This headline on the New York Times’ web site steals the show…in light of the recent decision to cease Times Select and open up all their content to the web:

Need I say more?

...and it’s not because she’s carrying twins either. Here’s a situation where she kept her mouth shut, and now it’s going to bite her (and necessarily Zed) in the rear.
Click on the graphic to find out what could be going down once Zed returns from Iraq.

The name is BURMA, thank you very much. And the rightful Prime Minister of the country is Aung San Suu Kyi. At least Wikipedia got it right when it listed her occupation as Prime Minister-elect…because she’s never been allowed to take office.
The Burmese junta allowed her to leave her house to meet with a UN Official, specifically, Under-Secretary General Ibrahim Gambari. Now that’s a surprise, indeed. The junta must have figured that they had to throw a bone to the outside world because of the recent riots which involved Buddhist monks and a termination of Internet access by the junta.
One of these days, the junta will fall and BURMA will rejoin its rightful place in the international community.

Back in 1979, nukes did this in space. They’re not supposed to in the real world. But back then, Hollywood didn’t care; they treated the audience as a bunch of dumb cattle who wanted to see disaster movies. And lemme tell ya…Meteor was one such disaster.
Not even the likes of Sean Connery, Karl Malden, Brian Keith (who did a great job speaking all of his lines in Russian), and Natalie Wood could rescue it from said disaster; Martin Landau’s performance as a total a**hole only added to it. What made it worse was the score which seemed to borrow from ST:TMP whenever V’Ger showed up….yet, this movie showed up in theaters a couple of months ahead of the real classic of 1979. Don’t forget, some Trek fans call TMP a disaster film too, but that’s another story.
So who got killed? Some poor Siberian family a’la Tunguska...Hong Kong got drowned…some Swiss ski resort town got buried in a massive avalanche…and then there’s New York City. Guess which building got hit first? Well let’s just say it’s hard to joke about it now.
Oh, I almost forgot…I have to admit it was fun watching the Soviet and American orbital weapons platforms actually doing the work they were supposed to do in the first place…according to the premise that is.
Meteor is rated PG for language. Yet another movie for Mike Nelson to slam with Rifftrax. My rating: 3

This week’s video brings back some memories of when I used to live in Chicago the first time around from January 1979 to December 1980…before I was married. The town was still toddlin then, nothing like what it is today. This is “Lake Shore Drive” by Aliotta, Haynes and Jeremiah:

HAT TIP: Honorary Yooper

I’m sure you’ve seen this bumper sticker zipping around town:

Well here’s the reply:

‘Nuff said.

I was on another (not BSG-related) board cruising the subject topics when I encountered someone lifing an entire article about the Final Five from Battlestar Wiki without citation (in other words, providing a link). I publicly posted this. I hope he doesn’t get warned for it. If he does, oh well.
While I was tracking down the above-mentioned source, I stumbled onto a well-detailed synopsis of the 2001 DeSanto-Singer continuation project, which turns out to be a little different than Richard Hatch’s 1999 “Second Coming” effort. I found this particular passage interesting, not only for the fact that Baltar gets taken out of the equation:

Realizing his peril, Baltar decided that if he couldn’t save himself as a whole being, he would at least save part of himself.  He convinced the Cylons that humans had many attributes useful to their society, as proven by their ability to outfight overwhelming odds.  If free will was the enemy, then the Cylons could still use humans by simply eliminating the harmful concepts within them.
Baltar volunteered to become the first converted subject.  Cylon technicians designed nano-technology to adapt his body, disallowing any ideas of individuality and transforming him into a loyal servant.  In the end, this experiment proved fatal to the Cylon order.  Many leaders objected to the alteration to what they saw as the perfect order.  Others demanded unquestionable loyalty to the Imperious Leader.  The gulf between the two groups grew and the Cylons did the unthinkable.
They engaged in a civil war.

Not to mention what happens to Apollo….

Now this brings back childhood memories!

You’re gonna love the way this comes to be…during his scoring for the last four Season 3 episodes, Bear McCreary composed a background score for Smirnoff’s “Clearly Smirnoff” global ad campaign, and it clearly screams Battlestar! While I was at Smirnoff’s site, I found that you too can make your own “Legacy,” and that’s just what I did. Click on the signature to find out!

It’s time for a previous all-time Loser to endorse the next Donk candidate for President of the United States. So who does George McGovern favor?
Why it’s none other than Shrillary herself. In McGovern’s own words:

“I got to know her 35 years ago. She and her boyfriend, Bill Clinton, took over the McGovern organization in Texas. They did a terrific job against impossible odds. I never forgot that. They worked night and day in that state.”

Took it over, you say. Must be because the previous group was a bunch of incompetent fools? Or did Shrillary and Bill dig up some dirt on same? Makes one wonder…
In any case, there will be thousands and thousands of Americans who will will also work day and night to ensure the Co-Presidency never makes it back into the White House.

Once again the bias of the Associated (with Terrorists) Press shows through, this time well-buried in a story describing the preparedness of Huntsville, Alabama’s fallout shelter system. A city which takes something thrown to the winds by Congress after the end of the Cold War 15 years ago and makes a serious effort to protect its citizens from nuclear fallout…
...is considered insane by the AP because we’re all supposed to die, and that’s just what the Islamofascists want:

As fallout shelters go, the Three Caves Quarry just outside downtown offers the kind of protection that would make Dr. Strangelove proud, with space for an arena-size crowd of some 20,000 people.

Frak You, AP.

The Democrats had another debate on MSNBC last night. When I checked in this morning for the post-debate poll, I found not one, not two, not three, not even four, but five threads dedicated to the debacle, and that’s not counting the poll thread itself. Can you predict who I voted for?
And then there was this….

It’s a good thing I’ll be able to go to work today….

Now that a mistrial is declared in the Phil Spector case, in which he was charged with murdering Lana Clarkson, here’s what could happen. I think the Clarkson family has already retained legal counsel and will go after Spector in civil court, just like the Goldmans did with OJ.
And this time around, they’ll get a lot of assets from Spector. I’d be surprised if they filed today and I wouldn’t blame them at all.

Does ^this man who has ^the affinity for haranguing Republicans have ^the ‘nads to call bo^th Presidents Bush (41 and 43) for depositions in his lawsuit against CBS? Sure looks ^that way. Here’s what I hope shows up as memos in ^the offices of Mr. Ra^ther’s attorneys:

MEMO #1
FROM: George H.W. Bush
TO: Dan Ra^ther
SUBJECT: Deposition

Dan:
Go f**k yourself.

Sincerely,
George H.W. Bush

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MEMO #2
FROM: George W. Bush, President of the United States
TO: Dan Ra^ther
SUBJECT: Deposition

Dan:
Go f**k yourself.

Sincerely,
George W. Bush

How apropos it would certainly be.

You know what the el cubos will say about this....

To find it on Google Earth, plot the following coordinates:
32.675483, -117.157736.