Archive for January, 2006
Tuesday, January 31st, 2006
I went back to this because of its great plot-line.
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Crop circle photo by Steve Alexander.
The general image appeared wth story 8/25/05
but I cannot find it. I know that I did not draw it.
Posted in Science |
Tuesday, January 31st, 2006
Background is a scene from SCREAM, 1997
Both photos: Rafa Riva/Agence France-Presse - Getty Image
Posted in Art |
Tuesday, January 31st, 2006
NBC/WALL STREET JOURNAL POLL SHOWS WE ARE NOT AS DUMB
AS THE ADMINISTRATION MAY BELIEVE
Posted in Bush, Polls |
Tuesday, January 31st, 2006
Nordic firm hit by Arab boycott
Dave’s Accu-Chart Sampling:
A Country’s Probability of Deeply Offending Someone
Within any 10-Day Period
France (98 out of 100)
Israel 96
Saudi Arabia 96
Iran 95
United States 95
North Korea 91
China 89
Great Britain 87
Switzerland 84
Russia 82
Cuba 76
Indonesia 72
Australia 66
Spain 64
Germany 59
Belgium 51
Italy 50
Venezuela 42
Libya 40
Egypt 40
Belgium 33
Canada 27
Sweden 22
Fiji 12
Norway 10
Iceland 6
Canada 4
Finland 2
Danmark 1
Posted in Religion, Middle East, Books |
Tuesday, January 31st, 2006
Ohio GOP poised to gut election protection on way to permanent national domination
(JACK KUSTRON/photoj.com)
Posted in Republicans, Ohio |
Tuesday, January 31st, 2006
Peace activists stage spy-in’
Posted in Bill of Rights, Ohio |
Tuesday, January 31st, 2006
Gonzalez is Challenged on Wiretaps
Feingold Says Attorney General Misled Senators in Hearings
Posted in Congress, Bill of Rights, administration |
Monday, January 30th, 2006
I was thinking of the countless replays of Martha-Ann Alito’s tears in early January at her husband’s Judiciary Committee “advise and consent” hearings. Everyone speculated in CableNewsonia that she was upset by the attacks upon her husband, but I shall take a contrarian view–only for the sake of argument.
Before stating that opinion, I claim no […]
Posted in Congress, Bill of Rights, Supreme Court |
Monday, January 30th, 2006
Radiation Threat from Florida Fire Low, Official Says
Each of the following have been–at one time or another–no problem.
Ground Zero
New Orleans-Post-Katrina
Tuna fish
Teflon pans
Cell phones
AIDS scope
Leaded gasoline
Drinking and smoking while pregnant
Hand Washing in hospitals
Silicone implants
High Tension wires
Sun Tanning
Asbestos
Lead paint
Cigarettes
chewing tobacco-cigars-pipes
Disease from cockroaches
Disease from cats
Beef three times a day
Drinking and driving
Shoe store x-rays
Sneezing into one’s hands
Painting radium wristwatch […]
Posted in Environment, Books, General Paranoia |
Monday, January 30th, 2006
Just as we had advised you that placing a Select Comfort on a rack does not allow us around the Geneva Accords; we must strongly urge you not to expect the hiring of the June Taylor Dancers to indemnify us during illegal taps.
NEWSWEEK REPORTS ON INSIDER DISTASTE FOR ADMINISTRATION EAVESDROPPING
Posted in Bill of Rights, administration, Bush |
Sunday, January 29th, 2006
Posted in Bush, Books |
Sunday, January 29th, 2006
THE PETULANTS
Washington state can provide a cornucopia of products and services from which anti-gay believers may choose.
DON’T FLY ON AIRPLANES FOR WHICH NAMES BEGIN WITH NUMERAL SEVEN!!
PACIFIC SALMON IS SATAN’S GARAGE DOOR OPENER
MICROSOFT IS..er… (They may have a point.)
EVE ATE A WASHINGTON STATE APPLE
Generally speaking, my long experience with the Roman Catholic Church has provided […]
Posted in Religion, Gay Issues, Washington State |
Sunday, January 29th, 2006
“Controversial Industries Have Backed Boehner
By Thomas B. Edsall
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, January 29, 2006; Page A05
Two controversial industries industries — for-profit colleges and trade schools, and private student lenders — have been the major sources of financing for Rep. John A. Boehner’s bid to become House majority leader. Boehner has been […]
Posted in Congress, Republicans |
Sunday, January 29th, 2006
Posted in News Media |
Saturday, January 28th, 2006
His residence in the Carpathian Highlands of Washington, DC is a fortress protected by impassable roads nine months out of the year.
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Many had believed that the intricately constructed back entrance would allow for more visitors, but
the road way was wide enough only for one wheeel chair or two Izetas.
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The Vice-President entertains only a few trusted […]
Posted in Cheney, Movies, Literature |
Saturday, January 28th, 2006
The original postcard was titled:
Upper Broadway, Councill Bluffs
lincolnhighwayassociation.org
Posted in Iowa, Music |
Saturday, January 28th, 2006
2,400 Foot Tunnel Beats Them All
Builders of Passage well funded, investigators say
By Ornell R. Soto and Leslie Berestein
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITERS
January 27, 2006
JOHN R. MCCUTCHEN/Union-Tribune
The 2,400-foot-long tunnel runs from a warehouse near Tiajuana’s airport to this Otay Mesa warehouse. A sigb says it is the home to V&F LLC, but it is unclear who rents […]
Posted in Homeland Security, Mexico |
Saturday, January 28th, 2006
Don Michael Corleone: You heard what happened in my home?
Frankie Pentangeli: Mike, I almost died myself. It was all so…
Don Michael Corleone: IN MY HOME! IN MY BEDROOM WHERE MY WIFE SLEEPS! Where my children come and play with their toys. In my home.
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U.S. Army detained suspects’ daughters, wives as leverage
Saturday, January 28, […]
Posted in Military, Iraq, Books |
Friday, January 27th, 2006
despite the investigations swirling in Chicago.
Posted in Illinois |
Friday, January 27th, 2006
Let the mundane become extraordinary with balloon white wall tyres.
Posted in Business, Industrial Design |
Friday, January 27th, 2006
Thx, Time-Warner & Little, Brown
Posted in Bush, Books |
Friday, January 27th, 2006
Posted in Bush, China |
Friday, January 27th, 2006
but he ended up buck naked with a mouth full of spittle.
Posted in News Media, Movies, Books |
Friday, January 27th, 2006
Posted in Great Britain, Education, Football |
Friday, January 27th, 2006
687.1 The Geographic Roots of Environmentally-Induced Social Displacement in the Matrix of Early 21st Century Municipal Reorganization & Its Lessons for Mixed-Use Land Development.
Students will shorten the course title to the more meaningful CULTURAL GENOCIDE or Cult-Gen for the truly hip.
How can we blithely watch the destruction of an American city?
Easy!
Corporate America and their […]
Posted in Katrina, Music, African-Americans |
Thursday, January 26th, 2006
Company embeds video memories in tombstones
By JOHN PAIN AP business writer
AP / Lynne Sladky
DEARLY BELOVED.
“Sergio Aguirre, founder of Vidstone LLC, poses with his product featuring a solar-powered video panel embedded in a tombstone in his Miami office. The video serenity panel plays a five- to seven-minute multimedia video featuring the best moments from someone’s life.”
Posted in Business, Oddity |
Thursday, January 26th, 2006
In September, Variety wrote that Martin Scorsese would direct Leonardo DiCaprio in an adaptation of Pulitizer Prize-winning Edmund Morris’s biography–
THE RISE OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
Apologies to my favorite film director,whom my son
believes has seen every movie ever made–at least twice.
Posted in Movies, Books |
Thursday, January 26th, 2006
It’s Sergeant Preston of the Yukon–
had he been an ABA power forward or
the second banana in a mid 1970’s police melodrama.
Posted in Television |
Thursday, January 26th, 2006
Apparently, God made everything except homosexuals. Since when is Gay the equivalent of molester?
Excerpted from the New York Times of September 15, 2005
“By LAURIE GOODSTEIN
A 12-page document with instructions for the review is now being distributed to seminarians and faculty members. It asks whether the doctrine on the priesthood presented by the seminary is […]
Posted in Religion, Gay Issues |
Wednesday, January 25th, 2006
According to reports, all souls in Limbo must find new housing. The half-way houses used by Friday meat-eating Catholics have been packed for forty years.
Apologies to Alonso Cano (1601-1667)
Posted in Religion |
Wednesday, January 25th, 2006
Posted in Religion |
Wednesday, January 25th, 2006
Posted in Iraq |
Wednesday, January 25th, 2006
Senator Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) believes that multimedia teaching aids hurry the passage of his important legislation. Here, the senator uses hand puppets to plead on the floor that the Devil’s temptations have led women out of the home and necessitated the rise of slavery which led to the introduction of animism to a Christian culture.
Posted in Congress, Republicans |
Wednesday, January 25th, 2006
New York Times
November 18, 2005
National Briefing | Washington: Washington: Military Body Armor Recalled
“The Army and Marine Corps said they had ordered the recall of 18,000 torso-protecting vests, some used by American troops in Iraq, after determining that the body armor failed to meet ballistic specifications. Military officials insisted that […]
Posted in Business, Military, Iraq |
Wednesday, January 25th, 2006
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Thanks to www.mth-railking.com for the layout photos.
Saudis were not part of the display.
Posted in Middle East, Toys |
Tuesday, January 24th, 2006
the other has been making the speech circuit about safeguards to our liberty.
Distrust of NSA has roots in the ’70s
By Peter Grier | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
WASHINGTON – Hours after the attacks of Sept. 11, top National Security Agency officials paid a calming visit to the NSA’s counterterrorism office. Workers […]
Posted in Bill of Rights, Television, Movies |
Tuesday, January 24th, 2006
White House Was Told Hurricane Posed Danger
NEW YORK TIMES
January 24, 2006
By ERIC LIPTON
WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 - The White House was told in the hours before Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans that the city would probably soon be inundated with floodwater, forcing the long-term relocation of hundreds of thousands of people, documents to be released Tuesday […]
Posted in administration, Bush, Katrina |
Tuesday, January 24th, 2006
Remember this story. Has anyone purchased any of the the clothes? Except the story, this is a figment of my imagination. I don’t know what the clothes look like or cost. Frankly, I don’t care.
Mattel launches Barbie clothes for women
By Angela Moore Fri Oct 14, 2005
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Toy maker Mattel Inc (NYSE:MAT […]
Posted in Business, Fashion, Toys |
Tuesday, January 24th, 2006
when I actually felt compassion for the nominee.
Posted in Bush, Cheney, Supreme Court |
Tuesday, January 24th, 2006
Posted in Business, Advertising |
Tuesday, January 24th, 2006
That’s how you know I faked this photograph. Still, how would the administration like it if the citizens surveiled their private moments? The names of the adult web sites are embarrassing enough. It seems the entire industry is beholden to the same dozen men. There would be no need for investigation if those twelve guys […]
Posted in administration, Bush |
Tuesday, January 24th, 2006
My pal Jack and my brother are right!
Posted in Cheney, Russia |
Monday, January 23rd, 2006
TSA: Program may use fliers’ financial data
By Thomas Frank, USA TODAY
Updated 1/23/2006 6:33 AM
A new program to speed travelers through airport security may require passengers to agree to a check of their personal and financial records, the Transportation Security Administration said.
The TSA said it will require “in-depth security background checks” that may […]
Posted in Bill of Rights, Homeland Security |
Monday, January 23rd, 2006
Santa Anita found in 2centstypepad.com
Posted in Religion |
Monday, January 23rd, 2006
Halliburton Cited in Iraq Contamination
January 22, 2006
By Larry Margasak Associated Press
WASHINGTON– Troops and civilians at a U.S. military base in Iraq were exposed to contaminated water last year and employees for the responsible contractor, Halliburton, couldn’t get their company to inform camp residents, according to interviews and internal company documents.
Posted in Business, Military, Iraq, Cheney |
Monday, January 23rd, 2006
ISRAELI DEFENSE CHIEF HAS MESSAGE FOR IRAN
January 22, 2006
From Associated Press
JERUSALEM — Israel’s defense minister hinted Saturday that the Jewish state was preparing for military action to stop Iran’s nuclear program, but he said international diplomacy must be the first course of action.
“Israel will not be able to accept an Iranian nuclear capability, […]
Posted in Movies, Middle East, Music |
Saturday, January 21st, 2006
Eighteen long years before Blue Steel, Magnum and Derelict, there was Easy Money and its fashion statement–THE REGULAR GUY LOOK personified by the late, great Rodney Dangerfield.
Instead of losing votes by doing this,
he could have gained votes by appearing like this.
Posted in Movies, Democrats |
Saturday, January 21st, 2006
“Consider everything in the nature of a hanging fixture a weakness,
and naked radiators an abomination”
Frank Lloyd Wright, Church builder
Posted in Religion, Books |
Saturday, January 21st, 2006
Whales, dolphins, accordion-playing mice and psychic mountain goats aren’t the only fascinating fauna which should upstage War, Famine, Pestilence & Death.
Susan Walsh, AP
Posted in News Media, administration, Bush |
Saturday, January 21st, 2006
Posted in Bill of Rights, Religion, Alabama |
Saturday, January 21st, 2006
Posted in Movies, Fashion |
Saturday, January 21st, 2006
Ellen Johson-Sirleaf
President, Liberia
Afrol News
Vincenzo T. Lombardi
NFL Hall of Fame Football Coach
Onlinesports.com
As far as I can tell, Vernon J. Biever is the photographer.
Posted in Africa, Football |
Saturday, January 21st, 2006
Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress & the
American Social History Project-Center for Media & Learning
CUNY
Posted in administration, Books |