I was a tired pup this morning, but it was a good tired; all is a wee bit better with the world now that Keith's behind the Countdown desk again where he belongs. :D
AND, every once in awhile, the stars line up, and everything fits neatly together because a person worthy of SPARK consideration is also a "this day in history" item, AND I get to bring out THE cake! Life doesn't get much kewler than that. :)
Let's consider these SPARK items first. If Lillie vonShtupp had to ask her "gifted" question to a critter in the animal kingdom, she'd ask this one! Also, if any of y'all would like more sick time from your gig than you already may have, "my kind of town" will take on a whole new meaning. :D And, the great animal conspiracy theory rears its ugly rear again!
Now, we'll make the transition from SPARK to "this day in history" with a birthday truly worthy of SPARK honors & THE cake. Senator Saxby Chambliss (RacistHatefulHomophobeXenophobe - GA) is 67 today. I'm not going to post that horrible campaign ad again, but guess what I learned?! That ad trashed a brave Vietnam veteran; $hithead Saxby was in the DICK draft deferment club. *&^%$#@! So, Senator, I invite you to stick your head into this tasty treat with the admonition to GO CHENEY YOURSELF!
I'll note just 1 other "this day in history" item. On Nov. 10, 1925, Richard Burton, British stage and film actor & married to Elizabeth Taylor TWICE, was born. His final film role was a fairly - decent adaptation of the novel that apparently GWB still needs to be reminded WASN'T meant to be a "how to" manual! *&^%$#@!
Let's Countdown...
#5 "Work – Til – Your – Death Panel" AKA "Paying for the Rich" - The debt commission – the one President Obama authorized – came out with their deficit reduction ideas today. And, uh...well, they wanna cut everything except the age of retirement; that’ll go up if the commission has their way. Y’all wanna work ‘til you drop? Y’all may get that chance. Former Senator Alan Simpson – y’all remember him, yes? – and former Clinton administration official, Erskine Bowles, were in charge of this band of merry pranksters...with all deference & respect to the REAL merry pranksters! These ideas are supposed to be a guide, huh? Can we use this guide as terlet papers in the Oval Office potty? Cuts in defense & military are actually suggested?! $HIT! I hope they don’t get any hunting trip invites from DICK; ‘ol DICK’s Halliburton stock will take a dive if defense stuff gets cut! And, hell hath no fury like DICK scorned. Dividends & capital gains would be taxed like "regular" income; yea, that’ll make the super rich sting a little – NOT. Another suggestion includes making Social Security "means" tested which means the more rich you are, your Social Security benefits will go down proportionally. Ya’ know, I might be in the minority here, but I don’t have a problem with that suggestion. All these damn Congress critters that @itch & moan about Medicare & Social Security are rich enough they can afford to do without! Kiddies who are kids today will have to work until age 69 before they can retire/collect Social Security. If said kiddies get to be college age, they’ll have to start paying the interest on any loans they take out while they’re in school. So, college will once again be for the very smart & the very rich only. We, the people, won’t be able to sue for malpractice as easily. So, if a doctor sparks up your operation or any other procedure, you’re just gonna be SOL & JWF. Veterans would have to begin making CO – PAYS to the VA?! Oh, that will not go over well; it SHOULDN’T go over well. Thanks for serving our country! Now, hand out a co – pay, or you won’t be treated!
Rich people will get a tax cut. President Obama is mum about the suggestions so far. I wonder if he’ll want his girls to work until they’re 69? Speaker Pelosi – for the next couple months anyway – called the ideas "unacceptable." C’mon Nancy, you can be less charitable than that! Rep. Anthony Weiner’s in studio! The home mortgage deduction might be cut, too?! Lovely. Oh well, I never wanted to be a home owner anyway. Rep. Weiner made a faboo point. If ANY of this committee’s suggestions see the light of day, President Obama will own this debacle. And, said daylight might just make him a one – term POTUS after all. Cutting Social Security WILL NOT bring down the debt. Kiboshing the GWB tax cuts & getting the spark out of Iraq and Afghanistan, however, will do nicely, thank you very much. Rep. Weiner’s not crazy about the fact this commission was created in the first place. Howard Fineman gets to talk deficit cutting, too. White House staff & other members of the commission were damn shocked to see this information released today. With President Obama being out of the country, I can’t help but wonder if the timing of the release was intentional. Howard also thinks President Obama & the White House, in their heart of hearts, hope the commission won’t/can’t agree to a solution. That way, both sides of the fence on the issue can be played. President Obama, during the campaign, vowed to not raise the retirement age. O...K...
#4 "There Goes the Science" AKA "Scientific Feary" - The House Energy & Commerce Committee is a big sparkin’ deal, and, thanks to the American electorate who put fear & ignorance above facts, we have a couple of wieners of possibilities to head up said committee. We could get Rep. Joe "BP/BS A$$ Smoocher" Barton or Rep. John "Climate Change Doesn’t Exist ‘Cause God Won’t Let It" Shimkus. YAHOO! Another possible GOBP candidate, Rep. Fred Upton, is failing the purity test, I guess. OK, this Shimkus joker is creeping me out! DAMN! Joe Romm gets HECC chair duty tonight. Rep. Upton’s quoting Lonesome Rhodes in hearings & STILL failing a purity test?! $HIT! If we pollute more, dinosaurs will come back? ALL RIGHT! Then, the Creation Museum can get the real deal instead of those fake ones they have now! I’d actually road tip to see THAT! ;D Y’all know what’s more scary than Rep. Shimkus? The people in his district in IL who VOTED for him!! Which part of the state does he represent? I’ll have to check that out. Here's his district.
** An Irish soccer goalie helped to score a goal for the other team by kicking it off a teammate & the ball ricocheting BACK into the net. Get that guy in next year’s Rube Goldberg competition – STAT! A tower tried to blow up real good in Ohio, but the spark up took out a power pole – OOPS! A deer really REALLY needed a drink in Ohio. Maybe, it was the same deer I talked about in the SPARK story above! If so, yep, I’d need a drink after that, too!! **
#3 "Weak Tea" - Bat$hit Bachmann is giving up her quest for the #4 House leadership position? Aw damn! Y’all think she’ll crawl down a rabbit hole & go the spark away now?! Nah...me, neither. The 2 KY Senators just can’t make up their minds about earmarks. OK boys & girls, here’s a list of Senators & Senators – elect that favor an earmark ban: Senator Cornhole Cornyn, Senator "Doc" Coburn, Senator "My Parents Bought Off my Lover" Ensign, Senator Enzi, Senator – elect Toomey, Senator - elect "Make English the Official Language Even Though I Have Cuban Background" Rubio, Senator – elect {insert retching noise here} Turn – Over – the – Civil Rights Act Paul, Senator – elect Lee, Senator – elect Don’t – Go – After – Pedophile – Priests – ‘Cause – It’s – Bad – for – Business Johnson, and Senator – elect Ayotte. I wonder how much federal coin these states get? And, if they’re willing to give it up, where will that money come from? Senator There – Is – No – Climate – Change Inhofe is on Mitchie McConnell’s side. So, his meetings with his OK colleague, I bet, are interesting! Senator Susan Collins doesn’t exactly have warm & fuzzy feelings about Senator Waterloo DeMint & $aint $arah from Wasilla because they helped keep the Senate in the Dem majority. I didn’t realize until yesterday that Alan West WON his damn election; I nearly puked right in my office. I know we have FL F.O.O. What part of the state does he represent so I know to avoid it?! He hired a bat$hit radio host to be his COS, but she’s still gonna work at her radio gig – maybe. David Corn’s gets bat$hit duty – lucky! Barbara Streisand caused climate change? WOW! Is there anything she CAN’T do?!
#2 Lonesome Rhodes is bat$hit - OK, what’s all this Sherlock Holmes $hit leading up to? I’m not a fan, as if y’all couldn’t tell. HEY! Keith got into my diary draft AGAIN! And, I haven’t seen penny one in royalties from all the other times he’s done it, either – THIEF! ;D That 1984 reference surely wasn’t mere coincidence. So, is Lonesome Rhodes Holmes or Moriarty? Lonesome Rhodes has his own puppet theater. Well, at least he didn’t use popsicle sticks! Golly, it sounds like George Soros is even more powerful than Barbara Streisand! YES! We get a return of the REAL puppet theatre!!! :D
#1 "The DEBATE" - How much longer are we going to have this discussion about what led up to Keith’s suspension? Greg Mitchell & Howard Kurtz are here to debate some more. Mr. Kurtz is on the "no" side of the issue. Mr. Mitchell thinks it’s way too late to be having this discussion. Howard Kurtz actually tried to separate NewsCorp from Pirate Rupert?! That is damn DAMN naïve. Pirate Rupert IS NewsCorp!