Today on Press the Meat, it’s whiny little conniving piece of crap Joe Lieberman, acting as head cheerleader (that’d be the one with the knee pads) for Grumpy old John McCain, and John Kerry. Plus, at the roundtable, it’s Andrea Mitchell (cutting her a little slack this week), piece of crap Mike Murphy, Chuckie Todd & Judy Woodruff.
Over at Faze the Nation, Bobby Schieffer hosts somebody who know something about economics (Robert Rubin), and somebody who doesn’t know shit about the economy (McCain ecoomic adviser, Carly Fiorina).
On Fux News Sunday, Weaselface Wallace gets li’l Lindsey Graham to come out of his closet for an interview, along with Tom Daschle, and this week’s Power Player, Ashley Judd. Plus the usual fuxheads, of course.
At the Goebbels network, George Snufalufagus hosts fancy Nancy Pelosi and rigid Tom Ridge. Plus there’s a roundtable of David Gergen, ABC News hack Jake “the snake” Tapper, political mastermind Donna Brazile, and of course George :jerk: Will.
CNN’s Late Emission includes on-again/off-again Democrat Claire McCaskill, Ohio organized crime members Rob Portman and Kenny “why isn’t this guy in jail yet” Blackwell, Maj. Gen. Mark Hertling (commander of U.S. forces in northern Iraq), Israeli foreign minister Tzipi Livni (great name), James K. Glassman, undersecretary of state (not a position I’d care to be in) for public diplomacy and public affairs, and one shill each from the Obama and McCain campaigns.
Later, on 60 Minutes, Steve Kroft does a double-length segment on the Kingdom of Dubai, and Morley Safer does a story on some guy who does statistical analysis for the Boston Red Sox. Oh boy.
Have a good Sunday. Damn, these weekends go too fast.
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Hey, it’s Sean! :dancers: :doh: :boobs: :nuts: :billcat:
Mornin’ Sean. Where are you?
Eight years ago, Mr. Jiménez, 35, an illegal immigrant working as a gardener in Stuart, Fla., suffered devastating injuries in a car crash with a drunken Floridian. A community hospital saved his life, twice, and, after failing to find a rehabilitation center willing to accept an uninsured patient, kept him as a ward for years at a cost of $1.5 million.
What happened next set the stage for a continuing legal battle with nationwide repercussions: Mr. Jiménez was deported — not by the federal government but by the hospital, Martin Memorial. After winning a state court order that would later be declared invalid, Martin Memorial leased an air ambulance for $30,000 and “forcibly returned him to his home country,†as one hospital administrator described it.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/03/us/03deport.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
I see my criticism of the healthcare system failed to note that it is an effective arm of the imigration bureau.
Last night I watched a PBS documentary “Beijing or Bust.” It followed 6 Chinese Americans and some native Chinese young people in Beijing. One issue it touched on was healthcare. As factories are privatized, the Chinese are losing their coverage. It struck me that we are very like China. It’s capitalism for those who make it. The rest are on their own and disposable.
Sunday (sorta)
CBS Sunday Morning is recycling a Stevie Winwood story I saw a while ago, I think on 60 Miniutes originally. Scared me for a second when I saw him on the soundless screen. I was afraid something had happened. I guess he’s OK.
:banana: vegas
I wonder where he’s trolling now. I seem to recall he had a special fondness for Kevin Mr. Manties himself.
Comment by Kristapea — August 2, 2008 @ 10:00 pm
Jeez, you mention Manties one time and you’re labelled for life.
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it’s Andrea Mitchell (cutting her a little slack this week)
For all I dislike about the way the MSM, including everyone at MSNBC not named Olbermann or Maddow, have been shitting on Obama in their efforts to keep the race close, competitive and therefore profitable for their place of employment…
…never in my wildest dreams did I think it would be Madame Botox who would be the one to stand up and show a spine.
Andrea, baby. Have I told you how hot courageousness makes me? :hubba: :hubba:
I think that’s the first time I ever threw up in my mouth a little bit from reading one of my own posts. :barf:
But seriously, good for Andrea. Not that I expect it will continue, but you take the little victories where you can find them.
The NY Post has published “What Conservatives Believe” by Phil Valentine
1. Conservatism makes for a productive society. Alexander Tytler said of democracy: “It can only exist until a majority of voters discover that they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury.” Liberalism has raided the treasury to take from the producers and give to those less productive, leaving neither side with an incentive to work for either themselves or a nation.
2. Conservatism is compassionate. Liberals measure compassion by how many people are on the government dole. Conservatives measure compassion by how many people are off of it. While liberalism, by its very nature, looks down its nose at the less fortunate, conservatism sees all people as worthy of making it on their own. Conservatism is about preserving one’s dignity, not robbing it.
3. Liberals are pessimists by nature. The currency of liberalism is fear. It trades on the fear that something disastrous will happen unless liberals are there to stop it. Global warming, losing Social Security, banning guns; they all work from the vantage point that if liberals aren’t in charge something horrific will happen. The allure of Ronald Reagan was his positive message. He spoke of America’s greatness. He inspired pride and patriotism instead of trying to tear the country down and blame it for all of the world’s problems as many liberals do.
4. Military strength deters aggression. Peaceniks look upon our military as a war machine, and use any moment of calm as an excuse to cut its budget. It is a peace machine. Each time we fail to back our military, it emboldens those who would undermine our democracy or that of our allies.
5. Belief in God is a cornerstone of our republic. Try as the liberals may to separate them, there is no Constitutional separation of church and state, only a protection of religion from the state. Our founders believed this country was divinely inspired and it was only by remembering our religious roots that we would survive.
6. Conservatism believes in the entrepreneur. People who start companies take huge risks and they deserve everything they get if they succeed. Liberals want to punish entrepreneurs through confiscatory taxes. That’s why the IRS tells us that the top 5 percent of wage-earners pays more than 50 percent of the income tax. If you want to create jobs and, in turn, more money in the treasury, you must lower taxes on the rich and allow more people to take more chances.
7. Political correctness is the liberal version of fascism. Liberals have attempted to control the debate in America by attempting to control the language, and they’ve succeeded to some degree. There’s been no bigger muzzle on free speech than political correctness.
8. Guns are good. Liberals are quick to defend our freedom of speech, press and our right to protest but they ignore our right to bear arms, which figures prominently into our Bill of Rights. These selective constitutionalists will erode all of our constitutional rights if they succeed in being able to cherry pick them when they’re convenient.
9. Quotas are wrong. Society seems oblivious to the obvious solution to discrimination: strict enforcement of antidiscrimination laws. Making innocent people pay for the sins of previous generations runs counter to our fundamental principles and undermines race relations in our society.
10. Conservatism is still relevant today. Both Democrats and Republicans have veered from the basic philosophy of less government and more personal responsibility. Government is these to do only what the private sector won’t, can’t or shouldn’t do. That means the government shouldn’t be subsidizing professional sports or multi-million-dollar corporations any more than it should be subsidizing an able-bodied man who can work but chooses not to. Government must return to the basic conservative philosophy, as Jefferson said, “The government is best which governs least.”
http://www.nypost.com/seven/08032008/postopinion/opedcolumnists/what_conservatives_believe_122753.htm?page=0
I’m sure McCain, the same insane old man, ascribes to all of this crap. Now I’m nauseous.
Oh my god, it’s raining here. Thunderstorms and lingering rain. Fourth driest year on record so far. I’ve gotten :barf: from the weatherpeople counting the record days of 90 plus heat we’ve had so far (twenty-something). :knit2: Maybe tonight they’ll find something else to talk about. :pup:
I couldn’t force myself to read the beliefs of conservatism in Sue’s post. I grew up in Kansas and heard all that shit when I was in HS. It’s all just an excuse for rascism and downward class warfare. I wonder if it would have to get to the point in this country that there’s dead bodies lying in the street………..or would the thugs just roll up the smoked windows in their Hummers so they don’t smell the stench :reaper: