LiveBlog for Friday, October 28, 2011

Sexy Liberal John Fugelsang hosts the show today from the studios of Green 960 in San Francisco.

• Annabel Park, Coffee Party USA co-founder and president, calls in at 10:30am ET / 7:30am PT to talk about the next step for the Occupy Wall Street movement

Tina Dupuy, managing editor for Crooks And Liars, calls in at 11:30am ET / 8:30am PT to talk about Occupy Wall Street and its next steps

• Comedian Rick Overton calls in at 11:45am ET / 8:45am PT to hang with us and talk about the news of the day

• Scott Olsen, an Iraq war veteran badly wounded in clashes between protesters and police on the streets of Oakland, was awake and lucid, hospital officials and family members said on Thursday.

Occupy Wall Street demonstrators are scheduled to march on five major banks and financial services firms in Manhattan Friday, a day after a California mayor apologized for violence against demonstrators that saw them tear gassed and an Iraqi war veteran hospitalized.

• House Speaker John Boehner said Thursday that it’s going to be very difficult for a deficit “supercommittee” to achieve success but that he’s continuing to push the bipartisan panel to meet its goal.

• At an education forum in New York Thursday, GOP presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich called President Barack Obama’s new student-loan proposal a “Ponzi scheme.”

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MikeTheLiberal 6 pts

Oh, John's right about the comedy clubs being "dumps".

Klassie 20 pts

Mittens Dangerfield needs go on the road as a comic to hone some humanity skills.

gforce1 5 pts

John give him a quick, concise sound bite he can use - you're good at that.

gforce1 5 pts

Loved MM's movie on Cap, A Love Story. Excellent eye opener. Another great movie is the Corporation. Here's a synopsis from Netflix:

Filmmakers Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott explore the genesis of the American corporation, its global economic supremacy and its psychopathic leanings, with social critics like Noam Chomsky and Milton Friedman lending insight in this documentary. With their merciless quest for profit and insatiable aim to sway every aspect of culture, conglomerates' inner workings are scrutinized to draw conclusions about "business as usual."

juliet bravo 26 pts

Gotta go, FInal Jeopardy! (I wish - actually it's a meeting that's going to run through lunch time).

Have a great weekend, bloggistas!

gforce1 5 pts

Hey it's the sexy mookies show

juliet bravo 26 pts

Hiya, Dannybob and Mike! Livefyre appears to be in a cooperative mood.

Jason Linkins is a HuffPo columnist who's written some good stuff - he must also be a Steph fan:

"Sad-Sack Congresscritters Hate Themselves Almost as Much as Everyone Else Hates Them"

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juliet bravo 26 pts

MikeTheLiberal Sounds like John Fugelsang is pinch-hitting for Steph to give her a break for the San Fran shows tonight and tomorrow. Wish I were there!

MikeTheLiberal 6 pts

Good morning. I've made it to the live blog, now to tune into the show.

Dannybob 6 pts

Happy Friday Juliet and livefyres!

Actress Dane Joan Plowright is 82, Italian actor Nino Castelnuovo and film composer and conductor Carl Davis both turning 75, Former SAG President and actress Jane Alexander is 72, NYPD Blue actor Dennis Franz is 67, actress Telma Hopkins is 63, athlete and Kardashian stepfather Bruce Jenner is 62, Designing Women's Mary Jo Shively actress Annie Potts is 59, innovator Bill Gates is 56, actress Daphne Zuniga is 49, actress Jami Gertz is 46, Sidekick Andy Richter is 45, actress Julie Roberts is 44, country music's Brad Paisley is 39 and very strange actor Joaquin Phoenix is 37. Happy Birthdays Scorpios!

juliet bravo 26 pts

Goooooooooood morning, livefyreblog!