Colbert skyrockets to Letterman's "Late Show"!

Editors, Wisdom Quarterly; Stephen Colbert (colbertnation.com); David Letterman

Eat it! Tonight Show's Jimmy Fallon (scpr.org)

[Thank you, Suey Park, for tipping the scales. They're cancelling Colbert! ;-) But...]

CBS's announcement this morning (Thursday, April 10, 2014) that Stephen Colbert is taking over from David Letterman as the host of "The Late Show" in 2015 trumps all rivals -- including Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy O'Brien, and all the Jameses, like the head of the now shuttered and very controversial CCDD Foundation.
  

Fallon is funny but not funny enough (DM)

But now it seems the likelihood the show will move to Los Angeles is dim, despite lobbying from L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti. Reasons likely include everything from trying to retain "The Colbert Report" staff on his new show, family, and more.
  

But here's Southern California Public Radio's Top 10 reasons "The Late Show" is probably staying in New York:

1. He doesn't want "Saturday Night Live" to make fun of him the next time they do "The Californians"
2. He can't remember which Kardashian is which
3. He's already got a great deal living in Jon Stewart's pool house
4. The L.A. sun is a problem for his delicately pale skin... More

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C, don't kill my vibe! Fallon, Anne Hathaway can keep rapping

"Afghan Hustle" - US out (Daily Show)

Wisdom Quarterly; Jon Stewart, Pres. Hamid Karzai, TheDailyShow.com

(March 5, 2014) "Afghan Hustle," departing Afghani President Hamid Karzai harshly criticizes the U.S. for not being a sufficiently considerate war instigator (04:27). Watch more clips from this episode or the entire show.

The U.S. President has no clothes! (comedy)

Ashley Wells, Pfc. Sandoval, Wisdom Quarterly; Jeremy Scahill, Amy Goodman, Nermeen Shaikh (DemocracyNow.org, New York); Kshama Sawant, Mitch Jeserich (KPFA, Berkeley)

It doesn't really matter what I say. It's all subject to revision and White Out (TW). Obama, like Bush before him and everyone after, is a puppet. Who really wields the power? The MIC

Even I could read a prompter. - Pointin' is cool. - If only I could tell Obi how much I agree.

A breakdown of Pres. Obama's Newspeak and nonsense with Jeremy Scahill (Democracy Now!)
  

Look, Jo/Jo, I'm movin' further to the right.

G.W. Bush was as terrible liar, whereas President B.S. Obama is a great one. Let's give the devilish man his due: He is a great speaker, a great orator, and a pretty good pacifier. If only what he said were true.

Scahill: "drone president," NSA whitewash

Some is. Unfortunately, it has proven to be the stuff we would never let Dub'ya and Dick get away with -- depriving Americans of peace, privacy, prosperity, civil liberties... What do we get instead?

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Shut up, Jeremy, I'm warning you.

Executive order drone assassinations, business-as-usual banking, indefinite detentions, illegal NSA surveillance, Department of Homeland Harassment, police shootings, police beatings, a war on whistleblowers, a crumbling "permanent-war" economy, weather modification, environmental degradation, electrical and frequency pollution, oil and chemical spills, joblessness, corporate control of policies and politics and, well, other than that, everything's great.

VIDEO: The many FUNNY faces of Jo Boehner behind Barry Obama

  

Bush, Cheney families love Obama policies

Poor Jo Biden. Poorer Jo Boehner sitting back there trying not to roll his eyes seeing his political party mate speak so eloquently. Yes, all three are in the same party with its two nearly identical wings, one moderate, one extreme right. The 99% has got to learn to start taking direction from the 1%, or the dogs, paramilitary troops, water canons, spies, agent provocateurs, and batons are going to have to be sent in. Hey, you, OBEY! Or else.

What will cure right-wing extremism from the Republocrats?

   
A third party response
David Ferguson (rawstory.com)

Kshama Sawant, Seattle's Socialist

Socialist Seattle City Council member Kshama Sawant ripped not only Pres. Obama’s State of the Union speech Tuesday, but the Democrats and Republicans alongside him as he delivered it.

We bow to the same MIC masters.

“We will make progress only on the basis of a fundamental and systematic change,” Sawant said in a response on behalf of the Socialist Party.

“We need a break from the policies of Wall Street and corporate America. We need a break from capitalism. It has failed the 99 percent. Both parties bow down before the free market and loyally serve the interests of their corporate masters, with the only difference being in matter of degree. The political system is completely dysfunctional, and it’s broken.”
 

Yeah, we golf. Obama and Boehner (WP)

Sawant, who in November of 2013 became the first socialist elected to office in Seattle in 50 years, also criticized Pres. Obama’s remarks vowing to fight income inequality, saying he was prodded by public demonstrations staged by fast-food workers and others... More

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Pick a finger. Go on. See if I care.

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• Egypt's military junta orders trial for 20 detained Al Jazeera journalists 
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• Latin American, Caribbean leaders meet in Cuba 
• Tunisia (site of first uprising of Arab Spring) approves landmark constitution 



That sucked. We must obstruct! (gawker.com)

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The Malala Fund: Education

Ashley Wells, CC Liu, Wisdom Quarterly; Stacy Jones (fastcompany.com)

When Shiza Shahid was a student at Stanford University, she saw a YouTube video of a young, female Pakistani education advocate. Shahid reached out to the girl's father and organized a week-long camp for the girl and a handful of others, putting them in touch with women who could act as mentors. The girl's name was Malala Yousafzai -- and a little over a year ago, the Taliban tried to assassinate her [by shooting her in the head, but she survived to make it onto the Daily Show with Jon Stewart]. 

Shiza Shahid and Malala (fastcompany.com)

When Shahid got word of the shooting, she flew to Birmingham, England, where 15-year-old Malala was hospitalized, and acted as buffer between the family and the onslaught of media attention that ensued. "I saw the evolution from when the doctors said she was going to die, to when the doctors said she was going to lose her voice," she recalls. "Then to see her wake up and be so healthy and unchanged and strong and whole -- it was a miracle." [All credit to merciful Allah, Malala's god]. The 24-year-old has spent the past year harnessing all of the energy and emotion surrounding Malala and converting it into the driving force behind The Malala Fund. More

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