Archive for December, 2006
Friday, December 22nd, 2006
If there's anything predictable in politics it's that when a politician's numbers go down he'll decry polls as worthless crap. He'll poo-poo them as not reflective of anything other than the pollster's obvious bias. He'll wax poetic on his ability to make decisions - sound ones, based on only the ...
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Friday, December 22nd, 2006
The King of Kings has returned! Rejoice, Rejoice! Hallelujah, Amen! Oh, and someone tie up a goat, would ya'...
Oh come oh yee reptiles, carnivorous and all scaley...
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Thursday, December 21st, 2006
NOT!
So the renowned Middle East expert, Jimmy Carter, recently wrote a book: Palestine Peace Not Apartheid. Carter has already been accused of plagiarism, specifically of lifting several maps without attribution. In addition, Alan Dershowitz writes:
"Carter's book has been condemned as "moronic" (Slate), "anti-historical" (The Washington Post), "laughable" (San Francisco Chronicle), ...
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Thursday, December 21st, 2006
Lest anyone suppose that all Muslims are Holocaust deniers, there is this in refutation:
If anyone wants to make Holocaust denial an Islamic cause, he said, "we want to say to them: You cannot use our name."I spend a fair amount of words condemning Islamic militancy and violent reactions to things ...
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Thursday, December 21st, 2006
(Disclaimer: I will not be spoiling the movie so keep reading. I will say any movie critic, who thinks they are worth anything, is severely fucked in the head if they bash this movie. Yes you are entitled to your opinion and SO AM I!!!!)
Now to the ...
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Wednesday, December 20th, 2006
but this is no particular victory for free speech. David Irving, while traveling to give a lecture at a fraternity in Austria, had been arrested under a 1992 law that criminalizes "den[ying], grossly play[ing] down, approv[ing] or tr[ying] to excuse the National Socialist genocide". This, the court decided, Irving had ...
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Wednesday, December 20th, 2006
Incompetence has many faces. There's that deer-in-the-headlights look, where one may as well close their eyes, lie down fetally with their thumb in their mouth as if waiting for a hawk to swoop them up and drop them into an incompetent war...
Then there's the melodramatist, endlessly posing ...
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Wednesday, December 20th, 2006
For many people, hunger, homelessness, and poverty only exist between the last Thursday in November and the New Year. The rest of the time they wander around in George Bush autograph-model bubbles, pausing only briefly to shake their heads at the awful realities of the world. Spurred on by incessant ...
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Tuesday, December 19th, 2006
Who was this guy Litvinenko that somebody used on the order of ten million dollars of polonium-210 to kill him?
These two friends mentioned in the article, sickened by smaller, non-lethal doses, but, well, emphasis on the NON portion of that phrase "non-lethal". Traces of polonium-210 turn up in places ...
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Tuesday, December 19th, 2006
Tis' the season to hate gay people...
All this month, this alleged season of giving and caring and love, nine Episcople churches throughout Virginia, whose name is apparently supposed to be taken literally, held votes to decide whether to split from the Epicople Church. Two of them, Truro Church and ...
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