Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-New York, said she didn't know if it was a "serious issue" that Obama didn't wear a pin and added, "There are so many ways that Americans can show their patriotism." ...
Gov. Bill Richardson, who was wearing a flag pin at the time, what he thought of the matter. "Patriotism is what you do and I don't think anyone should — if you feel good about wearing it, wear it,” he said. “I wear it. It's perfectly good to wear it. I love this flag. I love this country. I wear it. But patriotism is about what you do, not what you say." ...
Obama told a KCRG-TV reporter this week that he has made a conscious decision not to wear the pin.
Osama Bin Laden also showed the flag pin he had purchased. "I wear the American flag," he said, "Look, I wear it upside down. If this doesn't show anti-patriotism, I don't know what will. Maybe blowing something up... I did that, you know."
President George Bush also weighed in, "he's allowed to do whatever he wants," the President said. "But the you can bet that anyone not wearing a flag pin will be red "flagged" by the TSA." He laughed.
Across the country, millions of chinese workers cheered. Mr. Deng,a foreman at one of the numerous American flag pin factories in Shanghai was especially exuberiant. "It is just more money for us. The more flag pins Americans buy, the more I get paid." He demonstrated the numerous flag pins he had. "I have American flags, German flags, Russian flags, Chinese flags.... I wear them all! I'm very patriotic."
10.05.2007
OMG Obama's not wearing his flag pin!
10.03.2007
Artist Builds Secret Apartment in a Mall
He lived in it for 4 years. His website is here. He has a tunnel. It's strangely fascinating.
He lived in it for 4 years. His website is here. He has a tunnel. It's strangely fascinating.
Say What?
Darfur rebels attacked an African Union peacekeeping outpost.
Darfur rebels attacked an African Union peacekeeping outpost.
The AU troops took refuge in a ditch in one corner of the camp, where dozens of empty shell casings from AK-47s were strewn in the sandy soil. "Once we ran out of ammunition, we all laid down in that ditch," Abu Bakr, one of the peacekeepers, said.
The rebels looted the camp on their way out, taking six armoured personnel carriers, a dozen jeeps, fuel, AK-47s and boxes of ammunition.
9.30.2007
Uh Oh, Somebody's In Trouble
Woman Found Dead In Airport Holding Cell.
Synopsis: Carol Ann Gotbaum became agitated after she was refused passage on a US Airways flight (she was apparently late). She was rebooked on the next flight, and started running around. Officers handcuffed her and placed her in the holding room where she kept on screaming. They checked on her when she stopped screaming and found her dead. They speculate that she tried to get out of her handcuffs, got entangled and ended up with them "around her neck."
What's even worse is:
Woman Found Dead In Airport Holding Cell.
Synopsis: Carol Ann Gotbaum became agitated after she was refused passage on a US Airways flight (she was apparently late). She was rebooked on the next flight, and started running around. Officers handcuffed her and placed her in the holding room where she kept on screaming. They checked on her when she stopped screaming and found her dead. They speculate that she tried to get out of her handcuffs, got entangled and ended up with them "around her neck."
What's even worse is:
"Gotbaum was the daughter-in-law of New York City's public advocate. PubicAdvocate Betsy Gotbaum tells the New York Daily News that the family is "extraordinarily upset." She says the family is watching the investigation closely. She says her daughter-in-law had three very small children."
9.28.2007
U.S Declares War On Global Warming!
In my opinion, the United States would never trade off carbon emissions for economic growth. And neither would China.
"(CNN) -- President Bush told a global climate change conference Friday that the United States will do its part to improve the environment by taking on greenhouse gas emissions.
"We take this issue seriously," he said at the Major Economies Meeting on Energy Security and Climate Change, which the White House sponsored."
"This issue is serious to the American people and to our war on terror. I have asked the State Department to place major contributors of greenhouse gas emissions on the list of nations who sponsor terror. That means you, China, and you, United States," President Bush said emphatically.
"I have also asked the Defense Department to begin looking at possible solutions to global warming. They have creatively proposed a plan using nuclear weapons which would help kill two birds with one stone... we would solve our terrorist problem while at the same time creating a barrier of atmospheric soot, permanently cooling
down the world."...
In my opinion, the United States would never trade off carbon emissions for economic growth. And neither would China.
Cellmate: Hey, what are you in jail for?
Erik Heinrich: Oh, I stole 1,500 girls' shoes. What are you here for?
Cellmate: Oh, I kill people.
Erik: ...
Cellmate: You smell nice...
Erik Heinrich: Oh, I stole 1,500 girls' shoes. What are you here for?
Cellmate: Oh, I kill people.
Erik: ...
Cellmate: You smell nice...
9.27.2007
USB Humping Dogs.
Unfortunately, they contain no storage capacity. Just acting on instinct I suppose.
Unfortunately, they contain no storage capacity. Just acting on instinct I suppose.
Hardworking Mother Wins Breast Feeding Case
A hardworking mother, whom you should all empathize with, has victoriously litigated extra time on take her Medical Boards. Bravo!
A hardworking mother, whom you should all empathize with, has victoriously litigated extra time on take her Medical Boards. Bravo!
"Sophie Currier, 33, sued after the National Board of Medical Examiners turned down her request to take more than the standard 45 minutes in breaks during the exam."
She has also struck a victorious blow for ADD patients:
"Currier … is receiving some test accommodation. She has … attention problems...and is thus given twice the usual time to complete the test: two
nine-hour days instead of one."
as well as as for people who fail tests:
"As for postponing the test, Currier is behind schedule because she failed the test when she took it this spring.
Such a person deserves to be known to the world. Fortunately, her name is splashed all over Google for prospective future employers to find. I'm sure they would be happy to hire such a proactive employee!
9.26.2007
PRESIDENT BUSH HATES CHILDREN!
House Defies Bush Veto, Gives Health Insurance to Kids
"Thanks to yesterday's Congressional approval of an expanded State Children's Health Insurance Program, four million uninsured children could qualify for coverage.
They could qualify -- but they almost certainly won't. The measure passed the House of Representatives by a 265-159 vote, falling short of the majority needed to override President Bush's promised veto. "
Maybe children are on his list of evil doers...
House Defies Bush Veto, Gives Health Insurance to Kids
"Thanks to yesterday's Congressional approval of an expanded State Children's Health Insurance Program, four million uninsured children could qualify for coverage.
They could qualify -- but they almost certainly won't. The measure passed the House of Representatives by a 265-159 vote, falling short of the majority needed to override President Bush's promised veto. "
Maybe children are on his list of evil doers...
DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS, YEAH
Dungeons & Dragons Discussion Board
Topic: D&D Edition 4
werehairbear 09-09-07: 1:53 a.m.
Hey, guys, did you hear they're making a new version of D&D? I hope they make it harder for characters to die in the new edition. As far as I'm concerned, when I'm Dungeon Master, characters should only die if it's important to the dramatic arc of the story or if they annoy me.
DrizztDoherty 09-09-07: 1:59 a.m.
Ah, I don't worry about characters dying that much as long as one of them survives and can cast Resurrection, or can pay a cleric to do it. In fact, in the campaign I run there are magical insurance policies, and sometimes the monsters say, "I just saved a ton of money on my resurrection insurance!" Well, just that one time, I'm still recovering from the beating.
Goku1443 09-09-07: 2:12 a.m.
You let your players cast Resurrection? How cheesy. In my game, if you want someone raised, you need to get the High Priest to do it for you. First, you have to do a quest to get someone to tell you where the High Priest is. Then you have to do a quest before they'll let you in the temple. Then you have to do a quest before they'll let you talk to the High Priest. Then you have to do a quest to prove to the High Priest that you're serious. Then it's time for some REAL questing. After that you can get your friends raised, just in time for the obligatory post-resurrection debt quests.
LordOrcus 09-09-07: 2:15 a.m.
I can't believe you guys let characters come back from the dead. In my campaign, if you're dead, you're dead. No takebacks, no comebacks and NO RESURRECTIONS. You just grab a fresh character sheet and start statting out a new character, one level lower than the last one. I guess some people just can't handle a hardcore campaign. I just wish they'd make the character-generation rules faster, though. It really sucks when you have to take a half-hour break three times a night.
assassin-of-gnomes09-09-07: 2:21 a.m.
ONE LEVEL LOWER? You call that hardcore? In my campaign, if you die you start your next character over at first level. You get to clean the boots of the other characters for a while, until you get enough experience points to carry their torches. That's if you don't end up biting it in the "initiation ceremonies" the other characters come up with. Don't like it? DON'T DIE! That's hardcore. Anything less and the players are just going to treat Dungeons and Dragons like some sort of game.
CleanseByFire09-09-07: 2:32 a.m.
What, are you playing Candyland: The Extra Nice Edition? When you die you get to START OVER? In my campaign, once your character dies, that's it for you. You're out of the campaign. Get out of my house, you're done. I'll call you when I start a new campaign. Leave the chips.
screamsofthedamned 09-09-07: 2:37 a.m.
You let the players just LEAVE when a character dies? Do you make them warm milk and tuck them in at night, too? Maybe give them a little foot rub? In my campaign, if your character dies, he doesn't come back, but you do. You have to sit in on all the games and watch everyone else play, knowing that you were a pathetic loser who couldn't even keep his character alive. HARD. CORE.
gary 09-09-07: 2:45 a.m.
Let's just say that when a player lets a character die in my campaign, that player never plays D&D, or any other game, ever again.
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Dungeons & Dragons Discussion Board
Topic: D&D Edition 4
werehairbear 09-09-07: 1:53 a.m.
Hey, guys, did you hear they're making a new version of D&D? I hope they make it harder for characters to die in the new edition. As far as I'm concerned, when I'm Dungeon Master, characters should only die if it's important to the dramatic arc of the story or if they annoy me.
DrizztDoherty 09-09-07: 1:59 a.m.
Ah, I don't worry about characters dying that much as long as one of them survives and can cast Resurrection, or can pay a cleric to do it. In fact, in the campaign I run there are magical insurance policies, and sometimes the monsters say, "I just saved a ton of money on my resurrection insurance!" Well, just that one time, I'm still recovering from the beating.
Goku1443 09-09-07: 2:12 a.m.
You let your players cast Resurrection? How cheesy. In my game, if you want someone raised, you need to get the High Priest to do it for you. First, you have to do a quest to get someone to tell you where the High Priest is. Then you have to do a quest before they'll let you in the temple. Then you have to do a quest before they'll let you talk to the High Priest. Then you have to do a quest to prove to the High Priest that you're serious. Then it's time for some REAL questing. After that you can get your friends raised, just in time for the obligatory post-resurrection debt quests.
LordOrcus 09-09-07: 2:15 a.m.
I can't believe you guys let characters come back from the dead. In my campaign, if you're dead, you're dead. No takebacks, no comebacks and NO RESURRECTIONS. You just grab a fresh character sheet and start statting out a new character, one level lower than the last one. I guess some people just can't handle a hardcore campaign. I just wish they'd make the character-generation rules faster, though. It really sucks when you have to take a half-hour break three times a night.
assassin-of-gnomes09-09-07: 2:21 a.m.
ONE LEVEL LOWER? You call that hardcore? In my campaign, if you die you start your next character over at first level. You get to clean the boots of the other characters for a while, until you get enough experience points to carry their torches. That's if you don't end up biting it in the "initiation ceremonies" the other characters come up with. Don't like it? DON'T DIE! That's hardcore. Anything less and the players are just going to treat Dungeons and Dragons like some sort of game.
CleanseByFire09-09-07: 2:32 a.m.
What, are you playing Candyland: The Extra Nice Edition? When you die you get to START OVER? In my campaign, once your character dies, that's it for you. You're out of the campaign. Get out of my house, you're done. I'll call you when I start a new campaign. Leave the chips.
screamsofthedamned 09-09-07: 2:37 a.m.
You let the players just LEAVE when a character dies? Do you make them warm milk and tuck them in at night, too? Maybe give them a little foot rub? In my campaign, if your character dies, he doesn't come back, but you do. You have to sit in on all the games and watch everyone else play, knowing that you were a pathetic loser who couldn't even keep his character alive. HARD. CORE.
gary 09-09-07: 2:45 a.m.
Let's just say that when a player lets a character die in my campaign, that player never plays D&D, or any other game, ever again.
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9.23.2007
DAN RATHER KICKS BUSH WHILE HE'S DOWN
Now that Bush's ratings are at a low and his staff are leaving his sinking administrative ship, Rather figures he can win.
Now that Bush's ratings are at a low and his staff are leaving his sinking administrative ship, Rather figures he can win.
4.15.2006
3.07.2006
Israeli Defense Minister Tells Hamas PM To Watch His Back
I just love it when Heads of State threaten each other.
I just love it when Heads of State threaten each other.
2.26.2006
Hi, Would You Like to Buy A Kidney?
No, not kidney beans, the two little round things you have which filter out by-products from your bloodstream. Oh, and incidently, you have two of 'em and only need one to survive. The going rate depends on country:
$6,000 = average going rate.
$500 - $1000 = Iraq after Gulf War
$2,000 = Manila = 1,282 Big Macs
$20,000 = Israel
$30,000 - $50,000 = America =9,523-15,873 Big Macs
These are all in the common US Dollar currency, and a reflection of how much each person from their respective country values their own kidney. In order to make this more applicable, I've converted to dollars to Big Mac Purchasing Power, how many Big Macs you could buy with that money.
Me being a wannabe economist, think that you can probably find black market prices of various organs, enough to figure out just how much a human life is worth. What is interesting, looking at this data (and it is a small sample I know) is that life is worth differently compared across countries; i.e. if you're from America -- the value of your kidney is worth 100x that of someone from Iraq. Interesting arbitrage opportunity there; if I were Iraqi, and wanted to sell my kidney, I'd buy a ticket to the U.S and sell it from there.
There are also many interesting things you can do with this data. If the value of a life is the present value of all expected income, and expected income is measured in productivity units of, say Big Macs, one might say that Americans were expected to produce more than other people.
Humph, you might say, my present value is worth millions more than what I'm being paid now; well either the labor market rate is wrong, or you're not doing a very good job marketing your human capital. Too bad either way.
No, not kidney beans, the two little round things you have which filter out by-products from your bloodstream. Oh, and incidently, you have two of 'em and only need one to survive. The going rate depends on country:
$6,000 = average going rate.
$500 - $1000 = Iraq after Gulf War
$2,000 = Manila = 1,282 Big Macs
$20,000 = Israel
$30,000 - $50,000 = America =9,523-15,873 Big Macs
These are all in the common US Dollar currency, and a reflection of how much each person from their respective country values their own kidney. In order to make this more applicable, I've converted to dollars to Big Mac Purchasing Power, how many Big Macs you could buy with that money.
Me being a wannabe economist, think that you can probably find black market prices of various organs, enough to figure out just how much a human life is worth. What is interesting, looking at this data (and it is a small sample I know) is that life is worth differently compared across countries; i.e. if you're from America -- the value of your kidney is worth 100x that of someone from Iraq. Interesting arbitrage opportunity there; if I were Iraqi, and wanted to sell my kidney, I'd buy a ticket to the U.S and sell it from there.
There are also many interesting things you can do with this data. If the value of a life is the present value of all expected income, and expected income is measured in productivity units of, say Big Macs, one might say that Americans were expected to produce more than other people.
Humph, you might say, my present value is worth millions more than what I'm being paid now; well either the labor market rate is wrong, or you're not doing a very good job marketing your human capital. Too bad either way.
2.23.2006
Would I be able to wear a T-Shirt saying "nigga"? The possibilities are endless...
The actor Damon Wayans has been engaged in a 14-month fight to trademark the term "Nigga" for a clothing line and retail store, a search of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's online database reveals."...
It was rejected as "immoral or scandalous."
Fun Fact: Ol' Dirty Bastard used the term 76 times in the 1999 album Nigga Please, not counting repetitions in a chorus."
Meanwhile, more fodder for the lawyers:
If Wayans succeeds in persuading the Trademark Office to permit the mark, he may have to deal with Keon Rhodan, a 29-year-old entrepreneur in Charleston, South Carolina, who has been using "Nigga" on a line of T-shirts, hoodies and other attire for six years in a part-time, trunk-of-his-car business."
The actor Damon Wayans has been engaged in a 14-month fight to trademark the term "Nigga" for a clothing line and retail store, a search of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's online database reveals."...
It was rejected as "immoral or scandalous."
Fun Fact: Ol' Dirty Bastard used the term 76 times in the 1999 album Nigga Please, not counting repetitions in a chorus."
Meanwhile, more fodder for the lawyers:
If Wayans succeeds in persuading the Trademark Office to permit the mark, he may have to deal with Keon Rhodan, a 29-year-old entrepreneur in Charleston, South Carolina, who has been using "Nigga" on a line of T-shirts, hoodies and other attire for six years in a part-time, trunk-of-his-car business."
2.21.2006
Tax Auditor Found Dead in Office After Two Days
Nope, won't happen to me -- I never leave my apartment.
Nope, won't happen to me -- I never leave my apartment.
Man Kills Roommate Because of Toilet Paper
This reminds me of the time when my roommate came at me with a knife. Apparently I had left my toilet seat up one too many times...
This reminds me of the time when my roommate came at me with a knife. Apparently I had left my toilet seat up one too many times...
3 Years for Saying the Holocaust Didn't Occur
This man received 3 years in prison for saying the Holocaust didn't occur.
This man received 3 years in prison for saying the Holocaust didn't occur.
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