Disclaimer: Dragonflies are Extremely Dangerous.
Please don't try this without medical personnel standing by.

It's a well-known fact that all of the male commenters at Innocent Bystanders are White-Hot Crimefighting Thugs.
And all the IB Babes are... well, Babes.
We're all comfortable with our budding sexuality.
That being said, I was wondering:
Is it gay to post a picture of a bug sitting on your finger?
I don't think Ace has ever done it.
Handblogging went over pretty well with the IB visitors.
But.
I fully expect Dave in Texas to belittle this.
Just consider the source... he can't even make his Dog sit.

I can usually entice Dragonflies to sit on my finger.
Sometimes even birds.
Showgirls, not so much.

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***Even more Updates by DDG (John) after the bump

Any guesses?

Six people were shot - one fatally - this afternoon at the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle by a man who told a witness he was upset about "what was going on in Israel."

And by "what was going on in Israel," of course he meant the proliferation of underground canasta clubs.

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"We believe it's a lone individual acting out his antagonism," said David Gomez, who heads the FBI's counterterrorism efforts in Seattle.

And the Jeep Jihadi was just a lone individual testing out his four-wheel drive.

Authorities did not release any details about the alleged gunman and would not discuss possible motives.

The lack of details about the gunman and the refusal to discuss possible motives tells us all the details about the gunman and all the possible motives.

So I appreciate the candor.

"There's nothing to indicate that it's terrorism related," Gomez said.

Nah, except, you know, the actual terrorism of the act.

Well, I'm stumped. I guess it's just one of those mysteries that can never be really solved.

PS: They were all women, and one was pregnant.

This word "Holy Warrior" you keep using. I donnah think it means what you think it means.

And Speaking Of Lone Individuals Acting Out Their Antagonisms... Cynthia McKinney down by 25 points in new poll.

Logic Quotient Update: Sobek's previous post about this lacks all logic, as he should have deduced that, given my preference for old stories, I'd be covering this eight hours later.

Again, people: logic. Look into it. Occam's Razor. Set theory. Stuff like that.

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No, not compared to our ancient ancestors, but compared to our great-great-grandparents 100 years ago. Nor are we talking about gradual, marginal improvements. Our species has undergone radical change in the last century. In the mid-1800s, the norm was to contract some kind of debilitating illness in your forties and die in your fifties. Not so any more:

New research from around the world has begun to reveal a picture of humans today that is so different from what it was in the past that scientists say they are startled. Over the past 100 years, says one researcher, Robert W. Fogel of the University of Chicago, humans in the industrialized world have undergone “a form of evolution that is unique not only to humankind, but unique among the 7,000 or so generations of humans who have ever inhabited the earth.”

. . .

The biggest surprise emerging from the new studies is that many chronic ailments like heart disease, lung disease and arthritis are occurring an average of 10 to 25 years later than they used to. There is also less disability among older people today, according to a federal study that directly measures it. And that is not just because medical treatments like cataract surgery keep people functioning. Human bodies are simply not breaking down the way they did before.

Even the human mind seems improved. The average I.Q. has been increasing for decades, and at least one study found that a personÂ’s chances of having dementia in old age appeared to have fallen in recent years.

Better diet, you're thinking, and better medical care.

It's more than that.

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We defended him. We appear to have been chumped.

TMZ has learned that Deputy Mee audiotaped the entire exchange between himself and Gibson, from the time of the traffic stop to the time Gibson was put in the patrol car, and that the tape fully corroborates the written report.

Once inside the car, a source directly connected with the case says Gibson began banging himself against the seat. The report says Gibson told the deputy, "You mother f****r. I'm going to f*** you." The report also says "Gibson almost continually [sic] threatened me saying he 'owns Malibu' and will spend all of his money to 'get even' with me."

The report says Gibson then launched into a barrage of anti-Semitic statements: "F*****g Jews... The Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world." Gibson then asked the deputy, "Are you a Jew?"

At least he was polite enough to ask if the guy was a Jew.

Some small amount of humor can yet be found in this distasteful episode:

A law enforcement source says Gibson then noticed another female sergeant and yelled, "What do you think you're looking at, sugar tits?"

He always seemed like a cool guy, and apparently he's Jerky Boyz fan.

But it appears the charges of anti-semitism levelled against him were quite accurate. This provides quite a bit of context for his opposition to the Iraq War, as we all know Jews manipulated us into that.

It doesn't, however, denigrate the power of The Passion of the Christ, which many people love. (I was bored and found it repetitve and overly violent myself; not that I object to violence per se, but I thought the repetitiveness of the flailing, for example, tended to reach a point of diminishing returns, and then take one out of the experience by reminding one one was watching a movie.)

A work, I think, should be evaluated on its own terms, without too much of the filmmaker's beliefs brought into the evaluation.

But yeah: Gibson does, in fact, seem to have a major league issue with Jews.

And he doesn't appear to be a big fan of women in positions of authority, either, unless one construes the "sugar tits" line as an attempt at a compliment.

Note: I always thought the South Park guys were being uncharicteristally PC/CW (conventional wisdom) oriented when they went after Gibson for being a maniac Jew-hater. I was suprised they so uncritically embraced the left's caricature of Gibson as nutty anti-semitic conspiracy theorist.

It seems the South Park guys were tuned in to the scuttlebutt around Hollywood and were actually parodizing Gibson in a way they knew, for unpublicized reasons, was quite fair and accurate, and yet which went unreported by the celebrity press.

Addendum: I guess it sounds funny to say the celebrity press had dirt on Gibson that "went unreported," when they went after him hammer and tongs.

What I meant was though they went after his dad's not-really-relevant expressions of anti-semitism, there were not, as far as I saw, an reports of such statements comng from Gibson himself. I assume that Hollywood reporters must have known he'd made such statements -- this stuff doesn't come out of the blue, nor go unnoticed -- but that sources refused to say anything on record about it because Gibson has so much power in Hollywood.

Amost as much power in Hollywood, as a matter of fact, as the average Jew you see walking by you on the street.

Another Addendum: While it seemd the press was being unfair to Gibson by going after his dad's quotes, it now looks like they should be defended.

It could be the case they knew these things about Gibson personally, but no sources would even allow the information to be used on deep background -- because they figured Gibson only said these things to a select group of people he trusted, and even being quoted on background would, inevitably, throw the suspicion on themselves.

So, they knew something they couldn't prove directly. They therefore did what they could to prove it, by indirect evidence and, yeah, by insinuation.

Still, it explains why the press was so gung-ho to pin this particular charge on Gibson.

And... I hear that Juan Cole just went on to Amazon and ordered all of Gibson's old movies, from Gallipoli to Bird on a Wire to, yes, even Conspiracy Theory. "I have a newfound respect for this daring artist," he was quoted as saying on his Amazon order form.

This very funny thread of Jewish Conspiracy Theories is being re-linked in honor of Mel.

PS: I'm not back, I still quit, this still isn't fun anymore, so the guest bloggers can and should (if they'd be so kind) continue posting.

I'm just posting every once in a while, which is what people do when they quit.

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Niko points something very interesting out. more...

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And by logic, I mean "disingenuousness."

He says the North Koreans did not process plutonium in violation of the Carter-Clinton "solution" before Bush drove them to do so.

A report says they processed 25-30 kilos of plutonium by 1999.

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Littledemocrats.net has a showcase for a children's book called "Why Mommy is a Democrat." That should come in handy, if Democrats ever stop killing their unborn children.

Hat tip Oregon Muse. more...

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All right Senators, quit screwing around. There's killin needs to be done, and I'm ready for a permenant pass. You pansies listen up to that fancy Harvard lawyer and confirm my ass right the hell now.

And guess what? It wasn't a manila file folder I threw at that bitch in Russia. It was a stapler. Swingline 700 baby. I tagged her ass too, right in the back of the head.

UPDATE! Caption contest?

I'm sorry Kofi, I can't hear you over this, what the hell is that? One of those change separating machines?

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Just in case anyone was wondering how much you have to bribe an Innocent Bystanders guest blogger to get Ace's log-in I.D., the answer is $20.00.

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Hi everybody, my name is BrewFan, and I'm a retard. Actually, you know the phrase "giggling like a retard"? That phrase came about because other retards giggle when they think about how retarded I am. That's pretty darn retarded, I'd say.

I like to make jokes about diddling Michael's wife, but let's be honest -- I'm such a moron that even if she gave me a shot at the title, I'd probably end up trying to stick it in her nose or something. Yes, I am that retarded.

You know, now that I think about it, maybe Ace should have taken precautions to make sure the Innocent Bystanders commenters had their individual blogger identities, instead of having to manually type in their names every time.

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