...but not a, you know, JAP.
Lil’ snowflake Maha gets ‘er knickers in a twist.
Reality sets in.
Former U.S. President George H.W. Bush (bottom) celebrates his 85th birthday by jumping with the Army’s Golden Knight parachute team in a tandem jump with SFC Michael Elliott in Kennebunkport, Maine…
TV shows were replaced by the hiss of static in perhaps 1 million U.S. homes Friday as stations ended their analog broadcasts and abandoned the transmission technology in use since the days of Milton Berle, Sid Caesar and Howdy Doody.
TV stations were free to choose when in the day to cut their signals, and many were holding off until late at night. That means the full effect of the shutdown will not be apparent until this weekend.
I set up my converter box on my TV here at work earlier in the week and everything was working great up until about 2 hours ago.
For what channels I do get, the picture looks fantastic....as good as my cable reception at home.
Guess I’ll have to invest in a better set of rabbit ears, though the ones I’ve been using aren’t exactly the cheap kind.
Oh well...I’ll wait till Monday after this whole changeover shakes itself out. Besides, I can still get KDOC, KCAL9 and Fox which were the only ones I cared about anyway.
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These guys are great pals of mine and have assisted and supported me in battling the Lympians for years.
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20 fiber artists were asked to create a piece that reflects their feelings on the state of our environment and how that impacts the Arctic. Looks like it going to be an awesome show!
ConradC via Tim Blair
Sarah Palin says David Letterman owes an apology to young women across the country for his joke about her daughter.
The Alaska governor appeared on NBC’s “Today” show Friday, continuing a feud with the CBS “Late Show” funnyman over his joke earlier this week that Palin’s daughter got “knocked up” by New York Yankee third baseman Alex Rodriguez during their recent trip to New York.
Palin also said she doesn’t believe she should be automatically considered the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012.
Asked by Matt Lauer whether Letterman owed her daughter an apology, the former vice presidential candidate broadened it.
“I would like to see him apologize to young women across the country for contributing to kind of that thread that is throughout our culture that makes it sound like it is OK to talk about young girls in that way, where it’s kind of OK, accepted and funny to talk about statutory rape,” she said. “It’s not cool. It’s not funny.”
Letterman has said his joke was about Palin’s 18-year-old daughter Bristol, who is an unwed mother (no name was used). Problem was, the Alaska governor was traveling with 14-year-old Willow. Palin said it took Letterman time to think of the “convenient excuse” that he was talking about Bristol instead of Willow.
Letterman said on his show Wednesday that he would “never, ever make jokes about raping or having sex of any description with a 14-year-old girl.” He said he was guilty of poor taste.
Palin said Friday that it was time for people to rise up against Letterman’s form of humor.
“No wonder young girls especially have such low self-esteem in America when we think it’s funny for a so-called comedian to get away with such a remark as he did,” she said. “I don’t think that’s acceptable.”
The National Organization for Women placed Letterman in its “media hall of shame.”
“Comedians in search of a laugh should really know better than to snicker about men having sex with teenage girls or young women half their age,” NOW wrote on its Web site.......
NOW they’re sticking up for a Palin...but hey, I’ll take it.
A vixen has stolen more than 120 shoes from doorsteps in the German town of Föhren over the last year, amassing a collection that would impress even Imelda Marcos. Little bite marks on the laces suggest they’re intended as toys for her cubs.
For more than a year, the people of Föhren, a small town in the wooded Eifel hills of western Germany, wondered who was going around stealing shoes from their doorsteps and garden terraces at night. Well over 100 muddy hiking shoes, wet Wellingtons, steel-capped workman’s boots, flipflops and old slippers went missing.
The mystery has now been solved after a forestry worker discovered an Imelda Marcos-scale collection of footwear in a fox’s den in nearby woods.
The bushy-tailed culprit, believed to be a vixen with a family of cubs, is still at large, and locals have two explanations for her kleptomania. Either she amassed them as toys for her children, or she simply likes collecting shoes, or both. So far 120 stolen shoes have been retrieved.
Kathleen Parker would approve
Colleges in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh said Wednesday that female students would be banned from wearing jeans and other Western clothes to halt sexual harassment by male classmates. ...
A growing number of colleges in Uttar Pradesh have decided to outlaw jeans, shorts, tight blouses and miniskirts on campus in an attempt to crack down on “Eve-teasing”—as sexual harassment is known in India.
IOW: ‘If *I* have feelings that *I* can’t handle when I look at you, it’s your fault.’
Is this a disturbing trend?
Hindu extremist groups have in recent months attacked women drinking in pubs and threatened couples who make public displays of affection.
The vigilantes claimed they were acting to protect India’s conservative values against the spreading influence of Western culture.
When do we get roving bands of Amish smacking women wandering around without bonnets?
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G-BSA*
The Senate voted to give U.S. drug regulators power to restrict tobacco products, bringing a decade-old fight over supervising the $80-billion-a-year industry near an end.
“My administration is committed to protecting our children and reforming our healthcare system—and moving forward with common-sense tobacco control measures is an integral part of that process,” Obama said.
Under the bill the agency would be able to reduce the amount of addictive nicotine in cigarettes and smokeless tobacco--though not remove it altogether--plus ban various additives, such as candy and fruit flavorings designed to appeal to youngsters. And tobacco makers would have to disclose all the different additives in their products and hand over research into their effects.
It’s called Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act. Family?!? No. This is about individual freedoms.
And don’t feel so complacent you burger, chips, MacNuggets and Twinkies, steak and whole milk fans: you’re we’re next. Then the wake-boarders, truck-surfers and people who jump out of perfectly good airplanes. Then on to those who ride Harleys or horses, play Aussie-rules rugby, or wear shoooz with heels “slightly too high.”
When do we stand up? [before that becomes ‘too dangerous?’]
*Good-Bye Sweet America
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duck, duck, goose! ...’n’ cover
Iran and North Korea have formed an information-sharing “coalition” aimed at bolstering their respective ballistic missile capabilities, the officer who leads the U.S. Missile Defense Agency said yesterday (see GSN, June 10).
“It really is an international effort going on out there to develop ballistic missile capability between these countries,” Lt. Gen. Patrick O’Reilly said, according to Reuters.
The nations trade technical information on avionics, propulsion systems and other missile components, according to O’Reilly. “We’ve seen it for years and it continues,” ...
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Coming up next, taxing you for the water you used in the workplace urinal on the assumption that at least 15% of the piss you flushed originated in water you drank on your own time.
After a flare-up over controversial detainee abuse photos, House-Senate negotiators sealed agreement on a crucial war-funding bill Thursday night when President Barack Obama personally guaranteed the photos would never be released.
To reassure Democratic moderates who had balked at House demands that Congress not interfere in a lawsuit to force the release of photos of U.S. troops abusing detainees, Obama promised to use every available means to block their release. His powers include issuing an order to classify the photos, thus blocking their release under the Freedom of Information Act.
The promise came after Democratic negotiators abruptly adjourned a public House-Senate negotiating session and White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel rushed to the Capitol to resolve an impasse between Senate Democratic moderates and House liberals over the photos issue.
A federal appeals court in New York withdrew its order that the government release the photographs to give the Obama administration time to take the dispute to the Supreme Court. The move came as a blow to the American Civil Liberties Union, which is trying to force the photos’ release.
Seattle’s Gum Wall has been ranked among the world’s top five “Germiest Attractions.” In a list released Thursday by TripAdvisor, the popular attraction, located outside the Market Theatre at Pike Place Market, comes in at #2, following Ireland’s Blarney Stone in the top spot.
Market Theatre Managing Director Jay Hitts says even though some think it’s gross it still draws quite a crowd. “Every time I walk out into the alley there’s lots of people getting their pictures taken in front of it, asking questions about it. It has become quite an attraction.”
Chastity Bono, daughter of Cher and the late Sonny Bono, is undergoing a sex change.
Chastity, who is transitioning from female to male, began the process earlier this year after turning 40 March 4.
“Yes, it’s true—Chaz, after many years of consideration, has made the courageous decision to honor his true identity,” publicist Howard Bragman tells Usmagazine.com.
As long as (s)he doesn’t try to have a baby too, I’m cool with it.
Though I would personally opt out on the frankenwiener. From what I hear, they don’t work out too well.
she was asking for teh hate rape
So, maybe when you play the flirt and invite males to see starbursts bouncing off the walls (Lowry again), then maybe you invite the sexual punchline.
“The Palins have no intention of providing a ratings boost for David Letterman by appearing on his show,” Stapelton said in an email to ABC News. ”Plus, it would be wise to keep Willow away from David Letterman.”
