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Israel's Yes TV satellite company is establishing a reputation for pushing the boundaries with its ads. Last year, Yes created a minor furor when it produced a commercial featuring faux-angry mobs of Orthodox Jews dancing in the streets to the tune of the Village People's "YMCA" to protest the cable company's new high definition television. The entertaining ad sparked protests, with one critic calling the ad "anti-Semitic." (You can see the ad here or here.) As a follow-up, Yes has just released a new ad likely to be just as controversial, but for entirely different reasons. The latest commercial, which...

I must send my thanks to whoever sent me the one about poop in the glue on envelopes because I now have to use a wet towel with every envelope that needs sealing. Also, now I have to scrub the top of every can I open for the same reason. I no longer have any savings because I gave it to a sick girl (Penny Brown) who is about to die in the hospital for the 1,387,258th time. I no longer have any money at all, but that will change once I receive the $15,000 that Bill Gates/Microsoft and AOL...

'Santa Claus Is Coming To Get Me': Mental health charity sparks outrage with spoof Christmas carolsLast updated at 14:19pm on 20th December 2007  Traditional: But Christmas carols were given a radical make-over by a health trust in Salford A bad taste top ten of Christmas carols poking fun at mental illness has been slammed as "degrading" and "insensitive" after it was published with the backing of a social services department. The booklet contains a list titled "Christmas Carols for the Mentally Disturbed". It then names psychiatric conditions and suggests festive songs which would suit the illness. They include: Schizophrenia...

LONDON (Reuters) - An official announcer for London's Tube system has been sacked after making spoof messages mocking American tourists, peeping Toms and sweaty commuters. Voiceover artist Emma Clarke, 36, recorded the announcements in the same smooth tones that have warned millions of passengers to "Mind The Gap" and posted them on her Web site. The messages include: * "We would like to remind our American tourist friends that you are almost certainly talking too loudly." * "Would the passenger in the red shirt pretending to read the paper but who is actually staring at that woman's chest please stop....

24's Unaired 1994 Pilot Sticks Jack Bauer with Dialup, Lycos, Dot Matrix Printers Our friends over at CollegeHumor heard that 24 was delayed due to the writer's strike, so they combed through the archives and found this pilot from way back in 1994. As you can see, Jack Bauer is just as intense when stuck dealing with pagers, 1-800-Collect, and AOL as he is using more modern accoutrements. Damn it! [CollegeHumor]

A final attempt for a one-sided compromise between Serbs and Albanians on the status of Kosovo ended abruptly Wednesday, the fourth day of face-to-face negotiations in New York, when the Albanian delegation opened fire on the Serbian delegation, killing everyone. The international community condemned the resulting Serbian intransigence, but hailed the meeting as an overall success. "This is more proof that self-determination for Kosovo Albanians is the only rational solution," said American envoy Frank Wisner. President Bush announced that the so-called massacre of the Serbian delegation has made it necessary once again to bomb Serbia and teach those nationalists a...

(LONDON) A decade-long rumor was confirmed today when it was announced that Hillary Clinton has insured her piano legs for $10 million with Lloyds of London. Until yesterday the public had only known of Hillary's piano legs through anecdotal evidence because no known pictures of them existed. For example, in March 2006 Chris Matthews of MSNBC's Hardball called Hillary, "Dukakis in a dress," and noted that she has better calves than former Democratic Presidential nominee Michael Dukakis. Washington pundits speculate that Clinton has chosen this time to insure her legs because she expects Rudy Giuliani to emerge as her probable...

Andy Samberg, Adam Levine and Jake Gyllenhaal lampooned Holocaust-denying, homosexual-decrying Iran president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Saturday Night Live this week. Samberg performed a hilarious R&B love song titled “I Ran” in homage to the Iranian president (played by Fred Armisen), featuring lyrics like, “You ain’t wrong to me, so strong to me. You belong to me, like a very hairy Jake Gyllenhaal to me.” Meanwhile, Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine gamely lent an overemoting chorus to the video, crooning, “And Iran, I ran so far away. Because you’re home, in my heart you’ll stay…” President Ahmadinejad gave a controversial speech...

I watched this Nickelback video on youtube. I thought it was a well made video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmeUuoxyt_E&feature=dir Now watch this spoof of the Nickelback Video. It's hilarious. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uSlqI1AVUk

A British homeowner was arrested after a burglar fell 30 feet from the balcony of his apartment and later died in the hospital. Police say that "following an exchange of words," the 43-year-old intruder, whose name was withheld to protect his privacy, smashed through a fourth-floor window in an attempt to escape after being confronted by the homeowner, Patrick Walsh, aged 56. Walsh was subsequently arrested for “assault causing serious bodily harm.” If convicted he could face a life sentence. A spokesman for the Greater Manchester Police said that even though the common person might assume that the homeowner is...

*Eternal wisdom may now be fully digested MEXICO CITY – Though it would be hard for anyone to say how they might react to witnessing a heavenly vision, there is little doubt that most would never think about eating it. But that appears to be exactly what happened here in early June. Maria Orosco, a 78-year-old mother of two, had just finished making herself a homemade tortilla shell when she says she saw the face of Christ materialize in the shell along with three large paragraphs of what appeared to be Hebrew text. Orosco then covered the vision with beans,...

Has anyone else had this problem? How do you block spam that spoofs your own e-mail address as the sender? Of course, it makes it through every filter and it is an illegal operation to block your own e-mail address. Does anyone know a way around this?

Sunday at 7 p.m., Fox News Channel premieres its antidote to the left-leaning humor of Comedy Central's "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart" and "The Colbert Report" -- a conservative fake news show. Within seconds, liberal viewers will realize why creators of "The 1/2 Hour News Hour" joked that the show's alternative title was "Pissing Off Berkeley."... as often occurs on Fox's "24" -- the other program that " 1/2 Hour" executive producer Joel Surnow presides over -- there's a twist: A lot of the creative energy behind the liberal bashing on "The 1/2 Hour News Hour" originated in Berkeley....

Huntsville, Ala. – Thomas Abrams, a 22-year-old resident arrested for petty theft Saturday evening for shoplifting several small-value items from a local pharmacy, conducted himself in an equally petty manner when confronted by store employees and police officials following the theft, sources agreed Sunday. “What a jerk that dude was, making all those petty remarks toward employees while the cops were hauling him out of the store,” said Marie Connelly, an employee at the 13th Avenue Walgreens store where Abrams allegedly attempted the petty theft. “Like, for example, when the cops were escorting him down aisle four to take him...

Vegetation die-off (areas of reddish-brown) in New England observed by NASA satellite, revealing the negative influence of heating oil use on normally healthy vegetation.(Greenbelt, Maryland) A new sensor on a NASA Earth-orbiting satellite has for the first time observed a global-scale die off of vegetation, a new article in Science magazine reports this week. "We were amazed at the continental scale that this die off occupied", said Dr. John Jorgenson of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. The relatively rapid change in vegetation characteristics was observed from late summer through the fall, when the multi-million dollar NASA instrument recorded a distinct...

Plans are being drawn up to build a £3.3m working replica of the boat that took Charles Darwin around the world at Milford Haven in Pembrokeshire. Fundraising for the project, which would mark the 200th anniversary of Darwin's birth in 2009, is under way. The aim is to built a seaworthy vessel identical to the HMS Beagle on the outside, but with a modern interior. Darwin, who showed how natural selection could explain evolution, sailed on the Beagle between 1831-36. Sitting opposite him on the expedition was mate and surveyor John Lort Stokes. One of Stokes' descendents, Pembrokeshire farmer David...

BurqaBarn: Dress Your Woman in Style! By Propaganda Department 5/5/2006, 2:17 pm By Tamil Mohammar Ramadan Hello my friends! How many times have you caught one of your women bandying about without its burqa? How many times has an insolent female flashed her ankle by "accident"? Has this caused you humiliation and pain requiring whipping? Have you been forced, through no fault of your own, to resort to honor killing? Isn't it time you stopped wasting perfectly good woman flesh and invested in a foolproof coverage system for your females? Now, BurqaBarn, in conjunction with Citywide Waste Management, has a...

An Israeli cartoon competition to find the "best, sharpest, most offensive Jew-hating cartoons ever published," launched in response to an Iranian daily newspaper's international cartoon contest focusing on the Holocaust, has announced a winner – a "fiddler on the roof" takeoff on September 11. As WorldNetDaily reported, the Iranian newspaper Hamshahri, one of the nation's top five, conceived the Holocaust-themed contest as a response to the Danish paper Jyllands-Posten's solicitation of cartoons depicting Islam's prophet Muhammad, which evoked a violent reaction around the Muslim world. In February, Farid Mortazavi, Hamshahri's graphics editor said the paper intended to turn the tables...

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I have received two email today asking me to login into my paypal account and verify my info. Seeing as Pay-Pal has the worst customer support on the planet I decided to share this with everybody. This first emailer messed up and gave me his actual e-mail address, or at least its not his spoofed email. To: aft_lizard01@yahoo.com Subject: Your Account Access Has Been Compromised Message-ID: <1134799105.41926.qmail@paypal.com> From: "service@paypal.com"<service@paypal.com> Content-Type: text/html <br> <br> &nbsp;&nbsp;Dear PayPal Member,<br> &nbsp;&nbsp;<br> &nbsp;&nbsp;Our systems detected your user ID being used in Europe.<br> &nbsp;&nbsp;At the moment we are trying to trace and resolve the provenience of...

September 24, 2005 Washington DC Hello from enemy territory! I’m in Washington DC with Peace Mother Sheehan (PMS) where earlier this week we protested at the White House. We marched down Pennsylvania Ave. singing songs of peace, some of us baring our breasts and genitals for peace, others doing bong hits for peace, and quite a few talking on cell phones for peace. Cindy had this great idea to write a letter to President Hayseed demanding the withdrawal of all American troops from all countries, disbanding the military, and prison sentences and sensitivity training for any Christian or Jew who...

A message from the Army Safety Center Hard to believe ANYONE is this stupid. (video contains language, violence)

AFFIDAVIT OF JAMES H. DONNER My name is James H. Donner, and I am 19 years old. No one has paid me for these statements. No member of the RNC, no one from the Bush administration, and no one from FreeRepublic.com has solicited this information. For the past three and a half years, I have delivered pizza to the home of Joseph Wilson and Valerie Plame as well as to the homes of many others in the neighborhood. I live on the next street. Everyone in the neighborhood knew that Plame worked for the CIA. It was no secret. Wilson...

A little humor, but maybe a warning of things to come.

Check out this weird block of text at the bottom of a SPAM message that came in here a while ago. Is this someones atempt at keyword spamming that accidentally got included in the SPAM email or is it perhaps a draft copy of Kofi Annan's latest speech leaked to the press before proofreading? Weird! Machine other however monday got behalf so for the mailing a correct device well for add smattering dealt guide am bush. Messages . done deprecatory bit an budd fine object parasitic and boost eighty of info curd puissant didn iraq correct long ancestry. General i...

Internet Explorer and Firefox -- even the newest edition that's getting ready for release -- can be spoofed by hackers intent on stealing passwords or other confidential information, a security firm said Tuesday. According to Danish vulnerability tracker Secunia, Microsoft's Internet Explorer, Mozilla's Firefox, and virtually every other popular browser could be used by malicious Web site to display bogus Java dialog boxes atop legitimate sites. "The problem is that JavaScript dialog boxes do not display or include their origin, which allows a new window to open -- a prompt dialog box -- which appears to be from a trusted...

Spoofing flaw resurfaces in Mozilla browsersBy Joris Evers, CNET News.com Published on ZDNet News: June 6, 2005, 1:52 PM PT Forward inEMAILFormat forPRINT Web browsersSecurity threats A 7-year-old flaw that could let an attacker place malicious content on trusted Web sites has resurfaced in the most recent Firefox browser, Secunia has warned.The flaw, which also affects some other Mozilla Foundation programs, lies in the way the software handles frames, which are a way of showing Web content in separate parts of the browser window. The applications don't check whether the frames displayed in a single window all originate from the same...

This is just as good as it gets. TIME Magazine publishes the photo below regarding a protest at the GOP convention in New York. They actually believe that this group of protestors was against President Bush and Ann Coulter. In the photo, the signs held by the Protest Warriors should have given the nitwits a clue. CommunistsforKerry.com is pretty obvious. And the sign in the background about criminals in favor of gun control is like a 2x4 in the side of the head. But they still didn't get it. Demon and Idol Protesters blast Coulter at the G.O.P. Convention in...

Hey, you might want to watch out for an apparent spoof in your inbox. I got a email, supposedly from somebody using Bluemountain.com, the ecard people. Text follows, but every link listed is linked not to Bluemountain, but to an ISP number that WHOIS's to Roadrunner. The ISP is... http://66.66.129.65:8180/008/ ...and the text is... To view your eCard, choose from the options below. Click on the following link. http://www.bluemountain.com/view.pd?i=521208629&m=5034&rr=y&source=bma517 OR Enter the following eCard Number, [Numbers] , on our Card Pick Up Window at http://www.bluemountain.com/findit.pd?source=bma725 If you have any comments or questions, please visit http://www.bluemountain.com/customer/emailus.pd?source=bma346 Thanks for using BlueMountain.com

CHESTERFIELD, N.J. (AP) - Contractors working in New Jersey prisons will undergo special training after a skit authorized as part of a drug treatment program for inmates featured a spoof on the Ku Klux Klan. Five employees of the Chicago-based Gateway Foundation Inc., the company whose workers approved the skit, have been fired, and the company has been cautioned that further incidents won't be tolerated, said Matthew Schuman, a spokesman for the state Department of Corrections. "The company was told this better not happen again," he said. Several inmates who took part in the Jan. 6 skit at the Garden...

New "Nerf" Bomb Promises to be Most Harmless Bomb Ever Deployed The new "Nerf" warhead can strike targets without damaging them. WASHINGTON, DC -- Despite strenuous efforts to avoid civilian casualties, and even the use of non-exploding "concrete bombs", coalition forces still suffered criticism from other nations for those that were killed while liberating Iraq. To avoid this in the future, Pentagon officials today announced the latest weapon in the war on terror - the new "NESO" bomb. NESO, which stands for Non-Explosive Safety Ordnance, is the latest advance in the race to develop weapons that will not piss off...

Even SP2 versions of Microsoft's Internet Explorer are vulnerable to a spoofing exploit published yesterday. A vulnerability researcher posted details of a dangerous Internet Explorer (IE) flaw on Thursday that allows phishers to spoof Web sites more realistically than ever before. According to security company Secunia, Paul from Greyhats -- a research group -- has published details of a vulnerability that can be exploited to spoof the content of any Web site. Using the exploit, scammers are able to manipulate all versions of IE, including Windows XP SP2 -- the latest and most secure version of the browser -- and...

A European security vendor warned Wednesday that most browsers sport a bug that hackers can exploit to spoof a Web site and trick users into trusting bogus pop-up windows. The vulnerability, which Danish security firm Secunia rated as "moderately critical" is similar to previous bugs in browsers that was disclosed in July and September of 2004. Attackers could use it to add content into a trusted Web site's window by, for instance, inserting a fake form in a pop-up window seemingly opened by that site. Affected browsers, said Secunia, include the popular Internet Explorer and the up-and-coming Firefox, as well...

Here's what I got, on an email and fraud site purporting to be PayPal: Notice of Verification Necessity Please read this important information -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Why did I get the notice? You have been sent this notice because the records of PayPal, Inc. indicate you are a current or former PayPal account holder. PayPal is conducting a periodic update of the records. To ensure your account's security, it is important that you provide us accurate information. Please take a moment to verify the personal information we have on file. This notice provides instructions on how to verify your current PayPal account....

Sorry for the vanity - but I wanted to alert MSN and Hotmail users to a spoofed email I received that was supposedly from "Hotmail Staff". (I have an MSN account.) The email said they were reviewing accounts and there was some problem that needed clarification on my account. I was supposed to click on the provided link. However the link in the email was different than the actual link which would have taken me to http://securetrade-eu.com/check.php. The email said if information wasn't provided within 48 hours, my account would be restricted. I spoke with Tech Support at MSN and...

I know that for some it's hard to joke about a subject as serious as the terrorists and the Iraq war. However, ridicule of our enemies is sometimes a good outlet. SMASH HERE FOR A GOOD LAUGH!

Hostettler mounting campaign to change the name of Interstate 69            By August Wayne, THG NewsJohn Hostettler, the Congressman representing the 8th district of Indiana, has been convinced by local religious groups to introduce legislation in the House that would change the name of an Interstate 69 extension to a more moral sounding number.There are plans to extend the interstate from Indianapolis through southwestern Indiana all the way through Texas into Mexico in the coming years.  While most believe this highway will be good for the state’s economy, religious conservatives believe “I-69” sounds too risqué and want to change the...

The Democratic Party in Texas filed a lawsuit today demanding a statewide recount. Congressman John Conyers (D-MI), and Barney Frank (D-MA) joined with other national Democratic figures in calling for a closer look at the vote tally in Texas. "Something just doesn't seem right," said Democratic Representative Henry Waxman. "There are still provisional ballots to be counted, as well as overseas ballots, and spoiled ballots. Bush only won the state by 1,700,000 votes, so who knows what the final result might be?" MoveOn.Org posted the following on their popular 527 website: "There are reports that Bush got far more votes...

Hi everyone, I just now had time to finish this - enjoy ;-) --- Christmas in Cambodia (to the tune of Kim Wilde’s “Cambodia”) --- Well John was Cam Rahn based He was a Swift Boat guy, PCF ninety-four Back then in sixty-nine But soon he got too bored And he began to change Was “Boston Strangler” now His boss just thought him strange - But then he got a call From Tricky Dick one night He couldn’t tell his crew He had to keep it tight No camera gear to pack To reenact this fight He had to take...

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From the Communists for Kerry site: As promised, on Sunday, August 29, 2004, Communists For Kerry spearheaded the Great Revolutionary Parade, leading thousands of unwashed workers, peasants, and toiling intelligentsia from many towns and villages of our great American Motherland, along the Seventh Ave. and past the Madison Square Garden, in celebration of our victory over the so-called "democratic process" that still exists in the bourgeois "republic" of America. We demanded one-party rule - and the masses showed their resolute support! We demanded to arrest the delegates of the Republican Convention - and the masses unanimously agreed! We demanded the...

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Gays couples deserve the same rights granted all citizens. Progressive thinking people know this. Discrimination on any basis is wrong and hateful. Hopefully, now that we have an open debate on this topic, we as a society can broaden our tolerance for other groups that have been shut out of political and social acceptance. Transsexuals, who weren't given a choice as to their orientation but were rather born that way, should also be allowed to marry persons of any gender or non-gender. Pedophilic men, who are also victims of legal discrimination through no choice of their own but were born...

<p>KANSAS CITY, Mo.  — Somewhere in Springfield, state unknown, Bart Simpson is in detention, filling a chalkboard with the words "I will not write a fake letter to Dear Abby."</p> <p>Well, it probably wasn't Bart's handiwork, but he'd no doubt approve of the prank that forced Dear Abby's editors to pull next Monday's advice column, which included a letter that mirrored an episode of "The Simpsons."</p>

Palestinian president Yasser Arafat (news - web sites), seen in a picture handed out by his office, shows a map to a delegation of Christian leaders in his office in the West Bank city of Ramallah March 5,2004. The map shows the route of a barrier Israel is building to seal off the West Bank and what Palestinians fear will be the isolated pockets of land they'll be left with after the project is complete. The Israeli army has begun conducting simulated 'war games' to prepare for possible turmoil after Arafat dies, an Israeli newspaper reported on Friday. REUTERS/...

Microsoft Security Bulletin MS04-004 Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer (832894) Issued: February 2, 2004 Version: 1.0 Summary Who should read this document: Customers who are using Microsoft® Internet Explorer Impact of vulnerability: Remote Code Execution Maximum Severity Rating: Critical Recommendation: Systems administrators should apply the security update immediately. Security Update Replacement: This update replaces the one that is provided in Microsoft Security Bulletin MS03-048, which is itself a cumulative update. Caveats: None Tested Software and Security Update Download Locations: Affected Software: * Microsoft Windows NT® Workstation 4.0 Service Pack 6a * Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 Service Pack 6a...