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Monday, August 17. 2009

Is That Giuseppe d'Idraulico Floating Face Down In The Canal?


Well, it appears they closed down the manifestly un-American and unconstitutional flag@whitehouse.org. Don't worry, though, you can still get your Stasi jollies telling the executive branch hall monitors at whitehouse.gov/realitycheck that someone you don't like is chewing gum in class and is hiding a pack of smokes in their gym locker.

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Is that the Bridge of Sighs in Venice, the path to the infamous dungeon where enemies languished until they died?
#1 Geoff on 2009-08-17 14:06 (Reply)
I think it's Capitol Hill, showing the negative effects of global warming because we haven't passed the Cap and Trade Bill yet.
#1.1 Jim on 2009-08-17 17:21 (Reply)
It's been a couple years since I've been to Venice, but yes--I'm
pretty sure that is the Bridge of Sighs... taken looking toward the Grand Canal.
#2 Richard (Link) on 2009-08-17 21:16 (Reply)
Actually, I'm wrong--the pic is taken facing AWAY from the Grand Canal.
#3 Richard (Link) on 2009-08-17 21:18 (Reply)
At least the photo wasn't taken face down IN the Grand Canal.
Ze professeur, he waz mizzink. No one could find ze professeur. Everyone szez, "Ze professeur! Vere can he be?" And also zey are zayink, "Ze professeur! So prilliant he vuz! Always ze professeur, he wuz zinking of somezing!" Und a ztudent zez, "Ja, zo prilliant ze professeur! Ze lazt time I zaw ze professeur, ve vere in Venice and he fallz into ze Grand Canal. And ze professeur, he callz zo loud, 'I'm zinking! I'm zinking! But I never learn vat ze professeur wuz zinking about. Und never I zee ze professeur again."
#4 Geoff Brown on 2009-08-17 21:29 (Reply)
"Und never I zee ze professeur again."

Allo? Zat es becawze he vas zinking vit veights on.
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#4.1 Meta on 2009-08-17 21:50 (Reply)
Our Divine Messiah has decided to close the email address, flag@whitehouse.gov, where loyal minions were instructed to turn in kulaks, wreckers, and class enemies who opposed the awesome Obamacare health plan. Apparently, some wrecker elements [probably recalcitrant SRs and Trotskyites] had raised the ridiculous idea that it would be used to compile a list of class enemies.

instead, all loyal minions, flunkies, henchmen, and myrmidons are to report enemy action at--
http://www.whitehouse.gov/realitycheck/

some traitors, of course, could report their liberal friends and acquaintances as enemies of the Divine Obama. it is possible they might even try to clog the system by turning in bogus names...like Dr Jacques Miehov, T. Thrust Pudpuller, or the like.
#5 John Cunningham on 2009-08-18 10:49 (Reply)

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