Morning in America: Butthurt Achieved

[Eli]

I listened to the speech in my car, and didn't know about it until this morning. That's all people talked about, and that's all it was? Really?

Sort of. That moment was just the culmination of a nervous, sweaty, lip-licking, mouth-smacking trainwreck of a performance.

[Gilgamesh]

I listened to the speech in my car, and didn't know about it until this morning. That's all people talked about, and that's all it was? Really?

Sort of. That moment was just the culmination of a nervous, sweaty, lip-licking, mouth-smacking trainwreck of a performance.

He's human.  The lack of anything substantially new in the speech was annoying.

Then again, the same can be said of the SOTU.

[Quality Start Machine]

I listened to the speech in my car, and didn't know about it until this morning. That's all people talked about, and that's all it was? Really?

Sort of. That moment was just the culmination of a nervous, sweaty, lip-licking, mouth-smacking trainwreck of a performance.

I didn't think it was as bad as Bobby Jindal's.

[Brownie]

I listened to the speech in my car, and didn't know about it until this morning. That's all people talked about, and that's all it was? Really?

Sort of. That moment was just the culmination of a nervous, sweaty, lip-licking, mouth-smacking trainwreck of a performance.

He's human.  The lack of anything substantially new in the speech was annoying.

Then again, the same can be said of the SOTU.

Really?

(And, what has Sen. Rubio ever done to Hamid Karzai?)

[Chuck to Chuck]

Really?

No.  But this is a problem:

"More government isn't going to help you get ahead. It's going to hold you back. More government isn't going to create more opportunities. It's going to limit them."

Followed by...

"I believe in federal financial aid. I couldn't have gone to college without it."

Marco Rubio: Who you crappin'?

[Chuck to Chuck]

So, Pete Ricketts for NE senate again?

[Gilgamesh]

Voting Rights Act on life-support?  Maybe?  Possibly?

Kennedy gets to swing again?

Deets here: http://www.scotusblog.com/2013/02/argument-recap-voting-law-in-peril-maybe/

[Internet Apex]

Maybe Paul was right.

PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) -- Ending his unexpected round of basketball diplomacy in North Korea on Friday, ex-NBA star Dennis Rodman called leader Kim Jong Un an ''awesome guy'' and said his father and grandfather were ''great leaders.''

...

At Pyongyang's Sunan airport on his way to Beijing, Rodman said it was ''amazing'' that the North Koreans were ''so honest.''

...

''He's proud, his country likes him - not like him, love him, love him,'' Rodman said of Kim Jong Un. ''Guess what, I love him. The guy's really awesome.''

Well there you go then.

[Brownie]

Maybe Paul was right.

PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) -- Ending his unexpected round of basketball diplomacy in North Korea on Friday, ex-NBA star Dennis Rodman called leader Kim Jong Un an ''awesome guy'' and said his father and grandfather were ''great leaders.''

...

At Pyongyang's Sunan airport on his way to Beijing, Rodman said it was ''amazing'' that the North Koreans were ''so honest.''

...

''He's proud, his country likes him - not like him, love him, love him,'' Rodman said of Kim Jong Un. ''Guess what, I love him. The guy's really awesome.''

Well there you go then.

In Dennis' defense, he spent last Friday on the exhibit floor of the Chicago Dental Society's Midwinter Meeting at McCormick Place, signing autographs and posing for pictures with DDS's, hygeniests and professionals in the oral health field, probably fielding questions and comments like these:

-- "KRAUSE NEVER SHOULD OF LET THAT STEVE KERR AND JUD BUECHLER GO."
-- "WHATEVER HAPPENED TO DAT PAUL JACKSON GUY? HE WAS A GOOD COACH."
-- "YOU MUST HAVE BEEN HAPPY TO GET TRADED TO CHICAGO TO FINALLY GET YOUR RING."
-- "WHAT WAS IT LIKE PLAYING WITH ISIAH?"
-- "IS DR. DREW AS AWESOME IN PERSON AS HE IS ON DAT CELEBRITY REHAB AND TEEN MOM SHOW? WHICH SHOW WERE YOU ON AGAIN."
-- "DENNIS! MY 5-YEAR-OLD IS A HUUUUUGE FAN. CAN YOU SIGN THESE FIVE THINGS AND POSE WITH ME LIKE YOU'RE BOXING ME OUT?"

[Wheezer]

Heh.



Turning to the "One Year A.B." entry, one finds this:

Ultimately, Andrew's rebel cry and the "rutting class'" stodgy talking points proved as irreconcilable as "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" and William Shatner's vocal cords.

[CBStew]

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/mitt-romney-kills-fox-obama-163333853--election.html

Yeah Mitt, it kills me too.

[Chuck to Chuck]

[J. Walter Weatherman]

Today I learned...

Little Cheyenne was a famous Chicago vice neighborhood that first developed during the late 1800s, and survived all the way through to the 1970s. During this time, thousands of transient men have found shelter at what is now called the Ewing Annex Hotel.

Also: Why don't these poor people just buy more money?

[Gilgamesh]

SODA POLICE!!!

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/sip-hits-fan-article-1.1284047

[J. Walter Weatherman]

$60,000 for the ultimate Gil boner.