If she'd heard him picking her lock, she could have pulled out her Desert Eagle .50 and ventilated him a bit. No dobut about the intruder's identity then.

I've never seen the moronic dislike of redheads in the US that seems to pervade the UK. I thought the SouthPark episode was a bit out of place -especially since they did use the term "ginger", which you never hear in the US. I guess Canada's susceptible to it, though.

Just goes to show how easy it is to stir people up -all you have to do is poke their prejudices a bit. It's a good thing human beings are so lazy, or we'd have killed each other off long ago.

That's nothing. I saw Lon Chaney Jr. walking with the Queen.

Yes. Actually, I do not do anything within my own state.
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You could be an Illinois Senator with an attitude like that.

I understand there's an opening.

The last thing attorneys want is a group of actual peers to the defendant.

As for this dipshit juror... words fail me.

I'll miss having a president whose party is the minority in Congress. Our government works best when there's balance.

And Revjack, I'm pretty sure you'll still be smarter than the next president. Obama hasn't demonstrated any notable intelligence to me. All he seems to do is parrot what his handlers tell him.

The claim mentioned nothing about Caging. Let me quote him yet again: "...the GOP sent windowed envelopes that look like junk mail but were in actuality a form the voter needed to send to confirm they still live there."

Funny how one person can read that claim and think "Caging!", while another can read it and think "Crack Pipe!".

The GOP sending out faux junk mail is a far cry from sending a registered letter.

I wholeheartedly agree that strict standards are needed to prescribe the removal of names from the registration rolls.

Does anyone have any information on what the process is for determining if a registrant is legitimate? Is that process standardized?

Remember boys and girls -there's no right to vote in federal elections. A voter's registration should be between them and election officials. Outside organizations should not be allowed to be involved in getting, keeping, or killing your registration. Problem solved.

"...the GOP sent windowed envelopes that look like junk mail but were in actuality a form the voter needed to send to confirm they still live there."

What in God's name are you on about? The GOP can't send out forms that voters are required to fill out to be eligible to vote.

You want to "nuance" your claim so it makes sense?

This is why we don't let children vote. They're not rational.

Sorry, Scrumplet, but there is no expressed right for individuals to vote in federal elections. It's not in the Constitution (or anywhere else). Furthermore, states provide ID cards. When Alabama (I think) was toying with requiring a photo ID, they were also going to make the state ID's free to avoid any implication of a poll tax.

I see nothing wrong with requiring a photo ID. Voting is a privilege, and if it comes with a tiny bit of personal responsibility, that's no bad thing.

Of course there are people out there who rail against personal responsibility in any form, but you can't argue with those folks. They're beyond the reach of logic.

So ACORN goes out and swells the jury duty rolls, 99.9% of whom are signed up as Democrat. Pollsters are commissioned to perform polls. Their poll breakdowns are influenced by registration numbers -more Democrats registered translates to more Democrats being polled. So on any given poll, pollsters talk to more Democrats. Democratic candidates come out looking better than they would otherwise, and the media dutifully reports the poll results with all due aplomb. The end result is that Democrats get more positive media spin.

A few years ago I pulled up census and voting numbers going as far back as I could. I found the black community has never been fully represented in an election. If you compare the percentages of each race in the population with the percentages of each race in an election, the black community is always significantly under-represented.

Why is it that groups like ACORN have been out there for 30 years, allegedly trying to increase the vote in largely black neighborhoods, and yet there is zero evidence that the percentages have increased one bit? What kind of moron keeps funding an organization that consistently fails for 30 years?

Or is ACORN doing exactly what they want it to?

No one who actually understands how economics works would take out a zero down, 100% (+), 50-year, 5-1 ARM, 80-10-10, negatively amortized, interest only, etc. mortgage. If you've been taught conservative economic principles, you know those instruments are stupid. Intelligent home buyers also don't take on a payment more than 25% of their income. These are simple concepts which none of our kids learn in schools.

I didn't catch if it's part of this stupid bailout or something proposed by one of the candidates, but someone was talking the other day about renegotiating loans so the payment is no more than a third of income. That sounds like a government idea, since that's what HUD charges. To me that's just preposterous -nobody should be paying a third of their income to purchase a house. That's bad economics.

My 15-year fixed rate mortgage runs 9% of my income. Cars I buy with cash. I don't have a big house or a fancy car, but I sleep well at night.

Of course what's scarier is that if they're negotiating DOWN to 33%, that means people were willingly walking into mortgages higher than that percentage of their income. That's stupid.

I don't blame the poor per se. Pretty much the blame has to lay at the feet of the stupid and greedy, i.e. the people who took the loans. Some of those were poor families who saw a chance to buy a house "like everyone else"; some were upper-middle-class families who grabbed onto more house than they could possibly afford just because they could.

They were stupid. They were greedy. Had our union-run schools taught them about economics, they wouldn't have taken the bait. They'd have bought as much house as they could actually afford, and there wouldn't be a foreclosure crisis.

Government regulation of the markets is an answer to this, but it's the wrong answer.

No doubt this is a cover story. The US military is going to unleash a Mother Of All Whats-its over Saudi Arabia, poisoning millions of Mooslims with airborne radiation or chemicals. Pork rinds, maybe. The asteroid is just a gimmick to hide the real source of the air burst. Of course the payload won't be fast acting. It'll kill people slowly, so as not to draw attention to the US.

Just you watch. People will die in Saudi Arabia after this thing goes off.

Does none of the blame for the mortgage situation lie with the fools who took out the mortgages? We have a government school system that completely neglects teaching economics. I have never seen a government school vict- uh, graduate that had been taught about savings, credit, securities, or any financial instruments. They're turned out into the world with no means of financial self defense beyond what their equally uneducated parents gave them. They're immediately accosted by credit card companies, ideas of what kind of car they "have" to own, and messages that their credit rating actually matters.

The Amazing Randi has offered a million bucks in prize money to anyone who can demonstrate supernatural powers in a controlled environment. That money's been on the table for decades and no one's picked it up.

The fact that someone makes an offer like this has no bearing on the reality of the situation. Offering the reward doesn't provide any evidence that anything illegal has happened.

Notably, the story offers absolutely zero evidence of any election tampering.

It seems to me that Democrats would be well advised to STFU about election tampering, since it seems they're the ones who've raised it to high art.

Tumulty pretty much screwed the pooch on this one. The McCain campaign did two ads -one with Raines and one with the other guy.

It's easy and callous and flip to characterize people with learning disabilities as "marginally productive". It's so easy to discount their abilities that in our society it's rarely even questioned.

But I'm always reminded of a line from the Illuminatus! trilogy. It doesn't matter if Atlantis ever existed or not, because the belief in Atlantis has shaped our world. The simple belief has had more effect than the whole continent did if it ever did exist.

When we discount the abilities of "retards", we give no consideration to their effect on the world around them. They have an effect on the world beyond the burgers they may flip or dishes they may wash. They affect people, and that affet is (surprisingly) overwhelmingly positive.

We all excel at something, and people with those difficulties seem to excel at making those around them smile. There are a lot of perfectly whole, healthy people who struggle their entire careers to make us smile for a few minutes.

Don't discount the value of making people around you smile. It's a powerful thing.

Wright's solo albums were neither ponderous nor pretentious. He was a true artist and from all reports a gentle soul.

The world's a little darker today.

This site might come in handy for those worried about the LHC destroying the world.

I've got a whole bag of potatoes on the counter that all look like Ted Kennedy.

I suppose they could tell the image wasn't Hillary because it wasn't wearing pants, or Sarah Palin because it wasn't carrying a gun. That only leaves Bellah Abzug and the BVM. Since Bellah looked a lot like my bag of potatoes, the only remaining logical choice was the BVM.

That's a shame. Hume's the best thing going in political coverage. He's the only reason I haven't blocked Fox on my TV. Guess I will block it after New Years.

I certainly can't fault him for being tired of all the BS that passes for politics anymore.

That's still 36 more blacks than Howard Dean had his his government staff in Vermont.