The KLF is gonna rock ya.

From The Register:

Ever the pragmatic nation, Germany has decided to boost replica kit, souvenir programme and meat pie revenues at next year’s World Cup by opening an enormous brothel to cater for those fans who want to score but don’t have David Beckham’s golden balls or shooting skills.

Personally, I have more respect for the hookers than the soccer players. After all, I can understand why someone would be interested in their services.

(H/T to Nick T.)

As Darfur descends into anarchy, the United Nations appears unable to do any more than express concerns and continue to ask the parties involved to cease their violent attacks.
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I think we all have posts that we just let sit in our “draft” pile. These posts, for whatever reason, we’ve decided not to go with. I had a change of heart after I wrote this after first seeing it on the Angry Twin’s blog. Then I calmed down and figured, “Maybe they just have bad taste in interior design.” I said to myself. So I dropped it.

Then I find out they do yoga and reiki. They’ve passed a “resolution” calling for the bishops to reconsider ordaining women and married men to the priesthood. They even have the crack investigators at Traditio in Radice mention them (amongst other bloggers). My goodwill has run out.

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From some guy’s site.

I really can’t be bothered to look up at the name of it. I’m in enough pain as it is.

But what I do want to say is, that picture is NEIDERMEYER ridiculous. I mean, we have out cowboy president himself strumming his 6-string, trying to entertain a mother who just lost everything.

Please, tell me you’re not this stupid. Tell me you’re just playing
some sort of, “huh huh! Look, I’m pretending to be a moron”
type of thing here. Seriously, this hurts. Actually, it’s just
painfully stupid, either way. I mean, it’s OK to be stupid,
but it’s something else entirely to be painfully stupid.

UPDATE: Just so we’re all clear here. The stupid person I’m referring to is the guy who put this on his blog, not the President. He either doesn’t realize this picture was Photoshopped, or he thinks pretending it wasn’t is funny. Man.

Steve Terrell:

I thought that New Mexico’s political blogs would be all abuzz about the arrests of State Treasurer Robert Vigil and former Treasurer Michael Montoya on federal racketeering charges. After all, it’s not every day two statewide elected officals are frog-marched into federal court accused of accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars in kickbacks from state investment consultants.

I grew up in Pennsylvania. Wake me up when someone goes (Niedermeyer Advisory) Bud Dwyer, ok?

I’ve taken the time to write a FIQ (Frequently Imagined Questions) section for the site. You can find it at the top left side of the blog, right under the train.

New readers are encouraged to take a look.

As we all know, I’m all about being positive. However, there are times I just can’t be positive. Margaret Porwal has kindly provided me with one of those times.

After September 11th 2001 Britain offered an earthquake rescue team, who have travelled the world to haul people out of rubble and are welcome everywhere, except of course the USA, who didn’t want to know.
As for Hurricane Katrina, the USA’s initial response was to turn down experts in water-borne diseases from Britain, dam experts from Holland, transport planes from Russia and countless other offers from around the world. We do offer, you’re just too proud to accept.
And as for the perennial American bleat about the cost to you of aid to Europe after World War 2, ponder the following: might not the war have been shortened and the destruction therefore reduced had the USA deigned to help earlier?

Beware Americans, your pride will be your downfall.

So the short reply is: Riddle me this, Margaret Porwal, how much did you donate to the Red Cross? Don’t give me this, “Our government wanted to send five guys, but your government said no.” Line. We’re America. Guess what, we’ve got a couple dam experts here. We’ve got guys who can pull people out of rubble. I’ll need to check but, we might have a few transport planes stashed someplace we can use. We’ve got so many people from our own country streaming into the area, that we can’t even sort them all out. The last thing we need is a bunch of folks that sound like Jacques Cousteau or Boris and Natasha to add to the mix.

So, where did you give? When is Bono going to show up and hold a fundraiser? This is why you warm the bench, Europe. You’ve got it ingrained in your domes that only a government can do anything to help. What with your collective hive mind and your off the hook tax rates, the concept of “personally” donating is alien to you. After all, you did bust out what European governments were doing, and made no mention of anything organized at a grass-roots level.

I’ll explain it in some easy to understand words.

Please give a big round of applause to the two newest sponsors of The Donegal Express.

(Try to guess which one is an actual slogan.)

The Unitarian Universalist Church — “The Religion that has faith in /you/!”

And

Catholics for Contraception — “Because nothing will come between our love — except this little bit of latex.”