Phelps Goes Super Saiyan, Gets Seventh Gold

Initially, I didn’t think that the .gif of Phelps going Super Saiyan merited a full post- but having watched his most recent race, I feel like now is the time.He won the 100 fly by .01.

Edit: Unfortunately, this .gif was so popular on the host site that the account exceeded its bandwidth. To replace it, I give you this:

The article is here. Watch the race if you get the chance. Really, watch it.

Target to Need New Web Text Editor

Hopefully you can all see this before it gets fixed. Just another reason why word choice is very important.

And as always, brought to my attention by another source. I do not sit around the internet googling “black kid”.

-Beltway Bob

Diebold Being Sued

Diebold is being sued by the State of Ohio for breach of contract and fraud. The company’s pristine record, including the CEO openly stating that he is ”committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president (bushie) next year” and its Vice President being “convicted of 23 counts of felony theft for planting back doors in software he created for ATMs using, according to court documents, a “high degree of sophistication” to evade detection over a period of two years”, is further bolstered by a rather amusing xkcd cartoon:

 

If the image is too smal, the original site is here

Manny Ramirez Likes Red Sox’s New Blue Uniforms

LOS ANGELES—Dodgers left-fielder Manny Ramirez, sent to Los Angeles in a three-team trade two weeks ago, said Monday that he “really likes” the Red Sox’s new blue-and-white uniforms. “I like it more than the red,” Ramirez told reporters following the Dodgers’ 8-6 win over the Phillies Monday. “I’m also happy that they shortened the Green Monster, and painted it blue, because that wall was too tall before. And I’m really enjoying the easy schedule we’ve been playing lately.” Although Ramirez admitted he didn’t appreciate having “that vampire from the Yankees” [Joe Torre] hanging out in the dugout all the time, he did say that he “completely approves of David Ortiz’s new mustache” while gesturing towards Dodgers second baseman Jeff Kent. -from the Onion

this post is really just for laughs, although it wouldnt be completely impossible that this is all true…you know, just Manny being Manny…

Not to Be Strange / I’m suprised two of you haven’t picked this up yet

High School Musical Panties sold by the Walt Disney Corporation to Underage Girls Tell Readers to “Dive Right In“.  Now, as per usual for my articles, I stumbled upon this by random information sent to me by random people. This was mentioned this morning on a Houston talk show  (read thier blogs for a more conservative view on the world) that my friend from New Orleans listens to online while working in Bethesda, Maryland. I just wanted to tell you how I got that information this morning to point out a: that it is true, the world is getting flatter due to the fast exchange of information across long land boundaries and b: what makes news is random.

 

-Beltway Bob

“Unfit for Publication”

The Obama campaign just released a 42 page pdf discounting many of the claims made in the Obama Nation book. Corsi, the author, argues that people are just “nitpicking” and aren’t recognized his overall argument, but I find the extent of the falsehoods in the book to be breathtaking. The pdf spares no fact- even the most insignificant false statements are debunked. What is particularly interesting is that Corsi makes false statements that cannot merely be attributed to poor journalism. He makes hard to defend claims regarding Obama’s refusals to discuss certain parts of his background, when Obama himself wrote about these parts of his past in his book. It is not merely that Corsi takes issue with Obama’s claim that he stopped using drugs when he was 20 (which, I suppose, is debatable), it’s that he says things like:

Nowhere in the autobiography does Obama disclose that his wife-to-be accompanied him to Africa on the 1992 trip.

 

When in fact the book says,

After our engagement, I took Michelle to Kenya to meet the other half of my family. She was an immediate success there as well, in part because the number of Luo words in her vocabulary very soon surpassed mine.

 

The book is crawling with this type of shameless falsehoods. Nonetheless, the American people are seizing the opportunity to “discover” new, nasty revelations about the black man named Barack Hussein Obama running for president. In any case, the whole document is here. It’s worth a read if you’re bored.

Sister Site

Given our site’s stunning success, I propose that we find other sites whose content complements ours. This way, our sister site can refer to interesting articles we post, and we can do the same for them. More readers, better content…etc.

 

I propose we ask the author of this post to be that site:

Look, if you people want to use me as an easy target, go ahead. I can take it. But if NObama wins this election, don’t come crying to me when your taxes skyrocket, your breakfast cereal comes laced with anthrax and your kid’s elementary school starts teaching in Spanish.

John McCain represents the REAL America. He’s not running for President of San Francisco. For every hater on this site, there is someone who understands that the world has changed and we must change with it. Anyone who thinks we can apply the failed policies of the 1960’s (or, for that matter, France) and compete with the New Chinese Majority is in for a rude awakening.

So go ahead and hate. It’s easy to hate something you don’t understand.

That’s what liberals do.

http://blackmenformccain.com/

 

They’ll love us.

Non-Olympics Related China News

Twin baby pandas were born in China on the second day of the Olympics.  Basically, they are just really freaking cute.  Look at them struggling to crawl!

Morning News; August 15th, 2008

1) I’m not a doctor, but it seems to me that things are escalating between the U.S. and Russia. This time, Russia is “enraged” by a deal between the U.S. and Poland to place an American missile defense system in Poland.

2) Mets swept the Nats, Yanks- despite their best efforts- were unable to get a loss last night due to a stubborn schedule that said they didn’t have a game, Phelps moved one gold (and WR) closer to Spitz’s record, and two Americans went 1-2 in the all-around gymnastics competition. On a related note, more evidence is surfacing that the Chinese athletes who look eight years old are not 16 (as claimed by host China), but probably 12 or 14. I’m not sure it matters much in terms of “fairness”- but rules are rules and if other countries can’t do it, China can’t either.

3) Former Wall Street execs- more expendable than our Trader, who soldiers on- are being forced to find new careers, some of them in cupcakes.

4) Chris “Mad Dog” Russo is gone.

5) The esteemed author of the aforementioned Obamanation and Unfit for Command books is apparently a 9/11 conspiracy theorist. This’ll do wonders for his credibility.

Site Note

Just a note…yesterday we set a new readership with 169 unique site views…way to go everyone!!!

Huh?!? Really?!?!

North Korean shooter, Vietnamese gymnast test positive

BEIJING — A North Korean shooter was stripped of his two medals and expelled from the Beijing Olympics along with a Vietnamese gymnast Friday after failing doping tests.

They are the second and third athletes caught doping in Beijing, where the International Olympic Committee is conducting a record 4,500 drug tests.

The IOC said shooter Kim Jong Su tested positive for propanolol after winning the silver medal in the 50-meter pistol and bronze in the 10-meter air pistol.

Propanolol is a banned betablocker, which can be used to prevent trembling in events such as shooting and archery.

The bronze medal in the 10-meter event now goes to American shooter Jason Turner. In the 50-meter event, China’s Tan Zongliang moves up to the silver and Russia’s Vladimir Isakov is upgraded to the bronze.

Gymnast Thi Ngan Thuong Do, who finished in last place in the women’s floor exercise, tested positive for the diuretic furosemide.

IOC medical commission chairman Arne Ljungqvist said he considered Kim guilty of “a deliberate intake” of a banned substance because of propanolol’s specific benefit for shooters. Kim could face a ban of up to two years from the international shooting federation.

Ljungqvist said he believed the Vietnamese gymnast inadvertently used furosemide, a common drug.

“My interpretation is this was probably the result of poor information given to the athlete, who did not have the knowledge of what to avoid and what she was allowed to take,” he said.

IOC spokeswoman Giselle Davies said both athletes were kicked out of the games and had their accreditations revoked. Spanish cyclist Maria Isabel Moreno was kicked out of the games Monday after testing positive for EPO in a pre-competition check.

There were a record 26 doping cases at the 2004 Athens Olympics. Based on the large increase in number of tests in Beijing, IOC president Jacques Rogge had predicted there could be between 30 and 40 positives at these games.

With only three positives so far, Ljungqvist said deterrent methods appear to be paying off.

“My interpretation is that this a feature of increased awareness in the sports world that doping is unacceptable, and you don’t compete in the Olympic Games if you are doped,” he said. “I feel the figures are rather encouraging.”

Ljungqvist also made a point of defending cycling’s continued participation in the Olympics, despite the spate of doping scandals that have roiled the sport in recent years and Moreno’s positive case in Beijing.

“It’s been clarified that the best way to support a sport that has a doping problem is not to throw it out but rather to help it,” he said. “We hope we will be able to help the sport of cycling. We hope that Olympic cycling will be a cleaner sport than cycling in general is today. I’m hopeful for the sport in the future. They have to take strong action, and I think everyone realizes that.”

So we have now entered the realm of Olympic cheating (insert shock here)…although, i hardly believe a diuretic is a PED…

On a side note…Usain Bolt may be the scariest person i have ever seen…not only is he fast enough to catch me (not a hard feat, i might add), he is also big enough that he can probably tear me limb from limb within three seconds…