Monthly Archives: February 2006

Europe understands Islam better now.

The realization has come that you have to respect Islam, and the prophet. Now Europe is more aware of this aspect. There is positive thinking in this respect…and people will now be more careful (about hurting others’ feelings).

Darn doctors, helping people and all that, bomb them.

Writer of Sesame Street lyrics died.

Saddam Hussein gave up his hunger strike for health reasons. Cause you don’t want a protest to affect you too much, now do you? I feel the commitment to the cause.

Lileks loved Firefly. I knew he would.

Dear Fox,

WHY DID YOU CANCEL IT, LAMERS? And now Wash and Book are dead. I don’t know how you can sleep at night.

Sincerely,
Kristin A Hoppe

Made me laugh, so I stole it to share and enjoy.

Enigma codes from WWII cracked. Someone get Nimitz* on the line.

*yes, Pacific fleet and all that, but even if I googled Atlantic fleet admirals would anyone get it? No, I don’t think so.

All about Star Trek weddings.

How to have one, not like, weddings on the show or anything.

Jonah on the world turned upside down.

But suddenly, virtually all leading Republicans and Democrats — with the laudable exception of Sen. John McCain (R., Ariz.) — now argue that Bush can’t be trusted on national security, that our Arab ally the UAE should go suck eggs, and that racial profiling of foreign firms is just fine. Sen. Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) now even thinks Halliburton should run the ports. And Jimmy Carter is backing the White House.

Lileks is somewhat redundant today, and more importantly no Firefly review yet.

Scrappleface sums up the Katrina report.

Busy day today. I’ll make it up to you later. Like so much later you forget that I said that.

Take the quiz at dicepool.com

so then I tried it again going the other way on the tough choices, of which there were many:

Take the quiz at dicepool.com

Either way, I’m a little nervous to be around me.

The fabulousness of this modern technological miracle is almost unfathomable. Not so unfathomable I would buy a Prius for it, however.

RE: handing the port contract over to the UAE.

On the one hand I don’t think it matters as much as everyone is saying it does and it’s nice to see the government being all open-minded and non-judgmental.

On the other hand, it just screams “WRONG THING TO DO”

On the other hand, it could just be a clever Rovian plot to make the lefties admit they want Halliburton to run something.

That sums up my feelings* on the subject.

*feelings subject to change, discontinue use if rash occurs, YMMV

Captain Kirk isn’t afraid of a little bitty test now, is he?

What’s with the compassionate head tilt?

*compassionate head tilt</small.

The elderly don’t like having to go outside to smoke and IT’S A SHARK!

An annual tax on people that get tickets. Isn’t that double jeopardy or something? Stop spending so much morans and you won’t have to tax your people into the ground.

Apparently the La Brea tar pits are spreading. With the help of man.

Jonah on the trouble with the Republicans today.

Many conservatives, including yours truly, would have agonized over a choice between a reliably pro-war Democrat and George W. Bush in 2004, particularly if judicial appointments weren’t so important.

Risk taking in modern society.

We no longer really believe in the idea of individual autonomy. People are helplessly addicted to sex, alcohol, or shopping. People are represented as weak and vulnerable. More and more groups—children, women, minorities—are defined as “vulnerable.” Policy is focused on reassuring and supporting people, and risk taking is stigmatized.

Never trust you conscious mind for anything but the simplest of decisions.

Houston cop wants to place surveillance cameras in private houses, amongst other places.

“I know a lot of people are concerned about Big Brother, but my response to that is, if you are not doing anything wrong, why should you worry about it?” Chief Harold Hurtt told reporters Wednesday at a regular briefing.

And if I’m not doing anything wrong, why do you need to watch me?

So, the low-fat diet prevents heart disease is bunk, and now the whole calcium and vitamin D help prevent osteoperosis is out the window too.

You knew it was coming, the Rove connection. Halliburton, has anyone connected Halliburton yet?

Ace does the Top 10 anti-fast food Islamic verses.

8. Sura 9, Verse 3: “You may eat of chicken, but not in ‘McNugget’ or ‘Tender’ form. Such are the eating habits of the polytheists, who prefer their chicken in the manifold forms of their tripartite false god.”

Jonah bring teh funnay.

Trogdor will be burninating web editors soon. Possibly. It’s just a rumor.

Not so much. If I had to hang my laundry to wash it, yeah, that wouldn’t go well.

Shotgun tasers. Fun for the whole police squad.

special thanks to Despair.com whom I blatently thieved the photo from.

You scored as Deep Space Nine (Star Trek). You have entered the dark side of the Star Trek universe. The paradise of Earth is far from you and you must survive despite having enemies on all fronts. But you wouldn’t have it any other way because you thrive in conflict and will know what needs to be done to take care of those around you. Now if only the Founders would quit trying to take over the galaxy. Serenity (Firefly) 94% Deep Space Nine (Star Trek) 94% Nebuchadnezzar (The Matrix) 94% Millennium Falcon (Star Wars) 88% SG-1 (Stargate) 88% Galactica (Battlestar: Galactica) 69% Moya (Farscape) 69% FBI's X-Files Division (The X-Files) 63% Babylon 5 (Babylon 5) 56% Bebop (Cowboy Bebop) 50% Andromeda Ascendant (Andromeda) 44% Enterprise D (Star Trek) 31%

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Let’s sit back and see how well he does.

Don’t look, however, for any overt expression of alarm. It is too much to ask of the European Union for now to go on the record supporting the right of Danish free expression or to demand an embargo of Iran as it approaches nuclear autonomy. Instead, expect the European reaction to be far more subtle: the same old public utopian rhetoric, but in the shadows a newfound desire to galvanize against the threat of Islamic fascism.

Batman takes on Al Qaeda . That’s so cool.

Instead of hiring a public relations firm and spending all that money, here’s a thought. Stop your representitives from ladling in the pork.

VDH

The great wealth and leisure created by modern technology have confused some in the modern age into thinking that history is linear. We expect that each generation will inevitably improve upon the last, as if we, the blessed of the 21st century, would never chase out Anaxagoras or execute Socrates — or allow others to do so — in our modern polis.

That’s rock solid.

“Science works by first making definitive recommendations, and then doing several years of research to discover if we were right,â€? said an unnamed NIH spokesman. “During the research phase, our job is to vigorously promote our assumptions until the facts disprove them.â€?

Your tax dollars at work.

We all know Jesus loves pancakes. And fruitcakes.

So, killing or chasing off all the farmers isn’t such a good idea. And the farmers that take him up on the deal are nuts.

Not his finest work ever, but there’s a few quality quotes in there.

via Tim Blair

Inoperable Terran turns the phrase neatly.

Hawkins sums up my feelings pretty well.

With legos!

Yeah, I have no idea what all that is, but it looks cool. And it’s Legos!

The Convoy 88 is specially hilarious.

via Inoperable Terran

Low-fat diet, not helping so much. Pass the potato chips.

NASA decides to go to the moon within the next decade. Not because it’s easy, but because it is hard.

Regardless of their little feud, it’s a good idea.

Crazy people with nuclear weapons make people nervous. Who knew?

Apparently it’s illegal to call someone names, if the names are of a racial manner.

Because creating giant robots to aid humanity is always a good idea.

All you need to know.

Some groundhog songs to get you through the day.

Censorship doesn’t work, but we’ll help you try.

The rest of Europe is getting in on the act and reprinting the cartoon that so offended Muslims. More here. Somewhere Thomas Nast is smiling.

I had no idea that until 5 minutes ago that you could send a telegram in these modern days stop so I guess the end of it all isn’t so bad stop

♪A fisking, a fisking….♪ Okay, it’s not actually a fisking, per se, but it is all about Fisk’s errors.

France jumps into the middle of the Danish-Islam row. This ought to be fun.

A couple of Egyptian officials are asking Hamas to honor past peace deals and quit calling for Israel’s immediate demise. Wonder what’s in it for Egypt, but still, it’s a positive.