Wonkette
- The FDA finally gave the go-ahead to a Menlo Park company to perform a study using embryonic stem cells. Any correlation between this development and the installation of a new president who adds embryonic stem cell “boosts” to his morning fruit smoothies is completely coincidental. [Wall Street Journal]
- US Treasury Secretary-designate Tim Geithner says the Chinese keep their currency artificially low, which is a very true and obvious point that representatives of the American government are never supposed to make out loud. [Washington Post]
- Belgium is one of those countries you can reliably mock because nobody will accuse you of being racist, but today news comes that a knife-crazed weirdo killed two kids and an adult in a Belgian day care center, and that just takes all the fun out of mocking Belgium. [AFP]
- Enjoy your trees while you’ve still got them, American West! Soon global warming will kill them all. [Los Angeles Times]
- Hillary Clinton used all her “star power” to shine a splotlight on the glamorous post of Secretary of State yesterday, which is why none of you really heard about it in the news. [Newsday]
- A high-turnout special election in Nashville helped soundly defeat one of those dumb English-only measures. [Tennessean]
Looks like those stem cells can be used to grow spinal tissue. I nominate all senate and congressional dems for clinical trials.
“Baron said English-only measures are often veiled attempts against immigrants and non-English speaking groups.”
What exactly is veiled here? Would “unveiled” be titling the measure the “We Don’t Want No Dirty Brown People Here Ordinance”?
I will mock no country with beer and chocolate. Yes, we have that in ‘Merika too, but their’s is better.
Es un gran día para la los habitantes hispanos de Nashville, y para las fuerzas de asimilación hispana que poco a poco van recobrando el teritorio que Díos, en su infinita sabiduría, le concedió al imperio/paraíso terrenal de Aztlan, y que los Yanquis, ayudados por el poder demoníaco de Beelzebub, le robaron al pueblo indígena mesoamericano. Dentro de poco sus plantas terrenals serán nuestras, su riqueza irá a parar a nuestros cofres, y sus bellas hijas y mujeres tan inocentes y rubias, serán nuestras futuras amates y esposas. Los demoniacos yanquis, por su parte, nos limpiarán los zapatos y cortarán nuestros céspedes.
Translation: this is a great day for cross cultural understanding.
Giant Robot:
Seconded!
Quien es mas macho?!?!
“Any correlation between this development and the installation of a new president who adds embryonic stem cell ‘boosts’ to his morning fruit smoothies is completely coincidental.”
I thought he just ripped embryos from wombs and then ate them on the White House lawn. No need for smoothies–just eat the pre-babies!
Hey there! We need a Kirsten Gillibrand post! Cute blonde upstater FTW!
Might make country music tolerable.
I suspect that the lyrics “I lost my job, my truck, my six pack, my shotgun and my dog. My wife left me, but thank Jeebus I still have my scat porn” sounds much better in Espangol.
“Tim Geithner says the Chinese keep their currency artificially low”.
Tim Geithner kept his taxes artificially low.
CorkPopper: here you go
http://womensvoicesforchange.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/11/27/kirsten_gillibrand.jpg
ManchuCandidate: how do you say TruckNutz in Spanish?
Doglessliberal: I answered myself. Google translator says:
Camión Nutz
ManchuCandidate: You have a point. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrPOEDaaS2M
Serolf Divad: “Fuck y’all, fuck all y’all. Fuck all y’all’s sisters and yer hound dogs to boot.”
Translation: While I am disappointed in the outcome of this election, I’m grateful that I live in a democracy where my voice can be heard. I will comply with the law and place signage in my all night convenience store that enables my valued customers from the immigrant community to purchase liquor, munitions, and chewing tobacco in a welcoming and comfortable environment.
Doglessliberal: I think it’s “Cajones de camion” with an accent over the ‘o’ in camion.
Hey, the Oreck vacum cleaner guy was one of the people who helped defeat the measure.
BTW, I looked up the guy who sponsored the English-only measure in Nashville. He’s an honors grad from Vanderbilt, an author, a decorated Navy combat vet who speaks Japanese. Guys like that are usually D’s. I wonder what the R’s do to take competent, accomplished people and turn them into human TruckNutz.
Cape Clod:
CajoneZ?
Aw, Damn! Sara beat me to the Neuronos cereal joke!
Geitner could walk back the Chinese currency thing pretty easy. “No, I wasn’t talking about that China, I was talking about the other China - you know, the one in Taiwan. I can see how its confusing, though, on account of there being two Chinas, which, while both being called China, are entirely separate countries.”
That should smooth things over with the People’s Republic.
Doglessliberal: Titling the measure “We Don’t Want No Dirty Brown People Here Ordinance” could actually be a brilliant political move to circumvent voter intent, via simple English grammar no less.
ManchuCandidate: yes, we need the Z
Arthur B. Ablabab: yes, I like that. The irony would be sweet.
ManchuCandidate: “PelotaZ de Camion” or the Mexican version “PelotaZ de Truck” are also acceptable.
The Belgian killer attempted to flee the scene on his bicycle.
He may have a psychopathic hatred of chidren, but, you know, he’s very conscious of his carbon footprint, so there’s that.
I must say, watching Hils talk to the State Department employees like they were 7th graders reminded me again forcibly of how glad I am I don’t have to see her every day for the next 4-8 years, tho I suppose they are having bitter, unfulfilling hormonal surges over at Confluence.
ManchuCandidate: Good point.
I’m suprised that Peggy Noonan wasn’t there, sticking up for all those brown people that she likes to startle.
How can children still be dying? Obama is president now!
WadISay:
You get a time out for using the C word! Bad!
WadISay: I agree, and that plastered on fake smile is just bizarre. Can’t she look as if she means it? (rhetorical)
Doglessliberal: I think she’s had a heck of a lot of nip/tuck done on her mug; hence the answer to your question may well be, actually, no.
This is why I conduct all my government business in Vulgar Latin.
I conduct mine in Vulgar English.
Splotlight? I’m not sure what it means, but I like the way it sounds.
WadISay: oooh, Hillz with teh Botoxin’!
Fruit smoothies may be overdoing it, but I can’t get through a morning without a pat of Blastocyst Jelly on my toast.
Please start buying my stem cell stock so I can get my head gasket fixed!!!!!
Maybe the big applause Hill’s received at the State Department yesterday will shut all the PUMAs the fuck up.
Thank you, thank you. I’d like to think my vote was the one that put us over on the Enlgish Only initiative.
Miserable Fat Belgian Bastards.
blader:
Sorry. What little money I have will go to railroad development.
Viva Nashvegas!
“Like Roberto Duran said after his fight, ‘No mas,’” Crafton said. “I think our community benefited from this debate, and I’m glad to have it behind us. We may have been on different sides, but we have to work to improve the education system, work through the budget crisis. Now, we have to be cooperative and work together.”
I’m sorry - the guy who spearheaded the effort to enforce English-only usage in the local government discusses the defeat using Spanish? That language must have some power if even the people trying to eliminate its use can’t stop using it in daily speech.
I support Engrish olny.
Or I would, if ever one of those propositions also mandated that persons who speak ONLY English be required to learn at least two additional languages.
Grazie and merci, wo de hao pengyo.
Dios mio, I can’t be the ONLY card carrying liberal, secular progressive American who thinks we should expect everyone who has enjoys privilege of being a citizen and living in the greatest nation in the world to speak a common language, English.
Kinda like a secret handshake, its what makes us all members of the club, as if.
When I visit Mexico (and Miami), I speak Spanish.
When I visit Orlando I shouldn’t have to.
RobPetrified:
Unfortunately, the same people who scream about Engrish Onry are usually the same folks who want to cut funding for ESL lessons.
ManchuCandidate:
“Thats just bayd, mmmkay?”
Schadenfried: Not to mention they make the best freedom fries.
shanemacgowan: It’s vandy that did it. It’s full of overprivileged suv driving Southern republicans. Think of LNS. Horrible people, really.
English only measures really piss me off. I’ve never met an immigrant who didn’t want to learn English. My friend teaches a ESL course for adults and it’s always filled up. They can’t get enough volunteer teachers and there is a 3-4 month waiting list. People who work 80 hours a week show up after 16 hour shifts just to attend class. I used to watch the kids while the parents were in class and the kids have to serve as translators (kids pick up languages a lot faster than adults) for the parents. Can you imagine what it would be like to have your kid serve as your translator if you had to report a crime or have your child translate your property tax statement for you?