- A federal appeals court reviewed the government’s evidence against a Guantanamo detainee held for six years and found it so laughable that they compared it to a Lewis Carroll poem. [New York Times]
- The Zimbabwean delegation at the African Union summit are adamant that Mugabe will remain president, no matter what conversations go on behind closed doors. [Washington Post]
- White House spokesperson Joe Lieberman said a terrorist would probably attack next year, and the White House said “Yup.” [The Hill]
- Barack Obama explains, for the millionth time, that he is running for president because he likes America. [Washington Post]
- The National Rifle Association will spend $40 million this fall telling Americans that Barack Obama wants to take away their God-given Uzis. [Politico]
- Wounded Iraqi vets endure conditions and treatment that make Walter Reed look like paradise. [New York Times]
True Patriots Quote ‘The Jabberwocky’
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And like the last one, they’ll do nothing to stop it.
Given that NRA types never cite the “well regulated militia” portion of the Second Amendment; and further given that “arms” doesn’t specify merely handguns or long rifles; I hereby intend to test the constitutionality of the Second Amendment by clinging to a suitcase nuke.
If fully auto weapons are OK, why not my Howitzer and my Bradley and my Sherman and my own personal ICBM? Where is the language in the Second Amendment specifically forbidding that?
Did anybody watch Obama’s speech yesterday? I missed it on account of growing ever more disenchanted with His Sexiness.
Jesus, this just makes me want to watch “The Secret Life of the American Teenager” on ABC Family tonight. And join the Promise Keepers. And become a fundamentalist Christian. Because life’s so much easier when it’s YES or NO.
My god — I never realized what a valuable resource Lewis Carroll would prove to be for those fighting the war on terror. I thank you, Lewis Carroll, and America thanks you, Lewis Carroll!
In re: Lewis Carroll – I bet the detainee in question is laughing uncontrollably at such rapier wit.
[re=27427]Canuckledragger[/re]: Now, now. It’s okay to ban SOME kinds of armaments, but not others. It is a deeply complex issue that requires decades of study and an ability to ignore one’s own hypocrisy.
“True Patriots Quote ‘The Jabberwocky’”
No, no, no, silly Wonk-editrix. The Lewis Carroll poem cited was “The Hunting of the Snark.”
Apparently these three judges were some kinda dipshits, though. A quick Google would reveal that Wonkette is the proud home of the snark, so there’s not much “hunting” involved.
Wait…. Ooooh…. in light of the recent DC handgun decision by the Supremes, I think the allusion to ‘snark-hunting’ might just be a covert warning to us all.
Break out the kevlar, boy-o’s. Open season on snark.
Honestly, I’ve never gotten the idea that Obama is a sex symbol. To me, he looks like the guy who was probably very excited to get to run the A.V. equipment in class during high school. I guess, though, in comparison to his political colleagues, he IS a hottie.
Okay, I’m annoyed that comments are closed on the weirdo HBO thing, so I’m commenting here. (If you’re going to run ads as posts, you could at least let us snark them.)
That being said:
SCHAPELLE CORBY!?!?!?!?!
Oh my fuck. My students did nothing but crap on about this woman all goddamn semester. She took an entire boogie bag (or ‘boggie bag’ as one of my students articulately wrote) full of weed to Bali.
No Movie. Do Not Want.
Compaired to John McCain, I’m a hottie!!
This got my curiosity all arouuuuussed and such, ’bout the many daffy-nitions of “snark.” I wonder how “snark” moved from an “ambitious fictional monster with very little sense of humor” In Carroll’s poem to “a high form of intelligent, witty satire exemplified by the articles and comments on the popular and scurrilously political blog, Wonkette.”
Anyway Wiki also reports that in-between there was this missile thang:
The Northrop SM-62 Snark was a specialized intercontinental cruise missile with a nuclear warhead briefly operated by the US Strategic Air Command from 1958 until 1961. It takes its name from Lewis Carroll’s snark,[1] a very ambitious fictional monster with very little sense of humor…. In March 1961, President Kennedy declared the Snark “obsolete and of marginal military value” and on 25 June 1961 the 702nd was deactivated.
[re=27435]Canuckledragger[/re]: Yes, which is why those federal appeals court people are Traitors. If they’d had balls, they’d have quoted a poem that made no sense at all.
Hey everybody! SKS finally noticed me.
**fap fap fap fap**
And on Canada Day, too.
Happy Canada City Day to all.
It is a time we toque (winter hat to you US Americans) wearing hosers of the Great Not-So-White-Anymore North celebrate beer, beavers and sometimes hockey (if you’re NOT a Leafs fan.) Huzzah.
When will the Supremes notice that the Mad Hatter is the US Perznit?
[re=27431]TGY[/re]: +1 for use of the phrase “rapier wit”
[re=27443]Darehead[/re]: Me thinks we are all the butt of a joke. The right wing idealogues are all laughing away “they think they are funny, but they are really just proud of being humorless monsters.”
Schapelle Corby took EIGHT POUNDS of weed to Bali. Yes, I clicked through and read the background. She says that corrupt Australian airport officials set her up.
Let me apply Occam’s razor to that one. One option: a conspiracy of airport officials against a young woman, motives for dropping 8 lbs of pot in her bag are unclear. Other option: Young woman goes on a surfing vacation with friends, takes a lot of pot with her.
Hmmm, which one is the more believable option?
I think I do love that Politico article, though. Its subjects go from bitching about Obama’s “bitter” comments, and how they’re not true at all, immediately to…clinging to their guns. And they seem so unaware that they’re doing it.
FTFA: “This case displays the inadequacies of having civilian courts inject themselves into military decision-making,” said Glenn M. Sulmasy, a law professor at the Coast Guard Academy and a national security fellow at Harvard.
So now the Coast Guard is a military expert?
Aren’t they part of the Treasury Department?
Your Washington Post link goes to a NYT story.
[re=27469]SedatedGodzilla[/re]: It’s a media conspiracy!
[re=27448]Canuckledragger[/re]: Oh SKS noticed you before. It that she just doesn’t talk to the Canadian boys because she thinks they all suffer from cold weather shrinkage.
[re=27444]Sara K. Smith[/re]: I presume your comment means that these federal judges were convicted in Louisiana of at least two offenses which qualified as “crimes against nature”.
The NRA has cornered the market on paranoia.
[re=27468]AzDownboy[/re]: Not any more. They’re part of the Heimland Securitat now.
There are LOTS of Lewis Carroll quotes that apply to Bushco.
Compassionate Conservatism:
“It seems a shame,” the Walrus said. “To play them such a trick.
After we’ve brought them out so far, and made them trot so quick.”
The Carpenter said nothing but, “The butter’s spread too thick.”
“I weep for you,” the Walrus said; “I deeply sympathize.”
With sobs and tears he sorted out those of the largest size.
Holding a pocket handkerchief before his streaming eyes.
Justification for the Iraq invasion:
Alice laughed. “There’s no use trying,” she said: “one can’t believe impossible things.”
“I daresay you haven’t had much practice,” said the Queen. “When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
Hunting Osama bin Laden:
They sought it with thimbles, they sought it with care;
They pursued it with forks and hope;
They threatened its life with a railway-share;
They charmed it with smiles and soap.
[re=27468]AzDownboy[/re]: Not any more. They’re part of the Heimland Securitat now.
There are LOTS of Lewis Carroll quotes that apply to Bushco.
Compassionate Conservatism:
“It seems a shame,” the Walrus said. “To play them such a trick.
After we’ve brought them out so far, and made them trot so quick.”
The Carpenter said nothing but, “The butter’s spread too thick.”
“I weep for you,” the Walrus said; “I deeply sympathize.”
With sobs and tears he sorted out those of the largest size.
Holding a pocket handkerchief before his streaming eyes.
Justification for the Iraq invasion:
Alice laughed. “There’s no use trying,” she said: “one can’t believe impossible things.”
“I daresay you haven’t had much practice,” said the Queen. “When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
Hunting al Qaeda:
They sought it with thimbles, they sought it with care;
They pursued it with forks and hope;
They threatened its life with a railway-share;
They charmed it with smiles and soap.
That Hill article makes it sound like Dana was so hot for another attack that she was pleasuring herself up on the podium.
God, i fucking HATE joe lieberman with the fire of a thousand suns
Maybe the courts should start asking where the next generation of Maverick middle eastern politicians are going to come from if they keep ruling against the government in every case involving the Guantanamo Bay Presidential Training Academy.
[re=27526]Deepthroat[/re]: When it comes to the W. admin, he’s a True Belieberman.
Somebody should point out that there just might not be a terrorist attack next year because whoever will be President might actually read memos about said terrorist attack.
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