Wonkette
- The North Koreans are so angry at Sonia Sotomayor stealing their spotlight this week that they fired off another missile as a cry for attention. [CNN]
- George W. Bush gave a little speech to a little club at a little college in Michigan, and eight whole protesters showed up. [AP]
- Perennially house-arrested and persecuted Burmese pro-democracy dissident Aung San Suu Kyi is on trial for “harboring an American,” a nutball who snuck into her house because he thought God wanted him to tell her she was going to be assassinated someday, as if that were something that would only occur to God. [Guardian]
- That Chicago alderman who just got arrested wore a wire for the Feds for a whole year and look what it got him, nothing. Or at least, it didn’t stop him from getting arrested for bribery and fraud. [Chicago Sun-Times]
- Even though they’ve been busily deporting Mexicans, the Chinese have nonetheless suffered their first attack of swine flu. [AFP]
- Climate change doesn’t kill people; people causing climate change kill people, via the weather. [Reuters]
Let this be a lesson, Wonketteers: Next time you are facing indictment do not agree to wear a wire without a promise of immunity, in writing. Who is this guy’s attorney, Lionel Hutz, Esq.?
One story not covered here, probably because it is of interest only to straight dudes: a NJ female teacher was arrested for sexy time with a 14-year-old male student. The man-bites-dog element is that the teacher is not, um, ‘conventionally pretty,’ let’s put it that way.
The often-tearful meetings he had with relatives of fallen soldiers were “in some ways… very hard and in some ways, it was very uplifting,” (Bush) said.
Jesus motherfucking Christ in a chicken basket. There is not a President in history that would make a statement like that. Especially given the unnecessary nature of the conflicts he started.
From the headline: Bush misses seeing G.I.’s, White House food
I don’t get it. I watched Oliver Stone’s W. The guy just sat around eating club sandwiches and slices of peach pie. What’s to miss?
hobospacejunkie: the teacher is not, um, ‘conventionally pretty,’.
Was that mentioned in the story, or was there a picture of her?
Serolf Divad: I think you pretty much covered it.
“teacher is not, um, ‘conventionally pretty’”
Pix or did not happend.
hobospacejunkie: If the kid is a typical straight 14 year old (or 15, 16, etc.) she could be “conventionally ugly” and it wouldn’t matter.
This story also left out: Who was responsible for yesterday’s bombing in Iran? http://www.governmentalityblog.com/my_weblog/2009/05/iran-mosque-bombing-alqaeda-or-us.html
Cape Clod: Beat me to it. That quote really leaps out. He seems not to be able to help himself. His entire thesis seems to consist of the notion that there is somehow always a silver lining. He is emotionally 7 years old.
Serolf Divad: He had to make something up. By most accounts he spent his White House years going bike riding, goofing around in the gym and watching recorded sporting events during his “working” hours. Probably he still does all of those things regularly so what is there to miss?
God wanted him
God gets people into all sorts of trouble. He’s like a very bad friend.
Serolf Divad:
Voting for Bush the first time could be considered a mistake, a temporary lapse in judgement. Voting for this stone cold fool a second time means there’s something wrong with you.
I would like all the folks who voted for him twice to have to stand in public places and let the rest of us each give them a good smack upside the head.
Cape Clod: Sorry, difficult if not impossible to add links while posting from my somewhat intelligent phone. Best I can do is suggest google news search for “Melissa Weber.” And she’s from Long Island not NJ, my mistake.
I have the Suu Kyi story covered, in my piece on Shorts’ webthing yesterday.
Terry: That fuckhead getting any votes for a second term showed that the United States wasn’t ready for particapatory democracy.
Mex: You got your H5N1 in my H1N1
Chin: You got your H1N1 in my H5N1
Both: Mmmmmmm, deadly!
Two deadly flu viruses that get deadlier together
Coming to a pandemic near you!
I know everyone is worried about North Korea getting access to a nuclear weapon, but holy cow, can you imagine if they somehow were able to get their hands on a Twitter account?
hobospacejunkie: we’ve got that in NM, too: http://www.koat.com/news/19591635/detail.html
The report describes the charge as “criminal sexual penetration of a minor”. Sounds juicy–did she insert a catheter, or simply the old buttsecks?
TGY: over 100,000 deaths will be blamed on “God’s will” this week alone. I say let’s go get this guy God before he does any more damage.
hobospacejunkie: Here it is. I suppose it is all a matter of taste. http://www.newsday.com/news/local/crime/ny-liteac3012820173may29,0,7261863.story
hobospacejunkie: What, just because she’s conventionally fat?
BTW, Google image search of Melissa Weber brings up the charming Miss Idaho, conventional beauty pageant contestant.
8 people protested Bush, The other 10,000 were held in an official Free Speech cage a few miles from his speaking venue. A large contingent of Homeland Security “jack booted thugs” in riot gear saturated the area, just in case.
While George “sometimes thinks” about the 9-11 situation, the people of Iraq & Afghanistan continue to think about it 24/7.
May Bush be plagued with protesters for all of eternity. In a perfect world, he & his cronies would spend the rest of their lives in a cage in Gitmo, facing enhanced interrogation methods.
Former President Bush just needs to stop.
donner_froh: Meh, I was a lot pickier than that when I was 14,15, 16. (Not that I was getting any.) I did have a crush on one of my teachers, but she was Mary-Kay-Letourneau hot.
I guess this new child-rape teacher isn’t going to get invited to any of these type of events, unless she slims down about 50 lbs or so.
Lascauxcaveman: Hot For Teacher Night! That is fucking awesome.
I suppose my point about Melissa Weber, apart from her being a whale, is that she isn’t likely to be thought of as what Norm McDonald once called “The Greatest Teacher in the World,” unlike a hotty like Mary Kay. On the other hand, power to the plus-sized (statutory) rapist.
Jsab: If I say I did it, will you stop spamming it in every topic?