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Produce Paradise Punks Pwned!

Posted by bongo on August 30th

Read More: The Internets, Breaking News, Depressing

Produce Paradise
seemed like a funny, good idea at the time.

These kinds of things usually are pretty damned funny when you are doing them. In fact, especially if you are the one doing them! In days of yore, the video would have been recorded and shelved and friends would have looked back in later years and laughed about how idiotic they were at that age.

But this is the age of instant digital media! The Fresh Beets miscalculated wildly and are now facing a $1 million lawsuit.

I understand that they want to protect their brand and their image, but come on. $1 million dollars? Is that really going to show those punks who’s boss? What is the point of bankrupting these idiots?

All it will do is make the next group of fools who do something like this try to do it more legit - like by purchasing their veggies before filming. That way they will be able to argue it is their own property with which they are, ahem, performing.

Instead of suing them, A&P should be thanking them for the free international advertising.

That’s gotta hurt…

Posted by bongo on August 29th
Read More: The Internets, Large Gathering of Idiots

Sorry about posting an ebaum vid. I couldn’t find it anywhere else.

Anybody know if this is an actual video or some staged thing?

Naked Motorcycle Headstand Crash

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G-man Falls

Posted by bongo on August 27th
Read More: Ask EightAndFive, Breaking News, neocons, War

Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez has resigned today. This being the second recent senior Bush Administration to submit walking papers in the past few weeks. The political wheels are finally coming off of the Bush war-wagon.

What does this indicate is happening to this Administration? Is the President finally accepting defeat? Are these resignations finally the Administrations way of saying, “Yep. We couldn’t do it ram it down everyone’s throats. We tried, we said 9-11 lot, and we showed a lot of gore on the TV, but the people still wouldn’t go for it.”

I am not sure if these resignations indicate a duck and cover strategy or if they are simply trying to put some distance between the most divisive of Bush’s cronies and the election in 2008. With Rumsfeld, Gonzalez and Rove all out of the public eye over a year before the next election, I suspect it will make people think the Republicons ain’t so bad. Especially if the cost of a gallon of gasoline starts to drop dramatically right before the next election.

I predict that gasoline will drop to about $1.45 to $1.55 per gallon right around Halloween of 2008.

Do any 8n5ers have any predictions or theories as to why Bush is throwing in the towel?

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GWoT cost? 33,134 Dead or Injured Americans and still going!

Posted by bongo on August 22nd
Read More: No Shit, neocons, War

The surge is not working.

With today’s helicopter crash, the Department of Defense will add fourteen more to their list. Right now the official number the media’s reporting is

“at least 3,721 members of the U.S. military who have died since the Iraq war started in March 2003.”

Inver Grove Heights, Richfield, Cottage Grove, Shakopee, Roseville, Fridley. These are cities in Minnesota that all have one thing in common: Their population is equivalent to the number of reported casualties in the GWOT. There are over thirty other cities in Minnesota with fewer citizens than casualties in the GWOT.

How can this be? It’s because the media is reporting the corpse count of U.S. military personnel who have died in Iraq. The media has a slightly higher corpse count than the DoD. But if one were to examine the raw numbers the DoD is reporting, one would simply need to add some columns to get the real casualty report.

The surge is not working.

Total deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan: 4,129 dead U.S. soldiers. This count is not designating between combat deaths and non-combat deaths because after all, the families aren’t any less distraught that their son or daughter died from non-hostile action.

The number of soldiers who were wounded but returned to duty is at 15,751, and the number of soldiers who were wounded but could not return to duty is 13,254.

If you add all three together, the total number of casualties as reported by the DoD is 33,134 (source: DoD website defenselink.mil).

To put this in perspective, it would be the equivalent of taking all the citizens of a large metro-area suburb, killing 4,000 of them and wounding the rest, half of which could go back to their daily routine (albeit injured) and the other half which would require a hospital stay. All of them would likely need psychological treatment.

So when Fox news (the only media source with the headline “Positive Surge Results…”) or one of the other mainstream media outlets suggests that the surge is working, you can tell them they are dead wrong.

The surge is not working.

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I Think of Lynch

Posted by Czech Air on August 14th
Read More: Funny

I watch this clip and all I can think of was the story that several 905ers almost died when Lynch nearly blew the corner out in front of 905. Particularly I think of this when watching the second car — something that looks an awful lot like a Rabbit — miss this terrible Rally corner…

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Impeach The Bastard

Posted by Czech Air on August 12th
Read More: Depressing

No intro needed…just watch.

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Pearl Jam Censored by Corporate Thugs

Posted by bongo on August 11th
Read More: The Internets, Breaking News, Music, neocons, Big Brother

The edited and unedited “Daughter” videos:

ATT alleges that a webcast vendor censored a lyric that was unflattering to President George W. Bush. Pearl Jam had this to say:

This, of course, troubles us as artists but also as citizens concerned with the issue of censorship and the increasingly consolidated control of the media. What happened to us this weekend was a wake up call, and it’s about something much bigger than the censorship of a rock band. AT&T’s actions strike at the heart of the public’s concerns over the power that corporations have when it comes to determining what the public sees and hears through communications media.

Pearl Jam has it nailed. Ever day something like this is allowed to occur in America, a piece of freedom dies. We must remain vigilant and alert to even the smallest erosions of liberty and free speech or one day those concepts will just be a forgotten memory.

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I’m Outraged at the Lack Of Outrage!

Posted by Oscar on August 8th
Read More: Politics, neocons, Large Gathering of Idiots, Depressing, Big Brother

big-brother001.jpgEarlier this week the democratic house capitulated to King George by allowing the FISA law to be changed in such a way that he can now wire-tap calls and monitor emails from any US citizen to outside of the US, this surveillance needs no suspicion, no pre-approval, and no repercussions if it “accidentally” records discourse within our country. Since Consiglieri Gonzales is in charge of monitoring this program it’s unlikely that the oversight will be anymore than a rubber stamp.

I’m used to the Democrats giving in to crap to get other stuff done (and they’ve gotten a lot done, of which I’m proud) but where is the ideologically driven right on this issue? Why aren’t the right-wing talkers OUTRAGED? The government has officially compromised our constitutional right to privacy. Before now I would have thought that keeping the Government out of our underwear drawers would be at least as important to conservatives as not allowing gays to marry. I was wrong. Do you think they’d be cool with Clinton monitoring them?

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Jailhouse Rock

Posted by bongo on August 6th
Read More: Funny, The Internets, Breaking News, Music

Apparently it has become fashionable for prisoners to stage music videos and post them on Youtube. Here’s a take on Michael Jackson’s
Thriller
:

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YOUR TAX CUTS AT WORK

Posted by Oscar on August 3rd
Read More: Politics, No Shit, neocons, Large Gathering of Idiots, War, Depressing, Taxes

bringe-fell.jpgA bridge in America just shouldn’t fall down.
-Senator Amy Klobuchar D-MN

The Mississippi bridge had a 50 out of 100 rating.
49 would mean it has to be replaced.
Road infrastructure in Minnesota is paid for by the gas tax. Minnesota’s constitution requires that gas tax be spent solely on ROADS not trains, not busses. ROADS! The gas tax in Minnesota has not been increased in 20 YEARS. This is because republicans have spent the last 20 years running on the primary issue of TAX CUTS.
Tim Pawlenty has been vetoing attempts at increase spending on transportation since 2003. The republican party gets support by claiming that raising taxes on gas would raise the price of gas. Consider that Wisconsin pays more than 10 cents more tax per gallon than Minnesota and their gas prices are exactly the same (while big oil makes record profits).

When you hear a republican say “Government is the problem.” Remember that someone needs to maintain food standards, someone needs to educate our children, someone needs to make sure OUR BRIDGES DON’T FALL DOWN. If someone running for office, for a place in government says “GOVERNMENT IS THE PROBLEM” how can we expect them to govern well? Obviously we can’t.

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If I had married Tea Leoni and starred in film and TV with Gillian Anderson, I would have the exact same problem. How many love children do you have David? - #

An 8n5 August Superbowl dream prediction: Packers vs. Jets, the Heir Apparent vs. the Air up There! - #

LCDs are getting cheaper, but this is a top-rated 22" monitor and is a sweet deal available at General Nanosystems in Minneapolis. I picked one up yesterday. (8/5) The sale is over! - #

World's first Tesla crash? Maybe... - #

This Wired commentary pretty much sums up the grind of an MMORPG. For me, the grind is a love/hate relationship. - #

The King is Dead. Maybe JT can bring spam back next! - #