- President Obama will visit New Orleans on Thursday for the first time since taking office, to address rebuilding efforts in the city ravaged by Hurricane Katrina four years ago.
President Obama will visit New Orleans, Louisiana, on Thursday to talk about rebuilding efforts.

During his trip, Obama will visit a charter school and host a town hall meeting to hear residents’ concerns, the White House said.

As a true capitalist, Rush would certainly have gotten NFL owners to pay compensation for the stadiums they extorted from taxpayers (except Green Bay, where the taxpayers own the team).

Good morning, pups. Gail Collins is off today, so Nicholas Kristof reigns alone. In “Democrats and Schools” he says education reform is the central front in the war on poverty, the civil rights issue of our time.

Here he is.

The coffee and tea are ready, and I’ve got Thomas’ English muffins and your favorite jam. My Secret Pal at work presented me with a Halloween bag that contained costume hats for the kittehs. The entire office demanded pictures… Surprisingly, no blood was shed during the taking of these pictures. Hoover was surprisingly resigned about the whole thing. Delilah, on the other hand, had quite strong feelings about the process… Have a great day.

Ooops. Here’s Mr. Kristof… I got distracted by kittehs.

Eventually, the electorate will ask the Democrats, “What happened to the public option?” And, the Democrats think it will suffice to say, “Olympia made us get rid of it; that was the price we had to pay for bipartisan support.”

BTW, how come quotes get those three slashes in front of them. Didn’t Tim Berners Lee apologize this week for requiring so many slashes? Ah, here it is.

How much is the book value of all of the health insurance companies? Wouldn’t it simply be cheaper to buy them up than to pay a 30% overhead to them on all healthcare costs in the nation?

Didn’t Tim Berners Lee apologize this week for requiring so many slashes? Ah, here it is.

I call bogus. EVERYBODY knows that Al Gore invented the internet…

OK, don’t care about New Orleans, THIS is really important!

Beginning Dec. 1, bloggers, Twitterers and many others who write online product reviews must disclose the receipt of free merchandise or payment for the items they write about.

The guidelines, an update of the F.T.C.’s 1980 guide concerning the use of endorsements and testimonials in advertising, will affect many in the beauty and fashion blogging community, where freebies ($40 eye-shadow palates, $250 clutch purses and, yes, $69 jeans) are rampant. The rules reflect the commission’s concern about how advertisers are using bloggers and social networking sites to pitch their products.

Raven, I’ll be happy to disclose any fez a manufacturer happens to throw my way.

One of the talking heads on cnn was whining about he was only going to be there four hours…..don’t remember any of them raising a stink when gwb did the same? Geeez! Double standard much? But, hey! IOKIYAR

Poor, poor Fat Monopoly Banker!

I’m so glad he is out of the picture. The last thing the NFL needs is Rush stirring up controversy and taking away emphasis from sports to divisive comments.

BTW, how come quotes get those three slashes in front of them.

Still seem to be several wonky things going on after the last Lake update shutdown:

1. The ///business
2. Edit button is gone this morning….have been off-line for most of the last week so don’t know if that’s on-going.
3. “Remember me” button in the sign-on box for the Lake seems to be totally FUBAR.

To quote good ol’ michael steele, “What up?”

The NFL got rid of Rush…
Can they get rid of the hideous “coin toss” rule in Overtime.
(I’m pissed cuz the Patsies lost in OT)…
Play a ten minute overtime and let each team have the fucking ball…

A serious parody Sarah Palin coloring & activity book coming out alongside her book:

http://www.goingrouge.net/

Cute pooties……dial-up load time ain’t fun….but they sure are. My “cat” cousin (she of the five cat family) has lost four of them (various causes) since the end of last year. After the third, she went to one of the adoption days at a pet store and came home with not one, but two kittens. Looking forward to seeing them for the first time when passing her way tomorrow. Most of her previous ones were of the “I vant to be left alone” variety but she says both the new ones appear to be lap cats. I can’t have them for pets anymore due to allergies but enjoy playing with those of others (frequent hand washing required *g*).

“Oh the humanity” that Rush Limbaugh can’t own a football team! On a more serious note Olympia Snowe is the Trojan Horse that has the potential of destroying any meaningful healthcare reform. What does it say that Rham and Obama opened the gates to let her in?

attn: Michelle> Had a doozie of a time getting to you; will be sending cc$ asap; I’m hanoverphil45, doing Toomey’s lifting , here in the Keystone State.You GO Girl!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Good morning.

The Rs are tragedy, the Ds are farce. Or the reverse.

I’d vote for the reverse.

Blue Texan is upstairs…

On democracynow, power plants have dumped toxic sludge from smokestack scubbers into local waterways. Weren’t fined.

Snowe is a snake in the grass. I’ve been saying this for 8.10 years now!

“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.” — Thomas Jefferson

I think the electorate will eventually go on to ask, “why do health insurance premiums continue to sky-rocket?,” and “why is the IRS coming after me for not ‘opting in’ to this dreadful scheme?”

At that point, if not before, the electorate is going to be really, REALLY mad at Democrats.

Make that white RICH man being denied property and it’ll be perfect!