In other news, Rush Limbaugh asks for tougher sentencing for drug offenders. Larry Craig warns against sex in public bathrooms. And Sean Hannity denounces loud-mouthed morons.

Obviously, you can’t see the difference between a general statement describing a group versus a statement that defines every single person in that group and with all exceptions noted. Would it offset your response if I came up with three Democrats who were totally worthless?

Liberals remind me of that spoiled girl in “Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory”…“I want it nowww!”

Oompa Loompa doompadee dah
If you’re not spoiled then you will go far
You will live in happiness too
Like the Oompa Loompa doompadee do

“Whining” has become lazy thinkers’ shorthand for “expressing an opinion I don’t agree with”. Hey, maybe we can whine about illegal immigrants today! Or whine about how taxes are too high! Or whine about how the gays are ruining society!

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So, it’s whining to point out that you’re whining? No, I consider it instruction and telling liberals to grow up.

Enron enjoyed easy access to Gramm’s office; the senator’s wife served on Enron’s board of directors and Ken Lay was his 1992 campaign co-chair. Gramm rewarded his financial angels in 2000, slipping the “Commodity Futures Modernization Act” into a omnibus spending bill just as Congress headed off for summer vacation. His amendment instantly enabled the creation of a shadow banking system — “weapons of financial destruction” in the words of Warren Buffet — that directly contributed to the current mortgage foreclosure crisis. Millions of Americans have suffered as a result of Gramm’s machinations.

While the destruction Gramm has caused is felt across the country, little is known about the seedy business schemes that preceded his political career…Gramm was an avidly active investor in soft-core pornography movies.

Gramm’s journey into porn began in 1973, when his brother-in-law, George Caton, rushed to tell him about an exciting low-budget soft-core production called Truck Stop Women. A promo poster for the film boasted of its buxom stars: “No Rig Was Too Big For Them To Handle.” Caton, who was in charge of fundraising for the production, asked Gramm to become an investor. To entice his brother-in-law, Caton showed him scenes of Playboy Playmate of the year Claudia Jennings displaying her bare essentials (she is naked throughout much of the film).

These scenes “really got Phil titillated,” Caton told journalist John Judis in 1995. Gramm enthusiastically cut Caton a check for $15,000. Because the film was oversold, however, Caton returned his brother-in-law’s money, offering him an investment opportunity in an upcoming feature.

The following year, Gramm sent Caton a check for $15,000, this time to finance the production of Beauty Queens, a soft-core flick about pageant judges having sex with contestants. But at the last moment, the director of Beauty Queens, Mark Lester, decided to shelve his production to make the sequel to his Tricia’s Wedding, a comedy starring the drag queen troupe, The Cockettes.

Gramm contributed at least $7500 towards the sequel, a satire of the Nixon White House called White House Madness that featured the crazed president wandering around the White House in the nude. Gramm never saw that money again. Shot in ten days on a soundstage crudely modeled after the Oval Office, White House Madness tanked at the box office.

Woody: “people can make numbers say whatever they need them to say, especially for taxes” = these rightwing media institutions aren’t ridiculous losers, they’re tax cheats.

LA Times Publisher David Hiller resigns

Chicago Tribune editor announces resignation The company named associate editor Gerould W. Kern to replace her.

Is there a conscious effort to keep this race close by not examining the ship-adrift that is the McCain campaign?

On that subject, does anyone question why McCain won’t appear in public without (a) his wife; or (b/c) LindsayJoe Lieberham? Do his people not trust him in public without a second? What do you think?