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DAILY BRIEFING

All Hell Breaks Loose

  • Even though President Obama has already revealed he’s in the pocket of Big Brew, some reporter was able to eke out several hundred words on which fortunate American microbrew might be served at the Gates-Crowley Racial Healing Drink-a-Thon at the White House. [ABC News]
  • Is your drywall contractor a violent jihadist? The answer may surprise you! [AP]
  • The First Officer on the flight that crashed in Buffalo this past winter was horribly underpaid and fighting off a bad head cold. [Buffalo News]
  • It’s expensive to be obese. [Wall Street Journal]
  • The Pakistani government has rescued and is now attempting to rehabilitate nearly a dozen boys who were brainwashed by the Taliban into training to become suicide bombers. [Reuters]
  • Now the House is dragging its heels as the Senate edges ever closer to a healthcare bill. [New York Times]


8:35 AM on Tue July 28 2009
By Sara K. Smith
912 Views

  1. finallyhappy says at 8:43 am, July 28th, 2009

    Hell yeah, it costs a lot to be fat- they don’t give away those big gulps and pork rinds, you know

  2. 4tehlulz says at 8:45 am, July 28th, 2009

    Dear Senator Baucus:

    Choke on cock.

    Sincerely yours,
    Every American who has been sick, ever.

  3. Suds McKenzie says at 8:51 am, July 28th, 2009

    Mika Brezinskirafensanidenijad is so concerned about these “obese” she actually scorned an emailer on Morning Starbucks. I just had no idea she could be so “judgmental”. She even shook her head and looked off camera!!

    today we are all obese.

  4. Lazy Media says at 8:53 am, July 28th, 2009

    Meh. If we’re going to arrest every American who plots/supports terrorism in foreign countries, then half of South Boston should be in jail for what they did in the ’80s.

  5. Canmon (the Inadequate) says at 8:59 am, July 28th, 2009

    Beer, the cause of, and solution to, all of life’s problems.

  6. Cape Clod says at 9:02 am, July 28th, 2009

    I’ll accept being a fat load with all the associated health problems as long as you don’t seperate me from my baconaisse and deep fried candy bars. It’s a fair trade off as far as I’m concerned.

  7. DoctorCulturae says at 9:03 am, July 28th, 2009

    My hope is no one chokes or slips on account of any pretzels.

  8. widget09 says at 9:03 am, July 28th, 2009

    When you say its expensive to be obese, does that mean how much money it takes to fill your gigantic boiler?

  9. Paul Tardy says at 9:06 am, July 28th, 2009

    Golly pilots are underpaid. There is only a certain amount of money the airline industry can have. POTUS Bush decided to make virtually all airport workers government workers, that leaves relatively little for such civilians as pilots. At this point you can privatize the airports or you can extend civil service employment to pilots.

  10. ManchuCandidate says at 9:07 am, July 28th, 2009

    Lazy Media:
    Who knew the Irish had a serious grudge against jolly ole England (like half the world doesn’t!)

    As for the costs of being obese. Well, it looks like Red States/South are not only affecting the gravitational rotation of the Earth, but also one of the biggest reasons for the growing cost of healthcare. Damn you chicken fried steak, pan fried steak, over fried steak, chicken fried chicken, chitlins, chicken fried hamburger, chicken friend catfish, corn dogs, chicken fried corn dogs, deep fried coleslaw, deep fried ice cream, chicken fried Snickers and hush puppies.

  11. Don Juanquete says at 9:08 am, July 28th, 2009

    Racial healing from the Homer Simpson School of Duh! Plomacy.
    Today we are all Moe Szyslak.

  12. finallyhappy says at 9:09 am, July 28th, 2009

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090728/ap_on_re_us/us_obama_birth_certificate. Another cover-up, just like the space program, 9/11 and The Declaration of Independence.

  13. Mild Midwesterner says at 9:13 am, July 28th, 2009

    Would it be insensitive for Obama to serve a black & tan?

  14. What the heck is Daniel Patrick Boyd doing robbing banks in Pakistan and planning jhiad in Raleigh, NC? Shouldn’t he drinking in a bar, dropping money in an “widows and orphans fund” can, and crying over crimes committed against him and his in the 1840’s?

  15. Suds McKenzie says at 9:23 am, July 28th, 2009

    Paul Tardy: Considering a two week vacation and my minimal math skills; $16,800 comes to $8.40 an hour before taxes. So yeah, maybe she was a little grumpy. Jimminy Jillikers.

  16. tootsieroll says at 9:25 am, July 28th, 2009

    Mild Midwesterner: win

    Actually, the whole beer story makes me weep for American journalism.

  17. Todd Mecklem says at 9:26 am, July 28th, 2009

    Goose Island beer? Fuck that shit! PABST BLUE RIBBON!

  18. Hart88 says at 9:27 am, July 28th, 2009

    Obama should Tusker, just to fuck with the birthers:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tusker_(beer)#Products

  19. Suds McKenzie says at 9:32 am, July 28th, 2009

    tootsieroll: Mild Midwesterner: concur with the win.

  20. LittlePig says at 9:33 am, July 28th, 2009

    Gates drinks Red Stripe? Well, that answers that.

    Yea beer, tovarich!

  21. hobospacejunkie says at 9:34 am, July 28th, 2009

    Send those suicide boys to the “church” of scientology. Nothing cancels out cult programming like more cult programming. And who knows, maybe one of ‘em will get to eat Tom Cruise’s placenta. For Xenu.

  22. My drywaller is not a jihadist, thank you very much. He’s a perfectly nice illegal alien.

  23. WadISay says at 9:49 am, July 28th, 2009

    Terry: Too much Cat Stevens, is all I can figure.

  24. Manos: Hands of Fate says at 10:06 am, July 28th, 2009

    I think Obama needs to crack open a case of Schaefer: “the one beer to have when you’re having more than one.”

  25. Manos: Hands of Fate:

    No, Natty Boh. It’s from the Land of Pleasant Living, or used to be at least. It would show his commitment to being a local around here, too.

  26. Naked Bunny with a Whip says at 10:14 am, July 28th, 2009

    horribly underpaid and fighting off a bad head cold.

    Yeah, I know how that feels. However, nobody noticed when I crashed my cubicle.

  27. Mahousu says at 10:34 am, July 28th, 2009

    They should all just pound back (Dogfish Head) 120s until they collapse on the floor. Which would take about two or three of them at most.

  28. natoslug says at 10:56 am, July 28th, 2009

    Pass the feckin’ health care reform and I’ll work on dropping the 70 pound tribute to wine, chocolate, tempura and a desk job that I store in my midsection.

  29. Car Ramrod says at 10:58 am, July 28th, 2009

    So what’s the over-under on the US invading Jamaica just to make Gates happy?

  30. snoidoid says at 11:32 am, July 28th, 2009

    Hart88:

    Tusker? TUSKER!!?? My liquor store bought a case of Tusker and sold one sixer in two years. To me. Even Bud drinkers don’t like Tusker. Even the Kenyans hate Tusker.

    Feh.

  31. If Obama is going to be compared to Hitler by wingnuts, he might as well do something to deserve the comparison and institute two hours of mandadtory hula at all public schools.

  32. Suds McKenzie: It was $15,800, not $16,800.

  33. nosnikreplliw says at 1:38 pm, July 28th, 2009

    everybody knows oregon beer is the best. i mean, the best.

  34. simetrias says at 3:24 pm, July 28th, 2009

    I vote Steel Reserve High Gravity Lager and Keystone Light.

  35. LoweredPeninsula says at 6:58 am, July 29th, 2009

    Min: Win

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