Okay, yeah, this is getting to be too much, but damn, this is pretty darn funny.

Posted by: Ace at 12:35 PM | Comments (112)
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Daddy???

Yeah, it's old. But some of us just saw it this morning.
The musical selection is delightful, and the breakdancing starts at around 2 minutes.

Thanks to jenzhiss.

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Perfect day for football in Dallas. Sunny, clear, the high will be 71 degrees. Texas (3) vs. Oklahoma (20), kickoff at 12 EDT.

Hook em.

Other ranked action today, USC (6) and Notre Dame (25), Virginia Tech (4) and Georgia Tech (19), and Alabama (2) vs. South Carollina (22).

Also don't forget your NFL picks for tomorrow.

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Over the past year I've come up with a number of non-traditional creative solutions to certain technical issues that have impressed my business partners to the point that they'd like me to try and figure out what the heck it is that puts me into the frame of mind for these quantum leap type thoughts to emerge.
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Welcome all sub-morons and sub-moronettes. It's FIAF so grab your drinks and cheetos and let's start off the weekend. Oh and tonight is also a de-lurker welcome night so the no-mocking rule will be in effect until at least 12am EST.

8 So-Called “Chivalrous” Moves That Creep Women Out
Okay the walk-a-woman-to-the-bathroom thing is odd, but the rest hardly seem creepy - at worst maybe just a little old fashioned. But then a lot of women like that except well, for the ones who hate it. How can a man tell the difference? You can't always. Ahh the mystery of women. Still if you're going to be kicked to the curb, better for being too chivalrous rather than not enough.

Update: Shockingly the author of this article is single and her bio pretty much confirms the stereotypes you already had in your head.

More Classic Farley From Dirty Work
This was Chris Farley's last movie. Sadly he's been gone for almost 12 years now.

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Alright, let's give this a try. Last week somebody suggested that SGU could be worth a weekly discussion thread like we used to do with Battlestar Galactica. In fact, his exact words were: "The pilot had a BSG feel to it for sure."

It did, which was part of the pitch to SciFi. The new series requires no knowledge or familiarity with the other parts of the Stargate franchise. It's on Friday's at 9:00pm EST/PST.

Consider this a trial TV discussion thread. If there's enough interest, I'll do one every week like we used to do with BSG.

Below the fold I've tucked a short synopsis of the new show to catch people up. Tonight's episode is the show's fourth. The others are available on Hulu. more...

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Friday afternoon news dump.

The Obama administration said Friday the deficit for the fiscal year just ended was $1.4 trillion, the largest relative to the size of the economy since 1945, underscoring the challenge to shrink the fiscal gap even as the White House and Congress consider further steps to stimulate a slow recovery.

The final tally for fiscal 2009, which ended Sept. 30, was nearly $1 trillion greater than the $459 billion deficit for fiscal 2008. This yearÂ’s deficit translates to nearly 10 percent of the size of the economy, up from 3.2 percent of gross domestic product for last yearÂ’s deficit, according to a joint statement from the Treasury Department and the Office of Management and Budget.

We are just so screwed it's not even funny.

Government spending last year jumped to $3.52 trillion, up 18.2 percent over 2008. The $700 billion financial bailout fund and increased spending and tax relief from the $787 billion economic stimulus program that Obama pushed through Congress in February drove the increase.

For September, a month when the government usually records surpluses, the deficit totaled $46.6 billion. That's a sharp contrast to the $45.7 billion surplus in September 2008, the last time the government's books were in the black.

In issuing the final budget figures, top administration officials said the president was determined to get control of the deficits in coming years.

"It was critical that we acted to bring the economy back from the brink earlier this year," White House budget director Peter Orszag said in a statement. "The president recognizes that we need to put the nation back on a fiscally sustainable path."

That's a little like resuscitating a guy who had a heart attack on the way to his execution. Yeah, he's alive but for how much longer?

When confronted with something this unsustainable there's only two things to be done.

1- Spend untold trillions more taking over the nation's health insurance system.

and

2- Blame Bush.

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They say they think the baby might have died before being dumped, but I rather doubt that, and I think they're just saying that to make the woman less afraid to come forward.

This was in Britain, by the way.

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And surprise! Pork-addicted Republicans like Thad Cochran are part of this, too.

Senators diverted $2.6 billion in funds in a defense spending bill to pet projects largely at the expense of accounts that pay for fuel, ammunition and training for U.S. troops, including those fighting wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to an analysis.

Among the 778 such projects, known as earmarks, packed into the bill: $25 million for a new World War II museum at the University of New Orleans and $20 million to launch an educational institute named after the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, Massachusetts Democrat.

While earmarks are hardly new in Washington, "in 30 years on Capitol Hill, I never saw Congress mangle the defense budget as badly as this year," said Winslow Wheeler, a former Senate staffer who worked on defense funding and oversight for both Republicans and Democrats.

More:

I am not ready to cede the power of the purse to any administration," he told The Times in an e-mail. "It is vested by the Constitution in the Congress." He added that appropriators had "reviewed the budget request very carefully, conducted public hearings and reported the appropriation bills that the committee thinks will serve the public interest."

In addition to the $2.6 billion in earmarks, the bill includes $2.5 billion for 10 Boeing C-17 cargo planes that the military says it does not need, and $1.7 billion for an extra DDG-51 destroyer not requested in the Pentagon's budget proposal.

Mr. Coburn mounted a rear-guard action on the Senate floor to try to restore some of the money to its original purpose. One proposed amendment restored $100 million to the accounts by correcting the economic projections used in the bill to estimate future costs. That passed, but other amendments to prevent the use of O&M money to fund earmarks were soundly defeated.

Mr. Wheeler said senators had raided O&M accounts to pay for narrowly targeted projects in every budget since 2002, with dire results for troops on the front lines.

Read on, and see how badly troop training has been cut in order to fund these local pet pork projects.

Thanks to Mama AJ.

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As if we didn't already have reason to doubt after the interminable "Green Week" productions, Discovery Channel's news division is running this headline right now:

Ribbon of Particles Seen at Galaxy's Edge

The problem? IBEX is observing stellar material at the Solar System's edge.

As the solar wind reaches the edge of the solar system and collides with the interstellar medium, a shock wave forms, heating particles which then stream away from the boundary.

"We have discovered an arc-shaped ribbon of high-pressure material that looks to be piled-up material from the Sun," says team member Herbert Funsten. "The IBEX maps and the discovery of the ribbon are completely different from what we thought it should look like. We were expecting tie-dye and instead found noodle soup."

A slightly more complex discussion of the phenomena, including speculation on why the Voyager probes missed it is here.

Yes, I'm geeking out on this Friday afternoon. No, I'm not back.

UPDATE [5:09pm PST]: Looks like someone pointed out Discovery Channel's idiocy. They fixed the headline.

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