Wonkette
- In an interview with the Dubai-based Al Arabiya channel, President Obama urged Palestinians and Israelis to return to the negotiating table. [Reuters]
- Layoff fever — it’s spreading! This hot new trend started in the mortgage and real estate sectors, but now manufacturing, retail, and IT are getting in on the action. [New York Times]
- Four Democrats voted against the appointment of tax cheat Tim Geithner to Treasury Secretary. He was appointed anyway. [Bloomberg]
- Barack Obama’s “honeymoon” in Washington is long over, because he basically started running the country in, oh, October. [MSNBC]
- We are on track to dwell in a post-apocalyptic hellscape of tsunamis and drought for 1,000 years, and basically nothing can change that. [Washington Post]
- In the United States, people look at our failing newspaper industry and joke darkly about a newspaper bailout. In France, they are actually doing a newspaper bailout. [Financial Times]
We must add to Sara’s list this story about Ivanka Trump, linked from HuffPo:
http://guestofaguest.com/quotations/quote-of-the-day-2/
In which the subject poses in a swimsuit and a jackhammer. Plus our intellectual giant says:
“A great social injustice is that we are in Iraq–I spend a lot of my time thinking about that.”
To which a poster (get this guy/gal a Wonkette log-in) says:
“Her legs are really shiny. That’s how you know she’s smart.”
Back to our own shiny-legged Sara.
People laughed when I started speaking in an Aussie accent, wearing Black Leather bike rider gear, carried a sawed off shotgun, and turned my Honda Civic into a desert racing machine complete with tamper proof extended range (exploding) fuel tanks.
You laugh now and tell me that you won’t need another hero, but don’t come crying to me when global warming fucks everything up and Aunt Entity starts making you guys fight to the death at the Thunderdome.
“Republicans, in a defensive crouch, are without well-known elected leaders, leaving Rush Limbaugh with his Golden Microphone as the loudest and most famous voice.”
He’s giving America a golden something, but I don’t think it is a microphone.
The fact that Obama gave his first interview as president to the Al Arabiya channel leads me to believe he’s just having fun with the PUMAs and the crazies at this point.
“The fundamentals of our economy are strong.”
Still, working-class Repukes misdirect their outrage and blame.
“Noting that he has lived in Muslim countries and has Muslim family members, Obama said: “My job to the Muslim world is to communicate that the Americans are not your enemy.”"
Today, weare are all Muslims.
Draughts, tsunamis, whatever brings about the indiscriminate orgy-state is fine with me.
Canmon (the Inadequate): Dammit, if I’m gonna be turned muslin they could at least let us know… now I’m goin to hell for having hot dogs for breakfast.
The Rethugs are smearing each other for not being white enough. Or too white. Whichever.
http://theplumline.whorunsgov.com/uncategorized/anonymous-attack-on-gop-chair-candidate-uses-fake-newspaper-cover/
Sussemilch:
The package sez it contains meat, but I have my doubts about the “meat” in hotdogs so I think you’re still going to 72 Virgin Heaven.
If life expectancy projections for African-American men are accurate, by 2050 I’ll have been dead for at least 15 years. I’m going to spend the next 25 years polluting like a motherfucker just to get a little payback.
Too bad Obama didn’t give an interview to the Christian broadcast network, so we could have learned his plans for mandatory early teen sexings.
We’ve had layoffs recently in my office, and word is that there’s more coming. I suspect my job is safe for a few months, tops, and then anything goes.
So since I’ll probably have more free time come this spring, I’m wondering: how much do I have to post on Wonkette before I start getting paid? Let me know. I’ll tell you where to send my W-2.
You say tax cheat like that’s a bad thing?
Madame Sarkozy will finally get a good album review.
We are on track to dwell in a post-apocalyptic hellscape of draughts and tsunamis for 1,000 years, and basically nothing can change that.
So, sorta like Crawford, Texas, right?
ManchuCandidate:
Until you start eating canned dog food we really can’t be sure whether you’re just a poseur or not.
I assume by “draught” you mean beer — not sure why that’s part of an apocalyptic hellscape, unless you’re talking about Miller Lite.
For some reason, this information isn’t exactly front and center in the news, but here are the 10 Republicans who voted for Geithner. I don’t understand why Hopey isn’t crowing about this.
Corker (R-TN)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Crapo (R-ID)
Ensign (R-NV)
Graham (R-SC)
Gregg (R-NH)
Hatch (R-UT)
Shelby (R-AL)
Snowe (R-ME)
Voinovich (R-OH)
‘We are on track to dwell in a post-apocalyptic hellscape of draughts and tsunamis for 1,000 years, and basically nothing can change that.’
I can deal with myself and my house being inundated by a surging flood of biblical proportions but I hate it when I feel those subtle, chilly breezes while I watch ‘Masterpiece Theater.’
Bypartizoa:
It’s because the RNC has them scheduled for reprogramming. Independent thinking usually occurs only once in a Republican’s career.
“It is bizarre. But this is France,” said Laurent Joffrin, editor of Libération(.)
Even the French acknowledge that the French are fucking weird! I suppose that if you actually live there, all you really can do is roll with the punches.
bureaucrap: No my friend. Hellscape = PBR. Or Busch Lite.
A newspaper bailout would be entirely appropriate. After all, our mortgage bubble was based entirely on paper profits.
teh honeymoon is over! Let the fisting begin!
bureaucrap: indeed! i immediately pictured Guinness raining down from the sky and thought wtf is so bad with that?
When will companies finally learn the meaning of “loyalty”?
Bypartizoa: Snowe did but Collins didn’t? I guess they are trying harder to be distinguishable. Maybe they are taking turns- like one vote you get to be the conservative and I’ll be the moderate, but next vote let’s switch and keep people wondering… Cuz they’re cousins, identical cousins all the way, they look alike they talk alike sometimes they even vote alike…
ManchuCandidate: I want that as my mailing address: 72 Virgin Heaven, Frostbite Falls, MN. No, I guess that doesn’t really work.
YAY WE WON! FUCK YOU EARTH!
/Exxon
Bypartizoa: Wait wait wait - does that mean, at one point, Idaho’s two Republican senators were a man arrested for soliciting gay sex in a public restroom and *Senator Crapo?* They must have more of a one-track mind than I’d have assumed.
Bypartizoa: I’m far from impressed. Surely you don’t expect wealthy powerful people to say “Let’s make an example of this person by poring over his tax filings with a fine tooth comb!” Nah. Gah. Happah.
Serolf Divad:
Does Puritan Stew count? It’s only one step above Dog Food.
If not… Damn, I am a poseur.
ManchuCandidate:
Is that like Dinty Moore? Because I might be prepared to accept Dinty Moore.
This prediction is coming true - I found a bar that has Tsunami Hellscape on draught.
I guess I’d better stock up on zombie repellant.
ManchuCandidate: They do have pig snouts and hog lips so if that counts as pork, then hello Satan (Muslin version).
ManchuCandidate: Or possibly 72 Raisin Heaven. But hey, it’s all good.
Sussemilch: “Dammit, if I’m gonna be turned muslin they could at least let us know… now I’m goin to hell for having hot dogs for breakfast.”
Hot dogs…or hot dog soup? They last longer if you make soup with them, and the pork presence is reduced to such an extent that a lazy Allah probably won’t notice. Prepare for your 72 virgin raisins!
pattycake: Tsunami Hellscape IPA. Teh jobs are all going to India anyway… and IPA is sooooo delishioush.
After a few minutes of having a sad for our doomed planet, I actually felt fairly vindicated in my deliberate childlessness and alcoholism.
hobospacejungle: TBH, they were from a convenience store and soaking overnight in hot saurkraut. Perhaps they not so piggy after all. Allah rejoice!
Why all the talk about a doomed planet? She’ll be fine. WE’RE the one who are utterly fucked because we have the planning ability of snowshoe hares. Be ready to run out of drinking water every summer. Let the hording/raiding/reducing-our-population-the-old-fashioned-way begin! i expect all Wonketters to report to my house (or Ken’s) for gun, knife, and bow-and-arrow training by next Thursday.
After this is all over, then it is time for post-apocalyptic breeding and buttsecks. You’ll be glad that Boehner didn’t want the birth control money attached to Obama’s massive (economic) stimulus package. He sure likes to talk about Obama’s package.