Wonkette
- After months of relative calm, violence is starting up again in Iraq. The latest bomb in Baghdad killed at least 33 people. [BBC News]
- Even if Barack Obama wants to lift restrictions on stem cell research, certain states (GEORGIA) are determined to keep them in place. [Atlanta Journal Constitution]
- President Obama will give yet another speech today, probably to distract voters from all the money he’s spending. This one will be about how he plans to spend a bunch of education money on good teachers. [Wall Street Journal]
- A standoff between the US ship Impeccable and five Chinese vessels ended with China being very unhappy with the US and the US being all, “WTF we are just surveying your waters for submarines, as usual.” [New York Times]
- A police officer was murdered in Northern Ireland for the first time since 1998. The republican paramilitary group the Continuity IRA claimed responsibility. [BBC News]
- Stocks appear to be headed up today, at least until 10am, when the Commerce Department is due to release a report on wholesale trade inventories. Then everything will crash as usual. [AP]
Your navy article missed the part where this American bottom-surveying ship, full of seamen, used their hoses on Chinese sailors in their underwear. Best part of the story.
Today we are all Georgians. Also.
…i obviously don’t understand the american federal/state divide.
if the federal government re-institutes funding for a particular facet of scientific research, how can a specific state then block that funding?
(side point: are there many biotechnology laboratories in georgia?)
- entropy.
“The legislation defines a living human embryo as a person”
Then I would request that they all be issued Social Security numbers.
Let me just say that I’d hate to be the sad sonofabitch in charge of scrubbing the decks on a ship called the fucking “USS Impeccable.”
US American Georgian legislators have a hard time with skienze in general because they are living proof of the Wanker Theory of Relativity (”Everyone’s a relative.”)
Our Navy has a ship called the “Impeccable”? Does it have sister ships by the name of “Exquisite”, “Faultless”, “Immaculate”, and/or “Purity”?
Makes the old argument about the Navy being for gays just a little harder to dispute…
Well we are sort of just surveying the Chinese waters. Sure, we want to know what the ocean bottom looks like, but tracking the Chinese subs based a hundred miles north of these is pretty interesting too.
so…let me get this straight…there is a group of people who wants to define life as beginning at the moment of fertilisation, so no abortions, no ESC research, maybe no IVF.
here’s the bit i don’t get…
they also seem to like guns.
is it just that they want a wider variety of people to kill later?
Renewed airport security profiling of Roman Catholic terrorists in 3…2.. oh wait, these terrorists are white aren’t they? Never mind. Carry on.
entropy: You obviously haven’t heard their solution to both issues: give guns to fetuses.
If they are to be considered “persons” aren’t they entitled to representation? Shouldn’t Georgia get at least two more House seats?
Today we are all “Northern Island”ers.
WIDTAP: i suppose it’s one way to make the massive attack music video creepier.
WIDTAP: Womb Weapons?
CDC is in Atlanta. Emory University Dept of Human Genetics is in Atlanta.
Trucknutz College Dept of Impregnating Your Sister is in Kennesaw.
Also
hockeymom: massive attack, “teardrop”. youtube it, it’s creepy enough without foetal ak-47s
So Georgia’s going to have a war against fertility clinics? But this is not to be seen as any kind of distraction?
For the record, my wife and I used in-vitro fertilization. For us it was a dud, costing tens of thousands of dollars, after which we ended up conceiving “naturally” (if you can call a leather swing and double-layer neoprene wetsuit “natural”). At no point along the way do I recall being asked if we wanted to keep or discard whatever embryos they were not able to implant. It works the other way around. You have to tell them you want to keep them. The clinic will be only to happy to oblige, charging the couple seeking to retain the embryos for later use a refrigeration fee. If we are to retain every embro produced for IVF procedures, we’re going to need refrigeration units bigger than the render farm at Pixar.
I will say this for Georgia wingnuts, they never fail to entertain. They’re fun but man are they distracting.
Dawn Keipuntsh: And instruction manuals.
entropy: WIDTAP:
And! Lifetime NRA memebership for all zygotes until birth; then you must pay.
iz in ur echonomiks zonez, trackin ur subs
Of course, from Georgia’s point of view we up north are the dumbasses because we haven’t lifted the ban on handling venomous serpents.
Boojum: Does this mean that we get to move the CDC? Also, the federal government should stop carrying Coke in its vending machines. That’ll teach ‘em.
Canmon (the Inadequate): Ha ha, Daylight Savings Time leaves me SLEEPY.
I guess the Russians handed off the ‘cat-and-mouse’ games to the Chinese. We (the 7th Fleet) used to always get buzzed by Soviet Tu-95s out of Cahm Rahn Bay, Vietnam. It happened every time we entered the South China Sea. It was expected and never reported, unlike today.
Imagine how the US Navy and news reporters would react to the Chinese surveying outside of Puget Sound. Christ, we’d be at DEFCON 5!
I remember China’s Defense Minister, Hu Changming, expressing his hopes for joint US/Chinese military operations. Not a bad idea. First, we both must train our Naval commanders to stop the pissing contests.
I was hoping the Iraqis would give up violence for Lent.
“We’re too dumb to make it in no northern town, la la la etc…”
…Impeckerball?
the goddamn mutherfukkin snake embryos on this submarine are all impeccable and shit!
Boojum: And me. In Atlanta: subvertin ur virgins wit mah radicalness.
PerhapsSo: I would rather just move Atlanta. Maybe we could be annexed by Vermont or something.
Boojum:
The sound you hear is hundreds of scientists in Georgia sending out their resumes/cv’s. The medical schools there now can open departments specializing in faith healing.
If memory serves, the Chinese did the same thing to Jr. in the early days of his presidency. I recall them sending a plane back in pieces.
Terry: Faith healing is already taught in Georgia colleges. Along with Young Earth Geology, Flood Archaeology, and Biblical Anthropology.
Servo: What was also fun was B-52s buzzing Russian “trawlers” off the coast of Maine. Nothing is quite as fun as seeing “fishermen” lose their shit as a BUFF buzzes a “trawler” at 600 feet at about 600 mph.
These Georgia politicians are the same folks who oversaw peanut inspections, and we all know how well that has worked.
Northern Island? That sounds like it’s near the Hamptons, which makes this shooting really shocking.
Oh, goody, my state of Georgia made Wonkette! It isn’t enough that we have Lyn Westmoreland (who’s like Michele Bachmann without the work ethic), Phil Gingrey (”I’m so very sorry Rush. Can I light your cigar for you? Wash your car? Grovel at your feet?”) and Saxby Chambliss (he defies description. Pond scum shuns him). Now we’re going to absolutely refuse that science stuff.
As a native Georgian, I used to take solace in the fact that we were surely more progressive than our neighbors in Alabama, South Carolina, Tennessee, etc.
For some months now, I’ve been noticing that I was quite wrong.
Toonces:
The P-3 boys have been known to high-beam the trawlers with those submarine searchlights and drop dummy sonobuoys filled with toilet paper and porn, which were retrieved from the water by the appreciative crews.
If Georgia doesn’t want stem cell research fine by me, just don’t let Georgia benefit from the fruits of said research. Would “thinning the South” really hurt anyone all that much? Well, except the fine institute of stupidity.
WIDTAP: They’re not terrorists, they’re freedom fighters! And they’ll remain under that classification at least until Ted Kennedy finally kicks it.
Renewed violence in Baghdad and an incident with the Chinese Navy !!! I’m shocked..shocked, I tell you!!..especially in light of our new world peace initiatives demonstrated by Barry’s withdrawal timetable, the Gitmo plan, and our new Amb. Hilliarious in China.
Hows that working out for you?
” I’d like to teach the world to sing” Have a coke, a smile and STFU!
BillyClubb: Oh, girlfriend. You should see the super deck chairs and tasteful window treatments on the USS Marvelous.
NoWireHangers: Asshole.
Jesus fucking Christ. These assholes are like Liz Lemon’s brother.
- “This is my brother, State Rep. Mitch Lemon (R-Assfuck).”
- “What’s wrong with him?”
- “He was shot in the face by Cheney during the Inauguration. He thinks it’s still January 20, 2001. Just play along.”
- “Hello, Representative Lemon.”
- “Hi! I’m in power now!
- “Uh, good. So what’s on tap, then?”
- “Oh, lots. We’re gonna kill every rail project we can find before a darkie can take a subsidized ride to our glorious exurbs. Then, we’ll make homo-marrying a big issue. People will need something to care about after we slash business taxes and the economy rebounds from the Clinton recession.”
- “Um…”
- “Then, we’ll get the ten commandments displayed in every courthouse. Also, our governor thinks you should ‘manage your time better’ rather than violate his Sabbath, so no buying a six-pack on the Lord’s Day.”
- “You’re kidding.”
- “Nope. Look, I gotta go. The President is about to give a speech live on Fox News about his humble foreign policy, and then I have a meeting. A few of us will introduce a bill next month to make sweet tea mandatory in all Georgia restaurants. Did you know many restaurants won’t accept a major credit card from a fetus? We should do something about that, too! Y’all come back now, ya hear!”
- “Speaker Pelosi. President Obama.”
- “What did AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
- “Goddamnit, I told you not to do that! Now he’s gone into a seizure!”
- “Good.”
It’s a shame these hillbilly sister-fuckers aren’t noteworthy enough to attract deranged gunmen. At this rate, I’m going to have to wait until there are no more Navin R. Johnsons in the phone book before anything changes around here. Assholes.
Serolf Divad: Could be worse. You could be assigned to the USS Queef.
The IRA men who murdered 2 soldiers in Northern Ireland also attempted to kill two pizza delivery boys on the same occasion, on the grounds that the delivery boys were “British collaborators”. Like most people, I had thought that these knuckle-dragging crazies were gone forever. I guess not. Not for the first time, “the Cause” is just an excuse for psychopaths to do some killing.
wheelie: every ’cause’, throughout history, has been an excuse for people to kill other people.