After last night's final segment, I double & triple - checked the building in which I work; I can say definitively & without doubt there are no guys with hammers & sickels on the side. I guess my Methodist - affiliated private university is on the right side of the Lord! ;D But, just to be on the safe side, I better find these guys!
A couple of "this day in history" items can be filed under "D'Oh!" And, I think we could use a few $hits & giggles these days.
On this date in 1957, Ford Motor Co. began selling its ill-fated Edsel line. I wonder why it was such a miserable failure? The thing wasn't THAT bad looking. It didn't spontaneously combust, did it? Oh well...
And, I think I've begun to figure out why Mittens Romney is the way he is! On this date in 1967, Michigan Gov. George Romney said during a TV interview that he had undergone a "brainwashing" by U.S. officials during a 1965 visit to Vietnam. The comment is widely believed to have derailed his campaign for the 1968 Republican presidential nomination. Ya' think?! That's almost Lonesome Rhodes - esque! Hells bells, I didn't even know he was in the running! I'd say this comments would put the kibosh on any POTUS aspirations - especially if people freaked at Thomas Eagleton's admission of mental health issues.
Let's Countdown!
#5 "Public Optional" AKA "Majority Support" - Progressives are going to allegedly be told to be "good soldiers" & vote for a health care reform bill without a public option or with some sort of trigger. 77% of the American people think the choice of a public plan in any health care reform is either extremely or quite important. So, Congress critters may be told to be "good soldiers" at the expense of their constituents and what a vast majority of the American people want? David Axelrod is claiming that after Wednesday evening’s speech,
I don’t think that there will be any ambiguity about where he [the President] thinks we have to go from here.
GOOD! I’m damn tired of ambiguous. Senator Sherrod Brown is coming out swinging! A petition from over 200 Obama campaign staffers, 23,000 donors, and 13,000 volunteers, etc. says a health care reform bill without a public option won’t be change they can believe in. HELLO?! Wow, y’all think it’ll make a difference at all that so many vocal supporters & volunteers & campaign workers are being equally as vocal about the implications of what may happen if the health care debate goes even more south than it already has?! A "miniature" health care reform bill might pass by Christmas, according to Chucky Grassley. I hope Santa leaves a big lump of coal up.... *&^%$#@! Olympia Snowe is still pulling the trigger – so to speak. Our Great Orange Satan is on the show AGAIN!
#4 "Claims Casino" AKA "Health – Care Deform" - California AG (and former Governor) Jerry Brown might begin an investigation into whether insurance companies broke the law by pressuring their employees to publicly diss health care reform, and an investigation of bad business practices may be down the pike for the big ‘ol insurance companies (including UHG) for denying anywhere between 22 & 44% of claims. I’m not 100% on board with comparing them to death panels, but no one can say there isn’t any rationing of health care in our current system! Insured clients are not getting reimbursed they way they should be. HOLY CRAP! WellPoint was mentioned again! Y’all remember me telling you about Susan Bayh’s "relationship" to WellPoint and the fact she’s married to...uh...well...gee...what’s his name again? Damn. Well, maybe I’ll come up with that little tidbit later. I like Maxine Waters – a lot! My Rep’s OK, too. ;D
** There’s a big ‘ol Chinese pig! The Texas State Fair is featuring fried butter. **
#3 "RIF: Reading is Fundamentalist" AKA "No Child Not Left Behind" AKA "GOP De – Education Camps" - I’ve mentioned this question so many times lately, but I’ll mention it again. Are all the truant officers for all these school districts with parents telling their kids to not go to school the day of President Obama’s speech going to be out in full force doing their jobs that day? They sure as $hit better be! I have a question for all you Dem parents of school – aged kids back when Reagan, Bush I, & GWB were President. Did you keep your kids home from school the days of THEIR speeches? There’s the Mannity! I wonder if he & Boss Limbaugh are feeling neglected that Lonesome Rhodes has been getting all the air time on Countdown these days? Michelle Malkin bashed teachers:
...teachers...urge their kids to write letters, to demonize Obamacare opponents...
Huh...does she have kids in school, I wonder? If so, I wonder if those teachers realize the low regard in which Ms. Malkin holds them. Jonathan Alter said Reagan chatted up school kids about cutting taxes?! Gee, I bet THAT was a barn – burner of the speech for the kiddies. Wow...Democrats carried college – educated voters in the 2008 elections.
WPITW – The Mannity makes a return appearance after a long absence! He’s still spewing Rev. Wright & Bill Ayers?! Senator McCentury is still making the rounds at astroturf town hall meetings; he didn’t shoot down a "death panel" question. There’s Mike Pence in Anderson, IN. He liked the Hitler reference from some old lady up there. Thank {insert deity of your choice here} he’s not my Rep! And, having spent some time in Anderson, IN, this woman speaks for A LOT of people there. ‘Nuf said...
#1 "Red Scare Part Deux" AKA "Art Attack" - Oh my, I don’t know if my sides have recovered from the howling laughter I did last night! Where the spark does Lonesome Rhodes come off calling the Rockefellers "progressive"?! Didn’t the original & standard for anti – trust law originate with Standard Oil & the Rockefellers?! They were trying to monopolize the industry & put their competitors out of business! Lonesome Rhodes doesn’t know what century we’re in, either.
Keith keeps talking soylent green but what about that To Serve Man cookbook??!! OK, I’ve got tears running down my face at the Blues Brothers callback! Now Keith, if you’d done that scene PERFECTLY correctly, you would’ve taken off your glasses when you were done. Not to nit – pick, but if you’re going to repeat one of the most funny movie scenes of all time, do all of it! ;D