Congress Votes Today: A decision will be made regarding the $800 billion stimulus plan.
Gimme Some!: Washington could get nearly $2 billion of the stimulus package, but most of it is already spoken for.
Never Forget: One of the women killed in the Buffalo plane crash was a 9/11 widow.
Three Is the Magic Number: New Hampshire Sen. Judd Gregg withdrew as commerce secretary nominee. That’s the third cabinet withdrawl since Obama entered office.
Baby Boom: The doctor responsible for the recent octuplets also has a patient pregnant with quadruplets.
Speaking of Babies: A federal court ruled that immunizations are not linked to Autism.
Because Retail Is Doing So Well Right Now: Microsoft to open stores.
Q: What’s the name of a Russian pirate captain?: “Russian warship apprehends Somali pirates” (A: The CZARRRRRR!)
I Wish People Would Stop Blowing Themselves Up: 35 women and children killed by female suicide bomber.
This is All Palin’s Fault: North Korea is assembling a missile that could hit Alaska.
13 Going on 30: A 13-year-old boy is a dad.
Oh look, a hamster eating a carrot!
Happy Friday.
Why the rush on the stimulus bill. Can’t we just have eight more days? That would at least give Obama, Congress and the country time to review 100 billion each day to make sure it’s efficient and really does create jobs. Why is that too much to ask?
Which immediately evokes a scenario in which she spends years getting over her fear and mistrust of airplanes in the wake of her husband’s horrible death, finally gets on one and…
The wrong novelist could — and probably will — write a very well-reviewed and totally inaccessible book about this.
There will be an episode in the Law & Order universe that revolves around it.
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Buffalo is cursed, I swear to god. The millionth reason I’m so happy I don’t live there anymore: ice making planes drop from the sky. Worst place on earth.
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News of the day maybe 10.
Yes chipmunk O and the Ds have handled this badly. They should have passed a $200 billion infrastructure plan already. Who could argue against fixing bridges?
Then added some other spending such as the electric grid. Then some alt energy.
Tax cuts for lower income.
BTW they really need to figure out how to help with people in mortgage trouble without rewarding them for overbuying while doing nothing for the prudent. Perhaps help pay the mortgages but make the holder and home owner split the cost. Holders get less from the mortgage while the owner has a lien put on the house.
Cabinet withdrawl? What, are they all from Georgia?
Oh my god, that 13-year-old dad looks like he’s seven! Super creepy and sad, especially the anti-choicers “commending” him and his 15-year old girlfriend, who is about twice his size, for “bringing their child into the world.”
Also, I love British journalism: “Penny figured out what was going on after buying Chantelle a T-shirt which revealed her swelling tum. “
I’m half-convinced that the cuteness of hamsters proves the existence of god.
Hammy eating a carrot is reminiscent of one of those tapes of kidnap victims reading a statement. just not entirely sure what the hell is going on.
Note that it says *A* missle. It’s quite clear that they have a single target in mind. I wonder if she can see that coming from her house?
“Attempting to copy the success that rival Apple Inc. has enjoyed with its chain of retail stores, Microsoft Corp. said it too will open a chain of stores featuring its products.”
Dude. And I was all up in the Microsoft Store, and I was standing next to the eight-foot-tall talking replica of that “What are you trying to do?” googly-eyed paper clip from Excel, and I couldn’t decide whether to pick up a multi-user license of the new version of Access, or a brown Zune. I know, like, a total dilemma, right? So I bought BOTH! I’m gonna stick the “Use Genuine Microsoft Software” stickers on the back window of my car. Peace, brah!
LOL Chris in West Seattle.
@12: Right? What the hell are they thinking?
The success of that company reinforces every misanthropic fiber in my being.
are 13 year old dads really that unusual? One summer I worked with a 19 year old guy, who proudly showed me a picture of his six year old son.
@15: I love your work!
Why did Seattle Weekly create “Ask An Uptight Seattleite”?
To piss off the other Seattle alt-weekly!
MILLARD FILLMORE WILL NOT BE PRESIDENT AT ALL THIS MONTH!
And no, I don’t feel like letting it go.
@12 – GWA is also the acronym for Genome Wide Association, a scan we do sometimes.
I’d just stick a rainbow Win 7 sticker on your BMW and leave it on the street overnight, to see how long before your wheels get jacked.
Corporate stores like Apple’s and Sony’s, and now Microsoft’s, aren’t like regular stores — selling enough merchandise to make a profit. They’re about brand awareness. I seriously doubt either the Apple store in the U District or in U Village are profitable in their own right, and I KNOW the Sony store isn’t. Most people buy their gear elsewhere or online. But they go in and fiddle with the display models.
God, I quit Slog for two weeks and STILL land next to SuperMoron’s non sequitors.
GWA also stands for “Ginger With Attitude” and “Government of Wales Act” and “Generalized Watermark Attack”, Willie. I’m sure you’ve got something precious to add about those, too.
AHHHHH GROSS why is that 15 year old fucking that LITTLE BOY?!?!?
The continuing lack of debate at Slog about the inadequacy of the stimulus plan and the overly vague banking plan is v. disappointing. Kind of reflective of an overly adulatory stance.
Krugman again:
“I’ve got a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach — a feeling America just isn’t rising to the greatest economic challenge in 70 years. The best may not lack all conviction, but they seem alarmingly willing to settle for half measures.”
Yup, that aptly describes most Slog readers, most Democrats right now, most Americans. And it is the inevitable result of Obama’s flawed desire to be so freaking bipartisan with people whose principles make them oppose what is needed tooth and claw every step of the way.
Obama should be running right over them and driving them into the ground, and stop fucking praising Republicans all over the place.
“There’s stll time to turn this around. But Mr. Obama has to be stronger looking forward. Otehrwise, the verdict on the crisis might be that no, we can’t.”
Sadly Obamaphilia keeps us from even having this discussion. The silence from all the Obama supporters is deafening. There’s a bit of carping here and there about minor issues like oh my god they took out funding for artists, when the MAIN issue is studiously avoided.
Hey Fnarf!
Nice to have yous back baby! Now tell me about those Monkees!
I kid, I kid… Love & kisses!
Whoo-hoo!
Jus’ what we need more tax breaks right? And plenty o’ pork too.
Perhaps we Sloggers are not commenting on this stimulus package, because we all realize that we are fucked no matter what we do. Or perhaps we are all a little too concerned about our own economic well being to even care about what the country as a whole is going through.
We’s here at the Keekee houshold are a-doing a’ight! My partner is in health care. Thank Gawd for med school.
PC @22: The “The continuing lack of debate” is due to general agreement here with Krugman’s and your opinion of the stimulus plan & banking bailout. Economic policy analysis isn’t Slog’s bread and butter. Debate on Slog isn’t going to accomplish anything at all. Letter writing and other traditional advocacy techniques might. And it is happening: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=78…
That octuplet doctor should lose his license.
@15: The first pregnancy in my class was a 12-year-old girl. She was 13 when she had the kid. Then it started raining babies.