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Apparently some moron in the White House Press Corps screamed at the President about losing Congress. My 1st thought is, Did this moron yell the same thing at Clinton??? Answer, probably not. Then my 2nd thought is, the Republicans in Congress lost the Congress and there is no other explaination. If those idiots would have tried even the smallest amount of discipline, instead of acting like “We can Buy Votes” Democrats, we would still have the majority. You just have to wonder at the very lack of thinking that comes out of these “unbiased” reporters. – Lorica

Mondays News Leaders:

- Mitt takes Iowa Straw poll….promises to give it back, now that he’s been elevated to third tier….

- Rove goes underground…Moonbats frantically trying to devine his next great conspiracy to make them crazier than they already are….

- NASA finds hole in space shuttle…blames it on global warming….

- Kos proves his centrist bonofides by saying “centrist” 43 times on Sundays Meet the Press….

- Obama challenges Hillery to an “Irresponsible things I can say” contest. Hillery calls him a naive wuss. Kucinich says we ought to get out of Brooklyn…..

- Hidatha military defebdents freed – SecProggs decry the total lack of evidence a sure sign of guilt…

- Chinese toy manufacturer CEO agrees to downsizes operation, stemming from the lead paint recall scandal…sets example for employees by walking out of third floor office window.

- Big Bang

Comment by Big Bang Hunter @ 8/13/2007 – 12:56 pm

This is what passes as Journalism for the WashingtonPost?

Well, yeah, of course. They’ve already used up their weekly quota of gossipy stories about Jeri Thompson, so they have to find something else about Fred to mock. You didn’t expect the WaPo to talk about issues here, did you?

Sorry about the absence.  I could make some profound excuses and try to look good, but the honest truth is, I was tired and I needed a break.

One thing I am learning is when my body says slow down, take a break and relax, I listen.&n…

“It has the tonal quality of something being dropped on the floor, something heavy and damp-ish.

Waterlogged paper towel.”

Well, at least that is the way Monica Hesse talks about in an article for the Washington Post.

Serious…is this what the Washington Post considers news?

Fred, Fred, Fred: Thompson’s Challenge Has a Name

By Monica Hesse
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, August 12, 2007; D01

In the swampy soup of hopefuls for the 2008 presidential election, there is a man with a funny name. (No, not that one.)

We’re thinking of the one named Fred (Thompson).

Say it out loud. Do it. Fred. Fred. In the South, Fray-ud.

Fur-red-duh.

It has the tonal quality of something being dropped on the floor, something heavy and damp-ish.

Waterlogged paper towel.

Fred.

The phonetics of the name seem integral to its image problem: On Urbandictionary.com, a “Fred” is defined as “a person who does stupid, annoying, or idiotic things” (Fred Flintstone, Fred Mertz). The best-case descriptors a Fred can hope for are terms like well-intentioned, predictable, benign (Fred Rogers).

There has never before been a major presidential candidate named Fred. There were two Alfreds, in 1928 and 1936. But Alfred, being all British and Batman-y, is not the same.

….

Thompson is a strong name, he says. Thompson is a name with natural trochaic rhythm, which replicates a heartbeat and thus starts building appeal in the womb. “Does he ever go by Frederick?” Smith asks hopefully. FRED-erick THOMP-son would be a winning combination.

But he doesn’t. He goes by Fred. Going by Fred, he still has amassed a clan of pitter-patter, all-a flutter followers.

….

Fred.

We are trying to understand.

We are willing to admit that that some people find Fred Thompson, yes, sexy.

But we still cannot understand what that means.

What does it signify that we, as a country, are choosing to deem yummy a guy named Fred?

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This has to be the most inane and idiotic article I have ever read.

It is like something a group of teenage girls gossiping in the locker room would talk about, giggling in the corner.

This is what passes as Journalism for the WashingtonPost?

Pathetic.

If Barry Bonds is supposedly off steroids, how can he continue doing this (and why doesn’t he look like Ragetti)? From this reverse-angle, you can truly see what a feat it is to hit a home run in a major

I know this isn’t new information to most of you, but I still find this video very stunning. Today all the negative consequences Cheney spoke about in 1994 have materialized. He was so sure then, as he is now. Unbelievable.

I’m a bit surprised there wasn’t a shot with a blond talking head in a canoe (remember the flooding in NY? a while back when some guy walked into the shot showing the devastating flooding conditions in ankle deep water and by the overwhelmed actor, I mean reporter) or a continued effort to demonstrate the flooding due to the GW, on the bottom of the sea.

UN steps toward greater role on Iraq

Now we need to make sure these meddling twits don’t make it their business to involve AQ and Iran in some sort of negotiated “peace”, or worse, some time of new “coalition” government for Iraq.

New York Times hits all time low

Just when you think The New York Times could sink no lower, it’s offering ideas to terrorists on how to kill us.

On The Times Web site, “Freakonomics” author Steven Levitt offered his ideas on a good terrorist attack and asked readers to post their own ideas.

Absolutely brilliant.

Or an inheritance. One of my sailing buddies set up one o’ those dealies for the for’ard hatch when he’s in a slip with shore power…

Civil engineer, reminds me of an old joke, electrical engineers build missiles, civil engineers build targets.