January 2008 archive
Jan 30 2008
Can Opener
Jan 30 2008
BREAKING: US Spy Program Targets American Town
FLASH! From your editors at the Weekly Hyperbole.
Our sources have informed us of a stunning new development that outlines and emphasizes the lengths the Bush Administration will go to in their perfidious quest for power. It appears that this time they are preparing a direct assault on American political opponents. In a covert operation that we have heard referred to as Operation Drop Dorothy’s House, US spy agencies have propelled an object thought to be about 13 feet to 16.5 feet across, and weighing a maximum of 10,000 pounds out of orbit and on to a path that will cause it to strike Brattleboro, Vermont.
In a pathetically transparent cover story about decaying orbits, Air Force General Gene Renuart states:
“It’s really just a big thing falling on the ground that we want to make sure we’re prepared for.”
We remain skeptical, General. Very skeptical.
This reporter has found an anonymous source who has this to say. “Yeah man, these cats have been trying to ‘drop a house’ on some dudes for a log ass time. These motherfuckers are sick.” Before we could obtain more information, our informant finished his cigarette and headed back into the bar…a bar that this reporter has been barred from entering after the previously reported story Reporter Discriminated Against For Political Views, Proprietor Claims “Dancing Naked On Pool Table,” thus ending the interview.
Jan 30 2008
Pony Party: Tom Cruise are Serious Cat
Question: What do you get when you mix the infamous Serious Cat
with batshit crazy Scientologist Tom Cruise?
(warning: 9 minutes long. view at your own barf/hairball threshold)
Jan 30 2008
Pony Party, Phoning Home
Yesterday, I dropped Live’s “mirror song” into the comments of the a.m. pony party.
It’s long been a family favorite, and it’s one of the songs that I’ve called home from a concert to share with a non-attending family member. It’s sort of a family tradition to call each other when we’re at a concert to share the experience. I thought it was pretty commonplace, but the few times we’ve offered our phone to folks with us to call home and share a song, they’ve looked at us like we were insane or something. go figure….
So today I’m posting a few of my family’s ‘gotta share this’ songs….so now you can consider yourselves part of our family 😉
Jan 30 2008
The Morning News
The Morning News is an Open Thread
| From Yahoo News Top Stories |
1 US troops reductions in Iraq may slow
By ROBERT BURNS, AP Military Writer
1 hour, 22 minutes ago
| WASHINGTON – The Bush administration is sending strong signals that U.S. troop reductions in Iraq will slow or stop altogether this summer, a move that would jeopardize hopes of relieving strain on the Army and Marine Corps and revive debate over an open-ended U.S. commitment in Iraq.
The indications of a likely slowdown reflect concern by U.S. commanders that the improvement in security in Iraq since June – to a degree few had predicted when President Bush ordered five more Army brigades to Iraq a year ago – is tenuous and could be reversed if the extra troops come out too soon. One of those extra brigades left in December and the other four are due to come out by July, leaving 15 brigades, or roughly 130,000 to 135,000 troops – the same number as before Bush sent the reinforcements. |
Jan 30 2008
Congressional races by state: PA
I am all for running everywhere, and the 50 state strategy.
But neither we nor the Republicans are running everywhere (at least not yet!) In this series, I will look at where we are not running (I am not going to look at where Republicans are not running, as I have no desire to help Republicans, however modestly)
This diary is partly inspired by the great work done by BENAWU.
crossposted to dailyKos and SwingStateProject
Jan 30 2008
Congressional races by state: MS, KY, WV
I am all for running everywhere, and the 50 state strategy.
But neither we nor the Republicans are running everywhere (at least not yet!) In this series, I will look at where we are not running (I am not going to look at where Republicans are not running, as I have no desire to help Republicans, however modestly)
This diary is partly inspired by the great work done by BENAWU.
crossposted to dailyKos and SwingStateProject
Jan 30 2008
Congressional races by state: MS, KY, WV
I am all for running everywhere, and the 50 state strategy.
But neither we nor the Republicans are running everywhere (at least not yet!) In this series, I will look at where we are not running (I am not going to look at where Republicans are not running, as I have no desire to help Republicans, however modestly)
This diary is partly inspired by the great work done by BENAWU.
crossposted to dailyKos and SwingStateProject
Jan 30 2008
Muse in the Morning
 Muse in the Morning |
The muses are ancient. The inspirations for our stories were said to be born from them. Muses of song and dance, or poetry and prose, of comedy and tragedy, of the inward and the outward. In one version they are Calliope, Euterpe and Terpsichore, Erato and Clio, Thalia and Melpomene, Polyhymnia and Urania.
It has also been traditional to name a tenth muse. Plato declared Sappho to be the tenth muse, the muse of women poets. Others have been suggested throughout the centuries. I don’t have a name for one, but I do think there should be a muse for the graphical arts. And maybe there should be many more.
Please join us inside to celebrate our various muses…
Jan 30 2008
Stupid stupid stupid media analysis of Giuliani’s “failed strategy”
How stupid is the political media? This stupid: they take seriously the notion that Giuliani’s decision to avoid the first six Republican nomination contests was a failed “strategy.”
It was a strategy of sorts, I suppose, in that had Rudy been able to pull off a win in Florida he could very well have been positioned to land a death blow in the Northeast and California on Stupor Tuesday. But calling it a failed or foolish “strategy” ignores the fact that it was not his free choice or original intention to run to win the nomination in this way. Rudy waited until Florida for one reason only: because he was hemorrhaging support in the wake of the “Sex on the City” scandals highlighting his misuse of city resources (including the police) in conducting his affair with Judi Nathan, and he needed to lay low. His alternative to this “strategy” was not to run hard, under the bright media spotlight, in Iowa, Wyoming, New Hampshire, Michigan Nevada, and South Carolina. His actual alternative at that time was to drop out in disgrace. He has been running since last fall to avoid that end.
Jan 30 2008
Stupid stupid stupid media analysis of Giuliani’s “failed strategy”
How stupid is the political media? This stupid: they take seriously the notion that Giuliani’s decision to avoid the first six Republican nomination contests was a failed “strategy.”
It was a strategy of sorts, I suppose, in that had Rudy been able to pull off a win in Florida he could very well have been positioned to land a death blow in the Northeast and California on Stupor Tuesday. But calling it a failed or foolish “strategy” ignores the fact that it was not his free choice or original intention to run to win the nomination in this way. Rudy waited until Florida for one reason only: because he was hemorrhaging support in the wake of the “Sex on the City” scandals highlighting his misuse of city resources (including the police) in conducting his affair with Judi Nathan, and he needed to lay low. His alternative to this “strategy” was not to run hard, under the bright media spotlight, in Iowa, Wyoming, New Hampshire, Michigan Nevada, and South Carolina. His actual alternative at that time was to drop out in disgrace. He has been running since last fall to avoid that end.
Jan 30 2008
Iglesia ……………………………………… Episode 29
(Iglesia is a serialized novel, published on Tuesdays and Saturdays at midnight ET, you can read all of the episodes by clicking on the tag.)
When he woke up, before he opened his eyes, he smelled tea. And cedar. And he was supposed to be meditating damn it, not sleeping.
Shit.
He smelled where the tea was coming from, stood up facing the other way and started walking away from the tree again. He didn’t look over when he was getting up and he didn’t look back as he walked away.