Wonkette
- The GM-owned German car maker Opel is looking for a bailout from the German government, and looks unlikely to get it because they apparently submitted what amounted to a glossy brochure to the government instead of a serious restructuring plan. [BBC News]
- Chinese leaders suggested that their economy might be “on the cusp of recovery.” Really? [Reuters]
- Coke plans to spend $2 billion in the thriving Chinese market, building a new plant and spending additional dollars on R&D, sales, and distribution efforts. [Wall Street Journal]
- Holy wow! Did you know that some people use Craigslist to arrange sex hook-ups? This is the first time in the history of the classified section medium that such a noble instrument has been used to such tawdry purpose. [CNET News]
- Congratulations, America. Your unemployment rate is now 8.1 percent — the worst it’s been since 1983. Capitalism! [Los Angeles Times]
- North Korea has been making noises about doing more missile testing, so South Korea wisely diverted flights that go through North Korean airspace. [euronews]
Craigslist, can I give Mann Coulter a virtual STD?
Well, the chinese economy is doing well if they can spend $2b on cocaine. But will they spread it around following socialist principles or will it all fall into the hands of a few connected party bureaucrats?
And here I thought “Erotic Services” just meant clean, wholesome fun.
Are these the same Chinese leaders who thought that wiping out Sparrows was a great idea? The same guys who believed that melting down farm implements and cookware to produce “steel” was wonderful? The same folks who believed getting STDs from Mao was deliverance from the heavens? The same folks who thought that Civets based SARS would just burn itself out and not spread to a worldwide panic? Why yes, yes they are.
I would like to recover my litter of puppies from the local Chinese restaurant, fo sho. Also, nom nom nom.
Good plan, South Korea. Make sure to fly low and have naked women hanging out the windows with money and confetti and champagne flying everywhere, and crop dust those fields of rice slaves with Hershey’s kisses and perfumed underwear. The commies will give up in a month.
this whole socialism vs capitalism thing is making george thirsty — does anyone in the pro-capitalism camp realize that capitalism is based on, well, capital, and that you would need to have at least some capital to have capitalism?
I first scanned the headline “Coke plans to spend $2 billion in the thriving Chinese market, ” as “Coke… $2 billion… thriving Chinese market, ”
Wow, there’s a lot of coked-up Chinese!
ManchuCandidate:
Pots and pans are now used to cook discarded printed circuit boards followed by the evening Chicken Helper meal.
Huiyuan Juice, made with only the purest melamine. And PCBs. Also. And it refreshes!
Have you had your Huiyuan today?
“spending additional dollars on R&D”
I love this. They put corn syrup and water into cans and bottles. Not even. They license others to put corn syrup and water into cans and bottles for them. Yet somehow this is a multi-billion-dollar industry. With an R&D budget.
Yeah, because if the Chinese government is anything, it’s honest, transparent, and forthright. And it’s not at all paranoid about social unrest due to economic hardship toppling it from power. No siree!
AllHat:
They research how to get people to intuitively reach for their brand of crack, and develop recipe tweeks to keep you hooked on their crack.
Your unemployment rate is now 8.1 percent — the worst it’s been since 1983.
So this means the Republicans have succeeded in bringing back the Reagan era, right?
Opel forgot to send along the barely-clad model to drap herself over the glossy brochure. That would have clinched it for them.
Don’t miss thisspecial message for everybody from He Who Must Not Be Named! It made me want to remove my eyes with a melon-baller.
Democrats are filthy cock jackals when it comes to prostitution.
Trickle down Republicans use public restrooms, gloryholes, and cubscouts.
Mothra Stewart: Obviously I need to give up on the link embedding thing and get back to sorting kohlrabis and parsnips. So - http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2009/03/obama-limbaugh.html, darn it.
On my upscale suburban Pugetanian island, the ever-vigilant po-lice arrested a few Seattle-based Craig hos who’d ferried over to the local Best Western. No word yet on the unmentionable-but-probably-married-and-connected johns.
Lesson: You’re not supposed to sell your body on Craig’s List but you can buy one (or two or three).
So before now South Korea thought it was safe to fly passenger airliners over North Korea. Maybe the southerners aren’t the smartest guys in the room.
Well, if I ever decide to work again I’m moving to China’s equivalent of Atlanta and applying to Coca-Cola™. The USSR was the only country unaffected by the last Great Depression, and China’s the closest thing we have to the late, lamented Russian commies. So it makes sense. Plus I’m sure Bush made sure Coke would get some hefty tax breaks for investing in Henry Kissinger’s favorite client instead of, you know, helping to rebuild the manufacturing base of US America.