Friday Stuff

(As long as I'm thinking about it, I might as well let you know that posting is questionable for the entire week next week, especially on Thursday and Friday.)

Oh, by the way, anybody remember a guy named John Kerry? Yeah, he's a Senate Democrat. From Massachusetts. Ran for president as I recall in 2004.

Of course, all we heard about Kerry from our corporate media cousins was stuff about windsurfing, marrying a rich condiments heiress, and alleged French ancestry (as if that's a problem?).

Yeah, a real dull guy, huh? Ponderous, effete, "voted for it before he voted against it," yadda yadda...

Well, give a listen to this - suddenly he makes a hell of a lot of sense.



...and speaking of Kerry, he and a few others have some good ideas here about Afghanistan...



..."Still Bushed" (K.O. tells us of Tara Jones, among other Bushies, who was allowed to "burrow" her way into a career civil service job inside the Obama Pentagon, with Jones being the contact person in the so-called "Pentagon Pundits" scandal exposed by David Barstow of the New York Times; also, if you thought Bank of America was unconscionable before, get a load of the script their customer service people have to follow, blaming delinquent homeowners for our economic crisis - uh, nobody put a gun to the head of Ken Lewis and told him to approve the stock purchases of Countrywide AND Merrill Lynch, did they?; and oh yes, former Bushco chief of staff Andrew Card blames Obama for taking his jacket off in the Oval Office, which Dubya never did...riiiight)...



..."Worst Persons" (Glenn Beck basically calls Obama a "communist" for signing SCHIP on a show that was advertised as one in which he wouldn't engage in that sort of name calling - I think the fact that Beck's demographic would apparently recognize how damaging that epithet once was...the "terrorist" of the 1940s and 50s...says something; Bill Orally's weaselly producer stalks Russell Tice, the NSA whistleblower, for insulting Falafel Boy - awww; but Rupert Murdoch...aaarrgghh...gets the nod for whining about Newscorp's cash hemorrhage, and in the process COMES UP WITH A NEW SLOGAN FOR FIX NOISE!!! - love the way that K.O. sneaks in the fact that his show and Rachel Maddow's are doing just fine, thank you)...



...and as a tribute to former Buffalo Springfield drummer Dewey Martin, here's "Sit Down, I Think I Love You" from "Where The Action Is" in February 1967 (and by the way, Neil Young's autobiography is called "Shakey")...



...and as a tribute to actor James Whitmore, here's a PSA he did on behalf of First Freedom First.