What's another word for Thesaurus? -- Steven Wright

Friday, October 31, 2003

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Happy Halloween

Well, yours I hope. We don’t get many kids around here when it’s in the mid-40’s and dark out...thank you mother nature

Can’t give the kiddies a break can you?

Did we do the right thing?

I don’t know if anyone else listens to Glenn Beck, but he’s asking an important question in regards to the War on Iraq and the new torture tapes that have come out.

Given everything we’ve gone thru in regards to Iraq, does this tape prove we did the right thing in taking down Saddam? Or are the anti-Bush types never going to admit we did anything right?

Hypocrite Defined…

What do you get when a socialist thinks the only to get people to buy his book is to sell out and hawk everything he can? And act as if his book is the new-new testament? I’m sure you know who IT is. You know, I think he’s trying to sell his new book, don’t you think? And I’m sure the proletariat can scrape together the cash to buy this millionaire’s new book.

Hey, Happy Halloween...the link should frighten you enough as it is…

I have helpful fans

One of them sent me this.

I was going to re-arrange the HTML coding for the day, but I saw what both the “Orange-on-Black” and the “Black-on-Orange” would have looked like, and decided against it. Maybe for Christmas, huh?

Go easy on the candy, kids…

Thursday, October 30, 2003

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I must’ve got Rand Simplex Type 1…

Considering the last three Harry Potter books have averaged around 680 pages, maybe there’s something to Hogwart Headaches.

Then again, maybe these books aren’t for children to begin with. But if so, this should prepare them for the 1,074 page monster known as Atlas Shrugged. Yikes…

Pack it up, pack it in…

Earth to Dan Reeves, he isn’t going to be able to help you save your job and also potentially break his leg again. He is of course Michael Vick. Who is also made of glass and probably won’t last long in the NFL, no matter how hard he’ll try.

This one hits close to home

Literally.

I’ve always despised these enviro-whacko tree-huggers that profess to “luuuurve the cute widdle animals” while screaming that humans are “destroying the Earth”.

Well, their policies have been followed for years, and for years we have had to put up with displacing projects that would have supplied thousands of jobs, homes, and a boost to the local economy, because of a sub-species of fly that has an extra set of sensory hairs on its middle set of legs.

Michael Reagan (the son of the former President) has written a great column about it, and I suggest you go forth and read it.

Just as a teaser, I’ll give you the very first sentence:

As a friend of mine said, “If my house had burned down in the California fires I think I’d get a flame thrower and go looking for an environmentalist’s house to return the favor.”

Go. Read. Now.

Another Economic Uptick

Yesterday I saw story on GDP estimates were going to be around 6.0%, which is very good. But 7.2%? Not even the greatest President in history had a quarter like this.

Looking at the BEA numbers, the GDP had been in decent shape since the 2nd quarter of 2002. It was 3.3% last quarter.

Now if we can only get Bush to drop his Medicare plan...and confirm the obliteration of Osama and Saddam, the Dow will probably hit 15,000 in a week. Although I maintain Osama is a grease-stain in some cave.

Little Update: The AP has a nifty graphic here. You know, Bill O’Reilly has referred to 2002 as a recession. Looking at this, was it really that bad? And I really hope the Democrats use the economy issue against Bush...I really do.

Wednesday, October 29, 2003

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Home Schooling: Bad--Public Schooling: Good

In the wake of the New Jersey couple who starved their adopted children, comes this headline:

Home-Schooling Policy Evaluated After Child-Starvation Case

Hmm, yes indeed. In light of this tragedy, where Raymond and Vanessa Jackon fed their adopted children uncooked pancake batter, peanut butter, jelly and cereal, I am demanding an investigation. Here’s the headline:

Public Schooling Policy Evaluated For Fattening-Up American Children. How do you think that would go over?

Cripes, how about evaluating the case workers for these kids? Home-schooling is to blame for this? What about the parents? Whose sole motivation for having these kids was for the cash.

Tuesday, October 28, 2003

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One more from Sketches of Strain

I can think of worse books to be…

You are Proverbs.


Which book of the Bible are you?
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So how evil are you?

Thanks to David, over at Sketches of Strain, I have been rated and certified, and I have to say this…

I’m a little disappointed, and I’m equally sure that my mother is, too, but for entirely opposite reasons.

Satellite photography

Thanks to the nice folks who hang out over at Lee’s place (I wish I could remember who mentioned it, but whoever it was deserves the credit for pointing it out), we have this picture. It’s a visible light picture of Southern California, so it’s only good for day light hours, and there is no way to know how often it updates, but it’s a pretty cool shot, showing all of the major fire areas, and the trailing smoke, reaching hundreds of miles out to sea.

Welcome to my world, as seen from space.

Now is Not the Time to Give Up..

I know it is becoming quite clear, that there people who wish to see us fail in Iraq. They even proclaim us to have failed a mere six months or so after the major fighting has stopped.

Patrick Cockburn, Baghdad correspondent for The Independent of London added, “the carnage . . . signalled a decisive moment in the Iraqi crisis, which has become the supreme test of Washington’s power in the world.”

In Cockburn’s view, the U.S. is now losing the war.

“Three months ago, the U.S. occupation seemed evenly balanced between success and failure. Today, seeing how it can succeed has become very hard,” writes Cockburn.

Monday, October 27, 2003

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Most Influential Books

Your humble correspondent was asked to participate in a new post over at Right Wing News, the “Right-Of-Center Bloggers Select The Books That Have Had The Biggest Impact On Their Thinking.”

The final list can be found here.

The lists we submitted can be found below.

Another Democratic Pickup

Relax everyone, I know everyone was thinking what Hollywood star was going to endorse the candidancy of Senator John Edwards...and according to The Drudge Report it’s..