It’s for a show he made up called ‘Depressed Roomies‘… it’s unique, it’s fun, it’s smarty, it’s great. People with talent suck!
I can’t believe the corporate suits beholden to the military industrial complex and in charge of this show allowed this dialogue into a production episode.
Nice. Hat tip to y’all.
This is the best social engineering I’ve ever seen. That was not intended to defraud or harm, that is.
All week, USC guard Gabe Pruitt had been instant-messaging a very attractive UCLA gal named Victoria. They exchanged phone numbers and set up a date back in L.A. — or so Pruitt thought. When he went to the free-throw line for the first time, the student section chanted “VIC-TOR-IA, VIC-TOR-IA” and showed him a sign with his own phone number. Pruitt, a 79 percent shooter, suddenly got that deer-in-the-headlights look. He missed both free throws.
Turns out a few Cal students — male, most likely — pulled off the “Victoria” gag. Cal won 71-60. Pruitt — who averages 16.7 points and 6.7 rebounds per game — had 12 points, two boards and one dazed facial expression.
In the common parlance of the day, Pruitt got punkd and pWn3d. Booyah.
For, lo! they have offended his favorite child
Christian broadcaster Pat Robertson, criticized by some evangelicals for comments about Venezuela’s president and Israel’s prime minister, lost a bid for re-election to the National Religious Broadcasters’ board of directors.
As multiple bands refused big money from Hummer.
The Thermals, a rambunctious rock band from Portland, Ore., were en route between gigs last year when they got a phone call from their label, Sub Pop. Hummer wanted to pay them $50,000 for the right to use their song “It’s Trivia” in a commercial.
Trans Am, an electronic rock band from Washington, spurned $180,000 in ad money from Hummer.
“We thought about it for about 15 seconds, maybe,” lead singer Hutch Harris said.
They said no.
Washington D.C.’s Trans Am were offered $180,000 by Hummer for the song “Total Information Awareness.”
“We figured it was almost like giving music to the Army, or Exxon,” guitarist Philip Manley said.
They said no.
The post-punk band LiLiPUT, who broke up more than 20 years ago, could have pocketed $50,000 for “Heidi’s Head” after making close to nothing during their five-year existence. But they, too, said no.
“At least I can sleep without nightmares,” Marlene Marder reasoned.
I’m sure their managers were livid. Do you know how hard it is to turn down that kind of money when you’re an indie band playing shitty bars in nowhere towns? I admire that kind of commitment to principle.
He’s better than Chuck Norris! The Foley guys must’ve gone through an entire farm’s worth of celery on this one. I think there is more bone breakage there than actual limbs present.
See what happens when you have a safety-first approach to regulation and stringent governance over the workplace? Why, you save people’s lives, is what.
The safe extraction of 72 potash miners following a serious fire about a kilometre underground at the Mosaic Co. mine at Esterhazy is particularly remarkable for its contrast with fires at two West Virginia coal mines that took 14 lives earlier in January.
Even though there’s a vast difference between the extraction of coal that occurs in an environment of flammable and often toxic gases, and the excavation of benign potash from among the world’s largest deposits in Saskatchewan, the 72 miners owe their unscathed survival to stringent regulations and the mining industry’s commendable safety-first approach in this province.
The moment miner Dennis Lachapelle and a group of co-workers confronted a giant wall of fire as they were travelling in a pickup truck at the end of their shift on Sunday, their comprehensive safety training told them to turn around and head immediately to one of a dozen airtight “refuge stations” situated inside the whopping 20 km by 30 km cavern.
Such refuge stations, most of which double as lunchrooms and are replete with moist clay that miners can use to further seal the doors in case of smoke, have been required since the 1930s in the wake of a fire in Ontario that killed 39 miners. At about 650 square metres, and stocked with water, food — even if it’s the “horriblest little biscuits you would ever eat,” according to one rescued miner — blankets, a phone, and pressurized oxygen independent of the mine’s main ventilation system, the vital role these safe rooms play cannot be overstressed.
The wholly-heterosexual and definitely Republican General JC Christian, who happens to live here in the Soviet of Washington, staked his claim on Maria Cantwell’s uterus today.
Sen. Maria Cantwell
United States SenateDear Sen. Cantwell,
Thank you for voting to give me complete ownership of my wife’s uterus. Your vote against the filibuster means a lot me. I’ve been eyeing Ofjoshua’s uterine property for years.
I’d like to return the favor. It’s a shame that your own uterus continues to be unclaimed by any man. We can’t allow that–it’s just too much responsibility. That’s why I’ve decided to ease your burden by laying claim to it myself.
No need to worry about anything. Just give me a call if you want to use your my uterus, and I’ll decide whether to allow it.
Of course, you’ll need to tattoo the words “Property of Gen. JC Christian, patriot” on your abdomen or wherever it is you keep those things. Be sure to leave room for another tattoo in case I decide to sell your my uterus to someone else.
Heterosexually* yours,
Gen. JC Christian, patriot
*I’m not hitting on you. It’s just very important to me that people know that I’m a heterosexual. Cletis is a god damned liar!
Well done, sir. Well done.
I felt dirty after slogging through the freeper comments for the Jill Carroll update, so I thought I’d check out the polls they were trying to Freep.
Here’s one, on AOL.
1. Grade Bush’s performance A-F
2. Is the country better/same/worse since he came to office?
Over 350,000 votes in, and… the freepers are powerless against the reality based community. Bush is given an F by 45% of the respondents, and it’s 63/29/8 worse/better/same. Still, can’t hurt to throw your hat into the ring.
In conjunction with the Bloggies, this is good evidence that the right wing blogosphere is a steadily diminishing empty vessel. Just a bunch of hate-filled gasbags with no power against we, the People.
Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of racist, fascist fucktards.
She will now vote no on cloture, i.e. support a filibuster. Good job, peoples, helping her see the light of day.
U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) today announced that she will vote no on cloture regarding the nomination of Judge Samuel A. Alito, Jr. to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court.
“Based on a very long and thoughtful analysis of the record and transcript, which I tried to indicate in my floor statement yesterday, I’ve decided that I will vote no on cloture.”
Now we have to work on Ken Salazar and see if we can flip Olympia Snowe.
Gay rights bill passes in Legislature
The Senate today voted 25-23 to approve a gay rights bill and ended the debate over legislation that emerged in Washington the same year singer Anita Bryant began her “Save Our Children” crusade against such protections.
The House quickly concurred by a 61-37 vote, and Gov. Chris Gregoire said she planned to sign the bill into law Tuesday.
Though Bush is trying to distance himself, going towards that “Abramoff? Never heard of him” route, there were reports of pictures of Abramoff with Bush that existed and were being shopped around to Time and others. Well, it turns out that it was Abramoff doing the selling.
Over the weekend, Time magazine and the Washingtonian both reported on five photos of President Bush with Jack Abramoff, but neither publication revealed its source.
Yesterday, ThinkProgress laid out the case for why the source for the photos was likely Abramoff himself. Last night, our hunch was confirmed.
Appearing on MSNBC, Newsweek correspondent Michael Isikoff reported that it was indeed Abramoff who floated the photographs to Washingtonian.
All I can say to this is … AWESOME!
Now that is chutzpah. Always an upstanding fuck-you-pay-me guy to the end, that Jack. Have I mentioned how proud I am to work for the same firm of which he was a member up until 2000?
Paul Hackett is the kind of hard hitting Democrat that we have been lacking on the national scene. He is someone who calls a spade a spade, and the Konservative Kristian Koalition a bunch of wacked out nuts.
It seems that Paul sat down down with some reporters from the Columbus Dispatch last week and let them know what he thought:.
The Republican Party has been hijacked by the religious fanatics that, in my opinion, aren’t a whole lot different than Osama bin Laden and a lot of the other religious nuts around the world. The challenge is for the rest of us moderate Americans and citizens of the world to put down the fork and spoon, turn off the TV, and participate in the process and try to push back on these radical nuts – and they are nuts. — Paul Hackett
Hackett also spoke out on the Ohio’s electorate’s decision to ban same sex marriages by saying this:
If what they believe is that we’re going to have a scale on judging which Americans have equal rights, yeah, that’s un-American. They’ve got to accept that. It’s absolutely un-American.
Bob Bennett, the head of the Ohio GOP, has had a full time job of late, talking about Hackett. It is the usual GOP patter about no ideas, hateful, against Christianity etc.
Paul Hackett’s attempt to compare Christian conservatives to terrorists is abhorrent and completely inappropriate. These intolerant views have no place in the public debate, and I hope his fellow Democrats reject this divisive hate speech. Hackett has shown repeatedly that he will say or do anything to get attention, and it’s unfortunate that views like his are embraced by the Democratic Party. I think, Mr. Hackett, you’ve once again proven who the real `radical nut’ is.
Of course, Hackett issued an apology….NOT!! There is no retreating for this Marine:
I said it. I meant it. I stand behind it. Equal justice under the law for all regardless of who they are and how they were born is fundamental to our American spirit and our American freedoms. Any person or group that argues that the law should not apply equally to all Americans is, frankly, un-American.
The Republican Party has been hijacked by religious fanatics, who are out of touch with mainstream America. Think of the recent comments by Pat Robertson – a religious fanatic by any measure – that the United States should assassinate a democratically elected leader in Venezuela, and that Ariel Sharon’s stroke was divine punishment because Sharon wished to trade land for peace
Since the Republican Party has been utterly unable to stand for something positive, they have created an atmosphere of fear and intimidation, and have pandered to religious fanatics not to vote for something they believe in, but to vote against their fellow Americans with whom they disagree. Those among us who would use religion and politics to divide rather than unite Americans should be ashamed. .
Hooray for Paul!!! And screw the cry baby Konservative Kristian Koalition/GOP. These NUTS have been calling Liberals traitors, murders, immoral, liars for too long and getting a pass. Its time to talk tough and really kick some ass. They’ve been dishing it out for years. Let them eat of little of their own shit.
Paul Hackett & Jack Murtha. When its time to kick some GOP booty, send in the Marines.
It is now law in Wisconsin that all electronic voting machines must be open source. This is the only way to audit these machines and guarantee that our votes are counted (WI also requires the machines to continue to operate in case of power failure and provide a paper printout).
Among the 15 bills governor Jim Doyle signed into law on Wednesday will require the software of touch-screen voting machines used in elections have its source code opened up to public viewing.
Municipalities that use electronic voting machines are responsible for providing to the public, on request, the code used.
You know what this means, right? Death to Diebold!
Aaaand, here it is (if they take the link down, I have a local copy that could be made available). I love this move by Warner Brothers. Kudos to you. I am shocked and awed.