Good morning, pups. It’s Dowd, Friedman, Kristof and Rich today. In “Driving Miss Saudi” MoDo says young women in Riyadh try to balance Islam and modernity as the stunted desert kingdom makes progress in “Saudi Time.” The Moustache of Wisdom, in “Driving Drunk in Jerusalem,” (no, he didn’t talk to another cab driver) says the fracas over Israel’s announcement of plans for new housing in East Jerusalem is a distraction from a potentially history-making moment. In “Partying to Change the World” Mr. Kristof says BeadforLife, which teaches entrepreneurial skills to impoverished Ugandans, is an example of how Americans can make a difference. Mr. Rich addresses “The New Rove-Cheney Assault on Reality” and says the revisionist history peddled by Liz Cheney and Karl Rove must be aggressively refuted, and we must remember who really failed to keep America safe. He seems to be a voice crying in the wilderness…

Here they are.

The coffee, tea and hot chocolate are ready, and I’ve got waffles with warm maple syrup this morning. I’m propping my eyelids open with toothpicks, and missing the hour of sleep daylight savings time took away. Maybe another cup of tea will help… Have a great day.

Good morning. I have 10-grain muffins on offer.

Can you imagine relying on a Liz-Karl version for anything? Wish we could ask Ann Richards.

At 10aET, you can ask Rove Qs. I can’t bear him, so I’m not gonna fill my ususal role of asking pointed Qs, but I wish someone else would.

morning everyone

something very strange happend last nite;

we had a storm, they said there were going to be high winds, they said there was going to be about 4 inches of rain

now in the past, whenever there’s going to be a storm they over predict the severity with something linke;

“STAY IN THE HOUSE, ARMAGEDDON IS UPON US” or something similar

not for this storm, it was just “alot of rain and some wind”

well, it was literally, not figuratively, a hurricante, winds close to 100 mph, roofing taken off, siding taken off all over the pace, more trees uprooted and more physical damage then ever before in my 30 years living here

there were blue green explosions 20 minutes or so for a while, these were transformeres saying good bye to the world

this was, with no doubt, a hurricane, stronger then any hurricane before it in my 30 years living here

yet they do not call it a hurricane, for the first time I remember they are under reporting a storm

I am dumbfounded

I suppose because it doesn’t form from the traditional hurricane protocol but man tis was fierce

Where are you? Sorry, I guess Ive forgotten. What a storm….

Wow. What’s your zip code? Gonna look it up on weather.com.

Oooh, just heard wind reports of 70 mph

rather not broadcast zipcode over the tubeules

these winds were over 70 mph though I didn’t have a wind speedometer at the ready

trees down in Philadelphia, and over 4 inches of rain.

Morning everyone. Kagro’s just been on CSPAN. He’s someone who should be on the network shows. A actual expert on Congress machinations and a pleasant reasonable guest.

ps

my home insurance cancelled this year and we have not been able to find a provider

they’ve been rescinding in the area for flooding predictions, even though we have never had a flood

so the rear siding is gone on my house, no insurance, this in a year I made about 40 percent less then the previous 5, this in a year the health insurance out of nowhere decided they would raise our rates 20 percent

wonderful

oh and good morning!

Weather has become the “shiny” object of local “news.”

Jane’s on book-tv.

Good morning Elliott & thanks for your work. Mid-Hudson weather not as bad. A bit over an inch of rain in last 24 hours and windy, but nothing severe.

I just looked it up, they “claim” the highest winds were in the 30′s

righhhhhhtttt

OT, anyone listen to Jessie Jackson’s “Keep Hope Alive?” This a.m. the topic is the state of education in the U.S..

Good Morning, Elliot and All
I’m up early. No rain here, thankfully. It was gloriously warm yesterday, so I worked in the yard. But, it’s still cold at night. I’m ready for spring to get here and stay a while.

(((perris)))

BTW, there is a weather phenomenon called a microburst that is very local. There was one in Central Park this spring, iirc. My apt is maybe a mile or 2 away, I happened to be in the city, and nothing happened in my neighborhood. Central Park was devasted, took out the most trees at any time in its history. So maybe that’s what happened near your house.

thanks for the heads up

I don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows, and I’m afraid I don’t have to do much studying to understand that our education system is in big trouble. I’ve read a few articles about what’s going on in Texas with the rewriting of history. Sheesh.
My sweet sister took an early retirement from NBC and went back to school to get an elementary school credential. She’s been teaching for 5 years now and it’s this time of the year that she gets a pink slip. Cut backs, blah, blah, blah. She has to wait until April 1 to find out if she really stays or really goes now. Yesterday, she told me she moved up one position on the seniority list because some teacher got bounced after being arrested for having sex with one of her 14 year old students. Seriously.

And now many school districts around the country are considering shrinking the school week to 4 days. Just another indication that the U.S. is in a downward trajectory. For the working and middle class the future is not bright. For the well connected and wealthy the future couldn’t be brighter.

Is there anything in the U.S. that is NOT in a sorry state?

NBC’s Meet The Press:

Roundtable: David Brooks, Tom Friedman.

there’s a joke in there somewhere.

more coffee….

mornin’ all.

My sister spends so much time with discipline, she already doesn’t have enough time to get through her lesson plans. The parents are idiots. They let their kids stay up late, don’t care that 4th graders are reading at 1st and second grade levels or remind their short sighted sons and daughters to wear their glasses to school.
It’s really too bad, because my sister is such and good person and she’s actually not that concerned whether she goes back next year or not because it’s such a thankless job.

“Rich people play the stock market, poor people play bingo.” Rev. Jessie Jackson

Does the state of reality TV count?

the joke would be Brokaw

I watched the first season of Survivor, but haven’t watched a minute of any of the other ones. Never. I’m a tv snob. Snicker.

How many neo-cons can you find? Sen. James Inhofe (rightwing and stupid), Sen. Lindsey Graham (protects torturers), Ed Gillespie, George Will, Cokie Roberts (has not said anything new in decades), Andrea Mitchell (protects fraudulent banksters), Joe Klein (protects Cass Sunstein), Rep. John Boehner (protects wars and K-street), Richard Holbrooke (protects the New World Order and he signed PNAC, the Mein Kampf of the neo-cons), Karl Rove (war criminal), Bill Kristol (war propagandist), Mara Liasson, Dana Perino (cognitively challenged and full metal neo-con), David Brooks, Tom Friedman (two more Village idiots who are always wrong), Karen Ignagni, President, AHIP, (accomplice to murdering 45,000 every year).

Bubblehead Tom Brokaw will talk about…The Greatest Generation. But I think the generation that opposed the criminal war in Vietnam and the generation that is fighting against the corporate wars of today, are just as great.

Every week, corporate tee vee sell us lies and wars. Every week they say the same thing as the week before. Every week they fail to tell us the truth. For instance, the Christmas/Underwear Bomb plot was more or less an inside job, with assistance given to the terrorist, by US intelligence officials.

I think that illustrates my point precisely. *g*

I have a Brokaw and my sister story. Tom had worked at the LA affiliate before he went national, so when one of the news writers blew his head off with a shotgun, Tom had written a really nasty note to the station asking why nobody there had noticed that the writer was in trouble. Put it on them. My sister wrote a very pointed letter to Mr. Brokaw explaining why he was so very wrong. I’m very proud of my sissy. Tells it like it is.

Rove on MTP.

Meet The Press continues its proud tradition of Bush regime Fluffer.

Off to read for awhile. Press, ed, wars, too depressing on this dreary weather day.

Surprised they didn’t bring Charlie Gibson out of retirement to point out to the public how much money college professors earn.

You can come over to my house and read in the warm sun, once it comes up. *g* See you later.

good for her

lol!

Well, kiddies, my fingers are warmed up and the coffee is ready, so I guess it’s time for me to write my Sunday Diary. See yaz.

later!

SHEESH Tom Brokaw parrots Luntzian talking points.

Is that really a surprise?

Republicans like the Cheneys have nothing to fear but closure and healing itself.

Perris,

Ron and I got help from a joint venture thru both the feds and the state. Here is a possible link to find help.

Perris,

Just read more about the federal program and it doesn’t include siding. I will keep looking though. We need a new roof so if I find something I will let you know. Good luck!

Huh? Saw the logo commemoration on Google, too. I’ve been a math geek for decades, this is the first time I ever heard of “Pi Day”. Are there days for other special numbers? Is there an “i Day” that’s purely imaginary? Do quaternions get an entire holiday weekend?

Well iday could be February 29th I suppose. What day/weekend would you pick for quaternions day/weekend?

Let me give you a crash synopsis of what the Rove book is all about (and this is according to Rove himself): The Bush Mob were wildly successful – in fact they were the most competent administration in American history – and President Obama is undoing all the good work they did with his filthy Socialist ways. Basically our boy Karl is hoping that the American people will once again exhibit symptoms of the mass amnesia for which they are justly famous. After eight six long years of the executive and legislative branches of our government being controlled by the extreme fringe of American politics, the very idea that the electorate is now seriously considering going back in that loony direction must fill Rove with joy.

The revisionist history that is now being peddled by these clowns is astounding in its audacity. They are now trying to sell the fiction that it was the inattention of the Clinton administration that led directly to the hideous attacks of September 11, 2001. What is being conveniently ignored by the revisionists (They “conveniently ignore” a lot of stuff. Did you ever notice that?) is the fact that when Clinton’s National Security Adviser Sandy Berger had his first face-to-face interview with Condoleeza Rice during the transition in the winter of 2000, he bluntly told her that al Quida had been that his number one focus ant that it would be her’s, too. After the meeting Berger came away with the distinct impression that Dr. Rice didn’t even know what the hell al Qaeda was. George W. Bush, you might remember, thought that the Taliban was a rock ‘n’ roll group. Brilliant bunch, this lot.

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