The NY Times is full of cheer today: The Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller home price index, a widely watched measure of the housing markets in 20 metropolitan areas, rose 0.4 percent from September on a seasonally adjusted basis. It was the fifth consecutive month that prices were up. Underneath this apparent good news were some disquieting …
Archives for December 2009
Bad news for Obama
I think we’ve done a pretty good job here at highlighting how much good news there is for conservatives these days. But we probably don’t spend enough time discussing how much bad news there is for Democrats. Here, Marc Ambinder explains why Bush-era policies are Obama’s fault: (1) If, as ABC News reports, the plotters …
Cheeky
This guy.
The world’s greatest deliberative body
This isn’t surprising: An alleged attempt to blow up a transatlantic flight from Amsterdam to Detroit on Christmas would be all-consuming for the administrator of the Transportation Security Administration — if there were one. Instead, the post remains vacant because Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) has held up President Obama’s nominee in an effort to prevent …
Early Morning Open Thread
Cranky is endemic. I suspect this is one reason: see more Lolcats and funny pictures Perspective, my people. Here in the Northern Hemisphere, the days are growing longer… which will allow us precious extra minutes to contemplate the black ice that needs to be removed from the sidewalks & driveways. And then we come back …
Make The White Queen Run So Fast, She Hasn’t Got Time / To Make You Wise
Writing for TPM, Ben Frumin reads the drivel so you don’t have to. In a blog post on her website titled “It might be time now,” birther queen Orly Taitz seemed to suggest today a call to arms against President Obama. Here’s the problem for Taitz and the rest of her psycho brigade. Rightwing punditry …
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Corny Commercials
I remember this one: I also vividly remember one where he is wearing a Hawaiian shirt.