Would You Like Some Praise With That Manhole Cover?

A reader inquires whether, perhaps, Loafer is someone I simply made up, and adds:

If you did make up Loafer, that's a work of genius. He offers an interesting foil, albeit an unrepresentative one (perhaps along the lines of Alan Colmes).

Oh!

Harsh!

I feel confident the Fox News comparison will be a direct hit on the Loafman.

I Call On the Guy That Looks Familiar

I thought only Republicans did this:

..the five fully identified questioners called on randomly by the president in the East Room were anything but a diverse lot. They included: a member of the pro-Obama Service Employees International Union, a member of the Democratic National Committee who campaigned for Obama among Hispanics during the primary; a former Democratic candidate for Virginia state delegate who endorsed Obama last fall in an op-ed in the Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star; and a Virginia businessman who was a donor to Obama's campaign in 2008..

Actually, the last person I remember doing this was Hillary Clinton. And, if Bush had packed his audience with bonafide backers (which is asserted by WaPo), I think I would have heard about it. I think we'd have all heard about it, every day for the last eight years.

Government to the Rescue

The chances for news media reliance on government improve today:

Cardin's Newspaper Revitalization Act would allow newspapers to operate as nonprofits for educational purposes under the U.S. tax code, giving them a similar status to public broadcasting companies.

Ya. We all know how that worked out.

PETA's Worst Nightmare

Found this in the fishing section of the local Wal Mart; Baby Shad - a delectable stew of dead baby sea kittens soaking in a bloody brine mixture.

Nobody would hurt a sea kitten!

You can create your own very own sea kitten in PETAs sea kitten game. I named mine Johnson after the 9 1/2 horsepower Johnson shortshaft outboard motor that will be so integral to our sea kitten harvest this year:


Create Your Own Sea Kitten at peta.org

Isn't he cute? And effective. I was immediately struck by a sudden urge to seek out a U.S. Fish and Wildlife representative and ask they stop allowing the torture and killing of sea kittens. More for me that way.

With a Little Help From Friends

Thus it begins.

A free media cannot be thus if it is beholden to government for its survival.

Telling business what it can and can't do is rapidly becoming the order of the day for the Obama administration and the Senate:

In a comment aired this afternoon on WMT, an Iowa radio station, [Charles] Grassley (R-Iowa) said: “The first thing that would make me feel a little bit better towards [AIG execs] if they’d follow the Japanese model and come before the American people and take that deep bow and say I’m sorry, and then either do one of two things — resign, or go commit suicide.”

Not to worry, I'm sure Grassley will settle for less with newspapers.

The Worm Has Turned

I had the bike out briefly yesterday. Mmmm.

Megafruitcake

Atmospheric scientist and former James Hanson supervisor John Thoen has this to say about the fruitcake:

"I have publicly said I thought Jim Hansen should be fired,” Theon said. “But, my opinion doesn’t count much, particularly when he is empowered by people like the current president of the United States. I’m not sure what we can do to have him get off of the public payroll and continue with the campaign or crusade. I think the man is sincere, but he is suffering from a bad case of megalomania."

Fired for what? Well, taking a quarter-mil from the Heinz Foundation and then endorsing Kerry, for starters. Of course, Les Enfants readers were aware of this massive, and undisclosed, conflict of interest back in 2007.

Obama the Economy Killer

Good thing I don't have much of a retirement fund, or I wouldn't have much left in my retirement fund.

No Cooperation

Ha, Ha.

Oh, hell ya!

Perhaps people should read the news once in a while.