Wonder if Olberman would have gotten his contract extended for four years if Obama lost the election.
Wonder when people are going to finally get that Sara Palin is not the brightest bulb.
Something worth reading of you have some time, thirteen pages or so worth of time. The Joshua Generation, A New Yorker Essay on the Obama campaign and race.
Doug wishes GM well in demise in The Lumbering, Tumbling Giant, written on this his birthday – Happy Birthday Doug.
Mizzy B sent me this link, while she is busy working on reversing that stupid prop 8 vote.
A link to some great photos taken by Scout Tufankjian while following Obama for almost two years.
Pia bought a house, confirming her status as a Southern New York Jewish Belle.
Christian Science Monitor to discontinue daily print edition. Times they are a changing.
People come, go, and come again. Ruk is back. Anyone once here, even if vanished, is bound to be hunted down, rediscovered, sooner or later.
We can now form our own think tanks, and be sure to be quoted, and assumed to be authoritative, by the MSM.
May I introduce my foundation. The Looking Glass Institute: For The Study of The Necessity of Orderliness, in Fostering a Constructive Development of Individuality. Fellowships are available. Contact Alice.
Indie won the picture coloring contest. Out of 37 entries he was the only correct color. He was also the first entry. Two were disqualified for anonymous obscenity and poor coloring technique, so let me remind you we eat pigs. I’m a vegetarian, but still.
The winner.
The original.
Congratulations to Indie for being the winner of my first contest.
Peace
That is uncanny with the colors – I have a friend in real life who calls me Mr. Synchronicity, because stuff like this happens around me all the time. That’s the only explanation I have. It’s a pretty dress. What was the favorite wrong color?
I’m sad to read that the CS Monitor is stopping the print edition – (but not online?). Every article I ever read in that paper has been up to a very high standard of journalism, probably moreso in contrast to the competition.
Yes I was momentary startled due to the preciseness of the color, thinking you must have worked your way in to my computer to find out the exact color. ;)
Not online,no.
The kiss of death: I subscribed to CSM last month. I thought anchors got contract extensions for getting Doug Pascover to stop watching their stations.
Nice dress, by the way.
You are the key in most major media decisions I heard.
They have dog size in that dress – I bet.
Sarah Palin is an obvious maverick. It’s also obvious that you are not writing from “real America.” :)
Excuse my while I put my thinking cap back on . ;)
We’ve been getting the CSM for a couple of years. It’s a good journal, too bad about the stopping of the print edition. It will still be online – a taste of things to come.
I was sure that dress was red.
That think tank article,,,just figures doesn’t it.
I get a lot of journals, some are online some are not but I tend to read the paper versions even if they are online. I don’t know why, there is something about the photography the art and the holding on to the glossy paper which does it for me.
Sara: not until conservatives are willing to agree that though she may share their disdain for those certain pet issues, she couldn’t really run a Dairy Queen, Sonic or Suds-n-Duds without supervision. (She gets Alaska because its a cold environment. Ice for the ice princess.)
I was going to go with a electric blue…but thought royalty only suited you. ;)
My reading suggestion: Caught in the Middle: America’s Heartland in the Age of Globalism (Longworth – http://www.amazon.com/review/product/1596914130/ref=dp_top_cm_cr_acr_txt?%5Fencoding=UTF8&showViewpoints=1)
It really gives you a idea how bad it looks in major parts of fly-over country.
I think there are a lot of conservatives who do understand that, I hear there used to be a wide body of conservative intellectuals……back in the day.
Thanks for the reading suggestion.
Conservatives and Intellectuals – kinda like Military Intelligence.
Buckley: dead.
The rest: just a bunch of sychophants.
Olberman would have yes.
I’m wondering why all this attention on Palin. She is clearly sub par intellectually. Maybe that’s what the conservatives like. I doubt it, but the media is sure pushing her. That goes along with the whole think tank article.
i was sure it was black.
A one year maybe not a 4, the 4 is directly related to the 4 year term.
That’s an interesting thought Cooper. Olbermann wouldn’t have had the opportunity to rant and rave so much had he not of been supporting Obama. Although I have been mightily entertained by all of it. He is funny!
Did you get the chance to hear Sarah Palin say in one of her many interview yesterday that she still thinks that Obama has terrorist connections but she trusts him with her sons life in Iraq. I think that she’s a meth-head, LOL!
He was a little insane, I’m sure his popularity goes along with the mood of the country and as long as the mood showed clearly in Obama’s victory he was guaranteed to get an extension.
I missed that one. I can’t believe I’m seeing her face all over the place..they really ought to give her a damn talk show where she belongs and get her out of politics.
lady with the blue dress
blue dress blue dress
lady with the blue dress on.
you already know what I think of palin and her palinese
You did make your Palin points very clear sk. Even I couldn’t have missed them.
I wrote a post quoting Palin that I didn’t post. here’s the sickest quote of the year
My concern has been the atrocities there in Darfur and the relevance to me with that issue as we spoke about Africa and some of the countries there that were kind of the people succumbing to the dictators and the corruption of some collapsed governments on the continent, the relevance was Alaska’s investment in Darfur with some of our permanent fund dollars.”
And, she concluded, “never, ever did I talk about, well, gee, is it a
country or a continent, I just don’t know about this issue.”
It makes me laugh. Then I think this woman might lead the Republican party and I have no idea if people will run (as so many did in the election) or follow her
I haven’t closed yet though I wrote the post as if I did. Next Wednesday
I try to believe they are more reasonable than that. If I am to believe my conservative com temporaries, or should my conservative contemporaries get any grip around the handle of that party, no matter how small, that will never happen.
I feel confident about your closing, so I won’t have to hold my breath on this. I can feel it.
Oh YAY on your using the link… her pictures are amazing and just capture the soul of his journey.
I am sickened and beyond disgusted by Palin. The gall of that woman to offer her “help” to the Obama administration! She should slither back under the rock from whence she came and shut the FUCK UP! After all the hate she spewed and, in doing so put Obama’s life in danger, quite literally, she needs to be held accountable. There is no forgiving her actions, her words… no backtracking and if people are indeed buying into her latest doses of bullshit well, then, I know not what to say! It is sad, pathetic… and list goes on and on…
BUT… we have an Obama administration and there is finally hope!
A close friend of mine whom I will be meeting up with this Saturday is a chemical engineer for a biofuel company and told me that, thanks to Obama, interest is already high, reporters are stopping on by as will, I am sure, Obama’s people.
A new age is dawning… I keep reminding myself of that and I cannot help but smile. :-)
Besos Cooperina… I hope to be back soon coz man do I miss you!
The next dot com bubble will be dot green bubble, some will win some will lose but it must be done and fast, it will spark industry and jobs and if started twenty years ago we may not be where we are – alas. Hope it’s soon enough for the children of your children.
Those were the best photos I’d seen of the campaign trail.
Besos MB
::shrugs:: you know my stance on Keith. I really can’t think of anything he’s said in the time I’ve been watching him that I didn’t find to be completely reasonable if not undeniably true. Also, I’m almost a hundred percent certain that the contract was finalized before election night. Negotiations for these sorts of things take time, and delaying the announcement until after the election would certainly make sense. As for the four-year extension being tied to the term of the President, his contract was extended by four years in February of 2007. Whether this contract just means that he’ll be going a full four years from now, or four years after those four years are up is not something I’ve been able to figure out.
As for Palin? 70-80% of the country understands it by now. That other 20-30% She’s the light that shines on the GOP and reveals it to be a sick joke. She’s everything that the Republican Party has been for the past sixteen years (at least), only no good at hiding it. I welcome her candidacy in 2012. Can you imagine what a dias made up of the likes of her, Mitt Romney, Bobby Jindal, Tim Pawlenty, and Ron Paul would be like? This year’s GOP primary consisted of a bunch of insane jackasses and John McCain. That Tim Pawlenty seems the sanest of those jokers at the moment is telling, given his current BS offerings in re: the Minnesota recount. I’ll be watching and eating popcorn when the time comes.
My application for a position in your Foundation will be forthcoming just as soon as I can figure out just how I fit in with all of those words.
I’m sure you’ll be the first applicant accepted.
I’m with Doug
And great, four more years of Olbermann antics. Maybe O’Reilly will finally make love to him so Keith can stop talking about him every night.
eeeeewwww to that visual. Maybe they could both then move to CA and work to overthrow Prop 8 so that they could live unhappily ever after.
Oh I can’t wait….
I have surfaced from foodland long enough to say hello and comment that I am beyond tired of the Sarah Palin post election media merry go round. What. Ever. And I’m sorry I missed your coloring contest. Mayhaps you’ll have a cooking contest? Okay, so it was an idea. heh. How’s school?
I’m sorry I thought you said cooking contest…..
It is still here forever and ever it seems, and the reason I haven’t posted since Wednesday.;(
I must come over and grab some Thanksgiving day recipes.
I lost. Oh well. I could have sworn it was purple.
I’m applying for a fellowship too. As obscure as any other think tank job description out there.
You can tend bar.
Oh yea I forgot to tell you.
This foundation has a bar….to think you must drink.