I could be blogging about Armenian genocide, but this seems more my speed.

Posted by: Ace at 11:43 AM | Comments (7)
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I feel bad about asking for a lot of reasons. For one thing, I was hoping that PJM ad money would be enough to avoid begging. Turns out not so much, plus I have the expenses of moving coming up.

For another thing, I know I've been sporadic and not on top of sending people thank yous for previous donations... again.

And of course, I'm asking at a particularly lame period of my blogging... Probably would have been better to do it during the Immigration fight or TNR Beauchamp thing. But it seemed too mercenary. So I'm left to ask, please support me during a really lame period of blogging.

That said, if you have any desire to donate to pay for my $200,000 per year in bandwidth costs (joking; that's what Andrew Sullivan claimed he needed to keep his site afloat), now would be a pretty sweet time for it. I seem to be a few weeks off from my next PJM check and could use some dough until then.

This time, seriously, I will be on top of those thank yous.

The PayPal button is in the left sidebar. You don't need a PayPal account, just either a credit card or a check. The Amazon donation button works too.

Thanks to all who donate, and to those who've donated recently but never got the courtesy of a personal thank you. You pretty much keep me out of the street, so yeah, I'm sort of indebted to you.

PS, if you do donate, sending me an email to my gmail account helps let me know who my benefactors are. My yahoo account is so filled with spammail that alerts to there from PayPal tend to get lost in the noise.

Posted by: Ace at 11:30 AM | Comments (37)
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Were they supressed because Phillip IV owed them debts?

Did Jacques burn for that?

Is Dan Brown a douche?

Will the Giants defeat the Falcons?

Should you cut your toenails angularly, so as to avoid the painy thing?

Why am I asking you?

Did you give? Until you felt better? Would you have given had I not posted this stupid post? Please don't answer that.

You must overcome your annoyance. You must find your way.

Posted by: Dave In Texas at 11:29 AM | Comments (9)
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Live close enough to Portland, Oregon, to want to come to a get-together?

LetÂ’s do it. I donÂ’t have a fancy name like Ace-a-Palooza or the Yearly Kops or a fancy location like KarolÂ’s NY blogger parties. What I do have is a decided lack of people I can chat with on even general topics without being afraid theyÂ’ll take offense at some opinion of mine. I know there are people all over this blog and others that I read who are from Washington or Oregon Â… so letÂ’s pick a reasonably quiet bar and go hang out.

Upcoming Saturdays are: October 20, October 27, November 3, November 10. Any farther out than that and it wonÂ’t be immediate enough to commit to. Possible areas are: Downtown Portland, west-side suburban Portland (Beaverton or Hillsboro), or, if there are more Washingtonians than Oregonians, IÂ’m willing to consider the Vancouver, WA, side of town.

So if this sounds good to you, go here and leave your preferred dates and location ideas in the comments. (Please do this if you're serious rather than leaving comments here at Ace's as it will be hard to keep track). 1) the more dates youÂ’re open to, the more chance we have of getting the highest number of people; 2) Quiet hangouts preferred! A McMenaminÂ’s in the suburbs is nice and quiet, and yes, I know their service sucks and thereÂ’s better beer out there, but quiet enough to talk to each other is my major criteria.

Hope to see you soon!

--Anwyn

P.S.: Don't any of you other Open Bloggers think about piling on. It's not the weekend yet, morons. Ace only let me do this because I beat him at the dictionary game last weekend. Ha-ha.

Posted by: Open Blog at 11:07 AM | Comments (27)
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Remember the large-scale model X-Wing that disintegrated in flight? Well there seems to be a Truther movement growing up around that crash, "raising patriotic questions" about precisely what really happened.

Your government is lying to you. Check out this unedited tape:

Thanks to Brian.

Posted by: Ace at 10:54 AM | Comments (15)
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Give me a f'n' break.

The House Judiciary Committee is ordering the Congressional Research Service to collect information from the league and the players union on injuries, the disability and retirement system, and how they're taking care of busted up retired players.

Punch line, please.

This is a pressing matter, to the United States Congress?

Jeebus.

I'm embarrassed that Lamar Smith, a Republican congressman from my state, has his prints on this nonsense. Here's a map of the Texas 21st.

He's got the weird parts of Austin. Zoom in.

Tom Delay did that to me.

Posted by: Dave In Texas at 09:06 AM | Comments (22)
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Put yer chitchat and brilliant observations here. Everybody knows you're not really working.

Ancient London cemetery/ nature preserve under threat of being dug up and replaced by brand spankin' new Muslim burial ground.

Don't announce the What, Where, and When of your sixteenth birthday party on YouTube.

Fascinating obituary of an American Hero.

Arkansas lawmaker wants to ban chaw in the Capitol. Her fellow legislators seem happy she's found something to occupy her time and don't give a shit either way.

Nicaraguan villagers thanking the Almighty above for kilos of cocaine.

Posted by: LauraW. at 07:43 AM | Comments (80)
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To expand on Drew's post, this is what the committee said it awarded the prize to Gore for having done:

Indications of changes in the earth's future climate must be treated with the utmost seriousness, and with the precautionary principle uppermost in our minds. Extensive climate changes may alter and threaten the living conditions of much of mankind. They may induce large-scale migration and lead to greater competition for the earth's resources. Such changes will place particularly heavy burdens on the world's most vulnerable countries. There may be increased danger of violent conflicts and wars, within and between states.

So, if I have this straight, Gore won for evangelizing a bogus theory which, presumably, has led to action which prevented (or not) future competition for resources, future conflicts, and future wars which haven't happened yet and which may (or may not) ever occur.

Got it?

Which I think is a great precedent! If one can win a Nobel Peace Prize for preventing events from transpiring which never actually would have happened anyway, than I am your man.

After all, look at my resume:

2010: Jack M. prevented the Indo-Russo-Sino "War of the Ganges" by posting a hilarious "fisking" of Vladimir Putin's webpage on AoSHQ.

2017: Jack M. prevented the "North Korea-South Korea Border Smackdown" by publishing an epic poem about Suzanne Sena on AoSHQ that convinced the Norks that the path to beauty runs through capitalism.

2025: Jack M. prevented the "Jovian-Mars" "Battle of the (Asteroid) Beltway" by sponsoring a caption contest ridiculing those goofy residents of Saturn on the AoSIntergalacticHQ website.

2053: Jack M. invented a hyperspace drive which enabled Han Solo to set a record on the Kessel Run. This record run led to new trade routes that alleviated resource shortages in a galaxy far, far away.

2100: Jack M.'s posting of the first "HamNation" is finally received by the residents of Omicron Perseii VIII, saving the Earth from brutal annexation.

Look at all the lives I may have saved! Even when you subtract the lives taken in Ace's "Hobo Sprees" I still come out ahead!

Certainly, this tremendous accomplishment deserves to be recognized. What about it Nobel Committee?

UPDATE: Being a humble sort of guy, I left several of my achievements off my resume. The commenter know as EC (but who Ace refers to as "slowhand" for some reason...) has decided to add a few of my accomplishments to my Nobel Application. Feel free to do the same!

2161: JackM's leadership and diplomacy abilities helps to form the United Federation of Planets.

Posted by: EC at October 12, 2007 10:56 AM (mAhn3)

Posted by: Jack M. at 07:29 AM | Comments (37)
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Deadline is 11:55 EDT on Sunday, 13 games this week, capped off with a complete yawner on Monday between the Giants and the Falcons.

Heh. Indeed.

UPDATED:AOSHQI and II

1. PHenry 46
2. Bart 44
3. Mob 42
3. Stashiu3 42
5. Drew Bledsoe for HoF 41
5. Boston Irish 41
7. Slublog 40
7. eddiebear 40
7. RedHatRob 40

Some of you people have weird names. Yeah, I'm talkin to you Bart.

Posted by: Dave In Texas at 05:50 AM | Comments (12)
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Well, this will make him and the left even more insufferable than they already are but there it is.

Former Vice President Al Gore and the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize Friday for their efforts to spread awareness of man-made climate change and lay the foundations for counteracting it.

"I am deeply honored to receive the Nobel Peace Prize," Gore said. "We face a true planetary emergency. The climate crisis is not a political issue, it is a moral and spiritual challenge to all of humanity."

Gore's film "An Inconvenient Truth," a documentary on global warming, won an Academy Award this year and he had been widely expected to win the prize.

He said he would donate his share of the $1.5 million that accompanies the prize to the Alliance for Climate Protection, a bipartisan non-profit organization devoted to conveying the urgency of solving the climate crisis.

When exactly did the 'Peace Prize' stop going to people who actually brought peace to some troubled area and simply become the equivalent of the international Gold Medal of Lefty Causes?

Who would have thought that ManBearPig awareness was worthy of a Nobel Peace Prize?

Posted by: DrewM. at 04:48 AM | Comments (65)
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