Here. Because the universe sucks.

Bah. Humbug. Am Not A Happy Alex at the moment. This though. Oh this. Dulli's voice makes me want to do very bad things very well.



Guh. The mary janes. Guh.

Oh and this:


Best. Ending. Ever.

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Illinois is broke

...and they don't even offer IOUs like the Soviet of California, they just don't pay their bills, and they've got about $6 billion in unpaid bills and funding.  Naturally, the Democrat governor is proposing a tax hike to deal with the issue.  I'm thinking we need a We're Out Of Fucking Money, Stupid category for the sidebar.

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Evan Bayh, douchebag

If this were a Republican...

(h/t)

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Eyeballing? Srsly?

I'd find this less disturbing if it resulted in death rather than us just ending up with a bunch of idiots who can't see.  Can we get some legislation passed barring anyone who's this stupid from getting welfare benefits after they've blinded themselves?

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And this is how the zombie apocalypse begins

Uh, just WTF is Alcor hoping to accomplish by cryogenically freezing a head that's been buried for two years?  Especially one with a brain that was already suffering from dementia.  I'm having visions of a lab accident where the head is accidentally thawed out and drags itself along the floor by its eyeballs until it reaches an unsuspecting janitor who gets bitten on the ankle before he bats the head under a table with his broom, to never be found until the sequel.

_{(Note: That's not Orville Richardson's actual head, but you can buy it here. There's a discount for bulk orders.  The fake head, I mean.  As far as I know, Alcor isn't selling Orville's head.  Maybe we should take up a collection and kill it with fire, though.)}

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Former Food Network host arrested for murder-for-hire plot

He tried to hire a bunch of hobos to kill a dude, or something, bail is $5 million, so this had to have been pretty serious shit.  Hobos reported him to police and they worked with police to catch the guy.  No, it's not Mario Batali, you can relax, it was some dude who had one of those early morning weekend crap shows no one watched.  Pretty much by early 2009 I'd quit watching TV entirely, but I still recognized the name of the guy's show, and LOLd.  IIRC, the dude was sort of a mincing wuss, probably didn't have it in him to do the deed himself.  Clearly not a follower of the Ace of Spades Lifestyle, as every Moron knows, hobos are to be hunted, not made into the hunter.

I noticed this till I ditched TV (and I don't miss it, seriously, commit to turning it off for three weeks, guarantee there's a 50% shot you end up canceling your cable/sat), but Food Network is the perfect "background noise" channel, except when Rachel Ray or that semi-homemade whatever was on.

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Hey, ladies!

Are you looking for a fella? Well, if you're smart, willing to go to ballgames, and this, that and the other, have I got the guy for you!

Oh, and let me warn you: if you walk out the first time you see him, you just might not be the gal for him.

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The "Blame Bush" Mantra Has Jumped The Shark

And Matt Yglesias (he of the JournoList, so you know that the rest of the leftysphere has this one in their pocket, ready to strike with it) officially renders it comical.

By 2009, of course, Barack Obama was already in the White House. But it takes time to staff an administration and take charge of an agency. Current MMS director Liz Birnbaum didn't take office until July 2009, months after the exclusion was granted. More to the point, the dysfunctional attitude of MMS managers reflected problems that were deeply ingrained under the previous administration.

The stupid in that quote is so towering, I cannot even begin to tackle it.

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Oh Hai

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Bleg - Who knows someone at Blizzard

I am having problems with a World of Warcraft account and am not getting a lot of traction in getting it resolved.

Here's the issue: 

Last Feb. (2009) My account was frozen because it was stolen or suspected of being stolen.  I contacted Blizzard and after a number of days they sent me some forms to fill out and said they would determine whether to restore the account.  I sent the forms in and never heard anything back, and the account remained locked so when my Credit card expired I let the account payments expire. 

Recently I decided to start playing again so I dug out the disks and set up a battle net account.  My original Wow disk was damaged so I bought a new one and installed and downloaded patches.  No problem so far.  Then I tried to install Burning Crusade.  Put the disk in and it skipped immediately to play (no install stuff which after the patch I download seems semi reasonable) so I go to enter the key on battle-net and it gets refused because it is linked to the old frozen account.  I go to the FAQ page as directed and it tells me to merge the old account.  I try but of course it is still frozen, so I contact Blizzard.  Again it takes a couple days for response but a GM contacts me and asks me to repeat everything I put in the trouble ticket.  I do and he responds that I need to merge accounts.  I explain again that I can't and tell him that if they want to supply a new authentication key great or if they will unfreeze the old account great. He responds again and tells me to contact billing and technical services, the same people who didn't restore the account last time.  So I can try again to have Blizzard restore the old account, which I am not optimistic about, I can shell out another $80 for Burning Crusade and Wrath of the Lich King, I can hope someone knows someone who can maybe bump this issue up a notch, or I can take my money somewhere else.

At this point the last option looks most likely, but hell who knows maybe one of you is on a first name basis with some Blizzard dude who can make the world right again.

Update:  So after a 1.25 hour wait on hold for someone to answer I am back to where I was last year with Blizzard telling me the account was locked because it looks like someone stole it and please fill out these forms, which he promised he would e-mail.  No record of the ones I filled out and faxed back last year.  They did reset the email back to my email so that's a plus at least.

Update 2:  Giving credit where credit is due, David did send the form in a timely fashion and followed up after I resubmitted it this evening.  The wait earlier was irritating, as is the entire issue, but his attitude is making up for it.

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I Guess Charles Johnson Was Always A Greenie After All

Hell, this recently discovered tape of him when he was a backup guitar player and spouting leftist tripe was recently discovered.



Thanks

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When he's right, he's right

Allahpundit takes a lot of shit (sometimes from me) for being a RINO squish, but he's got it exactly right here about the Arizona boycotts:

As a wise man once said, you can’t reason a man out of that which he wasn’t reasoned into, so rather than trying to politely explain the virtues of the law, they’d better start thinking about reciprocal boycotts. Take a piece of California’s ass economically and let state officials over there deal with the headaches of their own business leaders. And at some point, some high-profile Arizona pol really should call the bluff of sanctuary cities by offering to release captured illegals into their custody in lieu of deporting them. If Gavin Newsom and Mike Bloomberg and Antonio Villaraigosa are all so hot to welcome the “undocumented,” fantastic: Arizona’s got an endless supply and will be happy to provide however many to San Francisco and New York and L.A. that they’d like.

Of course, as a Californian, this would be disastrous for me, personally, but it might just be the kind of kick in the ass that our political leaders could use. An actual example of burning down the village in order to save it.

Incidentally, this is not at all related or anything.

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O, Canada

Well played, for once.

Now, let's talk about your "Hate Crimes" and "Thought Crimes" tribunals.

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Too many jokes to choose from ...

Japan is known for its unique fashion.  Well, at least, I know Japan for that.  Apparently, though, there is one thing that even the Japanese can't forgive - a ridiculous checkered shirt that appears to be from 1987.  (Seriously, click on the link; the picture of this shirt is fucking awesome.  Awesome in a Megashark-vs.-Giant-Octopus kind of way, not in a someone-just-invented-the-teleporter-and-you-can-actually-afford-one kind of way.)

Japan's Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama has been seeing his poll ratings tumble amid criticism of his leadership - and his fashion sense.

Reporters pounced on a checked shirt he wore to meet members of the public at a barbecue at his official residence.

With one sleeve yellow, the other blue, a red front, purple back and green cuffs, it was certainly eye-catching.

Fashion designer Don Konishi wrote in a national magazine: "Is anyone able to stop him wearing such a thing?"

And you thought Michelle Obama's boob belts were bad.  Hah.

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HuffPoster proposes the federal government create a Ministry of Truth

No, seriously, he really does.

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Sometimes the government isn't so stupid

Remember all the hub-bub about the commercials and letters that the Census Bureau paid for earlier in the year.  Well my unscientific anecdotal evidence indicates that they were necessary.

I am working as an enumerator (one of the guys who goes around house to house) and you would be surprised how many people tell me they threw away the census forms because they didn't know what they were for but are willing to answer my questions because they saw the commercials.  I guess even a stopped clock can be write twice a day.

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Why The British Coalition Government Is Doomed To Fail

David Brooks supports it, complete with the same set of buzzwords he uses when not polishing Obama's knob.

In so doing, he {PM Cameron} has changed the nature of his own party, and the nature of the Liberal Democrats, his coalition partner. If he had a small majority, he would have been hostage to his most ideological members. As it is, he has potentially weakened the strong partisans in both parties, empowered the pragmatists {sigh-ed} who are better-suited to coalition politics and created a less polarized political climate.

Matthew Parris, also of The Times of London, writes that watching Cameron and Nick Clegg, the Liberal Democrats’ leader, “was like witnessing a coup. Millions of viewers will have shared my impression almost of watching two men staging a putsch against their own parties, against the entire British political system, and against the ingrained assumptions of more than a century of parliamentary government.” Parris sees the potential for a softening of the normal adversarial culture, a strengthening of the sort of leader who likes compromise and a weakening of the sort that detests it {and how much you wanna bet that the first time Cameron does something Clegg doesn't like, we see a Vote of No Confidence?-ed}.

Fuck consensus. Fuck compromise and ignoring the base of people who helped get you to where you are, only to embrace somebody who will stab you in the fucking back the first chance he gets. Just ask Bob Bennett what happens when you tell your people that they don't fucking matter and that "consensus" and "getting things done" matter more than winning or losing on a fucking set of fucking ideas. Yeah, we will lose from time to time, and we must (sometimes) be a little more flexible in who and where we support certain candidates, but having a core value means something. But the fucking geniuses in the RNC and the RINOs like Brooks try to scold us and tell us that they and their 1962 Metsesque string of failure and incompetence is the way to go.

But wait! Brooksie gets better.

Cameron has the opportunity to look less like a party leader and more like a national leader. Today’s coalition will compel the Tories to formulate policies in new ways, and lodge them closer to the center of the electorate {yeah. Because being a strident ideologue with the courage of convictions always fails against the backdrop of limpness. Just compare and contrast Thatcher to Major or Blair to Brown-ed}

It helps that the Conservative government has already moved to a more communitarian “Big Society” governing philosophy. No longer purely free market, the Tories emphasize rebuilding social bonds {oh fuck me with an alligator's tooth! The Free Market made the British Empire while the social welfare and social compact movement has ruined it-ed}. That means they speak less about slashing government as a matter of principle {and that is bad?-ed} and more about improving it and decentralizing power {but not getting rid of it. And where does this newly decentralized power now go? To the people/commerce, or to the traffic cameras in every town?-ed} This little platoons approach has left- and right-wing variants and has the potential to break down the old ideologies {somehow lost in all of this a freaking understanding of what has worked and what has failed. But an Ivy League Swell like Brooksie is too smart to catch that one-ed}.

Of course, it all could fail. The parties could reject the implant. In U.S. terms, it’s like a marriage between Marco Rubio (The Tory base) and the accumulated wisdom of the Ivy League (the Liberal Democrats) {what the fuck does Rubio have to do with this, given his free market views? That is, unless Brooks concedes that the bases of the conservative parties are at war with their "leaders". In that case, the Rubio/Crist, Bennett/UT GOP, Dede/Hoffman references do match. And what the fuck does the Ivy League have to do with this? Listening to Ivies like Brooks when we should be listening to the businessmen in Sheboygan is what fucked us all over the fuckbarrel the last few years-ed} But Cameron and Clegg are nothing if not flexible {whoa! So they can bend forward and suck their own wangs? That is impressive!-ed}. The entire political class understands what needs to be done {do they? Prove it, ovalfuck-ed}. The financial markets will insist on some serious budgetary restraint.

Without any planning but by sheer good luck, the British may have stumbled into an arrangement that will be a model for all the other countries in the same desperate straits {OK. So if the GOP cleans up this fall, are you going to urge them to be more Obama-like, or urge Obama to adapt to the GOP? So far, he has not been flexible, and our willingness to stand up to him and his policies have helped us gain with the voters. Maybe impasse, gridlock, al or nothing elections, and a clear difference, and not muddle, is what has helped us over the past 220 years or so-ed}.

Seriously, Brooksie, fuck you. Fuck you with a six nippled fucksheep's discharge. Fuck your desire to see consensus now that leftism is set to lose while you urged us to yield to the statists last year. Fuck you for telling us that giving in to "get things done" is better than standing firm, planting your sword in the ground like a Gurkha, and saying, "none shall pass", especially when the "get things done" mantra only applied to fucking up healthcare and the economy, while actually fucking doing something about a real threat (illegal immigration) was deemed awful by you and your Cocktail Party Circuit. Fuck you for telling us we need to reach across the aisle, when doing so leads to disaster for the country with shitty laws being passed. Fuck you for telling us that you and the candlefuckers you associate with are better suited to run things than some hick from the sticks, when all you have done is lead to systems, policies, and political calculations that have put us on the path to ruin. Fuck you for stating that the belief in the free market should give way to the gobbledygook you preach (while you worked for a time for the man who was one of the spiritual and intellectual leaders of the Reagan movement), when your gobbledyfuckinggook is what fails to get us out of trouble. And fuck you for being such a smarmy, arrogant, nasty jackass who can't admit your way is destined to fail and wouldn't know reality if it spit in your pate spread tonight.

You see, Brooksie. Right about now, your beloved coalition building in this country (namely, we give in to Obama) is about to face in November the same sort of trouble that Caffa faced when plague bloated corpses were catapulted at it. And the best part? You and your ilk have no idea it is coming. And when it does, any Not Obama who takes your inevitable advice of giving in for the greater good (after winning on a "Fuck Statism" platform) needs to get the trepanation of fuck and sent back to Fucksville.

So get fucked, flexible coalition style, Brooksie. And use a can of Spotted Dick for lube.

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Small Step Towards Kicking Cancer's Ass

In a very small preliminary study in Canada, four out of the five brain cancer patients given dichloroacetate showed "no further brain cancer growth after initial treatment". Isolated glioblastomas from 49 patients also showed improvement.  Good enough that the researchers are talking about more extensive trials.

Of course, the drug in question is generic, so funding for study had to be raised through private donations and government funding. 

Perverse as it is, it makes sense that drug companies would be reluctant to do expensive studies on drugs they can't patent.  But as the Slashdot summary asks, what's happening to all the money flowing to various cancer societies, if it's apparently not to research like this?

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Kittehs. They will eat your soul.

We have kittehs, autotune and a gun. Good times, good times.

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Ten Bucks says this is tomorrow's BBF

BBF, for the uninitiated, is Big Boob Friday.  Big Boob Friday is a regular feature over at The Hostages, where Rosetta (America's Favorite Man-Lesbian) posts pictures of a (usually) Eastern European woman with gigantic breasts, then wiserbud makes fun of Rosetta and his featured BBF.

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