Posted on 02/11/2007 5:15:41 AM PST by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
Sunday, February 11th, 2007
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., and House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., and Senate Minority Whip Trent Lott, R-Miss.
THIS WEEK (ABC): Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass.; former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee; actor Sean Penn.
LATE EDITION (CNN) : Lt. Gen. Karl Eikenberry, former U.S. commander in Afghanistan; Qubad Talabany, representative to the U.S. of the Iraqi Kurdistan regional government; Sens. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and John Cornyn, R-Texas; Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif.; Terry McAuliffe, former Democratic National Committee chairman; retired Army Col. Patrick Lang; Ray Takeyh, senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.
No kidding. I was just looking at some of my previous replies this morning, and the Anna Nichole Smith thread had already hit over 4,000. My reply was #266. People on FR are still posting on that thread as I type.
BTW, I was going back over the replies and noticed you had a problem with the garage door. How large a door do you have? Most homes don't have chains on the garage doors, but have rollers in channels on each side. If that's the case, you may be able to push the door up manually. I had to do that when the original wooden door rotted out.
Don't worry...Obama has a degree in International Relations. lol
Yes...it is incredible...but they have been saying that for a while now.
What is even more incredible is that NOW they want to tell the POTUS/CIC how to run the war...but, in the same speech they will tell him that it is still HIS war, no matter what.
They can't have it both ways...if they want to take his power away as Commander in Chief, and run the war...they have to take ownership from then on.
They aren't willing to do that.
Notice Hillary said she would "stop the war" in Jan. 2009...NOT before then.
Don't worry a lamp or two thrown his way by his boss will straighten him out down the road.
Hey Johnnie!
great to see you!
MUAH!
It depends on the part of the country you're in here, Snugs.
In the rural, less peopled areas, service is only provided by a single provider, if at all. In the suburbs and cities, there can often be a lot of healthy (IMO) competition between providers. One has to then share the overall bandwidth, though.
I live in a very rural area, lots of forest, woods, fields, farms, rivers, lakes, but not a lot of high tech. I'm grateful for my cable connection. I sit astride the main trunk as I'm off of a state highway and have my own headend, since I don't have competition with others nearby getting service. Heck, I lose water and electrical power far more than my broadband connection!
I guess Barbado is quite stable now.
My best Robert KKK Byrd impression:
D-E-A-D
D-E-A-D
D-E-A-D
Dead.
freepmail for you.
I agree and I see it with the right in the UK
I'm about half serious...don't you think he fits there better?
Sounds to me like she wants to try and be like Reagan in 1981 and have the troops start coming home as son as she is ordained...errr...sworn in.
Too bad the only way she'll see the Presidential Reviewing stand is as a visitor in 2009.
Great post.
Is that another Bill Clinton joke?
Thanks for the Kurtz, Reynolds, Huffy recap.
Is Kurtz considered a 'reporter' or a 'commentator'?
LOL
There will come this frightening moment for you when you are discussing some PC question with a friend and you'll realize that, at least so far as they are concerned, you are the "computer guy." The next revelation is when you admit to yourself that you actually do know more than most and, more frightening, more than some so called "experts."
Back in the mid 80s when I first started with the company I'm with now my expertise was with "lowly" computers like the TRS-80 and older kit computers. The IBM PC was brand new and something we were looking at getting into in a big way. Shortly after I started my job I got sent off to the first IBM Technical Coordinator's Conference, which was about 50% PCs and the rest was the mid-range and mainframe computer stuff. I was expecting to learn so much from all of the high powered brainpower that would be meeting there, particularly the IBM team that had designed and built the IBM PC in Boca Raton. I got down there and figured out that I knew more than 99% of the customers and all but the main geeks on the IBM team. It scared the hell out me.
Fortunately the main electrical engineer who designed the PC (then the AT, Micro Channel and finally the PCI bus computers) and I got along because we found out we had something in common, we were both damned near blind! He is a six foot three albino black man, raised by his grandmother to be a Methodist minister, but he decided to be an electrical engineer instead. He still talks like a Methodist minister, however, so you'd come out of one of his session shouting "I believe in Micro Channel!" Fun guy and I learned a lot from him. The biggest thing was "Here's the big red switch. If something goes wrong turn the PC off. Wait a few seconds then turn it on again. No harm, no foul, so try again." <g>
Now, working on a craft as you do is something that has always escaped my talents. I can, however, appreciate the skill and artistry that goes into the kind of stuff you do.
Reminder, I'm going to be down in Orlando the week of June 4th for MS Tech Ed. Alas Babylon! and I met up at the one in Boston last year and that was a real treat for me. If there's anything that would bring you up that way during that week I'd love to buy you a drink.
He could always use that as an excuse in the debates if someone asks him about his lack of gravitas.
;-)
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