Newtie's always had expensive tastes. Everyone remembers Clinton cleaning his clock in the budget standoff way back then, but I never see the reason BigDawg won - Newtie was petulant that he had to ride in the back of AF1 and let some of butt buddy journo friends know it. Until then, Newtie thought he was king of the world; it never ceases to amaze me how politicians start to believe their own BS.

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Best comment from the Newt article: "Clearly, this is the man to lead us out of our current fiscal crisis."

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Regards Newt Grinch: His idea of making a living is running for president.

Can we file a complaint against the Stephens' use of lawsuits in a frivolous manner?

Caught the Guardian editor bitch-slapping Howard Kurtz on "Reliable Sources" this morning as Kurtz tried to paint the Guardian as doing as bad as the Murdoch's sleazedogs for an error in reporting that was corrected.

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Grifters gotta grift, wannabe.

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One adores Mr. Brantley's above links, "the infection has spread to the U.S.," which succinctly snapshots the case(s) building against Murdoch, and the "interview with a Murdoch flunky," namely Simon Greenberg (flunky) interviewed by Jon Snow (interviewer).

Two elements of note:

1) Jon Snow, unlike, say FOX "News" propagandists, is neither young, chirpy, blond nor bosomy. Just seasoned, intelligent, informed and persistent.

2) Blink-rates. Always telling. Ask any veteran cop.

Jon blinks like a normal human being. Simon blinks like a robot programmed (ineptly) to resemble an actual sentient human. Or liar.

(See Tom Cruise in Xenu mode, or Mel Gibson with Diane Sawyer. Or any FOX "News" fan straight-facedly insisting it's the only "fair and balanced" news channel. Or anybody named Palin, Bachmann, Romney, Pawlenty, Huckabee, Huntsman, Gingrich, Perry, Paul, Santorum, Cain, Trump, Barbour, Christie, Jindal, Bush, Giuliani . . . I can't go on. There are just too many non-blinking elephants in this living room and Fu Mei's fixed an early repast of Kung Pao Chicken. I HOPE it's chicken. Her cuisine is always delicious but best not to ask.)

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Chump change for Stephens, but I repeat myself. It was a well done segment; perhaps something meaningful, like Righthaven's(what a silly name) nuts on a nail, will come from the exposure.
Can't wait for fogsnooze shit to hit the fan over here--gonna be some 'splodin' troll heads, you betcha. . .
Latest Rolling Stone has a scary article about Michelle Bachmann--Matt Taibbi says don't laugh, yet.

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IF I GO INTO A PLACE OF BUSINESS THAT HAS A TV AND IT IS NOT ON FOX, I LEAVE.

I NEVER HAVE TO LEAVE.

DRAW YOUR OWN CONCLUSIONS.

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Just returned from the Harry Potter movie...I didn't get it, but when I went I expected not to get it. I think this is the 7th HP movie we've gone to with our kids and now an era has ended. mag cried.

Listening to On the Media today, the part about Stephens and Righthaven seemed every bit as sleazy as the Murdoch stuff. The Stephens split the winnings with this Phelps company? Good god....soon everything will be copyrighted and we won't be allowed to sneeze without being sued. And news is news and people who actually pay attention need the news to know whose winning in the battle of Good vs Evil.

If Jesus came back and granted me 3 wishes, one of them would be to find out exactly how much money the Stephens family needs to be satisfied in life? I think our national-world unhappiness is caused by the 2% assholes who can't be happy with 21 or 33 billion dollars and will destroy anyone in their path to making another 1 or 10 billion. Jesus rich people...do you have any sense of what enough is? ENOUGH

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Dbi, you are up on me. Haven't seen a HP movie yet. Not my fare. At least that's my thinking. I liked "Larry Crowne." My kind of movie, for the most part. FRIENDLY PERSUASION, SAVING PRIVATE RYAN, OLD YELLER, TRUE GRIT, SHANE, all those that make a movie pleasant.

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Newt and Caribou Barbie have the secret: pretending to run for president is the best gig around. All the benefits and none of the liabilities of actually holding public office.

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One little nit to pick re Newt the Poot's campaign for dogcatcher- if his campaign has $300K cash on hand and owes $1 million, they are $700K in debt and not $1 million in debt. Owing $1 million is not the same thing as being in debt $1 million. At least, that's what we learned in math way too many years ago.

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Question for the smartest people I know. How many billions of dollars would it take for a person to live any way they pleased for their entire life? 5 billion? 10 billion? How about just comfortably? 1 billion? 500 million? At some point shouldn't there be a limit where amassing a massive amount of personal wealth becomes detrimental to our country's growth and our economy's health? Why couldn't there be a requirement that at, say 10 billion dollars, any personal wealth (money/property/investments) made after should be reinvested in the country... Whether towards national debt, construction and maintenance of public works, education system, public health care, higher education, science, arts, etc... Things that could create positive change in our society. It'd be nice to know the rich could only get so rich and past a certain point their gain would be to the country's and the public's benefit? I dunno... Probably silly, wishful thinking that would somehow ruin life as we know it in repubs eyes.

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JESUS, Ozarkrazo! (I mean that in the nicest way.) You sacred me. I mean, scared.

That Matt Taibbi article is from Rolling Stone's June 22 issue: not their "latest."

I nearly got the vapors thinking I'd missed something I oughtn't, or that Fu Mei's Kung Pao Chicken, in which I found a tiny paw which I didn't mention because she's descended from Tongs, might have created some temporarily toxic gastric disturbance despite its deliciousness.

Plus, let me say right now that I don't believe everything I hear and neither should you.

BUT.

"Dancing With the Stars" is high-bidding Marcus Bachmann because, it's whispered, there's really nowhere else for her campaign to go after his nationally-ridiculed viral "debut" all over YouTube and it's now or never plus Kirstie-Alley-size non-PAC bucks if the Bachmanns green-light the offer.

And THIS one I refuse to believe at ALL, despite having just got off the phone with a knowledgeable Rockian who may be tipsy. I've left messages for my dear friends Mike Blakely and Susan Altruri. Doubt they'll be returned.

I KNOW the LR Zoo can always use the funds. And I know this would be HUGE. Bigger than the Penguin thing. Yet, as I recall, the lion enclosure is approximately the size of a garage apartment behind Midtown. The aging Felidae, say sources, are apparently well-fed and content playing with volley-balls and staring longingly across the way at the zebra enclosure. I mean, they're not hungry yet still retain their predatory roots.

And the logistics of the annual selection of sacrifices -- doubtless a PR coup for the Zoo, the D-G, statewide TV stations and sundry Arkansas "faith communities" -- would, I think, be insurmountable if spectacularly rewarding on so many Propitiating-the Gods levels.

Droughts, the economy, jobs, pollution of the oceans, climate-change, same-sex adoption, crime in the River Market: like that.

Call me skeptical, but I'm not all that sure two old well-fed King-and-Queen-of-the-Jungle Big Cats contentedly romping with volley balls in an open-air concrete garage apartment off a freeway will be especially interested in devouring Christians.

I could be wrong. My source could be fantasizing. Stranger things have happened. Times are hard.

I'm just not feeling it.

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D - The standard answer is that your plan would take away the incentive for success. Because, you know, being able to contribute to humanity, while living very comfortably, is not adequate motivation for some people.

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Major apologies, Norma; mail is sometimes extremely slow here in the Bozarks--the "double" issue of RS just arrived by mule yesterday. I hope the vaporish episode is behind you( I mean that in the nicest way). I can certainly understand, for I had a short episode of the fantods after reading Taibbi. I cured them by reading Al Gore's article in the same issue. Also, my grandfather advised(many years ago),"Don't believe a damn thing you hear and believe only half of what you see".
Please keep me up to date on the feline feeding frenzy frolics.

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Love it D Burn.
Why not just adjust the tax codes to reflect your idea. as other countries do. At a certain point, taxes are levied at 80-90%. As it should be. I am so frigging tired of the Republicans saying "we can't raise taxes on the Job Creators." What a crock! The rich have enjoyed lower taxes and in some cases NO taxes, and if they were job creators, we would have zero unempolyment as I type.
I am constantly amazed at the ignorance of the American people these days. They don't think, they don't study history, and they actually think Fox is a news organization. Arkansas has the worst cast of characters elected to public office that I have ever seen. It's a shame that we have elected some of the biggest idiots on the face of the planet to represent us.

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I am SO down with alliteration, Ozarkrazo! LOVES it and maybe we'll start a trend here!

In which case we'll be forced to abandon it. Push the envelope. Think outside the box. Dare to be Different. Live in the Moment. Lead or Follow. And so forth.

Speaking of "f's," Susan Altruri just texted me re: my above post re: the Zoo's spurious "feline feeding frenzy frolics," as you so beautifully put it though pack-mules, apparently, still deliver your mail. Both a blessing and a curse. Just my opinion.

Susan, succinctly, sarcastically said but two words: One a verb, the other a pronoun.

Your grandfather didn't suffer fools gladly.

It's all about one's DNA.

Congratulations!

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JESUS! (I mean that in the nicest way, Rupert.)

FOX "News" and News Corp just spew lies and right-wing propaganda and hack cell phones and bribe Scotland Yard and illegally bug Jude Law's and David Beckham's and dead girls' cell-phones and fund faux-commentators right and left and make us realize former friends are idiots to achieve -- what?

Make a fortune frothing up divisive lies? Shape public opinion? Buy political influence? Take over the world?

Jesus.

Here's your FOX "News'" anchor Eric Bolling going bonkers Defend-O-Matic on being caught lying about "no" terrorist attacks under Bush, then blaming "liberals" for calling him on his stupidity and purposeful duplicity "forgetting" 9/11.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsXc0hHvTxM…

Rupert? I know you read this blog.

Honey, you're eighty years old. Your children are already warring amongst themselves and not over your non-existent "ethics." Your money, honey.

Do you understand you've 7-8 more years left, at the OUTSIDE?

Do you even comprehend what's RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER for you in 2012?

Have you noticed your Check-Out Time, framed and nailed inside your door? Call the Desk.

Does it matter that the only people including family, much less staff, who "like" you are on payroll?

What of the little people -- the hundreds of "journalists" who've sold their souls and clenched their teeth like pit bulls to your coattails?

The Van Susterens and Huckabees and O'Reillys?

The horror. The horror!

LOVES it!

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