Before you press play, let us warn you that this video is very NSFW…in a very peculiar way. It involves famed actress Isabella Rossellini dressed up as a female duck, being propositioned (forcibly at one point) for mating by paper ducks. I said it was peculiar, didn’t I? It’s part of Rossellini’s Sundance Channel series Green Porno.

Of course, I had to see it.

‘Corkscrew penises’. Now there’s a phrase you don’t hear every day. Good grief, what is she thinking? Oh, right… it’s Sundance. Eye of the beholder, that sort of thing.

Still.

Via The Mary Sue

do we really need to hear from the likes of this all-star schmuck?

On Thursday afternoon, CBS and Warner Bros. Television announced they were stopping production on Two and a Half Men for the remainder of the season due to Sheen’s recent “statements, conduct and condition.” On O’Brien’s show, Sheen said he would fight to get paid for the remaining unproduced episodes. The actor currently makes $1.8 million per episode for his work on the show.

Two and a Half Men ends production for the season following Charlie Sheen’s radio rant

“Defeat is not an option,” he said. “They know what they did was wrong they are in absolute breach [of contract]. I did nothing wrong. I expressed an opinion; I get the first amendment behind me. Defeat is not an option.”

Somebody needs to bitch slap this douchebag after pointing out that his First Amendment rights don’t protect him from being tossed out on his ass from his “job”.

As I noted in a comment below, yesterday saw us finally in a position, or so we thought, to transfer ownership of one car and begin the process of bringing my truck up to date with current Florida tags.

However, because neither of us has registered a car in Florida before, we are both subject to Florida’s “first-time registration fee” which means that collectively we need to pony up $851.00 to register two cars and this does not even include driver’s license fees, which we also need to take care of.

I was quickly corrected when I asked what the impact fee was for my out-of-state vehicle, and told that it is NOT an impact fee, but the one time fee referred to above.

BULLSHIT. Call it what you want, it’s as unconstitutional as California’s old impact fee for out-of-state vehicles.

V C Section 1673.7 Smog Impact Fee Refund Notice
Smog Impact Fee: Refund Notice

1673.7. (a) The department shall include the following notice with each check issued as a refund of the smog impact fee:

“The enclosed check is a refund of the $300 Smog Impact Fee you paid to the Department of Motor Vehicles when you initially registered an out-of-state vehicle in California. In the case of Jordan v. Department of Motor Vehicles (1999) 75 Cal.App.4th 449, the court ruled the smog impact fee unconstitutional. The enclosed check includes an interest payment which has been calculated from the date the fee was paid to the date the refund is issued.

“If you have any questions about the enclosed refund, please contact your local office of the Department of Motor Vehicles.”

(b) No notice other than the one required under subdivision (a) may be included with a smog impact fee refund check.
Added Sec. 8, Ch. 31, Stats. 2000. Effective June 8, 2000.

But here in Florida, it is even more egregious: they smack the individual as an out-of-stater, not the car.

I guess my Okie tags stay. Fuck the government.

“I’m here to help the Iraqis celebrate the progress they made. They formed a government. And that’s a good thing. They have a long way to go.”

Starkly illustrating Biden’s comment that there is still progress to be made in Iraq, three bombs exploded near mosques in central and northern Baghdad hours after he arrived, killing two people and wounding 13 others, an interior ministry official said.

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Biden’s visit, his seventh to Iraq since January 2009, comes days after radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, a potent force in Iraqi politics, exhorted a boisterous crowd to resist the US “occupation” by all means in his first speech since returning home to the holy city of Najaf.

Maliki was approved for a second term by parliament on December 21 along with a national unity cabinet after over nine months of political deadlock.

Though combat operations have officially ended, some 50,000 US troops remain in the country. They are required under a security accord between Baghdad and Washington to withdraw by the end of 2011.

American soldiers in Iraq are allowed to return fire in self-defence (sic) and take part in operations if requested by their Iraqi counterparts, under the terms of a bilateral security pact.

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As Biden wrapped up his visit, a suicide blast in the northwest town of Bannu killed 18 people, most of them security officers, and wounded 15 in an attack claimed by the Taliban as revenge for US missile strikes in the area.

Biden said militancy in Pakistan was a threat to both countries, and he referred to the killing last week of Punjab governor Salman Taseer, who was shot dead by his bodyguard over his outspoken opposition to strict blasphemy laws.

Maybe he should have passed out t-shirts…

First time I’ve seen a gif of a movie. How did they do that?

I’m always amazed when a former radical is tracked down, and people rally to their cause, citing the passage of time as a reason to not be held accountable for an act of terror that claimed innocent lives:

This week, the university will mark the anniversary by opening a recording booth in the library, where people can relate their memories of the event for inclusion in the university archives and in a documentary theater project. A small plaque honoring Robert Fassnacht, the 33-year-old scientist killed in the blast, is the only permanent sign on campus that the bombing happened.

Burt and three other radicals parked a stolen van packed with fertilizer and fuel outside the university’s Army Math Research Center in Sterling Hall and lit the fuse in the early morning hours of Aug. 24, 1970. The bomb attack, the nation’s most powerful until the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, killed a graduate student who was doing research in the middle of the night, injured others and caused millions of dollars in damage. The bombers fled to Canada.

Three of the four men were captured in the 1970s after trying to live underground; they were convicted, served short prison terms and resumed their lives. One, Karl Armstrong, operates a juice stand near the bombing site. His brother, Dwight, died of lung cancer in Madison in June. David Fine has worked as a paralegal in Portland, Ore. … Armstrong said the FBI should offer Burt amnesty to turn himself in since history has proved the war in Vietnam a failure. He said the bombing “was the right thing to do at the time” in response to the shooting of protesters at Kent State and they did not intend to harm anyone.

But Chris Cole, the FBI supervisory agent who oversees the search for Burt, said Fassnacht’s death made the case a continuing priority. Fassnacht, a husband and father of three, “was doing nothing more than his job and lost his life.”

Armstrong is an ass, obviously stuck in the ’60′s with an overblown sense of his own importance in a pivotal issue for the United States. Kent state was a tragedy, but these idiots’ retaliatory bombing was in no way a valid response. I guess running a juice stand isn’t enough for Armstrong, he needs to relive his “glory days” vicariously through the renewed interest in the disappearance of his partner in crime.

Have you ever seen a more chaotic forecast model? It’s a hurricane in a blender.

And that dark green snake leg, coming right over my house? Not real happy about that.

UFO filmed in Italy last year.

Reminds me of the scene in Independence Day where the clueless wait atop a tall building for the fuzzy wuzzy aliens to come get them. Or blow them to bits, which is what happened.

Why assume they love us?