• February 15, 2012
  • In-the-tank National Park Service is reporting that 1.8 million people attended Barry’s Inauguration, but some people think the real number was closer to 1 million, meaning Obama is not even technically President. [DC Examiner]
  • Fannie Mae is laying off hundreds of people, most of whom live and work — well, used to anyway — in DC. [WTOP]
  • United Medical Center is once again an accredited hospital thanks to a $30 million bailout and the benevolent specter of Dr. Surgeon General Sanjay Gupta, M.D. [Washington Post]
  • The Presidential Inaugural Committee is handing out free leftover programs from the Inauguration to street hobos (95% of American families) — to boil the programs and eat them between two Saltines — and the ill-fated “purple ticket holders” who to this day are still being held in a bunker in Berlin. [DCist]
  • US News is launching an exciting “digital newsweekly”, and online version of the magazine that readers can access on their own “personal computers” (or “PCs” in binary code). [Fishbowl DC]

{ 20 comments }

actor212 January 23, 2009 at 4:05 pm

Purple tickets? Does that mean they voted twice in Iraq?

cal January 23, 2009 at 4:06 pm

No coverage of Robert (Robert Robert Robert) Gibbs’ press conference?

He needs someone to tie his ties for him. Seriously.

Inadequate Blackmail January 23, 2009 at 4:11 pm

If the last 8 years have taught me anything, it’s that “some people” don’t know shit.

tunamelt January 23, 2009 at 4:11 pm

I am waiting for Sallie Mae to just implode. Die, Sallie Mae, die.

Neon Trotsky January 23, 2009 at 4:13 pm

Only 1 million people attended the Inauguration, which means the other 299 million Americans must hate Obama!!1 To quote one of my favorite of Ken’s wingnut AOL commenters, “80% of folks dont like Obama!”

Larry Fine January 23, 2009 at 4:19 pm

298 million Americans did not attend the inaugaral, so that means the majority of Americans wants Obama shipped back to Africa.

pepe January 23, 2009 at 4:21 pm

Great headlines today, Juli. Why won’t you be my facebook friend? :(

masterdebater January 23, 2009 at 4:21 pm

“Fannie Mae is laying off hundreds of people, most of whom live and work — well, used to anyway — in DC.”

But, you are missing the classic republican thinking involved here. To them it is completely logical that if there are not enough people with good paying jobs, who can afford your products, the best thing possible is to lay more people off. Brilliant! Oh, and lay off the government workers first, because they don’t pay taxes or buy things…the end.

Larry Fine January 23, 2009 at 4:22 pm

Lets have an investigation on how Sanjay Gupta’s teeth are so white.

whiskey tango foxtrot January 23, 2009 at 4:31 pm

Karazay. Park service is notorious for underestimating crowds.

drrty martini January 23, 2009 at 4:32 pm

A Digital Newsweekly? Transmitted through the ether! How this would thrill and amaze Dame Peggy of Nooningtonshire!!

WadISay January 23, 2009 at 4:47 pm

ZOMG, imagine being able to get news and opinion weekly! Never again will I say the people at Newsweek are Luddite lame-brains.

2druk2phluq January 23, 2009 at 5:39 pm

When are the purple ticket holders/sacrificial fodder going to realize they are in the real life version of a creepy Anna Paquin movie? Cheney needed fresh souls to rejuvenate before that wheelchair became just one stop on his way to becoming a pile of evil ash.

Jukesgrrl January 23, 2009 at 5:49 pm

[re=227256]tunamelt[/re]: Now that David Gregory’s wife got her bonuses, I guess it would be OK.

naveed January 23, 2009 at 5:50 pm

[re=227256]tunamelt[/re]: Nice effort, but student loans are forever.

qwerty42 January 23, 2009 at 6:01 pm

Isn’t that Fleet Admiral Dr. Surgeon General Sanjay Gupta, M.D. … I mean, the blue coat and gold braid and all? Maybe he should be Surgeon Admiral. Does he have special sniper units the way the Postmaster General does?

Edywin January 23, 2009 at 6:24 pm

(Cranks up his Packard Bell 386 PC)I want some of that new “US News and World Report on the internet” shit. Hell, its just a fad, I think they are gonna wisht they had spent the money on some new IBM Selectrics. I miss watching that little ball of letters jump around. (Sigh)

DeLand DeLakes January 23, 2009 at 7:19 pm

Isn’t it wonderful that when he takes office as Our Nation’s doctor, we will be able to call him “Known Cock-Gobbler Sanjay Gupta”? The dude gobbles his cocks on teevee, for crying out loud. Larry Craig was more discrete.

Lionel Hutz Esq. January 23, 2009 at 8:27 pm

Juli, just because there is a new intern, you can’t slack. “PC” is not binary, it’s hexadecimal.

S.Luggo January 23, 2009 at 11:51 pm

[re=227242]cal[/re]: Roberts’ ties are with, and selected by, the American Enterprise Institute.

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