"The only thing I can hope for now is that I develop into some kind of meme! Yes! An internet star!"

Yesterday, I brought you 7-year old Piper Palin. I would be remiss if I did not remind you all of then-8 year old Andrew Giuliani, mugging for the cameras at his dad's 1994 inauguration as New York mayor:

They don't always stay cute, of course. Duke got tired of his shit this year.

Remember how I told you NSA was listening to everybody's phone calls? Remember how Shrub swore up and down they were only listening to people involved with teh terrars?

Of course the motherfucker was lying. If you made an international phone call and forgot what you said, call the National Security Agency. They have a transcript and a recording.

Why? Because Piper Palin is telling you to.

If you have friends or business contacts in countries that may harbor terrorists, you may safely assume that the FBI and/or other federal law enforcement agencies are listening to your phone calls with them.

Because they are.

This is what the PATRIOT Act has wrought. And this is why folks like Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton, despite whatever other good intentions and accomplishments they possess, have a stain upon their very souls.

I've lost a lot of respect for Senator McCain's service during Vietnam after reading this

1) He was a drunken fuckup at the Naval Academy, graduating 894th out of 899, escaping expulsion only due to his father and grandfather's reputation and influence.
2) He stalled out and dropped a plane in the drink during training in Corpus Christi, escaping grounding only due to his father and grandfather's reputation and influence.
3) He clipped a power line in Spain, causing a large blackout, showing off in a plane, escaping grounding only due to his father and grandfather's reputation and influence.
4) Returning from a booty call in Philadelphia, he punched out of a plane approaching Norfolk, escaping grounding only due to his father and grandfather's reputation and influence.

Many people are aware that the USS Forrestal was nearly lost in the Gulf of Tonkin in 1967 in a huge fire on the flight deck that involved aerial bombs detonating on the deck. The fire was caused when a rocket was negligently launched from an F-4 on the flight deck, punching through the fuel tank of McCain's F-4, spilling and igniting its contents. That is of course not his fault. (If he failed to help fight the fire, that is his fault.)

He had warning of an inbound surface-to-air missile on his last raid over Hanoi. I can't say whether it was poor professional judgement for him to not evade the missile, holding course to drop bombs on his assigned target.

But,

5) McCain, following his repatriation from Vietnam, was physically unfit to retain flight status. He kept it only due to his father and grandfather's reputation and influence.

For a very stretched definition of the word, Barack Obama has "palled around" with a (former?) terrorist, William Ayres. Namely, Ayres hosted an early fundraiser for Obama, back in his local IL political days, and they served on a board together. But for the common definition of all the words used in this statement, this is absolutely true:

On at least five occasions, Alaska governor Sarah Palin fucked a traitor.

HTH. HAND.

Currently. But at least he didn't kill anybody like his teammate did. (Will Yeatman and Richard Caldwell are both RB '07 grads.) "False informing" sounds like "gave the cop a fake name" or "told the cop you didn't have ID, which they found when they hooked you up on the underage consumption charge". My gut feeling says he's done at Notre Dame.

Not that we're all innocent over here in Poway. I'm just not aware of any of our high-profile college athletes being dumb enough to get caught while on probation for a previous conviction/diversion.

On a side note, the City of Poway is planning to install a wide concrete median through the curvy section of Valle Verde Rd. where the Caldwell crash happened, as well as "pincher" curbs. I can't find a story online at the moment, but I've seen it in print. I think there will also be a stop sign at the Solara intersection. Hopefully that's enough to deter idiots from doing 70 miles an hour down that hill.

The Denver Police officially joins the New York City Police as a group of proud thugs. (Not to be confused with honest public servants. They aren't.) Via jwz, "We get up early to BEAT the crowds" commemorative T-shirts sold by their union.

Instant Rim Shot (Thanks, Josh)