Hmm, my google is a very personal subject; I'll go back to it only when I'm damned ready to.

"You can go back to your, what do you call it, your Google"

I feel like it's Christmas morning and I got a new bike!

wow, I didn't know it was mine...how fast can I sell all my shares?

And finally, George H.W. Bush was asked yesterday to comment on his son's failures as president. He responded, "You can go back to your, what do you call it, your Google, and you figure out all that."

I don't know how they do it, but of course The Onion was there first.

David Tennant is to Doctor Who what Sean Connery was to James Bond. I'm sorry to hear he's moving on.

Oh, well. There's always Torchwood...

Is it just me, or is Bush stoned?

Shouldn't we have an old guy for the next Dr. Who? We haven't had a cantankerous fogey for decades. I mean, I'm all about Tom Baker, and think David Tennant was great in the role. But this new guy feels like an extension of the "delightfully scatter-brained young guy" variety. We could use a change-up.

Perhaps the new Dr. Who will be a young fogey?

I realize GHWB HAS to say he's proud of his son in public; what parent wouldn't say that?? BUT, I've often wondered what he REALLY thought about the way his son handled things over these last eight years.

* Patrick Fitzgerald will get 90 additional days to put together the Blagojevich indictment.

That seems pretty amazing. If they have the recordings about him soliciting the Senate seat AND they have Jesse Jackson Jr.'s help on some other item AND they found the time to make it all public AND they told Obama to wait a little while before releasing his report because they were finishing their case — what's the delay for?

Barr's partner must want to get married.

Bu$h stoned sounds like a great idea to me. Make it a very public stoning, perhaps Times Square, or in the WH Rose Garden. Broadcast it around the globe for all to see.

"Did Israel consider the U.S. presidential transition in the timing of its offensive"?

Are you kidding? You're a bright enough guy. Why play stupid?

Why do Doctors and companions have such short-lived tenures on the show? The longest-lived Doctor was Tom Baker, and he "only" lasted 7 seasons. Doctors seem to only last around 3 years on average. A lot of successful American shows last far longer than that (granted a lot don't) and their main characters usually stay on for the duration, rarely do they depart. So why the markedly high turnover rate?

Those nine Muslim American passengers received an apology from AirTran,

From what I gather, though, an apology did not include paying for their ticket on another airline. So typical. This whole affair reminds me of the dingbat who provoked a mass tizzy by claiming she heard three "Arabs" discussing some terrorist acts while they were driving to their new jobs at a Florida hospital. It left the hospital three doctors short with subsequent ramifications on the well-being of their patients. Tell me with a straight face that it is always better to be safe than sorry.

^ I tried using my Google to answer that but it must be broken. I guess I'll have to look in the yellow pages for a Google repairman.

Burris to the Senate: Hi there how are you, just got here to meet everyone.

The Senate to Burris: Let me see your papers!

Talk about a bunch of Nazis’ Senators, can you believe this? America wonders why it does not get stuff done.

Worse, other officials in other countries are under corruption investigation plus our legislature gives them money handsomely and often without any fan fare. Sheesh.

Come on get a laugh, we call it spreading freedom in the middle east.

Seems like it happens some what regularly. Do a Google on Israel faces corruption ‘epidemic’. Just last year September. Yikes... Doesn’t America give these politicians billions regularly?

And this Senate Democrats has not seen an indictment from probably a real maverick in there own party, Blagojevich. And Blagojevich has Fitzgerald investigating him for years, come on all the while all the America Senate throws billions to a corruption epidemic in the Middle East. This is so funny and ridiculous.

Let me see your papers…

I wonder how many licenses Jessie White signed off on when Ryan was tainted or how much legislation Jessie White never sign perhaps delegated it to someone else. Here, is an interesting thing in executive power.

Can we say just as the Secretary of State in the national constitution works at the pleasure of the president? So is the Illinois secretary of state is working at the pleasure of the Governor? Which means legally the governor can sign and certify the document?

I think so…if the secretary appears to deliberately fail to do their job legally…it is the governor duty to exercise his executive power and certify Burris to the Senate.
Has any Governor done that? Here is an interesting perspective if one looks at the language of the State Constitution is similar to the National Constitution.

Can Bush sign off on stuff that should be certified by the Secretary of State? Bush as the executive sign off and certify with out the Secretary of State, did that ever happen? Has that been done with out any rebuke from the congress…that would be interesting and a hoot…

Hell Bush has sign off statements that completely ignore the very law that was passed….yikes…What we have here is absolute contempt by the president and now a secretary of state in Illinois.

The media will choke on that one for sure…

I'd check it on my Google but its tubes seem to be clogged up, Mr Pres-Ex.

And yeah, Texas Aggie (@18:17), that's what I gather too. AirTran refunded their fares and apologized (eventually) but they had to fork the fare difference out of their own pockets. Which (difference) I'd expect to be considerable, since they'd have been trying to seat 9 people at the last minute (instead of booking well ahead of time).

Kudo's to Barr for at least demonstrating a skill known as CONSISTENCY.

State's rights require that bleeding pinko commies get their rules to play by in order for knuckle dragging Cro-Magnon fascists to get THEIR in states where they can enforce their holy will.

Definitely a blow to the one-world-under-Jesus plan most of his peers have in mind. Better have someone open your mail for ya, pard'.

Joe Scarborough's knowledge about anything is so stunningly superficial he embarasses himself every time he opens his mouth. Grandpa Brezinski said so, too, and he was right.

GHWB: When I was a lad I walked 5 miles to school, barefoot, uphill both ways, through 6 foot snow drifts. You young whipper-snappers with your new-fangled googles can kiss my pale, wrinkly ass.

CNN/Fox: Can you speak about the challenges of pulling yourself up by your bootstraps to become the scion a great political family.

10th Grader: I Googled you and, it said you went to the prestigious Philips Academy at Andover

"Go back to your Google...." Forget the Legacy Project and the Library, that and the shoes have just defined 43 for history.

And, Tom Baker was "to Doctor Who what Sean Connery was to James Bond." Tennant was pretty good though, and Terry Nation notwithstanding, the tighter stories helped immensely. Sorry to see him go, but glad he has another year. He did look like he was in pain some of the time, and it didn't appear to be connected to the character. To better health.

I'm going to miss Tennant as The Doctor. Still waiting for the new Torchwood season to start, though. The first two were great.

http://www.energy-daily.com/reports/Wind_Water_And_Sun_Beat_Biofuels_Nuclear_And_Coal_999.html

Strong endorsement of wind, wave power, and solar (concentrated solar as well as photovoltaic). Weak (at best) endorsement of biofuels. Against coal and nuclear.

Personally, I endorse some federal funding for each alternative, because I am skeptical that all eventual costs are now known, and because I favor robustness and sufficiency of supply over efficiency.

Another article at the site notes that biofuels are gradually replacing petroleum in the U.S. economy. There is a biofuel source for each microclimate and soil type in the U.S.; although some compete with food crops, others do not. It isn't hard to imagine (though harder to build) an American economy in which everyone's auto fuel comes from a crop grown within 200 miles of home.

Certainly agree that the new Doctor a tad young. Hopefully he looks a lot older on the set. All depends on his performance but the scripts will be good. Steve Moffat wrote the best ones for the current series and he's taking over from Davies so the show should still be good.

Rian:
In regards to the high turn-over rate for the Doctor and companions it is probably due to historical precedent. Once regeneration was accepted, it started to be self-perpetuating. Also the actors who play the Doctor don't want to get type-cast and want to move on. Apparently Tom Baker had trouble getting other roles and others didn't want to repeat the mistake. I think it adds to the allure for the role, knowing you'll don't have to stay forever and can leave your imprint on the show and move on.

Pre-casting, Moffat actually said he wanted an older Doctor. I'm not sure if this is a good sign (the new guy's so good he managed to get the part despite being the wrong type) or a bad one (executive meddling).

Watching Maddow just now, and she's "desperate" to know what the Bushes have going on at Blair House that's so very important that the Obamas can't move in before the 15th. She sent up a plea to any DC folks who might have invitations to one of those events to e-mail them to her. "Hey," said my husband, "let's send her a gag one." We are tired parent-types, so that's as far as we got, but I'd love to see what Washington Monthly-reading folks come up with ....

Pre-casting, Moffat actually said he wanted an older Doctor. I'm not sure if this is a good sign (the new guy's so good he managed to get the part despite being the wrong type) or a bad one (executive meddling).

Apparently, Smith's audition blew Moffat away, as he said Smith had a "bold, original" take on the character. That might be showbiz fluff, but I'm willing to give Moffat and Smith their chance to create a new incarnation of the Doctor.

Did Israel consider the US political process when they decided to commit this outrage? Of course they did!

They've not got Obama locked in to approving their fait accompli and the new Administration won't be bothering them about the progroms in Hebron committed by the Kach Krazies, they won't be bugging the Israelis about stealing East Jerusalem, we'll be focused on the "shiny object" of Gaza. By the time that's over, they'll have snuck through three more fait accompli moves in their drive to steal the West Bank.

And the real reason for this, the decision to out-warmonger Netanyahu so that Kadima and Labor will win their coming election, will mean we'll be told we're dealing with the "reasonable" Israelis and we sure can't be pushing them too hard or that "crazy man" will be in office.

Talk about "wag the dog." The Israelis figured this out 65 years ago.

Interesting to see ABC News reporting (via Simon McGregor-Wood on the ground) that Hamas surprised Israel by using anti-tank weaponry to take out and destroy an Israeli tank (previously reported as being "one of the best tanks in the world"), as well as collapse an entire building onto a large number of IDF, after they had recently commandeered it.

I see why Israel wants to keep the press out of Gaza.

As a long time fan (I think I still have my Tom Baker hat from those pre-cable Dr. Who convention days), it warms my heart (only one) to see that many here also enjoyed the good Doctor.

I was blown away by Eccleston's all too brief tenure and believed that he would have been a truly great Doctor had he stayed on.

First, the important stuff. I still want a female Doctor. Stephanie Cole (Diana Trask in WAITING FOR GOD) would have been perfect -- female and a cantankerous old fogey. I'll wait and see, hoping this guy will be closer to Peter Davison than to Colin Baker. Btw, will Catherine Tate still be the ompanion? If so, won't she be the first companion older than the Doctor? Might be interesting.

Agreed, btw, that Tennant became the best Doctor of all, bu t he was helped by scripts that aded some parts of the old to the new, starting with the Sontarran story.

Jebus Christ that Palin "family" is embarrassing!

Btw, will Catherine Tate still be the companion?

No.

Okay, is this payback for me writing so much about politics on my TV blog?

BTW, Matt Smith is young enough to be my son, and that's why it doesn't work for me. Yes, I know it shouldn't matter -- the Doctor is actually 903 years old despite what he regenerates into, but this guy is so young, pasty and bulbousy in the nose area that I'm not lovin' it.

Only time will tell. Get it? Time?

Interesting to see ABC News reporting (via Simon McGregor-Wood on the ground) that Hamas surprised Israel by using anti-tank weaponry to take out and destroy an Israeli tank (previously reported as being "one of the best tanks in the world"), as well as collapse an entire building onto a large number of IDF, after they had recently commandeered it. ... Posted by: Joe Friday on January 6, 2009

I guess it wasn't a very strong building. Did it fall straight down at a natural rate like Building 7?

It's curious, it was Israel's (US supplied) anti-tank weapons which pushed back Egypt years ago. And, it was similar anti-aircraft weapons (US supplied) which helped Afghans knock down Soviet helicopters.

How will the Israeli electorate respond now? Their government is acting all macho like Netanyahu promises and maybe it won't work this time.

Ought to be interesting.

Tennat was the best Doctor!?!?!?!!!!

Are you people insane? He was retched. Even minute of his over the top "acting" was pure agony.

Tom Baker is the proper comparison to Sean Connery.