Friday open thread

It’s gonna be another one of those days. I’ll be back later this afternoon or evening.

5 Responses to "Friday open thread"

teqjack says:

June 20, 2008 at 2:25 pm

While not fond of the idea of following the EU lead in much of anything, I may make an exception –
E.U. Passes Tough “Migrant” Measure
[For “undocumented migrant” read “illegal immigrant”]
STRASBOURG, France — European Union lawmakers voted Wednesday to allow undocumented migrants to be held in detention centers for up to 18 months and banned from European Union territory for five years.
Tom TB says:

June 20, 2008 at 7:51 pm

I’m not a Barack Hussein Obama expert; but it does seem that he repeats “20 years” over and over about his associations, from whom he distances himself from whenever they embarass him because of their racialist, radical, or taking advantage of the public views. This guy seems to have run with the wrong crowd, and likes it.
Mwalimu Daudi says:

June 21, 2008 at 12:06 am

Obama says Republicans will use race to stoke fear.

The gauntlet has been flung down. Vote for the Messiah or you are a racist.

Will Republicans be too cowardly to fight back?
Lorica says:

June 21, 2008 at 9:35 am

….AND THE CLOWNS CONTINUE…..

Lou Dobbs: Bush Should Be Impeached for Salmonella Outbreak
CNN host says leadership in ‘sorry condition’ and inability to ‘protect the American consumer’ is ‘sufficient reason to impeach a president.’

LINK
sanity says:

June 23, 2008 at 5:01 am

LOS ANGELES, Calif. (AP) – George Carlin, the dean of counterculture comedians whose biting insights on life and language were immortalized in his “Seven Words You Can Never Say On TV” routine, died of heart failure Sunday. He was 71.

Carlin, who had a history of heart trouble, went into St. John’s Medical Center in Santa Monica on Sunday afternoon complaining of chest pain and died later that evening, said his publicist, Jeff Abraham. He had performed as recently as last weekend at the Orleans Casino and Hotel in Las Vegas.

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Carlin was born May 12, 1937 and grew up in the Morningside Heights section of Manhattan, raised by a single mother. After dropping out of high school in the ninth grade, he joined the Air Force in 1954. He received three court-martials and numerous disciplinary punishments, according to his official Web site.

While in the Air Force he started working as an off-base disc jockey at a radio station in Shreveport, La., and after receiving a general discharge in 1957, took an announcing job at WEZE in Boston.

“Fired after three months for driving mobile news van to New York to buy pot,” his Web site says.

From there he went on to a job on the night shift as a deejay at a radio station in Forth Worth, Texas. Carlin also worked variety of temporary jobs including a carnival organist and a marketing director for a peanut brittle.

In 1960, he left with a Texas radio buddy, Jack Burns, for Hollywood to pursue a nightclub career as comedy team Burns & Carlin. He left with $300, but his first break came just months later when the duo appeared on the Tonight Show with Jack Paar. r Carlin said he hoped to would emulate his childhood hero, Danny Kaye, the kindly, rubber-faced comedian who ruled over the decade that Carlin grew up in—the 1950s—with a clever but gentle humor reflective of its times.

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Carlin’s first wife, Brenda, died in 1997. He is survived by wife Sally Wade; daughter Kelly Carlin McCall; son-in-law Bob McCall; brother Patrick Carlin; and sister-in-law Marlene Carlin.

Link

Tis a sad day.

I loved his earlier stuff, and loved How to keep people on thier toes. But it seemed the older her got the more cynical and nasty his comedy got.

He definately made an impact on society, radio and TV.

Carlin constantly pushed the envelope with his jokes, particularly with the “Seven Words” routine. When he uttered all seven at a show in Milwaukee in 1972, he was arrested for disturbing the peace.

When the words were played on a New York radio station, they resulted in a Supreme Court ruling in 1978 upholding the government’s authority to sanction stations for broadcasting offensive language.

“So my name is a footnote in American legal history, which I’m perversely kind of proud of,” he told The Associated Press earlier this year.

Some of the humor he is known for:

If someone with multiple personalities threatens to kill himself, is it considered a hostage situation?

Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?

Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?

He will be missed.

Goodbye George

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