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Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Saturday, June 21, 2008
War Crimes
Maj. Gen. Taguba: "...the Commander-in-Chief and those under him authorized a systematic regime of torture."
McClatchy's investigation into the US Detention System can be found here.
Rant: You Ruined Mike Myers, Love Guru Is Your Fault
"Hey! Come in here! Yes, you and your sister. Pause Entourage and come in here for a minute. We need to talk. No, it can’t wait. We have Tivo for a reason. Just hit the pause button and sit down. Your mother and I are concerned about your behavior lately. Yes, we did find the condoms in your old cell phone drawer and your thug life brother’s little cache of marijuana behind his old skateboards. You don’t need to explain. Whoring yourself out to the popular older boys is an integral part of being a sophomore in high school and experimenting with marginally harmful, mood-altering plants is how one finds himself before college. That’s not the problem. "
Click the link for the full article
Friday, June 20, 2008
Democrats Cave
The Steyn Hoyer FISA bill just passed the house 293-129. The bill now goes to the Senate, where it will be passed sometime next week, in all likelihood.
This is what we get for bringing the Democrats back into power in '06?
Update: Obama supports the House FISA bil, will vote for it even if the immunity provision remains.
Update II: The ACLU lists the salient points of the bill that your leaders have given you.
Thursday, June 19, 2008
Stop FISA Compromise
House Democrats are in the process of forming a "compromise" FISA bill which would, in essence, give the proponents of Telecom Immunity exactly what they want. Read more about it here. A massive effort is underway to prevent this from happening; a grassroots movement, made up of progressive bloggers and their readers, the ACLU, and members of the Ron Paul Revolution, have joined forces and raised over $200,000 in two days.
If you have a few extra dollars to spare, click here. The funds will be used to run ads in the districts of the Democratic proponents of this bill: Rep. Hoyer (D-Md), Rep. Carney (D-Pa.), and Rep. Barrow (D-Ga).
Otherwise, do your part and give Sen. Obama a call and ask that he use his position as de-facto party head to quash this abomination. Ask that he voice his opposition to this and any other bill which provides immunity to the telecoms.
(866) 675-2008 ext. 6
Gene Simmons you retarded bitch.
Gene Simmons is bitching about how Radiohead is hurting the music industry. What a D-bag. Just die already.
Most Complex Crop Circle Ever?
Supposedly, The circle is a coded representation of pi to the 10th significant figure
The formation, measuring 150ft in diameter, is apparently a coded image representing the first 10 digits, 3.141592654, of pi.
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Shama-lama-ding-dong's new movie The Happening sucks
Christopher Orr of The New Republic decides that rather than giving a typical review of this cinematic abortion, he will highlight 18 of the most retarded moments for you.
Spoilers inside.
FOLLOW ME AROUND DOCUMENTARY ONLINE
"Back in 2002, Samuel Dietz and Nazaré Costa made a documentary about the Radiohead tour through Portugal and Spain... The band played new material, which would later end up on their 2003 album ‘Hail To The Thief’. The fan made film was approved by Radiohead and is now out on YouTube in seven parts."
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Renewable Oil
Scientists have genetically modified yeast and E. Coli to produce single-celled organisms which consume organic products and excrete crude oil.
Friday, June 13, 2008
What if all the hype came true?
See more funny videos at CollegeHumor
Put down your Dreamcast and crack open a crystal pepsi for this one!
Thursday, June 12, 2008
Feds charge S.C. trooper in taped car ramming
white cop + black suspect + South Carolina = stereotype
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Monday, June 9, 2008
Just plain fuckin awesome
Sunday, June 8, 2008
Wave of the future
Thought I would throw a little medical tech at ya'll. This is the guy who founded my department in the 1940s. Quite a quack, but his research with deep brain stimulators opened the door for some amazing things we're doing now.
Johns Hopkins has some cool videos showing the differences with the stimulators off and on. Also an animated video showing the procedure.
Saturday, June 7, 2008
D-Day + 1
To the Joint Expeditionary Forces of the Cocks:
According to my calculation, based solely on the counter present to your right, we are now less than 90 days from kickoff. We are about to embark on an undertaking that has never before been attempted by mankind. Some of our brothers and sisters may not return, but we shall fight on.
Now is the time to begin dusting off those old "All dirt roads lead to Clemson" and "I Plant Taters Avery Yare" bumperstickers - and my personal new favorite, "Fuck LSU." Training for hours on end of heavy drinking and yelling at television announcers begins now.
We will not submit. We will not quit until our mission is complete.
That is all.
Steve Spurrier
Supreme Commander, Allied Forces against the rest of the fucking assholes in the SEC
Friday, June 6, 2008
Thursday, June 5, 2008
"Now it's on to Chicago and let's win there."
Forty years ago today, shortly after midnight and after claiming victory in the California Democratic Primary, Robert Kennedy was shot by Sirhan Sirhan. He died the next day and on June 8th was eulogized by his brother Edward before being transported by a slow-moving train to Arlington where he was buried not far from his older brother John.
Despite the difficulty of such a task, Newsweek's Evan Thomas attempts to envision what a Robert Kennedy presidency might have looked like.
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Telecom Immunity Update
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Silvestre (really, dude? -ed.) Reyes has claimed that he is willing to compromise with Republicans on telecom immunity, namely by allowing the secret FISA court to determine whether immunity ought to be granted. This is a similar proposal to the one offered by Diane Feinstein (D-CA) months ago, a proposal which, had it been accepted, would likely have made disclosure of the specifics of the surveillance program impossible.
As Digby notes, the 40 or so lawsuits against the the telecoms aren't that serious of a threat to the companies in terms of potential awards:
"There just isn't enough money at stake to explain this. Nobody's suing for the money, they are suing for the discovery. Something bad happened here and the Democrats are helping the Republicans cover it up."
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
Unreleased Jimmy Page Guitar Riff To Be Retrieved From Secret Vault To Save Rock And Roll
Thank god - I was getting nervous.
Something we can all relate too
This is one of the older ones, but I ran across it today and felt the need to share it.
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Monday, June 2, 2008
A-Team Remake (2009)
Three Names:
1. Bruce Willis
2. Woody Harrelson
3. Ice Cube
I don't know what to think.
This is all rumor right now.
Dickipedia: Antonin Scalia
Antonin Gregory Scalia (born March 11, 1936[1]) is an American jurist, Supreme Court Justice, and a dick.
He is the number two most senior Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, and the number one dickiest, a not [insignificant] accomplishment considering the presence of Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and John Roberts.
Sunday, June 1, 2008
US accused of holding terror suspects on prison ships
I wonder if a ship of the USN counts as US territory?
What Happened to Ricky
In the '50s, disabled children often disappeared into state institutions. Now, one family seeks its lost son.
DUUURRRRHHHH!
A recent survey indicates that stimulus checks are being used to pay bills and buy gas, not purchase retail goods as hoped for by those honor-students we have in the legislature.
Saturday, May 31, 2008
McClatchy correspondants respond to McClellan's book...
While most of the media failed miserably in the run-up to war (as Scott McClellan has pointed out, among many, many others), McClatchy (then, as Knight-Ridder) engaged in rigorous coverage that should be an example to all news organizations.
At their Nukes & Spooks blog, two McClatchy correspondents bypass McClellan's book and give an account of how the Iraq war was conceived of and sold, providing links to their own coverage of events at the time.
Friday, May 30, 2008
Uncontacted Tribe Discovered in Brazil
The government of Brazil has located an isolated group of natives located somewhere near the border with Peru. A flyby has netted some interesting photographs.
Thursday, May 29, 2008
It's business time
The kids over at Crooks and Liars posted this last night, and one good turn deserves another.
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
The Stupidity of Dignity
Stephen Pinker reviews the report by the President's Council on Bioethics entitled Human Dignity and Bioethics. It is a bit long, but very thoughtful, and among the better reads by Pinker that I have encountered.
via Metafilter.
House Judiciary Committee willing to arrest Rove to force compliance...
Debbie Wasserman of the House Judiciary Committee has stated that Rove will not be permitted to invoke executive privilege in an effort to avoid testifying about the fired US attorneys. If Rove doesn't comply with the Congressional subpoena, Wasserman claimed that the committee would be willing to have him arrested.
Tell me...
Is the heart situated in the center of the torso (horizontally) or to the left? These kids last night (including that guy Tommy who went camping with us) wanted to say that it was situated on the left side. If this is an accurate diagram, it seems that the heart is situated centrally. Clearly, the thing is not symmetrical, so that muddies things, but if you had to say where the heart was located, what would you say?
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Monday, May 26, 2008
Big Fuckin' Suprise: The Japanese made it work.
This shouldn't really shock anyone, but it's good to know that it may be a possibility in our lifetimes thanks to those bad asses across the sea.
Yahtzee reviews GTA: IV
The Escapist's resident game reviewer Yatzee gives the new installment of GTA a fairly thorough (well, as thorough as you're gonna get in 4.5 minutes) going-over.
Friday, May 23, 2008
The FilmDrunk review of Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull
Probably exactly what you expected, unless you are some sort of retarded Pollyanna.
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Sunday, May 18, 2008
Friday, May 16, 2008
Rare DVD's of TV Shows/Movies/Etc.
This guy has lots of rare/hard to find DVD's. Thought you guys might want to have a look.
Thursday, May 15, 2008
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Monday, May 12, 2008
Saturday, May 10, 2008
RADIOHEAD
Atlanta, GA
Setlist
01 All I Need
02 There There
03 Lucky
04 15 Step
05 Where I End And You Begin
06 Nude
07 Pyramid Song
08 Optimistic
09 Weird Fishes/Arpeggi
10 The National Anthem
11 Idioteque
12 You and whose army
13 Reckoner
14 Everything in its right place
15 Bangers and Mash
16 Bodysnatchers
17 Videotape
encore 1
18 The Gloaming
19 Talk Show Host
20 Just
21 Faust Arp (Thom & Jonny on electric)
22 How To Disappear Completely
encore 2
23 Paranoid Android
24 House of Cards
Charlotte, NC
Setlist
01. All I Need
02. There There
03. Airbag
04. 15 Step
05. Nude
06. Sail to the Moon
07. Weird Fishes/ Arpeggi
08. Myxomatosis
09. Idioteque
10. Morning Bell
11. Videotape
12. Optimistic
13. Where I End and You Begin
14. You and Whose Army?
15. Everything In Its Right Place
16. Bangers and Mash (Thom: “I’m Spiderman, Jonny is Cat Woman”, Jonny ’scratches’ at him, Thom: “Tell me later.”)
17. Bodysnatchers
encore 1
18. Go Slowly
19. Talk Show Host
20. Exit Music (For A Film)
21. Planet Telex
22. House of Cards
encore 2
23. Paranoid Android (Thom before: “Everyone stay still so Colin can take a pic of the crowd.”)
24. Reckoner
Friday, May 9, 2008
Thursday, May 8, 2008
Uncle Sam just deposited 600 Dollars in my checking account
....of borrowed money from china. It almost makes me want to give it back. But nah, I think I'll keep it. As we continue to drive the value of our dollars into the tank, at least let me put some of this 1.7 trillion dollars of chinese investement to some practical use. I think I'm going to save up and buy an AT-AT imperial walker and settle this world domination issue once and for all. I bet I could do it for a lot cheaper than old Der-bya can. Throw me a bone every once in a while. Thanks a lot motherfucka.
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
Is there anything else we need for the camping trip?
I gots a stove, 2 1/2 propane containers, compass, Pisgah map, and my bullshit. Is there anything else we need to pick up?
Also this is for Treverculus Jones. Worth every second in the rain.
Dickipedia: China
"China is a dick country in East Asia, the third largest in dick area, and first in dick population.
It is important to note that not everyone who lives in China is a dick. However, even if the dick to non-dick ratio was a very conservative 1 in 1,000, that’s still a million dicks, which is a whole lot of dick. "
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
Petition to Bernie Machen
As some of you have heard, the President of UF has decided to eliminate the PhD program in Philosophy. This will result in an exodus of faculty and grad students in this field, rendering UF's philosophy program ineffective. The above link is to a petition to President Machen, requesting that he reconsider his decision. If you have a moment, I would appreciate your support in this.
Update: Link Fixed at 6:42pm by JRH
Monday, May 5, 2008
Sunday, May 4, 2008
Saturday, May 3, 2008
Friday, May 2, 2008
Thursday, May 1, 2008
International Longshore and Warehouse Union Strike, shutting down US and Canadian Ports on the West Coast
“Longshore workers are standing-down on the job and standing up for America,” said ILWU president Bob McEllrath. “We’re supporting the troops and telling politicians in Washington that it’s time to end the war in Iraq.”
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Paris, Summer 1968
From today's NYT:
Students, using trash can lids as shields, marching near the Gare de Lyon in Paris in May 1968.
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Monday, April 28, 2008
On Using a Tarp
A diagram of the above setup, and a knot tutorial.
Update: For a fantastic knot site, go here.
Saturday, April 26, 2008
Friday, April 25, 2008
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