From Denny: The latest from the late night comedy show guys...
The Jay Leno Show
Jay Leno: President Obama today agreed to commit an additional 40,000 troops to help fight Fox News.
From Denny: This gives new meaning to the phrase "civil war." This video is really good as Maddow gives a clear cut definition of real news, even with personal comment, and what is political propaganda. Amazing how many people in America really do not understand the difference or are aware of just how much they are being manipulated into weak mind mush through the triggering of emotions to the level of jacked up, hiked up outrageous levels.
From Denny: These 2 segments are from A Woman's Nation from Maria Shriver, First Lady of California, niece to Senator Ted Kennedy. She is reporting on the changing roles of women. The truth is the sea change in attitudes over the past generation of men is the real news! Women know what other women have had to do, especially single mothers. What's new is that men are finally noticing, adjusting and taking steps to partner better. It was refreshing to hear a President talk about this from a personal perspective.
Photo from Billionaires for Wealthcare From Denny: This photo is too funny! The web site is serious about exposing the garbage lies the insurance industry is trying to sell us by using caustic satire.
From Denny: This is an Oddball segment from Keith Olbermann's Countdown show. Since it's October we get to watch folks in Lincoln County, Maine smash huge pumpkins. They put the several hundred pound pumpkins on a crane high in the air and then drop them onto decommissioned old police cars. Sort of gives you some satisfaction for that speeding or parking ticket you felt you never deserved from whatever decade... :)
What's really cool is the incredible sand sculpture a world renowned sand artist in India did on a local beach in Puri, India recently. The artist is Sudarshan Patanaik and his sculpture is four feet high, depicting President Obama's head embedded in a Nobel Peace Prize medal with an accompanying dove and a message pro Peace. This man is quite the artist! So glad a film crew went out there and recorded it; maybe he will do a painting or print photo to sell as posters? Beautifully done as well as a political statement art...
From Denny: Apparently, my post yesterday analyzing why President Obama does deserve the Nobel Peace Prize over at Dennys Global Politics shook up the Republican war room guys.
The amusing thing about it is that all they did was prove my point: "the Republicans just had to be nasty" about Obama receiving this honor for America.
Of course, I didn't bother to publish the idiot comments. Why? Because it was nasty? Partly. And these blogs are my world and they just happened to stumble into it. No one held a gun to their heads and forced them to read the post.
The other reason not to publish it? They were trying to define me with their usual lies, leaving comments trying to confuse anyone who came along later to read my article by claiming what I wrote was satire, which, of course, it wasn't satire or anything remotely near it. What the problem was for them is there really was no where for them to go with their anger but to attack me personally since I had covered all the arguments they could have employed as a counter.
English: United States President Barack Obama signs into law the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 as Vice President Joe Biden looks on. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
From Denny: The story takes a look inside the Obama economic team and defines more who they are and how they look at the problem. He summarizes their positions. Right now the President meets daily with five of his economic advisers. There's a lot of arm-chair quarterbacking going on here but it is still interesting to examine the original positions and conflicts on the economic team and the outcome we all now know.
From Denny: As usual there are those in our society who continue to rally the mean-spirited. I had heard about this but not seen the news coverage about it until now. I like the way the Republicans demanded everyone get behind the President when a Republican was in office but have never and do not now extend the same fervor, patriotism or courtesy to any Democrat in the Oval Office. Hmmm... I believe the term for that is: hypocrite! :)
Here's what Hardball Chris Matthews had to report:
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From Denny: I like the way this cartoon was put up crooked on the cartoon site, probably unintentional but somehow telling. It's pretty much how regular Americans feel in their life right now: everything is askew since the job situation is up in the air. Most Americans only work up to 33 hours a week and without benefits. Big Business has been throwing its weight around to bully the American worker for the past 25 years.
All this colossal mess started with the electing of Republicans into Congress who were unashamedly in the pockets of lobbyists. While Washington has always suffered from the lobbyist plague, today lobbyist ratios have increased to hundreds per legislator. They were allowed to run amok during the Bush years and multiplied like whore rabbits. Will someone please quit feeding them or organize a "hunt and shoot on sight" with the gun lobby?
The Jay Leno Show
Jay Leno: The International Olympic Committee voted, and Chicago didn't win. Which, hey, I can understand that. It's October, Chicago never wins in October.
Palin chose an author known as a White Supremacist to write her book. No wonder it's a best-seller with the racist crowd:
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
Jimmy Fallon: Sarah Palin's 400-page memoir: It starts out OK, it get's really exciting, and then confusing, and then the last 100 pages are blank.
The unsympathetic Polanski trying to weasel his way out of answering for his creepy ways:
Definitely a satire on the Republican Party's mental hospital antics of the Birther and Death Panel bizarros that have backfired on their strategists with the public:
The Tonight Show
Conan O'Brien: First lady Michelle Obama just made an appearance on "Sesame Street." It was all going very well. But then Big Bird showed up and things got a little uncomfortable.
Big Bird: Well, look who's here to push her husband's socialist health care agenda.
Michele Obama: Well, Big Bird ...
Big Bird: Or maybe you're here to finally show us your husband's United States birth certificate.
Michele Obama: No, Big Bird, I'm not.
Big Bird: That's 'cause you can't.
Ah, local politics is always dirtier than the national. It's dirty in New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Texas, Louisiana, Florida, and every other state in the Union. The listed are the stars of long-term corruption.
The Colbert Report
Stephen Colbert: There's no better way for the International Olympics Committee to shed its reputation for corruption. Because next to Chicago, nobody looks corrupt.
The Jay Leno Show
Jay Leno: Tom Delay on "Dancing Wth the Stars" the other night. There was one very odd moment when the judges revealed their score.
Judges: 6-6-6.
The Late Late Show
Craig Ferguson: Forbes magazine released its list of the 400 richest people in the country. It was shocking to me. I had no idea there were 400 rich people left in the country!
Well, this little list should keep them talking at the water cooler this Monday morning! Have a great day! :)
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Swine Flu, Mexico, May 1, 2009 (Photo credit: The Fanboy)
From Denny: Cartoonists have been busy this week! So much in the news to lampoon - G20 meeting and protestors, swine flu fears, new "no texting while driving" law, Iran's empty promises about nuclear weapons, the current status of job seekers in America, trying to marry off Rush with the Truth but he won't have a shotgun wedding and President Obama juggling world affairs, two wars and vying for the 2016 Olympics to come to Chicago (they lost out to Brazil, congrats Brazil! South America has never hosted the Olympics.)
Swine Flu Fears - so powerful you no longer need a handgun in America...
Sad news of recent tragic deaths due to distraction from texting while driving prompted a new federal law to prohibit it:
The latest pastime trend to find meaning in life among jobseekers:
The latest desperation among job seekers to find any or full time employment. These days big companies like Exxon only employ people for up to 32 hours so they don't have to pay them any benefits. Even the U.S. Post Office does the same; only 4% of them are full time employees:
These two cartoons talk about how much the President has on his plate:
This one depicts how the Democrats and the President are beginning to look like they are attempting to take on too much in the field of multi-tasking and starting to look ridiculous.
Well, I guess, someone has to make up the work load that President Bush and Cheney sloughed off because they went to bed early and vacationed for a month at a time on a whim. The government started grinding to a halt so I guess the Dems have to speed things up just to make up lost ground:
Then there's everyone's favorite: Iran. They always seem to have a surprise-in-a-box or so they believe themselves to be that clever.
Loved the Kooky Jar one as it sums up the world belief system about the ruthless crass leaders of Iran. You have 7th century hearts and minds in charge of nuclear energy. Are you kidding? That's like asking a three-year-old to play with matches near a gas jet.
The one of the Secretary of State says it all about how Iran continues to screw over world leaders with deception after deception after lie after lie.
The G20 meeting of world leaders and their protestors, opinion of big banks:
While the world of truth-tellers keep trying to marry off the liars in a shotgun wedding...
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From Denny: Let me see if I understand this correctly... This guy speaks the truth about how the Republicans are denying health care where the end result is that 45,000 people a year die because they can't afford to get help. So, the Republicans want this Dem to apologize for incendiary remarks? You have got to be kidding.
The Republicans have launched an all out war trying to get some unbalanced person to go and attempt to assassinate President Obama and they want an apology? The latest is the murder poll on Facebook which it took the Secret Service to order them to take it down. And you wonder why sane people don't hang out at Facebook?
They've been running a dastardly pysch poll over there since March. The study they are running is evident they are searching for weak minds and they want to see how far they can go to manipulate them. I left as soon as I saw what was going on. Note: They don't allow you to delete your account, only suspend it. Sweet. These people are a nasty bunch running Facebook.
Of course, there's more from conservative talk radio and letters to the editor, newspaper ads, flyers to your home, photoshoped video on YouTube, you name it. The media is choking on death threats against Obama, as they have risen over 400% since he took office.
It's time we all start calling down these jerks who think it's OK to incite unbalanced people to go out and kill someone. They need to be prosecuted just as if they pulled the trigger. It just goes to show you that big business is backing all this. Where there is money at stake, the greedy will ruthlessly do anything.
Update @ 5 PM thanks to a reader from newsy.com, that discusses the internet uproar over this facebook poll. Here's the video they are running:
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From Denny: This is a wonderful story about people helping other people clear across the world. Chicago's sister city is Casablanca in Morocco and has been for over 25 years. These are high school kids who want to work against poverty.
They visited Casablanca and met an astounding local man who is revered by many for his work among the poor. What is most impressive is how much support he has given to young women to get educated and succeed. Now that's not something you expect out of an Islamic culture. As it stands now, the most recent stats have just been released, regardless of religion, that 30% of women worldwide are abused. That's billions of people suffering. The figures are much higher in Islamic countries. To see a man devote so much of his life and resources to helping young women develop warms the heart.
