Wonkette
- Obama is demanding that the companies that received the most bailout money pay their highest-earning employees 10% of what they normally do. [New York Times]
- Oh here’s something new: everyone is worried about getting sick but is too lazy and/or too terrified to actually get a flu shot. [Washington Post]
- The weird Jett Travolta/Bahamas were not really so fun that one time/extortion case has been declared a mistrial. [CNN]
- Terrorists fired mortars at an airport in Somalia in hopes of killing the country’s president as he boarded a plane. They killed 20 people, but none of them were the president. [AP]
- Larry Summers has a good feeling about the the strength of the economy in general and the value of the dollar specifically. [Reuters]
- AT&T is really pulling out all the stops trying to keep this net neutrality thing from happening. [The Hill]
The president of Somalia cannot be killed. There is no president of Somalia.
I can’t really discourage Republicans and WaPo readers enough from getting vaccinated…against anything. Shorter lines that way.
Oddly enough, you STILL can’t get the H1N1 vaccine in the Florence, KY area which is one of the state’s most populated areas.
Somalia: What the founding fathers had in mind when they wrote the Second Amendment.
Wall Street Exec: You’ll have to take my pay from my cold, dead hand!
American Public: That can be arranged!
Somalia has a president?
Larry Summers said that? I’m putting all my money in gold, TODAY.
Were they terrorists or were they pirates?
Larry Summers having a good feeling could have just been a first rate bowel movement. Either way, same thing, I guess.
WadISay:
Somalia = NRA vacation paradise?
Barry, nice try using a combination of shame and morality to get Wall St to do the right thing, but you forget one thing. If they had any shame or morality they wouldn’t be working on Wall St.
Monsieur Grumpe: Amusement park. You must be at least *this* high to ride the Somaliland express.
Could have fooled me about the flu shots. Chicago area is OUT of seasonal and still waiting on H1N1. I think we need to launch a strike on Indianapolis to get some of their nummy vaccines.
I don’t think this song gets played enough.
Easiest way to keep the prez safe is to not have a prez. Too bad nobody though of that 9 years ago.
And fuck AT&T. They have the same level of evil as Citibank.
The only economic news anyone cares about is unemployment and the possibility of executing Goldman Sachs executives. Since Larry “girls can’t do math” Summers didn’t pronounce on either topic, he remains irrelevant. And Hopey? That’s a good start but we’re more concerned with the whole “too big to fail” problem.
gurukalehuru:
Somalia has an Airport?
What’s it called the “Enlightened Self Interest International Aerodrome” or just the “John Gault Memorial Anti-Aircraft missile practice range and Chicken Ranch”?
Lawrence Summers should get no more than 10 percent of what he was being paid before. His advice has been worth nothing.
Dear nonvaccinated asshats: please stay home, or at the local Lodge, with your G(r)OPer friends, until they all get teh H1N1, and stay off normal people’s airplanes, trains, and planet.
Thank you.
I already got my normal flu shot. If they ever decide to release the H1N1 shot in my major metropolitan area, I will get that, too. At the moment, it is unavailable. Given the way my city government works, the vaccine shipments are probably sitting in the city health director’s living room collecting dust.
gurukalehuru: The Terrorists and Pirates are indistinguishable from the National Guard, Goat Herders, and Congress, is Somalia’s problem.
We should welcome AT&T’s emergence as the preeminent ‘phone company’. I have been saying for twenty-three years, “We were all happier when we had just one big ‘Phone Company’ to hate.”
Normally I would be in favor of anything that causes John Travolta distress & contributes in any way to toward the discrediting of crankotology, but I draw the line at the death of his son, because that’s the kind of warm-hearted person I am.
Also, I rarely leave home, being long-term unemployed and not a big fan of humans. So the chances of me contracting or spreading H1N1 are small. Anyway, it’s all ball bearings these days.
hobospacejunkie: But would you still feel that way if it had been Tom Cruise’s son? Think carefully….
I would like the vaccine but we don’t have any. Hey, I met our hero(ok, from 2 weeks ago) Alan Grayson. He didn’t say anything all that great when I met him but I did get asked for money from his campaign.
And what the hell’s up with the righties on net neutrality anyway? Six months ago (or maybe back before the election) RedState and CrooksandLiars had actually teamed up to be pro net neutrality — now for some reason RS has joined corporate tool Glenn Beck and others in railing against it. Is it just me, or have we always been at war with Eurasia?
Well since it’s essentially Larry Summer’s fault that the economy tanked, I’m not sure I feel all that reassured.
hobospacejunkie: Hey, sounds familiar, bro. Thank god for the $50 we get for every post to the Wonkette comments section or I’d be living under a bridge.
SayItWithWookies: And what the hell’s up with the righties on net neutrality anyway?
RedStooge and company get hung up on the whole Government Run = BAD thing.
dijetlo: Ha ha!
hobospacejunkie: So true! I thrash back and forth between the cable company and the phone company, seeing which one sucks less. It’s like a philosophical paradox: each is worse than the other, which can’t be true, but is.
DangerousLiberal:
H1N1 shall cull the herd.
everyone is worried about getting sick but is too lazy and/or too terrified to actually get a flu shot
Is that talking about the flu, or having sex?
Norbert: You guys get $50 for your comments? Hell, they’re only paying me $37.25 apiece, and always with “Hey Caveman - A little snarkier next week, OK?” written on the bad of the check.
I’m breaking my back out here!
SayItWithWookies: “Is it just me, or have we always been at war with Eurasia?”
I need this on a button. It’s the “is it just me” part that makes it a win.
Youse all may go ahead and hate me, but I never got a flu shot until this year, when my manager saved me a slot when our company was handing them out for free. (They’re trying to get the H1N1 too.) My reasoning was 1) it’s a lotta hype; 2) I haven’t had the flu since my high school junior year; 3) I don’t want to take it if I’m depriving the high risk folks around me from getting it (goes back to the year when there was a shortage). They’re better protected getting the flu shot themselves than if I get it.
But yes, I’ll get the H1N1 too if my company provides it.
Larry Summers wouldn’t be so optimistic if he realized how many of the banks’ adding machines were being operated by chicks.
If you’re unemployed getting swine flu may be your only shot at getting medical care. Kind of funny though, that last horseman of the Apocalypse never seems to be able to get going. Maybe war and famine are killing before (s)he has a chance. Pestilence just ain’t got game.
Here’s a summary of the comments on the WaPo swine flu story: “The vaccine was manufactured in a rush and also not fast enough. I blame Obama”.
Their hands-off approach that lets the market determine efficient technologies has enabled the Somalis to perfect a cutting edge security system for their national leaders. The US Air Force is just too chicken-shit to admit it. Also, in a true market driven state, isn’t the leader called “Godfather”?
Xenu will not be pleased, … with any of this.
I read that net neutrality thing…Comcast opposes it, therefore it is fucking awesome.