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Ew... just ew.

We've got a live one here. NBC News5.com has a story about a girl with an unusual growth. Don't panic... it's just an eyelash. An eyelash that is three inches long.

The article claims that she has been growing it for a half a year and that she thinks it'll help her stand out from the other applicants when she applies to law school. Because Law Schools are looking for freaks just like her. It's too bad she doesn't have a goiter or a nipple on her shoulder or she'd get a scholarship, too.

Suing for sexual harassment is bitchin', dude!

"I feel badly for his family," Mackris said. "But I do not feel guilty. How is it my fault, what has happened here? I could have stood naked in front of him and there was still no way he should be allowed to get away with what he did.

The campaign season has officially gone retarded. The Kerry camp has criticized Vice President Cheney for getting a flu shot during this unusual season of limited supply. The argument is ridiculous on its face as Cheney, an old guy with a history of heart problems, absolutely falls under the special needs category.

Can't these people find something better to talk about? I mean, they've already put their collective feet in their mouth over comments regarding First Lady Bush and her so-called lack of a "real job".

According to the "internets", the casting for Superman is done. More importantly, when questioned about what the new movie will be about, it was hinted that there will be a part devoted to General Zod, played by Terence Stamp, which as you know is one of the greatest villains every portrayed on film...

...first we'll dim the lights, I'll put on some of that Ludicris music I pretend to hate... then we'll get in the hot tub and I'll *bleep* you right in the *bleep*.

Holy moley! If you haven't heard, Bill O'Reilly, host of the popular news analysis program "The O'Reilly Factor", is embroiled in a sexual harassment suit. He and Fox News sent out the preemptive strike with a claim that a former producer was attempting to extort him and the news channel for $60 million dollars and has sued the claimant for extortion. Can you imagine how someone could think that a sexual harassment suit could be worth that much money? Well, her suit is out there as well, and it's steamy.

Take a look at both and judge for yourself. I think that he talked to her just like she claimed in the suit. She actually has exact quotes from the telephone conversations which leads many to believe that she was recording the conversations. Expect those tapes to be released soon. Anyway, I also think that she either encouraged the calls or didn't make any legitimate attempts to make clear that his advances were inappropriate. Read her lawsuit... I have, and I don't see that she said anything to him at any point. Unfortunately, he has a wive and kids and this will be very bad for them and this will most certainly be a major distraction at least and a career/credibility killer at worst.

October 6, 2004

To Trey Parker and Matt Stone,

I remember a cordial hello when you guys were beginning to be famous guys around Hollywood at some party. I remember several times getting a few giggles out of your humor. I remember not being bothered as you traded on my name among others to appear witty, above it all, and likeable to your crowd. I never mind being of service, in satire and silliness.

I do mind when anybody who doesn't have a child, doesn't have a child at war, or isn't or won't be in harm's way themselves, is encouraging that there's "no shame in not voting" "if you don't know what you're talking about" (Mr. Stone) without mentioning the shame of not knowing what your talking about, and encouraging people to know. You guys are talented young guys but alas, primarily young guys. It's all well to joke about me or whomever you choose. Not so well, to encourage irresponsibility that will ultimately lead to the disembowelment, mutilation, exploitation, and death of innocent people throughout the world. The vote matters to them. No one's ignorance, indcluding a couple of hip cross-dressers, is an excuse.

All best, and a sincere fuck you,

Sean Penn

P.S. Take this as a personal invitation from me to you (you can ask Dennis Miller along for the ride as well) to escort you on a trip, which I took last Christmas. We'll fly to Amman, Jordan and I'll ride with you in a (?) 12 hours through the Sunni Triangle into Fallujah and Baghdad and I'll show you around. When we return, make all the fun you want.

Hey Sean, you say one should encourage irresponsibility? Maybe you shouldn't have encouraged the irresponsibility of the Iraqi regime when you visited them before the war? Did you ever think it might be just as irresponsible to make a random decision in the voting booth just because one pampered celebrity scumbag thinks you should go to the polls?

"Stewart, one of the America's best-known personalities, was subjected to a strip search on arrival and had to squat and cough hard to check for hidden contraband, Federal Bureau of Prisons spokeswoman Carla Wilson said.

For the next five months, she will be known as prisoner No. 55170-054."

What They Won't Say
Would these debate talking points help Bush and Kerry?
By Chris Suellentrop
Posted Thursday, Oct. 7, 2004, at 9:39 PM PT

ST. LOUIS—Most debate previews tell readers what to expect when they tune in Friday night to the second presidential debate between President Bush and Sen. John Kerry. Or when they don't tune in: How many people in Iowa, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin will be watching high-school football games while the two candidates answer questions from voters on national television? Note to the Commission on Presidential Debates: 9 p.m. ET on a Friday is when you release bad news, not when you schedule events of historic importance.

But if you've been watching this campaign for a while, you already have a pretty good idea of what the two candidates are going to say. It's more interesting to ponder what they won't say, to try to come up with something each candidate could do that might break open a deadlocked race. The campaign is too close for either candidate to take much of a risk on Friday night, so you can be almost certain you won't hear either of the following:

John Kerry: Yes, the world is safer because Saddam Hussein was removed from power. I thought Saddam Hussein was a threat, and that's why I supported President Bush's war. But the world, and America, would be even safer if the president had focused first on finishing the war against al-Qaida and rebuilding Afghanistan after our military's brilliant victory there. If the president had done that, we could now be turning the world's attention to the distant threat that Saddam Hussein posed. If we had waited, the world would have followed us, and I wouldn't be standing here today, because the president would be so popular that he wouldn't have been forced to agree to this Friday night debate that no one is watching. Of course the president has made us safer since 9/11. Any president would have made us safer. But he hasn't made us safe enough. And he's made it harder—by alienating our allies, by alienating moderate Muslims in the Middle East, and by not moving fast enough against al-Qaida—to make us as safe as we need to be.

I'll compare it to the baseball playoffs that are going on right now: President Bush hit a two-out single, and we thank him for it. We'd be far worse off if we had a president who struck out. But a single isn't the best that we can do. His father was born on third base and thought he hit a triple. This President Bush is on first base, and he thinks he hit a home run.

George Bush: Look, I made a mistake when I invaded Iraq. I thought they had weapons of mass destruction. So did the experts. We were wrong. But Sen. Kerry wants us to risk making an even bigger mistake. If we wait until we're certain that a country possesses weapons of mass destruction, we risk waiting too long. Hundreds of thousands of Americans—or Brits or Frenchmen or Iraqis—may die because we waited. I'm not going to risk making that mistake.

Instead, I'll take the risk of making more mistakes like the one I made in Iraq. I may make the same mistake in Iran, or Syria, or North Korea. I prefer my mistake, which liberated a country and toppled a dictator, to the mistake of waiting too long and running the risk of letting al-Qaida obtain weapons of mass destruction. No matter which one of us is elected on Nov. 2, we'll make mistakes. All presidents do.

So, yes; I made a mistake. Yes, I was wrong. But if we went Sen. Kerry's way and he made a mistake, what would the result be?

Chris Suellentrop is Slate's deputy Washington bureau chief. You can e-mail him at suellentrop@slate.com.
Article URL: http://slate.msn.com/id/2107938/

Unlike most of the partisans out there, I've taken the time to read the executive summary of the most recent Iraq Survey Group report, which is the one that the press has referenced to proclaim that there are "no WMD's in Iraq". Seems pretty cut and dry, right? We never should have gone to war, right? Naturally, if you were to take the conclusion that the intellectually dishonest reporters have posted, it would seem pretty simple.

It's not so simple.

After reading the report, I have a different viewpoint. According to the Group report, the sanctions and inspections were working. Unfortunately, we gave too much authority to the United Nations, and they managed to screw up the progress the sanctions were making, that is, if you consider bankrupting a nation of innocents "progress". The UN Food for Oil program ended up being the ultimate saving grace for Saddam, allowing him to buy influence in exchange for oil credits. The oil credits, given to influencial politicos from France and Russian (among other countries) created a motivation for them to keep Saddam in power. If he was ousted, so too would be the potential to make more money. All the while, the money that was supposed to be used for feeding the Iraqi people was used to build Saddam's legacy, which included adding to his personal wealth, upgrading palaces, and so on. In addition, these bribed members of Security Council nations would, in his view, promote the idea that sanctions should be completely removed, opening the door for Saddam to restart biological, chemical and nuclear weapons development. He has essentially created technologies up until our invasion that would allow his to quickly return to fully capable WMD's.

The introduction of the Oil-For-Food program (OFF) in late 1996 was a key turning point for the Regime. OFF rescued Baghdad’s economy from a terminal decline created by sanctions. The Regime quickly came to see that OFF could be corrupted to acquire foreign exchange both to further undermine sanctions and to provide the means to enhance dual-use infrastructure and potential WMD-related development.

By 2000-2001, Saddam had managed to mitigate many of the effects of sanctions and undermine their international support. Iraq was within striking distance of a de facto end to the sanctions regime, both in terms of oil exports and the trade embargo, by the end of 1999.

I'm sure that most of you won't bother to read the report. Let me give you the bottom line. If we would have waited and allowed the "inspections to work", ultimately the sanctions would have been lifted and within a few months, Hussein would have had a completely replenished arsenal of WMDs with which to attack and intimidate other countries, including the United States. And he most assuredly would have provided them to our enemies. God forbid if we would have sat back and let that happen!

And remember this... they could still find WMD's buried in the desert, just like they found those banned fighter jets.

Believe it or not, Harrison Ford stars as "Jethro the Bus Driver" in this silly Snowboarding video. He's got a small speaking part. And no, he doesn't say "Get off my bus!"

NOTE: Link is now fixed. Enjoy!

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This is fantastic news, both for broadcasting and for me. Right now, too many conglomerates own both stations and venues and monopolize the terrestrial air waves. Hopefully, this will send a signal to them that they need MORE VARIETY or they will lose listenership!

On a personal note, I saw this coming a while ago and bought 100 shares of Sirius a couple of months ago. See you on my yacht! (Just kidding... I won't be selling any time soon... the money's trapped in a Roth IRA...

UPDATE: The Sirius stock price has gone up 16% since trading started this morning...