Here's the list, there are probably better choices he could have added, some of his choices are stupid as hell, and really, I'm not sure I fully accept his premise, the real problem is not that a franchise necessarily needs to be retired, but either need to be salvaged in a way that restores them to their former glory into a modern format, I see it more as a put up or shut up list. 

You can see from his opening paragraphs he has a real hatred for the craptacular Frogger franchise...the venom for that one is not misplaced.

Let's look at his list, and yes, I overthought this big time...

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Not once is it mentioned in the article that Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley is a Democrat, funny how that always happens when its a story the public isn't gonna be happy with.  Anyway...

After he apparently engaged in demagoguery over the increases in energy costs in order to get elected, Governor Martin O'Malley has put forth a number of proposals to address energy issues, officials in Maryland say if passed they "could raise consumer costs in the short term."  Which we all know is libspeak for "this cost increase would be here to stay, we're hoping you'll be too stupid to notice."

The proposed bills are typical leftist approaches, more "conservation", or as everyone else calls it, stupid regulations, $100 million for "green energy" and incentives for consumers to conserve, also known as ineffective feelgood crap that ends up costing people more money for lesser or marginal improvements.  And the big one, a tax energy companies would be forced to pay to fund green research, guess who's gonna pay for that?  That's right Marylanders, you are! 

"There's no question we're going to have to get customers used to the idea that they're going to have to also take steps to help address the issue," Larsen said. "If they're looking to go back to the days of cheap, plentiful, endless supplies of electricity with no impact on the environment, I do think those days are over."

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Its that smarmy media whore and slimeball who claims his wife ran off with another man, of course, most people think he killed her and his last wife and police are having a hard time finding evidence because he's a cop and knows what to destroy and hide. 

We at least know he was often an abusive dick to her, and just a dick the rest of the time.  In any case, he's hired a publicist, I'm assuming because they want a go-between to keep him from saying something to incriminate himself.  He's also apparently in some deal I'm assuming the rights to his story for a made-for-TV movie, I'm assuming this was the guy making the deal with the bastard,

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Rudy's campaign is like the electoral version of Weekend at Bernie's.  His advisors and supporters have been propping it up and pretending its alive for a while now, but Rudy's campaign has been long dead.  His problem is that his narrative has become tired as hell to the point that even his most ardent supporters are grinding their teeth when he talks about 9/11 or his time as mayor of New York.

Beyond that, the focus of the election has totally changed, for both the left and the right, its now about the coming identity crisis for both parties.  We obviously see the lines drawn in the conservative camp, its pretty much dominated the dextrosphere in terms of content, but the left is facing similar problems too, and in some ways, they're worse off then us in this regard, because they've always encouraged this sort of factional thinking.

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And no, he didn't shoot Marvin in the face, the posts for this story are gonna probably all have the same basic jokes, so just play along till I'm done.  He was driving drunk and killed one of his passengers.  He's out on bond now, but this seems pretty cut and dry, I almost think they have to send him to the pen for a while. 

Maybe he shoulda called this guy,

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From Homestar Runner of all places.

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Mike at ColdFury has this story, and it warms my twisted black heart, if only because its a cruel reversal on the Nanny Staters.  In Germany, bars and restaurants have banned smoking, but small offices can still permit smoking.  The business is a little 10 person IT operation, and most of them smoke.  Three of the employees started bitching and demanding a smoke-free workplace.  So the owner booted their asses, stating,

“I can’t be bothered with trouble-makers,” Thomas was quoted saying. “We’re on the phone all the time and it’s just easier to work while smoking. Everyone picks on smokers these days. It’s time for revenge. I’m only going to hire smokers from now on.”

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Regarding the Hucktard and his clemencies...

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SRSLY?  The DoJ is backing DC in the Supreme Court case, which would overturn the gun ban in DC if DC loses.  I hope Fred capitalizes on this and rips Bush apart for this latest sellout. 

As shaky as the conservative coalition is right now, the last thing we need is to piss off gunowners too, they do stay home when they don't get what they want, and they do get results, even the Democrats are avoiding gun control as an issue, because they know better after the 1994 revolution and subsequent GOP wins.  Bush would be wise to heed the words of his predecessor, but he's a tin-eared retard, so I'm not real optimistic,

The NRA had a great night. They beat both Speaker Tom Foley and Jack Brooks, two of the ablest members of Congress, who had warned me this would happen. Foley was the first Speaker to be defeated in more than a century. Jack Brooks had supported the NRA for years and had led the fight against the assault weapons ban in the House, but as chairman of the Judiciary Committee he had voted for the overall crime bill even after the ban was put into it. The NRA was an unforgiving master: one strike and you're out. The gun lobby claimed to have defeated nineteen of the twenty-four members on its hit list. They did at least that much damage and could rightly claim to have made Gingrich the House Speaker.

—Bill Clinton, My Life pp 629-30

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In Europe again, this time, its a clay statue of Jesus with an enormous boner.

Hey Jesus, what's wrong, is it cold in that exhibit or something?

A Christian group in Europe has called for its destruction, I think this is the wrong approach, you shouldn't call for the destruction of art pieces on free speech grounds.  Its one thing to ask if it can be removed or defunded (assuming its publicly funded) or something, but its another to ask for its destruction. 

And before I get screeched by some leftist for suggesting it would be okay to ask to remove the exhibit, you have the right to express yourself, you DO NOT have the right to a platform to do it on, unless its your own.  I can say whatever the fuck I want on my own publications, at my own exhibit, at my own newspaper or soapbox, but if I go to somebody's blog and fill it with (The Only Man Who Can Save America!) (Ron Paul '08!) spam, they have the right to kick my ass off their blog, and its NOT an infringement on my speech, of course, that changes with publicly funded speech, because it then gets too muddy, and people do have the right to limit your expression.

Which is in large part why I'm not a fan of publicly-funded art.  When you start making art on someone else's tax-funded dime, they get a say in your input, you're much better off going with a privately funded, charitably funded, profit funded or self funded operation, because then you can express yourself as you choose, people are free to criticize it and denounce it, but ultimately if you fund it, its yours, and yours alone, it should be protected by speech code, and no one can do, er, dick about it.

I know everyone says, "Hey artist guy, why don't you make some art with Islam's holy symbols?" whenever a holy symbol of Christianity or Judaism or really, anything other than Islam is trashed by some unoriginal artist looking to stir shit up. 

Of course, that refusal to criticize Islam is BS'd with weaselly excuses, but we all know the real reason is if you do something insulting to Muslims, the crazy Jihadi ones will start looking for you in order to do harm.

Of course, what I find interesting is that this does nothing but reinforce negatives, at some point, Christians and Jews and followers of any other religion these artists are trashing are gonna figure out that riots, threats of violence and even actual violence get you exactly what you want. 

I'm not condoning it, but at some point, that double standard is gonna come back to bite Western society in the ass, either its all okay, or nothing is, and the double standard on display in both popular culture and in the law is going to end up making nothing the the answer.

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He's expanding his 540K goal, since that was handily passed, and has now made it into a 750K goal, and he hopes to reach it by Midnight tonight.  He's at 714K right now, so he's got a ways to go, if you have a few extra Rupees rattling around in your pocket that you can let go, send 'em Fred's way if you can.

Update:  He's at $725K as of 4:45 on the East.  25K to go before midnight approaches.

UPDATE:  Fred makes the 750K by 8:30!

UPDATE:  Fred's at 765K by 9:30!  Go Fred!!!!

UPDATE:  $790K as of 2:00 AM!  WOOOOO!!!!!

Fred's looking to push his fund to ...

One Million Dollars!

By Midnight, January 14th, he's at $846K as of 5:22PM, January 12.

RINOs everywhere react:

ITS OVER NINE HUNDRED THOUSAND!!!!!

Okay, its 7:15 on the east coast, and he's at 975K, five hours to go.  As of 9:20 PM Fred has,

One million dollars!

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Wow, now that is some Grade A attention whoring.  This is the guy who had murdered his girlfriend and may have cannibalized parts of her body, when he was discovered, one of her ears was boiling in water, and a piece of her body was sitting on a plate with a fork in it. 

PETA sent a fax to the Smith County Jail, where this sicko is being held, asking that he receive a vegetarian diet, so that he would not be "involved in any senseless killing" during his stay in prison. 

The officials at the prison were reported stunned by this letter...gee, ya think?

Says PETAs Vice-President,

"It is up to you to prevent McCuin from contributing to any more suffering and death by placing him on a healthy, humane vegetarian diet," the letter by PETA Vice President Bruce Friedrich reads.

In a phone interview with the Tyler Paper Thursday, Friedrich responded the letter was serious and was not intended to be funny nor take away from the brutal death suffered by Ms. Shearer.

"Like humans, animals are made of flesh, blood, and bone. They have the same five senses that we do, and they have the same capacity to experience suffering and fear. And all animals share the desire to live their lives free of pain and to avoid a violent death," he said.

When asked how eating a hamburger compared to cannibalism, Friedrich said all meat is from a corpse. He further stated he believes McCuin could become violent if he ate meat and could kill.

"Only in a culture where people routinely kill and eat living, feeling beings would anyone even think to kill and eat a human loved one," he said.

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Well, I guess they'll be able to pull the satire defense much more effectively now.  He used to be the managing editor, but left this fall, announcing that he would be working with MoveOn in an email, and linked to a site called VotePoke, which would tell you your registration status and encourage those who aren't registered to register.

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I'm having a bit of trouble (I almost wrote troubleplusundead...not good) coming up with material, but this is actually kinda neat, it involves old album covers. A few of them have some nudity, so there's your content warning.

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Fred's supposed to be getting a big endorsement tomorrow(technically today), so of course its become a guessing game.  I'm kinda hoping its an NRA endorsement, given that Fred's really tried to court gunowners, but an NRO reader throws out James Dobson as a possibility(based on nothing, but an interesting thought).  That would be interesting, given that Dobson declared "...not for me, my Brothers.  Not for me!" in a public "private" letter a few months ago.  It would be an unexpected endorsement.

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Dude's spanking it onto pieces of paper and coloring it with powder.  Thankfully, the guy is British, so they're paying for this crap spooge.

Baloo's makin' art!

(h/t)

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Awesome, and he's made his fundraising goal already, but I'm sure he could use more, I'm guessing its getting pounded.  He's on with Dunce&Eyebrow and just kicked Colmesy's ass too.  Fred's on a fucking rampage.  Here's Fred giving Mike Huckabee a curbstomping,



Now Mike Huckabee is excusing himself for releasing criminals, particularly the Dumond guy that went on to kill a girl.  Hey, he said he loved Jesus, right Mike?  Guess he lied...you wouldn't know anything about lying though, right?

Oh, and his line about no bridges falling in Arkansas?  Mike, you can eat a bowl of syphilitic dicks for that, how obnoxious are you to say that.  I hope they lock your demagoguing identity-politicking populist ass out of the RNC Convention this year.

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The festival?  I'll give you the article's description,

The northern city of Oshu each February draws thousands of tourists with its Somin Festival, in which naked men pile upon one another and frolic about late into the night to pray for good luck.

Oh, stop, its not that gay!

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Sir Edmund Hillary, who is famous for his climbing of Mount Everest has died at the age of 88.  Many have since climbed Everest, but he was the first to do it.  Everest is still a very dangerous mountain to climb, the cold, terrain, and thin air near the top are brutal, and people still die trying to climb it.

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Fred did a conference call with a good number of people in the Dextrosphere to give them a heads-up on what he's doing.  He's got an aggressive campaign schedule, and from the sounds of things, he's happy to be back in the South, where he's more at home.  He said he's gonna have a big endorsement (c'mon, be Rush!) announcement tomorrow.  Frank J. apparently asked if it was Bruce Lee during the conference call, because he kicked Chuck Norris' ass, heh.

In any case, Fred's still looking for funds, and if you've got a few shekels rattling around in your pocket that you can let go, I'm sure he'd put them to good use.  He's looking to get $540K for ads by tomorrow, he's at $490K now, so about 50K to go.

This is from Politico, so take it with a block of salt, but they're saying Mitt might bail on South Carolina and look elsewhere for support.  If that's true, then Fred has a huge opportunity to pick up loose voters.  As Allah notes, Mitt may be trying to pick up a win in Nevada, which, from Mitt's perspective makes sense, I'm guessing there are a lot of business types and Mormons out there who would be inclined to support him.

And I'm hoping Fred uses this story of Mike Huckabee supporting Democrats over his own, and calling fiscal conservatives "Shi'ite Republicans" and bludgeons Huckabee with it so hard the Hucktards finally are shamed out of their support of the ratbastard.  I'd never vote for Mike Huckabee.  Not now, not ever.  I wouldn't vote Mike Huckabee to be dogcatcher (even if his kid would find creative, cost-cutting ways to operate the pound, the sick fuck) let alone president.

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