Congratulations to the new Royal Mecca Clock Tower, which starts ticking today with visibility an interstate truck stop would die for:

The clock’s four faces are 151ft in diameter and will be illuminated by 2million LED lights along with huge Arabic script reading: “In the name of Allah”…

Residents of Mecca will also be reminded that it is time to pray when 21,000 green and white lights, visible at a distance of 18 miles, flash five times a day.

No disrespect, but can we just say how much we love being an infidel? Even under the most liberal devotional strictures, we’d have problems making the Wednesday-night social meetings.

But that’s not our interest here. The new clock, we’re told, will be running on Arabia Standard Time, which would be news if it wasn’t. Problem is, AST runs three hours ahead of GMT, which apparently puts Islam at a competitive disadvantage:

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Wells Fargo Executives Laugh at Customer/Victim and Whose Been Completely Bankrupted by Engineered Overdraft Fees and Consider Ripping Out His Kidneys and Selling Them to A Kennel When They Can't Get a Broker to Answer the Phone And Sell Them to a Transplant Candidate.

Larcenous scumball financial services racketeer Wells Fargo Bank has been ordered to pay $203 million back to its customers who were victims of an overdraft scheme in which the banketeer engineered its debit clearance protocol specifically to inflict the maximal number of fees possible, turning the bank’s clearance system into a monstrous software mugger programmed to stalk and rob its retail customers.

U.S. District Judge William Alsup of the Northern District of California wrote that he is ordering restitution because Wells Fargo devised “a trap that would escalate a single overdraft into as many as 10 through the gimmick of processing in descending order. It then exploited that trap with a vengeance, racking up hundreds of millions off the backs of the working poor, students and others without the luxury of ample account balances.”

Judge orders Wells Fargo to pay back $203M in fees [Associated Press]

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First ad – still wish Stormy was in it.  Maybe, just maybe, this guy can take the whorefucker down:

Remarks have been made elsewhere on this site this afternoon about the American Family Association’s stance in re mosques.  Which is: no mosques in the United States — anywhere.

Naturally, this is probably a “move-the-goalposts” moment — making a ban on a mosque in Lower Manhattan seem reasonable, etc.  But a commenter over at TPM came with this:

Every teabagging idiot that agrees with this fuckwit while whining about Obama “ignoring the Constitution” should get a copy of the First Amendment nailed to their forehead.

 Normally, the commentariat at mass-market sites have a shockingly high level of stupid.  (You can’t read a news story on CNN anymore without running into ten mouthbreathing morons.)  But this commenter parked it, like Mark McGuire in the bad-old days.

And so: we should run a special, teabagger-only poll….

Pick one, teabaggers — and death is not an option: (A) The Constitution. (B) Ban all mosques.

Push it on the right-wing blogs.  Cross-post on Free Republic.  The whole smash.  Time to call their bluff.

US school road marking spelt wrongly [BBC, via LuxMentis]

“If you think it’s a joke, why don’t you poke yourself with your newly sharpened pencil? Or better yet, don’t — because it’ll really hurt. In fact, every pencil David Rees sharpens is shipped with a signed and dated certificate authenticating that it is now a dangerous object.”

Artisanal Pencil Sharpening [via John Hodgman]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4jiqYcUoOk

Son-of-Potatoehead Ben Quayle, last seen enjoying his imaginary children, is back with an ad that proclaims he was “raised right”. And with the news that he was a significant contributor to a Naughty Blog, we really can’t disagree:

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