This sack of shit makes $19 million a year???!!!

“There isn’t a player that I’m more proud of in the last 15 years than Derek Jeter. He has played the game like it should be played,” Bud Selig said. “He’s even been a better human being off the field, as great as he is on the field. So any concerns I keep hearing about Derek Jeter isn’t here. I respect that. And I must tell you, I think I’d have made the same decision that Derek Jeter did. So any suggestion to the contrary, Derek Jeter has brought to this sport great pride. He’s become a role model, earned it and is still earning it.”

But YOU said the All Star Game counts, it matters! But no one wants to play in the thing. Which...YOU seem cool with! ANOTHER YEAR OF THIS INCOMPETENCE? FUCK! Jesus H. Christ, George W. Fucking Bush would be a better commissioner! YOU SUCK!!

just another Bush incompetent

White House Press Secretary Dana Perino: "I know nothing about the Cuban Missile Crisis."

Looking for stocking stuffers?

Rumsfeld doll a holiday gift that keeps on talking
By Al Kamen The Washington Post
WASHINGTON — It's holiday shopping time, and you're once again scurrying about looking for something besides the usual earrings, ties, shirts or sweaters. Why not capitalize on the growing "Rummy nostalgia" phenomenon? After having him for six years as a constant source of hatred, despair or admiration, face it, some of you just miss the old SecDef. Got just the thing: a 12-inch "Rummy" doll that looks vaguely like him and features bits of his historic news conferences that you can play by pressing a little button on the back of his coat. Yes, you can listen to 28 of former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's greatest displays of logic:
• "What they do with themselves is up to them, and what the people around them do with them is up to the people around them."
And there are the classics:
• "There are known knowns, there are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns, that is to say there are things that we now know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns, there are things we do not know we don't know, and each year we discover a few more of those unknown unknowns."
• "We have a saying in America: If you're in a hole, stop digging. ... I'm not sure I should have said that."
Some would make Yogi Berra beam with pride:
• "I would not say that the future is necessarily less predictable than the past. I think the past was not predictable when it started."
• "I believe what I said yesterday. I don't know what I said, but I know what I think, and I assume that's what I said."
Some sticklers may grouse that the comments needed to be placed in context, because the questions asked by reporters at the briefings are not included. Another criticism is that some of the truly best lines — "Freedom is untidy" and "Stuff Happens" — are not included. No matter. There's enough to give everyone hours of fond or not-so-fond memories of the man in his prime. The Rummy doll is made in China, so you might want to wear gloves when handling. There is also a warning: "Choking Hazard. Small Parts. Not for children under 3 years of age."

Footnote
The "Rummy" doll and those of other luminaries, including President Clinton, President Reagan and both Bushes, are available for $19.95 each:
TalkingPresidents.com

Most ridiculous Rudy Nine Eleven story of the day?

Rudy Giuliani Does Business With Sheik Who Helped 9/11 Mastermind Elude FBI

Village Voice article: Rudy's Ties to a Terror Sheikh

Rudy is great judge of character: three wives, Bernie Kerik, terror sheikhs, George Steinbrenner...

OR:

Giuliani’s personal scandals take a turn for the worse

As New York mayor, Rudy Giuliani billed obscure city agencies for tens of thousands of dollars in security expenses amassed during the time when he was beginning an extramarital relationship with future wife Judith Nathan in the Hamptons, according to previously undisclosed government records.

The documents, obtained by Politico under New York’s Freedom of Information Law, show that the mayoral costs had nothing to do with the functions of the little-known city offices that defrayed his tabs, including agencies responsible for regulating loft apartments, aiding the disabled and providing lawyers for indigent defendants.

Neither is very surprising, but what really gets me about Rudy: what did he do on 9/11 and after that was so phokking great in the first place? Certainly, nothing he did prior to 9/11 helped thwart the attacks or prepare the city for disaster. He was seen on the streets after the bombings? That makes someone a hero? (Of course, he had nowhere to go since the anti-terror office was placed in the Trade Center.) Someone enlighten me here, throw me a bone...

In a related study:

Incompetent People Really Have No Clue, Studies Find
They're blind to own failings, others' skills