If Your Name Is Preceded By “Disgraced Former,” Become A Talk Show Host

Michael Hood at Blather Watch reports that former sexcapader Mark Foley may have found a home on Talk Radio.  WSVU in Palm Beach will present “Inside the Mind of Mark Foley” which “will expose the inner workings of Washington DC.

Foley is the formerly closeted gay Republican who spectacularly, and conveniently (for Democrats) exploded his public life just before the 2006 elections.

The veteran congressman was caught having sent skeezy instant sexual messages and photos of his self-described “handsome penis” in unsolicited emails to teenage boys who’d been House pages. There was more, but Republicans got him out of …

Tennessee Mayor Asks “Patriotic Americans” To Oppose Stamp Honoring Muslim Holidays

Clarksville, TN Mayor Johnny Piper sent out an email that falsely claims President Obama ordered US postal stamps honoring Muslim holidays, and suggests it’s unpatriotic to support them. (via Think Progress)

The e-mail asks readers to remember a series of what it calls “Muslim” terrorist attacks. For example, “Remember the MUSLIM bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993!”

After a series of similar comments, the e-mail concludes: “To use this stamp would be a slap in the face to all those AMERICANS who died at the hands of those whom this stamp honors.

“REMEMBER: Pass this …

Laura Bush Backs Obama School Speech

Former First Lady Laura Bush has expressed support for President Obama’s school speech, saying, it’s “really important for everyone to respect the president of the United States.”

In an interview with CNN, Mrs. Bush, a former school teacher, said, “There’s a place for the president of the United States to talk to school children and encourage school children” to stay in school. And she said parents and others also need to send that message.

Mrs. Bush, asked about former Vice President Cheney’s recent remarks, said that he “has every right to speak out. … It’s certainly Vice President …

Florida GOP Chair Claims Obama Rewrote Speech; Used To Mock Democrats To Schoolkids

Florida GOP Chair Jim Greer, one of the most outspoken critics of President Obama’s address to schoolchildren, claims, with admittedly no proof, that the president rewrote the speech after the White House “got their hand caught in the cookie jar.”

Suzanne Malveaux asked Greer if he had any inside information that the White House changed the speech.

“No, I don’t,” said Greer. “But I would anticipate, based on this President being so vocal and so aggressive about his vision of America, where government is in every aspect of our lives, I believe that the speech that he was …

Obama’s Dangerous Indoctrination Speech

It’s out, kids! The speech that will make young Marxists and radicals of America’s  young children.  Here are some of the dangerous highlights, followed, in the indented paragraphs, by the TRUTH.

Hello everyone – how’s everybody doing today? I’m here with students at Wakefield High School in Arlington, Virginia.

Except for those students whose parents kept them home for their own good.

And for those of you in kindergarten, or starting middle or high school, it’s your first day in a new school, so it’s understandable if you’re a little nervous.

…especially since I, the bogeyman, am here.…

On Monday’s Radio Show…

Guest host Ellis Henican fills in for Alan.…

USA! We’re Number One! In Arms Sales

The United States is responsible for two-thirds of all 2008 weapons sales. The New York Times reports that the United States signed weapons agreements worth $37.8 billion in 2008, representing 68.4 percent of all global arms business.  Th.at figure is a marked increase from the previous year where sales was $25.4 billion.

The increase in American weapons sales around the world “was attributable not only to major new orders from clients in the Near East and in Asia, but also to the continuation of significant equipment and support services contracts with a broad-based number of U.S. clients globally,” …

The Meaning Of Labor Day

h/t to Hoffmania for reminding us that Labor Day is more than the end of summer, and has meaning in addition to the Jerry Lewis Labor Day Telethon for Muscular Dystrophy.

IF YOU HAVE:

· An eight hour workday

· A five day work week

· Paid sick days, vacation days, and holidays

· Family and medical leave

· Health, life, and disability insurance

· A pension

· Safe and healthy working conditions

· Proper job training

THEN THANK A UNION MEMBER.

Unions have campaigned for the minimum wage, wage and hour laws, ending …

Giuliani Continues “Death Panel” Scare

On “Meet the Press,” Rudy Giuliani said that without tort reform the only way a public health care option saves money is by “pulling the plug on Grandma.”  As Think Progress has noted, President Obama did put tort reform on the table, but Republicans offered nothing in return.

Harold Ford, Jr. reminds the mayor that Republicans “didn’t say a word” about the cost of the Medicare prescription drug bill, or the war for that matter.…

The Van Jones Story

Pareene at Gawker has a good synopsis of who Van Jones was, how he evolved, and how he became an object of derision by the far right.

…he was a bookish black kid from Tennessee who went to Yale Law and moved to San Francisco and became a radical. Then he decided to use his law degree and smarts to clean up and make things better from inside the establishment.

He was, he openly acknowledges, a “full-on Marxist” in early ’90s California. He joined a revolutionary Marxist group and protested police brutality. Then he founded the Ella Baker …

Town Hall Questioner Shouted Down For Speaking Spanish

At a Norwalk, CT town hall meeting conducted by Congressman Jim Himes, Stamford Bishop Emilio Alvarez poses his question in Spanish.  This really upsets the crowd. (h/t Connecticut Bob)  Himes was born in Peru and speaks fluent Spanish. His district, Connecticut’s 4th, has roughly 11% Spanish speaking residents. The shouters were the anti-reform members of the audience.

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