Archive for July 2009
Maybe I Should Get THIS Kitty!
Posted by: madamab on: July 24, 2009
Look at that smushy face! What’s happening out there? OPEN THREAD
Tidbits
Posted by: madamab on: July 24, 2009
- In: Healthcare | Hillary Clinton | Tidbits
- 37 Comments
The Dow Has Hit 9000: Recession is Over! Or, Is It? NEW YORK – — The Dow Jones industrial average closed above 9000 Thursday for the first time since early January as favorable home sales data combined with another round of encouraging earnings reports to boost optimism about the economy. Investors were buoyed by news [...]
Morning Widdershins UPDATED: Best. “Abortion is Murder.” Rebuttal. EVER!
Posted by: madamab on: July 24, 2009
- In: Feminism | Morning Widdershins | Patriarchy | Snark | Women
- 17 Comments
UPDATED: It has been pointed out by Gary that Erich Schulte is an Obot sexist pig with a heinous case of CDS. Obviously, I was not aware of this when I linked to his article. I still think this point is valid, though: That if you carry the “Abortion is Murder” rhetoric to its extreme, [...]
President Re-Election Does the Vision Thing: A Play in One Utopian Act.
Posted by: madamab on: July 23, 2009
- In: Healthcare | Obama | Snark
- 12 Comments
(Note: This is an oldie but, considering the way the ObamaNation is talking about rationing health care, it seems even more relevant today than in February. Hope you enjoy it!) THE SCENE: A five-star hotel suite somewhere in America. (What – you thought he’d actually be at home, doing his job?) PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA and [...]
Tidbits: Updated with Breaking News!
Posted by: taggles on: July 23, 2009
- In: Breaking News | Gay Rights | Healthcare | Politics | Tidbits
- 44 Comments
Obama: Cambridge police acted ‘stupidly’ After spending most of an hour patiently reiterating his arguments for changing the health insurance system, President Barack Obama turned his press conference sharply toward an iconic moment in American race relations: The arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. earlier this week by the Cambridge Police. Gates was [...]
Morning Widdershins: ……IS HE OR ISN’T HE?
Posted by: Pat Johnson on: July 23, 2009
Not one for conspiracies, I have no idea what these people who are screaming about Obama’s birth certificate are talking about. The debate is still raging out there among some who see a nefarious reason why the actual birth certificate has not been produced, merely a photocopied form attesting that he was born in Hawaii [...]
Beachin It!
Posted by: taggles on: July 22, 2009
Hi Everyone! Having a great time at the beach and the ball field! The team has won two and lost two. We have more games tomorrow and hopefully will advance to play in the championship pool! Wish us luck! The teams are tough to beat! Here is a pic of the view from our balcony! [...]
Well, That’s One Solution….
Posted by: madamab on: July 22, 2009
- In: Economy | Open Thread
- 39 Comments
to the recession. A group of office staff have discovered they work better together when they are NAKED. Workers at design and marketing company onebestway in Newcastle upon Tyne stripped off at the encouragement of their boss, who thought the move would boost business. The ailing company had seen six redundancies since the start of [...]
Morning Widdershins: YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING?
Posted by: Pat Johnson on: July 22, 2009
- In: Feminism | Gay Rights | Morning Widdershins | Patriarchy | Politics | Women
- 39 Comments
Over at The New Agenda, one of the contributors has posted a profile on another female congressperson who will be seeking reelection in 2010, Michele Bachmann. Michele Bachmann? Did I read this correctly? The same “over the top” partisan Michele Bachmann who called for an investigation of congress members for being “anti-American”? The same lady [...]
Tidbits
Posted by: madamab on: July 21, 2009
- In: Media Tripe | Open Thread | Politics | Tidbits
- 38 Comments
The House Is Rockin’ on Healthcare Dennis Kucinich and Anthony Weiner are stepping it up for single-payer. Too bad the Obamacrats have taken it off the table. Canada did not establish its national health care program with a bold, immediate political move by the federal government. The initial progress came at the provincial level, led [...]
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