Fallout Shelter

Makes me want to go watch _Shakes the Clown_

I didn't know Knoxville could be so surreal:

"Clowns Kicked KKK...."

[via Peach]

Refreshing

Even if it's unfair and they're our allies, it's kind of refreshing to hear a nation other than the U.S. be called "evil."  Iran also put some sort of Evil Eye curse on Hillary and caused her to break her elbow.  Maybe we'll have WWII all over again, where Britain is responsible for the Middle East and we're charged with, um, handling the Pacific.  Europe will be up for grabs this time.  Maybe the Scandinavians will take it and invade Russia up to the Urals, since they can handle the cold.  Denmark and Finland can attack Poland from opposite sides and partition it.  Or maybe not. 

How much of the NC "Education Lottery" goes to education?

About a third.  It's a racket, if you ask me. 

Update: Oh, it gets better. 

"We sell more seats than the Governor!"

see more pwn and owned pictures

... and yes, Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead.

"Thank you very much, Chevy. 

"Hi.

"What's all this fuss I hear about a stimulus package?  I'm here tonight to protest against big stimulus packages.  You even see intelligent women on TV prattling on about how big it should be.  And the men, well of course they all want it to be bigger, but you'd think at least some of the ladies would be smarter about this thing!  Even the schoolkids these days know it's not just the size of the ship, but the motion of the ocean!  So will everyone please stop talking about this big stimulus package or that HUGE stimulus package....

"What, you don't get it?  You think just because a woman is over 40 doesn't mean her juices don't flow?  What's the matter with you?  And pretty soon we'll be talking about another damn Presidential Erection again....  Oh, oh....  [fans herself]

"Oh, I'm sorry, I must have gotten carried away.  Never mind."

[Edit:  "I know it’s been a tough week, little Obamaites. You’ve been feeling ... unstimulated."]

"Understanding Gaza: A Teach-In on the Current Crisis"

From my friend Rann:

*Please forward widely*

Understanding Gaza

A Teach-In on the Current Crisis

Thursday, Jan. 15, 7:00 - 9:00 pm

Nelson Mandela Auditorium, Fed Ex Global Education Center, UNC-CH

This program will try to make sense of events in Gaza by providing historical, legal and human contexts. Speakers will provide the background behind the news, and bring into focus the faces behind the headlines. Why is this war continuing? And what can we do to bring it to an end?

Speakers include:

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   Laila El-Haddad is a freelance journalist from Gaza. Her blog, "Raising Yousuf and Noor: Diary of a Palestinian Mother," explores the complex relationships between the personal and the political as she raises her children while negotiating displacement and occupation.
   http://a-mother-from-gaza.blogspot.com/
   [a-mother-from-gaza.blogspot.com]

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   Rann Bar-On is an Israeli activist and graduate student at Duke University. He has worked with the International Solidarity Movement in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Rann advocates for an end to the Occupation and resistance to militaristic Israeli government policies. He is especially interested in the Shministim - a group of Israeli high-school students who are imprisoned for daring to refuse to serve in Israel's occupying army.

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   Marty Rosenbluth: Formerly Amnesty International USA's Country Specialist for Israel, the Occupied Territories and the Palestinian Authority, he is currently a human rights lawyer working with the Southern Coalition for Social Justice in Durham. Through his work with Amnesty, he documented violations by all parties to the conflict, including participating in Amnesty's fact-finding mission in northern Israel during the war between Israel and Lebanon in the summer of 2006 where he documented Hezbullah attacks on Israeli civilians as well as meeting with Israeli officials to discuss IDF attacks on civilians in Southern Lebanon.

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   Dr. Sarah Shields: Associate Professor of Middle Eastern History at UNC-CH, she is the author of Mosul before Iraq and teaches courses on the Arab-Israel conflict, Islamic civilization, the Modern Middle East.


Organized by UNC-CH Justice for Gaza


Co-Sponsors: Solidarity with Palestine through Education and Action, Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions – USA, Jews for a Just Peace – NC, Progressive Faculty Network of UNC-CH, Muslim American Public Affairs Council, Balance and Accuracy in Journalism, Social and Economic Justice Minor UNC-CH, Coalition for Peace with Justice (CPWJ), WILPF (Women's International League for Peace and Freedom), Mothers 4 Peace



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I CAN HAZ BALEOUT?

Sometimes it seems like the only things going on with the web are political commentary and adding funny captions to cat pictures.  So how long was it going to take before there was a mashup?  Even the NYT has taken notice.  [Via jenlight.]

Obamarama

Boy, after the past several years in particular -- well, I never thought I'd enjoy an essentially content-free story like this, but I did.  Is it always like this during those last few Presidential lame-duck weeks?  I guess the honeymoon will be over soon enough, anyway. 

Next it'll be tar and feathering

Can someone more versed in law than I please tell me how this can possibly be right? 

Mistake-filled Teen Sex Case Back in Court Again

Related stories on Google News as of 17 December 2008

This really seems to be a case of throwing things against the wall until they stick.  I mean, if one of the jurors who returned "no true bill" in the kid's first case hadn't realized the mistake, the kid would still have a bogus felony conviction following him around. 

I guess even a jury turning someone loose isn't good enough anymore. 

"That's a real nice indictment ya got there. Be a real shame if sumthin' was to happen to it"

I knew this was going to happen.  Blagojevich didn't really do anything wrong: he was just talking.