She flees to China to avoid (questions about) waterboarding torture. That’s punky.
The Prez has played it about right: denounce it, change the policy, move on. If he’s getting heat from both the right and the left, he must have it about square.
This guy has some crazy talent. Makes great looking models of supercars from regular Lego kits. I bet he has a hot girlfriend too 
Regardless, check it out:
Yes, the former GAO man said our credit rating may drop. Of course, last year Cipher was taking any and all action on a “no downgrade” bet. Perhaps he is changing his tune, now?
OTOH, if he takes a bunch of action and the Fed’s credit rating does go down, the dollars he pays out are worth much less than the dollars he would have won on the other side of the bet.
And that is the only reason why I am sharing this photo with you. Could someone please hand her a tissue?
At Detroit-ish 2008 (a/k/a LeMons Toledo), the First Blood GMC Sonoma compact pickup was voted both Peoples’ Choice and Peoples’ Curse, a first time dual-prize winner. Looks like they had some fun in the process:
William Langewiesche has a brilliant piece in the current Vanity Fair (“Anatomy of a Miracle”) about the landing of that USAir flight on the Hudson River after the Airbus ingested about a dozen Canada geese just after takeoff. I think it prints out at 18 pages or something like that, so refill your coffee cup first. For being an article about something that is typically not-so-funny, Langewiesche certainly has his sardonic moments; here’s one from early in the article, just to give you a taste:
Objective observers of the hazards do not fault geese alone. The experts at assigning blame are two employees of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Dr. Richard Dolbeer and Sandra Wright, who work out of an office in Sandusky, Ohio, where they preside over the Federal Aviation Administration’s National Wildlife Strike Database. Their records from 1990 through 2007 indicate that aircraft in the United States (and some U.S. airliners abroad) collided with 369 conclusively identified species of birds. The birds included loons, grebes, pelicans, cormorants, herons, storks, egrets, swans, ducks, vultures, hawks, eagles, cranes, sandpipers, seagulls, pigeons, cuckoos, owls, turkeys, blackbirds, crows, chickadees, woodpeckers, hummingbirds, mockingbirds, parrots, and a single parakeet. Over the same period, airplanes officially collided with bats on 253 occasions. Furthermore, they had 760 official collisions with deer, 252 with coyotes, 182 with rabbits, 120 with rodents including porcupines, 74 with turtles, 59 with opossums, 16 with armadillos, 14 with alligators, 7 with iguanas, 4 with moose, 2 with caribou, and one each with a wild pig and a donkey. There was also an official collision with a fish, though the fish was in the grasp of an osprey at the time.
This is an important JaloPSA: If you decide to retire to your car for some personal afternoon-delight, make sure you’re not parked next to a tall building with your sunroof open. NSFW. Two days ago a man in Edmonton, Alberta was in his parked Dodge Nitro, apparently watching pornography and masturbating. Normally this wouldn’t be noteworthy, but folks high in the Nexopia.com headquarters noticed a familiar rhythmic motion coming from underneath the towel laid across the gentleman’s lap. Of course someone grabbed a recording device and motioned for friends come over to point and laugh. Eventually, one of the employees went down to the ground floor and by waving up to the camera, revealed the fellows folly. That’s one helluva way to celebrate Cinco de Mayo. Hopefully he’s doesn’t actually work in that company.
Video here: http://www.break.com/index/sunroof-fail.html
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