May 2006

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First waves of National Guards headed to border next week

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About 800 National Guard soldiers will head to the U.S. border with Mexico next week. They're the first of roughly six-thousand troops who will help the Border Patrol stem the flow of illegal immigrants across the border.

Posted by Corey Anderson at May 31, 2006 11:35 AM | Comments (0)

 

Corpus Obscura: Breakfast Club principal dead at 67

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Paul Gleason, 67, best known for playing the disgruntled high school principal in "The Breakfast Club," died Saturday at a Burbank hospital of mesothelioma, a rare form of lung cancer linked to asbestos. Gleason studied under the famed acting teacher Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio beginning in the mid-1960s and appeared in more than 60 movies, including "Die Hard, "Trading Places," "Johnny Be Good," and "Fort Apache the Bronx." He reprised his Principal Vernon role in the 2001 spoof "Not Another Teen Movie." Further down on his resume were parts in "Private Duty Nurses," "Ewoks: The Battle for Endor," "Maniac Cop 3: Badge of Silence," and "Revenge of the Nerds IV: Nerds in Love."

Posted by Corey Anderson at May 31, 2006 10:30 AM | Comments (0)

 

American Idle Friday Random Ten (5/26)

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Joining Rox Pop, TBogg, and Pharyngula, here's the American Idle Friday Random Ten:

1. Rock n' Roll Suicide - Seu Jorge
2. Watching the Detectives - Elvis Costello
3. Voices - Split Enz
4. Fight The Youth - Fishbone
5. Two Hearts - The Jayhawks
6. Don't Ever Think You're Different - A House
7. The Sun And The Rain - Madness
8. Nightswimming - R.E.M.
9. Blue Skies - Willie Nelson
10. Whiner's Bio - Mates of State

Posted by Corey Anderson at May 26, 2006 6:25 AM | Comments (0)

 

Matthew also had six toes on one foot and kept walking in a circle

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Myths of The Da Vinci Code

Posted by Corey Anderson at May 24, 2006 11:34 AM | Comments (0)

 

President Bush takes a tour of the border patrol's surveillance center

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Posted by Corey Anderson at May 23, 2006 9:00 AM | Comments (0)

 

Corpus Obscura: Tom Corbett, Space Cadet dead at 85

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Frankie Thomas, who gained fame in the 1950s for his starring role in the TV children's show "Tom Corbett, Space Cadet," has died at the age of 85. Thomas acted on Broadway in the early 1930s, then ventured to Hollywood, where he appeared in such films as "A Dog of Flanders," "Boys Town" and "The Major and the Minor," as well as four Nancy Drew movies. In 1950, producers passed on Jack Lemmon, and Thomas won the title role of Tom Corbett, a Space Academy cadet who was training to become a member of the elite Solar Guard, 400 years in the future. The show spawned popular phrases including "Blast your jets" and "Don't fuse your tubes." At his request, Thomas was buried in his "Tom Corbett, Space Cadet" costume.

Posted by Corey Anderson at May 22, 2006 3:07 PM | Comments (0)

 

White Guys with Red Ties face more presidential humiliation

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For the second time in eight months, President Bush has worn a blue tie to a gathering of the White Guys in Red Ties Club, further eroding the support of his base.

Posted by Corey Anderson at May 19, 2006 9:49 AM | Comments (0)

 

American Idle Friday Random Ten (5/19)

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Joining Rox Pop, TBogg, and Pharyngula, (while Gisleson speaks into the microphone) here's the American Idle Friday Random Ten:

1. Fairy Tale of New York - The Pogues
2. Memphis - Cry Cry Cry
3. A Summer Song - Chad & Jeremy
4. Kick In The Eye - Bauhaus
5. Home - His Name Is Alive
6. Search And Destroy - Iggy & the Stooges
7. Mack The Knife - Bobby Darin
8. Lemon Meringue - Fishbone
9. I'm Like A Bird - Nelly Furtado
10. Revolution 1 - The Beatles

Posted by Corey Anderson at May 19, 2006 6:57 AM | Comments (0)

 

John Kerry only listening in on youngest daughter's phone calls

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Posted by Corey Anderson at May 18, 2006 11:46 AM | Comments (0)

 

Australian Prime Minster John Howard met Tuesday with the leader of the free world

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Posted by Corey Anderson at May 17, 2006 5:39 PM | Comments (0)

 

Secretary told to order own National Secretary's Day cake

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Posted by Corey Anderson at May 15, 2006 8:47 AM | Comments (0)

 

Mark Kennedy needed all three arms to reel this one in!

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A hat-tip to the DFL Senate blog for noticing the hack Photoshop job on the Mark Kennedy for Senate homepage. (Click on the image above for a close-up of the photo). This is like one of those Highlights pictures where you have to find the ten mistakes. Here's what I've got so far...

1. Third elbow coming out of the fish
2. Fishing rod badly rendered in closed fist
3. Horribly faked shadow across Mark's chest
4. No one wears khakis to fish
5. Reverse the photo and you'd realize there's simply no way he could be standing like that (oh, sorry, that's the Oswald photo)
6. Big jelly donut splotch in the lower left hand corner of the sky (my monitor only)

UPDATE: Kennedy's press secretary Heidi Frederickson sent an e-mail to MPR's Polinaut blog stating it's the congressman's finger and not a third elbow. More pictures of the fishing trip were included. Can you get elephantitis in your fingers?

UPDATE #2: Tild shows us what Mark Kennedy caught when Dick Cheney came to town.

Posted by Corey Anderson at May 12, 2006 2:59 PM | Comments (1)

 

American Idle Friday Random Ten (5/12)

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Joining Rox Pop, TBogg, and Pharyngula, (while Gisleson gets his Bell rung) here's the American Idle Friday Random Ten:

1. Legal Matter - Richard Thompson
2. Bus To Beelzebub - Soul Coughing
3. Get Up Stand Up - Bob Marley & The Wailers
4. Tie Your Mother Down - Shinedown
5. The Lip - Louie Prima & Keely Smith
6. Naked Pictures (Of Your Mother) - Electric Six
7. Won't U Please B Nice - Nellie McKay
8. Jah Work - Ben Harper
9. Beautiful Enemy - Dar Williams
10. Right Through You - Alanis Morissette

Posted by Corey Anderson at May 12, 2006 6:53 AM | Comments (0)

 

If Dick and Karl were here, we could do the Electric Slide

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Posted by Corey Anderson at May 11, 2006 3:50 PM | Comments (0)

 

The Ringer

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Posted by Corey Anderson at May 11, 2006 8:50 AM | Comments (0)

 

Entire presidential motorcade seen going through Taco Bell drive-thru on the way to the airport

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Posted by Corey Anderson at May 10, 2006 11:25 AM | Comments (0)

 

Hand check, Hastert!

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Posted by Corey Anderson at May 10, 2006 11:03 AM | Comments (0)

 

Tom Cruise versus Philip Seymour Hoffman as John Madden in this summer's biggest movie

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Has Agent Ethan Hunt met his match in maniacal NFL commentator John Madden, as the former Raiders coach plots to destroy the Earth with an atomic Turducken? Expect the action to go into sudden death overtime this weekend in Mission: Impossible III!

Posted by Corey Anderson at May 5, 2006 2:29 PM | Comments (0)

 

Nicole Richie achieves transparency

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In an upcoming Vanity Fair article, one of Nicole Richie's medics, Jeffrey Wilkins says, "If it's not anorexia, she should be able to gain the weight. If it ends up being anorexia we can help her with that." In other news, rich people have their own medics.

Posted by Corey Anderson at May 5, 2006 8:54 AM | Comments (0)

 

American Idle Friday Random Ten (5/5)

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Joining Rox Pop, TBogg, and Pharyngula, (while Kos's chauffeur Gisleson FARTs into his couch cushions) here's the American Idle Friday Random Ten:

1. Ninety-Nine - Endless Blue
2. Lifter Puller Vs. The End of the Evening - Lifter Puller
3. Helpless - Sugar
4. Blasphemous Rumours - Depeche Mode
5. The Slop - Louie Jordan
6. Birthday - Sugarcubes
7. All the Little Pieces - Louis XIV
8. Huboon Stomp - Devo
9. Windfall - Jay Farrar with Canyon
10. Saddam - Vinnie & the Stardusters

Posted by Corey Anderson at May 5, 2006 6:47 AM | Comments (1)

 

White House declares Bush's Spanish "not that good," English "even worse"

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The White House on Thursday disputed an account of President George W. Bush singing the U.S. national anthem in Spanish during the 2000 presidential campaign, saying his Spanish is not that good. "The president speaks Spanish, but not that well," stated out-going press secretary Scott McClellan. "And, quite frankly, his English sounds like an alcoholic Alzheimer's patient or a developmentally disabled child is speaking."

Posted by Corey Anderson at May 4, 2006 2:38 PM | Comments (0)

 

"I call health insurance premiums 'America's monthly colonoscopy!'"

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President Bush laughs with American Hospital Association President Dick Davidson, right, as they talked prior to Bush speaking on Health Care Initiatives at the American Hospital Association meeting Monday, May 1, 2006, in Washington.

Posted by Corey Anderson at May 3, 2006 2:56 PM | Comments (0)

 

Did somebody say pancakes again!?!

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I sure loves me my pancakes!!! Mm, Mm, Mm!

Posted by Corey Anderson at May 3, 2006 2:24 PM | Comments (0)

 

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