Month: April 2012
Mittbot Insults Local Delicacy at Picnic: ‘I’m Not Sure about These Cookies’
When human politicians are confronted with cookies of an unknown origin, they will do one of two things: Eat the cookie anyway or politely refuse by saying something like, “They look great but I’m still digesting all that delicious chicken.”
When robot politicians find themselves in the same situation, this is what happens:
Krauthammer Predicts ‘Dirtiest Campaign’ Ever
I mean, it’s going to be the dirtiest campaign you’ve ever seen. I would say: Hide the children and check the plumbing because you’re going to have to shower several times a day.
— Charles Krauthammer, in an interview on Fox News.
Romney Says We’re Going Greek
The debt number is alarming and gives you great concern, of course, because we’re moving toward the Greek-type numbers. My guess is, by the way, at the Democratic convention, he will not be appearing in front of Greek columns like in Denver. He won’t want to remind people of Greece.
— Mitt Romney, in an interview on Fox News.
38 Former Candidates for President Still Have Open Campaigns
38
The number of past presidential contenders going back 16 years who are still candidates, at least in the eyes of the federal government. Bloomberg Businessweek notes: “Running for president is exhausting and all-consuming. Putting an end to a presidential campaign can be a nightmare that lasts years. There are employees, consultants, lawyers, and ad makers clamoring to be paid, ad buys to cancel, contracts and legal disputes to settle, office space, computers, phones, and furniture around the country to unload, and a staggering pile of disclosure forms and other paperwork to complete before the Federal Election Commission will certify that a campaign is officially over.”
Whoo-Hoo! We Just Got Our 50th “Like!”
Champagne corks are popping at Pensito Review because we just got our 50th Facebook “Like” today! Our thumbs are UP.
O.K., 50 might not sound like much to those of you with 637 “Friends,” but when you understand our past ambivalence toward Facebook, you’ll understand why it’s a big deal (not to be confused with health care reform, which is a BFD).
You see, Jon, our reluctant web guy, hates Facebook. Trish is O.K. with it, and Buck, who is actually a social media pioneer, just phones it in via Twitter with TweetDeck or HoopieSweetie or CheatPost or whatever program that is he uses for social networking.
What our Facebook URL won’t be: facebook.com/mypensito. We get enough penis jokes as it is
It also didn’t help that, much as Jon hated Facebook a couple of years ago, he did put us on there. This was back when groups, organizations, etc. had “Friends” instead of “Likes.” So now we are stuck with www.facebook.com/pensitoreview going to the discontinued former page. And Facebook won’t let us reassign that perfect URL to our new page. We’re trying to think up a good new unique URL. The one it definitely won’t be is www.facebook.com/mypensito. Lord knows, we get enough penis jokes as it is.
Founding Fathers in the Washington and Adams Administrations Passed Laws Mandating the Purchase of Health Insurance
How can imposing mandates on the citizenry to buy stuff, including health insurance and guns, be jackbooted authoritarian “socialism” if the Founding Fathers did it?
Pres. George Washington had no difficulty imposing a health insurance mandateIn making the legal case against Obamacare’s individual mandate, challengers have argued that the framers of our Constitution would certainly have found such a measure to be unconstitutional. Never mind that nothing in the text or history of the Constitution’s Commerce Clause indicates that Congress cannot mandate commercial purchases. The framers, challengers have claimed, thought a constitutional ban on purchase mandates was too “obvious” to mention. Their core basis for this claim is that purchase mandates are unprecedented, which they say would not be the case if it was understood this power existed.
Americans’ Approval of Congress Inexplicably Rises to 17%
17%
Americans’ current approval rating for Congress. Though still low, this rating is the highest since last July. It was at 10% as recently as February. Approval is up among both Republicans and Democrats, who, inexplicably, rate Congress similarly.
My Wanted Poster
As thinkers, the Taliban aren’t well-regarded.
Indeed, some seem downright retarded.
Take commander Mohammad Ashan,
Who turned himself in,
Expecting that he’d be rewarded.
Anti-Abortion Male Republican: ‘Sacred Sperm’ Bill Is ‘an Egregious Attack on Personal Liberties from the Government’
A “personhood act” passed by Republicans in the Oklahoma Senate earlier this year would ban all abortions, including in cases involving rape and incest. If the bill passes out of the legislature and the state’s Republican governor signs it into law, control over the reproductive systems of Oklahoma women will effectively be taken from the women themselves and handed over to the law enforcement apparatus of the state government.
“There’s not another individual that knows what’s better for you than you.”
– Sen. Shortey
– Sen. Shortey
In response, a pro-choice Democratic senator, Constance Johnson, introduced an “every sperm is sacred” bill that would outlaw what she described as the “depositing of sperm anywhere other than in a woman’s vagina.”
Not surprisingly, anti-abortion male politicians do not like Johnson’s amendment. The Daily Show’s Al Madrigal interviewed one of these senators, the perhaps ironically named Ralph Shortey, who inadvertently revealed how truly clueless big-government Republicans can be.
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