- Holy crap the CFO of Freddie Mac is dead, apparently of a suicide. [Fox News]
- Great Britain’s top tax rate will rise to 50 percent, if Chancellor Alistair Darling’s budget proposal goes through. [BBC News]
- Police believe the accused “Craigslist Killer” was the world’s most violent fundraiser, robbing and killing women in order to get money to pay off gambling debts at Foxwoods. [ABC News]
- One BILLION people are expected to celebrate Earth Day today, by parading around with puppets or maybe just by taking the bus to work. [CNN]
- The men hastily arrested after a British security official was photographed holding documents related to their case were freed on the grounds of insufficient evidence. [Reuters]
- A “perfect storm of ignorance and enthusiasm” led top Bush administration officials to approve torture tactics without knowing their gruesome historical origins. [New York Times]
Happy Earth Day, Hippies!
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Enthusiasm, yes. Ignorance? Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
To celebrate Earth day I plan to teabag a panda. Good idea/bad idea?
Freeper claiming that Obama had the Freddie Mac dude killed in 3, 2, 1 ….
Waterboarding “was a well-documented favorite of despotic governments since the Spanish Inquisition; one waterboard used under Pol Pot was even on display at the genocide museum in Cambodia.”
A new WIN for America! Now I can hold my head high when I travel overseas.
Instead of robbing and/or killing women, why didn’t Mr “Look at me, I’m a choir boy faced pre med student with huge gambling debts and violence streak” just turn to Male prostitution which is from what I hear is a pretty common service offered on, er, Craigslist? Jeez, kids today.
“Great Britain’s top tax rate will rise to 50 percent, if Chancellor Alistair Darling’s budget proposal goes through.”
Holy fuck it’s socialism! It’s fascism! No, it’s communism! Wait, it’s terrorism! Stupid fucking Teabaggers. Now I have no idea what to call a tax hike.
OT I finally found a mobile browser that doesn’t crap out (i.e. not allow) when I try to comment @ Wonkette. I’m so happy I may piss myself (fellow commenters may not share my joy.) Never heard of boltbrowser before 15 minutes ago. Whoops, time to change my diaper.
“Chancellor Alistair Darling”- Jesus Christ, fucking Brits. In ‘Murica you wouldn’t have made it through 3rd grade with that name. Go ‘Murica!
Good morning! Here’s some Michele Bachmann crazy to start the day.
SPOILER: It’s basically just a sermon she delivered on the House floor.
[re=296031]McDuff[/re]: See the first two comments on this article:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/04/22/freddie-mac-cfo-dead-apparent-suicide/comments/
“Perfect storm” makes it sound like this only happened once in the Bush administration – which makes sense if we’re talking about one of those hurricanes on Jupiter that last for eight years.
Of course, the Craigs List killer’s fiance says there’s no truth to any of this. Did you know that they were planning a romantic vacation to Foxwoods Casino?
[re=296031]McDuff[/re]: Already done “Another dead guy under a Dem administration! Reminds one of the good old days under the Clintons… ” and “I wonder if he had the same help committing “suicide” that Vince Foster had ???” http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/04/22/freddie-mac-cfo-dead-apparent-suicide/comments/
And only took 4 comments to get there!
[re=296036]SmutBoffin[/re]:
It’s pretty obvious she wants Obama to teabag her.
“Great Britain’s top tax rate will rise to 50 percent, if Chancellor Alistair Darling’s budget proposal goes through.”
How incredibly Reaganesque of Mr. Darling.
So what does the CEO of Freddie know that the rest of us don’t know? I predict either:
(a) He was a co-conspirator in the worst financial crime against the American people since tickets to Waterworld went on sale in the summer of 1995.
(b) The full scale of the economic crisis is such that, once it fully plays out, you’re not going to want to be among the survivors. As in a nuke war you’re better off driving to the Whitehouse and standing outside hoping to be instantly incinerated in the first wave of explosions.
A “perfect storm of ignorance and enthusiasm” – defines the ENTIRE Bush administration.
I saw Morrissey at Foxwoods a few weeks ago. His guitarist’s amp blew a fuse, so he couldn’t do an encore. I’m surprised that the serial killing didn’t start there.
Have you ever seen a pissed-off Morrissey fan? It’s truly frightening.
[re=296044]Serolf Divad[/re]:
The survivors will envy the dead, and pass the hobo beans.
There are way too many memos and documents covered up during the Bush era:
http://www.governmentalityblog.com/my_weblog/2009/04/fed-judge-orders-fbi-to-close-bush-era-spy-files.html
[re=296044]Serolf Divad[/re]: I’m hoping for A? Please?
True story: the Bush administration planned to replace “e pluribus unum” as the national motto with “A perfect storm of ignorance and enthusiasm,” on the grounds that nobody can read French.
[re=296035]freakishlystrong[/re]: I’m amazed he made it anywhere looking like this.
I try to post a picture of him every time he gets mentioned on Wonkette. The eyebrows are so… special.
[re=296035]freakishlystrong[/re]: Isn’t that Wendy’s Dad? I thought he was murdered. Never solved, but he was hacked to death in a locked, upper-story room by what police identified as a machete or cutlass of some sort. The only evidence was some sparkly dust and small, dirty footprints on the windowsill.
[re=296044]Serolf Divad[/re]: Ah, he probably was just bankrupt because of gambling debts at Foxwood.
[re=296052]Hello Sunshine[/re]:
Wimpy villain Elliot Carver (Jonathan Price) from the awful Bond movie, Tomorrow Never Dies?
That’s longhair-hippie-commie-pinko-liberal to you SKS! (my dad’s pet name for me btw)
I heard that Kellermann is going to be buried in Vince Foster’s family plot? That seems a little odd…
I call bullshit on that NYTimes quote — the folks Rumsfeld enlisted to run the torture campaign were picked because they knew nothing about what they were doing. Ignorance abetted his political ends, so it wasn’t an accident. He used everyone else’s ignorance and naivete to drive his process.
http://lostintarnation.blogspot.com/2009/04/torture-in-cathedral-how-petty-politics.html
I want to see British protest signs reading “Don’t Tax Me, Darling!”
Mitt Romney would like to hire this fine enterprising young citizen to be his primary fundraiser.
I’m celebrating Earth Day by shooting Mexicans, thus making me eligible to run for Senator of Arizona.
Looks like Obama had Hillary earn her keep and take out the Freddie Mac CEO Vince Foster style.
I JUST WANTED TO BEAT FOX TO IT!!!
[re=296060]SayItWithWookies[/re]: Rumsfeld and Cheney used lawyers the way they chose generals: trusting their judgment when it coincided with their own, and otherwise firing them. Don Rumsfeld probably did more to harm the U.S. military than the Viet Cong and Iraq insurgency combined. Fuck that guy.
[re=296035]freakishlystrong[/re]: We had a gung-ho putz of a lieutenant at Ft. Dix named Darling; we trainees would gather on the stoop when he came to work and loudly proclaim, “Good morning, Lieutenant, Darling!” He never did figure out how to stop us. Apologies to Shel Silverstein and the wonderful “Boy Named Sue,” but the name hadn’t made him a tougher guy. Probably got his butt fragged if they shipped him to Nam.
How many of them hippies have unshaved armpits because that really makes it a lot more exciting to me, even if they are stinkin’ hippies
[re=296071]lawrenceofthedesert[/re]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Darling
[re=296036]SmutBoffin[/re]: I’d just like to say, that woman is batshit nuts.
In the true spirit of RedState, I will celebrate Earth Day by gunning my engine at red lights, baking brownies all day(?), and incinerating a refrigerator filled with packing peanuts.
I am real sad about Bernie Mac dying, though.
Freakishlystrong, clearly you haven’t heard of the Right Hon. Ed Balls MP, Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Balls
[re=296045]AfghanVet[/re]: Dammit! Beat me to it….jinx!
It says he hung himself in the basement of his spacious Reston, Virginia home. Surrounded by gentle hills and within walking distance of transportation and shopping. Should be available soon.
Why couldn’t it have been this guy instead?
[re=296038]BillyClubb[/re]: O NOES THE NoooBAMA DEATHLIST IS STARTING!!1 Because people never, ever die unless they’re associated with a Democratic Preznit.
by capatriot California [Apr 22, 2009 9:51:21 AM] The “Clinton Killing Field” starting over again? /// I think Obama had his own a long time ago. Ever see the list of those who “suddenly died” who were associated with Obama? There was a list that went around during the campaigning.
“There was a list that went around during the campaigning.”
So, obviously it must be true.
I fully expect to see this list shown to me by three or four guys at my Dad’s American Legion post. A piece of paper pulled out of the pocket, folded and refolded, a bit stained, and tattered along the edges. Really, it’s on pieces of paper like that that the truth is actually found. Can’t trust the news. They never even mention that the Red Chinese are amassing in the Panama Canal Zone awaiting a chance to invade the US.
[re=296073]Hello Sunshine[/re]: Not the first time I’ve discovered my material on the tube years later (I served WAY before “Blackadder”). If I was of inspiration to Bean and House, I should be proud — and they should send money.
[re=296087]President Beeblebrox[/re]: How about that Iraqi president that was closely associated with (then) Vice President Bush? He seemed to die awfully suddenly.
[re=296096]Guppy06[/re]: His sons didn’t fare so well either.
Holy crap the CFO of Freddie Mac is dead
Cue Curtis Mayfield.
[re=296067]Lazy Media[/re]: Yeah, they valued pliability (or as they called it, loyalty) over integrity. Stupidity helped too.
Today, we are all hippies.
I thought Bernie Mac died last year?
What’s that?
Oh.
Sorry.
I seems that the Bush administration once again chose to go with people whose lack of brains and experience were more than compensated by their political reliablity and eagerness to tell them exactly what they wanted to hear.
[re=296044]Serolf Divad[/re]: Win. A bit of a shame that Costner and Dennis Hopper didn’t kill themselves in shame after that fiasco.
So, the CFO of Freddie Mac committed suicide in his basement?
Jesus christ, can’t these fuckers even uphold a failed institution’s sacred tradition of death by defenestration?
Happy Earth Day everyone!!
And may I just say that I think it’s grand how we human beings (well SOME of us anyway) take time out of our busy lives one day out of the year to thank a Planet who’s loveliness unconditionally sustains our worthless asses 24/7 365.
Wow. Who’s springing for the cake?
[re=296040]Terry[/re]: I finally saw a picture of this loser- and while I’m kind of a picky gal anyway – I just gotta say that given a choice I’d rather have this guy shoot me than fuck me any day.
[re=296118]bitchincamaro[/re]: I love you now (although I’ll hate you in about 10 hours, when “Freddie’s Dead” is still stuck in my head).
Hey SKS – where’s the story about how a woman’s knockers aren’t as deadly as they used to be?
This is good news.
[re=296046]loquaciousmusic[/re]: I saw Morrissey last Friday at Coachella, and I didn’t know Morrissey fans could get angry. I pushed in front of hundreds of people and no one said a word. Too passive and sad and nerdy. The crowd felt like family.
“Earth Day” in American should simply be renamed “Girth Day” eom
I have always been on very friendly terms with this beautiful Pale Blue Dot. And when the world economy collapses and 10,000,000 are left jobless – not much will change in my life. That’s because I’ve always lived very simply and have been very upfront and direct in askiing the Earth for what I need to sustain my life, rather than stealing it from behind her back.
We humans are the Quint Essentia, trapped in our elemental ignorance. For a detailed explanation of what that means, come visit me down on the farm.
This should be a rather festive and successful earth day because thanks to rising unemployment, there’s a lot less cars on the road, nobody can afford to waste energy, and factories that spew toxins into the ecosystem are being closed. So hurrah and huzzah for the Great Depression II!
[re=296360]Hooray For Anything[/re]: Party’s at my place.
[re=296074]karen[/re]: Yes. She knows no theology, history, philosophy, social science. She’s as dumb as a sack of hammers, and one scary dirtbag besides. And, yet, a plurality of those who skip their pike dinner at the supper club and vote every other November return her to office. She’s a national disgrace, and I think we should offer to trade her *and* Michele Malkin for Roxana Saberi. I’d suggest throwing in Man Coulter as well, but the prisoners in Iran do have some minimum expectation of human decency.
[re=296433]DangerousLiberal[/re]: Yes yes, a thousand times yes. Trade Michelle for Roxana Saberi. Hawtness for hawtness, minus the crazy. The Iranians will be endlessly amused and we’ll feel good about ourselves again. What a brilliant idea!
Craiglist Killer was a member of the Young Republicans?!
Shocker!
Yes, please hug a hippie today! Earth Day should be everyday, it is good that there is at least one day to spread awareness. Here are some suggestions on what you can do to help the Earth: http://www.toptentopten.com/topten/things+to+do+on+earth+day, you can add your own suggestions.
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