Members of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club line up for a cup of Kool-Aid on Wednesday from Dylan Lewis who, with his brother, Jase, set up a Kool-Aid stand in East Missoula catering to members of the outlaw motorcycle gang who were arriving in the area for a gathering at Marshall Mountain.
Montana Highway Patrol trooper rolled up and ordered a drink, but said he had to shut down the booth because it was causing a traffic hazard, but moments later, as the boys were tearing down the stand, a chapter leader from Arizona drove up and granted them permission, even going as far to authenticate the operation by scribbling his signature on the posterboard.
And the brothers have remedied the parking problem by getting permission from the owner of Ole's to use the lot.
So the WWE has teamed up with that brain trust, Jenny McCarthy (yes the MTV skank who used to eat her boogers on tv), to promote her charity, Generation Rescue. This is supposedly a charity which will help Autistic children. But if you look closely, their idea of helping is chelation therapy, and telling you not to vaccinate your kids and that vitamins will cure autism.
Two skeptical blogs have written about this, including some links that debunk all the usual autism/vaccination bullshit - I'm sure more will follow.
I really hope this is a case of someone at the WWE thinking "celebrity charity" and rubber-stamping the promo. Not someone who actually looked into this shit closely and okayed it. I know that wrestling isn't exactly a bastion of intellect but I would have hoped that someone there had some intelligence.
After saying McCain is trying to scare voters by telling people, Obama "doesn’t look like the other presidents on the currency, he’s a got a funny name.” an Obama spokesman claims they weren't playing the race card.
...He was referring to the fact that he didn’t come into the race with the history of others. It is not about race.
40 Minute audio regarding the future of Satellite radio, job security and government bureaucracy.
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I'll have to wait and see what the requirements are for this job.
More after the jump...5.4-Magnitude Earthquake Shakes Southern California
LOS ANGELES — A strong earthquake shook Southern California on Tuesday, causing buildings to sway and triggering some precautionary evacuations. There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries.
The jolt was felt from Los Angeles to San Diego, across the border in Tijuana, Mexico and slightly in Las Vegas.
Arizona might have some nice beachfront property soon.
NY Nerd and Myself love her supersaturated, dipped in cheese and deep fried delicacies.
So I came across this article from 2007
Paula Deen's Deep Fried Butter Balls.
2 sticks butter
2 ounces cream cheese
Salt and pepper
1 cup all-purpose flour
1 egg, beaten
1 cup seasoned bread crumbs
Peanut oil, for frying
Cream the butter, cream cheese, salt and pepper together with an electric mixer until smooth. Using a very small ice cream scoop, or melon baller, form 1-inch balls of butter mixture and arrange them on a parchment or waxed paper lined sheet pan. Freeze until solid. Coat the frozen balls in flour, egg, and then bread crumbs and freeze again until solid.
When ready to fry, preheat oil in a deep-fryer to 350 degrees F.
Fry balls for 10 to 15 seconds until just light golden. Drain on paper towels before serving.
A rookie cop - the son of a highly respected New York City detective - has been stripped of his badge and gun after being caught on video viciously attacking a bicyclist who was part of a Times Square demonstration. 'In the NBA that's called a hard foul, in the NFL it would be a legitimate tackle and in Hockey it would be called a check into the boards, but in the middle of Times Square apparently it's Illegal.
... What the video doesn't show is (Officer Patrick) Pogan arresting Long for attempted assault in the third degree, resisting arrest and disorderly conduct - charges that kept the Bloomfield, NJ, man behind bars for 26 hours before his release late Saturday.
Adding insult to injury, the criminal complaint drafted by Pogan bears little resemblance to what was witnessed by onlookers and recorded on video.
In court papers, Pogan accused Long of purposely swerving his bicycle to block traffic and then using it as a weapon to run down the officer, knocking him off his feet and causing a "laceration" on his forearm. "You are pawns in the game. I'm going to have your job," Long told Pogan, as he flailed and kicked his arms and legs, according to the complaint.
Sen. Ted Stevens from Alaska, the longest serving U.S. Republican senator ever, was indicted on seven counts related to his holding of public office, a federal law enforcement official said on Tuesday.
The U.S. Justice Department has scheduled a news conference for 1:20 p.m. to make an announcement "regarding a significant criminal matter."
This reminds me of a Brian Regan bit "Fishing On TV"
Gotta love the British and their dry sense of sarcasm. From the Times Online comes this masterful telling of the Coming of Obama:
And it came to pass, in the eighth year of the reign of the evil Bush the Younger (The Ignorant), when the whole land from the Arabian desert to the shores of the Great Lakes had been laid barren, that a Child appeared in the wilderness.
The Child was blessed in looks and intellect. Scion of a simple family, offspring of a miraculous union, grandson of a typical white person and an African peasant. And yea, as he grew, the Child walked in the path of righteousness, with only the occasional detour into the odd weed and a little blow.
When he was twelve years old, they found him in the temple in the City of Chicago, arguing the finer points of community organisation with the Prophet Jeremiah and the Elders. And the Elders were astonished at what they heard and said among themselves: “Verily, who is this Child that he opens our hearts and minds to the audacity of hope?”
MANILA, Philippines — Australian investigators on Saturday began examining a Qantas jumbo jet which had to make an emergency landing after a large hole opened on its fuselage, a Philippine aviation official said.
The Boeing 747-400 was cruising at 29,000 feet with 346 passengers Friday when it was shaken by an explosive bang. The plane descended rapidly before landing safely minutes later at the Manila airport.
DAYTON, OH -- A major brawl at Thursday night's Dayton, Ohio Dragons game sent one fan to the hospital, and a pitcher to jail.
It began in the first inning with an argument between Dragons manager Donnie Scott and acting Peoria manager Carmelo Martinez.
Both benches cleared when Chiefs pitcher Julio Castillo fired a baseball toward the Dragons dugout. The ball missed the dugout, and hit a fan sitting in the stands.
It took several Dayton police officers to calm the melee, which lasted about ten minutes. Castillo was arrested and booked into the Montgomery County Jail. He faces a felonious assault charge.
A 36th District Court judge restricted Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick’s travel and revoked his personal bond today during a bond hearing, one day after the mayor was accused of assaulting a detective.
Prosecutors believe Kilpatrick violated his bond when he got into a scuffle with a representative of the prosecutor’s office Thursday afternoon. Moran said the mayor exhibited “assaultive conduct.”
Detective Brian White, assigned to the Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office, said Kilpatrick threw him off the porch of a home owned by his sister and the mayor engaged in an obscenity and racially motivated tirade.
BENNETT, Colo. — A convicted spammer who escaped from prison, his wife and 3-year-old daughter were found slain outside a farm house Thursday east of Denver in an apparent murder-suicide.
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more graph humor and song chart memes
No really - NO ONE!!
OKLAHOMA CITY - Church members watching the steeple being raised on their new building looked on in horror Thursday as a crane holding the structure toppled, crushing a car and killing an 80-year-old man who had been watching from inside the vehicle, firefighters said.
More after the jump...You may have been following the tale of PZ Myers (Pharyngula) and the fatwa declared on him by Bill Donohue and his band of enlightened, loving, open-minded to everyone's point of view, God freaks.
In short, PZ commented on a story about some poor college kid who is being drummed out of school because he took one of the communion wafers from Church. PZ's comment was "It's just a cracker."
The entire thing snowballed out of control when Bill Donohue stepped in and rallyed his troops to get PZ fired. His supporters happily obliged and as a special bonus even threw in some death threats for PZ and his family (all the while blathering about how if it had been Muslims, PZ would be in REAL trouble - is there something in the religious kool-aid that renders a person unable to recognize irony?)
Anyway, PZ has written a post today summarizing the history of the holy cracker (hint: it's pretty ugly but not unexpected considering the Catholic Church's overall history), his experiences with this incident, and capped off with an awesome photo of what he did with the "holy cracker" he had:
- and why:
I know some of you have proposed intricate plans for how to do horrible things to these crackers, but I repeat…it's just a cracker. I wasn't going to make any major investment of time, money, or effort in treating these dabs of unpleasantness as they deserve, because all they deserve is casual disposal. However, inspired by an old woodcut of Jews stabbing the host, I thought of a simple, quick thing to do: I pierced it with a rusty nail (I hope Jesus's tetanus shots are up to date). And then I simply threw it in the trash, followed by the classic, decorative items of trash cans everywhere, old coffeegrounds and a banana peel. My apologies to those who hoped for more, but the worst I can do is show my unconcerned contempt.
By the way, I didn't want to single out just the cracker, so I nailed it to a few ripped-out pages from the Qur'an and The God Delusion. They are just paper. Nothing must be held sacred. Question everything. God is not great, Jesus is not your lord, you are not disciples of any charismatic prophet. You are all human beings who must make your way through your life by thinking and learning, and you have the job of advancing humanities' knowledge by winnowing out the errors of past generations and finding deeper understanding of reality. You will not find wisdom in rituals and sacraments and dogma, which build only self-satisfied ignorance, but you can find truth by looking at your world with fresh eyes and a questioning mind.
Florida's major theme park companies file "occurrence reports" with the Florida Bureau of Fair Ride Inspection on a quarterly basis
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William Tate added up the numbers for Investors Business Daily. Journalists donate money to Democrats over Republicans by more than a 10 to 1 margin, and even that ratio understates the case:More after the jump...
Vice Presidential candidate Sen. John Edwards was caught visiting his mistress and secret love child at 2:40 this morning in a Los Angeles hotel by the NATIONAL ENQUIRER.More after the jump...
The married ex-senator from North Carolina - whose wife Elizabeth continues to battle cancer -- met with his mistress, blonde divorcee Rielle Hunter, at the Beverly Hilton on Monday night July 21 - and the NATIONAL ENQUIRER was there! He didn't leave until early the next morning.
My lovely and intellegent husband, Chris, will not eat any food that is one second past the "Use by" or "Expiration" dates on food. We have often had a discussion that goes something like this:
Chris: Honey, do we have any bread for a sandwich?
NY Nerd: Yes - right here.
Chris: But it says "July 5th" on it - it's July 6th!!! I can't eat that!!! OMG!!! WTF are you trying to do - kill me????
NY Nerd: It's fine - look I'm eating it!! It's just ONE day - as long as it's not moldy or stale, it's fine!!
Chris: Well you can risk YOUR life but I'm not eating that!
So I feel somewhat vindicated when reading this article on one man's experiment with eating expired food.
DAY 14More after the jump...
Emboldened, I end my experiment on Day 14 with a bowl of Kellogg's Sultana Bran cereal, nearly three months past its Best Before date. Not very crisp but eminently edible.
It is over. Despite eating food that was increasingly out of date every day for two weeks, I have suffered not a scintilla of tummy trouble.
Mistaken Lyrics.
I think they are better than the actual lyrics.
Unsealed
On a porch a letter sat
Then you said i wanna leave it again
Once I saw her on a beach of weathered sand
And on the sand I wanna leave it again... yeah
On a weekend I wanna wish it all away yeah...
And they called and I said that I want what I said
And then I call out again
And the reason oughta leave her calm I know
I said i don't know whether
I'm the boxer or the bag
Ah yeah ehh....
Can you see them
Out on the porch
But they don't wave
I see them round the front way yeah
And I know I don't want to stay...
Make me cry
Ooooh I see
I don't know there's something else
I wanna drum it all away
Oh I said I don't, I don't know whether I'm a boxer or the bag
Ah yeah ehh....
Can you see them
Out on the porch
But they don't wave
I see them round the front way yeah
And I know I don't want to stay
I don't wanna stay (2x)
Don't
Don't wanna
Oh... yeah... oooh...
From NPR:
Nunez, 40, has never worked and has no high school degree. She says a car accident 17 years ago left her depressed and disabled, incapable of getting a job. Instead, she and her daughter, Angelica Hernandez, survive on a $637 Social Security check and $102 in food stamps.The rising cost of food means their money gets them about a third fewer bags of groceries — $100 used to buy about 12 bags of groceries, but now it's more like seven or eight. So they cut back on expensive items like meat, and they don't buy extras like ice cream anymore. Instead, they eat a lot of starches like potatoes and noodles.
Hernandez received her high school diploma and has had several jobs in recent years. But now, because fewer restaurants and stores are hiring, she says she finds it hard to find a job. Even if she could, she says it's particularly hard to imagine how she'll keep it.
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Slogans:
1. Got milk? (1993) California Milk Processor Board
2. Don’t leave home without it. (1975) American Express
3. Just do it. (1988) Nike
4. Where’s the beef? (1984) Wendy’s
5. You’re in good hands with Allstate. (1956) Allstate Insurance
6. Think different. (1998) Apple Computer
7. We try harder. (1962) Avis
8. Tastes great, less filling. (1974) Miller Lite
9. Melts in your mouth, not in your hands. (1954) M&M Candies
10. Takes a licking and keeps on ticking. (1956) Timex
Jingles:
1. My bologna has a first name, it’s O-S-C-A-R. (1960s) Oscar Mayer
2. Plop plop, fizz fizz, oh what a relief it is. (1970s) Alka-Seltzer
3. Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there. (1971) State Farm Insurance
4. Double your pleasure, double your fun. (1959) Wrigley’s Doublemint Gum
5. Be all that you can be. (1981) U.S. Army
6. For all you do, this Bud’s for you. (1970s) Budweiser
7. A little dab’ll do ya. (1950s) Brylcreem
8. It’s the real thing. (1970) Coca-Cola
9. Ace is the place with the helpful hardware man. (1970s) Ace Hardware
10. You deserve a break today. (1971) McDonald’s
The whole list HERE.
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The plaintiff in the Supreme Court case that overturned Washington's strict 32-year-old handgun ban was among the first people to arrive at police headquarters to try to register his firearm.Wait, it gets better.
But when he tried to register his semi-automatic weapon, he says he was rejected. He says his gun has seven bullet clip. Heller says the City Council legislation allows weapons with fewer than eleven bullets in the clip. A spokesman for the DC Police says the gun was a bottom-loading weapon, and according to their interpretation, all bottom-loading guns are outlawed because they are grouped with machine guns.More after the jump...
A FOX News camera captured the Rev. Jesse Jackson uttering the N-word while he was preparing to tape an interview earlier this month, a word he has denounced publicly as degrading to African Americans.
On Wednesday, FOX News’ host Bill O’Reilly revealed the details of Jackson’s appearance on tape, saying that he wanted to lay to rest reports based on news leaks.
Appearing on “Studio B With Shepard Smith,” Smith asked O’Reilly if Jackson’s remarks included the N-word, as some news reports had indicated.
“Yeah. And it’s trash talking,” O’Reilly said.
Commonsense, that is what Obama and his Kool-aid drinking minions will never understand.
The credibility meltdown of MS-NBC and the collateral damage to its parent isn’t exactly news here, but its competitors in the mainstream media have kept quiet about it — until now. Chris Wallace launched a broadside at the cable network last night, telling reporters at an industry event that the cable outlet has “lost all credibility” and accused Keith Olbermann of unprofessional conduct
More at Hot Air.
HARRISON, N.Y. - Police say a man riding outside a moving car on a suburban New York highway was thrown onto the roadside and died.
Witnesses saw Maxwell Grullon, 28, of Yonkers, thrown from the white Jeep in a northbound lane of Interstate 95 Saturday night in Harrison. Police say Grullon was seen riding on the outside of the car, standing on the running boards of the car. The Jeep switched from the left to right lanes before Grullon fell off onto the right shoulder at about 10:30 p.m.
Police say the Jeep stopped for a short time and then kept driving. Police later located the driver, but hadn't filed charges. An autopsy was planned for Grullon.
Traffic was backed up for hours and spectators gathered along a nearby overpass while police investigated the scene.
1. Plymouth, MN
2. Fort Collins, CO
3. Naperville, IL
4. Irvine, CA
5. Franklin Township, NJ
6. Norman, OK
7. Round Rock, TX
8. Columbia/Ellicott City, MD
9. Overland Park, KS
10. Fishers, IN
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...by decapitation in a 90mph crash driving through someone's yard, hitting a hummer and totaling it.
The 16-year-old was driving at least 90 mph when he crashed...into a wooden fence before hitting a Hummer...decapitated by a wooden fence post...Sgt. S. Wolverton said. "It may just be driver inexperience."More after the jump...
DENVER (CBS4) ― Denver's homeless population will have options to staying on the street during the Democratic National Convention.
"If they don't want to get caught up in the protests or demonstrations, we'll find other activities that will keep them busy," said John Parvensky, President of the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless.
A plan has been developed to provide interested homeless people with free access to cultural activities. They include the Denver Zoo and the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, and they won't have to worry about paying for transportation.
"We'll have bus tokens if they need them," Parvensky said.
Also five, big screen TVs are being donated to a teen day shelter. One hope is to engage some of the homeless children in the political process by allowing them to see convention unfold on television. But another purpose is to draw them away from the streets while the Convention is underway
A Potter Valley woman wounded herself and a man July 3 while attempting to kill mice with a .44-caliber Magnum revolver, according to the Mendocino County Sheriff's Office.
The woman, 43, had drawn the gun from a holster under her left arm, intending to shoot mice scurrying across the floor of a small travel trailer on Highway 20 in Potter Valley, according to the Sheriff's Office.
The revolver instead slipped from her hand and fired as it struck the floor, according to the Sheriff's Office.
The bullet went through the woman's right kneecap, then hit keys hanging on the belt loop of a 42-year-old man in the trailer, officials said. The bullet glanced off the keys and tore a hole in the man's pants.
The bullet grazed the man's groin before stopping in his coin pocket, where it was recovered for evidence, according to the Sheriff's Office.
The names of the shooting victims were not released.
The percentage of voters who give Congress good or excellent ratings has fallen to single digits for the first time in Rasmussen Reports tracking history. This month, just 9% say Congress is doing a good or excellent job. Most voters (52%) say Congress is doing a poor job, which ties the record high in that dubious category.
Rasmussen Reports.
SAMARITAN THIEF ALERTS COPS TO 'TERROR' VAN
He's a criminal, but he "did the right thing" when it mattered - alerting cops to what he feared was a terror plot the day before the Fourth of July.
At about 5 p.m. yesterday, an unidentified thief with a police record broke into a red van that had been parked at 53rd Street and Second Avenue in Brooklyn's Sunset Park for about a month, a source told The Post.
He was stunned when he looked inside - it was filled with gas cans and Styrofoam cups containing a mysterious white substance with protruding wires and switches.
The street is lined with brownstones, and there's a ballet studio and a small Muslim school. So he drove the van 15 blocks to 37th Street and parked it at a desolate waterfront location behind the Costco store and next to some little-used piers.
Then he got out and called a cop he knows from his run-ins with the law.
"He did the right thing," a high-ranking officer said. "And he possibly saved a lot of people's lives."
Another source said cops are unlikely to file charges for the break-in.
The van had Delaware plates that had been issued to another vehicle. It's not clear when its cargo was put inside.
Police Commissioner Ray Kelly joined cops from the Bomb Squad and the anti-terror task force at the scene. Cops shut down three blocks.
A Jacksonville man went to grab a beer and brought home a painful memento from his night out.
The 22-year-old sailor was knocked unconscious and had the phrase “Wife Beater” scrawled across his stomach Saturday outside Bourbon Street Station Bar on 1770 St. Johns Bluff Road in Jacksonville.
The victim, who was arrested in March on a domestic battery charge against his wife, went to the bar by himself about 11:45 p.m. He cut his night short when he saw a woman who was with his wife the night he was arrested, the police report said.
He drained his beer and headed back to his car. The victim said he was walking toward his vehicle and checking his phone when it all went black. He woke up in a haze with a burning chest pain, according to the report. He lifted his bloody shirt and saw the letters stenciled into his stomach with a blade.
He went home and didn’t file a complaint until Monday morning after his naval commander advised him to seek police assistance. The man told authorities he didn’t alert any of the officers at the bar the night of his attack because he was worried the incident might violate his probation.
There is a debate going on in the opinion section of the Los Angeles Times this week between John Stagliano, an adult moviemaker and distributor who is currently facing federal obscenity charges that could put him in prison for almost 40 years, and Barry McDonald from Pepperdine Law School about free expression. Briefly, Stagliano is for it, McDonald not so much.
Today's piece focuses on the question: Should there be an obscenity law that outlaws a product that is made with informed adult consent with no laws being broken, and that is increasingly distributed and consumed in complete privacy?
Stagliano is right on the money:
Barry, your point is that people must be forced to not think things that you don't like, and for that you'd have me put in jail. Your comment that it "seems" to you that viewing images "to obtain sexual pleasure cannot be the healthiest way of experiencing sex" seems not a good enough reason to imprison me for 39 years. In fact, using a proper concept of morality based on individual rights, it is you and those who would put me in jail when I did not infringe on anyone's rights who are behaving immorally.More after the jump...
From a political point of view, this is just another extension of the nanny state trying to control an individual's life. Essentially, the government uses its power to stop people from smoking, eating trans fats, consuming drugs or gaining sexual gratification without hurting anyone else. No person can decide for himself; the feds know better.
In the NY Post, Kyle Smith discusses the gap between the public's perception of how the economy currently is and how they personally are doing:
Take people's views on the economy. Pew is clever enough to divide this subject into two questions: how are you, personally, doing? And how do you think your country is doing?More after the jump...
The difference between how people answer these two questions is the Perception Gap. How you believe you and your family are doing is based on direct, personal experience. When it comes to you-ism, you are a leading authority.
How people respond when asked about how their country is doing economically steers them into abstraction, into thinking about things they have no direct knowledge of. How do you know what is going on in manufacturing if you've never seen the inside of a factory? You picked it up from your local anchorwoman Debbie Downer. Or her Action News co-host, Nat Nabob. Or maybe it was Paul Krugman.
A (true) sentence that has never been uttered on any newscast this year: "American employment is at 94.5 percent, above the postwar average, and the latest available statistics say the economy is still growing." Twenty percent of Americans say the U.S. economy is doing well. That's hearsay. Seventy-one percent say they, personally, are doing well. That's their expert testimony. The Perception Gap of Americans on the economy is 51 points.
The Brooklyn Paper is reporting that Coney Island's Masturbating Walrus has died.
Ayveq, the walrus whose bizarre, though oddly compelling, masturbation rituals made him an international sensation at the New York Aquarium, has died. He was 14.More after the jump...
MetaFilter is having a good time sharing the story of Robert Valdemar and the prank he played on the Something Awful forum regulars.
A few days ago a post appeared on the Something Awful forums noting a curious website called Notes to Mary. The notes are a series of threatening letters from a high schooler named Robert to his crush, Mary. The goons figured out pretty quickly that they had an ARG on their hands and went to work on solving the puzzle. Several other forums picked up on the game. Robert began interacting with players, sending them strange messages and several series of numbers that appeared to be some sort of code. A Flickr pool was started. Players even created an IRC channel to swap clues and information in real time. The Notes to Mary site offered a link to a login. All effort was made to crack the user/pass combo. Finally, several days after the game began, users were finally able to log in. The game was solved. The players would be rewarded for their hard work. Where did the login lead? Here.
"Robert" had just pulled off the most epic rickroll in intertubes history. The author of the game had never really intended for it to be a game at all. He just thought it would be funny to put up some creepy notes and see what sort of attention they got. When SA goons decided it must be an ARG he decided to play along. The numerical "codes" he sent out? Random numbers and dates plucked out of the air. Three hours before the solution was to be revealed he set up the redirect to the rickroll video.
