I'll be in my bunk.

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"The little [six year old] boy had gotten in the back to get his car seat and put it in the front so he could drive the car [to Appelbee's]."

Video report here.

Okay, he did knock out power to half the town when he crashed into a transformer, but, hey, it's cute he wanted to drive to Applebee's.

Thanks to RichardL.

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Like the Lincoln-Douglas debates, pretty much.

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The power of Val-U-Rite. I was an early adopter (sort of) on Atkins, and trust me, the science will out on this one too.

Australian doctors credit vodka for saving the life of an Italian tourist who had ingested a large amount of the poisonous substance ethylene glycol, found in antifreeze, which can cause renal failure and often is fatal, French news agency AAP reports.

The 24-year-old man, believed to have been attempting to harm himself, was brought to Mackay Base Hospital in north Queensland, Australia, two months ago.

Pascal Gelperowicz, who led the man's treatment with Todd Fraser, said the man was unconscious when he arrived and was treated immediately with pharmaceutical-grade alcohol, which works as an antidote to the poison.

The hospital's alcohol supplies were soon exhausted, however, so they purchased a case of vodka to help finish the job. "We ... decided the next best way to get alcohol into the man's system was by feeding him spirits through a naso-gastric tube," Gelperowicz said.

The man was fed about three standard drinks an hour for three days while in intensive care. The patient has made a full recovery.

The doctors built upon the work of Dr. Homer J. Simpson, obvously.

Thanks to JackM, Drew, and Michael F.

And now MichaelB.

Posted by: Ace at 01:44 PM | Comments (31)
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Do you think this would happen if Rudy Giuliani were still Mayor?

Not that I think Rudy could've done much more than use moral suasion to prevent it. But I bet he would've raised (heh) holy hell to embarrass the Empire State Building's ownership from doing this.

Let's see. You are one of the most recognizable landmarks in a city that was viciously attacked by Islamists. Your city still hasn't been able to rebuild the World Trade center site. You are very likely a target for future Islamic attacks.

So the appropriate response is to: illuminate the Empire State Building with green lights to celebrate the end of Ramadan.

Let me give you a hint, Empire State Building. As far as the islamic nutbars you are bending over for are concerned, your "green lights" are nothing more than a "go" signal to hit your building next.

This is a disgrace. Have you capitulated to the Caliphate already, New York?

Is the Big Apple now to be known as the Big Fig?

Pussies.

I wonder what the first responders on 9/11 think about this. Or the families of those who were taken too soon.

Kiss My Ass, Empire State Building.

Posted by: Jack M. at 12:44 PM | Comments (84)
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I'm having trouble buying this, but they're apparently calling for a kangaroo cull to help combat CO2 (The Invisible Killer).

MORE kangaroos should be slaughtered and eaten to help save the world from global warming, environmental activists say.

The controversial call to cut down on beef and serve more of the national symbol on our dinner plates follows a report on curbing greenhouse gas emissions damaging the planet.

Greenpeace energy campaigner Mark Wakeham urged Aussies to substitute some red meat for roo to help reduce land clearing and the release of methane gas.

"It is one of the lifestyle changes we can make," Mr Wakeham said.

"Changing our meat consumption habits is a small way to make an impact."

The eat roo recommendation is contained in a report, Paths to a Low-Carbon Future, commissioned by Greenpeace and released today.

It also coincides with recent calls from climate change experts for people in rich countries to reduce red meat and switch to chicken and fish because land-clearing and burping and farting cattle and sheep were damaging the environment.

This nonsense has really gone on long enough, hasn't it? If we really are to worry about the burps and farts of our food animals, what they're really saying is that humanity itself must be culled. Indeed, many say precisely that, but the rest are mealy-mouthed pussies and just sidle up to the Final Solution to Save the Planet.

So, we have a choice between killing one sort of furry cute creature ('roos) or another (polar bears). Seems like a wash to me.

I'm pretty sure 'roos aren't carnivorous. But perhaps Global Warming will change them into some pack-hunting hopping sort of kangawolves.

Death Race 2007: Looks like they're already trying to kill 'roos. Bastards.

Thanks to captaincolo.

Whoops: Jack already posted this. Oh well, there is a funny video.

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When clowns go bad.

Top Ten Signs You Have A Bad Clown On Your Hands.

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From context I'm not sure if Kurtz is saying this is a good thing or merely noting an inescapable fact, but we now have two of the MSM admitting it was news coverage, and specifically how it was "shaped," that turned the public against the war.

On Tuesday's "Good Morning America,"co-host Chris Cuomo and media critic Howard Kurtz ignored the role that liberal bias has played in the decline of ratings for the network evening newscasts. At the same time, Cuomo and the "Washington Post" reporter seemed to be proud of the media's ability to turn Americans against the war in Iraq. Kurtz, who has written a book on the subject, asserted, "I believe that these newscasts in 2005 and 2006 played the biggest single role in helping to turn public opinion against the war."

Cuomo agreed and complimented the journalist's analysis. He enthused, "It's easy to say, 'Oh, well. The war was unpopular. People were looking for the unpopularity of it. At some point, the networks gave that to them.' But you have a more penetrating look at it. You take a look at it in terms of the role of the nightly newscasts in shaping the ideas about the news..."According to Kurtz, the top three network anchors kept "framing the story in such a way" that the bad news finally had an impact. And while the two reporters wondered about the effect the iPod and internet are having on network low ratings, at no time did they discuss liberal bias or salient facts such as that journalists backed John Kerry over George Bush by a two-to-one margin.

Meanwhile, as Maria Bartiromo reminded us last night, two thirds of Americans think the country is either about to enter a recession or is already in a recession, despite 22 quarters of consecutive growth, low unemployment, surging tax receipts, and record stock prices.

I wonder if Howie and Chris have any idea how the public got this very counter-factual idea stuck in their heads.

Thanks to CJ.

Posted by: Ace at 12:03 PM | Comments (24)
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And civilians, of course.

A day after Pakistani warplanes pounded villages in the volatile tribal belt, killing as many 250 pro-Taliban militants and civilians, the army called a dawn-to-dusk ceasefire to let residents bury their dead and seek medical attention for the wounded.

Thousands of families have fled the Mir Ali district of North Waziristan since the massive bombardment began two days ago.

Following on four weeks of sporadic fighting, the militants had holed up in nine villages around the district, according to locals.

Mirage fighter jets and Cobra gunship helicopters bombed the militants' hideouts. No high-value targets were taken out in the strike, said Maj. Gen. Waheed Arshad. Rather the attack targeted a group of guerrillas who had been attacking the military.

A bit of backround on the clashes from the NYT. An equal number -- 250 -- of government troops have been killed by militants recently.

Three days of fierce fighting have convulsed PakistanÂ’s tribal areas and exposed what tribal elders, politicians and local officials concede is the governmentÂ’s lingering paralysis in dealing with the threat from Al Qaeda and Taliban militants spilling out of the region.

The fighting, the heaviest in more than four years, has left at least 45 Pakistani soldiers dead as pro-Taliban militants and foreign fighters mount a vengeful campaign on all law enforcement in the area.

The clashes come on top of months of deteriorating security after the militants tore up peace agreements with the government in July. Since then, more than 250 members of the security forces have been killed in sustained attacks, the highest losses since the 1970s.

The upheaval underscores complaints by a range of officials that the government has been so absorbed in securing the re-election of Gen. Pervez Musharraf as president that it allowed the security threat to go unchecked.

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“The whole system of government is in jeopardy and the people are confused,” Mehmood Shah, a retired brigadier who served as secretary of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas until 2005, said of the region.

“The government is absolutely paralyzed,” he added. “It will take some time for them to turn the tables.”

Thanks for both to Hot Air.

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Been listening to this on and off. Long, of course, but worth a listen.

It would make a good drinking game, though if you drank every time the apologists mentioned colonialism, racism, the two World Wars, and torture, I'm pretty sure you'd be dead.

And maybe that's the point.

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