Ali Soufan is my age! Man, that "turning 20 again" club just keeps getting more elite!! ;D Here's a New York Times interview with Mr. Soufan. Again, I'm sure his book is very good, but I'm not sure I have the stomach to read it.
Let's add some SPARK to our evening. The "laughs" continue in the $aint $arah from Wasilla family; FOKRs, there are no winners in a room full of losers. PAGING DR. FREUD??!! Glendale, CA has some new residents. Sightings of roadrunners are unconfirmed. ;D Finally, sometimes the SPARK just writes itself!
On with The Rachel Maddow Show!
"Debunktion Junction" AKA "Entering Republicanland" - ALL RIGHT! We get this gem as segment #1! And, here's Bat$hit Bachmann saying the HPV vaccine causes mental retardation. Well, if anyone knows about being MENTAL, it's her! Guess what? What she said ain't true - AT ALL. Is our embassy in Iraq bigger than the Vatican as Rep. Ron Paul said last night? Nope. Huh! That actually surprises me. Heaven help fact checkers for the GOBP Bat$hit "debates!" Rachel, facts have a well - known librul bias; THAT'S why the GOBP doesn't like them. ;D Tea baggers won't be tea bagging Ben Bernake any time soon, either. Why is Newt the Nazi Lover still invited to debates? Ben Bernake's average yearly inflation is lower than anyone else's. Well, the GOBP still uses TEH TurdBlossom math. ;D Stimulus from government doesn't create jobs, either - except when it did to the tune of nearly 3 million people. How can ANYONE govern in this political atmosphere with a willfully - ignorant bat$hit GOBP? President Obama has his work cut out for him in passing his American Jobs Act. I still don't think it'll happen, but, hopefully, he'll go down fighting, and he'll have a hell of a re - election memo! Rachel brought up the poverty numbers released today in light of the jobs & economy situation. The only group of people who didn't get more poor were older Americans - largely due to Social Security. Ya' know, that Ponzi scheme? Rep. John Yarmuth's district in KY is that I - 64 bridge area - lucky him! It was my Governator that made the decision to close that bridge. I'm pretty sure I've frequented all 3 of those bridges Rep. Yarmuth mentioned MANY times. :D He's on the House Budget Committee? FUN! I meant that "FUN!" to be ironic, boys & girls. Oh, I would pay hard - earned coin to see Senator Mitchie the Turtle McConnell talking to people sitting in traffic between southern IN & Louisville, KY!
"Fatal Attraction" - CRAP! Is Glenn Close gonna kill a rabbit & boil it?! ;D Pundits are arguing about who "won" last night. There are no winners in a room full of LOSERS. Here's THE moment from last night again - *&^%$#@! Guess which state has the lowest percentage of folk with health insurance? TX boys & girls! Governor Secession is from "the party of life" - except when he's executing people...at least 1 of them innocent, too. Governor Secession has executed more people in his state than any Governor in modern history. Here's the Cameron Willingham story! No, I don't think the execution of an innocent person would phase today's bat$hit GOBP 1 iota.
"Outsource Subject" - There were absolutely contractors on sight during today's attack on our embassy in Kabul; David Petraeus vows to use them less. We'll see. Contractors are damn DAMN expensive; federal employees could perform the same function at about half the rate. Camp Victory in Iraq is shutting down, but I'm sure some contractors will stick around. Senator Claire McCaskill gets to talk contractors. Our military has probably been too overstretched to do much monitoring for contractors; well, that's not really their job, is it. Will Erik Prince testify in front of this Senate committee? Vets from Iraq & Afghanistan felt most Americans were pretty disconnected from the wars there; contractors may or may not have contributed to this disconnect.
"Decision 2011" - There's Senator Loverboy Ensign! I wonder what he's doing these days? There's a special election going on for the House seat that Dean Heller vacated to go to the Senate. The GOBP will probably win there as in NY - 9. Ugh... Andrew Siff is reporting from Bob Turner's campaign headquarters; Mr. Turner's been all about sending President Obama a message - well, that & Islamaphobia, too.
Guess who's running against Senator Nude Cosmo in MA?! Elizabeth Warren - AND, she's going to be on the show tomorrow night!