This caught my eye.
And so did this.

I think the women out there will find this interesting.

Kudos to Jimmy Carter.

If you guys could see this cute little dog face looking up at me right now, you wouldn't have to ask what's catching my eye this morning. A little sweet face on one end, a little wagging tail on the other and filled with love in the middle.

Have a great day everyone!

Me thinks they KNOW it's a joke.

Twice now in the opening of FnS, Wallace has described the upcoming discussion on the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen:

"We'll take a "Fair & Balanced" look at the climate change debate."

To stress the phrase "Fair & Balanced" twice suggests to me they are aware that it's a load of cr@p.

[T]he new found concern the Republicans possess for deficit spending is so unintentionally hilarious. They must thank their lucky stars for the mindless memory hole that is the collective American consciousness to not remember the drunken sailor spending that defined the past eight years.

I'm not quite convinced it's a memory hole. I tend to think there are those of us who remember, and those of us who pretend they don't remember, the higher-ranked of whom proactively revise history so that it will never be known in the first place by younger generations.

The modern Republican Party simply views politics as a game, as a sporting event. Think of it like a football game. When your team is on offense, you map out a way to deceive the other side, and try to elude their every attempt to tackle you. And when your team is on defense, do you think, hey, we tried hard to get into their end zone, I guess we should give them a shot? Of course, not. They're the other team. You just try to tackle them with all your might in order to prevent them from getting into your end zone. You use every move they used against you. No apologies; it's just how the game is played.

The modern Republican Party is basically sociopathic. We might regard its hypocrisy with scorn, but its members do not even regard it as hypocrisy. They're just playing a game, and they want to reach an end zone. That means you try to tackle the other team when they have the ball the same way they tried to tackle you when you had the ball, even though you don't want them to tackle you, and tried to elude them. Feigning moral outrage and promoting issues they once derided are just plays in their playbook, and they're puzzled when we don't do the same to them. Are they not even going to try to tackle us, they think?

But it's worse than that, of course. It's a corrupt game. They cheat. They either buy off or work the refs, and they break every rule that can be broken in an ingenious fashion: Before they actually break a particular rule, they whine and cry foul as often as they can that the other side has broken that rule, whether they have or not. He grabbed my face mask, a Republican will cry. And that Republican will grab someone's face mask in the next round. If the Democrats whine, they look like they're out for revenge. If the ref decides in the Democrats' favor, whatever. Everybody does it, right?

Even the ones that have occasional pangs of a conscience can rationalize their behavior. They do not actually consider us to be a legitimate other team. They have convinced themselves that anything they do is done to improve and preserve the righteous game of football itself, for we, you see, do not even have the right to be on the field in the first place. Nefarious outside forces have inserted us there -- Muslims, Commies, whatever the force du jour. We just muddy the turf with our presence.

So they keep cheating, and eventually, the game is chaotic. And yet, the other side still bandies about, trying to play by the rules in good faith and looking weak and dumb in the process.

I'm not so sure Republicans don't know what they're doing. I don't think their voters don't remember what they did when they were on offense. I think they just wonder why we waste time noting their hypocrisy instead of just cheating to win ourselves.

Sen Markey came prepared to address "Climategate" and pointed out that the issues discussed in the email were well known and included in the 1,000 page report the IPCC based its conclusions upon.

Inhofe's pathetic response was that nothing from the IPCC can be trusted "because it all comes from the same fraudulent data".

Kristol and Liz Cheney defend (the second half) Obama's NPP speech. Juan Williams points out that "if Kristol, Cheney and Palin are all praising the speech, something has gone terribly wrong."

Bring it on!

Oh goodie. Jim Cramer will be on MTP with Wannabe Gregory.

Cramer:
"Washington is killing job growth."

No, the banks are killing job growth. It looks like Obama is going to get the banks to start lending. If the banks start lending instead of making money with insane investment instuments like dirivitives credit default swaps then small business will be able to grow and hire. Right now small businesses cannot get loans to grow because big lenders will not lend them money becasue the big lenders are happier playing games with the money that make them more money than lending. The most disgusting part is that is is OUR money they are using to make these obcene profits by play games. When big financial institutions lend more moeny to small business then unemployment will go down.

said that we need transparancy for the regulators. after all we have gone through, this guy is seeing the regulators as the problem.