December 18, 2009
— Gabriel Malor "We know the race is not to the swift nor the battle to the strong. Do you not think an angel rides in the whirlwind and directs this storm?"
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Posted by: Uh, Clem at December 18, 2009 05:23 AM (udpRV)
I wonder if Al Gore is in the DC area trying to lobby for health care. We are supposed to get 10-15 in of snow tomorrow. I can count on one hand how many times that has happened here and only once before Christmas.
Could the Gore effect be getting worse? What should we do?
Posted by: Dagny at December 18, 2009 05:27 AM (JlVwt)
Posted by: nevergiveup at December 18, 2009 05:29 AM (0GFWk)
#5 Could the Gore effect be getting worse? What should we do?
Give Gore a ceremonial position somewhere outside the US. I nominate Brussels.
Posted by: Kratos (on the back of Gaia, scaling Mt Olympus) at December 18, 2009 05:30 AM (9hSKh)
Posted by: Mr. Pink at December 18, 2009 05:30 AM (SqAkN)
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at December 18, 2009 05:32 AM (B+qrE)
"I have to be honest, as the world watches us... I think our ability to take collective action is doubt and it hangs in the balance,” Obama told the COP-15 plenary session as hope for anything more than a vague political in agreement faded."
Clear, honest...it's all the same...B+
Posted by: The Hammer at December 18, 2009 05:35 AM (YBTwf)
Posted by: non_dhimmie at December 18, 2009 05:37 AM (zACGu)
Posted by: t.ferg at December 18, 2009 05:37 AM (nF4Jh)
How I wish I were a kid in my hometown (Radford, VA) again. Possible 2 feet of snow.
Maybe 7-8 inches here in Richmond.
Posted by: Bat Chain Puller at December 18, 2009 05:39 AM (SCcgT)
Posted by: Roy at December 18, 2009 05:39 AM (SuLPC)
#11 I favor lauching him at one of the Jovian moons. With a slingshot.
You're not going to get him very far with that method. You'll need as least a cannon as large as one found on a battleship.
Posted by: Kratos (on the back of Gaia, scaling Mt Olympus) at December 18, 2009 05:39 AM (9hSKh)
Rep. Peter DeFazioÂ’s phone rang. On the other end was Rahm Emanuel.
The White House chief of staff last month expressed frustration with DeFazio’s resignation calls for President Barack Obama’s top two economic aides — Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and White House chief economist Larry Summers — and appealed for cooperation, according to DeFazio.“Don’t think we’re not keeping score, brother,” Obama told DeFazio during a closed-door meeting of the House Democratic Caucus, according to members afterward.
DeFazio better watch out or he might OD on aspirin.
Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 18, 2009 05:41 AM (4ver8)
Posted by: sporadic small arms fire at December 18, 2009 05:42 AM (dP6Ky)
Posted by: Ashen at December 18, 2009 05:42 AM (AGn9T)
DeFazio better watch out or he might OD on aspirin.
The Bayer AG Aspirin Award for Creatively Suicided Stoolpigeons.
Posted by: Dang Straights at December 18, 2009 05:46 AM (Haq+B)
Fox is reporting that China and India walked out of the Hopenchangen summit.
Maybe Obama can jet back in time to watch a walkout of the Dems in the Senate, and make it a two-fer.
Posted by: Roy at December 18, 2009 05:48 AM (SuLPC)
“Don’t think we’re not keeping score, brother,” Obama told DeFazio during a closed-door meeting of the House Democratic Caucus, according to members afterward.
Quite possibly the poorest imitation of LBJ in history.
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at December 18, 2009 05:48 AM (B+qrE)
Posted by: theCork at December 18, 2009 05:50 AM (za8iP)
"Could the Gore effect be getting worse? What should we do?"
The answer is clear to me.
A) Al Gore is worried that the polar ice caps are melting away to nothing.
B) Severe winter weather and/or record low temperatures follow Al Gore wherever he goes.
Therefore,
C) Al Gore must immediately assume a rotating schedule of spending six months at the north pole, followed by six months at the south pole.
USE YOUR GORE-EFFECT POWERS FOR GOOD, AL! ONLY YOU CAN LEAD TEH COLD BACK HOME!
Posted by: reason at December 18, 2009 05:53 AM (V40IZ)
Posted by: nyc redneck at December 18, 2009 05:54 AM (mItME)
Hell yeah, kick his ass out of a plane over the Arctic. That's one fat carcass that desperately needs to be turned into polar bear turds.
Posted by: Dang Straights at December 18, 2009 05:55 AM (Haq+B)
Huh, just looking at turfmann's info...
I vote we introduce Iranian armor to the wonders of Apache helicopters. All in favor?
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at December 18, 2009 06:00 AM (B+qrE)
Also, I noticed today (yes, I'm slow) that Ace got some link-lovin' on NewsBusters.org yesterday.
Someone else may have pointed this out already, and if so, then chalk this additional comment up to me following in Ace's staggered, shuffling footsteps.
It is a story about the recent revelation that Andi Sullivan lets other people use his blog from time to time (to time to time to time to time...). Which makes me think that possibly Ace knew this linkage was coming, thus inspiring the introspection on the post, and the subsequent pottymouth-walkback.
Posted by: reason at December 18, 2009 06:01 AM (V40IZ)
You'll need as least a cannon as large as one found on a battleship.
Um, the largest battleship gun ever bored was only 18 inches. We could probably cobble together a working Saturn 5 from museum display untis, but even then it might not have enough thrust for His Gaianess.
Posted by: sherlock at December 18, 2009 06:05 AM (xqzGc)
Posted by: sherlock at December 18, 2009 06:09 AM (xqzGc)
Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at December 18, 2009 06:13 AM (zmiSr)
Sherlock, who the hell had 18inch cannons? I thought 16'' was the largest.
Just wondering, 'cause I've never read that.
Posted by: HH at December 18, 2009 06:13 AM (+jvXp)
Sen. Webb might be on the fence with respect to health care. If you live in VA please drop him a nice note via senate website pleading with him not to support it. It can't hurt.
Posted by: UofC Conservative at December 18, 2009 06:16 AM (3FkM/)
Posted by: nevergiveup at December 18, 2009 06:17 AM (0GFWk)
Posted by: EnemyoftheState at December 18, 2009 06:17 AM (LfARW)
Posted by: survivor of Golgafrincham Ark 'B' at December 18, 2009 06:18 AM (4Kl5M)
what the hell would you do with it?
The "mandatory service" bill got signed over the summer...just saying.
Posted by: HeatherRadish at December 18, 2009 06:19 AM (NtiET)
Has anyone seen a thread about toys from the '80s, McRibs and burger restaurants, and "eating out"? I seem to have mislaid one, recently.
Posted by: andycanuck at December 18, 2009 06:22 AM (2qU2d)
Posted by: nevergiveup at December 18, 2009 06:22 AM (0GFWk)
Global warming hits East Coast!
Snowing here in CLT!!
Thanks, Al, we've NEVER had a white christmas!
Posted by: Kemp at December 18, 2009 06:22 AM (qvT/A)
Posted by: some guy who didn't change his socks at December 18, 2009 06:23 AM (4Kl5M)
I know we're not supposed to incite violence and stuff, but heaven help any Code Pinko who taunts a child of a soldier or airman in my presence.
Posted by: HeatherRadish at December 18, 2009 06:25 AM (NtiET)
I vote we introduce Iranian armor to the wonders of Apache helicopters. All in favor?
Yea! [Or "aye".]
Posted by: andycanuck at December 18, 2009 06:26 AM (2qU2d)
Posted by: fluffy at December 18, 2009 06:27 AM (4Kl5M)
Posted by: nevergiveup at December 18, 2009 06:27 AM (0GFWk)
Jesus, I've read enough about the destructive force of a 16""gun, but an 18'?
I'm amazed the ship didn't just roll over when they fired those bastards.
Posted by: HH at December 18, 2009 06:27 AM (+jvXp)
Posted by: andycanuck at December 18, 2009 06:28 AM (2qU2d)
I know we're not supposed to incite violence and stuff, but heaven help any Code Pinko who taunts a child of a soldier or airman in my presence.
Yeah, that would not be a good idea around morons in general.
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at December 18, 2009 06:28 AM (B+qrE)
Posted by: Puff the Magic Dragon at December 18, 2009 06:29 AM (4Kl5M)
CLT is Airport code for Charlotte NC. , As in LGA or JFK is NYC.
Travel much? Been to ATL or ORD?
Posted by: Kemp at December 18, 2009 06:29 AM (qvT/A)
Has anybody told Ace yet that Iranian troops just occupied an oil well inside Iraqi territory?
Smart diplomacy really works, huh?
Posted by: Uncle Rick at December 18, 2009 06:29 AM (El8pC)
Posted by: nevergiveup at December 18, 2009 06:30 AM (0GFWk)
@#39
This thing was a bill? Odd, never a whiff of it on the news. I'm familiar with what it entails, but you say it became law? Because if so, there is going to be a whole lot of pissed of 18yr old kids and older who are going to have to serve, like in the army, for a couple of yrs of their lives.
Do you have a link?
Posted by: HH at December 18, 2009 06:32 AM (+jvXp)
I would...then I'd pay him with a post dated, two party, out of state check.
Posted by: Paladin at December 18, 2009 06:32 AM (WGbtD)
Posted by: Puff the Magic Dragon at December 18, 2009 06:34 AM (4Kl5M)
Posted by: fluffy, changing socks at December 18, 2009 06:35 AM (4Kl5M)
Posted by: The Goddess Irony at December 18, 2009 06:36 AM (yf/JJ)
Good old Hugo gave The One a new nickname - "Nobel Prize of War"
Posted by: Roy at December 18, 2009 06:38 AM (SuLPC)
BAGHDAD – Iraq's deputy foreign minister says Iranian troops have seized an oil well in southern Iraq along their disputed border.
Deputy Foreign Minister Mohammed Haj Aziz said Friday that Iranian troops seized oil well No. 4 Thursday night.
He said he did not know whether Iranians were still in control of the oil well. He said the Foreign Ministry and the Oil Ministry are coordinating over what steps to take and were considering summoning the Iranian ambassador to discuss the issue on Saturday.
Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 18, 2009 06:38 AM (4ver8)
Here's the report of Lord Monckton being roughed-up by the cops in Copenhagen from last night's ONT. [h/t Kate at SDA] And for those not in the know, here's what Lord Monckton looks and sounds like. And, no, it's not like a hippie rioter. Watch all five pages of the link--it's worth it.
Posted by: andycanuck at December 18, 2009 06:45 AM (2qU2d)
Posted by: Jean at December 18, 2009 06:45 AM (6Njk9)
Posted by: HeatherRadish at December 18, 2009 06:47 AM (NtiET)
The race is not necessarily to the swift nor the victory to the strong.
Dashiell Hammett? I thought it was Damon Runyon.
Posted by: Sloppy at December 18, 2009 06:49 AM (1kwr2)
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at December 18, 2009 06:55 AM (B+qrE)
Posted by: Mephitis at December 18, 2009 06:58 AM (ehXLT)
Posted by: eman at December 18, 2009 07:02 AM (yf/JJ)
Posted by: nevergiveup at December 18, 2009 07:03 AM (0GFWk)
Posted by: fluffy at December 18, 2009 07:03 AM (4Kl5M)
Posted by: Joanna at December 18, 2009 07:04 AM (gJQTg)
Posted by: LFMayor at December 18, 2009 07:05 AM (Ge7CK)
"Obama became visibly angry"
Oh no! I am sure they are quaking in their boots.
Posted by: Mr. Pink at December 18, 2009 10:57 AM (SqAkN)
Did he start stuttering and bowing uncontrollably?
Posted by: Charlie Gibson at December 18, 2009 07:05 AM (erIg9)
I vote Warthogs A-10's!!
Reports, only 11 Iranians involved. What maybe 3 tank crews? So many Hellfires, so few targets! Sad :-(
Posted by: Paladin at December 18, 2009 07:05 AM (WGbtD)
Posted by: Jean at December 18, 2009 07:05 AM (tJF9l)
Posted by: CoolCzech at December 18, 2009 07:06 AM (QECjC)
Posted by: LFMayor at December 18, 2009 07:06 AM (Ge7CK)
"Obama became visibly angry"
Oh no! I am sure they are quaking in their boots.
Posted by: Mr. Pink at December 18, 2009 10:57 AM (SqAkN)
What's this? Everyone isn't standing at attention while the Won speaks? But, but, he showed up. Everything should be good now. Kumbaya and stuff....
Posted by: conscious, but incoherent at December 18, 2009 07:06 AM (Vu6sl)
"I know we're not supposed to incite violence and stuff, but heaven help any Code Pinko who taunts a child of a soldier or airman in my presence."
Make sure someone captures it on their phone and puts it on YouTube. Some Radish-on-Pinko action would be the best Christmas gift you could give us, your esteemed fellow morons.
Posted by: Hayden Wright at December 18, 2009 07:08 AM (5npD/)
Fox is reporting that China and India walked out of the Hopenchangen summit.
Posted by: Roy at December 18, 2009 09:48 AM (SuLPC)
Laura Ingraham is crushing this right now. She already has O'Reilly's nutsack from last night. Update: Brazil has walked out also. Sucks for Nopenhagen
Posted by: Captain Hate at December 18, 2009 07:11 AM (2Uu3I)
Posted by: Bill Mahr's next panel at December 18, 2009 07:11 AM (5npD/)
Yea! [Or "aye".]
Posted by: andycanuck at December 18, 2009 10:26 AM (2qU2d)
Personally I'd go with A-10
+1
The Apache is a great piece of equipment, no doubt. But the Warthog looks like it just flew in from Hades with the devil himself at the controls. There's a lot to be said for causing your enemy to shit his pants in terror before blasting him into atoms.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 18, 2009 07:12 AM (l1Wlr)
Posted by: fluffy at December 18, 2009 07:13 AM (4Kl5M)
Posted by: Rickshaw Jack at December 18, 2009 07:16 AM (UffF3)
Posted by: Mephitis at December 18, 2009 07:17 AM (ehXLT)
Posted by: Paladin at December 18, 2009 07:17 AM (WGbtD)
Posted by: Wind Rider at December 18, 2009 07:17 AM (JdWEb)
Posted by: eman at December 18, 2009 07:19 AM (yf/JJ)
Posted by: nevergiveup at December 18, 2009 07:20 AM (0GFWk)
The Apache is a great piece of equipment, no doubt.
A squad of which coming over the sand dunes looks much like the horsemen of the appocalypse.
Posted by: UofC Conservative at December 18, 2009 07:21 AM (3FkM/)
Posted by: Jean at December 18, 2009 07:22 AM (Scxfk)
Posted by: eman at December 18, 2009 07:22 AM (yf/JJ)
Not to mention Chavez letting off one of his maximum carbon footprint farts and blaming all the problems of the world on capitalism.
Posted by: Captain Hate at December 18, 2009 07:23 AM (2Uu3I)
Posted by: Jean at December 18, 2009 07:24 AM (Scxfk)
Anderson Cooper, graduate in Political Science and International Relations from Yale University, CNN anchor and meta political expert on everything, mocker of "teabaggers" cannot find Indiana on a map, admitting he is "terrible at geography".
If you recall, President Toonces' stellar career started from him achieving a degree in Political Science from Columbia.
Posted by: AmishDude at December 18, 2009 07:25 AM (T0NGe)
Actually a Christmas message from a snow bound house, in front of roaring fire would punctuate things nicely.
I'd suggest Al Gore's house, but that would be pushy.
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at December 18, 2009 07:26 AM (B+qrE)
The Yamato had 18" guns.
But then again, why bother with those when you stuff Gore into the mouth of the Wave Motion Gun. Even he would fit in the muzzle of that puppy.
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RE the missing 'Arbeit Mach Frei' sign.
Maybe Obaka wanted it for the White House's West entrance?
Posted by: CPT. Charles at December 18, 2009 07:27 AM (lYKj1)
Hey, she advised Barry to stay home. Not her fault he's too arrogant to listen to anyone outside his little Marxist/Alinsky circle.
Posted by: HeatherRadish at December 18, 2009 07:27 AM (NtiET)
Bah hahahahahahah.
The Abyss Index (approve minus strong disapprove) is now 44%-42% =+2% again.
Posted by: AmishDude at December 18, 2009 07:27 AM (T0NGe)
For only the kajillionth time: Who decided Anderson Cooper was a journalist much less an anchor?
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at December 18, 2009 07:29 AM (B+qrE)
Did he blame George Bush?
Posted by: HeatherRadish at December 18, 2009 07:29 AM (NtiET)
I saw this too. It's on jihadwatch and hot air; however, hot air is saying that the incident is already over. Yet if you read the story from the BBC, it's not.
Consensus seems to be that Obama will do.... wait for it............. nothing.
I concur.
Posted by: shibumi at December 18, 2009 07:29 AM (OKZrE)
Whomever leaked that batch of records from CRU should stand up and take a bow.
I've sead this before and I'll say it again. Whoever leaked that data deserves a Nobel Prize in Economics. Because that person will save us billiions in wasted monies.
Posted by: HH at December 18, 2009 07:30 AM (+jvXp)
Foreign Ministry and the Oil Ministry are coordinating over what steps to take and were considering summoning the Iranian ambassador to discuss the issue on Saturday.
And I'm sure they'll be more than happy to discuss the issue for as long as you want.
Posted by: Cautiously Pessimistic at December 18, 2009 07:31 AM (pZEar)
Once again, I concur.
Hell, they may even decide to give the land to Iran. Just as a slap in the face to the US.
Posted by: shibumi at December 18, 2009 07:35 AM (OKZrE)
They'll get my Charmin with aloe & E when they pry it from my cold dead fingers.
http://tinyurl.com/yawj4pn
Posted by: CAD Daddy at December 18, 2009 07:37 AM (T400w)
It's obvious that he's had "help" with his career. In the early 90s he did his foreign reporting while wearing a Flock of Seagulls-style haircut on national broadcast TV. Anyone else would have been laughed off the tube.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 18, 2009 07:39 AM (l1Wlr)
Current and former employees of the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl said they were encouraged to donate money to specific political candidates and were reimbursed by the bowl through bonus payments
Article doesn't say who those candidates were, of course.
Posted by: HeatherRadish at December 18, 2009 07:40 AM (NtiET)
Yup. Fortunately I don't have to go to either SUX or KRAP today.
Posted by: Hatchet Five at December 18, 2009 07:44 AM (aNLk0)
The head of the Fiesta Bowl, John Junker is a McCain supporter and according to OpenSecrets, donates exclusively to R's.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 18, 2009 07:48 AM (l1Wlr)
(Knowing the acronym, I opted not to fly into FOD for the holidays. Flying to MKE and driving the rest of the way.)
IllTemperedCur--well, crap.
Posted by: HeatherRadish at December 18, 2009 07:52 AM (NtiET)
Posted by: MSM at December 18, 2009 07:58 AM (Efj18)
Gee, you didn't want Foreign Object Damage? Where is your sense of adventure?
Posted by: Hatchet Five at December 18, 2009 08:01 AM (aNLk0)
Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 18, 2009 08:09 AM (4ver8)
"We're All Ned Beatty or Can You Believe in Change"
"I mean, I’m feeling violated, angry, sullen, and depressed–much as I did when Bush was in office. It doesn’t help to see the ne’er-do-well Republicans continue to swagger and obstruct as they’ve always done even in the face of a mind numbingly, career ending defeat coupled with absolutely crushingly low poll numbers. Yet, they seem to be WINNING for fucks sake while the Democrats with an overwhelming majority–excuse me for reversing the metaphor–bend over and willingly ask for repeated raping Ned Beatty style."
http://tinyurl.com/yboqh5u
disclaimer: I found this through another site, not a big fan of liberal babbling.
Posted by: shibumi at December 18, 2009 08:10 AM (OKZrE)
Utterly exhausted by New York. Eight months, and I still feel like Jane Goodall.
My mother flew me into MCW once. I think she was trying to kill me. The flight to FOD stops there first...
Posted by: HeatherRadish at December 18, 2009 08:13 AM (NtiET)
Posted by: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus at December 18, 2009 08:28 AM (DrGKS)
EXACTLY!
Anything with "science" at the end of it, invariably isn't. Except computer science.
Posted by: AmishDude at December 18, 2009 09:02 AM (T0NGe)
Does one suffer repeated bouts of cancer?
Posted by: toby928 at December 18, 2009 09:17 AM (PD1tk)
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