Some Advice for Howard Dean

(via August J. Pollak)

Things Howard Dean can do to look more “presidential”:

  • Announce proudly that no president has ever done as much as him for human rights.
  • Dress up in a crotch-accentuating flight suit and land a jet on an aircraft carrier.
  • Brag repeatedly about a sub-standard college grade point average.
  • Get arrested for public rowdiness at a football game.
  • Attempt to recite a cliché adage at a press conference and promptly forget how it goes in the middle of saying it.
  • Mount, and promptly fall off, an unpowered Segway scooter.
  • Drop his dog in front of cameras.
  • Consistently mispronounce the word “nuclear.”
  • Condescendingly mock the upcoming execution of a death row inmate.
  • Trade away Sammy Sosa.
  • Choke on pretzel bits to the point of losing balance and bruising his head.
  • Attend a public event in which Stevie Wonder is performing and wave to him from the balcony.

OK – the last one is likely a UL…

Just when I started thinking Saint Louis was a good place to live…

Something like this has to happen: Station to Rerun ‘Average Joe’ Segment

ST. LOUIS (AP) – After Missouri’s own Dick Gephardt finished fourth in the Iowa caucuses, the local NBC affiliate cut away from network programming to broadcast his speech. That didn’t sit so well with the Average Joe.

Viewers jammed KSDK-TV’s switchboard and Web site in the hours after the decision Monday to pull away from the final segment of “Average Joe: Hawaii.”

Gephardt’s concession speech ran over the final nine minutes of the program and beyond. He officially pulled out of the race for the Democratic nomination Tuesday.

NBC granted KSDK permission to rebroadcast the final segment. It was scheduled to air at 10:30 p.m. Wednesday.

A statement on the station’s Web site said KSDK understands “the frustration after investing time in a television program and not being able to see how the show ends.”

But for a station whose slogan is, “Where the news comes first,” there really wasn’t any choice, news director Mike Shipley said.

“Unfortunately, we can’t orchestrate when breaking news happens,” Shipley said. “We’d do the same exact thing again. The only thing I wish we could change was the timing.”

It’s bad enough people are actually watching this show, but to invest the time and energy to complain about missing nine minutes – Jeez!

Trent Lott is a Hypocrite

(via Eschaton)

THEN:
“Any appointment of a federal judge during a recess should be opposed.”
— Sen. Trent Lott (R-MS) opposing the appointment of an African American judge, December 2000

NOW:
“Judge Pickering’s record deems this recess appointment fully appropriate.”
— Sen. Trent Lott (R-MS), 1/17/04

Honestly, is anyone really surprised by Lott’s blatant hypocrisy?

Another George W. Bush Joke

In my email today:

Three Texas surgeons were playing golf together and discussing surgeries they had performed.

One of them said, “I’m the best surgeon in Texas. A concert pianist lost 7 fingers in an accident, I reattached them, and 8 months later he performed a private concert for the Queen of England.”

One of the others said. “That’s nothing. A young man lost both arms and legs in an accident, I reattached them, and 2 years later he won a gold medal in field events in the Olympics.”

The third surgeon said, “You guys are amateurs. Several years ago a cowboy who was high on cocaine and alcohol rode a horse head-on into a train traveling 80 miles an hour. All I had left to work with was the horse’s ass and a cowboy hat. Now he’s president of the United States.”


Summary of 2003

In 2003, 78 posts were added to this web log.

The number of posts in each month:

January:
  3 (3.85%)
February:
  1 (1.28%)
May:
  1 (1.28%)
June:
  1 (1.28%)
July:
  6 (7.69%)
August:
  6 (7.69%)
September:
  11 (14.1%)
October:
  20 (25.64%)
November:
  20 (25.64%)
December:
  9 (11.54%)

The number of posts in each day of week:

Sunday:
  11 (14.1%)
Monday:
  11 (14.1%)
Tuesday:
  12 (15.38%)
Wednesday:
  16 (20.51%)
Thursday:
  12 (15.38%)
Friday:
  9 (11.54%)
Saturday:
  7 (8.97%)

At what hours I publish new posts:

0:
  3 (3.85%)
3:
  1 (1.28%)
4:
  2 (2.56%)
5:
  1 (1.28%)
9:
  2 (2.56%)
10:
  5 (6.41%)
11:
  5 (6.41%)
12:
  6 (7.69%)
13:
  10 (12.82%)
14:
  2 (2.56%)
15:
  3 (3.85%)
16:
  2 (2.56%)
17:
  3 (3.85%)
18:
  1 (1.28%)
19:
  1 (1.28%)
20:
  7 (8.97%)
22:
  14 (17.95%)
23:
  10 (12.82%)

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