It would appear from the story being presented by KTSP that the President's "It was gone before we got there" excuse for the Al-QaQaa fiasco has been dealt a kick in the pants. Apparently KTSP had a reporter embedded with the 101st Airborne Division, and they visited an area around Al-QaQaa. They found lots of explosives.
The news crew was based just south of Al Qaqaa, and drove two or three miles north of there with soldiers on April 18, 2003.During that trip, members of the 101st Airborne Division showed the 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS news crew bunker after bunker of material labelled "explosives." Usually it took just the snap of a bolt cutter to get into the bunkers and see the material identified by the 101st as detonation cords.
"We can stick it in those and make some good bombs." a soldier told our crew.
In one bunker, there were boxes marked with the name "Al Qaqaa", the munitions plant where tons of explosives allegedly went missing.Once the doors to the bunkers were opened, they weren't secured. They were left open when the 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS crew and the military went back to their base.
They were at the sites 9 days after the fall of Saddam Hussein. That refutes the claim that they were hidden before the invasion.
The Stranger presents the year's scariest costumes!
Bush has been elected...the year's top villain!
Bush won the dubious accolade, announced Wednesday, for his appearance in Michael Moore's anti-Bush documentary "Fahrenheit 9/11."He beat a shortlist that included the nefarious Doctor Octopus, played by Alfred Molina, in "Spider-Man 2"; "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre'"s cannibalistic Leatherface; Andy Serkis' creepy Gollum from "Lord of the Rings" trilogy; and Elle Driver, the eyepatch-wearing assassin played by Daryl Hannah (news) in "Kill Bill."
I'd like to be the first to congratulate the soon to be former President on his recognition. Kudos!
Note: In not-unrelated news, 60,000 absentee ballots missing in a heavily democratic Florida county!
With the help of Engadget, Mac users can learn how to record all audio playing on their computer. I don't know how I'll ever use this, but I'm sure someone will find it interesting.
Not content with causing Michael Jackson to vomit with rage, Eminem has produced his own October surprise. A withering indictment of Bush, the Mosh video should be included with every free download of Fahrenheit 9/11 this week.
It's just too bad that I've already voted, because I found Angry 15 Year Olds for Bush. Highly compelling, I'm kicking myself for not voting a straight republican ticket. For example:
But thanks to george bush's economy my dad has TWO jobs now which is cool because I get all the free mcdonalds I want. I can't wait to see him tomorrow when he is home before I go to school. I have not seen him in three days!!!
He also delivers a comparison/contrast of George W. Bush and Ronald Reagan:
Ronald Regan killed all of the communists with the cold war which was called that way because it was fought by star wars as well as in siberia which is real cold. The soldiers killed lots of people in communism russian but they all fled and because they were white they came to america and became librals. SO regan did not do as much to save america as George W Bush did, because if regan did better then there would nit have been Bill Clintons sex obsest communist rule for 8 years or even Jimmy Carter.
Compelling stuff.
Spam is annoying enough when it gets sent to your e-mail. Try extracting it from your weblog. Go ahead, try. If it weren't for MT-Blacklist, I'd have thrown up my hands and turned off comments permanently. Now it's common knowledge that spammers are pedophiles who only spam the web when they're not driving around near elementary schools in white cargo vans.
We can't stop spammers from molesting innocent children, but we can cut them off at the knees by reporting them and having their accounts canceled. So be warned, spammers. You're going down.
Another reason Portland rocks: A fully functioning retro 80s arcade!
Krause breaks it down for us.
I found this particularly insightful:
You can list more than five reasons why Starbuck's is evil.
Coming from a neighborhood where a newly installed Starbucks was firebombed, I can safely say there is a bit of hostility for the ubiquitous corporation in this town.
Also noteworthy:
You go to a coffee bar and see two guys get into a fight over who makes the best IPA.
When the weather gets above 50 degrees, you put on your shorts, but you still wear your hiking boots and parka.
When the weather gets above 60 degrees, you replace your hiking boots with sandals.
Of course, this is one of my favorites:
You can go skiing after work.
Make it snowboarding, and it's dead on.
In addition to garnering the coveted Mulling It Over endorsement, Kerry has won the approval of Dr. Gonzo himself.
BULLETIN
KERRY WINS GONZO ENDORSMENT; DR. THOMPSON JOINS DEMOCRAT IN CALLING BUSH "THE SYPHILLIS PRESIDENT"
"Four more years of George Bush will be like four more years of syphilis," the famed author said yesterday at a hastily called press conference near his home in Woody Creek, Colorado. "Only a fool or a sucker would vote for a dangerous loser like Bush," Dr. Thompson warned. "He hates everything we stand for, and he knows we will vote against him in November."Thompson, long known for the eerie accuracy of his political instincts, went on to denounce Ralph Nader as "a worthless Judas Goat with no moral compass."
"I endorsed John Kerry a long time ago," he said, "and I will do everything in my power, short of roaming the streets with a meat hammer, to help him be the next President of the United States."
Ooh la la! Coudal Partners presents a fine, fine link to NASA Langley Research Center's crash tests. I think I may have found my calling in life.
Ok, gotta go polish up my resume. Anybody have an idea what NASA is looking for in a crash test technician?
Life after the oil crash explains exactly how severe the impending oil crisis will be. Think gas is expensive right now? It will seem cheap when you're paying $7 per gallon. This problem is something that Dick Cheney and Michael Moore can wholeheartedly agree on.
Before you get too worried, rest assured that the US government has been aware of Peak Oil since at least 1977 and has been actively planning for this crisis for over 30 years. Three decades of careful, plotting analysis has yielded the following 2-step plan:Step 1: Go to war to get oil;
Step 2: Kill whoever gets in the way;
Oh, and we're going to run out of water, too.
Man receives fake $95,000 check in junk mail.
Man deposits check.
Check clears.
Hilarity ensues.
Man 1, Bank 0.
Hello, Oregon Voters. Ballots have arrived in the mail, people are getting out their pens and pencils, and I have been swamped with requests for guidance in the very important 2004 election. So, without further ado, here are my recommendations:
- Measure 31: No. This measure would allow the election to be postponed in the event that a candidate dies before the election. Before the 2000 election I would've supported a Yes on this measure, but the Missouri senate race where John Ashcroft lost to a corpse makes me realize something. If voters would rather vote for the dead guy than the competition, who am I to stop them?
- Measure 32: Yes. This measure would eliminate vehicle taxes for mobile homes. Since many mobile homes are not in fact mobile, it makes sense to stop treating them like they are.
- Measure 33: Yes. This amendment to the Medical Marijuana Act authorizes the creation of state-regulated medical marijuana dispensaries to supply patients with medicine. It would eliminate the need for those unable to grow their own medicine to procure their medicine on the black market. Right now, if you are physically unable to grow the medicine prescribed by your physician you must buy the medicine from an individual who may also sell methamphetamines, cocaine, and heroin. Why? It's patently absurd. Unfortunately, the mainstream press (and even the Willamette Week? Come on, guys) are supporting the terrorists and hating our freedom by opposing the passage of this measure. It's difficult to determine how passage of this measure would hurt the general public in any way. The worst-case scenario possible is that the dispensaries or patients would sell medical marijuana to people who don't need it. By that line of thinking, we should also be closing all pharmacies in the state for fear that rogue pharmacists will sell amphetamines and narcotics illegally.
- Measure 34: After a gut-wrenching personal struggle, Yes. Giving up half of our state forests to save the other half is like killing one of your children to save another. It hurts, but it's better to do that than to lose one child anyway, and have the other horribly maimed too. That's what credible advocates for the measure agree on. If this measure fails, 85% of state forests could be logged in the next 25 years, according to an arugment in favor sponsored by the representatives of the Sierra Club and the Audubon Society. That's fairly awful. I'm not claiming to be a great conservationist, but I can certainly agree that it's good public policy to preserve as much of our country's remaining unspoiled areas as possible.
- Measure 35: No. I'm not in favor of frivilous lawsuits awarding gross sums of money to the undeserving. However, I'm also not in favor of non-frivilous lawsuits failing to deliver justice to the guilty. This measure, sponsored by the people and organizations who would be affected by the lawsuits, would effectively cripple the legal system, ala manditory minimums. This is bad. There is certainly a problem with the health care industry, but this measure is not the solution.
- Measure 36: No.
Instead of using my own words to argue against this measure, let me use the words of founding father Thomas Jefferson:
I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance, or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others.
-Letter to Edward Dowse (April 19, 1803)
Interesting point, Tom. Anything else you would like to add?
I am for freedom of religion, & against all maneuvres to bring about a legal ascendancy of one sect over another.
-Letter to Elbridge Gerry (1799)
Measure 36 exists to weaken the separation of church and state enshrined in our constitution. The institution of marriage is a religious sacrament which should not be regulated by the government at all. However, if we must include it we shouldn't favor the bigotry endorsed by the ancient texts of certain religions. The arguments presented by the proponents are based on fear, ignorance, and religious dogma. This measure, if passed, will permanently deface our state's constitution and punish innocent people.
- Measure 37: No.
Let's take a look at what exactly this measure is proposing.
GOVERNMENTS MUST PAY OWNERS, OR FORGO ENFORCEMENT, WHEN CERTAIN LAND USE RESTRICTIONS REDUCE PROPERTY VALUE
This measure has some convincing arguments from both sides, but overall it appears that while the current system isn't perfect, passing this measure will be a step in the wrong direction.
- Measure 38: No.
Um, yeah, let's privatize. It will be good for the public because deregulation works awesome. Just ask California. They deregulated their power grid, and Enron saved them a whole grip of money on electricity.
Measures
- United States President: John Kerry
This highly coveted endorsement is not as much an approval of Kerry as it is an objection to the election of the incumbent. (See McSweeney's Daily Reasons to Dispatch Bush) George W. Bush started his presidency without a mandate from a majority of the public, and instead of acknowledging this he pursued a shockingly partisan agenda. He started by taking swings at our nation's long history of separation of church and state. His first act in office was to immediately halt funding for programs which distributed condoms to AIDS-stricken and impoverished nations around the world. He continued an agenda which could not be considered conservative, but nevertheless fiercely partisan. He funneled taxpayer dollars to religious institutions, slashed taxes for the wealthy, and generally pursued policies that were loathed by objective, educated, and informed citizens. Unfortunately for our country, these people are in the minority and the remainder of the voters are taking their cues from extremely biased and wealthy organizations such as Fox News and evangelical, politically active religious groups bent on legislating their values. Bush has presided over the first net loss in jobs in our country since the Hoover administration. He commanded a military with plummeting enlistment rates and rumors of a return to the days of the draft. His military was shamed and degraded by the behavior of a few soldiers in Abu Ghraib, but the actions were based on orders from the Defense Secretary that he appointed. He refused to apologize for the murderous atrocities inflicted on innocent men, women, and children. His unprovoked invasion of Iraq was the most protested event in human history, but he failed to acknowledge that there was any validity whatsoever to the opposing viewpoint. In hindsight, after his reasons for invasion were refuted, he still failed to acknowledge any error on the part of his administration. This myopic hubris is just one of the reasons that he must be denied a second term, where free from the need to pursue re-election he would wreak havok upon our country and the world. If the terrorists truly hate our freedom and desire a bloody Jihad to encircle the globe, it's a safe bet they have Bush/Cheney signs planted firmly in their yards.
Senator Kerry is a polar opposite: under his leadership we can expect a return to a rational, objective, and intelligent United States. Kerry will be a leader who won't attempt to impose his irrational beliefs on those who can't accept them as truth. In addition, with Kerry as President I'm quite confident that I'll be able to travel the world and safely admit that I'm a U.S. citizen, without fear or shame.
- United States Senator: Ron Wyden
I can wholeheartedly endorse Senator Wyden's re-election based on his actions. He has taken steps to regain some of our freedoms that congress surrendered to the John Ashcroft and the terrorists in the aftermath of 9/11. The Libertarian candidate makes a compelling argument against re-electing Wyden, but in the aftermath of November 2000, dreams of a viable third party in this country are dead for decades to come. Let's hope some of the criticisms made of Wyden, namely his initial support for the Patriot Act, will be taken to heart.
Candidates
Ok, I'm not getting into the House of Representatives just yet. Happy voting!
*NEWS FLASH**NEWS FLASH**NEWS FLASH**NEWS FLASH**NEWS FLASH*
President Bush is crazy religious fundamentalist who in another life would've gladly joined the Taliban, and he makes most of his decisions based on his 'Gut'.
In other news, bears defacate in the forest, trees are made out of wood.
I found it funny that this site full of interesting, and utterly useless trivia is called 'True Facts'...instead of "False Facts"?
Here are a few gems:
Van Halen singer David Lee Roth is training to be an EMT in New York City, and plans to be certified by November 2004.In 2004, one in six girls in the United States enter puberty at age 8. A hundred years ago, only one in a hundred entered puberty that early.
Almost 20% of the billions of dollars American taxpayers are spending to rebuild Iraq are lost to theft, kickbacks and corruption.
A party boat filled with 60 men and women capsized in Texas after all the passengers rushed to one side as the boat passed a nude beach.
I'm starting to fill out my mail-in ballot for the Orgegon 2004 election. I stumbled onto Measure 36, a thinly veiled attack on the separation of church and state, and noticed that the first four arguments (and the last one) in the Oregon Voter's Pamphlet were paid for by M. Dennis Moore. Mr. Moore is a church organist who paid to have his opinion published in the voter's pamphlet. He is also publishing a web site, Hetersexualbreeding.com, to further explain his beliefs:
My friends, did you know that heterosexual fornication, heterosexual adultery, heterosexual rape, heterosexual domestic violence, heterosexual child abuse, heterosexual divorce, heterosexual murder, and all other heterosexual threats to the family are 100 percent caused by homosexuals? Likewise, shotgun weddings, Las Vegas elopements, Britney Spears weddings, and all other perversions of holy matrimony are entirely the fault of the homosexual conspiracy! There hasn't been a greater threat to the "traditional family" since Demon Rum! But Prohibition failed to "save the family," so now prohibiting gays and lesbians from getting married is "the last great battle in the Culture War!"Traditional prejudices must be respected! It is immoral to place a book by a male author on the shelf next to a book by a female author, unless the authors are married! It's tradition!
And teenagers going on dates should have traditional Victorian chaperones to prevent heterosexual out-of-wedlock pregnancies. It's tradition!
And non-virgins must be stoned to death (Deuteronomy 22:21). It's a timeless tradition!
And Christians should remain single and abstain from sex (I Corinthians 7:1, 8-9). It's a sacred biblical tradition!
So, um, yeah, let's do things the way the Bible tells us to. I bet a lot of problems in society exist because we abandoned that whole "Stone people to death when they break the sabbath" thing the Bible tells us to do.
Harvard Magazine published a great article describing the growing problem of obesity in the U.S.
It breaks down the fundamental conflict between lasseiz-faire capitalism and the human body. In a nutshell, it says that the food industry depends on ever-growing consumption by consumers and must do everything it can to grow consumption rates. To that end it has done well.
Today, Americans eat 200 calories more food energy per day than they did 10 years ago; that alone would add 20 pounds annually to one's bulk.. Television content producers must also constantly encourage more viewing, thus aggravating the problem of sluggish, sedentary lifestyle practiced my a growing majority in the U.S.
Sort of ironically, I found the article in del.icio.us/tag/food, along with a great recipe for roasted curried cauliflower, tiramisu, and much much more. The tiramisu recipe comes from Cooking for Engineers, the most amazing cooking blog I'm stumbled upon yet. It has replaced the apparently abandoned Red Kitchen on my linkbar. Regretfully, this means that I'm going to be proceeding in the direction of increased caloric intake. Fortunately, I've been able to ride by bike nearly every day, so I'm not feeling very sedentary. On the contrary, I'm actually feeling like I might throw on some spandex shorts and sign up for the insanity they call Cycle Oregon. Maybe I should just become Amish and get some real exercise:
David R. Bassett, a professor of exercise science at the University of Tennessee, gave pedometers to 98 of these Amish adults and found that the men averaged 18,000 steps per day, the women 14,000—about nine miles and seven miles, respectively. The Amish men averaged 10 hours a week of vigorous activities like shoveling or tossing bales of hay (women, 3.5 hours) and 43 hours of moderate exertion like gardening or doing laundry (women, 39 hours)."The Amish are not freaks," says professor of anthropology Daniel Lieberman, a skeletal biologist. "They are just anachronisms. Human beings are adapted for endurance exercise. We evolved to be long-distance runners—running a marathon is not a freak activity. We can outrun just about any other creature."
Harvard Magazine elaborates on the link between diet/exercise and health in "The Deadliest Sin":
In 2003, the CDC declared obesity the most important public-health issue in the United States. Obesity increases the risk for type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and some cancers. Two-thirds of Americans are now overweight or obese. In Michigan, half the men are overweight — 34 pounds on average — and the problem has been steadily growing for more than 25 years. Children and teenagers are contracting "adult-onset" diabetes at a rapidly increasing pace. As Dr. Kenneth Cooper, M.P.H. '62, one of the country's foremost experts on physical activity (he coined the word aerobics) puts it, "In Texas, we may have the first generation in which the parents will outlive their kids," as obese children who develop diabetes before 14 years of age can expect their lifespan to be reduced by 17 to 29 years.
Ok, that's enough typing. I'm going for a walk now.
I'm still scratching my head and wondering how I stumbled onto this great blog about bad chinese character tattoos. I say this because I started laughing so hard after discovering it that it completely erased my mental chalkboard.
Update: I found it at Supafamous, a blog by a Canadian who really enjoys Top Gun.
Today brought another victory in my perverse quest to turn my Windows XP into an OS X machine. I've already gotten StyleXP to give myself the OS X Pather skin (check out Studio28 for more great skins), and installed ObjectDock, a Windows XP response to the Dock. Today I stumbled onto Kapsules, which is the Windows XP response to Konfabulator (which impressed Apple so much that they decided to murder it by bundling the upcoming Tiger update with Dashboard). What is left? Can I find a Finder and roll with iTunes? In the process of doing research for this post I stumbled onto a great Engadget post on how to turn your PC into a Mac. I appears I've got work to do. Of course I could just cheat and roll with CherryOS, which is a full-blown G4 emulator, creating a genuine OS X system which runs, ala Virtual PC, only it's a Mac. It's only a matter of time before some 1337 h4Xx0r rolls out a screen shot of a Windows box emulating a Mac box emulating a Windows box emulating a Mac box emulating an XBox. Jokes aside, CherryOS boasts 80% efficiency, which implies that my 3 Ghz P4 will perform like a 2.4 Ghz G4 (!?!?). This would be very interesting if true, and definitely warrants a few benchmark tests.
On the other hand, I'm not very impressed with iTunes and have resisted it along with the trendy and overpriced iPod. My 30 GB Zen Nomad Xtra was $50 cheaper than the iPod Mini and has 7.5 times the Mini's 4 GB storage capacity.
If the terrorists hate our freedom, they'll be vomiting with rage with rage when they discover that the Supreme Court has quietly kicked the Digital Millenium Copyright Act in the jewels today. By declining to review a 2003 decision by the District of Columbia Court of Appeals which stated that the Recording Industry can't demand the identities of file-swappers using a mere supoena, the Supreme Court left it standing. This move was a bold strike at the freedom-hating terrorists. I predict that this move will incite terrorist attacks on the civilian population by militant jihadists and the recording industry. They may even join forces, mixing waves of suicide bombings with an intense legal assault of teens and senior citizens who share the latest Destiny's Child and Usher tracks. I can hear the fundamentalist recording industry execs now: "Every act of copyright infringement is like a dagger in the ear of Allah! "
Of course, the recording industry will inevitable proceed with more modification of our federal laws using the senators and congressmen they purchased (*CoughCoughOrinHatchforexampleCough*) with anti-freedom legislation (*CoughCoughINDUCE ActCough*) which will bring a tear of joy to Mullah Omar's eye.
Where else but at del.icio.us would I stumble upon this fully-stocked city information clearing house? The Top 100 Cities list can tell you which cities have the highest/lowest crime, Top 100 Cities with Old Houses but Young Residents, Top 100 Cities with Strongest Arts, Entertainment, Recreation, Accommodation and Food Services Industries, and my personal favorite, Top 100 Cities with the Largest Percentage of Females. The list poses a question of values: which do you care about more, low commute times or a well educated populace? Low crime rates or a younger population? It can be pretty confusing when you take these factors into acount, then figure in variables like aesthetics and proximity to family and friends. The alternative is to purchase a large may, put on a blindfold, and start throwing darts.
Nelson, a city in British Columbia, has decided (after careful consideration and over dissenting voices) that it would not erect a statue to consciencious objectors who fled to Canada to avoid persecution for their personal beliefs (some like to call these people 'draft dodgers').
The alternative statue will feature that mascot of the northwest: Sasquatch! That's right folks, and he's going to be ten feet tall and carrying a case of beer. I think it's absolutely heartwarming. Sas, as I like to call him, will be carrying a case of Canada's own Kokanee beer. It makes me want to sing 'O Canada'. Article.
(vi) The camera located at the rear of the stage shall be used only to take shots of the moderator.This way (hopefully)the press won't be able to see the bulge in your back. (If they do like you told them to and don't take pictures of your back).
Finally, if you get caught be sure not to directly address the issue. Get your aides to handle it, and have them say that it's "Ridiculous". If that doesn't cut it, get your tailor to tell the press that it's a 'pucker' and hope nobody with high-definition screens notices the wires leading up to your neck from the 'pucker'. Hope that nobody devotes a blog to the issue, and hope that the blog created doesn't get so much traffic that the server gets overloaded. Hope that the bloggers don't do to you what they did to Trent Lott and 60 Minutes.
...Or does Metafilter go down more often than a 2-dollar hooker? I was settling down for a normal day of filling my brain with Metafilter goodness and then heading to del.icio.us to top my brain off with linkage when I was dealt a horrifying blow. No Mefi. No Del.icio.us. The were both gone with the wind. The latter scared me the most because my extensive linkage is stored there, including possible future blog entries. What could I do?
Fortunately, del.icio.us came back up later, and I was able to log into my account and breathe a deep sigh of sweet relief. However, Mefi is still flailing about in the dark, dark world we call 'offline'. C'est la vie, it's inevitable that the entire internet will be nonexistant one day when our planet is enveloped by the sun. However, in the meantime I really, really want some security in my favorite sites. How hard can it be? They're text-based. No massive data transfers. I'm sure they're powered by robust databases (well, maybe not so sure) and expert programmers. What gives? Maybe I should just develop my own one-stop user powered portal of goodness, where at least I can depend on myself to keep things under control.
When is the network news going to pick up the story of the weird (and possibly wired) Bush in the first debate? The major media is at this point merely echoing the response of the Bush camp, that the idea is "absurd".
Are the rumors true, and Bush is dyslexic and being prompted via a tiny earpiece during his press conferences? I'm still trying to nail down the legitimacy of some of the claims I've read, but it would certainly be earth-shattering if this story turns out to be true. If I were Kerry and the charges that Bush cheated blatantly in the first debate are true, I'd definitely walk out on the third debate. The consequences would be devastating for Bush.
Even if this turns out to be a wardrobe malfunction of some kind, it still looks bad for Bush when his performance was so bad that people honestly suspect he was being prompted through his entire debate. There were certainly moments where it's plausible to assume he was waiting for an answer.
I'm going to scan the evening news tonight to see if this story has been picked up by the dinosaurs we call the mainstream network news.
By the way...since he couldn't name three mistakes he made, the Center for American Progress was kind enough to complile a list of 100 mistakes the President made so he'll be prepared next time.
BUSH: I own a timber company?(LAUGHTER)
That's news to me.
(LAUGHTER)
Need some wood?
I'm not sure if Bush was lying through his teeth (not an unthinkable possibility) or just unaware of his equity, but according to FactCheck.org he is definitely the owner of a timber company. Someone decided to throw up a website to point this out.
The Daily Show's John Stewart hosts a debate featuring Governor George W. Bush from 2000 and President George W. Bush of 2004. The gloves come off when the President must debate his policies from attacks by...himself? I got a good laugh out of this one. I recalled that the audience for The Daily Show, though Bill O'Reilly would have your think they are stoned slackers, are actually:
That's an aside in the MSNBC story about how The Daily Show's viewers are very politically savvy.
78 percent more likely than the average adult to have four or more years of college education, while O'Reilly's audience is only 24 percent more likely to have that much schooling.Plus, the network noted, "Daily Show" viewers are 26 percent more likely to have a household income more than $100,000, while O'Reilly's audience is only 11 percent more likely to make that much money.
So the guy watching Stewart may not only be smart, but may also be rich.
Dog Island is paradise for dogs, and they don't have to die to go there. I'm actually really envious. I wouldn't mind going there myself!
Speculation is running rampant that despite Kerry's questionable item (Fox News says it a pen, and if they don't think anything is suspicious it's really doubtful that something was amiss) at the debate, it was Bush who was the real cheater. Is Bush Wired? is dedicated to investigating the issue, and the blog includes photos of Bush with a suspicious rectangular bulge in his jacket at the debate. The bulge isn't in his pocket, but rather on his back between his shoulder blades. It is also noted the the president was wired while delivering the State of the Union speech, and this fact is not in dispute. There are other incidents, during press conferences, where the president stumbles and suddenly spouts a response.
A funny thing happened at the December 15th presidential press conference. Asked to comment on an earlier statement by Howard Dean regarding his alleged foreknowledge of 9/11, Bush stumbles about the stage, clearly caught off guard by the question, then delivers the line: "It's an absurd asinuation."...it could not be more clear that Bush was provided the words with which to answer. At first, Bush stumbles about, repeating his previous line that "there's a time for politics." During this time, he's avoiding eye contact, shrugging, and delaying. Then, the answer is given to him, presumably through a wireless ear piece. Bush then suddenly delivers his line that "it's an absurd asinuation." The suddenness of his reply, after having been speechless, the smile in his eyes when he's given the correct answer, and his incorrect pronunciation of the word "insinuation" all lead to [the] conclusion that he was prompted to provide this answer.
Bring back marriage the way God intended: between a man and his women!
Indeed, studies have found polygamy present in 78% of the world's cultures, including some Native American tribes. (While most are polygynists — with one man and multiple women — there are polyandrists in Nepal and Tibet in which one woman has multiple male spouses.) As many as 50,000 polygamists live in the United States.
If we're going to stop homosexuals from marrying because it will destroy the traditional definition of marriage, we should adhere to that definition and encourage polygamy. The Bible clearly states that marriage is between one man and several women. This is agreed upon by Christians, Jews, and Muslims. Only those who would defy God's command and try to change the Bible would disagree. They'll get theirs in the end, though:
18I warn everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: If anyone adds anything to them, God will add to him the plagues described in this book. 19And if anyone takes words away from this book of prophecy, God will take away from him his share in the tree of life and in the holy city, which are described in this book.
Seriously, everybody knows that polygamy was completely OK in Biblical times. Solomon, in his God-given wisdom, had 700 wives and 300 concubines.
Boing Boing absolutely dominates. The site's new linking policy is simple: if you have a linking policy, unless it's like this one, you can't link to Boing Boing. I'm adopting it too, because it just makes sense. So if you have a linking policy, keep your filthy links to yourself!
Who would've guessed that Scalia would advocate swinging?
Challenged about his views on sexual morality, Justice Scalia surprised his audience at Harvard University, telling them: "I even take the position that sexual orgies eliminate social tensions and ought to be encouraged."
Interesting that he's in favor or rolling back abortion rights, and at the same time advocates baby-making activities. Perhaps he sees a drop in the birth rate as an impending crisis, and is taking action. Or perhaps he watched The Lifestyle: Swinging in America.