There are a couple of fun birthdays to celebrate today, but let's begin tonight's diary in song - one of the greatest songs ever from one of the greatest voices ever that was silenced entirely too soon.
The album What's Going On by Marvin Gaye was released on this date in 1971.
The artist who (along with cockroaches) will be the only survivors of a nuclear holocaust, to paraphrase some comedians, is 63 today.
BTW, it's Cher - not Beavis or Butthead! ;D
And, in a birthday that I think is cool, but y'all may not know about or care about, but it's my diary, so I'm gonna mention it anyway :D, the actor who played Seth Bullock in Deadwood (1 of only 2 westerns I'll watch), Timothy Olyphant is 41 today.
He also played the bad guy in the most recent Die Hard movie.
Mr. Mannity, if you're psyching yourself up to get waterboarded as a birthday present for me, you have exactly 1 week left; after all this time (28 days), it better be a hell of a show!
Let's Countdown.
#5 "Closing Gitmo" AKA "Git No" AKA - OK gang, here’s the "score sheet" for the vote today in the Senate regarding the Gitmo funds: http://www.senate.gov/... If you’re like me, read it & retch. It seems like I read something like this & retch A LOT! GGGGgggggRRRRrrrrr..... A gross (intentional use of that particular word) of Senate Dems say President Obama "...lacks focus..." about the plan to close Gitmo. Ain’t the timing grand of the release of a report from the Pentagon that 1 in 7 of the detainees released has gone back to their terrorist ways? That’s the 43rd time that figure has been bounced about over the last few years. FBI Director Mueller thinks Gitmo detainees could "radicalize" other inmates in United States prisons. OK, I’m no "military intelligence" (OXYMORON!) expert, but one would assume (yes, I know what happens when you "assume.") that since these people are allegedly the worst of the worst, they would be held in solitary confinement, kind of like the UnaBomber, Robert Hanssen, and a whole other list of "undesirables." Inmates in solitary confinement are in their cells 23 hours a day; when they are out for their 1 hour, they are not around other prisoners. How the f*ck is anyone gonna get radicalized?! Senator Inhofe says the current inmates at the SuperMax prison in Colorado (where Robert Hanssen is) are merely "criminals." Say what?! He’s bragging about the healthcare benefits down at Gitmo, too. Who wants to go down to Gitmo for their colonoscopies?! The line forms behind Senator Inhofe. Senator Reid said "Democrats...do not want terrorists to be released in the United States." They wouldn’t be released, ya’ moran! Didn’t he used to be a boxer? I think he took one – too – many shots to the melon. Senator DiFi just voted "no," too. What a damn shock there – NOT! Why doesn’t she leave the Senate & just run for governor? There’s MY Richard Wolffe [drool]! He called the Senate Dems spineless! Oh, I L...O...V...E that man! And, y’all were afraid that his new gig at whatever PR firm he’s at would somehow influence or prevent his appearances here – HA! And, I actually agree a little that President Obama or SOMEONE should have a little more of a concrete plan about how this whole closing Gitmo thing is going to work at this stage in the game. Believe me, I know & appreciate the fact that he’s got SO DAMN MUCH on his plate, and I know he’s not Super Man, but when you sign an executive order your 2nd day in office saying that you want Gitmo shuttered in a year, you set some high expectations, so a plan to close Gitmo effectively & safely should’ve begun to be formulated then. The Dem national security cred has actually increased, so if they were worried about terrorism fears among their constituents, they shouldn’t have been. I also LOVED Richard Wolffe saying Senate Dems have been "...beaten down." He is absolutely correct; they’re still acting like there’s bullies at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. who are going to call them "soft on terror." DEMS, YOU ARE IN CHARGE NOW! ACT LIKE IT! A Gitmo detainee will soon be on American soil - in New York City - to be tried in civilian court. Keith quoted my Mr. Carlin tonight – THANK YOU! Greg Smith, mayor in Hardin, Montana, is BEGGING for detainees from Gitmo; he & the town council voted to accept nearly 100! An empty jail in town could be filled, jobs would be created, all that prosperity stuff! I LOVED his answer to Keith’s question of why he’s willing to have the detainees there; sometimes, common sense is just FABOO!
Well, they’re going to be in here; they’re not going anywhere.
LOVE IT! Wow, that facility’s been empty for 2 years. The county in Montana where Mayor Smith resides is the poorest in the state. Unemployment there is 47%?! HOLY $HIT! No wonder they’re begging for these detainees.
#4 "Hypocrite on Parade" AKA "Newtered" AKA "G.O.P. Hypocrisy" - Newt Gingrich thinks Speaker Pelosi should resign because she’s accused the CIA of lying. Once again, IOKIYAR. Dumb a$$... And, how ‘bout that journalism from Diane Sawyer? Once again folks, we have a so – so journalist being made to look like Murrow at the feet of a stupid a$$ GOPer! It’s those damned intertubes again. San Francisco’s Gitmo?! Golly...if so, they have damn good coffee & a hell of a bookstore! ;D
** The Mannity’s been called out AGAIN by a "right winger" to take up Keith’s challenge! Hotel roofs in San Diego have put - put courses? Gee! 3 astronauts tested the urine recycling system, and it worked. YIPPEE! I bet they’re glad, too. **
#3 "Grand Obsolete Party" AKA "Identity Crisis" AKA "Grand Ol’ Predicament" - Dems will not have to call themselves the "Democrat Socialist Party" after today’s vote [insert sigh of relief here]. I was quaking in my boots on THAT question. There’s NoNo! ;D A resolution was passed condemning the Democratic Party’s path to socialism. WTFever... Grandma Gov. TurkeyLover was all over Michael Steele’s change in a tea bag speech yesterday. SHE WAS THE ONE UNDER THE LECTERN & THE REASON HE WAS SO GOSH – DARNED EXCITED ABOUT TEA BAGS! HA!! There might be a Steele – "that woman" alliance?! Wow, talk about dumb & dumber – that would be GREAT. Last night, Colin Powell responded to the bull$hit being spread by DICK & Boss Limbaugh. The GOP needs to keep losing to get desperate; I don’t have a problem with that. Do y’all?! ;D
WPITW – Gov. A$$hat in Texas has an assistant that equated "changing GOP principles" to a whorehouse. Is this guy a write - and/or – talk – what – you - know kind of person? BillO & Boss Limbaugh were called out by Michael Savage – the guy who can’t go to England anymore?! EEEKKK. Glenn Beck was filleted by mere woman on The View today! OMG that was a thing of beauty. I still refuse to watch The View, but that was nice!
#1 "WTF!?! Moment" - Damn Keith that was quite a string of adjectives you put together in the intro! Boss Limbaugh doesn’t want MSNBC to mention him for 30 days. Oh, MSNBC mentions Boss Limbaugh because they’re struggling. GOTCHA [insert Grandma Gov. TurkeyLover wink here]! And, we got background music tonight! Oh Keith, that multiplication of THE video is just cruel, and if you don’t get THAT out of the corner... AAAAAaaaaaaaUUUUUUUUuuuuuuGGGGGGGGgggggggHHHHHHHhhhhhhh *&^%$#@!