• February 15, 2012
  • Eunice Kennedy Shriver, the founder of the Special Olympics and a sister to many Kennedys, died at the age of 88. [CNN]
  • President Obama looks forward to being harangued and shouted at by a bunch of angry New Hampshirite “keep your guvmint hands off my Medicare” types at a town hall today. [New York Daily News]
  • Georgia Republican Johnny Isakson assures us that the government does not plan to kill your grandmother. (Yet.) [Washington Post]
  • Everybody freak out because the swine flu and its attendant panic have reached India. [Forbes]
  • Plucky Mexican drug traffickers find prison no impediment to their entrepreneurial endeavors. [New York Times]
  • Hurricane season has gotten off to a terribly slow start this year, leaving many fans of dramatic inclement weather wondering when, if ever, the death and destruction might commence. [Wall Street Journal]

{ 34 comments }

Carrie_Okie August 11, 2009 at 9:17 am

Why Did Nobomacare Kill the Governators Granny in-Law or whatzit? Did she has a bird Certificates? DID SHE? DID SHE? Run Trig, Run!!@!

x111e7thst August 11, 2009 at 9:21 am

Most times a virulent new flu strain would obviate the need to euthanize the oldz. Why is H1N1 letting us down this way?

WIDTAP August 11, 2009 at 9:22 am

[re=382757]Carrie_Okie[/re]: No the Terminator made her a “final visit”. What? Too soon?

hobospacejunkie August 11, 2009 at 9:27 am

The drug cartels have become the Wackenhut of Mexico. Perhaps we should invite them to run our federal prison system. The system couldn’t be any more arbitrary & favorable to the wealthy than it already is. And maybe they’ll bring some stability to drug prices north of the border.

freakishlystrong August 11, 2009 at 9:27 am

Barry needs to get all ghetto on the teabaggers today. He should open with “Where da white wimmen at”?. Shut them the fuck right up.

shadowMark August 11, 2009 at 9:27 am

[re=382314]snideinplainsight[/re]: President Obama looks forward to being harangued and shouted at by a bunch of angry New HampshiriteMr. President, how does Bill Clinton feel about the multibillion-dollar Chinese loan offer to Congo?

Mild Midwesterner August 11, 2009 at 9:28 am

Eunice: The Kennedy that even Republicans loved.

chowkster August 11, 2009 at 9:28 am

Oh fuck. Pune is my home town. I talked to my parents just yesterday and they were blissfully unaware of any “widespread panic”.

Todd Mecklem August 11, 2009 at 9:29 am

Isakson more or less calls Sarah Palin “nuts”. Which is the most intelligent thing I’ve heard a Republican senator say in ages.

Monsieur Grumpe August 11, 2009 at 9:34 am

I hope Wonkette is going to live blog Hopey’s Shout-O-Rama. Unless they’re screening people, this will be one amusing cluster fuck.

Clamps August 11, 2009 at 9:38 am

Once the socialists push through Obamacare, elderly octogenarians like Mrs Shriver will be dying EVERYDAY!

Not on my watch!

norbizness August 11, 2009 at 9:39 am

I can just see the New Hampshirite protest signs now… NO BLOOD FOR SYRUP!

hobospacejunkie August 11, 2009 at 9:41 am

The hurricanes are conducting a work slowdown, looking for better hours & wages and less biased media coverage. Not to worry, the eastern hemisphere is more than making up for the west’s reduced output. A typhoon just ravaged Taiwan & China, while 6. or higher earthquakes are doing their best to topple Japan.

Paul Tardy August 11, 2009 at 9:45 am

Actually it is keep your gum-mint hands off my government benefits. Veterans, former federal workers, medicare. BTW, I would have thought the Blackwater free sex death cult would have got more play from the media?

ManchuCandidate August 11, 2009 at 9:45 am

So, the only way to stay in a Mexican jail is selling Cornballers and/or doing quasi homo-secksual but very wrong chicken dances?

Eric' August 11, 2009 at 9:47 am

Barry will try his best to explain why ObamaCare did not kill Eunice Shriver. But it’ll be a tough sell with everyone’s eye fixed on his new Nazi tattoos.

Car Ramrod August 11, 2009 at 9:50 am

[re=382770]norbizness[/re]: Nah, in NH it would be more like, “Meh. Fuck it. We don’t care.”

Carrie_Okie August 11, 2009 at 9:50 am

[re=382772]Paul Tardy[/re]: Srsly! WTF MSM?!
I think they are all afraid Erik von Prince will go Ninja on their @sses.

hobospacejunkie August 11, 2009 at 9:53 am

[re=382765]chowkster[/re]: Is your home town’s name pronounced “poon?” Please say yes.

hobospacejunkie August 11, 2009 at 9:57 am

[re=382776]Carrie_Okie[/re]: [re=382772]Paul Tardy[/re]: I’m waiting to hear from Jeff Sharlet that Blackwater is the military wing of The Family.

TGY August 11, 2009 at 10:06 am

Haha, you wrote ‘plucky’. Alas, this wonderful word has fallen into disuse, along with ‘pusillanimous’ and ‘steatopygia’.

Guppy06 August 11, 2009 at 10:09 am

Yeah, the hurricane season is so humdrum and boring this year, unless you’re one of the ~500 dead in Taiwan (which is full of yellows that don’t count) or you’re boarding up your windows in Hilo (which is part of Kenya).

SmutBoffin August 11, 2009 at 10:09 am
rocktonsammy August 11, 2009 at 10:11 am

Didn’t my grandparents pass down their presidents deficits to me?

TGY August 11, 2009 at 10:13 am

And someone from Georgia who speaks sense. When did Hell freeze over?

shadowMark August 11, 2009 at 10:23 am

[re=382794]TGY[/re]: The silence was unbearable, but then those plucky Wonkette comment writers resumed their sarcastic snarking at the naughty McCain gamines.

Hominidx August 11, 2009 at 10:23 am

Whoa, Isakson. I can’t believe it, but I may have to give him a positive phone call for once.

momus August 11, 2009 at 10:23 am

UP here in the midwest, “Georgia Republican” is considered and oxymoron.

Come here a minute August 11, 2009 at 10:40 am

Plucky Eunice Shriver brought the tards out of the closet and rights to the tards. The Ron Paul r3V07ution thanks you!

Servo August 11, 2009 at 10:44 am

I wonder if any of the protestors work at the Naval Shipyard, the largest employer and leading cause of cancer in Portsmouth.

chowkster August 11, 2009 at 10:47 am

[re=382778]hobospacejunkie[/re]: Sorry dude. It is pronounced as puɳeː

AnnieGetYourFun August 11, 2009 at 11:26 am

[re=382839]chowkster[/re]: Wow, international phonetic alphabet and everything. Fancy.

chowkster August 11, 2009 at 2:29 pm

[re=382898]AnnieGetYourFun[/re]: Yeah. We Indians are good at this shit. 1/4th of our population lives under poverty line, but we love the nerdy technical shit.

Lionel Hutz Esq. August 11, 2009 at 5:32 pm

You destroy something fun like New Orleans, but you leave Florida standing? Come on Mother Earth, you are slacking here. Send a nice Cat 5 at Limbaugh’s place, and I’ll get a Prius.

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