That David Gregory, who on occassions looked like he might resemble a newsman of the past, would so whore out his career in this fashion.
Apparently, I ain't the only one tasking Gregory:
David Gregory: Dancing with the Devil :
"David ---
I watched the video of you dancing back-up for Karl Rove at the Correspondents Dinner.
I've been in and out of journalism for 40 years, and I have a hard time understanding how you could do that last night and then hold his feet to the fire today.
Perhaps you could explain.
Cheers.
Jesse Kornbluth
Editor, HeadButler.com"
P.S. News Media, the people you cover should not be your fucking BFFs.
Most Excellent article from Mark Monford on the need for the U.S. to go into Rehad with a dash of, currently, my favorite singer Amy Winehouse:
Let's All Go To Rehab! / A national detox might be just the thing. Can someone bring coffee? Like, Amy Winehouse?:
"Doesn't that sound about right? Is it not time? Are we not ready for rehab on a national scale? Of course we are.
You gotta admit, we have been, lo these past six or seven years, rather violently drunk. Intoxicated on war and sanctimony and moral hypocrisy, wasting our creative potential like teenagers on meth and trashing our credit limit and partying until we pass out and ruining our livers and poisoning our spleens and shaving our lumpy heads in slightly desperate cries for help, even as we grin maniacally while we do it. Sound familiar?
.......Which brings me, obviously, to Amy Winehouse. She knows. She could be our moral salvation. Amy Winehouse is a musical goddess. Amy Winehouse likes to drink. Amy should win the Grammy for her astonishing new album Back to Black which was already a big hit in Britain last year and therefore she should be allowed to march right on to the "American Idol" stage and slap each and every singer upside the head with her huge hair and her wicked sexy tattoos and her mountain of raw British talent, just because. All part of our national rehab, really.
See, Amy's first U.S. single is called "Rehab" (Awkward transitions? Me? Bring it on) and the first line of the song is "They tried to make me go to rehab I said 'no, no no,'" and it's apparently a true story about how her managers wanted her to get some help with her wanton hard-drinkin' hard-partyin' ways, and of course she just shrugged and flipped them off and went on her own merry crazysexy way and then made a truly fantastic, funky, soulful, sexy record and is right now the greatest thing since the Alfa Romeo Brera in black. Is that not a wonderful little tale? Does that not add to her mystique? You bet it does.
"In speaking out, Mr. Dowd became the first member of Mr. Bush’s inner circle to break so publicly with him.
He said his decision to step forward had not come easily. But, he said, his disappointment in Mr. Bush’s presidency is so great that he feels a sense of duty to go public given his role in helping Mr. Bush gain and keep power.
Mr. Dowd, a crucial part of a team that cast Senator John Kerry as a flip-flopper who could not be trusted with national security during wartime, said he had even written but never submitted an op-ed article titled “Kerry Was Right,” arguing that Mr. Kerry, a Massachusetts Democrat and 2004 presidential candidate, was correct in calling last year for a withdrawal from Iraq."
Sessions has been getting some national ousting attention from Kos himself with these two recent mentions of a possible netroot candidate to take out Sessions. Ron Sparks is the man. Learn more about him:
Daily Kos: AL-Sen: Introducing Ron Sparks:
Swing State Project's James L takes a look at Alabama Agriculture and Industry Commissioner and veteran Ron Sparks, otherwise known as the guy that can take out Sen. Jeff Sessions in a tough Southern state."
More here:
Daily Kos: AL-Sen: Our people-powered Alabama candidate (if he wants it):
Isn't it nice when conservatives speak from their black, bigoted, shriveled hearts. I've said this once and I'll keep on saying it; When conservatives truthfully say what they want, then their politics will be roundly rejected by a vast majority of the public.:
Learn the language of prosperity, not the language of living in a ghettoo, Gingrich urges:
"'The American people believe English should be the official language of the government. ... We should replace bilingual education with immersion in English so people learn the common language of the country and they learn the language of prosperity, not the language of living in a ghetto,' Gingrich said to cheers from the crowd of more than 100."
God's dupes - Los Angeles Times:
"The truth is, there is not a person on Earth who has a good reason to believe that Jesus rose from the dead or that Muhammad spoke to the angel Gabriel in a cave. And yet billions of people claim to be certain about such things. As a result, Iron Age ideas about everything high and low — sex, cosmology, gender equality, immortal souls, the end of the world, the validity of prophecy, etc. — continue to divide our world and subvert our national discourse. Many of these ideas, by their very nature, hobble science, inflame human conflict and squander scarce resources."
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The problem is that wherever one stands on this continuum, one inadvertently shelters those who are more fanatical than oneself from criticism. Ordinary fundamentalist Christians, by maintaining that the Bible is the perfect word of God, inadvertently support the Dominionists — men and women who, by the millions, are quietly working to turn our country into a totalitarian theocracy reminiscent of John Calvin's Geneva. Christian moderates, by their lingering attachment to the unique divinity of Jesus, protect the faith of fundamentalists from public scorn. Christian liberals — who aren't sure what they believe but just love the experience of going to church occasionally — deny the moderates a proper collision with scientific rationality. And in this way centuries have come and gone without an honest word being spoken about God in our society.
There is no question that many people do good things in the name of their faith — but there are better reasons to help the poor, feed the hungry and defend the weak than the belief that an Imaginary Friend wants you to do it. Compassion is deeper than religion. As is ecstasy. It is time that we acknowledge that human beings can be profoundly ethical — and even spiritual — without pretending to know things they do not know.
Hershey worker loses arm in Oakdale chocolate factory accident:
"A worker at a Hershey Co. chocolate factory lost her arm when a machine she was cleaning accidentally switched on, according to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
Erica Domen, 32, of Modesto, was cleaning a batter-sifting machine when the accident occurred at around 1:20 a.m. Saturday at the company's Oakdale plant, about 15 miles northeast of Modesto, a spokesman for the state division of OSHA said.
'Her arm got caught in some machinery and it actually pulled her arm off,' Oakdale police Sgt. Keri Ford said. 'It wasn't a clean cut-off. They weren't able to replace it.'"
Grow-your-own Viagra craze hits Britain's garden centres - Independent Online Edition > Health Medical
A chance discovery by a Berkshire allotment-holder that a plant widely available in garden centres has the same effect on men as Viagra has been confirmed by experts at one of the world's leading botanical institutions.
The plant is winter-flowering heather, and botanists at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh, many of them heather experts who have recognised the source of its active ingredient, now expect it to be the next must-have plant in British gardens. Demand is already high. Nurseries and garden centres in some areas are having trouble finding sufficient supplies as word spreads of the plant's unexpected properties.
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The latest gardening craze was triggered by a discovery by a 55-year-old furniture restorer, Michael Ford, on his allotment. He was always experimenting with drinks made from different plants and one day he tried an infusion from his winter-flowering heather. He said: "The effect was almost immediate. I had to stay in my potting shed for an hour or so before I could decently walk down the street."
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