I begin tonight with smooches to infinity & beyond to nicolemm for giving me an honest - to - goodness coffee - outta - my - nose LOL moment, and that is RARE these days! She passed along some information about a new library under construction. ;D
Those of you on teh Twitter be sure to pass this link to Keith; just give credit where credit's due! :D
So, what happened on "this day in history?" Isaac Hayes was born on this date in 1942. Yea, I know a lot of you know him as "Shaft," but, to me, he'll always be South Park's Chef - even though he quit the show after scientology got the "South Park treatment." Lordy, he was sure funny while he was there!
On this date in 1896, the dial telephone was patented. If there's anyone here who doesn't remember dialing phones, GET OFF MY LAWN! ;D
Finally, on this date in 1958, Detroit Tiger Jim Bunning no-hit Boston Red Sox, 3-0. I've asked before; I'll ask again. Did he have his winning personality during his baseball career, or did he discover that after winning elected office? INQUIRING MINDS WANNA KNOW!
Let's Countdown!
I found this pretty - damn decent article today about community center reaction from families of the victims of the 9/11 attacks. If ANYONE'S voices should be listened to, it should be their voices; they are just as divided on the issue as the rest of us.
#5 "Confusing His Religion" AKA "Fake – Based Initiative" AKA "Faith the Facts" AKA "Countdown Special Investigation" - How ‘bout that Rev. Franklin Graham? He’s made no bones about his belief that Islam is "evil." And, he thinks he’s a Christian, too! And, how ‘bout that John King & CNN, everybody? Rev. Graham’s obsessed with seeds, huh? Wow...OK, Franklin Graham is...damn... *&^%$#@! O...M...G... you can be "born a Jew" & "born a Muslim?" Holy $hit!
Here’s Michael Eric Dyson. Yep, how can one renounce something that was never embraced to begin with?! President Obama didn’t even grow up with his Dad around – even if Dad HADN’T renounced the Islamic faith. And, I think, if memory serves, President Obama’s Mom was an atheist. So, by Franklin Graham’s logic, President Obama should be an atheist, but can y’all just imagine the damn outcry if he WAS an atheist?! Oye’... Mr. Dyson was a member of the same church President Obama was in Chicago! And, sadly, both Keith & Mr. Dyson are correct; no one would be having this discussion if our POTUS was an old white guy. Keith alluded to another question in that poll indicating growing belief that President Obama is Muslim. There was a question in that poll concerning how people came to believe what they believe; they said FROM THE MEDIA by a vast huge ginormous majority. And, CNN & John King just contributed to that again.
Oh goody! Countdown’s on the President Obama Muslim case! ;D I like how Keith even did a Lonesome Rhodes voice for the "investigation!" I’ll be darned! Who knew GWB was Muslim, too?! ;D OK, that "investigation" was damn funny; it needs to GO VIRAL ASAP!
#4 "Constitutional Conversion" AKA "Gonzo Justice" - OK, let’s try to wrap our brains around this revelation, boys & girls. Freddo, GWB’s personal lawyer who disguised himself as Attorney General of the United States & used the Constitution like terlet paper in the Oval Office potty, doesn’t think the 14th Amendment should be sparked around with! $hit! Arrest him now since he’s in such an honest giving mood! ;D Keith, if I’ve told you once I’ve told you a thousand times. There is only 1 Gonzo, and it sure as $hit ain’t Freddo! It’s THIS GUY!
And, don’t you forget it! Freddo wrote an op ed for the Post indicated that sparking up the 14th Amendment won’t fix immigration issues. HOLY $HIT! Even one of DICK’s policy advisers doesn’t think sparking with the 14th Amendment is a good idea?! Oh dear, if I was this guy, I wouldn’t be accepting any hunting trip invitations from his former boss! ;D Here’s John Dean, everybody! YEA! And, Mr. Dean thinks a whole mess of Freddo’s little op ed is full of caca. SWEET! ;D And, John Dean’s pro – Islamic community center! He even thinks the whole shtick has been engineered by the GOBP to get the dialogue AWAY from jobs, the $hitacular economy, and their role (or lack thereof) in them. And, Mr. Dean had nothing but GLOWING remarks for Judge Vaughn Walker’s finding of facts in the Prop 8 decision & correctly pointed out that courts at the appellate & SCOTUS level are not supposed to be "finders of fact"; THAT is supposed to happen long before a case gets to that level. However, I will quibble with 1 thing that Mr. Dean said about SCOTUS & their interest in public opinion, and I base this on reading Jeffrey Toobin’s The Nine. "Justices" Scalia & Thomas could give a rat’s hiney hole about public opinion; they revel in & glory in sticking their proverbial thumbs in the eyes of those who think they have no business being on the Supreme Court. Clarence Thomas even has in his office a list of Senators & other people or groups that opposed his nomination to SCOTUS. And, under SCOTUS rules, he is under absolutely no obligation to recuse himself from any cases involving parties he believed injured him. Recusal is left up to individual justices; Clarence Thomas would never recuse himself. I think Sam Alito has a grain of Scalia & Thomas in him in this regard but not quite to that extent.
Mr. Dean’s not even sure the Prop 8 case will make it to SCOTUS for reasons I’ve discussed in the past (I am so smart!); lower courts long before SCOTUS could rule that the pro – Prop 8 folks have no standing to bring this case to begin with. HOWEVER, if this case does make it to SCOTUS, and I think it will, Mr. Dean predicts that SCOTUS will side with Judge Walker’s ruling. Lordy bee, I hope he’s correct.
** A BBC weather dude flipped the bird to a fellow anchor. WHAT? A prim & proper Brit lowered himself to flipping someone the bird?! The Apple Daily peeps have given their own little version of now – impeached Gov. Potty Mouth’s trial! The Blago in the cartoon didn’t have tall enough hair, though. And, back to Great Britain, a big ‘ol fish died. **
#3 "Down Under" AKA "Gulf Coast Trauma" - There’s another scientist report that’s poo – pooing the government’s statement that 75% of the oil from the Deepwater Horizon site is gone. And, the levees in New Orleans now just might be worse than the ones that failed during Katrina. YIPPEE! *&^%$#@! There’s 22 – mile long & one mile wide plume of oil in the Gulf. One of the NOAA scientists who authored the report indicating the massive disappearance of the oil in the Gulf testified to a committee that they just might have been a little "off" in their assessment. File that under "No $hit, Sherlock!" And, he didn’t know how much oil was still on coastlines. Here’s Harry Shearer & Maria Garzino, an Army Corps of Engineer whistleblower. The hydraulic pumps in place now will fail in the event of another massive hurricane. Harry had some less – than – complimentary words about the Corps of Engineers & the Congress that let them be in the position they’re in now.
WPITW – Some NYC hospital dude fired a long – time surgeon. Some dude in WV really REALLY likes huffing the paint. Ted Nugent likes "white crowds" in Iowa.
Fridays with Thurber – We have part II of "The Night the Ghost Got In"! I liked Keith’s copper voice. ;D