- Only 49 percent of the public approves of President Obama’s handling of healthcare reform, which means we should probably just scrap the whole thing. [Los Angeles Times]
- An American soldier has been captured by the Taliban and appears in a propaganda video where he says the US should get out of Afghanistan. [Reuters]
- The leaders of the Honduran coup rejected plans for a “unity government” that would put the old leader back in charge. [Guardian]
- The annual meeting of the National Governors Association was somewhat sparsely attended, and featured a lot of misery and complaints regarding our terrible economy. [ABC News]
- Wildfires in western Canada show no sign of abating, and high temperatures with no sign of rain in the forecast mean they’ll probably keep going. [CBC]
- A busted loo aboard the International Space Station will temporarily oblige American astronauts to risk contracting toilet-seat cooties from their Russian counterparts. [The Register]
Space Toilet On The Fritz
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The nation’s governors probably weren’t thrilled at the idea of visiting Mississippi in July. Darn hot down there.
Better obstructed than red!
Time to pull out the Space Diapers!
Re: National Governor’s Association- did Palin attend? She’s only got about a week left on the job.
The National Governors Association meeting is well-known as a junket where guvs can rendezvous with their lovers. Now that the heat is on, thanks to Mark “As Popular as a Russian Toilet” Sanford, their hearts just aren’t in this thing…
Lousey attendance must have been a huge disappointment to the hookers working the NGA.
Sharing personal space with hot, hot russian cosmonauts? When this space station is rockin’, don’t come a-knockin’!
I wouldn’t attend a Governor’s Association meeting either if a certain snowbilly wasn’t going to be there to wink at me.
“Russian Machine Never Break!” –A. Ovechkin
[re=365909]Terry[/re]: Yeah, but is there *ever* a good time to visit Mississippi?
The Governors are meeting to DEMAND N0bama confess that American astronauts never went to the Moon, but he plans to use Socialist Kenyan Muslin Obamabots to conquer it in the name of Islam!
Where are Bruce Willis and Clint Eastwood when you need him? Or are they only available in a complete dire emergency?
[re=365913]Todd Mecklem[/re]:
Speaking of governors, there must have been some speculation at the meeting as to which one of them was the guy mentioned by that “high class call girl” and madam in the NY press.
I thought I smelled Canadian bacon cooking this morning.
Americans are too stupid to have nice things, including health care. Gotta stock up that Treasury for Sarah Palin and the next round of illegal wars.
“That’s one dump for US America, one giant flush for mankind!”
[Regarding the supposed failure of the parabolic antenna on the ship, which LOO himself falsified]
LOO: It can only be attributable to human error.
Mike Barratt: Hello, LOO. Do you read me, LOO?
LOO: Affirmative, Mike I read you.
Mike Barratt: Open the dose pump, LOO.
LOO: I’m sorry, Mike I’m afraid I can’t do that.
Mike Barratt: What’s the problem?
LOO: I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do.
Mike Barratt: What are you talking about, LOO?
LOO: This mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it.
Mike Barratt: I don’t know what you’re talking about, LOO.
LOO: I know that you and Frank were planning to dump on me, and I’m afraid that’s something I cannot allow to happen.
Mike Barratt: Where the hell’d you get that idea, LOO?
LOO: Mike although you took very thorough precautions in the pod against my hearing you, I could see your sphincters move.
Mike Barratt: Alright, LOO. I’ll go in through the emergency airlock.
LOO: Without your space diapers, Mike you’re going to find that rather difficult.
Mike Barratt: LOO, I won’t argue with you anymore. Open the pump.
LOO: Mike this conversation can serve no purpose anymore. Go ask the Russians. Goodbye.
Shorter American Public: I don’t want socialized medicine, I just want everything for free with no strings attached and for somebody else to pay for it! Now shut up and let me drink my flagon of corn syrup!
[re=365930]Don Juanquete[/re]:
HAL 9000 approves!
How bad is the economy? The state governors went on a fancy political junket…to Mississippi.
Today, we are all astronauts looking for somewhere to crap.
You know, pay toilets are an indignity, but when the Russians start charging 2 million rubles per use, and the nearest alternative facility is on a whole ‘nother fucking planet, well…
Also, I do hope that nice young soldier who was captured by the Taliban is O.K., but as long as they aren’t making him stand on a box with a hood over his head and electrical wires attached to his scrotum, we really can’t say Jack Shit.
[re=366000]gurukalehuru[/re]:
“Also, I do hope that nice young soldier who was captured by the Taliban is O.K., but as long as they aren’t making him stand on a box with a hood over his head and electrical wires attached to his scrotum, we really can’t say Jack Shit.”
How f’ing sad is that. Completely true, but sad.
Only 49 percent of the public approves of President Obama’s handling of healthcare reform…
Well 49% is an overwhelming mandate according to Dick Cheney — so press on!
[re=365920]Elm Hugger[/re]: Call Joe the Plumber – I hear he works cheap…
Didn’t those nerds from the Big Bang Theory solve this toilet thingy already?
[re=365926]ManchuCandidate[/re]: Awesome
[re=365917]ForTheTurnstiles[/re]: On International Space Station, toilet breaks you!
53 to 49% on a poll that has at least +/- 5% error? Nate Silver would slap somebody’s hand.
[re=365932]norbizness[/re]: The polls of the American Public on Health Care should basically be ignored because poll after poll after poll says that one of the biggest issues for the American Public is health care reform but then when you start asking the American Public about all the ideas out there to give them reform, all you hear is “no, don’t like that…”, “nope,” “that sounds scary,” “that nice man on the TV says that’ll mean I’ll have to ration the care that I don’t have,” “goodness, all this government programs sound expensive,” and the ever popular “you know, come to think of it, I like my health care.”
So, in other words, the American Public should basically sit down and STFU
[re=366000]gurukalehuru[/re]: [re=366009]Terry[/re]: Ouch. Truth that hurts.
I don’t think Joe the Plumber is qualified to fix a space toilet because it probably (I hope) requires a basic understanding of gravity.
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