Gerry Sandusky speaks! Turns out, he isn’t a child rapist after all. Thank goodness for that. He merely engages in naked “horseplay” in the shower with children after a workout. Well, who doesn’t do that? It’s a shame Peter Graves passed away – he’d have been great as the lead in the Gerry Sandusky Story. Gerry’s wholesome-sounding – and clearly believable – explanation should be the end of the story, but I’m sure all those witch-hunting liberal academic and media types will continue to drag this poor man through the mud. I’m afraid the only thing that can restore his reputation as the great man he is would be if his doctor gives him an overdose of surgical anesthetic. Hey, Gerry, why don’t you save us all a lot of time and money and go for it?
The crackdowns on the “Occupy” movement continue, with Mayor Bloomers moving to clear out Zucotti Park in Manhattan. Finally. I just despise all this class warfare stuff. Not the class warfare that has the police giving a beat down to the 99%, of course. It’s the class warfare where some suggest that the 1% ought to pay their fair share and go to jail for screwing everybody else that I can’t abide.
As everybody’s heard by now, SCOTUS has agreed to decide upon the constitutionality of Health Care Deform (in particular, the “mandate” to buy insurance). I think we can all expect a fair and impartial decision based purely on the law, and unadulterated by the stench of political ideology.
Right?
Ironic, isn’t it, that had they enacted single-payer health care reform, there wouldn’t have been a question. No wonder that was off the table from the git-go. Oh well, half-a-loaf and whatnot.
Happy 82nd birthday to Ed Asner, who not only breathed life into one of the most memorable characters on teevee (twice), but who is also a full-fledged Progressive activist (and single payer supporter, I might add).
Live long and prosper, Ed – we need your full loaf to balance out the loafless that walk among us.
In the same spirit that Timmy Tebow thanked Jeezuz for allowing him two completed passes (out of eight) to beat the godless Chiefs, I thanked the Lords of Media for finally coming through for Chelsea Clinton’s new shiny career in journalism
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/14/business/media/chelsea-clinton-hired-by-nbc-news.html
after all the sacrifice’s she’s made and the years of struggling, reporting from the side of the road on terrible automobile accidents and global warming weather events. Maybe she’ll take Mike Boettcher along as a special assistant to a “Full Time Special Assignment reporter” so that he can pick up a few tips about what he needs to do the next time he finds himself asking a question about “kicking around what( he) she wanted to do next.â€
Mayor Billionaire had the park cleared last night and was supposed to reopen it this morning but they are under a court order NOT to impose park rules, so they are keeping it closed.
This is like being under a court order not to exclude a particular group from your meeting so you decide not to have a meeting.
Millionaires are receiving billions in taxpayer-funded support every year that helps them pay for everything from child care to bad debts to boats and vacation homes, according to a report released Monday by Sen. Tom Coburn.
People who individually earned more than a million dollars in 2009 even managed to collect a total of nearly $21 million in unemployment insurance.
“From tax write-offs for gambling losses, vacation homes, and luxury yachts to subsidies for their ranches and estates, the government is subsidizing the lifestyles of the rich and famous,” wrote Coburn, an Oklahoma Republican, in an accompanying letter. “Multimillionaires are even receiving government checks for not working. This welfare for the well-off — costing billions of dollars a year — is being paid for with the taxes of the less fortunate.”
Calling the giveaways “sheer Washington stupidity,” Coburn detailed in the study more than $30 billion a year that comes out of the U.S. Treasury to aid people who make more than a million a year.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/14/tom-coburn-30-billion-millionaires-tax-breaks_n_1092692.html
Say, that Coburn’s got spunk.
Gee, that pesky court and judgie thing again. One judge daring to try to stand in the way of Emperor ‘Three Terms’ Bloomberg’s shutting down OWS, undoubtedly to be overruled up the ladder. Then the Supreme Corporatists ready to take on health care. Lots of speculation on that. Will they uphold O’Bamacare since it ultimately does benefit some their wealthiest benefactors, or will they listen to their teabaggin’ wives and right wingers to put it down? There is thought that if it is overturned it might actually spur on more meaningful reforms. Meanwhile we are probably in for left-right recusal wars to exclude possible prejudice on the bench. :rofl2: Well, call me when they dial it back to “Impeach Earl Warren”. I have to go cut the mold off of some bread that I have left for some toast.
I watched Maher Sunday after the spoiler and did not find it that painful to watch. Again, I don’t find Sullivan as insane as some rw nuts. If you need a place holder while Maher is away, you can always watch ‘UP with Chris Hayes‘ Saturday and Sunday mornings. Later in the day at the link you can watch it at the link in two segments, both of the show’s hours sans commercial breaks. Sane conversation with decent guests (yes, there usually is a con represented) that may be the best show of its kind out there now.
I watched some of the new ‘NOW with Alex Wagner’ :hubba: on MSNBC yesterday morning and it wasn’t bad. Her panel included John ‘Zig’ Heilemann :barf: who’s back today. She also had on Dan Rather who compared the repug debates to early Marx Brothers. That wrapped well around later news of ‘Koch’ Cain’s brain freeze over O’Bama’s Libya policy. Some chose to run with ‘Libya, the Tattooed Lady’ jokes. I preferred thinking he was confusing Libya with labia. Dan also said that we shouldn’t dismiss the Gingrich candidacy because Newt was as dangerous as a wounded wolverine in a campaign.
I like Up too. Thanks for the info about watching it later because early on Saturday and Sunday are not usually good TV watching times.
Tell me about it. Although I am sometimes up at 5 AM, out here the Saturday show fires up at 4 AM. It is also nice watching the blocks later without commercials or MSNBC’s endlessly repetitious promos online.
Watching Alex Wagner requires turning from the live webcast of The Majority Report after 1/2 hour. Since TMR is available later as a podcast you can always catch it later. Seder has had Chris Hayes as a guest several times and they seem very simpatico. Seder has also been on UP two times already.
For a non-cable/satellite consumer like myself, we have two b’cast channels now on the digital converter that play retro programming, RTV and ME-TV that dip into older television archives that would have been represented on Nick a decade or two ago. They run the ‘spunk’ clip on ME-TV as a promo. RTV gets back further into a old B&W programs including The Twilight Zone.
Newt tells the truth (but I’m sure we’d be lying if we quoted him):
“One of the Republican weaknesses is that we rely too much on consultants and too much on talking points,†the former Speaker of the House explained. “We don’t rely enough on actually knowing things.â€
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/11/15/gingrich-republicans-dont-rely-enough-on-actually-knowing-things/
If elected president, Texas Gov. Rick Perry promised on Tuesday to “uproot†the federal government, unveiling a range of sweeping reforms that include term limits for federal judges and Supreme Court justices, a part-time Congress, and laws criminalizing insider trading among legislators.
Quoting from the Bible, Perry said in his speech to workers at the Schebler Company manufacturing facility, “There is a time to plant and a time to uproot, there is a time to tear down and there is a time to build.”
Perry pledged to limit future federal judges to 18 years of service to prevent them from being able to “rule with impunity from the bench.†In Perry’s Washington, members of Congress would receive half the pay and half the office budgets they currently have to encourage creation of a part-time legislative branch. Perry threatens to halve their pay again if they fail to balance the federal budget by 2020.
“Congress is out of touch because congressmen are overpaid, overstaffed, and away from home too much. American has had enough of that,†Perry said.
http://www.nationaljournal.com/2012-presidential-campaign/perry-wants-part-time-congress-and-judicial-term-limits-20111115