And look at it THIS way..
$90,000 Per Second for Super Bowl Ads
Among the commercials that Fox Broadcasting will run during the Super Bowl on Sunday, “there will be cute animals, at least one talking baby, an appeal to help fight AIDS, a talent contest, light-hearted parodies and enough celebrities to fill several seasons of ‘Dancing With the Stars,’” Stuart Elliott reports in today’s New York Times. Fox [...]
Tags: Super Bowl Ads
Categories: Sports · Television
It’s all about the Clintons. Mostly about Bill. And it’s from the past. Years ago.
The New York Times editorial page has endorsed Senator Clinton, but the news desk is having none of it. An attempted hit piece is trying to create a scandal out of Bill Clinton’s having raised a ton of money for his foundation. The hit piece was co-authored by Don Van Natta, Jr., the co-author, with Jeff Gerth, of [...]
Tags: Bill Clinton
Categories: Clinton
Aw, whoda thunk it?
Daniel Schorr Predicts Bush Will Pardon Telcom Companies
NPR’s All Things Considered: In his State of the Union address, President Bush asserted “a solemn duty to prevent the terrorists carrying out their plans.” And that, he said, meant liability protection for companies that have cooperated with the eavesdropping program. Well, I can imagine Mr. Bush, if nothing [...]
Tags: Telecom Immunity
Categories: Bush Administration · FISA · Terrorism
We send all of our military to Iraq and Afghanistan, that doesn’t leave enough here at home!
US Military May Not Be Ready for Attack
The U.S. military isn’t ready for a catastrophic attack on the country, and National Guard forces don’t have the equipment or training they need for the job, according to a report. Even fewer Army National Guard units are combat-ready today than were nearly a year ago when [...]
Tags: Military, National Guard
Categories: Military · National Security
If Joe would just give Mika and the other folks a chance to talk more…that’s really my only complaint. Otherwise, this really nails why he’s better than before.
Joe Scarborough: The Anti-Chris Matthews?
TV Guide’s Cheers & Jeers writes about Morning Joe… “Cheers to Morning Joe for becoming a must-have fix for political junkies. Ex-congressman Joe Scarborough seemed like a poor man’s Bill O’Reilly on his old prime-time MSNBC show, Scarborough Country. When the cable net moved him to the morning shift, it seemed like a desperate stopgap in [...]
Tags: MSNBC, Scarborough
Categories: Television
From Iraq. And the war. They aren’t pretty.
For the first time in five months, month-to-month deaths in Iraq have increased. As of today, 37 American soldiers have been killed in Iraq. That is the same number of troops that died in May of 2003, when President Bush smiled in front of a [...]
Tags: Iraq
Categories: Bush Administration · Iraq War
Mike Huckabee wants you to know that he’s still in the GOP race. That would sound like empty promises, except for this bit of analysis that shows he’s right…
Huckabee Could Still Knock Romney Out
From the latest Evans-Novak Political Report: “It is very possible that Huckabee will pick up more delegates on Super Tuesday than will Romney. If Romney is in third place in delegates on February 6, that could end his bid.” The reason? ” [...]
Tags: Huckabee
Categories: 2008 Election · Huckabee
Do the numbers add up? Nope.
Broward County Voters Give 110% in Florida Primary!
Turnout at Broward County, Florida’s precinct D001 was excellent in last Tuesday’s primary election, according to the “unofficial results” posted on this county webpage. With 1,028 ballots cast, and 930 registered voters at the precincts, voters having turned out, the turnout was an impressive %110.54! The BRAD BLOG called the Broward County [...]
Categories: Electronic Voting Machines
The one in Afghanistan? Apparently it’s not going to smoothly, either.
While Democrats applaud Bush and St. McCain’s failed surge in Iraq, Afghanistan descends into chaos: “The international effort to stabilize Afghanistan is faltering and urgently needs thousands of additional U.S. and coalition troops, an influential group of American diplomatic and military experts concluded in a report issued Wednesday. The independent study finds that the Taliban, which two years ago was largely viewed as a defeated movement, has [...]
From the “another world” department at the State Department:
State Dept. Official On Afghanistan: ‘Nobody Can Tell Me It’s Not Going In A Positive Direction’
In a Senate hearing today on Afghanistan, Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Richard Boucher proclaimed, “There is progress. It’s going in the right direction.” Boucher said Afghanistan now has “a government that works fairly well,” a “quality” police force, a growing “cell phone market,” and even residents who are “furnishing [...]
Tags: Afghanistan
Categories: Afghanistan
Simply can’t do anything right!
9/11 Commission chief alleged to have massive conflict of interest, secret ties to White House
Because what we need surrounding 9/11 is more reason to believe there was a conspiracy. Seriously, the Commission has already done a lot to undermine its credibility - including Kean being involved with that awful rewriting of 9/11 history from ABC, and Hamilton refusing to say boo about it - to the weird deception from the Pentagon and the FAA, both of which tried to deceive the commission. And now we learn that the chief of the Commission is alleged to have been [...]
Categories: Uncategorized
And the boss has blinders on…
Bush shrugs off plummeting international reputation.
In an interview with Roll Call’s Mort Kondracke, President Bush “utterly dismissed international opinion polls showing declining approval of the United States.” “When it comes to, where do you want to live, many people [say], ‘I’d like to live in the United States,’” Bush proclaimed. A reality check for the President: Bush also told [...]
Categories: George W. Bush
Whatever possessed them?
Yochi Dreazen reports for the Wall Street Journal that three young men in New Mexico tried out waterboarding to see if it is torture. In a nutshell, these three guys were debating whether waterboarding is torture, and one of them suggested they try it out to see. So they filled a 2-liter Coke bottle with water, [...]
Tags: Torture, Waterboarding
Categories: Torture · Waterboarding
Why? Because it’s the last one before Super Tuesday (or whatever it’s being called tonight) and it comes right on the heels of word that the race is tightening.
Sen. Barack Obama has now cut the gap with Sen. Hillary Clinton to 6 percentage points among Democrats nationally in the Gallup tracking poll three-day average, “and interviewing conducted Tuesday night shows the gap between the two candidates is within [...]
We’re seeing the same tightening trend in California..
Poll: Hillary Clinton’s Lead Shrinking In California
A new Rasmussen Poll shows New York Senator Hillary Clinton’s lead is shrinking in California — a state where her campaign reportedly had viewed Latino voters as a “firewall” in Tuesday’s “Super Tuesday” primary: “The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey in California shows Hillary Clinton with a very narrow [...]
Tags: 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton
Categories: 2008 Election · Clinton · Obama
Those on the Right are all aghast at McCain’s sudden success. And, they’re trying to find their footing in the great debate over who to support.
With the prospect of a John McCain nomination becoming more and more likely, Conservatives talk-radio hosts seem to be accepting that fact, or are they? Some conservatives are making a last-ditch attempt to block Senator McCain’s path to the Republican presidential nomination, but there are indications that they may have trouble [...]
Tags: John McCain
Categories: 2008 Election · McCain
Republicans last night , Dems tonight. Both on CNN. Man, did Huckabee come down hard on CNN when the Morning Joe crew talked with him on MSNBC. He said CNN structured the debate so it was essentiallly a two man discussion. If I can find video, I’ll update this post.
In the meantime, let’s deliver a good punch to the stomach. Via the economy. Thanks to Shell oil.
Shell posts record profit - $3 million per minute
Who needs an energy plan when Shell and Exxon already have one for us? We need more government by special interests, for special interests. Big Oil will continue to give lip service to alternative energies and place pretty flowers on their adverts but they will never, ever make a serious move beyond oil. Shell just posted the [...]
If that’s not enough to get the stomach churning, how about this?
Investor Calls for Hard U.S. Recession
Fortune magazine talks to commodities investor Jim Rogers, who’s been calling for a recession for months, and now says the coming economic downturn is going to be bad. “Conceivably we could have [...]
Tags: Economy
Categories: Economy
Good topic to leave you with during the overnight hours and during the day tomorrow. Comments are open.
Assuming he doesn’t quickly endorse one candidate or the other, who does Edwards’ exit help? There are some number crunching arguments that it helps Hillary — with the three candidates to split delegates in states where [...]
Tags: 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, John Edwards
Categories: 2008 Election · Clinton · Edwards · Obama
Hmmm. Don’t think I’ve seen anything quite like this before. It’ll be interesting to see if viewers will actively choose MSNBC’s discussions after the debates or just lazily stick with CNN, where the debates are airing.
MSNBC to air post CNN-Debate Countdown…
MSNBC announced that Keith Olbermann will be hosing a special 10pm edition of Countdown following the Republican debate on CNN… Keith Olbermann will anchor a special edition of “Countdown” Thursday, Jan. 31, 10-11 p.m. ET. The special live “Countdown” airs after the Democratic candidates debate in Los Angeles. “After you watch it there, come and understand it [...]
Categories: 2008 Election · Television
We blogged before about this happening…on the East Coast. Now, we’re hearing the same kind of horrible reports from California. Likely, you can find instances almost anywhere. As a pet lover, it turns my stomach.
Owners Ditch Pets After Houses Foreclose
The house was ravaged — its floors ripped, walls busted and lights smashed by owners who trashed their home before a bank foreclosed on it. Hidden in the wreckage was an abandoned member of the family: a starving pit bull. The dog found by workers was too far gone to save — another example of how pets are becoming the newest victims of the nation’s mortgage crisis as homeowners leave animals behind when they can no longer afford their property. Pets “are getting dumped all over,” said Traci Jennings, president of [...]
Tags: Foreclosures, Pets
Categories: Economy · Housing Market
I looked through our local paper this morning, not surprised to see no coverage. But, you’d think the big names in the industry would do their job. Sadly, no.
Major papers ignore Bush’s Iraq signing statement.
On Monday, President Bush issued a signing statement on the National Defense Authorization Act. Dan Froomkin of the Washington Post rips the lack of media news stories on Bush’s neglect of the Constitution: “Looking for a news story about all this in your morning paper? You won’t find one in The Washington Post, the [...]
Tags: Signing Statements
Categories: Bush Administration
Here we go, another round of allegations that American troops did the unthinkable.
Army Investigating Allegations That US Troops Killed Iraqi Detainees
U.S. Army officials are investigating allegations that American soldiers killed several detainees after they were captured on a battlefield in southwest Baghdad last year, officials said Tuesday. Military officials said the incident under review took place about [...]
Tags: Army
Categories: Military
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