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LMAO, this is too funny and well written. Beautiful recap.
50. Barack Obama
Charges: Beyond a few token acts of bipartisan marketing, Barry's major duty in the Senate was to avoid legislating, so he could pretend Washington-outsider status and nullify attacks on his non-existent policy positions. That's the thing about Obama and his candidacy: He was a blank slate, the pinnacle of vapid public relationsonto which the benighted masses may project their sincerest, yet unfounded, hopes in the wake of the worst administration in history. Couldnt disown Rev. Wright, until he suddenly could, and then marred his first moments as president ahead of time by inviting a pastor whose advice to gays is just to refrain from sex for life. Promised not to run for president, then did; vowed to take public election funds, then didn't; backed telecom immunity, then accepted the nomination at the AT&T sponsored convention; expressed displeasure with Clinton's hawkish foreign policy and vote for war in Iraq, then named her as Secretary of State. And despite all that, he's plenty affable. There's nothing more loathsome than a likable politician.
Exhibit A: Yes we can is the Just do it of politics.
Sentence: Presiding over the decline of an exhausted empire.
49. M. Night Shyamalan
Charges: A font of mediocrity, Shyamalan's success as a screenwriter and director is more confusing than quantum mechanics. He peaked with the overrated, not-at-all-surprising The Sixth Sense and each proceeding film's been worse than the last. This year's The Happening was dumber than an inbred moth. A heavy-handed allegory about humanity's self-destructive environmental impact, starring pseudo-scientific killer plants and Mark Walberg's flared nostrils, it made us want to recreate a scene from the movie and jab ourselves in the neck with a crocheting needle.
Exhibit A: Gave himself the name Night.
Sentence: Surprise ending to next film: it was actually never made!
48. Barry McCaffrey
Charges: According to Seymour Hersh, the U.S. Army general committed war crimes during the Gulf War, ordering his men to murder retreating Iraqi forces after a ceasefire had been declared. More recently, as an NBC military analyst, he was one of the message force multipliers at the center of the Pentagon's Iraq war propaganda campaign, uncovered this year by the freedom-hating New York Times. After his 2001 retirement, he started BR McCaffrey Associates, a consulting firm designed to connect Pentagon buyers with military suppliers like Defense Solutions, a company McCaffrey's pitched shamelessly to Generals on Pentagon-sponsored trips to Iraq and Afghanistan, Congress and the American public via his NBC gigall without disclosing the appalling conflict of interest.
Exhibit A: McCaffrey criticized Rumsfelds strategy from the start, calling the troop numbers grossly anemicin private, while he assured MSNBC viewers that combat would be over in no more than three weeks.
Sentence: Fragged by Pat Buchanan.
47. Michele Bachmann
Charges: Exemplifies the simmering, all-American fascism lurking behind the forced smiles of uptight church ladies throughout real America. Echoing Sarah Palins alarming hints about helping the media do its job, Bachmanns casual call for a penetrating press investigation into anti-Americanism in congress was so fucking dumb it made Chris Matthews seem smart. Once it occurred to the Oral Roberts University graduate that calling for witchhunts against Democrats might be a tad extreme for election season, she decided to just pretend she didnt say it, and then she blamed Chris Matthews. Then she just blamed words. Then she denied it again. Then she won. Way to go, Minnesotas 6th.
Exhibit A: BACHMANN: Actually, that's not what I said at all. COLMES: Well, I'm just I'm reading your exact quote. BACHMANN: Actually that's not I said. It's an urban legend that was created. That isn't what I said at all. COLMES: We have it's on tape.
Sentence: Assigned to conduct her own expose on anti-American views, in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan.
46. Thomas S. Monson
Charges: If Satan were real, and had a severely chapped anus from a fortnight of angry, unlubricated gay sex with an evil moon-dragon, we imagine it'd look a lot like Monson's disturbingly weathered face. As supreme cretin of one of this country's most ridiculous religions (just a nose behind Scientology), the Latter Day Saint did a divine job sanctioning and funding the Yes on Prop 8 initiative to deny gays the right to be unhappily married. The Mormon faith is based on the existence and translation of magic, golden plates no one has ever seen except the charlatan who claimed they existed, kind of like the evidence that gay weddings threaten traditional marriage, which, to Mormons, is defined as between a man and a woman, and a woman, and a woman.
Exhibit A: Choose your love, Love your choice.
Sentence: Photographed at the Salt Lake City Marriot with an evil moon-dragon named Lance.
45. Nancy Pfotenhauer
Charges: A face so hewn can't be found in American politics outside of the Black Hillsor possibly the Speaker's office. The envy of any giraffe prostitute, her Coulterish neck suggests a correlation between head-shoulder distance and affinity for dissembling fascism. Past crimes include acting as head lobbyist for Koch Industries, which faced 97 indictments and four criminal charges to individuals for dumping benzene, until Koch donated $800,000 to Bush and other Republicans in 2000, and all the charges magically disappeared. As advisor and spokes-liar for the McCain campaign, Nancy touted offshore drilling as the desperate, calculated and completely ineffective solution to America's energy woes. She minimized the environmental impact, claiming We withstood Hurricanes Rita and Katrina and didnt spill a drop of oil. There were, in fact, almost 600 spills. Other Pftotenhauer falsifications included pretty much everything else that passed her collagen-bloated lips.
Exhibit A: "But the rest of the state, 'real Virginia,' if you will..." We wont.
Sentence: Projectile vomits crude oil whenever she attempts to speak.
44. Brett Favre
Charges: On the day of March 4th, the perp, a recovering drunk, pill-popper and hick preempted Ohio and Texas primary coverage to announce that his "career is over." Bathed in tears of self-importance, Favre broke the news with the composure one would reserve for describing the next 9/11. We get it: You throw a football. Your now official and permanent retirement, which is permanent and official, is a monumental news event. So, Favre decided to jam some more "vitamins" into his 39 year-old ass and sign on to a middling Jets squad, even though he admitted to leaving the Packers because they had no chance of getting him another ring.
Exhibit A: "I wanted to come across as genuine. I wanted to leave gracefully."
Sentence: Denied Sensodyne, arms and legs bound, encased in ice cream igloo.
43. You
Charges: You think its your patriotic duty to spend money you dont have on crap you dont need. You think Hillary lost because of sexism, when its actually because shes just a bad liar. You think Iraq is better off now than before we invaded, and dont understand why theyre so ungrateful. You think Tim Russert was a great journalist. Youre hopping mad about an auto industry bailout that cost a squirt of piss compared to a Wall Street heist of galactic dimensions, due to a housing crash you somehow have blamed on minorities. It took you six years to figure out what a tool Bush is, but you think Obama will make it all better. You deem it hunky dory that we conduct national policy debates via 8-second clips from The View. You think God zapped humans into existence a few thousand years ago, although your appendix and wisdom teeth disagree. You like watching vicious assholes insult each other on TV. You support gun rights, because firing one gives you a chubby. You cuddle falsehoods and resent enlightenment. You think the fact that 43% of whites could stomach voting for an incredibly charismatic and eloquent light-skinned black guy who was raised by white people means racism is over. You think progressive taxation is socialism. 1 in 100 of you are in jail, and you think it should be more. You are shallow, inconsiderate, afraid, brand-conscious, sedentary, and totally self-obsessed. You are American.
Exhibit A: Youre more upset by Miley Cyruss glamour shots than the fact that you are a grown adult who is upset about Miley Cyrus.
Sentence: Invaded and occupied by Canada; all military units busy overseas without enough fuel to get back.
42. O.J. Simpson
Charges: Jesus H. Christ, man. You literally get away with murder, to the astonishment of anyone capable of tying their own shoes. Then you write a book, coyly framed as hypothetical, in which you explain slicing and dicing your ex-wife and some poor shlub by describing her as a pain in the ass. You know the whole country is still gunning for you. And yet, you feel it sensible to try your luck one more time, because some guy in Vegas is selling a football you signed? Sure, O.J.s sentence was too harsh to believe he wasnt being punished for previous crimes of which he was acquitted, but did anyone think that wasnt going to happen? O.J. could get 33 years for pissing on a tree, and he knew it, so at a minimum the whole gimme my shit back caper was unbelievably stupid, the product of a life in which consequences are things that happen to other people. At least now he can get to work on his next book, If I was an idiot who got himself locked up for life after skating on a double homicide.
Exhibit A: "I'm O.J. Simpson. How am I going to think that I'm going to rob somebody and get away with it? Besides, I thought what happens in Las Vegas stays in Las Vegas."
Sentence: Ghost of Howard Cosell narrates the remainder of OJs life: This man, once a man of greatness, now a man fallen, disgraced, disgusting, reduced to defecating in an unenclosed, seatless toilet, in close proximity to other convicted felons, the indignity apparent on his sad, rapidly aging face. What an incredibly pitiful story is his.
41. Mark Penn
Charges: The most overpriced gravedigger in the world. As Clintons Chief Strategist, this too-creepy-for-TV pollster steered what was initially considered a cinch presidential campaign with all the talent of Joseph Hazelwood at the helm of the Exxon Valdez. His laziness was explained by his strategy: Inevitability. Penns cheap, backfiring smears of Obama as a coke-snorting Islamic radical teenager, coupled with pathetic whining about the mean old press, gave Clintons campaign an odor as repugnant as his own playground-flasher looks. Like most reptiles, Penn was slow to adjust to environmental changes, racking up millions in direct mail fees while Obama plundered the internet, which Penn predicted wouldnt have any impact in 2008. His very employment signaled a total abdication on the corruption/lobbying issue. But it gets worse: Mark Penn didnt understand basic electoral arithmetic, announcing to colleagues that Hillary would win easily by gaining Californias 370 delegates, assuming, wrongly, a winner-take all vote tally. Despite the revelation of his woeful lack of elementary knowledge, Penn did not adjust his big-state strategy, ignoring the caucus states that Obama rode to victory, and to the end, seemed utterly baffled that a candidate could win without any of the significant states.
Exhibit A: After burning through $200 million before Super Tuesday, Penn now blames Clintons loss on inadequate funds.
Sentence: Surgically attached to Harold Ickes.
40. Free Credit Report.com guy
Charges: OK, hes actually French-Canadian, but he invades Americas headspace every day. Its bad enough that we have to see this albino smurf lip-sync some ad mans grating jingles of financial woe fifty times a day. Its bad enough that these ditties, as calculatedly infectious as bio-weapons, bounce around our skulls like a .22 caliber bullet. But the kicker is that this culture parasite and his band are hawking a scam. Thats right; freecreditreport.com isnt freein fact, its 15 bucks a month after the week-long trial period.
Exhibit A: There is a website where you can get a free credit report: Its called annualcreditreport.com, and it was created in compliance with an act of Congress by the three big credit reporting agencies, Equifax, Experian and TransUnion. Then Experian set up freecreditreport.com, and their suicide-encouraging commercials, to cultivate and benefit from public confusion.
Sentence: Powering Weens tour bus with a stationary bicycle.
39. Caroline Kennedy
Charges: A limp, lifeless, murmuring slouch whose dearth of vivacity makes John Kerry look like Richard Simmons, Kennedy has the apparent focus and charm of a shock therapy victim on Haldol. If the Kennedy name (and fundraising pull) can carry this passive princess into the Senate, it could get a bottle of fish sauce elected. At least fish sauce doesnt say yknow every three seconds.
Exhibit A: Ive spent a lifetime growing up around public policy issues. Her dad died when she was 5.
Sentence: Badly injured in a car crash, Kennedy is rushed to the hospital, where she is attended to by a guy whose dad was an excellent doctor.
38. John Updike
Charges: Being foolishly wrong about absolutely everything for about a thousand years and counting. Getting rich applying faux gilt, and guilt, to the dull, pointless, overstuffed lives of New Yorker readers. Systematically tackles the big issues, and is subsequently dragged by them right into the end zone like Bo Jackson dragged Brian Bosworth. Latest attempt to capture the zeitgeist, The Terrorist, resulted in unintentionally comic transposition of Congregationalist soap opera to the Semtex demographic. Wont learn, wont quit. Like the Energizer bunny, only dumber.
Exhibit A: Apparently immortal, always a mark of evil.
Sentence: Eternity working for minimum wage in a university photocopy shop.
37. Keith Olbermann
Charges: The crazy mans Howard Beale, Olbermann is an infuriating conundruma person who adopts mostly correct positions for mostly erroneous reasons. Olbermann has an uncanny ability to find the obtusest angle on any issue, delivering glancing blows to wide open targets. Perhaps this is why Olbermann only argues with various cameras, reserving interviews for Newsweek sycophants whose main role on Countdown is to listen to a series of uncomfortably leading yes or no questions and reply to each, thats right, Keith. Hes been wearing out the impact of his special comments like a cheap sex doll for the ratings, rapidly diminishing their credibility by applying the same outraged, spluttering, accusatory tone to his uniquely unbearable all-caps missives, whether directed at White House war criminals or Clinton campaign PR hacks. Largely false accusations of anti-Hillary bias in the media found their mark with Keith, who wildly overreacted to relatively minor Clinton slights, while engaging in freakish logical contortions to justify Obamas apparent deficiencies, despite sad pretenses to objectivity. Somehow, manages to seem dykier than Rachael Maddow.
Exhibit A: I dont vote it's the only thing I can do that suggests even that I don't have a horse in the race."
Sentence: Obama loses in 2012 by one vote.
36. Ron Fournier
Charges: Since taking the reigns as AP Washington bureau chief in 2006, Fournier's steered the notorious just-the-facts wire service toward an opinionated brand of reporting he's dubbed accountability journalism. It sounds good, but when the country's most widely syndicated news outlet pawns its right-leaning opinions off as hard news, everybody gets a little more stupider. Fournier's Obama walks arrogance line article from March was the genesis of one such dumbed-down national conversation.
Exhibit A: Told Karl Rove to Keep up the fight" in a recently revealed e-mail.
Sentence: Falling out with Rove, accidental plane crash.
35. Dina Lohan
Charges: Fame isnt the only thing that screws up child stars; it starts with self-obsessed, psychopathic parents living out their failed ambitions through their hapless offspring (Dina has been telling false stories of her days as a Rockette and Broadway actress for years). Her college-aged daughter may be a rehab veteran and serial drunk driver, but thats no reason for mom not to televise the warping of daughter number two, a pre-rhinoplasty 14-year-old with no discernible talent or personality who calls the absent Lindsay her role model, and an 11-year-old boy whose future mugshot will no doubt become iconic. You may think your parents sucked, but at least they didnt do it on TV.
Exhibit A: Rarely has a persons life been so succinctly synopsized by real events as when Lohans house caught fire with her minor children alone inside while she was busy acceptingno shita Mother of the Year award.
Sentence: Age, ugliness, poverty, obscurity.
34. Joe Scarborough
Charges: An incredulous, squinting brat, who's turned "Morning Joe" into the "My Super Sweet Sixteen" of cable news, Scarborough has a decent shot at being named the world's largest toddler by Guinness. He treats his MSNBC coworkers with less professional courtesy than the dead intern found in his congressional office ("Mika, don't make me backhand you").Between tantrums, Scarborough provided a litany of partisan misinformation and deliberate misquotations this year, claiming that Obama was the most liberal member of the Senate and would raise taxes on everyone, that McCain called for Rumsfeld's resignation, never changed his immigration policies and had no association with hatemongers on the religious right. Joe's immaturity is also apparent in his cartoonishly simplistic take on the American electorate, whom he purports to know intimately, ostensibly by way of his own bigotry.
Exhibit A: I remember during the Valerie Plame episode. Remember, Bob Novak told us from the beginning, "This wasn't an ideologue that gave me the name. This wasn't Karl this wasn't a Bush operation." And liberals, Oh, he's lying, da da da da da. And then remember earlier this year, Bob Novak -- and, of course, Novak was right.
Sentence: Mandatory stint in Rageaholics Anonymous, nuts shaved live on "Morning Joe" by Pat Buchanan, pubes glued to face with a mixture of pulverized Cheetos and Jamie Foser's stool.
33. Jeremiah Wright
Charges: Its said that in politics, a gaffe is when someone tells the truth, like connecting 9/11 to blowback from Americas long history of Middle East meddling. But then again, sometimes they just say something incredibly fucking stupid, like that AIDS was created by the U.S. government to kill black people. Seriously, you dont think the U.S. government could do a better job than AIDS? AIDS takes years to kill, spreads relatively slowly, and kills white people all the time. A CIA super-virus that cant beat Magic Johnson? Unlikely. But beyond past statements of viral delusion, Wrights weird-ass grandstanding at the height of the sound bite frenzy seemed to indicate he really didnt give a shit whether Obama was elected president, and might even be jealous.
Exhibit A: And I stand before you with the hope that this most recent attack on the black church is not an attack on Jeremiah Wright; it is an attack on the black church.
Sentence: Sickle cell anemia.
32. Ben Stein
Charges: Daddy got him a job as a lawyer and speechwriter for Nixon; since then his ethics have slid. Whether misrepresenting Democratic policies on Fox News or dry-humping free market mythology in The American Spectator, Stein's brand of conservatism is as credible as a memoir on Oprahs reading list. Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, his 2008 anti-science propaganda film, would have made Leni Riefenstahl blush. He intentionally misquoted Darwin to link the theory of evolution to the Holocaust, earning the diehard Zionist a firm rebuke from the Anti-Defamation League, to which he replied, It's none of their fucking business. In his cinematic quest to paint a handful of fact-deficient creationist teachers as the oppressed soldiers of free speech, Stein willfully misrepresented himself to interview subjects, butchered their words with creative editing and infringed on a multitude of copyrights.
Exhibit A: Used portions of John Lennon's Imagine in his movie without permission or irony.
Sentence: ClearEyes replaced with a virulent strain of antibiotic-resistant staph.
31. Stephenie Meyer
Charges: Shes the unforgivably perky Mormon mom who wrote the Twilight Series of books, currently draining IQ points from Western Civilization. This silly wank-off vampire fantasy for teenage girls has been embraced by legions of sad, middle-aged women who fight for access to their daughters sticky copies of the books. Its an embarrassing spectacle for all Americans who arent actively participating in it. Meyer admits she can't handle the better class of vampires and has never watched a whole vampire movie, even the more anemic kind: I've seen little pieces of Interview with a Vampire when it was on TV, but I kind of always go YUCK! I don't watch R-rated movies, so that really cuts down on a lot of the horror. And I think I've seen a couple of pieces of The Lost Boys, which my husband liked, and he wanted me to watch it once, but I was like, It's creepy!
Exhibit A: The hit movie version of Twilight, featuring Meyers dreary characters, a tiresome teenage girl and the pathetic vegetarian vampire who loves her, mooning around on first base for two hours and giving vampires everywhere a bad name.
Sentence: Meyer encounters a non-vegetarian vampire, who kills her immediately and gruesomely in front of an appreciative audience of horror film fans.
30. Antonin Scalia
Charges: The bullet-shaped conservative justice should have stuck to his old policy of not allowing anyone to record him, because the more we see of him, the worse he seems. Scalia drew back the curtain on his legendary mind last April on "60 Minutes," revealing the legal acumen of a gibbon with a Magic 8-ball. Asked about the legal atrocity of Bush v. Gore, Nino bravely replied, "Gee, I really don't want to get into, I mean this isget over it, it's so old by now." This about a 2000 decision, perhaps the least legally defensible in recent history, which has had and will continue to have an incalculable impact on this country and the world. Scalia has sebaceous cysts older than Bush v. Gore. But it was Scalia's asinine, compartmentalized semantic parsing on torture that we hoped would give pause to his lionizers. Arguing that torture isn't "cruel and unusual punishment" because the subject hasn't been convicted of a crime, so he can't be "punished," the so-called Constitutional Originalist puts the framers in the awkward position of saying that it's wrong to beat up a convicted criminal, but it's just dandy to kick the shit out of him before he is even charged.
Exhibit A: Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached.
Sentence: Broken on the wheel by James Madison.
29. Mary Matalin
Charges: Surgically mortified face creates the impression of a barely passable earthling mask worn by an insectoid alien, a possibility credited by her gradually digesting husband and her consistent locus at the Republican Partys shifting center of evil. From Chief of Staff for original Mayberry Machiavelli Lee Atwater to Adviser to George W. Bush, Counselor to Dick Cheney and member of the best sales team in history, the White House Iraq Group, Matalin has served in more unholy positions than Jenna Jameson. To this day, Matalin simply denies the well-documented story of Atwaters deathbed repentance, which is not surprising considering her main skill is obscuring reality. Matalins main contribution to undermining the truth and bolstering closet racism this year was publishing World Net Daily plagiarizing lunatic Jerome Corsis Obama Nation, a collection of blatant falsehoods that didnt come close to meriting its non-fiction categorization, in her role as Editor of Threshold Books, a conservative imprint that inestimably diminishes Simon and Schusters prestige by its simple existence. Matalin called the book, riddled with easily debunked lies, a piece of scholarship, claiming it does not set out to be a political book, while Corsi himself said the goal is to defeat Obama.
Exhibit A: This is a crime and -- and he did not commit a crime. He had a mis-remembrance of when it was that he heard about it, but clearly he's not one of the guys that revealed it in the first place, which the revelation of such was not a crime.
Sentence: Sex with James Carville.
28. Frank Caliendo
Charges: The retarded man's Rich Little, Caliendo has been irritating Americans for nearly a decade, gaining recognition as the implausibly fat impressionist on the lethally unfunny "MADtv". Nicholson, De Niro, Shatner, Seinfeld.... no impression is too hackneyed for Caliendo, who mimics them all with the skill you'd expect from the hypertensive "funny guy" at the office. The only thing that could have made Fox NFL Sunday any worse was two John Maddens. Mission Accomplished, dickbag.
Exhibit A: His TBS vehicle, "Frank TV," is the least amusing thing to appear on television since the morning of September 11, 2001.
Sentence: New impersonation: The rotting corpse of Marcel Marceau.
27. Peggy Noonan
Charges: A Catholic hysteric who should be submitting poems about her kitty cats to online poetry-contest scams, Noonans call for Patriotic Grace, which is nothing more than a call for liberals to stop picking on Republicans for being wrong all the time, comes a little late, after actively helping the most despicable, character assassination-driven campaigns of her lifetime. Like her fellow elite conservative columnist David Brooks, Noonan feigned admiration for Sarah Palin until she got caught expressing her true opinion during an MSNBC commercial break, saying "it's over," and that McCain opted for political bullshit about narratives. Horrified at having her actual thoughts revealed and not the graceful bullshit she feeds her readers, Noonan scrambled to spin the extemporization, but eventually admitted Palins selection represented a vulgarization of politics, as if that was something new. She loved Bush when America did, and hated him when America did, and pretended shed felt that way all along. An opinion columnist is supposed to express her opinion, not ours. Noonan is still writing speeches, but her vanity is her only client.
Exhibit A: Intellectuals start all the trouble in the world.
Sentence: Chained like Prometheus to a rock, to undergo a cycle of pregnancies and abortions for eternity.
26. Tila Tequila
Charges: A silicon bisexual whose purported attraction to women has led to her rise as reality show oxygen thief, self-proclaimed Queen of Myspace and horrible musician. Her songs make Hamster on a Piano sound like the final movement to Schubert's Unfinished Symphony. Helping America convert its girls into self-debasing sluts with twisted values, calling themselves strong women all the while.
Exhibit A: "I'm shooting a commercial for safe sex. How ironic. Because I don't have that."
Sentence: AIDS.
25. Eliot Spitzer
Charges: A moralistic legal crusader who spent more on poon in an hour than the average American spends on food in a year, Spitzer would be somewhat less loathsome had he not gone after prostitution as a prosecutor. Like every paragon of public ethics, he was in private a mere pervert. That he might have been a decent governor for a state that badly needed one is just one more reason to hate him.
Exhibit A: Governor Spitzer did not remove his mid-calf length black socks during the sex act.
Sentence: Rest of life spent as hack columnist for Slate.com.
24. Plaxico Burress
Charges: This Giant prima donna kicked off 2008 by skipping minicamp, watching training camp from the sidelines, whining about his $3.25 million yearly salary and milking a phantom ankle injury. The receiver's laziness and ego resulted in a predictably lackluster year, which ended abruptly at a New York City nightclub, as he overestimated the tensile strength of his sweatpants holster.
Exhibit A: Name sounds like a rheumatoid arthritis medication.
Sentence: Traded to Detroit Lions.
23. John Fund
Charges: Membership on the Wall Street Journals editorial board requires that one be a cynical sophist, but the dog-faced Fund actually appears to be in love with lying. Fund has devoted himself lately to muddying up the election fraud issue by selectively promoting mostly spurious tales of ground-level Democratic voter fraud in an effort to obscure more credible stories about the GOPs top-down machinations. Funds book, Stealing Elections, is replete with phony numbers and discredited storieshe even sources a well-refuted tale to a WSJ editorial he probably wrote. Fund delivers his lies with a sneering smugness that would merit facial pummeling even if he were truthful, but whipping conservatives into a creative frenzy of demonic fabrication against ACORN, creating the lamest conspiracy theory of the year (which even McCain hyperbolized absurdly) based on false registrations that ACORN themselves flagged a suspicious, and none of which could conceivably have led to actual voter fraud, reveals Fund to be against not fraud, but the simple act of registering voters. The endgame here is to pass Voter ID laws that will prevent 20 million legal voters in this country who dont have the required ID from voting.
Exhibit A: Republicans focus more on the rule of law.
Sentence: Malfunctioning Diebold central tabulator flips public referendum on whether Fund should be fed to sharks.
22. PUMAs
Charges: Redefining feminism as supporting Hillary Clinton, whether she wants you to or not, and defending that feminism by embodying negative stereotypes of women as irrational and scornful, there was no demographic more painfully dumb than aggrieved Hillary backers plotting to defeat Obama. Drunk on a dream of vengeance for their queen, this strange minority picked up every despicable, paranoid, racist talking point they could from the worst of the right wing, even complimenting Sean Hannity on his fair and balanced coverage of Obama. Desperately twisting words in a sad attempt to tar Obama as a sexist and willing to subject themselves and their country to a probable assault on reproductive rights in the name of spite, the PUMAs comported themselves with all the dignity and sense of a false rape accusation.
Exhibit A: Its hard to choose, but nothing was more ridiculous this year than hearing an obscenely rich Hillary fundraiser named Lady de Rothschild describe Obama as an elitist.
Sentence: President Palin appoints Mullah Omar to Supreme Court.
21. Michelle Malkin
Charges: Its a remarkable achievement in unconscious projection that the author of a book called Unhinged could lose her fucking marbles over a patterned scarf in a donut ad, but thats what Michelle Malkin did when she sounded the nutbar clarion call and sicced her half-cocked league of masturbators on Rachel Ray and Dunkin Donuts for the flatly absurd notion that they were sending a message of solidarity with Palestinians. Right, Michelleyou just cant sell donuts without joining the intifada these days. What did the nauseously spunky Ray do to incur the wrath of the Malkinoids? She wore a black and white scarf. A paisley scarf. A scarf that was clearly not a kaffiyeh, which, by the way, is just a hat that Arabs wear, not some universal symbol of jihad. In terms of completely false outrage, the only thing that rivaled this travesty of reason this year was the lipstick on a pig metaphor panic. But what puts this embarrassing sham over the top is that Dunkin Donuts actually apologized and pulled the ad, rather than try to explain to the fact-phobic horde that they were just blind, raging idiots with the collective brain-power of a lobotomized howler monkey.
Exhibit A: If your neighbor's got an "Obama '08" bumper sticker or lawn sign, you might want to double-check your door locks at night.
Sentence: Deported to China for wearing red T-shirt.
20. Joe the Plumber
Charges: The Che Guevara of bald, pissed off white men. In a lot of ways, Samuel Wurzelbacher really does represent the average Americanbasing economic opinions on unrealistic expectations of personal future success, blaming his failure to meet those expectations on minorities and old people, complaining about deadbeats getting his taxes when he isnt actually paying his taxes, and advertising his own rudimentary historical and mathematical ignorance by warning of creeping socialism in a country whose highest income tax rate has dropped by half in thirty years. Joe indeed symbolizes the true American dreamto become undeservedly rich and famous through a dizzyingly improbable stroke of luck. As American folk heroes go, Wurzelbacher ranks somewhere between Hulk Hogan and Bernie Goetz.
Exhibit A: "Social Security is a joke...social security I've never believed in, don't like it. I hate that it's forced on me."
Sentence: After blowing his fifteen minutes and all his money on coke and Thai hookers, an infirm, elderly Joe finds that social security actually is a joke, and is finally forced to snake toilets for a living.
19. Ted Stevens
Charges: Its amazing, really, what can take a 40-year senator down. You can take money for legislative favors, but whatever you do, dont let your lobbyist friends give you a gaudy statue. Alaska owes its very statehood to Stevens willingness to break the lawhe was illegally lobbying congress to pass the bill from within the Eisenhower administration in 1954. We were violating the law, he happily admitted years later. Stevens has gotten rich off his lack of integrity, and the friends it has brought him. And what friends they are, paying for a house-sized extension on his house, offering him land deals that multiply his money tenfold in six years, and all he had to do is funnel hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to them, bringing home between 500 and a thousand dollars per Alaskan annually. Finally busted after a lifetime of graft, charged and convicted on seven felonies, Stevens still very nearly won reelection. And people talk about Chicago.
Exhibit A: Four days after being convicted, Stevens told a debate audience I have not been convicted.
Sentence: Pushed through a series of tubeseach one narrower than the last.
18 The Clintons
Charges: Still around. Still married. Still rich. Still acclaimed. Still influential. Still sought. Still sanctimonious. Still aggrieved. Still phony. Still compromised. Still petulant. Still striving. Still self-pitying. Still self-important. Still important.
Exhibit A: Madame Secretary.
Sentence: Sniper fire.
17. Rod Blagojevich
Charges: Some things are worse than being baldBlagojevic should have given that senate seat to John Edwardss barber. A sad truth about Blago is that hes not really in trouble for corruption, abuse of power or favor-trading, all of which are routines practices in just about every elected officials office across the nation; hes in trouble for being so damn rude about it, and for not being smart enough to realize what appreciation means to more careful favor-traders.
Exhibit A: [O]ur recommendation is fire all those fucking people, get 'em the fuck out of there and get us some editorial support.
Sentence: Flesh removed a pound at a time and used as topping on deep dish pizza, which he is force-fed while his wife spews obscenities at him and Eugene Robinson writes scathing editorials about it.
16. Rick Warren
Charges: Dubbed America's Pastor by The Nation, he's duped people from both sides of the political spectrum into thinking he's the kinder, fatter version of James Dobson. Though he is fatter, how could anyone think a man whoprofessionallyquotes a book written by a make-believe space-giant, instructing the murder of homosexuals, could be anything other than a delusional bigot? Still riding the undeserved wave of fame onset by a meth-head kidnap victims ownership of his pop-psych hybrid of churchy prudishness and self-help pabulum The Purpose Driven Life, Warren had a big year hosting a presidential forum at his gay-sounding Saddleback Church, helping to pass Prop 8 and being tapped to invoke said make-believe space-giant at Obama's inauguration. Plus, his neatly trimmed goatee is the queerest thing we've ever seen.
Exhibit A: God tells us that he created all the land animals on the sixth day of creation, the same day that he created mankind. Man and dinosaurs lived at the same time. Can you feel the wisdom?
Sentence: He shalt giveth The Lord a blumpkin and eatheth of the pie until he bursts.
15. Kwame Kilpatrick
Charges: Had a stripper party at the mayors mansion, at which his gate-crashing wife assaulted the entertainment. The stripper was later gunned down in an obvious hit, the second attempt on her life. The guns and bullets were Detroit Police standard issue. The cop investigating the incident alleged sabotage by two subsequent police chiefs and other officials, finding files deleted and reports missing. He was transferred. Nothing happened. Then Kwame was accused of having an affair with his Chief of Staff, which they both denied, perjuring themselves, until steamy text messages were releasedthe only part of this story that made national news, naturally. Other texts showed preferential treatment for friends in business contracts, but thats just not very sexy. Oh yeah, he also assaulted a cop. Finally, justice caught up with the mayorand gave him 120 days in jail. Even Kwame had to laugh, calling the sentence a joke.
Exhibit A: I want to tell you, Detroit, that you done set me up for a comeback.
Sentence: Stomped to death with eight inch clear heels.
14. Ashley Todd
Charges: As attention-getting devices go, trying to start a race war is a tad disproportionate. Its a good thing this batty bitch was completely hopeless as a fraudster, or her 11th hour big black Barack backer battered burgled and branded Barbie ruse could have done a lot worse than throw Pennsylvania to McCain. Its not surprising that log cabin bottom feeder Matt Drudge slapped the headline Shock: McCain volunteer attacked and mutilated in Pittsburgh on his bafflingly popular website in big red letters, as hes got about a 40% accuracy rating on the stories he breaks. Weve tried feeling sorry for Todd, but the fact that she scratched the B backwards, because she was looking in the mirror, is just too damned funny.
Exhibit A: Lying is the most fun a girl can have without taking her cloths [sic] off, but its better if you do.
Sentence: The reverse B never heals.
13. Joe Lieberman
Charges: A fickle, flabbery fiend reviled by both parties, Lieberman somehow finds himself more powerful than ever, failing forward by virtue of the Democrats unfalteringly chumpish lack of discipline. After promising that he was not going to go to the Republican convention, and spend my time attacking Barack Obama, Lieberman went to the Republican convention and attacked Barack Obama. But that was just the beginning of his descent into a self-dug hole of betrayal that should have proved inescapable. Lieberman thought it was a good question to ask if Obama was a Marxist. He campaigned not just with McCain, but with Palin and down-ticket Republicans, another thing he said he wouldnt do. But the most loathsome trait Lieberman exhibits is that most loathsome of all: Smearing dissent as treasonous. The kind of suppressive asshole who would accuse you of helping terrorists by beating him at checkers should not be Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, and is not someone worth rewarding for his own dissent.
Exhibit A: In matters of war, we undermine presidential credibility at our nation's peril. Sen. Obama doesn't come to this debate with a lot of credibility.
Sentence: Lieberman awakes to find himself in the body of an impoverished Iraqi living in a small apartment with 12 family members and no electricity. Shocked by this inexplicable turn of events, he stumbles outside and cries to God, looking up just in time for the white phosphorous to hit him in the face.
12. John Edwards
Charges: For all his rhetoric about income disparity and his millworker dad, it was impossible to ignore Edwardss raging vanity and not-so-slick southern-fried hucksterism. Even a smart phony would know that a $400 haircut and dolphin-smooth skin just isnt the right look for a food bank photo op. And anybody knows that no nominees secret affair could survive the scrutiny of general election seasonno Democratic nominees, anywayso Edwards was knowingly jeopardizing the future of the world on the off chance the Enquirer reporter following him around, who already knew about the affair, wouldnt find anything concrete. But hey, its not so bad, because, as Edwards stressed, his wifes cancer was in remission when he began the affair. Classy guy.
Exhibit A: "I don't know if that picture is me. It could well be. It looks like me. I don't know who that baby is. I have no idea what that picture is."
Sentence: His prospects dashed and his fortune lost in collapsed hedge funds, Edwards toils the rest of his days as a millworker and Supercuts customer. Rielle Hunter dumps him for Dennis Kucinichs wife, and every few days Ralph Nader stops by his studio apartment to piss on his futon and laugh.
11. Rush Limbaugh
Charges: The father of modern stupidity, Limbaugh spins reflexively, never struggling with issues, because he knows his conclusion must favor Republicans, and his only task is finding a way to get there. In other words, he may or may not actually believe what hes saying, but its beside the point. His job is not to say what he thinks, but to instruct his listeners on what they should think. If the facts dont agree, he can always change them, as his ditto heads are already armed against the contrary evidence with the all-purpose liberal bias attack. Rush is right, as the slogan goes, and all those nerdy reporters in the drive by media are lying, because they secretly love terrorists. Its this creepily worshipful, breathtakingly infantile abdication of intellect to a blatantly dishonest hypocrite that makes Limbaughs audience so goddamn sad. These pathetic, insecure, failures of men look to Rush as the champion of their impotent rage, helping them to externalize responsibility for their own deficiencies, pinning the blame on those darn liberals and their racial and gender equality.
Exhibit A: You have to marvel at the sheer ignominy of someone who coins the term Obama recession two days after the election.
Sentence: Tiny speaker implanted in his inner ear which blares Randi Rhodes 24-7.
10. Bernard Madoff
Charges: Normally, the idea of a bunch of billionaires getting robbed blind for believing in a free lunch would amuse the hell out of us, but Bernie Madoff stole a lot of money from charity endowments, and is responsible for two suicides so far. Heres a tip, Bernie: If youre running the biggest scam since the Catholic church, handling billions of dollars, and all it takes to get busted is that some of your marks ask for their money back, you really should take some of that money and set up an escape plan. Still, he gets some credit for making Mort Zuckerman look like a jackass. The real villains here are Christopher Cox and the SEC, who investigated Madoff eight times, the last time specifically on suspicion of running a Ponzi scheme, each time finding no wrongdoing, which begs the all-too-familiar question of the last eight years: Satanically corrupt or grossly incompetent? Either way, Madoff was finally brought to justice by his kids.
Exhibit A: "In today's regulatory environment, it's virtually impossible to violate rules ... but it's impossible for a violation to go undetected, certainly not for a considerable period of time."
Sentence: Sold into slavery.
9. Phil Gramm
Charges: Gramms blood-boiling nation of whiners comment was a pinnacle of class condescension in a year teeming with let them eat cake moments, but it was by no means an isolated incident. In fact, the ruinous state of our economy can be seen as the culmination of his career, one he spent derailing the economy in an effort to implement his anarchist regulatory philosophy, earning him the title "the most effective proponent of deregulation in a generation" from the New York Times. Gramms deregulatory death blows to fiscal sanity were brutal and several, including the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (which repealed the post-depression Glass Steagall Act, designed to control speculation) and the Commodity Futures Modernization Act (which made it illegal to regulate credit default swaps), each of which enabled the Wall Street massacre in their own special ways. Forever pushing to incur public risk for private profit, Gramm was well-rewarded during his congressional career, and his plum position destroying the once-respected Swiss bank UBSs portfolio for the past few years was only part of the payoff.
Exhibit A: "Most people don't have the luxury of living to be 80 years old, so it's hard for me to feel sorry for them."
Sentence: Mental depression with a golden anvil.
8. David Addington
Charges: In a nation fat with lawyers, it takes something special to be the worst of them all. If a White House legal argument is evil, unconstitutional and makes no actual sense, its a safe bet Grand Moff Addington is behind it. An expert in spook law since his early-80s stint as counselor to the CIA, Addington first hooked up with Cheney during the Iran-Contra hearings, even then pushing the Unitary Executive theory of unfettered presidential power and attempting to shoehorn dictatorship into the constitution. Addington thinks the president is above the law in times of war, which is awful convenient if you declare an endless war on a global battlefield. Its this flimsy pretext on which the White House has evaded accountability for torture, domestic spying, and secret detention, proving that the best legal tools in DC are a straight face and a huge pair of balls.
Exhibit A: I frankly don't know what you mean by the Unitary Theory of Government.
Sentence: Declared an enemy combatant for farting in oval office; waterboarded with a fire hose by John Yoo.
7. Dick Cheney
Charges: Still alive. The amount of medical resources devoted to keeping this black hole of decency operational could have cured cancer by now, but if they had, Cheney would make sure to keep it a secret. Since Watergate, Cheneys been fighting to rehab Nixons image, and he has succeeded in a way, by showing us all just how much worse a presidency can be.
Exhibit A: It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.
Sentence: Eaten alive by baboons.
6. Hank Paulson
Charges: The latest practitioner of the real Bush Doctrine, which is indistinguishable from Naomi Kleins Shock Doctrine. This time, it was Paulson, not Powell, holding up a vial of toxic mortgage backed securities, but the similarly election-panicked congressional reactions been the samea panicked passage of whatever crazy late-term legislation the White House wants, namely Paulsons 3-page Gimme the money and go away bill, plus $150 billion in anonymous pork, in one last massive federal theft on the way out the White House door, costing more than the entire U.S. space program for its 50 years of existence, even in inflation-adjusted dollars. Paulsons initial spending plan was the financial equivalent of blowing into a broken balloon, and his typically Bushian demands for unfettered power seemed appropriate for a guy who looks and sounds like the ghost-melted Nazis from Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Exhibit A: Its a safe banking system, a sound banking system. Our regulators are on top of it. This is a very manageable situation.
Sentence: Crushed by falling brokers.
5. Alan Greenspan
Charges: The mortgage meltdown may seem complicated, but it started simple, with Al Greenspan pegging the Fed fund rate at 1%. This made Treasury Bonds a fairly lame investment, and led to investors looking for other seemingly safe securities to buy, which led to a flourishing demand for mortgage-backed securities, which led to banks increasingly lowering their standards for mortgage applications, eventually giving liar loans away to anyone willing to take them, which used to be called usury. This led to a decline in the real value of these MBA securities due to high probabilities of foreclosure, but somehow they were still AAA-rated by credit agencies displaying either hopeless incompetence or criminal collusion. Even a monkey wouldnt need a slide rule to see what would come next. But Alan Greenspan, super-genius guru of the glorious realm of the self-regulating free market, is totally flummoxed. Refusing to accept any blame for years as the housing bubble, long-predicted by out-of-favor economic realists, bloated and burst, only recently has Greenspan accepted even marginal responsibility, admitting only that he was partially wrong, professing a state of shocked disbelief that lenders couldnt regulate themselves, and thinking to himself, This isnt how it worked in Atlas Shrugged!
Exhibit A: Parasites who persistently avoid either purpose or reason perish as they should.
Sentence: Recurring role as a senile great uncle on new C-grade sitcom Krugmans Krew.
4. George W. Bush
Charges: Its hardbelieve us, we knowto keep coming up with new things to say about this brutally stupid narcissist, who may have ruined this country irrevocably and certainly has ruined a couple of others, mugging amiably all the way. If anything good comes from Bushs reign of error, let it be the death of the notion that vitally important, life or death decisions that affect the entire world should be made with ones gut. We used to think that incompetence was just a good cover story for this administration, an excuse that masked their deliberate criminality, but it turns out that Bush and his inner circle are both treasonous, corrupt warmongers and inept fools. One good thing about him, though, is that he has no real interest in politics, and probably wont give a flying shoe what happens to the world when his term is up. As he once put it, History, we dont know. Well all be dead. Heres to George W. Bush being history.
Exhibit A: "Goodbye from the world's biggest polluter."
Sentence: Detained in formaldehyde-laced FEMA trailer without charges or counsel, sodomized by Lynndie England, declared guilty by military tribunal, set adrift naked on a small ice floe in the Arctic.
3. Sean Hannity
Charges: This relentlessly repugnant McCarthyite tool really outdid himself this year, in an all-out quest to otherize Obama in any way he could. This paranoid pustule is able to find a liberal conspiracy lurking behind any mundane occurrence, even attributing Obamas selection as Times Person of the Year, an event as predictable as sunrise, to a pay-to-play scheme. Hopelessly outmatched shill Alan Colmes is finally leaving his role as Hannitys doormat; he will not be replaced.
Exhibit A: "I never questioned anyone's patriotism."
Sentence: Wrongfully convicted of murdering Vince Foster, based on evidence falsified by Jerome Corsi.
2. John McCain
Charges: McCain vowed to run a clean, respectful campaign, and then accused Obama of pushing sex ed for kindergartners, calling Palin a pig, hanging with terrorists, being a welfare-loving Marxist, being an arugula-loving elitist and pretty much everything but conspiring with the Borgbut he didnt really mean it, and he didnt use Reverend Wright, so were all supposed to think hes swell. McCain lied so blatantly and constantly that even cable news bootlicks were compelled to fact-check him, to which he and his surrogates responded by insisting on the same lies. When pressed on the Nixonian onslaught of falsehood, McCain whined that he wouldnt have had to be such a mendacious prick if Obama had only refrained from raising so much more money than him. McCain pretended to give a shit about America, and then he picked a vapid ambition-hound to succeed him. His response to the economic crisis might as well have been to punch himself in the face. In every way he could this year, McCain burned up all the credibility he had stored up from decades of shameless worship by the press, utilizing every tactic he ever decried, exuding a heady aroma of bullshit and Alzheimers, and displaying an unrequited obsession with Joe the Plumber, and he still wound up a failed Faust even the Devil didnt want.
Exhibit A: "In the 21st century nations don't invade other nations."
Sentence: Every time anybody says the word surge, McCain is shot in the leg.
1. Sarah Palin
Charges: If you want to know why the rest of the world is scared of Americans, consider the fact that after two terms of disastrous rule by a small-minded ignoramus, 46% of us apparently thought the problem was that he wasnt quite stupid enough. Palins unending emissions of baffling, evasive incoherence should have disqualified her for any position that involved a desk, let alone placing her one erratic heartbeat from the presidency. The press strained mightily to feign respect for her, praising a debate performance that involved no debate, calling her a great speaker when her only speech was primarily a litany of insults to city-dwellers, echoing bogus sexism charges when a male Palin would have been boiled alive for the Couric interview alone, and lionizing her as she used her baby as a Pro-life stage prop before crowds who cooed when they should have been hurling polonium-tipped javelins. In the end, Palin had the beneficial effect of splitting her party between her admirers and people who can read.
Exhibit A: Waving her embryo-loving credentials, in the form of her Down syndrome baby, at "But ultimately what the bailout does is help those who are concerned about the healthcare reform that is needed to help shore up our economy."
Sentence: Hand-to-hand combat with Vladimir Putin and a pack of wolves.
Written by Allan Uthman & Ian Murphy
with contributions from John Dolan, Eileen Jones, Alexander Zaitchik, & IOZ.
Illustrations by Ian Murphy.

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EUROSENSE executed the FP7 project DECUMANUS for the European Union (EU) in a consortium led by INDRA. The aim of the project was to provide city managers with a set of sustainable decision support services that allow the deployment of geo-spatial products for the development and implementation of climate change strategies and meeting the diverse challenges of sustainable urban development. EUROSENSE realized the city energy service, which focused on determining the areas within the city that are the least energy-efficient. By zooming in on the increasing atmospheric CO2 concentrations that cities produce due to the inefficient energy use, cost reductions that would occur due to energy saving could be determined. EO-based services have been developed focusing on three aspects: thermal energy loss due to the heating of buildings, excessive lighting (night-time lights) and roof photovoltaic potential.
In the framework of climate change mitigation programs, energy efficiency is essential and drives the demand for specific services that indicate energy losses and potential savings.Within the DECUMANUS project, EUROSENSE developed products that enable to detect heat loss from building roofs (+-30% of all energy losses for a standard house) and excessive lighting (night-time lights). These products can be used by city planners as policy support for large-scale retrofitting campaigns but also to alert in a direct way their citizens to the todays needs and benefits of saving energy.
The basic products are based only on satellite data while the premium products require the acquisition of specific data, such as aerial data. The broader resolution of the basic products makes them useful for analyses at a neighborhood scale (several building blocks) and for inter-city comparisons. The high-resolution premium products on the other hand provide enough details to detect and identify energy losses at a building and a street light scale. The differences between basic and premium services makes their use complementary.
EUROSENSE developed furthermore a premium service that evaluates the photovoltaic potential of each building. This service uses high resolution terrain data and a solar model to identify suitable areas for the installation of solar panels and to evaluate potential electricity yield.
This product detects neighborhoods with anomalously high energy losses (hot spots). It is based on night-time satellite acquisitions during cold, cloud-free and snow-free conditions (Landsat 8 and Suomi-NPP data). By combining this data with land cover data, it is possible to isolate the signal from the buildings and create a map with relative heat loss values from building envelopes.
Satellite-based thermography (Helsinki): pixel-wide surface temperature and relative heat loss from exposed building envelope.
This service is focused on detecting city light spots at a neighborhood scale (several building blocks). Suomi-NPP (satellite) data is used and combined with land cover data. An advantage is that the monthly cloud free satellite composites enable the monitoring of light emission overtime as well. This product can thus be used as evidence-based policy support for retrofitting campaigns. The product enables comparison between cities as well in terms of light emission per inhabitant.
Multi-temporal light emission monitoring (Madrid).
Aerial thermography measures heat radiations coming from the Earth surface and the objects on the Earth surface. Specific meteorological conditions and the collection of in situ data in parallel with the aerial data acquisition enables the mapping of heat losses through the roofs (+-30% of all energy losses for a standard house). Using this map and an interpretation key, any inhabitant is able to verify the quality of their roof insulation. Additionally, this service can be used to detect leaks in district heating as well. The high resolution of the product (50 cm), allows very detailed diagnoses.
Aerial thermography (Antwerp): roof insulation quality assessment.
During a night flight a light sensitive camera acquires aerial imagery, while luminance data is collected on the ground. It enables the calculation of absolute values of luminance (Cd/m²). By comparing these values with luminance standards, over-exposed areas, thus areas that could potentially save energy, are detected. The high resolution of the product (15 cm) make very detailed diagnoses (at a street light scale) possible. A n alternative to the use of aerial data is the use of ISS night-time photographs, however the broader resolution (10-50 m) does not allow the same level of analysis.
Aerial light emission map (Antwerp): over-exposed areas.
The photovoltaic potential products quantify the suitability of roofs for installation of solar panels, the expected annual electricity yield, and the corresponding CO2 savings. The map is based on a geometric model which calculates for each grid pixel the solar irradiance. The model takes into account the daily and annual cycles of solar angle, the average monthly climatological conditions at the location (cloudiness) and the shadows casted by neighboring objects such as trees and adjacent buildings.
Photovoltaic potential (Antwerp): annual solar insolation (a.), suitable areas for the installation of solar panels (b.) and annual potential electricity yield by building (c.).
The project was financed by EU. For more information: http://www.decumanus-fp7.eu/home/.
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Since the standards of what you can get away with saying on television has relaxed a little since the 1970s, can we expect to hear what Mary Richard and Sue Ann Nivens really think about each other in explicit detail? B-word, anyone?
Sitcom goddess Mary Tyler Moore is reuniting with her "Mary Tyler Moore Show" crony (and these days reigning Hollywood "It" girl) Betty White on White's TV Land series "Hot In Cleveland." And Betty says the old sparring partners will be crossing swords once again.
"We had such a wonderful time!" she tells PopcornBiz. "I don't want to give too much away because we have a little contention, but we have an extreme setting, too. A little contention – not a lot but a little, and in a rather strange environment."
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White's current co-star Valerie Bertinelli, no stranger to 70s sitcom stardom herself, was blown away witnessing the reunion – and having her first encounter with Moore, even though they both helped CBS rule the ratings in the Me Decade.
"I was watching them rehearse a scene and I thought that I was in some weird parallel universe where I was taken back in time," Bertinelli says. "It was just amazing. I was Tweeting about it. I was trying to take every picture that I could and I wasn't ready yet. I still had rollers in my hair and so I Tweeted the picture anyway because I don't care what I look like. I'm standing between Betty White and Mary Tyler Moore!"
"When they saw each other they just screamed," adds co-star Jane Leeves. "I mean, it was amazing and I got to see it. I got to sit in the makeup room and listen to them talk."
In the past year and a half White's landed on everyone's dream casting list in Hollywood– with rumors attaching the 88-year-old to just about anything from co-starring with George Clooney to hosting the Oscars.
"Have you heard those, too? Because there's no truth to most of them!" she says, confirming only one upcoming project. "I just finished a Hallmark Hall of Fame movie, 'Lost Valentine', which is a lovely movie with Jennifer Love Hewitt. So I just take what comes along, but time kind of runs out."
Given her status as the ruling role model for funny ladies everywhere, we had to ask: who has Betty looked up to?
"I looked at Lucille Ball – I didn't look up to her because she was right here," laughs White, marking off Lucy's height at her own eyeline. "But I was just blessed with a mother and father with a tremendous sense of humor. So there wasn't really anybody in the family who didn't enjoy making jokes, and that kind of rubs off."


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Yes I'm still working in IT industry and I'm not dead yet, right now I'm working on both tech and non-tech stuffs so this first paragraph is just ice breaking for me to say something.
I have Virtual Machine Image I have prepared for Digital Forensics Training, and I would like to release it, it has the name - 4REN6 but it doesn't has a home now, the size of the VM is 2.6G so if any of you is interested to host the image, please do contact me via
Please make sure you send to my email correctly as geek zero zero L and not o o L as there are couple of people tried to send me email but fail to do so, I'm sorry about that but I can do nothing about it.
Don't ask me why I'm doing this while there are similar stuffs such as SIFT, Helix, PlainSight or some I may not know, the main reason being I just want to have exercise and to confirm all the stuffs I work on really working, bear in mind I'm doing this alone so please don't shout at me if it breaks. On the other hand, I will release the documentation of how to install everything you need to make forensic desktop using Ubuntu since I have already taken all the notes during the making of this VM and it's just matter of putting them together.
Some sneak peaks -
By the way the wallpaper is designed by myself so it is not really a slick wallpaper we used to have in HeX.
Last but not least, I would like to thank to my blog readers who have encouraged me to continue my blog again, and some other friends along the line. I think this is right thing to do.
Cheers (;])
Tuesday, August 03, 2010
Home For 4REN6 VM
Posted by C.S.Lee at 8/03/2010 08:54:00 PM
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- 9W2PJU said...
cool, this is what we waiting for.
Great to see you are blogging again Lee, hope to see more posts
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Good to see you blog again Lee...:)
Hope to see more posts.
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Katelyn Joughin and Jacob Pennington have announced their engagement.
Katelyn is the daughter of Daniel and Carrie Joughin of Morenci. She is a 2009 Morenci Area High School graduate and is currently attending Watkins College of Art, Design and Film in Nashville, Tenn. She will earn a bachelor of fine arts degree with a concentration in graphic design in 2013.
Jacob is the son of Keith and Sheri Pennington of Morenci. He is a 2006 graduate of Lenawee Christian School and is currently attending the Art Institute of Pittsburgh online division. He will earn a bachelor of fine arts degree with a concentration in photography in 2013. He is currently employed as a manager at Computers Plus in Nashville, Tenn.
The couple is planning a Sept. 10, 2011, outdoor wedding at the home of the groom's parents.


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Spoileriffic: Jon Favreau explains the central relationship in Iron Man 2. There are tons of revealing pics from Battlestar Galactica: "The Plan." Predators gets a star. Also: clues to Lost episode five. Plus V, Fringe, Stargate, Supernatural and Fourth Kind.
Iron Man 2:
The central relationship in this film is still Pepper and Tony, despite all the new stars joining the cast, director Jon Favreau tells MTV. But a lot of new stuff is added to the mix:
We introduce Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow and she has a dual identity, so that ends up affecting both the superhero side of things and the personal side of things-as I think all good superhero plotlines do... Then we have Don Cheadle. We've upped Rhodey's significance in the film and now I think the cat's out of the bag about War Machine, so he's in that suit," he said. "How does he become War Machine? What's his relationship to Iron Man?
Video at the link. [MTV via ComicBookResources]
As you might already have known, Stan Lee's cameo in this film will be as Larry King, who approaches Tony Stark and asks when he'll be on the show. Stan wore the suspenders and heavy glasses for the role. [Collider]
Derek Mears, who recently played Jason Voorhees, will be in this film, probably as a Predator. [ShockTillYouDrop]
Karl Urban describes this film as a "post-apocalyptic scifi vampire Western." [Collider]
The Fourth Kind:
A few new TV spots for this Milla Jovovic spooky-alien-owl thriller. [SciFiScoop]
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Battlestar Galactica: The Plan:
Latino Review has a ton of pics and spoilers from this direct-to-DVD movie. The special effects are better than anything in the actual series, and we see the destruction of Caprica in much greater detail than before. There's also a ton of nudity and raunchiness, which will presumably be toned down in the televised version.
We follow two Cavils: the Cavil in the fleet, who is trying to complete the work of destroying th e human race so the Final Five will finally love the Cylons more than the humans, and the Cavil on Caprica, who starts to have second thoughts about whether the genocide against humans was really a good idea. It turns out a lot of the fleet's dilemmas in the first season were caused by Fleet Cavil. There are also multiple Sixes, including one raven-haired "floozy" who shares Cavil's bed.
Meanwhile, there are also two Simons: the Simon in the fleet is a human sympathizer, who's married to an engineer who works with Tyrol, and he tries to forestall the death of the human race. The Simon on Caprica, meanwhile, tries to sabotage Anders' resistance group, even as the Caprica Cavil starts to sympathize with these people. Also, Leoben tries to tell the other Cylons that Starbuck has a great destiny that may affect the Cylons in huge ways.
We also get more insight into Boomer, who actually realizes she's a Cylon sleeper agent earlier than we thought — Cavill gives her a trigger (a wooden elephant, I guess) that activates her programming. But even as she's carrying out Cavill's sabotage instructions, she's also trying to help the humans. And she's only really happy when she's living her human life.
All in all, Cavil starts to wonder if the Cylons' attempts at finishing off the human race are failing because the Cylons subconsciously want them to fail — all except Fleet Cavil, who's steadfast in his vendetta. More pics at the link. Warning: One of those pics is mildly NSFW, due to a very blurry naked woman in the background. [Latino Review via ComicBookMovie]
Doctor Who:
Another set report: Matt Smith, dressed in the tattered remains of David Tennant's costume, filmed a scene where the old TARDIS prop materialized, with tons of smoke pouring out of it, and Smith ran out, shouting that he had to get away. [GallifreyBase]
Episode 6x05 will be called "Lighthouse." [Spoilers-Lost]
According to an Egyptologist, the hieroglyphics in the new season-six poster say "Who Is The Leader?" or "Who Is The Guide?" [Popular Mechanics]
Carlton Cuse twittered that they were doing a beautiful crane shot (probably in episode five) and at one point, Matthew Fox does some fine and subtle acting under the tropical night skies. [SpoilersLost]
And a bit more about episode five, which sounds like it's a Jack-centric outing. They were filming a scene at night in front of what looks like a concert hall, and Jack had a big scene — but I can't make out who's in the scene with him. Maybe Ben? Most of the set report is about how the tipsters tried to talk to Matthew Fox and he blew them off. But a familiar vehicle is present. More pics at the link. [Spencer-Stacy via Lyly Ford]
Also, sources claim we'll see Cindy again in the opening episode, as two characters open something of Hurley's. One of them has a connection to the Yellow Submarine. [SpoilersLost]
The second episode will be called "There Is No More Normal Anymore." And here are a couple more TV spots. [VisitorSite]
In the Nov. 5 episode, "Earthling," someone (or something) is turning people to ash. And here are some pics from the episode. [Fox]
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In an upcoming episode, we'll learn a lot more about the Observer, says actor Michael Cerveris:
We're going to learn about just how many there are and a lot more about what we're supposed to do and what we're not supposed to do.
Some more pics of Sam and Dean in their scrubs, from the upcoming channel-surfing episode "Changing Channels." [Ten Gossip]
Episode 11 will be called "Sam, Interrupted," and will introduce two new characters, whom the show is casting:
[MARTIN CREASER] A weathered man in his late 40s-mid 50s, this twitchy, anxious ball of nerves is a former hunter who has ended up in a psych ward, where strange happenings are afoot...ANY ETHNICITY/GUEST STAR
[DR. ERICA FLETCHER] A beautiful, smart, credible psychiatrist in her 30s with a sweetly sympathetic manner who seems to understand Dean's conflict and pains...ANY ETHNICITY - GUEST STAR
Stargate Universe:
Here are a ton of pics from episode five, "Light." Including some supernova nookie. [SpoilerTV]
True Blood:
Season two's theme was about religion and the things it makes you do. Season three will be about embracing your identity. Sookie will start to discover why she has these strange powers — in the books, she finds out she has fairy blood, but in the TV show, it may be different. In any case, Sookie is part of another race, and if it does turn out to be fairies, they'll be fierce and primal, not like Tinkerbell. Sookie and Eric will get together at some point, but not necessarily in season three. We'll meet some shapeshifters who may be Sam's biological family, and they may be sketchy weirdos. [TV Guide]
Additional reporting by Alexis Brown.


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News Feature
Rally to Restore Comedy
WASHINGTON—Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, like many before them, called on Americans to gather in D.C. for an afternoon of calling for sanity, fear and reason.
Council Watch
Red-Light Cameras Remain
There's been something missing from City Council meetings since the last election: the wagging tail of former Councilor Sally Mayer's "pet project." Homeless dogs and cats are no longer led into the Council chambers by Animal Welfare Department employees. Mayer's featured shelter animals were available for adoption at a reduced fee to those attending the meeting or watching on GOV TV. The creatures always brought a more congenial air to the chambers, put everyone in a better mood for a minute or two, and were truly bipartisan. The item is still listed on the agenda, so maybe there's a chance that some of the city's furry friends will return to Council meetings.
Miss Diagnosis
Insulin Shock
Some diseases, like people, just have a special "it" factor that captures the imagination of the public. For instance, Ebola erupted on the scene with unprecedented dramatic flair. The virus achieved fame by learning to demolish the inner layer of human blood vessels. This little trick causes hemorrhagic death grisly enough to put all those horror-movie faux grotesqueries to shame. Or consider the case of last year's media darling, the dreaded H1N1 "swine" flu. Like a sadistic serial killer with major mommy issues, this disease made a name for itself by killing off children and pregnant women faster than you could say "front page news."
Odds & Ends
Dateline: Pennsylvania—The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports that a 21-year-old Uniontown man called police to report that the weed he had must purchased tasted "nasty." Police were summoned to the man's apartment at around 9:50 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 20. The man told them that he had just bought a small amount of what he thought was marijuana. It did not, however, taste good, so he called police to come check it for him. They did. Using a field test kit, officers discovering that the green, leafy substance sitting on the man's coffee table was not, in fact, marijuana. The man was not immediately arrested and police declined to release his name. Although he did not break a law by purchasing actual drugs, he could still be charged with possessing a counterfeit controlled substance.
Thank you so much for bringing this story to the attention of the public [News, "Porn Festival Screwed," Oct. 28-Nov. 3]. I had been looking forward to attending the festival and was shocked and confused to hear that it had been canceled. I'm glad to hear an explanation as to why, although that explanation was a depressing one.


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Get ready to rock out with children's performer and Steve Roslonek of SteveSongs ('Mr. Steve' on PBS Kids!). Steve and his band take children along on another incredible, musical journey! This will be a rockin show that all ages will enjoy.
So Many Shapes - SteveSongs
A star on the national kids' music scene, Steve has delighted audiences throughout the country, including at prestigious venues like Symphony Space in New York City, Wolftrap in Vienna VA, the Kennedy Center and the White House in Washington, D.C., and Fenway Park in Boston. Anyone who's attended a SteveSongs concert appreciates Steve's ability to connect with his audience – from the exuberant children flocking towards the stage, to the moms bouncing babies with the beat, to the parents and grandparents singing and grooving along. It's no wonder he's been called a modern day Pied Piper!
Check out the SteveSongs website at PBS Kids for more video, music and kid oriented fun!


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Top News:
Vernon Loeb / Washington Post:
Petraeus ghostwriter 'clueless' to affair — My wife says I'm the most clueless person in America. — I never anticipated the extramarital affair between David Petraeus and Paula Broadwell, the woman I'd worked with for 16 months on a book about Petraeus's year commanding the war in Afghanistan.
Discussion: Forbes, The Atlantic Wire, Mediaite, City Desk, FishbowlDC, Garcia Media, BuzzFeed, Poynter, LA Observed, Speakeasy, Daily Download, Pressing Issues and The Huffington Post
Adam Clark Estes / The Atlantic Wire: Guess Who's Not Getting Invited to Piers Morgan's Christmas Party
Andrew Kirell / Mediaite: Denver ABC Station Misnames Paula Broadwell's Petraeus Book: All Up In My Snatch
Betsy Rothstein / FishbowlDC: 5 Reasons to Trudge Through Vernon Loeb's Unremarkable Paula Broadwell Piece
Dr. Mario R. Garcia / Garcia Media: The Petraeus sex scandal: a news story right out of the journalism textbooks
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter: Vernon Loeb: 'I was dumbfounded when I heard about the affair'
Christopher John Farley / Speakeasy: Jon Stewart Takes on Paula Broadwell-David Petraeus Conspiracy Theorists
Howard Kurtz / Daily Download: Petraeus Plot Twists: Shirtless FBI Agent and Another Flirting General
Greg Mitchell / Pressing Issues: Broadwell Co-Author: "I'm Clueless"
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post: Vernon Loeb, Washington Post Editor And Co-Author Of Petraeus Biography, Silent On Scandal
John Aravosis / AMERICAblog:
Confirmed: ABC Denver misnames Petraeus book: "All up in my snatch" — Oh my. — A reader just sent me something that I didn't believe. Then he sent me a photo. Then he sent me a video. Then I found a comment on ABC Denver's Web site from another viewer who saw the same thing.
EndPlay / TheDenverChannel.com: Photoshopped book title from Paula Broadwell's Gen. David Petraeus' biography goes viral on web
Tommy Christopher / Mediaite: Eliot Spitzer Says He 'Understands' Gen. David Petraeus' Decision To Resign Over Scandal
Chris Matyszczyk / CNET: ABC station makes tragic Petraeus Web-sourcing error
Michael Roberts / The Latest Word: The resignation of CIA director David Petraeus has a Denver connection …
Taylor Bigler / The Daily Caller: Denver TV station airs vulgar/hilarious doctored photo of Broadwell's book
John Cook / Gawker: According to This Denver TV Station, Paula Broadwell Wrote a Book Called All Up In My Snatch
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Michael Hastings on a mission — Last night, Michael Hastings went on CNN and accused Gen. David Petraeus of "manipulating" the White House, accused former U.S. Gen. Mark Kimmitt of lying to the American people, and accused CNN's own Barbara Starr of being "a spokesperson for the Pentagon."
Meenal Vamburkar / Mediaite: Michael Hastings Confronts Piers Morgan Panel Over Media 'Mythologizing' Petraeus, Ignoring Poor Record
Nate Silver / @fivethirtyeight: Follow @mmhastings. Dylan Byers hit piece = leading indicator he's doing his job well. http://bit.ly/RSeyyt
Jeremy Scahill / @jeremyscahill: POLITICO: Michael "Hastings is muddying sacred waters" http://is.gd/MOrt6P // I laughed out loud at how asinine this article's tone is.
Jeremy Scahill / @jeremyscahill: @mmhastings Dylan Byers, who was embedded with the 405th Espresso Brigade, wants to talk war stories. Email him, bro!
Dylan Byers / @dylanbyers: I write that @MMHastings "can be extremely refreshing" and Twitter calls its a take-down: http://politi.co/TYhB9f
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: Wherein @dylanbyers of Politico tries to read @mmhastings of Buzzfeed out of the respectable journalists club. http://www.politico.com/
Jack Mirkinson / The Huffington Post: WATCH: Michael Hastings Clashes With Piers Morgan Over Petraeus
Patrick Radden Keefe / The New Yorker Blog:
The Surveillance State Takes Friendly Fire — Last March, in a speech he delivered at a gathering orchestrated by In-Q-Tel, the venture-capital incubator of the Central Intelligence Agency, David Petraeus, the Agency's director, had occasion to ruminate on "the utter transparency of the digital world."
Discussion: Telegraph, The Daily Beast and Wired
Raf Sanchez / Telegraph: FBI handling of David Petraeus case 'inexcusable'
Kim Zetter / Wired: Email Location Data Led FBI to Uncover Top Spy's Affair
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Lesson from Petraeus: Your emails, and Gmail, aren't that private
Lesson from Petraeus: Your emails, and Gmail, aren't that private
Discussion: Forbes, Wired, Poynter, @csoghoian, WorldViews, Hit & Run, FP Passport and Betabeat
Sydney Finkelstein / Forbes: Four Questions (and Answers) about the General Petraeus Scandal
David Kravets / Wired: Post Petraeus Scandal Google Releases Stats Showing Uptick in Gov Requests for Data
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter: Who's named and who remains nameless in Petraeus affair reporting
Christopher Soghoian / @csoghoian: Journalists on Petraeus story: Be sure to call Google for quotes, ask if their data retention policies serve best interest of their users.
Brian Doherty / Hit & Run: Why Was the FBI Doing the Investigation that Led to the Petraeus Affair Anyway?
Blake Hounshell / FP Passport: The FBI has some explaining to do
Rupal Parekh / AdAge:
Whoops: Petraeus Given Starring Role in Newest 'Call of Duty'
Whoops: Petraeus Given Starring Role in Newest 'Call of Duty'
Discussion: Media Money …, CNET, Associated Press and Speakeasy
Julia Boorstin / Media Money with Julia Boorstin: Call of Duty: Black Ops II 'Shatters' Pre-Order Records
Chuck Klosterman / Grantland:
I Lived a CIA Conspiracy Theory
I Lived a CIA Conspiracy Theory
Max Read / Gawker: A Flowchart of the Petraeus Affair's Love Pentagon, from the Shirtless FBI Agent to Chuck Klosterman
Margaret Sullivan / The Public Editor's Journal: Journalism Ethics and the Ethicist
Chris O'Shea / FishbowlNY: Chuck Klosterman Discusses His Non-Role Role in the David Petraeus Scandal
Joe Coscarelli / New York Magazine:
The Media's Five Stages of David Petraeus Grief
The Media's Five Stages of David Petraeus Grief
Discussion: Guardian and The Daily Dish
Glenn Greenwald / Guardian: FBI's abuse of the surveillance state is the real scandal needing investigation | Glenn Greenwald
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Marcus Brauchli to step down as editor of The Washington Post — The Washington Post announced Tuesday that Martin Baron, the editor of the Boston Globe, will become its new executive editor, replacing Marcus Brauchli, who is resigning to take a new position within the company.
Discussion: Poynter, The Huffington Post, Media Nation, @mlcalderone, @mlcalderone, @andrewphelps, @craigsilverman, @myersnews, Boston Globe, New York Magazine, CJR and WBUR
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter: Marcus Brauchli steps down as Washington Post executive editor, Marty Baron takes over
Jack Mirkinson / The Huffington Post: Washington Post Editor Stepping Down
Dan Kennedy / Media Nation: Marty Baron leaves Globe for Washington Post
Michael Calderone / @mlcalderone: WaPo, Globe staffers trading Brauchli/ Baron rumors last week: http://huff.to/W5H8uF Both newsrooms called into meetings today at same time.
Michael Calderone / @mlcalderone: In memo, Globe publisher calls Baron a "staunch advocate of the kind of accountability journalism that digs deep and serves the public."
Andrew Phelps / @andrewphelps: Wash. Post leadership long has been a loud voice against paywalls. Wonder what change Baron might bring.
Craig Silverman / @craigsilverman: Interesting that Brauchli stays at the WaPo Co. as a VP.
Steve Myers / @myersnews: Hope @PostMartyBaron is free RT @andrewphelps: Boston loses a great editor in @GlobeMartyBaron, whose Twitter handle is now super awk.
Robert Weisman / Boston Globe: Martin Baron, editor of The Boston Globe, to become editor of The Washington Post
Joe Coscarelli / New York Magazine: Marcus Brauchli Finally, Officially Out As Washington Post Editor
Kira Goldenberg / CJR: Learn about Marty Baron
Christine Haughney / Media Decoder:
New Top Editor at Washington Post: Marcus Brauchli to Be Replaced by Marty Baron — The Washington Post, facing steep financial challenges and striving to find profitability as readers abandon print papers for digital formats, changed its newsroom leadership Tuesday.
Discussion: Poynter, mediabistro.com, NetNewsCheck Latest, The Wrap, The Daily Beast, FishbowlDC, Capital New York and FishbowlNY
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter: Katharine Weymouth: Stepping down was Brauchli's decision
Donya Blaze / mediabistro.com: WaPo: Marty Baron In, Marcus Brauchli Out
Alexander C. Kaufman / The Wrap: Marcus Brauchli Exits Washington Post as Editor, Martin Baron Steps In
Howard Kurtz / The Daily Beast: Washington Post Changes Editors
Betsy Rothstein / FishbowlDC: WaPo: Marty Baron In, Marcus Brauchli Out
Tom McGeveran / Capital New York: Marcus Brauchli gets the boot at Washington Post; Boston Globe's Marty Baron picked to replace him
Chris O'Shea / FishbowlNY: Marcus Brauchli to Step Down from Washington Post
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Baron: 'No road map' yet for the Post — Marty Baron, who has just been named executive editor of the Washington Post, says he has "no road map" for the paper's digital future, but promises to position it for success. — "I don't have a road map. I want to spend time talking to the staff.
Jeff Bercovici / Forbes: Washington Post Hires New Top Editor; Here Are The Memos
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Brauchli leaving: Another WaPo rumor that turns out to be true
Brauchli leaving: Another WaPo rumor that turns out to be true
Discussion: Erik Wemple, City Desk and The Newspaper Guild
Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke / The New York Observer:
Newspaper Guild Approves New York Times Contract — The Newspaper Guild has approved a contract with The New York Times this afternoon, ending months bumpy negotiations between Guild members and management. — But the mood in the newsroom was one of resignation rather than elation.
Newspaper Guild of New York:
Times contract: More dollars, stable pension, secure medical — The Guild and Times management have completed work on a memorandum of agreement that sets forth the terms of a new contract that Guild members will be asked to vote on next week. — The agreement, reached with the aid …
Discussion: New York Magazine, The Huffington Post and JIMROMENESKO.COM
Gordon Rayner / Telegraph:
BBC news chief pleads with staff not to Tweet about 'our problems' — Fran Unsworth, the new temporary head of BBC News, has appealed to staff not to Tweet about "our problems" as she tries to sort out the mess of the Newsnight scandal. Referring to the "tumultuous and very sad events of the past few days" …
Brendan O'Neill / Telegraph: This isn't the first time that Angus Stickler and Newsnight have made OTT claims about secret child abusers
Jeff Sonderman / Poynter: BBC News director asks staff to keep the pedophilia crisis to itself
Gordon Rayner / Telegraph: BBC turmoil worsens as Helen Boaden and Stephen Mitchell hire lawyers to deny they willingly 'stepped aside'
Josh Halliday / Guardian:
Reporter on Newsnight film questioned by BIJ
Reporter on Newsnight film questioned by BIJ
Discussion: The Times
Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:
First female editor named at Broadcasting & Cable — Melissa Grego, currently executive editor, has been named editor in chief of Broadcasting & Cable, replacing Ben Grossman, who stepped aside as editor-in-chief of Broadcasting & Cable and will join Twitter as head of global operations, Twitter Media.
Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
Twitter Hires 'Broadcasting & Cable' Editor Ben Grossman To Lead Media Operations
Twitter Hires 'Broadcasting & Cable' Editor Ben Grossman To Lead Media Operations
Discussion: Lost Remote and Broadcasting & Cable
Andrew Leonard / Salon:
Gallup is very upset at Nate Silver — The polling firm complains operations like FiveThirtyEight could spoil polling for everyone — Did Gallup just blame Nate Silver for ruining the art and science of polling? — You don't have to read too far between the lines of a statement …
Discussion: Mediaite, Business Insider and Election 2012
Brett LoGiurato / Business Insider: Gallup Takes A Not-So-Subtle Shot At Nate Silver
Rachel Weiner / Election 2012: Gallup defends itself
Lewis DVorkin / Forbes:
Inside Forbes: Journalists Need to Understand the Ad Business, Not Sulk and Go Home — I can get very frustrated with editors and reporters who prefer to live in their own little world. When it happens, I do my best to remember I used to be one of them — until their stubbornness makes me incredulous all over again.
Discussion: AdAge and Big News Network.com
The Patriot-News:
Sara Ganim, who won Pulitzer Prize for Sandusky coverage, accepts job with CNN — Sara Ganim, The Patriot-News crime reporter who won a Pulitzer Prize for her coverage of the Jerry Sandusky scandal, has accepted a position as a correspondent with CNN. — Ganim started with CNN this week.
Discussion: Poynter, Hollywood Reporter, @sganim, The Huffington Post, TVNewser and The Newspaper Guild
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter: Pulitzer Prize winner Sara Ganim leaves Patriot-News to join CNN
Sara Ganim / @sganim: Proud and very excited to announce this today. My time at the @patriotnews will be cherished always. http://mobile.pennlive.com/advpenn/db_ 272508/contentdetail.htm?contentguid= x2YCnF5M ...
Rebecca Shapiro / The Huffington Post: CNN's Newest Face
Chris Ariens / TVNewser: Newspaper Reporter Who Broke Penn State Scandal Joins CNN


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Duel in the Sun
They don't really make 'em like this any more. Dubbed "Lust in the Dust" by clever people of the time Duel in the Sun is a ferociously overheated western with a bad romance novel plot blown up to the scale of grand opera. The combination of terrible acting, epic scope, its goofy depiction of a lustily violent romance, and Technicolor so rich and strange it makes Texas look like Mars all work to achieve a rare kind of purity that the film exudes. Hollywood still produces expensive flops but rarely something this original and insane. It was truly the Showgirls of its day. We have star producer David O. Selznick to thank for this fantastic folly.
Selznick needed to top his previous success with Gone With the Wind. He was also determined to make his questionably talented mistress Jennifer Jones a big star. Selznick's meddling with Duel in the Sun is legendary. He ran through directors (including Selznick himself and the inimitable Josef von Sternberg who, one would assume, would have been a perfect match for such gilded fakery), fought with his composer, Dimitri Tiomkin, and spent so much money and overstuffed his movie with so much talent – Gregory Peck, Joseph Cotten, Lionel Barrymore, Lillian Gish, Walter Huston, Herbert Marshall – that the results were going to be interesting no matter what.Continue Reading
Gone With The Wind
For 40 years, until of the era of the blockbuster (beginning with Jaws, Star Wars, E.T., and perhaps The Sound Of Music and The Godfather before them), Gone With The Wind was the ultimate blockbuster. Other films may have passed it in overall box office, but that's because ticket prices have risen. No film had more people go see it in its day than Gone With The Wind. And yes, it's a melodramatic soap opera with an eerie romantic schoolgirl crush on the Old South, but that doesn't take away from the fact that it is impeccably crafted with one of the most stunning performances by an actress in film history.
Based on Margaret Mitchell's massive Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the fall of the antebellum American South, Gone With The Wind follows the young Southern belle, Sacrlett O'Hara (Vivien Leigh), through her many marriages, before, during, and after the Civil War. The dashing and worldly Rhett Butler (Clark Gable) is the man for her, but like any spoiled creature, she wants what she can't have. The stiff, but proud Ashley Wilkes (Leslie Howard) is the object of her near obsession, but he is engaged to her kindly cousin Melanie Hamilton (Olivia de Havilland).Continue Reading


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"No recent book on magic . . . reveals so many inside secrets." - Martin Gardner
Known among veteran magicians for his invention of many new tricks and his imaginative twists of old ones, Paul Curry incorporated thoroughly engrossing material with a style that was truly elegant. This book by a "magician's magician" discloses the secrets behind a collection of close-up marvels--including the author's "Out of This World," reputed to be the best card trick of the past century.
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Minster opens playoffs with 48-7 win
MINSTER — The Minster defense stonewalled the Tri-County North wing-T offense, quarterback Adam Niemeyer delivered a handful of touchdown passes and the Wildcat running backs had four-foot wide holes to run through all night long.
For one week of the playoffs, the Minster Wildcats made it look easy.
The degree of difficulty goes way up next week when the Wildcats face the Division VI defending state champions.
Minster and Marion Local will meet yet again on the playoff gridiron after Nate Moore and his Wildcats for the third straight year controlled a first-round playoff game. Second-seeded Minster held serve and breezed past visiting Tri-County North, 48-7, on Friday night at Memorial Field to set up a Week 12 postseason match-up with the rival Flyers for the third straight season.
"We looked crisp to start the game. We weren't perfect but we did a lot of good things," said Moore, who wore short sleeves on the sidelines even as temperatures dipped into the 30s on a — finally — dry but cool night for playoff football.
The two teams did not meet in the regular season with the Midwest Athletic Conference's modified schedule that drops one fellow MAC school off the schedule.
"The fact that we didn't play them in the regular season definitely adds an aspect of mystery to it," Minster All-MAC running back Korey Schultz said. "But the coaching staff is going to put together a great report on them and we'll be ready for the Marion Local Flyers."
The scenario is the same as 2010 and 2011, when Minster beat Springfield Catholic Central both of those years before facing Marion Local the next week. The Flyers bounced Minster out of the playoffs in Week 12 last season, and in 2010 Minster upended the Flyers in Week 12 after reaching the postseason with a 5-5 record.
Minster and Marion Local will play on Friday, Nov. 9 at a neutral site to be announced on Sunday afternoon. The last two times the teams met in the playoffs, the games were played at Wapakoneta.
"It's going to be a very hard-hitting ballgame," Minster wideout and defensive back Troy Kauffman said. "They're a very good football team. They're the state champions. I think it's going to be who hits the hardest that survives the four quarters and gets the win."
The Wildcats (9-2) set siege to the program's record books and Tri-County North's defense throughout Friday night's game.
Minster quarterback Adam Niemeyer threw for the second-most passing yards in a game in school history, became the first Wildcat to throw for 2,000 yards in a season and tossed five touchdown passes. Niemeyer was 15 of 21 for 257 yards passing and hit eight different receivers.
Minster wide receiver Devon Poeppelman caught 3 passes for 67 yards and set the single-season receiving mark for yards. Ethan Wolf hauled in three passes for 34 yards and two touchdowns. A.J. Huelsman had a 44-yard touchdown reception in the second half for the Wildcats.
The victory gives Minster back-to-back nine win seasons for the first time since Ken Newland led the Wildcats to nine or more wins for six straight seasons from 1987 to 1992.
Minster buried the Panthers from the beginning by scoring 20 first-quarter points.
Six-foot-five tight end Ethan Wolf caught a 25-yard touchdown pass from Niemeyer to start the scoring. Wolf caught the ball at the four and bulldozed a pair of Panthers for the score just three plays from scrimmage and 1:21 into the ballgame.
Wolf scaled high into the air to bring down a seven-yard touchdown pass from Niemeyer just a few minutes later to put Minster up 14-0.
The Wildcats scored again in the first quarter on an eight-yard hookup from Niemeyer to Poeppelman.
A Korey Schultz one-yard plunge put Minster up 27-0 at the half.
Schultz rushed for 106 yards on 12 carries to go with the one-yard touchdown run.
Minster rushed for 215 yards as a team on just 24 carries. Scott Sekas had 72 yards on seven carries, including a fourth-quarter 39 yard touchdown run. Troy Kauffman slid into a running back position he played a season ago and rushed for 31 yards on four carries.
After Tri-County North's J.J. McPherson put the Panthers on the board with a four-yard touchdown to close the gap to 27-7 midway through the third quarter, Minster answered with a 44-yard strike from Niemeyer to a wide open A.J. Huelsman down the left sideline. Minster led 34-7 through three quarters.
Jay Eilerman caught an 18-yard bullet threaded by Niemeyer through tight coverage for a touchdown early in the fourth.
Scott Sekas busted open a 39-yard touchdown run down the left sideline in the closing minutes to give Minster the 48-7 lead.
Nate Moore's biggest concern after the game was seeing how his team came out of the game health-wise.
Minster had a handful of players leave the field with injuries, including leading tackler James Borges. Defensive lineman Garrett Hogenkamp was carted off the field on the second play of the second half.
"The injury bug really hit us tonight," Moore said. "We need all those guys back. I'll tell you that much."
The two teams had a bizarre exchange of plays in the second quarter. The teams combined for three interceptions in four plays from scrimmage. After Devon Poeppelman picked off Tri-County North quarterback Austin Hutchins and returned it for 38 yards, Adam Niemeyer threw a pick for Minster on the very next play. Two plays later, Minster's Prate Otting read an inside shuffle pass perfectly and picked it off.
First Quarter
MIN — Adam Niemeyer 25-yard pass to Ethan Wolf (Devon Poeppelman PAT good), M7-0, 10:39 (3 plays, 52 yards, 1:21 T.O.P.)
MIN — Niemeyer 7-yard pass to Wolf (Poeppelman PAT good), M14-0, 7:24 (3 plays, 12 yards, 1:31 T.O.P.)
MIN — Niemeyer 8-yard pass to Poeppelman (PAT failed), M20-0, 2:45 (7 plays, 70 yards, 2:16 T.O.P.)
Second Quarter
MIN — Korey Schultz 1-yard run (Poeppelman PAT), M27-0, 3:59 (3 plays, 62 yards, 0:50 T.O.P.)
Third Quarter
TCN – J.J. McPherson 4-yard run (PAT good), M27-7, 5:59 (10 plays, 70 yards, 6:01 T.O.P.)
MIN — Niemeyer 44-yard pass to A.J. Huelsman (Poeppelman PAT), M34-7, 4:35 (4 plays, 74 yards, 1:14 T.O.P.)
Fourth Quarter
MIN — Niemeyer 18-yard pass to Jay Eilerman (Poeppelman PAT), M41-7, 9:55 (8 plays, 53 yards, 4:13 T.O.P.)
MIN — Scott Sekas 39-yard run (Poeppelman PAT), M48-7, 2:17 (5 plays, 65 yards)
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Passing — Minster: Niemeyer 15-22-257, 5 TDs, INT; TCN: Hutchins 5-17-90.
Rushing — MIN: Schultz 12-106, TD, Kauffman 4-31, Niemeyer 1-6, Sekas 7-72, TD; TCN: Macpherson 9-20, Booth 10-31, Hutchins 10-(negative)10.
Receiving — MIN: Schultz 3-30, E. Wolf 3-34, Thobe 1-35, Wolf 1-3, Kauffman 2-14, Poeppelman 3-67, Huelsman 1-44, Eilerman 1-18.