So web 2.0 it makes babies cry.

I received a very disturbing phone call last night, Uncle Bernie has passed away. I find myself just saying “wow” over and over to myself and others. I think right now I am just in a state of shock, I only saw him a few weeks ago and everything was fine. Of course, I have been really thinking about this for the past 22 hours now. Perhaps because I am a little bit older, or I’ve been doing a bit of soul searching. However, it really has caused me to examine my station in life, and realize that tomorrow really is a gift. It does not seem to matter, your age, activities, whatever. When it is your time to go, it is your time to go.

Although we visited many a watering hole, these particular pics were taken at the Conch Republic Seafood Company in Key West, Florida on October 30th, 2007. Key West just will not be the same w/o Uncle Bernie.

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The Boys at Hogs Breath

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That’s how we roll!

More pics in the gallery

Her first interview, with the ABC News anchor Charles Gibson, was too hard. The second, with Sean Hannity on the Fox News Channel, was too soft. The third, however, did not turn out to be just right for Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska.

On the CBS Evening News on Thursday, Katie Couric asked Ms. Palin, Senator John McCain?s running mate, what she meant when she cited Alaska?s proximity to Russia as foreign affairs experience. Ms. Palin could have anticipated the question ? the topic of their interview, pegged to her visit to the United Nations, was foreign affairs. Yet Ms. Palin?s answer was surprisingly wobbly: her words tumbled out fast and choppily, like an outboard motor loosened from the stern.

And when you are done watching that one, there is always this one.

Capitol Hill Blue – Warning! Financial responsibility can lead to terrorism

And this, is why I don’t like credit cards.

What will they come up with next? You almost know this had to be from Georgia..

eBay Motors: Toyota : Toyota (item 4598497974 end time Dec-24-05 00:40:18 PST)

Honesty is the best policy, no matter what youa re fucking up in the process.

GLASSPORT, Pa. — A church trying to teach about the crucifixion of Jesus performed an Easter show with actors whipping the Easter bunny and breaking eggs, upsetting several parents and young children.
People who attended Saturday’s performance at Glassport’s memorial stadium quoted performers as saying, “There is no Easter bunny,” and described the show as being a demonstration of how Jesus was crucified.

Melissa Salzmann, who brought her 4-year-old son J.T., said the program was inappropriate for young children.

“He was crying and asking me why the bunny was being whipped,” Salzmann said.

Patty Bickerton, the youth minister at Glassport Assembly of God (search), said the performance wasn’t meant to be offensive. Bickerton portrayed the Easter rabbit and said she tried to act with a tone of irreverence.

“The program was for all ages, not just the kids. We wanted to convey that Easter is not just about the Easter bunny, it is about Jesus Christ,” Bickerton said.

Performers broke eggs meant for an Easter egg hunt and also portrayed a drunken man and a self-mutilating woman, said Jennifer Norelli-Burke, another parent who saw the show in Glassport, a community about 10 miles southeast of Pittsburgh.

“It was very disturbing,” Norelli-Burke said. “I could not believe what I saw. It wasn’t anything I was expecting.”

As reported on Fox News

[modF]Does anyone else besides me find this story scary? Haven’t we let the religious right get away with far too much these past few years. I mean this is getting out of control people. Everything is termed obscene now, janet jackson, brintney/madonna, its getting pretty scary. We are beating up the Easter bunny in front of children now, now that is obscene.

Convicted Washington Sniper Muhammad Sentenced to Die (Update1)
March 9 (Bloomberg) — John Allen Muhammad, one of two men accused in the sniper-shooting deaths of 10 people in the Washington, D.C., area in 2002, was sentenced to death by a Virginia judge for murdering a man at a gas station.

A jury in Virginia Beach, Virginia, convicted Muhammad of capital murder, terrorism, conspiracy and firearms violations in November for the death of Dean Harold Meyers, 53, who was gunned down in Manassas, Virginia, in October 2002. Meyers was the seventh sniper victim.

The same jury a week later recommended the death sentence for the crime. Prince William County Judge LeRoy F. Millette Jr. today accepted the jury’s recommendation and imposed the death penalty, county sheriff’s Captain Brenda Perkins said in a telephone interview.

“There are no winners today,” Meyers’s brother Bob said at a televised press conference. “This was not a victory. But yet it was something that had to be done and it was done right.”

Muhammad’s execution is tentatively scheduled for Oct. 14, pending appeals, officials said. A formal date will likely be set after an appeal is filed, Prince William County Court Administrator Bob Marsh said.

Muhammad, 42, a U.S. Army veteran, and Lee Boyd Malvo, 18, a native of Jamaica, were accused of 13 shootings in Washington, Maryland and Virginia during a three-week period in October 2002. They are also suspects in shootings in Alabama, Arizona, Georgia, Louisiana and Washington state.

A jury in Chesapeake, Virginia, in December convicted Malvo of murdering a woman outside a suburban shopping center and recommended a sentence of life in prison. Both trials were moved from the Washington area because of publicity about the case.

Virginia has executed 89 people since the death penalty was reinstated in 1982, 27 by electrocution and the rest by lethal injection, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. That’s second only to Texas, which has executed 321 prisoners.

[modF]Normally, I’d say lets shoot him, but he seems to like guns. So lets shoot him 10 times with small flesh wounds, than let him bleed out for a bit[/modF]