Republicans won another one, too:

In a year when national Republican fortunes took a turn for the worse, Louisiana delivered the GOP two seats in Congress in elections delayed by Hurricane Gustav.

Indicted Democratic U.S. Rep. William Jefferson was ousted Saturday from his New Orleans area district, while Republicans narrowly held on to the seat vacated by a retiring incumbent.

The wins followed Republicans' reconquest of another House seat earlier this fall that had been lost to Democrats.

In the 2nd Congressional District, which includes most of New Orleans, Republican attorney Anh "Joseph" Cao won 50 percent of the vote to Jefferson's 47 percent and will become the first Vietnamese-American in Congress. His only previous political experience was an unsuccessful 2007 bid for a seat in the state legislature.

In the 4th Congressional District in western Louisiana, Republican John Fleming squeaked past Democrat Paul Carmouche in the race to replace retiring 10-term Rep. Jim McCrery, R-La. Only a few hundred votes separated the two.

2010 is looking better. Obama's braindead legions will apparently only turn out in force when Obama's on the ballot. Combine that with the likelihood of Obama failing to solve issues as promised, plus the general out-party-wins-seats-in-a-midterm effect, and we could do some serious damage in 2010.

Thanks to William A.

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My penis just told me, "Ready my personal TIE fighter."

Not hot: more...

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Still some time to get your picks in.

Lots of cold and snow around game sites today...football the way it should be. more...

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Slightly less than sixty-seven years ago...

The facts of yesterday speak for themselves. The people of the United States have already formed their opinions and well understand the implications to the very life and safety of our nation.

As commander in chief of the Army and Navy, I have directed that all measures be taken for our defense.

Always will we remember the character of the onslaught against us.

No matter how long it may take us to overcome this premeditated invasion, the American people in their righteous might will win through to absolute victory.

And so they did.

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Remember college? The binge drinking, the desperate attempts to convince attractive women to come back to your dorm room and disrobe, the Ramen Noodle/Pizza diet, and the late-night nerd debates down the hall in the den on vital topics of national interest like "Resolved: Battlestar Galactica would TOTALLY kick Hell out of the USS Enterprise"? Well now there's a new college pastime: Humans vs. Zombies.

From what I can tell, the "humans" identify themselves by wearing bandannas on their arms and carrying nerf dart guns, while the zombies wear bandannas on their foreheads. Humans can shoot/hit the zombies and stun them for 15 minutes while they make their getaway, but the only way a zombie can die is if they fail to feed on a human for 48 hours. Of course, they DO have a loophole: if a stronger zombie makes multiple kills, he/she can "share" their kills with other zombies to keep them viable. Apparently, the zombies had better legal representation than the humans had during the conception of this game.

Now I'm all for the general public taking precautions for the eventual zombie apocalypse, but this seems like a bad idea. For one, based on the picture accompanying the article, it looks like they're using the "fast zombies" model. Everyone knows that when the dead finally rise and walk the earth, it will be done slowly. This is just going to confuse people, and it will lead to human casualties when the shit finally hits the fan. Only steers & queers prefer "fast" zombies to the traditional model....and it doesn't appear that any of these fearless zombie slayers are sportin' horns, ifyouknowwhatImeanandIthinkyoudo.

My other problem with the game? Nerf guns. No wonder the zombies are only stunned for 15 minutes: You couldn't even stop zombie hamsters with a nerf gun. These guys need to AT LEAST move up to a Red Ryder BB gun. As my plumber likes to say, "Well, THERE'S where the problem is."

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With the successful hit-to-kill test Friday of the interceptor we're planning to deploy in Poland (actually we tested the 3-stage version; Europe will get a simpler 2-stage interceptor), President-elect Obama should have a much harder time scrapping European missile defense:

If we can responsibly deploy missile defenses that would protect us and our allies we should – but only when the system works. We need to make sure any missile defense system would be effective before deployment. --- Barack Obama, July 16, 2007

This was the 8th successful intercept by our Ground-Based Interceptor (GBI), which is already operational and deployed in the US. As you read this, over 20 of these birds are in Alaskan silos and another handful in California on alert for any ICBM launch against the US --- hostile or accidental.

As GBI further cements its status as proven missile defense --- along with the wildly successful Aegis ships, THAAD and good ol' Patriot --- what "unproven missile defense systems" are left for Obama to eliminate?

Well, you already know about the Airborne Laser (ABL) --- it's at the top of Obama's hit list. But there's one crucial technology you've never heard of: the Multiple Kill Vehicle (MKV) --- PREPARE TO DIE multiple times (bonerific video after the break): more...

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Physician-assisted suicide, coming to a hospital near you, Montanans.

Judge Dorothy McCarter issued the ruling late Friday in the case of a Billings man with terminal cancer, who had sued the state with four physicians that treat terminally ill patients and a nonprofit patients' rights group.

"The Montana constitutional rights of individual privacy and human dignity, taken together, encompass the right of a competent terminally (ill) patient to die with dignity," McCarter said in the ruling.

It also said that those patients had the right to obtain self-administered medications to hasten death if they find their suffering to be unbearable, and that physicians can prescribe such medication without fear of prosecution.

"The patient's right to die with dignity includes protection of the patient's physician from liability under the state's homicide statutes," the judge wrote.

Under the ruling, the court will not go behind doctors' decisions about which patients are "competent" and "terminally ill" and thus able to choose death. The state is expected to appeal.

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They ain't much to savor this goddamned political season. But here's something.

William "Freezer Cash" Jefferson gets whipped by an unknown Rep.

"Gettin cash outta the deep freeze is the purest form of patriotism".

--- Stuff William Jefferson Said, At His Indictment Hearing

Tip: Mike S.

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(ItÂ’s more a headline item, but I wanted to post the pic and propose a contest in the comments.)

I found this via Iowahawk who has a new gig working at Anorak, which appears to be a U.K. version of The Onion, or Cracked.com or something. Go have a look-see.

IÂ’ll just swipe the entire text of the story since itÂ’s really short:

”TO China where a baby boy with eight toes on each foot has been discharged from a hospital in Leizhou, southeast Guangdong province.

The baby has five fingers on each hand but doesnÂ’t have thumbs.

The medical experts say:

“Doctor said this might have something to do with genetics or environment pollution.”

Or, er, notÂ…"

Slightly creepy pic and contest rules below the fold.
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Although I'm normally hard pressed, nay, reluctant to link WND when it comes to actual news, this isn't news, it's an op-ed by Ben Shapiro.

Enough. After the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, the plane downed in Pennsylvania, the endless suicide bombings, shootings and rocket attacks in Israel, the Bali bombings, the synagogue bombing in Tunisia, the LAX shootings, the Kenyan hotel bombing, the Casablanca attacks, the Turkey synagogue attacks, the Madrid bombings, the London bombings, and the repeated attacks in India culminating in the Mumbai massacres – among literally thousands of others – it's about time that the West got the point: We're in a war. Our enemies are determined. They will not quit just because we offer them Big Macs, Christina Aguilera CDs, or even the freedom to vote. They will not quit just because we ensure that they have Qurans in their Guantanamo cells, or because we offer to ban "The Satanic Verses" (as India did). They will only quit when they are dead. It is our job to make them so, and to eliminate every obstacle to their destruction.

So enough. No more empty talk. No more idle promises. No more happy ignorance, half measures, or appeasement-minded platitudes. The time for hard-nosed, uncompromising action hasn't merely come – it's been overdue by seven years. The voice of our brothers' blood cries out from the ground.

One minor quibble. Enough should have been enough in 1784.

We declared a "War on Terror" 207 years after Islam declared war on us. Time to call it like it is.

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