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Got this today at noon . Would it trouble them to send this like a week early?

Disney bought Marvel . The Bad: Every Marvel TV show and movie will have Walt Disney's signature slapped on it, like they did with Doug and Recess. A "Disnefied" Punisher and Blade. " Hulk smash Goofy ." Emma Frost, Electra, and Psylocke will have to wear clothes now. The Good: This is almost like pumping Paris Hilton's trust fund into the movie "Sling Blade." Disney's marketing + Marvel's creativity = ? Games like Random Heart have just upped in awesome. (also mentioned in OW's link): A Pixar-made Marvel movie? *Drool....* The characters from Gargolyes can now become a Marvel comic. Yay! This draws boy to Disney. Marvel artists doing Disney stuff.

Your "liberal = fascist" garbage is now part of conservative Republican philosophy . What people like Goldberg, in responding to this point, have always claimed is that there's nothing particularly right wing about the kookery of people like the Aryan Nations or the Posse Comitatus -- they're just kooks, plain and simple. So when James von Brunn shot up the Holocaust Museum this summer, Goldberg disingenuously went on Beck's program and tried to persuade us that Von Brunn wasn't a right-wing extremist -- just a garden-variety kook. Just like Dr. George Tiller's assassin, Scott Roeder. But this is palpable nonsense. What makes these people right-wing extremists is that they not only adopt right-wing political positions, they take them to their most extreme logical (if that's the word for it) outcome: They not only oppose abortion, they believe abortion providers should be killed. They not only believe that liberal elites control the media and fi...

The Democratic Plan for Health Care reform is failing because Obama isn't leading. But if he and the Democrats in Congress kiss the GOP ring, everything will be super .

"... and the quarterback is toast ." Blazin '. Taking it on the road . Blame the French . The Big Payback ?

We were outsourcing everything to shady organizations . WASHINGTON – When the CIA revived a plan to kill or capture terrorists in 2004, the agency turned to the well-connected security company then known as Blackwater USA. With Blackwater's lucrative government security work and contacts arrayed in hot spots around the world, company officials offered the services of foreigners supposedly skilled at tracking terrorists in lawless regions and countries where the CIA had no working relationships with the government. Blackwater told the CIA that it "could put people on the ground to provide the surveillance and support — all of the things you need to conduct an operation," a former senior CIA official familiar with the secret program told The Associated Press. But the CIA's use of the private contractor as part of its now-abandoned plan to dispatch death squads skirted concerns now re-emerging with recent disclosures ab...

Nice . BAGHDAD – An Iraqi journalist imprisoned for hurling his shoes at former President George W. Bush will be released next month after his sentence was reduced for good behavior , his lawyer said Saturday. Muntadhar al-Zeidi's act of protest during Bush's last visit to Iraq as president turned the 30-year-old reporter into a folk hero across the Arab world, as his case became a rallying point for critics who resented the 2003 U.S. invasion and occupation.

How desperate are smokers ? DU's hatemail is always a good read. Make you wonder how some of these people ever figured how to turn a computer on, log in and open up a browser. ... and you thought your boss sucked . Don't really get this quasi-rivalry between TSG and TMZ , considering they both technically work for the same company. If you want to know if they love you so: it's in their kiss . I have to keep reminding myself that she was on the Cosby Show once . Blockers . When people talk about FoxNews' ratings, they aren't referring to the Business Channel . Get a room .

But it's no longer backwards compatible (always a catch). So basically, Sony's going the Nintendo route.

... meaning: "Senators who not only know the facts, but know how to deal with people trying to distort them ", we'd have our health care, among other things.