Wonkette
- Rematch! Arlen Specter’s old Republican primary foe, Pat Toomey, announced he would again harass the old cancer survivor in 2010. [Philadelphia Inquirer]
- It’s been hard finding a lawyer to represent the only surviving accused Mumbai gunman, and it just got harder: the judge in the trial just fired his lawyer for being in contact with one of the victims of the November terrorist rampage. [Times Online]
- Fiat will not be bullied by Chrysler and its unions, so who knows, maybe Chrysler will go under after all? They have till the end of the month to make a deal before the government takes Chrysler off the money teat. [Forbes]
- Mortgage application volumes declined last week, maybe because of the Easter/Passover weekend or maybe because everybody who was able to refinance their dumb mortgage already has. [Wall Street Journal]
- The worst bedbug outbreak in years has left people across the nation sleeping in their goddamn bathtubs because they are so freaked out by these repellent little insects. [AP]
- Iran seems to be responding a little better to the new US diplomatic approach. [New York Times]
The lucky duckies sleeping in their cars don’t have a problem with bedbugs.
Reminder to self, stay away from US America hotels or sleep in DEET PJs.
I hate parasites like that creature in Alien, Glen Beck and bedbugs.
Brrrrrrr.
Great, another issue to blame on Furriners and the poors.
Iran likes it better when they’re spoken to in the spirit of mutual cooperation, rather than the spirit of “I will kill the evilz, that means you.” Who knew?
so thats why there are all of those bed bugs ads on the subway
It it a bit amusing to find that we now look upon FIAT as the knight in shining armor to save Chrsyler. It’s like Packard Bell buying out Apple. Here we all sit, watching the auto industry die… here, in what we’ve been assured is the most dynamic, freeingest, most capitalistically-awesome USA, while praying that the auto manufacturers of SOCIALIST EUROPE might lend us a helping hand and stave off our demise.
I’ve had my coffee, had a beer, checked online to see that my tax forms got accepted, read a few pages from the Tibetan Book of the Dead, charged up my camera batteries… OK, let the CRAZY begin!!
Giant Robot: forgot to mention that I’ve got the Glen Beck show turned up to 11.
Yesterday: SuperAcne; Today: Bedbugs; Tomorrow: Scabies. Ahhh, college days are here again…
Newt Gingrich is inviting me to a party…. I’ll pass.
http://www.governmentalityblog.com/my_weblog/2009/04/newt-gingrich-wants-your-tea-bag.html
Well, Fiat’s reputation is for making teeny tiny cars and Chrysler’s is for big old rolling hunks of metal with four tires. Maybe after the merger, between the two of them they’ll make something I want to drive.
Serolf Divad: Well, to be fair, I wouldn’t weep for Apple either.
Yeah, call it bedbugs all you want. We know you really have crabs.
How the hell do you get an infestation of bedbugs? Is it from sleeping around?
Toomey make Bachmann look kinda normal-like. Everyone pray on your dead-fetus altars that he loses.
Chrysler is the red-headed step-child of the automotive world. How long before it’s new father throws it into the pizza oven, head first?
I’ll be honest, the idea of Fiat turning out the giant-assed trucks Dodge used to, is pretty amazing.
Toomey’s primary victory would pretty much mean a guaranteed win for the Democratic nominee, and a more entertaining general election as he brings on the crazy, so I’m rooting for him. Though he’s certainly better than Santorum, I’m still tired of being represented by the senile old magic-bullet man, who talks like a moderate and votes like every other Republican, anyway.
Shouldn’t we be more concerned about residual semen in our hotel beds and rooms? I’d hate to be a CSI dude looking at our room in Las Vegas (couple weeks ago) with one of them black lights. We kind of made a mess of things all over the room. Left the couch a little crunchy.
Min: hobospacejunkie: As a hotel operator, I’ve been told it seems bedbugs travel from place to place in Our Esteemed Guests’ luggage, mostly. That how it spreads, anyway. So, my esteemed guest, please fumigate your fucking suitcase before you check into my little inn, thank you very much.
Especially if you just got back from Africa. Or New York, or Washington DC, or college.
hobospacejunkie: Left the couch a little crunchy.
And I think maybe you should just not check in at all…
hobospacejunkie: I like you hobo, but that’s exactly why I refuse to walk barefoot, touch the bedspread, or sit on the furniture in a hotel/motel (don’t care how ritzy the joint is). Shudder…
Texan Bulldoggette: Don’t worry. We don’t travel often (maybe 3 times a decade.) So long as you avoid the Venetian in Vegas you’ll be free from my taint.
Lascauxcaveman: It was our 10th anniversary. We don’t get our freak on every time we stay in a hotel. Usually we just sleep & watch TV like normal people.
Serolf Divad:,Terry: FIAT = Fix it again, Tony. However, their new Cinquecento is kewl.
hobospacejunkie: Because they are so often, uh, used by impatient couples, hotel staff call the bedspreads “fuck blankets.” Or so I’ve been told. Lascauxcaveman?
Min: Lascauxcaveman: Yes, bed bugs can travel on guest’s luggage. Once they infest a room they hide out in crevices in the walls and bed, making it difficult to get rid of them. Sheet changes don’t work, and pesticides often don’t penetrate far enough.
True story:
I was an an entomology conference in Florida and one of the hotels people were staying at had bed bugs. At the bed bug symposium, people were actually very excited and happy about this. It was one of those times that I realized why people regard my chosen field as strange.
Bed bugs have a smell (sort of like stink bugs, but milder), and they tend to lay their eggs on the headboard or wall next to the bed. The eggs look sort of like salt and pepper. Another clue is if you wake up with your ears a little bloody :).
Q: Bedbugs?
A: Diatomaceous Earth.
Bed Bug infestation keeps growing and growing