It may not be the best example of the genre but the reactions of the soldiers are absolutely hysterical.

Language warning: several F-bombs were dropped in addition to the 2,500lbs one that hit the Taliban.

It's nice to see people enjoying their work, isn't it?

Posted by: DrewM at 07:36 PM | Comments (73)
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Fastest ever recorded by a woman at this tourney.

As this is the most powerful tennis serve recorded at Wimbledon by a chick, in the world, and it woulda knocked your testicles clean off, what you gotta ask yourself is "do I feel lucky"?

Well, do ya? Punk?

Posted by: Dave in Texas at 03:36 PM | Comments (22)
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Right now AOSHQ exists on two sites.

ace.mu.nu

and

ace.new.mu.nu

We're still blogging and updating at the old site. There's a small time lag between when these items are posted and when they hit the new site.

We strongly encourage everyone to make their comments at the ace.new.mu.nu site instead of the old one. The old site only shows comments left there, and then shoves them into the new site with a bad date stamp, kind of wrecking the order of the thread.

Again: the old site does not display any of the comments left at the new site, where the commenting party has mostly moved to.

Please bear with us during this transition. Pixy is working his behind to the bone.

Lord knows, he's not lying drunk on the floor of an Aussie pub right now in a urine-puddle of undetermined origin. Heavens no.

Is everyone OK? Are you going to be comfy in our new home?
May I offer you some pudding? There's a bowl of smoked almonds over there, if you'd like.

How's about a drink, my darling moron lovies? Yes?

Valu-Rite martini, coming right up! I hope you don't mind, I substituted hobo toes for olives...

Posted by: LauraW at 03:33 PM | Comments (146)
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McCain addressed immigration policy in his speech today and gave his normal comprehensive reform and enforcement talk. More telling, I think, was his answer the question, one of the two or three questions he received on the issue, "...will comprehensive immigration reform, and not just enforcement, be one of your top policy priorities in youÂ’re first 100 days in office"?

It will be my top priority yesterday, today, and tomorrow. And my friends, thank you for the question, and let me just review for you again, we tried. I reached across the aisle to Senator Ted Kennedy, and by the way I know that heÂ’s in your prayers, and we worked in bipartisan fashion. And we were defeated. And by the way, it wasnÂ’t very popular, letÂ’s have some straight talk, with some in my party, and so I did that and worked together so we could carry out a federal responsibility. We have to secure our borders, thatÂ’s the message. But we also must proceed with a temporary worker program that is verifiable and truly temporary, we must also understand that there are 12 million people who are here and they are here illegally and they are GodÂ’s children, they are GodÂ’s children and they will be treated in a humane fashion based on the principle obviously that someone who comes here legally cannot have priority over someone who comes here illegally.

(note-I saw the speech live and the last line was clearly just an innocent flub, though you may of course draw your own conclusions on the nature of the slip)

I hate this formulation. I donÂ’t think we should be trading enforcement for amnesty in some grand compromise. LetÂ’s get enforcement first and see how it works for a few years and see where we are then. Perhaps attrition will work and make the problem more manageable. If we can't get an enforcement only plan, let's run on that in the 2010 mid-terms. I don't say that meaning I just want a political issue, I want good policy and if that means waiting an election cycle to do it, so be it.

Either way, I think the idea that people who came to this country illegally should be rewarded for that, at the expense of people who are playing by the rules and waiting to come here is unacceptable. Ultimately, that's what 'comprehensive reform' boils down to.

And Maverick…cut the ‘God’s children’ crap. No one claims that those here illegally aren’t ‘God’s children’. Of course they are and should be treated with basic decency. But being a child of God doesn’t exempt them from the consequences of their actions anymore than it does a citizen or legal immigrant.

There are complaints when there over immigration raids or laws that lead to people leaving the US. Yes families are often separated and itÂ’s sad when that happens but the same thing happens when citizens are arrested. Families are torn apart and lives are disrupted. Why is it a greater tragedy when it involves people who made the choice to come here illegally?

You can say being here illegally isnÂ’t really that big of a deal but there are a number of crimes that citizens are prosecuted for all the time that would fit into that category as well. Yet their lives are turned upside down and their families impacted. Should we stop enforcing those laws as well?

McCain doesnÂ’t seem to see enforcement as a good in and of itself, rather itÂ’s just something to trade off to get what he wantsÂ…comprehensive reform, aka amnesty.

Yeah Obama is as bad if not worse on the issue. So?

Sorry to be Mr. Immigration guy the last few days but it's the big political story of the day. more...

Posted by: DrewM at 03:03 PM | Comments (49)
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This video is via Instapundit, Samizdata, and EUreferendum. It depicts various EU parliamentarians showing up for work at 7am on Friday morning, luggage in tow, with the intent of signing in and immediately leaving to enjoy their weekends at taxpayer expense. So many of the smarmy Euro elites show up to scam the system that it is obvious that the practice has become an institutionalized practice.
The best part of the video is the Green Party Member of Parliament who upon seeing the camera focused on her, scurries like a rat towards the elevator only to walk straight into a wall.
Apparently the European parliamentarians are not so high and mighty after all. Sadly politicians are scumbags no matter where they reside. more...

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Sure they have a relatively sane President now and a smoking hot first lady but the place is still messed up beyond redemption.

What's the latest craze in France? Country line dancing! And they've managed to muck even that up by regulating the hell out of it.

They turn out in their hundreds in Stetsons and boots as hits such as the Crazy Foot Mambo and the Cowboy Strut echo around their village halls.

They are drawn by a love of American culture - although definitely not American politics - and a passion for line dancing, which enables them to swing but avoid all human contact.

...In a peculiarly Gallic approach to the phenomenon, French civil servants say line dancing should be submitted to the same rules as sports such as football and rugby. This means imposing training courses for line dancing teachers and a state-approved diploma for anyone who wants to give lessons or run clubs.

...Amateur instructors will have to take 200 hours of training under the new rules. Professionals will get 600 hours, including such subjects as line dancing techniques, “the mechanics of the human body” and the English (or at least Texan) language. They will also learn how to teach line dancing to the elderly.

The cost of the courses, about €2,000 (£1,570) for the professionals and €500 for the amateurs, will be largely met by taxpayers. Mr Chauveau said the regulations highlighted the French state's obsessive desire to organise all public activity.

Of all the things that the French could pick to worship from America they go with line dancing and Jerry Lewis. And they think they are so superior why exactly?

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'You're special. God made you special.' Because there aren't very many little girls out there that have a penis.

Thank GOD we live in a country where 6 year olds can express their sexual identity without fear of judgement or anybody saying hateful things like "no, you can't play with that Barbie."

Related: Fecal vomiting

Posted by: Open Blog at 09:17 AM | Comments (132)
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Give Smoov Stallion Dmitri a listen:

http://view.break.com/527579 - Watch more free videos

Ohhh. The edge of anger in his voice when he leaves the second message....

Ladies.
Are you all as turned on as I am right now?

How did we miss this? Dmitri has been winning Douche Accolades and Scrot Awards all over the net.

Via mesablue at The Hostages.

UPDATE: Oh, there's something wrong with him, alright. Yikes!

Posted by: LauraW at 06:19 AM | Comments (66)
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Don't try this at home. This guy ruined his microwave.

Ugh. Poor guy. You know how it is with microwaves.

Once you burn up popcorn, or cheese, or a bastard offspring of Satan in there, it just always makes that god-awful smell every time you use it.

I hate that.

Seriously though, very nice/ creepy video.

Posted by: LauraW at 08:42 PM | Comments (49)
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I was going to do a piece on North Korea blowing up one of its Nuclear Reactors and how that's a feather in the cap for Bush's foreign policy, but that whole story is being covered by some other news service that wants to be paid for their inimitable reportage.

Reuters happens to have a video of it though.

So instead, I'll talk about how bad Duke Football is.

Duke Football is so bad, Crystal Mangum couldn't be bothered to accuse the team of rape.

Duke Football is so bad, Mike Nifong is trying to walk-on to the team in order to lower his public profile.

Duke Football is so bad, the Judicial System told Louisville that they couldn't in good conscience claim that Louisville is suffering any hardship whatsoever from Duke's reneging on the remaining three games they scheduled.

In a lawsuit filed late last year, Louisville asked for $450,000 in damages and any additional damages the court saw fit.

But Duke's lawyers argued that the Blue Devils' performance on the field was so poor that any Division I team would suffice as a replacement. Duke is 6-45 over the past five years, 13-90 since 1999.

Judge Phillip J. Shepherd of the Franklin County (Ky.) Circuit Court agreed, according to the Louisville Courier-Journal.

"At oral argument, Duke [with a candor perhaps more attributable to good legal strategy than to institutional modesty] persuasively asserted that this is a threshold that could not be any lower," Shepherd wrote in a summary judgment issued Thursday, according to the paper. "Duke's argument on this point cannot be reasonably disputed by Louisville."

* Yeah. I'm stuck in Montreal for the next 6 months. So I'm learning to speak Canuckistanian. Or whatever the hell they call it up here.

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