• February 15, 2012
  • The black box of the most recent Airbus plane to crash in the water has been located. [BBC News]
  • The ousted president of Honduras threatens to return; the new president says he’ll be arrested if he does. [Washington Post]
  • Huzzah, the month of June saw the fewest job cuts since October of 2008 — a month which, you’ll recall, was pretty goddamn grisly, in terms of job cuts. [Reuters]
  • The first day of Iraq’s auctioning of oil-field development rights didn’t go so well after foreign companies balked at the paltry incentives the Iraqis were offering. Now Iraq’s cabinet is reviewing stuff and discussing the issue, which is to say, “talking it over with my manager,” exactly like a used car salesman. [AFP]
  • As American troops finally withdraw from Iraqi cities, WaPo’s Dan Balz asks, “Have we forgotten Iraq?” Iraq who? [Washington Post]
  • Another poll shows support, or not, for President Obama’s health care plan.[CNN]

{ 23 comments }

Monsieur Grumpe July 1, 2009 at 9:22 am

Ah yes, the withdrawl method. I hear that works everytime.

hobospacejunkie July 1, 2009 at 9:24 am

Oil companies to Iraqi govt: “You’ll have nothing and like it.”

Monsieur Grumpe July 1, 2009 at 9:42 am

[re=352144]hobospacejunkie[/re]:
Iraqis are the new Jews? Who knew?

RoscoePColtraine July 1, 2009 at 9:44 am

The standoff between Iraq and the oil companies has to do with whether or not the oil in question can be used as a lubricant for whoever ends up getting fucked.

dijetlo July 1, 2009 at 9:44 am

They still have cities and who is the Dan Balz fellow asking me if I’ve forgotten that…um…ferrin place?
The other thing that jumps out of this morning headlines is where is the buttsecks? We can’t rely on Brother Mark to regale us with tales of the wild pampas forever, I know there is a Republican somewhere with his penis inserted into something cringe inducing and I’m sure he’s dying to tell us all about it, let’s get that man a microphone.

Servo July 1, 2009 at 9:46 am

Mission Accomplished! USA! USA!
Budweiser and fireworks for everybody! Well, the real Merikins, anyway.

hobospacejunkie July 1, 2009 at 9:46 am

[re=352145]Monsieur Grumpe[/re]: Who knew? Jews knew!

x111e7thst July 1, 2009 at 9:47 am

[re=352145]Monsieur Grumpe[/re]: There are still Iraqis? After our best efforts at complete eradication were so effectivly aided by the various Iraqis themselves? Who cares? Really.

Harold_Ignoramis July 1, 2009 at 9:47 am

Ahh Baghdad. At least it’s better off than Detroit.

A Better American Than YOU July 1, 2009 at 9:58 am

When do we get our hard-earned tax money back from Iraq? Vietnam, also?[re=352152]Harold_Ignoramis[/re]: We declare WMD on Detroit and oust whoever the latest sexy-talk mayor might be.

norbizness July 1, 2009 at 10:01 am

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED

BEGIN CONSTRUCTION OF MALL OF THE MESOPOTAMIAS

Harold_Ignoramis July 1, 2009 at 10:02 am

Kwame Kilpatrick. Voted the sexiest Irishman since Colin Farr…oh wait.

ProfessorJukes July 1, 2009 at 10:03 am

“The … survey released Wednesday morning indicates …only one in five thinks that his or her families would be better off under the Obama plan.
Fifty-one percent of people surveyed say they favor the president’s health care plan.”

1) “his or her families”? Does Mark Sanford have a secret family?
2) Whatever… just as long as Obama kills our families with bad healthcare, it’s all good!!!

rereridiculous July 1, 2009 at 10:09 am

Healthcare? Results of the Iraq war? Unemployment? Political instability in South America? Fuck this shit! MJ is dead, and that’s what’s important, dammit!

A Better American Than YOU July 1, 2009 at 10:11 am

[re=352155]Harold_Ignoramis[/re]: Ah yes, named after Kwame Nkrumah, the man who made Ghana what it is today.

freakishlystrong July 1, 2009 at 10:12 am

[re=352147]dijetlo[/re]: let’s get that man a microphone. If there’s a microphone or a TV camera, there’s a 1000% guaran-fuckin’-tee there will be a (R) in front of it.

ssccss July 1, 2009 at 10:14 am

Dan Balz who?

jasper f. krone July 1, 2009 at 10:41 am

I thought it said “Nation of UIGHUR Jobless Iraq-Forgetters” I assumed they were all jobless.

gurukalehuru July 1, 2009 at 11:23 am

[re=352158]rereridiculous[/re]: Spiderman’s girlfriend is dead? Why does no one tell me these things.

TGY July 1, 2009 at 11:37 am

This is how wars end. Not with a bang, but with a whimper.

turdsandwich July 1, 2009 at 1:07 pm

Somebody tell me exactly what “Obama’s health care plan” is, please, so that I can understand what the fuck that poll even means! Did anyone at CNN even consider the possibility of asking those questions in a way that reflects reality?

proudgrampa July 1, 2009 at 1:40 pm

Dan, what Balz you have!

cynbot July 1, 2009 at 4:27 pm

You do raise a good point; perhaps Airbus should start manufacturing ships instead of airplanes. Seems like that’s where their talents lie, anyway.

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