These days, you take sanity where you can find it
So I’m driving on an errand and listening to the Braves pre-game show, and an ad comes on featuring … crazy Glenn Beck.
He starts talking about how scary the world is these days, then launches into a sermon about the importance of having health insurance from Coventry Health Insurance and warning that nobody should ever risk going without health coverage and you better call them now or else. Glenn Beck of all people.
And I’m thinking, OK, the world is now officially doomed.
I do my errand, get back in the car and drive home, just in time to hear some woman butchering the national anthem on the radio. I hate that. And then Chip Carey comes on afterward and says, “That was S—- M—–, screaming the national anthem.”
I laughed out loud, and sanity was returned to my world. I do miss the late Skip Carey. I miss his sardonic sense of humor. But Chip may be a chip off the old block. Thanks, Chip.
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Gred Mendel
August 27th, 2009
8:13 pm
And Glenn beck dares call himself an idiot. What a moron.
Ray
August 27th, 2009
8:25 pm
Beck is an insult to idiots.
TnGelding
August 27th, 2009
8:35 pm
The Careys were a national treasure.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fo9fEADUqPs&feature=related
Beck will be off the air by the end of the year.
I’m starting to feel right at home in this insane world.
md
August 27th, 2009
8:50 pm
Tn,
Beck may be a flake, but his numbers won’t have him “off the air by the end of the year”.
Last nights #’s:
The O’Reilly Factor – 3,303,000 viewers (876,000) (1,468,000)
Glenn Beck – 3,040,000 viewers (888,000) (1,385,000)
Hannity – 2,592,000 viewers (752,000) (1,158,000)
On The Record w/ Greta Van Susteren—2,104,000 viewers (577,000) (985,000)
Special Report with Bret Baier– 2,067,000 viewers (463,000) (881,000)
Fox Report w/Shep Smith–1,590,000 viewers (454,000) (729,000)
Larry King Live—1,182,000 viewers (299,000) (473,000)
Hardball w Chris Matthews—1,123,000 viewers (381,000) (583,000)
Countdown w/ K. Olbermann– 1,091,000 viewers (320,000) (504,000)
josef nix
August 27th, 2009
8:52 pm
md–question, though, how many of those are viewers like me, who channel surf ‘em all?
TnGelding
August 27th, 2009
9:04 pm
md
August 27th, 2009
8:50 pm
He’ll be under Obama/Kennedy/Care.
Angry Black Man
August 27th, 2009
9:04 pm
I’ll watch Glenn Beck once he’s on the Military Channel or Nat Geo. Programs on those two channels dwarf anything put out by Fox, CNN, ABC, MSNBC, or any other alphabet channel.
DoggoneGA
August 27th, 2009
9:08 pm
“Beck may be a flake, but his numbers won’t have him “off the air by the end of the year”.”
Numbers won’t matter if they can’t find any advertisers to pay the bills. Remember, advertisers pay for the audience…but if the hosts message is offensive enough, they may decide they don’t need THAT audience. Last count I saw was 36 advertisers have turned thumbs down on his show.
RB from Gwinnett
August 27th, 2009
9:09 pm
Hey ABM, what do you think of the “mayor memo”?
josef nix
August 27th, 2009
9:11 pm
ABM–couldn’t agree more! And know what, mos folks would be shocked to know just how many of our little ones tune in.
j$
August 27th, 2009
9:11 pm
TBS is advertising the Obama Chia Pet.
Get ‘em while they’re hot.
md
August 27th, 2009
9:16 pm
“Numbers won’t matter if they can’t find any advertisers to pay the bills. Remember, advertisers pay for the audience…but if the hosts message is offensive enough, they may decide they don’t need THAT audience. Last count I saw was 36 advertisers have turned thumbs down on his show.”
With those kind of numbers, I would bet Murdoch would fund it himself if need be.
md
August 27th, 2009
9:17 pm
Jo,
Good question. You may be in several of the rows. May even be like the SAT’s.
md
August 27th, 2009
9:19 pm
And Beck’s show isn’t even in “prime” time.
Angry Black Man
August 27th, 2009
9:21 pm
RB
That mayor memo is a crock of $hit! Well at least for me it is. I’ll be invited to join the Klan before I vote on someone based only on skin color. But the sad part is, people buy into that line of thinking.
rcs
August 27th, 2009
9:27 pm
hey josef, how’ve you been doing?
RW-(the original)
August 27th, 2009
9:28 pm
I laughed out loud, and sanity was returned to my world. I do miss the late Skip Carey. I miss his sardonic sense of humor. But Chip may be a chip off the old block. Thanks, Chip.
Mostly agreed but Chip’s baseball knowledge would fit in the discarded shell of a sunflower seed.
Finn McCool
August 27th, 2009
9:41 pm
i don’t know, I’ve heard chip make some pretty inane remarks.
Ray
August 27th, 2009
9:43 pm
Are FOX’s numbers so high because rightwingers don’t read books?
josef nix
August 27th, 2009
9:44 pm
rcs–fine, thank you kindly. Thanks for the kind thoughts during my time on Dante’s Fifth Circle.
md–I belong to the world!
ABM–would that more couldn’t see that. Back during the campaign I p**sed off a lot of my co-workers who were gah-gahing over Obama by reminding them that I was gay and was not about to vote for him. I was immediately deemed a closet racist. My partner in twit joined in: “now you just hold on a minute, Josef. We’re from the same generation. Who would have ever thought we’d have a black man running and being taking seriously as a candidate? And we can vote against him!”
Dave R.
August 27th, 2009
9:49 pm
I heard that even Fox & Friends in the a.m. beat that blowhard Olbermann the other day in the ratings.
Beck can be really over the top sometimes, but he’s asking some very interesting questions lately on the backgrounds and lack of qualifications of the many Hope & Change czars.
And Jay, in case you missed it, Beck is simply pointing out that there is a private, free market solution to not having affordable health care; you know – one that doesn’t require the government?
Angry Black Man
August 27th, 2009
9:50 pm
Josef,
I didn’t take him seriously as a candidate at first. I saw him as another in the long line of snake-oil salesmen whom we’ve had pushed upon us as candidates. It sounds good to make all those promises knowing you can’t deliver half of them. Most people fail to understand this part of our political process.
Class of '98
August 27th, 2009
9:51 pm
If the ratings are high enough, the sponsors won’t go anywhere.
Capitalism is a BEAUTIFUL thing.
Kayaker 71
August 27th, 2009
9:56 pm
Have you listened to what Beck has to say? Probably not… he’s just some right wing kook who doesn’t get it. But he has been asking a lot of questions this week that I would like to have some answers for. And the White House and no one else has challenged his allegations, not once. He continues to be very high in the ratings for TV watchers, his book is No 1 on the Best Seller list and he has a very loyal viewing audience that is very large.
Look up Van Jones, Bozo’s Green Jobs czar. He has a pretty checkered history… sort of a Angela Davis lookalike. Jail time, inarticulate answers to questions about what his role in the White House is. He has been allocated nearly 1/2 TRILLON dollars from the government to the Apollo Alliance, which he helped found. Green Jobs and energy reform is what the website says but there is a lot more to that organization that demands taxpayer oversight. And he is at Bozo’s side… he is a “you know”, “know what I’m sayin”, barely articulate (when you watch the tapes) sorry excuse for someone in his position and he is spending our money… a lot of it. Just one of a number of people who surround our leader with less than good intentions for our country. Beck is not the enemy, libs, not by a long shot.
md
August 27th, 2009
9:58 pm
” It sounds good to make all those promises knowing you can’t deliver half of them. Most people fail to understand this part of our political process”
That statement belongs in the last thread for all the “stupid” people.
Sad, isn’t it.
Pokey
August 27th, 2009
10:01 pm
So Beck is some kind of hypocrite for suggesting that one should own private health insurance?
JB, your hatred for those that don’t share your world view frequently blinds you to the absurdity and idiocy of your “insights”. You apparently possess no self-awareness.
I am amazed at how willing so many are to cede their health insurance to the government. It is stunning really, particularly since the advocates of “universal healthcare” are so dishonest about the content and implications of the legislation. Strange world we live in when Barney Frank is the most honest advocate about what this “reform” effort really means.
Dave R.
August 27th, 2009
10:01 pm
And does anyone else on this blog find it ironic as all get-out that Jay is thinking he’s capable of figuring out what is sanity and what is not?
And you know your losing your base when Democrat apologist Kirsten Powers lays into Hope & Change for not supporting tort reform and not being bipartisan, as she did on Special Report tonight.
DoggoneGA
August 27th, 2009
10:02 pm
“If the ratings are high enough, the sponsors won’t go anywhere”
Which…of COURSE…explains why he’s lost 36 advertisers so far. Yeah, great logic there.
Angry Black Man
August 27th, 2009
10:04 pm
md
All politicians do it regardless of party affiliation. I view politicians as a means to an end. It kinda makes it easy to make choices when you do that. It’s worked well for the lobby industry, so why should it be any different for me? I try to ignore the promises and pay attention to where the money is coming from. Once you find the source of the money, then you find the power and agenda.
DoggoneGA
August 27th, 2009
10:07 pm
“I am amazed at how willing so many are to cede their health insurance to the government”
I’m sure you are…especially in light of the fact that no one has proposed any such thing.
josef nix
August 27th, 2009
10:11 pm
ABM and MD–I take pride in knowing that I come from a country where a candidate of an oppressed 12% minority can achieve the highest office in the land AND prove to be the equal of anyone else in being…well, let’s just say, a typical politico…and, really, that IS progress…
RW-(the original)
August 27th, 2009
10:15 pm
Which…of COURSE…explains why he’s lost 36 advertisers so far. Yeah, great logic there.
DoggoneGA,
You do realize Beck only has a one hour show don’t you? If he had 36 sponsors he’d have a 12 second show. Maybe a minute and a half if you staggered them through the week.
AmVet
August 27th, 2009
10:16 pm
Granted they are dying off faster than the earth’s rain forests but there are still quite a few of these gullible dupes and flat-earth fops in the lunatic fringe these days.
The same myopic maladroits who thought George Bush et al were paragons of American conservationism! And who were intentionally misled into beleiving Saddam was in cahoots with al Queda. Among innuyerable other obvious deceptions and prevarications.
And yet the lockstep Party of No fell for it all!
So to think that Glenn Beck, or any of his equally vapid and vacuous cousins on TV or radio, are a source of credible information is pretty laughable in and of itself.
But clearly this one is very confused.
Is he a funny guy?
Is he a straight man?
Is he for real?
Just another darling of Tard TV…
Angry Black Man
August 27th, 2009
10:16 pm
I have a question that’s been on my mind. Throughout the whole health care argument, people always make reference to the free market. At the same time insurance companies are shelling out benjamins to lobby congress to change, weaken, kill, (or whatever verb you wish to put there) the legislation. My question is, if the free market is the means to an end, why aren’t the insurance companies themselves making changes to their policies to insure more or bring down costs?
josef nix
August 27th, 2009
10:20 pm
Pokey:
“JB, your hatred for those that don’t share your world view frequently blinds you to the absurdity and idiocy of your “insights”. You apparently possess no self-awareness.”
I’ve got my own “issues” with Jay and have no problem with a swipe or two at him when it comes to certain blind spots, but he does not “hate” those who do not share his world view and that’s unfair. Of the many things I might call him, hateful is not one of them.
Angry Black Man
August 27th, 2009
10:24 pm
Josef
Pride indeed. Now Shhhhh!!! You’re gonna let our secret out. Other than the additional melanin and hair texture, we’re not vastly different from our oppressors. I tend to think we’re somewhat genetically superior in some areas, but that would touch off a firestorm for sure here. We’d have to discuss that in private.
Pokey
August 27th, 2009
10:24 pm
Doggone,
You are kidding right?? Have you read ANY of the legislation? That is not even a debatable point.
To quote Barney Frank, “What planet do you live on?”
RW-(the original)
August 27th, 2009
10:25 pm
ABM,
Mostly because of government coverage mandates, government interference with competition crossing state lines, and government’s refusal to reign in the trial lawyers that hold a gun to the docs head to make them run every test in the book whether needed or not.
The biggest boondoggle is employer based coverage and once again that came about because of government interference. After a while you start to wonder how long people can turn to government to “fix” the problems they create.
josef nix
August 27th, 2009
10:27 pm
AmVet–there you go again! What you got against the flat earthers?
“Is he a straight man?”
Ooo, you didn’t say that!! The Unmentionable says of him, “Girlfriend, rest!” Kinda reminds you a bit of Jedgar, don’t it!
Dusty
August 27th, 2009
10:28 pm
Well, I see there is still hope for Bookman. He was listening to the start of the Braves game. THE BRAVES GAME!!!!!
And in case you laggards are not keeping up, Padres are a big fat zero and Braves are NINE. and LaRoche homered in the sixth.. Oh the excitement, the exhileration, the elation!!!
As to Skip, I still have my neat little paper fan that says “I’m a Skip & Pete Fan”.. Got it a couple of summers ago at Turner Field. Yes, I miss Skip.
PS to DebbieDoRight. Anybody finding pleasure in the study of TAXES should surely find excitement in a baseball game. Studying taxes would be like slow death while baseball, ahhhh..the ambrosia of sports and pleasure!
DoggoneGA
August 27th, 2009
10:30 pm
“If he had 36 sponsors he’d have a 12 second show. Maybe a minute and a half if you staggered them through the week.”
What’s your math on that one? And you DO realize that not all sponsers advertise every day, don’t you? DON’T you?
AmVet
August 27th, 2009
10:30 pm
In this lifelong baseball fan’s opinion, that 9:28 is nonsense.
I grew up listening to Jack Buck and Harry Carey doing Cardinal games on AM radio.
And I adored Skip Carey as the de facto voice of the Braves for decades.
And though Chip is not in their league yet, he is more than respectable.
He shares his forebears keen sense of observation and wit. And has a wealth of knowledge about the history and nuances of the game.
And though a tad dry, he is infinitely preferable to the arrogance of a Don Sutton or a John Sterling or the bush league homerism of a Hawk Harrelson.
He will undoubtedly become another great Carey baseball man…
AmVet
August 27th, 2009
10:32 pm
josef!
Now I will forever have to make some sort of left-handed explanation about straight men in comedy.
Thanks for ruining it for me!
Just kidding…
RW-(the original)
August 27th, 2009
10:32 pm
And you DO realize that not all sponsers (sic) advertise every day, don’t you? DON’T you?
Why yes I do and you were even kind enough to include that evidence in your excerpt of my comment. Good job!
josef nix
August 27th, 2009
10:33 pm
ABM–Firestorm–aw, why not? Had a boyfriend once with, uh, more melanin, who was questioned what he was doing with “that white jewboy.” He just said, “well there’s a dead (you know who) in the woodpile somewhere and it comes out where it counts!” BTW–how private?
DoggoneGA
August 27th, 2009
10:34 pm
“My question is, if the free market is the means to an end, why aren’t the insurance companies themselves making changes to their policies to insure more or bring down costs?”
Because at the moment they have a lock on the market. There’s no viable, real, competition for them. They’re a lot like those “home loan” sites that offer you multiple quotes on mortgage financing. But what they don’t tell you is that banks use more or less the same forumla to calculate how much interest they will offer on a particular kind of home.
I tried one, once, and got 5 offers – all with IDENTICAL interest rates. Yeah, now THAT’s competition alright.
Dave R.
August 27th, 2009
10:34 pm
Doggone, and when 36 sponsors (not sure you’re right about that, though) drop off, 36 more are waiting in the wings. Beck will be on the air longer than Hope & Change will be President.
DoggoneGA
August 27th, 2009
10:36 pm
“Why yes I do and you were even kind enough to include that evidence in your excerpt of my comment. Good job!”
But I notice you didn’t include your math that led you to conclude he would only have a 12 second show if he had lost that many advertisers. Oversight on your part, I’m sure.
DoggoneGA
August 27th, 2009
10:37 pm
“You are kidding right?? Have you read ANY of the legislation? That is not even a debatable point”
So quote chapter and verse where the current, proposed, legislation requires us to give up our insurance to the government. I’m sure you can put your finger on it just like THAT!
DoggoneGA
August 27th, 2009
10:39 pm
“Doggone, and when 36 sponsors (not sure you’re right about that, though) drop off, 36 more are waiting in the wings. Beck will be on the air longer than Hope & Change will be President”
And your point is? He’s still lost 36 advertisers as of last reporting.
Pokey
August 27th, 2009
10:40 pm
Doggone,
I don’t have time to explain it to you…ever heard of government mandates? Can you buy insurance from other states? Why not?, etc, etc, etc. Do some research!
Busy body politicians,special interests and gov’t bureaucrats have created countless obstacles to the free market.
RW-(the original)
August 27th, 2009
10:41 pm
And though a tad dry, he is infinitely preferable to the arrogance of a Don Sutton or a John Sterling or the bush league homerism of a Hawk Harrelson.
Mostly agreed with the exception that Don Sutton knows the game infinitely better than most announcers but he just becomes boring through repetition much like the cartoonish Tim McCarver.
It would appear that the 10:30 is nonsense in that it tries to equate announcer performance with baseball knowledge. That’s not unreasonable in that the 10:30 was obviously an observer and not a participant.
Angry Black Man
August 27th, 2009
10:43 pm
Thanks RW
I didn’t approach my thinking from the regulation standpoint. I keep my thinking simple. I’m no expert on the health industry, so I leave the deep stuff to the pros. It seems to me that if a non-profit insurance provider could enter the market without being run off or bought out by the big guys, that could be the start of the answer for providing affordable insurance. Let those who buy into the insurance become the shareholders. The profits that companies would strive for could be used as cost savings for the plan. That’s what I was thinking, if I make any sense at all.
DoggoneGA
August 27th, 2009
10:43 pm
“I don’t have time to explain it to you…ever heard of government mandates?”
But are those mandates actually in the proposed legislation? Or is this something more like the “death panels” baloney. And why would I want to buy insurance from another state? Insurance is insurance, who cares where the home office is located?
Pokey
August 27th, 2009
10:44 pm
So you are saying you haven’t read it, Doggone?
Yes/No question for you…if the House legislation becomes law and you lose your job, will you be able to purchase a private health insurance policy without violating the law?
DoggoneGA
August 27th, 2009
10:46 pm
“That’s what I was thinking, if I make any sense at all.”
Sure it makes sense, but without “seed” money it’s not happening. In our oh, so regulated market you can’t just set up a shop front and start selling insurance. I’m sure the “free marketers” just DEPLORE it, but you actually have to be able to cover a certain percentage of possible future claims in order to sell insurance. Because if you don’t “all” you have is a Ponzi scheme.
RW-(the original)
August 27th, 2009
10:46 pm
But I notice you didn’t include your math that led you to conclude he would only have a 12 second show if he had lost that many advertisers
Now, now DoggoneGA, you’re going the way all you moonbats go in these discussions and some people know that if they scroll up the old words are still there.
I clearly said if he was trying to pack all these sponsors into a show he would have less time for him. Tsk tsk….where’s USinUK? Isn’t it her turn to buy breakfast?
Pokey
August 27th, 2009
10:50 pm
Doggone,
I give up…you are embarrassing yourself with you ignorance of the basic terms, issues, etc of the debate,
I am addressing your question about the free market and why it is not allowed to work…state mandates, lack of interstate competition, etc.
I wasn’t referring to mandates within the current plans but yes they are there galore.
Stop repeating cliches and talking points and do some research.
wet wiccan
August 27th, 2009
10:50 pm
Seriously, I think Glenn Beck needs help. He reminds me of that character Howard Beale in the movie Network who had a complete meltdown on camera. And the ratings were great . . .
Angry Black Man
August 27th, 2009
10:51 pm
Josef
Well, when you factor in the manner of most of our arrival to the new world, the weaker people didn’t survive. Then add in the condition of servitude that was endured. Plus, we were bred to be big strong cotton bale toting bucks that would breed other big strong cotton bale toting bucks. Those who were on the weaker end were not used as “breeders”. Over the course of several generations, that whole breed out the bad genes and enhance the good genes kinda replicates until you have a physically superior person, capable of superior strength and endurance when properly trained. Look at the majority of athletes in basketball, football, track & field… and you kinda see my line of thinking, right?
josef nix
August 27th, 2009
10:52 pm
RW–
“Tsk tsk….where’s USinUK? Isn’t it her turn to buy breakfast?”
While I certainly enjoy the evening’s company, I miss not having time to spend with her…one of my favorite jousting partners with a really wicked sense of humor (or is that humOUr?)
RW-(the original)
August 27th, 2009
10:53 pm
ABM,
It makes as much sense as anything else in this debate. It seems to me when you want to solve a complex problem where nobody knows all the variables is to start where there’s common ground. DB the hillbilly ragger decibel guy or whatever his name is these days and I couldn’t be more opposed on a solution but we both agree that employer based coverage is a main source of trouble. If a consensus could coalesce around that being the biggest problem then it seems we could work together to get that part solved first. Unfortunately our government wants to look at their partisan end games and map a strategy to reach them. Probably a great idea in a war but not so much in domestic policy.
RW-(the original)
August 27th, 2009
10:54 pm
(or is that humOUr?)
josef,
I think that’s only when she becomes UKinUS.
Dave R.
August 27th, 2009
10:56 pm
Doggone, my point is that boycotts don’t work. For every person / company that drops off, there are many more to take their place, and gladly do so.
That you even think this is important is astounding to me.
Angry Black Man
August 27th, 2009
10:56 pm
DoggoneGA
Wouldn’t that be the way a co-op would function?
AmVet
August 27th, 2009
10:57 pm
I concur that McCarver is insufferable. As is Joe Morgan generally.
Almost surprisingly I find Ron Gant very enjoyable as a “color” (DO NOT go there!) post-game analyst. Well spoken and highly informative.
But I stand by my original assertion that this “observation” that “Chip’s baseball knowledge would fit in the discarded shell of a sunflower seed.” is just an unsupportable opinion. (As is mine.)
Unless there is some vast well-documented “Chip Carey does not know baseball” web site I’m unaware of!
Dusty
August 27th, 2009
11:01 pm
Now Folks,” All’s well that ends well” and this was swell The Braves had a 9-1 WIN!!!
So, good night and sleep well and may the good Lord watch over each one of you.
RW-(the original)
August 27th, 2009
11:02 pm
I concur that McCarver is insufferable. As is Joe Morgan generally.
SEE! Common ground abounds tonight.
Chip has a great voice and the lineage to keep him around long enough to learn the game, but he really needs to learn that something being fisted to left isn’t always the best way to reference a soft single.
/Odds on the getting through moderation on the first try?
josef nix
August 27th, 2009
11:03 pm
ABM–not a topic most are comfortable with, but it is the reality whether we want to talk about it or not. People get mad at me when I use the term “culture and breeding” particularly in relation to those of us from Uncle Sam’s Oldest Colony. We Jews are the products of generations of “intellectualism.” Whenever I try to explain why it is so necessary for the black American to put emphasis on the scientific achievements of their “race,” folks miss that I say it’s the equivalent of Jews needing to take pride in a Sandy Koufax or a Mark Spitz. How can “they” ever understand that, political ideologies aside, Ariel Sharon is a hero to me?
RW-(the original)
August 27th, 2009
11:04 pm
WOW! It made it through
AmVet,
I went into snark mode before reading the Ron Gant bit. Ron is decent doing pre/post game but he’s outstanding doing the analyst role during a live broadcast.
md
August 27th, 2009
11:09 pm
abm,
Your 10:51 got Jimmy the Greek fired.
Angry Black Man
August 27th, 2009
11:11 pm
Josef
I’ve never thought about the Jewish culture like that, but that’s it. Like it or hate it. That’s why I personally tried to exceed in school with academics as opposed to sports. I think I did ok. BS Cum Laude in Mathematics and a honor student from K thru college. I just hope I can pass that on to the ABD.
Angry Black Man
August 27th, 2009
11:13 pm
md
And that was wrong for him to get fired for that. Sometimes people need to get off the PC wagon and open their eyes to the truth. A message like that has to be delivered with great care. You just can’t blast off a message like that. People are not ready to face that. It would mean that we’d have to come to grips with our past.
RW-(the original)
August 27th, 2009
11:15 pm
For once Jay B is a trendsetter. Chelsea Lately is doing a segment right now on that hideous chicken thing we had down below.
md
August 27th, 2009
11:16 pm
abm,
It is what it is – right?
As for PC – the undoing of a once great nation. We all have to talk in code and nobody knows the language.
Angry Black Man
August 27th, 2009
11:19 pm
md
“It is what it is – right?”
That about sums it up. Can’t agree with you more on the PC statement too.
josef nix
August 27th, 2009
11:24 pm
ABM–I trust you will understand what I’m saying here. You say “I never thought of the Jewish culture like that, but that’s it.” There’s really no reason you should. Most people don’t, just as they don’t think about your “big black buck” angst. I understand why my brothers were so driven to excel in sports, their pride NOT in their academic scholarships, but their athletic ones. You will be able to pass that on the ABD. She’s got a good role model (well, let me correct that, I am certain that ABW is your equal if not superior in that!). You can imagine what the Unmentionable and I had to do to make certain that our little Indians grew up secure in who they are and where they came from, aware of the prejudices and stereotypes and knowing that just because they had to challenge them at every turn, they would come through it the stronger.
josef nix
August 27th, 2009
11:32 pm
md
“As for PC – the undoing of a once great nation. We all have to talk in code and nobody knows the language.”
Which is what ticked me off so much about Jay and the Moderator. We have reached a level of public censorship which makes it impossible to discuss very real issues. We no longer can have a dialogue because we are trapped into the pc monologue, with my “side” right and your “side” wrong. The idea that both may be right, or both may be wrong, verboten to the discusssion.
Angry Black Man
August 27th, 2009
11:35 pm
Josef
The ABW calls me her “brain”. When we first started dating, she’d be amazed at me watching Jeopardy. I’d give most of the questions without a second thought. She’s smart in her own right though. I’d be lost without her. The ABD’s gonna be a bright one. She’s already emulating everything I do. She even knows how to do the tomahawk chop (I’m a diehard lifetime Braves fan). Just let the Unmentionable One know we mean no disrespect when we do it, and we don’t mean to offend.
josef nix
August 27th, 2009
11:39 pm
ABW–the Unmentionable is a die-hard Braves fan who’d put Dusty to shame! He chops! He really got bent out of shape (a rarity for him) when folks started in on the “name change” for mascots–”h*ll, now they want to take the one place we get some respect away from us!”
RW-(the original)
August 27th, 2009
11:40 pm
You can imagine what the Unmentionable and I had to do to make certain that our little Indians grew up secure in who they are and where they came from, aware of the prejudices and stereotypes and knowing that just because they had to challenge them at every turn, they would come through it the stronger.
josef,
Not trying to equate things in terms of groupings etc that you and ABM are discussing but your comment zapped me like a taser. I raised my two children as a single father. In the third grade my daughter was told in no uncertain terms that she would flunk the assignment if she refused to make a Mother’s Day card. Being the calculating sort she decided to comply. I received the most beautiful Happy Mother’s Day Dad card anyone could imagine and she got by that one.
Angry Black Man
August 27th, 2009
11:46 pm
Josef
I go back to when Fulton Co had the plexiglass fence in the outfield. He’s probably older than I am and can go further back. I endured the 80’s and the powder blue pull-over uniforms too. My late grandfather would not miss a game if it was on tv. Got to take him to Fulton Co once. He said it was too noisy for him. I think he missed hearing Skip, Pete, and Ernie too. The ABD even has a foam tomahawk.
RW
Sounds like you have a smart little angel. All it takes is good parenting. Something that is sorely needed today.
josef nix
August 27th, 2009
11:53 pm
RW–not to worry! Another country heard from! Folks right and left go carping about men who “don’t take responsibility” and then when they do, make their lives as difficult as possible. It never ceases to amaze me at how little people know what goes into being a single dad. It’s as if they are from another planet. On the cards, every year at Mother’s Day the Unmentionable and I still get cards from ours, with the “o” in Happy Mother’s Day x’d out and a “u” inked in!
TnGelding
August 27th, 2009
11:53 pm
wet wiccan
August 27th, 2009
10:50 pm
That was my point, too.
josef nix
August 27th, 2009
11:56 pm
ABW–got one for you, the Unmentionable is also a big golf fan and a big Tiger Woods fan, “he’s Cherokee, you know!”
RW-(the original)
August 27th, 2009
11:56 pm
Sounds like you have a smart little angel.
ABM,
Thanks and I wondered myself about that for a few years, but she’s going on 30 now and it all turned out for the best.
Angry Black Man
August 27th, 2009
11:57 pm
Later all, the sandman cometh. And the ABD wakes up at 6:30 like clockwork and just enjoys her mornings with her daddy.
TnGelding
August 28th, 2009
12:04 am
Angry Black Man
August 27th, 2009
10:51 pm
I was going to ask if you were Jimmy the Greek reincarnated, but I see y’all already discussed him in a different context.
josef nix
August 28th, 2009
12:04 am
RW–the Unmentionable and I look at ours, grown now with children of their own, and smile knowing that we must have done something right.
josef nix
August 28th, 2009
12:05 am
Well, folks, I’ve truly enjoyed it, but it’s time for the land of counterpane in these parts, too…
electrician
August 28th, 2009
1:25 am
angry black man @10:51 jimmy the greek got fired for sayin that,the black men i have worked with for over 20 years are soft and pudgy, just like me…glory days will pass you by..bruce springsteen
electrician
August 28th, 2009
1:44 am
josef…counterpane?
TnGelding
August 28th, 2009
5:55 am
Refresh, please.
josef nix
August 28th, 2009
6:30 am
electrician–it’s from a poem my mother used to recite to us. She was a big fan of Robet Louis Stevenson. I recited it to my own kids and was pleased recently to hear Litt Bit reciting it to her little ones…
The Land of Counterpane
by Robert Louis Stevenson
When I was sick and lay a-bed,
I had two pillows at my head,
And all my toys beside me lay,
To keep me happy all the day.
And sometimes for an hour or so
I watched my leaden soldiers go,
With different uniforms and drills,
Among the bed-clothes, through the hills;
And sometimes sent my ships in fleets
All up and down among the sheets;
Or brought my trees and houses out,
And planted cities all about.
I was the giant great and still
That sits upon the pillow-hill,
And sees before him, dale and plain,
The pleasant land of counterpane.
Finn McCool
August 28th, 2009
6:31 am
Kayaker brought up book sales last night as a factor in how popular a writer is. I’d like to help permanently bust that bubble right now. I spent 6 years in the book industry and I know some of Barnes & Nobles book buyers in New York.
Book sales are determined by the number of intermediaries who buy the book – mostly book stores. The New York Times bestseller list has nothing to do with the number of “people” who actually buy the book and the much smaller number of people who actually “read” the book.
Many times these bookstore buyers get it wrong and that’s why you see the huge “Remainder” bins and “Bargain Book” sections at the book stores. They need to dump the stock.
Now you have to couple this information with the fact that Murdoch and the other right wing multi-millionaires buy up big chunks of these books to either give away or sell to subscribers at really low prices.
josef nix
August 28th, 2009
6:34 am
Okay, folks, now remember…be nice. It’s Friday and Jay’s had a rough week of it on playground duty…
I Report/ Vast White Wing Conspirator :-) You Whine :-(
August 28th, 2009
6:41 am
In metro Atlanta, an estimated 288,561 people are officially unemployed — up 60 percent in the past year. Not counted in that group is anyone who is working part-time, gone back to school or who has simply give up looking for a job.-Urinal
And to think, they pay more taxes than the people of North Fulton do.
Or at least according to some libs around here, they do.
mike
August 28th, 2009
6:41 am
Of course, Jay can’t post an article without taking a dig at a conservative.
Jay, don’t you understand that Beck’s mindless partisanship is matched by your own?
I Report/ Vast White Wing Conspirator :-) You Whine :-(
August 28th, 2009
6:50 am
It cannot be that Obama is inept, or that citizens have examined and rejected as unworkable the legislation Democrats have proposed. Rather, the liberal believes, there must be some right-wing bogeyman to blame. -AmSpec
People that can think and reason? Why how absurd!
Doggone/GA
August 28th, 2009
6:50 am
“if the House legislation becomes law and you lose your job, will you be able to purchase a private health insurance policy without violating the law?”
What does the law matter? If I lose my job I won’t be able to buy life insurance, period. Becuase I won’t be able to afford it. I couldn’t afford it the last time I lost my job, why should a hypothetical (I hope) future loss be any different?
Joey
August 28th, 2009
6:53 am
O.K. let’s agree that Beck is fringe, however, is he any more fringe than Keith Olbermann? No.
Another I do not care to watch is Hannity. But is Hannity any more partisan than Chris Matthews? Again no.
Maddow? O’Reilly?
Do any of these TV shows really contribute to our decision making?
For that matter does this blog add anything to the debate?
Each of us can ansewer that for themselves.
But Jay’s blog does provide entertainment.
And that tells a story about us all.
USinUK
August 28th, 2009
6:53 am
“Rather, the liberal believes, there must be some right-wing bogeyman to blame”
YEAH … and the right-wing never believes that GEORGE SOROS (or Barbara Streisand or Oprah or the EmmEssEmm) are to blame …
Whiner would be funny if he wasn’t so serious.
USinUK
August 28th, 2009
6:59 am
“however, is he any more fringe than Keith Olbermann?”
now, that’s funny …
I’m sorry, but while I’ve seen KO’s contempt, I’ve never seen him become a nutty-nut-nut like this guy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oumQl8neO6w
USinUK
August 28th, 2009
7:03 am
ah … here’s a better clip … http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rM4xqnukQrM
oh, no. he’s not fringey. nope. nuh-uh.
stands for decibels
August 28th, 2009
7:29 am
USinUK, I got about 42 seconds into that clip @ 7.03 and heard him bring up “the way we felt on 9/11.”
And I’m surprised nobody has brought up the most loathsome part of Beck’s act–this notion that we should be nostalgic for 9/11. He’s co-opted a common c. 2004 lefty criticism of Bush (i.e., “we had the sympathy of the world and you blew it, Chimpy…”) and turned it into something truly hideous and grotesque.
And some in here are jubilant that he has millions of gullible followers. Like that’s something human beings should be proud of.
Beck is, from my encounters with the unfiltered version of him (a few segments I’ve heard on my radio–I’ve never even tried to watch the TV version) clearly a mentally ill person. I understand he had a serious booze problem before he found the Book of Mormon, and while I’m not a psychologist that would seem to explain a lot of his utter off-this-planet weirdness.
But back to that clip–that music! that delivery! what a loon. What a ta-ra-ra-goon-de-yah.
Turd Ferguson
August 28th, 2009
7:36 am
Angry Black Man
August 27th, 2009
9:21 pm
RB
“That mayor memo is a crock of $hit! Well at least for me it is. I’ll be invited to join the Klan before I vote on someone based only on skin color. But the sad part is, people buy into that line of thinking.”
LOL…Im sure you do it every time you enter the voting booth.
stands for decibels
August 28th, 2009
7:38 am
while I’ve seen KO’s contempt
I guarantee you, most of the online righties who claim to know something of KO, don’t really have any unfiltered experience with the guy’s work.
He can be good sometimes. He can also fall into a comfort-zone groove, talking to the same group of friendly experts who will gladly follow him down any ol’ trail where he leads, who don’t challenge him, and it gets a bit tiresome sometimes. There were times, back when he was about the only TV person with any kind of commercial backing whatsoever who was even remotely critical of the Bush administration when I felt I really needed to check in and see what he was bringing to the forefront, but others have picked up that ball now and run with it (partly due to his efforts–certainly Rachel Maddow can be thankful for the exposure KO provided) and frankly they often do a better job.
I think KO needs to overhaul his format, work on new regular bits (do we have to have a Worst Person in the World every night?), politely tell his regular guests their services won’t be needed for a few months, that sort of thing. He needs to push himself.
and oh yeah, he isn’t all that left-wing. I’ve rarely heard him say a peep about workers’ rights (aside from a few snipes at Wal*Mart), nor much of anything else that would make his GE masters upset; certainly he hasn’t been framing the hideous healthcare “debate” properly, but rather focusing on food-fighty aspects of it.
stands for decibels
August 28th, 2009
7:40 am
Im sure you do it every time you enter the voting booth.
Speaking of voting, didn’t you claim you voted for Obama, “Lefty Lemonade”?
Talk to us about honesty, why don’t you.
Jeez.
Turd Ferguson
August 28th, 2009
7:44 am
Aww…cant take a joke eh?
Then again its no different from ACORN and their shenanigans.
Yankee
August 28th, 2009
7:45 am
Say what you want about Politicians BUT, YOU WILL NOT see the out-poring of LOVE like that shown for SENATOR KENNEDY for the likes of SAXBY or ISSAKSON when these two windbags croak here in Georgia.
USinUK
August 28th, 2009
7:48 am
dB –
“And I’m surprised nobody has brought up the most loathsome part of Beck’s act–this notion that we should be nostalgic for 9/11″
well, that just opens up a whole new conversation … the RWO (right-wing-outrage) about Obama declaring 9/11 as a national day of service.
http://spectator.org/archives/2009/08/24/obamas-plan-to-desecrate-911
a day of service is an “effort to reshape the American psyche has nothing to do with healing the nation and everything to do with easing the nation along in the ongoing radical transformation of America that President Obama promised during last year’s election campaign. The president signed into law a measure in April that designated Sept. 11 as a National Day of Service, but it’s not likely many lawmakers thought this meant that day was going to be turned into a celebration of ethanol, carbon emission controls, and radical community organizing.”
I mean … geez. let’s just ignore the wishes of the FAMILIES that lost a loved-one on 9/11:
“The idea of establishing 9/11 as a National Day of Service was first conceived in 2001 by the founders of MyGoodDeed, a nonprofit started by friends and relatives of 9/11 victims. They are working with ServiceNation, the National September 11 Memorial & Museum, the Corporation for National and Community Service, and New York Cares.”
but, no … 9/11 should be a day of RAGE … RAGE, I tell you, against the brown people that attacked us!!! oy.
Doggone/GA
August 28th, 2009
7:48 am
“Then again its no different from ACORN and their shenanigans”
You just can’t let go of the lies, can you?
priorityplumbinc
August 28th, 2009
7:51 am
Yankee- the outpouring of love for a murdering POS just shows how far the morals of this once great country have fallen. I just hope that worthless piece of garbage suffered half as much as his girlfriend did. How fitting that obambam will be giving the eulogy. One piece of human waste praising another, can’t miss TV.
Doggone/GA
August 28th, 2009
7:54 am
“shows how far the morals of this once great country have fallen”
And your rant just reinforces that fall.
GOP is gone
August 28th, 2009
7:55 am
Unfortunately Beck is not an idiot. He makes a lot of money creating boogie men for the real idiots to hate. He is a user of idiots to line his own pockets.
stands for decibels
August 28th, 2009
7:57 am
USinUK, I think (again) Atrios put it best:
It Was Their Day
It doesn’t really matter what Obama says about 9/11. He could declare it “kill a Muslim day” and they’d think it was insufficiently rage-filled. 9/11 has been the holiday for online conservatives. It was the day that gave them meaning. And they don’t think it’s theirs anymore, and they’re mad.
RW-(the original)
August 28th, 2009
7:58 am
Ah yes, good old KO. Had to love his rant the other day that his was the number 1 “news” program in all of cable television as long as you didn’t count shows on FNC. Somebody wrote that the Toronto Blue Jays were also the best team in major league baseball as long as you didn’t count the teams in the United States.
Joey
August 28th, 2009
7:59 am
But wait for outpouring of love for:
John Kerry, Harry Reid, Russ Feingold, Chris Dodd, Barbara Boxer, Bill Nelson, Dianne Feinstein, Hillary Clinton, Charles Shumer, Jon Corzine, Al Franken, and Arlen Specter.
midtown liberal jew fag
August 28th, 2009
8:01 am
I concur.
Turd Ferguson
August 28th, 2009
8:02 am
Beck is concerned with the systematic dismantling of the Obama debacle, OboboCare and destruction of Obama the Socialist. On these three points I cannot find fault with the man and only wish him the best in his endeavors.
stands for decibels
August 28th, 2009
8:03 am
priorityplumbinc @ 7.51, why do you think it is ok to lie like that about TK?
He did not commit “murder.” Setting aside whatever you think you would do if you had experienced the same kind of hellish accident he did in 1969 (you sure your instinct wouldn’t have been to escape the car and save yourself? ok…), his only clear lapse in legal judgement was in his failure to report the accident to authorities promptly. And nobody I know of has tried to excuse him for that.
And beyond that, it was forty years ago, the woman’s family forgave him and the voters of MA forgave him and elected him multiple times. Get over it. You don’t like hearing him eulogized? Suck it up and deal, just like we did when you guys were weeping over Saint Ronnie the Corporate Spokesmodel’s passing.
USinUK
August 28th, 2009
8:05 am
dB –
7:57 – sadly, I think he’s right. but, then, when you look at Man Coulter and her denigration of the 9/11 widows, they have never really had any affection for the people who actually DID lose people in the attack … this is and always has been about THEM and what THEY feel and THEIR rage and THEIR fear …
Turd Ferguson
August 28th, 2009
8:07 am
Yes…lettuce give praise to Kennedy…
The Murderer
The Adulterer
The Drunken Fool
The Womanizer
Of all the Kennedys, Teddy, is the one from which we expected the least yet received the best of the worst.
RW-(the original)
August 28th, 2009
8:08 am
It doesn’t really matter what Obama says about 9/11. He could declare it “kill a Muslim day” and they’d think it was insufficiently rage-filled. 9/11 has been the holiday for online conservatives. It was the day that gave them meaning. And they don’t think it’s theirs anymore, and they’re mad.
DB, ragger, decibel guy,
I guarantee what I’d like to say to you about that wouldn’t make it past the moderator so use your imagination. 9/11 was both a tragic day and a day of awakening to the world around us. I view it as a somber day of reflection as well as a reminder that we not only have to face the threats that exist but also have to try to heal the true rifts that exist and become partners in the world even if that means dragging a few people kicking and screaming into the 21st century.
One of the most idiotic knee jerk reactions I’ve seen since 9/11 came from a pretty strong coalition of the far right and the mainstream left to oppose the Dubai Ports World deal. It was basically an admission by those two groups that they would never accept Muslims as partners no matter what.
Kayaker 71
August 28th, 2009
8:09 am
Have any of you libs watched Beck this week? I challenge any of you to refute one thing that he has said on his show this week. Tell me where he has made a misstatement or told an untruth. The White House has not said one word, neither has anyone else on any network.
TnGelding
August 28th, 2009
8:09 am
mike
August 28th, 2009
6:41 am
Maybe Jay can produce and post a video showing himself crying over spilt milk.
USinUK
August 28th, 2009
8:10 am
RW –
but what are your opinions about remembering 9/11 with a national day of service?
Doggone/GA
August 28th, 2009
8:11 am
“become partners in the world even if that means dragging a few people kicking and screaming into the 21st century.”
21st century? Heck, they’re not even in the 20TH century yet.
midtown liberal jew fag
August 28th, 2009
8:11 am
http://www.cnbc.com/id/32581463
Turd Ferguson
August 28th, 2009
8:11 am
Ted Kennedy, William Kennedy Smith in Palm Beach getting drunk. Willy lands a rape charge and Teddy has to testify at a rape trial…LOL.
Just embarrasement after embarrassement for this stupid, drunken man.
Captain Underpants
August 28th, 2009
8:12 am
“Beck is concerned with the systematic dismantling of the Obama debacle, OboboCare and destruction of Obama the Socialist. On these three points I cannot find fault with the man and only wish him the best in his endeavors.”
“Rap on brutha…Rap on”
TnGelding
August 28th, 2009
8:13 am
I Report/ Vast White Wing Conspirator
You Whine 
August 28th, 2009
6:50 am
You have to admit, there aren’t that many of them around. We had another woman on Medicare AND Tricare get up at our THM and speak against the government takeover, which of course isn’t in H.R. 3200. Afterward, she also said there was a SS Trust Fund until the Democrats started spending it.
midtown liberal jew fag
August 28th, 2009
8:14 am
Beck has the best ratings period.
http://tvbythenumbers.com/2009/08/27/big-beck-goes-over-3-million-viewers-beats-oreilly-in-demo-cable-news-ratings-for-wednesday-august-26-2009/25541
And newspaper revenue is waaay down. I think Booktard is just jealous.
http://tvbythenumbers.com/2009/08/27/big-beck-goes-over-3-million-viewers-beats-oreilly-in-demo-cable-news-ratings-for-wednesday-august-26-2009/25541
Doggone/GA
August 28th, 2009
8:14 am
“Just embarrasement after embarrassement for this stupid, drunken man.”
“Let him who is without sin cast the first stone”
Turd Ferguson
August 28th, 2009
8:15 am
Is today not Teddys 2nd day in He-ll?
Satan and Teddy be singing…
Satan: “Its gettin hot in here so take of all yo clothes”
Teddy: “I am gettin so hot I wanna take my clothes off”
midtown liberal jew fag
August 28th, 2009
8:16 am
Here is the newspaper link. Booktard better have some savings.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Newspaper-slump-deepens-as-2Q-apf-2724721970.html?x=0&.v=6
RW-(the original)
August 28th, 2009
8:16 am
USinUK,
I don’t think anyone in government or private organization should co-opt 9/11 as a “National Day” of Anything. It’s a day that will always move any of us that lived through it in our own way and it should be reflected on individually. That doesn’t mean to rule out a community gathering to mark the time of the attacks, but it shouldn’t go beyond that.
Turd Ferguson
August 28th, 2009
8:18 am
“Let him who is without sin cast the first stone”
All you liberal lefties wanna trash the God, the Bible and scream Reps are Bible thumpers until its politically expediant to toss in a few quotes from the Bible.
LOL…all of ya just opportunists, bad sports, double talkers, cry-babys, doo-gooders and whiners…LOL.
Keep it coming Mama’s boy.
priorityplumbinc
August 28th, 2009
8:18 am
stands for idiot on your 8:03 am – I know in your al the bore fantasy world, any words spoken about a dumpocrap is either racist, hatrid or a lie but the reality is a true man would not be worried about saving his own a$$ and just let a woman die. That has to be the dumbest statement yet about that sorry excuse piece of dogsqueeze. ” The people of Ma. forgave him”. Who gives a rats a$$ what the people of Ma. forgave, the little worm of a man let a woman drown while he strolled home and dried off. That as a human being is unforgivable, no matter what party you belong to. Now, excuse while I obambam, shower and shave, got to go get ready to support my fair share of illegals, welfare brood mares, baggy pants punks, acorn workers and various other dumpocraps.
cool beans
August 28th, 2009
8:19 am
http://www.grouchyoldcripple.com/archives/kennedy_seuss.JPG
USinUK
August 28th, 2009
8:21 am
good grief … is Atlanta running low on lithium??? between plumber and mljf, we seem to have some people in SERIOUS need of their meds today …
Doggone/GA
August 28th, 2009
8:22 am
“Is today not Teddys 2nd day in He-ll?”
“Let him who is without sin cast the first stone”
Paul
August 28th, 2009
8:22 am
Enter your comments here
USinUK
August 28th, 2009
8:22 am
“All you liberal lefties wanna trash the God, the Bible and scream Reps are Bible thumpers until its politically expediant to toss in a few quotes from the Bible”
all you “christians” love to quote the bible in order to condemn someone else’s behavior until someone throws it back at you to hold a mirror up to yours …
Doggone/GA
August 28th, 2009
8:23 am
“All you liberal lefties wanna trash the God”
“Let him who is without sin cast the first stone”
Paul
August 28th, 2009
8:23 am
Kayaker 71
[[I challenge any of you to refute one thing that he has said on his show this week. ]]
We belittle the messenger. We do not address their ideas.
You’re welcome.
RW-(the original)
August 28th, 2009
8:24 am
TF,
What great entertainment the William Kennedy Smith trial was once TK started testifying.
ahh I had a drink and I ahh stumbled on them having consensual sex by the pool so I had the butler fix me another drink then ahh I stumbled on them having consensual sex on the beach so ahh I had the maid fix me a drink and I ahh stumbled on them having consensual sex in the car so I grabbed the keys and drove us to the bar while they ahh finished
Or something like that.
Doggone/GA
August 28th, 2009
8:24 am
“all you “christians” love to quote the bible in order to condemn someone else’s behavior until someone throws it back at you to hold a mirror up to yours”
And don’t they howl like a beaten dog when you do?
cool beans
August 28th, 2009
8:24 am
http://www.grouchyoldcripple.com/archives/priceless1.jpg
cool beans
August 28th, 2009
8:26 am
http://atrueobamanation.blogspot.com/2009/08/paging-dr-obama-dr-reid-dr-pelosi.html
RW-(the original)
August 28th, 2009
8:27 am
USinUK,
Be careful about reducing that name at 8:14 down to initials. I seriously misread what you were saying after confusing it with another similar 4 letter acronym.
Kayaker 71
August 28th, 2009
8:28 am
Paul,
So true.
lol
August 28th, 2009
8:28 am
http://tinyurl.com/lxk66m
Paul
August 28th, 2009
8:32 am
Democrats are correct. The recession is over.
Wealth is expanding and more people are making it to the ranks of the wealthy. None better exemplify this than Dem Rep Charles Rangel, head of the House’s tax-writing committee. In a very short time he saw his personal wealth double. Double. And the guy’s a millionaire (haven’t seen the exact numbers, no one has, but it’s an educated guess). Guy keeps finding money. Even found a checking account he forgot about with upwards of half a million in it.
And he did it all on a government salary. Is America great, or what?
http://www.nypost.com/seven/08272009/news/regionalnews/tax_chief_charlie_a_tax_cheat__too_186678.htm
Hey, this is the first time I’ve talked about this and I haven’t mentioned how Spkr Pelosi was going to undo a Culture of Corruption! Wait… I just mentioned it… oh, well, perfect record.
stands for decibels
August 28th, 2009
8:34 am
USinUK @ 8.21, that’s Beck’s adoring audience.
I like how plumberinc says “Who gives a rats a$$ what the people of Ma. forgave”.
Beyond the rather obvious implication that New Englanders are some kind of separate human species and not worthy of consideration, he’s blown past what ought to be his guiding principle, here–that the Kopechnes TK, and that alone ought to have at least taken the idiotic “murder” charge off the table–but it’s one that the right wing feels it’s their duty to resuscitate Every. Single. Time TK’s name is mentioned.
Heading upstairs…
USinUK
August 28th, 2009
8:38 am
RW –
your 8:27 – HA!! something tells me that person isn’t the other 4-letter acronym
“I don’t think anyone in government or private organization should co-opt 9/11 as a “National Day” of Anything. It’s a day that will always move any of us that lived through it in our own way and it should be reflected on individually.”
I see where you’re coming from … I guess I don’t see it as “co-oping” as much as giving people a way to commemorate that is in line with the families’ wishes … (shrug) … doing something positive for your community (or your neighbor or your family) in memory of those who lost their lives – while I understand what you’re saying, I don’t understand the vitriole about it like I cited above.
Taxpayer
August 28th, 2009
8:40 am
Kayaker 71
August 28th, 2009
8:09 am
Have any of you libs watched Beck this week? I challenge any of you to refute one thing that he has said on his show this week. Tell me where he has made a misstatement or told an untruth. The White House has not said one word, neither has anyone else on any network.
You mean, like, actually, watch, him! Ewwwwwww. That would be so gross. The guy cannot even keep advertisers like Wal-Mart and P&G due to his ravings yet you want people to watch! That is just so Sister Sarah of you. Let’s see, what was that stupid rant that got him in hot water… something about calling Obama a racist and then turning 180 degrees and trying to undo his own stupidity of the moment.
I don’t think so.
Turd Ferguson
August 28th, 2009
8:43 am
Obobo wants everyone to be a member of his compulsory voluntary storm troopers brigade. In other words, Obobo wants something you and offers nothing in return.
LOL!!!
AHH HAHAHA!
Turd Ferguson
August 28th, 2009
8:45 am
National Day of Service…LMAO..KMA.
No thanks Obobo…get your lemmings to do it.
Paul
August 28th, 2009
8:45 am
First off, I’ve never listened to a Glenn Beck show. Seen and heard parts, never a complete.
That said, he’s brought up some good questions (some not so good, too). Some I’ve heard discussed elsewhere. But one he’s been pushing is one mentioned earlier – the Obama Administration use of “Czars.”
Unlike cabinet secretaries, there’ no Senate confirmation. No mandatory FBI background checks. Work directly for the President, serve at his pleasure. Executive privilege applies. Not subject to Congressional subpoenas. Don’t have to answer questions from Congress. Transparency laws do not apply.
When there were one or two czars people said, well, it’s an emergency. How many czars we up to now? 15? 20? 25? Anyone kept up?
So, is this in keeping with an administration that said they’d be transparent, more answerable, not try to acquire more power to the Executive, would be responsive to Congress?
Are their actions in this regard consistent with the promises?
And I did this all without once writing, “if it had been Bush bypassing Congress…”
Oops, I did it again.
RW-(the original)
August 28th, 2009
8:45 am
USinUK,
I used to do a few blog pages until they became too much of a pain, but one of the most moving posts, to me, that I ever did was a part of a collaboration where various bloggers took the names of victims and did an individual tribute. Mine was here and I chose to do it from the perspective of the night before.
Kayaker 71
August 28th, 2009
8:47 am
Taxpayer,
Paul is right. You are killing the messenger because you don’t like to hear the painful truth that Beck states in his program. I don’t care if you like the guy or not…. many are turned off by his demeanor… but have you listened to the message? I don’t think that with his ratings that he will have any trouble keeping sponsors. As far as Bozo being a racist…. I think the jury is still out on that one. Sgt Crowley probably has something to say about that.
Turd Ferguson
August 28th, 2009
8:52 am
Ted Kennedy is in He-ll today shaking hands with Michael Jackson.
At long last, the murderer and child molester meet.
Kayaker 71
August 28th, 2009
9:03 am
One more challenge for Taxpayer and others of similar persuasion on this blog….. Listen to today’s Beck broadcast from 5-6PM. It only takes an hour of your time. Then come back on this blog tomorrow and tell me and others of similar persuasion about all of the untrue and unfair things that he said during the hour. You all remind me of some of the legislators in or Congress…. never even read the bill. And most, if not all of you, have never watched the very person you are demeaning. You say, “I don’t have time to watch that creep”, or like Bookman, call him names like “crazy Beck”. Just watch for one hour. Put your money where your mouth is.
Kathy
August 28th, 2009
9:15 am
People, you don’t like Beck, turn him off.
RW-(the original)
August 28th, 2009
9:18 am
A 34 year old foodie and a 62 year old writer when they got married and the weird part is no gold digger angle. Didn’t last long though.
RW-(the original)
August 28th, 2009
9:19 am
Oops! Wrong thread.
Dave R.
August 28th, 2009
9:25 am
Let’s not go down the road about “the people of mass kept electing Kennedy” bit.
They also elected Mike Dukakis governor, their last three speakers of the house (all Democrats) have resigned in disgrace, their former Senate president (a Democrat) has a brother on the lam wanted for multiple murders, the mayor of their capital city (a Democrat) can’t put together two coherent sentences (they call him Mumbles Menino) AND they kept electing Teddy Kennedy to his senate seat.
In the great scheme of things, Mass. voters aren’t very bright. As a former resident in that Commonwealth (and one who never cast a vote for any Kennedy), I know this first-hand.
Matilda
August 28th, 2009
9:37 am
Kennedy haters: Every man has wronged another. Not every man seeks redemption. That privileged silver-spoon man could have walked away from the spotlight decades ago, living in leisure and luxury behind walls you’ll never scale. But he chose to dedicate his efforts to making the world a better place for others. What have YOU done lately? Yeah, didn’t think so.
TnGelding
August 28th, 2009
9:37 am
Joey
August 28th, 2009
6:53 am
Once in a while they have some interesting guests on that aren’t blinded by their partisanship.
Huckabee The Next POTUS 2012
August 28th, 2009
9:57 am
matilda, What have I done lately? Well let me check. Nope, I haven’t murdered anyone like that worthless piece of trash. The obamanation will be opening his mouth to speak so it should be an interesting weekend for lie watching anyway. Keep following the pied piper little rats and he will lead you to a safer place. NOT.
Matilda
August 28th, 2009
10:07 am
HuckLUVR, I can see you’re a deeply Christian man supporting Pastor Huckabee’s vision of America. He’s a great man. Is he great enough to re-write Jesus’ mandates on forgiveness to read that you who will not forgive can be forgiven anyway? Let’s hope so, for your sake.
Huckabee The Next POTUS 2012
August 28th, 2009
10:15 am
Wrong again sister matildy, I support The Fair Tax and so does he. I am sick of supporting every illegal and welfare mama because I happen to work and they can’t spell the word. Just like a brainless bedwetter lib to only find out one thing about someone. The fact he is a Christian is a bonus not the reason he would be a great leader, unlike the dufus currently in office.
Matilda
August 28th, 2009
10:22 am
Huckman, thanks for clearing that up. I appreciate the courage of your honesty. Maybe you’ll get lucky, and all those “welfare mamas” will get sick and die before any stupid ol’ health care reform can be implemented. Keep hope alive, man!