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Archive for May, 2008

Another Spammer Sent To Prison

2nd May 2008

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And there was much rejoicing.

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Groups Petition EPA to Ban Nanosilver in Consumer Goods

2nd May 2008

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What we need is a pesticide that works on ‘environmentalists’.

Hmm. I wonder whether the EPA would pass it?

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Rep. Fossella Arrested on DWI Charge

2nd May 2008

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Since he was a Republican, of course, his party affiliation was mentioned first thing. Had he been a Democrat, we’d still be playing “Name That Party” with the article.

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What if Oscar Wilde were a superhero?

2nd May 2008

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Of course this review is a classic of its kind:

The movie’s central conflict, which is also Stark’s internal one, has to do with the ambiguity inherent in waging war.

Have you ever heard such a chemically pure distillation of  Theater Major drivel in your life? Dana Stevens has a great career ahead of him as an Overclass pet.

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The Doctor Is in Your PC

2nd May 2008

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And you pretty much get what you pay for.

Hey, these people think animals are more important than people. Who could be surprised that they take the next step? Who could be surprised that such people are so incompetent at life that a machine could make it better?

Not me….

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Sidney Blumenthal Uses Former Right-Wing Foes To Attack Obama

2nd May 2008

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He’s shocked, shocked I tell you, that a once-and-future Clinton aide would do such a thing.

And he’s not hesitating to use the same sort of guilt-by-association tactics that have been the hallmark of the political right dating back to the McCarthy era.

And the hallmark of the Clinton machine almost as far back. But he’s shocked nevertheless.

(I almost never link to the Huffington Post, since it’s mostly bullshit, but sometimes it can be entertaining bullshit.)

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Former man and wife remarry as two women

2nd May 2008

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  1. Thank God you don’t live in Britain.
  2. Without eternal vigilance, it could happen here. Probably in Massachusetts or California. Avoid those states.

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Gay activists shut down APA panel

2nd May 2008

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That ought to read “Gay Fascists Shut Down APA Panel”. Let’s call things by their right names.

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How ‘Dallas’ Won the Cold War

1st May 2008

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Trust your precious bodily fluids to Victoria Principal. You know you want to.

Joseph Stalin is said to have screened the 1940 movie “The Grapes of Wrath” in the Soviet Union to showcase the depredations of life under capitalism. Russian audiences watched the final scenes of the Okies’ westward trek aboard overladen, broken-down jalopies — and marveled that in the United States, even poor people had cars.

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Food Fight

1st May 2008

This comes courtesy of Jonah Goldberg, who has entirely too much time on his hands.

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New farm bill retains big crop subsidies

1st May 2008

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More than $5 billion in direct payments are made each year to growers of corn, wheat, rice, cotton and a few other crops based on past production, regardless of market conditions or even whether the crops are still grown.

The payments are heavily weighted to the biggest producers, with the top 10 percent getting two-thirds of the subsidies.

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The future you save might be your own

1st May 2008

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The technology to convert coal to oil has not only existed for decades, it has continued to be developed and improved upon. Even today, The U.S. Air Force, not wanting to be caught short in wartime, has an ongoing program to supply itself with oil products resulting from coal-to-oil conversion. The only ones standing in the way of this solution to foreign oil dependence is ourselves. Remember what Pogo said “We have met the enemy and they is us.”

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West Point Grad to Serve – on Gridiron

1st May 2008

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Does this offend anybody other than me? The taxpayers paid for this guy to attend one of the most selective colleges in the country — one that is (in theory, at least) dedicated to the training of professional career military officers. But he’s a stud, so he gets to play football instead?

America, you’re paying for this. And the trillions of other boondoggles that your elected representatives are wasting money on.

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Clipping, Scrimping, Saving

1st May 2008

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But last month the 34-year-old Bowie resident felt she no longer had a choice. She’d already given up organic meat and decided to buy organic milk only for her 2-year-old son, not for the whole family.

My, what a hardship. Cry me a river.

If the government weren’t requiring us to burn food, we wouldn’t have these problems.

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House Says Earmark Merits Criminal Probe

1st May 2008

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This is the same House of Representatives in which William Jefferson (D-La.) sits after having $90,000 in bribe money found in his freezer.

Color me unimpressed.

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Best and Brightest, but Not the Nicest

1st May 2008

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I’m saying that sometimes some of these students will denounce world hunger but be unfriendly to the homeless. They will debate environmental policy but never offer to take out the trash. They will believe vehemently in many causes but roll their eyes when reminded to be humble, to be generous and to “do what is right.”

Hey, they’re just practicing for their bright future in the Overclass. Look at AlGore and Hillary for an example of the results.

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Clinton blasts Bush for not stopping a project Bill OK’d

1st May 2008

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What Clinton never includes in the oft-repeated tale is the role that prominent Democrats played in selling the company and its technology to the Chinese. She never mentions that big-time Democratic contributor George Soros helped put together the deal to sell the company or that the sale was approved by her husband’s administration.

So I guess it wasn’t Bush’s fault after all…?

In response, the Clinton campaign said that Bill Clinton’s administration had gotten assurances at the time it approved the deal that production would remain inside the United States, and that the shift of jobs to China didn’t occur until under the Bush administration.

Huh. Perhaps it’s true that you can’t bullshit a bullshitter but apparently it is possible to lie successfully to a liar.

“Hillary Clinton must have been hoping we Hoosiers have short memories,” Ed Dixon of Valparaiso said in a letter to a local newspaper after a recent Clinton visit. “Her husband was president at the time and allowed this to happen.”

I suspect that Hillary Clinton, like her husband, is hoping that every voter in American has a short memory.

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Millionaire shot in bungled robbery

1st May 2008

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Neighbours said the house had been targeted by thieves several times in the past.

Guess he’s going to invest some of those millions in private bodyguards now, eh?

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Kenyans live in squalor as government spends millions on ministries

1st May 2008

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According to the finance ministry, the expanded coalition needs an extra £125 million a month for nine new departments, in addition to the soaring cost of paying for its 93 ministers and their perks.

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