It’s true: The first time superheroes meet, they have to fight. Doesn’t matter over what.
Yahoo! News – Bang! Kapow! Superheroes battle it out over burgers
LONDON (AFP) – Their fictional counterparts might be tireless battlers for truth and justice, but when three British men dressed as Spiderman, Superman and Batman came to blows the reason was far more prosaic — a shortage of burgers.
I mean, that’s what this holiday is, right? A party for those people that get excited watching the number tick over on their odometers.
But, on the theory that any excuse for a party is a good one, happy new year to one and all. And hang on– 2005 looks like it’s going to be even wilder than 2004. Objects in mirror are closer than they appear, and all that jazz.
Everybody’s already done the $15 million US aid for tsunami aid versus $30-40 million for GWB’s second inauguration (not counting security), and we’re up to $50 million now (as a credit line– oooooo).
Let’s try some different numbers.
Flooz.com went through $51.5 million over three rounds of investment.
Meet The Fockers grossed $46,120,980 over the weekend.
Pets.com raised $35 million privately and $89 million in an IPO.
Furniture.com lost $46.5 million in 1999 alone. They also spent $2.5 million on the domain name.
We spent $50 million on the Columbia blowup. $70 million on the Clinton investigation.
Kozmo.com burned through about $250 million.
Webvan went through $1 Billion (with a B) in financing.
And finally, Wall Street gave nearly $16 Billion to employees this year as Christmas bonuses.
So when the director of UN Aid Relief says we’re stingy, y’know what? He’s right.
And at a time when we’re trying to win hearts and minds in that part of the world– hell, ANY part of the world– we don’t want to appear stingy.
I think the line that might resonate with the religious right is Luke 6:41-42.
Elections in U.S. and Ukraine Equally Bad, says Putin – NEWS – MOSNEWS.COM
Russia has every reason to criticize the United States, President Vladimir Putin said at a Kremlin press conference.
“We’re also not too happy about what’s going on in the United States,” the Russian Information Agency Novosti quoted him as saying. “Do you think that the electoral system in the United States is without problems? Is it necessary to recall how the elections went this time and the previous time?”
The president also noted that OSCE observers described elections in the Ukraine and the United States in practically the same terms.
“They mentioned that not all voters were permitted into the polling stations, some were even intimidated; that candidates did not have equal access to the media,” Putin said.
The comments were made in response to criticism from the West about the struggling status of democracy in Russia.
…I’d like to suggest Star Trek: Starfleet Corps of Engineers #47: Creative Couplings, Book 1 by Aaron Rosenberg and some hack.
Yes, there will be a quiz next month.
…before my browser crashes. And rather than add to the 20 draft articles I have, I might as well get these over with:
* Ted Rall notes in a recent cartoon that GWB said Social Security would go bankrupt in ten years without privatization… while running for Congress in 1978. Can any of my savvy blog readers find any attribution to this? Don’t worry, you don’t have to explain how it’s lasted for 16 years longer than anticipated and counting…
Damn, the rest of them are on the laptop and I don’t feel like retyping links. Here’s hoping this lasts…
Michelle Malkin: THE SAN FRAN GUN BAN
You’ve got to hand it to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. They are unrepentant, unabashed, and undeterred gun grabbers–and there ain’t nuthin’ that’s gonna stop ’em from trampling all over the Second Amendment.
You’ve got to hand it to Michelle Malkin. She’s unrepentant, unabashed, and unashamed about writing a book about how interring people of a suspect ethnic background is okay– but taking away their guns is a violation of their rights. The woman who wrote “When our national security is on the line, ‘racial profiling’ � or more precisely, threat profiling based on race, religion or nationality � is justified” sees no threat to life or limb when some maniac is able to easily obtain a gun.
Kee-ripes.
You scored as Neutral Good. A Neutral Good person tries to do the ‘goodest’ thing possible. These people are willing to work with the law to accomplish their goal, but if the law is corrupt they are just as willing to tear it down. To these people, doing what’s right is the most important thing, regardless of rules, customs, or laws.
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Electablog* U.S. Ambassador to Cyberspace
I should begin by explaining that the following is neither a story from The Onion nor a transparent attempt by media consultants to distract us from the Bernie Kerik story – which is one Ford Bronco away from hitting the big time.
Bigger than a Bronco — an Explorer. Via Atrios:
September 16, 2000 NY Daily News:
A homeless woman lying on the ramp of an upper East Side parking garage was crushed to death early yesterday when she was run over by a mammoth sport utility vehicle, police said.
The driver, real estate executive Anthony Bergamo, told investigators he did not see the woman from his driver’s seat.
Bergamo was driving a 5,770-pound Ford Expedition.
Medics pronounced the unidentified woman dead at the scene.
An autopsy determined that she died of crushing injuries to her chest, said a spokeswoman for the city medical examiner.
The death was ruled accidental and Bergamo, 54, who manages the Milford Plaza hotel in Times Square for its owner, real estate magnate Howard Milstein, was not charged.
Who was police commissioner then? Why, Bernard Kerik. And who is Anthony Bergamo? Oh, THAT Anthony Bergamo…
Rescue workers were combing through the World Trade Center rubble around the clock when Mr. Kerik called Anthony Bergamo, a well-connected vice chairman of the Milstein family real estate company and a police buff, and asked for help finding a place for the workers to rest during breaks, the executive said.
The family owned Liberty View, a 28-story yellow brick tower two blocks southwest of the trade center at the corner of West Street and Third Place.
According to the executive, who knows Mr. Bergamo, the vice chairman arranged for Mr. Kerik to have the use of an apartment there. Several apartments in the buildings had been used by rescue workers on breaks, and by Red Cross staff who were treating them, in the months after 9/11, according to a real estate executive.