Sunday Morning Bobblehead Thread
By David Neiwert Sunday Nov 29, 2009 5:00amSay what you will about Bill Gates and Microsoft (and Vista victims should have plenty to say), I try to separate that out from Gates' work with his wife, Melinda, at the Gates Foundation, which is doing great work in helping to fund research and global efforts to combat AIDS. The foundation now appears to be broadening its emphasis to encompass the cause of global health care. (Watch Glenn Beck's hair catch fire at the very thought.)
Bill and Melinda will be on Meet the Press today, and what they have to say will probably be worth listening to. (No one will blame you for skipping the Rick Warren half of the show, though.) It'll also be a nice changeup from the usual menu of gasbag Beltway insiders -- although certain matchups (Dede Scozzafava and Ed Gillespie on Face the Nation, and Howard Dean vs. Mike Huckabee on CNN) will probably be worth seeing for the entertainment value ...
(All times EST)
•ABC’s “This Week,” 9:30 a.m. — Guests: Sen. Lindsey Graham, South Carolina Republican; Sen. Bernie Sanders, Vermont independent.
•CBS’ “Face the Nation,” 1 a.m. Monday — Guests: Sen. Carl Levin, Michigan Democrat; former House majority leader Dick Armey, Texas Republican; Dede Scozzafava, former Republican U.S. House candidate in New York; Ed Gillespie, former Bush White House counselor.
•CNN’s “State of the Union,” 8 a.m. — Guests: Sen. Richard Lugar, Indiana Republican; Sen. Jack Reed, Rhode Island Democrat; Rep. David Obey, Wisconsin Democrat; former British prime minister Tony Blair.
•“Fox News Sunday,” 9 a.m. — Guests: Sen. Jon Kyl, Arizona Republican; Sen. Evan Bayh, Indiana Democrat; former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee, Republican; Howard Dean, former national Democratic Party chairman; Maj. Gen. Carla Hawley-Bowland, commanding general of Walter Reed Army Medical Center and the Army’s North Atlantic Regional Medical Command.•NBC’s “Meet the Press,” 9 a.m. — Guests: Bill and Melinda Gates, co-chairs of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; Rev. Rick Warren, pastor of Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, Calif.
So, what's catching your eye this morning?
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I don't watch TV on Sundays. I let you do the heavy lifting.
It's time to clean the fish tank.
You are supposed to be shopping, and consuming not relaxing and taking care of yourself on the Holidays.
Why the fuck is Rick Warren on "Meet the Press"?
To discuss gluttony as a sin?
Because Mike Wallace's son wannabe could not find John McCan't?
:)
......needs non stop representation on our "liberal" media.
It's SOP--get over it.
Actually, Gene, I fully agree. It only goes to show how NBC made a horrible mistake giving Meet the Press to an idiot. I kind of doubt the red-headed Irish Catholic predecessor, who was quite good at what he did (perhaps best) would have invited such a glib bigot on.
Why do we let the wealthy determine who and what is worthy of their charitable contributions through which they receive enormous tax relief.
While the cause in this appears to be completely benign, and even perhaps admirable, the public should take the cause and the interests of the commonweal unto itself.
If Bill Gates feels a cause worthy let him campaign for a public program.
Then matters such as AIDs drug company profiteering in the third world might be addressed, something that will never happen with a private effort.
These tax write-offs are part of the long term re-entrenchment of the oligarchs and the privatization of the public space.
Reagan and then Bush I with his thousand points of light, and so on and so forth.
The oligarchs want to appear as good citizens, maybe they are, maybe they aren't.
I remember that before Gates got married, there was much talk about how he/Microsoft donated almost NOTHING to charity.
It wasn't until the Clinton Administration started looking into "breaking up the MS monopoly" that the confirmed bachelor got married and started donating money like mad.
Whether the two are related, I don't know. But I'm just saying. :)
The Gates Foundation is surprisingly uninterested in America's health crisis. Clearly there are urgent global health needs, but spreading a little of the wealth at home where monopolizing private companies (like Gates') have left millions without access to care and contributed to entirely preventable morbidity and mortality, seems like it would be a no brainer for them.
I will watch Rick Warren.............when hell freezes over!!
Have you seen the inside of Rick Warren's freezer?
Just sayin'
he ate everything in the freezer.....:)
Now it's just a hell hole.
I hope Bernie Sanders and Lindsey Graham are a combined interview: Bernie will eat Graham's lunch (and dinner)!
Warren is going to explain to the world why there are thousands of different religions, worshipping thousands of different gods, and why HIS is the REAL DEAL...........that should make everyone feel a lot better.........you betcha!!
Rick looks more like a Pastafarian than I do.
Of course I'm a bit more saucy.
:)
the evangelical/christian right leaders have been silent lately. They let the catholics do the heavy lifting on abortion in the health care bill. It's is never good when these sneaky bastards are working under the radar.
Sesame Street Slandering of Fox News Will Not Go Unpunished
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Spill O'Reilly?
lol
...will bring up the latest report on the Cheney/Bush/Rummy/Frank stupidity that outsourced bin Ladin's capture and led to his escape to Waziristan in 2001.
If they do the conservatives du jour will: a. blame Obama, b. blame Clinton, c. say it's old news (it is, but...), d. call it a partisan attack on great leaders, e. all of the above.
I don'r watch Sunday AM TV once I've seen the local weather. I want to keep my breakfast down.
The only thing that catches my eye on Sunday mornings is C&L and a handful of other blogs and forums. The TeeVee is on for background noise only.
Be almost worth having Faux Noise to see Dean bitchslap Kyl and Hucksterbee around. Howie dont sit for GOP bullshit. Will call them out.
Love me some Dean,
but I'm also listening to hear if anyone asks Gen. Hawley-Bowland about the VA and "socialized medicine".
ADDENDUM: Hawly interview a rerun.
Bill Gates meets (face to pie) with a windows vista customer...
http://www.linedancearchiv.com/videos/NpCMJ2x...
Kyl is going on & on about the dangers of declaring "an exit straegy sending the wrong message to our enemies".
Funny, I remember them saying the same thing about Iraq.
Kyl and Bayh agree that the Justice Department should "throw the book" at the couple that crashed the White House State Dinner... like that would deter a terrorist or racist assassin from crashing the next party.
hefty, say, a hard-bound Bible...
I have many complains about Republican fear-mongering over healthcare, but my biggest beef is the "takeover" canard, and Huckabee plays it to the hilt, which Dean smacks down.
Dean: "15% of British health care... the most socialized system in Europe... dollars go to private insurance."
Perno on FnS says taxing the war in Afghanistan "would make it unpopular".
Yes, she actually said that in arguing why a war tax is a bad idea.
You gotta be kidding me.
Well, this is a good thing. Maybe some of those brain farts will get it now.
I've posted video of Perino's comment on my site:
Mugsy's Rap Sheet
Perino: "I don't think you ever saw President Bush criticize a general in public."
No, he just replaced them.
The Generals are very quiet now.
Listening to Perino talk about how "tight" security was at the Bush White House (even claiming the incoming Obama admin asked them how to "relax security for visitors"), one name keeps coming to mind:
Jeff Gannon.
The only thing catching my eye this morning is the cool weather we are having here in Fla right now and the Christmas decorations my husband is putting on the outside of our home. There is one other thing I'm watching and that's the craziness the cool weather has put into my little dog, Martini. I think he had straight caffine this morning before I woke up. He's extra spunky!
Teevee? I watched some shows on Animal Planet earlier today. That's about as serious as I plan to get for a while.
Have a good one, everyone.
You will be downright envious when you hear what I'm going to do today here in La-La Land...
My youngest son has a bachelor apt. over at the beach. He's probably NEVER really cleaned it in about three years. I just arrived from Massachusetts and he said all he wanted for Christmas was for me to clean his apartment and to "organize" it.
So, I'm downing the second cup of coffee in preparation of filling my bag with windex, paper towels, Krud Buster for the shower, bags to Goodwill his clothes and a paper pad and pen to make a list of everything he "needs".
Anybody have any mini-whites? (Kidding).
I got a guy off PCH...
Have fun; your son better supply the trash bags and beer...
WASHINGTON - Osama bin Laden was unquestionably within reach of U.S. troops in the mountains of Tora Bora when American military leaders made the crucial and costly decision not to pursue the terrorist leader with massive force, a Senate report says.
More here.
Nice to see that as ususal one of the members of the Trinity will be represented on a talk show today. Either the McCain, the Graham or the Holy Joe.
"The foundation now appears to be broadening its emphasis to encompass the cause of global health care."
Right . . let's get in early so we have underdeveloped countries to exploit and sell our crap OS's, and other crap MS products to.
Gates is a Globalist plain and simple.
...a political talkshow, shouldn't you AT LEAST talk about the morality of certain political issues, like war and healthcare???
Gregory has only discussed "charity" with Warren... "international" charity at that.
"The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation."
William Hutton
...Gregory finally asks Warren about healthcare...
who then goes on to COMPLETELY dodge the issue. (when Gregory goes on o Abortion.)
ADDENDUM: To his credit, Gregory does bring the abortion subject back around to healthcare, but Warren will only go as far as "caring for CHILDREN" so that they grow up healthy.
Okay now placing bets that this so-called health-care "reform" will bring us an expensive, bureaucracy-laden system that will probably cripple an already staggered economy, drive up health care costs and increase the tax burden on all Americans who can't afford tax increases etc, etc.
To divide is to conquer. And we don't even have to be the ones doing it.
clobbered him the other night and chased him out of the house with one of his own golf clubs.
It is always the nanny or Au Pair?
Bill "the Internet is a passing fad" Gates told Gregory that "the Internet is bigger than many people ever imagined."
Most notably, him. :)
When known homophobe Rick Warren came on I switched from David "Good Hair" Gregory to well known dickhead Harry Smith.
- Harry Smith addresses Dick Armey as "Leader Armey"
- Harry Smith addresses Ed Gillespie as "Mister Gillespie"
- Harry Smith addresses Dede Scozzafava as "De-de"
The women I know would have (some figuratively, some literally) ripped off his head and shit in his neck. What a dick.
And Israel. They'll never be peace there.
Graham says we should "cut domestic spending" so we can spend it on Afghanistan. He called this "prioritizing spending."
George Will puts emphasis on "troubling" statements in the stolen emails from climate scientists.
Paul Krugman steps outside his "economist" role to school Will on "how academics talk amongst themselves" and how statements made mean far less than what opponents want us to believe.
"Should the country spend less on war and more on these kind of public health commitments?" - David Gregory to Bill Gates.
the various Congress members:
"Please explain to me and the viewing audience exactly why it is we are there? Osama bin Laden is either dead or hiding somewhere in Pakistan (where he is probably well cared for...considering he needs dialysis three times a week...)? That WAS the reason we went into Afghanistan, right? To get OBL and Al Queda? Well, it seems Al Queda is out of Afghanistan now and are well entrenched in Pakistan. So, why are we sending 32,000 more American soldiers into Afghanistan when the real problem seems to be in Pakistan??"
Why is it that no one seems to remember the well publicized history of our involvement with Afghanistan, the Taliban and an oil pipeline that American oil corporations and the U.S. government wanted to have built across that country? Taliban leaders came to Texas in the late 90's and met with representatives of major oil corporations regarding a pipeline and those talks didn't work out so well.
The Taliban will fight us until the very bitter end. Even if we do prevail there, then what? Another never-ending hostile occupation so we can protect U.S./multinational oil conglomerates efforts to squeeze more oil out of the planet so the American people can continue "Happy Motoring"?
What happened to, "NO BLOOD FOR OIL"?
And I haven't even mentioned heroin yet. How much of this "occupation" (because that is what we are really doing in Afghanistan and Iraq) has to do with narcotics trafficking???
This is why I never watch any Sunday morning bobble head shows.
The people on these shows are either liars, stupid or both.
4 policemen in Washington St get gunned down.
Any bets on if the shooter was anti govt?
And, any bets if the shooter watches Beck?
Not likely. The suspect is described as a black man.
You do know that someone will attack you now for saying that. Right?
I didn't know the suspects description. But ya never know.
I suppose time will tell.
Isn't it telling that the "Gates Foundation" was set up just before the collapse of the US Economy? The law says that when you put all your wealth into a philanthropic fund you only have to use 5% of it to qualify as a non profit. So 95% of Gates' wealth is sheltered from taxation or audit.
The other 5%? It's spent over seas where there is zero auditing or accountability.
So Gates made off with his pile of cash, and like Tiger Woods who recently lost a PILE in Dubai (see Tiger Woods Dubai http://www.rootsland.com/uae-property-guide/d...) and you will see how the rich do it. They get rich in America then turn their backs on their nation while they spend the rest of their lives glob trotting.... while writing it all off.
By the way, Bill Gates has done nothing for his home state either. He moved all the jobs to India before he sucked his money overseas into his trust.
No loyalty. IF IT WERE TRUE that this is "Philanthropy"...
what kind of person helps the neighbors while his own house goes without the necessity to life?
Did you catch the debate between Repub Gomer Shuckabee and Gov. Howard Dean? For Shuckabee, the problem with health care in America boils down to class: he actually believes that working people choose "a new truck" over buying health insurance. What makes Gomer think anyone can afford a new truck?
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