Wonkette
- The Department of Justice’s ethics office would like to see the AG re-open several cases of detainee abuse in which interrogators went beyond the torture allowed by protocol and did their own “illegal” torturing. Which is good, except that it will criminalize only the people at the bottom and not the jackals who created the policy, etc. [AP]
- Somebody in Afghanistan has been reading Rules for Radicals, because we have not seen such wide allegations of vote fraud since ACORN and Saul Alinsky stole Virginia from John McCain. [AFP]
- Hurricane Bill rained on both the Clintons’ and the Obamas’ vacations, but did no long-lasting damage before he petered into a tropical storm. [Reuters]
- Many auto dealers saw a surge in interest over the weekend with “Cash for Clunkers” about to expire. [AP]
- Health insurance company employees, tired of seeing their demonic employers demonized, have started attending town hall meetings (armed with talking points) in the hopes of defending their industry. [Wall Street Journal]
- Children are disgusting germ-covered disease vectors, which is why they and their favorite hangouts (i.e. schools) must be monitored closely to halt the spread of swine flu. [Washington Post]
Oh please no. Not another SURGE!
Children should be forced to shower in rubbing alcohol before entering schools, with the atmosphere inside featuring a fine bleach mist.
Problem solved.
“Children are disgusting germ-covered disease vectors, which is why they and their favorite hangouts (i.e. schools) must be monitored closely to halt the spread of swine flu.”
Really? They like schools? I thought those places were holding areas to prevent the spread of swine flu. (You got the first part right, though.)
The jackals who created the torture policy must be former Goldman Sachs employees. No other group responsible for similar crimes of destroying what was once great about this country is as immune to criticism and prosecution from the Obama administration. I see no other plausible explanation. Though I might also call the torture-enablers and financial criminals (who populate Obama’s economic policy positions) hyenas, since they routinely bare their teeth and laugh at us regular folks.
H1N1, now available in bite-sized boogers.
Let clunkers = children with swine flu — problem solved.
4tehlulz:
I was thinking along these lines.
http://www.kinetics.co.nz/newssite/PublishingImages/bubble_boy.jpg
Monsieur Grumpe: Oh yeah, another surge! Can you feel it? It’s 1962 and Vietnam all over again, replete with a corrupt local government increasingly at odds with American advisers. I’d buy a few more body guards if I were Karzai. His American masters may soon be no-knocking on his door.
Monsieur Grumpe: That may work for germs, but it would be hard to give the childrens the thrashing they deserve for playing with the Pokemons or independent thought.
A man leaves two messages on a woman’s answering machine, and they were so interesting she gives them to a local radio station for everyone to hear,
http://crooksandliars.com/bluegal/open-thread-229
(I’m pretty sure it is shortsshortsshorts)
Heh. ‘Petered.’
“1 Tweet”? et tu?
Poop.
facehead: In a time-honored tradition of the interwebs, I say to you: “old” (that dude’s hilarious though, I think he has his own website now).
in the hopes of defending their industry
Well, at least someone will be lying civilly at these things.
why are we wasting our precious diebold goldman sacks of fragile blue cross dollars on monitoring schools? just clear ‘em out and close ‘em down, they don’t work anyway. they’re nothing more than festering cesspools of disease, discontent, gadget-savvy and union activity. clear ‘em out! let no child be left behind! everybody knows the kiddies make excellent soldiers. give ‘em guns and send ‘em to the imperial colonial wars. they’ll be a surge to be reckoned with. just be careful and don’t bring ‘em back. permanent bases in iraq? that’s a chump-change idea next to populating afghanistan with millions of well-armed murkan kiddies just bursting with hormones and no way home.
facehead: “Let the romance begin.” & “There’s nothing wrong with me.” Indeed. He doesn’t fool me. Lady Peggy t’Uberville is his ghostwriter.
The Children aren’t our future, unless they mean our future cause of the swine AIDS apocalypto.
Screw George Benson and Whitney Houston!
Monsieur Grumpe: McCain SURGE !!!
Ah, such sweet, sweet memories of the heady days of concern trolls and outright McCain/GOP trolls on 538…
to try to counter a tide of criticism directed at the insurers and remain a player — and not an outsider — in the debate over the future of the health-care system.
Um, 47 million dumped on congresscritters not only makes you a player, it makes you a playa. The Wall Street Journal: we fap for capitalism and mince around the ugly bits of it like blushing virgins.
facehead:
That’s really old. I remember seeing that more than a year ago (it might have even been on Wonkette). Still funny nonetheless; he was so pissed off that he liked her and that she was forcing him to make a ’second’ call.
Nation Of Swine
You say that like it’s a bad thing…
one tweet? is it Grassley?
Whoever named Hurricane Bill got the name right, at least. A lot of fuss over a little B-J.
That’s the problem with this torture thingie. The people who like that sort of thing REALLY like that sort of thing.
‘Retweet’? Holy fuck, just end us as a species, Great Asteroid God.
WadISay: Just another rainy day. Some fairly impressive storm surges in Nova Scotia, though.