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[BEEP]
"Yes, Joe?"
"Who is Leeroy Jenkins, Alex."

Also,
Microsoft to include Sonyproofing in new products, provide tools to remove Sony malware.

Also,
Iraqis sue US military is US court for torturing them.

Also,
Slavery is alive and well in the USA. Halliburton promised illegal immigrant workers decent pay, food, and lodging to help clean up after Katrina, paid for from their no-bid massive government contract. Once the workers arrived, they were not paid, and, if they objected to this, were thrown out of the base and left homeless and penniless in the middle of the disaster area.

Immigrants rights groups and activists like Bill Chandler, president of the Mississippi Immigrant Rights Alliance, estimate that hundreds of undocumented workers are on the Gulf Coast military bases, a claim that the military and Halliburton/KBR deny -- even after the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency turned up undocumented workers in a raid of the Belle Chasse facility last month. Visits to the naval bases and dozens of interviews by Salon confirm that undocumented workers are in the facilities.

Also,
People returning to their homes in New Orleans are finding the bodies of their relatives, still untouched by the "complete" search.

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I Love The Onion

"The Undertaker Forced To Manage Eddie Guerrero's Funeral"

"The Undertaker, I summon you to prepare Eddie's body for the viewing, notify his family and friends of the event, and bury his body deep below the ring at the Joe Louis Arena in Detroit, never to rise again," said Vince McMahon during Monday Night Raw, setting the stage for an unforgettable Survivor Series funeral to be broadcast live on Sunday, Nov. 27. "I know you're backstage, 'Taker, and if you're the man you say you are, then you'll have the balls - and basic funerary-organization skills - to come out here right now and accept this challenge!"

"Next Sunday, Eddie Guerrero will finally be laid to rest, and as prophesied, I will be the one to put him in the ground once and for all," The Undertaker said. "Eddie - you probably can't hear me right now, but let it be known that I have a Tombstone with your name written on it."

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In Australia, the lizards are poisonous, too.( A few choice words on the matter from the local Australian, jerril )

Also,
Mike Tyson: "Black TIE? I though you said black EYE. That's my bad, dog."

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"As the membership criteria at American Express remains stringent, the Rewards Plus Gold Card is difficult to acquire for all but the most financially disciplined," the application letter starts off.

Ms. Hecox said her cat Samson is a good boy, but has no financial history. The card offer is riddled with praise for Samson, touting his financial prowess, assuring him that he's "earned this recognition"

Also,
The definition of irony: A rocket which will blast the ashes of Star Trek star James Doohan into space has had its take-off delayed because of engine trouble.

Also,
Scott Adams demonstrates that, at heart, he really is the Pointy Haired Boss

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Senator Robert Taft, Republican icon, had something to say on freedom of speech and war.

As a matter of general principle, I believe there can be no doubt that criticism in time of war is essential to the maintenance of any kind of democratic government ... too many people desire to suppress criticism simply because they think that it will give some comfort to the enemy to know that there is such criticism. If that comfort makes the enemy feel better for a few moments, they are welcome to it as far as I am concerned, because the maintenance of the right of criticism in the long run will do the country maintaining it a great deal more good than it will do the enemy, and will prevent mistakes which might otherwise occur.

He said that December 19th, 1941.

I must perform this experiment.

Also, puppies.


Finally,
Quote Of The Day:

Demodex folliculorum: As far as I am aware, the only multicellular creature on the planet to posess no anus, these mites inhabit the hair follicles on our faces[...], and usually die of terminal constipation.

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Mount Etna erupting, from the ISS. Click for REALLY big version.


New York City, 9/11/01, from the ISS. Click for REALLY big version.

Both taken from the NASA ISS Top Ten Photos page.

Bill pauses to check the time on his new atomic wristwatch.

Do not be misled. The many "atomic time" wristwatches you see on the market today are merely cheap quartz wristwatches with a built-in radio receiver. The watch sets itself from 60 kHz VLF radio time signals transmitted by NIST from station WWVB near the US atomic clock in Boulder, Colorado. At least once a day, reception permitting, usually at night, the watch resets itself to compensate for the normal drift of a quartz crystal. The result is a self-setting, radio-controlled, atomic-time, wrist watch that is never off by more than a second or two a day. Impressive and convenient. But these are not atomic clocks.

Today we have the first true atomic wristwatch.

Two stories about mising the point.

Ontario people not quite clear on the concept of the 911 *EMERGENCY* number.

It's not for traffic news.
It's not for stray dogs.
It's not for blocked toilets or flooding basements.
It's not for no-injury automobile accidents.
It's not for reporting that your power is out.
It's not for seeing if your phone line works.

These people all need to be killed.

Also,
The Chiang Mai Night Safari Zoo will have its official opening on New Year's Day, and the "Exotic Buffet" marking the event will include tiger, lion, elephant and giraffe

What If Condoleeza Rice and Anne Rice traded jobs?

It's a slow day.

takhisis agrees, apparently.

"I'm glad they cleared that up."