No one could have predicted: A nine-month European Union investigation into the 2008 war in the Caucasus has concluded that Georgia triggered the conflict, but that Russia prepared the ground for war to break out and broke international law by invading Georgia as a whole. Conclusions to the roughly 1,000 page report, released on Wednesday …
Archives for September 2009
Attention, “Fiscal Conservatives”
You would think that this would be the topic of some debate: In a bid to wrangle concessions from the Blue Dog Coalition on healthcare reform, House leaders Thursday released CBO estimates for liberals’ preferred version of the public option that show $85 billion more in savings than for the version the Blue Dogs prefer. …
How The Village Thinks
I know I always put my health at risk when I read the Moustache of Understanding, but sometimes I can not resist. Like today: Sometimes I wonder whether George H.W. Bush, president “41,” will be remembered as our last “legitimate” president. The right impeached Bill Clinton and hounded him from Day 1 with the bogus …
Late Night Open Thread: More Lexiconning
So, here are the proposed additions to the BJLex I’ve collected since Saturday: Banana Republican Brooks Brothers Riot Calvinball FTW (add as a synonym to ‘This’) He-Man Woman-Hater’s Club – Chris Matthews, Beltway Chapter President Heh, Indeed Millblogger Moderate – someone who gets all their news from network television Movement Conservative (Adult Diaper Division) Poutrage …
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Tech-illiterate Bleg
Since I know there are professional developers out there, a question. Starting Sunday morning, whenever I attempt to Edit the BJ Lexicon, I’ve been getting the same message: Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 122880 bytes) in /home/jcole010/domains/golive.balloon-juice.com/public_html/wp-includes/general-template.php on line 1524 I’ve tried it on two separate systems, so …
Seriously, WTF?
You know, when I used the phrase Banana Republicans in the past, I didn’t really think it would come to this: There is a remote, although gaining, possibility America’s military will intervene as a last resort to resolve the “Obama problem.” Don’t dismiss it as unrealistic. America isn’t the Third World. If a military coup …
Open Thread
Cold here- about 50 degrees. Thirty degree drop in just a few days, so I am couchbound watching Dexter Season 3. When does Season 2 of Chuck come out on DVD?