EPIC FAIL

Moar bad science!

Oh snap!

Fucking hate "dialog."

FAIL

Tolerance.

Funneh.

Mead + Catapult = Win!

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Julius and Elthel Rosenberg were executed for passing the secrets of the atomic bomb to Communist Russia.  Yes, that was back in the good ol' days when we actually prosecuted, convicted, and executed people who were guilty of treason.  Sadly, we now hold multiculturalism so highly that it usurps the Constitution, making treason just another quaint, old-fashioned law like not allowing women to wear pants. 

Above:  The Rosenbergs prepare for a meeting with V.I. Lenin.

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Flooding in the Midwest is now officially the worst in decades:

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Our socialism...let us show you it:

House Democrats responded to President's Bush's call for Congress to lift the moratorium on offshore drilling. This was at an on-camera press conference fed back live.

Among other things, the Democrats called for the government to own refineries so it could better control the flow of the oil supply.

We (the government) should own the refineries. Then we can control how much gets out into the market.

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Told ya.  Oh, and if any morons are interested in meeting up with Old Iron, Lemur King, mesablue, and I think Eggman and Moron Pundit for a meeting of the morons in Detroit, drop a comment at The Bar Slaves.

Politicians are shameless corrupt tools, part 231,713,090,307,982,433,005 of a neverending series.

Heh.

OMG SCANDALOUS!

A very special parade.

*smack*

More human rights abuses from Yemen, so when does the UN Human Rights Commission or whatever the fuck it's called now pass their next resolution to condemn Israel, instead of condemning this shit?

Funneh.

Eep.

I'M OFFENDED!

Okay, that is pretty good, though Protein Wisdom has had some good ones too.

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Barnacles are known as the John Holmes of the invertebrate world with penises reaching up to 10 times their body size. Not all barnacles are equally endowed though. To make the situation more complicated, barnacles are hermaphrodites.

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Via Drudge (no link yet):

NYT THURSDAY: Obama aides increasingly limiting access for reporters; controlling settings Obama is photographed or filmed... Developing...

Update:  Here is the story Drudge linked, although not from the NYT for some reason. 

Posted by: It's Vintage, Duh at 06:41 PM | Comments (2) | Add Comment
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It's been one year since I started this moronblog, and I think I've done alright, managed to pull in 100,000 hits within a year, and I think the quality of the site (if you can call it that) has increased vastly, exponentially so with Vinty, MP, Sean and bmac on board. 

That said, I do have an announcement as well, I've decided to bring more co-bloggers on, and I've invited Plebian at Daily Dollop to co-blog at doubleplusundead.  I may have one more big surprise contributor, but after that, doubleplusundead will probably be considered a full house, contributor-wise.

Since we're on the subject of changing things up a bit, I've known about this place for a good while, but this is Ace's new site, or will be when the transition is finished.  He's sending people over there now because AoS is fucked up again, so consider this a Moronosphere PSA.

Oh, and most important, thanks to all you morons for continuing to read my crappy blog.

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A protest by angry Barack Obama supporters erupted into violence this morning as demonstrators stormed the offices of The Wall Street Journal and overturned two cars in the street.  Riot police were on hand but unable to prevent the damage.  No arrests have yet been reported.

The protestors, organized by the Guardian Council of the Organization for the Reverential Election of Obama (OREO), were demonstrating against the Journal for its continuing practice of running a drawing of Barack Obama instead of a photograph of the candidate, which is forbidden under OREO law.

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I guess this story has come back from the dead, Brian linked a Townhall blogger's argument that the certificate Kos posted was bogus, or at least suspect, and Ace has since picked it up.  I'm not ready to call the certificate bogus until I see someone post a Hawaiian certificate to offer a full comparison, and really, a nice gif like this would help.  I'm crap with Paint even, so I'm going to hold off on making a judgment on whether this thing is bogus or not until I see further evidence to suggest it is.  Would be funny if Kos Rathered himself, though. 

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Getting shot, that is:

A Philadelphia teen was rushed to the hospital after being shot just minutes after his high school graduation commencement concluded.

The shooting happened outside the Liacouras Center on the campus of Temple University in North Philadelphia at about 4:20 p.m. Tuesday. Shots rang out while family and friends were gathering to congratulate the graduates from Strawberry Mansion High School.

Police said two rival groups at the school were involved in an altercation outside when an unknown gunman fired two shots into the crowd.

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...not so hard times, maybe?  Anyway, both Vegas casinos and the brothels on the outskirts of Vegas are seeing both their revenues drop, though Vegas' drop is much less pronounced, going from about $615 million to about $515 in casino revenues from December to March. The Nevada Brothel Owners' Association says their business may have dropped as much as 45%. 

Seems gas prices are a big cause of that, truckers are a major source of business for brothels (truckers seek services from prostitutes?  GTFO!), and the cost of diesel is leaving them with a little less extra money.  I do think as the cost of fuel continues to be high, places like Vegas, that rely heavily on tourist money are going to feel some serious pain.  Wonder if Harry Reid will decide we indeed can drill our way out of our oil shortages if Vegas starts hurting in a big enough way?

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Let it not be said that Congress doesn't understand the needs and concerns of everyday Americans.  With the price of fuel reaching record highs, the House of Representatives has finally taken some decisive action...to ban the interstate sale of pet monkeys:

House members on Tuesday turned a debate on a low-profile bill on pet monkeys into another round in the debate over how to address the price of gasoline.

The bill (HR 2964) would ban the interstate sale or trade of monkeys, chimpanzees and other non-human primates. The House passed it, 302-96, but not before GOP lawmakers argued that the Democratic majority had misplaced priorities.

Not only did Republicans think the bill was unnecessary, but they said floor time would be better spent discussing how to lower gas prices.

“Maybe we should actually spend more time with human primate energy issues, rather than the non-human primate non-issue,” said Rob Bishop, R-Utah. Other GOP lawmakers made similar comments.

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Just another bold move by the Obama campaign to prevent right-wing, Clinton-supporting bloggers like Larry Johnson from spreading any more unwanted rumors, I'm sure:

Two Muslim women were prohibited from sitting behind the podium at Barack Obama’s Monday rally in Detroit, apparently so their headscarves would not appear in photographs with him, according to a report Wednesday in the Politico.com.

The Washington-based Web site reported that Obama campaign volunteers said the women could not wear the hijabs behind the candidate, though they gave different reasons for the rule.

One volunteer said that one of the women could not be seen on TV with Obama “because of the political climate and what’s going on in the world and what’s going on with Muslim Americans,” according to the Muslim woman’s friend.

(And yes, I do know that the campaign has already apologized.  But I am still outraged!  OUTRAGED!)

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In addition to squawking lousing and flinging food everywhere, birds have another charming little habit. They want to kill you:

A Corpus Christi, Texas, man died and his daughter spent weeks in the hospital because of a diseased cockatiel bought from a PetSmart store, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday by the man's family.

Joe De La Garza, 63, died of psittacosis, also known as parrot disease and parrot fever, KRIS 6 News reported. It is an infectious disease caused by the bacterium chlamydophila psittaci and can be passed from numerous bird species to humans.

De La Garza's family told KRIS 6 News that De La Garza's daughter Amanda bought the cockatiel from PetSmart on Sept. 30, 2006. Less than a month later in October, De La Garza died. Amanda was sickened and fell into a coma. She spent weeks in the hospital and has since recovered.

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Be afraid....be very afraid.

Howard Weyers tried the "carrot" approach by giving his employees incentives and encouragement to quit smoking. But when that didn't work, he resorted to the stick. A big stick.

Weyers, owner of a health care benefits administrator in Lansing, Mich., gave his 200 employees an ultimatum in 2004: Quit smoking in 15 months or lose your job. He refused to hire smokers. Ultimately, he extended his smoking ban to employees' spouses and monitored compliance through mandatory random blood testing.

Spouses, and blood testing.

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Neat pictures, check 'em out.

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Why, uh, it's a B-movie, and its the best damn one ever!

Yeah, that's it, they're bored.  Idiot.

Oh, that's good.

Liberal tools.

Yep, that is a good one.

"Have I reached China yet?"

Suck it, Brady Campaign!

Gravitas.

An oldie but a goodie.

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Sarah Desrosiers, the owner of a British hair salon, had a job opening for a junior stylist. She interviewed one particular young lady for the position, decided she wasn't right for the job, and now she's being forced to pay the applicant, with whom she figures she spent a total of about ten minutes during that job interview, £4,000.

Here's a bit of Sarah's story, with one or two teensy little details redacted or omitted:

For a year, Sarah has been facing financial ruin, due to a compensation claim for £34,000 brought by [the applicant], 19, who has maintained she is due that figure after being turned down for a job at the Wedge salon in London's King's Cross.

In the event, the tribunal ruled this week that while [the applicant's] claim of direct discrimination failed, her claim for indirect discrimination had succeeded.

Sarah has therefore been ordered to pay £4,000 compensation by way of 'injury to feelings'.

Although this is a smaller sum than she'd feared she might have to hand over, Sarah, 32, is still outraged.

'I am a small business and the bottom line is that this is not a woman who worked for me,' says Sarah.

'She is simply someone I met for a job interview, who, for a host of reasons, was not right for the job. I cannot see how she deserves £4,000.

'As for the notion that I've injured her feelings - well, people's feelings get injured every day. I dread to think the sorts of things that people will try to claim injured feelings for now that this precedent has been set.'

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You know, I agree with Vinty that if we're going to have to economize on what we use from AP stories, we'd better find the most important news nuggets we can in the fewest words.

That said, I was shocked by a quote from Obama adviser Richard Clarke which I found in this article:

"I'm[...]disgusted by[...]Americans."

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