Today's Musical Interlude Of Awesomeness!!!11!11!!1! And WIN!!!!111!!1 All Rolled Into One

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How soon we forget

This column, by some guy who has spent the last seven or so years in Latin America, from today's Los Angeles Times is a big, stinky pile of FAIL in a lot of ways, but he saves some of the worst for last, dressed up as a lesson for his kids:

On Nov. 4, my wife and I gathered our three children around the television, where were treated to another civics lesson, this one courtesy of John McCain.

"This is an American tradition," I explained as McCain conceded. "The loser congratulates the winner. He asks the country to unite behind the new president."

"Not like in Mexico," my 12-year-old son said.

Two years ago, we watched the loser in Mexico's presidential election declare himself the country's "legitimate" ruler. He took the oath of office and donned the presidential sash -- even some of his supporters thought he looked silly.

Yeah. Because it's not like anyone in recent American political history has pulled a hissy fit like that. And besides, even if anybody had acted like that, his supporters would have thought him too "silly" to ever take him cereally seriously ever again, right?

I mean, this is an American tradition, where the loser asks the country to unite behind the new president.

Dumbass.

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Christmas Music, Moron Style

I think this long Friday afternoon calls for some Christmas music. Have some Brian Setzer Orchestra doing Jingle Bells.





Now to pretend I'm working before the office happy hour at 4. That's right bitches I get an office happy hour at 4 and you don't. I win!

Here have the James Bond theme too.
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Remember When Liberals Loved Whistleblowers?

I guess that love lasted as long as an encounter between Oliver Willis and a Filet O Fish.

Example A: the treatment of the whistleblower who exposed what Ohio public officials did to Joe the Plumber.

Vanessa Niekamp, an administrator for the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services' Office of Child Support and a 15-year state employee, said that when Deputy Director Doug Thompson came into her office, "He appeared very upset, his neck was bright red, and he was shaking. He closed my door."

Thompson told her she must write an e-mail to the agency's information-security officer, and then "dictated word for word" what she wrote, Niekamp said. He also reminded her that she could be fired at any time, she said.

"Within an hour, I took the rest of the day off -- again using my vacation time -- and went directly to the office of the inspector general. I told them everything I knew about what happened."

Niekamp took another day of vacation yesterday to testify before the House State Government and Elections Committee about legislation that calls for the firing of any unclassified state employee who improperly accesses confidential personal information.

Rep. Shannon Jones, a Springboro Republican sponsoring House Bill 648, said she introduced the measure because she thinks that high-ranking officials such as Job and Family Services Director Helen Jones-Kelley weren't punished enough.

"The systematic misuse of government databases and the governor's woeful under-reaction to state government workers engaging in this outrageous behavior make House Bill 648 necessary," she told the committee.

Gov. Ted Strickland, a Democrat, placed Jones-Kelley on a one-month unpaid suspension last month after Inspector General Thomas P. Charles found she authorized the check on Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher, aka Joe the Plumber, for no legitimate government purpose.

Thompson also was suspended for a month after Charles found that he participated in directing the check and instructed Niekamp to send a deceptive e-mail about it. Three others received lesser punishment.

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Google is hiding something

And it's not that they're reading your email and laughing at your pathetic life.

"We have never seen an OS stripped off the user agent string before," Vizzaccaro told InternetNews.com. "I believe you have to arrange to have that happen, it's not something we've seen before with a proxy server. All I can tell you is there's a good percentage of the people at Google showing up [at Web pages] with their OS hidden."

The theory floating around is that Google's developing its own OS.

(h/t CodeProject)

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Maybe It's A Good Thing My Right Hand Was Hurt!

Especially after what happened to this fellow in Germany.

Apparently “plump boobs and hot thighs” were too much for the 54-year-old pornography customer’s heart, who died while watching porn in one of the video-booths at the sex-shop on Bischofsplatz, the paper said.

A staff member became suspicious when there was no sign of movement in the cabin long after the man’s time was up. She reportedly knocked on the door and unlocked the booth from the outside and was shocked to find the “porn fan” dead in the chair, the paper reported.

A call to emergency services came too late to help the man. Though authorities suspect he died of a heart attack, the doctor on the scene could not determine the cause of death at the time, and the corpse was handed over to police.

“Investigations so far have not brought up any evidence that a third party might have been involved,” police spokesperson Christian Gräßler told the paper.

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That's a new one

We've heard various media organizations refer to terrorists as "militants" and "commandos" and such in the past, but, well, this one leaves me all but speechless...

So why are so many prominent Western media reluctant to call the perpetrators terrorists? Why did Jon Snow, one of Britain's most respected TV journalists, use the word "practitioners" when referring to the Mumbai terrorists? Was he perhaps confusing them with doctors?

Gah. I wish I could say that I was surprised, but, well, we can look at all kinds of media outlets' track records over last few years as regards terrorism and terrorists. Especially of the *cough*Islamic*cough* type. So, yeah, not exactly surprising.

Read the whole thing, especially for the manner in which the BBC and the New York Times covered the assault on the Jewish community center.  Again, not surprising, but they didn't exactly cover themselves in glory.

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Flying Snake!

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Most ethical Congress EVAR!

I'm gonna go ahead and guess that this probably gets swept under the rug:

Between 2004 and 2007, Rep. Charles Rangel steered nearly $80,000 in campaign cash to an Internet company run by his son – paying lavishly for a pair of political Web sites so poorly designed an expert estimated one should have cost no more than $100 to create.

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“This is probably legal but is definitely wrong,” said Meredith McGehee of the Campaign Legal Center, a nonprofit organization that monitors compliance with electoral law.

“You're in a situation where you were given money for a campaign and it's being used to enrich family members,” she added. “The return argument is they're performing legitimate services. The question that needs to be asked in this case is: Was this a legitimate payment or was this a payoff?”

Well, seeing as how Rangel's a Democrat and we all know that only Republicans can ever be corrupt, it was totally a legitimate payment.  Yeah.

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Client Nine writing a column

Former NY Governor Eliot Spitzer will be penning an op-ed column for Slate about the economy and how he feels the financial crisis should be handled.

I know I'm not the only one hoping that he runs out of material and feels compelled to blog about his Client Nine experiences. How do I say this so confidently? Because the editor of Slate flat-out admitted it:

David Plotz, who edits Slate.com, said Spitzer has not said whether he will write about the events leading to his resignation, but, "if he chooses to write about that in Slate, we'd be happy to publish it."

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Don't worry Dems, I'm sure some GOP Senators can be bought or are willing to sell out

The Dems are basically threatening to shut things down if Bush refuses the auto bailout...if Bush has any sense left, he'll call Dingy Harry and Pelosi into his office, blink a few times, and say "go ahead Harry, Nancy, shut'er down."  Then turn around in his chair and wait for them to excuse themselves.  Now, if only we could get that and if the Short-Bus All-Stars in the GOP leadership can be kept from selling out...tall order, I know.

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Who was the unnamed GOP Senator?

Remember the GOP Senator who thought that the Party's problem was that it wasn't moderate enough?

RedState thinks it was Mel Martinez.

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Flame war? Did someone mention flame war?

FOR THE HORDE!

All you prancing nancy Alliance weenies can kiss my felguard's ass. 

I should hit 76 tonight.  I am a tiny bit too excited about this.

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Apostle snubbed

'Cuda 1, Oprah 0:

Did Sarah Palin snub Oprah Winfrey?

That's what the most popular daytime talk show host and fervent Barack Obama supporter appeared to suggest in a recent interview with the entertainment show Extra.

"I said I would be happy to talk to Sarah Palin when the election was over… I went and tried to talk to Sarah Palin and instead she talked to Greta [Van Susteren]. She talked to Matt [Lauer]. She talked to Larry [King]. But she didn't talk to me.”

I don't think that Oprah would be hard on her or unfair, but I do think that she would have that special 52 to 48 condescention we've all grown so fond of.

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Some People Need To Brush Up On Their Hobo Handling Skills

Especially this lady.

Investigators say Janice Benton, 47, invited the man to stay at her Silver Springs house after learning he was homeless and had recently been released from prison. > >

Wednesday morning, the two went to a bar -- the Back 40 Lounge -- to have some drinks.  The victim became upset when Benton began talking with other male friends, detectives say.   > >

A verbal argument followed, and Benton left the bar without the victim.  He later showed up at her home, where the two continued to argue and the victim allegedly taunted Benton. > >

At that time, deputies believe, Benton grabbed a gun from her bedroom and fired one shot at the victim, hitting him in the head.

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In my Christmas stocking I want, part 4

Since Hermit Dave was nice enough to praise my gift finding skills, I feel compelled to post this one.

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Apropos of My Earlier Post

The 10 Weirdest USB Devices Ever.

I especially like #10 and #2.

Know of any other bizarre USB Devices?

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Will Ace Make A Side Trip To Cincinnati?

 

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The Three Most Important Words In Real Estate: Location, Location, Location

Looks as though a hamburger stand is set to open on some awesome ground.

"It's kind of a complete 180 when you look at it," said Craig Fishel, a Clarkstown North High School graduate and Palisades resident, who is opening the new restaurant with his father.

Probably the most obvious change at the location are the black-tinted windows of the porn store, which never were replaced with clear windows.

Still, brown paper was put up over them to hide construction at the location, where workers yesterday could be seen milling around on the roof and indoors.

Store owners around the new restaurant were glowing about the prospects of a non-porn-related business, saying they were happy to know that their customers won't have to see an adult bookstore across the street.

A state Supreme Court justice stopped a Queens-based adult entertainment business from opening the bookstore in 2006, and the company soon gave up on its development plans.

"I prefer the burger shop over the porn shop 200,000 times over," said Jean Chery, owner of Jean Advance Auto Repair, which is next door to the new restaurant.

Chery, who has run his business in the village for nearly 28 years, said he frequently had protested the opening of the adult bookstore at village meetings.

He said Nyack has been known for its antique stores and restaurants, not porn - and he wanted to keep it that way.

Remember all those slasher films where building on a burial ground would unleash all kinds of bad spirits and chainsaw-wielding maniacs? Well, I wonder what could be unleashed in this case.

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Apple Yanks Antivirus Advice*

Steve Jobs is a little bitch:

Apple Inc. late Tuesday yanked a controversial support document from its Web site that had urged Mac users to run antivirus software because the recommendation was "old and inaccurate," a company spokesman said today.

The document, which had become the focus of considerable discussion among Mac users and security experts this week, is no longer available on Apple's support site. Instead, browsers directed to its location display a generic message: "We're sorry. We can't find the article you're looking for."

"We have removed the KnowledgeBase article because it was old and inaccurate," Apple spokesman Bill Evans said in an e-mail Wednesday.

Bill Evans is a little bitch, too.

I prefer the explanation provided by the article's first commenter:

Apple yanked it because it's bad PR and that's all they've got behind them. They care about their users security less than their image.

When you're selling an overpriced product on the back of a cult of hype, PR is all that matters.

* - I wasn't impressed with the previous flame level so I'm asking for it double this time.  Also, while I'm knocking Apple, I figure I should link my favorite slam ever:  One thing PC users can do that Mac users can't.

His slam on the iPhone is pretty sweet, too.

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