Quote of the Day

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg:

There are lots of threats to you in the world. There's the threat of a heart attack for genetic reasons. You can't sit there and worry about everything. Get a life. You have a much greater danger of being hit by lightning than being struck by a terrorist.

Top Five

A quick rundown of the posts I have read during my travels around the series of tubes.

- The Nation: During last night Republican presidential debate all the candidates had the chance to answer the following question: how they would "use" the outgoing president in their administrations? My favorite answer was giving by Colorado Congressman Tom Tancredo who stated the President would never darken the door of the White House in this administration.

- Rolling Stone: If you love President Bush, then you are going to love Rudy Giuliani. Matt Taibbi goes in-depth about how much worst a Giuliani Presidency would be for our democracy.

Rudy giuliani is a true American hero, and we know this because he does all the things we expect of heroes these days -- like make $16 million a year, and lobby for Hugo Chávez and Rupert Murdoch, and promote wars without ever having served in the military, and hire a lawyer to call his second wife a "stuck pig," and organize absurd, grandstanding pogroms against minor foreign artists, and generally drift through life being a shameless opportunist with an outsize ego who doesn't even bother to conceal the fact that he's had a hard-on for the presidency since he was in diapers. In the media age, we can't have a hero humble enough to actually be one; what is needed is a tireless scoundrel, a cad willing to pose all day long for photos, who'll accept $100,000 to talk about heroism for an hour, who has the balls to take a $2.7 million advance to write a book about himself called Leadership. That's Rudy Giuliani. Our hero. And a perfect choice to uphold the legacy of George W. Bush.

- The Carpetbagger Report: The GOP presidential candidates rather hate gay people than protect Americans from terrorists.

- Election Central: Rudy Giuliani flip-flops on making English the country's official language to appease this Conservative base.

- The Fan House: I can’t believe that I’m going to say this but, I actually agree with Chicago White Sox manger Ozzie Guillen.

Top Five

A quick rundown of the posts I have read during my travels around the series of tubes.

- Talking Points Memo: Black people all look like to the Fox News Network.

- Think Progress: Judge Leslie Southwick, nominated by President Bush for the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, can not name one time she judge in favor for a poor person, or a member of a minority group, or someone who’d simply turned to the courts for help. Judge Southwick is the prefect Republican judge.

- The Carpetbagger Report: Will the Democrats finally kick indicted Rep. William Jefferson (D-La.) out of Congress? It’s long over due.

- The Carpetbagger Report: If a medial procedure puts a women life in danger the pro-life movement is all for it.

- The Fan House: Bears defensive tackle Tank Johnson got an eight-game suspension by the NFL, which could be reduced to six-games for good behavior.

Top Five

A quick rundown of the posts I have read during my travels around the series of tubes.

- Sirotablog: The mainstream media proves one again that Al Gore is right.

- The Carpetbagger Report: If you elected a government hating Republican to be a Governor don’t be surprise that he turns out to be a dimwit.

- Daily Kos: Nixon apologist Fred Thompson is full of it.

- Crooks and Liars: I wonder if these people are going to get unemployment benefits from the RNC.

- Foul Balls: If you really want to know what was said during the slug out in the dugout, here your chance.

Top Five

A quick rundown of the posts I have read during my travels around the series of tubes.

- Think Progress: In a child-like moment President Bush declares that he is the President.

- Think Progress: Bill O’Reilly and Senator McCain agree that immigration will end the white, Christian, male power structure. Isn’t this type of rhetoric similar to KKK propaganda?

- Oliver Willis: Peggy Noonan finally stops writing love letters to President Bush and realizes he is bad for the Conservative movement. It’s going to be fun to watching the complete meltdown of the wing nuts.

- The Carpetbagger Report: The media and the Republican Party continue to act like silly little superficial school girls.

- Sportable: Did I ever mention that LeBron James is a good basketball player?