Go over to Michelle's if you want your blood to boil.

Contains a lot of death threats and vile hate mail sent to Michelle, so be aware you're going to see the c-word a lot.

"Slanty-eyed," too.

Make sure you check out the video of Keith "Who am I? Even I don't know" Olbermann at the end.

What a c***s****er. Really-- the unhinged left blogosphere (the only people watching him) tell him to jump and he asks, "How high? And then who should I give the first handjob to?"

Thanks to Allah.

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Carlton Draught ad is Pythonesquely silly as it parodies Guiness' ads. Or at least it uses the same Oort music. Pretty funny.

When Hightlights For Children hosts an animation of mastodon skulls trying to gore each other to death, you've pretty much got to link it.

The big mystery that the animator was trying to solve was-- "Why do all these mastodon skulls have signs of such horrific wounding?" The answer, a shock to no one excpet a pointy-headed volvo-driving scientist, is "Because other mastodons killed them."

Apparetnly the trick is to get a tusk between and under the other mastodon's tusks, so you can deliver a lethal upstroke.

But anyway, they think they've solved the "Mastodon Mystery."

It reminds me of a Nova special I saw a few years ago. Apparently a lot of Neanderthal skeletons and skulls showed signs of great trauma. The scientists were baffled at how they suffered all these deep, bone-shattering and bone-scratching injuries. Perhaps they just were hunting big game that was a little too big for them...?

Yeah. Must have been animals. The idea that human beings wiped them out with spears and clubs and arrows just didn't seem to even occur to them.

And... The Trunk Monkey! A compilation for ads for a local car dealer I'd not seen before (though I'm sure Dave has) that are pretty funny.

They advertise that their cars come equipped with a "Trunk Monkey" who can do all sorts of useful things for you.

Thanks to John S, Brett, and Lord Floppington.

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The paranoid schizophrenic video is at #4, with a bullet.

It's also available at Wikipedia.

The frothing lunatic who made this "documentary" was a pest on LGF, and you can read some of his less medicated work there.

OK.... Before we go calling 9-11 a synonym for Pearl Harbor, I want all you Never Forget pathetic whiners, to go ask A Professional Demolition Expert if the Planes caused the towers to fall. I guarentee you ANY Expert on Controlled Demolition will tell you that dynamite charges were placed in the Twin Towers, he could tell you that the first time he watched them fall. Sloppy job American Government, but then again they didnt think the vivtims families would start asking questions either

(Why did 19 terrorists get "lucky" 19 seperate times on their immigration papers when they presented some of the most flawed documents ever seen, a little too much "luck" if you ask me.) Just remember Osama bin Laden got real lucky when air force interceptors were told four times to s

and down long enough for the planes to reach their targets, yet payne stewart had an interecepor to his private plane in the standard ten minutes..????????????????????????
9-11 We Will Never Forget the Corruption
-peace fools

A company I used to work for got a lot of letters from a woman who was obviously a paranoid schizophrenic. She never included her real name, so I was asked to find out who she was, going through past clients and workers and such. To make sure she wasn't about to kill herself, and also, I guess, out of pure curiosity.

I read a lot of those crazy letters. And I am convinced that a simple indicator of schizophrenia is florid punctuation. The biggest tip-offs are gratuitous use of scare-quotes to indicate the paranoid doubts just about every "word" he "writes."

For example:

The United States Postal Service... = non-schizoprhenic.

The United States Postal "Service"... = possibly a schizophrenic, but maybe just an idiot making an unfunny joke.

The "United" States "POSTAL" "Service"... = I can diagnose this guy as a paranoid a mile away. He may as well have written "astral scorpion-bees are stinging my optic nerves."

The other thing, of course, is overuse of exclamation points and question marks, especially in series (??????!!!!!????! -- as if that really adds drama to a sentence).

Penn & Teller take on the 9/11 conspiracy nuts in another good entry in their Bullshit! tv show for Showtime. (Language warning: They cuss a lot.)

Thanks to Allah for the tip on the "Loose Change" documentary-cum-application-for-confinement-in-a-state-psychiatric-hospital, LGF for the tip about this crazy little troll infesting his site, and dawnsblood for the Penn & Teller video.

Wow. All these videos sure do seem interesting. Sure wish I had some sort of browser or media player that would play them.

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I've said this before, but this is Dilbert telling you this. Gold standard, baby.

I suppose you could argue that we should respect any religion that is peaceful and has good intentions at its core. And I certainly agree with treating all people with respect even if youÂ’re not feeling it on the inside. But it seems to me dishonest to display respect for all beliefs equally. Surely there are beliefs that deserve slightly less respect than others.

...

I also wonder if showing respect for all beliefs is causing more problems than itÂ’s avoiding. The only thing that keeps most people from acting on their absurd beliefs is the fear that other people will treat them like frickinÂ’ retards. Mockery is an important social tool for squelching stupidity. At least thatÂ’s what I tell people after I mock them. Or to put it another way, IÂ’ve never seen anyone change his mind because of the power of a superior argument or the acquisition of new facts. But IÂ’ve seen plenty of people change behavior to avoid being mocked.

I strongly agree. It is this pernicious "respect" for plainly the batshit-crazy beliefs of the Islamofascists which further encourages them. They should be mocked as the "frickin' retards" they are.

Shame and pride are very important in any society, but especially so in the super-violent ultra-machismo I-act-this-way-because-I-secretly-find-myself-attracted-to-boys world of steroid-rage Islamism. It's about time we stopped talking respect and began to increase these psychopaths' shame and reduce their entirely-unjustified pride.

One point deducted for Adams' tactful-but-wussy vagueness about whose beliefs, precisely, we should give less respect.

But it's not like it's a stumper who he's talking about. It's like an Encyclopedia Brown mystery where Bugs Meany shows up (as Islam does in Adams' essay, if only in passing). Not really a lot of question as to the culprit, is there?

Thanks to JohnS and Pupster too.

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A text message informed the thuggish religious maniac and headcase in charge of Iran that he didn't bathe enough and smelled a little ripe.

Four people have been arrested in the terrorist plot, and have been accused of conspiring with Zionists, which I imagine is treason and carries the death penalty.

It carries the death penalty if you have a really good lawyer, I mean. If you have a bad one, well, then you've got major problems.

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Tax Prof explains your easy-peasy-lemon-squeezy dog-ate-my-W2's option.

I'm all over that sonofabitch. Delaying paying your taxes is definitely a part of the Ace of Spades Lifestyle (TM).

Whoops! I was gang-corrected. I feel so violated.

The extension allows you to delay filing your taxes. But you still have to pay what you estimate your tax liability will be, now. I imagine there are penatlies for wildly underestimating your ultimate tax liability.

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GOP doomed? Certainly there's good reason for worry; this is the only time the past seven elections I think there's a decent chance of a Democratic takeover of one or both houses of Congress.

But Jim Geraghty notes we've been down this road before. He notes the GOP has been doomed, by media and Democratic estimation (and sometimes by Republican estimation, too), pretty much every damn election for the past ten years.

I love this so much:

Mickey Kaus loves to recall the New York Times story from the final Sunday before Election Day 2002, when the Times and CBS News released their final poll. They found that after months of Democrats and Republicans running neck-and-neck on the ‘generic ballot’ question, the GOP had jumped to a 47 percent to 40 percent advantage.

Six paragraphs in, Times reporter Adam Nagourney addressed the RepublicansÂ’ seven point bounce:

“That question, known as a generic ballot question, is a measure of national sentiment, and does not necessarily reflect how Americans will vote in the governor's races around the country and in the handful of close Senate and House races that will ultimately determine the control of Congress. The concern among Democrats about the nation's direction and the economy suggests that Democratic voters might be more motivated to cast their ballots on Tuesday and respond to the ambitious get-out-the-vote drives that have been organized by the Democratic Party, aimed in particular at voters who are distressed about the economy.”

Adam Nagourney is infamous for being able to write up a poll, no matter what it says, as bad for Republicans. And of course for that reason he's the NYT's go-to guy on poll-stories.

You think it's easy to spin a seven-point deficit on a polls as good news for Democrats? It's not. And that's why Nagourney will always have a job at the Times.

But it's not just him, of course. The Democrats' liberal media spirit squad is always cheerleading "Let's Get Rowdy" and "Be Aggressive," and yet they so infrequently manage a win.

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The Europeans will try to tell them they're not, of course, but that will ring pretty hollow when they're enemies keep saying "Yes you are."

Maj. General Harel sends mixed messages-- on one hand, he says the chance of full-out warfare is "at an all-time low." On the other hand, he says there's a strong likelihood of a major, full offensive against the Palestinians.

Seems like he's talking out of both sides of his mouth.

Guess the Arabs aren't the ony ones who can do that.

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But sooooo much fun to watch.

I'm not sure if these videos are different or not, because my Shockwave player is completely fragged. But John S. sends this compliation and this other one.

What is it that's so pleasing about watching these things work? Maybe it's just taking pleasure in the inevitabily impractical.

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Another clarifying moment:

Sami Abu Zuhri, a spokesman for the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), said on Monday that the Tel Aviv attack was part of the Palestinians' right of self-defense.

"Resisting Israeli aggression was rightful as long as it continues," Abu Zuhri said.

"The occupation seized money of the Palestinian people and urged the world not to assist the Palestinians, so this attack took place before those who agree with this aggressive attitude," he said.

At least six Israelis were killed and 30 others wounded, with some in serious condition, as a Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up near an old bus station in the center of Tel Aviv.

Abu Zuhri was echoed by Wasfi Kabha, minister of Prisoners' Affairs in the Hamas-led cabinet.

Kabha told reporters that the attack came "in the framework of legitimate right for resistance against Israeli violations and crimes."

The Arab art of war relies upon lies. They lie and say they want peace when actually they're at war, but want to limit the counterattacks of the enemy.

For a long time the Israelis have had to play this game with the Palestinians, with the world pressuring them to "seek peace" when the Palestinians were murdering them.

But the elected, legitimate government of the Palestinians has just endorsed suicide bombings on civilians as its right.

The game is over. The Palestinians are now in declared, open war with the Israelis. And that invites, in response, the Western way of war, which isn't as deceptive but which is much more deadly and effective.

Fuck 'em. They had their chance. When they grow weary from burying all their dead, let them ask their God, "But whatever did we do to deserve this?"

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