Yay! Biden Gets to Hear Himself Speak Some More!

Following the Palestinians in committing collective suicide, apparently Kerry is calling for a filibuster of Alito. Now the American people get to watch some Democrats shake their tiny fists in impotent rage before Alito is inevitably voted the next Supreme Court Justice.
This is just the sort of wackiness that inspired me to start writing political humor. Go Kerry!
UPDATE: Dude, Kennedy is joining Kerry in this! That man is like 95% living joke, 4% man, and 1% whiskey. Pure entertainment is sure to follow.

Is Kofi trying to say something?

A statement from Kofi Annan about the recent Palestinian elections:

The Secretary-General telephoned President Mahmoud Abbas to congratulate him and the Palestinian people on the peaceful and orderly conduct of the legislative elections. He expressed his appreciation of the work of the Central Election Commission, which received assistance from the United Nations for the preparatory electoral work. The Secretary-General views these elections as an important step towards the achievement of a Palestinian State. He looks forward to the publication of the results of the elections over the coming days, and to discussing them with Quartet partners.

You know, there’s usually some kind of reference to the section of the Roadmap which states:

will result in the emergence of an independent, democratic Palestinian State living side by side in peace and security with Israel and its other neighbors

With some kind of mention of contiguous borders or another.
But this time, there’s no mention of those pesky “peace” and “security” and Israel” things here. Just “indpependent Palestinian State.”
Isn’t that odd?

“Dear Buddha, I’d Like a Pony and a Second Season of Firefly”

A page has been started to promote there being a second season of Firefly. I know The Blender has mentioned this before, but sales of the previous season seem to indicate that there would be a good amount of money to make another season straight to DVD. There has yet to be a straight to DVD TV show, but watching a series off DVD is my preferred method of viewing. Maybe someone will do the math…

Well, there’s one good thing to come out of all of this…

Achmed Queri is called “Abu Ala” by his followers, but I refer to him as “Abu Merang.”
Why?
Well, the man has threaten to resign, turned in his resignation, or actually quit and come back multiple times in the past two years or so in his role as the Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority, both under Arafat and Abbas.
Like a boomerang, no matter how hard he’s tossed, he always comes back.
But not this time.
There’s plenty of room in the parking lot of the Mukata for him. I hope he gets a good space.

It’s Like Electing a More Violent, Dumber Version of the Nazis

The Palestinians were given a choice of pretending to like the Jews to kill them later, or to kill the Jews now. In a democratic election oversaw by Jimmy Carter, they chose not to wait on the Jew-kill’n.
Who can tell me these people don’t deserve their own state? Come on!
The results are in, and the Palestinians have just collectively strapped on a bomb belt. With Hamas as the majority party, the Palestinians should be preparing the sea for an influx of Jews as we speak. Of course, in reality, I’m expecting many more dead Palestinians in the future, because the idea of having peace talks with Hamas is not only moronic, but morally reprehensible.
Well, I’ll expect some commentary from Lair on this. If it hasn’t been mentioned before, he’s Jewish and thus obligated to have opinions on things like this.
UPDATE: I was wondering how the muckadoos at DU are reacting to this. Some see it for what it is, some see no problem, and one see it as another reason Alito must be filibustered!
UPDATE 2: Bush is going to hold a press conference at 1015.
UPDATE 3: Not really related, but there was a post at DU about Chris Penn’s death, and I was curious if somehow one of them would blame Bush.
Yep.
UPDATE 4: Iran’s government is super happy at the election results. I’m starting to think that the extremists are going to be getting the violence they want… they just aren’t going to be happy with who will ultimately be doing the dying.