Archive for October, 2006
Wednesday, October 25th, 2006
The Mozilla folks have released version 2.0 of their award-winning web browser. If you use Firefox, you want this upgrade. Many new features and faster performance make this the best release yet. Also, it now includes a built-in spell checker. Perfect for people who blog. If you’ve never tried Firefox, now is the time. Although [...]
By: Nick | Category Computers, Internet | Comments Off
Monday, October 16th, 2006
Lynne Stewart, lawyer to blind sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman, was sentenced to only 28 months today for passing messages from the terrorist to his followers. NEW YORK – Civil rights lawyer Lynne Stewart was sentenced Monday to 28 months in prison on a terrorism charge for helping a client who plotted to blow up New York [...]
By: Nick | Category Courts, Culture War, Law, Politics, War on Terror | 1 Comment »
Friday, October 13th, 2006
In his latest attempt to insert himself into the mid-term elections, former President and convicted liar Bill Clinton said that the “Right-Wing” has taken over the country: LAS VEGAS (AP) – The nation has been “jammed into an ideological corner” by conservative Republicans and is primed for a power shift in the November elections, former [...]
By: Nick | Category Politics | Comments Off
Thursday, October 12th, 2006
The environmental movement moved one step closer to complete idiocy recently by advocating Nuremberg-style trials of Global Warming skeptics : A U.S. based environmental magazine that both former Vice President Al Gore and PBS newsman Bill Moyers, for his October 11th global warming edition of “Moyers on America” titled “Is God Green?” have deemed respectable [...]
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Wednesday, October 11th, 2006
If the GOP had any stones, they would buy all the air-time they could find and play this ad over and over until election day. Click here.
By: Nick | Category Government, History, Politics, War on Terror | 2 Comments »
Thursday, October 5th, 2006
Singer and liberal political activist Barbra Streisand can’t seem to do anything these days without blaming all of the world’s problems on President Bush: PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) – Barbra Streisand opened her first U.S. tour in 12 years on Wednesday with a show that ridiculed her political nemesis, President George W. Bush. Before a capacity crowd [...]
By: Nick | Category Culture War, Entertainment, Jerks (Celebrities) | Comments Off
Wednesday, October 4th, 2006
Noted Constitutional scholar* and professor of law* Rosie O’Donnell today proclaimed on national television that the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution was “not really a right”: This quickly led to an exchange with the program’s token conservative, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, in which O’Donnell asserted that there is no right to own a gun: Hasselbeck: [...]
By: Nick | Category Government, History, Law | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, October 3rd, 2006
Right on queue, Mexico’s President Vicente Fox pleads with the Bush Administration to veto the bill passed by Congress to pay for 700 miles of fencing on the southern border: MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico pleaded with President Bush on Monday to veto a Senate proposal to build a fence to keep illegal immigrants out, [...]
By: Nick | Category Immigration, World Opinion | 1 Comment »