- GM reported its fourth-quarter results. They are Not Good. [Bloomberg]
- Barack Obama is waging that class warfare thing that John McCain warned us about, huzzah! Now we just have to hope that there are still some couples in America who earn more than $250,00 a year, since the success of healthcare reform depends on their contributions. [New York Times]
- Without Stevie Wonder, Barack Obama might never have gotten laid. [CNN]
- Science proves that reducing the number of calories you consume leads to weight loss. (!!!!) [USA Today]
- Republicans are once again raising a stink about earmarks, this time regarding a spending bill that will keep the government operating through September. [Washington Post]
- A lawyer for Guantanamo detainees says that inmate abuse has increased since December because guards are trying to administer their share of beatings before Obama shuts the whole nasty operation down. [Reuters]
DAILY BRIEFING 8:54 am February 26, 2009
Today We Are All Lower Tax-Bracket Earners
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Let’s not forget how “Ebony and Ivory” healed generations of racial strife.
Wait a minute…are they saying that the only way to lose weight is to eat less and exercise more? There’s got to be a better answer.
WARNING: Anyone that clicks the link to that “earmarks” Washington Post article please be prepared to be visually assaulted by a poster-sized image of John Boehner’s lips, nose and eyes.
It’s about fucking time, Barry.
Class Warfare’s opening shot was Raygun’s inauguration and we lower orders have been getting whomped ever since.
Fight’s On!
Could there be a less effective strategy than whining about earmarks? It’s like being opposed to cheetos. Yes, it’s in poor taste and marginally bad for you in the long run, but everyone secretly loves them. If they didn’t, Republicans wouldn’t have piled them on themselves when they were the majority (earmarks, not cheetos).
Guards, don’t forget that sooner or later you should be on the other side of that inmate/guard relationship. And they might make sure you get plenty of alone-time with your new roommate, Abdullah.
[re=253181]V572625694[/re]: This is why I mostly consume a diet of styrofoam packing peanuts and unflavored gelatin.
I saw those Time Magazine photos of Barry back in college. Stevie or no Stevie, that guy had no problem getting laid.
http://wonkette.com/405026/our-barry-is-times-person-of-the-year
Honestly, I think General Malaise spent their first cash infusion on advertising. Duh.
OT, did anyone see The Fucking “Hammer” on Hardball last night? It was a vicious, hateful rant, and Delay is starting to look on the outside, like he does on the inside. He also referred to us as the “Democrat” party several times and went un-corrected by both Tweety and Harold Ford. I wrote to Hardball and said I wil not watch again since the segment closed with “You’re always welcome here, Tom”. Sorry, had to vent and cleanse my soul.
By the way: did you guys know that Fox News did a rigorous, scientific, objective and non-biased fact-check Obama’s SOTU address? You won’t believe it, but Fox discovered that everything Obama said was a BIG FAT LIE!
I can’t wait to get the Che Guevara T-shirt that comes with my tax refund this year.
Well this just makes me sick; no more Sausage Egg McMuffins or sitting in front of this computer all day long. Next thing you know they’re going to tell me one glass of wine per day is going to give me cancer.
Tony Bennet was there, too. Jeesh, how much salam has been hidden while Tony was on the hi-fi?
If you don’t want to cut your calories, another good way to lose weight is to be the “top” more often during buttsecks. My priest told me that when I was a kid.
[re=253197]Naked Bunny with a Whip[/re]: Baaahhaaaahaaaaa WIN!
“…Geithner and …Summers, ha[ve] the power to force a bankruptcy filing or make other changes to the automakers’ viability plans.”
As long as GM doesn’t mind hanging on long enough to fully implode while Geithner and Summers are busily diddling with their sure-to-FAIL bank rescue plan, things should be O.K.
ManchuCandidate: epic WIN.
Let the whining of the upper 2% commence followed by a steady stream of perp walks. In fact can Ryan Secrest cover it on a red carpet like the Oscars?
[re=253191]freakishlystrong[/re]: I’m with you on the Rush inspired pejorative. I don’t really get it, but it really pisses me off, more so when media people let it slide. And I’ve had it with Tweety’s interview style. Thanks for reminding me.
The old pepper spray on the toilet paper gag. I bet they’ll punch out the bottoms of the prisoners’ salt shakers next. Those Gitmo guards are a stitch.
About that weight loss study. Ok sure I can lose weight if I eat less but what if just mixed in some of the acai berry diet pills advertising on Wonkette with my pizza, milk shake, and hostess product diet? That should work too, right?
[re=253184]ManchuCandidate[/re]: Why do I see that fight playing out something like the big brawl at the end of Gangs of New York?
[re=253202]bitchincamaro[/re]: You have been hypnotized by the Tweety Pendulum Effect. Which is that whenever Tweety is found to say something viewed as compromising to conservatives (“Oh God, here comes Jindal the lawn jockey”), he books Tom Delay the next evening. And if he mouths off about how slutty Chelsea Clinton looks and that he wouldn’t fuck her with Vince Foster’s dead dick, he responds to the backlash by booking Tom Delay the next evening.
[re=253191]freakishlystrong[/re]:
I watched it. GOP rhetoric has always been unhinged, and no one does it better than DeLay. It’s just a shame Matthews didn’t have on a firebrand Liberal on to put DeLay in his place. Harold Ford is far too diplomatic to respond to DeLay in kind. What I’d like to have seen is someone who could point out that 1) the GOP has been accusing Democrats of wating to turn the US socialist since FDR helped pull us out of the Great Depression, and 2) The History of American politics is basically a history of successive Democratic administrations putting the country back on a sound fiscal footing after the disastrous, fiscally irresponsible policies of the previous GOP administration, all the while having to endure hypocritical rants by GOP politicians against the difficult decisions that had to be made to rescue the country so that it might keep on running for another couple of decades.
[re=253191]freakishlystrong[/re]: I saw it too. What relevence does that bug killing crook have anymore and why does tweety have him on all the time? I can’t keep myself from screaming at the screen whenever he comes on, which disturbs my cat and make my television feel bad.
[re=253210]Cape Clod[/re]: [re=253209]Serolf Divad[/re]: [re=253202]bitchincamaro[/re]: Thanks, that got the taste of rancid bug spray out of my mouth, on to Snark!
The stupid “science” nazis forgot to do a double-blind test vs. the Hobo Beans Diet(tm). They would have found that taking away everyone’s jobs decreases rates of obesity, diabetes, and lung cancer.
[re=253207]Mr Blifil[/re]: Excellent observation.
Perhaps Delay should be on Tweety, Keith, or Rachel every night, so his hollow, mean-spirited rhetoric is even more exposed. And maybe Rush’s new boy Gov. Booby Jindal can spew jibber-jabber too (“Be a Do Bee, not a Don’t Be”).
Too many folks have lived under the slimy black boot of their societal bullying for too long.
[re=253184]ManchuCandidate[/re]: Damn straight! Ronnie’s remains are now worm crap, but worm crap is what passed for Repug wisdom. When/if they figure that out they may win an election outside of the Confederacy, Mormonville and Orange County. Until then let’s put this country back together a little bit. And my pal Grant wants another drink.
Comment Option One:
They only told Stevie Wonder he was at the White House.
Comment Option Two:
Michelle always seemed more like a Barry White kind of girl.
Text in your comment choice today.
I thought DeLay’s big sin was he’s a closet kid-diddler? So I want to make it clear that Tom DeLay is in fact rumored to be a closet kid-diddler, and as such, should be ignored by all on the side of justice in the coming poors v. riches class war, because I heard he was a closet kid-diddler, who likes to diddle kids in his spare time, which is pretty much all of his time these days since he’s no longer a corrupt congressman (who is a closet kid-diddler, allegedly) and nobody’s hiring useless, ineffective republican lobbyists because they have no power, thanks to people like the alleged kid-diddler, Tom DeLay. Also. Allegedly.
[re=253207]Mr Blifil[/re]: “DeLay reaction”?
[re=253400]hobospacejungle[/re]: Does Drudge know?
Re: Barry getting laid. A friend of his from the community-organizing days in the 80s tells me that Barry attracted a lot of healthy attention back then but apparently shied away from it all until he went off to Harvard and returned married, to this guy’s great surprise.
Hey, no matter who is hanging out at my house, I play some Stevie and I get laid. Stevie is powerful. Just sayin’.
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