Oh my goodness, F.O.O., there is a RICH pageant of notables for "this day in history!" First, let me take this opportunity to wish fellow "Hoosier" [insert upchucking noise here] Dan Quayle a happy 62nd birthday. Yes, we are all well - aware of the good former VP's misses & misses & misses & misses &... well, y'all get my drift! But, thanks to this one, VP Quayle looks like he should be in MENSA now! I bet he's grateful! :D
Before going further, here's a little "eye candy."
OOPS! There I go again - my bad. That's my greeting for any NSA analysts reading in on our conversation! Let's try THIS.
On Feb. 4, 1974, newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst was kidnapped in Berkeley, CA by the Symbionese Liberation Army. I can't say I remember that; I wasn't 3 yet at the time [diving under my desk]. On Feb. 4, 1902, Charles A. Lindbergh, the American aviator who became the first man to fly the Atlantic solo nonstop from the United States to Europe & later basically became a Nazi sympathizer, was born. Civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks was born Rosa Louise McCauley in Tuskegee, AL on this date in 1913. And, finally - promise - on this date in 2004, the Massachusetts high court declared that gays were entitled to marry. WTF is taking the rest of the country so damn long?! Oh yea...that bigoted judgmental ilk.
Let's Countdown!
Many thanks again to David Shuster for filling in for Keith; I loved David's intro to "Oddball"! :D
#5 "Pay Checked" AKA "’Sorry’ State of Affairs" - Any firm getting TARP coin has to pay their executives no more than $500K/yr. I could live on that. How ‘bout y’all? But, today’s developments are not retroactive to people who’ve already gotten money, and who knows when we’ll know who’s gotten money already or what they’ve done with it. $500K is "draconian" huh – at least according to James Reda? BITE ME! Don’t ask for the money or don’t take it if it’s offered! That salary is MORE than 10 times of what I make a year. Senator Olympia Snow is introducing legislation to attempt to get bonus money back. Well, bless her lil’ ‘ol heart! It looks like President Obama is beginning to get his dander up a little about all the *itching about the stimulus package – GOOD! There is my damn gorgeous Richard Wolffe; OK, I’m happy!
I’m not sure a "shaming effect" that will work with the CEO ilk because they have no shame. Besides, they’ve got the slick lawyers to try to get around this limitation. It’s going to be late this year or early next year before the economic sun begins to rise a little. I hope people have the patience for it; you’re not going to clean up 8 years of incompetence & mismanagement overnight. Yea, we all remember well about how much the previous occupant of the White House liked to say he was sorry or he was wrong. I hope the fancy yard & trees at his new fancy house are getting TPed on a daily basis or a flaming bag of dog logs left on the doorstep. Tom who?! ;D I agree with Arianna Huffington; President Obama doesn’t have a lot of wiggle room left with vetting anyone anymore. I hope he & his peeps have learned a powerful lesson.
#4 "Repeating Change" AKA "Spare Change" AKA "The Future of Change" - President Obama may be relying on guidance from people who put our economy in the terlet to begin with – both Repubs & Dems. I guess Gary Gensler was less – than – forthcoming in some of his responses to a written questionnaire in preparation for the confirmation hearings he’s about to face. Larry Summers was a deregulator dude?! Great...now I can "love" him for more than shooting his pie hole off about women in the math & science fields – numbnut!
** Look at the cute big kitties playing in the snow! And, Londoners have nothing better to do than making big a$$ snowballs. Here deer! **
#3 "Cheney Returns" - Oh, listening to that "man’s" voice makes my stomach clench, the bowels heave, the heart pound, the soul die, etc. Of course, DICK is talking up the terrorism stuff because he gets off on it; and, yes, I mean "gets off on it" in a snuff film kind of way. He loves the violence, he loves the death, & he loves the fear. Why is anyone surprised that DICK said what he said?! I’m surprised he took this long! I actually have to credit GWB on this score for crawling into his hole & staying there. I would really REALLY hope these "talking points" have lost their luster; one would think the election results confirm the dog log nature of this shtick.
OK, we need happy thoughts & images now...
StillBUSHED! "Justice Delayed – Gate" Monica Goodling fired Leslie Hagen because she was [insert hushed tone here] gay. Leslie has her job back! And, what is Monica Goodling doing these days? "Protecting Our Borders – Gate" Someone in charge of protecting our border security not only knew her housekeeper was in the country illegally but encouraged her & helped her to stay so. "Fox Not Guarding the Henhouse – Gate" An SEC whistleblower testified today about the red flags he tried to throw up regarding Bernie Madoff’s ponzi scheme.
#1 "Blago Media Tour" AKA "The Blago Show" AKA "Blagosphere" - Gov. PottyMouth went on The Late Show with David Letterman?!
What...a...f*ckin’...moron! Talk about bringing a spork to a knife fight...he must have missed what Dave did to Senator McCentury; he was probably too busy dropping "f" bombs over the phone trying to make some coin. Why the heck won’t Rod sit down with Keith?! F.O.O. WANTS ROD! F.O.O. WANTS ROD! F.O.O. WANTS ROD!