Wonkette
- Obama told Chinese teenagers about the uncensored Internet, a mediocre collection of re-purposed AP articles and some videos that generally people only like when it’s not available. [New York Times]
- Over at some United Nations summit, everyone bonded about how much they hate hunger but declined to throw any money at the problem. [AP]
- Starting in January, GM will start giving the US $1 billion per quarter to pay off the company’s debt. [Washington Post]
- Late Friday, when no one was paying attention, Robert Gates whispered in the Supreme Court’s ear that the Pentagon is forbidding the release of those US military-terror suspect photos. [CNN]
- Some Democrats are working on a bill that would compensate everyone whose hours were cut so their companies wouldn’t go out of business immediately. Wonkette Games: what will Democrats and Republicans do to convince everyone on Earth to hate this idea in just a few weeks? [The Hill]
- Palestinians might ask the UN for their own state because they are very frustrated with the US, Israel, and not having their own state. [WSJ]
One billion per quarter? That’s approximately what the credit card companies think I should be paying in interest now.
I think we can all agree w/ the WSJ that Ms Snowbilly is indeed and in fact “a prodigious worker capable of mastering complicated issues”. I can hardly understand why such an obvious truth needed to be restated.
Obama to Send Leon From ‘Curb’ to Kickstart Middle East Peace Talks
http://satiricalpolitical.com/2009/11/16/obama-to-send-leon-from-curb-to-kickstart-middle-east-peace-talks/
You forgot that the uncensored internet also contains porn. Lots and lots of porn.
UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION = THE KILLING FIELDS
/Bachmann
Employment Stability = Welfare for Unions
/Chamber of Commerce
But (the United Nations Food & Agriculture Organization) says the best way to stop hunger is to help the needy help themselves.
Somebody evidently felt that the mission statement “Let them eat cake” needed to have its edges rounded down.
Relax, Barry, it’s Chinatown.
Re: Palestinian state requests:
Well, sure, why not? It’ll work for them, it worked for the… oh. The Israelis, right. Hrm.
The UN *actually* bonded over hating the Israel for eating all the Palestinian babies, leaving the rest of the world to die of hunger.
That Israel/Palestine epic never fails to excite. What a white knuckle ride. The twists, the turns, the bloodshed, the car bombs, the talking, the complaining, the bulldozing, the bloodshed, the meetings, the self explosives, the checkpoints, the stone throwing, the bloodshed. The world will never ever get tired of these stubborn people and this story. (Fuck.)
WarAndG: Some days, I just get so sick of this story. Just wish EVERYONE, the Israelis, the Palestinians, the Syrians, the Lebanese, the whole lot would just fall down a black hole.
“It’s been going on for ten thousand years…”
proudgrampa: It would really be very easy, if everyone would stop being such obstinate fucksticks about the whole issue, which I guess means it isn’t very easy at all.
It seems like every year some hapless foreign policy noob says “Hey, I can fix this whole Israel/Palestine thingy! I mean, the solution’s pretty simple, and obvious to all parties involved. I just have to get them to TALK!” It’s a meat grinder for optimistic, idealistic diplomats.
Everyone in that damned region has known the solution to their problems for about 30 years, and not one of them actually wants to do it. It’s hard for me to believe that anyone living in the “Holy Land” isn’t a completely morally reprehensible shit. Forget Iran, Senator McCain, THIS is where we should be dropping our bombs.
proudgrampa: They really need to just admit their true feelings and fuck.
Internet uncensored? Just try finding a good Jihadi video.
Zadig: H.L. Mencken never said anything better than this: “For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat and wrong.”
The problem is self-solving - if you take demographic pressures into account, and don’t mind a lake of Israeli and Palestinian Arab blood once the tipping point for population imbalance is reached sometime in the next 50 years.
4tehlulz: There’s a foreign policy I can get behind!
Zadig: Everyone in that damned region has known the solution to their problems for about 30 years, and not one of them actually wants to do it. It’s hard for me to believe that anyone living in the “Holy Land” isn’t a completely morally reprehensible shit.
They do think they’re all pretty special, don’t they? But if you deprived them of their entitlement to self-righteous indignation and violent action, they’d probably shrivel and die.
Or be forced to move to some civilized place and become successful deli owners or something.
“compensate everyone whose hours were cut”
I remember the old days when people used to save money so they could cut back on their hours. Thank god Krugman blew the lid off that evil savings scheme.