If you ever wanted to buy a Chrysler car, you might want to do so soon:
President Barack Obama announced Thursday a merger between Italy’s Fiat and stricken US auto giant Chrysler, which is filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy after debt-restructuring talks collapsed.
Vice president Joe Biden said today he would tell his family members not to use subways in the U.S. and implied schools should be shuttered as the swine flu outbreak spread to 11 states
Some highly-skilled, intelligent, dexterous men grow up to be doctors, and have hamsters named after them. Some knuckle-dragging, barely-civil, abusive bastards grow up to be knuckle-dragging, barely-civil, abusive bastards, and have a town named after them (and a song, and a statue). Luckily for those of us without the prerequisite …
If you ever wanted to know how the electricity that is currently powering your computer was generated and transmitted to your house, NPR has a relatively spiffy map. I have to admit, looking at it from the survivability perspective, our current arrangement sucks.…
I was going to be gracious and give President Barack Hussein Obama a pass on the whole Air-Force-One-overflying-New-York-City thing… unfortunately, I can definitely see some unthinking governmental peon being somewhat annoyed that the Press Office’s publicity photos of the President’s carriage have the World Trade Center in the background, and …
According to news reports, a former student at Hampton University managed to shoot a dorm manager, an unidentified individual who was not a student at the school, and himself. The shooting took place in one of the university’s dorms, and thus far, there have been no fatalities. Possession of …
Perhaps it is just me, but I simply cannot stop laughing about the fact that Fox believes that a show called “Lie to Me” should pre-empt our glorious President:
The Fox network is sticking with its regular schedule over President Barack Obama this week.
I am a bit late on this, but if you ever wanted to prove to the internet world that you are a complete and utter asshole, it would appear as though commenter “Tom” has provided you a perfect example to follow over at Tam’s place. Let us do a …
As a long-time Browncoat who has watched both Serenity and the entirety of Firefly far too many times (speaking of, I need to break them out again sometime soon), I confess to being somewhat embarassed for not having caught this cross-story tie-in before. Consider this image: Browncoats like me will …
Remember how President Barack Hussein Obama said he was going to change how Washington works, and usher in a new era of government transparency and openness, and all that good stuff? Yeah, he lied:
President Obama promised on the campaign trail that he would have the most transparent administration
If you want to watch the decline and fall of civilization as we know it (otherwise known as “some influenza bug that uses pigs as carriers”) in really close to real time, Google Maps has your hookup. Looks like us cousin-humping rednecks are still safe.…
In November of 2008, there were 1,529,635 National Instant Criminal Background Check System requests. In December of 2008, there were 1,523,426 NICS requests. In January of 2009, there were 1,213,885 NICS ruquests. From 01JAN08 to13DEC08 there were 12,709,023 NICS requests. A single NICS check an be …
NAPOLITANO SAYS US SHOULD SHOULD PREPARE FOR NEW FLU OUTBREAK SOON EVEN IF THIS ONE FIZZLES OUT
Ignoring the atrocious grammar and one-lined nature of the report, what the hell is the Secretary of Homeland Security doing fear-mongering and generating up rumors …
Given how well-paying their stock and trade seems to be these days, some enterprising, scumbag pirates took it upon themselves to try to commandeer an Italian cruise ship putzing around off the coast of Somalia. However, in a refreshing change from previous instances, this cruise ship’s security detail happened to …
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