A few weeks ago I reported on “americaspeakingout.com” a new website created by the Republicans “to increase the dialogue between Americans and their Congress”. Of course, the Republicans aren’t paying for the site themselves, they are using “official funds of the Office of the House Minority Leader” (John Boehner). According to the website: Here, Americans […]
“It’s amazing to me, the new unemployment figures are not good. A lot of people out of work, yet somehow the CEO of British Petroleum still manages to keep his job.” – Jay Leno “In an interview on NBC, President Obama said today he would’ve fired BP CEO Tony Hayward if he worked for him. […]
In light of the recent Supreme Court decision that you have to (unsilently) declare your desire to remain silent in order to exercise that right: © Brian McFadden
[I’m reposting this from Bullseye Rooster, in honor of Helen Thomas. © Fred Wickham] Nearly eighty years after displacement from their historic early 20th century homeland, Israelites are returning to Europe. From the air, impossibly long lines of Priuses, motorbikes, and tour-buses can be seen carrying the Jews through the desert into Syria. From there, […]
“The oil spill is getting bad. There is so much oil and tar now in the Gulf of Mexico, Cubans can now walk to Miami.” – David Letterman “B.P.’s CEO Tony Hayward said yesterday that he will not step down over the gulf oil coast spill. Yeah, he said, ‘I mean, it’s not like I […]
Jon Stewart takes Obama to task:
I know that people were offended by the comments that Helen Thomas made about Israel, but even the Jewish side of me thinks they weren’t that bad. And she did apologize. So to lose her job over it? Why Helen Thomas, and not Rush Limbaugh? © Glenn McCoy Personally, I like the idea of moving […]
© Ruben Bolling Because … we have to give South Beach to someone.
“After 40 years, Al and Tipper Gore have split up. Nobody knows why, but there is a rumor today that Al came home early last week and found another man’s carbon footprints.” – Bill Maher “They could tell he was lonely as of late because when he’d hug a tree, he’d linger.” – Bill Maher […]
The Washington Post has an interesting comment about an usual approach to help solve the massive oil spill in the gulf, which actually worked! Obama has also called in some of the many scientists on the federal payroll, led by Energy Secretary Steven Chu, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist. Chu at one point pushed the unusual […]
I don’t know if this is ironic or just novel, but former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich is using Twitter to tweet during his federal corruption trial. You too can follow along with governorrod! Too bad the prosecution isn’t also tweeting their case, so we can have a full micro-blogging court of public opinion. His first […]
Progressives are trying to unseat conservative Democrat Blanche Lincoln in the primary runoff in Arkansas (Lincoln was one of the major obstacles standing in the way of better health care reform). And indeed, a recent survey shows Bill Halter ahead of Lincoln 49 to 45%. But now all that is in doubt. Why? Garland County, […]
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