I was out getting some fresh air yesterday, in what was just about as perfect a day as you can get. Blue sky, about 70 degrees, with a nice breeze to keep it nice and cool. Turns out, I must be allergic to fresh air. Started sneezing, my eyes got all itchy and swollen, and my head felt like it was going to explode. My right eye is still pretty swollen, in fact. Now you know why I prefer the winter; no pollen. But at least there’s always the Sunday Boobleheads to cheer me up.

On Press the Meat this week, there is no Press the Meat this week. Instead, you can watch the French Open, if you’re interested in that sort of thing. In the womens finals yesterday, Svetlana Kuznetsova beat Dinara Safina 6-4, 6-2. In the mens finals today, some kid from Sweden takes on some kid from Switzerland. Eh, Bjorn Borg vs. Guillermo Vilas it aint. Then again, it also aint 1978 anymore, either.

At CBS, Faze the Nation has David Axelrod, and horrible little troll, Newt Gingrich.

On Fux News Sunday, Weaselface Wallace has Austan Goolsbee from the White House Council of Economic Advisers, the aptly named “Dick” Richard Shelby, Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, andFred Malek, chairman of Thayer Lodging Group and Thayer Capital Partners. Plus the fuxheads, of course.

Over at the Goebbels network, George Snufalufagus goes one-on-one with Hillary Clinton. Plus there’s a roundtable with George :jerk: Will, Claire Shipman, Republican ass Matthew Dowd, and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution columnist Cynthia Tucker.

I reckon there’s more, but my eye hurts and I don’t feel like looking anymore.

I will, however mention an e-mail I got copied on from “a family member,” passing on word of a petition I should sign, due to an outrageous Senate action taken. The subject of the e-mail was:

Senate voted this week to allow ‘illegal’ aliens access to Social Security benefits

…and the main thrust of the e-mail was:

As stated below, the Senate voted this week to allow ‘illegal’ aliens access to Social Security benefits.
Attached is an opportunity to sign a petition that requires citizenship for eligibility to that social service.

It is, of course bullshit. And not even new bullshit. My reply (which I hope won’t cause too much hate and discontent), in part, was:

As for this petition, it’s an old one that’s been around since at least 2006 (then it was Bush, instead of Obama), and is completely false. A quick google search yields plenty of places debunking it, including snopes:

http://www.snopes.com/politics/immigration/petition.asp

The vote that this refers to took place back in 2006, and it wouldn’t have granted Social Security benefits to all illegal aliens but it would have allowed illegal aliens who had already paid into Social Security to accrue the benefits of their contributions. Didn’t wind up passing, though.

In fact, it’s quite the opposite. Illegal immigrants subsidize Social Security and Medicare with billions of dollars every year, which they never collect on, since they use fake IDs and can’t get benefits. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/05/business/05immigration.html

Take care,

Have a good Sunday, y’all. Not sure what Caribou Barbie has planned today, but I’ll let ya know if I hear, fer sure.