Wonkette
- Well, America, here is the face of terrorism: a quartet of dunderheads, sold fake bombs, who allegedly planned to blow up a couple synagogues because the World Trade Center had already been bombed and this was obviously the next best thing. [New York Times]
- Ahmed Ghailani, a Guantanamo prisoner and al Qaeda suspect, will be tried in the US for helping with the African embassy bombings in 1998. So far, none of his terrorist cronies have tried to break him out of prison. [Reuters]
- Cheney’s favorable ratings have risen 8 percent since he left office, while former President Bush’s have risen 6 percent. Voters just like these guys better and better the further they get from actual power. [CNN]
- The financial markets have begun to thaw even though President Obama’s socialist reforms have yet to take effect. [Washington Post]
- Ten people in the United States have now died of the swine flu. [AP]
- President Obama will give a speech today explaining what the hell he’s doing, vis-a-vis the whole terrorism-detainee hubub, but according to early news reports this will be less of a “how I plan to close Guantanamo in the next 8 months” speech and more of a “my intellectual and emotional struggles over this complicated issue” speech. YES WE WILL LIVEBLOG IT. [Wall Street Journal]
If only 1 in 7 terrorists at Gitmo return to terrorism, isn’t this about the lowest ricititism rate in all of correctional history? We clearly should let the military run our prison systems, not the other way around.
Of course the other posibility is that 6 in 7 prisoners at Gitmo were just assholes who were in the wrong place at the wrong time.
It’s always interesting to watch the little political squabbles going on between our Democratic Socialists (DSP) and the Popular Republican Front (PRF).
The NY bombing story is actually a bit more scary than the usual roundup of agitated incompetents.
The feds actually let the guys plant what they thought were actual car bombs in front of the synagogues before swooping in so they are pretty much screwed at this point.
All that remains to be seen is the usual “… the informant is the one who egged us on and made it possible to get our hands on the stuff!” complaints coming from the defendants. In other cases it seemed that the FBI almost hand-held the mouth breathers just to get them to the point where they did something arrestable.
Are you going to liveblog the Obama speech?
Noonan: My source says, “YES WE WILL LIVEBLOG IT”
Noonan: I’m not saying my source can be trusted, however.
Custerwolf: You’re up early. Or have you not been to bed yet…
Will we be livebloging the “Vice President’s” speech? As the MSM plans to go wall to wall with coverage…
It’s the Miami (”Mind” Points to Body “Body” Points Head) Seven Cultists amazing stupidity all over again.
And US America (well, the Senate and the GOP) is afraid of the Muslin Arabic equivalent of guys like these?
Custerwolf: Mine too. I was just being obnoxious.
freakishlystrong: That would be hilarious. Dueling liveblogs to mirror the dueling speeches. Young, hip, good-looking, cool, has beautiful children and a dog Sara K. Smith would challenge to a liveblogging duel the scary, old, thrice nearly dead, shot a friend in the face, has a frighteningly large package, naked women in his glasses, secret-bunker dwelling Ken Layne.
DC pron. Yay.
From negative 3 to plus 5 for Cheney, and from shit to shit and one-third for Bush! MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
freakishlystrong: last year it was more like stonewall to stonewall.
W/r/t thawing financial markets, in Hopey’s next speech expect to hear “well, um, radical reform will only impede Goldman Sachs’, I mean the average American’s ability to weather this storm.”
Noonan: Yes. And both brimming with sweet, sweet snark. “has a frighteningly large package”… Ken has a man-sized safe, really?
pondscum: Pig woke me up at 4:30 this morning shrieking like a goddamned banshee. Little shithead sounds EXACTLY like a Tasmanian devil when he’s impatient for breakfast. Does this to me again and a nice sizzling sound will be the only noise he makes. (Just kidding Wilbur my love)
freakishlystrong: “a man-sized safe?” I find that a pine-box coffin serves the same purpose and comes much cheaper.
When do we get to hunt the Guantanamo detainees for sport?
Wait, the FBI sold them the fake bombs? I had no idea terrorism could be so comic!
Custerwolf: Mmmm…..bacon….
Custerwolf: Ha ha you got waked up by future bacon, who obviously has you well-trained.
In light of today’s (foiled) terrorist attack, Cheney will no doubt call for an invasion Iran, or maybe Lichtenstein.
pondscum: Oddly enough, before I got him neutered, Wilbur and the bacon my boyfriend would cook smelled much the same. I have no idea what that means.
hobospacejunkie: All my critters do - well, except the upright one. I’m not about to let him tell me what to do. Are you kidding.
Custerwolf: It means you like the smell of testosterone in the morning. Speaking of which:
http://lostintarnation.blogspot.com/2009/05/how-to-succeed-in-bosnia-without-really.html
Custerwolf: It’s my job to get my wife, a notorious oversleeper, upright in the morning. Then I can go back to bed.
hobospacejunkie: I hope she’s easier to rouse than my 3-legged Bloodhound. You try dragging him out of bed and down the stairs before he’s ready and he’ll collapse like a sack of flour, landing in a tangled heap at the bottom - not because he’s crippled but because he’s a lazy bastard.
SayItWithWookies: I love Joe. I blame his wife for his inability to edit himself internally. If she were more like me and my Joe she would have told him to shut the fuck up each and every time he said something stupid. It’s certainly helped in my relationship.
Custerwolf: Ha ha, in pictures your bloodhound barely looks alive!
Custerwolf: Yeah, but then the press would wonder about his constant flinching right after he said something questionable.
re: swine flu deaths. swine flu has killed a roughly equal number of people as non-lubricated buttsecks over the same period. no gay marriage pleez. pandemic, people.
re: cheney. following the lead the last person whose power reached its apex when he was VP, he’s devoted his life to something he’s always believed in. in cheney’s case that’s pretend drowning people who speak english only slightly better than any given member of the bush family, shocking the balls of men whose skin tone is darker than his, and acting like a garden variety asshole. someone alert the folks over at Nobel. and don’t book any flights through Barcelona or Madrid. prison food gives this future Nobel laureate the trots.
Can we just infect Cheney with pig AIDS and be done with it? Or are we still waiting on his kidneys to explode first?
SayItWithWookies: That won’t happen as long as he drinks enough.
hobospacejunkie: He’s actually a pretty agile beast once he gets going. http://s389.photobucket.com/albums/oo336/brontie2/?action=view¤t=HPIM3848.flv
pat robertsons personal trainer: The non-lubricated buttsecks wouldn’t be such an issue if bottoms would just remember to use this regularly: http://www.hardsextoys.com/p/AX111/Extreme-Ass-Spreader.aspx?warn=1
The increase in approval ratings for Bush and Cheney just proves that people have very short memories.
Loved this statement from the sister of one of the would-be bombers:
In an interview on Thursday, Mr. Cromitie’s sister, Wanda Cromitie, said she was shocked to learn of her brother’s arrest while watching television this morning. She said she was unaware that her brother may have had extreme political views, and that she had last spoken to him about two years ago when she thought he was working at a Wal-Mart or Kmart store.
“Right now, to me he’s, like, the dumbest person I ever came in contact with in my life,” Ms. Cromitie said.
She added that as far as she knew, he was not a Muslim, but “they do a little time in jail and they don’t eat pork no more.”
RabidHamster: That anus easy as it looks.
Custerwolf: Not by a long stretch. Rectum? I think you broke ‘em!