I’ve always admired Ron Howard, Andy Griffith and Henry Winkler. Now comes along this video that totally knocked me off my seat!

It’s the best video on the web in years.

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If Obama wins this election it’s a given he and Biden will go after Bush, Cheney, and everyone they’ve ever hung out with.  How do they avoid this?

Executive Clemency.

Here’s how it’s gonna work.   Seeing the groundswell to prosecute him for 100′s of criminal acts, Bush will step down for some reason or another and Cheney, now President will pardon him.  Cheney will then bow down moving his VP pick up to President ( probably Condoleeza Rice ) who will then pardon Cheney.

I know it feels like one of those conspiracy theories but you know what, when people said George W. would get us into a war, screw up the economy, and a dozen other things that have come to pass, those people were called conspiracy theorists then too.

Shows to go ya.

So this would be a sweeet move by the Republicans.  They would walk away with Bush and Cheney untouchable and they would have Condoleeza Rice as President for a few weeks establishing not only the first woman president but the first African American president taking away from Obama’s thunder.

See, I went to “Evil Mastermind University” and that’s how I come up with all this stuff.

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It’s way past the time to start some shit about this nonsense. Bailout of the big financial institutions but you the citizen left to hold the bag. Now mind you none of these financial institutions were worried about bailing you out, so why should you be concerned with saving their butts?

It’s just another case of the mega wealthy using our resources to maintain their operations. If this bailout doesn’t work the entire world as we know it will be up for grabs. It’s almost a trillion dollars to operate this bailout and with no guarantees down the line.

It’s a bandaid on a head wound strategy and once again you can count on the Republicans for this nonsense. From the days when Nixon removed the gold standards and the usury laws were nullified to the Reaganites and the start of the deregulation bandwagon.

The safeguards were removed in direct opposition of what the Founding Fathers wanted and to prove it look at the shit we’re in now. There’s no debate, there’s no gray area here, them’s the facts jack.

We the people are faulty. We’re not perfect and given to errors so we have safeguards put in place by the wisest of us in order to prevent and repair when we do go astray.

We’ve spent trillions on a war in a country that didn’t attack us and not enough in on a country that did. There’s enough blame to go around and why we’re where we are is anwerable by every foul up in human history. Same causes, different names.

It’s going to take some drastic changes in our behavior as a collective nation to alter things for the better. We’re not going to fall into Depresssion Era dispair but it’s gonna be close if worse happens. Natural disasters, terrorism, we’re hanging on by a thread but we do have enough courage, money, resources, drive to survive where others would end up in the soup. It’s not gonna be pretty but shoveling one’s way out of the shitpile never is.

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Rallying together to discuss the recent presidential debate, Republican candidates John McCain, Sarah Palin, and President Bush get together for photographs while discussing the latest campaign strategies.

NOT!
Of course this is a screen cap of the classic animated tv show “The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle”. I had to post it as the naughty got hold of me.

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Maybe I’m too old but if your running mate is a black guy you don’t use terms like “stymie” during your debate with him.

Next thing you know that “Little Rascals” music will start playing in the background.

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DAVID LETTERMAN DOGPILES ON JOHN MC CAIN

I thought this was part of a gag but late night talk show host David Letterman’s response to Republican Presidential candidate John McCain’s dropping out of their scheduled interview has left CBS with egg on their face.

Letterman obviously peeved at the fact that McCain ditched their interview and instead chose to do one with Katie Couric made Dave sore and Dave showed his creative muscle by snagging an internal newsfeed of McCain gettin’ pretty for the Couric interview when he had told Letterman he’d be off to Washington to face the economic crisis.

Dave got the last laugh. Why? Because like most politicians McCain did a weasle for the pretty spot. He knew Letterman’s wit was too sharp for him. He knew Letterman was going to ask him the tough questions and he chickened out.

Well Dave threw down and started some shit so he gets this week’s “Star Shit Award” for starting the most shit as a talk show host.

Now I’ll have to make up some certificates and get a sculpture made.

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Okay this is too funny. Someone dug up Sarah Palin’s Miss Alaska Beauty Pageant video. The video speaks for itself.

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When I was a kid something happened so amazing we couldn’t beleive it as we watched. Right there on the evening news the newscasters were joking, laughing, and enjoying themselves while they delivered the news!

We thought something had gone wrong with the tv set and that someone was playing a joke on us. It was the early 1970′s and channel 7, ABC’s Eyewitness News broke with the stoic tradition of stark faced newsmen and turned into somewhat of a reflection of ourselves. They delivered the news, focused on the raw data but in their delivery the didn’t come off as drones but as real people who had real issues like the rest of us. Ratings boomed and legends were born and the sheer face of tv and radio news from then on changed to a more friendly, humane touch. Nowadays it’s a bit too over the top to the point of absurdity in many cases but it all began with Eyewitness News in NY.

If memory serves, Roger Grimsby, Bill Beutel, John Johnson, Melba Tolliver, Geraldo Rivera, Anna Bond, Doug Johnson, and the rest made us smile and put fear in the hearts of evil doers with their hard hitting reporting. It was a great time as Woodward and Bernstein were taking down President Nixon and his cronies and worldwide reporters found new courage and resources and we the people were being served the real news, no sugar coating it the way the Founding Fathers probably wanted it.

That team got me interested in the news biz. I remember one of the biggest kicks I’ve ever had is when in 1983 during a story about the bombing in Beirut Lebanon at the Marine Corps barracks, Roger Grimsby mentioned my name on the air. That’s a long story but I was working in a newsroom at the time at an historic newspaper and it was quite something.

Too bad nowadays the financial and military indtustrialists and tabloids have dominated. A great chance was lost but perhaps the internet has taken up the mantle of courageous journalism.

We’ll see.

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