- A man was arrested in Milan after he tried to sneak into Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi’s hospital room. Can you imagine that happening in America, an uninvited person just wandering up to the president? Hahaha. (BBC)
- A drug manufacturer has recalled 800,000 doses of the Swine Flu Vaccine for Kids. But, um, don’t worry, they say? (San Francisco Chronicle)
- Britain will probably not be able to have a major role in the Middle East peace process if it insists on arresting Israeli officials whenever they think about entering the country. (Jerusalem Post)
- A University of North Dakota student has discovered that jokes about rape aren’t actually funny. Change we can believe in! (The Dakota Student)
- The economy is pretty terrible, but it could have been worse. Therefore, Ben Bernanke is your TIME Person of the Year. (TIME)
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People Will Be Much More Inclined to Listen to Your Point-of-View if You Burn Them in Effigy.
- The Danville, Virginia teabaggers have a creative, mature way of expressing their displeasure with the healthcare bill: burning people in effigy, specifically Rep. Tom Periello and Speaker Nancy Pelosi. (Chatham Star-Tribune via TPMDC)
- Famous internet number man Nate Silver has definitive proof that the horrible swine plague can be blamed almost entirely on southern states, except for Utah and Florida which mysteriously have no swine flu cases at all. (FiveThirtyEight)
- In 2003, your Washington Metro decided to save a little money by just dumping water mixed with hazardous chemicals directly into the Maryland sewer system, instead of properly disposing of it. (Washington Post)
- New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg, who is both a Republican and actually from New York City, is all for trying Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other 9/11 terror suspects near Ground Zero. (The Plum Line)
- Former Rep. William Jefferson (D-LA) is going to prison for 13 years because of that whole “freezer full of money” thing. (Roll Call)
By Henry Allen’s Standards, Everyone Should Be Able to Beat Up Fred Hiatt
- A draft article for your Washington Post’s “Style” section was so terrible that editor Henry Allen straight-up punched writer Manuel Roig-Franzia. That’s one way to encourage better journalism. (Washingtonian)
- Democrats and Republicans cannot agree on many things, including which American political party is most like terrorists. (WaPo/ThinkProgress)
- Sarah Palin is making robocalls for Republican VA-Gov candidate Bob McDonnell, despite being explicitly told by the McDonnell campaign to keep her crazy away from that race. (CNN Political Ticker)
- Rep. Joe “You lie!” Wilson (R-SC) blames Barack Obama for not vaccinating all of America against swine flu instantly, even though Joe Wilson and 95% of Republicans voted against swine flu vaccine. (TPMDC)
Senate Democrats Win Important Baseball Debate. Also, Healthcare.
- Oh look, here is Harry Reid with your public option, for healthcare, even though Her Majesty Queen Olympia Snowe does not care for it! (CBS News)
- If the Democrats really cared about bipartisanship, they would have let the St. Louis Cardinals go to the World Series. (NYT The Caucus)
- Some of the RNC’s Facebook friends are terribly racist and do not care for our mixed-race president. (Raw Story)
- President Obama has more women in his Cabinet than any previous president. But does he invite them over for basketball enough? That is the real important question. (ABC News)
- Rep. John Culberson (R-TX) took his daughter to a public clinic to get the terrible socialist swine flu vaccine that he voted not to fund. What will Glenn Beck say? (Roll Call via Daily Kos)
Stabbing, Shooting People in the Chest Also a Health Risk
- The makers of the Taser are now warning that electrically shocking people in the chest might not be a totally safe idea. (Raw Story)
- President Olympia Snowe will not support any kind of public option, so Harry Reid will probably just take it out of the healthcare bill because all bills must have one Republican vote to pass. It’s in the Constitution! (TPMDC)
- All this worrying about healthcare and the economy has made Americans want to get high now more than ever before. (Gallup)
- The health insurance industry would really like for healthcare reform to not happen at all. Shocking! (Huffington Post)
- It’s hard to be from South Carolina when everyone is mocking your dumb state. (Los Angeles Times)
- Americans are afraid of getting swine flu but still don’t want the vaccine because of… socialism? Or something. (Washington Post)
“Balloon Boy” Parents Successfully Diagnose America with ADD
Turns out that “Balloon Boy” stunt was a total fraud that we wasted our Thursday afternoon on, as opposed to, you know, just some thing that we wasted our Thursday afternoon on. (CBS)- Rahm Emanuel was just being so mean to FOX News today, on rival television network CNN. Now you know why Glenn Beck is always crying. (CNN Political Ticker)
- Nobody told the Jews and Muslims that they have to get along now that Barack Obama has won the Nobel Peace Prize. (AFP)
- Empirical evidence suggests that the American public is not shitting its collective pants because of the swine flu as much as we should be. (Daily K0s)
Socialized Medicine
I wonder how the teabaggers will react when Obama announces that he wants to vaccinate grandma:
Government health officials are mobilizing to launch a massive swine flu vaccination campaign this fall that is unprecedented in its scope — and in the potential for complications.
The campaign aims to vaccinate at least half the country’s population within months. Although more people have been inoculated against diseases such as smallpox and polio over a period of years, the United States has never tried to immunize so many so quickly.
The real patriots–you know, the ones who wave “Obama is Hitler” posters and hang their congressmen in effigy–should just refuse this government-run healthcare.
Still More Room on the Burris Mausoleum
- Your President Obama announced today that he cannot fix all of America’s problems at the same time. What a jerk! (NYT)
- Oh good, Roland Burris is reconsidering whether or not he will run for re-election. Hey, it’s not like Harry Reid was doing anything with that 60-vote majority. (ABC News)
- I am just shocked, shocked, that an all-white crowd turned out at a town hall held by Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN) in his predominantly black district. If only someone were reporting on this coordinated effort by conservatives to mob Democrats’ town halls! (Memphis Commerical Advertiser)
- And speaking of socialist medicine, the government is testing a swine flu vaccine… but Real Patriots™ would never get a government vaccine, right? (National Public Radio)
The World Might Explode if Mark Sanford and Marion Barry Ever Compared Notes
- Jenny Sanford, unfortunate wife of Argentine sex fiend Mark Sanford, is moving out of the Governor’s Mansion, maybe because of all the times he told the national news media that some other lady was his soulmate. (The State)
- A shocking new twist in the latest “Marion Barry hires his girlfriends” scandal: nobody knows what recently-identified girlfriend Sharon Bowen did to warrant her $50,000 contract. (Citydesk)
- Who needs lobbyists when you can just force your employees to write letters to Congress in favor of legislation that will hurt your competitiors? (WaPo)
- Hey kids, don’t think you can just fake swine flu and get your school closed for a few days anymore. The government is on to your tricks! (NPR)
Now You Know Why That Burger Tasted Kinda Dirty
- Ew. More than half of foodworkers surveyed admitted to the FDA that they don’t wash their hands before handling food. I wonder how we all got the swine flu? (Quad City Times via CityDesk)
- Hillary Clinton was poor (like the rest of us) after losing to Barack Obama, but now she has millions of dollars again! (NY Daily News)
- Former Rep. Tom Davis (R-Fake VA) also says that the southerners are ruining the GOP. Wonder if David Vitter will teach him about values too? (Political Wire)
- While there may be some debate over whether Sgt. James Crowley acted racistly when he arrested Henry Louis Gates Jr., the Boston cop and National Guard commander who called Gates a “jungle monkey” is definitely racist. (ABC News)
- According to Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), it is racist for Democrats to nominate a minority to the Supreme Court and then point out that most Republicans voted against her. (TPMDC)
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