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Yeah, we’re a classy bunch here in Idaho.

Disaster Area practices here.

via Slashdot

I’m guessing Cookie Monster is right out then.

More than 100 products feature BBC-owned characters, including cake mixes, pasta shapes, fromage frais, chocolate bars, jellies and Easter eggs. Under the new guidelines, drawn up with the Food Standards Agency, BBC characters will be used to promote only relatively healthy food.

Coming soon: Teletubby carrots and broccoli.

Bill O’Reilly says we should get out of Iraq.

Some people simply will not embrace freedom. We have millions of Americans in this country who are being abused one way or another and refuse to do anything about it. Freedom is never free. Freedom is hard.

And why haven’t the Iraqis got the hang of it yet? They’ve had a whole year. Losers, dump them. Oh, sure, it took hundreds of years for Western civilization to embrace the concept, but that’s different.

I say we give them another year or two.

I’d bet money this will come back to haunt Blix.

This puts it best, I think.

Jobs lost, blah, blah blah. But what does this quote mean?

“When we discuss job reductions, we are talking about positions not necessarily people,” said Marc Oken, transition executive for Bank of America.

So they have a lot of jobs that aren’t actually being done by people that they are going to get rid of?

Anne Applebaum won a Pulitzer for Gulag. You should read it. You can borrow mine if you want.

via The Corner

Here’s the “What?” post of the day.

And that would refer to the Oxblog post, not the EO post.

And if that doesn’t clarify it, forget it.

“Don’t worry my nationally challenged friend,” Bush stated, “We’re here to rid the town of those banditos.”

High Noon in Frank’s World.

Apparently, Europeans are turning into freakishly large mutants.

via The Corner

This is the most interesting quote in the whole article.

“You see, the Americans sent someone to call for negotiations. It is a sign of weakness,” said Sheikh Ali.

I’m convinced the US military could level the place if they chose to. And I’m sure that we will risk US soldiers lives to go in and take care of this with as few civilian casualites as possible.

UPDATE: Here.

Sharing knowledge is not necessarily a good thing. Why doesn’t Britian do something about that oaf?

A look from Stratfor.

Core NATO members such as France and Germany certainly disagree with this turn of events, but have lacked the influence to stop it. That has become — and will continue to be — the case because of the admittance of NATO’s newest members. All of the fresh blood can be safely grouped into the “new Europe” that U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld so charmingly coined in the lead-up to the Iraq war. These states all share historical experience in betrayal by France and domination by Germany and Russia.

Also, VDH’s friday column is somewhat related.

Trying to protect internet freedom.

Calculate your radioactivity. Your government is here to help.

Google really will give you a free gig of email. And by free, I mean, they will put ads in them for you. But compared to Hotmail or Yahoo ads, it can’t be that annoying. Plus if you are using their service, and you don’t have to, what do you expect. C’mon, I fully expect Microsoft to turn over my Hotmail info at the drop of a hat.

The Drudge Report is 9 years old! Astounding.

How many square feet of plastic wrap does Papa Murphy’s go through in a day? It has to be a phenomenal amount.

I-15 is my favorite freeway, so this makes me sad.

What? Like you don’t have your favorite.

This is a good one.

But what about the loss of sales? Poor Mel.

I love modern technology. One of the classics.

And there’s this one.

Our new goal is to “organize all the useful information in the universe and serve it to you on a lightly salted cracker.”

Scientists thing 1 in 20 stars could harbor planets suitable for life.

Check out Homestarrunner today. Don’t wait, this won’t last long.

And btw, Google is NOT going to give you a free gig of email. (or maybe they will. I will remain doubtful until tomorrow)

UPDATE: Thinkgeek is teh r0X0rs. And in other news, this font wreaks havoc on my l337 5p34k.

This is a refreshing change of pace.

Mr Sacranie made his appeal for tougher legislation after taking the unprecedented step of writing to every mosque in the country urging them to help fight terrorism.

His letter warned imams and community leaders to be alert to “mischievous elements” provoking “illegal activity”.

This is what it looks like to the three of us not currently on it.

It’s Sesame Street’s 35th birthday.

And as the kids say, Elmo is teh ghey. Ernie was the coolest.

I am more familiar with Alistair Cookie, but this obituary and this one are interesting.

It’s true, he’s done this so many times it’s not even a surprise.

Denmark takes one of Canada’s rocks.

“The nation of Denmark has laid claim to Canadian territory. Its military, from its warship, hoisted its flag on our Arctic territory without permission, without warning, and without any fear of being stopped,” Mr. Day said on Friday.

“The government’s utter disarray is underlined by the fact that the scandal has led to the recall of our ambassador to Denmark, the very nation that is challenging our sovereignty,” Mr. Day said.

Coming soon: Canada strikes back.

Mark Steyn on Germany’s woes.

La Shawn had a fun day yesterday.

Ha Ha. European countries that were all twitterpated at Bush about the environment are finding it hard to lead by example.

Cloning doesn’t bother me so much, but trying to actually create life causes me to look for lightning.

via Drudge Report

Dr. Rice is going to testify. Woohoo.

And what is with all the frowny pictures of her lately?

Wise am I.

Dear person parked outside 24 Hour Fitness, if you go to all the trouble of buying a hummer, for pete’s sake don’t put ricer wheels on it. Stupidest. Look. Evar.

Lawsuits against corporations for something that happened hundreds of years ago.

Descendants of slaves filed a $1 billion lawsuit against U.S. and British corporations on Monday, accusing them of profiting by committing genocide against their ancestors.

Sing it with me (warning: music), “Oh, the world owes me a living…”

Because communism sucks, but they are trying to keep that a secret.

Asteroids, disasters and the President.

Instapundit has tons, tons I say, of stuff on Clarke.

Sometimes it’s good to say NO! First they wanted Bush to testify, and they screamed and cried until they got their way. Then an hour wasn’t long enough, and they got their way. Now they want Rice to testify. Look them in the eye and firmly say, no.

There’s a time to rise above principles,” Republican John Lehman told NBC’s “Today” show, referring to Rice’s stand that national security advisers have never testified under oath before Congress because of a fear it would compromise their ability to have an open exchange of ideas with a president.

Maybe for politicians, but most normal people like to live by their principles.

How many tons of coffee beans does Starbucks go through a day? The reason I ask is because their cup says they “travel thousands of miles in search of these elusive beans.” I’m thinking that after a ton or two day after day they might settle for the slightly less elusive, but still tasty, beans.

Oh, I found this interesting article on Starbucks and its global hegemony. Still looking for facts, don’t worry.

Call me when they break Warp 1.

You have to admit, this isn’t surprising.

Iron Chef America update.

You don’t see many absolutes these days.

It is never wrong to be on the side of freedom — never.

The House passed some sort of budget thingy. 2.4 TRILLION dollars. Assuming 270 million people live in America that’s $8,888 EACH. I’m not convinced I’m getting my almost $9000 worth.

via Drudge Report

Instapundit has tons of links on Clarke. Why is it Clarke? This one was most interesting.

Hey, I used to live near there. And I used to live near the fires from last summer. Hmmm. Coincidence?

I could just see the vast field of lawyers. RIAA vs. SCO

If you were planning to attack or be attacked by Great Britian, now would be a great time.

Free shrimp for everyone!!!

Davis ended the letter by writing, “This is one small step for man, and one giant leap for Giant Shrimp.” He also again expressed interest in Long John Silver’s becoming the first seafood restaurant on Mars.

I’d probably be more excited if there was a Long John’s near me.

Terrorism is not funny, but I admit this made me laugh.

French authorities say a shadowy group that had threatened to bomb the country’s railway system unless authorities pay a huge ransom announced a suspension of its plans, but warned it will act later.

Jonah Goldberg has an opinion about the Michael Newdow case.

Crabwalk, heh.

New studies reveal cavemen were bad at cooking.

The technique showed the bones had been heated to temperatures usually only achieved in hearths, double the 300C typical of a forest or brush fire, providing compelling evidence of the earliest recorded controlled use of fire by humans.

600 celsius? According to Google that’s 1112 farenheit. Talk about your rare meat. Oh, sure you could get a nice sear, but then what. Where was Food Network when they needed it? Alton Brown would have straightened them right out.

Read this article.

The minister, Abdi Jimale Osman, can’t understand this. “I’m sure tourists would leave Somalia alive and I’m hopeful they wouldn’t be kidnapped,” he is reported as saying. “At least, we would try to make sure they were not kidnapped, though it can happen.”

via Dave Barry

String section says it deserves more money than the brass section.

“Of course strings are in action more than the brass,” said Gerald Mertens, a union spokesman. “But any violinist not happy with that should have taken up the trumpet at music school.”

Glenn is funny when he gets riled up. But he has a good point.

Fine, no one can get married.

The last marriage licenses were handed out in Benton County at 4 p.m. local time (7:00 p.m. EST) on Tuesday. As of Wednesday, officials in the county of 79,000 people will begin telling couples applying for licenses to go elsewhere until the gay marriage debate is settled.

Too late for everyone to get their free shrimp from Long John Silver’s, NASA announces there may have been salty seas on Mars.

I still love this quote:

“It’s not a matter of ‘if,’ it’s just a matter of ‘when’ human beings are able to live permanently on Mars. Long John Silver’s mission is to feed people with delicious seafood wherever they are — on earth or even outer space.”

Poor New Zealand, they could use some freedom.

New Zealand’s Economic Development Ministry has suggested a review of the country’s Copyright Act that would allow a CD buyer to make a single copy for their own personal use.

I’m glad I live in America.

Why does everyone keep saying Kerry was skiing last week? The picture I saw showed him on a snowboard. That’s called snowboarding. Apples and oranges kids.

Forget the diet and exercise. Just start saving money.

I have joined the 21st Century. I now have cable internet. The cable guy had the coolest accent, British or something. That’s not what you expect from a cable guy in north Idaho. Now I can only hope Comcast crosses over to Idaho and Adelphia is forced to lower it’s prices. But life is good. I am currently downloading all those little programs that make life so much better but take too long on dialup. You know; critical update this, virus definitions that, silly stuff.

Go, little martian rover, go!

Andromeda goes to Sci-Fi. I am willing to admit I liked the first two seasons. The third season lost me though.

You know how they’re always saying you should eat healthy and excercise to avoid the heart diseases that kill more Americans than everything else? Don’t believe them.

I rest my case.

A do-not-miss Bleat today.

Doubleplus ungood thoughtcrime – sorry, sorry, I mean false definitions of freedom that are really about slavery, don’t you see? Slavery to old ideas that keep the new world – which is right around the corner, brother – from coming into being. It’s a world with full employment, and no industry. It’s a world of endless abundance and prosperity, without capitalism. It’s a world that has some Jews, but we’re not sure where they are and anyway they don’t count much anymore. It’s a world where the people of Iraq own the oil, and incidentally nothing runs on oil anymore, because it’s poison. It’s a world where everything in the West is so cool that China is shamed by our example and totally gets out of Tibet. Without a shot. Which would totally annoy the NRA if they knew it was coming, which it is.

Well, you could have knocked me over with a feather.

Quorn.

via Fark

I hope to be back this afternoon. But in the meantime, yay!

And uh-oh.

Okay, what is with the whole two paragraphs per page articles. I’m on a dialup here. I don’t have the bandwidth to be loading half a dozen pages to find out if your article is going to tell me what I want to know. Geez. Is all that text slowing the page load down even more than the dozen banner ads are already doing? I miss the good old days when it was nothing but line upon line of text. And the rainbow bullet point.

So last night I come home from dinner, excited to continue my way up the Unreal Tournament ladder, I push the power button on my computer, and…nothing. Really, really nothing. Stupid power supply burned out. So today I got to go to Best Buy and pick up a new one. Can you tell the difference?

Now I must go beat the tar out of various ugly aliens and people.

It’s like in those movies when you think the monster is really bad but the heroes might just destroy it, but then it suddenly gets ahold of some radioactive substance and grows to 3 times it size and starts tossing the heroes around like rag dolls. The horror, the horror!

Darn butterflies, if they would rather die, they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.

The latest Bagle worm doesn’t even need to be clicked on to work.

Another journalist confuses his career with that of a novelist.

The newspaper also said “the evidence strongly contradicted” other published accounts by Kelley: that he spent the night with Egyptian terrorists in 1997; met a vigilante Jewish settler named Avi Shapiro in 2001; watched a Pakistani student unfold a picture of the Sears Tower and say, “This one is mine,” in 2001; interviewed the daughter of an Iraqi general in 2003; or went on a high-speed hunt for Osama bin Laden in 2003.

I’m willing to admit that this is a tragic consequence of American Imperialism&trade.

While the canned luncheon meat will forever be ridiculed by fans of the British comedians, it is a much loved staple in the Philippines.

It must be nice to be so wanted.

Ebay has everything you could possibly need. Especially if you find a stash of Soviet ICBMs and can’t find the keys.

via Fark

The Command Post is the place to go for updates on the surrounded dude in Pakistan.

High value target surrounded in Pakistan.

Pakistani officials said they believe Al Qaeda’s No. 2 Ayman al-Zawahri

Of course, I trust Pakistan about as far as I can throw their nuclear weapons program.

This is really cool, but I bet it gets annoying always being available after a while.

via Slashdot

The next generation Pengiun/Abomidable Snowman game is now available. PB: 416.82

Just so you know, Unreal 2004 should be out tomorrow. Probably you should get in line tonight.

Google is taking over THE WORLD.

Part three of the ongoing look at North Korea at National Review.

I knew there was something like this going on.

According to Rumsfeld, the finest students of every martial philosophy traveled from around the globe to take part in the tournament. While some come only to pursue the honor of the title of King Of Eagle Fist, others see the event as a chance to pursue shadowy motives of personal gain, ambition, and revenge.

Just run bin Laden over.

Just so you know, if you put a freezer ziploc bag in the microwave, the printing melts and bonds with the other side of the bag, forcing you to tear the bag open and making the hot dog taste slightly funny.

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Looks like another domino is teetering. Iran is in trouble.

via The Corner

Mark Steyn and Victor Davis Hanson.

A roundup of quotes from Mark Steyn over at Right Wing News.

Facts and opinions.

This guy thinks Americans have a right to shock jocks. It seems like Americans have more rights than a John Birch convention.

via Fark

They must not be very clear when they recruit people for the Army that they might be involved in wars. I would think it would go without saying, but maybe I’m unusually perceptive.

Again he strikes the nail on the head.

Which is why her approach to leftovers baffles me. I am opposed to leftovers. I believe the only food that should be kept around is takeout Chinese, which contains a powerful preservative chemical called ”kung pao” that enables it to remain edible for several football seasons.

Amen. If it’s not gone by the end of the meal, throw it away.

Beware the Ides of March.

Canada likes the US. The US picks Britian instead. Neener-neener.

“If you did a Family Feud-style poll and you said `Other than the United States, name countries,’ the average American could probably get to 12,” he said. “Britain’s definitely one of them. But if you ask them England against Scotland, you start puzzling them.”

Survey says…

I don’t know if blogs are this important, but it’s something to think about.

via Instapundit

A new planet-like thing rotating around the sun has been found. Having run out of cool names, they went with Sedna.

Sedna, I’m glad I met ya’.

Jeff Jarvis wants more pieces of the 9/11 wreckage on display. And I say he’s right.

This week will probably be weak sauce. Now, since it seems that predictions like this are followed by the greatest stuff ever, take it with a ounce of prevention. Or something like that.

Color photography from Russia from the turn of the century. The 1900 one, not the 2000 one.

In my continuing effort to be super-helpful, here is a great way to keep track of calories and such.

And I don’t want to hear you IE users complaining about the popups. You can download Opera or Mozilla at any time.

Houston to start rewarding city workers based on merit. Novel concept. Isn’t that how everyone does it?

“It may seem like a revolutionary idea in government, but it’s what private companies do,” he said. “For too long, good workers were not rewarded, and bad workers were not punished. In order to develop a good workplace, you need to give people incentive.”

Sad, sad, sad.

Minnesota food stamp recipients may be forced to avoid junk food. I tried, but I can’t get too upset about this. Get off welfare and you can buy what you want.

LaShawn Barber has a post on the collapse of American culture, a review of Uncle Sam’s Plantation, and lots more blogoliciousness. Check it out.

This cooperation between nations on a matter of such vital importance brings a tear to my eye.

via Fark

Oy.

I can’t believe this is news to them. Insert obvious British teeth joke here.

VDH:

So here we are a year later. We fuss about the WMD “myth”; enemies scramble over its reality. We talk of our theft of third-world resources — and pay more for gas than ever before while the price of Iraq’s national treasure soars. We worry that we are too involved abroad; those in Europe, Afghanistan, and Iraq claim there are not enough of us over there. And we scream at each other that we are not liked, even as those overseas express new respect for us.

Don’t forget VDH has a website.

The “Winds of Black Death” strike is coming to America soon. Go ahead and try punks.

Tyrants, dictators, and evil rulers everywhere are nervous these days. And that’s a good thing.

Okay, this is just too much. People, it’s just a game.

via Fark

Some people are worried about their property rights, on the moon.

Probably.

Advertising in space.

via Fark