Shopkeepers in central England have been trying out a new device that emits an uncomfortable high-pitched noise designed to disperse young loiterers outside their stores without bothering adults.

Police carrying out the pilot project in Staffordshire say some of those who have tested the “Sonic Teenager Deterrent,” nicknamed the mosquito, have talked of buying one of their own.

The device which costs 622 pounds (908 euros, 1,081 dollars) “doesn’t cause any pain to the hearer,” according to Inspector Amanda Davies, quoted by Britain’s domestic Press Association news agency.

“The noise can normally only be heard by those between 12 and 22 and it makes the listener feel uncomfortable,” she added.

Once in their early 20s, people lose their capacity to hear sounds at such a high pitch.

We’re filthy with teenagers in my neighborhood…

I have failed us....

Capitol Chat Transcript: Liberal comedian, author and radio host Al Franken

Moderator: Welcome to The Olympian’s Capitol Chat. I’m your moderator, State Government Reporter Adam Wilson. Our guest today is liberal author and radio host Al Franken.

Kevin, Lacey: I heard you might run for senator in Minnesota. I know a lot of people find you out-of-touch with mainstream America and too far to the left. In an attempt to reach out to more conservative voters, would you consider going hunting with vice president Cheney?

HOW IN HELL DID WE MISS THIS?!?!
*I* wanted to ask Al Franken stupid questions.

“It was a typical clear and hot day when we were conducting a patrol just south of Fallujah with 15 Marines and five vehicles,” said von Kraus, then the platoon commander of 1st Platoon, Company A, 1st Reconnaissance Battalion, 1st Marine Division from Boston. “I had one of my three-man teams conduct a security sweep to our rear, and they opened fire on a group of insurgents who were setting up an ambush on a concrete overpass.”

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I feel that currently my beloved country is being pissed upon rather too much. Denmark has not been neglecting its duties on the international stage. We have supported poor people with acts and advice, we have worked for peace, we have sent soldiers, policemen and experts to all the far flung corners of the world. We have democracy, a rule of law and a welfare state. Not all is perfect, but we harbor no malice towards our fellow men.

I’m sure Linda won’t mind me lifting her graphic. It looks like something we all need to button on our sites.

The folks at ABC who didn’t want to offend mooselimbs by showing the cartoons have newly leaked Abu Grahib photos up on their site.

I wrote them an e-mail telling them how impressed I was at their journalistic standards and what pillars of free speech they had become. *SPIT*

---MCPO Airdale

Thanks Airdale....
That means even more after hearing that even All Jizz decided to be a bit prudent:

Some key Iraqi officials urged their countrymen to react calmly since the pictures were old and the offenders had been punished.

In the Middle East, where there have been widespread anti-Western protests recently over caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad, Al-Jazeera and Al-Arabiya TV aired some of the Australian station’s footage but refrained from using the most shocking and sexually explicit images. CNN also broadcast excerpts.

Iraq’s acting human rights minister, Nermine Othman, said she was “horrified” by the pictures and would study whether any action could be taken against those responsible, even though some offenders have been imprisoned.

“There will be two kinds of reactions from Iraqis,” she told The Associated Press. “One will be anger and others will feel sorry that they (SBS) didn’t give them to the Iraqi government to investigate. Why use them? Why show them? We have had enough suffering and we don’t want any more.”

...and even Iraq’s acting human rights minister doesn’t see the point.

To add to my twisted segue, I’m in the middle of watching Triump of the Will…
perhaps someone can get Mikey Moore to have a view of it and see how it’s done and the rest of his ilk can learn what propaganda actually is.
Not to mention how retarded it is to Call Bush Hitler and us conservatives, Nazis.

Alright. I’ll step away from the bong now.

Detroit media is abuzz with reports about 16(!) pilots at Detroit Metro Airport being targeted with blinding laser pointers.

And guess where the laser pointers’ strobes are coming from?

Surprise, surprise--law enforcement investigators have pinpointed the lasers to Dearborn and Dearborn Heights--the HEART of Islamic America. We like to call it by a more appropriate appellation: “Little Ramallah.”

In fact, Dearborn Heights is the location of the Hezbollah Mosque (at which the feds kowtowed). Another location from which the laser pointers emanated, Michigan Avenue and Telegraph Road, is in the heart of Dearborn’s most extremist Muslim population.

It’s Dick Cheney!!!

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) - Oil prices fell for the fourth straight session Wednesday, tumbling below $58 a barrel, after a government report showed crude stockpiles ballooned four times as much as traders and analysts on Wall Street had expected.
U.S. light sweet crude for March delivery fell $1.92 to settle at $57.65 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Just before the Energy Information Administration released its inventory report, the contract was up 29 cents to $59.86.

The government report showed crude supplies swelled by 4.9 million barrels in the week ended Feb. 10 to 325.6 million barrels, the highest level since the end of June. The rise more than exceeded estimates for a build of 1.2 million barrels.

Gasoline stocks rose for the seventh straight week, jumping by 2.2 million barrels to 225.5 million barrels, their highest level since June 1999, the EIA said. Analysts were looking for a 1.6 million barrel jump in gasoline supplies.

Crude prices edged up right after the report before turning lower.

“We’re building up crude stocks, we’re very comfortable on supplies worldwide,” said Tom Kloza, chief oil analyst at New Jersey-based Oil Price Information Service.

Oil prices have steadily declined over the past two weeks, losing about 13 percent since the start of February.

On Tuesday, the front-month crude contract fell below $60 for the first time in 2006, while gas futures sank as low as $1.3849 a gallon, their lowest in nearly a year.

“Late Show with David Letterman,” CBS:

-- “Good news, ladies and gentlemen, we have finally located weapons of mass destruction: It’s Dick Cheney.”

-- “But here is the sad part—before the trip Donald Rumsfeld had denied the guy’s request for body armor.”

-- “We can’t get Bin Laden, but we nailed a 78-year-old attorney.”

-- “The guy who got gunned down, he is a Republican lawyer and a big Republican donor and fortunately the buck shot was deflected by wads of laundered cash. So he’s fine. He took a little in the wallet.”

“The Tonight Show with Jay Leno,” NBC:

-- “Although it is beautiful here in California, the weather back East has been atrocious. There was so much snow in Washington, D.C., Dick Cheney accidentally shot a fat guy thinking it was a polar bear.

-- “That’s the big story over the weekend. ... Dick Cheney accidentally shot a fellow hunter, a 78-year-old lawyer. In fact, when people found out he shot a lawyer, his popularity is now at 92 percent.”

-- “I think Cheney is starting to lose it. After he shot the guy he screamed, ‘Anyone else want to call domestic wire tapping illegal?’”

“The Daily Show with Jon Stewart,” Comedy Central:

-- “Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot a man during a quail hunt ... making 78-year-old Harry Whittington the first person shot by a sitting veep since Alexander Hamilton. Hamilton, of course, (was) shot in a duel with Aaron Burr over issues of honor, integrity and political maneuvering. Whittington? Mistaken for a bird.”

-- “Now, this story certainly has its humorous aspects. ... But it also raises a serious issue, one which I feel very strongly about. ... moms, dads, if you’re watching right now, I can’t emphasize this enough: Do not let your kids go on hunting trips with the vice president. I don’t care what kind of lucrative contracts they’re trying to land, or energy regulations they’re trying to get lifted—it’s just not worth it.”

Letterman SUUUUUUUCKS!

“Maybe the White House Press corp was upset because we told the Corpus Christi Caller-Times and not the New York Times” - Dick Cheney

and aliens regularly visit your nether regions, too.

WASHINGTON (CNN)—About a fifth of Americans think federal agents have listened in on their phone calls, a CNN/USA Today/Gallup Poll released Tuesday suggests.

I mean who do they think they are—Wolfie Blitzen?

*cough*

I may be crazy but…
this seems a bit more important than if Dead-Eye Dick had whipped out a .45 and plugged David Gregory square between the eyes.

...not that that scenario wouldn’t make some smile....

Some of the country’s busiest ports—New York, New Jersey, Baltimore, [New Orleans, Miami and Philadelphia]—are about to become the property of the United Arab Emirates. Do we really want our major ports in the hands of an Arab country where al Qaeda recruits, travels and wires money?

The U.S. Committee on Foreign Investment, a Treasury Department-dominated group which reviews foreign investments, allows such purchases. The committee approved a $6.8 billion transaction between the ports’ current British owners and Dubai Ports World, a government-owned United Arab Emirates firm. The United Arab Emirates was home to Marwan al-Shehhi, a September 11 hijacker; the country is a transit point for al Qaeda, including several other September 11 hijackers; al Qaeda’s financing activities have involved the UAE; al Qaeda finds sympathizers there with ease, as it does in other Arab countries. 

What I find almost as discomfiting is that the Committee on Foreign Investment has put me in a position to agree with Chucky Schumer *ptui*.

“...this looks like [expletive] insanity”

One of the most dramatic moments in the 12 hours of recordings comes when Saddam predicts - during a meeting in the mid 1990s - a terrorist attack on the United States. “Terrorism is coming. I told the Americans a long time before August 2 and told the British as well ... that in the future there will be terrorism with weapons of mass destruction.” Saddam goes on to say such attacks would be difficult to stop. “In the future, what would prevent a booby-trapped car causing a nuclear explosion in Washington or a germ or a chemical one?” But he adds that Iraq would never do such a thing. “This is coming, this story is coming but not from Iraq.”

Also at the meeting was Iraq’s Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz, who said Iraq was being wrongly accused of terrorism. “Sir, the biological is very easy to make. It’s so simple that any biologist can make a bottle of germs and drop it into a water tower and kill 100,000. This is not done by a state. No need to accuse a state. An individual can do it.”

The tapes also reveal Iraq’s persistent efforts to hide information about weapons of mass destruction programs from U.N. inspectors well into the 1990s . In one pivotal tape-recorded meeting, which occurred in late April or May of 1995, Saddam and his senior aides discuss the fact that U.N. inspectors had uncovered evidence of Iraq’s biological weapons program-a program whose existence Iraq had previously denied.

At one point Hussein Kamel, Saddam’s son-in-law and the man who was in charge of Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction efforts can be heard on the tapes, speaking openly about hiding information from the U.N.

“We did not reveal all that we have,” Kamel says in the meeting. “Not the type of weapons, not the volume of the materials we imported, not the volume of the production we told them about, not the volume of use. None of this was correct.”