Jacko Cheats The Jailer

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Federal Election Commission Blog Crackdown

The proposed new FEC regulations on blogs seek to apply federal campaign finance rules to online publications.

This could affect any blog with content about U.S. politics (which includes this blog). Among the Federal Elections Commission proposals:

Mandatory disclaimers on political blogs
Team blogs must register as a "political committee"
Bloggers to file campaign expenditure reports

Click on the title of this posting to read the proposed FEC rules.
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Christina Aguilera Used To Torture Prisoners At Guantanamo Bay Prison Camp

TIME OBTAINS SECRET INTERROGATION LOG FROM GUANTANAMO; INCLUDES MOMENT-BY-MOMENT ACCOUNT OF INTERROGATION OF DETAINEE WHO U.S. BELIEVES WAS THE ‘20TH HIJACKER’


The interrogation sessions lengthen. The quizzing now starts at midnight, and when Detainee 063 dozes off, interrogators rouse him by dripping water on his head or playing Christina Aguilera music. According to the log, his handlers at one point perform a puppet show “satirizing the detainee’s involvement with al-Qaeda.” He is taken to a new interrogation booth, which is decorated with pictures of 9/11 victims, American flags and red lights. He has to stand for the playing of the U.S. national anthem. His head and beard are shaved. He is returned to his original interrogation booth. A picture of a 9/11 victim is taped to his trousers. Al-Qahtani repeats that he will “not talk until he is interrogated the proper way.” At 7 a.m. on Dec. 4, after a 12-hour, all-night session, he is put to bed for a four-hour nap, TIME reports.

Audioblogger: A Quick Harmonica Break

Painting: The Three Fates - Clotho, Lachesis, Atropos

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Dwarf Slays Sasquatch!

the dwarf with his quarry

From The Weekly World News
By Michael Chiron

In what astounded forest rangers are calling a "modern-day version of David versus Goliath," a 36-inch-tall dwarf killed a towering 9- foot-tall Bigfoot as it chased a half-naked blonde hiker through his campsite in Yellowstone National Park!

Pint-sized Pete Yarosky proved he has a heart as big a lion's when he brought down the rampaging man-beast -- armed only with a handful of small stones and the screaming woman's thong underwear, which the quick-thinking shrimp converted into a makeshift sling. "Mr. Yarosky struck the creature near the right temple where the skull is thinnest, knocking it cold -- then he chopped it's head off with an ax." confirms an Interior Department investigator. "He showed remarkable courage and resourcefulness in a situation that would have made most of us 'normal' men freeze in terror. "He's one brave little guy."

The terrifying encounter occurred Feb. 13 as Yarosky, 38, camped with three buddies in the northwest part of the park. "I really wanted to show my friends I could handle myself outdoors," the Lincoln, Neb.- based Ferris wheel inspector recalls. "But, instead, I ended up slowing down the group -- one pal actually had to give me a piggyback ride part of the way."

Shortly after daybreak, at a campsite less than 150 yards away, hiker April Holderman was doing her morning toe touches, clad in her undies. "Suddenly I got this creepy feeling I was being watched, " the attractive 23-year-old recalls. "Then this giant apeman jumped down from a tree branch, leering. I bolted, screaming my head off." When April ran into the clearing where Yarosky was camped, with the enormous Sasquatch at her heels, his chums fled in panic. But the gutsy dwarf held his ground. "I told April to stand behind me and I kept yelling at the Bigfoot, 'Go away,' " the half-pint hero says. "But I knew he could squash me like a bug."

Desperate for a weapon, Yarosky picked up a fistful of stones and prayed for a miracle. Suddenly, the image of David slaying Goliath came into his mind. "Out of left field, this little dwarf guy asks for my thong," April recalls. "There was no time to argue, so I yanked it off. "As the Bigfoot bore down on us, Pete put a stone in his 'sling.' He started swinging it overhead -- then he let it rip. "The rock beaned the Bigfoot and the thing keeled over."

The Bigfoot's carcass has been carted away to an undisclosed research facility and tight-lipped wildlife officials refuse to confirm the incident on record. Conservationists object to Yarosky -- who's now dating grateful April -- being hailed as a hero for slaying an ultra-rare Bigfoot. But zoologist Thomas Smith points out: "Bigfoot sex assaults on humans are up 62 percent. Mr. Yarosky undoubtedly saved this woman from an unspeakable fate."
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Painting: Adam And Eve

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Audioblogger:::::Jack Reads Theodore Roethke's Gob Music Poem Over A Cellphone Dialing Into All This Is That Via The Blogger Network

A Demented Take On The Bible, Illustrated With Legos

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The Reverend Brendan Powell Smith tells stories from the Bible using Legos for illustrations. His great web site, focuses on "the hot parts" of The Bible (like the seduction of Lot, Gomorrah, Jacob and Esau, Onan, Jezebel, etc.) He fully illustrates parts of The Bible that tend to be ignored by Christians, such as a drunk and naked Noah cursing his son. This site is a
a must see! Click here to go to his web site. Some of his Lego creations appear in books for sale at Amazon.com. He has downloads of his mujsic. Support this visionary!
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Another Mandelbrot Fractal

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Poem: The Revelations Sermon At The First Church Of The Mojo Apocalypse

Seven seals, seven vials
Seven lamps of fire
Seven sickles for seven angels

The last trumpet
Blows reveille and taps
For the coming and going

Over the hills and far away
The Piper is piping
Us home.
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President Bush's Polling Numbers Continue To Nosedive

A new ABC News/Washington Post poll shows 52 percent of Americans disapprove of the job President Bush is doing . He has hit a new low, friends, but I don't think he's hit rock bottom yet!

POTUS's approval rating is now a full twenty points lower than Bill Clinton’s was on the day he was impeached. Heh-heh.

Click on the title to link to the MSNBC article, and on the link in the first paragraph to go to the actual poll data from ABC news.
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