I'm 99.999999999% sure that Countdown & the other MSNBC shows will be taking the long weekend in order for the latest & greatest predator or behind bars marathon to be polluting the air waves. MSNBC...the place for politics...except on weekends & long holiday weekends...LOVE IT! *&^%$#@! So, I thought I'd share a little Labor Day history that I learned this morning.
I had no idea that the impetus for a national holiday honoring the work force in our country was anti - labor violence & head bashing in. In this political climate of decreasing civility of discourse, are we heading toward another violent outcome or a worse violent outcome then we've already experienced?
Let's move onto "this day in history." On this day in 1970, Hall of Fame football coach Vince Lombardi died at age 57.
Valerie Perrine is 67 today. I know her best from her Academy - Award - winning performance in Lenny.
Finally, Charlie Sheen is 45 today. When he's not visiting hookers or taking drugs or running after his wife with a knife, he's been known to act in movies.
Let's Countdown!
#5 "Miss Me Yet? NO" AKA "Missing Me Hardly" AKA "Political Disconnect" - 71% of Americans think GWB is the primary reason for our country being in the economic terlet we find ourselves in. However, they seem to be ready to vote those back in who enacted said terlet policies (?). AND, they want tax cuts for the most wealthy to be permanent. Too many people are watching FAUX News.
51% believe President Obama is dealing with inherited problems as opposed to ones of his own creation. President Obama gave a Rose Garden speech on the economy earlier today. 67,000 private sector jobs were created in August. The GOBP didn’t take kindly to that information. Senator DeMint blamed President Obama for the unemployment numbers; Newt the Nazi lover joined in on that shtick, too. 32 Dem House candidates are behind their GOBP counterparts.
Here’s David Corn! People in Ohio want GWB back?! That same tanning product that’s seeped into Small Price to Pay Goldilocks’ brain must be state wide! I don’t remember the recovery summer memo. Did President Obama say that? Most people who claim they’re voting GOBP in November are doing so only to vote against President Obama – not for the GOBP candidate in question. Keith asked about the potential of this administration going after the previous occupants for their war on terror shenanigans – to be charitable about it. Uh...what does that have to do with the economy? Chris Kofinis is in da’ house. The minority party usually gains seats in off – year mid – term elections, but Dems have dropped the messaging ball AGAIN. Again, to paraphrase Tweety, Dems fall in love; the GOBP falls in line – lock step & very disciplined. The Dems? Well...Uh...Not so much. Herding cats would be child’s play. Chris bemoaned the image that tea baggers are supposed to be representative of this country as a whole. Well, the media continuing to cover them & giving them the voices they have aren’t helping on that score, either! Tim Kaine’s giving a big speech next week. Can Howard Dean give that speech instead? Keith asked Chris if there could be some sort of 50 – state strategy about communicating the message that turning over Congress to a bunch of right wing xenophobic bat$hit reptile brains would be a bad thing. Chris said not really; I disagree! If said right wing xenophobic bat$hit reptile brains take over Congress, it will affect THE ENTIRE NATION. Go for the damn 50 – state strategy!
#4 "Center of Controversy" - Commie Marxist Socialist Newt the Nazi lover wants to nationalize the ground around Ground Zero as a national battlefield memorial so the federal government can control what gets built there & what doesn’t. The strip club in the area will remain as a memorial honoring Newt’s commitment to family values – HA! ;D
Newt wants Andrew Cuomo as New York State Attorney General to intervene & slow the process down. Yea, I’m sure he’ll be REAL open to that! According to a Times poll, most respondents would like for the Park 51 organizers to volunteer to go somewhere else. Talat Hamdani’s son was a police cadet who went into the World Trade Center to try to save lives, but he died. When she put up one of those flyers that were all over the city at one point asking about missing people, their Muslim identity had to be kept quiet. Her son, for awhile, was even implicated in being involved in the attacks!
** Look at that scooter getting smacked into – DAMN! There’s a big ‘ol hamburger for someone’s Labor Day picnic. Ryan Seacrest tested Larry King on new pop songs. OK, I don’t need to hear that ever ever EVER again! **
#3 "Steeped in Madness" AKA "Lord of the Bling" - Joe Miller’s campaign is being funded by the Almighty Him/Her/Itself – golly! Uh, how ‘bout a little help with the ‘ol mortgage for a few months then? If not that, then just buy me a few of the books I want! ;D Mr. Miller’s general election campaign is being funded by K Street. The Almighty got overruled by K Street? Mr. Miller’s parents are on Social Security, and Mr. Miller wants to privatize Social Security BUT not for the people on it now – just for us younger folks & people not born yet. Yep – real pro – life there! Ms. Obtuse Angle still doesn’t like unemployment benefits because it makes people lazy and doesn’t benefit anyone. David Weigel gets GOBP bat$hit duty again.
{I’m tired of this Lonesome Rhodes $hit – for the same reason I got tired of BillO when Keith was skewering him every night. Hell, I almost MISS BillO these days. I GET IT; Lonesome Rhodes is a dumb a$$! So, feel free to talk about it in the comments section.}
WPITW – Some WY gentlemen & a cop displayed some real fine thinking & investigative power during a stop. A cop couldn’t tell the ashes of a dead person from drugs! Russia’s finance minister is telling people to drink & smoke more. SMOKE ‘EM IF YOU GOT ‘EM! There’s a new reality show in Iraq that is a version of Punked that promises to put people in a nice notorious prison there.
Fridays With Thurber "The Greatest Man in the World Part Deux" I’d be willing to bet that Charles Lindbergh wished he could act like THIS pilot sometimes. ;D