Whoopie Goldberg makes an idiot out of herself defending dog-torture even to the consternation of her liberal hosts.

I've never seen that ugly unfunny "comic" chick look so uncomfortable*.

Well, to be fair, I don't watch her much.

Is she a comic?

It's the culture of the South

Those neanderthals, with eyebrows, fighting each other with their cocks.

I thought the View would be boring without Rosie.

I was right, but that's what I thought. Goddam, if only Michael had a couple of trusted friends from the southside, he'd be as right as rain.

*I meant the other unfunny one, that's been there for a while. I forget her name. No need to remind me.

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Ace is usually keen to highlight military tech like lasers and chemical weapons that turn you gay. That stuff is never going to make it to the battlefield.

I've got something that will be deployed by the end of the year: the First Strike Ration. Yeah, it's not as cool as the pain-ray and its name makes it sound like a threat of violence when it's really not. Although, what name could we expect from a place called the "Combat Feeding Directorate?"

The idea is to keep soldiers better fed in the field. The army has noticed that soldiers tend to throw out some good bits when they field strip MREs. So they've put together a lighter package. It doesn't sound bad at all (but what do I know; I didn't eat the MREs when my bro wanted me "just to see what it's like"):

Items included in the FSR include pocket sandwiches, First Strike energy bars, Zapplesauce™-a carbohydrate-enhanced applesauce, high-energy drinks, pouches of tuna and chunk chicken, and caffeinated gum.

In the few places they've been sent, FSRs have been a big hit.

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Larry Craig has decided that he may have been a little hasty about stepping down. His campaign spokesman has this crazy idea and we have Senator Arlen Specter to thank for this turn of events:

"It's not such a foregone conclusion anymore, that the only thing he could do was resign," said Sidney Smith, Craig's spokesman in Idaho's capital.

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A telephone call Craig received last week from Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., urging him to consider fighting for his seat is affecting Craig's decision to reconsider his resignation, Smith said.

UPDATE [Jack M.]: Woot! I get to use the joke I was saving now!

National Media: Senator, you pled guilty after being arrested for lewd conduct in an airport bathroom known to be a hot spot for sex cruisers. Any comment?

Sen. Larry Craig (R-Idaho): The arresting officer misunderstood me. I am NOT gay. I'm just really into Boise.

Thank you. I'll be here messing up Gabriel's posts all week. Be sure to tip your waitresses.

UPDATE [Gabe, again]: Jack, did you miss the post about cruel and unusual punishment? 'Cause your joke is pushing it. I'm much more partial to this kind of comedy gold from PJ:

jumped the gun on that guilty pea too.

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Tomorrow (Wednesday) is the day. Teh Fred! is finally going to announce heÂ’s running. Well, I am assuming he is. I mean, if heÂ’s doing all of this only to announce that, all things considered he rather keep the acting gig and hang out with Mrs. Thompson, then the guy is just annoying.

WASHINGTON - As a veteran actor, Fred Dalton Thompson knows something about entering a stage. It's all about the build-up. The former Tennessee senator plans to announce his official entry into the Republican presidential contest on Thursday. But he'll pique interest first on Wednesday with an ad aired during a GOP presidential debate in New Hampshire that Thompson will otherwise skip.

By then he will have taped an appearance on NBC's "The Tonight Show" with Jay Leno, which will air about an hour after the debate ends in many U.S. households. Come midnight, he'll post a 15-minute video announcement on his official Web site.

ItÂ’s seems trying to upstage the debate is either a very bright idea or too clever by half. I am leaning to the latter. Regardless, his skipping tomorrow nightÂ’s debate isnÂ’t that big of a deal. ThereÂ’s still basically two debates per month (except for December) left, so itÂ’s not as if we wonÂ’t get the chance to see him mix it up with the other candidates.

And if he does, by some freak chance, decide heÂ’d rather spend time with Mrs. Thompson than debate the other candidates and suck up to obnoxious primary voters, who could blame him?

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and the Pentagon says "My bad, we'll see about upgrading our security policy."

Chinese military forces hacked into the Pentagon's servers in June. It is fairly common for governments to commit this type of espionage and it's not likely that a country would go to war over it, but it'd be nice to see some response from the Pentagon other than this:

The Pentagon took down the network for more than a week while the attacks continued, and is to conduct a comprehensive diagnosis. “These are multiple wake-up calls stirring us to levels of more aggressive vigilance,” said Richard Lawless, the Pentagon’s top Asia official at the time of the attacks.

Are we powerless to get China to knock it off?

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Using the ancient Japanese art of stunting/shaping trees on kittens.

Pure elegance.

Thanks to Dennis.

Flight Sim With Some Real Satellite Pictures: A simple little flight sim for free.

Thanks to Bob.

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Only an idiot.

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Thought those were eco-friendly and all, as they create energy by natural water power without burning a thing.

But they are burning things. They're burning fish into methane, it turns out.

nternational Rivers Network executive director Patrick McCully today told Brisbane's Riversymposium rotting vegetation and fish found in dams produced surprising amounts of methane - 25 times stronger than carbon dioxide.

"Often it's accepted that hydropower is a climate friendly technology but in fact probably all reservoirs around the world emit greenhouse gases and some of them, especially some of the ones in the tropics, emit very high quantities of greenhouse gases even comparable to, in some cases even much worse than, fossil fuels like coal and gas," Mr McCully said.

They're not pro-enviornment-- they're just on the other side. Anti-energy, anti-civilization, and ultimately anti-human, that is.

They remind me of the priggish scold Orfamy Quest in the Philip Marlowe book The Little Sister.

Orfamy: "I don't think I'd care to employ a detective that uses liquor in any form. I don't even approve of tobacco."

Marlowe: "Would it be all right if I peeled an orange?"

And this seems to be becoming a hardy perennial -- a British yachtsman who wanted to demonstrate dramatically that the Arctic is melting and now clear for sailing is trapped in arctic ice.

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“What constitutes cruel and unusual punishment?” This question is being debated today at the Nebraska Supreme Court. The defendant kidnapped and murdered a three-year old boy and fed the child’s remains to his dog. He now challenges his double death sentence as unconstitutional. more...

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If this worked, I just created an AoS football pool. I think the season starts Thursday night. That's how they've been doing it lately.

It's here. I'll post the join ID and password in the comments.

You just need to register (free) with these guys or use your old registration. Mine still works. It's a confidence pool again, against the spread, but this time only six games per week, so it shouldn't take so long to pick games.

Hmmm... Not sure why there are no picks allowed yet. Update: Oh, right: You have to select "Week 1" in order to see the spreads for this week's games. This site has a very sketchy interface.

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