If I know your email address and we are friendly then you’ve probably already received one of these e-cards from me today. They are fantastic and I can not thank my friend Wiley enough for showing them to me. The websites here. Go ahead and enjoy.
Monthly Archive for May, 2007
Via First Read and updating a previous post (found here), Senator Clinton’s campaign has announced the finalists in the contest to pick her campaign song. Sadly my selection, the Dixie Chicks, didn’t make the cut. You can see the finalists and top write in’s here (and vote for them too). I think I’m going with Smashmouth’s “I’m a believer” this round.
After the jump there’s a pretty amusing video featuring Senator Clinton herself.
Cat-sized rats? Glad I don’t live in Florida anymore.
Spenser and Heidi from the Hills are apparently engaged:
Usmagazine.com has learned exclusively that Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag are engaged!
Pratt, 23, popped the question to Montag, 20, Tuesday night at the Bacara Resort & Spa in Santa Barbara, says a source who adds: “She said ‘yes.’ She’s over the moon!�
The Hills stars, whose controversial courtship was chronicled last season on the hit MTV reality series, have been dating for just eight months.
Pratt purchased the diamond-encrusted platinum band with a pink stone on Monday at Ice at Brentwood Gardens before presenting Montag with his bended-knee proposal, according to a source. An eyewitness at the store tells Us, “She was trying on tons of them and they looked really happy!�
Montag was formerly a close friend and roommate of her Hills co-star Lauren Conrad, 21, until Pratt earlier this year urged Montag to move out of Conrad’s apartment and in with him. The couple has not yet set a wedding date.
A rep for MTV told Us: “We do not comment on our stars’ personal lives.�
Dating for 8 months, most of it while filming a reality show? No way this doesn’t last a long time I say! Congrats to the happy couple, over/under is now set at 6 months.
Laugh or cry? This is the perpetual question I face when thinking of our current Administration these days. Here’s the current situation which, I think, I am going to chose to laugh at:
Al Hurra television, the U.S. government’s $63 million-a-year effort at public diplomacy broadcasting in the Middle East, is run by executives and officials who cannot speak Arabic, according to a senior official who oversees the program.
That might explain why critics say the service has recently been caught broadcasting terrorist messages, including an hour-long tirade on the importance of anti-Jewish violence, among other questionable pieces.
Facing tough questions before a congressional panel last week, Broadcasting Board of Governors member Joaquin Blaya admitted none of the senior news managers at the network spoke Arabic when the terrorist messages made it onto the air courtesy of U.S. taxpayer funds. Nor did Blaya himself or any of the other officials at the Broadcasting Board of Governors, which oversees the network. (bolding mine)
Of course our government run Arabic TV channel wouldn’t be run by Arabic speakers. That would make too much sense. On a some what serious note, the scarcity of Arabic speakers in our government/military/intelligence community is a real problem, one to cry over.
The following video (passed along by Weck) was made by students at the college I attended for 3 1/2 years. Makes me proud.
I didn’t go to Preakness this year almost entirely because of laziness. After watching this video, seen after the jump, I’m thinking that was perhaps a mistake.
Continue reading ‘Maybe I should have gone to Preakness after all’
I’m some what of a heavy sleeper; when I’m out I’m out. Thunder, TV, none of that stuff wakes me up. Having said that, I pale in comparison to Mr. Michael Lusher. Who, you ask, is Michael Lusher? Oh he’s just some guy who slept through getting shot in the head. To wit:
A small-caliber bullet struck the 37-year-old Altizer man in the head as he slept Sunday morning, but he didn’t realize it until he awoke nearly four hours later and noticed blood coming from his head, said Cpl. R.H. McQuaid of the Cabell County Sheriff’s Department.
The bullet that struck him was one of five that someone sprayed across his mobile home and truck at about 4:20 a.m. Sunday, McQuaid said. The one the struck Lusher apparently lost velocity as it traveled through two walls.
Mr. Lusher, I admire your commitment to the art of rest.
(via BB)
This T-shirt is hilarious. I think I’m going to get one. (via Oliver Willis)