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- Despite protests from Indiana pension funds and consumer advocacy groups, the sale of Chrysler to Fiat will proceed as planned. [Bloomberg]
- A Slim Jim plant in North Carolina exploded and killed at least two workers. [AP]
- Creigh Deeds had “a message” even if he had no money, versus Terry McAuliffe, who had oodles of money but none of that other thing (”a message,” or “a soul,”) and that is why Creigh Deeds won. That and the Washington Post endorsement, and the fact that people just don’t much care for Clintonites anymore. [Washington Post]
- Oh man one of the journalists arrested in North Korea was traveling on her first overseas assignment for Current TV when she got popped. [New York Times]
- French nuclear submarines will be trolling the waters off the coast of Brazil searching for the black boxes from the crashed Air France flight. [Guardian]
- Conservatives plan a more reasoned, diplomatic attack against Sonia Sotomayor in the confirmation process by refraining from calling her a racist, but pointing out all the many racist rulings she made while on the Second Circuit bench. [NPR]
Yes!! I’m not even female, but I think I will have something car shaped removed from my anus in a symbolic gesture honoring the wonder of Chrysler.
Slim Jim Plant Explosion = Slim Jim Digestion x 1,000,000
Where is everybody? Hello?! Did everybody get banned?
Slim Jims make my large intestine explode all the time. That is why I love them.
nbawriter: No, it’s the complete inversion of the company logo.
Yes, T-Mac. Go create JAABS for some other KAAMANwealth. Don’t let the door hit ya.
Who knew that reporting from the Mexican narco-terrorist killing fields would be safer than a stroll along the Chinese-N. Korean border?
That is a world of crazy over there.
I swear it takes the greatest evil fuck to protest a nomination because of her race, than protest it because she’s a racist. There are few words to describe the hypocritical insane banal blind-and-deaf lunacy involved.
http://abookaboutdeath.blogspot.com/
Hmmm. Meat snacks turn deadly? Could be a work of art!
stanpan: I sure hope not! This site is my only source of income. I’m getting paid for this, right? Hello?
In a world where Fiat is a technology and innovation leader, kinder, more caring and sensitive Republicans make perfect sense.
McAuliffe lost in Howard Dean style. If he had lost in Clinton style and matched the proportion of delegates or popular votes Hillary got in the primary, he would have only lost by a handful of the few dozen votes cast in Virginia this sad primary day.
No coverage of the bloody palace coup in Albany from our Wonkette? For shame! Latest update seems to be that Governor Paterson has refused to recognize the new Republican majority.
I’m wondering how the human-flavored Slim Jim will go over.
Come here a minute: I owned a Fiat once that was, I believe, removed from somebody’s anus. Let me know if it was yours.
It is a sad day for all the folks who don’t give a rat’s ass about they ingest.
nbawriter: Soylent Green… er… Slim Jim is made of People!
So what is there in a Slim Jim to explode? Is it terrorists?
Zhu Bajie
I’m sure that this date will be known as the Great Slim Jim Shortage of 2009 followed by Slim Jim hording and the Slim Jim riots which lead to the down fall of all civilization. It could happen.
So the Slim Jims snapped into them? Has Randy Macho Man Savage been questioned?
Slim Jim plant explosion so sad - I take solace in the fact that they gave their lives to such a noble cause.
A society that sacrifices is best and brightest for Slim Jim production is truly a shinning city on the hill.
John McCain would have kept our Slim Jim factories safe.
My weight loss plans weren’t going so well with Slim Jims. I’d actually gained over thirty pounds before I found out what I wanted was actually something called Slim Fast. Live and learn!
God knows that my intestines want to blow up if I eat a Slim Jim.
It’s odd that the Republicons aren’t screaming it’s AQ. Even they know that if AQ really did blow up the Slim Jim factory that they’d be helping US America, not hurting it.
Macho Man Randy Savage warned the kids of the repercussions of “Snapping Into a Slim Jim” but they just wouldn’t listen.
My mommymobile paid-in-full Dodge Caravan just turned seven, thank the gods, and my next car is a PT Cruiser. That’s just me. I grew up in Windsor, ON, the Canadian suburb just south of Detroit (get a map asshole) and hence the Motown of Canada. We’ve seen Xler through tough times. Fiat rules, deo gracie.
Now we can’t trade Slim Jims for North Korean hostages damn it! Go to plan B.
When Mercedes Benz bought Chrysler, my 1997 Sebring turned into a German luxury car. It turned back into an American car, but it looks like it’s Italian now. Madonn’!
The French have submarines? OMG, imagine being trapped in a metal cylinder with dozens and dozens of men who smoke heavily, complain a lot, and aren’t always so much for the bathing.
Fiat+Chrysler selling Indian made TaTas - which are basically two motorbikes bolted to a washing machine.
That’s progress!
Terry: Submarines? I was surprised France even still had a Navy!
I effing love the comments on your NBC NY articles.
Incorporate the classic “Hey, reader / commenter of my NBC New York articles, did you know that they took ‘gullible’ out of the dictionary?”
Works every time.
SuperStarr: While I love Windsor and appreciate the support for D-town (waving @ GM and Canada as I type), DO NOT buy a PT Cruiser. They’re heinous, and ugly. Driven only by little old ladies. And really not safe — I rented one in TN and would’ve felt safer in a cardboard box with wheels. Did I mention UGLY?!?! Seriously, does that thing come in a color other than vomit-plum and day-glo [insert color here]?!?! If you’re moving out of a mommymobile, go with the gusto and get a Charger.
The North Carolina Beef Stick Militia strikes again! When will Obama crack down on these domestic beef-product terrorists?
Johnny Zhivago: Hey, I thought tatas were something else entirely!
Larry McAwful: If the UAW really wanted to make a strong statement that manaagement would be forced to deal with they would take over the Sebring plant and declare that production would continue until their demands were met.
I take it the Tofurky Jurky plant survived unexploded. One more reason to not eat critters.
Crazybroad: Go Challenger. Declare your midlife crisis loud and clear. Totally kicks ass.
Crazybroad: You’re right! I really haven’t found a PT color I like (black looks too much like a hearse; the red is really more of a maroon sparkly vomitrocious “coating”) and when I rented one I noticed the blind spots were basically the whole back end of the car. I can see myself in a Charger. Red or black?
hobospacejunkie:
Tofurky Jurky is a good reason TO eat critters.
SuperStarr: Red baby, red. Or go black with red racing stripes. VROOOOOM!
Terry: I can’t believe I even live in a country that invented something like “Tofurky Jurky”…
Terry: Sounds like you have been schooled on the French Seamen issue.
Come here a minute: Terry lost a primary? We should totally start a website for seething racists dedicated to the denial of reality and arguing that Terry actually *won* the primary, in that order. We could call the site “Terry Unseated? My ass!!” or TUMA. The members would be called TUMAs.
Shit, there’s precedent here, man.
What I never could figure out about slim jims is how you use them to break into a locked car…
zhubajie: It’s the yummy “beef-flavored” nitroglycerin that keeps them moist and shiny as they permanently lodge in your upper colon….
Am I the only one who’s bothered by making jokes about factory workers dying in industrial accidents? Or do liberals not care about workers anymore?
Naked Bunny with a Whip: Mad Farmer Manifest: Great mind think alike?
ChristianPinko: We’re not just liberals. We’re Wonktards. While our human alter-egos care deeply about workers and feel for those who lost lives or family in the explosion, our Wonkette identities find it fucking hilarious that a Slim Jim factory blew up. The only thing funnier would be a TruckNutz factory burning down.
Oh, and snap into a bag of dicks. No real ‘pinko’ would toss the word ‘liberals’ around like that. The way you use the word is a total conservatard signature.
ChristianPinko: Yeah, bad liberals! Too bad it wasn’t a factory full of muslins or abortionists. Then it was would have been funny.
So the official strategy to thwart J. Sotomayor is to talk about her race cases. To prove that she is a race terrorist, or something. Am I reading the news or listening to Nana tell me the sepia-toned tale about what happened with the first ever minority federal judge nomination? The republicans are in their own private time warp now. I expect to see thse guys show up for the hearings with mutton chop sideburns, in spats and morning coats. Lets hope they don’t forget the spitoons.
Speaking of Slim Jims, looks like Babs is taking out her dentures for a Deluxe Beef Slim Jim:
http://www.tmz.com/2009/06/09/barbara-bush-whos-crochety-now/
ChristianPinko:
Personally, I was making fun of the French Navy.
SuperStarr: Too bad there isn’t a blind spot over the whole car.
SuperStarr: Eh, the Charger is OK if you want that kind of vehicle. But if your shopping the little econo-wagons like the PT and whatnot, go for the Pontiac Vibe, the reviews are much better on those.
I think the ones for the CDN market are actually made in Canada too, so just as patriotic, eh?
Lascauxcaveman: Righteous you are! My heterosexual marriage partner has a lovely red Vibe that I drive whenever I can ditch the minivan. But isn’t GM dumping Pontiac, may it rest in peace? BTW, how do you link back to the person you’re responding to? I’m so embarrassed not to know.
SuperStarr: Click on the “Reply” link of the entry header.
SuperStarr: There’s a car called a “vibe”? Is driving it a deeply satisfying experience?
Terry: All sailors are like that.
Zhu Bajie