Andy Wibbels

CNN says, 'F--k me? No f-ck you.': "Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, who has not held a press conference in nearly four weeks of campaigning, on Tuesday banned reporters from her first meetings with world leaders, allowing access only to photographers and a television crew. CNN, which was providing the television coverage for news organizations, decided to pull its TV crew, effectively denying Palin the high visibility she had sought." - Andy Wibbels

'As of this writing, it has been 39 days and 22 hours since Sen. John McCain last held a news conference (despite having promised to hold weekly Q&A sessions with the press if he's elected).' - Andy Wibbels

'Why would God give Sarah Palin a job she isn't ready for? He wouldn't. Everything happens for a reason. Palin seems perfectly willing to stake the welfare of our country—even the welfare of our species—as collateral in her own personal journey of faith.' - Andy Wibbels

'"The decisions that will be made this weekend matter not just to the prospects of the U.S. economy in the year to come; they will shape the type of capitalism we will live in for the next fifty years."' - Andy Wibbels

'I've often wondered if a one-page gamebook would be possible, and this definitely proves that it is.' - Andy Wibbels

'What up, RNC! This conference so white, Helen Mirren tried to snort it!' - Andy Wibbels

'You hear that implosion reverberating through financial markets? It's the sound of decades of conservative ideology collapsing.' - Andy Wibbels

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'Republicans might be especially prone to the backfire effect because conservatives may have more rigid views than liberals: Upon hearing a refutation, conservatives might "argue back" against the refutation in their minds, thereby strengthening their belief in the misinformation.' - Andy Wibbels

'Despite pleas from the woman's parents, the police, and the FBI, it was four days before a technician was sent out to the appropriate cell tower. When that technician gave the police the location info, they found Kelsey Smith's body within 45 minutes.' - Andy Wibbels

'But then his local bishop plunged into the fray, barring Senator Joseph Biden Jr. of Delaware, the Democratic vice-presidential nominee, from receiving communion in the area because of his support for abortion rights.' - Andy Wibbels

'I pleaded with empty hand outstretched: "I think you're making a mistake, Father." His red complexion redder now, betraying righteous anger. His stretched hand over the top of the Ciborium, the container for the consecrated bread as if I was going to grab a handful and make a run for it, and then the pronouncement: "No, you are the one who made the mistake." From the back of the Communion line someone shouted out, "Are you judging this man, Father?" I was grateful for the intervention. Will the Last Day be like this? One friend making an appeal for another? The response was cold: "He has judged himself and been found unworthy."' - Andy Wibbels

From November 2004: 'The Arabic-language network Al-Jazeera released a full transcript Monday of the most recent videotape from Osama bin Laden in which the head of al Qaeda said his group's goal is to force America into bankruptcy.' - Andy Wibbels

'Munger also asked Palin if she truly believed in the End of Days, the doomsday scenario when the Messiah will return. “She looked in my eyes and said, ‘Yes, I think I will see Jesus come back to earth in my lifetime.‘”' - Andy Wibbels

'The Catholic Church does not read the Genesis account of creation literally, saying it is an allegory for the way God created the world.' - Andy Wibbels

'the Deep Impact spacecraft directed a probe to impact the nucleus of Comet Tempel 1. Still cruising through the solar system, earlier this year the robotic spacecraft looked back to record a series of images of its home world 31 million miles (50 million kilometers) away.' - Andy Wibbels

'Think about your protests, you’ve gotten used to the fact that every time you get marginally pissed off about something the police show up in FULL RIOT GEAR and send you on your way. They beat people in the street and get away with it, they arrest people on fraudulent charges and nothing gets done about it. Guess what that means?' - Andy Wibbels

Wow - it's almost frustrating to watch! - George Smith

Media doing its job. Amazing! Pity you guys don't have Jeremy Paxman. - Paul Grav

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Police state in progress. - Andy Wibbels

Just by using verbs instead of exclamations on your buttons or links you'll save your users time, as well as make all the choices clearer. - Andy Wibbels

'That’s why, the moment I saw Guy Pearce in Memento, I knew finally someone was telling my story. Here was a movie about the predominant art form of our time: notetaking.' - Andy Wibbels

'On the weekend before the Republican National Convention, law enforcement agencies detained dozens of people and issued a series of search warrants aimed at groups believed to be organizing demonstrations while delegates and Republican officials are in town.' - Andy Wibbels

'Roughly 25 officers had barged into their homes with masks and black swat gear, holding large semi-automatic rifles, and ordered them to lie on the floor, where they were handcuffed and ordered not to move. The officers refused to state why they were there and, until the very end, refused to show whether they had a search warrant. They were forced to remain on the floor for 45 minutes while the officers took away the laptops, computers, individual journals, and political materials kept in the house.' - Andy Wibbels

'George H W Bush broke down crying a while back during a speech after mentioning Jeb Bush, it was because he knows 'W' has destroyed Jeb's prospects of holding any high office in this country-- much less the presidency-- and because he realizes the Bush Dynasty itself, the work of generations and carefully passed from father to son, has been obliterated by his misbegotten almost namesake.' - Andy Wibbels

'And, sure enough, the last we see of Catwoman is her "dying" from kissing Christopher Walken with a goddamned taser in her mouth. If that's not some kind of symbolism for herpes then we don't know what is.' - Andy Wibbels

I need to wash my eyes after reading that article. - Pete Delucchi

With bleach. - Andy Wibbels

Jeez. What's the keyword density for the word 'fuck' in that piece. Besides that, has everyone swallowed the 'Obama doesn't have any experience' line? He has less experience, but *he does have experience* as a state legislator and a freaking Senator, where he sits on 4 committees. - AJ Kohn

'Concerned about its appeal to sponsors, the women’s professional golf tour, which in recent years has been dominated by foreign-born players, has warned its members that they must become conversant in English by 2009 or face suspension.' - Andy Wibbels

'Iraqi LGBT, the London NGO that Nadir works for, says more than 430 gay men have been murdered in Iraq since 2003. For the country's beleaguered gays, it's a friendless landscape.' - Andy Wibbels

'Does race affect the way technology is used? Forget about the economics, the have and have nots, we're talking about those that are currently and actively using technology, in whatever form.' - Andy Wibbels

'House Speaker Nancy Pelosi later attempted to get Bush to sign a "bar mitzvah stop-use agreement" for the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Clusterbomb.' - Andy Wibbels