Jon Stewart was positively ecstatic last night about the whole ricin mailer thing (see video).
You remember, how Paul Kevin Curtis, the Elvis impersonator, was framed for mailing poisoned letters to President Obama and Senator Wiker? Well they have now fingered an enemy of his, Everett Dutschke, for the deed, and he is a Wayne Newton impersonator.
Remember what the Chinese say about living in interesting times?
Well, for Jon Stewart, this makes his job pretty easy.
Not only is CNN looking to relaunch Crossfire, but they are in negotiations with Newt Gingrich.
What on earth possessed them to try bring back that moribund franchise?
Did Jon Stewart teach you idiotic ratf%$#s anything the last time around? He literally embarrassed this show off the air.
Just the other day, he cut CNN a new on on their incompetent coverage of the Boston bombing.
Seriously, do not make him stop this car.
You do not want him to open up another can of whup ass on your flabby white asses.
Just in case you do not remember, let’s roll tape:
You can also use it to cut a hole through armor plate:
I recently committed myself to the goal, before the weekend was out, of creating a device entirely from bacon and using it to cut a steel pan in half. My initial attempts were failures, but I knew success was within reach when I was able to ignite and melt the pan using seven beef sticks and a cucumber.
No, seriously. The device I built was a form of thermal lance. A thermal lance, typically made of iron instead of bacon, is used to cut up scrap metal and rescue people from collapsed buildings. It works by blowing pure oxygen gas through a pipe packed with iron and magnesium rods. These metals are surprisingly flammable in pure oxygen, releasing a huge amount of heat as they are consumed. The result is a jet of superheated iron plasma coming out of the end of the pipe. For sheer destructive force, few tools match a thermal lance. But iron isn’t the only thing that’s flammable in a stream of pure oxygen.
I’ve done some work with exothermic cutters, which are simpler than a thermal lance.
It’s an iron tube. You blow oxygen through it, and when you strike an arc, you ignite the iron, and the hot stream of oxygen which burns through whatever you are cutting.
Basically, if you pass oxygen through a tube of anything which burns hot enough to start your target burning, and almost any metal or oil/fat will in a pure oxygen atmosphere, you can cut through almost anything.
Still, it’s neat.
There was a bombing at the finish line of the Boston Marathon (actually 2 bombs, and perhaps as many as 5 other undetonated devices). At least 3 dead, and over 100 injured.
A fire near the JFK Library at Columbia Point has been ruled out as being related to this.
Initial reports that a Saudi national had been taken into customer have been denied by the BPD.
He hit a number of personal bests, and made it to the 2nd round of the 3×3 competition.
I was his videographer, and he will be posting vids his Youtube channel, PostalCode74.
I’ve attached his first vid.
The interesting thing is that you run the numbers, the cartoon ended in 1995, he would be about this old now.
I feel so old.
A 30% error rate.
Some of these were foreclosures on active duty servicemen, which is a felony.
But no prosecutions.
Why are Lloyd Blankfein and Jamie Dimon not in jail awaiting trial?
Coddling banksters just makes them more brazen in their fraud and deception.
Well, right now:
Appearing on CNN, the National Republican Congressional Committee chairman accused Obama of “trying to balance this budget on the backs of seniors” and signaled Republicans may try to use the changes against Democrats in the coming election.
Walden’s comments come even as key Republicans have embraced Obama’s “chained CPI” proposal to cut Social Security benefits.
“I thought it’s very intriguing in that his budget really lays out kind of a shocking attack on seniors, if you will,” Walden (Ore.) said. “We haven’t seen all the detail yet, so we’ll look at it. But I’ll tell you, when you’re going after seniors the way he’s already done on Obamacare, taking $700 billion out of Medicare to put into Obamacare, and now coming back at seniors again — I think you’re crossing that line very quickly here in terms of denying access to seniors for health care…”
Not only is this mind-blowingly bad policy, it is mind-blowingly bad politics.
And let us remember something important: Social Security contributes nothing to the deficit, and it will not for decades.
Once again, we have Obama playing the Manchurian Democrat.
This is Obama at the opening meeting for the Wall Street driven “Hamilton Project”, and when he says, “too many of us have been interested in defending programs the way they were written in 1938, believing that if we admit the need to modernize these programs to fit changing times.”
Notice how he is enthusiastic about the idea of cutting Social Security.
He knows that it involves “throwing momma from the train,” so when he says, “This is not a bloodless process,” (7:56 in the vid) it ain’t his blood, or Bob Rubin’s blood that he is talking about.
This is not eleventy dimensional chess. Obama sees gutting cutting Social Security as a potential bipartisan legacy.
This is what he wants.
H/t Naked Capitalism.
Wow!
H/t JR at the Stellar Parthenon BBS.
Awwwww!!!
Buy them a safe that fits into a mattress:
If you arte going to put your savings in the mattress, this is the way to go.
Charlie told me that he had uploaded a video of him doing the “The Knife Song”.
You know the one, where you take a knife, and stab it between your spread fingers at high speed.
He told me about this, and I told him that he was so grounded.
Well, he wasn’t grounded, but I was unimpressed that he pranked me.
I did not know whether to dope slap him or high five hin, so I did both.
Michael Steel just said something that was:
What he said was that, if Republicans want to get minorities to vote for them they have to stop trying to trying to suppress their votes:
Steele said the RNC’s autopsy of the 2012 election does nothing to address the substantive reasons why the party fails to connect with minorities, highlighting voter identification laws championed by many Republicans, including Priebus, that disproportionately affect black voters.
“How does Reince Priebus reconcile his approach and his agreement with voter registration policies that many in the black community view as anti-black, racist, whatever the term happens to be,” Steele said. “You’ve got to reconcile how people feel about your policies, not just the fact that you’re going to show up. You can show up any time. It’s what you say and what you do when you get there that matters most to people.”
He’s right, of course, and he did not put his foot in his mouth in the progress.
I’m pleasantly surprised.
It’s Friday, it’s cats, what more do you want.
H/t Americablog.
There has always been something about Antonin Scalia that seemed familiar, and now Rachel Maddow has his essence nailed, she was in the Supreme Court for the voting rights act, and she realized that Antonin Scalia is basically a garden variety troll (At about 2:40 in the vid):
It’s a racial entitlement now, voting is a racial entitlement — something that you are entitled to on the basis of your race. Wait a second, do you know how that sounds? But I think he does know how that sounds and that’s the neat thing about being there in person is you can see, actually he’s a troll. He’s saying this for effect. He knows it’s offensive and he knows he’s going to get a gasp from the courtroom, which he got, and he loves it. He’s like the guy on your blog comment thread who is using the n-word. ‘Oh, it made you mad? How about if I say this? Does it make you mad? Did it make you mad? Did it make you mad?’ He’s that guy! He’s that kind of guy! When we’re all shocked that he said something so blatantly racially offensive while talking about the cornerstone of the federal Civil Rights Act, he’s thinking, ‘Oh yeah!’
He’s Lauren “Uncle Meat” Bandler in judicial robes.
I’m kind of surprised that Scalia doesn’t show up to court in his underwear with a bag of Cheetos.
Why am I not surprised that she revealed this to Jon Stewart?
That concentration of truth telling on one stage is a stunning level of awesome.
OK, it’s not real, it’s the comedy stylings of Brian Firenzi and Maria Del Carmen, but this is what we should see from CEOs.
This is a live performance of Won’t Get Fooled Again by The Who, but they isolated Entwhistle’s base (probably from the mixing board).
This is amazing. Pure genius.
H/t Boing Boing
Dr. Who Played on Floppy Drives.