Alaska Annexed by Texas. More at 10.
Water cooler fodder:
I saw a national news report about the rising price of gas yesterday which contained the words “However, an SUV lobbying group says...” and I thought “Jesus, there are SUV lobbying groups!” Of course there are, it makes sense, I just never had to think about it before. Surely we’re overdue for the sky to open up and an antibiotic fire to rain down and cure this planet of its parasitic disease.
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Why do we only care about Irish politics in mid-March? Don’t tell me Belfast is a sleepy Irish village the rest of the year. I mean it's great that B*sh is meeting with these people who suffered the loss of their brother and fiancé in all this IRA business that I won’t pretend to fully understand, but face it; he wouldn’t give a sh*t if it didn’t make good PR on St. Patrick's Day. Seems to me like the classic donate-to-food-shelves-only-on-Thanksgiving phenomena. Cuz, well you know, that’s the only time they need it. And the media are far from blameless on this.
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I’m interested to see if Norm Coleman flops (flips?) again on the senate ANWR drilling vote today. He’s on the correct side of the issue for once. Not that it matters, all they need is 51 votes and it looks as if that’s exactly the number they have. So fire up your gas guzzlers, and kiss your Alaskan wilderness goodbye, our reliance on foreign oil has ended. For the 18-24 months until the reserve is depleted. I think I have bottle of shampoo that's lasted longer than that.
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This morning on the local Fox News affiliate, anchor Tim Sherno said of Mario Vazquez, the American Idol candidate who withdrew himself from the competition, (causing far too much media attention): If he did it just to get publicity “I hope he gets strung up.” Pause. Pause. Pause. “Metaphorically of course.” Dammit, where's my TiVo.
I saw a national news report about the rising price of gas yesterday which contained the words “However, an SUV lobbying group says...” and I thought “Jesus, there are SUV lobbying groups!” Of course there are, it makes sense, I just never had to think about it before. Surely we’re overdue for the sky to open up and an antibiotic fire to rain down and cure this planet of its parasitic disease.
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Why do we only care about Irish politics in mid-March? Don’t tell me Belfast is a sleepy Irish village the rest of the year. I mean it's great that B*sh is meeting with these people who suffered the loss of their brother and fiancé in all this IRA business that I won’t pretend to fully understand, but face it; he wouldn’t give a sh*t if it didn’t make good PR on St. Patrick's Day. Seems to me like the classic donate-to-food-shelves-only-on-Thanksgiving phenomena. Cuz, well you know, that’s the only time they need it. And the media are far from blameless on this.
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I’m interested to see if Norm Coleman flops (flips?) again on the senate ANWR drilling vote today. He’s on the correct side of the issue for once. Not that it matters, all they need is 51 votes and it looks as if that’s exactly the number they have. So fire up your gas guzzlers, and kiss your Alaskan wilderness goodbye, our reliance on foreign oil has ended. For the 18-24 months until the reserve is depleted. I think I have bottle of shampoo that's lasted longer than that.
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This morning on the local Fox News affiliate, anchor Tim Sherno said of Mario Vazquez, the American Idol candidate who withdrew himself from the competition, (causing far too much media attention): If he did it just to get publicity “I hope he gets strung up.” Pause. Pause. Pause. “Metaphorically of course.” Dammit, where's my TiVo.
posted by ab at 3/16/2005
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