Republican Congressman Tom Reynolds, chairman of the Republican National Congressional Comitttee and under fire for not doing more about Rep. Mark Foley, was scheduled to be on ABC’s “This Week” Sunday; he confirmed his appearance last Wednesday.
But, he then cancelled.
Why?
“Flu-like symptoms.”
You know the GOP is dysfunctional when its lying is that bad.
October 09, 2006
October 08, 2006
Kim Jong Il goes nuclear; let’s see Bush screw up North Korean diplomacy even more
(I’m assuming this wasn’t a Rove conspiracy to drive Mark Foley off the news pages.)
According to both North Korea and South Korea, it sounds official: North Korea is a nuclear power.
Should this scare us more than, say, Pakistan’s being a nuclear power?
Perhaps, in some ways.
First, given that we don’t know whether Pakistan’s rogue nuclear scientist, A.Q. Khan, is under house detention, or more in the way of house leisure, who’s to say the old Pyongyang//Islamabad connection might not get a jump start?
At the least, Pakistan’s President Musharraf can threaten something like that the next time our own Maximum Leader, George W(hhhaattt?) Bush, talks to him like a 5-year-old, not a fellow head of state.
Second, who’s to say that Kim won’t try to rev up some backdoor connection even without official, or semi-official via the ISI, Pakistani agreement? Or with Iran?
I don’t know if Clinton would have stopped this or not. But, he couldn’t have bollixed up the last five-plus years of diplomacy any worse than it has been.
According to both North Korea and South Korea, it sounds official: North Korea is a nuclear power.
Should this scare us more than, say, Pakistan’s being a nuclear power?
Perhaps, in some ways.
First, given that we don’t know whether Pakistan’s rogue nuclear scientist, A.Q. Khan, is under house detention, or more in the way of house leisure, who’s to say the old Pyongyang//Islamabad connection might not get a jump start?
At the least, Pakistan’s President Musharraf can threaten something like that the next time our own Maximum Leader, George W(hhhaattt?) Bush, talks to him like a 5-year-old, not a fellow head of state.
Second, who’s to say that Kim won’t try to rev up some backdoor connection even without official, or semi-official via the ISI, Pakistani agreement? Or with Iran?
I don’t know if Clinton would have stopped this or not. But, he couldn’t have bollixed up the last five-plus years of diplomacy any worse than it has been.
Doesn’t Al Jazeera have something more important to cover than T.O.?
Or was this about the hedonism of America?
In what must be considered a sign of the secular apocalypse, Arab TV network Al Jazeera asked for a credential to cover the loving homecoming of Dallas Cowboys wideout Terrell Owens to play his old team, the Philadelphia Eagles.
Maybe they decided this would be a nice break from covering Iraq. Or maybe this was an inside favor to Jerry Jones pal Prince Bandar?
(And I refuse to put an Owens tag on this.)
Toyota hybrid commercials have their share of hot air
Yes, it’s nice to have more hybrids than anybody else.
But, it would be nice if all of them actually used hybrids’ full potential.
Take the hybrid Camry, for example.
Toyota BOASTS of getting 40mpg in the city.
But, the Honda Accord hybrid, which is nothing to write home about in terms of hybrid fuel economy, gets 44mpg.
And, I haven’t seen the hybrid Camry’s highway mpg. But, if it gets just 40 in the city, it’s probably only about 35 on the highway, which is the same as the 4-cylinder gas-only Camry,
Toyota looks more and more like an American-based car company all the time, it seems to me.
But, it would be nice if all of them actually used hybrids’ full potential.
Take the hybrid Camry, for example.
Toyota BOASTS of getting 40mpg in the city.
But, the Honda Accord hybrid, which is nothing to write home about in terms of hybrid fuel economy, gets 44mpg.
And, I haven’t seen the hybrid Camry’s highway mpg. But, if it gets just 40 in the city, it’s probably only about 35 on the highway, which is the same as the 4-cylinder gas-only Camry,
Toyota looks more and more like an American-based car company all the time, it seems to me.
Who says Kinky’s wrong on wanting to abolish TAKS?
Colorado and Utah have already headed down this road
Everybody is saying Kinky Friedman’s call to get rid of the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills, the state’s standardized test battery, will mean a loss of federal education funds.
BUT, as the Great Newspaper of Dallas, the Morning News,, has listed in a Sunday column by Ryan Sager, “Colorado and Utah have openly rebelled against No Child Left Behind’s federal testing regime by passing laws exempting themselves from it.”
I knew that, but had forgotten all about it until reading Sager’s column. So, the “Conventional Three” of the Four Stooges are dead wrong on this one.
Any Kinky fans reading this, feel free to spread the idea.
Why Kinky won’t win; comparing him to Jesse
1. Ventura was the only independent in the race in Minnesota; Kinky has to share that appellation with Grandma.
2. The media market is MUCH different. In Minnesota, the only major media market is Minneapolis-St. Paul. Outside of that, you have the medium-small markets of Rochester, Duluth and Moorhead. MSP makes up half the state’s population.
Here, though, Dallas-Fort Worth and Houston are each as big as the entire state of Minnesota. Austin and San Antonio are both major media markets as well. El Paso is a semi-major market. McAllen/Lower Valley and Laredo/Middle Valley are both midlevel markets. Abilene, Midland/Odessa, Amarillo, Waco/Temple/Belton and Longview/Marshall are all as big as, if not bigger, than all of the non-MSP markets in Minnesota.
In short, it takes a LOT of money for TV buys to compete in a statewide race in Texas. The Internet hasn’t changed things that much — at least not yet.
Name recognition may offset some of that, but it’s not like Kinky, nickname and all, has the same recognition level as The Redheaded Stranger himself, Mr. Willie Nelson.
3. The “getting serious” factor. Kinky could have been better coached than he was for the Oct. 5 debate without being sanitized or put in lockdown. And he wasn’t. Ventura had actually had previous political experience, so he didn’t need quite as much coaching or handling.
So, that leaves Grandma and Verizon wondering if they can’t get voters to coalesce behind them to knock off Gov. Helmethair.
2. The media market is MUCH different. In Minnesota, the only major media market is Minneapolis-St. Paul. Outside of that, you have the medium-small markets of Rochester, Duluth and Moorhead. MSP makes up half the state’s population.
Here, though, Dallas-Fort Worth and Houston are each as big as the entire state of Minnesota. Austin and San Antonio are both major media markets as well. El Paso is a semi-major market. McAllen/Lower Valley and Laredo/Middle Valley are both midlevel markets. Abilene, Midland/Odessa, Amarillo, Waco/Temple/Belton and Longview/Marshall are all as big as, if not bigger, than all of the non-MSP markets in Minnesota.
In short, it takes a LOT of money for TV buys to compete in a statewide race in Texas. The Internet hasn’t changed things that much — at least not yet.
Name recognition may offset some of that, but it’s not like Kinky, nickname and all, has the same recognition level as The Redheaded Stranger himself, Mr. Willie Nelson.
3. The “getting serious” factor. Kinky could have been better coached than he was for the Oct. 5 debate without being sanitized or put in lockdown. And he wasn’t. Ventura had actually had previous political experience, so he didn’t need quite as much coaching or handling.
So, that leaves Grandma and Verizon wondering if they can’t get voters to coalesce behind them to knock off Gov. Helmethair.
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