Cluebat to the Head…

Britney + A Million Little Pieces = Crazy Delicious

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An Iraqi national wearing wires and concealing a magnet inside his rectum triggered a security scare at Los Angeles International Airport on Tuesday but officials said he posed no apparent threat.

The man, identified by law enforcement officials as Fadhel al-Maliki, 35, set off an alarm during passenger screening at the airport early on Tuesday morning.

A police bomb squad was called to examine what was deemed a suspicious item found during a body cavity search of the man. Local media reports said a magnet was found in his rectum.

“He was secreting these items in a body cavity and that was a great concern because there were also some electric wires associated with that body cavity,” Larry Fetters, security director for the Transportation Security Administration at the airport, told reporters.

Dick Cheney has been diagnosed with a blood clot in his left leg, leading to speculation he will be forced to resign as U.S. Vice-President.

I hear HuffPo shut off comments on their post.

~TUA Was Here~

Just reminiscing that awesome trip Prince Albert ‘n I took to Kauai. Though you’d never ever get me on one of these helicopters. We instead chose the all day rafting expedition. Man...we had such a blast that day. Exhausting but fun.

I really should go back at some point. It truly is one of the most magical places on earth.

I seriously don’t get why anyone would want to stay on Maui, Molokai or Oahu. The Big Island possibly...but I’d still take Kauai over volcanoes and black sand beaches any day.

During my first trip to Kauai, I hiked part of the The Kalalau Trail from Ke’e Beach to Hanakapi’ai Valley. Very muddy and slippery during the wet season but it was still well worth the effort. 

Can A Smart Person Believe In God?—it was a gift from my aunt. i got part-way through it. it will be on a table outside my house at 77 oxford street- tomorrow after 12noon ~ first come, first served.

cue ululations

The French Constitutional Council has approved a law that criminalizes the filming or broadcasting of acts of violence by people other than professional journalists. [filming by people other than professional journalists—not violence by journalists]

...anyone publishing such images could face up to five years in prison and a fine of €75,000 (US$98,537), potentially a harsher sentence than that for committing the violent act

...The law, proposed by Minister of the Interior Nicolas Sarkozy, is intended to clamp down on… the practice of “happy slapping,” in which a violent attack is filmed by an accomplice, typically with a camera phone, for the amusement of the attacker’s friends.

...The government has also proposed a certification system for Web sites, blog hosters, mobile-phone operators and Internet service providers, identifying them as government-approved sources of information…

Paging Miss Mme. Ingdapoint…

[Edward and Elinor are baiting Margaret, who is playfully hiding under a table]

Edward Ferrars: I wish to check the position of the Nile. My sister tells me it is in South America.

Elinor Dashwood: No. She’s quite wrong—for I believe it is in Belgium.

Edward Ferrars: You must be thinking of the Volga.

Margaret: [speaking from under a table] The Volga?

Elinor Dashwood: Of course, the Volga. Which as you know starts in…

Edward Ferrars: ...Vladivostock and ends in…

Elinor Dashwood: ...Wimbledon.

Edward Ferrars: Precisely. Where the coffee beans come from.

Margaret: [emerging from under a table] The source of the Nile is in Abyssinia.

you fraudulent, lying, opportunistic, manipulative, disconnected, unrepentant, unctuous, shameless, vicious, self-indulgent, greasy, deluded, power mad, predatory, cannibalistic, edacious, rapacious, defilement of the human form

[She’s a woman, yanno.  She told us.]

U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told heartland farmers gathered in Orlando on Friday that she would insert agricultural-disaster relief into an Iraq war spending bill and aggressively promote alternative fuels.

...

Convention-goers were greeted by a race car that runs on ethanol. Many farm states are banking on the growth in biofuels to stage a revival in the agriculture industry.

“This is the most excitement I’ve seen in agriculture in a long time,” House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson, D-Minn., told the farmers group. “There is an optimism that is rejuvenating rural America.”

Yeperee.  This is a spot the every day average farmer frequents alla time....  At $259 a night; cuz alla farmers *I* know won’t leave home without their 32” flat screen TVs, Egyptian cotton sheets and “proud smoke-free environment.” [ie. matching Haviland spittin’ cups in each room]

*insert invective here*

Scooter Libby’s guilty and NOW allofasudden perjury IS a big deal.

Hey leftys:
FORMER Chief of Staff to the VICE President does not equal PRESIDENT!

hahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah!

HA!
Ps:
FITZGERALD: ‘I DO NOT EXPECT TO FILE ANY FURTHER CHARGES… THE INVESTIGATION IS INACTIVE’
(NO! You can’t have have KKKarl Rove....)
Merry FitZmas!

Is this the real James Bond as Ian Fleming saw him?

DougM

now do ya think the election cycle is too long?

No one seems to be taking credit for this piece [psst? alZawahiri?] but Allapundit is speculating at HotAir.  Ok—whose fingerprints do you see?

This, right after vanilla ice cream with warmed blackberries…

An off-duty Northwest Airlines employee was arrested after a woman on a flight from Seattle complained that the man had ejaculated on her.

What an icky-ICKY man.
Icky...icky...ICKY....icky…

Thanks Stoo

Two world-renowned Harvard professors – Alan M. Dershowitz and Steven Pinker – faced off last week in a debate over whether latkes or hamentaschen rules in Jewish cuisine.

Dershowitz, the Frankfurter Law Professor who has defended the likes of famous murder suspects O.J. Simpson and Claus von Bulow, argued on behalf of the classic Purim hamentaschen.

Pinker, the Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology, stood up for the Ashkenazi Chanukah favorite, the potato latke.

~SNIP~
Dershowitz, a criminal lawyer and civil rights activist who specializes in the defense of high-profile personalities, attacked the latke with gusto. Addiction, dependence on oil, and high cholesterol became fodder for his character assassination of the fried potato pancake.

Pinker countered with an assertion that the three-cornered hamentaschen, particularly the poppy seed-filled variety, constituted an irregular plural which is tainted by its relationship to drugs, terrorism, inner-city crime and civil war in Latin America.

Good luck, Coop!

One by one, more than 80 players seated on a back field of the Padres’ spring training complex stood and gave their names and where they were last season.

“Jesus Lopez. Fort Wayne. Eugene.”

Class-A teammates laughed and teased.

“Michael Johnson. Pittsburgh Pirates. Indianapolis.”

The group welcomed Johnson into the organization.

Then a tall, broad-shouldered and tanned No. 40 stood.

”Cooper Brannan. United States Marine Corps.”

FreeRepublic

sweet and sour red purple cabbage
(cabbage simmered in butter, sugar and Balsamic vinegar)

boiled potatoes with butter and caraway

pork blade steak with BBQ sauce
(I know:)

OH! And vanilla ice-cream with warmed blackberries for dessert.

taking drill Sergeant a leedle too far......

............”a technique that he had used previously to help soldiers with their self-confidence and alleviate depression,” ..............

(I was going to PhotoShop John Edwards’ head onto the pic but.......)

SteveH

Yes, indeed I am.

OK, so yesterday morning, I had to get up with the baby, so I was conscious while Meet the Press was on, and didn’t have the motivation to change the channel.  And Murtha was talking, and Joey Douchebag, whatever his name is, the host, was trying to troll Murtha.  He played a Cheney clip talking about Murtha’s withdrawal strategy validating al-Quaeda’s Strategy.  He (Douchebag) was all, “So does Cheney suck fo comparing you to the Taliban, or what?” And Murtha was all “Naw, dog, it’s all good, Cheney’s aight, we’re tight like that.  And Douchebag was all, “But dawg, you’re a MARINE, you can kill him with your thumb!” And Murtha was all “Nah, man, chill.” And Douchebag was all, “But he thinks you da ENEMY, man!” And Murtha was all “Naw, it ain’t like dat.  I was chillin at his crib the other night, smacked his old lady on the ass, we were discussing a little green, ya dig?”

MR. RUSSERT: Vice President Cheney weighed in on your thinking. He said, quote, “I think, in fact, if we were to do what Speaker Pelosi and Congressman Murtha are suggesting, all we’ll do is validate the al-Qaeda strategy. The al-Qaeda strategy is to break the will of the American people—in fact, knowing they can’t win in a stand-up fight, try to persuade us to throw in the towel and come home, and then they” can “win because we quit.” How does it feel to be linked with al-Qaeda by the vice president?

REP. MURTHA: Yeah. Well, it’s, it’s unfortunate that the vice president does not have the—he doesn’t listen to what I’m saying. We can’t send troops into combat without equipment. We can’t send troops into combat without training. We can’t extend them past the one-year boots-on-the-ground policy that they have. And, and we can’t continue to have them over there in Iraq more than—more than a year. That’s what he’s, he’s not saying. That—he’s not—and he’s not saying our strategic reserve and the future threats to this country significantly increased in the last year because we have no ground strategic reserve. That’s what he’s not saying. So he attacks my, my differences, but he doesn’t attack the policy. He doesn’t talk about the policy and the results of what I’m saying.

MR. RUSSERT: But you’re a Marine. You like being linked with al-Qaeda?

REP. MURTHA: Well, they’ll take care of al-Qaeda. Let me—let me tell you this, Tim. Al-Qaeda will be taken care of by the Iraqis. They know who—there’re only 2,000 al-Qaeda. They’re Iraqis fighting Iraqis. It’s a civil war between the Shias and the, the Sunni. And they won’t negotiate. The Shias won’t negotiate with the Sunni. What, what I—what I found out when I was out there last time just a month ago, the Sunnis are not going to help in this whole process as long as the Shias control it and won’t negotiate with the Sunnis. Now, this may seem like an incidental point, but this is probably the most important point. They won’t change their constitution to give the Sunnis some influence in this whole thing. They’ve got to work it out themselves. We cannot do it for them.

MR. RUSSERT: Do you think the vice president’s questioning your patriotism?

REP. MURTHA: No, I don’t think so. No, I, I, I met with the vice president the other day. We talked about the money. We talked about some of the things that, that I felt were important. And I said to him, “We can’t send these troops in without equipment, without training. It can’t be done. If you do that, it’s a disservice to our troops and to the families, the small percentage of families that are fighting this war.”

MR. RUSSERT: Did he apologize to you?

REP. MURTHA: Oh, no. No, no. That, that, you know, this is one of those things where, where he said that overseas. He didn’t blame me for, at least, getting the British out. You know, I thought he might blame me for getting the British out. But he didn’t do that.

Anyhoo, short story long:  Douchebag was looking for headlines and didn’t get any.  And while Murtha’s foreign policy would doom us, at least he’s not the shrill little bitch I thought he was.

giving new meaning to “Members Only”

First to the Sudan [3/1],

new lead for Caveman series

to give a little talk, ”Iran and the World.”

Then off to smooch with his cousins and our pals in the House of Saud*. [3/4] I’da loved to be one of the multitude of flies on that wall… Whaddya think was said?

*Really; shouldn’t that just be a hairdressing salon?  [Before the Gala I went to the House of Saud and got a cut, color—the works!]

And here’s a little Valentine for MiniMahdi-philes courtesy of AFP.