This guy has got style. Bonus picture of the Governator included at no extra charge.

Mangoat linked to the Stinko Pinko’s LiveJournal page where he has 10 quotes, some said by Adolf Hitler and some said by the recently deceased Jerry Falwell. Your job: figure out who said each one. You might be surprised if you are a right-wing bible-thumping televangelist-following person.

Just saw this on CNN, apparently chocolate Easter bunnies weren’t enough for an enterprising artist. He decided to make an anatomically correct naked chocolate Jesus as reported by WLKY in New York in this story.

Better yet he titled this work “My Sweet Lord”.

After reading this story about how Bono and U2 take full advantage of tax breaks etc. (thanks Mangoat) I ran across a related story that RED (a charity organization that Bono founded to fight AIDS in Africa) spent only 18% of their revenues last year on their stated goal; yep, the other $82M went towards advertising. What a shame.

Point/Counterpoint: (RED) Raises $100 Million, Spends 82% On Advertising

My brother got me a subscription to The Week magazine for Christmas and I’m really enjoying it. While a weekly magazine might seem hard to keep up with it’s fairly thin so it’s doable. I don’t watch the news on TV much (a couple of minutes of CNN on my way out the door in the morning) and I don’t read the paper or news magazines so this is just right for me.

Basically they pick up news stories and opinion pieces from around the country and the world so you get a section of facts then various opinions about that issue. It’s really a good read, I recommend it to anyone & everyone.

I put this in the politics category but it covers everything, even stupid celebrity news (but only a little thank god). There’s even a recipe page where they pick a specific dish, then combine the best features of multiple recipes into one.

The Week

A dead woman won re-election to a school board in rural Alaska after her opponent lost a coin flip meant to break an electoral tie. The school district, which covers an island region stretching 600 miles and has jurisdiction over about 50 students, has not yet decided how to fill Dunton’s seat.

Why the hell wouldn’t they just give the seat to the opponent who got the same number of votes? Makes me wonder which state is worse, AK or FL.

This clip from ABC News shows how clueless the Intelligence branch of the Pentagon can be. Some joker at the Pentagon saw a fan film of BF2 and made the claim before a Congressional Intelligence committee that terrorists had taken the game, modified it so that players could be terrorists and kill Americans. Luckily it was at a rare open session so it was all caught on tape.

This ABC News video shows that footage along with various interviews. They of course had someone point out that the games comes out of the box with the Middle East Coalition and nothing has to be done to it to play as the MEC and kill Americans.

And I mean really, how many terrorists have military helicopters and tanks anyway? You’d think our intelligence community would have been clever enough to figure out that the clip they saw on insurgent web sites was created by a European BF2 fan at home.

So I followed a link on Mangoat.net the other day to a video clip that was amusing yet disturbing at the same time here. After the video it linked to this ACLU page. I filled out the form letter and it was sent to our two CA Senators, Barbara Boxer and Diane Feinstein on 11/2.

I was very surprised to get an e-mail from Feinstein’s office today that read thusly:

Thank you for your letter regarding the “REAL ID Act of 2005″
as incorporated into the “Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for Defense, the Global War on Terror, and Tsunami Relief Act, 2005″
(H.R.1268). I welcome the opportunity to respond.
Congress passed H.R.1268 on May 10th, and the President signed it into law on May 11th. I was opposed to the inclusion of the REAL ID Act in this bill. This Act makes major changes to our immigration laws, and I believe the Senate did not have adequate opportunity to review, consider and debate its provisions. Instead, this complex piece of legislation was added to an unrelated funding bill, and was passed without amendment. The only changes made were negotiated in secret, with Democrats shut out of the process.

The REAL ID Act wasn’t the only immigration language added to this bill without proper review. For instance, the Republican leadership added language at the 11th hour which creates a new temporary worker program for 10,500 Australian workers.
So each year now we could see an influx of 10,500 Australian workers, along with their families. Assuming that each of these professional workers brings their spouse and child, in reality we could see an increase of 31,500 individuals each year.
I remain committed to immigration reform, but I believe that immigration policy, with its far-reaching effects on our economy and our national security, should be considered carefully on its own merits, not tacked on to unrelated legislation.

Again, thank you for writing. I hope you will continue to keep in touch. If you have any further comments on this issue, please contact my Washington, D.C. staff at (202) 224-3841, or visit my website at http://feinstein.senate.gov