Wonkette
- Obama, to prove he does not hate New Orleans and has zero plans to willfully destroy it—as per the tradition of his predecessor—will visit this afternoon. [Los Angeles Times]
- Over 30 people were killed in a series of coordinated terrorist goings-on in Islamabad. [New York Times]
- The Arctic’s ice will be completely gone in 20 years. Add “carbon emissions” to “rock salt” on the national What Melts Snow list. [Times Online]
- Obama wants to give $250 to every senior and disabled person this winter, since there will not be the traditional increase on Social Security benefit checks. [Washington Post]
- Probationary Kennedy Maria Shriver has apologized for talking on her cell phone while driving, for such is illegal in California. This is like literally the third time this has happened. [CNN]
- Uhh… the Germans are constructing a new Berlin Wall, out of Styrofoam… because they want to knock it down again. Ha ha. It seems this is how most things start, in Germany. [WSJ]
Re the Berlin Wall — didn’t Pink Floyd do that already?
Actually, Juli, I think the styrofoam wall thing sounds kinda cool. Let’s just hope they don’t add in the asbestos for authenticity.
Red State would add carbon emissions to the list, but they don’t believe that CO2 really exists either. What those librul skientizts call CO2 is really “God’s farts.”
In Maria’s defense, she’s so shriveled that she needs the energy from the cell phone to keep her alive.
and now it comes the time on Sprockets!
Did you hear that Germany is actually thinking of establishing a new capitol?
In Paris.
V572625694: I thought it was the other way around - she forgets to charge it and it is sucking the energy out of her?
Johnny Zhivago: I think “Probationary Kennedy Maria Shriver”* has been that scrawny since before cell phones were invented.
*Good one, Juli!
ManchuCandidate: I don’t understand why they wouldn’t; after all, carbon is black.
Johnny Zhivago: This is not funny!
Beware, wonketteers! The German people is watching you!
Johnny Zhivago: Sssshh. Don’t give them any ideas.
Great news, Times UK! That land I’ve picked out for my banana plantation in upstate New York has never been cheaper!
Say what you will about the silly Germans, at least they aren’t always gettin’ up in other countries’ business, invading, blowing stuff up, killing the natives.
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V572625694: In Soviet Russia, cell phone charges you!
But in all seriousness, while the styrofoam wall is up, could Barry go to the Brandenburg Gate and politely suggest they knock it down? Maybe then next year he can share the Peace Prize with the ghost of St. Ronald of California?
I say no $250 for seniors! Let them get jobs like everyone else.
A Berlin Wall made of Styrofoam? Geez pete, German engineering ain’t what it used to be.
I can’t wait for the wingtards to explain why they don’t wanna help seniors this winter. I’m sure J. Beauregard Sessions can manage it, though. He did such a bang up job defending gang rape on behalf of his corporate masters/diaper changers, Halliburton.
AggieDemocrat:
Not to mention the mess after they knock it down. German cities are supposedly famous for their orderliness and cleanliness. Now Berlin will be plagued my rolling waves of those little bitty styrofoam pieces.
Doesn’t California have the 3 strikes you’re out law? Shouldn’t Shriver be sent off to the organic Birkenstock shoe factories like everyone else?
Cell phone drivers should be treated like drunk drivers, because they are actually worse. You almost kind of expect to see a few idiots crossing into oncoming traffic late on a Saturday night. You don’t expect to see it in broad daylight, though thanks to the retarded many that is beginning to change.
AggieDemocrat: If we started to build cars of Styroform, they would still be better than everything GM or Chrysler has produced for the last 40 or 50 years!
Johnny Zhivago: Nice!
Let’s send Olympia Snowe a message! Send me $50 and I’ll ship one box of carbon emissions to Senator Snowe’s office — that’ll learn em!
ShiningMathPath: ….when we dance!
Herman the German: When my car bumper(not American made) was replaced after damage- I think the material was not as strong as styrofoam so I agree.
Obama wants to give $250 to every senior and disabled person this winter, since there will not be the traditional increase on Social Security benefit checks.
He figured out what to do with his Nobel money.
Herman the German: Thanks, but I think I’ll stick to adobe.
Terry: German villages, otoh, have flowers and butterflies.
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I seem to remember that the melting of the polar ice caps will raise the ocean levels world wide a couple of feet which means buh-bye Red State America…Let’s see how long they can tread water with a bible in one hand and an assault rifle in the other, they’re going to have to drop one eventually, I just wonder which one it will be?
In an Oct. 8 letter to the president, Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) said it would be “deeply disappointing” to Louisianians if Obama did not plan a more thorough tour of the region. In the local Times-Picayune newspaper, Tulane University historian Lawrence N. Powell said Obama “shouldn’t come at all if he’s coming for a glorified layover.”
I can’t even snark about this, since it’s so completely and stupidly disingenuous. Oh, and question to Vitter and Bobby Dearest: how are all those federal funds that you said you would “turn down on principle” (but you ultimately and happily took anyway) working out for you?
If the Wall thing works the Germans will then build a flashpaper Reichstag.
God destroyed New Orleans to punish them for their pagan Voodoo practices. Having atoned for their sins they now have charter schools. In the not too distant future Iraq and Afghanistan will have charter schools.
As far as punishing people for using a cell phone while driving, I think it is a plot by the newspaper industry to force people to go back to reading newspapers while driving.
Large amounts of styrofoam and no more Arctic. Haha, those two things are probably not related at all.
Is this a Christo project or something??
Monsieur Grumpe: “Doesn’t California have the 3 strikes you’re out law? Shouldn’t Shriver be sent off to the organic Birkenstock shoe factories like everyone else?”
California has gulags, tambien? To be sure, if I ever make it to San Quentin, I’ll most assurredly request the “Paris Hilton Suite.”