The now famous Bush-Harper Brokeback parody

If you don't understand French, according to AFP, here is what happens

In the takeoff of the celluloid romance between two rugged cowboys, Boisclair sticks his head inside a tent where apparently the US president and Canadian premier are fooling around.

"I won't go in there," says the leader of Parti Quebecois, the political party that seeks independence for the French language-dominated Canadian province.

Can someone tell me what's the problem? I personally don't find it very funny, but in no way offensive. If there are people eligible for making jokes out of Brokeback Mountain, this openly gay guy is certainly one of them.

More constitutional problems for Bush

A US district judge strikes down the executive order "which blocked all the assets of groups or individuals he named as "specially designated global terrorists" after the 2001 terrorist attacks."

The case centered on two groups, the Liberation Tigers, which seeks a separate homeland for the Tamil people in Sri Lanka, and Partiya Karkeran Kurdistan, a political organization representing the interests of Kurds in Turkey.

U.S. District Judge Audrey Collins enjoined the government from blocking the assets of the two groups.

The judge's 45-page ruling was a reversal of her own tentative findings last July in which she indicated she would uphold wide powers asserted by Bush under an anti-terror financing law. She delayed her ruling then to allow more legal briefs to be filed.

She also struck down the provision in which Bush had authorized the secretary of the treasury to designate anyone who "assists, sponsors or provides services to" or is "otherwise associated with" a designated group.

However, she let stand sections of the order that penalize those who provide "services" to designated terrorist groups. She said such services would include the humanitarian aid and rights training proposed by the plaintiffs.

Time to have some pure fun

Can you remind me who prefer Jay Leno to Dave Letterman?

Video of the day

Enjoy.

Rumsfeld video

Let's remember this Princetonian.

The power of YouTube

FBI is investigating a police brutality event becayse they saw this....

Haircut of the future Junior Senator from Montana

See it yourself. I personally doubt that people in Montana are really getting haircut like that. BTW AP reports that Burns conceded to Tester when he headed to get the haircut.

DSCC declares winning Montana and Virginia, therefore the Senate majority

I knew it all along (though I thought Dem would pick up Arizona than Virgina, far before the Macaca even happened). Tester is now leading by 3000+ votes, with 99% reported. I would presume that's not a small amount in a state like Montana. Webb is now leading by ~8000 votes. It's not a lot compared with Virginia electorate, but considering last recount in Virginia only change 37 votes in results, I would say it's fairly safe.

CNN projects McCaskill will win MO-Sen

Two more to go. Both Montana and Virginia look good now. I think we have Senate. BTW I said Menendez would win by 8% on Oct 31. See, I'm quite good on that.

CNN projects Democrats will win House

DCCC judt did so too. I'm still very worried about Webb in Virginia.

NBC projected Democrats to win House

Again no surprise so far.

CNN projected Whitehouse wins RI-SEN

Third pick-up tonight.

NBC projected Cardin will defeat Steele

Both "competetive" Dem seats are now projected saved.

NBC projected Brown will defeat DeWine

I haven't thought this seat as competetive for a long while. Just gain the first seat.

CNN projected Menendez wins NJ-SEN

The first so-called "competetive seat" projected in favor Democrats.

This is unbelievable

I don't know anyone can be a hypocrite like this.

Republican Senate hopeful Tom Kean Jr.'s campaign called developer Murray Kushner's money "dirty" in a September news release that noted Democrat Bob Menendez had taken $7,700 of it.

On Wednesday, Kean's campaign said it had made a mistake.

What changed?

Kushner gave Kean $8,000 on Friday.

GOP House Leader: Generals on the ground are in charge

Hmm. It must be those generals who decided to have this unjustifiable war and not having enough troops at the first place and to torture those people such that more people are angry at US. And he even thinks such kind of remarks express his greatest gratitude to people in uniform.

October reading report

Hurray, new record. 162 impressions according to AdSense (not much higher than 155 last month though). Highest traffic came in on Oct 19 (24), when nothing was posted. Second highest was on Oct 24 (23), the day before NJ Supreme Court announced the historical decision of Lewis v. Harris. You can read my lay man's analysis to the ruling here.