Saturday, November 1, 2008
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Punk'd
Another 'How DUMB is Sarah Palin' Moment
The popular Montreal comedy duo Marc-Antoine Audette and Sebastien Trudel, aka "The Masked Avengers" ( Les Justiciers Masqués ) are notorious for prank-calling heads of state and celebrities who take themselves a little too seriously. Surely none take themselves so seriously as Sarah Palin. She was pranked by the pair today when they social-hacked their way past security and convinced her she was speaking to Nicolas Sarkozy, the president of France.
Fake Sarkozy tells Palin that his wife is "hot in bed," drops plenty of hints it's a fake call, and suggests Palin would make a good president "one day you too." She replies, "well, maybe in eight years!"
Here is a partial transcript:
He tells Palin one of his favorite pastimes is hunting, also a passion of the 44-year-old Alaska governor."I just love killing those animals. Mmm, mmm, take away life, that is so fun," the fake Sarkozy says.
He proposes they go hunting together by helicopter, something he says he has never done.
"Well, I think we could have a lot of fun together while we're getting work done," Palin counters. "We can kill two birds with one stone that way."
The comedian jokes that they shouldn't bring Cheney along on the hunt, referring to the 2006 incident in which the vice-president shot and injured a friend while hunting quail.
"I'll be a careful shot," responds Palin.
Playing off the governor's much-mocked comment in an early television interview that she had insights into foreign policy because "you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska," the caller tells her: "You know we have a lot in common also, because ... from my house I can see Belgium."
She replies: "Well, see, we're right next door to different countries that we all need to be working with, yes."
(...) He also tells the Alaska governor that he loved the "documentary" made about her and referred to a pornographic film with a Palin look-alike made by Hustler founder Larry Flynt. She answers tentatively, "Ohh, good, thank you, yes."
How stupid can she be? Well, these two just proved how stupid - not to mention the idiots around her.
Did You Know ...
It was necessary to keep a good supply of cannon balls near the cannon on old war ships.
But how to prevent them from rolling about the deck was the problem.
The best storage method devised was to stack them as a square based pyramid, with one ball on top, resting on four, resting on nine, which rested on sixteen.
Thus, a supply of 30 cannon balls could be stacked in a small area right next to the cannon. There was only one problem -- how to prevent the bottom layer from sliding/rolling from under the others.
The solution was a metal plate with 16 round indentations, called, for reasons unknown, a Monkey.
But if this plate were made of iron, the iron balls would quickly rust to it.
The solution to the rusting problem was to make them of brass - hence, Brass Monkeys.
Few landlubbers realize that brass contracts much more and much faster than iron when chilled.
Consequently, when the temperature dropped too far, the brass indentations would shrink so much that the iron cannon balls would come right off the monkey.
Thus,it was quite literally, cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey.
And all this time, you thought that was just a vulgar expression, didn't you?
But how to prevent them from rolling about the deck was the problem.
The best storage method devised was to stack them as a square based pyramid, with one ball on top, resting on four, resting on nine, which rested on sixteen.
Thus, a supply of 30 cannon balls could be stacked in a small area right next to the cannon. There was only one problem -- how to prevent the bottom layer from sliding/rolling from under the others.
The solution was a metal plate with 16 round indentations, called, for reasons unknown, a Monkey.
But if this plate were made of iron, the iron balls would quickly rust to it.
The solution to the rusting problem was to make them of brass - hence, Brass Monkeys.
Few landlubbers realize that brass contracts much more and much faster than iron when chilled.
Consequently, when the temperature dropped too far, the brass indentations would shrink so much that the iron cannon balls would come right off the monkey.
Thus,it was quite literally, cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey.
And all this time, you thought that was just a vulgar expression, didn't you?
Ronald Reagan endorses Barack Obama
Not that there was any doubt, but Ronald Reagan Jr. has made his endorsement official.
It's all in the numbers
From the Political Wire:
Brian Adams, a mathematics and computer science professor at Franklin & Marshall college, reports that there's a 99.98% chance that senator Barack Obama will win the presidential election on Tuesday.
Adams has developed a simulation model that involves running 50 million simulated state-by-state races, using the late-October poll results for each state.
He ran his simulation 50 million times to allow him to calculate all the different combinations of electoral votes that might result, even long shots.
While the number of possible outcomes is very large, the result is always the same.
Obama receives 270 or more electoral votes 99.98% of the time.
Using intervals of electoral vote results, there is a 95 percent chance that the outcome will have Obama winning between 303 and 381 electoral votes.
Brian Adams, a mathematics and computer science professor at Franklin & Marshall college, reports that there's a 99.98% chance that senator Barack Obama will win the presidential election on Tuesday.
Adams has developed a simulation model that involves running 50 million simulated state-by-state races, using the late-October poll results for each state.
He ran his simulation 50 million times to allow him to calculate all the different combinations of electoral votes that might result, even long shots.
While the number of possible outcomes is very large, the result is always the same.
Obama receives 270 or more electoral votes 99.98% of the time.
Using intervals of electoral vote results, there is a 95 percent chance that the outcome will have Obama winning between 303 and 381 electoral votes.
There is no one as Irish as Barack Obama!
There is no one as Irish as Barack Obama!
Just ask the Irish ...
Just ask the Irish ...
Top o'th'mornin' tae ye
Obama 'congratulates' McPain on Cheney endorsement
At an event in Laramie, Wyoming, on Saturday, Vice President Dick Cheney said he will cast his ballot for the McCain-Palin ticket.
In Pueblo, Colorado, Obama had this to say about the endorsement:
"I'd like to congratulate Sen. McCain on this endorsement, because he really earned it. That endorsement didn't come easy," he said. "George Bush may be in an undisclosed location now, but Dick Cheney's out there on the campaign trail because he'd be delighted to pass the baton to John McCain."
"He knows that with John McCain, you get a twofer: George Bush's economic policy and Dick Cheney's foreign policy. And that is a risk we cannot afford to take."
Bold-Face Liars
Just picked up the mail and got nauseated by the 'fliers' from the repugicans saying that Obama and the Liberals caused the economic crises, raised and are going to raise taxes, gave tax breaks to companies that shipped jobs overseas and so on and so forth.
Accusing everyone else of doing exactly what they have been doing - and it is a matter of public record that they were the ones that did everything they are accusing the Liberals of doing.
The economy is a direct result of their polices.
The highest taxes rates and increases in history - in fact ALL history setting tax increases EVER have been done by the repugicans.
Tax breaks to corporations, yep them too.
We the American people are wiser than that, but the repugicans are not.
We see through the lies and we are telling them NO MORE in a loud and clear voice.
You have fucked us over for the last time and the 'perfect storm' has developed and WILL sweep the halls of the White House and Congress clean!
Accusing everyone else of doing exactly what they have been doing - and it is a matter of public record that they were the ones that did everything they are accusing the Liberals of doing.
The economy is a direct result of their polices.
The highest taxes rates and increases in history - in fact ALL history setting tax increases EVER have been done by the repugicans.
Tax breaks to corporations, yep them too.
We the American people are wiser than that, but the repugicans are not.
We see through the lies and we are telling them NO MORE in a loud and clear voice.
You have fucked us over for the last time and the 'perfect storm' has developed and WILL sweep the halls of the White House and Congress clean!
A reader responds
Anonymous responds to the post about "How DUMB is Sarah Palin" with this hooey:
Both the SAT scores and IQ test are exposed hoaxes.
And even if those scores were real (which they are not) it would be impossible for someone with an 83 IQ (mildly retarded range) to achieve that high a score on the SATs
One ... SAT and IQ scores are not hoaxes - only those who are in the 70-80 score range think they are.
Two ... the scores for Sarah Palin are quite real and a matter of public record.
Third ... isn't odd that one so gullible as to swallow the notion that Sarah Palin is NOT DUMB would be scared to leave their name - then again no it isn't odd at all.
Addendum:
The anonymous one still is afraid to leave their name and still won't admit they have a problem with reality ... still claiming the idiot is not dumb. Something that is apparent to everyone else on the planet even with her IQ scores unknown, her scores just re-enforce what everyone all ready knows.
Point of fact ... I have a friend who works at the local RenFaire who has a IQ score of 74 and is more intelligent than is Sarah and he has wondered how such a dumb person 'got by' in the world himself ... even he said it was because of her gender, albeit he used a more colorful phrase to say so.
Two ... the scores for Sarah Palin are quite real and a matter of public record.
Third ... isn't odd that one so gullible as to swallow the notion that Sarah Palin is NOT DUMB would be scared to leave their name - then again no it isn't odd at all.
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Addendum:
The anonymous one still is afraid to leave their name and still won't admit they have a problem with reality ... still claiming the idiot is not dumb. Something that is apparent to everyone else on the planet even with her IQ scores unknown, her scores just re-enforce what everyone all ready knows.
Point of fact ... I have a friend who works at the local RenFaire who has a IQ score of 74 and is more intelligent than is Sarah and he has wondered how such a dumb person 'got by' in the world himself ... even he said it was because of her gender, albeit he used a more colorful phrase to say so.
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