It's only a flesh wound

[Doctor Rock]

Seriously, how could you not want to pummel this guy:

After I realized that my previous steampunk goggles looked funny with my pith helmet, I remembered that I had a set of goggles I purchased for my Captain Proton costume. These motorcycle style goggles would work well with the style of pith helmet I had, even if they did date from the 1940's (est).

Ugh, vanity and dorkyness do not a good mixture make.  I wouldn't let him into my chess club.   

[Mister Chaddy]

Seriously, how could you not want to pummel this guy:

After I realized that my previous steampunk goggles looked funny with my pith helmet, I remembered that I had a set of goggles I purchased for my Captain Proton costume. These motorcycle style goggles would work well with the style of pith helmet I had, even if they did date from the 1940's (est).

Ugh, vanity and dorkyness do not a good mixture make.  I wouldn't let him into my chess club.   

Dan shoots and scores!

[Tripp]

Police concerned about order to stop screening
BY JACK DOUGLAS JR.
STAR-TELEGRAM STAFF WRITER


STAR-TELEGRAM/RODGER MALLISON
Barack Obama speaks Wednesday at a Democratic rally in Dallas' Reunion Arena. Police were told to stop screening people for weapons before the rally began.
DALLAS -- Security details at Barack Obama's rally Wednesday stopped screening people for weapons at the front gates more than an hour before the Democratic presidential candidate took the stage at Reunion Arena.

The order to put down the metal detectors and stop checking purses and laptop bags came as a surprise to several Dallas police officers who said they believed it was a lapse in security.

Dallas Deputy Police Chief T.W. Lawrence, head of the Police Department's homeland security and special operations divisions, said the order -- apparently made by the U.S. Secret Service -- was meant to speed up the long lines outside and fill the arena's vacant seats before Obama came on.

"Sure," said Lawrence, when asked if he was concerned by the great number of people who had gotten into the building without being checked. But, he added, the turnout of more than 17,000 people seemed to be a "friendly crowd."

The Secret Service did not return a call from the Star-Telegram seeking comment.

Doors opened to the public at 10 a.m., and for the first hour security officers scanned each person who came in and checked their belongings in a process that kept movement of the long lines at a crawl. Then, about 11 a.m., an order came down to allow the people in without being checked.

Several Dallas police officers said it worried them that the arena was packed with people who got in without even a cursory inspection.

They spoke on condition of anonymity because, they said, the order was made by federal officials who were in charge of security at the event.

"How can you not be concerned in this day and age," said one policeman.

[Tripp]

I'm not worried about him cause he's black. I'm worried about him because he seems to be hitting on something. I'm amazed by how much he's winning. I think it's because people are fuckin starved for something to believe in.

[Tripp]

off the subject

do any other memphibians hear weird thunder tonight..?

[Bizarro]

YouTube vid #1, in which La Clinton decries copping other people's lines in your speech:
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/iAXIUjN_pZk" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/iAXIUjN_pZk</a>

YouTube vid #2, in which she closes out by copping one of John Edwards' best lines:
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/zAYItnI-lPo" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/zAYItnI-lPo</a>

[Doctor Rock]

You posted the same vid twice, Jeff. 

Did she get booed?  I heard she got booed. 

[Bizarro]

See for yourself. I fixed that first clip and it shows it.