This Goat Sounds Like Jerry Lewis!

This Is Scary

Blogger's Note: Holy fuck. Is this the dream team we want running the country? They couldn't be more awkward together.

Sarah's Facebook

Ten Movies It's Okay For Guys To Cry At

E.T.: The Extraterrestrial
Shadowlands
Saving Private Ryan
Moulin Rouge
Titanic
Batman Begins
The Iron Giant
Babe
The Lord of the Rings
Good Night, and Good Luck

(from filmschoolrejects.com)

Blogger's Note: Most of these I get, but, Batman Begins? I really dig the film but I didn't exactly find it to be a tear-jerker. My personal pick is Big Fish. When he's carrying his dad to the river where everyone has come to see him off, I lose it everytime.

More From SNL

And here's CNN's follow-up:

There's Dark Magic At Work Here!

(thanks to Bryan for the link)

Friday Fallout

The results from a CNN poll conducted after Friday night's debate:

Who did the best job tonight?
Barack: 51
McCain: 38

Who would better handle Iraq?
Barack: 52
McCain: 47

Who would better handle the economy?
Barack: 58
McCain: 37

Blogger's Note: I really can't wait for Thursday.

Precisely

Quote of the night comes courtesy of my future husband, Bryan, during a discussion we had following the debate:

"We need a guy that's not going to take a "hey you kids get off my lawn" approach to foreign policy."

Biden Gets Around

Since Sarah Palin is a big girl now and met with her very first world leaders the other day, let's take a look at the list of world leaders Joe Biden has met in his 36 year career...


As of September 23, 2008
Senator Biden/Meetings with World Leaders

This is a partial list of world leaders that Senator Biden has met with at least once over his nearly 36 year career as a United States Senator. As mentioned, this list is not exhaustive. As chairman of the subcommittees on Europe and Africa earlier in his career, the list is certainly much longer. ****The dates listed indicate when the foreign leader was in office.

(Iraq) Prime Minister Iyad Allawi (May 2004 - April 2005)
Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari (April 2005 - May 2006)
Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki (April 2006 - Present)
President Jalal Talabani (June 2005 - Present)
Kurdistan Region President Massoud Barzani (June 2005 - Present)
Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani (March 2006 - Present)
(Israel) Prime Minister Golda Meir (March 1969 - June 1974)
Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin (July 1992 - November 1995)
Prime Minister Shimon Peres (November 1995 - June 1996)
Prime Minister Menachem Begin (June 1977 - October 1983)
Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir (October 1986 - July 1992)
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (June 1996 - July 1999)
Prime Minister Ehud Barak (June 1996 - July 1999)
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon (March 2001 - April 2006)
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert (April 2006 - Present)
Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni (January 2006 - present)
(Palestinian Territories)
Chairman Yasser Arafat (September 1993 - November 2004)
Chairman Mahmoud Abbas (November 2004 - Present)
Prime Minister Dr. Salam Fayyad (June 2007 - Present)
Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei (October 2003 - March 2006)
(Jordan) King Hussein (August 1952 - February 1999)
King Abdullah (August 2005-Present)
(Egypt) President Hosni Mubarak (October 1981 - Present)
President Anwar Sadat (October1970 - October 1981)
(Libya) Prime Minister Col. Muammar Qaddafi (March 1977 - March 1979)
(Lebanon) Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri (October 1992 - December 1998)
Prime Minister Najib Mikati (April 2005 - July 2005)
(Bahrain) Crown Prince Shaikh Salman bin Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa (March 1999 - Present)
(Syria) President Bashar al-Assad (July 2000 - Present)
(Turkey) Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan (March 2003 - Present)
President Ahmet Sezer (May 2000 - August 2007)
Prime Minister/President* Abdullah Gul (November 2002 - March 2003, Current President)
Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit (January 1999 - May 1999)
Prime Minister Demirel (November 1991 - June 1993)
(Greece) President Kostis Stephanopoulos (March 1995 - March 2005)
Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis (March 2004 - Present)
Prime Minister Kostantinos Mitsotakis (April 1990 - October 1993)
Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou (October 1981 - July 1989)(October 1993 - January 1996)
(Cyprus) President George Vassiliou (February 1988 - February 1993)
President Glafcos Clerides (February 1993 - February 2003)
(Afghanistan) President Hamid Karzai (December 2001 - Present)
(Pakistan) President Asif Ali Zardari (September 2008 - Present)
*Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gillani (March 2008 - Present)
President Pervez Musharraf (June 2001 - August 2008)
Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto (December 1988 - August 1990, October 1993 - November 1996)
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif (November 1990 - July 1993, February 1997 - October 1999)
(India) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh (May 2004 - Present)
Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee (May 1996 - June 1996)(March 1998 - May 2004)
(Sri Lanka) Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe (May 1993 - August 1994)(December 2001 - April 2004)
(Russia) President Vladimir Putin (May 2000 - May 2008; current Prime Minister)
President Boris Yeltsin (July 1991 - December 1999)
Soviet Union President Mikhail Gorbachev (March 1990 - December 1991)
Soviet Union President Andrei Gromyko (July 1985 - October 1988)
Premier of the Soviet Union Alexey Kosygin (October 1964 - October 1980)
Premier of the Soviet Union Leonid Brezhnev (May 1960 - July 1964)
(France) President Jacques Chirac (May 1995 - May 2007)
Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin (May 2005 - May 2007)
President Francois Mitterrand (May 1981 - May 1995)
(U.K) Queen Elizabeth (February 1952 - Present)
Prime Minister Tony Blair (May 1997 - June 2007)
Prime Minister John Major (November 1990 - May 1997)
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher (May 1979 - November 1990)
(Ireland) Prime Minister Bertie Ahern (June 1997 - Present)
Prime Minister John Bruton (December 1994 - June 1997)
Prime Minister Albert Reynolds (February 1992 - December 1994)
Prime Minister Charles Haughey (December 1979 - June 1981)(March 1982 - December 1982)(March 1987 - February 1992)
(Germany) Chancellor Angela Merkel (November 2005 - Present)
Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder (October 1998 - November 2005)
Chancellor Helmut Kohl (October 1982 - October 1998)
Chancellor Helmut Schmidt (May 1974 - October 1982)
(Italy) Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi (June 2001 - May 2006)(May 2008 - Present)
Prime Minister Romano Prodi (May 2006 - May 2008)
Prime Minister Cossiga (July 1989 - April 1992)
(Serbia) President of Serbia Boris Tadic (July 2004 - Present)
Prime Minister of Serbia Vojislav Kostunica (March 2004 - Present)
Prime Minister of Serbia Zoran Djindjic (January 2001 - March 2003)
President of Serbia Slobodan Milosevic (May 1989 - July 1997)
(Yugoslavia) Premier of Yugoslavia Josip Broz Tito (January 1953 - May 1980)
(Croatia) President of Croatia Franjo Tudjman (May 1990 - December 1999)
(Slovenia) Prime Minister of Slovenia Janez Drnovsek (December 2002 - Present)
President of Kosovo Ibrahim Rugova (March 2002 - January 2006)
President of Slovenia Milan Kucan (October 1991 - December 2002)
(Bosnia and Herzegovina) President of Bosnia Haris Silajdzic (November 2006 - Present)
President of Bosnia Sulejman Tihić (October 2002 - November 2006)
President of Bosnia Alija Izetbegovic (March 1992 - October 2000)
(Kosovo (as an independent nation)) President Fatmir Sejdiu (January 2008 - Present)
Prime Minister Hashim Thaci (January 2008 - Present)
(Poland) President Lech Walesa (December 1990 - December 1995)
Prime Minister Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz (October 1993 - March 1995)
(Czech Republic) President Vaclav Havel (February 1993 - February 2003)
(Hungary) Prime Minister Gyula Horn (July 1994 - July 1998)
President Arpad Goncz (August 1990 - August 2000)
Prime Minister Viktor Orban (July 1998 - May 2002)
(Finland) Prime Minister Paavo Lipponen (April 1995 - April 2003)
(Romania) President Ion Iliescu (December 1989 - November 1996)
(Georgia) President Mikheil Saakashvili (January 2004 - Present)
President Eduard Shevardnadze (October 1995 - November 2003)
(Kazakhstan) President Nursultan Nazarbayev (December 1991 - Present)
(Ukraine) President Viktor Yushchenko (January 2005 - Present)
(Canada) Prime Minister Paul Martin (December 2003 - February 2006)
Prime Minister Brian Mulroney (September 1984 - June 1993)
(NATO) Secretary General Lord George Robertson (October 1999 - January 2004)
Secretary General Javier Solana (December 1995 - October 1999)
Secretary General Manfred Woerner (July 1988 - August 1994)
Secretary General Lord Peter Carrington (June 1984 - July 1988)
(China) President Jiang Zemin (March 1993 - March 2003)
Premier Zhu Rongji (March 1998 - March 2003)
(Hong Kong) Chief Executive Tung Chee Hwa (July 1997 - March 2005)
(Taiwan) President Chen Shui-Bian (May 2000 - Present)
(Korea) President Kim Dae Jung (February 1998 - February 2003)
(Singapore) Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew (June 1959 - November 1990)
Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong (November 1990 - August 2004)
Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong (August 2004 - Present)
(Indonesia) President Megawati Sukarnoputri (July 2001 - October 2004)
President Bambang Yudhoyono (October 2004 - Present)
(Australia) Prime Minister John Howard (March 1996 - December 2007)
Prime Minister Paul Keating (December 1991 - March 1996)
(Philippines) President Gloria Arroyo (January 2001 - Present)
President Fidel Ramos (June 1992 - June 1998)
(Vietnam) Prime Minister Phan Van Kai (September 1997 - June 2006)
(East Timor) President Ramos Horta (May 2007 - Present)
(Tibet) The Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso (1950 - Present)
(Colombia) President Alvaro Uribe (August 2002 - Present)
President Andres Pastrana (August 1998 - August 2002)
President Cesar Gaviria (August 1990 - August 1994)
(Mexico) President Vincente Fox (December 2000 - December 2006)
President Ernesto Zedillo (December 1994 - November 2000)
(Bolivia) President Jaime Paz Zamora (August 1989 - August 1993)
(South Africa) President Thabo Mbeki (June 1999 - September 2008)
President Nelson Mandela (April 1994 - June 1999)
(Liberia) President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf (January 2006 - Present)
(Lesotho) Prime Minister Leabua Jonathan (July 1965 - January 1986)
(United Nations) Secretary General Ban Ki-moon (January 2007 - Present)
Secretary General Kofi Annan (January 1997 - January 2007)
Secretary General Boutros Boutros Ghali (January 1992 - January 1997)
(Vatican City) Pope John Paul II (October 1978 - April 2005)
(Slovakia) President Rudolf Schuster (June 1999 - June 2004)
(Turkmenistan) President Saparmurat Niyazov (October 1990 - December 2006)
*Senator Biden met with leader before he or she became head of state.

(from washingtonpost.com)

So Close But Yet So Far

"I'm a graduate student in Statistics at Michigan State University and spent some time analyzing past US presidential elections to determine how close they truly were. The mathematical procedures of Linear Programming and 0-1 Integer Programming were used to find the optimal solution to the question: 'What is the smallest number of total votes that need to be switched from one candidate to another, and from which states, to affect the outcome of the election?' Because of the way the popular and electoral votes interact, the outcome of the analysis had some surprising and intriguing results. For example, in 2004, 57,787 votes would have given us President Kerry; and in 2000, 269 votes would have given us President Gore. In all there have been 12 US Presidential elections that were decided by less than a 1% margin; meaning if less than 1% of the voters in certain states had changed their mind to the other candidate the outcome of the election would have been different."

(from Mike Sheppard on slashdot)

Thanks to Bryan for sharing!

My Lifeblood Is Cereal

Take the Breakfast Cereal ID Quiz!

(Thanks to Casey for sharing)

Blogger's Note: I scored a 16 out of 20. Be sure and share your score in the comment section!

Jewish Friends, Pay Attention!

See more Sarah Silverman videos at Funny or Die

Head Of Skate Trailer

See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.

You Got Me On This One, Nintendo

I may not have much good to say about the Nintendo Wii but this ad is pure genius:

Wario Land: Shake It Ad on YouTube

What Can I Say, I Like This Guy

NEW YORK - The economic crisis and raw politics threatened to derail the first presidential debate as John McCain challenged Barack Obama to delay the Friday forum and join forces to help Washington fix the financial mess. Obama rebuffed his GOP rival, saying the next president needs to "deal with more than one thing at once."

"It's my belief that this is exactly the time when the American people need to hear from the person who, in approximately 40 days, will be responsible for dealing with this mess," Obama said at a news conference in Clearwater, Fla. "It's going to be part of the president's job to deal with more than one thing at once."

(from the AP)

Blogger's Note: Isn't this the kind of thinking we all want from our future President?

Hindsight

I learned today, while visiting production, that a gay guy probably shouldn't use the term "exit poll" as a verb. As in, "Wow, I've never been exit polled before."

Where She At?

It appears that Sarah Palin had a 15% attendance record as Governor of Alaska. In her 578 days as Governor, she was only in Juneau, Alaska for 85 of them.

The Washington Post recently reported that, in her first 19 months as governor, Palin billed the state of Alaska per diem charges for 312 days she spent at her home in Wasilla. Palin’s staff has explained that it was appropriate to bill the state for expenses related to Palin staying in her own house because her “official duty station” was at the state capital of Juneau, where the governor’s official office and mansion are located. But that argument raises a different question: How much time did that leave for her to spend at her “official duty station”?

Nineteen months totals 578 days, but after subtracting weekends and holidays, it is only about 397 workdays. Assuming Palin did not routinely bill the state for staying in her own home on weekends and holidays, she would have spent no more than 85 workdays in the state capital over the course of her 19 months in office, even if she traveled nowhere else in Alaska or outside of the state. That compares with 168 days that the Alaska Legislature was in session during the same period.

One of the state’s leading papers, the Juneau Empire, described her attendance like this:

“Palin has spent little time in Juneau, rarely coming to the state capital except when the Legislature was in session, and sometimes not even then. During a recent special session called by Palin herself, she faced criticism from several legislators for not showing up personally to push for her agenda. Someone at the Capitol even printed up buttons asking, ‘Where’s Sarah?’”

(from politico.com)

Brent's New Obsession

See more funny videos at Funny or Die

Toons Of The 1980s

The Top 10 80's Cartoons

10) Smurfs
09) Gummie Bears
08) GI-Joe
07) He-Man
06) Transformers
05) Mario Brothers
04) Rescue Rangers
03) Thundercats
02) Duck Tales
01) Voltron

(from old-wizard.com)

Hey, Big Spender

Read His Lips

Blogger's Note: Now this is an anti-McCain ad.

Pray For Me, Sarah

In addition to hosting a guest preacher who told the folks in the pews—including Sarah Palin—that terrorist attacks in Israel are just God punishing Jews for rejecting Jesus, Sarah Palin’s batshit church also recently hosted a “pray away the gay” conference. New York filmmaker Sandi Bachom got some reactions from New Yorkers:



(thanks to Cookie for the link)

Brad Pitt, I Like Him Too

Brad Pitt has donated $100,000 to fight California's November ballot initiative that would overturn the state Supreme Court decision legalizing same-sex marriage.
It's the first time voters will be asked to ban same-sex marriage in a state where gay couples already have won the right to wed. Same-sex marriage is legal in Massachusetts and California.
It's the first time voters will be asked to decide the issue in either California or Massachusetts -- the states where gays have won the right to wed.
"Because no one has the right to deny another their life, even though they disagree with it, because everyone has the right to live the life they so desire if it doesn't harm another and because discrimination has no place in America, my vote will be for equality and against Proposition 8," Pitt said Wednesday.
Trevor Neilson, Pitt's political and philanthropic adviser, told The Associated Press that Pitt was surprised that his colleagues in the entertainment industry had not donated more money to support the battle against Proposition 8.
Earlier in the week, Pitt and Angelina Jolie announced they donated $2 million to help fight HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis in Ethiopia.

(from the AP)

If Palin Were A Democrat

This Post Dedicated To The Dodds

Same Old Story

Okay, Time To Return To My Lucas-Loathing Ways

Well Played, SNL

Michael McDonald's Evil Twin

So, this morning I was watching this interview that Seth MacFarlane did with George Lucas and Lucas said something I found to be pretty humorous, and refreshingly honest. I still don't like the guy, but at least he's not completely disillusioned.

"Mostly it's that I come up with an idea for a movie and I just want to see it. And in the worst possible situation, I've had to make it myself. In the best of all possible situations I've gotten Steven Spielberg to make it."

Of course, in the next breath he says he doesn't make movies to make money, which the prequels will tell you is a blatant lie. But such is my 28-year rollercoaster relationship with George Lucas.

Oh Crap!

Man, this cracks me up.

Sounds Like A Heck Of An Afternoon

(Thanks to Cookie for the link)

207 McCain Interview

The folks at WCSH recently interviewed McCain on their 207 program. Why aren't the national newscasts asking questions like this? Rob Caldwell, I have mis-judged you.

Watch the interview here

New Family

Sacrifices

Old Glory Insurance

I was reminded of this gem during a conversation at work today...

The Matt Damon Crush Continues

Blogger's Note: He raises a point that seems quite significant, yet largely overlooked as far as I have seen... McCain is barely making it through this campaign for the presidency. Is the guy honestly going to even still be with us in four years? Pantsuits and lipstick aside, why doesn't the very notion of "President Palin" just scare the bejeezus out of everyone?

THIS Is Why I Play XBox

My First Lesbian Post!

Over 4,000 lesbians were polled to find out which chicks in Hollywood they most want to get it on with. Here are the results:

10) Cate Blanchett
09) Catherine Zeta-Jones
08) Emily Blunt
07) Thandie Newton
06) Keira Knightley
05) Naomi Watts
04) Kate Winslet
03) Minnie Driver
02) Nicole Kidman
01) Rachel Weisz

Blogger's Note: Even I'd do Rachel Weisz.

Triumph At The RNC

Who Says TV Rots Your Brains?

More Good Stuff From The Daily

I've Got A Bad Feeling About This

Regarding the recently announced Ghostbusters III...

Look, this is a bad idea. There's no getting around that. Going back to the well decades later has been proven again and again to be trouble. I already know the trajectory of this one: grumbling, some hope thanks to good casting, a leaked script review that will give more hope but only because the reviewer doesn't know what he's talking about/is a plant, a set visit where nerds like me get swayed simply because we're touching proton packs and talking to guys in Ghostbusters outfits and then the eventual release, where we'll all spend a weekend convincing ourselves it wasn't terrible before finally admitting that yeah, it sucked dick. It's called The Crystal Skull Syndrome.

-from chud.com

(thanks to Greg for sharing)

Good One, JS

A quote from Jon Stewart tonight...

So, McCain claims that Obama is "dangerously inexperienced." Did he choose Palin as his VP because she's... "intriguingly inexperienced?"

Found Him!

Look Everyone, A Political Cartoon

I hate to see my blog getting all political lately but why fight it?

JJ's New Bag

I mean JJ Abrams, not Joshua Jackson. Although I suppose the headline could apply to both. And yes, I know I work with FOX but I swear this show honestly looks like a winner!

Why You Should Watch Fringe

(btw, it premieres Tuesday, September 9 at 8pm)

The 10 Best Slogans Of All Time

Coca-Cola "It's the Real Thing"
Coke first used this catchphrase in ad campaigns during World War II, later extending it to "You Can't Beat the Real Thing" by the 1950s. The slogan has served the company well during changing times -- whether by tuning into the counterculture of the 1960s, or battling Pepsi in the cola wars decades later.

Apple Computer "Think Different"
A play on IBM's "Think" slogan, Apple unveiled this catchphrase in a series of 1997 television and print ads featuring black-and-white images of assorted cultural rebels, including Albert Einstein, John Lennon, and Amelia Earhart.

Wheaties "The Breakfast of Champions!"
Wheaties developed an association with sports by sponsoring minor league baseball radio broadcasts, and this famous slogan first appeared on a billboard in a Minneapolis ballpark in early 1930s. The company later began featuring famous athletes on its cereal boxes, starting with Lou Gehrig.

Wendy's "Where's the Beef?"
This ubiquitous 1980s catchphrase was first uttered in a January 1984 television spot by actress Clara Peller, playing one of the three elderly women served tiny hamburger patties inside giant buns. Like any successful slogan, the phrase quickly spread through popular cultural, turning up in TV shows, films and music.

M&Ms "Melts in your mouth, not in your hand"
This slogan was trademarked by Mars back in the 1950s. True to its slogan, M&Ms had proven popular with U.S. troops during World War II, since the hard candy shell kept the chocolate inside from melting.

Miller Lite "Great Taste... Less Filling"
To dispel the lightweight image of low-calorie beer, Miller launched this slogan in the mid-1970s by pitting together a rooster of notorious tough guys to battle over the merits of Miller Lite, including John Madden, Billy Martin, Mickey Mantle, Whitey Ford, Dick Butkus, and Bubba Smith.

Nike "Just do it"
According to corporate lore, Nike's famous catchphrase came out of a run-of-the-mill meeting in the late 1980s when an ad agency executive remarked off-handedly about the company's can-do attitude. The resulting campaign propelled Nike through the next decade and beyond.

Maxwell House "Good to the last drop!"
Maxwell House ads in the 1930s claimed this catchphrase came from an overheard remark by President Theodore Roosevelt. In recent times, the company has attributed the phrase to another president, Clifford Spiller of General Foods.

Clairol "Does she... or doesn't she?"
Originally sold in beauty salons, Clairol struck gold with its home hair color treatment in the 1950s, along with this snappy catchphrase that challenged onlookers to spot the difference between a woman's natural or dyed hair. Only her hairdresser knows for sure.

United "Fly the Friendly Skies"
Launched in the mid 1960s, this slogan became one of the airline industry's longest running taglines, persisting despite a bitter strike and a hostile employee takeover. By 1997, United Airlines's adopted a new slogan -- "It's time to fly" -- though the company went bankrupt within a decade.

(from inc.com)