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( pic via ) Other than the obvious "they would get sued," there's little reason for rappers to not try this . Couples need to be aware of these money-related issues . While I don't agree with everyone on this roster , I will say that there are some characters who should have never been X-Men. Imagine my surprise when ... Need money ?

Pretty cool .

"I think the analogy that the economy was a car in a ditch when he took office that he uses is just a little too static. Here's my analogy, which in my opinion is both more kinetic and, frankly, far more accurate. When the president took office not only had the car gone into a ditch but the car had flipped over and was rolling down a steep embankment. We, the American people, were in the back seat and the Bush administration had removed all the seat belts. So we were all flying around the interior of this car, as it was rolling and flipping and careening down this steep embankment heading to ...a 2,000-foot cliff. And at the bottom of that cliff were jagged rocks and alligators. Now at noon on January 20th, 2009 as the car was careening toward the cliff, George W. Bush jumped out of the car. President Bush jumped out of the car and President Obama somehow managed to dive in through the window, take the wheel, get control of the vehicle, just inches before it went over the prec...

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When Beck isn't swindling small crowds of old white people , he's doing the old " cut, paraphrase and paste " technique that many a graduate student should be familiar with. Granted, he's doing this to a piece of work with the premise of "Hitler was a vegetarian so in conclusion all liberals are fascists," but still.

Something tells me that they may not be so grassroots after all . /sarcasm

Seriously, I thought he grew out of this " path of least resistance " crap. Update: My apologies; I may have spoke too soon .

Quite the contrary.

Costumes like this don't help the actresses who are still playing in those movies. And unlike the "Glee" thing , creepy old dudes have been drooling over Harry Potter girls since the fourth movie.

Then check some of these movies out .

Contrary to what some think , writers at the Wash Post don't see why the revelation that another person is corroborating Clarence Thomas' perverted nature is such a big deal now .

Because odds are if any Tea Party candidates win as Republicans, they won't have the "power" they'll claim they'll have to "clean up government."

You're doing it wrong .

...even if they have to make bomb threats to media organizations ( wonder what would spark that ?) and beat up people they disagree with .

Steve Nash ain't happy .

Sure; why not ?

It makes more sense when you go to the link .

Meet the baseball player who can get a World Series ring regardless of who wins .

Looks like someone isn't ashamed of a little palm-greasing : KABUL, Afghanistan – Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Monday that once or twice a year Iran gives his office $700,000 to $975,000 for official presidential expenses - and that Washington also provides "bags of money" because his office lacks funds. Karzai's comments come a day after The New York Times reported that Iran was giving bags of cash to the Afghan president's chief of staff, Umar Daudzai, to buy his loyalty and promote Iranian interests in Afghanistan. The Times quoted unnamed sources as saying that the cash amounted to a slush fund that Karzai and Daudzai had used to pay Afghan lawmakers, tribal elders - and even Taliban commanders - to secure their loyalty. Karzai told reporters Monday that he had instructed Daudzai, a former Afghan ambassador to Iran, to accept the money from Tehran. "It is official and by my order,"...

Seriously: WTF ? Whatever ; we'll find out on election day. Alas poor Walkman , I knew ye well. Honeymoon's over for the Vikings , I take it. As if Haiti didn't have enough problems . One reason women should drink more green tea .

If you follow the " Bill Clinton lied about sex so he's guilty " logic, then the answer is most likely, "yes."

Ah; politicians . Well, according to this , I should be making more money. Some videos are causing problems between black men and women. That fact that a 16-year old pop star giving a 44-gay director a lap dance was the least cringe-worthy on this list speaks volumes. The future? You're living in it, pal ! Some women should not reproduce . Um, guys? She's 13 . Turnabout is fair play . Mya's looking good at 31 . Now why can't she get some radio play/acting roles? Personally, I don't think anyone who really loves their dog would do this .

One way to make a chaotic situation even worse . The first shots sailed past Iraqi police officers at a checkpoint. They took off in three squad cars, their lights flashing. It was early in the Iraq war, Dec. 22, 2004, and it turned out that the shots came not from insurgents or criminals. They were fired by an American private security company named Custer Battles, according to an incident report in an archive of more than 300,000 classified military documents made public by WikiLeaks. The company’s convoy sped south in Umm Qasr, a grubby port city near the Persian Gulf. It shot out the tire of a civilian car that came close. It fired five shots into a crowded minibus. The shooting stopped only after the Iraqi police, port security and a British military unit finally caught up with the convoy. Somehow no one had been hurt, and the contractors found a quick way to prevent messy disciplinary action. They handed out cash to Iraqi civilians, and left. The documents sketch, in v...

McDonald's has to raise it's prices .

Cracked.com argues against this long-held belief .

Now Hollywood's getting into the act : QUINCY, Mass. (AP) — An actress acclaimed for her tough-talking performance in the 2007 film “Gone Baby Gone” is facing charges after she and another man allegedly broke into a neighbor’s apartment south of Boston and then tried to blame it on a black man, police said Tuesday. Jill Quigg, 35, of Quincy, who played the role of Dottie in the movie directed by Ben Affleck, was arrested Friday after police were called about a break-in at a Quincy apartment, according to police. Quincy Lt. Jack Sullivan said Quigg and Georgios Keskinidis, 28, of Lynn, were stopped near the apartment and told police that a black man had broken into it and was running off with a 32-inch flat screen television and a new computer printer. “That’s when the suspects said they all of a sudden became crime fighters,” Sullivan said. Sullivan said the pair told police they chased the man as he dropped the items and got into a getaway vehicle. The pair also told police the...

Seanbaby from Cracked.com does it again .

If so, there are five possible reasons .

The Founder of the Tea Party thinks so : Tea Party my ass. This was nothing other than The Republican Party stealing the anger of a population that was fed up with The Republican Party's own theft of their tax money at gunpoint to bail out the robbers of Wall Street and fraudulently redirecting it back toward electing the very people who stole all the ****ing money! Ouchie!

Because that's what Jesus does, goshdarnit! ( via )

Not exactly a shinning moment for Toyota . Not everybody's lucky enough to get engaged at age 5 . Ah, Afghanistan . The inspiration behind " I Love My Hair ."

Sigh . The Parents Television Council has released a statement criticizing the producers of "Glee" for allowing its stars Cory Monteith, 28 , and Dianna Agron and Lea Michele, both 24 , to participate in a "hyper-sexualized" photo shoot in the November issue of GQ. According to the statement from the PTC, "it is disturbing that GQ, which is explicitly written for adult men, is sexualizing the actresses who play high school-aged characters on 'Glee' in this way. It borders on pedophilia . Sadly, this is just the latest example of the overt sexualization of young girls in entertainment," said PTC's President Tim Winter. From the good ol' dictionary: pedophilia: sexual desire in an adult for a child . It's called Dawson casting, people . UPDATE: From the GQ Editor-in-Chief "The Parents Television Council must not be watching much TV these days and should learn to divide reality from fantasy. As often happens in Ho...

Stay classy . Virginia Beach is the biggest city in Virginia, and the hometown of the state's current Republican Governor, Bob McDonnell. Now it's also home to the latest example of a racist email forward destroying a prominent conservative's political credibility and possibly career. As the progressive Blue Virgina blog reported Monday -- and I independently confirmed from one of the recipients Tuesday -- Virginia Beach Republican Party chair Dave Bartholomew forwarded a racist email comparing African Americans to dogs. The email, subject line "my, dog," consists of a racist parable about African Americans and welfare. In the first 24 hours since the email came to light, Democrats condemned Bartholomew and he resigned his position with the Republican Party.

They decide to remind the American People of the things they have accomplished . Congress passed an $814 billion economic-stimulus package soon after President Obama took office, tapping a staggering sum of money to avoid a full-blown depression. Democrats have trumpeted the gains from that effort but know it's not enough for restive voters. "Americans still see themselves in a ditch," said House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (D., Md.). The two other landmark acts of this session were the health-care overhaul, a giant step toward universal coverage that had eluded presidents back to Franklin Roosevelt if not Teddy Roosevelt, and the Wall Street accountability act. Obama has also signed into law at least a dozen other pieces of legislation of significance. They include: Making college loans more affordable. The Cash for Clunkers program to help the auto industry. New consumer protections for credit-card users. Making it easier for women to challenge pay dis...

IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT YOUR TITLE IS !!!

( via ). Who knew Elvira was keeping up with political events?

Nicki Minaj is getting new management . While Obama waits on Congress to get moving (ha!) the US Military hops to it . Fish oil will not make your unborn baby smarter . These guys made a super-shoe . This sick, twisted tale would have made a better movie than half of the horror flicks I've seen in the last three years.

They haven't mastered the art of touting their accomplishments, believing that the average American has time to figure out/remember what's been done with them . What if a president cut Americans’ income taxes by $116 billion and nobody noticed? It is not a rhetorical question. At Pig Pickin’ and Politickin’, a barbecue-fed rally organized here last week by a Republican women’s club, a half-dozen guests were asked by a reporter what had happened to their taxes since President Obama took office. “Federal and state have both gone up,” said Bob Paratore, 59, from nearby Charlotte, echoing the comments of others. After further prodding — including a reminder that a provision of the stimulus bill had cut taxes for 95 percent of working families by changing withholding rates — Mr. Paratore’s memory was jogged. “You’re right, you’re right,” he said. “I’ll be honest with you: it was so subtle that personally, I didn’t notice it.” Few people ...

Someone had to do it .

Why does Dick Cheney's daughter seem to have more clout with conservatives (and the media, for that matter) than John McCain's daughter?

Their "legal logistics." They don't want to prosecute anyone from the Bush Administration, and now they want to make sure no one else can either.

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“It’s an accurate statement. I’m definitely one of the top 10 guards. It could mean two, it could mean one, it could mean four or five. I’m definitely one of the top thousand. Look, I know how he feels about me. There have been a lot of great guards to play the game. For me to sit here and say, ‘He should have said top five,’ that’s disrespectful to the other guards that I’ve watched.” Kobe Bryant , getting there.

Some of the best stuff goes straight to the web: Ep. 193: October 15, 2010 - Overtime

Interesting. If you're trying to figure out the plot of director Zack Snyder's " Superman " reboot, don't look at the Man of Steel's previous cinematic endeavors for any clues. Likewise, there are no breadcrumbs to follow in the character's considerable comic book run. In fact, there's really no where to look except for the minds of those who have worked on the script. Alrighty then. No one tell Oliver until they start filming , M'-kay?

Which could be overlooked had she not all but admitted it to a group of Latino college students .

Golden . Taxes are actually fees the government collects so that you can have nice things like Interstate 80, just north of you, which one day you'll hop on while telling your parents to kiss your ass. Once you pay 'em, it's not your money anymore. If you don't like how it's spent or how much is collected, well, that's what elections like this are for. But no matter how low taxes are, it ain't your money. Read the whole thing . It's worth it.

Sometimes I wonder how some of these guys are able to campaign . Oh; wait... now I remember .

If for anything, to spite the jerk who didn't want it made . I mean; how can "John Legend and the Roots do a cover album of snogs from the 60's and 70's" be a bad thing? FYI: I bought it myself, and I can remember the last time I bought music of any kind.

One option for President Obama . Not poor enough . These are the times you should call out sick . So much for liberalism . A Jason Bourne movie without Jason Bourne ...or the actor who played him. Michael Moore knows how to handle Fred Phelps . Some jobs have more..." unusual requirements ..." than others. Sweet Home Alabama (for the GOP, that is). Well played, Tyler Perry .

It's just that (ironically) that's the crap that sells. But positive hip-hop has/does exist .

Yikes . MONTPELIER, Vt. — The lawyer for a Vermont man who claimed he bit into a Burger King sandwich and found an unwrapped condom says his lawsuit's been settled out of court. Attorney Devin McLaughlin said Friday details of the settlement of the 2007 lawsuit are confidential and won't be disclosed. [snip] At the time, Hartless claimed his experience after biting into the Southwestern Whopper caused him "sustained pain and suffering, vomiting, nightmares, mental and emotional distress" and medical expenses. He couldn't be reached for comment Friday. I've felt that way just from watching those creepy King commercials. Can't imagine how a condom-laced burger would make me feel, but I know "happy" ain't on the list.

Pretty inevitable when you consider that Disney owns both .

It isn't surprising to see a " behind the foreclosure crisis " story, even if some people are still treating the whole thing as if (1) the banks did all they could to prevent it and (2) the homeowners who got involved were simultaneously deceptive scam artists and stupid rubes (depending on how you perceive the issue). Well, as for the first theory: The root of today’s problems goes back to the boom years, when home prices were soaring and banks pursued profit while paying less attention to the business of mortgage servicing, or collecting and processing monthly payments from homeowners. Banks spent billions of dollars in the good times to build vast mortgage machines that made new loans, bundled them into securities and sold those investments worldwide. Lowly servicing became an afterthought. Even after the housing bubble began to burst, many of these operations languished with inadequate staffing and outmoded technology, despite warnings from regulator...

This passage from the TPM post says it all : It does seem odd that a demographic known for doing menial labor at below the legal minimum wage would get a ride in a limo. Also, it should be noted that among the crowds of Americans being taken advantage of by the illegal immigrants in the ad -- taxpayers, police, that old-fashioned Louisiana marching band -- all but one of them are white.

Here's one theory that's worth a look .

Christine O'Donnell uses her relationship with Sean Hannity to hold the RNC hostage .

While I don't think a person who threatens to burn any religious document deserves to rewarded for not doing it, a deal is a deal .

Imagine if they were married to each other . Good for the University of Mississippi . And people thought I was silly to think this topic might have come up . I think Erykah Badu has a point , but as for the start off the decline: that happened with MC Hammer. Not the artist himself mind you, but the fact that he was willing to sign a record deal even though he was making money selling his own tapes out of the back of his van. Once the industry knew that hip-hop could be bought, they knew they could influence what was said. Hillary Swank wants another award I guess. Think of it as a memento .

To be honest, a " boy runs girlfriend over to get his Playstation back " story seems so 2003.

I'd give one of the examples, but you wouldn't believe me .

Glenn Beck thinks Donald Duck is getting federal funding . A Muslim cleric in Britain thinks that rape cannot happen if the couple is married . There's a guy who thinks Campbell Soup is the first stage of America coming under Sharia Law . Pat Sajak ( yes, that Pat Sajak ) thinks that state workers have too much invested in elections and maybe they shouldn't be allowed to vote .

Think Progress sure thinks so .

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Awesome . Via Comics Alliance : According to Marvel.com , "X-Men Arcade" will make its way to the PlayStation Network and XBox Live Arcade for download this fall (in other words, delightfully soon). Offering the exact same experience that wowed gamers when the machine first hit arcades back in 1992, the home version of the game will allow 1-4 players to take on the role of either Wolverine, Cyclops, Storm, Colossus, Dazzler or easily-the-best-playable-character Nightcrawler and rescue Professor X and Kitty Pryde from a host of classic villains, including Pyro, Blob, Juggernaut and the White Queen (back when she was evil). For years now, the game has pretty much defined the term "side-scrolling button-masher" and comes in a close second only to "Marvel vs. Capcom" as the comic-based arcade game most associated with simulated nerdgasms.

In other words: as long as the crazies can spend cash to make them look sane, they can continue being crazy.

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TPM story here . Soooo...the message seems to be: evil immigrants (even money says they're coming from a "brown" country) are going to shot up your stop signs and kidnap your little blond-haired, blue-eyed baby, just like in Man on Fire ! Except this is real life, and the black guy is not a hero . Did I miss anything?

Heh .

...at least, in a legal sense . When a judge basically shrugs their shoulders at you trying to stop the release of a sex tape, what else can you say?

"I don't know that I would put that label on them. They were doing what they thought was right for their country. And they were going out and fighting what they thought was a bigger, you know, a bigger evil." -- Ohio Congressional candidate ( and Nazi sympathizer ) Rich Iott.

Via WashPos t: Four young adults, three of them students at the University of Maryland, were stabbed early Tuesday during an altercation that began in an off-campus bar and spilled onto the street, police said. None of the wounds were life-threatening. Two of the injured are 19 years old, said Cpl. Erica Johnson, a Prince George's County police spokeswoman. One of them is 20, and the other is 23.

Talk about dealing with the cards life dealt ya '. This was one celebrity couple I thought was going to last . Shame. You should always trust a politician who just reads what he's given instead of speaking based on his personal beliefs. I'm glad they're being rescued , but I still think they need to do a head count. And people said Brett Farve was too old to dodge . Teaching isn't easy .

An interesting comparison of what was going on then and now .

Internet: prepare yourself .

It must be Monday . UPDATE : Yep; it's definitely Monday .

( pic via ) If we could somehow use the military to educate our youth, improve our health care system and create more jobs I would say that the percentage is fair. (Well, the military could always just draft the unemployed so they can fight the wars, but there's something not quite ethical with that proposal). And don't get me started on the table scraps tossed to "Science, Energy and Environment" or the irony that "Diplomacy and Needs Abroad" is 1/40th of our war spending.

When you consider how she lost her crown , it seems tame compared to recent beauty-pageant scandals.

Michael Moore on why LeBron James has set a good example . Cracked.com roots for the underdog . A Green Lantern animated series is on the horizon . Who will be the new Mary Jane Watson ? I look at this revelation this way: just because the Kingpin and Dr. Doom are both bad guys, it doesn't mean they always have the same agenda. Not all sidekicks are useful . Considering his lyrics, this isn't that surprising .

...and my personal theory is: they are people who either don't understand the concept of discretion or don't have an occupation that involves sexual (real or simulated) activity. Example: An old friend was telling me a story about how he visited a strip club some years back. The strippers were attractive and entertaining. The crowd was lively and energetic. There were some hiccups (strippers trying to compete over who gets the good tipper, some patrons acting like assclowns) but overall, everyone had a good time. When I asked if he had any pics, my friend replied, "Sure," and showed me a picture of one on the strippers in a nightgown. When I asked him if there where any pics during that night, he replied, "No, of course not. Cameras aren't allowed. These ladies aren't planning on doing this long-term and the last thing they need is a video clip playing on someone's laptop while they're trying to do an interview. Besides that, if people have pics ...

I'm sure this connection doesn't extend to other members of the Tea Party . Yep. Isolated incident, this is.

Seriously: WTF ?

Via MSN Video: How to Detect a Lie

This fella is known as " the Beast ." Apparently there was a little-known story in which, in a moment of desperation (and dwindling numbers), The Dinobots combined into a previously-unknown combiner to save their Autobot comrades. Unfortunately, Beast has no personality and it's only function was to kill anything that seemed alive. After wiping out every Decepticon in the battle, Beast turned his attention to the Autobots. Considered by some to be one of the truly terrible ( non-cartoon ) Transformer stories. I bring this up because the revelation of this toy just seems...off to me.

At least in this story it was .

Who else would show up to a school in full character costume after getting a letter from a 9-year-old ?

I don't know whether to make a child-labor crack, a joke about corporate greed or snark that Nickelodeon is treating her as an undocumented worker : Has the voice of 'Dora the Explorer' been taken for a ride? The actress who became the voice of the adventurous cartoon character in 2007 filed a lawsuit on Wednesday claiming Nickelodeon and its parent companies exploited her with a dubious contract that made millions for the network, but little for her. Lawyers for 14-year-old Caitlin Sanchez told the New York Daily News that the actress and her parents were pressured into signing a "convoluted and inscrutable contract" that cheated her out of "millions, perhaps tens of millions." [snip] Sanchez became Dora, a Latina character, in 2007, and her contract promised $5,115 per episode and a cut from residuals and merchandising. The Sanchez's claim that their own agent, Jason Bercy, gave them only 22 minutes to review the contract and threatened...

And how .

( pic via ) If you're working one these jobs , consider changing course. " If you want to live like a Republican, vote Democratic ." Why "Government By Dow" doesn't work . The Tea Party takes over the comic strips . Hypocritical preachers . A Fine Whine . Did you know someone tried to ban the dictionary once ?

Well, they can . ( h/t )

You don't say .

Ask no more .

Better late than never, I guess.

Makes you think twice about Halloween, let alone going to the courthouse . Oh, and there's pictures !