Like everybody else, apparently, I don’t have much to say. But, we’ll give it the old college try (just remember, I dropped out of at least three colleges – that I remember)…
I don’t really know if Michael Steele ever had his shit, but if he did, he appears to have completely lost it now. It’s amazing how low the Republicans will stoop in order to get a token in place to have something to show to the media. First they anoint token female Sarah Palin as savior and future of their party. There are plenty of smart republican women out there, but they chose a moron instead (I assume that’s because smart women scare the hell out of Republicans). They obviously had a much more difficult time finding a token black guy, because there are fewer black Republicans than there are black Alaskans (note, I made that up, and while I don’t know whether or not it’s an accurate statement, it’s certainly a truthy one). Of course, I’m pretty sure a smart black guy scares Republicans even more than a smart woman, which is why Republicans would rather have had Hillary Clinton as President than Barack Obama (plus I think most of them have mommy fetishes that she could have fulfilled – completing the trilogy of Republican sex fantasies that includes chicks with dicks – transgender author Ann Coulter – and Asian schoolgirls Michelle Malkin).
In other news, Al Franken took one more step toward assuming office and beginning his 5-year term as Minnesota Senator. Just a few months of arguments before the MN Supreme Court, and then an appeal to SCOTUS remain (and then perhaps a new election). I’m not sure if all US Senate terms from MN are going to be 5 years from now on or not. I reckon we’re saving money on paying staff and salaries, though (I wonder if the pay is retroactive).
Meredith Viera just pimped the “big story” coming up on the Today Show, and it’s some pretty important stuff. Apparently new topless photos have emerged of everybody’s favorite twit, Miss California, Carrie What’shername. Though from what they just flashed on my screen, it appears she was wearing black electrical tape or something. Sadly, I don’t have time to watch the show (let alone do a Google image search).
I really don’t get what the big deal is with her. A bimbo with fake boobs from California that appears to be dumber than a box of rocks? That doesn’t strike me as being terribly unique. And as far as her being championed by the anti gay marriage crowd, I don’t know what that’s about either. I mean, she said “no offense to anybody, but I’m into opposite marriage.” So, OK, she’s entitled to whatever opinion that little walnut of a brain can muster up, but that didn’t exactly sound like the sort of venomous bile that would get the wingnuts all moist and dewy.
Leave it to Republicans. They can’t even get a token bleach blond bimbo right.
“black electrical tape” … that sounds pretty punk. Maybe Wendy O. Williams is up for a pageant competition.
The pilot that crashed looks like a google-eyed dufus that someone like David Cross would play on TV. Where do they find these people?
I want to fess up now, on behalf of teachers everywhere, Ms Cali and all her ilk, are my fault. We know that the only variable in school achievement is the teacher. Walnut brain doesn’t count. Surely with a “good” teacher she would be a Phi Beta Kappa gal. Perhaps she would have done better had she been educated using Neil Bushy’s COWS or had practiced more mind numbing test taking practice as his brother, the acknowledged education specialist, George, has prescribed. Mea culpa.
Why am I here, blogging at 10:50? Because today is the great end-term party which is a rite of passage at the end of every school year. The real question is why I hate a dread these things so much.
Of course of problem is that we’re going to a steak restaurant where I will have to ask that they put a bunch of veggies on a plate ’cause I’m a no-meater. But, it will still cost me $40. (It’s mid-town Manhattan, so that’s considered cheap.) Then of course there is the parking, another $40. so I can sit with me boss and try not to be the old hippie I am. I just can’t wait.
At least there is no Christmas party. I guess I should be grateful.
I’ve always wondered how grateful got to mean having gratitude when to grate means something is rubbing one the wrong way. Turns out it comes from Latin gratus meaning pleasing or agreeable. How then did gratus come to mean free of charge?
‘Cuz getting something free of charge is pleasing, and most people are agreeable to it?
See, now I’d have blamed Carrie’s stupidity on the hair chemicals leeching into her brain. But, now that you mention it, I guess it probably is because of the teachers. Not all of it, though. A lot of blame rests with the mother, of course.
I missed the return of Randi yesterday. I am not sure I will try to catch up w/ it today. I am still trying to catch up with all of the Daily Shows and Colbert Reprts I missed while away. It seems like something is breaking or is broken at BRL. Sam said that he would be ‘on the road’ filing now and then. No more live shows(?) and out of the break room. Maybe someone heard more or differently. I have been definitely multitasking.
I wonder how they will be doing the shows for Thursday and Friday when Marc is here for a three night stand with Janeane. I won a pair of tix for the second show Friday :banana: :cake: and plan to go again Saturday. I should get some better info then.
I think I added a few NOLa photos to the others if you want to look..
BRL is changing format, again. According to Marc part of their deal with AAR is to develop a show appropriate for TV, thus the experimenting. I think Marc is going to be in studio, lunchroom, storeroom…whatever and Sam will be doing reports from wherever he will be. We shall see.
It was reported on Tuesday that Lieutenant General Stanley McChrystal will be taking over command of US forces in Afghanistan, pending Senate approval.
McChrystal is presently director of the Joint Chiefs staff, but from September 2003 to August 2008, he headed the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), which oversees such elite units as the Army’s Delta Force and the Navy SEALs.
Famed investigative reporter Seymour Hersh recently described the JSOC as an “executive assassination wing” controlled for many years by the office of former Vice President Dick Cheney.
Speaking to a University of Minnesota audience in March, Hersh called JSOC “a special wing of our special operations community that is set up independently. … They do not report to anybody, except in the Bush-Cheney days, they reported directly to the Cheney office. … Congress has no oversight of it. … It’s an executive assassination ring essentially, and it’s been going on and on and on.
http://rawstory.com/blog/2009/05/did-newly-announced-top-afghan-general-run-cheneys-assassination-wing/
Hey, Vernon. Yeah, Sam is going to be doing “field work” with Marc, apparently, doing the live shows. Of course, we’re still waiting for the “field work” from Sue Ellicott, too. 😉
If you get to chat with Marc, make sure he knows this PJ’s e-mail putz isn’t me! I only get to see the shows the next day, and not live.
Maybe Sam is going on the road to look for Sue. 🙂
McChrystal is the guy who was in charge of Special Forces when Pat Tillman was murdered. He suspected a cover-up at the time but not enough to inform the family of anything.
“Heck of a job, Stanley”
http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1897542,00.html
Geithner is supposed to let us know within an hour that Social Security will be bankrupt as soon as we wake up from the dream.
http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?docID=cqmidday-000003115338
i’m here, i’m reading, i’d fix your car if you lived close by, love y’all!
(just reading Farley Mowat’s “Otherwise”. a wonderful look at the the 30’s and 40’s in Canada from his perspective.
he was spending most of his time exploring the wilds around his various family houses and on a boat his dad bought.
ramshackle houses and stories from an amazing person, i love reading his books.)
Hey, KP, this looks pretty cool. I hope it actually happens.
Florida needs some of those trains. Run them in the medians of I-4, I-95 and I-75 (but only as far south as Naples, not through Alligator Alley). Charlie Crist could work on getting that done if he wasn’t so busy getting ready to abandon the state in favor of improving his national stature.
Speaking of Closet Charlie, I may re-register as a Repiglican next spring so I can vote for Marco Rubio in the primary. Depends on how the other races play out… I’m not going to take my vote away from a Dem candidate who needs it just for the sake of screwing Charlie. (So to speak.)
Assuming the Dem candidate is Kendrick Meek, which seems like a safe assumption now that Tampa mayor Pam Iorio has decided not to run, no way Meek beats Crist unless every guy in Crist’s sexual past goes public. Maybe not even then. However, Meek would easily beat a wingtip like Rubio, especially with some help from Obama.
The governor’s race now comes down to Dem CFO Alex Sink vs. Repig attorney general Bill McCollum. Sink would seem to have the edge here… she’s a good fundraiser and has plenty of charisma. McCollum has only won one statewide race out of the three he’s been in, and has all the personality of a dead fish.
Florida with a black senator and a woman governor? Who’da thunk it? It could happen, sports fans.
:banana:
End term party was…an end term party. Not as bad as it could have been, and I got $20 discount from a friend so the parking only cost $20.