This week’s foliehatt goes to: Jennifer Rubin
Is Palin-mania A Liberal Plot?
Apparently PDS is bipartisan.
From Seward’s Folly:
Murkowski certified Senate election winner
Sen. Lisa Murkowski was officially named the winner of Alaska’s U.S. Senate race Thursday, following a legal battle that lasted longer than the write-in campaign she waged to keep her job.
Oh goody, instead of another Republican in the Senate we get . . . a Republican.
China keeps building walls:
China makes Skype illegal
China on Thursday announced that it had made illegal the use of Skype, the popular internet telephony service, as the country continues to shut itself off from the rest of the world.
Oh, well. There wasn’t anybody there I wanted to talk to anyway.
Paul is shrill today:
The New Voodoo
Hypocrisy never goes out of style, but, even so, 2010 was something special. For it was the year of budget doubletalk — the year of arsonists posing as firemen, of people railing against deficits while doing everything they could to make those deficits bigger.
I think it’s terrible the way people want to defame a perfectly good religion by associating it with economics.
Speaking of which:
Academic Economists to Consider Ethics Code
Academic economists, particularly those active in policy debates in Washington and Wall Street, are facing greater scrutiny of their outside activities these days. Faced with a run of criticism, including a popular movie, leaders of the American Economic Association, the world’s largest professional society for economists, founded in 1885, are considering a step that most other professions took a long time ago — adopting a code of ethical standards.
I thought one of the defining characteristics of a profession was a code of ethics. Now if only bloggers would get one.
All good things must end:
Stanford women end UConn’s winning streak at 90
The Streak ended here.
Finally, after 90 games and more than 32 months of non-stop winning, top-ranked Connecticut lost Thursday night. Jeanette Pohlen scored 31 points as Stanford jumped ahead early and rolled merrily away to win 71-59 before a raucous capacity crowd at Maples Pavilion.
It was a convincing and historic outcome. UConn’s run of 90 consecutive victories counted as the longest winning streak in NCAA basketball history, men or women.
Thanks to Title IX the girls get to play too. Predictions of the ruin and destruction of college sports turned out to be wrong.
Apparently you right coast types had a few snowflakes recently:
NYC mayor to probe claims that workers delayed snow cleanup
Four days after a monster blizzard blanketed much of the northeastern U.S., New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said he will investigate whether sanitation workers intentionally delayed cleanup efforts over frustrations regarding citywide budget cuts.
Cuz you know it couldn’t have been the mayor’s fault, right?
Peachy-keen news from Obama’s Good War:
US military investigates ‘death squad’ accused of murdering Afghans
Brigadier general to conduct review of 5th Stryker brigade as evidence emerges of widespread complicity in deaths
If you kill them, their hearts and minds will follow.
Transocean questions CSB’s power to probe oil spill: report
Transocean Ltd has written to the U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB), challenging the federal agency’s authority to investigate April’s deep-water drilling accident, Bloomberg said.Under federal law, floating rigs are exempt from oversight by the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board, Rachel Clingman, an attorney for Transocean, said in a letter to the agency, Bloomberg reported.
Where did all that oil go, anyway?
Today in History:
1967 Oakland Raiders beat Houston Oilers 40-7 in AFL championship game
1962 “Match Game” debuts on NBC with host Gene Rayburn
1935 Charles Darrow patents Monopoly
Birthdays today:
1959 Bebe Neuwirth
1959 Val Kilmer
1948 Donna Summer
1943 John Denver
1937 Anthony Hopkins
Deaths:
1999 Elliot Richardson
1985 Rick Nelson
1972 Roberto Clemente
The #1 movie in the country:
Filed under: General |
The Confluence 
About your #1 movie, a tweet comes to mind: “The Robert de Niro from Taxi would have shot the one from The Little Fockers”
And bringing my snow news from downstairs
http://edgeoforever.wordpress.com/2010/12/31/tabloids-mike-and-the-snow-job-part-3/
Now that would be a movie worth seeing.
Ruh-roh, Sarah’s in trouble now:
Will Snooki get punched in the nose again this season?
Who in the hell is Snooki?
An indicator of the level, in all things, we have achieved.
Very well said.
Nobody ever went broke underestimating the good taste of the American people.
Exactly!
Some historical guy (too lazy to look) made a prediction that the United States would last until the rabble figured out that they could vote themselves the proceeds of the treasury.
We are reaching that point because Wall Street got a huge chunk of it and the rest of us want to live here rent free with tax cuts.
Mike–I’m also too lazy to check, but I think his name was Alexander Tytler (not a typo), and he thought it applied to any country, not just the USA. The dude probably never dreamed the upper crust would be the rabble.
Does this mean the Obots will have to love snooki now?
Snooki says: “OMG, what the hell happened?”
You were born idiot!
How? Didn’t Obama say he didn’t know who Snooki was after making a joke about her at the Correspondents’ Dinner?
http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2010/07/obama_and_snooki_now_the_presi.html
I still don’t know who this SnOOki person is or what they do? Is it Paris Hilton’s lost twin?
I said it, instead of SHE, oopsie or is SnOOki a MAN?
I ain’t checking. You can look under the hood if you want to.
WOW, you are the one carrying about this SnOOki person not me and no, I am not a TSA inspector!
Hillary Clinton Would Avoid TSA Pat Down
Having read the Rubin article – she is not all together wrong.
Remember when Obama pretty much said it directly “Make Rush the face of the GOP?”
It’s been done with Palin ever since 2008 – whether she was right or wrong on things.
And while I agree with the Rubin inconsistencies you highlighted, I also remember her being right many times – especially during the D primaries, on Hillary.
I get mail:
Gee Jane, I don’t know what to say, considering that you guys BANNED ME!
They do need a records keeper! And they’ll get one too, with your generous donation of $5!
As for Krugman’s piece, my favorite part was the “Obama-McConnell tax deal. Nice ring to it!
I wouldn’t give her $.05
A “……new chapter for 2011” for FDL?
Chapter 11, please.
Your money is welcome; your opinion is not.
Kinda weird actually. I rarely, RARELY go to FDL anymore and as far as I know, my account is still active. But there’s nothing there I want to read. Ad soon as the CDS starts up, I have to leave. The gratuitous attacks on Clinton turn me off to everything that comes after. When they stop blaming her for their own stupid choices, maybe I’ll read again.
With so many achievements under her belt, Ms Hamsher should take wind energy on; with several dozen posts we will stop imported foreign oil.
Don’t make fun of the right coast and its snow while you guys on the left coast are all wet and it continues.
That’s a picture of the Swedish king!
Sniff! Why do you hate Swedes?
LOL. Yesterday it was the Australians, today the Swedes. It’s always a fun game to guess who it will be next. 🙂
I thought it was a pic of myiq2Xu…NO?
No
I keep forgetting you’re a blondie TinFoilHattie.
Soy pelon
OK, correction, a ‘BaldieTinFoilHattie’!
Now the good news (No it has nothing to do with SnOOki)
Knowing you, you will go have a beer to celebrate news.
“Go?”
It’s more like “reach”
About skype, I have a lot of Chinese colleagues who have family back in china. They may be very upset by this news. Let’s not get too flippant.
As the leaders grow more and more paranoid look for more draconian measures to control their population.
If I were on the board of certain multinational corporations, I’d keep a bottle of aspirin handy for news like this.
If China were to seize the assets of foreign
manufacturers what could they do?
Get the U S to start a war?
I once had to stay after school and write “I will not be flippant in class” in the board 100 times.
I think that old battle axe Mrs. Magillicuddy wanted it to say “I will not be a smart-ass” but I was only in the 4th grade and they had rules about cussing.
In 7th grade I had to go see the principal when Miss Ballbricker told me “Don’t be a smart ass” and I replied “It’s better than being a dumbass”
Yes, I was the class clown.
So, you showed an early affinity for greasepaint and your parents didn’t try to get you help?
They tried. Psychologists, psychiatrists, exorcists, you name it.
Finally my mom just started telling the neighbor kids not to play with me because I was a bad influence.
I think I heard about you when I was a kid in VA. That sort of news travels.
Yup – she took out a national ad.
I’m the one my mother warned you about.
“exorcists” !?! I wonder why?
Shoot you got off easy, how about 500 times for a week…Nope, I am not going to say what I did, as it was in the second or third grade and I was innocent.
Re: the shrill one. I’ve been reading a lot on nazi Germany. Wait, there’s some blog law about invoking Nazi stuff right? Can’t help it. The Nazi ruse to power was very well documented.
Over and over again, Germans were snookered into thinking the Nazis were going to make their lives better. They voluntarily gave up their freedoms. In fact, giving up their rights was one of the desired outcomes. Everybody wanted security and a stable economy.
And then there were people who just went along. They didn’t say, WTF? until it was too late. Or they tried to make lemonade out of what they initially thought were just spoiled lemons until they realized the fruit was rotten from the beginning.
That left the people who always thought the Nazis were batshit crazy without allies during the beginning of the movement. By the time the conciliators woke up and smelled the burned books, the Nazis were already in the midst of eliminating all opposition.
The time to oppose was during the primaries, Paul.
And that goes for all the other feckless lefty bloggers who went along with it when they should have said NO in the most emphatic way possible.
The bad guys got everything they wanted and now we are stuck.
But don’t despair, the Nazis only lasted 12 years in power.
“Arbeit macht frei”
Obama ist nicht frei, er ist sehr teuer. Bitten Sie Wall Street
Obama ist scheiße kopf.
You people talk funny.
hope you really sent that to Paul Krugman. Excellent writting as usual.
writing ……..sigh
But not the Peruvian lesbians.
We have standards.
This must mean the Peruvian faith healers have given up on Obama.
Interesting article from Commentary Magazine. Yes, it has a slant,and yes the author contributes to National Reviwe, but I thought this was still interesting. Some of the theories may be a bit out there, but some good stuff nonetheless.
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm/special-january-preview–the-wikileaks-war-on-america-15611
sounds like he just pi**ed off the god-king…
That whole story would be weird, if it were not all about Wikileaks and Assange – tales like these just sound like the norm anymore.
Can any of this be taken seriously anymore? – I’m going with the old adage – ‘follow the money’, the truth (if there is an interesting truth) resides there.
Cool story/link though… thanks.
There is no “I” in asshole.
CNN:
I think we can safely say that the 20 percent is on the left side of the political spectrum. If it’s not then that raises a lot of questions. But it’s not even a majority of the left.
Yes, but those 77 percent probably live in flyover country and are not as enlightened as those who hero-worship Mr. Assange. He’s a hero, you know! Why do you hate?
I was thinking how elitist the rhetoric of the Assange cultists is.
They know better than the rest of us, just like the Obots knew better.
I never said I knew better, and since when is having an opinion on FIOA, Free Press, Freedom of Expression and Freedom to opine make one a ‘CULTIST’!?!
Strawman much?
Why do I need a strawman when there is a handy clown around 🙂 !
OK, back to the IMPORTANT things on the news, SnOOki this and SnOOki that…
That reminds me of an old joke – What’s the difference between a lawyer and a hooker?
Hookers quit screwing you after you’re dead.
I need an appetizer recipe
Buy chips
Open bag
Serve
Can of vienna sausages. Toothpicks. Feign laugh at the “this looks familiar” jokes.
Tie down BFF. Serve.
… what?
… also feign laugh at the “this looks familiar” jokes. 🙂
Yep, we’re always this helpful.
Holiday Veggie Appetizers and more…YUMMY!
http://www.kraftrecipes.com/recipes/appetizers/main.aspx?cm_mmc=srch-_-Google-_-traffic-_-vegetarian_appetizers
Cow, chainsaw, sour cream, bag of charcoal.
No spices?