- The Newark airport was locked down for six hours on Sunday night because some jackass walked the wrong way through a security exit. [Star-Ledger]
- Passengers traveling from or through nations listed as “state sponsors of terrorism” will now get the Full Anal Probe at the airport. [Reuters]
- China experienced what epidemiologists generally refer to as “a buttload” of swine flu cases at the end of last year. [AFP]
- Will any of the many SWEETHEART DEALS inserted into the Senate health care bill come to benefit you, the citizen? Well, are you a resident of Libby, Montana, sickened by a mineral mine? [New York Times]
- War-torn Iraq is sure to be even more of a bummer now that the religious nuts are reviving their campaign against booze. [Washington Post]
- Banks are celebrating the new year with an exciting new round of checking account and credit card fees. [Wall Street Journal]
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All except officials/persons from BLOODYISRAEL will get the anal search. BLOODYISRAEL is THE terrorist nation of the world!!!
And the banks have decided to anally probe us customers for the rolls of quarters we stashed up there.
Who knew that banks could be douchebags?
Thanks Phil Graham, you wrinkled old Swizzmizz cocksucker.
A book by Mika Brezinski, also.
Yay yawn.
NONE of the ‘sweetheart’ deals benefit the consumer. NONE, aint’ FASCISM great???
Hey, I stay out of church, I wish the religio-fascists would stay out of my booze cabinet.
[re=488172]wonkettefan[/re]: Needz moar Kapz.
Aw that’s just great. As if my self-esteem wasn’t bad enough, now I find myself wishing I lived in a country that qualifies as a “state sponsor of terrorismical terrordomes.” For the probing.
“Unfortunately, the democratic system in Iraq has led to the rise of undemocratic parties and movements that don’t believe in the concept of human rights or personal freedoms,” said Mithal Alousi, a secular Sunni lawmaker. “These parties are trying to leave an impression among the uneducated and the simple-minded people that they are the guardians of religion and proper behavior, and conversely, that secular parties are the ones promoting alcohol consumption and the opening of nightclubs, and thus are un-Islamic.”
I have no further comment.
Banks are celebrating the new year with an exciting new round of checking account and credit card fees.
LOL, tell me about it. Just last month I was for the first time hit with overdraft fees for an automatic transfer between my overdraft account and my checking account. This used to be free (which is why I set up an overdraft account in the first place as a sort of “reserve tank”). Now the bank swears up and down that it never was free in the first place.
Fucking crooks.
[re=488178]Serolf Divad[/re]: It feels wrong to have your bank searching under your couch cushions, don’t it?
OMG. Thank God Michelle Malkin is gone from the front page and we have that nice, probably gay, personal trainer from FIT back from the fall.
I’m straight as the arrow, but I’d sooner eat whipped cream off his nipples than spend another week looking at Michelle’s self-important overbite. (can overbites be self-important?)
[re=488178]Serolf Divad[/re]: If I’m overdrawn my bank sends Rocco and Vincenzo after me. Good times.
Iraq is going to have a hard time selling itself as a vacation paradise with a ban on alcohol.
Who knew David Vitter liked Newark so much?
Yes, this rise of anti-booze religious fundamentalism could only happen in the Middle East; certainly no Christian conservatives ever managed to ban alcohol in America.
[re=488181]MMS[/re]: I’m somewhat disturbed/amused by the gay conservatives ad. Yes, be proud, support a political movement that absolutely loathes who you are. And it’s right on top of the fit trainer on my sidebar.
Yay! 2010 has also returned my FIT Personal Trainer boyfriend.
[re=488185]JMP[/re]: There’s no chance they’ll “pull an Andrew Sullivan.” That’s where they lost me.
In the spirit of the Founding Fathers, we should at least offer free lube with the anal probe. I’d hate America to be known as the BYOKY Nation. On top of everything else, of course.
[re=488177]Mr Blifil[/re]: I shall look up the phrase “teabagger” in Arabic and get back to you.
[re=488177]Mr Blifil[/re]: كيس شاي
[re=488177]Mr Blifil[/re]: [requoting] “Unfortunately, the democratic system in Iraq has led to the rise of undemocratic parties and movements that don’t believe in the concept of human rights or personal freedoms,” said Mithal Alousi, a secular Sunni lawmaker. “These parties are trying to leave an impression among the uneducated and the simple-minded people that they are the guardians of religion and proper behavior, and conversely, that secular parties are the ones promoting alcohol consumption and the opening of nightclubs, and thus are un-Islamic.”
That sounds like any right wing movement though. They probably don’t even have as many arms caches and underground bunkers as the Ron Paulians, either.
I wish people would stop attacking capitalism and let credit card companies charge whatever they want. If you think it’s not fair, then show some good old-fashioned American initiative and start your own damned credit card company!
[re=488187]Mr Blifil[/re]: And isn’t Sullivan fairly doughy and bald? These guys must be pathetic.
[re=488193]Larry McAwful[/re]: Yes, give credit where credit is overdue.
[re=488185]JMP[/re]: To be fair, it wasn’t conservatives who banned liquor in America. They were all either opposed because it would regulate business or opposed because they wanted to keep the gubmint out of their moonshinin’ still. Prohibition was supported by, and for some of the same reasons, the same progressives who today ban smoking in bars and trans fats etc, though obviously those have worked a bit better.
[re=488187]Mr Blifil[/re]: Unlike Andrew Sullivan (whom I don’t like all that much, but that’s neither here nor there), these “proud” guys will keep taking up the a** from the GOP forever, as long as they get their capital gains reductions. They just want to make sure they’ll be able to receive their quarterly investment statements in the concentration camp.
Now now Sara, we all know that the Full Anal Probe is just another one of those pesky fee-based services that the airlines are “offering” to improve their, erm, bottom lines. Lube is an extra $5, also.
[re=488203]pampl[/re]: Speaking from a city that’s banned smoking in bars which has had a windchill in the teens for the past few weeks, no, that ban has not gone well and those “progressive” dipshits should all fuck off to Antarctica.
[re=488183]Monsieur Grumpe[/re]: Nah. I-raq will become a mecca, so to speak, for those who wear the longish, white undergarments of the Salt Tears Lake Ci-Tay.
And, there’ll so many, many willing, peaceful co-verts to the words of the Lost Tribe of Utahstan.
And Southern Baptists will likes it there, also.
Let the new Surgination begineth.
[re=488204]bureaucrap[/re]: What ‘gay conservative’ad? Oh! The one with the cliche Iconic American Eagle. Yikes, I was ignoring like everything containing cheap, cliched symbolism these days.
Great, now our iconic American eagle is gay, too? About time, I guess. Maybe WalMart (or Apple or Toyota) ought to somehow co-opt the swastika (or crucifix) as a marketing trademark. Another generation and the symbol will be rendered pretty much meaningless.
[re=488178]Serolf Divad[/re]:
My credit card company jacked my rate up to 29.9% interest because I was “late” once. I sent the payment electronically ten days before the due date but they didn’t process it in time, which was somehow my fault. Apparently, I should have known that they were behind in their work. I closed that card.
A rate of 29.9%! You could NEVER pay that card off if you owed more than a very small amount on it.
[re=488181]MMS[/re]:
I figured the ad was a ploy by the fundies to identify all the conservatives who are willing to publically admit they are gay.
[re=488194]JMP[/re]: Exactly. If they’re going to be picky about shunning bears, their future as gay men in the GOP looks pretty bleak.
[re=488177]Mr Blifil[/re]:
Wow, ain’t it great that there’s still someone somewhere in the world honest enough to actually say out loud, in public, that something is popular because it appeals to the uneducated and simple-minded?
I’m so tired of this my-opinion-is-as-good-as-yours crap. No, Uncle Winger, your opinion is they equivalent of runny poop full o’ corn chunks, with a side dish from Palin’s word-salad-shooter.
[re=488214]S.Luggo[/re]:
Move over over Dollywood!
http://www.dollywood.com/
to be fair, the people of Libby DID get screwed over and over–the latest screwing came this last year when W.R. Grace & Co. execs were acquitted. Despite actual copies of emails etc. where they fucking said they knew they were poisoning the land and the people. W.R. Grace: “Enriching Lives, Everywhere”. Who knew asbestos “enriched” lives…
and why the fuck would anyone use a bank instead of a credit union anymore?
You used the term “buttload” in the wrong item; that is what terrorists will now be using for airplane bombing.
[re=488203]pampl[/re]: That’s not really accurate. Some of my ancestors were Prohibitionists, oddly enough, and they were about the most anti-”progressive” people imaginable. People supported Prohibition for a whole stew of reasons: religion (certain Protestant groups like Methodists and Presbyterians); prejudice against immigrants, especially Irish and Germans, who were identified with drinking; distrust of/contempt for the working class; health notions; investments in alternatives like soft drinks, etc.
Later, of course, Prohibition became identified with the Republican party and Repeal with the Democrats, so Repeal couldn’t happen until FDR was elected, who was anathema to conservatives.
HEY! Can we hava Brit Hume post here? I’m dyin’ here! I’m gettin’ antsy!
[re=488224]Terry[/re]:
I tried to pay my CC statement over the phone recently using their automated system. It wasn’t until after I’d provided all sorts of details including my checking account routing number and account number that the system informed me that there’d be a $15.00 fee. And even then they didn’t give me the opportunity to cancel. So I just hung up the phone without proceeding any further. It will be interesting to see if they try to proceed with the withdrawl.
Happy fucking New Year. The first day back at work of 2010 brings with it a new office computer (yay), Wonkette with ads for FIT Personal Trainers (yay), ghey Republicans (boo), “economist and financial expert” and Nixon speechwriter/American Spectator columnist Ben Stein imploring me to check my credit score (Bueller), and an ad with some dude with ripped abs concerning steroids, or bodybuilding, or something (um, yay?).
[re=488190]freakishlystrong[/re]: Arabic WIN.
[re=488178]Serolf Divad[/re]: What? WHATtf!? Jerks.
[re=488224]Terry[/re]: By being late, you are no longer what is charmingly called a “deadbeat” card holder: there is money to be made. (Have a late billing period = pregnant with usury.)
The comments beneath that Star-Ledger report of Newark airport are worth a few laughs for the spellers…
They’ve got to make their bonuses some way…why not hike to service fee rates?
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