Archive for May, 2006
Friday, May 12th, 2006
Terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui avoided the death penalty by a single vote cast by a holdout on the jury who refused to discuss the reasons for dissenting. Only one juror stood between the death penalty and Zacarias Moussaoui and that juror frustrated his colleagues because he never explained his vote, according to the foreman of the [...]
By: Nick | Category Courts, Culture War, Law, War on Terror | 3 Comments »
Thursday, May 11th, 2006
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) rejected a proposal to create a “.xxx” top level domain for pornography web sites: NEW YORK – Faced with opposition from conservative groups and some pornography Web sites, the Internet’s key oversight agency voted Wednesday to reject a proposal to create a red-light district on the [...]
By: Nick | Category Computers, Culture War, Law | Comments Off
Wednesday, May 10th, 2006
Someone called Steven D. at a blog called the Booman Tribune thinks that people on the right have no idea what uncivil means: Civility is the new hot topic. Thanks to Jonathan Chait, Richard Cohen and Michelle Malkin (to name but a few of the liberal critics in the media and from the conservative side [...]
By: Nick | Category Culture War, Political Correctness, Politics | Comments Off
Wednesday, May 10th, 2006
This whole situation is getting worse and worse. According to one former Border Patrol Agent, not only is the U.S. Border Patrol tipping off the Mexican government to where the Minutemen civilian patrols are, Mexican Consulate officials are residing inside of the Border Patrol’s office and determining which operations they can and can not carry [...]
By: Nick | Category Immigration, Politics | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, May 9th, 2006
The results of the last poll are in: Was life in prison without parole an appropriate sentence for Zacarias Moussaoui? No, he and anyone involved with the 9/11 attacks needs to be executed.: 100% (7) Yes, it will be worse for him than if he had been executed.: 0% (0) No surprises here. I’ve posted [...]
By: Nick | Category CD Polls | Comments Off
Tuesday, May 9th, 2006
In what has to be the low-point of his Presidential Administration, it was learned today that the U.S. Border Patrol is actually telling the Mexican government where the Minutemen groups are located along the border: While Minuteman civilian patrols are keeping an eye out for illegal border crossers, the U.S. Border Patrol is keeping an [...]
By: Nick | Category Immigration, Politics, War on Terror | Comments Off
Monday, May 8th, 2006
I guess the steroids have finally destroyed that last remnant of humanity from Barry Bonds: PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Carlos Oliveras has a home run ball specially marked to assure authenticity. It just doesn’t have Barry Bonds’ autograph as the slugger refused to sign the ball. Source What a jerk. No wonder no one likes him; [...]
By: Nick | Category Culture War, Jerks (Celebrities), Sports | Comments Off
Thursday, May 4th, 2006
The results from the latest CD Poll are in: What do you think is most responsible for high gas prices? Environmental regulations which require more than 40 different formulations of gasoline.: 48% (10) Greedy oil companies. They’re just sucking the money out of our wallets and putting it into their bank accounts!: 38% (8) Lack [...]
By: Nick | Category CD Polls | Comments Off
Thursday, May 4th, 2006
Life has been making it hard for me to get to the blog for the past week or two. The worst thing which has happened is that the transplant hospital eliminated my wife as a kidney donor. In the last round of tests, they found a problem with her kidneys which makes her kidneys unsuitable [...]
By: Nick | Category Blog Announcements, Health Stuff | Comments Off
Tuesday, May 2nd, 2006
Well, Monday came and went just like every other Monday I’ve spent in South Texas for the last 35 plus years. I didn’t get caught in any traffic jams, all of my favorite restaurants were open for lunch, and the rest of life went forward as normally as any other day. All of this begs [...]
By: Nick | Category Culture War, Immigration | 1 Comment »