This song is becoming more meaningful to me by the day.
Let's add some pre - weekend SPARK to our lives! :) How well do big kitties & wolverines get along? School kids on Long Island might be forced to give up their lunch money to ...uh...well... The "City of Brotherly Love" can now be known for something else besides cheese steak sandwiches. Finally, SQUIRREL!
On with The Rachel Maddow Show...
"'The Seriousness That It Deserves'" - Ugh...I DID NOT need to see those horrible pictures from Tucson. Let me guess; Mr. Zimmerman used a gun like what was used in Tucson or a magazine. If this story raises my blood pressure too much, I'm bailing. Y'all know how I am about guns & the NRA. I KNEW no significant change in gun laws would be down the pike even after the shooting in Tucson. Hell, the NRA still held some damn convention very near there not long after the shooting. Besides, too many Congress critters ON BOTH SIDES OF THE POLITICAL AISLE are too beholden to the NRA to make waves on gun laws. The "Show Me Your Papers" state has responded to what happened in one of its cities by letting folks pack heat on college campuses & lots of other places. Governor Brewer actually did veto those bills but decided her state needed an official gun. Hell, I don't have much room to talk on that subject; "my fair state" decided it needed an official state rifle. I $hit you not. And, there's IN right there on the national news again for its gun laws! *&^%$#@! Gun laws all over the country are LESS restrictive. An NRA lobbyist was standing over Jeb Bush like a vulture when he signed that "Stand Your Ground" ilk into law. A FL state Senator has said that there will be no review of "Stand Your Ground" in the FL state Senate. OK! Guess I can add FL to the list I wouldn't be caught alive or dead in! Bob Herbert's in studio to talk Trayvon Martin. He's hoping this administration will make sure that justice is done here. Newtie trashed President Obama on the Mannity's show for the comments made at the White House. Well, of course he did! Lots of "conservative" folk are twisting themselves around to ignore the race element in this horror. No, race is not THE ONLY thing, but it's certainly a factor.
"We've Got Your Back[Yard]" - We have an "exclusive" tag on this segment! A lady in Greensboro, NC drove around her neighborhood where a lot of foreclosures & suicides are happening. Wells Fargo owns the most recent house on the foreclosure market. She went to Occupy Greensboro to learn about the foreclosure crisis. As we know, some Occupy efforts are moving to prevent foreclosures & basically camp out in folks' houses to prevent them from being taken. Lots of people are ready to dive into county clerks' books to look over home ownership & mortgage documents. Ugh...that can't be fun! I think I'd rather gouge my eyes out than look through all that crap. The country Greensboro is in is now suing a bunch of big banks over mortgage & foreclosure shenanigans! 3 dozen foreclosures are now seriously in question. Lawsuits like this may pop up all over the country. So far, clerks have been losing, but these losings might not last long.
"Summit Time and the Livin's Uneasy" - President Obama's heading to South Korea for a big 'ol nuclear summit with a bunch of other world leaders concerning how the heck to get rid of loose nukes. All of the oogy nuclear material has said "adios" to Mexico as Rachel saw & told us the other night.
"What Goes Around UltraSound" - {in Wendy Whiner voice} But, I don't wanna go into Governor Ultrasound's head! LA's primary is tomorrow, and we'll get to see how well - or not - Mittens does in another southern state. Mittens winning VA kind of sort of doesn't count because it was just he & Rep. Paul on the primary ballot. President Obama's currently leading Mittens in VA by 8 points. Governor Ultrasound REALLY wants to be the #2 guy on the MENSA ticket - #2 in EVERY SENSE OF THE WORD. Putting him on the ticket does jack & poo as far as MENSA chances in VA at this point, and his approval ratings are in the terlet. Poor Governor Ultrasound's feeling picked on; well, have someone stick a vaginal ultrasound probe up his hindquarters to see if that makes him feel better! VA Dems want their Governor to set back funds to pay for these ultrasounds instead of the women having to do that. Mark Segraves is a VA radio host who gets blessed with Governor Ultrasound's presence on a regular basis - lucky guy! Governor Ultrasound supposedly told his all - MENSA state legislature to not get too arrogant about social issues. Well, he didn't have to sign the mothers into law! What an a$$ hat!!
"And He Can Dance" - Here's that creepy video tape of the potential World Bank dude again!