Wonkette
- A French airliner mysteriously disappeared over the Atlantic on its way back from Brazil. A Lost joke might be inserted here, but it is probably Too Soon. [Guardian]
- It’s official! GM’s filing for bankruptcy; it’s de-listed from the Dow Jones industrial average; it will have to lay off 21,000 workers and close 40 percent of its dealerships. Things are looking up. [New York Times]
- Authorities have caught and arrested a man whom they suspect might have killed George Tiller, the abortion doctor who was shot yesterday outside his church in Kansas. [Washington Post]
- Tim Geithner went to China and gave a speech in which he said, “Chinese financial assets are very safe,” a statement that was greeted with “laughter from the audience.” [BBC News]
- Yay it’s finally hurricane season, so all you hurricanes out there can finally wear white shoes and seersucker suits. [Miami Herald]
- Defense Secretary Robert “Bill” Gates says North Korea may do another missile test, who knows, maybe soon, he’s not worried. [New York Times]
Goin’ out east to China, where there ain’t no Ten Commandments, and a man can raise a thirst.
That may be the saddest Daily Briefing ever.
“A Lost joke might be inserted here” I was thinking more of a Left Behind joke. Who would have thought a bunch of furrein FRENCH people would be the only ones to go to heaven?
Today we’re all driving GM cars in Kansas with “I love eating Fetuses” bumper stickers off to the airport to get on an Air France Airbus across a string of hurricanes to buy Chinese bonds backed by their creaky real estate while being chased by anti-abortionist loons riding a NK rocket driven by Kim Jong Il.
“Chinese financial assets are very safe,”. Unfortunately when translated that into Chinese it becomes ” We keep your money in a condom while it has a happy ending.”
Canmon (the Inadequate):
I agree. Is it too early to start drinking?
Canmon (the Inadequate): Nah. I compare everything with the Holocaust. It makes optimism easy.
Airbus planes run on kerosene?
TGY: What happens if there’s an item about the Holocaust?
frailamerica:
Jets all burn a derivative of Kerosene.
frailamerica:
JP5 is basically kerosene.
TGY: I use the Ukrainian Holodomor. Though, to be fair, Kulak or Jew, either will do.
ManchuCandidate: Servo: Goddammit, I don’t come here for educatin’. Thanks to you, I learned something here today that was not related to GOP butt sex.
4tehlulz: New knowings are the devil’s work. They lead to gay marriage abortions. You are wise to avoid them.
They may have arrested Dr. Tiller’s suspected murderer but I won’t be satisfied until they’ve arrested, as accomplices, Bachmann, Keyes, Bush, Terry, Rove, et al.
hobospacejunkie: don’t forget O’Reilly.
hobospacejunkie: amen to that.
hobospacejunkie: I saw Dr. Tiller for a late-term abortion a few years ago. Texas law made doctors too afraid to perform the procedure here so my spouse and I had to go to Kansas. I found Dr. Tiller to be a caring, thoughtful professional who understood that ours was a difficult decision.
How anyone can justify or tolerate his murder in a church is beyond me. This just offers further proof that the “pro-life” movement is made up of hypocrites and simpletons. The moral bankruptcy of the religious right is nearly complete.
Geithner was really in China to surreptitiously spread a new, deadlier ManBearPig Virus developed by mad scientists at the CDC.
No more Mo in Motown. Hockey’s their last hope for salvation.
4tehlulz: I’ve done a lot of reading and I don’t believe anything new can be written. It was horrible, awful; hell on earth. Nothing can compare with it, save nuclear annihilation, and even that might be mercifully quick. This recession? Walk in the park.
hobospacejunkie: Yes. What’s more, Stalin’s crimes are owned up to less and less, these days. There’s a curtain of obscurity slowly shrouding the evidence courtesy of Putin and company.
BillyClubb: I assume and hope your spouse made it through the operation and recovered fully.
If anything the Pro-Death label fits these monsters perfectly. They aren’t interested in education and birth control to reduce unwanted pregnancies. That would make their bloody fetus porn and biblical views re: women’s place in this world obselete.
Somebody post something funny about rabbits on waterskis or something.
I’m not looking forward to Tuesday.
ManchuCandidate: Wonkette is for learning! I was hoping it was just some French way of saying it. Like the Brits and “petrol.”
True Story!
I had job in Egan MN for a short while and when I would go out for lunch I often passed by this house of an antiabortion nut. Everyday around 11:30AM he would start assembling a very elaborate display in his front yard. The display consisted of signs of aborted fetuses, bible quotes and strange slogans that I assumed were ranting about abortion. Some of these were near billboard size and there were about 20 signs total. He filled the yard. After he finished the setup, he grabbed the sign of the day, held it above his head and marched back and forth at the front of his property line. The street was busy so a lot people saw this wingnut. I caught his face a few times as I was driving by, he looked you in the eye and he looked pissed. I’ll bet the neighbors loved him.
Today we are all Missing Jetliners.
BillyClubb: Word, a million times.
I can’t wait to hear the justification for gunning down a man in his HOUSE OF WORSHIP. With his wife singing in the choir inside, no less. Dr. Tiller was an extraordinarily brave man to continue to provide care to women making the hardest decision of their lives, despite the enormous risks to his well being, and will be sorely missed.
Monsieur Grumpe: We lived in a neighborhood with a front yard protestor a few years ago. She was a forty-ish single woman who lived off of her elderly parent’s endless trust fund. She had a full size hand colored statue of Jesus on her front stoop and some anti-choice anti-women signs in the yard that she picked up at the local operation rescue terrorist cell headquarters. Her next door neighbors always told me that this woman reeked of pot every single day and that she was crazy as a loon.
gossipgirl: There’s noting remotely mysterious about murdering a doctor at his church. Wingnuts are nihilists, not to put too fine a point on it. They respect nothing, love nothing, stand for nothing. They are mentally deranged and their psychosis is often expressed in their violation of what most regard as sacred and taboo. Why anyone would think that a “house of worship” constitutes some kind of protection from violent assault is beyond me. Violent offenders aren’t real hung up about what people will think of them after they act out.
I doubt that the shooter or his enablers at Operation Rescue consider the “Reformation Lutheran Church” (Dr. Tiller’s church) a true Christian church.
frailamerica: All jets run on basically kerosene. Really.
Safest place to be during a North Korean missile test: the spot they’re aiming at.
Gitmo gaming?!!
WadISay:
They don’t call it No Dong for nothin’, y’know.
Gorillionaire:
Maybe we should get those two together. They could home school their offspring!
Jsab: So hate mail about them worried about killing American soldiers. So like do these idiots think American soldiers in all war video games don’t die?
Mr Blifil: Cause we’re leaving on a jet plane, don’t know when we’ll be back again.
“Tim Geithner went to China and gave a speech in which he said, “Chinese financial assets are very safe,” a statement that was greeted with “laughter from the audience.”
Must have gained something in the translation.
Gorillionaire: “anti-choice anti-women signs”
Thanks, thanks, thanks for using the correct term for these people. I’m not pro-abortion, either, I’m pro reproductive rights. The stupid teevee erstaz news people never, ever get it right. At the very least, they could say pro-abortion rights.
I had an abortion twenty or so years ago. I was in the majority demographic for abortion–a married woman with children. I’d raised 3 step kids, the one child I ever wanted was about seven years old. After being, basically, a single step parent for 12 years, I was in my early forties, gainfully enployed, and finally enjoying life. And then we got “caught.”
I simply did not have the will to face 2:00 AM feedings and having everyone ready for the day and my pantyhose pulled on by 7:00 every morning. I’ve told my kids about this and on a trip together, the one I actually had said, “Just think–you could have one just graduating from high school.” The thought I’d be using my social security to put yet another one through college made me ill.
I wasn’t very tortured about the choice when I made it, and I’m not tortured now. Because I lived in a city like Seattle, I went to a special clinic and had it done at four weeks. Four weeks, peoples. Even the wingers don’t claim that a little mucous has pain response. The doctor was sensitive but, of course, gave me the “what are you going to do about birth control now? speech” and I launched into a tirade about how I’d informed my husband no man his age needed to be able to get a woman pregnant and he was getting fixed the next week. Pre-abortion, I actually had the doctor laughing. I’m just extremely grateful I could do it quickly and privately.
Unlike the unstable women the wingers recruit, I haven’t ever chosen to discuss it. Why? BECAUSE I CONSIDER MY BODILY FUNCTIONS AS PRIVATE. I also don’t discuss mammograms, pelvics, the details about the afterbirth when my daughter was born, and all the other shit women have to go through.
Rant over.
You can forget about the Air France jet. ABC News has reported there were no Americans on board, so it doesn’t matter.
hockeymom: You know, Bill had himself all in a tizzy because someone said he was a bad person in a newspaper column last week. Imagine what he would do now that someone shot Dr. Tiller to anyone that called him a “baby killer” . . . oh, wait….,
I love how the Guardian article on the missing Air France jet felt the need to point out that the engines were AMERICAN. So, it’s America’s fault. Once again, we are responsible for killing people.
DustBowlBlues: Thanks for sharing.
DustBowlBlues:
Nicely ranted. Thank you.
hobospacejunkie: Monsieur Grumpe: You’re welcome. A anti-choice lady on MSNBC just condemned the killing of “Dr. Killer, I mean, Tiller” then went on to equate him with Hitler.
Yeah. That’ll totally help defuse the wackos.
Language counts. The winger rant against making violence against gays a hate crime is that they would “come to our church and tell us what to say” (which is totally okay with me) because they want to keep spewing violence-inducing rhetoric. The Knoxville shooting was in a Unitarian church. Come to think of it, last Sunday when I was standing in the narthex handing out bulletins at the UM church in my small town, we had more Democrats gathered in one place than the town had seen all week. I sure hope the wingers don’t send a suicider (Bushism points!) in to get us.
BTW–If abortions were illegal again, middle class women would get abortions the way they did before Roe v. Wade–there’ll be a spike in D and Cs. These days, no one even knows what they are, but they used to be as common as tonsillectomies in kids were. Rich ladies will go to London or Toronto and go shopping afterward.
Before the women’s movement in the 70s, women who wanted tubal ligations could be required to get their husband’s written permission. And contraceptives were illegal in places like Boston. Women without sympathetic doctors and those who couldn’t afford a doctor, bled to death or died of massive infections after illegal abortions. (Or the coat hanger punctered her bowel–TRUE STORY)
When I was in graduate school, I fully expected to be asked by prospective employers whether I intended to have children. Flight attendants signed agreements promising to quit their jobs at age 30. A standard joke about domestic abuse was “Yeah, but did she deserve it?” (haha) and spousal rape didn’t exist because if he owned it, he had the right to fuck it.
All the above, of course, are talking points for wingers who want to bring back the good old days.