Fuck NBC……… this is getting so ridiculous. You know they’d boot Edwards out too if they could. I haven’t heard any decision yet……..

The Nevada Supreme Court was considering an appeal Tuesday from NBC Universal Inc. to overturn a judge’s decision that Dennis Kucinich must be included in a debate of the Democratic presidential candidates on MSNBC.

The network argued that a Clark County District Court judge lacked jurisdiction to order the cable TV news network to include the Ohio congressman or pull the plug on broadcasting the debate Tuesday night with Hillary Rodham Clinton, Barack Obama and John Edwards.

“Mr. Kucinich’s claim … undermines the wide journalistic freedoms enjoyed by news organizations under the First Amendment,” Las Vegas lawyer Donald Campbell said in a filing submitted to Nevada’s high court, which hears all state appeals.

The state Supreme Court made no immediate ruling, and no hearing was immediately scheduled, a court clerk said.

Meanwhile, Kucinich hailed the lower court judge’s order before boarding a flight from Cleveland to Nevada to await the results of the legal showdown.

“I can just say, ‘Thank God’ for that judge, and hopefully his ruling will be sustained,” the Ohio congressman told reporters.

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If a Huckabee presidency doesn’t scare the bejeebus out of you, then you obviously don’t know of him all that well. And what better way to get to know someone than through the company they keep?

Jay Cole: A Baptist minister based in Fayetteville, Arkansas, with a right-wing radio talk show:

• - when Huckabee was the governor of Arkansas, it was Cole who persuaded him to arrange the release from prison of a convicted rapist, Wayne Dumond, who had become a born-again evangelical in prison.
• - Cole: “To date there’s well over 139 prophecies that have come to pass exactly as the Lord says. Mike believes those things. Anyone with any Bible knowledge would have to say that this looks like the time. We’re so close to the Lord’s return.”
• - Cole compared the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints to the Ku Klux Klan. “As you know from history, their original intent–[Mormon founding fathers Joseph] Smith and Brigham Young–was to take over the United States of America,” he said. “They weren’t just far behind the KKK in their efforts.”
• - Cole: “If you think communism’s bad, just think what the Islamics are doing,” Cole warned. “Those people have no–they’re just not human. They’re just not human.”

John Hagee: Head of a Pentecostal congregation in San Antonio, Texas, with 18,000 members and the executive director of Christians United for Israel, a national lobbying group that organizes against a two’state solution to the Israel-Palestine crisis and in favor of a military strike on Iran.

• - Hagee’s zealous support for Israel is kindled by his belief that Jesus will one day return to “biblical Israel” to usher in a kingdom of Heaven on Earth. “As soon as Jesus sits on his throne he’s gonna rule the world with a rod of iron.”
• - Hagee: “[H]e’s gonna make the ACLU do what he wants them to. That means you’re not gonna have to ask if you can pray in public school…. We will live by the law of God and no other law.”

Tim LaHaye: Co-author of the bestselling Left Behind pulp fiction series, which tells of the coming apocalyptic battle between followers of Jesus and forces of Satan.

Paige Patterson: President of the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, an outspoken believer in End Times theology as well. Patterson is one of the chief organizers of the right-wing takeover of the Southern Baptist Convention.

Chuck Norris: A B-level action movie star. (enough said)

Tragically confused? Or is it “buttered bread” syndrome?

(Caution: the following may produce severe nausea if read)

In an interview last week with the Jerusalem Post, Olmert said that in all his years in public life, he did not recall “that America was led by someone as friendly since the days of President Ford.”

“He’s also a great guy,” Olmert added of Bush. “I know that people say all kinds of things about him. Gentlemen, he’s a graduate of Yale and Harvard. People don’t graduate from Harvard and Yale without wisdom and understanding of processes and domestic and international relationships. He’s a very wise man.”

Bush’s approval rating still dropping. Down to 32-percent.
(Weren’t we told to watch it start climbing, reaching 45-percent by year’s end?)

Horse Shit Cigarettes are made from the finest grade of domestic and imported horse shit obtainable. Only fresh midd horse shit is used. NOT MULE SHIT. And they are roasted to keep that mild, sweet taste.

(Okay, the second paragraph doesn’t appear on the package. But it should.)

The problem with a horse race is that it produces a lot of horse shit. Sure, it’s fun to mock the boastful swells in the press box for losing all their bets on New Hampshire, but they’ve been wrong plenty of times before in this election season alone, and it’s not as if they all learn their lesson. A day after Chris Matthews said he’d “never underestimate Hillary Clinton again,” he said that the reason she was elected senator was because “her husband messed around.” Of course, in addition to peddling his own special brand of horse shit, Matthews is virulently anti-Clinton, a sexist and often seems delusional. But he’s far from the only prominent pundit with a short memory or no shame. As one of Matthews’ colleagues observed:

“The pirouettes are amazing,” says Brokaw, who was analyzing the campaign on MSNBC. “The utter confidence with which everyone had been wrong 20 minutes earlier, they have the same utter confidence about what produced this surprise. It’s intellectually dishonest.”

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