I don't know about you all, but I'm starting to feel like Linus.
We came just a wee dram short of 500 comments in Friday's diary, but I've budgeted $50 to come out of my paycheck on Friday to go to the National Association of Free Clinics. I am humbled by & so appreciative of the support, comments, offers to match my donation, and my "knights in shining armor." Jerry Lewis said I done good - HA! ;D I'm proud of what I did, I'm proud of all of you, and we need to continue to do our part to help clinics in states represented by Dem Senators instrumental in preventing a GOP filibuster of health care reform efforts in the Senate. A fair will be in Little Rock, AR on November 21; we need some now for Neveda, Louisiana, North Dakota, and Montana!
There are a couple fun birthdays for "this day in history" today! Writer & director Jason Reitman is 32. He is "responsible" for 2 great movies already for such a whipper - snapper; those movies would be Thank You for Smoking & Juno.
And, in an especially meaningful birthday for your humble diarist, Trey Parker is 40 today. The new season of South Park started off with a hilarious bang a couple weeks ago. Click here for a couple minutes of the season premiere!
Let's Countdown!
#5 "Majority Rules – Ish" AKA "Open Wyden" - Golly! I wonder why Keith’s in DC? Is he "lobbying" for health care reform?? Huh...I think the "ish" part is a bit generous. Every – sparkin’ – body wants a public option except the Senate. How can such a large number of people have their heads up a dark stinky place for so long & not run out of oxygen? The negotiations between the Senate bills continue. Why don’t I believe a single word that comes spewing forth from Rahm Emanuel’s pie hole? Senator Reid’s stance (or lack thereof) on ensuring the public option is in the Senate bill is drawing fire in some new ads. 80% of Dems in Nevada & even 21% of GOPers there SUPPORT A PUBLIC OPTION. He & Blanche Lincoln must be drinking from the same fountain. Senator Arlen Specter (D – R – D – PA) says the GOP is ready to block ANY reform whatsoever; dear, file that news under "No $hit, Sherlock!" And, he said it on FAUX News with Kent Conrad in the same segment. If that ain’t just the dynamic duo, I don’t know what is {insert retching noise here}. Here’s Senator Wyden. Ugh... Man, he’s saying all the "right" things, but after his vote in the Finance Committee, I don’t trust him as far as I can throw him. This time right here right now is THE TIME for actual meaningful health care reform with some teeth in it. Dems have the White House, Dems have a big majority in the House, and Dems have a super majority in the Senate. If they FUBAR health care reform, they no longer deserve the chance to lead. A new possibility in the House bill is for the rate that insurance companies pay out for sickness not only be publicized but also regulated. Yea, good luck with that. If the health insurance industry is already fighting tooth & nail just to put the kibosh on a public option, they sure as $hit will fight against publicizing just how little they pay to sick people. We get Lawrence O’Donnell tonight, too. Oh dear, we got another Aristocrats call out from Mr. O’Donnell – HA! OK, now they’ve made me post this. I offer the standard disclaimer; if you object to "coarse" language, DO NOT WATCH THIS! Hell, Mr. O’Donnell said that every version of health care reform out there now is severely "deficient." Well, ain’t he just a little ray of sunshine! What’s wrong with the House bills? OK! Did y’all hear the magic words from Mr. O’Donnell?! The public option is the best means of ENFORCEMENT to the health insurance industry to not nickel & dime people to death – literally.
#4 "Right Turn" - The West Coast CPAC people were not working or playing well with themselves this past weekend {insert your own juvenile "playing with yourself" joke here}. People were duking it out over who loves St. Sarah from Wasilla more {insert yet more retching here}. How ‘bout Zeigler VS. Keen there in that clip?! Put them on the fight card in Vegas! WAIT! I already have a publicity photo at the ready – HA!
Wow, according to Chris Kofinis, only 20% of the American people identify themselves as GOPers to a Washington Post poll. Huh...20%... Hm...and Olympia Snowe is being hailed as the great hope for health care reform WHY??!!
** A gentleman in China impersonates animals. Meh...I’ve heard just as good or better. A priest in Great Britain is a fire eater. Now, THAT would be a Mass I’d go to! I wonder what his warm – up act is? A bride in Lebanon has a couple – mile – long veil. O...M...G... I barely had a veil, and what I had was quite enough! Diana West is still having a herd that Boss Limbaugh got booted out of the Rams deal by citing Keith’s gig at FNIA. Lonesome Rhodes got a hell of a shocker about his hero, Thomas Paine. Dana Perino was on FAUX News to clarify GWB’s administration’s position about NBC/MSNBC! **
#3 "Poppy on Puppies" AKA "Poppy & the ‘Puppies’" - GWB’s Daddy called Rachel & Keith "sick puppies," in case y’all hadn’t heard. He did this in the course of disparaging the tone of political discourse these days. BRILLIANT! "...the cables..."?! Did Ted Stevenson write that for him?! Representatives of the Obama administration repeated the assertion that FAUX News is...well...faux news on the weekend talk shows. YEA! I don’t have to retch anymore tonight because I GOT MY RICHARD WOLFFE {hee...hee...hee...}!
Richard & Keith together in the same room! Now, ain’t that a concept?! Once & ever again, Richard Wolffe is so smart. GWB’s Daddy didn’t act a thing like GWB in that other Gulf War. OK, in my efforts to help Richard Wolffe sell more books, FAUX News screwed Barack Obama long ago & early into the campaign process. If memory serves, then – candidate Obama met with FAUX News execs to get them to try to tone down the rhetoric about Michelle. Remember the lovely way they used to characterize her? When they didn’t really do so after they promised they would, FAUX News was on Barack Obama’s $hit list right then & there. WHOA! Did y’all hear Richard Wolffe say "...unholy jihad.."?! Uh – oh, now Boss Limbaugh & similar ilk will be saying he’s advocating some sort of Muslim revolution.
WPITW – BillO thinks he has the best research staff in the business, and they’ve given Boss Limbaugh a clean white sheet on the racism question. A Congress critter in Georgia that slammed the stimulus is praising the effects of said stimulus in a Georgia town. The president of the US Chamber of Commerce just doesn’t like anything – including correct numbers for their membership.
#1 "Full of Hot Air" AKA "Hoax" - Ugh...OK, I’m tired of this balloon stuff. It’s not like this is the first instance of a parent using their kid to further their own professional or personal lives. Hell, one was nearly a heartbeat away from POTUS had Senator McCentury won last year! That little boy wasn’t even hiding in his attic. Last week’s events might have been planned for months. Denver International Airport was shut down for awhile because of all this?! Holy crap! That family could be in the federal soup! O...M...G... whoever was responsible for cleaning up THAT joke deserves a Pulitzer or a raise or something!! That was just fandamntastic!