Obama takes one step further from transparency..
Not surprised. One of the biggest lies Obama told was that he’d have the most transparent presidency in history. We’ve seen, time after time, how this hasn’t held up. Even the press has gotten annoyed with it. So what’s one more step, right?
Except it sucks, and we’re stuck with this guy until January of 2013 at the earliest. I’m not that big of a fan of the Republicans, but at least if they win in November it will halt his power trip a little. Maybe even enough to see us through the next two to six years.
One of them being that he’s a whiner (the other being that peach fuzz of a playoff beard). Example:
During the final seconds, Crosby was cross-checking Zetterberg in front of Howard and that led to some punches, pushing and shoving in a scrum behind the net. Looking to protect his teammate, Howard immediately got involved and grabbed the Pens’ captain.
“He was taking a couple of jabs there at ‘Z,’” Howard said. “I just thought I’d help him out there a little bit.”
“I don’t think that’s where he should be,” Crosby said of Howard. “I don’t know what he was doing over there.”
He was getting on you for cross-checking his teammate ya fuckin’ whiner!
Seriously? This is like when he whined that Pittsburgh “deserved better” than a game they lost.
These geniuses are lucky no student’s parent came to their office and killed them for this. I don’t know who approved giving 1800 students laptops with webcams and microphones that the school could (and did) monitor remotely during off-hours, but this person should spend some time in jail. For?
All kinds of privacy violations, wire tapping violations, oh, and I don’t know, conspiracy to create and distribute child pornography. If we’re going to go after 17 year old kids for sending each other pictures of their genitals, we should definitely go after adults who willingly expose 1800 kids to the possibility of being spied on while they undress or, because they’re teenagers, masturbate with the laptop in the room.
Fired and jailed. They’re lucky they’ve not been strung up.
The first year in the can, ending with the election of a Republican to the seat once held by Ted Kennedy in the midst of an argument about healthcare. I’m not going to say “oh the end is nigh for the Democrats and their policies.” That would be premature, wrong, and probably stupid. No, I think that the end is nigh for anyone in elective office for a while, unless they’re really liked by constituents. For the next election cycle or two I expect a lot of already elected officials to go away.
The Bendy One and I have made watching at least the monologue from Conan O’Brien part of our TV viewing. But seeing as how we both have jobs, pushing it back thirty minutes isn’t going to work for me. I haven’t found Leno funny, aside from the occasional headlines, in, well, ever. He’s only slightly more tolerable than Letterman. (Of course all involved are funnier than Kimmel.) However, for as long as I can remember watching him, I’ve found Conan O’Brien to be awesome.
This is giving him the shaft. He hasn’t had a year in the job yet, and he’s got Leno on an hour and a half before him. Now, he’ll be pushed back a half hour (losing viewers who have to, y’know, wake up in the morning) and still follow Leno. That is no way to build ratings.
Dear Fox: Please steal him.
With an Internet Tough Guy. So some blogger lady made a post about guns; a few gun people responded. Her husband starts randomly threatening people, stands by his words, and further mockery ensues. Hilarity; Rob Russell is a classic Internet Tough Guy, and he’s also Trying Too Hard. (He is also editing or deleting comments to make those opposing him look more foolish in an attempt to look better or make himself feel better. If you make a comment, get a screencap of it before he applies Reasoned Discourse to have you now say something about your package size.)
Basically, I just want to call the guy what he is: Robert Russell is a douchebag. But I don’t like it when people mess with my words, so I can’t use his blog or the blog of anyone connected with him. So preserved for eternity on my blog: Robert Russell is a bathtub full of douchebags rolling down internet tough guy hill while covered in a layer of trying too hard snow. The End.
Wow. The busiest year of my life comes to a close. I have no complaints about 2009; I got a lot accomplished:
In January, I started a new job. In May, I got married, moved, then graduated. In June and September I changed positions at my job, each one an improvement. I also learned, thanks to the pay stubs I’m provided with every other Friday, that taxes really, really suck.
It’s been quite a year.
Now that all of that is out of the way: On to 2010!
