Tomorrow would've been George Carlin's 75th birthday {sigh}. The mincemeat he would've made of the likes of $aint $arah from Wasilla makes me miss him even more. :(
And, Happy Mother's Day in advance to all F.O.O. & FOKR Moms here & Moms everywhere in every way! :D
OOPS! Sorry...wrong picture...I meant this picture. ;D
It's time for "this day in history." On May 11, 1973, charges against Daniel Ellsberg for his role in the Pentagon Papers case were dismissed by Judge William M. Byrne, who cited government misconduct. What? Government misconduct in the Nixon administration?! And, happy happy happy happy HAPPY 85TH BIRTHDAY to Mort Sahl! :D Lenny Bruce once said that Mort Sahl made him laugh his a$$ off - high praise indeed!
Let's add SPARK to our Friday night! :D Y'all know anyone with a June 16th birthday? Better check their Anti - Christ potential. The Animal Conspiracy Theory is alive & well! I guess I better cancel that poker tournament I'd planned for the next retreat at the Zen Center where I teach & practice. Finally, if you've not seen the movie 2012 & are panicking because you don't know what to do when the world ends on December 21st, panic no more!
On with The Rachel Maddow Show...
"Public Policy Clearinghouse Sweepstakes" - Michael Moore...oh goody. But, we begin the show with a gas pump education about pollution. Gas tanks in cars have also been rebuilt & redesigned to help take care of the problem, so that black plastic thing on gas pumps will go buh - bye. Mittens is for the black plastic thing? He's been ragging on this administration claiming that regulations are now out of control, so this administration is getting rid of a regulation, so Mittens will come up with a reason to rag on that. President Obama has actually created LESS regulations in his first 3 years than GWB did in his first 3 years. OOPS! Hey, I remember that stimulus shtick! Does anyone else remember that stimulus shtick? ;D We all got a check...that we had to declare as income in the following year's taxes. Most folk deposited those checks & didn't spend all the money - kind of like what corporations do! "Low key stimulus" works better for the economy. We might get Obamacare checks?! OK! The individual components of HCR are very popular, but when you ASK folks about HCR in general, they poo poo it. Health insurance companies now HAVE TO use 80% of premiums for actual health care. Companies that have been wasting your money have to give you a check! HA!! Governor Ed Rendell gets "Check please!" duty. :D Dems were bad at spinning the good stuff about HCR & the stim before the MENSA folk had a chance to rag on them. I could get a cuddly kangaroo, too?? SWEET! ;D President Obama & his peeps now need to be calling Mittens on his regulation fibs.
"Pomp and Circumspect" - Mittens is giving the commencement at Liberty University tomorrow. Those folk let a {insert hushed tone here} Mormon talk at Jerry Falwell's place?! Is there lightening in the forecast in the area for tomorrow??!! Mr. Etch a Sketch Fehrnstrom dude outed a transgendered government employee, and she promptly lost her job. So, it looks like I get to dig up my favorite Bill Maher "New Rule" again! :D Ugh...we got to hear Mr. Falwell blame a whole host of folk for the 9/11 attacks. Yea...absolutely gotta dig up that "New Rule" again. ;D Liberty University has no CPAC representation nor a Dem organization on campus. It's charter - type school will not admit gay students nor hire gay teachers.
"The Landmark is Your Landmark" - The federal government owns a $hitload of ID, so Man on Dog wanted to sell it for cheap & give a pittance to the ID residents. Rachel, DO NOT MAKE ME visualize President Man on Dog!!! *&^%$#@! After being POTUS, he'd go into business with the person(s) who own ID. This is the exact scenario of what happened to the Pontiac Silverdome - where the Lions used to play. It cost $55 million to build the thing; it sold to a Canadian real estate mogul for $500K. Now, you might get to play black jack there with the place being owned BY the former emergency manager & the dude he sold it to. Convenient! Me thinks this segment's the preview for Michael Moore. Eek, I don't know if I can stomach him; I know things suck donkey droppings in MI. I don't need Michael Moore bluster to tell me. So, feel free to fill in details in the comments with my apologies.