“You’re cranked all the way up to eleven…on stupid.”
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Let’s Combine The Phrases
“You’re cranked all the way up to eleven…on stupid.”
Let’s Combine The Phrases
“You’re cranked all the way up to eleven…on stupid.”
Unintended Candor
“I gave it everything I had, I didn’t hold anything back. I did the best newscast we were capable of doing,” Rather said.
Was It Something We Said?
The New York Times is laying off five hundred people. And I’ll bet they still don’t have a clue as to why they have to.
Unlovely Rita
Here are a couple pictures of the storm from my front yard, over neighbors’ homes across the street.
This one is looking south-southeast, out over the Atlantic. Those angry looking clouds are headed my way. The carousel is spinning from left (east) to right, with these clouds below heading away from me, to the west.
A few minutes after I took these, the heavens opened up.
Cool Images
What, No Vichy Britain?
Non-Americans, and particularly French non-Americans, are fond of noting how ignorant Americans supposedly are of the rest of the world and history. Which makes it all the more ironic that the French foreign minister apparently doesn’t know that Hitler never conquered Britain:
Needless to say, Douste-Blazy’s question was met by his hosts with amazement. “But Monsieur le minister,” Le Canard quoted the ensuing conversation, “England was never conquered by the Nazis during World War II.”
The minister apparently was not content with this answer, which, according to the magazine, was given by the museum curator, and persisted, asking: “Yes, but were there no Jews who were deported from England?”
Well, I suppose that he should at least be given some credit for deigning to visit that “sh**ty little country,” Israel, and the Holocaust museum.
NASA About To Get Hit Again?
New Orleans is now a potential (but still unlikely) landfall, but Rita may be headed for Houston. It’s right in the cross hairs at the NOAA site. This can’t be good for oil futures, either.
[Update at 2:50 PM EDT]
Yup, oil prices are up three bucks.
Time’s Running Out, Senator
Beldar implies that Senator Kerry may be afraid to defend his service record. At least in a venue where actual rules of evidence apply, and people can be issued subpoenas, instead of just repeatedly screaming “LIAR” on cable news.
…some folks might draw the inference that rather than your having just forgotten the one-year anniversary of the publication of Unfit for Command