This Sucks! Olbermann is leaving MSNBC

I was coming back from an event in Gettysburg, PA, with Elly’s AIGA group, so I didn’t see Countdown tonite. To find this out on line when I got home is both depressing and maddening. I hope Keith turns up on another network soon… he is very important to the Progressive perception of the world.

clipped from news.yahoo.com MSNBC host Keith Olbermann announced Friday that he is leaving the network and has taped his last “Countdown” show. MSNBC issued a statement that it had ended its contract with the controversial host, with no further explanation. Olbermann hosted the network’s most popular show, but his combative liberal opinions often made him a target of critics. Olbermann did not explain why he was leaving. A spokesman said Phil Griffin, MSNBC’s president, would not comment on Olbermann’s exit. Spokesman Jeremy Gaines would say only that the acquistion of NBC Universal by Comcast, which received regulatory approval this week, had nothing to do with the decision. Olbermann, before leaving the show with a final signature toss of his script toward the camera, thanked his audience for sticking with him and read a James Thurber poem. He thanked a series of people, including the late Tim Russert, but pointedly not Griffin or NBC News President Steve Capus.

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Woman Paralyzed By Hickey

I figured you needed some medical news now that the Health Care debate has entered the absurdity phase:

clipped from www.huffingtonpost.com The next time you find yourself getting intimate, be sure to cover your neck — a hickey might be more dangerous than you thought. That’s right, a woman in New Zealand suffered a small stroke that partially paralyzed her after receiving a hickey — or as the Kiwis call it, a “love bite” — from her eager bedfellow, reported New Zealand Medical Journal. At first, doctors struggled to find the cause of the stroke, until they discovered a small “bruise” on the woman’s neck — located very close to a major artery. The force of the hickey-giver’s suction had caused a blood clot in the artery, which then travelled to the woman’s heart, doctors told the The Press. The woman made a full recovery.

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Republicans ignoring the things that the People want cut in the budget…

Our Republican friends in the House are proposing cutting all kinds of things to balance the budget, including The National Endowment for the Arts, The National Endowment for the Humanities, the Essential Air Service subsidy and more… all things that cost fairly little in comparison to the things which are the major money eaters. Are they talking about cutting Military Spending…OOOO NOOOO… not even allowing it to be brought up.

A new NY Times.CBS poll however shows what Major expense people really want cut:

 

 

 

 

Even Republicans are more heavily weighted to cutting the Military. Maybe the folks in the Congress will take a hint and bring the Military Waste into the discussion.

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How the GOP will force a repeal vote in the Senate

This from Salon, by Alex Pareene… something to start your depressing morning with:

 

clipped from www.salon.com Exciting news! Having already wasted a day of everyone’s time pretending to repeal the Affordable Care Act in the House of Representatives, Republicans are now set to force a vote on repeal in the Senate, where purely symbolic expressions of legislative sour grapes can take weeks. It was previously thought that Harry Reid would simply block a vote on repeal and that would be the end of it, but Minority Leader Mitch McConnell always finds a way. He could use “Rule 14” to bring it to the floor, for example. Or — and this is what he’ll probably do — he could attach repeal as an amendment to something likely to pass the Senate. The Heritage Foundation even has a little FAQ on how the Senate can repeal Obamacare. Of course, irony of ironies, every repeal option requires either 60 or 67 votes. I am expecting basically weeks of make-believe repeal of Obama’s cootiecare health bill, over and over again. It just feels good, to the GOP.

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