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It’s the bias, stupid.

CBS executives deny it, but there’s a growing feeling within the network that Katie Couric is an expensive, unfixable mistake.
So unfixable that Couric - the first woman to anchor a network nightly newscast solo - may leave CBS Evening News…
[…]
“It’s a disaster. Everybody knows it’s not working.”

Is it really that surprising that an ultraliberal, totally biased anchor couldn’t save an ultraliberal, biased news network from retaining it’s firm grip on last place? C’mon, Katie, go out with style… draft up some fake documents showing President Bush is the antichrist.

Fake.but.accurate.

…if political correctness ain’t your style. Here’s what CMT had to say about Jeff Foxworthy’s “serious” speech at the 2007 CMT Awards:

Jeff Foxworthy’s impassioned monologue at the 2007 CMT Music Awards about being a country fan was written when he couldn’t think of anything funny to say, he told reporters backstage following Monday’s (April 16) awards show in Nashville. Although he was hosting the event for the third year, Foxworthy said he didn’t expect to present the speech during the show because his wife told him it was too serious. However, the television producers considered it an ideal introduction to Martina McBride’s new ballad, “Anyway,” which closed the telecast. “As a comic, people don’t expect you to be serious about something, but I have a serious side,” he said. “I have a really serious side.”

Here’s the speech:

Money quote:

”Country music doesn’t have to be politically correct. We sing about God, because we believe in Him. We’re not tryin’ to offend anybody, but the evidence we have seen of Him in our small, little lives trumps your opinion about whether or not He exists.”

Is it too much to ask that our legislators actually know what’s in the laws they’re trying to pass on the citizens of the U.S.?

She entered politics after her husband was killed and her son was wounded by Colin Ferguson, the psycho who opened fire on the Long Island Commuter train back in 1993. Charlie Rangel used to sponsor this legislation before she entered Congress, but now Democrats realize they can use her story to play the absolute moral authority card by letting her pimp legislation she doesn’t even read or understand.

She introduces this legislation like clockwork, every two years:

February 13, 2007
March 15, 2005
May 8, 2003

You’d think she’d know what the hell is in her legislation by now…

“JSC” = Johnson Space Center (NASA)

From what I’m hearing, it sounds like a disgruntled employee (from Jacobs Engineering, a private contractor) that was going to be fired today has decided to sit down and chat with his boss about the decision. KHOU has streaming video from the site. Reports that two shots have been fired.

This reminds me of the plot of a recent episode of Medium.

Time is of the essence when a disgruntled worker with nothing to lose takes Joe and three others hostage. Allison and Ariel are plagued by an overwhelming feeling of dread, as police mobilize to bring the hostage situation to an end.

In the episode, the employer was an engineering firm that designed satellites.

UPDATE:
Here’s a map of JSC and Building 44:

UPDATE 2:
Building 44, just north of Rocket Park, houses the communications and engineering departments. It is used to test communication equipment for the space shuttle and International Space Station. There are several labs inside.

UPDATE 3:
HPD and NASA have scheduled a 4:30 p.m. news conference.

-Just before 2:30 PM, HPD called about shots fired
-SWAT was called, has now taken inner perimeter
-Suspect is a white male, 50-60 years old, 1 weapon (handgun)
-No motive known at this point
-NASA has sent employees home for the day
-Confirmed 2 shots fired, no confirmation of whether anyone’s been shot
-Negotiators are trying to establish communication with Suspect

UPDATE 4:
Tragedy. 2 dead.

From HPD Captain Dwayne Ready: While negotiators were trying to establish communication with the gunman, he shot himself, fatally. One (male) hostage was killed (presumably early on in the standoff) and another (female) hostage was bound with tape and is still alive. Weapon was a snubnose .38 or .357.

Democrats campaigned on the warnings that Republicans were too beholden to special interest groups to do anything positive for the American people. If that was true, then what does this say about the Democrats?

The campaign coffers of the new Democratic House committee chairmen have seen a big jump in contributions from lobbyists and special interests since the Democratic takeover of Congress, according to new campaign finance filings available on PoliticalMoneyLine.com.

In some cases, Democrats in powerful posts are raising more money from special interest groups than the Republicans they replaced.

Well, they did promise to do things better than Republicans…

Responding to the news yesterday that the U.S. Supreme Court had upheld a 2003 law that banned partial birth abortions, Senator Harry Reid said:

This was the first time the high court had heard a major abortion case in six years, and since then, its makeup has changed, with Roberts and Alito now on board.

Their presence on the bench provided the solid conservative majority needed to allow the federal ban to go into effect, with Kennedy providing the key fifth vote for a majority.

Alito replaced Sandra Day O’Connor, a key abortion rights supporter over her quarter century on the bench.

“A lot of us wish that Alito weren’t there and O’Connor were there,” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, who opposed Alito’s nomination, said.

I guess Reid’s handlers forgot to remind him he voted for the legislation the court was upholding.

Bob Haworth, formerly with The Kingston Trio and The Brothers Four has put a unique twist on the issue of illegal immigration with this song being played on radio stations nationwide. The complete song is available at Bob’s website for a nominal donation to the Defense Fund for U.S. Border Agents. (Hat tip: Reader Mike K.)

This is good news.

The Supreme Court upheld the nationwide ban on a controversial abortion procedure Wednesday, handing abortion opponents the long-awaited victory they expected from a more conservative bench.

The 5-4 ruling said the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act that Congress passed and President Bush signed into law in 2003 does not violate a woman’s constitutional right to an abortion.

I’m glad this legislation was upheld. It’s a terrible procedure where a doctor partially delivers a child’s body until only the head remains inside the womb, then punctures the back of the child’s skull with a sharp instrument, and sucks the child’s brains out before completing delivery of the now-dead infant.

I find it ironic that many of the same people who advocate for legalization of this awful procedure are also in front of the protest line declaring the lethal injection of a convicted murderer is “cruel and unusual”.

Here’s the audio of a speech Barack Obama gave today discussing the Virginia Tech massacre:

“There’s also another kind of violence that we’re going to have to think about. It’s not necessarily the physical violence, but the violence that we perpetrate on each other in other ways,” he said, and goes on to catalogue other forms of “violence.”

There’s the “verbal violence” of Imus.

There’s “the violence of men and women who have worked all their lives and suddenly have the rug pulled out from under them because their job is moved to another country.”

I don’t know what’s dumber… equating a business decision to outsource work as ‘violence’ against employees… or equating this whole stupid line of reasoning with the massacre that occured yesterday.

Nice work, Barry, I’m sure Hillary’s thank you card is already in the mail.