As the brave year of 2006 closes with Saddam’s execution, Michael Boldin points out that almost 3,000 US troops (and an enormous number of Iraqi citizens) are dead for no good reason in Saddam was Right and Bush was Wrong.
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The Food and Drug Administration has determined that eating cloned meat is dandy. Wouldn’t a plate of steaming replicative fading fritters go down nice, now?
Of course, if things subsequently go weird, expect more Tangy Tumors™ and Crunchy Carcinoma™ in your drive-through dinners.
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Huffing for Health Department:
Someday, people you see with paint cans and paper bags may just be huffing to shake off the ‘flu.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has managed to invent a paint that kills influenza virus and most bacteria. The paint has been tested to great success on surfaces (like washroom door handles, et cetera), but no mention was made of paper bags.
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Have a happy 2007, folks.
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It’s the last Blogger Poker Tour round, hosted by the Poker Pub Poker Blog.
Within 10 minutes of the game’s beginning, I’d lost half my stack to a fella who had a lower pair than I, but whom the cards on the table better favored. This happens a lot.
By the first break, however, only 92 of the 112 remained, and I was 28th. Compared to previous rounds, this was fantastic! Now if I can only hold the seat . . .
By 4:17p I was 60th of 85, and getting a bad feeling about my continued survival. Time to improve my lot. Two pairs at the flop give me some badly-needed confidence, and things pick up.
4:22p 41st of 82 . . .
4:31p 20th of 75
4:33p 2nd of 73 (!)
4:47p 10th of 44
4:49p - Overly confident, I finished 40th to a Luvthegame’s straight.
Well, heck. No money, iPods or any other good stuff for me. Nonetheless, this round was a blast; I actually had a chance!
As I write this, Luvthegame is holding on to first with 24 players remaining. Well played, all.
A quick check of my logs indicates that a large percentage of visitors have popped by due to a post here entitled YAS (Yet Another Scandal).
The post in question briefly mentioned Tammy Faye Messner. Ms Messner’s website hasn’t been updated since October, and her cancer has recently taken a bad turn.
There’s a surprising groundswell of interest in Ms Messner; from the odd pairing with Ron Jeremy on The Surreal Life 2, to the Larry King interviews, Ms Messner has managed to remain in the public eye. Witness, if you will, ‘Big Tent: The Tammy Faye Bakker Musical‘ . . . possibly coming soon to an off-Broadway venue near you. Ex-husband Jim is preaching on television again, though in considerably reduced means from the glory days.
Jay Bakker, on the other hand, is a rising star. The son of Jim and Tammy is definitely not yer average preacher.
As a gentle means of introduction, Apple’s iTunes has an episode of Rev. Jay Bakker’s ‘One Punk Under God‘ gratis. The six-episode documentary by the Sundance Channel will premiere on December 13th.
Remember William Shatner’s classic remake of Rocket Man?
Well, Tom Baker — arguably the best Doctor Who ever* — has been mixed with the Kinks’ You Really Got Me to interesting effect. The purpose behind this is a Christmas drive for UK charities Shelter and Focus Ireland.
A teaser may be heard at British Telecom’s TextAid site, wherein lucky British subscribers can send text-to-voice messages to UK landlines in Tom Baker’s voice. Two pence from each message goes to the aforementioned charities, and BT reports the £100,000 target may well be met by Christmas.
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* Recently, according to the BBC, Doctor Who Magazine reported that — after reader votes were tallied — Tom Baker was replaced by David Tennant as the best Doctor Who. A vote widget on the BBC News website, however, begs to differ . . . as do I.
Travellers returning from China always mention the unique cuisine — wholly different from what North Americans call ‘Chinese food.’
In Zhejiang province, a gentleman managed to manufacture lard (ordinarily animal fat) out of “swill, sewage and recycled
industrial oil” . . . with a pinch of “toxic pesticide” and sell it to retailers who resold it to restaurants, hotels and other customers.
“Sewage in lard” prompts new China health scare - Yahoo! News
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Meanwhile, a Taco Bell in New Jersey was temporarily closed by the company after 11 confirmed cases of E. coli infection dating from November 17 were determined to have had their origins there.
This was the same deadly strain of the bacterium which had earlier contaminated packaged California spinach.
No word if wild boars — blamed for the California outbreak — had been trampling through the restaurant.
Taco Bell closes New Jersey outlet after E. coli
I’ve resigned myself to instant death in the Blogger Poker Tour
. . . it’s inevitable.
What would you do if you
- flopped a king high straight
- all three cards in the flop had dissimilar suits
- an ace-high straight would require the turn and the river to be remarkable
The fellah I went up against likely had a high pair. He then, on the turn, had two pair. He went all in.
Yep.
Even then, I was certain I had the best hand. So all in it is.
Naturally, the river gives him a full house.
So I managed to be the first out in the sixth.
Depressing.
Personally, I’m just glad we had our electricity restored this afternoon. It was cold last night!