Bubbles

Yesterday's post was a lead in for what I had planned to post today, but Google/Blogger/Bastards deleted my post because their product sucks ass.

So, I'm phoning it in today.

Back when 'sick days' were part of my existence, sometimes, when I took one b/c I was sick of work, I'd go hang out at Stinson Beach in Marin where this video of giant bubbles was filmed.

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U.S.A.! We're No..... wait. Dammit!

CBC News - Technology & Science - Cannabis electric car being made in Alberta:

"An electric car made of hemp is being developed by a company in Alberta."

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Good for Barry.

Barry Cooper fights the law, wins: Odessa drops all ‘KopBusters’ charges | Raw Story

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Alcohol is a hell of a drug.

Man shot in head, but notices only 5 years later:

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Stupid British Hurricanes.

Alcohol is helluva....

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Back Off Cody

All y'all better back off Cody. He was 400 lbs when Saban got him and he played every game last year. Plus, he'll eat you if you keep poking at him like this. He's still the most athletic 360 lbs man on the planet.

Terrence Cody deemed too tubby for Ravens training camp - Shutdown Corner - NFL� - Yahoo! Sports

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A thing faster than Cody.

High-Speed Laser Chips Move Data at 50 Gbps | Gadget Lab | Wired.com:

"A new research breakthrough from Intel combines silicon chips and lasers to transmit data at 50 gigabits per second — and someday, maybe as fast as a terabit per second.

The 50-Gbps speed is enough to download an HD movie from iTunes, or up to 100 hours of digital music, in less than a second."

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Another thing faster than Cody

Zero to 60 mph in less than 3 seconds -- White Zombie electric dragster makes believers out of fossil fuel hot-rodders | OregonLive.com:

"John Wayland runs a political machine on 12 lithium polymer batteries.

It's a 1972 Datsun called 'White Zombie,' and it's one of the fastest street legal electric cars in the world. It's been clocked doing zero to 60 mph in 2.95 seconds. It's walloped Corvettes, Camaros and 600-horsepower Vipers in quarter-mile drag races using lead-acid batteries."

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I'm so there:

RUSTIC, Francis's Favorites | Francis Ford Coppola Winery

Francis Ford Coppola chats about his new restaurant, Rustic, due today - Paolo Lucchesi:

"Scoop: What’s the motivation behind Rustic? It’s almost as if the menu tells a story, from film friends to travels to family.

Coppola: Simply a style of food preparation and presentation that I personally love: a more rustic style — French country cooking or Italian country cooking, homemade, where the emphasis is more on the quality of the ingredients and doing as little as possible, rather than a more ‘nouveau’ style, in which the food is in tiny, decoratively arranged portions. I am interested in authentic dishes — the kind you drive an hour out of the city to find little restaurants that make specialties that are only made there."

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Score:

Lawyer: Negatives verified as Ansel Adams' work - Yahoo! News:

"EVERLY HILLS, Calif. – A trove of old glass negatives bought at a garage sale for $45 have been authenticated as the lost work of famed nature photographer Ansel Adams and are worth at least $200 million, an attorney for the owner said Tuesday."

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Native New Yorker

Booker T. posted a new song off of Potato Hole on HuffPost yesterday. Give it a listen!

Booker T. Jones: HuffPost Premiere: "Native New Yorker"

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Money meet mouth:

Obamas Paying for White House Renovations Personally -- New York Magazine

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Gregg got owned by Sanders in this exchange. Socialism, indeed.

Daily Kos: Sanders Makes Gregg Eat His Socialist Europe Meme:

"Gregg introduced an amendment (defeated) that would have required 60 Senate votes for budget resolutions that don't meet the European Union standard of limiting debt to 30 percent of GDP.

'We're in such a bad situation in this nation right now... that [the Europeans] actually look good,' Gregg said.

[Bernie] Sanders pounced.

'I'm glad to hear that my neighbor from New Hampshire is suddenly interested in Europe,' he said. 'And maybe we can take a hard look at the fact that virtually every European country has a national health-care program guaranteeing health care to all of their people, spending substantially less per capita than we do in this country -- maybe we can add that. And maybe we can look at the fact that while we have 18 percent of our kids living in poverty, our European friends in some cases have 3 or 4 percent of their children living in poverty. And maybe while our families have to spend $40,000 a year to send our kids to college, they do it virtually free. So I like the idea of opening up the discussion about the pros and cons of Europe, but it is broader than my friend from New Hampshire is talking about.'"

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OK, then, we should randomly drug test ALL elected officials too since they take tax money as a salary. AND, those test should be shown live on C-SPAN.

I want to see McConnell's shriveled up cock pissing in a cup live on C-SPAN.

Oh, what about all college students who receive federal aid?

And every last one of these bank executives?

How, oh, how will these broke ass states pay for all of this testing?

Stupid motherfuckers.

States consider drug tests for welfare recipients

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Off all of the rotten, corrupt industry we have in this country, none hold a candle to the insurance industry. Biggest scam there is.

Insurers shun those taking certain meds - Costs of Care - MiamiHerald.com:

"Trying to buy health insurance on your own and have gallstones? You'll automatically be denied coverage. Rheumatoid arthritis? Automatic denial. Severe acne? Probably denied. Do you take metformin, a popular drug for diabetes? Denied. Use the anti-clotting drug Plavix or Seroquel, prescribed for anti-psychotic or sleep problems? Forget about it.

This confidential information on some insurers' practices is available on the Web -- if you know where to look.

What's more, you can discover that if you lie to an insurer about your medical history and drug use, you will be rejected because data-mining companies sell information to insurers about your health, including detailed usage of prescription drugs."

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Not-so-great Car Dealer Wars.

Laid-Off Car Dealership Employees Get In Fistfight (VIDEO)

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If you're a dude.... like you haven't thought about it... or maybe you just didn't get caught.

Michigan Man Sentenced to 90 Days in Prison for Sex Act With Car Wash :

"SAGINAW, Mich. — A man police caught performing a sex act with a car wash vacuum has been sentenced to 90 days in prison.

Jason Leroy Savage must also submit to drug testing."

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Hmmm. Wonder if I could get away with this.

Idaho teacher sells advertising space on tests - washingtonpost.com:

"POCATELLO, Idaho -- Good morning, class, and welcome to U.S. history, brought to you by Molto Caldo Pizzeria."

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Harlem of the West

Heh.

Hawaii Chevrolet dealer crushes auto competition:

"HILO, Hawaii – A Hilo Chevrolet dealer who tried to crush his Asian auto competition found the stunt a little harder to pull off than expected.

Island Chevrolet general sales manager James Severtson arranged for a Chevrolet Suburban SUV outfitted with massive tires costing $5,000 apiece to drive over a Honda Accord.

On the first attempt Friday, the monster truck blew a hydraulic hose and leaked vital fluid while the Honda remained intact and ready for more."

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See, the Da Vinci Code was right!

Three near-invisible drawings discovered on back of Da Vinci masterpiece - Times Online

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'Harlem of the West' jazz photos on Fillmore:

"While other 4-year-olds were off in slumber land, Peter Fitzsimmons was soaking up the music at Jimbo's Bop City, the fabled Fillmore District nightspot where John Coltrane, Ella Fitzgerald or Charlie Parker might stroll in and join the after-hours jam session."

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PC vs. MAC.... for real!

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Being in the Act of Romancing

For Jenn.

Oh, its worth watching til the end.

You're Welcome:

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And the geeks shall inherit the hot rods.

Hot Rodding Comes to Hybrids | Autopia from Wired.com:

"A growing number of Steve McGreens are souping up their gas-electric hybrids to make them go faster and handle better, while delivering stellar fuel economy. It isn't just gearheads busting their knuckles, either. A lot of the hybrid hackers are tech geeks whose innovations may well appear in the cars we'll buy tomorrow."

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Biubz.

Genius.

Ugandan men warned of 'booby trap':

"Uganda's police warned male bar-goers to keep their noses clean after a probe found a gang of robbers had been using women with chloroform smeared on their chests to knock their victims unconscious. Skip related content

'They apply this chemical to their chest. We have found victims in an unconscious state,' Criminal Investigations Directorate (CID) spokesman Fred Enanga told AFP.

'You find the person stripped totally naked and everything is taken from him,' he said. 'And the victim doesn't remember anything. He just remembers being in the act of romancing.'"

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According to this person.

10 U.S. Places to See Before You Die

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RuPalin

D'oh! Not the kind of endorsement McCain was seeking, I betcha.

Al-Qaeda Supporters Endorse McCain

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It's not a flag pin, so no problemo.

McCain campaign disrespects American flag, drags it on the ground

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McCain won't even communicate with descendants of slaves his family once owned. Tsk, tsk.

McCain's family once own slaves. Nice, McSame.... nice.

Denied black relative urges McCain to accept ancestry:

"The McCain family has a proud tradition in the United States. They fought for integration of the south, resisted the Ku Klux Klan, led civil rights campaigns and left a lasting mark on the politics of Mississippi.

But, despite contradictory statements made by Sen. John McCain, that branch of his family was once owned as slaves by the candidate's ancestors"

"I heard him say on, I believe it was Meet the Press, that his ancestors owned no slaves. Well, I certainly have carried the name McCain from the beginning of my life, and I've known the ties to John McCain, and have tried to get him to communicate with me about that, but he has been unwilling at least to date."

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Listen to the racist hate coming from McCain supporters. Truly vile.

M.S. Bellows, Jr.: Anti-ACORN Messages Threaten Staff and Obama (AUDIO)

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Prada First! Country.... oh, about fifth... maybe sixth.

Gosh, gee-willikers, somebody is looking awful elitist.

RNC appears to shell out $150K for Palin fashion:

"The Republican National Committee appears to have spent more than $150,000 to clothe and accessorize vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin and her family since her surprise pick by John McCain in late August."

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Contrast Prada Palin with regular JOE Obama who resoles his shoes. Check out the picture.

Obama Resoles His Shoes While Palin Spends $150K

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Great video of Obama making calls in a campaign office in Missouri.

Obama makes calls to voters in Missouri

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What Kos says.... again.

TheHill.com - Americans’ answer:

"In the past, this kind of paint-by-numbers divisiveness might have cowed Democrats. But after years of being labeled unpatriotic for having the temerity to oppose the misguided war in Iraq (we were right) or George Bush’s economic stewardship (we were right), Americans on the center-left have had enough."

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Why, I just might move to Ithaca.

Ithaca Aims To Be America's First "Podcar" City:

"THACA, N.Y. — The thought of a driverless, computer-guided car transporting people where they want to go on demand is a futuristic notion to some.

To Jacob Roberts, podcars _ or PRTs, for personal rapid transit _ represent an important component in the here-and-now of transportation.

'It's time we design cities for the human, not for the automobile,' said Roberts, president of Connect Ithaca, a group of planning and building professionals, activists and students committed to making this upstate New York college town the first podcar community in the United States."

Reminds me of.....

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Epic Battle

An epic battle. I watched it.... then I had some hotdogs. Good stuff.

Joey Chestnut Defeats Takeru Kobayashi In Hot Dog Contest After Eat-Off

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I'm no longer JPW.... I'm JHW. The blog will be AHW.

Great idea.

Obama Supporters Take His Middle Name as Their Own:

"Emily Nordling has never met a Muslim, at least not to her knowledge. But this spring, Ms. Nordling, a 19-year-old student from Fort Thomas, Ky., gave herself a new middle name on Facebook.com, mimicking her boyfriend and shocking her father.

“Emily Hussein Nordling,” her entry now reads."

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I would love to tool around SF in one of these.

Laugh at High Gas Prices With a 282-MPG VW

"With gas prices going through the roof and regulators requiring cars to be ever more miserly, Volkswagen is bringing new meaning to the term 'fuel efficiency' with a bullet-shaped microcar that gets a stunning 282 235 mpg."

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Bad dog. Bad, bad dog. A h0t-dog, but a bad dog.

See how I bring it full circle First article is about people eating hot-dogs. Last article is about hot-dogs eating people. Is that Alanis irony? Is this like rain on my wedding day? I always get confused.

Anyway, I should receive some type of literary award for such genius.

Miniature dachshund gnaws off diabetic owner's toe:

"An Illinois woman says her beloved miniature dachshund gnawed off her right big toe while she was asleep. Linda Floyd told the Alton Telegraph for a story Wednesday that her beloved Roscoe was euthanized because of safety concerns."

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Chug! Chug! Chug!

Mrs. McSame likes to steal shit.

Cooking up Scandal: Cindy McCain Allegedly Lifts Another Recipe

No, really, she likes to steal shit.

Salon News | How Cindy McCain was outed for drug addiction:

"GOP presidential candidate John McCain's wife Cindy took to the airwaves last week, recounting for Jane Pauley (on 'Dateline') and Diane Sawyer (on 'Good Morning America') the tale of her onetime addiction to Percocet and Vicodin, and the fact that she stole the drugs from her own nonprofit medical relief organization."

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Can't decide if I'm going to download today or wait a week or so for the kinks to be ironed out. Tres excited about the new browser, though.

Mozilla Ready to Launch Firefox 3 into Browser Wars:

"On June 17, Mozilla will release Firefox 3. After more than 34 months of active development and the contributions of thousands of people, Firefox 3 will be downloadable free from the Mozilla Web site. Mozilla is promising this is the best browser -- period."

Hmmm. Just check Mozilla's website and they still offer 2.0 with a sneak peak at 3.0. Maybe its not available today.

Firefox web browser | Faster, more secure, & customizable

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Too bad Detroit didn't have the foresight.

Toyota's hybrid output can't meet demand:

"“Hybrids are selling so well we are doing all we can to increase production,” he told The Associated Press. “We need new lines.”"

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Just because.

Chug 2 Beers In 2 Seconds With The Bierstick

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Highway Miles

Read this and try not to have the whistling stuck in your head all day long.

Earle Hagen, `Andy Griffith' composer, dies at 88:

"Hagen, who is heard whistling the folksy tune for 'The Andy Griffith Show,' died Monday night at his home in Rancho Mirage, his wife, Laura, said Tuesday. He had been in ill health for several months."

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Snark. Overload. Weapon makers going green? Really?

Environmentally Friendly Bombs Planned

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Great diary on DK regarding highway driving. Long but a really interesting and informative read.

"Them's highway miles"

Daily Kos: Want to Die Slowly, Mangled Beyond Recognition? [Redux]

"Keep Right Except to Pass" and "Slower Traffic Keep Right" are, next to speed limits, the most widely ignored signs (and traffic regulations) out there.

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Just when you think all is douchbaggery the kids pull us back towards the light of goodness.

The Kids are Alright.

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I Drink Your Milkshake, Auto Industry!

What a perfect day for Obama to pull the Edwards endorsement out of the hat. Totally blunted Hillary's 'big win' (pfffft) in West Virginia.

This isn't the entire endorsement but it is Obama introducing Edwards in Michigan last night. Edwards is played on stage to Bruce's The Rising.

O. is going to be the coolest effing President ever!

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Screw the whiney ass titty baby American Auto Rulers. Crying in this article how any type of governmental change will put serious strain on the auto makers. Good! I just had an American made car with only 55k miles blow up on the side of the road.

They better change and change fast or bye-bye industry.

Fuel economy standards could obliterate the auto industry - May. 14, 2008:

It is unusual for a single individual to hold the fate of an entire industry in his hand - but that will be the case for the next president of the United States.

He or she will have the power to enact unbearably strict fuel economy standards on the cars and trucks sold in half the country. By so doing, he could render vast swaths of the current car and truck lineup obsolete and doom their manufacturers to the scrapyard."

Now THIS is what I'm talking about! 7 years without ever seeing a gas station.

Running on Empty: Cars That Never Need Gas; Sierra Club:

"Dickey says the Rav4EV is the best car he's ever owned. 'My wife commutes in it 40 miles a day, five days a week. We drive it for our weekend outings and it does errands that are too far or too bulky for the bicycle. It has never been tuned up, and I've spent about $50 total on it for maintenance. My wife has not been to a gasoline station in seven years and 70,000 commute miles—not once!'"

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I drink your milkshake. (If you haven't seen the movie you need to. Should have won best picture last year).

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