- Iraq is free! The American Green Zone is now officially controlled by somebody or another in Iraq, although the Americans still control the Green Zone, in Iraq. [TIME]
- If Roland Burris tries to get inside the Capitol on Tuesday for the inauguration of new senators, he’ll be turned away. If he persists, he’ll be shot and killed. [CNN]
- Happy 50th Birthday, Cuban Revolution! Some old dudes in Miami probably didn’t make you a cake. [BBC News/New York Times]
- Obama might let the Pentagon take over NASA’s alleged new Moon missions, because NASA sucks at everything. [Bloomberg]
- Greet 2009 with this impossibly tragic story of a fatal New Year’s fire at this nice D.C. family’s house. [Washington Post]
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IS THAT FREEDOM ROCK??!?!!???
WELL, TURN IT UP MAN !!!!!!
[re=208151]facehead[/re]: Hey, that’s a great album… let me borrow it…
You give those Cubans revolution and all they want to do is illegally hold possible muslim extremists without trial and submit them to torture. And, they socialize healthcare! See what happens when you hate ‘freedom’?
I’m pretty sure the NASA director’s wife will now snail-mail you a leather-bound printed book now with her husband’s speeches to counter that an unemployable, science-denying, military-contractor enabling Bush appointee DOES NOT SUCK.
I hear the CIA is sending Castro a 50th anniversary gift of a
poisonedwetsuit and explodingC4cigar.[re=208154]Bruno[/re]:
What’s sad is the guy has 7 serious degrees and some semblance of sense (excepting of course climate science and his toadying to the Bushtards demands for fundie “skientizts” in positions where real intelligence is required.)
He forgot that there getting 7 degrees doesn’t mean one can learn charisma and social networking skillz. The gods/universe giveth in one aspect, taketh away in another.
Ken, is there some super secret ‘Daily Briefing’ item we can not click to? It’s the second to last one. If I find the “hidden” link, do I get to liveblog the inauguration?
Ariel sharon and Fidel castro are both still alive. They are having a fun 1 on 1 basketball game today in Havana. My money is on Fidel.
I’m gathering just to what degree IL politics is, shall I say, complicated, but what could motivate Burris to fast-track his career to nowhere? What other constituency could he have beyond the Capone family?
[re=208154]Bruno[/re]: Fedex, not snail-mail. After all, it’s just taxpayer money.
I’ll believe Iraq is free when pieces of it are given away by Publishers Clearing House or whoever.
Can they tase senators or are they magically immune?
[re=208162]V572625694[/re]: Eh, close enough for government work.
I like the blank one best.
It is poetic in it’s pointing to the fleeting ephemerality of daily events, the transitory nature of phenomena and the illusory impermanence of all things in the turning of the wheel of karma.
Or else somebody just forgot a bullet point.
[re=208183]cal[/re]: that’s the Mad Libs one. Make up your own news item!
I want Blago to show up and for all the senators to turn their backs on him or fling poo at him. The article says he can’t be turned away even if Burris can be.
[re=208223]finallyhappy[/re]: I want Blago to show up and the Senators to return to the fine tradition of beating people they hate with their canes. Now THAT’s entertainment.
[re=208156]ManchuCandidate[/re]: Garver has good reason to be suspicious. When Griffin or any other manager pulls out the “You wouldn’t understand the technology so therefore I don’t need to define the budget” chestnut you know they are suffering from a chronic case of either “not-invented-here” or “My Ball! Mine! Mine! Mine!”.
Regardless of whether Griffin is correct on the facts for the purposes needed, that Griffin can’t be bothered to explain the difference in the needs is what is going to kill NASA, not that Obama’s team can point to military rockets that are cheaper and ready.
All of which could be solved and sorted out if NASA had an administrator with basic communication, leadership and, as you point out, basic social networking skills.
I say Obama needn’t bother to try to get the military to chill this idiot out. Just give this ass the heave-ho and get a competent administrator.
[re=208233]WIDTAP[/re]: My former boss is quoted in that article. A scientist and a scientist who can be an administrator are often poles apart.
Turning the Green Zone over to the Iraqis will be like turning the Illinois governor’s office over to the mob. Ooopsie.
Let’s all sit back & watch the Democrats show more collective spine against one of their own than they have the previous eight years against the worst president ever, one who most thinking people agree has committed war crimes and egregiously overstepped the powers granted to him in the constitution.
This is your Democratic Party in a nutshell. Without the nuts.
That story about the NE family and the fire and their daughter killed by stray bullet a couple years ago and all was really sad. Is New Years becoming the Katrina of the calendar? Or is the coming of the new year just a reminder that another year of tyranny and oppression of the disenfranchised is coming? Sigh. I’m going back to bed.
I’m freaked out by the extra empty bullet point. A message to (or from) Moriarity?
The empty bullet point was the secret promise of a Cartoon Violence column today! And now that Allah has made good on the Prophecy, the bullet point is …. GONE!
Ah, yes. Let the Pentagon run it, because everything they’ve touched lately has turned into gold. Why not let the DoJ in on it too, while we’re at it?
[re=208159]DoctorCulturae[/re]: “What other constituency could he have beyond the Capone family?”
The crazed need to find something cool to fill up the blank spaces on his marble crypt.
Seriously, this guy sounds like a loser. Ill. Repubtards must be salivating over this appointment. Maybe Bush will pardon Ryan and he can run for the senate.
Letting NASA use existing rockets is a pretty good idea as there is not a reasonable excuse for why NASA should be building a new rocket program (that apparently has most of its’ engineers up in arm about safety issues) when they can use proven hardware for the capsule launches. I understand the reasons why NASA built rockets alongside the military back during the “Space Race”, but the reasons have not been really valid for a long time.
If Burris started angling for this appointment after Blago got indicted, then he’s kind of in sleazy douchebag territory himself, but I still hate that, of the two of them, he’s the one More Likely To Get Clowned if he shows up Tuesday. Because no, dumbass, it won’t get negotiated by then — Blago turned this into a pissing contest when he practically concluded Burris’s nomination speech with “So how ya like THEM motherfuckin’ apples, Harry Reid?” It’s on. Like popcorn.
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