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Journalist Lambasts French War Coverage
and gets fired for his effort.
Why do we even pretend the frogs are our allies? The surerender monkeys have wished the U.S. nothing but ill since 1911.
FBI urges police to watch for people carrying almanacs
The FBI is not doing its reputation any good with stuff like this.
Okay, so you have a cow that suddenly starts showing signs of severe neurological disease, so what's the first thing you think to do?
Right, you send it to a packing plant to be processed into steaks and hamburger.
Mmmm, yum, let's have some more of that beef from a cow that died of an unkown neurolgical disorder, it's delicious!
Official: U.S. Hoped To Trap Terrorists Before Cancellations
"Homeland Security Officials Frustrated News Of 'Security Concerns' Got Out"
Fucking French.
Added another state today. I am now using the radio from my truck, which has marvelous effects on spousal amiability. I can pop out to the truck to work some CW without disrupting the household order, which makes for a much more peaceful day.
... from Michael Crichton.
Aliens cause global warming. Gotta love it. (Read the paper to see what that means.)
I am still waiting for my license upgrade to go through. It has been 5 weeks since the exam.
I listened to the SCO conference call today. Listening to Dah-rul McBride ranting about forcing companies to either pay SCO's extortion or stop using Linux (how about another choice? Stop using any SCO product? Dickhead.) just made me want to scream.
It's hard, ruling out stupidity or stock fraud, to understand McBride's thinking. He goes after IBM, claiming they put parts of UnixWare (one of the lamest, most backward Unix varieties ever) into Linux without permission (assuming that Linux would accept such crappy code), then sends extortion letters to companies that use Linux, getting him sued by RedHat for attempted restraint of trade, then says that Linux end users will have to pay up $699 per copy for the privilege of continuing to run Linux. He sounds like a very stupid mob enforcer trying to extort protection money.
I want to get his perp walk on tape when the feds shut his sorry ass down.
Are these the Last Days?
It will be small satisfaction, but if this is true, we'll get to watch all the "global warming" fools tie themselves into knots trying to reconcile this with the Warmist religion.
"...the scientific record now shows several other research papers published during the 1990s on the subject, all finding that light levels were falling significantly. Among them they reported that sunshine in Ireland was on the wane, that both the Arctic and the Antarctic were getting darker and that light in Japan, the supposed land of the rising sun, was actually falling. Most startling of all was the discovery that levels of solar radiation reaching parts of the former Soviet Union had gone down almost 20% between 1960 and 1987.
The problem is that most of the climate scientists who saw the reports simply didn't believe them. "
Of course they didn't believe them. Religion demands belief without question, and these reports called their faith into question. So they just ignored them.
Space measurements show that solar radiation reaching the earth has not diminished, however, suggesting that the dimming effect is a phenomenon of the atmosphere, decreasing the amount of visible and infrared light reaching the surface. The mechanism producing this effect is not understood.
But these things can become self-sustaining, in a positive feedback way. A decrease in light at the surface could cause increased ice-pack, reflecting still more heat back into space, causing more cooling until we have a full blown ice age under way.
I think I'll go buy some Polartec outfits before the prices start to rise.
It's going to get cold outside.
Plano, Texas school administration gets an "F" in knowledge of the constitution.
As Eugene Volokh points out, this situation has been ruled on by the courts before, always going against the administrators.
However, Plano district administration stupidity is legendary, and they will probably need a good bitch-slapping in the courts before they admit that they do not, in fact, trump the U.S. constitution.
Here is Scot McKellar's SCO/Linux FAQ, in all its simple beauty.
SCO is a dying company, run by a group of thieves who, finding no assets in the company that they could steal, seek to steal the assets of others through legal extortion. I suspect that they truly expected IBM to buy them off as a nuisance, but that didn't happen and now they have to put up or shut up. Having nothing to put up, is it too much to ask that they do the decent thing, and shut up?
Orson Scott Card gives a nice summation of where the party of treason is headed, and why.
Michael Crichton, speaking to the Commonwealth Club:
"So I can tell you some facts. I know you haven't read any of what I am about to tell you in the newspaper, because newspapers literally don't report them. I can tell you that DDT is not a carcinogen and did not cause birds to die and should never have been banned. I can tell you that the people who banned it knew that it wasn't carcinogenic and banned it anyway. I can tell you that the DDT ban has caused the deaths of tens of millions of poor people, mostly children, whose deaths are directly attributable to a callous, technologically advanced western society that promoted the new cause of environmentalism by pushing a fantasy about a pesticide, and thus irrevocably harmed the third world. Banning DDT is one of the most disgraceful episodes in the twentieth century history of America. We knew better, and we did it anyway, and we let people around the world die and didn't give a damn.
I can tell you that second hand smoke is not a health hazard to anyone and never was, and the EPA has always known it. I can tell you that the evidence for global warming is far weaker than its proponents would ever admit. I can tell you the percentage the US land area that is taken by urbanization, including cities and roads, is 5%. I can tell you that the Sahara desert is shrinking, and the total ice of Antarctica is increasing. I can tell you that a blue-ribbon panel in Science magazine concluded that there is no known technology that will enable us to halt the rise of carbon dioxide in the 21st century. Not wind, not solar, not even nuclear. The panel concluded a totally new technology-like nuclear fusion-was necessary, otherwise nothing could be done and in the meantime all efforts would be a waste of time. They said that when the UN IPCC reports stated alternative technologies existed that could control greenhouse gases, the UN was wrong. "
Interesting that when lawyers lie, they don't even do it well.
(Link from Groklaw)
Saddam has been captured. Guess now he's a "Miserable Failure", too.
The recent announcement by the U.S. that nations that did not contribute to the Iraq effort would be excluded from contracts to rebuild Iraq have the lefties in a tizzy.
"Bush, who desperately needs to repair America's standing in the international community, is only trashing that standing further as he acts like some little Mafia don in the handing out of territory."
Oh, please. Do we really need to go begging forgiveness of a bunch of near-bankrupt European nations who act like the brother-in-law you can't stand, sleeping on your couch, eating your food, and criticizing everything in sight?
I think the Europeans need to apologize to America for being such pin-headed twits, and understand that if you behave like an enemy of the United States, don't expect to be invited to the table when the meal is served.
They sound like the "Miserable Failure" we all know they are.
Raid at High School Leads to Racial Divide, Not Drugs
The infamous Goose Creek, S.C. drug raid at the high school contines to have repercussions, including a class action suit against the police, the school district, and the principal, George C. McCrackin.
One of the students describes his experience this way:
'For many of the students in the sweep, the raid is a humiliating memory. Rodney Goodwin, a 10th grader who came to Stratford this year, said he was in the cafeteria when the principal pointed him out, along with other students at his table, to three police officers, who told him he was under arrest and put plastic handcuffs on his wrists. Mr. Goodwin was taken to the main hallway, where, he said, a police officer pointed a gun at him as the principal patted him down and reached inside his pockets.
"I really don't know why they did what they did to me," he said. "I didn't do anything wrong, but they arrested me." '
"... a police officer pointed a gun at him as the principal patted him down and reached inside his pockets." That alone shows that it is an outrage that this moron is still employed.
Another "zero tolerance" nightmare story. Instituted in theory to keep criminal activity out of schools, "zero tolerance" mostly catches the innocent, because the real bad guys are too smart to be caught up, leaving the innocent to be swept up witout even knowing what they did wrong.
"Zero tolerance" really means "I can look like I am keeping drugs and guns out of my school without having to do any real work, and the school board will back me up even if I look like an idiot for doing it."
Congress has passed an "anti-spam" law, which among other things requires you to give your email address to spammers in order to be on a national "no-spam" list.
This mainly proves (once again, ad infinitum) that our elected representatives are clueless fools who have not even the slightest idea what they are doing when they pass these stupid laws.
A better idea would have been to provide that any one caught spamming would be publicly hanged, drawn, and quartered. That would be the minimum punishment that might convince these parasites to modify their behavior.
Update: remember those "Miserable Failures"? They are still "Miserable Failures".
When you have a craving for salty snacks, sweet snacks won't do.
When you have a craving for sweet snacks, salty snacks won't do.
It's a mysterious universe.
Somebody should put up the money so the parents could sue.
This Yahoo news report says there are holes in the magnetic field of the earth.
How long before the lefties blame SUVs or freon or something for this?
Judging by the TV commercials, the main result of using Microsoft Office 2003 (tm) is insanity.
Drudge is reporting on the Dems "Hate Bush" confab in Beverly Hills last weekend.
Basically, there can be no peace until Democrats learn to love America more than they hate Bush.
I am not hopeful.
Update: lefty blogs have been linking the phrase "Miserable Failure" to George Bush's whitehouse biography, so they can tell their hip sophisticated lefty numbnuts asswipe friends "type miserable failure into Google and see what you get". Because these aforementioned hip sophisticated lefty numbnuts asswipe friends are complete morons who wouldn't know a Google bomb from a Guava bomb, this causes many titters around the coffee table.
Since this is such a kewl idea, I figured I should be in on the fun. So I am doing it too. Except when I link "Miserable Failure", I link it to a much more appropriate target.
Why is it that Quicken, which can remember with perfect clarity a check I wrote two years ago once, can't remember that when I print checks they are always wallet size, and when I make a loan payment it is always made from my checking account? The defaults for these things are wrong, and there is no way to change the default behavior.
Quicken used to be neat, quick, and convenient. Nowadays it seems what they mostly want to do is advertise all their add-on services while irritating the hell out of you with quirks in their software.
Apparently, the Houston police have declared war on the city's children.