Odd disjointed Website - Much Like the Show

Friends of Father Ted - apparently we're not the only ones who occasionally need a "cup of tea father", a "Ferraro Roche", or an exploding Milk Float. Remember - Bishop's love scifi. wiki

I'm adding to the Sunday zombie theme:

The Clintons, a horror film that never ends
by Andrew Sullivan

The Clintons have always had a touch of the zombies about them: unkillable, they move relentlessly forward, propelled by a bloodlust for Republicans or uppity Democrats who dare to question their supremacy. You can’t escape; you can’t hide; and you can’t win. And these days, in the kinetic pace of the YouTube campaign, they are like the new 28 Days Later zombies. They come at you really quickly, like bats out of hell. Or Ohio, anyway.

Read it all at TimesOnline.

Teller Zombie Short

Zombie short/commentary on Vegas tourists:

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Music To Buy

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club.

My new favorite album ever of this month.

Our Journalists Suck

I just heard an interview with Michael Chertoff, Secretary of Homeland Security (gag), by the BBC. Were that our journalists so cogent and inquisitorial. The interview succeeded in making the administration he works for look like the disgusting authoritarians they are without his realizing it.

And try not to vomit when you read this and this.

I'm officially voting for a Democrat. For the second time. That makes me sad, but I'd rather the Supreme Court be filled by semi-lunatic fascists than by full-out ones. And at this point, my usual Libertarian protest vote just seems empty.

I WANT Republicans to lose, big-time. Because when they do, they become real Republicans. And because I really think that Hillary or Obama will be more fiscally responsible and more pro civil liberties than John McCain. Really. How fucking sad is that?

Fangoria Radio?

Yep, and only on Sirius. Channel 102, 9-11 central Friday nights. I just found out about this, but I think Dee Snider hosts. How fucking cool is that?

Just another reason to pay the $150/year to not listen to tired, soporific terrestrial radio.

And fuck Congress for delaying the Sirius/XM merger. Competition exists in plenitude; and it's not as though, once the merger happens, XM's and Sirius' satellites will spawn missiles and lasers to shoot down competitors.

Gay Marriage Devastates Massachusetts

Not really. Actually the opposite: the state is doing very well thanks to an influx of gay professionals.

Who would have thunk it? Having a bunch of (on average) educated, well-employed workers with lots of disposable income improves an area's economy.

Spc. Jeremy Hall update

Atheist soldier says Army punished him

TOPEKA, Kan. - A soldier claimed Wednesday that his promotion was blocked because he had claimed in a lawsuit that the Army was violating his right to be an atheist.

Attorneys for Spc. Jeremy Hall and the Military Religious Freedom Foundation refiled the federal lawsuit Wednesday in Kansas City, Kan., and added a complaint alleging that the blocked promotion was in response to the legal action.

The suit was filed in September but dropped last month so the new allegations could be included. Among the defendants are Defense Secretary Robert Gates.

Hall alleges he was denied his constitutional right to hold a meeting to discuss atheism while he was deployed in Iraq with his military police unit. He says in the new complaint that his promotion was blocked after the commander of the 1st Infantry Division and Fort Riley sent an e-mail post-wide saying Hall had sued.

Read it all @ Yahoo News.

Focus On The Family Disapproves Of Teen (AHEM Male) Homos

Focus on [other people's] Family published an article that "debunks" gay "myths" for young homosexuals. It's all unforgivable ignorance ("science is fact--not theory"?) and transparent logical fallacies, their favorite as always being the straw man variety (what scientist, let alone science organization, has said there is a gay gene? NONE). It's as grotesque as the rest of that sick organization's pogroms, but I point out this one hilarious fact:

It only focuses on male homosexuals. The article only features pictures of young guys, and its arguments try to slip past the fact that gay female relationships and disease risk are very different from those of gay males. It's as though it never occurred to the author that there were really female homosexuals. Hmmmm...

I guess it's because the author thinks lesbos are H-O-T and gay males are gross little fags.

These Christians love the fantasy that the rest of us can't see the cards they aren't showing.

The Prettiest Film Ever

Peter Greenaway's Prospero's Books

Why isn't this out on American DVD yet?

New Destroyer Class In 5 Years

The US Navy is beginning construction on the long-delayed, horrifyingly expensive new DDG 1000 destroyers. Estimated cost for the first 2: $3.3 billion each. And last I heard, its new, rather ingenious missile silos (they're along the hull of the ship and would act as protection by blowing outward if the ship is hit) and its long-range heavy guns (which fire rocket-assisted, GPS-guided munitions) still don't work after years of testing and development.

Meanwhile, the Littoral Combat Ship program continues to be plagued with cost overruns, construction delays, and other sundry problems. These ships would be frigates, but seem to me as underarmed as the program seems undirected. Two of each potential version of this new class were to be built, but now the Navy is settling for one of each as it tries to nail down these "cheap" ships' sky-rocketing pricetags.

Why am I so unexcited about the Navy's new ships? Am I missing something? And why the name that sounds like my local TV station's latest weather radar (DDG 1000)?

It does look fucking cool though...

In our backyard....

Chavez, FARC, Threaten Wider Regional Conflict
By Douglas Farah

The reaction of presidents Hugo Chavez of Venezuela and Rafael Correa of Ecuador to the killing of FARC commander Raul Reyes is now threatening to plunge South America into a disastrous conflict.

"This could be the start of a war in South America," Chavez said. He warned Colombian president Alvaro Uribe: "If it occurs to you to do this in Venezuela, President Uribe, I'll send some Sukhois" _ Russian warplanes recently bought by Venezuela.

This is no small threat. In the past several years Chavez has spent , according to the Defense Intelligence Agency, $4.3 billion in weapons in 2005-2006, more even than China. This includes a Kalashnikov assault rifle (AK-47) factory licensed from Russia. For a nation not at war, this is hardly an auspicious sign.

Read it all at Counterterrorism Blog.

30 Days

Said a little about 30 Days of Night over at my place.

Notre Dame?!?

The Wacky World of Tariq Ramadan
By Jeffrey Breinholt

Tariq Ramadan is an enigma. The grandson of Muslim Brotherhood founder Hassan al Banna and the son of the late top Brotherhood leader in Europe, the Swiss academic is the probably the most celebrated Muslim public "intellectual" on the planet today. He is no longer welcome in France or Egypt, and his appointment to the faculty of Notre Dame is very much in doubt, based on the Department of Homeland Security's denial of his U.S. visa. The denial is premised on his financial support to Hamas, which Ramadan claims was - ha! - inadvertent. There is now the first book-length English biography of him, a translation of Caroline Fourest's Frere Tariq (in English, Brother Tariq). My review of it can be found on the website of the Investigative Project on Terrorism .

Read it all @ Counterterrorism Blog.

Evidence Iron Man Will Suck

Because this may be the coolest movie trailer ever: "Let's face it. This is not the worst thing you've caught me doing."



A sharper version and article here.