AP: WH says it was Bill Clinton who tried to charm Sestak into dropping out of the race. A cigar was involved.
So the WH didn’t bribe Sestak, they just sent former president Bill Clinton to see if he’d be open to a bribe?
Just to be clear, that the WH thought Sestak might drop out of the Senate race for an unpaid job is a believable story?
To try and raise approval rating, Obama is going to offer all Americans unpaid work.
BP: “Who would have thought dumping tons of mud on the problem would work, but then again it always helped with environmental protesters.”
Not listening to the Sestak presser; has he used the phrase “That’s the ticket!” yet?
Decided now is the time for me to finally try on some facial hair. Growing a goatee. If that doesn’t work out – starburns!
I don’t know if something illegal went on with Sestak’s job offer, but we can be 100% certain something moronic happened.
Nesting instinct? If I knew getting my wife pregnant would make her want to clean the house, I would have done it sooner.
So is the timeline in the new JJ Abrams Star Trek really just Captain Kirk’s purgatory?
I am halfway through the 2nd draft of my novel. Little by little, it will eventually be done. I alternate between thinking it’s pretty good and thinking it’s crap. I hope that’s normal.
I’m jealous my brother got a job where he has to wear a suit every day. I’ve never had a job where they cared whether I looked like a hobo. Actually, if you’re an engineer and wear a suit, they probably thing you’re a poseur and won’t know how to do anything practical. When I wore a suit to interview for my current job, first interview question was, “You think you’re better than us?”
For trying to be nice to a group that wants to genocide them, I think Israel does reasonably well.
Just saw Avatar finally. It’s ranked 93 in the top 250 movies on IMDB? Really? I swear they fed clichés into a computer program and it wrote the script. Pretty, though.
Unobtanium? Isn’t that a placeholder in your script until you come up with an actual name for your MacGuffin?
If Avatar is #93, I should be able to dangle keys in front of a camera for an hour and get that ranked at least 150 on IMDB.
With two billion dollar grossing movies in a row, I certainly can’t question James Cameron’s competence, though. Someone must like them.
The Princess Bride is #181 on IMDB and Avatar is #93. In what universe does that make sense?
Michael Cera only plays one character, but he is the only person who plays that character so it’s good business for him. If there comes an actor who can play Michael Cera for much cheaper, then he’s in trouble.
#181? Inconceivable!
I remind you that Barack Obama is the President of the United States.
Target rich environment today, Frank.
Your sense of clarity exceeds your years. Mebbe your clarity equals your years plus 3.
Not really, but I did see that Princess Bride ranks #1 as the all time greatest romantic movie. On the other hand, that doesn’t help the guy factor.
It was good to be reminded that Israel has nucular missile submarines. Better still, they are now parked in the Gulf (Persian). Do ya think that Israel will comply with Obama’s demand for Israel to disarm? I say, if it weren’t for diplomacy stuff, Israel would say, “Bite me!”
When I wore a suit to interview for my current job, first interview question was, “You think you’re better than us?”
A friend of mine interviewed at the local Chrysler plant after finishing his Bachelors in engineering. He actually got this treatment because it was a union plant.
Is this the new alternate universe goateed evil Frank?
I notice the sake folks who are anti-Arizona are taking an anti-Isreali stance. Boredrs matter.
On the other hand, I am concerned that Isreal will fall into the same situation Tom Clancy describes in Sum of All Fears, that Isreal gets goaded into an over reaction that allows the bad guys an excuse to demand world action. And get it.
Did anyone else see that headline that screamed “Bill Clinton Blows Job Interview”? Best. Headline. Ever.
Who’d a thumnk a Haravrd lawyer would trip up like the Sestack debacle? You’d think he was a Rhodes scholar or something.
Jessie Eisenberg from Zombieland…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Eisenberg
Storm: need coffee?
Coffee!!
Jesse Eisenberg plays Michael Cera better than Michael Cera. I’m not sure what he gets paid tho
@storm: I thought that might need a link:
http://tinyurl.com/29lklsj
I think the Daily Caller was aware of the humor in their headline. On the other hand, Maureen Dowd, who’s not the brightest fencepost on the fence, had not a clue when she wrote that Clinton should be appointed “Feeler in Chief:”
http://tinyurl.com/298vfg7
Do you frequent TV Tropes?
I wouldn’t have thought so, because you seem to have an un-ruined life.
[After years of therapy, I can now visit the site with restraint. -Ed.]
Bill Clinton hasn’t said anything since the story that he offered Sestak the job came out. I suspect he feels this lie is so poorly conceived that it is beneath his standards for to repeat it.
Check IMDB again in 10 years. The Princess Bride will still be at least #181 on the top 250 movie list, while Avatar will be in the $4.99 bin.
I hate it when my comments are in need of moderation. I’m guessing that this time it was my mention of Maureen Dowd that sent my comment into the bin.
Well, Princess Bridge is humorous, and makes you think. Avatar has half naked blue people.
In today’s culture, Avatar apparently wins. =P
Going to IronMan II today. Hope it doesn’t suck like Avatar did…
Frank, have you seen “Zombieland”? A few minutes into that I was thinking “this Jesse Eisenberg kid is a poor man’s Michael Cera.”
One of the best things Obama has going for him is that adoring media of his.
“Mr. President, did you try to bribe Sestak into quitting the Senate race?”
“Errr, uhhhh, what?”
“Thanks for clearing that up, Mr. President! Can you give us one of your trademark Lenin-like poses? Ohhhh, Mr. Pwesident, you’re so very handsome, will Michelle be along soon for our S & M session?”
What happened between Israel and the so called aid flotilla reminds me of why the apothegm, “F**k with the eagle, and you can expect the claw,” was coined.
Apparently I need to get a wife and get her pregnant. That or hire a maid.
(For cleaning! Get your mind out of the gutter, people.)
Yeah, but, we’re the Eagle, zzyzx, and if you **** with us, you get a strongly-worded letter.
I don’t know if he does it for cheaper, but that kid from Zombieland (Jesse Eisenberg) plays a pretty good Michael Cera.
We’re the Eagle, Jimmy, Obama and his ilk are no freaking Eagle.
RT
-There is no virus, army, nation, or weapon that has destroyed as many peoples and their souls has the deadly combination of safety and prosperity. If you had a disease that kills 95% of its hosts but leaves the other 5% stronger would you really brag about having it? Knowing your children and grand children were unlikely to inherit your immunity and would be their near certain doom?
-Is conservatives only chance for a future to basically to do what the socialists started doing in the 60’s?
-IMO the biggest blind-spot among rank and file liberals when it comes to supporting government legislation is that they focus so much on fairness and justice that they are blind to perverse incentives. However, for the radical socialist in charge such things are a feature not a bug. Welfare dependence and is a perfect example.
-So apparently Celine Dion was never hung for crimes against humanity. Great next you’ll tell me Osama Bin Lade and Dane cook are rich and walking around free too. And you puny humans think you will survive as a species.
-The thing about people who live in bubbles is that when they are popped they hate the person who did it even if you were trying to help them.
-The moral equivalence card: “For when your moral gas tank is completely empty and you have no intention of filling it”.
-Bob Ross’s real art was his hair.
-Is a “No-vacancy” sign worth a try down at the border?
-I find that people who dont like “thinking” really like TV where the main character does a lot of “thinking”.
-That thing about women caring about emotions more then words is off. Women care about “their” emotions more then “your” words. They do not however care about your emotions more then their words.
“So the WH didn’t bribe Sestak, they just sent former president Bill Clinton to see if he’d be open to a bribe?”
This explanation has all the competence and legal brilliance of the guy telling a cop “It’s not my pot, I’m just holding it for a friend.”
Obama and his 52% ilk need to be relieved of their planetary duties, Marko.
-people still watch the princess bride and quote it hear any non-mocking references to titanic or see many people watching it? And Titanic was better then Avatar. I could not imagine if I was an army mom home with a few kids while their dad was overseas and I took them to see Avatar and they walked out thinking their Dad was this horrible monster. If I was that Mom and Dad Liberals would have crossed a line.
-We can probably get a “Mexican Michale Cera” 90% as good and for pennies a day. In fact we could do that with most of Hollywood. Carlos Mencia can replace Shawn Penn and George Lopez can replace George Clooney. Also Pablo Francisco can replace all the liberal douche bag comedians like Jimmy Carrey on down after all he has more funny in his finger then all of them put together…. not that that is saying much.
-Israel: that’s the problem when you are the nice guy too long everyone’s perception shift so you should never be the nice guy and then everyone will just be glad when you aren’t too bad. Note: “nice guy” and “good guy” are not synonymous.
-Starburns is hilarious so be sure to casually show both sides off in conversation. Ill bet going to the casting interview for Community was like flipping a coin either they would love it or hate it. Guess it came up starburns heads.
Pft, don’t be lazy with the goatee. Go with some epic sideburns. Like, the opposite of a goatee. Tell you what, nobody will forget your face with those. I know these things. Although we couldn’t be seen together, as we would look like a freak convention.
If you can grow a moustache, go whole-hog with the General Burnsides look.
The reason that Princess Bride is the #1 romance movie is because guys will actually vote for it, too.
I wore a suit to a job interview at Target. Needless to say, I felt somewhat out of place. Of course, I was young(er) and dumb(er) then. I also wore a suit to jury duty. I was both the youngest and best-dressed there (including the lawyers, I’d imagine). (Of course I got out of actually serving on the jury: lawyers don’t want smart people on them.)
I can’t believe they used unobtainium, but its not like that’s the only hole in the boat. Floating mountains? Dizzy spinny lizards? Come on! I saw it on bluray on a 52′ LCD and it looked like a cheap made-for-tv cartoon.
That kid from Zombieland does a pretty good Michael Cera, and I’m sure he’s cheaper.
I once had a job that required a suit. I worked in a software factory. Had to take off the jacket and roll up a pants cuff so they could chain me to my terminal each day. Then, after 20 years they outsourced my job to a half dozen people in India and told me how much they would miss me. A few years later a larger company bought them and ate them up and digested them and … well you know what happens next. I still have a few of the suits in the back of the closet, I think.
There are plenty of illegal aliens who will do the work that Americans don’t want to do by playing Michael Cera.
I guess I am stuck in moderation for using the name C…ar…los Me..ncia.. I do of course understand entirely.
Showed the wife a good time by taking her to Olive Garden and Iron Man II for our 25th anniversary.
The next day we saw Shrek IV in 3D. (both good movies, IMAO.)
I loved the Tony Stark giving testimony to Congress scene.
I thought, “Oh, if only…!”
Sure.
Seriously, I finally got around to seeing that last Friday. Reminded me of a particular gag in Gallagher monologue: Some guys have no patience. They start out making a quiche (slow mixing motion), but after a while say, “Screw it. I’m making an omelette” (fast mixing motion).
My point? I liked the first half hour of that Star Trek movie. The filmmakers did a good, careful job building a new plot that worked with the previously established plots. Too bad they lost their patience and decided to make an omelette instead.
Feh. Everyone knows unobtanium is the power source for a lorem ipsum reactor.
Glad to hear I wasn’t the last person to see Avatar as I saw it last weekend. But not that glad, I thought it stunk, and the graphics were almost on par with the original game Myst, but not quite.
Also, I don’t know why they used unobtanium, that’s a substance that is actually refined out of balonium, an element which is freely available everywhere in massive quantities. The refining process doesn’t take a whole lot of effort, either, as all the rest of the ingredients are easily harvested from the bozone layer of the atmosphere, and all you have to do is stir everything together for a minute or so.
Isn’t ‘unobtanium’ the stuff they made the drill-ship out of in the movie ‘The Core’?