Wonkette
- This morning President Bush talked with Michael Mukasey, he of the dinnertime collapse, and the AG “sounded well.” [Reuters]
- Senate seniority rules prevent Hillary Clinton from having any real power in the body for years, so Harry Reid is halfheartedly trying to invent some appealing new position for her even as Barack Obama tries to convince her to go to the State Department. [New York Times]
- The UN has given the Indian navy permission to pursue Somali pirates into Somali territorial waters. CHECKMATE, BRIGANDS! [BBC News]
- Iraqis protested the new agreement between their government and the US allowing American troops to stay in country for several more years. [BBC News]
- Five lucky Algerians have been ordered sprung from Guantanamo — by a Bush-appointed judge, no less. [Voice of America]
- Remember like six months ago when gas was $5 a gallon and it cost $456 to get a loaf of bread because of the worldwide grain shortage? Now we have the opposite problem, price-wise, which is called “deflation,” and it is just as bad as inflation — only cheaper! [Washington Post]
If this is anything like “Heckuva job, Brownie” then Mukasey is a goner.
Did the US Navy got outsourced to India as well?
Mukasey is said to have collapsed just after defending GITMO, torture and rendition. If this isn’t proof of a benevolent God, there is none.
Mukaskey is just being humble; he’d rather let the professionals on Wall Street ruin my weekend.
ManchuCandidate: Well, it is the ‘Indian’ Ocean. By definition they should be responsible for it.
Cape Clod: Well, originally, it was the California Ocean and Call Center until about 1999.
I love deflation! I filled my car’s tank for $18 yesterday. That hasn’t happened since high school.
India has a Navy? Fucking A.
I hope he’s OK. That being said, when I watched the video and he started slurring and repeating his words I fully expected him to say “Two weeks. Two weeeekks!”, morph into Arnold Schwarzenegger then bound off the stage.
I could feel a little sorrier for Mukasey if he hadn’t collapsed from exhaustion of pushing through regulations making mercury an approved food additive, turning Yellowstone into a gravel quarry, and making it easier to unload truckloads of puppies with pitchforks.
Hooray for Indians!
WadISay:
In his defense, he’s yet to outlaw truck nutz
I appreciate the Indian Navy’s “no more Mr. Nice Guy” attitude. However, I really would like to see Russian Ka-50s spraying pirate vessels with lead.
I understand that the Indian military’s approach to torture is to make captives sit through hours and hours of Bollywood movies.
I’m thinking Indian Navy would make a great Dirty Jobs for Mike Rowe.
pondscum: I’m Indian and even I can’t imagine what it must be like to be on an Indian navy submarine after they serve the crew a meal of spicy curry.
jagorev: Ah, God. On the plus side, you might not actually need to carry torpedoes.
“Mike, you OK? Get your ass back on the job then. You’ve been out for 5 hours and that’s 5 hours of the DOJ’s time that hasn’t been politicized beyond all recognition. I won’t have it Mike, I won’t.”
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This is so cool. It’s like the ending of Trading Places, only drawn out 2 1/2 months. If Karl Rove had been at the speech, he would have been yelling at Mulkasey as he was being carried away, demanding that he work faster at obfuscating evidence of Rove’s crimes.
blader: If God has started smiting people for perfidy, the Bushies are going down like dominoes.
Hey, anything that gets the Indians building more warships and less, say, nuclear missiles is a good thing.
Guppy06: Except for the little detail of India building those ships for their nuclear missiles…..
Is “Brigands!” the new “Bitches!”? Cuz I like it…