Archive for December, 2009
Cheeky
This guy.
December 29, 2009
· 
John Cole · 
20 Comments
Posted in: Going Galt
The world’s greatest deliberative body
This isn’t surprising: An alleged attempt to blow up a transatlantic flight from Amsterdam to Detroit on Christmas would be all-consuming for the administrator of the Transportation Security Administration—if there were one. Instead, the post remains vacant because Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) has held up President Obama’s nominee in an effort to prevent TSA workers [...]
December 29, 2009
· Angry DougJ · 52 Comments
Posted in: General Stupidity, Good News For Conservatives, Republican Stupidity
Early Morning Open Thread
Cranky is endemic. I suspect this is one reason: see more Lolcats and funny pictures Perspective, my people. Here in the Northern Hemisphere, the days are growing longer… which will allow us precious extra minutes to contemplate the black ice that needs to be removed from the sidewalks & driveways. And then we come back [...]
December 29, 2009
· Anne Laurie · 35 Comments
Posted in: Open Thread
Make The White Queen Run So Fast, She Hasn’t Got Time / To Make You Wise
Writing for TPM, Ben Frumin reads the drivel so you don’t have to. In a blog post on her website titled “It might be time now,” birther queen Orly Taitz seemed to suggest today a call to arms against President Obama. Here’s the problem for Taitz and the rest of her psycho brigade. Rightwing punditry [...]
December 28, 2009
· Tim F. · 137 Comments
Posted in: Teabagger Stupidity, The Wingularity
Corny Commercials
I remember this one: I also vividly remember one where he is wearing a Hawaiian shirt.
December 28, 2009
· John Cole · 31 Comments
Posted in: Open Thread
This Was Brilliant
Spencer Ackerman: Umar Farouk “When There’s Nothing Left To Burn, You Must Set Your Crotch On Fire” Abdulmutallab is currently detained in a federal prison in Michigan. For now! In a few days he’ll use his Muslim heat vision to escape and run amok in Ann Arbor, shortly after America is brought to its knees [...]
December 28, 2009
· John Cole · 155 Comments
Posted in: Excellent Links
How Obama Has Let You Down Today
Things I’ve learned in the last 48 hours from progressive blogs and Obama supporters: Janet Napolitano should resign. The Kaiser Foundation is needlessly shilling for Obama. Despite what public watchdog groups state, Obama is just like Bush regarding lobbyists. Peter Orzag getting married is proof the Obama team is nothing but beltway insiders. Obama is [...]
December 28, 2009
· John Cole · 342 Comments
Posted in: Black Jimmy Carter, OBAMA IS WORSE THAN BUSH HE SOLD US OUT!!
Help This Man Get a Dog
An email from a reader: Hey John, First off, I read your blog and like it a lot, though I don’t comment. Second, my grandmother’s looking to get a dog, partly because she’s been kind of lonely since my grandpa died, and I was wondering if you have any suggestions. We’re looking for a small [...]
December 28, 2009
· John Cole · 111 Comments
Posted in: Dog Blogging
Sorry, Ladies
This will upset some of the female commentariat here: Rahm Emanuel once said of Peter R. Orszag, the bespectacled economist who is President Obama budget director, “He’s made nerdy sexy.” So perhaps the White House chief of staff won’t be surprised to learn that Mr. Orszag got engaged over lunch today to the ABC News [...]
December 28, 2009
· John Cole · 123 Comments
Posted in: Other
More Obama fail
This is disappointing, obviously: Obama has wielded the power of the White House to craft an executive order that limited lobbyist hires in his administration, push federal agencies to share more of their data with the public and begin releasing visitor records for the executive complex on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.[....] “The greatest surprise is just [...]
December 28, 2009
· Angry DougJ · 189 Comments
Posted in: Good News For Conservatives, OBAMA IS WORSE THAN BUSH HE SOLD US OUT!!
Where Does the Money Go?
It is really hard to not be cynical about our counter-terrorism efforts, especially as new details emerge about the Christmas day attempt emerge. I’ve always been of the mindset that it is going to be impossible to stop every attack- people are ingenious, and if they really want to attack us they will figure out [...]
December 28, 2009
· John Cole · 226 Comments
Posted in: Clown Shoes, Domestic Affairs
Love thy Niebuhr
It’s not just me, Matt Taibbi doesn’t like Niebuhrian realism either. I tend to agree with this: It’s because nebbishly little dorks like Brooks and Paul Wolfowitz and David Frum got their books dumped in high school that we end up dropping daisy cutters on Afghan sheep herds and shipping working class American kids halfway [...]
December 28, 2009
· Angry DougJ · 135 Comments
Posted in: Burkean bells, General Stupidity, Good News For Conservatives
Winter Wonderland
Stepped out this morning to walk the doggie, and stepped into one of those rescue scenes from a movie when hikers are stranded on the summit of a mountain as a blizzard hits. Good day to be inside.
December 28, 2009
· John Cole · 59 Comments
Posted in: Domestic Affairs
The worst sin in Washington
This is almost comical (from a pretty good column by E. J. Dionne): With Pelosi off the hook, the Washington press corps needed a new goat, and along came Harry Reid. The Senate majority leader, it should be said, sometimes makes it easy for his critics. He can be irascible, and has no qualms about [...]
December 28, 2009
· Angry DougJ · 46 Comments
Posted in: Good News For Conservatives
Early Morning Open Thread: Don’t Fear the Reaper Undie-Bomber
Nate Silver puts the numbers in perspective for the Pantswetting Brigades: Over the past decade, there have been, by my count, six attempted terrorist incidents on board a commercial airliner than landed in or departed from the United States: the four planes that were hijacked on 9/11, the shoe bomber incident in December 2001, and [...]
December 28, 2009
· Anne Laurie · 64 Comments
Posted in: Open Thread, Security Theatre
