We now return to our regularly - scheduled logo. :D
I need to do a bit of diary "house keeping" before moving on so...
I thought I'd let you all know & will remind later on in the week that both the Countdown & TRMS diaries are going on vacation next week! Hubby & I will celebrate 9 years of wedded bliss (well, mostly bliss! :D) on July 13, and we will be out of town & out of state from Monday, July 11 until Friday, July 15. No, we're sadly not going to San Francisco; we're going to eat ourselves silly (or more silly) in Kansas City! It's pretty inexpensive, there are some cool non - eating things to do, and it's NOT my fair city or my fair state; these days, that's enough! If you follow me on teh Twitter @FOOLeader or are one of my Facebook friends, I'll try to post pics but will be fairly scarce in Great Orange Satanic parts. Try to keep tears to a minimum, OK? ;D
Let's get SPARKy! :D So, since I only exercise 100 minutes a week (at least 20 minutes 5 days a week), will I live to be only 100 instead of 120? ;D If the person who suggested using this object as a school bell just has egg on his/her face, he/she is lucky. Me thinks at least a couple segments of "Time Marches On!" will feature this yearly insanity. :D If any of y'all call pigeons "rats with wings," you better stop calling pigeons "rats with wings!" Finally, those of us here in farm country better start sending corn cobs to the "city so nice they named it twice!" ;D
Let's Countdown!
"Deal 'Em In" AKA "Medicare Deal?" AKA "Number Crunchers" AKA "Doubling Down" - President Obama invited the "leadership" in Congress to the White House for a debt ceiling summit. Will there be beer? Mitchie McConnell got to the Senate floor & replayed the same shtick he said last week. Medicare & Medicaid cuts may or may not be on the table. Gee, someone vaguely resembling me said last week after Senator Schumer's comments that said comments would be more believable coming from Senator Sanders.
Rep. Paul Ryan's still trying to kill Medicare as we know it, but he's going to blame "ObamaCare." That's novel! Josh Marshall's in studio to talk debt ceiling & stuff. I liked Keith's image of President Obama being a referee instead of a member of one of the playing teams; I'm not sure referee even quite cuts it but is pretty close. Man on Dog is not only weak on teh bestiality, but he's weak on teh maths, too! Well, I've said before math is Satan's spawn, so there is a certain symmetry to the shtick! ;D
Mittens can't decide if President Obama's made the recession and/or recovery worse or better. He's at least consistent in his flip flopping! Andy Kroll gets bat$hit duty tonight. Maybe, Man on Dog had too many "dogs" yesterday; it WAS the 4th of July, ya' know!
Keith asked about Mittens' business man bona fides concerning his recession shtick; Keith, ya' gotta remember that Mittens got rich by shutting down companies & firing people. THAT does not a business man make!
"Bring 'Em Home" AKA "Withdrawal 2012" - Senators Jeff Merkley, Rand Paul {insert retching noise here}, and Tom Udall wrote an op ed in the New York Times today pleading the case to declare victory in Afghanistan & get the spark out. Senator Jeff Merkley is chatting up his op ed. He thinks our 3 goals established in going to Afghanistan have been met, and that our men & women in harm's way should come home. We are spending a lot of coin in the effort on behalf of a government there that was made just south of heaven.
"Time Marches On!" - Meh, "Goose" Gossage's little tirade's got NOTHIN' on Lee Elia's!! ;D Hey! I tweeted the Nathan's thing to Mr. Keith, so I'm sure he only got the information from me. ;D A guy's claiming super powers because he can do some mean front flips? O...K...
"News of the World Hacks" AKA "Murdoch and Mayhem" - Pirate Rupert & his peeps may actually be in some legal soup; some voicemails of a dead girl were hacked into by one of his "news" organizations & probably helped derail an investigation. Everyone from Parliament to the Prime Minister to some actors want Pirate Rupert's head on a pike! They maybe even sparked up investigations of the 7/7/05 bombings in London!! HELLO?! Michael Wolff gets Pirate Murdoch duty in studio. If this scandal keeps going, the aforementioned pirate might not survive this?! Well, I'll believe THAT when I see it.
"WPITW" - I heard about the lady who tried to smuggle Hubby outta the GreyBar Hotel from my morning radio silly guys this morning! ;D A trash dude in NYC fined a woman for throwing stuff away IN a trash can?! O...K... So, she would've been left alone if she'd just chucked the thing on the street? The Pentagon said the annual cost for air conditioning to remote places in Afghanistan & Iraq is over $20 billion.
"Duke's Hazard" AKA "Diff'rent Folks" - David Duke is going to run for POTUS again since he's had such rousing success in the past. Well, I shouldn't talk; this crop of GOBP these days is a lovely fit for him! Herman Cain asked staffers to leave if he thought they were gay.
Maysoon Zayid gets racist & homophobic duty tonight. "Yes, we hate!"?! LOVE IT!!! HA!!