Louie Anderson made a funny on potlucks that was to die.
"Mom, the Joneses want to know what they should bring."
Louie bends over, cups one hand over the microphone, whisking toward himself with the other and whispers.
"Oh just tell them to come."
The poor Joneses, I swear if it weren't for the unused urn of their dear departed dog Rose G*d rest her soul they wouldn't have a pot to pishn.
Someone always shows up at the potluck that causes such a stir. This year, it's the Republican National Hoedown. And you didn't hear this from me, but I hear tell that this year it will be the Liebermans.
This is a plea on whatever pitiful and personal level it may be to the Auto Industry, to auto owners, energy consumers ... to America.
You are, if you are willing, about to be led by a ring in your nose like a helpless pig to slaughter to an entirely new narrative about the oil and gasoline you consume. But I believe that this time, you can do the right thing and stick to the decision you have already made to free yourself from the bonds of oil for good.
You've had this happen at least once, haven't you? You're at a Barack Obama speech. I mean, one of the most exciting next world leaders is speaking 90 days from the day he takes office ... eloquently, cracking jokes like Jon Stewart, effortlessly, cool.
And someone sitting next to you decides you should be TALKING TO HER!!!!
I just want to see where the community at large lies with this issue.
Gramps made it into the headlines a couple times this week with some Obama smear ads. Not particularly good ones, but hey ... CNN is amused by them, and MSNBC likes to have something to say to their pundits to get reaction. Frankly, laying down a good energy policy isn't all that sexy -- or let's put it this way, it's about as sexy as a hybrid.
Amazon leaves their book review process door wide open to anyone who wants in. That's their right, Amazon is a privately owned company. It enables hundreds upon hundreds of phony reviewers who probably can't even read let alone be qualified to review a book to freep the Amazon site and hold her review ratings down to a 1-Star joke.
This latest seeming Voice from the Universe telling us to move away from Dinosaur Crap as our main source of energy comes in the form of a $1.85 Million fine.
Well, by now you've heard that Michigan's economy is like a giant black hole that nothing in any other part of the country can escape from it's gravitational pull, not even light. And I am the first one out there to take a punch in the eye for my gal, the Honorable Jennifer Granholm, Governor. She was handed a pile of John Engler poop and told to clean it up and sell it as compost. But not even Jen could have forseen what George W. Bush's NAFTA abuses would do to our country.
Let me disclose right off the bat that I never knew the names of the people at the head of the Washington bureau of the Associated Press until I read this article from Politico today. I don't know where some of you people find time to research this stuff, and know as much as some of you know, I honestly don't. But I can tell you that when I broke into the broadcast industry some 28 years ago, there were two acronyms that were the stalwarts of journalism. They were AP and UPI (United Press International). Those days may be coming to an end.
Flint, Michigan. A quiet, dusty, all-but-abandoned auto town that once was the darling zip code for the mass production era may soon be making the front pages again. Only this time, instead of bumpers it's butt cracks.
If you're enough of a nitwit to stumble into the parts of the deep south that hate gays, blacks, women in power positions and fish with feet -- and film two hairy guys kissing just to see their reaction -- then you deserve to get some attention, I suppose.
"We maintained full authority of the aircraft" air officials said of the plane with Senator and presidential candidate Barack Obama aboard. What the hell does that even mean?
His name is Jason Burnett. You may have never heard of him, but if you had chances are it would have been because of his passion for the environment. But according to some sentiments here at Daily Kos, his passion might make him a single issue democrat. And that's a bad thing?
Patriotism over these past 8 years seemed so inappropriate. Well, first there was the loss of a balanced budget - I mean like that! He no sooner had picked up the hammer and the little glass piggy was in shards all over the place.
It's something we're not about to do today, or likely tomorrow, or perhaps ever under these circumstances. It might have been easier to have agreed upon some ubiquity of certain core values in the progressive movement if we'd been asked to do it the day after we invaded Iraq. But not now.
This will be a shorty. It will garner few to zero recommends. And the point I will be making will be as passing as I suppose those views of the people about which I am making it.
What a kooky statement this is about a state that staked its entire future on the Auto Industry. Following the biggest plummet in GM's stock prices in 3 decades, at the moment the Pleasant Penninsula's future may seem even bleaker!
