1/2 Price is the rapper with no legs:

Peta cares:

PETA Killed 95 Percent of Adoptable Pets in its Care During 2008

Hypocritical Animal Rights Group’s 2008 Disclosures Bring Pet Death Toll To 21,339

WASHINGTON DC – Today the nonprofit Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF) published documents online showing that People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) killed 95 percent of the adoptable pets in its care during 2008. Despite years of public outrage over its euthanasia program, the animal rights group kills an average of 5.8 pets every day at its Norfolk, VA headquarters.

According to public records from the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, PETA killed 2,124 pets last year and placed only seven in adoptive homes. Since 1998, a total of 21,339 dogs and cats have died at the hands of PETA workers.

Touchy!

President Obama spurned the D.C. media elite and skipped the annual Gridiron Dinner, but this didn’t lead to an increase in nasty Obama jokes. What nasty Obama jokes? But the media party still dwelled on mockery of Bush, Cheney, and Sarah Palin. In Monday’s Washington Post, reporter Dan Zak began by admitting the media’s audacity of hype for Obama..

Read on..

Christopher Booker reviews their journey to date:

With perfect timing, the setting out from Britain of the “Global Warming Three” last month was hampered by “an unusually heavy snowfall”. When they were airlifted to the start of their trek by a twin-engine Otter (one hopes a whole forest has been planted to offset its “carbon footprint”), they were startled to find how cold it was. The BBC dutifully reported how, in temperatures of minus 40 degrees, they were “battered by wind, bitten by frost and bruised by falls on the ice”.

Thanks to the ice constantly shifting, it was “disheartening”, reported [warmenist Pen] Hadow, to find that “when you’ve slogged for a day”, you can wake up next morning to find you have “drifted back to where you started’’. Last week, down to their last scraps of food, they were only saved in the nick of time by the faithful Otter. They were disconcerted to see one of those polar bears, threatened with extinction by global warming, wandering around, doubtless eyeing them for its dinner.

Anyone not laughing?

Bad science:

Science is not difficult to explain. Today we will see how British journalists go out of their way to cherry pick which evidence they cover, and then explain the risks and benefits in what has been shown to be the single most unhelpful way possible.

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Jim Treacher:

Last night, President Obama debuted his standup comedy act on the Tonight Show. You’ve heard his hilarious wisecracks about the Special Olympics and “waterheads,” and here are a few of his other witticisms… here

Hacks to the Left of them:

For the past two years, several hundred left-leaning bloggers, political reporters, magazine writers, policy wonks and academics have talked stories and compared notes in an off-the-record online meeting space called JournoList.

Proof of a vast liberal media conspiracy?

Continue reading…

Not at all, says Ezra Klein, the 24-year-old American Prospect blogging wunderkind who formed JournoList in February 2007. “Basically,” he says, “it’s just a list where journalists and policy wonks can discuss issues freely.”

Adrian Monck remembers:

Whenever people ask me why I left television news (a world which - I have to say - I loved) to run a J-School, I never give the real answer.

Because the real answer is just the name of someone they (and you) probably won’t ever have heard of: Richard Wild.

Read it all…

Gobbedeeegunk… by Max Atkinson

Government Issues Banned Jargon List

Anne Althouse:

“Dramatic advances in public attitudes are sweeping Iraq…”

“… with declining violence, rising economic well-being and improved services lifting optimism, fueling confidence in public institutions and bolstering support for democracy.”

Harry tells us:

You’ve probably read this:

British film director Ken Loach says that a rise in anti-Semitism in Europe since the Gaza crisis is “not surprising and understandable”.

What I would have wanted to say, has been said by Rosie and Ben and Norm.

From his comments:

Rosie Bell hits the nail on the head when she asks if - after 9/11 - Ken Loach would have found it “understandable” that Mosques were being vandalised and Muslims attacked.

This is how it starts…

Backspin on the arrest of Inayat Bunglawala:

Three guesses who the UK’s Muslim Public Affairs Committee (via Soccer Dad) blames for the affair:

Zionists within the government and the media are manipulating these great British institutions to ensure they are compliant with their new agenda of breaking the back of Muslim groups who have stood up against Israel.

Barack and Beijing.

“Of course, what the Chinese are worried about is not that the United States government will default on its bonds. That obviously won’t happen. The Chinese concern, now being expressed openly for the first time, is that the U.S. will adopt the standard debtor’s remedy of inflating its currency and paying back its debts in shrunken dollars. Why are the Chinese worried about this? Because Barack Obama’s budget proposes to borrow trillions of dollars, injecting them into the U.S. economy without any offsetting wealth being created. . . . With their shot over the bow, I think the Chinese are telling Obama that they don’t like his budget.”

Trudy Rubin puts the spotlight on the efforts of Suraya Pakzad.

Spotter: NormBlog

Scrabble:

Combine all 100 Scrabble tiles and you can spell:

COUNTRYMEN, I AM TO BURY, NOT EULOGIZE, CAESAR; IF EVIL LIVES ON, BEQUEATHING INJURY, GOOD OFT EXPIRES: A PALSIED, AWKWARD DEATH!

Spotter: Futility Closet

Jade Goody prayer for today, via Living Wittily:

Lord
receive this young woman known around the world as Marilyn Monroe
although that wasn’t her real name
(but You know her real name, the name of the orphan raped at the age of 6
and the shopgirl who at 16 had tried to kill herself)
who now comes before You without any makeup
without her Press Agent
without photographers and without autograph hounds,
alone like an astronaut facing night in space.

She dreamed when she was little that she was naked in a church

From the Anorak Forums:

“What’s the difference between Bernard Madoff and Gordon Brown? Answer: one has drained fortunes from gullible victims, plundering their income and savings to create an illusion of prosperity. The other is going to jail.”

Megan McArdle doubts  Barack Obama:

Having defended Obama’s candidacy largely on his economic team, I’m having serious buyer’s remorse.  [Timothy] Geithner, who is rapidly starting to look like the weakest link, is rattling around by himself in Treasury.  Meanwhile, the administration is clearly prioritized a stimulus package that will not work without fixing the banks over, um, fixing the banking system.  Unlike most fiscal conservatives, I’m not mad at him for trying to increase the size of the government; that’s, after all, what he got elected promising to do.  But he also promised to be non-partisan and accountable, and the size and composition stimulus package looks like just one more attempt to ram through his ideological agenda without much scrutiny, with the heaviest focus on programs that will be especially hard to cut.

Via Samizdata:

But the internet is a city and, like any great city, it has monumental libraries and theatres and museums and places in which you can learn and pick up information and there are facilities for you that are astounding - specialised museums, not just general ones.

But there are also slums and there are red light districts and there are really sleazy areas where you wouldn’t want your children wandering alone …

And I think people must understand that about the internet - it is a new city, it’s a virtual city and there will be parts of it of course that they dislike, but you don’t pull down London because it’s got a red light district.

That’s Stephen Fry talking, which I spotted here.

A Fistful Of Euros
BlairWatch
Blimpish
Bloggerheads
Boris Watch
Brian Barder
Craig Murray
Crooked Timber
Davblog
Dave Cole
Dave Weeden
Flying Rodent
Hagley Road to Ladywood
Konichiwa bitches
Leon Green
Liberal Conspiracy
Liberal England
Matt Buck
Mr Eugenides
mutantBlog
Obsolete
Penny Red
perfect.co.uk
Pickled Politics
Pigdogfucker
Rachel from North London
Rafael Behr
Scaryduck
Sim-O
Stumbling and Mumbling
Suggestation
Tampon Teabag
The enemies of reason
The Gaping Silence
The Quiet Road
The Sharpener
The Sun - Tabloid Lies
The Yorksher Gob
Tory Troll
Tumescent With Rage
Tygerland
Warren Ellis
What Do I Know?

And reading The Anorak.

Jade Goody is married:

Exclusive: First Jade Goody Wedding Photos Revealed

“Jade looked stuning as she lounged in a pile of cashew nut shells”

On the aptly named Scumbag Times.

Why bother to create that? Is Jade Goody really deserving of that because she is famous?

Isn’t online porn supposed to take care of people who are this bothered by celebs?

Jules Crittenden on the cad John Edwards:

The bigger question is why a university is giving this discredited third-string bounder a forum to hold forth on people’s moral obligations in the first place. Let him get a blog like the rest of us discredited third-string bounders.

Bounder. A lovable rogue…

Justin McKeating:

Via Anton we have this piece of utter scumbaggery from Express journalist Paula Murray:

DUNBLANE survivors have “shamed” the memory of their dead peers with foul-mouthed boasts about sex, brawls and drink-fuelled antics as they reach adulthood.

Says Justin:

So, the survivors of an atrocity try to live their lives in as normal a way as possible only to find judgement at the hands of a gutter journalist trying to stir the pot of moral outrage.

Meanwhile, over on Channel X…

Michael Yon On missing NY Times journalist David Rhodes:

Few people realize that New York Times journalist David Rhodes was kidnapped in Afghanistan back in November.  There were a few scattered stories early on, but big reporting apparently has been squashed.  In December, during a trip with Secretary Gates, I asked a New York Times reporter if she knew the status of the situation.  The story had been kept so quiet that she didn’t actually know the kidnapping had occurred.  The information came to me from several sources some weeks after the kidnapping in Afghanistan.  I sat on the information, but there are a growing number of snippets on the web, and it can safely be said that the word is out.  One extremely well placed Pentagon source told me in December that Rhodes is believed to have been moved to Pakistan.

Or been moved there…

Dan Collins on John Edwards:

Former U.S. Sen. John Edwards took another tentative step into the public spotlight tonight, speaking at Brown University about extreme poverty around the world and urging Americans to get involved in what he called a “fundamental moral issue.”

On Protein Wisdom:

I think I’m on record as having said that I applaud Edwards and that wack-job Rielle Hunter for having the baby, as there must have been lots of pressure to go a different direction. But I still hold that former US Senator and presidential candidate John Edwards can’t possibly speak to morality until he owns up to having knocked this woman up while his wife was in remission from cancer.

More.

Weed make you talkative:

Can weed be piped into Gaza?

THE wife of Zimbabwe’s Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has been killed in a car crash in which he was hurt, albeit not badly

Susan Tsvangirai was wih her husband when their vehicle was hit by a a lorry. The lorry driver is said to have been asleep.

Via TDW:

• Mysterious sonic boom over California’s central coast spawns myriad of conspiracy theories.

• Illinois Senate declares Pluto a planet while in its jurisdiction.

• Hearst plans to turn the Seattle P-I into an online-only publication.

• Follow-Up: Cathay Pacific issue an apology to the woman filmed having a panic attack following a missed flight.

• Police impersonate firefighters to get wanted man out of his apartment.

• Man arrested after going to impound lot to collect his things from a car he stole.

• Techno dance battle at wedding kills four.

• Man shoots his wife after becoming distracted by a TV program featuring Cher.

• Female athlete throws out most of her medals after discovering she’s a man.

• Canadian man at US border asks for manners, gets pepper spray.

• Woman pricked by syringes found in morning paper.

• Man sues hospital for saving his life after suicide attempt.

• Man falls down cliff, dragged back up by wife, falls down again.

• Kid saved from certain injury after dad tells him to get off the floor moments before drunk driver rams into their house.

• Man meets biological mother 57 years after being taken home from hospital by the wrong family.

• Strange woman interrupts funeral, strikes dead body with wand.

• UK road workers paint white line over manure.

• 4-year-old becomes owner of private island after winning lottery.

• Better Know A Dead Person: Conchita Cintrón, legendary torera, dead at 86.