- Obama and Chinese president Hu Jintao had the best conversation ever, according to the brief, detail-less talking points Obama gave to reporters right afterward. [New York Times]
- If you are a lady over 40 and/or a lady over 50, there have been important changes re: scheduling your no-longer-annual mammogram! [Washington Post]
- Obama says that he and Russian president Dmitry “Vladimir Putin” Medvedev are THISCLOSE to drafting a new nuclear nonproliferation treaty. [The Hill]
- The nuisancey and frankly a bit boring Somali Pirates obnoxiously and predictably seized a chemical tanker and its North Korean crew off the coast of Seychelles. [CNN]
- Non-Bill Gates Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen began a course of chemo for his non-Hodgkins lymphoma. [WSJ]
- The UN and Iran have been having secret meetings, at which everyone whispered secret suggestions during a dramatic game of telephone about how Iranians can keep enriching uranium but only if they’re friendly to weapons inspectors. [Times Online]
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All the NKs need to do is pay the Somalian ransom with their counterfeit US America dollars and the cycle of crime continues.
What Right Wing REALLY Wants From Obama on Asian Trip
http://satiricalpolitical.com/2009/11/17/right-wing-obama-china-asian-trip-hu/
Do those wretched Somali pirates know who they’re fucking with? Mutherfuckin robot Kim Jong-il. If they thought flesh-and-blood Kim Jong-il had no human empathy, robot Kim Jong-il has even less, okay? Those pirateS are playing with FIRE!@!11
Why isn’t Starfleet protecting civilian traders from these Orion pirates?
These mammogram changes will make the old “trust me, I’m a certified gynacologist” line a lot less attractive.
[re=460053]hoosiermama[/re]: Especially when the North Koreans pay the ship’s ransom in counterfit money.
“Iranians can keep enriching uranium” Fuck, now the next Republican president will have to bomb THEIR Saddam Hussein.
The Somali pirates need better PR; the captains should adopt colorful nicknames and showcase flamboyant personalities. Look to the classic Caribbean pirates, who are still remembered to this day.
[re=460052]rabblerouser42[/re]: What Wonkette commenters REALLY wants from editors: a banhammer on tiresome blogwhores.
Great. Mammograms feel like having your boobs crushed by a refrigerator door. I have faithfully endured them for ten years. Now you’re telling me I HAVE to have them. Fuck you.
Imagine the embarrassment when the Somalia pirates just let the ship go because North Korea doesn’t have anything that they want.
@Monsieur Grumpe: Turns out the “chemical tanker” contained nothing but foam destined to be used inside Kim Jong-il plushies.
The news can be downright miserable most days. That’s why when I need a joyous sight, I look to boobs. Yeah boobs!
They also recommended fewer death panels and more time between interviews (really inspections of the patient). Forgot to mention that part did you, Wonkette.
That boob story made me do a little dance last night. No more boob squishes for 6 years! YEAH! And no more feeling guilty about NOT getting one every year. It takes a year for complete healing after one of those bitches.
[re=460058]JMP[/re]: Comment moderation just gets in the way of the internet equivalent of digging through Levi Johnston’s garbage. Which reminds me: why haven’t we seen Alex Jones’ behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of his pistachio commercial?
If Kim Jong-Il nukes Muslin Somalia, will John McCain nominate him for a Medal of Freedumb?
All I know is that Woody Harrelson has been cold staring at the posts for days now. On top of that, I have heard any more new news on Sarah Palin for the last 10 hours. Hold me!
[re=460083]pondscum[/re]: I am sure that there are many people here that would be pleased to help squish your boobs with plenty of TLC. Clinical outcomes are highly variable, however. And since health insurance is gonna drop mammogram coverage like a hot potato now, “alternative” medicine is where it’s at.
[re=460072]Monsieur Grumpe[/re]: The NKs have Scuds. And some semi-processed uranium. Neither of which is much use to a former fisher turned pirate.
This mammogram thing: So, what they’re telling me now is that mammograms in women under age 50 aren’t necessary, and that I shouldn’t have felt myself up all those years because it’s useless, and that the (cancerous) breast lump I uselessly felt at age 46, don’t matter when calculating the “absolute value” of statistical life-expectancy outcomes? Huh. That’s interesting. Glad I didn’t have this shitbag task-force around back then. I’d be dead by now. Well, I am pretty useless, so whatever, I guess.
My fave new conspiracy theory: Somali pirates were created by a CIA program as cover in order to get at North Korean and Iranian weapons shipments.
Mr. Tom Clancy, your party is waiting for you in airport lounge D -
And hey, all you guys, I just want to say today, “God Bless Richard Cohen!”
I find it weird, but I agree with a good rough 80% of what he wrote today (assuming some of it was meant to be BS and not taken seriously.)
So Debtor Number One and Creditor Number One are having a good time together, playing footsie in the Forbidden City. Me sooooo fucking happy.
[re=460140]snideinplainsight[/re]: True, many microwaved zingers he flings. But I’d be more impressed if Little Billy Kristol had assembled that thing.
[re=460114]MzNicky[/re]: Hey. You are NOT useless.
My wife would not be alive today if this bullshit protocol had been in place then. She was 42, no family history, not even a lump. With a good baseline mammogram for comparison, they found that she did have breast cancer. She is now healthy and very much alive. Hell, she and I both know women who discovered it in their 30s with mammography.
The American Cancer Society totally disagrees with this new finding.
This panel is in the pockets of the Health Insurance industry – they don’t want to pay for these things anymore. So much for Healthcare Reform.
You know, as much as I like him, I’m tired of seeing Obama go around the world and push the same old tired American imperialist foreign policy. The only difference is that he smiles more than the guy before him, and uses softer words and terms. I’m waiting for a game-changer, but I know as bought and owned as American presidents are that it’d be a miracle if a true shift in American foreign policy was ever changed. From Israel to North Korea, Iran to Iraq, the policy difference is mostly only cosmetic. It’s the same old neo-con bullshit with different packaging.
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