Wonkette
- Happy New Year! Everybody’s Zunes died. [New York Times]
- You can still get your Dora the Explorer and your Stephen Colbert on the teevee because the evil corporations Viacom and Time Warner were able to resolve their differences. [Los Angeles Times]
- Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts says judges are too poorly paid to bother being judges anymore. [CNN]
- If you have a job and decent credit — and those are two big ifs these days — now is a fantastic time to buy a house, because the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage interest rate is hovering right around 5 percent. Put into historical perspective, that is FUCKING INSANE. [BusinessWeek]
- The Treasury Department will make its own decisions about how to rescue Detroit automakers, thank you very much. [Washington Post]
- Congratulations, America! You survived the worst year for the stock market since the Great Depression, and 2009 is sure to be awesome. [Guardian]
Happy New Year Wonketeers! Listening to Ms Cox on C-Span.. tune it and enjoy my FREE 2009 calendar :
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Only two stocks in the Dow ended higher for the year: Wal-Mart Stores and McDonald’s Inc
I’ll bet you can’t get trucknutz at either place.
Alas, the Zunes! I knew that y2k was still out there as a WMD. bet it can be traced back to those hitecky mccainiacs who left all that shit on the blackberrys. Where’s my foil hat!
Doesn’t Barry use a Zune? Someone’s gonna have a lousy workout this morning.
Not everything is totally different.
Minnesota hasn’t decided who is the next Senator.
Palin hasn’t figured out she’s an idiot.
Cheney hasn’t figured out he’s a war criminal.
Paulville is still recruiting residents.
Doctor Who caused the Zunes to freeze because he knew their evil plan. We have nothing to fear from the Dalleks now!
God I hope Barry’s Zune wasn’t the 30 gig model — we got into Iraq when Bush was switching from running to cycling, COINCIDENCE??!!1!!!!???
Clever judges can ALWAYS find ways to supplement their income with cash. The trick is how to spend it. I suggest on Zombie Tombs
wow did my tongue in my cheek call it or what
http://www.tmz.com/2008/12/31/barkley-all-i-really-wanted-was-oral-sex/
tho it appears no minors were involved …
shanemacgowan: It just goes to show you that no matter what the economy does, there will always be obese people looking for cheap clothing.
If you own a Zune, are you allowed to officially participate in the 21rst century?
There’s nothing better than waffles on New Years Day. Can the Treasury Department mandate in-car waffle ovens, butter churners, and maple syrup warmers proposed yesterday, in addition to car parking devices?
Everybody’s Zune’s died. So that’s like, what, 5 people? And no, it doesn’t look like Barack Obama is among them.
The wife of the NASA chief is begging Barry not to fire her husband. I guess she knows he is unemployable?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/12/31/dont-fire-my-husband-nasa_n_154575.html
Mahousu: I’m pretty sure there are more sexually well-adjusted registered Republicans than Zune owners.
…newer Zunes have gotten positive reviews.
The ones sold since this morning.
Aw, I saw the thing about John Roberts and thought he quit. Too bad.
Judges working for the private sector? They already are.
Roberts should be happy he’s not getting paid based on quality of work. That mackerel-snapping fascist isn’t fit to clerk for Judge Judy.
We should do everything we can to encourage these Bush appointed hacks to leave….. Adios, MF’s !
I’m so happy about Time-Warner and Viacom. They are both such responsible companies. I have made a new year’s resolution to avoid irony and snark. Have I succeeded so far?
MISTAHCOUGHDROP: Well done, Matt. Novembre is my fave. Bonne Annee!
http://jerryzz.ovh.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/bonne_annee_2007.jpg
Bruno: There’s a Kathy Griffin/bag o’ dicks tie-in here, just haven’t quite put my finger on it yet.
After they fix the Zunes, can Microsoft get to work on getting my 8-track working again?
Oh, yeah, a 12 percent hike in carrier fees is almost nothing (try asking Viacom for a 12 percent raise and see what they say).
Happy 2009 to you exuberant, ebulliently snarky, eccentric Wonketeers — official NY greeting at http://www.lawrenceofthedesert.com/Site/Larry_%26_Nicole.html
May the farce be with us.
So John Roberts et al, the supremos, want more money. Bear with me, I’ve never had the opportunity to be in contempt to the highest court in our land, so, ladies and gentlemen of the supreme court, go fuck yourself. And later, shut the fuck up!
Sorry, John boy, no money for raises this year. Go ahead and quit if you like. We’ll get by.
So if we paid politicians more would we get better ones?
i’m ashamed of all wonketters who posted before 10am. you obviously did not drink enough last night. i was in bed until 2pm. *yawn*
Bruno: I thought the sending the book printed at NASA’s expense and mailed at NASA’s expense for the director’s PR effort was pretty amusing.
glamourdammerung: Even better that the previous NASA guys used CDs.
1) the GOP has caused us to regress in technology
2) the ‘accidental’ death of that GOP internet ’strategist’ really was the closest thing they have to someone who knows how to use a computer
glamourdammerung:
“NASA did not publish a book of collected speeches for Griffin’s two predecessors, said spokeswoman Ashley Edwards. The agency did produce a compact disk of speeches by Dan Goldin, NASA’s longest-serving boss, just before he left in 2001.”
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jc2d_p1DHvR8srpLfst9HA7oOBlQD95DTPQ00
shanemacgowan: In the pineys of Georgia, TruckNutz are given with each MacDonald’s kiddies meal.
Vox populi.
Roberts excluded, e.g., Scalia’s lucrative speaking fees for declaring that the US Constitution should be interpreted in parallel with Genesis and the myth of Gilgamesh.
S.Luggo: Federal judges can’t accept speaking fees. And the issue is more about district and appeals judges than the Supreme Court. A lot of those folks have been working for the government for a long time and were appointed by Clinton or will be appointed by Obama. The current salaries don’t buy much in the way of a house in major markets (even with the slump). It’s gotta be tough being a federal appeals judge having trouble making the mortgage on an average house when you could be making over $1MM/yr. as a partner at some major firm.