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Being "offended" is our national pastime. 

Rolling Stones' 'Satisfaction' Turns 45

Slartibartfast wrote: Epignosis wrote: Being "offended" is our national pastime.  I really really resent that.

I've been trying not to make that joke for the last 8 hours.

Don't  keep going

What old guy?

  Yeah Carla!! 


From CNN's Jeff Simon

Washington (CNN) - A new book reveals an unusually personal–and apparently awkward–moment during the first encounter between First Lady Michelle Obama and France's First Lady, Carla Bruni.

The book's author, Newsweek editor Jonathan Alter, writes that Bruni, "delighted in telling friends that she shocked Michelle Obama at their first meeting."

Alter describes the meeting between the first ladies in which Bruni boasted that she and French President Nicolas Sarkozy, "once kept another foreign leader waiting while they finished having sex."

"Bruni wanted to know if, like the Sarkozys, Michelle and the president had ever kept anyone waiting that way," Alter writes. "Michelle laughed nervously and said no."

^That question would've been so much better (and incredible) if it had been asked to the previous occupants of the white house...  

birdwithteeth11 wrote: Cigarette butts now serve a purpose!

I thought it was originally going to be about stopping up that goddam oil leak in the Gulf Of Mexico.

Speaking of the oil leak in the Gulf, not of the day but of the days to come:
May 12th, 2010 3:50 PM

Gulf oil spill turning ‘unbelievably bad'

disaster: Crude leak could persist through summer

By Renee Schoof / McClatchy Newspapers

WASHINGTON – With a quick solution ominously uncertain, the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is on track to become an unprecedented economic and environmental disaster with millions of gallons of oil destroying an ecosystem as well as a way of life.

BP America said Monday that it would take another 75 days to finish one of two relief wells it’s drilling to shut down the flow.

By then, if the spill doesn’t worsen and the relief well stops the leak, some 20 million gallons of oil will be swirling in the Gulf, nearly double the Exxon Valdez spill in 1989.

Unlike the Alaska spill, which coated a rock-strewn bay, BP’s oil will cling to a spongelike coast, entering the pores of mangrove forests and sea-grass beds and the breeding grounds for crabs, shrimp and oysters.

Already some of the richest fishing grounds of the Gulf are off-limits, idling thousands of commercial fishermen.

Some restaurants in New Orleans and elsewhere are either out of homegrown oysters or are down to less than a week’s supply.

In Mississippi, charter boats and hotels are reporting declines in business.

“It’s going to be unbelievably bad,” said Jeremy Jackson, a professor of oceanography at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, Calif. “This is a problem that won’t go away for a decade.”

Garion81 wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmOX_xcXnCg

Well, I guess no remorse is better than fake remorse.  Piece of sh*t.  I'd rather see him walked behind the courthouse and taken apart by lions, but that's just me.  Brian, what can I say man?  Happy this trial is over for all of you.