Posted on 06/19/2003 4:17:17 AM PDT by Chairman_December_19th_Society
Maybe the same will happen for young son's job situation :)
Blasphemous? No, at least I don't think so.
Irreverent? Yes, a tad -- in the same vein as Monty Python's reading from the Book of Armaments, though I would offer my writing did have a tad more respect. Heck, I didn't even offer that the Book of Climaticus was a book of the Bible.
Consider the theme - God looks down upon liberal eastern America, and doesn't like the fact that some humans (of the liberal persasion, for the most part) have decided that people can change the climate of the Earth. God decides to teach these people a lesson through continous rains, not of the Biblical proportions of Genesis, but still a scourge upon the land, that only He is in charge of such matters. The liberals are not repentent, but God has achieved his mission because the rest of humanity now disregards their message and accepts His.
Not quite sure what is blasphemous about that.
I'll give you a line used by my first cousin at last years 'tator reunion.
After the meal I took the mike and went to each of the 'tators on hand and and asked what was happening in their lives. One cousin, in his best rural Southern Ohio accent said, "Well I'm a looking forward to retirement." I asked when he was to retire. He replied Southern Ohio style, "In three year and four months." I asked what was he going to do after he retired. He replied with out batting an eye, "Finish my book." I, with some incredulity, asked "Are you writing a book?" He replied, "NO sir!... I'm a readin' one."
He is apparently a comedian by avocation. So am I. It is a tator trait. For me to write a book, I would first need a boss to keep my nose to the grindstone.
Did you see how smug Joey Lieberman looked? I swear, it must have been what was on that piece of paper! LOL!
I was laughing for several minutes when I saw that! I'm just glad my coffee was on the side desk when I viewed it!
Cheese and meat raviolis from scratch. With a couple of culinary suprises that actually worked. Hand rolled dough.
Hand crafted baguettes made earlier and crafted into little crustini with a good olive oil and a scrape of garlic across.
Hand crafted REAL vanilla ice cream (with half of a real vanilla bean).
I think tonight qualifies for at least 2 stars for casual dining. ;>)
/john
/john
No, but I'll tell ya, the number of green boxes (flash flood warnings) on the NEXRAD is amazing.
The Washington post says the Bush administration has changed its mind on meating with Democrats to discuss surpreme court nominees. It said yesterday Ari said the administration would not meet with Democrats to negotiate on a nominee should an opening occur. But today in a change of direction the white house council said he would talk to the senate democrats about nominations for the surpreme court.
This is presented as a flip flop by bush.
What Ari said yesterday was that the president and officals of the administratoin would NOT meet to negotiate a nominee should an opening occur. Ari went on to say that Bush had autorized the white house council to meet with democrats to explain the process under the law. What Ari said yesterday is what happened today. Nothing changed except the Washington post lied because either the reporter did not under stand what Ari said or the reporter lied on purpose.
What Ari said yesterday was Bush was going to send his lawyer to the senate to explain the law to Kennedy and Biden. Today he did so. It was a Bush insult to the Democrats that the Washington Post was too dumb to figure out... or just decided to lie to make the leftist case.
If is as if Bush sent his Doctor over to the senate to teach the Senate Doctor how to write a prescription.
It was Bush telling the senate he thinks their problem is the Senate lawyers don't understand the law.
I said pretty much nil. It is just people grandstanding to please media. Here is part of a story from the Washington Post.
The Senate Commerce Committee voted Thursday to
overturn parts of a Federal Communications Commission
decision freeing media companies from decades-old
ownership limits and allowing them to buy more
outlets and merge in new ways.
The proposal, which faces an uncertain future in the
full Senate and a tough road in the House, would roll
back changes that allowed individual companies to own
television stations reaching nearly half the nation's
viewers and combinations of newspapers and broadcast
stations in the same city.
"I would like the FCC to start all over," said Sen.
Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, who opposes the
changed rules. She said they are "potentially
dangerous to media diversity in this country.”
This is just noise making. The senate committee passed it the senate may but the house will do nothing. The new rules adopted will stand. Prior to now the networks have had a lot of power over local stations. Stations could do as the network said, or lose the right to carry the networks programs.
Now several companies will acquire stations until they have significant number of stations on one of the networks. Then a group perhaps owning twenty five or more percent of the stations carrying the network, could say, take DAn Rather off and put an unbiased reporter in his place or we will drop CBS on all of our stations. CBS would lose a huge percent of its revenue. It would have to fold.
CBS will have to buy local stations or lose control of its own format. It will in effect have to please its customers. CBS does not want to do that.
These senators of both the left and the right who are on the communications committee get big donations from the media. They are doing what the media wants. But the media does not have the right people bought.
What this says of the major media, is we bought senators and it didn't work.
Glad you were able to catch that!
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