I care less and less who’s on these shows every week. And I mostly didn’t really give a shit in to begin with. But, anyway….
On Press the Meat, it’s the big dog himself, Bill Clinton. Then it’s a roundtable with dickhead Dan Balz of the WaPost, everybody’s favorite Nazi, Pat Buchanan, David “Gilligan” Gregory, and Tavis Smiley.
Over at CBS, Bobby Schieffer hosts Bill Richardson, Lawrence Wright of the New Yorker, piece of crap wingnut Danielle Pletka of the American Enterprise Institute, and Robin Wright (but not the good one) of the Washington Post.
On Fux News Sunday, weaselface Wallace hosts Chuck Schumer, Mississippi cracker Trent Lott, David Yespen of the Des Moines Register, and James Pindell of the Boston Globe. Plus the usual nutjobs.
George Snufalufagus has Newt “not running” Gingrich, plus Bill Clinton once again. Then it’s a roundtable with former Pentagon spokesbitch Torie Clark, Donna Brazile and George :jerK: Will. Plus, Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus.
Wolf Blitzer’s Late Emission might be interesting, as Wolfie had Seymour Hersh in to talk about our upcoming war with Iran.
Later, on 60 Minutes, Steve Kroft does a story on Clarence Thomas (whoopdie fuckin’ doo), Katie Couric does a story on a kid that was killed by modern medicine, and Scott Pelley does a story on Vince Young.
I think you’re better off just listening to Sammy.
Last day of September; make it a good one.
First!
Great pics PJ….is that from last week?
Its Clinton morning…again!
another wonderful morning in paradise :omg:
Gingrich to sit out 2008 presidential race
Good.
Awe, Marc 🙁 Don’t be down. If you’d only come over to the blog you’d get lotsa love :love:
Those pictures are from yesterday. Here are some more.
This one came first.
PJ, thanks for the pictures. It looks like a successful march. Unfortunately, our preznit is a delusional, homicidal jerk with a VP who makes sure reality never intrudes.
It took just eight decades but H.L. Mencken’s astute prediction on the future course of American presidential politics and the electorate’s taste in candidates came true:
On July 26, 1920, the acerbic and cranky scribe wrote in The Baltimore Sun: ” . . . all the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre — the man who can most easily (and) adeptly disperse the notion that his mind is a virtual vacuum. The presidency tends, year by year, to go to such men. As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day, the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
My late good buddy Leon Daniel, a wire service legend for 40 years at United Press International, dredged up that Mencken quote several years ago and found that it was a perfect fit for George W. Bush, The Decider. MSNBC’s Keith Olberman highlighted the same quote this week. A tip of the hat to both of them, and to Mencken.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/19824.html
Kristapea, you ave been missing the bird flu panis, perhaps this can take its place:
It sounds like science fiction but it’s true: An amoeba living in lakes enters the body through the nose and attacks the brain where it feeds until you die.
Even though encounters with the microscopic bug are extraordinarily rare, it has killed six boys and young men this year. The spike in cases has health officials concerned, and they are predicting more cases in the future.
“This is definitely something we need to track,” said Michael Beach, a specialist in recreational waterborne illnesses for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
“This is a heat-loving amoeba. As water temperatures go up, it does better,” Beach said. “In future decades, as temperatures rise, we’d expect to see more cases.”
According to the CDC, the amoeba called Naegleria fowleri killed 23 people in the United States from 1995 to 2004. This year health officials noticed a spike with six cases – three in Florida, two in Texas, and one in Arizona. The CDC knows of only several hundred cases worldwide since its discovery in Australia in the 1960s.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2007/09/30/brain_eating_amoeba_kills_6_this_year/
Florida, Texas, and Arizona? Sounds like it’s an anti-republican amoeba.
Wow, that Bird Flu sounds like a major crisis that we really should all be losing sleep over :bf: I’m so sick of fear mongering. :reaper:
Yesterday’s demo here in Syracuse was historic in that it is the first anti-war action precipitated by IVAW & active duty soldiers at Fort Drum, just north of here. Here’s Newday’s coverage of yesterday’s event.
The speaker panel @ SU in the evening was awesome and I tried recording it on my mp3 player, but the POS crapped out on me :smack: . Scott Ritter, Jim Massey, and Dr. Dahlia Wasfi were great. :love:
There were several hundred people in the audience from all over NYS and some from California & Massachusetts and a couple of other places I can’t think of right now. And no one got tasered for being long winded. But there was also a lot of truth telling, so I guess there was no need for it.
Work was begun on organizing a statewide network of peace & veterans groups to begin working together to coordinate political action toward ending the occupation. It has to start from the bottom up. And I know Fred thinks this is all just a stupid waste of time, but nothing’s going to happen if you just sit back & do nothing, so a part of the revolution is starting RIGHT HERE in Upstate NY and I hope it keeps spreading.
Anyway, PJ & The Dog :pup: are waiting for me :tap: so that The Dog :pup: can go for his romp in the park, so I gotta skedaddle.
Later, Bloggies :dancers:
:fist: A!I!V! :fist: VIGILANCE! :fist:
Hey Roxie, I don’t know whether or not that’s Amy in the commerical you mentioned yesterday, because I haven’t seen the commercial. I’ll try to look for it, though.
Man, am I sore today. I spent some extra time working out after work on Friday, including this ab thing that someone at work showed me, and for some reason my body delayed the attack of major soreness until today. I had kinda expected it yesterday.
Not to be defeated, I’m on my way back into the fitness center now to fight through the pain. Or maybe to pour a couple of beers over it when I get done.
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Tom Friedman, who gave us the Friedman Unit, FU, (6 months) has changed his tune:
9/11 has made us stupid. I honor, and weep for, all those murdered on that day. But our reaction to 9/11 — mine included — has knocked America completely out of balance, and it is time to get things right again.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/30/opinion/30friedman.html?ref=todayspaper
I heard about that ameoba, Sue. Ick! Brain eating ameoba BE GONE! :reaper:
Alarmed at the chance that the Republican party might pick Rudolph Giuliani as its presidential nominee despite his support for abortion rights, a coalition of influential Christian conservatives is threatening to back a third-party candidate in an attempt to stop him.
The group making the threat, which came together Saturday in Salt Lake City during a break-away gathering during a meeting of the secretive Council for National Policy, includes Dr. James Dobson of Focus on the Family, who is perhaps the most influential of the group, as well as Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council, the direct mail pioneer Richard Viguerie and dozens of other politically-oriented conservative Christians, participants said. Almost everyone present expressed support for a written resolution that “if the Republican Party nominates a pro-abortion candidate we will consider running a third party candidate.â€
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/09/30/christan-conservatives-consider-third-party-effort/index.html?hp
OK, well, I feel obliged to at least get this to 20 comments. Though I don’t have much to say.
I’m having a tough time getting through the “Red Lotus” part of Rainbow Six. I’m not exactly a “natural” at these video games.
Phony soldiers.
Damn, I’m getting old.
We don’t usually do celebrity birthdays here at Crooks and Liars, but since “Zappa†has its own category at this blog, it’s only fitting that we should wish a happy birthday to Frank Zappa’s daughter, Moon Unit, who turns 40 this weekend.
From December 4 through 22, The Aristocrats will host, and a great many blogs will participate in, a celebration of the late Frank Zappa, in the annual blog event known as Zappadan.
Like OMG! Happy birthday Moon, fer sure. :cake:
Yeah, I saw that. It made me think, “I’m older than Moon Unit.”
1,500 more visitors, and we’ll hit 300,000. Thank goodness for the lurkers.
Thanks, Roxie, for those comments about that astro stuff yesterday. I’ll mention the revolving thing for sure
The idiot wing-nut Matt Drudge is giving up his weekly radio program. The loser apparently couldn’t take it.
I didn’t know Drudge had a radio program.