Its the category of the photo, not the content.

This is what we call smirking-funny, not laugh-out-loud funny, but after this week, I'll take it.

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[AIDS is] a man-made disease in the first place that was placed in Africa just like crack was placed in the black community to break up the Black Panther party.

-- Kanye West, at Live 8

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Strong Profanity Warning. This really pisses me off. I suppose I can say this without resorting to profanity, but right now I don't feel like it.

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Posted by: Ace at 09:30 AM | Comments (164)
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Chilling first hand report about the prison riots and mayhem in NO.

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205 schoolbuses, owned and operated by the city of New Orleans (and not the federal government) sat idle as the ocean swept into the city, and still sit in three foot deep water.

Did Karl Rove order the Mayor of New Orleans not to take the rather simple step of running those buses 24/7 to evacuate the poor (who supposedly didn't have enough money to leave)?

More... And nevermind the additional 364 buses of the NO transportation system, which similarly sat in their parking lots while the levees broke.

Remind me again-- who's in charge of a city's transportation system?

Still More... Galveston, Texas had all of its available buses fueled and ready to roll should Katrina hit that city.

Why didn't New Orleans?

Let me guess: George Bush, Evil Texan Cowboy, sent secret communiques to his Texas buddies telling them to be ready for a major storm while telling the Democratic leaning and heavily black New Orleans "Hey, don't worry about it, just chill out and spark up a bowl! Get ready to parrrr-tay!"

Posted by: Ace at 09:03 AM | Comments (116)
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Cafferty and Blitzer both suspect that Bush's tour of the damage and the massive influx of relief were timed together for political advantage.

Here's the thing: It wasn't a coincidence. But the Angry Left has been demanding purely symbolic gestures by Bush for five days now-- cutting his "vacation" short, visiting the damaged areas, etc.

When he accedes to their demands for feel-good symbolism, they then claw him for doing so.

Pick an f'n' story and stick to it, guys.

Bush was quite capable of directing (to the extent needed) the releif efforts from Crawford. Most of the White House staff was with him throughout his "vacation." That's why they call it "the Western White House."

But you demanded he pull Clinton and Gore "feel your pain" stunt-appearances. He did so. Now you accuse him of pandering.

He was pandering. To you. To your demands for empty gestures.

You got the empty gestures. So why are you complaining now?

One would begin to suspect that the Angry Left and Liberal Legacy Media (largely overlapping groups) are simply going to criticize Bush when he does X as well as when he does not-X.

Posted by: Ace at 08:56 AM | Comments (9)
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And actually so do I. His writes of his disatisfaction with the overly complex and "realistic" Madden football series.

One reason I favor first-person shooters (on the computer) is that there is virtually no learning curve for playing them. All the controls are basically the same. You can just do a quick adjustment to the default controls to set them up the way you're used to and you can start shooting aliens and stormtroopers.

I just don't get the controls on console games. Maybe I'm just too old and set in my ways, but I don't like having to learn a new way to push buttons.

I'm going to buy the first console game that includes a mouse. The mouse is such a perfect and intuitive control for aiming, turning your head, etc. You want to turn right, you move the mouse right. You want to look up, you push the mouse up. Perfectly intuitive and responsive to what you actually want to do.

I gave up on Medal of Honor on the console, which seemed like it could be a good game, because of my complete disatisfaction with the non-intuitive controls.

Who has time for this crap? Teenagers, I guess. But adults want to play these games too... we just don't want to have to study a manual and practice with a goofy control system for hours to do so.

Posted by: Ace at 08:29 AM | Comments (16)
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Keep giving my boy high-profile, important, and complex asssignments. Keep padding that already-impressive resume through 2007.

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A video clip that's sad, infuriating, and funny at the same time, from the disaster relief telethon.

Kanye West (a rapper, I'm told) regurgitates all the goofy shit he's been reading on left-wing blogs and hearing on conspriacy-mongering black radio while Mike Myers attempts to just read the teleprompter. Myers' reaction, or non-reaction, really, is pretty funny.

The really sad thing is that it's evident that this country's politics are deathly sick from paranoiac poison and I'm not sure it will ever be better. I think blogs have something to do with this, sadly.

Life Imitates Saturday Night Live Update: Anyone remember that hilarious sketch where Mike Myers and Heather Locklear were pitchmen for a pasta-maker being sold on an infomercial, and Heather Locklear kept making the vilest (read, "funniest") racial slurs in attempting to hype the past-maker?

And Mike Myers kept wincing every time she'd say something like "You'd have to be drunker than an Indian to pass up this offer" or "It's so inexpensive that even a Puerto Rican can afford it"?

That was strangely similar to the Meyers/West pitch.

The transcript of that sketch is here, but I really wish I could find video of it. Both Myers and especially Heather Locklear were hilarious.

Locklear really sold that racism, with these big smiles and crazy-eyes.

A bit of the sketch:

Richard Hayden [Myers]: ... I'm going to demonstrate my pasta-maker for you and your audience. Do you think your audience would like that?

[ the audience claps ]

Janet Miles [Heather Locklear]: This I have to see! Now, this is a complicated process. Right, Richard?

Richard Hayden: No. My pasta-maker is easy to operate, because the directions are easy to follow.

Janet Miles: Well, we've heard that before: you buy an appliance with easy-to-follow directions, and you get it home, and you need a Ph.D to figure it out. Usually, this "easy direction" stuff is a big lie.. like the Holocaust! [ the phones ring wild, and the bulbs light up on the map ] Now, are your directions really easy to follow? Or is it just another Holocaust-type scam?

Richard Hayden: [ dumbfounded by Janet's statements ] Uh.. they're, uh.. they're, uh.. easy to follow.. they, uh.. involve, uh.. three easy steps..

Janet Miles: Well, does the audience want to see these three easy steps to good-tasting pasta?

[ the audience relunctantly claps ]

Richard Hayden: O..kay.. Well, you just pour in the flour.. [ pours in the flour ] ..the egg and water mix.. [ pours in the egg and water ] ..and that's it. Hit the button, and look. Here comes the pasta [ pasta starts coming out of the machine ].

Janet Miles: [ excited ] So incredible! And so fast! Well, let's take some phone calls! I'm sure people want to find out more about this amazing machine! Caller, you're on "Timesavers"!

Caller #1: [ shaken ] Are you insane?! Did you just say that the Holocaust was a lie?!

Janet Miles: Listen.. there is no way of ever knowing if the Holocaust actually happened. But we do know this is an amazing pasta-maker. Next caller. You're on "Timesaver"!

What About Robert Byrd? Update: The Therapist has an exclusive about Byrd's conflicted emotions about aiding black folks.

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Even individual houses at highest resolution.

Link Fixed. Forgot the opening quotes.

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