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MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Mexico's leftist presidential candidate says he won't recognize ruling party rival's government.

(Copyright 2006 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.

Hmmm... political turmoil in Mexico. Sure would be nice if we had some sort of wall or something on the southern border, wouldn't it?

Thanks to tmi3rd.

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Michelle's Vent today about Al Manar, Terrorist TV, and the bust of a NY man for rebroadcasting the vile station into America is terrific.

And Bryan posts a story about Hezbollah's bunkers. Hezbollah builds seriously advanced bunkers, right next to UN "peacekeeper" positions, who of course don't lift a finger to stop it.

Maybe the French engineers will help them make some improvements here and there. Like Trading Spaces. Missile launcher here, pop of color there.

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Warning: contains pictures and also paragraphs like these:

“I was shocked, I think it was an expression of his great desire to win,” Osipov’s friend said. The jury then noticed Osipov’s strange position and told him to moor. When he came out of the water, gazers saw signs of recent sexual activity on the swimmer’s doll.

The jury found the swimmer guilty of sexual abuse of the apparatus and disqualified him.

Air sex dolls can be used only for swimming, organizers say.

I'm glad that someone is enforcing standards of behavior in this increasingly licentious world.

Still -- Hot. Very, very hot.

I think I just saw signs of recent sexual activity in my pants.

What's amazing to me is that you can be in a race, swimming hard, surrounded by a hundred other dudes swimming and churning the water, and still think to yourself, "You know, it's been at least six hours since I put my penis inside of anything. Oh-- well look at that! How the hell did I miss that?"

And what's this? "I think it was an expression of his great desire to win."

They have prizes for this? If only someone had told me. I'd have a mantle full of golden statuettes of a locked bathroom door.

Thanks to Larwyn.

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I think most of us saw this coming.

So, two more days of this story, as Greta and the rest try to milk it a little more. "How could we have gotten this wrong," "Is the DA politically damagd," bullshit, bullshit.

And then Karr goes away, more or less. Hopefully to cool his heels in jail for six or nine months for obstruction of justice.

Also On Drudge: Headlined, NYT PHOTO MYSTERY, Where Did the Mic Cord Go?, Drudge links this photo.

Isn't it possible the microphone had been given to the crowd to ask questions, etc., of the Purrfect Angelz dancers?

Am I missing something, or isn't it just possible the mic cord goes right into the crowd as it appears?

Update: Allah, the Pill, has the answer already.

Thanks to Observer and "someone."

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Yes, I question the timing.

Kiefer Sutherland always comes through in the end on "24." After years of being snubbed, the actor and series were finally victorious at the Emmy Awards, too.

The Fox show won for drama series at the Sunday night ceremony and Sutherland earned his first trophy as best actor in a drama series for playing counterterrorism agent Jack Bauer.

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It took five seasons for "24" to be rewarded in the major Emmy categories. The show also collected a directing Emmy.

The article mentions that rules-changes -- appointing "blue-ribbon panels" to vote for for winners -- were intended to get shows more deserving of wins to actually win, rather than a bunch of alte kachers just voting for the sitcom equivalent of Jethro Tull because they've heard of them.

And yet it still seems strange to me. For four seasons, Jack Bauer battled foreign terrorists, and went unrewarded for his efforts.

In the fifth season, he battles the President of the United States, a venal, weak man who facially looks like a cross between Richard Nixon and George Bush, who is actually ordering terrorist attacks on his own country in order to secure the Holy Grail of liberal conspiracy theories, the "Trans-Caspian pipeline" of which we've heard so much.

And then came the ultimate liberal fantasy-- the arrest of the President by the feds for treason, murder, and terrorism.

And now come the accolades.

Eh. Whatever.

To be honest, I just really don't get the appeal of this show.

Farewell, Deadwood: The show's run ended last night, but there'll be a couple of two hour movies to wrap things up in 18 months or so. Long wait on that.

Dean Barnett says goodbye to the show, and notes that many of the main characters were real people. I had no idea. Sure, I knew that Wild Bill Hickock, Charlie Otter, and Calamity Jane were real, but I assumed the rest were complete inventions.

Nope. He's got a link to the hotel established by Deadwood's real first sheriff, Seth Bullock. And it's still standing.

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Greg Mitchell, God knows, ain't exactly a star of the magnitude of Dan Rather in the MSM firmament. He's a no-name no-account nobody working from E&P's home office in Nowheresville.

This is one of the cruellest insults I've ever laid on someone: I think I just might be more important than Greg Mitchell.

I'm sorry, Greg, but I think that is, alas, the case. You should start a MySpace page or something. Try to get some exposure.

So he's a no-talent no-one. Still, he is editor in chief of an amateurish online 'zine that important media-types read, like Greg Mitchell's mother, Babs Mitchell, and Greg Mitchell's great-aunt, Fantala "Fanny" Mitchell. (I'm reliably informed she's Judge Judy's number one fan and in fact has a laminated card of her own construction to prove it.)

So none of this really matters.

Still, when one of the MSM's most passionate and left-leaning defenders, absolving them of any real blame in the Reutersgate scandal, and denigrating the bloggers who brought that scandal to light, gets caught engaging in even further dishonesty and ass-covering, it's too much fun not to note.

E&P now "corrects" that Mitchell was 21, an adult, when he engaged in news-fakery, a "mistake" that was either intentional (to mitigate the crime) or willfully negligent (as the date of the event in question was easily determined by a quick Google search).

And it fails to explain why, exactly, Mitchell is altering three-year-old columns, which now look mighty embarrassing given his "don't sweat the small stuff" stance on news-fakery, without acknowleging his alterations and ammendations.

Mary Katherine Ham bats the hapless Mitchell around further.

And supposedly she's working on getting an interview with him to explore his strangely elastic concept of the time-space continuum.

Good luck with that.

Seems like Greg Mitchell has forgotten the first rule of holes: Don't be an asshole.

Grammy Ace used to tell me that every night before I went to bed. Then she'd shoot herself up with smack, between her toes, because she said said men stayed away from hookers with visible trackmarks.

She was a wise woman.

Allah The Pill: Allah says E&P is important, and does have a print edition, so their shady relationship with the truth is more important than I'm letting on.

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From the New York Times (don't click):

Democrats are seizing this moment of reckoning with something approaching glee, while Republicans are handling it gingerly. For Democrats there are the persistent scenes of destruction and the ongoing misery of lives upended, handy backdrops for criticism of the Bush administration.

Yup... can't have any political party exploiting a national tragedy for partisan purposes. No sirree Bob, we just can't have that.

That would be wrong.

Well, today it's okay, and for this week.

But starting around, oh, let's say September ninth or so, it becomes the worst thing a person could possibly do.

Thanks to "Deep Stoat."

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10. "I could swear that oncoming sedan looked like a large, metallic squirrel."

9. "I thought vehicles had the power of dematerialization, like in those fascinating Chuck Wagon commercials."

8. "Everything was going fine until I realized it had been three minutes since I licked my balls."

7. "It wasn't my fault. The other driver was Chinese. 'Nuff said."

6. "You know that whole 'faking the throw' thing? Yeah, yeah. That's funny. Really funny. Oh, my ribs are aching. You know what else is funny? Head-on collisions, bitch."

5. "Two words: Cell phone. My best friend was just telling me about this ratty old gym sneaker she was gnawing on that just sounded so to die for and I guess I just got caught up in the moment."

4. "I was having a stressful day at the office, putting the finishing touches on a proposed merger between my snout and the mailman's genitals."

3. "Honestly, my Blood-Snausage-Ratio was no higher than .08."

2. "Gotta admit... I looked pretty damn cool for about three-quarters of a second there."

...and the number one excuse offered by the dog for crashing the car...

1. "I'm very sad about all of this, but can I say one thing in my defense? I'm a fucking dog, moron."

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As a purely legal matter, I think she's in the clear, because it was the dog who actually crashed the car.

This happened in China, which is becoming the World's Hyperpower for F'd Up News.

BEIJING --A woman in Hohhot, the capital of north China's Inner Mongolia region, crashed her car while giving her dog a driving lesson, the official Xinhua News Agency said Monday.

No injuries were reported although both vehicles were slightly damaged, it said.

The woman, identified only be her surname, Li, said her dog "was fond of crouching on the steering wheel and often watched her drive," according to Xinhua.

"She thought she would let the dog 'have a try' while she operated the accelerator and brake," the report said. "They did not make it far before crashing into an oncoming car."

Really? A dog's paws couldn't successfully man the steering wheel? A dog, which spends most of its life chasing cars, decided to finally bag its prey and crash into an oncoming car?

What were the odds of a crash here? No higher than one in, oh, say, one.

Thanks to yls.

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