Apparently, some people feel that we are not treating the detainees in Cuba with the proper respect and deference for their cultural beliefs. So, Donald Rumsfeld has started a new program to remedy the situation:
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington, D.C., 20016
Dear Concerned Citizen:
Thank you for your letter criticizing our treatment of Taliban and Al Qaeda [...]
Archive for January, 2005
Friday, January 28th, 2005
It is amazing what passes for “academic thought” these days:
Churchill’s essay argues that the Sept. 11 attacks were in retaliation for the Iraqi children killed in a 1991 U.S. bombing raid and by economic sanctions imposed on Iraq by the United Nations following the Persian Gulf War.
The essay contends the hijackers who crashed airplanes into [...]
Another one hit out of the park by the folks at Cox & Forkum:
I think Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) is losing her memory and/or mind:
Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) took her opposition to Condoleezza Rice to a new front: She has used it in a fundraising pitch to Democratic donors.
The pitch went out Tuesday evening. On behalf of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Boxer referred to Rice’s “misleading statements leading [...]
The list of Academy Award Nominations is out, and Michael Moore didn’t get even a single one. However, Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ got three nominations, albeit for technical categories (Makeup, Cinematography, and Original Score).
Just when you’re ready to write off Hollywood, they go and do something decent like this. I guess I’ll [...]
Somebody let Ted Turner out of the basement today:
Ted Turner called FOX an arm of the Bush administration and compared FOXNEWS’s popularity to Hitler’s popular election to run Germany before WWII.
Turner made the controversial comments before a standing-room-only crowd at the National Association for Television Programming Executives’s opening session Tuesday.
I guess if you are a [...]
Movable Type has released a new plugin to help bloggers in their quest to defeat comment spammers. The NoFollow plugin adds the rel=”nofollow” attribute to all links submitted by external users in your Comment and Trackback areas.
Without getting too technical, what this attribute does is instruct search engines to igonre these links for the purposes [...]
Via My Way News:
San Francisco may become the first city in the nation to charge shoppers for grocery bags.
The city’s Commission on the Environment is expected to ask the mayor and board of supervisors Tuesday to consider a 17-cent per bag charge on paper and plastic grocery bags. While the goal is reducing plastic bag [...]
I was wondering how long it would take Barbara Boxer to claim victim hood. It really didn’t take that long:
Sen. Barbara Boxer says she is the real victim of last week’s confirmation hearing for Secretary of State-designate Condoleezza Rice, yet continued yesterday to question the national security adviser’s honesty.
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Via My Way News:
RENO, Nev. (AP) – A 50-year-old Reno man who was hospitalized after he castrated himself told police he learned of the procedure on the Internet and did so to lower his libido. The man, whose name was not released, called 911 at about 1:30 a.m. Monday and asked for help because he [...]
Once again, the wife makes a valuable contribution of humor to your Friday afternoon:
La Computer or El Computer
A Spanish teacher was explaining to her class that in Spanish, unlike English, nouns are designated as either masculine or feminine. “House” for instance, is feminine: “la casa.” “Pencil,” however, is masculine: “el lapiz.”
A student asked, “What [...]
Sometimes, you just have to wonder why the United States even bothers to help other countries when they have a disaster. Ed Stanton (a pen name used by a career U.S. Navy officer currently serving with the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group) has written a first hand account of how things are going for [...]
