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Taking the ‘Victory’ Out of City’s Victory Parades

…the walk of shame.
but then I’m a cranky old liberal bastard who just doesn’t appreciate the price of freedom is blowing up kids, old ladies, humans in general. just ungrateful I is. It was THEIR homes, not mine, the way a good Christian God intended it.
Why, O, Why, can’t I be smug too?

must be a commie.

Interesting revelations about former drug czar and morality advocate William Bennett, courtesy of Washington Monthly. Seems he’s got quite a taste for $500 a pull slot machines, and he’s racked up roughly $8 million in losses over the past 10 years. I suppose he could write off the losses as “research expenses” for his new book, “The Card Counter’s Book of Virtues.”

“There’s a term in the trade for this kind of gambler,” says a casino source who has witnessed Bennett at the high-limit slots in the wee hours. “We call them losers.”

CBC News: U.S. warns Canada against easing pot laws

Now What? Bomb Canada next?

The New Yorker-Bechtel and Bin Laden Connection

“When the contract was awarded, two weeks ago, the Administration did not mention that the bin Laden family has an ongoing relationship with Bechtel. The bin Ladens have a ten-million-dollar stake in the Fremont Group, a San Francisco-based company formerly called Bechtel Investments, which was until 1986 a subsidiary of Bechtel.”

With pot and porn outstripping corn, America’s black economy is flying high

These are some amazing statistics from the Guardian. Pot is an estimated $25 billion crop in the United States, and that’s without the benifit of farm subsidies. Domestic legalization, followed by an international legalization push, could open up a huge market both domestically and worldwide. Why settle for being the world’s breadbasket when America could be the world’s head basket?

Yahoo! News - Diamond Dave’s Home Invasion

David Lee, buddy, it’s good to have you in the news again.

Iraqis Left Baffled as Don Drops in for a Chat

“I am pleased to visit Iraq - your country - to witness your liberation. The American people share your joy that tyranny is gone, ” he said in the broadcast.”

Rumsfeld went on Iraqi teevee. He’s an odd bastard.

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Martin Luther Gene tells of his day at work.
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Just one of the past due accounts on my “list”, not even for all that much money. As soon as I got past telling this woman who I was and why I was calling I paused intentionally as always to get a reaction.

“Well let me tell you what the situation is…” She paused, took a deep breath and continuied. “My father passed away recently. He died accidently, I don’t mean he died in like a car accident or fell down, he died as a result of a defective butane lighter that exploded in his face!”. “This is one of the first times I’ve been able to talk about it without breaking up…” and talk about it she did.

To sum it up, her father lived alone in a secluded area and after the lighter blew up in his face it started a fire that he evidently put out with his bare hands. It was 3 days before his body was found. She said there was burnt skin stuck to the wall near where he collapsed. “…and you could see the the stains on the carpet where his body fluids leaked!”. There was a lot more about problems with the insurance companies and the county required “clean up” before the property can be lived in or sold. I just let her go on. It was far more entertaining than any other call I would make.

So when her voice started getting shaky, and she said “I just don’t know what to do, or where to start!”, I said “how about I just fax you a copy of the invoice so you don’t have to look for the original?”. She thought that was a good idea.

Asia Times

Paul Belden:
“Here’s something I learned on Sunday: There’s a particular etiquette involved in trying to escape by foot from a field that’s overflowing with unexploded ordnance of every size and shape - all the way from ordinary hand grenades and rocket rounds lurking in the shrapnel underfoot to moon-shot-sized missiles lying awry on a destroyed flatbed truck - and whose farther end you notice has just been set on fire by a looter. “

Mars Picture of the Day: Boulder Ring | SpaceRef - Your Space Reference

Hoaglund is going to be insufferable…not like he wasn’t before but you know…