Wonkette
- 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]
Ah yes, the withdrawl method. I hear that works everytime.
Oil companies to Iraqi govt: “You’ll have nothing and like it.”
hobospacejunkie:
Iraqis are the new Jews? Who knew?
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.
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.
Mission Accomplished! USA! USA!
Budweiser and fireworks for everybody! Well, the real Merikins, anyway.
Monsieur Grumpe: Who knew? Jews knew!
Monsieur Grumpe: There are still Iraqis? After our best efforts at complete eradication were so effectivly aided by the various Iraqis themselves? Who cares? Really.
Ahh Baghdad. At least it’s better off than Detroit.
When do we get our hard-earned tax money back from Iraq? Vietnam, also?Harold_Ignoramis: We declare WMD on Detroit and oust whoever the latest sexy-talk mayor might be.
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
BEGIN CONSTRUCTION OF MALL OF THE MESOPOTAMIAS
Kwame Kilpatrick. Voted the sexiest Irishman since Colin Farr…oh wait.
“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!!!
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!
Harold_Ignoramis: Ah yes, named after Kwame Nkrumah, the man who made Ghana what it is today.
dijetlo: 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.
Dan Balz who?
I thought it said “Nation of UIGHUR Jobless Iraq-Forgetters” I assumed they were all jobless.
rereridiculous: Spiderman’s girlfriend is dead? Why does no one tell me these things.
This is how wars end. Not with a bang, but with a whimper.
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?
Dan, what Balz you have!
You do raise a good point; perhaps Airbus should start manufacturing ships instead of airplanes. Seems like that’s where their talents lie, anyway.