- A single US combat brigade may be able to leave Iraq early, who knows, we’ll see, says Defense Secretary Robert Gates. [AP]
- Various cities around the US have received federal stimulus money that will be used to employ police officers. New York City gets 50! Newark and Camden get zero. [New York Times]
- Sonia Sotomayor is cruising toward easy confirmation to the Supreme Court. [USA Today]
- A real estate management company is suing one of its tenants for posting what it considers to be a libelous Tweet. [The Register]
- Unofficial Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer says that nearly 10,000 Uighurs disappeared overnight during violent clashes in Urumqi earlier this month. Where are they, Bermuda? [Reuters]
- Neighbors of the ringleader in the latest “obscure group of local misfits accused of terrorist plot” news item say he is a nice guy, upstanding citizen, there must be some kind of mistake, etc. [New York Times]
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It sucks that NYC has such a low crime rate. We are thereby deprived of federal stimulation and also overrun by yuppies who drive up real estate values and contribute to the proliferation of bistros where street drugs could once be readily purchased.
Uighur, please…
Daniel Patrick Boyd — His neighbors could easily imagine him to just be another red-blooded American Christian domestic terrorist murdering abortion doctors, so what’s the problem?
How many police officers will Cambridge be getting?
Easy confirmation? Maybe? But wait until we demand to see her birth certificate! Then we’ll see if Barack Noboma can really appoint a ‘Puerto Rican’ to the US Supreme Court.
Libelous tweet? I hope this goes to the Supreme Court so I can hear Thomas say twat.
Newark and Camden are left out of the policing money? Bummer. DC, Baltimore, and PG County, MD received about the highest amounts. I’m happy as a clam.
Yay! A Register link!
I’m surprised we don’t see them more often given, given the Register’s penchant for writing stories about kerfuffles involving todgers. But then, they also have a lotta stories about new hard drives in development, which is kinda boring.
Gee, a white TERRORIST? Shocking.
I feel bad for the Uighurs but we all know the Chinese need SOMEBODY new to cornhole with cattle prods since they’ve run out of Tibetan monks.
Must we continue to refer to gay women and men as “cruising?”
Is that word ever applied to heteros?
I would like for this to be a teachable moment in the Wonkett community.
Prof. Henry Louis Gates
[re=373246]Monsieur Grumpe[/re]: “Someone left a pubic hair on my twat.”
A republican anal-ist on a local station said the Kyle and Cornyn votes against Sotomayor would not hurt them because New Mexico and Texas have ‘Mexican Hispanics not Puerto Rican Hispanics’ and the ‘Mexican Hispanics’ don’t agree that Puerto Ricans are ‘Hispanics or Latinos’.
Will this party even survive until 2010?
Wait, Sotomayor is cruising the Senate for confirmation? You’d think she’d get more GOP votes.
[re=373242]InsidiousTuna[/re]: Nobody knows: somebody used whiteout on that portion of the budget.
[re=373246]Monsieur Grumpe[/re]: I’d like to hear Justice Thomas say “ribbet,” slowly with a deep voice.
Nice job with the racial profiling of those poor Uighurs… What, you just hear the word Uighur and then ASSUME “Bermuda”???
Newark and Camden didn’t need any stimulus money, since New Jersey runs strictly on a graft-based economy. That’s almost entirely recession-proof.
[re=373249]ManchuCandidate[/re]: I am more shocked that a white terrorist mananged to get in the press given the trend towards the media ignoring such issues. I am sure that the fact they were not Christian extremists helped.
What’s really sad about the terrorism article is that his neighbors respected this man for his devotion to his faith, instead of being ignorant bigots and automatically assuming he was a terrorist because he was Muslim. And he totally fucked them over. Now they’ll turn to Teabagging.
[re=373248]SmutBoffin[/re]: I heart the Register! As, I suppose, would you, being a boffin and all.
Mr. Boyd, the central figure in the indictment, is also charged with lying to federal agents in 2007 about his reasons for a trip to Israel. According to the indictment, he and several other defendants had intended to join violent jihadists in the Palestinian territories, though the trip was ultimately unsuccessful.
That must have gone real well.
“Hey, Hassan, there are a bunch of white guys from America who want to sign up. What should we do?”
“Sure, nothing could go wrong with that.”
[re=373253]JamesMichaelCurley[/re]:
Repubs discovered that they can discriminate more efficiently with labels. Time is money, y’know.
“Uighur” sounds like the name of a Czech beer.
[re=373253]JamesMichaelCurley[/re]: Christ, they might not make it to the end of 2009…
[re=373240]WadISay[/re]: Nice. I’m thoroughly shocked that I got it at first read. It usually takes several hours for the lightbulb to go on.
[re=373269]proudgrampa[/re]: Do not underestimate the power of moranity.
[re=373246]Monsieur Grumpe[/re]: “I can hear Thomas say twat.”
You must be confusing him with another Justice. He’s the one who has never asked a question. When your mind is made up before the appeal is just a twinkle in a trial attorney’s eye, you “no don’t need no stinkin’ questions.”
Roberts and Alito at least pretend for a few minutes and Scalia likes baiting whatever side isn’t a corporation, guns, or civil rights under any guise. Fucking Thomas is such a bitter, he just sits there and hates, silently. Maybe he’ll choke on his own bile while Hopey is president. And please, pray for Scalia to g hunting with Cheney again.
[re=373247]Terry[/re]: ” Baltimore, and PG County, MD received about the highest amounts.”
Hopey said he was a big fan of “The Wire.” Now there’s proof. (BTW–I’m a Wirehead, myself.)
We like our crazies in all flavors in North Carolina. I’ve never met a heavily armed religious zealot who wasn’t a fine upstanding citizen in his community. Rather than lock him up, we should be memorializing his brave and honorable fight against the communists. If I didn’t despise parody song posts with a hatred that reaches the very core of my soul, I might write a song right now.
“We’re a sue first, ask questions later kind of an organization,” Jeffery Michael, whose family runs Horizon, told the Chicago Sun-Times, noting the company never asked Bonnen to take the post down.
That explains why they’re a company with “good name, fame, and reputation and was deservedly held in high esteem by both renters of the Windy City and the general public alike. Don’t say shit about Horizon or they’ll sue your ass like nobody’s business. Geez, wouldn’t it be cheaper for them to just put hits out on anyone who dicks with their name, fame and reputation.
“We got too many Rebiya Kadeers. It’s the northwesterners. They get on TV and go ‘Uigh-errrr, Uigh-errrr.’ People hear them and say, ‘These people, they’re northwesterners. The party’s being taken over by northwesterners. What the hell they got to do with Ohio?’”
[re=373273]DustBowlBlues[/re]: I was alway under the impression that Thomas just finds out which way Scalia is going to vote and follows suit. This frees him of intellectual challenges and lets him devote more time to his primary occupations; axe grinding and watching porn.
[re=373304]Cape Clod[/re]: Oklahoma, home of all things white and Christian, had a county court judge who was removed from the bench (icky graphic, given what’s coming–yuck, another ick, given what follows) because he was a using a vibrator for wanking during hearings. And he was on a judge for a long time.
Mechanical devices makes noise. Clarence probably just uses his hand under his robes when court’s in session.
[re=373304]Cape Clod[/re]: Actually – no joke – Thomas regularly votes the opposite way from Scalia on pornography issues. Porn is the one civil right Thomas favors. Well, porn and guns.
Jihad?? I thought they was sayin’ Yeee Haw!
[re=373250]MARCdMan[/re]: What about Falun Gong? They’re still disappearing, raping, torturing, and harvesting organs from them. I think China is slaughtering their scapecoats at an unsustainable rate. Pace yourself, China, pace yourself.
Re: Moldy Tweet
“We’re a sue first, ask questions later kind of organization,” Jeffrey Michael, whose family runs Horizon, told the Chicago Sun-Times.
Yep! That’s certainly the way I would strive to be a “company of good name, fame, and reputation …deservedly held in high esteem…”
[re=373339]gurukalehuru[/re]: Jeeeeee-Hawwwwd! I’m going to use that one. thx!
[re=373417]meyotch[/re]: Jeeeeeee-Hawwwwwd! You know, this is the birth of a new meme!
“Unofficial Uighur leader”– has anybody told Fred Durst about this?
[re=373435]electoral grad student[/re]: [re=373339]gurukalehuru[/re]: [re=373304]Cape Clod[/re]:
ROTFLMAO! I am slain.
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