- Here’s the scoop on that Capitol-area shooting yesterday: the driver of a white Mercedes was pulled over for a routine traffic stop and cold went nuts, driving insanely, and also he had a handgun, according to police, who shot him. [New York Times]
- Foreclosures are still rising in many parts of the nation. Green shoots! [Washington Post]
- Weeks of talks in California have yielded little progress toward resolving the state’s scary budget impasse. Can we just sell it back to Spain or Mexico or the Indians or somebody? [Reuters]
- A gigantic gasoline tanker rolled over and ESPLODED outside Detroit last night, but amazingly, “only one person suffered bruises in the massive explosion of more than 14,000 gallons of fuel.” [Detroit Free Press]
- Republicans failed to make Sonia Sotomayor cry like a girl in yesterday’s confirmation hearings even though they asked her about scary things like guns and abortion. [New York Times]
- Get psyched for religious propaganda wars in Afghanistan. [Wall Street Journal]
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I urge my friends in Detroit to get out now, before the locusts come.
It was Glenn Beck, right? You can tell us.
HAHA, I live three miles from that rollover disaster. I could have sworn the sound I heard was another Detroit City Council persons career imploding.
Another crappy day at this office. On the happy side- maybe Mark and Jenny are going away to plan his resignation. She can stay married to him- the whole goods christian marytr wife thing bores me.
Pity poor Ahnuld. He once imagined that running Kalifonya would be as easy as winning the Running Man but after his Total Recall win over Grey Davis and his second term Commando like victory, he’s now finding his political career ending senseless and stupid like the End of Days. So long Last Action Hero. Hasta la vista, Ahnuld. You won’t be baaack.
[re=363783]Todd Mecklem[/re]: My money’s on Alberto Gonzales. An ego like that can only take unemployment for so long…
[re=363786]The Church of Realism[/re]: By “three miles,” do you in fact mean FOUR BLOCKS FROM YOUR HOUSE?
Speaking of foreclosures, here’s a nice opportunity for enterprising Wonketteers. I could chip in $5, and if they are desperate enough, you never know.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/15/AR2009071503702.html
The senators failed to make her cry, so they are breaking out the firefighters whom she did smite with her UPHELD stamp which she evilly pressed upon their lawsuit. There won’t be a dry eye in the house as firefighters tell us how her ruling brought back the horrors of 9/11 and Sotomayor was like a plane crahing into their souls.
[re=363786]The Church of Realism[/re]: Or maybe it was just another dump of semi-literate “NIGGA PLEASE I GUNNA TAP DAT AZZ”-style txt messages between Mayor Kwame and his chief of staff/lover/whatever.
Gotta love Detroit, where even the Wayne County Prosecutor’s house is being foreclosed.
Damn, I’m starting to sound like a bitter – but really, I’m not, just tired of seeing a city where much of my family lived at one point go down the shitter due to crooked politicians. At least Chicago has crooked politicians who make the city work…
Can I have the Mercedes? That guy won’t be needing it anymore. I want the Mercedes.
[re=363788]ManchuCandidate[/re]: Victory
Also, religious propaganda wars? Oh human progress, why have ye abandoned us? Give a man a weapon; watch him regress to caveman status. We don’t have a ‘god gene,’ we simply have a predisposition to complete & utter stupidity.
[re=363791]Doglessliberal[/re]: GWu will probably buy it for a dorm.
[re=363791]Doglessliberal[/re]: Count me in! I smell a gold mine!
we could charge people to do the nasty in the rooms associated with various historical events.
Promos like “break in and plumb your wife in the same room the Nixon plumbers broke into” would bring in customers… we could even charge by the hour…
[re=363816]finallyhappy[/re]: oh, good point. Bringing GWU’s ownership of property in DC to 95%?
[re=363817]azw88[/re]:
The G. Gordon Liddy Ratfucker Suite?
[re=363817]azw88[/re]: there might well be a better market for that these days than upscale hotels. Maybe we could get Marion Barry as a spokesman?
I’m no medical expert, but I don’t think guns are used for abortions too often.
Maybe Arnold should step up and sign over his movie royalities to the State of Kullefornia.
[re=363793]azw88[/re]:
Most of those HEROES would fail a sobriety test.
He says he believes in a literal interpretation of the New Testament, but he’s undecided about evolution. “That kind of tears me between the science and the facts, and my religious upbringing,” he says.
Sigh — in the land of blind mullahs, the one-eyed preacher is king. And I know that turning Afghanistan into rural Oklahoma is somewhat of an improvement, but it just underscores that we’ve got miles to go. And by the way, what the fuck was Dubya doing in Afghanistan these past seven years? Worse than nothing, by the looks of it.
[re=363826]Naked Bunny with a Whip[/re]: Perhaps you have found the magical common ground on which liberals and conservatives can finally agree on these two issues.
[re=363826]Naked Bunny with a Whip[/re]: in the remake of La Cage Au Folles, Nathan Lane’s character as another character says something like that to a conservative senator. “If a woman is going to have an abortion, why not just kill her?”
The guy in the Mercedes, let me guess, his last words were “Show me his birth certificate!”
Or, maybe, “TeLePrOmpTer!”
Please Jeebus, don’t let it be “Truck Nutz!”
[re=363856]SayItWithWookies[/re]: W was giving billions to Pakistan. Their ISI promptly grabbed most of it & gave to their AQ buddies, saving a little to scrub out Benazir Bhutto. Hence the enormous clusterfuck in Afghanistan with the newly re-armed Taliban and their 7th century form of law.
Hey I live three miles from that other DC area shooting in McLean Falls Church, so do I get to decide what gets posted now?
No?
What if my daughter lived on the same block?
Still no?
Well carry on then.
Actual text from Detroit-resident slash professional-hooligan boyfriend:
“They cancelled OUR Tyra show for some stupid tanker crash on some stupid freeway”
His priorities tell me he’ll make a great father one day.
Wait a minute…California hasn’t been sold back to Mexico yet? Driving through most of southern California I would have assumed we had already been sold to a drug cartel.
[re=363878]hobospacejunkie[/re]: To be fair, they spent most of it on weapons pointed at India, which is exactly what we told them not to do. After that, Dubya wasn’t too happy with Pervez Musharraf — unfortunately his anger is so similar to his normal condescension that the Pakistanis were unable to tell. Also they didn’t give a rat’s ass.
And “Worse than nothing” can pretty much sum up the whole Dubya reign of terror.
[re=363782]Formerly Preferred[/re]: What’s the problem? The driver of the tanker was getting a jump on Devils’ Night.
[re=363786]The Church of Realism[/re]: The sound of the explosion was why I didn’t hear my stuff getting stolen from my back yard last night. *Sigh* Gotta love Detroit.
[re=363958]S.Luggo[/re]: HAHAHAHA. The explosion actually occurred in Ferndale, a posh little suburb. And Devil’s Night jokes are right up there with starving Ethiopian jokes for teh funneez.
[re=363905]Citizen Kang[/re]: UM if a drug cartel owned cali-fornia, I think the state wouldn’t be paying in IOU’s.
Bricks of blow, maybe…
[re=364069]Crazybroad[/re]: Isn’t it Hazel Park where this took place?
[re=364566]LoweredPeninsula[/re]: Oooh, good question. That’s right on the border of Hazel Park and Ferndale. I think the east side of I-75 is Ferndale, the west side is Hazel Park.
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