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Perfect Background Music for a Pilot Surviving a Last-Second Eject
This video is from a practice run on Friday for an air show in Canada — it’s about as close as a pilot can get to “buying the farm” as possible, and he’s reportedly doing okay. I watched the video, but it wasn’t until I turned up the volume that I realized the song being played on the public address system at [...]
First Alvin Greene Campaign Ad Appears in South Carolina
Alvin Greene, US Senate candidate from South Carolina, won the Democrat primary in spite of not having any campaign website or advertisements of any kind. As Byron York points out at the Examiner, Greene is now getting serious about the campaign, and a media blitz is underway as evidenced by this sign on US 521: “I’m Alvin Greene and [...]
Free Kobayashi! Hot Dog Eating Champion Arrested
If I had to go to jail, I can’t think of anything I’d rather not be known as than a world champion hot dog swallower: Takeru “Tsunami” Kobayashi was arrested Sunday after attempting to hop on stage following a rival’s win in the 95th annual Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Competition. Joey “Jaws” Chestnut [...]
Surprisingly Enough, Reverend Wright Still Not Happy With America, White Folks & Jews
In 2008, there were many people on the right (or center-right) who endorsed Barack Obama — Christopher Buckley, Colin Powell, Scott McClellan, William Weld, etc — and you just know that a good portion of them did so because they thought Obama’s election would help shut up crazies like the Reverend Wright. They were, of course, [...]
Bill Maher Panel: Al Gore’s Getting Divorced Because His Dick is Too Big, or Something Like That
Bill Maher, Van Jones, Katrina Vanden Heuvel, Andrew Sullivan and some other guy who likes to say “cock” a lot talk about Al Gore’s separation from his wife. Sounds like Tipper might have been a little intimidated by the size of Al’s manhood in her old age… but Andrew Sullivan certainly doesn’t seem to be ::wink [...]
Securities and Exchange Commission Employees Watched Porn While Our 401Ks Got Screwed
If Jenna Jameson had been committing securities fraud and decided to make a movie about it, these guys would have been all over it: WASHINGTON — An agency watchdog says senior employees of the Securities and Exchange Commission spent hours surfing pornographic websites on government-issued computers while they were being paid to police the [...]
Joe Biden Photo of the Day
The AP Images caption: Vice President Joe Biden exults as he tells female student athletes how inspiring they are to younger girls, during an announcement about action on Title IX that provides equal opportunities for female athletes, at the Charles E. Smith Center at George Washington University in Washington, Tuesday, April 20, 2010. (AP [...]
Joe Biden Photo of the Day
The AP Images caption: Vice President Joe Biden exults as he tells female student athletes how inspiring they are to younger girls, during an announcement about action on Title IX that provides equal opportunities for female athletes, at the Charles E. Smith Center at George Washington University in Washington, Tuesday, April 20, 2010. (AP [...]
Vacationing: The ‘Human Right Du Jour’
Hey, why not? “Coming soon as an addendum to a health care bill near you“: The European Union has declared travelling a human right, and is launching a scheme to subsidize vacations with taxpayers’ dollars for those too poor to afford their own trips. Antonio Tajani, the European Union commissioner for enterprise and industry, [...]
Another Cartoon Fatwa? South Park Creators Threatened
The Danish cartoonist might have some company in the states courtesy of The Religion of Peace™: The radical Islamic Web site Revolutionmuslim.com is going after the creators of the TV cartoon series “South Park” after an episode last week included an image of the Prophet Mohammed in disguise. Revolutionmuslim.com, based in New [...]
