WAKEUP PEOPLE - that FISA bill is evil

In honor of the fallen...

Funny story Ganked from HuffPo...

George Clooney:
I just found out about 10 days ago that I must live 300 or 400 yards from Britney Spears. And I found out cause I came home at 10 at night and there's all these helicopters over my house with these lights. I'd gone upstairs, and I came out and I'm in a robe. All of the sudden I see all this shit going on.
I have a guest house where my assistant sometimes is, and I think, someone has broken out of prison and like escaped, because it's a chase scene. It's something out of "Die Hard." I get my baseball bat, which is what you always get in every film--I actually think Clive Owen said, "Get a baseball bat"--and I called up my assistant, who I thought was in the guest house, and I said, "Are you OK?"
And she's like, "Yes."
And I said, "Look, if there's someone in the place, say the word 'Stonehenge'."
And she's like, "What the fuck are you talking about? I'm in my apartment."
I go, "You're not in the guesthouse?"
"No."
So I'm, like, "Well, then, what the fuck is going on?" And I go out and I'm running around with a baseball bat in my robe.
And it turns out it's Britney Spears' house is like, 300 yards from mine. So now I have to move.

Dinner tonight...

A 6 cheese lasagna - with an alternating beef/sausage fill (the beef fill is built around a wine base using San Marzano tomatoes and fresh shitake mushrooms, the sausage is built around a spicier balsamic using crushed tomatoes, heavy garlic, and crushed red pepper) - with a white sauce/cheese composite that includes an egg and an artery-clogging amount of Asiago, Mozzarella, Ricotta, Parmesian, and Romano - topped with a layer of deli sliced provalone as a cap. Everything is kept very separate through the process - so the final product should come out fairly complex.

40 minutes in the oven at 375... then uncovered at 400 for another 20.

I'm pairing in a reasonable napa cabernet.
Garlic bread, a salad of baby greens with a balsamic blue-cheese roasted pecan dressing, and a keylime cheesecake for dessert.

So...
this one's for the girls... and Mr Gyllenhaal...
is there a better method of death than one involving Heath Ledger naked in a bed?
(too soon?)

I lurve America...

Anyway... went into town last night - in theory to celebrate something. I'm not sure exactly what that was all about... then again, it's 3am and i'm working on avoiding trying to sleep because it'll just end up ugly again. The sound of the TV helps - until 'The View' kicks in... shrug. Been reading Singularity Sky by Stross, knocked off Market Forces by Morgan (his worst by far - almost annoyingly so), cant find a copy of Watts Starfish so i'll wait for the reprint, and am staring at Travels with a Salmon and considering a second read. Maybe i should spend more time in coffee shops... that looks like great sport.

A man in a wheelchair came in with his daughter, and said he was an Edwards supporter. When his daughter began to wheel him to the middle of the room, the Hillary operative tapped her on the shoulder, took the wheelchair and took him to the Clinton corner. I rushed over from talking to an undecided voter and objected loudly, but his daughter was a Hillary person. The Clinton operative said, "I don't control what he does; she does." At that point I said to the man, "Nobody controls you. If you want to vote for Edwards, you have every right to go to the center of the room. Do you need help?" He looked at me plaintively, but said nothing as his daughter dragged him farther back into the corner and just shook his head.

This Clinton campaign disgusts me. The 'Death Party™ (ΩΩΩ)' which supported HW 20 years ago and W 8 years ago may have a hard time supporting pubs this time around.

Sex is a constitutionally protected liberty interest. Thus, the government may make sex a crime only where it has a constitutionally sufficient justification for doing so. The government does not have a constitutionally sufficient justification for making private sex a crime. It follows that an invitation to have private sex is constitutionally protected and may not be made a crime. This is so even where the proposition occurs in a public place, whether in a bar or in a restroom.

bwahahahahahahahahahahahahaah

soliciting gay sex in a public restroom is ok...
having gay sex in a public restroom is not...

i wonder how the Idaho republican party feels about that

Breaking News from the Brit/K-Fed custody hearing on CNN

11:32 a.m PT:

On her way back into the courtroom, Anne Kiley, an attorney from the Spears camp, said she had "no comment" when asked if she knew if Britney is going to show up.

Members of the media out here are now commenting how nice Anne Kiley's shoes are.

America deserves Huckabee.

A happy story to begin the week...
The stepson is lucky - if i'd walked in on that he'd be an ex-stepson. Grrrrrrr

The other day i was asked what I thought of events in New Hampshire and the American presidential political process...

i cant really put it into words...

but this video pretty much sums it up

Robyn suggested this.... it's rather fun actually...

Lolcat Tao

1. WTF?

Where is Tao?
Anyone seen Tao?
U has? ORLY?

Do Not Want.
SRSLY.
Ceiling cat sees you wanting
you see invisibl things
invisibl things mak u want
iz not gud


2. wait... like what?

U not know Tao
U not see Tao
Gud is not bad
does Lolrus know bukkit because Lolrus lacks?

u know Tao by wher Tao not seen
like invisible basketball
dont ned basketball
have or not basketball unimportant
Get a Brain - Morans

Mastah make basket without ball
and u know what he do

no matter what happn
mastah make smilz but not try
he not need cheezburger - but cheezburger hapn
and caturday moar happy
everyone lulz

3. No want moar

Want moar? get less.
hamster take moar corm - hamster become unhappy.
kitteh take all cheezburger - other kitteh want moar.
tell kitteh he not fat - he think about being fat
everyone lose

want less
then iz happier
think bout crap less
think bout not-crap moar

you think you know
stfu
mastah not know

So... along the lines of the 'boozeforcoats' campaign (which has been an absolute failure this year with the 70 degree weather) - i have a new 'grand scheme'

From Wikipedia:
Bethlem Royal Hospital became famous and infamous for the brutal ill-treatment meted out to the mentally ill. In 1675 Bedlam moved to new buildings in Moorfields designed by Robert Hooke, outside the City boundary. In the 18th century people used to go there to see the lunatics. For a penny one could peer into their cells, view the freaks of the "show of Bethlehem" and laugh at their antics, generally of a sexual nature or violent fights. Entry was free on the first Tuesday of the month. Visitors were permitted to bring long sticks with which to poke and enrage the inmates. In 1814, there were 96,000 such visits.

It's obvious from the hundreds of paps chasing Brit's ambulance down the street that we really arent terribly far from this sort of thing in today's world - so... i say we wire up a 'Big Brother' house - fill it full of mental patients - and OWN network television.

'SMS to 55555 to give James an electric shock'

I'd buy that for a dollar...

Be prepared... American TV without writers could soon look like this...

You know, after that freakshow Giuliani's comment today ‘None of this worries me - Sept. 11, there were times I was worried’ i really thought that would be the stupidest thing i'd hear from the campaign trail today.

I was wrong.

Let me be clear about this...

If McCain is the Republican nominee - that will play all over the middle east. People there who felt that the 'infidel' must not allowed to have a permanent military presence will be emboldened. Talk of 'crusaders' will be back. This is about as stupid, as insensitive, as demonstrably unaware of the complexities of governance... all I can say is the guy has lost his fucking mind - and he's leading amongst republicans in New Hampshire. Once again - he is the symptom... the root is that we, as a nation, are fucking morons.