Eugene Robinson
Dana Millbank
"They told me not so say the F word or the N word... I'm offended they even told me that," - Wanda Sykes
"In California, Arnold Schwarzenegger is calling for the legalization of marijuana. Yes. He is calling his program 'Weed the People.'" --Jay Leno
I was disappointed that Rush Limbaugh didn't get into a pissing contest with Wanda Sykes. He left her alone... for now. He'll eventually come backatcha when no-one's looking. Instead, he took the easy potshot at Colin Powell, who's even worse at telling any kind of joke and stroked on Dick Cheney...
Here are three reactions to Wanda's jokes from the readers of the Christian Science Monitor: "If there were nothing objectionable, would it be worthwhile? All of it has to stretch the envelope.
Consider this: Limbaugh and his ditto heads are always accusing everyone who disagrees with torture as being un-American.
That begat the comparison with Osama whose is on dialysis which begat the kidney comment." - Hank Browne
"His drug abuse issue may have been a low blow, but he’s a hater by anyone’s account, so few people are worried about his feelings being hurt." - draco
"Wanda Sykes did not in any way exaggerate the utterances of Limbaugh and her reactions were appropos. His “wishes” were frankly treasonable and in many countries he would have been carted off to jail. He wished us harm and ill fortune, and by “us” I mean all Americans, even Republicans. That she wishes his kidneys would fail is certainly softer than my sentiments. I’d like to see him (along with a bunch of bankers, health insurance execs, pharmaceutical company execs, wall street fat cats, and the execs of Walmart) decorating lamp poles." - Dick Hudson
The Washington Times has decided to call Pakistan: "Pakistan, today, is Obama's War, in the way Iraq was Bush's War. Although there are no U.S. troops on Pakistani soil, America has implacable enemies there, much as it has implacable enemies in Iraq and in Afghanistan. And although these Pakistani enemies of America - the Pakistani Taliban - are not engaged in direct combat with U.S. troops, there can be no doubt that their war against the fragile Pakistani state is, in fact, a war against America. For the Pakistani Taliban view the Pakistani government as an execrable puppet in the service of Washington." What bothers me, is if al-Qaeda is such a threat to Islamic countries, how come there aren't any soldiers or trainers from other Islamic nations helping Pakistan out? We know that there are Saudis and Yemenis in Pakistan who are al-Qaeda operatives. Why aren't there any Saudi or Egyptian clerics roaming around trying to counter the conservative interpretations of Islam that they helped create in the first place? It's too easy letting the US be the Saudi's scapegoat, do all of the bluster, fighting, and stumbling around in the Middle East, then call us the Great Satan for not understanding their corrupt, bankrupt perversions of a religion and society...
Beginning next Monday, Russia and the US will begin meeting over replacing the strategic arms reduction treaty,and it looks like Russia is taking the first step. UPI reports: "Russia says it is waiting for the United States to make a proposal to reduce both countries' stored nuclear warheads.
So far, the Obama administration has not indicated it wants to include those devices on its agenda for upcoming strategic arms reductions talks. But Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Tuesday in Moscow he's awaiting a proposal from Washington on the topic.
"As to stored nuclear warheads, it is important to understand how they will be counted (toward new arms limits)," he said. "We are waiting for U.S. proposals in order to analyze them in line with the principle of equally assured security."
Lavrov told reporters Russia isn't saying "no" on whether to count stored warheads, but added, "We are convinced that the new treaty must cover all (nuclear) warheads and all delivery vehicles."
Officials have set the first round of talks to replace the expiring START 1 treaty for next Monday in Moscow, with hopes of having a treaty ready for the signatures of Presidents Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev by July."
Late night jokes:
"Louis Caldera, the White House aide who authorized the controversial photograph of Air Force One over lower Manhattan, resigned on Friday. May I suggest that they replace him with Photoshop?" --Seth Meyers
"Don't start with me, survivors of swine flu. Boy, last week, it was the pandemic that was going to wipe out the human race. This week, a great way to lose a little weight for bikini season. So, good news for you California housewives. You can go back to screwing your gardener." --Bill Maher
"What a panicky nation this is. In one week, we went from the hell pox to, now, the Center for Disease Control is having to warn people not to have swine flu parties. I swear to God, people were having swine flu parties, where they would infect each other on purpose, to build up the immunity." --Bill Maher
"I am starting to really worry about the Republican Party. I mean, last week they lost Arlen Specter. You know who they lost this week? Joe the plumber. Joe the plumber is quitting the Republican Party. This is like the Grateful Dead losing stoners." --Bill Maher
"Joe the plumber said at first he was flattered the Republicans were asking him for advice, and then one day, he remembered, he's a moron." --Bill Maher
"Dick Cheney was on the news this week, and he said that it would be a mistake for the Republicans to moderate their policies. He said they should remain true to their core principles: gay bashing, war profiteering and torture." --Bill Maher
"It looks like a catfight is breaking out among the Republican Party's younger members, both of them, because Bristol Palin is on an abstinence tour, promoting abstinence. What a good person to do that. And she says abstinence is the only thing that works." --Bill Maher
"You did hear about John Edwards, didn't you? Yes, Elizabeth Edwards was on 'Oprah' this week to let the world know the pain of being married to that lying, cheating son-of-a-bitch, John Edwards. She said for years, she believed his vision of two Americas, until she found out he was getting laid in one of them." --Bill Maher
"She told Oprah, he's a really good man who did a very bad thing. But if you take that one thing out of it, we had a perfect marriage. It sounds to me like she's trying to get America to forgive John, because Lord knows she ain't!" --Bill Maher
"Elizabeth Edwards attacked her husband's mistress. Somehow, John Edwards convinced his wife it was the mistress' fault, and she seduced him. Guys, let me tell you something: don't try this with your wife, okay? John Edwards is a politician and a trial lawyer. That means he is a professional liar. He knows how to do this. You cannot get away with this. It will not work for you." --Jay Leno
"John Edwards said yesterday he feels that he and his wife are getting to a better place. Yeah. Actually, she is getting to a better place. He is looking for a smaller place. Two-bedroom, furnished, off-street parking, nothing fancy." --Jay Leno
"This week at the White House, during the Cinco de Mayo celebration, President Obama honored the Mexican people by speaking Spanish. And then Vice President Joe Biden honored the Mexican people by not speaking at all." --Jay Leno
"A lot of controversy yesterday for National Prayer Day. It seems that President Obama is the first president in recent years not to have a prayer service at the White House. But, you know, I understand that. Between Jesse Jackson and Jeremiah Wright, he hasn't had the best of luck with ministers." --Jay Leno
Here are three reactions to Wanda's jokes from the readers of the Christian Science Monitor: "If there were nothing objectionable, would it be worthwhile? All of it has to stretch the envelope.
Consider this: Limbaugh and his ditto heads are always accusing everyone who disagrees with torture as being un-American.
That begat the comparison with Osama whose is on dialysis which begat the kidney comment." - Hank Browne
"His drug abuse issue may have been a low blow, but he’s a hater by anyone’s account, so few people are worried about his feelings being hurt." - draco
"Wanda Sykes did not in any way exaggerate the utterances of Limbaugh and her reactions were appropos. His “wishes” were frankly treasonable and in many countries he would have been carted off to jail. He wished us harm and ill fortune, and by “us” I mean all Americans, even Republicans. That she wishes his kidneys would fail is certainly softer than my sentiments. I’d like to see him (along with a bunch of bankers, health insurance execs, pharmaceutical company execs, wall street fat cats, and the execs of Walmart) decorating lamp poles." - Dick Hudson
The Washington Times has decided to call Pakistan: "Pakistan, today, is Obama's War, in the way Iraq was Bush's War. Although there are no U.S. troops on Pakistani soil, America has implacable enemies there, much as it has implacable enemies in Iraq and in Afghanistan. And although these Pakistani enemies of America - the Pakistani Taliban - are not engaged in direct combat with U.S. troops, there can be no doubt that their war against the fragile Pakistani state is, in fact, a war against America. For the Pakistani Taliban view the Pakistani government as an execrable puppet in the service of Washington." What bothers me, is if al-Qaeda is such a threat to Islamic countries, how come there aren't any soldiers or trainers from other Islamic nations helping Pakistan out? We know that there are Saudis and Yemenis in Pakistan who are al-Qaeda operatives. Why aren't there any Saudi or Egyptian clerics roaming around trying to counter the conservative interpretations of Islam that they helped create in the first place? It's too easy letting the US be the Saudi's scapegoat, do all of the bluster, fighting, and stumbling around in the Middle East, then call us the Great Satan for not understanding their corrupt, bankrupt perversions of a religion and society...
Then again, there are the Pashtuns... As CQ Politics reminds me: "To American eyes the struggle raging in Pakistan with the Taliban is about religious fanaticism," the eminent southwest Asia scholar Selig Harrison wrote in Monday's Washington Post.
"But in Pakistan it is about an explosive fusion of Islamist zeal and simmering ethnic tensions that have been exacerbated by U.S. pressures for military action against the Taliban and its al-Qaeda allies. Understanding the ethnic dimension of the conflict is the key to a successful strategy for separating the Taliban from al-Qaeda and stabilizing multiethnic Pakistan politically," Harrison wrote.
"The Pakistani army is composed mostly of Punjabis. The Taliban is entirely Pashtun," Harrison noted. "For centuries, Pashtuns living in the mountainous borderlands of Pakistan and Afghanistan have fought to keep out invading Punjabi plainsmen."
Harrison argued that "sending Punjabi soldiers into Pashtun territory to fight jihadists pushes the country ever closer to an ethnically defined civil war, strengthening Pashtun sentiment for an independent "Pashtunistan" that would embrace 41 million people in big chunks of Pakistan and Afghanistan."
Beginning next Monday, Russia and the US will begin meeting over replacing the strategic arms reduction treaty,and it looks like Russia is taking the first step. UPI reports: "Russia says it is waiting for the United States to make a proposal to reduce both countries' stored nuclear warheads.
So far, the Obama administration has not indicated it wants to include those devices on its agenda for upcoming strategic arms reductions talks. But Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Tuesday in Moscow he's awaiting a proposal from Washington on the topic.
"As to stored nuclear warheads, it is important to understand how they will be counted (toward new arms limits)," he said. "We are waiting for U.S. proposals in order to analyze them in line with the principle of equally assured security."
Lavrov told reporters Russia isn't saying "no" on whether to count stored warheads, but added, "We are convinced that the new treaty must cover all (nuclear) warheads and all delivery vehicles."
Officials have set the first round of talks to replace the expiring START 1 treaty for next Monday in Moscow, with hopes of having a treaty ready for the signatures of Presidents Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev by July."
Late night jokes:
"Louis Caldera, the White House aide who authorized the controversial photograph of Air Force One over lower Manhattan, resigned on Friday. May I suggest that they replace him with Photoshop?" --Seth Meyers
"Don't start with me, survivors of swine flu. Boy, last week, it was the pandemic that was going to wipe out the human race. This week, a great way to lose a little weight for bikini season. So, good news for you California housewives. You can go back to screwing your gardener." --Bill Maher
"What a panicky nation this is. In one week, we went from the hell pox to, now, the Center for Disease Control is having to warn people not to have swine flu parties. I swear to God, people were having swine flu parties, where they would infect each other on purpose, to build up the immunity." --Bill Maher
"I am starting to really worry about the Republican Party. I mean, last week they lost Arlen Specter. You know who they lost this week? Joe the plumber. Joe the plumber is quitting the Republican Party. This is like the Grateful Dead losing stoners." --Bill Maher
"Joe the plumber said at first he was flattered the Republicans were asking him for advice, and then one day, he remembered, he's a moron." --Bill Maher
"Dick Cheney was on the news this week, and he said that it would be a mistake for the Republicans to moderate their policies. He said they should remain true to their core principles: gay bashing, war profiteering and torture." --Bill Maher
"It looks like a catfight is breaking out among the Republican Party's younger members, both of them, because Bristol Palin is on an abstinence tour, promoting abstinence. What a good person to do that. And she says abstinence is the only thing that works." --Bill Maher
"You did hear about John Edwards, didn't you? Yes, Elizabeth Edwards was on 'Oprah' this week to let the world know the pain of being married to that lying, cheating son-of-a-bitch, John Edwards. She said for years, she believed his vision of two Americas, until she found out he was getting laid in one of them." --Bill Maher
"She told Oprah, he's a really good man who did a very bad thing. But if you take that one thing out of it, we had a perfect marriage. It sounds to me like she's trying to get America to forgive John, because Lord knows she ain't!" --Bill Maher
"Elizabeth Edwards attacked her husband's mistress. Somehow, John Edwards convinced his wife it was the mistress' fault, and she seduced him. Guys, let me tell you something: don't try this with your wife, okay? John Edwards is a politician and a trial lawyer. That means he is a professional liar. He knows how to do this. You cannot get away with this. It will not work for you." --Jay Leno
"John Edwards said yesterday he feels that he and his wife are getting to a better place. Yeah. Actually, she is getting to a better place. He is looking for a smaller place. Two-bedroom, furnished, off-street parking, nothing fancy." --Jay Leno
"This week at the White House, during the Cinco de Mayo celebration, President Obama honored the Mexican people by speaking Spanish. And then Vice President Joe Biden honored the Mexican people by not speaking at all." --Jay Leno
"A lot of controversy yesterday for National Prayer Day. It seems that President Obama is the first president in recent years not to have a prayer service at the White House. But, you know, I understand that. Between Jesse Jackson and Jeremiah Wright, he hasn't had the best of luck with ministers." --Jay Leno
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