Congratulations to the New Yorker

Anyone who knows anything knows that the New Yorker has the most stringent fact-checking system in the industry. So it comes as no surprise that Bill "No Spin" O'Reilly has no stomach for them. An article in this week's Talk of the Town has garnered them a spot on Bill's black list.

Media Matters - O'Reilly adds New Yorker to media blacklist thanks to Christmas "war" column

O'Reily was right after all

Activist Judge Cancels Christmas

I hope this post gets me on the list

Republicans:
Some are mean...
Some are corrupt...
Some are just plain crazy

First it was Pat Roberson calling the wrath of God down on Dover, PA.

Now Bill O'Reilly has flipped out beyond imagination. A pretty tough feat considering he has claimed that his boycott of France had totally wrecked their economy; has insulted and abused a 9/11 victim's family; has continued to sexually harass his radio co-host after settling a sexual harassment law suite with a former producer at his TV show.

Earlier this week he invited terrorist to attack our country's most beautiful city-San Francisco-and destroy a monument to it's firefighters. But that's not the end of the story. After several bloggers took exception to this, he announced on his radio show that he would be posting a McCarthy-style enemies list on his website.

I hope this post gets me on the list.

Daily Kos: Bill O'Reilly Enemies List - Sign Up Tonight!

Best News I've Heard in a long time.

Digital Spy: Green Day to make "American Idiot" movie

Q: How can we downplay the Plame case indictments that are expected soon?

A: Make our own news.

You couldn't make up stuff like this. Bush nominee attacked by conservatives?
Will this trump the Fitzgerald indictment for the front page?
Stay tuned....

Harriet...We hardly knew you-Yahoo News

The Smoking Gun is There!!!

Hammer to the Slammer

From Majikthise:
Tom DeLay Perp Walk

Where's Vroomfondel?

Now we know the real reason for the change of plans

Texas trip canceled because it was too sunny from New York Times via Americablog

Decisiveness: that's what we need in a leader

Salon.com - War Room

Manchurian Mum by way of Maine

Barbara Bush's "let 'em eat cake" comments reminded me of Angela Landsbury in The Manchurian Candidate. Sweet kind lady on the outside...crafty and mean on the inside. As vile, cruel and heartless as she was I don't think commie agent Landsbury was ever stupid enough to reveal her true self in public.
CNN.com - Barbara Bush: Relocation 'working very well' for poor - Sep 6, 2005

The week that reporters found their backbones.

Unfortunately I think they lost it again.
Salon.com Arts & Entertainment | Reporters gone wild

Another Talking Point

Chertoff told Meet the Press that all the Tuesday morning papers said that NOLA had dodged a bullet!!! Soon the whole right-wing noise machine started parroting this nonsense. I think Al Franken found one paper with that hed...in Grenada...Chertoff sure goes far and wide to get his news....

About.com: http://www.wonkette.com/politics/michael-chertoff/index.php#chertoffs-reading-habits-123841

Even Satan sees the light.

Novak critical of White House spin??? Say it isn't so.
Novak Far Off the Reservation Without a Map - Wonkette

New Talking Point: Blame the Messenger

White House spin machine:
1. We're not playing the blame-game
2.But if we were finger-pointing it would be toward local and state authorities
3.Or the victims
4.Oh yeah...we almost forgot to blame the media.

Chertoff Draws Fire on Briefing - New York Times

This sums it up pretty well

"Bush won because he had a double-digit lead on the question of who was going to keep us safer.
Well, Katrina shoots that idea straight to hell, doesn't it? And Democrats should make clear once and for all just how illusory the president's purported strength, leadership, and steely-eyed resolve really are."

Arianna Huffington: Will the Dems Ever Learn? "It's The National Security, Stupid" The Huffington Post:

I hope she had a big laugh at the "bring out your dead" scene?

Condoleezza Rice Kicks Up Her Heels at Spamalot, Photo Op: Broadway.com Buzz

Someone tell W that he's in charge.

AWOL Again...from This Modern World

then there's this and this from AmericaBlog

Reason # 21: It is about the oil!

President Commemorates 60th Anniversary of V-J Day

"If Zarqawi and bin Laden gain control of Iraq, they would create a new training ground for future terrorist attacks; they'd seize oil fields to fund their ambitions..."

President Commemorates 60th Anniversary of V-J Day

Just the Facts...

Here's a good rundown on facts of the Wilson-Plame-Novak-Rove game.
The Wilson-Plame-Novak-Rove Blame Game - FactCheck.org

Grieving mother threatened with arrest. Osama still at large.

Daily Kos: Cindy: Sheriff there now, wants vehicles gone, threatens arrest ASAP

Tool

Pressure getting to Novak? ... [Media Matters for America]

Doh!!!

CNN.com - Baseball axed from London Olympics - Jul 8, 2005

Treason

Matt Cooper's Source - Newsweek National News - MSNBC.com

Rove must Go

That Karl Rove lacks integrity is not news. Frankly as a political operative he has done what he is expected to do. But if he wants to continue to cast aspersions on half of the nation and using the tragedy of 9/11 for political gain he needs to do it as a Republican partisan or private citizen not as a paid official of the federal government.
On the other issue If he is guilty of exposing a CIA agent then he needs to go to jail.

Latest Polls are out

Constitutional Convention to be held .
Texas and Alabama lead list

Beard

click here

Superman is a Dick

.
Superdickery.com
Thanks to Tom Tomorrow for reminding me about this site.

No News

Nothing has happend in the missing white girl case but there's a story anyway.
Natalee Holloway Full Coverage on Yahoo! News

Texas Jammerfest

The Lone Star Chapter of the Windjammer Vacation Cult had a meeting in Galveston last weekend. Twelve jammers met at the Galveston Island Hilton for drinks, dinner and a sunset cruise on the Captain Kidd out of Kemah.
Seaweed covered the beaches but that didn't stop us from having a mid-morning beach party complete with rum swizzles, pain killers and various other refreshments not usually associated with mid-morning. There's a trip report from Tom on the Windjammer Flotilla. (scroll down 'til you see the word "WOW".)

There are pictures here and here. A third set is coming soon we hope.

Texas Rangers

are in first again!!!!!!!

Friday 4:30 Story

Read your Saturday paper. If the government wants a story kept low key they'll release it on Friday afternoon. Here the pentagon aasures us that a Koran was never flushed. What a relief...jeers to Newsweek... oh but wait there might have been some other form of desecration...oh my!!!!
White House calls it isolated incidents and Scott McClellan still hasn't retracted his assertion that Newsweek is the major cause of instability in the Muslim world.
Nice headline in the story below, huh? The story is about the abuse but the headline focuses on the the White House downplaying the report.

CBS News White House: Quran Abuse Isolated June 6, 2005�11:12:04

Looks Like

this one will rock.

FIRST PLACE RANGERS

Rogers-7th straight win
Team-9 game winning streak
Top of the AL WEST!!!!

story here>>>>>

Woodstein confirms

Washington Post Confirms Felt Was 'Deep Throat'

Wonkette - Deep Throat is Mark Felt

Wonkette - Deep Throat is Mark Felt

Yoda Fu part 2

I guess we knew all along that Yoda would get his ass kicked and have to go into exile but I was still disappointed. Chewbacca wasn’t on screen long enough to be worthwhile let alone eat a Filet O’ Jar Jar sandwich. The opening scene was cool with the rescue of Palpatine in the middle of the space battle.

Not enough: Chewbacca, Darth Vader (in costume with James Earl Jones' voice)

Too Much-Anakin/Padme dialog (I laughed out loud at one point. Maybe it was meant to be a comedy?)

Over all- Didn’t suck
Best of the Prequels but that's not saying much.

Memory Hole 2

Newsweek Was Right: Part II from the LA Times
via Daily Outrage

Believe it or not

it didn't suck

I just like this picture and wanted to keep it near the top

Actually...

...they probably have no idea what he's talking about.

sad

Deafening silence

Lighsabers!!!!!

...throughout history

Wonkette - Murdoch Paper Mocks Bush

Wonkette - Murdoch Paper Mocks Bush

Memory Hole

Just 'cause Newsweek didn't get its sources straight doesn't mean it didn't happen.
Red Cross raised Koran disrespect concerns
---from AP wire via This Modern World

Yoda-Fu

So far I've heard that it doesn't suck although it doesn't rock either. I still haven't heard whether Chewbacca has roast JarJar for dinner or not. Feel free to post your opinion in the comments. But I'll allow only 3 ratings:
sucked
didn't suck
rocked.
In my opinion that's the only thing anyone needs to know about a movie.

News of the Day

Lest you think the Newsweek hubub is proof of a liberal media bias, remember that the writer of the "Koran in the Can" story is the same guy who broke the Lewinsky story.

Media Matters story here

and in a rebuttal to Media Matters here's a story from The Nation. Though is critical of the MM story it still makes the point that like him or not Isikoff has gone after all kinds of public officials regardless of party or idealogy.

At Last

I hope George Lucas keeps his promise not to make any more Star Wars movies. Everytime a new one comes out theatres raise their ticket prices.

Next: Darth Arbusto

First Post

Here's the first post of my new blog. Check out this link. I think I'll try to emulate those columns that have random words in bold.