Seems like they have an awful lot of free time on their hands. At least it's better than their usual yard activity, Synchronized Sodomy.

The chick is hot. Kind of seems like the kind of gal with "hidden virtues" you just never tire of discovering.

Thanks to PetiteDov.

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He doesn't have the audio up yet, but he recounts the interview.

It doesn't sound like an antagonistic interview, but who knows how they'll cut it and narrate it. One wouldn't think that NPR could mount a defense of Islamic Rage Boy's right to cultural peevishness unburdened by the chill of Orientalist mockery, but NPR often finds ways to surprise us.

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Conservatives are often accused of having no heart and no compassion. However, I feel truly awful about the dismissal of Valerie Plame's lawsuit against the Bush administration.

With the case out of court, how are Plame and her husband Joseph Wilson going to attract the media attention which has been their lifeblood since the beginning of this manufactured scandal terrible ordeal?

Actually, I have an idea: more...

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Mid-level comic/UFC ringside announcer (that's a weird combo) Joe Rogan has been on a tear about Carlos Mencia's notorious joke stealing.

In case you haven't seen him confront Mencia about this -- with other comics coming forward to say, "Yeah, you stole that bit from me" -- here it is. Worth watching.

Well, this is going to give Joe Rogan a stroke.

A very well done parody of David Blaine's street magic schtick, linked here, on Hot Air, everywhere:

And, in the sequel, note that one of his freakiest tricks is apparating (sp? I got that from Harry Potter) the dude's orange soda into the other dude's mouth.

Those videos have been viewed eight million times each. They are not obscure.

Now for Carlos Mencia's very original sketch.

Notice any... similarities?

Incidentally, Carlos Mencia's a real dick. He got Rogan blackballed from the Comedy Store in LA and got his agent to dump him. (They shared an agent, or at least an agency; the Gersh Agency dumped Rogan on Mencia's demand. A few comics left in solidarity, including Louis CK and Nick "Gay Robot" Swarsden.)

Now, okay, Rogan was kind of threatening Mencia's career, I guess. But you're really not supposed to steal material as a comic, are you? Maybe Rogan was making too big of a deal of this, but now Mencia's basically using his leverage (this hack has leverage? The mind boggles) to destroy Rogan's career.

Asshole move, man.

Maybe if you could write your own fucking jokes this unpleasantness could have been avoided.

Maybe Rogan Could Get Cosby's Juice On His Side: I noted this earlier, but man, this is one of the most ridiculous swipes ever. Bill Cosby's Himself concert film was famous at the time, and still is. Revived his popularity as a stand-up and entertainer -- and, unless my memory is wrong, the strength of Himself is what landed him the Cosby Show deal.

And this is one of Cosby's more famous bits from that show, though, actually, they're all pretty famous.

Mencia swiped it almost verbatim, down to some of Cosby's cadences and repetitions.

Is he just retarded? Is he like a serial killer who just wants to be caught?

Thanks to z ryan for reminding me of that.

Been Caught Stealin': More good stuff under the fold. more...

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Olbermann's Theatre of the Absurd ends with his calling upon Bush to go to Baghdad and fight "his war" himself.

Again, the chickenhawk charge -- one should be willing to fight wars one advocates, yes?

But the trouble is that part of Olbermann's, and the entire left's, schtick is that they're really super-tough guys after all -- not cheese-eating surrender monkeys -- because, while they don't want to fight Al Qaeda in Iraq, they're just totally gung ho to fight Al Qaeda in Afghanistan and, now, Pakistan. In fact, the subtext very often seems to be that it's just the stubborn President Bush who is preventing them from grabbing a rifle and hopping on the next plane to Waziristan.

Question for Mr. Olbermann:

When, Sir, can we expect word of your enlistment? To fight in what is, by your own admission -- nay, bold proclamation -- what is in fact your war?

Breaking the MSM embargo, Ralph Peters finally makes the point I've been making for years.

The intelligence report in question said, in essence, that, after the devastating blow we struck against al Qaeda in Afghanistan, the terrorists have regained some strength in their safe haven on Pakistan's Northwest Frontier. It doesn't say that al Qaeda is stronger than ever - although that's what the Dems imply.

In 2001, al Qaeda had a country of its own. Today, it survives in isolated compounds. And guess which "veteran warrior" wants to go get them?

Sen. Barack Obama. Far too important to ever serve in the military himself, Obama thinks we should invade Pakistan.

Go for it, Big Guy. Of course, we'll have to reintroduce the draft to find enough troops. And we'll need to kill, at a minimum, a few hundred thousand tribesmen and their families. We'll need to occupy the miserable place indefinitely.

Oh, and Pakistan's a nuclear power already teetering on the edge of chaos.

Barack Obama, strategist and military expert. Who knew?

I don't believe any Democrat actually wants to fight wars against Al Qaeda, or anyone else, anywhere at all. But they claim they do, they advocate for huge invasions of 100 million strong nuclear-armed countries, and of course they vote for any stray declaration of war that should reach their desks within 60 days of an election.

So if they are all gung-ho to finally "finish the job Bush wouldn't" in Islamabad and Karachi, I trust they know we need more troops -- and the army does in fact permit liberals to serve openly as such. There is no "don't ask, don't tell" rule about being a leftist jagoff, I can assure them all.

So:

When's the big sign-up day all you super badass warriors have planned? Is it a big surprise you're waiting to spring on the rest of the country?

I trust they're just waiting to receive and read the new Harry Potter book, and then they'll be training to storm the beaches of Southern Pakistan presently.

I Wrote Olbermann... but apparently I wrote using his old email; it got bounced back to me.

Subject: great special comment

One question:

Since you claim to support the "unfinished war" in Afghanistan and are even
gung-ho to go into Pakistan and finally get bin Ladin--

When, Sir, can we expect the announcement of your retirement from MSNBC and enlistment in the Marine Corps?

Let me know, Sir; I'd like to throw you a little Intellectual Consistency
Party when you finally put your ass behind your rhetoric.

I'll try again. The pathetic hump actually answers my emails. Or has in the past.

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Why? Who knows. Maybe she heard it was somehow slenderizing.

Peach-coloured toilet roll to match her complexion, and rose petals in the toilet bowl. One hundred-and-twenty designer bathroom towels also in peach. Ten highly specified designer floor lamps.

And that's before we get to the insistence that the security team wear 'neat dark sweaters' and use metal detectors.

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While usually protective of her privacy, she has been happy to discuss the intimate details of their alliance. She told actor Dustin Hoffman, her co-star in the 2004 film Meet The Fockers, that her and Brolin enjoyed sex six times a week.

Asked to confirm this, Brolin would only allow he "engaged" in sex six times a week.

It gets worse.

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Streisand was dismayed when, just before her world tour in the US last year, writer Christopher Anderson released an unauthorised biography which included her apparently awe-inspiring sexual CV.

While the singer's erotic allure has become something of a legend over the years (Warren Beatty and Steve McQueen are among her conquests), Anderson added a prince and a president to her admirers.

Steve McQueen just psionically contacted me to say "I wouldn't touch her with Ernest Bornine's dick."

Bill Clinton, though, had no such reservations.

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Streisand is said to have spent a night at the White House while Hillary Clinton was in Arkansas tending to her dying father. (The President hosted a press conference the following day with scratch marks on his neck and face.)

Classy.

PS: The "Special Comment" is now posted at Hot Air.

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Don't get too excited, though. It's just Scandi "treasure" -- eight barrels of salted reindeer balls and an autographed 8x10 of Ed Begley, Jr.

The trove of coins and jewelry was buried more than 1,000 years ago - a collection of items from Ireland, France, Russia and Scandinavia that testified to the raiders' international reach.

"It's a fascinating find, it's the largest find of its type of over 150 years," said Gareth Williams, an expert at the British Museum who examined the items.

He said it was the largest such find in Britain since the 1840 discovery of the Cuerdale Hoard - a mass of 8,500 silver coins, chains, and amulets.

David Whelan, 60, and his 35-year-old son Andrew were trawling a through a farmer's field near Harrogate, in northern England, on Jan. 6 when their metal detector squealed. The pair began digging, finding a silver bowl more than a foot beneath the soil. Under British law, such finds must be reported to authorities.

The pair turned the bowl over to archaeological experts, who discovered it was packed with coins and jewelry. The bowl, a 9th century gilt silver container probably seized by Vikings from a monastery, had been used as an improvised treasure chest before being buried.

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Some of the coins mixed Christian and pagan imagery, shedding light on the beliefs of newly Christianized Vikings, said Gareth Williams, a curator of early medieval coins at the British Museum.

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The items were manufactured as far afield as Afghanistan, Russia and Scandinavia.

As far as Scandanavia, you say? How on earth did primitive Viking longboats ever make it from Norway to far-off Scandanavia? This find raises far more questions than it answers.

Okay, so maybe the treasure is sort of big. On the other hand, what did the stupid fucking Scandis do with it?

They buried it, like a dog buries its feces.

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I trust. Drew's and JackStraw's recommendation of Keith Olbermann's "Special Comment" -- "100% pure, delicious crazy" -- will hopefully be available for your amateur psychiatric analysis.

Keith Olbermann

Special comments for very "special" people.

Partial Transcript... At Olbermann Watch, of course.

I dunno. Seems like his standard issue posturing and ranting to me. Have you guys seen him do this schtick before? It's total scenery-chewing lunacy by design. The words here don't seem particularly over-the-top, given his notorious history as a producer and star of political pornography.

What I like most about that one is his claim that before the Libby commutation he viewed Bush the way John Wayne viewed Kennedy ("I didn't vote for him, but he's my president, and I wish him luck") but now Bush has forced Olbermann to no longer view him as his president, or "wish him luck."

This right before he accuses Bush of previously lying us into war, killing 3500 Americans for no reason, etc. See, that stuff Olbermann could forgive, but the Scooter Libby commutation? That, Sir, was the deal-breaker.

So I don't know. When you say "delicious crazy," have you seen this preening jackass uncork one of his self-satisfied rants before? They're all like this.

Now Up: At Hot Air.

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Every four years, like clockwork, we're told this could finally be the year where a nomination fight goes down to the wire and two (or more) contenders stumble into a convention withs some support but not enough to the win, and then come the back-room deals and multiple ballot votes and even a hitherto non-candidate being nominated by acclimation.

So here's the first one of the 2008 season.

Interesting nugget: Giuliani actually looks stronger than I'd thought. With the winner take all systems in states he's currently leading in (and likely to stay ahead in, like NY and NJ), and assuming he wins in Florida, he's got a pretty firm hold on something like half the delates he needs to win the nomination, most of those being awarded fairly early in the process.

Of course, Fred! could wind up with a nearly equal number, and Romney could swipe a few states too, leading to a... brokered convention.

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A donation which consisted, supposedly, of just ten travel vouchers, I guess for the DailyKos to give away to readers or bloggers or something.

On one hand, it's good that JetBlue got whipsawed out of mainstreaming this extremist bunch.

On the other hand, it's not so good that corporations will not sponsor right-leaning blog type things.

On the other other hand, who cares anyway, they were never going to give us jack either way, and besides, we're only talking about ten travel vouchers.

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