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AMERICAblog: Saturday Morning Open Thread

  • Rob Mule · 1 year ago
    How did we miss this Page 6 item from 3 days ago:

    [We hear] THAT Luke Russert made such a good impression on TV viewers after his father Tim's funeral, insiders say NBC is recruiting him for its team covering the presidential election.

    Gee, I wonder if the position was posted according to EEOC regs???
    Tweety must feel relief not to be 'the most bovine' anymore...

    http://www.nypost.com/seven/07232008/gossip/pag...

    CSN&Y:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKySbfgvyVw
  • KarenMrsLloydRichards · 1 year ago
    If true, nepotism would have nothing to do with it. Luke would be hired for his razor-sharp analytical mind, his voluminous knowledge of American politics and history, and his smart and articulate on-camera presence. He has already demonstrated unlimited potential, and years of actual achievement, as one America's foremost political experts.
  • KarenMrsLloydRichards · 1 year ago
    Luke Russert: the Bindi Irwin of TV political pundits.
  • OlderAndWiser · 1 year ago
    Journalism welfare? Jeeez, who woulda thought?

    And more like Miley Cyrus than Bindi Irwin--agewise, after all...more years of experience learning to be a media whore.
  • Busboy · 1 year ago
    Fears of "global cooling" surfacing in Anchorage:

    http://www.adn.com/life/story/473786.html
  • Õ¿Õ · 1 year ago
    From the article you posted:

    So are all bets off on global warming? Hardly, scientists say. Climate change is a function of long-term trends, not single summers or individual hurricanes.

    Last year the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change concluded that it's "unequivocal" the world is warming, considering how 11 of the warmest years on record have occurred in the past 13 years.

    So what's going on in Alaska, which also posted a fairly frigid winter?

    LA NINA

    Federal meteorologists trace a lot of the cool weather to ocean temperatures in the South Pacific.

    When the seas off the coast of Peru are 2 to 4 degrees cooler than normal, a La Nina weather pattern develops, which brings cooler-than- normal weather to Alaska.

    For most of the past year, La Nina (the opposite of El Nino, in which warmer-than-normal ocean temperatures occur off Peru) has prevailed. But that's now beginning to change.

    According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Web site, water temperatures in the eastern South Pacific began to warm this summer -- and the weather should eventually follow.

    The current three-month outlook posted by the national Climate Prediction Center in Camp Springs, Md., calls for below-normal temperatures for the south coast of Alaska from August through October -- turning to above-normal temperatures from October through December.
  • tlsintx · 1 year ago
    gg - 1
    bb - 0
  • Õ¿Õ · 1 year ago
    Do you realize how mindlessly annoying you global warming deniers are? Strange how you never get sick of repeating the same thing over and over and over but you see, thinking people get sick of hearing the same thing over and over and over.
  • Õ¿Õ · 1 year ago
    Wingnuts have talking points minds.
  • Shannon · 1 year ago
    Since you are one of the most open Republicans here, I am wondering when you are going to admit that you and those like you who voted for the Republicans are going to admit and appologize for the mess you helped create???? We are waiting.
  • tjlabs · 1 year ago
    McCain's early stage dementia on full display yesterday during his interview with Wolf Blitzer on CNN. Two good examples here. http://www.tagg-lines.com
  • jr · 1 year ago
    poor Larkin died of Oesophageal cancer
  • ComradeRutherford · 1 year ago
    What if the House Judiciary Committee held hearings about Bush's Imperial Presidency and NONE of the so-called progressive blogs even mentioned it?

    Is every one still high from the Netroots Nation parties to notice, or even care?

    I watched the whole thing and it was incredible! Why has no one said one word about this?
  • Shannon · 1 year ago
    Possibly because it was all for show, nothing will come of it, the one party system that is our government will protect Bu$hco to the end. We all know it, why pretend?
  • ComradeRutherford · 1 year ago
    So the left should ignore it? That makes NO sense!

    Every single progressive blog should have been pushing this nonstop, it should have been the top story for three days, and the fact that Conyers refused to allow a vote should have been a major part of it.

    Progressive blogs needed to have shamed the Democratic 'leadership'. Instead these blogs are following the GOP line of ignoring impeachment in hopes it will go away.
  • lynchie · 1 year ago
    Nice little animation about McCriminals interest in oil drilling.

    http://www.markfiore.com/
  • KarenMrsLloydRichards · 1 year ago
    NPR and Fox News this AM: Obama was too Presidential-appearing on his trip; there should only be ONE President at a time; Obama got a little too ahead of himself; Obama was too presumptuous on this trip: he was supposed to be on a listening and fact-finding tour, but he did all the talking. Watch his poll numbers plunge now, especially in those swing states where hard-working Americans, who are not Europeans, don't cotton to this uppity elitist being embraced by foreigners who hate America.
  • tlsintx · 1 year ago
    considering how non-presidential bushie is, i don't see the conflict.

    ps. "presumptous" = uppity
  • News Nag · 1 year ago
    trolltrolltrolltrolltrolltrolltrolltrolltrolltrolltrolltrolltrolltrolltrolltrolltrolltroll
  • tlsintx · 1 year ago
    had dinner last night with friends -
    their family members voted Hillary but won't vote Obama "because he's black and he's Muslim"
    holy shite

    here's the latest vile anti-Obama mass email:
    http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2008/07/virtual-...
  • Indigo · 1 year ago
    What I've heard is along the lines of vieled racism, the "he's not really like us" remark is beginning to surface around me. My response so far has been along the lines of a comic twist. I'm saying, "Well, I admit he's no Morgan Freeman but he's the best we've got!" seems to go over well, or at least get a smile.
  • News Nag · 1 year ago
    I very much liked the poem. He sure nails it.
    Succinct and beautiful. Thanks for it. I doubt
    though there was anything truly uneventful
    about this poet's deep, rich inner life in Coventry.

    Speaking of nails, here's my poem in response
    to the imposition of war and associated misery
    upon the world by people unaffected by their actions.


    Just Nails

    Just nail another to the cross
    and hoist another round of pain
    the sky is vexed with silhouette
    where in the world is the regret
    to help me pull nails by morning
    and not die of shade and haunt the day
    not watch the clock that runs the tombs
    that I could twist the knob to the catacombs
    and enter with song of dearth and thanksgiving
    my winter of longing for mirth and forgiving

    Larry Piltz
    Indian Cove
    Austin, Tejas
  • tlsintx · 1 year ago
    very nice!
  • dad · 1 year ago
    less is more