“WASHINGTON—On the day of the year that America gives its practically undivided attention to the Irish, President Obama announced that he is naming Daniel Rooney—owner of the Pittsburgh Steelers—to be ambassador to Ireland.
Mr. Rooney, who campaigned for Mr. Obama and presented him with a Steelers jersey during a campaign event, co-founded the American Ireland Fund, an organization to promote peace in Northern Ireland through education programs.
“Dan Rooney is an unwavering supporter of Irish peace, culture and education,” Mr. Obama said in a statement.
And to mark St. Patrick’s Day with an additional splash, White House officials somehow—food coloring?—turned the fountain on the White House lawn green.”
The Times story didn’t mention — maybe because everybody already knows — that the Steelers won the Super Bowl this year.
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Davo
March 17th, 2009
12:02 pm
Obama sucks, Bookmans blog sucks, and the Steelers suck— mere coincidence?
Mrs. O' Godzilla
March 17th, 2009
12:07 pm
A little Dennis Morgan for ye’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIsduCQ7ByE
Bud Wiser
March 17th, 2009
12:13 pm
Happy St Paddys all!
Going fishing for a few days, try to be civil and not kill each other.
Yeah, I’ve been a Steeler fan for 40+ years also, with the wife being from there and all, but we just last week bought our first professional season tickets for the upcoming Falcons season!
Go Birds!!!!
Bosch
March 17th, 2009
12:16 pm
Jay,
Who was that guy downstairs? Cool jig. Makes me wish I was even just a little bit Irish.
Bosch
March 17th, 2009
12:19 pm
Okay, Jay, nevermind – the name of the guy and the name of the song are um, in the box where the video is.
Copyleft
March 17th, 2009
12:23 pm
Davo: And yet, they’re all big winners… coincidence?
Bosch
March 17th, 2009
12:29 pm
Jay,
“And to mark St. Patrick’s Day with an additional splash, White House officials somehow—food coloring?—turned the fountain on the White House lawn green.”
It was magic. Leprechauns and tree druids and irish fairies and all that stuff.
DB, Gwinnettian
March 17th, 2009
12:33 pm
Bosch, for future reference, if that info is not available from a YouTube link at a blog, just double click the YouTube link and it’ll open in a separate tab or window (generally), wherein you can see all the associated info about the artists n’ what-have-yer.
I just now noticed I am wearing no green. Maybe I’ll just carry my coffee mug with me…
O'GodHatesTrash, Superstar
March 17th, 2009
12:34 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EADUQWKoVek
Saluting the Second Greatest Irishman Alive (after Bono), Burack O’bama!
Bosch
March 17th, 2009
12:39 pm
DB,
Yeah, sometimes I’ll admit – I’m a real unobservant dumbass.
I Report/ You Whine
March 17th, 2009
12:41 pm
O’Blahma is on the as-s kissing mission from hell.
Trying to save that plummeting approval rating would be my guess.
Bosch
March 17th, 2009
12:42 pm
O’God Hates Trash,
Come on now, Bono is the best Irishman around – and U2’s new album is pretty good. Edge has still got it going on.
bugger
March 17th, 2009
12:48 pm
Finally, some hard hitting news about Obama. Can you believe that guy. Selling an ambassador position for a football Jersey. I’m sure a Senate inquiry will soon follow.
Can’t wait for more indepth reporting on our President.
Taxpayer
March 17th, 2009
12:50 pm
I think that’s a good way to pay back folks like Mr. Rooney for their support.
Taxpayer
March 17th, 2009
12:52 pm
Obama should make Cheney the Ambassador to the Bikini Atoll.
Disgusted
March 17th, 2009
12:53 pm
“Obama approval rating at 62%”–CBSNews.com 3/17/2009
Yup, I Report/You Whine, that Obama approval rating is certainly plummeting. At the rate it’s nose-diving, you guys ought to be aiming for the 2020 elections. Where did you get your degree–Duke?
Taxpayer
March 17th, 2009
12:54 pm
Obama should direct the CIA to hire Bush as a spy and out him once he’s been successfully planted in North Korea.
Taxpayer
March 17th, 2009
12:59 pm
We should drop a few plane loads of pictures of Rumsfeld’s infamous handshake all over Iraq and send Rumsfeld over to pick them all up. Who knows — maybe there will be a few folks over there anxious to get his autograph. There might even be an ambassadorship in there for him — somewhere.
CommunistAJC
March 17th, 2009
1:11 pm
Disgusted,
um, nice knock on Duke. You’d better have gone to Harvard or Yale. By the way, CBS is about as bias as Huffingtonpost. Their polls are WAY TOO skewed. Where did you get your degree-West Georgia College?
CommunistAJC
March 17th, 2009
1:13 pm
O’GodHatesTrash, Superstar aka Jeffery Dahmer,
Bono is a hack and has Rolling Stones Beatles penis envy. U2 hasn’t put out a great album since the early 90’s. What was that? DISCOTECH? Oh yeah, GREAT BAND. Besides, Obama Hussein is Indonesian, right?
CommunistAJC
March 17th, 2009
1:14 pm
Taxpayer,
you asked me 4 questions on the Cheney blog which I promptly answered. You never gave a rebuttal leaving me to believe you ran skeered! Keep running taxevader.
O' GodHatesTrash, Superstar
March 17th, 2009
1:20 pm
Bosch – this is Bookman’s RightWingnutterbutter Blog – not remedial reading. Reread my above post carefully – I gave Sir Bono his due.
Taxpayer
March 17th, 2009
1:22 pm
Commie,
Do you honestly think that I go out of my way to check up on you. Really! But, since you posted a note to me on the current thread, I might go back and look at what you dumped on the screen. Are you certain that it will be worth my time to do so. After all, us retired folk don’t like to be wasting our precious retirement time — especially on those uneducated types. We do have very high standards.
CommunistAJC
March 17th, 2009
1:25 pm
Taxpayer,
are you really that dumb? Wait, you are sorry. You asked ME four questions and I answered them. You never responded. If you are going to ask someone a series of questions at least have the balls to debate. Uneducated types? Ok, Clayton County high school drop out.
Well well well….
More democrat hypocrisy.
Amid AIG Furor, Dodd Tries to Undo Bonus Protections He Put In.
Senator Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) on Monday night floated the idea of taxing American International Group (AIG: 0.9112, 0.1311, 16.81%) bonus recipients so the government could recoup some or all of the $450 million the company is paying to employees in its financial products unit. Within hours, the idea spread to both houses of Congress, with lawmakers proposing an AIG bonus tax.
The move represents somewhat of an about-face for the Senator.
While the Senate was constructing the $787 billion stimulus last month, Dodd added an executive-compensation restriction to the bill. That amendment provides an “exception for contractually obligated bonuses agreed on before Feb. 11, 2009” — which exempts the very AIG bonuses Dodd and others are now seeking to tax.
The amendment made it into the final version of the bill, and is law.
http://www.foxbusiness.com/story/markets/industries/finance/dodd-cracks-aig—time/
CommunistAJC
March 17th, 2009
1:27 pm
http://www.foxbusiness.com/story/markets/industries/finance/dodd-cracks-aig—time/
G
March 17th, 2009
1:27 pm
I love Bono and I believe he comes across the way he does because of his intellect and humility (despite his assertions to the contrary).
I truly believe he intrinsically understands that the dire needs of the developing world are so much larger and so much more important than the petty dalliances of celebrity. But he will use whatever advantage he has to push his noble and just campaign.
Bono is human, he makes mistakes like we all do…(those looking for perfection on this earth need to change the direction of their gaze upwards), but it is this very humanity that makes his words ring all the truer.
Bono will go down in the history books as one of the great humans of this century. He should be given the Congressional Medal of Honor, Nobel Peace Prize, Knighted, canonized, idolized and adored. He is one of the few that practices what he preaches, and he preaches loudly!
Thank you, Dublin, for giving him a background, thank you, Mr. & Mrs. Hewson, for giving him life. Thank you, U2, for giving him a microphone and a platform from which to sing! “Sing a new song, how long, to sing this song!”
God bless you, Bono.
Goldie
March 17th, 2009
1:27 pm
Happy St. Patty’s Day, Everyone! We need some lucky leprechauns here today, so that our President O’Bama can bring forth some miracles out of the Wall Street debacle! My, now aren’t we all glad that W’s plans to “privatize” Social Security went nowhere fast?
CommunistAJC
March 17th, 2009
1:29 pm
Taxpayer,
there is no way you could have missed what I wrote. One, you posted about 8 more comments after I posted mine. Two, someone hit the “report this comment” button and I assumed it was you.
CommunistAJC
March 17th, 2009
1:30 pm
G,
Bono was and is under investigation for tax evasion. Maybe you should RETHINK your last comment.
Midori
March 17th, 2009
1:31 pm
well, you know what “they” say about assumptions.
Happy St. Paddy’s Day to all.
You guys really had me cracking up on that Cheney thread
CommunistAJC
March 17th, 2009
1:32 pm
It isn’t just Bono’s U2 who are talking through their hat about tax avoidance
All last week, Bono was in court in Dublin arguing about a stetson. It was his trademark hat, as essential a part of the brand that is Bono as his compassion for starving Africans. His former stylist, Lola Cashman, says he gave the hat to her as thanks for her hard work. He looked like Nana Mouskouri before she remodelled him and it is outrageous, she says, for Bono to claim now that she stole it so she could sell it and make money which was rightfully his.
The learned judges of Ireland have a duty to apply their fine minds to the case with due seriousness. What is surprising is that the rest of the world continues to take Bono seriously. I would have thought that after the revelation that U2 moved their music publishing company to the Netherlands to cut their tax bill in half, he wouldn’t have dared stepped out of his mansion for fear of being laughed to scorn.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2006/oct/22/comment.theobserver
mm
March 17th, 2009
1:43 pm
Commie,
Isn’t it refreshing to see a politician admit when they are/were wrong? Tis a shame, lad, that you will never see a Republican do it. Even when they are caught with dirty money in their hands, their pants around their ankles, flying their kids around at taxpayer expense, etc.
G
March 17th, 2009
1:43 pm
I recall Bush’s initiative to privatize Social Security.
It was a major part of the Bush agenda just after he declared himself mandated to spend “political capital” he’d earned via his devastating 50.7% landslide in the 2004 election.
If the initiative hadn’t failed, and Social Security monies were rising and falling with the stock market, I’d imagine that a whole lot of retirees might be eating cat food right about now.
Of course, the plan was never about enlightened management of public funds.
It was a tactic aimed at giving more voters a personal stake in the stock market, hopefully propelling them into a more pro-business, pro-Rushpublicant perspective.
Disgusted
March 17th, 2009
1:51 pm
Dear G,
As the slave of six cats, I can assure you that cat food is far too expensive to be purchased by retirees bereft of their Social Security checks.
Taxpayer
March 17th, 2009
1:51 pm
CommunistAJC March 17th, 2009 1:08 pm Taxpayer, I see you have yet to argue my postings above. I also see that you’ve “reported my comment” as there is an “awaiting moderation” line beside my 10:51 posting.
Commie,
I find your paranoia, from several threads back to be most amusing. As for whatever else you claim to have posted in response to my post, it must be in stealth mode or else it was so boring that I just scrolled right past it.
Keep up the cheap entertainment.
Midori
March 17th, 2009
1:54 pm
Disgusted,
Cool!!! another cat person!!
I just love them!!! I have four myself
CommunistAJC
March 17th, 2009
2:00 pm
Taxpayer, sure thing. And you keep on avoiding answering my comments.
G
March 17th, 2009
2:00 pm
Communist @ 1:30, and a Happy St. Patty’s Day to ya.
Could you please just settle a little unfinished business here?
You will? Oh good, thanks.
Please see below.
The Pill, IUDs, Depo-Provera and Norplant cause abortions.
http://www.prolife.com/BIRTHCNT.html
Have you ever used, or had sex with anyone who used, any of the above?
CommunistAJC
March 17th, 2009
2:01 pm
mm, are you talking about William Jefferson or Nancy Pelosi?
Redneck Convert
March 17th, 2009
2:04 pm
Well, I reckon I went into the wrong business. Fox News is reporting that 73 of the AIG workers got a bonus of a million bucks or more. Heck, I thought I’d made it to the top when I got to be a beer truck driver. It sure beat dry wall work and dealing with a cranky mortar mixer. Maybe if I’d of looked a little harder I could be a AIG big guy and buying a new double-wide and another pickup right now, instead of lugging cases of beer into bars and stores and such. Oh, well. It’s just my tax money.
Taxpayer
March 17th, 2009
2:04 pm
Commie,
How can I make it any clearer, regarding your supposed comments in response to my post, than I did in my last post to you. Do us all a favor and give us a list of vocabulary words that you claim to understand.
getalife
March 17th, 2009
2:15 pm
It’s McCarthy’s ghost you commie.
Just love watching all this fake outrage from both sides on AIG. A great the distraction they are loving too.
The more I read about this disaster, the more it stinks to high heaven.
Bosch
March 17th, 2009
2:15 pm
GHT,
What’s wrong with me today? Must’ve been all the drugs I did back in the 60s. I see that you gave Sir Bono the number one slot. My bad.
Copyleft
March 17th, 2009
2:15 pm
Yes, Dodd was wrong to throw the AIG executives any bones at all, let alone making concessions on their salary-limits by offering to exempt bonuses.
Hopefully we know better than to show corporate CEOs ANY respect or mercy this time around….
CommunistAJC
March 17th, 2009
2:16 pm
Taxpayer,
dude, I’m done with you. You’re IQ is that of a carrot.
Bosch
March 17th, 2009
2:19 pm
G,
Wow, I thought I was the biggest U2 fan alive, but you got me beat at 1:27. Rock on.
G
March 17th, 2009
2:20 pm
Communist, come on now, you can do it.
Answer the itty, bitty question.
Observer
March 17th, 2009
2:21 pm
Taxpayer & Commie – Why don’t you two agree to exchange email addresses through Jay and take your ongoing pissing contest private? Doing so would remove a lot of the clutter from this board.
G
March 17th, 2009
2:21 pm
Bosch @ 2:19, I do love me some U2.
Taxpayer
March 17th, 2009
2:22 pm
That’s my little Commie. Always trying to be colorful with the commentary, orange you.