I don’t have the vocabulary to describe such inanity. I can learn far more about politics by watching old Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoons than I can from Maureen Dowd (and they’re a lot funnier).
I would add a lot smarter and a lot more subversive too.
Courtesy of WallStreetJackass:
CEO –Chief Embezzlement Officer.
CFO— Corporate Fraud Officer.
BULL MARKET — A random market movement causing an investor to mistake himself for a financial genius.
BEAR MARKET — A 6 to 18 month period when the kids get no allowance, the wife gets no jewelry, and the husband gets no sex.
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Read the rest at the site…It’s a hoot.
I don’t care about the iPhone. I don’t want a smart phone. I just want to make phone calls.
That being said, this take down of the iPhone is a thing of beauty, if you are into such stuff, which I am.
It appears that Judge Ronald Leighton was unamused at a 465 page filing in a racketeering lawsuit, including an 8 page title (!), and invoked a rarely used rule requiring short and plain statement of allegations sent it back to be redrafted with the following instructions in limerick form:
Plaintiff has a great deal to say,
But it seems he skipped Rule 8(a).
His Complaint is too long,
Which renders it wrong,
Please rewrite and refile today.
This is why I am not a judge. My limerick would have been far more blunt:
An eight page long title will fail,
regardless of the complexity of the tale,
I hope you don’t mind,
you’re in contempt I do find,
get your toothbrush because you’re going to jail.
Click picture for original
David Frum, writing in The New Republic, in yet another example of how that magazine has fallen, actually writes something that I wholeheartedly support, though for very different reasons:
I have my own personal nomination for vice president for McCain. It’s Rudy Giuliani, precisely because he shares the vision of a practical, reforming, war-winning Republican Party that inspires John McCain, plus the stronger-than-usual grounds for hoping that he might be the rare candidate who can make a difference in an essential state–in this case, New Jersey.
Simply put, it’s been way too long since I’ve had the opportunity to use the phrase, “Clown Show”, but making a your vice-presidential running mate the man who:
Would give me plenty of opportunity.
Of course, I can’t hope to own him the way that Joe Biden did when he said that when Rudy talks, “there’s only three things he mentions in a sentence: a noun and a verb and 9/11.”
That one is one of the classics of the ages, up there with George Bernard Shaw and Winston Churchill.
This is very amusing.
I haven’t formed an opinion on the Veepstakes, so I am not endorsing this line of reasoning, but I am certainly amused:
A Few Observations From Last Night’s Big Speech Threefer:
– No way, no how, not on this planet, not in this galaxy should Obama have Hillary Clinton on the ticket. That’s what Obama needs: a Vice President who believes she should be President, with the added bonus of having Bill Clinton wagging his pussy-ready finger at everyone whenever someone says something mean about his wife. It’d be a big, stupid mistake, akin to a family of lemurs inviting a boa constrictor over for dinner.
This guy is priceless.
Not sure if I can add much to this:
Panties sought for Myanmar protest
Two Canadian human rights group in Quebec are calling for women to mail panties to Myanmar’s embassy to protest the ruling military junta.
The Quebec Women’s Federation and the activist group Rights and Democracy claim the secretive military leaders in the country formerly known as Burma are superstitious and believe contact with women’s underwear will usurp their power, CTV News reported.
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The unwitting drug mule found the dope in his suitcase, and called police.
The “first of the story” is here.
Due to a screw up by Japanese customs agents 142g (about 5 oz) of Marijuana was placed in a passenger’s bag at Narita Airport.
They were running tests on the dogs, and used a real suitcase instead of a dummy one….oops….
Very funny…if you have the math.
Math majors cannot dance.
Already covered the real story, but this cartoon was too good not to show.
John Stewart v. Doug Feith.
This is ugly….fish in a barrel, children’s crusade, New Orleans Saints.
This makes a baby seal being clubbed look like Chuck Norris taking on a jillion Ninja.
Part 2
The Republicans have a new slogan that they are selling, “The Change You Deserve“.
The first problem with this is that it sounds punitive, like something a dominatrix would say to a bad, bad boy.
More problematic is that the slogan is already being use, by the anti-depressant Effexor.
**snort**
Bill O’Reilly Snaps…Again – Watch more free videos
I’m wondering if Fox has decided to ease him out, and so we are starting to see a drip, drip, drip, to diminish him before easing him out.
I think of myself as an angry guy, but whenever you get to turn over a rock in the Republican psyche, it makes me look like Mahatma Ghandi.
Paul Krugman admits that he reads the cartoons first in the New Yorker, and cartoons like this is why.
