- Maybe just don’t fly over the Hudson if you value your life. [New York Daily News]
- Tropical storms are making a muddy nightmare out of the Phillipines, China, Japan, and Taiwan, where a mudslide may have killed 600 people. [Reuters]
- Fatah can’t seem to get it together, but its leaders hope that new elections may put it on the path to renewed power and credibility after Hamas kicked its ass all over Gaza. (Or rather out of Gaza.) [AFP]
- More bombs in Iraq, sectarian strife, 2005 all over again, etc. [Washington Post]
- Who says the golden age of American air travel is dead? [Houston Chronicle]
- Ah, finally some good news! McDonald’s new yuppie menu, featuring an Angus burger and Starbucks-style Icy Corn Syrup ‘n’ Diabeetus Coffee Drinks, catapulted the food giant to a 4.3 percent rise in global sales in July. [Bloomberg]
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McDonald’s secret ingredient:
Genocide.
SHEEPLE
Overflowing toilets? I assumed this was part of the avalanche of Woodstock remembrances to come this week.
Micky Ds could save the US/global economize maybe if they paid their millions of teenaged kids/elderly/immigrants more than minimum “wage”.
Of course sectarian violence is on the rise. Our sectarians, the Sunni Awakening Councils, are losing their sugar daddy… Uncle Sam. Their only hope to keep us in that hell hole is to turn it into a worse hell hole. Fug ‘em.
Bill Cosby once talked about how survive helicopter crashes. Just before you’re going to hit the ground, jump up. Being a student of carton physics, this makes perfect sense to me.
[re=382010]ManchuCandidate[/re]: Really, you know that the economy is in turn around when the folks who employ the working poors are drinking champagne dribbled from a hooker’s leg.
Hey, I was trapped in here all night and no one noticed because everyone had gone home for the weekend.
It wasn’t bad though, I ate all of the cheetos people left and tried on avatars all night.
[re=382012]Monsieur Grumpe[/re]:
Being a student of carton physics
You mean you studied boxing?
McDiabeetus is on the value menu, yo!
Apocalypse Now-ish. A remnant shall be rescued by our savior, Saint Ronald of the Happy Meal.
Europe, you shall soon resemble a belted sausage. Enjoy your new plus size D&G elastic Nike sweats. I’m already tired of waiting for you to haul your corpulence onto the train you porkers!
[re=382008]nappyduggs[/re]: The McDonald’s Board of Directors will serve as the Death Panel Sarah Palin is so afraid of.
[re=382014]Vacation Without Hats[/re]: I wondered who left that jizz stain on the lining of my outfit. You owe me some BIG BUCKS for dry cleaning, bub.
Also, maybe McD’s new Fat Fuck Fiesta menu(tm) will help clear out some of the birther/mouthbreather/shouty mob population. Or at least give it a good head start.
[re=382021]queeraselvis v 2.0[/re]:
Don’t be ridiculous, on my planet we reproduce by attaching ourselves to the brains of unsuspecting vacationers and implanting our socialistic ideas directly into their brains, convincing them to stop using shampoo and thus grow dandruff, which are our young.
“jizz” indeed, how Earthy of you.
[re=382015]Vacation Without Hats[/re]:
Naw,I just should not type before I have a cup of coffee.I suck.
I submitted the following question to Continental’s “contact us” page:
Can you give me some assurance that I won’t be locked for nine hours in an overflowing toilet?
The search returned 372 results. Since there were only 50 people aboard the plane at the time, apparently this is a larger problem than the article implies.
The above linkies somehow lead me to this:
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2009_08/019423.php
Apparently, a conservative uninsured activist gets a beat down and now is asking for donations. Are we getting punk’d by Stewart or Colbert? It’s just too perfect.
[re=382034]El Pinche[/re]: Oh my god, they killed Kenny! Those bastards! Or not.
Do you really know this man? Help do research.
http://msmpost.com/news/127/ARTICLE/1352/2009-08-08.html
Do you really know this woman? Help do research.
http://msmpost.com/news/127/ARTICLE/1351/2009-08-08.html
[re=382043]Foolitics[/re]: Are you really a shameless blog whore?
Are you really a shameless blog whore?
You know… twice this past weekend I tried to purchase coffee at McDonalds. Twice I asked (in two different stores) if they had any plain coffee, with no milk, no ice cream, no syrup, no sugar, no nothing added. Just coffee.
Twice the cashier looked at me with a blank stare and said “just coffee? Uhhhhh… like an iced coffee?” I asked if they could make an iced coffee with no milk or ice cream, just coffee and ice. He had to check with his manager, who finally said he thought there was some plain coffee somewhere, and they could pour it over ice or just give it to me in a cup, if they could find it. And was I sure that was what I REALLY wanted. And what flavor of syrup did I want in it.
[re=382030]lee hussein oswald[/re]:
Can you give me some assurance that I won’t be locked for nine hours in an overflowing toilet?
They determine that before you board by having you go before a stench panel.
McDonald: I’m Lovin’… I’m Looovvvvv… (heart attack)
[re=382034]El Pinche[/re]: Better. A recently unemployed button peddler. YAY CAPITALISM!
[re=382055]Redhead[/re]:
A while back here in France some American tourist asked the waiter in a cafe for an extra-hot, low-foam, soy-milk decaf cafe au lait and the waiter finally said “I’m sorry Madame, it’s a cafe, not a pharmacy” and brought her a cafe creme.
It’s funny, I used to react to waiters acting like that the same way most Americans do, but the longer I live here the more I’m entirely on the waiter’s side. An acquired taste I guess.
[re=382064]queeraselvis v 2.0[/re]: AND DA FREE MARKKIT!!
[re=382065]Vacation Without Hats[/re]: “And if you make unreasonable demands based on carbohydrates, I shall come back and taunt you a second time.”
[re=382065]Vacation Without Hats[/re]: Welcome to the Futurama Avatar Caucus.
[re=382065]Vacation Without Hats[/re]: Ahhhhhhh I miss Paris! I never saw anyone do that exact thing with coffee, but saw tourists do similar things with food, and the waiters usually then pretended not to speak English. (Even though they’d then come over and speak in English to us. I VERY often heard, “Thanks for trying to speak French, but I’ll just speak English. It’s easier.”)
But then, those tourists often ended up spending the rest of their vacation at Starbucks, McDonalds, KFC and Pizza Hut. The really funny part was when obvious American tourists would come up and attempt to ask me, in French, how to find McDonalds, Starbucks or Pizza Hut and explain what those were, thinking I didn’t know. I never understood that – you’re in Paris. Experience Paris. Don’t go there and then expect it to be just like America and pout when it’s not. What’s the point in even going if you want it to be just the same?
And it always amused me to order a cafe americain – watered down espresso. It just made me laugh that that was American coffee. Cafe cremes were gooooooood though. I don’t think I’ve had espresso in any form here that comes close. (Maybe cause here if you try to order something like that you end up with ice cream and sugar syrup with a tiny tiny splash of espresso.)
It’s Time For Colin Powell To Switch Party
http://msmpost.com/news/127/ARTICLE/1345/2009-08-05.html
[re=382098]Cape Clod[/re]:
Thanks, are we like the blue dogs? Does everyone lavish special attention on us because we’re pouty? Or more like the liberal caucus, where they just ignore us?
I’m actually already in another caucus, from the planet Strepto. But I guess I can join another.
[re=382099]Redhead[/re]: Starbucks is in Paris? While it is not so easy here to find an independent coffee place to get an espresso here so I go to Starbucks – but everywhere in Paris there are cafes and cafes. I did go to the McDonald’s at LaDefense- to use the bathroom. I cannot imagine eating at McDonald’s or Pizza hut at all- much less in Paris. I admit we once went to a McDonalds near Kings Cross in London(and yes, later we went to look for Platform 9 3/4)- traveling with a friend’s daughter who insisted on fish sticks because we were going to eat Balti food. The odd thing was that McDonald’s had mini samosas-we had a few while waiting for the child to finish- they were not very good samosa but I was still surprised.
[re=382107]Foolitics[/re]: It’s time for another shameless whoring of msmpost, whatever the fuck that is. Probably a front group for NAMBLA.
I’ve seen the commercials for McDonald’s Third Pounders (their name, not mine). I can’t believe that shit has boosted their sales — but then again, in my perfect world, McDonald’s food would be a form of punishment, not an alleged nutritional option. Also, whenever I see that commercial, my reaction is, “Third pounders? What happened to the first two?”
[re=382107]Foolitics[/re]: I read the first thing you blogwhored over the weekend, and it sucked. I’m not sure if the content sucked, because I couldn’t get past your horrible writing. First of all, a child is conceived, not conceded, as you wrote so many times as to be clear it was intentional. There were many other egregious errors, but I’ve already spent more time on your crap than is worthwhile.
[re=382012]Monsieur Grumpe[/re]: Um, jump up? From a helicopter? Is that called the Cuisinart Technique?
[re=382118]finallyhappy[/re]:
There are about five or six Starbucks in Paris now, which in a town with approximately ten zillion cafes is pretty much a non-event (I mean as opposed to articles I read that touted it as “the end of the French bistro” or something– pffft).
Actually it was quite a novelty when the first one opened, my girlfriend was intensely curious to “try it out”, which actually involved standing in line, at the time.
Imagine that, standing in line to get okayish coffee in a paper cup while surrounded with ten gazillion great cafes on that street alone with fantastic coffee in ceramic cups and marble table tops.
Not to slam Starbucks too much, when I’m in middle America they’re the first thing I look for, at least you know what you’re getting and it won’t be boiled brown water.
[re=382124]Vacation Without Hats[/re]: starbucks double macchiato comes close to an Italian espresso………jmo ymmv
“Fatah can’t seem to get it together, but its leaders hope that new elections may put it on the path to renewed power and credibility after Hamas kicked its ass all over Gaza. (Or rather out of Gaza.)”
I know that Hamas is supposed to be 100% more bat-shit crazy than Fatah, but I think you could throw them both in a bag and shake them up and it wouldn’t matter who you pulled out. They both hate jews, believe in regimented societies with limited roles for women, and hate the western democracies…hey, wait a minute…weren’t there some guys like that in power back in the 30′s and 40′s?
Can we haz small craft ban around Manhattanz now?
[re=382130]trickyrick[/re]:
It probably comes closer to an Italian macchiato
(since “an espresso” doesn’t have milk in it and a macchiato does)
If you eat at McDonalds, probably need end-of-life counseling.
Still, we will have nothing to fear once we flood the Middle East, India and China with Golden Arches and KFCs. Throw in some Marlboroughs and with the air pollution, everyone will to out of shape to invade within the next 10 years, or dead. Win/Win.
This has to be the slowest news day EVEH!
[re=382054]hobospacejunkie[/re]: Yes he is.
[re=382054]hobospacejunkie[/re]: Yes he is.
[re=382099]Redhead[/re]: I won’t eat at McDonalds here, I sure won’t eat at one anywhere else.
[re=382121]SayItWithWookies[/re]: Isn’t conceding a child admitting its yours after the DNA test?
*snort*
Corn Syrup ‘n’ Diabeetus
[re=382015]Vacation Without Hats[/re]: Had you said “the Sweet Science”, you would’ve had a 1st round KO. (But your TKO was still quite impressive!)
McDooDoo makes coffee? or is it the other way around? I’m confused and almost elderly. Death Panel
I’m all yours.
Has the Hudson actually gotten so polluted that it’s even deadly just to fly over it?
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