My current favorite headline

Spokane park to detonate squirrels

Obligatory

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I like JJ Abrams much more now

And the whole cast of the new Star Trek movie, for that matter.

I am in the Army and currently deployed to Kuwait. We have a movie theater on post that shows “second run” movies, meaning that we get the movie about a week or two after they are released in the states. At times, a special effort is made to show the movie here on the same date it is released in the states. With that being said, I was shocked to see the movie schedule that was published for the first half of April. According to this schedule the new Star Trek movie will have a “special premier” on April 11th. I found it very hard to believe that we would be able to view a big “summer time blockbuster” movie that won’t premiere in the States for another 27 days.

Sure enough, the movie actually did get played today and I was able to get in to see it not just once, but twice. Not only did the movie arrive in Kuwait, but J.J. Abrams and most of the “bridge crew” cast (Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana, John Cho, Eric Bana and Karl Urban) were here as well.

The cast went out of their way to entertain us before and after the movie was shown. They were more than happy to interact with the soldiers (Eric Bana leaped out of his “reserved” seat and sat next to a female soldier who invited him next to her) and they took their time describing their experiences making the film and answering questions and requests (Quinto obliged a soldier who asked him to call his daughter back in the states and say hello to her). I was truly impressed and grateful in the fact that they went out of their way to thank us and to offer this film to us. I’ll admit that this review won’t be as objective as it could because of the way the cast lent themselves to us. My biggest thrill was walking up to J.J. Abrams after the film and having the opportunity to give him my general impressions of it. How many times does a geek like me get a chance to do that?

We don't go see many movies in the theater, largely due to the fact that no one seems to recognize anymore that when you purchase a movie ticket you're renting your seat, and not the right to disturb everyone else in the theater, but we'll be making a point to see this in the theater more than once as a result of this.

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Father Jack's favorite

My dad got a bottle of this stuff yesterday:



I had some, and it's pretty smooth.  I'd recommend it.  Oh, and if you don't know who Father Jack is, FECK OFF!!!

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Consumer whoredom ftw

I need this a whole really lot.



From here

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Uh-Oh! Somebody's About To Get Banned From JournoList!

Well, I get the feeling this guy was already banned, but this may make it permanent.

President Barack Obama has recently completed the most successful foreign policy tour since Napoleon's retreat from Moscow. You name it, he blew it. What was his big deal economic programme that he was determined to drive through the G20 summit? Another massive stimulus package, globally funded and co-ordinated. Did he achieve it? Not so as you'd notice.

Well, that's a start. Where can you go from there?:

President Pantywaist is hopping mad and he has a strategy to cut Kim down to size: he is going to slice $1.4bn off America's missile defence programme, presumably on the calculation that Kim would feel it unsporting to hit a sitting duck, so that will spoil his fun.

Watch out, France and Co, there is a new surrender monkey on the block and, over the next four years, he will spectacularly sell out the interests of the West with every kind of liberal-delusionist initiative on nuclear disarmament and sitting down to negotiate with any power freak who wants to buy time to get a good ICBM fix on San Francisco, or wherever. If you thought the world was a tad unsafe with Dubya around, just wait until President Pantywaist gets into his stride.

 

Yup. He's definitely off the list now.

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Oh this fills my subcochal regions with glee

White House Press corps stranded in Istanbul.

Obligatory.

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Why I want to be her when I grow up

This is why I love La Belle Dame Camille Paglia.

I'm specifically talking about the second question on that page.  She fully admits that there is something deeply, deeply ugly at the heart of modern "liberalism".  It should not be so refreshing to hear someone who self-identifies with liberalism do so, but it is.  I wish that she would apply that same level of insight and skepticism towards Obama but I do understand the source of her unwillingness to do so.  I don't agree, mind you, but I do understand. 

   

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Billy Mays Can Bring The Zen Like Nobody's Business

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This Calls For A WIN BRTITANNIA! Tag

National Beer Day!

Bob Russell tabled a parliamentary motion calling on the government to adopt a five-point plan to save the British pub, as TV presenters Melanie Sykes and Oz Clarke backed the call by the Campaign for Real Ale (Camara) and the Independent Family Brewers of Britain (IFBB) for yesterday to be recognised as National Beer Day.

 

The Liberal Democrat MP for Colchester said traditional public houses were being "unfairly priced out of the market while supermarkets offer cheap deals without the level of restrictions and responsibilities required" by licensees of pubs.

A total of 202 MPs, including LibDem deputy leader Vince Cable, former leader Menzies Campbell and the party's home affairs spokesman Chris Huhne, backed the Commons early day motion which comes at the start of National Cask Ale Week.

Labour MP Kim Howells and Tory MP Ann Widdecombe also backed the motion.

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Stock tip

Sure the economy is in bad shape, and you might be somewhat wary about investing right now, but it looks like this might be a good time to buy shares of Val-U-Rite Industries:

A just-released study showed while consumers bought more alcohol in 2008 than in previous years, they're buying cheaper alcohol.

There's no word in the article as to whether or not sales of hobo-huntin' supplies are also on the rise or if there's been a spike in business for Thai tranny hookers, but those studies might be just a little bit harder to conduct.

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abusing the posting privileges again

I've had a singularly craptastic day so instead of railing about the insanity of the universe I'm going to think about how much I love Gambit.  Even if Remy is a gigantic douche. 

Pic below the cut due to size.  Sadly not due to NSFWness. 

more...

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When HuffPo Wants To Surrender In The Limbaugh Wars, How WIll Some On Our Side React?

Just askin'.

President Obama and the Democrats should wave the white flag in their strawman war on Rush Limbaugh. The Media Research Center delivered the grim casualty figures for the Democrats. Since January, the top talk show gabber's ratings have soared off the charts. Radio affiliates that carry Limbaugh's syndicated show call the ratings boost he's gotten from the Democrat's orchestrated attack on him a "dramatic surge." This writer predicted as much when President Obama cracked to Congressional Republicans in late January that they should knock off listening to Limbaugh if they expected to get anything done in Congress and with his administration.

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Yes this is bitchy

Hi. Have y'all paid attention, bitchy isn't something I'm against.

The Allahpundit Drinking Game

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Good morning everyone!

So since things have been a wee bit tense about these parts lately, I thought I would share something that fills me with joy and glee. Yes, it's SFW.

Meet my new crush Lauren.  Seriously.  Seriously no words for how utterly adorable she is.  There's clappyhands people.  I am not made of stone.  And before anyone asks, yes, the boots do play a part in the size of the crush.
<br/><a href="http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?vid=0bb6a07c-c829-4562-8375-49e6693810c7" target="_new" title="Laptop Hunters $1000 - Lauren Gets an HP Pavilion">Video: Laptop Hunters $1000 - Lauren Gets an HP Pavilion</a>

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Pet Monkey+Giant Fake Genitals+Neighborhood Dispute=Teh Awesome!

This is epic win to 11!

This is a classic story of neighbors having a falling out, an arrest and an illegal pet macaque.

It all started about a year ago when the Vaccaros moved to Upper Magic Circle Drive, next door to Carey and Angie Chase and their pet monkey.

They got along at first, but the couples clashed over a minor business dealing and the relationship cooled.

But instead of benign neglect, there was some tit-for-tat, including the placement of a three-foot-tall phallus on the Chases’ deck.

“It was the blow-up penis that threw me over the edge,” Vaccaro said.

Vaccaro said he and his wife didn’t want to escalate the drama, but they’d seen Angie scuffed up with claw marks and the macaque once went after their dog. They worried for the safety of their three-year-old son.

The war of words turned ugly, so the Vaccaros called the cops.

Goshen police and Department of Environmental Conservation officials visited the Chase house, but were not allowed inside. Goshen town Sgt. Allen Faust said they can’t get a search warrant because Vaccaro hasn’t seen the macaque recently. But Carey Chase was charged this week on a harassment violation for allegedly making threats against the Vaccaros.

Vaccaro snapped photos of the monkey while it frolicked on the jungle gym in his back yard, but the Chases deny they have a macaque.

“What monkey?” Angie Chase said. “We don’t have a monkey. Please don’t call here again.”

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Meanwhile, Someone In Europe Still Has Some Balls

Namely, Daniel Hannan.

The internet has changed politics - changed it utterly and forever. Twenty-four hours ago, I made a three-minute speech in the European Parliament, aimed at Gordon Brown. I tipped off the BBC and some of the newspaper correspondents but, unsurprisingly, they ignored me: I am, after all, simply a backbench MEP.

When I woke up this morning, my phone was clogged with texts, my email inbox with messages. Overnight, the YouTube clip of my remarks had attracted over 36,000 hits. By today, it was the most watched video in Britain.

 ...

How did it happen, in the absence of any media coverage? The answer is that political reporters no longer get to decide what's news. The days when a minister gave briefings to a dozen lobby correspondents, and thereby dictated the next day's headlines, are over. Now, a thousand bloggers decide for themselves what is interesting. If enough of them are tickled then, bingo, you're news... And jumbo thanks to all the American bloggers: you chaps are way ahead of us in this regard.

 

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Why I believe there is a God

All of that and she can kick your ass without breaking a nail. 

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Yet Another Reason To Treat The Elderly With Respect

Cane-fu!

"You don't have to be powerful, you don't have to be fast," said Gary Hernandez, who runs the dojo here northeast of Tampa where the session was held and where he teaches cane fighting classes himself. "It's a piece of hard wood. It hurts."

The session starts simply enough, with seniors gathered on the red and black mat twisting this way and that, stretching with their simple wooden canes over their heads and behind their backs. They combine long rubber tension bands with their canes to do bicep curls, leg presses and chest rows - exercises aimed at keeping the seniors fit.

Fitness alone won't ward off those who might hurt them, though, and Shuey talks briefly of recent attacks on elders. His hazel eyes look severe as he points to the cane and delivers his message.

"When you put this little crook around someone's neck, their whole attitude changes real fast," he said.

And in a moment, Shuey shows it. With another instructor, Merle McAlpin, playing the bad guy, Shuey hooks the cane around his neck and thrusts it. The result is a guttural groan of pain from McAlpin.

 

When it's time for the students to try a bit later, Shuey shouts: "Be gentle!"

In the two-hour session, participants are taught a sampling of moves to use in different situations. The cane can simply be swung in circles, used to grab a foot or neck, and fashioned into a bat or poker. Advanced techniques even show a senior how to use a cane to ward off someone with a gun or knife.

It takes years to master cane fighting like Hernandez or Shuey, but they say they can teach a senior several crucial moves in an hour. Perhaps more importantly, though, it gives them confidence that can help them escape a dangerous situation.

"You don't think about carrying it other than for somebody who needs help," said 63-year-old Joan Kirkman, a nurse from Zephyrhills. "But after taking this class, you realize you could do so much more with it."

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Thank you Vermont!

If gay marriage is to endorsed by the state, do it like Vermont is doing, through the legislature.  No bullshit games with the judiciary, either through the legislature or referendum, s'all I'm asking.  I still think we're better off just having all civil unions, and leave marriage to the private sector, but I'm fine with this too.

In any case, looks like the Governor might veto it, but if the Senate vote is any indicator, it'd probably be overridden if he did, so I wonder if he'll let it ride?

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Thank Gaia For Science!

I mean, now I have an excuse to keep drinking.

The effect of alcohol on bone mineral density (BMD) was "larger than what we see for any single nutrient, even for calcium. It's not ambiguous. It's very clear," according to Dr. Katherine Tucker of Tufts University in Boston.

Men who had a glass or two of wine or beer daily had denser bones than non-drinkers, but those who downed two or more servings of hard liquor a day had significantly lower BMD than the men who drank up to two glasses of liquor daily.

The women who drank more than two glasses a day of alcohol or wine had greater BMD than the women who drank less.

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