Wonkette
- New Orleans can’t catch a break. First came that awful hurricane back in 2005, and now the mayor, sent on an economic development trip to China and Australia, ends up in Shanghai in a pig flu quarantine so its economy can’t develop. [Times-Picayune]
- Two American journalists have been sentenced to 12 years of hard labor in North Korea, with no chance of appeal. [New York Times]
- Authorities have now recovered 17 bodies from the weird Air France jet explosion/disintigration/disappearance that killed everybody on board. [Los Angeles Times]
- Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s opinions are all over the map, meaning that critics can’t call her an ideologue but they can say she’s troublingly erratic. [Washington Post]
- The White House says they’re going to “save or create” 600,000 jobs over the next three months by expediting a bunch of stimulus projects, but how on earth do you measure a job saved, HMMMM???? [Reuters]
- When it comes to health care reform, Republicans are not so sure they like the idea of a public alternative to private insurance. And business groups are not so sure they like the idea of an employer mandate. Beyond that, this legislation will be a piece of cake.[USA Today]
How is having Nagin quarantined in China not a good break for New Orleans?
Does the insurance and big pharma lobby paying for elected officials’ votes on healthcare count as a “free market” principle?
The most sensible healthcare plan would be to push for Single Payer that much of the “developed” world uses with a pretty good degree of success (would satisfy most users and employers.)
But what the fuck am I saying? This US America, home of Ayn Rand and her mentally damaged minions, Club for Rich People Growth and sub intelligent folks like Sarah Palin who are too stupid to realize they’re just checker pieces in a game of Class Warfare Chess, so I have a better chance of getting into a threesome with a pair of bisexual Brazilian supermodels then Single Payer in US America ever happening.
Nagin’s goons were sitting in coach while the big man partied first class with his lady friend (wife, mebbe?). It is a good thing that their jet was made by the crafty gnomes of the East, otherwise the plane may have disintegrated over North Korea, where the naked cognac sipper would detain them for like a million years of cotton picking until Maria SOSO exercised her Santeria to free them. Fortunately for them, the Pig AIDS scare worked in their favor, giving them a brief break from trying to keep civil order in their horrid city-state, which suffers from like, no jobs or healthcare.
If only 17 bodies have been found, how can we be sure they are all dead? Maybe they are Lost? Can anyone write a TV series for me on this? I’m willing to only put my name as Executive Producer
Sweden and North Korea have diplomatic ties‽ It all makes sense now… Bork! bork! bork! has nothing to do with the pasta; it’s a Swedish call to arm their Communist brothers.
rereridiculous:
Nothing to do with helping communism except to get off. It was done to make things easier for NK to import Swedish hookers for the Dear Leader (he loves the tall blonds, apparently.)
Nagin, shanghaied.
Could we trade them Nagin for the jailed reporters?
It’s Kim Jong-il’s way of getting an audience with King of the World, Al Gore. Kim will show Al how good the North Koreans are at fuel conservation and dieting, and then try to push his screenplay, _The Inconvenient Ruse_.
I think “saved or created” is measured against where we would be if Bush had remained President. That’s a pretty low bar though considering that most of us would be living in caves and picking gnats off our bodies for food.
Authorities have now recovered 17 bodies from the weird Air France jet explosion/disintigration/disappearance that PROBABLY killed everybody on board.
Holy crap! What are we going to do without our mayor? The city will go to hell! There will be shooting in the streets every night and the city government will fall apart!
Oh wait…
Asian countries are imprisoning American minorites to make their prisons more like our prisons. USA! USA! &c.
12 YEARS hard labor in North Korea!?! Some get Bill Richardson over there, stat!
Two of the axes of evil squared off in 2010 World Cup qualifying in Pyongyang Saturday. In a result sure to please haters of the world game it ended 0-0. The only real positive was more live TV footage of the DPRK than there had been total in the past 20 years. And every single North Korean not starving was allowed to attend.
Seems the two American journalists had their jobs saved… Hard labor may suck, but like my grand-daddy always said: a job is a job.
Spellcheck on disintegration.
NoWireHangers: Actually, for Korean diplomacy troubles, the man to go to is some guy named Bobby Egan that owns a BBQ joint in New Jersey and has Our Dear Leader’s ear.
I shit you not. One of those too-strange-to-be-fiction stories.
ManchuCandidate: I thought you were kidding about the Swedish hoes. But wow!!
ManchuCandidate: Can we choose between a reasonable health care system and the bisexual Brazilian supermodel 3-way? ’cause I’m thinking of taking vitamins and getting into shape, so I don’t need insurance anymore . . .
Next time on “Kim’s Place”: our gals are sentenced to 12 years hard labor, hijinks ensue.
What about the Single Prayer healthcare system? And may God strike you down, if your prayer isn’t to Jeebus.
NoWireHangers: “12 YEARS hard labor in North Korea!?”
Those tunnels you use for nuclear testing don’t dig themselves.
Nagin was on http://www.fluco.net