Category: weathertainment

The Week In Wonkette

• Kathleen Parker recalls a high school book report and undergoes a severe mental paroxysm during which she realizes that if it weren't for narcissists like her, bloggers would have piloted the planet into the sun by now.

• Dick Cheney: he's in, he's out, he's in, he's out...why can't he be more like his daughter?

• Peter Baker and Jim VandeHei look back on 2005 with selective remembrances and rose-colored glasses.

• All dogs go to heaven, you know.

• Maureen Dowd infuses inscrutability with epochal melodrama.

• Hate to say I told you so, but we're not getting the government we wanted to get in Iraq.

• George Bush ain't gonna take no more shit from tsunamis.

• The Intelligent Designer doesn't have to be God, you know. Alien overlords who travel through time, why not?

• The only losers in the stupid War On Christmas are the stupid people who ruined their own stupid Christmas by stupidly insisting that such a stupid war existed in the first place.— DCEIVER

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Vital Steps Taken in the Global War on Weather Extremism

Lots of people talk about the weather, but President Bush, for one, is looking to do something about it.

Hoping to protect U.S. shores from being hammered by a tsunami, the White House directed federal agencies Friday to increase earthquake and volcano monitoring systems, deep ocean buoys and other high-tech means of alerting oceanside communities.

The tsunami plan was requested by President Bush and Congress after an earthquake on Dec. 26, 2004, caused a massive tsunami in the Indian Ocean. It killed or left missing at least 216,000 people in 11 Indian Ocean countries, and "demonstrated international vulnerability," said John Marburger, Bush's top science adviser.

It's not surprising that the President wants to take action against these kinds of events: he's been burned by one before, of course, and we heard recently that it still hurts his feelings everytime someone points out that he placed a higher premium on fixing Trent Lott's front porch than he did on saving actual people. What is surprising is that the President seems to have a functioning understanding of the fact that information on tsunamis cannot be obtained by detaining one and torturing it. It's a start.— DCEIVER

White House Issues Tsunami Alert Plan [AP]

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Inside the Bubble: Here Comes the Thunder

• Mediated liveblogging of CourtTV's Plame-riffic panel at Michael's today. [Fishgirl]
• Arianna believes Fitzgerald might be swayed from slapping Miller with criminal contempt because everyone likes her so much. Because Fitzgerald is so concerned with what everyone thinks. [HuffPo via E&P]
• Meanwhile, Lou Dobbs treats Floyd Abrams like the biggest deal since closed borders. [CNN]
• "World News Tonight" retires Jennings's jersey. [TVNewser]
• Watch out, Drudge: Here comes "weathertainment." [AJC via WH@CNN]

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