This site creeps me out.

Lansing:

“Actions”

(Presentation Part II)

by Jason S. Kenney

Bush43 #5:

“Rainy Day”

(Presentation Part III)

by Jason S. Kenney

http://www.artificecomics.cjb.net

He was charging at the Bush moron and then a truck came out of nowhere and slammed into him.

Or something to that effect.

He heard a crashing sound on a side street to the building he was one and made his way to another edge, that Bush guy firmly implanted in the asphalt below.

“Yeah!” shouted Cooper as he pumped his fist in the air. “That’s right!” He stood up and put his hands on his hips all heroic like, looking up into the sky. “Look out, world. Staticy’s on the war path!”

And then he felt a sharp pain in his leg. Cooper looked back down to see a dart stuck in his leg, a wire extending from it all the way down to its source on the street below.

A huge robot thing looked up at him, the wire extending from its arm.

“Holy shit,” said Cooper right before an electrical charge surged through his body.

JSK-month continues at Artifice with two new stories both new chapters in Jason’s “Presentation” story-arc.

Introducing the Engine in action, and its creator Thomas Lansing and presenting the return of a Bush43 villain!

Thrills!

Chills!

Beefcakes!

JSK-month continues…only at AC.

Blondes to die out in 200 years?!?!?!?!!!!! Yeah, researchers say blonds may be extinct in 200 years because it’s a recessive gene and all. And hot natural blondes like the one on the left (supposedly) are being beaten into submission by the old bottle blondes, like the one on the right. How’s that? Researchers “suggest that dyed-blondes are more attractive to men who choose them as partners over true blondes.” Sure. The whole thing is bunk, really, I mean, they’d be extinct by now if that were the case, don’t you think? Green eyes too.

Man survives being ‘compacted’ in trash Twice!

Universal Music Hit with Anti-Piracy Suit

New York promotions/technology company DownloadCard has sued Vivendi Universal’s (Quote, Company Info, News) music division, charging theft of its anti-piracy technology, trade secrets and ideas.

The action could hold up the marketing campaign about to kick off in conjunction with rocker Jon Bon Jovi’s upcoming release of his latest CD, “Bounce”, which involves the use of special Personal Identification Numbers, or PINs that DownloadCard has pioneered in online promotions.

Darn, you mean I might have to wait months before I DON’T BUY the new Bon Jovi CD? Damn.

The September 11th Anniversary: Two Weeks Later Gosh, has it been two weeks already?

School offers morning-after pill to 11-year-olds

Girls as young as 11 will be able to obtain the morning-after pill at a London school without their parents’ consent.

If the scheme at Chestnut Grove School in Balham is successful, it could be extended to every secondary school in Wandsworth, a borough which has the fifth highest teenage pregnancy rate in inner London.

Margaret Peacock, the headmistress, said her school was trying to behave responsibly.

She said under-16s could already obtain the pill without their parents’ consent from hospital accident and emergency units and pharmacies.

“The school governors thought it would be better for children to receive counselling from the school nurse at the same time. If the child is under age, loud bells will ring and the case will be treated as a child protection issue.”

Social services could be involved, although under current law, parents do not need to be informed.

Ummm….. I hear loud bells ringing for some sort of red flag, but it certainly isn’t about child protection issues.

Better late than never, but here’s a map of the IMF protests in DC this weekend.

IndyMedia DC has the protesters’ side of things.

In a historic move this week, the United Nations stood by a French ban on dwarf tossing.

Manuel Wackenheim began his fight in 1995 after the French ban meant he could no longer earn a living being thrown around discotheques and nightclubs by burly men.

But on Friday, Wackenheim — who measures 1.14 metres (3 feet 10 inches) — lost his case when the U.N. human rights body ruled the need to protect human dignity was paramount.

In a statement, the U.N. Human Rights Committee said it was satisfied “the ban on dwarf-tossing was not abusive but necessary in order to protect public order, including considerations of human dignity.”

The committee also said the ban “did not amount to prohibited discrimination.”

Okay, but what is regular sized people tossing still okay? I mean, I don’t see any bans on that. It’s one thing if a dwarf is grabbed and tossed without their permission, but if they want to do this, why not let them? Eh, oh well.

Free Sex Voucher Thanks, Weekly World News!

Small Pox Vaccination Reaction images Now, I’m not against the vaccination. Hell, I’d rather be vaccinated and get a scab then actually get Small Pox and die.

Welcome to Andy Co.

I want one of these! Yeah, yeah, it’s an anti-war website, but what a kick ass toy! I’m gonna write JC Penny and tell them this rules! Well, all but the price. $45? Sheesh.

Woman sued for 18 cents has case dismissed and is owed money by the moronic collection agency that sued her. 18 cents.

Field Guide to North American Males

Wait, wait, wait… People thought this picture was real?

Turkish Police Seize Weapons-Grade Uranium

Turkish paramilitary police have seized more than 33 pounds of weapons-grade uranium and detained two men accused of smuggling the material, the state-run Anatolian news agency said on Saturday.

Officers in the southern province of Sanliurfa, which borders Syria and is about 155 miles from the Iraqi border, were acting on a tip-off when they stopped a taxi cab and discovered the uranium in a lead container hidden beneath the vehicle’s seat, the agency said.

The incident happens at a time of mounting speculation the United States could launch a military attack on neighboring Iraq for its alleged program of weapons of mass destruction.

Sweet Jesus. As Glenn Reynolds pointed out, here’s your smoking gun, folks.

Mike Newman’s IMF Protest Pictures

NOTE: I’ve made a lot of posts over the last few hours, so there’s a lot of new stuff under Friday and Saturday. Please scroll down and read through it all to make sure you’re not missing anything important. Cause, you know, J’s Notes is all about important stuff that make the world go round. Yeah. Hell, just make sure you check out the pictures of the IMF protests and let me know what you think.

Have you used Google News yet? It’s actually pretty neat. (And happy fourth birthday, Google.)

And if you’re not using it yet, I highly recomend you get crackin’ and download yourself a copy of w.bloggar. It’s a client you download and can use to update your blogs. Very slick, very easy, very neat. And, version 3.0 (currently in beta) will support Movable Type as well! I might have to convert! Though, that would require me having to host this site elsewhere. Maybe I’ll get a domain name in the near future. Hmmm…..

Create your own Bush speech

When Bloggers Commit Journalism What about photo-journalism?

Tough Earth bug may be from Mars says Senator Patrick Leahy. Not really, but it’s about as out there as the West Nile terrorist connection and probably more accurate.

Justin: I “Did It” With Britney GASP!

Jeania linked to me so she must rule. I mean, she obviously has great taste. What more could you need?

From the Washington Post

Shouts of ‘Shame, Shame, Shame’

For a few tense moments at Vermont Avenue and K Street NW this morning, police surrounded a group of about 100 protesters, boxing them in in front of the plate glass windows of Citibank. There was a shattering sound as protesters broke a window at the bank. Some of the protesters tossed smoke bombs on the sidewalk, yelling, “Our streets! Our streets!”

Police supervisors shouted instructions to the baton-wielding officers, “Start the arrest process. Cuff ‘em.” The officers began to lead protesters one by one into waiting Metrobuses. For the most part, they went quietly, the crowd behind yelling, “Shame, shame, shame.”

Alexander Berkman, 26, of Richmond, Va., watched from outside the protest group, wondering why the police were also shoving spectators and members of the media.

“The police are pushing reporters out of the way,” said Berkman, an organizer with the Richmond Coalition for a Living Wage. “One hit a person in the throat with his baton. These are people simply observing; they’re not here in any protest capacity.”

Just as quickly, it seemed, things calmed down as the arrests continued and the crowd of spectators grew. One protester and spectator on K Street got into a rather heated exchange.

“You think you’re the only person who works!” said the young male protester, wearing a knit cap and a bandana tied around his mouth.

“Peaceful demonstration is fine, but if people can’t get to their jobs, it’s disruptive,” said Shane Deithorn, 38, a construction superintendent from Mt. Airy, Md., who works across the street. “They should lock them all up.”

–Sue Anne Pressley, 8:42 a.m.

For starters, I didn’t hear any shouts of “Shame, Shame, Shame.” Must have been on the other side of the crowd. And, yes, the police were pushing reporters away, but that didn’t start until the smoke bombs started, which I give the police props for pushing us away on. Who the hell knew what that was. There were people choking and running, many thought it was tear gas, the police pushed everyone away to clear the area as well as give them room to maneuver so no one got hurt. Yea, police, boo, protesters.

55 arrested at Citibank site

Police have arrested 55 protesters and charged them with rioting after demonstrators smashed several windows at the Citibank offices at Vermont and K streets NW, D.C. Police Chief Charles Ramsey said this morning.

–David Fahrenthold, 8:04 a.m.

Damn right, arrest them. CitiBank borded up all of their windows AFTER this happened. Better late than never, I guess.

Windows smashed at Citibank

Several hundred protesters have moved to the intersection of Vermont and K streets NW where they smashed several windows at the Citibank offices at the intersection. Traffic is snarled in that part of the city. There are also reports of a smoke-bomb type device being tossed at police, who have made some arrests at the scene.

–Manny Fernandez, 7:57 a.m.

Snarled traffic? Well, I wasn’t there until 8:10 and there was NO traffic. Police did a great job redirecting folks. Smoke bombs were there, they sucked, but were pretty damn stupid on the protesters’ part. I mean, Christ, people, what the hell are you doing throwing things that smoke at police? Might as well star shooting cap guns at them. Sigh.

So I get off my bus to find a ton of cops standing in formation in McPhereson Square and a protest going on at Vermont/15th and K Streets (I think it was the “Put The Squeeze On Capitalist Greed March” that started in Franklin Square at 14th and I streets around 7:30am). I went into the CVS and bought a couple of disposable cameras. By the time I got back outside, the police had moved in (a broken window at the CitiBank where the protesters stood was probably the reason).

I started taking pictures as the police broke up the protest. Someone set off a smoke bomb or a stink bomb of some sor (I eventually heard it was tear gas). The group of journalists and onlookers that crowded the police started to back away. Someone said something about pepper spray. Either way, the police quickly worked to break up whatever protest was going on.

People were backed up across the street into McPhereson Square while the police cleared out the protesters. They were put in plastic cuffs and then led onto two Metro busses and then taken somewhere.

A crowd stuck around to watch, protesters mixed in with journalists and bystanders. Now, here’s something I don’t get. The protesters off to the side, still protesting, holding their signs, hiding their faces, playing “Fight The Power” on their tape deck, if you’re so adamant about your cause and what you’re trying to push here, why aren’t you with those other guys getting arrested? Where were you when the cops came in? Running? Hiding? Or did you just arrive? I got more respect for the folks who are willing to stand their ground and get arrested than for the people who run away or come in afterwards to continue their protest. If you’re not willing to go down for what you believe in, how much do you believe in it?

Oh well. PICTURES!!!

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(NOTE: The following pictures are the property of Jason Kenney and their use without permission is prohibited. If you want to use one of these pictures for anything, just ask, I’ll probably say yes.)

As I approached	Another view	A closer look
Something’s happening	Tear gas!!!!	Everyone cleared out
The police kinda dug the extra room	So they started pushing everyone back	A few more quick shots
Nothing over there	The crowd I’d be joining shortly	One last close look
Everyone, on the bus!	The bus leaves, full of protesters	The police keep everyone back (probably my best shot)
People looking on	The corner’s now empty	And the police line up to go bust some more heads

These pictures were taken with two disposable CVS Photostar Flash Cameras with 400 speed film and developed by Ritz Camera One Hour Photo.

Hundreds arrested at IMF protests

In the second incident, police clashed with about 150 protesters at a Citibank branch at the intersection of Vermont and K Streets.

And that’s where I come in. I got pictures. They aren’t the best pics, but they’re there. I’ll upload them later if I can.

The “Missing” Thirteenth Amendment? Supposedly it limited lawyers’ abilities to enter the government, but it was removed during the Civil War. Yep, removed, and no one noticed. Yep.

God hates Queens of the Stone Age and so should you.

Ummm… Ladies and gents, I give to you the Jennings Hygeia, for ultimate anal care.

Open Source Web Design There’s some good stuff in there.

Marshmallow Bunny Survival Tests I almost typed “testes”.

Negotiator

The Good Wife’s Guide

Lack of sleep could really mess you up. So, yeah, I’m screwed.

Hey, if those IMF protesters on Friday can’t get enough people out and around, maybe they should try renting a mob.

Wendy’s Stalking Techniques:How to pursue the guy you adore but are unable to deal with on an adult level

eNormicom It takes a lot to differentiate your brand in today’s “me too” world of electronic business solutions. At eNormicom, we create and develop campaigns that break through the chatter clearly and consistently.

That’s some puddle

Bert Goes Places

I raided The Presurfer this morning.