I tuned into the Super Bowl last night just as whoever that bleached blonde was, was finishing the National Anthem. It was so horrible, I turned it off, watched some stuff I’d recorded, and then went to bed. I understand Green Bay won. Congratulations. :yawn:
Looks like the Huffington Post has sold out. Literally. They got bought by AOL. Oh boy.
I’m starting to worry a bit about the roof out here. Roof in the region seem to be collapsing at a rather alarming rate, and all the snow we got on Saturday night was really (really) heavy. The snow rake we have is kind of a piece of crap, so I haven’t really used it much this year. Guess I better get a new one, or get up on the roof with a shovel. Hopefully it’ll make it through the day.
Took me over two hours to plow my driveway yesterday because the snow was so damn heavy and also because I now have to pick it up and carry it around to find a place to dump it (really glad I don’t have to do it by the shovelful). The piles – like the rent – are just too damn high. If it ever gets warm and this stuff melts, it’s gonna be a real mess.
Not much chance of that for a while, though. It’s supposed to be warmish today, but then get colder again (and more snow, of course), and back down into the single digits.
Some rather disconcerting news this morning: I’m older than Garth Brooks. That’s sad. Just plain f*cking sad.
I really don’t wanna go to work today. No surprise there, I guess.
From DK an edited (by me) version of remembering Reagan:
Reagan was the first president to brazenly place foxes in charge of the henhouses at the Cabinet level. Reagan Attorneys General Edwin Meese and William French Smith viciously attacked the very civil rights and equal protection laws they were charged with upholding.
Under Reagan, James Watt and Ann Burford Gorsuch were placed in charge of the Interior Department and Environmental Protection Agencies. Their legacies were to auction off the precious natural resources they were charged to protect.
Under Reagan, school lunch programs were severely cut back or eliminated. Ketchup was declared to be a vegetable in order to satisfy nutritional requirements.
Under Reagan, pre-natal medical and nutritional programs for low-income and working mothers were ended.
Under Reagan, more high-level government officials were indicted than in any administration in history
Under Reagan, the bizarre fantasy known as “Star Wars” was given billions of dollars and legs.
Under Reagan, most Federal job training and employment programs were ended.
Under Reagan, food stamp allowances were reduced and the new requirements made many needy people ineligible.
Under Reagan, the Legal Aid Corporation was eviscerated.
Under Reagan, the US went from being the world’s largest creditor to being the largest debtor nation.
Under Reagan, we had our first American president honor Nazi war dead at Bitteburg, Germany.
Under Reagan, it became OK to sell military supplies to a declared enemy (Iran) and use those profits to prosecute an illegal war (Nicaragua), and oust other popular elected officials (El Salvador)
Under Reagan, it was considered acceptable to have made a deal with the regime of Ayatollah Khomeini in advance of the 1980 Election, in order to ensure that the American hostages would remain in captivity until after the election.
Under Reagan, the American ayatollahs were also empowered. Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson and other religious right-wing ideologues were brought into the policy-making fold.
Under Reagan the Camp David plan for peace in the Middle East came to a grinding halt.
Reagan cut off the disability allowances for 1000’s of Americans in need, and left “Centers for Independent Living” to struggle. He also “de-institutionalized” 1000’s of mentally disabled Americans; thus planting the seeds for the current explosion of the homeless population. The gifts of the Reagan legacy keep on giving.
Oh my gosh! I almost forgot to mention the Savings & Loan scandal and Reagan’s de-regulation of the banking and securities industries
Posterman has much more to say at DK
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If you made it to the little blonde creature you must have made it through the militaristic nationalism of the stiff-arm reading of the Declaration of Independence.
seig-heil :fu:
From Huffpo:
Keith Olbermann will announce what the next chapter of his career will be in a conference call at 11 AM on Tuesday.
Olbermann, who left MSNBC in January, said that he and his “new partners” will make an “exciting announcement regarding the next chapter” of his career, according to Yahoo’s Michael Calderone.
How do you spell “AOL”?
No, I literally flipped the channel, saw about 20 seconds of the anthem, said, “YGBFKM,” and watched some previously recorded stuff.
I have since found out that was Christina Aguilera, who I have heard of, but really don’t know (or care) anything about. I thought it was a drag queen doing a really bad Cindy Lauper impression.
I was also forced to hear on the car radio that the Black Eyed Peas (who I have likewise heard of – kinda like the name – but have no idea what kind of music they do) were pretty sucky, too.
I’ve never given much thought to the blackeyed peas one way or the other but after listening to their two ‘hits’ fill up a SuperBowl halftime show with empty calories (with Slash as filler) I’ve got to say, they make Kanye West sound like Mahler.
It was the worst halftime show ever
Pretty good game but I thought Big Ben looked lost coming onto the field and Aaron Rogers looked loose and in sync with his team-mates.