Friday, July 3, 2009 at 13:39 This week ended on one of the cheeriest notes that I could imagine: Sarah Palin is resigning her post as governor of the state of Alaska. From what I’ve heard from erstwhile ‘conservative’ Alaskan friends, she won’t be missed (‘don’t let the door hit you in the ass on your way out….”).
Wednesday, July 1, 2009 at 21:21 Recently, I played host to a film crew from the U.K., three youngish ( sorry, gents ) guys that live mostly in or around London. Since there’s necessarily a lot of time standing around, while somebody fiddles with a camera angle or the lighting, we got talking about cars.
The subject came up, since they’d flown into San Francisco from London, and rented what they’d hoped would be a SUV capable of carrying three strapping men, their luggage, and a large quantity of professional film and sound gear to last for the three weeks they plan on driving around the Sierras.
cars, chrysler, detroit, fiat, ford, fuel economy, mileage, volkswagen in purely maven Tuesday, June 30, 2009 at 18:44 Now maybe his campaign people can stop calling me for money. Gov. Tim Pawlentysigned the papers that finally send Al to Congress, after the Minnesota Supreme Court declared Franken the ‘winnah’.
(sound fx: cheers of the massive crowd)
Is this the most unnecessarily drawn out election in our nation’s history? It seems like it.
Now we ( meaning us whining Liberals ) will have the force necessary to repel Republican filibusters. Yea!
Bill O’Reilly called Franken “a smear merchant and a rank liar unqualified for any elected office,” and “a far left extremist” who “traffics in hate.”
Well. That’s certainly the old windbag pot calling the non-stick saute pan black. Bill O’Reilly would certainly recognize a smear merchant who traffics in hate when he sees it.
Repub strategist Bill Blakeman referred to Franken as the ‘gift that will keep on giving.’ But can that really be, in light of recent turns among the hot, steamy, totally unzipped Repubs of late? Yes, they certainly need a boogey man to replace Hillary, but Al?
They ought to pick somebody who isn’t as good at flinging back the ad libbed quip.
But after Franken’s well crafted books, targeting Rush Limbaugh and the likes of Bill O’Reilly, it’s no wonder that they want to cut him off at the knees (read: cheap shot ) … even if it doesn’t make any sense or project an actual party platform or philosophy ( readable only in the original Klingon dialect).
There are, however, still a few thinking people left on the winger side … one Republican political consultant, Stephen Marks, warned that GOP officials should lay off Franken unless he provides clear justification for their wrath, as pre-emptive attacks could come off as “desperate” and work to the Democrats’ advantage.
My guess is that Al will be on his best - not for Saturday Night Live - behavior as a way of earning his stripes among his peers in the Senate.
If the far right wants to take pot shots at him, fine. That’ll just continue to prove to America what a bunch of jackasses they really are.
Monday, June 29, 2009 at 21:19 Ruth Madoff, wife of unarguably the most despised man in America, whose name is certain to become synonymous with greed, deceit and ignominy, is crying herself to sleep these days. Whether it’s over the judge having stripped her of $80 million in assets, including the penthouse apartment where she currently lives, the loss of her friends or the creep she shared a bed with for 50 years, it’s hard to say.
Who coulda guessed what Bernie was up to?
Sunday, June 28, 2009 at 13:49 The other day at work, LC asked me why I was being so agreeable about something or other.
“Where’s the rock star that I used to know?” she said, referring to the me of the Steve Fossett search, with my officious little face popping up all over the international media, giving them what for.
There was a bit of swagger in my step during those heady days, but time marches on.
I think I got just a tiny bit of the old mojo back on Sunday, when a film crew from London’s ITN came to town.
