If any of y'all are the prayin' types, pray for me to have a fun relaxing weekend before yet another absolutely BAT$HIT week in my line of work when classes begin on Monday. If y'all ain't the prayin' types, good vibrations will work, too! :D
Let's move onto "this day in history." On this date in 1883, the island volcano Krakatoa erupted and the resulting tidal waves claimed some 36,000 lives on the Indonesian islands of Java and Sumatra. More lava in living rooms!
On this date in 2007, Roll Call reported that Senator Larry Craig (Hypocrite - ID) had been arrested by a plainclothes officer investigating complaints of lewd conduct in a Minneapolis airport restroom. Yea, y'all know what's coming! ;D
Finally, Paul Reubens is 58 today! Sure, he's probably most famous for PeeWee Herman & that little "incident" in the porno theater, but PeeWee annoys the hell outta me. So, I'm going to honor him with THIS!
LOVE this movie - OWN this movie!
Let's Countdown!
#5 "Republican Party Like It’s 1999" AKA "House of Cads" AKA "House Hunting" - Keith began the show tonight with a little journey in the Wayback Machine to all the Congressional investigations of President Clinton post – 1994 GOBP takeover. As I’ve said numerous times, and so have others, if said GOBP regains Congressional control in November, look for a repeat performance & truly odious "people" chairing committees.
Rep. Daryl Issa is creaming his jeans at the possibility! Rep. Lamar Smith is creaming, too; he’s even talking impeachment. The Black Panthers are going to be investigated, too. Uh, how can ACORN be targeted again since they no longer exist? Ms. Obtuse Angle has been drinking from Bat$hit Bachmann’s water cooler; we’ve got UnAmerican domestic enemies in Congress! I’m shaking in my boots – truly. 66% of Obtuse’s supporters wish there was a GOBP plan "B" for the NV Senate seat. Well, that’s just too darn bad; they threw the Chicken Lady into the deep fryer – HA!
Here’s Rep. Debbie Wasserman – Schultz to talk possible investigations. She serves on the same committee with Rep. Issa – lucky lady! She insists Dem candidates will mention this possibility out on the campaign trail; I’ll believe it when I see it. Did y’all notice how she DIDN’T answer Keith’s question about Dems continuing to play nice with the GOBP?! Congress is a club, ya’ know.
{insert shriek of DELIGHT here} RICHARD WOLFFE!!!!
AAAaaaaUUUUuuuGGGggggHHHHHhhh! Be still my heart!!
Hee...hee...hee... OK, I think I have it outta my system – maybe. ;D "My guy" called out the media in their role in stoking the kind of investigations we might see down the road should the oogy happen in November! People want to hear about jobs – not how President Obama’s going to "get it". Apparently, Rep. Issa’s staff thinks he might be over – reaching. Richard thinks the Dems WILL get more gutsy in defending themselves & calling out the GOBP for their bull$hittyness; I really hope he’s correct.
#4 "Mississippi Learning" - A MS school board decided to play the race card in middle school class offices. Wow...I’ve been reading & hearing about this story all day & STILL can’t believe it. *&^%$#@!
They reversed this shameful 30+ - year – old decision in an emergency session this afternoon. Gee, I can’t imagine why! Here’s a statement from the Nettleton School Superintendent Russell Taylor:
After being notified of a grievance regarding upcoming student elections at Nettleton Middle School, research was conducted that evidenced that the current practices and procedures for student elections have existed for over 30 years. It is the belief of the current administration that these procedures were implemented to help ensure minority representation and involvement in the student body....It is our hope and desire that these practices and procedures are no longer needed...Therefore, beginning immediately, student elections at Nettleton School district will no longer have a classification of ethnicity. It is our intent that each student has equal opportunity to seek election for any student office.
Good gawd, yep, that’s sure superintendent speak! If this 30+ - year – old shame REALLY caught this school board & school district by surprise, I will dance on my roof almost totally naked with only Palin 2012 stickers in strategic locations! PPppppLLLlllEEEeeeZZZZzzzEEEEeeee! *&^%$#@! Boy, I bet the parent, Brandy Springer, that brought all this up is getting it from the community. Here’s Professor Melissa Harris – Lacewell; I bet she’ll have a hoot with this story. She said this position might have actually represented progress in that part of the country at that time; well, we are talking about Mississippi here.
Both Keith & Melissa brought up a great point. There are increasingly precious few children who can be neatly categorized as "black" or "white."
** AAAaaaaWWWwwww! Look at the little baby tiger! O...M...G...some evil BITCH sedated the poor thing, put it in her luggage, and tried to pass it off as a stuffed animal?! *&^%$#@! I hope when it grows up it comes back, finds her, and eats her alive. Cattle are racing in India. Now, those crazy Brits are doing an air guitar contest. Again...the land of Python, so I’m not surprised. ;D **
#3 "The Beckoning" - Lonesome Rhodes is going to part the water in the reflecting pool tomorrow; Albert Pujols & Tony LaRussa are going to help! Well, for Albert’s sake, I hope the "honorable" sheriff of Maricopa County isn’t in attendance. Both of these guys took one – too – many hits to the head without a helmet with a baseball if they don’t think politics is going to be fouling the air tomorrow! Dick Armey called Lonesome Rhodes the tea bagger brain – HA!
Boys & girls, that spinning you hear is Martin Luther King, Jr. & his wife in their graves. *&^%$#@! Lucky Eugene Robinson gets to talk about tomorrow’s little non non – political tea bagging in our nation’s capitol tomorrow. I know this fact will come as a shock to y’all, but it would appear that Lonesome Rhodes has a really sparked up version of the history of the civil rights movement! I’ll give a minute for you to recover from the shock. ;D Albert’s been very public about his disagreement with SB 1070; Albert, you’re doing little to dismiss the stereotype of the dumb jock! Ask Mr. Rhodes tomorrow about the "Show Me Your Papers" law. MLK’s niece is going to be there tomorrow, too. Y’all remember she compared marriage equality to genocide, yes?
*** We helped to raise $320K for the NAFC efforts in New Orleans next week – holy crap!! We...sparkin’...RULE. :D Some volunteers came forward, too! ***
WPITW – A couple dudes in ME broke into a police surveillance van – with a cop in it! BillO admitted FAUX News was anti – liberal. Rep. Mary Fallon is running for OK governor & said that no poor person ever offered her a job. Has she seen History of the World Part I?! ;D
Fridays With Thurber "The Greatest Man in the World" OK...do I remember this one? YEP!! I remember this one! ;D