Archive for April, 2010
Let us savor
Along with Marvin Gaye’s rendition of the national anthem at the 1983 All-Star game, this is the clip that makes me feel best about being an American. Wow! Wow, what an honor! The White House Correspondents’ dinner. To actually—to sit here at the same table with my hero, George W. Bush, to be this close [...]
April 30, 2010
· 
Angry DougJ · 
72 Comments
Posted in: Good News For Conservatives, Other
You’ll Shoot Your Eye Out
The amount of thought going into this idea is self-evident: Van Cleave said one proposed bill would allow no one but an on-duty officer doing undercover work to drink alcohol while carrying a concealed weapon. The other bill will say that anyone can carry a concealed gun and drink if they wish, “as long as [...]
April 30, 2010
· John Cole · 43 Comments
Posted in: Bring on the Brawndo!, Clown Shoes, Republican Stupidity
Failing Up
Once you are deemed a serious person, there is literally no mistake too big to keep people in DC from listening to you: Robert Rubin is poisoning Washington again. The former Treasury Secretary who presided over the nearly-fatal deregulation of the financial industry—then made $126 million nearly killing Citigroup—had been keeping an appropriately low profile [...]
April 30, 2010
· John Cole · 20 Comments
Posted in: Daydream Believers, Free Markets Solve Everything, hoocoodanode
Just Shoot Me
I see Randy Scheunemann posted another idiotic message to Sarah Palin’s facebook page, so I guess we all know what the topic of discussion will be Sunday morning.
April 30, 2010
· John Cole · 65 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Our Failed Media Experiment, Starbursts
Open Thread
Pens hockey tonight. BTW- a quick update on the bird feeder obsession. I’m now up to four feeders- one in front and three in the back, and I have quite a chirpy posse these days. My latest addition was one like this that I filled with sunflower seeds, and the cardinals are all over it. [...]
April 30, 2010
· John Cole · 99 Comments
Posted in: Open Thread
Wait For the Seamless Transition
Here we go: Federal and state officials criticized BP on Friday for what they said was an inadequate response to the growing oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. They urged the oil company to do more to stop a leaking undersea oil well 50 miles offshore as floating crude oil imperiled the fragile marshes [...]
April 30, 2010
· John Cole · 80 Comments
Posted in: Black Jimmy Carter, Our Failed Media Experiment
Hard Times
I guess the NY Times has finally run out of gangster bankster sob stories and now is profiling the financial woes of actual gangsters: This is Joe DeFede, a retired New York gangster who oversaw the rackets in the city’s garment district in the 1990s, a perch that provided him with a Cadillac, a driver, [...]
April 30, 2010
· John Cole · 29 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Our Failed Media Experiment
A Fun Fact for Happy Hour Chit-chat…
Juan Cole over at Informed Comment has this Fun Fact about BP: BP, by the way, is British Petroleum, a descendant of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company. The Iranian parliament asked for a better deal from the AIOC in the late 1940s and early 1950s (they wanted a 50/50 cut of the profits, which was what [...]
April 30, 2010
· Dennis G. · 96 Comments
Posted in: Free Markets Solve Everything, General Stupidity, Open Thread
Kucinich Will Pay
Gawker has posted the guest list for tomorrow’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner. I would call the gathering, to use a fine British slang phrase, a dog’s dinner, but then we BJers are all responsible pet owners who feed our dogs a well-balanced diet. Those sensible progressives who’ve been less than entranced by certain of Dennis [...]
April 30, 2010
· Anne Laurie · 49 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Clown Shoes, Enhanced Protest Techniques
The Most Amusing Spin Ever
Ed Morrisey with an instant classic: In January, Barack Obama and Democrats insisted that the 5.7% annual growth rate in the fourth quarter of 2009 showed that their stimulus plan had set the American economy back on track for rapid growth and job creation. The administration needed a big number for 2010 to allay fears [...]
April 30, 2010
· John Cole · 61 Comments
Posted in: Clown Shoes, Republican Stupidity, Wingnut Event Horizon
For Your Viewing Pleasure
If we let gays in the military, there will be videos of men wearing only their underwear and suspenders and a sign that says “STEAM” over their heads as they dirty dance with other men! Might be time for the military to institute “Don’t Ask, Don’t You Tube”. *** Update *** Had no idea Anne [...]
April 30, 2010
· John Cole · 55 Comments
Posted in: Humor, Military
Freakonomics
The National Review sure has some strange views on economics. First of all, they now believe that economic growth equals communism (via Brad DeLong). And then there’s this, from one of John Derbyshire’s bankster friends: Go ahead and continue to take us down, but you’re only going to hurt yourselves. What’s going to happen when [...]
April 30, 2010
· Angry DougJ · 194 Comments
Posted in: Going Galt, Good News For Conservatives
Really- This Is All About Border Security
Race and racism has nothing to do with it: Just a week after signing the country’s toughest immigration bill into law, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer now must decide whether to endorse another bill passed by her state legislature — one that outlaws ethnic-studies programs in public schools. *** Arizona’s superintendent for public instruction, Tom Horne, [...]
April 30, 2010
· John Cole · 68 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Wingnut Event Horizon
Built to spill
Could this be the same black ops SWAT team that gunned down those grandmas in Illinois earlier today? Limbaugh laid out his conspiracy theory, “Now lest we forget, ladies and gentlemen, the carbon tax bill, cap and trade, that was scheduled to be announced on Earth Day, I remember that, then it was postponed for [...]
April 30, 2010
· Angry DougJ · 41 Comments
Posted in: Good News For Conservatives, We Are All Mayans Now, Wingnut Event Horizon
SWAT teams
I wonder if this has legs: I like to keep track of fables and narratives within the tea party movement, and we learned of a new one this week—the story of the “SWAT team” called out to threaten tea partyers in Quincy, Ill. In the words of Jim Hoft, the Gateway Pundit: The SWAT Team [...]
April 30, 2010
· Angry DougJ · 33 Comments
Posted in: Good News For Conservatives, Hoot-Smalley
