Archive for November, 2009

You figure it out.

Monday, November 23rd, 2009

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Image: (Nosferatu) via greencine.com; (Kellogg’s Sugar Pops) via the imaginaryworld.com

“How low can he go? Symbolic submission implies will to submit”–Washington Times week-late head and sub-head to column on Obama’s bowing to Japanese emperor, 11/21/09

Monday, November 23rd, 2009

 Luckily, I found the contact sheets which demonstrate a wholly other sequence of events.  The six photographs show that the deep bow was but the aiding the emperor to his feet after the body slam and nostril spread. The empress displayed a stony silence throughout at the ordeal. The royal palace blamed the emperor’s bizarre, […]

Do you believe in miracles?

Monday, November 16th, 2009

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 9 killed, 80 injured when train derails in India(AP) – 2 days ago
JAIPUR, India — A speeding train derailed in western India early Saturday, killing at least nine people and injuring more han 80.
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Image: (The photo is not of the train involved) via daylife.com

(Dick) Armey’s View Of Americans With Pre-Existing Conditions: Someone Who ‘Eats Like A Pig’ And Has Diabetes–THINK PROGRESS headline, 11/09/2009

Monday, November 9th, 2009

Dick Armey has always been one of my least favorite Republicans. During his halcyon days of Kenny Starr & the Stained Blue Dress, I shall never forget reading that Dick’s wife wanted to sue her retail landlord because her McLean dress shop folded.  That doesn’t sound too free-market to me.
 
What truly amazes me is the […]

Republican Alpha-Dogs of Congress…

Sunday, November 8th, 2009

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This man’s hair is used to cover the
playing field of the Minneapolis’
Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome.
Meet Representative John Boehner, R-(OH)

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Did you know this about Johnny?
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When correctly configured with the electrical grid,
this man can illuminate the entire west side of
Norman, OK for three nights.
Meet Senator James Inhofe R-(OK)
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“I’m really proud to say that in […]

JAY-CEEs Run Amok!

Sunday, November 8th, 2009

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Image:(Sodom area) via thinkingaboutgod.com;  (basic sign) & (Sheriffs) & (Masons) & (Lions) via v.files visa city-data.com;(League of Women Voters) lwvpbc.org (Shriners) gwmemorial.org; (Eagles) via blogtown.portlandmercury.com; (cityscape) Istanbul via images.travelpod.com

The New York Times’ Gail Collins a drops nasty curve over to expose the weakness in the swing of the innumerable cable-tv news yammerers

Saturday, November 7th, 2009

Op-Ed Columnist
Hark! The Voters Speak!
By GAIL COLLINS
Published: November 4, 2009
Cincinnati
In Ohio, citizens marched to the polls on Tuesday and voted to allow gambling casinos in the state. This was obviously a message to President Obama that independent voters are not happy with the way the health care bill is going.
Really, I don’t see how else […]

“I’m doing God’s work.”–Lloyd Blankfein, C.E.O. of Goldmammon Sachs, quoted in London Sunday Times, 11/08/2009

Saturday, November 7th, 2009

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Images: (1) evelyn de Morgan posters via squidoo.com; Lloyd via img.timeinc.net;  (2) background by bbc.co.uk; Lloyd original photo by Michael Asselin; money shirt via toxel.com (3) Lloyd via static.gum.cop.uk via guardian,co,uk; flames via ihateyourjob.com
The story is here.

Who writes the headlines? Anderson Cooper?

Friday, November 6th, 2009

CNN.com 1:50 pm EST 11/06/2009
U.S.

Cleveland killings: Answers sought
Family of teen on fire gets apology
Violent message outside N.Y. mosque
‘Innocence project’ questioned

Yankees coach helps accident victim

Two-legged puppy defies odds
Ball players recalled for smiles, skills

The correct usage is M-A-N-A-G-E-R!

Yikes!

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009

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Image: (Murine) via  medexsupplu.com; (Van Gogh) via thesartwolf.com

Will he or won’t he filabuster?

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009

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There once was a Hartford man,
Who loved to play Kiss-The-Can
Of macher execs who swam in largesse
And worked on their corporate tans.
While all this may sound quite tame,
Fair history will know it is lame,
For the Senator’s kisses–
Likes his moans and his pisses
Will crown him as Infame.

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Image: (bonnet) halloweenscene.com; (pinafore) c.f. (Lieberman) blogs.latimes.com