Eight more days of the Worst President Ever. And then time to start cleaning up.

Seems to be a PR tactic that many Repubs have been coached by…the whole never admit a mistake thing…

Saw WSJ Opinion Page Editor Paul Gigot on “Meet the Gregory” yesterday. He concludes the segment with something to the effect of, “The last 30 years have worked very well, and these latest problems are just a blip, so we should keep doing what we’ve been doing and perhaps even more so.”

That ended the segment and there was no follow up. Worthy of being laughed out of the room, yet most low-info viewers will have that as the walk-away. That’s what the strategy is as a whole as they attempt to re-write history right before our eyes. Because they own almost all of BigMedia, they’re getting away with it for the most part.

Why each of us needs to be promoting and supporting New Media outlets like FDL every day. It’s the only way we’ll truly change much outside of a major collapse and revolution, which I’d like to avoid.

Oh, and rarely get to see Sunday shows, but was able to catch “Face the Schieffer” also. He devotes almost the entire show to the Blago/Burris crap.

WTF?!?!

He gets one half hour, once a week, and with the potential of another Great Depression and the country’s first Black Prez about to take office, Schieffer feels this is a more important issue?!?!

To make it beyond ridiculous, he concludes it all by bringing cabana boy John Boner to talk about Burris. BONER IS IN THE HOUSE, NOT THE SENATE, so this was totally pointless…unless the point is to distract. Scheeper also has this “buddy buddy” and snickering tone with Boner after being all tough on Durbin and Burris (which is fine-should be like this with everyone on-air), and mocks Durbin for being evasive. Durbin couldn’t have been more direct and clear in his answers! Certainly way more than any Repub I’ve ever seen.

To think people still argue with me that BigMedia is swayed by “ratings.” Those have nothing to do with it. It’s a giant PR machine for BigMoney interests. Nothing more.

The timing of “Holocaust II” was planned years earlier, to coincide with the “Financial 9/11″ (planned at the same time as the original 9/11) and the leadership-vacuum known to be created in the transition of power in the US.

They knew that if Americans were preoccupied with their own financial tsunami, that they would ignore Israel’s Nazi-like Blitzkrieg across the Middle East. The worst is yet to come, on both fronts:

The Financial 9/11 – see these charts – default of the United States.

See the charts and read the comments below too.

http://benbittrolff.blogspot.c…..-with.html

Hyperinflation, followed by total inactivity, depression and default.

http://www.financialsense.com/…../0109.html

There are no coincidences.

None.

Thank you, Mr. Rockefeller.

Oh, and another thing (what the he is in my oatmeal?)!

So PajamasMedia send Joe the Plumberbutt to “report” from Isreal?!?! Won’t even get into how insulting this is to Journalism as and whole and all those who have sacrificed their lives doing it, but how the hell do they pay for that?

I’m assuming this is anothee Wingnut Welfare case, since I never hear anyone ever talk about PjMedia, and can’t imagine their advertising income could support this. It’s certainly not the “free markets” paying for PjMedia. Most likely a sugar daddy or two. More Repub hypocrisy.

http://www.xat.org/xat/worldbank.html

If politicians really were being controlled, you would think at least one would break ranks and cry out against it. Many did. One was no less than former New York City Mayor John Haylan

“These international bankers and Rockefeller-Standard Oil interests control the majority of the newspapers and magazines in this country. They use the columns of these papers to club into submission or drive out of office public officials who refuse to do the bidding of the powerful corrupt cliques which compose the invisible government….

The warning of Theodore Roosevelt has much timeliness today, for the real menace of our republic is this invisible government which like a giant octopus sprawls its slimy length over City, State, and nation… It seizes in its long and powerful tentacles our executive officers, our legislative bodies, our schools, our courts, our newspapers, and every agency created for the public protection…

more…

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anything else?

“I will tell you this. I have a great sense of accomplishment, and I am going home with my head held high.”

Preferably on a stake

Won’t even get into how insulting this is to Journalism as a whole…

Insulting to those journalists in the past (and especially the ones who gave their lives) but to current journalists in general……not so much. :-(

Good morning, pups. It’s Kristol, Cohen and Krugman today. Bloody Billy gives us “Continuity We Can Believe In,” in which he says it seems that we can expect more continuity than change from President-elect Barack Obama’s foreign policy. He’s trying to make it sound as though soon-to-be-President Obama agrees with Dick Cheney… Mr. Cohen, in “Mideast Dream Team? Not Quite,” says U.S. enlightenment about the Middle East will require a fresher, broader team than Barack Obama is contemplating. Prof. Krugman has “Ideas for Obama.” He says President-elect Barack Obama’s economic plan falls well short of what’s needed. To fix it, he needs to stop talking about “jump-starts” and focus on long-term investment. Judging from all the above, to say nothing of what else is in the MSM, I don’t see much of a “honeymoon” for the new administration.

Here they are.

The coffee, tea and hot chocolate are ready, and the biscuits are out of the oven. A bit over a week to go. Here’s hoping that the Current Occupant doesn’t come up with any last-minute surprises for us. Have a great day.

Raven -

In answer to your question yesterday, about an hour north of Highlands (less as the crow raven flies) but they be winding roads. If you’re up this way again before the end of February, would love to meet up.

cool!

When will the national enema begin?

A bit over a week to go. Here’s hoping that the Current Occupant doesn’t come up with any last-minute surprises for us. Have a great day.

In lieu of foothillsmike the total is 197 hours.

Boom Boom obama is proving to be a bit of a pantywaist so far with his kowtowing to aipac and his boot licking of mitch mcconnell. Not surprised.

Good morning. I’ve been amazed at the attempt to rewrite history. The best I’ve seen so far is Ann Coulter telling Matt Lauer that Bush kept us safe for eight years. Matt didn’t correct her.

morning all. in case anyone is interested in planning ahead for their hearing watching this week, i make a list last night. lots of nomination hearings – clinton, holder, shinseki, orszag, chu, duncan, vilsack, rice, napolitano, schapiro and more. didn’t post it at oxdown because i wouldn’t be able to update it, but you can click on my name or here’s the direct link:

http://www.netrootsmass.net/20…..n-12-2008/

Lots of work there…..thank you! Assume none of these will be available on C-Span 1 or 2 for regular TV unless you say otherwise. :-( Hope one of these days to get up with the ‘puter guru to find out whether he can set me up for mp3 streaming to dial-up.

John Cusack has a diary over at HuffPo He wants Holder to be asked if waterboarding is torture and will you investigate war crimes. That’s key. That’s the hearing I’ll be most interested in.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…..56845.html

It always amazes me that MSM lets comments like this slide. Under Bush’s watch we have had weak economic growth (highlighted above by the great ATTATURK), Katrina where people were allowed to drown, 9/11, anthrax, incresed incidents of e-coli and other food illnesses, health care costs that have skyrocketed, poor ecological conditions, increase in hate groups, and many more things to mention. I guess if you have millions and a nice bed, you feel safe.

i expect lots of them will be shown on cspan. the thing is that cspan doesn’t post their schedule ahead of time (at least as far as i know) – so no weekly schedule. but cspan is usually pretty good about showing nomination hearings, so you’re probably better off assuming the big ones will be available than not.

for mp3 streaming, two things:

1) i can try to post the direct url for cspan radio….. will go look for it now
2) i’ve just moved all my old hearing posts to wordpress, and while i was at it have made ALL the old mp3 hearing file available via flash stream for dial up (you just have to click on the start icon)

don’t know if this will work, but here is the direct url i use for mp3 streaming of cspan radio:

http://pri.kts-af.net/redir/in…..icksrc=xml

Was hoping they would be but usually what’s happening on floor of senate/reps takes first place; occasionally I manage to catch a hearing on off-hours but, like you say, the scheduling is a crap shoot.

yeah, the cspan scheduling would be so much nicer if they would just post ahead.

anyway, now that i’m all set up for flash streaming mp3s for dial up….. if there is ever any hearing you are particularly interested in listening to, let me know and i’d be happy to rip an audio and post it.

Thank you selise. In blizzard conditions here so what else is there to do but watch hearing!

Wow! Actually hearing something apparently playing thru i-tunes; stops periodically with a flag “rebuffering stream” but a heck of a lot better than trying to listen to vids via dial-up. Can you type out a complete url so I can bookmark it (the one that shows up under your comment has the usual ….. in the middle)?

From the bunnypants link, he said
And no question I have taken bold moves to prevent … a financial meltdown.
Uh, what? Oh, I get it. He’s not having one.

selise -

As you can tell, total luddite about all this techie stuff. I guess you have to do the mp3 stuff at your end before it’ll come thru for me.

if you get a chance, would you try an experiment for me?

just below where it says “UPDATED with audio archive:” click on the little sideways triangle thats in the gray and black audio graphic to see if the mp3 will stream for you:

http://www.netrootsmass.net/ca…..ngs/audio/

Swim’s up.

great!

don’t think you can book mark it though…. it should now be an entry in your itunes library you can click on. but if not, you can book mark the comment and then click the link from there.

Sorry, I was messing around over at C-Span to see if I could get anything there to work. What I get on your site is “file not found” when following #28 directions.

excellent! misery lovees company so i like having company while listening to hearings. *g*

damn. will work on it then. i can’t test it since i don’t have dial up. i know some of them have worked for another dial up user – so it’s technically possible. will just have to find a way to make it work for you.

oh. another thought that would probably be even better is the direct link to cspan radio via real player. will go get it now….

hear it is:

CSPAN Radio

Thanks so much for all your trouble! Like I said, hopefully the guru can figure out how to make it work…probably just something simple that I’m too simple-minded to know how to do. *g* Bookmarked your site so we can find it easily. *smooch*

here is the link to scheduled hearings before the senate. Looks like Eric Holder is at 9:30 AM EST on Thursday. Clinton 9:30 AM EST on Tuesday.

Hmmmmm. get a note saying “imgres.html” is an application. Are you sure you want to download the app?

selise – see #38.

when i make the weekly list, i use that link as a source also (and it’s good to check for updates), but i also go through every committee website for both the house and senate. if you see that i’ve missed any, would very much appreciate a heads up. thanks.

maybe you don’t have realplayer installed?

damn. sorry. works for me.

selise -

Gotta head out for some errands; thanks again for all your help.

me too (errands – and coffee!). sorry i’m never as much help as i want to be.

Sorry about that—I was focused on the CSPAN lack of schedule and didn’t get that your link was to your thorough list. too early eyes open but brain not engaged.

And now duly bookmarked.

brain issues here too (lack of caffeine version). i try to make the list thorough – but new stuff gets added midweek, and i might miss it. so best to keep that senate link too (i have it and some others on the side bar for reference).

not like the congress tries to make it easy for us to pay attention… argh.

Giant testicles shouldn’t be used as a term for stupid behavior. There are plenty of smart folks with giant testicles, and giant ovaries for that matter. The problem is between the ears, not legs.