- posted by Brian @ 11:08 AM |

BC-APNewsAlert,0027
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - Boniface Alexandre, chief justice of Haiti's Supreme Court, says he is Haiti's new leader.

You could call it B.A., as in Baracas.
- posted by Brian @ 9:56 AM |

U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown verbally attacked a top Bush administration official during a briefing on the Haiti crisis Wednesday, calling the President's policy on the beleaguered nation "racist" and his representatives "a bunch of white men." Her outburst was directed at Assistant Secretary of State Roger Noriega during a closed-door meeting on Capitol Hill.

David Simon, a spokesman for the Jacksonville Democrat . . . noted that Brown, who is black, is "very passionate about Haiti."

Noriega later told Brown: "As a Mexican-American, I deeply resent being called a racist and branded a white man," according to three participants.

Brown then told him "you all look alike to me," the participants said.

Also chedk this out, if only for the amusing quotes, like:

You're right, the amendment will not literally prohibit the gays from getting in the rear; in a literal sense, it will just deny the benefits of marriage to the gays (some of whom practice the back-door love). But we suspect that what really makes the Bushies uncomfortable is ass-fucking. The idea of it, we mean.

Now I'm not sure what pisses me off more -- the way these people craft their words to sound like they're really buying the star, or that they've more or less legally made millions by convincing 500,000 people to do it.
- posted by Brian @ 9:32 AM |

Also, I'm hoping Stefan happens by and understands the language this is written in.
- posted by Brian @ 4:33 AM |

Generals’ Playing Assistant Coach, right wing Bobby Reynolds on a penalty shot, scored the game-winning goal. Reynolds was awarded the penalty shot at 11:11 of the third period after being hauled down while on a short-handed breakaway. On the penalty shot, Reynolds sent the puck top shelf, glove side on Rockford goaltender Ron Vogel, who got a piece of the puck, but deflected high into the air and into the net that turned out to be the game deciding goal.

The Generals started the comeback on a power play goal by Kevin Kerr (13) at 14:26 of the second period to cut the deficit to 2-1. With the goal, Kerr now has 653 career goals, just 11 shy of breaking the professional hockey league record (excluding the NHL) for most career goals. Former Saginaw Gear and Muskegon Lumberjack IHL-ER Scott Gruhl with 663 career goals hold that record.

Seriously. I didn't make that up.
- posted by Brian @ 2:23 PM |

(Link from Jim Romenesko.)
- posted by Bacon Dad @ 12:44 PM |

(Link from Dave Barry.)
- posted by Bacon Dad @ 12:11 PM |

(Link via Andrew Sullivan and Jeff Kay.)
- posted by Bacon Dad @ 1:49 PM |

Mars Hill College has accepted the resignation of a longtime professor after he challenged students to disrobe in exchange for an A in his sociology class and one of them took him up on the offer.

College President Dan Lunsford said the professor didn't expect the student would actually take off his clothes during the class last Thursday evening.

I don't fully understand what all the hubbub is about, but I think the hand-wringers are trying to say he's anti-Semitic because Jews kill Jesus in his film. Now, I'm no theologian, by any stretch of the imagination, but isn't that the way it supposedly went down? I think Gibson is trying to faithfully illustrate that section of the Bible; it just wouldn't work if he had fat white Halliburton executives nailing Jesus to the cross, like his critics would prefer. Ya know? The funny thing is, I don't hear too many Jews complaining about it, it's mostly leftist intellectual elites. I have a suspicion that it has more to do with a strong dislike of all things Christian, than a concern about defamation. But what do I know?

(Jeff also posted this, which made me laugh myself hoarse. Yes, that idiot just walked into an electric fence.)
- posted by Bacon Dad @ 1:16 PM |

An ABC News poll released Sunday found that 61 percent of Americans believe the account of creation in the Bible's book of Genesis is "literally true" rather than a story meant as a "lesson." Sixty percent believe in the story of Noah's ark and a global flood, while 64 percent agree that Moses parted the Red Sea to save fleeing Jews from their Egyptian captors. The poll found that 75 percent of Protestants believed in the story of creation, 79 percent in the Red Sea account and 73 percent in Noah and the ark. Among evangelical Protestants, those figures were 87 percent, 91 percent and 87 percent, respectively. Among Catholics, they were 51 percent, 50 percent and 44 percent.

What does all that have to do with what Hindrocket posted? What I'm basically saying is that any poll that offers a simple "yes/no" response to a question of Biblical belief is missing a HUGE grey area. Do 61% of Americans believe in a literal interpretation of Genesis? I suppose anything possible. I don't know 61% of Americans. I consider it more likely, though, that many of those responding yes actually believe that Genesis is generally correct, but possibly incorrect on some specifics such as dates and intervals. That's different from saying "It's just a story somebody made up to get a message across."

Hindrocket also says:

Modern leftism has always been anti-religious at its core. The three great intellectual movements of the nineteenth century, founded by Marx, Darwin and Freud, were all rebellions against the European religious tradition. Marx sought to secularize history, Darwin to secularize biology, and Freud to secularize human nature. All three movements pretended to be scientific, but in reality were pseudo-science. Hostility to religion was their essence and their motivation.

Controversial Wests Tigers winger John Hopoate has been suspended for 12 weeks after being found guilty by the NRL Judiciary of poking his fingers up the anuses of three North Queensland players.

"It wasn't a wedgie. That's when your pants are pulled up your arse. I think I know the difference between a wedgie and someone sticking their finger up my bum," said Jones, admitting that while both acts caused discomfort, they caused different sensations and he could differentiate between the two.

• Not allowed to add 'In accordance with the prophesy' to the end of answers I give to a question an officer asks me.
• The Irish MPs are not after 'Me frosted lucky charms'.
• Our supply Sgt is 'Sgt Watkins' not 'Sugar Daddy'.
• I may not use public masturbation as a tool to demonstrate a flaw in a command decision.
• 'Napalm sticks to kids' is *not* a motivational phrase.
• I am not allowed to mount a bayonet on a crew-served weapon.

In a bizarre confession yesterday, Ms Le Vot admitted she did not have cancer but was, in fact, a hermaphrodite who had used the excuse of suffering from the potentially fatal disease to cover up her embarrassment at a series of operations to become a woman.

To all you gay marriage supporters out there who think you are being denied your rights...knock it off. You have equal rights. I, as a straight male, can marry a female. You, as a gay male, can also marry a female. Should you choose not to marry a female, that's fine for you. If you choose to "marry" a male...I'm sorry, but, you can't. And neither can I!!! That sounds quite equal to me.

UPDATE: Atomizer and I have been emailing back and forth all day, and I think we'll just have to agree to disagree. He just doesn't believe in a fundamental redefinition of the word "marriage" to be more inclusive. Plus, he's smarter than I am...I think getting into a lengthy political discussion with likes of him would break my brain.
- posted by Bacon Dad @ 12:18 PM |

These particular frames belonged to my dad, Ramses Luther Smuckles (CFA Registered name: GC Tinkerbell’s Careful He’s A Spaniard) and I’m proud to wear them.

MattHearnCSC: Here comes the Thnikkaman!
MiloBloom34: ?
MattHearnCSC: I guess you didn't watch last week's Strong Bad email? You suh-uck.
MiloBloom34: Oh, that.
MiloBloom34: Perhaps I was distracted.
MiloBloom34: i'm watching again.
MattHearnCSC: Do you have sound?
MiloBloom34: did you really ask me that?
MattHearnCSC: It's been a long night.
MiloBloom34: Do you have computers there?
MattHearnCSC: Blow me.

- posted by Brian @ 6:27 AM |

This occupied me for like an hour. I'd still be playing if I hadn't looked up hints.
- posted by Bacon Dad @ 12:41 AM |

WHAT THE HELL WERE YOU DOING THERE???? Don't you know the only good thing about driving to work in the middle of the night means that I'm supposed to have the road TO MYSELF??? There's no damn point if the drive is the same as if it's 2:30 in the afternoon! Oh, and to the idiot from New York in the Mitsubishi - it was such a joy to have your company this morning. I was really fucking irritated reassured by your habit of passing me at 85, then slowing to 65, then passing me again at 85 while I sat there with my cruise on at 75. I'm also pleased that you decided to stick with me for 35 miles. I don't know what happened to you... perhaps you got off at a rest stop, or maybe you ran off the road and burst into a fireball. Either way, thanks!
- posted by Brian @ 4:34 AM |

create your own visited states map or write about it on the open travel guide
- posted by Brian @ 11:46 AM |

[Link fixed by The Hearn 'cause Milo is retarded and linked straight back to this blog. Also: his archiving doesn't work. Retard.]
- posted by Brian @ 9:46 AM |

Beef:So uh Todd what is your position on reproductive rights for women

Todd:Bitches gotta take their cunt pills! I ain't wearin' no gunny sack!

A man who taught his dog the stiff-arm Nazi salute was given a 13-month suspended sentence Thursday for shouting "Sieg Heil" in public and wearing a T-shirt with a picture of Adolf Hitler on it.

Torres, 26, had gone to the Radio Shack store in the Airport Plaza shopping mall in Farmingdale to pay her cell phone bill. The computerized receipt of Oct. 15 printed out her name and address. But instead of her hometown, Wyandanch, the sales slip said "Crimedanch."

"I was outraged. That's embarrassing," Torres said.

She brought the receipts to attorney Andrew Siben, of Bay Shore, who filed suit this week against the store in State Supreme Court in Riverhead.

"I'm not a criminal," Torres said. "My son plays on the high school football team. I was raised there and I am proud of my community."

It never ceases to amaze me how some people can claim to “oppose the war, but support the troops.” Let me clarify something here: we’re all volunteers. Almost every one of the brave men and women that I served with were proud to be defending our country, and passionately believed that our mission was worthwhile and just.

When you express opposition to the war, you’re pissing all over what we were fighting for. So please don’t insult us by explaining how we were just hapless victims of Dubya and his cronies. Our biggest complaint was that it took twelve years for someone to give us the order to finish the job!