Arrrrr!

We prefer to be called Buccaneer-Americans.

(yesterday was International Talk Like A Pirate Day.)

Ritterspeak

This is pretty high quality. Both amusing an very truthy.

Confused by Democratic gubernatorial candidate Bill Ritter's comments on the campaign trail?

Well, the Colorado Republican Party is happy to offer its very own guide to Ritterspeak.

• Col-o-rad-o (noun) - Denver.

• Dem-o-crat (noun) - 1. Doom- and-gloom, tax-hiking, big-spending, big-government liberal. 2. Bill Ritter.

• gun (noun) - 1. A very scary object. 2. Something that should be carried only by officers of the law. 3. Something that cannot be concealed.

• mar-riage (noun) - 1. Definition unclear. (adj.) 2. Definition subject to change.

• wild-life (noun) - An exhibit at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science.

• wa-ter (noun) - Substance Bill Ritter uses to make his lawn green.


--Rocky Mountain News September 12th

Needless to say, this was posted on Bob Beauprez's Facebook profile the other day. (Yes, the geniouses over at Facebook not only decided to stalkerize it, they decided to politicize it as well. Oi.)

Facebook. A Place For Stalkers.

What the heck is Facebook thinking? First the wacky/creepy "news feed" and now opening the Facebook doors to anyone who would like to join? What about this seems like a good move?

Sure, Facebook only has 10 million members compared to the 109 million on MySpace, but no one is going to choose Facebook over MySpace if it is a MySpace-like experience that they want. They will simply sign up with the rest of the stalkers on MySpace.

Facebook has many limitations that I thought were put there for a reason, and it's these limitations that keep Facebook out of the "bad and scary" category with many people. Plus, there's that little bitty air of exclusivity in knowing that not just anyone can get on to Facebook.

Below is an AP article expanding on the debauchery:

Facebook Opens Its Pages
To All Internet Users

Associated Press
September 12, 2006 4:22 p.m.

Facebook.com, a popular social-networking Web site now restricted mostly to high school and college students, will soon throw its doors wide open and welcome millions of Internet users currently left standing at the gates.

The move will allow existing users to invite their now-ineligible friends, but it also risks changing the tone of a community where trust and privacy are key. Just last week, users revolted when Facebook introduced a feature that allows easier tracking of changes their friends make to personal profile pages.

The change in eligibility will come soon, although Facebook officials were still deciding exactly when.

To join Facebook, a user now must prove membership in an existing network using an email address from a college, a high school or selected companies and organizations. That has largely limited membership to students, along with some faculty and alumni.

As a result, Facebook has fewer than 10 million registered users, compared with some 109 million at News Corp.'s MySpace, which has an open-door policy.

With the change, a user can simply join a regional network -- such as one for their country, state, metropolitan area or city. No authentication will be performed.

But unlike the case with MySpace and other open community sites, users will be restricted in how much they can learn about others -- the way Harvard students can't automatically view a Stanford user's full profile page, which may include photos, contact information and other personal details. Users will have to agree to grant access, and they may give some users the ability to view only portions of their profiles.

Started by three Harvard sophomores in February 2004 as an online directory for college campuses, Facebook expanded to high schools last September and to selected companies and organizations earlier this year. Those users have been eligible to join regional networks as well when they graduate or move, and it is those networks that will be expanding soon.

Chris Hughes, co-founder of the Palo Alto, Calif.-based company, said everyone around the world will be covered by one of some 500 regional networks, although some regions may cover one or more countries. U.S. regions, he said, are likely to be geographically smaller.

Facebook's chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, said users will be restricted in how often they can switch to discourage impostures and pranksters.

Copyright © 2006 Associated Press

WTF.

Stuck on Stupid!

Rush Limbaugh often uses this phrase on his radio show, but have you ever wondered what "stuck on stupid" really meant?

Well, here is an example:

The grinning idiot clinging to Je$$e Jack$on is Cindy Sheehan... The sob sister protesting the war at President Bush's ranch who lost her son in the war. The same son she gave up in her divorce when he was 7 years old. She never had anything to do with that son after the divorce and he was raised by his father and stepmother. She never saw him after he was 7 years old, but our mainstream press never tells anyone that.

And by the way, if you wonder why she has so much free time... She is going through another divorce right now and guess what? She is giving up custody of another son.

As Forrest Gump once wisely proclaimed, "Stupid is as stupid does."

(Most of the above was stolen from an email that I recieved, so I cannot confirm the truthiness of it, but the picture says it all, even if the rest is made up.)

Never forget

September 11, 2001

On this day, we saw evil.

Remember the Twin Towers, the Pentagon, and Flight 93.
And remember why we are fighting against evil.

Never Forget.

God Bless America