Triumph Hangs Out with David Blaine

McCain and Deregulation

Another Crazy Japanese TV Stunt

I'm not sure if this is from a game show or what, but it looks a little weird.

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The Stock Market

via Dvorak.org

An Open Letter to All Rednecks

If you are like me and are surrounded by rednecks and are worried about the fall election, go to YesButNoButYes and print out this article and pass it around.

Dear Rednecks,

Of course you already know the many reasons you shouldn't vote for Barack Obama -- his last name is one letter off from "Osama," his middle name is Hussein, he's an Ay-Rab Muslim, and he wants to take away your guns, which means you'll be unarmed with an Al Qaeda operative in the White House, which you won't even be able to call the "White" House any more because he's, well, you know. (Don't worry, Rednecks, I know you know what I mean, even if the Liberal Jew-Run Media™ won't let me say it outright.)

But did you know that voting for the opponent of Osamabama (and his Baby Mama) won't be all that great for you, your wife/sister, or your 13 kids, either? Before you head to your polling place on Wednesday, November 5, check out these factoids the LJRM™ doesn't want you to know about Senator John McCain. ("Factoids," by the way, are similar to "facts," but less scientific, and therefore more believable. But these are all obviously true anyway, since they're on the Internet.)....

FACTOID: McCain is opposed to pork barrels...and just what do you think pork rinds are made in? (Hmm, no pork...do I sense another reason for his popularity with the LJRM™?)

FACTOID: John McCain was in the Navy. Some homos in the '70s wrote a disco song about being "In the Navy." Just sayin'.....

Read the whole post with some great pictures Here.

Banned Book Week

In this political season, I think a lot about the presidential candidates, and why I should vote for one over the other. To me one of the most compelling reason to vote for Obama is that he's not republican.  The republican party gave us eight years of george bush. Eight years of corruption and blind political partisanship. Eight years of stupidity, lies, and eight years of war. For those reasons alone I will never vote republican. But if you took away all of my knowledge about the previous eight years and just gave me the biographies of the two main candidates and their running mates, I could still never vote for the republicans. And I can narrow down why I would never vote for McCain/Palin to just one reason. Sarah Palin tried to use her political power and influence to ban books that she found controversial. She tried to ban books from a public library. She tried to ban books. Sarah Palin wanted to burn books in her public library because she didn't agree with their content. Sarah Palin is no better than Ray Bradbury's Mildred Montag from Fahrenheit 451. She is intellectually ignorant.

Palin has proven her stupidity over and over in the few interviews that the McCain camp has allowed, but none have quite shown what a redneck, backwards ass, hillbilly, neocon she really is, by revealing the fact that she tried to ban books. Banning books is like banning all free thought.

If someone wrote a book about me, revealing all of my deepest darkest secrets (and there are many) and published "The Evil DJ Hobby," I would still not want it banned. I would want people to embrace it, and read it, to help make me a better person. I would learn from it. That's what human beings do, learn from things we read in books. We learn from our mistakes, and other peoples mistakes, and their life experiences. That's what books are, someone's life experience put into words. If Sarah Palin had ever read a book she would realize this. Books are a collection of peoples triumphs, mistakes, foibles, and wisdoms. An intelligent person can learn from other people's mistakes. An intelligent person can learn from history, no matter how painful that history. An ignorant person ignores the opportunity to learn. An ignorant person bans books.

For that one reason alone I could never vote for McCain and Palin.  Even if McCain had saved my life from a burning building, putting his life in harms way to save mine, I still would not vote for him.  Because the burning building could be a library, set on fire by the hot librarian.

So in support of Banned Book Week I vow not to vote for John McCain and Sarah Palin. And I do this for Holden Caulfield, for Harry Potter, and for Huckleberry Finn. For George Milton, for Scout, and for Guy Montag. For Prior Phillip, for Margaret, for Ralph and Piggy, for Ponyboy, and for Kilgore Trout.

Bathroom Monkey

Helper Monkey

How to Pose Like This

Red State Update

Here is a fitting tribute to Paul Newman from the nutballs over at Red State Update

Here is the original, from the great movie Cool Hand Luke.

Posse Comitatus

Not that I am a conspiracy theory nut or anything, but this seems kind of odd. Starting October 1st the battle hardened 1st Brigade Combat Team of the Army's 3rd Infantry Division is to be deployed WITHIN THE UNITED STATES. Some of their duties as stated in the Army Times are: to help with civil unrest and crowd control or to deal with potentially horrific scenarios such as massive poisoning and chaos in response to a chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear or high-yield explosives.

Now on the surface that all sounds reasonable, but this is our dictator in chief breaking federal law:  The Posse Comitatus Act, and the Insurrection Act.  The Posse Comitatus Act is to "prohibit federal military personnel under federal authority from acting in a law enforcement capacity within the United States, except where expressly authorized by the Constitution or Congress." And the Isurrection Act sates "Whoever, except in cases and under circumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress, willfully uses any part of the Army or the Air Force as a posse comitatus or otherwise to execute the laws shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both."


The Constitution nor Congress have given the authority for bush to deploy the army within our borders.  After 9/11 the opportunistic republican party scared congress into passing the patriot act which weakened the Posse Camitatus Act and the Isurrection Act, giving bush broad powers to deploy the military however he wished. This year however, Congress wanted to fix some of the problems with the patriot act and passed the 2008 Defense Authorization Bill, which repealed some of the patriot acts nastier bits, stripping the president of some of his powers to deploy the army.

I don't think/hope anything will come of this, but it does seem the timing of this is odd.  It's one month before the election, three months before the most evil president we have ever had is to give up power, and right amidst the fall of Wall Street.  But as with any conspiracy theory, coincidences are everywhere.

Tripod

See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.

Height

I found this on the great webcomic xkcd.com.

Whole Lotta Love

From Wired

Dancing days are here again, especially if it has been a long time since you rocked and rolled.

OK, enough bad Zeppelin lyric lifts, let's get to the reunion tour, which reportedly lands at an arena near you in 2009.

According to the UK's Sun, Robert Plant finally caved once he found out that the rest of the band -- including guitar god Jimmy Page, bass deity John Paul Jones and Jason Bonham, the son of rock's arguably greatest drummer John Bonham -- was going ahead without him. The others were so committed to the idea that they were even auditioning singers for Plant's role, and were rumored to have found an American to fill his shoes.

Sucks to be that American today.

Once Plant absorbed the enormity of Led Zeppelin reuniting and touring without him, as well as the insane amount of money it would bring, he changed his mind and joined the party.

"He realized he couldn’t face the thought of not being involved," a source told the Sun.

Yes, I'm sure it was just the thought he realized, and not the green. That said, it is simply killer to see that Led Zeppelin has resuscitated its legend long enough to remind early adopters and late comers alike why it was one of the most potent live acts of all time. It will be interesting to see how Led Zeppelin II, the band not the album, translates to Generation Xbox.

Would you see them? How much would you pay? Is Zep a legend whose time has passed, or is it still the best rock band not just of the '70s, but of all time? I need these questions tackled. I'm going to have to take out a loan to see Led Zeppelin live. And I hear the banks aren't lending jack these days.

WWRJD

jesus for President

Paul Newman

Paul Newman died Friday.  I can't think of one bad movie that he starred in.  One of my favorites is Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.

The Wilhelm Scream

I've always got a kick out of this.  Sometimes when I am watching an especially bad movie I'll do nothing but listen for this.

Tonight's Debate

The People's Republic of America

All the republicans are against socialized health care, but when their fat cat business friends fail, suddenly a little government hand out isn't so bad.