Weekend Tids and Bits

 

 

Pravda and RNC Agree On America’s Direction – The Republican National Committee took some heat for calling the Democrats socialists, but they’ve been vindicated by no less an authority than the online edition of Pravda, the famed Russian daily. Stanislav Mishin writes on May 29 that “It must be said, that like the breaking of a great dam, the American decent into Marxism is happening with breath taking speed, against the back drop of a passive, hapless sheeple, excuse me dear reader, I meant people.” You can catch more from conservative Republicanism’s  apparent new soulmate at:

http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/107459-1/

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Never Lie to Liars might be advice former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik would find interesting. He’s been indicted by a Washington, D.C. federal grand jury for lying to Bush White House officials who were considering him for secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. Kerik’s lawyer says his client is innocent. Some speculate the alleged lies were discovered as part of a routine Bush White House search for weapons of mass destruction.

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Clever, Those Open Meetings Advocates – One of the newspaper heavyweights who showed up at a non-publicized  meeting in Chicago’s O’Hare Hilton to talk about “Models to Lawfully Monetize Content” on the web was quoted in Editor & Publisher as saying the meeting wasn’t secret because a sign on the hotel room door said “NAA Meeting.” That could clearly identify it as a meeting of the nation’s top newspaper brass under the umbrella of Newspaper Association of America, with headquarters on Wilson Boulevard in Arlington, VA. Of course, it could also identify a meeting of the National Apartment Association (NAA) also with headquarters on Wilson Boulevard in Arlington, VA. Or the National Auctioneers Association (NAA), Overland Park, KS., or the National Aeronautic Association  (NAA) of Washington, D.C., or. . .

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Full and Complete Disclosure And Then Some continues to come to Louisiana politics with the latest announcement by porn star Stormy Daniels that she’s formed an exploratory committee to gauge interest for a possible run against U.S. Senator David Vitter. She’s currently on a listening tour. Political insiders wonder whether or not a possible Senate run would falter on face recognition, since that’s the potential candidate’s least-photographed feature.

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