Archive for January, 2009
How I Am Spending My Morning
At some point between 2AM, when I went to bed last night, and 8AM, when my wife walked my daughter to the bus, someone smashed the window of my locked car and rooted through my console and glove compartment. I beleive that all they got was a handheld GPS that was in the console. So, […]
My heart pumps piss for these folks
Perhaps they can write a book about how they helped ruin the richest nation thus far in our planets history High-ranking White House loyalists have deluged Washington headhunters with pleas for jobs. Corporations and nonprofit organizations have stopped hiring. With the GOP out of power, jobs on Capitol Hill are scant and K Street lobbying […]
Scenes From a Midnight Inauguration
I have just returned from the Inauguration of Jack Markell and Matt Denn. Sorry that I didn’t blog it live, but once I got there, it seemed inappropriate to do so. From the blogging world, Cassandra M sat with me. Two rows up was Redwaterlilly and across the room I spotted Mike Matthews. I also […]
BushCo Retrospective in Political Cartoons
Ben Sargent is a political cartoonist at the Austin American-Statesman, and his paper put together a select group of Sargent’s work over the past 8 years that is meant to be a summing up of what we’ve had to live through. And it is just about brilliant. Make sure you go see them, there are […]
Bush Surprises.
I suppose he figures his legacy has enough image problems. From Newsweek: In a move that has keenly disappointed some of his strongest conservative allies, President Bush has decided not to pardon Vice President Dick Cheney’s former chief of staff, I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, for his 2007 conviction in the CIA leak case, two White […]
Quick Update From DC
The vibe in the city is amazing! Traffic was not bad getting in and we walked down to the White House and mall to get into the event and everyone (and I mean everyone from cops, to taxi drivers to national guardsmen to people of every race and station) was radiant with joy over the […]
Quick Hits (1-19-2009)
Congressional Quarterly has a helpful chart tracking the progress of President Obama’s cabinet nominees. All of the committee hearings have taken place, except for the yet to be nominated Commerce Secretary. Only one committee has voted the nominee out of committee to the floor of the Senate for a full confirmation vote: Hillary Clinton for […]
Great. Now I have to watch Oprah at 4.
The AP is reporting that Vice President-elect Joe Biden tried to silence Jill Biden during a taping of the Oprah Show at the Kennedy Center this afternoon after she let it slip that Joe was offered two jobs in a potential Obama administration back during his negotiations with Obama back during the summer of 2008. […]
20 Hours Left.
CNN is reporting that Bush has commuted the sentences of two former border patrol agents who shot an illegal immigrant who was smuggling drugs. The prison sentences of Ignacio Ramos and Joe Compean will now end March 20. Ramos had received an 11-year prison sentence; Compean had received a 12-year sentence. …. The official [who […]
QOD
I was wondering. Since we were attacked on Bill Clintons watch while Bush was President, how many more months is Bush technically responsible for an attack on American Soil?
Forgot about this one…
Man I forgot all about this one until I saw it on Letterman… [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hW1nMti4ExM&feature=related[/youtube]
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