In a new twist on “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?” (except George Bush is no Spencer Tracy, and Pickles is certainly no Katharine Hepburn), Barack Obama visits the White House today to check out his new digs. It just might be the thing that makes Sean Hannity’s head explode. We can always hope, anyway.
Maybe Hannity, Limbaugh, O’Reilly, and the rest of their ilk ought to move to Poland:
“Someone regarded by the (American) Republican right as a crypto-communist has become the leader of the world’s greatest power … and al Qaeda are rubbing their hands with glee that the new president wants peace, not war,” Artur Gorski of the opposition Law and Justice (PiS) party told parliament last week.
“The black messiah of the new left has crushed the Republican candidate John McCain, and America will soon pay a high price for this quirk of democracy,” he added.
“Obama is an approaching catastrophe. This marks the end of white man’s civilisation,” he said in an address.
I guess Gorski’s speech went on for hours, mostly because of a typo that had “over” printed on both sides of the page.
Uh-oh! End of the white man’s civilization. Whatever shall we do? Perhaps we can all move to Poland Yes, I remember Poland, part of the great white man’s coalition of the willing and……. a murderously ineffectual waste of life and money. I’m packing my bags, now.
But, it’s Monday. I have to work. Tuesday is Veterans Day and I don’t have to work. I think that’s a much better idea.
The financial world was fixated on Capitol Hill as Congress battled over the Bush administration’s request for a $700 billion bailout of the banking industry. In the midst of this late-September drama, the Treasury Department issued a five-sentence notice that attracted almost no public attention.
But corporate tax lawyers quickly realized the enormous implications of the document: Administration officials had just given American banks a windfall of as much as $140 billion.
The sweeping change to two decades of tax policy escaped the notice of lawmakers for several days, as they remained consumed with the controversial bailout bill. When they found out, some legislators were furious. Some congressional staff members have privately concluded that the notice was illegal. But they have worried that saying so publicly could unravel several recent bank mergers made possible by the change and send the economy into an even deeper tailspin.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/09/AR2008110902155_pf.html
I’m trying to chase down my paycheck from this asshole painter
Comment by Kristapea — November 9, 2008 @ 7:46 pm
Asshole painter? Is that like a tattoo artist?
Was it tough to hold still? I bet that brush tickles.
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Sorry about that last post, but it’s Monday and this is the best I can do for now.
You know how everyone who lives in the southwest has one of those big SUN sculptures hanging on the wall with the sunbeams radiating out from the center? :rofl2:
Miriam Makeba, South African songstress, dies at 76
LONDON: Miriam Makeba, a South African singer whose voice stirred hopes of freedom among millions in her own country though her music was formally banned by the apartheid authorities she struggled against, died early Monday after performing at a concert in Italy. She was 76.
🙁 :fist: :gate:
Morning Joe :joe:
Someone’s looking for the door?
Just came in to say…
Is it time to forget Poland?
mornin!
‘asshole painters’
heh! unpolitically correct laughing here!
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After four years at the helm of the Democratic National Committee, Howard Dean is preparing to relinquish his chairmanship.
Dean, who has been serving in the post since 2005, has said in the past that he would serve only one term, though his successful work with the Obama campaign had led some Democrats to wonder whether he would stay on into the next administration. This won’t be the case, officials at the DNC confirm. He will serve as chair until his term ends in January. The party will settle on a new head when it hosts a meeting during the week of Obama’s inauguration.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/10/dean-prepares-to-step-dow_n_142614.html
It’s a new dawn! Thanks, Pip. I love Simone.
I think chameleon would be a much more appropriate handle.
From The Borowitz Report.
MSNBC to Launch ‘Fucking Joe’
Scarborough’s Show in Porned-up Format
Just minutes after “Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough dropped an F-bomb live on the air, MSNBC announced that it was re-launching the show to capitalize on its star’s salty vocabulary.
“Starting on Tuesday, MSNBC’s morning show will be known as ‘Fucking Joe,'” said MSNBC spokesperson Carol Foyler. “We want to send the message that if you tune in to this show, you’ll get a unique mix of breaking news and XXX-rated chat.”
MSNBC’s decision to reformat the show to accommodate Mr. Scarborough’s weakness for expletives surprised many in the cable industry, especially since the show owes its origins to the cancellation of shock-jock Don Imus’ ill-fated morning program.
But for Mr. Scarborough’s part, the move to “porn up” his morning show came as no surprise.
“This move is a fucking home run and anyone who doesn’t think so is a fucking cocksucker,” Mr. Scarborough said, adding, “Fuck.”
Around the cable industry, insiders expressed surprise that Mr. Scarborough had slipped into profanity while on the air.
“I never thought Joe Scarborough would be the first one to drop an F-bomb on that show,” one observer said. “I thought it would be Andrea Mitchell.”
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Ha!
The President-Elect and Mrs. are off visiting the White House in stately fashion. Meanwhile, the Wasilla Hillbilly is sorting through her clothes. :knit2:
I’d say this all ended about right. :fire:
TCM played “Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner” this past weekend.
From the Urban Dictionary :
Palin
1. An applicant lacking even basic job skills
2. Someone supremely un-self-aware or lacking any relative sense of what he/she does or doesn’t know.
HR sent me another Palin for the marketing manager job.
Palin v.
1. to abandon one’s principles for short term gain
Tom, a devout vegan, palined when he consumed a happy meal solely to obtain the collectible toy it contained.
Palin n.
1. Pejorative term that refers to an incompetent, impractical, irrelevant or incapable person who has been appointed to a position of great importance.
2. A person who holds authority disproportionate to his or her requisite ethics and qualifications. Derived from John McCain’s controversial 2008 Vice Presidential pick, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin.
John was recently made principal, but everybody thinks he’s a Palin who can’t do the job.
My new boss is such a Palin – he took my deserved place because the CEO is
his personal friend.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/11/10/74335/858/579/658431
This just in from Alaska, where thousands of new ballots continue to be found each day, since it was first reported that turnout in 2008 was 11% lower than in 2004. Thousands of ballots, nearly a third of them, remain uncounted nearly a week after the election. Their numbers could explain the strange results so far in races — such as those of the felonious Sen. Ted Stevens (R) and the under-investigation Rep. Don Young (R) — for which pollsters had predicted decisive losses for the Republicans.
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=6654
Heh! from my friend ‘Not Over It’.
“One sunny day in January 2009 an old man approached the white house from across Pennsylvania Ave, where he had been sitting on a park bench. He spoke to the Marine standing guard and said “I would like to go and meet President Bush”. The Marine looked at the old man and replied “Sir Mr. bush is no longer president and no longer lives here.” The old man says “OK” and walks away.
The next day the same old man walks across and asks the same Marine the same question and the Marine a bit irritated gives the same reply and the old man walks away.
On the third day the same old man comes again and asks the same Marine ” I would like to go in and meet president Bush.” Now the marine is even more irritated at the man and says “I told you yesterday and the day before that Mr. Bush is no longer president and no longer lives here. Don’t you understand?”
The old man looked at the Marine and said “I understand, I just love hearing it.” The Marine snapped to attention, saluted and said “See you tomorrow sir.”
Good one, SJ!
Magic Island does the internet/phone stuff at Camps Liberty and Striker. The service is horrible and they charge our military, personally, $65.00 a month for internet service in their tiny trailers. Contractors at their finest, bleeding the pockets of our military – can you say WAR PROFITEERING?
shit, How much MONEY is this:
Download the entire list of Defense Contracts for this product/service from 2000 – 2007
To a Spreadsheet or Other File Type
Product/Service Telephone and/or Communications Services
Dollar Amount of Defense Contracts Awarded for this Product/Service from 2000 to 2007 $1,512,336,506
Number of Defense Contracts Awarded for this Product/Service from 2000 to 2007 7,700
Govt Contracts (Defense) – Count/$ Dollar Amount
2007 2,775/$322,316,137
2006 1,104/$117,929,924
2005 1,124/$166,057,072
2004 834/$140,401,917
2003 734/$200,519,933
2002 545/$165,409,395
2001 349/$189,522,228
2000 235/$210,179,90