Archive for April, 2009
Sunday Open Thread
What’s on your mind this weekend?
We’re curious if any political discussion come up at Easter dinner today.
What are people talking about in your neck of the woods?
Happy Easter Everybody
Leave it to us to bring you a little Judy Garland on Easter Sunday.
Showtunes for everyone…because we really are that gay.
Happy Easter everybody!
HRH Princess Caroline of Kennedy not wanted at The Vatican
HRH Princess Caroline of Kennedy will become an Ambassador — Obama wants desperately to reward her loyalty to him, and to make her a part of his administration in an official capacity.
The problem is, nobody wants her around.
The people of New York didn’t want her in the Senate.
The Vatican doesn’t want her as US Ambassador there.
Reportedly, too many in Great Britain remember the last Kennedy that was an Ambassador to the Court of St. James (that would be Princess Caroline’s grandfather, Joseph P. Kennedy, who, as Ambassador, advocated Britain’s surrender to Hitler and had to be recalled by President Roosevelt for embarrassing America and endangering relations with the UK).
What’s a Princess to do?
“Is there an Ambassador to Armani job open? They like me there. They really, really like me, ’cause I buy stuff! The Pope works on commission, doesn’t he? Big mistake. Big. Huge. Tell the Vatican I have to go shopping now!”
STUNNING: this cartoon from 1934 could have been drawn today
Young pinkies from Columbia and Harvard indeed.
What's Hillary Clinton Doing Today? April 9th, 2009
9am – Opening Session Australia-US Ministerial Meeting (AUSMIN)
1230pm – Working lunch
330pm – Press availability
Go, Hillary, Go!
Thursday Open Thread
What’s on your mind today?
Here are a few of the things we’re thinking about:
(1) There are 200,000 more registered voters in Detroit than there are people. 2008 drew our attention to many things, but the scariest of all of them was how prevalent voter fraud is in this country — and how much the Democrats are behind this fraud, by way of agents like ACORN. There needs to be a national movement to clean up this fraud — but we have no idea how to make this happen. It seems like something every American should support: one citizen, one vote. But there isn’t one elected official in Washington who has the courage or tenacity to take this battle on.
Breaking News from The Ministry of Truth: that was not a bow Obama gave to the King of Saudi Arabia, it was a doubleplusgood prostratedhandshake
In New York, we actually know someone who discovered cockroaches in her kitchen late one stomach-turning night, only to be told by her landlord the next morning that those were not, in fact, cockroaches, but were actually hug-a-bugs.
“Oh, don’t worry about those, they’re just hug-a-bugs. They won’t harm you. In fact, they’re more afraid of you than you’ll ever be of them. They hardly ever eat anything at all, and only come out at night in the dark, so if you leave all the lights on all the time, they won’t bother you.”
Obama clearly bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia and prostrated himself to kiss the king’s ring, in much the same fashion Catholics bow to the Pope and subjects of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth bow respectfully to her. The current President of the United States, however, shows this sort of love and adoration to the King of Saudi Arabia.
Think of that what you want, but it was indeed a bow.
We all know what it is.
We all know what cockroaches are.
The rest is just semantics.
What's Hillary Clinton Doing Today?
1130am – Bilateral with His Excellency Ivailo Kalfin, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Bulgaria
12pm – Remarks to Department of State interns and other students
115pm – Lunch with Energy Secretary Dr. Steven Chu
230pm – Bilateral with His Excellency Samuel Lewis Navarro, First Vice President and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Panama
300pm – Bilateral with His Excellency Elias Murr, Minister of Defense of the Republic of Lebanon
400pm – Bilateral with The Honorable Stephen Smith, MP, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Australia
500pm – Bilateral with His Excellency Dr. Taieb Fassi Fihri, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of Morocco
Go, Hillary, Go!
Wednesday Open Thread
What stories do you think are important today?
What on Earth goes on at Oprah's school in Africa? Girls claim they were locked up for two weeks
The more that’s revealed about what goes on at Oprah’s school in Africa, the more we question Oprah’s judgment — not that we ever held it, or her, in high regard before.
Locking girls up for two weeks?
That’s just the latest tale of abuse to come out of the school Oprah funds with her billions and lent her name to, but seemingly can’t be bothered to ensure its students are treated well, not molested, and, apparently, not locked up for two weeks at a time.
What kind of school is Oprah running?
Better question: why on Earth is Oprah running a school?
