Pee-wee: I don’t remember. Texan: Where are you from? Pee-wee: I don’t remember. Texan: Do you remember anything? Pee-wee: I remember… the Alamo. [Texans cheer] Pearl Harbor can be placed in the same line as the Alamo and Custer’s Last Stand. They are stories of surprise defeat and a military response. Sept. 11 fits there as well. Pearl Harbor is part of another line, though, Mansoor said. That one includes
December 7, 2008
Chicago Trib Writer Shocked! That Obama Resisted [Dan Collins]
After eight solid years of Trooferist howling about teh eeeeeevil BOOOOOOSH REGIME? Their little crusade won’t go anywhere. But to them that will mean only that the Supreme Court has joined the mainstream media and perhaps Congress in a great conspiracy to put a foreignlike man in the White House to launch a Marxist revolution with the help of his terrorist friends. For four years, maybe eight, we’ll be hearing
Hara-kirioke (Comments Not Safe for Breakfast) [Dan Collins]
I denounce it: A man who got carried away at a karaoke bar has been stabbed to death for singing too much and refusing to hand over the microphone. Abdul Sani Doli was performing in Sandakan town, Malaysia, and not letting others share the limelight. A group of men grew furious that Mr Doli was hogging the stage and a brawl broke out, police said. The 23-year-old was punched and
Brits World Champions of “Bed-Hopping” (Among Industrialized Nationalities) [Dan Collins]
You lot were turned on by the accent, weren’t you? Brits may have a reputation for being buttoned-up, but they lead the world in bed-hopping, according to a new study. A new international “promiscuity index” names Britain as the major industrialized nation that sleeps around the most, followed by Germany and the Netherlands. The U.S. ranks a more tame number six. Researchers surveyed 14,000 people in 48 countries, asking them
Obama Outlines Plan to Expand Expansion of Federal Government [Dan Collins]
From Politico: Obama had committed just before Thanksgiving to saving or creating 2.5 million jobs in the next two years, more than twice his campaign promise of 1 million new jobs over an unspecified period. But he didn’t say how he would do it. On Saturday, he began to spell it out, offering “five key parts” of his economic plan: â€â€ENERGY: “[W]e will launch a massive effort to make public
