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From the Trailer Park — The Debt

Looks like a killer cast… could be a nice ending to an otherwise slow summer.

Wisconsin Recalls

Here’s a pretty good run down of the various recall elections of Wisconsin legislators triggered by last winter’s public sector union war.

http://washingtonexaminer.com/news/2011/07/wis-recalls-union-dirty-word-both-sides

Apparently “union” is a dirty word if the AP is to be believed.  That can’t be all bad of course.  My main quibble with the story is the persistent conflation of [...]

Check the ATF First?

27 Rifles Stolen from California Military Base, http://www.fxn.ws/riVR1h – Sent via the FOX News Android App.

26 AK-47s and 1 Dragunov sniper rifle were stolen from Fort Irwin. 

Pithy, True — and Catchy

More on the video here from The Washington Examiner

More on the Terrorist Scumbag Abdo

I know, innocent until found guilty in a court of law…well I’m not going to sit on his jury so I can say pretty much what I want about this.

H/T This Ain’t Hell

The following is disturbing but not surprising.

Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com

So it appears that Mr. Abdo [...]

Duty Called

An Englishman died last week after 12 straight hours of combat — video game combat.

The family of a budding computer programmer have on Saturday launched a campaign to raise awareness about the health risks of playing online computer games after their son died following a marathon session on his Xbox.

A post-mortem revealed [...]

Classic Pick O’ the Day — August 1

The Freshman (1990) A young film student gets mixed up with the mob when his possessions are stolen. Dir: Andrew Bergman Cast: Matthew Broderick, Marlon Brando, Bruno Kirby. TV-PG. 11:00 PM PDT. TCM.

Marlon Brando is the star tomorrow for TCM’s “Summer Under the Stars” movie marathons highlighting individual stars. This one is not [...]

Sunday Open Thread/Gratulerer med dagen*, Lars!

*that’s “Happy Birthday” in Viking.

For our favorite Norwegian: No horns. Just fun!

Sunday Gospel

Iceland and Debt

Here’s an interesting story on how Iceland handled its 2008 collapse.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/9550667.stm

The government shut down the banks and walked away from all its debts.  The upside… the government is debt free.  The downside… most citizens will never get out of debt due to the devaluing of the krona.  There was however, no street [...]

Rev. Hal 9000

Artificial intelligence? More like Pseudo-intelligence:

After a Houston couple couldn’t get a friend to serve as the minister at their wedding, they decided to create their own.

When Miguel Hanson and his fiancee, Diana Wesley, get married on Saturday, a computer will conduct the ceremony. Well, technically, a computer program Hanson wrote will serve [...]

The Fiddler

Here’s the new villain for Christopher Nolan’s third Batman movie — The Fiddler:

Senate Republicans want a 60-vote threshold for a debt-limit bill to pass the chamber, but it’s actually Democrats who are enforcing the filibuster on their own legislation, insisting on delaying a vote until 1 a.m. Sunday morning.

Republicans offered to let [...]

Classic Pick O’ the Day — July 31

Road to Utopia (1946) Two song-and-dance men on the run masquerade as killers during the Alaskan gold rush. Dir: Hal Walker Cast: Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour. TV-G. 8:00 PM EDT. TCM.

I love the “Road Movies”. Good times, sharp jokes, corny jokes, and a lot of hamming, but a great time. Also [...]

Beer drinkers and hell raisers (BUMPED)

As some of you may have heard (accent on “may” as the normally astute Mike musta got lost in the computer talk when he posted in this thread yesterday), the Republican Party Animals will be invading the heart of Hollywood tomorrow night tonight. If you’re able to make it, for the ultra-bargain price of [...]

From the Trailer Park — Shaolin

Fill-In Five

I posted this in an open thread, but what the heck.

Top 5 Lyrics That Only Rhyme If You Mispronounce Words:*

(N.B. I like every one of these songs, even though the rhymes don’t work.)

Dirtbag Appears in Court.

Since you probably won’t see this on the news where you are at…

WACO — A criminal complaint unsealed Friday states AWOL Fort Campbell, Ky., Pfc. Naser Jason Abdo, 21, intended to build two bombs and detonate them at a local restaurant frequented by soldiers.

When interviewed by investigators from the FBI Wednesday, Abdo [...]

Weekend 5 — Hiatus Version

Wanks has informed us that Weekend 5 is on hiatus this week. List your top 5 whatever.

5. Limp Bizkit 4. sandwiches 3. Thomas Aquinas 2. blue 1. toe nails

Ed. — The comments — the first few anyway were posted under an accidental second “Open Thread” — whoops.

Meat Loaf — R.I. Put That Computer Down!

Rock shouter singer Meat Loaf collapsed on stage during his July 28 concert in Pittsburgh and was unconscious for 10 minutes. The singer was then rushed to the hospital where he died got up and finished the entire concert.

Thousands of terrified fans saw the 63-year-old Bat Out of Hell singer collapse in the [...]

Saturday Open Thread

30 Rock… Alec Baldwin is hilarious… when he sticks to acting.

Outsourced…yet another one season show I like and then the network cancels.