This looks like a job for.... Gorequemada!

The IOC just needs to think outside the box.
It's been above freezing in the mountains where they're having the Winter Olympics  so they're busing and flying in snow.

Why not convince Al Gore to stage a global worming protest? Maybe have a "Reopening" of An Inconvenient Truth at all area theaters at the same time.

If that doesn't scare up a blizzard I don't know what will.

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Happy Birthday Ronnie

Happy Birthday Ronnie Raygun.
I'm kind of depressed I never watched his speeches. I've never watched any politician's speeches except for a couple Bush ones, like the one after 9/11 and the next SOTU, but that's about it.
Ronnie made speeches like any other politician, but occasionally he made a great one.

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Review - From Paris With Love

This will be short and sweet.  See it.

It isn't artistically great no deep hidden meaning or character torment, or any of that other crap that real movie reviewers like.  It's got guns, a pretty good car chase, some explosions, John Travolta making pop culture references and calling the French Mother-Fuckers who are ungrateful for us saving their asses in not one but two world wars.  All stuff that makes a movie enjoyable, but what it has most of all is No Moral Equivalence. 

The bad guys are just that bad guys.  No big sob story about how their father was tortured and killed by the CIA, no evil industrialists who drove them to it, none of that.  Just some bad guys who need to be taken out by the good guys.  Best of all the good guys are American.

I just have to ask, why does a French guy like Luc Beeson have to make a pro-American movie.  Where the hell is an American director?

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Who Dat

As an adopted Louisianan, I have to admit that I'm getting a little swept up in the Saints fandom.  As an avid video gamer, I love random video game news.  And, as a blogger, I feel the need to be pro-football after daring to suggest that we shouldn't get the Monday after the Super Bowl off work or school.

I submit, for your reading pleasure:

If video games can be believed, here's what the news will be when the Super Bowl is finished: "David Thomas caught an 11-yard touchdown pass from Drew Brees late in the fourth quarter, and the New Orleans Saints won their first Super Bowl by beating the Indianapolis Colts 35-31 on Sunday night."

So sayeth "Madden NFL 10," anyway.

The popular Electronic Arts game, which has accurately predicted the Super Bowl champion in five of the last six years, says Brees will be the MVP.

And EA adds that it correctly simulated the outcomes of the AFC and NFC championship games, within three points.

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Demonsheep!

Hitler responds to Demonsheep.


Downfall. Is there nothing it can't do?

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The Mustache of Justice is still kicking ass

It's depressing as hell (and, frankly, kind of scary) that half of the political class in this country hates a forward-thinking and realistic man like John Bolton as much as they do. The fact that he can hand them (and their standard-bearer, Teh Won) their collective asses like he does here is cold comfort. At least until November...

What warrants close attention is the jarring naïveté of arguing that reducing our capabilities will inhibit nuclear proliferators. That would certainly surprise Tehran and Pyongyang. Obama’s insistence that the evil-doers are “violating international agreements” is also startling, as if this were of equal importance with the proliferation itself.

The premise underlying these assertions may well be found in Obama’s smug earlier comment that we should “put aside the schoolyard taunts about who is tough. . . . Let’s leave behind the fear and division.” By reducing to the level of wayward boys the debates over whether his policies are making us more or less secure, Obama reveals a deep disdain for the decades of strategic thinking that kept America safe during the Cold War and afterwards. Even more pertinent, Obama’s indifference and scorn for real threats are chilling auguries of what the next three years may hold.

Obama has now explicitly rejected the idea that U.S. weakness is provocative, arguing instead that weakness will convince Tehran and Pyongyang to do the opposite of what they have been resolutely doing for decades—vigorously pursuing their nuclear and missile programs. Obama’s first year amply demonstrates that his approach will do nothing even to retard, let alone stop, Iran and North Korea.

Be sure to read the whole thing. Bolton's last line is fucking devastating.

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It's the velvet glove that makes the beating truly hurt

The thing about VDH's beatdowns is that they're so very very polite. That makes the bitchslapping hurt that much worse.

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What would YOU do with 2,000 Playstation 3s?

Video games are awesome.  Now, I'm an XBox 360 girl myself - although I own a PS3 - and I can guarantee you that a crapton of XBoxes couldn't pull off some of the amazing things that a crapton of PS3s wired together can.  To prove it, the Air Force spent a shitton of money on 1,700 PS3s (yes, that's right, seventeen hundred PS3s), so they could hook'em all together and hopefully simulate what exactly goes on in a human brain.

PS3s are powerful systems, and, while the nearly 2,000 systems that will be linked together aren't going to be quite as smart as some other super-computers, they are (believe it or not) a greener way to go - using less power and somehow knowing to shut off PS3s that aren't "thinking" at that moment in time.

Awesome sauce.

(H/T to Xbrad for reminding me about this story.)

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There's an occupation. In my pants.

She has a pair of 45s.
And a real gun too!
I saw a similar vid at the Jawas, so I'm stealing their idea but not their link.

Updated with link. Because I'm an idiot. I need to hook a few thousand Playstations to my brain.

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Pixy! We Know Your Secrets!

Yeah, this explains those "server outages" pal.

FebFast, which works to highlight the dangers of drugs and alcohol, questioned 1006 people in the lead-up to a campaign that encourages Australians to give up drinking during February.

And most believed they had the willpower to meet the challenge.

Three-quarters of those surveyed said they would be able to stay sober for 28 days.

But others totally snubbed the idea, with one in 20 showing just how much they love a drink by revealing they would rather go without sleep for the entire period than not pick up a bottle.

People aged between 20 and 69, from all states and territories, took part in the online survey, conducted over three days in December.

Aussie, Aussie, Aussie. Hic! Hic! Hic! Aussie, Aussie, Aussie, Aussie!

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Speaking of weird crap

The Firefly project is going to study Gamma Ray flashes in the Earth's atmosphere.  (Gee, where could the name have come from, it's a mystery that).  [Obligatory:  GAMMA RAYS WE'RE ALL GONNA DIIIIIIEEE]

From what I understand, which is basically nothing, these are similar to or connected with mega lightening events.  See, this is why settled science is such utter crap.  The entire existence of such events was unknown until the mid-1990's or so.  It turns out this happens far more frequently than expected.  What do we know about these events?  They happen.  That's basically it. 

For that matter, do you realize we still don't understand how lightening forms in the first place?  Really, the concept that we know much of anything about the physical world is shocking in its arrogance. 

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Obviously I must buy this

I mean c'mon it's clearly meant for me.

And, yes, I would buy it just for the humor value.

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Chimpcam? Chimpcam!

Fuck anything else of TV. Fuck it with a fecal stained camera. This trip to the Island of Aweosmeness is what we all need to watch.

On top of the box was a video screen that showed live images of whatever the camera was pointing at.

Initially, the chimps were more interested in each other than the video technology, as two male chimps within the study group vied to become the alpha male, disrupting the experiment {yeah, because "Jersey Shore" was on. Who wants to watch that shit?-ed}.

But over time, some of the chimps learned how to select different videos to watch {ahhh..so they do know how to use a remote! Sneaky bastards-ed}.

For example, the chimps could use a touchscreen to decide whether to watch footage of their outside enclosure, or the food preparation room, where zoo staff prepare the chimps' meals {but no pr0n. Fucking prudes-ed}.

The results still have to be analysed in detail, but it seems the chimps did not prefer to watch any of these images over the others {again. No pr0n. That's why-ed}.

Ms Herrelko is not sure why, but it could be that the images shown were too familiar to the chimps or because they have no way of asking to see something different {yeah, when they can just play with themselves all day, screw each other with abandon, and drink their own urine, why the fucking fuckity fuck with a termite mound would they want to watch the shit that is on the tube? What were you fucking expecting them to watch? Masterfuckingpiece Theatre?-ed}

Oh, and I found the perfect commercial for the show. And it's just right for Alex:

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Barack Obama Paving Way for Palin Presidency

Wow, when the super-libs are predicting a Palin Presidency 3 years out you know things have really gone off track for Obama.

Foreshadowing a Palin presidency is a perfect, gathering storm of economics, politics and tribalism, which is not to suggest that Obama is an innocent bystander in his reversal of fortune. It is certainly true that he inherited a capsized economy. But his administration has done little to right the ship. And no president can survive double-digit unemployment and 30,000 foreclosures a month for long.

...

A protracted stagnation will likely produce competing responses from voters in 2012, both of them bad for Obama. Polls show that African Americans continue to overwhelmingly support the president even though the unemployment rate for blacks is nearly twice the national average. That won’t change much, if at all, in the next three years. But will the laid–off African-American workers, who have exhausted their jobless benefits, turn out to vote in Gary, Ind., Detroit, Cleveland, Philly and Tampa with the same enthusiasm, and in the same numbers, as they did in 2008? Black New Yorkers certainly didn’t turn out last year for Bill Thompson, the African-American Democratic mayoral nominee, who lost narrowly to Michael Bloomberg, the Republican incumbent. Voter turnout was the city’s lowest in almost a century.

Conversely, while the economic climate is likely to leave the country’s most reliably liberal voting bloc demoralized and disengaged from an electoral process, this same dispossession has historically energized white, conservatives—particularly when cast in a racial hue. Consider the post-Reconstruction era, or the post-civil rights era, or even South Africa’s Afrikaners who responded to a fiscal crisis by electing the National Party which introduced apartheid in 1948. Today, you can see a populist, scattershot backlash, emerging in the form of the Republican-led “tea-bag” protests, South Carolina Congressman Joe Wilson’s heckling of Obama and the rock-star sized crowds generated by Palin’s book tour.

Amazingly the author's solution to this "horrible" situation is to ignore the voters who have rejected the Dems in NJ, Virginia, and Massachusetts. His reasoning seems to be that if we spend enough money fast enough then everything will be OK and Palin can be relegated to the dustbin of history.

As the Massachusetts election demonstrates, the problem is not, as much of the media alleges, that Obama and the Democrats have overreached. They haven’t gone far enough. Scott Brown, the Republican candidate in last week’s Massachusetts election, tellingly, made health care “reform” the focus of his triumphant campaign, traveling the state in an old, GM pickup truck, arguing, quite accurately, that the Senate health care plan would cost Americans more money, not less. According to one exit poll, Obama voters who opted for the Republican candidate Scott Brown in Tuesday’s election, said, by a margin of 3-to-2, that the Senate health care proposal “doesn’t go far enough.” Eight of 10 voters in the state continue to want a public option.

source

Sorry buddy but that interpretation isn't going to get you anything but more electoral defeats. Keep trying though it just helps our side.

 

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Dip dip!

Stoaty has a new shirt for the morons who are in on the joke.

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OMGOMGOMG

Stan Lee. Big Bang Theory.  The world is going to explode from the awesomeness.

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I'll admit it

I was very skeptical when I heard that there was going to be a Clash of the Titans remake.

But dude this looks awesome and not just for the Sam Worthington

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Neat story from the Army

A young Afghan teacher throws a rock at a soldier with note attached written in English, asking for school supplies so that he can teach his students.  The Army, working with a New Zealand chaplain gathered up school supplies and clothes for the school.  This bit stuck out to me,

Though the Soldiers didn't have the opportunity to hand out the supplies personally, before leaving Camp Kiwi, they took time to talk with the children who live in Bamyan. One teenager, 18-year-old Qugamali, who also teaches English classes in Bamyan, said they are learning in school about Japan and how the United States helped Japan recover after World War II.

I'm glad this Afghan kid can make that kind of connection, I'm not sure a lot of American kids could make that connection.  Be sure to read the whole thing.  Shame the media ignores stories like this, not that I'm surprised by the media's conduct.

Thanks to Alice.

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SCOTUS Stikes Down Corporate Contribution Ban, Parts of McCain/Feingold

I'm not a lawyer so I can't debate the specifics but I can be very pleased with the result. 

More Liberty = Happy Moron.

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Obligatory

Oh Downfall clip, is there nothing you can't do?

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