Miscellania Archives Digest
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October 20, 2008
From this: SARANAC LAKE - Powerful generals and admirals from some of the most powerful nations on Earth are reportedly meeting somewhere in the local area this weekend after flying into the Adirondack Regional Airport in Lake Clear on Friday. Among the passengers of a large Boeing 757 airplane with...
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October 03, 2008
Breaking now: OJ Simpson has been found guilty on all charges. His co-defendent Clarence Stewart was also found guilty on all charges. The minimum possible sentences aren't known, but both of them could face life imprisonment....
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September 24, 2008
From this: U.S. troops returning from duty in Iraq will be carrying out homeland patrols in America from October 1st in complete violation of Posse Comitatus for the purposes of helping with "civil unrest and crowd control" - which could include dealing with unruly Americans after a complete economic collapse....
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August 04, 2008
Back on April 6, 2008 I uploaded the video below called "Green Pioneers", satirizing the global warming hysteria by proposing a Soviet Union-style Pioneers program featuring kids monitoring and reporting the energy consumption of their parents and neighbors. From my satire to others' realities, as in July, Barack Obama proposed...
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July 31, 2008
Bruce Ivins - a biotechnology researcher at Fort Detrick in Maryland - apparently committed suicide using Tylenol 3 and died Tuesday. That was after he learned that the government would charge him in the anthrax mailings of a few years ago. According to this the story was uncovered by the...
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July 23, 2008
Globalist forces are pushing to give the United Nations a standing army consisting of 15,000 troops and personnel who could respond within 48 hours under the command of the U.N. Security Council (called the "U.N. Emergency Peace Service"). While that might make sense under certain circumstances, it could obviously be...
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July 08, 2008
The beautiful corner of Sunset Boulevard and Cahuenga in central Hollywood, Los Angeles, California will, beginning on Thursday, be known as "Larry King Square" after America's favorite CNN talk show host, city officials confirm. However, that designation will only take effect during the day; after sundown, it will be known...
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June 25, 2008
The Orange County Register will be conducting a one month trial where they outsource some newspaper editing functions to a company in India. They'll also be doing layout work on one of the OCR's community newspapers. Per their deputy editor: "This is a small-scale test, which will not touch our...
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April 15, 2008
If two "liberals" tell you that Wikipedia isn't biased towards the "liberal" side of things, doesn't that prove that it is biased, especially when the two "liberals" aren't exactly known for thinking things through? OK, it's not proof, but it is a strong indicator, as Kevin Drum [1] approvingly directs...
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March 28, 2008
I don't follow financial matters, but I know instinctively that this has to be a bad idea: The Treasury Department will propose on Monday that Congress give the Federal Reserve broad new authority to oversee financial market stability, in effect allowing it to send SWAT teams into any corner of...
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March 17, 2008
Wading into unfamiliar territory, but this seems worthy of note: Built on the island of Spitsbergen in the Barents Sea near the Arctic Ocean in the country of Norway, a group of wealthy corporations [including "The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, The Rockefeller Foundation, Monsanto Corporation, Syngenta Foundation, and the...
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February 12, 2008
Here's an example of how you can't rely on Youtube's view counts for their videos. Not only has the view count for the Obama Che Guevara video I uploaded yesterday not budged at all from this morning until now, but the "Sites Linking to This Video" section shows 52 more...
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January 23, 2008
One-sixteenth of a cheer for Barack Obama! For, back in 2006 he voted for an amendment that would prevent the federal government from spending any money on gun confiscation during a declared state of emergency. On the other hand, Hillary Clinton voted against it (i.e., on the gun grabbing side)....
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January 09, 2008
From this: A whistleblower has made a series of extraordinary claims about how corrupt government officials allowed Pakistan and other states to steal nuclear weapons secrets. Sibel Edmonds, a 37-year-old former Turkish language translator for the FBI, listened into hundreds of sensitive intercepted conversations while based at the agency’s Washington...
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December 15, 2007
The World Economic Forum and Youtube appear to have joined forces and are requesting that Youtube users submit questions for the Davos event to be held next year (youtube.com/thedavosquestion). One or more top-rated videos will be selected and screened for the attendees, and then the attendees will deign to provide...
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October 17, 2007
On October 7, two members of San Francisco's "Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence" (the "nuns" - except for the last "nun" - featured on this video) took Communion at the Holy Redeemer Church, located in Frisco's Castro district (thesisters.org/MHR_Release.html; picture here; news report with video of the incident here; apology from...
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September 25, 2007
A few days ago, Huffington Post contributor Sally Kohn disclosed that she has a "crush" on Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/9/23/83652/6735 However, the Kossacks have since redeemed themselves with this poll: dailykos.com/story/2007/9/23/224950/843 After 1080 votes, only 35% would prefer that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was president of the U.S. There's hope for the Democratic...
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August 20, 2007
From this: Internal MnDOT documents reviewed by the Star Tribune reveal that last year bridge officials talked openly about the possibility of the bridge collapsing -- and worried that it might have to be condemned... The documents provide the first look inside MnDOT's decision-making process as engineers weighed benefits and...
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July 09, 2007
I have little doubt that many of today's youths will not only not know who these people are, but won't even be familiar with them in their later, more poppy, much more famous incarnation. If you're stumped, here's a hint: think goat. Here's another one, with an intro as creepy...
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July 07, 2007
[By reading this message you have already agreed to conduct blog-related business in English only.] Bon jour! Canadian national icon and noted singer Avril Lavigne is accused of ripping off a band (I think) I've never heard of called the Rubinoos. Back in 1979 - five years before the glorious...
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July 04, 2007
This site and others are frequent critics of Reuters. However, in this case, they deserve a Pulitzer. Give 'em two Pulitzers! The 24-year-old son of former Vice President Al Gore was arrested for drug possession on Wednesday after he was stopped for allegedly speeding in his hybrid Toyota Prius, a...
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July 01, 2007
Art Bell is retiring... again! This is, by my count, the 382nd time that he's retired, at least this decade. The New World Order change agent and pusher of Art Bell's Pizza Punch wants to spend more time with his child bride of full legal age wife Aryn, and intends...
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June 06, 2007
A few days ago, Google's entertainment channel (?) at current.tv had an episode with a lightweight mocking (in both senses) of Lou Dobbs: current.tv/pods/google/GC03275 . This was contemporaneous with the David Leonhardt smear. Today, Laszlo Bock, Google's "Vice President of People Operations" testified before Congress today expressing their wish for...
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June 01, 2007
Who knew Youtube would actually have a few things worth watching:...
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May 16, 2007
Remember the infamous shot of the polar bears "trapped" on a "melting" ice floe? I do, since I made a satirical video about it (link) that few seem to have realized is satire. The latest example of picture propaganda comes with the story "Arctic islands invite tourists to see climate...
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May 08, 2007
Continuing our proud tradition of linking to one of the few worthwhile posts to appear at the Huffington Post, we hereby link to this. Melamine-tained fish meal made its way to U.S. and Canadian fish farms, and thus likely into the U.S. food supply. Previously it was announced that millions...
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May 01, 2007
From this: In a conference call with media this afternoon, USDA Assistant Administrator Kenneth Petersen revealed that as many as 3 million chickens, contaminated with melamine from a single Indiana feed mill, have already been slaughtered, distributed and eaten. An additional 100,000 breeder chickens are currently being voluntarily quarantined by...
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April 25, 2007
On a recent Reason Magazine thread (reason.com/blog/show/119840.html), Andrew Levy (Andy) of FOX's Red Eye TV program and dailygut.com made an off-hand, ad hominem comment about my Libertarian Quiz. I posted a comment asking him whether he could provide an actual argument, to which he replied, "nope". While it would be...
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Recently Bill O'Reilly "disclosed" the funding of the group Media Matters for America (link to video). The segment includes a chart showing money flowing from George Soros to the Open Society Institute, Democracy Alliance, MoveOn, and the Center for American Progress. The latter three are current or former donors to...
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April 24, 2007
Tonight's NBC Nightly News featured Brian Williams introducing a segment on a group called "Step It Up" which wants to end global warming and which held marchs across the U.S. on the 14th. The report was all bright and happy and wholesome. Then, of course, I looked up the group...
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April 16, 2007
GoDaddy.com is a leading web host and domain registrar, and I strongly advise staying as far away from them as possible. There are dozens of reasons here, and here's my personal tale. Earlier today I was trying to diagnose why a script I wrote was only working intermittently for someone...
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April 10, 2007
From this: A CBS News producer was fired and the network apologized after last night's Katie Couric broadcast was found to be plagiarized from The Wall Street Journal and other sources. The complete broadcast was removed from the CBS Web site and an editor's note was posted saying the segments...
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April 05, 2007
As others have no doubt noted, the general global warming movement seems to have some curious aspects. For instance, here's Frank J. Gaffney, Jr. in "Assault of the 'Transies'" saying: Al Gore's hobby horse is also breathing new life into the ultimate Transie project: the imposition of international taxation ("globotaxes")...
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April 01, 2007
The first useful post on the Huffington Post has been spotted: Del Monte Foods has confirmed that the melamine-tainted wheat gluten used in several of its recalled pet food products was supplied as a "food grade" additive, raising the likelihood that contaminated wheat gluten might have entered the human food...
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March 26, 2007
Howard "Howie" Kurtz offers the rather pointless "Online, Churls Gone Vile", which I only clicked because Memeorandum was running a link to it next to a pic of the Babe of Brentwood, and couldn't help myself. Anywho, discussing the commenting feature that the Washington Post gives logged-in readers, Kurtz says:...
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March 20, 2007
Cardinal Roger Mahony - who frequently hides behind "humanitarianism" to support illegal immigration - has been caught in a lie: At least six months after Cardinal Roger M. Mahony told his superiors at the Vatican that a videotape provided proof of a priest's criminal misconduct with high school boys, the...
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March 19, 2007
Two radio hosts from Chicago tried to trademark the term "Obamanation", refering of course to Barack Hussein Obama. They were refused because the term was considered to be "disparaging". Oddly enough, however, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office attorney Karen K. Bush included an extremely questionable screenshot in her notice of...
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March 08, 2007
You know, when searching for something as seemingly basic as that in the graphic below, one would expect that a multi-million dollar TV network's main site or the page listing their shows would appear first in the results, not what is simply a bunch of junk, including at least two...
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March 06, 2007
Some of the currently top viewed videos on Youtube are currently what appear to be back and forth insults directed at each country. Will the next news we hear out of the region be a withdrawal of their ambassadors from the other country? Would you like to see what it...
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February 24, 2007
Phyllis Schlafly's Eagle Forum has started an alternative to Wikipedia called Conservapedia. Needless to say, the usual "liberal" suspects are having a great deal of (what passes to them as) fun (link, link, link,link). They're pointing out "errors" in the encyclopedia, and some of those "errors" may actually be vandalism...
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February 19, 2007
Never fear, they're currently looking for them: A new report on climate over the world's southernmost continent shows that temperatures during the late 20th century did not climb as had been predicted by many global climate models. Says "David Bromwich, professor of professor of atmospheric sciences in the Department of...
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February 15, 2007
You know those people who sell fruits like oranges at freeway (or highway or thruway) offramps? Did you ever ponder where they got the fruit and what type of arbitrage is involved there? Well, I did, briefly, once and I assumed that they bought it from supermarkets and then resold...
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February 08, 2007
As a test designed to show how unreliable Wikipedia is, I added some long-missing facts to the WP entry for Los Angeles mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. Then, someone else came along and junked the paragraph I added up a bit. Then, problem administrator "Will Beback" added 'citation needed' marks to the...
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February 02, 2007
Fiji's new military dictator has banned Prime Ministers Helen Clark (New Zealand) and John Howard (Oz Oy Oy Oy aka Australia) from visiting his tropical atoll country. Clark responded thusly: "I think the Commander is digging himself into an even deeper hole and I really don't intend to dignify the...
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January 26, 2007
Wikipedia is completely unreliable not just because of the possibility that an entry contains errors or biased statements. The more pernicious aspect of its unreliability is missing information. Statements of fact in an entry can be verified, but unless a visitor is familiar with the subject, they won't be able...
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January 17, 2007
The Washington Post is breaking new ground in journalism: Washingtonpost.com is publishing fiction for the first time, serializing the debut novel of Post Business section reporter David Hilzenrath. The rest of this post is a mere formality, because the reader has no doubt already figured out that that paragraph is...
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This is a follow-up to the first post about linking issues at Youtube, specifically relating to their (perhaps Google-inspired) use of the odious nofollow tag. In the following images, links within a salmon-colored box with a dashed border have that tag, ones without that change are normal, old-school style web...
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January 12, 2007
The Soros-funded leftwing nuts at Media Matters for America are latching on to the case of "Spocko" a blogger who posted audio recordings of KSFO (San Francisco, "Frisco") hosts Melanie Morgan and Brian Sussman to his website. Those may have been covered by fair use, but ABC/Disney (owners of the...
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January 04, 2007
WTF? In the following screenshot, the salmon-colored squares are not part of the page, but are added by a Firefox one-liner that I use to help me spot links that have the evil, anti-web nofollow attribute. This is a very recent development, and I wonder what role the "do no...
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January 03, 2007
Normally this site wouldn't sink this low, but: "El Cucuy" is a Spanish-language disc jockey in Los Angeles, and bus bench ads feature a picture of him together with the tag line "El Cucuy es Raza". His real name is Renan Almendarez Coello, and over the summer he held a...
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December 27, 2006
Libertarianism - the political doctrine usually indistinguishable from satire - reaches one of its lows in a paper from Dr. Benjamin Powell called "Somalia After State Collapse: Chaos or Improvement?" He looks to be about 18 years old, but more telling is it's from the Independent Institute, the same group...
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December 23, 2006
Like everyone else, I hate Fry's Electronics. Unfortunately, like many other people, we're occasionally forced to shop there. Thus it was a few days ago. Later however, I decided I didn't need the item, and took it back. But, like a sucker, I bought something else from them. Despite continuing...
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Back in the early 90s I shot this music video (also here) of Los Angeles homeless singing Jingle Bells. This was several years before Bum Fights, and was done with different intentions. The evolution is also (to me at least) interesting. I shot it on Hi-8 and - before I...
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December 05, 2006
Will the horrors of the Bush administration never end? While browsing Amazon, I came upon the "Swiss Army One-Hand Trekker Lockblade Pocket Knife" (you can buy one here), and I saw this: The Swiss Army Knife is the only knife recommended for the emergency kit of the US Department...
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December 03, 2006
A friend of mine - not me, just someone I barely know, no really, not me - downloaded the pictures of Dr. Laura Schlessinger which were floating around on the web once. Sadly, he informs me that the only one which is "safe for work" is the one on the...
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November 19, 2006
If, like me, you don't make a habit of visiting malls, and if like me you've watched with some concern the PS3 riots you might be wondering how you could get your hands on what is quite possibly the latest and greatest game console. The easy way to get a...
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October 17, 2006
In the past, I've joked about Bush fleeing to some small Latin American country, and I even have a site jokingly suggesting that some people should leave the U.S. However, if questionable reports are to be believed, the Bush family might already have an exit strategy planned. From this (also...
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October 06, 2006
From this: ...[A] former priest, who lives in Ireland, said he was able to continue abusing children in part because of actions by Cardinal Mahony, who now heads the country's largest Roman Catholic archdiocese, here in Los Angeles, and is among the church’s most influential American leaders. Mr. O'Grady says...
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September 21, 2006
Cardinal Roger Mahony is not just a cheap labor pimp who either doesn't care about the massive downsides of illegal immigration or can't figure things out. He's also deeply involved in the Catholic Church's sex abuse scandal. From "Mexican officials detain lawyers, activist tied to sex abuse case": [Mexican] immigration...
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August 13, 2006
On ABC's This Week, a gleeful George Stephanopoulos announced that Fidel Castro was A-OK and showed the following picture. However, he failed to note that some question whether the image is photoshopped or real: From the caption: This is one of four photographs published Sunday Aug. 13, 2006 by Cuba's...
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July 15, 2006
Details (from a leftie perspective) here. Includes information on water as a commodity. And: The [Plan Puebla Panama] is the most direct threat of corporate water ownership (supported heavily by former President Vincente Fox)... ...Fox wants to transplant the maquiladora, production-for-export model that has been applied with disastrous results in...
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June 12, 2006
George Soros and Maurice Strong might invest hundreds of millions in Chinese automaker "Chery". They make a car which sells for $3,600 in China but will sell for $20,000 here. GM accuses Chery of ripping off the design for a car that their South Korean affiliate Daewoo makes....
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June 08, 2006
Way far out there radio host Alex Jones tried to enter Canada yesterday to cover a Bilderberg meeting. He claims that he was detained by Canadian immigration officials since last night to this afternoon on the orders of that group: Customs openly told Alex as soon as they brought him...
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April 17, 2006
The Pulitzer Prizes have been announced. If they wanted to be a bit closer to the past and present reality, they'd have a Propaganda category. What would that look like? Let's imagine: Best Propaganda: This year's award goes to several newspapers: the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Los...
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March 25, 2006
There's a pretty good list of some techniques the MSM uses here. See also my new site about immigration reform. It provides additional canards the MSM uses to lie about the topic....
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March 05, 2006
Thomas Kinkade is the artist who makes megabucks selling heartwarming scenes of lighthouses and cottages. According to a new lawsuit, he also has a dark side: ...In sworn testimony and interviews, they recount incidents in which an allegedly drunken Kinkade heckled illusionists Siegfried & Roy in Las Vegas, cursed a...
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February 24, 2006
A Maryland company and Minnesota Public Radio are suing Al Gore's Current TV network in separate suits charging trademark infringement over the name of the network. An earlier statement had the following: "We know of no consumers who confuse us with Minnesota Public Radio, and we can't imagine that anybody...
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February 14, 2006
If - God forbid - Harry Whittington shouldn't pull through or suffers a lasting disability, what will happen to the Bush administration? There's a good chance that Dick Cheney will resign. Of course, you never know, and he might decide to stick around. If he does resign, perhaps Bush will...
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Now breaking......
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February 06, 2006
AN Indian sailor who died in the Lithuanian port of Klaipeda may have been infected with bird flu, the Lithuanian health ministry said today. "A member of the crew of the ship MV Ocean Wind, Indian citizen Shaikh Rafikque, died in Klaipeda today. The suspected cause of death is bird...
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February 03, 2006
Speaking in Chicago earlier today, DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff profusely apologized for the latest round of maulings and deaths caused by 'Ready Kids' mascot and mountain lion 'Rex'. "When we originally invisioned the latest mascot 'Rex' we were going to create him as just a cartoon character. However, we...
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January 27, 2006
Halliburton's KBR subsidiary has got yet another "Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity" contract, and this one is of interest both from the immigration and the tin-foil hat perspective. It involves building detention centers. Of course, detention centers are "multi-use facilities" and can be used to keep people in, keep people out, transship...
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January 18, 2006
Anna Ayala, who claimed to have found a severed human finger in a bowl of chili she got at a San Jose Wendy's, has been sentenced to nine years in California prison: "Greed and avarice overtook this couple and they lost their moral compass," Judge Davila said... [he] also ordered...
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January 09, 2006
Is Deepak Chopra a COINTELPRO agent? If not him, what about other New Age gurus and gurettes? Has someone dressed in black "gotten to" Shirley McClain? Those questions and many others went through my mind as I scanned the first part of the very long post "How to Spot COINTELPRO...
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January 06, 2006
This "TOTW" is indeed pathetic. It concerns the Sago Mine miners and the notes they wrote. Considering the source, can you guess the title? I'll bet you can come close....
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January 05, 2006
The U.S. government is looking into a scheme that would use a huge magnetic field to propel a spaceship into an alternate dimension, enabling a trip to Mars in three hours and a trip to a star 11 light years away in just 80 days. The US air force has...
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December 30, 2005
The youth outreach coordinator for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), Chris Garnett, has legally changed his name to KentuckyFriedCruelty.com. Those wacky extremists! The former Dover Plains, New York, resident and current Street Team coordinator of peta2—PETA's youth division [aka "petmol" -- LW] —has the official state papers...
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December 27, 2005
Our charter requires 0.04% Canadian coverage, and here it is: A high-ranking official within the Liberal Party of Canada resigned today after he made disparaging comments on his blog about NDP Leader Jack Layton and his wife, NDP candidate Olivia Chow. Mike Klander, executive vice-president of the federal Liberal party's...
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December 25, 2005
Welcome to today's lecture. I and Our Leader would like to congratulate you on your hair, as it appears to conform to our standards. Remember: long hair depletes your brain of the oxygen it needs and does not conform to socialist style. Do not let your hair grow longer...
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December 24, 2005
Is the far-left "news" organization Raw Story credible or not? Consider the last headline from this screengrab of their site: The last link in that graphic claims that Fox News' Tony Snow is tied to a white supremacist group because the site MartinLutherKing.org contains a column he wrote in 1999...
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Today's award goes to 75-year-old Ray Wright from England who runs the "Clearwell Caves attraction in the Forest of Dean" and who's seeking a publisher for his book "The Gifts Of The Sun". He got his name in the paper by claiming that the Twelve Days Of Christmas is actually...
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December 22, 2005
I've noticed recent ads from a group looking for those who used Napster "back in the day", specifically 2000 or 2001. They want to buy your old computer and they'll give you $500. I'd provide a link except I don't want to give them any additional help. I don't think...
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November 17, 2005
I realize that as time goes on the Bush administration is looking more and more like a secret attempt to discredit the Republican Party, but even they wouldn't come out with a scheme to do pesticide testing on orphans and mentally handicapped children. Right? So, I am absolutely positive that...
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November 13, 2005
Whew! That title is so good, you almost don't need to read the report. Rep. Cynthia McKinney, (D-GA, representin' da K Street Rollin' Legislators) has apparently authored a bill: McKinney's bill would have the National Archives collect "all government records on the life and death" of Shakur, which her bill...
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October 28, 2005
Can you count the problems with this site I stumbled across? Let's count them down: - It plays music without you giving it permission. - I wonder about that "e*PetBay TM" at the top. Trademarked? Really? I wonder what "eBay" would think about that. - "RatsAreUs"? I know ToysRUs had...
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October 27, 2005
Here's an email I received from a undoubtedly nicely-dressed young lady with an email address at bblfinancial.com: My name is Catherine Jennings I work with the Private Banking Division At Berkeley Bank Limited, London. We are conducting a standard process investigation in relation to matters involving a client who shares...
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October 20, 2005
They can support Quebec's plan to create their own armed forces. [Bloc Quebecois Leader Gilles Duceppe said:] "There'll be an army, of course... We have to have those organizations, I would say... If you develop a foreign policy the way we see it, then we'll have an army that will...
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Previously came the news that California's dumber Senator, and in fact one of the dumbest Senators ever, is trying her hand at fiction: "She's a boxer, a fighter, and a bodice-ripping good read". This, of course, follows her two successful non-fiction titles: Governance for Dummies and If I Can...
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October 19, 2005
Did you know that ads from a Communist-linked group appeared on Air America Radio? Da, comrade, it's true! Jamie, from Gosudarstvennoye Buro Informatsii, aka AAR's media relations dep't, has not returned my call requesting a statement. We will keep all comrades up to vremya on breaking scandal. Rabotayu i slezhu.......
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October 17, 2005
France-bashing seems to be waning, so I thought I'd pick up some slack by pointing this out: Obesity levels among French children are now about the same level as in the United States 20 years ago, [a study conducted by the French National Institute for Health and Medical Research] found....
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October 12, 2005
Did you know that animal keepers in China and other Asian countries keep bears in order to do live extractions of bile from their gall bladders? Needless to say, this bile is part of traditional Chinese medicine. And, the gallbladders themselves are also sold. Needless to say, the bile extraction...
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October 05, 2005
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has restricted access to flu data. ...Open government advocates are critical of the CDC's "Information Security" manual, the 34-page document that gives officials 19 categories to shield data from public scrutiny without obtaining a "secret" classification. That runs counter to CDC's mission, says...
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October 04, 2005
Feel relief, Citizen, as you learn that the Bilderberg group does not rule the world and set the international political agenda. In an exclusive interview with the BBC, Viscount Etienne Davignon, corporate director and former European Commissioner, revealed that it's just not so....
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October 03, 2005
Remember the JetBlue flight with the stuck landing gear? ...Since last week's landing, though, we've learned a couple of other things that aren't quite so comforting -- for instance, that this was at least the seventh time that the front wheels on an Airbus A-320 have gotten locked in the...
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America's beloved former CBS anchorman, Walter Cronkite, recently had strong words for us, his former charges. According to the endearing and legendary sesquicentennarian: "We [as a nation] are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders," CBS News legend Walter Cronkite told the University...
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The Stasi spied on Joseph Ratzinger during the Cold War: targeting him as one of the Vatican's fiercest opponents of communism, according to a report published on Sunday. From April 1974 until the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989, the feared Ministry for State Security kept close tabs...
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October 01, 2005
As for that Reverend Moon fella, well: Challenging U.S. leaders to build a 51-mile "peace" bridge and tunnel from Alaska to Russia, the Rev. Sun Myung Moon rallied hundreds of Seattle supporters last night in an effort to bolster a religious movement best known for mass weddings. Moon delivered a...
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September 30, 2005
Sep 29 - Quietly last week, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) released a 59-page document outlining new rules forcing broadband internet and voice-over-IP (VoIP) phone service providers to open up their systems to federal, state and local law enforcement officials. In releasing the rules, the FCC opened up a 30-day...
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September 29, 2005
Obviously, defense lawyers are a key and necessary part of our justice system (etc., etc., etc.) However, sometimes there's justice, and there's "justice." From defense lawyer, TalkLeft proprietor, and occasionally HuffPost contributor Jeralyn Merritt comes this: I just found out that Tom DeLay has got himself the best lawyer in...
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September 27, 2005
Lider Chavez is accelerating his plan to seize underused ranch lands: "We are not carrying out expropriation, this belongs to the nation, to the state," he said at the Marquesena farm [that had just been seized]... "We can't stop with the Marquesena, we have to accelerate all of this," said...
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September 18, 2005
The headline tells you all you need to know: "Seized Heinz processing plant in Venezuela illustrates hazards of global operations"....
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September 17, 2005
Democratic Rep. Hugo Chavez (D-Venezuela), said on Nightline that the U.S. has plans to invade his country. He also wants the United Nations to move out of the U.S. A destination country was not mentioned, but strong contenders could be Libya, Myanmar, Jerusalem, or Togo: In a speech to the...
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September 16, 2005
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea announced on Friday the introduction of the Stalinist country's first credit card, but just how it would work was unclear. "The North East Asia Bank of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea has introduced (an) IC credit card ... in order to modernise its...
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I-NAFTA is rolling right along, but some plucky Americans are trying to put up some roadblocks: Trans-Texas Corridor critics denounced the state's handling of the project on Tuesday and called on McLennan County residents to organize against the proposed transportation network. In a meeting at Tours Hall in eastern McLennan...
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September 13, 2005
A special investigation by al Guardian has revealed that a Chinese cosmetics company is exporting skin care products that are made from the skin of prisoners who were shot. No, I'm not kidding: "The beauty products from the skin of executed Chinese prisoners": Agents for the firm have told would-be...
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September 02, 2005
I've been saving off the various comments made by "liberals" concerning Katrina. While I could discuss them here now, I think it's more appropriate to wait until the situation settles down somewhat. However, one of the low points should be pointed out now: Jesse Jackson seems to be trying to...
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August 31, 2005
Oddly enough, my invite to the C-list-star-studded gala appears to have been lost in the mail. Thankfully, a cavalcade of press releases has alerted me to this impending event. Those scheduled to appear include such minor, long-forgetten, laughable pseudo-stars as: Pamela Anderson (co-host) comedian Fred Willard (co-host) Lady Heather Mills...
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From the DUmmies to the dummies at HuffPost and Air America, the left knows that no tragedy is too great not to seek to profit from it. Starting our tour at the fever swamps, "chicagiana" says: BTW, does anyone else think it's suspicious that the levees didn't break until AFTER...
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August 30, 2005
This report has not been confirmed, but if true this is going to be one of the U.S.'s worst tragedies: I have finally reconnected with my best friend who is a paramedic who was sent from Georgia 2 days ago to Gulf Port, Mississippi before the hurricane hit. He just...
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August 28, 2005
Apparently the key to widespread adoption of Linux has been discovered: spread world socialism, and the penguin will follow. From "Linux thrives in left-leaning Kerala": Kerala, a tiny coastal state in south India, is a site of significant popularity of free software and GNU/Linux. What lessons can Kerala teach other...
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August 26, 2005
Texas' Republican Gov. Rick Perry wants to build a massive scar across that state called the "Trans-Texas Corridor". It would consist of roads, railway lines, and energy transport pipelines and, in some places, it would be one-quarter of a mile wide. Now, Raytheon has been selected to provide the booth-less...
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August 23, 2005
Worry not, super-rich Angelenos! The headline of this story does not refer to that exclusive L.A. community, but to the Bel Air in Haiti. While I'm skeptical of anything printed in the Village Voice, it does include this interesting-if-only-slightly-true bit: ...MINUSTAH, the U.N. mission in Haiti, may bear a certain...
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June 29, 2005
All across the Texas panhandle, Texans have been asking themselves, "what caused a giant crack to open in the ground in Claude?" The tiny hamlet is located east of Amarillo. The finest scientific minds have so far been unable to answer that question. Amarillo Globe News reports that the crack...
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June 19, 2005
Microbiologists and other scientists sure seem to have been having an awful run of bad luck these past few years. I see that Steve Quayle's List of Dead Scientists has expanded to include a few new names since I last checked. One of the latest is Dr. Robert J. Lull,...
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June 18, 2005
I realize I'm out of the loop and this might make me look bad, but I'd never heard of the Rainbow Family before. If you've never heard of them, what do you think they are? A Grateful Dead cover band? A kindler, gentler Mans0n Fam|ly? A bunch of old hippies...
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June 10, 2005
America's lovablest corporate shill is getting more than a face lift: he's getting a body lift as well. The new version of Ronald McDonald will be trimmer and instead of that clown outfit, he'll be seen sporting basketball and soccer outfits. He'll also be 'boarding, dude. Complete story here. "This...
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A few days ago I posted "Los Alamos whistleblower Tommy Hook assaulted". Hook is going to testify before Congress on financial irregularities at Los Alamos National Laboratories, where he's an auditor. One will note that in that post I used the following hedge words: "reportedly" "apparently" "it doesn't look" "according...
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June 08, 2005
CVS is going to start selling a disposable video camera (USA Today). It costs $29.95, then you need to pay an extra $12.95 to get your video burned onto a DVD. And, of course, you don't get to keep the camera. Meanwhile, the company can most likely keep using the...
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June 06, 2005
Whistleblower Tommy Hook was at the Cheeks Night Club in Santa Fe early Sunday morning, reportedly to meet someone else who had information on financial irregularities at Los Alamos. The unknown informant didn't show, but as Hook was leaving he was apparently assaulted in the parking lot. It doesn't look...
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June 01, 2005
Only in Alabama! "Ala. School Drops Klan Founder's Name": The city school board has voted to stop using the name of Confederate general and Ku Klux Klan founder Nathan Bedford Forrest as part of a consolidation plan, a move that ends a long-simmering dispute. Students at Forrest Middle School will...
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Would Chernobyl have had the impact that it had if it had had a nearly endless supply of water available to keep cool? Russian scientists appear to be well on the way to answering that question. From "World’s First Floating Nuclear Power Plant to Be Constructed in Russia": ...RosAtom head...
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May 25, 2005
PETA's gone out and bought a new domain: TorturedByTyson.com. They intone: From December 2004 through February 2005, a PETA undercover investigator worked on the slaughter line of a Tyson Foods chicken processing plant in Heflin, Alabama. Using a hidden camera, he documented the treatment of the more than 100,000 chickens...
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May 22, 2005
From The London Times: Among the Wayampi Indians it is not uncommon for children to give birth at 10 and become grandparents in their twenties. They hunt and fish in red loincloths. Their favourite food is smoked alligator. ...1.4m voters [from "the impressive French portfolio of dominions around the globe...
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May 21, 2005
Whodda thunk it indeed. Most tech "journalism" consists of things like, oh I dunno, The LAMP "Cooperative" ("LinuxWorld Magazine's Editor-in-Chief Compares LAMP's Evolution to Farmers' Cooperatives") or the more standard fare of just rewriting press releases. However, the very same Editor-in-Chief's latest missive is "A Letter To Our Readers": The...
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May 09, 2005
A "Victory Train" rolled through Moscow with the above picture of Josef Stalin on its front to celebrate the end of WWII. Sixty "world dignataries" are on hand to help in the celebrations. And, a new statue of the great leader was unveiled to a cheering crowd in eastern...
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April 22, 2005
This just in... police in San Jose say that Ana Ayala, the finger finder in the San Jose Wendy's chili, has been arrested... Charges not disclosed... Press conf. Fri. morn... Ayala sister says charge grand theft... breaking... must not credit Lonewacko Blog... stay tuned for updates throughout the day......
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April 20, 2005
Actually, it's PETA's beaver. PETA's VP explains: "On April 29, we'll be waiting for her outside Jay Leno's 'Tonight Show' studios at 4 pm with a 30-foot inflatable beaver with a banner saying, 'Fur -- Leave it to Beaver.' We'll have a massive protest at the L.A. premiere of 'Monster-In-Law'...
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April 19, 2005
The new and improved National Food Pyramid has been released. Now, at first glance you might get all libertarian and ask, "why the hell do we have a National Food Pyramid in the first place? I mean, it's not like we don't already have a bunch of stuff like sweeping...
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Received via email: Hello, First, Very Sorry for my bad English. Someone is sending your private e-mails on my address. It's probably an e-mail provider error! At time, I've got over 10 mails on my account, but the recipient are you. I have copied all the mail text in the...
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April 16, 2005
Fark.com directs our attention to the al Guardian article "Nike lists abuses at Asian factories", which contains this absolutely hilarious blooper: "In more than half of Nike's factories, the report said, employees worked more than 60 hours a day. In up to 25%, workers refusing to do overtime were punished."...
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From "3 held in LaGrange buggy heist": Three Elkhart County men remained in the LaGrange County Jail on Friday, accused of holding up a buggy and robbing its occupants of $1... The men – two of whom wore masks – jumped out of the car and held the family in...
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April 15, 2005
Wendy's has raised the reward for information on the finger found in the chili at their Monterey Road store to $100,000. The MSM reports here. In other Finger Watch 2005 news, the finger of the lady who had an accident with a leopard in Pahrump Nevada has been absolved of...
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Sometimes PETA's valiant efforts don't go as planned. From an April 12 press release: Brownsville, Texas — Holding signs that read, "The Colonel’s Secret Recipe: Live Scalding, Painful Debeaking, Crippled Chickens," members of PETA—including an activist wearing a body screen TV showing shocking undercover video footage of chickens on factory...
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April 13, 2005
Our coverage of the lady who found the finger in the San Jose Wendy's continues with this breaking news. Police are looking into another lady who lost a finger in an accident involving a leopard. The hospital told her the finger could not be reattached. The hospital apparently tried to...
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April 12, 2005
The cat ladies of Wisconsin have turned out to prevent hunting of feral cats: MADISON, Wis. (AP) - Feline lovers holding pictures of cats, clutching stuffed animals and wearing whiskers faced-off against hundreds of hunters at meetings around Wisconsin to voice their opinion on whether to legalize cat hunting... The...
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April 10, 2005
While cruising around this here web, I happened to run across seafood.com. The front page looked a little templated, like it was part of a family comprised of pork.com, meat.com, and sweetbreads.com. (Like I should talk.) Anyhoo, I clicked on the "About" link and boy was I surprised. It features...
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Over two years ago I wrote the post "Fishing in Venezuela" about Judicial Watch suing Hugo Chavez about possibly sending $1 million to OBL after 9/11. "Ivor Manuel prophet" recently left a long rambling, incoherent comment at that post about... Pope John Paul II. I have no idea why Ivor...
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Since I've driven along Monterey Highway in San Jose a few times, albeit several years ago, it has suddenly struck me that I probably ate at the Wendy's where the finger was found in the chili... I ate at the Wendy's on El Camino Real many times, but I'm sure...
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April 09, 2005
Sauvez les Fromages! AFP reports: PARIS - A worrisome trend is looming in this country of cheese-lovers, where the nation's rich palette of 1,000 cheeses is being nibbled away at with the annual demise of several varieties. "In 30 years, more than 50 have been struck off the menus as...
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LAS VEGAS - The woman who claims she bit into a human finger while eating chili at a Wendy's restaurant has a history of filing lawsuits - including a claim against another fast-food restaurant... There's what appears to be a picture of the found object in this report. You might...
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April 08, 2005
From this: The Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission voted unanimously Thursday to ban remote hunting for game animals. The new regulation requires that anyone hunting a game animal or bird be physically present and in control of the firearm... The new parks and wildlife regulation does not apply to non-game...
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Professor Bainbridge directs our attention to the L.A. Times article "'Star Trek' Bit Players Cling On" (about StarTrek conventions) and intones: "What a way to make a living. I'm not quite sure for whom I feel sorrier: The has beens who make their living this way or the crazies who...
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April 07, 2005
When Junior designs software you get things like Netscape and their wonderful innovations like javascript and cookies. And, when not-quite-as-bad companies like Macromedia do it, you get a workaround for those users who like to delete their cookies: It's early to be talking about the dumbest technology of 2005. But...
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Remember this from April 1? ...A woman found the finger in her [chili] at a San Jose Wendy's last week. Tissue samples of the finger have been sent to federal agents for DNA testing. A search of fingerprint databases have turned up nothing so far. Meanwhile, investigators are contacting food-supply...
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April 03, 2005
NewScientist explains: Modern humans may have driven Neanderthals to extinction 30,000 years ago because Homo sapiens unlocked the secrets of free trade, say a group of US and Dutch economists. The theory could shed new light on the mysterious and sudden demise of the Neanderthals after over 260,000 years of...
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April 01, 2005
Other than the strange ideas involved, do you notice anything strange about the article "Lawmaker Wants Teachers Weighed For Obesity"? HONOLULU -- A state lawmaker has suggested Hawaii's public schoolteachers be forced to weigh in as part of the fight against obesity in students. A resolution in the state house...
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Drudge has linked to a few stories about petting zoos spreading E. coli infections. Here's the latest. Similar reports have appeared on the various nightly news programs, and legislation has even been proposed. During the Blogging Across America I visited a few zoos or similar, and if I recall correctly...
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March 12, 2005
Frankly, I'd never heard of this before, but it involves setting up a Native Hawaiian-only governmental body. Haunani-Kay Trask is or was opposed to it "Pro, con articles on Akaka bill fail to address land issues". So are these related blogs: link, link On the other hand, many Senators support...
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March 11, 2005
The post "Wisconsin hunter wants open season on free-roaming domestic cats" described the valiant efforts of a La Crossian firefighter to get vital legislation passed. A Michigan feline - who apparently had seen that report on the Internet - joined the war by shooting its owner. Now the owners are...
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March 09, 2005
Presented without (voiced) comment: MADISON, Wis. Hunter Mark Smith welcomes wild birds onto his property, but if he sees a cat, he thinks the "invasive" animal should be considered fair game. The 48-year-old firefighter from La Crosse has proposed that hunters in Wisconsin make free-roaming domestic cats an "unprotected species"...
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March 08, 2005
Ward Churchill has an editorial in his defense here. He says, among other things, that Denver drive-time talk jocks Caplis and Silverman took a speech he made out of context. See their site for the clips Churchill is complaining about....
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March 03, 2005
The Kansas City Star is a bit like the NYT of the heartland, and I don't mean that in a good sense. So, seeing an article about a bit of a scandal KCStar is intriguing, but it's filled with so many inside-KC references I'm having trouble getting to the actual...
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February 28, 2005
ERIE, Pa. - Frustrated by a lack of progress in the FBI and state police investigation into the death of their brother, the siblings of a pizza delivery man killed by a bomb locked around his neck have taken to the Internet to ask the public to help. The Web...
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February 22, 2005
From this: Flying saucers and strange beings who have visited Earth aren't the typical topics reported by Peter Jennings, anchor of ABC's "World News Tonight." Jennings, whose new two-hour special tackles the subject of UFOs, admits he and his production team began the project with doubts and a dose...
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February 19, 2005
February 18, 2005 -- Investigators yesterday identified three suspects in the drowning murder of a New Jersey water-treatment chemist, with roughly 40 of the woman's co-workers left to be interviewed... The Prosecutor's Office has also accused Totowa cops of compromising the evidence. They say evidence such as a smashed beaker...
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February 14, 2005
PATERSON, N.J. - A woman whose body was found in a tank at a water treatment plant drowned and her death has been ruled a homicide, the Passaic County prosecutor said Monday. Geetha Angara had been doing water quality tests Wednesday when she disappeared. A search found her body about...
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February 10, 2005
Consider, if you will, the case of former Shelby County Tennessee medical examiner O.C. Smith. On June 2, 2002, in a case similar in style to the pizza bomb case, he was found wrapped in barbed wire, with a motion-sensitive bomb attached to his chest, and sprayed with a...
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February 09, 2005
The TransTexas Corridor appears to be closer to reality: AUSTIN - Farmers oppose it, metro area officials are upset about it and now state lawmakers have their own concerns about the Trans Texas Corridor, Gov. Rick Perry's $184 billion plan to build megahighways around the state. While the Legislature would...
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February 04, 2005
TBILISI, Feb 4 (AFP) - An aide to Georgian prime minister Zurab Zhvania, who died apparently after breathing toxic fumes leaked by a faulty heater, committed suicide late Friday, an interior ministry spokesman said. The aide, 32-year-old Georgi Khelashvili, shot himself with a gun in his Tbilisi apartment, the spokesman...
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January 05, 2005
Say hello to the Trans-Texas Corridor: In what sounds like another tall tale told by a Texan, the state has embarked on an audacious project to build superhighways so big and so complex that they will make ordinary interstates look like cow paths. The Trans-Texas Corridor project, as first envisioned...
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December 20, 2004
"Explosion causes more than $600,000 in damage to Duluth rink": DULUTH, Minn. - Investigators were trying to determine on Monday the cause of the Sunday night explosions that destroyed a local ice arena and injured several broomball players and fans. People inside the building said they suspected the explosion came...
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"Germans get taste of tropics an hour's drive from Berlin": Winter-weary Germans basked yesterday in 70F temperatures amid palm trees and sandy beaches - only an hour's drive from Berlin. At dawn yesterday, thousands of people began flocking to a bulbous former airship hangar transformed into Europe's largest leisure resort....
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MINK, LA. - It's no secret what the 15 householders in this tiny settlement want for Christmas: the same thing they have always wanted year-round --- ?????? What could they want? - dialect removal lessons - indoor plumbing - telephones - a group marriage to Louisiana sweetheart Britney Spears -...
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December 14, 2004
Dec. 14 (AP) — Jurors in the trial of convicted killer Stuart Alexander have recommended the self-proclaimed "sausage king" be put to death... Alexander was convicted in October of three counts of first-degree murder for the shooting deaths of two federal inspectors and one state inspector at his Santos Linguisa...
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December 13, 2004
The December weather had been even colder and wetter than usual. Looking out the window of our Baker Street flat at the thick, yellow London fog I could barely see to the other side of the street. Suddenly, I espied a strange figure making his way up the street, pausing...
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December 09, 2004
Here's a list of the factories by province. (Special note: the preceding is satire and commentary. It does not necessarily reflect where new IBM PCs or the parts for them will be built.)...
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I don't know what category to put this in: Witnesses told police that Kevin Keogh, 55, [Phoenix's] finance director, climbed through sun roof onto the top of his moving Mercedes-Benz near 64th Street, stretched out his arms and then jumped or fell from the car. The car continued driverless until...
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December 07, 2004
I don't feel as guilty as I would if I didn't have a cold and I was monitoring The Rebel Billionaire to watch the 700' rappel....
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December 02, 2004
Drudge is linking to this Times of London article about the possible dangers posed by Mars life forms being brought back to Earth on a space probe. (That is, the probe is of Earth origin; the article doesn't touch on the topic of Mars-origin probes.) I note that our...
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November 28, 2004
I've occasionally referred to the web as a bunch of "text crap." To see what I mean, simply look at the source to this or any other web page. It is indeed a bunch of text crap. Because the web involves sending blocks of poorly formatted text around, it leads...
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If you look closely at the small image in the upper left corner above, you can see a small red dot. The image above is a zoomed-in part of the much larger image in the upper left. In fact, this is a 2.5 gigapixel photo of Delft Holland. It...
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October 27, 2004
From this: On an isolated islet of Indonesia, scientists have discovered skeletons of a previously unknown human species — tiny, hobbit-sized figures who lived among dwarf elephants and giant lizards as recently as 12,000 years ago when modern humans already thrived worldwide. Startled experts in human origins called the discovery...
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September 13, 2004
Moscow Times: Men [sic] trying to bring down the statue of [KGB founder] Felix Dzerzhinsky on Aug. 22, 1991. The sign "Khunte Khana" says "The junta is finished." ------------------- 9/11/2004, BBC, "Russia KGB founder honoured": A new statue of the founder of what became the KGB, Felix Dzerzhinsky, has...
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August 22, 2004
Brain-hungry ETs are out of luck. Due to our increasing use of digital cable and directed broadcasts, the amount of radio frequencies we broadcast into space is greatly diminishing, making any attempts to find us much less likely, boffo scientists say. Sorry, ET, but I hear Alpha Centaurians are...
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August 04, 2004
In addition to emails with single-word titles ("blork" "upsala"), I'm now getting spam with titles in Russian and - believe it or not - Latin. Could the caesars of old imagine that their language would be used to sell penis pills and mortgage ripoffs? And, the latest US Bank emergency...
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July 27, 2004
I posted an ad for a small, low-value job to losangeles.craigslist.com, asking people to send me URL examples of their work. I have an idea for an anti-Kerry bumper sticker. I get 63 frigging replies. That wouldn't be a problem, except now I gotta sort through all these goshdarn HTML-formatted...
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July 08, 2004
Welcome google users! I don't usually feature stories about lesbianism, especially when there's kissing involved, but I do need some traffic. Herewith: Judy Dlugacz knew she was onto something when the cruise ship she had chartered for 400 lesbians arrived in the Turkish port of Kusadasi. Instead of meeting rejection,...
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July 07, 2004
Remember the previous post about plucky Ukrainian 'Elena' and her site featuring pictures supposedly taken when riding her motorcycle through Chernobyl? Via our giant antenna, we've just learned that her site was a hoax: PRIPYAT, Ukraine — Kate Brown began thinking about visiting this high-rise ghost town in the...
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June 16, 2004
Holy Moses Malone: Basically, researchers can use lab techniques to create a weird relationship between pairs of tiny particles. After that, the fate of one particle instantly affects the other; if one particle is made to take on a certain set of properties, the other immediately takes on identical or...
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June 06, 2004
Please, someone tell me. I was trying to replace the front PCV hose - the one that goes from the front of the valve cover to the air cleaner - when the L-shaped plastic part sticking out of the valve cover broke. That's one of the parts I was going...
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June 04, 2004
I am also a Logical-Mathematical Thinker and an Intrapersonal thinker. Take the test yourself and see how your thinking style compares with that of your leader....
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June 01, 2004
Could you, please? Over the past few days I spent almost $600 there, and I feel really, really, really bad about it. Sure, there are other stores I don't like and I don't enjoy spending money at. And, there are other stores I completely boycott, and have for years. Unfortunately,...
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May 31, 2004
From 'Dieter Sues Atkins, Says Diet Clogged Arteries': WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A man who blames his heart disease on the Atkins diet said on Thursday he is suing the privately held Atkins Inc. to force it to disclose what he called the risks of the popular high-fat, low-carb regimen... You,...
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May 25, 2004
I downloaded the open source Eclipse IDE from IBM and friends and unzipped it into a directory as the instructions said. Then, I double-clicked the 'eclipse.exe' icon, and all I get is the error message above. Hey, at least I got an error message, right? Lord knows I'm not...
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May 03, 2004
At the same time that McDonald's is radically altering its menu to avoid being a litigation target, some restaurants are offering menu items that might lead to future litigation. For instance, Carl's Jr. is offering a 'Low Carb Breakfast' to Atkins dieters. Just reading that I feel my arteries clogging....
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March 31, 2004
Those of you who don't know about or care about Sun, Java, Java on the desktop, etc. can skip this entry. For years I've railed about the direction Sun takes with Java. Here's an example; there are many many more, including dozens if not hundreds of Usenet postings and personal...
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March 28, 2004
Here are several pictures from someone who tours the "the dead zone" of Chernobyl on her motorcycle. Via Art Bell. In keeping with the source, do you notice something... strange... about the first photo on this page? Did "Elena" - if that is indeed her name - blur out the...
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March 27, 2004
I'll be in Vegas until tomorrow. Here's a picture I just took 30 minutes ago at Red Rock State Park. Ain't WiFi great?...
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March 12, 2004
Calpundit links to the L.A. Times report about a food product called "Quorn." It's a meat substitute brewed in vats out of some space bacteria or caterpillars or something messy and yucky like that: The product is Quorn, a fungus-based meat substitute that millions of Europeans have eaten for years....
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March 09, 2004
Well, duh. If you get a salad and load it down with Bacon Bits and croutons and extra-high-fat salad dressing and batter-dipped lard then of course it might have more calories than things like cheeseburgers. Plus, there's serving sizes and weight to take into account. A watermelon has more calories...
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February 29, 2004
There seems to be something a little strange about the recent tanker explosion: US coastguard rescuers were searching the freezing waters off Virginia yesterday for 18 crew members missing after a tanker carrying industrial ethanol exploded late on Saturday. Three people have been confirmed dead in the accident, and six...
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January 31, 2004
Our leader speaks: THE European Union has no case against Zimbabwe because Britain influences its decisions over Zimbabwe, President Mugabe said yesterday. "There is no case that the European Union should go against us," he told the outgoing French Ambassador to Zimbabwe, Mr Didier Ferrand, at Zimbabwe House. "That is...
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August 02, 2003
OK, I'll try to make this as quick as possible. About 10 days ago I ordered a refurbished Dell Inspiron 600m notebook. It had a 1.3MHz Pentium M, 384Megs of RAM, a 14" screen, a CDRW, and the other standard stuff. It took Dell 24 hours to email me confirmation...
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August 01, 2003
The Slate article "Would You Like Fries With That Endive?" reviews the salads offered by various fast food restaurants: The thinking seems to be that salads offer at least two incentives that haven't been traditionally associated with fast food: Classiness ("What's next—valet parking?" McDonald's asked in a recent billboard) and...
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June 26, 2003
From this: A federal appeals court dealt a legal blow to Sun Microsystems on Thursday, tossing out most of a preliminary injunction requiring Microsoft to carry its rival's version of an interpreter for the Java programming language... Here's a nifty chart comparing SUNW and MSFT over the last 5 years....
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June 23, 2003
Back on June 13, I registered 8 domain names in the new .la domain. (See my triumphant posting here.) However, some of the domains didn't work when I tried to forward them to URLs at my site. I sent an email to dreamhost, and I've now been informed that they...
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"The PowerPC G5 changes all the rules. This 64-bit race car is the heart of our new Power Mac G5, now the world’s fastest desktop computer,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO [news -- web site -- personality cult]. “IBM offers the most advanced processor design and manufacturing expertise on...
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June 17, 2003
From this: In one case, Microsoft accuses two Dayton, Ohio, companies, Email Gold and NetGold, and three individuals of sending repeated offers for a how-to spam kit to its members using falsified MSN and Hotmail domains. In another case, Microsoft alleges a Haddonfield, N.J., company, The E-Offer Store, sent spam...
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June 16, 2003
Here's today's test: Daniel Cruz Romero, 34, was killed Friday after being caught in a meat-processing machine at Michael Angelo's Gourmet Foods, a frozen food manufacturer in northern Travis County. Romero had complained to a former co-worker he was having trouble with the machine, the Austin American-Statesman reported for Saturday's...
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June 13, 2003
The following domains are now for sale: inside.la insider.la blog.la active.la meet.la living.la relocate.la run.la These are from the new .la top-level domain. Let's hope I didn't just piss away $450....
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May 14, 2003
There's a total lunar eclipse on Thursday. Telescopes will be set up in Griffith Park, and this page has the details as well as a nice graphic showing when the moon will be in various stages....
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May 06, 2003
Tonight, Lonewacko has a choice between three fine and exciting events: At 7pm, there's the monthly Los Angeles Java Users' Group meeting in Pasadena. At the same time and in the same city, the Outland Mountain Shop is presenting a slideshow called "Canyoneeing around the World," which supposedly will be...
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May 05, 2003
From The Simpsons: % Some time later, the city honors Bart for his work. For decimating our pigeon population, and making Springfield a less oppressive place to while away our worthless lives, I present you with this scented candle. -- Mayor Quimby, "Bart, the Mother" % Away from the speech,...
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WaPo has an interesting series on the Nature Conservancy. From "How a Bid to Save a Species Came to Grief": Mobil officials said that the donation [of a parcel of land near Houston] offered "the last best hope" of saving the Attwater's prairie chicken, a speckled grouse whose high-stepping mating...
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April 21, 2003
From this article about a company which has invented a procedure to turn a wide variety of waste products into oil products (via Drudge): Unlike other solid-to-liquid-fuel processes such as cornstarch into ethanol, this one will accept almost any carbon-based feedstock. If a 175-pound man fell into one end, he...
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April 18, 2003
"BELFAST, Northern Ireland — Intelligence agents of the British army and police helped Protestant extremists kill Catholics in the late 1980s, including a lawyer well-known for defending IRA suspects, a four-year official investigation concluded Thursday."...
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April 10, 2003
Remember the Texas Plague Scare of 1-ought-3? The professor's been indicted: A professor was indicted Thursday on federal charges accusing him of smuggling plague bacteria and lying when he said vials of the dangerous germ had disappeared from a Texas Tech University lab last January. Thomas C. Butler, 61, triggered...
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April 03, 2003
From this....
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March 31, 2003
From this: "Opelousas [Louisiana] police don't want to be out-gunned, so they've bought a machine gun which can be mounted on the department's armored personnel carrier. The department is the first in the state to buy the weapon, recently made legal for police by the Homeland Security Act." Let martial...
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March 17, 2003
I'm off to do some of this, this, and this....
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March 12, 2003
Hey Matt! Love the site, but I gotta tell ya, Madonna could twist herself into a pretzel and no one would care. If she was ever attractive, that was many many years in the past. Although, I do appreciate you linking to the story '[Yoko] Ono waging full-page ad campaign...
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February 26, 2003
This post links to a story from Reporters sans Frontieres which ranked the U.S. 17th in the world in press freedom. We were beat by Canada (#5) and Costa Rica (#15). I think part of the reason for that might be not so much that we have less press freedom,...
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February 07, 2003
According to this article: AN INSIDER AT Sun Microsystems says there's frantic discussion inside the company about big problems with the Java platform that, he claimed, "prevent general acceptance of Java for production software within Sun". He said: "It strikes me as hypocritical for Sun to blame Microsoft for any...
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January 26, 2003
Except, I don't think he had possession before going out of the endzone. Well, they still need three scores just to tie, including two TDs with 2-point conversions. I hope I didn't jinx nothin'. I'm the first to admit that the Raiders got robbed a couple times. They deserve it....
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January 19, 2003
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... is whoever is playing against the Raiders. Go Titans!...
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January 14, 2003
This article says it's Linux. UPDATE: Others say that report is wrong. I only post things like that to comp.lang.java.advocacy to tweak my buddy Petilon....
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January 13, 2003
At the hearing to revoke Rupert Murdoch's citizenship, this should be Exhibit #1: FOX SPORTS SPECIAL: 'MAN VS. BEAST' WHO IS SUPERIOR -- MAN OR BEAST. FIND OUT WHEN FOX AIRS THE ALL-NEW SPECIAL 'MAN VS. BEAST' WEDNESDAY, JAN. 15 By testing speed, strength or a specialized skill, MAN VS....
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January 09, 2003
Have you ever gone to the MacWorld convention, and taken one of their free "personality tests?" OK, I'm exagerating, but Mac and Linux folk are a wee bit too cult-like for my tastes. Plus, doing just about any Mac development causes one to be stigmatized as a Mac developer, and...
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January 06, 2003
I posted a few entries over at DailyPundit about ANWR. They've disappeared off his front page, but you can still check them out and comment on them here or there. I'll try to provide a more comprehensive treatment of Jonah Goldberg's article later....
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January 02, 2003
Some asshole joe-jobbed me. That's where they send out spam using, in this case, my email address as the reply-to address. Apparently, it was a joe job against the company mentioned in the email as well. Apparently this particular group has targeted other people as well. The perp is probably...
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January 01, 2003
So the Floriduh visitor board beseeches us. Yeah, I'll be right down. The Prof can't seem to tell the difference between regular blog text and indented text from a four-year-old article. Just because that article says "I'm unmasking myself as Gene Lyons" doesn't mean that Atrios is Lyons. The Prof...
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December 30, 2002
Interesting Samizdata post about a possible catastrophic volcano eruption in 535AD. See also this article about supervolcanoes. Like Patricia Cornwell who spent millions trying to jam home her thesis about Jack the Ripper, the author of Catastrophe needs to jam his point home. It might not be true, but the...
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December 27, 2002
I just scanned this article which I got from some blog I can't find now. So fucking what. Read about Class X in Class: A Guide Through the American Class System by Paul Fussell. That book is from about 1983. Q.V. So you got some fucking tats. So your boss...
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December 25, 2002
I'm in Vegas for the holiday. While I'm away, enjoy this bit of Lonewacko Comedy Gold. Also, apparently all those Iranian immigrants recently detained by the INS have been released. If so, detaining them in the first place was a very bad move. More later....
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December 19, 2002
This article (via Daily Pundit) says: Barechested commandos brandishing knives take turns to charge towards a live dog, tied and spreadeagled between vertical poles. They slash and stab the helpless, yelping animal until it dies. Then, in a grotesque act of military machismo, the soldiers eat the dog's heart and...
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December 17, 2002
Yet another wacky search referrer. I wouldn't recommend it. (Did you ever see Tawny Kitaen's shopping list? Geez Louise, she was really packing it away. My kinda broad. I just hope she got the vicodins without acetaminophen)....
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December 16, 2002
Wait! Let me explain the title. See, in my attempt to expand my own blogosphere, I was looking at this entry. One of the comments mentioned a charitable organization called heifer.org, which I'd never heard of. To sum it up, heifer.org gives farm animals to poor starving countries around the...
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December 09, 2002
When it's in a sentence like this: Strc prst skrz krk I immediately sent in a clarification of this important phonological matter but it has not yet been printed. Stay tuned. Previously, I had sent V. pere references to explanations of why Georgia the country is called what it is....
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October 29, 2002
'Girls Club' has been cancelled after just two episodes. Too, too fucking bad. Yes, you read that right. I'm the man on the Internet who says 'fuck.' While you're here, have those spy planes been put back in their hangars yet, or are they still circling over D.C.? You never...
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October 26, 2002
If, several years ago, I had to divide techies into two camps, I would do it along these lines: binary and text. The binary camp would be exemplified by Microsoft and Apple; the text camp would be Unix. For instance, aside from AppleScript, VBScript, and batch files, most programming on...
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October 20, 2002
It's the Lakers flags that really get to me. How about that Tim Salmon homer, eh? Which team should I cheer against? The team that beat the Yankees, or the team representing the self-satisfied wankers from up north? Anyway, earlier today I went out to Hansen Dam to do some...
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October 07, 2002
CNET reports on a new robot kit from IdeaLab. One of their demos involves teaching the robot to fetch a beer from a fridge: The key to making an ER1-equipped laptop perform useful tasks is the software, which includes a point-and-click interface for creating behavior routines that tell the robot...
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October 01, 2002
during the off-season, that is. Let's... go... Yan... kees....
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