Geeks not very geeky

Via the Agitator we find this response to a guy trying to apply to the Geek Squad online.
Apparently, his browser wasn't supported by this techno-geek website
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Supported Web  Browsers:
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.x
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.X (with link to download V)
Netscape Navigator 7.x (with link to download V)

How do you say "Fail" in l33t speak?

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Once Again, The Green Goofs Prove How Stupid They Really Are

Seriously, you flaming bags of stupid might want to research some of your work before trying to "save" the rivers, mmmkay?

Oh, and an extra heaping of civic pride on my part, as my home state proves once again how retarded we really are.

The law was intended to reduce the floating debris from abandoned foam coolers in the state's waterways. But lawmakers, apparently a little rusty with chemistry, barred the wrong plastic.

The white foam coolers commonly called "Styrofoam" are made from expanded polystyrene. But the law bars polypropylene. That's a plastic found in things like dishwasher-safe plastic containers but not usually used to ferry drinks down a river.

The mix up means river floaters can use foam coolers without fear. But someone caught with a dishwasher-safe plastic container could risk up to a year in jail.

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Read this, and spread it to everyone you know

I heard Mark Levin read it yesterday.  Although Allahpundit is a GOP squish, he made it his Quote of the Day.  And he was right, for once.

Seriously, read it, and pass it along.

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Here we go again

Since "Cash for Clunkers" has worked so spectacularly well, let's try another program structured along the same lines:

The Obama administration hopes a new incentive program will help the economy and the environment, persuading people it's time to replace that creaky old thing in your kitchen. The federal government has set aside $300 million for the program as part of the economic stimulus plan.

The details of the program are still being worked out, and they will vary from state to state. State governments have until Oct. 15 to send detailed plans to Washington.

I saw a report on this on a local news program, where some appliance dealer was hopeful about this giving his moribund business a shot in the arm. Yeah, good luck with that.

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There aren't enough "ha's" in Bwahahahahahahhahaha

Dog fighting ring broken up in the greater Philly metropolitan region.

Michael Vick was unaivalable for comment.

H/T Support your Local Gunfighter.
(title edited for lost quotation mark)

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Daschle, redux?

Let's all cross our fingers and hope that the Nevada GOP doesn't find some way to bungle this between now and November of next year...

Senate majority leader Harry Reid faces an uphill battle to keep his seat in the 2010 election, putting him at risk of becoming the second consecutive leader of Senate Democrats to get turned out of office by home-state voters.

“Former boxer Senator Harry Reid is on the ropes early,” the Las Vegas Review Journal said Sunday, reporting that a Mason-Dixon Polling & Research poll showing either of two likely Republican opponents “would knock out Reid in a general election.”

I like this quote from Dingy Harry himself :

“I am not going to change anything. I have always been who I am. People in Nevada know that. Some people like who I am. Others don’t...."

According to the poll numbers, those "others" include about half of the state of Nevada, whereas less than forty percent think you're doing a good job. So, yeah, don't you go changing, Harry.

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Bumped: DoublePlusUndead Fantasy Football League -14 Slots Left

That's right, I'm setting it up.

It will be a Fox Sports 20 player league.  If you are interested, e-mail me at chaos -dot - overlord -at- gmail -dot- com  with the subject DPUD FOOTBALL.  Preference of entry will be given to co-bloggers because I'm a nepotistic asshole like that. 

Hurry up and get while the getting is good!

Also, I need ideas for the four division names so hook me up with your awesome ideas.

Update:  The Division names are Bacon, Zombie, Val-U-Rite and StompyBoot.

Update x 2 :  SPOTS ARE STILL AVAILABLE.  I don't know if you morons don't like football or if you just think its full.  Its not.  Get in on this before I shrink the league down to what I can fill. 

I'm impatient.  

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How many circles does Hell have?

Holy moley
This guy had better pray there's no God.

Remember the guy who fled to Mexico with the teenager he got pregnant?
Well, he was arrested and has been convicted of breaking into a Cathedral and stealing
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  a painting of the Virgin Mary to finance an abortion for a (14 year old)teen he was accused of raping

Did he piss in the Holy Water? Jerk off on the altar? Crap in the confessional?
I'm trying to figure out how to make that worse and I just can't.

Via The Agitator

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Moron of the Day: Mac Guy Flips Out*

Alcohol was involved:

A man suspected of driving drunk is accused of ramming three cars early Sunday on a service road and a parking lot, making a U-turn on the road and attacking one car with his pickup truck, police said today.

No one was injured in the attack, police said.

Police arrested the driver after his truck became disabled and he got out of it, punched himself in the face and sat down.

* - Not actually the Mac guy but take a look at that mug shot and tell me he's not a dead ringer.

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"Well duh", the scientists who don't get it and research dollars.

"Scientists" 'finding out' what we already know and being surprised by it is one of my pet peeves.

In today's exciting episode, via Instapundit, we find this story about how little people know about their friends.

A growing body of experimental evidence suggests that, on the whole, we know significantly less about our friends, colleagues,(Presidents V) and even spouses than we think we do. This lack of knowledge extends far beyond embarrassing game-show fodder - we’re often completely wrong about their likes and dislikes, their political beliefs, their tastes, their cherished values. ...

They even act as if it's a recent phenomenon
Although such blind spots might at first seem like a comment on the atomization of modern life, the shallowness of human connection in the age of bowling alone,...

They skate around it the whole article. Even as they are slapped in the face with it,they keep writing stuff like
Friends and spouses are people to whom we are supposed to be able to confide anything ... Instead, it appears that there are whole regions of our personalities that they miss entirely, and we do the same with them.

Never once, not once, do they even come close to saying, "That's because people believe what they want to believe, always have, always will. In most cases, it keeps us from killing each other."
Con artists, politicians (but I repeat myself), ad execs and more have pretty much turned taking advantage of this into a science and these fools are all surprised that people work that way. 

I learned more about people by reading 'Stranger in a Strange Land" in the 4th grade than any of the researchers in that article have learned in their whole freaking lives.

Allow me to make fun of one particular fool out of an article full of them. It's gratuitous, but he's especially stupid.

It’s not clear that you would need to know everything about someone in order to have a deep and fulfilling relationship with them,” says Nicholas Epley, a professor of behavioral science at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business.

Well Nick, can I call you Nick?, there's a huge body of evidence that would suggest that knowing too much about someone is a bar to having a deep and fulfilling relationship.
Remember the Gilligan's Island show where they could read minds? Remember how much they hated each other?
That's right, this professor of behavioral science knows less about people than a Gilligan's Island episode.

I'm gonna go even farther and say this guy knows less about behavioral sciences than Tom Tuttle from Tacoma, Washington.

Read the whole article, it's actually pretty funny in how obtuse it is. You could get your BS in Obtusity by reading it.

So why the headline?
I'm not sure if this is a good or bad use of research dollars and research scientists.

On the one hand, they would probably gum up the works of any real research.
On the other hand, the money wasted on studies on whether 'being drunk makes ugly people look good' could be used productively studying something useful and not already known.

Maybe someone should do a study.

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CDC to Promote Taking a Whack at Tallywhackers

While I am not male and I don't have any particular preference opinion on this subject, I do think circumcision should be a decision made by parents, and not pushed by public health officials under the auspice of HIV prevention.  I think this verges on nanny state.

What do y'all think?

[Please classify the pronouncement of whether or not you are circumcised under the category of TMI. Thanks.]

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The color-blind presidency

"Out of 93 African Americans on our national poll last week who voted for Obama 92 approve of the job he's doing and one is unsure"

Funny the things you can find from numbers when you have the raw data.

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Think they'll cooperate?

I don't think I have a problem with this, assuming that the 400 workers asking to be moved to day shift during Ramadan are willing to pull extra shifts during Christmas, Easter, Hanukkah, and Passover to help other employees honor their personal religious traditions.

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I'm sure no one here is interested in these

Dr. Horrible hand-made figurines, hand signed by Nathan Fillion.

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Reason Bajillion And One That Fighting Back Against The Left Works

The VA has pulled their "Death Book" manuals from their web site.

Look, I am not going to scream and stomp that Obama's VA was going to urge patients to off themselves, because I do not know for certain. But when and if a part of Obama's program is not explained to the fullest, you better fucking believe that we will not sit there and let them get away with passing something as ambiguous as this deal (among others) without a demand for clarity. And if/when the clarity does come forth, then fight it to the fullest. And way too much of Obama's plans are too ambiguous to just let skate by, to say nothing of what he has officially proposed.

But  any American who wishes to just sit back and say, "Oh Government, please take care of me. I trust you to do the right thing", then you deserve what you get from the Government.

And to those on both sides who want to criticize us for raising hell about any and all aspects of O-Care:

 

more...

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"No I did not, and I apologized for it"

Disabled Marine vet David Hedrick schools WA Democratic Rep Brian Baird. I wonder if it's too late to draft Hedrick into running for Baird's seat in 2010...



(h/t IHateTheMedia)

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Compretery worfress

Alec Baldwin to move to Connecticut to challenge Joe Lieberman for Senate?

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Green THIS, libtards

I suppose the good news is, the Obama Administration isn't trying to turn September 11 into a "Praise Jihad" holiday. Instead, Obumble and his band of merry imbeciles want to distort the tribute to the 2,996 people who lost their lives to Islamofascist terrorism into a treehugging festival.

Today, several Obama Administration officials -- including Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan and Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson, and Department of Energy Under Secretary Kristina Johnson -- and members of Green the Block held a press conference outside the West Wing offices of the White House to discuss opportunities in the new green economy and announce the first major initiative of Green the Block.

"From policy creation to community implementation, the Green the Block campaign wants to see access and opportunity created for all Americans, to build prosperity and a healthier planet for future generations," said Rev. Lennox Yearwood, Jr. of the Hip Hop Caucus. "The first milestone for Green the Block will be on our National Day of Service, September 11, 2009, where we will organize Green the Block service events around the country in coordination with the President's initiative, United We Serve."

There are only 11 national holidays, which leaves...crap, there's not supposed to be math here...oh gosh, 353 days other than a day when nearly 3,000 Americans died at the hands of terrorists that you imbeciles could use as your day to plant shrubs and refuse to flush your toilets even if it's brown and wear your solar-powered bras and pretend to be green for one day a year.  Do the idiots leading our country think there's any tie whatsoever between why our citizens were mass murdered and ecofascism?  Did I miss some proclamation from Osama bin Laden that if we just quit being so damn wasteful, he'd quit getting his jollies from killing people?

September 11 isn't a "National Day of Service", unless by "Service" you mean honoring the Americans who died in the terrorist attacks and honoring the men and women who take up arms to protect our country.  It doesn't matter how hard the Ognoramuses try to change the message of September 11, there's a large portion of the nation who aren't going to forget.

(h/t American Spectator via The Commissar of Love commenting at the Head Moron's)

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It's mainly happy because he's older than me.

I'd like to wish a big ol' HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Gabriel Malor, who turns 87 today!

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For Alexthechick

No it's not shoes. I don't do shoeblogging unless they have a phone in the heel or a knife or machine gun in the toe. It's the latest World of Warcraft trailer. I have to say it isn't near as good as the trailers for Burning Crusade and Lich King and the expansion doesn't sound that impressive. but I am sure it will sell a bajillion copies.




All you other WoW players are welcome to enjoy too I just don't picture sitting at work squealing like a little girl and scaring the piss out of your co-workers.

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