December 24, 2009
Christmas Links
The Chemical
Brothers’ “Response”, set to visuals from “Close Encounters of the Third Kind”
finale
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The Once &
Future Queens – Older women posing as glamorous movie stars
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(Wow, I never
knew that Cliff Richard is gay
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Doilies on
Google Image
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99 Most
Beautiful Names of Allah
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November 06, 2009
It must be nice
to be the president. In addition to having helicopters, jumbo jets, and
motorcades, you get to rifle through the cellars of the National Gallery and
the Hirschhorn for artistic masterpieces to adorn your home for the next four
to eight years.
As with all of
our recent presidents, the artistic choices made by Barack Obama and his wife say
a lot about the first couple and what they want to say about themselves (Slide show)
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March 11, 2009
Michelle & The Return of “Cool”
Moving a couch at The White House
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There are two little noticed aspects of Obama and his family that I think bode very well for America.
The first is Michelle… The second contribution is the return of “cool” as a viable expression of personal identity.
Obama’s two unnoticed gifts by Kent Nerburn
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SENATOR ARLEN SPECTER (on speakerphone): Well, I’m sorry, Mr. President, but with the stimulus bill the way it is now I simply can’t give you my support.
OBAMA: Well, you’re going to regret this, Arlen. I’ve already got enough Republicans on board, so I don’t need you. So you think long and hard about whether you want to piss me off for a vote that won’t make any difference!
(button being pushed)
OBAMA: I tell you what, Rahm, I hope he doesn’t see through that bluff. I really need him on this.
SPECTER: Uh, I’m still on.
OBAMA: Oh, you gotta be kidding me.
(button being pushed)
OBAMA: Hello?
SPECTER: Still here.
OBAMA: How does this stupid phone hang up?!
(multiple buttons being pushed)
SPECTER: Still on.
VICE-PRESIDENT BIDEN (on speakerphone): Hello? Did someone conference me in?
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DAY 46: A woman named Candi interrupts a Cabinet meeting to borrow $20 from Joe Biden for cigarettes.
DAY 28: Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner's wife has taken to calling him the Trillion Dollar Man during sex.
DAY 25: Obama enjoys a quiet, candlelight dinner with Michelle and South Korean Prime Minister Han Seung-soo
DAY 1: In one of his first acts as president, Obama begins the process of closing down the CIA prisons that he knows about.
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Horrible Paintings of Barack Obama (Click to advance)
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December 06, 2008
Obama Beards
“To the President of the Senate: This letter is to inform you that I resign from the United States Senate effective November 16, 2008, in order to prepare for my duties as President of the United States.” Copy of Obama’s Letter of Resignation
Rosa sat... from Lance Armstrong's Twitter feed
Marvin, what do we do now? (YT)
Why Barack Should Grow a Beard
More from “The Daily Beast” - When Richard B. Cheney exits his undisclosed location next month, he will probably be the last major figure in American life to answer to the name "Dick."The Last Dick
Also, OJ Simpson on dickipedia. Please do not be a dick
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November 28, 2008
Capers C. Funnye Jr.
Capers C. Funnye Jr. is a Jewish African-American head rabbi of Beth Shalom B’nai Zaken Ethiopian Hebrew Congregation of Chicago. He is also the first cousin once removed of Michelle Obama
The Ancestry of Barack Obama all the way to his great-great-great grandparents
To be Kristol clear: Billl Kristol to run against Obama in 2012. Yep, that will work…
Obama's speeches are much admired and endlessly analysed. But one of their most interesting aspects is the enormous debt they owe to the oratory of the Romans. The new Cicero
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Also, Present but not pictured: John McCain and Ken “Ringo” Starr - Readers caption the meeting of Paul Krugman with Bush at the Oval Office. (From Marginal revolution)
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November 22, 2008
“You’re not going to get any more out of me, Steve”
Hundreds of Obama buttons and election headlines (Both in the US and abroad). Political pins from previous elections
Challenged ballots in Minnesota
11/23 Update: The ’O’ in the Obama logo
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In the first two weeks since the election, President-elect Barack Obama has broken with a tradition established over the past eight years through his controversial use of complete sentences, political observers say.
Millions of Americans who watched Mr. Obama's appearance on CBS' "Sixty Minutes" on Sunday witnessed the president-elect's unorthodox verbal tic, which had Mr. Obama employing grammatically correct sentences virtually every time he opened his mouth.
Obama’s Use of Complete Sentences Stirs Controversy
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November 15, 2008
What do you believe?
The most detailed and fascinating explication of Barack Obama's faith came in a 2004 interview he gave Chicago Sun Times columnist Cathleen Falsani when he was running for U.S. Senate in Illinois. The column she wrote about the interview has been quoted and misquoted many times over, but she'd never before published the full transcript in a major publication.
(Link fixed now)
A Huge Depository of Unusual links about Unusual Gods Here
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October 29, 2008
Landslide
With Chris Matthews take
Many Other Stories of Heroes and Sheroes Here
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October 23, 2008
Audacious
…”I worship Obama. There. I said it. I sacrifice birds to him. Chickens, mostly, but an occasional finch or starling. I have a shrine to Obama in my bedroom, with a statue of him I have fashioned out of wax and a hair clipping I am told was taken from Barack. I improvise songs in Creole and ply the effigy with rum and spiced candies, and bid it to do my doing. Sometimes groups of us dance naked around the Obama shrine to the insistent tattoo of a tribal drum, and then, smeared in chicken's blood, we have a profane orgy. Obama finds things I have lost, he heals my illness, he protects my possessions, and he curses my enemies. Obama makes women fall in love with me, and gives me the sexual stamina of a goat. Obama sends money my way, and makes me bulletproof. Obama appears before us in the clothes of an undertaker, smoking a cigar, and brings the dead back to life, and army of the undead that even now wait for their orders.
Obama is not God. Obama is better than God, because God is distant and strange. Obama calls us at night and sings us to sleep with songs of hope. And we will all worship him one day, or he will kill those that deny him with a sword made from the spine of John McCain…”
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(By Max "Bunny" Sparber, found on Metafilter)
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October 18, 2008
Sometimes the leak is so bad that even a plumber can't fix it…
Vector Tutorial of Obama’s O Logo
84 posters inspired by the original Shepard Fairey HOPE poster
The streets will be made of cheese When Obama wins
…It’s gonna take a while to Restore confidence in the financial system. We’ll make sure as time goes by that it doesn’t happen again…
(Obama cake above from Team Sugar)
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Btw, I just finished reading Dreams from my father & I found it to be beautifully written & heart-felt. This reflective memoir, which was composed in 1995, long before he started running for public office, describes Obama's world views as if it was written today. Here is an early introduction of Barack by author Scott Turow from March 2004. déjà vu
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October 13, 2008
Too Much Pie For One Guy
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September 28, 2008
Moose lips sink ships
A slideshow of Barack's side at the Debate in Oxford yesterday
Statler & Waldorf now doing the OpEd on the NYT
Dick Cheney called; he wants his suit back. (From a blog by Karl Rove)
(Becket poster above from composer Matthew Guerrieri)
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August 25, 2008
Obama’s baby
Last night I had some theoretical thoughts about Obama -
What would happen if Barack & Michelle Obama decided that they want a third child while they still can (She was born in 1964, which makes her 44)?
They could conceive it this week in Denver, and when the time comes (maybe in a month or so) announce that Michelle is pregnant and is due in June 2009.
So my questions are: Do you think that such an announcement will help him win the election in November?
Will that be the first (legitimate) baby born to a sitting president?
If it’s (another) girl, will it be ok if they name her America Obama?
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August 24, 2008
January 21, 2009
…President Obama is forced to hit the ground running after it is announced that multinational forces have invaded Iran from Iraq to take out suspected "nuclear facilities," an attack secretly ordered by President Bush before his successor took the oath of office. John Woo, Douglas Feith, and other former government officials appear on television to explain the constitutionality of this action. General Petraeus is fired when he refuses Obama's countermand and is replaced by a recommissioned Wesley Clark. Obama labors around the clock to minimize the damage and to replace other officers who have resigned in protest, including all of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. "TREASON!" headlines run in several U.S. papers. Obama is lynched in effigy. He sets up a meeting with Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad within the month. Senator Tom Coburn announces that he will introduce a bill of impeachment...
More about "The terrible first four years of President Obama"
(Pix above from Freaking News)
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July 25, 2008
Al Gore's Magical Hummus Machine
And it came to pass, in the eighth year of the reign of the evil Bush the Younger (The Ignorant), when the whole land from the Arabian desert to the shores of the Great Lakes had been laid barren, that a Child appeared in the wilderness.
The Child was blessed in looks and intellect. Scion of a simple family, offspring of a miraculous union, grandson of a typical white person and an African peasant. And yea, as he grew, the Child walked in the path of righteousness, with only the occasional detour into the odd weed and a little blow…
When he was twelve years old, they found him in the temple in the City of Chicago, arguing the finer points of community organisation with the Prophet Jeremiah and the Elders. And the Elders were astonished at what they heard and said among themselves: “Verily, who is this Child that he opens our hearts and minds to the audacity of hope?”
The Anointed one's pilgrimage to the Holy Land
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Guru Raj, the man who’s receiving Obama's gmail
Zombie Harmony - One of the Best Free Dating Sites for Zombies
The Year of Shock and Awesome. The president has used "awesome" to describe everything from dead soldiers to the pope. How did a slang word trickle up to the highest office in the land?
(Title above from Liveblogging Netroots Nation)
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