Filed under: Drugs!, In the News, Politics, Uncategorized | Tags: cocaine, crack, crack cocaine, crack is whack, lay of that whiskey and let that cocaine be, richard durbin, senate bills
Majority Whip Richard J. Durbin finally caught onto all the crack jokes and introduced a bill that will once and for all settle the differences between crack and cocaine, the Washington Post reports:
Under current law, it takes 100 times as much powdered cocaine as crack to trigger the same mandatory minimum sentence…
…Durbin’s bill would also increase the quantity of crack cocaine required to trigger a mandatory prison term, as well as stiffen penalties for large-scale drug traffickers and violent criminals.
Essentially they’re loosening the reins on crack due to the number of people incarcerated for drugs and increasing punishment for coke dealers because Durbin got a whack ass bag last week.
Filed under: In the News, Politics, Weird | Tags: australia, black face, harry connick jr, hey hey it's saturday, racist australians
A reunion episode of popular Aussie variety show Hey Hey It’s Saturday featured an act dressed entirely in black face that called themselves “The Jackson Jive.” Bet they didn’t that one was going to piss anyone off.
Actually, no one was pissed off except for singer and guest judge on the show Harry Connick Jr., who gave The Jackson Jive a ‘0′ and told them that if they “turned up lookin’ like that in the United States… it’d be like Hey Hey There’s No More Show.”
Host Daryl Somers was completely oblivious, asking Connick if he could redeem them a little, “just for turning up, maybe a two or a three?” So was the stupid lady sitting next to him, who gave the act a ‘7,’ calling them “cute” with “great choreography.”
The Sydney-based hacks who called themselves a “Tribute to Michael Jackson” were actually a group of medical professionals (including a therapist, I think!). More racist Australian television and Daryl Somer’s half-assed apology to Connick after the jump.
Filed under: In the News, Politics, Recession | Tags: cause, crisis, economic, economy, effect, of, on, unemployment, us, us economic crisis, us economy
“It’s unbelievable. We’re well on our way to the worst recession of the postwar period.“–Nariman Behravesh, chief economist at IHS Global Insight in Lexington, Massachusetts. Bloomberg.
“We have recorded the largest decline in consumer confidence in our history.“–Richard T. Curtin, director of the Reuters/University of Michigan Survey of Consumers, which started its polling in the 1950s. New York Times.
“You can’t get much uglier than this. The economy has just collapsed, and has gone into a free fall” –Richard Yamarone, Argus Research in New York. BBC News.
“There are no quick or easy fixes to this crisis, which has been many years in the making, and it’s likely to get worse before it gets better.“–President-elect Barack Obama.
“Do you know the difference between a recession and a depression?
A recession is when your neighbor loses his job, and a depression is when you lose yours.”–Someone’s elderly neighbor. Radio Free Europe.
“These numbers are shocking.” –Economist Joel Naroff, president of Naroff Economics Advisors. CBS News.
“US jobless figures confirm economic meltdown.“–United Press International headline.
Filed under: In the News, Politics | Tags: cbs, cbs news, good decisions, katie couric, katie couric cbs, presidential debate, terrible news anchors
According to an article in the New York Observer, MSNBC anchor Keith Olbermann remarked during the network’s Super Tuesday coverage that “it sometimes seemed like everyone in the business had already anchored a debate.”
Everyone except for Katie Couric. According to experts, CBS News’s shrinking budget–$15 million of which goes to her salary–can’t handle the overwhelming costs of hosting a debate for their biggest star. CBS President Sean McManus denies that their decision was based on financial reasons, but the Observer reports:
In the past, CBS has not been reluctant to shell out money to maximize on the Katie Couric phenomenon.
“You think about how much they wasted early on in billboards and other crap, wouldn’t it be smarter to invest in substance now?” said one source, with knowledge of CBS’s aborted debate plans. “Either the network is fundamentally dedicated to spending the money, or they’re not. If you’re really dedicated to bumping your news to another level, you host a debate. But there’s either no interest or no follow-through.”
Thank goodness. A Presidential Debate with Katie Couric would be like a televised game of 20 Questions. I could see it now: “What do you think of gay people? Hot or not?”
Check out Felix Gillette’s article in the New York Observer.
Filed under: Politics | Tags: arizona, college campus shootings, gun control, guns, northern illinois, virginia tech
Arizona Senator Karen S. Johnson has THE solution to campus shootings–allowing guns on campus!
According to Sen. Johnson (R, duh) the tragedies at Northern Illinois University and Virginia Tech would have been avoided, had a student or professor intercepted the gunmen with weapons of their own. She’s proposing that adults 21 and over should be allowed to carry guns on campus.
The crazy white lady, who described kindergarteners as “sitting ducks” in classrooms, wanted the original bill to cover the public school system as well, but the other legislators said that probably wouldn’t be a good idea and that it would probably be better if it were only limited to higher education.
However it is Arizona, a far-off land where one can roam free with a gun without a permit as long as it’s visible enough to scare the crap out of civilization.
Check out Randal Archibold’s coverage of the bill in the New York Times.
