GOP is left with two strategies at this point. First, regroup and refocus the GOP while sitting back and letting the Dems have free reign. Let the liberal left led by Comrades Pelosi and Reid bring so much socialistic change to America in four years that it will regurgitate in 2012. The danger here is too much success or too much failure unchecked will benefit the Democrats.
    The second strategy is to fight the President tooth and nail on all of his liberal policy agendas and free spending plans. The risk is that failure will be placed on the GOP for not playing ball with the President.
    Either way the Democrats will self destruct. They can’t help themselves. They have such lofty goals and ambitious agendas that they are doomed to disappoint and underachieve. They lack a true leader. They are factioned. They are filled with good intentions to the extreme. They want to impose their ideology on the country whether it wants it or not. They know better than we do.
    So for know we hide in the weeds. We let them make all the headlines and mistakes. We let them self destruct. We wait for the right moment when approval ratings reach a new low and the economic situation reaches the point of national despair. Then we strike like a cobra. They won’t even know what hits them. We will take back the America we’ve grown to know and love.

  5. Leo Bloom
    March 22nd, 2009 | 7:17 am

    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123759908731101583.html

    The WSJ, bastion of liberal journalism, reports about GOP hypocrisy on stimulus spending. They were against it before they were for it. Sound familiar?

  6. Mitt Romney
    March 22nd, 2009 | 9:10 am

    I am a thoughtful and insightful man with a history of success. Success in building a business. Success in saving the Salt Lake City Olympics. Success in saving the State of Massachusetts for financial ruin. I am the only one in this whole political discussion that has ever been an executive at any level. I am the only one that has any idea how to create more non-government jobs. I am the only one with the insight or wisdom to work us out of this mess. Why is no one asking for my help.
    Instead we muddled through this crisis led by same Harvard Business School eggheads that got us into this crisis to begin with. What makes you think they can get us out of it?
    So I will distance myself from this mess. Stay out of the bickering and handwaving. I will be ready in 2011 to present my case to the American people. For me insert myself in the FUBAR process now would only serve to diminish my talents and capabilities. I choose to stay out of the fray for now. Let Obama and his Wall Street geniuses have their shot. America, you can rest assured that there is a solution coing in 2012.
    And to Leo who seems preoccupied with my magic underwear: please include your mailing address in your next blog and I’ll mail them to you. Or should I just send them to your attention care of Philbert the Pig, Reading Terminal?

  7. Ed
    March 22nd, 2009 | 9:56 am

    Larry, instead of reporting back to your blog once a week why don’t you change the subject more often. That way your participants (followers) wouldn’t get so creative (over the top). Take today for example, you’ve brought up five topics. From blogging, to AIG, to Cheney, to Romney, to the stimulus package. Why not bring up one topic at a time. How do we debate all those topics at once?

  8. Ed
    March 22nd, 2009 | 10:00 am

    Other than your pal Leo, the column has already been invaded by the sock puppets on day one, an theses sock puppets are long winded. Not a good sign for the rest of the week.

  9. Philbert
    March 22nd, 2009 | 2:03 pm

    Please leave me out of any conversation on this blog. I maybe a public pig but I do not care to be dragged down into the mud on this lame blog. Su-ey.

  10. automatic response
    March 22nd, 2009 | 7:23 pm

    Please do not send blog responses after 8PM. Computer noises disturb Larry’s sleep.

  11. Leo Bloom
    March 22nd, 2009 | 10:14 pm

    Mitt, it’s your magic underwear against Sarah’s Assembly o’ God redneck meth squads. Have fun with your modern GOP.

  12. Mitt Romney
    March 22nd, 2009 | 10:44 pm

    Leo I have mailed your magic underwear to that certain pig who prefers to remain anonymous. Enjoy them. Perhaps they will put a spring in your step and a spark in your love life. God knows you need that becausea little blue pill can’t cure all your problems.
    You liberals have your heads stuck in the sand (or somewhere else). A younger, more vibrant and relevant GOP will sneak up on you in 2011. Good luck with Obama and the Seven Dwarfs.

  13. Lamb Chop
    March 23rd, 2009 | 6:20 am

    I see sock puppets!

  14. Larry Kaighn
    March 23rd, 2009 | 6:26 am

    Rise and shine! Another big day here at the Mae Volen Senior Center in Boca. Today is Square Dancing. I know you hated it when you were in grade school. You never would have considered it as a young adult but now its different. You get to dance with a variety of women at the center. Some are really smoking for their age. It really gets the blood flowing. I feel alive again. I love Square Dancing. I have a special shirt I wear. It looks like something Rex Morgan use to wear. I kinda feel like the Marlboro Man without the cancer. After Square Dancing we’ll take a nap then go to Manny’s for their Early Bird Special white fish. Best thing about Florida is that white belts and shoes are always in season.

  15. March 23rd, 2009 | 6:35 am

    Ed is right about the 5 for 1 sale and the frequency of topic change. After a single day the sock puppets have taken over. It used to be worth the effort to argue with the regulars here but half of them only check in once a week. This blog has really become stuck in the mud.

  16. the other, other, other jim
    March 23rd, 2009 | 8:12 am

    FJ, Larry does not want that much of a connection or commitment. He’s satisfied to monitor the count and change after 7 days or 100 blogs. He really isn’t interested. If he were, he’d be participating daily. News Flash is an oxymoron here.
    Actually I find the sock puppets more interesting and certainly more entertaining than Larry. I, too, miss the regulars but why should they check here more than once a day?

  17. Leo Bloom
    March 23rd, 2009 | 8:49 am

    Larry, what’s an “understatement Larry”?

    Commas can be your friends, but you have to use them judiciously.

    Mitt, Philbert is looking forward to the magic underpants. Will you personally perform my post-death Mormon baptism so I can go to Mormon heaven? That’s about all you’re good for now that the general public has learned what the excesses of greedy corporate raiders has done to their life savings. Nice job enriching yourself, Captain Flip Flop.

  18. Ed
    March 23rd, 2009 | 9:04 am

    Did any one see Larry’s show last night?
    I’m looking for the reviews. I just caught the last five minutes and it was just a schmooze fest. Larry thanking his hard hitting guests for coming on to talk about the nasty internet. I’m sure Larry was looking for answers to his perceived problem here on this blog.

  19. the other, other, other jim
    March 23rd, 2009 | 9:08 am

    Leo,
    Larry is retired and no longer a member of the Fourth Estate. He is now relegated to teleprompter reading on cable TV. Not that there is anything wrong with that. He no longer has the crack staff of professionals editing and wordsmithing his material. He does these blog topics at night after a couple of B&J winecoolers. He, therefore, is not responsible for his spelling and grammar errors. He is, however, responsible for the lamest blog on the internet.

  20. Leo Bloom
    March 23rd, 2009 | 12:35 pm

    oooj, so you’re saying he does these posts after a few BJs? I guess that does explain a lot.

  21. the other, other, other jim
    March 23rd, 2009 | 12:41 pm

    ROFL… he wishes

  22. Mitt Romney
    March 23rd, 2009 | 3:20 pm

    Leo the magic pants are for an ass not a pig. Wear them in style. Why are you making fun of my religion? Is there something wrong with being a Morman? There are 5-6M Mormans in the US. Are they all crazy? You make a fair point about my flip-flopping. I have been known to reverse a position or two for political expedience. What politician hasn’t? Enjoy your day in the sun Leo as it will be shortlived. The Camelot of Obama and the Seven Dwarfs is about to unravel. They still have no plan or direction for the economy, housing or jobs. This is one area that I am very qualified in.

  23. Larry Kaighn
    March 23rd, 2009 | 4:01 pm

    Two News Flashes this afternoon!
    1. Please do not send blogs after 8PM. The computer beeps and dings everytime someone sends a message. It is very difficult to sleep.
    2. I have decided that instead of periodically putting up News Flashes on topical subjects of interest as I have in the past that I would try something different. You all complain about my News Flash subjects so much it was time for a change. I actually started the new format a couple of days ago. I’m going to blog about what I’m doing each day. Keeping it real. Keeping it fresh. What do you think so far?

  24. George
    March 23rd, 2009 | 6:19 pm

    I think Larry likes us, he really really likes us!

    Nice market rally today, the Treasury secretary finally got his act together, and Obama is laughing and smiling on 60 minutes and Jay Leno, seems to be working!

  25. Leo Bloom
    March 23rd, 2009 | 7:41 pm

    Mitt, people who wear magical underwear and refuse to drink coffee because of a ghost in the clouds and some words that came out of a hat are crazy by my definition.

  26. Mitt Romney
    March 23rd, 2009 | 9:54 pm

    Leo people that loiter in transportation terminals speaking to inanimate animal objects are crazy. Apparently no underwear or caffeine involved. How do you explain that? Is Philbert 18 year old? These are the questions the American public want answered.
    Speaking of flip-flopping Obama and the Seven Dwarfs are guilty as charged. Outraged by AIG spending. Allow provision for outrageous bonuses to be paid. Overt outrage when bonuses paid. Backtracking when blame for provision comes to light. Holding AIG recipients’ feet to fire to repay bonuses to save face. Flippity-floopity-floop. Are Obama and the Seven Dwarfs Mormons wearing magical underwear?

  27. Ed
    March 24th, 2009 | 9:15 am

    Larry : I read your whole column over again and……. nada, nothing, couldn’t come up with one thing to say about it. I think you’ve finally reached your blogging Nirvana. You have shuttered all outlets of response from your readers. You my man are it! It is a shame that you’ve lowered yourself to such shoddy writing to achieve this goal but all things considered it’s quite an achievement. See Ya……..

  28. Larry Kaighn
    March 24th, 2009 | 5:48 pm

    Hello all. Not a good day for your favorite newscaster. I have a cold. Runny nose. Fever. General malaise. Needless to say I did not make it to the Mae Volen Senior Center. Did not make it to Manny’s for white fish either. I spent most of my day in front of the TV eating Cheetos and watching reruns. I love reruns. I love Cheetos. Wish a better day for me manana. Please stop sending messages around 9PM. I’ll tough it out and watch the President’s words of wisdom tonight. It is must see TV!

  29. Larry Kaighn
    March 24th, 2009 | 8:39 pm

    George your message woke me up. Can you read? Also your constant racist and religious outrageous comments were the focus of this blog. You are SUPER NASTY!

  30. John Q Public
    March 24th, 2009 | 8:55 pm

    Dear President Obama:

    Thank you for helping my neighbors with their mortgage payments. You know – the ones down the street who in the good times refinanced their house several times and bought SUV’s, ATV’s, RV”s, a pool, a big screen, two Wave Runners and a Harley. But I was wondering, since I am paying my mortgage and theirs, could you arrange for me to borrow the Harley now and then?

    Richard Ford
    Queen Creek, AZ

    P.S. They also need help with their credit cards, when do you want me to start making those payments?

    P.P.S. I almost forgot – they didn’t file their income tax return this year.

    Should I go ahead and file for them or will you be appointing them to cabinet posts?

  31. Philbert
    March 24th, 2009 | 9:26 pm

    Leo and Mitt please leave me alone. Do not even make reference to “the pig”.

  32. Larry Kaighn
    March 25th, 2009 | 7:36 am

    Feeling much better today. TGF Nyquil! Ethel and I will be heading over to the Mae Volen Senior Center at about 9AM this morning. The Boca Vista Verde Elementary School will be visiting the center and performing old Broadway hits. I love old Broadway hits! OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOklahoma! Ater that that we’ll head out to Morty’s for a nice late Grouper lunch. Then I’ll drop Ethel off at the condo and head back to the center for poker night. I’ve got the visor and cigars already in the car along with rolls of pennies and nickels. It’s going to be a crazy night! Some of these guys make $3-4 over a 4 hour period. Too rich for my blood but I enjoy the guys night out. More tomorrow.

  33. Mrs Kaighn
    March 25th, 2009 | 9:07 am

    Now Larry, you needn’t go on about how swell it is to be down here. Many poor souls don’t have the opportunities that we have. If it weren’t for the grace of John Lennon where would we be now? He was such a fine young man. Whatever happened to him and that darling Asian girl he was dating?
    Larry, make sure that you cover up and put on plenty of sun block if decide to play shuffleboard this afternoon. That is if you can manage to steal yourself away from your blogging……

  34. Larry Kaighn
    March 25th, 2009 | 9:11 am

    Ethel you are not supposed to be reading my blogs.I was just joking about poker tonight. I’ll actually be visiting Mama Kaighn at her rest home like I told you I would.

  35. Bernita
    March 25th, 2009 | 12:25 pm

    Babby daddy want bail out.

  36. March 25th, 2009 | 12:27 pm

    YAP is away for a bit,out of the country as George likes to say.By the way George,academic Special Olympics ? Killer line.Can’t wait to come back for Larry’s next topic.

  37. Leo Bloom
    March 25th, 2009 | 2:54 pm

    Larry, I met a friend for lunch yesterday at Reading Terminal Market. We waited by Philbert at 12:30, but you weren’t there and no one delivered any magical underpants to us. This is getting discouraging. I know that the sun is warm in Boca, and I presume that the Metamucil and Aspercreme are working overtime. Why can’t you step up and help out the little guys who need some FREE AIR? I was leaving the 15th Street Market-Frank Ford el station yesterday and saw Popeye’s chicken bones all over the stairs. What gives? Can’t SEPTA slap a new coat of paint on everything and increase ridership of non-chicken bone leaving behind people? Have you been working on that?

  38. Larry Kaighn
    March 25th, 2009 | 11:12 pm

    Ms YAP if YAP is out of the country do you want to join us for a poker game tonight? This group beats Atlantic City!

  39. March 26th, 2009 | 6:20 am

    …regrets only.

  40. Larry Kaighn
    March 26th, 2009 | 7:36 am

    Ms YAP very sorry you were a no show last night. Good time had by all. I guess Boca was a little to far of a commute.
    Today is another day in paradise currently referred to as Boca Raton. Ethel wants to swim with a dolphin today. I asked her what was the porpoise? Ha Ha Ha. I kill myself sometimes. Seriously though the dolphin must be releasing bodily fluids into the small tank. It seems disgusting to me. Count me out. No offense Flipper. I’m heading to Mae Volen Senior Center for Bingo. Double payouts today. I pick up 8 cards. That’s as many as I can keep track of at one time. Ethel is no help. She’s kabitizing with the other women. She can’t focus. I can focus. I love Bingo. After Bingo it’s off to Manny’s for some nice white fish. Does life get any better?

  41. Larry Kaighn
    March 26th, 2009 | 7:44 am

    George I was advised by both my analyst and publicist not to actually interact with the regular bloggers. They feel that it would detrimental to my public image to be seen with a bunch of no-life, blogging want-a-bes. Sorry. They also believe that my dementia and paranoia will be evident. Why don’t you all have lunch at Tony Lukes with Philbert. Just don’t order the Pork Roll.

  42. Leo Bloom
    March 26th, 2009 | 11:11 am

    Larry, there’s a lot afoot. I miss your unique and cutting perspectives on the economic tumult facing us and on what can be done to improve SEPTA trains, such as your suggestion that SEPTA slap new paint on them.

    George will come to realize that trying to get you to appear at RTM is a fool’s errand. I wasted enough time on that, trying to get you to come and show support for the Larry Kane FREE AIR Army. You know, maybe you could hold an online fundraiser for us. After all, we’re just “Larry’s Kids,” and I hear that you’re quite popular in France.

  43. Larry Kaighn
    March 26th, 2009 | 11:45 am

    Leo I like your idea. Perhaps we could do a Free Air Telethon over Easter Weekend. I think I could get Chief Halftown and Peter Boyle Jr to help me host the event. You know the Chief is a very insightful guy. Think of the awareness we could raise all over the Delaware Valley. We could solve the Free Air Crisis in one weekend. I’ll consult with my analyst and publicist on this idea. You know Leo you may be on to something.

  44. Leo Bloom
    March 26th, 2009 | 12:32 pm

    Maybe Larry Mendte will do a cameo for community service credit.

  45. Larry Kaighn
    March 26th, 2009 | 12:55 pm

    I like it. Maybe we could show a portion of the Mendte-Lane sex tapes to arouse some interest. This could make me a STAR again! We could have Comcast film remote from the Reading Terminal Market. There will be a historical plaque set aside Philbert proclaiming this the:
    “Birthplace of Free Air. 04/12/09.
    A brave ragtag army of Free Air rebels waged their intial battle for Free Air Revolutionary War seeking thruth, justice and free air pumps at gas stations everywhere.”

  46. Larry Mendte
    March 26th, 2009 | 1:02 pm

    Free Air – it was Mendte to be!

  47. Larry Kaighn
    March 26th, 2009 | 1:06 pm

    LM this is my cause not yours you fraud. I’m not sure I want to see your shrivelled nude body on a sex tape anyway.

  48. the other, other, other jim
    March 26th, 2009 | 1:29 pm

    Far be it from me to interfere with a cause or revolution as Free Air but it is time for March Madness Second Round. Despite the underwhelming polling in the First Round it’s time to stand up and be counted!
    Pick one winner in each match:

    #1 John “Frozen Tundra” Facenda
    #8 Mort “The Carpetbagger” Crim

    #4 Gunnar “I’ll be right” Baak
    #5 Vince “Top Gun” Leonard

    #2 Jim “No Grins” Gardner
    #7 Jessica “Hold the Maury” Savitch

    #3 Larry “No Holds Barred” Kane
    #6 Tom “Chuckles” Synder

  49. the other, other, other jim
    March 26th, 2009 | 1:31 pm

    My ballot:
    John Facenda
    Vince Leonard
    Jessica Savitch in an upset
    Larry Kane

  50. Leo Bloom
    March 26th, 2009 | 1:47 pm

    I’m going with Mort Crim. He did such a great job in Detroit, a city where all the air is now free if you can find a tire to put it in.

  51. Larry Kaighn
    March 26th, 2009 | 3:06 pm

    Gentlemen let’s not lose focus. Keep your eye on the ball. Our sole purpose in life is Free Air. Everything else pales by comparison. But it is time for me to go to Manny’s for some white fish. Got to get there before 5PM to get the special. I love specials. You get a happy ending with the special.

  52. Bernita
    March 26th, 2009 | 4:56 pm

    Babbby want the free air and formula and jerry springer.

  53. Lamb Chop
    March 26th, 2009 | 5:30 pm

    Can I be on the telethon? Kids love me. Larry will you put your hand in my sock on TV?

  54. Larry Kaighn
    March 26th, 2009 | 5:54 pm

    Sheep lie!

  55. Leo Bloom
    March 26th, 2009 | 6:17 pm

    Whatever happened to the pirates? These recent sock puppets are creeping me out.

  56. the other, other, other jim
    March 26th, 2009 | 6:29 pm

    George, way too much info but thank you for sharing.

  57. Larry Kaighn
    March 27th, 2009 | 6:13 am

    Rise and shine! Another spectacular day here in Boca. 71 degrees at 7AM. Eat your heart out Philly. Are your daffodils blooming yet? I digress. Friday is shuffleboard tournament day at Mae Volen Senior Center. Last week was my turn to wash off the court. Today I just have to wax up my pucks. Everyone uses a different wax. I’ve always been partial to Simoniz. I noticed that Morty Crim was using Johnson Floor Wax. He swears by it. Maxey Lowenstein uses some sort of secret formula. He wins every week with his partner Mel Strauss. I have to determine what those guys are using to get their edge. Did I mention I love shuffleboard? Anyway after shuffleboard it’s off to Chico’s Tacos for an early dinner with the Morenos. They insist on Mexican food. It give me agita. Plus they don’t serve winecoolers. Can you imagine any first class establishment not serving winecoolers?

  58. Captain Hook
    March 27th, 2009 | 7:04 am

    Ahoy maties! I been sailing around the Caribbean waiting for the weather to turn here in Philadelphia. I guess I’ll turn me sails around and head back fur Montego. Still too cold for drinks on the deck of the Moshulu. Arrrgh!
    Larry I may be docking in Florida and pay ye a visit. Yer description of the Boca life is mighty appealing. Someday when I throw down me patch, bandana and musket I may be procuring a condo in Boca with me plunder. Grogs and bingo. Matie does it get and better than that? Arrrgh!

  59. Larry Kaighn
    March 27th, 2009 | 7:34 am

    Captain permission to come aboard? Don’t forget to bring your pal Captain Morgan with you. Ha Ha Ha. I use to be a fine sailer you know. We had a ’78 Starfish up on the lake in the Catskills. Those Catskill winds can be treacherous! I had the sailor’s cap, deck shoes, etc. We use to pull into cottage and I’d be on the boat all weekend.

  60. Larry Kaighn
    March 27th, 2009 | 7:37 am

    Got to run over to Mae Volen. Signing out for now. Keep it trashy and nasty Philadelphia!

  61. Innocent bystander
    March 27th, 2009 | 8:57 am

    Who needs Larry Kane when we have Larry Kaighn….?

  62. Rachel Madow
    March 27th, 2009 | 9:01 am

    Who needs Keith Olberman when we have Leo Bloom…?

  63. Grand Sultan of the KKK
    March 27th, 2009 | 9:04 am

    Who needs David Duke when we have George…?

  64. Bugs Bunny
    March 27th, 2009 | 9:08 am

    Who needs Porkey Pig when we have Philbert..?

  65. Keith Olberman
    March 27th, 2009 | 9:12 am

    I’m the extremely unpopularly, geeky kid from high school that everyone made fun of. I turned my interturmoil into a very sorry excuse for humor. I parlayed my excellent grades and ability to mimic broadcasters into an acceptance at the prestigous Morehouse School of Communications at the Cuse. Perhaps my Dad’s generous donations may have contributed to my acceptance. I obtained my dream job at ESPN doning Sportscenter. However my arrogant, cheeky style rubbed the folks in Bristol the wrong way and I was jetisoned out of ESPN. I landed on my feet at the new news mecca MSNBC. CNN FOX News are now second fiddle. I am again on top of the world. I make outrageous comments that I don’t have to back up. I am single handedly responsible for Barrack Obama being elected President of these United States of America. Rachel a better question would have been ‘Who needs Keith Olberman?’

  66. Lamb Chop
    March 27th, 2009 | 9:13 am

    Who needs people when we have sock puppets and marionettes?

    Larry your blog is new media and it is killing the Daily News and Inquirer. How does that make you feel? Will you ever appear in an HD digital broadcast? What will we see?

  67. Walter Annenberg
    March 27th, 2009 | 9:49 am

    Who needs “all the news that’s fit to print” when we have this blog site, that’s filled with “all the crap we feel like saying”.

  68. Leo Bloom
    March 27th, 2009 | 10:13 am

    Who needs Rush Limbaugh when you’ve got Reich Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda Joseph Goebbels? Talk about anti-Semites.

  69. Alf
    March 27th, 2009 | 11:02 am

    Hey Lar why don’t you come on my ship and use the gold bidet? Bring some of those old peoples cats! Ha!

  70. Bernita
    March 27th, 2009 | 11:18 am

    Babby want tuna salad sammitch

    How is babby formed?

  71. Marian Barry
    March 27th, 2009 | 5:04 pm

    George:
    Washington DC has an HIV infection rate of three to four percent of the population, and that doesn’t include Congress. That rate is on par with Haiti and Ghana.

  72. Larry Kaighn
    March 28th, 2009 | 6:25 am

    Rise and shine! Another day in paradise here in Boca. 73 degrees at 7AM. Why do people stay in the Northeast?
    Big day at Mae Volen Senior Center. Talent Show at 10AM and Cribbage Tournament at 1PM. I hear that Mable Krukowski is singing hits from West Side Story. Veery cool. Stan Heyer will be up there telling the same old jokes. He thinks he’s Henny Youngman. I’m not big on Cribbage but it beats being in the sun. I’ll be flying back to PHL later today to film my Comcast show. Until tomorrow be trashy and nasty Philly!

  73. the other, other, other jim
    March 28th, 2009 | 8:27 am

    Larry, thank you for the daily weather report from Boca and activity schedule from the MVSC. Enlightening and educating us on the benefits of retirement in Florida.
    Are there any more new sock puppets out there?

  74. Barney Frank
    March 28th, 2009 | 8:43 am

    Any one want to have some cheap casual “free air” today? Come over to my place and I’ll give you “a whiff” of what I’m talking about.

  75. Barney Frank
    March 28th, 2009 | 9:38 am

    #77 is not me!

    I know all about circumcision, and I’m propsing a bill in the house that will provide a subsidy to families that choose not to circumsise. It will provide craddle to grave health and hygine benefits to those who are uncircumsised. An uncircumsised penis is a thing of beauty. I have several Maplethorpe photos of such penises hanging in my DC apartment, and there is nothing like them to get the party going, especisally the black ones! George, your researcher doesnn’t know what she’s talking about and has never handled or maintained one.

    We don’t outlaw things just becasue they might be unhealthy, we democrats give people government subsidies and direct grants to help them to continue to engage in unhealthy behavior and acts. Another bill I am proposing is the gay/lesbian/transgender unprotected sex act. This will give special health benefits to those who contract sexually transmitted diseases or HIV from unprotected annonomous sex acts. It will not require more taxes but will be added as additional interest points to banks that owe TARP interest. Further no bank will be allowed to repary TARP until an additional 10% of their TARP draw is paid to Gay/lesbian and transgender charities for the pupose of education and indoctrination in the public school system. You hetero blue eyed white males are going to have hell to pay for what you did to the finanical system, I’m just getting started.

  76. the other, other, other jim
    March 28th, 2009 | 9:38 am

    HELD HOSTAGE – DAY SIX
    Please change blog topic, Larry. No one even remembers what it was at this point…

  77. the other, other, other jim
    March 28th, 2009 | 9:40 am

    BF #78, please invest time in spell check. You are testing my limited reading skills.

  78. Barney Frank
    March 28th, 2009 | 9:50 am

    I’ll tell you what it was OOOJ, it’s about Larry’s lack of interest in his own site and his inability to engage his bloggers in honest debate. He just wants to throw mud at the wall and see what sticks. He likes to be outraged about safe topics and does not have the intellect for second or third level debates about the stuff he slings out.

    I like that Michelle Obama is digging a vegtable garden on the white house lawn, she is going to grow cucumbers and zuccini for me! It’s a great idea to teach kids where food comes from. When I was a boy everyone had a victory garden and canned food for winter. I use to love to put on my mothers apron and “can” every vegtable my father brought into the house. I loved digging into holes in the garden and planting my self into the warm moist soil, and talking to the other woman in the neighborhood about canning and cooking fresh vegtibles. They all knew young Barney was different, but that’s what I did when the other boys played sports, and there was nothing wrong with it. I run a powerful finace commitee now, those boys are unemployed supporting families and trying to pay thier taxes, hey guys- whose the fairy now?

  79. the other, other, other jim
    March 28th, 2009 | 9:56 am

    BF, you have to be better than Larry. f he is your Gold Standard than this phrase applies: “he sets low standards and fails to achieve them”.

  80. Barney Frank
    March 28th, 2009 | 9:56 am

    OOOJ, you must have gone to catholic school since you know how to spell. We don’t allow spelling to be taught in public schools becasue it doesnt matter, nor do basic math skills, times tables are now forbidden to be taught in the MA school system. But everyone knows where to get a condom and knows they have a legal right not to wear one and drive though abortion sites are posted in all hallways. so go back and talk to the nuns if you want to read correct spelling or tally up some numbers you hetero egg head.

  81. George
    March 28th, 2009 | 10:02 am

    Barney, you disgust me and are an embarassment to the House, take your anti Catholic rhetoric and shove it where the sun doesn’t shine.

  82. Barney Frank
    March 28th, 2009 | 11:25 am

    That space is already occupied.

  83. Craig
    March 28th, 2009 | 11:50 am

    For Sale by Owner

  84. Barney Frank
    March 28th, 2009 | 1:38 pm

    #85 stop impersonating me or I will conduct a congressional investigation into your heterosexual lifestyle, it won’t be pretty when your wife finds out!

  85. Barney Frank
    March 28th, 2009 | 1:47 pm

    #87 you gotta be quicker

  86. Obie Canobie
    March 28th, 2009 | 4:09 pm

    Chelle Chelle has no sense of humor trust me. She is an angry woman. We keep her locked away in the basement of the White House. We let her out on saturday nights for date night. Otherwise she’s under house arrest. Besides I don’t think too many people in the country would think it was very funny unless she was doing it on Saturday Night Live. You are taking edgy to the brink.

  87. Larry Kaighn
    March 29th, 2009 | 6:49 am

    Back at the secret Kane compound in South Jersey. Resting after the grueling SWA flight from FLL to PHL last night. I’m always worried about getting a bloodclot during one of those long flights. Price of getting old. You worried too much.
    Tonight on The Voice of Reason on CN8 at 6:30PM (set your TIVO) I have a penetrating interview with Josh Shapiro. We take a candid look at my manlove for this legal and political operative and why I can’t think about anyone else except the honorable Governor of the great State of Pennsylvania Ed Rendell. We’ll explore why Josh is the only candidate from PA that makes sense to replace Snarlin Arlen Spector and how he has the wherewithal and chutzpah to bring real change to Washington. Must see TV!

  88. Not A Fan
    March 29th, 2009 | 8:39 am

    I watched Larry’s show on the “nasty out of control internet” last week and the climax of the (God bless us) 1/2 hour show was when Larry said he told one of his readers to “get a life” He actually asked his “panel” of friends (one of which he didn’t know his first name) whether it was alright to say such a horrible thing. Talk about “edgy”…..
    His show is about as edgy as a rubber ball.

  89. Barney Frank
    March 29th, 2009 | 8:42 am

    Does any one know how to do photo shop? I want to photo shop Josh Shapio’s head onto the the 25 year old body of Brad Pitt. A friend gave me a photo shopped nude Brad Pitt with an uncircumsised penis, so I just need to swap out the heads. Thanks!

  90. Not A Fan
    March 29th, 2009 | 8:44 am

    Oh yeah, one more thing. Larry had a guest come on to plug a new book and Larry never read the book. How do you comment on a book that you’ve never read? It was called a “Moose in Paris” or some such thing with a moose on the cover. All that Larry could say was how did they get a moose to Paris?

  91. George
    March 29th, 2009 | 11:57 am

    Larry doesn’t want to discern between people with ideas and people who just say nasty things. Larry’s blog is like a heavily graffitied wall in a public bathroom.

    If you read one in a septa subway station you can guess most of the people writing there are ignorant uneducated people, based on the text. Read graffiti on the bathroom at Haverford college or a similar university and you will see some of the same crap, but often it is a little bit more interesting or thoughful and sometimes the bathroom wall is a moosaic of intersting ideas and people playing off of different comments.

    To then conduct a show and wonder who writes these things without any further context as to who is writing them is idiotic. To know the difference between a septa wall and a havererford wall you’d have to know more about the authors and the context of what was written, this underscores his ignorance and desire to just make a sound bite and not investigate further.

    This is a bathroom wall, some of it is good, some crap, some funny, some inane, some with racial or religious undercurrents etc. The writers on this wall come to amuse themselves, kill time or to get larrys goat or make a significant point that others are missing and could be thought provoking. I didn’t see the show, but my guess is i just said more substance about this issue than was discussed on the show.

    Larry has a public platform and he is wasting it by playing it safe because he is a politically correct guy who doesnt want to really ruffle feathers or dig deep into an issue to find answers, becasue he believes he already knows all of the correct answers. Larry there is a concept call “received knowledge” and “constucted knowledge”. Most Jews learn through constructed knowlede and don’t rely on preconceived knowlede, perhaps why they excel in law and medicine. Many Catholics, especially the ones who write here learned through received knowlege, where dogmas of Catholicism handed out clear cut right and wrongs, your cops and fireman for example. A little of both is best, but you really dissappoint me in your ability to engage in constructive knowlege. Talk to Ed Rendell and Josh Shapiro, they will explain it to you, and you will become a better commentator, open up your mind to new ideas, especially those outside your comfort zone on the right and far right, you still have a lot to learn- my yamika wearing friend!

  92. Adam Sandler
    March 29th, 2009 | 12:18 pm

    George you really inspire me. I’m working on my next song. Can you help me write it. It is about Gentiles.
    http://www.lyricsfreak.com/a/adam+sandler/the+hanukkah+song_20003925.html

  93. George
    March 29th, 2009 | 3:08 pm

    Adam, I’d be glad to help you, however, the correct term is Christians. It seems Jews use this term derogatorily to deminsih Christians, its effectively their “Nigger” term, for Chritians. Now some Jews will deny this, but most know its a way to say you’re either Jew or nothing, and gentile that catch all nigger phrase, and is considered very offenive in Christian cirlcles, especially when used by Jews.

    Now this doesn’t mean it can’t be used because it’s offensive to some, its just something you should be aware of Adam. And its okay to use it in a joking manner or in a song like “the gentile song” just be aware of how offensive it can be to some and use it creatively and with an eye toward not truly trying to diminish Chritians, unless that’s you’re objective, which is okay too, as that is your free speech right. Good luck with the song, and glad to have inspired you!

  94. March 30th, 2009 | 4:42 pm

    Clean it up gentlemen. If anyone uses the term Jew on this blog it’ll be me. Or Nigger for that matter.

    Both are being used derogatorily here and I won’t stand for it.

    Larry

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