Hillary and Barack debate in Texas, Bush calls Pakistan, and rioters set the US embassy in Serbia ablaze. Marta Costello hosts the Gnooze (the g is silent) - today’s top stories in about 3 minutes.
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Hi Marta - I posted this a few days ago, but thought it was SOOO good, that I had to post it again…
Like a little kid needing positive re-enforcement.
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Then again, I’m not the one with a daily webshow soliciting votes. SO, you probably feel my pain.
And without further ado, the poem that created all the fuss…a tribute to the Emelda Marco in us all… I give you ” Ode d ot Marta’s boots!”
Oh Marta Costello can’t lose!
She went hunting a shot at some gnus
With their hide, and her passion,
New boots she did fashion,
And ran off in her pair of gnu shoes!
(…this “G” is NEVER silent…)
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OK - bogus web genie - the stuff within the said “Hey Mom, look at me! Hey Mom look at ME!”
And really, what kind of jerk doesn’t take the time to proofread and correct the typos in his posts… Man! Sort of chaps the backstraps, doesn’t it…
OK DOUBLE BOGUS. It should have read (and did when I submitted it) “The stuff in the “<>” said “Hey mom…” but the Fricken (Less than sign/greater than sign) didn’t print.
I can see why you would get torques about losing all of your replies. Good thing Grape juice can fortify the soul!
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Sorry to hear about the foul language being directed at you. I’m sure all the greatest political commentators get it.
I’m surprised you don’t get more Russian hatred the way you perform Putin. I guess even they think that’s funny.
Keep up the hilarious work.
I love Marta and the Gnooze!
BUT as a Nation if a serb or anyone around the world has the fortitude to attack our embassy, We should do nothing less than drop a thousand troops to forcefully find all who had anything to do with it and detain all of them including their relatives into prison and the next time they riot we shoot the prisoners on national television - theres of course - not ours cuase we arent evil mongrols who invade other countrys for oil but that doesnt matter if somone attacks a embassy they attack america itself!!!
You wouldnt want me as president thats for SURE
We should not take this attack lightly and should do everything we can to have a real response or else all of our embassy will burn!!!
Rant off/////
Sorry I love my country and hate seeing it attacked anywhere for any reason!!
Not much of as know way we were attack in Belgrade. We faith terrorists when we want in case of Kosovo our administration supported Muslim ethnic Albanian terrorists because interest off as is to not be stability in Balkans so that we can keep our troops there forever. Serbs are losing mother’s heartland, and Europa is getting one extra radical Islamic country in the middle of it. In bombing 1999 we kill more then 2000 cavils in Serbia so losing some offices in embassy compare to that is not big deal.
Hey Mike, thank God you are not president , because then the world would be in a big mess. You should know that the Serbs have good reasons to be mad t tha american adminstration, so first of all ask yourself if Bush knew that this will happen in Belgrad and if he cared ( I will give you a quick hint: yeeeesssss, he did know;) ). So if you want to drop bombs, please do us all a favor and don’t enlist. Thanks, and by te way, I am not Serbian.
Bring it on serbs,mess with marta,mess with the whole trailor park.
Your interpretation of the debate here in Texas was just about dead on perfect…
In fact I think all three registered Democrats were in attendance.
Hi Marta. Your show is very good i relay watch it everyday. Good job girl.
As an Serb it relay hurt my filings when somebody cooling you like that and representing him self as Serbian. You absolutely did not deserve it. In the name of these stupid Serbians I am really apologizing to you. But also advising you do not take those people seriously because this bad comments can easily come from some Kosovo’s Albanians Muslim terrorist who sign as Serbs in order to make Serbians bad locking. This is just a little part of ANTY SERBIAN PROPAGANDA witch is made by all pro western media like CNN, BBC … Please do not be part of it and do not take a sides because that making your show unique.The Serbians have big reasons to be mad on American administration but thats not reason that they can use to burn an embassy. I adjudge that act and all real Serbians too. And believe me Serbians are much bigger friends of America then some else that you will think of and more then 1 million live in US most of them in Chicago.
Have a good luck with your show. I absolutely love it! And please i would like to see more Bush and Putin acting in it. And Aloooha from Hawaii!
Hi Marta,
I just discovered your show a couple of days ago and I have to say that you are definitely my new favorite internet personality. Way to go with your show! You are so funny!
Thanks for the laughs and I’ll be watching regularly from now on.
Dont worry about stupid coments those people are losers ,
pond scum always sits on the top before it sinks into the mud .
just keep on having fun with what your doing and bravo for getting attention
If the Balkans had an anthem, it would be that 1950’s doo-wop hit, “Fools rush in, where angels fear to tread.” The latest Balkan fools are the United States and the European Union, which have rushed in to recognize what Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica rightly calls the “fake state of Kosovo.” Why is it a fake state? Because there are no Kosovars, only Serbs and Albanians. Each group seeks to unite Kosovo with its homeland, historic Serbia or Greater Albania. An independent Kosovo has the half-life of a sub-atomic particle.
The action of the U.S. and the E.U. in stripping Serbia of Serbs’ historic homeland is both a crime and a blunder. It is a crime, first, because no one, not even the U.N., has a legal right to dismember a sovereign state, and second, because the narrative used to justify the illegal action is a lie. The stated justification is that the Serbs, under Slobodan Milosevic, were ethnically cleansing Kosovo of Albanians. As German courts have established, there was no ethnic cleansing of Albanians in Kosovo until NATO started bombing Serbia. After NATO launched its unprovoked attack on Serbia (Mrs. Albright’s splendid little war), the Serbs dumped the Albanians on NATO’s doorstep as a vast logistics spunge. That wasn’t terribly nice, but when you are a very small country fighting all of NATO, you do what you can. Ironically, after Serbia was forced to capitulate when Russia withdrew her support, NATO blithely presided over the ethnic cleansing of two-thirds of Kosovo’s Serbs by the Albanians.
In international affairs, blunders are worse than crimes, and two of the blunders contained in the recognition of Kosovo are likely to have consequences. The first is the creation of an irredenta, which guarantees another Balkan war. Serbia will never accept the wholesale alienation of one of her provinces. Like France after 1871, her whole policy will focus on recovering her lost territory as soon as the moment is ripe.
The second blunder is further alienating Russia, this time in a way she cannot ignore. If the U.S. and the E.U. are blind to the ghost of 1914, Russia and Serbia are not. The fact that Russia went to war to protect Serbia then puts pressure on Moscow to do so again, lest the Putin government look weak domestically as well as abroad.
Washington and Brussels scoff at the thought, but Russia and Serbia certainly have military options. A guerrilla war against European and American troops and police in Serb-inhabited portions of Kosovo is likely to occur spontaneously, at least at a low level. IEDs and sniper ambushes are easy enough to arrange. Belgrade can ramp it up by smuggling in shaped-charge anti-armor mines, dual-warhead RPGs and sniper rifles, along with Serbian special forces to make sure they are used effectively. If Europe responds with economic measures against Serbia, Russia now has enough petro-dollars to support Belgrade economically. If NATO threatens a new bombing campaign, Russia can up the ante too by sending Russian air defense troops and equipment to Serbia. The last time NATO bombed Serbia, Russia was too weak to respond. That is not true now, nor is President Putin for sale the way Mr. Yeltsin was.
The last thing the world needs now is a new Balkan war, with NATO and Russia caught in a contest of mutual escalation. Is there a way to walk this dog back? I think there is, if Washington and Brussels regain some sense of reality. They can do what Bismarck did in 1878 and call a conference. There, a solution could be negotiated that all parties might live with, even if none really liked it. One such solution would be to partition Kosovo between Serbia and Albania, with Serbia compensated for her loss of some of Kosovo by being allowed to annex the Serbian portion of Bosnia. The fact that both Kosovo and Bosnia are fake states would make such a deal all the easier. As the E.U. has already discovered, maintaining fake states is an expensive and never-ending business.
Fools rush in, but sometimes even fools are wise enough to back out again. Berlin, are you listening? The Congress of Berlin of 2008 may be as successful as the Congress of Berlin of 1878 in averting war in Europe.