- Nobody’s entirely sure how many, if any, workers are still unaccounted for in the wake of a power plant explosion in Connecticut on Sunday. [Hartford Courant]
- The New Orleans Saints won the Super Bowl, proving that Barbara Bush was exactly right when she said that the city’s residents would benefit from Hurricane Katrina. [ESPN]
- Many Gazan civil servants have not been paid for their work in January, which makes some of them wonder about the solvency of their employer, Hamas. [Haaretz]
- Yulia Tymoshenko, the only world leader to be featured in a vaguely flattering light in Wonkette’s annual War On Xmas Gift Guide, has refused to admit defeat in the Ukraine’s recent election. [Times Online]
- Iran needs enriched uranium to help cancer victims. (?) [Los Angeles Times]
- The President has decided that the best way to deal with Republicans is to meet with them daily on teevee for hours at a time, in order to drain them of their precious bodily fluids. [Washington Post]
DAILY BRIEFING
February 8, 2010
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OT, but where’s the story about Sarah’s crib notes on her hand? I need more laughs on a Monday morning…
Yulia with hair untightened.
http://www.oldfashionedpretty.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/Ukrainian+Prime+Minister+Yulia+Tymoshenko.jpg
Les rawr rawr!
Commercials just aren’t the same since the Demon Sheep.
And in other news, a member of the league of disingenuous twats, Sarah Palin, wrote some shit on her hand like a college freshman cheating on a biology exam because that’s more folksy than using a socialist teleprompter when saying stuff to the three cornered hat loonball douchery assembled for tea.
(Hoof beats of the four horsemen of the apocalypse were heard throughout the speech. OK,” President Palin”, let’s get this prophecy over with Jesus.)
[re=509116]Monsieur Grumpe[/re]: HofGILF, or perhaps even HofSILF. Ms Tymoshenko is unique in more ways than one.
[re=509116]Monsieur Grumpe[/re]: I’m guessing that was a couple of years ago?
[re=509118]WarAndG[/re]:
She’s just walking buzz word with hair.
http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2010/02/08/politics/politicalhotsheet/entry6185820.shtml?tag=stack
[re=509121]Monsieur Grumpe[/re]: “Gaylord Opryland”? Wow.
Hope you like the Superbowl win, New Orleanseans; this should totally make up for continuing failure to do a thing to rebuild your city.
a thousand whore diamonds for the strangelove ref
Not so much that she wrote notes on her hand, but what gets me is that she messed up and scratched out a word.
I think she’s considering a run in 2012, thinking it would be cool to be President for a year or two. After that, who knows?
[re=509120]x111e7thst[/re]: Not necessarily. Yulia really is that hot.
Do not underestimate the Braid of Determination! Go Yulia!
She’s just trying out that new gadget called the Palm.
“The President has decided that the best way to deal with Republicans is to meet with them daily…”
The President has decided that the best way to deal with Republicans is to make them listen to Snowbilly’s Tea Party speech on continuous loop until their ears bleed.
There…fixed.
[re=509121]Monsieur Grumpe[/re]: A “thousand” Tea baggers? Really, CBS? I don’t think so. Even the Tennessee papers down this a way cap it out at maybe 600, many of whom seemed to have not shown up. Walter Cronkite continues to spin in his grave.
[re=509165]MzNicky[/re]: Considering how the ~60,000 Washington teabagger protesters turning into over half a million or more in their claims, that the media initially took at face value, that should mean that at least 6,000 teabaggers were at Sarah’s speech.
I live right across the river from that Middletown, CT power plant. Felt my house shake when it expoded.
[re=509117]The Huffington Pogue[/re]: I agree. 2:26 changed everything!
[re=509165]MzNicky[/re]: well, they DID say 1,000 teabaggers. By which I’m assuming they mean 1,000 balls being teabagged, or about 500 actual people. I’m sure CBS just forgot to clarify that point.
[re=509212]Redhead[/re]: Nice. Any smaller, and this movement could be drowned in a bathtub. Not that you could get a teabagger anywhere near a bathtub.
In interviews following last night’s Super Bowl, Tracey Porter and Drew Brees credited Sarah Palin with the win. “We were inspired by Sarah to write, ‘Make sure you catch the ball’ on our hands,” said Brees. “It really helped!” Porter then added, “I was particularly helped by including ‘Then run real fast’ on my hand. Sarah was a real life saver!”
I had hoped to be all indignant about the “Tim Teabag and His Mommy” ad, but I was still laughing at Letterman, Oprah and Leno – then I fell asleep.
[re=509251]Larry McAwful[/re]: Brees originally wrote “Make sure you grab their balls” on his hands, but he crossed it out and changed it to “Make sure you catch the ball.” Just to make it completely in line with Sarah. Porter’s originally said “Run real fast for the first quarter.”
Drained of bodily fluids? Pretty sure the GOP congressmen go to C street for a good draining before they have to submit to sitting still in a room while being lectured by a person of half-white persuasion for any length of time.
If Yulia Tymoshenko is serious about holding onto her seat of power, she should maybe invoke a certain SCOTUS to flip the vote her way. Is there like a bat ray, or something?
[re=509211]Crank Tango[/re]: That’s why I’m starting the 2:27 club, to remember how we all came together in that moment.
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