October 2008
85 posts
Fail
COURIC: And when it comes to establishing your world view, I was curious, what newspapers and magazines did you regularly read before you were tapped for this — to stay informed and to understand the world?
PALIN: I’ve read most of them again with a great appreciation for the press, for the media —
COURIC: But what ones specifically? I’m curious.
PALIN: Um, all of them, any of them that have been in front of me over all these years.
COURIC: Can you name any of them?
PALIN: I have a vast variety of sources where we get our news.
September 2008
88 posts
Does anybody have the text of Pelosi’s speech that hurt John Boehner’s feelings?
O'S DANGEROUS PALS - New York Post →
You have got to be fucking kidding me.
Jeffrey Goldberg (September 29, 2008) - Sarah... →
Pancake house
At murder by the book on Hawthorne
Ann Selzer on Youth →
Palin Problem by Kathleen Parker on National... →
This kind of article drives me crazy. She still insists that those of us who saw the real Palin before the Couric interview are wrong, even though she’s come to agree with us. It’s the same thing that people did around the Iraq war, and it was just as stupid.
“The interesting thing about cloud computing is that we’ve redefined cloud...”
– Larry Ellison, CEO Oracle
Wondering who will fail next.
The new exciting feature I alluded to: http://tinyurl.com/3grdht
“Larry, if I ask you that the government should intervene like every other...”
– Bernie Sanders, to Larry Kudlow
Coherence
COURIC: Why isn’t it better, Governor Palin, to spend $700 billion helping middle-class families who are struggling with health care, housing, gas and groceries? Allow them to spend more, and put more money into the economy, instead of helping these big financial institutions that played a role in creating this mess?
PALIN: That’s why I say I, like every American I’m speaking with, we're ill about this position that we have been put in. Where it is the taxpayers looking to bail out. But ultimately, what the bailout does is help those who are concerned about the health care reform that is needed to help shore up our economy. Um, helping, oh, it’s got to be about job creation, too. Shoring up our economy, and putting it back on the right track. So health care reform and reducing taxes and reining in spending has got to accompany tax reductions, and tax relief for Americans, and trade — we have got to see trade as opportunity, not as, uh, competitive, um, scary thing, but one in five jobs created in the trade sector today. We’ve got to look at that as more opportunity. All of those things under the umbrella of job creation.
At backspace downtown, pondering Dabble.
To clarify: Lightsaber sounds good, Farting sounds bad. Is that it, Apple? Anything else you want to write down for us?
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“What are you going to do if you’re elected and things get tough? Suspend...”
– David Letterman
“I think that it is going to be part of the president’s job to deal with...”
– Barack Obama
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I made this!
Wow, I didn’t realize Sen. Johnson was this sick.
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This is depressing.
“I want to be done playing this lady Nov. 5. So if anybody can help me be done...”
– Tina Fey
Phone banking for Merkley soon.
I rebooted a server last night, and when it came back up the filesystem was from June. WTFBBQ.
People are comment spamming my tumble blog. I am not here to spread links to your blog, or to promote your PR campaign, unless I know you.
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“You listen to these modern records, they’re atrocious, they have sound all...”
– Bob Dylan
“If you already know what recursion is, just remember the answer. Otherwise, find...”
Sysadmin fire drill!
You can’t make this stuff up: “Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild” doesn’t like Obama because she thinks he is elitist.
My version of genius loves Clap your hands say yeah.
Andrew Sullivan is trying (and failing) to understand 4chan /b/. I know the feeling.
McCain/Palin 2008: Remember the Maine!
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“Yesterday, John McCain actually said that if he’s president that...”
– Barack Obama
Comcast never showed, but they claimed they did, even telling me they left a note. No note. Nice to lie in a way that I could verify.
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“The fundamental business of the country, that is the production and distribution...”
– Herbert Hoover, Friday Oct 25, 1929
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