- A good place for the Internet to go is the dashboard of moving cars. This is just science! [New York Times]
- Failed Nigerian Terrorist was formally charged with failing to blow up an airplane—or “attempted murder,” in legalese. [Wall Street Journal]
- The government of Yemen announced that Failed Nigerian Terrorist joined al-Qaeda in London, located just outside of Yemen. [Times Online]
- Later today Barack Obama will publicly reveal why America’s intelligence agencies left the job of thwarting the plane bomb up to the plane bomb. [AP]
- Interior Secretary Ken Salazar might run for governor of Colorado, one of our nation’s interior states. [Washington Post]
- No, it’s not just you: it is unconscionably cold. CONTINUE COMPLAINING UNABATED. [CNN]
Read More:
- Looks Like Yemen Is Not Going Away Anytime Soon—Unless We Bomb It, Ha Ha!
- Hmm, The Fourteen Terrorist/Pat-Down Countries Might Have Issues With AMERICA NOW, HELLO?
- Single Comical, Failed Underpants Bomber Rewrites Entire Government Agenda
- Daily Briefing: Couldn't Care Less
- Anyone Ever Notice How Injustice Always Somehow Benefits Twitter? Just Sayin'!
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Way to go automakers. It’s not like the idiot drivers aren’t bad enough being distracted eating, shaving, reading the GPS, texting or talking on the cell phone. Now you have to throw in intertubes porn as well.
If I ever get clocked by a car that is frantically jerking from one lane to another or by a guy too busy paying attention to his penis, I’ll know who to sick the lawrats on.
As much as Barry has and probably will disappoint (selling out to Goldman Sachs is very BAD) at least he’s willing to examine what went wrong instead of playing with color charts to scare the shit out of the stupid/uniformed, you know, the typical GOPer voter.
Well, look at the bright side. The auto makers are going to be selling more new cars to replace the ones that just ran over you.
[re=490362]ManchuCandidate[/re]: Wasn’t there talk at one time of magnets or computers or something in the bumpers of cars, all connecting to one big computer which would then drive the cars so the drivers could relax – or, say on a long road trip, lean back and take a nap? I say no computer monitors on the dash until there are computers in the bumpers to actually DRIVE the car.
Of course, that would be far too logical. Though I do know that some states regulate this. In mine (at least at one time, they may have changed the legislation) you can have a GPS monitor front of the driver’s seat, but all dvd players and video/tv/whatever non-GPS monitors had to be behind the driver’s seat (or in the back of it). Of course, there were various ways around that…
And yes, it is fucking freezing! Here we get snow once a decade (it actually falls almost perfectly). We got our snow last year with our once-a-decade cold temps – and this year is even colder than that, and we might get snow again tonight! WTF? I live faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar to south to be hearing “arctic air” describing the weather here.
The government of Yemen announced that Failed Nigerian Terrorist joined al-Qaeda in London, located just outside of Yemen.
I’ll be holding my breath waiting for Vinegar Joe to suggest that we do a preemptive strike on London to kill all the turrists…
Unabated?
The worst part of snow is the fucktarded “I guess that means global warming is wrong” comments by retards too stupid to grasp the difference between causation and correlation.
I bought a new pair of boots yesterday!
OT but Weatherproof put up a BillBoard of Obama in Times Square (actually slighlty south), when he was at the Great Wall of China wearing one of their jackets. Great picture actually (walked by it this morning), but it’s going to be funny to see how everyone reacts to it. WH already asked for it to be taken down.
While the automakers don’t care about their customers’ safety, you would think that they might be dissuaded from installing the dashboard internets from the inevitable slew of lawsuits.
Also, Grassley is getting involved in obstructing the TSA head nomination. Hilarious tweets to probably follow.
How did the Nigerian Yemeni British terrorist engineer with that brilliant idea about putting the internet in our cars, clearly designed to cause mass mayhem, get through security? I blame Obama.
[re=490364]ManchuCandidate[/re]: Is the threat level orange? That totally clashes with my outfit. Shit.
If the Failed Nigerian had had a car with internet porn on the dashboard, maybe he would have been less eager to set his penis on fire in an airplane.
London is a veritable hotbed of islamic extremism, as can be determined by the ratio of kibbeh restaurants to those serving fish and chips.
The only way I would read this update while driving is if Juli would sit on my lap and read it to me. I guess that’s not much of a safety improvement.
[re=490380]RoscoePColtraine[/re]: Right now I’d settle for London being a hotbed of anything. It’s bloody freezing here.
I’ll wait for the first accident involving a driver playing Simcity:Rush Hour on his dash.
[re=490379]x111e7thst[/re]: If the the Nigerian had a car with the internet on the dashboard, he would have been emailing Americans about the $1,000,000 that he knows about but needs your help deer friend.
We had a water main break in the middle of the night because it is so cold. The water was off for hours. Taking a laxative last night was NOT the best idea I’ve ever had.
“Cars are going to become probably the most immersive consumer electronics device we have,” said Michael Rayfield, a general manager at Nvidia, a chip company that on Thursday plans to announce a deal with Audi.
Will be like immersing a plugged-in, running hair dryer in the bathtub while you are in it. Another worthwhile immersive experience.
Here’s a thought: stay home and play computer driving games; save lives and gas.
Also, jihadi high-schoolers are gettin’ it done in Detroit!
[re=490362]ManchuCandidate[/re]:
Fapmobile?
Jerkster?
Masturbator?
Yugo?
[re=490389]bitchincamaro[/re]: Wow. Offensive senior class shirt AND graduating from Edsel Ford? Double fail.
I have solicited Vinegar Joe L’s opinion of this important sweatshirt issue. Clearly we must bomb both Yemen and Iran.
If we go to war with Britain over this, I’ve decided to undertake a great Chesapeake tradition. I’m going to get a fast clipper ship and run the blockade to keep my supply of English and Scottish goods flowing freely. I love digestive biscuits, although they do need a better name. Single malt Scotch, that name is just fine.
[re=490364]ManchuCandidate[/re]: Ya don’t need internet pron to distract you when the penis is always there, anyway, within easy reach, one of the cheapest and most convenient sources of amusement we have.
No, it’s not just you: it is unconscionably cold. CONTINUE COMPLAINING UNABETTED.
Erm, do you mean unabated? Or are you refusing to assist us with our complaining? That’s not the Wonkette we know and love!
You’re all missing the BIG story this morning. The Wonkette Jesus painting is for sale!
[re=490396]x111e7thst[/re]: We must bomb Detroit over the T-shirts! Although I’m not sure anyone would notice the difference.
[re=490389]bitchincamaro[/re]: The best part is the comments section in which the foolish bitch about “political correctness” and scream for the students to be punished over their free speech at the same time.
[re=490362]ManchuCandidate[/re]: What, you’ve never spanked the monkey whilst driving? You must’ve never had a car as sweet as my old ‘vette.
[re=490389]bitchincamaro[/re]: When I first saw this image–and here in the snowy wastes of our rotting former industrial heartland it is the biggest deal since the the Nigerian didn’t blow up flight 253–I thought it was another tacky right-wing item, assuming “Nevar Forget” would be somewhere.
When I read the story and realized it was designed by some kids from Dearborn it became clear that it was the height of post-modern something or other.
If they were the cold motherfuckers they pretend to be, the engineers would just plain project the shit on the inside of the windshield and let the autopilot levitating magnets take over.
The one time in my life someone attempted to perform a sexual act with me while I was behind the wheel, I almost immediately rear ended the poor idiot in front of me. So here’s to prøn on the dashboard!
[re=490397]Terry[/re]: Don’t worry about the supply of single malt scotch. In a war against England, the Scots would probably be on OUR side.
[re=490387]Country Club Jihadi[/re]: Even the most powerful laxative I ever took failed to break the water main.
[re=490440]Mr Blifil[/re]: The one time F.W. Murnau (one of the greatest directors in history) attempted to perform a sexual act with someone while that someone was behind the wheel, the someone–Murnau’s 14 year-old valet–drove off a cliff, kinda ruining the day for everyone in the car, all of whom died. “The border between dream and reality is often fluent in his films,” according to the Trivia section for Murnau at internet movie database. Do you suppose they mean “fluid”? Would we be happier, or at least less confused, if that border were more fluent and/or fluid in our lives?
[re=490452]Lascauxcaveman[/re]: Oh, no, you’re one of those “greeted as liberators” types!
Ralph Nader needs to write a sequel to “Unsafe at Any Speed”. Maybe, “Unsafe at Any Speed: The New (electronic) Frontier”? Or maybe and “Adult” version.
Also does anyone remember the treat level ever being anything but orange since they started that thing?
It’s always something, ain’t it? On the one hand, I got a sweet deal on my new roadster due to it being all cold as fuck. On the other hand, no dashboard porn.
Wait, I need a 3rd hand.
[re=490489]chaste everywhere[/re]: Don’t buy any roasting pans at Goodwill this week!
No, do not put the internet on car windshields. There are no words for how fucktarded this is. I had a wreck this morning while staring directly at the road, because of fucking Winter, and its attendant bullshit like black ice and trees lining the road. Automakers, do not make this worse. Keep internet out of Zadig’s car, which is bad-off enough as it is.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I am going to stare at this crumpled quarter-panel and bent axle, and weep.
[re=490630]Country Club Jihadi[/re]: But this one’s “Vintage”!
http://www.shopgoodwill.org/auctions/Vintage-Enameled-Steel-Roasting-Pan-w-Lid-5666512.html
[re=490684]chaste everywhere[/re]: I had no idea Goodwill was doing online auctions; this should be a boon for me!
Nah, who’m I kidding? I’d miss the mustiness of the bricks-and-mortar Goodwill experience.
We may have Prop. 8 here in CA,(thanks to Mormon dipshit money), but it’s t-shirt weather here.
Ok, long-sleeve t-shirt weather!
[re=490704]Lascauxcaveman[/re]: So would I. If i can’t smell it I have a hard time buying it (especially roasting pans).
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