March 2010
“Short of sending Sarah Palin back to Alaska to personally club polar bear cubs...”
– Environmental groups are not happy with Obama’s decision to expand offshore oil drilling.
Floating? That's a new one to me. →
“Random question… what is the name of that muppet character… I want to call...”
– An email from a coworker
I’m pretty sure she’s thinking about ALF.
Now that Obama has come out in favor of offshore...
Keep your communist, fascist big government out of my offshore oil deposits!
Hollywood planning a movie based on the E-Trade... →
You’ve got to be fucking kidding me:
20th Century Fox is developing a film based on the E*Trade talking babies. No. I am not making this up. Actress and writer Katie Dippold (“Parks and Recreation,” “MADtv”) is penning the script. And no. I’m not kidding. The film is a “mission movie,” about a group of talking babies trying to make their way across the playground.
On the plus side, the...
Reuters: '80s Stars Hall & Oates Back In Spotlight →
It’s about time the lame-stream media acknowledged this:
Pop fans have long embraced Hall & Oates — leading to six No. 1 songs on the Billboard Hot 100 — but critics derided their music as “yacht rock,” slick ’80s smarm designed to lure radio programmers across a variety of genres.
With the resurgence of Hall & Oates among hipsters, that attitude has...
“Make all the botox jokes and she-shops-too-much jokes you want, but this is the...”
– Bill Maher
“In the end, after weighing all the plusses and minuses, I have decided to vote...”
– That weasel Joe Lieberman, now that all the heavy lifting is done, just announced that he’s voting in favor of the reconciliation bill. He was widely believed to have been a “no.”
Teabaggers cut propane line at Dem congressman's... →
How long until one of these yokels straight up murders someone?
Father Hesburgh, FTW!
Badass:
In the tense hours Sunday leading up to the House vote on a historic healthcare bill, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi took time to call the former president of Notre Dame, Father Theodore Hesburgh. The House Democrats’ leader was not seeking spiritual guidance. What she wanted was Hesburgh to help lock up the vote of Rep. Joe Donnelly, a Democrat from South Bend, Ind., who was wavering...
USA Today Poll shows huge turnaround; Americans... →
brooklynmutt:
“Americans by 9 percentage points have a favorable view of the health care overhaul that President Obama signed into law Tuesday, a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll finds, a notable turnaround from surveys before the vote that showed a plurality against it. By 49%-40% those surveyed say it was “a good thing” rather than a bad one that Congress passed the bill. Half describe their reaction in...
I am fucking LOVING the conservative blogs today
So much schadenfreude…
“America has just witnessed an unconscionable abuse of power.”
– Smarmy magic-underwear aficionado Mitt Romney apparently has a problem with the Constitution, which clearly states that Congress has the right pass legislation with a majority vote.
Ironically, the closest analogue to Obamacare is Romneycare — the universal health care system that Mitt set up...
“No illusions please: This bill will not be repealed. Even if Republicans scored...”
– David Frum
soupsoup:
Sam Cooke : A Change Is Gonna...
Stuck at work covering the health care vote
Cons:
Forced to come into the office on a beautiful, sunny day
Pros:
The bosses are buying us Chinese food
I get to see the looks on my conservative co-workers’ faces when the Democrats pass this thing
“It’s okay, I’ve faced this before… I haven’t heard...”
– Civil rights hero Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) talking about the racial epithets hurled at him by teabaggers.
Tea partiers yell racist and homophobic slurs at... →
Another glorious chapter in the teabaggers’ brave struggle to keep health care from poor people:
Civil rights hero Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) and fellow Congressional Black Caucus member Andre Carson (D-IN) related a particularly jarring encounter with a large crowd of protesters screaming “kill the bill”… and punctuating their chants with the word “nigger.”
And...
For steamy Tiger Woods sexting action, text...
Excellent work by Gawker:
We went ahead and built a Tiger clone in the office this afternoon. Send a text message to 646-450-9661 and you’ll get a reply from our Tigerbot in minutes. It’s free, of course. It’s also most definitely NSFW, though, so be careful you don’t leave your phone lying around for your significant other and/or co-workers to see.
Tiger Woods is a dirty bird...
Jesus Christ, I’m practically blushing over here. Check out these texts:
I want to treat you rough. Throw you around, spank and slap you
Slap your face. Treat you like a dirty little whore. Put my cock in your ass and then shove it down your throat
You are my fucking whore
Hold you down while i choke you and Fuck that ass that i own
Then im going to tell you to shut the Fuck up while i slap...
More proof Bart Stupak hates women
He thinks the opinions of 59,000 women who have devoted their life to the Catholic Church aren’t worth shit:
Congressman Bart Stupak, D-Mich, responded sharply to White House officials touting a letter representing 59,000 nuns that was sent to lawmakers urging them to pass the health care bill.
The conservative Democrat dismissed the action by the White House saying, “When I’m drafting...
“The bill will cost $940 billion over the first 10 years and reduce the deficit...”
– (via)
This bill gives health coverage to a vast number of Americans, and saves the country an enormous amount of money.
Honestly, if you’re still opposed to this thing, you’re either an Obama-hating loon, a teabagger who’s ignorant to the facts, or an insurance executive.
Video: Ohio teabaggers mock man with Parkinson's →
The "Stupak Dozen" are falling one by one...
Watch“Like most women, she’s under the threat of constant home invasion from everyone she meets.”
“I got an invitation to go on Air Force One. Given my previous record in not...”
– Dennis Kucinich
We laugh now, but if he had decided to vote “no” on this thing, Obama would have had my full permission to throw him out of the plane in midair.
Sweet Dee is having a baby →
Don’t show this kid the “Dumpster Baby” episode:
There will be a new addition to “the gang” this summer – It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia stars Kaitlin Olson and Rob McElhenney are expecting their first child in August, the couple’s rep tells PEOPLE exclusively. “Rob and I are so excited it’s stupid,” Olson says in a statement....
I just joined a new Facebook group: Tommy Wiseau... →
Florida Vampire to Run for President →
jasencomstock:
unburyingthelead:
So far he’s the most sane GOP candidate:
TAMPA, Florida – Not satisfied with living in Florida, Jonathon “The Impaler” Sharkey wants to move to Washington, D.C. to become the nation’s first vampire president.
Sharkey, 45, spent Friday on a Greyhound bus with his new fiancee, Audrianna Foster, a 19-year-old girl from Ohio he met online. She too believes...
I think I have strep throat
I have white spots on my tonsils and my arms are breaking out in a rash.
I should not be at work today.
NY Post: 1950's West Village the Scene of Alleged... →
neighborhoodr-westvillage:
White had set up a CIA safe house at 81 Bedford Street, in Greenwich Village, comprised of two apartments conjoined with a hidden two-way mirror and doorway. Posing as a seaman or artist, he would regularly recruit strangers for social gatherings there, where they would be plied with psychedelic drugs, often without their knowledge. The aim was to see if White could...
