Monthly Archive for February, 2007
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The crack team of audio and video technicians working for OliverWillis.com have uncovered a hidden message from Ms. Alba to Oliver Willis in the latest commercial for Fantastic Four 2. Reached for comment, Willis said “Well, now the world knows about our love. Please, keep this private and tell every single person you know.”
Iraq’s neighbors, including Iran and Syria, have agreed to join U.S. and British representatives at a regional conference here on the Iraqi security crisis, government officials said Wednesday.
Deputy Foreign Minister Labid Abawi told The Associated Press that Russia and France were studying the invitation, but “I don’t see any sign they will refuse.”
“Syria, Iran, Saudi Arabia, even the U.S and Britain have informed us they will participate,” he said, although Tehran has said publicly it has made no decision. Abawi also said China had agreed to attend.
Oh, right, I know where I heard it before.
John Kerry, September 30, 2004:
I know I can do a better job in Iraq. I have a plan to have a summit with all of the allies, something this president has not yet achieved, not yet been able to do to bring people to the table.
Almost 3 years and 2,100 American lives later.
Screw these horrible people and screw them in the afterlife.
Because right up there with terrorism, murder, and other sorts of crime is the off chance that people could see a boob.
[Brent] Ward, who was among the most strident adversaries of the porn industry as U.S. Attorney in Utah in the 1980s, is heading a new Justice Department task force aimed at enforcing federal
You see what porn does to you? Think of the children, Jenna Jameson!obscenity laws.
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The way Ward sees it, American culture is saturated with pornography, and it has profound consequences, eroding families, increasing violence against women, warping perceptions of sex and helping child predators groom victims.
“We’re not going to prosecute it away, but it’s important, I think, that Americans see their government trying to do something about it,” he said. The task force, with a total of four prosecutors, 10 FBI agents and a postal inspector, has the job of putting together cases that can be prosecuted by U.S. attorneys in various states.
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Wade Smith, a lawyer who defended P.H.E., said Ward took a hard line in his distaste for pornography.
“He was unwilling to acknowledge that there was a place for any kind of adult material in the framework of the First Amendment,” including publications like Playboy, Smith said. “As a matter of fact, he was extremely and completely rigid in wanting us out of business.”
Judges first in Washington, D.C., and later the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the strategy went too far. The 10th Circuit judges called the charges “the tainted fruit of a prosecutorial attempt to curtail P.H.E.’s future First Amendment protected speech.”
What a psycho and an amazing waste of taxpayer funds against a constitutionally protected form of speech.
Purge baby, purge.
The U.S. attorney from New Mexico who was recently fired by the Bush administration said Wednesday that he believes he was forced out because he refused to rush an indictment in an ongoing probe of local Democrats a month before November’s Congressional elections.
David Iglesias said two members of Congress separately called in mid October to inquire about the timing of an ongoing probe of a kickback scheme and appeared eager for an indictment to be issued on the eve of the elections in order to benefit the Republicans. He refused to name the members of Congress because he said he feared retaliation.
A note to redstaters. It’s really hard for us coastal liberal elites to not caricature you as knuckle-dragging drooling morons when you act like knuckle-dragging drooling morons.
Minister quits over sex scandal.
Liberia’s top government minister, Willis Knuckles, has resigned over a sex scandal, the president has said.
Last week a local newspaper printed graphic pictures of President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf’s most senior minister having sex with two women.
Mrs Johnson-Sirleaf said that her presidential affairs minister “has been a friend and close associate for many years”.
“I believe that Minister Knuckles brought to his family and friends much pain, but one which should not be allowed to tarnish his long years of service and commitment to our beloved country,” she said in a radio address on Monday evening.
It goes without saying that Minister Knuckles is no relation of mine.
College professor Glenn Reynolds (Instapundit) provides deep analysis of Al Gore.
as he [Gore] gains weight, he’s even starting to look a bit like a younger Jerry Falwell
That’s right, kids. Al Gore discussing fighting global warming is the same as Jerry “We Deserved 9/11″ Falwell because they both are heavier than average.
Ohhhhkay.
What an awesome episode Monday night. This show is now everything I wish Lost has turned out not to be – and… super powers!
First Giuliani, now Mitt Romney.
Here are some views of Mitt Romney causing concern inside his campaign: His hair looks too perfect, he’s not a tough war time leader, and he has earned a reputation as "Slick Dancing Mitt" or "Flip-Flop Mitt."
Romney and his advisers have identified those perceptions as threats to his bid for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination, according to an exhaustive internal campaign document obtained by the Globe.
The 77-slide PowerPoint presentation offers a revealing look at Romney’s pursuit of the White House, outlining a plan for branding himself, framing his competitors, and allaying voter concerns about his record, his Mormon faith, and his shifts on key issues like abortion.
Free idea for Democratic candidates: If these Republicans can’t keep their internal documents out of the newspapers, how the heck can we trust them with secret, sensitive national security data?
It’s a p.r. gimmick for a good cause, but weird.
Gov. Bill Ritter, D-Colo., challenged Gov. Deval Patrick, D-Mass., to an arm wrestling match over creating a new generation of jobs in their state this morning at a gathering of business, environmental and labor leaders in Washington. The meeting, called the Apollo Summit, was convened by nearly 200 community leaders to create a strategy to promote clean energy solutions that create good jobs in America.
A suicide bomber killed 19 people and wounded 11 outside the main U.S. military base in Afghanistan on Tuesday during a visit by Vice President Dick Cheney, though the vice president was apparently not in danger, U.S. and Afghan officials said.
The blast happened near the first security gate outside the base at Bagram, killing 19 people, said Khoja Mohammad Qasim Sayedi, chief of the province’s public health department. Gov. Abdul Jabar Taqwa said “18 to 20 dead bodies” lay on the ground after the blast.
From the Eat The Press review of Fox’s blog show "it’s out there".
The show’s "Left Hook, Right Hook" segment does bring on someone from each side — tonight Ari Berman of The Nation (introduced by Powers) and John Hinderacker of PowerLine and (introduced by Malkin) — but it felt like Malkin was pushing for the team more than Powers.
Kirsten Powers is part of the Fox News Fake Democrat Ringer Squad, sent there to agree with conservative talking points while looking like a bobblehead doll. That’s why they cut her a check. (Pat Cadell is part of this group too)
They couldn’t let the guy who got more votes than their beloved Bush have a moment in the sun. The right wing noise machine is on the attack against Al Gore, led online by their chief goons Glenn Reynolds and Matt Drudge. Dave Johnson has details on the Exxon money behind this latest attack (this isn’t the first time Exxon has attacked Al Gore), while ThinkProgress has Gore’s response and the actual facts.
The global warming deniers look more and more like their similarly deluded holocaust deniers every day, but they’ve got money on their side.
Which other celebs will join the foreign policy elite?
The prestigious Council on Foreign Relations is about to get a jolt of sex appeal.
The exclusive, Manhattan-based foreign-policy group has decided to admit actress Angelina Jolie, a U.N. goodwill ambassador who has taken more than 30 trips worldwide to advocate for refugees, AIDS orphans and disaster victims.
On Friday night, the council’s membership accepted Jolie’s nomination — meaning she will soon be rubbing elbows with other club members such as Dick Cheney, Condoleezza Rice, Henry Kissinger, Colin Powell and Alan Greenspan.
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Now, look, I could say that Rudy Giuliani’s rant about ferrets and the people who love them said something about his possible presidential temperament, and maybe it does – but its more like it’s just a funny audio clip of a major political figure – the mayor of New York, later a Republican candidate for the presidency – arguing about ferrets. This, is America.
MP3 of Rudy Giuliani’s ferret rant.
(via, and originally from This American Life)
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