I watched Manhattan last night for the first time in a while (in HD, even). It’s perhaps my favorite Woody Allen movie (if you don’t like Woody Allen, don’t bother telling me about it). The only problem was constantly going, “gee, look how young she looks,” or “wow, look how young he was,” seeing as it was released in 1979. Even worse, it dawned on me that 1979 was 30 freakin’ years ago. :sigh:
Oh well, at least it aint Monday.
The White House has scheduled a dinner next week in honor of Pope Benedict XVI’s first visit to the United States, but one guest will be conspicuously absent from the proceedings: the pope himself.
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Pope_to_skip_White_House_dinner_0411.html
The Pope doesn’t think Bush is a guy to have a beer with. Right on, Pope.
I do not think we should impeach Bushco. I believe bringing them up on war crimes and convicting them is exactly what is needed. We can get creative about the sentencing, perhaps a few years in a Guantanamo cage after a little extraordinary renditioning.
Sue P. , :pirate: :yippee: :yippee: are we ready to take over the world, yet? Well , at least this Nation … :nod: :tap: :fist: :dancers: A!I!
…but first i must get more Tea :rofl2: Then I can continue to Party :pirate: :dancers:
The Daily Show’s documentary about Faux News
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Do I detect a hint of sarcasm!?
Comment by andy aka Aquaman — April 12, 2008 @ 12:06 am
Sorry Andy, I used the wrong emoticon. :smack:
:joe: :joe: :joe: :joe: :joe: :joe: 😮 😮
:omg: AAAARRRRGGGG 😯 😯
Scientists listening to underwater microphones have detected an unusual swarm of earthquakes off the central Oregon Coast.
Scientists don’t know what the earthquakes mean, but they could be the result of magma rumbling underneath the Juan de Fuca Plate – away from the recognized earthquake faults off Oregon, said geophysicist Robert Dziak of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Oregon State University’s Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport, Ore.
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080412/D9000MJ00.html
Sue P , yes, I heard of quakes too…but no one seems to care in Sederville, at this point…not even those in Oregon or close to epicenter == even throughout Dark hours ;;; 😉 a.1. get this party started :reaper: :dancers: 8)
According to Kris Olinger, who manages Denver’s Air America affiliate, Rosie O’Donnell, Fran Drescher, Phil Donahue and Richard Belzer are among those under consideration.
Comment by vernon — April 12, 2008 @ 1:29 am
Fran Drescher? SERIOUSLY??? Have they never heard this woman’s voice?
:omg:
Maybe they should save some money and just run a three-hour loop of fingernails on a blackboard.
Even worse, it dawned on me that 1979 was 30 freakin’ years ago. :sigh:
This won’t help you feel any better… 1979 was BEFORE REAGAN WAS PRESIDENT.
:omg:
How different would the world be if Carter had been re-elected and Reagan had quit politics as a result of losing the election?
No Dubya, no Dick Vader, no voodoo economics, no Grover Norquist, no Karl Rove.
No bullshit war for oil and empire, no 4000 soldiers dead, no 10,000 Iraqis dead, no torture, no imprisonment without trial, no suspension of civil rights, no using the Constitution for asswipe.
Now I’m REALLY depressed. I’d better go to mybarackobama.com and see if the optimists can cheer me up. Sorry, everybody.
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Kevin M re 9 :rofl2: re 10 :omg: :no: 8) :pirate: :omg: A!I! dancers:
Well, let’s see. If Carter had gotten a second term, Fritz Mondale would no doubt have been the Dem candidate in ’84. Assuming Reagan was so humiliated that he went back to riding horsies, who would have gotten the Republican nomination? Bush would have been the losing VP candidate in ’80, and probably would have had a good chance at the nomination. Bob Dole was out there, too. IIRC, Howard Baker had run in 1980, and John Connelly was around (as a Republican) at the time, too. I don’t think they made much noise, though.
I wonder if Fritz would have nominated Ferraro in that case? Probably not. She was more of a gimmick than anything else, and Reagan was, for some reason, very popular. If Mondale had actually had a chance of winning, he probably would have picked somebody else.
So, would we have gotten Bush anyway? Maybe for 8 years? Or 8 of Mondale?
Given the thinness of the field, Reagan probably would have run again in 84 had he lost to Carter, so whether he or Bush 1 would have won, I guess that means our current mess was inevitable.
Although I did have fun googling Mondale Bush to see if Eleanor Mondale’s picture would come up. No such luck.
:rofl2:
Bush Dole could be pretty scary, too.
This is Sam’s post from his site:
Difficult two weeks.. Nearly two weeks ago we started the run up to the relaunch of the aar site. we may have rushed it a bit but we wanted to get there in time for our anniversary on March 31st… Once launched we realised we needed new servers- the site is pretty thick and heavy… Then we had a crush of traffic because Thom was pulled off in New York…Lionel was too but I suspect most of the traffic was Thom based.
Anyway, I headed down to NYC on Wed once the site was stable with hopes of working with show producers to teach them how to maximize the site. An hour before Randi’s show I was asked to fill in… Not the most unusual thing though I sensed it was something a little more than a “sore throat”. That nigh tor the next day– not sure to be honest, I heard about the whole scuttlebut about the video and the planned suspension.
I think by now everyone knows I didn’t agree with the suspension. Before I went on thursday after the announcement I called Randi to make sure she was okay with me going on air. I told AAR management that I’d be registering my disagreement with the suspension and that if they didn’t want that to happen they should not let me in front of the microphone. To our new Chairman, Charlie Kireker’s, credit he said he was ok with me going on.
On Friday morning they asked me to fill in again for Randi and it was clear to me that they intended to bring her back on soon.. I had hoped by monday they would make an announcement as to which day her suspension was to end. I was asked to sit in again for Monday but I informed AAR I had committed to filling in for Malloy on Novam a while back.
So I did Seder On Sunday and on Monday I was told AAR wanted me for Tuesday. I told them fine but I’d be broadcasting from DC– heading down there for a Netroots Nation fundraiser and a small gathering to meet the new Head of People for the AMerican Way (she was impressive).
So after a 9-Midnight show monday I caught a 6:30am train to NYC, met Josh Orton (fomer Majority Report producer current Netroots Nation outreach dir.) to catch another train to DC and went directly to Center for American Progress. There their studio was booked so I ended up doing most of the show from a closet with a crappy microphone. Throughout the next two days I was hearing from my sources at AAR HQ that there were a lot of closed door meetings and that the terms for Randi’s return was being discussed. I was hoping that Thursday would be the final day of the suspension.
Wednesday night after the fundraiser I was exhausted and returned to the hotel room I was sharing with Josh. (we had seperate beds… Josh’s beard chafes me too much!) So I go to sleep while Josh was reading websites… he literally sleeps with his computer. ABout an hour or two later at 1 in the am, Josh wakes me up. Green960 had posted an announcement that Randi had parted ways. The firt thing I thought was “please don’t let AAR have been stupid enough to have fired her”. In my mind her leaving is a small disaster either way but I couldn’t take the idea that management would choose to let Randi go. That said, Randi’s been pretty vocal about her issues with AAR and mine are have had at least an implicit hearing.
That morning, a few emails later, I had confirmation that Randi had decided to quit. WHile not knowing the details, I can understand Randi quitting. She is the biggest commodity in left talk and she has options as to for whom she broadcasts nationally.
On Thursday I took a train up to NYC and sat down with top management at AAR, they asked if I’d sit in that now longer Randi’s time slot and I agreed. We talked a little about how I’d break the news- I asked them if they knew what they were going to do with the slot and expressed interest (Charlie has known since his arrival at aar that I want to get back on 5 days a week). Charlie said no decision has been made about anything.
AN hour into thursdays show I got an IM from a sammycammer saying that huffpo was announcing that Belzer was guest hosting 3-6 next week. I like Belzer- have had him as a guest and he was supportive when the Green regime cancelled my daily show. That said, I didn’t appreciate being left in the dark and I knew who had leaked the news and why. Without going into too much detail- folks on the sammycam caught a glimpse of it– I left the studio and expressed my sentiments to that individual in a fashion that, well, let’s just say, had it been presented on YouTube I might have been eligible for suspension.
I don’t know what aar plans for the week after Belzer, I hope it turns out to be me. I don’t like the idea of competing with Randi, but we wouldn’t really be competing… Randi’s affiliates know her, most will pick her up. Those that don’t want to keep running her won’t… I’d like those few to be ones that end up running my daily show.
Quiet night on the blog.
I wasn’t being serious Krista.
That said, I didn’t appreciate being left in the dark and I knew who had leaked the news and why.
Who was it? Who was the snitch? Sounds dastardly. Is Sammy the Stem Cell working at AAR?
Well, let’s see, Arianna does a show on AAR with HillBilly ho’ Mark Green aka Danny Goldberg Lite. :tap: :fire:
Nobody doesn’t like Sarah Green
Well, I think it’s just a matter of time before Sam ends up at NovaM and maybe Marc too. They are well liked there and it’s the natural transition, it seems. 8)