- New stimulus money is maybe on the way! This time they are calling it “an extension of the first stimulus package” and it does not care for nicknames. [New York Times]
- The U.S. gave Pakistan $1.5 billion/year, for the next five years, simply to stop doing a thing: namely, supporting terrorism. [New York Times]
- Obama’s headed to the counter-terrorism part of downtown McLean to hand out new offensive and defensive plays. [Washington Post]
- David Letter apologized to his wife, on television! How could she not trust something produced by the staff of the David Letterman Show? [CNN]
- How did our gal Sotomayor do yesterday, on Supreme Court opening day? She WON with 36 questions asked, and Scalia only batting 30. [LA Times]
- The International Energy Agency asked for a suggested donation of $10 trillion dollars over the next ten years. This is adorable. [WSJ]
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October 6, 2009
According To Math, Scalia Is Only 5/6 As Interested As Sotomayor
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10 Trillion is a little steep, but we have sent them a free National Parks Calendar, a set of “Planet Earth” DVD’s and put them on our email distribution list.
More stimulus money on the way?
SURGE!
In future, please put apocalyptic news at the head of the line; just makes my trip to the liquor cabinet that much quicker. Thank you.
The Prez is coming to my building at 10ish! Im excited! I plan on yelling ROSEBUD when he arrives!
If $1.5b is good enough for Pakistan, what the hell is the IEA going to do with $1t? Snort it?
Let’s send the stimulus money to girl jobs like teaching and nursing this time. The boys and their big construction machines have had enough fun.
Maybe they could’ve listened to Krugman the first time around and had fewer of the retarded tax breaks (for unemployed people who can’t pay taxes!) and more of the spendy stuff? How’d that bipartisan dogshit part of the stimulus working out, anyway?
Sotomayor has to ask a lot of questions because she is just a girl and, therefore, slower to catch on. The goal should be to be to be so knowledgeable that you can judge without asking a single question, or even listening to argument, like Clarence Thomas.
Did Clarence Thomas continue his tradition of watching every pitch sail by?
It’s not fair to count Sotomayor’s 36 questions that way, since 18 were in English and the other 18 were in Espanish.
If Sotomayor & Scalia were eating alone together & he suddenly did a Mama Cass do you think she’d just slowly get up, go lock the door, then sit down across from him & finish her lunch while awaiting the inevitable?
Because that would totally be the wrong thing to do, is what I’m saying.
I wish they’d toss some stimie money at us homeowners of older houses. You know, fix up grants to keep those carpenter guys busy and out of the bars during the Winter.
I suggest a $10 trillion donation to me. But since times are tough, I will settle for just $1 billion, which is 0.01% of ten trillion. A bargain!
[This calculation made possible by Microsoft Excel, and by viewers like you]
“New stimulus money is maybe on the way…. and it does not care for nicknames.”
well, where’s the fun in that? we could call it “maybe money.” or “dollars for dummies.” or “defibrillation dollars.” clear!
[re=427410]Johnny Zhivago[/re]: Don’t forget the complimentary tote bag.
Why don’t we combine our anti-terrorism $ and the stimulus $? Mr. President. I am definitely not supporting terrorism? Please send me $1million (a bargain) and I will continue to not support terrorism!
[re=427421]AggieDemocrat[/re]: From the article: Justice Clarence Thomas has not asked a question for more than three years.
Yeah, that .000 average is fairly special.
$10 Trillion?
Jeebus! Do you expect to take that from the world’s arm’s mad money? Silly physicists. The world’s energy problems are small potatoes compared to our desire to kill each other with high and low tech gizmos.
Speaking of el WaPo, they did a real non-satirical profile of Orly Taintz. They called her the “most prominent figures in the movement questioning Obama’s qualifications.” Hahahaha oh, WaPo, you stupid stupid bitch.
[re=427426]slappypaddy[/re]: Call it “dollars from dummies” and you got yourself a deal.
‘Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and … ” Thomas relies on that element of doubt.
[re=427430]Mahousu[/re]: Zero questions in 3 years? Wow. I have no words. Should have sent poets. George H. W. Bush’s finest hour. From the family that keeps on giving.
[re=427432]El Pinche[/re]: WashPo is the Clarence Thomas of newspapers?
And I see how you emasculated that talk show guy’s name, Juli Weiner.
I’d rather have public option than giving more crooks more stimulus cash.
Unless the stimulus is 25k to buy insurance and pay my high deductibles.
They’re not really asking for 10 trillions, just saying that this is what it will cost to *save the planet*. Maybe at today’s prices and factoring in executive compensation and perks. But when the water reaches the doorstep and breathing becomes more painful, I bet whoever is left out there be willing to do it for less.
[re=427434]BeWoot[/re]: Oh he’s just not saying anything because he wants it to be over so that he can rush home and load his dishwasher. It is magic you know.
A suggested trillion dollars a year? I have a feeling we’ll be checking the box marked “other” and sending in a coupon for a free Frosty.
Scalia and Thomas are just confused because they are in the presence of a Latina and don’t understand why she isn’t either a stripper, porn actress, Rosie Perez or (in Scalia’s case) Carmen Miranda.
I’m pretty sure Larry King pooped himself during his show last night. Pooped himself out of excitement, that is. He had as guests some dumbass clown who has his own judge show, another clown doctor from a celebrity addict show (?) and an anachronism, i.e. an editor from Time magazine. Larry’s a real hard-hitting journalist.
[re=427420]Canmon (the Inadequate)[/re]: Clarence Thomas is so special that Bush the First didn’t even wait for him to get any serious experience.
I forgot to add that Larry King’s media whore circus had David Letterman as the main topic. Because there’s nothing more important in this time of 17% unemployment and an obstructionist opposition party than an adult male having sex with adult females. Scandal!
[re=427432]El Pinche[/re]: the funny thing about WaPo, other than it sucks, is Limblah keeps calling it state controlled media. They want it all Fox and Investors Business Daily. Grayson was buried on page 12 in WaPo when he did his thing last week.
Oh yeah, more troops!
Targetting Iran…and tripling aid to Pakistan…
Amazing…
Now, this is an epic rant: REPUBLICANS FURIOUS OVER SUDDEN U.S. POPULARITY
By Elvis Dingeldein
“Oh Teh Christ™, if only Barack Obama were as popular in his own country (Psst: That’s “America,” Wingnut Douchebags!) as he is worldwide right now! While Republicans are taking out ads in Soldier of Fortune and using Vicks Vap-O-Rub to whip up some phony face tinkle, Democrats are poking Progressives in their Angry Mad Growly Faces and Progressives are readying themselves to MoveOn (dot-ROAR!) because the President hasn’t yet rescinded Don’t Ask Don’t Tell while kicking the doors off the hinges at Guantanamo in a spectacular A-Team-style raid to free all the wrongly-testicle-tasered brown people, huzzah!” …
[re=427422]Kingbee[/re]: You mean Mexican, don’t you?
[re=427418]house of the blue lights[/re]: In seriousness, this is an excellent idea. I shall write/email/fax my representatives today!
Clarence Thomas is the garden gnome of the Supreme Court. Seated silently with brains made of cement.
[re=427430]Mahousu[/re]: Oh my god.
You can haz $10T if it pays for my right-sized passive-solar house with geothermal climate control and windmill-generated power. I’ll take one of those Lexus LS hybrids, too.
Excuse me but does this mean Letterman is still on the air? Who knew? Yep true-a-rooney-tooney, no such thing as bad publicity.
Hope everyone saw Dylan McDermott and Anthony Wiener beating up on health insurance whore Betsy McGaughey just now on MSNBC. Pointless, but awesome. They really got under her heavily gessoed skin.
Yay for stimulus! Soon our crumbling roads and bridges will ALL have new stripes and shrubberies.
[re=427460]V572625694[/re]: http://mediamatters.org/blog/200910060012
[re=427423]hobospacejunkie[/re]: Would the result be silence? How could that be wrong?
I want Rep. Weener to succeed Hopey in 2016. Actually I’d be fine with 2012, but I’ll wait.
Thirty six questions? Sounds like my wife (also a Latina) who just won’t STFU.
[re=427460]V572625694[/re]: Betsy McGaughey is a creature of Frankensteinian proportions and visage, assembled from body parts cadged by crypt-keeper, George Pataki, NY’s next senator. Good to know somebody tore her a new asshole.
[re=427452]Barrett808[/re]: indeedy. need to hear more from that guy.
i went to grade school with a Dingledein. no shitt’n.
[re=427460]V572625694[/re]: Dylan McDermott?
I wrote to the Post ombudsman- about Oily- but I am sure my answer will be “thank you for your comment”. It almost always is that- if the ombudsman bothers to reply.
[re=427452]Barrett808[/re]: I’ve read that a couple of times, and still have absolutely no idea what is being said. That’s some convoluted writing, even by Wonkette standards.
Question # 32: Hey Scalia, does it look like I chipped a nail? (asked with right middle finger extended)
[re=427447]hobospacejunkie[/re]: Well, it would appear that it was consensual, with no qualudes involved, so no wonder it had to be deeply probed.
[re=427459]Paul Tardy[/re]: Yeah, I read in the Wonkette comments that Letterman’s WAY more popular than Leno, and always has been.
“Justice Clarence Thomas has not asked a question for more than three years.” But he loves his parking space.
[re=427503]finallyhappy[/re]: He wrote back “thank you for your comments” I must have ESP.
[re=427424]fishskicanoe[/re]: shirtless. shirtless carpenter guys. Just sayin’
Clarence Thomas hasn’t said shit in 3 years? – what is he some kind of vascular plant? Should someone check to make sure he isn’t dead? wtf?
“The U.S. gave Pakistan $1.5 billion/year, for the next five years, simply to stop doing a thing: namely, supporting terrorism.”
Not really a big deal when you consider that we give Israel about $2.2 in military aid every single year for quite the opposite. Ammirite? Per capita, that country gets more aid than any other. BTW, Obama’s 2010 budget appropriates $2.8 million in military aid to Israel; half of that particular pot for that fiscal year.
“New stimulus money is maybe on the way! This time they are calling it “an extension of the first stimulus package” and it does not care for nicknames.”
Fuck the stimulus’ tender feelings. She’s getting a nickname, and it will be…”Stimulus v.1.5″
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