Something I can’t understand: if these are supposed to be humans from WAY out there in another part of the galaxy, who are descended from humans who colonized twelve worlds after long ago coming from Kobol, the original home planet of humanity, and who now faced with extinction their only hope is to find a mythical thirteenth colony: the planet that their legends call “Earth”…

HOW the heck are these humans, however much they ARE identical to us, using and speaking English, have the same style of clothes as North Americans, have the same religious customs etc., when there shoule be HUGE differences between us and them after thousands of years of “cultural drift” from the separation?

I don’t get that. The only theory I can come up with is that humanity started off on Earth, then migrated to Kobol and then to the twelve colonies, and after awhile the ...

So now Rush Limbaugh is condemning Bush and others for wanting amnesty for illegals and ignoring security at the borders. Says that this issue threatens to destroy the Republican party. When all this time he’s been shilling for Bush and practically promising that life as we know it would come to a halt if we didn’t re-elect El Jorge and go along with him.

But now that he is in a second term, Rush is finally comfortable enough to see and talk about the truth? That Bush and his kind are putting American sovereignty in jeopardy and don’t care a flying rat’s butt that they’re doing it.

What they’re doing in exposing our border with Mexico is pretty much what Benedict Arnold did at West Point… but on a much grander scale. If Arnold merited being hung for that (which he wasn’t: he died bankrupt and despised in 1801) ...

This is one of those stories that I had to make sure wasn’t from The Onion. It ain’t, folks.

From KFWB News 980 in Los Angeles comes this:

School Officials Make ID Badges Mandatory for Elementary Students

SUTTER, Calif. (AP) 1.28.05, 9:50a — Parents of Sutter elementary students told school officials Thursday they’re concerned about the school’s new policy that requires students to wear security badges.

Brittan Elementary School District Superintendent Earnie Graham said the school is doing a test run to see if the technology improves campus security.

The badges contain a “passive antenna” that emit radio waves to a reader mounted above the doorway in each classroom. The readers picks up the child’s ID number and sends it to a handheld computer that tracks attendance.

But parent Dawn Cantrall said the badge was “creepy and cumbersome,” and complained that it had too much information on it, including

Something about seeing “WAR!” like that, sorta just tacked-on to the REAL crawl, makes me giggle inside. Like for all the horrific darkness that George Lucas has promised in this movie, the kind of stuff that will send the toughest geek fanboy running home crying for Momma, for all the GRUESOMENESS (and it’ll be gruesome, believe you me… I’ve seen stuff the public ain’t yet), Star Wars Episode 3 will be like the others and still not take itself seriously somehow!

So if you’re curious as to what the text will be for the opening crawl on this, the final Star Wars movie of all time (unless The Plaid One chooses to make one about 80-year old Han Solo and drags Harrison Ford out in another twenty years… which should be before they finally get to work on that Indiana Jones 4 they keep promising) ‘cuz this is what always ...

After being discovered paying ANOTHER op-ed commentator to hawk his schemes, President Bush has ordered his staff to no longer hire columnists.

But if he’s supposed to be so moral and ethical, why did he start doing it to begin with?

Given how dishonest a practice this is, what kind of public official even conceives of such a thing?

Why would the President of the United States do this?

Why would Bush spend our money to try to trick us like this?

With each passing day I’m becoming all the more glad that Bush won(?) the election. It would have been better for his political career to have died quick and mercifully. Now he begins to suffer death by a thousand cuts. Twenty years from now, he will be regarded as one of the worst Presidents in American history… even surpassing Bill Clinton. I’m a patient man: I can ...

Remember Leroy Wells, the guy on American Idol from my last post? Looks like he’s been a bad bad boy. Here’s the lowdown from WPMI’s website:

American Idol hopeful Leroy Wells watches his performance from the lockup
Last Update: 1/26/2005 11:00:19 PM
Posted By: Ron Reams

(MOBILE, Ala.) January 26 — An American Idol hopeful, gaining notoriety, but not just for his shot at stardom. T-V viewers found Grand Bay’s Leroy Wells on national T-V Tuesday night. However, on Wednesday, the would-be “idol” could be found in Mobile Metro Jail.

While millions of American Idol fans kept it locked into Leroy, Leroy was locked up behind bars for failing to appear in court.

The 22-year-old Grand Bay, Alabama native wowed fans with his rendition of “Got Your Money” by O-D-B. Even though he wasn’t able to watch his performance from home, sheriff’s deputies tell NBC 15 they did allow

EDIT: leroy-wells.com has the video from American Idol in streaming Windows Media format. Please don’t watch if you’ve just come out of gall bladder surgery as the intense laughter can open the incision.

Tonight’s show was the auditions in New Orleans. And the guest judge was Gene Simmons from KISS. Factor in how an American Idol audition is always a magnet for the really strange over the real singers. It was like the perfect storm of hilarity waiting to happen!

This would have still been classic if the only ummm, “unique” person to show up was Daron Beck, the guy in all-black who sang “I Put A Spell On You” by Screaming Jay Hawkins. And believe you me, he had every nuance of that song down pat and maybe did a hella better “You’re MIIIIIIIIIINE!!!” scream than Hawkins.

Then came Leroy Wells. Remember William Hung, whose rendition of Ricky Martin’s ...

Another legend has gone....

This story is bat guano. It’ll be a cold day in H-E-double toothpicks before the Republicans grant this concession (and they’d be showing themselves to be the biggest hypocrites after how they went after him in ’98). But I’m wondering what would happen if the way was opened up for this, and if he did run and win. From NewsMax.com so take it with a grain of salt:

Saturday, Jan. 22, 2005 8:36 p.m. EST

Strategists Eyeing Deal for Clinton Third Term

Political strategists are reportedly pondering a deal that would allow Bill Clinton to run for president again by getting Republicans to agree to a change in the constitutional ban on third terms.

Calling it “a long shot,” U.S. News & World Report says the deal would work like this: “Congressional Democrats will OK a constitutional amendment allowing naturalized citizens like California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to run for president

Hot damn!! This just keeps getting better and better!

First was yesterday’s news that the “master gene” triggering cancer has been discovered. So far as medical research goes, that’s maybe bigger than Enrico Fermi figuring out controlled nuclear fission. With a bit more studying, we might stand a chance of wiping most and maybe even all cancer and very soon at that.

And if that wasn’t miraculous news already, findings from another study are being made public and DEAR LORD THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU FOR GIVING US A CHANCE AGAINST THIS!! MAYBE BEATING CANCER WAS INCREDIBLY GRACIOUS ENOUGH BUT THAT WE MIGHT CAN LICK THIS… OUR FATHER IN HEAVEN, SHOW THOSE BOYS AND GIRLS IN THE WHITE LABCOATS EVERYTHING THEY NEED TO KNOW ABOUT PROTEIN FOLDING OR ANTIBODY EFFECTIVE RATES OR WHATEVER ‘CUZ I’VE BEEN PRAYING THAT BOTH OF THESE COULD GET CURED BUT NEVER THOUGHT ...