Entertainment from the Past!

Last Portraits of Beloved Leader; Really, is this Man Sober, or Can There be Any Other Explanation??

All photos from here.

Not an X-Mas Gift; a True Christmas Gift

Competition of the Day: Is Beloved Leader Sober?

Bonus questions: Does it matter? Who cares?

Honest Joe Lies His Way Out of Being Accused of Lying

Yeah, yeah, I’m in on the secret: the guy is essentially completely irrelevant to pretty much anything of any relevance.

And I suppose it’s kind of pathetic….

But who cares?

In Case You Ask Yourself: These Wingnuts, Just How Stupid Are They?

This is the kind of moron Big Media journos look to for guidance.

You have to be awfully stupid and/or dishonest to crank out blatant idiocy like this:

I feel a little sorry for Martin Luther King — his enormous accomplishments got less attention than they deserved because of the cult of Malcolm X, and now he’s being eclipsed by Barack Obama. Though I suppose he’d be perfectly okay with that.

Link.

A Wingnut’s Prediction: We will Learn to Love Beloved Leader!

As for Bush’s legacy, it will be left to future historians to weigh his responsibility for keeping us safe from another 9/11-like attack for seven years, the now increasingly likely victory in Iraq, AIDS relief abroad, new expansions for Medicare, and federal support for schools versus the mishandling of Hurricane Katrina, the error-plagued 2004-2007 occupation of Iraq, and out-of-control federal spending. As in the case of the once-unpopular Ulysses S. Grant, Calvin Coolidge, and Harry Truman, Bush’s supposedly “worst” presidency could one day not look so bad in comparison with the various administrations that followed.

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The Dysfunctional Way the World Works

Public $$ prop up a bank so it can keep it’s name on a publicly-financed ballpark.

Or something like that:

What makes Citi’s sponsorship of the new stadium even more absurd is that although the Mets paid for a decent amount of the construction, a lot was subsidized as per this article in the Times. So basically the tax payers give money to Citi to get naming rights to a stadium that the tax payers partially built so the Mets can raise ticket prices to a level that your average New Yorker cannot afford. But hey, the Citi execs will still have their luxury boxes!!!

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A Reminder

Freaking over Obama’s appointees? Maybe too early to worry; he clearly wants to lead so let’s see what he does and gets these centrists to do.

Meanwhile, he’s certainly doing a better job leading the country than Our Leaders.

And there’s more about what to expect and why not to worry here.

Post-Mumbai: Crap’s Going on

Or: What’s this about? Can not be good. For that matter, where are Pakistan’s enablers Our Leaders in all this?

Josh Marshall:

Pakistan is reportedly backing out of its plan to send its spy chief to India to aid in the Mumbai terror investigation. “A representative of the ISI will visit India, instead of its Director General Lt Gen Shuja Pasha, to help in investigating the Mumbai terrorism incident,” the Times of India quotesa spokesman for the Pakisani Prime Minister as saying.

The ISI is essentially composed and run by Islamic fundamentalists so the use of the word “intelligence” is, you know, strictly figurative.