- It only took a jury 37 minutes to agree that Scott Roeder was definitely guilty of killing Dr. George Tiller. (Kansas City Star)
- Osama bin Laden is very concerned about the environment which is why he conserves electricity by living in a cave. (NYT)
- It is surprisingly easy to make Rep. Eric Cantor look like a fool. (Blue Virginia)
- Some phonies may turn Catcher in the Rye into a movie now that J.D. Salinger—who did not want this to happen—has died. (Entertainment Weekly)
- Harold Ford has given up his generous Merrill Lynch salary while he runs for Senate and will have to subsist like a common New Yorker, on cheap pizza and scraps from the dumpsters behind the Port Authority. (NY Post)
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Almost Makes You Miss SARS
- Well it is official, the WHO has stopped counting the number of new swine flue cases because we are all dead/dying from it anyway. (AFP)
- Harry Reid officially endorsed the re-election campaign of Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), aka Hillary Clinton in a pantsuit. (CNN Political Ticker)
- And speaking of Hillary Clinton, she is not bitter about the whole “President Obama” thing. Something to do with him making her Secretary of State, I guess. (Foreign Policy)
- Since Republicans couldn’t trick Sonia Sotomayor into saying whether she was a Shark or a Jet, she is basically confirmed to the Supreme Court already. (YouTube/Washington Post)
Sen. Gillibrand (D-NY)?
Is this the real deal?
PIX NEWS is being told that Congresswoman Kirsten Gillibrand is the reported choice of Governor David Paterson to fill the U.S. Senate seat vacated by Hillary Clinton. Two Congressional sources say members of the New York delegation have been invited to join Governor Paterson for the announcement in Albany at noon tomorrow.
This is the only media outlet reporting it so far. We’ll see what happens tomorrow.
Update: Reuters says Paterson will announce his pick tomorrow, but no word on who it is.
Update 2: New York Dems already talking about primary challenges to Gillibrand in 2010, lending some credibility to the rumors.
Update 3: Yep, it’s Gillibrand. Paterson’s presser at noon will make it official.
Merrill Lynch: Heroes of American Capitalism!
- Ted Kennedy and friends are not very pleased with niece Caroline for using his fatal and uncurable brain cancer as an excuse to drop out of the New York Senate “race.” (TIME)
- Merrill Lynch spent $4 billion paying bonuses three days before it was taken over by Bank of America. Any guesses where that $4 billion came from? Yep, from you, the American taxpayer, courtesy of that nice big bailout. (Daily Kos)
- Mark Foley, who resigned from Congress after sending sexually explicit messages to Congressional pages, is on Facebook. Ugh. (ABC News/Facebook)
- Former Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne bid his employees adieu with a 600-image slide show of himself at national parks. (Washington Post)
- Sarah Palin will be a part of your life forever once she publishes her autobiography, for which she would like to be “earmarked” $11 million. (Los Angeles Times)
“There’s a Queen on the board as well”
- Jon Stewart interviews Bishop Gene Robinson, the openly gay Episcopal Bishop of New Hampshire, who comments on his relationship with the Obama administration and hilariously refers to himself as “a queen.” (The Daily Show)
- Another roadblock to Change We Can Believe In: The White House runs on clunky old computers with Windows 2000. (Washington Post)
- Caroline Kennedy is no longer running for the Senate seat vacated by Hillary Clinton. And by “running for,” I mean “asking Gov. Paterson to appoint her to.” (CNN)
- And speaking of Hillary Clinton, Madame Secretary went to work today and was greeted by cheering crowds of bureaucrats at the State Department HQ. (New York Times)
- Oscar nominations are out, and it looks like Milk, Frost/Nixon and Slumdog Millionaire will battle it out for “Best Picture” against that movie where Brad Pitt keeps getting younger and some other thing. (Variety)
Assorted Post-Christmas Blogging
Hey, did you miss me?
- Everybody Loves Barry! Your President-Elect is the man living today that the most Americans admire. (USA Today)
- Viva Viagra! The little blue pills help American operatives keep Afghan warlords in line. But if victory over the Taliban lasts for more than three hours, consult a doctor. (Washington Post)
- Still-Gov. Rod Blagojevich continues to be a douchebag by asking the Illinois House impeachment panel to subpoena Obama advisors Rahm Emanuel and Valerie Jarrett, thus ensuring that this problems continue to be Obama’s problems. (Chicago Sun-Times)
- Minnesotans have trouble counting votes, so they may only have one Senator when Congress reconvenes in January. (Minneapolis Star-Tribune)
- Potential New York Senator Caroline Kennedy is a very rich lady, which is surprising since her dad was just some kind of bureaucrat, or something. (New York Daily News)
Friday Morning Update
- Well, the Big 3 bailout failed in the Senate last night because Senate Republicans didn’t want to pay auto workers a fair wage, to which the auto workers shockingly objected. Anyway, it now falls to the White House to take some of the money previously allocated to bailing out millionaire bankers and use it to bail out some $50k-per-year blue collar workers. Good luck selling that one to the millionaires. (Washington Post/Politico)
- Convicted felon Sen. Ted Stevens is a sore loser. He refuses to meet with Mark Begich, the man who will replace him in the United States Senate in January. Maybe Stevens tried to send him an email, but it got tangled up with all these things going on the Internet commercially. (Anchorage Daily News/Wikipedia)
- Clinton supporters are putting pressure on NY Gov. David Paterson not to appoint Caroline Kennedy to fill Hillary Clinton’s Senate seat, noting that Kennedy has never been elected to any office. I thought dashing good looks and poltical experience were hereditary in the Kennedy family? (NY Daily News)
- Illinois House Democrats and Republicans are meeting to discuss the logistics of impeaching Gov. Rod Blagojevich. Huzzah for bipartisanship! Also, Illinois newspaper editorial boards are humorously conflicted over whether Blaggy should resign or be impeached. Hmmmm…. (AP/FOX News)
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