Wonkette
- For the fourth year in a row, Republican voter registrations have declined while registrations for Democrats and independents have grown. [New York Times]
- George W. Bush says yay to China for helping to “curb the nuclear ambitions” of Iran and North Korea, but boo for their continued crappy human rights record. [Washington Post]
- Oh goodness! Cynical Nancy Pelosi is quietly telling Democrats running in at-risk districts to back domestic drilling if they have to, because once they’re all re-elected they can craft sweeping energy reform that is secretly, deviously, environmentally sound. [Politico]
- The chief executive of Freddie Mac was a terrible dillweed who ignored all sorts of dire warning signs that the company could be in trouble as early as 2004. [New York Times]
- The anthrax scientist who recently killed himself was apparently obsessed with the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority at Princeton. [AP]
- MoveOn has planned a protest against the tyrannical House Republicans who are still shouting into megaphones about gas prices, even though Congress isn’t in session right now. [The Hill]
DAILY BRIEFING
Yeah but only the votes by registered Republicans will actually count.
I’ve said this in a previous comment about these imbeciles at Fannie and Freddie: If you’re backing gazillions of dollars in mortgages, wouldn’t it be in your best interest to give it due process? Lending people money is risky enough, but lending to people to finance their pyramid scheme is flat-out stupidity.
I hope the FBI does lay it’s case against Ivins out. Right now, it’s a gossip fest. “Ivins kept a beautiful garden and juggled, he can’t be the guy!” “Yeah, but he stalked me and said he wanted to kill people!” “Oh, yeah? Well, you were caught drunk driving, so how can we believe YOU?” “Oh! He had a freeze dry thingie and no real official use for it!” “Maybe he had a use and you just don’t know about it yet!” “Ooooh, Ivins hated that sorority!” “Crap, who doesn’t?” “Yeah, good point there…” and so on.
Welcome to our party, gun nuts and anti-gay bigots. As long as you vote Democrat, President Obama won’t send your children off to madrassas.
Pelosi is in favor of telling the voters what they want to hear in order to get elected, and then just goes about doing whatever damned well she pleases? I’m shocked!
Multiple U.S. officials told The Associated Press that Ivins was obsessed with Kappa Kappa Gamma, going back as far as his own college days at the University of Cincinnati when he apparently was rebuffed by a woman in the sorority.
Allright, I realize this is all speculative, but: if half the stuff that’s coming out about the Ivins guy proves to be true…. am I alone in finding it rather distressing that a completely batty fruitcake was put in charge of developing bio-weapons for the defense department? Or maybe you pretty have to be a psycopathic not-job to want to go into bio-weapons development in the first place and Ivins is pretty much run of the mill for his department? You’ve got the psychopath who’s obsessed with sorority girls working on anthrax in that office. You’ve got the nutcase who abducts and tortures his neighbors’ cats in the Botulism lab. You’ve got the schizo who vacations in Thailand and partakes of the child-sex tourism industry there working in the Ebola lab down the hall.
Serolf Divad: I think you answered your own question. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’ve got some air-borne biological weapons to make and some common waterfowl to have man-sex with.
mornings are so depressing. i really like wonkette, the threads,
the funny, snarky people…i come here to brighten my day…
…but the morning headlines are always so depressing. i know it’s not
your fault sara…you work with what is, but, geez…i’m going to have
to learn to wait until noon to come on board.
i just had to vent…
“I’ve had four other jobs as C.E.O., and I came out of them all pretty well,” Mr. Syron said. “What I’m working for right now is to save my reputation.”
Douchesack careerist fuck. Did the company come out of it pretty well? I’m guessing a resounding no. Reputation? At this point, your reputation is about as meaningless as a prostitute’s virginity.
What straight male wasn’t at least a little interested in Sorority Lesbian fantasies? Although I have to admit that weaponized Anthrax spores made things a lot more kinky than I would have ever been.
NON Snark: This anthrax thing is one of the most fucked up stories I’ve read. Either it’s true or it’s the worst cover story ever.
tsunami: Ya, I hear ya. I kin tell by your avatar you have a problem with depressing news.
Serolf Divad:
Taking the step going from being a microbiologist who studies anthrax to being a microbiologist who works on biological weapons must be a huge moral decision. Or at least I HOPE it is. I wonder if that comes up in the psychological evaluations associated with this job (they get those in order to get clearances, right?) the counselor/doctor/therapists asks “So, how do you feel about creating or improving upon something that could kill thousands of people?”
Republican registrations are down? Okay, then I think it’s only decent to back off calls for counting all votes and making it easier for more people to vote. They need all the help they can get right now, and I feel pretty bad for them.
Call your local government and see what you can do to get more voting rolls purged now. The Republicans need all the help they can get!
Serolf Divad: you’ve worked in the industry then?
I used to wait tables at a KKG sorrority house too. Oh, little miss perfect doesn’t deign to look upon the busboy? I’m not condoning bioterrorism or anything, but I can somewhat relate. Just sayin’.
WadISay: I used to wash dishes in college. All this time I figured you busboys were getting all the action out there, while back in the hole I just didn’t have a chance and I always smelled like creamed chicken and french fries, anyway. It’s something of a relief to finally learn that I wasn’t missing out after all.
Still, it’s not fair that Nancy the waitress wound up with Dale the line cook. I often think that if I’d only taken up smoking, things could have turned out differently. All the same, I hope those two don’t have lung cancer now.
I, too, am obsessed with the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority at Princeton, and everywhere else. As soon as I can pull up some hot KKG photos on the ‘net, I plan to “meet my meat”, as Wonkette’s sponsors so obligingly command us.
ManchuCandidate: Oh puhleeze, the guy was obsessed with Kappa Kows? And the ones at Princeton? That’s proof positive he was a nutter.
Larry McAwful: Sounds like you got a future Tom Stoppard play going there. Or maybe you just came from one.
I still say Anthrax is most potent when combined with Public Enemy.
But then, that’s true of all things.
Let Chuck D. solve the Ivins case.
So remember that hack (Amy Chozick) from WSJ who wrote the article on Barack being a beanpole? Turns out it was pretty much fabricated, she took her main quote from an online message board SHE CREATED, and, she’s a whore.
The end.
Ivins was a biodefense worker. Someone who theoretically makes products to save us all from nastiness, not someone who calmly designs devices to kill masses of people.
Also, ‘normal people are just people you don’t know very well.’ We’re all crazy in some way, including people who post on blogs.
(read: wacko) The vast majority of the time we don’t go out and kill people. Uh. I would guess. Even Paultards. Presumably.
Most extraordinarily bright people I know have a ‘bee in the bonnet’ about something. Usually they’re benevolent bees, but you never know when they could turn ugly and swarm.
As far as the Ivins thing goes, I still don’t buy the FBI’s explanation of his motivation. He released the anthrax to test a vaccine he was working on? Uh, the damn vaccine doesn’t do any good unless it’s administered in advance of exposure, right? That got my law-enforcement-is-making-shit-up-dar buzzing (yeah, I’m gonna work on a more mellifluous term than that).
And for Richard My-Hands-Are-Tied-I’m-Just-the-CEO Syron — geeze, you made $38 million by bowing to Congressional pressure — quit even pretending you’re contrite. And now they can’t find a replacement? Hell I’ll take it for half was he was getting.
Well, I know whenever I am rejected by some sorority sister, I always start to grow toxic spores. Of course I don’t need to check out a lab grade freezer. My refrigerator and the aged leftovers seem to work just fine.
Serolf Divad: Our government employs the people no one else will. Check out your local DMV office if you have any doubts.
Until the GOP gets new voters, the South rising again is put off indefinitely. Boo Hoo.
Serolf Divad: I knew a couple who were involved with the chemical weapons program and were generally harmless except for being alcoholics in order to deal with what they did for a living. Most of the fed scientists (non-chem weapons associated) were a bunch of harmless nutters and eccentrics. I think you have to be a bit nuts to work for the feds when you can earn so much more money working in industry.