- The President of the United States went to Norway to accept his Nobel Peace Prize. This is the most controversial thing that has ever happened. [New York Times]
- Meet our nation’s next hated thing: it is “Ginnie Mae,” the absolutely terrifying-sounding Government National Mortgage Association. [Washington Post]
- Defense Secretary Robert Gates is currently touring Iraq and Afghanistan. Death Cab for Cutie is opening. [AP]
- Midwest Friends, you are, at this very moment, submerged in 12 ft. or so of snow, yes? [CNN]
- Five American men were arrested in Pakistan yesterday for (alleged!) terrorism-related future-misdeeds. [Times Online]
- Obama’s new plan for a $200 billion getting-everyone-a-new-job bill is the most despised thing Obama has suggested since the last thing Obama suggested. [WSJ]
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” I will possess your heart… ” – Gates.
If I hear one more time, on any fucking cable “news” channel, that Obama has to “thread the needle” every time the poor bastid gives a speech about ANYTHING, I’m going to cut someone. Balls and all.
“We will not eradicate violent conflict in our lifetimes.” Worst peace prize speech, ever!
I am loving the statue that has been erected to BHO in his native country. It depicts him at age 10, poised to swat a butterfly to death.
Wow, They cancelled classes at U of Wisconsin Madison for the first time since 1990 because of almost 1.5 feet of snow. Here in DC, they close the government when there are 2 inches.
Obama shouldn’t get all upset about the Republicans working to keep the economy in the shitter. If they don’t, what kind of chances will they have in the upcoming elections? They have a right to think about their own political futures, too!
House Republican Conference Chairman Mike Pence of Indiana said on the White House driveway. “The truth is, the American people know we can’t borrow and spend and bail our way back to a growing economy.”
Er… no… actually, in a recession that’s exactly what you do.
[re=475378]Serolf Divad[/re]: As opposed to borrow and spending into bankruptcy, which is a Republican specialty.
“Obama’s new plan for a $200 billion getting-everyone-a-new-job bill is the most despised thing Obama has suggested since the last thing Obama suggested.”
This makes sense, as the last thing Obama suggested was an Obama-Biden ’09 tag team during a conversation with the missus.
But is Obummers jobs thing as despised as the hhorrifying Ginny Mae is hated?
Ginnie Mae is nothing. Wait til her and her brother Bobby Ray’s mutant offspring comes of age.
Yep… yep… there’s a lot of snow out here. The only way you can get around is to drive your SUV right behind the snow plow. Needless to say, the snow plow driver got a little annoyed that I kept following him around the Wal-Mart parking lot.
“Midwest Friends, you are, at this very moment, submerged in 12 ft. or so of snow, yes?”
Days like this, I remind my relatives in the Midwest how comparatively temperate the weather is in the mid-Atlantic. When we get snow, we freak out and buy bread then wait for the snow to melt will drinking cocoa and eating lots of toast.
Why does the GOP hate prosperity?
[re=475378]Serolf Divad[/re]: Why do these rightwingers always purport to be speaking for “the American People”? They know they’re in the minority, so who are these people they’re supposedly speaking for, other than the low-information strident minority? Don’t speak for me, Pence.
Republicans pushed Mr. Obama to freeze federal spending, a plea the president answered by repeatedly challenging them to produce an economist who believed that cutting spending now would be a good idea. Republicans also want assurances that taxes won’t be raised and that new regulations won’t be issued until the unemployment rate falls well below the current 10%.
Mr. Obama took a Sharpie and wrote a single word on each of his palms after Mr. Boehner spoke: “WISH” on his left, and “SHIT” on his right. “See which one fills up first, Boehner,” Mr. Obama said, immediately prior to launching a tears-inducing kick to Mr. Boehner’s groin. [/wishful thinking]
I still am inordinately fond of Hopey, but I think he could have taken time out of his schedule to meet the King of Norway.
Don’t worry, we can win this. – Various historical figures.
[re=475378]Serolf Divad[/re]: These are Republicans, though; they don’t let facts get in their way. Hell, some of my Republican friends actually claim that FDR’s policies didn’t end the Depression, but made it worse.
Also, these guys don’t even acknowledege policies they themselves enacted just a few years ago: “Instead, Republicans held firm to a strategy of challenging Mr. Obama’s economic policies and blaming him for the $1.4 trillion deficit.”
With the gravitas and dignitas conferred by this prize, I would hope the next time our President is giving an address to Congress and some sleazy little peace of shit Senator from some hateful little racist state down South interrupts to call him a liar, he marches right down off that podium and bites his fucking nose and lips off like Hannibal Lecter.
Mr. Camp, the ranking Republican on the Ways and Means Committee, also called the Environmental Protection Agency’s move to regulate “what we exhale” — carbon dioxide — “ludicrous.”
I propose regulating what Mr. Camp inhales.
[re=475375]finallyhappy[/re]: I sincerely hope Bascom Hill is filled with kids sliding past Abe Lincoln on lunch trays. Do it, do it, do it!
Bascom Hill was filled with snowballs!
Snowday at UW-Madison equals Best.Day.Ever
18.5″ of snow is what we LIVE for.
-5 with -25 windchill = today, well, not so much.
[re=475410]caieva[/re]: and that’s why god invented hot apple cider. (with booze, because you’re in college.). Have fun!
I have a Kid(okay, an adult child) in Wisconsin, likely not in the snow- probably sleeping the snow day(s) away.
Yeah, yeah, ‘to get a ton of peace you sometimes need a peck of war’. ‘Nothing’s more peaceful than a dead troublemaker.’ We’ve heard all that jazz.
Oh God, that Times picture with the prize. He’s like, why did you stupid Aryan guys have to force this buttsecks on me, dammit?
[re=475374]wheelie[/re]: “”He only spent four years as a child, but you know what those four years may have been the ones that shaped him”
into the Barry we all know and love – a bloodthirsty abortionist who steals from the Danes.
That is some pretty impressive maturing — only spending 4 years as a child. I spent at least 25.
It must also be noted that the Nobel speech is not a “speech”, it is a “lecture”. Typical Obama, always lecturing! PRESUMPTUOUS!
Racist Pat Buchannan drops the H-bomb on Obama.
[re=475437]Come here a minute[/re]: “PRESUMPTUOUS!” You forgot “ARROGANT!”
A friend saw this bumper sticker in Austin today:
“Bombing for Peace is like Fucking for Virginity”
Barry better not lose Austin supporters because there isn’t any other city in the whole damn state with as much Barry love (or sense or teeth or minimal trailer parks or….)
[re=475384]Terry[/re]: I would like to express a gentle fuck you to everyone on the planet who is responsible for the -20 windchill bullshit i just walked through JESUS CHRIST i hate every fucking thing right now seriously even punctuation NO SHITTING if there is a palin piece today or anything out of g becks mouth i will burn things burn things burn things for warmth and anger also but mostly for warmth
and anger
[re=475384]Terry[/re]: As if anyone needs proof of climate change, we here in SE Michigan have had nothing but light flurries; Houston, however, has had at least 2″ of snow so far this season.
[re=475459]el_chupacabra[/re]: Wow, you’re in for a loooooong winter. You must live in Texas.
[re=475375]finallyhappy[/re]: AND I STILL WENT TO WORK !!! but we only got a foot or so, here …(a few hours north of mad-town)…
i was in cincinnatti on business one time, and they got a half-inch of snow that morning…cars sliding everywhere, schools closed, city paralyzed…
pussies.
[re=475466]Crazybroad[/re]: no. chicago. from the south tho. this blows. i’m in for a looooong vacay to mexico.
I’m writing my Congressman to propose a $2.5 billion “Give Everyone a Cat” program. It will boost sales of cat litter and cat toys and help create 25,000 new jobs for allergists.
[re=475454]Texan Bulldoggette[/re]: “Bombing for Peace is like Fucking for Virginity”
Wow. That brought back memories of a peace demonstration on the San Jose State campus in 1970: we hung out a banner with that phrase on the side of our frat house. Good times!
[re=475520]proudgrampa[/re]: Hard to believe, gramps, there was a time when the frat houses weren’t all full raving Young Republican tools. Sometime we’ll sit around the fire and you’ll tell us of other things that happened in the magical times of your youth.
[re=475383]Mild Midwesterner[/re]: Twitter down again?
[re=475405]SayItWithWookies[/re]: That’s so hypocrical for Representative Camp (R-Meth Lab, Mich.) to say when all he exhales are Sterno fumes.
Just a question. How many read the text of Obama’s speech, and how many just read the pundit’s reactions?
[re=475546]Lascauxcaveman[/re]: “..raving Young Republican tools.” – those were the Sigma Alpha Epsilons!
Actually, my Pi Kappa Alpha chapter was more like Animal House, the Movie.
I’d love to share some stories. For example, did you know that once upon a time there was something called Black and White TV?
Today in SoCal: Sunny but the high will not break 60. So, you know, everybody’s suffering.
[re=475613]imissopus[/re]: Damn. That sounds toasty.
Let’s see, what’s the weather for today in sunny Chicago:
“Mostly sunny. Blustery. Very cold. Highs 10 to 14. Wind chills as low as 5 below to 15 below zero. West winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 30 mph at times.”
*sigh*
[re=475778]AxmxZ[/re]: Not so toasty.
We did NOT get the twelve feet of snow, but it is SOOOOO freakin’ cold, I have to sit on my hands for twelve minutes between each sentence I type on my computer for fear of frozen fingers! 53 degrees in my office when I got there this morning…
To: World
From: Barack
Dear World,
War is Peace.
Thank you,
- BHO
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