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    FRIDAY FOLLIES: On Click and Clack, Coulter, The Donald, and the question of Looting

    By Ramona on Fri, 03/18/2011 - 10:39am | Politics, Humor & Satire

    Normally I'm not that thrilled with loudmouths from New York but with Anthony Weiner I make the grand exception.  When he gives up his Good Fight gig in Congress, he could take over Late Night and give Leno and Letterman big time runs for their money.  Here he defends the already puny government funding of NPR by talking about my favorite Car Talk guys, Click and Clack.

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    And normally I'm even less thrilled with loudmouths like Ann Coulter, and almost never mention her here, but when Annie tells Billo that scientists say more radiation is good for you in a voice that could kill a cat, it's hard to pass up.

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    I guess you've heard that Donald Trump is thinking about a run for the presidency?  The Donald sees all kinds of problems here in these United States and the quadruple-bankrupted mop-head mogul thinks he's the only one who has the solutions.  He may had set his campaign back a bit the other day, though, when he couldn't quite bring himself to side with the people who believe our president was born in the U.S.  He'll deny he's a birther, but only a birther (or someone who wants badly to run for president as a Tea Party favorite) would still be waffling over the biggest non-issue of our time:

    Barack Obama's Birth Certificate

     

    Barack Obama's kindergarten picture - Courtesy of Wini Otagaro, Hawaii

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    I might be the last to discover her, but I found Sally Kohn the other day through a link from a link from a link, I think.  She's a progressive grassroots organizer and frequent contributor to Fox News (uh huh), where she mixes it up with people who actually think they're winning when they go up against her. 

    Sally Kohn explains our budget using home-made circles and the hair of a darling dog.  Makes sense to me:

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    Jack Cafferty can be as irritating as a burr in my sock, but every now and then he comes up with a quotable or a comment that actually stops me in my tracks.  This is one of them:

    Why is there no looting in Japan?

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    Comments

    I love Anthony.

    He has been on Jon Stewart's fun fest and it turns out they are old buddies.

    Youtube loves him.

    He will present himself on Fox and drive Hannity nuts!

    Fun Friday show Ramona!


    by Richard Day on Fri, 03/18/2011 - 11:12am

    Thanks, DD.  Between Anthony and Rachel I'm beginning to have faith again.  Now if they both can just keep their jobs.


    by Ramona on Fri, 03/18/2011 - 5:41pm

    I agree about Weiner and Rachel.. Not about Click and Clack. I was brought up in Boston and had enough of that accent then.

    But I understand why they are popular  with those who don't feel the need to reject the

     home of the bean , home of the Red Sox and also the home of the Boston Beguine


    by Flavius on Fri, 03/18/2011 - 9:29pm

    lol.  I love those guys, and a large part of it is how they talk.  (or is that "tock"?)  I love their laughter and I don't know how you could sit and listen to them without laughing out loud.  There is nothing like them anywhere.  They're great! 

    And I love the Boston Beguine, too.  (I actually had the album way back when and sang this along with Alice Ghostley.  Many times.  So there.)


    by Ramona on Fri, 03/18/2011 - 10:38pm

    Thank god these men have been exposed as the menace they are. I was educated as to their evil ways by accident one day a few years ago. Turns out if you take all the puzzler answers and line then up and then take every fourth answer, translate it in Greek, rotate the letters 180 degrees, stand 50 feet away from it and squint at it while inebriated to the point of brain damage you see clear as day the words, "Marx is a god."

    I will sleep much better now knowing that none of my tax money is going to fund these men in continuing to subvert innocent car owners every Saturday morning.


    by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 03/18/2011 - 11:26pm

    Turns out if you take all the puzzler answers and line then up and then take every fourth answer, translate it in Greek, rotate the letters 180 degrees, stand 50 feet away from it and squint at it while inebriated to the point of brain damage you see clear as day the words, "Marx is a god."

    LOL.  I'll bet you were the same person who discovered that if you turn the Beatles record backward you would hear "Paul is dead".


    by Ramona on Sat, 03/19/2011 - 4:18pm