Oh, God, can you even believe that more primaries are happening? When will America’s suffering end? Today’s victims are in Washington state and Wyoming. Washington has a savage, out-of-control “jungle primary” that will almost certainly result incumbent Democratic Senator Patty Murray facing off against Republican Dino Rossi, who lost the last two gubernatorial races. In Wyoming, literally twelve different people want to be governor, for some reason. How good a gig can being governor of Wyoming be, honestly? [CNN]- You know how sometimes you can search everywhere for something but it turns out to be somewhere really obvious? That’s how it was with the CIA’s tapes of the interrogation of Ramzi Binalshibh, conducted with the help of Moroccan security forces. They swore it was gone forever — literally swore, to a Justice Department prosecutor — but then they found it under somebody’s desk. That was in 2007. Then they waited another three years to tell anybody. This doesn’t seem suspicious at all. [WP]
- The Minerals Management Service is no longer going to do that thing where it allows you to drill without filing an environmental impact report so long as someone else has filed a report for an area sort of like the one where you want to drill. Shockingly, oil companies think this is a bad idea. [NYT]
- The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has stayed the issuing of marriage licenses to same-sex couples in California until at least December. What do these activist judges have against fall weddings? [WP]
IT'S MORNING IN AMERICA
August 17, 2010
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Do these tapes feature Jenna Jameson? If not, I’m not interested…
Actually, being governor of Wyoming is probably a really good job. I mean, who will notice or care what you do? And you still get to go to those swank Governors’ Association meetings!
Ugh, think of all the rodeos you have to attend if you want to be the governor of Wyoming.
Josh: I love the random shoutout to honesty.
[re=639970]plowman[/re]:
Yes, the do… but it’s some lame PETA ad, so nevermind.
BTW, I think it’s worth mentioning that we shall probably no longer be hearing from our favoite Playgirl posing Sara Palin exposing under-age Bristol Baby Daddy:
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2010/08/sarah-owns-levi.html
Which is a sad thing.
Happy Hour
With Dino Rossi & VelvetTones
Walla-Walla Holiday Inn
Thursday Nite Only
I want a job like Andrew’s. A link…a few comments and boom! Call it a day.
[re=639976]Serolf Divad[/re]:
Awwwwww… it’s over but it was amusing while it lasted.
Levy = Kay Adams (Godfather)
We watch as Levy stands at the doorway while Sarah and Todd make plans to take over the world through the power of Facebook and Twitter
Todd gets up and heads to the door. He glares at Levy and then slowly closes the door.
End Scene
You in the jungle primary baby! You gonna diiiiiiiieeeee!
Why does Wyoming have a picture on the license of that place where Richard Dreyfus was kidnapped?
[re=639970]plowman[/re]: Poultry Snuff films…..but clicky the clickity anyway because Evil Wonkette Overlords need coin just like the rest of us…
Well, honestly, the guv of wyo. gets paid $130,000 a year plus he gets to rope dogies from Sarah’s very own private helicopter and all. Sounds pretty sweet to me.
“We destroyed all the tapes. We did that without anyone telling us to do it, too. No one issued the order.”
“The other tapes? Those are lost.”
“Ok, so it’s a felony to have erased them and a felony to lie about losing them? Who said we didn’t lose them? …Oh, that woman the FoxNews commentator appointed was using it as porn…the same chick who insisted on the torture of a guy because of a ‘hunch’ and wanted to be there to personally watch it? She’s weird, alright, but we answer to a higher authority than the president, you know.”
“Ok, we found the tape. Now, don’t mention any of this, or our real boss will get us all in trouble.”
We’ll have to wait for the next comic to find out who the boss is, because I sure don’t know. I only know it isn’t any of the people the constitution or the enabling legislation names.
[re=639973]Chernobyl Soup[/re]: SORRY I FIXED IT NOW IT IS EARLY
Re discovery of the Binalshibh tapes, someone’s not getting his Xmas bonus.
But speaking up for the CIA, at least the agency didn’t turn Binalshibh over to the Chicago police for a beat down. There are rules after all.
Being Gov. of Wyoming is like being in charge of big parking lot that has lots of livestock and natural gas drilling. A lot easier gig than running California or New York.
They probably said the same thing about being governor of Alaska and look how that turned out.
There are 2,216 cars in Wyoming? No kidding?
[re=639990]Josh Fruhlinger[/re]:
As long you’re in the mood to fix mistakes generated by lack of caffeine of which I am an expert at creating.
“licensse” sounds like your writing with a lisp or reading like Truman Capote.
[re=639996]Monsieur Grumpe[/re]: Oh for fuck’s sake….
So twelve people are running for Wyoming Governor; that must be every single person in the state. It’s got to be a nice gig, with all the power and money of a governorship without the actual responsibilities of governing people instead of empty wilderness.
The interrogation tapes should be fine; they were left in the care of the ghost of Rose Mary Woods.
In Wyoming, ‘democracy’ is usually synonymous with ‘public nudity,’ so it isn’t bad.
[re=639998]JMP[/re]: Based on the license plate pictured above there are at least 2 counties with at least 216 cars in the county. It’s a friggin’ metropolis!
“How good a gig can being governor of Wyoming be, honestly?”
All the cowboy coffee he or she can drink?
Probably the gov. of Wyoming can pardon all his relatives in jail for meth dealing. Levi should think about being gov. of Alaska, not just Wasilla mayor.
Come Nov 3, Dipstick Dino shall be covered with waffle prints from Patty Murray’s tennis shoes.
[re=640018]Terry[/re]: Is that a euphemism for semen? Because I mean, hey, that could be a cushy gig for some folks, I guess.
[re=639976]Serolf Divad[/re]: This is absolutely ricockulous. Ah, family values! As in, pretending nothing is wrong while you weep yourself to sleep. And it’s good to know Sarah supports freedom of expression, also.
[re=639997]Josh Fruhlinger[/re]: Since Cheney is from Wyoming, Josh, couldn’t you have PhotoPhixed the license plate so it there was a ’666′ over the Devil’s Tower so it matched the Dick’s pulseless tag?
The time I spent in Wyoming would have been so much more fun if I’d been an alcoholic, a Baptist, or a good ole boy. Or a kite. And there is nothing else to do in Whyo – might as well run for office.
[re=640025]weejee[/re]: Heh, the MomInTennisShoesâ„¢ didn’t get my vote this primary, I cast my ballot for “goodspaceguy” this time around. Lotta good choices on this year’s ballot, even Mike the Mover is back on the ballot, though I’d thought he’d retired from politics.
Just to mess with Dino, I almost voted for that tea-party football farmer guy, (the anti-farm-subsidy guy who took a quarter million in subsidies over the last few years), but he had Palin do robocalls for him, and I can’t vote anyone who is that cruel to his putative constituency.
Isn’t the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals the most “liberal” court in America, according to the Wingnuts? Countdown to Wingnut heads exploding in 3…2….1
One court says yes, one court says no. How about all the teatards just accept the ruling of the “no” court, so they don’t have to get gay married, attend any gay weddings or buy gifts and they can even refuse to personally accept the validity of gay weddings.
All the gays who want to get married, on the other hand, can have the ruling of the “yes” court and go ahead and get gay married.
The unemployment people are always hassling you about looking for work, so you get a few signatures and “run for governor.” Then it’s back to the warm Coors and loco weed. Yippee ti yi yo! Gets ya through huntin’ season!
Did someone use “putative constituency” in a sentence about Wyoming politics? Has it come to that? (I bet the guy don’t even pronounce it “Eye-rack.”)
For those of you who aren’t from Washington let me explain who Dino Rossi is. If Sarah Palin and The Situation had a retard baby, and that baby ate lead paint chips it would almost be as dumb as Rossi.
As for me I voted for William Chovil. In his campaign statement he claims to be John Gault(sic).
I’m pretty sure that the Governor of Wyoming is given the sacred responsibility of guarding Dick Cheney’s tomb during daylight hours. While he or she does so, the Governor remains young and strong, although his or hers soul does get sucked out of them.
As for the gay marriage thing. Since Conservatives tell us the Ninth Circuit is the most overturned court in the land, can’t we just throw out their stay and get back to the Constitution and let people marry the person they love? Or does true Conservatism not include the ghayez?
[re=639998]JMP[/re]: Actually, there is that massive herd of illegal alien migratin’ pronghorn who go running around violatin’ everyone’s sacred oceanfront property rights. Oh, wait.
[re=640170]Lascauxcaveman[/re]: Mike the Mover is my Primary Tradition! Goodspaceguy, I think, writes copy for Dr Bronner’s soap bottles.
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