Just when I thought I was starting to figure it out.
 

You won't get fired. You can be my admin assistant.

Just when I thought I was starting to figure it out.
 

I'm rich? Not much, Sugar Bear.

Just when I thought I was starting to figure it out.
 

Wasn't directed at you.

Just when I thought I was starting to figure it out.
 

Yes, you scare me.
I thought you were Slave?

Just when I thought I was starting to figure it out.
 

Then your daddy won't be firing anyone.

Just when I thought I was starting to figure it out.
 

I think Megaloman goes on the list about where Penske would be.

Love me, love me, love me -- I'm a liberal.
 

Nope, you're not hallucinating. There's even a name for them, I think, "coffee crullers"? Or something like that.

Strawberry goop is gross. I'm sure the barrista was just bothered by the break-up of Denise Richards and Charlie Sheen.

Just when I thought I was starting to figure it out.
 

Since Penske is in about 42 places, that doesn't offer much precision.

If the thunder don't get ya then the lightning will
 

Hold the champagne. I suppose it's a credit to our intelligence services that they got the information that she worked for a communist paper down to the roadside checkpoint level.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
March 4, 2005
U.S. Forces Fired on Car Carrying Freed Italian Hostage in Iraq
By REUTERS

Filed at 4:03 p.m. ET

BAGHDAD, March 4 (Reuters) - Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena was freed by her captors on Friday but U.S. forces in Iraq mistakenly opened fire on the convoy taking her to safety, wounding her and killing an Italian secret service agent.

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said he had immediately summoned the U.S. ambassador, declaring someone had to take responsibility for American soldiers opening fire.

Berlusconi, one of U.S. President George W. Bush's staunchest supporters in Iraq, told a news conference the agent had been shot dead by U.S. forces at a checkpoint and that Sgrena had been wounded in the shoulder.

In Washington, the Pentagon said "multinational forces" had opened fire on a speeding vehicle in Baghdad, causing the death and wounding Sgrena.

"This news which should have been a moment of celebration, has been ruined by this firefight," said Gabriele Polo, editor of Sgrena's Il Manifesto paper, a Rome-based Communist daily.

If the thunder don't get ya then the lightning will
 

Somewhere in the naked city, Eason Jordan is doubtlessly drinking himself into a stupor.

If the thunder don't get ya then the lightning will
 

hehe.

Additional relevant description from CNN:

• According to a multinational forces statement, the car approached the checkpoint at high speed about 9 p.m. (1 p.m. ET)
  
  U.S. troops "attempted to warn the driver to stop by hand and arm signals, flashing white lights, and firing warning shots in front of the car," the statement said. "When the driver didn't stop, the soldiers shot into the engine block, which stopped the vehicle, killing one and wounding two others."

Of course, had they known they were italian, it would have appeared to be normal driving, and unworthy of concern.

If the thunder don't get ya then the lightning will
 

You think it was intentional? That's some ballsy charge right there Gatti.

Martha got out okay today. No reported shooting.

If the thunder don't get ya then the lightning will
 

No. It's humor.

Even if it's not the official life preserver, you think the drowning man wouldn't reach for that piece of flotsam?

If the thunder don't get ya then the lightning will
 

I wonder how involved the Italian forces were in the preparation of that statement. And why was the secret service guy in the engine block? That turns out to have been a dumb place to hide.

If the thunder don't get ya then the lightning will
 

They use pretty heavy ammunition at those roadblocks; people get killed and injured just by the shrapnel and other shit that comes out of an engine after you blast twenty rounds of .50 caliber or whatever into it.