Nobody 755
Sunday, February 8, 2009
Nobody # 755
Nobody Asked Me But:
This just in from The Rush Bunch:
“Why do we know best how to fix the recession?
Because we created it, stupid.”<<<
Followed by:
“Why are we harping so much about the deficit?
Because we hate deficits----except when Republicans are President.”<<<
THE DICK IS BACK: Cheney that is, warning the nation that Obama’s policies are wrong and that we can’t be both civilized and safe. And, most certainly, the former VP is an expert in uncivilized.
Or as a NY Times put it: “Sometimes you just have to cringe.”<<<
Class: Bush, who continues to keep his promise to keep quiet.
No Class: Cheney – see above.<<<
And isn’t it good to have a president who can admit to screwing up, promise not to repeat it and then return his attention to the priority issue.
Every President learns on the job. But some learn more slowly then others. I am thankful that Obama is a quick study.<<<
But I can criticize too. I think the President was totally wrong to continue the Bush policy of funding faith-based groups who discriminate in hiring.<<<
Final word of advice today for the President: You earned the bully pulpit on election day; don’t hesitate to use it and use it and use it again!<<<
Once every decade or so, a movie comes along that absolutely delights me. Not necessarily a great film, not an award winner but a complete JT’s heart warmer – a “Sleepless In Seattle.”
Barbara and I saw such a movie Thursday, “Last Chance Harvey.” Hey, I confess, I am a sucker for romance – the sentimental kind. Throw in a sense of humor and people I can “love,” and I am hooked.<<<
Even though the Senate seems to have reached a reasonable compromise on the vital stimulus bill, I hope the President will listen to me next time and follow Jim’S RULE, which is ---
“You don’t give Republicans ammunition with which to make a list.”<<<
And what is wrong with the Buy America provision in the stimulus bill? A lot. Buying American made goods exclusively provides no incentive for producing quality. Buying the best should pressure American workers to once again produce the best. For years, too many workers have chosen good enough over best. It is time to remember that good enough is not.<<<
"You want to know my philosophy? One day a peacock, the next day a feather duster. " PAT QUINN, Illinois's new governor.
Sen. John McCain says he will vote against the stimulus bill. Perhaps he should suspend his Senate responsibilities, like he did his presidential campaign, until he can solve our economic mess.<<<
"American public opinion is seeing this for what it is: a spending bill, not a stimulus bill, and I think it's swinging in our direction," Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) told Fox News.
Sure it is John. Just like the voters swung towards you at campaign’s end.<<<
So Mr. Republican, Rush Limbaugh, proposes that because the Democrats, in the election, got roughly 54 percent of the votes to the Republicans' 46 percent, the stimulus package should be allocated along his definition of ideological lines, i.e. 54 percent towards infrastructure improvement and 46 percent toward tax breaks for Limbaugh and his friends.
I’m with Democratic strategist James Carville in wondering if the Rush daddy said the same thing after the 2000 vote, i.e. give the Republicans 49.5% of the say-so on everything and the Democrats 50.5%?<<<
And did you read that people in Tucson had their Super Bowl broadcast interrupted with about 3 minutes to go with a 30-second insert of full male nudity? It turns out that a clip from a porno movie somehow slipped into the broadcast.
The Tucsonians? They thought it was just another Super Bowl commercial.<<<
Where is Hugo Black when you need him? The Supreme Court recently, in Herring v. United States, took a major step towards doing away with the exclusionary rule, which is the precedent, established in 1961, for excluding evidence in criminal cases that was obtained by shoddy, illegal or unconstitutional police work.
Considered by most scholars as one of the all-time great Justices, Black, who believed that the Bill of Rights were to be followed literally, was a major force in establishing this precedent.
And I am sure you remember that Black was a former member of the KKK turned New Deal liberal, but did you know – that he never graduated from high school or college?
And did you know that while Black was on the SC that great villain, J. Edger Hoover, ordered that his phone be wiretapped?<<<
From Iran: "If you say change in policies, then halt your support to the uncultivated and rootless, forged, phony, killers of women and children Zionists.” President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. “And I say this despite the fact that some of my best friends are Jews.”
I saw “Taken” last week and thought it was quite entertaining – sort of like Jack Bauer goes to Paris. However, the NY Times either didn’t like it much, or was skeptical of the purity of LA teens, or both - as you can tell from this line in their review:
“Taken” stars a dour Liam Neeson as a big bad papa bear on the rampaging hunt for his baby cub, a virginal Los Angeles teenager — the first of many dubious plot points.<<<
What’s in a name? Apparently, in the UK, a lot. Check out a map for these towns and roads:
TOWNS
Pennistone
Crapstone
Horrabridge.
ROADS
Butt Hole Road, Conisbrough, South Yorkshire.
Tumbledown Dick Road, Paddington
Crotch Crescent, Oxford
Titty Ho, Northamptonshire
Wetwang, East Yorkshire
Slutshole Lane, Norfolk
Thong, Kent
Pratts Bottom, Kent
And then there is always the Anvilessex's Pub.
An American list anyone?<<<
Recent shots of The Mall in DC remind me that some of the public parts need refurbishing. Time for the vision thing – spend a little of that stimulus capital on our nation’s capital. Now that would really be a Capital gain.<<<
Wasn’t that a great SB game? And I’m not even an NFL fan. In the days before the game, the LA Times came up with a ten-best list of great football movies. They did not have to be exclusively about football but had to feature a game as part of their content.
And they left M*A*S*H* off – didn’t even name it as a runner-up.
In the words of the late, great Jim Healy, “Bad list, man, bad, *&^* list.”<<<
Nobody # 755
Nobody Asked Me But:
This just in from The Rush Bunch:
“Why do we know best how to fix the recession?
Because we created it, stupid.”<<<
Followed by:
“Why are we harping so much about the deficit?
Because we hate deficits----except when Republicans are President.”<<<
THE DICK IS BACK: Cheney that is, warning the nation that Obama’s policies are wrong and that we can’t be both civilized and safe. And, most certainly, the former VP is an expert in uncivilized.
Or as a NY Times put it: “Sometimes you just have to cringe.”<<<
Class: Bush, who continues to keep his promise to keep quiet.
No Class: Cheney – see above.<<<
And isn’t it good to have a president who can admit to screwing up, promise not to repeat it and then return his attention to the priority issue.
Every President learns on the job. But some learn more slowly then others. I am thankful that Obama is a quick study.<<<
But I can criticize too. I think the President was totally wrong to continue the Bush policy of funding faith-based groups who discriminate in hiring.<<<
Final word of advice today for the President: You earned the bully pulpit on election day; don’t hesitate to use it and use it and use it again!<<<
Once every decade or so, a movie comes along that absolutely delights me. Not necessarily a great film, not an award winner but a complete JT’s heart warmer – a “Sleepless In Seattle.”
Barbara and I saw such a movie Thursday, “Last Chance Harvey.” Hey, I confess, I am a sucker for romance – the sentimental kind. Throw in a sense of humor and people I can “love,” and I am hooked.<<<
Even though the Senate seems to have reached a reasonable compromise on the vital stimulus bill, I hope the President will listen to me next time and follow Jim’S RULE, which is ---
“You don’t give Republicans ammunition with which to make a list.”<<<
And what is wrong with the Buy America provision in the stimulus bill? A lot. Buying American made goods exclusively provides no incentive for producing quality. Buying the best should pressure American workers to once again produce the best. For years, too many workers have chosen good enough over best. It is time to remember that good enough is not.<<<
"You want to know my philosophy? One day a peacock, the next day a feather duster. " PAT QUINN, Illinois's new governor.
Sen. John McCain says he will vote against the stimulus bill. Perhaps he should suspend his Senate responsibilities, like he did his presidential campaign, until he can solve our economic mess.<<<
"American public opinion is seeing this for what it is: a spending bill, not a stimulus bill, and I think it's swinging in our direction," Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) told Fox News.
Sure it is John. Just like the voters swung towards you at campaign’s end.<<<
So Mr. Republican, Rush Limbaugh, proposes that because the Democrats, in the election, got roughly 54 percent of the votes to the Republicans' 46 percent, the stimulus package should be allocated along his definition of ideological lines, i.e. 54 percent towards infrastructure improvement and 46 percent toward tax breaks for Limbaugh and his friends.
I’m with Democratic strategist James Carville in wondering if the Rush daddy said the same thing after the 2000 vote, i.e. give the Republicans 49.5% of the say-so on everything and the Democrats 50.5%?<<<
And did you read that people in Tucson had their Super Bowl broadcast interrupted with about 3 minutes to go with a 30-second insert of full male nudity? It turns out that a clip from a porno movie somehow slipped into the broadcast.
The Tucsonians? They thought it was just another Super Bowl commercial.<<<
Where is Hugo Black when you need him? The Supreme Court recently, in Herring v. United States, took a major step towards doing away with the exclusionary rule, which is the precedent, established in 1961, for excluding evidence in criminal cases that was obtained by shoddy, illegal or unconstitutional police work.
Considered by most scholars as one of the all-time great Justices, Black, who believed that the Bill of Rights were to be followed literally, was a major force in establishing this precedent.
And I am sure you remember that Black was a former member of the KKK turned New Deal liberal, but did you know – that he never graduated from high school or college?
And did you know that while Black was on the SC that great villain, J. Edger Hoover, ordered that his phone be wiretapped?<<<
From Iran: "If you say change in policies, then halt your support to the uncultivated and rootless, forged, phony, killers of women and children Zionists.” President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. “And I say this despite the fact that some of my best friends are Jews.”
I saw “Taken” last week and thought it was quite entertaining – sort of like Jack Bauer goes to Paris. However, the NY Times either didn’t like it much, or was skeptical of the purity of LA teens, or both - as you can tell from this line in their review:
“Taken” stars a dour Liam Neeson as a big bad papa bear on the rampaging hunt for his baby cub, a virginal Los Angeles teenager — the first of many dubious plot points.<<<
What’s in a name? Apparently, in the UK, a lot. Check out a map for these towns and roads:
TOWNS
Pennistone
Crapstone
Horrabridge.
ROADS
Butt Hole Road, Conisbrough, South Yorkshire.
Tumbledown Dick Road, Paddington
Crotch Crescent, Oxford
Titty Ho, Northamptonshire
Wetwang, East Yorkshire
Slutshole Lane, Norfolk
Thong, Kent
Pratts Bottom, Kent
And then there is always the Anvilessex's Pub.
An American list anyone?<<<
Recent shots of The Mall in DC remind me that some of the public parts need refurbishing. Time for the vision thing – spend a little of that stimulus capital on our nation’s capital. Now that would really be a Capital gain.<<<
Wasn’t that a great SB game? And I’m not even an NFL fan. In the days before the game, the LA Times came up with a ten-best list of great football movies. They did not have to be exclusively about football but had to feature a game as part of their content.
And they left M*A*S*H* off – didn’t even name it as a runner-up.
In the words of the late, great Jim Healy, “Bad list, man, bad, *&^* list.”<<<
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