Over at the Washington Post David Ignatius, has a great essay on Obama’s political faults vs. Obama’s management style. I agree with Ignatius on most of this but suggest that the word “covert” is misplaced. Dick Chaney was a covert commander in chief. Barack Obama is [...]
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BREAKING NEWS: Reprican Reaction to The President’s Effort to Create Jobs
with color coded repartee from the Washington Post, excerpted “Seven birdies, five bogeys,” Boehner reported to Biden. “You’re kidding me!” the vice president said. “I missed a four-foot, straight-on birdie on the last hole,” Boehner said of another round. Whoa!” the vice presi[...]
September 6th, 2011 - 1:31 am § in Misc.
I Wish Ph.D.s Could Spell
My late father worked for a metropolitan newspaper in the 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. In those days, if a typo or misspelling got into the paper, at least a dozen subscribers would call the paper to bring it to the editor’s attention. For readers, this game of “gotcha” was grea[...]
BREAKING NEWS: UPDATE .. ROMNEY WILL BE GRILLED
UPDATE: TODAY the Republican candidates get quizzed by three inquisitors of the extreme right. God must hate Romney. I wonder if he now gets 33 minutes to be grilled? While huge media attention has been given to the way President Obama backed down so the Repricans could have their debat in Califor[...]
August 27th, 2011 - 9:26 am § in Environment, Hypocrisy
Climate Change, As the World Churns
Climate Change: It’s bad and getting worse Severe weather events are wracking the planet, and experts warn of even greater consequences to come. Dahr Jamail al Jazeera Flooding in China is currently affecting approximately five million people [GALLO/GETTY] The rate of ice loss in two of Greenl[...]
June 24th, 2011 - 8:08 am § in Uncategorized
Breaking News: Why “We” .. all of us … are in Libya!
Bernard Henri Levy on why France led the world into Libya.[...]
BREAKING NEWS: A Capitalist Tells Repricans “Get Real!”
Bond King to Congress: Get Real! from Talking Points Memo This is really a must-read piece. Not because of the message but the messenger. The hyper attention to the country’s debt is supposed to be in reaction to the bond market, the people who buy our debt. But the biggest bond guy in the cou[...]
As the world burns …..
Glued to The Weather Channel While the World Burns By Paul Rogat Loeb Following the weather is beginning to feel like revisiting the Biblical plagues. Tornadoes rip through Missouri, Alabama, Mississippi, Oklahoma—even Massachusetts. A million acres burn in Texas wildfires. The Army Corps of Engin[...]
Young Sean showed the same banter and all American love that Buffalo Bob and Howdy gave us back in those early and better days.
Once known as the child cowboy star “Howdy Doody” the now all grown up Ron Paul announced he is creating an exploratory committee for a presidential run. Representative Paul, still a cowboy from Texas even though his famous freckles are faded and the once red hair is now peppery g[...]
May 24th, 2011 - 9:43 am § in Uncategorized
Fox on The AVE: Radical Rhetoric
Fox. all the news porn that fits.Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com[...]