Top stories at memeorandum:
1.) Sarah Palin’s numbers and whether she could run for President.
2.) We’ve moved from whether or not it was treasonous for Obama to bow before the Emperor to an in-depth discussion of whether Obama used the appropriate technique. No matter what, Allahpundit assures us that Obama was in the wrong.
3.) John Yoo telling us that trying terrorists is an intelligence coup for the terrorist.
Same shit, different day.
Q
Because Memeorandum has essentially become Drudge II. Or III, based on how you feel about Politico.
Athenae
If only those liberals could move on from the divisive politics of the past.
A.
bago
Here’s a rhetorical twist to try.
“Did the terrorists on September 11th give those New Yorkers a trial?” Why do Yoo hate America?
dmsilev
Hmmm. So if Sarah Palin bows to the Emperor, the terrorists have won?
-dms
Scruffy McSnufflepuss
I think we should impeach Obama over this. Clearly, he’s shown he’s unfit to be the leader of America by making a display of fealty to a foreign power. I think we should get rid of him, and bypass the Constitution to appoint a new President who really respects America and liberty and freedom.
I nominate Glenn Beck, but I’m also open to Sarah Palin and a few other possibilities.
General Winfield Stuck
Yoo’s a big turd. Also too. Bow Wow. Do brain cells regrow when they burn out? Wait, Don’t answer that.
Col. Klink
Red State is saving the best for last. Wait until the photos of Obama and the Emperor doing body sushi off Kristi Yamaguchi come out.
thomas
how come John Yoo isn’t making these comments from a jail cell?
askcherlock
Palin is passe’. There is no way the Republicans will put her in again. Perhaps they should think along the lines of John Thune.
Obviously some do not recognize grace and respect for the cultures of other countries. The Obama bow was a mark of good character.
The Gitmo terrorists should have been tried long ago. Does it really matter where? The act was committed in New York City. Let them have their day of reckoning with these madmen.
Morbo
That John Yoo is able to walk around and write columns as a free man is a propaganda coup for the terrorist.
smiley
Despite how much those on the right would want us to believe, presidential bowing is not without precedence. It really helps to see the video rather that the still photo. Perhaps the bow was a bit deep, but it was very brief (sound).
kay
More Sarah Palin, please.
I think she should be on television every moment of every day.
Did anyone else watch any of (former) Republican Utah Gov. Huntsman as ambassador in China, speaking Chinese and looking serious and earnest and well-intentioned?
Doing his job, promoting the United States abroad, in a very able manner?
Republicans have that guy, and they choose Palin.
ellaesther
Hold on, I think one of your tags is missing.
I’m just sure that all of this is Good For Conservatives.
noncarborundum
Keeping in mind the recent use of (execrable) Latin on this blog: Eadem merda, alio die.
R-Jud
@kay:
Quiet, they’ll hear you!
Calouste
@Q:
Or IV, depending on how you feel about HuffPo.
noncarborundum
@Q: III, definitely.
PeakVT
speaking Chinese and looking serious and earnest and well-intentioned?
In other words, acting like a liberal. The Teabaggers will deny he exists until 2015 or so.
Calouste
@kay:
Well, the Republican party might think Huntsman is a good idea, or at least they would in an alternative reality where they would recognize competence and such, but even in that alternative reality, the base would still vote against Huntsman because he is a Mormon.
I don’t think Huntsman was even mentioned as a VP candidate last year.
Little Dreamer
@askcherlock:
The fact that I have to share the world with these asshats is apparently the major conflict of my personal storyline. YMMV. I hope this movie ends the way most of the ones made in Hollywood do, where the good guys prevail.
rh
@Q:
Memeorandum is completely automated and simply reflects whatever stories people are talking about in the political blogosphere. Don’t blame them, blame the bloggers themselves.
kay
@R-Jud:
Imagine how dispiriting that is, for him. He’s busy working this week, so won’t be catching Sarahapalooza, so maybe he won’t know his Party completely ignores merit, sacrifice, and hard work.
soonergrunt
@R-Jud: That’s OK if they hear him. That will only convince those fuckwits that Huntsman, the governor of Utah of all places, is not conservative enough.
Of course, that whole being educated thing probably screwed him with the party base in the first place.
The Saff
@kay: So my dad calls me this morning and asks me what “rogue” means. I tell him then decide to look up the official definition on the dictionary the NY Times uses. The results:
rogue (rōg)
n.
1. An unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person; a scoundrel or rascal.
2. One who is playfully mischievous; a scamp.
3. A wandering beggar; a vagrant.
4. A vicious and solitary animal, especially an elephant that has separated itself from its herd.
5. An organism, especially a plant, that shows an undesirable variation from a standard.
adj.
1. Vicious and solitary. Used of an animal, especially an elephant.
2. Large, destructive, and anomalous or unpredictable: a rogue wave; a rogue tornado.
3. Operating outside normal or desirable controls: “How could a single rogue trader bring down an otherwise profitable and well-regarded institution?” (Saul Hansell).
v., rogued, rogu·ing, rogues .
v.tr.
1. To defraud.
2. To remove (diseased or abnormal specimens) from a group of plants of the same variety.
v.intr.
1. To remove diseased or abnormal plants.
kay
@Calouste:
Right. But we’re not allowed to talk about the blatant religious bigotry of southern conservatives.
It’s a secret.
smiley
@Little Dreamer:
That’s what students at my college call(ed) small-of-the-back tattoos.
kommrade reproductive vigor
@The Saff: Dictionaries have a well known liberal bias.
kay
@soonergrunt:
I think he probably blew it with the Chinese speaking. That’s appeasement. We should insist they speak English, and if they don’t, we’ll just talk at them a little louder. Anything less is a capitulation.
Zifnab
@kay:
Republicans had that guy. Now he’s covered in the Obama Administration taint. He’ll be practically radioactive to any GOoPer ticket. His rivals will see to that.
I’m all for another four years of Palin. It’s so nice having the depressing, intelligence offending vapidity of Princess Sarah plastered all over TV without actually seeing her in office. The very best of George W Bush, if you ask me.
R-Jud
@soonergrunt:
That, and the magic longjohns. No Mormons allowed!
@kay:
I imagine he’ll have become aware of that a while back. But if he wants to be an elected public servant where he lives, he has to have the R after his name.
Comrade Dread
Any Canadians hiring or want to sponsor a hard working American IT Manager for citizenship?
I love hockey, maple syrup and polite people.
Little Dreamer
@Zifnab:
I have to admit, I’m not unhappy that they’ve hitched their wagon that star. I hope she shines brightly for them until just about 3:00 p.m. (EDT) on the first Tuesday of next November and then, in a single moment, fades away completely.
comrade scott's agenda of rage
You sound as if you expect them to wake up one morning and have a come to Jesus moment the way you did back in ’05.
It’s. Not. Gonna. Happen.
As you said in your interview, if it hasn’t happened by now to these people, it ain’t ever gonna happen. At least 25% of this country has always been batshit insane and that’s never gonna change either…unless the Rapture truly is nigh in which case those will be the ones taken away. My hope is the big surprise waiting for them isn’t the Christian heaven but rather a series of large anal probes not-so-adroitly wielded by space aliens from the Lesser Magellanic Cloud wanting to understand humans.
Little Dreamer
IOW: HELL!
soonergrunt
@comrade scott’s agenda of rage:
I’m afraid this will never happen for the simple reason that the ability to travel hundreds of light years implies the ability to determine that conservatives are inappropriate models of human beings.
kommrade reproductive vigor
Fxd.
Twinkle twinkle baybee.
RaptureReadyAndLovinIt
Large anal probes? Beam me up, Scotty!
Actually, your description sounds pretty much like my job.
The Saff
@kommrade reproductive vigor: Yer fix is full of win.
par4
Somebody needs to give President Obama a swift kick in the ass if he bows down to anybody again. It’s an act of subservience that is antithetical to his office. How anyone defends this is beyond the bounds of partisanship.
RaptureReadyAndLovinIt
I hate hockey. It’s the Ice Capades but without the beauty, or the music. Or the girls. Maple syrup is okay. But gotta love those polite people!
That’s why, when I tell folks to go fuck themselves, I do it in the most polite and gracious way (in this best of all possible fucking worlds).
Seanly
@Little Dreamer:
ummm, that might not be such a hell for some of the more repressed among them.
What will happen if Obama kisses a Saudi prince? And walks around a garden holding hands?
RaptureReadyAndLovinIt
@par4:
Your spoof fu is weak.
comrade scott's agenda of rage
Hence the use of large anal probes to figure out why a creature who on the surface *looks* human can speak and act like a different species. Nothing like extra large anal probes to get to the bottom of things.
RaptureReadyAndLovinIt
The prince will turn into a frog. Well, a lizard.
R-Jud
@kommrade reproductive vigor:
Starbursts, in other words.
Shell
Once again showing her extensive and profound grasp of the language.
(She’d beaten ‘maverick’ into the ground and she probably thought this was the perfect synonym.)
Gaah, it seems the only news these past couple days is Sarahpalooza and broken-record Giuliani.
soonergrunt
@RaptureReadyAndLovinIt:
I really, really don’t want to know.
Annie
@kay:
Exactly!
soonergrunt
@RaptureReadyAndLovinIt:
Careful RRLI, the stupid-fueled rage is strong with this one.
Annie
@kay:
LOL! Especially we will talk a little louder…………
The Saff
@Shell: Exactly. As we know well, she ain’t PhD material.
Martin
So, when Michelle Obama didn’t give the ceremonial head of England the curtsey the right thought the Queen was deserving of (even though the Queen gave the okay for the hug), that’s entirely different from Barack Obama giving the ceremonial head of Japan the appropriate greeting which the right is now all up in arms about.
So, either anything the Obama’s do is wrong, or the wingnuts only think white people are deserving of respect. Or both.
Not delivering anything new here, I just need to summarize events for my own sanity now and then.
soonergrunt
@comrade scott’s agenda of rage: I’m not saying conservatives shouldn’t be anal-probed. I’m just saying that anyone who can travel interstellar distances wouldn’t do so for science, so much as because the idea of anal-probing conservatives is fucking hilarious.
Some humor, like mathematics, is universal.
Little Dreamer
@par4:
Tool!
comrade scott's agenda of rage
@soonergrunt:
Upon reflection, perhaps the whole anal probing thing isn’t as bad as I thought it would be. Well, at least Ted Haggard probably wouldn’t think so.
Little Dreamer
@Martin:
Both are true, the question is which is more true?
Little Dreamer
@comrade scott’s agenda of rage:
Depends on how big the probe is. ;)
OniHanzo
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OniHanzo
Oh for the love of…
She’s a single mother but shipping her ass to Afghanistan is more important?
OniHanzo
I hate you, blockquote. So much hate.
EdTheRed
@Q: Way to nail it with the first comment on the thread. When I deleted my memeorandum bookmark last week, I had the exact same thought: “Man, this crap is just Drudge 2.0. What’s the point when I can just surf over to the Corner or Hot Air, or read Fred Hiatt’s Kaplan crayon page if I want to read this junk?”
Comrade Kevin
@Little Dreamer: The latter is the cause of the former.
Sentient Puddle
@kay: Yeah, but Huntsman pushed for civil unions for gay people in blood red Utah. That’s an unpardonable sin! And even more unforgivable, he’s working with Obama!
But f’real, I think the only reason the Republicans don’t shit on him more is because he doesn’t have a higher profile. Once he becomes a real threat to the establishment, then they’ll unleash the apocalypse on him (see Huckabee after he won Iowa).
kommrade reproductive vigor
@soonergrunt: The funniest part would be when the aliens peel away the Con’s two black wrappers.
“Hey, look. Someone left a probe in here!”
“Tsk, tsk. Must be those slobs from Artcurus.”
catclub
Comrade Scott @ 33
“unless the Rapture truly is nigh in which case those will be the ones taken away.”
They might THINK they are the ones who will be taken away
in said Rapture, but they might find out they are goats after all, a la Matthew 25 vv31-46
soonergrunt
@OniHanzo:
Failure to maintain a family care plan is one of the oldest deployment dodges in the Army.
Her mother has custody of her son. This is the same mother who supposedly could not care for the child, thus causing the family care plan to fail in the first place.
This Soldier should get what every Soldier who pulls this stunt gets–an Article 15 on the charge of missing movement, if she gets on the next thing flying to Afghanistan, or a court-martial on the charge of missing movement if she doesn’t.
There are plenty of single soldiers who do their duty every day, and keep their shit straight in case they get deployed. Single parents can also get out of the Army under hardship rules, and even today it’s one of the easiest ways out because the chain of command would rather release them than deal with nonsense like this.
soonergrunt
@kommrade reproductive vigor:
I assume you’re talking about wetsuits?
Dustin
@OniHanzo.
For fuck’s sake, that pisses me off. I’m not sure if it’s because I’ve got a 27 wk preemie being induced (I’m on a laptop in the delivery wing…) or if I just can’t stand pricks, but the kid ALWAYS comes first.
It used to be that marriage and college would get someone out of the draft, but then they got rid of that because people were “abusing the system”. Now we’re too the point where a single mother is denied an extension to find someone to care for her child so she can be deployed to a combat zone on time.
Why don’t they just start fucking drafting people again? You know, snag a couple pregnant women, some single parents, a few geriatrics. We’ve obviously gotten to the point where basic humanity’s out the window, so why not go all the way? Also.
jenniebee
I’m thinking of buying Palin’s book instead of either ignoring it or checking it out of the library. I’m considering this because I want to encourage her to keep turning it up until she finds her own personal 11. I don’t think she’s there yet.
Thoughts?
kommrade reproductive vigor
@soonergrunt: Or heavy duty garbage bags. Or latex onesies. Whatever floats the neo-con boat.
soonergrunt
@kommrade reproductive vigor:
Mitch McConnell in a latex onesie…you will pay for that mental image. Mark my words, suffering such as I have just experienced must be avenged.
Donald Rumsfeld doing the David Vitter!
Paul in KY
God Allmightly, that lizard Mitch is one of my Senators (the Liberal one, ha) & the mental images from the ‘latex onesie’ make me want to hurl.
Give a Spoiler Alert next time, soonergrunt!
Linkmeister
Hey, remember right-wing blogger Tacitus? He surfaced (at least for me; others may have noted this) as Communications Director for “a California state Assemblyman running for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate in California.”
R-Jud
@Dustin:
Oh Christ, Dustin. I assume this is your baby you’re talking about (and that you’re not a maternity ward worker). 27 weeks is so tiny. Prayers to you and the family for the fight ahead.
Dustin
Oh believe me, I know exactly how small Quinn is atm. Luckily for us TheSuperWife had a routine checkup that showed early signs of sever pre-eclampsia and we’ve had time to get the lung-boosting steroid shots and get her monitored from an early point. All in all everything’s as good as can be expected but, as she says, “We were doing great ’til someone threw shit at the fan.”
R-Jud
@Dustin: I’m sure you and TheSuperWife! ™ did know, Dustin. Only linked to it because I had to check that page to remind myself. Glad this is a situation where the meds are as on top of things as they can be. Again, best to you and TSW and baby Quinn.
phoebes-in-santa fe
@Dustin: Good luck to your whole little family. I hope everything turns out okay!
SiubhanDuinne
Somewhere today in reading all this coverage of The Bow, I swear someone in criticizing Obama used the term “kowtowing.” Sorry, but isn’t a kowtow the act of bowing from a kneeling position and touching one’s forehead to the ground?
I wish I could remember where I saw that.
SiubhanDuinne
@Dustin: Dustin, I add my own good thoughts and positive vibes going out to you, SuperWife, and the little one. Please let us know the progress. Thinking of you.
Boney Baloney
So wait, does this mean that getting pregnant is (1) a Get Out of Service Free Card and/or (2) a Get Shipped Home Free Card? No fear, mind you, men are exempt from service for ingrown butthairs and so forth, if I remember correctly, so long as they become radio personalities later on.
I know that “equal rights” in a military framework is a subject for polite laughter, but what exactly do we have here? Could it be a precedent to build a regulation on?