Happy Taco Day!

Well, it has been a while since I've posted about it, but Taco day is officially back upon us. Anybody that has missed this in the past should know that Taco Day (ie Friday) is essentially time for the LSWTF Staff and friends to join at the National Press Club and "Nom" as many free tacos as possible while downing as many of their strong mixed drinks as are available...

This seems to set the tone for the weekend quite nicely most times, but I am getting away from the point of this post... The news...

Famous TV Doctor Sanjay Gupta is apparently a REAL Doctor, but that isn't even the big part of this story. Apparently he is good enough of a doctor to warrant a possible pick as Obama's Surgeon General, yet also famous enough to already have congressional enemies?

In a “Dear Colleague” letter on Wednesday, Conyers — a major proponent of universal healthcare — denounced Gupta and asked members to sign a letter to
Obama urging the president-elect not to nominate the TV personality.

Conyers also cited a Jan. 6 blog item by Paul Krugman in The New York Times. Unlike Conyers, however, Krugman does not have a problem with Gupta’s qualifications.

Krugman pointed out that Gupta engaged in a televised argument with Moore in 2007 over his movie, “SiCKO.”

Conyers is friends with Moore, a Michigan native who is an ardent backer of the legislator’s universal healthcare bill. Moore’s film made the case for the U.S. to adopt a “single-payer” healthcare system like Canada’s.

Wait, Michael Moore has friends in Congress that will freely admit they are friends? Secondly, Sanjay Gupta, as in the nice Doctor on CNN is really the most qualified person for Surgeon General?

I guess I always assumed the most qualified Dr for a position like that would be someone I had no business ever hearing about, so hearing that Dr. Gupta is a candidate is a bit surprising to me...

Sacha Baron Cohen is back in the news for his latest film "Bruno", which will apparently feature a black runway model named "Jesus" wearing a crown of thorns. Cohen always knows how to make a splash with the US Market, that's for sure...

Tiny town of 194 people apply for over $375 million of government stimulus money...

In related news, a house of 4 in Arlington Virginia are also applying for a multi-million dollar bailout in light of there being little beer left in said house, thus deeply effecting the lives of millions of DC/Beltway residents...

And finally, doncha know, Sarah Palin is back in the news "finally" (that's what it says on Drudge anyway) unloading on all those horrible people that dared poke fun at her. I say horrible people, because we all very well know that she wouldn't look ridiculous without some obvious tampering with sound bytes (ala Howard Dean's I Have a Scream speech), or jumping her with incredibly difficult or even impossible questions...

Vid can be found here, do enjoy, oh boy, I can see Russia from my house!

That is all...