January 04, 2005
Stupidest Idea Of 2005 (So Far)
(Stupider even than allowing Ashley Simpson to sing live on television again.)
Renaming the Los Angeles California Anaheim Angels the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. That makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.
Not only does it sound stupid, but it alienates their fan base. People in OC hate LA, they get pissed if you say they're from LA and they never go to LA unless it's absolutely unavoidable.
As usual, Humbug is the place to go for the latest baseball news, in meter.
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"The Los Angeles Angels" is bad enough, with or without Anaheim. L.A. already has The The Tar Tar Pits. Do they really need The The Angels Angels to go with it?
Posted by: Xrlq at January 05, 2005 07:04 AM (6DLYC)
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Water Wealth Contentment Health
i feel i must make an effort to comment about Amber Frey's interview by the very annoying Matt Laueur of NBC.
i'm somewhat impressed by Amber Frey. She was a brave girl. But i'm also amazed at how naive she was before that crucial telephone conversation with the Modesto PD, which opened her eyes.
The Dateline Special did a pretty good job of capsulizing the circumstantial case against Scott Pederson. i would have convicted him too. There were just too many lies and too many eerie coincidences. Justice was done.
And as long as i'm feeling generous: i have to say that i can't not like Gloria Allred. Sure, she's a wacko feminist and a grandstander, but she was on the right side of the Clinton fiasco, and she represented Amber Frey amazingly well throughout the ordeal.
Now can we please close the book on this whole story? It'll soon be time to obsess about the next Trial of the Century: Jocko.
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Not to mention her yoeman work on the Menendez case.
Posted by: Casca at January 05, 2005 08:52 AM (GYhBA)
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That was Leslie Abramson.
Posted by: annika at January 05, 2005 09:19 AM (zAOEU)
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Useless Halftime Show Blogging
The best part of the game so far has been listening to the crowd boo Ashley Simpson. That was fucking awesome!
Memo to Ashley: You make me wanna uh uh uh uh too. Then i flush the toilet.
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Well, I guess Ashlee has balls, as it were. Good to see the acid reflux didn't kick in. Only
Rita Moreno of Arte is less popular at the moment.
Posted by: Ontario Emperor at January 04, 2005 09:33 PM (k9zwi)
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I wrote my 2 cents on this last night in a fit of inspiration...
Posted by: Scof at January 05, 2005 12:34 PM (oqUpG)
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Who would have thought that O.J. would not have been the most offensive Simpson at the Orange Bowl last night?
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Slow Tuesday Night
We're out of wine. The Orange Bowl already looks like a blow-out. (Shelly's right, USC is a pro team.) And i'm too pissed to even come up with a coherent rant about the Columbia Journalism Review's huge insult of a lie.
Volokh and Wizbang have dissected the truth best on this one. Shit like this makes me so spittin' mad, i could just... uh... spit. Just know that the name Corey Pein is easy to remember and i will be watching his career. Any organization that hires him will immediately stain its own credibility. A fucking hack in training. They'll just adore him at big media.
Time to go smoke and watch some more of 24.
Pein résumé via LGF.
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Oh yeah, he's a little dicksucker. Evergreen eh, isn't that where the little bitch who got run over by the bulldozer in Israel went to school?
What's Roger say? "Meet ya in the barn at midnight."
Posted by: Casca at January 04, 2005 08:13 PM (cdv3B)
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Don't give up on quiting smoking!!!
Posted by: Wayne at January 04, 2005 09:11 PM (ZHG3i)
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Powerline gave Pein a good bitchslap too:
http://powerlineblog.com/archives/009118.php
Posted by: Sarah at January 05, 2005 04:02 AM (GJ5/4)
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Your blog and others of your ilk actually prove the main points of the CJR article about blogs -- you're more like those spectators at that Pistons/Pacers game/fight: good for tossing garbage from the stands, causing fights and stirring up a lot of publicity, but not actually
contributing anything useful. The CJR piece was actually way too kind to both the incompetent, lazy-ass journalism shown by the mainstream media -- NOT including CBS, which was mostly guilty of gutlessness -- and the primarily ideological, illogical, vengeful, cruel and dumbass nonsense coming from the blog mobs.
I recently posted an addendum of sorts to the CJR piece: http://tinyurl.com/5fo6v
And as far as Joseph M. Newcomer, Ph.D. goes, the CJR piece was way, WAY too kind to him. He was no more than a verbose charlatan whose forgery proof was as bogus as right-wing bloggers believing that they're doing anything more than shooting off their PC's about stuff they have very, VERY little understanding of. I was easily able to dismiss his slapdash "proof" a while back in another Usenet post: http://tinyurl.com/5qyxh
Have a nice read....
Posted by: BC at January 05, 2005 02:16 PM (lRlEb)
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You're an idiot, a liar, and a zealot. i've done the five minute experiment myself. i did it because i was skeptical at first. There is no doubt that the documents were forgeries. None of the prevarications in your link are persuasive, and especially not since i have an exact duplicate of one of the memos in my desk drawer right now. Exact duplicate, which i typed with my own hands mind you.
The 11.5 point issue you raise is bs. You must not be familiar enough with word to know that you can set it to 11.5 by double clicking on the drop down for font size. In any case, when i did my experiment, i used the 12 pt default setting. The difference in font size was created by CBS's "original" having been faxed. The fax transmission shrunk it slightly. By increasing the size of the CBS copy by about 5% i got an exact match with my Word document.
You cling to your belief system like its a religion, and against all reason. That's called intellectual dishonesty. Please don't respond to this comment, it was not my intention to re-hash the whole debate. i only wanted to let other visitors know why i laugh at people like you.
Posted by: annika at January 05, 2005 06:42 PM (K4d6E)
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Evergreen College in Washington? That place is a liberal's wet dream of a school - i think they do not even grade. A student's grade is self-awarded there, so of course a sense of superiority and elitism is to be expected from someone who attended this questionable institution.
It is the same place St. Rachel Corrie of Pancakes was educated.
The kool-aid's effect is pervasive.
Journalists are very similar to academics - they are observers of people who "do" things in this world. They sit on the sidelines conerned with proving their own relevance in this world.
Posted by: jcrue at January 09, 2005 09:51 AM (lqkke)
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They're Lonely And They're Spectacular
This one belongs in The "Huh" Files.
Teri Hatcher has revealed she hasn't had sex in four years.
The beautiful actress, famous for her role as Lois Lane in '90s hit TV series 'The New Adventures of Superman', has confessed she hasn't had any fun between the sheets since splitting from actor husband Jon Tenney in 2000.
The star, who also plays a frustrated single mum in the acclaimed US series 'Desperate Housewives' told Britain's The Sun newspaper: 'There just isn't any space for it.
'I don't have a boyfriend because I don't go out on dates.
But it's okay - I'm not sad because of it.'
Four years? Dang.
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I was married to a sexual camel. It's no fucking fun! Now you know why he left.
Posted by: Casca at January 04, 2005 05:12 PM (cdv3B)
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I don't buy it. But if it's true - Teri, call me!
Posted by: Micah at January 04, 2005 05:58 PM (v/oTo)
Posted by: annika at January 04, 2005 09:10 PM (1k2LW)
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You're the one who's drunk.
Oh, OK, guess it shoulda been a new paragraph. Feel free to read the pronoun differently.
Fuck, anyone who's been married for a decade knows what life without sex is like. That's why you need to do as Jimmy Buffet says in "Love and Luck", and "Find yourself a lover who will glue you to the floor".
Heh, I'm drunk now too.
Posted by: Casca at January 04, 2005 09:48 PM (cdv3B)
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Maybe that's why she is taking stripping lessons.
Posted by: ginger at January 05, 2005 04:33 PM (yu+32)
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I'd just like to help her out with that..
Posted by: JD at February 20, 2005 03:31 PM (J+Gcr)
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This is just another Britney-Spears-discuss-my-sexuality-for-free-publicity tactic.
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January 03, 2005
All Hail Our New Ant Overlords!
From
RatherBiased.com [quoting Broadcasting and Cable magazine]:
. . . CBS News president Andrew Heyward, along with Washington bureau chief Janet Leissner, recently met with White House communications director Dan Bartlett, in part to repair chilly relations with the Bush administration.
CBS News's popularity at the White House—never high to begin with—plunged further in the wake of Dan Rather's discredited '60 Minutes [Wednesday]' story on George Bush's [Air] National Guard service.
An incentive for making nice is the impending report from the two-member panel investigating CBS's use of now-infamous documents for the '60 Minutes' piece.
Heyward was 'working overtime to convince Bartlett that neither CBS News nor Rather had a vendetta against the White House,' our source says, 'and from here on out would do everything it could to be fair and balanced.' CBS declined to comment.
And i love this easy to believe bit of speculation:
More than likely, one of the most prominent topics at the alleged meeting was some CBS begging to let Dan Rather, who has been banned from the Bush White House, interview President Bush before the older Texan retires from the CBS News anchor desk.
What a bunch of fucking whiney weasels.
Does anyone remember the Simpsons episode where the news anchor Kent Brockman mistakenly thinks giant ants from space are going to invade earth, so he begins his broadcast in front of a banner that says: "All hail our new ant overlords!"
In their hubris, CBS really thought they would have a president Kerry by now. Instead, much to their chagrin, they have to go kiss up to their ant overlords.
Grovel away you bastards!
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Rather wants to play gotcha one more time.
Bush should never talk to an employee of CBS for the rest of his life. For that matter, no other American should either.
Posted by: jake at January 03, 2005 09:28 PM (r/5D/)
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Jorge is a pretty compassionate guy, but I don't think he caves on this one. There's just no upside for El Presidente. As they say, be nice to people on the way up, you're sure to meet them again on the way down.
Hmmm, a thought springs to life. What say about twenty years from now, we get a couple fifths of gin and good whiskey, a convertible, and mount a CBS anchorman grave/front door pissing tour? There's only the two of them right now. With a little planning, it could be knocked out in a three-day weekend. ANNI! WHAT'S THE FREQUENCY!?!?!
Posted by: Casca at January 03, 2005 10:15 PM (cdv3B)
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Being as pedantic as I am about this sort of thing (i.e., just liek I am about everything else), I believe the exact quote is "I, for one, welcome our new giant ant overlords."
Posted by: Dave J at January 04, 2005 07:55 AM (CYpG7)
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Rather should remind them that as a member of the media, he could be useful in convincing people to toil in their underground sugar mines.
Great blog, by the way.
Posted by: Micah at January 04, 2005 08:13 AM (v/oTo)
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Like Rather, the Simpsons are on my shitlist due to the liberal bias I've noticed over the years. All of the negative Republican stereotypes and the satiric Bush-bashing episode where Krusty the Clown gets elected to Congress was nauseating. I became a liberal during my "ignorant youngster" years(10-17) because of that show.
Anyway, I'm still savoring Bush's victory. I thought Kerry was going to win at one point. Thankfully, I was wrong. I'm going to enjoy rubbing my smelly ass in the faces of all the asswipes that unfairly tried to screw Bush over with their lies and knee-jerk propaganda for the next few years.
First up, Jacques Chirac tried to screw Bush over politically in the pre-war and post-war phases of OIF. When the Bush campaign was seemingly down in the dumps, Chirac tried to pour more salt on the wound by suggesting that Bush alienated allies such as himself with his cowboy-ishness. Today, we can gloat and laugh our asses off at the political troubles Chirac is now facing. Well, Mr. Chirac, your Bush-bashing and nose-thumbing hasn't improved your nation's miserable economy. Bush escaped the socialist lynching, I can't wait to see how you are going to try to weasel your way out of a lynching in your next election. HAHAHAHAHA.......
Posted by: reagan80 at January 04, 2005 08:26 AM (wlq2M)
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Well, she did it. Mom finally kicked me out and now I'm living in the park. It sucks because now I'm forced to masturbate in the public bathroom, and prop my Michael Jackson fan magazine on top of the urinal. Yesterday it fell while i was busy wanking and it got all wet. Life sucks. I hate George Bush.
Posted by: Robert Mac-Lelland at January 04, 2005 11:21 AM (BbhPq)
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Wow, I needed a good laugh. Thanks.
Posted by: d-rod at January 04, 2005 12:21 PM (CSRmO)
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Scouring The Globe...
To bring you the most important news of the day.
This just in...
Ashley Simpson can burp the alphabet.
No word yet on whether she's lip-synching that too.
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Posted by: spydrz at January 03, 2005 03:04 PM (OJ9pA)
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How did I KNOW that?
Anybody seen my aluminum baseball bat?
Posted by: Casca at January 03, 2005 03:13 PM (cdv3B)
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No offense Annika, and I'm sure you'll take this in the spirit in which it is said:
Who.Gives.A.Shit
On the other hand, her burping abilities would have been way more entertaining than her lame singing attempt.
It's a hot air thing, wouldn't you agree?
Posted by: joe at January 03, 2005 06:35 PM (aO4j5)
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This young lady has so many talents. With each new revelation my attraction increases.
Posted by: Jonathan at January 03, 2005 07:25 PM (iIEgQ)
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The article proves that she KNOWS the alphabet...well, at least to the letter S.
Hmm...burping, acid reflux disease...Ashlee's innards are getting almost as much press space as Britney's feet...
Posted by: Ontario Emperor at January 03, 2005 09:16 PM (k9zwi)
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it doesn't surprise me. you have to admit, the girl is pretty damn normal. least circus freak-ish of all those teen stars.
Posted by: candy girl at January 03, 2005 10:05 PM (Aak2E)
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If she's "burp-synching", there's no proof that she actually knows the alphabet.
Posted by: gcotharn at January 03, 2005 11:46 PM (+7VNs)
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She's got a talent on par with the little kid in "Billy Madison."
Posted by: Micah at January 04, 2005 08:15 AM (v/oTo)
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Useless Parental Blogging 2.0
Mom: "Hey, I can say
fuckers now, it's not a bad word anymore."
Daughter: stunned silence.
Mom: "No really, I saw it on a bus. But they misspelled it."
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Hey, post a picture of your new 'do.
Posted by: Eric Johnson at January 03, 2005 11:13 AM (blNMI)
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Perhaps the movie is good, and perhaps the talent in the movie is put to some use, but it sounds so much like a one joke movie to me...
Posted by: Ontario Emperor at January 03, 2005 09:17 PM (k9zwi)
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As you should know Eric, only premium subscribers to www.annikahotandsweaty.com are able to see pics!
Posted by: annika at January 03, 2005 09:23 PM (FeO+V)
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More Useless Blogging
President Clinton looks like he's gained a little weight. Still gaunt though.
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Yeah, he looks like shit. Wouldn't it be ironic if he got a contaminated transfusion during his bypass? Who'd believe that?
Posted by: Casca at January 03, 2005 03:25 PM (cdv3B)
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Gaunt but obese.
Generally not a good sign. (Is that a moth circling his head...?)
Posted by: Desert Cat at January 04, 2005 03:48 PM (0DDAz)
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There Is No Try
Only do or not do.
We do.
Update: The Marines have arrived in Sri Lanka too.
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God Bless America and George W. Bush.
Posted by: shelly at January 03, 2005 02:45 AM (+7VNs)
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Mad props for Yoda quotage.
Kevin
Posted by: Kevin Kim at January 03, 2005 02:15 PM (4uHYC)
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Hate to burst your bubble sweetcheeks, but those are definitely air force faggots.
Posted by: Casca at January 03, 2005 03:58 PM (cdv3B)
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Well, i don't have the expertise to tell the difference in camouflage, but the Reuters caption identifies them as Marines. Wouldn't be the first time Reuters got something wrong, though.
Posted by: annika at January 03, 2005 04:20 PM (zAOEU)
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January 02, 2005
Useless 24 Blogging
The following thought took place between 8:00 a.m. and 9:00 a.m., while watching episode nine from my
24: Season One DVD set:
Why isn't Jack Bauer kicking somebody's ass? He needs to kick somebody's ass right now.
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Wow! What a groovy girl logo/pic at the top.
I once had a semi-similar thought while watching about the 20th person shoot bullets at Drew Barrymore's Charley's Angels:
"For God sakes-- Will someone give those Angels a gun?! Jeez."
Posted by: gcotharn at January 02, 2005 09:46 PM (ywZa8)
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it is coming, don't worry it is coming.
He kicks you ass until it is dead, then he will cut off you head and use it to save the world.
Jack is one of the only men i have a man crush one
Posted by: cube at January 04, 2005 07:16 AM (nyNr0)
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Stay away from him, cube. Jack's mine.
Posted by: annika at January 04, 2005 06:09 PM (1k2LW)
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