Bobby Jindal? Who he?

Andrew Sullivan:

Obama’s approval ratings jump to 67 percent. But the more ominous development for the GOP: Republican approval went from 27 to 42 percent in a week.

Maybe they like him because he’s not all that good?

Ben Smith, of Politico:

For scoops and analysis, it’s a war of all-against-all.

Jossip

Obama said the troops would be home in 16 months… ish:

Q. Following that up, what is your schedule for withdrawing forces from Iraq? How fast would these withdrawals be carried out? What time frame?

A. [W]e believe that you can get one to two brigades out a month. At that pace, the forces would be out in approximately 16 months from the time that we began.

Now:

Amid complaints from has own party that he’s moving too slowly to end the war in Iraq, President Barack Obama will announce Friday that U.S. combat troops will be withdrawn by Aug. 31, 2010, but that as many as 50,000 Marines and soldiers would remain until the end of 2011.

Still, closer to 16 months than ten years, say…

Obamsa’s Gitmo is worse place to be:

Abuse of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay has worsened sharply since President Barack Obama took office as prison guards “get their kicks in” before the camp is closed, according to a lawyer who represents detainees.

Abuses began to pick up in December after Obama was elected, human rights lawyer Ahmed Ghappour told Reuters. He cited beatings, the dislocation of limbs, spraying of pepper spray into closed cells, applying pepper spray to toilet paper and over-forcefeeding detainees who are on hunger strike.

You’re it…

Admit It Day

“It’s all about hookers. Black is great to show off cut and definition, but beneath all that I have always had a fascination with hookers” - Designer Jasper Conran explains his latest collection.

Get the look.

Images on the web and their use. Tory Bear spots Derek Draper…

It’s more than a nail gun, it’s a DIY defence unit:

New Nail Gun by Dewalt

It can drive a 16-D nail through a 2 X 4 at 200 yards. This makes construction a breeze. You can sit in your lawn chair and build a fence. Just get the wife and kids to hold the fence boards in place while you sit back, relax with a cold beer, and when they have the board in the right place, just fire away. With the hundred round magazine, you can build the fence with a minimum of reloading.

After a day of fence building with the new Dewalt Rapid fire nail gun, most
wives will not ask you to fix or build anything else for a very long time.

Spotter: Dizzy

Cheryl Felicia Rhoads on living as aBush non-hater in LA…

John Prescott on Sir Fred:

Prescott was on the Today show this morning complaining about Fred the Shred’s pension “rewards for failure”. How ironic that this is in fact an area of particular expertise for Prezza.

Order Order

In Scotland a rape victim is jailed: In the Anorak Forums:

One could presume from reading what Chenier wrote and then listening to the news report that women are looked upon as mere second class citizens in Scotland. Quite disturbing. Yet the UK goes out of its way to make certain a terrorist’s rights are not violated, in the country that is, and they are given a lawyer.

Here.

A sex toy for dogs? What kind of toy.

Chew it?

What happened to a simple tummy rub and ball?

From Walmart.

A reader writes on Jade Goody:

Even though all of this can be said to be a public stunt, adoration goes out to her because it is the sad indictment of our society that is falling for it.

It’s society… Isn’t everything?