The Gvlshornbook

now that it appears that dear old “Grendel” is still in the USA, where is “Beowulf” to kill the monster?
Do you get the feeling Good Ol’ Karl never actually READ Beowulf? The movie, is from the perspective of Grendel.

oh, poor poor Karl.. So misunderstood. So, Karl, why not go to Congress and clear the misunderstandings. Maybe, you’ll be invited to the Prom.

PART ONE: GRENDEL
Grendel Attacks

One night, after a beer party,
the Danes settled in the hall
for sleep; they knew no sorrows.
The evil creature, grim and hungry,
grabbed thirty warriors
and went home laughing.
(more…)

Airport stall may return to spotlight :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Elections

It’s a bathroom door the GOP would rather keep closed.

Thousands of members of the international media will have to walk past it when they land at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport for the Republican National Convention in St. Paul at the end of the summer.

Larry Craig pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct after his arrest in this stall where gays meet for sex.

Many will feel obligated to stop and file a story.

For the party that bills itself as stronger on family values than the Democrats, it likely will prove an unwelcome distraction.

Could the irony be any more delicious? Will the male members of the delegations hold it till they got to the hotel?

So, what does Darth Cheney do?
Cheney wanted cuts in climate testimony

Vice President Dick Cheney’s office pushed for major deletions in congressional testimony on the public health consequences of climate change, fearing the presentation by a leading health official might make it harder to avoid regulating greenhouse gases, a former EPA officials maintains.

When six pages were cut from testimony on climate change and public health by the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last October, the White House insisted the changes were made because of reservations raised by White House advisers about the accuracy of the science.

But Jason K. Burnett, until last month the senior adviser on climate change to Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Stephen Johnson, says that Cheney’s office was deeply involved in getting nearly half of the CDC’s original draft testimony removed.

I mean, really, how can The Billionaire’s keep on keeping on, if the evidence keeps mounting against them and is allowed to roam free?

Bush concedes `tough month’ in Afghanistan - Yahoo! News…He urged Americans to pressure Congress to allow more oil exploration in the United States.

“We can help alleviate shortages by drilling for oil and gas in our own country, something I’ve been advocating ever since I’ve been the president. I’ve been reminding our people that we can do so in environmentally friendly ways,” he said. “And yet the Congress, the Democratically controlled Congress now has refused to budge. It makes no sense.”

It doesn’t make sense. It doesn’t make sense to drill when we won’t see the fruits for a decade. YOU killed solar development, Mr. pResident. THAT makes no sense

I just left working on a very compelling Off Broadway play, in which the actors are not being paid. Why? Precisely because they are American actors and, the producers have no respect for them whatsoever.

They have opened a production in Warsaw of their show with great success, and a budget:
This is the most publicity I”ll give them:
The Respected Treatment and the How Little Can We Pay treatment

It is precisely the fact that we American actors are “a dime a dozen” (some things never need to adjust for inflation!) that the producers behave in the manner they do. The American cast is remarkably talented, but treated like fools. When one actor had to leave the show, the producer actually gave permission to him to place the show on his resume. As you can see by the space, they are working in a caberet, with typical shit lighting in the house - the slide show is the actual star of the show as evidenced by the highly distracting placement - onstage….. This show is not about anti-semitism in contemporary Poland, but about the playwirght. and, that is the worst type of show of all. It should be poitned out, that I was uncermoniously replaced after bringing up the fact, that I was not informed that the light/sound system had been taken care of and I also being replaced as of today until around12:30 this morning via an email. I should also like to point out, the the producers tried to not pay me by asking me to apartment sit their firetrap of an apartment. Gee, kids, thanks, but, no. I don’t work for free, and frankly I was going to be paying you for the “privelege” by paying your house bills.

To the cast, thank you for the run.

No, you did almost a year for breaking the law. Bitch.

Foxy Brown gets out of NYC jail after serving 8 months - Yahoo! News
“The first place I want to go is church. I’ve got to get on my knees,” said Brown.

Instead, Brown went shopping in Harlem, had some soul food and was driven to her childhood home in Brooklyn in a white Rolls Royce Phantom.

You did LESS than a year because your name is Foxy Brown. Had it beenanything else, had you been ANYONE else besides “Foxy Brown” your ass would have been sitting in that Rikers cell until you had that felony rap. The judge gave you a ‘YEAR AND A DAY, so you wouldn’t have that felony. bitch. had your name been shawnelle abernathy, a rap sheet would follow you. Get real. you ain’t shit.

Yo, Ted:
I love your comics, but I must take exception to your latest and its call for violence against Jon Stewart. I posted the following to your blog, but I haven’t seen it yet:

How does the advocacy of violence against Stewart and Colbert aid the WGA? Both are WGA members and member of AFTRA - What would you have? 400 jobs lost or the two on the air to keep their crews together? Judging by your “call” to “holy struggle” you would prefer to have a few hundred people out on their asses adding to the misery of the strike. And, where is your vitriol for the AMPTP? THEY walked out of the negotiations after offering a mere $230 for streaming and downloads. Where is your “Jihad” against them?

Oh, yeah your paychecks just happened to be signed by…

AFTRA has a no strike clause. Comedy Central has an AFTRA Contract. both are in an untenable position. but yet, you call them out for being placed in such a position by the AMPTP. whose ass is the sweetest? Viacom, Disney or News Corps.? You are nothing more than a lackey of major media, to be confounded by traffic to take on those who NEED to be taken on - the AMPTP.

Indeed, In all of your scathing illustrations, I have yet to see you go after the Media Corporations, that by their intransigence, are the cause of this work stoppage. Not Stewart or Colbert. nor Jay Leno of Jimmy Kimmel. the AMPTP. You sir, are a base and vile coward. To chickenshit to, unlike Colbert and Stewart, to bite the hand that feeds. Tell me , Ted, what will you feel like should someone decide to emulate the Union goons and beat Mr. Stewart. Will it make you feel good, that your “Holy struggle” against these two has resulted in a good hide tanning? Will you stand up and defend the assailants as being good little jihadists? After all, they will be martyrs to your “holy cause”.

UPDATE: My comment, above has been approved and is posted over at Rall’s Blog “Search and Destroy”. However, he has chosen to not respond to my comments over at the Daily Show News blog. Now, does that make him smart or a coward? I still think a coward in that he, at this moment, as of this update, not responding.

Thank you, unitedhollywood.com

Media Matters - Limbaugh: Service members who support U.S. withdrawal are "phony soldiers" During the September 26 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show, Rush Limbaugh called service members who advocate U.S. withdrawal from Iraq "phony soldiers." He made the comment while discussing with a caller a conversation he had with a previous caller, "Mike from Chicago," who said he "used to be military," and "believe[s] that we should pull out of Iraq."

 

This from the man who DODGED HIS OWN SERVICE in Vietnam, because he had a boil on his ass. Once more, the extreme radical right calls those men and women who haev seen the horror of Iraq "phoney"

Not only can he not fathom that Republican would question the war,  he can’t even answer the man’s question:

 

CALLER 1: — seriously, how long do we have to stay there –

 

 

LIMBAUGH: As long as it takes!

 

 

CALLER 1: — to win it? How long?

 

 

LIMBAUGH: As long as it takes! It is very serious.

 

 

CALLER 1: And that is what?

 

 

LIMBAUGH: This is the United States of America at war with Islamofascists. We stay as long — just like your job. You do everything you have to do, whatever it takes to get it done, if you take it seriously.

 

 

CALLER 1: So then you say we need to stay there forever –

 

 

LIMBAUGH: I — it won’t —

 

 

CALLER 1: — because that’s what it’ll take..

 

Second Caller:

LIMBAUGH: There’s a lot more than that that they don’t understand. They can’t even — if — the next guy that calls here, I’m gonna ask him: Why should we pull — what is the imperative for pulling out? What’s in it for the United States to pull out? They can’t — I don’t think they have an answer for that other than, "Well, we just gotta bring the troops home."

 

 

CALLER 2: Yeah, and, you know what —

 

 

LIMBAUGH: "Save the — keep the troops safe" or whatever. I — it’s not possible, intellectually, to follow these people.

 

 

CALLER 2: No, it’s not, and what’s really funny is, they never talk to real soldiers. They like to pull these soldiers that come up out of the blue and talk to the media.

 

 

LIMBAUGH: The phony soldiers.

 

 

CALLER 2: The phony soldiers. If you talk to a real soldier, they are proud to serve. They want to be over in Iraq. They understand their sacrifice, and they’re willing to sacrifice for their country.

 

 

LIMBAUGH: They joined to be in Iraq. They joined –

 

 They joined to defend America, not become pawns in a petty game of "gotcha"

There was a wonderful thing called The

 

Fairness Doctrine. U.S. Broadcasting Policy The policy of the United States Federal Communications Commission that became known as the "Fairness Doctrine" is an attempt to ensure that all coverage of controversial issues by a broadcast station be balanced and fair. The FCC took the view, in 1949, that station licensees were "public trustees," and as such had an obligation to afford reasonable opportunity for discussion of contrasting points of view on controversial issues of public importance. The Commission later held that stations were also obligated to actively seek out issues of importance to their community and air programming that addressed those issues. With the deregulation sweep of the Reagan Administration during the 1980s, the Commission dissolved the fairness doctrine. This doctrine grew out of concern that because of the large number of applications for radio station being submitted and the limited number of frequencies available, broadcasters should make sure they did not use their stations simply as advocates with a singular perspective. Rather, they must allow all points of view. That requirement was to be enforced by FCC mandate.

 

Now, the Fairness Doctrine assured that all opposing viewpoints were heard, so the populace coudl decide for itself. But there were those who thought that was wrong. wrong.wrong. And so they went to a president who even when he was the head of the Screen Actors Guild showed signs of mental impairment on what became known i SAG as "The Great Giveaway"

 

There are conservatives that are afraid of the Fairness Docrien. They call it "Orwellian"  huh? They believe that giving an opposing view is an attempt to silence the poor oppressed creatures they delude themselves to be

sigh…..