NASA’s swell new global bureaucratic quaalude mission was greeted by howls of derisive laughter and sporadic vomiting. This blog’s attempt at a “don’t shoot the messenger” call on Administrator Bolden, too, got sucked into a steep gravity well. iOwnTheWorld mustered a caustic contest to name a new Mosque Shuttle, with the sort of result you’d expect:
It will be a sign of resurgence when an actual leader is elected that is capable of setting a national goal. Mars, Moon base, whatever. You can have Socialism or you can have quantum leaps, but you can only have both in the mouth of a salesman.
Depending on the results of the election, it would seem that McConnell may have the mandate to just announce a standing filibuster. The only point in trying to pass odious legislation would be that, signed into law, the legislation may require veto-override capability to remove.
GradeGov.com gives my Congresstool a ‘D’. Why so high, one wonders? All the more encouragement to work to the ethical limit to elect a representative Representative, instead of Moran. Americans who want to alter course away from shoal water must support their local candidate, even if not agreeing 100% with their issues. November is an election of Biden-esque proportions.
My 21-year-old daughter, Kennedy Catherine McCain, is getting married at 10 a.m. today to Martin, which means that my attempts to bribe the couple into eloping have failed.
When I saw this headline, I misunderstood for a second and thought the judge had ruled weddings unconstitutional but . . .
Several months ago, I remember being told that this would be what is called a “small” wedding. For reasons that have not been adequately explained, we have only an estimate of the number of guests who have RSVP’d, but it’s somewhere between 130 and 197. And they must be fed.
Chad Halpern, Former Ambassador to Bulungi, recently returned from, you know, hanging out on Tioman for a few years. The lure? One of those recess appointments, this one to the UN. “We gotta help out the Obama Administration, dude. These Republicans are a bunch of dicks, blocking all these important jobs and all,” said Halpern.
Halpern’s legendary diplomatic chops were quickly employed by the UN delegation in working on a statement about the sinking of the Cheonan on March 26th, as CBC News reported:
The United States said Thursday that China and other key countries have agreed to condemn the attack on a South Korean warship and express “deep concern” over findings that North Korea was to blame — but their proposed statement did not directly accuse Pyongyang.
Their agreed statement, circulated to the full 15-member UN Security Council for approval, calls for “appropriate and peaceful measures to be taken against those responsible” for the sinking of the 1,200-tonne Cheonan on March 26, killing 46 South Korean sailors.
But it doesn’t identify who is responsible, and “takes note” of North Korea’s response “that it had nothing to do with the incident,” according to the text obtained by The Associated Press.
Halpern offered some crucial background reasoning for this surprising turn of events. Yoon Duk-yong, co-head of the team investigating the sinking of the South Korean warship Cheonan in March, talks next to torpedo parts salvaged from the Yellow Sea. (Jung Yeon-je/Associated Press)
“They found some stuff left over from whenever Patton bombed Inchon during the Russo-Japanese War, and thought it had something to do with the Kikkoman sinking. Perfectly understandable. It’s like some right-wing jerk came over and poured Coke down your X-Box–you’d be livid, too.
What they haven’t disproved is that the whole thing was prolly ‘cuz of some crazed Glenn Beck fans who were over in Seoul and got kind outta hand with the maekju. They really gotta get those dudes on the no-fly list, them and the Tea Party types. See, they want to push everything into a meltdown around the world, to make President Obama look bad. All that Tea Ba-Party stuff is getting way outta control.”
Pressed on whether or not he really believed the North Korean statement, Ambassador Halpern doubled down:
“Look, they said they ‘had nothing to do with the incident’. If you want diplomacy to work, you have to take people at face value, unless they are named Bush or Cheney.
Furthermore, we owe these people $65 trillion in damages since the Russo-Japanese War. They’re pretty broke, dude. They can’t even afford a robusto, much less a torpedo. Heh.
Instead of laughing at these people, and calling Kim ‘ronery’, why don’t we just poney up the money, so they can make a run for the border and get some grub? Why does the US always have to play the heavy? Can’t we just be mellow?”
Mighty Michelle Malkin echo’s Yahoo’s report that the 5th Circuit told the White House to talk to the hand on the ban.
She also notes:
. . .it’s reportedly too late for some companies that are already moving rigs and workers overseas for projects.
Really, if the Administration can’t just decapitate the Gulf economy outright, they can destroy companies so many other ways. Ah, the town that Billy Sunday couldn’t shut down:
It looks to be a proper board, but the pack of goof on it, headed downhill with no safety gear or reasonable means of managing the thing, bring Nancy, Harry and Barry to mind:
I’m not too sure if ABBA works as a proper soundtrack for the 111th Congress and the Obama Administration. I needed something more; something rife with wretched, nihilistic excess. There was really only one suitable cut: [brief, yet contextually appropriate, blasphemy warning] Jesus Built My Hotrod. Embedding disabled on request, but that likely won’t bother Stacy.
On the face of it, the idea that higher unemployment benefits won’t lead to more unemployment doesn’t make much sense. Imagine what the unemployment rate would look like if unemployment benefits were universally $150,000 per year. My guess is we’d have a heck of a lot more unemployment. Common sense and personal experience indicate higher unemployment benefits will make unemployment less unattractive and thereby increase unemployment even in the Great Recession. . . . [S]ince the 1970s there’s been a close correlation between increased unemployment benefits and an increase in the unemployment rate. . . .
