Monday, October 29, 2007

Recommended Reading

Avi Klein has a fascinating article about the suicide of Lyndon LaRouche's printer. You all remember LaRouche, who pops up here and there with political goals that are, to say the least, a bit hard to fathom. Well, the guy who's been printing his pamphlets is no more, and it's triggered a rather odd chain of events.

By the way: The upcoming presidential election is the first time in 32 years that LaRouche has not been an active candidate. Given his past performance, it probably won't make any difference in his vote total. And he'll still finish ahead of Alan Keyes.

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Monday Evening

Last week, when fires were popping up all over Southern California like Pinkberry Yogurt Shops — and doing almost as much damage — the wonderful folks at FEMA staged a bogus press conference. You may have heard about it. It looked like reporters were asking questions but it was really FEMA staff members asking prearranged questions and...well, it was another embarrassment to an organization that you'd think, by this time, would be darn hard to embarrass.

The director of external affairs of FEMA, John "Pat" Philbin, is now the former director of external affairs for FEMA. In an interview today (a real one, oddly enough), he made the following statement that I felt needed to be stared at for a few minutes...

I did not have good situational awareness of what was happening.

Well, there's part of the problem right there. "Situational awareness?" We have a guy here who doesn't even know how to say, "I didn't know what the hell was going on," let alone figure it out.

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Synchronicity

The other day here, I told you about an episode of the old I've Got a Secret game show in which Groucho Marx appeared...and his secret was that he wasn't answering the questions asked by the panel. The panel was blindfolded and the questions were being answered by comedian Dayton Allen impersonating Groucho's voice.

Every few weeks, GSN runs an old I've Got a Secret very early Sunday morning. This A.M., by a strange coincidence, they ran that very episode, the one I was just talking about. It originally aired on 10/28/63, by the way.

That's about all I have to say on the subject. I just thought I ought to mention it and give you a frame grab to prove it. There. Now I can go to bed.

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Today's Video Link

Last August, we told you about a place called The Stoogeum...a private museum dedicated to a group of men who used to stick their fingers into each others' eyes. Here's your chance to get a five minute tour...

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