My friends, 

Oh to be American in a small European village after Obama's victory!

I cannot describe to you the outpouring of love and support for America that everyone here has displayed since Obama has won. People love America again, they are once again impressed by our forward-think… Read full post »

Dear American comrades,

Please, no more Sarah Palin or Joe the Plubmer!

While you may sit in your La-Z-Boys stuffing your faces full of doritos while crying into your salsa at Barack Obama's infomercial with impunity back in the home country, us traitors who live abroad must wither the scorn… Read full post »

My friends,

I told Congress "thanks, but no thanks," for that Bridge to Nowhere.

Let me start over. I am now drinking wine and eating many gourmets at an undiclosed location in Europe, and will be here until Jewish Christmas.

My mission is to post many pictures of shop signs in… Read full post »

This is the GOP talking point du jour, it seems: blame the Community Reinvestment Act, which "forced" lenders to lend to "minorities and low-income folks." 

No, seriously, they're THAT RACIST.

Basically, once again, who is to blame? President Clinton. It never gets old with them, even though Bu… Read full post »

Perhaps you heard that Israel is about to have its 2nd female Prime Minister?

She's a rightwinger, but here's a woman who is QUALIFIED to be a leader of a country.

Her bio:

• Served as a lieutenant in the Israel Defense Forces and worked for the Mossad for nearly two
… Read full post »

FDIC is running out of money and a WaMu collapse could make it even worse

That $85 billion for AIG? Um, please China, may I have some more money for that?

So what's the good news?

The good news is that even if the FDIC collapsed, and then your bank… Read full post »

From Revelations:

17:4 And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour,

and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls,

having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:

17:5 And upon her forehead… Read full post »

Let me cut to the chase: my law firm is in a building connected to Rockefeller Center, here in midtown Manhattan.

Often, when I navigate the subterranean caverns of this sprawling complex, I think to myself that this is a really perfect terrorist target.
Many people would die from a bomb,… Read full post »

“So Sambo beat the bitch!”

This is how Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin described Barack Obama’s win over Hillary Clinton to political colleagues in a restaurant a few days after Obama locked up the Democratic Party presidential nomination.

Read the rest at the LA… Read full post »

Jezebel muses today on what it is about Sarah Palin that is so absolutely enraging. In particular, "What's infuriating, and perhaps rage-inducing, about Palin, is that she has always embodied that perfectly pleasing female archetype, playing by the boys' game with her big guns and moose-murdering, an… Read full post »

Sometimes, she does this weird thing with her hair that makes her ears look big and pointy:

But then sometimes she does Texas hair:

Which is to be distinguished from Phoenix hair:

Here she is plotting to kill John McCain with her own gloved… Read full post »

You can spin it either way.

Republican spin: Palin is from oil-rich Alaska, and her candidacy makes it more likely that oil will be drilled domestically, which will reduce future prices.

Democratic spin (the more likely one): It's looking more and more like Obama's gonna with this thing, thanks to Fl… Read full post »

My two favorite news topics in the world are (1) politics and (2) Jamie Lynn Spears. And this Sarah Palin Saga is just a once-in-a-lifetime combination.

My prediction right now for the chances of her withdrawing is: 40%. I believe that if one more big revalation happens, that goes up to… Read full post »

It's almost too perfect!

 Palin's husband, Todd, is a commercial fisherman and is one-eighth Yup'ik. ^[65] Outside the fishing season, Todd works for BP energy corporation at an oil field on Alaska's North Slope.

Is that the same North Slope where the endangered polar bears live? Oh, why yes, it… Read full post »

All you need is two tools:

1. The Obama Tax Cut Calculator, which tells you how much you will save under Obama's tax plan:

http://alchemytoday.com/obamataxcut/

 

2. This graphic:

[Tax Policy Center via Washington Post]

So you can see that McCain's biggest tax cuts are on the top… Read full post »

We will start with Obama Girl, "I've Got a Crush on Obama":

 

Hillary Girl:

 

Then we have Obama Girl vs. Giuliani Girl:

 

Here's will.i.am's "Yes We Can":

 

The best parody of "Yes We Can" attacking McCain (this is a masterpiece):

&nb… Read full post »

So, I don't know if you were watching, but something wonderful just happened. New Mexico was about to cast, and then they yielded to Illinois, which in turn yielded to New York. Entering the floor on behalf of New York was Hillary Clinton, who was the one to move to officially… Read full post »

We interrupt your regularly-scheduled Obama-Clinton yelling for this orgiastic Orangina commercial from France (who else). The British are scandalized.

 

So here are the results from my calculations, using the latest CIA factbook population statistics.

These stats represent people per medal, meaning the Bahamas have one medal for every 153,726 Bahamanians.

All medals:

 

Gold medals only:

Conclusions:

• Weighing the medals acco
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My Bidey sense was tingling, and I suddenly remembered Biden's cameo appearance in Mike Gravel's Obama Girl collaboration (below). Watch for Bidey at 0:18:

(Also watch for Gravel's rap about Karl Rove at 1:16)

Here's a screenshot of Bidey, right after Anderson Cooper showed everyone a photo… Read full post »

It was 1978, and France was trying to keep in place protectionist structures to help its domestic products, in direct violation of EU rules. One ingenious method they devised was to tax different products differently. So, for example, wine, cheese and berets would be taxed very low, whereas li…

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In 1987, Joe Biden stood up to Ronald Reagan's attempted increase of executive authority in interpreting what a treaty means, and tried to stop the development of the Strategic Defense Initiative, also known as "Star Wars."

The US and Russia had signed the ABM Treaty in 1972, and now Reagan… Read full post »

That has got to be my favorite expression in the English language. Like a work of art, it reveals itself in layers.

Let's start with the first layer: women are like cows, and marriage is a purchase by the man of the woman. That means that the man PAYS in… Read full post »

I blogged earlier about Equestrian being the only gender-integrated sport, and the possibility of integrating Shooting.

Of course, the ladies would cry when they lose, but they cry when they win, too (see photo at left, the gold medalist Makela-Nummela in Women's Trap). Ladies, they're never… Read full post »

"Our nation was founded on Judeo-Christian values and principles."

-John McCain, Saddleback forum with Rick Warren, August 17, 2008

Despite what many say, the US was not founded on Judeo-Christian values. If it was founded on any religious values, it was purely Christian ones.

The term Jude… Read full post »