Soupy Sales, Entertainer, RIP 83 Years Old

Fox News reports:

DETROIT â€”  Soupy Sales, the rubber-faced comedian whose anything-for-a-chuckle career was built on 20,000 pies to the face and 5,000 live TV appearances across a half-century of laughs, has died. He was 83.

Sales died at Thursday

Doctor Charles Krauthammer, this morning:

Rahm Emanuel once sent a dead fish to a live pollster. Now he’s put a horse’s head in Roger Ailes’s bed.

Not very subtle. And not very smart. Ailes doesn’t scare easily.

The White House

By way of a link from Lori Bird via Facebook, I note a posting on  theBirdflupandemic.com:

The package insert for the Influenza A (H1N1) 2009 Monovalent Vaccine manufactured by Novartis has been leaked on the Internet. According to that

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  Former Vice President Dick Cheney said Wednesday that the Bush administration had developed a new strategy on the

The first rather obvious question that pops into my head upon reading this particular missive from Eric Kleefeld, is about there being any doubtwhatever that Alan Grayson is Florida’s answer to Cynthia McKinney. Look, I’m sorry, but in my

Ya know, this is getting just a wee bit annoying.

I said this yesterday morning:

So, tell us, oh, vaunted master of the news cycle, what the bleep Rachel Maddow and Keith Olberman were doing in the room? And tell

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They say you’re supposed to have 5 service of veggies every day. Well, here’s one heapin helpin’, just now;

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So along comes Jake Tapper, speaking to Bobby “the mouthpiece” Gibbs at a White House Gaggle:

Tapper: It’s escaped none of our notice that the White House has decided in the last few weeks to declare one of our

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• MORE ANITA DUNN:  Victor Davis Hanson, on Saturday:
  

  I am not a big fan of saying that officials should resign

Hey Martin:

…and says to you, “One of my favorite political philosophers is Adolph Hitler.”

You gag back your outrage or you say “are you insane?” Or you just excuse yourself and keep moving.

O.K., suppose someone from the White

Micheal Wade over at Q&O asks an interesting question:  Will Balloon Boy Be The New Schiavo?

I truly hope that I’m wrong. That cooler heads will prevail. That, if indeed the parents set this whole thing up as a publicity

I noted the other day an article in the Wall Street Journal by Naftali  BenDavid, with the headline: Tea-Party Activists Complicate Republican Comeback Strategy. As you might expect from the title, the piece comes out in the first para

In an WSJ Editorial this monring Rush Limbaugh goes into some serious detail involving recent events surrounding efforts of a group of which he was a minority interest, to buy the St Louis Rams It’s a worthy read,  and I

Here’s a few shots of the Erie Canal just west of us here, along the towpath.  If you’re looking at a map, it’s in Spencerport, NY, between Washington Street and Gallup Road. As usual, click on each one to get