Family Affair - Sly & The Family Stone

OK, when I hear this one, I can just imagine the aroma of pot/cigarette smoke and strawberry air freshener.

Family Reunion - The O'Jays

Mmmm, bar-b-q, beer, potato salad, sweet tea.

I Honestly Love You - Olivia Newton-John

Esteé Lauder Body Lotion


You get the idea; play along?

Exxon posts $10.49B profit; shares up

DALLAS - Oil industry behemoth Exxon Mobil's earnings rose to $10.49 billion in the third quarter, the second-largest quarterly profit ever recorded by a publicly traded U.S. company. Its shares briefly rose to a 52-week high.

The report Thursday comes as high crude prices this year have fueled record profits in the oil industry, triggering an outcry from consumers who were being asked to pay about $3 a gallon for gasoline in early August.

The largest quarterly profit ever was Exxon Mobil Corp.'s $10.71 billion profit in the fourth quarter of 2005.

The company may beat that next quarter, said Howard Silverblatt Standard & Poor's Senior Index Analyst. "Then in all likelihood they will be at that $40 billion mark for the year."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/earns_exxon_mob...

Bob Woodward's disclosure of the influence of Henry Kissinger on the Bush administration's Iraq policy both is and is not a surprise. After all, we have known for a long time that the bungling old war criminal has his admirers within the White House. Did not the president, almost but not quite incredibly, call on him as the first chairman of the 9/11 commission? Kissinger's initial acceptance of that honor was swiftly withdrawn after it was pointed out—first of all in this space, if I may say so—that he would have to make a full disclosure of the interests of Kissinger Associates in the Middle East. This condition was too much for him. (I added that, since he was wanted for questioning by magistrates in France, Chile, and Argentina, in connection with offenses of state terrorism, his appointment to a position of such high eminence at such a time might expose the United States to ridicule, not to say contempt.)

Then the Bush administration took the decision to appoint Paul Bremer, a former partner of Kissinger Associates, as head of the Coalition Provisional Authority. Our best friends in Iraq—the Kurds—were immediately alarmed by this fantastically tactless decision. They can never forget how in 1975, having ostensibly backed a Kurdish revolt against Saddam Hussein, Kissinger sold out the rebels in return for a secret deal with the shah of Iran and left them to die unaided on the mountainsides. The story is best told in the Pike committee's report on intelligence, which took a long while to be declassified. Upon arrival, Bremer did not inspire confidence: At an early meeting in northern Iraq, he pointed to a portrait of Gen. Barzani, the national hero of the Kurdish resistance, and asked, "Who's that?" There was a general feeling that he could have been better briefed.

So, the shadow of Richard Nixon's unindicted co-conspirator has continued to cast a pall over our foreign policy. Nonetheless, in the debate on whether to actually intervene in Iraq in the first place, it was noticeable that the proponents of "regime change" generally defined themselves as anti-Kissingerian. In the best book on this subject, James Mann's Rise of the Vulcans (which remains much more enlightening than any of Woodward's three improvised and contradictory efforts), there is a good discussion of the disagreement between many so-called neocons and the tradition of Kissinger's realism.

Excerpt from http://www.slate.com/id/2151129/?nav=navoa

Cash and carry; An eight-month probe uncovers evidence that Reggie Bush and his family appear to have accepted improper benefits from prospective agents while at USC.

By Charles Robinson and Jason Cole, Yahoo! Sports, September 14, 2006

An eight-month Yahoo! Sports investigation has revealed that Heisman Trophy-winning running back Reggie Bush and his family appear to have accepted financial benefits worth more than $100,000 from marketing agents while Bush was playing at the University of Southern California.

The benefits, which could lead to NCAA sanctions for USC and retroactively cost Bush his college eligibility and Heisman, were supplied by two groups attempting to woo Bush as a client. Current Bush marketing agent Mike Ornstein and one of Ornstein's employees were involved. So were Michael Michaels and Lloyd Lake, who attempted to launch an agency called New Era Sports & Entertainment, pursuing Bush as their first client


http://www.yahoo.com/s/391025

Since there's yet to be any move on ABC's part to cancel their 9/11 fairy tale, it would be quite sporting if, after they aired it, they allowed at least a 15 minute response from Big Dog himself.

But again, not that Sean and Rush's bosses would allow such a thing...

Join the GOP for crying out loud. Who are THEY going to run in CT anyway? You'd be a shoo-in, you'd be among your own, you'd be loved, you won't have to continue apologizing or looking embarrassed when you're on FOX News. Now, of course, you'd STILL have to whip Lamont but just cross that bridge when you come to it. Geez...

Oh, and on your way, take Miller and Trafficant with you as well. Everybody deserves to be happy, that's what I say!

KINGSBURG, Calif. (AP) — KFYE-FM hasn't budged from the Fresno-area dial, but it's about as far as you can get from the Christian music, sermons and Bible stories it was broadcasting until about a week ago.

Now it calls itself "Porn Radio" — "all sex radio, all the time," with a suggestion that people under 21 not listen.

Songs with little in common except suggestive titles and lyrics fill the playlist, including Why Don't We Do It in the Road by The Beatles, Sexual Healing by Marvin Gaye and Nasty by Janet Jackson. Tamer songs are heated up by adding recorded moans and groans.

The change, made after the station was sold this month, was met with several non-sexual groans from some residents...

http://www.usatoday.com/life/music/news/20...

Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-ND) & Eight Is Enough's Dick Van Patten


Gov. Jennifer Granholm (D-MI) & Duran Duran keyboardist Nick Rhodes



Shouldbeen First Lady Teresa Heinz-Kerry & actress Jill Clayburgh



Evangelical crybaby Jimmy Swaggart and swaggering roach sniffer Tom Delay



Stealth Justice Sam Alito & TV legend Sid Caesar

6. Born again consoviet actor Michael Moriarty & jeezoid pinup boy Tinky Winky



7. Dr. Condoleeza Rice and Malcolm X



8. Future President Barbara Boxer and stage/screen legend Rita Moreno



9. Intense actors William Shatner and Sidney Poitier




10. Struggling boxer Mike Tyson and actor Leonard Nimoy




11. French screen legend Catherine Deneuve and Hollywood screen legend Tyrone Power




12. Founding father Thomas Jefferson and morning radio host Don Imus



13. Actor Paul Sorvino and crooner extraordinaire Johnny Mathis

1. Syndicated columnists Clarence Page & George F. Will




2. Comic anchor Jon Stewart & comic asshole Andrew Dice Clay




3. Actor Robert De Niro & vitamin guru badly acting as talk host Michael Savage




4. Jazz pianist Ramsey Lewis and CNN's Larry King



5. Rock icon Sting and intergalactic stowaway Dr. Zachary Smith



(MORE TO COME!!!)