Daily Blend: Tuesday, June 15, 2010

BP CEO Tony Hayward

And the countdown until my Internet connection router finds itself a new home in a thousand different dumpsters continues.

• Tired of all those people watching the soccer World Cup? Move to Somalia, where Islamist militants roam around flogging, cleaving and murdering sports nuts who watch the games on TV. Because it now seems you do have to be nuts to watch sports in Somalia.
  (via Pharyngula)

• Time to declare Oklahoma a lost cause? State Senator Rex Duncan (R) wants to pass legislation that would act as a “preemptive strike” against a possible imposition of Sharia law. Because that’s a huge threat, obviously. What does he think this is, England?
  (via Dispatches From the Culture Wars)

• Was as much as a third of Mars once covered by a massive ocean of water?
  (via The Daily Grail)

• New Mexico GOP nominee Tim Mullins: Place landmines along the US-Mexico border. Seriously.
  (via @todayspolitics)

• Obama doesn’t wanna meet with BP CEO Tony Hayward [pictured]? It’s because “he’s a White CEO”. Oh, so Obama did meet with Hayward? It’s just a sham. Damned if he does, damned if he doesn’t, right, Beck?
  (via @mmfa)

• 38 years later, New British Prime Minister David Cameron apologizes for the event now known as “Bloody Sunday”, where 14 peaceful civil rights marchers were slaughtered by British paratroopers in Northern Ireland on January 30, 1972. (Yes, that Bloody Sunday.)

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