You thought posting on the Olympia Moonbat Calendar was fun? How'd you like to comment on Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's official blog?

It looks like this has been around for years (he rarely posts) so feel free to shout out an "Old!" if you'd already seen it. I hadn't. He has a recent post about why he's not posting anymore. (Short answer: "my trusted students" read the blog for him.)

Watch out for the crazy Mahmoud-lovers in the comments. On the other hand, there are some amusing ones like this fellow:

GB Your Gone bob...@yahoo.com
You are a terrible, despicable human being. You WILL be attacked by the US or Israel and will be destroyed!

And this one:

US john jacobs sfg...@yahoo.com
I hate you. you are retarted. that simple mentally retarted

LATER: Well, damn. It seems that there's a comment review process or something. How irritating.

Posted by: Gabriel Malor at 06:03 PM | Comments (28)
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Well, lightning is dangerous stuff. That's a reasonable precaution.

On a depressing note, I've noticed I look an awful lot like Ron Jaworski except he's in better shape than me.

I have more hair. Less teeth toothy grin. Other than that, shiiit.

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Posted by: Dave In Texas at 05:55 PM | Comments (23)
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Fruits of Islam:

SUSPICIOUS Iraqi troops ordered a "bride" and "groom" out of their car at a checkpoint on a highway north of Baghdad only to find they were wanted militants in disguise, the defence ministry said.

Two other men travelling with the all-male “bridal couple” were also found to be wanted militants, the ministry said in a statement.

It said the incident occurred near Taji, about 40km from Baghdad, but did not indicate when.

“Iraqi soldiers set up a checkpoint near Taji and during their duty they stopped a wedding procession,” the statement said.

“The soldiers became suspicious because the procession did not follow orders to stop. The occupants of the car were told to step out of the car and were searched. Four people in the procession were found to be wanted terrorists and arrested.”

Posted by: Ace at 04:52 PM | Comments (27)
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We've known about things that eat methane for a while now, but these newly discovered ones are apparently more high-temp and acidic environments tolerant that the previously known species.

...Climate researchers are expected to follow the discovery closely as the bacterium offers the potential to reduce the amount of methane entering the atmosphere. Methane is a far more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide...

Posted by: Purple Avenger at 04:02 PM | Comments (20)
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This claim is posted Big Head in DC site (which, you know, isn't exactly according-to-Hoyle) is down, probably due to the huge traffic wave it just got from Perez Hilton and the whole left of the blogosphere.

Liberrocky is about to send me the text from the Big Head site which he got before the site went down.

What Liberrocky tells me is that the gay escort involves was asked about Lott and says there's no "current" relationship.

A lot of gay escorts seem to say a lot of crap, and I usually don't believe them because, well, they're gay escorts.

Key Grafs From the Claim: Again, this is a hooker talking, plus a gossip blog.

One of the politicos Big Head DC has learned he's alleged to have been involved with is the married Sen. Trent Lott, 66, who unexpectedly announced his retirement on Monday. Lott is well-known to have been against a plethora of gay rights issues throughout his terms in Congress. He was also good friends with Sen. Larry Craig throughout his time in Congress.

Nicholas told Big Head DC today via e-mail that he didn't want to go on the record to talk about his dealings with Lott, because, said Nicholas, "Trent is going through his fair share of scrutiny right now and I don't want to add to it." However, e-mail and other records confirm that the two have met on at least two occasions.

"All I can say at this point is no comment," Nicholas told us. "It's the professional thing for me to do."

In a subsequent e-mail message, Nicholas confirmed that another publication is working on a story about a "possible relationship" between Lott and himself, but Nicholas also "politely declined" an interview for that story.

Meh, seems fake. The guy is sitting here claiming he's protecting Lott while outing him as a gay-whoreboy lover and showing emails supposedly from Lott to a blogger? The whole "no comment" thing is transparently vampish. Very I-vant-to-be-alone, stagey and not credible at all.

The email thing is pretty absurd. No one would send out emails from their senate account. Ergo, these emails must be from some made-up account... which of course cannot be verified as Trent Lott's, or anyone else's.

So we have a manwhore who's probably looking for tabloid cash telling us he had sex with Trent Lott without any evidence for this. Weak.

And I pretty much hate Trent Lott.

If any hookers want to contact me and claim they've had sex with Hillary Clinton and provide no evidence for this except emails from a Yahoo account called, say, SmartestWomanInAmerica@yahoo.com, let me know, I'll broadcast your story to the world three or four thousand morons.

Oh Wait Here's One: I'll write this like a blind item. It's a real rumor; I didn't make it up. It's a claim from people in political circles.

Which major player in the Democratic Party, expected to run for President in 2008, dropped out of the race because he believed the Hillary! campaign had dirt on his sexuality?

Anyway. I always feel weird about this crap but what are you going to do?

Total Bullshit: This guy Nicholas (the male hooker, or "mooker") is a serial plagiarist and liar.

And in case you are thinking (or in case Benjamin is planning to claim) that maybe dear, sweet innocent Benji has just been so busy traveling the globe and pleasing his "guys" that he merely forgot to use quotation marks and include the author's name, keep this is mind: He often changes one or a few words to make it seem that he is in fact the writer of the piece. For instance, where someone will say, "As a journalist, I...," Benjamin changes it to "As a blogger, I..." Where someone will write "In last week's column," Benjamin changes it to "In last week's 15 Minutes." In the most bizarre example that you will see below, Benjamin actually took Dave Barry's 1981 account of helping his wife through childbirth and, while leaving the entire essay unaltered, he simply changed it from "my wife" to "a single-mother friend." When I first read that blog entry in July of last year, I thought how wonderful it was for Benjamin Nicholas, a busy world-traveling escort, to take the time to help this poor unfortunate unmarried girl go through the difficult process of childbirth, but now, to find out that it was all a lie, and that Benji stole the entire essay, I am appalled and disgusted.

So, as first (or at least second) thought had it: Total bullshit from a wannabe supahstah of a manwhore.

Thanks to AoSHQ Janitor & Male Escort Service.

Posted by: Ace at 03:59 PM | Comments (61)
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Heh. Sort of a risky thing to say in the Democratic environment, because I'm pretty sure that most liberal women are so "empowered" they do in fact believe they're qualified to do their husbands' (or life partners') jobs through osmosis. Or anyone's job, really.

So this is something of a heresy. Right now the victim card is being polished to a high sheen.

Obama went out of his way to belittle Clinton's experience as first lady.

"I think the fact of the matter is that Sen. Clinton is claiming basically the entire eight years of the Clinton presidency as her own, except for the stuff that didn't work out, in which case she says she has nothing to do with it," Obama said, and added, referring to his relationship with his wife, Michelle, "There is no doubt that Bill Clinton had faith in her and consulted with her on issues, in the same way that I would consult with Michelle, if there were issues," Obama said. "On the other hand, I don't think Michelle would claim that she is the best qualified person to be a United States Senator by virtue of me talking to her on occasion about the work I've done."

Speaking of empowerment.... which religion is Hillary, again? Apparently an Empowermentarian.

Sen. Hillary Clinton, with the traveling press corps in tow, attended church services this morning. She sang and nodded in agreement during the service, and even stuck a contribution on the offering plate before heading out for a full day of campaigning through the Hawkeye State.

Clinton (D-N.Y.) sat towards the front during the service, held at Grace United Methodist Church.

She participated in the unison prayer: "God of empowerment, help us to give all of our children the anchor of faith, the rudder of hope, the sails of health care and education, the paddles of family and community to keep them afloat when life's sea gets rough. Amen."

The God of Empowerment? What?

For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son that those who should believe in Him should be totally Empowered, like in those Nike ads, climbing walls and skydiving and pole-vaultng and shit. Jesus Empowers, baby.

Perhaps she should also say a few prayers to the God of Avoiding Lame Run-On Metaphors, too. "Paddles of family and community," indeed.

This topic requires the obligatory link to this old Onion piece: Women Now Empowered By Nearly Everything They Do.

Posted by: Ace at 02:54 PM | Comments (46)
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He had visions of living previously in strange lands with remarkable temples.

He seems to have recruited a small army of people who believed his jive to help him.

But you can't argue with the results:

Nestling in the foothills of the Alps in northern Italy, 30 miles from the ancient city of Turin, lies the valley of Valchiusella. Peppered with medieval villages, the hillside scenery is certainly picturesque.

But it is deep underground, buried into the ancient rock, that the region's greatest wonders are concealed.

Here, 100ft down and hidden from public view, lies an astonishing secret - one that has drawn comparisons with the fabled city of Atlantis and has been dubbed 'the Eighth Wonder of the World' by the Italian government.

For weaving their way underneath the hillside are nine ornate temples, on five levels, whose scale and opulence take the breath away.

Constructed like a three-dimensional book, narrating the history of humanity, they are linked by hundreds of metres of richly decorated tunnels and occupy almost 300,000 cubic feet - Big Ben is 15,000 cubic feet.

A shame he didn't have a supernatural vision of a flyin' car.

Posted by: Ace at 02:36 PM | Comments (27)
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The cause of death is still unknown.

I've had time, and I've forgiven him for this:

Fun fact: If my memory of VH-1's six thousand Metal Memories shows is good, they didn't want to record that song, hated that song, but were forced to put it on their album by their producer or the executives at the label.

Posted by: Ace at 02:02 PM | Comments (47)
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Several of the morons took me to task this morning for rudely and unfairly criticizing this post at Extreme Mortman about the potential effect YouTube and similar sites will have on politicians. For example, Additional Blond Agent wrote:

I actually *read* the posting in question and it raises a number of valid and frankly difficult points to address. It does us no good to dismiss them without proper consideration.

I thought a second look was in order. Since this may interest only two of the readers, I've tucked it into the extended entry. more...

Posted by: Gabriel Malor at 01:54 PM | Comments (6)
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Yes, let's all be miserable. Allah commands it.

n Indonesian fisherman who developed tree-like growths on his hands and feet is at the centre of an international medical spat after his country's health minister criticised doctors trying to treat him.

Indonesia's health minister, Siti Fadilah Supari, lambasted the US doctor currently treating the 35-year-old man, who has the rare affliction caused by the Human Papilloma Virus.

Mrs Supari is angry that Dr Anthony Gaspari has taken blood and tissue samples out of the country to the United States in a bid to diagnose the illness. She claims such samples could be used in the future to make vaccines that the poor could not afford.

Developing nations such as Indonesia risk exploitation unless they maintain control over their virus strains, Mrs Supari said.

But her comments have now offended Dr Gaspari, an American dermatologist at the University of Maryland, who maintains that, while he took the samples without permission, his sole motivation was getting treatment for the man.

Known simply as Dede, the man, who lives in a village south of the capital Jakarta, has massive root-like warts growing from his arms and legs which have gone untreated for years.

"We did take samples, and the reason we did was to render a diagnosis. We did it for humanitarian reasons, to help the patient," Dr Gaspari said, stressing his willingness to put in writing that the samples were not for commercial use.

Mrs Supari, who has famously refused to share bird flu samples with international scientists, made her comments on Sunday after returning from a World Health Organisation (WHO) conference in Geneva.

"We are offended because the samples were taken from Dede without our permission," she told reporters at the hospital where the man was being treated. "If they are taken abroad, they could become lucrative commodities."

The intergovernmental conference was aimed at rebuilding a global system for sharing viruses. Indonesia is the nation the worst hit by bird flu, with a total of 91 human deaths recorded.

Mrs Supari has, however, steadfastly refused to share samples of the deadly H5N1 strain of the disease until she receives assurances they will not be used to make expensive pandemic vaccines.

For its part, WHO wants to make sure the virus has not mutated to a form that spreads more easily between people.

Definitely the samples should remain in Indonesia. They have such a good track record at creating vaccines and eliminating disease, whether for the poor or rich.

Another pic. Poor blighter.

There's more vid at the link.

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