This is better than a usual Sunday, since I don’t have to go to work tomorrow. Otherwise, it’s pretty much bidness as usual.
On Press the Meat, Timmy Potatohead should look even uglier than usual this week, as he hosts John Edwards. Then it’s one of the lamest roundtables ever, with David Brody from the Jesus channel, David Broder from whatever fantasy world he lives in these days, the insipid Margaret Carlson, and fellow SU alum, Ted Koppel. Then Jay Barbree takes a look back at Sputnik.
At CBS, Faze the Nation has Charlie Rangel, but it’s all downhill from there, as the other guests include some Florida wingnut congressman named Adam Putnam, asshole Tony Perkins (not the good one), from the “Family Research Council,” and Roger Simon of the ever-incorrect Politico.com.
On Fux News Sunday, Weaselface Wallace has Nancy Pelosi, on to talk about what the Democrats will cave in to Bush on next, and Hillary’s Campaign Manager, Patti Solis Doyle. Plus the usual Fux News meatheads, including Bill O’Reilly’s BFF, Juan Williams.
On the Goebbels network, George Snufalufagus has Bill Richardson, and then HHS Secretary Michael Leavitt will be on to tell us why it’s a good thing that Bush hates children, while NJ Gov. Jon Corzine tells us why sick kids without insurance really isn’t a good thing. At the roundtable, it’ll be Katrina vanden Heuvel, surrounded by Jay Carney-Shipman, Claire Shipman-Carney and of course, George :jerk: Will.
At the Crappy News Network, Wolf Blitzer’s Late Emission included some guy named Talibani from Iraq (he’s, like, the “President” or something”), Sudanese Foreign Minister Lam Akol, Bill Clinton’s Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, Susan Rice, human rights activist John Prendergast, and the one, the only, Mr. Andrea Mitchell himself, Alan Greenspan.
Later, on 60 Minutes, it’s The Boss, interviewed by Scott Pelley. Steve Kroft talks to Interpol’s secretary general, Ron Noble. Lesley Stahl reports on how DNA is being used to trace family ancestry, and Morley Safer does a story on Forrest Bird’s, who invented the respirator.
Enjoy your Sunday.
FUBAR … Something Must Change :pirate:
I Need My Tankard of Tea. (Stoneware with a Wizard on it in an Alchemist’s Tower Lair) (similar also as NOLA ‘s Architect’s Vic Interior, he did for Himself, that I now sit in) pirate: ALPHA A!I!V! … :pirate: :dancers:
May There Always Be A Dance In Your Step :banana: :dancers: :rofl2:
And A Twinkle In Your Eye :cake: 💡 :santacool: 8) 💡
Haven’t said this in a long time:
KING KONG, Where for art thou? :yinyang:
President Bush yesterday signaled a willingness to spend more than what he had recommended for a popular children’s health program, but he provided no specifics on how much higher he would go.
The president on Wednesday vetoed legislation that would increase spending for the State Children’s Health Insurance Program by $35 billion over five years. Bush initially called for a $5 billion increase. Several Republicans in both chambers have sided with Democratic lawmakers on the issue.
“If putting poor children first takes a little more than the 20 percent increase I have proposed in my budget for SCHIP, I am willing to work with leaders in Congress to find the additional money,” Bush said in his weekly radio address
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2007/10/07/bush_softens_his_stance_on_childrens_insurance_program/
Good op-ed from Paul Krugman, about Conservatives and the less fortunate members of our society. He sums it all up nicely in the final sentence:
Here’s more humor for the Repigs:
Tens of thousands of Medicare recipients have been victims of deceptive sales tactics and had claims improperly denied by private insurers that run the system’s huge new drug benefit program and offer other private insurance options encouraged by the Bush administration, a review of scores of federal audits has found.
The problems, described in 91 audit reports reviewed by The New York Times, include the improper termination of coverage for people with H.I.V. and AIDS, huge backlogs of claims and complaints, and a failure to answer telephone calls from consumers, doctors and drugstores.
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For years, Democrats have complained about efforts to “privatize Medicare,†and they are likely to cite the findings as evidence that private insurers cannot be trusted to care for the sickest, most vulnerable Medicare recipients.
But federal officials point with pride to their efforts to police the Medicare market, and they say that competition among private plans has been a boon to beneficiaries, offering more choices at lower cost than anyone expected.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/07/us/07medicare.html?_r=1&hp=&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1191762564-7RFqrBgb3oxoSFxFhMcBcw
No wonder he’s a Repig:
The announcement by Senator Pete V. Domenici of New Mexico that he has a progressive brain disease and will not seek re-election has left unanswered questions about how the illness is affecting him and whether it could interfere with his plans to remain in the Senate until his current term expires in January 2009.
Mr. Domenici, who is 75 and in his sixth term, revealed on Thursday that he had frontotemporal lobar degeneration, a term that describes a family of diseases that damage parts of the brain that control language, behavior, planning, organizing, decision-making and movement. Patients can have either speech problems or behavioral ones, or both, and the symptoms can vary from subtle to flagrant. There is no treatment or cure. The cause is not known, though in about 40 percent of cases, there is a family history of it.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/07/us/07dementia.html?ref=todayspaper
What has happened to Thom Friedman Unit?
Every so often a quote comes out of the Bush administration that leaves you asking: Am I crazy or are they? I had one of those moments last week when Dana Perino, the White House press secretary, was asked about a proposal by some Congressional Democrats to levy a surtax to pay for the Iraq war, and she responded, “We’ve always known that Democrats seem to revert to type, and they are willing to raise taxes on just about anything.â€
Yes, those silly Democrats. They’ll raise taxes for anything, even — get this — to pay for a war!
And if we did raise taxes to pay for our war to bring a measure of democracy to the Arab world, “does anyone seriously believe that the Democrats are going to end these new taxes that they’re asking the American people to pay at a time when it’s not necessary to pay them?†added Ms. Perino. “I just think it’s completely fiscally irresponsible.’
Friends, we are through the looking glass. It is now “fiscally irresponsible†to want to pay for a war with a tax. These democrats just don’t understand: the tooth fairy pays for wars. Of course she does — the tooth fairy leaves the money at the end of every month under Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson’s pillow. And what a big pillow it is! My God, what will the Democrats come up with next? Taxes to rebuild bridges or schools or high-speed rail or our lagging broadband networks? No, no, the tooth fairy covers all that. She borrows the money from China and leaves it under Paulson’s pillow.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/07/opinion/07friedman.html?ref=todayspaper
Idaho Hall-of-Famer, Larry Craig.
Maybe they’ll raise taxes to pay for the war with Iran?
Looks like Johnny Cougar went and pissed of Jena’s mayor.
Re #5, :slap: I read that article just before I came across this –“medicine” in this country is just so totally SICK :fu: :omg:
I probably forgot to mention that one of Friday’s friends with T Bone Burnett was John Cougar :billcat: who performed Jena. More Jena story, lyrics, and video.
The most recent Maron/Seder vidcast is now up. Actual show starts around 32:20 in.
On Shelter Island our water is supplied by a company which has a large well. The water comes into a holding tank in the basement. Yesterday we discovered the tank was leaking; this morning it was gushing.
I have persuaded hubby to call several plumbers but so far none has called back. (Plumbers are a snooty lot) Hubby says that if we can’t find a plumber he’ll replace the tank, himself. Of course, since he can only get around on crutches, I’m to supply the muscle. This is not good. Muscle is not my forte. In the past, I have dropped heavy things on hubby. We pick up something together and hubby asks, “Have you got it?” Of course I’ve got it. He’s holding the other end. Then he lets go and I’ve no longer got it.
This is not shaping up as a good day.
Hello all! Just about got a virus removal done and man this was tough, it removed the adminstrative rights and the control panel and no net access.
It’s official. My support of Dennis Kucinich is being put on the back burner for the next week or two in a last-ditch effort to promote the re-election of Al Gore.
I can’t promote his re-election campaign because there’s no campaign yet.
Here’s the game plan: Gore is announced Friday as the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. He is so overwhelmed with public support that he announces his candidacy the following Tuesday.
Biden and Dodd promptly drop out of the race. Edwards also drops out a few days later, after sealing the deal to be Gore’s running mate.
(Listen, I know that a ticket with two guys from the South offers no geographical balance, but it worked before. Besides, it’s MY fantasy, so indulge me.)
Six weeks later, after much agonizing, Obama drops out and pledges his support to the Gore/Edwards ticket. Oprah devotes back-to-back shows to the issues of global warming and proper counting of votes in national elections.
This is where the fantasy sort of breaks down, because I haven’t figured out what to do with Hillary. I don’t wish her any harm, I just don’t want her to be the nominee. Which is where Al Gore comes in.
So I guess chapter two will have to wait for another day.
Okay Kevin, I’ll jump on board your fantasy. Sounds good to me. I’ll be waiting to see what you do with Hillary. :rofl2:
Sue P. ( :rofl2: ) and RAGING Granny re #5 & #11,
:tap: TickTock (where’s the CLOCK) :tap:
re #5 and #11 made copies… have to deal with animals, clean certain areas, exercise, do some garbage, pick up “poop” (not “poof” :rofl2: LBH) ……….. get back here to dissect both articles (with Tankard of Tea) … and do certain things about certain things………. I was that lil girl (few that we are/WERE, since now I think they give to most everyone) and I know parents and “certain teachers” that would have OD’d on me if there were “drugs” back then (LBH & reality). :no:
Tankard of Tea :joe: Cheers to all. 8) :banana: :yippee: :dancers: 8)
ByThe Way, :love: 8) :dancers: , We had “Blues by the Bay”.
😳 (Perhaps one year, one day.)
:omg: :spank: :hubba:
BTW ALL GREETINGS TO ROXIE and to the “OTHER ONE” some here may wish to share… 😉 :dancers: I Soooooo Overgave the old Cheers, would LUV :love: :love: To Have New and REFRESH’D Greetings ❗ A!I!V! For What It’s Worth.
:yippee: Also I want to Save a PitBull (since I am called a “pitbull” cuz I Never Let Go Of An Issue.) (…and I always wished to be save’d whilst I Save (it’s complicated :roll:)
So that is what I want (It could be diamonds)… :rofl2: 😆 :rofl2: 8)
BUT reminded of JENA 6 and muttering BUT it is the 21rst Century
*poof*
Well we managed to install a small holding tank that Hubby had gotten from a neighbor in anticipation of yet another project. We’ll have to get a new and bigger one pretty quickly but at the moment we have water from the faucets and not on the basement floor.
We have some relatives that live out on the eastern plains where they farm 15,000 acres for ADM
They have a pressure tank that holds about 500 gallons of water up on a stand outside the house.
I have never figured out how that worked very well in the winter time.
They had a low flying twister about five years ago that took the tank but left their roof , They were spending the night down in the storm cellar so they didn’t realize what had happened until the next morning when they had no water pressure. 😮 😯
Hopefully Sue P has a floor drain in the basement. :reaper: :reaper:
One of the problems with running Gore again is that their already exits a play book for the Reich wing talkers to use .. It will be a grand slime throwing contest…. I think the candidate with the least known about them would actually work better.. They might be new enough that they are not in someones hip pocket yet too. :tap: :reaper:
I think the IDIOT MORONS that have become accustomed to automatically voting rethug have been brain washed into keying on the word taxes .. it makes them turn into rabid dogs. :yuck: :crap: :paranoid: We all know what we do with a rapid dog.. :tommygun: :tommygun:
rethug + rabid = rabid rethug :pirate: :growl: :tap: A!I! one day V!
:tommygun:
I “Believe In Gore” and am ready to run interference! :growl: A!I!V!
:bf:
HELLO!
aliceiswonderland 8) CHEERS 😉 :banana: best emos ever :dancers: ) A!I!V! and Tea :joe: Tankard Cheers Vernon how was “whatever & maybe some blues :rofl2: ” I didn’t even go and I am tired,,,,and throw most animals out on this clear, soon to be rain, eve………Is anyone still there?