What a shock:

Alois Brunner, Adolf Eichmann's right-hand man... is estimated to have been responsible for the deaths of 130,000 Jews. He was last seen on a street in Damascus in 1992, and was believed to be living in a guarded apartment in the Syrian capital. He would now be aged 92.

The enemy of my enemy is my dear guest, I suppose.

George Galloway's newest buddy is Syria's cretinous tyrant, Bashar Assad. I'm not saying the left is objectively pro-Hitler, but they do keep odd company.

Like down with dogs, wake up with Nazis. Then again, the hard left hasn't been above making tactical alliances with Nazis in the past.

Thanks to cutaway.

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Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist is a rich guy. Besides making crazy cardiologist loot, he came from a rich family, valued at over a billion. His father, Thomas, helped found Hospital Corporation of America, a company that grew into what is now the nationÂ’s largest chain of private hospitals. And as you might expect, Bill owned some HCA stock.

How much? Well that isnÂ’t quite clear. In 1994 his HCA holdings were valued at $13 million. The next year he entered the Senate, and because he would be working on legislation that could impact the med. industry and therefore HCA, he did what Senators are supposed to do - he placed his HCA and other assets in a blind trust.

Now, I donÂ’t know much about blind trusts. I sorta thought the whole point was that you would be, you know, blind to the assets once they went in. That your trust manager would give you some overall accounting as to the entiretyÂ’s worth, but youÂ’d have no input into the purchase or sale of its constituent assets.

I hope IÂ’d be excused as to this notion. The AP notes that Frist himself seemed to believe much the same when he explained in a television interview:

"Well, I think really for our viewers it should be understood that I put this into a blind trust. So as far as I know, I own no HCA stock"

Frist, referring to his trust and those of his family, also said in the interview, "I have no control. It is illegal right now for me to know what the composition of those trusts are. So I have no idea."

(h/t Captain's Quarters)

Now it appears quite certain that Frist knew he still had HCA in his trust. It’s certain because, in June, he specifically directed his imposingly named trust fund manager, M. Kirk Scobey Jr., to sell it. All of it. And the BIG QUESTION is whether Frist was the beneficiary of “inside information” when he ordered the sale.
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Posted by: Dr. Reo Symes at 12:55 PM | Comments (30)
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I feel close to you people. Because I'm a retard. But I digress; let me tell you about my evening tonight.

Lauraw stood upon the porch and bade Dog to Come In from his Travels.
Dog came and he was Praised.
Lauraw looked upon him and she saw that he was Fine. She Toucheth him for comfort and was rebuked; there was a black tar upon him. She smelt it upon her Hand and knew it was Shit (Yea Verily, for Dogs rolleth in Shit like it's fucking cotton candy).

Lauraw ran into the house and cried out, but her husband would not come forth. Then she Knew that she would Have to Do it Her-Fucking-Selfeth.

Towels and Hot water she brought forth, Soap and blood-curdling curses. She enticed Dog with Cookies, but he smelteth the soap and with the Power of Satan which yet abode in his hairs, made himself Very Small.

But Lauraw Saw him; she was Wise to the DevilÂ’s tricks and seized Dog upon the Neck, and soapethed him and cursethed him, alternately. Roughly, and Loudly. Eth.

Dog felt the waters and he Knew he was Bad. And then he knew he was Clothed in both Shame and Shit. And, yea! verily, did his ears recede and his pate grow long; and Yea! did his Eyes grow Big, and they did beseecheth Lauraw for mercy, with the clever guiles of Satan.

But Lauraw, yet cursing in many tongues, cleansed him and baptized him in clean waters and drew out SatanÂ’s black-sticky-fucking What the Fuck Animal IS this Shit From Taint of Shame.
And when she was done, she saw that It was Good.

But Dog still skulked around the House like a guilty jerk afterwards anyway.

Posted by: LauraW. at 06:52 PM | Comments (43)
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And that's just jake by me.

He slams TV critic Alessandra Staley for incorrectly reporting that Geraldo Rivera "nudged" military personnel out of the way in order to help a wheelchair bound woman down some stairs. The tape simply shows no "nudge" at all; top Times honcho Bill Keller seems to be claiming that he "metaphorically nudged" people aside through grandstanding, and that's good enough to be reported as a literal, physical nudge, without correction.

He repeats that the Times is not enforcing its corrections policy as regards its editorial page's finest left-wing blogger in print format, Paul Krugman.

And then he notes that the Times, which has a policy now of posting substantive corrections in a "Corrections" column where minor errata (mispelled names, incorrect titles, etc.) are listed in a "For the Record" column, seems to be slipping quite a few substantive, important corrections into the "For the Record" list.

Thereby covering up how many big, important errors they actual make.

On f'n' fire. On. F'n'. Fire.

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Mother Peace realizes she's jumped the shark.

To improve her ratings, the Mother Peace: It's All About Me show will add a new character next week. Mother Peace will be joined by an adorable towhead called "Cousin Oliver," who finds an Evil Tiki Doll which causes him all sorts of bad luck, like being drafted at age 8 to serve in Bush's Unholy Illegal War in Iraq and then being subsequently sodomized by Lyddie England.

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Okay, it's really not funny. Odd, but not ha-ha funny.

Still, it reminds me of an exchange in Barcelona:

SPANISH GIRL: But Americans are so violent. You shoot and kill so many people.

AMERICAN GUY: That doesn't mean we're more violent. It just means we're better shots.

Thanks to skinbad.

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Our boys got some, too:

Senator Hill said US helicopter and fixed-wing aircraft were called in to provide support during the firefight that lasted hours.

"Our people were able to withdraw and join up with other ground forces," he said.

Asked about information received by The Sun-Herald that the Australians had killed at least 10 of the Afghan fighters, Senator Hill said: "I've heard that it was significantly more than that."

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Supposedly to help curb her "obsession" with sex.

Thanks to Craig.

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Canada’s set themselves up a nice little medical system outside those passing twin fancies of American economic thought, “supply” and “demand,” paying Ontario doctors about half what they make in the U.S.

The bizarro-world result: "Ontario is short almost 2,200 physicians, leaving almost 1.2 million patients without access to a doctor."

WhoÂ’da guessed.

And the solution?

Ontario will attempt to lure disgruntled gay and lesbian U.S. medical professionals to the province, Health Minister George Smitherman said yesterdayÂ…

[Silverman] said the province was capitalizing on Canada's image for left-leaning values - which includes gay marriage legislation.

Yep, Canada skips the market reforms, attempting instead to stir up shit and further drive a stake between gay Americans and their country over cultural issues.

The campaignÂ’s next stage:

African-American Doctors: Consider relocating to Canada. YÂ’knowÂ… before all the lynching starts up again.

Canada. We donÂ’t lynch doctors.

(Because in your heart, you know itÂ’s just a matter of time.)

Posted by: Dr. Reo Symes at 10:59 AM | Comments (15)
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This guy claims he can reduce a hurricane by about 20% by dropping (10) 747's full of diaper gel into it.

How can you argue with such spunky, cockeyed optimism? At least the guy is trying to do something. The feds think he's nuts of course.

His residential products are intriguing. I've always wanted my lawn and shrubs to have a glossy gel-like appearance. But who hasn't, am I right?

Hat tip to scott.

Ace's Update: Maybe Not Completely Spunky, Cockeyed Optimism! The government has done experiments, with actual hurricanes, and they have noticed some ameliorating effect... sometimes:

But it wasn't until 1961 that initial tests were conducted on Hurricane Esther with a Navy plane releasing silver iodide crystals. Some reports indicate winds were reduced by 10 percent to 30 percent.

During Stormfury, scientists also seeded hurricanes in 1963, 1969 and 1971 over the open Atlantic Ocean far from land.

Researchers dropped silver iodide, a substance that serves as an effective ice nuclei, into clouds just outside of the hurricane's eyewall. The idea was that a new ring of clouds would form around the artificial ice nuclei. The new clouds were supposed to change rain patterns and form a new eyewall that would collapse the old one. The reformed hurricane would spin more slowly and be less dangerous.

Sometimes, the experiments appeared to work. Hurricane Debbie in 1969 was seeded twice over four days by several aircraft. Researchers noted that its intensity waxed and waned by up to 30 percent.

FWIW, the article denigrates the idea of just blowing up a nuke in the middle of a 'cane, noting that the energy of a hurricane far exceeds that of even a bunch of nukes.

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