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Heroic Ray Nagin Brings Greetings, Swine Flu To Australia

  • “The elderly man who allegedly triggered a fatal shootout today at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington has a long history of racist and antisemitic anger, but is also an artist with a special fondness for ducks…” [ABC News]
  • Swine flu cases are proliferating like the dickens in Australia. Ray Nagin just arrived in Australia. Coincidence? [Wall Street Journal]
  • The only thing worse than having to take the Tube in the summer is not being able to take the Tube in the summer, due to striking workers. [Times Online]
  • Nearly one-third of the mortgages that went into foreclosure in Q1 belonged to prime borrowers. Green shoots! [Bloomberg]
  • China is not psyched about the US sending Uighurs to scenic Palau instead of to China, where they could be properly executed. [AP]
  • The Treasury Department is meddling in the free market by telling Vikram Pandit he can’t make more than $500,000 a year in exchange for destroying the economy. [New York Times]


8:52 AM on Thu June 11 2009
By Sara K. Smith
1006 Views

  1. Boojum says at 9:01 am, June 11th, 2009

    Jews don’t like ducks. It’s a well known fact.

  2. ManchuCandidate says at 9:02 am, June 11th, 2009

    Yay, equality! The wingnuts can’t just blame the black/latino folks for the foreclosure problems now. It’s also white people and their prime mortgages, too! Everyone’s got a piece of the shitpile.

    As for yesterday’s old racist killer shithead. Is it wrong to assume that he liked to dress up as Donald Duck (sans pants) and fucked ducks?

  3. Mild Midwesterner says at 9:03 am, June 11th, 2009

    Are we to assume that FEMA will be waiting 4 days before helping Australia?

  4. x111e7thst says at 9:04 am, June 11th, 2009

    Perhaps Mr. Pandit could be sent to China to be properly executed.

  5. Ignorman says at 9:06 am, June 11th, 2009

    But maybe we should give the Uighurs to China so they won’t be so prickly when they buy our dollars.

  6. Dean Booth says at 9:07 am, June 11th, 2009

    My guess would be Mallard Fillmore.

  7. 4tehlulz says at 9:10 am, June 11th, 2009

    I always thought that the Nazis had a sensitive side just waiting to be brought out.

  8. snideinplainsight says at 9:13 am, June 11th, 2009

    Wonketteers, yr ABCNews duck link is, of course, nonfunctional. Yet another affront to ducks. Why am I at all surprised!?!! Oh, sure, everybody’s sad about the swans yesterday, oh, the mute swans, who speaks for the beautiful mute swans, aren’t they so beautiful, and yet they’re dying, porquoi? But ducks, you can’t even effin’ try the link first before you taint them with an alleged association with, oh, a deranged white supremacist killer. Nice.

  9. Serolf Divad says at 9:14 am, June 11th, 2009

    I would destroy the economy for just $250,000.00 a year, and probably do a better job of it.

  10. Come here a minute says at 9:19 am, June 11th, 2009

    Wow, um, swine flu happened 4 blocks away from me so maybe this was inappropriate and kinda fucked up to post.

    Seriously, wtf?

  11. hobospacejunkie says at 9:21 am, June 11th, 2009

    x111e7thst: Think bigger. Collect every one of our financial villains, outfit them in orange jumpsuits with “Uighur” printed front & back, then send ‘em to China. To be tortured. And properly executed. It’s a win-win. Everybody gets something to feel good about.

  12. finallyhappy says at 9:26 am, June 11th, 2009

    1. duck link broken
    2. For those of you who keep up with that pigf–ker Rush L.- did he bring up Obama’s birth certificate again or was that an old clip that Rachel or Keith was showing when I was flipping channels?

  13. hobospacejunkie says at 9:27 am, June 11th, 2009

    snideinplainsight: Ducks are obviously fowl critters who deserve their horrible fate for modeling for a jew- and negro-hater.

  14. tehbenton says at 9:30 am, June 11th, 2009

    Gotta say, the way my bank is dragging its feet with my refi (Big Butts & Tits, if you’re curious), you wouldn’t know that we’re in a deprecession. I started this process in April, and I still don’t have a closing date. I’ve only been able to get through to my processor twice since this all started. Because she’s “sooooo busy.” (Her words, not mine.)

    *shrug*

  15. Monsieur Grumpe says at 9:31 am, June 11th, 2009

    In what way does he “like” ducks? Hmmmm?

  16. hobospacejunkie says at 9:31 am, June 11th, 2009

    finallyhappy: That was a clip from Rush the pig-fucker’s show coincidentally (or was it?) just minutes before Hatey von Murderpants began shooting.

  17. Idaho is one of the top 10 states in foreclosures? Perhaps Idahoans should get spudmining jobs instead of wasting their time and money at Aryan Nation barbecues.

  18. Editor SK Smith says at 9:34 am, June 11th, 2009

    People I do not know what to tell you about the duck link, as it works on my computron as well as that of another person I know. Maybe you should just quit hating ducks all the time and OPEN YOUR MINDS.

  19. Internally valid says at 9:39 am, June 11th, 2009

    The ducks clearly represent his family, the source of his anxieties. His true fear is that his family will leave him, because of the Jews.

  20. finallyhappy says at 9:41 am, June 11th, 2009

    Sara K. Smith: Well, I hate ducks now because the Nazi loved them but the link still doesn’t work. And my office loves ducks and all of nature’s creatures - plus it doesn’t say blocked.

  21. wheelie says at 9:41 am, June 11th, 2009

    The man was a quackpot.

  22. Suds McKenzie says at 9:43 am, June 11th, 2009

    I literally have ducks outside my back porch. I think they now have a Sadz.

    … this is what it sounds like, when Ducks cry.

  23. snideinplainsight says at 9:46 am, June 11th, 2009

    I demand a duck tag, and a duck tag for the shameful (SHAMEFUL!) WHCD 2k9 report in which Mista Newell opts to mock a hungry duck rather than feed him, or her. I quote;

    “Ha ha, a duck! Duck just walks into a party, you know? Goes around quacking and shit. A duck!”

    Where is your integrity? Where is your compassion? At what point do you set journalistic ethics aside and just become a human being, with a cupcake standing in front of a hungry duck?

  24. Come here a minute says at 9:51 am, June 11th, 2009

    The ABC News article link works fine — ABC’s link to the bio of the shooter/artist is broken, because his lovely site http://www.holywesternempire.org is down. Try the Google cache if you must find out more about the duck-loving Jew-hater.

  25. hobospacejunkie says at 9:53 am, June 11th, 2009

    Notice the contrast between Newell’s blurry duck photos & Waggaman’s in-focus ticket photo from yesterday. Just sayin’.

  26. bureaucrap says at 9:54 am, June 11th, 2009

    And I forgot to bring my “a l’orange” sauce with me to work this morning. Darn.

  27. x111e7thst says at 9:59 am, June 11th, 2009

    hobospacejunkie: So, in this scenario, is there a way for us to turn a profit? Could we get the Chinese to license the pay per view rights to the torture and execution.

  28. Darehead says at 10:04 am, June 11th, 2009

    Classic duck-hating manifesto by Ariel Dorfman seems appropriate here:
    http://www.amazon.com/How-Read-Donald-Duck-Imperialist/dp/0884770230du

  29. snideinplainsight says at 10:18 am, June 11th, 2009

    Cowards. You’re afraid (AFRAID!) of the duck tag, aren’t you?

  30. magic titty says at 10:22 am, June 11th, 2009

    Come here a minute: Christ. Wasn’t that the post pathetic thing ever written, ever? Wonkette died during that thread last night, but like the Phoenix and Jesus (so they say) it rises again.

  31. McDuff says at 10:31 am, June 11th, 2009

    Hitler — frustrated artist, blamed Jews for lack of sales of his paintings; killed millions in response. Von Brunn — frustrated artist, blamed Jews for lack of sales of his paintings; killed 1 in response. McDuff — detects pattern, now writing letter to FBI in ALL CAPS demanding that frustrated artists be rounded up and sent to Gitmo for public safety.

  32. 4tehlulz: It’s those failed painters you always have to look out for.

  33. finallyhappy says at 10:34 am, June 11th, 2009

    So from now on what do I put when there is a question about my race? I had been putting “white” but I understand now that as a Jew, I am not white. Should I be putting Middle eastern? Other?

  34. pondscum says at 10:36 am, June 11th, 2009

    magic titty: Come here a minute: Now that everything is only four blocks away, are we no longer getting shit on by professionals?

  35. Sara K. Smith: And your editor ducks her responsibilities!

  36. Donald duck would be 76 years and one day old yesterday. Just Sayin.

  37. Vulpes82 says at 10:43 am, June 11th, 2009

    They say Hitler loved dogs, but I never heard anything about ducks…

  38. 19kevin8 says at 10:46 am, June 11th, 2009

    So apparently some furries are also into our feathery friends? WTF?

  39. I had a law professor who once used sex with a duck as an example of “moral turpitude”. I’m just sayin’.

  40. PsycGirl says at 11:12 am, June 11th, 2009

    Ah, the duck love that dare not speak its name. Until Pat Robertson boldly spoke it and the guy got all excited by that duck sex video.

  41. Nobody linked the sex with ducks video yet?

  42. PsycGirl says at 11:13 am, June 11th, 2009

    Min: Was this in lecture or part of a demonstration?

  43. johnnypantalones says at 11:38 am, June 11th, 2009

    Donald Duck was a hero to most,
    But he never meant shit to me,
    Straight up RACIST that sucker was,
    Simple and plain,
    Motherfuck him and Daffy!

  44. Lionel Hutz Esq. says at 12:55 pm, June 11th, 2009

    If only Mr. Johns had known of his love of ducks. They could have let him have a peaceful tour of the museum then.

    Serolf Divad: Agreed. Hell, for a piddling $200k, I promise not to fuck things up as bad as any of the current high flyers. And I’ll even have lunch with the other employees.

    finallyhappy: No, Rush thought it would be funny to talk about Obama’s birth certificate mere minutes before the shooting.

    Here is a joke for you, what is the difference between God and Rush Limbaugh? God doesn’t need Viagra when he takes a sex tourism trip to the Dominican Republic for teenage boys.

    Sara K. Smith: Some people (see: Pat Robertson) are upset by duck love, so it is probably filtering software causing the problem.

    bago: Scarily, Pat Robertson was right. First you let the gayez get married, then it is duck sex, then anarchy. How is a straight guy ever supposed to get laid any more?

  45. Mr Blifil says at 1:07 pm, June 11th, 2009

    This is very bad news for the “Sex with Ducks” chicks. They should pull down that video. OUT OF RESPECT.

  46. Mr Blifil says at 1:09 pm, June 11th, 2009

    Come here a minute: This is not remotely funny. Swine flu was detected in the school my daughter used to attend. NOW ALL THE CHILDREN WILL DIE and I hope your smugness is a great comfort to you.

  47. Serolf Divad says at 1:15 pm, June 11th, 2009

    Darehead:

    Ah! That book was my first introduction to Marxist cultural criticism! Good times. Good times.

  48. Atlas Spanked says at 1:49 pm, June 11th, 2009

    “Obama’s advisors” should be meddling in America’s corporate boardrooms like Godzilla meddled in Tokyo.

    And don’t get me started on Wall Street re-regulation.

  49. imissopus says at 2:05 pm, June 11th, 2009

    Boojum: We do like ducks when served with a nice sauce in one of them fancy Chinese restaurants. Perhaps the Jews have eaten them to near extinction and von Brunn can’t find enough to paint anymore and decided the Holocaust Museum was a better target than a Panda Express. Has anyone looked into this?

  50. hobospacejunkie says at 2:32 am, June 12th, 2009

    Lionel Hutz Esq.: Here is a joke for you, what is the difference between God and Rush Limbaugh? God doesn’t need Viagra when he takes a sex tourism trip to the Dominican Republic for teenage boys.

    Beautiful, just beautiful.

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