Wonkette
- Putin’s current Russian president Dmitry Medvedev made a nice deal with Barack Obama, about the nuclear weapons. [Telegraph/Washington Post]
- Even the Queen is smitten by Michelle! Britain has Obama Fever … except for the snarling mobs just tearing shit up everywhere, especially if the shit in question has the word “bank” on the exterior wall. [BBC News/Telegraph]
- Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius will probably be confirmed by the Senate as Obama’s new health-care queen, because she only owed like $8,000 in tax errors over three years. Her job is to secure health care for everybody in America, so this is kind of serious. [Reuters]
- Congratulations, everybody: Somebody died in the G20 protests. [Guardian]
- Former conservative darling Ann Coulter is now hated by the anti-abortion crowd. [Colorado Independent/FireDogLake]
- You know what’s kind of depressing? A Depression! New study proves it. [Washington Post]
- There are so many wrecked, jobless, hopeless Americans with nowhere else to go than America’s public libraries that it was just a matter of time before things got stabby. [New York Times]
I’m sitting here proctoring seventh-grade standardized tests, and that Coulter article made me happy.
HAPPY. I’m in a room full of seventh graders who are filling in bubbles, it’s cold and rainy outside, and I have a conference to attend on Saturday and I’m HAPPY.
Yeah, they’re actually selling Obama t-shirts in London. So I ask you, are we selling Gordon Brown t-shirts here?
I can’t fault Gov. Sebelius over tax errors. Thanks to TurboTax I now regularly communicate with the IRS over what the program says I owe, and what they say I owe.
I’m going to pledge to stop calling Medvedev a frickin puppet right here and right now. This pledge will hold until Putin gets up and pisses all over something or flexes the old biceps and makes Medvedev look like a frickin puppet again.
I call the big one “Stabby.”
Isn’t it ironic that pro-life people like Ann Coulter undermine their own point by being the poster child for abortion?
Why are the Brits treating this financial summit like a soccer game?
THIRTY-TWO YEARS LATER, FUCKING ANARCHY, YOU FUCKING CUNTS!!!! Makes me want to throw a trash can through a shop window just thinking about it, only that might aggravate my back or wind up on my credit report somehow…
I’ve been at the demonstrations, and they’ve smashed maybe 5 windows, tops. If anything, it’s considerably less violent than a football riot.
Poor Ann, she thought she was perched so far to the right that she had everyone in front of her where she could see them.
First post at 8:20am. Wonkette did NOT win the dawn.
I think Obama should make a stop at the anarchist convergence center and shoot some hoops with those angry youngins.
Mild Midwesterner: Yep, looks like the football-hooligan style violence is seeming more and more unrelated to the actual Conference. They are just acting like straight up assholes!
(That, or I’m getting old.)
Thanks so much for sharing that part about the librarez!…I already live there and now I’ll have to share the lobby from 10:00 pm to 8:00 am with even more peoples… christ knows what Sundays will be like…although I’m thinking about church (some of the pews are padded)…
The Ann Coulter incident begs the question how far right can a person go? There has to be a limit and what happens when you get there?
Nothing is as of much importance as containing nuclear weaponry, just another noble activity disdained by Bush in pursuit of his god-centered ideology.
“I think it was a meeting without much intimacy to it, which is a good thing.”
And no buttsecks.
True Library Story Time!
I worked in a library years ago in their audio video department. A young black dude politely asked me for a set of headphones so he could watch the musical Godspell. I set him up and left him alone. A few minutes later, he returned the headphones. I asked if he didn’t like it. He replied that he just wanted to check out who was playing Him in the musical. He also asked where he could get a cheap bottle of wine. That is how I know, with complete certainty, that Jesus is black.
Well, the random Tick reference in the FireDogLake caption just made MY day. Nothing makes me happier than a random Tick reference. *sighs contentedly*
Hah! Annie is getting hoisted by her own jockstrap. Maybe she’ll have to go back to doing drag shows at, you know, drag bars.
This is not the anarchy envisioned in 1977. However it’s pretty hilarious that with one song John Lydon made a compelling case for eliminating the monarchy, and over 30 years later the first President of color is still paying deference to a little old lady who’s only hold on relevance is that she lived through the Blitz. The Brits have a lot of gall calling out American financial practices with the fucking money they waste on that horrible family.
People die at Disney World, too.
TGY:
It’s the giant saw blades that festively pop up halfway through the teacup ride that account for most of those deaths.
Meaux: I like the use of “Christopath” in the comments.
Pretty easy for Medvedev and Obama to find they have something in common.
“That Bush, what a major-league asshole!”
“Yeah, big time.”
Mr Blifil: Queen Liz is not all that bad. She was actually kind of badass during the War - she learned how to repair diesel engines and worked in the garages fixing stuff while the bombs went off outside. She’s lived through African refugee camp plagues and stuff too. She is unspeakably rich tho thanks to her heritage, but she does spend her own cash to party and hang with the world leaders. The taxpayers don’t actually foot the bills for most of her shenanigans.
Gorillionaire: They just pay her rent to live on her vast properties.
TGY: But at least people who die at Disneyland have the advantage of hearing the jolly strains of “It’s a Small World After All” as their life force wanes, as opposed to crudely repurposed soccer chants about RBS and AIG. Whatever, that dude probably died from a bad case of “Holy Fuck I Just Realized My Actions And Intentions Are Entirely Futile”-itis.
BillyClubb: Just in case American retailers have sold out, you can buy your Gordon Brown T-shirts online.
Mr Blifil: BBC are now saying he was a local newsagent who was on his way home from work and just happened to, you know, die, as he as was walking past the demo…
Either M.O. is hiding a satellite dish in her hair or that’s her attempt to make the grey little Queen look even more like Smigel.
Hello Sunshine: How soon before was the dude touched by the Trilateral Commission representative?
Former conservative darling Ann Coulter is now hated by the anti-abortion crowd.
The very definition of bittersweet victory.
sati demise: After all, she’s got ‘uuuuuuuuge……..tracts of land.
OReillysVibrator: You’re wrong - she was runner-up to the other 2 shoulduvbenaborted progeny of Mrs.Igot Raped and Ms.Nympho McUglystick.
Monsieur Grumpe: The vaccumm inside their empty skulls eventually causes a structural collapse and their heads implode.
I wanna be anarchy!