Y'all know I adore Keith Olbermann and despise Bill O'Reilly. But this is the first time I'm going to say this publicly, on my blog and not just to those close to me..

If you watch Bill O'Reilly, or the rest of Fox News programming, for anything other than pure entertainment... the kind of entertainment where you proceed to throw soft items at your TV, or curse loudly, or just laugh at Bill, Sean or Gibby's obviously insane lies...

Your an idiot.

I won't limit your idiocy to just watching Faux News. I'm including listeners of the same knuckle dragging jerk's radio shows.

There I said it, and I feel better.

Just because the news of the day doesn't go your way, doesn't mean you should create a news channel just to make shit up. Got that Rupert?

So if you scare easily by curse words, and unadulterated political ranting, avert your eyes (or don't make the jump)

Blue Gal blogged about a post at PoliTits, and I can't agree more. The entry's title is award winning (jump inside the extended entry)

I've had a rough couple of days. I'd like to blame it all on the heat, but really, the heat is only the melting icing on the cake. First up, I'm late on getting my Sockapalooza4 socks out to my pal. I've participated in every round, and this is the first time I'm late. Its embarrassing.

I'm so close. But damn, have you ever tried to knit wool when its 100 degrees in the shade? And why does this particular sock feel like its never going to end? Just when I think I've hit my groove, I pull out my ruler and I find that I've made so little progress. The silver lining in this is that since its crossing the border and needs to be dropped at a postal counter, I wouldn't have been able to ship until Saturday anyway. I have made post office trips with all four kids in tow before.. and I don't plan to do it again on purpose, any time soon.

Thing the second. Car repair guys. So we take the van in earlier this week to get some work done prior to state inspection. And they do said work, which might I add, was not cheap, then neglect to tell us that we also had a broken tie rod (!!!!) That not so small repair had to be done at the other place where I took it to be inspected. Now this wouldn't normally piss me off so much except that I expected to only have to entertain the kids for an hour. And that turned into a three hour adventure.. in the hades hot heat. Luckily the kid's school is only 6 blocks away so we set off on our walk (in the hades hot heat) to spend some time on their awesome playground. Did I mention the heat? Full sun, burning hot slide, scorching swing seats. Oh, and Dylan got stung by a bee just as we were leaving.

So anyway, van done, but I still need to call the first place because their idiot technician didn't put our hub caps back on properly and we lost one. We'd have lost two if Richard didn't notice the driver's side one halfway off.

Thing the third. Mommy patience. Where on earth do I get more? I swear, Connor has been pushing every button I have lately. Its really hard because I know his sensory integration issues make him intense in all ways.. physically and emotionally. Transitions are incredibly hard, but so is a trip to the market, a diaper change, or even just sitting down for a meal. His special education teacher now comes twice a week until pre-school starts. Shes fabulous, and has loaded me up with all sorts of techniques to use in situations where Connor's SID starts to show. I'm not sure what I'd do without her. I know there's no real advice out there for this, and I'm not asking for sympathy.. I'm just venting. That and I'm just exhausted. But there is some good I can report, Connor is talking a lot. Theres still some jargon thrown in that we can't decipher sometimes, but for the most part we can fully address his wants and needs based on spoken language vs sign language or the process of elimination!

Thing the fourth. The fabulous teacher I just mentioned above? She called earlier this week to let us know that she was ill and inadvertently exposed us to Hand Foot Mouth disease. Cassidy and Dylan have both had this, the rest of us, not. I've been feeling like crap all week, but blamed it on the heat. But this morning I woke up with a sore spot on the roof of my mouth. No rash or anything, and no signs of illness in anyone else. Keeping my fingers crossed that I just scratched the roof of my mouth last night on a crouton.

Oh, and have I mentioned the heat?

And still no pictures of progress on Sockapalooza4 socks. Sorry. I've been spending every free moment possible (and today there hasn't been many of them) trying to figure out how to attack my wonky technique problem. I really wish I could share the issue here (with pictures) and publicly seek help, but I can't. Maybe this is partly whats driving me mad.

I've consulted every knitting text I possess. I've googled endlessly. I've sought the help of a "guru" via email, though I haven't heard back yet. And I'm just *sigh* ready to poke my eyeballs out with my knitting needles. I'm probably doing the technique properly, but it requires some practice and I'm not used to trying a technique in knitting that doesn't just work properly right away. I love a good challenge, but this is insane and I'm feeling a bit jerked around by the yarn gods.

If nothing else, it sure is humbling!

But anyway.. other than my mini rant above, I don't have much else. Like I said I've been spending so much time trying to troubleshoot this and everything else has fallen by the wayside. By the time the kids get in bed tonight I'll have several shows on the DVR that need watching, and I have some podcasts that need listening. And of course theres the knitting. I've done it before.. and I think tonight I'll be doing it again. Its called multi-tasking the Carla way. Watching tv with closed captioning on - check! Headphones and iPod in place - Check! Knitting in lap, chart in sight - Check!

Stay tuned until tomorrow to see if Carla has lost her mind yet or not. All pity filled comments, gladly and gratefully accepted.

Impeachment is not a constitutional crisis. We are in a constitutional crisis already. Impeachment is the cure.

I completely forgot about Bill Moyer's Journal tonight on PBS! But from what I hear its a must see... historic actually, since Bruce Fein (!!!!) Bruce Fein, constitutional scholar and author of the first article of impeachment against Bill Clinton, was discussing and agreeing with John Nichols of The Nation, AND associate editor at The Capital Times ( The Madison Capital Times - weeeee!) about the need to impeach George Bush and Dick Cheney.

{THUD}

Yep, that was me falling out of my chair.

Additionally, I want to add, even though I'm fairly sure a majority of people feel the same way, that every time Bush invokes executive privilege, you know hes neck deep in the shit. With that said, and in case you missed the breaking news tonight, Bush has gone and invoked executive privilege yet again this week, to cover up and keep from releasing documents relating to the cover up of Pat Tillman's death by friendly fire.

Now the White House has always blamed the military further down the chain for the cover-up, but if thats the case, why the hiding? The White House already threw the military under the bus on that one.. right?

Gaaah, I planned on linking all sorts of information pertaining to this, but I just looked at the clock and its 1:30AM. I'll add some links tomorrow for those interested. Can't wait? Then google is your friend

NiNight!

Oh and P.S. IMPEACH!

Keith's special comment tonight, was indeed special.

Anger, passion, truth. It had it all. Among Keith's best.

Read the transcript after the fold

But wait, before you do, see this little nugget originally posted at dkos (pdf, filing from Judge Reggie B. Walton. Pay particular attention to footnote.) As Pontificator at dkos rightfully stated: "Talk about incompetence. Bush can't even get Obstruction of Justice right!"

From The Tony Snow Show today (or rather the White House Press Briefing):

Q How does the President justify this commutation when there are thousands of others in jail with a similar request?

MR. SNOW: I'm not sure that -- thousands in jail with similar requests?

Q Three thousand.

MR. SNOW: Three thousand in jail with similar -- I'm not sure that you can take anybody who has a perjury count and say that they're all the same. Every count has to be considered differently. The President, as you know, looks very carefully at these things. And furthermore, not every one of these cases comes before a President, as you're well aware. Attorneys quite often petition for these and that is one of the procedures by which they do it.

Q Can I follow on that? There are more than 3,000 current petitions for commutation -- not pardons, but commutation -- in the federal system under President Bush. Will all 3,000 of those be held to the same standard that the President applied to Scooter Libby?

MR. SNOW: I don't know.

Unless those 3,000 petitions for commutation, are former staff to the President (or Vice President), that answer would be Zip, Zilch, Nada. See.. we, us, Americans.. we're just commoners.

Another nugget I got from Keith's blog:

Then there is also the cold shower of Mr. Bush’s record as governor of Texas, during which time he rarely even read the clemency petitions of death row inmates (152 executions during his two terms as governor). About that time, Mr. Bush told his presumed ghostwriter in his autobiography A Charge to Keep “I don’t believe my role is to replace the verdict of a jury with my own.” Back to the facts: in the case of Karla Faye Tucker, a killer who became a born-again Christian on death row, he refused clemency requests from Pope John Paul the Second, Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell (usually strong death penalty proponents) and apparently even one of his own daughters. To the Pope, it seems he gave false reasons for why he could not grant said clemency, and to his staff, he even joked about Ms. Tucker’s pending execution. All of which raises questions of whether there was some kind of quid pro quo in the Libby case.

Don't forget Keith Olbermann's special comment tonight. Theres a preview of what he'll say tonight on his blog.. you can read it here.

Its no secret, I'm a Keith Olbermann groupie. And just one of the reasons why is gems like last night during the "Worst Person In The World" segment..

Just in case you resist clicking the button to watch, I've included the segment's transcript and highlighted the good stuff at the end..

The bronze to Senator Joe Lieberman of Connecticut. On ABC yesterday, “I hope these terrorist attacks in London wake us up here in America to stop the petty partisan fighting, he said, a partisan gridlock over the question of whether the American government can listen in to conversations or follow e-mail trails of non-American citizens.

Actually, Senator, if you had been paying attention, the NSA spying program included surveillance of American citizens. And you‘re right, it is petty partisan fighting between people who support the United States constitution and people like you.

The silver tonight Sean Hannity of Fox noise, reminding us that the fourth annual Hannity Freedom Concert is coming up in September, an evening of patriotism and inspiration, featuring Hannity, Lee-Ann Rhymes, Lee Greenwood and Oliver North. A flag waving, all American, don‘t tread on me, love it or leave it, god bless the USA occasion, which is sponsored by the Hong Kong Tourism Board.

Our winner by unanimous decision, the 43^rd president of the United States who has tonight commuted the sentence of one of the key members of his own administration and has done it gutlessly by press release, who has buried it on the Monday of the longest fourth of July weekend possible, and who has, in so doing, forfeited his claim to being president of anything larger than a small, privileged, elitist, undemocratic, anti-constitutional cabal.

As Oliver Cromwell said to the infamous Rump Parliament in England more than 350 years ago, you have sat too long for any good you have been doing lately. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of god, go. George Walker Bush, today‘s Worst Person in the World. As you may have suspected, tomorrow night here on COUNTDOWN, a special comment calling on this vice president and this president to resign. Tomorrow night on COUNTDOWN.