Archive for July, 2005

Helen Thomas: If Cheney Runs, I’ll Kill Myself

Friday, July 29th, 2005

It seems like Helen Thomas has forgotten to take her medication again. The journalistic fossil had a few comments the other day about Vice President Cheney: But asked this week if she is promoting a Cheney candidacy, Thomas made it clear she isn’t. “The day I say Dick Cheney is going to run for president, [...]

Were Environmental Concerns Responsible For The Columbia Disaster?

Thursday, July 28th, 2005

With all of the news regarding Discovery’s return to flight, and yet another problem with the insulating foam on the external fuel tank, people are re-examining the Columbia tragedy. Specifically, they are trying to determine why the foam keeps breaking off during shuttle launches. The Columbia Accident Investigation Board (CAIB) found that the most reasonable [...]

Howard Dean Single-Handedly Destroying Democrats

Wednesday, July 27th, 2005

Howard Dean, the gift that keeps on giving to the Republican Party, is once again launching sound-bites which warm the hearts of Conservatives everywhere: President Bush “only likes to hear from people who agree with him,” Dean told the College Democrats of America, and Republicans, he said, “are all about voter suppression.” After asking the [...]

New York To Track Diabetics

Tuesday, July 26th, 2005

Another example of how far an unbridled government can creep into your private affairs: At least half a million New Yorkers have diabetes, many of them at risk for blindness, kidney failure, amputations and heart problems because they are doing a poor job of controlling their illness. The question is, how much privacy are they [...]

This Explains A Lot About Modern Pop Music

Monday, July 25th, 2005

Wonder why you never hear any good music on the radio? Here’s your answer: The internal memos from Sony Music, revealed today in the New York state attorney general’s investigation of payola at the company, will be mind blowing to those who are not so jaded to think records are played on the radio because [...]

Fonda: Time To Piss Off More Military Personnel

Monday, July 25th, 2005

Jane Fonda, apparently not satisfied with alienating several previous generations of military personnel and veterans, is going back on the road to protest against the War on Terror and the War in Iraq: SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) – Actress and activist Jane Fonda says she intends to take a cross-country bus tour to call for [...]

Unions Eating Their Own

Monday, July 25th, 2005

This weekend brought good news for the economy: CHICAGO (AP) – The AFL-CIO succumbed to division Sunday, with its largest union deciding to bolt the 50-year-old federation and three others poised to do so in a dispute over how to reverse organized labor’s long slide. The four unions, representing nearly one-third of the AFL-CIO’s 13 [...]

Want A Home With That Free Healthcare?

Friday, July 22nd, 2005

Here is just the latest in the string of outrages regarding illegal immigrants: The throng of Latino immigrants gathering outside the 7-Eleven in downtown Herndon looking for a day’s work has been the most noticeable part of this commercial district of shopping plazas and fast-food restaurants for almost a decade. For as long as they’ve [...]

Streisand Joins The Moonbats

Friday, July 22nd, 2005

Barbra Streisand, the woman who thinks that a singing career entitles her to telling the Bush Administration how to operate, has shown once again how little she understands about the law and the Constitution: How lucky for George Bush that his well-timed nomination of Judge Roberts to the Supreme Court has taken the heat off [...]

Democrats Read The Riot Act

Friday, July 22nd, 2005

Democratic Senators Edward (the Swimmer) Kennedy (D-Mass.) and Daniel Akaka (D-Hi.) were read the riot act by soldiers from their home states who work at Guantanamo Bay detention facility. Soldiers from Massachusetts and Hawaii who work at the U.S. military detention facility at U.S. Naval Base Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, gave visiting home-state senators a piece [...]

The Moonbats Are Loose

Thursday, July 21st, 2005

Seems I hit a nerve in the moonbat community yesterday with this post. Since it’s fun to do so, let’s take his comments apart one by one. So, Joseph, whose web site is here, this is for you: Can you explain how they broadcast the landing on the moon “live”? If someone filmed the astronaut [...]

36 Years Ago Today: Man Walks On Moon

Wednesday, July 20th, 2005

When I went to Google today, they had one of their special graphics up in honor of the 36th anniversary of man’s first walk on the moon: As most people who are at least 40 years old can do, I remember watching the moon landing live on the television. The whole family was gathered around [...]