Archive for December, 2009
Villager Alert
Noemi Emery: After Bill Clinton was impeached for lies under oath (and terminal tackiness)... I guess you could say he came into Washington and trashed the place with his tackiness, ehh, Noemi?
December 27, 2009
· 
John Cole · 
265 Comments
Posted in: Media
The soft bigotry of lowered expectations
Atrios catches a real winner from Mary Matalin today on CNN: We inherited a recession from President Clinton and we inherited the most tragic attack on our own soil in our nation’s history. And President Bush dealt with it. And within a year of his presidency at this comparable time, unemployment was at 5 percent. [...]
December 27, 2009
· Angry DougJ · 114 Comments
Posted in: Burkean bells, Good News For Conservatives
NEW TSA SECURITY MEASURES TBA
Oh noes: A passenger onboard the same Northwest Airlines flight that was attacked on Christmas Day was taken into custody in Detroit on Sunday after becoming verbally disruptive upon landing, officials said. A law enforcement official said the man was Nigerian and had locked himself in the airliner’s bathroom. The official spoke on condition of [...]
December 27, 2009
· John Cole · 134 Comments
Posted in: Clown Shoes
There Will Be Blood
If this is true, there will be serious rioting: Before I begin, let me just state that TSA has yet to confirm any of this on its website, so the details aren’t entirely clear at the moment. That said, there are several indications that orders have been issued to cease the use of electronics during [...]
December 27, 2009
· John Cole · 143 Comments
Posted in: Domestic Affairs
Steelers/Ravens Open Thread
Go Steelers!
December 27, 2009
· John Cole · 106 Comments
Posted in: Sports
Someone Change Steve Marmel’s Didy
This is beyond laughable: It’s Christmas day, and the only thing that stopped 12/25 from feeling a lot like 9/11 was a failed detonator and a guy named Jasper Schuringa. Weather now seems like a quaint travel threat – like a cold does compared to the Bubonic Plague. It’s December 26, and the last of [...]
December 27, 2009
· John Cole · 167 Comments
Posted in: Black Jimmy Carter, Clown Shoes
Has any of you read this book?
This sounds pretty funny (via Josh Green at the Washington Monthly): Not long afterward, a McCain staffer named Martin Eisenstadt came forward to take responsibility for leaking the Africa stuff. At first blush, Eisenstadt seemed exactly the sort you’d expect to cruelly betray his candidate: a vaguely familiar, middle-tier neocon hack affiliated with an outfit [...]
December 27, 2009
· Angry DougJ · 45 Comments
Posted in: Good News For Conservatives, Other
CBS Sunday Morning
Have at it.
December 27, 2009
· John Cole · 61 Comments
Posted in: Open Thread
Yinz Don’t Understand
We talked about the best RB of the modern era the other day (I chose Barry Sanders, but I could easily put Sweetness there and Barry #2), but here is my favorite running back of all time: I loved that twinkle-toed fat man. Oh yes. I love that fat man and I am unashamed.
December 26, 2009
· John Cole · 73 Comments
Posted in: Sports
Shameless nutpicking
In the Detroit Free Press piece about Hoekstra’s reaction to yesterday’s airplane incident, Hoekstra was identified as a “Holland Republican” since he is from the town of Holland, Michigan. The first comment from the Colonel Mustard post John wrote about: What is a “Holland” Republican? Did they mean to say “Dutch”? Are they implying that [...]
December 26, 2009
· Angry DougJ · 74 Comments
Posted in: Clown Shoes, Good News For Conservatives, Hoot-Smalley
Speaking Gibberish
Can someone please explain what Col. Mustard is talking about: The fear that conservatives would point out the obvious about this terrorist attack seemed to be a common first reaction: “[The attack] means Greater Wingnuttia is going to get the very special happy Christmas they most desire, because what they like best of all is [...]
December 26, 2009
· John Cole · 99 Comments
Posted in: Clown Shoes
Never Again
I made an attempt: The cute is definitely counterbalanced by the sad face.
December 26, 2009
· John Cole · 135 Comments
Posted in: Dog Blogging
Because Flying Is Too Much Fun
James Joyner reacts to the new TSA “security” efforts: We’re simply going to make people miserable for no apparent reason. There have been precisely three attempts over the last eight years to commit acts of terrorism aboard commercial aircraft. All of them clownishly inept and easily thwarted by the passengers. How many tens of thousands [...]
December 26, 2009
· John Cole · 92 Comments
Posted in: Clown Shoes, Politics
I Tweeted the Law
This is a weird reaction from law enforcement: In a ritual nearly as familiar as Santa Claus and crowded stores, police agencies again have stepped up enforcement of drunken-driving laws this holiday season, setting up sobriety checkpoints that studies show reduce alcohol-related crashes because drivers who’ve been drinking stay off the road, fearing arrest. But [...]
December 26, 2009
· John Cole · 11 Comments
Posted in: Domestic Affairs
KFC- It’s What for Dinner
I heard this the other day and thought it was really funny: Christmas isn’t a national holiday in Japan but many Japanese celebrate the 25th with a special meal: fried chicken – specifically, Kentucky Fried Chicken. Colonel Sander’s chicken is considered a Christmas tradition there. The fast-food chain is so popular long lines form outside [...]
December 26, 2009
· John Cole · 47 Comments
Posted in: Popular Culture
