Apocalypse Watch: Day 720,875

'Lost' synagogue reopens in Jerusalem's Muslim Quarter

"Everyday, it's a little closer...
Goin' faster than a roller coaster..."

Neil Hefti : In Memoria

The surf bands of the world salute you.

God War!

Rama currently favored, 4-1.

100 Days, 100 Errors : Day 98

President Bush on Monday signed into law an intellectual-property enforcement bill that would consolidate federal efforts to combat copyright infringement under a new White House cabinet position.

The Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property Act establishes within the executive branch the position of intellectual property enforcement coordinator, who will be appointed by the president.

The law also steepens penalties for intellectual-property infringement, and increases resources for the Department of Justice to coordinate for federal and state efforts against counterfeiting and piracy. The so-called Pro-IP Act passed unanimously in the Senate last month and received strong bipartisan support in the House.

- CNET news

100, 99...

Personally, I think the Shrub is gonna beat 100 errors before he leaves...

Stocks Rise Sharply After News of Krugman Nobel

Well, they did!

There's your treasury secretary right there, mr. secret muslim who was trained by kenyan terrorists!

100 Days, 100 Errors : Day 100

Two weeks after persuading Congress to let it spend $700 billion to buy distressed securities tied to mortgages, the Bush administration has put that idea aside in favor of a new approach that would have the government inject capital directly into the nation’s banks — in effect, partially nationalizing the industry.

As recently as Sept. 23, senior officials had publicly derided proposals by Democrats to have the government take ownership stakes in banks.

The Treasury Department’s surprising turnaround on the issue of buying stock in banks, which has now become its primary focus, has raised questions about whether the administration squandered valuable time in trying to sell Congress on a plan that officials had failed to think through in advance.

-New York Times

99 to go!

Amend This!

Keating to Johnboy McCain:

"I'm yours...
'till death do us part!"

Uh-oh!

Hey, Kids -It's the Ukele Orchestra!

They're talking 'bout Shaft!

Ramyeon Western!

THE GOOD
THE BAD
THE WEIRD

Supposedly coming to select US cities this winter...
And it stars the always awesome Kang-ho Song!

Brother, Can You Spare 50 Gs?

Full size replica Roman seige catapult (ballista) on Ebay - starting bid: 25,000 Pounds...

Couric & Palin, ZipGen's Abbot & Costello

Watch CBS Videos Online

C'mon, ask her "Who's on First?", will ya???

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Watch CBS Videos Online

Smart as a Whip, She is!

"Reducing taxes has to be accompanied by tax reductions."

Don't Use Facts, Use Threats!

The Great Schlep from The Great Schlep on Vimeo.

This Just In Plus 24

Contrary to the pundocracy's acclaimations of "Masterful,""Gamechanging," and "Momentum Stealing" (see Palin/miserable failure) McCutandRun's "Time Out" whine has resulted in scenes like this:


Kudos to DL for taking the lipstick off the pig.

Highlight to be found @ 6:35 mark, but 'tis all good.

This Just In

McCain Suspending Campaign Because Of Financial Crisis

"Tomorrow morning, I will suspend my campaign and return to Washington after speaking at the Clinton Global Initiative. I have spoken to Senator Obama and informed him of my decision and have asked him to join me."

When everything else fails, just quit campaigning.
Talk about CUT AND RUN! Who knew the P in POW stood for PUSSY(cat)?

Every Four Years

I find myself having to post this:

Heinlein circa 1953 writes the following in the afterword to "Revolt in 2100" (which dealt with the 2nd American Revolution -masons, again-liberating the US from the theocratic state it had become in the early 2000's under Nehemiah Scudder, a tele-evangelist turned politician:

"As for the second notion, the idea that we could lose our freedom by succumbing to a wave of religious hysteria, I am sorry to say that I consider it possible. I hope that it is not probable. But there is a latent deep strain of religious fanaticism in this, our culture. It is rooted in our history and has broken out many times in the past. It is with us now; there has been a sharp rise in strongly evangelical sects in the country in recent years, some of which hold beliefs theocratic in the extreme, anti- intellectual, anti-scientific, and anti-libertarian."

"It is a truism that almost any sect, cult or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so. . . . The custodians of the True Faith cannot logically admit tolerance of heresy to be a virtue."

". . . Could any one sect obtain a working majority at the polls and take over the country? Perhaps not -- but a combination of the dynamic evangelist, television, enough money, and modern techniques of advertising and propaganda might make Billy Sunday's efforts look like a corner store compared to Sears Roebuck. Throw in a depression for good measure, promise a material heaven here on earth, add a dash of anti-Semitism, anti-Catholicism, Anti-Negroism, and a good large dose of anti- furriners' in general and anti-intellectuals here at home and the result might be something quite frightening -- particularly when one recalls that our voting system is such that a minority distributed as pluralities in enough states can constitute a working majority in Washington."

". . . Impossible? Remember the Klan in the Twenties and how far it got without even a dynamic leader. . . The capacity of the human mind for swallowing nonsense and spewing it forth in violent and repressive action has never yet been plumbed."

Just cause they're far right libertarians, don't mean they can't be right.

They Keep Doing It

Newspapers Deliver Millions of 'Terror' DVDs to Subscribers -- In 'Swing States'

Because you keep falling for it...

More here:

Muslim group seeks probe of 'radical Islam' DVD

and here:

Who Is Funding Distribution Of DVDs About Radical Islam In Campaign Home Stretch?

There's Still Time

FBI probing Fannie, Freddie, Lehman, AIG: report

To add that ol' retroactive immunity to the bailout bill...

Name Your Children Well

Evidently, I am ticking time bomb...


There I am, catching up on the latest Bigfoot posts @ Cryptomundo, when my day is ruined by this charming little factoid:

As has been noted by various Fortean researchers, for some strange reason many violent criminals share the middle name “Wayne.”

Chuck Shepherd, the creator of “News of the Weird,” is perhaps the major source of a detailed database on this phenomenon.

Palin Pals With Witchhunter: UPDATE: Now With Original Blessing!

(Gabriel Devil Hunter TM & C Marvel Ent, Ltd)

He anoints future Governors and drives out Witches, and best of all - He's For REAL!

“And I’m thinking, this guy’s really bold, he doesn’t even know what I’m going to do, he doesn’t know what my plans are. And he’s praying not “oh Lord if it be your will may she become governor,” no, he just prayed for it. He said “Lord make a way and let her do this next step. And that’s exactly what happened.”
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The pastor speaks of his offensive against a demonic presence in the town in a trailer for the evangelical video “Transformations”, made by Sentinel Group, a Christian research and information agency.
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According to the Christian Science Monitor, six months of fervent prayer and research identified the source of the witchcraft as a local woman called Mama Jane, who ran a “divination” centre called the Emmanuel Clinic.

Her alleged involvement in fortune-telling and the fact that she lived near the site of a number of fatal car accidents led Pastor Muthee to publicly declare her a witch responsible for the town’s ills, and order her to offer her up her soul for salvation or leave Kiambu.

Says the Monitor, “Muthee held a crusade that “brought about 200 people to Christ”.” They set up round-the-clock prayer intercession in the basement of a grocery store and eventually, says the pastor “the demonic influence – the ‘principality’ over Kiambu –was broken”, and Mama Jane fled the town.

- Times Online





trailer for the De-Demonizing can be found here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBvxWl7jXr0

Clueless Morons

"Mourning Commute?" Are you kidding me? WTF?

Does the AP style guide really allow for obvious tasteless puns when covering a tragedy?

Disgusting.