We all of course remember this little tidbit from Hillary Clinton when it comes to her impression of VP Dick Cheney:

“Vice President Cheney came up to see the Republicans yesterday,” Clinton said at the fundraiser. “You can always tell when the Republicans are getting restless, because the Vice President’s motorcade pulls into the Capitol, and Darth Vader emerges.”

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The Mosul Dam is an epic display in poor structural design- and continued mis-management according to a report filed by the Army Corp of Engineers.

The largest dam in Iraq is in serious danger of an imminent collapse that could unleash a trillion-gallon wave of water, possibly killing thousands of people and flooding two of the largest cities in the country, according to new assessments by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and other U.S. officials.

Even in a country gripped by daily bloodshed, the possibility of a catastrophic failure of the Mosul Dam has alarmed American officials, who have concluded that it could lead to as many as 500,000 civilian deaths by drowning Mosul under 65 feet of water and parts of Baghdad under 15 feet, said Abdulkhalik Thanoon Ayoub, the dam manager. “The Mosul dam is judged to have an unacceptable annual failure probability,” in the dry wording of an Army Corps of Engineers draft report.

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Pirates of Somalia just doesn’t seem to have the right ring to it… and yet- that’s exactly where we’re at.

Pirates in Somalia hijacked a cargo ship with dozens of foreign crew members reportedly on board, officials said Tuesday.

The attackers seized the ship late Monday in the waters off the war-battered capital, Mogadishu, said Paddy Ankunda, a Somalia spokesman for the African Union, which has peacekeepers at the city’s port.

A cargo trader who works at the port said the ship was from South Korea, with 43 foreign crew members on board. The trader, who spoke on condition of anonymity due to feared reprisals from the pirates, said the ship had been carrying a load of sugar from India. Both spoke by telephone from Mogadishu.

The pirates are not believed to have been South Korean- but they were all dressed in flamboyant outfits of ruffles, feathers, buckled overcoats, and rapiers.

An international watchdog reported this month that pirate attacks worldwide jumped 14 percent in the first nine months of 2007, with the biggest increases off the poorly policed waters of Somalia and Nigeria.

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End was released May of 2007. The 5th month in 2007- for anyone who’s paying attention.

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In preparation for the 2008 election, I’ve added a pre-election poll to the site located to the right. (Because Lord knows you won’t be clicking away at a bazillion other pseudo polls in the year to come.) It’s really for my own morbid curiosity to get a feel for the readership of PM. Yeah, that’s right. Morbid curiosity. Because the fact is that every single one of those candidates listed aren’t exactly a model of humanity. Each one of them could potentially be the next pile of dog shit who rolls into the White House next year.

As the esteemed Skitz M. Jones says, “[I have] no political affiliation due to being convinced that all politicians who make it far enough to find public office must be- by nature of their positions- full of shit”.

Don’t worry about your vote changing later down the road. I certainly understand that some piles of shit may smell worse one day than they do the next. Every month you’ll be able to vote again.

Let’s see who the biggest turd is. Get to votin’!

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