[Alas Babylon!]

As always, soliciting FReeper comments, observations, and opinions.

[Alas Babylon!]

LAST WEEK'S WINNERS!

[mware]

Howie on. This should be interesting.

[mathluv]

Good morning, AB, and thanks as always for the thrread.

You are early, this morning.

[BigSkyFreeper]

FNS looks worthy of a look, would love to see Sen. Allen give Senator Plugs the Sunday SmackDown.

[MNJohnnie]

Hey Gip, See Mike Pence is on FNC today?

[beyond the sea]

former Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C.; former Rep. Jack Kemp, R-N.Y

Are they "formers"?

[DoctorMichael]

Morning all!

07:00 AM EST 0:45 (est.) LIVE

Call-In Open Phones C-SPAN, Washington Journal

07:45 AM EST 0:45 (est.) LIVE

Call-In Democratic Agenda C-SPAN, Washington Journal Ari Berman , Nation, The

08:30 AM EST 0:45 (est.) LIVE

Call-In Republican Agenda C-SPAN, Washington Journal Dick Polman , Philadelphia Inquirer

09:15 AM EST 0:45 (est.) LIVE

Call-In U.S. Policy Toward Iran C-SPAN, Washington Journal Abbas William Samii , Radio Free Europe

09:00 AM EST 0:58 (est.)

Speech Reaching for Power: The Shi\'a in the Modern Arab World Carnegie Cncl. on Ethics & Intl. Affairs Yitzhak Nakash , Brandeis University

10:01 AM EST 0:57 (est.)

Forum Take It Back: Our Party, Our Country, Our Future Harvard University, Institute of Politics James Carville Elaine C. Kamarck , Harvard University

11:00 AM EST 0:57 (est.)

Speech Black in the White House: Life Inside George W. Bush's West Wing Nixon Presidential Library Ron Christie , USA Freedom Corps

12:00 PM EST 1:18 (est.)

Speech Abolition Democracy: Beyond Prisons, Torture, and Empire Big XII Council on Black Student Government Angela Y. Davis , University of California, Santa Cruz

01:19 PM EST 0:30 (est.)

Speech Purple Hearts: Back from Iraq National Vietnam Veterans Art Museum Nina Berman

01:50 PM EST 1:11 (est.)

Speech War and Faith in Sudan University of Notre Dame Gabriel Meyer

03:02 PM EST 0:27 (est.)

Interview After Words with David Vise C-SPAN, BookTV Lamar S. Smith , R-TX David A. Vise , Washington Post

04:00 PM EST 0:03 (est.)

Interview CPAC 2006 Book Interview Conservative Political Action Conference John H. Fund , Wall Street Journal

04:04 PM EST 0:57 (est.)

Speech Creating Black Americans Commonwealth Club of California Nell Irvin Painter , Princeton University

05:04 PM EST 0:58 (est.)

Speech Reaching for Power: The Shi\'a in the Modern Arab World Carnegie Cncl. on Ethics & Intl. Affairs Yitzhak Nakash , Brandeis University

06:00 PM EST 1:00 (est.)

Interview After Words with Torie Clarke C-SPAN, BookTV Victoria Clarke , Department of Defense Pamela Hess , United Press International

07:04 PM EST 0:59 (est.)

Forum National Book Critics Circle Book Awards Readings National Book Critics Circle Kai Bird Doris Kearns Goodwin

08:04 PM EST 0:09 (est.)

Forum Confronting the Worst: Writing and Catastrophe PEN World Voices Festival Ryszard Kapuscinski Svetlana Alexievich

08:15 PM EST 0:50 (est.)

Speech In Time of War: Hitler's Terrorist Attack on America Brentano's Books Pierce O'Donnell

09:00 PM EST 1:00 (est.)

Interview After Words with Torie Clarke C-SPAN, BookTV Victoria Clarke , Department of Defense Pamela Hess , United Press International

[beyond the sea]

Chris Dodd, Duncan Hunter, Joseph Biden, Barack Obama, Bill Frist, Russ Finegold, Carl Levin, Howard Dean.............UGH.

Better not try to hold down a breakfast.

[beyond the sea]

http://www.oneamericacommittee.com/

I saw John Edward speaking with Jack Kemp the other day. To be honest, Edwards is a pretty smart guy, and my, my, he looks like he's even younger than he did when he ran with Effin. He must be eating right.

To quote the lady customer in the deli in "When Harry Met Sally" after Meg Ryan's great orgasm scene, "I'll have what she's having".

;-)

[Huck]

FACE THE NATION (CBS): Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill.; Gov. Mike Huckabee, R-Ark.

Holy snoozefest, Batman!

[beyond the sea]

Nice to see Art Buchwald there (ABC). I know he's very ill these days. I wonder if this is going to be an old clip of him.

I know he's been a lib, but he was a very funny and good-willed guy back about 35 years ago.

[newnhdad]

It's a slow news week or the fax server at the DNC must be broken.
The "ports issue" is dead, there is no new info in the "we hate Bush" polls that were conveniently released on Thursday and that commie pig teacher (Bennish) was reinstated on Friday so the media could bury it.

Yawn..

[Morgan in Denver]

Morning AB, and everyone.

So many on from the left that tempers may flair today.

[rodguy911]

Morning all and thanks AB once again for the thread. Should be a most interesting Sunday considering the activities of the past week.

[snugs]

Thanks for the thread wow over 70 replies already

[TomGuy]

If you missed it, you missed a bit of fun last evening. John Kerry was giving a live speech in New Hampshire. Looks like he is kicking off his 2008 run for the White House.

It was a typical Kerry speech --- taking 20 minutes to say nothing but disjointed ramblings. He did try his hand at stand-up comedy. Comedy Central won't be rushing to sign him up from a series. CSPAN threatened to replay it occasionally.

FR thread from last evening: CSPAN Airing "Loser Pallooza" Now! [Kerry in Nashua LIVE]

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

Put on your wading boots and flush the toilet twice here comes a whole sunday of human fecal matter mixed with pure bullsplatter !

[Solamente]

What? No Joe Biden? I better buy a lottery ticket!

[Solamente]

Scratch that! He's on MTP...

[TomGuy]

MTP

Russert: "...if the election were held today..."

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It should be mandatory that, every time a pundit/commentator who uses that phrase before the real 08 election cycle begins, he/she should donate $1000 to charity.

That would either effectively fund every charity for the next dozen years or put a stop to such ridiculous commentary-in-place-of-news reporting.