All day yesterday, I thought it was Thursday. What a bummer to find out it was only Wednesday. Plus, it’s too goddamn hot and humid. And deer fly season is upon us. This is why I prefer winter.
So, Mark Sanford came out and cried because he got caught having an affair. Boo frickin’ hoo. I personally couldn’t give a crap what he does or whether his Stepford wife’s meds wore off and she kicked him the hell out of the house. Yeah, every time my wife finds out about my affairs, I go running to Argentina w/o leaving a forwarding address, and spend a few days “crying.” Hey, fer crissakes, be a man about it Marky Mark. You betray your wife and kids, you stand there and take your medicine without blubbering like a little baby. You didn’t see Eliot Spitzer cry.
Fellow South Carolinian and Bill Clinton impeachment manager Bob Inglis says the whole Sanford thing is an opportunity for Republicans to “lose the stinking rot of self-righteousness” and “to understand we are all in need of some grace.” What, like Sanford is the first self-righteous Republican hypocrite to get caught with his hand in the cookie jar (or his foot on the wrong side of the stall)?
It looks like Rocky the snakehead fish has escaped his death sentence after all. The NYS DEC called their lawyer, who found a loophole in the law that condemned Rocky to death. It seems that if you exhibit the fish for “educational” purposes, you can get a permit (for $500; nothing’s free in NY) to keep them legally. So, Rocky’s owner is applying for a permit, and he’ll have to do some snakehead fish educational stuff a few times a year. Gee, that wasn’t so hard now, was it?
Of course, Wednesday’s big news was the royal treatment Joe Biden gave the NCAA Lacrosse Championship team when they visited the White House. Biden gave the fellas a personal private tour of the White House (including a stroll through the Rose Garden, where President Obama saw them from the Oval Office, interrupted a meeting, and came out and said hello), and hosted a barbecue for them at the VP’s residence.
Beats gettin’ a load of bird shot in the face.
There’s sun outside, even though the forecast is for 7 more days of rain. Perhaps I should rush outside and start building that ark. More likely I should be grateful that Hubby doesn’t appear anxious to disappear or just wander off without notice. I guess that’s because he’s not a governor.
On the other hand, 2.2 million lucky and under insured Americans live in places where air pollution poses a risk of cancer. Of course NYC is a hot spot but so is a large swath of Alaska. The EPA has a county by county map.
A retired health insurance executive — in a shocking but not terribly surprising admission — confessed Wednesday that insurance companies deliberately confuse policyholders and attempt to dump sick patients to plump their profit margins.
“[T]hey confuse their customers and dump the sick, all so they can satisfy their Wall Street investors,†former Cigna senior executive Wendell Potter told senators at a hearing on health insurance Wednesday before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/06/25/nsurance-exec-confesses-industry-attempts-to-dump-sick/
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I wish this was because Casey Kasem is retiring but it is really for Sky Saxon
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Gail Collins finds lessons to be drawn from Sanford:
First of all, we may want to consider the possibility that the governor’s decision to reject the federal stimulus money was not a mighty stand against government spending but instead an early sign of total nuttiness.
Second, perhaps it is time to rethink the idea of constantly electing middle-aged heterosexual men to positions of high importance.
Third, although the governor-run-amok thing is worrisome, South Carolinians can take comfort in the fact their state gives its chief executive slightly less power than a game warden.
Fourth, before this search for a presidential nominee goes any further, I’m thinking it’s time for the Republicans to apologize for putting us through the Clinton impeachment. We seem to have pretty well established that sexual stone-throwing is a dangerous sport.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/25/opinion/25collins.html?_r=2
Will the reports of Michael Jackson’s death be premature? That would be a big one no matter what you think.
Michael Jackson is dead
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Bluegrass Music Pioneer Bill Harrell Passed Away
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Poor Michael. He went nuts somewhere along the line. A real shame. And poor Farrah. As a 16-yr old in 1976, I had her poster up on my wall. And the Cheryl Tiegs one, too (you guys my age know the one I mean).
I hope MJ is at peace with himself, wherever he is.
I was actually a little too old for the Farrah phenomenon, hence the omission of several other possible emos. I thought I could leave that to you ‘youngsters’.
I sort of missed the latter part of the MJ phenomenon, too, but I know he touched a lot of people.
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what a day, eh?
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KPHX rising from the ashes like a Phoenix?
Just when you thought it was all over at KPHX (1480AM) in Phoenix, word comes that it could very well return to the airwaves on July 6. This, according to the Phoenix New Times.
Maybe.
Tough month. David Carradine, Ed McMahon, Farrah, Michael….
yes. tough month. :priest:
I know some unhappy campers, too.
It was 101 F here today. But their day was upwards of 115 F today without my creature comforts.
Shocking about Jackson. He was 50. But it didn’t sound good when it was reported that he wasn’t breathing.
Peace, Michael.
Speaking … to a large and animated crowd of union organizers and health reform advocates in a brewing house just North of the Capitol, Sen. Arlen Specter (D-PA) said he supports a public insurance option.
“Schumer has it right about having a public component,” Specter said.
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/06/specter-schumer-has-it-right-on-the-public-option.php?ref=fpblg
I’ve got nothing to add that hasn’t been said that wouldn’t be obvious but…,
Did someone associated with “The Dove” pass away? Was Farrah in it? Michael?
Probably the only reason that I downloaded it and haven’t watched it through to the end is that Vernon posted it a couple of years ago.
I needed to have another read on ‘death’. I was getting depressed. I’ll go back to morose.
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I think Gypsy got to Mort
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Tim Krekel
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If you’re not depressed enough from everything that’s happened today…… 😯
try reading the article in the new Rolling Stone by Matt Tiabbi
http://zerohedge.blogspot.com/2009/06/goldman-sachs-engineering-every-major.html
about how GoldmanSachs is the “satanic squid that’s wrapped around the face of America”.
I tried but couldn’t finish the whole thing when I got to the part (near to the end) where he explains that GS paid out
$10 B in BORROWED TAX DOLLARS in 2008, manipulated their fiscal end-year reporting to not show any losses……., reported $2 BILLION in PROFIT
and paid $14 FUCKING MILLION DOLLARS IN TAXES!!!!!!!!!!! :fustrate: :fustrate: :fustrate: :fustrate: :growl: :fu: :fu:
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in honor of Fred
:reaper: to crony capitalism