I’m leaving for Boise later today, but let’s have some more headline fun – because it’s FUN:

Gang of 20 pulls off huge bank robbery
Credit victory to Jesus.
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Inmate freed 17 years after wrongful conviction
Judicial system responds, “My bad.”
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Boeing test-launches mammoth new rocket
“No, we’re not trying to compensate for anything,” Boeing scientists say.
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New Harry Potter book to be published in July
Stock in Satanism rises on news
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French determined to fight terrorism: Chirac
“Bring it on!” Chirac shouted defiantly, “Our country is right next to Vietnam in Asia.”
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Saudi Arabia Recalls Its Libya Ambassador
“No matter how things were going, he always has a sunny disposition,” say reminiscers.
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Palestinian Leader Who Seeks Change Pays Final Tribute to Arafat
Pissing on grave a sign of respect to Palestinians.
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Memos show FBI agents complained about abuses at Guantánamo Bay
The abuses were described as “quite noisy.”

You can play at home in the comments, and check out reader contribution from yesterday (many of them much funnier).

Another tragedy in Iraq:

A mortar and rocket attack on a U.S. military base in the Iraqi city of Mosul killed at least 22 people and wounded more than 50 on Tuesday in one of the most deadly attacks on U.S. forces since last year’s invasion […]
Iraqi militant group Ansar al-Sunna, a major player in the insurgency against the U.S.-backed government and U.S. forces, said it was behind the attack.
A defense official in Washington said it was not clear how many of the casualties were Americans.
The attack on a dining hall came at noon when many soldiers at Forward Operating Base Marez, at the northern city’s airfield, would have been eating lunch. U.S. military camps in Mosul have tented mess halls seating hundreds of troops.
“There were an unknown number of rounds in a rocket and mortar attack,” the official said. “We don’t know the breakdown (of dead). We don’t know if it’s U.S., Iraqi, a combination.”

People like Markos “Screw Them” Zuniga have done his best to side with the enemy against our military as to spite Bush’s politics. Who will be the last to die for his rhetoric and partisan hatred?

I think my blog is officially down for the holidays (which doesn’t mean I won’t post more; just not the big morning humor post I usually do). Anyhoo, do some more headlines in the comments.

The board of directors has decided that, in the interest of IMAO shareholders, all IMAO employees should be in the same vicinity for greater efficiency. Thus, SarahK, the IMAO t-shirt babe, is being relocated to Melbourne, Florida, the headquarters for IMAO International, at the beginning of next year so there will be a shorter time between new t-shirt release and new modeling photos (I still need to get the photos up for the last three shirts).
Details of the move are here.
Excuse me while I go Happy Dance.

In a post where Michelle Malkin links to SarahK’s and my silly little story, she has a link to a blogger getting harassed and arrested for legally possesing a gun by a cop who seems to have a chip on his shoulder. Everyone check it out and help in anyway you can.
UPDATE: Just to be clear, I’m not trying to be anti-police officer. I’ve known many good ones throughout my years, and my dad almost was one. I know the pressures of the job can get to any good man, but this incident seems like clear harassment with no suspicion of any real wrong-doing.

Look at this caption contest. Hmm… what’s it look like Rumsfeld about to do?

My eyebrows don’t look like that, do they?

Damn, it didn’t work. Got more comment spam. Here’s my next idea: While really good computer chess programs can challenge a good player, the Chinese game Go is so complex that even the best Go computer program can easily be beaten by even a decent player. So, all of you will have to practice to be good at Go, and then I’ll put the best Go computer program on my website. If you can beat it within a couple hours, that should prove you’re human and thus allow you to comment.
Or I’ll rename the comment.cgi like some people suggested.

Got this from the NRA:

ALERT ! “Assault Weapons” & Magazine Ban filed by Florida Senator
TO: USF & NRA Members & Friends
FROM: Marion P. Hammer
Unified Sportsmen of Florida Executive Director
NRA Past President
SUBJECT: SB-500
It has started !! The threat by the Brady Campaign/Million Mom Marchers to reenact the Clinton Gun Ban state by state has started with Florida. The first Gun Ban bill has been filed for the 2005 Florida Legislative Session which begins in March 2005. The bill has not been referred to committees yet. We will notify members when it has been referenced and will provide email addresses to legislators you need to contact to help fight this bill.
SB 500 – Assault Weapons/Detachable Magazine Ban by Gwen Margolis (D-Miami Beach); Would ban the manufacture, importation, possession, purchase, sale, or transfer of any semi-automatic firearm defined as “assault weapons” and any detachable magazine capable of holding more than 10 rounds. It would require forfeiture and confiscation of any such firearm or magazine. Further, it would require the state to destroy any such firearm within 60 days after confiscation or forfeiture. It provides immunity from prosecution if firearm is voluntarily surrendered. Otherwise, it makes a violation of the provisions of this bill a felony of the second degree (15 years in prison and $10,000 fine).

Not just bans, but confiscations – including of magazines. Now, the only full-capacity magazine I had I gave to SarahK in a highly publicized event (I prefer 1911s with 8rd Wilson Combat magazines), but this is pretty messed-up. I assume there is no way this bill will get any traction, but who proposed it should be publically pistol-whipped by the governor as an example to others.
UPDATE: Here’s the bill from the Florida Senate website. Here’s Margolis’s page. Here’s her e-mail: margolis.gwen.web@flsenate.gov. Everyone send her a quick e-mail and tell her she is a muckadoo. If she asks what that means, tell her it’s a slur for Hispanic Jews.

Sorry for the light blogging… no, wait, I’m not sorry. Even Best of the Web is off now. Still, I’ll try and keep up the funny until I head to Boise.
Anyway, John Hawkins has his 3rd Annual Twenty Most Annoying Liberals In The United States.
While Bush made Time’s Man of the Year, Powerline made Time’s Blog of the Year. Kudos to them, and I better start lobbying for next year.

I got a message from Scott we’re done taking orders on the IMAO Christmas CD. Thanks to everyone who bought it and hope you enjoy it and have a Merry Christmas.
UPDATE: What the hell: Merry Christmas to all my readers.
Guess it’s back to hocking t-shirts. I still need to get up the new modeling photos, some them shown here.

Comment spam keeps getting worse and worse. I use MT-Blacklist to clean some of it up, but that just slows it down. Right now the oil is still gushing into my ocean and onto the beach, and I have to stop the flow before I can worry about cleaning up. As an attempt at that, you now have to preview any comment before posting. If that doesn’t work, I may use a code system like SarahK (I’d rather that than registration). Since you’ll have to preview, use more html tags. I’ll later add instruction on how to do a hyperlink to the comments section for those not as familiar with HTML.
Now, if that stops it, I have no idea how I can clean it up. MT-Blacklist can’t search back far enough to find it all, and it would take forever to go through each individual post. I’m thinking there must be some solution where I export all my posts and comments as one big text file and do a function on that. Might have to write my own program if no one has one to do that. Better think about putting a Linux install on my old computer…
As for the IMAO Christmas CD, I assume some of you have gotten it by now. Make sure to tell me what you think, especially about the Happy Dance (without giving out details). That was my very first video editing.
Anyhoo, it should be known that the tracks start at track 2, and track 1 is the data (namely the Happy Dance). Also, the Happy Dance is an mpeg 4, so update your decoders (just get the latest version of Windows Media Player – it’s less evil that their other products).
Blog posting is going to start winding down. I leave for a Christmas vacation with my family in Idaho Wednesday night and won’t be back until Janurary 2nd. My parents now have a cabel modem, and I may post some (I’ll try to have a special Christmas post), but it’s time to focus on family. I’ll open my blog to my guest bloggers, though, if they feel like posting anything.
Be honorable, ronin.

Just gave a pint of blood which got me thinking: In Europe, do they give a liter of blood? Actually, since a liter is bigger, do they give 0.568 liters to equal a good ole American pint? So, do any of my nationally challenged (i.e., foreign) readers know the answer to that one?