Around the World Wide Web
Well, feeling a bit on the rundown side, but thought I would share some of the more interesting bits of news going around the interwebtubenets. Some funny, some stupid, some downright WTF invoking.
We start off in Canada, where we find Newfoundland’s Premier Danny Williams will be having heart surgery here in the United States later this week. Exact location, type of surgery, or method of payment is not known at this time. You can detect the floating question marks coming from Newfoundland all the way over in Texas.
We now go over to China. Deputy Ambassador to Israel Zhang Xiao’an claims that ties with China are deteriorating since Obama became president. The ambassador noted that usually relations between the Chinese gov’t and the new US president start off frosty, but gradually warm up. She claims in this case, it has worked backwards. The Great Uniter strikes again.
Over in Iran, Aquavelvajad (thanks, TheDudeAbides!), is claiming that Iran will will deliver a harsh blow to “global arrogance” (I don’t think he means the French), on February 11th, the anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution. I can only assume he will have his jacket pressed for the occassion.
Meanwhile in Haiti, the voodoo high priest is raising a stink over being discriminated against, saying evangelical Christians are monopolizing aid coming into the country. Keep in mind this guy holds a degree in Biochemistry from the Universite de Paris, La Sorbonne. Yes, this is a WTF as far as I’m concerned.
In England, Climategate is opening a few eyes, and pouring salt in the open wounds of careers. Now the beleaguered Phil Jones is facing new claims that he sought to hide problems in key temperature data on which some of his work was based. This is not only an OMG, but also a WTF, not because of the claims (we all know about that). No…because this is a feature story on UK’s The Guardian. The freakin’ GUARDIAN, people!!! In the same section they have this: “How the ‘climategate’ scandal is bogus and based on climate sceptics’ lies”. This is the most blatant example of Cover-Your-Ass I have seen in a while.
Hope y’all are adjusting to having six more weeks of winter. I don’t think Punxsutawney Phil got the AGW memo.
Obama’s Pet Peacock’s New Mating Call
It comes as no surprise that GE decided to unload sell a majority stake of its NBC Universal division. Truthfully, GE had been spread thin with the boondoggle that NBC has become. But now we find that Comcast, the new majority owner of the Peacock Network, has an agenda of its own:
But beyond the regulatory and legal minutia that technically govern this proposed deal, one obscenely crass, downright offensive action by Comcast’s CEO warrants the application of withering scrutiny to the merger.
A day, one single day, after the two media giants announced their deal, Comcast CEO Brian Roberts proudly weighed in to strongly support the Senate Democrat’s healthcare reform bill.
Comcast has thousands of employees, and if this monstrosity of a bill passes, the company would find it in its best interest to cut employee insurance off their books and force the workers onto the government program.
But that’s not the least of it. It turns out this administration has been making noises about restricting large mergers, and this would certainly qualify as one. And since this merger still needs government approval, it isn’t a big leap to conclude this is a major suck-up move to ease the transition. It comes as no surprise that Jeffrey Immelt is also a big supporter of Obamacare. His support would be paid in return by government handouts for wind energy, in which GE is heavily invested.
So, fuck you very much, Comcast.
Where’s the media re: Iraq ?
From The Jawa Report:
iCasualties.org reports 11 Coalition fatalities in Iraq in November. There were 12 soldiers, 1 civilian worker and 1 unborn child killed by Major Nidal Hasan at Ft Hood on November 5th.
Oh, that’s why we never hear about Iraq anymore.
Chris Matthews, Traitor Du Jour
I was trolling along Drudge Report, reading the not-so-favorable comments about our Resident-in-Chief, when this little nugget caught my eye: Chris Matthews calling WEST POINT the “ENEMY CAMP”. You can imagine the bile I felt rise when I heard that miserable communistic piece of putrid whale dung refer to our future men and women of the United States Army the ENEMY CAMP. I don’t believe he has ever referred to terrorists in such a manner. As far as I’m concerned, he can go to hell, and be Saddam’s little bitch, taking turns with every other despot he likes to stroke his needledick to every night.
Consider this your leave to cuss like sailors. Let’s see who can come up with the best description for this piece of human flotsam!
Climategate vs the search engines
There’s been a lot of talk about Google seemingly trying to hide climategate search results. You can read more about this at Soylent Green.
I’d posted an over there illustrating what I’d found searching google (that image is under the fold). Some people began talking about Bing, Microsoft’s new search engine.
I’m certainly no fan of Microsoft but they clearly win this round.
Not bad for an irrelevant hick from Alaska
From The Daily Beast via HotAir:
A HarperCollins insider told The Daily Beast that the book sold a staggering 300,000 copies on the first day alone, which was Tuesday. “Sales are phenomenal, and we are convinced that the book will continue to sell phenomenally for some time to come,” says the insider. They’re not prevaricating: As of 2:30pm today, the book was #1 on Amazon, ahead of both Stephen King’s new novel, Under the Dome, and Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol. The latter sold 1 million copies on its first day, but that figure included the UK, and top fiction generally trumps non-fiction. Any way you carve it, Going Rogue looks to be a $12 million goldmine.
The truly funny thing about this is that it is the Left that just cannot seem to shut up about her. Don’t get me wrong, I love the hell out of her, but how many VP nominees that lost can you name?
Time: Is Rush Limbaugh Good For America ?
Oh, shit! My mistake, that was in 1995. The current is …
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Would-be robber “rehabilitated”
From the Houston Chronicle:
A male teen was fatally shot and two others are in custody after they apparently confronted a delivery driver late last night in southeast Houston.
The shooting occurred about 11 p.m. Thursday in the 8600 block of Martin Luther King Blvd.
The teen, who has not been identified, was shot at least once, police said.
Investigators said a vendor was delivering products to a store when three confronted him and asked him to give them some of the items. He refused and they began beating him.
The vendor pulled out a handgun and shot one of them.
Emphasis mine ….
Asked ? Really ? Oh, and I suppose it just wasn’t relevant to the story that the delivery driver is licensed to carry the handgun.
Nobody wants big trucks, except for the hundreds of thousands that buy them.
From ABC:
But for the US automotive industry – damaged by foreign competition, rising gas prices, and hesitant consumers – “small” might be getting even smaller. Microcars loom large on the horizon, as many companies are investing in, or at least considering, lightweight, economical, and quirky vehicles that are most often associated with zigzagging down European side streets – not keeping pace with semi trucks as they barrel down US highways.
The AP has:
Also, the company’s F-Series pickup trucks remain the best-selling vehicles in the country.
So we’re supposed to believe that everybody wants the tiny little shitbox cars.
On a side note, a guy that works at the same place I work (I really wouldn’t call him a co-worker) bought one of those “Smart” cars (really looks like a dumbass car to me). He was bitching about the cost of repairing some scratches on the roof caused when someone attached a giant windup key to the roof of his car.
This thing is fucking retarded.
Man sets self on fire
From BBC:
Taser-hit man burst into flames
A man in Western Australia was engulfed in flames when police officers fired a Taser stun gun at him.
Police say they used the Taser on Ronald Mitchell, 36, when he ran at them carrying a container of petrol and a cigarette lighter.
They said that Mr Mitchell, who lives in a remote Aboriginal community, had been sniffing petrol. They suggested the cigarette lighter started the fire.
Mr Mitchell is in a critical condition in hospital with third degree burns.
Aside from the obvious funny here, what the fuck is up with the headline. I mean, right there in the article they blame the cigarette lighter for staring the fire, but that sure as shit ain’t what the headline implies. Fuckers.
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