And they call themselves "Patriots"

Wow, just when you thought the mindset that gave us Timothy McVeigh was gone for good, Beck, Limbaugh, Dick Armey and the whole "grassroots" Tea Party movement have helped bring the Right Wing Paranoid Conspiracy movement back!

And now they have a role-playing game!

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Reverting to type?

Russian secret service goes all KGB on academic researching Stalin's treatment of ethnic Germans during WWII.
in reference to: BBC NEWS | Europe | Russia seizes Stalin-era research (view on Google Sidewiki)

Well, they need something ...

With almost 60-percent of the population dissing democracy, I can't imagine the West's relationship with Russia getting any better in the near future.
in reference to: BBC NEWS | Europe | Democracy 'not needed' in Russia (view on Google Sidewiki)

Irony alert!

So, the experts fear the media exposure of the allegedly missing 'balloon boy' will have a detrimental effect on him. So they had to write a story about it and will no doubt have a medical expert appear on the air to discuss the detrimental effect the media will have on him. Just wanted to be clear on that ...
in reference to: Experts fear effects of media spotlight on 'balloon boy' - CNN.com (view on Google Sidewiki)

Funny and sad? Pathetic?

It's so strange, it's really hard to categorize.
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Difficult Question, Eloquent Answer

The Wingnuts give Obama crap, but he truly is a master at diffusing a situation.



He's a pretty tough guy.

The New York Times: The Nation's Newspaper?

Seems that's what they're aiming for as they launch an SF/Bay Area edition ...
in reference to: New York Times Starts San Francisco Edition (view on Google Sidewiki)

Ouch, that's gotta hurt ...

From the report: "NASA has significant problems protecting the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the information and variety of networks supporting its mission centers."
in reference to: NASA network security torched - Network World (view on Google Sidewiki)

Ooooh, so that's what Google Wave can do ...

Kind of brilliant, very funny explanation of Google Wave's abilities. Explained using a classic scene from "Pulp Fiction":

It's a kind of hyper-active instant messaging that incorporates incredibly simple file-sharing applications. At least, that's what it looks like.

Oh, that's encouraging.

Could it be that the Pakistan Taliban are getting help with their attacks on the Pakistan military by members of the country's own insidious secret service, the ISI?

The ISI have their fingerprints on the establishment of the Taliban's rule in Afghanistan as well as allegedly fomenting domestic terrorist attacks in India.
in reference to: Al Jazeera English - CENTRAL/S. ASIA - Pakistan 'not prepared for attacks' (view on Google Sidewiki)

When the comments are better than the original post!

Talk about bitchy!
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New World Order continued ...

HuffPost makes in-roads into MSM turf.
in reference to: EXCLUSIVE: Huffington Post Passes WashingtonPost.com in Unique Visitors, in September (view on Google Sidewiki)

It's a New World Order

Publishing is about to get really interesting, real fast.
in reference to: Google Ignites e-Book Fight With Kindle (view on Google Sidewiki)

Another for the WTF file ...

Dude, it's not your business to worry about what happens AFTER the wedding.

This is a LEGAL contract between two consenting adults.
in reference to: Interracial couple denied marriage license in La. | TPM News Pages (view on Google Sidewiki)

The Rules of Attraction

Favorite line:

"Physically opposite couples may be a minority but you do see them: Young with older, black with white, tall with short, bitter with stupid."

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Twitter Vintner

OK, I'd get a bottle of that.
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Manchurian Intern story heats up

leaps from "credible" news source to Fox News. We can see where this is going ...
in reference to: GOP Rep Takes Campaign Against Muslim 'Intern Spies' To Fox | TPMMuckraker (view on Google Sidewiki)

Uh-oh, Soros conspiracy begins ...

This should be entertaining to watch.
in reference to: Limbaugh: Soros May Have Been in Rams Group (view on Google Sidewiki)

Interesting, but haven't they tried this with Saturday morning cartoons?

And it was lame then?
in reference to: Big Hollywood » Blog Archive » List of ‘Organically’ Created iParticipate Television Programs (view on Google Sidewiki)

Oh, that's not encouraging, is it?

Stimulus ain't very stimulating.
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Business as Usual

Wall Street rallies while the Fed and the SEC fail to make headway in re-regulating the financial sector. Meanwhile, more people continue to lose their homes.
in reference to: Foreclosures hit record in third quarter 2009 - Oct. 15, 2009 (view on Google Sidewiki)

China and Iran

Fascinating overview of China's economic ties with Iran. Oil truly is the devil's excrement.

in reference to: Al Jazeera English - Middle East - Video: China forges links with Iran (view on Google Sidewiki)

From the WTF file ...

GOP accuses CAIR of infiltrating Capitol Hill with Manchurian Interns.

You just can't make this stuff up.

in reference to: Citing Work Of Right-Wing Intern Spy, GOP Accuses Muslim Group Of Infiltrating Hill With Intern 'Spies' | TPMMuckraker (view on Google Sidewiki)

Wine-making fun with Jon Bonne

SF Chronicle Wine Editor Jon Bonne's adventures in wine-making gets more and more interesting with each blog entry ...

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More interesting than the NJ governor's race

Gov. Rick Perry is a hero to the Tea Party crowd, but is that enough to win a fourth term?

in reference to: Texas Republican Smackdown - Page 1 - The Daily Beast (view on Google Sidewiki)

Is this B&N's eReader ... ?

wow. that's cool.

in reference to: Barnes & Noble eReader leaks and it’s a doozy (view on Google Sidewiki)

Now you can "friend" Auschwitz on Facebook

Wow. I get it. But it's still kind of weird.

in reference to: BBC NEWS | Europe | Auschwitz launches Facebook site (view on Google Sidewiki)

Damn Socialists!!

Finland makes Broadband Access an unalienable right! Like health care. And gay marriage and adoption. And dodgy cell phones!

in reference to: Applause For Finland: First Country To Make Broadband Access A Legal Right (view on Google Sidewiki)

Thanks for the memories ...

Five, count 'em, five Bush Administration memoirs are coming next year. Now that's a lot of Monday morning quarterbacking, name-dropping, name-calling and backstabbing.
in reference to: Bush memoirs to haunt GOP - Andie Coller - POLITICO.com (view on Google Sidewiki)

Now, put an e-reader function on it ...

... and that's something I could really get into. Multitouch input computers are sooooo sci-fi. Hope they're as cool as they sound.

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"Acer Aspire 5738PB"
- Acer introduces laptop with multitouch display - Network World (view on Google Sidewiki)

A nightmare by any other name

The Pakistan Taliban's attack on its country's military headquarters is a nightmare scenario. It is the equivalent of Christian fundamentalists over-running the Pentagon and the public at large here at home fails to see this.
in reference to: The Taliban Threat - washingtonpost.com (view on Google Sidewiki)

Interesting

For eight years all we had were stories about how the U.S. military missed its recruitment goals. Nice to see the quality of the recruits has also increased.
in reference to: In Downturn, Military Reports Historic Recruiting Success - washingtonpost.com (view on Google Sidewiki)

Bing and Google share stalker satellite

And who says the two search giants can't learn to share?
in reference to: Bing - It Really is Rocket Science - Search Blog - Bing Community (view on Google Sidewiki)

All that Twitters isn't gold ...

Social networking growth looks to be stagnating at least domestically.
in reference to: STATS: Facebook and Twitter’s Growth Flattens (view on Google Sidewiki)

Breakin' my heart ...

Interesting. The author says that discomfort in using touch screen computers comes from having your hands and arms moving "above your heart" for a certain period of time.

But what about symphony conductors? Many live to be a good old age and spend a lot of time with their arms actively waving above their hearts?

in reference to: Why Desktop Touch Screens Don’t Really Work Well For Humans (view on Google Sidewiki)

Why, that's Un-American!!!!

OK, I dunno about the health issues, but I had a Mickey-D's Double Quarter Pounder with cheese out of necessity yesterday and it was disgusting.

It oozed grease and had that weirdly sweet taste I forgot you can only get from a McDonald's burger.
in reference to: Should Americans banish the burger? - CNN.com (view on Google Sidewiki)

Base? What base? Or better yet: Which base?

GOP can't move forward unless they look back and admit that some of its policies just didn't work or failed to keep up with the changing pace of American culture.
in reference to: GOP needs power player to end 'warlord status,' expert says - CNN.com (view on Google Sidewiki)

The Partner Police

I like this writer. I think he has a future in journalism: The Partner Police

Whether you consider it to be "sales on steroids" or think of its execs as "cruise directors," business development has become a crucial position in corporate America.
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Religious Fundamentalists vs Religious Fundamentalists

Fascinating. both Al Qaeda and the Taliban are religious extremist groups, but the Taliban act more like a political movement or organized crime syndicate.
in reference to: BBC NEWS | South Asia | Al-Qaeda 'faces funding crisis' (view on Google Sidewiki)

Why the Right Hates Obama

It's not that he is young, vibrant, eloquent, thoughtful and seems to care about the American people, it's the fact that by recognizing that America leads more by example than by brute force, he might actually get more enemies and allies to do what we want.
in reference to: America's Image Rebounds - Page 1 - The Daily Beast (view on Google Sidewiki)

Big Brother has a new eye in the sky.

We all thought the 1984 Mac ad was brilliant when we first saw it, but now it's really not so cool. It's more like creepy.

in reference to: Google Hops On A New Satellite To Watch Us From Space (view on Google Sidewiki)

The human mystery just gets more interesting ...

A major miracle, you know.

in reference to: Born with half a brain, woman living full life - CNN.com (view on Google Sidewiki)

From the "Life's Little Ironies" file ...

The good side of gout!
in reference to: BBC NEWS | Health | Gout chemical slows Parkinson's (view on Google Sidewiki)

Woefully naive assessment of the Tea Party movement

A movement that gained momentum as the Right Wing radio and cable media stoked its more prejudicial tendencies. Dream on, Glenn ...
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I guess liver donations from alcoholics is OK, too?

When nanny states go wrong, dreadfully wrong ...
in reference to: Soldier dies after receiving smoker's lungs in transplant - CNN.com (view on Google Sidewiki)

Stunning!

The couple were drunk at the time. Really?
in reference to: BBC NEWS | UK | Scotland | Edinburgh, East and Fife | Couple had sex in police car park (view on Google Sidewiki)

An American Original

Hope this guy pulls it off.
in reference to: Reporter Resurrects Career - Buys His Own Paper - NYTimes.com (view on Google Sidewiki)

Best. Sign. Ever.

For more cool signage from this weekend's gay rights march in DC, go here.

"Forensic accountants?"

Now there's a TV show just waiting to be made!

Though it's interesting/disturbing that George Washington was billed for "syphilic pills" ...
in reference to: Washington: First in War, Peace -- and Accounting - washingtonpost.com (view on Google Sidewiki)

Tale of the tape

To be honest, I find the actual circumstances surrounding the creation of the tapes more fascinating than what was actually recorded or spoken of during the interviews.

Almost 10 years later and I'm still tired of Bill Clinton and his shenanigans ...

in reference to: Did Bubba's Tapes Break the Law? - Page 1 - The Daily Beast (view on Google Sidewiki)

China's middle class becomes a mobile culture.

Like post-War America, China's middle-class and college educated kids are moving to the suburbs and into rural areas to find opportunity.
in reference to: BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | China's reverse migration (view on Google Sidewiki)

And this is justice?

The moral and ethical debate which surrounds the death penalty I think can be answered by one simple question: "What would Jesus do?"
in reference to: Execution Methods Examined - washingtonpost.com (view on Google Sidewiki)

And now, the numbers ...

Not exactly discouraging. Not exactly encouraging ...

in reference to: - The Statistics Of The Great Recession (view on Google Sidewiki)

Stem cell coolness ...

Wonder what else is next? Whole organs? Hearts? Pancreas? Brave new world ...

in reference to: BBC NEWS | Health | Jaw bone created from stem cells (view on Google Sidewiki)

Oh, that's not good.

Aging workforce, fragile infrastructure, shrinking GDP. Wonder what other former Soviet satellite they will invade next?
in reference to: BBC NEWS | Business | Russia economy 'to shrink 7.5%' (view on Google Sidewiki)