Courtesy of the inestimable Dr. Suarez, here is the best article on the Cuban butcher I have read:
Okay I was reading Moxie's blog and she says "Go read Confederate Yankee" where I found this.
Okay, that's a parody page, right? I mean it is, right? Somebody please tell me that's a parody page.
The BBC sent employees to heckle at a Conservative campaign rally.
Here's a real whopper:
Oh, yeah, completely legitimate.
More evidence that the lack of a serious opposition party has driven the Republicans insane:
Rick Santorum wants the National Weather Service to stop giving away all that information for free. It's just not fair to people who want to sell you that info.
Is Santorum a tool, or what?
Update: I given it some thought -- yes, he is a tool.
And Barry Meyers, VP of Accuweather, the main beneficiary of the bill, gave $3,500 to the Republican Senatorial Committee. Accuweather is a Pennsylvania company. Santorum is a Pennsylvania senator.
Whatever.
"The Democrats are the party of big government in the service of big government and government service unions. They are not interested in enforcing the immigration laws. There is no party with actual political power that is interested in lower taxes, less government, and national defense without global expeditions. Most of their policies are reactive to the Republicans, and many of them make no sense under any set of assumptions." --Jerry Pournelle
"the lack of a credible Democratic party is damaging the Republican party by allowing it to expand into the void, all pretense of small government forgotten" --a commenter on Robbbbb's Livejournal
The Democratic party is a mess. It has no unifying purpose, other than to oppose anything the Republicans do. It is overrun with single interest groups who are united only by their lust for power and their hatred of Bush and conservatives. They have no abiding concern about the security of the country, and espouse policies that would act against the security of the nation.
Worse still, as Robbbbbb's commenter says, they are creating a vacuum that unscrupulous elements of the Republican party are exploiting to move us towards a one-party state. The Democrats are so far to the left that they have ceded all authority to counter the worst instincts of those on the right.
This country was much better off when the two parties formed a spectrum of opinions that reached across all shades of opinion, but those days ended in Chicago in 1968.
Texans arrested in Internet pharmacy crackdown
In addition to arrests in Tyler and Abilene, U.S. arrests took place in Fort Lauderdale and Sarasota, Fla.; New York City and Rochester, N.Y.; Philadelphia; and Greenville, S.C. Authorities also made arrests in Australia, Canada, Costa Rica and India.
What? No more ci@l!s emails?
The "Hate Mob" was composed of extremist Muslims, angered by Galloway's courting of the English Muslim vote. They told him they were setting up a gallows for him.
Galloway is known for his opposition to the Iraq war.
The Heartland Institute - Nature Study Debunks Kilimanjaro Glacier Myth - by James M. Taylor
A Google search for "Kilimanjaro icecap" gets hundreds and hundreds of listings about how "global warming is destroying the Kilimanjaro icecap", including more than a few that directly blame the United States for this situation.
There's just one small problem - it ain't true. Decades of tree cutting at the base of the mountain has depleted the moisture reservoir that the icecap depended on to survive in the impossibly arid climate, and now that the trees are gone, there's no moisture to replenish the snow at the peak. The natural outcome is evaporation of the icecap. Replace the trees, and the icecap will return.
So, sorry, Greenies. Once again, you are being fools.
AP Wire | 04/13/2005 | Microsoft set to unveil Windows in Brazil
I love this part:
What's that other OS that lets you run as many programs as you want, and has some of the most powerful networking capabilities around, and is FREE?
Oh, yeah. Linux.
And they're supposed to use a crippled, loser version of WinDoze why?
I think they left out networking so users of XP Non-Starter Edition couldn't use it to download Linux and get a real OS.
Okay, what's wrong with this story?
"Extending daylight-saving time makes sense, especially with skyrocketing energy costs,'' said Rep. Fred Upton, R-Mich., who along with Rep. Ed Markey, D-Mass., co-sponsored the measure.
The amendment was approved by the House Energy and Commerce Committee that is putting together major parts of energy legislation likely to come up for a vote in the full House in the coming weeks. "The more daylight we have, the less electricity we use,'' said Markey, who cited Transportation Department estimates that showed the two-month extension would save the equivalent of 10,000 barrels of oil a day. The country uses about 20 million barrels of oil a day. -- Associated Press
"The more daylight we have, the less electricity we use,'' said Markey. Um, exactly where is this "more daylight" coming from, Congressman? Last time I looked, it still took 24 hours for the earth to rotate, so unless you have some secret daylight stash somewhere ...
Why do we keep electing these idiots?
Ha! It worked! Well, it worked after a lot of debugging, anyway. I'm not sure how much I'll use it, but it works.
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Mobile Email from a Cingular Wireless Customer http://www.cingular.com
I am trying out Ian Barton's pop3-to-blog script, to see if I can (eventually) get text messages from my phone in to the blog.
I am trying out phoneblogging. The Comcast nameservers are flakey tonight which makes things interesting.
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Georgia Woman Being Starved and Dehydrated
Another stupid judge takes the side of death, but this time the victim is being killed in direct contravention of her stated wishes. I guess "living wills" aren't really all they're cracked up to be, if you have a relative who really wants you dead.
Update: Dorothy has been taken to a hospital and is receving nourishment.
Thai Binh Haiphong and Quang Ninh H5N1 Clusters
"The flu pandemic of 2005 has clearly begun."
We will see.
No spam since Cornerhost moved to the Planet. I don't know if that's because I've been blacklisted by the Bulgarians (as Ann Elisabeth says) or if the hosting service is blocking them upstream.
Either way, it's nice to have logs that aren't crammed with spam.
Key lawmaker calls for criminalizing TV indecency
Sensenbrenner wants to return to the good old days when the FBI persecuted "obscenity" merchants. Maybe he should dig up J. Edgar to help him out.
At least he's willing to make a distinction between broadcast and cable/satellite systems. Stevens wants to go whole hog and go after everybody. And Little Joe Barton is right there saying "me too, me too!", as always. Barton is a sock puppet clown, if you cut the purse strings of his big time polluter contributors, he would go back to being a small-town car dealer, or whatever he started out as.
If this moves any further along, I may look into investing in DVD porn manufacturers. If these guys actually drive "indecency" off the air and cable, DVDs will be a huge business, as well as (offshore) internet distribution.
Bottom line - adults will want adult entertainment, no matter how much these uptight prudes want it to be different.
In the waning days of free speech as envisioned by the founders, I would just like to say:
Fuck you, Chris Shays, you worthless pile of shit. And fuck you too, Ed Meehan. Since you're a Massachusetts Democrat, it goes without saying that you're a worthless piece of shit. Don't you two great Americans need to detach your lips from the Pew Trust's ass long enough to take a breath, or have you achieved true symbiosis? Is this political, i.e. regulated, speech? I think truth is always a good defense, don't you?
And as long as I'm at it, fuck you, John McCain. Everybody knows you're only for campaign finance reform because you were so crooked in the 80s. I'm sorry you were such a crook that you had to shred the bill of rights to remove temptation to take payoffs again. Bastard.
And fuck you too, George. You should have vetoed this shit bill when it came in front of you.
The creep motif is from Mean Mr. Mustard.