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Blue Gal subbing for Mike, who's travelling today and will be back tomorrow.

L'ennui Melodieux: Tales of Terror!

The Dean's Office: Did I miss the National Day of Prayer? Holy crap!

Citizen Crain: DNC's "Talk to the Hand" Outreach

New blogs on the block: Physioprof, Rawrahs, and Underground Radical.

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Executive Producer of The Professional Left Podcast. On staff at Crooks and Liars since 2007. Master's degree from Harvard. Happy wife of Driftglass. Mother of three geniuses. Obsessive knitter. Blogs at http://bgalrstate.blogspot.com. .
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L.A. Confidential's picture

It's hard work.

L.A. Confidential's picture

Media finally got it right.

The Commerce Department reported Thursday, May 1, 2008, that consumer spending, once inflation was removed, was up 0.1 percent in March.

http://tinyurl.com/4ksrkd

MargeAggedon's picture

Re: Citizen Crain,
Nice to know the dems are so unified in their front against the reslugs. Or is that so unified FOR the reslugs? Can't decide. They need to flip a coin and decide.

L.A. Confidential's picture

MargeAggedon @ 3:

Re: Citizen Crain,
Nice to know the dems are so unified in their front against the reslugs. Or is that so unified FOR the reslugs? Can't decide. They need to flip a coin and decide.

I think unified in their support for the Reslugs. The Dems are just more subtle, skilled, and competent in the way they hide it from the public.

Act of State's picture

Brought to you by the Pentagon Broadcasting System . . we need to all come together for a couple of months and throw all of these bums out of office. I will be sending Cindy Sheehan some of my federal reserve monopoly money. Nancy is a good person and she is a wonderful grandma . . .

Paul D's picture

For those who missed it, check out Howard Dean's interview on The Daily Show:

http://www.redlasso.com/ClipPlayer.aspx?id=5241a5ae-3e24-418a-8465-5d7e7...

L.A. Confidential's picture

Act of State @ 5:

Brought to you by the Pentagon Broadcasting System . .

PBS!!!!

PhysioProf's picture

Thanks for the link, sweetie!

killthepoor's picture

hey C & L you should try and put up Conan O'Brien's "interview" with Rev. Wright. It was pretty funny.

L.A. Confidential's picture

Paul D @ 6:

For those who missed it, check out Howard Dean's interview on The Daily Show:

http://www.redlasso.com/ClipPlayer.aspx?id=5241a5ae-3e24-418a-8465-5d7e7cbc697b

No thanks. Nothing personal Paul. It's just another lacquered head on the tube yapping away at this point.

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L.A. Confidential @ 10:

Paul D @ 6:

For those who missed it, check out Howard Dean's interview on The Daily Show:

http://www.redlasso.com/ClipPlayer.aspx?id=5241a5ae-3e24-418a-8465-5d7e7cbc697b

No thanks. Nothing personal Paul. It's just another lacquered head on the tube yapping away at this point.

"Yah we're going to do this for ya and we're going to do that for ya and ya man all you people got to do is sit and do nothing man and you'll get rich just like us!"

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L.A. Confidential @ 2:

Media finally got it right.

The Commerce Department reported Thursday, May 1, 2008, that consumer spending, once inflation was removed, was up 0.1 percent in March.

http://tinyurl.com/4ksrkd

Can you imagine what the CPI will look like when inflation eventually creaps into all sectors? They will always keep the CPI number at plus 1-2% while saying (this number excludes the costs of food, energy, household appliances, automotive, real estate, apparel, etc) all of which will be rising in price.

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I'm surprised this one didn't make the round up, from AOL news:

Bush Disapproval Rating Makes History

WASHINGTON (May 1) - A new poll suggests that President Bush is the most unpopular president in modern American history.

http://news.aol.com/story/_a/bush-disapproval-rating-makes-history/20080...

Joe O.'s picture

I'm surprised this one didn't make the roundup today. From AOL News:

Bush Disapproval Rating Makes History

WASHINGTON (May 1) - A new poll suggests that President Bush is the most unpopular president in modern American history.

http://news.aol.com/story/_a/bush-disapproval-rating-makes-history/20080...

MargeAggedon's picture

L.A. Confidential @ 4:

MargeAggedon @ 3:

Re: Citizen Crain,
Nice to know the dems are so unified in their front against the reslugs. Or is that so unified FOR the reslugs? Can't decide. They need to flip a coin and decide.

I think unified in their support for the Reslugs. The Dems are just more subtle, skilled, and competent in the way they hide it from the public.

Agreed.

L.A. Confidential's picture

Joe O. @ 12:

L.A. Confidential @ 2:

Media finally got it right.

The Commerce Department reported Thursday, May 1, 2008, that consumer spending, once inflation was removed, was up 0.1 percent in March.

http://tinyurl.com/4ksrkd

Can you imagine what the CPI will look like when inflation eventually creaps into all sectors? They will always keep the CPI number at plus 1-2% while saying (this number excludes the costs of food, energy, household appliances, automotive, real estate, apparel, etc) all of which will be rising in price.

Yes I can imagine. We're going to wakeup one day and the economy is going to be Dead on Arrival.

Peanuts's picture

So, who will NOT be celebrating Israel's 60th anniversary?

Check this article:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/apr/30/israelandthepalestinians

Jeff's picture

Have you seen THIS???

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sN_nQOHj__s

Clinton advisor calling Indianans Shit and worthless white n*****rs.

wtf?! This is disgusting.

patty's picture

for moderator: off topic but a big union Iraq War protest that shuts down port of Long Beach and port of Los Angeles. Would make a good lead on C&L

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2008/05/this-just-in-th.html

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Jeff @ 15:

Have you seen THIS???

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sN_nQOHj__s

Clinton advisor calling Indianans Shit and worthless white n*****rs.

wtf?! This is disgusting.

That's from 1992. If Kantor isn't advising Shillary in her current slash & burn campaign, it bears no relevance now.

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Jeff @ 15:

Have you seen THIS???

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sN_nQOHj__s

Clinton advisor calling Indianans Shit and worthless white n*****rs.

wtf?! This is disgusting.

wow, I saw it early this morning, but it probably won't make the main stream media. :(

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patty @ 16:

for moderator: off topic but a big union Iraq War protest that shuts down port of Long Beach and port of Los Angeles. Would make a good lead on C&L

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2008/05/this-just-in-th.html

That was posted yesterday.

L.A. Confidential's picture

Jeff @ 15:

Have you seen THIS???

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sN_nQOHj__s

Clinton advisor calling Indianans Shit and worthless white n*****rs.

wtf?! This is disgusting.

Don't need to watch it. Let me guess just another greedy narcissistic sob like everyone else involved in politics these days?

YourMom's picture

National Day of Prayer - give me a break!
How about a National Day of telling the truth.
I could go for a National Day of Making Love (not War).

L.A. Confidential's picture

Okay I watched. Carville and Lil George and Kantor.

What did you expect from these lowlifes. Respect for the common man?

They are freaking POLITICAL ADVISOR'S. The lowest form of life on Earth!

ruffmama's picture

ya'll need to see this and pass it along.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sN_nQOHj__s

If this happened on the Obama's camp it would already be all over the cable news channels.

MargeAggedon's picture

YourMom @ 21:

National Day of Prayer - give me a break!
How about a National Day of telling the truth.
I could go for a National Day of Making Love (not War).

There's a "National Day of Reason" set up to counter the religious stupidity.
http://www.nationaldayofreason.org/

Late now but there's always next year.

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Dr. Acula @ 19:

patty @ 16:

for moderator: off topic but a big union Iraq War protest that shuts down port of Long Beach and port of Los Angeles. Would make a good lead on C&L

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2008/05/this-just-in-th.html

That was posted yesterday.

great C&L is on top of things as for me I was out doing yard work and didn't touch the computer or watch the tellie all day.

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RE: Citizen Crain: DNC’s “Talk to the Hand” Outreach

It's always difficult to discuss the downsides of Affirmative Action because to do so one is labelled racist, just as certainly as one who mentions the Israeli Genocide of the Palestinians is certain to be labelled anti-semitic.

Yet both discussions are valid and necessary.

So perhaps it's a good thing that this conflict has erupted within the Democratic Party.

Hopefully so-called Liberals and Progressives will be less likely to automatically label as racist those who point out the glaring inequities and political conflicts spawned by Affirmative Action.

Replacing de facto White Male Entitlement with Minority Entitlement Statutes simply "rearranges the deck chairs" of the underlying racism and sexism. If does not end the racism or the sexism. In fact, in many ways it accentuates the very problems it was intended to address.

So .. where do we go from here?

Batocchio's picture

Hmm... Maybe if they prayed Bush and Cheney left office this month versus next year, and that the press would get a clue...

rehctaw's picture

Thanks for the spotlight! However brief...

So much better than my feeble Welcome mat and
dismal decorating...

Where are my sunglasses?

I'm deeply grateful.

ysbaddaden's picture

Excellent electorial punditry:

http://www.comics.com/comics/getfuzzy/

Randal Graves's picture

Thanks for the link!

Dean Wormer's picture

Thanks BG.

You're the best!

thebewilderness's picture

Five years into the occupation we are bombing people in their homes in Baghdad.

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