- The take-home from yesterday’s town halls: if you’re a politician who doesn’t want to look like an asshole, don’t “wade into the audience” where deranged ignoramuses can deliver their spittle-flecked speeches to your face. [Midwest Voices]
- The Islamic militant believed to have planned near-simultaneous bombings in Jakarta last month is still on the loose. [Reuters]
- Children in Mumbai won’t have to go to school due to swine flu closings (yay!) but all the movie theaters are closed, too (boo!), so they might as well just sit around and give each other swine flu, for sport. [Bloomberg]
- The New York Times does not bury the lede when it comes to horrific accounts of gang rape in the Congo. [NYT]
- Pirates, gangsters, Russian nuclear submarines, submarines, international intrigue … catch the excitement somewhere in or around the Arctic Sea! (Which is the name of a ship off Portugal or somewhere.) [Telegraph]
- A woman allegedly tried to extort $10 million from former Celtics coach and current University of Louisville men’s basketball coach Rick Pitino after he allegedly raped her, but so far the only crime under investigation is the extortion one. [Louisville Courier-Journal]
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The pirate hunt sounds like the opening for the wingnut’s espionage “reality”, a James Bond movie or a Tom Clancy novel. More than a few ships get hijacked every year. Why the sudden interest in this one? Hehhhhhhn? Vhat is dis wessel’s kargo???
Oh well, even if it’s just paranoid delusions, it should be good enough for a movie and give Fred Thompson some work.
The Hunt For Red October II: Blackbeard’s Revenge
Rick Pitino eats Mumbaian children in his sleep. Badass. Goes without saying: Ain’t no bitches steppin to that.
My favorite moment of the Specter town hall (which by chance I happened to catch live) was the guy who turned all shades of purple and whose spleen burst and spilled all over Specter’s newly laundered shirt when he discovered, much to his chagrin, that he was not one of the 30 right-wing nuts in attendance who drew a lucky “rant approved” ticket. See, he’d called Specter’s office earlier that day and Barack Obama personally promised him he’d get the floor for 30 minutes to vomit rivers of bile upon a fawning audience.
Damn you, Arlen Specter!
(OK, the guy who promised Specter that God would damn him to Hell for giving poor people and Mexicans health insurance was pretty good too… though maybe it was the same guy, I don’t remember)
Actually the ship is called the Arctic Sea. Still, Russian gangsters, dirty deeds, fun fun fun.
[re=383867]Serolf Divad[/re]: I saw the quote(in the paper) from the guy who ranted about the Constitution. Was he also telling Bush that he trampled on the Constitution(because he really did). I am pretty sure the Constitution doesn’t say ” universal Health care shall not be provided for the people or by the people”. I’ll run over to the Archives at lunch and check .
[re=383867]Serolf Divad[/re]: God hates poor people. Otherwise they would not be poor. Also poor people SUCK!
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As a PSA, Arctic Sea turns out to be the name of a ship. This is to save everybody 30 seconds of going crazy, or worrying about global warming, when they read that the Arctic Sea was sighted off Portugal.
I was disappointed that a foamy mouthed birther didn’t get a chance to ask President Hopey to about his birth certificate. Maybe today.
Also, someone pasted a copy of the socialist Obama joker poster on telephone pole in our Minneapolis neighborhood.. Should I be worried?
Wait – did i misdisunderstand the reference ‘gang-rape in the Congo’ story, with regards to the link provided? I’m having a confusion. Please help.
[re=383890]Foolitics[/re]: Hey, blog whore. Go away. It’s getting old.
“Give each other swine flu” is the new “hike the Appalachian trail”.
I dislike these anti-health care retards as much as the next guy, but if somebody actually sprayed saliva on Arlen Specter, it makes me a little bit happy inside.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend, at least for a second.
What is the difference between a blogwhore and somebody who posts links to funny stuff?
Is it just that we like using the word “whore?” I can understand that, but personally I prefer the less judgmental term “slut.”
[re=383880]Monsieur Grumpe[/re]: I know you don’t live Northside, then! If it’s Lynlake, it’s most likely what passes for average hipster irony in the midwest.
[re=383884]magic titty[/re]: The NYT thought it would be fun to give two stories the EXACT SAME URL. Anyway, the link should now point to the horrific rape story instead of the boring Nigerian mineral rights story.
My favorite comments from the anti-health care crazies are the ones that claim “I’ve read the bill” and then proceed to say that the bill has provisions for death panels or gives the government access to your savings account. Cite it or GTFO, bitches!
[re=383931]gurukalehuru[/re]: I think you definitely go from “slut” to “whore” status when you keep posting the same goddamn link on different threads over several days. I mean, I like sluts. Some of my best friends are sluts, and one thing that sluts aren’t is boring.
[re=383890]Foolitics[/re]: This means YOU, Whorey McWhorenstein.
[re=383965]Sara K. Smith[/re]: Christ. Anyway, thanks. They had one last week alluding to an increasing number of men being raped in the Congo as well.
“Give each other swine flu” is the worst euphemism I’ve ever heard. Remind me never to talk dirty with someone from Mumbai.
Thanks, MoDo! You cover the important stuff!
Why talk about the rapes and murders in the Congo, (Kristof’s beat?) when you can shit all over Hillary instead?
Represent, girl!
Oh Congo! King Leopold’s ghost won’t ever stop haunting you. God bless less-than-benevolent colonization (the only kind, obviously.)
[re=383867]Serolf Divad[/re]: It was the same guy. My favorite moment was when one of the crazies asked Arlen if he had ever read the Koran. The look on Arlen’s face was priceless. I half expected him to blurt out, What the fuck are you talking about? Instead, Arlen gave an Arlen answer and backed away from the guy, slowly.
What about socialism news? http://thestimulist.com/listen-up-lou-dobbs-socialist-and-the-n-word/
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