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The Rosie Meltdown Pool [Mrs. R.]

Will Ms. O'Donnell continue her downward spiral until she is eventually fired and/or hospitalized?

Or will she, in an effort to appear courageous, intentionally and defiantly breach the contract she signed with ABC by showing up for work sporting a flattop, cuffed jeans, and a wife-beater before she is fired and/or hospitalized?

And, how long until this saga finally ends?

Oddsmakers say: The flattop, cuffed jeans, and wife-beater within 8 to 10 weeks.

Barbara Walters Must Really, Really Hate Rosie O'Donnell [Mrs. R.]

 

If she didn't, Ms. Walters would spare Ms. O'Donnell any further public disgrace and humiliation by firing her nutso ass posthaste, while she still has a few minute traces of a career left.

Unfortunately for Ms. O'Donnell, however, it appears that Ms. Walters is going for total annihilation.

NTTAWWT.

UPDATE: In addition to her treacherous rants on Thursday, on Wednesday, Tehran Rosie expressed her disgust with all the attention cats and dogs poisoned by tainted pet food were getting in the press. No reason for anyone to be upset over their pet's untimely death, or need to seek information on which foods were being recalled. What a sweetheart.

Maybe she and Neal Boortz could co-write a book on their shared contempt for God's considerably meeker creatures.

 

Just How Delusional is Chuck Hagel, Anyway (Part II) [Mrs. R.]

Well, if his notion that the US should spy on global warming is any indication...

Anyone in this chamber who thinks that climate change isn't hellbent on our destruction - or believes that it can be reasoned with, or appeased...

Is, with all due respect, living in a fool's paradise. There are no diplomatic or political solutions to this global threat.

 

Earth is out to get us, my friends, and the sooner we realize that, the better.

 

That's why Dick Durbin and I are introducing legislation to address this national security threat by enlisting the aid and assistance of our country's top intelligence agencies...

 

Including the CIA, NSA, FBI, CTU, CONTROL, and UNCLE.

 

OK, he's tough on climate change now, but how will he feel next year?

 

Yes, I support the war on global warming, but I cannot, in good conscience, support intelligence gathering techniques that are not sanctioned by United Nations Convention Against Torture.

 

Or the year after that?

 

Unfortunately, faulty intelligence has led us into yet another quagmire...

 

And, like Vietnam, the war on global warming has become one that is unsustainable and unwinnable.

 

Hmmm. The war on global warming is a quagmire, another Vietnam, a war we cannot win...

 

Diane Feinstein Is All Business At the Local Starbucks

Welcome to Starbucks, can I help you?

 

 

Yeah, give me a triple venti no-foam latte with room, and step on it - I've got government business to attend to.

 

 

OK, we're really busy this morning, but we can have that for you in about five minutes.

 

 

Five minutes?? Look I don't have five minutes - I'm sure these other people wouldn't mind if you took care of me first.

 

 

I'm afraid I can't do that...

 

 

I need to get to my office so I can draft a resignation letter!

 

 

I'm sorry, I can't...

 

 

What if I told you I could get you a $12 million medical supplies contract?

 

 

That wouldn't help.

 

 

We're talking no-bid contract, here.

 

 

We don't even have medical supplies here.

 

 

Look, it wouldn't be hard to move my cup to the front - just pull it out...

 

 

Oh my God, she said "Pull it"! You heard her, there's your evidence!

 

 

Ma'am, I've already asked you to leave several times this morning.

 

 

Two words, people: Instant coffee!

 

 

I'm trying to be nice, ma'am.

 

 

Google it!

 

 

I will call the police.

 

 

Ah, that's better. Nutrients rushing to my brain...serotonin...

 

 

GET OUT!

 

 

Man, is she annoying.

 

 

All right, I've spoken to everyone in line and they've all agreed to let me cut in front of them.

 

 

Did you offer all of those people no-bid contracts?

 

 

Of course not.

 

 

Good, I was afraid...

 

 

A couple of them aren't incorporated, so I had to give them high-paying jobs at one of my husband's companies.

 

 

...

 

 

...

 

 

I'm definitely using a sick day tomorrow.

GOOGLE IT!

 

Somebody's Gotta Say It

Neal Boortz is a real a**hole:

 

THE PET FOOD SCARE
"Why all the fuss? Am I not correct in that all of the pet fatalities, save one, were to cats?"

Wow, not only is Boortz an asshole, he's a macho dick who thinks it's funny that cats are dying.

Wait - maybe I'm being hasty. Maybe Neal Boortz is just trying to be controversial. Or, maybe he's challenging the status quo by employing previously taboo...nah, he's just an asshole.

Hey, I'm already getting e-mail about this post.

I totally agree with you about Neal Boortz being an a-hole John. I used to like listening to him, but then I read your post and realized I don't like listening to him any more.

Thanks, anonymous suck-up!

Hey I totally agree with you too John. I usually like whats-his-name, but now that you say he's an a-hole I guess I don't any more.

You said it.

Uh-oh, looks like we have a dissenter:

John YOU are tha ashole hear. Seems to me that a guy named Adolf Hitler wanted to ban Neil Boortz so I guess you're no better then the Nazis.

Hmm...guess AOL doesn't have a spellcheck, eh? Don't worry, though, loser - you can always learn to spell, but being an a**hole is forever. That doesn't make any sense, does it? Just forget I said that, OK?

H/t: InstaPunk, who has a new challenge for the blogosphere.

Just How Delusional Is Chuck Hagel, Anyway? [Mrs. R.]

 

Every week I send a piece of Styrofoam to an underprivileged kid overseas.

 

 

Even a small piece of Styrofoam, like this one, will float, you know...

 

 

See that woman sitting behind General Petraeus? I think she has Styrofoam breasts...

 

 

Styrofoam breasts float, you know.

 

 

You wanna know what I would do? First, I'd get a piece of Styrofoam about yea wide and mount it in on a load-bearing wall, then I'd hot-glue some dryer lint to it...

 

 

Load-bearing walls with Styrofoam mounts float, you know, and the more dryer lint you hot-glue to the Styrofoam, the more better it floats.

 

 

Excuse me, Senator Kennedy, I'm missing a piece of Styrofoam about yea wide and was wondering if you've seen it...

 

 

No? OK...

 

 

Got any Bosco?

 

 

Anyone who compares Styrofoam to Vietnam doesn't know stink about Iraq, or Unga Bunga.

 

 

Hey, I've got just as good a shot of winning the Republican nomination for president in '08 as anyone else does.

 

Dang, This Is Good...[Mrs. R.]

h/t Drudge

"How Modern Liberals Think" from YouTube

Evan Sayet, a Hollywood writer (who once worked for Bill Maher) speaks at the Heritage Foundation about Liberalism (with an uppercase 'L') - and, dang, he's good.

 

March 27th Deadline...[Mrs. R.]

 

The all-new special edition DVD of "Fletch: The Jane Doe Edition" , starring actor/comedian/environmentalist/political activist Chevy Chase, won't be available until May 1, 2007 - so you'd better get the lead out because pre-orders close March 27th, 2007, which is, like, today.

The DVD features a digitally remastered picture and 5.1 surround sound and comes in collectible 3-D lenticular packaging and everything.

This very special edition is a must-own DVD for all comedy fans because after 27 years this material is funnier than ever.

As an extra treat, the DVD is superpacked with these never-before-seen bonuses:

 

Just Charge It to the Underhills: Making and Remembering "Fletch" Relive the insanity of this comedy masterpiece through hilarious interviews with the cast and crew!

 

From John Cocktoaston to Harry S. Truman: The Disguises See how Chevy Chase's wild imagination and a few prosthetics created the wackiest characters of all time!

 

"Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead." Watch Chevy Chase deliver this line as Fletch!

 

This non-biodegradable, petroleum-based, polycarbonate plastic disc is pure gold, so you'd better order today while supplies last.

 

Is Newspaper Dead? [Mrs. R.]

The Guru of Newspaper Analysts Is Quitting His Newsletter – John Morton Complains He’s Tired Of Issuing “Painful Forecasts” – And His Quitting Is Yet Another Negative Newspaper Story

The final newsletter says that today’s newspaper environment has changed forever.

“Instead of an industry cycle with advertising recovering as the economic recovers, we have a secular shift induced by demographic shifts, technology derived alternatives, intensity of data-driven Internet sourced competition, challenges of our local advertisers, and the influence from our changing ownership model. These factors do not impact all markets equally, but with time, these factors impact all markets.”

 

Yeah, yeah, right. All the hacks and liars posing as print journalists (more concerned with agenda than objective reporting) have absolutely nothing to do with this decline. Newspaper readers are too dumb to pick up on their slick twists on straight news, and don't mind paying good money for the wool-pulling.

The Foster Care Nightmare Quiz [Mrs. R.]

Eunice Spry, 62, routinely beat, abused and starved the youngsters in her care over a 19 year period. The devout Jehovah's Witness forced sticks down their throats and made them eat their own vomit and rat excrement.

There's more to solving the foster care crisis than pouring a bucket of water (and then some) on witches like this. But what? Well, common sense would be a good start. Test your ability to apply reason and logic to this tragic cultural phenomenon by taking the following quiz. There are more children in the foster care system than: There are loving/caring homes in which to place them; and, as a result, more than a few of these children are placed in substandard situations that may be as bad, or worse, than the ones they were removed from. Top-heavy government bureaucracies can adequately care for, supervise, and protect. There used to be, and the population of neglected/abused/unwanted children continues to grow. All of the above. Conservative answer: d Who typically suffers in a foster care nightmare, such as the one recently reported on in Gloucestershire? The foster children who endure neglect, abandonment and abuse from both their biological parents and their foster parents. Responsible and loving foster parents whose reputations as caregivers of neglected/unwanted/abandoned children are tarnished by women like Eunice Spry, and by the system which allowed her to commit this abuse for almost two decades. Administrators of the foster care system who will blame this nightmare on insufficient funding and ask for more tax dollars. The biological parents of these foster children. Conservative answer: Not 'd' In a foster care nightmare, who typically escapes any kind of scrutiny, punishment, and/or stigmatization, whatsoever? The foster children. Responsible/caring foster parents . The foster care system. The biological parents who brought children into this world whom they were unable and/or unwilling to care for, and who go about their dysfunctional lives essentially unscathed (and often considered worthy of public sympathy and/or government assistance). Conservative answer: d What is the message we are sending foster children when everyone but their biological parents are held responsible for any abuse and stigmatization they may suffer in the foster care system? It pays for biological parents to dump their kid into the foster care system because that relinquishes them from any responsibility to that child. When you grow up and have kids that you can't or don't want to take care of, just dump them into the foster care system to avoid any associated responsibilities that could harsh your buzz. Biological parenting means nothing in terms of the responsibility biological parents have to rear and care for the children they bring into this world. If you don't have to be responsible for the children you bring into this world, why should you have to be responsible about anything? There's a lot of talk and gum-flapping in our society about how much we all care about children, but it's all a big, steaming load of crap. Any, or all, of the above. Conservative answer: f When liberals and other social progressives claim that substance abuse is a victimless crime, what they're saying is: Kids neglected, abused and/or abandoned by their junkie or alcoholic parents don't suffer any real consequences as a result of their parents' substance abuse. Who gives a damn what happens to the children of junkies and alcoholics? Liberals and social progressives are incapable of tackling and solving tough social problems in any meaningful way. Liberals and social progressives are either really dumb, incredibly naive, and/or unbelievably callous. The road to hell is paved with the good intentions of liberals and social progressives. Any, or all, of the above. Conservative answer: f When liberals and other social progressives sing the praises of the carefree social values that contribute to more children entering the foster care system, what they're actually praising is: Their own stupidity. Their own irresponsibility. Their own hypocrisy. Their own contempt towards children. Their great love for disadvantaged children. Conservative answer: Not 'e' True or False? 1. It is wise to warn children that they should never talk to strangers, but there's absolutely nothing to worry about when placing foster children in the inadequately supervised care of total strangers. Conservative answer: False True or False? 2. Perhaps if every biological parent whose child ends up in the foster care system were put in some less-than-desirable detainment facility for the same amount of time their child was in foster care, in time, the population of foster children would decline instead of increase; and/or, maybe more people would think twice about bringing children into this world whom they were unwilling or unable to care for. Conservative answer: True 3. Heck, even stigmatizing these dead beat biological parents (instead of their children) would do more to solve this problem than the current approach of encouraging, coddling, and/or subsidizing them. Conservative answer: True 4. Chances are that the vast majority of children raised, abused, and/or stigmatized by both their biological parents and the foster care system will suffer no disadvantages whatsoever as a result, and grow up to be productive members of society. Conservative answer: False

 

Everyone's Entitled to His Opinion (UPDATED)

Zombie took some great photos at the "U.S. Out of Iraq Now" rally in San Francisco on March 18th.

This picture in particular caught my attention:

At first, I was really pissed that this asswipe was marching around advocating the death of the president. But that was before I got a close look at the top of his sign:

See, "DEATH TO WORLDS #1 TERRORIST. PIG BUSH-&-HIS-SHEEP" is just his opinion.

You know what probably happened? I bet he made that sign, then when the people in Legal reviewed it they made him add that line. Happens all the time.

Hey, I wonder if they told him to add this at the end:

Wow. That really gives the sign that extra "oomph", doesn't it?

No, really. I'll show you - try saying this out loud:

DEATH TO WORLDS #1 TERRORIST. PIG BUSH-&-HIS-SHEEP

OK, now try this:

DEATH TO WORLDS #1 TERRORIST. PIG BUSH-&-HIS-SHEEP. YAH.

See? Makes all the difference.

UPDATE: Speaking of a**holes with signs, WTF is up with this?

The inspector general of the Department of Justice, Glenn Fine, waits for the start of a House Judiciary Committee hearing as Code Pink member Medea Benjamin, right, and an unidentified protester stand behind him on Capitol Hill yesterday. (NY Sun, via HNAV)

Seriously, why are Medea Benjamin and the freaks at Code Pink being allowed to make a mockery of congressional committee hearings? Why isn't security throwing them out on their asses? Morons.

 

And Now, We Rejoin Fox News Sunday (Translated For Cavemen), Already In Progress

Now time for panel. Bush good or Bush bad?

 

 

That stupid question - Bush good.

 

 

No - Bush bad.

 

 

Ugh. Look like controversy. What you say?

 

 

Him right...

 

 

See? Bush bad.

 

 

Ugh. Not mean you; him.

 

 

There no question now. Bush good.

 

 

Time for show gone. We return after great fire in sky pass over seven times.

 

 

That long time.

 

 

That not Bush's fault!

 

 

Ugh. Maybe we talk about something different next time.

UPDATE: Maybe we talk about lying %$#!

 

Susan Sarandon Bashes the U.S. on Foreign Soil, Otra Vez, AND Tells the Spanish Press That American Actors Are a Bunch of Wussies [Mrs. R.]

Oh, and members of the foreign press are better journalists than members of the American press, and Laura Bush is the real villain residing in the White House because she shields her husband from the real world.

Oh, and of this posting, I couldn't find related news stories in Inglés, so had to employ Google New Español to see what kind of anti-American headlines Ms. Sarandon has been generating in Spain.

At the Festival Internacional de Cine de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Las Palmas Film Festival, Canary Islands)... En el festival, Ms. Sarandon Susan critica los Estados Unidos y expresa su preferencia por agentes europeos y periodistas extranjeros.

Note: These articles may lose something using Google's Spanish-to-English Translation Tool but,hey, it's better than nothing. To translate these articles, go to the Goolge Translation page and enter the URL, noting Spanish-to-English translation. Susan Sarandon denuncia represión en Estados Unidos The American actress, Susan Sarandon, today denounced in conference of prenas the repression that in its country is exerted against which they do not think just as the government.   Susan Sarandon denunció que hay represión y censura en Hollywood The winner of an Oscar by “While you are with me”, asserted that “when it express political opinions or social different in the United States, in Hollywood they condemn a species of ostracism and the press so little says friendly things to you as amiguito of Bin Laden”.   Susan Sarandon criticó a actores de EE.UU. The American actress Susan Sarandon today praised the social and political commitment of the actors of Europe as opposed to those of her country, of which she said that they do not dare to any type of uprising, “not even to shine a bow,” because “she is going to them to carry consequences.”   "Ojalá me utilizaran políticamente" The stars of Hollywood never open the mouth if they are not of promotion. Less Susan Sarandon, Tim Robbins and Sean Penn, the only actors whom him an autograph in a manifestation can be asked. The actress, of 60 incredible years, demonstrated yesterday to her class and intelligence in the Festival of Cinema of the Palms of Great Canary, where she gathered the prize of honor. He was thankful that the journalists only made questions political. “In my country always they do same the five questions to me on the film. I must come to Europe that is to say by you how you contemplate to the United States in the rest of the world, because there the press does not reflect it”.   Yet, the worse thing has not been the monitoring of telephone calls, black haltings and lists. Or that baptizes “amiguita of Bin Laden”. “The worse thing is when you speak and you are with silence, when nobody you secunda”. In one hour to char it, Susan Sarandon only named in an occasion his “friend” George W. Bush, to whom exculpated “because Laura protects too much to him, does not notify no bad to him and the poor man does not know what happens in the world”.

 

Khalid Sheik Mohammed: Give The People What They Want

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A Green Weenie Antagonist...[Mrs. R.]

Found this entertaining/informative read this evening while looking for articles on related subjects: A discussion thread from 2006 at CurEvents.com, entitled "Green Fuel's Dirty Little Secret".

People with some apparent knowledge of alternative energy/fuel sources have at it. Enjoy.

Excerpt from thread creator/commenter "dharma", who rules...

Why, only this morning, as I left my solar powered house and got into my car, just before I made the decision on which power source to use today—the hydrogen fuel cell? the flywheel? the compressed air drive?—I thought to myself: where would we have been if, in the 1970’s, wise old President Carter hadn’t decided to begin pouring huge amounts of money into these breakthrough technologies? Do you know there were people that felt that these energy sources of the future didn’t deserve the tens of billions of dollars in direct subsidies—not tax breaks like the oil companies got, because hey, they never made any money to tax—they got in those thirty years? How silly, I thought, as I entered the freeway with all its signals powered by directly beamed microwave energy. Why, do you know that there were people in the 70’s that claimed that even by the year 2000 ethanol would not be competitive with gasoline as a vehicle fuel without direct subsidies? What were they thinking, huh? How dumb were they? I walked into my office building (you know, it’s in the first of the giant geodesic domes they built downtown), and unconsciously adjusted my gait to the rhythm of the creaking from the giant airfoil tethered to the roof—the one that provides power harvested from stratospheric wind currents to half the block—marveling to myself. Surely, if all these great ideas had proven to be silly, impractical, unscaleable, or inefficient, we would have long since ceased to fund them! How stupid would we have had to be, to continue to pour money down rat holes after thirty years of research had proven fruitless! Luckily, that’s not the case, I thought later, munching my hemp cookies at lunch. Heck, nuclear energy is not the cleanest, most environmentally safe way to generate electricity, liquid hydrocarbons are not so wonderfully energy-dense and portable that they’re essentially irreplaceable, and we don’t have more energy in coal in Illinois alone than all the oil and gas in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait combined—no point in figuring out how to use it cleanly! Thank heaven we weren't deterred by all those fussy numbers, and facts! Thank heaven we’re realists! Wanna go watch them fire up the giant Tesla coil tonight? I can hardly wait to have a watch that doesn’t need batteries anymore!

Rosie O'Donnell Down Through History

"Sorry, I'm just not seeing it."

“But I just think, [Khalid Shaikh Mohammed] for whatever he did or didn’t do, he is not the be all, end all of terrorism in America."

Wutevrr, d00d

OUTRAGE UPDATE:

Huh?

 

"This is an outrage! One that bears no resemblance whatsoever to that harmless incident involving people I agree with!"

 

"I couldn't agree more!"

 

"Unsolicited validation!"

 

And Now, a Segment of Hardball That's Been Translated From English to German, German to French, French to Italian, and Then Back to English

I was Chris Matthews, I have made to play them the ball.

 

 

Jim VandeHei writes to Isikoff for "Newsweek politico.com. and Michael." He is, obviously, the incredible author "of the Hubris, the inner history of the scandal and to sell the Iraq of war." What the delivery "Hubris" is type of case, to enter, towards the right? What - it has let out this last one?

 

 

We have had the news of some other details on a Cheney`s role, and the situation in the complete case and must resume a stage and say, it`s this case tightened on Libby like Denis Collins, the juror to which it has been said today, has been perceived from a lot of swears to you like case individual.

 

 

Let`s arrives to the points. The vice president was based with of the Libby in compliance with the certificate declares towards, in order to expire and to speak with about the Judy Miller. Has said with point, that he has said the source of the Valerie information to Wilson, it I was? And it was like "earth walnuts" or leggermente. I?

 

 

Absolutely on this case is fascinant. We have received really one amount detail on the vices president. We always knew that he was completely effective in this house white woman, however this much more micromanager? Really, prescribing to use, the house white woman to defend? Task that is, that that is therefore remarkable here.

 

 

The vice president who drops of all and we an audience ability amount this last one, is Mike, and sapete this last one. Why has previewed therefore a fear that that Joe to Wilson has said?

 

 

Well because the Wilson has regarded towards the right the vice president. It has proposed this travel.

 

 

The travel in Africa that has taken.

 

 

The vice president has caused it. And the vice president would receive nearly without some doubt one relation of that.

 

 

Three persons have made under an oath in this attempt that was Vizepresident`s the issue that has contributed to those travel.

 

 

The issue was that the travel has demanded. The vice president - it was that, we declare didn't to send them to its defense the individual on the travel. We didn't soaps.

 

 

There is a difference between the system and some-one asks it establishes. But on the private one - and that one was the case to this last one that to form tried. If you mean, to try let`s to regulate one straight line of recording and let`s to go after he.

 

 

We'll be right back with Jim VandeHei and Mike Isikoff. And later, an exclusive with Democratic candidate John Edwards, who's taken some stuff from Ann Coulter.

 

 

What the hell does that mean?

 

 

Greek to me.

 

WuzzaDem vs. dorkafork: Bloggo-a-Bloggo

Sure, dorkafork wrote a five-word review of "300", but how about a three-word review?

"Didn't see it."

YES!

Take that, dorkafork! Even your friend, the cat who bears an amazing resemblance to Hitler®, is bailing on you.

"Achtung! Herr dorkafork ees pwn3d!"

UPDATE: Damn you, dorkafork! I have no answer for this. Another day, sir - another day.

"Ya, can vee forget about zee pwnage I mentioned earlier? I may haff been a bit hasty. Danka."

 

Non-Posting Post (Which, Technically, Is the Same Thing As a Post. Also, The Same As Not a Post (If That Makes Sense, Which I Don't Think It Does. Whatever))

AAAAAAAAH!

This computer is seriously pissing me off right now.

You know, if you break that down it means that my computer is angering me in a way that is not joking or trifling.

Or, it could mean that my computer is angering me in a way that is excessive or impressive in quality, quantity, extent, or degree.

Does that sound stupid, or what?

Really, my computer has no freaking idea of or control over the manner in or extent to which it's failure to operate correctly affects my emotional state. And that really pisses me off.

Also pissing me off:

 

The DaVinci Code. That book was a steaming pile. Come on - the guy took Angels & Demons, moved it to a different location and renamed a few characters. I know it's old, but it still sticks in my craw. Just sayin'.

 

At the Local Starbucks, Glenn Beck Makes a Perfectly Valid 'Point', Which Some Humorless Individuals Don't 'Get'

I'm sorry, sir, but it looks like we're out of carrot cake.

 

 

Oh yeah? Well, do you think you'd be able to scare some up if I jumped over this counter and grabbed your ass?

 

 

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...

 

 

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OK, just give me a tall no-foam latte.

 

 

Guess she doesn't follow politics.

What, you've never had a stranger grab your ass?

 

First They Came For the Gamers, And I Didn’t Speak Up, Because...Well, Because It's Kind Of Silly, Really (UPDATED)

Get a grip, people:

Blasphemy!

Shortly before midnight (CST) on Monday, February 26, a group of republican Second Life users, some sporting "Bush '08" tags, vandalized the John Edwards Second Life HQ. They plastered the area with Marxist/Lenninist posters and slogans, a feces spewing obsenity, and a photoshopped picture of John in blackface, all the while harrassing visitors with right-wing nonsense and obsenity-laden abuse of Democrats in general and John in particular.

I witnessed this event, taking names and photos, including the owners of the pictures. I also kept and saved a copy of the chat log. I have filed an abuse report with Linden Labs, and am awaiting their investigation.

When I first read this I thought Second Life was the name of some nutroots offshoot - apparently it's a "virtual world", which I'm pretty sure means it's a game.

A game. Let that sink in.

So the Edwards campaign is awaiting an "investigation" into who "vandalized" their "headquarters" in a "virtual world".

Damn, I just broke the quote marks key.

Actual screenshot of the "vandalism".

BTW, who are these "Republicans" with "Bush '08" stickers? And how do you "harass" someone in a virtual world? Thick-skinned, these Edwards people are. Well, at least we have an idea of how Edwards would handle a major disaster if he were elected.

Wasn't Edwards going to "harness the power of the blogosphere" or some crap? Seems like his campaign blog has been nothing but a source of embarrassment so far.

Thanks to Dan Collins (not for the vandalism, for the tip).

UPDATE: Feces spewing obsenity [sic]? WTF?

UPDATE II: Kirsten Powers has an excellent v-log on " The Seedy World of Second Life" (H/T: mesablue). As she notes, Edwards picked a rather strange neighborhood in which to build his "virtual campaign headquarters":

As you will see, the Edwards HQ has some disturbed neighbors. Particularly troubling are the rape fantasy clubs and the child sex brothel called Jailbait (the "owner" of the club, a 35-year- old woman named Emily Semaphore refers it as "age-play.") The "Second Life Herald" complains that "Intersexed Avatar Children Hard to Find" and provides this handy graph to explain what kind of virtual child sex the adult members of Second Life are engaging in:

Nice neighbors you've got there, John.

As for Republicans being responsible for this wanton virtual destruction (virtually wanton destruction?), check out this comment from the Edwards campaign blog:

There are a lot of possibilities. Don't immediately jump at the idea that it is Republicans or progessives.

Second Life is the home to a lot of people who believe in almost anarchist level of freedom. I don't say that as a judgement one way or the other. But it is a realm where ANYTHING is possible and many a "prankster" will jump at the opportunity to stir things up. Edwards headquarters makes a perfect target. Just as the less destructive and more creative "John Edward" headquarters popping up right next door was stabbing at the absurb, this act of vandalism may very well be the same.

Anything in SL that smells of mainstream or popularity will be and is a target. Try not to read any more of an agenda than that: Chaos for chaos's sake.

I guess that would explain the "Bush '08" stickers. Thanks for the info, anonymous pervert loser "virtual world" enthusiast.