These are the current top 100 non-classical tunes on my iPod ...
... playing in the background as I sip a beer. Year number thirty nine, evening number one. Underway as before.
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They been goin' back 'n forth for a century ...
Set the markets free, yo.
Hat tip: Veronique de Rugy
Behold the people who elected Barack Obama and his running mate, uh ... um ...
Imagine that. Ignoramuses in L.A.! Who'd a thunk it?
Another week, another address to a joint session of Congress. When in doubt, David Axelrod has just one prescription:
Obama's planned address to a joint session of Congress next week "will insert the president into the heated debate in a way he has avoided all summer." The Washington Post informed readers that the "White House is scrambling to take control of the health-care debate after watching from the sidelines." A "senior aide" to Obama says the president will be "much more prescriptive."
Why the White House press corps didn't just change the date on their old copy and run it again is beyond me. And I'll leave it to others to ponder the media's seemingly infinite capacity to give Obama as many do-overs as he might need.
Why the Obama administration is determined to do the time warp again is easier to decipher. Obama's advisers think the answer to every problem is more cowbell, if by "cowbell" you mean "Obama." It's like Obama guru David Axelrod is the Christopher Walken character from the Saturday Night Live skit about Blue Oyster Cult (if you don't know the reference, Google "cowbell").
Every time someone comes up with an alternative to throwing Obama on TV, Axelrod says, "No, no, no. Guess what? I got a fever, and the only prescription . . . is more Obama!"
Ecce:
Please keep going, Barry. The more America sees of you, the less they like what they see.
Come March, 2010 I'm going to subscribe to HBO just to watch this.
I still watch my DVD boxed set of "Band Of Brothers" at least once a year ...
... so I suspect I'll be buying this one in about a year's time.
H/T: BLACKFIVE
I don't watch any ABC shows other than "Lost", but this ...
... might make it to my DVR. It might have a mildly conservative message.
5/22 Update: A little too close to the mark?
Saw "The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything." Great movie with great values.....all except for the "help coming from above" in the form of a donkey! Come on! What about help coming from an elephant?!? What's the Big Idea?
P.S. I appreciate the addition to my last entry with excellent points made in the replies!
P.P.S. What happened to Puddle Pirate?
If you thought the snowman was foolish, you ain't seen nothin' yet.
Listen to Hugh Hewitt's pointed interview of Steve Grove, YouTube director of news and politics. Very, very revealing.
The View has a new token conservative to keep ratings alive. Welcome Sherri Shepherd! I love that a conservative, right-minded woman has a big role in TV but the conservative is always out numbered in situations like this. At least Law and Order writers have some new fodder. I'm happy that Sherri is making a large, well deserved paycheck and joins the ranks with Elisabeth Hasselbeck and Ann Coulter even if that comes with a hit sitcom condoning her demise. She's an outspoken conservative, which means she must be strong enough to take whatever comes her way.
Laura Ingraham's "Power To The People" book tour pulled into Cleveland today. Here I am at the WHK Meet & Greet over on the East Side.
The lady radiates energy. She's on her tenth stop in this book tour, and won't get a break 'til the middle of next month. A three day break. She's gotta be tired but you sure can't tell by looking at her or listening to her. Laura's very friendly, outgoing, and charming ... the kind of person I'd enjoy hanging out with over pizza and beer. I'd love to just sit and hear her talk about the things she's done, the places she's been and the people she's met.
Laura, I hope you get a chance to work out at some point, just to vent some stress from the tour. At least go for a run, girl. You'll go batty by October otherwise. And the next time you roll through town, you and your producers drink on my tab. Never let it be said that this USCGA grad would withhold hospitality from friends of a squid like Joe (tempting though it might be).
Here's more on the author and her work.
My favorite talk show host kicks off her latest book tour by sitting down with Michelle Malkin:
I love this lady. Buy her books!
How dare they impose their antiquated morals on an upstanding young skank?
No doubt you've heard about this.
Folks, Limbaugh does not produce videos. He didn't create this. It's not available on his site. It was posted on YouTube and was apparently created by some web site called politicalpartypoop.com, got it?
For Heaven's sake, look at the text that opens the video. Read. The. Text.
The SONG is posted on Limbaugh's site, but not the VIDEO. Rush Limbaugh DID NOT CREATE THIS VIDEO.
Morons taken in by the video:
USAToday's Mark Memmott and Jill Lawrence
KOVR Channel 13 (CBS affiliate in Sacramento)
DiversityInc Magazine's Aysha Hussain
Joe Gandelman
Tennessee Guerrilla Women
The Mahablog
Radar Online
BlogHer's Laina Dawes
Dr. Marc Lamont Hill
DailyKos' StormBear
Have you ever been simultaneously amused and horrified? If not, you will be.
OK, I don't understand where my post on Rachel Marsden went. The damn thing vaporized. I don't recall deleting a post since I started this blog. Strange. I'll try again.
I predict that tonight on Red Eye when Greg Gutfeld brings up the Virginia Tech massacre, Rachel Marsden will offer a snarky comment about how such things would never happen in Canada, land of draconian gun laws. Then she'll toss off an attempted joke about the Second Amendment and archaic 17th Century knuckledraggers.
Update: OK, OK ... I misunderestimated her. Mea maxima culpa.
I'm definitely going to catch this when it hits theaters.
This is the first trailer in months that had me snickering out loud.
