Wonkette
- Meet Harry Reid & the Senate’s Health Care Bill: $849 billion, 2,074 pages, no insurance for abortions or illegal immigrants, other characteristics, etc. [CNN]
- Despite really maxing out every copy editor’s patience with the word “contentious,” Hamid Karzai was sworn-in for another five-year term as President of Afghanistan. [New York Times]
- Eric Holder took questions from 9/11 families about KSM’s trip to New York. [Washington Post]
- Obama wants to do a free-trade deal with South Korea. Give it a week after this thing goes through that “SKaFTA” is not the name of some 16-year-old’s Bouncing Souls cover band. [WSJ]
- Quarantining people isn’t doing much to stop swine flu from killing us all to death. [AP]
- Ireland will not be granted that Fifa World Cup playoff rematch, no matter how unfair the Irish justice minister thinks that handball thing was. [Guardian]
Juli, ya need to buy a “Be”…..
Ireland will not BE granted that Fifa World Cup playoff rematch, no matter how unfair the Irish justice minister thinks that handball thing was.
I hear there could be riots in Ireland over this, unless swine flu fells everyone first.
Give Ireland a Participant ribbon and send them home.
“Businesses with more than 50 workers, where at least one employee qualifies for government subsidies, would face a penalty of $750 for every full-time employee if it does not offer health care coverage.”
Time to fire the poor people.
All of Ireland will now be united in their anger at both France and the World Cup hierarchy. Two lads start arguing about politics, all you’ll have to say now is “Did you see that French guy touch the ball with his hand in the World Cup game?” and the subject will be changed in a heartbeat.
Terry: Well, that could solve a few problems.
Considering how crazy European fans get about soccer, just imagine how bad they would get if they had actual exciting sports to watch.
Ireland will not granted that Fifa World Cup playoff rematch
Hm, so the mob now runs French football as well as Italian football. It’s a cancer.
Oh well. At least the stage is now set for Algeria v France and USA v North Korea. And for Thierry Henry to get shot in both knees by group of mysterious men in balaclavas (an incident that Arsene Wenger will claim he did not see).
FIFA already screwed Ireland by changing the rules mid-way so that the top four teams in the playoffs would be seeded to avoid having the big teams like Portugal and France having to play each other. If it was any more rigged, Karzai would win the World Cup.
Bitch McConnell will start mumbling a little louder.
Canmon (the Inadequate): Didn’t stop Slovenia beating Russia.
Healthcare question: If Juan Gomez knocks me up while I’m drunk in Cancun, will the government cover my abortion? I don’t think anyone wants illegal immigration via my womb.
It would be human nature that 9/11 families who objected to Mr. Holder’s decision would show up at the hearings. And those who support it would stay home. Too bad Mr. Holder couldn’t ask those families that did attend their collective opinion of Ann Falter.
I hope Keith Olberman or Rachel Maddow have on their show(s) that young man who lost his father in the World Trade Center (I believe that gentleman was a security guard). Bull O’Really? bullied the young man for having an opinion about his dad’s death.
I choose to opt out of paying any further attention to the depressing health care “debate” until it is the puddle of warm piss it will eventually become. So, World Cup, Fuck Yeah.
Quarantining people? Go back to the tried and true, waterboarding.
If only those stupid Irish stopped bitching and played American football: ten minutes of action, four hours of fat guys standing around, shitloads of Bud and Cool Ranch Doritos and everyone too full to do anything but fart.
Substitute “Special Brew and heroin” for “Bud and Cool Ranch Doritos” and you have the perfect description of a typical football game in Glasgow.
the problem child: HAVE YOU EVEN READ THE BILL ??!!??!!??
Next Great Pwndit: At 2,074 pages, I don’t see how anyone really READS the bill. I know I got better things to do with my time.
contentious, controversial, disputable, doubtful, dubious, moot, open to question, questionable, sub judice, uncertain, unsure
JMP: Penalty kicks deciding 4-hour double-overtime matches are not your idea of excitement? Americans are so unsophisticated.
Many limericks will be made about this football event.
In other news, the HuffPo is not even funny.
Ha, you said handball.
to be fair, sen. boxer, who was the main senatorial voice of protest against stupak, is happy with the bill reid proposed.
Ah, as if teh Wonkett didn’t already own my heart, you make a reference to the Bouncing Souls, or at least a mythical cover band thereof. Sigh!
New Zealand made it to the world cup and Ireland didn’t. All the Irish people in New Zealand I know are, as they say in their quaint dialogue, “gobsmacked”.
JMP: If the USA makes the final or even wins in South Africa 2010, I predict all the dorito-eating anti-soccer snobbery will disappear in 10 seconds flat.
No abortions or birth control covered in the health care bill but make sure the guys get their Viagra covered! Especially since most of the people involved in writing the bill probably need it themselves!