Wonkette
- Barack Obama feels that a rage-based governing strategy would not be in the best interests of the country. Is this his Katrina moment or his Sister Souljah moment? [AP]
- Yet another small plane has crashed, this one in a Montana cemetery. A whole bunch of kids were likely on board. [New York Times]
- The trial for the only known surviving suspect in the Mumbai attacks began. [BBC News]
- NASA found that a urine recycler at the International Space Station stopped working when urine was put into it. [Reuters]
- Is the White House grooming Christina Romer for more TV and media appearances since her colleagues Tim Geithner and Larry Summers have proven so awful? She talked on the television about the government’s new public-private partnership plan over the weekend, and then again on background and on “Good Morning America” today. [Washington Post, Reuters]
- It is a bad idea to put violent middle-aged crazies in nursing homes with harmless old people. [Chicago Sun-Times]
Maybe he’s getting double-teamed by Sistah Soljah and Katrina.
After eight years, we now know that it is a bad idea to keep a violent, middle-aged crazy at Number One Observatory Circle. Where else are we going to keep them?
Thus NASA proves R. Kelly fundamentally correct.
Drinking your own pee worked out great for Kevin Costner’s movie career, Astronauts. Seems appropriate anyway considering the ISS is to space travel as Waterworld is to cinema (hint, expensive and fiasco.)
I saw Christina Roemer this morning on Morning Joe. My reactions wasn’t so much: “wow, she’s surprisingly effective” as it was “holy, shit, they’ve actually got someone on the show who understands the Administration’s bank plan to defend it!”
I prefer that violent crazy people should be roaming the streets, where they belong.
NASA could eliminate their problem by just screening astronauts for golden shower enthusiasm.
Bet he won’t be the only surviving mumbai shooter for long…
Come on, NASA, they’ve been using stillsuits on Arakis for decades.
Your choice in snark:
Man, how would you like to be the astronaut that found out the hard way that the recycler didn’t work?
or
Do astronauts eat asparagus?
Harmless old people my arse. They can cut you down with a hurtful remark about your ingratitude, or knock you out cold with that story about being pinned down by a deadly hail of Kraut fire.
Whoa, Barry cannot “govern out of anger”? Tell that to the rest of Washington, I thought rage was the foundation for all legislation (take drug laws, for example).
Monsieur Grumpe: Are you kidding? They couldn’t screen for that diaper fetishist. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Nowak
“Hey, the urine recycler doesn’t work”
“Oh shit, we shouldn’t have removed our kidneys first!”
I will personally give $100* to the toxic asset bailout if Geithner yells out (in a quasi-Eastern European accent) something about the “scourge of Carpathia” during his press conference or hearings this week.
* Offer void if he actually does this.
NASA found that a urine recycler at the International Space Station stopped working
Is that another way of saying they ran out of Budweiser?
Of course, that good old song by Gil Scott Heron was the first thing that came to mind when I saw the headline:
A rat done bit my sister Nell.
(with Whitey on the moon)
Her face and arms began to swell.
(and Whitey’s on the moon)
I can’t pay no doctor bill.
(but Whitey’s on the moon)
Ten years from now I’ll be payin’ still.
(while Whitey’s on the moon)
The man jus’ upped my rent las’ night.
(’cause Whitey’s on the moon)
No hot water, no toilets, no lights.
(but Whitey’s on the moon)
I wonder why he’s uppi’ me?
(’cause Whitey’s on the moon?)
I wuz already payin’ ‘im fifty a week.
(with Whitey on the moon)
Taxes takin’ my whole damn check,
Junkies makin’ me a nervous wreck,
The price of food is goin’ up,
An’ as if all that shit wuzn’t enough:
A rat done bit my sister Nell.
(with Whitey on the moon)
Is this his Katrina moment or his Sister Souljah moment?
No, this is one of many prezidentin-is-hard moments. DUBYA WAS RIGHT!
Joehoya: Everyone that laughed at this (including me) is a fucking dork.
Romer is pinch-hitting for Summers/Geithner while they are busy maintaining the ball-gag and straps they’ve administered to Paul Volcker. I say, bring out the gimp!
I wonder what company had the contract to design the urine recyclers. Halliburton? They did a fine job installing showers in the bases in Iraq.
To be fair to NASA, a lot of stuff stops working when you put urine in it. I tested.
Zadig:
That would be an awesome job, wouldn’t it? “Here, go piss on this and see if it stops working. Just be sure to unplug it first.” Actually, that might even be my dream job.
Serolf Divad: I’d prefer if you tested politicians that way.
You are never allowed to question or review NASA ever. You just wouldn’t understand because you don’t have 7 PhDs or somesuch.
WadISay: Ain’t it the truth? I used to listen to these guys for a living. One told us many many times how the radar was right there in the cockpit with him. He said it just that way, over and over. His great tragedy was that in his eighties there was absolutely nothing wrong with him. He kept going to the VA hospital and demanding MRIs and whatever else was around that was expensive. And when the tests all came back negative, he would intone, but the radar was right there in the cockpit with me!
hobospacejungle: Going out on a limb here, but I think a lot of them would enjoy that.
Zadig: That was true in my boyfriend’s case.
Thinking about that urine recycler makes me pissed.
More Romer, less Five-head and Jabba. And somebody needs to pay some money to have some guy from Chicago talk to Paul Krugman sternly. They need somebody with some brass knuckles to speak motivationally to the closet PUMAs who are whispering the administration in to the ground. Why do we only hear of Rahm E. when he’s catching a movie or working out?
Where the fuck is Joe the Plumbernaut?
hobospacejungle: ?? plugging something in and having the politicians piss on it? cool. count my reps in!
People, you can’t pee in a Mr. Coffee and get back Taster’s Choice.
hey in the Army they don’t recycle the urine before you have to drink it.
You should have wrote:
“NASA found that a urine recycler at the International Space Station stopped working when somebody pissed on it.”
or
“…pissed all over it.”
Thank you.