Free Speech hero, or just another selfish, unscrupulous bastard who thinks nothing of putting the lives of innocent people at risk for his own power and fame? I think it is all about him, all about the game... He was probably that fifth-grade hall monitor, hated by everyone and who couldn't wait to run and tattle on his classmates to suck up to the teacher.
Eddie Bernice Johnson: 'I never heard the rules' on scholarships
12:00 AM CDT on Friday, September 3, 2010
By TODD J. GILLMAN / The Dallas Morning News
WASHINGTON – As her Republican opponent called for a House ethics investigation, Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson insisted Thursday that she had no idea that the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation had rules against awarding college aid to her relatives.
"If I had known this was against the law I wouldn't have done it," the Dallas Democrat told WFAA-TV (Channel 8), as she began trying to rebuild her image after days of scrutiny of $31,000 in scholarships she awarded in violation of nepotism and residency rules. "I did not have an ethical alarm go off."
Poor Eddie Bernice Johnson is just the latest rule-maker turned rule-breaker to claim not to understand the laws they've passed. If only she had the Ethical Alarm--
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According to a story at MailOnline, Google StreetView has captured an unusual image of a creature they've dubbed, 'Horseboy."
The bizarre sight, dubbed 'Horseboy', has become an unlikely internet sensation after being snapped by one of Google's cars on an otherwise unremarkable Aberdeen street.
The question has Britain abuzz, Who is Horseboy?
As most of you know, I've been everywhere and I've done everything, and I have the pictures to prove it. And it sometimes proves helpful in my travels to go incognito, as I attempted on a recent jaunt to Scotland. But it never fails, leave the house having a bad mane day and there will surely be a camera around...
Yes, I'm afraid I must cop to this too.
I AM HORSEBOY!And here's a picture of my driver's license to prove it--
I must admit, some of the information is not entirely accurate. I'm actually 16.3 Hands high, but DPS rounds off.
Missile Defense Agency, Obama Campaign Logos Cause Internet Stir
- FOXNews.com
The Internet is abuzz with comparisons of the "strikingly similar" logos of the U.S. Missile Defense Agency and the ubiquitous Obama 2008 campaign.
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U.S. Missile Defense Agency
Is this Logo-gate?
The Internet is abuzz with comparisons of the "strikingly similar" logos of the U.S. Missile Defense Agency and the ubiquitous Obama 2008 campaign.
The Missile Defense Agency, which is part of the Defense Department, now features a circular red, white and blue logo on its Web site that has been characterized in some reports as "scarily" similar to President Obama's former campaign symbol. Others have noted that it has a crescent and star design, evoking a common symbol for Islam.
The logo, which first appeared on the Missile Defense Web site in the fall, was designed by TMP Government, a marketing and communications firm that has managed Web site redesigns and logos for numerous government agencies, including recovery.gov and more than a dozen Defense and intelligence-related sites.
But this particular one has caught the eye of critics of the Obama administration.
"I'm having trouble seeing past the crescent and star in the new logo," one critic posted on WashingtonTimes.com. "Is this our signal to the muslim world that we're not going to shoot down their missiles?"
Another poster on WeaselZippers.net likened the logo to that of a "corny science fiction movie."
But others said it was all in the eye of the beholder, and that they saw little or no similarity between the Obama and Missile Defense logos.
Richard Lehner, a spokesman for the Missile Defense Agency, dismissed the comparison entirely.
"It's ridiculous," Lehner told Fox News. "It isn't a new logo to replace the official logo. It's a logo developed for recruiting materials and for our public Web site. Also, it was used prior to the 2008 election and it has no link to any political campaign."
Brian Collins, chairman and chief creative officer at COLLINS:, a New York-based design and innovation firm, said both logos use the "same visual language," complete with two circles and three stripes.
"The Obama logo is filled with messages of hope, it's about looking toward an optimisti
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More Obama logo mischief. Remember, there are no accidents in logo design.
PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa. - The world's most famous groundhog, Punxsutawney Phil, emerged before chilly revelers in western Pennsylvania on Tuesday to see his shadow, a sign his handlers say means winter will last another six weeks.
For look alike week on Facebook, you were suposed to change your profile picture to that of a celebrity you most resemble. Of course, I chose Jonathan Frakes. Not too shabby when we were both in our prime.
Unfortunately, it seems we have followed parallel paths to self destruction.
Poor guy looks like Hell...
Sadly, I'd have to say that I look more like Johnathan Frakes now than I ever did before.
At least I have my health...
Doomsday clock to be moved by world's top scientists tomorrow
Last updated at 11:48 AM on 14th January 2010The timepiece in New York conveys how close humanity is to catastrophic destruction, which is represented by midnight.
Doomsday Clock: Created in 1947 by concerned scientists - it will be changed once more today
British physicist Stephen Hawking is a member of the Board of Sponsors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. He helps to decide when to move the hand on the Doomsday Clock
It was created by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists in 1947, two years after the U.S dropped the first atomic bombs on Japan in World War II. It was originally set at seven minutes to midnight.
The clock has been altered 18 times since then by the Bulletin's scientific board.
This now includes Professor Stephen Hawking and 18 other Nobel laureates.
The latest recorded time was two minutes to midnight in 1953 as the Cold War heated up between the U.S and Soviet Union.
In 2007 it was wound on to five minutes to midnight, to reflect the failure to solve problems posed by nuclear weapons.
Today the public can watch the change for the first time via a live web feed.
A spokesman said: 'Factors influencing the latest Doomsday Clock change include international negotiations on nuclear disarmament and nonproliferation, expansion of civilian nuclear power, the possibilities of nuclear terrorism, and climate change.'
Just last month environmentalists criticised the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference, after leaders failed to reach any real consensus.
To watch the clock be altered go to the 'Turn Back The Clock' website
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists issued a major announcement today. Acknowledging that the world is a crazy place Yo, the Atomic Scientists have proclaimed Flavor Flav as the Perpetual Keeper of the Doomsday Clock and moved the clock's hands forward by two minutes. It is now five minutes to midnight.
(If your Doomsday Clock is flashing 12:00, don't panic, that just means the electricity went off momentarily.)
You can read the board's statement and check out their killa new website here.
This is the first time the hands of the Doomsday Clock have been moved since February 2002 when they were set to 12:00 so that the Atomic Scientists could go to lunch early. This most recent resetting of the hands was initiated partly in response to emerging threats from Iran and North Korea. Iran's president, Foulmood I'monajihad has made no bones about his grim determination to pop an atomic cap in Israel's ass, While North Korea's Great Leader Lil' Kim Jong Il continues to thumb his nose at the West while planning more nuclear weapons tests.
Iran has gotten on the atomic fast track with the announcement that it will have 3,000 nuclear centrifuges on-line by next March which the Iranians insist is for production of nuclear fuel "for peaceful civilian use only." Other's point out that if these centrifuges are allowed to become operational, within a year the Iranians will have enough nuclear material for the Mother of All Kosher Weenie Roasts.
The United Nations has threatened to send Iran "a stern note with at least three frowny-faces," if Tehran continues to pursue its nuclear ambitions.
This weak response from the West has done nothing to discourage Kim Jong Il from his quest to gain a key to the Atomic Playboy's club. He no doubt believes that once he straps his Little Boy to one of his massive Taepo-dongs that the rest of the world will tremble in awe at the might of his Missile Envy Tour. (If he could only keep his missile up for more than forty-two seconds, that is.)
But rockets aren't the only trick Lil' Kim has up his sleeve. Long known as the "Elmer Fudd of Asia," the diminutive despot recently announced that North Korea was acquiring a quantity of freakishly large German engineered rabbits to provide his starving populace with the Glorious People's Wabbit Stew.
Is this an attempt to bolster the physical condition of vast numbers of industrial workers and conscripts in the event of nuclear confrontation with the West? Or perhaps there could be an even more sinister motive. As a precaution, the Atomic Scientists have dispatched a special courier to Pyongyang. He carries with him DVD copies of "Them" and the "Godzilla" collection as a warning of the dangers of combining animal husbandry with atomic science.
However, the nuclear ambitions of the Axis of Evil (not to mention the 26,000 warheads divvied up between the United States and Russia) aren't the only concerns that have the Atomic Scientists quaking in their lead-lined boots. It seems that they are worried about a certain inconvenient truth. According to the boys at the lab, man-made climate change is the second greatest threat to the survival of our planet. They insist that irreparable damage will be done to the environment within the next forty years, unless we act now to stop it. Oh, gee, that won't cause any controversy.
Neo-con pundits like Rush Limbaugh and G. Gordon Liddy, who look on global warming the same way David Duke views the Holocaust will no doubt have a field day with this one. They'll point out that carbon dioxide is one of the main constituents of our atmosphere, that farting cows-- not automobiles are the main source of atmospheric CO2, and that we have a God-given right as Capitalists to pump any damn thing we want into the air or water, no matter how toxic it is.
Besides, these guys are Atomic Scientists, not Weather Scientists, so what do they know? And if old Sci-fi movies are to be believed, you can't trust scientists anyway. Remember "The Thing?" James Arness would still be running loose if the nerdy little guy with the goatee had gotten his way. Remember Dr. Cyclops? He was a scientist. Frankenstein? Scientist. Dr. Evil?
Do I need to go on?
Personally, I put a little more stock into what the scientists have to say because, well... They're scientists. When I need advice on how to sneak the jumbo bottle of Viagra past airport security or how not to go to prison for political espionage I'll call Limbaugh and Liddy. For now I'm sticking with the lab-coat crowd.
Anybody got the time? I must be fast, mine says twelve, straight up.
Also, "Steampunk Internet" has been selected for inclusion in a virtual film festival.
