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My Wife Has Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

Thanks a lot, Rachael Ray.

GOP Bloggers 2008 Straw Poll

Tags: elections, straw poll, 2008, GOP, Republicans

Time for the end-of-month April GOP straw poll!

Give us a good show, would ya? Current Results so far are here. Grab the code below if you want to post this on your site.

Red China

What the Chinese government would rather you not see.

Yep.

Dry Bones

The Bratty Brother is Three!

Today makes three years that the bratty brother has been gracing the internet with his opinions on Vince Aut Morire.

Bratty Brother!
cute lil’ devil, isn’t he?

Our loverly host Beth and I both got to meet Vinnie, and his lovely wife Merri (who is a fellow Cotillion-babe) last year, and we also got to meet their abolutely adorable offspring (they take after Merri).

Head on over… wish him a happy blogiversary!

Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder

Behold!

GUWEI’IYYA, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) - The legs are long, the eyes are big, the bodies curvaceous.

Contestants in this Saudi-style beauty pageant have all the features you might expect anywhere else in the world, but with one crucial difference — the competitors are camels.

This week, the Qahtani tribe of western Saudi Arabia has been welcoming entrants to its Mazayen al-Ibl competition, a parade of the “most beautiful camels” in the desolate desert region of Guwei’iyya, 120 km (75 miles) west of Riyadh.

“In Lebanon they have Miss Lebanon,” jokes Walid, moderator of the competition’s Web site. “Here we have Miss Camel.”

Camel-drivers sing songs of praise to their prized possessions as they try to calm the animals down.

“Beautiful, beautiful!” the judge mutters quietly to himself, inspecting the group. Finalists have been decorated with silver bands and body covers.

“The nose should be long and droop down, that’s more beautiful,” explains Sultan al-Qahtani, one of the organisers. “The ears should stand back, and the neck should be long. The hump should be high, but slightly to the back.”

winner

Hat tip to Thumby at The Mighty Righty!

Oopsy

The U.S. State Department has announced the resignation of Randall Tobias as the head of two foreign aid programs.

The department cited “personal reasons” for the decision, but U.S. news reports say Tobias abruptly resigned after his name was connected to an escort service that is under federal investigation.

He doesn’t sound like he’s going to be the last either.

But Palfrey has also hinted that she has a record of the phone numbers of thousands of more than 10,000 customers that could embarrass more the a few of the US capital’s high-fliers.

I hope Harry Reid has been dipping his quill in the wrong inkwell, if you follow the extraordinarily clever and delicate euphemism.

Third Annual Jewish-Israeli Blogosphere Awards

We’re on a Mission From God™

The first round of voting is almost over for the Jewish Israeli Blogosphere Awards (”JIB” awards)–voting ends TOMORROW. Those of you who didn’t know LindaSoG before this week when she’s been filling in here now know her as a co-conspirator, and I want YOU to go vote for her blog! She’s close in all her categories, so we need a strong push to get her in the lead, or at least in the top two slots. The top two or three vote-getters in each category will move on to the final round, and I want Linda in the finals! Actually, I want her to win. I’ve got some others I want you to vote for, too. Everyone in the awards is taking the day away from blogging because of the Shabbat and is asked not to vote on Shabbat, but those of us who aren’t Jewish can vote! (I didn’t include some of the categories because I either don’t know the blogs or I can’t decide yet.)

GET TO VOTING!

Best Overall Blog, Group A:
Something…and Half of Something (Linda!)
For Group B, vote for Treppenwitz, Group C: Sultan Knish, Group D: Bagel Blogger.

Best Large Blog:
Group A: Treppenwitz, Group B: Soccer Dad

Best Small Blog:
Groups A, B, and D, I don’t know. Group C: Yid With Lid (he even has me blogrolled!) :cheese:

Best Group Blog, Group A:
Kesher Talk

Best New Blog, Group A:
What War Zone - the top two are evil liberals, so do your duty!

Best Humor Blog, Group A:
Dry Bones

Best News/Current Events:
Group A: Yid With Lid, Group B: Something…and Half of Something, Group C: Sultan Knish

Best Pro-Israel/Advocacy Blog:
Group A: Meryl Yourish, Group B: Something…and Half of Something, Group C: Dry Bones or Soccer Dad

Best Slice of Life in Israel
Group A: Treppenwitz, Group B: AbbaGav (he’s in a very close race!)

Best Right-Wing Political Blog:
Group A: Something…and Half of Something; Group B: Sultan Knish (or Israelly Cool)

Best Jewish Skepticism:
Bacon Eating Atheist Jew

Best Photo/Graphics:
Another Cotillion sister: Photos by Seawitch !!!

Best of the Rest, Group B:
Bagel Blogger

Best Contribution, Group B:
Israelly Cool

Now, get on over there and vote, and visit some of the blogs, find some new ones. You might just find a new favorite in there!

GO LINDA and SEAWITCH! :luck:

Sandmonkey, That Funky Monkey

Egyptian Sandmonkey is hanging it up:

One of the chief reasons is the fact that there has been too much heat around me lately. I no longer believe that my anonymity is kept, especially with State Secuirty agents lurking around my street and asking questions about me since that day. I ignore that, the same way I ignored all the clicking noises that my phones started to exhibit all of a sudden, or the law suit filed by Judge Mourad on my friends, and instead grew bolder and more reckless at a time where everybody else started being more cautious. It took me a while to take note of the fear that has been gripping our little blogsphere and comprehend what it really means. The prospects for improvment, to put it slightly, look pretty grim. I was the model of caution, and believing in my invincipility by managing not to get arrested for the past 2 and a half years, I’ve grown reckless. Stupid Monkey. Stupid!

I can’t say I blame him after reading that. Later dude, you’re a beacon of hope in a dreary land.

Oh so funny Hillary

Hillarious took a pop at President Bush when responding to a comment about her fake southern/black accent.

“I think America is ready for a multilingual president,” Clinton said during a campaign stop at a charter school in Greenville, S.C.

Ho ho ho. Truly very funny. Ahh do declayer.

Except President Bush speaks Spanish. And you don’t.

Bono and David Bowie Starring In “More Dangerous Than They Appear”

bowiebono

Source: CNN Transcripts

Meet Travis VanKuren

Seventeen-year-old Travis VanKuren was walking to his car at the Wal-Mart in Springettsbury Township at 7 p.m. last Wednesday when he saw a man and a woman struggling in the parking lot.

VanKuren, a slim, 5-foot, 9-inch junior at Dallastown Area High School, took a closer look and made eye contact with the woman involved in the fight.

“She looked over at me and started screaming for help,” VanKuren said. The woman also screamed “help” at two other people in the parking lot who looked at her and walked away.

VanKuren didn’t.

Instead, he decided to help, and police say what the 17-year-old did next saved a 42-year-old Manchester Township woman from a man who was impersonating a police officer and intended to kidnap and rape her.

With an almost bashful smile, VanKuren said his reaction to the cry for help is “something I’m proud of.”

But the teen didn’t think what he did was too heroic.

Heck yeah it was heroric!

Holt, police said, admitted his plans to kidnap and rape the woman, and he was charged with attempted rape, attempted involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, attempted kidnapping, impersonating a public servant and several other charges. Last July Holt was convicted of attempted rape in Lancaster County.

I suppose Travis could have assessed the situation, determined that repeat offender Holt was winning, and then redeployed out of there, but, fortunately for the victim, Travis is a Junior Marine, ROTC.

Semper Fi!

Fight for Me

“Fight For Me”

You stand to fight and we agree
Until we see your brothers bleed
You give your life to hold the line
And then we change our minds

Afraid to say that you’d
Come home this way

I stand to give you my applause
How could you fight for a better cause
Opposed by those that you set free
Still you fight for me

We hold our signs of war and peace
They seem to change so easily
While passing judgment from our homes
In foreign lands you roam

Afraid to say what you’d
You’d die to save

Chorus:
I stand to give you my applause
How could you fight for a better cause
Opposed by those that you set free
Still you fight for me
To all the soldiers don’t you know
You’ll always be the world’s hero
As long as we have enemies
Still you fight for me

Thank you Troops. I’m sorry The Senate and Congress are such assholes. I didn’t vote for them.

Can I Get A High Five From Martin?

A while ago, I commented on one of Martin’s posts that Chuck Hagel, if he didn’t run for President, would go unchallenged in the Nebraska primary and end up retaining his Senate seat.

I spoke too soon.

Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning has gone back on his stance of not challenging Hagel for the seat, and his website shows some good news from internal polling:

Dear Friends,

Last week, I indicated that I would seriously consider running for the U.S. Senate regardless of Sen. Hagel’s plans. This week, The Friends of Jon Bruning Exploratory Committee released poll numbers showing me leading Sen. Hagel 47% to 38% in a 2008 GOP Senate Primary. The poll also showed that I lead Senator Hagel 55% to 31% when his criticism of President Bush and his vote - along with the Democratic Leadership - for a strict troop withdrawal deadline from Iraq are considered.

Good news, but I caution, not great news. Bruning hasn’t “officially” announced his campaign yet. But with numbers like that, he’d be a fool not to run.

I’m sensing a slightly toughened-up White House

I hope so anyway.

OSLO, Norway (AP) — Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Thursday she has already answered the questions she has been subpoenaed to answer before a congressional committee and suggested she is not inclined to comply with the order.

This is certainly a better approach than sending Gonzales et al to Capitol Hill for a choreographed mauling designed to make the top of the evening news. Responding in writing is still responding, but reiterates the role of Presidential advisers and their long-held right to give guidance that is not subject to future Congressional scrutiny.

It will also drive Waxman into paroxysms of fury, and in turn the nutters from DU and Kos, so it’s a win-win.

I think after Cheney went for Reid, this might signal that the White House realizes what Pelosi and Co are bent upon doing for the next 20 months, and intend to finally do something about it.

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