October 31, 2004
October 28, 2004
After Me the Deluge
Channelnewsasia.com
reports that Arafat may have a fatal blood disease.
Meanwhile, the entire West Bank is awaiting the chaos which will follow his death.
It would seem the sorry old bastard wouldn't name a successor because he knew that any successor would eventually assassinate him in order to gain the top spot.
Murderer-in-chief over a tribe of murdering barbarians. What a great job that must be.
Happiness is ...
... 4 new 52-week lows for the scumbag SCO Group in two weeks. "I like SCO's stock at these levels" -- Darl McBride, SCOG CEO and thief-in-chief.
October 27, 2004
Doctor, Doctor!
If only we had a health system like Canada's. That's what the single-payer gurus have been saying for years, most especially that noted expert on medical matters, Hillary Clinton.
Well, what about this?
Helen Branswell
Canadian Press
Wednesday, October 27, 2004
TORONTO (CP) - Think it's hard to find a doctor now? The shortage of physicians in this country is on the verge of getting much worse, a new survey suggests.
A combination of factors - impending retirements of doctors, the planned scaling back of hours for lifestyle reasons and the influx of women into the medical profession - is expected to exacerbate the shortage in the next couple of years, according to an analysis of the survey released Wednesday.
Yeah, if only.
October 25, 2004
Radio Dazed
It seems like RFID, the little tags that can be hidden in merchandise and read by a scanner from a distance, may not be as big a threat to privacy as feared, at least not at first:
IBM has tested RFID equipment in the back-room grocery sections of
seven pilot Wal-Mart stores, in support of the retailer's RFID
project, which officially kicks off Jan. 1. During the deployment, IBM
consultants have encountered interference from handheld devices such
as walkie-talkies, forklifts, and other devices typically found in
distribution facilities. And nearby cell-phone towers, which transmit
at the high end of the frequency band, sometimes leak unwanted radio
waves into the RFID readers. Bug zappers in the back rooms of the test
stores also caused interference.
Laurie Sullivan, InformationWeek
Of course, they are working on fixing the readers so they don't get confused by stray RF, but the devices aren't the end of privacy as we know it.
October 24, 2004
Baloney
Bush exploits suffering of 9/11, says Carter
Carter is an old asshole who is still trying to deflect attention from the fact that he was the most ineffective president of the 20th century, says me.
Notice where he got that story published: the Guardian, which ran a column that asked: 'John Wilkes Booth, Lee Harvey Oswald, John Hinckley Jr - where are you now that we need you?'
Sweet guys. Listen up, limey faggots, we don't need your advice. Next time we'll just let the Germans beat your sorry asses.
Here's another quote from me: "Europe? Fuck Europe."
Update: it seems the Guardian was a little embarrassed by that column, so now what you get is an apology for the "offensive" language.
What, a columnist can't even call for the assassination of the leader of the free world without taking flak? What is this world coming to?
October 22, 2004
Weapons Loaded, cont.
Yahoo! News - Israel May Have Iran in Its Sights
It's kind of a roundabout - Israel knows that Kerry will be a big pussy about Iran so they will feel they have to protect themselves, and their action will justify Kerry being a big pussy about the whole thing, and will also justify him turning his (our) back on Israel as an intransigent state, something he will need to do in any case so he can suck up to the French and Germans. He is a disgusting piece of work, any way you look at it.
If he should be elected, God have mercy on us and Israel for what will follow.
Keep your weapons loaded
Here's a betting pool question:
If John Kerry is elected president (God forbid), how many hours will elapse after the announcement before Israel bombs Iran's nuclear facilities into dust?
I'm guessing 48 at the outside.
October 21, 2004
Microsoft's Nightmare = Dreams Can Come True
Business 2.0 :: Magazine Article :: In Front :: Microsoft's Worst Nightmare, an article about the development of FireFox (Get it!), the best thing in browsers since Netscape tried to set the internet free, only to be crushed by the Beast from Redmond.
Seriously, Firefox is reaching critical mass, and is fully compliant with CSS and HTML standards, which IE is most definitely not. If you like working with style sheets, Firefox is for you. You will still have to write the dumb IE workarounds for those unfortunate or brain-dead souls still chained to IE, but watching a styled page render in Firefox can bring tears to your eyes.
October 20, 2004
Valor, Honor, Duty - (What are three things John Kerry knows nothing about?)
From National Review:
What was that quote about fear the legion? Oh, yes:
Something for both candidates to keep in mind, but I think Bush has much less to fear. Kerry, on the other hand, is on thin ice with the military.
Man Bites Dog, Paper Bites Dust?
The Iconoclast, of Crawford, Texas (President Bush's home town, for the terminally news deprived), which made news by endorsing Demo-rat John Kerry for president, seems to have disappeared:
Host: news.iconoclast-texas.com
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Did somebody forget to mail the check to the hosting company?
October 18, 2004
October 13, 2004
October 12, 2004
Global Pest
Vote for Kerry, get this guy as the uber-president:
Do you really want Kofi to have veto power over our defense?
Demo-rat Thugs
Getting Physical
Union thugs target Republicans.
John Fund documents some of the Demo-rat hooliganism. The most they can come up with is some missing yard signs, while their thugs are physically assaulting Republican campaign workers. O brave new world!
October 11, 2004
Rock the Vote My Happy Ass
From the Houston Chronicle and LA Times:
"You've been drafted" was the subject line of the message sent by Rock the Vote. The message contained an image of a draft card addressed to the recipient and warned, "real cards may be in the mail soon if the situation doesn't improve."
Nonpartisan, my ass. Rock the Vote is as left liberal as you can get. And the whole draft issue started when two Demo-rat congress smucks introduced draft bills in a cynical attempt to politicize the Iraq war, and now the Demo-rats are trying to scare stupid booze soaked halfwit college students into voting for Kerry. I guess their grasp of history is insufficient to realize that every draft this century was instituted by Demo-rat presidents.
But nobody ever went broke by overestimating the stupidity of America's youth.
Dave Kopel weighs in on this. Link from Instapundit.
October 10, 2004
What do you call 100 spammers at the bottom of the ocean? A good start.
From MSNBC the following cheerful news:
Yes, folks, they are using their stupid "opt-out" links to infect your PC with trojan zombie software so they can use your PC in their zombie spam network.
Naturally a lot of the blame for this belongs squarely on the back of a certain predatory monopolist software company which I wll not name, but the fact remains that when spammers who do this are caught, they should get a soft-nose round through the back of the head.
Twenty or thirty like that might actually get a message out to the rest.
October 06, 2004
More Fun from Microsoft
From News.com
Microsoft puts out crappy, buggy, hole-ridden software which they want to lock you into forever, so they can extract a Microsoft Tax on everything you do with a PC.
Why do we have to put up with a predatory monopolist? Oh, yeah, because the stupid Justice Department rolled over. Great work, guys.
Liars and Damned Liars
Another CBS source calls them out for lying. Does anybody even watch CBS "News" any more?