Wonkette
- Iran’s president says President Obama must apologize for Bush and “stop supporting Zionists, outlaws and criminals.” In other words, he’s not willing to meet without preconditions. [Times Online]
- The Pope reinstated a few nutty old bishops, including a Holocaust denier, but says that he personally thinks Jews are just awesome. [Washington Post]
- Fertility experts are generally concerned about, and dismayed by, this gal in California who had a frigging litter of children. [Los Angeles Times]
- The FDA says that the Georgian salmonella/peanut plant that got a lot of people sick has knowingly sold tainted food in the past. [MSNBC]
- House Republicans, suddenly concerned about the national debt for the first time in EVER, will probably not vote in large numbers for the new economic stimulus package. [AP]
- Russia is making nice with Barack Obama by delaying plans to place short-range missiles in Eastern Europe. [UPI]
Iran’s president says President Obama must apologize for Bush and “stop supporting Zionists, outlaws and criminals.”
Look, we’re doing all we can, we tossed out the “outlaws and criminals” in the last election. Zionists? So far we’re still cool with those guys…
Haha, Russkies backed the fuck off. USA, USA, USA!!!111!11! WE’RE NUMBER !.
Honestly, who gives a shit what Republicans want? The Dems are going to lose Congress if the economy is still in the toilet in 2010 or they’re going to increase their majorities if the stimulus package seems like it’s working and nothing the GOP does will have any impact on either outcome. So, fuck ‘em. Fuck ‘em right in the ear.
Who would like to bet that the owner of the Georgia peanut plan is a big GOP donor and that inspections of the plant were somehow missed in recent years?
You got your taint in my peanut butter!
No, you got your peanut butter in my taint!
Terry: Does this disprove the Republican’s long-held idea that regulation is just a waste of time and money?
Does this mean we are no longer all Georgians?
I’m going to miss being a Georgian, but it required me to get visas everywhere I travelled. But the extra bonus was the Russians gave me the anal probe
What’s all this fuss about tainted food? The reason so many people are getting sick is because we’ve been trying to keep taint out. If we’d let more germs and poisons into our food, then the weaker people would die off, making food cheaper to produce and strengthening our herd in general.
Terry: Are you saying the Chinese aren’t blamable on this one?
Says Mamoud Amadoineldnjad: “When they say ’we want to make changes’, change can happen in two ways. First is a fundamental and effective change… The second … is a change of tactics. It is very clear that, if the meaning of change is the second one, this will soon be revealed.”
Like, why bother speaking English?
The octs were born on Monday, the Chinese New Year, which is Year of the Ox, which is our President’s zodiac sign, since he turns an interval of 12 this year, and Wiki says these are the characteristics of his particular (Metal) Ox, :
” unyieldingness, rigidity, persistence, strength and determination. The metal person is controlling, ambitious, forceful and set in their ways as metal is very strong; and they are self-reliant and prefer to handle their problems alone. The metal person is also materialistic, business oriented and good at organization and stability. However the metal person can also appreciate luxury and enjoy the good things in life. Just as metal can conduct electricity, the Metal person has strong impulses and generative powers and can bring about changes and transformations for those who come into contact with them.”
Well, not only does that bishop think that the gas chambers didn’t exist, he also believes that women shouldn’t go to college, he empathizes with some of the views of the Unabomber, and thinks that they US government staged 9/11.
Wow, an all around gentleman and scholar.
a frigging litter of children
Drop the family planning money and look what happens.
I think all this “reaching around” Barry’s doing is actually clevah..he can always say; “Well, I tried!” Then steamroll the mutha fucker through. Remember, Clinton tried to work with Repubs as well, and we all know how that turned out.
Terry: What else would you expect from guys who cross-dress and bury themselves in the bathroom vanity?
http://mielczarek.org/gallery/albums/DeadPopes/Pius10th.sized.jpg
BillyClubb:
Part of the whole free market thing, isn’t it? If you leave them alone, the bankers/manufacturers/etc will do the right thing. Honestly, most will. I can’t believe that most food manufacturers want to kill kids. Then again, most laws and enforcement weren’t written with the average person in mind. Well, the average Wonketter, but not the average citizen.
US will apologize to Iran only after his preznitness ditches the Blago haircut and pays a little more attention to the state of his skin.
freakishlystrong: I’ve been thinking that, too. Here we are just eight days into President Obama’s administration and the first thing he tried was to reach out to the Republicans. Now he’s in a great position to paint them as the obstructionists. All the gnashing of teeth among Democrats is premature; I really think Obama’s setting the Republicans up. Within a couple of months, we’ll know.
I’m confused… Does this mean that Pontius Pilate was or was not in the SS?
I could quote a lot of theological arguments regarding the folly of embracing the schismatic Pius X Society but it pretty much boils down to: Ratzinger is an asshole.
a frigging litter of children.
I’m a daddy!
I really think Obama’s setting the Republicans up.
Yeah, but so what? I mean, if you’re the sort who would still be willing to vote for a Republican anyway, is seeing a little *more* obstructionism gonna make any difference?
Why can’t the cowman and the farmer be friends?
Larry McAwful: Yep, Boner and McConnell and all our right wing “leadership” are starting to look and sound hysterical, AND even fighting with Limpdick…delicious!
freakishlystrong: Harry Truman did pretty well campaigning against the “do nothing Congress” (although it was controlled then by the Repubs for the first time in a couple of decades.
I don’t know why people are upset about the octuplets. Just means more Soylent Green when the Cannibal Anarchy comes to US America.
They should sentence those Georgian peanut processors to DEATH, China-style.
Naked Bunny with a Whip: Well, it won’t matter to them. But so what? What matters is that there are plenty of people who would rather vote for a Democrat, and will be more inclined to show up at the polls if the Democrats in power are showing some actual spine. There are also plenty of people who can go either way, and would be turned off by Republicans apparently disinterested in working to get things done. There are plenty of dead-enders who’ll insist on voting Republican no matter what, but they’re roughly 30% of the population and dropping, so who gives a damn?
freakishlystrong: Heh… I loathe the Republican party and even I don’t take Limbaugh seriously. The fact that McConnell does is a sign of real trouble for them.
I think the eight kids came not from fertility drugs, but from John Edwards’ potent semen.
So are we going to execute the peanut butter TAINTers like they did in China?
and will be more inclined to show up at the polls if the Democrats in power are showing some actual spine.
That’s true, I suppose, but it will require some follow up from the Democrats where they actually, y’know, grow spines. They’ve been making concessions for more than two years now. It’s past time they pulled a spine out of their asses. Or, er, something like that.
These 8 kids are probably going to have physical issues the rest of their life and potentially mental issues as well. The next generation Republicans will be born from a fairly small group of women and a whole lot of fertility drugs. Ann Coulter will probably squirt out thousands for her country and only miss 2 ½ days of work.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said at least 12 times over the past two years the Peanut Corporation of America has knowingly sold products that had tested positive for salmonella.
No regulatory problem here–the FDA knew all about the poison peanut butter. They are just working under the “thirteen strikes and you’re out”–you can ship deadly poison to unsuspecting consumers every two months but you better stop for a while after you hit a dozen in two years.
See, the system actually works.
Larry McAwfulfreakishlystrong: Correct sir! By going straight to the Repubs (and pointedly not going after the “Dubya Era” [yet?]) he has painted them in a corner: they could be a part of the inevitable change or continue to behave like the past AND anchor them in with all the Limbaugh-ger cheese. Our Zenmaster President will have more difficult votes later, so if they don’t go with him now he will have ammo to say they not only have no ideas and are petty obstructionists, but they’re not acting in good faith whatsoever. That is “the old Wash. politics.” Delish. Also.
Did Blago visit that peanut butter factory? Can a loose hair or two taint entire batch of peanut butter? Uberstrength taint is possible. Don’t touch that dial! More adventures of Obamaman will be right back!
Re the octuplets: as a friend of mine says, the vagina is NOT supposed to be a clown car.
freakishlystrong: From the article you linked to: You know you’re just on these talk shows and you’re living well and plus you stir up a bit of controversy and gin the base and that sort of that thing.
Gin the base? Either free liquor for everyone or some kind of really strange Republican sex practice that I can’t beging to imagine.
Whatever the case it is nice to see these clowns fight each other.
Origami: When they poison the Nutella, that’s when we bring in the firing squad.
I’m so glad clinical embryologists are using fancy words like “heebie-jeebies”.
Litters of chillins are one of the many reasons I got tied off as soon as I could. My favorite was Bobby McCaughy from Iowa. Her argument against selective abortion to reduce the number of feti was that “it was God’s will” that she have those babies. Uh, sorry lady. God’s will was that you have NO kids. If you’re going to bring in science to get preggers you need to stick with science to limit the number. Several of hers have issues…
Naked Bunny with a Whip: Oh, I’m not uncorking the champagne yet, but I’m cautiously optimistic. We’ll see what the Democrats actually wind up doing. Right now, though, they’re looking better than the Republicans. They could still blow it, so we’ve got to keep an eye on them. All I mean to say is that I think we’re off to a good start, and I think the Democrats are giving off hints that maybe, just maybe, they know what they’re doing this time. I reserve the right to be wrong about this, but dear God, I hope I’m right. I’m sure you do, too.
Come what may, we’re morally obliged to keep their feet to the fire, especially if it seems like they’re doing what we want them to do. It’s the Republicans who thank their leaders before they succeed.
donner_froh: If it’s Republican sex practice;
“base”= ass
“gin”= fucking
Those octuplets better watch their collective backs, Old Lady Duggar is living on borrowed fertility time and she’s got an entire brood to attempt a mass kidnapping.
pondscum: If God had meant for women to have litters he’d have given us 8 teats like labrador retrievers. 2 is the limit, ladies.
I’ve got this great new slogan for the GOP:
GOP: Deficits
don’tmatter.So the same hospital that delivered 8 babies was also the one that fired a man who killed a family of 7.
What a week.
Anita Cocktail: WIN!
The Republicans will always tenaciously discredit the Keynesian model because they rightfully fear that it will erode their base. However, they’ve underestimated a highly reactive public that had a comfy lifestyle yanked out from beneath it. Their double-talk exposed in the form of massive financial pains, the Republicans find themselves in an almost irreparable relationship with voters.
They have nobody to blame but themselves. Everybody knows this except the Republicans.
Eight is high, but 24 is the highest number.
Ahmadinejad /Blago…hairy coincidence or are these actually in-laws.???…something cooked up in the ’50s gene tanks of the NSA for future world control run amuk….I believe there are movie rights here somewhere….
The federal government should declare that woman’s uterus a disaster area. Just thinking about it makes me cringe.
Mahmoud Ahmadinnerjacket is a contentious ass. But soon, he will succumb to the Hopeyness. It is an irresistable force.
lazyb: Exactly!
“The FDA says that the Georgian salmonella/peanut plant that got a lot of people sick has knowingly sold tainted food in the past.”
This is the result of government getting in the way of the private sector. We need LESS regulation, not more of the same old, “you’re making my kids sick” whining.
Oh, the Pope. Vhatta vhacky Nazi du bist, mein Papst!
SkimLatteModerate: Eh, things just about balanced out.
TGY: Of course the pope is wacky! He was a Nazi Youth who served as what was historically called The Grand Inquisitor.
Is it just me, or is this a “Monty Python and The Search for the Da Vinci Code” movie that needs a lot of editing because, you know, the pace sucks.
Monsieur Grumpe: Really? Ann Counter? I always thought “she” was a transgendered man.
Larry McAwful: I hope you’re right but the Democrats and Hopey need to keep repeating something no one ever seems to point out:
If you’re unemployed and losing your home, you don’t need a fucking tax break!
This morning on The Takeaway, the two anchors actually asked a Republican a couple of decent questions.
DustBowlBlues: I meant Ann Coulter, although my typo was perhaps a Freudian way of calling her something my middle aged sensibility won’t allow to say. Take that “o” out and bang, pretty much describes that wom–man–it-beast.
House Republicans, suddenly concerned about the national debt for the first time in EVER…
Listening to these guys talk about their problems with the stimulous package is such high comedy. It needs to be “focused like a laser” on job creation…unlike the kabillions of dollars we gave to the banks, or Iraq, which was showered through the streets like confetti.
Listening to some publican congressman tie his toungue in knots explaining why the plan needs “more” tax relief, but currently has too much tax relief for certain (POOR) people who don’t need tax relief because they don’t pay enough taxes to qualify for relief from it, I almost drove my car off the road laughing.
Somebody else online said what Barry’s doing is pretty clever because he’s acting al bipartisan like and then when the Republicans inevitably say no it’ll be a debate between jobs, healthcare, and smooth-talking Obama vs dour Mitch McConnell and the smug, strangely tanned, ridiculously named John Boehner trying to discuss the evils of government spending with a straight face. Advantage Hopey.
Larry McAwful: My theory on why the 6 second rule works. I stretch it to a minute sometimes for my little granddaughter. Freaks her mother out, but I think it bolsters her immune system.
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populucious: Anita Cocktail: Win. I have a Catholic friend with 10 children, but at least she had the decency to do it one or two at a time. I can’t remember exactlyif there were any twins. After dropping that many damn kids, I doubt she can either.
populucious: ” It needs to be “focused like a laser” on job creation…unlike the kabillions of dollars we gave to the banks, or Iraq, which was showered through the streets like confetti.”
Oh, that was Eric Kantor, wasn’t it? AKA Dixie Jew. He has the annoying southern accent, but in a nasal whine. Do the Repugs go out of their way to find awful looking people?
DustBowlBlues: Ha, I guess my mom’s a piker, having only produced 7 live births (all onesies), O miscarrys. And it took her 13 years to do it. I don’t see how she can hardly call herself Catholic.