- This new tax credit thing for businesses that make up new jobs is not entirely despised by everyone in Congress. Even Eric Cantor is like, whatever! [New York Times]
- But speaking of “entirely despised by everyone in Congress”: Obama’s Afghanistan strategy. [Washington Post]
- NASA has discovered an enormous invisible (?) ring around Saturn that’s the size of 1 billion Earths. Next step will be for them to make the case for why we need to blow it up. [CNN]
- The Taliban in Afghanistan say they have no interest in killing Westerners. Swear to god you guys! [Reuters]
- The Supreme Court will now decide whether YouTube videos of animal cruelty count as free speech or whether they should be banned forever. [WSJ]
- And two more Americas (+ 1 Israeli) won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, for something about ribosomes, which sounds suspiciously like that thing the Medicine people did. [LA Times]
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“…you should know that our patience will only increase and that we are ready for a long war.”
I think the Taliban has the same attitude of the Viet Cong. Until we find a way out of there it’ll be an albatross around everything Obama does. And it smells like Bush to boot.
I like the new war blog look. You can’t go wrong with camo green.
We should put NASA on those Taliban. Fuckin blow them up. They don’t give a shit.
I think Nature blowed up Saturn already. NASA would be just blowed up dust into smaller dust. Better to focus US Americanist nukular boms on blowed up something more real like the planet Vulcan where the pointed eared feller lives or Ork where that once funny but not so much anymore guy, Nanoo, came from.
Dick Cheney has taken over NASA. First they’re blowing up the moon, now they find an invisible (trust us!) enemy, err uh, rings, around Saturn. To blow up.
PBS has heard of Wonkette?! Jebus, help us.
Obama’s war is eating Wonkette. Can’t somebody bomb it back to the stone age?
Of course the SCOTUS will find that youtubes of animal cruelty are free speech. They think piles of money large enough to warp spacetime are A-OK as free speech in elections, despite the obvious fact that they also completely subvert our democracy.
[re=428439]Monsieur Grumpe[/re]: You can’t go wrong with camo green. Except in the desert.
Usually I would wish PBS well, but in this case I kind of hope their “Obama’s War” series gets canceled early.
This is like that time CNN ate Wonkette. Does Jim get to keep all that advertising cash since Ken and Sara are MIA and Juli is new?
Sure, the Taliban has no interest in killing Westerners, their focus is on killing all non-muslims, after the obligatory offer of conversion or slavery as alternatives of course, right by the Book these guys are. Oh, and anyone who disagrees with them. And anyone who teaches a female child how to read…
[re=428440]ALIVE![/re]:
Well, except that NASA seems to fairly regularly miss targets the size of Mars so hitting a Taliban camp in the mountains of Afghanistan might be a challenge for them.
I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that there are people who get titillated by seeing small furry animals crushed by women in high heels. Normally I’m a “what ever turns you on is OK by me” kind of guy but this kink is just not right. I’m drawing up plans for a Painful People Pulverizer™. Any investors out there?
I was going to have a look at what this Nobel Prize winning stuff was about and… saw this.
http://www.latimes.com/features/image/la-ig-1004-booth-pictures,0,1575444.photogallery
Will not go back to La Times for a while.
I love the camo takeover of Wonkett. Makes it feel like we’re venturing into the heart of darkness together. I can hear the choppers off in the distance. If we just hold on for another few minutes they’ll be here to airlift us to freedom. Stay with me now. Don’t you leave me, man! Come on, hang in there!
I’m so cold.
[re=428452]Monsieur Grumpe[/re]: Put me down for the PP. Actually anyone who harms kittens & puppies (or whatever) deserves worse than pulverization.
[re=428448]Mahousu[/re]: Wait until Limbaugh says “See, even PBS knows Obama’s the problem.”
[re=428449]ChernobylSoup v2[/re]:
Are you suggesting that Jim is spending the advertising money on fruity umbrella drinks at some beachside resort rather than taking a solo hike up a thousand or so miles of Pacific Coast to contemplate nature and the meaning of life?
[re=428446]slavojzizek[/re]: You go to war with the blog you have, not the blog you wish you had.
In any case, I think the new, militarized Wonkette will make short work of the 2009 Weblog Awards. I do fear they won’t be greeted as liberators, though.
I’d like to read the amicus brief Michael Vick filed to the Supreme Court. I bet he an Scalia probably run an underground cock fighting operation. And I’m not talking about chickens.
Per today’s CNN story: “NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, used to spot the ring, picked up on the heat .”
Oh, I am so sure it did. Isn’t it wild how so many serendipitous discoveries are made in science? You build a space telescope to find three-diamond hookers, and you discover a ring around Saturn. Sweet!
What the fuck is wrong with this country? The SCOTUS has to decide whether animal cruelty is free speech? What the Fuck????!1
Speaking of “entirely despised by me”, why does the Washington Post hate America?
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The Taliban could just grow really great pot, sell it to the U.S. (after it’s legalized, natch) for a small>/b> profit, then Obama can rightly claim we’re ‘democracizing’ the place, and we can bring the troops back to get ready to put people into those internment camps.
WTF .. Have I been redirected to Cabela’s website?
Whoops, I better have some of that stuff to counter my html follies.
What about the most important news in history, ever? Tom “Do these red pumps make me look fat?” Delay has quit So You Think You Can Dance Dancing With The Stars forever.
Link soley chosen for photo attached to article.
[re=428455]hobospacejunkie[/re]: i read, i laughed, i got little chunks of k-rations up my nose.
@M. Grumpe: Sign me up. They don’t need to have done something bad yet to qualify for pulverization. We all know that, in time, they will. They will.
[re=428447]hobospacejunkie[/re]: Well that’s true if you think “democracy” is “the will of the people” or, as it’s known in Skull and Bones, “the tyranny of the majority.” Democracy is actually the will of the people who have the most money, or in the original Greek, Θα του τα χρήματα. You got a problem with that?
[re=428465]chascates[/re]: Good point, chascates!
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[re=428456]chascates[/re]: [re=428470]hobospacejunkie[/re]:
http://www.stedman-machine.com/pdfs/VSlam_Sheet.pdf
Bwahahahahahaha!
Etcetera
I certainly wasn’t the first to say or think it, but I have said it here before that Hopey should get outta Afghaniland cuz no empire has ever done anything but fail there. Think of all the good we could do with $600+ billion/year instead of flushing it down the war profiteering toilet. Which is exactly why we’ll stay there for the foreseeable future.
Can Obama’s War please do battle with Giant Mecha-Campbell Brown?
[re=428473]Monsieur Grumpe[/re]: PERFECT! And it’s made in good old Indiana.
What if human sacrifices were legal in a foreign land, Justice Alito said. “People here would probably love to see it. Live, pay per view, you know, on the Human Sacrifice Channel.”
I like the cut of this Alito fellow’s jib.
The rebranding of Afghanistan as “Obama’s War” might work for a while, but won’t future historians be able to Google the dates of the war vs. Obama’s presidency, and extrapolate that another president, old whatshisname, had actually started it? Sloppy. Well, unless they can change Google and Wikipedia, then maybe this will work.
Any machine from a company named after Oprah’s man can’t be all bad.
[re=428471]V572625694[/re]: No. No sir. I have no problem with that. It’s all Greek to me.
[re=428469]cheeto_jeebus[/re]: You’re very kind.
Will ifthethunderdontgetya” please GTFO. Dude, if you want to advertise your blog, you need to pay the man, just like PBS.
[re=428477]frailamerica[/re]: I would prefer to see Mecha-Campbell Brown get it on with Mecha-Zooey Deschanel.
[re=428461]AggieDemocrat[/re]: “amicus brief”
at first glance i read that as “amicus beef.” mmm, tasty. especially when made into donuts.
[re=428480]TimeCubist[/re]: Gotta admit, that’s pretty good.
No wonder Can’tor is for the tax credit–it should have been done a year ago when it might have been less prone to abuse and a lot more helpful putting folks to work. Of course, Hopey dropped the idea back then, thanks to his bullshit bi-partisanship bullshit. Bullshit!
“Obama’s War”. And now I’m depressed.
[re=428486]slappypaddy[/re]: “amicus brie” is also quite tasty
[re=428494]TGY[/re]: Smells like defeat, to me.
Why does the WAPO have a mime on its Washingtonpost.com page- truly, they do hate us. They suck up to the rightwing and now pandering to mimes!
[re=428484]hobospacejunkie[/re]: Duh! Who wouldn’t?
Tax credits, shmax credits. Didn’t FDR have this problem, with like 50% unemployment? Didn’t he set up a couple of programs, like the CCC and that other one that, being as acronymically challenged as the crazy eyes lady I can’t remember off the top of my head, and weren’t they like huge successes that not only put people to work but built all the trails upon which people walk through our National Parks to this very day?
Why doesn’t Barry do something cool like that instead of fucking around with tax credits, which will only benefit those people who already have enough money to take advantage of them?
Here’s an idea. 100% recycling. It would employ a shitload of people with almost zero training, clean up the environment and add some actual resources into the economy. In a couple of years, let it go private. Or not.
But that’s actually pretty cool about Saturn. The universe is a mighty strange place, indeed.
“We can ill-afford another Klendathu!”
[re=428530]gurukalehuru[/re]:
You must be referring to that time when “socialism” wasn’t such a naughty word.
WTF, NPR!!?? OBAMAS War? Are you kidding me!!??
[re=428494]TGY[/re]:
I’m giving them the benefit of the doubt by not interpreting that title literally.
[re=428548]DemmeFatale[/re]: There would be more outrage but I think most folks realize we lost PBS a while ago. Back when they went from commercial-free to commercial-free but with commercials.
[re=428481]friendlyskies[/re]: You’re right; it’s Bush’s War, Bush’s Depression, Bush’s Deficit, everything bad about the US or the world is Bush’s.
[re=428548]DemmeFatale[/re]: Hey, he inherited it, so now it is his war.
Haven’t seen the doc, but if I know PBS, that will be part of the story, that and the internal debate (war) within the administration on how to deal with this stinking situation.
arming phasers… locking on target…. fire neutron torpedoes…. i need more power, scotty!
I hope SCOTUS decides the right way and it’s declared illegal to show depictions Sean Hannity’s head. That poor hedgehog atop it suffers, how it suffers.
[re=428461]AggieDemocrat[/re]: Yes, because it’s Cocktober, you see.
[re=428486]slappypaddy[/re]: Mmmmm. Amicus beef. Friendly meat?
[re=428618]Jim89048[/re]: well, then that calls for teh rocks and rolls. Who’s in for CocktoberFest ’09?
Sure, NASA’s found out why Iapetus’s hemispheric albedos don’t match, but they still can’t explain the rings around Uranus.
[re=428583]Lascauxcaveman[/re]: [re=428561]hobospacejunkie[/re]: Thanks for talking me down. I shouldn’t post until AFTER my second cup of coffee.
[re=428463]freakishlystrong[/re]: Calm down, freak. Not cruelty, but speech about it. The statute is way over-broad and leaves the decisions as to what are the merits of depictions – educational, informative, harmless Spaniard traditions, etc. – in the hands of your fellow, uneducated, Americans.
That’s the scary part.
[re=428454]Liebestod[/re]: Don’t fret. It’s just a car’s distributor, removed from a Nazi vehicle at a critical juncture in the narrative, allowing the Trapp family to escape. It’s not a multi-player condom.
[re=428450]plowman[/re]: I think you’re getting them mixed up with Al Queda, which is what a lot of conservatives tend to do either out or ignorance and/or laziness. Truth is, the Taliban just wants to be left alone to subjugate its own people; Al Queda’s the one that wants to outsorce death and destruction to the rest of the world.
[re=428566]bamaboy[/re]: “You’re right; it’s Bush’s War, Bush’s Depression, Bush’s Deficit, everything bad about the US or the world is Bush’s.”
Care to explain how any of these things were not messes dumped into the incoming administrations lap by Bush?
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