Wonkette
- Now that candidates Deeds, Moran, and McAuliffe have spent all that time and money campaigning in the Virginia Democratic gubernatorial primary, how many people will actually bother voting in the terrible thunderstormy weather they’re having today? [Washington Post]
- Sarah Palin was the BIG STAR of the show at a Republican fundraiser in New York last night, totally eclipsing the headlining diva Newt Gingrich. [CNN]
- British prime minister Gordon Brown has to rethink his whole approach to everything since nobody in his own party supports him and people in other parties of course don’t support him either. [Washington Post]
- More and more it’s looking like the Airbus jet’s external speed sensor is the culprit for the horrible crash that happened last week, so now a pilots’ union says “Maybe do not fly Airbus jets until they’ve figured that out” and everybody is ignoring them because really, what are the chances. [Times Online]
- The sentencing of two American journalists to 12 years of hard labor in North Korea greatly complicates the US’s dealings with the batshit crazy kingdom of nuts. [New York Times]
- A Guantanamo detainee has been moved to New York City for trial, which is why the city has been suddenly overrun by terrorists and bombs and horror. [Los Angeles Times]
I refuse to believe the fund-raiser happened until I see some tweet by chk “NAIL” grsly.
Also.
Palin vs. Newt: Well Newt maybe now you’ve learned your lesson! If you want the press to take you seriously you’ve got to take your pedicures seriously.
The sentencing of two American journalists to 12 years of hard labor in North Korea greatly complicates the US’s dealings with the batshit crazy kingdom of nuts.
At least in the batshit crazy kingdom of nuts they GOT a trial…what does that make us?
Poor Gordon Brown. Of all of last year’s heads of state and government, he was perhaps the one who best understood the dire straits in which we find ourselves. His reward is near universal scorn. Petty minds. MPs steal from the government, but so would everyone else, given the chance.
Speaking of that get together, am I the only one who wonders if Jon Voigt hopes Obama gets capped?
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=washingtonstory&sid=aFfk5skijH5s
“Hard labor” might mean….teaching English! North Koreans kidnapped Japanese citizens to force them to be Japanese teachers, but they seem to need some good ‘Merican lingo now.
how many people will actually bother voting in the terrible thunderstormy weather they’re having today?
Just me, apparently, if the traffic at my polling place this morning was any indicator.
I voted for Deeds. Regardless of whether he wins in November, at least I no longer have to hear Terry “with a beer back” McAuliffe say JAABS or KAAMMANWEALTH anymore.
(Well, for four more years, anyway.)
freakishlystrong: We are the US freaking of A. If you don’t like it, you can haul your sorry ass to Canada.
Oh, sorry, I hear Barry’s working on it.
Newt Gingrich: Our national security is threatened by the fact that we are no longer blowing up things and every country in the world loves and admires our President.
It is raining in NY. We thought that this was just some weather pattern (they happen a lot around here).
But now we understand that the presence of Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani on American shores is making Jesus cry.
I guess Air Freedumb pilots never quite figured out the purpose of the PITOT HEAT switch.
4tehlulz: No wonder Angelina won’t have anything to do with his psycho ass.
He (Newt) said “this country would be amazingly better off” had McCain and Palin been elected.
Please tell me that line had the audience rolling in the isles.
You can tell the agencies are downsizing, the Palin article was written by the fashion desk.
freakishlystrong:
Batshit crazy kingdom of trucknutz!1!
USA, USA, USA.
Nice point by the way.
The only person surprised that Palin was the center of attention at the fabtrabulous fund raiser in New York City was Newt. It doesn’t take a half witted retard to figure it out. She got legs and she knows how to use them.
As for Jon Voight, I have a greater insight into the origin of Angelina Jolie’s craziness and glad that she looks like her mom and not her dad. I guess Jon would know what a false prophet is considering he supported Ru91 “Front runner fail” Ghoul1an1.
Doesn’t watching Sarah Palin do just about anything make you long for some more SNL skits with Tina Fey?
I need K-Lo’s perspective before I know what I think about the GOP fundraiser (e.g., how much butter was available?)
I look forward to Dame Peggy Noonan’s next column about the nice, patronizing encounter she had with one of the terrorists running around the streets of NYC.
I thought terrorists, bombs and horror in New York City was an average day…
At least North Korea puts their terrorists on trial.
pondscum: The City Council is looking into restricting that sort of stuff to the eastern part of Queens and Staten Island - however proponents seem to lack the votes to override the expected mayoral veto.
You know pilots…bunch of bitchy little girls.
Although I did enjoy that rousing endorsement for flying an American airline in the comments.
“Maybe do not fly Airbus jets until they’ve figured that out”
Either that, or give the speedometer a good whack every now and then, just to be safe.
tehbenton: I voted, in the rain, and lighting - also for Deeds and for pretty much the same reason as you.
Monsieur Grumpe: Texan Bulldoggette: Just pisses me off, I mean we can’t really protest that with a straight face now can we? Sheesh, thanks Bushies, good luck with that legacy….
Jon Who? Why does anyone care what some actor says about the president who has made the world hate us less(I won’t go so far as to say everyone loves us now)? These GOP losers are threatened by an intelligent President who takes action, has the morality and empathy they lack and who will be kicking their party’s ass in 2012.
Monsieur Grumpe: The other highlight of that event was some has been actor calling Obama a “false prophet”.
Sometimes, the jokes write themselves.
W/r/t our hard-laboring girls in the DPRK, comments in the Joo York Times were almost universally along the lines of “they were looking for trouble and they got it. What did they expect?”
Never mind they were journalists trying to illuminate perhaps the darkest, most brutal & closed society in the world. If even semi-literate Times reader don’t understand the importance of reporters vis-a-vis tyranny we are all surely doomed.
hobospacejunkie: Not everybody is Judith Miller, you know.
Gingrich, the event headliner, also thanked Palin for attending. He said “this country would be amazingly better off” had McCain and Palin been elected.
I threw up in my mouth a little. Okay, a lot.
Last night, I finally got around to watching an episode of Vanguard, the show for which Laura Ling works on Current. The episode I saw was about Mexican drug trafficking and the skyrocketing murder rate, and it was very, very good.
queeraselvis v 2.0: If you consider “radioactive wasteland” to be an improvement, then he’s correct.
freakishlystrong: I hear you, freak.
Hey look, kids: Europe is turning into Oklahoma! On top of Gordon Brown’s troubles, wingers are taking over the EU. Now my English friends can’t make fun of my goofy little state because they’ll be too busy fending off knife-wielding skinheads!
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0608/p06s04-woeu.html
DustBowlBlues: Sorry, but I’m responding to my comment because I forgot to add, Europe is turning into Oklahoma, but without Jeebus. He makes all the difference. Crazy–Batshit crazy?
The point is, if Pappy hadn’t traded the shotgun for food, Tom Joad woulda’ shot these fuckers right through that vacant cavity in their chest.
Looks like the British Bitters are out of luck as their boring leader apparently made the speech of his life and saved his career. Haha, suck it, Thatcherites.
Servo: Srsly, Air France. Get a Boeing, with the auto-heating pitots. And the cupholders.
YOU-ESS-AY! YOU-ESS-AY! YOU-ESS-AY!
“Gingrich held up former Cheney, the former vice president, as an expert voice on national security” in the same way that Jack Kevorkian is an expert on artificial resuscitation or Newt is on fidelity.
Apparently Voigt never got out of character when he finished Enemy Of The State…
I find it hilarious that the one actor they find to stand for the GOP portrays “the CEO of a fictitious Arms industry called Starkwood, which has loose resemblances to Blackwater…”.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Voight
Obviously somebody literally fucked Jon Voigts brains out during Midnight Cowboy. And now I understand why Angelina will have nothing to do with him.