Wonkette
- Notre Dame has a proud history of protesting presidential commencement speakers for whatever reason they can come up with. [Chicago Tribune]
- The White House stole the Washington Post’s idea of having live online chats, and now Barack Obama will engage in a brisk, informative bout of sexytime with cybernetic voters on Thursday. [USA Today]
- Everybody and their mother filed a mortgage refinance application last week after rates fell to historic lows. [Wall Street Journal]
- Tim Geithner and Ben Bernanke want more power to step in and shut down or radically alter non-bank financial institutions, which will presumably just transfer all the AIG-style shenanigans to banks. [Bloomberg]
- Supreme Court justices agree that a very opinionated documentary about Hillary Clinton released during the Democratic primaries last year was “not a musical comedy.” [New York Times]
- Japan’s exports have fallen off miserably since the economy turned sour. [Guardian]
Ah, conservative Catholicism, a/k/a Queen of Heartsism: “Sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
Most interesting about the “Hillary” movie oral argument was Justice Anthony Kennedy’s amazing command of current trends in digital technology.
Serolf Divad: It’s kind of reasurring in a way. I’m not sure I want a SCOTUS justice saying ZOMG JUST UZE TORRENTZ LOL.
Does the Hillary movie have audience participation? Clap-clap point-point squawk-squawk.
Fun for the 12 kids in your wingnut family.
By the way, it is true that everyone is refi-ing their mortgages. My mom and I applied for ours; I don’t think we’ll get approved though, as we don’t have mortgages.
On Tuesday, a bishop whose diocese includes Notre Dame said he would not attend the commencement, citing as one of his factors Obama’s recent decision to expand federal funding of embryonic stem-cell research.
“While claiming to separate politics from science, he has in fact separated science from ethics and has brought the American government, for the first time in history, into supporting direct destruction of innocent human life,” Bishop John D’Arcy of the Diocese of Ft. Wayne-South Bend said in a statement.
“For the first time in history?”
Bishop D’Arcy must also have protested against both Georges Bush, because they, too, “brought the American government… into supporting direct destruction of innocent human life,” as has every US President whoever sent troops abroard.
Of course, in the Bushes’ case, the innocents slaughtered weren’t embryos, weren’t Yanquis, and - most importantly - weren’t Catholic, so who gives a fuck?
Selective memory much?
Serolf Divad: I find it helps to think of “The Kindle” as Etch-a-Sketch, V 2.0.
Not sure if Geithner will be granted more power. One thing is for sure from this funny video… the banks are using the bank is good for you.. cough cough.
http://www.governmentalityblog.com/my_weblog/2009/03/using-the-bank-is-good-for-you.html
Servo:
I hear you get in for free if you dress up like Dr. Frankenfurter.
Jsab: using the bank is good for you*
Canuckledragger: especially considering that these unbaptised ‘children’ will, according to the catholic church, end up in limbo when they die, what does it matter?
it’s not like they were were going to be frolicking (or whatever embryos do) in heaven.
Serolf Divad: you need to take that back NOW, i’ve just had an image of bill clinton dressed up as frankenfurter.
“not a musical comedy.” What, no “Pirates of Pantsuits”?
WAKE UP SHEEPLE!!1
I read Matt Taibbi’s piece in RS last night. I will not be getting out of bed. Today or ever. Geithner can do whatever the fuck he wants. Makes no difference relative to the stupendous amounts already given away by Bernanke and friends. We are all doomed. Doomed, I say!
ARE YOUR MORAN BRAINS FRIED YOU STOOPID RACIALLY INSENSITIVE INTOLERANT LIBTARDS??11!! HE WILL HAVE THE TELEPROMPTRZ RIGHT IN FRONT OF HIM ZOMG HOW DUMB!!11!!1 THERE WILL BE NOBODY THERE BUT COMMIE TRAITOR INTOLERANT JEW DAVID AXELROD TO SAY HE WASNT TOTALLY CHEATING!!11 WHILE HE IS TYPING ON HIS LAPTOP IN HIS JAMMIES SMOKING A DOOB WITH A HOOKER IN A CHE GUEVARA MASK WORKING HIS MANDINGO APPURTENANCE. WAKE UP AMERIKKA NOOBAMA WHAT DO WE REALLY KNOW ABOUT HIM
entropy:
That’s pre-Vatican II. Oh, wait, that’s where Benedict and the Catlick Fundies want to take us. Never mind. I better figure out where I packed away those lace doilies and bobby pins so I can start covering my head during Mass.
hobospacejungle: For you:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pfS5wjc2LA
now Barack Obama will engage in a brisk, informative bout of sexytime with cybernetic voters on Thursday.
But when will he be in Second Life for some gay furry cybersex? Or is that more Biden’s job?
Mr Blifil: Little ol’ me? Why thank you, kind sir. For indeed, I’m scared as hell and I’m…going to sit here and take it for a while. Howard Beale is a saint.
Mr Blifil: Don’t mean to be picky, but you left the third “k” out of “AMERIKKKA.”
I hope that during the Intertubes Chat with the Muslin that this guy doesn’t show up
http://hillsidelending.files.wordpress.com/2007/03/pic_morpheus.jpg
and tell Obama to take the Red Pill.
Serolf Divad: DAMN he give new meaning to ‘Luddite’
WadISay: Nay, the Kindle is a glorious piece of technology, fully worthy of a pair of plastic testicles: KindleNutz.
TGY: You take the blue trucknut and the story ends. You wake in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red trucknut and you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes.
I love the use of the term “shenanigans” to descibe the total collapse of our financial system (first floated by Cramer)
Yes, this was all caused by a couple of fraternity pranks gone bad.
As I have a very short attention span and very little memory, can somebody tell me if the Catholic Church also loudly protested against Bush prosecuting what the Pope declared to be an “unjust war?” Or would having more than one political issue confuse too many of the faithful?
Cars, shmars, so long as I can still get my Wiis!
Ah, Notre Dame, my not-so-proud alma mater. Yeesh. Really, there are a lot of nice folks there. Conservative for a college, but kinda moderate, you know, for the Earth.
I hope Barry goes anyway and charms the stem cells out of those honky papists.
Canuckledragger: Actually, in defense of those Kreepy Konsrvative Katholics, the official position of the Vatican, at least, is “anti-war”. I think maybe the pope even sent W a sternly worded email at some point after that whole Iraq thing started.
So they got their pro-life bonafides covered.
WagTehGod: HEY BRACK NOBAMA HOW OLD R U?
President Barack Obama: I’m 14
WagTehGod: R U A GRRRRRL?
President Barack Obama: Yes. Want to private chat Wag?
WagTehGod: WHAT R U WEARING? CAN I SEND YOU PLANE TICKETS?
President Barack Obama: You are such a n00b. I have my own plane, muthafucka.
americanscandoanything: Abu Grhaib. Also.
“Japan’s exports have fallen off miserably since the economy turned sour.”
Let’s face it, their number one export is hot looking babes…which they stubbornly refuse to export. I know…frustrating!
…he has brought the American government, for the first time in history, into supporting direct destruction of innocent human life…
i.e. “Leave the fucking of little boys to the One True Church, Mr. Muslin.”
College students are so cute when they think anybody gives a fuck what they’re upset about.
Get a clue first. Then we’ll listen.
And, Oh nos! The state of New York just killed New Yorkers. We now have to pay $104/month for a damn MetroCard because the ninnies in charge refuse to use the whole billion or whatever we got for transportation in the stimulus bill. Can I move to DC? Do you need any more New York assholes punking up your Dupont Circle? I hurt for hating-on-
Denby style snark. All we have is Gothamist and they suck.
stolichnayaaa: Accurate write-up by Sara — I recollect protests against speakers Ronald Reagan, then-Vice President H.W. Bush, and our first black president, Spike Lee.
And Jimmy “Porkface Satan” Johnson.
Also.