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The Note: Hard Counts: There’s a big ‘I’ in ‘Win’ as Reid shops for votes
Vodkapundit: Next Week: Arnold Issues Everyone in CA a Decoder Ring
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RT @poetrynews Schwarzenegger’s acrostic uses strong language. http://ow.ly/Dpul #poetry 10 days ago |
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Political bickering and petty name-calling taken to cryptic new heights: http://bit.ly/kq0eI Tsk, tsk Arnie! 25 days ago |
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seriously Arnie, an acrostic? http://tinyurl.com/ykc69pr 27 days ago |
Hard Counts: There’s a big ‘I’ in ‘Win’ as Reid shops for votes
The Note —
... "A straight reading of the guv's letter laments ‘the fact that major issues are overlooked while many unnecessary bills come to me for consideration,' and concludes, ‘I believe it is unnecessary to sign this measure at this time,' " Phillip Matier and Andrew Ross write for the San Francisco Chronicle. "But a vertical read of the far-left-hand letters in each of the missive's eight lines offers a more blunt explanation: ‘I f--- you.' " ...
Next Week: Arnold Issues Everyone in CA a Decoder Ring
Vodkapundit —
There didn’t seem to be any left, but here’s one last reason to have some small amount of like left for The Governator:
Did Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s office use a coded veto message to send the f-bomb to Tom Ammiano, soon after the San Francisco assemblyman made news by telling the governor to “kiss my gay ass”?
Schwarzenegger’s people say no. But the X-rated evidence is hard to miss in a message that Schwarzenegger sent to explain why he was vetoing an Ammiano bill dealing with financing for the Port of San ...
Schwarzenegger's raw veto message
Jeff Mapes on Politics —
... : "My goodness. What a coincidence," said Schwarzenegger spokesman Aaron McLear. "I suppose when you do so many vetoes, something like this is bound to happen." But consider this. The bill that Schwarzenegger vetoed was a routine bill giving San Francisco expanded financing power for a port redevelopment project. The sponsor, Democratic Assemblyman Tom Ammiano, recently called the governor a liar in public and suggested that Schwarzenegger could "kiss my gay ass."
Reason Morning Links: Congressional Scandals, a Deal in Honduras, and Arnold's Acrostics
Hit & Run —
... legislature
will decide whether ousted president Manuel Zelaya can return
to office.
• Disgraced basketball ref
accuses practically the entire NBA of corruption; the NBA
threatens a lawsuit.
• The United Steel Workers looks into starting its own
manufacturing cooperatives.
• Questions you probably never asked yourself: What if J. Edgar
Hoover
were French?
• Not just a veto, but an
F.U. ...
The Chance Of Schwarzenegger’s ‘F*ck You’ Acrostic Being Random: One In A Trillion
Wonk Room —
... ” — the first letters in each line of the two paragraphs spelled out “Fuck You,” with that capitalization. The governor’s press secretary claimed it was just a “weird coincidence“: ...
