As Dennis Miller once said, I haven't seen choreography this stiff since the Lee Harvey Oswald jail transfer.

So let me see: She never could really sing, and now she can't dance either. It seems like all she can do to just manage to walk without falling over.

Thanks to Nordbuster.

A Reason To Tap That: It's A Sound Career Move: Dave from Garfield Ridge opines, after the third colon in this sentence:

What's so amazing is that Britney does wonders for *everyone else* in her life. . . after they've left it.

Justin Timberlake. Before Britney? Talentless boyband enuch. After Britney? Guy who records "Dick In A Box," films Alpha Dog, and actually seems like he'd be cool to hang out with.

K-Fed. Before Britney? Talentless mumbling scuzzball who smells like pee. After Britney? The responsible one.

Seriously, she's like the BASF of skanky whore ex-girlfriends. Next to her, even K-Fed looks good.

I repeat: she even makes K-Fed look good.

You have to admit, THAT'S a talent.

Don't think of it as hitting a drugged-out skank. Think of it as a resume-builder.

Posted by: Ace at 08:57 AM | Comments (40)
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Stop The ACLU is all over it.

Al-Qaida said Monday that it will release a new video of Osama bin Laden presenting the last testament of one of the Sept. 11 suicide hijackers, marking the sixth anniversary of the attacks.

Wonder how the Troofers will respond?

Posted by: LauraW. at 08:49 AM | Comments (10)
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I just got a somewhat threatening response to the mention of the Ace-a-Palooza. Some jagoff threatening to come by with a camera. Probably A. Gaspari/Downtown Lad.

Hmm. Maybe I shouldn't have announced the location publically.

Eh, we'll sic security on him.

Posted by: Ace at 08:30 AM | Comments (38)
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I don't know if I should tell you to click this. I've done it twice, and both times it froze my Firefox with a non-responding error that required a shutdown.

And I didn't even get to see the trailer.

But if you're at work maybe you can knock down the system and take even more time off. It seems to be a real studio approved site; not sure what is causing the problem.

For those with Invincible operating systems, here it is.

Posted by: Ace at 08:22 AM | Comments (17)
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Ace just stole my post about Olbermann, so I'm going to do something I rarely, if ever, do.

I'm going to harness the power of the blog to call for a boycott of NBC's pregame show until the worst former ESPN employee in the world, Keith Olbermann, gets axed.

I understand that NBC is desperate to bring attention to their bottom dwelling pseudo network MSNBC. I also understand that given Olby's background on Sportscenter, they feel that he brings some sort of synergy to the program.

But the fact remains: Olbermann's political rhetoric on MSNBC simply can not be seperated from his sports commentary. It is consistently insulting to half of the country. It is hateful and denegrating. It has no place as the lead in to what should be a politics free football game.

Today's quote, in which Olby compares Fox News to the Klu Klux Klan, is beyond the pale. Not only is it grossly insulting to the people who have made Fox News the number one Cable News Network, but it also diminishes the harm that befell all those who were, in fact, made victims of the hate spread by the Klan.

Ironic, isn't it, that a league made up predominantly of African-American players, would have a network host on their feature pre-game show who treats the crimes of the Klan so lightly.

Keith must go. I won't watch the "Football Night in America" pregame while he is on it. And I will write NBC and encourage them to drop him as fast as ESPN dumped Limbaugh.

If you feel similarly, I encourage you to speak out. NBC Sports can be reached at this following e-mail address: nbcsports@nbcuni.com

Thanks.

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Britney looking... eh, hittable.

The title? Apparently he's up against Shivva or, more likely, a rogue atomic bomb: Indiana Jones and the Destroyer of Worlds.

Whoops, no, that's a rejected title. Actual title: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. I dunno, sounds "The Phatom Menace"-ish to me.

Posted by: Ace at 08:09 AM | Comments (22)
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Considering his ratings, I can understand the sentiment.

Al Qaeda really hurt us, but not as much as Rupert Murdoch has hurt us, particularly in the case of Fox News. Fox News is worse than Al Qaeda — worse for our society.

Thanks to Mike.

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Bob Owens of Confederate Yankee has been on the Scott Beauchamp beat almost from the start. Today, he scores another hit on Mr. Elspeth Reeve and his stories of plunder and debauchery by interviewing the XO of Beauchamp’s Battalion, the man who conducted the investigation into the “Baghdad Diarist”.

Not surprisingly we find Beauchamp was full of crap.

(Maj. John) Cross: In the course of my investigation, I did not interview anyone who corroborated PVT Beauchamp’s claims in “Shock Troops” that a Soldier was observed wearing skull parts recovered from a “Saddam-era dumping ground” on his head, dogs were being deliberately hit by Bradley Fighting Vehicles, and that a disfigured woman was openly mocked by Soldiers in the FOB Falcon dining facility.

Owens: What has been the reaction among the members of Beauchamp’s company to the claims he made in “Shock Troops?”

Cross: Many Soldiers were upset about how the Soldiers in the article were portrayed as callous and uncaring. These characteristics do not reflect the professionalism and integrity of the Vanguard battalion and the high standards of conduct demanded by the Dagger BrigadeÂ’s leadership.

You can read the whole interview at Pajamas Media and enjoy the sweet, sweet schadenfreude.

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Here's an example of a situation where everyone did the wrong thing:

A McDonald's employee spent a night in jail and is facing criminal charges because a police officer's burger was too salty, so salty that he says it made him sick.

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Bull, 20, said she accidentally spilled salt on hamburger meat and told her supervisor and a co-worker, who "tried to thump the salt off."

On her break, she ate a burger made with the salty meat. "It didn't make me sick," Bull told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

But then Police Officer Wendell Adams got a burger made with the oversalted meat, and he returned a short time later and told the manager it made him sick.

Bull admitted spilling salt on the meat, and Adams took her outside and questioned her, she said.

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City public information officer George Louth said Bull was charged because she served the burger "without regards to the well-being of anyone who might consume it."

The McDonald's folks should have thrown out the meat. Yes, I know, that costs money and that's a sad story. Officer Adams shouldn't have eaten the burger, he certainly shouldn't have come back to the restaurant to throw his weight around. And whoever made the decision to charge Bull with a crime needs to come back down to reality.

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Tonganoxie, Kansas Mayor Mike Vestal only did what most guys do when they receive a risqué email. He passed it on to some friends.

The contents of the email, you ask?

Well, it starts out, "Next Monday is National Female Breast Appreciation Day." It then shows a picture of a topless woman. Under the photo are the words, "Beats the (bleep) out of Martin Luther King Day! Doesn't It?"

Unfortunately, one of the 'friends' on his email list was a 6News reporter, which led to the story getting published in the Lawrence Journal-World.

Despite the attempt to turn this into a political firestorm for the Mayor, who offered to resign if people asked him to, reactions have been supportive of the Mayor.

Tonganoxie City Councilman Steve Gumm said he has had a good working relationship with Vestal since the mayor took office in May.

“He’s done a good job since he’s started; obviously there’s a learning curve for everyone when you get started,” he said. “He’s enthusiastic. Obviously he wanted to be mayor; he appears to take it seriously. From what I see, he tries to do a good job for the city.”

“It’s no big deal; (at the same time) it is a big deal and it was in poor taste,” Shilling said. “And that’s just an off-color joke. I can’t say it was pornographic.

And comments like this at the Journal World:

“I know Mr. Vestal … I think he is an upstanding individual who deserves a lot of respect. He has overcome many obstacles in his life. He always greets you with a smile and treats you like you are a very very important person. He has a lot of great plans and things that he wants to accomplish while in office for the town of Tonganoxie. It would be a great loss to loose him over this stupid ordeal.”

Vestal added that he even received a request from former Mayor Dave Taylor.

“Mayor Taylor said do not resign,” Vestal said.

The Mayor apologized in a written statement, for any offense that might have been taken, and insisted that he is not racist.

I have not seen a mention of the Mayor's party affiliation.

49ABC News coverage of this story, here.

Get a load of Mike Vestal.

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