In somewhat fitting fashion, a storm with high winds tore through the village of Chittenango yesterday, putting a premature end to this weekend’s Oz-Straveganza festivities. No, this wasn’t an homage to Ozzie Osbourne. Chittenango is the birth place of L Frank Baum, who wrote the series of books made famous by the Wizard of Oz. You’ll be glad to hear that, although there was a bit of damage, the Munchkins are all OK (and, yes, there are still a few of them left, though they’re definitely getting up there in years, if not inches).
Of course, Chittenango wasn’t the only place with bad weather this weekend, as tornadoes tore through the Midwest in typical tornado fashion. As I’ve learned from televangelists over the years, this is apparently because God hates the Midwest. In fact, just based on weather patterns, I’d have to say that God is really f*ckin’ pissed at the entire bible belt, ‘cuz between floods, droughts, hurricanes, and tornadoes, God’s pretty much throwing everything He’s got a these people. Except earthquakes, but we know He saves that shit up for the Godless State of California.
If you’ve checked in on the ‘Oil Cam’ lately, you might think the cap BP put on their hole in the ground (is it a hole in the ground if it’s under water?) isn’t doing a damn thing. That’s because you’re stupid. The folks at BP assure us that not only is it doing something, it’s capturing a ‘vast majority’ of the oil spewing out. Uh, OK. They’re the experts, so I trust them. I mean, who you gonna believe, the oil industry, or you’re lying eyes?
It’s odd. You remember the outcry from the wingnuts about “free speech” and stuff when that bimbo with the fake boobs made her proclamation about ‘opposite’ marriage? Well, I figured they’d all start yammering again in defense of Helen Thomas’ right to say that the Israelis ought to all go back to Germany and Poland. Shockingly, they appear to have remained silent. Well, not silent so much as ‘outraged’ (sorry, did I say outraged? I meant to say OUTRAGED!!!). And of course Ari Fleischer says she ought to be fired. And when Ari speaks, I listen. I mean, I respect him almost as much as I do BP CEO Tony Hayward.
In a refreshing act of contrition, Illinois Republican Mark Kirk sat down for an interview with the Chicago Sun-Times, and apologized for slightly exaggerating (also known as outright lying about) his military record.
“I simply misremembered it wrong,” Kirk said….
Ah. Understandable. If only he’d misremembered it right.
Kirk also apologized for claiming that, in the future, he’ll move his family to Riverside Iowa and eventually become the GGGGGGG-Grandfather of James T. Kirk.
In preparation for the upcoming Football World Cup, South African soccer fans practiced rioting over the weekend. Only 15 people were injured and none were killed, but it’s still preseason, so we expect their stats to improve dramatically once fans get into full World Cup form.
Oh well, another day off, so I guess I’d better do my laundry or something.
Didn’t Rush Lintball say that the volcano in Iceland was God’s punishment for US healthcare reform? Using his fine logic, perhaps the weather in the south and midwest is punishment for some humanitarian impulse in Europe or the Middle East.
It looks like there is a new Mrs. Lintball as Mr. Lintball has married for the 4th time. Unsettling enough! But here are some of the wedding guests:
…former Bush adviser Karl Rove; actor-politician Fred Thompson; former Kansas City Royals slugger George Brett; Fox News commentator Sean Hannity; former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani; New England Patriots owner Bob Kraft; former Clinton adviser James Carville and his wife, GOP analyst Mary Matalin; and golfer Tom Watson. A wedding guest also tells PEOPLE that among the others was Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.
http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20391620,00.html
Groucho Marx: Who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes?
Himan Brown in the NY Times
🙁 :gate:
Well, they forced Helen Thomas out.
Delaying Efforts to Close Vents
Engineers temporarily halted their efforts to close all four vents on the capping device, because even with three vents open, more oil was being captured than the Discoverer Enterprise, the ship receiving the oil, could process. BP plans to deploy more machines to separate the oil from gas and water and add an additional ship to help collect it.
Animal Casualties
Birds: 820 have been collected, with 298 of these visibly oiled. 597 birds were dead; 223 were captured alive. 28 have been released.
Sea Turtles: 289 have been collected; 243 were dead; 46 were alive.
Mammals, Including Dolphins: 33 have been collected in the spill zone; 31 of those were dead. Determination whether oil was the cause of death is pending for 30 dolphins.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/07/us/07latest.html?scp=1&sq=day%2047:%20the%20latest%20on%20the%20oil%20spill&st=cse
I’d rather go to Hells than Sturgis. Somebody remind me about this next year, ’cause I’ll probably forget.
Uh, I kinda think Helen Thomas forced herself out- not for saying the Israeli’s should leave the Palestinians alone but for saying the Jews should return to the countries that murdered million of jews.
She’s one of my heroes but it was time for her to go.
Sad ending to a great career.