The All Time Lows

According to a new poll, 6 in 10 Iraqis support attacks on U.S. troops. A National Intelligence Estimate says that the Iraq War is creating more terrorism, something the left (and many on the right) has been saying for several years now. Bob Woodward's new book, State of Denial, claims that insurgent attacks against coalition troops occur every 15 minutes in Iraq, a fact that the Bush Administration is hiding.

6,599 Iraqi civilians were killed in July and August. 50 U.S. military have been killed so far in September. Bush's only strategy now is to keep this thing going until he leaves office. Then when we pull out and all hell brakes loose he can blame his succesor. When do we leave?

Seriously, Is Matt Cain for real? Here's his line for today:

Here are his numbers for the last five games before that:

Hello, new ace.

According to the Daily Mail, President Bush is set to hold talks with Kazakhstan president Nursultan Nazarbayev, and among other topics, is scheduled to discuss the threat of Sacha Baron Cohen's upcoming film “Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan” to Kazakhstan's image worldwide. Late last year, the government of Kazakhstan took out a full page ad in the New York Times protesting Cohen's portrayal of the country and reserved the right to sue Cohen for "future pranks." In response, Borat released a video, whose most memorable line was "In response to Mr. Ashykbayev's comments, I'd like to state I have no connection with Mr. Cohen and fully support my Government's decision to sue this Jew."

The New York Times ripped on the movie because of its anti-semitic humor (and as Borat pointed out, Cohen is Jewish). I'd be more worried about Lethal Weapon 5. "Borat" has the potential to be the greatest movie ever made.

This comes via my brother-in-law, yet another republican converted away from the dark side by our president. And while he probably won't be attending the Democratic National Convention anytime soon, he did send me along a link to a story about Airforce Secretary Michael Wynne's comments Tuesday, in which he said that nonlethal weapons should be tested on American citizens in crowd situations before being used on the battlefield. And while I'm as much a fan of beating up hippies as the next guy, this seems kind of insane. Remind me not to participate in any marches. I'd rather not get hit by a microwave beam.

I'm not usually a fan of robbery, but this is kind of awesome.

One of my favorite things to do when someone under the age of 30 makes the news for a crime is to look up their Myspace page. Today, I've chosen to compare two young people who made the news today. One was spotted on the arm of Mayor Gavin Newsom at the San Francisco Symphony gala last night and one was arrested for furnishing pot cookies to more than 30 of his closest friends/a>, 13 of whom got sick and ended up in the hospital (did he buy this weed on Telegraph or what?).

Brittanie Mountz:


I can't tell if this is a Photoshopped image of two Brittanies, or if there are two different girls in this photo, but Brittanie's definitely the one on the right.

According to her Myspace page she is 19, but I kind of doubt that. If she is though, mad props to you Mr. Mayor.
San Francisco

Music David Gray, Coldplay (of course), Travis, Beck, Feeder, Citizen Cope, Amos Lee, Thriving Ivory (the drummer is mighty fine), The Verve, Oasis, DMB, Jack, Alanis (bitch tunes), John Fruciante, U2, Annie Lennex, Damien Rice, Green Day, Eric Clapton, Sigar Ros, Macy Gray, Moby, Beethoven, Guster, Tom Petty, Pinback, Iron and Wine, Elliot Smith, Red Hot CP, Goo Goo Dalls, Nirvana, Lonestar, Garth Brooks, Led Zepllin, Jimmy Eat World, Norah Jones, Queen, Sublime, Bob....mmmm the list won't end.....
Groups: I GET CRUNKED, DO AWESOME THINGS AND FORGET ABOUT THEM BEFORE MORNING GROUP

While there is some terrible stuff on there (Goo Goo Dolls, Sublime, Garth Brooks), she does gain some points for Pinback, Iron & Wine and Elliot Smith. As for her group, well, I wonder what she remembers about her evening with the Gav. Definitely a step up from Kimberly.

Some dude. -Image removed at subject's request, because we're nice like that.
And I ask you, ladies and gentlemen of the jury, does this look like the kind of guy that would make pot brownies?
Age 24
Berkeley, CA
ladytron, the books, tracy + the plastics, chemical brothers, herbie hancock, jay-z, miss kittin, dre, haiduci, james brown, woody guthrie, peaches, fischerspooner, flock of seagulls, abba, the faint, iggy pop, felix da housecat, new order, out hud, prince, le tigre, t.rex, waldorf, joan jet, buddy holly

Dude gets the nod in the music category, with a wide range of musicians from Herbie Hancock to Woody Guthrie to Jay-Z to Out Hud.

*As I was writing this, Brittanie set her Myspace page to private. You can thank me later.

22,740 marijuana plants were found growing in Point Reyes, complete with a massive irrigation system, fertilizer and pesticides. It's amazing that people can grow that much pot on public lands and get away with it. The plants seized at Point Reyes were worth an estimated $50 million.

ABC is about to show a "documdrama" about the 9/11 attacks this Sunday and Monday called "The Path to 9/11." I think they should have called it "Bin Laden Determined to Attack in the U.S." after the memo Bush received less than a month before the attacks while he and his war pigs hawks were drawing up their plans for a three-day war in Iraq. The problem with ABC's docudrama is that it may be mostly drama with very little "docu," due in large part that this movie was written and produced by conservative Cyrus Nowrasteh and directed by conservative David Cunningham.

The movie depicts a scene in which New Kid on the Block actor Donnie Wahlberg, playing a CIA agent, has Bin Laden in his sights and is begging for orders from the Clinton Administration to take him out. In the movie, these orders are not given, and the rest is well, you know. Problem is, this scene is a complete fabrication, and according to the 9/11 commission, never happened. Sure makes it seem like Clinton was responsible for 9/11 though. Good job boys!

The movie apparently depicts some failures of the Bush Administration as well, but just the inclusion of this completely invented scene, makes this whole thing smell pretty bad.

From Salon.com: More disturbing, though, is the way the filmmakers seem determined to link the Clinton administration's missteps to the Monica Lewinsky scandal. Instead of offering us some indication of President Clinton's earnest efforts to stop Osama bin Laden, we're repeatedly treated to his most uneasy moments in the hot seat over Lewinsky, painting the president as a buffoon more interested in blow jobs than terrorists. Meanwhile, Condoleezza Rice gets that fated memo about planes flying into buildings, and makes it very clear to anyone who'll listen just how concerned President Bush is about these terrorist threats -- despite the fact that we're given little concrete evidence of the president's concern or interest in taking action. Maybe my memory fails me, but the only person I remember talking about Osama bin Laden back in 1998 was President Clinton, while the current anti-terrorist stalwarts worked the country into a frenzy over what? Blow jobs. In the end, "The Path to 9/11" feels like an excruciatingly long, winding and deceptive path, indeed.

From ThinkProgress.com:
Last night on MSNBCs Scarborough Country, Roger Cressey a top counterterrorism official to Bush II and Clinton blasted ABCs docudrama The Path to 9/11. Cressy said its amazinghow much theyve gotten wrong. They got the small stuff wrong and then they got the big stuff wrong. He added that a scene where the Clinton administration passes on a surefire opportunity to take out bin Laden is something straight out of Disney and fantasyland. Its factually wrong. And thats shameful.

I'm not sure exactly where this falls along the completely rad/totally fucked-up space time continuum, but allow me to introduce you to five-year-old Ty Boogie, the youngest gangsta rapper the world has ever seen. Ty, the hard mofo that he is, is only scared of three things: Mickey Mouse, Chuck E. Cheese, & Mustard. As the young man said himself, "Fuck Chuck E.!"

Listen to Ty's hit single "Summer 2006."
Visit Ty Boogie's Myspace Page.
"A 5 year old Ol' Dirty Bastard."

As soon as they showed this photo of SUV rampage killer Omeed Popal and his wife on the news earlier this week, my roommate screamed, "Oh my god! He's married to John Wayne Gacy!"

You decide:

Courtesy of Primal Scream's "Kill All Hippies."