Otherworld

First off, let me apologize for not answering your comments lately, as we’ve had connection problems at home and our resident computer guru has been gone most of the time. I will do my best to get things answered this weekend.

So….did anyone watch that “Who Wants to Be a Superhero” last night? Pretty silly watching them run and try to change their costumes as they raced to the finish line, not realizing their ultimate goal was to help the “girl crying for her mommy” that was planted along the way. Have to say my favorite part was watching ‘Lemuria’ run…bouncy-bouncy! Not only that, but she helped the poor girl, as did ‘Big Mamma’ and the guy I like to call ‘The Crimson Chin,’ lol. I was counting on the muscle man with the gun to get eliminated…but instead they picked on the youngest nerd, Nitrog. I’m guessing that ‘Lemuria’ or ‘The Crimson Chin’ will probably win…

Good news today is that my hubbie has a second interview for a job doing color correction for a printing company today, so good vibes are needed big-time! All signs are pointing towards good results, and it looks like they can afford him, so light those green candles, people!

As to the news, let’s get this heaping mudball rolling!

UN curmudgeon and Col. Mustard impersonator Michael Bolton’s assignment as US Ambassador is up for review. Score one for Senator Russ Feingold as he asks Bolton why he was more committed to a right-wing think tank appearance than a conference to try and solve the genocide in Darfur! If that isn’t enough for them, there’s plenty more reasons why Bolton’s first year was a failure.

 

 

Considering that virtually every prediction made by the Administration about Iraq has turned out to be wrong, and the worst case scenario of the last National Intelligence Estimate of Iraq has been right, it’s no surprise that Senators are calling for a new NIE and John Negroponte, the administration’s Director of National Intelligence, is blocking it.

You know how everyone’s rilled up about Israel and Lebanon? Well hey…remember Iraq? In the past two weeks,  more Iraqi civillians have been killed there than have died in Israel and Lebanon. Let’s worry about cleaning up one mess at a time.

The apparent suicide of weapons inspector Dr. David Kelly in 2003 created massive pressure in Britan when he was revealed as the source of the BBC’s claim that the Government had ’sexed up’ the case for a war in Iraq. All conspiracy theories aside, proof has been discovered that his suicide might be something otherwise…

Thanks to record high gas prices, Exxon has posted $10.36 billion in profits this quarter, the “second-largest quarterly profit ever recorded by a publicly traded U.S. company.” With record profits for energy companies like that, it’s no wonder that energy companies can afford to pay Global Warming naysayers $100k to say what they want.

As if we needed it, here’s more proof that Bill O’Reilly is a moron.

The United States has ceded control of the Internet. So what happens now?

Sign #101 that you need to get out more: Video Game Lessons

Mark Moford has elegantly expresed my views about that poor lady getting fired from PBS: Dumb People Make Children Cry (fixed!)

And finally, a riddle for you:

Suppose there is a fire at a fertility clinic. In one room is a freezer with 100 embryos. In another room is a baby. Suppose you only have enough time to enter ONE room. Do you save the baby, or the freezer?