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December 28, 2008

Booblehead Thread

Filed under: Whatever — pjsauter @ 5:00 am

It’s Sunday, but not a bad one, ‘cuz I took tomorrow off. I have to work Tues, Wed, and Fri, so I figured I owed it to myself to not have to deal with a Monday this week.

On Press the Meat today, it’s Obama senior adviser David Axelrod, plus a roundtable on the achievements of the outgoing Bush administration, and the failure of the Obama administration with the National Review’s Rich Lowry, Vanity Fair’s Todd Purdum, the Washington Post’s Michelle Singletary & Newsweek’s Richard Wolffe.

Last week on Faze the Nation, it was a New York kinda day, with Gerry Ferraro (isn’t her 15 minutes – her second 15 minutes, in fact – up already?), Democrat Gary Ackerman, Republicans Peter King and Tom Reynolds (token Upstater, from Sean’s neck of the woods), NYC Schools Chancellor Joel Klein (be interested to hear Sue’s opinion of him), and NY1 news guy, Dominic Carter (who- at the time – was the only person to have gotten an interview with her highness, Lady Caroline of Kennedy, so far). This week? Beats me, they don’t bother to update their website. Maybe Katie Couric is paying off Bob Schieffer’s web guy or something.

But who cares about CBS anyway, when Fux News Sunday and Weaselface Wallace have an exclusive interview with Pickles Bush, on to answer the rumors that she’s signed a 7-figure deal to be the next Zoloft spokesperson. Plus, a different bunch of fuxheads than usual, but fuxheads nonetheless.

Over on the Goebbels network, George Snufalufagus is on vacation, so ABC News schmuck Jake Tapper will be taking over the duties (by the way, Tapper isn’t his real name; it’s a nickname he earned back during his days as an aviation reporter in Minneapolis). Speaking of tappers, Jake is joined by Republican Bob Corker of Tennessee. Also on will be Sherrod Brown of Ohio, incoming White House press secretary Robert Gibbs (who will get some advice from the likes of Dana “Cuban Missile Whut?” Perino, snotty Scotty McClellan, and Joe Lockhart). Plus, it’s the first :jerk: -less roundtable in recent memory, with PRI Studio 360’s Kurt Andersen, Slate’s John “don’t call me Emily” Dickerson, NPR newsbabe Alison Stewart, and David Brody of the Jesus Channel.

It’s a Late Emission year-end retrospective at CNN, as U-Boat commander Wolf Blitzer has past interviews with Barack Obama, John McCain, Sarah Palin, Bill Gates, Condoleezza Rice “and a lot more.” More than Condi and Caribou Barbie? How is that even possible?

Later, on 60 Minutes, the entire hour is devoted to the campaign and election of Barack Obama, with 60 Minutes segments, interviews with Obama, his family, and advisers, and “never before seen footage” (like, what, Obama with Bigfoot or something?).

Have a good Sunday everybody.

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  1. Democrat Peter King, Republicans Gary Ackerman and Tom Reynolds

    I don’t know about Tom Reynolds, but Peter King is a horrible Rethug and Gary Ackerman is a decent Dem.

    Also a past interview also on CNN with the next Rethug preznit candiate, also, the one who pals around with also a hillbilly heroine dealer, also. Doesn’t she love Amurika also?

    Comment by Sue P — December 28, 2008 @ 9:03 am


  2. Forgive me, but since you asked, Joel Klein is the chancellor who has done more to eviscerate education in NYC than any in recent memory.

    First Bloomberg put the schools under mayoral control. This meant that the test scores, not eduction, would be of paramount importance and they are all that is important.

    Then he appointed Klein whose expertise as an educator was gleaned at lightning speed while he was a substitute teacher for 6 weeks.

    If you want to reform education here are the rules:
    1. You must never have taught.
    2. You must not have seen a living child in at least 20 years.

    Adhering to these rules allows the reformer to imagine how classrooms work and children respond. Klein, in spite of those long ago 6 weeks, has done that well.

    The teachers hate him because they are not allowed to teach. Instead the schools have become like Kaplan Test Prep centers. The kids practice, over and over, how to take the test but actual education with questions, critical thinking, intellectual exploration does not exist. The kids are bored and internalizing the horrible lesson that learning stuff is boring.

    He believes that good teaching has nothing to do with experience.. (His 6 weeks have convinced him.) He has encouraged mindless, useless, ineffective people to run schools. And, then he rates them with his infamous A’s that go to terrible schools and F’s that go to schools which parents compete to enroll their kids in.

    Everything is based on test results, so nobody dares to take time to teach science or explore literature or discuss art or poetry because those subjects are not on the test…..and if they were there would be 50 facts to be memorized for the test and nothing else.

    The above is the short version!

    Comment by Sue P — December 28, 2008 @ 9:28 am


  3. Three great horned owls in Central Park:

    Comment by Sue P — December 28, 2008 @ 9:36 am


  4. Yes, I got your email, Farmer. I’ll try that. I’ll have to keep her choke chain on and she’ll jangle even more than she does. They’re getting along fine now, though they don’t seem to be playing as much.

    Comment by Kristapea — December 28, 2008 @ 10:10 am


  5. Boy Sue, I’m glad most of my education was in the 70’s.

    Comment by Kristapea — December 28, 2008 @ 10:13 am


  6. I think pj was confused with Dem strategist/talking head Peter Fenn.

    Peter King is a terribly odious repug and potential NY Senate candidate in 2010. If I had one rotten egg and him and Rudy in my sights, I’d be working on a wicked bank shot.

    Comment by vernon — December 28, 2008 @ 10:26 am


  7. Actually, it was the goddamn website that was confused. I actually know better than to think Peter King is a Democrat. That’s what I get for copying and pasting. Didn’t even realize it was last week’s guest list until it was too late, so I just left it.

    Comment by pjsauter — December 28, 2008 @ 10:58 am


  8. Of course, it could also have been Peter King, the Sports Illustrated dude.

    Comment by pjsauter — December 28, 2008 @ 11:02 am


  9. Gee, I hope King (the non-SI one) doesn’t run for Senate in 2010. Long Island could cancel out the NYC vote, and he might do pretty well up here in the provinces if Gov. Blinky doesn’t appoint somebody good.

    Comment by pjsauter — December 28, 2008 @ 11:07 am


  10. Stunning photos, sue. bummer about eduKation. good lord, this country is in a heap of a mess. there is such intellectual dishonesty
    However, contrary to that statement, Frank Rich is a wordsmith today.
    kp, glad the pups are getting along. keep the choke on her, so when it happens you can correct immediately…

    need to head over the pass back to the 49th and it looks mighty slippery.

    PS I don’t know any of those ^ kings.

    Comment by 49N 122W — December 28, 2008 @ 1:01 pm


  11. I had this for dinner and it was AWESOME! I forgot the hot sauce for the greens and it was fine. And I added carmelized onions to the carrots and turnips. YUM YUM!

    Leon O’Neal’s Turnip Greens

    * 1 large bunch turnip greens
    * 1 small turnip, peeled and diced
    * Dash of sugar
    * 6 slices bacon, diced
    * 1 onion, diced
    * 1 tablespoon lemon pepper
    * Salt to taste
    * Louisiana hot-pepper sauce

    Wash the greens in several changes of water in the sink until no more grit is seen. Chop the greens coarsely. Bring a large pot of water to boil and add the greens, the turnip, and the sugar. Cook for 12 to 15 minutes, or until tender. Drain.

    In a large skillet, sauté the bacon until it gives up its grease. Add the onion and cook 7 minutes until the onion is soft. Toss the greens with the bacon and onion. Add the lemon pepper and salt. Serve with Louisiana hot-pepper sauce.

    Glazed Baby Turnips and Carrots
    * 1 pound baby turnips (about 2 pounds with greens attached) or regular turnips
    * 3/4 pound baby carrots (about 2 pounds with green attached)
    * 1 1/2 tablespoons unsalted butter
    * 1/2 teaspoon sugar

    Trim baby turnips and carrots, leaving about 1/2-inch stems if green were attached, and peel if desired. If using regular turnips, peel and cut into 1-inch pieces. In a steamer set over boiling water steam turnips and carrots separately, covered, until just tender, 6 to 8 minutes. Vegetables may be prepared up to this point 1 day in advance and kept covered and chilled.

    In a large heavy skillet cook vegetables in butter with sugar and salt and pepper to taste over moderately low heat, stirring, until heated through and glazed, about 4 minutes.

    Comment by Kristapea — December 28, 2008 @ 9:17 pm



  12. :boobs: :bong:

    Comment by vernon — December 28, 2008 @ 9:38 pm


  13. Wow, that was very nice, Vern. I don’t usually care for the Grateful Dead.

    Comment by Kristapea — December 28, 2008 @ 9:59 pm


  14. Delaney Bramlett :gate:
    http://kai03....9EDAFFFFFFFF
    Bonnie and Delaney were a feel-good rock and blues band. I saw them in Kansas City. Blind Faith had just broken up and Clapton was touring with them as their guitar player. If I remember right, the horn section ended up with the Stones.

    Comment by artnorton — December 28, 2008 @ 10:27 pm


  15. We’re under a high wind watch here along and near the Boulder Turnpike. Wind gusts up to 80 mph. It sounds like it inside our shaking house. 8O

    Comment by artnorton — December 28, 2008 @ 10:33 pm


  16. art, I was haggling a little with the Delaney legacy on FaceBook this morning so I am a little exhausted but here is another video to add to the one from late yesterday

    As someone pointed out, he taught Clapton to sing and Harrison to play slide. They (along with Leon Russell) launched a ton of music and musicians. The horn section and Rita Coolidge and Derek and the Dominoes and Mad Dogs and Englishmen and the Allman Brothers and………..

    Comment by vernon — December 28, 2008 @ 11:39 pm


  17. love that Dead piece, Vern. Heff doesn’t look embalmed either!
    Clapton’s Layla popped up on the Cash youtube you posted. fun to hear it/watch it.

    Comment by 49N 122W — December 29, 2008 @ 12:14 am


  18. Monday’s NYT:

    TV News Winds Down Operations on Iraq War
    ….
    Mike Boettcher, a Baghdad correspondent for NBC News from 2005 to 2007, said nightly news segments and embed assignments with military units occurred less frequently as the war continued.

    “Americans like their wars movie length and with a happy ending,” Mr. Boettcher said. “If the war drags on and there is no happy ending, Americans start to squirm in their seats. In the case of television news, they began changing the channel when a story from Iraq appeared.”

    A year ago, Mr. Boettcher left NBC after the network rejected his proposal for a “permanent embed” in Iraq and he started the project on his own. In August, he and his son Carlos, 22, started a 15-month embed assignment with American forces in Iraq. His reporting appears online at NoIgnoring.com.

    “If a bomb blew up in the green zone and Richard Engel wasn’t there, we do have an option,” she said. Mr. Engel, NBC’s chief foreign correspondent, rotates in and out of Baghdad.

    Mr. Boettcher is not convinced. “Like it or not, the country is at war and there is not a correspondent to cover it,” he said. “Sad.”

    Comment by 49N 122W — December 29, 2008 @ 1:07 am


  19. But Mike, we have Twitter now and Richard needs to be on with Rachel every week…

    Comment by vernon — December 29, 2008 @ 9:47 am


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