who in the hell doesn't recognize that ubiquitous yellow bracelet at this point. not to mention, being unaware that snow had cancer. the whole bit smells.

one of my all-time favorite movie-going experiences was seeing 'aliens' in a times sq theater when originally released -- back in the good old days of hustlers, pimps and hos and pre-disney.

the audience involvement was half the fun. how can you not enjoy an experience that includes some loudmouth audience member shout to sigorney weaver as she fights to the death with the alien 'KNOCK HER WIG OFF' ... nowadays, it's just assholes talking and cells ringing...

it's exceedingly clear that rahm emanuel, james carville and the rest of the dlc-types despise the ascent of howard dean and the netroots. emanuel, et al, want to dictate policy, fundraising (esp fundraising) and message to the exclusion of activists. how else do you think carville, shrum, begala, et al became millionaires.

more importantly, i would also suggest that their control over the party apparatus guarantees there will never be any discussion about israel and its influence/control over democratic foreign policy initiatives.

last week in the first segment of the situation room, cafferty in his commentary, called rumsfeld 'a war criminal.'

by the next segment, a clearly chastened cafferty referred to it and said he had stepped over the line.

so, cnn, why does glenn beck get a pass when he infers that a democratic congressman is a jihadi.

cowards to the end.

a worldwide cable news outfit employs newsstaff who don't know the difference between osama bin laden and barack obama?

bullshit.

and just for old time's sake, let me dig out blitzer's initial introduction to richard clarke. blitzer's well-practiced in the art of smears:

"He wants to make a few bucks, and that his own personal life, they’re also suggesting that there are some weird aspects in his life as well, that they don’t know what made this guy come forward and make these accusations against the president."

geez, everybody, do you realize the walton clan's individual holdings have lost value over the past couple of years. in 2002, the five walton spawn had a net worth of $18.8 BILLION EACH. in 2006, that figure had plummetted to a measely $15.5 BILLION EACH.

all the family is doing is trying to squeeze every single last penny out of their massive worldwide operation to recoup their losses.

have mercy.

he may bring up the most contentious issues with guests to match, but he continuously gets bested by the wingnuts he has on his program because he's so utterly unprepared. he might have the snotty retort, but he never has the details to knowledgeably argue the issues and is talked over by the joe scarboroughs, et al he gives airtime to.

just reading his responses makes my blood boil. the fact that those pussies in the white house press corps sit there day after day after day and write down his lies and condescension and mockery is equally contemptible. how can they do that; where is their self-respect. (those are rhetorical questions. i know the answers: they are whores for the money and the social connections.)

the fact that after seven years they still have not been able to knock these lying pricks off-balance in the 'briefings' is testament to their utter impotence.

cowards and whores.

i'd be interested in the names of the political press corps who high-fived one another upon huckabee's surprise placing, as reported by noam scheiber:

"A final thought: The political press is absolutely head over heels for Huckabee. (There were high-fives all around when it became clear he'd finish second.) He's a genuinely endearing guy who can banter with the best of them--watching him with reporters brings to mind the old black and white footage of Babe Ruth jawboning with sportswriters. When you add that to the political media's general affinity for underdogs, you can see how Huckabee's about to enjoy some serious media afterglow, which will only further boost his profile."

jeez, you'd think leno might have been able to come up with an anecdote, instead of a recitation of the breaks he got from griffin and carson.

mememememememememememe.

he's a high-level republican appointee. ... so, yes, he lied.

should be brought up on charges of treason. these bloodsucking motherfuckers weren't just scamming these ignorant (and, yes, willfully so in all too many cases) homebuyers, the staggering scale of this fraud is bringing down the u.s. economy and causing a severe hit internationally. the more detail that surfaces about how these business operated, and it's beyond infuriating that pigs like mozilo are walking away with millions.

read that gretchen morgenstern article in the nyt about how countrywide did business. "proprietary technology" indeed.

http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F10C1EFB34590C758EDDA10894DF404482

too funny that it's southwest that is engaged in miss priss passenger review. check out this charming ad:

1970s: Southwest Airlines experiences a dramatic jump in ticket sales when its flight attendants start wearing white go-go boots and hot pants. The airline adopts a new motto to match (”Sex sells seats”) and begins serving in-flight drinks with names like Passion Punch and Love Potion. Not to be outdone, TWA follows suit in 1971, sending its attendants into the air wearing Valentino-designed hot pants.

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://img.timeinc.net/time/2003/flight/images/1970s.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.fashionfotos.com/2007/05/30/mia-flight-attendant-fashion/&h=504&w=374&sz=37&hl=en&start=18&um=1&tbnid=JzP6Kuz3a0lZpM:&tbnh=130&tbnw=96&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dstewardess,%2B1970s%26svnum%3D50%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26rlz%3D1B3GGGL_en___US215%26sa%3DN

let's see: he's utterly ineffective and useless as the chairman of the senate judiciary committee; he voted to install a deeply undemocratic justice onto a lifetime appointment on the supreme court, because he 'didn't want it to be a partisan vote'; and now he's voted for this resolution.

what a gutless wonder.