Archive for January, 2006
Wednesday, January 11th, 2006
When I read this story, I was reminded of all the times in my youth when the entire family would gather in front of the television on Sunday nights to watch Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom. You know, the episode when a group of starving jungle animals start to attack and eat each other: The [...]
By: Nick | Category Law, Politics | Comments Off
Wednesday, January 11th, 2006
Looks like our illegal alien friends are taking a page from the Palestinian Terrorists’ Handbook: SAN DIEGO (AP) – Border Patrol agents discovered a 35-foot-long tunnel beneath the U.S.-Mexico border after it caved in and the asphalt roadway above it collapsed, officials said. The tunnel ended in a patch of vacant land near the San [...]
By: Nick | Category Immigration, Politics, World Opinion | Comments Off
Tuesday, January 10th, 2006
Vicente Fox and his crybaby friends are turning up the volume on their whining campaign: Diplomats from Mexico and Central America on Monday demanded guest worker programs and the legalization of undocumented migrants in the United States, while criticizing a U.S. proposal for tougher border enforcement. Meeting in Mexico’s capital, the regional officials pledged to [...]
By: Nick | Category Government, Immigration, Law, Politics, World Opinion | 2 Comments »
Monday, January 9th, 2006
Meet Cyclopes, the one-eyed cat: The poor kitten only lived a single day before it died. Here’s the story from Yahoo News: Cy, short for Cyclopes, a kitten born with only one eye and no nose, is shown in this photo provided by its owner in Redmond, Oregon, on Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2005. The kitten, [...]
By: Nick | Category Animals, Bizarre Stuff, Catblogging, Pictures | 3 Comments »
Monday, January 9th, 2006
New York Democrat Senator Charles Schumer attempted to sound relevant Sunday, stating that the Senate Democrats may filibuster the Alito Supreme Court nomination if he doesn’t answer what they consider to be relevant questions: Democrats said yesterday that they may block the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr., depending on the answers [...]
By: Nick | Category Government, Law, Politics | 2 Comments »
Sunday, January 8th, 2006
The results of the CD Poll for this past week are in. Do you agree or disagree with the NSA’s use of warrantless surveillance? Yes, it’s necessary in the War on Terror.: 78% (14) No, I don’t want my civil liberties abused.: 22% (4) Not really a surprise, as this poll reflects the results of [...]
By: Nick | Category CD Polls | Comments Off
Friday, January 6th, 2006
John Hawkins at Right Wing News has put together a list of the most annoying Conservatives in 2005. I pretty much agree with all of his choices, but here are my favorites: 14) Senator Ted Stevens: I demand that Alaska get to keep it’s pork or I’ll quit the Senate! It should have been bye-bye [...]
By: Nick | Category End of the Year Roundups, Government, Politics | 1 Comment »
Friday, January 6th, 2006
Ted Rall has an opinion piece up at Yahoo News. Basically, his point is that no one should be allowed to join the military until they are at least 30 years old, because before then they aren’t capable of making decisions about wars and combat. As I write this now, at 42, I’m a different [...]
By: Nick | Category Life, Military, War on Terror | Comments Off
Friday, January 6th, 2006
I was able to get a couple of good picture of our cat Ernie last night, so why not share? First up is his usual position for about two-thirds of the day: At the time this was taken, he had tired of giving me advice about what tweaks I should make to the WordPress blogging [...]
By: Nick | Category Animals, Catblogging | Comments Off
Friday, January 6th, 2006
The Smoking Gun reports that yet another teacher has been arrested for having sex with a student. JANUARY 5–While some news outlets have concerned themselves with reporting on the first births of 2006, TSG prefers to focus on truly important occurrences of the new year. To that end, we’d like to introduce you to Kansan [...]
By: Nick | Category Bizarre Stuff, Education, Humor, Pictures | Comments Off
Thursday, January 5th, 2006
Put down your drink, take a tranquilizer, and remove all breakable objects from within your reach. Now, read about the latest outrage from the Court system: Burlington, Vermont — January 4, 2005 There was outrage Wednesday when a Vermont judge handed out a 60-day jail sentence to a man who raped a little girl many,many [...]
By: Nick | Category Law | 2 Comments »
Thursday, January 5th, 2006
I’ve added a new feature in the sidebar of Conservative Dialysis: The CD Poll. Each week, I’ll post a new poll regarding current events and let you see the results. Obviously, these polls are not scientific, so I wouldn’t rely on the poll results to tell you anything other than what the readers of this [...]
By: Nick | Category Blog Announcements, World Opinion | Comments Off