Wednesday Stuff

By the way, 55 years ago today, Joseph McCarthy was censured by the U.S. Senate...in this clip, the references to "Zwicker" and "Stevens" have to do with his hearings into alleged Communists (they were always alleged) in the U.S. Army - also, the "Alger/Adlai" slip has to do with trying to link Democrat Adlai Stevenson to former FDR New Dealer Alger Hiss, who maintained his innocence until his death - Hiss was convicted of perjury, by the way, not espionage...interesting historical quirk to yours truly that Hiss outlived Nixon, with the latter beginning his political career on the back of the former...the reference to the "Democrat" candidate by McCarthy is boilerplate Repug garbage also, of course...and sadly, as we know, McCarthyism lives on)...



...oh, and yeah, there's that health care thing going on too, besides Afghanistan (and happy birthday to Harry Reid; here's my greeting - go to reconciliation on this, or prepare to lose your job)...

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..."Worst Persons" (Planet Bachmann has another problem with math and percentages; Lou Dobbs has a problem with recognizing the leader of the free world, as reality slips further and further away; and Bill Orally pulls his own "Alger/Adlai" number, updated as "Osama/Obama," for I would guess the two millionth time)...

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...and here's a video that has absolutely nothing to do with anything I've just said.