Some good ones at MyPetJawa.

This one's from BamaPachyderm/Beth:

I didn't officially say it, but post your own (here or in the previous thread) and I'll put up the top ten or fifteen in a later post.

I always feel like a dick limiting the numbers, but I figure 10 or 15 should be the cream of the crop.

More... Dave's also running a Carnival.

Posted by: Ace at 08:32 AM | Comments (58)
Post contains 77 words, total size 1 kb.

Apparentl y they were freinds with common interests. One fought crocodiles and snakes, the other took on just about everyone else.

According to a report on the Sydney Morning Herald's website, the Oscar-winning Gladiator actor is already in talks with Universal about the project, in which he wants to play the maverick wildlife expert. Crowe was a friend of the celebrated crocodile hunter...

An anonymous "insider" says that Crowe once told Irwin that he wanted to play him in a movie version of his life. "It's not about money for Russell - it's about honouring his friend."

One problem: Irwin was lighthearted and funny. Crowe is brooding and angry, and has not to my knowlege ever played a character who wasn't brooding and angry.

Germaine Greer, meanwhile, is launching a rival project based on the life-rights of the stingray. The film is tenatively named, Stingray Avenger, and mock-up publicity posters promise "This time it's personal."

Posted by: Ace at 08:21 AM | Comments (15)
Post contains 173 words, total size 1 kb.

I think she should just be fired for being dumb enough to play with goofy fonts:

A US school teacher has apologised after accidentally using a kinky alphabet in a handout letter to parents.

The font depicts male and female stick figures contorting into sexual positions resembling letters of the alphabet.

It was used on the front of a spelling handout given to parents of pupils at a school, in Pine Tree, New York state, reports the Times Herald-Record.

The teacher reportedly had no idea the alphabet was offensive when she downloaded the font from the internet.

A side-benefit of the gaffe, however, is that students are now spelling demons, able to spell words through a mnemonic system involving the position and vector of peepees and gynies.

Posted by: Ace at 07:28 PM | Comments (31)
Post contains 141 words, total size 1 kb.

He may be a Canadian but The Mayor of Mitchieville knows the Spiritual needs of the average AoS reader:

Like most activists, I have come to realize the importance of having a spiritual role model in my life to take the place of any Christian influence that may contaminate me with that Jesus smell that so offends the homeless, the oppressed, paroled criminals, senior bureaucrats and other righteous malcontents. Having a religious system to appeal to as an authority in scientific matters, some same sex savouring diety, or perhaps a Global Warming sensitive demi-god, is just what our Village Peoples demand. As I lack any sort of spiritual fiber, I turn to the Telemarketer's Code of Ethics as a starting point in my quest for convenient truth and comfortable obligation.

What is in it for me? Most pre-Christian relgions offer some sort of eternal life after death in lieu of a pension supplement or drug benefit package in the present life. Ask around about the condition of your soul in this afterlife, as some religions seem to populate their post-present places with unpleasant conditions such as fire, sandstorms, boiling mud, or brain eating zombies. I have found the god Thor, the Viking god of conflict resolution, to have the best post-present offering: an eternity of multi-gendered fornication intermixed with feasting on a heart stopping all you can eat display of greasy fried foods...

At last, a god that fits the AoSHQ Lifestyle.

Posted by: Ace at 06:52 PM | Comments (19)
Post contains 250 words, total size 2 kb.

It gets worse and worse.

"09 15 01. Balbir Singh Sodhi, a Sikh, murdered in Mesa."

One of those victims of redneck anti-Muslim rage. Again, important to bring that up in a commemoration of 9/11 casualties.

And read down for the designer's quote. Hooboy.

Posted by: Ace at 02:46 PM | Comments (51)
Post contains 52 words, total size 1 kb.

Clinton kept demanding that Chris Wallace read Richard Clarke's Clinton apologia Against All Enemies for a response to charges he didn't do enough to get bin Ladin.

Byron York diid, and finds that Clarke's defense isn't as strong as Clinton suggests.

Examples are all over Clarke’s book. On page 223, Clarke describes a meeting, in late 2000, of the National Security Council “principals” — among them, the heads of the CIA, the FBI, the Attorney General, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the secretaries of State, Defense. It was just after al Qaeda’s attack on the USS Cole. But neither the FBI nor the CIA would say that al Qaeda was behind the bombing, and there was little support for a retaliatory strike. Clarke quotes Mike Sheehan, a State Department official, saying in frustration, “What’s it going to take, Dick? Who the shit do they think attacked the Cole, fuckin’ Martians? The Pentagon brass won’t let Delta go get bin Laden. Hell they won’t even let the Air Force carpet bomb the place. Does al Qaeda have to attack the Pentagon to get their attention?”

That came later. But in October 2000, what would it have taken? A decisive presidential order — which never came.

Clarke also blames Republicans for somehow stopping Clinton from acting aggressively. Apparently, Clarke's theory goes, that by pointing out, factually, he was a draft-dodger, Republicans undermined his authority as Commander in Chief and made it impossible for Clinton to actually do his job as President and order his employees to act.

If that's so, he should have resigned and let veteran Al Gore take command.

This is the big excuse? That Clinton's draft-dodging made him too weak a President to actually act as commander in chief?

And that's Republicans' fault, huh?

Thanks to Larwyn.

Whoops: Kind of in a funk about these so-called "Giants."

I linked the wrong thing, obviously. I just re-linked the odd Google search that led to my site. I now have the York link.

Thanks.

Posted by: Ace at 01:37 PM | Comments (107)
Post contains 353 words, total size 2 kb.

"Lucianne big rack."

Dirty bastards.

Posted by: Ace at 12:44 PM | Comments (13)
Post contains 13 words, total size 1 kb.

It's worse than you think.

By BOB PORTERFIELD, Associated Press Writer
Sun Sep 24, 12:24 PM ET

SAN FRANCISCO - The bill is coming due for years of generous benefits bestowed upon the nation's public employees, and it's a stunner: hundreds of billions of dollars over the next three decades, threatening some local governments with bankruptcy and all but guaranteeing cuts in services like education and public safety.

This staggering burden is coming to light because of new accounting rules issued by the Government Accounting Standards Board. They require public agencies to disclose the future cost of health care and other benefits — such as dental, vision and life insurance — promised alongside traditional pensions to the nation's estimated 24.5 million active and retired state and local public employees.

In the past, generous retiree health care benefits have been an easy give-away in negotiations with public employee unions. No one accounted for, or even estimated the off-book liabity, nor did they anticipate the staggering increase in the cost of health care over the last decade.

As the baby boomers approach retirement, it's time to pay the piper.
more...

Posted by: Ace at 12:07 PM | Comments (21)
Post contains 565 words, total size 4 kb.

Stace tips that a Republican AZ Congressman has been interviewed, and he's pissed off.

I tipped Fox to this, but I never got any word back from them, so I have no idea if that helped.

The Len Munsil (gubernatorial candidate) campaign never got back to me either.

But maybe not all efforts were in vain.

Allah's cutting just finished cutting the video of the Brian Wilson piece right now.

He notes the Kossacks have a diary up about this, which makes it a live controversy, which makes it very difficult for the MSM to continue embargoing.

Hey, FoxNews? Could've had this Wednesday.

I don't send you dreck, guys.

Any Bets... that just about the only person put forward to publically defend this is the woman who lost a son on 9/11?

They only put forward widows and grieving parents. Nevermind that most other 9/11 families would object to this. They got their one defender, plus of course the Jersey Girls airdropping in for some more publicity, and that's all they need.

Bonus: Commenters were noting this last night, but I didn't get around to digging into it.

But the "educational materials" sent out by the "memorial" folks want students to discuss Iran/Contra and environmental issues, for some reason.

Again: They tried this bullshit in NYC, and even NYC liberals wouldn't have it.

How the hell did Governor Napolitano (D, in case there's any doubt) greenlight this in Arizona?

Another Questionable Inscription Found: Admittedly, this is perfectly accurate. But is it appropriate?

From a guy who's far too respectable to do this sort of childish photoshopping, now that he's part of one of the top five conservative blogs.

Posted by: Ace at 10:36 AM | Comments (74)
Post contains 290 words, total size 2 kb.

AP just released an article on new restrictions that the military has placed on political gatherings. But that's not the interesting part. Embedded in the article is some information about how a coup is managed in Thailand:

By DENIS D. GRAY, Associated Press Writer

3 minutes ago

BANGKOK, Thailand - Thailand's new military rulers banned all political gatherings and activities at the local level Sunday, further cementing their powers and pre-empting any opposition following last week's bloodless coup.

. . .

Military leaders last week revived the state National Counter Corruption Commission, appointing its nine members to carry out investigations into state corruption. That commission — which will continue its work — can only seek to prosecute cases through the courts and cannot seize assets or otherwise enforce it findings. The new panel will have powers of enforcement.

Speculation has been rife in Thailand that the democratically elected Thaksin may have sneaked some of his wealth out of the country just before the coup, but there has been no confirmation of this from the military council.

Airline officials said Sunday that two planes chartered by Thaksin days before the takeover were carrying an unusually large amount of luggage — more than 100 cases and trunks. Thaksin was in New York attending the U.N. General Assembly when the coup occurred and is now in London.

I'm guessing the cases and trunks are nothing compared to the wire transfers moving Shinawatra family holdings out of the country.

So, let's say Thaksin was tipped. The question is, who tipped him and why?

My guess -- the military.

Several features of this coup have been noteworthy to the Western press. Let's review:

1. Thaksin was in New York at the time to address the U.N. Foreign observers have been baffled that the military would time the coup to occur at exactly the moment when Thaksin was in the international spotlight.

2. After the fact, it became clear that the coup had the support of the king. If this were known to Thaksin in advance, he would recognize that his position was hopeless.

3. The coup was completely bloodless. Thaksin promptly surrendered and called for national reconciliation. His party, the largest in Thailand and supposedly fervent supporters of Thaksin, has been oddly passive throughout.

4. It is politically imperative that the military make a show of investigating corruption. Of course, we can safely assume that the military brass is no less corrupt than the politicians. It would be embarrassing and politically risky to actually arrest Thaksin.

The solution? Negotiate a deal with the king and the heads of the various military and police branches that greases the skids for Thaksin's exit, find out when he's going to be out of town, give him a friendly but firm heads-up so he can get his assets out of the country (provided he cooperates), and proceed to stage a coup that is relatively painless for everyone.

At least, that's my theory, which is 100% conjecture. If true, however, you've got to give the Thai military credit for having mastered the art of executing a relatively benign seizure of power.

Posted by: Ace at 10:17 AM | Comments (11)
Post contains 541 words, total size 3 kb.