Wonkette
- The Obama Thanksgiving menu featured turkey and pie — or, even scarier, some kind of Kenyan-socialist hybrid pumpkin pie made of turkey. “The President’s favorite is turkey and pumpkin pie,” the White House said in a statement. Gross. [Chicago Sun-Times]
- And those bankrupt losers who crashed the White House state dinner? Wannabe reality-teevee people, obviously. Their story has become the DC version of
BubbleBalloon Boy, minus the cute/doomed child. [New York Times] - Dubai is about to default on 60-odd billion dollars in debt, whoops. Asian and European markets are collapsing, and the U.S. markets might be doing the same thing today. So much for “Do Buy.” [Bloomberg]
- Actual AP headline: “Americans give thanks, see parades, feast in space.” It’s just missing “in equal numbers.” [Associated Press]
- Sarah Palin enjoyed Thanksgiving with her relatives in the Tri-Cities area of Washington state, next to the Hanford nuclear waste site. This is the first “regular American” thing she’s done in 15 years — but then she called the place “surreal,” which it is, but still. [Seattle Times]
So, what… They stuffed Courage into a punkin and made pie? THAT’S NOT SEASONAL TRANCENDENCE!
I hope those “socialites” enjoy going to jail.
I appreciate the fuck out of that Big Star quote.
Was that supposed to be “Balloon Boy” or should I be preparing for the impending Moop invasion?
She said her husband, Todd, was back home, “fixing the roof.”
“Fixing the roof” is Rogue for having unprotected anal secks.
Dubai yellow brick road,
Where the dark clouds are startin’ to howl…
freakishlystrong: It’s the frontier trash version of the glass bottom boat.
On top of the Lou Reed reference, a Big Star quote! i love you, my Wonkette!
“There the couple were, with Mayor Adrian M. Fenty of the District of Columbia “and his lovely wife,” Michelle (Mrs. Salahi is holding Mr. Fenty’s elbow). There Mrs. Salahi was, with three Marines in full-dress attire (her hand is touching the collar of one Marine, who smiles at the camera). And then there she was, her sari glittering, snaked around a grinning Mr. Biden, her hand resting on his chest, his arm wrapped around her waist; and both Salahis, with a smiling Mr. Emanuel”
Thank you NYT for describing the photos in romance novel detail.
Hunger Tallest Palin: Na na na na, na na na na / Hey hey hey, Dubai?
The wingnut universe is going to have to do quite a rhetorical stretch to blame the Dubai collapse on Obama and/or the Clintons.
Hunger Tallest Palin:
I think I’m gonna be sad,
I think it’s today, yeah.
The place that’s driving me mad
Is going away.
They’re gonna foreclose Dubai,
They’re gonna foreclose Dubai,
They’re gonna foreclose Dubai,
And they don’t care.
Dubai,Dubai,Dubai… what can we learn from this? Perhaps slavery economy is bad? (Really?)
The world is running out of options.
V572625694: Dubai -> Michael Jackson -> Oprah -> Obama
What about Haliburton? Where are they going to go? What are they going to do? What other tax haven are they going to use to rape the US taxpayer out of the taxes they owe?
Dubai still has debt-imprisonment. So, what are they going to do now, build a cage around the entire country?
Dubai World, 2009 = Creditanstalt, 1931.
Glad I invested in those double corrugated boxes before the demand drove the price too high.
dum librul: [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svwGRJA28lY]Never go full retard[/url].
Alright, I admit it. That url was already on my clipboard and I was just looking for an excuse to use it. You have to admit though, “Balloon Boy the media phenomenon” deserves to be linked to Full Retard.
Is it too late to buy one of those million dollar tree houses. I always wanted to live in a tree house. And in Dubai, you can live in a tree house.
“The fact they went through the magnometer is incidental,” he said. “They could have had anthrax on them. They could have grabbed a knife from the dining room table.” Or they could have turned a table leg into a lethal weapon. Or they could have had a hydrogen peroxide bomb, I think there might have been some bleach blonds at that event.
“There Mrs. Salahi was, with three Marines in full-dress attire” - Washington DC where the marines are friendly. Don’t try that in IraqAfPakistan.
A look inside the glass-doored closets of Michaele Salahi’s Virginia home reveals shelf upon shelf of shoes
And, in a prayer filled with a plethora of Also’s, Sarah Palin thanked our Lord for the End Times that is approaching.
Its hard to believe Sarah the Palin used a fifty cent word like surreal.
That coaching seems to be paying off.
I’m thinking that she actually said: “Really, really surreal!”
You betcha.
The headline CNN.com’s top story Paul Tardy: (”Shoppers scurry for robot hamsters”) is pretty far up there on the lame scale too.
Paul Tardy: Michaele Salahi has a Facebook page of unmatched odiousness as well. Can’t we keep Gitmo open just for these people?
Dubai is about to become Abu-Dhabi’s little bitch. I hope this teaches humanity that an over inflated property market and being over leveraged many times over than what you are worth isn’t sound financial investment. Oh who am I kidding, This crap is going on all over the world from Hong Kong to Luanda.
Man, right after I signed the lease on my Oklahoma-shaped island!
Liebestod: My cousin who at 25 is wise beyond his years predicted this. He grew up in Dubai and he kept saying that this place is not going to last. At the end of last year, there were stories in Dubai that a whole bunch of foreigners (Europeans and Americans) left their abandoned luxury cars in the airport because they defaulted on loans and other financial deals. I think they knew this was coming.
This is karma + stupidity of the ruler who wanted to cultivate an image instead of managing an economy.
How is it those nice people were not invited, yet Bobby Jindal plus one, was? He doesn’t even like fake Indian food.
Bye, bye Dubai. That’s what you get for spending as if you were one of your oil producing neighbors. The soup line starts behind me, but don’t fret. Our Treasury Department will supply you with the bootstraps by which you will surely pull yourself up. Happy Black Friday, motherfuckers.
Can’t we just invade them?
“… Wouldn’t Be Here If It Wasn’t for You”
Now Layne tells us. Shit.
bitchincamaro: How big of a tax cut would our small businesses need to hire Dubai?
I’d like to think that Sasha and Malia dictated the entire Thanksgiving menu to the WH chef…although I’m a bit dubious about “huckleberry pie”…
One more reason why lawyers have a bad name.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5j6d6qfdty31MdqSKzV9j0w-9HhswD9C79M700
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Paul Morrison, a Virginia attorney who has represented the couple on other matters, told The Associated Press: “I know them. I’m unaware of any reason they need representation right now.”
Morrison said he hasn’t spoken to the Salahis since the incident but said, “I can’t imagine” why they would be in legal trouble.
“They just went to a party. They didn’t do anything wrong. I know they enjoy a good party. They’re just good people,” he said.
Wonkett, everything’s just a big joke to you. And thank you for that.
If only they had released the story about the Paultard in Ohio blowing up his apartment (drugs and bombmaking do not mix) earlier.
http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2009/11/law_enforcement_investigating.html
Though AP of course left out all the “bitter, anti-government, militia nut” parts out. Damned liberal media.
…I feel fine.
“Fixing the roof” is the new “hiking the Appalacian trail”?
And I think to myself this morning after that special day our country celebrates to honor its great fortune of stumbling upon a land populated by folks who didn’t understand or weren’t capable of defending prime real estate - what if our DNA conferred upon us the desire to care for each other and end world hunger, instead of this current crop of mutant genes we have which express themselves as a singular desire to get one’s ugly cocksucking mug on teevee?
Humans are nothing if not a bunch of terribly insecure egomaniacs.
glamourdammerung:
Obviously a vampire having problems with his pressure cooker.
glamourdammerung:
Feh. He just likes a good party.
http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2009/11/cuyahoga_falls_former_doctor_c.html
Like Ron Paul he’s an MD. And he doesn’t accept Medicaid.
About the Salahis–you know that Karl Marx quote: history happens the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce, blah, blah, blah? I just hope it doesn’t happen in reverse this time.
S.Luggo: I would characterize their desire to go to the party as a “jihad”, and treat them accordingly.
Terry: I ranted on this yesterday. Russian supermax = the “White Swan.” Go to 3:53. (SFW but afterwards you may want to send your soul to the drycleaners.)
the problem child:
Or is “Fixing the roof” the Alaskan Eskimo snowmobiler term for “choking the chicken,” “rubbing one out,” “doing it yourself,” or “pulling the pud?”
Looks like a good time to squat on one of those palm tree shaped islands till the world straightens itself out. Or goes belly up. Whichever.
This is a wonderful day to eat leftovers and curl up on the couch with a copy of Heather Graham’s “Night of the Wolves”, a story about vampires in the wild west. Her only writing experience before this was co-writing a few episodes of Scrubs. So far, I’m really impressed.
“If Dubai has to default, that could start a wave of defaults in other areas,” Mark Mobius, the chairman of Templeton Asset Management Ltd. who oversees $25 billion in emerging-market assets, said…
Is DUH a stock symbol? Unfortunately, Captain Obvious probably earns as much in 1 day as I do in a year.
NYNYNY: Boy, that Heather’s one brave lass, taking the bold risk of tapping into such an extremely unpopular genre - that of young, good-looking vampires.
Has que’ sarah Sarah left my goddamned state yet?
My college freshman daughter has brought home a dorm-mate for the holiday. Said friend is from Juneau and has met/mingled with Palin: “She’s teeny and pretty, but sooooo DUMB!” Followed by an embarrassed chuckle.
glamourdammerung: “Police said no charges have been filed against Mark Campano, 56. Police found 30 completed pipe bombs in his apartment along with components to make more, plus 17 guns and hundreds of rounds of ammunition.”
I guess that out in the vast middle of US Murikkka 30 pipe bombs and 17 guns is just an exercise of Second Amendment rights. Makes me glad that I live in a socialist p[lace like NYC.
Awesome, Dubai. One of the only places on the planet where it’s hotter than where I live. No wonder it’s going tits up, just like here.
I’d rather invest in Hell.
ella: Mobius should strip.
So where are Jim, Riley, and the other Wonketteers? Must be nursing massive hangovers.
Speaking of bankruptcy (intellectual in this case) here’s stimulus bill denouncer Eric Cantor hosting a job fair in Virginia — half of whose participants are hiring due to stimulus funds:
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/11/25/cantor-second-job-fair/
As crappy as things are, I am thankful that his party hasn’t been in charge for the past year.
ManchuCandidate: Don’t worry…I’m sure Dicky boy can pull some strings and get them set up with a health insurance gig in the South Marianas, or whatever.
RobPetrified: Actually I think “Fixing the roof” is the new slang for “experiencing the (self) pleasures of a trial separation.” So yeah, same thing.
JMP: RedState will shit with envy.
Click: It’s a calculated risk.
x111e7thst: Duh. When white people do this stuff they’re just rugged Murcan individualists trying to ruggedly preserve their individualism in the face of all this pansy socialism. It’s only when they’re brown people that they’re turrists.
sezme: True that.
I’ve been fixing a hole where the rain leaked in
and stopped my mind from wandering
The takeaway from the “Sarah has as normal a Thanksgiving dinner as possible” story is that her grandfather’s name is Clem. Seriously. Clem. I never thought that was actually a real name.
In the libertarian nut case story, the line that caught my attention was “no charges have been filed against Mr. Campano.” And why the fuck not, if I may be so bold as to ask?
gurukalehuru: Same reason that charges likely will be filed against Tiger Woods. Because he’s black, you see.
gurukalehuru: Oh, buttercup is being charged/has been charged since then. Though there is a valid point about how they handle the militia types with kid gloves to avoid offending anyone. I guess that is that “policital correctness” we keep hearing the nutters cry about.
gurukalehuru: They have to determine the charges before filing them with the prosecutor’s office - it takes time. Be patient. And Tiger Woods will no doubt get nothing worse than a small ticket for parking on top of a fire hydrant. As for Clem - short for Clemidia - he was named for the very popular and prevalent STD. In a close brush with irony, Clem once suffered a dishonorable discharge which he thought to be Chlamydia, but it turned out it was just a simple case of gonorrhea. After pounding double shots of pennicillin for a spell and vowing never again to purchase ass from the parking lot of a Day’s Inn, he was back up on his wife trying to make babies for Jesus - until that fateful morning when he got up and shat out ‘Scara. And the rest is herstory.
Ever since Desiree Rogers tried to wear a ball gown in Michelle’s garden and promoted herself on the cover of WSJ, I have been wishing that she go back to Chicago. She obviously takes being the Obamas’ social secretary second to her own opportunity to self promotion. I know she’ll be one with memoirs of Obama secrets when it’s all said and done. And of course, the clueless lady had on a white dress at the State dinner.
And I thought Roger’s dress was so ugly. She secretly competed with Michelle and lost.
glamourdammerung: Only this time the PC forces will be preventing right wingers from calling this guy a terrorist. They’d really like to, but — you know — censorship and everything.
And shouldn’t it be: “if it WEREN’T for you”?
I’ll bet the Washington branch of Sarah’s family looks like the Oblongs.
It’s not like the Bush administration ever tried to sneak gay escorts into the White House disguised as reporters, huh? Chalabi also.
thesheriffisnear: ROTFLMAO! I loved that show, that is to say at least when I had cable. Now, it’s put a distance, warming memory.
As for the suburban Cleveland bomb story:
“Barbara Vachon lived next door to Campano at the Center Park Place Apartments for several years and said he was a big reason she moved.
“He was always trying to get me and another neighbor to listen to anti-government tapes and watch anti-government videos,” said Vachon. “I would never watch them. He was some kind of radical, and he didn’t believe in the government.”
…
Vachon said Campano seemed to be most active at night.
“There was a steady stream of creepy visitors going in and out of his apartment,” she said.
Yes, a REAL American hero, indeedy. Too bad his name wasn’t Hassan, Mohammed, Jamal or DeQwan. And, to think, an Italian surname used to receive quite a few racist demerit points. Maybe, someday, the rest of us will be allowed to integrate into society so well…
Click: Click: and so it goes.
Just say no to Palin (and yes to Libby): Draft Cheney 2012. This time there will be no deferment!
LowerdPeninsula: The Oblongs, a little too avant garde for me. Being a Boston boy I favor Family Guy. Brak, good; Spaceghost Coast to Coast, good; Sealab 2021; good. King of the Hill, not so much. There really was a Twinkie factory in Natick. Oh yeah, Sarah SUCKS.