Tag Archives: Obama
But, but, but… waterboarding WORKED! – (so says) Cheney
1. Cheney wants release of memos that say waterboarding worked - Somebody is having a hard time embracing retirement.
(From the London Times)
2. Who is the Surviving Somali Pirate? – His name is Abdiwali Abdiqadir Muse, he’s probably around 16 years old, and somehow reporters found his Mom. He’s now in New York City, in court, [...]
Posted in Morning Five Also tagged Air Force, Air Mail, Back Country, Cheney, Franch Church River of No Return Wilderness, Hacker, internet, Pentagon, Pirates, Smoking, Somali, Torture, Waterboarding Comments closed
Navy SEALS – 3 Pirates – 0
1. Cargo Ship Captain Saved by Snipers – Three of the Four pirates expose their heads at the same time. The fourth was on the US Destroyer for negotiations. Snipers take out the three left on the boat and that’s that. But now that it has gotten violent, how does that change the overall situation?
A [...]
Posted in Morning Five Also tagged Afghanistan, Armenia, Genocide, Levi Johnston, Michael Jackson, Pirates, Sarah Palin, SEALS, Turkey, Women's Rights Comments closed
The Escalation of Pirate Tensions
1. Hostage Ship Captain tries to make a swim for it - But the Pirates got him back. This thing has escalated big time. The Pirates are sending reinforcements complete with human shields of other recently taken hostages.
(From ABC News and Fox News)
2. 20/20 says having a gun on you wouldn’t necessarily get you out [...]
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Obama in Iraq
1. President Obama drops in on Iraq – Hey, he was in the area…
(From the London Times)
2. (out of breath with panic…) North Korea could Blow us back into the stone age!!! - With an Electro-magnetic pulse weapon? They can’t even feed themselves… why would they do that? (From Mother Jones)
3. How to spy on [...]
Posted in Morning Five Also tagged Awful internet ads, Electro magnetic Pulse Weapon, esquire, Hack, Iraq, Levi, North Korea, Sarah Palin, Webcam Comments closed
Circumcision! Got your attention now?
1. The Queen’s new Ipod has some of President Obama’s Speeches on it –
I think Simon Cowell might call that “a bit self indulgent.” I’m guessing he (the President) didn’t sign off on this… but his team needs to stop making him look like he loves him self so much. (From Hot Air)
2. So… [...]
Posted in Morning Five Also tagged Big Brother, Bus Cook, Circumcision, Google, Ipod, Jay Cutler, Kim Jong Il, Pyongyang, Queen, Street View Comments closed
Obama is not Urkel
1. Newsflash: Obama didn’t destroy the economy -
So to all of my conservative friends, please stop sending me the email forwards with the image to the right attached. It only makes you look like a fool.
(From The New Republic)
2. No more Global War on Terror! – Well, as far as calling it “The Global War [...]
Posted in Morning Five Also tagged Drugs, Economy, Global War on Terror, Google Earth, Hillary Clinton, Mexico, Steve Urkel, Turnips, Vegetables Comments closed
Obama Press Conference
1. Post Press Conference reaction - Here’s a line from the politico article: “Obama fluently answered the questions, sometimes at considerable length. But his responses were typically variations on a single-word theme: Whatever.” That’s kinda the feeling I got too.
One other observation from here… a lot of the press was awful. Chuck Todd asked what [...]
Posted in Media Hell, Morning Five Also tagged Curt Schilling, Economy, Facebook, Health Care, Meghan McCain, Press Conference Comments closed
Geither is in the real estate market
1. US Treasury to use $1 Trillion against toxic debt - up to $100 Billion from TARP is going to be used to buy up toxic assets like bad mortgages. Expect Tim Geither to be showing up at open houses ALL over the country very very soon. (From the London Times)
2. President Obama Laughs off [...]
Posted in Morning Five Also tagged China, Civil War, Condoms, Economy, Geithner, Lincoln, Real Estate, Starbucks, Toxic Assets Comments closed
Obama and the Special Olympics
1. Pres. Obama w/ Jay Leno on his Bowling Skills: “It was like Special Olympics or something” - A fair point is being made by the right on what the President said… IMAGINE what would have happened if President Bush would have said this. I think we’ve all said terrible awful things and not intended [...]
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It was MATTHEWS!
1. It was MATTHEWS who said: “Oh God” - Not Olbermann. His excuse was he was surprised by the “peculiar stagecraft” of Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal’s response. The kinda White House looking set up for the Governor. Peculiar Stagecraft? How about the Obama fake Presidential Seal the Obama campaign used during [...]
Posted in Morning Five Also tagged Bank Robbery, Bobby Jindal, Budget, Chris Matthews, diet, Oh God, Olbermann, Trillion, weight loss Comments closed
MSNBC sucks
1. MSNBCer says “Oh God” as Gov. Jindal walks up to give Republican Response - After President Obama finished his address the Republicans had their turn to respond, just as if it were a State of the Union. As Gov. Jindal of Louisiana is walking up to the podium to start speaking, someone at MSNBC [...]
Posted in Media Hell, Morning Five, Opinion Also tagged Art, Bobby Jindal, Comet, Cool, Economy, Keith Olbermann, Matisse, MSNBC, Space Comments closed
President Obama Drinking Game
1. What to expect during the President’s Speech tonight - Politico describes his upcoming address to a joint session of Congress and the Nation as
“a sober assessment.” (From Politico.)
2. So if it’s a sober assessment… will we need… THIS? - The President
Obama Drinking game has arrived. (From Wonkette)
3. Prop 8 Supporters still being blacklisted - [...]
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Drinking game, esquire, Homophobia, Joint Session of Congress, Prop 8 Comments closed
Facebook isn’t good for your brain
1. Facebook will make you think like a toddler - Babies need constant reassurance that they exist in order for their brain to develop. If raised in total isolation, their brains will not develop past the infant stage. That addiction to the constant reassurance of existence is eventually broken though and the brain [...]
Posted in Morning Five Also tagged addiction, brain, Facebook, Falling asleep in meetings, Joint Session of Congress, myspace, Pot, social networking, State of the Union, wine Comments closed
President Obama wants to cut the Deficit in half
1. Gov. Schwarzenegger will take that GOP Money – If some GOP Governors really don’t want the stimulus money… The Governator will be more than happy to take it off their hands for them. (From Politico)
2. Pres. Obama wants to halve the Deficit – Budget to be proposed by Thursday, might cut the deficit in [...]
Posted in Morning Five Also tagged Budget, Chimp, Deficit, Fashion, Oscars, Schwarzenegger, Stimulus Comments closed
The Death of Print Journalism continues.
1. Politico and the fiery death of Print Journalism – How Politico is changing the game, that has already changed. (From The New Republic)
2. The Chimpanzee Atack Story - Three points on this:
I. I understand why the Media is all over this story. It’s so bizarre that it gets clicks, viewers, and readers. I just [...]
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Bike, Chimpanzee, Flag, Journalism, Lance Armstrong, Politico Comments closed
Bush and Cheney don’t like each other right now
1. Obama Signs Stimulus, launches www.Recovery.gov -
Ooooo, it’s got it’s own WEBSITE. Let’s take this 800 Billion dollar thing for a spin. Wait, there’s already talk of a second? (From CS Monitor and the Huffington Post)
2. Obama to send 17,000 Troops to Afghanistan – It’s his first major Commander-in-Chief type decision. (From Reuters)
3. Roland Burris [...]
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Afghanistan, Bush, Cheney, Love gone bad, Neil Diamond, Perjury, Roland Burris, songs to weep gently into your pillow to, Stimulus Comments closed
1. President Obama is in a Good mood? - But why? Also, don’t think he doesn’t know of all the historical economic models (Japan in the 90s, Sweden Nationalizing their banks) that can be applied to our current financial crisis. (From the New Republic)
2. Israel’s Livni willing to “give up half of the Land of [...]
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Obama bets it all on Stimulus
1. Eric Holder is your new Attorney General
Confirmed: 75-21 (From The Hill)
2. Obama Admits a second term depends on Stimulus plan
Less than two weeks in and President Obama is saying if his Stimulus plan doesn’t go well, he’ll most likely be one and done. If this were a poker game… on the second hand it’d [...]
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged 2012, 2nd Amedment, Attorney General, Blago, China, Coleman, Eric Holder, Guns, Stimulus, Wen Jiabao Comments closed
Pork in the Stimulus
1. Stimulus gets porkified
The Wall Street Journal has estimated that only 12 cents out of every $1 dollar in the stimulus would actually go towards “something that can plausibly be considered a growth stimulus.”
Translation: All the “good” stuff, would set us back $90 billion.
Not $825 Billion.
If this crisis is so dire (which it very [...]
Posted in Morning Five Also tagged Faith Hill, Jennifer Hudson, National Anthem, pork, Steelers, Stimulus, Super Bowl Comments closed
The far right gave the Dems all the cards