Vishnu. Bless You.

More Liberals on TV, dammit.

Special Comment: George Bush’s Criminal Conspiracy of Torture:

"In his latest fire-breathing Special Comment Keith tears into President Bush for firing a true patriot that spoke out against torture, while cowardly and simultaneously ordering others to commit the very same heinous crime."

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Amen, Al, amen.

Gore: Don't give equal time to someone who believes the earth is flat:

"Gore then attacked the news media directly, saying that 'part of the challenge the news media has had in covering this story is the old habit of taking the 'on the one hand, on the other hand' approach. There are still people who believe that the earth is flat. But when you're reporting on a story like the one you're covering today, where you have people all around the world, you don't search out for someone who still believes the earth is flat and give them equal time.'"

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How gods and myths are create.

Click the link to see the pics.

Toddler with eight limbs branded 'reincarnation of Hindu god' to undergo life-saving operation

A toddler born with eight limbs and believed by some to be the reincarnation of the multi-limbed Hindu goddess Vishnu, is set to undergo a 40-hour operation to remove half of her limbs.

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Sad.

Leighton Fire destroys childhood home of Percy Sledge - Times Daily | Florence, AL:

"Several people stood in the middle of Percy Sledge Drive watching firefighters work to put out an early-morning blaze that destroyed two houses and heavily damaged a third. 'That house right there, the one in the middle that's gone, that's where Percy Sledge grew up,' said Jerry Hughes. The house he indicated was at 2116 Percy Sledge Drive, a one-way street off Old Alabama 20 named in honor of the legendary soul singer."

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"Needs all 20 to keep the closet door closed..."

Damn, this is getting so redundant but....

Another Republican caught in the bathroom closet:

PageOneQ | Florida politician caught soliciting gay sex in mall restroom:

"A two-term City Commissioner and mayoral candidate has been caught in a gay sex sting, reports the Daytona Beach News-Journal Friday. 'It's scumbags like this that erode the quality of life that we have here,' says Daytona Beach Police Chief Mike Chitwood."

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The 4th estate has failed us miserably and will continue to fail us miserably. All hail the blogs.

Hullabaloo:

"Grab the Maalox kids because I can feel it in my gut. The bad breath and the sleepy eyes and the bedhead are all around us. Come 2009, if a Democrat wins the presidency, the Village press will finally wake up from its 8 year somnambulent drool and rediscover its 'conscience' and its 'professionalism.' The Republicans will only have to breathe their character assassination lightly into the ether --- the Village gossips will do the rest. And if this new president resists in any way, a primal scream will build until he or she is forced to appoint a special counsel to investigate the 'cover up' and grovel repeatedly in forced acts of contrition in response to manufactured GOP hissy fits and media hysteria. We're going forward into the past (and judging from the haircut nonsense we've already seen, it isn't confined to Clinton.)"

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Trend?

PCs Being Pushed Aside in Japan

Japan's PC market is already shrinking, leading analysts to wonder whether Japan will become the first major market to see a decline in personal computer use some 25 years after it revolutionized household electronics — and whether this could be the picture of things to come in other countries.

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Comet draws scientific, amateur interest:

"KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - A comet that has unexpectedly brightened in the past couple of weeks and now is visible to the naked eye is attracting professional and amateur interest. Paul Lewis, director of astronomy outreach at the University of Tennessee, is drawing students to the roof of Nielsen Physics Building for special viewings of Comet 17P/Holmes.

The comet is exploding and its coma, a cloud of gas and dust illuminated by the sun, has grown to be bigger than the planet Jupiter. The comet lacks the tail usually associated with such celestial bodies but can be seen in the northern sky, in the constellation Perseus, as a fuzzy spot of light about as bright as the stars in the Big Dipper."

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Traveling Man

Located somewhere in the SouthEast.

Conditions: Football Weather

Traveled across the U.S. yesterday. Not sure what day or time it is.

DBT WIR coming on Monday.

Some pictures from my latest travels.

Here's the Six Flags in L.A. that almost burned during the fires:

Mountains obscured by smoke.

Chino has an Alabama Street. Taken during a traffic jam east of L.A.

My Halloween dates in Arizona. It's good to be the King.

Read the contents of the Jackass Roll. Tastiest morsel in the world.

Fog taking over the Golden Gate.

Bridge shot.

Sunrise over San Francisco Bay.

Nice Wine Rack

Republicrats are screwing with my party in a bad way.

Centrist Dems Rank With Fear:

"Blue Dogs actually seem like the most scared people in all of Washington, D.C. as a result of this article. They are afraid of Republican attacks. They are afraid of conservative pundits. They are afraid of their constituents. They are afraid of motions to recommit that are meaningless in terms of actual policy. And they are protected by Emanuel and Hoyer, who seem petrified of all the same things. They seem to all operate in a perpetual state of fear, despite their surface machismo. And yes, it does seem like fear, rather than simply conservative beliefs in this case, because otherwise why would they be in favor of a meaningless procedural motion that has nothing to do with policy? The widespread fear in the tough guy wing of the Democratic Party is one of the great ironies of modern American politics."

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Klan on Klan hate is always a good time.

Members of one Klan group plan to protest another in Cullman:

"CULLMAN, Ala. -- Members of one Ku Klux Klan organization say they will assemble at the courthouse Nov. 10 to show their opposition to another Klan group that plans an anti-immigration rally there that day. Ken Mier, who described himself as an investigator for the Alabama Ku Klux Klan and the national office of the Ku Klux Klan LLC, said in an e-mail to The Cullman Times that his group is against the tactics of the National Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, which held an anti-immigration protest last month in Athens. 'We are opposed to the ignorance and stupidity as displayed by the individuals that thumbed their nose at the area churches by continuing to use racial slurs, threats and avoided Christian deportment,' he said."

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FORE!

Woman Jumps From Tokyo Building Onto Man:

"A woman leaped from an 11-story Tokyo apartment Wednesday in an apparent suicide, striking and seriously injuring a passer-by, a news report said Wednesday."

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Best Product Ever Ever Ever: The Wine Rack - Geekologie

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Bigfoot

These students are shocked, I mean SHOCKED that their views were misrepresented and heavily edited on FAUX News.

Never could of seen that one coming, could you UAH students?

Lesson here: Don't go on FAUX News and expect your views to be fairly represented unless you are a 25%'er.

Young scientists say Fox sold them out to bash global warming:

"Conservative host Sean Hannity made clear his disdain for CNN's environmental alarm when the show he co-hosts convened a panel of graduate students to discuss the program.

Several students involved say their views were misrepresented, and they are now complaining the Fox talker made them out to be a bunch of science-denying rubes. 'We ... feel like we were sold out by Fox News,' Chris Hain, one of the participants, told RAW STORY."

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Hain was one of about 10 graduate students at the University of Alabama-Huntsville

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Yawn. Another anti-gay, right wing.... wait for it.... you know you can guess it...... Closeted Gay Republican getting busted buying some vitamin D.

CGR # 507 and counting.

Geez.

Police report sheds new light on Curtis encounter:

"State Rep. Richard Curtis, R-La Center, admitted to having sex with a man he met at an adult video store in Spokane last week, according to a police report released Tuesday afternoon. The police report offers a damning and far different version of events from the brief account Curtis gave to The Columbian Monday, one that seems likely to threaten Curtis’ political future."

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Here's Mark Morford's latest column. I love the way this guy writes.

Behold! The Bliss Watch List / To hell with the FBI's million-strong Terrorist Watch List. Here is your killer alternative:

"Somewhere deep in the bowels of the FBI's Terrorist Screening Center which is naturally connected by a series of secret, rotting, subterranean vacuum tunnels to the National Security Agency and the Homeland Security Department and Dick Cheney's nipple-torture fetish room, is a vicious little computer bank running an encephalitic version of Microsoft Vista that's right now churning through some sort of satanic algorithm designed to mine enormous piles of chaotic data from a million unreliable global sources, all in an effort to add tens of thousands more names to the U.S. government's specious and hugely flawed master terrorist watch list and oh my God look at that, 500 more were just added in the time it took you to read this fantastic little sentence. What a thing."

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Big Foot Lives!

Pa. hunter's images stir Bigfoot debate:

"RIDGWAY, Pa. - It's furry and walks on all fours. Beyond that, about the only thing certain about the critter photographed by a hunter's camera is that some people have gotten the notion it could be a Sasquatch, or bigfoot. Others say it's just a bear with a bad skin infection."

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Searing surgery.

Doctors test hot sauce for pain relief :

"WASHINGTON - Devil's Revenge. Spontaneous Combustion. Hot sauces have names like that for a reason. Now scientists are testing if the stuff that makes the sauces so savage can tame the pain of surgery."

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Sheer Genius

In New York state, no less.

Cheney being Cheney.

Cheney Visits Hunting Lodge That Hangs The Confederate Flag:

"Nobody got shot, but Vice President Cheney still fired up controversy Monday when he went hunting at a private club that hangs the Confederate flag."

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Wile E. Coyote is not on this list. Odd, because he is a 'Super-Genius'.

Sheer genius: from the web to Homer Simpson | The Guardian | Guardian Unlimited

One is credited with dreaming up the technological innovation that has arguably done most to transform our lives in recent years; the other is behind a cartoon about a custard-hued family in middle America.

Yet both the worldwide web founder, Tim Berners-Lee, and the Simpsons creator, Matt Groening, are among the world's top 10 living geniuses, according to a report which ranks individuals according to their "genius factor".

It used a scoring system to assess contenders on how much their contribution had turned conventional thinking on its head, the popular acclaim they received, their intellectual power, their achievements and their cultural importance

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Things I no longer deal with:

Gossip, e-mailing "all" among top office peeves:

"NEW YORK (Reuters) - Work colleagues who spend their day gossiping, organizing their home lives, or who press 'reply all' on e-mails are among the biggest nuisances in the office, according to a survey released on Monday."

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Happens to the best of us.

He's not undead, just unsober... :

"BERLIN (Reuters) - Passengers on a German train mistook a Halloween reveler dressed up as a gore-covered zombie for a murder victim and called the police. The 24-year-old man fell into a drunken slumber on his way home from a Halloween party in Hamburg, police in the northern town of Bad Segeberg said Monday."

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Bike Love

Short, sweet and kinda interesting today. Still getting recombobulated.

I'll be getting caught up on emails, comments and other what-nots I owe people in the next 2 days.

Human race will 'split into two different species':

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Cannabis use down since legal change | Society | The Guardian

Gordon Brown's plans to tighten the law on cannabis by increasing the penalties for possession suffered a fresh blow yesterday as the latest official figures showed the decision to downgrade the drug had been followed by a significant fall in its use.

British Crime Survey statistics showed that the proportion of 16- to 24-year-olds using cannabis slumped from 28% a decade ago to 21% now, with its declining popularity accelerating after the decision to downgrade the drug to class C was announced in January 2004.

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Man who had sex with bike in court - Telegraph:

"A man has been placed on the sex offenders’ register after being caught trying to have sex with a bicycle."
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He is not the first man to be convicted of a sexual offence involving an inanimate object, however.

Karl Watkins, an electrician, was jailed for having sex with pavements in Redditch, Worcs, in 1993.

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Travel Day

Blogging from an undisclosed Holiday Inn in the California desert.

Conditions: On Fire.

Most redundant thing I did today was smoke a cigarette whilst driving through SoCal.

All I need is some tater salad and some sauce and you could serve me up at a BBQ.

Most ironic exits along the highway:

Raging Waters Dr. in San Bernadino

and....

Palm Date Avenue... cause if this TV in the hotel has hotel porn, then that's what I'll be having tonight.... a Palm Date. Thank you, Thank you very much. I'll be here all we.... uh, well, only tonight before I drive off to my next location.

Stay tuned. Pics, etc.

The Roof is Literally on Fire

Wouldn't it save tax payer money to let nature take its course?

Republican's spare no expense when it comes to offing people.

The Raw Story | Alabama pushes to kill inmate before cancer does:

"Even though most US executions have been postponed due to a debate about lethal injection, the state of Alabama intends to execute Daniel Siebert on Thursday because of concerns that pancreatic cancer might kill him first."

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Fear news network.

I'll be driving through the fires tomorrow. Wish me luck. Hopefully I can get some good pictures.

Ill-informed Fox anchors spread fears of al Qaeda link to California fires:

"Questionable 4-year-old FBI memo presented as new to stoke terror fears Did al Qaeda start the California wildfires? As more than a million people escaped the flames, Fox News anchors couldn't help speculating about a terrorism link to the blazes ravaging southern California. 'I've heard some people talk about this a little bit to me, but have you heard anybody suggest that this could be some form of terrorism,' Fox & Friends co-host Steve Doocy asked Wednesday morning. Correspondent Adam Housley said he's received 'hundreds of comments' from readers of his Fox News blog speculating about a link to terrorism."

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Self imposed terrorism.

CA Guard Warned Of ‘Less Effective Response’ To Fires Due To Equipment Shortages Caused By Iraq:

"The San Francisco Chronicle reported last May that the California National Guard had been depleted and warned that severe “equipment shortages could hinder the guard’s response to a large-scale disaster,” such as a “major fire”: In California, half of the equipment the National Guard needs is not in the state, either because it is deployed in Iraq or other parts of the world or because it hasn’t been funded, according to Lt. Col. John Siepmann. While the Guard is in good shape to handle small-scale incidents, “our concern is a catastrophic event,” he said. “You would see a less effective response (to a major incident),” he said. At a press conference five months ago, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R-CA) echoed these concerns, stating, “A lot of equipment has gone to Iraq, and it doesn’t come back when the troops come back.” The Chronicle reported that the California National Guard was missing about $1 billion worth of equipment."

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I love the Japanese.

Cell Phone Message Warns Train Gropers:

"Did you just grope me? Shall we head to the police? That's the message women are flashing on their cell phones with a popular program designed to ward off wandering hands in Japan's congested commuter trains."

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Rammer Jammer

Still basking in the Crimson glory of a long awaited, thorough, Alabama Ass Whuppin' that was placed upon the Tennessee Vols last Saturday.

Check out this YouTube of 92k people chanting with the might of a decade of frustration.

In case you aren't from Alabama and are wondering what the crowd is saying, it tis:

"Hey Vols! Hey Vols!! Hey Vols!!! We just beat the hell out of you. Rammer Jammer, Yellow Hammer, Give 'em hell, Alabama!"

Oh baby, it makes me nipples hard.

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The post today will be short and sweet as I've got a butt load of stuff going on. More on the ch-ch-ch-changes beginning of next week. Be on the look out for some California forest fire pics.

Just because somebody says something doesn't make it true.

Talking Points Memo | Mostest:

"I've sort of gotten tired of explaining that, no, the Founding Fathers actually weren't all born-agains and bible thumpers. Not hardly. (Probably better to say that the great majority ranged from believers in an entirely impersonal God -- Deists -- to believing Christians who nonetheless viewed popular religious enthusiasm with a polite and paternal disdain.) But presidential candidate and former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, himself a Baptist minister, actually told a crowd yesterday that 'most' of the signers of the Declaration of Independence were 'clergymen.' As these folks at Politifact.com point out, one out of 56 were clergymen. It's a creative definition of 'most'."

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The largest man made structure in the world.... is a pile of garbage.

Sweet legacy.

Continent-size toxic stew of plastic trash fouling swath of Pacific Ocean:

"The enormous stew of trash - which consists of 80 percent plastics and weighs some 3.5 million tons, say oceanographers - floats where few people ever travel, in a no-man's land between San Francisco and Hawaii. Marcus Eriksen, director of research and education at the Algalita Marine Research Foundation in Long Beach, said his group has been monitoring the Garbage Patch for 10 years. 'With the winds blowing in and the currents in the gyre going circular, it's the perfect environment for trapping,' Eriksen said. 'There's nothing we can do about it now, except do no more harm.'"

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Uhhhh... damn.

Teens Recover After Tug-Of-War Game Nearly Severs Hands:

"PARKER, Colo. -- One teenager has been released from the hospital and another remained in serious condition after their hands were severely injured during a game of tug-of-war at school."

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