NARRATOR
This is the teaching laboratory of Baraku Obamasawa, Japan’s greatest living scientist. A world renowned expert with an advanced degree in social engineering from Hokkaido Law School, by the age of 23 he had already written 2 textbooks on the world’s strangest phenomenon — himself. His is a scientist so advanced that he has already earned a Nobel Prize for work he has yet to begin. Today, he is showing students his latest discovery.
OBAMASAWA
… now note as I apply a blowtorch to this pile of 10 million yen, it is converted to ash — thereby creating jobs for these two janitors from the Nippon Custodian Union.
students applaud wildly
STUDENTS
Domo arigato, sensei! We are very honored to be your students. [giggle] You have given us hope and tingles up our kimonos!
So how to explain the Sestak offer? Either the Obama administration (and President Clinton!) didn’t know the relevant rules, or they didn’t mind lying to Sestak, or they don’t mind lying to us.
Any reason that it can’t be all of the above? No honor among thieves, even incompetent ones.
Some thoughts. Israel will always be in a no-win situation in terms of public opinion, because much of the world will never see a Jewish liberal democracy in the Middle East as legitimate. So they might as well do what they need to to survive, and to hell with what those fascists think.
As Glenn says, I can imagine a lot of campaign commercials coming from this. And a commenter notes the same thing that I thought when I heard what McCartney said. George Bush married a librarian.
Moron. I hadn’t realized before how completely lacking in class he was.
Gordon Young is trying to fund some reporting of one of our premiere post-industrial cities (and my home town). It’s sad to see how far it’s fallen from my childhood days.