Talk About Your Holistic Treatments

Heavyweight Boxer Vitali Klitscho needed to heal his hands after a rough bout against Nigerian Samuel Peter. So, how did he do it? He used his son's wet diapers.

Klitschko said he wrapped them around his hands and it helped him recover.

"Baby wee is good because it's pure, doesn't contain toxins and doesn't smell," the 37-year old boxer told Bild after he won back the WBC title on Saturday.

"I wrap nappies filled with my three-year-old son Max's wee around my fists," he said, adding he got the idea from his grandmother. "The nappies hold the liquid and the swelling stays down."

Klitschko said Peter should try the diaper trick as well.

Maybe so, but I'll stick to an icepack or raw steak.

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Strange bedfellows

Some of the folks at one Hillary!-centric blog are actually cheering us on, questioning the pollsters and the MSM, and cautioning against despair (ahem, Allahpundit).

We believe John McCain will win, though the media will use all the powers of Hell, if it has to, to swing this election to their favorite candidate. It’s going to be a long hard slog through the rest of this race — but all of this is made so much harder by you Eeyores.

Keep the negative rain cloud garbage to yourself — or even better, be smart enough to see through the propaganda and critically analyze everything that’s being said.

Stop being an Eeyore.

Or, if you can’t do that, at least stop spreading your rain clouds to others.

Because the only thing you are doing is helping Obama.

The people behind this blog seem to be as upset (if not more so) than we are about the prospect of "Obama and his gang of criminals coming to Washington to take over the government," and if that has something to do with the fact that they feel like they were strongarmed out of having their inevitable candidate take the reigns, well, so be it. I'm not super-pleased that we might have to join up with disaffected Clinton supporters to win, but if it takes a coalition like that to beat a guy who was weaned on Saul Alinsky, so be it.  Reagan Democrats, anyone?

(h/t)

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A visual representation of what the Giants believe just stepped on their . . . face

I'm going to go have a cigarette now. 

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It Is Now Probably Easier To Get A Drink In Iraq Than It Is In Some Parts Of America

Especially since an Iraqi town held an Oktoberfest.

We can make this festival with Iraqi people, Turkish people, Kurdish people, American people, German people, with (people from) all over the world in peace and in a real good mood."

He also had a special message for his compatriots, who as Europe's biggest travelers can contribute greatly to any nascent tourism industry.

"For my people from Germany," he said in German to AP Television News, "Iraq is not dangerous everywhere. There are good areas here. There is Kurdistan and the Kurdish region, where you can get around well, where you can get work done, where you are welcome, where the war stays away."

Iraq's Kurdistan region is already a travel destination for thousands of Iraqis, eager to leave behind the heat, dust and daily killings in their country's heartland for the green, tranquil mountains of the north.

Organized bus tours are possible as a result of the improved security that has taken hold in much of the country over the last year. A week in a modest hotel, with bus fare, costs about US$160 per person, or just one-third of an average monthly Iraqi salary.

Arab visitors are still carefully screened in the semiautonomous region about the size of Switzerland and home to nearly 3.8 million people.

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Smokin' hot

If you're the kind of Moron who rolls his or her own (ahem) cigarettes, why not add a little bit of extra flavor?

(h/t)

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Wow! Talk About Motivation Tactics!

In response to Spain's Soccer Team winning the Euro 2008 championships, a Spanish beer company will reward the players in a unique manner.

The Spanish players will each receive their weight in beer from sponsor Cruzcampo after winning Euro 2008 at Austria and Switzerland in June. Liverpool goalkeeper Pepe Reina will be the happiest after tipping the scales at 95.6 kilograms (211 pounds). Villarreal winger Santi Cazorla is the lightest player on the squad at 70.4 kilograms (155 pounds).

The grand total? 1,742 liters for the 23 players on the roster - the equivalent of 5,200 bottles.

And I am happy when I can steal a can of Bud Select from my dad's fridge.

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Dear God, I hope they sell this somewhere around here

I have to get me some of this stuff.  Nay, I think we all have to get some of this stuff.

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So who ends up in the woodchipper?

Gov. Palin is a bit like Marge Gunderson, doncha know?

Much of Palin's appeal and much of why she apparently grates on others is her accent, colloquialisms, grammar, seeming simplicity, and mannerisms—which are a lot like the wily, sing-songy voiced hero of Fargo,  Marge Gunderson. In her methodical, seemingly plodding way, the pregnant Marge systematically figures out the complex criminal labyrinth, and then in courageous fashion wades into the thicket unaware perhaps of the danger from the supposedly more clever involved, but confident that what has worked for her in the past and gotten her this far will see her through just fine as usual.

It's a good comparison, but if I remember right the now-classic Fargo lost the Best Picture Oscar to the once lyrical but now forgettable The English Patient. 

On a slightly related note: A lot of people say "imminent" domain, Allah.  It's called an accent, and it's nothing to get all Eeyore about.

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What's that I hear?

Is it Kathleen Parker crying into her Crystal Light?

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Kill things the Sarah Palin way...

...with the Sarah-Cuda hunting bow!

Lakota Industries Inc. announced its "Sarah-Cuda" bow Wednesday in honor of the Alaska governor's "lifelong passion for the sport of hunting."

The pink camouflage bow weighs 3.4 pounds and is designed to accommodate female hunters and archers. It retails for $590.

Score!  The best part?  10% of the proceeds go to the National Association for Down Syndrome. 

It's about enough to make me want to go hunting. 

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Building a better bourbon

I talk a lot about Val-U-Rite vodka around here, but that's not my only interest. I also enjoy bourbon. Delicious bourbon. Brownest of the brown liquors. What's that? You want me to...baconify you?

To make it, cook up 3-4 strips of bacon. Retain a fluid ounce or so of the rendered fat, letting it cool but not solidify. Discard of the bacon in the manner of your choosing (I’m sure you’ll think of something). Pour the fat and bourbon into a glass jar and let it sit to taste, a matter of hours if the bacon is strong enough.

Now you’ve got a very greasy looking jar of bourbon. To make it ungreasy, put it in the freezer over night. The fat will conveniently congeal for easy straining, and you can clean it up even further with a run through a coffee filter.

If all goes well, your bourbon will now taste and smell distinctively like your bacon.

And Allah (not the blogger, but the Deity) will be mightily displeased with you for having produced the most Haraam beverage this side of Mecca.

(thx, Veeshir)

Previously: Bacon-infused vodka.

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