Wonkette
- JPMorgan Chase reported $3.6 billion profits for the third quarter. This is one of those folkloric “good economic news” stories! [New York Times]
- Now that Obama (& Olympia Snowe!) have defeated Chuck Grassley, Baucus, etc., he must now combat Big Health Insurance Lobby. [Washington Post]
- There’s a second gold rush, except it’s a rare minerals rush, happening right now in California’s Mojave Desert. Go west, young man. [Los Angeles Times]
- Hillary Clinton yelled at America and Russia for running around like this is still the Cold War. It’s not, apparently, was her point. [CNN]
- Exciting job opening! Lots of potential for growth: Rep. Robert Wexler of Florida has quit and taken a job at Center for Middle East Peace and Economic Cooperation.
- McChrystal is worried that all corruption in Afghanistan might basically cancel out the work that new troops could (will) be doing over there. [AP]
Bummer about Wexler. Must have been all those hookers and blow.
I will await Matt Taibbi’s explanation of how this really shouldn’t count as profit for JPMChase.
It appears our Ken Layne has chosen exactly the wrong time to take leave of the Mojave Desert.
I assume we can expect word of former Rep. Wexler’s kid-diddling any moment now. Or at least word of his impending bankruptcy. Kid-diddling would be preferable, apart from how it involves younglings.
It’s a little late in the day to be worrying about corruption in Afghaniland, McCrystalPepsi, you fuckwit.
New AP Headline: Indiscriminate Bombing of Afghan Civilians by Robot Planes, Entire Campaign Run by Headline-Grabbing Cover-up Artist concern Corporal Norbizness.
Of course the Mojave Mineral Rush had to start while Layne is wandering along Pismo Beach. Call him back! A little lanthanum could keep Wonkette going for years.
Nice to see McChrystal is concerned about Afghanistan now after undermining the President.
What’s a Faceobok?
*ahem* Big Heath Insurance Lobby? *ahem*
/grammar Nazi
Hillary Clinton … admonished those in the U.S. and Russian governments who haven’t moved beyond a Cold War mentality. She then covered her mouth and let out an odd cough, that sounded like she was saying “McCain”.
Yay, bank profits! With the joy of trickle down, those down and out Ferrari and Yacht salesmen will have happy days again!!!
queeraselvis v 2.0: Um, that’s not a grammar error, it’s a spelling error. Ahem, also.
/Nazi
ManchuCandidate: I believe it is spelled “tinkle down”
Thank God Olympia Snowe worked so tirelessly to fuck up the health care reform bill so we could cum together and call in “bi-partisan”. Yes, no mention of all the heavy lifting Democrats have done in the run-up to this horseshit.
Godammit I hope this health care fiasco doesn’t short-circuit Barney Frank’s efforts to re-regulate finance. There is nothing more odious in these times of 17% real unemployment (apart from war) than obscene bank profits. Because those bank profits will go into the back pockets of the very people responsible for the 17% unemployment.
freakishlystrong: “it”. “yet”
/IdiotNazi
bluehenken: It means ‘to get obok all over your face’, hence it’s another variant of ‘BJ’.
bluehenken:
“What’s a Faceobok?”
Type of African gazelle.
I’d like hobospacejunkie: Socialism is bad, the worst of all possible things. Feudalism, on the other hand, is apparently okay.
Aflac Shrugged: Typographical errors, incidentally, are awesome.
Cape Clod:
That’s elderly Jewish hookers from the Miami Beach and the so-called blow is Motzah meal.
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/AP/story/1282088.html
Rep. Wexler: The Nobel Committee awarded the job at the Center for Middle East Peace and Economic Cooperation to Barry, undeserving though he may be.
bluehenken: It’s a social networking site for animals that kind of look like gazelles, in Africa, also.
ManchuCandidate: A round of Sterno on me.
queeraselvis v 2.0: I had a big Heath Bar for breakfast. Better than cereal but not as good as whiskey.
Where do I sign up for Faceobok? Is that anything like Twirtte?
MattW: For real, having an editor that pretty much lives there would position this war-and-assfucking blog for perpetual success.
Great news about JPMorgan Chase! Now they can pay the gubbmint back for those bailout loans, right? Right?
queeraselvis v 2.0: So its eaten too much and put on a little weight, why go all Nazi?
norbizness: Thanks for the link. I’d not seen that before.
Isn’t it kind of funny how McChrystal was screaming bloody murder for new troops, and then we find out that he doesn’t believe the new troops can make a difference, anyway, because of the corruption? Isn’t there some moral compass thingy in the military where you only call for more warring (i.e. the inevitable death of more American troops) if you believe the price is worth it? So, let me get this straight, he’s calling for more troops to fight a war he’s not sure if we could win, anyway?
Sorry, it’s time to fire his ass. His drama queenery has got to stop. It’s really too bad, because he seemed like a decent, competent guy when they promoted him.