Bill Maher is Offensive, South Park is Unmentioned

October 31st, 2006 by Vinny
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Try as I might, I couldn’t find a mention of South Park on Wizbang, though, despite their anger over Bill Maher.

Does politics dictate anger?

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Oh Poop

October 31st, 2006 by Vinny

Interesting article about a new exhibit that’s probably gonna prove to be pretty crappy…

Now on display is a 5,000-square-foot exhibit on excrement titled “The Scoop on Poop,” which invites visitors to explore the science of scat. The exhibit is filled with photos of animals in some of their most indelicate moments. Stool sample models abound: haylike football-sized balls (elephant), kidney-bean-looking pellets (porcupine) and coallike lumps coated with fur (black bear).

Beyond the “ick” factor, however, zoo officials and the exhibit’s creators say there is a lot of information being imparted. Visitors can smell the stench of flowers that mimic dung to attract flies for pollination. Videos include one of a hippo spreading its droppings around to mark its territory. Simple games include “Who Dung It?”

“We didn’t want this to be a gross exhibit for shock value,” said Chad Peeling, who helped create the display. “Our goal with the exhibit was to make people think, kids especially, about the science in all aspects in life and this thing that adults don’t like to talk about.”

Oh, and the ad for it is just as classic as the idea…

I know as she reads this, my wife is thinking, “Jeez… It’s like they did this with him in mind…”



Sometimes the truth squeaks out…

October 31st, 2006 by Vinny

So… John Kerry (who, in case you didn’t know, served in Vietnam! I know, shocking, right?) has finally let slip, in a moment of unsurpassed candidness, what he actually thinks about US troops. Apparently, he thinks they’re all crap students who failed at school and didn’t work hard enough.

This isn’t really open for interpretation, and his words are very straightforward, direct, and concise. Here they are:

Or maybe they end up in Vietnam with three purple hearts and no Form 180 so everyone can partake in their bravery?

Now I know… We can’t criticize John Kerry (who, I don’t know if you know this, served in Vietnam) because he was in the Navy and is therefore an expert on all things military and naval. That being said, it’s nice to see that Kerry’s (who served in Vietnam) real opinion has finally come forward. He thinks nothing of the saps that are there because they’re there as a consequence of them not working hard enough in school.

Whether you’re for the war or against it, even the most strident Bush-hating card-carrying far-left liberal loon would have to admit that a remark like that from a US Senator, particularly one like John Kerry (who, in case you forgot, served in Vietnam) is absolutely 100% unacceptable.

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Think you’re having a shitty day?

October 31st, 2006 by Vinny

Try having a car crash into your store while you sit at the register!

Seen on Clip a Day

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Alienware Tries Scummy Pressure

October 31st, 2006 by Vinny

I was going to throw a few quotes in from an article on Hexus about how Alienware tried to influence their reviews by telling them they weren’t sending them any more units after their not-so-hot review of a recent system. Of course Hexus took offense at this pressuring and called Alienware out on it.

The best part is that they published the e-mails from Alienware, one of which is the following:

I’m a little baffled by your idealism on this front:

“… the only inference which can be made from this is that ‘Alienware’ will only submit products to publications which will write nice things about ‘Alienware’.”

That’s was and remains Alienware’s global marketing strategy from the beginning. We’re hardly alone.

The implication, of course, being that every single site or magazine that receives an Alienware system and reviews it favorably may be doing it because they’re pressured to rather than because the system is great. After all, it’s part of Alienware’s global marketing strategy.

I don’t know about you, but I’m pretty digusted by this one. Not that I’d buy a Windows PC anyway, especially an overpriced Alienware shit-box, but that’s not really the point. The point is no one who writes on the web or produces content should patronize any company that tries to influence content creators like this.

Kudos to Hexus for standing up to them and telling them where they can put their high-end Dells.

Read the whole thing here.

Found on Slashdot.

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October 31st, 2006 by Vinny


Mike Nifong: “It’s all good…”

October 30th, 2006 by Vinny

Utterly clueless, this guy…

The prosecutor in the Duke lacrosse rape case has heard the criticism from experts and armchair lawyers, and said yesterday he is comfortable with nearly all the decisions he has made and confident about taking the case to trial.

“I think that I have a responsibility to prosecute this case,” district attorney Mike Nifong said. “I think that really nothing about my view of the case and my view of how the case ultimately needs to be handled has been affected by any of the things that have occurred.”

Funny how when this was a case of a bunch of privileged white guys raping a black exotic dancer, this case was all over the place in a profound way. Now that more and more evidence is stacking up that this woman was lying and nothing actually happened and that the prosecutor is grossly incompetent and complicit in what appears to be wrongful prosecution of those same privileged white kids, the media isn’t interested, except for passing mentions on the news and two decent stories on Good Morning America and 60 Minutes.

Why is no one putting pressure on this prosecutor?

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The Railroad Continues

October 30th, 2006 by Vinny

Check this one out, from ABC News:

As she drove the accuser from the March 2006 Duke lacrosse party, Roberts told ABC News the woman was clearly impaired and “talking crazy.”

Roberts said she tried several different times to get the accuser out of her car.

“The trip in that car from the house … went from happy to crazy,” Roberts told Cuomo. “I tried all different ways to get through to her.”

“I tried to be funny and nice,” she said. “Then I tried to, you know, be stern with her. … We’re kind of circling around, and as we’re doing that, my last-ditch attempt to get her out of the car, I start to kind of, you know, push and prod her, you know.”

Roberts said she told the woman, “Get out of my car. Get out of my car.”

“I … push on her leg. I kind of push on her arm,” Roberts said. “And clear as a bell, it’s the only thing I heard clear as a bell out of her was, she said — she pretty much had her head down, but she said plain as day — ‘Go ahead, put marks on me. That’s what I want. Go ahead.’”

Roberts said the comments “chilled me to the bone, and I decided right then and there to go to the authorities.”

She contacted authorities. Odd that even after those kind of accusations, Nifong still never saw fit to speak to the alleged victim. Why is it that the more evidence comes out, the less credible the “victim” seems to be? And why is everyone trying so damned hard not to say it? Kudos to ABC and CBS for actually doing what the Prosecutor isn’t doing.

Investigating.

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Information Salad — Episode 16 is live!

October 30th, 2006 by Vinny

This week was a hell of a fun show, and we talked about a ton of stuff, had some of the worst political ads ever, had a talk about carbs, and even talked to a special guest whose radio voice is so good it annoys the hell out of Slobokan and I. Thank God he’s with us!

Enjoy the show by using the Flash player above, or subscribe at ispnmedia.com.



Spokesperson 101: Know the issue.

October 30th, 2006 by Vinny

Michael J. Fox shows up on the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric, twitching, shaking and rocking due to Parkinson’s disease. In the midst of the interview, his microphone falls off. Of course, for dramatic effect, Katie Couric reaches over to help him clip it back on and instead of editing that mishap out, they leave it in. After all, how can we faithfully promote Fox’s agenda without showing every detail of how devastating (and make sure you say it in Katie’s concerned voice for full effect) it is.

Well thanks Katie, but we all know it is. We don’t need your fake concern to prove the point.

Michael J. Fox has been quite the forefront celebrity. He appeared in an ad against Michael Steele, saying he’s against stem cell research. Of course, as is usually the case, the critics are wrong and Michael Steele is nowhere near “against” stem cell research. As is the case with most Republicans, he’s against embryonic stem cell research. Fox obviously didn’t read up on Steele’s position because in an ad for Ben Cardin, he said, “George Bush and Michael Steele will put limits on the most promising stem cell research. Fortunately Marylanders have a chance to vote for Ben Cardin.”

In a way, this is no different than Democrats saying on numerous occasions that Republicans are against immigration. Just like in stem cell research where they leave out embryonic, in immigration they leave out the word illegal.

And Michael J. Fox is a big emotional prop and nothing more and is not to be criticized, again much like prior ad props like the 9/11 widows and Cindy Sheehan.

But what’s worse about Fox is that he has a debilitating condition that’s physically obvious and people are swooping in on him to show just how bad it is. I don’t have so much of a problem with that. If Fox is okay with being exploited like some kind of shaking mannequin, then go to it. If he wants to put himself out there, go right ahead.

But what drives me crazy is that George Stephanopoulos had a scoop dropped right in his lap and he ignored it. He either did it out of stupidity (not likely; Stephanopoulos is a lot of things, but stupid is not one of them) or he was driven by the same bias that drove CBS to leave the mic foible on the tape that was shown to the public. What was the scoop he missed?

Well, though Fox is campaigning for Claire McCaskill, he never read the bill he was preaching to the camera for.

Stephanopoulos: In the ad now running in Missouri, Jim Caviezel speaks in Aramaic. It means, “You betray me with a kiss.” And his position, his point, is that actually even though down in Missouri they say the initiative is against cloning, it’s actually going to allow human cloning.

Fox: Well, I don’t think that’s true. You know, I campaigned for Claire McCaskill. And so I have to qualify it by saying I’m not qualified to speak on the page-to-page content of the initiative. Although, I am quite sure that I’ll agree with it in spirit, I don’t know, I— On full disclosure, I haven’t read it, and that’s why I didn’t put myself up for it distinctly.

But I’ve made this point before, and I really am sincere in it, that anybody who’s prayed on this, and thought about it, and really considered it and can’t get their mind around or their heart around the idea of embryonic stem cell research, I’d go to war for your right to believe that. And you’re right to feel that. I respect it. I truly do.

My point is, and our point as a community, is we have a very good and supportable conclusion that a vast majority of people in this country are in favor of science playing a leading role in making changes in the future and believe in embryonic stem cell research.

So we’re just saying, know that we have prayed on it, too, and we have thought about it, and we are good people, and we are family people, and we are people that take this very seriously, and we’re as concerned as you are.

And we’ve decided that we would like to take this step and to do it with caution and to do it with oversight and to do it with the strictest adherence to ethics and all of the principles this country stands for.

But, allow us to do that without infusing the conversation with inflammatory rhetoric and name-calling and fear-mongering. It doesn’t help.

How’s that for some crap? The great hero that everyone is falling all over themselves to pat on the back is just a stuffed suit on television lending his shaking and tortured body to a political campaign with no real idea what he’s doing.

Understand, my problem is not really with Fox’s involvement in McCaskill’s campaign; it’s more about the way it’s being covered. He told Katie Couric he was over-medicated for his interview with her (which is ironic because Limbaugh claimed that Fox didn’t take his meds, then Fox came back and said he was over medicated and his condition would be more exaggerated because of it and Couric never even followed it up). He told George Stephanopolous that he hadn’t read the bill he praised McCaskill for being in favor of because he would “agree with it in spirit” not having read a word of it.

Couric and Stephanopoulos, however, did nothing with either of these huge scoops. Why? Because you can’t criticize Fox on anything related to stem cells or anything that might hurt his credibility.

I feel for Fox. I don’t wish Parkinson’s on anyone, but that’s not the issue here. The issue is the fact that having the disease does not make you an expert on it. Nor does it make you aware of the issues surrounding the disease beyond the issues you have to deal directly with yourself.

I know that’s directly contrary to the way things work now. You can never criticize Fox for his positions now because he has the disease and showed it on television in multiple interviews and commercials.

In the end, I have a piece of advice for Michael J. Fox.

If you’re going to show up in commercials for candidates the support of whom you base on a bill or an issue, you may want to actually read the bill or understand the position of the opposition on the issue that’s so central you’re lending your face to. He supported Claire McCaskill based on a bill, but he never read it. He came out against Michael Steele but apparently has no idea that Steele isn’t actually against stem cell research.

And God forbid you criticize him for it. Then you’re insensitive, unfair, harsh, a scumbag, or whatever else they can throw at you.

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links for 2006-10-30

October 30th, 2006 by Vinny


Why GreenPeace Was Ejected From MacExpo London:

October 29th, 2006 by Vinny

Well, we’ve heard a lot of the breathless offense being taken about GreenPeace being bounced out of MacExpo London including numerous assumptions as to what the reasons were. What we haven’t heard, of course, is the actual reason.

Until now:

According to Bob Denton, Event Director, the removal of Greenpeace had nothing to do its message or the materials being handed out. Bob said: “They paid money and had the right to be at the show.”
The problem started when a group of 12 Greenpeace activists gathered outside the show entrance and started handing out flyers and apples to attendees. Bob Denton said: “We want people to be cool and calm as they enter the show”.

He explained to the Greenpeace organisers that it would be acceptable for two activists to stand by the stairs inside the show and hand out flyers, but the event management would not allow a gathering outside the main door.

There then followed a number of complaints about the behaviour of Greenpeace activists from four visitors and five exhibitors, one of which was Apple. Allegedly, Greenpeace attendees were invading other stands for mock photo shoots and replacing other exhibitors’ promotional material with their own.

The problem came to a head when one woman complained that they had placed an apple in her child’s pram and were taking photographs of him without her permission.

Bob Denton told Macworld: “I explained to them that I had the right to eject them but that wouldn’t happen if they showed reason.” However, later in the day, “two more visitors and two more exhibitors complained” and he ejected the activists under clause 13 of the terms and conditions that Greenpeace signed.

“They were determined to create conflict,” said Bob Denton, “that was their only objective and I had the right to eject them just as I would if they were drunk and abusive.”

Indeed. They went there to start shit (does GreenPeace do anything but start shit?). When people didn’t appreciate it and complain they got booted.

Case closed.

No drama.

No oppression.

via TUAW

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9 Reasons to Ignore 9 Reasons Not to Move to Firefox 2.0

October 29th, 2006 by Vinny

Oh joy. Yet another list that requires a thorough disassembly.

Let’s get started. The list is 9 reasons not to upgrade to Firefox 2.0

1. The new theme is too bulky, inconsistent on different platforms, and inferior to the highly refined and very user friendly theme of 1.5 (this is despite late efforts by Mozilla to spruce up the icon set and improve consistency)

It’s not “too bulky” at all. In fact, except for minor visual tweaks, it’s almost identical to 1.5. Now, as for the inconsistency and their efforts to improve consistency, that’s just flat-out wrong. In fact, it’s so patently false that the person who wrote this is evidencing in a profound way his serious lack of understanding about what the team was trying to accomplish in 2.0. Go listen to Inside the Net 38. In it, Amber MacArthur talks to Jay Goldman and Mike Glenn about the UI redesign that Radiant Core did for Mozilla. During the interview, they specifically addressed the “inconsistency” of the UI. The point of 2.0’s UI was to appear more integrated into the operating system it was running on. Whereas prior versions were just “Firefox” the point of 2.0 was tp make the application seem more at home on the platform it was running on, which they did an excellent job of. The Mac, Linux, and Windows versions all look much more like the platform they’re on and the desktop they’re running on than 1.5 did, which was just an across-the-board flat uniform interface. There were no “late efforts” to improve “consistency” because what he calls “inconsistency” was actually by design. Don’t believe me? Go listen to ITN for yourself.

Oh yeah, and there’s only about a billion themes out there for FF. I’m sure you can find one you could live with if the new one is that offensive to you.

2. Antiphishing technology is both weak (blacklist based) and a potential privacy problem. The privacy issues are raised because Firefox 2.0 Antiphishing Features employ an engine previously released by Google, which has been shown to potentially cause privacy risks.

Potentially is indeed the key word here. Here’s the relevant section of the O’Reilly article:

1) Every request is transmitted to Google over HTTP, i.e. in clear-text. This is not good. Here is why: Consider a web application that uses SSL to encrypt the session. If this web application were to submit private information about you via a GET request (i.e in the URL, such as a credit card number), this will now be transmitted to http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/lookup in clear-text, allowing someone on your network segment, or any router in between yourself and google.com to sniff the information off the wire.

2) The extension sends the entire GET request to Google. If a web application were to send private information via GET parameters, this will now be transmitted to Google.

Could, maybe, possibly, if. I understand blacklisting is not perfect, but it’s better than nothing. I’ve never seen a site submit your credit card in the URL. Ever. A privacy problem could also be created by sending your credit card number in an e-mail. People still do that too. No need to throw the baby out with the bathwater.

3. The new Options dialog box is confusing, poorly designed, and illogically hides important features

One example would be nice.

Except for the fact that not everything is on tabs anymore, the dialog is pretty much the same. Instead of 2000 tabs, everything is organized into a total of 7 sections, with the “advanced” tab having options most people will never change anyway. Not exactly a concerted effort to hide important features. In fact, I’d love to know what important feature is now hidden that was readily available in earlier versions.

4. There are many reported compatibility issues with the large existing libraries of extensions, themes, and plugins currently avaialble for earlier versions of Firefox. While this can, to some degree, be expected, the loss of this huge user contributed extension base is a non-trivial problem with Firefox 2.0, and could be a deal breaker for some people all by itself.

Except that the Firefox team does not develop those extensions, and if they’re not compatible, that’s the problem of the developer of the extension not Mozilla. You could easily flip this argument completely around and ask a question that logically follows. Is Mozilla not meant to update Firefox until they have every extension functional in every new version? Welcome to the world of IE because if that were to happen, we’d be using Firefox 2.0 for the next 5 years.

5. The well known memory leak issue, which causes the Firefox browser to consume ever increasing amounts of RAM, eventually leading to sluggish performance and crashes, has been carried over into yet another generation. This is despite an enormous amount of public commentary and user requests for resolution prior to release of a new version of Firefox

It’s not a leak, it’s just the way it works. Five bucks says if you took away IE’s hooks to the operating system and its dependence on system calls, it would hog just as much memory. As for the performance and crash issues, I’ve never seen them and I’ve run it on everything from 256 megs to 2 gigs and on 3 different platforms. This is more likely an issue of very squeaky wheels than a widespread problem.

6. There are reported problems with the CSS engine in Firefox 2.0, affecting various websites, and making certain features unavailable to surfers. Notable among these is a continued problem with certain aspects of Yahoo! mail

Yet again, another claim with no backing. While writing this, I jumped into my Yahoo! Mail account and saw no such bugs or issues. In fact, I’ve been using FF 2.0 since RC 3 and have yet to come across any sites that render any differently for 2.0 than they did for 1.5. An example, as usual, would buttress the point, but as is the case with most of the items on this list, we’re left to just “knowing” that the issue is there, somewhere, on something, and experienced by “people.”

7. Reports indicate that episodes of random freezing during use are worse with the 2.0 version, though a cause has not yet been isolated

Funny you should mention that, because, well, I had a random freezing issue. Know what I did? I disabled all my extensions, and then ran FF with each one enabled, one at a time. Then, slowly, I enabled another until all of them were running. Know what the problem was? Google Toolbar. Why do I bring this up? Because the list-writer cites “reports” and then gives a link to one post on one blog by a guy running Ubuntu on a laptop who posts blog entries from a web interface. That’s “reports?” Give me a break. Reports are that this list is bullshit. Oh sure it’s one blog entry by me, but so what? One blog entry = reports.

8. Numerous users have reported that the History bar is buggy, and that in some instances - for unknown reasons - will not display recent items when the history menu is opened as a side panel

Works perfectly for me on two platforms (haven’t tried it on my Ubuntu install yet). Again, one example for this guy = numerous users. Ironically, in the very link this guy posted, the first reply to the post was a guy saying he hasn’t had a problem. Woops.

9. RSS feed handling has taken a step backwards, and is inferior to that of IE7.

Again no example given. So let’s see how it’s taken a step backward. You can now pick the browser you subscribe in. On top of that, you can still add it to Live Bookmarks the old way. No example of how it’s inferior, just that “it is.” Problem is, just about everyone disagrees. Such is life, I guess. Oh, and I don’t have to back up everything, seeing as he never backs up anything he writes on here with more than some strange report by one blogger or something similar.

The fact is, Firefox 2.0 isn’t perfect, as no browser really is. It’s still a huge step forward from 1.5, and is still quite a bit ahead of IE 7 as far as performance and stability (I’ve used both quite a bit). As one of the commenters on this list’s home said:

Trivial concerns are no reason to avoid upgrading to superior security, memory management, and features. Have a nice day.

Indeed, amen, and hallelujah.

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A Pioneer Shuts Down

October 29th, 2006 by Vinny

This is truly sad

All versions of Pluck’s RSS readers for Internet Explorer, FireFox and Pluck’s web edition will be discontinued on 1/5/2007. The RSS Readers have served our community of end users well for several years, but with Pluck’s focus in other business areas, the venerable RSS readers are set to be retired from our product line.

Over the next two months, you will have the opportunity to export your RSS feed subscriptions to other RSS readers of your choosing. Please visit the RSS reader support pages for details on how to export your subscriptions and bookmarks for use in other readers.

It’s always hard watching pioneers go down. Pluck was a huge force behind the widespread use of RSS by many of us today.

Whether or not you used the service, you definitely owe them a thank you and a pat on the back…

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Yahoo to Buy a Sinking Ship?

October 29th, 2006 by Vinny

From the No F’ing Way department:

Yahoo must have a new appreciation of how Burger King feels about McDonald’s: Constantly looking up at No. 1 gets vexing. So it should come as no surprise that Yahoo’s chairman and CEO Terry Semel is mulling a number of moves that would impress Wall Street and steal the spotlight from the Google behemoth.

FORTUNE has learned from multiple sources that Yahoo (Charts) recently approached Time Warner (Charts) (parent of FORTUNE’s publisher) about buying America Online - essentially trying to jump-start talks that broke down a year ago. A source close to Yahoo disputes that Yahoo approached Time Warner and says that there are no active conversations between the two companies. Regardless of which version is correct, a Yahoo-AOL merger would be a face-saver for Semel: Last year Google (Charts) outflanked Yahoo and swooped in to become AOL’s exclusive Internet search provider, picking up a 5% stake in AOL for $1 billion as part of the deal.

I’d have to say that would be the dumbest move in the history of Yahoo!. Okay, maybe the second dumbest behind buying Broadcast.com for $5.7 billion.

Why would anyone want to own AOL at this point? They’re a company that’s completely lost direction, lost a ton of subscribers, and lost the respect of most of the people that once had any for them. This is not a company any smart person would want to own or be associated with.

If Terry Semel is that desperate to find something to buy, he should set his sights a little higher.

Like on a sewer. Anyway Yahoo has a few options, according to Time Warner-owned (and not disclaimed in the article?) CNN:

• Buy AOL. Swallowing AOL won’t transform Yahoo, but would give it increased traffic and a shot in the arm for its search-advertising business. The real question is whether Time Warner wants to sell. “Time Warner has a new strategy for AOL and is not contemplating any deals,” says a company spokesman. Citigroup analyst Jason Bazinet estimates AOL is worth about $13 billion. Of course, Time Warner might demand more.

Pft… Whatever dude.

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Dress Like Captain Underpants and Be Sent Home

October 29th, 2006 by Vinny

I’ve long defended schools’ rights to enforce their dresscodes however arbitrary and silly they might be. This time, however, I have to say the school is just stupid.

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LONG BEACH, N.Y. — Captain Underpants may be a superhero, but he isn’t welcome at one suburban New York school.

Three 17-year-old girls were told to leave Long Beach High School when they showed up on the school’s Superhero Day dressed as the subject of the bestselling children’s books.

Captain Underpants is a superhero from popular books that has battled, among other things, talking toilets and the infamous Professor Poopypants.

The girls, Chelsea Horowitz, Ashley Imhof and Eliana Levin, wore beige leotards and nude stockings under white briefs and red capes. They were completely covered.

Principal Nicholas Restivo said he knows they weren’t naked, but it appeared that way, so he sent them home. He didn’t like the way they looked.

Other students were allowed to stay at school. They were dressed as Superman, Wonderwoman and other well-known superheroes.

One of the girls said she doesn’t understand the fuss. Honor student Horowitz said of the costume, “They’re not see-through or anything.”

I’m sure the principal has a hard-on for Wonder Woman or something.

What gets me is that he readily admits that they weren’t actually naked, they just appeared to be, and therefore that was grounds to eject them from the school.

Look at it this way, ladies. At least you’re seniors and you won’t have to deal with the idiot anymore.

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October 29th, 2006 by Vinny


This Is Utterly Shocking

October 28th, 2006 by Vinny

I had to re-read this twice just to make sure I was seeing it correctly.

It would appear that the prosecutor in the Duke lacrosse team rape case hasn’t spoken to the accuser yet to get her version of the story. Bear in mind that this isn’t a case that recently happened. In fact, the case happened earlier this year; March 13th to be precise. In the course of almost 8 months, the Prosecutor has vigorously pursued the case despite no DNA matches, and despite the fact that the other woman that went to strip for the boys has already said that she didn’t believe the woman she went with was raped (see video here).

Watch this:

The district attorney prosecuting three Duke lacrosse players accused of raping a woman at a team party said during a court hearing Friday that he still hasn’t interviewed the accuser about the facts of the case.

“I’ve had conversations with (the accuser) about how she’s doing. I’ve had conversations with (the accuser) about her seeing her kids,” Mike Nifong said. “I haven’t talked with her about the facts of that night. … We’re not at that stage yet.”

Nifong made the statement in response to a defense request for any statements the woman has made about the case.

“I understand the answer may not be the answer they want but it’s the true answer. That’s all I can give them,” the prosecutor said after the hourlong hearing.

Defense lawyers said outside court that they found Nifong’s statement surprising.

“One of the most interesting things to me of course is Mr. Nifong did admit that he in fact has basically never talked to this woman and has absolutely no idea what her story is, and yet he has chosen to continue to go forward with this case,” defense lawyer Joseph Cheshire said.

How in the hell can you have a full exposition of facts and investigate a case properly if you don’t even speak to the accuser?

More importantly, how can you tell if the accuser is even telling the truth if you don’t hear her version of the story?

This is utterly disgusting.

Nifong said he met with the accuser and an investigator on April 11, but didn’t discuss details of the case because the woman was “too traumatized.” Nifong said the woman didn’t make eye contact with him and often seemed on the verge of crying. Their discussion centered around how the case would develop, he said.

“She probably did not speak 15 words during the meeting,” Nifong said.

Why is no one else questioning the motives of the Prosecutor? Why is no one calling for his removal from the case? This is a railroad plain and simple. Those boys’ lives are ruined, and this Prosecutor hasn’t even bothered to try to find the truth.

Is this what they mean when they say Southern Justice?

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Testing PickleI love this picture,

October 28th, 2006 by Vinny

Testing Pickle

I love this picture, so it was only natural that I would use it to test out Pickle.

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America’s Most Silly

October 28th, 2006 by Vinny
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Uh oh…

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