- President Obama has a tasty new budget cooked up for us and it is full of deficits, even though President Bush handed him a booming economy with a $200 billion surplus just one year ago. [AP]
- A popular Shiite holiday featuring a pilgrimage to Karbala proved irresistible for a suicide bomber, who killed herself and at least 41 people in northeast Baghdad. [BBC News]
- Capricious Barack Obama exacted revenge on George W. Bush’s native nation of Texas by punishing its energy producers with reduced tax incentives. Then he pooped all over NASA, too! [Houston Chronicle]
- Oh ho ho ho, two whole Israeli soldiers have been “disciplined” for firing on the UN compound in Gaza last year! Verily, this is a victory for international peace and justice. [Guardian]
- The recession really has caused some cutbacks. Last year, a pilot hero landed a motherfucking passenger jet on the motherfucking Hudson. This year, a pilot hero landed a single-engine Cessna on the New Jersey turnpike. [NorthJersey]
- Toyota will start fixing its Sticking Accelerator Pedals of Doom this week, with apologies. [New York Times]
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February 1, 2010
Sticky Gas Pedals Aren’t A Bug, They’re A Feature!
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I suppose that if I were a suicide bomber I would want to wear a burqa, an excellent disguise which hides your face and your gender, and under which you can pack of whole lot of explosives. Maybe the French have the right idea when they suggest banning it.
Yeah I have a Pedal of Doom. My mom works at Ford so I drove a new Ford car every year from 2001 to 2009, never died. Then I aged out and got my own Corolla, just in time for the Pedals.
GM must be suckling snide syrup at these sticking suicidal ‘celerator pedals.
Samuel L. Jackson: “I am TIRED of these motherfucking PLANES on the motherfucking HUDSON!”
Did you ever see “Indiana Jones and the Sticking Accelerator Pedals of Doom”? Or perhaps it was “Monty Python and the Sticking Accelerator Pedals of Doom”. I forget which.
“…was proposed by President Bush but never fully funded.” Like his mission to mars, NCLB, never-ending warfare and so much more.
I‘m a bit disappointed with Toyota’s fix; I was hopping for drag chutes.
The pilot wasn’t in distress he wanted to stop off at the Walt Whitman Rest Stop. They’ve got Nathan’s Hot Dogs and TCBY. YUM!!!
While it might be fun if more journalists tried to emulate the late Hunter S. Thompson and become part of the stories they’re reporting, it’s a bit unprofessional for a traffic reporter to do so.
[re=505038]Monsieur Grumpe[/re]: “I was hopping for drag chutes.”
Hahahaha I was hoping Toyota’s “fix” would be a dashboard sticker saying “Engine makes car go. If car go too fast, turn off engine. If you too dumb to understand, stop driving.”
[re=505041]Scaggsville guy[/re]: Yeah I’m scratching my head about that 911-calling guy…he could think to get out his phone and call 911, but not to throw the fricking car into neutral? I mean, sorry he and his family are dead and all, but duh…
Man it sucks to be a terrorist bomber, they get no holidays.
And what’s the deal with airline food?
If Dana Perino was a spokesperson for Toyota, we would be hearing all about how Toyota foresaw this all along.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha, Texas! Ha ha ha. For sending us Bush, we should obliterate it.
Fear not, rocketeers. What your president taketh away with one hand, he delivereth with the other. So what, that it’s in Poland?
it’s suicide bombstress when it’s a girl.
Yeah Mars!!!!!! Going to the moon is too old school, like wooden skate boards with steel wheels. Only America can go to mars to prove there is nothing there. The Chicoms might think there is nothing there, but can they prove it. USA #1 USA #1 USA #1 on mars.
[re=505054]shnazzer[/re]: I think suicide bombtrix is the correct feminine form.
Stuck in a doctor’s office this morning where Fox and Friends was on. Interesting angle that they took on covering the release of the budget. They seemed to want to focus on the physical size of the document, perhaps intending to start water-cooler conversations of the “did you see how thick that damned thing is” sort because, yes, it is shocking that the annual budget for a nation the size of ours should require several thousand pages. If it can’t be condensed to a screen crawl it’s probably too long and too socialist.
Feel dirty for reading the word ‘motherfucking’ penned by SKS.
Suicide bombing men have been told they go to heaven with dozens of virgins waiting for them. This is stupid because virgins generally aren’t so good in the sack. My question is, what are they telling the suicide bombing women about heaven?
Landing on the freeway is easy. I do it all the time in Microsoft Flight Simulator.
[re=505085]Monsieur Grumpe[/re]: They end up in a basement computer lab filled with 79 World of Warcraft players and guys arguing whether the Enterprise or a Star Destroyer would win in a fight.
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[re=505039]thesheriffisnear[/re]:
It was in a NJ Turnpike rest stop that I learned Joyce Kilmer was a man. Yes, I memorized that poem in school but somehow the fact that he was a man escaped me entirely. See, go to Jersey, learn something!
The brilliant comment of the day re: the Heroic NJ Turnpike Aeroplane:
“Monday February 1, 2010, 9:09 AM – WallyVanRiper says:
Many of these planes are nothing more than go-karts with wings. The fact that they are allowed to fly over populated areas is criminal.”
It looks like the Village of Cherry Hill has found its idiot.
[re=505062]Paul Tardy[/re]: It’s bombinatrix.
[re=505033]rafflesinc[/re]: If someday you’re driving around in your Corolla of Doom, and you find the accel pedal has mysteriously stuck down in an unfavorable position, please remember there is another pedal (sometimes two) immediately to the left that will handily override the snarling beast of power that resides under your Corolla’s hood.
[re=505117]DangerousLiberal[/re]: I saw that comment too. The plane is question is a single engine Cessna, which is like the Ford Taurus of aircraft. The single most common airplane in the history of airplanes.
I hear their throttles stick open, too.
There are some linguists who say that the 72 virgins promised in the Koran is a mistranslation and it should read “72 raisins.” Not a joke, but then the whole thing really is.
[re=505148]Rosie Scenario[/re]: Hmm, the virgin birth was also a mistranslation: the original prophecy was a “young woman” not necessarily a “virgin.”
You can’t make this stuff up.
[re=505148]Rosie Scenario[/re]: “Who wants seventy-two virgins? I want nine iPads!”
Sorry, sorry, I meant “pros”. “I want nine pros” is what I meant to type. I have no idea how that ‘iPad’ thing got in there.
Well, Houstonians, you sent that moron to Washington to ruin our country for 8 years. Now you have to pay for it. Eat it!
[re=505157]snideinplainsight[/re]: If there were 72 virgins, probably nine would be on pads.
I wish they’d fix the gas pedal on my piano. That sucker’s been sustaining a C-sharp chord for two days now.
[re=505050]bitchincamaro[/re]: Damn your broken links.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601095&sid=aX2mvOzrPRmw
[re=505176]Humpback[/re]: That’s Yamaha, not Toyota.
I’m disappointed Obama didn’t cut the NASA budget entirely. Since NASA hasn’t produced any worthwhile science since the invention of Tang.
[re=505188]DC Hates Me[/re]: Not so. All the space imagery shit is the best science they’ve ever done. Cheaper, more return for the money than all their manned-ship fantasies, past, present, or future. Less glory, though.
[re=505262]bitchincamaro[/re]: That plus those cute little robots.
[re=505188]DC Hates Me[/re]: Tang was invented in the late 1950′s before NASA started using it in ’65. Likewise, I thought Corning ware, which my mother seemed to worship at one point, was a NASA spinoff, when in fact it was developed in the 1950′s from materials used in military ballistic missile nosecones. LEDs came from NASA, though, and freeze-dried food for camping. And the Hubble scope shots, I agree, are most interesting, though the computer enhancement has drawn some criticism.
[re=505135]Lascauxcaveman[/re]: Yeah. I mean, I grew up in Alaska, and I knew lots of folks with planes that were, god help ‘em, go-karts. But a Cessna 172 isn’t in that category. Taurus is a good comparison–’cept the planes are more reliable.
[re=505176]Humpback[/re]: Win of the Month.
What? Nothing on the 10 Jeebus Freaks who went to Haiti to abduct as many children as they could find off the street as possible, regardless of the status of their parents?
Can we let these Idahoan’s fry please? Yes, I am now in favor of the death penalty for these international terrorists who wanted to turn these children into followers of their beliefs/jihad or whatever.
[re=505364]lawrenceofthedesert[/re]: Wait .. NASA didn’t invent Tang or Velcro? NASA sucks, get rid of them.
What’s the problem with this pedal thing, it’s like cruise control without all the complexity, wires and such…
[re=505039]thesheriffisnear[/re]: I used to hold out for the Roy Rogers, until the food sucked too much. I’da tried to glide to Delaware intead–mmm, Sbarro. But you gotta pay that one rip-off toll, which sucks.
Cars can be forgetful! Only Arnold gets Total Recall… http://baldwin-glass.com/paintdrop/?p=42
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