Avast me scurvies, it’s Talk Like a Pirate Day!

Top Ten Pickup lines for use on International Talk Like a Pirate Day

10 . Avast, me proud beauty! Wanna know why my Roger is so Jolly?
9. Have ya ever met a man with a real yardarm?
8. Come on up and see me urchins.
7. Yes, that is a hornpipe in my pocket and I am happy to see you.
6. I’d love to drop anchor in your lagoon.
5. Pardon me, but would ya mind if fired me cannon through your porthole?
4. How’d you like to scrape the barnacles off of me rudder?
3. Ya know, darlin’, I’m 97 percent chum free.
2. Well blow me down?

And the number one pickup line for use on International Talk Like a Pirate Day is …

1. Prepare to be boarded.

Let Dave Barry explain it further

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Life imitates art: Doonesbury incites flash mob

A “Doonesbury” comic strip attracted some 100 real-life fans of Howard Dean to the base of the Space Needle, where at 10:35 Saturday morning <Sep 13> they jumped up and down, cheering their favorite presidential candidate.

The brief bit of political theater -about 15 seconds long - followed directions for a “flash mob” at the Space Needle  laid out in Monday’s cartoon strip.

For the non-hip, a “Doonesbury” character explained flash mobs in the next day’s strip: “It’s like Web-generated performance art. People assemble at a designated public place, do something random, and then disperse”

Here’s the Doonesbury comic that inspired it! And here’s lots more about flash mobs.

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Bush: Sept. 11, Iraq not linked

“No evidence” found of previous claim

President Bush said Wednesday that there has been “no evidence” that Iraq’s Saddam Hussein was involved in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, disavowing a link that had been hinted previously by his administration.

Hinted? HINTED?? They lied for months, made up “facts”, twisted truth, hired advertising agencies to do their propaganda, and they say this was just, you know, “hinting”?

“No, we’ve had no evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved with September the 11th,” the president said after a meeting at the White House with lawmakers.

Let’s see, there are no WMD, no Saddam link to 9/11, no Saddam to Al Qaeda link. So why did we invade? The entire justification for war was based on lies. Sounds like an impeachable offense to me.

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NYSE’s board is about to change

Embattled New York Stock Exchange directors attend their first full meeting in the post-Grasso era Friday knowing that their days on the board are numbered.

Richard Grasso was forced to resign as head of NYSE after revelations of his wallowing-at-the-trough salary of 148 million a year (plus a 50 million bonus). This from a man who demands all the other companies should act respectably and for the shareholders. What a hypocritical greedy pig. And now all the board will be joining him and resigning too.

This is fascinating. Apparently it was the floor traders, the working class of the NYSE, who first revolted, demanding his resignation. They ended up overthrowing the existing power structure. Hmm, just like the WTO revolt a few days where the poorer countries formed a bloc and walked out, torpedoing the talks, this is a case where the turbulent action has moved inside and is not just outside on the streets anymore.

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