Good morning, pups. Today we’ve got The Pasty Little Putz, Friedman, Dowd, Kristof and Bruni. In “Washington Versus America” The Pasty Little Putz says the capital has gotten rich, but it has come at rest of the country’s expense. The Moustache of Wisdom, in “Hard Lines, Red Lines and Green Lines,” says Aung San Suu Kyi hit the nail on the head last week when she said it is the fear of losing power that corrupts. It’s everywhere these days. MoDo says “The Son Also Sets,” and has a question: For whom the bell tolls? Mitt, if his Hemingway wannabe strategist doesn’t stop the moveable feast of mistakes. In “Exploiting the Prophet” Mr. Kristof says Christians didn’t riot after seeing a photograph of Jesus steeped in urine, so why are Muslims up in arms about insults to the Prophet Muhammad? Mr. Bruni, in “A New Inning, Late in the Game,” says Kevin McClatchy, who owned the Pittsburgh Pirates, comes out and speaks out about the tightly shut closet door in the four major sports leagues.

Here they are.

The coffee and tea are ready, and I’ve got French toast made with challah and a bit of cinnamon. For some reason I’m feeling particularly achy this morning (this getting older shit is NOT for the faint of heart!) so I’m going to totter out to the kitchen for another cup of tea, feed the kittens, and then settle down with a book. Have a great day.

Breaking News: Queen Anne Romoney bashes Democrats. She compares the D’s to her world class champion dancing horse, Rafalca. This could change the campaign.

(“My horse has more style and more class in its hoof than they do in their whole deal,”

Snap x 2. Rafalca has more class, and saved the Romomey’s tens of thousands of dollars, from tax deductions. It is good to be Queen. Democrats got no style, no class, no respect for dancing horses.

Thanks, Ellie, I’ll be watching Up! with great pleasure that we have something that actually deals in factual information, at last.

Thanks, Marion, creak on along, and isn’t it engaging to compare western democracies where we have generations of being able to vote – despite efforts by the PTB – to those that have had generations of being shut out? What could be wrong with that?

Betcha Rafalca bites them whenever the chance offers. Dressage horses are doing all the work, with no worker rights.

Frank33, your first link goes to a story about two sisters. I’m not a fan of Anne’s and, I admit, I was looking for some juice on her.
Morning, All. I’ve said before that if Romney got into the white house, that Anne would give Nancy Reagan’s legend a run for it’s money. She’d replace everything.

She could replace Mitt and get applause like dressage events. I fondly remember Bootsie Mandel, who threw her hubby the governor out of the governor’s mansion, in MD.

Looks like the tradmed has officially decided that Rmoney is not the only campaign that needs shaking up and that their coverage of his campaign also needs to go in a different and decidedly pro Rmoney direction. Other than CBS, this line-up is the worst it’s been in a while.

No doubt this will be balanced by a really top-notch line up next week! yeh, giggles, no such thing.

Oh, dear. I think I need coffee. I read your first line as She could replace Mitt and get applesauce. BRB.

Well, to be fair she could probably replace Mitt’s brain with applesauce and get a more coherent message.

Mush for more mush, not an improvement.

No mas mush.
Anne just reminds me of a power hungry person who will squash anything in her way.
I just watched a video of Greg Palast speaking at the FightingBob Fest in Wisconsin. Someone sent me the youtube link. He’s talking about the Chicago teacher’s strike and promoting his book on how to steal ballots. He spells out the evil relationships between the Kochs, Karl Rove and Paul Ryan and Rhomny Emmanuel” (his name) with crystal clarity.
(off my stumping for Palast, now).

Why I’d Rather Suck Mitt Romney’s Dick Than Vote For Obama, by Cyril Blubberpuss, Conservative.

We could do a send up of Elton John’s Rocket Man, only change the words…Puppet Man…

Heard him on Left Radio and some of the stories are revolting, of how far the Kochroaches will go for how little. Really reich wing.

Did he use the Koch line, I want what I deserve: All of it?
He’s been preaching about the different ways to steal an election, or actually steal the $$$ ever since 2000, but few people want to hear it. He’s working with R. Kennedy jr. to prosecute.

That post you linked to may be snark but it’s pretty damned offensive.

I hope this doesn’t sound too mean spirited, but I hope that blog is not plan A for paying the rent.

Close enough. He just wants his share. The pound of flesh is assumed in that sentence.

I dunno. I guess some people like that kind of thing.

Is this another attempt to help raise the tone of discourse, at risk of being told you are presumptuous to think we want intelligence, taste, etc.?

I gosh, your comment about a pound of flesh just introduced a really weird image in my head. I was thinkging about Chris Christy. How many pounds of flesh? Sorry, I have a strange mind, you know.

Apparently not enough to pay the rent, though. Hey, really. I’d love to get paid for being witty and clever.

The comment would never have been quoted over the ages if it had been about a tonne of flesh.

LMAO! No, that ship sailed a long time ago. Just stating an opinion.

I don’t think it’s mean of us to point out that merely cutting and pasting other people’s words and writing words like With an Introduction by Tedd Rall constitutes authentic journalism.
Spit!

A Roll-Off of flesh.

A bathtub swimming pool of flesh.

Opinions are elitist, if I hear the bell troll as usual.

Ewwwww. Peg, my mind. My beautiful mind. Why do you do this to me? :)

Manatee in a thong.

Your own fault for having taste.

AHHH! Brain bleach! Thus are you avenged.

Thongs everywhere have blackballed you. Oh, no, forget I mentioned balls.

I figured that’d getcha.
I suppose we better knock it off before we get sent to the principal’s office.

Oh Lordy, don’t get those girls started.

I’m also watching Hayes point out to Emil Henry of the Rmoney ranks that redistribution is exactly what their policies have accomplished to date, but Henry cannot accept actual facts and essentially tell Chris he’s a big silly.

Yeah. That’s all they’ve got. I wonder how they are going to weasel out of the debates? Maybe Ann will need emergency brain transplant surgery that day?

Thanks for the reminder. I had turned the sound down on the UP while I was watching the Palast video and reading here.
I can multi-task to a certain extent, but that was too challenging.

Chris Hayes meet Emil Henry. Other than having to lie to the camera about 4 times I thought Emil handled the interview quite well. The only thing missing was an ascot and, of course, an asshat. To paraphrase, it’s hard to be against something for which you are being paid very well to be for. Mr. Henry revisionism is based primarily on confusion. Much of the Conservative movement has to be based on destroying the memory of last 30 years. To an extent, the Democrats have gone along with this political lobotomy. While primarily economic this destruction has caused problems for the Emils’ of the world. The lies and distortions are turning on their ” spinners ” in ways they can’t imagine. Just like the Depression of 2007-14. Who could of imagined? My aching ass!

Mr. Henry does an excellent imitation of his boss, Rmoney, and simply repeats obvious lies with an expression of contained disdain. It’s dressage at its finest.

People who buy that fake disdain and pity are perfect examples of what happens when we allow the money bags to undercut the education system and stop teaching critical thinking.

Teaching to the Test is the reich wing substitute for thinking their kids to think, which destroys their Merkkka.

My sister is still teaching 4th grade, and she barely has time to teach to the test, what with spending a lot of time with special needs that the parents refuse to deal with and working on acceptable social behaviour. Really scary.
She is joining some other teachers in working with the students on Not Bullying. Problem is, they don’t recognize what that behavior actually is. I suggested she do some role playing with the students and pointing out what is actual bullying. Unfortunately, most of the kids are just mimicking behavior they see at home or on tv.
(Am I being clear, or did I just muck that up?)

Morning Elliott & Pupses:

ABC hired Ann *shudder* Coulter?

“Hired?” Really, ABC? Fangs in or out, I wonder? (Prolly costs the network a few more bucks if the fangs are dripping, but whatever boosts those ratings, right?)

And…

Mind Wars covers the ethical dilemmas and bizarre history of cutting edge technology and neuroscience developed for military applications.

Whoa…

Brian Lamb and Neil Barofsky on Q&A? Nice. Gretchen Morgenson did that gig a few months back and it was quite good.

And Elliott: Very nice job scraping this info together every Sunday. (But where’s John McCain?)

exactly, and just what Teach to the Test is meant to do, take the time teachers otherwise would spend on students’ real needs.

Sadly, if you make yourself into a spectacle, people watch. Try begging without a tambourine!

I am underwhelmed by the video at the top of the page. As a suicide prevention video for gay youth, it’s a good thing.

And yet, watching Austin’s police chief mouthing caring for the lives of gay youth just sticks in my craw when I think about all the police brutality he encourages/allows with protestors and in the “diverse” section of town east of I35, up to an including unnecessary deaths of young people by police.

And also, using undercover agents to entrap protesting youth. See Kit’s reporting of the Houston port action.

Thanks for the information. It’s always interesting to watch officials move off of a position they felt comfortable in, until it became public news.