Apropos:

Hey, does anyone out there have a Zune mp3 player? Yeah, the one produced by Microsoft. Turns out if you do, they are resetting all over the world!

SAN FRANCISCO - Happy New Year from Microsoft Corp.: Your Zune is dead.
Thousands of Microsoft’s Zune media players — the software company’s answer to Apple Inc.‘s iPod — unexpectedly conked out Wednesday and showed users an error message, prompting references to “Y2K for Zunes.” The problems appeared when people tried to start up their devices.
Frustrated users lit up Microsoft’s online support forum for Zunes with more than 2,500 messages by Wednesday afternoon.

I attempted to inform some friends about this development, but I’m unable to communicate with them, because they’re rolling around on the floor laughing their a**es off!
Why does this not surprise me?

And now, in the midst of the raging crisis in the Народная Республика Ильиной, there’s not one Race Card being issued…but TWO!
First, Governor Rod Blagojevich gets one for appointing former State Attorney General and State Comptroller Roland Burris. This appointment is Blago essentially saying F**k You to the Legislature and People of the НРИ, and also to the United States Senate!
Second, Congressman Bobby Rush (D-IL), who was a member of the DFC Black Panthers before being elected to Congress, also gets a Race Card for daring the Senate not to “hang or lynch” this appointment.
Yep, I can see this whole frakkin’ mess go to SCOTUS. Ugh.

After catching a cold on Christmas Eve, and spending the next day in utter ugh-ness, I actually went back to work on the 26th and 27th, only to have it flare up on Sunday, and so I stayed home on Monday; this time, it also affected one of my teeth which has a filling dating way back to 1971! Methinks it’s time has come for a new filling.
My dentist called in for some antibiotics and la-la pills. As a result, I feel better to the point where I will go back to work today and finish off the year. Rah.
So what’s out there today?

ILL. LT. GOV SAYS BLAGO GONE SHORTLY: This guy hasn’t spoken to his boss in over a year, or so he says. Real good communication there.

MCKINNEY TURNED AWAY BY ISRAELIS: Apparently, her UN-Approved Race Card didn’t matter.

TAXPAYER-FUNDED CONGRESSIONAL MOTORS ADS: They should be thanking Pelosi, Reid, and Bush. Next: Taxpayer-funded Golden Parachutes for these execs.

As expected, the Detroit Lions fired Head Coach Rod Marinelli today, after three seasons and a 10-38 record to show for it. Then again, many Lions Fans will look back to Matt Millen as the main cause which led to the 0-16 season, the first in NFL History, and Millen was sacked back in September.
As soon as I read this, the Detroit Free Press also reported that Bill Parcells, currently in Miami’s front office and responsible for the Dolphins’ worst-to-first turnaround, is considering the Lions for another head coaching position. Can “The Tuna” help the Lions overcome their losing culture which has permeated that franchise for decades? It’s too soon after the season to tell.

..or else you’ll be martyred for the cause!

Israel Radio just reported that Hamas has just called on all Egyptian and Jordanian ‘workers’ (diplomats) to leave Israel because it plans to carry out suicide attacks in Israel’s cities.
I’m actually kind of surprised that they bothered to tell the Egyptians.

No kidding. Just like any Islamofascist group, they don’t bother to tell the little children or handicapped people they use to blow up the Infidels or the JOOOOOOs!

First came the 1976 Tampa Bay Buccaneers, who didn’t win their first game until the following season, on Game #13. Next, the 1991 Raleigh-Durham Skyhawks of the World League of American Football lasted only one season with an 0-10 record, before folding.
Now comes an established franchise since 1934. The Detroit Lions are the first team in NFL History to go 0-16 in a single season (they went to 16 games in 1978). They lost to Green Bay, 31-21. A sad day for Detroit, to say the least.
Now, let the purges begin.

Let’s see what our favorite DFC son of a bitch is up to in Rhodesia. He’s had to apologize to his party members for a recent conference, where all the food they engorged themselves on was stolen from the people!
Imagine that.
And to top it off, the diplomats in Salisbury are watching to see if Mugabe goes on holiday. If he does, depending on his own party’s reaction, he may not be allowed back. And that would be a good thing.

What was that about schadenfreude? Looks like the Israelis are kicking the living s**t out of Hamas, if Drudge’s headline tidbits are any indication:
I miss the days of “Saruman” and “Wormtongue”...oops! My Bad, I was thinking out loud…no, I actually don’t!

All of this has the makings of a crisis for БХО to handle once he takes the Oath of Office on January 20. Then, Joe The Biden™, whom the incoming Оба́ма administration wants to keep his mouth shut, will actually be correct.

Here’s a video from Trio which does not include any Volkswagens in it, much less Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer. For yet another cover, go here.:

This one’s for my Jewish friends. If any of you can let me know what the lyrics mean, that would be great!

Impeachment proceedings are slowing to a snail’s pace, thanks to the deadlock in the Народная Республика Ильиной General Assembly’s impeachment panel. They can’t even agree whether or not to subpoena БХО‘s aides, including those of US Representative Rahm Emanuel, who’s slated to become Оба́ма‘s Chief of Staff.
It doesn’t take a Rocket Scientist to figure out that the General Assembly, aided and abetted by the embattled Governor Blagojevich himself, is hiding something. Exactly what they are hiding is anyone’s guess; nevertheless, they are delaying this as much as possible until the President-Elect takes office.
My question to the Voters of the Народная Республика Ильиной is this: How much s**t are you going to take before you demand your State Representatives to move forward?

Here in the US of A, we have yet another massive day of traffic at the malls, stores, etc., with people returning various gifts, items, blah blah blah yadda yadda yadda. In Canada, the UK, Australia, New Zealand, and many other Commonwealth countries. It’s Wrestling Boxing Day, which is generally held on the Feast of St. Stephen, and people give gifts to the less fortunate members of society, eh.
Turns out they, too, have yet another massive day of traffic at the malls, stores, etc., with people returning various gifts, items, blah blah blah yadda yadda yadda. Sounds familiar, eh.

Since I consider myself an amateur photographer ever since high school (more detils here), I’ve made it a point to go to Digital Photography Review for regular updates and forum discussions. Today is DPReview’s tenth anniversary, and needless to say, it’s the premier web site for enthusiasts of this genre.
So if you’ve been bitten by this particular bug, Go Ye to this Site and partake of it. The Macker Commands It!

Courtesy of Achmed the Dead Terrorist. WARNING! NSFW!