Sneak peek at the opening credits for a future Obama-style “Friends” espisode
While past episodes of Friends have made many of us laugh, the one below would have us throwing things at the TV (via Van Helsing):
The fun never stops :)
I came home this evening after a busy afternoon at the 8-5, started catching up on the news shortly thereafter, and haven’t been able to stop laughing since. Why? Well, it all centers around the story about the agreement reached today between Democrats and Republicans in the House on the FISA bill, which has been stalled for quite some time now thanks to numerous disagreements, among them immunity to telecoms:
Obama’s position on public financing: Just words
Jake Tapper reports on Obama’s broken promise on public financing for the general election:
Remember those Iraqi benchmarks?
You know, the 18 benchmarks Democrats used to consistently hound Bush about? You don’t hear about them so much anymore. Commentary Magazine’s assistant online editor Abe Greenwald explains a bit about the benchmarks, and why Democrats aren’t using them as a hammer as much as they used to (h/t: Betsy Newmark):
Breaking: WH to announce federal aid for auto industry
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GM & Chrysler will get, with stipulations, another opportunity to get it right, while the American taxpayer gets saddled with the bill.
Heartwarming and heartbreaking
Heartwarming: The Associated Press reports on the wonderful news of a Chinese woman who had been trapped for 50 hours in earthquake rubble last month just gave birth this week to a bouncing healthy baby girl. It wasn’t a premature baby, either – in fact, the mom was 8 months pregnant when she was trapped underneath that rubble. It’s a miracle the baby was born with no health issues. By the way, I won’t quote from the AP story directly, considering I don’t know how much they’d charge me for it.