Wonkette
- Michael Steele hasn’t actually talked to Sarah Palin, but he’s pretty sure she won’t be running for president in 2012. [Fox News]
- Now that all the American car companies are going bankrupt, so are the auto parts suppliers. [Wall Street Journal]
- A bunch of missiles, most likely fired by the notoriously unpopular American drones that keep killing civilians, appear to have killed some militants in South Waziristan. [AP]
- In the past, China would have kept a tight lid on the riots in Xinjiang, the autonomous province in the west of the country where all the Uighuirs live. But in our modern age, authorities actually allowed the rest of the world to know about these terrible events. [New York Times]
- President Obama met Prime Minister Putin today, but it doesn’t appear that any soul-gazing went on. [Wall Street Journal]
- Michael Jackson’s casket will be a special guest at his memorial service today. No word on what will be in the casket. (Candies?) [Washington Post]
From the Fox News story: “As Palin spoke, she and her husband Todd Palin loaded four news crews into two small fishing boats and headed into Bristol Bay from Dillingham.”
Todd and Sarah returned 3 hours later . . . alone.
The events in Xinjiang are an attempt by Muslims to overthrow the legitimate Chinese dictatorship, abetted by the US administration: the Uighurs’ revolt was obviously concocted in Gitmo and is being masterminded by their leaders from a secret hideout in a yacht moored off Hamilton, Bermuda. Down with the imperialist CIA!
Sure, Barry and Joe resigned their senate seats, after they got elected to another office by the American people, you ignorant Fox commenters. Sarah just took her ball and went home in the middle of her term, like some spoiled little kid.
I can’t understand why they’re canceling those fifty London concerts. They just have to place MJ’s coffin center stage and have those shirtless guys dance around it, and they’ll still sell out all the shows…
Mothers, please don”t let your kids grow up not playing video games; their eye-hand coordination is needed to remote them drones a little better.
The Palins fishin’ must’ve looked like a Forrest Gump shrimp boat scene.
The saddest people of all are the parents who wanted to let their kids sleep over at Neverland Ranch with MJ for fun, profit and Jeebus Juice.
Don Juanquete:
I blame Mario Brothers. If the kids focused on Duck Hunt or Commando then they’d never miss.
In MJ’s casket will be the same thing that was in Elvis Presley’s: some poor unclaimed, homeless mook filling in as the real thing hides, starting a new life somewhere, pumping gas in Michigan’s upper peninsula or wherever.
Important Reminder: We laughed and laughed at the dumb dummy George W. Bush, when he was governor of Texas. Ha, ha, but the joke was on us. Do not laugh too hard at Sarah Palin, until we’re sure she’s no longer a threat to the country (or the world!).
On the other hand, idiotic idiot “Dubya” actually got elected King Texan twice, and didn’t resign until December 21, 2000.
This was a portrait of the moose hunter and folksy hockey mom that emerged soon after she was picked by Sen. John McCain to be his running mate.
Yes, and that portrait turned out to be as authentic a one as the portrait of the swaggering tin cowboy and his hobby ranch…what the fuck is wrong with Republicans?
I have got to get some of these drones.
The drone “accidents” are from childish Air Force officers fighting over the controller, just to add a rarely awarded combat ribbon to their chests.
I still can’t see the justification for an Air Farce. Every other military branch can absorb their role for a lot cheaper price. Soldiers and Marines get substandard armor so Air Farce airmen can get cozy accommodations? Fuck the Air Farce!
Worst thing about the drones? For the pilots they ARE playing a video game somewhere out in the Nevada desert. They go home at night never seeing the real destruction their game playing has caused. The best part, they go home at night.
Standing in -or lying down- for MJ will be Palin.
Come to think of it they could be twins; emotionally speaking.
As Agent K says, “Michael Jackson is not dead. He went back to his home planet.”
“Death From Above” applies equally to women, children, goats, and Taliban. Those drone-fired missiles are secretly loved by the Pak military and corrupt civilian government, despite that fact. No wonder the people hate the gov’t, Pak military, the drones, and the good old USA. When will Obama stop being Bush?
Thanks a LOT. Your lead story cited Foxtrot News, causing a rogue reflexive aim of my tinfoil hat at the Dark Screen. I am now covered in fox-n-friends shrapnel consisting of peroxide blonde, major garrett, scary van sustern and dizzying red/blue graphic.
The horror.
Why are the Wiggas in China so upset? Are they unable to find Eminem CDs or droopy jeans?
“They just have to place MJ’s coffin center stage and have those shirtless guys dance around it, and they’ll still sell out all the shows…”
Ain’t that the truth. The teeny boppers in LA are treating MJ’s funeral like it’s the hottest show in town. Last night on TV they showed a couple dudes high-fiving and laughing because they scored two tickets to get inside the Staples Center. I’m not sure they realize he’s dead. They’ll probably be sitting there waiting for Michael to jump out of the coffin and singing “Thriller”.
Using your parents and your kids to chauffeur reporters to your fishing boat while insisting that your family is off-limits to the press is pure Snowbilly logic.
pure Snowbilly logic.
It’s atypical wingnut logic. a Red Stater was trying to make the argument that Palin was like Washington because she chose to leave office instead of running over and over again. Lost in their little series of synapse misfires was the fact that Washington actually FINISHED his term in office. Something Sister Sarah has consistently failed to do.
Actually, she’s more like a modern Abe Lincoln. A brain dead Republican with a big hole in her head.
bitchincamaro:
…and it proof that she wants the media spotlight off her family, don’t you think?
Monsieur Grumpe: You want one of these. Without a real-time downlink to help you spot the terrerists you need the extra hang time and carrying capacity.
So many trolls, so little time.
Jacko memorial live streams today at: http://inmusic.ca/news_and_features/Michael_Jackson
Drones with missiles
We prefer to epistles
For preaching the American Way
High explosive’s the thing
To launch from the wing
And brighten up somebody’s day.
JamesMichaelCurley: All respect to the recently deceased, but please refrain from placing MJ in the same league as Sun Ra.
<”Candies?”
Yes. And the hearse is a windowless van with wall-to-wall soundproofing.
Sorry, but it’s my firm belief Michael is NOT in that coffin..if he was why would they take him all the way to the cemetary for the graveside service only to turn around and bring him back for the memorial service..duh! Wanna bet they wont be opening his coffin like they did for so many other celebrities in the past..if they do I will stand corrected if not we will know the coffin is a decoy just to please the massive crowd at his memorial service..God rest your soul Michael you are in a better place!