Our “new” dog Gloria’s status is changing from foster to permanent, and she is totally taking advantage. Eight-year-old Zevon is limping from a hard shoulder check, Syd Viscous is reverting to his old abused Worm Boy persona, and don’t even ask what the three cats think. Gloria automatically goes to the Time Out crate when I raise my voice now, but you can see the “Whatevs — totally worth it” thought balloon hanging over her head, the little menace. Time to re-enroll at the doggy training classes…
Here is Bad Horse Filly’s First Snow Thursday Night Menu:
This is not your mamma’s canned tomato soup and grilled cheese, and can I say, the flax cookies are addictive (they’re a friend’s recipe, so I can say that.)
Hearty Tomato Soup
Totally Awesome Grilled Cheese Sandwiches
Flax Cookies
(Click the blue ‘First Snow’ link for the complete details.)
Last weekend we (two humans, three dogs) drove out to Springfield to visit Gloria’s original foster-parents. Gloria was thrilled to see them — she started howling joyously when we turned up the driveway — but an hour or so later, when I used the word “home”, she was just as glad to hop in the car and settle down for the trip back. Being one of a pack of three “big” (15lb) papillons suits her better than being the odd girl out among a half-dozen elderly show-standard (6-8lb) papillons, it seems. And being QUEEN of her new pack would be even better, so she’s been riding Sydney’s butt and Zevon’s last nerve relentlessly ever since.
Incertus
What is this snow you speak of? I had enough of it in grad school to last a lifetime. Too bad all the academic jobs I qualify for (along with half of North America it seems) are in places where it snows by the cubic fuckload.
And oh yeah, I blogged for the first time in a week. It’s kind of about food.
Comrade Mary
Nice progress, Incertus! Losing weight is damn, damn hard, so you and Amy are to be congratulated for sticking with it.
I’ve finally started seeing some change on the scale this year — about 15 pounds since spring — but that’s from moderate calorie restriction 6 days a week, with one refuel day, and cycling an average of 6 miles a day. Some days I don’t bike at all, sometimes I go longer, but I’m getting places I want to go and I’m finding that I’m getting faster overall and more confident in traffic.
I’ve just started watching this video. I’m only 20 minutes in, but it’s intriguing. Anecdotally, I find that if I eat very little bread, and eat all the monunsaturated fat I want, I’m less hungry than if I follow the Food Pyramid. I have absolutely no interest in low carbing — I’m still eating lots of dairy, veggies, fruit, beans and nuts — but flour-based food and sugary foods are generally a weekend treat now.
Mnemosyne
The cats scared the ever-living crap out of us tonight when the 3-pound kitten rolled off the ottoman and the 15-pound cat landed right on top of her. The screech she let out is not a noise you ever want to hear coming from one of your animals.
Fortunately, she limped around for a bit and now seems to be pretty much okay, given that she just ran into the lamp at top speed and broke the bulb. Still, all of us — the two humans, the two adult cats, and the kitten — were all slinking around for a while trying to figure out if it was something serious.
Martin
Dodgers win, Angels win.
Pretty good baseball night in SoCal. Now if only the Twins could dispose of the fucking Yankees…
Linkmeister
@Martin: “Dodgers win,” you say, in that calm phrase.
Wotta game! Here, have a link to Vin Scully calling the ninth inning rally to come back from 2-1 to win 3-2. It’s his radio call synched with the TBS video.
SiubhanDuinne
Anne Laurie, I hope you’re going to share photos of the lovely, lucky Gloria and the rest of the menagerie.
As for BHF’s menu (which sounds delicious): you have to love a menu whose shopping list reminds you that you’re going to need basics like butter and brown sugar, but just assumes you’ll have *flax* in the pantry.
Ty Lookwell
Obama is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize? WTF?
SiubhanDuinne
Holy shit! Obama just won the Nobel Peace Prize!!
(Waits for sound of wingnuts’ heads exploding.)
McMartin
Breaking: Obama wins 2009 Nobel Peace Prize.
I give it 24 hours before a major news network uses this as an excuse to connect him to Yasser Arafat.
Alternately, they’ll spin it as “he’s been out groveling to his foreign masters, and so now they have seen fit to reward him.”
SiubhanDuinne
@McMartin: Or a variation on that theme, the one that basically says the Nobel Peace Prize doesn’t mean anything anyhow. The proof of that? It’s awarded to DFHs like Jimmy Carter, Al Gore, and (heh) Barack Obama. Q.E.D.
SiubhanDuinne
More on how the MSM are going to cover the Obama Nobel Peace Prize news: MSNBC is already setting it up as some kind of consolation prize for losing the Olympics.
The false equivalency, it burns, right along with the stupid.
El Cid
The moment I saw the Nobel news I just started laughing at how much this is going to piss all off the right wing nut squads.
All together now: GRRRRRRRRR!!! HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE!!! RRRRRRRRRR!!!
El Cid
This Nobel totally should have gone to John Bolton. Or maybe Glenn Beck, for bringing angry fat Southerners out to march on Washington and scream at pigeons.
mai naem
Oh,my. BHO just won the Nobel Peace Prize. Michelle Malkin’s head is going to explode. Joey Scarborough’s and Pat Buchanan’s heads are going to explode this morning on Morning Joe. Does the Nobel Prize committee have granite countertops? Does the US government use explosives made by Nobel? How was Bill Ayers involved? Did Timmy Geithner give the Nobel Prize committe a bailout? How was Goldman Sachs involved? So many wingnut theories. So little time. Also he’s black and muslim.
El Cid
Bill Ayers was actually the ghost-writer for Alfred Nobel.
SiubhanDuinne
Plus, that selfish Obama just HAD to yank the news cycle away from NASA blowing up the moon and back to him. I predict George Will and Peggy Noonan will complain that the President is overexposing himself again — “because he can.”
And the concern trolls will worry about whether, by being awarded the NPP, Obama has too much on his plate.
geg6
Ha! I was coming here to post about the MUP winning the Nobel and I shoulda known that the BJers would be ahead of me. I laughed out loud when they announced it on my local news just now. Oooooo, I’m dying to watch the meltdown over this. Too fuckin’ funny. Just too funny.
robertdsc
Nice job, Mr. President. Now all you need is an Oscar.
SiubhanDuinne
@mai naem: Oh fer sher, Morning Joke is “must-watch TV” this morning just to hear Joe Scabrous and Mika and Patty Buckbuck. This entire weekend, in fact, suddenly looks very promising. I think I’m going to have to plan my Sunday morning around MTP, FTN, and This Weak. Good times.
M. Bouffant
@McMartin: Joe Scarborough, two mins. into his crapfest, said: “Arafat & Carter both won.”
calipygian
For an early win.
In my mind, it connects him with Hank Kissenger.
A Mom Anon
@SiubhanDuinne:
My first thought was wingnuttia is going to lose it,heh. Good. Keeps ’em busy so grownups can do other stuff.
Santiago
This is gonna be a loooong day.
SiubhanDuinne
Okay, I called it. According to Joe Scarborough, the Nobel Peace Prize is “no longer prestigious” and “a joke.” Obama got it in the “rhetoric” category. (This after he almost choked with laughter at the very idea.) Mika is being all “now boys, that’s not fair, be nice” but it doesn’t seem to be working.
calipygian
K-Lo’s House of Crazy has judged the award of the Nobel to the MUP “insane”.
mai naem
Well, Morning Ho has already started. I hope he says the same thing about the Nobel Prizes that all those American scientists have won over the years. BTW, Joe is acting exactly the way he was acting when Al Gore won it. I remember watching Joe the morning Gore won it. Man, if you really did turn green with jealousy, Joe would have been kelly green.
SiubhanDuinne
@Santiago: A loooong day, maybe, but a goooooood one too.
JK
@mai naem: @SiubhanDuinne:
Joe Scarborough is a flaming douchebag and Morning Joe is a super size, putrid, steaming pile of excrement.
SiubhanDuinne
Another thing wrong with the Nobel Peace Prize is, they never gave it to Saint Ronnie.
Oh, and YAY! David Gregory is going to be on Joe’s Show after the break. This day is just getting better and better, and it’s still dark out!
SiubhanDuinne
@JK. I fully agree. Isn’t it wonderful?
mai naem
I do hope they have Zbigniew Brzenzski on MJ so that he can insult JS in that particular way that he is so good at.
JK
@SiubhanDuinne:
Watching Morning Joe should qualify as a form of enhanced interrogation. Joe and Mika are Tweedle Dumbass and Tweedle Bigger Dumbass.
calipygian
why are you guys watching Morning Joe? Wouldn’t watching Fox and Pr0n Stars be more interesting this morning?
Santiago
@SiubhanDuinne:
Agreed. I’m totally blindsided by this one, but in a good way. Don’t you just love the sounds of heads exploding in the morning? ; )
MikeJ
To be fair, they *did* give it to Kissinger.
calipygian
What have we learned from this? Three things I think:
1) The Cheney Regency was so hated around the world that John McCain probably would have made a strong running for the prize had he won the presidency,
2) The prestige of the US had fallen so greatly that ANY glimmer of hope of significant regime change has affected the world positively,
and
3) The world looks at the US as a deeply racist place and is genuinely surprised the US elected a black man. And not a Morgan Freeman-style “Magical Wise-Old Negro” black man, but a black man on the leading edge of the Hip-Hop generation. It’s almost like Nelson Mandela getting one for leading South Africa out of Apartheid.
Gravenstone
I see I’m way late to the BJ Nobel party. Yeah, this is going to be an amusing weekend of watching wingut cranial explosions (WCE’s?) throughout the media and blogosphere.
JK
@calipygian:
Having to choose between Morning Joe and Fox and Friends is like having to choose between lung cancer and colon cancer. It’s not a choice, it’s a fucking death sentence.
I thought your name was spelled with 2 l’s.
SiubhanDuinne
Oh christ, I just loves me a super-snarky BJ thread early in the morning. You guys have all had me laughing out loud. This is just a lovely day.
AAAAAAAaaah!! Someone a( the WH just told Scarborough to “stop being such an asshole.” LOL, well done.
kilkee
AP reports Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize. No joke. Just in–has won for outreach to Muslim world, efforts to control nuclear weapons. Winder heads explode. Stay tuned……
r€nato
OK I’m going to go contrarian here. Isn’t it a little soon to award the Peace Prize to Obama? Maybe after he’s translated that hope into some actual accomplishments, like brokering an Israeli-Palestinian agreement or an Israeli-Syrian agreement.
It really sounds to me like an award for being the opposite of Bush in foreign affairs.
demkat620
What is the deal with Joe and Mika? They are like an old married couple where the wife just agrees with everything her dementia addled husband says.
Seriously, is she overcompensating in deference to Wingnuttia for being Zbig’s kid?
She really is not this stupid or reactionary.
demkat620
@r€nato: And I’ll be contrarian with you, I agree, a little too soon.
JK
@demkat620:
Zbigniew Brezinski should get a paternity test. Mika is too fucking dumb to be his daughter.
BruceK
@JK #38:
There’s always the third option: unplug the antenna wire. I went that route for about a year before moving overseas for work.
But much sympathy. Those two choices sound about as appealing as being told that you’ve got a choice: you can play Russian roulette with a Kalashnikov, or with a Dragunov. Which will it be?
kilkee
@kilkee: Damn, I tried to delete this when I saw how late I was to teh party…..
Common Sense
Maybe they were waiting for a President that didn’t let something in NYC blow up under his watch in the first nine months. That’s a step towards peace, right? It’s been 17 years since we had one that could manage it anyway.
calipygian
You know who else won a Nobel peace prize?
Hitler
/winger
I agree w/renato: too much too soon
SiubhanDuinne
@demkat620. There was a moment, now lost in the mists of time, when I was something of a Mika fan. She balked at having to read a stupid story about Paris Hilton (remember Paris Hilton?) and I remember being impressed with her willingness to Just Say No to her MSNBC bosses. But it didn’t last long and these days she doesn’t seem to know whether she’s there as blonde cheesecake, or flustered ineffectual mommy to a crew of unruly little boys, or — in your excellent formulation — a patient old wife to demented hubby Joe.
DBrown
No way Obama should have gotten the NPP except because he is the first black American President … wait, maybe that in of itself does make complete sense. Still, the
rightwrong wing will have a field day.Common Sense
Who gives a shit if the right wing dismisses the Nobel Peace Prize? Give ’em an honorary Diploma from Bob Jones U. with a cookie and they’ll shut up.
Keith G
@demkat620: Yeah, but the distant popping sounds of thousands of heads exploding (kinda like bubble wrap) sure is cool.
Gonna be a fun day!
Calouste
Holy shit!
I agree with some of the other posters that this seems a bit soon, although he has made some serious breakthroughs on Iran and nuclear weapons which hasn’t got the press in the US it deserved.
My hunch is that he was nominated by a number of other heads of government and that that was something the Nobel committee just couldn’t ignore.
Btw, I think that if he lasts 8 years and can get the treaties signed, he will get another one.
JK
@SiubhanDuinne:
I’d call Mika Brezinski blonde chessecake, but that would be a grievous insult to blonde cheesecake. Her last name may be Brezinski, but somewhere in her family tree she must share a common ancestor with Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann. Mika frequently displays flourishes of breathtaking stupidity worthy of Palin and Bachmann.
SiubhanDuinne
@Calouste: You beat me to it. I was just offline checking if there was anything arguing against his getting another at the end of his two terms. I don’t see anything prohibiting receiving more than one, although it appears that no individuals — only institutions and organisations — have ever done that.
In the cold light of day I might end up agreeing that this is a little too soon, but I refuse to let that consideration harsh my current mellow.
Oh, and now that they’re both NPP laureates, does this mean it’s okay now for Obama to meet the Dalai Lama?
mai naem
I believe Holy Hypocrite Joe thinks George W. Bush should win the Nobel PP because you know what a peacenik Bush was.
linda
i’ll be damned…. on the way towork reading wapo news on my bb and saw ‘obama wins nobel prize’ and figured it was a snarky blog post by dana milbank…
Napoleon
I love the smell of exploted wingnut head in the morning.
4tehlulz
Shorter Nobel Committee: Unlike you predecessor, you won’t bomb a country for the lulz. Have a peace prize.
linda
so….. does this make up for the loss of prestige obama suffered with the horribly embarrassing decision of the ioc… lol..
man, this is gonna be fun….lol
Common Sense
David Brooks just figured out why Obama kept talking about himself in that speech in Northern Europe last week. This proves the wingers were right. It wasn’t about Chicago or the Olympics at all.
4tehlulz
Obviously, this proves that Obama is the Antichrist.
Demo Woman
Well bravo Mr. President! Our image overseas was harmed by former President Bush but because of the diplomacy of President Obama, that has turned around.
Kirk Spencer
@r€nato: I’m with you as well. The award was given for (massively paraphrasing) good intentions, impressions, and hope. At best, early indicators of change. Nothing substantial.
This time I’m going to wind up agreeing with several wingnuts, and it angers me to agree with some of them on ANYthing. This one’s cheapened the award and tainted the recipient.
Napoleon
Mickey Kaus is already calling for him to turn it down.
Today is going to be fun.
dr. bloor
An acceptance speech in which Obama managed to avoid using “I,” “me,” or “my” would finish off those few remaining nutters whose heads haven’t exploded by December.
I would pay all the cash money I have to be a fly on the wall of ORLY? Taitz’s kitchen this morning.
ChrisB
First words out of David Gregory’s mouth (and I quote):
The Nobel committee is “a left leaning European organization.”
kay
@Common Sense:
Everything proves they’re right. They’re never, ever wrong. He loses, they were right. He wins, they were right.
And Obama is arrogant, and pride goeth before a fall, and don’t you forget it. Be afraid. This prize is very, very bad news for one Barack Obama.
AwakeAwake
Joe Scarborough and Mark Helpin have asked what President Obama has done to win the prize and Chuck Todd, David Gregory and Lawrence O’Donnell (Obama supporters), have all admitted that this is about the tone our President has set and not about accomplishments. And O’Donnell also questioned the legitimacy of the award considering it’s been given to “blood on his hands” Kissinger and then stated that it has become more about making a political statement. In light of that, I don’t see why Scarborough and Helpin’s question is that extraordinary. Not even Axelrod could come up with a specific accomplishment.
I think that President Obama will deserve one before he leaves office, but this does seem premature.
I do expect the right-wing crazies like Limbaugh and Beck to go ballistic about this. It will be pretty hypocritical- they skewered the President for “losing” the Olympics, and now they’ll skewer him over winning the Nobel Peace Prize. But Scarborough seems pretty chill about it. He just told Alexrod “congratulations” and seemed sincere.
dr. bloor
@ChrisB:
I see no reason to pay attention to anything Karl Rove’s chorus girls have to say on the matter.
PeakVT
Holy shit! Ok, my first thought is that the Nobel Prize committee is trying to slap Obama around and get him think beyond the DC conventional wisdom on Afghanistan and other things. He has made a number of good but small first steps on Cuba, the I/P conflict, Iran, Iraq, and nuclear arms, but has lost momentum on some of them. The prize was meant to be a wake-up call.
If that makes no sense I blame the lack of coffee.
linda
@ChrisB:
yeah, they honor those who work on behalf of science and medicine; or the advancement of the social welfare of others.
who cares what the man who shook his ass for kkk-karl rove has to say.
JK
@dr. bloor:
@ChrisB:
David Gregory should go fuck himself ASAP and the same goes for clueless Joe Scarborough and his dingbat sock puppet Mika Brezinski.
mai naem
@JK:
tell us how you really feel.
We really should have a round up of wingnut responses…….Michael Steele, John Boehner, Mitch McConnell, GW Bush, Cheney,Rummy,Lindsey Graham, John McCain(hope nobody gets him early to tell him this), Bill Kristol, Hannity, Oreally, Limbaugh, Coulter, Hume, Chris Wallace, Matalin, Will, Krauthammer. God, there’s just so many of them.
JK
@Napoleon:
Mark Fuckhead Halperin predicted that Obama will turn down the prize. These jackass pundits are fucking priceless.
Common Sense
I’m just glad that both Ayers and the Nobel Peace Prize Committee were listening when I asked them to give me some laughs this week. Thanks guys, I owe you.
geg6
I, too, agree that it may be too soon for the Nobel. However, think about the 180 American foreign policy has taken in 8 short months. In the eyes of the Nobel committee, simply taking the insane cowboy mentality off the table makes the world a safer and more peaceful place. Being the anti-Bush/Cheney makes the world breathe a sigh of relief.
Demo Woman
@ChrisB: Did anyone congratulate the President on winning such a prestigious award? Someone needs to ask Gregory whether he thinks that peace and diplomacy are left wing values.
dr. bloor
I wonder if Ayers will write his acceptance speech? I hope he gives a shout-out to Jeremiah Wright.
dr. bloor
@geg6:
This. It’s like a “Comeback Player of the Year” award for the country more than anything else.
Santiago
mai naem:
Let’s just call them all…um…Kanye West?
RedKitten
@Keith G:
Precisely. I just saw it now on the news, and started giggling like a complete idiot, because I could just picture so many heads exploding with rage and disbelief.
ChrisB
It’s ACORN, of course. The only reason Obama won is because ACORN stole the election.
Napoleon
@JK:
I think that this is going to cause the Village to revel themselves even more then usual for how absolutely vapid they are.
You know, if anything will bring on Peak Wingnut or the Wingularity this event is going to be it.
JK
@mai naem:
Morning Joe is a crime against reason, rationality, logic, truth, and facts. Once in a blue moon, Scarborough will do something correct like criticize Glenn Beck, but then he negates it by going off on Max Blumenthal during an interview or doing something else equally stupid.
Scarborough has every right to say Obama didn’t deserve to win the Nobel Peace Prize, but he does it such in a smarmy, sleazy fashion. Suggesting that Reagan or Bush should have received the award is just laughable. If clueless Joe wants to have a debate over who deserved to win a Nobel Peace Prize, Mohandas Gandhi, Eleanor Roosevelt, Vaclav Havel, Ken Saro-Wiwa, Sari Nusseibeh, Corazon Aquino, and Liu Xiaobo are legitimate candidates but not Reagan or Bush.
For all his faults, Andrew Sullivan is usually very good at providing roundups of this type.
Santiago
@geg6:
Or they’re just so frackin relieved he beat McCain, they decided to give him the award lulz
camchuck
@mai naem:
Dan Riehl has the vapors pretty good. link
JK
@Napoleon:
I hope John Country Last McCain gets an incredibly bad case of heartburn today. For inflicting Sarah Palin on this country, McCain deserves to get heartburn every day for the rest of his fucking life.
John Bolton’s head will explode in 5, 4, 3, 2… seconds.
IndieTarheel
@Keith G:
Cleanup on aisle, uh, ALL OF THEM.
martha
We keep anticipating Peak Wingnut, but today we may already be close to Peak Media Meltdown–it’s pretty bad when even White House Correspondents (Savannah Guthrie, I’m looking at you) dis the person they’re covering. Fair and balanced? Yeah right.
Also, these people don’t have a clue how “the people” feel. The Village at work.
I also think it’s too early. But wingnut heads exploding? Priceless.
BethanyAnne
“Schadenfreude ist die schönste Freude”
/happysigh
Napoleon
@JK:
I hope he does because the award is basically “thank God you guys didn’t pick that nut McCain and his snowbilly sidekick”.
I predict this will be the most fun day ever on the internet for those of us that lean to the progressive side of the ledger.
SiubhanDuinne
?? Wha’ hoppen there? Post just disappeared. Odd.
Won’t retype the whole thing, but it was basically to note that both Scarborough and Halperin compared Obama getting the NPP with Marisa Tomei wimning Best Supporting Oscar. That seems like a fairly obscure meme to be making the talking points so quickly.
Demo Woman
@RedKitten: Morning! The pictures of Sam are adorable.
SGEW
What the whating what?!?
The man’s overseeing two hot wars, hasn’t actually gotten any treaty signed and implemented yet, and has yet to really do anything to promote peace!!
I mean, I’m loving the idea of the MUP getting a Nobel Peace Prize – and I’m not saying he doesn’t deserve it (an American president giving a pro-transnationalistic, distributive justice based speech at the U.N., pushing international cooperation and nuclear disarmament is almost enough of a change from Bush to justify it), but I agree with the above posters: too soon! Too soon!
I’m really shocked. I had to check several news sources to see if the NYT was fucking with me.
Little Dreamer
Peace is a left-leaning virtue, so that makes complete and perfect sense. The only
peacepiece the right believes in is a sidearm. Like they say: “happiness is a warm gun”.Ash Can
@SiubhanDuinne:
I just woke up, and turned on DKos to glance at the headlines. Saw this, thought, “Yeah, more dumb snark,” started scrolling through the diary, thought, “Gee, that’s an awful lot of links for a snark piece,” went to MSNBC… My first thought upon seeing it confirmed was, “If this isn’t a statement, I don’t know what is.”
@r€nato:
Bingo. And “too soon”? Hellz yeah, going by the usual buildup of accomplishments and lack of surprise about the winner, if not sense of inevitability. The Nobel Committee was extremely quick on the draw this time. That’s what makes this such a statement.
Get ready for a few hundred verses of “I thought the Peace Prize was tainted when it went to Gore; now I’m sure of it” from anyone and everyone who was ever going to be catty about the Prez for any reason. We’re going to be seeing a veritable army of American pundits going to great lengths all weekend long to explain how worthless the Nobel Peace Prize actually is.
As for Obama, what can I say? It’s always nice to see another Chicagoan make good. :)
@SiubhanDuinne:
That “someone” couldn’t possibly have been Rahm Emanuel, I’m sure.
Little Dreamer
@geg6:
Ain’t that the truth. ;)
Demo Woman
This is an award for all Americans, imo. Peace and diplomacy are cherished American values, no matter what David Gregory thinks.
ChrisB
“A wonderful recognition of the President and the United States. . . . I’m proud of the President.” And other positive comments.
Who said that this morning?
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.
.
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Geraldo Rivera on Fox and Friends.
I kid you not.
Stunned silence from Steve Doofus and the other hosts before they went on to criticize Obama for dithering on Afghanistan, which led Geraldo to say that Bush blew it by pulling the Marines out of Afghanistan to invade Iraq. So they moved on to saying that Capt. Sullenberg should win Moustache of the Year this year.
But give them credit: they discussed Obama’s Nobel prize for at least a minute before moving on.
RedKitten
@Demo Woman: Thanks! I can’t believe how big that kid is getting.
SiubhanDuinne
@Ash Can:
Rahm Emanuel? You may well think so. I couldn’t possibly comment.
SiubhanDuinne
@ChrisB: Good for Geraldo, and thank you for posting that. I killed FNC on my remote months ago so I’d never have to see even a scrap of it accidentally while scrolling around — so I would never have heard that.
4tehlulz
@Ash Can: Probably not, as Rahm typically uses adjectives invoking imagery of sexual congress with Joe’s mother.
Fulcanelli
It’s easy to understand David Gregory’s metamorphosis into his current villager shithead persona, after all, he’s a ‘house nigger’ now, he’s you know, ‘Movin’ On Up!. He doesn’t have to do his WH correspondent gig standing out in the blazing DC heat or freezing rain and snow anymore, or deal with the flying monkeys in the WH press room.
He’s got a nice cushy, inside job on a legendary news (!) program now, and I’m sure he was taken aside and told the way of the world in no uncertain terms before it was offered to him.
It’s pretty obvious given the change in his “perspective” since his days of challenging Bush in WH press conferences then into the GOP corporate shill that he’s become now that he was sent to the Jack Welch Memorial GE Corporate Re-Education camp like Pumpkinhead and Tweety before him when it came time to negotiate his contract. It’s sort of like a rite of passage at 30 Rock it seems. No sassin’ the massa or you’ll get the switch and get sent back out into the fields, boy!
It’s amazing what 3 squares a day, a new white shirt every Christmas and a new bundle of fresh straw to sleep on once a week will do for your point of view when working in the MSM these days.
Little Dreamer
@Demo Woman:
DW, haven’t you heard? Right wingers say diplomacy is for sissies. If a man says the word peace, they’re expecting him to be Satan opening his mouth to devour the entire world with his bloody red teeth.
JK
@Fulcanelli:
Nice post, you’re on fire this morning.
Mark Halperin and Joe Scarborough were also pretty worthless this morning in their reactions to the news of Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize.
ChrisB
@SiubhanDuinne:
When I stopped watching Morning Joe last year (a decision that greatly improved my life though I broke that rule today just to see their reaction to Obama’s Nobel prize), I sent an email to MSNBC saying that even a political junkie like me did not need to wake up to an asshole like Joe Scarborough. He certainly is in fine form this morning. What a jerk.
@Napoleon:
And Savannah Guthrie asked David Axelrod whether Obama would accept the award in person (what’s the thinking behind that question?). Just as tellingly, Axelrod completely ducked the question.
Leelee for Obama
I was afraid my neighbors might think I had lost my marbles. I was heading for the lav right after waking up and heard the announcement and started laughing, out loud, like Renfield in Dracula! I agree with the “Apocalypse Now” reference above-love the smell of exploded wing-nut sensiblilty in the morning!
Checked on Morning Puke, and was amazed at how much Mika reminded me of Nancy Reagan, what with the adoring deference to Scar-hurl, hurl, hurl!
ChrisB
@JK:
True that. I guess John McCain won this week too.
Demo Woman
@Little Dreamer: What was I thinking! It is an honor for the United States and it’s unfortunate that some on the right can’t just say Bravo, Mr. President.
SiubhanDuinne
@Red Kitten #101:
Can’t believe I didn’t know this before, but I just accidentally clicked on your handle and it took me to a *whole album* of Samuel Kitten photos.
He is just incredibly cute. And wise. And funny. I love the one of him sticking out his tongue at the world. Kid’s already a Zen master.
Fleem
Why is David Gregory making the talk show rounds right now? He was on Jon Stewart last night too. Not sure why Jon gave him such a free pass.
RedKitten
@SiubhanDuinne: I just added a new photo on there, too. :)
Yeah, I thought I’d open a Flickr account and just put pics of him on there. That way, anybody who wants to see photos of him can do so whenever they like. I’ll still ask John to post one every so often, just for shits and giggles, though.
Bad Horse's Filly
@SiubhanDuinne: LMAO Serves me right for going to bed early! I have made the correction.
Scottofny
@Martin:
Twins-Yankees:
Not gonna happen….
Cheers
S
Hey I got an Edit Button..
So I did.