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Monday, August 10, 2009

Mercury Good Morning, News!

Posted by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey on Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 9:29 AM

Forty-seven killed and hundreds are wounded in a suicide attack in Northern Iraq that… wait for it… destroyed an entire village.

Pet horse murder spree in Florida…the animals are being discovered tied to trees and hacked up, possibly for their meat. Shit is getting weird, ya'll.

GOP rallies their large nutbag faction to disrupt town hall meetings trying to give people information about Obama's health care plan. Shouldn't these people be trying to prove he was born in Kenya, or something?

A small plane and a sightseeing helicopter collided in mid-air on Saturday, plunging into the Hudson river.

Kate Gosselin (of Jon & Kate Plus 8) appears on the Today show and boo-hoos about how awful her life (the one she chose) is. Hey Kate… read ANY of the above stories.

After Sarah Palin accuses Obama of starting a "death panel," she's now asking for civility in the health care discussion. (Yeah, by all means, don't lump her in with those other GOP crackpots!)

GM is expected to start selling their cars on eBay this week. (And while they're at it, they might as well get rid of that old snorkeling equipment, and their complete collection of Crosby, Stills & Nash albums.)

Headline of the day: "Olivia Newton John’s presumed-dead ex boyfriend sends fax from Mexico." What? Has he never heard of Twitter? (Thank yew! Thank yew! Don't forget to tip your waitress.)

And finally, why one should never, ever friend their boss on Facebook.

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Ha ha! Where is that facebook cap from?
Posted by Marq on August 10, 2009 at 11:29 AM · Report
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> GOP rallies their large nutbag faction to disrupt town hall meetings trying to give people information about Obama's health care plan.

Ah, yes.. where "disrupt" = "voice their opinions." Can't have those nasty conservatives actually expressing themselves, can we? Take your Obamacare medicine and don't complain about it.

I thought community organizing was a good thing. Didn't we just elect someone whose entire work history consisted of that?

The defensiveness on the left is a great sign. It means you know you're losing the argument.
Posted by mr. voluptuous on August 10, 2009 at 11:32 AM · Report
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So what you're saying is that, to the modern conservative, "voicing your opinion" is screaming meaningless crap over and over loud enough to drown out the adults (on both sides) trying to have a real conversation?

Well don't I feel silly for thinking the crying baby on my last flight was a tantrum-throwing asshole. Turns out she's probably was "voicing her opinion" about something she read on The Corner.
Posted by boyasunder on August 10, 2009 at 11:39 AM · Report
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P45 is a British unemployment form so I think the Facebook is from my native land...
Posted by Matt Davis on August 10, 2009 at 12:44 PM · Report
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And he says "I don't prance around," which narrows it down to either Scotland or Wales.
Posted by atomic on August 10, 2009 at 1:43 PM · Report
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"Didn't we just elect someone whose entire work history consisted of that?"

No, we didn't. Stop making yourself look really dumb.
Posted by ROM on August 10, 2009 at 2:05 PM · Report

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