It’s Sunday, but not a bad one, ‘cuz I took tomorrow off. I have to work Tues, Wed, and Fri, so I figured I owed it to myself to not have to deal with a Monday this week.

On Press the Meat today, it’s Obama senior adviser David Axelrod, plus a roundtable on the achievements of the outgoing Bush administration, and the failure of the Obama administration with the National Review’s Rich Lowry, Vanity Fair’s Todd Purdum, the Washington Post’s Michelle Singletary & Newsweek’s Richard Wolffe.

Last week on Faze the Nation, it was a New York kinda day, with Gerry Ferraro (isn’t her 15 minutes – her second 15 minutes, in fact – up already?), Democrat Gary Ackerman, Republicans Peter King and Tom Reynolds (token Upstater, from Sean’s neck of the woods), NYC Schools Chancellor Joel Klein (be interested to hear Sue’s opinion of him), and NY1 news guy, Dominic Carter (who- at the time – was the only person to have gotten an interview with her highness, Lady Caroline of Kennedy, so far). This week? Beats me, they don’t bother to update their website. Maybe Katie Couric is paying off Bob Schieffer’s web guy or something.

But who cares about CBS anyway, when Fux News Sunday and Weaselface Wallace have an exclusive interview with Pickles Bush, on to answer the rumors that she’s signed a 7-figure deal to be the next Zoloft spokesperson. Plus, a different bunch of fuxheads than usual, but fuxheads nonetheless.

Over on the Goebbels network, George Snufalufagus is on vacation, so ABC News schmuck Jake Tapper will be taking over the duties (by the way, Tapper isn’t his real name; it’s a nickname he earned back during his days as an aviation reporter in Minneapolis). Speaking of tappers, Jake is joined by Republican Bob Corker of Tennessee. Also on will be Sherrod Brown of Ohio, incoming White House press secretary Robert Gibbs (who will get some advice from the likes of Dana “Cuban Missile Whut?” Perino, snotty Scotty McClellan, and Joe Lockhart). Plus, it’s the first :jerk: -less roundtable in recent memory, with PRI Studio 360’s Kurt Andersen, Slate’s John “don’t call me Emily” Dickerson, NPR newsbabe Alison Stewart, and David Brody of the Jesus Channel.

It’s a Late Emission year-end retrospective at CNN, as U-Boat commander Wolf Blitzer has past interviews with Barack Obama, John McCain, Sarah Palin, Bill Gates, Condoleezza Rice “and a lot more.” More than Condi and Caribou Barbie? How is that even possible?

Later, on 60 Minutes, the entire hour is devoted to the campaign and election of Barack Obama, with 60 Minutes segments, interviews with Obama, his family, and advisers, and “never before seen footage” (like, what, Obama with Bigfoot or something?).

Have a good Sunday everybody.

The weird weather continues here. It’s supposed to be in the fifties today, and damn near sixty tomorrow. Otherwise, not much going on here, really. Except I hear the post-Christmas sales are outrageous. And here I already have everything I need. Oh well.

Granny’s off to work today (lucky her), so I’m home with the boys. Looks like the holiday shopping season was “dismal” this year. That’s not too surprising, but it does make that big pile of shit Barack Obama’s inheriting in 25 days a little bit higher. I guess I’d better help out and do some online shopping today or something.

Yesterday’s warm weather has put a real dent in our snowpiles here, which, I suppose, is a good thing, since – with over 5 feet of snow already this year – it was getting a little hard to find a place to put the snow.

Whatever you happen to have going on today, have a good one.

Well, it is Christmas eve and very happy holidays of your choosing again to all of you. I don’t really choose to celebrate any of them being a lapsed xtian who took his business noelsewhere but I enjoy dabbling with others who do.

:menorah: :santacool:

This was the day a year ago that Roxie S. Grant, better known here as roxieseattle, left this life. She had already disappeared from ours a few months earlier after revealing that she had something suddenly going wrong in her head. We did not find out about her passing until a few months later. I think everyone already expected the worst.

There is little I know of her final months but I hope they were not miserable but rather a grand exit. I am sad that she did not want to share any of them with us but I understand. I was able to learn a bit more about her when I was trying to figure out what happened including her 60s involvement in Seattle activism and alternative press. One of her ‘pals’ wrote a book about those days that sbluheron tracked down and generously procured copies of for a number of us.

I found the following notice in her pharm school alumni letter I think may have posted earlier this year.

Roxie Grant, ’95, passed away on
Dec. 24, 2007 at the age of 60 from brain
cancer. Roxie was born in Missoula, Mont.
She graduated from high school in Spokane
and moved to Seattle in the late 1960s. In
the 1970s Roxie worked as an office manager
and bookkeeper at the Seattle King County
Council on Alcoholism and at a social
services agency that served homeless youth
in the university district. She was very active
in the social justice and antiwar movements
and together with her sister, Sharma Oliver,
helped friend Walter Crowley found the
Helics, a publication that gave voice to
these movements. She worked hard and
overcame many obstacles to attain her
goal of attending college. She graduated
from pharmacy school at the age of 48.
Roxie worked as a night pharmacist for the
twenty-four hour Rite Aid at the Factoria
Square Mall in Bellevue. Her patients and
colleagues greatly appreciated her tremendous
dedication as a pharmacist as well as
her friendliness, kindness and great sense
of humor. Roxie was also very active in
animal rescue and nursed many animals
back to health. Roxie is survived by her
sister Sharon Kilburg and nieces, Angela
Oliver and Katherine Stearns.

I still miss her and regret that I never really met her. I am sorry I never got the Richard and Mimi Farina disc together that I wanted to send her.

:jesus: 🙁 :gate:

This has been a long, long, week, but just one more day to get through, and then I’m off until next Tuesday. Looks like we get a little break from the snow today (after another foot or so yesterday and overnight), plus it’s going to be warm today – all the way up to 28. And tomorrow it’s supposed be around 40 and rain. Hopefully we’ll still have a little snow left for x-mas.

I didn’t bother to shovel this morning. Let’s hope we can get out of the driveway.

Monday, bleh. But at least it’s a short week; I only need to make it through two days. More snow today, they say, but not too much. Depending on which way the wind blows (and it’s blowing at about 30 mph right now, which means it’s a little brisk out there this morning), we might get up to 4 inches by quittin’ time, and then another batch overnight. I might have to get Granny a new shovel for x-mas.

Happy first day of of Chanukah (or, I guess it actually started at sundown last night; forgive my ignorance, but the only reason I know when xmas is, is that I can’t get the hell away from it, and that damn music everywhere. It’s like being stuck in an elevator from Halloween ’til MLK Day). Anyhow, keep your shamash lit.

On Press the Meat today, Gilligan Gregory hosts Lizard Queen Condi Rice, plus a roundtable of CNBC’s Erin Burnett, Andrea Mitchell, NPR’s Michele Norris & the Chicago Sun-Times’ Carol Marin.

Fux News Sunday and Weaselface Wallace have the suddenly chatty Darth Cheney in addition to the usual fuxheads.

At the Goebbels network, George Snufalufagus has VP-elect Joe Biden, and then the Axis of Drivel is reunited as George :jerk: Will, Cokie “the hag” Roberts, and Sam :omg: Donaldson join political mastermind Donna Brazile at the roundtable.

Wolf Blitzer’s Late Emission includes the always entertaining Barney Frank, Virginia thug Eric Cantor, shamed former HP CEO Carly Fiorina, former Clinton Economic Adviser Laura Tyson, Republican schmuck (is that redundant?) Ed Rollins, the most handsome man in politics, James Carville, David Gergen, and Wahington Times propagandist Tara Wall.

Later, on 60 Minutes, Scott Pelley reports on the Governator and his $40 billion budget deficit, Lesley Stahl reports on how the bullshit the TSA puts you through at the airport is basically all for show, and Bob Simon reports on baby elephants orphaned by the ivory trade.

Happy Solstice everybody. It’ll be nice to see the days start getting longer again (unless you’re in the Southern Hemisphere, in which case, happy Summer Solstice to you).

Slept in late today. Must have been all that shoveling yesterday. It wasn’t bad until the snowplow finally made it through. Looks like I didn’t miss much though. The economy remains in the crapper, Ahnuld is telling CA State workers to take unpaid leave, and the more people hear about Caroline Kennedy, the less impressed they are with her.

Well, time to go see how much more snow we got overnight.

You know, sometimes I wonder if Obama gets a kick outta tweaking “the left,” just to watch us get all pissed off (kind of like Sam baiting Marc, in hopes of getting him going). The latest example, of course, is picking the homophobic, anti-choice, pro-Capitalist (he calls people who espouse true Christian values like feeding the poor “Marxist”), mega-Church pastor Rick Warren to give the invocation at the Presidential inauguration in January.

Not that I really buy into that whole invocation thing. You might as well have Linus there to offer up a prayer to the Great Pumpkin for all I care. But we all know Obama is a smart dude, and we all know he knew exactly what he was doing when he made this decision. And it was totally unnecessary. He didn’t need to choose Bishop V. Gene Robinson to give the invocation, but he certainly could have picked somebody who didn’t actively campaign for Prop 8. Better yet, why not choose somebody like Rev. Barry Lynn?

I personally don’t think it matters in the least in terms of what this means for Obama’s political agenda. I don’t think he’ll suddenly move to throw gay people into reeducation camps (though he opposes gay marriage, which I suspect is on political grounds rather than moral, legal, or Constitutional ones) or outlaw abortion (or appoint anti-choice judges to the courts). But Obama knows this is a slap in the faces of an awful lot of people out there – especially gay people, and especially in light of Prop 8 – and he should know that nothing he does will make the Kristian Kracker Koalition love him, so you really gotta wonder why he does shit like this.

Before you feel compelled to make excuses for Obama, just imagine the shit we’d all – rightfully – have given a President-elect McCain for doing this. Except we should expect – make that demand – more out of Obama.