Honoring the Fallen as We Salute Those Serving
Every year, my mom places the wreath on the monument to fallen soldiers born in our town.
Month: May 2010
Will Republicans Take Impeaching Obama off the Table If They Win Control of Congress in November?
Now, four years later, with Republicans within range of winning control of the House and possibly the Senate, their tea bagger and neo-con base is sending an equally clear signal: They want Obama impeached, and they don’t much care how or why.
BP? Bitch, Please.
We love a snarky challenge, and there’s a really good one on Twitter right now. #renamebp invites you to come up with a new name that the inititals “BP” stand for. Currently leading are “Bitch Please,” “Bush’s Pals,” and “Blame POTUS.”
I’m thinking, “Big Polluters,” “Beware Pricks,” “Bleak Payoff,” “Begin Picketing,” and “Blatant Profits.”
What do you think “BP” stands for?
Verbatim
Loving musical theater doesn’t make you gay — it makes you awful.
– Sue Sylvester, gym teacher on “Glee,” played by Jane Lynch.
Fox Panel Snickers at Eliot Spitzer’s Escort Scandal – Yet Their Fox Colleague Dick Morris Paid Women to Suck Their Toes
On a recent episode of “News Watch,” Fox News’ media-news snarkfest, the panel had fun mocking reports that rival CNN is planning to hire former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer for an on-air gig. The gang was giddy, of course, because Spitzer, a Democrat, had to resign as governor in 2008 over of a call-girl scandal.
Here’s how Frances Martel at Mediaite described the segment:
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…things are happening today. The oil that we showed you is being cleaned up. There’s equipment all over the parish and we do have a senior person from the Coast Guard in our office now that can make decisions and can hold BP’s feet to the fire, because they are the ones that should be stepping up to the plate. I think he cares and he’s a hands-on guy. I was real impressed.
Plaquemines Parish, LA. Pres. Billy Nungesser (R), commenting on Pres. Obama, and the current response to the BP oil spill.
Mud In Our Eyes
The BP boys are trying to fill
The oil leak using a “top kill.”
They’re managing our expectations,
Though we wouldn’t need these machinations,
If there had been, in the first place, no spill.
Tell Chuck DeVore Barbara Boxer Is Real, ‘Jack Bauer’ Is Not
Chuck DeVore, the conservative Republican trying to unseat Calif. Sen. Barbara Boxer in the midterms, has one of the stupidest campaign commercials ever.
For one thing, he’s cornier than the tea baggers, and while I’m sure he means it to be a joke, he seems to treat “Jack Bauer,” Keifer Sutherland’s character on the TV show “24” as if he were a real person.
Plus, it has video of him mowing his lawn and audio of him getting shot at by Syrians in Israel, and as much other self-serving, gratuitous crapola that can be dumped into a 3.5-minute video.
Verbatim
I will deal with this situation once this election is over.
— South Carolina gubernatorial candidate Nikki Haley (R), in an interview on WTMA radio this morning, about an alleged “inappropriate physical relationship” with blogger Will Folks.
“Top BP Official” Gets a Clue
This is not a parody from The Onion or Andy Borowitz, sadly, it’s an actual news bulletin from CNN.
