I Can’t Make It Up Fast Enough, Part MMMMXLCXXXIX
By Mitch Berg
I’ve joked about it in the past. Since rabid, corrosive sexism became vogue-y during the election in response to Sarah Palin, it seems only reasonable that if Bobby Jindal becomes a serious contender for President, “Apu the Convenience Store Clerk” japes will be declared completely politically correct, and South-Asian Americans will become the left’s new racial kicktoy.
Pinky swear, it was a joke.
Until yesterday, apparently.
(Note to Allahpundit: your post’s headline, “The obligatory “Helen Thomas makes nasty crack about Jindal?” post” contains the words “Helen Thomas” and “crack”, three words that should never appear in a sentence in any context. Please see to this).
February 26th, 2009 at 8:31 am
Did you hear about Olberman’s “outsource” crack?
http://minx.cc/?post=283417
February 26th, 2009 at 8:38 am
Sorry, it was Chris Mathews not Olberman.
February 26th, 2009 at 9:25 am
I wouldn’t worry about that whole “serious contender for president” thing. Though he did present some awesome ideas. Angryclown particularly liked his “don’t ask don’t tell” policy toward volcanoes. You have to go back a ways to take political lessons from the mayor of Pompeii. Wow. If you thought Katrina was bad, just add magma.
February 26th, 2009 at 10:35 am
Gee, AC…
Maybe you haven’t heard, but volcanoes tend to give very noticeable clues to eruption long before they actually blow. In fact, I wouldn’t want to live in Kenai, AK right now.
February 26th, 2009 at 10:59 am
Dan ‘One Armed Bandit’ Inouye got a bunch of volcano monitoring money a few years back. It paid for UH geophysics to put some monitors on Mauna Loa. The money came from the DoD because Pohakuloa Training Area is partially on the slopes of Mauna Loa. Dan’s reasoning was that a tank cost far more than the paltry couple of million it took to put the sensors in place. Apparently tanks are immobile and can’t outrun lava.
February 26th, 2009 at 11:16 am
Didn’t know we had tanks that are so fast.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wv-LxFeQwPI
Terry is Hawaii’s answer to Harry Truman. No, not the 33rd president.
February 26th, 2009 at 11:46 am
You talking about the fella who didn’t evacuate from St. Helens & ended up under 70′ of mud & ash?
I didn’t even have to wiki that. I’ve got a mind like a steel trap. In more ways than one.
As the only Mitchketer who actually lives on top of an erupting volcano I assure you that it is absolutely essential that the government spend billions of dollars to ensure my safety.
February 26th, 2009 at 11:48 am
The halemaumau webcam:
http://hvo.wr.usgs.gov/cam3/
I bet this ‘volcano monitoring equipment’ cost much less than 150 million dollars.
February 26th, 2009 at 1:18 pm
I think Sarah Palin can monitor volcanoes from her porch.
February 26th, 2009 at 1:37 pm
Is the volcano in the same direction she has to look when she’s keeping an eye on Putin?
February 26th, 2009 at 1:43 pm
“Terry is Hawaii’s answer to Harry Truman. No, not the 33rd president.”
Thanks for proving my point. Harry had weeks of warning that Mt. St Helen’s was going to blow. He refused to leave, now he & his gift shop are on the bottom of a lake. Do you think that volcano sensors would have changed his mind?
February 26th, 2009 at 2:01 pm
Why would she have to keep an eye on Putin? Putin knows you don’t mess around with Joe Biden.
February 26th, 2009 at 4:05 pm
“Is the volcano in the same direction she has to look when she’s keeping an eye on Putin?”
Actually yes. You know how to look up a map? It’s mildly more complex than finding a Wiki.
February 26th, 2009 at 6:17 pm
Why does a volcano scare the crap out of Assclown? Chickenboy?
I don’t lose any sleep over a volcano. 8)
I figure Jindal considers himself and American.
I heard several people say “Obama is the first President that is an African…”
February 26th, 2009 at 10:38 pm
Clown thinks Putin is frightened of Obama.
Hell, Obama has to ask permission from Pelosi before he’s allowed to speak.
And Hillary? Just to freak him out she asked to use the bathroom in the White House and left the seat up. Now Obama refuses to be in a room alone with her.
Sarah Palin once strangled a wolf and used it to beat a moose to death. Hillary refuses to be in a room alone with her.
Putin has doubled the guard on the east side of his dacha.
February 27th, 2009 at 7:51 am
Alas, K-Rod, you have earned yourself a shunning, based on your consistent witlessness, autistic world view and subliterate manner of expression. You are eligible to apply to Angryclown to lift the shunning no sooner than three months from now – May 27. Work hard, read some books and try to be less stupid. Angryclown wishes you good luck. You are now shunned.
February 27th, 2009 at 11:55 am
K-rod, when AC addresses you while you are under ‘shunment’, he will enclose his words in square brackets, like [this].
Just so you know.
February 27th, 2009 at 12:47 pm
Yep, only the left went in the “Slumdog” direction.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0209/Steele_offers_Jindal_slum_love.html