Archive for January, 2006

Watching the Democrats Eat Their Own

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 [...]

Border Agents Discover U.S.-Mexico Tunnel

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 [...]

That Sound You Hear from the South is Mexico Whining

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 [...]

Cyclopes, The One-Eyed Cat

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, [...]

Schumer Tries to be Relevant, Fails

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 [...]

Results of CD Poll for Week of January 2, 2006

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 [...]

Most Annoying Conservatives of 2005

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 [...]

Ted Rall: Clueless As Ever

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 [...]

Friday Catblogging

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 [...]

Oh. My. God.

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 [...]

Child Rapist Sentanced to 60 Days!

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 [...]

New Feature on Conservative Dialysis

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 [...]