Yes, 6:00 PM came and went, and I didn't even remember what didn't happen as I cleaned my grill- my last meal was going to be Bubba Burgers....I'm a Jersey Guy, I have simple tastes.
Anyway here's the latest skinny on the cancelled Rapture 2011. It will be made up sometime next year as part of a day/night separate admission doubleheader with 2012 Apocalypse. Season ticketholders may advance order, all others must wait until the first trumpets come warning of the coming of The Beast on a first come, first serve basis.
Wait a minute.....Newt Gingrich is supposed to be on Face the Nation tomorrow, singing Friend of the Devil, with Bob Schieffer playing a wicked set of spoons.
Delaware Republican Senatorial candidate Christine O'Donnell has told the world....
"I am NOT a witch!
But through our very thorough search of YouTube (so it must be true) we found this O'Donnell ad with proof of the contrary.
I dunno. Maybe it's a Halloween thing. Anyway, it's back to YouTube. Here's a tried and true method to determine if Ms. O'Donnell is, indeed, a witch.....courtesy of Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
If she can float.....she must be made of wood. And if she's made of wood....she can float like a duck. And if she weighs more than a duck.....
One more question.....is she responsible for turning this guy into a......
COUNTDOWN with Keith Olbermann once again gave us a few moments of "must see TV" on Thursday. In a recent interview at humanevents.com, former Republican Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich wrote that extension of unemployment benefits gives the incentive to stay on unemployment instead of looking for another job. He went on....
"The Wall Street Journal quotes an engineer who admits he turned down more than a dozen jobs because the salary would have been less then he made on welfare.This story encapsulates the problem of the long-termed unemployed. The depth and length of this recession is at risk of creating a permanent pool of unemployed Americans, who get so used to being unproductive that they are willing to accept welfare indefinitely instead of taking a job."
You would think the former Speaker, who was at one time third in line to the presidency during the Clinton administration, would know the difference between "welfare" and "unemployment insurance".
But he knows the difference. It was just Newt's way of scoring points with his political base.
And by the way....the jobs being offered in the paragraph above would require the hired person to move to Dubai.
In the video below the man referenced by Gingrich, Mike Hatchell of Lumberton, NC- with his wife Sarah- talk about their history, and the truth about why he turned down the job offers. The bottom line is, Mr. Hatchell payed into the unemployment insurance pool for more than 30 years.....it was money he was entitled to, and the depiction of him being on welfare by Gingrich was simply a bold face lie.
New York Times Op-Ed columnist Paul Krugman talks about the passage of healthcare reform, and how the politics of fear was trumped by an appeal to that of "our better angels"
