Wonkette
- Two completely random European journalists are requesting credit for the fall of the Berlin Wall. See, they were the ones who asked tuff questions about it! No one had even THOUGHT about knocking it down—that is, before the quality of their journalism alluded to it. [WSJ]
- Actual winner of Afghanistan’s election, Abdullah Abduallah, might team up with Hamid Karzai in some sort of coalition of convenience, thus rendering a run-off election unnecessary. [New York Times]
- The latest iteration of the Democrats’ fantasy health care bill is $871 billion. Everyone will automatically love it because of how under Obama’s limit of $900 billion it is. [Washington Post]
- Apple has signaled it’s time for you to get a new computer by designing a much, much cooler-looking laptop than than the one you currently have. [CNN]
- Good—eh, well, relatively goodish—news for widow(er)s: Congress passed this new bill that eliminated the two-year marriage minimum of green card eligibility. [Los Angeles Times]
- Obama demanded that Big Finance JUST DEAL WITH his proposed banking regulations. He said this at a $15,000-a-plate DNC fundraiser at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Manhattan. [The Hill]
Don’t you think Abdullah Abduallah would be a dynamite candidate for mayor of New York, New York.
Stupid, probably liberal journalists! Everyone knows Ronnie Raygun knocked over the Berlin Wall himself with his mind lasers, from space!
Anyone who claims Ronnie Reagan didn’t tear that wall down himself, brick by brick, is a damned liar and marxist. Ronald Reagan also.
Where’s the news about our shadow government known as ACORN? It’s been days. Why won’t you cover them? They eat babies you know.
Johnny Zhivago: We really can’t allow him to be president of Afghanistan, because that would just confirm everything that Americans know about Middle-Eastern language and naming conventions. All of which they learned from Team America: World Police.
Under $900 billion, that’s the cost of one month of two wars! Yay! And the repugs still won’t do it.
Look what else dropped in price.
Going Rogue is now $9.00 on Amazon from $19.99 I can use the book as a stand for my new iMac.
Zadig: dum librul: It’s well-known that Reagan sent Bonzo to tear down most of the wall and finished up any remaining work with the lasers implanted in his gleaming Hollywood dental work. To do the whole wall that way would have generated too much heat.
David Hasselhoff brought down the Berlin Wall, through the power of song.
Berlin brought down the David Hasselhoff Wall, through the power of song.
YOU GOT THE TOUCH
YOU GOT THE POWAAAAAAAA~~~~
El Pinche:
Wait until around Christmas, the big conservative organizations will have bought thousands of copies to make it look like the book is popular then will be giving it away on street corners.
El Pinche:
http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/10/20/politics/politicalhotsheet/entry5402427.shtml?tag=cbsnewsTwoColLowerPromoArea;morenews
I’m thinking that removing the two year eligibility on widows (mostly) is a good thing considering that significant % of the said widows became widows through US gubbiment policy (Iraq, Afghanistan.)
No, you sillies. Ronnie Raygun brought down the wall with his mind. He hated socialisms so much that the power of (his) pure thought ended commie-ism throughout the world. And those boasting Romanian clowns who claim they executed Ceaucescu? Ha! Check the bodies: no bullets. 11 months after leaving office, Raygun gave the world an xmas gift by executing Ceaucescu, with his mind, through Hitler.
Zadig: No, no, no. Reagan punched a hole in the Berlin wall with his mighty cock of freedom. You should see what Nancy looks like down there after 52 years of marriage.
Obama’s play on re-regulating Wall Street is doomed to failure, according to none other than the 6′8″ giant economist Frankenstein P. Volcker, who smartly advocates not allowing banks to make risky investments with other people’s money. But since this might go some way toward making our future economy safer & possibly help to stall the transfer of all wealth in US America to the two dozen people who already own everything, the Dept. of Goldman Sachs/Treasury will not allow it to happen.
Italians seriously believe that Pope J2P2 brought down Communism & the Wall. So suck it, Reaganistas.
What is there to be celebrated about having brought down the wall?
Since that great event we have had to pay trillions of Euros to keep East Germany running somehow.
If Reagen is responsible for it I guess we should get some compensation from the USA.
Typing this on my mom’s I-Mac, while visiting in Detroit. Not impressed enough to move back here and live in her basement, though.
Johnny Zhivago: Depends. Does he have more drug dollars than Bloomberg has dependent developers?
Wow, that Apple press release via CNN was … big news.
You people. Reagan was much too busy using his powers of alchemy to transform ketchup into a vegetable and liberating asylum residents to focus on a trivial wall. That job was sub-contracted out to Mark Trail’s Fist o’ Justice.
The Watergate story came to climax with Nixon’s resignation in 1974. When I was editor-in-chief of my school newspaper.
Just sayin’.
When I first read, I thought it said, “Good news for Window-ers” as sort of a consolation prize for the non-Apple users. Unsurprisingly, I am just dyslexic, and Window remains the crap it always has been.
“So if there are members of the financial industry in the audience today, I will ask that you join with us in passing what are necessary reforms — don’t fight them, join us on it,” Obama said…”
Oh, sure — the finance industry gives and gives and gives to the American economy. And what do they get in return? Beaten about the head and shoulders with requests for more regulation so they don’t bankrupt millions of people through sketchy investment instruments and outright fraud. How much more of this abuse will our bailed-out investment banks take?!
You’re all wrong. Everyone knows that Reagan is a puny human next to the real hero of the Berlin Wall: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zXiClnK8oE
Well any man who recently purchased a mail-order bride should sleep with one eye tonight.
Damn you WordPress and your lack-of-preview feature.
with one eye open tonight
Everyone will automatically love it because of how under Obama’s limit of $900 billion it is.
$999 billion is the real target cap for low-low stimulus packages.
V572625694: Do they think the current pope brought down the Maginot Line?
My health care fantasies usually involve sexy nurses and disemboweling the fuckers in charge of Anthem Blue Cross/Blue Shield with a santorum-encrusted rusty fork, not hundreds of billions of dollars and a worthless congress. Oh, and thanks to whomever provided the link to xkcd.com yesterday — I haven’t done a damned bit of work since then.
Big deal about Ronnie. Lech Walesa tore down the Wall Around Poland (R) with his bare hands and his handsome Polish mustache. Solidarność!
“Obama demanded that Big Finance JUST DEAL WITH his proposed banking regulations. He said this at a $15,000-a-plate DNC fundraiser at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Manhattan.”
Wait, is this Obama’s “Sista Souljah” moment?
And, for Double AA Afghan presidential candidate, don’t you just love how all of these candidates that lose to crooks strike “power-sharing” agreements with the crooks? Forget getting democracy right, as long as you get a consolation prize, you can overlook the totally illegitimacy of the crooks win. Double AA (like Odinga and Tszangeri — or however in the hell you spell his name — are stonecold sellouts.
Runoff election for Humid Karzai — sheeit, people, don’t you know that runoff is what happened to the sperm with talent just after Karzai’s conception?
As long as we’re sending people to die for Afghani freedom, couldn’t they have a little actual freedom? Are we being a trifle patriarchal in not allowing them to have their own martyrs for their puppet government? Even Howdy Doody let Buffalo Bob say a few things about how good scouts don’t bomb wedding parties and are thrifty and clean and reverent and don’t set up heroin smuggling ops, and etcetera.