Very cool. I give it an 8.5.

One Very Smart Polar Bear

Milak, the two years old polar bear at Aalborg Zoo, has developed a new
kind of sport - head hunting with a tube! He has found out to place a
tube on his head and use it as a kind of hunting tool to catch other
objects! Hard to believe your own eyes, but watch this intelligent
polar bear in action! Milak is a very ingenious polar bear, who has
learned to combine his toys in many interesting ways - all of them
centered about his main interest: the hunt.

re: #2 Killgore Trout

"ingenious"... yes and, well, probably quite bored.

re: #2 Killgore Trout

MAI TOOB!!!

'Pets with Newt': Gingrich Launches Website

Gingrich has created a new website called "Pets With Newt," which aims to highlight his "lighter side" as a presidential candidate, he tells ABC News. The site remains empty as of Tuesday afternoon — aside from a large "Pets With Newt" logo and pawprint — but Gingrich says it will launch soon. (Update, 12/28: Pets With Newt is now live. The site lets users submit photos of their pets, provides links to Gingrich's campaign website and lists his favorite zoos.)

"As speaker I made it possible for people in public housing to keep their pets," he says, referring to his tenure as House majority leader from 1995 to 1999. "I love pets, so we're going to have an entire project."

re: #5 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

What you do when kissing babies causes infants to spontaneously combust.

re: #5 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

[Link: petswithnewt.com...]

"Women for Cain" had more submissions.

re: #7 Killgore Trout

We need a "Satanists For Perry" website.

Source: Al Qaeda leader sends veteran jihadists to establish presence in Libya

Al Qaeda's leadership has sent experienced jihadists to Libya in an effort to build a fighting force there, according to a Libyan source briefed by Western counter-terrorism officials.
The jihadists include one veteran fighter who had been detained in Britain on suspicion of terrorism. The source describes him as committed to al Qaeda's global cause and to attacking U.S. interests.
The source told CNN that the al Qaeda leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri, personally dispatched the former British detainee to Libya earlier this year as the Gadhafi regime lost control of large swathes of the country.
The man arrived in Libya in May and has since begun recruiting fighters in the eastern region of the country, near the Egyptian border. He now has some 200 fighters mobilized, the source added. Western intelligence agencies are aware of his activities, according to the source.

I'm bored (and sick) but I don't have a pool and a tube so I'm going down to the basement to trim my toenails with my belt sander.

G'night.

re: #8 Slumbering Behemoth

We need a "Satanists For Perry" website.

Nobody will ever believe it. Everybody knows Ron Paul has the Satanist vote wrapped up.

re: #5 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

'Pets with Newt': Gingrich Launches Website

as a matter of fact, newt invented the whole concept of having pets, and he's pissed off that nobody gives him credit for it

re: #10 b_sharp

I'm bored (and sick) but I don't have a pool and a tube so I'm going down to the basement to trim my toenails with my belt sander.

G'night.

You could make yourself useful and start sending pet submissions to Newt's website.
[Link: www.google.com...]

re: #5 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

'Pets with Newt': Gingrich Launches Website

The great thing about pets?

If one doesn't work out, you can just give it to someone else, or if it really doesn't work out i, take it to the pound.

Unlike wives.

Yes, I am in a cranky mood tonight. Why do you ask?

re: #14 EmmmieG

The great thing about pets?

If one doesn't work out, you can just give it to someone else, or if it really doesn't work out i, take it to the pound.

Unlike wives.

You can also kill and eat them

Also unlike wives!!

re: #11 Killgore Trout

Nobody will ever believe it. Everybody knows Ron Paul has the Satanist vote wrapped up.

I think you mean the "Santanist" vote.

Dear Gravel, the amount of hero worship Paulbots heap on the dead end loser is far more prevalent than any of the supposed "Obama/Lightworker" memes.

re: #16 sattv4u2

There more fun to eat while alive. Just sayin'.
/gutter

Introducing NarusInsight Intercept

I'm kind of tempted to Tweet this. If it catches on some folks hair will go on fire. Webpage here. This is the latest replacement for Carnivore in data intercept software including Skype.

Doing some night photography on the coast. The fog is coming in and going right back out about once an hour. Overhead is a super bright crescent moon and two bright planets.

re: #19 Gus 802

Teh gubermints tracking mai pr0n habits!!!11ty

re: #21 Slumbering Behemoth

Teh gubermints tracking mai pr0n habits!!!11ty

Possibly. This organization really existed, and some aspects of it probably still do. It is in the nature of technology to be used.

[Link: en.wikipedia.org...]

re: #21 Slumbering Behemoth

Teh gubermints tracking mai pr0n habits!!!11ty

Yeah. It's designed for specific data intercept. Unless you're a suspected enemy combatant they would still need a warrant. Especially if you expect any evidence to hold up in court. So they can't very well use it on a whim. Now if people are going to start worrying about a system wide data intercept system they would have to think about two things. First would be the size of such data and the requirements to handle all of that data and information. The second would be analyzing that data and information for potential threats which would be next to impossible using ordinary manpower. It would have to be software analyzed using keywords, key phrases, etc. A smooth operation of this would require a rather powerful computer mainframe and at or near artificially intelligent software that could "read through" each piece of email, voice data, and video data. Now think of all that data times whatever billion per day.

re: #22 Decatur Deb

Dear Gravel! That office's seal alone would send moonbats and wingnuts alike in to a paranoid tizzy.

re: #23 Gus 802

Yeah. It's designed for specific data intercept. Unless you're a suspected enemy combatant they would still need a warrant. Especially if you expect any evidence to hold up in court. So they can't very well use it on a whim. Now if people are going to start worrying about a system wide data intercept system they would have to think about two things. First would be the size of such data and the requirements to handle all of that data and information. The second would be analyzing that data and information for potential threats which would be next to impossible using ordinary manpower. It would have to be software analyzed using keywords, key phrases, etc. A smooth operation of this would require a rather powerful computer mainframe and at or near artificially intelligent software that could "read through" each piece of email, voice data, and video data. Now think of all that data times whatever billion per day.

Engineering problem.

re: #23 Gus 802

That's a lot of pr0n to sift through.

re: #25 Decatur Deb

Engineering problem.

And that's just for the USA. To be a credible intelligence, big brother, gathering system it would have to be global.

re: #24 Slumbering Behemoth

Dear Gravel! That office's seal alone would send moonbats and wingnuts alike in to a paranoid tizzy.

Admiral Poindexter, Oliver North's old buddy, directed part of it. He was shot down over what was, ironically, a very good idea--the funding of a government betting pool like Intrade.

re: #27 Gus 802

And that's just for the USA. To be a credible intelligence, big brother, gathering system it would have to be global.

No rush. The unanticipated growth of computing power stunned the guys that brought in the Human Genome Project.

Speaking of conspiracy theories, Ron Paul is a double-bluff, Illuminati troll.

re: #30 Slumbering Behemoth

Speaking of conspiracy theories, Ron Paul is a double-bluff, Illuminati troll.

It's interesting. Looks like they use their 4 fore fingers to make this sign with the inner two folded in. I think I've seen that hand sign before. Now what are the odds of people repeating that hand gesture in this world?

//

And in other news, as of June this year, Bill Maher is still a fucking idiot:

Speaking to CNN's Anderson Cooper, Maher said if he had to choose a Republican to vote for, it would be the congressman from Texas.

"I'd vote for Ron Paul, if I had to pick," he said. "I mean, Ron Paul is at least not a panderer. He's sincere. He's got the right ideas about getting our troops home. You know, I like Ron Paul. I think that he is a cut from a different cloth than the rest of those people who are, of course, selling their souls to the corporate interests that back them and have just horrible society-killing ideas about America and either don't know what's real or don't care."

re: #30 Slumbering Behemoth

Speaking of conspiracy theories, Ron Paul is a double-bluff, Illuminati troll.

Spidey is an Illuminatus too? My world crumbles.

/

re: #32 Slumbering Behemoth

And in other news, as of June this year, Bill Maher is still a fucking idiot:

Yep. Proving once again that atheists are people too.

//

re: #33 Sergey Romanov

Actually, it would be Stan Lee that is. Spidey is just his wink and nod to his Illuminated Brothers. Hiding it right in front of our faces.
/

re: #34 Gus 802

You seen his movie? Pretty boring.

re: #34 Gus 802

LIES!!!
/

re: #35 Slumbering Behemoth

Actually, it would be Stan Lee that is. Spidey is just his wink and nod to his Illuminated Brothers. Hiding it right in front of our faces.
/

Hey, don't blame me. That clip's author actually included Spidey.

re: #38 Sergey Romanov

Hey, don't blame me. That clip's author actually included Spidey.

Jebus! You watched that far into the video? I'm sooo sorry, Serg. I promise never to do that to you again.
/until the next time I do

re: #36 Sergey Romanov

You seen his movie? Pretty boring.

Nah. I can't stand his voice and most of what comes out it. That Zsa Zsa Gabor laugh of his too. Just never got into his schtick.

re: #39 Slumbering Behemoth

Jebus! You watched that far into the video? I'm sooo sorry, Serg. I promise never to do that to you again.
/until the next time I do

It was entrancing. I feel the urge to vote for Alex Jones now. /

re: #35 Slumbering Behemoth

Actually, it would be Stan Lee that is. Spidey is just his wink and nod to his Illuminated Brothers. Hiding it right in front of our faces.
/

Perhaps it's a alliance of the Illuminati, the Crips, and the badasses from Gallaudet University.

re: #41 Sergey Romanov

It was entrancing. I feel the urge to vote for Alex Jones now. /

At least Alex Jones is the least pandering of the candidates and he doesn't sell out to corporate interests.

//

re: #43 Gus 802

At least Alex Jones is the least pandering of the candidates and he doesn't sell out to corporate interests.

//

Too bad he runs for the King of Mars. //

re: #44 Sergey Romanov

Too bad he runs for the King of Mars. //

Last I heard he was president of Uranus.

//

re: #43 Gus 802

More lies. Jones is a secret shill for Alcoa.

re: #45 Gus 802

Last I heard he was president of Uranus.

//

He was squeezed out by a junta.//

Maher has finally been immortalized. Heh.

re: #46 Slumbering Behemoth

More lies. Jones is a secret shill for Alcoa.

Millinery Dep't?

re: #48 Slumbering Behemoth

...host Bill Maher said: "I believe in ghosts, I believe in numerology, I believe in astrology. Does that make me stupid?"

ha

re: #48 Slumbering Behemoth

Maher has finally been immortalized. Heh.

Yeah, and it's all true. He's another one of those idiots like Ron Paul that continually says the dumbest and uneducated things yet continues to be treated like he's some kind of god by his fans. Right. Bill Maher is a fecking genius. LOL

re: #50 Sergey Romanov

ha

Ron Paul has a big atheist following. And as you know there's a lot of clueless atheists that will exclaim "I don't believe in God" and swear by homeopathy or believe in some conspiracy or non-theistic supernatural thingamajig.

re: #51 Gus 802

I was looking through the website of a local secular organization, and they had a page pimping a Maher appearance at a local concert hall.

There isn't a facepalm big enough for that kind of fail.

re: #52 Gus 802

Which makes the nos. of truly rational atheists very small :(

re: #50 Sergey Romanov

re: #52 Gus 802

When I see shit like that, I pull that person out of the "atheist" file and put them in the "anti-theist" file.

re: #54 Sergey Romanov

Which makes the nos. of truly rational atheists very small :(

Yeah. Unfortunately atheism has become somewhat of a trend. And you know what that brings along. A lot of different kinds of baggage and similar to how people fake a belief in God. Simple things like being an atheist just to "get back" at their parents.

re: #56 Gus 802

Simple things like being an atheist just to "get back" at their parents.

I dated her. She was totally in the tank for astrology and tarot. Stupid, and transparent.

And they love Wikileaks and Julian Assange. The young ones that is. It has its very own norms and peer pressure belief structures albeit a secular one. Then there's the moral relativism and the non-belief in a state such as, well, the USA. That itself is not a very good survival mechanism at times. Then you have the "there's no such thing as evil" types.

re: #58 Gus 802

I am happy that we can put this whole OWS thing behind us, and go back to killing god.
/

re: #57 Slumbering Behemoth

I dated her. She was totally in the tank for astrology and tarot. Stupid, and transparent.

I know one guy. Well, he said he was an atheist. 15 minutes later he's talking about sweat lodges and Indian rituals that he partakes in and about spirits. I was like, huh? I didn't say anything of course.

re: #59 Slumbering Behemoth

I am happy that we can put this whole OWS thing behind us, and go back to killing god.
/

That's what life is for! Every waking hour I just sit here thinking about how I will slay God. That and my continuing daily war on Christmas.

//

re: #58 Gus 802

It's all silly but not in a really bad way. Rebellion(tm).

re: #61 Gus 802

That and continuing daily war on Christmas.

We lost this year. Again.

:sigh: Maybe next year.

Oh, but did you hear? I have it on good authority that teh communists have made it illegal to pray in congress, so win!/

re: #62 Sergey Romanov

It's all silly but not in a really bad way. Rebellion(tm).

I don't worry about it. I'm too old to sweat the small stuff like that anymore. If they're good people I try and maintain a relationship. Everyone has their own little quirks and idiosyncrasies as do I. Wrong place to look for perfection on this planet Earth. ;)

re: #63 Slumbering Behemoth

We lost this year. Again.

:sigh: Maybe next year.

Oh, but did you hear? I have it on good authority that teh communists have made it illegal to pray in congress, so win!/

Careful or else the NSA will start tracking us.

Human to animal!

//

re: #64 Gus 802

We're that close to a group hug!//

re: #66 Sergey Romanov

We're that close to a group hug!//

Or a leg hump! Go upstairs and get Killgore. We can make this a foursome.

//

Hey! It's the 4 Horsemen of LGF!

Get it?

//

re: #68 Gus 802

Damn atheists. //

re: #66 Sergey Romanov

re: #67 Gus 802

I will punch you both in your peters./

And I almost drink and smoke as bad as Hitchens. I do need to work on my elocution however. ;)

re: #70 Slumbering Behemoth

re: #67 Gus 802

I will punch you both in your peters./

OK, but gently. ///

re: #68 Gus 802

Hey! It's the 4 Horsemen of LGF!

Get it?

//

I'm too fat to be "Famine" or "Plague". Is "Hangover" one of the Horsemen? I could be him.

re: #73 Slumbering Behemoth

I'm too fat to be "Famine" or "Plague". Is "Hangover" one of the Horsemen? I could be him.

Only in the apocrypha. Hidden by the Illuminati Pope./

re: #72 Sergey Romanov

OK, but gently. ///

Click here to embiggen.

[Runs away swiftly.]

re: #71 Gus 802

And I almost drink and smoke as bad as Hitchens. I do need to work on my elocution however. ;)

Two of the things I have in common with Hitch, elocution definitely not being one of them.

re: #75 Gus 802

Click here to embiggen.

[Runs away swiftly.]

OK, now we're that close to a circ... nevermind.

/
/
/

re: #77 Sergey Romanov

You made me do it.