Subliminable!

And then I said it again three hundred and seventy-nine times, to be accurate.

"The seal's critical," Albright said. "The fact that there's a photo of what looks like an IAEA seal means that what's behind those doors is HMX. They only sealed bunkers that had HMX in them."

It remains unclear how much HMX was at the facility, but what does seem clear is that the U.S. military opened the bunkers at Al-Qaqaa and left them unguarded. Since then, the material has disappeared.

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Your IP is in France (or any other former ally nation).

Are Born Agains even allowed to give the finger?

2004's Scariest Halloween Costumes
My favorite is the Lyndie (sic). But they didn't give her proper direction.
When Doing a Lynndie, it's all about the finger guns.

Come on, everyone! Let's get Drunk Against Bush!

WASHINGTON - Government intelligence agencies continue to collect fresh information reaffirming earlier government warnings that terrorist groups are intent on launching an attack aimed at “affecting the democratic process,” an FBI official said Monday. 

I'm not so sure we need any outside help with that:
MIAMI - A Florida motorist was arrested Wednesday on charges of trying to run down U.S. Rep. Katherine Harris at an intersection where the controversial former state elections chief was campaigning for re-election to Congress.

WEST PALM BEACH – An 18-year-old Marine recruit remained in jail on Wednesday, charged with threatening to stab his girlfriend when she said she was[...] voting for John Kerry for president.

Legendary radio DJ John Peel dies
A moment of silence for "the single most important broadcaster we have ever known".

All of this was implemented using an Atmel Mega32 microcontroller, distance sensors[,,,] and 6 hamsters.
Ooh, I need one. It's a great reason to keep 6 hamsters around, especially when they play that funky new wave gamelon.

Also I need one of these.

Spitzer's Iron Wrist Shits to Music Industry
Um. I don't know how a wrist could manage that - not even an iron one - but maybe that's what Ashlee's legs were doing last night. Shame on SNL for editing out the audio on the West Coast feed. Ashlee blew it. The segment producer blewe it. Her band heroically tried to save it. And SNL tried to back up her claim that it was all the band's fault? Shame, shame, shame.

A tracking poll combines the results of three consecutive nights of polling, then drops the first night's results each time a new night is added. It allows pollsters to record shifts in voter sentiment as they happen.
Shifts in voters who have land lines, that is.
The margin of error may be a lot bigger than pollsters are allowing for.

Buy all the stuff Richard E. Grant pretends to like!
(via ChavScum , via Iain)

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"Back when we'd reach for the long pole to open the windows in our sweltering press room, yielding the stink of fish and diesel oil here on the mean streets of the Lower East Side, we'd work long hours printing the first edition of the morning newspaper. We'd clean and oil the machinery, fill the presses with ink, take the hot linotype from the compositors, and soon the presses would be thundering with news of murders, car crashes, babies in irreversible comas, criminals going whimpering to the chair, and all the rest of the news that made the hammering pulse of the city hammer a little louder. I'm proud of that. But, you know, we got hungry..."

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Oh yes.
(thanks Cardhouse )

"Bring 'em on!" 

Boston mayor weighs alcohol limits after Red Sox fan dies from police projectile
Until that's decided, look out for drunken cops with "non-lethal" weapons.

Little Lord Ashlington just brought us something so creepy that I couldn't even stop to photograph it. I just screamed for Brendan to make him take it back outside, as if there's any way to affect that besides wiggling the thing, if it's inert, or waiting for it to squeal if it's, you know, not. This thing was about three times the size of Ash's head, and it was heavy and smelly and... and... and... Trust me, it was scream-worthy. With the black and the grey and the tentacles and the gaping maw and oh my gawd the stench.

Brendan thinks it was a fungus.

I bet Murphy could tell us.

Today is Peace Dividend's 6th anniversary.
I started the weblog a year before that, as a thing to play with while I taught myself html. Then came Brendan's design wizardry, then GreyMatter, then MT, and it looks like we're still playing. Here's to seven years of webloggery, and six years of having to explain just what a peace dividend is.

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Every motherfuckin' vote counts.

Tyrone Hayes is the #1 expert in the use of agricultural pesticides and correlating amphibian deformities along the grain belt, but the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency just yanked his keynote speech at their upcoming convention. The reasoning (after the jump) isn't very sound, and seems to boil down to: He's black. He's from Berkeley. And he talks about Atrazine. Yes, ladies and gentlemen of the MPCA, Tyrone Hayes is dangerous.

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"I know that many of you wanted to see my husband and some of you had questions out there,'' Guilfoyle Newsom said.
"Is he hot? Yeah.
"Is he hung? Yeah.
"Is he (she waved her hand to suggest bisexual)? Not unless you can give a better (she mimicked eating a banana) than me,'' Guilfoyle Newsom said.

"You know we believe in open government and we support full disclosure,'' said Newsom press aide Peter Ragone.

I'm not going to give away any spoilers or story points, but please believe me when I say The Incredibles is NOT, no matter how hard John M. Broder pushes the point, a partisan conservative film.

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The Bush Administration has decided that it will stand by its approval for a book claiming the Grand Canyon was created by Noah's flood rather than by geologic forces[...] Despite telling members of Congress and the public that the legality and appropriateness of the National Park Service offering a creationist book for sale at Grand Canyon museums and bookstores was “under review at the national level by several offices,” no such review took place.
And the NYT wonders why science [is] seemingly at war with President Bush?

Marijuana 'Petition' Actually (Republican) Voter Registration Form
"This is just very disheartening," said [...] a student who describes herself as a "stoner."

So I'm in the freezer section at Trader Joe's, minding my own business, when this elderly lady with really big hair and a perfectly powdered nose comes up out of nowhere and looks me in the eye and says, "It's not like he's going to change the world." I hesitated just long enough to remember that El Cerrito really is that different from Berkeley*.

I don't know why she was talking to me, aside from my natural freak-magnet tendencies. Did I really look like her audience? She might as well have said "Real Americans aren't interested in your pansy-ass, tea-sipping opinions. If you want to save the world, begin with your own worthless corner of it."

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The (senior White House) aide said that guys like me were ''in what we call the reality-based community,'' which he defined as people who ''believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.'' I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. ''That's not the way the world really works anymore,'' he continued. ''We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality -- judiciously, as you will -- we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.''
If we as a species make it that far.

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I got an email from my dad, yesterday, telling me that his mother had died.

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even evil needs some salad every once in a while

† desperately seeking the help of all 80s-era übergoths †

What is the name of, who was the artist, and where can I find the song that goes:

"In the dark [probably the song title]
[alternates with each verse. one of them is "(something) colors bleed"]
In the dark
[alternates with each verse. one of them is "where nothing can hold you"]
it's a wild wild feeling
like a dead man's last limousine ride
funeral procession
a last desperate sigh(?)"

It's ear-wormier than (Bananaphone + Weeee + the Llama song) x (Fascists Eat Donuts).
And it's stuck in my head.
Please help.

CARLSON: You need to get a job at a journalism school, I think.
STEWART: You need to go to one.

Jon Stewart brings the journalistic integrity.
And you don't even have to watch Crossfire to see it.

a stick with a heavy knob on top [...] is a most serviceable weapon in the hands of an expert in the art of stick-play.

The grass-roots jackbooted Bikini Storm Trooper sector takes action in Tempe.

The last time I checked, cannibalism and necrophilia were still struggling for acceptance.

The FBI and state officials are reviewing comments by Eric Russell, a former employee of Voter Outreach of America, who claims a supervisor "right in front of me was tearing up the Democratic registration forms."

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The debate has been going for five minutes in, and already the bullshit is flowing. The "President" smirks as if Chiron is part some global testing committee. It's a local company (in fact, I used to drive by the HQ every day, on my way to Pixar). And the U.S. did *not* shut them down.

Britain's Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency suspended Chiron's license to ship influenza vaccine from its Liverpool plant, saying it had found systemic problems that led to some bacterial contamination. "The FDA ignored early warning signals about problems at the Chiron plant," said Rep. Henry Waxman of California, the senior Democrat on the House committee.

Kerry blew a precious opportunity with his rebuttal.
No wonder Bush is winking at the audience.

Imagine my surprise when, after making vodka-fueled Night of the Comet jokes at the wrap party the other night, we got to see an original 35mm print.

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This morning (if 2:40 a.m. counts as morning) Ash brought us a big fat grey mousey.
Complete with terrified squeaks.

That cat is so getting a bell.

"It's one thing to say a ferret's understanding of reality is being reproduced inside his brain, but there's nothing to say that our understanding of the world is accurate. In a way, our neural structure imposes a certain structure on the outside world, and all we know is that at least one other mammalian brain seems to impose the same structure. Either that or The Matrix freaked out the ferrets the way it did everyone else."

We got home from The Incredibles' wrap party at 4:30a.m.
And we had our first "Look, mommy! I brought you a bird! Oh crap, he got away. Er, sorry about all the cheeping. And the feathers. Hang on, I bet I can leap all the way up to the ceiling and catch him for you. OK, here. Enjoy!" at 7:30a.m.

Bush said to James Robison: God wants me to run for President.
Tony Snow said to Bill Maher: Bush never said God wanted him to run for President.

Cop: Why are we here?

Bush really needs to stop winking at and giving semi-covert grins to the debate audience.
He looks like Missouri's randy uncle, about to get 86'ed from its wedding reception.
It's too gross to even start a drinking game around.

I'll do a shot every time he says "YOU-nited STAY-tes," though.
Two when he ends a sentence with a preposition.

Scissors cuts paper covers rock crushes lizard poisons Spock smashes scissors decapitates lizard eats paper disproves Spock vaporizes Rock crushes scissors.

Are you Canadian?
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Flaming self-hate is the new "practicing their love"
Republican U.S Senate candidate Jim DeMint is apologizing for saying unwed, pregnant teachers should not work in public schools.  DeMint said openly gay people should not be allowed to teach in the state's public schools [and] defended that remark.
The Southern papers generally failed to mention DeMint's single-parent upbringing. Did they also leave out the day he spent shoe shopping with Laura?

A fracas with some weasels.
(via screenhead)

KT: Apparently, there is a man in the back alley performing some type of erratic modern dance, complete with unique vocal stylings. (AKA he is flailing and screaming a lot). We're reporting him to the authorities and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ASAP. In the meantime, avoid the alley where possible. Definitely avoid the alley if you are alone, just in case he is at all combative. In general, regardless of alley performance, please use the buddy system.
Thanks.
Moi: you crack me the HELL up
KT: there is a freakshow in the back alley behind (unfortunately located employer)
Moi: egad. well, that is Freakshow Central right there
Moi: it's going to be culture shock when you guys move
Moi: "where are all the pus-encrusted guys who got kicked off of 6th Street?"
KT: in a good way
Moi: "how come my car doesn't have pee on it at the end of the day?"
Moi: "it smells salty, but not like blood. hey! that's the ocean!"
KT: ha
KT: Oh man ... Thomas, our Ops Asst., who is way too literal
KT: was reading from my email to describe the guy to the police
KT: I'm almost crying over here
Moi: "OK, so he's a male caucasian, approximately 50 years old." "Is he armed?" "He's got jazz hands."

John Woo does He-Man
Kinky !
Now if only Chow Yun Fat could star.

The "V" sign for victory in Iraq (with middle finger included).

Is this a conspiracy (theory)?

Rectum (It almost killed him)

Simple. Elegant.
www.youforgotpoland.com
Meanwhile, does anyone remember the name of the site that edits out the actual speech from speeches? And cobbled together just the ums, ahs, and etc. verbal tics? That I think I found at empty-handed, which site is sadly unsearchable?

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