Match Game to be revived

I predict it will be utter crap, the main reason being the antithesis of funneh, Sarah Silverman will be involved.  Not even the awesome Norm MacDonald is gonna be able to negate her chronically unfunneh presence.  Scott Thompson from KITH will be there too, I assuming to be a Charles Nelson Reilly type figure.  I don't think they'll recapture the essence of the old Match Game series, but it'll be interesting to see them try. 

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Hurricane Pinto makes landfall at The Hostages.

Funneh.

Our media has less credibility reporting on Afghanistan and Iraq than Baghdad Bob.

Moar rock arts!

Just wrong.

The GOP is always going to have this problem unless every damn bit of music they use in campaigns is super old or country.

Attention whore arrested.

Of course, he's allowed, there's a hierarchy here, Jesus>Saint

Heh.

Just fucking great.

Place to go if I ever step foot in the Soviet of Philly again.

Ice!

This is a good move, it forces the Democrats to do the actual censoring, so they can't have some faceless bureaucrat who will never be held accountable do it for them.

Revelation.

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I hates me some hippies

My Alma Mater, UC Berkeley, has been trying to build a new, state-of-the-art $140 million athletic training center next to the football stadium. But, this being Berkeley we're talking about, since the plan calls for a bunch of trees to be removed, a bunch of goddamn hippies have been hindering progress on the plan.

The tree group's protest targets UC's plan to cut 44 trees to make way for the athletic center. The trees offer a welcome patch of open space on the densely developed campus, and at least one of the trees dates from the 1800s, [attorney for the stinky leftists Stephan] Volker argued.

The first tree-sitters clambered into the oaks and redwoods Dec. 2, 2006, as 75,000 football fans filed past to attend the Big Game against Stanford. About two dozen protesters have rotated in and out of the trees since then, occasionally tussling with police, campus security and hostile football fans. Campus police have made about 100 arrests and issued more than 200 citations.

UC took several steps to remove the tree-sitters, including obtaining a court order, erecting a pair of fences to hamper the delivery of food and removal of waste, and periodically removing the protesters' backpacks, guitars, blankets and other gear.

I've got to say that I really like the idea of taking away their guitars. You just know those were being used to create some really shitty hippie jam songs about loving trees and how the Earth is our mother.

Anyway, there's been some action up there recently, including a legal ruling that both the university and the hippies are claiming as a victory, and two days of work crews dismantling the platforms the stupid human wastes of space have been occupying. I mention all of that to bring you this nugget:

Workers and police were pelted several times with human urine and excrement thrown by tree-sitters Tuesday, Mogulof said.

In one of several tense moments Wednesday, a basket with two workers was lowered by crane to the trunk of a tall tree on top of which a screaming young woman was perched on a small wooden platform about 100 feet in the air.

The woman, identified by sympathizers as Dumpster Muffin, screamed and violently shook the precarious perch. The crane backed off, and the woman raised her hand in the air in a sign of victory.

That's right. A screaming woman, living in a tree, whose name is Dumpster Muffin.  I honestly don't know how I lived in that town for seven years without going on a bloody killing spree.

Update: Photos of the dismantling by zomblog.  (Via Nice Deb in the comments.)

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The Catholic Counterrevolution

Interesting piece in Newsweek about the role Pope Benedict XVI has had on the Mass.  In particular, Benedict has allowed for the Latin mass again.  The Latin mass was pretty much driven out of the Church in the years following Vatican II.  Benedict was a reformer, but found himself turned off by the aggressive reform efforts that took place after Vatican II, he and others who agreed started to informally band together to try and rein in the reformers.  I found this interesting, this was their big wake-up call,

Seeing a Gregorian chant CD from an obscure Spanish monastery rise to the top of the pop charts in the 1990s, they wondered why much of the church had abandoned one of Catholicism's classic musical forms.

For those who may have forgotten, or were in elementary school like me, they're talking about Chant, a Gregorian chant album which went triple platinum in 1994.  I hope Gregorian chants make a comeback, not everyone's favorite, I know, but I like it.  To me, that's what a Catholic Church is supposed to sound like. 

This rang out for me,

Finding congregations that seemed more interested in self-affirmation than worship, and priests given to making their personalities the center of the liturgical action, they asked whether the rush to create a kind of sacred circle in which the priest faces the people over the eucharistic "table" might have something to do with the problem.

Those are two huge reasons that I'm not nearly as active in the church as I used to be, particularly the latter.  The church I used to go regularly had a priest like this, and I can tell you that his boorish self-aggrandizement really began to grate on me over time, to the point where I just quit going to mass at all.  

The article goes on to say that much of the Catholic Church had been making a counterrevolution of its own, reining in the more radical reformists, and restoring a more traditional mass on a local level.  I saw this to some extent with the self aggrandizing priest I talk about above, when he first started there, he tried to ditch a lot of little things a priest normally does in a traditional mass, but was strongly opposed and he made some significant concessions to the parish, which was stunning given his near-Bill O'Reilly sized ego. 

Benedict, by his reforms is encouraging that sort of reining in of priests.  My hope is that the effort is successful, while I do think that the more reform style works for some, I don't care for it.  I do think there is room for both in the Church though, with strengths and weaknesses in both.  I actually think it'd help draw in potential new members, particularly younger people.  I'm terrible with foreign language, but I'd be ready to give learning some Latin a shot if a local priest brings the Latin mass back. 

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IVD's Quote of the Day

[Fmr. Sen. Sam] Nunn brings the "integrity" word to the Obama campaign. Which oddly enough, is what he'd have to sacrifice to be a part of it.

- Dave in Texas, over at the Moron-in-Chief's

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I have had it with these motherf*cking Tron Guys on this motherf*cking plane!

I would have thought he'd have a lightcycle built for himself.  Tron Guy has wanted to buy himself a plane for 20 years, and finally got around to getting himself one, the plane of course uses Tron themes in its paint job, and yes, there are pics of Tron Guy with his plane.  Obligatory, and horrifying,

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One or the other, fellas, take your pick

Blackwater has long been a target of leftist hatred, nearly all of it rabid conspiracy theorizing and innuendo, but there certainly questionable things Blackwater has done and have done.  This is one of those questionable things.  Basically, they had one of their planes crash, which killed three servicemen.  The widows of the three men sued Blackwater, and Blackwater is now trying to get out of it by arguing that this civil case is under the Afghan legal system, which is a shari'a type legal system.  This is the same Blackwater that has sought to hide behind the US legal system in Iraq earlier.

Check out that link for more, See-Dub has this right, Blackwater needs to choose, US legal system or the legal systems of the foreign countries they work in.  Frankly, I'd argue the government should put Blackwater at the bottom of the bid pool for things we need contractors for until they clean up their act. 

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Let it be said: Sex dolls do not bring happiness

Life imiatates art, or at least a disappointing M. Night Shyamalan film:

Japanese professionals in their thirties are killing themselves at unprecedented rates, as the nation struggles with a runaway suicide epidemic.

[...]

Even more disturbing than the raw suicide figures, said police, was the astounding recent surge in people who have taken their lives by generating highly poisonous hydrogen sulphide gas from a combination of standard household products.

Unlike more traditional methods such as hanging or drugs overdoses, the production of hydrogen sulphide endangers people in the same building and turns what used to be private despair into a public event.

Naturally, the blame falls on President Bush and his cabal of neocons.  The GOP and the oil companies are are joined at the hip.  And where is the company with the leading hybrid car based?  Japan. 

Connect the dots, people.

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Sixth British Colombia foot a fake

Someone decided it would be cute to stuff a shoe with a foot from an animal's skeleton and seaweed.  Hopefully they'll figure out what's actually happening, and give the hoaxer a kick in the ass when they find them.

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Welcome back, blogger

Bryan Preston makes a brief appearance at his old blog JunkYardBlog, before he handed it off to See-Dub to go to Hotair, which See-Dub then left to write at Malkin's.  Heh.  Anyway, he's been doing producer work on Laura Ingraham's radio show since then, but he makes a brief appearance to offer an editorial on the joke our energy policy has become, do check it out, and if you've been missing Bryan since his departure from Hotair, drop by and say hello.

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Speaking of FAIL...

NBC News had the chance to have their next "Meet the Press" host follow in the footsteps of Tim Russert.  It seems they are declining to take that opportunity:

At least for this Sunday, top NBC anchorman Brian Williams will be taking Tim Russert's place on "Meet the Press."

[...]

NBC News reporters David Gregory and Andrea Mitchell are considered possible permanent replacements, along with "Hardball" host Chris Matthews.

If NBC News was smart (big "if," I know) they would try to poach Jake Tapper from ABC News.  I find him to be one of the most evenhanded journalists out there today and I think he would have been a great addition. 

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Invisible Hand Warns on Nationalization

At a press conference in Caracas, the Invisible Hand told reporters that it is “more than capable” of destroying the US economy should Democrats proceed with widespread nationalization of health care and energy services.

 

“This isn’t a Baghdad Bob warning, either”, the Hand said.  “It might look like I’ve got my hands full wrecking Venezuela and scattering the ashes of the Zimbabwe economy, but trust me on this: I can come bitch-slap any country anywhere that decides to nationalize key industries.  Adam Smith said Invisible Hand, but it’s more like an army of Invisible Hecatonchires.”

 

It added “if you don’t know what that means, look it up, and next time get an education in the classics, dumbass.”

 

[Editor: the hecatonchires were hundred-handed giants in Greek Myth]

 

Economists said that Congress would be wise to listen to the Invisible Hand.  “He’s got hundreds of years of experience throttling economies around the globe,” said one.  “Of course he knows what he’s capable of.  And the Invisible Hand never makes threats, he just does stuff.  Like drive the price of oil up when there’s more demand than supply.”

 

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One moar please!

I announced that plebian at Daily Dollop would be joining us at doubleplusundead, and is here and posting, but I also mentioned that I'd be bringing one moar person onboard.  I think you'll be surprised.  So, who is it?
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Thursday afternoon stupid

You already know you're a moron—if you weren't, you wouldn't be here—but are you a geek, too?  Well, if you get this, you probably are.

(And yes, I know it's old, but it still cracks my ass up.)

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Your Thursday afternoon dose of FAIL

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The Last Third-from-the-Last House on the Left

What do you do when the house you rent or own becomes associated with a notorious murder? Well, Fox News is here to help!

"My advice is to hang on to the property, keep it in use," said Randall Bell, a real-estate economist who specializes in troubled properties. "You don't want these properties to go vacant because it tends to amplify the problems and curiosity and negative stigmas."

[...]

The California address of the LaBianca house where Charles Manson's "family" killed their last two victims was changed, as was the house where Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman were killed. The addresses were also changed at JonBenet Ramsey's house in Boulder, Colo., and the New York home that inspired the "Amityville Horror" book and movie.

"If you want to change the address, it could be a good thing. But you want to be careful with your timing," Bell said. "You don't want to do it right after the event; it just gives the media more to talk about."

The article further states that you should arrange furniture to cover the blood stains.  You can't take too many chances in today's housing market.

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The anti-Spurlock or Jared 2.0?

I report...okay, Hotair reports, you decide.

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Crap: Marines to appeal and file new charges against Lt. Col. Chessani

Says David Harsanyi.

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Land Developer with Ties to Obama Indicted

The Obama campaign received more bad news this morning when a federal judge handed down indictments against construction company Holey Dynamite.  Closely tied with Obama foreign affairs consultant Winnie the Pooh, HD’s chairman, Gopher, is also a noted Democratic financier and is reputed to have connections to the Hundred Acre Mafia.

At the center of the investigation are a series of construction deals made between Pooh and Gopher during the development of the Hundred Acre Resort and Casino, from which Pooh and several of his friends profited when HD converted the rural area into one of the country’s hottest resort destinations.

 

The project had been the source of tensions between Gopher’s company and the local Heffalump residents, who have repeatedly alleged that Pooh and his friends harassed them in order to drive them off of their lands for a fraction of their value.

 

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For every problem, there is indeed a solution

A businessman wanted to open up an ATV rental shop outside of Boulder, people living nearby complained about the noise and pollution the ATV's would create.  His business plan was rejected by the county planning commission.  So our entrepreneur did what anyone else would do, ditched the ATV plans, and decided to open up a porn shop named after the loudest whining neighbor.  Awesome.

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