Holy shit! Facebook just went bilingual:

Ahora hispanohablantes en todo el mundo pueden unirse a Facebook. Conéctate con todos tus amigos, en cualquier idioma.

Puedes cambiar tu preferencia de idioma aqui.

Usa el buscador de amigos para ver si mas de tus amigos se [h]an unido y invita a todos tus amigos hispanohablantes a que se registren.

I should totally get class credit for stalking people in Spanish.

p.s. — This is where that asshole Thomas Friedman would say, “The world is flat.”

In a real life caper ripped directly from the plot of The Thomas Crown Affair and Ocean’s Nine through Forty One, art thieves made off with some pricey impre$$ionist works:

Three thieves, wearing dark clothes and ski masks, walked into the Emile Bührle Foundation, a private collection housed a couple of miles outside of Zurich’s city center on the shore of Lake Zurich, around 4:30 p.m. on Sunday, a short while before the museum was due to close. The collection is considered to be one of the biggest privately owned collections of French impressionists in the world.

While one held a pistol and ordered visitors and staff members to lie on the floor in the main room of the museum, the two other men removed the four paintings from the wall: Monet’s “Poppy Field at Vetheuil,” “Ludovic Lepic and his Daughter” by Edgar Degas, Van Gogh’s “Blooming Chestnut Branches,” and Cézanne’s “Boy in the Red Waistcoat.” Their total worth is estimated at $163 million.

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Apparently, there is a school named the “Senator Obama Kogelo Secondary School” in her village of Nyangoma-Kogelo. On the issue of restoring America’s credibility in the world, there ain’t no Hillary Clinton Elementary schools in East Africa, folks.

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…Yeltsin and Clinton were totally shit-faced at Camp David.

Yup, that’s right. I guess the downside of the surge working is that even a small modicum of stability allows Iraq to crap on America, I mean, decisively surpass our commitment to stop global warming, in this manner.

Iraq has formally ratified the UN’s Kyoto Protocol on climate change, according to a government statement seen by AFP on Saturday.

“The presidential council ratified in its session on January 23 a law according to which the Republic of Iraq will join the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and its Kyoto Protocol,” the statement said.

Funny how this didn’t make it into the State of the Union…

If you thought full-bladdered RI schoolchildren stuck on 95 was bad, think again. Massive snowstorms have left over 200,000 people stuck at the train station in Guangzhou, in the southern province of Guangdong.

Among the worst-hit cities is southern Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong province that borders Hong Kong. The province is one of China’s most important manufacturing regions, with thousands of factories making everything from T-shirts to electronics staffed by millions of migrant workers from poorer inland provinces.

Hundreds of thousands of those workers, many with young children, found themselves stranded at the Guangzhou railway station after snowstorms snapped power lines to passenger trains from neighboring Hunan province, an important hub for trains on the main line between Guangzhou and Beijing.

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On his own opinion of the President:

“I can’t give you that, because the filmmaker has to hide in the work,” Stone said. “Here, I’m the referee, and I want a fair, true portrait of the man. How did Bush go from an alcoholic bum to the most powerful figure in the world? It’s like Frank Capra territory on one hand, but I’ll also cover the demons in his private life, his bouts with his dad and his conversion to Christianity, which explains a lot of where he is coming from. It includes his belief that God personally chose him to be president of the United States, and his coming into his own with the stunning, preemptive attack on Iraq. It will contain surprises for Bush supporters and his detractors.”

Also, Josh Brolin (pictured) is attached to play Bush.(Variety)

Online sympathizers of al Qaida from across the internet have submitted hundreds of questions for deputy leader Ayman Al-Zawahri over the past two months for an “on-line interview” on a militant Islamic website, and many supporters seem to be as in the dark about their activities and future plans as the rest of the world.

“Knight of Islam,” asks, “We are awaiting a strike against American soil. Why has that not been done? Why are the Jews in the world not struck?”

“We hear a lot about the non-centralization of al-Qaida,” one supporter writes. “Is the loss of direct control by al-Qaida’s leadership over the jihadi cells harmful to al-Qaida? … Does al-Qaida intend to try to reassert its control?”

(HuffPo)

I’m going to pretend there isn’t an election going on, just for today…

• American Apparel CEO Dov Charney slapped with yet another sexual harrasment suit. The dude allegedly ran around in his underwear, a lot.
• Kate Moss’s epic birthday party: one hour for every year of her life. Looking at the pictures of her, the party should last 47 hours. Also, Ron Wood: still looking dope!
• It’s creepy when two people who look identical make out.

Because stuff keeps happening…

• Giuliani, $40 mil. poorer and still placing 5th or worse. He should change his name to Undecided and maybe trick people into voting for him.
• Bill Clinton: reject Obama and that tired old black political establishment that he represents. What alternate version of history is Clinton living in?
• Congress wisely decides that this year’s most important issue is the baseball steroid thing, not that pesky war thing that just. won’t. go. away. no matter how much we ignore it.
• New Huckabee advisor wants “A cop in front of every mosque.” He’s also said a bunch of other crazy shit which, naturally, makes him the perfect political advisor.
• This keeps getting weirder and weirder…

Got News If You Want It

• Bush begs for the oils, H-Clint: “Pathetic…”
• McCain v. Romney= much bitchslappery.
• Rush Limbaugh deftly incorporates the words ’spade’ and ‘hoe’ into discussion about Obama and Clinton. Stay classy Rush!
• Those damn gay hackers!
• Actor Brad Renfro dead at 25

Some Interjunk from the stupidweb:

• Edward’s daughter hit by drunk driver, but she’s fine now.
• Nevada judge rules Kucinich can debate, but MSNBC will appeal, as they frankly just don’t want him there.
• ABC is embarrassed that Diane Sawyer didn’t ask Katie Holmes whether she was impregnated with the sperm of L. Ron Hubbard. On Good Morning America. I did not make this one up, I’m serious.
• See, old people don’t care about Facebook.
• Bush to OPEC: Please pump more oil. OPEC: Yeah, we give a shit about you.

• Closed door hearings this week over alleged destroyed CIA torture tapes.
• Kucinich and Howard get their way, New Hampshire recount starts the 16th.
• You must be this tall to attend MSNBC debate: Kucinich uninvited.
• Obama backed by two more red state senators.
• Middle East TV: “all Bush, all the time.”
• “Pulp Fiction” writer Roger Avary arrested for DUI, manslaughter.

By Matthew Harvey
I don’t have many complaints about my Rhode Island driver’s license (except that it still lists my height and weight as of 1995) but, unless the state gets a federal waiver, I won’t be able to use it to board a plane starting May 1.

Rhode Island’s licenses don’t comply with the federal REAL ID act, yet another entry in the seemingly never-ending series of Laws with Cutesy Acronyms. more »

Got news if you want it:

• Bloomberg: running, not running, whatev.
• WH predicts 45% approval rating for Bush’s “legacy year”.
• Kucinich wants New Hampshire recount. Dear Dennis: you are annoying enough as it is, please stop with the nonsense.
• GOP debate: really just a bunch of old white yelling millionaires.
• Janice Dickenson says Stallone “juiced” her in her sleep.
• Two cons try a ‘Weekend At Bernie’s” hiest, blow it.