Monthly Archives: September 2006

Pay No Attention to that War Behind the Curtain

This image is from a screenshot of this week’s Newsweek site, showing the covers of the paper editions in various areas. Let’s play “One of these things is not like the others”. Notice anything different about the US edition? Where … Continue reading

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Bill Clinton Bitchslaps Chris Wallace on Fox News

Crooks and Liars has the video. Go watch it. It’s beautiful. Basically, Chris Wallace asked Clinton why he didn’t do more to kill or capture Osama bin Laden. Clinton went on a tear, explaining why the question is a load … Continue reading

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Pirate Mode Code

I don’t know whether anyone noticed, but on Talk Like A Pirate Day, all the text on this site was converted to pirate lingo. This was done through quick and dirty JavaScript script that I consed up for the occasion. … Continue reading

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Nuclear War Update: It Happened, Really!

Wiley has provided a good summary of Yisrayl “Buffalo Bill” Hawkins‘s prediction of a nuclear war on Sep. 12:

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Senate Gets an Early Start on the Weekend

In the sidebar of http://www.senate.gov/: Friday, Sep 22, 2006 The Senate convened at 9:30 a.m. and adjourned at 9:40 a.m. No record votes were taken. I wish I could come in for ten minutes and vote to give myself the … Continue reading

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Arrrr, Me Mateys!

Avast, ye salty sea curs! Today be Talk Like A Pirate Day. Ye’ll comment in piratey and like it, else walk the plank like the scurvy dogs ye be! (Actually, ye’ll comment in piratey courtesy of Dougal Campbell’s Pirate Filter. … Continue reading

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I Must’ve Slept Through the Nuclear War

As I mentioned earlier, Yisrayl Hawkins (formerly Buffalo Bill Hawkins) of the House of Yahweh predicted that there’d be a nuclear war on Sep. 12, 2006. And as you may have noticed, it didn’t happen. The good people at Boing … Continue reading

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Perhaps the Ultimate Pirate Video

It’s got everything: crappy music, worse dancing, puppets, pirates, Christian rap. Words cannot describe it. Update, Sep. 12, 2006: Favorite comment: “Can’t sleep, the puppets will eat me. ” Update, Sep. 13, 2006: Another good comment: “Okay America, we gave … Continue reading

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Mark Your Calendars: Nuclear War

TheHouse of Yahweh has announced that nuclear war will start on Sep. 12, 2006. It’s not clear to me how they came up with this date, so allow me to speculate irresponsibly: the number of the beast is 666. 6 … Continue reading

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We Know You’re Guilty 2: Ohio Edition

The Toledo Blade is reporting: An Ohio legislative panel yesterday rubber-stamped an unprecedented process that would allow sex offenders to be publicly identified and tracked even if they’ve never been charged with a crime. (emphasis added.)

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