what on earth is being covered up by that scenario – landing of aliens?

free zed for whomever wants it

Unreal.

Wow. Look at the unrest Waxman faces during a meeting with constituents. (Thanks RodUnderleaf)

OT: I just ran across a Dkos diary entitles, “Obama comes to bury Reagan, not to praise him“:

Far from agreeing with Reagan, Obama instead is attempting to reverse Reagan’s legacy.
…
An Obama victory would be a complete, total repudiation of Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, and his pathetic son, because instead of merely defeating a conservative candidate, it would defeat conservatism.

It’s the chance to finally, permanently, bury Ronald Reagan.

All of which I’ll believe when I hear it from Obama himself, rather than a hopeful follower.

Wow. Poor Waxman; it hurt to watch. Why couldn’t Pelosi have been there taking that heat?

LA police should step in and stop media scumbags from hounding this young woman the way they hounded the late Princess Diana.

Isn’t that something? You’re right, it’s Pelosi’s question to answer with regard to impeachment, but what about the Sibal Edmunds questions?

They are.

Mornin’, pups,

Is it not standard practice for news organizations to have prewritten obits on well-known figures? Just asking…

What do y’all think of the air-time the mittster’s little run-in with the AP reporter is getting? Scar is blowin’ it off (as expected) and claiming it’s just an example of how the media “hates” romney, Mika is jumpin’ up and down hollerin’ how she wants to see him lose his cool and Schuster is the sweet voice of reason. KO had so much fun with this one last nite. *g*

Loo Hoo -

Dial-up; can’t watch vids…is the Waxman thing recent? A little more info on content, please?

“I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with a lot of pleasure.” –Clarence Darrow

A good way to understand just how unhelpful the MSM has become is to search topics on Google News.

Here’s a few to put things in perspective:

Entertainers:
Britney Spears..22,058 articles
Oprah Winfrey….5,709
O.J. Simpson…..5,139
Jon Stewart……..4,808
Stephen Colbert..3,306
Chris Matthews…1,422

Sports:
Alex Rodriguez…1,639
G. Steinbrenner….309

Gov’t. & Politics
George Bush….66,863
Dick Cheney…….6,346
Barack Obama..84,497
Hillary Clinton…95,515
Dennis Kucinich..8,411

Important Issues We Must Face In Order To Save The Nation:
National Debt…13,400
Trade Deficit……6,794
“Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act” - a mere 59 citations

Conclusion: So, anyone wanna bet that the AP already has obits written on all the pols? I’m sure they do.

For those with a taste for the ghoulish (we covered goulash last night) here’s a very sly interview on NPR with the woman who wrote the book on obits. It’s called “The Dead Beat“. Get it? Har har harrifying!

Waccamaw, it’s three months old, but I’d never seen it. It looks like it was taped by one of the audience, not professionally. One lawyer asks how impeachment can possibly be off the table, and he’s impassioned. Others ask about the engineers 9/11 questions and the last begs him to speak with Sibul under oath. Waxman defends Congress spending time on steroids vs. other issues.

For those with a taste for the ghoulish (we covered goulash last night) here’s a very sly interview on NPR with the woman who wrote the book on obits. It’s called “The Dead Beat“. Get it? Har har harrifying

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Been hangin’ around the Punster again, nuh? Seriously, seems I remember seeing an interview with her a good while back now and it was quite interesting. Ya know you’re gettin’ old when you start reading the obits every day. *g*

It’s not the “obit” that’s the problem more than this:

it’s easily one of the biggest stories in a long time

Isn’t it commonplace for the “media” to have obits in the can? Seems to me when someone “high profile” dies they have them most ric tic.

Oops, lost an ! there.

Thanks, Loo Hoo. Just trying to figure out if it was something new or part of a different confrontation that showed up on TV sometime in the past; can’t remember when that one happened. I’d be dangerous if I had a memory left. *g*

Attaturk @ 13 -

True, dat. Sure is a “tell” where their priorities are.

Good morning, pups. It’s Bobo and Krugman in the NYT today. Bobo knows How Voters Think. He says in reality all of us make emotional, intuitive decisions about who we prefer, and then come up with post-hoc rationalizations to explain the choices. Gosh, I guess I really support John Edwards because of his pretty haircut instead of his health care plan. Silly me… Mr. Krugman, in a column titled “Don’t Cry For Me, America,” says although we won’t have the kind of financial death spiral Argentina experienced, the next year or two could be quite unpleasant.

http://mgpaquin.wordpress.com/

The coffee, tea and hot chocolate are ready, and I’ve got corn muffins just out of the oven. (Southern way, so if you like them sweet there’s honey on the counter.) Of course newspapers keep obits in the can. Attaturk is trying, I believe, to point out AP’s belief that this creature’s future demise is a Big, Major Story is a disgusting commentary on our media. Have a great Friday.

Ya know you’re gettin’ old when you start reading the obits every day. *g*

IIRC that goes: Ya know you’re gettin’ old when you start reading the obits to see if your name is there. *g*

True, dat. Sure is a “tell” where their priorities are.

Worse yet, it tells where they think our priorities are at.

Sorry, I seem to recall George Burns had a hand in that one.

True, dat. Sure is a “tell” where their priorities are.

Worse yet, it tells where they think our priorities are at.

There we go mistaking the erudite FDL crowd for the unwashed masses. Da people are gettin what’s dey want.

Also, Attaturk, isn’t it odd that AP would choose to “leak” the fact that they’ve got a canned obit on her? (Usmagazine.com has learned implies a “leak” to me.)When’s the last time you heard a fuss being made about something like this? Never is what I come up with…

Woo Hoo Loo Hoo! The We Are Change People are awesome!

I’ve been a 9/11 Truth Activist since 2002. I’ve put on seminars, shown films, discussed the anomalies and outright lies of the government on radio and endlessly research the topic on line and via books, video and personal correspondence.

It’s great that we are getting a hearing with Henry Waxman, who is one of the very best Congressmen in America.

His explanation that he voted for that odious bitch whore fraud Jane Harmon’s Stalinist H.R.1955 based on the fact that that slimey wench inserted into the purportedly non-controversial suspension bills is totally indicative that the evil this faces is not from swarthy-faced foreigners but frome traitorous and anti-American forces that have stolen our government from us. Harmon should be impeached, along with Bush and that Weinie guy from Wyoming.

(Continues Next Commment…)

See my 9.

How’s the new furry child doing…been able to figure out what the allergies are yet? Do they do the same kind of testing on dogs that they do on humans? Was it you or someone else who had a DNA to determine the breeds mix on their pet…was wondering how much that sort of thing cost.

Marion -

Would that be corn “bread” or “cake” muffins? *g* Given our mutual fondness for the FM….have you ever bought any of their corn “cake”? Tried it one time and had to throw most of it out. A little sweet is fine; a lot… not so good.

(Continued from above)

If any of you want any of the DVDs mentioned by We Are Change, you can get them from my good friend snd fellow activist Dr. Tom Tvedten at the 911 DVD Project. Tom has been running this project for a couple of years and has, to date, distributed over 200,000 titles (many discs have more than one title on them). Tell ‘im Ray sent you and ask for a discount if you intend to distribute them.

At our St. Paddy’s Day Peace Parade last year a friend of mine put on a George Bush mask and rode around downtown in a pedicab, handing out over 300 of Tom’s DVDs. A splendid time was had by all!

FWIW, per WaPo:

Offering the most definitive public assessment by a U.S. intelligence official, Hayden said Bhutto was killed by fighters allied with Mehsud, a tribal leader in northwestern Pakistan, with support from al-Qaeda’s terrorist network. That view mirrors the Pakistani government’s assertions.

Hiiiieee,

The vet could not really find anything, he gave us some meds that we hope give her some relief. They eye’s are way better and she is cashing in her cute chips constantly! The bohdi is now warming up greatly but it’ll come.

Waccamaw, they’re not sweet, I promise! I left out honey for those as likes their corn bread more like corn cake. They’re “Southern safe!”

Meds = pred? Watch out for prolonged use of that stuff!

Missed news about eyes – what was that?

Re:

Wow. Poor Waxman; it hurt to watch. Why couldn’t Pelosi have been there taking that heat?

Nonsense. We Are Change is doing exactly what the citizenry of this nation needs to do. We need to start screaming at the top of our lungs to all our elected representatives.

After Waxman said he voted for Jane Harmon’s odious thought-crime bill without having his staff investigate you think we should give Waxman a pass? I sure don’t.

The Cost of Freedom Is Perpetual Vigilance. What this nation faces today is the total destruction of the U.S. as a functioning democracy because there is no force effectively opposing the fascist schemes of the Bush Crime Family. It’s time for people to rise up.

Thomas Jefferson famously said that “when the government fears the people, there is liberty and when the people fear the government there is tyranny.”

The corollary today is that when people are so compelled by our idiot culture to spend more time thinking about Britney Spears than they do the platform of Dennis Kucinich, democracy is done. You can stick a fork in it. And the shameful truth is that the People simply let 220 years of vibrant democracy slip through their pizza and popcorn greased fingers.

Good Morning everybody,

here’s what’s coming up on
WASHINGTON JOURNAL
On Our Program . . .
We begin the program with a look at Campaign 2008. Prof. Richard Benedetto of American University talks about polling while Terry Sullivan, South Carolina Dir. for Mitt Romney, tells us what a win or loss means for his candidate. Also, the CIA’s destruction of interrogation tapes & the Latino Vote in the Nevada Caucuses.

7:30am – Richard Benedetto, American Univ., Politics & Communications Professor
8am – Terry Sullivan, Romney for President, SC State Director
9am – Rep. Silvestre Reyes (D-TX), Intelligence Cmte., Chairman
9:30am – Luis Valera, Las Vegas Latin Chamber of Commerce, Gov’t Affairs Cmte. Chairman

The whole Britney thing looks like total social pathology. Why are we even discussing this nonsense? Where’s the adults?

Iraq, recession, presidential election, torture, Iran, whatever other country Coo-Coo Bananas is waving his sword at — all pale in comparison to the ghoulish potential of an obscenely famous and quite plainly troubled young woman being hounded into an early grave.

we are the adults.

Re:

Dial-up; can’t watch vids…is the Waxman thing recent? A little more info on content, please?

We Are Change L.A. confronted Waxman at a recent town hall meeting. Here’s another action by the group, confronting Jane Harmon: http://www.911blogger.com/node/13358

We Are Change is an international organization that is the best thing to come along since Act Up in the world of gay activism

Check later on the L.A. We Are Change website. It’s down at the moment.

Re:

we are the adults.

LOL! That’s what I’m afraid of.

There is something tragically interesting about Brittany. My girls were in Junior High when she was first big, so I had to listen to lots of it. I don’t know, so young, so rich, and so much potential. I do not normally follow this sort of thing, but remember Prince William was once interested in her, or so the British press claimed. I guess it’s the train wreck aspect, but also…I think we’d like to save her, not see an obit.

Not important, certainly, in the big scheme of things.

My favorite George Burns line? Easily this one offering advice…

“Sincerity is the key to success in life, if you can fake that, you got it made.”

Morning Marion, all.

I think we all agree it’s AP’s description of the imagined event that is the news here, as prepared obits are the rule, not the exception, and the Britney thing is a new installment of celebrity mania that has been there since the star system emerged in the silent film area, taking over from theater. Sarah Bernhardt,the divine Sarah, was the object of maniacal attention. Her personal life was no less unorthodox and scandalous.

That said, SB was unlike BS, in being an open and active progressive. Also, naturally by having an amazing talent as an actress and sculptress

Which makes me think, how is Hollywood dividing its attentions among the candidates? Beside ‘Josh’ of West Wing. Who is stumping for whom? After all, the stars do have time on their hands, with the strike.

Something to chew on while wishing my bakery bread were Marion’s homemade muffins.

It’s down at the moment.

Hope it’s b/c they’re getting lots of hits.

“Always be sincere, whether you mean it or not.” (From The Reluctant Cannibal by Flanders and Swan.)

Re:

There is something tragically interesting about Brittany.

Clearly she was the epitome of the corrupt Western ideal of female sexuality. She had all the slutty symptoms that repulsed Islam moralist and Zawahiri mentor Sayyid Qutb and had him reaching for bullets and bombs to eliminate the infidels.

But to tell you when I really find her to be just too repulsive and reprehensible to endure was when she was asked in 2004 about her choice for President. I don’t want to look up the citation because it is too painful a memory, but to paraphrase her the idiot said “we should all stand behind our President because he’s a good Christian man and he’s protecting us from really evil people.’ Gag me with a chainsaw.

I do not pay attention to morons. Even good looking ones. You might know that there is an expression called “street crossing smart”. In the world of fashion models, it’s a standing joke that they are about the only really slow-witted people who can afford to live on Manhattan. Street crossing smart refers to women who have about that much survival skill, and no more, in the urban jungle.

It’s been said that Money is Everything in America. It turns out Looks matter, too.

Speaking of obituaries.

Per article on Wash Journo – Cramer lost a $50,000.(iirc) bet he made a year ago with some other investment guy who said gold and ? would be the best 2007 investments.

Anyone who would make an investment based on the recommendations of someone so obviously barking mad pretty much asked for being “taken to the cleaners” (cleaned that last “____ ” up quite a bit). *g*

Re:

(From The Reluctant Cannibal by Flanders and Swan.)

Hmmm, never crossed my radar before. You a Brit by chance?

Jane did a post on model stupid, a Chris Rock phrase, not too long ago.

I’d like to know from those who have contact with young girl,is B.S. their BFF now? Who is in fact caring about this story beside MSM? What fuels it?

Bobby Fischer seems to have had a much more realistic grasp of politics than Ms. Spearfish:

“The United States is evil. There’s this axis of evil. What about the allies of evil _ the United States, England, Japan, Australia? These are the evildoers,”

Re: I’d like to know from those who have contact with young girl, is B.S. their BFF now?

Is there an English version of this question?

Re: Who is in fact caring about this story beside MSM?

I don’t know enough teenyboppers to be able to “take the pulse” of youth culture any longer.

Re: What fuels it?

Schadenfreude.

It’s silly to get all worked up about people being obsessed with, it’s nothing new and it’s not going to change.

It’s silly to get all worked up about people being obsessed with Hollywood bullshit, it’s nothing new and it’s not going to change.

Fisher was not exactly a cool political analyst,IIRC.
OT

Rudy has a conflict of interest on his border monitoring programs designed by a group that gave him a piece of the action, not divulged. ethical questions raised. why are we not surprised?
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01…..ref=slogin

The best thing about tanking will bring, beside potential protection of the rule of law from a ruthless future dictator autocrat is that it’s going to cost him big in his business. No more motivational speaking on how to win in the face of crisis, Josh has been following this.

Bye all

Mr. America, walk on by your supermarket dream
Mr. America, walk on by the liquor store supreme
Mr. America try to hide the product of your savage pride
The useful minds that it denied
The day you shrugged and stepped aside
You saw their clothes, and then you cried,
“Those HUNGRY FREAKS, DADDY!”

They won’t go on four no more
Great mid-western hardware store
Philosophy that turns away
From those who aren’t afraid to say what’s on their minds
The left behinds of the great society
Frank Z

BFF – Best Friends Forever.

Here is an interesting bit.

President Bush has exempted the Navy’s upcoming training missions in Southern California waters from environmental laws that prompted court-ordered restrictions on using sonar linked to injuries of whales and dolphins…. …override a federal court order that restricts the Navy from using mid-frequency active sonar within 12 miles of the coast and shutting down the powerful submarine-detection device when marine mammals come within 2,200 yards.

The dolphins and whales are either with us.. ..or with the terrists.

That was advice I got from a friend long ago. I never knew where it came from, but looked it up via google recently, when everyone started talking about “authenticity.”

Could have thought that was the other fella – Jack Benny

“Sincerity is the key to success in life, if you can fake that, you got it made.”

but itis getting to be “What do I remember” the price of altz-whatitz

Alas, poor Britney.

We hardly knew ye.