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No. 2,999

Tobey McGuire is a dick! The dude wasn't even paparazzi, just a fan. Granted he could have asked first, but that was no reason to give him a Spider Slap.

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Someone tell me what is wrong with this wonderful Bushism:

After warning that if the legislators "want to try again" and send him another version with a similar withdrawal provision, he would veto that one too, he said, "I'm optimistic we can get a bill, a good bill, and a bill that satisfies all our objectives, and that’s to get the money to the troops as quickly as possible."

Hmm, and let me guess that if Congress keeps presenting bills that Bush vetoes it will be the fault of the Democrats and proponents of the bill that (that does give the troops the funds they need) are keeping the funding from the troops, not the turd-burger in office that continues to stop it.

Nice frame, where'd you get it Wal-mart?

With the prospect of Bush vetoing the bill approved by both the Senate and the House, today's Dictionary.com word-of-the-day seems oddly appropriate.

And recognizing car-bombings as violence only emboldens the enemy. So minus all of the car/suicide-bombings, Iraq is super-safe. Let's go to the market, 10 rugs for a $1!!

Stephen Colbert vs. Sean Penn in the Meta-Free-Phor-All.



More awesome than you, you and yes, even you.

No. 2,991

Via Crooks & Liars via WBBM780:

An anti-gay religious group known for protesting at the funerals of American soldiers killed in Iraq is planning on appearing at services for those killed on Monday as well.

The Topeka, Kan.-based Westboro Baptist Church (WBC), which is not affiliated with any national Baptist organization, announced plans to protest at victims' funerals only hours after 32 people were killed in the worst mass shooting in U.S. history. They also may protest at other events on the Virginia Tech campus.

The organization, founded and led by Fred Phelps, believes the United States has condemned itself to destruction by accepting homosexuality and other "sins of the flesh." Phelps' daughter, Shirley Phelps-Roper, said the Virginia Tech teachers and students who died on Monday brought their fate upon themselves by not being true Christians.

"The evidence is they were not Christian. God does not do that to his servants," Phelps-Roper said. "You don't need to look any further for evidence those people are in hell."

Cho Seung-Hui, the Virginia Tech student responsible for the killings who took his own life after the shootings, was sent by God to punish those he killed, and America as a whole, for moral decline, said Phelps-Roper, while adding that she believes Cho is also in hell for violating God's commandment to not kill.

"He is in hell," Phelps-Roper said. "But he was also fulfilling the word of God."

So if that's the case, are they calling that kid a soldier of God? These people are so fucking whacked it makes me queasy.

Suicide Food blog



Pure, demented genius.

I'm sort of not too proud of the homeland right now. (I know it's not actually my homeland because I was born in the US but so what, I still got ties [pun intended]).

Boing Boing's heavily updated post regarding today's shooting in VA has tons of info including links to first-person accounts and pictures.

CNN is going nuts with the video shot by Jamal Albarghouti on his Nokia. Wolf Blitzer thought it necessary to find out that the guy who shot the video was from Palestine, you know, because that's relevant.

The press conference they just showed on CNN was like a feeding frenzy. I think I even heard the CNN cameraman scoff at some of the questions the rabid reporters were asking. Everyone is trying to find someone to blame.

Glenn Reynolds' solution: more guns. Gee Glenn, there's awful lot of "if's" in your arrangement. Yeah, if were all allowed to carry around samurai swords the incident may have been averted as well. Come on now, I can play the "what if" game all day.

Oh, and CNN.com, real subtle...



The story continues...

Sea lion attacks teenage girl

A 13-year-old girl lost three teeth and had her jaw broken in an attack by a sea lion while she was surfing north of Perth yesterday.

Ella Murphy was being towed on a surfboard behind a boat near the fishing town of Lancelin, when the 300 kilogram animal launched at her, the Seven Network reports.

"The sea lion has come straight up at her on a collision course on the wave and leapt out of the water and grabbed her on the head in its mouth," witness Chris Thomas said.

A family friend pulled the girl to safety as the sea lion was returning for a second attack, the network reported.

Ella was in a stable condition last night after undergoing surgery at Princess Margaret Hospital.

When the sea lions start attacking, you know the world has gone completely mad.

No. 2980

So I was reading the screenplay for Se7en by Andrew Kevin Walker and decided to check out the DVD box to see what kind of billing he got. What I found was this:



Find something odd? Probably not, because only my movie-related-OCD brain would care about this. However you can see that John C. McGinley (aka Dr. Perry Cox) gets his credit on the box. Why is this strange? HE'S IN THE MOVIE FOR ONE MINUTE AND HAS ABOUT TWO LINES! What the crap? Not only that, Kevin Spacey is nowhere to be found.

For all of you movie-philes out there, is there a reason for this? Considering Spacey's role in the move I can understand why they may have left him off of the cast list. However putting McGinley on the box, regardless of how cool the guy is seems a little ridiculous. I would think R. Lee Ermey would have billing over him, he's got way more screentime.

And I just wasted a few minutes of your life. I obviously have forgotten what Friday nights are all about.

p.s. Andrew Kevin Walker's credit comes third to last. So it is. I should have been an actor (not that I'm much of a writer or anything).

Full quote: If President Bush vetoes an Iraq war spending bill as promised, Congress quickly will provide the money without the withdrawal timeline the White House objects to because no lawmaker "wants to play chicken with our troops."

They really are trying their hardest aren't they.

Via C & L

Celtx - a free, open source software tool for writing and formatting a screenplay to meet the screenplay submission standards set by the theater and film industries. And it doesn't just help you format a screenplay, it helps organize and entire production (not that I'd be doing that, but the option is there).

It's really free, and it's really awesome. Fuck you $230 Final Draft!

CBS pulls the plug on Imus.

Wow, if only our government worked this fast when a politician committed a wrong. Though I don't really feel like it was that much of a wrong.

CBS (and NBC) didn't drop Imus out of some great moral or ethical obligation, they let him go because advertisers pulled their dollars from his how. They let him stay so long because his show pulled in a lot of money from advertisers, even when he said dumb shit before. This time he just got caught being lame and white. Advertising runs the world, believe it.

Kurt Vonnegut Dies at the Age of 84



So long, and thanks for all the laughs.

...but sometimes it is still fun.

So this guy on YouTube calls me a moron because of some of the political videos I post. In particular he was incensed at the Glenn Beck/Keith Ellison video from ages ago.

From zodiacUSMC:

You totally twisted what Glen Beck was talking about with that Muslim Democrat. You know, how about this, instead of slamming conservative media like Glen Beck just because you hate America, why dont you focus on Rosie O'donnell and her sick views of our country and the Brits. You need to learn your facts before you start slamming. how 'bout you e-mail me back and we can have a real debate and I can promise you that I will shoot down every perverted thought you have about our country. Like I tell every other far left liberal....if you hate us, then leave.BTW...I was a Marine and served during Operation Enduring freedom...I'm a bit interested in what you have to say about that.

( My response and more behind the cut... )

I love the Internets.

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Genius!


*not really

no. 2970



Happy Zombie Jesus day! Honestly, this has to be one of the most confusing holidays ever. Yes I know what it celebrates, but why eggs and chocolate bunnies (and Peeps)? Oh yeah that's right, commercialism. God loves the money.