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Odds, Ends

1. SEIU Catch-22 (or, “how I learned to stop worrying and love it when they begin eating their own”).

h/t a fine scotch

2. Sen DeMint: Obama “believes Americans are stupid.” (h/t Dave O’C)

3. From CNS: “Christy Romero, the acting Special Inspector General for the TARP bank bailout program, told the House Financial Services Committee on Tuesday that the Dodd-Frank financial regulatory law may not end the ‘too big to fail’ policy and the moral hazard surrounding it.” Who knew?

4. When Boehner sacks up enough to take a shot at you, it’s a foregone conclusion that the internal polls are showing you’re considerably weakened as a chief executive. Of course, it helps that you happen to be a Luddite who hasn’t the foggiest idea how the market works, and every last thing you know about economics could fit neatly in the meat holster of Anthony Weiner’s Twitter thong.

5. Harsanyi: “What would Ayn Rand do?” He answers at some length. Whereas I would have guessed, “I dunno, tell the inconsistent hypocrites to fuck off in, like, a mild Russian accent?”

6. Bees!

20 Replies to “Odds, Ends”

  1. cranky-d says:

    Bees? Where?

    *runs around like a damn fool*

    I don’t like bees.

  2. McGehee says:

    I never had a problem with bees. Sees and dees pissed me off, though.

  3. Ernst Schreiber says:

    That “bees” is just hanging there, waiting for someone to find a video of that John Belushi SNL sketch.

  4. Wm T Sherman says:

    More SEIU Sumo action. I note that there has been a recent spike in reports of unprovoked assaults by roving bands of big fatties, e.g. West Point cadet thrown into a concrete pillar at the airport.

  5. mojo says:

    Rand: Basically. But she’d take like, 73 pages to do it.

  6. mojo says:

    “Waaaaaalllll, Mistuh President, it’s the bees an’ spiders agin…”
    — Firesign Theatre, “Up Against the Wall of SCIENCE!”

  7. LBascom says:

    Are the bee populations still dwindling? That one worries me in this world of engineered crops.

  8. LTC John says:

    #4 – sometimes it is just too easy a thing to pass up, even for him…

    $6 – Bees?! Bees hate you. [anyone else play KoL?]

  9. cranky-d says:

    I’m on a Bees hate you run right now, LTC. Hardcore, turtle tamer.

  10. cranky-d says:

    I’ll bet that looks really odd to someone who doesn’t play KoL.

  11. Sarah Rolph says:

    Republican leaders releasing a press release mocking President Obama?

    Things are looking up!

  12. LBascom says:

    I don’t know if this is an odd or an end, but it seems a strange coincidence.

    More than two dozen people at Lemoore Naval Air Station have been hospitalized — and officials were checking Wednesday to see if the base’s water supply has been contaminated.

    People on the base began getting sick Tuesday, complaining of such things as headache and diarrhea […]

    This outbreak –whatever it is — comes as the base welcomes back about 600 military personnel from the USS Carl Vinson, which docked in San Diego after a seven-month deployment.

    More about the returning squadron:

    After an historic mission in the Middle East, a fighter jet squadron returned home Tuesday to Lemoore Naval Air Station.

    The crew members were aboard the USS Carl Vinson which was part of the deadly raid on Osama Bin Laden’s compound in Pakistan.

    The sailors, who are docking in San Diego Wednesday, were responsible for the Al Qaeda leader’s burial in the Arabian Sea.

    Developing…

  13. Pablo says:

    The bees know.

  14. Swen says:

    If you have six odds and ends and you take five away, what do you have left, an odd or an end?

    [George Carlin back when he was more funny and less strident.]

  15. geoffb says:

    Another odd.

    There is this PAC produced ad in the CA-36 special election which has Democrats and TPM outraged. The maker fired back and TPM as is their wont edited his statement in order to make their spin work.
    TPM:

    On his website, Ehlinger preemptively refuted charges that the ad is racist:

    ‘Before you charge racism at the ad, consider her one line in the video: “It takes a different kind of person to speak the language.” By that she means, it takes black people to talk to black people.’

    2005 statistics from the LAPD reported that the vast majority of L.A.’s gang population is made up of predominately Latino gangs. </blockquote>Now a fuller quote:

    Before you charge racism at the ad, consider her one line in the video: “It takes a different kind of person to speak the language.” By that she means, it takes black people to talk to black people. It takes gang members to talk to gang members. They have their own language, we should coddle them. They’re not responsible for their actions if they murder someone, rape someone. They’re a minority.

    All of that’s bunk. I’m from New Orleans. We have creole food, we have cajun food, we have french food, and we mix it all up. Anyone can talk to anyone.

    And the main message to gang members in any city should be: want to kill someone? Want to rape someone? Meet Mr. Policeman. He will escort you to jail.

    This Clockwork Orange crap about hiring criminals to persuade other criminals to stop their crime is beyond stupid.

  16. Swen says:

    Another odd.. Why is it that whenever you see a photo of Obama eating, he’s hunched over his plate stuffing food in his mouth with both hands? Does M’chelle have him on a diet?

  17. Wm T Sherman says:

    16. That’s how prisoners protect their food from the other prisoners in the Big House.

  18. sdferr says:

    Bees indeed. Congrats pdbuttons, I raise a tumbler to yer Bruins.

  19. Pablo says:

    Bobby Orr!

  20. happyfeet says:

    here I remember Mr. bh and also Mr. JD talking about this nice Ally Walker lady apparently she has a new show on the tv for you to watch

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