Liveblogging!

I’m so totally playing hooky tonight.

It’s too distracting to concentrate on anything else except spring cleaning which I really need to do to clear the decks for action.  I’ve given up on being very productive this evening.

Here’s a Wikipedia list of all the previous episodes including the survivor rates which I always thought was a very cool feature and meant to save.

This is the general Wikipedia treatment of BSG.

• Main article for 1978 version
• Main article for Galactica 1980
• Main article for current version

I don’t pretend to be the greatest trivia expert on it.  I’ve felt that until Sometimes a Great Notion and No Exit I had no frakkin’ clue where they were headed.  Even now rewatching all this cutesy music nonsense (that was just plain ridiculous in Crossroads) I’m almost certain it will be hugely disappointing.

I felt that way about Moonlighting and Xena for instance (Cybill on the other hand was satisfactory).

The space below is for your scribbles.

Dear Barack,

American International Group has sold insurance policies without the assets to cover their claims and as a result THEY ARE BANKRUPT!

The policies they issued are WORTH NOTHING AND WILL NEVER BE PAID!

The people who hold them HAVE LOST THEIR MONEY!

Moreover the people who sold those policies ARE CRIMINALS!  They committed INSURANCE FRAUD and should be ARRESTED AND SENT TO PRISON!

If instead your policy and that of your administration is to give them BILLIONS IN BONUSES the American people will justifiably curse your name forever as the quisling who SOLD THEM AND THEIR CHILDREN INTO SLAVERY!

Clearly Geithner and Summers are UTTERLY INCAPABLE of making any progress at all in resolving our financial crisis because they have no ability to control these institutions or gain their cooperation even with the TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN BRIBES THEY HAVE ALREADY PAID THESE EXTORTIONISTS!

They must be fired and replaced as must the failed leadership and incompetent managers in all the institutions in which THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT HOLDS A CONTROLLING INTEREST WHO DO NOT COOPERATE WITH THEIR SHAREHOLDERS!  Meaning us, the American people, though our elected Representatives including you sir

It’s a little thing called corporate democracy, sir.  One of the foundations of our capitalist system.

I am calling my Congresspeople tomorrow, sir, including Senator Chris Dodd, Chairman of the Banking Committee, and telling them that if they expect my vote in 2010 THEY WILL INVESTIGATE IMMEDIATELY AND TAKE APPROPRIATE ACTION UNDER THE LAW!

And you sir, if you don’t replace Geithner and Summers and change their disastrous policies that benefit only their criminal cronies, you sir will replace your predecessor as THE WORST PRESIDENT EVER, because your failure will be just as great as James Buchanan’s.

Sincerely,

ek hornbeck

What dday says–

I am a little late to this party, but Howard Fineman’s barbaric yawp on behalf of the political establishment is a truly amazing document. It should be put in a time capsule so that future generations can understand why American politics became so corroded in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. What Fineman appears to be saying is that the public, who elected Barack Obama with the belief that he would fulfill his agenda, supports him in that effort; but that the “establishment,” who is unelected and self-appointed, is very unhappy about all this agenda-fulfilling going on, and that might sink the President. He cites a bunch of data points that I think he picked off of random Twitter feeds from the Gang of 500 to prove his point, but then he admits that they are all contradictory:

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What I think is interesting is that all the Beltway types who welcomed George Bush and his gang into the family when he was trading off his 48% mandate and passing humongous tax cuts early in his term have all these doubts and troubles with Barack Obama trying to make good on his campaign promises. But more than that is this mindset that the “establishment” chatterers are the real constituency in this country, and the people on the outside, the chattel, the hoi polloi, the dumb rubes in flyover country, they’re nobody off of which to base a winning electoral coalition. The Village still thinks that the role of the President is to please the Villagers, but public opinion isn’t bearing that out. Congress’ approval has jumped since they passed a stimulus package and health care for kids and equal pay for women. People trust government to fix the economy and not big business – part of the “establishment” in Fineman’s scenario.

Journalism

So we’re at the point that a comedian has to take a break from fart sounds and funny faces to dish out some journalism.  Because otherwise, there isn’t any?  Journalism, that is.

–Jay Ackroyd 07:28