Supposedly Heather F'n' Locklear is now sporting a tattoo reading "Finch," Spade's character on Just Shoot Me.

Even if the tattoo thing is wrong -- and it sounds like it; why would someone get a tattoo of the name of a sitcom character played by a lover? -- it remains true that Locklear is having at least a "fling" with David Spade.

I don't get it. Yeah, I like the guy. I think he's funny. I'd even say he's good-looking, despite the Calvin thing he has going.

But how on earth is he rampaging through Hollywood pooter like Sherman driving to the sea?

Who knew that psuedo-gay bitchy thing and the robot-dance could score you that kind of tail?

Thanks to yls.

Allah Vs. Karol: Confidence? Status? Or robot-dance?

I dunno. Maybe all three.

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Damned feds monitoring our private mass-murder conspiracy internet conversations. Doesn't the First Amendment say something about the right to conspire not being infringed?

Authorities have disrupted foreign terrorists plotting to attack the transportation tunnels running beneath the Hudson River between New York and New Jersey, the FBI announced Friday.

"For most of the year, we have been focusing on a group of al-Qaida followers who have targeted the Hudson River tubes," FBI Assistant Director Mark J. Mershon said Friday. "We believe we intercepted this group early in their plotting and, in fact, the plan has largely been disrupted."

Mershon confirmed that one suspect, Assem Hammoud, was in custody in Lebanon and facing criminal charges.

Lebanese authorities, working with U.S. law enforcement agencies, last month arrested Hammoud, a Beirut native and al-Qaida operative who admitted to plotting a terror attack in New York City, a senior Lebanese security official said Friday. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation is ongoing.

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In the latest case, a federal official said FBI agents monitoring Internet chat rooms used by extremists learned of the plot in recent months and determined that tunnels were possibly being targeted after investigators pieced together code words from their conversations.

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One U.S. official called the plot "largely aspirational" and described the Internet conversations as mostly extremists discussing and conceptualizing the plot. The official said no money had been transferred, nor had other similar operational steps been taken.

The left will predictably either ignore this or deride the arrest as meaningless, just members of the Religion of Peace (TM) blowing off steam by light-heartedly plotting the deaths of thousands.

Because it's pretty unlikely jihadists would ever attack a transportation system.

Why, they haven't done anything like that in a full year.

Update: FBI says leak and publication of plot details has hurt the investigation, and may prevent the FBI from apprehending the rest of the plotters.

The MSM.

Strong. Tough.

And... Speculation that SWIFT disclosures compromised the investigation, too.

As Allah notes-- Gee, these terrorists "already knew" we were monitoring their internet chats. And yet they plotted on the internet anyway.

How can this be?

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This sounded familiar as I read it.

I mentioned the story at the beginning of the year. Seems like it was three years ago.

Anyway, a while ago I posted this:

Joshua Adam Gardner, 22, visited Stillwater Area High School three times in December and January, posing as "Caspian James Crichton- Stuart IV, the Fifth Duke of Cleveland" and telling students he was 17 and was interested in attending the school.

He also claimed to be 27th in line for the British throne.

"Becoming 'Caspian,' I was given respect," Gardner said in a jailhouse interview broadcast Monday on NBC's "Today." "And people ... don't look at you in that way that they would look at a sex offender."

"I didn't mean to hurt anybody," he said.

Reporters at the Stillwater school newspaper, the Pony Express, tought "Caspian's" story would be an interesting feature.

"He was demanding that we call him 'Your Grace,'" said Chantel Leonhart, one of the paper's managing editors. "He even demanded that the principal call him 'Your Grace.'"

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However, his description of his British lineage didn't ring true to co-editor in chief Matt Murphy. Plus, he couldn't spell the name of the castle he claimed was his home, and the British consulate in Chicago told them there was no such title as the Duke of Cleveland.

Well, now the previously-convicted sex-offender, who keeps going after underage kids, has been charged again with sex with a minor. He's 22; the boy he stat-raped was 15.

A 22-year-old man who passed himself off as British royalty while visiting Stillwater High School last fall has now been charged with allegedly having sex with a 15-year-old boy several months earlier in Chanhassen.

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Joshua Gardner, of Austin, claimed to be "Caspian James Crichton-Stuart IV, the Fifth Duke of Cleveland" while staying with a Stillwater family. He was exposed by the high school newspaper and arrested on a probation violation.

Carver County prosecutors allege in the latest charges that Gardner used the same fake identity to seduce the 15-year-old Chaska High School student.

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Okay, I know that the violation of a fifteen year old boy isn't funny. But that doesn't mean that nothing associated with this can be funny.

You tell me. Is the last sentence of this funny or not?

The student came forward after seeing Jan. 12 media reports of Gardner's performance in Stillwater. He said he had had doubts about "Caspian's" identity, including why a duke was working at the Fuddruckers restaurant in Edina.

I'm just saying.

Via Fark.

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This guy's frickin' skull FELL OFF, man.

Hundreds of people are thronging a hospital in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata to see a patient holding a piece of his own skull that fell off.

Doctors say a large, dead section of 25-year-old electrician Sambhu Roy's skull came away Sunday after severe burns starved it of blood.

"When he came to us late last year, his scalp was completely burned and within months it came off exposing the skull," Ratan Lal Bandyopadhyay, the surgeon who treated Roy told Reuters Wednesday.

"Later, we noticed that the part of his skull was loosening due to lack of blood supply to the affected area, which can happen in such extensive burn cases."

The piece came off Sunday and hundreds of people and dozens of doctors now crowd around his bed, where he lies holding the bone.

Bandyopadhyay said the skull's inner covering and the membrane which helps produce bone was miraculously unaffected, allowing fresh bone to grow.

I would say that's great news, but I feel like I'm being scammed. "Hey, look fellers! My skull just fell off! Oh... and there's a bit of 'new skull' already growing back there, that's why it looks like I have a skull."

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Heh:

The French government has been plunged into embarrassment by the revelation that its intelligence agents interrogated six French citizens inside the US detention camp at Guantanamo Bay.

Defence lawyers said the trial of the six men on terrorist charges, which began in Paris on Monday, had been seriously compromised. They said the French authorities had previously refused to admit that the six had been interrogated by French counter-terrorism agents at the detention centre in Cuba.

The newspaper Libération yesterday published a confidential diplomatic telegram from the French embassy in Washington to Paris in April 2002, which made it clear that French agents had questioned the men in the US camp the previous month. France has always challenged the legality of the camp and has - until now - refused to admit that it had interrogated its own citizens there.

The French Foreign Ministry implicitly admitted yesterday that the telegram was genuine, but insisted that the meetings were normal "consular visits" to "citizens in trouble abroad". This failed to explain the presence of agents from the Diréction Génerale de la Sécurité Extérieure (DGSE) and Direction de la Surveillance du Territoire (DST), the French equivalents of MI6 and M15.

Wanna bet the New York Times has this story for a year but sat on it, deeming it too damaging to the French Government to reveal?

Anyone?

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Deborah Frisch
Adjunct Professor of Psychology
Psychology of Risk Assessment & Decisionmaking
Final Exam

You have one hour to complete this exam. Please mark your answers cleanly with either a #2 pencil or a mixture of human blood and animal feces.

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January 07, 2004

I am a psychologist. My area of expertise is risk perception and decision making. This field was invented by Daniel Kahneman and the late Amos Tversky . The basic finding is that the way we think about risky decisions is very different from the way statisticians and economists say we SHOULD think about them.

-- Deb Frisch, on her blog

I’d like to hear more about your “tyke” by the way. Girl? Boy? Toddler? Teen? Are you still married to the woman you ephed to give birth to the tyke?

Tell all, bro!

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[...] as I said elsewhere, if I woke up tomorrow and learned that someone else had shot you and your “tyke” it wouldn’t slow me down one iota. You aren’t “human” to me.

[...]

So if you could just tell me the AGE and SEX of your “tyke,” I’d be stoked!

Thanx!

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Ooh. Two year old boy. Sounds hot. You live in Colorado, I see. Hope no one Jon-Benets your baby.

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I reiterate: If some nutcase kidnapped your child tomorrow and did to her what was done to your fellow Coloradan, Jon-Benet Ramsey, I wouldnÂ’t give a damn.

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Give your pathetic progeny (I sure hope that mofo got good genes from his mama!) a big fat tongue-filled kiss from me! LOTS AND LOTS OF SALIVA from Auntie MOONBAT, if you donÂ’t mind!

Somehow, Jeffy boy, I think you get off on the possibility of Frenching your pathetic progeny, even if it is a boy. You seem like a VERY, VERY sick mofo to me, bro.

-- Deb Frish, expressing a sexual interest in, and death wishes against, Jeff Goldstein's kid, using her university email account.

Hmmmm... Psychology. Risk analysis. Decision making. How people behave irrationally in analzing risk and making decisions.

She, uhhhh, should sort of get fired straight offa Jump Street for being so completely out of her reckoning, eh?

Unless they pay her to be a permanent test subject or something. Like, she's the monkey in the box who just can't learn to not touch the electrified banana-button.

Thanks to steve_in_hb again, who by the way isn't really a conservative, as you might know.

But he hates the stupid. Close enough.

Anyway, as some commenters are noting:

Deb Frisch.

Strong. Tough.

Nuttier than a Snickers bar.

Layers.

Upon layers.

In a four-cheese pizza of batshit crazy.

More Layers: Deb makes a cameo appearance in this article, being unable to resist arguing with an obvious lunatic. Well, lunatics argue with each other over nothing. Just go to any asylum and watch the fun.

But funnier than her antics is the stuff this "preacher" is preachin'.

Some of Smock's comments included "a masturbator today is a homosexual tomorrow" and "God has a vagina for every homosexual." Smock also said the only thing Mexicans contribute to society is burritos, and Jewish people are only good at making bagels and running banks.

Smock advised students against "fornicating outside of marriage," drinking alcohol, smoking marijuana or doing drugs, although Smock said he found God while doing LSD in college.

First of all, the guy's name is Smock.

Okay, that's a smile right there. And then... "God has a vagina for every homosexual"? Like a holy pimp for homos?

Mexicans only gave us burritos? What about pinatas? And tacos? And El Caminos?

Jews are only good at making bagels and running banks? Nonsense. They're also good at controlling the media.

And also: using the black man as muscle to "move in" on you. (It goes without saying that this tactic leaves you defenseless.)

Oh Lordy. That's freakin' great stuff.

I hope that part about masturbating isn't true, though. If it is, well... I'm due to become seriously, uhhh, "libertarian" pretty damn soon.

Thanks a whole bunch to rw.

What a great story. No matter which page you turn to, it's compelling.

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For going on thirty years, you've been telling yourselves that you were just too civil and kind and high-minded to win elections or persuade the public.

For thirty years, you've told yourselves if you just got as tough and mean and nasty as the right, you could "win."

Well, take a look at what you've become.

You've imagined the right as engaging in all sorts of vile tactics, and then to prove your "toughness," you've exceeded each and every sin of your imagining.

Look in the mirrors. Do you like what you see?

Did you set out to become a bunch of raving maniacs cursing venomously in the darkness?

If so -- mission accomplished.

I concede. We can't out-hate, out-rage, out-venom, or out-crazy you.

You are, within the rules of the game you've defined, the Ultimate Winners.

Take a bow. Clap each other on the backs.

You should be proud. You've made yourselves into pornographers of hatred, scarcely different from the Aryan Nation-ers that are your dopplegangers.

Prediction: Almost none on the left will take Deb Frisch to task for this.

Instead, they'll pile on "Paste-Eater" for ratting to her boss, accusing him of hypocrisy re: Online Integrity, etc.

Can you really the right blogosphere remaining silent if one of ours went this far over the line?

No, you can't.

But for the left, there is a higher duty than to humanity, and that duty is owed to The Movement.

Blood in, blood out. Solidarity at any cost.

Okay... In Fairness, She's Just Nuts: And someone really ought to see she gets the professional health care she needs:

I am having a tough time remembering the socially acceptable explanation for plane crashes that make it onto the radar of the national news:

JFKJ: .pilot error
TWA800: design flaw
911: al Quada
AA587: pilot error/design flaw
Wellstone: weather
NASCAR dudes: weather
almostDubyaSenior: weather
Olympic dudes: weather

Whew! That's a lot to keep straight, given that I REALLY believe about 0/8 stories.

And:

support our dupes!

Given all the lies propagated by Geedubya Bush, Dick "sharpshooter" Cheney, Condi Rice and the oil industry's other puppets in war$hington, d.c., and given the fact that anyone with a quarter of a brain knows this war was about oil, not "spreddin' freedumb," shouldn't those bumper stickers on the butts of SUV's say "support our dupes?"

Thanks to steven_in_hb. Sort of. I feel sad posting that. Seriously. Not gleeful at posting a lefty saying something stupid or crazy; just depressed at the frailty of the human mind.

This isn't politics; it's paranoid schizophrenia.

I do hope she gets the help she needs. And until then, that she is kept away from the Internet.

Which is polluted enough. I feel dirtier and dirtier reading blogs. It's all pretty dispiriting.

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I don't even know what to say.

Her email is there. The fuck with Online Integrity. When it comes to lunatics expressing their hope that a two year old boy gets "Jon Benet[ed]," it's time for her boss to know precisely what he's giving a paycheck to.

Goldstein Gets Angry: And you wouldn't like him when he's angry.

Come to think of it, I don't really like him when he's not angry, either.

Anyway, he's spitting righteous rage here. Pretty good:

When IÂ’m done with you, Deb, youÂ’re going to be an internet verb.

Enjoy.

I hope no one will object too strongly when I suggest that Deb Frisch is a goddamned schizophrenic.

Or something. She's nuts, whatever the hell she is. She needs to be confined for her own good.

Oh, and I hope Dave Wiegel doesn't blame Jeff if/when the sick twisted bitch offs herself.

Before the Internet, what did these people do in between gargling razor blades?

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...according to Japanese and US sources, as reported on FoxNews five minutes ago.

(Incidentally, Clint W. Taylor of the NailYale blog is on Hannity & Colmes right now.)

More: So far, this is only reported in a "conservative" Japanese newspaper, relying on unnamed Japanese and American sources.

Supposedly analysts determined the missile's trajectory based on the direction and altitude of the missile... though, as the missile failed shortly into launch, it's hard to know how much stock to put into that "altitude" part.

Some (according to the commenters) say the missile is "merely" alleged to have been aimed at the waters near Hawaii.

Which isn't much more comforting. If true, that's still an act of war.

Again, though, only a single Japanese newspaper is reporting this.

Update: A print report linked by Drudge, which doesn't say much more than we already know.

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