Wonkette
- Obama’s team is willing to send some 30,000 troops to Afghanistan, though it remains to be seem how much moral (and otherwise) support will be provided by Afghanistan and Pakistan. [New York Times]
- The DC sniper was executed via lethal injection last night. He had no final words, just one final insane blank stare. [Washington Post]
- Swiss scientists are gearing up to make another particle sacrifice to the Large Hadron Collider deity. [CNN]
- A United Airlines pilot failed a breathalyzer test. Unclear whether he tried “chewing mint gum,” which according to high school based-science makes alcohol completely undetectable to a breathalyzer. [WSJ]
- The outcome of a bunch of helicopters with guns vs. 10 Pakistani militants was predictable. [AP]
The fact that the US is sending more and more troops gives a pretty clear answer to the question about ’support’ from Afghanistan or Pakistan.
Yay for the LHC getting up and running! Let’s just hope that it starts working properly this time, and the hypothesis that the future-LHC is sabotaging its past self is wrong.
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Here is your wise latina, doing her commie liberal pose
http://hosted.ap.org/photos/4/4c3f4e5b-2a6a-46cc-8c1d-5f7e13061db0-small.jpg
Apparently her bling gets her play
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and her most recent relationship, “a friend with no strings attached.”
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http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_SOTOMAYOR_LATINA_MAGAZINE?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
1. Couldn’t they wait for Veteran’s Day to put down the crazed ex-soldier?
2. Print reporters should be banned from narrating vid clips, no exceptions.
3. Thank you WaPo, for reminding us how scared we all were 7 years ago. BTW, did you ever tell us how many traffic deaths occurred in the kill zone during the same 3 week period?
JMP: but,but,but If it didn’t work how could its future self correct what ever problem led to it destroying all life as we know it?
Predictable, yes, we’ve all see the danger of maintaining operational concentration “off the COG”—a bloody “red dawn”—thanks to the work of John Milius (USC’s CCT) in domestic propaganda, but “killing 10 suspected fighters” puts it below “10 suspects”….”10 suspected murderers”?
Could we hear the time of death was 9:11 a few million more times ?
That was supposed to be a zig-zag *sorry*
Ugh. I was working across the street when that woman was shot at Michael’s in Fredericksburg. Burn in hell, sniper. I want the hair back that I lost during that time.
engulfedinflames: You’re showing the limits of four-dimensional thinking there; you gotta consider things in all eleven dimensions.
The clock radio woke me up this morning with news that Obama would be sending 15,000 troops to Afghanistan immediately followed by a report that Obama thought it was way too serious and scary to send anyone to Afghanistan. Testing the waters much?
The outcome of a bunch of helicopters with guns vs. 10 Pakistani militants was predictable.
To say that, you’ll have to wait until the dead Pakistanis’ hundred cousins take off a few hours from subsistence farming to kill our soldiers.
JMP: Thank you for the manifold plot reference.
rocktonsammy: Out of the 1,440 minutes of the day, precisely two of them are named 9:11. Coincidence? I think not.
“being aviation staff performing aviation function whilst exceeding the proscribed alcohol limit.”
Am I the only person who thinks this is:
A) One of the longest single-item charges anyone has ever been charged with
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B) Somewhat worrying, as the “above the proscribed limit” but suggests that pliots are allowed to be a little bit drunk, just so long as they don’t over-do it?
JMP: After further consideration in greater dimension I’m caught in a rent in the space-time continuum where my grandfather considers me a failure and my (future) grandchildren mock my ignorance…Thanks alot.
One of the stupid things about capital punishment is the argument that it’s a deterrent. If it’s a deterrent, it should be broadcast live on Court TV — and not behind barbed wire and curtains.
Gumboz1953: The idea seems to be to have some kind of statutory social agency (in the philosophical sense) hire someone to do the killing…documentation would spoil it, like a body part you must personally clear from a deposit box.
I have a commercial license and about 2000 hours in small airplanes. When I think of how expensive and hard it is to get to the point of airline captain, I do a full-body shudder at the thought of these guys throwing it away on things they KNOW will get them revoked/fired. Not to mention getting hauled into foreign courts.
Sleeves: ? Actually, I was referencing string theory, and not intentionally anything fictional.
JMP: Ah ok
(As a boy, I listened to so much BBC sci-fi comedy on the short-wave…)
Aflac Shrugged: You’re missing the point: Afghanistan is just a MOVIE, not Real Life:
Door Gunner: Git some! Git some! Git some, yeah, yeah, yeah! Anyone who runs, is a VC. Anyone who stands still, is a well-disciplined VC! You guys oughta do a story about me sometime!
Private Joker: Why should we do a story about you?
Door Gunner: ‘Cuz I’m so fuckin’ good! I done got me 157 dead gooks killed. Plus 50 water buffalo too! Them’s all confirmed!
Private Joker: Any women or children?
Door Gunner: Sometimes!
Private Joker: How can you shoot women or children?
Door Gunner: Easy! Ya just don’t lead ‘em so much! Ain’t war hell?
Because the current situation is just a screenplay, there’s nothing to get excited about.
More popcorn?
Oh, I forgot to add the obligatory “Support Our Troops!” and “Thank you for your service” stuff.
My apologies.
(GET SOME!)
The offender requested that his choice for a final meal not be publicized. However, the BBC reported his final meal consisted of chicken in red sauce, though it’s not so far fetched to imagine they would have just assumed the guy would have ordered chicken for dinner and were so sure he was going to have chicken that they just printed it.
I just thought you should know that. Peace… God bless…
Neilist: I’ve got a box full of bras and suspenders ready to send. How much more support do they need?
You really can’t dismiss all those high school remedies (QUICK! How many can you think of for halting a potential pregnancy on the sly?) because they’re all rerun on Oprah these days.
“it remains to be seem how much moral (and otherwise) support will be provided by Afghanistan and Pakistan. ”
You funny Wonkette. AfPak will provide support equal to about 5% of whatever the U.S. of A give them to support the coalition.
What’s really bad is Europe a community of maybe a billion people can’t spare like any troops.
Large Hadron Collider - So the US loses in war, the Swiss win in peace.
bitchincamaro: We put up with endless slaughter if it enhances convenience or appetite and isn’t too personal. We’ll cast sixty thousand a year into hades in order to shave hours from our commute, and to suck on toxic vegatation, which accomplishes nothing, we’ll spend upwards of four million humans on this planet every year.
Now, The Lottery, that’s a horror. It’s personal!
Virginia Fox got to inject him?
Also the avian Rebel Alliance is fighting to stop the abomination known as the LHC: http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2009-11/bread-loving-bird-shuts-down-lhc
Robophobia:
The BBC last night kept saying “…known as the Washington Sniper…” Just an odd word thing. I guess DC Sniper doesn’t make sense in England.
Oh well, another Virginia Tech Alumni bites the dust.
rafflesinc: Please, Justice So-So, wear a Che beret in all your future cover shots. It will be so cool and wingnuts will ’splode.
Hello Sunshine: The Engish are silly.
Hello Sunshine: I am told that a little bit drunk beats a little bit depressed for performance of _any_ kind.