Who the HELL who want to see this?

Kid Rock Sues to Stop Sale of Sex Video - Yahoo! News: "DETROIT - Kid Rock has won an initial victory in his attempt to stop a California company from releasing an explicit sex video featuring the rap-rocker, former Creed singer Scott Stapp and four women. "
I feel dirty just having read it. GROSS!

Exodus to South Carolina

Sounds great to me. They can create their little theocracy in one state and stop fucking with national elections. Of course, there is a freaky little precedent, in that SC was the first state to secede in the Civil War. But personally, I've never understood why we didn't let them go. With no industrial infrastructure, the CSA would have gone belly up within a decade and we could have taken them back over without the millions dead or the still-felt disaster of Reconstruction.IMHO

AOL News - Christian Movement Moving Into Palmetto State: "The answer he came up with in late 2003: Move like-minded Christians to one state: South Carolina.
The state was a logical choice. It already is conservative, having played a major role in the rise of the Republican Party since Ronald Reagan. And it's home to 750,000 Southern Baptists and Bob Jones University, a fundamentalist Christian institution.
Burnell's plan is to recruit conservative Christians to move here and tip the scales further right.
Burnell is yet to move to South Carolina himself, he says, because he is busy recruiting. But he says he is working out the logistics for his family to relocate.
With a decisive majority, Burnell says, his group would be able to pass laws that line up with their biblical principles and their interpretation of the U.S. Constitution - laws that include outlawing abortion and homosexual relations, allowing governmental displays of Christian symbols and ending state-funded education."

And women would have to wear head scarves, and men wouldn't be allowed to shave their beards, and maybe even roving enforcement squads would beat or kill people who broke the law. Pack your bags, kids! We're moving to Saudi Carolina!

Bush is "Politically Tone Deaf"

Reuters on the Port deal:

Bush and his aides have argued that the United Arab Emirates is an anti-terrorist ally and that the company would have no security role. But even Bush allies, like South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsay Graham, have called the deal "politically tone deaf."
With Republican and Democratic lawmakers drafting legislation to block the port deal, Bush vowed on Tuesday to use his veto for the first time should any such law reach his desk, drawing the lines for a high-stakes political battle.
"Politically, for the president, it is a huge mistake for him to be defending this decision. The president will be overturned," said U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay, the former number two Republican in the House of Representatives....
...So far Bush has always managed to get Republicans back in line when he needed to, but his influence is waning and it will only get worse for this administration," Jillson said.
Some in Congress have complained they were blindsided by the deal, which was approved by a panel whose deliberations are closed to the public.
Anger has also bubbled up among grassroots conservatives at the heart of Bush's political base who are expressing themselves on talk radio and the Internet.
Political analyst Michael Ledeen of the American Enterprise Institute compared the furor to a conservative revolt last year that thwarted Bush's nomination of White House legal counsel Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court. "It's the foreign policy equivalent of the Miers nomination. It's stupid," Ledeen said.

The Advertising Slogan Generator

The Advertising Slogan Generator - Lester Slogans:
"Hungry? Why Wait? Grab a Lester."

Check out this slogan generator. It provides a few minutes of mindless amusement. Put in any word or your name and get a slogan.

"We Do Lester Right." [right on]

"We Bring The Good Patsy To Life." [laying to rest the Evil Patsy]

"Cuts Fellatio Time in Half."[this could be good or bad]

http://www.thesurrealist.co.uk/slogan

The Electric Company

OMG! The Electric Company is now on DVD! I loved this show. I was really little when it was on, but I have this hazy memory of funky music and psychodelic graphics.... spiderman.... those 2 faces weirdly pronoucing syllables [buh- ounce- BOUNCE!]....and Morgan Freeman in a turtleneck with afro beads cool shades. Awesome. This show was the hip version of Seasame Street. I am so tempted to buy it....The Electric Company

um, WHAT?

Newsday

WASHINGTON -- A company in the United Arab Emirates is poised to take over significant operations at six American ports as part of a corporate sale, leaving a country with ties to the Sept. 11 hijackers with influence over a maritime industry considered vulnerable to terrorism.

Ok, what? What am I reading? Now, I am the first person to yell and scream about prejudice. But, this seems a little insane. More than a little insane. Are we actually going to turn over port operations to a company from the UAE?

"The State Department describes the UAE as a vital partner in the fight against terrorism. But the UAE, a loose federation of seven emirates on the Saudi peninsula, was an important operational and financial base for the hijackers who carried out the attacks against New York and Washington, the FBI concluded. "

Oh wait, I get it. They're a "partner" in the fight against terrorism. So we should hand them a big fat business contract. Regardless of any security risk that might entail. Regardless of where some of that money might get funneled to. Indeed, I know the majority of the residents of the UAE love Americans and think we're A-OK.

Since the Sept. 11 attacks, the FBI has said the money for the strikes was transferred to the hijackers primarily through the UAE's banking system, and much of the operational planning for the attacks took place inside the UAE. Many of the hijackers traveled to the U.S. through the UAE. Also, the hijacker who steered United Airlines flight into the World Trade Center's south tower, Marwan al-Shehhi, was born in the UAE. After the attacks, U.S. Treasury Department officials complained about a lack of cooperation by the UAE and other Arab countries trying to track Osama bin Laden's bank accounts.

Become a Republican!

My sister sent me this- it's awesome, in the original meaning of the word: it fills me with awe and terror!
http://www.thefrown.com/frowners/becomerepublican.swf

Cheney's got a gun

This story is so incredible. John Stewart, has of course, covered it the best.
The clips from the Daily Show are hilarious.

This is great!

This site is really fun for word-nerds like me. The author shows how words we use today had quite different meanings in the past, such as this:

You Can't Say That!: "The terrific pirate captain brandished a naked sable he had withdrawn from his vagina, while the rest of the bloodthirsty tangerines aimed their deadly trombones. "

Betty Friedan

We owe her so much. The era of the last great fighters in the struggle for equality is coming to a close. There was a tme in America when almost every teenage girl looked up to Betty Friedan. Now they idolize Paris Hilton. We need another revolution!

Excite News: "Betty Friedan, whose manifesto 'The Feminine Mystique' became a best seller in the 1960s and laid the groundwork for the modern feminist movement, died Saturday, her birthday. She was 85.
Friedan died at her home of congestive heart failure, according to a cousin, Emily Bazelon.
Friedan's assertion in her 1963 best seller that having a husband and babies was not everything and that women should aspire to separate identities as individuals, was highly unusual, if not revolutionary, just after the baby and suburban booms of the Eisenhower era.
The feminine mystique, she said, was a phony bill of goods society sold to women that left them unfulfilled, suffering from 'the problem that has no name' and seeking a solution in tranquilizers and psychoanalysis."

Hoooooo-cares?

Excite News:
Soldier 1: How you doing?
Soldier 2: Fine. How you doing?
Soldier 1: Hooah.
For the different branches of the military, each vastly competitive with and jealous of its distinctions from one another, hooah has become something of a sore point. Marines and sailors have their own saying, more of a 'hoo-RAH' or a 'hoo-yah,' which they claim is entirely separate in origin.
The Air Force brass once reportedly got so irked about sharing 'hooah' with the Army that it tried to get airmen to shout 'Air power!' instead. But 'Air power!' did not have the same potency as 'hooah,' and has been largely abandoned.
...
Yet the use of hooah by the uninitiated is generally frowned on. Carter recounted that a drill sergeant barred him and his fellow recruits from saying hooah until they had finished the basic course and earned the right.
And civilians uttering hooah are generally looked upon with either disdain or the astonishment of a person who has just heard a koala bear recite lines from e.e. cummings."

But what did she get drunk on?

This chick should hook up with Gov. Vampire.
Excite News: " JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) - The driver of a bloodmobile ran a red light on her way to a blood drive and has been charged with drunken driving, police said."

This week's genius quote

Excite News: "'I think it's great that people have soap,' Pepper said in a telephone interview this week. 'I'm a big supporter of soap.' "

Conservative fear factor