Good morning, pups. It’s Friedman, Kristof and Rich this morning. Mercifully MoDo is off today, so we are spared whatever weirdness she would have produced on Mother’s Day. The Moustache of Wisdom has labored and produced something he calls “Root Canal Politics,” in which he says baby boomers must accept deep cuts today so their kids can have jobs and not be saddled with debts tomorrow. Mr. Kristof says “Celebrate: Save a Mother,” and that after brunch, we can make the world safer for moms everywhere. Mr. Rich has his panties in a bunch over the Times Square non-bombing. In “They Don’t Report. You Don’t Have to Decide.” he says the press corps laughed it up in Washington while a bomb nearly exploded in Times Square.

Here they are.

The coffee and tea are ready, and I’ve got baked French toast for breakfast, made with your favorite flavoring. It’s going to be another busy day in the garden after church, pulling out the pansies and replanting the front bed and between the coleus, and putting up the hanging baskets. Mercifully it’s supposed to be cooler today, only around 80° or so. Have a great day.

Conspicuously absent in Frank Rich’s column: Obama’s drone “joke.” It seems to me Rich might have mentioned the reason for the non-bombing and tied it in with President “I have drones” Obama’s little quip.
Frank Rich railing against the media is, I guess, a joke in itself.

happy mother’s day to all of you who happen to be someone’s mother or happen to have the gift of life thanx to your mother!

going to live blog my captree park breakfast today!

am on my cell phone modem for my wireless today, the sun is out and if you didn’t know it, captree is where all the fishing boats dock here in long island for fishing excusions into the atlantic oceon, I suppose the spill won’t affect our area for some time

it’s windy and cold but the sun is out and every sunday morning, even in the winter, car buffs come early and park in car groups to show their cars, see other cars and share stories of their ride

today the park is kind of empty and I suppose it’s becaues most people here have a mother and they will visit if they can

anyway, not much else to say, I have the forebodding in my chest that the oil spill will reap a harm down the road that will go un accounted and there is going to be quite a bit of harm that will be felt by our children and grand children and they won’t even know who to blame and how to hold that person (corporations are persons don cha no) to account

hope all is well, am off but will probably stop by in little bit

Good morning all.

Sunny, but 44 degrees and windy as hell. I’d like to do some outdoor work, but it is much too raw.

Hope everyone enjoys Mother’s Day. I’m reading a book on Tulipmania, which is pretty interesting. I’ve read others, but this one is more careful about using documentary sources that have been found in more recent scholarship, rather than pass along the old stories. I can’t plant tulips, as the deer eat them, but I have a vase of very pretty cut tulips in my parlor.

Good Sunday morning and happy Mother’s Day to all of the mothers! Sun is out here in NW Indiana but it is very chilly, and frost predicted tonight. Yesterday was windy and gloomy and rainy all day, never got out of the 40s. My 6 flats of impatiens won’t get planted for another couple of weeks, but I have a bunch of indoor chores and a volunteer gig at our performing arts center, so a busy day.

I could be the weather that’s holding down the car buffs. It’s really windy here, and I imagine quite raw on the ocean.

I haven’t had the stomach for Sunday talking heads for must be years now. I could sometimes stand Timmah but Gregory is just a blank. I’m hoping that I can go back to watch This Week when Amanpour takes over but in the meantime, watching Jake Tapper is sure to raise my blood pressure. Who needs the aggravation so early? I used to watch To the Contrary but my local PBS stopped carrying it in favor of some Spanish Language programming. I understand because there are a great many Hispanics around here but I wish they had chosen to nix something else.

I agree on the talking heads. In fact, there is very little that I can still bear on politics on TV. KO & Rachel are wearing thin, depending on the topic. And I scream at the TV when there’s a stupid caller on Wash Journal, which is frequent. I have a friend who’s a money manager who watches & irons or sews at the same time because she thinks it’s a way to pick up the talking points. I think you can divine the talking points out of a sealed envelop like Karnac the Magnificent, since they’re so predictable & don’t change much.

. In fact, there is very little that I can still bear on politics on TV. KO & Rachel are wearing thin, depending on the topic

I agree. These days I’ll watch a Star Trek re-run or pop in a movie while working out instead of watching Keith and Rachel, both of which I used to never miss. The recent breathless reporting on the ridiculously incompetent “bomb” that had no chance of detonating without changing some very basic principles of nature was another nail in the coffin of cable news for me. Of course I stopped watching local news decades ago. It was all of the, “Pudding explosion is Russia and how that affects people right here in ______________”, that turned me off from that. For profit media = entertainment.

A couple of years ago I listened to a book about keeping yourself safe on the streets. (I borrow most of my audio books from the library, so what I listen to is serendipity, depending what’s on the shelves. The book in question is just such a serendipity.) It was written by a high end person who had a business that included, among other services, providing body guards for famous people. Much of his advice was to maintain the proper degree of awareness, which involved schooling yourself as to real dangers but dismissing false dangers. One of his recommendations was to NEVER watch the local news which blows every negative event way out of proportion, makes you hyperalert to all possible dangers and not able to concentrate on the real ones. Luckily, I had given up on the local news long before listening to the book, but found the intellectual justification for it interesting.

I still always watch KO and Rachel, but because I have TiVo I can skip the boring or shallow parts (Richard Wolffe, the execrable Kent Jones, Jonathan Alter) and all of the commercials. Some of Rachel still is great and her guests are usually varied and interesting, KO’s bombast and his predictable lineup of guests are getting really tiresome. Local news? Never.

Justification is always nice, yep. I too came to the same conclusion years ago. It was during a single year, (1986), when I moved from Houston, to Chicago, to Memphis and then to San Diego that I discovered they were all the same and none were worth my time. What a wasteland local news is! I think it started with Dan Rather who was the only television reporter close enough to report on a hurricane named Carla and his reporting attracted the attention of the CBS people. Ever since then, local reporters seem to be trying to do the same thing. I could be wrong though, I was only one during Carla and though I remember the storm, I have no idea how local reporters and anchors acted prior to that.

Yep. It was with a great deal of chagrin that I heard that the MSNBC head wants his lineup to become a liberal FOX “News”. I don’t WANT a liberal FOX “News”, I would much rather have reality than partisan. What is it with the current penchant in our society for treating opinion as equal to or greater than fact? I would much rather people report fact and then punctuate with opinion rather than give me their opinions and leave me to glean facts out as I can.
Edit: I have much more respect for Kent Jones than either Wolffe or Alter. At least he doesn’t claim to want to be taken seriously like the prostitute Wolffe or the shill Alter.

Good Morning all you mothers!
and pups

baked French Toast just hits the spot this morning, so cold here! I am not complaining tho, good sleeping weather (80 degrees, the very idea).

Wow. 1986 must have been some year for you. You made me laugh when you said the local news in all those cities is the same.

Nothing but dreck on all the cspans, so I’m off to read.

Have great days!

captree French Toast?

heh Pudding Explosion

It was the year I joined the Navy. They are the ones that had me going from place to place. :-)

Hi Elliott & thanks for your work. I have some 10-grain cereal that SoDragon recommended. I bought some online, thought it was the minimum purchase, and 4 bags subsequently arrived. It would take me from now until the end of my days to eat that much. Gave a bag away, made muffins, many of which are still in my freezer, but it’s just the morning to cook up a nice big bowl. I have a banana to add.

That explains it. I was wondering how that could happen.

Mornin’, Elliott, pups

A little overcast and the humidity hasn’t take over yet. Hmmmm, just remembered I gotta do laundry this mornin’. Listening to the leftist talk shows on WMNF. Haven’t watched teebee since last June. Don’t miss it a bit.

Oh, and Happy Mother’s Day to all the Mothers out there.

Baked French toast? How’s that work?

Happy Mother’s Day everyone.

I’m glad to see other people expressing displeasure with Keith Olbermann. Just a couple of years ago many firepups practically worshipped him. He lost me when he made fun of Jennifer Wilbanks, the “runaway bride”, repeatedly, years after it happened. She had some kind of serious psychological problem and he ridiculed her on nationwide TV over and over. He is a revolting person. He is an embarrassment to the left.

Ya like that cereal, do ya? Me too.

LOL, til the end of your days. Speaking of muffins…

Agreed I want real news, I want fresh reporting. We can’t be the only ones craving this, bet Ted Turner doesn’t watch CNN anymore…

I got them off the counter at Marion’s :)

LMAO! Yep, it wasn’t because I decided that I wanted a nomadic lifestyle. I didn’t mention the month of leave time I spent in Austin, watching the local news there. One odd thing though: there used to be a particularly horrid local anchor in Houstopolis named Mitch Duncan. He had all of the worst qualities of a local news anchor: Plastic hair, forced, phony smile, poorly feigned interest in ridiculously stupid local dog and pony shows, etc. At some point before or after I left Houstopolis, he left also. By the time I got to San Diego, there was dear old Mitch, badmouthing the same Astros that just last year he had been such a huge fan of. No, he wasn’t a sports reporter, he sat the anchor chair but he sure pretended to love him some local teams. I threw up a little bit in my mouth and have only watched local news half a dozen times or so since then, regardless of where I’m living or staying.

Ted would be rolling over in his grave if he was dead and I’ll bet if he watches CNN, he wishes that he was. Yeah, I can’t believe that we are so unique. Bring on the facts and leave partisan bickering behind.

Damn, they were all gone by the time I got there. Have to put that one aside to try one of these days. Brown sugar glaze and maple syrup. A day’s sugar fix in one sitting. Yum.

You guys would really rather I not eat Cheerios and be happy this morning doncha? ;-)

I have much more respect for Kent Jones than either Wolffe or Alter. At least he doesn’t claim to want to be taken seriously like the prostitute Wolffe or the shill Alter.

I just have a visceral negative reaction to Kent Jones, from his very first appearance. My opinion, maybe not shared. I also tend to stop the replay at KO’s final segment if he has one of those not-funny “comedians” on. And I am really tired of Kos’s semi-regular appearances.

I do like Chris Hayes, tho…

EDIT: Don’t get me started on NPR…its decline is SO disappointing.

Maybe they are the Sunday “balking” heads, or “caulking” heads. Maybe the news is just for the “gawking” heads. I guess we can go through the alphabet and find names for all of their worthless lip movements and the horrors they inspire.

Morning all. Will be driving to see my mother and the mother of my childhood BFF, whether they know me or not. Actually my mother is not quite that far gone, but my friend’s mom is on that path, right ahead of my mom. Happy Mother’s Day to all.

I am seriously fond of Alpen cereal.

Markos was a lot easier to take before he sold out to the Democratic Party. He must be trying to get on the DC cocktail circuit. Look for him to move there from California in the near future so he can “better keep up with what’s going on”.

“braap” *rubs tummy*

Yep. This is just another government office in which Orahma has FAILED to root out the people Bush installed. PBS, NPR, both are still just as right wing as FAUX “News” and just as disinterested in reality. Of all of the failures of this administration, this is the one that disappoints me most because it would have been so easy and non controversial to hound out the incompetent cronies that the wanking chimp installed.

Well, I have to motivate. I hope all of you mothers, mothers superior and superior mothers out there have a good day. Laters!

I can’t resist.

Who made the decisions for PBS and NPR to become “corporate friendly”? As for the Sunday “talking heads”, they have become a waste of time since most have become all about propaganda. Even the “jewels” of information passed on are often more of a “gotcha” moment for the person speaking than real news.

Happy Mothers Day!

Margaret, of all the countless and appropriate nicknames for the man who never should have been president – “wanking chimp” is priceless.

I have to disagree with you about Gregory being a “blank” though. He is more of a mentally constipated rude asshole. I was appalled at the way he kept trying to be confrontational with non-sequitors during his rude interview of Eric Holder. Holder though to his credit remained cool and made sense, when he could get a word in edgewise against whatever in the hell it was Gregory was shouting about.

If there is anyone I don’t wish a Happy Mother’s day, it is Gregory’s mother, indeed she should be indicted for giving birth to him.

yeah, what was with the hostility?