You control MSNBC & are trying to take over the world! Set up a scholarship for me, and I'll even be a special Countdown correspondent. Think it over, dear. The result will be solid gold - as opposed to frozen yellow snow, something about which St. Sarah from Wasilla should be an expert!
Comrades, do we all feel sufficiently indoctrinated now?!
To those with teh "selective memory" who chose to keep their kids out of school today, I hope your kids were NAILED for truancy! And, since you also probably have "issues" with multi - syllabic words, maybe a picture will help.
We've got the good, the bad, and the ugly for "this day in history" items. I'll let y'all be the judge of which is what. On Sept. 8, 1974, President Ford granted an unconditional pardon to former President Nixon. I know I'm in the minority on this opinion, but this decision was WRONG and STUPID and WRONG and MOST WRONG! Here's just 1 reason why, and another few diaries can cover the other reasons.
On this date in 2004, 60 Minutes Wednesday aired a report questioning President George W. Bush's National Guard service. CBS News later apologized for a "mistake in judgment" after memos featured in the report were challenged as forgeries. And, Dan Rather paid for that "mistake" by being ridden out of CBS on a rail. Librul media, huh? R...i...g...h...t
Senator Bernie Sanders is 67 today! Keep kicking a$$ & taking names of a$$hats on BOTH SIDES of the political aisle!
And, finally, in admitting I like a singer who's as close to "country" as I'm willing to get, Patsy Cline was born on this date in 1932; she was a HELL RAISER! I like hell raisers!! ;D
Let's Countdown!
#5 "Is Our Wingnuts Learnin’?" AKA "Indoctrination Nation" AKA "GOP vs. ABCs" - Oh Keith, the Trekkies will love you forever because of your Borg reference. ;D Newt Gingrich & Laura Bush even had kudos for President Obama’s speech today to corr...er...uh...inspire America’s school kids. The National Review called today’s speech the finest of his Presidency?! Oh, that’s gotta make the wing – nuts MAD. TurdBlossom & the lovely Mr. Jim Greer (Mr. Indoctrination) are claiming that President Obama changed his original Communist Socialist manifesto to something more warm & fuzzy. Um...other Presidents told students to write the White House about their ideas for how to get policy done. I believe GWB’s Daddy did it! HA! I was correct; Keith confirmed it. I haz teh smart! Boss Limbaugh has now established himself as anti – personal responsibility & anti – education! Let’s all remind him of this the next time he disses welfare or someone going into rehab or something. He claims,
He’s not even going to allow personal responsibility in your lifestyle. You’re gonna have that dictated to you, too...That’s why the speech to the kids today about personal responsibility is a trick, it’s a scam.
So, let me get this straight, so to speak. Whatever consenting loving adults do behind their bedroom door shouldn’t be dictated by an outsider?! GOT IT! Oh Boss Limbaugh, Harvey Milk would give you a big ‘ol kiss today. Keith, the wingnuts will keep claiming the speech was changed; the obvious result & reaction today won’t matter diddly – poo to these "people." Ya’ know, Boss Limbaugh couldn’t hack college, so he’s the LAST one to be talking education to ANYONE. Hey! Did y’all see Rick "Man on Dog" Santorum talk about President Obama’s threatening speech? That’s threatening?! Wait ‘til Ricky gets to Iowa; hide yer doggies, folks!
#4 "Public Optional" - We’re all still getting conflicting messages about whether tomorrow night’s speech will include a demand for a public option in any health care reform bill. I would’ve LOVED to have been a fly on the wall during that meeting with Speaker Pelosi & Harry Reid. Speaker Pelosi is still claiming a public option is "essential." But, then she went on to say that what happens in "the legislative process" is a whole other story. Gee...thanks for that barn – burner support, Nancy. My confidence in & expectations of Harry Reid are below Speaker Pelosi’s in my book, so we won’t even go there. Tune in tomorrow, folks; it could be a hoot. Harry still wants a bi – partisan bill???!!! Harry, that ship has sailed & SUNK! Steny Hoyer still has the jelly spine about the public option, and maybe even some "progressives" in Congress are warming up to a trigger???!!! NO SPARKIN’ TRIGGER! The most important thing to Rahm Emanuel is to get a bill – WRONG! It’s gotta be a bill that actually means something with some teeth in it, or we’ve all just spent the last months under the longest delusion known to humankind. Lawrence O’Donnell doesn’t think the final bill coming out of the House will include a public option. Hm...he might have been around Senators too long. House Congress critters have to worry about being re – elected every 2 years. If they vote in a way not pleasing the people, the people just might not forget it. I wonder if President Obama has even finished writing his speech yet. Mr. O’Donnell goes further on to say that eventually Speaker Pelosi will have to "rally" the Dem caucus to get them to vote for a final bill without the public option. Good gawd, I hope he’s wrong, and he’s depressing the hell out of me. NONE of the bills being floated around provide universal coverage. Keith brought up the prospect of protests in the streets if a bill passes without a public option.
** I ALMOST brought up Sid’s birthday today! He gave a little Jewish guy named Mel Brooks one of his first big breaks, and for that, I am ETERNALLY grateful. Look at SENATOR Franken drawing a map of the United States; suck on it, BillO! ;D Fried butter won a blue ribbon at the Texas State Fair, but, oh that peach thing sounded yummy – kind of like a deep fried peach pie! There’s a bunch of scorpions in a guy’s house in Thailand. He MEDITATES with them??!! Ya’ know, I lead a retreat this weekend at the Zen Center where I’m a dharma teacher, and if there’s any scorpions in the house, I will be PI$$ED. **
#3 "Resignation" - Gee, I had a distinct feeling Keith would bring up Van Jones’ resignation. ;D Lonesome Rhodes has directed his Beckerheads via Twitting to dig up dirt on other potential Obama appointees. Lonesome Rhodes told people to "...pray for his safety..." today?! REALLY??!! He dared to request supplications to the Almighty with all the violence – inciting crap he’s spewed?! Gotta dig out that bat$hit symbol – AGAIN.
WPITW – Orly Taitz, bless her heart, has found another Kenyan birth certificate for President Obama! But, she once again failed to find a decent proof reader. What a shame. Bat$hit Bachmann is talking slavery. The Mannity is defending Bob McConnell for that brilliant thesis & his belief that something he wrote 20 years ago shouldn’t be held against him. So, he’ll be apologizing to Hillary Clinton & Michelle Obama soonest?
#1 "Death Panel Palin" AKA "Death Panel for Cutie" - St. Sarah from Wasilla has resurrected the death panel shtick. She thinks death panels have been vindicated. Well, of course she does. Chucky Grassley’s claiming he never used that phrase or anything similar. So, how many want to have dinner with Grandma ExGov TurkeyLover & the former First Dude of Alaska?! Ya’ know, if y’all wanted to pool your resources, I would be just pleased as punch to go on F.O.O.’s behalf. I could ask her which of my nicknames for her she prefers. ;D Seriously, though, I SO THINK KEITH SHOULD BID ON THIS FABOO OPPORTUNITY! Y’all can pool together at least $25K on my behalf, yes? Don’t y’all think I’m worth $25K?! HEY!! I have a better idea; KEITH CAN SPONSOR ME! I can be a special edition Countdown correspondent!! Now, I LIKE that idea! Will Shannyn Moore bid? And, I forgot I get to bring people with me! Oh, she’s pre – approving the winner?! Well, that might eliminate Keith, but it wouldn’t eliminate me – unless she’s a DailyKos reader and makes the connection between CityLightsLover & my evil twin. ;D Keith, set up a scholarship for me! St. Sarah didn’t write her own FaceBook post? What a shocker! And, people think she’s actually writing a book – HA! Happy 1 – Year Anniversary to Rachel Maddow!! Where can I get one of them jerseys?! I’ll gladly send her a F.O.O. jersey in exchange. ;D