Mr. Burris Goes to Washington
by lonnae o’neal parker capitol hill may still ring for with argumentation surrounding roland w. burris’s senate post, but burris said today that he considers the aggregate settled but the formalities. “the appointment is permitted. i am the subordinate senator from the state of illinois,” burris said as he prepared to pilgrimages monday to washington for a full day of meetings. (with whom? he declined to symbolize.) “the next step in the method is to be sworn in” on tuesday. burris, who calls himself a confederate and burly supporter of president-elect barack obama said he has not talked to obama or anyone from his office since he was chosen by embattled illinois gov. rod blagojevich to fill obama’s vacated senate seat. “the president-choose or anyone else hasn’t been able to indicate that the governor has done anything other than legal. he’s carried out his constitutional and statutory duties to take over the [senate]
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Jon Swift Nominated for a 2008 Weblog Award for Best Humor Blog
the nominations over the extent of the 2008 weblog awards possess just been released, and i am proud and humble to originate that this modest blog is mid the nominees this year for best humor blog. this is the third year in a row that this blog has been nominated in this section, and congenial three-time grammy album of the year nominee kanye west, i feel it’s honest an honor to be nominated whether i attain or not. while a third passing in a row would be humiliating and personally spellbinding, it’s markedly gratifying to be nominated in a type that includes such fine nominees as i am tyrannical, the bloggess, yesbutnobutyes, imao, mattress police, mother may i sleep with treacher, the comics curmudgeon, my mom is a fob, boobs, injuries and dr pepper. admit me advance my congratulations to all of you. your year will come some day, i’m reliable.this nomination is exceptionally surprising because i left a implication with gov. rod blagojevich that while i know a weblog award is an “f—ing valuable thing,” i could not promise to do anything in exchange for a nomination. i can’t vouch for the other nominees, but i’m sure they did the favourable thing as accurately and i would hate to ponder their nominations are tainted by their silence.this is a time of crisis for humor blogs. the next four years promise to be the unfunniest in our nation’s history. i am sure some people may be thinking that as a three-time nominee, this blog has too much sagacity, and it would be too risky to communicate set the weblog award in the hands of a blog knows what it is doing when america is clamoring for a additional young impudence. but while this blog has been far since way secretly when barack obama was just a freshman senator from illinois, what this blog is really about is novelty. not the scary kind of change, but reasonable change. the accommodating of modification where the more things change, the more they stay the same, which is the kind of change you can believe in. so i hope you order keep that in mind when voting begins on monday, january 5 in what is probably the most important weblog awards of our lifetimes. you can vote here once a day until january 12.while much of the nation’s focus will understandably be on the competition for best humor blog, there are also other categories, and i want to felicitate those nominees as well. i am outstandingly pleased to note the nominees that are on my esteemed blogroll and i hope you will consider giving them your vote. here are my endorsements in the other categories, which you can print out and take into the voting booth with you. many of them contributed to my compilation of the best posts of the year. i impetus you to go them all. if i’ve left-wing off anyone on my blogroll who is nominated, please induct me be aware. and if you are wondering how on earth this blog got nominated, “the best download horror of jon swift” comedy movies may, or may not, give you a clue. update: the links farther down than now go to the piece each blogger nominated as his or her overwhelm of the year for my roundup, if they submitted one, so that you can see the bloggers at their best.best individual bloggerfield negro
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