YEAH SO NEW YORK GOVERNOR DAVID PATERSON IS SET TO ANNOUNCE TODAY HE WILL NOT RUN FOR REELECTION IN NOVEMBER: But he won’t resign. So sad, this news, because he was a shoo-in! [NY Daily News]
Archive for February, 2010
Posted in Politicking, tagged David Paterson, NY politics, scandals on 02/26/2010 | Leave a Comment »
Utah Hopes To Criminalize Miscarriages
Posted in Prisons, Sexist, Sicknesses, Terrorisms, The End of the World, Wingnuts, tagged anti-abortion, anti-women, disgusting human beings, Utah, wtf on 02/24/2010 | 1 Comment »
A bill passed by the Utah House and Senate this week – and currently waiting the governor’s signature – will make it a crime for a woman to have a miscarriage, and make induced abortion a crime in some instances.
The supposed purpose of the bill is to charge a woman with criminal homicide for [...]
Posted in Economy, Homelessness, tagged doom, Economy, housing on 02/24/2010 | Leave a Comment »
HAPPY WEDNESDAY: Yes, the housing crisis is still going on, bleak as ever. According the latest report by First American CoreLogic, the research firm that monitors housing equity, 11.3 million homeowners – that’s 24% of all homes with mortgages – were underwater at the end of 2009. That number is up from 10.7 million borrowers [...]
Dick Cheney’s Fifth (!) Heart Attack Can’t Kill Him Either
Posted in Health, Sicknesses, Terrorisms, Wingnuts, tagged death, Dick Cheney, the undead on 02/23/2010 | Leave a Comment »
BECAUSE HE’S ALREADY DEAD? Ex-vice President Orlock underwent a stress test, heart catheterization, and was administered virgin blood at George Washington University Hospital today. He is said to be resting comfortably and is expected to be released in a day or two. [Wash Po]
Posted in The End of the World, War, tagged Afghanistan, death, today in injustice, War on 02/23/2010 | Leave a Comment »
HAPPY TUESDAY: A Western airstrike of an omnibus in Afghanistan kills 27, most of them women and children. The incident is being called the worst episode of civilan casualties in Afghanistan in six months. [LA Times]
By Relief, We Meant Sort Of, But Not Really
Posted in Economy, Homelessness, The End of the World, tagged death, foreclosures, HAMP, The Treasury Dept., whoops on 02/18/2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Treasury Department released the latest figures today for its Home Affordable Modification Program – the $75 billion flagship homeowner relief program. As MoJo notes, the figures are abysmal. Through January, HAMP has resulted in roughly 116,000 permanent mortgage modifications, 76,000 offers of permanent modifications, and more than 1 million homeowners beginning trial modifications.
Simply [...]
U.S. State Pension Funds Face Massive Shortfall
Posted in Economy, The End of the World, tagged Economy, only a trillion bucks short, pension shortfall, whoops on 02/18/2010 | Leave a Comment »
According to a report released by the Pew Center today, U.S. states face a total shortfall of at least $1 trillion in their funds for employees’ pension and retirement benefits. The really really bad news? The analysis only includes data from the first six months of 2008 (!!!) which basically means it’s not reflective of [...]
Sure Hope You Washed The Jizz Of Your Hands Because The TSA Will Be Swabbing Them Palms In A Jiffy!
Posted in The End of the World, Traveling to the Foreigns, tagged civil liberties, death, planes, sure why not, swabbing for explosives, TSA on 02/17/2010 | Leave a Comment »
SURE WHY NOT: From CNN: “The Transportation Security Administration soon will begin randomly swabbing passengers’ hands at checkpoints and airport gates to test them for traces of explosives.” Oh man. Remember when civil liberties, privacy and personal space was a thing, once? [CNN]
Stimulus Working, But For Whom?
Posted in Economy, Lawmaking, Politicking, tagged death, doom, Economy, jesus h. christ, some package you got there, Stimulus on 02/17/2010 | Leave a Comment »
Despite the NY Times’ and Joe Biden’s claims that OF COURSE the stimulus has been successful, MoJo (thankfully) reminds us that this is only part of the picture. According to a report by the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, many of the employment gains from the $787 billion American Reinvestment and [...]
Posted in Traveling to the Foreigns, Wingnuts, tagged heroes, Mitt Romney, whoopin ass on 02/16/2010 | Leave a Comment »
SOME GUY PUNCHED MITT ROMNEY ON A PLANE BECAUSE, WELL WOULDN’T YOU? “The man sitting in front of Ann Romney leaned his seat back, and when Mitt Romney asked him to move it upright before the plane took off, the man became physically violent.” Haha. Get ‘er done. [My Fox Pheonix]
Survey Reveals Many Men Take Off Badly Fitting Condoms During Sex; Whether These Men Realize The Condoms Cease Working After Being Thrown On The Floor Is Another Matter Altogether
Posted in Sexytime, The End of the World, tagged Africa, condom use, death, ill-fitting contraceptives, STDs, there is a Sexually Transmitted Infections Journal! on 02/16/2010 | Leave a Comment »
HERE’S YOUR LEAD: “Men are twice as likely to take the condom off midway through sex due to a poor fit, a poll of 436 men in Sexually Transmitted Infections journal reveals.”
Twice as likely to take it off, then to do what? The article doesn’t really say. (Mostly because this is [...]
New Hampshire State Representative Nancy Elliott Gets To The Bottom Of This Buttsex Business
Posted in Lawmaking, Politicking, tagged butt sex, gay marriage, Nancy Elliott, New Hampshire on 02/12/2010 | Leave a Comment »
“We’re talking about taking the penis of a man and putting it in the rectum of another man and wriggling it around in excrement. And you have to think, would I want that to be done to me?”
Well, now that you mention it… anyway… interesting she’s not hating on two chicks [...]
V-Day Gift Ideas
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged gift ideas, his and hers, Sexy Fridays, Valentine's Day, WANT on 02/12/2010 | Leave a Comment »
What we all want, in all their wonderful, gendered, hetero, stereotypical glory. In His and Hers versions, no less!
HIS:
GIVE ME – beer, sex, food
STOP – nagging, moaning, whining
Say yes
Say no
Remove clothes
Cook
Clean
Leave
Calm down
Hurry up
[...]
Fact: Americans Hate ‘Homos’ More Than They Hate Gay Men & Lesbians
Posted in The End of the World, tagged doom, gays in the military, good god, semantics, this is ourrrrr country, USA!, wtf on 02/11/2010 | Leave a Comment »
JESUS H. CHRIST: A new CBS News/ New York Times poll reveals that while 58% of respondents are in favor of allowing gay men and lesbians in the military, only 44% of respondents are in favor of allowing homosexuals into the military. What this means is 14% of Americans respond favorably to the [...]
Posted in Stuff, Traveling to the Foreigns, World News, tagged Blackwater, defrauding the government can be fun, just don't get caught, today in scandal, whistleblowers on 02/11/2010 | Leave a Comment »
HERE’S YOUR LEDE, COURTESY OF THE NEW YORK TIMES: “Two former employees of Blackwater Worldwide have accused the private security company of defrauding the government for years by filing bogus receipts, double billing for the same services and charging government agencies for strippers and prostitutes, according to court documents unsealed this week.
In a December [...]
Even Fox News Readers Are Like, ‘Yeah, The Tea Baggers Are Fucking Terrible’
Posted in Internet, Politicking, Racisms, The End of the World, Wingnuts, tagged crunching the numbers, Fox News, important things, new polls, teabaggers on 02/10/2010 | Leave a Comment »
HAHA: Here is the latest Fox News online poll thing, which confirms that the teabaggers will kill and consume us all sometime tomorrow, because of black people, ACORN, and socialism. [Fox News]
Posted in Politicking, Wingnuts, tagged Alabama, dicks, hooray, Richard Shelby, updates on 02/09/2010 | Leave a Comment »
RICHARD SHELBY (R-AL) LIFTS HOLDS ON OBAMA SENATE NOMINEES: But he sure got everyone’s attention about whatever Alabama earmark bullshit he was anglin’ for, yessiree! [The Hill]
Sexy Fridays: Pakistani Diplomat Named After A Large Cock Passed Over For Ambassador Gig
Posted in Sexytime, Traveling to the Foreigns, Weirdnesses, World News, tagged but he's a hit with the ladies, fail, sad!, Sexy Fridays, what's in a name? on 02/05/2010 | Leave a Comment »
THE SAME THING HAPPENED TO HUGH G. RECTION; RUINED HIS CAREER I TELLS YA! From the Foreign Policy Blog: Despite having served for years as a distinguished Pakistani diplomat, Akbar Zeb reportedly cannot receive accreditation as Pakistan’s ambassador to Saudi Arabia. The reason, apparently, has nothing to do with his credentials, and [...]
Update #2! Richard Shelby Responds: ‘Barack Obama Loves The Terrorists, That’s Why’
Posted in Politicking, The End of the World, Wingnuts, tagged dear terrorists: please bomb Alabama, earmarks, Obama Administration, Richard Shelby, the terrorists have won maybe...wut? on 02/05/2010 | Leave a Comment »
JESUS H. CHRIST: Alabama Senator Richard Shelby’s office has finally confirmed to TPMDC that Shelby has in fact placed a hold on the President’s nominees because “blah blah blah … national security concerns … blah blah blah.” Those gosh darn terrorists are always ruining things for Americans, aren’t they?
His spokesperson had this to say: [...]
Alabama Senator Blocks Obama Senate Nominations Because ‘Who Does This Guy Think He Is, President Or Some Shit?’ [UPDATE!]
Posted in Lawmaking, Politicking, Wingnuts, tagged Alabama, earmarks, Jim Crow era switcheroos, president Obama, Richard Shelby, Senate nominations on 02/05/2010 | Leave a Comment »
STORY SEEMS CRACKER-Y, LET’S INVESTIGATE: Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL) has taken the historically unprecedented step of blocking all of President Obama’s Senate nominations, fueling speculation he is a) issuing the blanket hold on all the president’s nominees until his earmarks are approved, and b) he’s a smoldering asshole. (Shelby has been curiously mum on [...]
Road To Economic Recovery Beset On All Sides By Failure And Doom
Posted in Economy, The End of the World, World News, tagged doom, economic recovery, Economy, finance, unemployment, USA! on 02/05/2010 | Leave a Comment »
Oh looksy, the January jobless data report is out! And, just like it’s been the case for most months over the last year and a half, more jobs were lost. Something like 20,000 was it? And analysts and economists and the administration fear that economic recovery might be slower than anticipated. Again. I mean, at [...]
C.I.A Offers Vague Reminder Al-Qaeda Will Try To Kill Us Sometime Soon Or Whenever
Posted in Terrorisms, The End of the World, Weirdnesses, tagged Al Qaeda, oh yeah those guys, stick-to-it-iveness, terrorist updates, The CIA on 02/03/2010 | Leave a Comment »
THANKS FOR THE HEADS UP: “‘An attempted attack … is certain, I would say,’ Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair told a Senate hearing on terror threats.” Okay cool, cuz we weren’t sure. [NY Daily News]
