Um... Didn't I Mention Why I Hate Wi-Fi?

Did I?

Hardy HAHAHA, Matt Fudge

He thinks he's funny with this one

He is such an obsessed loser.

The One Sentence Thread For 7/10/09: Wi-Fi Can Really Frustrate

It really can.

7/10/09- TWD's Agenda For This Friday: One Word.

Bruno.

Well, "Government Motors" Really Did Ruin That Company, Didn't It?

Yeah

General Motors completed a major step in its turnaround on Friday and closed the sale of its good assets to a new, government-backed carmaker, at a speed unimagined by auto and bankruptcy experts even six months ago.

The government and G.M. signed the documents at 6:30 a.m. at the offices of Weil, Gotshal & Manges, the company’s chief bankruptcy counsel, according to a person briefed on the matter, after a bankruptcy court order staying the sale for four days expired on Thursday. G.M. will hold a news conference in Detroit, hosted by its chief executive, Fritz Henderson, and its new chairman, Edward E. Whitacre Jr., later Friday morning.

Score another "L" for the Drugdes and Limbaughs of the world.

The Sleep Time and Rise "n" Shine Thread #2 For 7/9-10/09: Um, Rachel, Why Did You Have That Jerk On There?

What a lot of people like about Rachel Maddow show is the fact that, unlike Keith's great show, Rachel doesn't always have the same usual cast of characters be her guests (Kent Jones aside). It gives a refreshing look, and more great or terrible voices for the viewer to explore and know.

And certainly, as we have seen with the likes of good liar Tim Pawlenty, Nancy Pfotenliar (Pfotenhuaer), and the elitist arrogant fool that was David Frum on her show, Rachel cherishes having right-wing nutcases and Republicans on her show just as much as the rational folk on there.

But I did have to get a "ugghhhh" at the guy she had on tonight to begin her show.

Jon Ralston is his name, and a certified jerk is his game. Ralston was on the show to talk about "hopefully soon to be ex"-Senator Ensign's whoring around, along with today's development of his folks paying $96k to his mistress' family.

But Ralston is a ego maniac who only thinks of himself in Nevada, and it reminded me of how he tried to give President Obama a problem on the campaign trail last year in regards to drilling. Some of you may remember this, and some, maybe not. It was a rec'd diary last year, highlighting how Obama was really his own political strategist.


Ralston had an agenda for only himself, and Obama really put him in his place in such a brilliant, hilarious fashion.

Ralston is a hack columnist out of Nevada who is all about him. And when Rachel puts him on her show, it sort of legitimizes assholes like this.

Thankfully, the past can remind us who these people truly were, and apparently, still are.

Good night everyone.....Tevin:

The Daily Open Thread #3 For 7/9/09: One Of The Best Commercials Out Right Now

Back later, way later. Enjoy all the good stuff down below.

How Many Times Do They Think We Are Still Stupid?

Big Chin Seanny!!!!

Just a routine day in the tragedy and crimes that Fixed Propaganda continue to do on American journalism and America in general.

Oh ho hum.

Just.......Yeah

From nutcase Freerepublic.com's site, this............

Yeah.

The Daily Open Thread #2 For 7/9/09: Jane Hamsher Is A Certified "G"

Firedoglake's one and only Jane Hamsher delivered a smackdown and "Woodshed 101" lesson to clueless Jill Bandes of Townhall.com. You don't mess when Jane on this issue........and you don't mess with Jane at all.

Sports Thread #2 for 7/9/09: Pedro Martinez To The Philles? It Appears So

Photo from Courier Post

It appears the Phillies are just smarter than everyone today. How everyone hasn't been on the verge of signing a guy who pitched like he definitely had an arm left and thensome at the WBC baffles me.

Not A Surprise: Burris Won't Seek Re-Election For Senate Seat in 2010

Yup....let's keep moving on.

The Headlines For 7/9/09: Updated With Ensign Headline

The Daily Open Thread For 7/9/09: A Poetry Throwback For You All

With my slam poetry group at school, a parody performances of classic Disney songs. Enjoy!

There will be more come later.

Update: This is a cool and great story.

The One Sentence Thread For 7/8/09: Not Now, Not Ever

There is no need for some to point to Steve McNair's death as a rallying cry for a gender superiority/inferiority argument.

Music Thread #1 for 7/9/09: Yay For Maxwell

A very pleasant surprise

Maxwell's first album in nearly eight years, "BLACKsummers'night," is headed for a big debut next week on the Billboard 200 chart. Industry prognosticators suggest the Columbia set could move anywhere from 275,000 to 325,000 in its first week. The R&B singer's last offering, 2001's "Now," opened at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with a career-high 296,000 copies sold according to Nielsen SoundScan.

Maxwell may not be number one because of MJ, but it maybe his biggest opening week release to date.

In this day and age where artists, who were big in the 90's, struggle to get sales now, Maxwell, who was never "OMG" big, is defying the trend. He didn't need to get a Facebook page, a Twitter account or fully need social media to get him attention (though I wouldn't be surprised if he does have them and a MySpace page).

All he needed was the love he's always had for music for a long while. And that's all he needed.

Did Michele Bachmann Endorse An Attack On ACORN?

Um, it appears so, she did.....via her Twitter (click on enlarge)

"Somebody has to go after ACORN" - Senior District Judge Richard H Zoller http://bit.ly/32sd2 is what Bachmann's post on Twitter said

That question needs to be asked, especially after reading that link article....

"Somebody has to go after ACORN," Senior District Judge Richard H. Zoller said about the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.

"It's happening all over the country. All you have to do is turn on the television," he said, referring to voter registration fraud charges brought recently against ACORN and its workers in Nevada.

"We will," Allegheny County Detective Robert F. Keenan promised as he wrapped up his testimony.

Oh boy.

Update: Just to note, that post from her was from July 1st, last Wednesday.

Sports Thread #1 for 7/9/09: NFL Bans Twitter Usage During Games

Roger Goodell and company were scared of Twitter the minute Chad Ocho Cinco said he was going to use it in halftime. They made sure that would not happen, based on......

"We already have a rule that prohibits the use of cell phones or other handheld devices in the bench area during games," Aiello told us via e-mail.

Yes, but the league will be very quick to use Twitter to help continue to get its profits.

Now the whole betting thing is the main reason why this was slapped down, as well as the cell phones and other devices. And Goodell and the league was not going to let that even come into play at all.

The Straight Jacket Winner Of The Day for 7/9/09: Jim DeDimwit

South Carolina sure is getting done proud by its elected officials

America these days is reminding Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) of Nazi Germany.

Last night, at a National Press Club event where he was plugging his book Saving Freedom, he implied that America's elections are "just power grabs."

Part of what we're trying to do in Saving Freedom is just show that where we are, we're about where Germany was before World War II where they became a social democracy. You still had votes but the votes were just power grabs like you see in Iran, and other places in South America, like Chavez is running down in Venezuela. People become more dependent on the government so that they're easy to manipulate. And they keep voting for more government because that's where their security is. When our immigrants get here, they're worried, because they see it happening here.

Wow, I didn't know Fascism became mainstream in this country at the moment, and that we are protesting in our streets and turning all of our websites and Twitters pages green (well, this page, not my Twitter) because of Obama winning 53% of the electorate last November.

Boy, what a power grab of harsh and brutal dictatorship that was.

Soon to be ridiculed by almost every rational site today, Jim DeDimwit gets the ..........

7/9/09-TWD's Agenda For The Day: The Latest Scar On The CIA

Not a good last night and morning for Leon Panetta.

More later.

The Sleep Time and Rise "n" Shine Thread #2 For 7/8-9/09: Coups Can Be Ugly

In Honduras, the latest example is shown .

Tevin, let's bring in the morning:

Sports Thread #3 for 7/8/09: Only Ron Artest

Chooses the #37 to honor Michael Jackson for Thriller being at the #1 spot 37 weeks in a row.

Oooooooooooookaaaaaaaay.

Music Thread #2 for 7/2/09: In Other News.....

Jennifer Hudson, who performed at the memorial, has a new video.


A good look this, from Chali 2na feat Talib Kweli called "Lock S--- Down."


Not a surprise if this did happen.

If you're following Trey Songz on twitter, you know he is trying his hardest to get sales, and it is a smart move for him. Even if the R.Kelly beef was quite of weird, I still got a lot of respect for him. He's a real dude in the game, and of the realest in R&B. Nothing fake about him.

Ja Rule has a blog now saying that's he coming back. But even if he made it in 2004, he would have been too late.

The Straight Jacket Winner Of The Day for 7/8/09: Um, "Fox & Friends" Hates

Just watch the crazy:


Yeah.....For that moment of ignorance and utter lunacy, "Krazy Kilemade" and the rest of his idiot friends on that channel in the morning get this

The Straight Jacket Award, in its return.

The One Sentence Thread For 7/8/09: Well, That Was Short Lived

Harry Reid did a 180 faster than an X-Games skateboarder today.

......And Did Politico's Glenn Thrush Say A Little Much Here?

Speaking of the post below, one of the links from Think Progress was from the Politico post from Glenn Thrush showing Senator Franken's response to real clown Senator Inhofe.

Thrush said this after typing Franken's quote:

I don't know how Sen. Inhofe regards clowns, but it might be an incredible compliment," said the former SNL star, whose dignity, sobriety and determination not to inhabit the GOP caricature of himself is really getting on my nerves.

Huh? Getting on your nerves?

Did Thrush just show his bias? Or was he just kidding?

I want to give him the benefit of the doubt, and I will give him that. He wouldn't be that stupid.

Politico/Hackio can't be that dumb. Can they?

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Stop Calling Others Clowns, Clown

He's the one who needs to be in the circus

Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK) extended a nasty welcome to his newest Senate colleague, Al Franken, last week, telling the Tulsa World, “I’ll tell you what a lot of people are thinking, and that is it looks like things are going to be over and we are going to get the clown from Minnesota. … I don’t know the guy, but…for a living he is a clown.” Inhofe is now rushing to defend himself, pointing out that he and Franken “physically embraced” when they ran into each other on Tuesday. However, he still insists that Franken is a “clown”:

But believe me, he knew. He kind of looked like a clown when I was talking to him,” Inhofe said.

Thankfully, Franken had the perfect response back:

“I don’t know how Sen. Inhofe regards clowns, but it might be an incredible compliment.”

Lovely .

Sports Thread #2 for 7/8/09: It's Official, Kazemi Killed McNair Before She Killed Herself

Awful, just awful

"Steve McNair was murdered by Sahel Kazemi," chief Ronal Serpas said today at a news conference.

I said this on Saturday.

Sadly, I was right. But i didn't know that she had the vendetta.

This really does suck like few other stories I have covered and followed.

The Headlines For 7/8/09: Now That's G.............

Oh Karl...........................


Your headlines for July 8, 2009.

The Daily Open Thread #2 for 7/8/09: Bill O'Reilly Is Now The Voice Of Black America

Who knew? ........ Who knew?

And you know what's so funny, he actually, actually, talks some truth in this.

The Daily Open Thread for 7/8/09: Letterman Gets Revenge

How sweet:



More to come.......later in the day.

The Latest Tweet From The One And Only.......Click On If you Need To Enlargen!

She is just so brave.

Music Thread #1 for 7/8/09: Mariah Yesterday didn't

Normally, MSNBC's Courtney Haslett rubs me the wrong way with her attitude, but she does dig deep in her reporting, and she has common sense.

And she did good today reporting that Mariah Carey at yesterday's Memorial was able to hit her high notes because she didn't have time to practice.

And it shows how Mariah didn't give a damn about whether she was going to sound good or not. And to me, she sounded just alright to me.

And another thing: I can understand the talk about her cleavage yesterday......but that shouldn't override any discussion of where her heart was at all yesterday.

New York Times On The Road To Continue Embarrassing Itself Like The Washington Post With Moments Like These

Tisk Tisk Tisk

The NYT has deleted from an online gallery photos it had published on Sunday in its Magazine by Edgar Martins, images of abandoned real estate projects. Charges have surfaced that the images were digitally altered. We are checking on this with the Times. A blogger, who spotted the photos at Metafilter, claims to have tipped them off. The Times' brief notice reads: "The pictures in this feature were removed after questions were raised about whether they had been digitally altered." More later.

I guess I will honor this post with no image at all. It speaks for itself.

Sports Thread for 7/8/09: Manny Being Manny On Full Display At New Shea

Okay, it's Bailout Field....okay, it's CitiField......okay, it's ballout whatever, Manny Ramirez made his return to baseball on Friday. But last night against the injury riddled struggling Mets, baseball's latest drug "cheat" got two hits in the Dodgers 8-0 pounding of Jerry Manuel's side.

That was all overshadowed by well, Manny being Manny to the extreme: He was thrown out in the 5th inning. Or better said, he threw himself out.

In his first appearance in New York since serving a 50-game suspension for violating baseball's drug policy, Ramirez was ejected in the fifth inning after his second strong disagreement with home plate umpire John Hirschbeck.

After being rung up on a pitch that was off the outside corner, Ramirez tossed his bat, helmet and elbow pad, the latter landing close to home plate and earning him the heave-ho. Hirschbeck had been more lenient in the first inning, when Ramirez was also called out on strikes and signaled with his hands how far outside he thought the pitch was.

Manny said he was going to be taken out in the 5th, so it wasn't a big surprise. And if he does, then it makes ESPN's John Kruk slamming of him look kind of futile.

Rachel Maddow Is Really Funny.....If You Didn't Know

Inspired by Palin's fishing attire, returning from her own fishing excursion was Rachel Maddow. And it was great.

A Week After The Washington Post Became The Washington Toast

Last week, a formerly great paper probably took the final step to well, making itself irrelevant . Here's the flier with how the Washington Post wanted to pay lobbyist for inside coverage to shape the health care debate:
Thomas Frank, one of the only rational voices at the Wall Street Journal, said it just right this morning (via the A..P.R.U from Dr. Greg Dworkin)

If this was a slip it was a Freudian one, the kind that tells us something true and revealing about what is going on inside.

It's a good read indeed about a paper's decision to disregard its great history for the shoddy present it is now.

The Read International For 7/8/09- Kim Jong II Rare Public Appearance

He made a rare public appearance yesterday, and the reason why

North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il has made a rare public appearance for commemorations of the 15th anniversary of his father's death.

7/8/09- TWD Agenda's Of The Day: Afghanistan Continuing To Get More Dangerous By The Day

For not only American troops, but British ones as well.

More to come today.

The Sleep Time and Rise "n" Shine Thread #2 For 7/7-8/09: A Cartoon Most Still Don't Know About

TPM's 100 Seconds On Jackson Coverage


And the Jackson 5 cartoon!!!!!!! A lot of people don't know about it!


Goodnight to all..........til the morning