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Posted by: DrewM at 11:51 AM | Comments (38)
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Happy Thanksgiving to Moron Nation.

Just a quick reminder that today is the last day to donate to the 2008 Valour-IT Fundraiser.

In case you aren't familiar with the project, here's a rundown on how it helps directly from one of our wounded heroes.

I don't know where to start. I was thrilled and truly appreciative of the laptop donation that Soldiers Angels sent. My neurology team is ecstatic with the progress that I have made, yet we all temper our excitement as I still have a long recovery ahead. Due to the great hearts (sponsors, donors, volunteers and others too numerous to mention) within Soldiers Angels I have become more mobile in my rehabilitation and the laptop is absolutely one of the tools that I have in my recovery toolbox. I use it to keep current on my schedule and have several applications that assist with recovery.

I know that my recovery has been aided by the cards, letters, and notes sent by your Angels. I love to read them and have started to send Thank You's to many of them. I just want you and everyone to know that your organization is a Godsend to Soldiers. Please send this note of Thanks to the appropriate personnel, and if there is anything I can do to help, let me know.

God Bless You and God Bless America.

Lieutenant Colonel X

So you know, hit up the link.

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Posted by: DrewM at 07:17 AM | Comments (75)
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Morning everybody. Time to fire up the smokers, light the burners, doink the microwave buttons and open up that 1.75 liter jug of John Daniels before the in-laws show up.

He may be Jack to you son, but when you've known him as long as I have...

Three T-Giving Day games for you morons. The pissed off Titans at Detroit (+11), Seattle (+12.5) at Dallas, and Arizona (+3) at Philly tonight, which might be the more interesting game today but I won't be watching that one cause I'm ready for some payback in Austin.

Vote early and often you goofballs. The fun starts in just over an hour. Unless you already took my advice on the bourbon, in which case the fun starts around 4:30 when your dad decides the goddamned turkey is overcooked again this year, your mom retorts with a casserole dish to the back of the head, grammy finds your vicodin stash, you decide your cousin has squeezed your wife's ass in the kitchen one too many times and there's a smoke plume coming out of the garage.

Posted by: Dave in Texas at 06:30 AM | Comments (59)
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20+ hours and troops are still working to clear hotels of terrorists. Fresh fighting and fires are being reported.

A fierce gunbattle between terrorists and paramilitary forces is on at the Hotel Oberoi Trident in Mumbai, in what seems to be the endgame in the near 24-hour hostage and terror drama unfolding in the countryÂ’s financial hub.

The fourth floor of the five-star hotel is on fire and according to some reports, at least 30 are still trapped inside, most of them held hostage by armed gunmen.

The Army, the Navy, the National Security Guard and Rapid Action Force are involved in the raging encounter with unspecified number of heavily-armed terrorists.

For those interested in keeping up to date, here are a few Indian media sources.

IBN TV news site and streaming video.

NDTV

And The Times of India.

Posted by: DrewM at 06:22 AM | Comments (64)
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A little something to relieve the tension. Comment at will.

Added note: When slaying your drunken cousin at the table over some trivial argument, try using the battery-operated carving gizmo that Dad bought back in '73 rather than the standard carving knife. I suspect it's much more efficient and leaves fewer blood spatters on the turkey and side dishes. It's all about ettiquette. However the hell that word is spelled.

Posted by: Open Blog at 09:26 PM | Comments (78)
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The attack was directed against an American convoy of Westerners gathering at the embassy for Thanksgiving.

Kabul police chief Mohammad Ayub Salangi said one person was killed and six wounded in the attack, about 200 yards from the entrance.

Police officer Abdul Manan said the attack appeared to have been with a suicide car bomb.

The U.S. Embassy was hosting a Thanksgiving Day footrace, and Americans and other Westerners were entering the embassy compound at the time of the explosion.

There's no reason to believe this is connected to the events in India, but, along with the alerts in the UK and New York, is a reminder that the War on Terror is far from over.

Drew's earlier warning about initial reports of terror attacks stands. In fact, there are already conflicting reports about how many were killed. Unlike the Mumbai attack, this seems to be a single incident.

Posted by: Gabriel Malor at 08:24 PM | Comments (46)
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UPDATE @ 12:40 Eastern

3 people have escaped from the Nariman House. One is an Indian who worked for the international families and 2 Israelis, one of which was a young child. The Indian commandos are still working to clear the building.

UPDATE @ 12:04 Eastern

The situation is still underway.

101 dead, commando hostage rescue operations are underway and several bombs have been found and disarmed.

The Taj hotel is still burning in places and networks have been asked by officials to discontinue live coverage at sites where 'encounters' (tactical operations) are underway.

So far 5 terrorists are reported dead and 9 captured. Dead terrorists are good but a couple of live ones for intel purposes is good too. Then kill them.

UPDATE @ 10:52 Eastern

The Indian Army has asked the networks to stop broadcasting live images from the hostage scenes. It seems they are moving in. The networks have apparently agreed. Discuss amongst yourselves how a similar request would be greeted in the US.

UPDATE @ 9:50 Eastern

The hostage situation at Nariman House, where some Israeli and other forigeners live is still going on. Apparently the terrorists are just shooting randomly from the building. The IBN reporter just said 3 people have been killed in nearby buildings...a couple and a 16 year old kid who were just walking around their apartment.

While she was reporting another shot rang out.

The cops are overwhelmed and are simply waiting for the NSG commandos.

UPDATE @ 9:28

IBN says the terrorists have been removed from the Cama Hospital. No word on casualties or captures but apparently that's one hostage location cleared.

UPDATE @ 8:50 eastern:

It looks like most of the terrorists came by boat and attacked 10 locations.

According to IBN, there seems to be 3 or 4 hostage locations...The Taj and Oberoi hotels, a local hospital and residential building that houses foreigners (Israelis were named as possible residents).

This is still an active attack and details are sketchy and subject to change.

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Posted by: DrewM at 03:26 PM | Comments (468)
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As envisioned by Donny and Marie Osmond, Red Foxx, Kris Kristofferson, Paul Lynde and a cast of dozens upon dozens of people who were really f'n desperate for attention.

Behold in all it's wondrous glory: Part 1 of the Donny and Marie Star Wars Special.

Yes, the sound and the picture are annoyingly out of sync. But there is a good reason for that.

I hate you. I hate you all.

Anyway, watch it and give thanks that I didn't post part 2 of this extravaganza on the main page as well.

Although if you are one of those obsessive types who absolutely must see the whole damn thing, part 2 is beneath the jump.

As always, you're welcome. Happy Thanksgiving morons.

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Posted by: Jack M. at 01:23 PM | Comments (60)
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These are pretty good.

Here are the most painful ones. First, the most physically painful. Watch the replay because you might miss the awfulness at full speed. more...

Posted by: Ace at 12:26 PM | Comments (42)
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As Shatner said, "Get a life."

The Shat is wise in all things.

Conservative commentators are no doubt blowing kisses in the direction of UC Riverside professor Michelle Raheja, whose odd interpretation of oppression has given them endless fodder for discussion and mockery. Raheja, the mother of a kindergartner at Condit Elementary School in Claremont, was outraged at the school's traditional Thanksgiving pageant, in which kids from Condit and kids from nearby Mountain View Elementary dress up as either Indians or Pilgrims and visit the other school for a feast. After Raheja wrote a letter to her daughter's teacher likening the event to "asking children to dress up like slaves (and kind slave masters), or Jews (and friendly Nazis)," the school board held a hearing on the issue and decided to hold the event without the costumes. On Tuesday, the day of the feast, the exchanges at Condit between parents supporting and opposing the costumes grew so heated that the parents had to be separated by police.

These people do outrage like gorillas do hostility displays. Hoot a lot, punch the ground, puff out your chest, bare your fangs. Dance about like a retarded monkey.

Although there are many annoying things about this monkey-like behavior, three of the top ones must be:

1) The ostentatious manner of displaying one's putative greater morality and enlightenment, never passing on a single opportunity to make a preening spectacle of oneself. Meanwhile, the rest of us just want to get through the day without being bothered, and without being forced to pay attention to the political equivalent of a flasher.

2) The eternal presumption of being an instructor in a neverending series of "teachable moments." Usually the deal is that if one wishes to be taught, one signs up for classes and chooses a teacher. Not with these people. They choose their classroom -- that would be you -- and sign themselves up as your moral and political instructor.

3) And of course the thuggish determination, arising from that ugly, worst-of-all-worlds mixture of overweening vanity and contradictory feelings of inadequacy which can only be mollified by even greater displays of egotism, to impose their will on others. And, as always, one strongly suspects the pretext for the imposition of their will, their control, is irrelevant; they would be just as happy bullying people to accept the sky is pink, so long as at the end of the day they had people knuckling under them.

Fuck them all.

And Happy Thanksgiving.

More Like This: A Canadian student association has voted to drop cystic fibrosis research as a charity. On the grounds that the disease isn't "inclusive" enough, as it mainly affects whites, and men.

Which, by the way, they're wrong about.

But let's assume it was true: Shall non-gay non-minorities stop donating for AIDS causes? And go a step further and start demanding the government stop funding such research? After all, doesn't help us.

This is truly vile -- deciding some victims of serious diseases are better off being left to their fates because of their unfortunate skin color or gender.

Posted by: Ace at 12:03 PM | Comments (68)
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