It’s economy day on Press the Meat today, with NJ Gov Jon Corzine, and McCain lackey and former Bush Budget Director Rob Portman. Then, at the roundtable, it’s CNBC economic “expert” (and former Goldman Sachs analyst) Erin Burnett, conservative chowderhead Paul Gigot, CNBC’s John Harwood and (get ready to take a drink, Vernon) Ted Koppel.
Over at Faze the Nation, Bush buddy Bobby Schieffer drags li’l Lindsey Graham out of his closet, plus there’s Colorado Gov Bill Ritter, Richmond Mayor Doug Wilder, some cracker from Florida named Adam Putnam, and Henry Kissinger protege C. Fred Bergsten, Director of the Peterson Institute for International Economics.
On Fux News Sunday, Weaselface Wallace hosts Grampy McCain’s campaign manager Rick Davis, his counterpart in the Obama campaign, David Axelrod, MN Gov Tim “nothing wrong with that bridge” Pawlenty, and PA Gov Ed Rendell. Plus there’ll be the usual fuxheads.
At the Goebbels network, George Snufalufagus has former Clinton Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, plus the man who saved us from being burdened with an Al Gore Presidency, James Baker. Then it’s the ever entertaining Barney Frank, and the ever annoying Roy Blunt, on to debate the “political fallout of the economic crisis.” On the “Roundtable,” it’s the WaPost’s Dan “got no” Balz, the NY Times’ Paul Krugman, Cokie “the hag” Roberts and George :jerk: Will.
CNN’s Late Emission is hosted by former U-Boat Commander Wold Blitzer. What more information do you need?
Later, on 60 Minutes, Armen Keteyian (I thought he was a sports guy) reports on the FBI undercover agent who infiltrated the Gambino family. Lesley Stahl reports on “weaponry so advanced that it spots the enemy and destroys it from nearly two miles above the battlefield” (makes you proud to be an American, don’t it?), which was used last year in “the fight for Sadr City.” And Morley Safer goes to Tuscany, Italy to drink wine. Nice work if you can get it.
And I get to stay up late tonight and watch all the HBO and Showtime stuff that I usually have to record and watch later, because, in honor of that great human being Chris Columbus, I don’t have to go to work tomorrow.
Have a good Sunday, y’all. And if you go to see The Express, bring a box of hankies with you.
The real question is, why does this clown think his Almighty, all-knowing, all-powerful God is so insecure that He needs to worry about His “reputation.”
his cunterpart in the Obama campaign, David Axelrod
Fair and balanced?
I never said I could type.
It FINALLY feels like fall. The mornings are chilly and it’s only supposed to be in the 70’s today. :banana:
Perhaps I misunderstand, but if one believes in monotheism, doesn’t that mean one believes there is only one god and that a belief in another god or gods is essentially a belief in something that does NOT exist.
If I am right, it would not be possible to have a contest between gods.
Am I misinterpreting what a monotheist believes?
Lincoln has some beautiful shots, today.
http://www.palemale.com/
Woohoo! I get to wear jeans again! :yippee:
Someone I know has a problem with this, says it is in poor taste and could be dangerous in the wrong hands.
Food
A Meal Fit For A Candidate: John McCain
by Daniel Zwerdling
Seems like McNuts doesn’t like people very much. Interesting gumbo recipe in this sound essay.
:knit: Schlep this :knit:
On Friday, October 10, 2008, something extraordinary happened. A Republican presidential candidate was confronted by supporters consumed with fear and hatred of a Democratic candidate. This Republican defended the liberal, calling him a good man. And with that one statement this figurehead of the Republican Party all but admitted that his campaign, the Republican National Committee activities and the subsidiary 527 organizations’ attacks were out of line. What a monumental occurrence!
The main point was the Republican “faithful†have believed every fear-mongering, hate-filled, slanderous and salacious attack put up by the leadership of their party since Barry Goldwater’s day. These faithful have been led to believe they must own guns, must despise everything and everyone not formally and personally approved by their party’s leaders, mindless accepting every utterance from a nationally known party member as gospel, as will of the gods for decades, for longer than most Americans have been alive. And in one uncharacteristic moment John McCain told the truth. And was booed by his own supporters.
Unexpectedly there is a light at the end of the tunnel. There is truth in politics. Many of use for years have thought we would never hear another truthful statement from a Republican politician. After decades – lifetimes – of lies, attacks, hatred and fearful proclamations a Republican defended not just any human being, but a member of a minority.
As the Republican-engineered economy crashes into worthless dreams and wasted lives John McCain was confronted face to face with the boiling fear and hatred his party has fomented for decades. The party faithful are looking for a boogieman they can brand as the cause of all their despair. Now on the brink of destitution these party faithful are looking to lash out at anything and anyone.
Since the 1960s successive waves of Republican politicians and leaders have stoked the fire of fear and hate in America by every means at their disposal. The America described and promised to those who do not heed the Republican call to glory is a bleak, broken nation of wasted air, wasted water, dysfunctional education and healthcare systems, an ineffectual government, an elitest society catering to the wealthy, few if any workers rights, abusive corporations shipping jobs overseas, a broken and disheartened military, rampant violent crime, a deteriorating infrastructure, homes seized by corporations and government alike, and a generally hostile international community no longer willing to follow the American ideal. Ironically, the America Republicans have warned us about for decades has become a self-fulfilled prophecy. The Republicans failed to mention it was their own policies they were warning us about.
I understand why the Republican faithful are so angry, so fearful and so frustrated. After so many decades of feigned outrage, though, is this simply another case of Chicken Little? Standing on the threshold of an economic disaster unprecedented in world history must hurt tremendously learning the party philosophy you followed and believed for a lifetime is all about partisan politics based on bent and twisted fabrications, falsehoods and barefaced lies; a policy of greed and power grabs has led an entire civilization, not just our nation, over the brink and into the abyss. It must hurt an awful lot to learn these self-proclaimed conservative gods are/were nothing more than lawless straw men, an angry unrepentant mob, with only their own well-being in mind willing to go beyond any rational limit, even weaving a fabric of lies built on the bodies of hundreds of thousands dead and maimed people just to claim a place in history as a war-time president.
The arrogance, immorality and hubris of these people simply defies description. Yes, Republican faithful, the rest of us do indeed feel your pain. The rest of us have been living with this pain for a very long time.
That’s good NC. But the faithful republicans have a really hard time admitting they are wrong. They would rather die than do that. Look at Bush, he still can’t hardly admit his policies are fucked up. He would have to kill himself if he were faced with what he’s done. Cheney, on the other hand, is pure evil and will never feel an ounce of guilt over anything he’s done, ever. He’s just gonna have to come back in the next life as a victim of his own actions from the previous life.
Republicans tell the most wonderful lies. It is hard to resist an idea like lowering taxes will raise revenue. I wish it were true, but I can’t make myself believe it.
And, belief in Republican nostrums has another benefit: membership in and identification with a group. Sort of protection in numbers.
Then there is the very beguiling: God loves Republicans and wants them elected. What an easy way to please God, vote Republican.
Republicans always have easy fixes for complicated problems. If only they would work.
I think Cheney has done what he wanted to do : enrich himself and his friends. He has certainly done that while making sure his path had no obstacles and he suffered no adverse consequences. I do not believe he thinks that the fate of other beings is his concern. He thinks others can do as he has done or provide the grist for his mill.
I looked up monotheism and I m right. It means there is one god who creted everything and everyone. But Preacher Conrad can be forgiven for his confusion:
(From the Britanica)
Belief in the existence of one god. It is distinguished from polytheism. The earliest known instance of monotheism dates to the reign of Akhenaton of Egypt in the 14th century BC. Monotheism is characteristic of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, all of which view God as the creator of the world, who oversees and intervenes in human events, and as a beneficent and holy being, the source of the highest good. The monotheism that characterizes Judaism began in ancient Israel with the adoption of Yahweh as the single object of worship and the rejection of the gods of other tribes and nations without, initially, denying their existence. Islam is clear in confessing one, eternal, unbegotten, unequaled God, while Christianity holds that a single God is reflected in the three persons of the Holy Trinity.
http://www.answers.com/monotheism
THE FOOD ISSUE
Farmer in Chief
By MICHAEL POLLAN
What the next president can and should do to remake the way we grow and eat our food.
This guy is smart. Must be from Berkeley or sumpin’.
Oh, Conrad knows that there’s only one true god (his god, of course), it’s just that other people are praying to false (non-existent) gods for Obama to win, and Conrad is afraid his god will look bad when Obama wins. He’d hate to have his god’s reputation ruined by not being able to pull out a McCain victory. Though I think if you’re looking for a McCain/Palin win, you’d be better off worshiping Satan than Jesus.
Somehow I missed this, a new book about The Genius, The Pope, Bill Walsh written by David Harris. Yes, that David Harris.
Must be a Stanford thing or sumpin’.
OK, so there is only one god and he’s a Republican? Democrats pray to false gods? I get so confused.
It’s really quite simple. There’s only one god and he (definitely a HE) is Republican, that much you have right. However, Democrats don’t pray, since they are godless. You can tell they’re godless, since they believe in feeding the poor, educating kids, and helping the least fortunate in society. All things Jesus abhors.
Republicans, on the other hand, are filled with hate and greed, as their angry (and apparently rather insecure) god intended.
Thank you, PJ. Now it is clear. Someone had better tell Sister Cecilia.
A 106-year-old American nun living in a convent in Rome could well be the oldest person to vote in the 2008 US Presidential election.
Sister Cecilia Gaudette, who last voted for President Eisenhower in 1952, has registered to vote and says she will vote for Democrat Barack Obama.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7665925.stm
Oh, well, these people hate Catholics just as much as they hate Mooselums.
Too bad we can’t get all of the humanists and atheists and agnostics and other unrelijus types to line up against each other and kill themselves off and stop sitting around being all judgmental.
Eh, they’re all too busy living off welfare, having gay sex, and giving each other abortions to get off their asses and do something productive like wage war.
Evening all, picked up a very fast wireless connection so I can post and watch the phils get crushed at the same time.
Just to be clear…I’m grateful I have a job but it just sucks.
OK I’m channel surfing and Creflo Dollar is trying to explain to the morons in his church that Jesus was rich. In 8 years I’ve gone from being a devout Catholic to practically an athiest.
I think a lot of Catholics end up atheists or agnostics, must be something in the holy water. :tongue:
Warning …It’ll make you crazy…
Whoah! What’s up with the blog? It’s all mixed up.
Oh man, this is surreal as my dreams have been. I think I’m going to bed.