Despite the fact that most folks seem to realize that the Swine Flu isn’t the Apocalypse (are Americans finally beginning to see the light, and quit being manipulated by the media’s bullshit?), Press the Meat will try and drum up the fear, with HHS Sec. Kathleen Sebelius, DHS Sec. Janet Napolitano, and CDC Acting Dir. Dr. Richard Besser. Then, just how fucked is the Republican Party? Arlen Specter will be on to speculate, and former RNC chair Ed Gillespie comes out of his closet to chat with Mornin’ Joe Scarborough.
While Gillespie and Scarborough stroke each other, Specter, Sebelius, Besser, and Napolitano all jump in a cab and head over to CBS to appear on Faze the Nation.
Keep the meter running, cabbie, ‘cuz Napolitano, Sebelius and Besser will need it to head over to Fux News Sunday and chat with Weaselface Wallace. Specter, of course, is persona non grata at Fux News, so Majority Whip Dick Durbin and Republican Policy Committee Chairman John Ensign will be on to talk about him. Along with the usual Fuxheads, Power Player of the Week Chris Buckley will be on to hopefully tell the Weasel how ashamed his father would be of the Republicans, if he were around today.
Over on the Goebbels network, Pat Leahy and Orrin Hatch talk SCOTUS with George Snufalufagus, until the trio of Napolitano, Sebelius and Besser hit the scene. Then it’s a roundtable of pinhead emeritus George :jerk: Will, Paul Krugman, PBS’s Gwen Ifill, and the WSJ hack Gerald Seib.
Later, on 60 Minutes, Ecuadorians are suing Chevron because oil drilling in the Amazon jungle by Texaco polluted their fragile environment, Saudi Arabia says it’s attempting re-educate Osama bin Laden’s followers, and Morley Safer reports on the Antinori family, who have been in the wine business for 600 years.
Have a good Sunday, everybody.
The Japanese are mad at Google for publishing old maps that display areas where the “burakumin” (a bottom of the barrel Japanese caste forced into isolation because they did “dirty” jobs associated with death, like leatherworking, butchering animals and grave digging).
Aw, the poor Japanese. I hope they won’t be too upset to go out and kill whales.
So, Jack Kemp died. Without his championing of tax cuts for rich people and supply-side economics, our economy wouldn’t be where it is today.
Thanks, Jack!
Frank Rich taught me a new word this morning: hagiography.
Is that a word I should’ve already known? I did have a public school education, after all, so they probably had to leave a few words out.
I’m glad to see you PJ. I was beginning to worry.
Iwould have been happy to do the morning rant, but I didn’t know if you were going to do it or not (and you’ve really been doing great stuff).
A group of prominent GOP leaders yesterday launched an effort to improve their party’s sagging image, hosting an event at which they did not directly attack President Obama, rarely used the word “Republican” and engaged in a healthy dose of self-criticism.
At a pizza restaurant in Arlington, where they officially unveiled the National Council for a New America, party leaders attempted to portray Republicans as sensitive to the concerns of average Americans and to shake off the “Party of No” label that Democrats have tried to affix to the GOP
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The three men (Cantor, Romney and Jeb Bush) were flanked by banners bearing the name of the council and its Web address
http://www.wethepeopleplan.org
, but there were no obvious signs that it was a major Republican initiative. They repeatedly noted that they were speaking about policy, not politics, and they touted conservative ideas on issues such as health care and education while bemoaning initiatives that involved more government intervention.
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Cantor took the lead in forming the group, which he says is officially nonpartisan, though it includes no Democrats and will be operated out of his office.
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A standing-room-only crowd of more than 100 packed the Pie-tanza restaurant for yesterday’s event.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/02/AR2009050202082.html
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#1 – You got me upset about the whales again, pj. What IS it the Japanese don’t get about whale killing? Talk about piss-poor education.
Read this about hand-washing and you won’t go to the bathroom without gloves. I knew this stuff and am a good hand-washin practitioner AND use paper towels to touch handles upon exit, but reading about the actual spread of disease just re-grossed me out. btw, my dad said he rarely sees men wash their hands afterwords in public bathrooms. :paranoid:
Looked like everybody was in their swine flu bunkers, and I was out cutting the grass so we could get out for our doggy play date with the boys’ country cousins, so I figured one post could handle the eight or so comments over two days.
I was told to start by grabbing some paper towels and to use those towels to turn on and off the water as well as to exit. When you have washed your hands, even though you dry them thoroughly, they remain a bit damp and that wetness acts as a wick for soaking up stuff from surfaces you touch.
I turn the handles with my mouth, so I don’t have to use my hands.
Of course, I have kind of a potty mouth anyway.
#8, yep, yep.
This is pretty funny:
How I hate to hear the Rethug talking point, “activist judges blah blah” when their judges are the most radical ignoring precedent and entire bodies of legal work. My former boss loss a huge case because a republican federal judge ruled against him, a developer, and upheld the government’s viewpoint. In fact, the judge went out of his way to rule in favor of the government. I tried to explain to this rethug-boss that the type of judges he supports via his votes & money put corporations and governments ahead of human beings. Consistently. The boss-dude just couldn’t comprehend it. Ha. Idiot.
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I know the Roman laundries used to use urine to get the togas nice and white, and I’ve heard that peeing on your feet in the shower kills athlete’s foot fungus, so maybe we should just pee on our hands and not even bother with the washing nonsense.
well, that might be easier for you than me, pj.
You have to laud Jack Kemp’s persistence, after having gotten cut by the Calgary CFL team.
But on his tax policies he should have given up long ago. There are two limits on trickle-down taxing. At one limit, you can tax at 0.00001% and the government would be guaranteed to not get any money. Or you can tax at 99.9% and the government would have a hard time collecting anything. So there is a sweet spot somewhere in there that Kemp and his ilk would never acknowledge. Some say this optimal sweet spot is a lot closer to 60% than 15%.
Depends on what you tax, too. Taxing, say, 15% of 100% of the rich folks’ income, that’s one thing. But if you tax 15% of about 30% of their income, that’s something else. The rich folks already get to hide their assets and play accounting games in order to avoid paying taxes, so I say Eisenhower had it right. Jack it up to 90%.
The top 20% own something like 85% of the wealth in this country, so they ought to be paying 85% of the taxes.
Any truth to the rumor that Joe Biden causes swine flu? I don’t have any proof to back this up, I just felt like starting some shit. The Repiglicans do it all the time, so why not?
The corollary to the first rumor is that Arlen Specter switched parties to keep from being infected with swine flu by Joe Biden on the Amtrak from DC to Philly.
As Kenneth the Page would say, It’s True!
Jon Stewart on swine flu:
http://blogs.citypages.com/blotter/2009/05/jon_stewart_on.php
#9… :rofl2: :banana:
#19 is what happens when the cat helps you type. :cat:
mornin!
i thought it was “give the webmaster a day off day”