Wonkette
- Nearly a hundred were killed in flooding caused by an 8.0 undersea earthquake (and a bunch of diligent, follow-up tsunamis) in Samoa and American Samoa. [New York Times]
- New evidence suggests that the terrorist group responsible for last year’s Mumbai hotel violence is still way into terrorism, despite the fact that this makes them kind of boring, doesn’t it? Anyway, some American intelligence people think that Pakistan’s secret spy police, the ISI, is more or less okay with this. [New York Times]
- The popular Asian country of China is only pretending to be a good friend to the US and sit there quietly and listen as Obama goes on about Iran, and how terrible Iran is, when really, China will still import oil from Iran, as China’s #1 priority is not messing up its own economic boom. China is sort of undermine-y, is the point. [Washington Post]
- Pedro Almodovar, Martin Scorsese and… Woody Allen—Woody Allen—have DEMANDED that authorities release known sex pervert Roman Polanski. See, he was captured on the way to a film festival at which he was being honored, so, to arrest him there was a bit déclassé. [CNN]
- After an apparently successful “Distracted Driving Summit,” Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood might propose criminalizing texting while driving, or banning handheld cell phone use in the car, or making teenagers illegal. [AP]
Juli, isn’t there any good news?
Just keep in mind, if you can see the ocean, the ocean can see you.
It was a bit disturbing when one of my penpal-type Facebook friends put up a “we have a tsunami warning” from her near-coastal New Zealand abode.
And I can’t BELIEVE that Polanski feel for that whole “show up at [x] address in coat and tails and receive a big fat prize for a lifetime of filmmaking” police sting! That’s the oldest one in the book!
Yes! Criminalize teenagers! And annoying minivan/ SUV drivers making left-hand turns while being Republics.
Teenagers. Yep; teenagers should definitely be made illegal.
I hear Phillip Garrido wants Polanski released too.
If teenagers had been illegal 30 years ago, Polanski would not be in trouble now.
Are we seeing noted film-industry celebrities coming to the support of their right to drug and rape children? Am I missing something here?
Just another battle in the war on Big Telecom. You fucking kids and your net neutrality and complaining about us eavesdropping on your conversations then giving it to the gubbiment without a warrant or legal fight in a violation of the supposed highest law in the land. We loves US America and the fatties that call it home.
Don’t you know that Big Telecom CARES about you, your safety, your family’s safety and wants to hug you and kiss you and call you George?
Er, wait. You’re cutting into our precious profits? Well fuck you all.
Big Telecom CARES MORE about profits than highway safety. We don’t give a fuck if people get hurt (especially Jon and Kate Gosselin–hey, we have standards, too) because dumbshits don’t pay the fuck attention when they should. We at Big Telecom believe in Natural Selection and texting/handheld cellphones for people too stupid to get speaker phones is our way of helping the removing those people (and the people they kill) out of our increasing shallow and fatter gene pool. So YOU’RE WELCOME US AMERICA!!!
Beanball: Beaten and then made illegal. As was the fashion in the before time.
ManchuCandidate: And why the fuck do I have to stop for stopped school busses? Any little creep to stupid to keep an eye out for oncoming cars should not be allowed to grow up and breed.
Polanski on a stick!
Woody Allen–naturally. But I didn’t realize that Almodovar and Scorcese were also known perverts.
The Chinese are not willing to screw up their own economic boom to placate our and Israels terror at the idea of Iran having a nuclear weapon…hmmmm…those selfish bastards, and after we did so much for them before Mao threw us out of the country and nationalize all our holdings….
We could sell them our teenagers who could then be rendered for their vast deposits of animal fat which if carefully refined could be used to power the Chinese economy for the foreseeable future. Only on the condition that we get to keep their organs so we can keep the blessed olds alive for as long as humanly possible because without them, there is no Republican party.
Those below sea level, however, are having a fine day, what with all the crap being washed into the oceans from sea level and above.
chascates: Francisco Franco: still dead.
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Almodovar, Scorsese and Allen are simply heeding the wisdom of Martin Niemöller, as should we all:
First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a communist;
Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist;
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist;
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew;
They came for the jet-setting aggravated child rapists, and I did not speak out because I was not a Republican.
Then they came for the internets—and there was no one left to speak out for me.
Today, we are all distracted Chinese terrorist tsunamis, openly texting pedophile directors, whilst driving…tweeting also.
Replace all the regular high schools with mandatory, public boarding schools that the teens are not allowed to leave; there, the little assholes can screw each other to their hearts content while not annoying the rest of us. Or at least ban the under-18 from downtowns, public transportation, and other places us adults use.
I really don’t have any against teenagers. However, can we just lock up the kids who use “like” every other word?
Oh, it was the ’70s. Who DIDN’T sleep with 13-year-olds passed out on ‘ludes?
Julie where is Ken? Is he on a maternity leave as well?
Monsieur Grumpe: Like, shyeuah? No? Like, what is your problem? As if?
Do they say “as if”? these days, the kids? Not that I care.
Big Liver: Hey now, have some sympathy; the man’s wife was killed. That apparently excuses rape for some reason.
no more roamin’ for roman. too bad he didn’t plead an insanity defense 30 years ago — you know, something along the lines of, “yer honor, my very pregnant wife was brutally slaughtered by serious crazies who carved words on her body and for a while after that i just lost it and had no idea i was drugging and raping a 13-year-old my god, what kind of twisted lunatic would do that it sounds almost french.” a few years of state-sponsored cranial therapy and he woulda been home free.
JMP: And he survived the Holocaust. So. Free pass!!!
Lazy Media: i will never admit to that and you have no evidence, only her word against mine. besides, she told me she was 16 and had “done it” before.
http://wonkette.com/411349/a-good-day-for-underwater-earthquakes-is-a-bad-day-for-everyone-at-sea-level-and-above#comment-422984
Indeed. I know I was definitely illegal back in the day. Beaten, too. Served me right.
jasper f. krone: Martin Scorsese makes the best fucking arguments against extradition.
Dreamer: He’s walking the California coast and writing his tome, “Going Rogue: An American Life”.
house of the blue lights: If teenagers had been legal 30 years ago, Polanski would not be in trouble now.
Fixed that for you
magic titty: Oh, if ONLY.
Monsieur Grumpe: Around here, we call those Jerseyites - and it includes women up to their mid-30s, not just kids. However, living in that stinkhole is probably punishment enough.
Dreamer:
He’s doing some kind of West Coast hippie thing like walking up the beach of the entire Pacific coast. Not sure what he does when he reaches things like the mouth of San Francisco Bay. Is he allowed to walk over the Golden Gate Bridge, or does he have to detour all the way around the Bay through Oakland and the like?
Monsieur Grumpe: Yea! The “like” kids drive me crazy. We should at least decriminalize the dope slap.
JMP: Come to think of it, it’s probably a good thing that texting hasn’t really caught on among senile drivers who already can’t see over the bloody steering wheel.
magic titty: Terry: Oh, he is just being a godless libtard. Good to know. Hey, does that mean there is a posibility he might appear in one of Cindy McCain’s tweets.
Aflac Shrugged: Sure, like “The arrest of Roman Polanski in a neutral country, where he assumed he could travel without hindrance”.
First, Switzerland did away with private bank accounts, and now this?
And I was not at all surprised to see that Harvey Weinstein was behind the petition. Dude’s got “child rapist” written all over him.
I want to hear the RedState analysis of any proposed TextingWhileDriving ban:
OBAMA HAS NO RESPECT FOR THE SANCTITY OF HUMAN COMMUNICATION. WHAT IF THAT DRIVER WERE TEXTING ONE OF OUR BRAVE MEN AND WOMEN FIGHTING OVERSEAS FOR OUR FREEDOM™? WHAT THEN, MR. PUUUUUUUUUUREZIDENT?
Lately I’ve noticed quite a few cyclists texting, joining texting car-drivers in this charming bit of head-up-your-own-assedness. The Samoan ocean gods are pissed off, and so am I.
Monsieur Grumpe: Totally, for sure.
Dreamer: She’d tweet the shit out of Ken Layne.
Meanwhile, “Survivor-Samoa” survives. Earthquake/Tsunami fail!
JMP: Hey, this sounds like something my lovely bride would say. I thought we had a deal, she gets Comics Curmudgeon and I get Wonkette.
They nailed Polanski on a 32 year old statutory rape charge but they can’t prosecute George Bush for war crimes committed, like, last year?
Basically, until some Republicans get prosecuted for something, I’m for everybody having a free pass for everything.
Maybe an Al Qeada film festival in Quetta Pakistan, offing OBL a life time achievement award…
Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta; the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.
She was Lo, plain Lo in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita.
[Yes those are the first two paragraphs of Sarah Palin's book and it's gonna rock.]
Terry: Yep, he can walk across the Golden Gate Bridge, assuming no Samoan tsunamis have washed it away with their tsunami judgy-ness.
Oh, well if Woody Allen says sexing underage girls is okay, then I guess…
First off, why does the White House have to have a summit about every. goddamned. issue? Texting-while-driving is one of those no-brainers that you don’t need a summit to discuss. Just ban the shitty practice, already. Gah.
Secondly, China is the only other country in the world even more amoral than us, and for some reason, that makes me very angry. I’m not even all that hard-up on Iran, but it doesn’t matter who we’re against; unsurpisingly they are for them. I’m beginning to think it’s begninning to have less to do with resources, and more to do with spite.
BTW, we must be living in opposite world, where certian folks will put up their good name to defend Polanski, and for no other reason than “he made some great movies”. I’m of the mind that the original prosecutor was a self-righteous, self-serving bastard, but, dude, you got caught. You had a good run; man-up and stop bitching. Jeeze.