Morning Seditionists

January 4, 2009

Booblehead Thread

Filed under: Whatever — pjsauter @ 5:00 am

On Press the Meat today, it’s an exclusive with perhaps the least impressive person to have ever held the title of ‘leader,’ Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. Then it’s a roundtable of smarmy Richard Engel, The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg, BBC World News Katty Kay, Al-Arabiya’s Hisham Melhem, Andrea “boy did I marry a schmuck” Mitchell and the NY Time’s David Sanger.

On Faze the Nation, Bob Schieffer wants one last chance at some dick. Dick Cheney, that is.

Weaselface Wallace has Steny Hoyer, Poppy Bush, and the regular fuxheads on Fux News Sunday.

On the Goebbels network, George Snufalufagus has maybe (maybe not) the next US Senator from Illinois, Roland Burris, Dick Durbin, and dickhead Mitch McConnell. Plus a roundtable with Katrina vanden Heuvell, and George Will, Jonathan Karl, and Cokie “the hag” Roberts.

Later, on 60 Minutes, Bob Simon does a piece on drunken driving fatalities, Lesley Stahl reports on the ability of neuroscience to read a person’s mind, and Scott Pelley reports on Texas Tech coach Mike Leach.

Enjoy your Sunday.

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Well, today is my last day of making my own schedule. No more week days off unless it’s a holiday or I’m sick. I’m gonna miss that. It’s punching a time clock for me. But a steady pay check and change of direction will be good. I’ve been wanting to be a farmer for a long time. I asked for this.

Comment by Kristapea — January 4, 2009 @ 9:19 am

Oh look, I’m scheduled for a safety meeting on Wednesday. Must be for ladder safety. God knows I’m pretty dangerous on a ladder. I actually am somewhat treacherous on ladders. But I take calculated risks and am very aware when I am doing it.

Comment by Kristapea — January 4, 2009 @ 9:27 am

KP, be careful on those ladders, enjoy the paycheck and remember that there are many of us, happy though we are to have a job, who wake up every Monday with the desire and ability to complain thanks to the MS Blog.

My boss, who is rich beyond rich (she and her family own and build in Manhattan and think nothing of giving $50,000,000 donations to cultural projects, is on a cost cutting spree. I guess that means no more free paperclips.

Comment by Sue P — January 4, 2009 @ 10:37 am

Hey KP, enjoy your last day of freedom. Does AZ get MLK Day off?

Comment by pjsauter — January 4, 2009 @ 10:43 am

Even with Israeli forces on the ground, though, Hamas continued its rocket fire. About 25 rockets were launched at southern Israel by Sunday afternoon, the military said. One hit a house in the Israeli border town of Sderot. Touring the town some time later, Michael R. Bloomberg, the mayor of New York, had to be rushed into a protected space when Sderot’s incoming rocket alert sounded.

http://www.hu..._155008.html

Our fool mayor, the guy who thinks only HE can run NYC, decided to go to Israel to show his support.

No doubt he thinks that this will help his campaign. I think it just shows he’s overwhelming ego and stupidity. He’s caught the Giuliani bug. Next thing he’ll be taking calls from his girlfriend during speeches.

Comment by Sue P — January 4, 2009 @ 10:46 am

Bill Ayers on education:

Of course I would have loved to have seen Linda Darling-Hammond become Secretary of Education in an Obama administration. She’s smart, honest, compassionate and courageous, and perhaps most striking, she actually knows schools and classrooms, curriculum and teaching, kids and child development. (empasis mine) These have never counted for much as qualifications for the post, of course, and yet they offer a neat contrast with the four failed urban school superintendents–Michelle Rhee, Joel Klein, Paul Vallas, and Arne Duncan — who were for weeks rumored to be her chief competition.

These four, like George W. Bush’s Secretary of Education, Rod Paige of the fraudulent Texas-miracle, have little to show in terms of school improvement beyond a deeply dishonest public relations narrative. Teacher accountability, relentless standardized testing, school closings, and privatization

snip

We want our students to be able to think for themselves, to make judgments based on evidence and argument, to develop minds of their own. We want them to ask fundamental questions—Who in the world am I? How did I get here and where am I going? What in the world are my choices? How in the world shall I proceed? — and to pursue answers wherever they might take them.

http://www.hu..._154857.html

Does agreeing with him mean I’m palling around with terrorists?

Comment by Sue P — January 4, 2009 @ 11:01 am

terrorist pal arounder………

Comment by SeanMS — January 4, 2009 @ 1:06 pm

Hey Sean, happy new year. Hope you’re well! Where are you, o traveling one?

Comment by Sue P — January 4, 2009 @ 1:15 pm

I’ll count on PJ to let me know when the paid holidays are. I don’t think we get MLK off paid but I’m sure banks do.

Comment by Kristapea — January 4, 2009 @ 1:15 pm

Here, let me look in my employee hand book that I had to read. Nope, MLK is a work day. But we’re a private company.

Comment by Kristapea — January 4, 2009 @ 1:19 pm

Richardson Withdraws Name as Commerce Secretary-Designee

By Michael D. Shear
New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson has withdrawn his name from consideration as commerce secretary for President-elect Barack Obama, citing an ongoing investigation about business dealings in his state.

Comment by vernon — January 4, 2009 @ 2:35 pm

I am a little tired of listening to sports talkers and fat headdie talking about playoff games that are not sold out. It seems that if your team is in the NFL playoffs and the game is not sold out, your community is not worthy of ‘hosting’ that team and they should feel free to find a new home. fat headdie suggested that the Minnesota might consider moving to LA although there was not a ‘Viking’ link there.

Maybe fathead know-it-all can explain to me that Laker thing.

I’d love to see the pro sports ‘bubble’ collapse.

That one is for you, fred.

Comment by vernon — January 4, 2009 @ 5:36 pm

I lived in nm in the seventies when it was under the dens and it was dirty then. I guess nothing much has changed. I feared that Richardson wasn’nt going to pass muster. He never struck me as being particurally bright.

Comment by artnorton — January 4, 2009 @ 5:40 pm

art, from afar I have always been impressed by Richardson. Isn’t there some way you can serve if you might be a little corrupt or tainted (Cisneros?) but still be useful?

Comment by vernon — January 4, 2009 @ 5:47 pm

I am a little tired of listening to sports talkers and fat headdie talking about playoff games that are not sold out.

Plus, who wants to go out to the stadium to see your team lose when you can take a drive out to the airport and get a hummer in the men’s room?

Comment by pjsauter — January 4, 2009 @ 7:46 pm

they are really trying to unload those hummers, are they?

Comment by vernon — January 4, 2009 @ 7:50 pm

At the MSP airport, it’s buy one, get one free.

Comment by pjsauter — January 4, 2009 @ 7:53 pm

That might be a ‘closeted Republican special’ only, though.

Comment by pjsauter — January 4, 2009 @ 7:58 pm

pretty funny, pj.
Not funny, but well spoken:

And there lie the bodies

Comment by 49N 122W — January 4, 2009 @ 9:26 pm

Latest death toll in Gaza war: 509 Palestinians are dead and 2,450 have been injured according to Palestinian medical sources.

UN refugee chief describes ‘catastrophic’ situation in Gaza.

Comment by 49N 122W — January 5, 2009 @ 1:37 am

The Senator (fingers crossed)

Will Davis be chief of staff?

Comment by vernon — January 5, 2009 @ 2:18 am

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Comment by vernon — January 5, 2009 @ 3:09 am

There’s no Monday open, yet. But, I want to wish KP good luck today, in her new job.

Farm away, KP, and tell us about it this evening.

Comment by Sue P — January 5, 2009 @ 6:33 am