Halloween Open Thread, October 31, 2010

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• Greg
  4:15 pm on October 31st, 2010 1

  California gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman promotes Korean cross-dresser

  http://madmikesamerica.com/2010/10/meg-whitman-pr…

  Meg Whiteman’s self-funded $150 million campaign for Governor of California is nothing but interesting. Whitman’s press secretary, Sarah Pompeii, has demonstrated the care that we all must take when copying links from bit.ly, the link-shortening program frequently used on Twitter. In a tweet this week, Pompeii had wanted to share a press release trumpeting the San Diego County Sheriff’s Association endorsement of Whitman. But she mistakenly left off the last letter of the bit.ly link. And, as so often happens, the corrupted link led to a YouTube video of cross-dressing Korean bassist Hyunmo Kim, a.k.a. H.J. Freaks. It’s about as far as you can get from a police-union endorsement, but for the Internet, it could not possibly have worked out any better.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMWUYMWlEyo&fe…

• Hamilton
  6:18 pm on October 31st, 2010 2

  Greg, it was even funnier when her opponent or one of his close staff called her a "who#re" on tape and NOW endorsed him anyways! Now that's funny.

• Richard W. Nimmo
  12:20 am on November 9th, 2010 3

  I just opened the photos of Uijongbu and almost fell off my chair.

  I was stationed at Camp Red Cloud from 1955 to 1957. That place has changed just a little. We had a 1/2 mile open field of fire around the entire camp with nothing but rice paddies. The entire city, what there was of it, was made out of flattened 55 gal drums. The only running water was in the ditches on both sides of the dirt road used only by the military. Lt. Gen Arthur Treaudeau was the I Corp Commander.

  Being in a position where I had access to a Jeep anytime I wanted it made for exploring everywhere from Wolmi Do island to the 24th Inf on the DMZ

  extremly interesting.

  Writing about this is bringing back a lot of memories. Some hair raising, some hilarious. I will have to dig out my scrapbooks and military records.

• ChickenHead
  4:28 am on November 9th, 2010 4

  Here is something scary… even though it's after Halloween.

  Somebody just launched a really big missile off the coast of California…

  …but, so far, the American military claims they know nothing about it.

  So, somebody is funking with us.

  If the military is denying this because they want to cover up a secret military test, then why do it were everyone in LA can see it? That's just driving another wedge in the trust zone between the government and its citizens.

  If they are holding some exercise, why not say so and quit screwing with people.

  If it was an accident… well… that's gonna be interesting.

  If it was not a US missile, that is going to be even MORE interesting.

  I wonder where it is going to land.

  Things might get ugly in the next hour or two.

• ChickenHead
  4:59 am on November 9th, 2010 5

  Nevermind.

  I watched the video a couple more times. Despite the hype, it looks like a contrail seen from head-on.

  I guess the nuclear Armageddon is going to have to wait.

• Retired GI
  5:36 am on November 9th, 2010 6

  DAMN IT —

 

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