Wonkette
- Today Iran + the UN Security Council will LITERALLY meet in Switzerland the country in hopes of convincing Iran to agree to a weapons inspection. [New York Times]
- If Obama wants to send more troops to Afghanistan, he might have to ask the GOP for support. The GOP, of all people. [Washington Post]
- Over 500 Indonesians were killed in Wednesday’s Indonesia-based earthquake. [WSJ]
- And then a totally gratuitous second earthquake hit Samoa, which yesterday was basically razed by tsunamis. [CNN]
- Harry Reid & Friends really want the House and Senate to vote on health care during the week everyone is expected to skip out early for Columbus Day vacation. [AP]
- Hey happy 60th birthday People’s Republic of China! The traditional gift for 60 is turning the Empire State Building one’s favorite color. [AP]
Can we send Alan Grayson to negotiate with Iran?
Filthy Swiss Neutrals. What makes a good man go neutral? Lust for gold? Power? Or were the Swiss just born with a heart full of neutrality?
Probably a stupid, simplistic question about the health care thing: what’s the holdup?
Couldn’t we have just sent China some blood diamonds for it’s 60th anniversary?
Can’t Barry just send all of the GOP to Afghanistan?
AggieDemocrat: He did, they were on embassy guard duty. Great PR for the Talib’s.
OK, this is what I’ve got to say about “the Generals.”
For seven fucking years they stood silent as Afghanistan went to shit and George W. Bush assured us that “the Generals on the ground say they have enough troops” even though everyone knew that was bullshit because the place was going to shit right before our eyes.
Suddenly there’s a Democrat in the White House and these guys are all “hay, man’ we need more troops pronto or we’re going to lose this thing.”
Well fuck you. You lost it already when you stood by silently as George W. Bush dragged our assess into the most expensive war in history over in Iraq. Let’s just cut our losses and run. Afghanistan is toast. We already bungled the shit out of that nation building exercise.
I wonder what the Kuomintang are getting China for its birthday.
AggieDemocrat:
Here’s what would happen: you’d sign the orders to have them sent over and somehow they would all wind up in the Texas Air National Guard instead… all except John McCain, who would crash his fighter on the way over there and spend the next 10 years in a Taliban prison being waterboarded for making an American flag out of tomatoes, cauliflower and blueberries.
Mother Earth is pissed or she has gas.
ManchuCandidate: I think it’s exposure to cuckoo clocks since birth.
ManchuCandidate: Combatant confusion is a problem sweeping this country as well. Our young men don’t seem to be developing that ol blood lust like they used to. Where we just wanted to napalm the browns back to the early bronze age, todays youth want diplomacy, development initiatives or (shudder) UN resolutions to work out our differences.
I blame it on a lack of strong male role models in the home, when you used to watch your Dad pop your Mom in the kisser every Friday night for being “mouthy”, it made perfect sense to immolate entire villages to demonstrate our righteous umbrage, and of course it’s Obamas’ fault because it just is and while we’re throwing blame around, we should probably mention that those little pecker-woods watch way too much MTV.
As for the Swiss? They’re socialists which probably means they are too comfortable to want to die for principle they don’t actually share.
Serolf Divad: You know who else’s generals were too chickenshit too stand up to their leader’s bungled military decisions? That’s right. Hitler’s. And look where it got them. Forever mocked in a youtube video with fake subtitles. Is that what you want? Cuz that’s what’ll happen.
There’s a minor typo in the 5th bullet. Also, “That cab has a dent.”
the problem child: Better yet, let them harvest our organs.
It’s my birthday, too.
Could somebody light me up a building? Mind you, I have no special preferences as long as it isn’t some boring Mies van der Rohe crap.
Serolf Divad: “Afghanistan is toast”, and the hawks know this, which is all the more reason for them to seduce the “left” into its blackened abyss.
Beanball: I could set a potting shed on fire for you, would that do?
bitchincamaro: I think they’d rather rend our obese youth for their animal fats so that they can refine them to power their economic boom. We’re going to need thier organs if we want to keep the Republican party going another generation or two.
I love how Congress feels it’s necessary to spend $6.6B this year alone to train Afghan soldiers, when the Soviets did that just by sending 100,000 of their citizens for the locals to practice on. Afghanistan is to insurgency what Cuba is to major-league baseball.
They like their Islam, their opium poppies and their xenophobia, and that’s not changing because Americans show up with guns to build grammar schools.
bitchincamaro: “Left” indeed. There hasn’t been a left in this country for at least 40 years. All we have now is a right & a far right.
Monsieur Grumpe: PMSing. Soon there’ll be massive lava flows in Hawaii, the vahjayjay of the planet.
the problem child: As long as it doesn’t set the neighborhood on fire.
Then again, and not knowing your neighborhood, I don’t know if that would be a bad thing or not.
The silver lining for the Samoas is that their destruction by earthquakes eliminates worries about their destruction by climate change.
Come here a minute: Google Earth says bye bye Samoa soon: http://www.google.com/gadgets/directory?synd=earth&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fmapfiles%2Fmapplets%2Fearthgallery%2FRising_Sea_Level_Animation.xml
Doesn’t China already own the ESB? In a default swap, as it were?
Did any blonde tourists get their hair mussed up in the tsunami-quake? Coz that would be a newsworthy tragedy.
There’s one too many ’skips’ in that fifth bullet.
With the earthquakes in Samosas, what will the world’s Indian buffets serve as appetizers?
Too bad Madam Chiang Kai-Shek died 6 years too early to congratulate the Chinese commies on their momentous anniversary. What a mockery of the revolution those budding capitalists have made. You’d think they were following blueprints of Lenin’s New Economic Policy. And we all know how that ended.
I can’t quite remember where that “LITERALLY” meme came from.
Was that just something I said, and wrote it on the internet? Also.
Switzerland, ha, what a trap. Iran is totally going to get arrested and extradited back to the US.
Let’s hope, for the sake of successful negotiations, that none of those diplomats traveling to Geneva is on the lam from American justice.
Isn’t it the 50 anniversary of Twilight Zone too? Can we light up buildings for that too?
AggieDemocrat: Hey! Class of 92 here. And I was a Dem back then, too. We had to be kinda quiet about it back in the day, though. For fear of being burned alive and all.
Monsieur Grumpe: It was because of the gays. God has really piss-poor aim; he was going after San Francisco.
It’s also Jimmy Carter’s birthday! He had a party and a live webcast and nice birthday wishes and everything.
hobospacejunkie: Present company excluded, you fellow commie bastard.
badmuthagoose: Howdy, as they say. I hear you. The few, the silent. The Aggie libruls. (I’m Class of ‘98 me-self.)
I know what Obama would get China for it’s Sweet 60: a crappy ole Ipod.