mcsey on WWdN: In Exile

WWdN: In Exile:

I'm a long time reader, and your pokerstars blog entries are off the hook. This year's WSOP is inspiring some great blogging all around. The 'no live coverage' rule has done wonders for what I as a small rolling wannabe wants to read. Color coverage. I don't need to know every hand. Just tell me the stories.

Great job. There's a book here for you to write.
--mcsey

I wrote that ish. I'm a Wheaton fanboy, what about it? Really though, go follow that link then read him on pokerstarsblog.com and check out Tubes Wheaton at his best.

For Peyton

For Peyton

Online charity auction for the infant of a cancer victim. Bid on some nice poker swag for a great cause. Plus you can buy, and then burn, a Duke hat signed by Coach K.

It's OK

YouTube - It's OK



Cheap but effective.

The Greatest Super Tecmo Bowl Play of All-Time

Pauly at Bonnaroo Part I

Pauly at Bonnaroo. Just plain hawesome.

Pauly at Bonnaroo Part II

Push

Clones' Debut Is a Test of Genetics, and Bettors' Wits - New York Times

John Kricfalusi's Blog

all kinds of stuff

John Kricfalusi's Blog

all kinds of stuff


It's good. Nuff said.

(Is this a duplicate?)

John Kricfalusi's Blog

all kinds of stuff


It's good. Nuff said.

(Is this a duplicate?)

Pokerstars Freeroll for Bloggers Only!

I have registered to play in the PokerStars World Blogger Championship of Online Poker!

This Online Poker Tournament is a No Limit Texas Holdem event exclusive to Bloggers.

Registration code: 7330476

Articles of Impeachment -- Nixon

Articles of Impeachment

making false or misleading statements to lawfully authorized investigative officers and employees of the United States;

withholding relevant and material evidence or information from lawfully authorized investigative officers and employees of the United States;

approving, condoning, acquiescing in, and counselling witnesses with respect to the giving of false or misleading statements to lawfully authorized investigative officers and employees of the United States and false or misleading testimony in duly instituted judicial and congressional proceedings;

interfering or endeavouring to interfere with the conduct of investigations by the Department of Justice of the United States, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the office of Watergate Special Prosecution Force, and Congressional Committees;

approving, condoning, and acquiescing in, the surreptitious payment of substantial sums of money for the purpose of obtaining the silence or influencing the testimony of witnesses, potential witnesses or individuals who participated in such unlawful entry and other illegal activities;

endeavouring to misuse the Central Intelligence Agency, an agency of the United States;

disseminating information received from officers of the Department of Justice of the United States to subjects of investigations conducted by lawfully authorized investigative officers and employees of the United States, for the purpose of aiding and assisting such subjects in their attempts to avoid criminal liability;

making or causing to be made false or misleading public statements for the purpose of deceiving the people of the United States into believing that a thorough and complete investigation had been conducted with respect to allegations of misconduct on the part of personnel of the executive branch of the United States and personnel of the Committee for the Re-election of the President, and that there was no involvement of such personnel in such misconduct: or

endeavouring to cause prospective defendants, and individuals duly tried and convicted, to expect favoured treatment and consideration in return for their silence or false testimony, or rewarding individuals for their silence or false testimony.

Pretty tame stuff compared to what Bush is doing.

When Instapundit and Atrios agree

Save the Internet

They are right. Support net neutrality. If you don't know what that is or why it's necessary to save the Internet. Click the link above. Then call your congresscritters.

Free Adult Swim

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Seem to be Windows only so it's pretty worthless to me, but idea if not the execution is good.

Misunderstanding the phrase "political whoring"

Think Progress ? %u2018As Many as a Half a Dozen%u2019 Members of Congress May Be Involved in Prostitution Scandal

Actually proud of my representatives for once

Bush Impeachment - The Illinois State Legislature is Preparing to Drop a Bombshell

Now he gets a set of stones?

The Democratic Daily Blog ? Blog Archive ? John Kerry’s Speech at Boston’s Faneuil Hall: “A Right and Responsibility to Speak Out”:

"The true defeatists today are not those who call for recognizing the facts on the ground in Iraq. The true defeatists are those who believe America is so weak that it must sacrifice its principles to the pursuit of illusory power.

The true pessimists today are not those who know that America can handle the truth about the Administration’s boastful claim of “Mission Accomplished” in Iraq. The true pessimists are those who cannot accept that America’s power and prestige depend on our credibility at home and around the world. The true pessimists are those who do not understand that fidelity to our principles is as critical to national security as our military power itself.

And the most dangerous defeatists, the most dispiriting pessimists, are those who invoke September 11th to argue that our traditional values are a luxury we can no longer afford."

Great if you would've figured that out two years ago, you'd be President.

Adrift American in the North Sea?

ABC News: Mystery at Sea: Man Found Drifting on Raft

Music thing

Music thing

Mostly early synth stuff, but go read. Lots of good music history.

'Unlikeliest hero' gets 21-gun salute - U.S. Life - MSNBC.com

'Unlikeliest hero' gets 21-gun salute - U.S. Life - MSNBC.com

While under enemy fire on the island of Okinawa, Doss carried 75 wounded soldiers to the edge of a 400-foot cliff and lowered them to safety, according to his citation.

During a later attack, he was seriously wounded in the legs by a grenade. According to the citation, as he was being carried to safety, he saw a more critically injured man and crawled off his stretcher, directing the medics to help the other wounded man.

The Sound of Young America: Unearthed Monty Python Footage From 1975

The Sound of Young America: Unearthed Monty Python Footage From 1975

Need I say more?

Be a bad chemistry experiment

BBC NEWS | World | Europe | Huge blast rocks French college

Outlived the Empire

United Press International - NewsTrack - Clive's tortoise dies at age 255

That tortoise outlived the British Empire. He was around basically before it began and died long after it ended.

tomatoes are evil

tomatoes are evil

I pretty much agree.

Point

The Blog | Cenk Uygur: Three Crazy Things Democratic Politicians Believe | The Huffington Post:

"The Republican base believes they are going to get sucked up into the air by the Jesus Hoover vacuum during the Rapture. That they are literally going to be sucked up into the sky! And the liberals are the crazy ones?"

MC Hammer Blog

MC Hammer Blog

It's uh... pretty good for a "celeblog"

Maybe not.

Jack Daws | Seattle -- Charging a lot for art;)

Brian G. points out that the fries and ketchup statue may not have anything to do with the Twin Towers.

And then they were knocked down by a Rose of Mohhamed Pastry

Boing Boing: Twin Towers model made from McDonalds fries and ketchup

Artist Jack Daws recreated the World Trade Center towers out of a bunch of McDonalds freedom fries glued together with ketchup.

Still v-stalking Drew with Gawker Stalker

Gawker Stalker: Breaking! Liev Schreiber Caught Canoodling with Old Man at Noho Star - Gawker:

"Saw Lucy Liu, Fab, and Drew Barrymore downstairs at Bond Street Saturday night. Fab crashed into me, then I crashed into the cheap dividers and he proceeded to apologize profusely. Lucy looked adorable—clear skin and great hair. Drew had on a wrap dress of sorts matched with a French twist sorta thing. Surprisingly conservative."

Since I posted this from an Apple machine perhaps it should be iStalking.

I wanna be in pictures!

Hollywood By The Numbers - February 28, 2006

Movietime

CNN.com - Dad 'drugged children's tennis rivals' - Mar 1, 2006

Support Strong Juries

American Jury Institute/Fully Informed Jury Association: Home


You did know that when serving on a jury you can find someone not guilty if you conscientiously object with the law that they are charged with breaking right?

Yes you can. It's called jury nullification, and it's roots go all the way back to the Magna Carta.

Nick Denton buys fark.com

/that is all

That's human

LUCYlibrary: J. Edgar Hoover's Fan Letter to Lucille Ball

J. Edgar Hoover writing a fanboy letter to Lucille Ball about "last Mondays" I Love Lucy. (I do love Lucy BTW. I think she's the most beautiful woman "Hollywood" has ever produced.)

Link via Boing Boing

Pauly is live blogging the LA Poker Classic

Tao of Poker: Pauly's Poker Blog

Everyone else in poker blogdom is mentioning it. So have a redundant link.

Funk for the funkless

Stanford tree mascot fired for alleged basketball game drunkenness:

"A rowdy Stanford University mascot was fired after being discovered drunk during a basketball game, university officials said.
Fifth-year senior Erin Lashnits, who dresses as a tree for the university's irreverent band, was stripped of her duties last week after her blood-alcohol level was measured at 0.157 during a men's basketball game at the University of California, Berkeley. For the purposes of driving a vehicle in California, legally drunk is .08.
Stanford went on to lose the Feb. 9 game 65-62.
The university had previously placed the band on 'alcohol suspension,' which requires a zero-tolerance policy toward drunkenness, said band spokesman Sam Urmy. Lashnits was fired to avoid disciplinary penalties from the athletic department, Urmy said.
'We don't want to risk our core mission of rocking out and bringing funk to the funkless,' Urmy said."

And later Disco Stu was seeing seen attempting to hang himself.

The Volokh Conspiracy

Illinois Student Newspaper Editors Suspended for Running the Danish Cartoons

That's not cool.

Good idea

The Paparazzi Have Taught Us So Much | A Socialite's Life:

"Madonna takes the cake for most clever. She often rides her bike in the exact same clothing, minimizing the number of photos the paparazzi can sell."

CIA officer looks at the USA vs. USSR

NO QUARTER: National Security: The Attack on the Constitution

Which country is he describing?

"The government was always right and never apologized;

Any dissent was suppressed, ridiculed, banned or worse;

Secret prisons were denied and never acknowledged or spoken about;

The torture of captives (in Lubyanka) was condoned;

State incarceration was not subject to the checks and balances of a legal system;

Economic plans, like for oil, were established/determined in closed sessions between politicos, commissars and production managers, far outside public view, and where government claimed privilege in so doing;

Wages were set at the lowest common denominator, no matter what Bloc country you were in;

Government agents had access to your medical records, your library records, your telephone, and your e-mail.

A place where judicial power and judicial review were proclaimed concepts, but simply ignored in application;

Where criminal records of young adults were closed to all but the military;

Where a Constitution was a mere facade and ignored by state actors.

Any dissent, debate and protest were deemed unpatriotic;

The public media was bought, paid for, and provided by the state;

The military clandestinely and shamelessly influenced the national media and public opinion;

A place where wrong was declared right;

Where tapping a phone was like tapping a pencil;

Where lying was considered a patriotic skill;

The extraction of natural resources was paramount to any concern for the environment and the impact on the health of its people;

Where the use of “state secrets,” (those things embarrassing to the government) were confused with legitimate issues of “national security”;

A place where 'secrecy' and 'national security' were used to control debate;

Where legitimate secrecy, was subject to political use and abuse;

Where 'legislators' were mere mouthpieces for and rubberstamps of whoever was in power;

Where you lived and died with the permission of the government;

A place where foreign policy was more important than domestic concerns;

Where fear was used as a political weapon and an acceptable means of control;

Where the best medical care was reserved for the influential;

Where wealth was concentrated in the top 5%;

A place where there was no middle class - just a small economic and political elite, and the working poor."

You scored as Moya (Farscape). You are surrounded by muppets. But that is okay because they are your friends and have shown many times that they can be trusted. Now if only you could stop being bothered about wormholes.Your Ultimate Sci-Fi Profile II: which sci-fi crew would you best fit in? (pics)
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Hunting illegally and badly

KRT Wire | 02/13/2006 | Cheney and shooting victim were hunting illegally, officials say:

"DALLAS - Vice President Dick Cheney was hunting illegally - without the required $7 stamp on his license for quail - when he accidentally shot one of his hunting partners, Texas Parks and Wildlife officials said Monday.

And so was Harry Whittington, 78, who was recovering Monday from a shotgun blast to the face, neck and chest."

Prince shredding your face off

Never been much of Prince fan, but props is due.

Breathtakingly Stupid

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Digital film: Industry answers:

"No, it is not correct to assume that one clever hack dooms all use of DRM. Content owners use DRMs because it provides casual, honest users with guidelines for using and consuming content based on the usage rights that were acquired. Without the use of DRMs, honest consumers would have no guidelines and might eventually come to totally disregard copyright and therefore become a pirate, resulting in great harm to content creators."
--Dan Glickman MPAA president

In one fell swoop Dan Glickman shows that all DRM is simply meant to annoy honest customers.

Informed Comment

Cheney Authorized Libby to Disclose Classified Documents

Ya the header is old (obvious) news now, but check out the way Juan Cole lays out the story visually. He connects the dots in a way that even a reporter (for example) could understand.

Sort of a Boing Boing for the ages

Proceedings of the Athanasius Kircher Society

Looks at "Wonderful Things" from the past.

esr on telco deregulation

Armed and Dangerous -- Blog Archive -- Un-ending the Internet

Deregulate and let the telcos have their tiered pricing — as long as we also deregulate enough radio spectrum that the telcos (evil monopolist scum that they are) will promptly be hammered flat by wireless mesh networks.

Right

Chatology: Digesting the Sunday Spew - Wonkette:

"The “cartoon controversy,” which always sounds like it should be about Bill O’Reilly but it’s not. --Ana Marie Cox"

He could be President

Pellicano Wiretap Indictment - February 6, 2006

Unclaimed Territory - by Glenn Greenwald

Unclaimed Territory - by Glenn Greenwald: "

Of course Gonzales begins his Opening Statement by quoting Osama bin Laden and Zawahri. We used to quote Madison, Jefferson and Lincoln to decide what the principles of our Government are going to be. Now we quote Al Qaeda. The Administration wants Al Qaeda and its speeches to dictate the type of Government we have. It is the centerpiece of everything they do and say."

Yep

Eschaton:

Iranistan
The other night during the SOTU when I was at CAP Action Fund with Sam Seder I was on for a bit with Amy Sullivan from the Washington Monthly. Seder asked us both to name the biggest threat to the Republic, aside from George Bush and Dickey Cheney. Sullivan responded, with all seriousness, Iran.

Look, I just don't get this stuff. I don't want Iran to have nukes. I don't think that's a good thing for the world. I certainly didn't want Pakistan or India to have nukes. But is a nuclear Iran really a threat to us? Certainly an Iran-with-nukes could blow the hell out of a city or two, but an Iran that did such a thing would pretty much cease to exist. It isn't mutually assured destruction, it's you fuck with us a little bit and YOU NO LONGER LIVE BITCHES!"

Hmm... funny

tekjansen.com - Chapter 1 - Once Again, Brave Warrior, Forth Into the Breach

President Creates Cabinet-Level Position To Coordinate Scandals | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

President Creates Cabinet-Level Position To Coordinate Scandals | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

Bribe Your Senator With An iPod! - Consumerist

Bribe Your Senator With An iPod! - Consumerist

How "Christ, What an Asshole!" is the Answer to the New Yorker Magazine Caption Contest

How "Christ, What an Asshole!" is the Answer to the New Yorker Magazine Caption Contest

Alito Breaks w/ Conservative Block... not really.

Alito parts with conservatives on execution

False alarm. Here's why:

Last month, the court said it would use the case of a Florida death-row inmate to decide whether last-minute challenges can be brought under the federal civil rights law to the drugs used in lethal injection.

The court appears to be holding cases that raise the same issue until it hears arguments and rules on the issue, which is expected by the end of June.

The three justices that voted to allow the execution need to get their heads out of there asses.

Chewbacca's blog

UUUHHHGGG-rrrrRRR!

New to the Blogroll

Editor: Myself | Hossein Derakhshan's weblog (English)

An Iranian in Israel.

Operation Truth

Four Things the President Needs to Tell America's Troops and Veterans Iraq Veterans Call for Answers in State of the Union Speech

According to the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America here are four things the President needs to tell the nation in his SOTU tonight.

1) This Nation’s Veterans are a Priority
2) The Current Problem of Military Overextension Will End in 2006
3) Here are the Benchmarks for Success in Iraq
4) Never Again Will our Troops be Sent to War Without Proper Equipment

My guess is that we here 0 of those in any meaningful way. He may pay lip service to 1 and 4, but he's done that before.

Things you never want to see at a poker table

Maybe they could invite the Bush administration as well

Instapundit.com:

INSTAPUNDIT WROTE:
"GETTING IT WRONG: It's an issue of The Economist from November, but the 'Lexington' column, which is often quite good, contains this howler: 'The rumor-mongers interpret Mr. Cheney's recent ubiquity as more proof that he is desperately trying to save his job.'

Er, except that, you know, the Vice President can't be fired. Cheney holds an independent office, and doesn't work for Bush. It's possible that he might be persuaded to step down in favor of someone (*cough* Condi *cough*) else, but there's no desperation involved. He could spend the next almost-three years hunting pheasants and fly-fishing and nobody could say boo. Any 'rumormongers' saying otherwise are probably fellow British journalists who don't understand that either . . . .

I don't want to be too hard on 'Lexington,' which is actually quite a good column in general. But I showed that passage to several colleagues (none of them people who would likely be upset if Cheney were fired) and all of them laughed. At least, said one, it wasn't an American journalist making that mistake, though that would be no great surprise if it happened. Perhaps someone should set up seminars for foreign journalists on how the Constitution works."

Daily Drew

Hollywood Rag - Celebrity Ragazine | Drew Barrymore at Curious George Premiere

Haven't done that in a while.

SOTU Bingo for tonight

The Democratic Party

The Great Glenn Greenwald

Unclaimed Territory - by Glenn Greenwald: Putting the terrorist threat into perspective:

"All of this seems obvious at this point. The total number of Americans killed by Islamic terrorists in the last 5 years -- or 10 years -- or 20 years -- or ever -- is roughly 3,500, the same number of deaths by suicide which occur in this country every month. This is the overarching threat around which we are constructing our entire foreign policy, changing the basic principles of our government, and fundamentally altering both our behavior in the world and the way in which we are perceived."

Read the whole post. It's brilliant which seems to have become Greenwald's norm.

Not bad

ChubbyChecker.com:

"Chubby Checker – the only artist to have 5 albums in the Top 12 all at once.

Chubby Checker First Platinum – 'Let's Twist Again'.

Chubby Checker – the only artist to have a song to be #1 twice – 'The Twist'.

Chubby Checker – the only artist to have 9 Double-Sided Hits."

Maybe this is why we are making so much noise about Iran

United Press International - Intl. Intelligence - Walker's World: Iran's really big weapon

Stand Up on Google Video

Official Google Video Blog: Highlight: Egami Media (Image Entertainment)

PS2 Games? Check them out from the library

The Video Game Librarian: It's The End of the Year As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) Special @ Gaming Target

We had the $240...

Aww yeah

How does he keep a straight face?

Aljazeera.Net - US pushes to keep Hamas out:

"A political party, in order to be viable, is one that professes peace."
--George W. Bush (he then ordered the US military to continue to blow shit up in Iraq)

A joke from The Big Pharaoh

The Big Pharaoh

An old Arab lived close to *New York* City for more than 40 years. One day he decided that he would love to plant potatoes and herbs in his garden, but he knew he was alone and too old and weak. His son was in college in Paris, so the old man sent him an e-mail explaining the problem:

"Beloved son, I am very sad, because I can't plant potatoes in my garden. I am sure, if only you were here, that you would help me and dig up the garden for me. I love you, your father."

The following day, the old man received a response e-mail from his son:

"Beloved father, please don't touch the garden. That is where I have hidden 'the *THING*.' I love you, too, Ahmed."

At 4pm the FBI and the Rangers visited the house of the old man and took the whole garden apart, searching every inch. But they couldn't find anything. Disappointed, they left the house.

The next day, the old man received another e-mail from his son:
"Beloved father, I hope the garden is dug up by now and you can plant your potatoes, that is all I could do for you from here; Your loving son Ahmed.

Drew on SNL

Responding to her bra-less appearance at the Golden Globes:

Insight

Impeachment hearings: The White House prepares for the worst

Why is another analysis of Bush's impeachment troubles important? This one is published in the GOP paper of records' Sunday magazine. That's right. The Washington Times is testing out the impeachment waters.

Should Bush be able to kill kittens with a hammer?

XQUZYPHYR & Overboard by August J. Pollak - Kitten-Off Redux - 1/9/2006

Yo Democrats

What kind of courage does it take, for mercy's sake? The majority of the American people (55 percent) think the war in Iraq is a mistake and that we should get out. The majority (65 percent) of the American people want single-payer health care and are willing to pay more taxes to get it. The majority (86 percent) of the American people favor raising the minimum wage. The majority of the American people (60 percent) favor repealing Bush's tax cuts, or at least those that go only to the rich. The majority (66 percent) wants to reduce the deficit not by cutting domestic spending, but by reducing Pentagon spending or raising taxes.

The majority (77 percent) thinks we should do "whatever it takes" to protect the environment. The majority (87 percent) thinks big oil companies are gouging consumers and would support a windfall profits tax. That is the center, you fools. WHO ARE YOU AFRAID OF?
--Molly Ivins

No Comment

NEWSWATCH 50 || WWTI Watertown - Barrymore & Boyfriend Caught in Bathroom

Meet Prince Mongo

newtimesbpb.com | News & Features | Bob Norman | The Alien Has Landed | 2006-01-19

He's 333 years old from the planet Zambodia. He says things like, "It's the resurrection of the world. The Earth doesn't have much time left. We're on the second run right now. That painting is the tunnel to life. It won't end until the world ends. Then I will take the people I'm going to save back to Zambodia."

He's also wealthy, lives in a $2 million home, and likes to feed the homeless.

Waterboarding

Ok this has been bugging me for a while. Waterboarding is torture. Lemme lay this one out for you...

Take a 2x4 attach it the face of a restrained prisoner. Take a large amount of water and pour down the board so it hits the face and mouth of a the tortured person. At first they drink, no problem, but the stomach only holds a couple litres of water, so they gasp. Of course there's still water flowing into their face and they pull it into their lungs. Within a minute or two the person feels like they are drowning and browns out. If you keep the water flowing down the board, they will die, but of course that doesn't help the torturer so when they guy passes out, you stop the water, revive and repeat.

We do this.

Now you wanna know how I know it's torture? The 17th century Dutch thought it was torture. You know how I really know it's torture? Mastheading and keel-hauling were considered "lesser tortures".

Mastheading -- take a forty foot length of rope and run it under the prisoners arms and tie it off behind his head. Haul the prisoner up to a spar 50 feet off the deck, tie off the other end of the rope, and push the prisoner off the spar so he free falls to a couple of feet from deck at which point the rope jerks his shoulders against his ears and dislocates both of his shoulders (or possibly breaks his spine if the shoulders hold for some reason).

Keel Hauling -- take a long piece of rope, run it under the width of the ship. Tie the prisoner to the port side of the rope. Get 6 or 8 seaman on the starboard side even with the prisoner. Push prisoner overboard and have seaman heave. The prisoner gets pulled underwater, dragged along the bottom of a hobnailed keel (little nails stick out all over and rip the prisoners flesh on the way by), and haul the prisoner up the other side. Repeat two more times.

See waterboarding was considered worse than those by the Dutch, but we do that. Hell even the 17th century Dutch knew this was torture. Dutch law would allow for torture, but not a confessions compelled by torture. They knew someone would say /anything/ to get that torture to stop so they would not accept a confession obtained in such a way. 500 years ago people knew that this was a useless way to extract information, and we still use it.

Brilliant.

But, but, but mcsey won't somebody think of the children 9/11 changed everything! Oh yeah...

"Is our Congress today in more danger than were their predecessors when the British army was marching on the Capitol? Is the world more dangerous than when we faced an ideological enemy with tens of thousands of missiles poised to be launched against us and annihilate our country at a moment's notice? Is America in more danger now than when we faced worldwide fascism on the march -- when our fathers fought and won two World Wars simultaneously? (ed: huh, you mean a two front war)

"It is simply an insult to those who came before us and sacrificed so much on our behalf to imply that we have more to be fearful of than they. Yet they faithfully protected our freedoms and now it is up to us to do the same."
--Al Gore

No its not. Get over your fear. It's killing your mind. Let us not aspire to live. Let us not aspire to be great and powerful. Let us aspire to be good -- the rest will follow.

Stop supporting torture and its progenitors. We are better than that.

Good Point

"Is our Congress today in more danger than were their predecessors when the British army was marching on the Capitol? Is the world more dangerous than when we faced an ideological enemy with tens of thousands of missiles poised to be launched against us and annihilate our country at a moment's notice? Is America in more danger now than when we faced worldwide fascism on the march -- when our fathers fought and won two World Wars simultaneously (ed: huh, you mean a two front war I think)?

"It is simply an insult to those who came before us and sacrificed so much on our behalf to imply that we have more to be fearful of than they. Yet they faithfully protected our freedoms and now it is up to us to do the same."
--Al Gore

You gotta kidding me?

Media Matters -
CNN reportedly hires radio host Glenn Beck

The librul mee-dee-uh folks at CNN hired a guy that said, "You know, it took me about a year to start hating the 9-11 victims' families?" and on Nick Berg's Dad, "I find this guy [Michael Berg] despicable. Everything in me says that. The want to be a better person today than I was yesterday says he's a dad, he's grieving, but I don't buy that. I'm sorry, I don't buy it. I think he is grieving, but I think he's a scumbag as well. I don't like this guy at all."

Ya... nice.

Funny

Guardian Unlimited | Ricky Gervais | Ricky Gervais podcast

Woman pleaded: I want hitman to kill me

Welcome to Kent Online

A 53-year-old woman was so depressed and desperate to end her life that she agreed to pay a friend to arrange for a hitman to kill her, a court heard.

Christine Ryder ended up handing over a total of £20,000 to Kevin Reeves after he agreed to murder her himself.

But Reeves, 40, of Saltings Road, Snodland, near Rochester, failed to keep his side of the bargain and she shopped him to the police.

Now he has been jailed for 15 months after being convicted of deception.

A judge told the married father: "While it is clear you had no intention of arranging for someone to kill Mrs Ryder and didn’t propose to yourself, you deceived her into believing it would happen."

Candle Factory Burns Down. Fire Blamed.

Fire leaves dedicated candle makers close to wick's end

/stolen from fark

Hmm

Sploid: Thugs kill political scandal reporter

Bears commentary

Donkeypuncher: Super Bowl Shuffle, v 2.0?

The Chronic-WHAT-cles of Narnia

Flip Jack Flip

Abramoff Reportedly Negotiating a Deal in Which He Would Plead Guilty, Testify:

"Former lobbyist Jack Abramoff, facing trial on fraud charges Jan. 9 in Florida, is negotiating a possible deal with the Justice Department, in which he would agree to plead guilty and cooperate in the wide-ranging political corruption investigation focused on his dealings with members of Congress and executive branch officials, people familiar with the talks said last night."

this.is.anfield: Bush Likes Bald

this.is.anfield: Bush Likes Bald

Weird.

And God shrieked NO!

NECA: The National Entertainment Collectibles Association

Gist: Yoko authorized a John Lennon action figure. All profits go to her wallet.

Save Cory Maye

Beltway Blogroll: A Tale Of Two Killers

Steve Guttenberg?

Metro

There are 100,000 actors in the Screen Actors Guild. Only 2,000 of them make more than $75,000 (£42,000) a year. That means 98,000 actors make less than $75,000 a year. From 1980 to 1990, I shot more films than any other actor in the Screen Actors Guild apart from Gene Hackman. Everyone keeps asking me that stupid question: "What are you doing?" I say: "Why do I need to do anything? I'm rich." Do you want me to be poor again? Do you want me to go back to making tomato soup out of ketchup and water? Or would you like me to be a multimillionaire and be rewarded for all the entertainment I gave you for all those years? I'm enjoying life now. If I was a plumber and I'd done the most plumbing jobs between 1980 and 1990, everyone would be saying: "What a great plumber" - he says "f**k you to the world and he's enjoying himself." But for some reason, as an actor, you're not allowed to say: "I'm f**king rich, bro."

It's enough to make you like the guy.

WWdN: In Exile: WWdN Poker Game Schedule Changes

WWdN: In Exile: WWdN Poker Game Schedule Changes:

"The WWdN Friday game at PokerStars is moving to Tuesday, beginning December 20th. The game will play each week, except in the event of major holidays, starting at 7:00 PM EST. The buy-in will remain at $10+1."

Re "The War on Christmas"

Poynter Online - Forums

It’s no surprise, of course, that this phony call to arms, this “Christmas (ergo, Christians) Under Attack” hysteria, emanates from the bowels of Fox News Channel. The network is, after all, ground zero in the culture wars that polarize so much of America these days. Make no mistake about it: Fox is on a mission. Its slogans say, “Fair and Balanced” and “We Report, You Decide.” But in the six years that I worked there, what I heard most from Fox management were mission statements – about turning things around, taking news back from the liberals, and giving “middle America” a voice long denied it by the “east coast media elite.”

Poker addiction blamed for heist

Poker addiction blamed for heist : The Morning Call Online

Lehigh class president Greg Hogan robbed a bank. He blamed an addiction to onlne poker. Dude, you're must be a crappy poker player.

Chad Johnson sighting

Positively Verisimilitude-esque: CJ Sighting ... sorta

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Doctor Who takes anti-war stance

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Doctor Who takes anti-war stance

Whaaa!!??

ABC News: Pa. Lawmaker Guilty of Conflict of Interest

You skip the news one day and another GOP state legislator goes down on corruption charges, but check what's next for Mr. Habay (R-Allegheny, PA).

Habay faces a second trial next year on 21 counts that allege he concocted a story about receiving a suspicious white powder in the mail and directed his staff to investigate his adversaries on state time.

/snicker

Wish list.

Amazon.com: Philips DVP642 DivX-Certified Progressive-Scan DVD Player: Electronics

I'll buy that.

Seed: The Other I.D.

An engineer and scientists look at I.D. -- no not that moronic Intelligent Design theory -- Incompetent Design. Basically his argument is that if you look at "the design" of the human body, if someone or thing created it, he/she/it is incompetent.

The thing that perhaps is closest to all of us is our own skeleton, and there are certainly all kinds of stupidity in our design. No self-respecting engineering student would make the kinds of dumb mistakes that are built into us.

All of our pelvises slope forward for convenient knuckle-dragging, like all the other great apes. And the only reason you stand erect is because of this incredible sharp bend at the base of your spine, which is either evolution's way of modifying something or else it's just a design that would flunk a first-year engineering student.

Look at the teeth in your mouth. Basically, most of us have too many teeth for the size of our mouth. Well, is this evolution flattening a mammalian muzzle and jamming it into a face or is it a design that couldn't count accurately above 20?...

I mean, evolutionarily all of these things make sense but in terms of a reasonable, intelligent design? They're idiocy. So, the argument is there is no intelligence there in a lot of these things.

Snicker

BREITBART.COM - Some Megachurches Closing for Christmas

At least the war is good for someone

America, United States, Times Online, The Times, Sunday Times:

"The unprecedented number of troops who are returning from Iraq with missing limbs has given the US Paralympic Team an unexpected recruitment boost and the chance to become "unbeatable" at the next Games in Beijing in 2008. More than 60 potential recruits have already been identified in sports as varied as powerlifting, archery and table tennis.
John Register, a veteran of the Gulf War in 1990, who manages the US Paralympic Academy, said: "This has been a shot in the arm of the Paralympic movement and an immediate boost. The Paralympics is a huge motivating factor for injured service members. It exponentially increases the individual's idea of what is possible."

Lemonade I guess.