February 28, 2006
LOTS OF VIDEO
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BILL O'REILLY CAN HE LIE !!!
Bill O'Reilly really has a problem. I think he has become paranoid over his success. He seems unwilling to except even the smallest amount of criticism.
Has I've pointed out many times in this BLOG and it still amazes me every time I see it and that is that these people deny they've said something yet it's on video or audio tape. If anyone should know better I can't image who it would be than someone in the radio/television business.
This is a process so hang with me.
First this is what Bill O'Reilly said on his radio show on 2/20/2006:
O'REILLY: Somewhat of a disturbing report out of Iraq, and it's more important than it first appears. The governor of -- or the mayor of Karbala, which is a town in the south part of Iraq, Shiite-controlled, has banned any further government dealings with the American military in his province, saying that they're not behaving well.
Now, it's a small little thing, but I picked up on it, because here is the essential problem in Iraq. There are so many nuts in the country -- so many crazies -- that we can't control them. And I don't -- we're never gonna be able to control them. So the only solution to this is to hand over everything to the Iraqis as fast as humanly possible. Because we just can't control these crazy people. This is all over the place. And that was the big mistake about America: They didn't -- it was the crazy-people underestimation. We did not know how to deal with them -- still don't. But they're just all over the place.
Listen to the AUDIO of his radio show here.
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Second his comments were picked up by the Lancaster Sunday News on 2/25/2006:
By Gil Smart
Oops.
Noted thinker Bill O'Reilly, who has smeared Iraq war opponents as "pinheads" and appeasers, last week advocated cutting and running, saying there "are so many nuts in the country - so many crazies - that we can't control them."
To call this a case of a rat deserting the sinking ship would be unfair to rats.
NOTE: As Media Matters for America has documented, during a November 30, 2005, appearance on NBC's Today, O'Reilly called those advocating immediate withdrawal from Iraq "pinheads" and compared them to Hitler appeasers.
Well you just know that ticked old Bill off. This Smart guy had to be shown for what he really was. He's messing with O'Reilly now and the "O" man wasn't having any of it. So on his show tonight he addressed the issue upfront and with true gusto.
Watch the VIDEO.
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There you go. . . he lied and he knows it. He choose his words very carefully when he said "If you listen to the Factor you know that statement is a lie.
He obviously believes he's TWO DIFFERENT PEOPLE when he does radio and when he does TV. So if that's the case I was right when I said he was paranoid. Now I have to add crazy and maybe a split personality.
COUNTDOWN O'REILLY AGAIN
I think Keith could just put O'Reilly's face in all three spots for his Worst Person Award every night and he would get no argument.
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JON STEWART HAS IT RIGHT
Jon talks about FEAR and WAR.
Watch the VIDEO.
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NO WORDS NEEDED
PRETTY GOOD JOKE
George W. Bush:
* " I think if you know what you believe, it makes it a lot easier to answer questions. I can't answer your question. " . . .
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February 27, 2006
WORKING HARD
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ISN'T THAT SPECIAL
The Army has decided to reimburse a Halliburton subsidiary for nearly all of its disputed costs on a $2.41 billion no-bid contract to deliver fuel and repair oil equipment in Iraq, even though the Pentagon's own auditors had identified more than $250 million in charges as potentially excessive or unjustified.
The Army said in response to questions on Friday that questionable business practices by the subsidiary, Kellogg Brown & Root, had in some cases driven up the company's costs. But in the haste and peril of war, IT HAD LARGELY DONE AS WELL AS COULD BE EXPECTED, the Army said, and aside from a few penalties, the government was compelled to reimburse the company for its costs.
Damn I've done work for the Government, bet if I charged them more than what I bid they wouldn't pay me a dime over my bid. NOR SHOULD THEY.
THIS CANNOT STAND
With Wal-Mart Stores under mounting pressure to spend more on employee health insurance, the company's chief executive on Sunday urged the nation's governors not to pass legislation that would burden the giant retailer, and pledged to work with the governors to move workers off state Medicaid rolls.
The executive, H. Lee Scott Jr., said that state bills aimed at improving Wal-Mart's benefits "may score short-term political points, but they won't solve America's health care challenges."
Mr. Scott said that Wal-Mart's health plans were "not perfect" but that the company was committed to improving the health care system by expanding its benefits and by opening low-cost medical clinics for workers and the public in its stores.
This is a shame. Poor little old WAL-MART can't make it on $10 billion a year profit instead of $11 billion.
I think we should all help them make up the difference by sending them a dime.
THE OLYMPICS CLOSED LAST NIGHT
Does anybody care about the winter Olympics?
THE SUNDAY FUNNIES
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NO WORDS NEEDED
PRETTY GOOD JOKE
George W. Bush:
* "[I want to] make sure everybody who has a job wants a job." . . .
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February 26, 2006
GOT TO HURRY
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THEY CAN'T BE SERIOUS . . . can they?
Friday's Kitsap Sun had a front page article touting the Job Growth here in Kitsap according to a recent California think tank study.
Kitsap County ranked 18th out of 200 of America's "Best Performing Cities" in terms of job growth, according to a report issued this week by the Milken Institute.
The report calls the Bremerton-Silverdale area an "island," and references the proposed tunnel near the Bremerton ferry terminal as "ALLOWING EASIER ACCESS TO SEATTLE AND THUS PROMOTING INCREASED ECONOMIC ACTIVITY BETWEEN THE TWO AREAS."
Folks we are talking about an 800 foot TUNNEL here not a tunnel to Seattle. With a cost of some $28 to $35 million dollars to build. That this 800 foot tunnel is promoting increased economic activity is laughable.
What scares me is that they might believe it.
By the way could someone give me a hand up I fell off my chair laughing.
ATTORNEYS SAY NEW BANKRUPTCY LAW INEFFECTIVE
Sometimes you just know that something won't work and it seems like almost everything coming out of Washington D.C. falls into that category. Especially if it has been lobbied heavily by the special interest groups. We saw it in the Prescription Drug program and now in the Bankruptcy legislation.
Ninety-seven percent of consumers seeking to file for bankruptcy so far this year cannot afford to pay back their debts, according to a survey by the National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys (NACBA).
NACBA surveyed six credit counseling agencies that have been working with over 61,000 potential bankruptcy filers and assessing their ability to pay what they owe under a debt management plan.
Going for credit counseling within six months of filing for bankruptcy is a new requirement for debtors seeking bankruptcy relief under a reform law that went into effect in October.
The reform law was intended in part to prevent consumers from abusing the bankruptcy system by clearing all their debts when they might have the ability to repay at least some of them.
Critics of the law contend that it is overly broad - imposing greater costs and obstacles to filing on everyone in order to ferret out a small number debtors who have the means to pay off at least some of what they owe.
That the NACBA survey found that only 3 percent of potential filers have the means to pay back some of their debts didn't surprise Sam Gerdano, executive director of the American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI).
The NACBA survey also found that 79 percent of potential filers said their financial troubles were the result of circumstances beyond their control - e.g., a medical crisis or job loss.
NOTE: THIS LAST FACT WAS KNOWN BEFORE THE LAW WAS CHANGED LAST YEAR. IT WAS THE DAMN CREDIT CARD LOBBY THAT DIDN'T GET IT. THEY PUSH THIS LAW THROUGH AND SAID PEOPLE WERE ABUSING THE OLD LAW.
How do we change this. . . STOP SENDING THE SAME FOLKS BACK TO CONGRESS that's how.
NO WORDS NEEDED
PRETTY GOOD JOKE
George W. Bush:
* " We cannot let terrorists and rogue nations hold this nation hostile or hold our allies hostile. " . . .
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February 25, 2006
IT'S BEEN A DAY ALREADY
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STATE OF THE BLACK UNION
I saw Tavis Smiley on C-SPAN yesterday and today I'm watching the program STATE OF THE BLACK UNION.
Right now their talking about Economic Empowerment and the Black Community. They have a panel of 10 people basically from the business world. These people are smart and honest. They are talking about stuff I wish I had heard 50 years ago. They are saying things that I haven't heard from the black leadership ever.
I think we are seeing a change in direction for the black leadership. They are all talking about what WE (the people) not the Government have to do to make our life better.
I have to say this has been one of the most lively debates I've seen. These folks are not pulling their punches. They are telling it like it is.
These are the people that should be the leaders. And maybe one day they will be.
This program is on C-SPAN most of the day today. You should watch if you have a few minutes. More to follow.
THIS IS WAY TO EASY
The other day on CNN's Cafferty File they asked who was our biggest enemy. I wrote in the following.
We attack a country that is no threat. We pass a prescription drugs program that helps the Drug Companies, we pass a bankruptcy Law that doesn't help the folks that need help, we want to turn over our ports to a foreign country.
I could go on but you get the idea. . . WE ARE OUR OWN WORST ENEMY.
WHAT'S THAT SOUND
With all the turmoil going on in Iraq right now I see the strategy already coming from the right. They are starting to say that many people on the left are "HOPING" there will be a full blown civil war in Iraq. That's BULLSHIT!!!
Any thinking person would see that a civil war puts our troops in the middle of the fight. I don't know anyone that wants to see a civil war if it can be avoided. We all hope and pray that the Iraqi leaders and the people can get control of this situation and bring peace and freedom to the area.
That's what I want.
NO WORDS NEEDED
PRETTY GOOD JOKE
George W. Bush:
* " We must all hear the universal call to like your neighbor as you like to be liked yourself " . . .
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February 24, 2006
TRUTH TOLD HERE
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LAND OF THE FREE
Why is it that every time I watch congressional hearings or see these leaders on TV they site National Security or say I'm not going to talk about classified matters.
I'm thinking maybe we aren't so free after all.
IT'S "ABSOLUTELY UNTRUE" THAT ABRAMOFF WAS "A CLOSE FRIEND"
Tom DeLay is trying to set the record straight and rebuild his credibility. He wrote the following note trying to explain that he didn't know old what's his name.
A final word on Jack Abramoff: The notion that he was a close friend who welded influence over me is absolutely untrue.
As whip and Majority Leader, I met with many people who brought issues before congress and sought support of both Republicans and Democrats.
The reality is Jack Abramoff and I were not close personal friends. I met with him only occasionally, in fact less frequently than numerous others who brought issues before congress - never did he receive preferential treatment. To be certain . . .
As I've said before these guys have yet to learn that we live in a digital age with cameras, tape recorders and other devices to record your every move and thought. So where would anyone get the crazy idea that DeLay was close friends with Abramoff?
WELL IT COULD BE FROM HIS VERY OWN WORDS.
DeLay, Northern Mariana Islands, 1997:
When one of my closest and dearest friends, Jack Abramoff, your most able representative in Washington, D.C., invited me to the islands, I wanted to see firsthand the free-market success and the progress and reform you have made.
DeLay's campaign to rehabilitate his credibility isn't off to a good start.
IT'S THE ECONOMY STUPID
AVERAGE AMERICAN FAMILY INCOME DECLINES
After the booming 1990s when incomes and stock prices were soaring, this decade has been less of a thrill ride for most American families.
Average incomes after adjusting for inflation actually fell from 2001 to 2004, and the growth in net worth was the weakest in a decade, the Federal Reserve reported Thursday.
Many families were struggling in the aftermath of the 2001 recession and the bursting of the stock market bubble in 2000, the Fed's latest "Survey of Consumer Finances" showed. The comprehensive look at household balance sheets comes every three years.
Average family incomes, after adjusting for inflation, fell to $70,700 in 2004, a drop of 2.3 percent when compared with 2001. That was the weakest showing since a decline of 11.3 percent from 1989 to 1992, a period that also covered a recession.
The average incomes had soared by 17.3 percent in the 1998-2001 period and 12.3 percent from 1995 to 1998 as the country enjoyed the longest economic expansion in history.
Just ask yourself are you better off today then you were back in 2000.
THE CAFFERTY FILE
Here is Jack Cafferty's take on the Port issue. Pretty good.
Watch the VIDEO.
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NO WORDS NEEDED
PRETTY GOOD JOKE
George W. Bush:
* "I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family " . . .
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THE WORST FOR TODAY
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February 23, 2006
IS ANYONE IN CONTROL
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A BIG SHOUT OUT
Hey here's a big SHOUT OUT to MARGO H. back in New Jersey.
I talked to my sister Dolores yesterday and she told me you read my BLOG from time to time.
Thanks very much. Mick
ALWAYS THE LAST TO KNOW
Gee two weeks in a row President Bush doesn't know what's going on in his administration. You remember it was just last week Cheney shots someone in the face. . .Bush wasn't told. Now this week we have an overseas company that had ties with at least two of the terrorist that attacked us on 9/11. I mean really they did have tie unlike what we were told about Saddam.
He got us into a war that looks more and more like it is in the toilet, and on the verge of a civil war.
We are about 100 days till the start of another Hurricane Season and you know how well they handled the last one. Bush didn't know how bad that was either and it's still a mess, I have the feeling Bush like Pilate has washed his hands of the Katrina disaster area. The scary thing is what happens if we have another season like the last one.
What else doesn't Bush know? Why doesn't he know it? Is it his so called management style? or is it because people feel like they can't tell him bad news. I don't know but if the democrats can't take back control of the House or Senate I'm afraid we are headed for much more of the same for the next 1000 days.
OWNED BY MURDOCK
Do you see the irony of this WEB Site and FOXNEWS, both of which are owned by Rupert Murdoch. The FOXNEWS folks promote themselves as being the "FAMILY VALUES" network. Yet the MySpace Site has come under some scrutiny as a place for predators and such.
Nice business plan don't you think.
NO WORDS NEEDED
PRETTY GOOD JOKE
George W. Bush:
* " Rarely is the question asked: is our children learning? " . . .
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THE WORST FOR TODAY
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February 22, 2006
BITS AND PIECES
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TIME OUT
I'm taking the day off.
NO WORDS NEEDED
PRETTY GOOD JOKE
Marion Barry, on his arrest for drug use.:
* " There are two kinds of truth. There are real truths, and there are made up truths. " . . .
ONE NIGHT
One night, a police officer was stalking out a particularly rowdy bar for possible violations of the driving under the influence laws. At closing time, he saw a fellow stumble out of the bar, trip on the curb, and try his keys on five different cars before he found his. Then, sat in the front seat fumbling around with his keys for several minutes. Everyone left the bar and drove off. Finally, he started his engine and began to pull away.
The police officer was waiting for him. He stopped the driver, read him his rights and administered the Breathalyzer test. The results showed a reading of 0.0. The puzzled officer demanded to know how that could be. The driver replied, "Tonight, I'm the Designated Decoy."
February 21, 2006
I REMEMBER BACK THAN
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COULD IT BE A CASE OF DEJA HUGHES?
Emily Hughes get's her chance in the 2006 Olympics today. She had finished third in the trials but was replaced (at no fault of hers) by Michele Kwan who later pulled out of the games.
GOOD LUCK EMILY we're pulling for you.
WELL HERE'S A SURPRISE
The rush to revise ethics laws in the wake of the Jack Abramoff political corruption scandal has turned into more of a saunter.
A month ago, Republican leaders in Congress called legislation on the topic their first priority, and promised quick action on a measure that would alter the rules governing the interaction between lawmakers and lobbyists.
But now they do not anticipate final approval of such a measure until late March at the earliest.
The primary holdup is in the House. Republican lawmakers left Thursday for a week-long recess without agreeing on a proposal that would serve as a starting point for debate. Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) had been working with House Rules Committee Chairman David Dreier (R-Calif.) to devise such a plan and had expected to finish by now.
Their progress was slowed by the election two weeks ago of a new majority leader, Rep. John A. Boehner (R-Ohio), who has a different notion of what "reform" should entail and who challenged parts of Hastert's plan.
As I said before IS ANYONE SURPRISED. Hell "Boner" said he wasn't interested in that much change. . . make that ANY change.
I DON'T GET IT
The Office of Government Ethics has established Standards of Conduct that apply to all US government employees. Within the Department of Defense, these Standards of Conduct are implemented by the Joint Ethics Regulation, DOD 5500.7-R. Enlisted members of the uniformed services are subject to regulations issued by each service.
You should be familiar with your responsibilities under these regulations and Federal conflict of interest laws. All of the rules are derived from the following fourteen principles of ethical conduct in Executive Order 12731.
* Public service is a public trust, requiring employees to place loyalty to the Constitution, the laws,
and ethical principles above private gain.
* Employees shall not hold financial interests that conflict with the conscientious performance of duty.
* Employees shall not engage in financial transactions using nonpublic Government information or allow
the improper use of such information to further any private interest.
* An employee shall not, except pursuant to such reasonable exceptions as are provided by regulation,
solicit or accept any gift or other item of monetary value from any person or entity seeking official action
from, doing business with, or conducting activities regulated by the employee's agency, or whose interests
may be substantially affected by the performance or nonperformance of the employee's duties.
* Employees shall put forth honest effort in the performance of their duties.
* Employees shall make no unauthorized commitments or promises of any kind purporting to bind the Government.
* Employees shall not use public office for private gain.
* Employees shall act impartially and not give preferential treatment to any private organization or individual.
* Employees shall protect and conserve Federal property and shall not use it for other than authorized activities.
* Employees shall not engage in outside employment or activities, including seeking or negotiating for employment,
that conflict with official Government duties and responsibilities.
* Employees shall disclose waste, fraud, abuse, and corruption to appropriate authorities.
* Employees shall satisfy in good faith their obligations as citizens, including all just financial obligations,
especially those -- such as Federal, State, or local taxes -- that are imposed by law.
* Employees shall adhere to all laws and regulations that provide equal opportunity for all Americans regardless
of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, or handicap.
* Employees shall endeavor to avoid any actions creating the appearance that they are violating the law or the
ethical standards promulgated pursuant to this order.
Here's the bottom line? Ask yourself if a reasonable person who knew the relevant facts may think that the law or ethical standards had been violated. You should do okay if you avoid even the appearance that you are violating the law or any ethical principles. Remember, violations may subject you to administrative, civil, or even criminal penalties.
This is what I remember most about the training on Ethics that we were given:
EMPLOYEES SHALL ENDEAVOR TO AVOID ANY ACTIONS CREATING THE APPEARANCE THAT THEY ARE VIOLATING THE LAW OR THE ETHICAL STANDARDS PROMULGATED PURSUANT TO THIS ORDER.
TAKING BETS
I hear the race for the Senate seat in Pennsylvania is going to be very close with Senator Rick Santorum most likely losing.
So my bet is that he will be a "K" Street Lobbyist the first of next year.
By the way Rick Santorum has no ETHICS so the republicans put him in charge of the Ethics committee.
NO WORDS NEEDED
PRETTY GOOD JOKE
Marion Barry, Mayor of Washington, D.C.
* "Outside of the killings, [Washington] has one of the lowest crime rates in the country. " . . .
GOOD IDEA?
A guy walks into a bar and orders a drink. After a few more he needs to go to the can. He doesn't want anyone to steal his drink so he puts a sign on it saying, "I spat in this beer, do not drink!". After a few minutes he returns and there is another sign next to his beer saying, "So did I!"
February 20, 2006
MADE IT AGAIN
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JESUS GOD ALMIGHTY
Are we nuts? What is the leadership of this country thinking? If this isn't pure BULLSHIT then there really were WMD's, SADDAM was truly behind 9/11 and Cheney didn't pull the trigger last weekend.
Conditions set by the federal government for approving an Arab company's takeover of operations at six major American ports are not enough to guard against terrorist infiltration, the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee said Sunday.
"I'm aware of the conditions, and they relate entirely to how the company carries out its procedures, but it doesn't go to who they hire, or how they hire people," said the chairman, Representative Peter T. King, Republican of New York. Mr. King said senior administration officials had shared details of the sale with him.
"They're better than nothing, but to me they don't address the underlying conditions, which is, how are they going to guard against things like infiltration by Al Qaeda or someone else? How are they going to guard against corruption?" Mr. King said in an interview with The Associated Press.
Infiltration is one of Al Qaeda's strong suits, just check with the Army in Iraq today to find out just how good they are.
He spoke in response to remarks that Michael Chertoff, the secretary of homeland security, made Sunday on the ABC program "This Week."
Mr. Chertoff defended the security review of Dubai Ports World, the company given permission to take over the port operations, but declined to discuss specifics, saying that information was classified.
Funny how that works.
"We make sure there are assurances in place, in general, sufficient to satisfy us that the deal is appropriate from a national security standpoint," Mr. Chertoff said.
Now don't you feel all better. . . CHERTOFF has everything under control just like when Katrina came roaring in. You remember what a "HECK OF A JOB" that was.
Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, a British shipping company, was bought last week by Dubai Ports World, which is owned by the United Arab Emirates. Peninsular and Oriental operates the cruise ship terminal on the West Side of Manhattan and has operations in New Jersey, Baltimore, New Orleans, Miami and Philadelphia.
Critics of the deal have cited the United Arab Emirates' history as an operational and financial base for the hijackers who carried out the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
A Miami company, Continental Stevedoring and Terminals, has filed suit in a Florida court challenging the deal, saying that under the sale, it would become an "involuntary partner" with Dubai's government.
Senator Charles E. Schumer, Democrat of New York, urged President Bush on Sunday to override the agreement.
Ya, I'm sure that will happen just like stopping the tax cuts for the rich. Or admitting they made ANY MISTAKES.
HERE'S A GOOD IDEA
Bremerton want's to find out if people would use a WI-FI connection if it was installed in the downtown area. In fact they are running a survey to see what you think about this idea.
Many cities are doing this right now. For example Philadelphia and Chicago to name two. I think this is a great idea except I think it should go even further.
I think we should do this County-wide. I think the cost should be low (under $10.00 per month) or even free. It would allow most people to get access to the Internet. The very poor could be allowed access for free or at a greatly reduced price.
People might start a business from home. Current businesses in very rural areas would have access to High Speed Internet access.
If you want to take the very short survey click on the link below. Add you comment and suggest they do it County Wide. Look under PUBLIC NOTICES & NEWS
Take the short survey here.
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THE SHOT HEARD AROUND THE WORLD
Here are a couple of tunes that game back from the grave (poor choice of words) for your enjoyment.
All shot up - Elvis
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Trying to cover up - Jonny Cash
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NO WORDS NEEDED
PRETTY GOOD JOKE
Actress Jennifer Aniston:
* ""There's a sensitivity chip that's missing.", on ex-husband Brad Pitt's posing with actress Angelina Jolie as a married couple in W magazine while rumors were flying that Jolie was a factor in their separation. Pitt has since announced that he's adopting Jolie's two children. " . . .
THINK ABOUT THIS!
A car company can move its factories to Mexico and claim it's a free market.
A toy company can out source to a Chinese subcontractor and claim it's a free market.
A major bank can incorporate in Bermuda to avoid taxes and claim it's a free market.
We can buy HP Printers made in Mexico.
We can buy shirts made in Bangladesh.
When I need to speak to someone about my computer, I talk to somebody in India.
We can purchase almost anything we want from 20 different countries
BUT, heaven help the elderly who dare to buy their prescription drugs from a Canadian pharmacy. That's called un-American! And you think the pharmaceutical companies don't have a powerful lobby? Think again!
YOUR A REDNECK IF. . .
February 19, 2006
MAN IT'S COLD AGAIN
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DO YOU FEEL SAFER TODAY
The United Arab Emirates reassured U.S. senators including Charles Schumer that Dubai's takeover of the U.S. port assets of Peninsula & Oriental Steam Navigation Co. is not a threat to national security.
The country's Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahyan said concerns voiced by some members of the U.S. Congress that the takeover of P&O terminals in New York, New Jersey, Philadelphia, Miami, Baltimore and New Orleans by Dubai's port company, DP World were ``understandable.''
``But, we want to make clear we have also worked very closely with the U.S. in a number of issues especially when it comes to combating terrorism, prior-to and post Sept. 11,'' Al-Nahyan said in a statement in response to questions sent by Bloomberg today. ``As an example we have recently concluded a joint task force agreement with the U.S. on how to fight funding for terrorist groups, and also non-proliferation.''
A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers is calling for hearings on the $6.8 billion purchase of London-based Peninsula & Oriental that would give DP World, a company that's owned by Dubai's ruling Maktoum family, control over most operations at six U.S. ports, including New York. The measure, supported by Senator Hillary Clinton, is intended to block the sale.
Some facts about the UAE:
- The UAE was one of three countries in the world to recognize the Taliban as the legitimate government of Afghanistan.
- The UAE has been a key transfer point for illegal shipments of nuclear components to Iran, North Korea and Lybia.
- According to the FBI, money was transferred to the 9/11 hijackers through the UAE banking system.
- After 9/11, the Treasury Department reported that the UAE was not cooperating in efforts to track down Osama Bin Laden's bank accounts.
I sure don't have the answers to some of these heavy questions but I think if Bush want's to wrap himself in the mantel of being the Terrorist Fighter this can't help.
WE REPORT YOU DECIDE.
THE LAST WORD ON HUNTING WITH CHENEY
I think I've had as much fun as anyone with this "Cheney Shooting" and it mostly for two reasons. First while the shooting and following heart attack where serious and nothing to make fun of the fact that they were not fatal allow us all to say a prayer of thanks and continue to make fun of the handling of the aftermath.
The second reason is the absurd handling of this by Cheney. It's hard to believe that your disdain for the media would allow you to cloud your judgment. But on the other hand you continue to try to make that Saddam - 9/11 connection. Ok now for THE LAST WORD (maybe).
I've heard the terms "NO BIG DEAL", "IT'S A PRIVATE MATTER" and "IT WAS AN ACCIDENT" used by many of the talking heads on TV, mostly on FOX (who'd a thunk it). But the fact is it is a big deal and the more Cheney tried to SPIN it the bigger it became.
Not allowing the police to investigate for some 12-14 hours was and is a big mistake. Having a civilian announce the shooting to a local paper. Not talking to reporters for almost a week and then talking to a friendly reporter at that. Not call the President as soon as possible.
But to me the most egregious error and outrageously bad taste was the fact that Cheney DID NOT FOLLOW Harry to the hospital, for God's sake he just shot the man. To me that shows a callous indifference to his condition.
I never heard one word about this in all the reporting I've seen.
There would not be enough horse on that ranch to prevent me from going to the hospital with the man I just shot. What were they thinking.
MAUREEN DOWD HAD THIS TO SAY IN HER COLUMN ON SATURDAY
It was at the end of his interview with Brit Hume, when Shooter talked about Scooter, that his eagerness to share important facts with the press and public - a well-concealed trait in recent days, years and decades - burst forth. He pronounced himself a Great Declassifier.
This doesn't have anything to do with anything, I just like the way she writes.
NO WORDS NEEDED
PRETTY GOOD JOKE
Molly Ivins:
* "The thing about democracy, beloveds, is that it is not neat, orderly, or quiet. It requires a certain relish for confusion. " . . .
FOR THOSE WHO TAKE LIFE TOO SERIOUSLY
26. WHEN EVERYTHING IS COMING YOUR WAY, YOU'RE IN THE WRONG LANE.
27. HARD WORK PAYS OFF IN THE FUTURE. LAZINESS PAYS OFF NOW.
28. EVERYONE HAS A PHOTOGRAPHIC MEMORY. SOME JUST DO NOT HAVE FILM.
29. IF BARBIE IS SO POPULAR, WHY DO YOU HAVE TO BUY HER FRIENDS?
30. HOW MUCH DEEPER WOULD THE OCEAN BE WITHOUT SPONGES?
32. WHAT HAPPENS IF YOU GET SCARED HALF TO DEATH TWICE?
33. I USED TO HAVE AN OPEN MIND BUT MY BRAIN KEPT FALLING OUT.
YOUR A REDNECK IF. . .
February 18, 2006
ALMOST DONE WITH CHENEY
QUICK STAT:
Please give what you can.
SEAN HANNITY:
In this video we find Hannity talking to Dick Morris about VP Cheney and the shooting incidence last weekend. See if you can count Hannity's LIES in this bit of video.
Watch the VIDEO.
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Notice how Hannity drags in Kennedy from years ago. It's funny he must have forgot about Bush having a DWI.
He starts with a lie about the police that he later changes because (God bless him) Dick Morris sets him straight. At first Hannity says that "within 30 minutes law enforcement were there ON THE SCENE taking care of this man."
Then at the end of the video Hannity says "with in a half hours the sheriff DEPT WAS NOTIFIED."
If you're a slow reader the operative words are "ON THE SCENE" and "DEPT WAS NOTIFIED." But keep listening there are other little lies.
ISSUES THAT ARE IMPORTANT TO AMERICA
The next three videos are all from Jon Stewart.
Here we have Jon Stewart taking stock of what the issues are in America with the help of FOXNEWS.
Watch the VIDEO.
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KNOW COMMENTS
Watch the VIDEO.
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AN INTELLIGENT CONVERSATION
I've seen this guy, William Donahue, Pres of the Catholic League several times and have always found him to be a little obnoxious for my liking.
What's funny is this type of personality doesn't seem to care that they are on TV and being recorded on video tape. I guess they just don't care.
Watch the VIDEO.
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NO WORDS NEEDED
PRETTY GOOD JOKE
George Bernard Shaw:
* "Some men see things as they are and say, "Why?" I dream of things that never were and say, "Why not?" " . . .
* "frequently attributed to Robert F. (Bobby) Kennedy, who used it in a speech which his brother, Edward F. (Teddy) Kennedy quoted at RFK's funeral. " . . .
HOME FOR THE HOLLANDAISE
I was discussing the joy of asparagus season with my uncle Max. He said that in his travels to Germany he sampled asparagus with Hollandaise sauce every where he went. He added though, the best sauce he ever tasted was in Alaska.
Really I asked? Sure he said, everyone knows, "there's no place like Nome for the Hollandaise...
February 17, 2006
LONG POST TODAY
QUICK STAT:
Please give what you can.
NEW RULE:
It has become common practice to have a "DESIGNATED DRIVER" when a group goes out bar hopping.
Now because of the Cheney Shooting anyone going hunting will now have to have a "DESIGNATED WITNESS".
I'VE GOT A SECRET
You know I worked for over 35 years for the Navy as a civilian and so I was always aware of security and the handling of classified documents. It just came with the job and we had refresher courses on an almost annual basis.
So when Vice President Cheney said he had declassification authority I was surprised no I was shocked. I was surprised because it just seemed so casual. Nothing like what I thought would be the case when I was working. It was always a big deal and I had the impression that a lot of thought went into this process of classifying and declassifying documents. Turns out I was wrong.
Plus I get the sense that ANY DOCUMENT can be classified as say Secret or even Top Secret regardless of it's content. That doesn't seem right and in fact it seems stupid.
DICK CHENEY'S YOUTHFUL INDISCRETIONS
Last night I was almost knocked off my chair. I was switching channels and stopped for a moment to see what Hannity and Colmes were talking about, they had Dick Morris on so I knew it would be about Bill or Hillary.
I was wrong they were talking about Dick Cheney and the mess he made of this accident. Old Dick was slamming poor Cheney for hurting the President by not taking care of this problem faster. I mean he was hitting him pretty hard and so that's why I damn near fell off my chair.
I decided to continue to watch cause I knew Hannity was coming up and he wouldn't let that stand. He likes good old Cheney and needs to protect him everyway he can.
He wasn't getting anywhere until Morris said something about drinking, and Hannity saw his opening. This guy can not go a full show with out lying and tonight was no exception.
He took the drinking idea and ran with it. He said "Cheney has no "HISTORY" of drinking." WRONG!!! and he knows it.
From the Smoking Gun Web Site:
Court and police records obtained by The Smoking Gun show that Cheney was convicted of drunk driving twice during an eight-month period in the early 1960s in his home state of Wyoming. The two convictions came when Cheney was 21 and 22 and resulted in fines and a brief suspension of his driver's license.
Now I'd email old Hannity but what good would that do he's just lie about it and say he never got my email. That's they way it is with him.
Visit the SITE.
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NO WORDS NEEDED
PRETTY GOOD JOKE
John F. Kennedy:
* "We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people. " . . .
NOW I KNOW MY A, B, C's
A is for apple, and B is for Boat,
that used to be right, but now it won't float.
Age before beauty is what we once said,
but let's be a bit more realistic instead.
Now, A's for arthritis; B's the bad back,
C is for chest pains, perhaps cardiac.
D is for dental decay and decline;
E is for eyesight, can't read that top line.
F is for fissures and fluid retention,
G is for gas, which I'd rather not mention.
H is high blood pressure--I'd rather it low;
I for incisions with scars you can show.
J is for joints, out of socket, won't mend.
K is for knees that crack when they bend.
L for libido, what happened to sex?
M is for memory, I forget! What comes next?
N is neuralgia, in nerves way down low;
O is for osteo, the bones that don't grow!
P for prescriptions, I have quite a few,
Just give me a pill and I'll be good as new.
Q is for queasy, is it fatal or flu?
R for reflux, one meal turns to two .
S for sleepless nights, counting my fears.
T for tinnitus; there's bells in my ears.
U is for urinary; big troubles with flow;
V is for vertigo, that's "dizzy" you know.
W is for worry, NOW what's going round?
X is for X-ray, and what might be found.
Y is another year I'm left here behind,
Z is for zest that I still have--in my mind.
I've survived all the symptoms, my body's deployed,
And I've kept twenty-six doctors fully employed!!!
YOUR A REDNECK IF. . .
February 16, 2006
IT'S A CHENEY KIND OF DAY
QUICK STAT:
Please give what you can.
STOP CRYING DAMNIT
So the Vice President goes on FOXNEWS and talks man to man with Brit Hume. . . well isn't that special.
I've heard on radio and TV that the news media has been down on the poor VP. That this is a private matter. That the press corp is mad because they didn't give them the story. Whaaa, Whaaa, Whaaa.
The president and VP are elected by you and me and for that they owe us an explanation whenever they are evolved in something good or bad. That's the way it is and if they don't like it they can resign or not run in the first place.
Going to FOXNEWS is a joke and it just added fuel to the fire. These guys have got to be the dumbest people in the country to not know they had a problem and they needed to take care of it.
So rather than handle it in a way that puts this bad boy to bed they pour gas onto and already burning fire. Is that crazy or what.
This CRAP that it's a private matter (see yesterdays posts "Major Spin" and "More Spin") is just that C*R*A*P. We the public have a right to know. We have a right to know that EVEN the VP has to follow the same rules we do if we shot someone.
Joe Klein, Time Magazine (who the HELL is this guy) said mistakes were made talking about the fact that Cheney said he had a beer at lunch.
Tony Blankley say it's a non-story story and yet a full five days after the accident there are many unanswered questions. Bits and pieces keep coming out. I guess we'll know in time.
Jack Cafferty from CNN, gave Fox and Dick Cheney both barrels this afternoon on CNN's Situation Room:
BLITZER: What did you make of Dick Cheney's interview today?
JACK CAFFERTY, CNN ANCHOR: Well, I obviously didn't see it because it hasn't been released in its entirety yet. But I would guess it didn't exactly represent a Profile in Courage for the vice president to wander over there to the f-word network for a sit down with Brit Hume. That's a little like Bonnie interviewing Clyde, ain't it? Where was the news conference? Where was the access to all of the members of the media? Whatever.
BLITZER: You still think he needs to do a full-scale news conference and invite all the cameras, all the reporters and ask whatever they want?
CAFFERTY: That's never going to happen. But running over there to the Fox network. Talk about seeking a safe haven. He's not going to get any high hard ones from anybody at the f-word network. I think we know that.
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SOMETHINGS WRONG HERE
This is a part of the transcript of the interview that Cheney gave last night on FOXNEWS.
CHENEY: I had no idea how serious it was going to be. I mean, it could have been extraordinarily serious. You just don't know at that moment. You know he's been struck, that there's a lot of shot that had hit him. But you don't know - you think about his eyes. Fortunately, he was wearing hunting glasses, and that protected his eyes. You, you just don't know. And the key thing, as I say, initially, was that the physician's assistant was right there. We also had an ambulance at the ranch, because one always follows me around wherever I go. And they were able to get the ambulance there, and within about 30 minutes we had him on his way to the hospital.
HUME: And what did you do then? Did you get up and did you go with him, or did you go to the hospital?
CHENEY: No, I had - I told my physician's assistant to go with him, but the ambulance is crowded and they didn't need another body in there. And so we loaded up and went back to ranch headquarters, basically. By then, it's about 7:00 p.m. at night. And Harry -
HUME: Did you have a sense then of how he was doing?
CHENEY: Well, we're getting reports, but they were confusing. Early reports are always wrong. The initial reports that came back from the ambulance were that he was doing well, his eyes were open. They got him into the emergency room at Kingsville -
GO FIGURE
What is so strange to me is that Cheney didn't see fit to go with the guy to the hospital in the Ambulance because "the ambulance is crowded they didn't needed another body in there." So you would expect that they would follow behind in cars or vans.
I think most people would have gone to the hospital with their friend. Come on you just shot your friend in the face and you don't follow him to the hospital. What's that all about.
He even says that the reports they were getting weren't that good. So the question remains if you are that upset about having shot your friend and your not getting the status you want why didn't you go to the hospitan. Maybe he had something to hide.
Why do you think?
I think I'll give this story a rest unless I don't.
THIS CAUGHT MY EYE
And can you right wing apologists ever defend Bush/Cheney without bring up a Democrat?
There is more truth in that short sentence than in many 15 to 20 paragraphs of some articles.
Also you could say almost the same thing by using CLINTON in place of Democrat.
NO WORDS NEEDED
PRETTY GOOD JOKE
Bill Moyers:
* "Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism. " . . .
WHY?
JUST CHECKIN. . .
I was feeling a little nosey, so I thought I would look in on you and see if you are sitting at your computer...
Yup, there you are!
God Bless and
Have a GREAT day!
February 15, 2006
MORE CHENEY FALLOUT
QUICK STAT:
Please give what you can.
TOLD YA SO ! ! !
Well it looks like old Tom and Katie are splitzville. The real winner in all this, if it is true will be the baby.
WAL-MART TAKES ANOTHER HIT
Wonder when Wal-Mart will ever learn that 2 and 2 equals 4. They just seem to be forced kicking and screaming to get them to do the right thing.
I'm betting they will challenge a Washington State law, if it is passed that requires them to pay a percentage to the State to help cover some health care costs.
CHENEY NEEDS TO STOP TALKING
What would you expect from an old oil man. I'm not suggesting that conservation is the only answer but rather one of the pieces to the puzzle we face in our energy policy.
I think making the auto manufactures improve the gas mileage is part of the answer and should have been done every year since the 70's. Imagine where we would be today had we had some leadership in the Republicans or Democrats.
MAJOR SPIN
Here is SPIN in the making. This is unbelievable. Ron Christie, who worked for Cheney at one time says this is a private matter and that the press is making way to much out of it.
Is this guy NUTS. Watch the video here.
Watch the VIDEO
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MORE SPIN
Christie try's to SPIN this PRIVATE MATTER into no big deal. The fact that the VP SHOT SOMEONE seems to be lost on Ron.
Man if this was a Book or a Movie and you wrote it just this way they would Laugh you out of the office or out of the studio. You just can't make this stuff up.
This is really funny and it's all on tape. Watch the video.
Watch the VIDEO.
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NO WORDS NEEDED
PRETTY GOOD JOKE
Demosthenes:
* "There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots. What is it? Distrust. " . . .
FOR THOSE WHO TAKE LIFE TOO SERIOUSLY
YOUR A REDNECK IF. . .
February 14, 2006
ALL CHENEY TYPE DAY
QUICK STAT:
Please give what you can.
HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY
ALL WIGHT, SAY YA PWAYERS
"I thawt I saw a democrat" said Dick Cheney after he shot Harry Whittington one of his hunting partners.
The White House took heavy flak yesterday for waiting a vewwy, vewwy long time before revealing that wascally Vice President Dick Cheney had shot a fellow hunter.
Victim Harry Whittington, 78, was reported recovering quickly from the "Elmer Fudd-type accident," in which he took more than 10 shotgun pellets to the check, neck and face when Cheney shot him while aiming at quail on a Texas ranch on Saturday night.
OK boys and girls look at this image. This is Quail Hunting 101. You need to be able to tell the difference between a Quail and a man BEFORE YOU GO HUNTING. . . OK.
White House press secretary Scott McClellan was peppered with rounds of skeptics' questions yesterday about why Cheney's office kept the incident - in which the veep resembled the hapless, shotgun-toting cartoon hunter who was always chasing "wabbits" - quiet for a day until the ranch's owner notified a local paper on Sunday.
"It was the vice president's office that took the lead on this," McClellan said at a testy daily briefing where he repeatedly pointed the finger at Cheney's staff for any blunders or delays.
Ranch owner Katharine Armstrong said "it did not even occur" to her to call the sheriff's office until the next day, and she stressed that no one in the hunting party was drinking: "No, zero, zippo."
What the hell is that all about. . .a man is shot and it didn't OCCUR to to her to call the cops? Seems we have a little insight into how these folks think here.
Cheney's only public event yesterday was a meeting with President Bush and U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan - he slipped out a side door before reporters arrived.
The guy has guts, but NO BALLS.
Cheney's office declined comment on whether the vice president, who wears glasses, plans to have his eyes tested.
Now that's funny.
The incident happened Saturday at 5:30 p.m. Bush was told there'd been a hunting accident at about 7:30 p.m. (EST) and was informed that Cheney had accidentally shot Whittington "shortly before 8 p.m.," the White House said.
I don't get this. It takes TWO calls to figure out what happened?
Cheney's office said nothing publicly Saturday and left it to the ranch owner, Armstrong, to notify the press. She waited until Sunday morning to call the local newspaper, the Corpus Christi Caller-Times.
So now it's up to the ranch owner to prove press coverage. Are they nuts.
Cheney, who has a hunting license, was issued a warning from the Texas Park and Wildlife Commission because he lacked a stamp required to shoot quails.
"The vice president has sent a $7 check . . . which is the cost of an upland game bird stamp," his office said in a statement. I say the through the book at him. Give him a weekend in jail to think about his not getting a stamp. Well all I can say is I'm glad he's doing such a good job on finding WMD's and running the Iraq War. . . I can't wait for the Iran war to start. * "If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change. " . . .
Please give what you can.
Thanks God Cheney isn't any better at Quail Hunting than he is at running a WAR. . . the guy he shot "was alert and doing fine". I heard about this today (Sun 2/12/6) at about 1 p.m. from a CNN news alert via email. As I understand it the shooting happened on Saturday. Hmmm, today is Sunday. . . strange. NO LEAKING HERE.
Actually being shot at is no joking matter. I think I mentioned this once before but if not here it is. I remember when I was a kid about 7 - 8 years old. My brother Buz and I (Buz was a couple three years older than me) were at a kids house up the street from us. We were playing like kids do. The kids name was Dean, Dean Woods. I don't know where his folks were that day but they sure weren't home. Some how Dean brought out a gun his dad brought home from the war. Buz and Dean where sitting on a couch and I was in like a hallway the lead to the front door about 10 - 15 feet away. I think Buz said to Dean that he should put the gun down. Dean said it wasn't loaded and besides the safety was on. And just as he said that he pulled the trigger and it went off. It hit the wall in the hallway maybe 4-5 feet from where I was standing. Man I was scared. I don't think anyone ever got into trouble not sure if Dean's folks ever knew what happened. But I can tell you I never wanted to be around guns ever since than. I guess it's true that until you walk in someone else's shoes you don't know what it's like to have gone through something like that. Looks to me like Sheryl is the BIG winner here. "Lance Armstrong won't be deprived of a woman's touch now that he and Sheryl Crow have broken up. When the 33-year-old Tour de France champion comes to New York, he's a regular client of a Ukrainian-born masseuse named Alla, sources say. Described as 5-foot-6 with black hair and a killer bod, Alla has a penchant for dating her clients, especially if they are famous. She was seeing a hockey player for a year before she began rubbing Lance with her magic fingers." The seven-time Tour De France cycling champ, who famously overcame testicular cancer, has three children including twins from a previous marriage to wife Kristen, from whom he was divorced in 2003 after five years of marriage. Last week Lance said: "Obviously, this week was a rough week for us, but that doesn't change the fact that I think Sheryl is an unbelievable lady, one of the smartest, wisest, most gifted people I've ever met and a person that I can honestly say has shown me a love that I never knew." "...I'm torn that it didn't work out but that doesn't matter." RIGHT. I'm sure that's true. Poor Lance * "Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is. " . . . Tech support: Click on the 'my computer' icon on to the left of the screen. Customer: Your left or my left?
Please give what you can.
This is the first picture to show Jack and Bush together in the same room. Yes I know it's not the DAMNING picture we all expected and want, that'll come later. But this is the first of what will be many more. So you just have to ask yourself "Self. . . why the hell don't they just release the dam pictures and get it over". What this does is flame speculation and suggests that he must have something to hide else why not release them. DUH! Well I guess that's not how politics works. We have a game plan, a strategy. Why be honest and up front. What's that got to do with anything. So instead we play the game, follow the plan and hope it all goes away. Wouldn't it be nice if they just came right out and said "You know what I did have my picture taken with the guy. . . want to make something out of it". Then blow them all away by releasing all the pictures. That would piss them all off cause they couldn't talk about it anymore. I'm going to start keeping a list of the Talking Heads that I think have become TURNCOATS to the Liberal/Progressive party. What's sad is he made a good living from the democrats like old what's his face on FOX Dick Morris. But I guess the way things are today. . . they talk about Loyalty as a virtue for you and I but not for them. FOXNEWS has now signed this guy up to be one of there "ANALYSTS". What makes me mad is not so much that they switched but rather they switched but still appear as if they are part of the Liberal/Progressive party. That's wrong. I wonder if there is something the dems can do. The other day Maureen Dowd wrote in part the following:
Vice President Dick Cheney bitterly complains that national security leaks are endangering America. Unless, of course, he's doing the leaking, tapping Scooter Libby to reveal national security information to punish a political critic. President Bush says he will not talk about specific security threats to America. Unless, of course, he needs to talk about a specific threat to Los Angeles to confuse the public and gain some cheap political advantage. The White House says it has done everything possible to protect the homeland. Unless, of course, it hasn't. Then it can lie to hide the callous portrait of Incurious George in Crawford as New Orleans drowned. The attorney general can claim that torture and warrantless wiretapping are legal, and can mislead Congress. Unless, of course, enough Republicans stand up and say, as Arlen Specter told The Washington Post, that if that lickspittle lawyer thinks all this is legal, "he's smoking Dutch Cleanser." The president doesn't know the Indian Taker Jack Abramoff. Unless, of course, W. has met with him a dozen times, invited him to Crawford and joked with him about his kids. The Bushies can continue to claim that the invasion of Iraq was justified because Saddam was a threat to our security. Unless, of course, he wasn't, and the Cheney cabal was simply abusing the trust of Americans to push a wild-eyed political scheme. At the Bush White House, the mere evocation of the word "terror" justifies breaking any law, contravening any convention, despoiling any ideal, electing any Republican and brushing off any failure to govern. I think she made some excellent points and is right on in each of them. Who but the true believer's can argue with each of her points. Read them again slowly and think about it. As to the image I put with this Post showing Vice President Cheney talking about the NSA Leak. You need to hear the discussion that was on Meet The Press today to see that he is doing what we does best. . . LIE. Just as Maureen points out here. Have a great day. * "We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts. " . . .
For all of you with any money left in the wake of the Exxon/Mobil deal, the AOL/Time Warner implosion, and the Sears/K-Mart wedding, be aware of the next expected mergers so that you can get in on the ground floor and make some BIG bucks. Watch for these consolidations in the near future: Hale Business Systems, Mary Kay Cosmetics, Fuller Brush, and W. R. Grace Company will merge and become: Hale, Mary, Fuller, Grace Polygram Records, Warner Brothers, and Zesta Crackers join forces and become: Poly, Warner, Cracker 3M will merge with Goodyear and issue forth as: MMMGood Zippo Manufacturing, Audi Motors, Dofasco, and Dakota Mining will merge and become: ZipAudiDoDa FedEx is expected to join its major competitor, UPS, and become: FedUP Fairchild Electronics and Honeywell Computers will become: Fairwell Honeychild Grey Poupon and Docker Pants are expected to become: Poupon Pants Knotts Berry Farm and the National Organization of Women will become: KnottNOW Victoria's Secret and Smith & Wesson will merge under the new name: Titty Titty Bang Bang
Please give what you can.
The Olympics begin today. GO U.S.A.
Information helped jail information, rights organization claims. Internet firm Yahoo Inc. provided Chinese authorities with information used to jail one of its users for eight years, an activist group said Thursday -- the second time Yahoo was accused of helping jail a Chinese user. Paris-based Reporters Without Borders said Yahoo's Hong Kong unit provided information about Li Zhi, a man from southwestern China who was sentenced to prison in 2003 for subversion after posting comments online criticizing official corruption. Mary Osako, a spokeswoman for Sunnyvale, California-based Yahoo, said the company didn't know of the case and couldn't comment on whether the group's account was accurate. Activists criticized Yahoo last year after it was disclosed that the company provided information that Chinese authorities used to convict and jail reporter Shi Tao for revealing state secrets. "Now we know Yahoo works regularly and efficiently with the Chinese police," a Reporters Without Borders statement said. Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp. also have been criticized for enforcing Chinese censorship guidelines. Google's China-based service limits online searches for sensitive topics, and Microsoft shut down a Chinese user's Web log upon officials' demand. This is bad news. I think these guys need to rethink their policy. Will the words I didn't know "THE GUY", that President Bush used to describe his relationship with Jack Abramoff become the SOUND BITE that sticks with him as Bill Clintons description of Monica. . . "THAT WOMAN". I doubt it because the republicans have a much better drum beat that most of them follow. The democrats just haven't learned the real lesson of what the "Contract With America" was all about. * The peace and welfare of this and coming generations of Americans will be secure only as we cling to the watchword of true patriotism: "Our country -- when right to be kept right; when wrong to be put right." . . .
Please give what you can.
President Bush said Thursday that the U.S.-led global war on terror had "weakened" al Qaeda and cited as proof international efforts that he said had thwarted a terrorist plot to attack Los Angeles. Members of an al Qaeda affiliate in Asia had planned to crash a commercial airplane into the U.S. Bank Tower in Los Angeles in 2002, Bush said. In a speech at the National Guard Memorial Building, Bush gave more details on the purported plot. It was one of a list of 10 terrorist plots that U.S. authorities first released in October 2005. The list and details from the White House: Are you thinking BULLSHIT like me? Here's the thing, they are telling us about something that is from 2 to 4 years old and has NOTHING to do with Domestic Surveillance . So why are they releasing this now? Because they know about "FOG FACTS". They know that most people will assume that there is a connection between this announcement and the "Domestic Surveillance" which there is NONE. Just like they used a BOGUS connection between Iraq and 9/11, where some 60 plus percent of Americans believed this was still true over 2 years after it was shown to be false. Click to watch. <----( watch the video here )
Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby, testified to a federal grand jury that he had been "authorized" by Cheney and other White House "superiors" in the summer of 2003 to disclose classified information to journalists to defend the Bush administration's use of prewar intelligence in making the case to go to war with Iraq, according to attorneys familiar with the matter, and to court records. What does this mean to other folks that leak info? Bush buried detailed Social Security privatization proposals in his budget. Can the surprise move jump-start bipartisan reform? If you read enough numbers, you never know what you'll find. Take President Bush and private Social Security accounts. Last year, even though Bush talked endlessly about the supposed joys of private accounts, he never proposed a specific plan to Congress and never put privatization costs in the budget. But this year, with no fanfare whatsoever, Bush stuck a big Social Security privatization plan in the federal budget proposal, which he sent to Congress on Monday. His plan would let people set up private accounts starting in 2010 and would divert more than $700 billion of Social Security tax revenues to pay for them over the first seven years. If this comes as a surprise to you, have no fear. You're not alone. Bush didn't pitch private Social Security accounts in his State of the Union Message last week. It's an old magic trick called "Sleight of hand" which means "cleverness and skill". Nothing has changed in the slightest.
Tom DeLay today was named to the Appropriation Committee. How do the republicans do this stuff. Don't they think anybody notices?
* "People spend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idle dreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill the emptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed to search was within. " . . .
Please give what you can.
This is a follow on to my multipart series on John Boehner the Republicans new Majority Leader.
This is Jack Cafferty of CNN reacting to the news that Boehner was renting an apartment from a LOBBIST.
There are two short videos the first talks about renting the apartment and asks viewers to mail in their thoughts. Click to watch. <----( watch the video here )
The second video Jack reads the emails. Click to watch. <----( watch the video here ) While testifying about the Bush administration's warrantless eavesdropping program, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales was asked to explain how the program had been damaged by the disclosure of its existence in the press. Senator Joseph Biden suggested that Al Qaeda operatives have most likely been aware for some time that the government is trying to intercept their phone calls. Mr. Gonzales agreed. "You would assume that the enemy is presuming that we are engaged in some kind of surveillance," he said. "But if they're not reminded about it all the time in newspapers and in stories, they sometimes forget." Senator Biden managed to laugh. Probably to keep from crying. This was the attorney general of the United States speaking, yet another straight man for an administration that has raised governing to new heights of witlessness. Watching the Bush administration in action would be hilarious, if its ineptitude and brutally misguided policies didn't end so often in needless suffering and sorrow. The public should be aware of two important points about the president's domestic spying program: it's illegal, and it's not catching terrorists.
The above ties into what Stephen Colbert said in the Video below. You just scratch your head and ask how did these folks get as far as the have. He was kidding right? Click to watch. <----( watch the video here )
I haven't talked about the cartoon that has offended so many Muslims, in fact I haven't even seen it. But I think the protests and rioting that has been going on since this became public in my opinion seems to be over kill.
By the way as I understand this the cartoon was first published back in September 2005. Let me say that again IT WAS FIRST PUBLISHED BACK IN SEPTEMBER 2005. I'm Posting this on February 9, 2006. What's that all about?
In today's New York Times David Brooks wrote a piece that I agree with totally. What's funny is that I don't agree with Brooks that much. But, on this one he has nailed it dead on. You want us to know how you feel. You in the Arab European League published a cartoon of Hitler in bed with Anne Frank so we in the West would understand how offended you were by those Danish cartoons. You at the Iranian newspaper Hamshahri are holding a Holocaust cartoon contest so we'll also know how you feel. Well, I saw the Hitler-Anne Frank cartoon: the two have just had sex and Hitler says to her, "Write this one in your diary, Anne." But I still don't know how you feel. I still don't feel as if I should burn embassies or behead people or call on God or bin Laden to exterminate my foes. I still don't feel your rage. I don't feel threatened by a sophomoric cartoon, even one as tasteless as that one. * "In 1929 the wise, far-seeing electors of my native Hereford sent me to Westminster and, two years later, the lousy bastards kicked me out. " . . .
11. DEPRESSION IS MERELY ANGER WITHOUT ENTHUSIASM. 12. THE EARLY BIRD MAY GET THE WORM, BUT THE SECOND MOUSE GETS THE CHEESE 13. I DRIVE WAY TOO FAST TO WORRY ABOUT CHOLESTEROL. 14. SUPPORT BACTERIA. THEY'RE THE ONLY CULTURE SOME PEOPLE HAVE
Please give what you can.
This is a follow on to my multipart series on John Boehner the Republicans new Majority Leader.
This is Jack Cafferty of CNN reacting to the news that Boehner was renting an apartment from a LOBBIST.
There are two short videos the first talks about renting the apartment and asks viewers to mail in their thoughts. Click to watch. <----( watch the video here )
The second video Jack reads the emails. Click to watch. <----( watch the video here ) While testifying about the Bush administration's warrantless eavesdropping program, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales was asked to explain how the program had been damaged by the disclosure of its existence in the press. Senator Joseph Biden suggested that Al Qaeda operatives have most likely been aware for some time that the government is trying to intercept their phone calls. Mr. Gonzales agreed. "You would assume that the enemy is presuming that we are engaged in some kind of surveillance," he said. "But if they're not reminded about it all the time in newspapers and in stories, they sometimes forget." Senator Biden managed to laugh. Probably to keep from crying. This was the attorney general of the United States speaking, yet another straight man for an administration that has raised governing to new heights of witlessness. Watching the Bush administration in action would be hilarious, if its ineptitude and brutally misguided policies didn't end so often in needless suffering and sorrow. The public should be aware of two important points about the president's domestic spying program: it's illegal, and it's not catching terrorists.
The above ties into what Stephen Colbert said in the Video below. You just scratch your head and ask how did these folks get as far as the have. He was kidding right? Click to watch. <----( watch the video here )
I haven't talked about the cartoon that has offended so many Muslims, in fact I haven't even seen it. But I think the protests and rioting that has been going on since this became public in my opinion seems to be over kill.
By the way as I understand this the cartoon was first published back in September 2005. Let me say that again IT WAS FIRST PUBLISHED BACK IN SEPTEMBER 2005. I'm Posting this on February 9, 2006. What's that all about?
In today's New York Times David Brooks wrote a piece that I agree with totally. What's funny is that I don't agree with Brooks that much. But, on this one he has nailed it dead on. You want us to know how you feel. You in the Arab European League published a cartoon of Hitler in bed with Anne Frank so we in the West would understand how offended you were by those Danish cartoons. You at the Iranian newspaper Hamshahri are holding a Holocaust cartoon contest so we'll also know how you feel. Well, I saw the Hitler-Anne Frank cartoon: the two have just had sex and Hitler says to her, "Write this one in your diary, Anne." But I still don't know how you feel. I still don't feel as if I should burn embassies or behead people or call on God or bin Laden to exterminate my foes. I still don't feel your rage. I don't feel threatened by a sophomoric cartoon, even one as tasteless as that one. * "In 1929 the wise, far-seeing electors of my native Hereford sent me to Westminster and, two years later, the lousy bastards kicked me out. " . . .
11. DEPRESSION IS MERELY ANGER WITHOUT ENTHUSIASM. 12. THE EARLY BIRD MAY GET THE WORM, BUT THE SECOND MOUSE GETS THE CHEESE 13. I DRIVE WAY TOO FAST TO WORRY ABOUT CHOLESTEROL. 14. SUPPORT BACTERIA. THEY'RE THE ONLY CULTURE SOME PEOPLE HAVE
Today boys and girls in part two of the republican Leadership Laugh In we explore Boehner's association with Jack Abramoff. We start off with this response to Tim's question about Boehner's association with Abramoff. I didn't know Jack Abramoff, I may have met him once. All of these guys from the president down didn't know Abramoff or even meet him. So my question is how the hell did he get into trouble. He didn't know anyone, he never met anyone, and he never had his picture taken with anyone. Listen to this answer and see if you believe his answer. I especially like the part about LOW LEVEL EMPLOYEES IN HIS OFFICE. How would that make you feel if you worked in the office of Boehner, NOW IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT, after all you met 17 times with good old Jack-ass. Click to watch. <----( watch the video here )
Boehner Rents Apartment Owned by Lobbyist in D.C. Rep. John A. Boehner (R-Ohio), who was elected House majority leader last week, is renting his Capitol Hill apartment from a veteran lobbyist whose clients have direct stakes in legislation Boehner has co-written and that he has overseen as chairman of the Education and the Workforce Committee. The relationship between Boehner, John D. Milne and Milne's wife, Debra R. Anderson, underscores how intertwined senior lawmakers have become with the lobbyists paid to influence legislation. Milne's clients -- including restaurant chains and health insurance companies -- hired him to lobby on issues at the heart of Boehner's work, including minimum-wage increases, small-business tax breaks and tax-free savings accounts to help cover insurance costs, congressional lobbying records show. NOW ISN'T THAT SPECIAL. And I'm sure it's all on the up and up.
In yesterday's New York Times Nicholas Kristof said in part: By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF Please, readers, help Bill O'Reilly! After Mr. O'Reilly denounced me in December as a "left-wing ideologue" (a charge that alarmed me, given his expertise on ideologues), I challenged him to defend traditional values by joining me on a trip to Darfur. I wrote: "You'll have to leave your studio, Bill. You'll encounter pure evil. If you're like me, you'll be scared ... and you'll finally be using your talents for an important cause." A few days ago, I finally got my answer. Mr. O'Reilly declared in his column: "I do three hours of daily news analysis on TV and radio. There's no way I can go to Africa." No need to give up so easily, Bill. With a satellite phone, you can do your show from anywhere. But maybe Mr. O'Reilly's concern is cost, so I thought my readers might want to give him a hand. You can help sponsor a trip by Mr. O'Reilly to Darfur, where he can use his television savvy to thunder against something actually meriting his blustery rage. If you want to help, send e-mail to sponsorbill@gmail.com or snail mail to me at The Times, and tell me how much you're willing to pay for Mr. O'Reilly's expenses in Darfur. Offers will be anonymous, except maybe to the N.S.A. Don't send money; all I'm looking for is pledges. I'll post updates at nytimes.com/ontheground . I pledged $25.00 to get Bill to go. As of this morning there was over $75k pledged. The O-man gave a lame reply last night on his show still saying the incident in Vermont still equated to Darfur which is absurd. I'm not suggesting that what happened in Vermont is not a tragedy but come on compared to Darfur??? Bill go to Darfur and do some REAL ANALYSIS. * "The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. " . . .
These are the books I'm reading. I just started FOG FACTS.
They have started the SPIN already. It seems she had driven to Starbucks with her bodyguard in the passenger seat and young son sitting in his car seat in the back. When the bodyguard went into the coffee shop, Britney took Sean out of his car seat and held him on her lap as she waited. NOW THE STORY GETS GOOD. After reports of the incident were made public, Britney released the following statement to People magazine: "Today I had a horrifying, frightful encounter with the paparazzi while I was with my baby. Because of a recent incident when I was trapped in my car without my baby by a throng of paparazzi, I was terrified that this time the physically aggressive paparazzi would put both me and my baby in danger. I instinctively took measures to get my baby and me out of harm's way, but the paparazzi continued to stalk us, and took photos of us which were sold to the media. I love my child and would do anything to protect him." YEP, I'm right she's nuts. Seems to me she could just lock the door and put the baby back in the car seat and drive off. . . END OF STORY. By the way fire the bodyguard he isn't protecting you I'd say.
Last week on 2/2/6 I asked the question I used in the above headline. Since then the House Republicans have made their choice. They elected Rep John Boehner as the replacement for Tom Delay. This past weekend he was on Meet The Press. Over the next 7-8 days I'll play portions of that interview and let you make up your mind as to if you will see a change in the House Rules. I'll tell you up front I don't think so. Just listen to his answer to EARMARKS he just cannot bring himself to say they should be eliminated. So look for more Bridges To No Where.
Click to watch. <----( watch the video here ) * "Genuine politics -- even politics worthy of the name -- the only politics I am willing to devote myself to -- is simply a matter of serving those around us: serving the community and serving those who will come after us. Its deepest roots are moral because it is a responsibility expressed through action, to and for the whole. " . . .
Pittsburgh won Super Bowl XL, 21-10, on Sunday in Detroit. Plenty of folks in Seattle, however, remain unconvinced. As fans wandered in and out of bars downtown after the loss, they could neither credit the Steelers nor blame the Seahawks. But the referees were not spared their wrath. "The game was stolen from us by the refs," Debbie Waldeck of Seattle said.
* " Democracy means that anyone can grow up to be president, and anyone who doesn't grow up can be vice president. " . . .
Tech support: What kind of computer do you have? Female customer: A white one.
I've been without power since about 12:30 am Saturday morning. It came back on around 6 am but went out again within a few minutes. I've live in this house for over 30 years and in all that time we have lost power about twice a year on average. Never have we been dark for more than 8 hours until this year. It's now 2:30 pm Sunday afternoon and my power just came back on about 20 minutes ago. So power was out for over 38 hours. All my food in the freezer in my kitchen and my full size freezer in the garage is headed toward the garbage can. I wasn't able to do any posting yesterday and this one is pretty late even for me. Speaking about the big wind the Kitsap Sun did a big article on the storm and at the end the listed a number of points of contact for different situations. For example If you have a tree down call this number. If you have a power line down call that number. If you have a medical emergency call this number. And finally they said for more information visit their WEB Site at www.dumbs**t.com. . . HELLO. . . MY POWER IS OUT AND YOU WANT ME TO LOG ON TO YOUR WEB?
Jon Stewart talks a little bit about the Enron trial. Click to watch. <----( watch the video here )
In a discussion on the January 5 edition of MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews about Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff's plea agreement, MSNBC host and former Rep. Joe Scarborough (R-FL) stated only that he "REMEMBERED ABRAMOFF'S NAME" but failed to disclose a $1,000 campaign contribution he received from the lobbyist in 1997. In addition to Abramoff's individual donation, Scarborough also received four contributions totaling $2,000 from the political action committee of Abramoff's former lobbying firm, Preston Gates Ellis & Rouvelas Meeds LLP, as well as $500 from Greenberg Traurig LLP, another firm where Abramoff was a lobbyist, in 2001.
Here's a fun game to play. The object of the game is to move the red block around without getting hit by the blue blocks or touching the black walls. If you can go longer than 22 seconds you are phenomenal. Reportedly, the US Air Force uses this for fighter pilots. They are expected to go for at least 2 minutes. Give it a try! I played for about 15 minutes and the best I could do was 15 seconds. Click to visit the site. <----( click here to go to the site ) * " The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia. " . . . An English major was being released from prison. The nice looking female clerk was about to give him the $100.00 they give to all released prisoners. Since the inmate had not had female attention for a long time, he suggested that she could keep the money if she would have sex with him. He was immediately rearrested and thrown back into jail. Everybody knows you should never end a sentence with a proposition.
Last night on Hardball they were talking about the house picking it's new Majority Leader.
David Gergen, who I think is one of the very best and fairest analysts on all of TV, along with Chuck Todd, The Hotline were commenting on this new leadership fight.
MATTHEWS: We're back with David Gergen and Chuck Todd. David, what do you make of the decapitation, the coup de tat on Capitol Hill today, that Republicans having gotten rid of Tom DeLay, now got rid of his guy, Roy Blunt? They've got a new man out there, John Boehner, who has no connection to the history of the leadership? (that's just a lie.)
GERGEN: Well he does not, Chris, but I don't think it solves their reform image problem. They clearly dropped Blunt because they thought he was that close to DeLay, and they're looking ahead to the elections and as Chuck will tell you, this is going to be a big issue in the fall for the Democrats. Watch the video and pay close attention to Chris when he says WOW and the 'shiv" comment. Then you'll understand why I call him a PHONY. He know this stuff until he wants to slant something his way. Click to watch. <----( watch the video here )
Jon Stewart does it again. He shows how Cindy Sheehan has been able to SQUANDER our sympathy.
Click to watch. <----( watch the video here ) Buddy Holly died this day 1959. * " No public interest is anything other or nobler than a massed accumulation of private interests. " . . . A husband was in BIG trouble when he forgot his wedding anniversary.
"Tomorrow," his wife angrily told him, "there had better be something in our driveway that goes from zero to 200 in two seconds flat!"
The next morning, the wife looked outside and saw a small package in the driveway. She brought it inside, opened it .... and found a brand new bathroom scale. Remember a few months ago when Kanye West said: "George Bush doesn't care about black people." Well it turns out he was wrong. . . what he should have said was: "George Bush doesn't care about Louisiana." Craig Crawford said the following about the State of the Union address regarding the lack attention paid to the Katrina disaster by the president. A major metropolitan area wiped nearly off the face of the Earth, and it merits only six sentences on the next-to-last page of the President's State of the Union Address tonight?!?!? Can there be any more proof that the federal government is washing its hands of the worst natural disaster in U.S. history. Dozens and dozens of paragraphs on rebuilding other nations, but barely a mention of New Orleans. Even more amazing is how Democrats could not see this gaping hole in the President's speech, at least not in the interviews I watched. Give credit to NBC Nightly News Anchor Brian Williams for seeing it and directly asking Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) about Bush's after-thought treatment of rebuilding the Gulf region. But Obama glossed right over Williams' on-target question, didn't rise to the bait in the least. No wonder Democrats cannot win elections. It should be one of these three that takes Tom DeLay's place. Blunt is supposed to be the man but he has a lot of baggage. I think they have a chance to start to change things, the questions will they.
We all know that part of the draw of the Supper Bowl are the ads. This year will be no different. But one thing that will be different is the REALLY SEXY ad. . . there won't be any. So for your dinning pleasure I've captured an ad the you won't see this year during the game. It's from GO Daddy Click to watch. <----( watch the video here ) * " Wherefore being all of one mind, we do highly resolve that government of the grafted by the grafter for the grafter shall not perish from the earth. " . . .
A blonde man decided to wash his sweatshirt, but when he started to put it in the washer he stopped and asked his wife, "Should I wash the sweatshirt in hot water or cold?" "What does the sweatshirt say?" she asked. "University of Oklahoma"
Jon Stewart did a great bit last night on truth or as Stephen Colbert puts it: TRUTHINESS: "The quality of stating concepts one wishes or believes to be true rather than the facts." I like to think of it as pure BULLSHIT. Jon puts it in perspective as only he can using all the talk about the best selling book A MILLION LITTLE PIECES. Watch the video it is so true, and you just have to ask yourself why this is.
Click to watch. <----( watch the video here ) In his Talking Points Memo segment the other night Bill O'Reilly was talking about "NETWORK RIVALRY". He started off by talking about the injury to ABC News men Bob Woodruff and Doug Volt. He said: Notice the word "most". He went on to say: Man that coming out of O'Reilly's mouth damn near floored me. ETHICS??? O'Reilly??? He said that FOX News has a good relationship with ABC, CBS and CNN and most local news operations. Notice he didn't say NBC. Then he went to the point of his Talking Point Memo: So there it is some one at NBC is taking "CHEEP SHOTS" at FOX. Funny how he doesn't identify WHO is taking these SHOTS. Nor does he tell us what these cheap shots are exactly. That's really funny cause many times when he reads his mail at the end of his program and he reads an email from someone that says he's this, that or the other thing, Bill will likely say something like "and of course the writer does not provide an example. So I say Bill "WHERE'S THE BEEF". Who is this bad, bad person and what did the say or do. He ends with: Now he's serious. He's going to TAKE NAMES AND KICK ASS. I don't understand O'Reilly he accuses another Network of doing the same stuff he does on a daily basis, although he is not specific as to what it is they are doing. O'Reilly will trash a paper, a columnist, a radio station, a TV show or a City it doesn't matter. I think it's Keith Olbermann and his Worst Person In The World award that Bill has won so many times that it's pissing O'Reilly off. I can't remember anyone else on MSNBC saying anything good or bad about FOX. Other than using it as a tactic I'm not sure why Bill used the Woodruff and Vogt injury as a lead in to this discussion. To me it doesn't fit. It's like saying you hate the president or you hate America because you object to the war it doesn't belong. Below is Keith's Olbermann's reply to O'Reilly. Listen to what Keith says about O'Reilly's comments about Woodruff and Vogt, that's the point I was trying above but Keith says it better. Watch this video it's funny. Click to watch. <----( watch the video here ) * "Good thing we've still got politics in Texas -- finest form of free entertainment ever invented." . . .
NO WORDS NEEDED
PRETTY GOOD JOKE
Buddha:
FOR THOSE WHO TAKE LIFE TOO SERIOUSLY
YOUR A REDNECK IF. . .
February 13, 2006
I HATE GUNS
QUICK STAT:
CHENEY ACCIDENTALLY SHOOTS FELLOW HUNTER
FOLLOW UP TO THE ABOVE STORY
GET ON THAT BIKE AND RIDE
NO WORDS NEEDED
PRETTY GOOD JOKE
Mohandas K. Gandhi:
CALL FOR HELP
YOUR A REDNECK IF. . .
February 12, 2006
GET TO WORK
QUICK STAT:
IT'S WAS JUST A QUESTION OF TIME
TURNCOAT
SMOKING DUTCH CLEANSER
By MAUREEN DOWD
NO WORDS NEEDED
PRETTY GOOD JOKE
Harold Nicolson:
MAKING THE BIG BUCKS
YOUR A REDNECK IF. . .
February 11, 2006
MAKE A CHOICE HERE
QUICK STAT:
LET THE GAMES BEGIN
YAHOO GAVE CHINA KEY DATA
THE GUY
NO WORDS NEEDED
PRETTY GOOD JOKE
Carl Schurz:
30 YEARS DIFFERENCE:
YOUR A REDNECK IF. . .
February 10, 2006
TAX DAY TODAY
QUICK STAT:
WHITE HOUSE LISTS 10 FOILED ATTACKS
WILL THIS FLY
SLEIGHT OF HAND
PUT ON THE APPROPRIATION COMMITTEE
NO WORDS NEEDED
PRETTY GOOD JOKE
Ramona L. Anderson:
30 YEARS DIFFERENCE:
YOUR A REDNECK IF. . .
February 09, 2006
BIG VIDEO DAY
QUICK STAT:
ABOUT RENT AND EMAIL
ILLEGAL AND INEPT
By BOB HERBERT
I CAN'T BELIEVE HE SAID THAT
HOW DO YOU FEEL
By DAVID BROOKS
NO WORDS NEEDED
PRETTY GOOD JOKE
Frank Owen:
FOR THOSE WHO TAKE LIFE TOO SERIOUSLY
YOUR A REDNECK IF. . .
BIG VIDEO DAY
QUICK STAT:
ABOUT RENT AND EMAIL
ILLEGAL AND INEPT
By BOB HERBERT
I CAN'T BELIEVE HE SAID THAT
HOW DO YOU FEEL
By DAVID BROOKS
NO WORDS NEEDED
PRETTY GOOD JOKE
Frank Owen:
FOR THOSE WHO TAKE LIFE TOO SERIOUSLY
YOUR A REDNECK IF. . .
February 08, 2006
YOU WONDER WHY
QUICK STAT:
PART 2 OF GOD KNOWS HOW MANY PARTS
YOU CAN'T MAKE THIS UP
HELPING BILL O'REILLY
NO WORDS NEEDED
PRETTY GOOD JOKE
Winston Churchill:
YOU ASK WHY
YOUR A REDNECK IF. . .
February 07, 2006
I SEE THE SUN TODAY
QUICK STAT:
BOOKS I'M READING
SHE IS NUTS
TIME FOR A CHANGE. . . DON'T COUNT ON IT.
NO WORDS NEEDED
PRETTY GOOD JOKE
Vaclav Havel:
WHY?
YOUR A REDNECK IF. . .
February 06, 2006
THE DAY AFTER SUPER BOWL
QUICK STAT:
OK WHO LOST THE SUPER BOWL? LISTED HERE IN ORDER OF IMPORTANCE ON THE OUT COME.
1.) THE SEAHAWKS
2.) THE REFS
3.) THE STEELERS
THAT'S THE STORY.
WAIT TIL NEXT YEAR!!!
SEATTLE FANS LEFT TO WONDER
NO WORDS NEEDED
PRETTY GOOD JOKE
Johnny Carson:
TECH SUPPORT
YOUR A REDNECK IF. . .
February 05, 2006
THE PERFECT WIND
QUICK STAT:
THE BIG WIND
SUPERBOWL XL IS NEXT. . . GO HAWKS
I FEEL GOOD, KNEW THAT I WOULD
Watch the VIDEO.
NOW ISN'T THAT SPECIAL
TRY IT YOU'LL LIKE IT
Visit the SITE.
NO WORDS NEEDED
A STORY ABOUT A FORBIDDEN AND SECRETIVE
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TWO COWBOYS AND
THEIR LIVES TOGETHER OVER THE YEARS....
SOON TO A THEATRE NEAR YOU......
RUN..... DON'T WALK.
PRETTY GOOD JOKE
Otto Van Bismarck:
WATCH WHAT YOU WISH FOR
YOUR A REDNECK IF. . .
February 03, 2006
BIG PICTURE DAY
QUICK STAT:
THE BIG PHONY
Watch the VIDEO.
SQUANDER
Watch the VIDEO.
FAT BOY'S LOCK OF THE WEEK
THE DAY THE MUSIC DIED
IS THIS A POLICY CHANGE
NO WORDS NEEDED
PRETTY GOOD JOKE
Mark Twain:
HUSBAND IN BIG TROUBLE
YOUR A REDNECK IF. . .
February 02, 2006
MUCH TO DO TODAY
QUICK STAT:
NEW ORLEANS BARELY MENTIONED
TIME FOR A CHANGE. . .DON'T COUNT ON IT
YOU WON'T SEE THIS ON TV
enjoy. NO WORDS NEEDED
PRETTY GOOD JOKE
Mark Twain:
NOT ANOTHER BLONDE JOKE. . .
YOUR A REDNECK IF. . .
February 01, 2006
THE MORNING AFTER
QUICK STAT:
THE TOUGH QUESTIONS
Watch the VIDEO.
ALL FOX'D UP
"There is a code among most in TV news, a respect in professional courtesy. Thus when guys like Woodruff and Vogt get hurt,
the industry stands together."
"We're all competing, but ethics dictate that standards of behavior should be met"
But "Talking Points" is troubled by the behavior of NBC, which cheap shots FOX News on a regular basis and has been doing so for some time.
It is only a few people doing this, but NBC President Robert Wright allows it to happen. Wright knows exactly what's going on, because he's been made aware of it.
Now we understand that NBC has major problems. Its prime time programming is dead last. Its cable operations are ratings failures. And the network may lose Katie Couric to CBS, but that is no excuse for unprofessional behavior.
Consistently cheap shooting a competitor is beneath the fine standards that NBC has set in the past. Robert Wright would be wise to understand that.
But there's something very wrong at NBC. And if it continues, "Talking Points" will go into greater detail about the problems besetting that network.
Watch the VIDEO.
NO WORDS NEEDED
PRETTY GOOD JOKE
Molly Ivins:
FOR THOSE WHO TAKE LIFE TOO SERIOUSLY
YOUR A REDNECK IF. . .
