• Accused President Obama’s health care law of funneling money away from Medicare “at the expense of the elderly.” In fact, Medicare’s chief actuary says the law “substantially improves” the system’s finances, and Ryan himself has embraced the same savings.
• Accused Obama of doing “exactly nothing” about recommendations of a bipartisan deficit commission — which Ryan himself helped scuttle.
• Claimed the American people were “cut out” of stimulus spending. Actually, more than a quarter of all stimulus dollars went for tax relief for workers.
• Faulted Obama for failing to deliver a 2008 campaign promise to keep a Wisconsin plant open. It closed less than a month before Obama took office.
• Blamed Obama for the loss of a AAA credit rating for the U.S. Actually, Standard & Poor’s blamed the downgrade on the uncompromising stands of both Republicans and Democrats.

Mike Starr former Celebrity Rehab client and Alice in Chains bassist died of prescription drug overdose.

Jeff Conaway former Celebrity Rehab client died of complications from opiate abuse.

Joey Kovar former Celebrity Rehab client died at the age of 29–believed to be drug related.

What really stunk about Adobe’s upgrade system is the multiple nags I would get. I would get some nag about whether it was ok to run the updated updater, then another nag to run the updated installer that the updater ran. It should have been just a one click process.

I finally got smart with my latest box and refused to install it at all. I’m using Chrome, so Chrome handles Flash and PDF content.  For all I know they may be using Adobe under the hood, but I don’t get the annoying nags anymore to upgrade.  Once in a while I use IE and navigate to some Flash content, and then I’m SOL, but that’s the price I’m willing to pay. If I need to display PDF off the hard drive, I installed SumatraPDF. If you don’t want to do that, you can always start Chrome and use the URL: “file:///c:/” as a starting point to navigate to where you want.

PBS has a page called The Story Behind the Obama Law School Video Speech with an attached video. In 1990 (91?), the Harvard Law School had over a 100 tenured professors.  Of those tenured professors, 5 were black and 3 were women. Professor Derrick Bell, the first tenured black professor at Harvard, thought that it was unjust that there were not any minority women tenured as professors at Harvard. As a protest against what he saw as an unjust system, he resigned and gave up his tenure and $100k+ job.  Some students at Harvard organized a rally on behalf of Professor Bell, and that is where the video was shot.

I watched the whole video. Yawn! It’s pretty boring. Obama gives an introductory speech and hugs the law professor that welcomed him to Harvard.  Evidently it is some “radical” plot.

A blog entry by a friend of mine has a link to an article by some guy who went to school after Obama and never knew him. The article is in National Review and of course has snide little attempts of character assassination.  The PBS story has video of people that actually knew Obama at the time. One of those people is Brad Berenson who has bonafide conservative credentials in that he worked in the Bush administration.  About Obama, Berenson says: Obama took 10 times more grief from people on the left side of the aisle as he took from people on the right side of the aisle. Berenson, who actually knew and worked with Obama, does not paint him as some radical. But, according to the writer for NPR who didn’t know Obama, Obama was. I am sure all intelligent right wing readers will know to choose to accept the version of the man who never knew Obama over the version of the man who worked with him.

Evidently Sean Hannity devoted a show this past week to the video and all the radical elements in it. His show really must have been like when Geraldo Rivera opened Al Capone’s secret vault in Chicago. They hyped the show for weeks beforehand, they tried to build up the suspense for the whole hour, and then when it was finally opened, the vault was empty. Hannity must have a brain more plagued by syphilitic cysts than Al Capone if he thinks the video showed anything more than two men hugging.

For some good laugh’s, Jon Stewart covers Sean Hannity’s coverage of the Obama tape and has his own revealing coverage about “the real” Sean Hannity. According to Hannity’s logic, you are who you like or associate with. So, if Hannity likes and associates with a known perjuror (Oliver North), likes and associates with a convicted Watergate burglar (G. Gordon Liddy), likes and associates with a man who stomped another man to death (Don King), then by his own logic, Sean Hannity is a criminal.

For a long time they talked about Newt, and then the subject turned to Obama.  At one point, Watts said that “this is a Bonhoeffer kind of moment.” So, is he comparing Obama to Hitler? Does he think we ought to conspire to assassinate Obama? Besides his writing, what Bonhoeffer is famous for is conspiring to assassinate Hitler and then being arrested and executed for it. Many people admire Bonhoeffer and his stand against Nazism, but to imply that this is a Bonhoeffer moment is just a little too over the top.

Clip (at 32:44 in): http://www.americanowradio.com/pages/media/listenlive.html?uri=channels/465104/1600516