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Terrifying Chicago thug and life-saving superhero Rahm Emanuel made it official last night: If Richard Daley doesn’t run again, Rahm wants to be Mayor of Chicago. “That’s always been an aspiration of mine,” Rahm told Charlie Rose during a secret televised conversation, “even when I was in the House of Representatives.” Now who will Eric [...]
TODAY’S CATASTROPHIC EARTHQUAKE: Hmm, any Major Nations overdue for a punishing temblor? China, maybe? Very big country, lots of people, not really smacked down by the 2010 Parade of Death Quakes. So, China it is: “At least 300 people have died and others are trapped under rubble after a magnitude-6.9 earthquake struck China’s Qinghai province.” [...]
Ever since the Red Chinese took their panda back to Communist China, Washington’s National Zoo has been a pretty beat-down no-panda-havin’ sort of place. Kids don’t want to go there, not even to get out of school for the day — what does the zoo even have left, as far as animals? Some old deer [...]
Sarah Palin reminds Jews of the real meaning of Passover: America, 9/11 and Support The Troops! [Weekly Standard] And over here we have a children’s treasury of all the mundane things Barack Obama has been constitutionally required to look at while pretending not to be bored to the max. [The Daily Dish] China executed more [...]
What has become of Washington’s beloved comedy animal, Butterstick the Panda Bear? If this tragic BBC News photo is to be trusted, the once-adored animal is now a beaten, sad-faced monster finally let out of its horror jail after god knows how many weeks. It’s probably crazier than John McCain at this point, and looks [...]
Beloved black-and-white poopbag “Butterstick” has finally been seized by our Chinese overlords and flown back to Red China, where the sad worn-out creature will be brutally interrogated for his contacts with the Dalai Lama. And then, magically, the famous bear will suddenly start manufacturing stuff and building gleaming new cities of glass and steel, and [...]
All the aid that you donated yesterday via your Facebook status and also actual organizations that will send relief money is having a hard time reaching people buried under their own homes in Haiti. [New York Times] Oh and speaking of: Haiti has been the “Iranian elections of natural disasters” for Twitter, which, almost in [...]
The Department of Homeland Security will begin smuggling more plainclothes air marshals on planes, most likely by just putting them in a regular Advil bottle. [New York Times] Regarding the aspirational terror act, Obama, from Hawaii, has finally issued important threats about Investigating Things. [POLITICO] If the airplane bomber had been at all talented at bombing airplanes, [...]
CHINA WILL NOT BE DOING ANY CLIMATE-Y DEAL-MAKING: “In a potentially serious blow to President Obama and Democrats in Washington, who had been counting on a deal coming out of the climate conference in Copenhagen, China has signaled that it is not interested in making any deals, but rather hopes to put out ‘a short [...]
Afghan President Hamid Karzai is furious on the outside, feelings-hurt on the inside that the US and the UN considered just cold replacing him with someone else during the fraudulent election of his own design a few months back. [New York Times] Citigroup will not foreclose or evict anything or anything for the next 30 [...]
Illinois’ Thomson Correctional Facility, 150 miles outside of Chicago, has won all the Guantanamo detainees! Thomson can choose to receive the prisoners in a lump sum or in installments paid out over the next forty years. [Washington Post] China will not let any other country keep tabs on its carbon emissions, which is a thing [...]
