Wonkette
- Hey Israel, it just makes you look bad when you keep the Red Cross from rescuing hundreds of survivors buried under those houses in Gaza you just razed. [Washington Post]
- “Financial industry lobbyists … vowed to fight legislation aimed at easing up on homeowners facing foreclosure.” Have these people learned nothing? [New York Times]
- Barack Obama’s transition team has signaled he’s open to low-level talks with Hamas. [Guardian]
- Bits of southern California had a leetle earthquake last night. One lady’s roof suffered slight damage. [Los Angeles Times]
- Senate Democrats are not so sure the more Republican-sounding elements of Barack Obama’s stimulus package (tax rebates and credits) will actually work. [BBC News]
- Rod Blagojevich, having “outfoxed” Harry Reid by making the simplest and most obvious dick move he could, may find his luck is finally running out. [ABC News]
And the unemployment rate hit 7.2%!!!!!
What about the PRE-CONDITIONS Barry? Are you talking to Hamas with or without pre-conditions? Let’s have a lengthy debate while the bombs keep dropping…those are likely to be US made and that of course helps the economy.
So the big question is will the Pumas blacklist Sara today by calling her a pig and digging up her high school prom photos?
Are you going to take one for the team today by reminding us who we should vote for in all categories, including Pets, Best Middle Eastern Blog, etc?
Here’s the PUMA lineup:
And here’s your daily reminder to vote at the 2008 Weblog Awards:
For Best Liberal Blog, vote for The Confluence here
For Best New Blog, vote for Uppity Woman here
For Best Small Blog, vote for Nice Deb here
For Best Hidden Gem, vote for Deadenders here
For Best Food Blog, vote for Cake Wrecks here
For Best Pet Blog, vote for F**k You, Penguin here
For Best Podcast, vote for This American Life or NPR’s Planet Money- here.
So anything other than those would be good.
OH CRAP! And under that list they have:
“We’ve figured out how “the site who must not be named” has been cheating. It’s not through a proxy server. (Hint: unplugging your modem and waiting 7 minutes is an unnecessary waste of time if you want high speed cheating. ) It should be easy to demonstrate how it is done with a script of the procedure. Our resident perl hacker is pulling it together. Of course, we would only be doing this for documentation and informational purposes, not cheating, and we’ll send the information to the proper people when we’re finished gathering our information. We hope the Weblog Award admins will keep a close eye on this problem. Hey, if it were me, I’d disqualify “the site that must not be named”, but it’s not my decision. Cheaters ruin the fun for everyone by gaming the system and harrassing the blogs we like. It’s not a good way to be popular.”
Apparently the wonkeratti are just having a bad day:
http://riverdaughter.wordpress.com/2009/01/08/mysteriousmovingpost/
OMG a 4.5 quake in California! Call Michael Brown STAT!
By low-level talks, does that mean that the Third Assistant to the White House Chef will talk with Hamas’ Deputy Director of Office Supplies?
P.S. Can we make a PUMA open thread so that every other thread isn’t sucked into its inane vortex?
chascates: Jeez, they have a ‘perl hacker’ now? Does this mean they are evolving? It seems like just yesterday they couldn’t figure out how to change the font on a PDF.
As the Wonk legions slowly begin to stir from their appliance boxes across this great nation, the lesser blogs tremble at the sight of the digital-hobo army. What is our task for today, Omnipotent Overlords?
Are we going to make “trucknuts” the winner of every category that doesn’t list “Our Wonkette” as a competitor? The Lizard People? Norm Coleman?
Speak, we await thy bidding.
norbizness: Point taken. Will use ‘the kitten who must not be named’ if necessary.
Bruno: Truly. At least the computer skills are evolving.
chascates: Hey! It’s not F**k You, Penguin’s fault that PUMAs like it.
Hey, Hamas, you wanna go out to the parking lot for a cigarette?
Sure thing, B. Hussein. What’s on your mind?
It could work.
Oooh! If we use the term “the kitten who must not be named”, that totally opens up the “skull-fucking a kitten” vortex!
We don’t need no stinkin’ perl hackers!
chascates: That reminds me. Ira Glass is a tool. And I wish I had that as my nom d’amour de PUMA but he is such a tool that he is insignificant when picking a name.
I am going to miss the Bush formula for true and lasting peace in the middle east. (Just gotta kill enough of the right people)
“Members of the House and Senate said Citigroup had agreed to drop its opposition, providing no future mortgages are covered by the law.”
Oh, good, I was worried Citi might have used its veto power if the bill managed to pass through Congress.
Wait, what?
I think you ment Blago’s Bag of Dicks is Empty
Can I make a Sarah Zwinky?
Al Sharpton will be the new liberal on Hannity & Whatever.
Bruno: By “perl hacker” I think they mean that they know some guy that might have seen a Perl book on the shelf at Barnes and Noble.
Lucas Burch: Or works as a pearl diver or just has lung problems and . . . you know.
norbizness: Everyone knows Nature abhors an inane vortex.
Have these people learned nothing?
No. We are so advanced that we learn nothing three times as fast as previously, these days.
chascates:
Is that a photo of Jim or Ken there?
There, that will keep me amused until Curb returns to HBO.
Guppy06: Oh, that’s cute, Citibank thinks there are going to be future mortgages.
“What a maneuver! What a maneuver! When his back was against the wall he outsmarted a lot of people. … He’ll probably end up in really bad trouble, but he’ll have something to tell his grandchildren.”
How is finding an unemployed black guy from Illinois who is not corrupt but willing to surrender his dignity such a master stroke? I can imagine the future unborn Blagojevich grandchildren sitting in the back of the car on their way home after their monthly visit to The United States Penitentiary, Marion, saying “Grandpa has been telling that same story about outsmarting Harry Reid for 16 years, do we have to go back next month?”
Bruno:
“Jeez, they have a ‘perl hacker’ now? Does this mean they are evolving?”
No, it means someone from that website is chopping up an old necklace as we speak.
Terry: I no not but it is freaky. Sara, can you confirm or deny?
I’m learning so much about Newell from the PUMAs.
They even compare him to Obama…
He’s a little bit like our new President-elect, in that he hasn’t accomplished a lot yet.
Guppy06: Citi just threatened not to take the next 25 billion or so that the Feds insist on sending to it.
Hmmm….my iPod earbuds are rimmed with brown, much like PUMA taint.
Barack Obama’s transition team has signaled he’s open to low-level talks with Hamas.
Low-level? As in “Send your people who have no power to negotiate anything to meet with our people who have no power to agree to anything and they can have a meeting”?
Tommy Says Ira G is a Tool: This American Life has a web site, Showtime site, Facebook site, MySpace page as well as a YouTube presence. That’s the problem with this ‘new’ media. One franchise can grow like a virus until it can’t be stamped out.
They want to sell liquid lumber! I just can’t explain it!
So after Jan 20 when Barry officially takes office and HRC officially becomes his sex slave, will the PUMAs still exist? Or will the Confluence become CuntFront, sister site to Stormfront? I believe that is the best niche for them.
What’s the big deal about foreclosure? If people can’t own their own homes and run their own lives, so what? It’s been done before, and it’s worked out great. It’s called feudalism, and it’s a nicely stable economic system. Is no one willing to think outside the box anymore?
I will, to my lord, be true and faithful, to love all that he loves, and shun all that he shuns. (I’m not talking Jesus here; that refers to your new seigneur.)
chascates: Yes, I only listen to NPR for Click and Clack and Michael Feldman. Oh, and the bits with Sue Scott on PHC.
The rest of it can go to Liberal Guilt Hell. And especially Ira Sanctimony hisself.
(I may be forgetting someone else half-decent but they can go to hell for not being memorable enough to burst through the caffeine DT’s).
I’m kinda hoping the democrats just lay down on this one. What’s with them only standing up to black people?
chascates: I want that laptop.
Well, I understand the Pumapeople think it is cheating that after being told of blogs like Driftglass and Synthesis and Rumproast and went and voted there. I may be more in love- in a totally parental way- with Kevin and Shafeen than Ken and Jim- but I’m not sure yet. It could just be because they are new- like the love for your newest baby-only cause it’s new and then you get tired of the diapers and crying and puke and like the older kids more who canbe entertained by TV, computers and Poptarts.
I despise Hamas for fucking over the people who elected, but if I hear one more fucking person blaming them for civilians being trapped, maimed, or killed by Israelis shelling, I will go on murderous rampage and when I get arrested I will blame Hamas.
“Financial industry lobbyists … vowed to fight legislation aimed at easing up on homeowners facing foreclosure.”
Good luck with that guys. Hope you don’t mind it when mobs of angry hobo ex-homeowners come by to K Street to wish you well with torches, pitchforks and shotguns.
That Blago article is the funny.
Well, if Joe sucks at dodging rockets, he’ll soon be a liquid plumr.
ManchuCandidate:
Their fight is probably costing more than reduced rates.
chascates: Ha ha, joke’s on everyone — that’s a picture of me. Come and get it, fellas!
Sara K. Smith:
I haz Sad
Sara K. Smith: Then I have lost the will to live.
Wait, I thought Israel was the good guy? Well, it doesn’t matter. We’d better stick with them if we want any bonus points when Jesus comes back. It’s in the Bible! Or… Left Behind, I don’t know. Same thing.
He’s got a few tricks left. First he can pardon 40,000 non-violent drug offenders (yes, I probably made up that number, but it should be close).