News – Big Blue Dress

Amusements

World of Warcraft Video: The Big Blue Dress – I put this up because, A. It tickles me every time I watch it and B. Even though most of you likely don’t play this game, I think its enjoyable even to those who don’t know what the heck is going on. As long as it makes you grin, my job is done. There are a couple others I might post up occasionally.

Neurotically Yours: Foamy Fan Mail 9

Orthodox Jews find Jesus… in the mail

Alaskan couple… names their… son… James Tiberius… Kirk

When stealing identities, make sure victim isn’t a sex offender

Wisconsin court rules it’s okay for police to force-feed laxitives to suspects, meaning you can get the runs but you can’t hide

Really, who among us doesn’t like to take care of the morning wood while standing at the front door?

Sunny D leak makes river look like pee

Two drunk 12-year olds discover that taking an old man’s cane from his scooter can result in an ass kicking from the entire block

Two women fired from their jobs at a sausage factory for watching porn

So a drunk guy carrying a Rembrandt etching walks into a bar

Preacher accidentally leaves his wireless microphone on while taking a leak after his sermon. The Sun was there (pic)

Stray balloon takes out Oslo’s public transit system

Burglar breaks into funeral home, falls asleep in coffin. Cops catch him dead to rights, say it’s an open and shut case

Fark Photoshop Challenge: Photoshop this strolling old guy

Fark Photoshop Challenge: Florida has 100 specialty license-plate tags. Photoshop what the 101 specialty tag should look like

Middle East

Clashes between Hamas forces and Palestinian Police. Like we need this shit now.

It’s suspected that militants were responsible for the destruction of two natural gas pipelines in Pakistan.

A British official accuses Pakistan of letting the Taliban use some of its territory as a base. Who can say? Maybe they are.

Romano Prodi, the new PM of Italy, makes it clear he’s set to pull Italy’s troops out of Iraq early.

Is it past time for the British to pull out of Basra?

Ayaz Ali, a British aid worker for the Islamic Relief charity, has been arrested at a checkpoint and is being held by Israel. At first he was held under Israeli law, but he’s been shifted to be under military law in the occupied territories, which reduces his rights. He’s not been charged and is being held with the much used ‘security reasons’ caveat rather than actual evidence.

North America

The US Senate states that the countries national language is English, then soon after adopts the tamer language that English is the nation’s “unifying language.” Either way, I’m sure many will see it for the panic reaction that it is.

Sen. Richard Lugar has drafted a plan for North Korea, looking to jumpstart the talks with them by putting congress’ weight behind the push.

The Senate backs multiplying the fines for indecency by ten. Though not even this will stop the steady change in TV content, despite the will of the Puritans in the government, anymore than you could bring the 50s back from the dead.

A look at Hayden’s confirmation hearing.

The US-Mexico Border crossing was closed for a few hours after Border Patrol officers shot and killed a driver headed into Mexico who refused to stop.

Bellsouth demands that USA Today retract the claim that it had a contact with the NSA and turned over customer records to them.

The NRA now wants to ban police from seizing legally owned weapons during disasters. So the police should just leave weapons in empty homes so looters can break in and arm themselves? Yeah, that helps, thanks guys. Better to seek promises and guarantees that the guns will be returned to their owners when the trial has passed. That would be good for everyone. No free guns for looters, no legal gun owners needing to replace their hardware.

Simplicity has been a strength for Bush before. Could it now be a weakness?

General

The Blogs look at Hayden’s confirmation, a report claiming Rove has been indicted and reviews of The Da Vinci Code

Today’s Papers has the House voting toe cancel royalty discounts for oil companies drilling offshore, Egyptian authorities beating pro-democracy demonstrators, indications that middle class Iraqis are seeking to emigrate and more in the onepage news.