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Friday, August 21, 2009

News The Morning News

Posted by Lindy West on Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 6:16 AM

Uhhh...Thanks for Letting Us Know? Tom Ridge reveals Bush encouraged him to raise the terror alert level in the days preceding the 2004 election.

Win-Win. Both sides say they won the Afghan election.

Boom Boom Pow. Baghdad market bombing kills 2, injures 20.

Mayor!? I Hardly Know 'Er!!!!!!!!!!!! It's looking like the end for Nickels.

Soccer!? I Hardly Know—Oh, Nevermind. Sounders lose again.

Clunker!?!?!?!?! I Har...zzzzzzzzzzzz. Cash for Clunkers to close August 24.

Yeah, Well, You're the President. No vacation for the president.

And What Does Your German Study Have to Say About Smoke Monsters? Scientists find that lost people really do walk in circles.

You Cannot Catch It from a Porkchop. Swine flu hurts hog farmers.

"His memory is as sharp as can be." YEAH, EXCEPT FOR THAT LITERAL AMNESIA THAT HE HAS!

Amnesia. A real thing!

"Well, It's Certainly Uncontaminated By Cheese." Let's just close out the week with a classic. I'm too sleepy to find something new. Goodbye!

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so have the Sounders even scored a goal in two months?

Posted by not that I really care... on August 21, 2009 at 7:11 AM

"Obama is the best salesman for healthcare reform, economic stimulus and other domestic agenda items, and his absence could hurt, analysts said."

This is an example of what the lawyers call
'Assuming facts not in evidence'

What has Obama actually 'sold' since he got in office?

Posted by other than America Down the River... on August 21, 2009 at 7:15 AM

It seems a really crummy time to be taking a week off- but then, Obama already has a pretty good Health Care Plan so he probably doesn't give a rat's ass.

Posted by America on August 21, 2009 at 7:21 AM

Oh how the tide turns, all these bitter comments.
Sharper than a serpent's tooth....

The man's entitled to a vacation. Blue Heron "Farm" in Chilmark, only $25K per week. Comes with basketball court, pool, separate structures for secret services, etc. But he's paying the $25K personally!

Maybe he'll go bodysurfing in the buff at Lucy Vincent Beach, play in the clay pools on Gay Head, have a few drinks in Edgartown then go on a midnight tour of the Chappaquidick bridge ("hmm, look Michelle, it's not so hard to drive over it -- you'd have to be blind drunk to miss the bridge and drive into the drink!") and party down with Ackroyd Taylor Simon and Spike Lee et al.

Sounds like good times to me.

Posted by PC on August 21, 2009 at 8:01 AM

It's pretty hard to not relax and have a good time on the Vineyard (it's one of my favorite places too). And besides, who in their right mind wants to spend August in D.C.?

Posted by Fifty-Two-Eighty

on August 21, 2009 at 8:18 AM

Favorite Monty Python sketch of all time. Thank you Ms. West. Happy Friday!

Posted by kid icarus

on August 21, 2009 at 8:28 AM

@4: The clay pools where?!

Posted by Baconcat on August 21, 2009 at 8:34 AM

Barry Soetoro is taking time off because his socialized medicine scam is going down in flames.

A win for America!

Rush Limbaugh has speculated that as his political fortunes dwindle, Barry Soetoro (his real name) will try to cancel the 2010 elections. Wouldn't surprise me a bit.

Hitler did the same thing.

Posted by Lord Basil

on August 21, 2009 at 8:40 AM

@8: if you want to troll more effectively, you've got to throw in the Hitler reference in the middle of the post so as to make it a little less obvious what you're doing.

Posted by doceb on August 21, 2009 at 8:55 AM

Baconcat, Gay Head is a place on the island (not far from Lobsterville). Oh, those Yankees.

Posted by Fifty-Two-Eighty

on August 21, 2009 at 9:03 AM

It'll be interesting to see how many Sounders "fans" fall off the bandwagon now that the team has been struggling for a bit.

Posted by Hernandez

on August 21, 2009 at 9:05 AM

4 Teddy has one toe in Hell and the other foot is on a slippery banana peel.
soon.
very soon.

Posted by Mary Jo on August 21, 2009 at 9:32 AM

Johnson wouldn't have taken the week off.
He would have been kicking Senators' asses bloody until they came around.
He knew how to get legislation passed.
Carter, on the other hand, would have taken the week off.

Posted by actually on August 21, 2009 at 9:35 AM

at the very least Obama should be going from one end of the country to the other drumming up public support.

Obama's totally got no game.

of course it doesn't help that Obama's also totally got no Healthcare Reform PLAN to be selling but, hey!

Posted by I thought Obama would be better. on August 21, 2009 at 9:39 AM

Re: Amnesia, A real thing. Also real -- the no long term memory thing that the guy in Memento had. The neighbor of a good friend of mine has it (I think after a car crash?). Their house is covered in post-it notes that tell him what things are for, where things go, etc.

Posted by Julie in Eugene on August 21, 2009 at 9:42 AM