Hey, get up! It’s an hour later than you think it is.
I used to love this day, back when I was movie theatre manager/projectionist. When unsuspecting people would come to buy a ticket for the one o’clock show, you got to tell them that it started an hour ago. Then when they got all indignant and snotty, you could tell ’em, “uh, ever hear about daylight savings time, dude? It was, like, in all the papers.” Hah! Take that, ignorant, demanding, snotty consumers. Now you see the genius in my not changing the clock in my car last year!
Fortunately for you, if you’ve forgotten to set your clocks ahead, all you’ve missed out on is another round of the Sunday Boobleheads.
On Press the Meat, Timmuh has an “Exclusive!” with U.S. Ambassador to Iraq, Zalmay Khalilzad on the conference between the U.S., Iraq, Iran and Syria. Then, it’s a discussion about the “political fallout” over Walter Reed & the Libby verdict (because destroying a career CIA person working on WMD and having our wounded soldiers sit around in rat infested, urine soaked living conditions is, after all, all about politics) with presidential historian Michael Beschloss (who once wrote, “More than any other leader…save Eisenhower, Bush based his…campaigns for the presidency…on his persona as a leader of experience and character” – hah! Not that Bush; the old one), Time’s Michael Duffy (who, after the last election, declared that Republicans lost because they found themselves “spending like drunken Democrats“), fellow SU alum, Ted Koppel & one of the ever-narrowing field of WaPost (indeed, of all the traditional media) reporters that don’t suck, Dana Priest.
Over at Faze the Nation, Bush Buddy Booby Schieffer hosts another chat on Walter Reed and Scooter Libby (hey, how about they sentence him to ten years of changing bedpans for the VA) with senators Chuck Schumer, tough-talkin’, do-nothing Arlen Specter, and Claire McCaskill of Missouri.
At Fux News Sunday, with the growing realization that all the Republican candidates for president suck the big one, is it time to go to the bullpen and pull out NYC DA Arthur Branch (aka, former senator – and head of Scooter Libby’s defense fund – Fred Thompson)? After all, he’s got what Americans are looking for in a politician (they’ve seen him on the teevee). Then Weaselface Wallace will try and undercut Democrats by hosting the founder of the “Out of Iraq” Caucus in the House, Maxine Waters. Kick his ass, Maxine (and get Patty and LaVerne to help you).
Over at the Goebbels network, George Snufalufagus boasts an exclusive with Senator Jim Webb, who will talk about why we need to bring our troops back home, and why they shouldn’t have to live in filthy squalor when they get back here. In another “exclusive,” it’s co-chair of the Walter Reed cover-up commission, Bob Dole (who is looking more and more like the Phantom of the Opera – the Lon Chaney one, not that stupid Andrew Lloyd Webber crap. To quote Roger Waters, “Andrew Lloyd Webber sickens me. Phantom Of The Opera is absolutely fucking horrible from start to finish”). Then, at the Roundtable, it’s former Pentagon disinformation specialist (and Mary Matalin gal-pal), Torie Clarke, David Corn of The Nation, Fareed “token” Zakaria and, just in case things accidentally get exciting, George :jerk: Will. Finally, we’ll hear from Loretta Lynn, who looks nothing like Sissy Spacek (BTW, if you haven’t seen “Missing,” with Sissy and Jack Lemmon, you should really go out and rent it).
Over at CNN, it’s a very wet Late Emission from Wolf Blitzer, with the Iraqi Foreign Minister, Hose Your Zebra Hoshyar Zebari, Sen. Joe “yeah, you got a fuckin’ chance of getting elected president” Biden, Senator Lindsey “Cracker” Graham, of South Carolina, former Arkansas Governor and “presidential candidate” (in the fantasy world where he runs against Biden, and Ralph Nader gets more than 3% of the vote) Huckleberry Huckabee, CNN Senior Political hack (and “fellow” at the Konservative American Enterprise Institute) Bill Schneider, mastermind of Al Gore’s brilliant campaign for president in 2000, Donna Brazile, and former Bush propagandist, David “axis of evil” Frum (yet another American Enterprise Institute asshole).
Later, on 60 Minutes, Bob Simon reports on the wonderful coal industry and the widows its miners leave behind, Scott Pelley reports on the Iraqi translators and other people who have helped out the US since the occupation, and what happens to them (basically, they and their families get killed as collaborators, and of course the US won’t allow them to get the hell out and come here). Then Lesley Stahl takes a look at Dr. Steven Hatfill, who the FBI tried to finger for the Anthrax attacks (because they are apparently pretty clueless as to who might have actually done it), and who is now suing the bastards (which is how we have come to find out just how clueless they are).
And then there’s the usual Sunday night lineup, capped off, of course, by a new episode of Battlestar Galactica. Enjoy your Sunday – it’s a short one.
Never followed Boston. You could always hear such huge bands all of the time. I hear the departed was involved in a Beatle cover project called BeatleJuice that intrigues me.
Beware the Ides of Marc … :rofl2: :rofl2: :rofl2: PERFECT ❗
a.i.v.
Meanwhile a little Boston back story…
Scholz filed suit in New York on Tuesday, claiming that the band’s first album in eight years, 2002’s Corporate America, failed to take off because the label didn’t promote it properly, despite promises that Boston’s fifth album would be a priority. The suit claims Scholz signed with Danny Goldberg’s Artemis because of Goldberg’s “repeated promises that his label would give the highest priority to promoting [Corporate America]; that Artemis had the capability and willingness to distribute Boston’s albums to maximize sales; and that Artemis would provide ‘hands-on’ attention that other larger labels could not or would not provide.”
You can pursue this story further if you wish.
FDG!
:smack: Bitch Goldberg 🙄 … were you one of the ones that did not think Boston was a TRUE band?
whatever 🙄 …. I liked Led and Jimi and Morrison 2 … :nana:
a.i.v. if it is 2:20am. The White Rabbit Reigns :smack:
Hey PJ…Im joining you in the brilliance of not changing the car clock!!…nor the clock that runs backwards in the kitchen.
Only one of my friends understood that one perfectly…Oh yes, I see, it runs backwards and is an hour slow because of daylight savings…
it takes a keen mind to take this all in.
I think that George Will said that the newspaper article that led to the Libby conviction was no big deal…after all, he writes hundreds per year…an article is just not that important…HUH?
…heh….I cry for a pardon is a cry for psychological help!
i wish I had time to make a blog post about the obvious point of what it means to leak top secret information to the press and put people in danger…
How far reaching is that?
George Will needs to be re-educated!
He is really in need of psyc help!
I meant…A cry for a pardon…..
Good Morning. :joe:
My mom used to listen to Boston’s big hit album all the time. They remind me of childhood. I can’t see that all the promotion in the world would have helped Boston in 2002. :crap:
The great thing about Boston was that you only needed to have one of their songs. The rest were pretty much the same.
Oops. Gotta re-set the blog clock.
There, that’s better.
Ratcheting up its investigation of the firing of eight U.S. attorneys, the House Judiciary Committee is turning its attention to the White House’s role in the affair.
Committee chairman John Conyers, Jr., and Linda Sanchez, chairwoman of the Judiciary subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law, co-signed letters today to White House Counsel Fred Fielding and former White House Counsel Harriet Miers, requesting that both Miers and current deputy White House counsel William Kelly submit to interviews with the committee concerning the fired U.S. attorneys. The letters also ask that the White House supply comprehensive documentation of all discussions and communications dealing with the matter.
The letters specifically ask for communications on the firings between the White House and the Department of Justice as well as with members of Congress, in addition to materials dealing with internal White House deliberations.
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1597979,00.html
Sue P , :yippee: :paranoid: 8) and Valerie next Friday, what a week :pirate: :yippee: :pirate:
a.i.v.
Druid, are you feeling a bit better? Who is Valerie?
Now to defend my Boston … Make Fun 🙄 :growl: [LBH 😉 ]
I and Chip aka Bryan from COLORADO SPRINGS. COLORAD to Northern California[Do you drink Coors 😮 ?], escaped from northern California for the same and different reasons. DON’T LOOK BACK tis what I played making it possible for me to leave my northern California. (I was disappointed in the P.D. and S.O. and Games that weren’t “real”.) Okay, he was younger, maybe that is why so many of his friends had on their wall Boston … :rofl2:
:peace: … to end up going back to school :smack: 8) … 🙄
a.i.v.
I am cool 8) :yinyang: :pent: :om: AWN [good beliefs 😉 and good music / dance ………… Sue P 😉 Plame … did I spell her first name right ❓ :doh:
a.i.v.
Sue P, actually usually I am not as pensive. So just “feeling” F.I.N.E.
[Fucked up, Insecure, Neurotic, & Emotional] … But that is also when I am most Creative … 😉 ]
Okay folks get your barbs ready,
I have been “thinking” with:
Yeha-Noha (Wishes Of Happiness Et Prosperity) 4:26 Yeha-Noha Pure Moods New Age
Sweet Lullaby 3:51 Deep Forest Pure Moods New Age
Sadeness Part 1 4:16 Enigma Pure Moods New Age
Return To Innocence 4:10 Enigma Pure Moods New Age
The Promise 3:13 Michael Nyman Pure Moods New Age
Yeh, it’s New Age :growl: I even Listen to Classical :growl: 🙄
Hildegard von Bingam and Renaissance. :dancers:
But I always go back to Red :hot: C. P. , STING, and Evanescence :growl: :banana: :rofl2: :rofl2: :rofl2: 8)
a.i.v.
FRED, COLORADO SPRINGS. COLORADO to Northern California[Do you drink Coors 😮 ?] 😳 Insert Fred after 😮 😉 … :pirate: A.I.V.
“The US army is lagging behind Iraq’s insurgents tactically” say senior American officials reports the UK’s Observer,
Top US officials are describing foes in Iraq and Afghanistan as “smart, agile and cunning” and say the US is locked in a conflict that is the “biggest challenge since Korea 50 years ago.
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Shock_Top_American_Generals_admit_Iraqs_0311.html
A Leading US climate scientist is considering legal action after he says he was duped into appearing in a Channel 4 documentary that claimed man-made global warming is a myth. Carl Wunsch, professor of physical oceanography at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said the film, The Great Global Warming Swindle, was ‘grossly distorted’ and ‘as close to pure propaganda as anything since World War Two’.
He says his comments in the film were taken out of context and that he would not have agreed to take part if he had known it would argue that man-made global warming was not a serious threat. ‘I thought they were trying to educate the public about the complexities of climate change,’ he said. ‘This seems like a deliberate attempt to exploit someone who is on the other side of the issue.’ He is considering a complaint to Ofcom, the broadcast regulator.
http://www.rawstory.com/showarticle.php?src=http%3A%2F%2Fobserver.guardian.co.uk%2Fuk_news%2Fstory%2F0%2C%2C2031455%2C00.html
The most damaging aspect of Andrew Giuliani’s remarks could come down to his surely unintended role as a town crier. He clued the rest of the country into what has long been common knowledge back home — how the former mayor treated his second wife, Ms. Hanover. In a performance that astonished even jaded New Yorkers, Mr. Giuliani declared his intention to divorce her at a news conference, catching Ms. Hanover unawares.
She then met with reporters and, in a shaky voice, implied that before Ms. Nathan came into the picture, her husband had had a relationship with his former communications director (which both parties denied).
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/11/weekinreview/11purnick.html?hp=&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1173568652-3JbEj5x3QvTMiQVICNWsmw
Sue P, I am more disappointed in most Americans for not ALL demanding Arrest and Impeachment of This 👿 bush and his 👿 administration. The Truth about bush’s Lies are “out”, even those on the Sunday :rofl2: News :rofl2: Shows :nod: and putting up with YEARS that this type of action has been in play … :doh: :paranoid: :growl: and now we have Necro pawn:eek: . :reaper: eck.
It’s EVEN THE SAME Game with the SAME players 🙄
a.i.v.
We all have a sound track of embarrassing pop hits as the background music to the big changes in our lives. There’s a few ELO songs that take me back to a camping trip in the Redwoods. :slap:
Sue P, That is a perfect example… We know he is a MAJOR NATIONAL PUBLIC LIAR AND CHEAT. A N Y O N E …who votes for him shows what and who they are — REGARDLESS.
HE should be PUBLICLY LASHED. Not because he had an affair :no: , but that he was EVIL Cruel ❗
A.I.V.
Kristapea :rofl2: 😉
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Sue P, re 21 8) :pirate: 8)
:pirate: a.i.v.
Tom Scholz, the brains behind Boston, is a true political progressive whatever anyone thinks of the band or its music. He is also one smart electrical engineer as it takes one to know one.
WebHubbleTelescope 😉 re 28 :banana: :nod: 8)
A.I.V.
Thanks, Web. I guess that explains how he got screwed by FDG.
Speaking of Don’t Look Back…
wvmc3d, “Don’t Look Back”Tres 8) Cool,
whether sung or watched 😉
:nod: A.I.V.
Oh, hell, Boston is high school for me, and I still crank up Foreplay/Long Time, More than a Feeling, among others whenever they come on the radio (generally in the car; great driving music). ELO had some great stuff, too. Always though Fire on High was a great song (plus, if you play it backwards, it says “The music is reversible, but time is not! Turn back, turn back, turn back”). And, let’s face it, Don’t Bring Me Down (Bruce) is so dumb that it’s great, in its own way.
Greetings all, say has anyone heard from Kristin? I can’t seem to dig up an email address for her and I wonder how she’s doing.
Sorry about #30. I forgot Pennebaker also made a film about the dreaded Al Franken.
My bad. :spank: :crap: :yawn: :yawn: :yawn:
This one might not mean much to anyone since FK does not seem to be around but just a little sadness from the lands of arrogance and humor…
Charles Einstein — S.F. sportswriter and prolific author
After moving to New York City, Mr. Einstein’s parents divorced and his father went to Los Angeles.
Both parents later remarried, and his father had three sons, the actor Albert Brooks, comedian Bob Einstein, whose stage name is Super Dave Osborne, and Clifford Einstein, an advertising executive who chairs the board of the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art.
andy aka Aquaman, Tea Cheers :joe: Awwwww
has anyone heard from Kristin? Sorry, I was wondering myself… ❓ Candle in the Window soon? 😉
a.i.v.
Alright, one more weird thing I don’t think that I have seen here.
Maron was the fill in this weekend in Chicago for Richard Jeni who apparently ended his life Saturday morning.
Oh, wow, I knew that Marc was filling in for him, but hadn’t heard about his death. That’s very sad.
Yes, wvmc3d, You know many here like Al. He got many, including me, here 😉 Dramatis Personae
Blessings in their Death. :om: AWN
A.I.V.
This is from Salon (if you’re not a subscriber, you’ll need to watch an ad for a day pass).
I guess maybe that’s to teach ’em a lesson about bitching about military hospital conditions (or lack of body armor).
Sorry, D-666 – I was apologizing to the Franken haters. He kind of fills the Hillary/DLC role for comedian/talk show hosts in a lot of places. I’ve asked honorable sandbox master for a tongue in cheek emo but I am sure it is not on his short list of things to do.
Jeni was about Maron’s age. From another place on the internets…
He hosted the “International Rock Critic Awards” in L.A. back in the mid-’90s and he was hilarious. He’s the one who told the joke about America and “A Horse With No Name” that I’ve quoted around here:
“You’ve been in the desert for days. You’ve got nothing better to do. Name the fucking horse!”
OK. That should be it for me. I fear I am in violation of the new ‘quality, not quantity’ ethos.
tongue in cheek emo here
Giuliani, in 1989, says that there must be public funding for abortions for poor women.
I, of course, agree. But, if these right wingers nominate him, after beating us over the head with their concern for fetuses, then it will be fair to say that their only principle is the desire for authoritarian government. :barf: Why did I ever believe they were sincere about anything?
http://hotlineblog.nationaljournal.com/archives/2007/03/giuliani_in_89.html
re 40 This is insane ❗
Do you think I will ever get an alert from MoveOn re this???
This Is Wrong 🙁
ARREST [we did get some on them arrested YEA] ❗ IMPEACH ❗
A.I.V.
GiuliLame, is a whore unless his whore is paying him…then he would be her prostitute, which he is a prostitute for the rethugs … toxic slime puke, they be :barf: = :crap:
:growl: A.I.V.
Mitch McConnell’s Debt
Maron’s age … wow …
Cheers to you Jeni :alc: Charles Einstein — S.F. sportswriter and prolific author :alc: My Father, :alc: Those That Die This Day, :alc:
:gate: Blessings :knit:
AND To Those Still Standing :alc: Cheers
A.I.V.
The Horse’s Name was EITHER :
“No Name” or “Hey You, You Fucking Horse” :rofl2: 🙄 :rofl2:
Tea :joe: 🙄 … Any Minute :nod: A.I.V.
Nice collection of Fux “News” screenshots.
Sanchez, a California Democrat, added that she is “hopeful that the Bush Administration will work with us to get to the truth of this issue, especially after reading the Attorney General’s stated support for legislation that would take politics out of the U.S. attorney selection process.”
See, this is why I like Linda Sanchez. She can say something like that with a straight face. I would dissolve into helpless laughter halfway through the sentence if I tried that.
Not to mention that her sister Loretta is :hot: :hot: :hot: :hubba:
We all have a sound track of embarrassing pop hits as the background music to the big changes in our lives. There’s a few ELO songs that take me back to a camping trip in the Redwoods.
Comment by Kristapea — March 11, 2007 @ 12:59 pm
What was his name?
Nice collection of Fux “News†screenshots.
Comment by pjsauter — March 11, 2007 @ 6:33 pm
In the lower-right-hand corner of the first picture, I’m pretty sure that guy is NOT Nas. I have all of Nas’ CDs, and although he’s been through a few changes in style, he doesn’t look anything like that guy.
http://www.defjam.com/site/artist_home.php?artist_id=608
I know it’s Fox News, but still.
:rofl2:
As Germany was busy losing WWI, German soldiers, some with missing limbs, were declared fit for duty and sent back to the lines. What are we doing sending soldiers that are not fit for duty to Iraq? I guess I’m in one of my “I can’t believe it throes.” ( Not to be confused with Chaney’s last throes.)
Kristol: He needs to pardon Libby now. I think that would actually reinvigorate his supporters and show that he’s willing to fight to defend his people and defend the war that he led us into.
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/03/11/bill-kristol-free-libby-now/
Joe Conason, blogging at FDL about his new book, had this comment:
I miss doing the show with Al, too, of course. It was always a fun way to end the week and I became good friends with Al, Franni, Katherine, Ben Wikler, and a lot of other people associated with the show. I also rediscovered my own love for doing radio. So we’ll see what happens. For now I’m planning to appear on Sam Seder’s show every Friday morning (ET)…but I am getting feelers from other progressive radio producers.
http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/03/11/fdl-book-salon-joe-conason-it-is-happening-here/
You know, it just amazes me that you can buy a 500-gig hard drive for $150.
What was his name?
Comment by Kevin M — March 11, 2007 @
😛 😆
Is Kristol in some sorta nether world with George Will and Barney the dog?
55. What a RAID that would make. Jeez, I remenber when 10MB was huge.
Re 53 … He needs a good right and left hook :growl: :fist: :yippee: :pirate: a.i.v.
Just for grins, my very first computer. I had the 10 MB HD instead of the second floppy. Man I still have a stack of 5.25 floppies.
Wow, a 10 meg HDD? I had a cassette drive. Pop the tape in, go away for a half hour or so, and see if the damn program loaded. If not, try again.
😮 they made things that small!
Just got back from
FUCKINGSchamburg and Maron’s gig.Awesome.
Just fucking awesome.
Got a ride to the CTA (!) station from the owner of the Chicago Improv. Why? Because Maron asked me for a ride (does a CTA U-Pass count?) and instead he got the owner to drive me to the station before he got dropped off at the hotel.
Awesome.
If I can have a decent conversation with the headliner of a comedy show while comic book boys get autographs… then my standards for normal people conversation have skyrocketed.
Awwwwwwwesome.
and my e-mail’s kbarri@saic.edu.
Details Kristin!! I’ll probably have to read them tomorrow. I sent you an email at you gmail account about 2 hours ago.
I’m still processing it (and slapping my head for a couple of the dumb things I said).
Gave him a string bag I crocheted and some lithographs. One was a tryptic that I made last summer when TMMS ended. The words and a drawing for “Philosopher Kings and Queens” “Working Class Heroes” and “Progressive Utopians with no sense of humor” with different colored backgrounds. And then a trial run on a litho I did a week or so ago based on Montana Wildfire pics.
Awesome.