pakistan
MUSLINS TRY TO TEABAG OTHER MUSLINS: “A high level Pakistani diplomat has been rejected as Ambassador of Saudi Arabia because his name, Akbar Zib, equates to ‘Biggest Dick’ in Arabic. Saudi officials, apparently overwhelmed by the idea of the name, put their foot down and gave the idea of his being posted there, the kibosh.” [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Barack Obama sent himself to Asia to convince everyone over there that he is not distracted or whatever by various goings-on in Afghanistan and Iraq. [New York Times] Say farewell to the White House’s rhyming general counsel, Gregory Craig, who is quitting his job today. [Washington Post] Nidal Hasan will probably face the death penalty. [...]
Obama’s team is willing to send some 30,000 troops to Afghanistan, though it remains to be seem how much moral (and otherwise) support will be provided by Afghanistan and Pakistan. [New York Times] The DC sniper was executed via lethal injection last night. He had no final words, just one final insane blank stare. [Washington [...]
Total body count was 13—with another 30 injured—at Ft. Hood yesterday. The gunman survived after being shot four times. [New York Times] Speaking of the gunman, Army psychiatrist, Maj. Nidal M. Hasan, here is a lengthy biographical portrait. [Washington Post] An important Afghan governor and his militia and their rocket launchers are challenging the legitimacy [...]
After very possibly receiving fewer votes than his opponent, Hamid Karzai has won the presidential election of Afghanistan! [New York Times] Ford earned $1 billion in the third quarter and people are now thinking the company could be profitable by 2011. [Washington Post] Yesterday some American guy—originally from Eritrea, but still totally counts—won the New [...]
Hamid Karzai’s brother, a prominent opium dealer (!), has been receiving CIA paychecks for eight years. He will now be fired and replaced by a teenager and an iPhone app. Recession! [New York Times] A car bomb killed 86 people in Peshawar a couple hours after Hillary Clinton left Peshawar. [AP] At least six UN-related [...]
After being prodded by basically everyone on Earth, soon-to-be-former President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai is ready to admit that he did not actually win the re-election. [New York Times] A new poll says that most people think the public option would be a good thing, actually. [Washington Post] Swine flu has spread to this one [...]
Big Oil and Big Natural Gas are fighting, like they always do! It’s about energy policy, like it always is! [New York Times] David Axelrod and all his friends are preemptively very offended—on behalf of America—by Wall St.’s big bonuses. [Washington Post] Pakistan soldiers cornered a bunch of Taliban people in South Waziristan, which is [...]
Obama, to prove he does not hate New Orleans and has zero plans to willfully destroy it—as per the tradition of his predecessor—will visit this afternoon. [Los Angeles Times] Over 30 people were killed in a series of coordinated terrorist goings-on in Islamabad. [New York Times] The Arctic’s ice will be completely gone in 20 [...]
One of the winners of the Nobel Prize for Economics is some American gal, Elinor Ostrom, who is the first lady economist ever to win. Something about communities and resources, anyway it was uncontroversial! [CNN] So our government is still working out the kinks in its system of telling when foreign people who visit here [...]
Herta Muller, the famed rather depressing Teutonic authoress, has won the Nobel Prize in Literature. [New York Times] Hooray, the Senate Finance Committee has approved the most recent health care bill, which means it could be sent to the Senate floor by the end of the month! [New York Times] Pakistan would rather the U.S. [...]
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