Wednesday, September 03, 2008
rhymes with "schmitch"
mad about palin's lack of experience
the liberal media
Tuesday, September 02, 2008
skippy's tuesday nite music club
the archies - sugar sugar
skippy's tuesday nite music club - bonus trax
jerry reed - city of new orleans
jerry reed died yesterday. cmt:
born jerry reed hubbard on march 20, 1937, in atlanta, he began playing guitar at age 9 and was just a teenager when he began performing in the atlanta area on shows featuring ernest tubb, faron young and others. at age 17, capitol records producer ken nelson saw him perform and signed him to a recording contract. although his early records were not successful, he also became a staff songwriter for atlanta music publisher bill lowery. reed's "crazy legs" was recorded by rock pioneer gene vincent in 1958. brenda lee scored a top 10 pop hit with reed's "that's all you gotta do."
following a two-year stint in the military, reed moved to nashville in 1962 and began work as a session musician while writing songs such as porter wagoner's "misery loves company," a no. 1 single in 1962. in 1964, he joined rca nashville's artist roster at the urging of label executive chet atkins, one of reed's biggest supporters.
sarah failin'
sarah palin getting vetted.
rassmussen points out that if mcmuffin was aiming for women voters by picking maggie o'connell for his veep, he missed by a moose's 10-point antler width:
men still back mccain’s decision. forty-one percent (41%) say she was the right choice, while 37% disagree. earlier, men favored the decision by a 43% to 31% margin. forty-three percent (43%) of men voters say they are more likely to vote for mccain because of his choosing of palin as a running mate, but 34% say they are less likely to do so. this is a jump in support from the earlier survey.
but even a plurality of men (47%) say palin is not ready to be president in the event of the 72-year-old mccain being incapacitated while in the white house, although 32% believe she is ready. women voters by a nearly two-to-one margin believe palin is not ready…
voters overall by a 48% to 29% margin say palin is not ready yet to be president, a view shared by 74% of democrats and 48% of unaffiliated voters but only 16% of republicans…
see the latest tracking poll numbers on our daily presidential tracking poll page.
brown 25
brown was so hard on tucker, in the opinion of the mcmuffins campaign, that they have cancelled the mcmuffin interview on larry king:
ok..so the palins think that alaska should secede
wait...you mean he was "kidding?"....so, why not step even further out. just split. leave the nest. 50 - 49 = 1. face it, they don't like us. and we don't need them. we got the food. we got the wine country to wash it down with. we got the movies, the disneyland, the yosemite, the death valley, the sierras, the otters, the humboldt county. we could use a flag and some money, but otherwise, we're set.
if you ask me, they need us a hell of a lot more than we need them. we miss anything bad enough, we simply replace it. new york? couple more skyscrapers and sacramento becomes a major metropolis. only difference: folks smile and wear shorts. you want gambling? we build us our own las vegas located somewhere more conducive to human existence than a desert. what else: you want chicago? just dirty up bakersfield a little. - the case for california secession
Labels: california, palin
our deepest sympathies and prayers
friends say matt garcia had a trait rarely seen in young people: extreme civic pride. he began telling people when he was in the sixth grade that he was going to become the mayor of his hometown of fairfield.
when he was critically wounded monday night outside a friend's house in a quiet fairfield neighborhood, garcia was well on his way to fulfilling his dream. at just 22, he had emerged from modest roots to become a popular city councilman and one of the youngest elected officials in the state.
...gov. arnold schwarzenegger offered a $50,000 reward for information leading to the shooter's conviction.- sfchron
a former prom king and student government leader who lived his whole life in fairfield, garcia was elected to the city council in november 2007 at age 21. colleagues say he hit the ground running, making a name for himself by establishing a youth commission and helping the council negotiate through a $7-million budget deficit without raising taxes or firing workers. - latte times
Labels: california, governator, passings
she's no sandra bullock
via balloon juice -- sarah palin lied yet again...about her beauty contest experience:
addendum: many of our commentors, as well as our buddy libby at the impolitic, points out that the "shallow" quote has been scrubbed from the stlouis post-dispatch piece. libby has screen shots of the cached original as well as the minty-fresh new version.
quote of the day
ok, ms. palin...which is it...
congrats to our bloggy bud fletch
Labels: blogtopia
amy goodman speaks about her arrest
beyond the palin
* it emerged that palin has links to the bizarro alaska independence party, which harbors the goal of seceding from the union that mccain and palin seek to lead.
* the news broke that as governor, palin relied on an earmark system she now opposes. taken along with the bridge to nowhere stuff, this threatens to undercut her reformist image, something that was key to her selection as mccain's veep candidate.
* the news broke that palin's 17-year-old daughter became pregnant out of wedlock at a time when the conservative base had finally started rallying behind mccain's candidacy.
* barely moments after mccain advisers put out word that mccain had known of bristol palin's pregnancy, the anchorage daily news revealed that palin's own spokesperson hadn't known about it only two days ago.
* a senior mccain adviser at the republican convention was forced into the rather embarrassing position of arguing that mccain had known about the pregnancy "last week" -- without saying what day last week he knew about it.
* it came out that republican lawyers are up in alaska vetting palin -- now, more than 72 hours after it was announced that she'd been picked.
* palin lawyered up in relation to the trooper-gate probe in alaska -- a move that ensures far more serious attention to the story from the major news orgs.
Monday, September 01, 2008
skippy's monday nite music club
morningwood - sugarbaby
good use of puppet in a music video. we personally enjoy the pun in the band's name.
small town...humongous federal earmarks
alaska gov. sarah palin employed a lobbying firm to secure almost $27 million in federal earmarks for a town of 6,700 residents while she was its mayor, according to an analysis by an independent government watchdog group. - wapomccain seems to still think that he's a maverick against "earmarks"...yet, it seems he's earmarked the queen of earmarks for veep. rethugs are claiming to be pissed that obama didn't vet hillary...i think that they should instead be angry over the non-vetting of their veep pick.
they put the "party" in "grand old party"
show me disclosure
blogging for dummies
democracy when?
(the sound of the press conference is lousy)
addendum: the trail at the washpost has more:
"i was down on the convention floor interviewing delegates when i heard that two of our producers had been arrested," said goodman. "i ran down to jackson and 7th street, where the police had moved in."
goodman said that when she ran up to find out what was going on, she was also arrested.
"they seriously manhandled me and handcuffed my hands behind my back. the top id [at the convention] is to get on the floor and the secret service ripped that off me. i had my democracy now! id too. i was clearly a reporter."
goodman, who was released after being charged with a misdemeanor, said that salazar had been hurt in the face, while kouddous had been thrown up against a wall and hurt his elbow.
mm, mm, good, mm, mm, good! campbell brown is mm, mm, good!
where many talking heads would let the goper spew scripted answers, campbell has insisted and parsing the responses and nailing down why what's good for the goose is not good for the gander.
however, neither of the goper operatives have buckeled under, choosing instead to ignore logic to insist that obama's lack of experience is so much worse than palin's.
addendum: via siun at fdl, here's one of those campbell's super interviews:
notice how the goper talks around the question, never answering directly what campbell asks. but campbell keeps on drilling, coming up with a dry well.
say hello
that's one way to settle it
we here at skippy international believe that somebody's sex life is not particularly relevant to the ability of them or their relatives to govern. so we have stayed away from this rumor at this humble space.
there is something to be said, however, for the argument that palin's official belief in abstinence vs. sex education leaves her wide open to accusations of failed policy.
still in all, there are much worse problems palin is facing (abuse of power, inexperience, gender-quota-filling). unfortunately for the human race, the human race would rather talk about smarmy affairs than political agenda.
peru is more energy progressive
Labels: energy, environment
i support bristol palin's decision
however, i think that the political talking points should be....
- why her mother supports keeping information about pregnancy prevention and birth control from other women's daughters...
- why her mother supports keeping other women (girls) from making their own decision on what to do with their bodies and lives.
tell you what. in honor of bristol, toss some green to your local planned parenthood. they do an amazing job in making sure sex education and women's healthcare is available for all who inquire, regardless of their financial status. they are about so much more than just "abortion." our local planned parenthood is holding their amazing yearly booksale in the next couple of weeks. i'm saving up my pennies to buy up a storm of cookbooks.
Labels: healthcare, palin, womens issues
are sarah palin and her preggers teen daughter
the dutch intelligence service, the aivd, has called off an operation aimed at infiltrating and sabotaging iran's weapons industry due to an assessment that a us attack on the islamic republic's nuclear program is imminent, according to a report in the country's de telegraaf newspaper on friday. - the jerusalem post
Labels: Iran, october surprise
hey...media talking heads...
blackwater worldwide is currently seeking qualified law enforcement officers and security personnel to potentially deploy to provide security in the possible aftermath of hurricane gustav. this is the first time blackwater has mobilized under its controversial homeland security contracts. blackwater did deploy security personnel to assist new orleans in wake of hurricane katrina and this resulted in great controversy since it was the first time a private military corporation had deployed on us soil. - the spy who billed medemocracy now! has an interview with jeremy scahill about this.
they're looking for current sworn law enforcement officers, with "arrest powers" and "armed status (must indicate armed and/or semi auto. revolver only not accepted)." the firm is also looking for "current/active/licensed/registered armed security officer[s]," but "only from the following states: or, wa, ca, nv, nm, az, tx, fl, ga, sc, nc, va, md, il, ok." - wired
what we know from experience with blackwater in the hurricane zone is that this is not a company that believes it needs orders from any government agency to deploy, armed, on the streets of an american city.
Labels: blackwater, gustav, homeland security, hurricane
don't they have proof readers for chyrons over at msnbc?
abstinence makes the heart go flounder
bristol palin, one of alaska gov. palin's five children with her husband todd, is about five months pregnant and is going to keep the child and marry the father, the palins said in a statement released by the campaign of republican presidential candidate john mccain...
"our beautiful daughter bristol came to us with news that as parents we knew would make her grow up faster than we had ever planned. as bristol faces the responsibilities of adulthood, she knows she has our unconditional love and support," the palins said.
but, secondly, even if the palin's scenario is 100% true, it doesn't say much for the effectiveness of her abstinence beleifs. the quote "grow up faster than we had ever planned" is exactly what "planned parenthood" is all about.
either way, now we are wondering if walt monegan will announce he's been secretly unemployed for 5 months, to get sarah out of the other mess.
a note that ought to be posted next to a certain telephone network interface...
so far, the only people i've spoken to about this are xxxxxxxx, xxxxxxxx, and one of the xxxxxxxxxx office workers. if i find out who you are, i will be speaking to the police as well. what you did to me is vandalism. therefore you will also be speaking to the police.
jim yeager
apt. xx
Labels: life
Sunday, August 31, 2008
skippy's sunday nite music club
dick hyman - the finger breaker
dick plays the old jelly roll morton show off piece.
say what?
Labels: corruption, hurricane, iraq war, republicans
if mccain and the rethugs are heading to nola
so, if mccain and palin are truly "mavericks" and wanting to stop government waste and crony corruption, they need to call out the profiteering from republiccan friends, family, etc. they need to call for hauling haley barbour, senator mel martinez, halliburton and joe allbaugh up to congress to do some seriously explaining. 3 years to late, but if they are truly "mavericks", the need to do this.
i'm not holding my breath on this happening, however.
pacific views reminds us who was in touring the 9th ward right after katrina and who held a hearing on the destruction....and who didn't.
... "there is not a sense of urgency in this administration to get this done," said [sen. barack obama (d-il)]. "you get a sense that will has been lacking in the last several months."
obama, the senate's only african-american member, was in new orleans for a field hearing on gulf coast rebuilding conducted by the senate homeland security and governmental affairs committee.
... after monday's field hearing, the senate committee took a bus tour of the city's lower 9th ward, a low-income black neighborhood where many ruined homes sit empty and bear the painted x-marks used in the chaotic weeks following the hurricane to show which buildings had been searched for survivors.
... the hearing is one of the first that the homeland security committee has scheduled since the senate passed to democratic control. no republican members attended. ...
Labels: katrina, mccain, palin, republicans
quote of the day
pardon us, but we'll take a nanny state any day
in a statement saturday morning, ramsey county sheriff bob fletcher said the st. paul raid targeted the rnc welcoming committee, a group he described as "a criminal enterprise made up of 35 self-described anarchists...intent on committing criminal acts before and during the republican national convention."…
but the raids drew immediate condemnation from activists and st. paul city councilman dave thune, whose district includes the former theater at 627 smith avenue south, which was rented by activists as a gathering space.
"this is not the way to start things off," thune said saturday morning. "this is sending the wrong message. regardless of how you feel about these people...they had a right to be there."
"i'm really ticked off...the city is perfectly capable of taking care of things," thune said. "if they had found anything that could have been used to commit a crime they would have arrested somebody."...
those arrested could be held through the weekend, [lawyers' guild representative bruce] nestor said. a judge will review their case within 48 hours. nestor said the conspiracy to commit a riot charges are vague.
"this is a charge that police use for preventive detention," he said. "it requires that no actual criminal act be committed and borders on criminalizing political advocacy."...
thune estimates that about 100 people were in the theater and detained. he said deputies knocked down the door using a police battering ram and then deputies went in with guns drawn, forcing people to the ground.
the group says they are now accused of a fire code violation and the theater was boarded shut on orders of fletcher. this last action also upset thune, who said the sheriff had no authority to order city staff to keep people out of a building.
Saturday, August 30, 2008
skippy's saturday nite music club
supertramp - give a little bit - live!
thanks, kevin!
be sure to read him daily. we do! if only to say, "thanks for remembering the little guys, kevin!"
palin by comparison
the ktva channel 11 in anchorage report on gov. palin's admission that her office did indeed pressure walt monegan to fire palin's ex-brother-in-law mike wooten from the state troopers.
the funny part comes at the end, when the anchor gives the result of the phone-in poll which asks "do you believe the governor when she says she knew nothing about these phone calls?" only 12% answered "yes."
the truth "behind" sarah palin
rhebus canneebus
there's no business like cho business
go over and see the embed of the promo featuring joe!
was mcmuffin thinking w/his big head or little head?
addendum: if anyone fears that the choice of
double addendum: take a look at mudflats, an alaskan blog, for an on-the-ground view of troopergate, as well as other details about sarah.
mad about sarah palin
so much for all that talk about experience...
next subject...
Labels: election, it is what it is, mccain, politics