Wonkette
- Pakistan announced the arrests of several suspected Mumbai attackers and revealed details of the case, which involved phone cards and exotic European locales such as Austria and Barcelona. [New York Times]
- The military vote could tip Israel’s election to the Likud party, forcing President Shimon Peres to appoint Benjamin Netanyahu prime minister. [Reuters]
- Ford’s Theatre re-opened last night after an 18 month renovation, and President Obama was there to honor President Lincoln. Given the theater’s history, that must have been one tense “celebration.” [Bloomberg]
- Chrysler and GM have until Tuesday to submit revised plans to the Treasury Department showing how they plan to become vibrant and profitable during the worst depression in the history of depressions. [Detroit Free Press]
- A nutty Dutch crusader against Islam made a movie about the terrible bloodthirsty Muslims, a film that was of course greeted with “violent protests in the Muslim world,” and now this character wants to go to Great Britain to show his dumb movie. [Guardian]
- A new version of the stimulus package was unveiled late in the day yesterday; it seems to displease all equally, so it must be awesome. [New York Times]
Geert Wilders appears to be auditioning for a show on Fox Newz.
At this point, I’m going with the George Costanza view aka “take every instinct I have and NOT act on it” on “conventional” whizdum.
These are the same cheerleader fucks who BELIEVED:
1) The old fashioned notions of product, profit, margin, cash flow, etc were obsolete because of the Intertubes
2) Outsourcing all jobs (except management) was good for the US economy
3) Paying people decent wages was a stupid idea
4) 40% growth a year is sustainable
5) Obscure financial devices that PhDs barely understood didn’t need regulation
6) Paper and vapor profits are more valuable than money made by making/doing
So, if they’re unhappy with the stimulus package… Well, let me borrow Malkin’s cheerleader outfit.
violent protests in the Muslim world
How can irony survive in a world containing people like that?
Dear Barry, please stay the fuck away from Ford’s Theatre.
Thank you.
The auto companies aren’t certain the details of their plan will be persuasive. Then again, the plan IS in a clear plastic binder-cover, so, plus half a grade at least.
Modest request: On April Fools, can all the links on the site lead here?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-xwd6ysn3g
shanemacgowan: Step aside, Mr Blagojovich, your ‘big hair’ is a mere crew cut compared to this guy.
Wilders was due to show his 17-minute film Fitna, which criticises the Qur’an as a “fascist book”, at the House of Lords today
They show movies at the House of Lords. The Senate in the USA could be much more interesting if the Sgt. at Arms doused the lights once in a while and ran a movie.
Obama and his wife, Michelle, joined politicians and Ford’s Theatre donors to watch a series of songs, readings and speeches performed by celebrities such as Ben Vereen and Kelsey Grammer.
Whereupon, in their infinite wisdom, the President and First Lady pulled out antique pistols and shot themselves in the head.
What genius thought it was a good idea to send Hopey to Ford’s theater?
Gee, maybe he can sit in the same box as Lincoln! Gee, maybe we can have a celebrity impersonator pose as John Wilkes Booth! That would be hilarious! He can have a fake gun that pops out a flag that says “Bang”!
Dear Barry, please stay the fuck away from Dallas, Texas. Also.
ManchuCandidate: ‘So, if they’re unhappy with the stimulus package… Well, let me borrow Malkin’s cheerleader outfit.’
Please, don’t go there.
cal: Saxby Chambliss offered to perform a reenactment of Booth leaping from the box to the stage shouted “Sic semper tyrannis,” but it was decided his ass was too fat for the new cable system they had just installed.
Also happy birthday to two great liberators — Abraham Lincoln, who liberated millions of people from the tyranny of slavery (sorta and eventually); and Charles Darwin, who liberated billions of people from the tyranny of faith over science.
ManchuCandidate: So, if they’re unhappy with the stimulus package… Well, let me borrow Malkin’s cheerleader outfit.
Oh, pix of that plz?
Also, Lincoln and Darwin are both celebrating their 200th birthdays. I was going to Obamicon Darwin, but my work computer won’t let me install Flash player v.10. Hmmmph.
I just watched the “dumb movie” on Youtube, and it’s basically documentary footage. Instead of laughing at the crazy Dutch “Islamophobe,” shouldn’t we be more concerned that the UK is limiting freedom of speech in the even that your speech might piss off local Muslims?
The worst part of Fitna is how Wilders appropriates Edvard Grieg for the score. Boo.