He just Pinched out a Dirty Bomb!

The following is a (hilarious) excerpt from this Rolling Stone article about one FBI anti-terrorism task force in Chicago:

The two officers tell me about a close call at the Taste of Chicago food festival last year. Millions attend the annual street feast, with Chicago-style sausage and pizza and tamales on sale in booths along the lakefront. As with all major public events, the JTTF helped plan the security profile. A JHAT —a Joint Hazardous Assessment Team —set up at the festival, dotting the area with devices that detect signs of a chemical or biological or radiological attack. Suddenly, one of the devices went off: There was a radiological hit on one of the sniffers near a row of porta-potties. For an hour, the JHAT frantically tried to determine if Chicago had been struck by a "dirty bomb" —a weapon that spreads lethal radioactive material mixed with conventional explosives. Finally, after an anxious hour, the hit was traced to a particular outhouse —and the cause of the positive alert was determined.

"Someone who had chemotherapy had just done a poop," DeRosa says.

As always I am delighted to hear of the appropriate measures being taken by the United States Government in the name of our security.

Don't Fuck this up, Democrats

Barack Obama stands a better chance of beating John McCain than Hillary Clinton does. That is the bottom line, that is what I and others have been saying since the race reached this stage, and that is what the evidence in this video backs up:



Listen Democrats, you have been ball-less fuck-ups for long enough... actually managing to earn a lower approval rating for Congress than our Neanderthal of a president. I like to presume this is because you don't have the gall to impeach but that is likely wishful thinking.

Shall I repeat the bottom line? If Clinton and McCain go head to head, the (bigoted, war-mongering, economy crushing) Republicans will actually have a fighting chance. Let us deprive them of even that small hope?

Nerd Alert!

Ever hear of a "yottabyte" before? Neither had I until today:




CrAzY people! The fact that things like this get me excited or amazes me makes me a pretty sad little nerd.

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