Month: October 2008
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Fascism and Gays
Remember when Mr. Garrison tells the boys: Gay people, well, gay people are EVIL, evil right down to their cold black hearts which pump not blood like yours or mine, but rather a thick, vomitous oil that oozes through their rotten veins and clots in their pea-sized brains which becomes the cause of their Nazi-esque […]
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Pentagon Requests Robots That Hunt in Packs, For Uncooperative Humans
DoD proposal: Develop a software and sensor package to enable a team of robots to search for and detect human presence in an indoor environment. From New Scientist.
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Cho the Plumber
From Angry Asian Man.
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Four Weeks Later, 3/4s of AIG Bailout – Poof! – Gone
WaPo: The troubled insurance giant American International Group already has consumed three-quarters of a federal $123 billion rescue loan, a little more than a month after the government stepped in to save the company from bankruptcy. AIG has borrowed $90.3 billion from the Federal Reserve‘s credit line as of yesterday, the bulk of it to […]
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Dude, You're Gettin' a Douche
From Jezebel: In the commercial for the product (embedded after the jump), a gorgeous woman of ambiguous ethnicity sits by a fountain as Frenchy-French accordian music plays. She says, “I’d like to talk about a problem most women don’t like to talk about. Vaginal odor.” Uh-oh! The camera cuts to the clasped hands of […]
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Obama's First War
Counterpunch looks at a quote from Biden: I can give you at least four or five scenarios from where it might originate,” Biden went on. He mentioned the Middle East and Russia. “And he’s gonna need help. And the kind of help he’s gonna need is, he’s gonna need you – not financially to help […]
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A Message from Billy Mays
Via the Uncov blog.
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New York City Council Extends Term Limits for Michael Bloomberg
He’s awfully grabby: Bloomberg, a former Wall Street trader and self-made billionaire who was elected in 2001 and again in 2005, wants to run again on grounds that his financial experience will be valuable in guiding the city through lean fiscal times ahead. The 51-member council voted 29 to 22 to approve the measure. In […]
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Bomb-Sniffing Laundromats
The plan was simple: Build a laundry and staff it with locals and a few of their own. The laundry would then send out “color coded” special discount tickets, to the effect of “get two loads for the price of one,” etc. The color coding was matched to specific streets and thus when someone brought […]
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Spaceship Design from 1955
“Werner von Braun shows how they are designing a rocket for near earth travel. Rare Walt Disney Space series from 1955, speculating about going into Space. Remember, more than 50 years ago, Sputnik hadn’t even gone up yet!”