We're approaching the tail - end of the big summer wedding season, but if you know tea baggers who've decided to get married & make an honest woman or man outta each other, may I suggest this china pattern.
There are some great "this day in history" items for today, so let's dive on in! On Aug. 17, 1969, the Woodstock Music and Art Fair concluded near Bethel, NY. I have a feeling I know where all that brown acid went.
As was introduced last night, Mae West was born on this date in 1893. Let's have some Mae Musings! :D
Sean Penn is 50 today. Can y'all believe he went from this to this?
Finally, Robert De Niro is 67 years old today. Man, I could do a few diaries just on my favorite De Niro movies, but I'll include a clip of just one; I believe A Bronx Tale was his first directing gig.
Let's Countdown...
#5 "Freedom Under Fire" AKA "Islamophobia" - Keith began the night with a brief history lesson by reminding us that the pilgrims who landed on Plymouth Rock came to this country to seek RELIGIOUS freedom. I wonder if Newt the Nazi Lover has a twisted sparked up version of THAT history, too? And, the GOBP just loves that all the dialogue & conversation is about this community center instead of unemployment, the economy, the Gulf oil spill, etc.
Mosques & other Muslim centers all over the country are facing increased "scrutiny." Long – standing mosques in some areas of the country are suddenly facing zoning problems that weren’t there before. "Christians" in CT were outside a mosque before Friday prayers to say that Jesus hated Muslims. Keith mentioned a whole host of other instances of attacks on Muslims that I’d wager a whole lot of people didn’t know about. The founder of the community center that protestors are calling a radical Muslim has been helping the FBI for over 10 years to root out ACTUAL radical Muslims. Muslims & other faith leaders stepped forward today to decry the faux outrage over this community center at the expense of actual real problematic issues in this country. Corey Saylor is here to talk faux outrage & Muslims. Mr. Saylor BRILLIANTLY brought up the fact that Joe Stack, the "gentleman" who crashed a plane into an IRS building in TX wasn’t called a terrorist by too many. Silly man, it’s because the IRS is an evil government entity that must go; just ask Rep. Steve King!
HA! The federal law that prohibits New York City from changing its zoning requirements to prevent the community center from going there was passed by the GOBP?! OK, that needs to be in every Dem campaign ad, too. First, the Rep. Barton apology to Tony Hayward – next that! Here’s Eugene Robinson – yippee! He reiterated what’s NOT been talked about lately in light of all the community center talk. Both Keith & Gene discussed the state of "media" today in, again, letting FAUX News & right – wing bat$hitters dictate the narrative on a news story that’s not really a news story; well, you 2 are in the "media" today. So, do something about it!
#4 "Untested Waters" AKA "Smell No Evil" AKA "Gulf Coast Trauma" AKA "Free Clinics" - Government scientists claimed that only about 25% of the oil spilled from the Deepwater Horizon site remained; another study says, "Wrong"; it’s about 3 times that amount! With the shrimping season officially underway, fishermen in that area would like some more definitive tests done by impartial people; their livelihoods just depend on it, ya’ know. The FDA test for dispersants in food supplies is one’s proboscis. Uh, what if someone has a bad head cold that day? If food smells like Windex, that’s bad. OK, make a note of that, boys & girls. Charles Hopkinson, a UGA Marine Scientist said:
One major misconception is that oil that had dissolved into water is gone and, therefore, harmless. The oil is still out there, and it will likely take years to completely degrade.
All food caught in the Gulf to this point has passed the smell test – literally. Spike Lee has a new documentary about the Gulf area. He’d finished filming the crux of the documentary about that area in Katrina’s wake 5 years later; after April 20, they went back 9 times. Oh Keith, I can answer that question about promises made to the Gulf after Katrina before Spike Lee does; those promises amounted & still amount to diddly poo. Spike Lee said that greed will ultimately bring down this country, but I thought greed was good.
Don’t forget about the clinics planned for New Orleans at the end of this month!
** Oh, the Giants baseball player who hit the homerun that enabled "the Giants to win the pennant" died – Bobby Thompson. How sad! Brits are in costume diving off a bridge – them silly Brits! A Hungarian priest is spreading THE word with his skateboard. Hell, why not? **
#3 "FOX News Channel" AKA "FOX Funds GOP" AKA "News Corpse" - BillO spread some faux outrage about GE last night in his show. HOWEVER, Pirate Rupert’s little cabal decided to give a cool million dollars to the Republican Governors Association. OK, and I bet they still get to keep their primo seat in White House press briefings, too! If there wasn’t enough reason to boot their sorry a$$es before, this little donation SHOULD be the clincher! Business Week Magazine broke this story. Back in April, Pirate Rupert claimed that his "news" organization shouldn’t endorse the tea baggers or any other party. On June 24, Pirate Rupert got out his checkbook. NewsCorp is the largest corporate donor to the RGA. The SEIU donated $500K to similar Dem organizations. A whole mess of FAUX News employees moonlight at GOBP events; many other "non – governmental" FAUX News employees have also spoken at events & endorse candidates outright. Eric Burns from Media Matters is here to talk Rupert’s millions. GE gave $105K to both the RGA & similar Dem organizations. And, how much did NewsCorp give to Dems? Zero – Zip – Nada – BIG ‘OL STINKY GOOSE EGG!
Talk about your "fair & balanced!" If enough GOBP Governors are in place after November, they could really affect re – districting efforts a la Tom DeLay.
*** "Withdrawal" A suicide bomber exploded a bomb in a line where people were hunting for work in Iraq today. Up to 61 people died. In the meantime, one of the largest bases in the country officially handed over duties to Iraqi forces. ***
WPITW – Boss Limbaugh haz teh confused to who bailed out what. Lonesome Rhodes can’t decide if our country was "in bed" with dictators or not concerning any culpability in the Sept. 11 attacks. Greta Van Susteren blogged that Lonesome Rhodes should move his little hate – fest away from the MLK site?! Uh – oh...the FAUX News family is fighting! ;D Tiffiny Bray, an OK runaway bride that left a horrifying text message when she went missing, popped up with another guy – not her fiancé – in a hotel 26 days later. CLASSY!
#1 "Hostile Takeover" - OK, so some old rich white guys are going to take control over the GOBP from other old rich white guys {yawn}. Dick Armey & ilk said the following in the WSJ today:
...Let us be clear about one thing: the Tea Party movement is not seeking a junior partnership with the Republican Party, but a hostile takeover of it.
Lovely...and so grammatically correct, too – NOT! ;D
Tea baggers are great because they have no official leader; Dick Armey USED TO BE one of those damn politicians! Alex Pereene gets to talk tea baggers tonight & Dick Armey hypocrisy. The group is hawking a tea bagger book? Will there be pictures of tea baggers tea bagging?! Will that pass customs??!! ;D They hope Dems will quake in their boots & not want to do anything. Hell, a whole mess of them weren’t doing a whole lot of anything even before this little "hostile takeover" shtick!
[No Keith, you didn’t cover now – impeached Gov. Potty Mouth’s verdict; it was the trial of the century, ya’ know!]