SOPHIE SCHOLL: THE FINAL DAYS: One of the most uplifting stories of Christian courage I've ever seen

For the past nine months I've been determined... no, obsessed with trying to watch a certain movie. It's a German film, apparently it got very limited showing here in the states and it's due to arrive as an English-subtitled DVD in November. But I haven't wanted to wait that long. This is the story of one of the most inspirational and heart-breaking things that happened...

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Test new weapons on Americans first, says Air Force chief

Good God, they really aren't even trying to hide it anymore, are they? To this United States government the biggest enemy to worry about is the American people. And now we have confirmation about it from the head of the Air Force:Test nonlethal weapons on U.S. citizens, official saysBy LOLITA C. BALDORAssociated PressWASHINGTON - Nonlethal weapons such as high-power microwave devices should be used on American citizens in crowd-control situations...

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News from KWerky Productions: New projects, making a statement with the feature film, and the ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK "update" edit

Time for a lil' update on what's going on with KWerky Productions, the filmmaking outfit founded by "Weird" Ed and myself.As more time goes by I'm starting to think that it was for the better that we weren't able to make The Charles Schulz Code, because there were problems inherent to it that just weren't going to make it work. And the Da Vinci Code craze is now in such terminal condition that to press ahead with a parody of it... just doesn't have...

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Those new Star Wars DVDs on sale today? Don't buy 'em...

At least, I certainly won't be buying them. Why should I? We already got the classic trilogy - A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi - on DVD just two years ago. There isn't a single thing that's been changed in this new release from the previous one... nothing at all.Except the three individual DVDs on sale today also have their respective "original versions" packed inside as a separate DVD disc. Which is something that...

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Since the 26th can't get here fast enough...

There are two big days looming on my calendar during the next couple of months: Election Day on November 7th when we'll see what comes of my school board campaign. And September 26th, which is two weeks from today. I plan on being at the local Wal-Mart at 2 in the morning (gonna give 'em a few hours to get it out on the shelves) to buy "Weird Al" Yankovic's latest album Straight Outta Lynwood. Just 14 days away... and I can hardly wait!!But while...

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9/11 + 5 years

Five years ago this morning, a little before 9 AM, I was crashed asleep on the couch in my apartment in Asheville when the phone rang. It was Mom, asking me if I was watching TV. After working the night before and then up 'til late helping with some major news stuff on the website I used to staff on, I'd only gotten to bed around 2 in the morning. So I mumbled something about "no, just woke up". She said that a plane had hit the World Trade Center....

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A revelation

It is far easier to change the past from the future than it is to change the future from the pa...

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How 9/11 could have been prevented (and how to prevent an airline terrorist attack from ever happening again)

Tonight ABC is going to be starting their two-part miniseries The Path to 9/11, which you probably heard is supposed to not reflect all that well on the Clinton Administration in the years leading up to the attack. So Bill Clinton and a lot of Democrats are trying to force ABC to not air the thing at all. This of course is being attacked by the Republicans... who not that long ago were trying (and succeeded) to get CBS to not run a miniseries about...

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Why I don't want an iPod

Sales of Apple's iPod are plummeting, according to a story from The Observer. Here's one of the reasons that are discussed...Although it has sold nearly 60 million actual iPods and a billion downloaded songs worldwide, cracks have begun to appear in the edifice. The Zandl Group, a New York-based trends forecaster which regularly interviews a panel of 3,000 consumers aged 25-35, recently picked up its first significant criticisms. 'The iPod is far...

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Peter the YouTuber talks about S-E-X

"geriatric1927", also known as Peter the British pensioner, is at it again... and you won't buh-leeeeeve what he's telling us about this time! An absolute must-see if for no other reason than for how he grabs your attention within the first 15 seconds of video. Has Peter finally gone too far?! Nah, I don't think so: he's actually very polite when he talks about how the...

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AGAIN?! Now "Canadian Idiot" by Weird Al hits online

For the second time in 24 hours, a song from "Weird Al" Yankovic's upcoming Straight Outta Lynwood album has appeared online. A little while ago somebody (that I haven't been able to recognize from any previous correspondence) sent me a very high-quality MP3 of "Canadian Idiot", Weird Al's parody of Green Day's "American Idiot". Last night it was "White and Nerdy" that appeared on Chamillionaire's Myspace page. And the other week Al released "Don't...

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Look at it if you wanna

No way am I going to post the pictures of this thing here. It wigs me out too much to even think about it. But in case anyone's interested: "Weird" Ed found an... interesting... collection of photographs. What they are of is anyone's guess. Here's the blog post he made on his Myspace page about it. You can find more images from the link he's got there. I'm warning ya though: I took one look and the first words out of my mouth were "Ye gods......

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How SUPERMAN: THE MOVIE should have REALLY ended

Too funny...EDIT 8:19 AM EST: I just found where this video originated from. It's a site called How It Should Have Ended and there's even MORE hilarious stuff to be watched over there. You just have to see this one for Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory...

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Forty years ago today...

...a little television show called Star Trek debuted.Live long and prosper.(P.S.: the original show will always be coo...

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ANOTHER new Weird Al song makes its way online!

Wow... "Weird Al" Yankovic really needs to slow down these online releases or else we'll have heard all the songs on his next album by the time it comes out on the 26th :-) Without any kind of announcement about it or anything the first track from Straight Outta Lynwood - the parody of Chamillionaire's "Ridin'" titled "White and Nerdy" - is on Chamillionaire's Myspace page right now! So far I've listened to it about three times and it's playing...

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That's gotta hurt

The above photograph is that of a cell phone lodged in the intestines of an inmate in an El Salvador maximum security prison. Here's the story via Yahoo!...Cell phones found inside four prisonersWed Sep 6, 10:57 PM ETSAN SALVADOR, El Salvador - Cellular telephones were found inside four prisoners in El Salvador's maximum-security prison, authorities said Wednesday.The discovery...

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The full track listing for Weird Al's STRAIGHT OUTTA LYNWOOD

So far I haven't seen any official announcement, but so many sources are consistently reporting this so this may very well be the real deal. This is the point before "Weird Al" Yankovic releases a new album when all of his fans will be speculating about what the songs will be like exactly. For me personally, there are always some song titles that I have to wonder what in the world could possibly be funny or original about them... and then the album...

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