Wonkette
- Happy New Year (or “Rosh Hashanah”) to all Wonkette’s Jewish friends! Traditionally one rings in the new year by dipping apples in honey and telling one’s parents that of course, one is absolutely going to synagogue tonight. [Washington Post]
- An alternative way to celebrate: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced earlier today that the Holocaust was a myth. Ok! [New York Times]
- And speaking of Iran, Obama is going back on all Reagan’s Cold War/Star Wars missile defense plans in favor of sending a signal to Israel and the Arabs that the US is well aware of what a bad scene Iran is. [New York Times]
- Max Baucus will do exactly whatever his new friend Olympia Snowe would like him to do to his health care bill, so long as it does not alienate his old group of friends, the Democrats, in the process. [Wall Street Journal]
- Apparently nostalgic for a time when people cared about this, the House and the Senate easily passed some crucial legislation BANNING the ACORNs from receiving federal money. [Los Angeles Times]
- Kim Jong-Il told some Chinese guy, an envoy, that no one had anything to worry about re: North Korea nuking the planet maybe. Despite this, for whatever reason, people are still worried. [Reuters]
It takes a tough woman to make a tender daily briefing, Juli.
Max Baucus can stick the Wellpoint health care bill up his ass.
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In truth, Lil Kim told the envoy to “keep fucking that chicken.” The envoy reported to his bosses that Kim reassured him on nukes, because seriously, who would believe that he was told to keep fucking a chicken?
Mmmmm, apples dipped in honey. If it were me, I’d offer some of the apples to my parents anytime they brought up the subject of attending services. “Am I going to Synagogue tonight? Say, Dad, have you seen the apples yet? Don’t they look yummy?”
Lil’ Kim, I’m-a-dinner-jacket, Mad Max Baucus, it’s a cavalcade of da crazy this morning. One correction, Max has no friends, only betrayed supporters and his Johns in the health care lobby, Senatorial Sex Worker, it’s a lonely job…
OK, let me see if I’m getting this right:
(1) The House and Senate nearly unanimously cut off funding for a group widely associated with grass-roots Democratic organizing.
(2) The Senate Democratic leadership is bending over backwards, gutting provision after provision from its proposed health-care reform bill in the vain hopes of pleasing at least one Republican by creating a bill so regressive in its economic effects and so inimical to the popular good that it’s passage would doom the Democratic party to losing the House and Senate in 2010 by a landslide.
(3) Democrats hold a comfortable majority in both houses as well as the Presidency.
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One can only surmise that the Democrats are a pack of worthless, spineless, gutless pussies who resemble nothing so much as a pathetic, abused child trying desperately to win the approval of a domineering, alcoholic, psychotic father who only married a woman he despises because she got pregnant, and who’s not even sure the kid is his in the first place.
Serolf Divad: That’s not very bipartisan of you, Serolf.
Serolf Divad: What about canceling a few relationships with a few companies that ALSO have a few issues: Halliburton has RAPE charges against one of its employees & Blackwater/Xe has MURDER charges against some of it employees, just for a start…
WhAt ThE FuCk????
Serolf Divad: Or, despite the progressive lies they told on the campaign trail, the Democrats aren’t all that different from repubs and are happy to blame the repubs while crafting legislation designed to please no one but insurance company execs.
Serolf Divad: In pikshers! http://www.salon.com/comics/tomo/2009/05/19/tomo/index.html
Two political parties, one cup.
Serolf Divad: And daddy writes the checks… on an account filled with “money” from hedge funds.
Serolf Divad: I’ve been thinking that all damn morning, you just said it better.
OMG, it’s in WaPo that I’m not going to shul tonight? Please don’t tell my folks. And as for Elohim, tell him/her/it I’ll be thinking of him/her/it while I’m on the dance floor at Cobalt tonight.
Okay I need a refresher. On your planet, are the Democrats like “Scratchy” and the Republicans like “Itchy”, or is it the other way around?
I know that one party is always cowering and pissing its pants in fear, and the other just abuses him, but I forget which is which.
We usually translate “The Simpsons” before the news out here because it’s easier to understand. Although the news is funnier.
Yesterday evening I caught part of a radio report on the anti-ACORN legilstation that said this may not be legal. Apparently there is some “technical” thing about a bill that prohibits funding a particular organization. Perhaps it’s written either way - funding or not funding.
My point: If this is true, did we elect 535 people to the House and Senate who don’t know this?
As the junior Senator from Minnesota would say, “Wow!”
Uncertainty Vice-Principal: I think it’s passed beyond Itchy and Scratchy and into the realms of Beavis and Butthead.
The Holocaust is worst than a myth, it is something that happened 100 years ago (rounding up to the nearest 100th).
Serolf Divad: Yes, that.
And because you’ve finished your work and it was exceptional, you are excused for the rest of the day. Merry Jewish Columbus Day, friend!
Come here a minute: Juli can leap tall buildings in a single bound, or a most two hops and a bounce. *sigh*
Just spitballing here, but Baucus could probably pick up a few Republican votes by adding a provison requiring the poor to sell their organs to pay for coverage.
magic titty: In my school district it’s known as Yom Ha-Teacher Inservice.
magic titty: I thought it was Jewish Administrative Professional Day.
The funny thing about the Obama approach to missile defense is that it is something that might actually work. WEAK ON DEFENSE!!!!!
Serolf Divad: “One can only surmise that the Democrats are a pack of worthless, spineless, gutless pussies who resemble nothing so much as a pathetic, abused child trying desperately to win the approval of a domineering, alcoholic, psychotic father who only married a woman he despises because she got pregnant, and who’s not even sure the kid is his in the first place.”
So you are saying we are actually well represented.
hobospacejunkie: WIN!
Vulpes82: magic titty: bureaucrap: Terry:
Well, guess what YESTERDAY was? Constitution Day, huh? I didn’t see any of you commie jews celebrating that one on the message boards.
Why do you all hate America?
Note to Jon Stewart: Your commentary on ACORN was not funny. You tried to trade laughs for more hungry children, and failed on the laughs part.
Shana tova umetukah, Juli
Dean Booth: I thought his ACORN segment was one of the best things the Daily Show has done in the last few years.
Boy, Ahmadinejad is so going to Muslim hell for this, and the Christian hell, too, if we’re lucky.