Wonkette
- A presidential panel estimates that as many as 90,000 people in the US could be killed by the (mild and relatively harmless, they hope!) swine flu this winter. [Washington Post]
- The reality TV guy who may have killed his ex-wife before killing himself was “corrupted by fame,” alleges his grieving father, which is a nice sentiment but had anybody outside of a small sliver of VH1 viewers even heard of this man before his ex-wife’s body turned up in a suitcase? [Telegraph]
- Perpetual staker-out-of-presidential-vacation-spots Cindy Sheehan has decamped for Martha’s Vineyard, which should be approx. 1,000 times nicer to stay at than crappy old Crawford. [Christian Science Monitor]
- Maybe the drag queen and sometime politician Rudy Giuliani will run for governor of New York. [New York Times]
- The GOP goes hard after seniors in its efforts to quash health care reform. [Wall Street Journal]
- Maybe all the backing and forthing over healthcare is moot anyhow, if President Obama’s ambitious plans for change are stymied by a lack of any realistic ability to pay for these things. [Reuters]
No more pig anal for us this winter!
seems a little fame goes a long way in the old corruption department. i wonder how many suitcases dead guy would have stuffed if he had won an emmy.
Since I’m in a such a fine mood today, we could consider this
US America is swept up in craze of new Muggles song “VH1 Killed the Reality Star”
1) Swine Flu infects many US Americans (plus many elsewhere, but they don’t “count.”)
2) GOP tries to gain support against HC reform among the Olds
3) Olds will probably die faster against the Swine Flu
4) Obama mines Olds bodies for precious minerals and body fluids
5) Sells this to the Chinese who use it for Dong Medicine or whatever
6) Obama takes Chinese Yuan and pays for HC for the remaining US Americans
7) GOP loses support as olds die off from Swine Flu
9) Win?
The Swine Flu should be funded by the US Department of Transportation - this could be the cheapest way ever to reduce highway congestion in this country.
So long as the US American war (defense? really?) budget of about $760 billion passes with hardly a “hey, look at that” from the media then maybe, yeah, we should reevaluate spending priorities in this country before committing to a program that doesn’t purport to kill anyone (despite what very serious people like Palin & Grassley face-twitter about it.)
Remember when Reuters was worried about paying for the invasion and occupation of Iraq?
Me neither, so they need to STFU
Republicans… it’s like they live in another world. Nothing that scares them exists, nothing that exists scares them. I think they might all be on the crack.
Let’s have them drug tested, just to be sure.
And sterilized, of course, so that they can never fall prey to the temptation of abortion.
Believe me, they’ll thank us.
On a positive note, when everybody was wee-weed up about swine flu this last spring, my local grocery store was practically giving away pork chops.
I wonder if Giuliani will campaign solely in Florida this time.
I’ve actually been watching Megan Wants a Millionaire.
1. She has a ridiculous body. And she is not as terrible as you might think she would be for having been on Rock of Love and some other show.
2. I assumed it was only this guy’s stupid little soul patch that made me dislike him so. But perhaps I had somehow gleaned what was lurking just beneath the surface?
ManchuCandidate:
It is a beautiful theory Mr. Manchu and normally I eagerly buy into anything posted on Wonkette. However, it seems the olds are more immune to the Pig Plague than the youngs. (#3) You can make dong medicine out of youngs, right?
Cindy Sheehan is still alive?
Mild Midwesterner: And still ruining everyone’s vacation.
Okay, now this is funny:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/24/switzerland-tells-google-_n_267232.html
The Swiss are demanding that Google remove all of the street view images because people were being photographed and recognized, sometimes. All of the blah blah blah is here and they’re negotiating and trying to work it out, but here’s the funny part about what started it apparently:
One Swiss image made news over the weekend as it clearly captured national parliamentarian Ruedi Noser on the street walking with a woman.
The woman has been identified as his assistant, but the weekly NZZ am Sonntag quoted Noser as demanding the “instant shutdown of Street View” until Google can guarantee that it properly hides the identities of people in 100 percent of cases.
The reality TeeVee guy had more issues than just fame. I think when you slice & dice another human being, there are some deep seated psychological problems (psychopath). I have to wonder if he started with cats & dogs early in life, then “graduated” to human beings. In any event, the world is a better place without him. Dismembering bodies must take a cast iron stomach, and/or no conscience.
Uncertainty Vice-Principal: Ah, those philandering…Swiss? I think someone’s cuckoo-clock got wound too tightly.
Uncertainty Vice-Principal: Yeah, what will they do- attack us with holey cheese? Screw the Swiss- collaborators par excellence!
TGY: Hey, they’re Europeans. In fact they’re more old-fashioned about gender roles than other European countries (Swiss women only got the right to vote in NINETEEN SEVENTY ONE, for smeg’s sake, amazingly) and well, we know what that means.
Funny, I looked that up to get the exact year, and this whole timeline of women’s suffrage came up, on which I see that one of the very first places in the world to let women vote was….. New Jersey. 1776. Later rescinded.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_women%27s_suffrage
Google better watch it’s back in Switzerland… When I lived there I was told frequently that every able bodied male under 70 or something had a government issued automatic rifle and ammunition to fight off invaders. They used to have most of their major bridges and highway intersections pre-fitted with explosives so they could be blown up at a moment’s notice.
The Google photovan better head to Belgium and shoot the Sprouts…
dijetlo: Paco (coca paste) not crack. They pick it up cheap while hiking the Argentine Trail.
Johnny Zhivago: Of course this might be why women didn’t get the vote until 1971… ???
Johnny Zhivago: Now that’s an action movie I’d watch. The Swiss blowing up bridges to try to stop invading GoogleVans racing to take everyone’s picture.
Mild Midwesterner: The body is alive, it remains animate. The mind, not so much.
Mild Midwesterner: pondscum: Does this withered protest fairy realize that you can’t get to the Vineyard on Greyhound? Her merry little band will be shouting and stamping about at the Woods Hole ferry terminal.
Johnny Zhivago: The Department of Labor might be politically better for Barry. “New job creation figures rose sharply by 90,000 in the last quarter, with robust growth in the funeral home industry.”
I cannot wait for the swine flu hysteria this fall. It’s going to be great! Regular flu kills about 40,000 people per year in America, but because this one has a special name, people are going to be shitting bricks!
user-of-owls: She also might find out that the cost of staying on the Vineyard in August is a tad more expensive than that vacation wonderland, Midland, Texas.
The GOP goes hard after seniors
Oh, man. I could have lived my whole life without having that image in my head.
dijetlo: You haven’t been keeping up, my friend. They need no assistance on that score. When an Evangelical Christian has an abortion it is not hypocrisy.
Remember, God’s Chosen can do whatever they please without sin - sort of like King David or the modern Israelis. Hey, it’s in the Bible.
If 90,000 Americans die of swine flu this winter, does that mean the Death Panels can take some time off? Someone should tell the CBO.
“Investigators identified her by the serial numbers on her breast implants.”
That’s one for the tombstone, right there.
OK, libtards, I know we couldn’t talk bad about her when she was ragging on W with good reason, but I think we can now ALL agree that Cindy Sheehan is an attention whore with the moral gravitas of Bill O’Reilly and Al Sharpton swapping loofahs in a hot tub.
Monsieur Grumpe: You can use the youngs to make dong medicine, but it has a much lower viagra content, so does not command as high a price.
facehead: Are you referring to the story about flu, or the one about Republicans going hard after seniors?
Lazy Media: And with a voice like having a wire go through your head.