Two things here. Rachel Maddow fills in for Olbermann tonight. (this makes me happy) This clip is her reporting on Tweety’s smackdown of radio show host Kevin James yesterday. She goes on to interview Tweety…… who is actually making sense. He must of bumped his head.

“Easy Lover”
Released In 1985 This Is A Classic Duet Featuring Philip Bailey Of “Earth Wind & Fire & Phil Collins Of “Genesis”. The Track Was Recorded For & Appeared On Bailey’s Solo Album “Chinese Wall” Which Was Produced By The Latter (Phil Collins).

A press release from Nancy Pelosi’s office. “New Direction Congress?” We’ve been waiting for over a year now for a new direction party girl! New direction out of Iraq. New direction to protect our civil liberties. New direction for our economy. New direction to stop this criminal administration. Enough with the new direction crap… you just don’t deserve to call yourselves the “New Direction Congress.” Maybe in 08……but it didn’t happen in 06.

To: POLITICAL EDITORS

Contact: Brendan Daly or Drew Hammill, both of the Office of the Speaker of the House, +1-202-226-7616

WASHINGTON, May 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Speaker Nancy Pelosi today released the following statement following news that the Energy Department will not sign additional contracts for the receipt and shipment of oil to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve in response to Congressional passage of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve Fill Suspension and Consumer Protection Act. The bill, which passed both the House and Senate by veto-proof margins, temporarily suspends the filling of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve through the end of the year, as long as the price of crude oil remains above $75 per barrel.

“Next week, the New Direction Congress will send our legislation to the President to suspend deliveries to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve until the end of the year. As the President returns from the Middle East, I urge him to sign this legislation that he has previously opposed, which has now passed the House and Senate by veto-proof margins.

“In response to bipartisan action by the New Direction Congress, the Bush Administration has announced it will not enter into new contracts for receipt and shipment of oil to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve when the current contract expires in July.

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Barack Obama responses to Bush’s comments in front of the Israeli parliament where he launched a political attack.

Let’s take a little look at the Bush family Nazi appeaser.

Barack Obama just made a great response to Bush’s appeaser comments in Israel. I’ll get the video as soon as I can. He basically said anytime Bush or McCain want to debate foreign policy, bring it on.

Obama should spend his money elsewhere. In rural, mostly caucasian, KY communities, Christian love is not what they make it out to be. All-inclusive? Hell no… It’s a party and only straight, white people are invited, baby!

Obama ads in Kentucky stress that he’s a Christian

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama’s campaign has ramped up its efforts to emphasize his Christian faith in a series of new radio and television ads, as well as in a flier that volunteers have distributed.

Lt. Gov. Daniel Mongiardo, who endorsed Obama on Sunday, narrated a new radio spot for Obama that highlights the Illinois Senator’s upbringing and values, including how Obama is “a strong Christian.”

Mongiardo said he felt compelled to make the ad after constituents contacted his office with what he called “misconceptions” about Obama.

“The negative calls have been talking about either the color of his skin or claims that he’s not a Christian,” Mongiardo said. “As I-ve listened to news casts of primaries across the country, it struck me that there is a segment of people who are not voting for Hillary Clinton but are voting against Barack Obama because of issues that don-t pertain to substance.”

And once in a while you read some good news:

Plumas forest projects halted

In a resounding repudiation of the Bush administration’s national forest management, a three-judge federal panel has ordered a halt to three major logging projects in the Plumas National Forest.

Logging had been set to begin June 1 but now cannot go forward until an environmental impact assessment conforms to a Clinton administration forest management plan, the panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said.

Judge John T. Noonan Jr. wrote the opinion and also a concurrence that says the U.S. Forest Service has an inherent conflict of interest when it sells large trees to finance fire protection efforts, as called for under the Bush plan.

“The financial incentive of the Forest Service in implementing the forest plan is as operative, as tangible, and as troublesome as it would be if … the agency was the paid accomplice of the loggers,” Noonan wrote.

As QuestionGirl posted here, the California Supreme Court ruling that will allow gays to marry was welcomed news for Ellen DeGeneres:

DeGeneres, de Rossi plan to marry, AP is told

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ellen DeGeneres is putting the California Supreme Court ruling in favor of gay marriage into action - she and Portia de Rossi plan to wed, DeGeneres announced during a taping of her talk show.

DeGeneres was taping the episode of “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” on Thursday, the day the state’s high court struck down California laws against gay marriage, and it was to air Friday, a person close to the production said.

Gay glee may be short-lived though. Hate-filled hearts all over California and elsewhere vow to turn the clock back on California to the days of rampant bigotry, hate and and unbridled prejudice.

Gay marriage opponents vow to fight Calif. ruling

[...] A conservative group said it would ask California’s Supreme Court to postpone putting its Thursday decision legalizing gay marriage into effect until after the fall election. That’s when voters will likely have a chance to weigh in on a proposed amendment to California’s constitution that would bar same’sex couples from getting married. [...]

Gay marriage opponents, meanwhile, derided the ruling as an example of judicial overreaching in which the opinions of a few justices trumped the will of Californians.

“The remedy is a constitutional amendment,” said Glen Lavy, senior counsel for the Alliance Defense Fund, which is pushing for the stay.

Nothing says democracy like a bunch of white, straight people keeping fellow Americans down. If all it takes is for a large group of people to come together to be able to vote other people’s rights and livelihoods away, what say we start up an anti-bigot coalition? These bastards have had complete rule for way too long, and now it’s time to put them on defense! Our first order of business should be to push for a constitutional amendment for separation of church and state. Oh, wait…