And people say that kids today are stupid: Kids in Troy, Michigan tapped into a Burger King drive-thru’s radio network.

(T)he pranksters told one customer who had just placed an order: “You don’t need a couple of Whoppers. You are too fat. Pull ahead.”

The local cops are bringing the kids up on obscenity charges or some such nonsense. If I were the kid’s science teacher, though, I’d give them extra credit. They needed to ID the frequency and tune a receiver and transmitter to pull off the prank.

Although it’d be somewhat more impressive if they’d had to actually hardwire a transmitter into the box after hours…

Mad MoJo! First, the wrong coordinator quits (I wish Greg Davis had resigned), and now this. I know the guy (Greg Robinson if you haven’t clicked the link) has a superbowl ring or two from his Denver days… but he’s slid. The last three years, the Chiefs have had bottom-tier defenses even with reasonable talent.

There… even though it was bad news, aren’t you glad you took a break from politics. :-)

Check out this story about catching internet spammers in the act. My favorite part is in the section on Pump and Dump Stock scams where this warped individual signs her emails “Take care and God bless.” while she’s selling her spam services to inflate interest in a stock so the client can double thier money illegaly.

Al Franken, tough guy

Wise-cracking funnyman Al Franken yesterday body-slammed a demonstrator to the ground after the man tried to shout down Gov. Howard Dean.

The tussle left Franken’s trademark thick-rim glasses broken, but he said he was not injured.

Divorce details on W’s brother are starting to come out.

“It’s a pretty remarkable thing for a man just to go to a hotel room door and open it and have a woman standing there and have sex with her,” said the attorney, Marshall Davis Brown.

“It was very unusual,” Bush replied.

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Sharon Bush also accused Neil of fathering a child with the woman he now plans to marry. The woman’s ex-husband has filed a defamation lawsuit, and DNA testing has been requested.

and this article even mentions the priviledges of being a Bush (as if we didn’t already know you could be handed the presidency for little to no effort)

he stands to make millions from businesses in which he has little expertise — including a computer-chip company managed in part by the son of former Chinese president Jiang Zemin.

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At the end of his father’s presidency, Neil was among a group of defendants who agreed to pay $49.5 million to settle a negligence lawsuit over the $1 billion collapse of the savings and loan he directed in Colorado.
Bush denied wrongdoing and was not charged in the grand jury investigation, but the U.S. Office of Thrift Supervision found Bush’s conduct “involved significant conflicts of interest and constituted multiple breaches” of his fiduciary duties.

and to be fair, I’ll include this excerpt:

Jimmy Carter’s beer-swilling brother, Billy, wrote a book called “Redneck Power” and accepted money from the government of Libya. Bill Clinton’s half-brother, Roger, was jailed for a year for dealing cocaine. Richard Nixon’s kid brother Donald took $205,000 from Howard Hughes in the hopes of opening a fast-food chain selling Nixonburgers.

From The 213 Things Skippy is No Longer Allowed to Do in the U.S. Army

Once upon a time, there was a SPC Schwarz stationed with the Army in the Balkans. SPC Schwarz was either very clever or very bored; but probably both, since he managed to attempt or be warned about 213 things he wasn’t allowed to do. He collected those things into a hillarious list and posted them to the web. The site hadn’t been updated in a couple of years and has since gone away; but the list is classic, so I saved it.

Here are some of my favorites:

• Not allowed to add ‘In accordance with the prophesy’ to the end of answers I give to a question an officer asks me.
• May not wear gimp mask while on duty.
• An order to put polish on my boots means the whole boot.
• The following items do not exist: Keys to the Drop Zone, A box of grid squares, blinker fluid, winter air for tires, canopy lights, or Chem-Light ® batteries.

This is a cool update to Choplifter called Rockface Rescue where you pilot a copter around rescuing people and animals. As you can see, I didn’t do so well on my first try.

Carol Lay (who is always funny) gets another good shot at Bush this week and takes on the RNC with it, too. (Remember this one which got Bush and his P.R. group?) Be sure to click through for the final punch line of this strip.

I was incensed enough about this review at Salon for “The Passion of the Christ” to write a Letter to the Editor. You’ve read my review and know that I liked it. If Cintra Wilson (or her interviewee, Father Stanger) didn’t like the film I wouldn’t be upset, but the open bias and low journalistic integrity of this article stuck in my craw.

Read more!

Eric Boehlert rips into Cheney this morning with an article showing more conflicts between the country’s intelligence community and the veep. I especially love the level of discourse

Cheney, in an interview with the Rocky Mountain News, spontaneously lauded the discredited Weekly Standard article and described it as “the best source of information.” …
“It’s disgusting,” said Vincent Cannistraro, the former CIA chief of counter-terrorism. “It’s bullshit,” said Ray McGovern, a former CIA analyst who served in the agency’s Near East division.

Weekly Standard executive editor Fred Barnes trumpeted the article on Fox News. “These are hard facts, and I’d like to see [skeptics] refute any one of them,” he said.
But the Department of Defense did just that. On Nov. 15, the next day, the Pentagon issued an extraordinary statement calling the story “inaccurate” and explaining it was based on raw intelligence (or a “classified annex”) that had not been evaluated. “The classified annex was not an analysis of the substantive issue of the relationship between Iraq and al Qaeda, and it drew no conclusions.”

More problems derived from the Bushies destroying a decades-long design of vetting intelligence. Now Cheney and Fox News are getting intelligence from the same source.