Blabber-blabber, yell-yell, Harry Reid said that he heard Osama Bin Laden might be dead. Bla-bla, ‘classified information,’ Harry Reid = bad, yak-yak, mutter, shriek, bloviate.
Sugg. headline: ‘Bin Laden Dead?’
You’d imagine that the WingNet would be interested in that aspect of the story. Strangely, Not!
From today’s Kos diaries:
Methane on Titan
by FutureMan
Thu Dec 01, 2005 at 11:30:29 AM PDTHas anyone addressed this yet? [note: no link] from the article:
“We have determined that Titan’s methane is not of biologic origin,” reports Hasso Niemann of the Goddard Space Flight Center, a principal NASA investigator responsible for the Gas Chromatograph Mass Spectrometer aboard the Cassini-Huygens probe that landed on Titan Jan. 14.
Niemann concludes the methane “must be replenished by geologic processes on Titan, perhaps venting from a supply in the interior that could have been trapped there as the moon formed.”
Sugg. headline: ‘Methane on Titan Not Space Monster Farts.’
Via Kevin Drum, we have an example of why the “New Media” can be a very, very dangerous place:
A false Wikipedia ‘biography’
By John Seigenthaler“John Seigenthaler Sr. was the assistant to Attorney General Robert Kennedy in the early 1960’s. For a brief time, he was thought to have been directly involved in the Kennedy assassinations of both John, and his brother, Bobby. Nothing was ever proven.”
? WikipediaThis is a highly personal story about Internet character assassination. It could be your story.
I have no idea whose sick mind conceived the false, malicious “biography” that appeared under my name for 132 days on Wikipedia, the popular, online, free encyclopedia whose authors are unknown and virtually untraceable.
And this, folks, is why I tend not to trust stuff written in Wikipedia (and yeah, I know I’ve linked there before out of laziness… what can ya do?).
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Via Crooks & Liars, we have this:
The O’Reilly Factor Holiday Ornament – Product #:FOX21001200
Put your holiday tree in “The No Spin Zone” with this silver glass “O’Reilly Factor” ornament.
Ha, ha O’Reilly! You’ve been smeared by another far-left Internets site! Now, I DEMAND you post Sadly, No! on your enemies list!
UPDATE: I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention this awesome O’Reilly rant:
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Feed here.
“You’re going straight to Hell, Senator. Ha ha ha!”
[Google = broken, elsewise there would be a graphic of Lieberman sweating in Hell.]
Oho, the worm turns.
[Update: Bush GraphxXx tip from Johnny Bardine.]
What a fun day. It’s just all out there in the open, today, doing the Charleston in its underwear.
I don’t often agree with Rick Moran, author of the conservative blog Right Wing Nut House. Nevertheless, I am obligated in my duties as a Moonbat Jedi Knight to defend all semi-rational beings from attacks by Darth Dobson’s Wingnut Stormtroopers. And today Rick had the good sense to tick off the unwashed fundie masses (via Pharyngula):
This is not to say that the President shouldn?t have the right to name whomever he damn well pleases to any position he sees fit. It?s just that this appointment of Paul Bonicelli to be Deputy Director of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), which is in charge of all programs to promote democracy and good governance overseas is a true and total embarrassment:
Bonicelli is dean of academic affairs at Patrick Henry College (PHC) in Purcellville, Virginia, whose motto is: ?For Christ and Liberty?. This ultra-fundamentalist institution requires its students and faculty to sign a ?statement of faith? declaring that they believe ?Jesus Christ, born of a virgin, is God come in the flesh?, ?Jesus Christ literally rose bodily from the dead?, and Hell is a place where ?all who die outside of Christ shall be confined in conscious torment for eternity?.
That?s not all. Patrick Henry College also requires its ?science? professors to sign a statement saying they believe in the literal interpretation of the Bible that says the world was created in 6 days… I am at a total loss. Anyone who can say with a straight face that the theory of the world being created in 6 24-hour days is ?the best fit to observed data? is not only crazy but a living, walking insult to rational thought.
Welcome to the Order of the Shrill, Rick.
As you no doubt recall, we lovingly profiled Patrick Henry College in a classic post called “Satan’s School for Right-Wing Christians!” Here were some of the highlights:
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“Our basic strategy to win in Iraq is to defeat the bad guys and make
everything super-great there, like we’ve been doing.”
Satire just clutched its temples and keeled over with an aneurism. Are official policy documents supposed to look like they were written by smart undergraduate business majors, with whole sections built of nested bullet points, and headings like, “Failure is Not an Option”?
Bradrocket adds: We’re doomed, people. D to the iz-oomed. Take a look at some of the bullet points from G-Dub’s Iraq National “Strategy” Document (h/t: Sadly, No!):
–Failure is not an Option:
-Iraq would become a safe haven from which terrorists could plan attacks against America, American interests abroad, and our allies.
You mean it’s not already? Try telling that to the Jordanians.
But wait! Here’s the best one:
-Middle East reformers would never again fully trust American assurances of support for democracy and human rights in the region — a historic opportunity lost.
I agree that promoting human rights in the Middle East is a historic opportunity that we can’t afford to lose. But unfortunately, we’ve already lost it:
We always wonder about this traffic stat. And there it was again, just now.
Domain Name: senate.gov (United States Government)
ISP: U.S. Senate Sergeant at Arms
Continent: North America
Country: United States
State: District of Columbia
City: Washington
Lat/Long: 38.8933, -77.0146 (Map)
Bill Pickle, US Senate Sergeant at Arms
There must be another explanation for this. …Although truly, there may never be a better occasion to unship the fabled dancing pickle sent to us by the Political Humor guy — and kept in close reserve for fear of its mojo.
[crickets, the sound of wind through the sycamores]
Okay, yeah: That would just be another inside joke gone out of hand. Never mind.
From the always-educational Barking Moonbat Early Warning System:
If you consider that there has been an average of 160,000 troops in the Iraq theater of operations during the last 22 months, and a total of 2112 deaths, that gives a firearm death rate of 60 per 100,000. The rate in Washington D.C.(among others) is 80.6 per 100,000. That means that you are about 25% more likely to be shot and killed in our nation?s capitol, which has some of the strictest gun control laws in the nation, than you are in Iraq.
Conclusion: We should immediately pull out of Washington, DC.
Luckily, we have a copy of this!
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Porter Goss does his own version of it’s hard, hard work:
Al Qaeda leaders bin Laden and al-Zarqawi haven’t been found “primarily because they don’t want us to find them and they’re going to great lengths to make sure we don’t find them,” Goss said in the interview broadcast Tuesday on ABC’s “Good Morning America.”
If only they wanted to be found!
