- A Miami-Dade judge says there is “no rational basis” for a Florida law prohibiting gays from adopting children. John Cole outlines the wingnut interpretation of the Constitution when it comes to Teh Gay. Now you know what to expect for the next few days. (CBS News/Balloon Juice)
- Repeatedly bailed-out coporation AIG is hard at work making sure bloggers accruately represent how they’re wasting their latest infusion of taxpayer money. They’re media relations department emailed Wonkette and, needless to say, hilarity ensued. (Wonkette)
- DC police are investigating a bank robbery that occurred at 14th and K Street NW this morning. Obviously, this master thief hasn’t been reading the news or he would have known that banks don’t have any money anymore. Still, it’s inspiring to see a taxpayer robbing K Street, rather than the other way around. (DCist)
- Still-President Bush pardoned a guy who pled guilty to killing three bald eagles in 1995. Let freedom ring! (Associated Press)
Archive for posts ‘around the blogosphere’
- Woohoo! Citigroup has been approved to snort $306 billion in bailout crack off of the hooker’s ass that is the United States government. Oh, and because begging the government for taxpayer money comes with absolutely no consequences, $400 million of that money will go to naming the New York Mets’ new stadium Citi Field. And they wonder why nobody has confidence in the market. (New York Times/ABC News)
- Of course, we can all takes some comfort in the fact that Hank Paulson won’t be around much longer to hand out big black checks to corporations in the name of democracy and freedom. This morning, President-Elect Obama named the people who will fix this mess–we hope. Otherwise, getting the Change We Need might involved scrounging around on the ground by vending machines and laundromats. (Change.gov)
- Nate Silver projects that Al Franken will win the Minnesota recount by just 27 votes. What?! I don’t know how he does it, but he has some fancy numbers and variables to back it up. If he’s right, all political reporting that does not come from FiveThirtyEight should be banned. If not, well, at least there’s already a precedent for blowing projections. (FiveThirtyEight.com)
- After ceremonially pardoning a turkey this morning, Sarah Palin stepped outside to do a little press conference. Unfortunately, she didn’t seem to notice that one of the turkeys not fortunate enough to receive her pardon was being slaughtered right behind her. Oops. On a positive note, I guess, the turkey wasn’t killed from a helicopter. Warning: This video may not be appropriate for children or vegetarians. (YouTube)
- Senators Hillary Clinton (yeah, she’s still in the Senate at least for a few more days) and Patty Murray introduced the Protecting Patients and Health Care Act, which would block the Department of Health and Human Services’ planned last minute anti-women regulations. Nice catch, Senators. Bush and his crew are going to keep screwing America up until midnight January 19. (Feministing)
- Gas is under $2 a gallon again! Woohoo! Except apparently this is called deflation, and it is a bad thing. I can’t quite wrap my head around why expensive things suddenly becoming cheaper is bad thing, but I guess that’s why I’m not the Washington Post. (The Washington Post)
- After collapsing while giving a speech last night, Attorney General Michael Mukasey is “conscious, conversant and alert” in the hospital. Some of the news orgs have videos of him collapsing, but I’m not going to link them because I think that’s a little too creepy. Here’s hoping for a quick recovery. (CNN)
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- Oh, Sarah Palin. No matter how hard she tries, she just can’t stop the never-ending stream of ethics violations. Some Alaskan dude (not the First Dude, maybe Fourth Dude or Fifth Dude?) has filed an ethics complaint against Palin for conducting interviews about her vice presidentail run and future electoral prospects while in the governor’s office, where Alaskan taxpayers pay to keep the lights on. Alaska Republicans: very corrupt or extremely corrupt? (Anchorage Daily News)
- Well what do you know, turns out Barack isn’t a Muslim after all! A new al-Qaida tape says that Barack Obama’s plan to move troops out of Iraq to Afghanistan will fail. Ayman al-Zawahri, al-Qaida’s number two guy, then goes on to call Obama, Colin Powell, and Condoleezza Rice ”house Negroes,” a term which was first used by actual black Muslim Malcolm X. (Voice of America)
- Barack Obama has chosen Peter Orszag to head the Office of Management and Budget. Nobody would ever care about Orszag or the OMB except that Orszag OMGOMGOMG worked for Bill Clinton. Apparently, appointing Democrats who actually know what they’re doing isn’t change we can believe in, or some nonsense. People, listen: the morons have been running the country for the past eight years. Let’s get some people who actually know stuff in power. (CNN)
- Oopsie! An astronaut on a spacewalk accidentally dropped a toolbox. Except by “dropped” I mean “allowed to float off into the infinite reaches of space.” Fortunately, NASA sent them with an extra spacewrench, or whatever it was, so they can keep fixing the space station. (Slashdot)
- Since he’s decided to be a Democrat again, Joe Lieberman tried to scratch the McCain ‘08 bumper sticker off of his car. He only got half of it off, but that will probably be enough for him to keep his chairmanship of the Homeland Security committee. The decision from Senate Democrats will be handed down today. (Washington Post)
- On the other side of the aisle, convicted felon Sen. Ted Stevens gets a lucky break, sort of. In honor of his 85th birthday today, Senate Republicans were planning on voting to expel him from the GOP caucus. They’ve put their plan on hold since it looks like Stevens might actually lose his election and the whole thing would just be moot. Happy birthday, dear Tubes! (CNN)
- Must… control… schadenfreude… Focus on the Family, American’s very own Colorado-based Taliban, has had to lay off 20 percent of its staff after pumping half a million dollars into California’s Prop 8 and then suddenly realizing that they were out of money to pay people. Beating up on the gays is a higher priority for these “Christians” than the livelihood of the people who work for them. Nice one, Dobson. (Colorado Independent)
- Some random Dartmouth professor, who is in no way involved in the actual counting of votes in Minnesota, says that Al Franken will beat Norm Coleman. This would certainly be nice. The only thing is that he’s basing his prediction on statstical models and voting patterns but not, you know, how many ballots were cast. (Huffington Post)
A Case of the Mondays
(Sorry if all these bulleted-list posts seems like cop outs. It’s a busy time of the year.)
- The Senate Democratic caucus vote on whether Holy Joe Lieberman keeps his committee chairmanship is coming up soon. Kagro X reminds us that the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee has jurisdiction over the District of Columbia, 93% of whose residents voted for Barack Obama, so it would be awfully shitty to let John McCain’s best buddy run the place. Since the Lieberman vote will be done by secret ballot, a fully expect the Democratic Senate majority to cave, just like they’ve been doing for the past couple years. (DailyKos)
- Still-President Bush has the high honor of being the first U.S. President to ever call Libyan dictator Muammar Qadhafi. Bush called Qadhafi to thank him for agreeing to a claims settlement agreement between the two countries. How dare Bush speak with a foreign leader with preconditions! Surrender!! (First Read)
- Right before the election, Barack Obama sent a letter to a bunch of federal employees telling them about change they can believe in. Basically, the letter explains all of the Bush administration policies that Obama would rescind, like outsourcing government work and censoring science. If it’s undoing something George Bush did, I’m for it. (Washington Post)
- Barack Obama met with John McCain today because he wanted to hear McCain call him “Mr. President-Elect” several times to his face. Oh, and they also released the world’s most generic joint statement. Seriously. It’s only two paragraphs long but it uses a lot of words to say absolutely nothing. On the plus side, there’s a hilariously awkward video of the two talking. Look how hard it is for Obama not to gloat. (Ben Smith/YouTube)
- Lots of racist white people are pissed off that we elected a black man to be president. They can’t handle that the rest of us don’t hate minorities as much as they do and they’re getting angry and violent. Obama has already received more death threats than any other president-elect in American history, and I’m willing to bet that some of that can be blamed on the vitriol of Sarah Palin. It’s not going to be an easy four years for President Obama. (Christian Science Monitor/Austin American-Statesman/Federal News Radio)
Sunday Blogging, Christmas Cross-Burning Edition
- Celebrate the election of the first Black Presidizzle of the USA by putting this burning cross on your front lawn! That’s the message from the American Family Association, which is offering this “beautiful Christmas Cross” on their website for only $81.85 + shipping and handling. This year, the science-hating, gay-hating, and generally hateful AFA is honoring the Baby Jesus Ku Klux Klan style. Ugh. Makes me want to declare a war on Christmas. (AFA Online via Balloon Juice)
- Meanwhile, in the sane world, Barack Obama’s election has spurred the Iraqi cabinet to approve a security agreement that will set a January 1, 2011 deadline for the withdrawal of American troops. Said one Iraqi politician, “If Republicans were still there, there would be no respect for this timetable. This is a positive step to have the same theory about the timetable as Mr. Obama.” (New York Times)
- The 2008 election continues! Bill Clinton is heading to Georgia to campaign for Democratic Senate candidate Jim Martin. Martin is looking to replace Shameless Saxby Chambliss who, if you’ll recall, was responsible for the despicable ad in 2002 that put triple amputee and true American hero Max Cleland on the same screen as Osama bin Laden. If you live in Georgia, make sure you vote on December 2! (CNN)
- And finally, the GOP Civil War took to the airwaves this morning, with Bobby Jindal, Newt Gingrich, Tim Pawlenty, and Michael Steele all making the rounds on the Sunday talk shows. Arnold Schwarzenegger was also on TV this morning which I find weird since, y’know, his state is on fire again. (Associated Press)
Republicans Abandon Ship!
- Ah, remember the good old days, when John McCain was the Republican nominee for President of the United States–you know, two weeks ago? Well, he lost the election (which means the GOP no longer has to believe in any of the same shit he does) so the RNC has filed a lawsuit claiming that McCain-Feingold is unconstitutional. Yes, you read correctly. The Republican Party wants the Republican nominee’s crowning achievement overturned. I guess they never liked that geezer after all. (Marc Ambinder)
- Well, looks like Palin for President is not off to the greatest start. Here’s five Republican governors telling the TV folks that Palin isn’t going to be ready for the top of the ticket in 2012. They were also unhappy about having to stand behind her at a press conference while she took questions about running for president in 2012. They did not like the appearance that they might be Palin supporters. Because they are not. At all. And they want that to be very clear. (YouTube/CNN)
- Palin for Senate isn’t going so well either. What, you didn’t know she was running for Senate? Yeah, she told CNN that she would be interested in running in a special election for Ted Stevens’ seat after he was reelected to and then expelled from the Senate. Only problem with that is that Mark Begich now leads Stevens by over 800 votes with many of the remaining votes expected to come from Begich friendly districts. (The Caucus/Anchorage Daily News)
Something Is Rotten In the State of Alaska
- In case you forgot, the day before the election Alaska’s Personnel Board–a group of Palin appointees–released it’s own Troopergate report clearing Palin of any wrongdoing. Except they missed a spot, since it looks like Palin may have committed perjury. Trooper Wooten’s attorney testified under oath that Palin called him in January 2007. Palin testified under oath that she didn’t. That means someone’s pants are on fire. Only replace “pants are on fire” with “a felon.” (The Daily Dish)
- And speaking of America’s Governor, Palin said in an interview with CNN that she would be willing to serve in the administration of a friend of terrorists. No, seriously. In the same interview, Palin said that it would be her “honor to assist and support our new president” and that she was “still concerned” about Obama’s ties to “an unrepentant domestic terorrist.” Um, putting aside that the presidential campaign is over, you can’t exactly say both of those things in the same breath and expect to still have any credibility. (CNN)
- Don’t worry, all hope is not lost for Seward’s Folly! As of 2:09 pm local time today, convicted felon Sen. Ted Stevens’ lead over Democrat Mark Begich is down to 971 votes. Nate Silver says that there are about 60,000 ballots left to be counted and that most are from rural districts where Begich performed well. (State of Alaska/FiveThirtyEight)
11/11
- Sarah Palin, who is now talking to the press as much as possible, blames her campaign staff for expecting her to read the speeches that were placed in front of her and do other non-mavericky things. Also too, she hopes God will show her the way to the 2012 Republican presidential nomination. This will be the ultimate test of my faith. (The Caucus)
- Some Alaskan got Ted Stevens to autograph a VECO hat. VECO, of course, is the oil company that bribed Stevens resulting in his conviction on seven felony counts. Ha! (Wonkette)
- So the Clinton people are all still pissed off at the Obama people. This time, it’s because they don’t think the President-Elect has done enough to help Hillary Clinton pay off the campaign debt she racked up by attacking him. If Barack Obama won’t cut Clinton a check for $5 million to pay Mark Penn, it is a slap in the face!!!!! (Politico)
- It’s Veterans’ Day. May God bless all those soldiers across the world who have served in defense of their nations and their people.
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