Happy Tax Day! To celebrate, here’s some Enlightened Wisdom from Noted Tax Cheat Tim Geithner, who helpfully explains to you rubes taxpayers that if he bounces a check it’s your fault
Treasury Secretary and Noted Tax Cheat Timothy Geithner on Thursday told Republican lawmakers that they would shoulder the blame if the country got too close to defaulting on its debt and roiled markets worldwide by not approving a debt limit increase.
In yet another warning about the perils of not allowing the U.S. to borrow more to fund spending already approved by Congress, Noted Tax Cheat Geithner said it would be deeply irresponsible for lawmakers to use debt limit negotiations for political gains as that is traditionally the bailiwick of the President.
…”(Lawmakers) will say there’s leverage in it, we can advance it. But that would be deeply irresponsible and they will own the risk, and we’re trying very hard to get the Chinese to own our risk” Noted Tax Cheat Geithner said. (edited for clarity)
10 Incredibly Misleading Movie Trailers Thanks to Hollywood marketing geniuses, some trailers are nothing like the films they’re supposedly previewing. We dug up some of the worst.
What the Trailer Promises: In a future in which electronic dance music and bad haircuts reign supreme, a deadly serious Blade Runner-like sci-fi epic plays out in space.
What the Movie Delivers: An always absurd, often funny, vastly underrated twist on traditional sci-fi movies. It makes excellent use of Bruce Willis’s usual tough-guy charm and Milla Jovovich’s uncanny ability to look insanely hot while dressed like Raggedy Ann on meth.
Mort’s simmering outrage and wounded dignity on display after being snapped à la compromising position in the Frisbee.
Yup. And the internet is forever, turtle.
You should of thought of that first. Gotten up a little earlier.
Did everything, but wipe their shiney little arses and wave “bye-bye” before they sent them off.
Navy told to feed and free 17 armed pirates
The Royal Navy caught a crew of Somali pirates and gave them halal meat and cigarettes before letting them go free, it emerged today.
The 17 outlaws, who had hijacked a boat and forced five hostages into slavery for three months, were seized with AK47s and rocket-propelled grenades by HMS Cornwall.
But rather than bring them to justice, the Navy was ordered to give them medical checks – and one a nicotine patch – before freeing them in their own boats.
Video here(Don’t know why there’s no embed code.) Finally.
Senator Rubio: “Well, first of all, the President’s plan is not a debt reduction plan. The President is basically saying he thinks instead of raising the debt over the next ten years by $12 trillion, we should only raise the debt by $8 trillion, so that’s the first thing I would tell you. The other two things we learned from his speech is that everything that’s wrong in America is George Bush’s fault, according to Barack Obama, and that the problem in our country is that people aren’t paying enough in taxes…”
…Fox News’ Peter Johnson: “Will you vote against the budget deal?”
Senator Rubio: “Yeah. I think it takes us in the wrong direction and I’ll tell you why. I’ve only been here four months now, but that’s just long enough to realize how deep this problem is. I don’t know what’s wrong with people around here, but this thing’s not going to solve itself. …”
[Senator Rubio: I Will Vote To Defund Planned Parenthood…]
…Senator Rubio: “First of all, no program can be untouched. This notion by some of my colleagues here that this program can’t be touched and somehow it can’t be on the table is absurd. I don’t care what they do. There’s no program in our budget that should be off the table in terms of looking at it and understanding whether it’s justified or not. …”
President Barack Obama gave three Republicans — Reps. Paul Ryan (Wis.) Dave Camp (Mich.), and Jeb Hesarling (Texas) — a front-row seat at his “deficit” speech on Wednesday, then proceeded to blast the Republicans’ detailed plan to fix the nation’s economic woes, without offering details of his own.
…Rep. Jeb Hensarling said he was honored to receive an invitation to the speech, but as it turns out, it was something he could have watched back at his office: “I don’t know about my colleagues, but I thought to myself,
‘And I missed lunch for this?’” Hensarling said afterwards.
Would that we ALL could change the national channel, my friend.
Or better yet, cancel the program outright and leave the unaired episodes in the can where they belong.
ths UPDATE: Just a question. Has any Republican president EVER, that you can think of, repeatedly invited members of either the opposing party or the Supreme Court to his “policy speeches” and then used the occasion to lambast them immediately? Knowing that their sense of propriety and deportment would prevent them from standing up and walking out, like any level headed citizen would when being invited to his own public abuse session?
I recall no such continual show of exceptional bad manners, petulant and graceless behavior on the part of…well…ANY president, for that matter, but I could be wrong. And I am given to looking at Obama with a jaundiced eye, because I really, REALLY can’t stand him, pretentious, no clue, classless pissant that he is.
I’m sure you all will straighten me out if I’ve been unfair.
The US lacks a “credible strategy” to stabilise its mounting public debt posing a small but significant risk of a new global economic crisis, says the International Monetary Fund.
In an unusually stern rebuke to its largest shareholder, the IMF said the US was the only advanced economy to be increasing its underlying budget deficit in 2011 at a time when its economy was growing fast enough to reduce borrowing.
We do not have a revenue problem; we have a spending problem.
(CNN) – The U.S. ambassador to Malta has upset the State Department by devoting so much time to writing and speaking about faith-related issues, according to a report from the department’s inspector general released last week.
The ambassador, Douglas Kmiec, was appointed by President Barack Obama in 2009 after Kmiec helped spearhead Obama’s outreach to Catholic voters in the 2008 presidential campaign.
“Based on a belief that he was given a special mandate to promote President Obama’s interfaith initiatives, he has devoted considerable time to writing articles for publication in the United States as well as in Malta,” the State Department’s Inspector General’s Office said of Kmiec in an inspection report on the Maltese embassy released Thursday.
“His approach has required Department principals, as well as some embassy staff, to spend an inordinate amount of time reviewing his writings, speeches and other initiatives,” the report continued.
The Japanese government’s nuclear safety agency has decided to raise the crisis level of the Fukushima Daiichi power plant accident from 5 to 7, the worst on the international scale.
The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency made the decision on Monday. It says the damaged facilities have been releasing a massive amount of radioactive substances, which are posing a threat to human health and the environment over a wide area.
Their rousing chant: “We’re not as bad as Chernobyl. Yet.”
Even I know the Bible’s supposed to be the “Word of God”, even though he’s all vaporous and stuff and, having no opposable thumbs, had to have someone write the good stuff down for him.
So WHO is this asshole kidding (just in case you hadn’t seen it your OWNself), complete with the helpful NBC News assist?
And The Greatest Disaster In The History Of Mankind That Is Totally The Republicans’ Fault has been averted. Yay. The Democrats had to move a lot farther than they wanted to down that “mean spirited” path the Republicans were demanding, and the Poor One had to skip a Friday night in Williamsburg (and hell, maybe even missed his tee time for this morning) and that’s a good thing, I guess.
But let’s not get too excited about this “living within our means” business just yet, as the entire amount that this “historic” spending cut is barely one goddamned week’s worth of this year’s deficit.
House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) has, as Right Turn predicted, a deal, and not just any deal. According to reports, the outlines of a deal include $39 billion in spending cuts and withdrawal of the Planned Parenthood rider. In the end, as Boehner said, it was about money. He got Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) to buy the rider, one his caucus was willing to give up, for another billion dollars. The enormousness of the win for Boehner shouldn’t be underestimated, if the deal holds. He didn’t divide his caucus; he kept it together. He didn’t take “no” for an answer ( as in “Not a penny in cuts”); through the course of the year he got a total of $49 billion in cuts. So how’d he do it?
As I’ve reported, Negotiation 101 tells us that a good negotiator gets the other side to “buy” something your own side doesn’t care all that much about. You keep two issues open and trade them off at the end.
Boehner did have something going for him: a completely incompetent White House.
Moran: Congress may take 2-week Easter break during shutdown
Rep. Jim Moran, D-Va., just delivered an extremely unwelcome message to a town hall full of soon-to-be-furloughed federal employees: Congress still plans take its scheduled two-week Easter break scheduled to begin April 18, even if lawmakers haven’t solved the budget mess by then:
“If you are a federal employee, I think you need to start conserving whatever financial resources you have…“
WHAT?!?!?!
Hey, jackass! Nobody’s gonna have much by then, capisce?
I can’t imagine what a new, cheapy, Dollar Store one is gonna set me back in this era of hope and change. Hard as it is to imagine, I get emotionally attached to inanimate objects. Like Bingley. Upsets me if I have to replace them, so I keep them long past where they’re actually optimally functional. Usually right up to the “downright hazardous” stage, where they either spark, flame and emit mercurous vapours, or major dad snatches and dumps them outright, in the interest of continuing low insurance rates.
This is vexing in the extreme and I’m normally so even tempered.
Holed up in her presidential palace turned prison in the smart part of Abidjan with rebel forces closing in, Simone Ehivet Gbagbo may well be hoping for some 11th-hour divine intervention.
Since her once all-powerful husband lost the elections last year she has been fond of evoking an even higher authority to combat the man she calls the devil, French president Nicolas Sarkozy, and the bandit, her nickname for president-elect Alassane Ouattara, whose forces are laying siege to her home.
“God is on our side. God is with us,” she told a delirious crowd last year. “God has already given us victory.”
To supporters, Simone Ehivet, 61, the first of Gbagbo’s two wives, is Maman or the “Hillary Clinton of the tropics”. To opponents she is nicknamed the Iron Lady, or, less flatteringly, the Blood Lady.
Ah, takes me back to those halcyon days in another bunker…
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April 15, 2011 6:58 am | 
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