Wonkette
- After being prodded by basically everyone on Earth, soon-to-be-former President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai is ready to admit that he did not actually win the re-election. [New York Times]
- A new poll says that most people think the public option would be a good thing, actually. [Washington Post]
- Swine flu has spread to this one actual swine in Minnesota. It’s hard to feel bad given how appropriate this seems! [WSJ]
- A US scientist was arrested for trying to sell important secrets to someone he thought was an Israeli intelligence guy, but was actually just an American intelligence guy about to arrest him. [CNN]
- Iran is two seconds away from doing something it might possibly regret to Pakistan—possibly bombing it, or possibly explicitly threatening it with bombs. [AP]
- Apple, Inc. shares are the highest they’ve ever been. There are still no available Genius Bar appointments. [Reuters]
Please don’t sneeze on the pigs.
This is my greatest fear…that H1N1 will actually spread to pigs. Breakfast just won’t be the same if my daily pound of bacon doubles in price.
Poor Pakistan. India, Afghanistan, US America, Britain and now Iran wants to pick on Pakistan, now the Charlie Brown of South West Asia.
Oh Iran, I’m betting the tears shed for the Revolutionary Guard leaders (who were leading the crackdown post Iranican Elections) could fill zeroes of thimbles.
Isreal is a lot like a really bad girlfriend who cheats on you with your Chinese banker (selling Patriot missiles, nuke designs and F-16 info), steals (plutonium and secrets), and doesn’t put up much of a fight when confronted by it because she knows you’re too whipped to do anything about it.
Since this is the “catch-all” section of Wonkette, could someone please explain David Brooks column of today? Who is Max? Who are the Wild Things? What is his point?
Baby pigs are cute. Also.
What about the Pubic Option?
The Little Rock: Actually, the price of pork has been low because of this. And could go lower. Of course, you can’t get the flu from eating pork, unless someone sneezed on it first.
HHS to instruct pigs to properly sneeze into their ham hocks. Developing…
David Brooks’ columns are hyerdense pieces of disingenuity written by a smarmy douchewad in a pink tie.
Oh, you mean specifically? Fuck that shit, I ain’t readin’ it.
bbc says the spy guy worked for the papa bush white house, then went on to develop really secret thingies for fun and profit. apparently not enough profit, since what he got paid to sell his soul this last time around is barely enough to retain a decent attorney on a petty larceny charge.
disclaimer — i’m interpreting the bbc report, not quoting, and everything is alleged, as in, “i’m allegedly going to do the dishes now.”
Of course, the pigs just call it “the flu.”
Can swine flu be spread to pigs anally? I ask purely for informational purposes.
Wouldn’t we kinda want to give important secrets to Israel? That man should be given a medal for attempting to strengthen our Hebrew brethren!
Or, if you prefer, wasn’t he, by virtue of trying to sell to Israel, just planning to sell to America anyway?
PabaBritannica: Win!
PabaBritannica: Does this have something to do with Jim DeMint, editorials and thrifty Jewish Bankers?
Will Michele Bachmann allow her RFID chip to be implanted as a result of taking the vaccine?
Does this mean that El Rushbo has the flu?
the problem child: If we all went out and sneezed on pigs every now and then, how low could we drive the price of bacon?
Apple store is down, which can only mean new product launch. FSJ tip.
…had no idea Karzai’s main rival in the election is named Abdullah Abdullah. Did he run on the ‘man so nice they named him twice’ platform??
Most people, who apparently want the public option, aren’t willing to fellate senators while showering them with bribes. Therefore, against all reason, the public option remains a distant dream, unless guys like Sherrod Brown and Sheldon Whitehouse and Jay Rockefeller get togethet at recess and beat the shit out of cunty Max Baucus & that whore Blanche Lincoln.
I’m certain the unemployment reality played no small part in changing people’s perspective of the public option, especially when they got the COBRA sticker shock.
“A new poll says that most people think the public option would be a good thing, actually. [Washington Post]”
But, death panels.
Also, much as it would pain me for the PNAC pricks to get their wish, and much as I loathe war as the plaything of cowardly chickenhawks and tiny-penised schoolyard bullies, I’d find it hard not to cheer someone kicking Iran’s army & “revolutionary” (where revolutionary = never been kissed, much less laid) guards solidly in the teeth, with bombs & such.
I dig my swine but maybe all them jews, muslims and vegetarians is onto sumthin…
How could Iran possibly believe that the US would use its intelligence services to try to overthrow the Iranian government? Next you’ll try to tell me that this was some sort of sleeper cell put into place by Cheney but only activating during the Obama administration.
And to blame, sweet, innocent darling Pakistan for this? Their military’s hands are clean! They’ve made damn sure to cover their tracks!
I find it alarming that nearly 100% of people caught selling secrets to foreign governments held security clearances at the time. I suggest dismantling the whole security-clearance-thing, as a precaution.
But, but, but, Dick Cheney, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck said all the Islamofascists were in it together, because they hate our freedoms. How could one set of Muslins be against another set of Muslins? Neither one of them has blonde cheerleaders or apple pie, so what is there for them to hate?
hockeymom: David Brooks is obviously cheating on his wife, and trying to come up with a pseudo-scientific excuse for this moral lapse.
x111e7thst: You sneeze on it, you buy it policies are in effect at most sties.
MMS: Death panels would be a good thing.
magic titty: He tried to, but Boutros Boutros wanted too much in royalties.
There will be a lot of red faces at FBI once someone figures out the guy sold them sketches of vacuum cleaner parts.
couchbound: I propose a truly free market for the selling of secrets to spies. Why does the STATE have a monopoly on state secret? It’s a cartel.
I think arresting Jews is a good marketing move as Jews are way under served by the US prison system. It would also make working there better if their were some decent people incarcerated for a change. I’m all for it if it makes America’s prisons a better place to live and work.
Any caveman knows the proper way to kill the swine flu germs on your pork products is to slather them in a mildly acidic coating of (chose at least 8 of the following) Worchestershire sauce, lemon juice, beer, red wine vinegar, olive oil, cumin, ground cayenne, ground black pepper, salt, ground, curry powder, ginger, minced garlic, ground lemon peel, brown sugar, and onion powder, then cook verrrry slowly at about 225 degrees over fire with an open can of beer in an enclosed BBQ for the steam effect and maybe a disposable aluminum pan underneath to catch the drippings for basting (or you can just let the dripping burn up, for a little more smokiness.
Ya ever meet a caveman who was suffering from swine flue? Didn’t think so.
(BTW, I left out five key ingredients to protect the sanctity of my Secret Recipe).
user-of-owls:
Plans for the Death Star of David.
The people always were in support of a public option, many Americans even in support of single payer. This is yet another issue on which the government is actually years behind the people on.
BTW, how many more times will we let Israel steal from us before we stop ignore it? When China does it, we got bat-shit insane; it seems like these Israeli incursions are a yearly thing, and yet most people just ignore them.
The pig-killers will probably be hurt by this news. And their champion, USDA Sec Vilsack, can’t tell the media not to use “swine flu” anymore.
I am so heartbroken by all of these developments. I’m crying in my tofu.