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Jester’s Court — December 9, 2009

Posted in December 9th, 2009

Russell Wiseman, the Tennessee mayor who claimed that Barack Obama deliberately pre-empted the Peanuts’ Christmas special with his Afghanistan troop announcement, apologized for offending anyone. Wiseman said it was a “poor attempt” at a joke. He has since deleted the Facebook account on which he posted the accusation.
According to the Obama administration’s own figures, the jobs that the stimulus package have created cost $246,436 each.
Some Canadian soldiers fighting in Afghanistan had their pay cut. The error is a continuing computer glitch in the processing of pay and health benefits.
John McCain provided a list of stimulus package projects that he considered wasteful, including $221,000 to Indiana University on why young men do not like condoms.
The warmer it gets, the more enticing and accessible Antarctica’s minerals become to the world’s nations.
An oft-repeated claim that Saddam Hussein could strike the West with WMDs on 45 minutes notice was used as justification to attack Iraq. Now it appears that the information source for the charge came from a taxi driver.
Barack Obama’s approval rating is the lowest ever recorded for a President by Gallup at this stage in a Presidential administration. Obama’s approval is at 47%.
Iran is claiming that a UN seismic observation center a few miles from its border with Turkmenistan is a spy structure meant to check for nuclear detonations.
After spending $310,000 in private donations to remodel the Idaho governor’s mansion, the state is now considering selling it.
About 17% of Massachusetts’ voters turned out in the Senate election to select a replacement for the late Senator Edward Kennedy.
New Jersey Republican Governor-elect Christopher Christie has attended 122 Bruce Springsteen concerts and asked the rocker to perform at his inauguration. Springsteen, a Democrat, deferred by stating that he did not want to get involved in state politics.
Federal prosecutors are revising charges against former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich to avoid any complications in his June trial. Blagojevich said that the revised charges mean that the Feds did not have a case to begin with.
At a book signing for his autobiography, Blagojevich scrawled across a copy of the Constitution “fn golden.” That is his catchphrase for “fuckin’ golden.” As Blagojevich said, “Always remember the rule of law is sacrosanct, nay it is more – it is fn golden.” Most of the 200 people waiting for autographed copies of Blagojevich’s book said they were giving them as gag gifts.
In more Blagojevich news, the office of his defense attorneys was burglarized and computers, files and recordings of his case were stolen.