- Saudi Arabia has finally joined the modern Western world! The nation welcomed its first swine flu death on Saturday. [Associated Press]
- Ben Bernanke made a folksy appearance at a town hall in Missouri and explained, metaphorically, why he had to prop up an elephant to prevent the Second Great Depression. [Wall Street Journal]
- Sarah Palin didn’t want to be a “lame duck” with a year and a half left in her first term, so she resigned the Alaska governorship on Sunday. [ABC News]
- Professional pussy and sometime runner-of-France Nicolas Sarkozy collapsed after jogging in 84-degree heat this weekend. [Washington Post]
- A movie about goddamn guinea pigs is number one at the box office. [Reuters]
- North Korea says it’s ready to talk mano-a-mano with the “schoolgirl or pensioner” Hillary Clinton. [Guardian]
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“Foreshadowing the freedom to speak her mind as a private citizen, she recently wrote, “ten days till less politically correct twitters fly from my fingertips.”
Is she going to start telling Polish jokes on twitter now?
The French president didn’t collapse, he just thought he saw a German coming and pre-emptively surrendered.
[re=371085]Cape Clod[/re]:
Here’s hoping she’s planning her great Twitter revenge on everyone who’s ever annoyed her. Fingers crossed. Toes crossed, too.
Sarkozy is French so I assume you meant 84 degree kelvin.
[re=371085]Cape Clod[/re]: In Bible Spices’s case, Twitters fly from out of her ass….
Hey, now, I know some people don’t think Zooey Deschanel is very cute, but “guinea pig” isn’t very nice.
[re=371087]Terry[/re]: I’d love to see Sarah have a good old fashioned meltdown on Twitter.
Please, show some sensitivity. We call them goddamn Italian-American pigs. Or short of that, goddamn dago rodents.
“[North Korea] said [Clinton] was “by no means intelligent” and looked like a schoolgirl or a pensioner going shopping”
Credit where credit is due.
It’s a shame that Dick Cheney’s plan to send trained, suicide guinea pigs into Al Queda territory was compromised by libtards in Hollywood, just to make a buck.
Pfft. 84 Kelvin is only about 220 degrees cooler than the coldest weather I ran through.
In a few years (months?) it’ll be “What Ever Happened To Baby Sarah?”–she’ll be haunting county fairs and speaking her mind on cable access…
Strike that, only 160 or so above 83 Kelvin. Oddly enough, 50 below Fahrenheit is almost the same as 50 below Celsius.
Bernanke doesn’t give a shit about explaining himself nor have a problem robbing Peter (us) to pay Paul (Goldman Sachs.) He’s just going on a PR offensive to save his job. His 4-year term expires in 6 months & he doesnt want Barry Hopey to fire him.
[re=371087]Terry[/re]: [re=371089]freakishlystrong[/re]: I really think that the guys who thought up twitter must gauged the market size of incoherant naricissits and created a product specifically for them.
[re=371093]sad tortoise[/re]: Wow. That’s a good line. North Korea has the funny … who knew?
Palin’s got some good people writing for her; she managed to make that speech all “I’m doing it for you!”
Poop in his hand! Poop in his hand!
No, I didn’t see it.
The “poop in hand” comment might apply equally well to Palin’s non-politically-correct twitter account
[re=371092]FMA[/re]: Spoken like a man who has Guinea Swine Flu.
I thought the French didn’t run…unless they’re being attacked.
North Korea stated that one of the conditions for talking with Hillary Clinton is that “she wear that purple and black plaid skirt with the white knee socks again. Either that or the sailor outfit. That works, too.”
Wow, linking to the AP! Way to live dangerously!
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/07/the-ap-goes-to-war.html
[re=371105]magic titty[/re]: [re=371128]Mahousu[/re]: [re=371093]sad tortoise[/re]: More evidence that as Kim Jong Il’s health deteriorates, Western influences begin seeping into North Korea. I would’ve thought that things like basic human rights, freedom of religion, etc. would have been at the vanguard. But hey, Cosplay is at least a start.
“Peruvian Fun Meat?!” That’s a horrible thing to say about Mark Sanford’s soulmate!
[re=371181]user-of-owls[/re]: You can’t really call cosplay a “Western” influence. Actually, looking at Kim Jong Il’s outfits, I’d call it a native North Korean tradition.
[re=371200]Mahousu[/re]: Meant “Western” in its non-geographic (ie, “industrialized”) sense of the word, but your point is well taken. On the Dear Leader’s sartorial habits, I’d have to disagree…have you ever seen him in anything other than that off-beige, slightly menacing leisure suit?
[re=371097]bago[/re]: 40 below is the same for both. Somewhere in that range we discovered that antifreeze does in fact freeze.
[re=371213]user-of-owls[/re]: He has at least four different colors of uniforms (beige, olive green, light gray and dark gray), not to mention the crazy glasses, so I’d call him quite the dandy.
And then there’s this: http://osmoothie.com/2009/06/02/kim-jong-il-formally-names-youngest-son-as-successor/, though its provenance is perhaps a bit suspect.
[re=371213]user-of-owls[/re]: Does he still own the Oakland Raiders?
[re=371247]Mahousu[/re]: Ha! Can’t wait to see the one with them in matching beer hats. And who knew that Leisure Suits for Autocrats carried such a diverse and vibrant array of colors!
[re=371253]G. Friday[/re]: No, that’s the Moonies.
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