Archive for March, 2009
TGIF
I have been informed there have not been enough pet pictures this week, and it is true. I have been preoccupied with other stuff. Here are a few for you: Not sure what I am going to do this weekend. *** Update *** BTW- the PJ adds come down next Wednesday, and google adsense is [...]
March 27, 2009
· 
John Cole · 
140 Comments
Posted in: Cat Blogging, Open Thread
The Capital Letters Make It Important
Steve Benen looks at the silly poll questions the RNC sent out this morning, and I will let others muse over the leading nature of the questions. What caught my attention was the following: Which do you believe creates more jobs for the American economy: Government Programs and Spending or The American Free Enterprise System? [...]
March 27, 2009
· John Cole · 112 Comments
Posted in: Clown Shoes
Drudge rules their world
From an interview Gibbs did with the Post’s Lisa Romano: MS. ROMANO: The teleprompter changed last night. MR. GIBBS: Mm-hmm. MS. ROMANO: What was that about that? It’s a big jumbotron now. MR. GIBBS: You know can I tell you this? MS. ROMANO: Yes. MR. GIBBS: I am absolutely amazed that anybody in America cares [...]
March 27, 2009
· Angry DougJ · 75 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Media
More evil JournoList activity!
From the Politico: Well now, long-time “Klein Klub” critic Mickey Kaus has posted a leaked JList exchange where members of the group discuss whether former and current TNR owner Marty Peretz is racist, as well as, if Olbermann is insufferable. Check out the thread here, and follow the back-and-forth from JList regulars like Eric Alterman, [...]
March 27, 2009
· Angry DougJ · 138 Comments
Posted in: Media
Special election update
Democrat Scott Murphy has pulled slightly ahead in the race to replace Kirsten Gillibrand in NY-20, according to the latest poll. Moreover, after weeks of staying out of what was thought to be an unwinnable race (the district is heavily Republican and the Republican candidate, Jim Tedisco, is a local legend), the party—specifically Obama and [...]
March 27, 2009
· Angry DougJ · 38 Comments
Posted in: Politics
Underwater
Not sure if you have been paying attention, as there has been so much going on, but we might be about to lose another American city to flood waters: The rising Red River broke a 112-year-old record early Friday and was eroding a dike south of downtown, forcing authorities to issue a mandatory evacuation order [...]
March 27, 2009
· John Cole · 115 Comments
Posted in: Domestic Affairs
A Quick Explanation for the GOP Seppuku Today
For some reason or another, the Republican leadership held a press conference, held up a blue binder that allegedly held a budget, but didn’t really, and the results were pretty disastrous. Via the Great Orange Satan, here is the immediate reaction: I couldn’t for the life of me figure out why they rushed out to [...]
March 26, 2009
· John Cole · 246 Comments
Posted in: Clown Shoes, Republican Stupidity
It’s a twofer
I’ve been waiting for someone to say something like this for weeks: One anonymous staffer expressed his outrage to CNN. “It’s about us people who were on the plane, who showed extreme loyalty to Palin, continually getting thrown under the bus or slapped in the face by her comments, whether she means it or not…”
March 26, 2009
· Angry DougJ · 69 Comments
Posted in: General Stupidity, Other
Private jails
No one could have predicted that privatizing the criminal justice system could lead to something like this (via Atrios): In one of the most egregious cases of judicial corruption ever seen, federal prosecutors charged Ciavarella and another Luzerne County judge, Michael Conahan, with taking $2.6 million in payoffs to put juvenile offenders in private lockups. [...]
March 26, 2009
· Angry DougJ · 63 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Outrage
Broken social contract
Last night’s Law and Order episode dealt with a complicated story involving a Madoff-like figure. The episode ended with the daughter of the Madoff-like guy asking the police for protection out of a fear that she would be attacked by the victim of the Madoff-like scam. It certainly seems like the idea of retribution against [...]
March 26, 2009
· Angry DougJ · 113 Comments
Posted in: Outrage
ATTN: Microsoft
What exactly was the point of me manually turning off my user account control so I would no longer get spammed with questions every time I tried to install software if your security system was just going to spam me with notifications that MY USER ACCOUNT CONTROLS HAVE BEEN TURNED OFF? I have spent the [...]
March 26, 2009
· John Cole · 120 Comments
Posted in: Science and Technology
More Necessary Legislation
Also, I think we need a bill banning the sale of Georgia, California, Iowa, and New York to the Germans- just to make sure it doesn’t happen. Bachmann is so crazy it upsets me that Will Ferrell is male. Speaking of Ferrell, I stayed up entirely too late last night and watched his special on [...]
March 26, 2009
· John Cole · 121 Comments
Posted in: Clown Shoes, Popular Culture, Republican Stupidity
No one ever called him No Drama Ed Henry
Ed Henry has a rather breathless and self-indulgent story about his brave battle to make Obama explain why he didn’t freak out about the AIG bonuses more quickly: The most amazing part of the exchange to me is that I didn’t go into the East Room intending to ask President Obama about AIG. After frantic [...]
March 26, 2009
· Angry DougJ · 112 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Media
Someone Explain This
The AIG mess gets better: Amid the flap over bonuses at American International Group Inc. two of the company’s top managers in Paris have resigned. Their moves have left the giant insurer and officials scrambling to replace them to avoid an unlikely but expensive situation in which billions in AIG trading contracts could default. Representatives [...]
March 26, 2009
· John Cole · 108 Comments
Posted in: Domestic Affairs
The End of Rockefeller Laws?
Some good news: Gov. David A. Paterson and New York legislative leaders have reached an agreement to dismantle much of what remains of the state’s strict 1970s-era drug laws, once among the toughest in the nation. The deal would repeal many of the mandatory minimum prison sentences now in place for lower-level drug felons, giving [...]
March 26, 2009
· John Cole · 39 Comments
Posted in: The War on Your Neighbor, aka the War on Drugs
