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Via Digby (and Page Six):
NBC is bringing in Luke Russert, son of the late beloved "Meet the Press" host Tim Russert, as a regular panelist on the Sunday morning show in a bid to turn around its catastrophic ratings slide, Page Six has exclusively learned. Also joining new moderator Chuck Todd's team will be former Republican congressman and "Morning Joe" host Joe Scarborough, who sources say "is taking on a larger role within NBC News as a senior political analyst and would be one of the regular Sunday panelists." We're told the move is part of a plan to bring a right-leaning voice to the program to appeal to viewers turned off by the show's famously left-leaning former hosts including the ousted David Gregory.
Also joining new moderator Chuck Todd's team will be former Republican congressman and "Morning Joe" host Joe Scarborough, who sources say "is taking on a larger role within NBC News as a senior political analyst and would be one of the regular Sunday panelists."
We're told the move is part of a plan to bring a right-leaning voice to the program to appeal to viewers turned off by the show's famously left-leaning former hosts including the ousted David Gregory.
Wow...Luke Russert on the panel, Scarborough taking on a larger role as a "senior political analyst" and on the panel..oh, I can't wait to get Charlie Pierce's reaction to this news...
And I don't think people were turned off by Gregory's so-called leftward leanings, but by his utter suckitude: no one sucked up better to the Washington power elite than David Gregory, did they?
Might have to temporarily end my self-imposed break from watching it to see just how awful the new cast of characters is (and for what it's worth, I have been following the general sucking of the Sunday shows via Charlie's regular Monday feature on them - not by actually giving up precious weekend time to watch them)
Bets on which writer(s) will depart in the next year ... Sargent, Dionne??? Somehow, I expect that the likes of Cilizza and Milbank will be featured more & more. Parent
Clearly they are going for the FOX crowd. I never under stood how Luke Bigtalker could stay employeed until one day when I was doing meals on wheels I walked into "the home" and on the screen was Luke and every blue, pink and bald head in the place was glued to the "force" emanating from his dimples. Rheumy eyes glazed. Parent
Russert Sr, beloved by who for gods sake.
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BRING a right leaning voice? Last time I watched - ok, admittedly that was back in the Russert pere days - it was predominantly right leaning voices among the panel and guests. In fact folks such as Charlie called the show "Meet the Republicans".
I guess they think they can lure some Fox viewers? Well, I've got news for them...those people are beyond hope of rescue. Parent
Sending hugs and healing thoughts to the Sotloff family today. Thank you for sharing a world and a country with me Sotloffs. I grieve your loss. What a fine man from a fine family. Sending my condolences as well.
From the link, is this cat from the National Council of Chain Restaurants serious?
But the National Council of Chain Restaurants, an industry trade group, took issue with the protesters. "While it is common for labor unions to stage events in order to grab media attention, encouraging activities that put both restaurant workers and their customers in danger of physical harm is not only irresponsible, it's disturbing," said executive director Rob Green, in a statement. "Unions are calling it 'civil disobedience' when in reality, this choreographed activity is trespassing and it's illegal."
Interesting definition of disturbing there guy...what most people find disturbing is the pittance your "restaurants" pay the people who make the burgers that pay your f*ckin' bloated salary Boss.
Peace.
Fingers crossed. Parent
He was going to grow his bangs over one eye, and they do naturally lay that way. So far, I win that fight. Parent
It would be 95F, and I'd be freezing. Waiters would walk by in restaurants, and their breeze would make my teeth chatter. Parent
I, otoh, am not the superstitious sort...whatever is comfortable! Parent
The most ludicrous excuse for shrinking our military derives from the president's thinking: "Things are much less dangerous now than they were 20 years ago, 25 years ago or 30 years ago." The "safer world" trial balloon has been punctured by recent events in Ukraine, Afghanistan, Libya, Egypt, Gaza, Nigeria, Somalia, Syria and Iraq. "Failures of imagination" led to tragedy 13 years ago; today, no imagination is required to picture what would descend on the United States if we let down our guard.
I guess getting people in Africa to stone people to death or give people the death penalty for being gay wasn't enough for the Evangelicals. And I figured this was coming.
Preacher man should be uncomfortable when he sounds like ISIS...but that probably ain't dawning on him. Sh*t the sun don't dawn on him. Parent
If the hater comes at you armed, then by all means;)
Another thought, who knows if he even means it...you know grifters aka preachers, whatever fills the collection plate gets said...no morals no scruples. Parent
When I pulled into the driveway he was 2 miles on foot from his and the heavens broke open and started raining on him. I busted out laughing.
I have no couth :). I try, but it never holds all the way across the finish line. Parent
He put on Facebook right after he got back that he wanted to be an established missionary to Uganda, but that did not bear fruit I guess. So then he put up he was on God's plan or something....and then I continue to happen to him :). Oh yeah, and I'm putting up gay rights postings that challenge who was in Genesis. He's on my Facebook. He knows I'm going to hell :) Parent
Example - Use to play at the Bicycle in LA. One of the regulars wore a gas mask... Then went outside, took it off and smoked... claimed HIS smoke wouldn't harm him... Parent
But he is not a spokesperson for Christians, as you will make him out to be and he can't launch attacks.
Just a nitwit. Parent
But he is not a spokesperson for Christians, as you will make him out to be and he can't launch attacks. Just a nitwit.
Just a nitwit.
If he could launch attacks would that make him a spokesman for all Christians? Parent
When his militia trains?
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People often make mistakes when reasoning syllogistically.[14] For instance, from the premises some A are B, some B are C, people tend to come to a definitive conclusion that therefore some A are C.[15][16] However, this does not follow according to the rules of classical logic. For instance, while some cats (A) are black things (B), and some black things (B) are televisions (C), it does not follow from the parameters that some cats (A) are televisions (C). This is because in the structure of the syllogism invoked (i.e. III-1) the middle term is not distributed in either the major premise or in the minor premise a pattern called the "fallacy of the undistributed middle".
For instance, from the premises some A are B, some B are C, people tend to come to a definitive conclusion that therefore some A are C.[15][16] However, this does not follow according to the rules of classical logic. For instance, while some cats (A) are black things (B), and some black things (B) are televisions (C), it does not follow from the parameters that some cats (A) are televisions (C). This is because in the structure of the syllogism invoked (i.e. III-1) the middle term is not distributed in either the major premise or in the minor premise a pattern called the "fallacy of the undistributed middle".
Because that's what Jesus would've done. Render unto Caesar. Parent
And in your case, I think it is spelled
N O N S E N S E
BTW my dear expert on sinful acts and other questions re ethics.
What do you call letting someone die if you could have saved them? Parent
That would be a terrible situation to find yourself in. Parent
This has nothing to do with Christians in general. It's about Evangelicals. The Southern Baptists have been whacked forever and this is just another example of how much they have in common with the nuts in the middle east.
Is there ever a time when you quit jerking your knee? Parent
Okie Dokie. Parent
That is what???? Facts are tiresome?
He obviously doesn't speak for ALL Christians, mainline or otherwise.
And since he is hired by the church he isn't even the church's spokesman.
Do you even understand how a church is organized?
BTW - I am sure you are a big Jimmy Carter fan. He said last fall that he was leaving the SB but would remain a deacon in his home church in Plains.
Go figure. He aint but he is.
And now he:
"Former President Jimmy Carter told attendees at the Islamic Society of North America that "the principles of Allah" are the key to peace in the Middle East.
Guess he hasn't heard of stoning, honor killing, female circumcision, etc. Parent
Because they aint yankees and they're "strong on national defense"?
It isn't my fault if you can't keep up.
Tell me.
Why did you vote for a guy who is destroying the country?? Parent
When it comes up you change the subject to Obama, Jimmy Carter or some other durned liberal Rush talked about yesterday
Anything but delve into why you vote for people who hate gays and want poor women to use coat hangers. Parent
You don't think he's even the church's spokesman? I guess you don't realize how churches are organized then. The members of the church usually choose the minister Jim or at least a committee chooses them.
And Gateway Pundit? ROTFLMAO. No wonder you're so misinformed if that's one of the places you get your information from. Parent
And a quote is a quote.
You saying he didn't say it??
Dodging becomes you. Parent
And SLC? What are you talking about? LDS? Parent
I grew up in a church affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention.
(The South is full of Baptist churches which are not affiliated with the SBC, which makes them Southern, and Baptist, but not Southern Baptist)
Before the conservative takeover.
Back then it was the other white Baptist churches, the "free will" "hardshell" and "primative" Baptist churches that were the more "fundamentalist" leaning. Parent
And while you're at it, quit voting for people who hate and nurture hatred for gays and maybe someone will believe you when you say you follow the teachings of the New Testament. Parent
I'm not a one issue voter and put security of the country above all else.
Let me know when you do. Parent
And the GOP is a joke when it comes to national security with most people. George W. Bush destroyed any faith the voters have in the GOP on that account for a generation. Another GOP president and we know we'll be lied into another quagmire. Parent
"With regards to Iraq, you and I agreed, I believe, that there should be a status of forces agreement," Romney told Obama as the two convened on the Lynn University campus in Boca Raton, Fla., that October evening. "That's not true," Obama interjected. "Oh, you didn't want a status of forces agreement?" Romney asked as an argument ensued. "No," Obama said. "What I would not have done is left 10,000 troops in Iraq that would tie us down. That certainly would not help us in the Middle East."
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And that's why the GOP is likely to lose the presidency again in 2016. They can't let go nor accept responsiblity for the havoc they wreaked on the country. Obama is lucky in that way. He only gets compared to the worst president in the history of the country. Parent
Why don't you just sit in the corner and wait for the end times to come? Parent
The point is why I consider them better at national security.
I gave you Obama telling us he pulled the troops.
I then give you Jimmy Carter, beloved of the Left and important enough for the Muslim group to invite him, opining that there's nothing wrong with Islam when there obviously is.
What will the voters do??
I think enough will vote to get rid of whoever the Demos nominate.
See ya in '06. Parent
You are a paranoid, sad old man who votes for charlatans who play on the fears of paranoid, sad old men.
Waving the flag and telling us all how much you love your country is just your pathetic attempt to hide the real you, the you that publicly promotes the killing of children and hatred of Muslims.
As someone who actually served I am getting sick of you constantly implying that you love your country more than anyone here, while dodging questions about serving that very country. Parent
Yeah, it pretty much describes tea partiers to a T. And in their world if you don't believe what they believe 100% you are a leftist bend on destroying America. The truth of the matter is they hate America, 21st Century America that is. They love fantasy America of the 1950's.
Anyway the positive is that this crackpot stuff drives more and more people away from them. Parent
And in their world if you don't believe what they believe 100% you are a rightie bend on destroying America
You and Scott are just the flip side of the far Right.
And neither can go three comments without making a personal insult.
Look in the mirror. Parent
And please don't puke on your keyboard. It'll gum it up. ;-)
BTW - Since you brought it up. I served 10 years. You??? (Boy scouts and midnight basketball doesn't count.) Parent
Good Thing #2: The Greg Orman situation in Kansas. Orman has vowed, if he wins, to caucus with the Independents in the Senate (namely, B. Sanders and A. King.) When the Democratic candidate withdrew, Orman is expected to gain the Dem votes. BTW, Orman has been polling ahead of Repub incumbent, Pat Roberts. It is fascinating. It also represents one of those "surprises" that happens in every election season.
OMG, Pootie has drones!!!!
Mysterious Fake Cellphone Towers Are Intercepting Calls All Over The US
[Business Insider]
The NSA says they don't spy that way...but who knows if that is true, they lie for a living. Parent
I've attended numerous planning/zoning board meetings where legitimate phone companies were applying for permission to erect towers. The degree of scrutiny the boards put them through are maddingly strict. The public wants good cell phone service; they just don't want to see unsightly towers. In some of those applications the attorneys have to come back a dozen, or, more, times, and, still don't get approval.
There's no way those towers exist without the proper authorities knowing everything there is to know about them. Parent
And it occurs to me that Popular Science has the resources to do just that. Parent
I use MDLandRec.net all the time to get copies of deeds; the MD SDAT records are a wealth of information, too, and I use the site frequently. The counties and cities all have property tax records online, too, so you can check and see if taxes have been paid and how much they were.
Hard to keep any secrets. Parent
TV golf=old men in ugly pants walking. Parent
My husband can't play poker, and while he golfs he makes noises while other people take their swing and must be beaten up.
He has to play frisbee golf, he can't grow up enough to play real golf :) Parent
Did someone post this already? I have YouTube Amnesia these days.
Ooops, time to do some actual work. Imagine that.
They now have my business.
CVS will never be a "health store"...they sell soda and don't sell fresh fruit. Parent
Tobacco is the worst drug delivery product in the world and should be sold only in liquor stores along with booze and pot.
BTW - You ever know anyone with COPD??? Parent
Other than him all the family's smokers died at what I'd call an old age for reasons unrelated to smoking. Genetically speaking, I like my odds.
We all gotta go somehow someway someday. I'll try to quit if and when I stop enjoying it and not a second sooner. I tell ya the more time I am spending caring for my 90-something great-uncle the more I am convinced I definitely wanna die before I get even close to that old. He becomes a more miserable bag of bones by the day...it's sad. Parent
And I didn't say anyone couldn't smoke.
It just should be sold in a more restricted manner.
And come back when you actually face real short odds on dying and tell me how you felt. Parent
With any luck, in the near future my reefer purchases will be legal and my tobacco purchases illegal. Who woulda ever thunk it? Well maybe not near future, NY State will be one the last to wise up I'm afraid.
All I hope is you're still here when I'm dying...and living quality, not just quantity. I could change my mind of course, but right now I'm all about quality and tobacco adds quality.
I'll let you know next week if my charred lungs still get me down the gridiron on kickoffs faster than the non-smoking youngsters. I've lost a little quickness, but the speed is still hanging in there...just takes a couple extra strides to get the engine going full bore. Opening Day Sunday!
How's your grandson doing playing real ball? Parent
just takes a couple extra strides to get the engine going full bore.
Have a good'un! Parent
These are small nations, you wouldn't know you were on a rez if not for the three blocks of tobacco shops. Nothing like the Six Nations you're thinking of. Parent
Interesting name Parent
Hodor and Bran are not heavily featured in the books that the show should now be following so it makes sense to just leave them out.
They I would assume figure into the master storyline that will wrap this whole mess up in the unwritten books.
Them and the Dragons that is! Parent
According to Martin when speaking to BuzzFeed, "I have a large number of important characters who I switch between to tell the entirety of the story, and that limits who I can kill." "Sometimes there's only one character who's my eye in a particular location, and if I kill that character everything going on in that particular subplot is going to be lost." "The way my books are structured, everyone was together, then they all went their separate ways and the story deltas out like that." "Now it's getting to the point where the story is beginning to delta back in, and the viewpoint characters are meeting up with each other and being in the same point at the same time."
"Sometimes there's only one character who's my eye in a particular location, and if I kill that character everything going on in that particular subplot is going to be lost."
"The way my books are structured, everyone was together, then they all went their separate ways and the story deltas out like that."
"Now it's getting to the point where the story is beginning to delta back in, and the viewpoint characters are meeting up with each other and being in the same point at the same time."
"It was all Mrs. Bumble. She would do it," urged Mr. Bumble; first looking round, to ascertain that his partner had left the room.
"That is no excuse," returned Mr. Brownlow. "You were present on the occasion of the destruction of these trinkets, and, indeed, are the more guilty of the two, in the eye of the law; for the law supposes that your wife acts under your direction."
"If the law supposes that," said Mr. Bumble, squeezing his hat emphatically in both hands, "the law is a ass -- a idiot. If that's the eye of the law, the law is a bachelor; and the worst I wish the law is, that his eye may be opened by experience -- by experience."
Blaming the spouse didn't work for Mr. Bumble, either. As for the now-convicted former Gov. and Mrs. McDonnell, the law indeed proved itself a bachelor in its application.
Aloha. Parent
Hindsight. Parent
Thought you might be interested. Parent
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Loved her total disregard for political correctness, her politics not so much, but that's not what is important in life. Laughter is, and she gave the world a whole lotta that. Parent
Her type of humor was often a little too caustic for my taste. But there's no doubt that she was a true pioneer and trailblazer for women in the fields of stand-up comedy and late-night talk shows, both of which have been -- and still are -- dominated by men, and she paid an enormous price both professionally and personally for her efforts, with her blackballing by Johnny Carson and her husband's later suicide.
It's never easy to be the first to break a glass ceiling, and Ms. Rivers proved herself to be one very tough and resilient dame, in the very best sense of the term. For that, she should always be remembered with reverence and affection.
RIP, Joan. Parent
"I wish I could tell you it gets better. But it doesn't get better. You get better. I've gone up, I've gone down, I've been bankrupt, I've been broke, but you do it. And we do it because we love it more than anything else. [...] Nobody likes a necrophiliac."
The woman had some real brass, for sure. Parent
Don't need heartbreaking right now. Divine was sad enough. Soon. Parent
Robert Carlyle is so good. Too bad he was in the same Emmy seasons as Aaron Paul and other more prestigious shows. Parent
The suspet had just beheaded a woman in her back garden.
"diplomats and defense officials from the United States, Britain, France, Australia, Canada, Germany, Turkey, Italy, Poland and Denmark". Financing from Saudi Arabia. Intelligence from Jordan. UAE willing to help.
"officials present made clear that at the moment, any ground combat troops would come from either Iraqi security forces or Kurdish pesh merga fighters on the ground in Iraq, or from moderate Syrian rebels"
"And even as Mr. Obama weighs expanding airstrikes into Syria, both he and his administration have been questioning what might happen after launching those strikes, especially as targeting ISIS in Syria would help the government of Mr. Assad"