[Alas Babylon!]

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

[Alas Babylon!]

I am camping this morning with my son and his cub scout pack. We’re going to chow.

Won’t be back for a long while.

Have a great day!

[ROCKLOBSTER]

Morning all!

Thanks for the thread and have a good time camping.

Keep an eye out for bears and deranged RATs.

Power bump.

[TomGuy]

UN to appoint Earth contact for aliens (Yes, you read that correctly and no, it's not a spoof)

Saturday, September 25, 2010 10:09:44 PM · by Stoat · 90 replies
News.Com (Australia) ^ | September 25, 2010
THE United Nations was set today to appoint an obscure Malaysian astrophysicist to act as Earth�s first contact for any aliens that may come visiting. Mazlan Othman, the head of the UN's little-known Office for Outer Space Affairs (Unoosa), is to describe her potential new role next week at a scientific conference at the Royal Society’s Kavli conference centre in Buckinghamshire. She is scheduled to tell delegates that the recent discovery of hundreds of planets around other stars has made the detection of extraterrestrial life more likely than ever before - and that means the UN must be ready...

[maica]

Another Sunday with Democrat participation at historic lows.

Too many uncomfortable questions would have to be asked. I guess I will have to see what Candy Crowley has to say to Dick Durbin. Will she challenge him at all?

[Carley]

Good morning and thanks for the thread. It means I don’t have to watch any of these clowns.

Do you think there will be any criticism at all of the circus that came to congress on Friday?

As for Conyers, did he have any idea where he was or who he was?

[9YearLurker]

Wow—what an uncharacteristic lineup for FTN!

[MNJohnnie]

Wow See-Bs is in for a major butt kicking today. These three guests all know how to manage the clown media. This should be fun to watch

[ROCKLOBSTER]

Sunday Talk show ping.

[Seattle Conservative]

Good Sunday morning all. As always, thanks for the thread AB.

I didn’t know too much about Cathy McMorris Rodgers (Vice Chair of the House Republican Conference and a Republican Rep from the 5th District of WA State] until recently. I believe she was at the hardware store when the Pubbies revealed ‘The Pledge’ last week.

Here’s a video she did that I liked. She’ll be doing a couple more:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2594099/posts

[Fishtalk]

Morning AB, All

As always, thank you for doing thread, enjoy the camping, don't do anything I wouldn't do.

So yeah, I like the new pledge for America. Well yeah, it's practically a tome when a few bullets would have done but hey, they're committing to something and in the future, feet can be held to the fire.

Some quick O'Donnell news-this past Weds. I attended the Sussex County Republic Women's Club's monthly luncheon. ALL of the candidates were there. Below, a few pics.

It was a hoot, packed with the press.

As I understand it Christine has hired some expert politcal operatives cause come on folks, at this luncheon she had her sister, a woman weighs 90 pounds soaking wet, trying to herd the press away from Christine. I, who weigh a bit more than 80 pounds, had to go over and help force back CNN, AP...the local yokels. And these guys don't carry little cameras like yours truly. They have great big huge boom things and they want to walk around that crowded luncheon room with servers trying to dish up meals and dear Lord...

Finally one CNN guy holds up the microphone to my face, asks my name, and says he has lots of footage with me in it...so he needs my name.

Heh.

What's happening now, and it's confusing as hell, is the local volunteer folk still want to run phone banks, do lit drops, ...that sort of thing. I myself was in on a conference call this past Friday night and nice folks, very nice folks, yon readers, but I'm not sure they get it.

I, as you'll likely not believe, was at a loss for words.

Hey, O'Donnell's got almost 3 million dollars! She needs experts to do this thing. Instead I hear "We're going to go around John Doe..." John Doe being a local campaign guru hired as the Sussex County Field Coordinator.

Now you can take what I know about campaigns and shove it up the behind of a flea, but I do know the English language and it seems to me that someone called a "field coordinator" would be the guy organizing things in, the...heh, FIELD!

I don't know how to hold up my hand to halt over a conference line and I didn't want to scream at these guys over the phone waves but come on....they can't just "go around" people appointed to do stuff...

Oh well....they want me to be the scribe, of sorts. I ain't writing a word until I hear from one of the duly appointed officials.

It's just a transition thing, I imagine, and I suppose it happens in all campaigns. But guys we got an entrenched group of O'Donnell devotees who might serious mess things up.

Liberal mother-in-law from Massachusetts visited last weekend. I vowed no political talk cause, just as a tease, this woman spent 8 days with me when husband was very sick and she was devoted to Barack Obama. She also loved Chris Matthews, Rachel Maddow and Keith Olberman.

Got some tales of rue by an Obama voter who thought, oncit, that he was such a nice, clean young black man.

And I got to tell the story of the Choir Director, a saga that goes on, is sadder than sad, and has all kinds of tentacles in the Christine O'Donnell saga....cause when you live in a berg folks, you live in a berg.

Also will watch the Sunday talk shows cause couldn't last week with MIL. I was really a good doobie, yes I was, God loves me.

;)

[TomGuy]

FNS

Wallace: 45 page Pledge.

[The online version was 21 pages earlier in the week.]

[TomGuy]

FNS

Boehner: “It will not be business as usual. ... It will not be business as usual. ...It will not be business as usual.”

[Trust me, would I lie to you?]

[Diogenesis]

Chris Wallace presents the DNC programs, AND CUTS OFF
statements from John Boehner, R-Ohio.
Wallace appears to be in bed with the DNC and will not
let him say how the GOP will “not be business as usual”.
Instead, the biased Wallace interrupts, then
interposes the DNC lines more than twice.
Wallace even lectures directly from the DNC script —
pushing for compromise while attacking Pres. Bush
even though the DNC controlled Congress.

FOX appears to be submissive to the DNC
with Wallace as Obama’s and the DNC’s trained poodle.

[Diogenesis]

Chris Wallace allows Reps. Steny Hoyer, D-Md to speak
and speak. (Is Wallace dreaming of his favorite RINO?)
They laugh about Pres. Bush, and Wallace squeeks out a few
words every few minutes.
Softball. Softball. No interruption.

Then Wallace holds up the GOP new Contract and they
have a shared laugh.

FOX should have a WARNING LABEL for viewers that this
is an advertisement for the DNC.

[Bryher1]

Geez, Pence was awful... so much Gregory said seemed easy to refute and he didn’t, so much of what the Dem-shill said wasn’t even attempted to refute.

[Norman Bates]

First time I saw Brit Hume angry.

[altura]

Is Meet the Press doing a full court press against Governor Christie? Or what’s up with that?

[devolve]

"I can make a firm pledge. Under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes."

candidate Barack [censored] Obama Junior

September 12, 2008

[NormsRevenge]

What a joke the massively biased talk show hosts are.. a bad joke.

They are absolutely out of touch and delusional yet continue to try and provide DEms cover and attack Pubs relentlessly.

amanpour and schieffer come to mind this morning.

[mountainfolk]

FNS Power Player segment by Chris Wallace featured what he termed a “political whizkid”. Nick Ayers, 28 yr old Georgia native, is the Executive Directer of the Republican Governor’s Assoc., Chairman being Haley Barbour. He said at age 10 he tried to persuade his mother not to vote for Bill Clinton. Ayers has 40 million on hand for the Gov elections as contrasted with the reported 10 mill the RNC has raised. He said he runs the RGA as a business and that is a key factor in getting the interest of potential donors. I checked him out via Google and found a Washington Post article, Apr 27, 2010, that is very encouraging about him and the RGA. Ayers wants to win 40 governorships this election and will leave his position after Nov. He cites redistricting as an especially critical issue for Republicans. Wallace tried to squeeze an answer from Ayers about the 2012 elections but did not get anywhere as Ayers insisted he was only focusing on this Nov. Making the point that he runs a tight operation and stays focused on the job at hand. The RNC would do well to take note of how appreciative donors are of a well run, fiscally responsible, no frills, pedal to the metal, organization.