the idea of universal health care being passed relatively soon is good news to my ears.

Keeping my current coverage next year as a self-employed person: $700

This new Fox reality show is kinda' fucked....

New reality show "Smile, You're Under Arrest"

Fox's new reality show pilot called Smile, You're Under Arrest features people with outstanding warrants getting tricked for the audience's amusement before being arrested.

Fox President of Alternative Entertainment Mike Darnell calls it "a reverse Punk’d. Instead of the worst day of your life and then a joke at the end, this is the reverse. This is the best day of your life, and then we arrest you.”

One of three set-ups just shot in Arizona features the cops luring a criminal to a movie set with the promise of making him an extra and paying him a couple hundred dollars. An elaborate film set is staged and filming begins on a faux movie. The set-up continues as the director then gets mad at the lead actor, fires him and replaces him with the law-breaking extra.

The scene escalates with the fake director introducing the mark to a supposed studio mogul and continuing to create this dream-comes-true sequence. Finally, all the participants are revealed as officers of the law, and the criminal is apprehended (before signing waivers to let the footage be used in the show).

I can kinda' see this working if the person is a complete asshole (or they decide to portray the person as such), but what if they're not?

I can kinda' see this working if the person is a complete asshole (or they decide to portray the person as such), but what if they're not?

Or what if they're armed?

Or what if they're armed?

Now that would be funny... in a sick, fucked up way....

Keeping my current coverage next year as a self-employed person: $700

If that is per year, that is an amazingly good rate. If that is per month -- eep!

Per month.

In the unrepentant suck-up of the day,

Gov. Sarah Palin said Wednesday that she would be honored to help President-elect Barack Obama in his new administration, even if he did hang around with an "unrepentant domestic terrorist."

The Alaska governor said in an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer that she would be willing to help if Obama asked her for assistance on some of the issues she highlighted during this year's campaign, such as energy or services for special-needs children.

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They found another foot in British Columbia, which appears to match one that was previously found: [link]

Huh. British Columbia. Not too far from Alaska....

Yes, Obama, the socialist terrorist pal, definitely needs advice from someone's whose oil company experience consists of getting a large check from them and who, when asked about her concerns about running for vice president, did not mention her family, including her special needs child.