Press the Meat brings in the heavy hitters today: Mayor Mikey Bloomberg, the Governator, and Gov. Ed Rendell of PA. As if that wasn’t enough, there’s also Tom Brokaw and Erin Burnett. Woo-hoo.
Faze the Nation has Austan Goolsbee of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, Barney Frank, Iowa Republican Chuck Grassley, John Dickerson (whose mother Al Franken lusted after in his heart), and Jackie Clames of the NY Times.
Fux News Sunday and Weaselface Wallace will have Christina Romer, chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, Alabama cracker Dick Shelby, Charlie Rangel, and chief White House photographer Pete Souza. Plus the usual fuxheads.
At the Goebbels Network, George Snufalufagus has Sen. Kent Conrad, D-N.D., Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, Rep. Mike Pence, R-Ind., and Vice President Joe Biden’s chief economist, Jared Bernstein. Then there’s a roundtable with Robert Reich, George :jerk: Will, Donna Brazile and Betsy Stark.
After that, it’s basketball, basketball, basketball, President Obama on 60 Minutes, and the season finale (already? That sucks) of Big Love.
Crap. The weekend’s over already?
Al won’t be the first Minnesota senator with such thoughts for the former Badger Beauty.
:hubba: :spank:
In Los Angeles, the Roman Catholic archdiocese cut its central staff in half and sold its 12-floor headquarters. In Tucson, the diocese sold 85 pieces of property in the Arizona desert. In Davenport, Iowa, church officials posted a “for sale” sign on the bishop’s residence – then moved him into a modest bungalow.
Catholic dioceses across the United States have been hit with hundreds of millions of dollars in lawsuits stemming from child sex abuse cases in the past decade. Now, as lawmakers in Albany consider legislation that would create a one-year open window for victims to sue regardless of how long ago the alleged abuse occurred, church officials warn it could bankrupt the Catholic Church in New York.
If the bill passes, it would become the third child sex abuse “open window” law in the country, after California and Delaware, whose two-year window closes in July. Legal experts said that in New York they anticipate hundreds of abuse victims, whose claims could involve not just the Catholic Church but also other religious institutions, public agencies and even long-ago cases of incest.
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/ny-liabus2212568955mar22,0,1949863.story?track=rss
Republicans railed against the Democrats’ massive economic-stimulus and spending bills as fiscally irresponsible, but some GOP lawmakers are taking credit for projects in their own districts funded by the measures.
“Washington needs to stop spending money that it doesn’t have,” Michigan Republican Rep. Pete Hoekstra said in attacking the $410 billion omnibus-spending bill, which funds the government through September. But once it passed, he touted its benefits for his district, which stretches along Lake Michigan.
“Safe and navigable harbors are economic engines that drive the communities that surround them,” Mr. Hoekstra declared, announcing $3 million for harbor improvements.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123759908731101583.html
There was plenty of outrage on Capitol Hill last week over the executive bonuses paid out by AIG after getting federal bailout money. But another money trail could make voters just as angry: the campaign dollars to members of Congress from banks and firms that have received billions via the Troubled Asset Relief Program.
While a few big firms, such as Wells Fargo and JP Morgan Chase, have curtailed their campaign giving, others are quietly doling out cash to select members of Congress, particularly those who serve on committees that oversee TARP. In recent filings with the Federal Election Commission, the political action committee for Bank of America (which got $15 billion in bailout money) sent out $24,500 in the first two months of 2009, including $1,500 to House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer and another $15,000 to members of the House and Senate banking panels. Citigroup ($25 billion) dished out $29,620, including $2,500 to House GOPWhip Eric Cantor, who also got $10,000 from UBS which, while not a TARP recipient, got $5 billion in bailout funds as an AIG “counterparty.” “This certainly appears to be a case of TARP funds being recycled into campaign contributions,” says Brett Kappell, a D.C. lawyer who tracks donations. (A spokesman for Cantor did not respond to requests for comment. A spokeswoman for Hoyer said it’s his “policy to accept legal contributions.”)
http://www.newsweek.com/id/190363
the season finale (already? That sucks) of Big Love.
I know! WTF is up with only 10 episodes this season? Especially when there’s been so much going on the last two or three weeks that they could have easily done 12. This show is becoming mentally exhausting to watch.
Having said that, I can’t wait for tonight.
I finally figured out why it’s kat with a k in farmerkat. :doh:
yeah…ok :joe: well…….yeah. I got nothin’.
Sunday!
never have i enjoyed ignoring TV and the news more in my life than the last 9 years.
never the less some of it gets through to bounce off my BS sheild.
i’m goofing with my doggers, re reading the sherlock holmes mysteries and fininshing up a few jobs today.
life is good and thanks for the articles! (i repost the best of them)
Former WABC Radio Anchor George Weber Found Stabbed to Death
Weber worked with Ron Kuby.
Useta sell this one
The blog will live another few days. :banana:
Oh damn. Here I am being immature again with post 10. Well…
I found a good topic to kill some time…if time even exists.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYj6YAcdrmQ&feature=related
Part 3 of 4 is pretty good.
I have to figure out a way to work the term “platonia” into my daily lexicon.
The sequence is 2,1,3,4 for the aforementioned ‘tube vid.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKsNraFxPwk