Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread 26 August 2007

Various big media television networks ^ | 26 August 2007 | Various Self-Serving Politicians and Big Media Screaming Faces

[Alas Babylon!]

The Talk Shows

Sunday, August 26th, 2007

Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:

FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Sens. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and Jack Reed, D-R.I.; former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee.

MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Sen. John Warner, R-Va.; cyclist Lance Armstrong.

FACE THE NATION (CBS): Former Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C., and his wife, Elizabeth.

THIS WEEK (ABC): Sens. Jim Webb, D-Va., and John Cornyn, R-Texas; former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers.

LATE EDITION (CNN) : Former Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi; New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson; Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan.; Lt. Gen. Raymond Odierno, the No. 2 U.S. military commander in Iraq; former Sen. Max Cleland, D-Ga.

[snugs]

Yes it does annoy me when they say 26p change when I hand over a 10 pound note rather than giving me the 26p and saying 9.74, 9.80, ten pound as they hand over the change as I was taught to do.

[snugs]

Off to dish dinner now, roast lamb and all the trimmings followed by Blackberry custard tart made with blackberries from my garden.

[STARWISE]

LOL .....

[Arrowhead1952]

RE: #378 I learned because my parents had a shop before the days of electric tills

And this. Yes it does annoy me when they say 26p change when I hand over a 10 pound note rather than giving me the 26p and saying 9.74, 9.80, ten pound as they hand over the change as I was taught to do.

There are some older clerks around who still count change that way. You buy $4.25, and they will give you the change for a $10 with three quarters and a $5 and say: "Four twenty-five (your purchase), four fifty (one quarter), five (two quarters), ten dollars."

[rodguy911]

SAme here.

[MNJohnnie]

Oddest thing. We were talking about Nunn on the Sunday thread a couple of weeks ago? We were wondering if he was still alive and look who rears his ugly head.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1886861/posts

Sam Nunn Weighing White House Run

[rodguy911]

OOoh lookin’ good tonight.

[STARWISE]

The more I think about it, and after seeing and reading their statements from today .. I’m getting the impression they (McConnell, Warner) were given hints of “redeployment” directly from the WH.

McConnell’s obviously the more prudent .. Warner’s now a loose cannon IMO .. but McConnell’s words have brought me up rather short. I wasn’t expecting him to say what he did.

McConnell’s very close to the WH .. and he (and Warner in the leadership) could’ve been chosen to offer up that balloon, McConnell being more cautious and vague in his statements and Warner more egotistical and legacy focused.

Total speculation, but I’m now seriously wondering if the WH *will* be making some troop reductions .. and, if true, that would be a very very surprising and alarming turn to me.

[rodguy911]

Bill = $36.72
hand clerk $100.00
Change= 36.75,37.00 40.00 60,80,100.—thank you sir! come back again!
Days of the past never to be seen again.

[doug from upland]

Thanks for the link.

[rodguy911]

I’m taking unity 08 seriously,could be a force to be reckoned with.

[rodguy911]

No problem.

[Freee-dame]

I can’t believe that 41% of Vets can stand HRC

This is of Vets in the Democratic party. They have already self-selected themselves as liberals. How big is the sample?

[Arrowhead1952]

You got that right. If it wasn’t for the cash registers, the people would have no idea how to make change.

Of course, they probably wouldn’t have the job either. The illegals are totally lost making change with automation.

[rodguy911]

I think with the talk being that 160,000 is unsustainable(no one mentions that we had near 600,000 in Iraq I) that it is reasonable to expect some reductions but not until the surge is well along which is also supposed to be sometime next year.

Why we don't have capabilities to put a half million troops in without strain now, is a huge question mark to me.

[rodguy911]

I just wish English was spoken in the stores down here.

Since we are talking about the, “old days” and how it was, remember these guys—the Ruskies,they are about as friendly now as they were 30 years ago, IMHO. Check this:

http://mavericknewsnetwork.typepad.com/

RUSSIAN PANTSYR FOR SYRIA ORDERED BY IRAN

Russia is delivering SAC missile systems to syria and paid for by their best buds the Iranians.
Unbelievable.

This is another good site loaded with great stuff.

[Eagles Talon IV]

Warner is a great example of the past not being prelude to the future.

[rodguy911]

And if that’s not enough,

http://www.publiuspundit.com/

Looks like Boy Hugo is going into the cargo business or something.

[Darth Republican]

Certainly she wouldn't have been subject to the same kind of lampooning as Dan Quayle was.

Notice how Senator Obama, who has less experience than Dan Quayle had, seems to get a pass from the Drive-bys and the late-night punsters?

[Phsstpok]

The surge was always designed to be a temporary increase in the number of troops.  That's why the word "surge" was used instead of something like escalation or increase, which both imply permanance.  It was designed to achieve a breathing spell for Patraeus' real strategy to be put in effect, counterinsurgency and enlisting the Sunni sheiks to turn on Al Qaeda.  Patraeus has already signalled that he thinks a troop reduction in the near term is a possiblity.

The counterinsurgency plan has succeeded beyond anyones expectations in places like Al Anbar and the Sunni power base of the sheiks is now asserting itself in relation to the national government of Maliki, but in a way that could lead to real progress. The Kurds have gotten behind the same push and it looks like a serious effort has been put together during the parliament's "recess" that will lead to a big political push when they reconvene. The test is will Maliki bypass or eliminate Al Sadr in order to make progress among his own Shiite power base. Some indications are there that he's actually making some moves to bypass him and make him irrelevant.

The thing that scares me is that the surge and counterinsurgency plan have succeeded to such an extent that Al Qaeda and Iran are getting desperate.  Watch for a Tet like offensive, particularly in Baghdad, between now and when Patraeus is scheduled to testify on 9/11/07.  I've read some things that sound like such a counter offensive may actually have started within the last 72 hours with coordinated attacks on several cities and an increase in car bombings. 

I wouldn't be a bit surprised to find out that Al Qaeda has been in touch with folks like Timmah Russert and are coordinating their actions with his show's guests and themes in the run up to that testimony.  Wouldn't it be a hoot if Bush went on TV and played audio recordings of Lil Timmah or Ol' Bob talking on the phone with Al Qaeda operatives about timing of attacks on our soldiers.  It would screw up any criminal case, even for treason, but I doubt anyone caught like that would ever walk the streets again and survive.