A World of Epic Fail

O RLY?

He claims that people are only playing “snippets” and that it’s these people who are playing the “snippets” who are painting him as a radical.

In grainy video of sermons he delivered years ago, Wright is seen calling the September 11 attacks retribution for U.S. policies and condemning America’s failings on race.

At one point he shouts to his congregation, “God Bless America? No, God damn America.“

Emphasis mine. I know that Wright still continues to claim that he isn’t a radical but I have a question to ask. At what point in these sermons was he going to get around to talking about God, Jesus, Christianity, The Disciples, The Apostles, The miracles of the prophets or the love of the Holy Trinity?

Oh wait, he doesn’t ever get around to that. He jsut keeps on spouting out anti-America rhetoric and screaming conspiracies about how the government created AIDS and then purposefully infected the black man.

No, he really did claim that.

Anyways, here’s some video of the “non-radical” Jeremiah Wright:

Oh, here’s a larger portion of Wright’s “Hillary ain’t never” sermon below the fold:

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You just can’t make this stuff up.

Rev. Adelir Antonio de Carli lifted off from the port city of Paranagua on Sunday afternoon, wearing a helmet, thermal suit and a parachute. He was reported missing about eight hours later after losing contact with port authority officials, according to the treasurer of his Sao Cristovao parish, Denise Gallas.

The really funny thing? They were all just regular helium balloons. Like…hundreds of them. Remember in the old Looney Tunes cartoons when the characters would be lifted up by a giant bundle of party balloons?

Yeah, this TOTALLY happened.

“We are absolutely confident he will be found alive and well, floating somewhere in the ocean,” she said.

Yeah, well, I’m willing to bet right about now that he wishes you would probably hurry the **** up. She sounds awfully calm considering that a dude could be out floating in the ocean without a boat or anything around.

Big ole’ WTF over here.

The partially mummified body of an elderly woman has been found on the kitchen floor of a house where her mentally troubled sister was living, police said.

Investigators believe the surviving sister had been living with the body for up to three years. They say the body was partially covered with newspapers and that a cat and dog apparently ate part of it.

Ok, so it is actually sad because the surviving sister has mental problems or something. Still, that’s pretty messed up right there. I don’t care how bat-guano crazy you are it takes a special type of madness to live with your dead sisters corpse lying on the kitchen floor.

Not to mention the whole animals eating it thing.

Boy, that just makes a person shudder right there.

Yeah…..she sure did.

Ed Morrissey is awesome and I thank him dearly for posting this on HotAir. I won’t quote everything from his piece….just the good part.

In her April 22 Earth Day news release, Pelosi said, “The Bible tells us in the Old Testament, ‘To minister to the needs of God’s creation is an act of worship. To ignore those needs is to dishonor the God who made us.’ On this Earth Day, and every day, let us pledge to our children, and our children’s children, that they will have clean air to breathe, clean water to drink, and the opportunity to experience the wonders of nature.”

Hmm, doesn’t sound like a bad message does it? It sure sounds like it came from the Bible, but there’s just one small problem with the quote.

It doesn’t exist.

Like, you can’t find it anywhere in the bible. Trust me, I’ve tried. The issue here is that Pelosi pulled a quote that was not from the Bible, claimed that it was, and now refuses to admit that she made the whole thing up. I’ve got a great earth day scripture for her though:

Genesis 1:28 - God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground.”

That’s the one that Morrissey put on HotAir, but I have an even better one:

Romans 1:21-25 - Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things. Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.

Pretty much American progressivism + environmentalism right there. The Environmental crowd has done everything in their power to remove the worship of God and to replace it with the worship and reverence of the creation I.E. the planet.

I understand what Pelosi was trying to do, but the next time she quotes something inaccurate from a book she might need to choose another book besides the Bible. We Christians tend to take misrepresentation rather hard and we’re pretty quick to correct people who pop off at the mouth and mis-speak and then claim it to be God’s word.

As a PS3 owner I concur with the poster.

While I would never consider the PS3 a crippled machine in any respect because it DOES fulfill it’s job as a gaming console, and it does very well with adding the bells and whistles of creating a high-definition media experience. However, in the online department it comes out of the gate with a gamer-nation wide “meh”.

Why? Probably because of diversity and three competing major branches of the same company trying to convince the other that the social aspects of Home are worth the trouble.

The Japanese market is practically non-existent in the MMO industry and giving them a MMO-style social network (ala: Second Life) probably just hasn’t appealed to them. Plus, you have to take in to consideration that SCEI is primarily a Japanese company first and foremost so the “headquarters” probably doesn’t put something like this as “first and foremost”.

Not even in America is the MMO industry really that big of a genre. That’s not to say that the USA doesn’t have great MMO’s but generally if it doesn’t have World of Warcraft on it people here usually don’t pay much attention.

So, SCEE (Sony Computer Entertainment Europe) has been handling the project thanks to all of the push and hype that former SCEE CEO Phil Harrison pushed with his Game 3.0 programs at GDC in 2006. However, here we are almost a year and a half later and things haven’t changed. We don’t have the grand super experience that Sony let us peek in to and some of the major system accessories haven’t arrived even though they were going to be touted as something revolutionary right out of the launch.

In-game XMB? nope
Custom soundtracks for games? nope
PS3 Home social system? nope
Accomplishments? nope

Three of the biggest wishes of PS3 owners that keep getting delayed or just never show up.

My take on the whole thing? Home may possibly never come. Why? Well, Home is supposed to expand and create a gaming experience that would incorporate many aspects of Xbox Live (achievements, gamerscore, etc etc) and would make them in to something that would actually be up for everyone to see. Something that was actually, ya know, worth going through the trouble for. However, most of this stuff is also heavily dependent upon developers actually INTEGRATING their games with Home, and since Home has been delayed more and more and has yet to even reach beyond Closed beta it looks like more and more developers might just take a pass on the thing all together.

Why?

Well, why not? They already have the Live architecture there and they are greatly more experienced with creating a social aspect using the dashboards of Live. Why would a 3rd-party dev even waste their time with creating game integration for a social system that has yet to even full decide on a release window? As time goes by more and more developers will come to that bridge and some may cross it and some may just turn around and go back the way they came.

I had high hopes for Home when I first purchased my PS3. I didn’t expect it to be a game or anything other than a trophy/accomplishment system that was mixed with a high-def social mmo where you and your friends could meet and launch games. However, now I don’t even care. By Winter most of the owners will be feeling the same way that I am and actual GAMES will have removed any hype that Home actually managed to gain in the year and a half that it has been announced.

So, in closing, I’m Homeless and, like waiting for Duke Nukem Forever, I probably always will be.

Why don’t we just put promiscuity and societal failure up on a pedestal, alright?

I can’t wait to see how fast this story gets spun.

As a result of Britain’s high teenage pregnancy rate - the worst in Europe - many women are becoming accustomed to looking after their grandchildren while still in their thirties - and without any sign of a husband.

Boy, that didn’t take long. Them women are getting knocked up and it’s all the husbands fault! Curse those disappearing husbands! Curse them! If only we could make those drive-by inseminating males stay!

Or, and I know I’m thinking outside the box here, OR we could always discourage teens from practicing pre-marital sex or, at the very least, bring to light the real problem in this story. Which is the fact that parents are not teaching their children, properly, the consequences of sexual activity in their teen years and how having a child so young pretty much derails your entire life.

What else do they say?

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Supposedly, Maybe, Could be?

I had heard this rumor months ago right after the North Koreans finally, after so adamantly refusing to comply, shut down the reactor in Yongbyon. A few blips up on the radar appeared just after the reactor shutdown on the news sites where experts were declaring that the North Koreans felt they didn’t “need” to have their own because they could just get help from the Syrians. If this all shapes up to be 100% accurate then this could be megaton huge.

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Sheesh. You would think that when people were backing a large motorized vehicle out of a passage way that they would remember to watch out for the shoddy cat-5 setup that my crappy phone company set up for me.

But nooooo~ They just ram the top of that lift right in to my cable lines and split every freakin one of them. Huzzah.

So, 5 days and 200 feet of new cat-5 later? Another equally crappy set up but at least it was “free”.

So, more failure news to come. Maybe. Barring a major powerlift accident there should be something else up today.

At least way way WAY overly exaggerated it all.

Nothing much to say other than “Busted”.

Akon’s ad nauseum claims about his criminal career and resulting prison time have been, to an overwhelming extent, exaggerated, embellished, or wholly fabricated, an investigation by The Smoking Gun has revealed. Police, court, and corrections records reveal that the entertainer has created a fictionalized backstory that serves as the narrative anchor for his recorded tales of isolation, violence, woe, and regret. Akon has overdubbed his biography with the kind of grit and menace that he apparently believes music consumers desire from their hip-hop stars.

O RLY?

YA RLY!

Explain!

While the performer’s rap sheet does include a half-dozen arrests, Akon has only been convicted of one felony, for gun possession. That 1998 New Jersey case ended with a guilty plea, for which the singer was sentenced to three years probation. Another 1998 bust, this one in suburban Atlanta, has been seized upon by Akon and transformed into the big case that purportedly sent him to prison (thanks to his snitching cohorts) for three fight-filled years. In reality, Akon was arrested for possession of a single stolen BMW and held in the DeKalb County jail for several months before prosecutors dropped all charges against him.

So there was no conviction. There was no prison term between 1999 and 2002. And he was never “facing 75 years,” as the singer claimed in one videotaped interview.

Wow, I knew that Akon was a douche but I didn’t know he was LYING about being a douche. That makes him an even bigger douche than before!